Bill Quick points to David Tell's column at The Weekly Standard. Tell asks "Who is Syed Athar Abbas?" Tell's premise is that the FBI investigators' ideological PC blinders are causing them to look in the wrong places for the perpetrators of the anthrax attacks last October.
Tell convincingly points a finger, not an American researcher, but at Syed Athar Abbas. Abbas is a Pakistani, which would be the first place I would be looking if I were an FBI agent. That doesn't mean I'd discard any clues that didn't point there, but a Pakistani would ring a lot more alarm bells than some guy in Frederick, Maryland, or a Sri Lankan, or even a bio-Wen Ho Lee. Digging into the machinery of terrorism doesn't lead to Frederick; it leads to Pakland. That's where al-Qaeda is. Al-Qaeda is the group that declared war on the U.S. and attacked us in September â lest we forget.
In April, Abbas signed a plea agreement acknowledging guilt in a check-kiting scheme that netted him $100,000. Abbas was one of the guys the FBI tried to look up in the days immediately following 9/11. Abbas wasn't there, having skipped a month before. His lawyer says he'd gone home to Pakland to care for Dear Old Dad, who was dying. Before leaving, Abbas had bought a $100,000 "fine-food particulate mixer" that could be used to mix chemicals â really finely ground chemicals, as small as a single micron in diameter. Abbas didn't go into business creating cake mixes. In fact, he didn't take delivery of the machine, but had it transported... elsewhere. We don't know where "elsewhere" is. Despite his plea agreement, Abbas has refused to cooperate with the investigators who'd like to have a look at the mixer, and the folks who ran it. I was surprised when the investigation of the anthrax attacks veered toward domestic sources. We can only guess what evidence led it there. The evidence that's available to us, the Great Unwashed, points toward an Islamist: the timing, the fact that the first anthrax letter sent overseas went to Daily Jang, another to the U.S. consulate in Lahore, and then, as though to fog those two, to the consulate in Ekaterinburg in Russia, to a joint venture company in Vietnam, and to a doctor in Chile â I'd guess each of these last three was a red herring.
If Abbas is a part of the terror machine, he's not the one who mixed up the anthrax, but he could well be a part of the logistics machine that supported the guys that did. It would be a really good idea to pump this guy full of happy juice and listen really closely as he babbles...
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IMHO,the US government has gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid pointing fingers at people from the Mideast. The July 4th attack is a good example of this.
I believe that this is due to the fact that a big part of this war involves attacking Islamic terrorists without giving the impression that we are attacking Islam itself. Also, the government doesn't want to fuel a domestic backlash against Mideasterners.
On a certain level, this is both charitable and good strategy. But it also underestimates American goodwill and, to a certain extent, makes the government look stupid.
I think that most Americans instinctively understand this and begrudgingly tolerate it, but it is still irksome to think that the FBI is wasting valuable resources casing down a ghost for PR purposes.
The problem is that Islamic terrorism is a product of Islamic fundamentalism and to combat it we will have to attack a principle part of Islam. At this point, I don't believe that the rest of the Islamic world is capable of disassociating itself from the fundamentalists and then we will be at war with Islam itself.
The problem with this strategy is that we have unilaterally denied ourselves sound tactics such as "racial profiling". We know that the terrorists are Mideasterners or Muslim converts. This has thrown a monkey wrench into domestic investigations and has left us vulnerable.
So far this has not been a very big problem but I fear that when Saddam's back is against the wall at the end of Desert Storm II, he will use this vunerability to do us grave harm.
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At the same time, the FBI has made enough mistakes in the past to be cautious this time. They've pointed the finger at someone who turned out to be innocent (Richard Jewell), botched another investigation to the point that it couldn't be resolved (Wen-Ho Lee), and covered up wrong-doing in another (Ruby Ridge). I don't blame the director for shaking his guys and saying, "get it right this time before we open our mouths and look more stoopid."
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American Moslem reaction to the hits that the United States took from Moslems last September, is unambiguous.
First, to civil counter-terror operations: OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.
