Posted on 10/11/2023 2:21:06 PM PDT by FarCenter
KUALA LUMPUR -- The U.S. and other nations backing Israel "should anticipate" militant attacks on their soil and assets abroad as the Jewish state launches deadly airstrikes on Gaza in response to a large-scale, surprise assault at the weekend, experts warn.
On Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden expressed support for Israel as he denounced Hamas for the "sheer evil" of an attack that has reportedly killed 1,200 people in Israel with dozens more taken hostage by the militants -- designated a terror group by the U.S. and some other Western nations.
Israel's retaliatory airstrikes on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip have killed at least 950 people, including children, according to the health ministry there, as buildings were reduced to rubble inside the densely-packed enclave of 2 million people.
Benny Mamoto, a counterterrorism expert and a former official with Indonesia's police counterterrorism agency Densus88, said the unfolding violence could spread well beyond the contested region.
"[Militant groups] will look at the response of countries whom they think are pro-Israel. When there is a statement of support, they will become a target," said Mamoto, adding that such nations should be vigilant to any threat. "Their targets [would] include symbols of a particular country like embassies as well as its national interests like hotels, businesses, citizens and government officials. ...This is what I discovered during my time interrogating terrorist detainees."
While Southeast Asian nations may largely be spared, Indonesia is taking no chances despite its long-held support for an independent Palestinian state.
On Thursday, the world's biggest Muslim majority nation marks the 21st anniversary of the 2002 Bali bombings, which killed 202 people from nearly two dozen countries on the holiday island. Indonesia's deadliest terror attack was carried out by al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah in what it called retaliation for the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.
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Islamosuicide.
Good come out of hiding to where we can kill you
USA #1 on target list.
Fanatic islamists will die in jihad and get harem of 72 virgins. 911 pilots died to get 72 virgins.
How about no, lets round them up now and remove them before they strike. Enough Americans have died already from Biden's blunders.
Thanks Joe.
If you haven’t been exercising your CCW, now would be a good time to pick it up.
Nations backing Israel likely to target Islamist militants.
Think how many of them have crossed our border over the years.
They want to die, we should oblige them
I’m not 100% sure if any nation is truly supporting them, except for Hungary. I read earlier the US was threatening to hold up aid if Israel “goes too far”. Putins backing Iran, calling for limited response. Most western nations are wimps parroting the same “proportional response” crap. Even “ moderate Arab/Muslim nations who were ready to sign the peace treaty wit Israel are warning them.
Not if 16 of them kill 3000 (911)
Appeasement sure worked well with Nazi Germany /s
>> Most western nations are wimps parroting the same “proportional response” crap
Hey, I’m OK with a “proportional response”... so long as the proportion is 10,000 dead ragheads for every Israeli killed or wounded.
hamas is takin’ names
hell with victimization
they are going with fear
A major irony is that these savages will have their greatest success in the hoplophobic blue cities where the pretense of support for “Free Palestine” is strongest.
In Constitutional Carry states it’ll be Coffeyville all over again.
And these nations have the firepower to drive the jihadists back to the Stone Age which given their behavior is a matter of inches.
If that isn't a great big obvious DUH, I don't know what is. That's why they're called ANALysts—their heads are up where the sun don't shine.
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