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Special Dispatch Series - No. 1134
April 6, 2006 No.1134
"Iraqi Ansar Al-Islam Commander Mullah Krekar in Norway: No Peace Between West & Islam Until Islamic Caliphate is Re-established; Bin Laden & Al-Zawahiri are Good People; Muslims in Europe Increase Like Mosquitoes By 2050 Europe Will Be 30% Muslim"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In the aftermath of the controversy over the cartoons of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, the Internet edition of the Norwegian daily Dagbladet interviewed Kurdish Iraqi Islamist Mullah Krekar. In it, Krekar expounded his views on relations between Islam and the West. Krekar, whose real name is Najm Al-Din Faraj Ahmad, came to Norway as a refugee in 1991, where he established the Islamist Ansar Al-Islam organization. He is currently slated for deportation from Norway.
The following are excerpts from the interview:"
I can understand why you feel that way, but I look at it differently. I see it as the jihadis being so poorly trained that they don't know to use the right arms...thus wasting the arms that they do possess.
The SA-7 through SA-18 manpads are wholly unsuitable for bringing down big birds. There was one commercial jet hit by one of those weapons back in 2003 or 2004 and the pilot landed with no casualties...plane was repaired and flew again. 5 pounds or less of high-ex isn't going to bring down very many 50,000 pound aircraft (much less larger birds).
The soviets only built them as nuissance weapons...just to give our jet pilots a 2nd thought about flying low.
But by firing at a jet, the jihadists wasted a missile that could have caused U.S. casualties in a helicopter...so I see this as a good thing for us.
Let them waste their ammo; it's good that they don't know any better.