Second, to international counter-terror operations: TREASON.
Mary Wehmmeier's covering the Samantha Runnion murder. The suspect is a male Hispanic, 25-40 years old, thin black moustache and black hair. He's driving a light green 2-door vehicle, possibly a Honda or an Acura. Samantha was kidnapped from her yard in Stanton, California. Her body was found in Cleveland National Forest, in Riverside County, about 50 miles to the east. Latest:
An autopsy showed Samantha was sexually assaulted and suffocated sometime Tuesday, leading authorities to believe she was alive for several hours after her abduction, Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona said. "Because the body was found very quickly, we have a high expectation that there will be significant forensic evidence found at the scene and significant forensic evidence found on the body of Samantha Runnion," the sheriff said. Carona also said Samantha may have fought against her killer and inflicted "injuries to his hands, arms and possibly face."
Based on the account of 5-year-old Sarah Ahn, the only witness to Samantha's abduction, the suspect is a Hispanic man with slicked-back black hair and a thin, black mustache. FBI agent Richard Garcia said Sarah was able to identify speech patterns, leading investigators to believe the man is American rather than a foreigner.
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Rumors of an arrest circulating are FALSE. The Riverside and Orange County Sheriff's are now on the television telling us that information.
The Govenor has added an additional $50,000 to the reward pool today.
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U.S. weapons makers have doubled the production rate of laser-guided bombs, added a shift to assemble satellite-guided bomb tailkits and boosted output at one ammunition factory to its highest level in 15 years. Some of the ordnance will replace weapons used in the war in Afghanistan, but another reason for the buildup is to stockpile weapons for possible military action against Iraq, analysts say. "The job of Central Command is to be prepared for that Iraq contingency, and that plan is probably pretty well in development," said retired Rear Adm. Stephen Baker, a former naval operations director for Central Command. "One thing they need to do is bring the stockpiles up, particularly of the laser-guided bombs and JDAMs and Tomahawk missiles."
The military still has only a fraction of the 40,000 to 50,000 JDAMs it wants, said analyst John Pike of GlobalSecurity.org. "They had obviously used up a significant fraction of what was on hand, and what was on hand a year ago was only a small fraction of what they want to have on hand," Pike said. Supplies dropped during the Clinton era, where they were popped off whenever His Excellency was caught with his zipper open forced to respond decisively to overseas events. There was also a considerable expenditure during the first month of the Afghanistan operation. And they'll probably want to build up over required levels to allow for contingencies...
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Nice to see the increase in ordinance.
Keep one thing in mind: even if $2,000,000 bombs are used to prevent civilian casualties, Islamania will still use atrocity propaganda. Ergo: restraint is folly.
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The best argument in favor of doing our best to avoid undue civilian casualties is that we're not like them. They can propagandize all they want; we do it for ourselves. Being Americans, we don't believe in killing everyone and everything in sight.
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Read the whole thing. This is only bits and pieces. It's typical Warren, only better'n most, and he's always first-class...
Iran has come to the boil. Against the background of huge public demonstrations, the reformist party that controls the largest block of seats in the elected but largely powerless Iranian Parliament yesterday threatened to walk out, if the ayatollahs continued to stall measures for social and political change...
Last Friday afternoon, while the media were checking out for the weekend, the U.S. president, George W. Bush, delivered his most under-reported speech. It was timed to land Friday morning in Iran, Islamic sermon time, and this was part of the intended effect. The White House was delivering a "maximal" affront to Iran's "maximal" Shia fundamentalist regime. The speech deviated from the previous U.S. policy, which had been re-enunciated earlier in the week at a State Department press conference, of having nothing to say about Iranian demonstrations. It was fed to Iran in Persian ("Farsi" to the snobs), by a private, Iranian-exile satellite TV station in Los Angeles.
The ayatollahs have been turning themselves inside out over it for the past week. I think Bush's plan is to kill them off by mass apoplexy...
The "reform process" in Iran turns out to be similar to the "peace process" that re-launched Arafat in Oslo: something that takes forever, and moves consistently backwards.
