President Saddam Hussein has dug trenches around Baghdad and centralized the command of the Republican Guards in preparation for a U.S. attack, Iraqi opposition members said on Monday. An official in the Iraqi National Congress main opposition group, which claims to have operatives in Iraq, told Reuters 60,000 Republican Guards troops have dug in 19 miles around the Iraqi capital, focusing on entrances facing the Jordanian border and Kurdish controlled areas. "Republican Guards brigades are reporting independently and directly to Saddam now," the official said. "He has sacked commanders to gain even more control and minimize the risk of conspiracy." Hokay. Now what? How long can you stand with your chest puffed out, baring your fangs? Now's the time for Bush to ignore Iraq until next September, then take it while they're all tired and taking a nap...
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U.S. military forces are seeking to minimize the impact of a potential war with Iraq on its citizens and would focus on the country's leaders, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Sunday. "The small group of people that run Iraq and have run it for a good many years have repressed the people — and, in a very real sense, the people of that country are hostages to a small group of dictatorial, repressive government officials," he said. That's pretty typical of iron-fisted dictatorships...
Rumsfeld arrived in Warsaw late Sunday for a meeting of defense ministers from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He intended to present his colleagues with classified intelligence information that, he said, indicates that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction pose a threat both to neighboring countries and to NATO members, including the United States. I can see Sammy developing missiles capable of hitting Europe before he's capable of hitting the USA. Not too sure why the Euros haven't noticed that...
The threats are said to include either direct action by the Iraqi leader or acts carried out by terrorist proxies; the White House has repeatedly emphasized in recent weeks that there are Al Qaeda cells in Iraq. Administration officials are seeking to craft a plan that gives Iraqi civilians and even soldiers the chance to switch sides or at least stand down if U.S. forces begin a military campaign, defense officials have said. I don't think there's a real alliance between Sammy and al-Qaeda. A nodding acquaintance, perhaps, a feeling of belonging to the same club, but nothing formal. If I was Bush, and I wanted to make propaganda, I'd be referring occasionally to Sammy's offer to take in Binny and Mullah Omar back in December and making more of it than was actually there.
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Oh, cheeze. It seems like today's the day for long posts... Sorry...
Courtesy Hezb-ut-Tahrir
On 16 September it was reported that the Home Secretary David Blunkett had yet again entered the minefield of British race relations. Blunkett said that speaking English was essential for immigrants to become involved with in his words "wider modern culture". His comments were made in an essay included in "Rethinking Britishness", a review of modern British identity published by the Foreign Policy Centre think tank. In the essay Blunkett is quoted as saying 'Citizenship should be about shared participation... one factor in this is the ability of new migrants to speak English - otherwise they cannot get good jobs, or share in wider social debate'. Sounds pretty self-evident, doesn't it?
Reactions to Blunkett's remarks were swift, direct and savage with one Labour ex-minister calling his comments silly and demanding an apology from the Home Secretary. For suggesting that immigrants learn to speak the national language and participate in society? Ah! The Attack of the Multiculturalists!
However the reaction to Blunkett's comments has completely missed the point with a futile and irrelevant discussion centring on the use of the English language in one's private home. Those who support integration for the Muslim community are really not interested in whether people can speak English or not, they are more concerned about which values people are adopting. Consequently the real debate for Muslims centres on whether we should adopt the fundamentals of Western culture namely the pursuit of freedom, democracy and capitalism or do we protect in full our Islamic identity? The "Islamic identity" emphatically not including freedom, democracy, or capitalism...
The supporters of integration, who want the Muslims to adopt the values of the Capitalist society, are ... attempting to hide behind a smokescreen of deceit. Through concentrating on peripheral issues such as language, they hope to deflect attention from their real agenda, which is that ideological capitalist societies will always seek to indoctrinate the minds of all citizens so as to ensure there is a uniformity of shared values and ideas. This is one of the things that makes a culture. It's kind of like the uniformity of shared values and ideas in Muslim culture...
