Posted on 03/20/2009 4:33:44 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
After the United Nations diplomat John Solecki, who had forcefully converted to Islam under the doctrine of the Taliban militants, a Canadian journalist - Beverly Giesbrecht, became the latest Taliban target, with the deadline of March 30 being announced by the militants for her release.
Even as the 48-hour deadline for kidnapped United Nations official John Solecki ends, the Taliban has released another hostage video, this time of a Canadian journalist, threatening to behead her by March 30.
As Beverly desperately calls out for help, she says, "The timeline is very short and my life is going to end. So I need someone to help me. My country or someone else have to make a move now, as my life is going to be over very shortly."
The irony is Beverly - now Khadija Adbul Qahaar - publisher of a pro-Islamic website 'Jihad Unspun', was in Pakistan to understand the concept of 'Jihad', when the Taliban kidnapped her in North Wazirstan.
"A previous video has been made and distributed to my Embassy, to the Pakistan government and to the various NGOs and groups, in order to try to meet the demnads that they're (the Taliban terror outfits) are making but....," trails off Beverly.
A cash strapped Taliban, at first demanded USD 2 millions, and have now settled for USD 3 hundred and 75 thousand ransom.
As the deadline for the execution of kidnapped United Nations man John Solecki lapsed, the timing of Beverly's hostage video release, served as grim reminder for foreigners in Pakistan that they have become the Taliban terror groups' most negotiable currecy in their holy war.
Blog:
http://ubiwar.com/2009/05/12/spooks-and-spinning/
ubiwar . conflict in n dimensions
“Spooks and Spinning”
Posted in ubiwar by Tim Stevens on 12 May 2009
SNIPPET: “This rumour/conspiracy has been knocking around for ages, it’s true, and was most publicly voiced by Rita Katz, director of the SITE Institute, in 2003. From the ‘other side’, Azzam Publications had in 2002 – the year JUS was launched – stated its misgivings about the site’s relationship with Western intelligence agencies.
I simply don’t know the truth about this. What I do know is that Jarret is right about the currency of this theory. Earlier this year I solicited the opinion of several European intelligence operatives about this and received a mixed response: a few just smiled knowingly but one openly stated that JUS was indeed a CIA front. I don’t know who to believe, to be frank.”
All she needed to know, she could have learned on 9/11.
Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2584173/posts
The Online Trail: New insight into terror suspect comes from Web footprint
NATIONAL POST.com ^ | Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 | Kathryn Blaze Carlson and Stewart Bell, National Post
Posted on September 6, 2010 2:25:49 PM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: “Framegrab Framegrab from an online video that was circulated in on online Muslim forum by Ottawa terror suspect Misbahuddin Ahmed. The video lashes out at the US-led invasion of Iraq, and is titled “Operation Iraqi Freedom: Where Are The Muslim Soldiers?” and supposedly made by Jihad Unspun”
SNIPPET: “The video was circulated by a man who used the online handle “Qutz,” but his email address indicates he is Misbahuddin Ahmed, 26, one of the Ottawa terror suspects arrested last week.”
SNIPPET: “Mr. Ahmed was allegedly chosen by his alleged co-conspirators, Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh and Khurram Syed Sher, to lead an ill-defined plot to conduct terrorist attacks in Canada. Bail hearings for the three men scheduled for this afternoon are expected to be subject to a publication ban, but the online writings of Qutz may provide some insight into the Pakistan-born terror suspect.”
SNIPPET: “The video Qutz linked to was on the website Jihad Unspun, which provided a sympathetic portrayal of Islamist terrorists but is no longer active.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
Quote:
twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/47414591604527104
@th3j35t3r
Harley ‘Jester’ Quin
www.jihadunspun.com - TANGO DOWN. Temporarily. For the continued distribution of jihadist instructional materials & propaganda.
44 minutes ago via XerXeS for Android V1.3
“Jihad Unspun Editor Couldn’t Raise $1,200 to pay off Taliban”
(April 18, 2012)
#
“RCMP secretly ended probe into Canadian held by Taliban
Foreign Affairs told Mounties to close investigation into kidnapping and death”
By Curt Petrovich, CBC News Posted: Apr 18, 2012 2:16 AM PT Last Updated: Apr 18, 2012 6:31 AM PT
#
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/05/05/bc-woman-pakistan-giesbrecht.html
“B.C. woman abducted in Pakistan believed dead”
CBC News Posted: May 5, 2011 6:25 PM ET Last Updated: May 5, 2011 9:44 PM ET
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.