So... Y'think Bush unplugged the Reform Processor and put it away?
It is the principal source of arms for the world's Islamist terrorists; and the power behind a huge buildup in weaponry including medium-range missiles by the Hezbollah in Lebanon (who operate there under Syrian protection. At least twice in the present year, Israel has been on the verge of going to war with Syria, to destroy this growing cache.)
Yep. They're much more deeply involved with the machinery of terrorism than we even thought, and we thought they were pretty deeply involved.
In a further sign that the regime was losing its grip, it then confined its police to barracks in Isfahan, as it had done the previous day in Tehran -- doubting their loyalty. Instead they sent foreign thugs with paramilitary training, chiefly Palestinian and Iraqi Arabs, and Uzbeks and Tadzhiks from Afghanistan, to beat the demonstrators down. It was a desperate measure -- an implicit acknowledgement that the whole Persian people have now sided with the opposition.
Yes! Yes!Yessss!
We heard the rumors of bringing in the out-of-town thugs. Steve White caught that one. That always works really well. Just look at... ummm... well, it works. Really.
The students first, and now every part of Iranian society except the people whose livelihoods depend on the tyranny, demand re-admission to the modern, explicitly Western, world. (Several of the Persians I correspond with have emphasized this point: "We are a Western people. We are not part of the East.")
We sometimes forget. Persians are not Arabs. They used to be a civilized people.
The question remains: are the mad mullahs finally entering the garbage chute of history? It is the question we asked of the Soviet regime, when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, and of the Chinese Communists in Tiananmen Square. Neither regime was reformable. The Soviets lost their nerve, and collapsed; the Chinese politburo, red in tooth and claw, massacred and survived. The Bush administration is betting, for the moment, that the unreformable ayatollahs will lose their nerve. But if they do somehow keep it, the U.S. Fifth Fleet is waiting offshore.
When it happens it will happen almost overnight. It will be like the bursting of a bubble. And much of the trouble in the Middle East will burst with it.
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Warrens' article is terrific! I read it and found myself going 'huh?' "lighted candles to mourn the victims of 9/11", "Stars and Stripes gets unfurled" etc etc.
My view of Persians has always been coloured by the events of 1979, those raving ayatollahs and the insane 'human wave' battles with the Iraqis.
Looks like I need get a bit more clued-up regarding Iran.
Bush has been making some very smart moves recently; "The Speech" that has taken out Arafat and shown up most of our EU pinhead 'leaders' (yup, I live in England) to be the idiotarians we always really knew them to be, and now this.
People, we do live in interesting times. The Islamofascists started something that they are going to have a very very hard time stopping.
Now then, I wonder what Bush is going to do to the House of Saud...
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I think Warran might have too rosy an assessment of the degree of support for the U.S. to be found there, and I hope I'm wrong. Prior to the fall of the Shah, the Persians I knew were all very civilized, very intelligent, very secular people. The were also virtually all military or diplomatic people. Even though I knew I wasn't meeting a cross-section of Iran, I was still surprised at the level of anti-Americanism that showed up with the arrival of Khomeini. And after the fall of the Shah, I was surprised when some of them changed their hats.
I think that there's probably a degree of support for the West in the abstract in Iran, and in some other circles a support for the USA for reasons both good and bad, and probably a few silly reasons as well. While my tongue wasn't too far into my cheek when I said they used to be a civilized country, we have to keep in mind that the civilization's Persian, not American. I think the Shah went too far in his efforts toward secularization and ended up with an unreasoned backlash that the theocrats took advantage of; but they made the mistake of imposing a system that's essentially foreign to the country, more Arab in its approach than Persian. The ayatollahs are generally smarter than the Afghan mullahs, and their turbans are cleaner, but the system's not that different. They're rushing headlong toward a fall because they're lousy administrators and they're convinced of their infallibility. If you're infallible, you don't need no damned opinions from the Great Unwashed.