This is more pressing, since the British Government is about to embark upon a war in Iraq. Muslims should pause and think long and hard about the liberal values that are being offered to them, presumably the same liberal values that have driven two senior policemen involved in the Soham murder case to be accused of distributing child pornography. Or the liberal values of freedom that have caused an unprecedented growth in crime, or the capitalist values practised by the current generations, which dump their parents into care homes, and the materialistic values which kill innocent civilians abroad to fatten corporate profits at home. A taste for kiddy porn is considered aberrant in Western society, which is why they heard about it in the first place. It's rather more the exception than child buggery is among Muslims. Much of the unprecedented growth in crime coincides with the appearance of large numbers of Muslims in an area, so it's probably better not to dwell on that subject too long or too deeply, either. And putting grandma in a nursing home when she's no longer able to care for herself represents a better option than keeping her at home and using her for a footstool or abandoning her to beg on the street because her old man's dead.
Let us be clear that integration for Muslims means agreeing with democracy, a ruling system that allows alcohol to be legalised, adultery to be rampant and Afghanistan to be bombed. All such values contradict Islam, and thus must be rejected by all Muslims. Legal alcohol is part of the deal. So is chasing women (or chasing men, if that's your pleasure). The basic idea of Western culture is for the individual to make his/her/its own mistakes. And bombing Afghanistan was a fine idea, whether it contradicts Islam or not. Western society is fine with the idea of Muslims not drinking, chasing women, or bombing Afghanistan, but not with the idea of all of society adhering to the mores of Muslims because Muslims say they should. The desire to dictate what one's neighbor do is arrogant and, to Western eyes, uncivilized.
It should be very plain to Muslims that integration and support for democracy are completely contradictory to the Islamic 'Aqeedah (belief). The Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) refused to integrate into Quraishi society and nor did he participate within their political systems despite numerous opportunities and incentives. The clear vision outlined in the aforementioned conference on 15th September was for the Muslims not to integrate or isolate but to actively present the Islamic ideology by continuously pointing out and exposing the contradictions within the Capitalist system and by always remembering our responsibilities to the Global Muslim Ummah. The Muslims needs to be on their guard, and understand the reality of the plan for integration. We call you to study this deceptive plan, comprehend Islam as an ideology and present it as a clear alternative to the decadent Capitalistic ideology. In other words, they're determined to inflict their vision of how things should be on the rest of the world. We knew that before they had their meeting. At some point Western society is going to have to bite the bullet and do the unpleasant things that will be necessary to root out this sort of incipient dictatorship. No doubt we'll all be very sorry when it's over, and we'll wish for years that there had been some other way. Eventually, though, our descendents will talk about the Muslims the way we today discuss the Gepids and the Ostrogoths, the Avars and the Veps â and that's not very often, or with much interest.
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The Balochistan Post is published in Pakistan, isn't it? (Unless I am making a horrible mistake in my geography, Balochistan - also spelled Baluchistan - is a geographical region divided between Iran and Pakistan). It strikes me that if Perv were _really_ the tyrant with bloodied fangs the Balochistan Post is always shrieking about, he'd have closed down the rag long ago and flung every one of its personnel into jail.
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Just looked at that site. The rag IS published in Pakistan - Quetta, to be precise. I wish Perv _would_ shut that fountain of sedition down; I'd buy him a beer. Oh, that's right, he's Moslem, he doesn't drink beer. *sigh*
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I've got it on my News page under South Asia, but it should really fall in with the Ummah press. A lot of the stuff it carries comes from Azzam. I'm still not too sure about its affiliation - it does carry stuff from Hizb ut-Tahrir regularly, but that could just be part of its general jihadi/anti-government orientation.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, whose opposition to a U.S. war with Iraq helped him win re-election, began patching up ties with Washington on Monday by announcing the departure of a controversial minister. Schroeder's first move in what is expected to be a gradual reconciliation effort was to say that Herta Daeubler-Gmelin, the justice minister who last week allegedly said President Bush's desire to distract from domestic politics with war recalled Hitler's methods, would not be in his new cabinet. However, the Social Democrat chancellor gave no sign that harmony would be restored immediately in relations with Germany's NATO ally, insisting on his right to disagree. You have the right to disagree. We have the right to pee on your leg. Sounds fair...
