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Posted on 06/10/2002 4:57:01 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
Monday, June 10, 2002
Morocco arrests 3 al Qaeda "planning ship attacks" SKHIRAT, Morocco, June 10 (Reuters) - Morocco has arrested three Saudi members of al Qaeda who had been preparing to carry out "terrorist attacks" on U.S. and British ships in the Straits of Gibraltar, a senior government official said on Monday.
"Morocco's security services have dismantled a network of al Qaeda who planned terrorist attacks on U.S. and British warships crossing the Straits of Gibraltar... It was a successful operation," the official, who declined to be named, told Reuters.
The official said the three men, holding Saudi passports, were arrested in Morocco last month, but he declined to identify them.
The three were being held in custody in Casablanca prior to their interrogation by the prosecutor, the official said.
Then there's the issue of Moslems elsewhere. Africa is full of them. Southeast Asia is full of them. In fact, the world's largest Moslem country is there. The Turks are Moslem.
Wouldn't it be better to just get rid of the Arabs and not offend the religious sensibilities of all those other folks? Hmmmmm!?!?
The enemy in this case is a gang of Islamisists, not Islam, or people who are Moslem. Our other Moslem enemy is a secularist - Saddam Hussein.
It is tiring trying to get folks who have no trouble differentiating between Baptists and Democrats to apply the same subtle distinctions to folks in the Middle East and the Moslem world.
You can differentiate between Baptists and Democrats, right?
I wonder whether nuking Mecca would harm Islam or add 1.1 billion to the ranks fanatics.
The temple in Jerusalem has been destroyed a few times in the last 5000 years, but the Jews are still around. If the Vatican were nuked, would it end Catholicism?
I've noticed this too. With the exception of a few others (the Persian Ayatollah and a few heavyweight Pashtuns) it is almost exclusively Arabs causing the problem. Not Turks, not Hashemites, not Beoduins(sp?), but the Arab majorities in S.A., Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq, and the Arab minorities who stir up trouble in places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, the U.K., France, here in the U.S....
That's because they're trying to show theirs is the more "peaceful religion."
So am I. I'm shocked that Reuters actually used the word "terrorist" in one of its articles.
Morocco, a country that -it is true- works against Islamism, wants the USA to notice that it is important. And that there are two Spanish cities in front of Gibraltar
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