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Qaeda camps surge: New videos tout terror training
New York Daily News ^ | August 13, 2006 | JAMES GORDON MEEK

Posted on 08/13/2006 1:03:06 PM PDT by jmc1969

Al Qaeda's training camps are back in business - and the terrorists are advertising them with slick new videos. The imagery is familiar to anyone who has seen grainy footage of masked Al Qaeda recruits in Afghan terror camps learning how to maim and assassinate.

A gunman aiming at a paper target squeezes the trigger of an AK-47. Thugs in black ski masks and woodland camouflage take turns charging into a concrete building. An Arab in a kaffiyeh adjusts a crouching shooter's aim as he fires a pistol.

"A Muslim should prepare himself ... until he reaches the highest knowledge available, like nuclear or biological weapons," lectures a bearded Libyan squatting on the rocky ground. "A Muslim should try hard to own such weapons."

The appalling scene could be Osama Bin Laden's Afghanistan training camp before former President Bill Clinton pulverized it with cruise missiles in August 1998.

But these videos were shot recently - likely this year - at a secret Al Qaeda camp somewhere in the tribal no-man's land that separates Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"Al Qaeda has comfortably rebased itself on the border," terrorism expert Peter Bergen, who recently returned from Afghanistan, told the Daily News.

Proof of this is a surge of suicide attacks in Afghanistan, the scores of tapes released by Bin Laden's henchmen and a "resurgence of Al Qaeda training on the border," Bergen said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; alqaeda; globaljihad; trainingcamps; wot

1 posted on 08/13/2006 1:03:07 PM PDT by jmc1969
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But all them dems say this needs to be handled by law enforcement. What are they going to do about the camps..


2 posted on 08/13/2006 1:04:45 PM PDT by cardinal4 (America, despite the usual suspects, stands firmly with Israel..)
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My biggest concern is they will bring in major weapons through our porous borders, if they have not already.


3 posted on 08/13/2006 1:08:56 PM PDT by BW2221
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To: cardinal4
But all them dems say this needs to be handled by law enforcement. What are they going to do about the camps..

Well you silly, the authorities will no doubt insist that they obtain business licenses for operating these camps and insist on health inspection so that they may be graded A, B or C. They will get no special treatment just because they are muslims. And of course OSHA will conduct checks for unsafe working conditions.

4 posted on 08/13/2006 1:12:08 PM PDT by navyblue (Semper ubi sub ubi)
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..and who uncorked the bottle of champagne at the NYT as it was announced ?


5 posted on 08/13/2006 1:14:34 PM PDT by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
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The appalling scene could be Osama Bin Laden's Afghanistan training camp before former President Bill Clinton pulverized it with cruise missiles in August 1998.

Yeah, that's right, there was only one Al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, and Bill Clinton blew it up, saving us forever from all terrorism until those damn Republicans came around.

Hate, hate, hate the MSM.

6 posted on 08/13/2006 1:14:36 PM PDT by denydenydeny
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Propaganda videos are produced to politically or psychologically influence events in favor of the ones peddling the propaganda. We have seen our own news media time and again attempt to reshape reality to fit an agenda. The truth is usually somewhere else.
7 posted on 08/13/2006 1:20:47 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
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Time to carpet bomb this no-man's land with our lovely Daisy cutters.


8 posted on 08/13/2006 1:37:57 PM PDT by 3AngelaD
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To: cardinal4
Yes, RATs want to arrest them, give them Miranda warnings, furnish them with a public defender and jury trial.
9 posted on 08/13/2006 1:45:41 PM PDT by GeorgefromGeorgia
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To: cardinal4

"But all them dems say this needs to be handled by law enforcement."

Or negotiation


10 posted on 08/13/2006 2:00:17 PM PDT by RoadTest (Secure our borders, not our marines.)
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"The appalling scene could be Osama Bin Laden's Afghanistan training camp before former President Bill Clinton pulverized it with cruise missiles in August 1998."

"" Yeah, that's right, there was only one Al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, and Bill Clinton blew it up, saving us forever from all terrorism until those damn Republicans came around.""

Hate, hate, hate the MSM.




The left (including the msm) believed that “they” had achieved Nirvana under klintoon’s rule. They had absolutely no evidence to back up their self-deception, but then Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

In their twisted and demented “reality”, they see the culmination of Centuries of hatred and warfare (and the end results) in which we are living in the present time, as THE failure of the Bush Administration’s handling of everything.

They forget 9/11 because it was their failure… their deity’s (klintoon’s) failure of character to face “real world” problems with “real world” solutions. It was so much easier to just ignore the attacks, murders, acts of war, and constant threats because, “Hey we’re in power baby… pass that joint over here… say baby you look good… what’s say we check out this little “hallway” over here? It's got soft carpet and a nice sink!”

If it were NOT for PRESIDENT BUSH, Tony Blair, and Republicans in Congress (I know they have done some dumb things, but Security and the War ain't them), today’s Road Signs would not be in ENGLISH and Spanish, but would only be in farsi! Damn the left to he!!

LLS


11 posted on 08/13/2006 3:19:21 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
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How about a guided tour of these camps for our airhead Liberal and RINO politicans who deny that evil is knocking at our door.


12 posted on 08/13/2006 4:00:20 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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