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Police in Pakistan have arrested two suspected militants including an Afghan in the north-western city of Peshawar. Reports say the two men were detained in a raid carried with assistance from the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is not clear if the suspects are connected to the al-Qaeda organisation of Saudi fugitive, Osama bin Laden. ... or if they're just run-of-the-mill homicidal maniacs...
The two men, identified as Saeed, a Pakistani national and Mohammad Din, said to be from Afghanistan, were arrested late on Sunday in a Peshawar neighbourhood. "A computer and some data were found in their possession," a government official told the Reuters news agency. "We suspect them to be involved in anti-state activities," another report, in the AFP news agency, quoted a police official as saying. Bet that's an interesting e-mail archive they've got there. Another one courtesy of Steve...
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The kidney of a Jewish teenager killed in a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv last week has been transplanted into a Palestinian girl — saving her life. Yasmin abu Ramila, 7, received the kidney of Jonathan Jesner, a 19-year-old student from Scotland who was on a Tel Aviv bus Thursday when a Palestinian militant detonated his explosives. Officials at Schneider Children's Hospital in the central Israeli town of Petah Tikva said Sunday that Yasmin was in good condition after Saturday's transplant. Jesner's family volunteered to donate his organs and placed no restrictions on the choice of recipients. "We believed it was what he would have wanted us to do," said his stepmother, who declined to be named. This sort of thing goes right by the Paleos. They don't understand it, and probably dismiss it as a fairy tale...
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Worse ... one of her male relatives will probably feel compeled to kill her because of her "Jewish blood"
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A bomb placed under a van exploded near a branch of the US fast food chain McDonald's outside the Lebanese capital overnight, without causing injury. Witnesses said the blast destroyed the van but caused no damage to the outlet in Jounieh. "My car! They blew my goddamned car!"
Lebanese police confirmed that a small bomb exploded in Jounieh, 25 kilometres north of the capital, without causing casualties. On May 9, a bomb damaged an outlet of another US fast food chain, KFC, in the northern town of Tripoli and slightly wounded a security guard in an overnight attack. A grass-roots campaign to boycott US products in protest at Washington's perceived bias for Israel in its conflict with the Palestinians has been under way in Lebanon and several other Arab countries. When it comes to Arabs, "grass roots" equals explosives...
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The Lebanese have been long fed up with Hizbollah and the rest of the jihadis. No matter what the chattering class says: the IDF had nothing to do with the Shatilla massacre. That type of reaction could occur again, if the jihadis don't watch themselves.
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While Israel Defense Forces bulldozers wrecked buildings in Yasser Arafat's Muqata compound in Ramallah, Israel refrained from taking action against another "political" leadership, whose ties to terror attacks are not in dispute - Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip. We were wondering about that...
Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer warned on Friday that top Hamas figures such as Sheikh Ahmed Yassin have no "insurance guarantees" protecting them from Israeli attacks. And people close to Ben-Eliezer hinted that the IDF will start operations against Hamas soon. Uh... You want to get it in gear, then?
Yet, as things stand today, whereas Arafat has denounced terror attacks inside the Green Line - no matter that few believe his remarks are sincere - Hamas figures such as Yassin praise the sacrifice of the suicide bombers. And the Hamas advocates of terror seem to speak with impunity - Israel hasn't lifted a finger against them. Shehadeh would disagree with that...
In Samaria, the Hamas' terror network has suffered a number of decisive blows. Its current leaders in the area (Mohammed Hanbali, Nasser Asida and Ali Iylan) are obscure, unknown figures, especially when compared to predecessors such as Mahmud Abu-Hanud. They were saying earlier they'd knocked the crap out of the West Bank Hamas...
Israel has only tried once to attack the Hamas' political leadership, and the killing of Sheikhs Jamal Mansur and Jamal Salim in Nablus last August remains highly controversial. Discussion of attacks on Hamas "big names" elicit concerns regarding operational or political complications. In this connection, Israel's political leaders haven't forgotten the diplomatic fall-out which resulted from the botched attempt to assassinate Hamas leader Khaled Meshal in Jordan, in September 1997. It's not clear whether Israel wants to take renewed responsibility for the ailing Sheikh Yassin, by imprisoning him once again (the Hamas spiritual leader was released from an Israeli prison as a result of the Meshal fiasco). Better this time to give him a nice funeral, with lots of wailing and guns firing in the air. Add in Rantissi and make it a double... Thanks to Steve for this one...