When they're gone - and it might even happen before Iraq's taken out - it's going to leave a hole in the terror machinery that it'll take one hell of a lot of Saudi money to fill. The ayatollahs are the drivers behind Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, and they are probably the ultimate controllers of Hamas. With a nationalist regime in Tehran, enjoying a civilization that's Persian rather than "Islamic," that produces a huge counterweight to the Arabians and their always xenophobic and often amateurish plots.
With both Iran and Iraq out of the way, the Sauds are pretty well left standing buck nekkid in a snow storm, surrounded by a pack of wolves. Bush might not be counting on having to do anything about the House of Saud...
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Prominent Iranian cleric Ayatollah Jalaledin Taheri, whose fiery criticism of the Islamic state sparked nation-wide political tension, called on Iranians to protest Friday against the US, press reports Thursday. "All Iranians should participate in anti-American protests" to be held Friday nation-wide, the 76-year-old cleric, who is close to moderate President Mohammad Khatami, said in a letter printed in Thursday's reformist press. In his letter, Taheri also voiced his support for reforms. "To solve the problems of which I have spoken and that which was said in the leader's response, one should continue on the path of reforms," Taheri said referring to his resignation letter last week and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's response. "Yes, thank you. I'd love to be pureed in the reform processor."
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Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi on Wednesday strongly denied press reports that President Mohammad Khatami had received a message from US President George W. Bush, IRNA said. Asefi noted that in the past days, a section of the press in regional countries had published reports that a letter had been sent by Bush to President Khatami drawing attention to the existence of terrorist bases in Iran. He added that Iran strongly and categorically rejects claims that there are any terrorist bases on its territory. "Nope. Y'sure he wrote it to us? Maybe it got lost in the mail..."
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In a major breakthrough against the elusive November 17 terrorist gang, Greek police announced Thursday that three members of the group confessed to a series of bombings and other killings, including the murders of military attaches from both the United States and Britain. Alexandros Giotopoulos, 58, the chief ideologist and a major leader of the group, was in custody. Police said he was taken off a hydrofoil leaving the eastern Aegean island of Lipsi. Snagged the bastard, did they? Good job! It's amazing, the amount of information large men with moustaches and truncheons can extract from tough guys...
"From various evidence in the investigation we began to build a picture of the ideological instructor of the organization and the writer of its proclamations,'' police chief Fotis Nassiakos said of Giotopoulus. The confessions and capture of a leading figure in the group marked the first crack in Europe's most elusive terrorist organization since the group first appeared in 1975 with the assassination of Richard Welch, the CIA's station chief in Athens. Authorities scored their first-ever success against the organization after a botched June 29 bombing in the busy tourist port of Piraeus. Savas Xiros, a 40-year-old painter of religious icons and brother of two of the men who have confessed, was severely wounded when the bomb he allegedly was carrying exploded prematurely. He remains in the hospital and has not been charged. Turns out the group had less than a dozen members. So they've got three in custody who've confessed, nabbed the Brains of the Outfit, and there's only half of another one left vegetating in a hospital bed. "Less than a dozen" means a max of 11, so 11 less 5 leaves at most a half dozen of these goobers still at large. With at least one of the three singing — that's how they got Mr Brains — the number could even go down to the optimal zero.
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Last month's demonstrations in connection with a World Bank meeting in Oslo were praised for their peacefulness. It might have been bloody: Police found a bomb and managed to deactivate it just before the main protest march began. Anarchokiddies? Bombs? Never! Must be some kinda police provocation...
The bomb was found in a cafe not far from Oslo's main police station, according to newspaper Bergens Tidende. The cafe's manager called in police after discovering the suspicious package, and experts quickly removed it. The bomb proved to hold around 40 grams of explosives, enough to create a strong blast, confirmed Anstein Gjengedal of the Oslo police. Police have examined the bomb in the hopes of tracking down who put it together. Gjengedal said similar devices have been used under demonstrations in other countries, generally against police and horses. The coppers always start the trouble, of course. They just can't seem to control themselves...
