Allies in war on terror

World Net Daily ^ | April 23, 2003 | Joseph Farah

[Wonder Warthog]

Five will get you ten that there is somebody in "Foggy Bottom" (i.e. the "State" Department) that is dropping the ball on this. I can't believe that Bush would let the possibility of allying with Indonesia against Al-Quaeda pass un-noticed.

[Sparta]

They say the largest Al-Qaeda cell in Washington is located at the State Department building.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[MEG33]

We have just given them full military ally status.

[Sparta]

We have just given them full military ally status.

That would be the Philippines that recieved full military ally status, not Indonesia.

[MEG33]

Oops you are right!Indonesia's military has some extreme elements.

[Sparta]

Indonesia's military has some extreme elements.

So does the Pakistani military, so what's your point?

[MEG33]

Just an observation.

[Wonder Warthog]

"They say the largest Al-Qaeda cell in Washington is located at the State Department building."

Well, it "used" to be the largest communist cell in the US--not sure if the Al-Queada cell is the same one or in addition to that.

[MEG33]

I'd say a hotbed of "arabists" in the state department.

[Gabrielle Reilly]

Ping. Read later

[GOP_1900AD]

However, do consider the increasingly open military partnerships between Indonesia and the PRC as well as Indonesia and the Russians. A number of "allies in the war on Terror" seem to also be geopolitical long term adversaries of the US. What gives?

[GOP_1900AD]

Musharraf speaks as a US ally but acts, in the geopolitical dimension, as an Axis partner of Laos, Myanmar, the PRC, the DPRK, Iran and Wahabbi maniacs worldwide. What is wrong with this picture?

[swarthyguy]

Perhaps we should stop nitpicking at the secular forces. Support and encourage them to wipe out the jihadist cancer in their midst.

Tempt them to us with equipment if that's what they want, and encourage them not to look to Russia and the PRC for geopolimil reasons. Pull 'em into the Anglosphere, increasing economic and cultural connections.

[swarthyguy]

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,190225,00.html

Aceh ablaze
Rebels set fire to more than 180 schools, houses, power stations and govt offices

By Robert Go

JAKARTA - Aceh was ablaze yesterday, with over 180 buildings, including more than 100 schools, having been set on fire, apparently by rebels fending off the military advance into the province.

Indonesian officials accused the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) separatist forces of resuming their strategy of burning schools, considered by the rebels as government indoctrination centres.

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But the separatists, in turn, accused the military of resorting to arson as part of its psy-ops tactics against them.

The torching of schools came on the second day of a military offensive aimed at crushing the nearly three-decade-old rebellion.

One school that was razed was the one-storey Banda Aceh Public Elementary School on the outskirts of the provincial capital.

Dozens of other schools across the province were set afire on Monday night, along with government offices, houses and power stations.

Indonesian police chief Da'i Bachtiar said yesterday there were plans to send 2,000 more officers to Aceh over the next few days to protect public facilities.

An airborne battalion of about 600 soldiers was flown in yesterday to join about 30,000 troops and a 12,000-strong police force.

But GAM spat defiance in the face of the build-up and orders from Indonesia's top general for his troops to 'exterminate' the rebels.

[swarthyguy]

General Endriartono Sutarto, chief of Indonesia's military, had earlier during the day told hundreds of soldiers in a fiery pep talk: 'Hunt them down and exterminate them. You are trained to kill. This is the end of the story. Finish them off.'

Top Security Minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, however, spoke in more lenient tones and said Indonesia would give amnesty to GAM members who wanted to defect.

[Sparta]

Musharraf speaks as a US ally but acts, in the geopolitical dimension, as an Axis partner of Laos, Myanmar, the PRC, the DPRK, Iran and Wahabbi maniacs worldwide. What is wrong with this picture?

Ding, Ding, Ding. We have a winner.

[Sparta]

Perhaps we should stop nitpicking at the secular forces. Support and encourage them to wipe out the jihadist cancer in their midst.

Excellent words of wisdom.

[archy]

I'd say a hotbed of "arabists" in the state department.

As well as in the CIA, many of whose senior officials have particularly close interests in the petroleum industry- as does the President.

If you're ever in Venezuela, have a cab driver take you to the CIA headquarters in Caracas.

-archy-/-