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Israeli radio stations reported Monday that Israel has arrested three Palestinians suspected of training with al-Qaeda operatives in Iraq and planning attacks in Israel. Israeli officials recently flew to the United States to brief the Pentagon on the arrests, the reports said. The Israeli Defense Ministry said it was not aware of such arrests. Makes sense that there are a certain number of Paleos with al-Qaeda training. Abu Zubaydah's a Paleostinian, for instance. If they got the training in Iraq, I'd guess it was more likely with the Ansar al-Islam bunch than with the Mukhabarat.
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A grenade exploded inside a van in the early hours of Monday, with police claiming that it was intended to be thrown at a property belonging to the U.S. embassy. "Kids! Don't try this at home...!"
The explosion in Menteng district, Central Jakarta, killed a passenger and injured its driver. Two others inside the Toyota Kijang van were believed to have fled the scene after the explosion. "We're trained perfessionals!"
Police quoted the injured driver, identified as Yusuf, as saying that the grenade was intended to be thrown at an unoccupied house belonging to the U.S. embassy. Police have towed the car wreckage to the Jakarta Police headquarters and discovered that it had been carrying a forged license plate number. A forged license plate? Hmmm... Sounds like the work of... Muslims!
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The Citroen sedan rolled over trolley tracks and under viaducts on the graffiti-smeared outskirts of Milan. At the wheel was the top Al Qaeda operative in Italy, Abdelkader Mahmoud Es Sayed, whose car served as a headquarters, a refuge, a kind of confessional for aspiring holy warriors. "Sheik, if someone wants to go fight, why don't you let him?" a tormented 31-year-old Tunisian named Adel ben Soltane asked while riding in the Citroen on Dec. 7, 2000, according to transcripts of intercepts by Italian police. "I can be a heroic mujaheddin! I jes' know I can!"
"The important thing is that you dream about it," Es Sayed answered paternally. "When the moment comes, you never know if you'll be a martyr in Algeria, Tunisia, America or in Central Asia. You won't know." "That's right, sonny. Dream of becoming flying pieces of meat, 'cuz that's all you'll ever be qualified for..."
"I want to eliminate these pigs, these swine," Ben Soltane said. He told Es Sayed that he despised everything about Italy: "I hate the people, I hate the documents .... I want to go anywhere else." "I hate spaghetti. I hate tomato sauce. I hate hearing people sing and laugh, I hate seeing people dance. I wish they'd stop singing Santa Lucia all the time. It's driving me nutz!"
In countless hours of wiretaps over two years, members of the Milan cell schemed, threatened and told war stories, their voices full of hate and despair. Many were extremists from North African countries who fled to Italy to escape prosecution. But they were alienated in their adopted land as well; they sounded like men who felt permanently and dangerously adrift. Maybe that's because they're maladjusted nutbags. If they couldn't get along back home, why should they be expected to be good citizens someplace else?
The law enforcement slang for such intercepted conversations is "chatter," a term that has become widely used in U.S. media and public discussion of terrorism. The main significance of chatter has been in detecting future attacks, reconstructing past ones and mapping Al Qaeda's far-flung networks. It can also produce reams of junk intel...
But chatter also helps investigators understand the motives and personalities of Islamic extremists. Although Al Qaeda has been hurt by an international crackdown, the events of the last year have left an angry new generation of extremists eager for action, according to law enforcement experts in Italy, France and elsewhere. "The young men are agitated," an Italian investigator said. "They want to go out and do something. The imams have to calm them down." That's the "clash of civilizations" part. Al-Qaeda is broken, for the most part. What's left is large numbers of wannabes, with the remnants of al-Qaeda â and the sympathetic imams â trying to form a next generation of terror machine...
