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Related story... btw events in the US are intimately tied to what happens or does not happen in Saudi Arabia over the next few days.

http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp;:4016eb01:61de418bfc714ca7?type=worldNews&locale=en_IN&storyID=4222346

27 Jan 2004 22:21

Saudi Arabia says ready for anything at haj
By Andrew Hammond

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it was prepared to confront any threats to the security of two million Muslims gathering for the annual haj pilgrimage.

"We are ready for anything that could happen," Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz said after a tour of the holy city of Mecca to check facilities for the pilgrims.

This year's haj is the first since suicide bombings in the Saudi capital Riyadh killed more than 50 people last year and also follows the U.S. invasion of Iraq which has drawn Muslim militants towards Saudi Arabia's northern neighbour.

Diplomats say the Saudi government is deeply worried the haj, which in past years has been plagued by stampedes and accidents, could become a target for attack or be used as a cover for militants to infiltrate the kingdom.

"We always say there is no guarantee that nothing could happen but we trust the security forces to be able to do their job," Prince Nayef told reporters.

"All efforts are being made to secure the house of God. In past years and this year we give confidence to the pilgrims so they can safely carry out their rituals."

Most of the 1.2 million pilgrims expected from all over the world have already passed through the huge tented haj terminal at Jeddah airport, near the Red Sea coast. The rest of the two million pilgrims will be residents of the kingdom.

Saudi Health Minister Hamad al-Manei said on Tuesday extra precautions were being taken to prevent the entry of any pilgrims affected by the Asian bird flu virus.

ANTI-TERROR FORCES

Around 5,000 troops including anti-terrorist forces in black balaclavas, elite special forces and crowd control personnel performed a march past Prince Nayef on the plain of Arafat, one of the main pilgrimage sites.

Nayef did not say how many troops in total would be deployed to keep the pilgrims safe. Any attack on Muslims in Mecca by supporters of Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network would be a blow to the Saudi ruling family's authority.

Last November Prince Nayef said a cache of weapons and explosives uncovered in Mecca could have been prepared for attacks against pilgrims.

Earlier this month one of several captured militants shown on state television said he had been taken to a training camp outside Mecca. But Prince Nayef denied that any such camps had existed anywhere in the kingdom.

"We have no camps for training or terrorism today or yesterday," he said.

The main rites of the five-day pilgrimage begin on Friday.

Haj is an obligation for every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to make the trip.
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Also, there has been a clash between Saudi security forces and a jihadist cell in Riyadh. Five Saudi officers were killed, one jihadist captured.

Watch Saudi Arabia very closely for the next 5 days.

If you really want to understand the enemy we face today then you MUST read what is contained in the link below. This will give you an insight into the black heart of the jihasists.

Here are a couple of snippets to whet your appetite to click on the link and read the entire article:

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“The first thing we learned growing up was to hate Jews,” Walid recalled. “I’ll never forgot the first song I learned in school, ‘Arabs our beloved and Jews our dogs.’ I used to wonder at that time who the Jews were, but repeated the words with the rest of the kids without any knowledge of the meaning.”

Soon after the Six-Day-War his father transferred him to a school in Bethlehem “where I grew in the faith of Islam, in which I was fed the idea that one day a fulfillment of an ancient prophecy by the Muslim prophet Mohammed would come to pass,” recalled Shoebat. “The prophecy foretold a battle in which the Holy Land would be recaptured and the elimination of the Jews would take place in a massive slaughter. ‘The day of judgment shall not come to pass until a tribe of Muslims defeat a tribe of Jews,’ it said, ‘in Jerusalem and the surrounding nations’.”

It was not long before Walid’s education led him to get involved in various terrorist activities. He routinely stirred up riots and lynch mobs, throwing firebombs and rocks at soldiers and pelting Jewish worshippers at the Western Wall. He even beat an Israeli soldier, with the intent to kill, but the soldier escaped at the last second.

“What the West does not understand about Islam,” Shoebat said on Tovia Singer’s radio broadcast, “is that Jihad has stages. If Muslims have the upper hand then Jihad is waged by force. If Muslim’s don’t have the upper hand then Jihad is waged through financial and political means. Since Muslims do not have the upper hand in America or Europe, they talk about peace while supporting Hamas and Hezballah. The whole idea of Islam being a peaceful religion emanates from that silent stage of Jihad."

The Imam (Islamic cleric) of Orange County, California, a guest on Singer’s radio show as well, took issue with Shoebat’s claims, saying that ‘Jihad’ represents an inner struggle and not the genocidal slaughter of infidels called for by Osama bin Ladin. Shoebat unblinkingly refuted the cleric’c claims, reciting verse after verse of Koranic scripture in its original Arabic and translating into English. “There are over one hundred quotes by Mohammad regarding Jihad – I could recite each one of them but we would be here all day. Every single one refers specifically to Jihad by the sword, by killing, by taking no prisoners – with only one quote referring to an internal struggle – called for by Mohammad after the complete conquest and occupation of Arabia.” He said that such claims were typical of the Islamic leadership in America, and are consumed eagerly by western audiences who do not want to believe that one of the major world religions poses such a danger to humanity.

Asked whether he believes that Musims in America truly adhere to the program of Jihad he described, Shoebat qualified his statements saying, “Afghans in the U.S. and Iranians who left Iran are predominately peaceful people. The Arabic speaking communities in America, however, do indeed support Osama bin Ladin and Hamas.” He cites a direct correlation between adherence to Islam and support of terrorism. “The less they know about Islam the more peaceful they are,” he said.

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The lesson in this story needs to be learned by this nations leadership.

We need to understand that this kind of a mentality would not hesitate to detonate a nuclear device or worse in an American city. To hope beyond hope that Midaat Mursi and others like him will have a change of heart like Walid Shoebat did in Jerusalem is not the answer.

YOU DO NOT MAKE DEALS OR POLITICAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH THESE FANATICS.

I hope the US national leadership also understands the concept of "The Peace of Saladin". If not, then we're dead meat.

Link here:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/print.php3?what=news&id=56867