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Arabia
Drunken Soddy runs into U.S. consulate...
A "drunken" Saudi motorist accidentally hit a gate at the U.S. consulate in Jeddah and has been taken into custody. Monday's collision was accidental and the driver was under the influence of alcohol.
Lessee, here. That's 80 lashes for guzzling alk, and 30 days or 30 dollars for DUI, and another 20 bucks for smashing into an infidel diplomatic compound...
Thanks for the link, Steve!
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/15/2002 10:04 am || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let's not forget the exploding car for the Brit who sold him the alcohol...
Posted by: Hermetic || 10/15/2002 11:32 Comments || Top||


Saudi Airliner Crew Foils Hijack
A gun-wielding Saudi passenger attempted to hijack a Saudi Arabian Airlines jet Tuesday, but security forces overpowered and arrested him, officials said. The gunman's motive was not immediately known, but the hijack attempt follows a series of terrorist acts throughout a jittery world. Muslim militants have criticized Saudi Arabia for its cooperation with the United States, beginning with the 1991 Persian Gulf War and continuing with the presence of U.S. troops on Saudi soil. All 185 passengers and 19 crew were safe as the Airbus 300 returned to Khartoum, where security forces checked the jet for explosives and held the suspect, said Maj. Gen. Sayyid al-Husseini, spokesman for Sudan's Interior Ministry. The man suffered bruises and other minor injuries when he resisted arrest, al-Husseini said. The suspect, identified as a Saudi, was armed with a small gun when he attempted to take over the jet 22 minutes after the 10:15 a.m. takeoff. The crew was preparing to resume Flight 450 to King Abdul Aziz Airport in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia.
Sounds like that little incident in the terror counteroffensive didn't quite come off. He'll probably get a stern talking-to by his mufti when he gets home.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/15/2002 10:55 am || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It was possibly staged to show that Saudi Arabia too can be a victim of terrorism.
Posted by: Philip Chaston || 10/16/2002 2:39 Comments || Top||


Axis of Evil
Presidential referendum in Iraq
Iraq mobilized for a massive show of support for President Saddam Hussein. The ruling Baath party has launched an all-out propaganda onslaught to ensure a 100-percent "yes" vote in Tuesday's leadership referendum for Saddam who has ruled since 1979. The party has covered the country with banners declaring undying love for the ruler and organized thousands of meetings, parades and rallies.
Yes, yes! 100 percent "Yes!" That way, the entire world will know that the Iraqi people back their dictator to the end. Everyone will believe...!
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/15/2002 10:04 am || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  last election voters had to put their name, address, organ donor status on the ballot. How many voting against Saddam are still here? Raise your hands? None? OK - it's unanimous. CNN traitors fools is covering this as if it's a valid vote
Posted by: Frank G || 10/15/2002 11:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Actually, they could have achieved 100+ perccent if McDermott and Bonoir had stayed until the polling was completed.
Posted by: Jack || 10/16/2002 5:58 Comments || Top||


5 Japanese Abductees Return Home — to visit...
Five Japanese citizens returned home Tuesday for the first time since they were kidnapped by North Korean spies a quarter-century ago, weeping for joy as they rushed into the arms of long-lost loved ones. In a reunion marking a thaw in one of the last Cold War frontiers, the three women and two men stepped off a chartered jet from North Korea wearing crisp suits and dresses. First they clung to each other, then they erupted into tears and broad smiles as they hugged mothers and fathers on the tarmac of Tokyo's Haneda airport. They were greeted by a group of about 70 friends and family waving Japanese flags and offering large bouquets of pink and red roses. Arms linked, the reunited families then were swept into an airport lounge.
Even though the Evil that produced the kidnappings is breath-taking, it's a hopeful sign that the NKors are actually 'fessing up and apparently trying to make things right. I'm still not sure I know what to make of it — this incident actually could actually be edging toward the same category as the Berlin Wall coming down.
"We were all smiles and talking. I'm really happy that Fukie is just like the old Fukie," Yuko Hamamato said of his sister. She and her then-fiancee Yasushi Chimura were grabbed from behind, wrapped in bags and whisked away in North Korean boats as they strolled along a secluded Japanese beach in 1978, when both were just 23. Now married, they are among the five returnees who are the only known survivors of at least 13 people snatched by the North in the 1970s and early 80s — sometimes carried away bound in body bags — to train agents in Japanese language and culture.
That seems to have been a pretty stoopid and brutal way to get trainers. Surely there were enough nut cases that some could have been recruited with money, wimmin, or drugs? It would seem that the intention from the beginning was to get dispose of them when they were no longer useful...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/15/2002 11:23 am || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "That seems to have been a pretty stoopid and brutal way to get trainers. Surely there were enough nut cases that some could have been recruited with money, wimmin, or drugs?"

