Posted on 08/13/2006 1:03:06 PM PDT by jmc1969
Al Qaeda's training camps are back in business - and the terrorists are advertising them with slick new videos. The imagery is familiar to anyone who has seen grainy footage of masked Al Qaeda recruits in Afghan terror camps learning how to maim and assassinate.
A gunman aiming at a paper target squeezes the trigger of an AK-47. Thugs in black ski masks and woodland camouflage take turns charging into a concrete building. An Arab in a kaffiyeh adjusts a crouching shooter's aim as he fires a pistol.
"A Muslim should prepare himself ... until he reaches the highest knowledge available, like nuclear or biological weapons," lectures a bearded Libyan squatting on the rocky ground. "A Muslim should try hard to own such weapons."
The appalling scene could be Osama Bin Laden's Afghanistan training camp before former President Bill Clinton pulverized it with cruise missiles in August 1998.
But these videos were shot recently - likely this year - at a secret Al Qaeda camp somewhere in the tribal no-man's land that separates Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"Al Qaeda has comfortably rebased itself on the border," terrorism expert Peter Bergen, who recently returned from Afghanistan, told the Daily News.
Proof of this is a surge of suicide attacks in Afghanistan, the scores of tapes released by Bin Laden's henchmen and a "resurgence of Al Qaeda training on the border," Bergen said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
But all them dems say this needs to be handled by law enforcement. What are they going to do about the camps..
My biggest concern is they will bring in major weapons through our porous borders, if they have not already.
Well you silly, the authorities will no doubt insist that they obtain business licenses for operating these camps and insist on health inspection so that they may be graded A, B or C. They will get no special treatment just because they are muslims. And of course OSHA will conduct checks for unsafe working conditions.
..and who uncorked the bottle of champagne at the NYT as it was announced ?
Yeah, that's right, there was only one Al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, and Bill Clinton blew it up, saving us forever from all terrorism until those damn Republicans came around.
Hate, hate, hate the MSM.
Time to carpet bomb this no-man's land with our lovely Daisy cutters.
"But all them dems say this needs to be handled by law enforcement."
Or negotiation
"The appalling scene could be Osama Bin Laden's Afghanistan training camp before former President Bill Clinton pulverized it with cruise missiles in August 1998."
"" Yeah, that's right, there was only one Al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, and Bill Clinton blew it up, saving us forever from all terrorism until those damn Republicans came around.""
Hate, hate, hate the MSM.
How about a guided tour of these camps for our airhead Liberal and RINO politicans who deny that evil is knocking at our door.
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