Gjengedal now also reveals that police uncovered several attempts to provoke heavily armed forces during the World Bank meeting in late June. Police also uncovered a large stash of stones, probably gathered with an aim of throwing them at police. The stone depot was kept under surveillance, but not used. I think even the professional beauzeaux must have had a hard time conceiving of a riot in Oslo. That's not to say it doesn't have its problems; when I was there last I saw several juvenile delinquents hanging out on street corners, occasionally as late as 9:30, sometimes ruthlessly littering...
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation's counter-terrorism chief, Dale Watson, says he thinks Osama bin Laden is "probably" dead. It is thought to be the first time a senior US law-enforcement official has publicly offered an opinion on whether Bin Laden, the prime suspect believed to be behind the 11 September attacks, is dead or alive. "Is (Bin Laden) alive or is he dead?" Mr Watson said. "I am not really sure of the answer... I personally think he is probably not with us anymore but I have no evidence to support that." This is big news! This is really big news! It's big news because... ummmm... because it's big.
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Hmm, Dale Watson is the FBI's "counter-terrorism chief". Is he the guy who had the job of keeping an eye out for groups like al-Queda last September? If so, we better keep looking for Osama.
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A House panel found nut case flamboyant Ohio Rep. Jim Traficant guilty Thursday of ethics violations stemming from his conviction on bribery, tax evasion and fraud conviction. I couldn't say for sure, not being a lawyer, but I think he hurt his case when he mooned the panel...
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Yeah methinks he is itching to go to a loony bin rather than prison. I think he is worried about being the "new boy" in the pen.
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A Pakistani Christian who claimed he was Jesus Christ and called Islam a fake religion was convicted of blasphemy on Thursday and sentenced to death by hanging. Surprised they didn't sentence him to crucifixion...
The verdict against Anwar Keneth, 40, a former government official, drew criticism from the nation's Christian Liberation Front, which lobbies for the interests of the small Christian community. "We think justice has not been done in the case of Anwar Keneth," Khalid Gill, a leader and spokesman for the group, told The Associated Press. "Keneth should have been treated at a mental hospital." Gosh, what an unusual idea... They have mental hospitals in Pakland?
Keneth was arrested a year ago in Lahore for violating Pakistan's strict blasphemy laws after he addressed a letter to a local imam and others stating that he was Christ and Islam was a fake religion. Keneth has been jailed since his arrest. He confessed to the charges on July 8. "Thou hast said it..."
Minorities in Pakistan have been demanding the repeal of blasphemy laws, under which scores of people are arrested every year. Under Pakistani law, only the word of a Muslim accuser is needed to prosecute a non-Muslim on blasphemy charges, which can carry the death penalty upon conviction. Well, that sounds fair. We know Muslims never lie. And as a group they're mentally very stable...
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Three militants, including two foreign mercenaries, were killed and nine security personnel injured in an encounter on Thursday after the Bad Guys holed up in a house in Banihal town of Doda district in Jammu and Kashmir. Inspector General of Police P L Gupta said that the militants took shelter in a three-storey house near a mosque and fired from there on the security forces who had cordoned off the area following a tip-off. "You'll never take us alive, coppers!"
"Hokay."
He said that the militants were not holed up in the mosque as had appeared initially. "One false move and the holy man... uh, forget it."
In the gunbattle, three militants were killed, Gupta said, adding two of them had been identified as Abu Dujana of Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (HUJI) and Mohammad Idris of Jaish-e-Mohammad. During the exchange of fire, the house of Mohammad Anwar Teli, a retired assistant commissioner and now associated with the ruling National Conference, where militants had been hiding, caught fire, Gupta said, adding four shops were also gutted in the blaze. "Goddammit! Look at this mess! Who's gonna clean up this mess? Take yer shootouts down the street, dammit! They're up til all hours of the night, playing the stereo, screaming at each other...!"
