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| Eurolefties funding Iraqi insurgency |
| 2005-06-23 |
| Who's funding the insurgents in Iraq? The list of suspects is long: ex-Baathists, foreign jihadists, and angry Sunnis, to name a few. Now add to that roster hard-core Euroleftists. Turns out that far-left groups in western Europe are carrying on a campaign dubbed Ten Euros for the Resistance, offering aid and comfort to the car bombers, kidnappers, and snipers trying to destabilize the fledgling Iraq government. In the words of one Italian website, Iraq Libero (Free Iraq), the funds are meant for those fighting the occupanti imperialisti. The groups are an odd collection, made up largely of Marxists and Maoists, sprinkled with an array of Arab emigres and aging, old-school fascists, according to Lorenzo Vidino, an analyst on European terrorism based at The Investigative Project in Washington, D.C. "It's the old anticapitalist, anti-U.S., anti-Israel crowd," says Vidino, who has been to their gatherings, where he saw activists from Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Italy. "The glue that binds them together is anti-Americanism." The groups are working on an October conference to further support "the Iraqi Resistance." A key goal is to expand backing for the insurgents from the fringe left to the broader antiwar and antiglobalization movements. One conference sponsor, Campo Antiimperialista (the Anti-Imperialist Camp), credits the 10-euro campaign for buying 2 tons of medicine for Al Anbar province, a hotbed of resistance, to be distributed "completely independent from both the occupiers as well as their local puppets." But some funds may be buying more deadly stuff; one leader boasted to Vidino that the campaign will send "everything it takes" for the resistance to win, including weaponry. Neither Iraq Libero nor Campo Antiimperialista responded to questions from U.S. News about where their funds end up. The groups' impact, though, may ultimately be limited. "They have a pretty big following, but we're not talking about big money," says Vidino. At one conference, he notes, many militants looked so ragged he doubted they even had 10 euros in their pockets. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #13 "They have a pretty big following, but we're not talking about big money," Unfortunately, RPGs are cheap. $50 goes a long way. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2005-06-23 21:50 |
| #12 How many moonbats has NATO assassinated recently? Uh-huh, just as I thought. We are clearly not getting our money's worth and we should switch our support to a different resistance. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2005-06-23 21:38 |
| #11 Time to start funding a resistance in Europe, then I thought we were: NATO |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-06-23 20:59 |
| #10 Time to start funding a resistance in Europe, then. There's not enough money in the world. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-06-23 19:26 |
| #9 And now some messages for our friends on the Continent: "It is hot in Suez" "Napoleon's hat is in the ring" "WOUND MY HEART WITH A MONOTONOUS LANGUOR" |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2005-06-23 19:10 |
| #8 Damn straight, Laurence Trying to establish your media-cult cred by verbally defending the head-choppers is one thing, openly collecting money for them is something else again. It is, in fact, an overt act of war and should be treated accordingly. Anyone providing material assistance to an armed enemy, for the explicit purpose of waging war against the United States, is a legitimate target of the US armed forces. Gideon-Phoenix now. What will the Euro dhimmis do if the hit teams are caught? Send a strongly worded protest? |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2005-06-23 18:46 |
| #7 Cool! I just did a search for "Ten Euros for the Resistance", and probably found a bunch of new customers for my website! Thanks! |
| Posted by: gromky 2005-06-23 15:07 |
| #6 Two tons of "medicine". Wonder if this is the same "medicine" that the shahids are doped to the gills with when they go wandering off to find a nice place to detonate. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2005-06-23 14:29 |
| #5 Ten Euros for the Resistance Time to start funding a resistance in Europe, then. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-06-23 13:10 |
| #4 We need to tell the Europeans to put a stop to it. If they can't or won't, then American agents should start killing these people wherever they are, European/International "laws" be damned. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2005-06-23 13:08 |
| #3 Can we bomb the conference? |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-06-23 12:38 |
| #2 Another reason to abandon the quagmire - so we can fulfill the wet dreams of those wackos. Yeah, that's what you wanted, right, Turban Dick? Hmmm.. Turban Dick©. Doen't roll off your tongue like Turban Durbin, but it still has a nice ring to it... |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-06-23 12:36 |
| #1 Thanks, guys. We'll kill you last. |
| Posted by: Achmed Jihadi-Jihadi 2005-06-23 12:20 |