Posted on 12/13/2007 3:02:41 PM PST by camerakid400
In a major strategic change, the Algerian arm of Al-Qaeda appears to be using terrorists older than 60 to carry out its attacks.
That is the finding to have emerged from early analysis of the dual bombings that struck Algiers on Tuesday.
Arab media and analysts have spoken of the "return of the elderly" to describe the strategic change by Al-Qaeda's Branch in the Islamic Maghreb (BAQMI) that claimed responsibility for the bombings in the Algerian capital.
The Algerian government said that at least 26 people were killed and more than 170 wounded by the two bombs. However hospital sources say that more than 60 people died in the attacks.
In a statement posted on Islamist websites, al-Qaeda's North Africa wing said that they had used 800 kilogrammes of explosives in each of the two suicide attacks.
Earlier this year al-Qaeda terrorists in Algeria had decided to use young people to carry out their attacks, but now they have changed their stragegy and appear to have decided to use terrorists aged in their 60's.
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Because all the young ones already went “Kaboom”.
What cowards! why don’t these leaders go blow themselves up.
Unitl islam is banished from the earth, the slaughter and slavery will continue.
What good will 72 virgins do all those old guys?
They’re running out of people to work with now that AQ has taken a major hit in Iraq. Considering that they strap bombs to 1-year-old babies in Pakistan, it’s no surprised they’d use people from the other end of the age spectrum.
Not surprised...most likely they were told their sons and daughters sons and daughters would be gang raped if they didn’t “do their duty for Allah”.
W’s been running them down though.
I truly beleive there’s fewer of them.
You’ve got that exactly right! Instead we have a president who wants to sing to me about a “religion of peace”.
And the victims were of what religion?
Now wait a darn minute! Now you’ve done it! What makes you think us old guys would not appreciate 72 virgins? Just hope there is not a heavenly rule that states that the virgins must be the same age as the recipient. Now that would be cruel and unusual punishment indeed :)
alla and his goathumpers must be patting themselves on the back for that one. come on Daddy yer gettin old... and i want your house and stuff.
It depends what you mean by “appreciate”. ;^)
This is what the Germans were forced to do in the last days of World War II—use children and old men for combatants.
Excellent point and it is what the Germans did and now al Qaeda has done in the recent explosions in Pakistan using an infant and now old men in Algeria.
bttt
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