Three policemen and six other security men, including a Major and a Captain, sustained injuries in the encounter. The encounter stalled movement of traffic on Jammu-Srinagar national highway for several hours but resumed after the standoff came to an end allowing movement of Amarnath pilgrims. Two of the injured had been airlifted to the military hospital at Udhampur in a serious condition, Gupta said. "Uh... Honey? Hey, look, I'll be home a little late. I'm stalled in traffic... Yeah. They're having a shootout... And some guy's house is on fire... And there are helicopters landing... Uhuh. And corpses... Yeah. I think the ice cream's gonna be melted before I get there..."
Mop up was continuing and bodies of some more militants were expected to be recovered from under the debris, official sources said, adding earlier reports had suggested that the number of holed up militants was seven. "Yeah, Honey... Dead guys. Somebody said there were seven of them... Anybody we know? I don't think so... Oh. Wait! There's Mohammad Idris... Part of him, anyway..."
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A double suicide bombing, the second deadly Palestinian attack in as many days, prompted a freeze Thursday on any further easing of the tight restrictions the Israeli army has placed on Palestinians in the West Bank. Before the attacks, Israeli and Palestinian politicians were discussing scaling back the curfews and travel bans the Israeli army imposed a month ago in seven Palestinian cities and towns in the West Bank. But the talks have been postponed and Israel's Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said no restrictions would be lifted or eased for now. Cause? Effect? They're related? Right now, this very moment, there are thousands of Paleostinians walking around scratching their heads, saying "Why won't they lift the restrictions?" FOLLOWUP:
"The delay in the meetings means Israel wants to delay any action to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people and to increase oppression, destruction and economic pressure and occupation that breeds attacks, explosions and an escalation in violence," said Palestinian cabinet minister Nabil Shaath. Toldja so... Nabil Shaath is the Paleostinian Minister for Making Statements that Don't Make Any Sense. He is not to be confused with Saeb Erekat, who is the Minister for Outright Lies and Calumnies. Or is it the other way around? I forget...
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Martyr Ahmed Abul Reesh Brigades, military wing of the Fatah Movement, issued a statement in Rafah declaring responsibility for liquidating agent Abdul Hai Al-Sababi in court. They bumped him off in the courtroom. What was the former definition of "travesty"?
The statement was issued after Abdul Razak Al-Majayda, chief of general security in the Gaza Strip, issued orders for the arrest of those who executed Sababi. Elements in Abul Reesh Brigades said that they intentionally issued that statement after the preventive security apparatus in Gaza issued orders for arresting Mujahideen from the Qassam Brigades, military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, believing that they had carried out the execution. The chief of General Security seems to be a separate office from that of the chief of Preventive Security. There's a certain tone here that says Mr Chief of General Security is meddling where he's not wanted and should butt the hell out...
The statement said that the Brigades presented the liquidation operation as a gift to families and children of the martyrs who were killed as a result of that agent's collaboration with Zionist intelligence. "Oooh! A gift? For us? Look, children! It's a mutilated body! Say 'thank you' to the nice man in the ski mask..."
The statement noted that occupation choppers [Israeli helicopters] tried to create a state of chaos during Sababi's trial through firing at a street near the court hoping to allow him opportunity to flee from his prison. The statement also hailed the Qassam Brigades and families of the martyrs for their self-restraint out of keenness on national unity and sovereignty of the law. It urged for constructive security cooperation between the Palestinian Authority's security apparatuses and resistance factions and advocated caution and protection for all strugglers and Mujahideen. Ohmigawd! He said "Palestinian" and "self-restraint" in the same sentence and his lips didn't crisp... "Sovereignty of the law"? They murdered a guy in the courtoom...!
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Israeli troops arrested Mohammed Sharif El-Rub, a senior Islamic Jihad activist in the village of Qabatia near the West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday. According to Palestinian sources, Israeli troops stormed into the village, surrounded El-Rub's house before bursting in and capturing him. There were no injuries reported in the incident. Islamic Jihad was the group that claimed credit for the Tel Aviv attack. One of them, anyway. Have you ever noticed that all these guys the IDF catches are "senior activists"? They don't have any "junior activists"? They're the ones that do the meat splatter thing, I guess. Everyone who doesn't explode is considered to be senior.
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