[swarthyguy]

The COmoros registration is interesting, whatever its significance.

There was an attempted islamic coup there almost a decade ago, and the hijacking in the mid90's of a plane from Ethiopia that crashed near a beach in the Comoros; on it were some CIA operatives. I forget if the hijackers were explicitly identified as jihadis or if the CIA people were the targt. Not too much information ever came out about the whole affair.

Fundy islami influence has been growing on this island fuelled by Saudi money and clerics subverting the island's more easygoing and tolerant islamic ways, similar to islamic coastal communities in India and Indonesia.

[Angelus Errare]

Well if I remember right, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was recruited at a young age by MAK and taken to a (Saudi-funded) Pakistani madrassa for indoctrination. If MAK was recruiting in Comoros, I doubt that Mohammed was the only fruit of their efforts.

I'm also beginning to wonder if a viable strategy for winning the war on terrorism wouldn't simply to be to freeze all Saudi assets and shut down these jihadi factories. Somehow I get the feeling that al-Qaeda would be a lot less cocky without billions in Saudi cash to back them up.