If I recall my terrorism history correctly, didn't the Japanese Red Army (shot up Lod Airport in Israel killing two dozen) train in NKor? There are also a substantial number of Japanese of Korean heritage (treated like cr*p), who are all on board the NKor bandwagon. Between wacked out lefty terrorists and alienated JapKor's, there should be enough to stock up the spy school.
Posted by: Jabba the Tutt || 10/15/2002 23:41 Comments || Top||


East/Subsaharan Africa
Sudan Gov't, Rebels Sign Cease-Fire
Sudan's government signed an agreement with rebels on Tuesday to suspend fighting during talks to end their 20-year-old war. The cease-fire takes effect at noon on Thursday and covers the entire country. It will last as long as negotiations.
Which will last until one side or the other spots what they think is an opportunity and starts shooting again...
The government had insisted rebels agree to a cease-fire during the talks, which are expected to continue through the end of the year. They began Monday and are taking place in Machakos, 30 miles southeast of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
Guess cutting off the gummint's oil was the right move. What're a few religious differences, when there's all that money, just waiting to be grabbed made?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/15/2002 11:00 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Teener Arrested in Finland Bombing
Police arrested a 17-year-old boy Tuesday on allegations he helped the college student suspected of setting off a bomb at a shopping mall that killed himself and six others. Detective Chief Superintendent Tero Haapala said the boy, from southern Finland, was a chief suspect in "providing information about how bombs are constructed." However, he said 19-year-old Petri Gerdt, who lived with his parents and studied chemical engineering, built the bomb on his own and intentionally exploded it on Friday evening at one of Finland's largest shopping malls in Vantaa, 10 miles north of Helsinki. Haapala said they also were holding three Finnish men who had been in contact with Gerdt on an Internet chat line known as "bomb forum," a site where Web surfers discussed homemade explosives.
Probably they should find a new hobby. Maybe something like stamp collecting, or photography...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/15/2002 11:04 am || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They'll have all the time they need for stamp collecting when they're tossed in jug for helping Petri Gerdt-Schtoopi build a bomb.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/15/2002 21:58 Comments || Top||


Home Front
They got a plate number this time...
Ballistics evidence links the death of a woman shot in a suburban parking lot to the Washington-area sniper, and authorities said Tuesday they were confident that detailed witness accounts from the scene would lead them to the person who has now killed nine people. Linda Franklin, 47, of Arlington was shot in the head Monday night as she and her husband loaded packages into their car outside a Home Depot at the Seven Corners Shopping Center.
Bet this orifice felt real powerful as he was "eliminating" her, by golly...
"There was some additional information that we were able to get from last night's case and I am confident that that information is going to lead us to an arrest in the case," Fairfax County Police Chief Tom Manger said at a morning briefing.
Those are the words we've been waiting to hear...
He suggested that witnesses gave investigators more details than on any of the other shootings. For the first time, witnesses were able to give license plate numbers of vehicles seen leaving the scene, he said. Manger declined to discuss which state the license plates were from or answer questions about whether police had a description of the shooter. He said only that several people contacted police after the shooting and investigators were still interviewing them.
Now all they have to do is sort through some of the stories. Last night the driver was olive-skinned, this morning on the radio he was fair-complexioned.

I'm sorry, but I really hope they don't take him alive.

FOLLOWUP:
Chuck Watson thinks the shooter's a team — the shooter and a spotter. He also thinks the guy's police, not military, trained. And he thinks it's a terrorist situation. I still think it's a "mad bomber" story...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/15/2002 06:18 pm || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sorry? I'm counting on it. The latest was a FBI analyst - bad move dude. Fox news is also reporting it was a white male in a blue sweater with a rifle (not an AR). There's no reason to try and capture him for intel, so I'd just as soon they make him eat the peanut
Posted by: Frank G || 10/15/2002 11:07 Comments || Top||

#2  I hope they wack him so he isnt on all the new stations 24-7 during his trial.
Posted by: PJ || 10/15/2002 12:46 Comments || Top||

#3  I think the shooter is changing vehicles when he thinks someone can identify it. So by announcing this information, I think the police are guaranteeing that the shooter will swap again.

In which case, I suggest starting to look at all the Used car rental lots. or vehicle theft records.
Posted by: G || 10/15/2002 15:06 Comments || Top||

#4  The sniper has just made his fatal error - and not just because he took his latest shot in plain sight of however many people at a crowded shopping-center parking lot, who managed to get a good enough gander at him to get at least part of his tag number and take a fair stab at his ethnicity. Mrs. Franklin may not have been a sworn special agent, but she was still one of the FBI, part of the law enforcement community. Guess what that makes our rifle-slingin' friend?

A cop killer.

