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Posted on 10/12/2004 8:58:00 PM PDT by nwctwx
I get tons of email on terror but have no time to post it
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bookmark...
Thanks all.
You have mail.
Oorang, this one might help you:
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/vidino200405040834.asp
In 1974, former Algerian President Houari Boumedienne said in a speech at the U.N.: "One day millions of men will leave the southern hemisphere to go to the northern hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory." In other words, says Fallaci, what Islamic armies have not been able to do with force in more than 1,000 years can be achieved in less than a century through high birth rates. She cites as evidence a 1975 meeting of Islamic countries in Lahore, in which they announced their project to transform the flow of Muslim immigrants in Europe in "demographic preponderance."
The "sons of Allah," as Fallaci calls them, do not make a secret of their plans. A Catholic bishop recounted that, during an interfaith meeting in Turkey, a respected Muslim cleric told the crowd: "Thanks to your democratic laws we will invade you. Thanks to our Islamic laws we will conquer you."
Thanks very much to both of you. Freepers (TM'ers) are the best, but we knew that!
Another one for you:
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37573
Bakri has boasted openly about exploiting the freedom of speech in the West as a weapon against it – to "transform the West into Dar Al-Islam," or House of Islam.
"I want to see the black flag of Islam flying over Downing Street," he has said.
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According to Sheik Omar, Muslims in the West have very serious responsibilities in preparing the people to embrace Islam or to accept the Islamic way of life.
ON THE NET...
http://www.shariah.org
http://www.shareehah.org
http://www.internet-haganah.us
http://www.jihadwatch.org
http://www.memri.org
http://www.truthusa.com/LinksOfInterest.html
Correction on post no. 1308:
http://www.shariah.org
http://www.shareeah.org
and again
Fruit vendor missing for a week? Maybe that's why they stepped up security!
irk HAS several IFR approaches a Localizer/DME approach but no ILS...basically...the pilot just busted MDA min descent altitude for each fix in the approach and flew into the ground....:((
Drudge: Officials remain concerned about possible election-related terrorism, but have no specific evidence... Developing...
Confirms what I am hearing on the job.
A great deal of "Threat" indicators pointing in the same direction.
Specificity is deemed lacking.
Not confident about the last one.
It seems like the TPTB do not want to cause panic before the election.
The "general" concern warning is strictly CYA.
The empire that Hassan i Sabbah established was not a physical empire, but rather a hidden political empire within the borders of other empires. And for this reason it established and required an entirely new kind of warfare and tactics. Hassan had complete control over his young men who were willing to sacrifice their lives for him. They were known as Assassins and would infiltrate Hassan's enemies' ranks, where they would often rise to positions of prominence and trust, often posing as religious teachers or dervishes. From this position it was easy for them to kill their intended victim.
The assassinations were usually carried out with a knife and the Assassin would not try to escape capture. Instead, he would wait calmly prepared to die, having carried out his objective. Sometimes an Assassin would be in the service of a Sultan for many years before being required to strike. Although Alamut's in Iran,the power to assassinate an enemy was said to reach as far as India and Paris.
The principle story of the Garden of Alamut is taken from Marco Polo. An initiate who was selected for an assassination was drugged and taken to a garden where he spends a night thinking he has been given a taste of paradise. Here he is given a taste of sensuous delights such as fountains flowing with milk, honey, wine and a full assortment of houris, virgins promised in the Koranic Paradise. After a night in this paradise, the Assassin was again drugged and told that he would spend an eternity in this paradise once he completed his mission.
Modern scholarship no longer believes in the Old Man of the Mountain hatching his evil plots and sending forth his murderous emissaries drugged with hashish. Such a state of mind hardly seems compatible with the legendary accomplishments of the Assassins - their superlative cunning, patience, knowledge of languages, their legendary killing methods, their tenacity, and their superb methods of infiltration sometimes staying undetected in a sleeper function for years awaiting the message to attack. Our modern experience of terrorism does not suggest that its perpetrators require any narcotic stronger than fanaticism itself. There's no real evidence that they used drugs at all, unless possibly for religious rituals.
