Posted on 01/07/2005 7:16:11 AM PST by Carl/NewsMax
Some of the massive U.S. aid package earmarked for Indonesian tsunami victims is going to a radical Muslim group with direct ties to al Qaida, including at least one terrorist leader who is accused of helping the 9/11 hijackers.
The radical Muslim group Laskar Mujahidin has reportedly dispatched 200 of its members to the hard-hit provincial capital of Banda Aceh, where they were seen Thursday unloading truckloads of aid at the military airport there.
According to terrorism experts in the region, Laskar Mujahidin has links to terror groups outside Indonesia, including al Qaida, the Associated Press reported Friday.
The group was once headed by Abu Bakar Bashir, an Islamic cleric now on trial as an alleged leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, the AP said. Some Jemaah Islamiyah members are believed to have helped the kamikaze hijackers who killed 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11.
Laskar Mujahidin also accepted aid offered by an emissary of Osama bin Laden, according terrorism expert Sidney Jones.
At a camp set up by the group, a sign was spotted Thursday that read, "Islamic Law Enforcement."
In a report two weeks after the 9/11 attacks, the New York Times reported that Indonesia played host to a number of terrorist groups allied with bin Laden.
"Since the attacks on Sept. 11, radical Islamic fringe groups here among the 210 million people of largely Muslim Indonesia have been threatening holy war against the United States and against Americans who live here," the Times said.
"Their appeals to Muslim solidarity have fired hundreds of young men with a passion to fight to defend Afghanistan, many of them unemployed and aimless in the broken economy.
"The United States Embassy said today that gangs of young men had begun carrying out what they call sweeps in several cities, looking for Americans to expel. The embassy said Americans and American interests had been threatened.
"One of the angry young would-be warriors who marched through the rain here today with masks and headbands chanting, 'Go to hell America.'"
But in the midst of the tsunami relief efforts, it's Laskar Mujahidin that has raised the most concern. The group's al Qaida ties have other aid groups working to help tsunami victims afraid of being seen with Americans.
"Our teams are told that they should not fly in American army helicopters, since we're concerned that they could be a particular target," said Michel Brugiere, director of the French medical group Doctors of the World.
U.S. Tsunami Aid Going to al Qaida-Linked Group
Muslims???
Why am I not surprised? I wonder how long until one of these groups in the majority Muslim country of Indonesia begins suicide bombing Western relief workers? Consequently, it will be interesting to see how the MSM plays any such event down. What excuse can the apologists come up with for that one?
Just caught a segment of Neal Boortz's program. He was saying ABC's Peter Jennings is blaming the USA for the last of Muslim aid because, per Jennings, all the US restrictions and closing down of [terrorist] aid groups after 9-11-01 is causing a lack of Muslim funding for relief.
Oh, and I'd like to add my usual comment: We truly live in a world gone mad. The good guys are the bad guys, and the bad guys are the good guys, black is white, white is black, right is wrong....oh hell, you know the rest..........
After what these poor people have been through, suicide bombings are merely a sign of frustration. They're "acting out".
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Peter Jennings is a miserable son of a bitch, I'm sorry that my country foisted that snivelling scumbag on you guys. I just want to scream everytime I hear the guy open his yap. He is truly a stupid son of a bitch.
***Slaps himself***
Oh yeah! That's it! What was I thinking?
He's a man without a country.
At first I thought that organization was the UN.
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200 of the murderous subhuman filth in one place = Targets of Opportunity.
This isn't news. Relief is being sent to mooslim countries. The mooslims-in-charge will siphon off all the good stuff.
Then the UN officials get their cut.
I might have the sequence backwards, but that is what is going to happen. It always does.
http://laotze.blogspot.com/
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Influenced by so-called human rights groups and terrorist loving sympathizers like our friends Peter Arnett and William Nessen, the usual suspects chime in demanding a ceasefire or an all out military embargo against Indonesia. The end result is that government of Indonesia is left with their hands tied behind their back when try to deal with islamic extremism within their midst. The response of many Indonesian government officals in the past and even recently has been, "Go to hell with your aid."
The leadership of Gerakan Acheh Merdeka (GAM) living and operating in exile in Sweden has run a masterful public relations campaign convincing much of the world that they have no links to global islamic terrorism, but the facts prove otherwise.
If the United States is going to be serious about the global war on terrorism, then they need to let Indonesia have a free hand to deal with it and stop giving conflicting signals as they have in the past by one minute stating they support Aceh's independance and the next minute stating that their hope is that "Aceh remains a part of Indonesia’s sovereign territory".
Dang, when I read that story, the very first thing that crossed my mind was...a target rich enviroment. I'm getting warped as I grow older.
In every forest there are decaying trees.
What proof is there that this is aid from the United States? I sure don't see any offered in this article.
Thanks for the ping!
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