The gloves are really and truly going to come off now.
Posted by: Joe || 10/15/2002 17:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Yep.
Posted by: Tripartite || 10/15/2002 18:23 Comments || Top||

#6  Yep.
Rumsfeld OKs Military Assist in Sniper Hunt
Posted by: Tripartite || 10/15/2002 18:23 Comments || Top||

#7  They also got a look at his weapon when he was out of the van. Reported to be AK style assault rifle. In 5.56 (.223) that would be a AK-74 knock-off, correct?
Posted by: Steve || 10/16/2002 7:41 Comments || Top||

#8  My original suspicion was that there was a turban involved in this. The tarot card and the assertion that the guy was God suggested it was a Krazed Killer Kiddy. Now the eyewitnesses point to an olive-complexioned fellow waving an AK around.

If it turns out to be a Paleo or a Pak, I'm going to want to see blood. The Lefties can snivel about how awful revenge is all they want.
Posted by: Fred || 10/16/2002 8:36 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Qazi wants U.S. out...
Top Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed Monday asked US troops to leave Pakistan. Speaking at a news conference here after a stunning performance in the polls, Qazi said there was no need to give military bases or facilities to foreign forces for operations in a neighbouring country. Qazi Hussain Ahmed, who is Amir Jamaat-e-Islami a leading partner in the six-party alliance Muthidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), said the MMA parliamentarians-elect would not take oath under PCO/LFO but the 1973 Constitution.
Qazi thinks he's in charge now. He might be...
He vowed to introduce true Islamic Shariah in the country. "All government policies, including defence and economic policies, must be routed through the Parliament, which should be the supreme legislative body as the MMA would not accept supremacy of any other institution or individual over and above the supremacy of the Parliament," he said. Qazi also talked about "flexibility" in the MMA attitude if the other side also shows positive response.
He wants to be in charge of Parliament, and he wants Parliament to be in charge of Perv. If Perv comes around, maybe he won't be bumped off...
He was addressing newsmen for the first time after the MMA emerged one of the major components in the National Assembly by winning 45 seats. He said: "We do not need foreign troops...we can defend ourselves .... and Pakistan should not join any arrangement through which our soil is used against a neighbouring country."
"Certainly not a neighboring country that cuts people's heads off..."
He said Islam is a religion that teaches peace and brotherhood. He said: "We are not here for any violence...we are not terrorists....
"... We just like them. A lot. A whole lot...
"the west should not feel afraid of us....terrorism must be defined...
"... so that it doesn't include anything we do...
"if there is a unilateral action and the accuser is himself the judge and the executioner, this cannot be accepted," he said.
"If that happened, we could end up being held accountable for our own actions, and we can't have that."

Pakland is getting the kind of government it deserves. We can leave any time, as far as I'm concerned. When we come back, it won't be to help...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/15/2002 10:48 am || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


7 shot dead on way to court
Seven people, five of a Gujjar family and two passers-by, were killed and two others injured by their rivals here on Manak Road on Monday at about 8:30am. Ghulam Ghaus, of Kot Salakhan village, was on his way to Narowal with his brothers and other relatives to appear in court in a murder case. When they reached Dera Sain Niamat on Manak Road, the brothers of their rival Zulfiqar Khan of Kharal village, ambushed them and began firing on them with their automatic weapons. Ghulam Ghaus's sons Liaquat Ali, Ashraf Ali and Mushtaq Ali, Akhtar Ali (his cousin), Ghulam Murtaza (his nephew), and two passersby, Muhammad Ali of Mangian and Sharafat of Manak village, died on the spot. Ghaus and his brother Ishaq, sustained serious bullet injuries. They were shifted to Narowal DHQ hospital and are said to be out of danger. City police have started the investigation.
What's to investigate? They're deaders...
About nine months back, Ghulam Ghaus and his brothers had murdered Zulfiqar Khan, head of the accused family, in a dispute between the two families about the path that led to the kiln in Kharal village owned by the Khan family.
Honor/shame... Trumps the rule of law anytime in Pakland...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/15/2002 11:29 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


