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2004-01-15 Arabia

Saudis Discover Terrorist Training Camps

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Posted by Steve 2004-01-15 9:20:56 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Saudi authorities have discovered a number of camps outside Saudi cities used for training militants to carry out terror operations, an Interior Ministry official said Thursday.

Maybe if they concentrated more on regular policework instead of policework of the religious kind.....

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-1-15 10:01:30 AM|| 2004-1-15 10:01:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 They never use the scare quotes when they should.How hard it is to hide terrorist camps in the open desert?

Posted by El Id 2004-1-15 10:48:21 AM|| 2004-1-15 10:48:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 .... Abdullah called on Saudis to follow the "wise, moderate Islamic line,"....

Ah, 'moderation' is such a relative term. But if you don't understand the meaning of 'moderation' we'll send the matahwa around to beat it into you.

Posted by gass 2004-1-15 11:01:01 AM|| 2004-1-15 11:01:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I wonder if these were the same "terrorist training camps" we kept an eye on as far back as the early 1980's... They were also used to train PLO, Hamas, Hizbollah, and other "friendlies" - friendlies to Saudi Arabia, and hostile to Israel (and the United States by association), that is.

There were probable training camps in more than 20 countries in the Mideast and Africa, including Syria, Lebanon, (formerly in Iraq), Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran, Pakistan, (formerly in Afghanistan), Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Libya, and Algeria. I'm sure there are similar training sites in Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, and the Philippines.

The Algerian sites were mostly along the southern border with Morocco, and led to the creation of the Berm - a dirt wall over a hundred miles long that helped put a stop to Algerian terror attacks in what used to be Spanish Morocco. Some were literally "camps" - no permanent structures. Others had permanent buildings, special training sites that included target buildings, training grounds, firing ranges, even aircraft fuselages. Some were run by the local governments, others were run "with the blessing" of locals. At one time in the early 1980's, there were more than 300 such camps. Many were used to train "freedom fighters" to be sent to Afghanistan to fight the invading Soviet army. "Stern", the German magazine, had a large article on these camps back in the mid-1980's that included photographs of groups going through the training. The whole Middle East should be declared a toxic waste site, and cleaned up by the members of the civilized world.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-1-15 11:18:01 AM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-1-15 11:18:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I am shocked, shocked, I tell you, to learn that terrorism is going on in these premises.

or words to that effect....

Posted by Mercutio 2004-1-15 5:49:05 PM|| 2004-1-15 5:49:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Saudi authorities have discovered a number of camps outside Saudi cities used for training militants to carry out terror operations, an Interior Ministry official said Thursday.

Maybe if they concentrated more on regular policework instead of policework of the religious kind.....

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-1-15 10:01:30 AM|| 2004-1-15 10:01:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 They never use the scare quotes when they should.How hard it is to hide terrorist camps in the open desert?

Posted by El Id 2004-1-15 10:48:21 AM|| 2004-1-15 10:48:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 .... Abdullah called on Saudis to follow the "wise, moderate Islamic line,"....

Ah, 'moderation' is such a relative term. But if you don't understand the meaning of 'moderation' we'll send the matahwa around to beat it into you.

Posted by gass 2004-1-15 11:01:01 AM|| 2004-1-15 11:01:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 I wonder if these were the same "terrorist training camps" we kept an eye on as far back as the early 1980's... They were also used to train PLO, Hamas, Hizbollah, and other "friendlies" - friendlies to Saudi Arabia, and hostile to Israel (and the United States by association), that is.

There were probable training camps in more than 20 countries in the Mideast and Africa, including Syria, Lebanon, (formerly in Iraq), Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran, Pakistan, (formerly in Afghanistan), Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Libya, and Algeria. I'm sure there are similar training sites in Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, and the Philippines.

The Algerian sites were mostly along the southern border with Morocco, and led to the creation of the Berm - a dirt wall over a hundred miles long that helped put a stop to Algerian terror attacks in what used to be Spanish Morocco. Some were literally "camps" - no permanent structures. Others had permanent buildings, special training sites that included target buildings, training grounds, firing ranges, even aircraft fuselages. Some were run by the local governments, others were run "with the blessing" of locals. At one time in the early 1980's, there were more than 300 such camps. Many were used to train "freedom fighters" to be sent to Afghanistan to fight the invading Soviet army. "Stern", the German magazine, had a large article on these camps back in the mid-1980's that included photographs of groups going through the training. The whole Middle East should be declared a toxic waste site, and cleaned up by the members of the civilized world.

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-1-15 11:18:01 AM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-1-15 11:18:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 I am shocked, shocked, I tell you, to learn that terrorism is going on in these premises.

or words to that effect....

Posted by Mercutio 2004-1-15 5:49:05 PM|| 2004-1-15 5:49:05 PM|| Front Page Top

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