http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1053164/posts "Kandahar Bomb Was Hidden in Apple Cart"
AP | 1/07/04
Posted on 01/07/2004 2:06:01 AM PST by kattracks
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "KANDAHAR, Afghanistan Jan. 7 — A bomb that tore through a group of curious children in this southern city was hidden in an apple cart, police said Wednesday, as the death toll rose to 15. Meanwhile, a man seized by security forces as he fled the scene of Tuesday's treacherous double blast was refusing to speak to his interrogators.
The carnage on a street used regularly by U.S. military patrols was the worst since an explosion on a bus in neighboring Helmand province in July also killed 15 civilians.
Two years after the fall of the Taliban, the bombing underlined the failure of the Afghan government and its foreign backers to bring security to Afghans weary of nearly a quarter-century of violence.
The bomb was hidden in an apple cart left at the side of the road near a row of parked bicycles, not strapped to one of the bikes as first thought, Kandahar's deputy police chief, Salim Khan, told the Associated Press Wednesday.
The explosion was particularly devastating because it was preceded by a smaller blast, which lured a crowd of onlookers, mostly children playing soccer on a vacant lot nearby.
A battered sneaker lay amid pools of blood, the wrecked bikes and glass from a passing truck Tuesday.
"It was a time-bomb, hidden under the apples," Khan said."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1053160/posts "Jihad in Tennessee"
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 1/07/04 | Robert Spencer
Posted on 01/07/2004 1:37:28 AM PST by kattracks
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "While the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other American Muslim advocacy groups vehemently oppose efforts to investigate American mosques for signs of terrorist activity, evidence continues to mount that radical Muslims have been operating more or less with impunity in many stateside mosques and Islamic centers. It has just come to light that a militant Muslim organization in Knoxville, Tennessee, helped fund jihad in Bosnia and Chechnya in the 1990s. Mustafa Saied, a former student at the University of Tennessee, says that he was a member of the radical Muslim group the Muslim Brotherhood while at the university. He also told the Wall Street Journal that in the 1990s, charitable donations to the Annoor Mosque, which is located near the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville, were sent to jihad fighters in Bosnia and Chechnya. But CAIR and Co. would evidently insist that there is no need to be concerned: after all, it isn’t being done any more!
The Muslim Brotherhood is hardly a benign organization. In Onward Muslim Soldiers I explore the thought of Brotherhood founder Hasan Al-Banna, as well as that of one of its greatest exponents, Sayyid Qutb. Both of these men, whose writings are widely revered in the Islamic world even today, declare that no government, Muslim or non-Muslim, has any legitimacy unless it obeys Islamic law. They exhort Muslims to wage armed jihad against those that do not. Modern-day terrorist groups worldwide, including Hamas and Al-Qaeda, can trace their lineage back to the Muslim Brotherhood. But until now, it hasn’t been widely known that the Brotherhood had made its way to the state of the Grand Old Opry.
Rather predictably, no one knew about all this. According to KnoxNews, Rosalind Gwynne, the University of Tennessee’s faculty adviser to the Muslim Student Association chapter, expressed surprise to hear that the Brotherhood was operating on campus. Hanan Ayesh, founder of an Islamic school connected to the mosque, said: "I’ve lived here for 30 years, and this is the first time I ever heard about it." Mostafa Alsharif, another Knoxville Muslim, added: "The majority of Muslims in the United States couldn't care less about the Muslim Brotherhood. They’re going to stay in the United States. There’s no need to be affiliated with something like that. . . . It’s not the reality of what’s happening in Knoxville today at all."
Tennessee was by no means the only American site of jihadist activity."