ADDING to post no. 276 linkset:
And here in the U.S.A.:
Note: Video included.
blog:
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/191677.php
March 10, 2008
“Video: American Muslims Celebrating the Massacre of Jews”
blog:
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/03/targeting_mosuls_kid.php
“Targeting Mosul’s kidnappers”
By BILL ROGGIOMarch 10, 2008 7:54 AM
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “MOSUL, IRAQ: As al Qaeda and allied extremist groups attempt to regroup in the northern city of Mosul, kidnappings inside the city have spiked in the past week. Six Iraqis have been kidnapped in the last six days. The latest victim was a Muslim sheikh.
The most high-profile kidnapping over the past two weeks targeted the leader of the Christian community in Mosul. Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, the Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul, was kidnapped during what Iraqi officers in Mosul described as a professional operation. Three cars pulled up as Rahho left mass, killed his three man security detail, and put him into the trunk of a car.
His captors were led by a former Syrian colonel and a former lieutenant colonel in the old Iraqi Republican Guard, said Colonel Hage Alzebari, the 2nd Iraqi Army Division’s intelligence officer during a briefing given to the staff of the 4th Brigade, 2nd Iraqi Army Division at Forward Operating Base Lion.
The kidnappings increase as funding for the insurgency begins to dry up, Major Eric Vickery, the operations officer for the 4/2 Military Transition Team said. Kidnappings provide al Qaeda and the insurgency a simple solution to fundraising. High-profile community leaders, businessmen, or members of wealthy families are targeted by terrorists because it is believed their families will pay the large ransoms. The families often do.”