Posted on 12/12/2004 7:57:21 AM PST by thierrya
Zarqawi targets Europe for terror
THE most wanted terrorist in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is recruiting cell members in Britain and Europe.
Terrorism experts believe his is preparing his new recruits for attacks somewhere in Europe.
Zarqawi, who has a reward of $US25million ($33 million) on his head, is also thought to be using Europeans for his terror campaign against the US forces in Iraq.
Rohan Gunaratna, one of the world's leading al-Qa'ida experts with access to official intelligence, said the Jordanian terrorist was an increasing threat.
"He is the biggest recruiter in Europe," Dr Gunaratna, head of the terror unit at Singapore's Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, said last week. "He has become better known among extremists in Britain and Europe, and his group is becoming very multinational."
Between 150 and 200 European recruits are estimated to have entered Iraq, usually through Syria or Iran.
Zarqawi has claimed responsibility for a series of beheadings in Iraq, most recently the killing of British hostage Kenneth Bigley.
A western intelligence official said: "The new land of jihad is Iraq. There, they are trained, they fight and acquire a technique and the indoctrination sufficient to act on when they return."
An Iraqi resistance leader told The Sunday Times in September that three Britons were part of the beheading gang that seized Bigley, a Liverpudlian.
Abu Muawiya, who spent eight months in Zarqawi's Tawhid wal Jihad group, said the Britons were among "a handful of non-Arab foreigners" who had joined Zarqawi after being recommended by clerics abroad.
German authorities this month arrested three Iraqis with links to Zarqawi on suspicion of planning an attack on US-appointed Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi during his visit to the country.
Intelligence officers are also detecting new recruiting networks in eastern Europe and the Balkans, where Muslims from poorer communities are being sponsored to fight in Iraq. Terrorism experts agreed at a Washington conference this month that Europe was likely to be the target of the next big Islamic terrorist attack.
On the weekend, Iraqi police were again targeted in insurgent attacks that killed 11 people across the country, and a US marine was killed in Al-Anbar province, where renewed fighting erupted in the former rebel stronghold of Fallujah after days of relative calm following the assault on the city, the US military said.
At a court martial in Baghdad, a US soldier, Staff Sergeant Johnny Horne, has been sentenced to three years' jail for the murder of an unarmed wounded civilian in Sadr City in August.
The soldier, who told the court he shot the man to "put him out of his misery", was also demoted to private, ordered to forfeit all pay and given a dishonourable discharge, the US Army said.
The Sunday Times, AP, AFP
Might this suggest something? Clearly, any clerics who preach hate logically should be send back to the hellhole they came from.
In addition, construction of mosques with foreign money should cease immediately. Like right now if not sooner.
As I understand it, every mosque built in the US in the last 30 years has been funded for the most part by Saudi money. What difference does it make if they send trained killers or the teachers to train domestic killers?
Well, of course...go where the appeasers are. Why not attack in an environment where retribution will be suspect?
They should be executed, and their families should be deported after biometric data is collected to prevent them from ever entering the country again.
Islamist clerics are the catalyst for anti-human Muslim behavior. Muslim "mice" will seek them out in their quest to become "men" by killing themselves and by killing others.
..."...Between 150 and 200 European recruits are estimated to have entered Iraq, usually through Syria or Iran."...
Appeasers in Europe are just now figuring it out.
With 95% of Europe being blissfully unaware of what islam is really all about, their wake-up call(s) are going to be a major shock to their whole system. I don't think the EU will be able to absorb the shock, as we did after 9-11, and recover as we did. I predict the mayhem and chaos in the streets will be on a scale unlike anything we've ever seen in our lifetimes, if it's bio, chem or nuke. If it's airplanes or regular explosives, then it may be short-lived, too. Time will tell.
If you got a hard nut to crack, pick one with a thinner shell.
Exactamundo, t. Or, use a bigger hammer.
I'll say one thing for the islamists they are doing their damnedest to get the whole world to come kick their asses. I wonder when they will start picking a fight with the Chinese?
"I wonder when they will start picking a fight with the Chinese?"
That will never happen. Reason is China is the silent partner of the Islamic terror networks. China reasons that Islam will tie up our resources and focus our attentions while China goes about its long term military buildup.
Agreed. Surprised we haven't taken the war to them, yet.
But they are infidels nonetheless. So far I have not been disappointed with the Islamists penchant for causing blasts in their own faces.
Dont fall for the premise that Islam is a loosely allied coalition of complete nutcases. The nutcases at the lower rungs look to their imans / clerics for guidance and direction. Ultimately, it all flows back to centers of influence in Iran and Saudi Arabia, IMHO.
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