[Velveeta]

Thanks. Couldn't find anything when googling "Ansar el Haq".

[freeperfromnj]

The caller also warned that his group would stage an attack "soon" against Air France "if France does not go back on its decision to ban the Islamic headscarf" in state schools.

A few posters on FR had thoughts on this possible connection. I wonder why the mainstream press hasn't picked up this story yet. Did you post it on any of the Egypt Air Crash threads?

[Sean Osborne Lomax]

If I make a suggestion... anytime a new or common arabic phrase comes up in jihad statements... please ... run it through the "search: images with words" tool at this web site.

http://www.twexus.com/subpage_55/

Thanks. Ping me with interesting finds.


You never know what image a given Arabic word transliterated in English might reveal. And don't stop there, look also at slightly altered spellings. For example in the media today is see Ansar al-Haq is also being spelled in media reports an "Ansar el-Huq" and "Ansar ul-Huq'. That's just the nature of a phonetic language and its dialectic nuances when transliterated into English.

Always remember that Arabic is not translated per se, it is transliterated.