The Mongols destroyed Alamut, yet, amazingly this was not the end for the Assassins as they were reborn as the Khojas in India.
from The Assassins of Alamut by Anthony Campbell
The name "Alamut" means "Eagle's place" or "Eagle's lesson".
Thank you Indie for that info.
The first posting on this will give you chills:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1254039/posts
How odd.
I was link checking a section tonight and mistyped by one letter and guess where this forwards to?
http://www.sawah.net
forwards to
http://www.moveon.org/front/
Last Sunday, terrorist chieftain Abu Musad Zarqawi openly declared his allegiance to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. Zarqawi's Web site manifesto added his "One God and Jihad" Islamist terror faction agreed with al Qaeda's global strategy and recognized the need to unite against "the enemies of Islam." The online rant referred to bin Laden as "the sheik of holy warriors."
Zarqawi (nicknamed "Z-Man" by coalition troops in Iraq) craves TV time and newspaper headlines, and he got both by stating the obvious. Zarqawi is al Qaeda's man in Iraq, and — despite blaring headlines — this connection is very old news.
It isn't that Osama (if he's still alive) directs Zarqawi's operations. He doesn't. There may be personal frictions between Zarqawi and senior al Qaeda leaders; Zarqawi's and bin Laden's egos won't fit in the same room.
However, al Qaeda works as a loose, "nodal network," where each associated faction operates with local and regional autonomy. Factions do cooperate strategically. Early last year, Kurdish militiamen snagged a compact disc containing Zarqawi's strategic assessment of his Iraq operations. U.S. and coalition intelligence determined the CD was on its way to "Central Asia" (Pakistan or Afghanistan, most likely).
Zarqawi's intercepted message to his al Qaeda comrades admitted his terror band was "failing to enlist support" inside Iraq and was "unable to scare the Americans into leaving." Zarqawi lamented "Iraq's lack of mountains in which to take refuge," which many commentators read as an echo of his experience in Afghanistan with al Qaeda.
Zarqawi's document also suggested a strategic solution to his group's failure: launch attacks on Iraqi Shi'ites and start a "sectarian war" that he suggested would "rally the Sunni Arabs" to his cause. This war against Shi'ites, Zarqawi thought, "must start soon — at 'zero hour' — before the Americans hand over sovereignty to the Iraqis."
Despite orchestrating scores of savage attacks, Zarqawi has failed to ignite that sectarian war. Early in the summer, suicide car bombers (presumably under Zarqawi's aegis) began attacking Iraqi police and National Guard soldiers as frequently as they targeted Shi'ites and coalition troops. This suggested to some analysts that Islamic radical Zarqawi was cooperating with elements of the "secular Iraqi resistance" — former members of Saddam's regime and holdouts in the Sunni Triangle. If that alliance existed, it was one of convenience, not long-term compatibility. That terror offensive, however, has not deterred recruits. Iraqi security forces continue growing in size and strength.
Zarqawi lacks political support and is increasingly desperate. His declaration of solidarity with al Qaeda is both an emergency plea for Islamist reinforcements from Syria and Saudi Arabia, and the shrill cry of a true believer just rational enough to recognize he is caught in a political and military vise.
Since April 2004, the Sunni Triangle city of Fallujah has been an outlaw town where Zarqawi's fanatics mixed with Saddamite insurgents and criminal gangs. Fallujah has served as their safe haven and headquarters. Ironically, Fallujah has showcased the poverty and violence produced by fascist thugs and theocrats.
Iraq's adept Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is performing a political judo act on Sunni holdouts, with Zarqawi the fall guy.
Press sources report residents of Fallujah and other cities have provided highly reliable information about "foreign fighters," and coalition airstrikes and special operations attacks have killed scores of Zarqawi recruits. U.S. Marines once again encircle Fallujah. The Iraqi government's message is: Continue hiding Zarqawi, and your city will suffer more air strikes and, at the appropriate time, a ground assault. Coaxing Sunni militants into giving up Zarqawi exposes the split between the secular Sunnis and Zarqawi, publicly illustrating the fragmented character of the insurgency. Such a visible fissure could improve Mr. Allawi's chances of reaching a domestic political settlement in the Sunni Triangle, and advance his goal of further isolating the most violent insurgent factions. A Clear Lens on Zarqawi
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