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| 2005-06-08 |
| Hattip to Glenn a few juicy bits: For those who think Iraq or Gitmo radicalized Abu Ibrahim, consider what he did after 9/11: Two weeks after the attacks in New York and at the Pentagon, the group felt bold enough to celebrate in public in Aleppo with a "festival," as it was called, featuring video of hand-to-hand combat and training montages of guerrillas leaping from high walls. Afterward, Abu Qaqaa was arrested by the Syrian authorities, but he was released within hours. By 2002 the anti-American festivals were running twice weekly, often wrapped around weddings or other social gatherings. Organizers called themselves The Strangers of Sham, using the ancient name for the eastern Mediterranean region known as the Levant, and began freely distributing the CDs of the cleric's sermons. This report also adds a twist to the Al Jazeera-Al Qaeda claim that in late 2003 the US bombed an innocent Muslim wedding party near the Syrian border. Abu Ibrahim admits another incident touted as a US mistake —an attack on a bus near the Syrian border— was in fact an Al Qaeda infiltration and supply operation: "Once the Americans bombed a bus crossing to Syria. We made a big fuss and said it was full of merchants," Abu Ibrahim said. "But actually, they were fighters." So US and coalition intel got it right (at least once). Read it all! |
| Posted by:Spot |
| #2 You mean...they lie! Wow. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-06-08 11:30 |
| #1 Lying, burrowing and bitching accounts for 72 percentum of their GNP. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-06-08 11:20 |