Amen brother. Tell it like it is.
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Posted on 01/23/2005 3:22:38 PM PST by quidnunc
The suicide bomber who blew himself up in a U.S. mess hall in Mosul, Iraq, on Dec. 21 was Saudi Arabian, according to the Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat. Ahmed Said Ahmed al-Ghamdi killed 22 people.
His profile upsets the conventional — and faulty — perception of terrorists as uneducated, poor and desperate individuals. Al-Ghamdi was well-educated — a medical student. And he came from a wealthy and well-connected Saudi Arabian family. His father is a Saudi ambassador.
Al-Ghamdi's profile is similar to those of the 15 Saudis who participated in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. In fact, three members of the extended al-Ghamdi clan participated in those attacks.
Ahmed Salah al-Ghamdi and Hamza al-Ghamdi were on United Airlines Flight 175. Said al-Ghamdi was on United Airlines Flight 93
Why would young men like the al-Ghamdis answer the call of jihad to kill Americans?
An answer can be found in an article published three days before the Mosul bombing in the Saudi government daily Al-Watan. In it, reporter Fakriya Ahmad charges that American military forces in Iraq are savagely harvesting the organs of Iraqi insurgents to sell in the United States.
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The Saudis should get a talking to...
It's not ignorance, poverty or idiocy... the problem is "Islam" itself. This pseudoreligion is a primitive, brutal, violent and totalitarian ideology. Period.
That's only the delusion of the left, most normal people know this already...or at least I was well aware. Look at Bin Laden...not exactly a pauper without prospects. Just don't try to point such things out to dimocrats, they just get angry when you point out their ignorance (I've seen from personal experience on more than one occasion)
Yes. They are the last barbarians.
How many should they get?
"His profile upsets the conventional — and faulty — perception of terrorists as uneducated, poor and desperate individuals. Al-Ghamdi was well-educated — a medical student. And he came from a wealthy and well-connected Saudi Arabian family. His father is a Saudi ambassador."
The left believes that all human evil will be overcome with more education and a middle-class lifestyle. Simularly, anyone who doesn't agree with them is either poor and uneducated, or rich and unenlighted. You see that in their ideals about prison reform and criminal justice. You see that with their foriegn policy and military ideas as well.
You are quite right, but how many thousands of times do those ignorant notions have to be disproved before the left "gets it"?
Agree... and just wanted to see it repeated. ;o)
"It's not ignorance, poverty or idiocy... the problem is "Islam" itself."
Exactly what Bin Laden wants us to believe so that his struggle becomes a religious war against 1.3 billion people. You've just done half of his work for him.
From the article "Al-Ghamdi was well-educated — a medical student"
I have seen his age listed as 19 and 20, what kind of medical school did he attend?
Was this some islamo Doogie Houser?
The Saudis enjoy protected status
Frankly, bin Laden and Zwahiri upset the common logic that terrorists are poor. Why hasn't anyone made this connection yet?
Amen brother. Tell it like it is.
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Looking forward to hearing from Free Republic's resident Islamic Appeasers as to why we shouldn't slaughter the extended families of the terrorists.
If you think we shrink from a task of that magnitude, you think again! It's coming harvest-time, and this Ghamdi bunch sounds like suitable "first fruits."
Maybe he was practicing playing doctor on the Philipino houseboy.
Good post. But the author is actually setting up a straw man to demolish here. The Saudi terrorists are, as a rule, pretty well-heeled. That's what makes them doubly dangerous, i.e., they've got really nutzoid ideas, and the financial wherewithal to carry them out. And the Saudis, rich and poor, have a dirty little secret which it is not polite to mention, but generally acknowledged:
Millenia of inbreeding have caused a lot of them to have an astounding array of genetic defects, not the least of which is a very high incidence of mental pathology. Best example of the Saudi/Yemeni genetic package is Osama bin L himself. Abnormally tall, strange-looking facial macromegaly, bad vision, bad kidneys, and definitely a mental case, complete with tics. That's what happens when you marry a couple of first cousins, usually sisters, whose parents are first cousins to your parents who are also cousins. In the last two decades, as the Saudi population has actually QUADRUPLED, the problem has grown much worse.
The Saudi National Anthem probably ought to be, "I'm My Own Grampa!"
Excellent, sir...
Do you have any references for that? (I'm not questioning you ; I'd just like to have something substantiable with which to cause trouble...)
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