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Al-Qaida Targeting Children, Saudi Family Doesn't Pass The Laugh Test
2003-11-11
By Bruce Kennedy, Jihad Unspun
Bruce Kennedy? That's a good Muslim name...
To think that the US, and the Saudi royal family for that matter, would believe that Muslims would actually buy their spin that Al-Qaida would target an affluent, residential neighborhood in Riyadh, full of children while parents where participating in festivities during the holy month of Ramadhan is beyond comprehension. This latest “Al-Qaida” accusation comes at a time when George W Bush is failing miserably in the reelection poles [sic] and his only hope is to please his Israeli masters and as the Saudi royals are desperate to maintain their dwindling oil contracts and likewise dwindling relationship with America which their fragile economy depends on.
Oh. Well. That explains it. Couldn't have happened...
"The mentality of Mujahideen and the literature of the Al-Qaida and related parties is very clear. There is no way they would attack Muslims unless they are collateral damage" the London-based Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia (Mira) spokesman Saad al-Faaqih said.
"Lies! All lies! A base calumny!"
The very nature of the target would never be considered by a Mujahideen group due to high risk of collateral damage and there isn’t a Muslim anywhere who will buy the headlines that are running rampant in western press.
Well, maybe a few in Soddy Arabia...
For some of us who are close to the daily news we saw the whole thing coming. First there were the so-called international alerts sounded by the US of course, just a few days prior to the bombing that then came coincidentally just one day after the United States closed its missions in the Kingdom for security review. Out to lunch I guess. This fuels the fear and gets the populous [sic] ready for the impending “incident” and has been a repetitive maneuver.
Just like all the previous false alarms did...
CNN broke the story and claimed 100 were killed or injured “mostly children” and then flashed pictures of hurt children under the headline “Al-Qaeda” just to add to the effect. Rarely does CNN show graphic shots (and never of US casualties) unless of course it adds to the drama. As the news report came in, the “facts” where changing moment by moment. Of the final toll, 11 dead and over 122 wounded (many children), almost all were Arabs, including four Egyptians and four Lebanese who were among those killed. The Saudi Interior ministry listed just four Americans and six Canadians among the wounded, and all of those were of Arab descent. The complex housed Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians. Hmm.
See? No way Qaeda could have done it...
The fact remains that this flurry of recent attacks indicates that someone is intent on destabilizing Saudi Arabia so the question is who has the most to benefit and the capability of perpetrating this kind of cold-blooded act? Well that is all too easy to answer. As we all know, the Iraq war was actually about oil, but not oil destined for the United States. Israel instigated the conflict in an attempt to gain access to Iraqi oil through the pipeline which runs from Iraq into Jordan and at one time continued on to Haifa and it is chomping at the bit for Saudi spoils too.
Well, by golly! He's right! It musta been them Jews! I'll bet they put on turbans and snuck into the country and just banged away!
And of course, Israel has a past and current history of murdering Palestinian children which they consider expendable so this is surely no concern when considering its overall gains. Israel has its sights set not just on Palestine but its other Arab neighbors also. Could it be that Saudi Arabia is next?
Yep. The IDF is probably headed for downtown Riyadh right this minute!
Sunday's headlines reading “Al-Qaida Losses Support In The Arab World” is hog wash and nothing more than another attempt to “divide and conquer”. The Arab world has long known the antics of the US and Israel and the Muslims didn’t even bother to read them. They were to busy making Ramadan supplications to Allah.
He's got a point about the Muslims not even bothering to read the news...
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#11  Stolen from VoxPopuli, regarding Islam the religion of Piece (as in pieces and parts of babies, women and chidren):

"The second Caliph to succeed Muhammad, Umar ibn al-Khattab, was assassinated, as was the third Caliph, Uthman ibn Affan, as was the fourth Caliph, Ali ibn Abi Talib.

This history of violence was not inconsequential. The fifth Caliph and founder of the Ummayad dynasty, Muawiyyah, managed to survive long enough to pass the holy mantle of leadership to his son Yazid, who, when faced with a challenge to his rule by Muhammed's grandson, Husain, did not hesitate to massacre Husain and all his followers, including Husain's infant son.

The murders of Ali and Husain were the first great grievances of the Shiah i-Ali, better known to us in the West as the Shiite Muslims. And many centuries of similar "pacifism" followed, hence the Abbasid, Fatimid, Seljuk, Safavid, Moghul and Ottoman Empires.


