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2004-07-02 Terror Networks

Zarqawi took a familiar route into terrorism

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-07-02 8:56:03 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 At least give us a coffee warning next time Dan.

Posted by Dragon Fly 2004-07-02 8:59:18 AM|| 2004-07-02 8:59:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Sorry.

It was an LA Times article, which means you'd have to register to read most of it, and it also has a lot of new info on Zarqawi available. I tried to edit it as much as possible, but given Zarqawi's role in the insurgency I thought that this might well be useful information to have when it comes to evaluating the man.

Posted by Dan Darling 2004-07-02 9:03:04 AM|| [http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2004-07-02 9:03:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Just teasing Dan. Good post.

Posted by Dragon Fly 2004-07-02 9:04:55 AM|| 2004-07-02 9:04:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 LAT register : californiainsider password: insider

Posted by Frank G 2004-07-02 9:28:56 AM|| 2004-07-02 9:28:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Wow, Dan... This is a trip - I'll prolly read this 10x, data mining. Dan, regards venturing into the pit (El Lay Times), better you than me, lol!

Our pal Zarqi, now that we're all so chummy and everything, followed the human drive to find a niche which filled his needs: change, to belong, to be something / somebody, be rewarded. Of course, in the sick and twisted world of ME and Islamic indoctrination, the options are unbelievably (to us) limited. Maqdisi took it to the next level - offering the lure of being a big fish in a little pond. Status and Authority, in jihadi-world currency, for the boy that all of his pre-jihadi acquaintances uniformly describe essentially as a ne'er-do-well nobody. Those low expectations and derogatory attitudes can be a real motivator. He's not working for AlQ - he's got his own agenda and they are/were merely a convenient temporary ally to advance it. Now he's gone Hollyweird and the Western media is his lover. The Zarqawi Channel is on.

I guess he showed them, huh? Showed them all.

The problem of the ME (and other obvious shit-holes) isn't getting the Paleos their own state - they wouldn't have a clue what to do with one - other than copy the other failed ME state models. Bush is dead solid perfect correct: the whole thing needs to be washed away and reformed via democracy. Democracy, though obviously imperfect, is the only system that man has come up with that actually works -- it delivers what's missing in the other "systems", i.e. what people really want, deep down. Choices. Options. Individualism. Opportunity. Freedom.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

The conclusion is, unfortunately, absolutely correct: there will be 1,000 more. And this will remain true until the despots, dictators, mullahs, royalty, imams, and Islam - which all contribute to the totalitarian lock-step hopelessness - are uprooted and replaced -- with options, with freedom. With a chance to be happy and find satisfaction as a family man with "a job as a maintenance man for the Zarqa municipality." Until the power structure of the ME and Islam is wiped out, leveled, destroyed, it will always be a fertile cesspool of hopelessness and jihadi (or whatever) recruiting.

The Firesign Theater has a bit where one HS kid asks his friend what he plans to become. His answer isn't as facile as first blush might suggest -- in fact it's far truer and more common than most will acknowledge:
"I thought I'd find a bunch of guys who dress alike and follow them around."

Sorry, Zarqi, you're fucked. Now die you twisted zipperhead.

Mad Mullahs: tick... tock...

Posted by .com 2004-07-02 10:06:26 AM|| 2004-07-02 10:06:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 But even his mother, before she died of cancer here a few months ago, told a visitor that her son was not smart enough to be a logistical and ideological linchpin.

Heh, this had to be the ultimate insult - Mom calling him a dumbass.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-07-02 12:34:35 PM|| 2004-07-02 12:34:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 he dropped out of high school one semester shy of graduation. He married his cousin, and took a job as a maintenance man

After reading this part, can you blame her Bomb-a-rama?

Posted by Charles 2004-07-02 3:06:54 PM|| 2004-07-02 3:06:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 When Zarqawi heard that Ilhami wanted to get married, he suggested his younger sister.

Cart, please meet horse. Horse, please meet cart and follow along if you can.

Posted by Zpaz 2004-07-02 7:54:28 PM|| 2004-07-02 7:54:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 "It was a great thing, a great life, the best thing I ever saw in my life," Ilhami said. "I felt I was born when I went there. That was the real life."

Posted by Zpaz 2004-07-02 8:00:15 PM|| 2004-07-02 8:00:15 PM|| Front Page Top

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