Posted on 07/04/2004 7:19:50 PM PDT by KMC1
MADRID - Over the weekend Spanish authorities revealed that the same Al Qaeda cell that had planned and carried out the Madrid bombings on March 11 had its sights set on a Children's Nursery and Primary School.
As police closed in on the cell members the squad committed a collective suicide. This, police say, is the only thing that may have prevented a massive attack at the school.
Due to the school's popularity, even Real Madrid soccer players have children who attend, it seemed to be an ideal target for the men who occupied a flat and used it for terrorist planning, said police. When the school is busy the streets outside are sometimes lined with literally hundreds of parents, teachers, school administrators, and neighbors who live in welathy homes bordering the school.
The school was British run but was bi-lingual in its teaching. European soccer star David Beckham had looked into the area before purchasing a home last year. The British Parliament is opening full investigations into the security and potential attack threats.
(Excerpt) Read more at kmclive.com ...
I'm never very far from my sawed-off Remington 870 (extended tube loaded with 00 buckshot) and I was very watchful at our small-town July 4th parade and attendant festivities today.
I know that we most likely wouldn't have a chance to prevent an attack, but as the old ranch hands around here say, "I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it."
Awww, come on..... there is no War on Terror. It's fake. And Spain has made peace with Al Queda. Al Queda is just another group of people victimized by the Bush administration. They are crying out for justice. They won't "really" hurt the children. They are only trying to call our attention to the criminals Bush and Cheney and their "Blood for Oil" war.
We must learn to understand the rage of Al Queda. We must embrace them. Give them whatever they want, the poor abused followers of Osama. And what about Saddam? How terribly has he been treated? We need to set him free. He was a wonderful leader for Iraq, the people miss him. He was so popular he won in landslide elections, but we go and take his government away , and imprison him?
The Bush administration are the criminals. How dare they overthrow Saddam and liberate Afghanistan. How dare they try to set up a democracy in the Arab world. And how dare we live in freedom here in the USA. Don't we know by now that we must be brought under control by "our betters"? We have no right to make decisions for ourselves. We must leave that to the intellectuals, college professors and the United Nations-"our betters". We are far too arrogant. No wonder the rest of the world hates us.
Stop wasting time posting articles about Bush's phony War on Terror. We have far more serious problems in our nation- like smoking, and the cross being shown in public. (Sarcasm ON: 10+ all the way up)
Oh, and I bet this plot has received no coverage in the press. I guess I'm not shocked. Wake up America!
-Islam, a Religion of Peace®? Some links...--
Then, I wrote this a long time ago... and the passage of events has only hardened my attitude:
The entire West ( dare I say "the civilized World?" ) is locked in a fight to the death with militant Islam.
There will be no second-place winner, no "third way" solution-- it is March or Die time, folks.
It is Us versus an eighth-century "culture" of plunder & pillage, forced religious "conversions," and the mistreatment of women.
The sooner we face up to this fact realistically and quit dancing around PC talking-point nonsense about diversity and tolerance, the better off we'll all be.
We did not pick this fight- which really has roots in Jimmy Carter's appeasement in 1979 of militants- but we had damned well better see it for what it is, and be prepared to face it and finish it.
I'll put it in raw, personal terms-- I don't want Sharia law visited upon my women, and I don't want a goat-roper "culture" infesting my land.
I don't want their vile, nasty, loathsome weapons of mass destruction loosed upon my fair country, either.
They picked the fight, and now it is up to us to finish it- balls to the wall, hammer and anvil, fire and blood and iron... freedom is never, ever free, and the coin you pay it in is men's lives and tears and blood.
What we saw during Gulf War I was our military doctrine ( high tech ) versus Soviet doctrine ( throw a lot of low tech iron at the problem )-- and we all know how that turned out.
What we have just seen in the 3-Week War is Information-Tech,
( What some are calling it Hyperwarfare... )
or 21st Century warfare versus 20th Century...
What I would suggest, and call your attention to, is the fact that we, and Israel, are capable of waging 21st Century warfare, and the entire Arab world is not.
Proven fact, by recent events.
One more thing- this will be a war where we are all called to be warriors- so I suggest to you that the time has come to get hard, and stay hard... it really is the time for Fire and Blood and Iron...
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Thank you, nopardons. I realize that my words are harsh, but I see no other way- like the soldiers who signed on for service in WWII, we are "in it for the duration." There will be only one at the end...
It's fairly clear they're trying to attack British expatriates in Spain. Those utter bastards.
Regards, Ivan
We didn't start this war,but wse're the ones qwho'd better finish it.
This isn't some T.V. show;this is real life.War is bloody and nasty and long.If we aren't in it for the duration,we'll lose and so will the entire world.
Yes, exactly. Whatever flaws America may have, we are a light to the world. I just don't want their garbage-can "culture" being imposed on us ( and the entire world ) at the point of a sword.
I won't convert,I won't wear a damned burka,and they can stuff Sharia law where the sun don't shine!
Yes my harem friend, you are good. But fasiq, you pale in comparison to my good buddy,
Allah is in da house! Inshallah, he will stay that way. Allahu Akbar! Scourge admires your comp. graphix skillz. NOW BEND TO ALLAH, AND HIS IMMACULATE SON-IN-LAW ALI, YOU FILTHY KAFIR!!!
BEWARE THE BLACK TURBAN YAZID!
-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)
It's fairly clear they're trying to attack British expatriates in Spain. Those utter bastards.
Regards, Ivan
Sorry, Ivan. I just re-read the post, and I see you're right. Then I looked up the "Agreement for a Separate Peace Between the Republic of Spain and the Caliphate of Allah, as administered by al Qaeda." I see now where it says "Actions by Caliphate to be withheld in case of Spanish nationals, but to proceed against nationals from the leaders of the Zionists and Crusaders, while allowing for collateral damage as determined necessary by Caliphate."
Regards,
Mark
Amen. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark...etc.
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