The reality of Al Qaeda is elusive because of the organization's stealth and anarchic culture. More than court testimony or confessions, the chatter on wiretaps comes close to capturing the truth. Of course, barriers of culture and language still interfere. Defendants in Milan have complained about the quality of official interpreters. In an Al Qaeda case in Madrid, defense lawyers accused police of mistaking innocent references to buying fruit and vegetables as code words for terrorist activities. That's because all these goobers are pure as the driven snow, innocent as babes, to defense lawyers...
The Milan transcripts contain a fly-on-the-wall account of the daily life of these men, building on wiretaps of the Citroen, phones, apartments and a mosque. The documents became public in court cases; some suspects have been convicted, others are on trial, and at least one is presumed dead. The suspects spent much of their time discussing fraudulent documents, devoting such energy and secrecy to the deals that at first police thought they were talking about explosives. The intercepts also recorded strategy sessions, furtive trips, and monologues praising Osama bin Laden and radical clerics. You can't be a jihadi without false documents. Everybody knows that...
The young men saw themselves as warrior-monks assailed by the temptations of a prosperous, fun-loving society. The way other men might watch pornography, they sat in a seedy apartment chortling at videos of moujahedeen slaughtering Russian soldiers in the snows of Chechnya. "Look, look how they cut his throat," a suspect named Khaled exclaimed, according to the transcript of an intercept March 22, 2001, in an apartment in suburban Gallarate. Some of us consider that to be worse than pornography...
"Now they are getting ready to burn," Khaled said. He started reminiscing about his own combat experiences in Chechnya. "When the order from the emir came, it was beautiful," he recalled, "because first we studied the structure and then, with the plastic [explosive], boom! ... And right afterward the building collapsed and then dust.... And then a fire started, and this way the enemies of God were buried and burned." "And they don't count for anything. We don't either. Only the emirs count for anything... Heil Hitler!"
Turning back to the video, Farid marveled: "This cassette is really scary.... You can see the [Russian] commandos realize they are having their throats cut by real soldiers.... The best commandos in the world would tremble if they saw this." He's right. No one likes the idea of having his throat cut. Seeing such videos would make real commandos tremble â and want to catch the bastards that did it and kill them slowly. But we're civilized, so rather than killing them slowly we send them on their way as painlessly as we can. Just as long as they're gone...
The voices caught on tape seem alternately vicious, philosophical and lonely. Their talk was essential to keeping up morale, according to prosecutor Stefano Dambruoso. "These are people with a lot of problems," Dambruoso said. Like reality...
"Adapting to this country is devastating to them. In radical religious activity they found rules, a structure. It's not just religious, it's psychological and personal. The talk helps them stay fanaticized, to maintain their mind and never relent. Because in Europe, it would be easy to get out. To get a job, form a family, live normally. But they are angry at life in general." God forbid they should get jobs! How demeaning!
The anger trapped them in a doomed existence, although they had alternatives, judging from another exchange in the Citroen. "You don't like this nice life? You want to die?" Es Sayed asked Ben Soltane. "Yeah, kid. Why wouldja want to be a hero like me? Wanna see my knife?"
"Listen, sheik, if I liked this life, I would go to my cousin who is in Germany and wants to marry me," Ben Soltane answered. "In five years, I would have a German passport and live in peace." Y'know, it could be this propensity for marrying close relatives has something to do with it. Wonder what the incidence is of buck teeth, hemophilia, retardation and the like is? We can see that the incidence of mental instability is pretty high...
The Milan cell was one of Al Qaeda's busiest logistics operations in Europe before Sept. 11. A Tunisian-dominated network used Milan as a hub for recruits traveling via Iran to training camps in Afghanistan. With connections to cells in Britain, Germany, Belgium, Spain and France, the Milan cell provided services to terrorists passing through. "If you want to work with me, this is the job," Es Sayed told his underlings. "If the brothers want to hide, we hide them. If the brothers want documents, we take care of their documents .... If they need a gun, you give them a gun." "They like guns. You can't be a jihadi without false documents and a gun to wave. It's in the rules..."
