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Title:
SUSPECTED TERRORISTS CAPTURED NEAR PARU KHYL VILLAGE
Release Date:
8/22/2006
Release Number:
06-08-02PL
Description:
KABUL , Afghanistan – Afghan and Coalition forces conducted a pre-dawn raid on a compound housing suspected terrorists Aug. 22 near Paru Kheyl village in Khowst Province .
Three suspects were taken into custody.
Assorted weapons and ammunition were confiscated in the operation. Weapons included automatic and bolt-action rifles, a shotgun and ammunition-carrying chest racks.
Three other males found in the compound were released after questioning. More than 20 women and children were also located within the facilities. The Coalition notes that extremists are deliberately and immorally surrounding themselves with innocent civilians, knowing the Coalition takes extraordinary measures to prevent civilian casualities.
The purpose of this operation was to capture a known al Qaeda facilitator. Credible intelligence linked the targeted individual to suspected terrorist activities and attacks against the Afghan and Coalition forces in Khowst Province .
The Coalition is currently assessing information taken from the raid and determining the level of involvement of the three suspected terrorists taken into custody.
No shots were fired and no Afghan or Coalition forces were injured during the operation.
This operation was a coordinated effort between Afghan and Coalition forces,” said Col. Thomas Collins, Combined Forces Command - Afghanistan spokesman. “This joint team will continue to target the al Qaeda network and remove their means of support in order to extend the reach of the government and ultimately improve the lives of the Afghan people.”
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ON THE NET...
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=78134&d=20&m=8&y=2006
"Irresponsible Statements Fueling Radicalism: WAMY"
Javid Hassan, Arab News
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "RIYADH, 20 August 2006 — US President George W. Bush’s recent usage of the term “Islamic fascists” and other remarks made by White House officials are encouraging extremism, said Dr. Saleh Al-Wohaibi, secretary-general of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY).
In an interview with Arab News, Al-Wohaibi described Bush’s remarks as being unhelpful and said they were instrumental in creating problems for a pan-Islamic organization such as WAMY, which is trying to fight extremism among the youth. “They make our task difficult,” he said.
The WAMY chief has appealed to the Western intelligentsia in general and those from the US in particular to counter the “unjust campaign against Muslims and their beliefs to avoid any possible conflict, which the neocons and their spokesmen are instigating.”
Al-Wohaibi said that in any such conflict the bigger loser would be the West, which plays a central role in the international arena."
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ON THE NET...
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/08/fuel_for_radicalism.php
"Fuel for Radicalism?"
By Tamar Tesler
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Arab News published an article this week called “Irresponsible Statements Fueling Radicalism: WAMY" A headline that could easily be a parody in The Onion or on Saturday Night Live.
“In an interview with Arab News, [Saleh] Al-Wohaibi [Secretary General of WAMY] described Bush’s remarks [“Islamic fascists”] as being unhelpful and said they were instrumental in creating problems for a pan-Islamic organization such as WAMY, which is trying to fight extremism among the youth. ‘They make our task difficult,’ he said”
This is the same WAMY that published and distributed a book titled, Islamic Camps: Objectives, Program Outlines, Preparatory Steps, as a guide for other Muslim groups planning camps. The book lists steps for starting a camp, creating a program, inviting participants, establishing goals, and other technical advice. It also includes sample schedules, a list of sports and activities, lectures, meals and free time. In the index, Islamic Camps suggests chants such as:
“Hail! Hail! O Sacrificing Soldiers! / To Us! To Us! So we may defend the flag / on this Day of Jihad, are you miserly with your blood?!…Come! So we may revive the times the times of our predecessors!”
Yet in a previous interview in the Arab News Saleh Al-Wohaibi lamented that “WAMY and other charitable organizations suffered a loss of image as they were linked to terrorism by the Western, more specifically, the American media.” He complained that WAMY summer camps will suffer due to loss in revenue and told the Arab News that “the best way to wean youth away from undesirable activities was to install sound values based on Islamic teachings. According to al-Wohaibi, “That’s what the summer camps were about.”
WAMY does not by any means limit its teachings to summer camps. A WAMY booklet that is allegedly circulating in the US prison system is called The Difference Between The Shi'ites and the Majority of Muslim Scholars. This booklet describes Shiism as having been formed as a result of “various tribalist, racist and Jewish movements” and states that “the claim that Ali should have been the first caliph started mainly as a political claim and was designed to create discord among Muslims by agitating tribal and racial differences and hostilities.”
It is no surprise that the New York prison system, as reported by Paul Barrett in a February 2003 Wall Street Journal article, How a Muslim Chaplain Spread Extremism to an Inmate Flock, “has seen a rash of complaints from inmates who adhere to the minority Shiite sect of Islam” due to actions of some Sunni prison chaplains."