Posted on 12/31/2007 6:12:47 AM PST by redstates4ever
Laghriss
Khadr
Casablanca, Morocco - With a greeting that was as telling as it was macabre, Imane Laghriss dropped her satchel on the table of a trendy coffee shop here recently.
"It's stuffed with explosives, watch out!" snapped the young woman, echoing the grim humor commonly heard among Moroccan teenagers. But Ms. Laghriss's remark carried with it a degree of stark reality.
Four years ago, she and her twin sister were arrested for planning to blow themselves up inside Morocco's parliament. They were 14 at the time. The two were sentenced to five years in jail in 2003. After serving 18 months and nearly two years in a juvenile center, they are now free.
In many respects, she is a normal young woman who speaks about building a family and giggles at the mention of a potential husband.
But while Imane claims to have forgone violence, she still holds the same radical ideology that inspired the unrealized plan. She surfs radical websites and says she wants to go to Iraq to fight US troops – "but not civilians."
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On Wednesday, Pakistani police arrested a 15-year-old boy for allegedly trying to blow himself up at a rally for opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, who was killed Thursday as she left an election rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. In September, a 15-year-old killed 30 people when he drove a truck full of explosives into an Algerian naval barracks.
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And, in mid-November, the US declared that Omar Khadr, a Canadian national detained in Guantánamo Bay, was eligible for trial by a military commission, making him potentially the first minor to be tried for war crimes. He was arrested in Afghanistan when he was 15 and accused of killing a US soldier and conspiring with Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
New wave of young jihadists *teenage suicide bombers ping*
Any wonder with the cartoons they’re watching. I do wonder if American teens in a few years will have the passion to stand up against them.
no they wont..not with God out of the school and liberal commies running the colleges.
Darwin eventually works.
There is a dichotomy in American youth between those choosing to serve with incredible bravery and those watching MTV and VH1.
It’s the “in” thing right now.......
People who have forgone violence do NOT continuously threaten violence. Those who let animals like her continue to roam the streets do so at the peril of others. NEXT time there may really BE explosives in there. And we’ll what...be expected to take pity on the government, which is “fighting the war on terror”? Yeah, that’ll be it.
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If the kids watch Bugs Bunny and Tom & Jerry, absolutely. Not with the crap they’re watching now.
Thoughtful post.
Consider a few hundred million of these "jihadi teens" facing off against, say, 40 million Western teens.
The jihadis praise allah and strap on the explosives.
The Western kids turn on their tvs, get drunk or high, and put on their condoms (if they remember to).
Who wins?
- John
Spend a day at a Ranger Batt or Marine Boot Camp - plenty of American teens running around that will kick the shite out of these mulsim pikers...
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The author Marc Perelman seems to be from the Daniel Pearl school of journalism. Play with Islamist fire and you are bound to be burned sooner or later.
Is this article legal in Britain and Canada? It doesn’t cast Islam in the best possible light... so isn’t that a violation of “human rights” in Canada and of libel laws in Britain?
that’s a MAN, baby!
Yes, we do have the brave few, but is that enough?
Every warlike culture eventually kills itself off, with help from people like Duke of Wellington, Ferdinand III etc. The French and Germans aggressiveness was bled out. It might take 5 generations but this jihad stuff will go away someday if we keep confronting evil.
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