Es Sayed, the central figure in the Milan investigation, fled Italy for Afghanistan with police on his tail in July of last year. He comes across in the transcripts as smooth, manipulative and enigmatic. The younger Tunisian suspects clearly revered Es Sayed, an Egyptian in his late 30s. A veteran of Islamic movements in Egypt, Es Sayed was an imam, or prayer leader, an expert document forger and trusted associate of Ayman Zawahiri, the Egyptian right-hand man of Bin Laden, and other senior figures in Al Qaeda, according to court documents. Sounds like a real holy man...
Es Sayed liked to reminisce about the time he met Bin Laden. Despite a conviction on terrorism charges in Egypt, Es Sayed was granted political refugee status by the Italian government in 1997, causing speculation that he had secret ties to an intelligence service that helped him gain refuge. Which one? ISI? Or was he a real double?
Es Sayed's deputy in Milan was Essid Sami ben Khemais, a Tunisian who ran a small maintenance firm as a cover. Ben Khemais was convicted in February along with three confederates and sentenced to five years in prison for document fraud, criminal association with intent to obtain arms and explosives and immigration-related charges. Ben Soltane and two others were convicted in a later trial. Defense attorneys have insisted that the suspects are not terrorists but low-level criminals and radical wannabes. "Maybe not pure as the driven snow, but pretty pure..."
It seems hard, however, to explain away the detailed evidence. The intercepts and surveillance revealed contact between the Milan cell and top Al Qaeda figures in Europe and Afghanistan. The suspects talked about attacks, training camps, fake documents and other activities that sound very much like terrorism. "Lies! All lies!"
Although fully aware of the risks, the suspects kept talking. A visiting Libyan brandished a portable phone as he warned his friends that technology had been the downfall of a cell in Frankfurt, Germany, according to a transcript from the Gallarate apartment March 10, 2001. "You see this?" the Libyan said. "This was created by an enemy of God. This has blown many operations and has caused more arrests than you can imagine. Why do you think the brothers in Germany got arrested? With this. When they were talking, the others were listening.... It's nice, you can communicate. It's fast, but it causes big problems. They made it, and they know how to intercept it." Terrible. Just terrible. But don't worry. Civil libertarians will do their best to have that sort of evidence thrown out.
The audiotapes recorded in the mosque posed a challenge to police interpreters, who had to distinguish among multiple simultaneous conversations. Other voices appeared only briefly in the intercepts but became important as the investigation advanced in cooperation with U.S. law enforcement. An arrest in Afghanistan bolstered the case pending against Abdelhalim Remadna, an alleged recruiter who worked at the Islamic Cultural Center adjacent to the mosque. You can't be Islamic without hanging around the Islamic Cultural Center...
Prosecutors accuse Remadna of arranging sojourns by extremists in a training camp in Afghanistan. The recruits in Italy allegedly included Mohamed Aouzar, a skinny 21-year-old Moroccan who glowers behind oversized black glasses in his mug shot. The young Moroccan made it to Afghanistan. He survived a ferocious battle in a prison outside Mazar-i-Sharif and was captured by U.S.-led troops in December. Aouzar and seven others from Italy are now prisoners at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba â a place far from home where they can find solace in talk. Es Sayed was not so lucky. Authorities say the Egyptian was killed in combat in Afghanistan last winter. Dead. Doorknob, stinkin', moulderin' in the grave, gone and best forgotten, dead. Nothing left but the lingering odor of brimstone and corruption.
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This is why we have to deal with Islamofascism. These jokers had absolutely no hope of gettin anywhere in their countries of origin -- no jobs, no careers, just mudhouses, goats and grinding poverty, punctuated by harangues by their elders about how to be Godly. So they immigrate to Europe where they continue to be alienated, jobless, just sittin' around all day at the "cultural center" with time on their hands. What's the saying -- idle hands are the Devil's workshop?
Toss Saddam, give the fundamentalists the willies, push some of these countries into reform, smack the fascists down, start working on a modern economy where, you know, people do stuff for a living.
These jokers need a (as in singular) wife, a mortgage, a job, and a lawn to mow on Saturdays. That's the best cure I know.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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