I think it's also worth pointing out that the first two Abbasid Caliphs, Abul-'Abbaas 'Abdullah bin Muhammad al-Saffaah (750 AD) and Abu Ja'far 'Abdullah bin Muhammad al-Mansoor (754) bore surnames "the bloodshedder" and "the victorious". Strange titles for the leaders of such a famously peaceful religion."
Posted by: somewherenorth   2003-11-11 5:27:08 PM  

#10  About the "holy" month of Ramadan: don't make the mistake Ramadan and Christmas ("Peace on Earth for the men of good will"). For Al Quaida and their ilk it is the better month for Jihad: just take a look at Algeria where since the start of civil war, year after year, Ramadan has been a month of terror with an increase both in the number of attacks and the sadism of the murders.
Posted by: JFM   2003-11-11 4:53:31 PM  

#9  Funny. Recently, in one of the messages from one of my ML (the one that quotes... DEBKA. Hum), there was speculations on the new "psychological war" about to be engaged by fundies, both in Iraq (to separate the pop. from the US through insecurity, and to make GWB reelection difficult through steady stream of casualties), and in the muslim world (by spreading conspiracy theories about attacks being perpretated by US intelligence).
Seems the guy in the message was right! I'm so proud of him!
Btw, more serious, the worrying thing is that particular "psychological warfare" is quite underway here: Irak is totally out of control, USA are begging fot help (sunni triangle = whole Iraq, daily summaries of total US casualties, "France was right" congressional paper cited, quotes of Jessica Lynch saying she was used for propaganda & "startling revelation" of her not having fired one shot - plus "she was well-treated, there was even a nurse who sang for her"... no mention of the possible rape), whitewashing of the Saddam regime (absolutely not showing of the torture tapes, interviews of "ordinary iraqi" or "schoolboys missing Saddam"... in Tikrit!,...). Spin is so aggressive, my head hurts.
Also, a definite and not recent tendancy to exonerate islamists of their crimes; that was done especially regarding Algeria (by the "liberal" TV network specializing in antiamericanism), or more insidiously by inverting values (french jews are accused of colluding with the far right against poor muslims, "anti-antiamericanists" are deemed supporters of GWB... all this while muslim antisemitism diguized or not as antisionism is supported by theses same antidiscrimination groups).
IMHO, in Europa (?) and at least in France, there is a definite collusion between islamofascists & antiglobos/leftists, if not in goals, at leats in methods.
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-11-11 4:50:17 PM  

#8  And my grandmother's maiden name was Kennedy. It's all coming together now.
Posted by: Matt   2003-11-11 4:24:23 PM  

#7  Hey! My late step-sister was married to a Bruce Kennedy. And he lives in ZIONsville, Indiana. Hmmmmm. Maybe he knows what them JOOOOOOOOs are up to after all. (black helicopters with teeny weeny Stars of David are flying hither and yon).
Posted by: remote man   2003-11-11 4:19:39 PM  

#6  If the Muslims are not reading the news, why is "Bruce" bothering to refute this? It must be just for Rantburg.
Posted by: Spot   2003-11-11 4:16:08 PM  

#5  We should have learned not to trust the Reelection Poles after they made Chairman Mao Emperor of Austria-New Zealand in the disastrous Crimean War of Independence.
Posted by: Doomed To Repeat   2003-11-11 3:58:07 PM  

#4  Hey, I agree with the author. Islam is the Religion of Peace and the folks from Al-Qaida would never go around blowing people up. Unless of course, the victims were Joos, Crusaders, infidels, westerners, the wrong flavor of Muslim, or simply "collateral damage".

I'm starting to wonder if "Religion of Peace" is actually "Religion of Pieces". It's easy for mistakes like this to arise when a written language lacks vowels. Rather like the confusion between "white raisins" and "virgins".
Posted by: SteveS   2003-11-11 3:44:13 PM  

#3  Bruce Kennedy...

Another damn Potato(e) Bomber?
Posted by: Shipman   2003-11-11 3:35:38 PM  

#2  FYI - Al-Qaida, via its mouthpiece Al-Jitzz does claim responsibility for this act. And since when did Al-Qaida balk at murdering women and children?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2003-11-11 3:33:41 PM  

#1  "The mentality of Mujahideen and the literature of the Al-Qaida and related parties is very clear. There is no way they would attack Muslims unless they are collateral damage"

"Of course, we view collateral damage differently than those kafir Americans!"
Posted by: Steve White   2003-11-11 3:29:44 PM  

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