PPP, MMA maneuver to form govt
Pakistan's main opposition parties made their first formal contacts on Monday to discuss cooperation to form the next government after last week's election produced the most split National Assembly in Pakistan's history. But political sources said the talks between the Pakistan People's Party and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal of six religio-political parties and their separate meetings with the leaders of other parties exploratory to be followed by more contacts in the coming days of expected hectic political activity in Islamabad.
This should be interesting — and each and every separate combination represents a gain for the U.S., if Powell and crew are on top of things...
The day's most important event was a breakfast meeting between Makhdoom Amin Fahim, head of PPP's electoral formation People's Party Parliamentarians and Jamaat-i-Islami chief and deputy MMA leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed. Mr Fahim, a possible PPP prime ministerial candidate who plans to meet all parties in seeking "a government of national consensus", also held talks with his party's former close ally Hamid Nasir Chattha, who head his own small faction of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-J).
PPP's alliance with Qazi's faction(s) would be held together only by its opposition to military rule, an opposition that stems from different roots: Qazi thinks the military and the fundos are a natural alliance, with the fundos in charge. Benazir's unhappy with military rule because they hanged Pop, and with the PPP's propensity for dipping into the till, she could take the high jump, too. She's under indictment, hubby's in jug, and she can't come home until the military's on a leash.
"The talks were exploratory, preliminary... on what are their expectations and what are our expectations," a PPP source said of the Fahim-Qazi meeting. Neither side would give details of the meeting, but the PPP source said the present discussions were taking place on the question of a coalition that could form the next government under an elected prime minister and the fate of the controversial constitutional amendments decreed by President Pervez Musharraf.
If Perv can toss you just for a little corruption, what's the point of being in the gummint?
The PML(Q) has emerged as the largest single party in the National Assembly by grabbing 76 of the 272 seats of the 342-seat National Assembly contested in Thursday's election followed by PPP's 76 and MMA's 45. But even with its smaller allies such as the 12-seat National Alliance and expected support from independents and women members to be elected on reserved seats, it will remain far short of a simple majority needed to elect the new prime minister.
PML-Q, last time I looked — and these things can change without warning — was supporting Perv and vice versa, and was nick-named the King's Party.
On the other hand, the Jamaat chief also held meetings with Raja Zafarul Haq, chairman of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's PML(N) and Sardar Farooq Leghari, former president and Millat Party chief.
Both seem to fit into the has-been category now...
The backing of 45-seat MMA could improve the chances of either PML(Q) or PPP to head the new government, whose existence would depend on maintaining a delicate balance in a fractured parliament. The MMA leaders are due to meet in Islamabad on Wednesday to decide their future course of action, which is likely to include the alliance's conditions for support to a governing coalition.
That'll include lots of provisions for shariah and making faces at the Merkins and the Indos...
Also on Wednesday, the PML(Q) central committee is meeting in Islamabad and the PPP-led 15-party Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy is meeting in Lahore to discuss future plans.
They'd be better off allying with each other against the MMA, but I'll betcha they won't...
While both the PML(Q) and PPP - despite its protests against alleged vote-rigging - are staking their claims to form the government, the MMA appears interested only in leading the governments in the North West Frontier Province and Balochistan, where it is the largest party in the provincial assemblies.
That's the core territory of Greater Pashtunistan. They can do some real consolidatin there...
The PML(Q), which has named former interior minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain as its parliamentary leader after its president lost election for both seats he contested in the Punjab province, is trying to win over the MMA on the basis of past alliances between a united PML and religious parties.
Embarrassing when your intended PM doesn't manage to keep his seat...

If there's a government formed that supports Perv, then we're in the position of backing him against the fundos — eventually he's going to realize that he can't coexist with them, nor can the military, unless it wants to be at Qazi's beck and call. Weakening the fundos weakens the support base for the Qaeda gang, with Perv becoming more dependent on us.

If the MMA manages to dominate the government, it'll demand that Pakland stop cooperating with the U.S. That's a briarpatch for us, because getting tossed negates the "alliance" we've had with this strange bedfellow for the past year. The more natural alignment for us, as many have commented over the course of the past year, is with Indjah, despite its flirtation with hinduvta. The Great Game then becomes India's to lose, as Pakland assumes its rightful place as Terror Central, with a correspondingly harsh reaction from the U.S. Qazi's not going to mind the Terror Central thing, since he thinks the Islamists are going to win in the long run and he's going to get to be khalif and meet whoever's king of Soddy Arabia on equal terms. We'll have to make it our business to see that he doesn't.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/15/2002 12:27 pm || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  PPP and MMA? No chance! There is a growing polarization between outward looking segments of Pakistan - in Sindh for example - and the stone age insulars of the NWFP. The latter know how to use guns; they just don't know how to make them. The former can do both.
Posted by: Anonymous || 10/16/2002 2:13 Comments || Top||


Qazi warns of uprising if denied right to rule
Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal vice-president Qazi Hussain Ahmad on Monday warned the authorities that they would face a popular uprising if they denied the MMA its "right to rule the country". Speaking to a big gathering of charged party workers outside the Lahore airport on his first visit to the city after elections, he said the masses had voted the MMA to power, which thus had the right to run the country according to its basic ideology.
Yeah, go ahead. Don't let us stop you... You got, ummm... 45 seats, was it? So you're in charge now?... Leave? Oh, yes. Certainly. Have a nice time, wontcha? See ya later...

Sa-a-a-a-ay, I'm hungry. What say we stop in Delhi on the way home for some Indian food?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/15/2002 12:33 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Middle East
Dahlan quits...
Palestinian National Security Adviser Mohammed Dahlan has resigned over the slow pace of internal reforms, but Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has yet to accept the resignation.
Wants to wait and see what he does after his house is shot up, I guess...
The official said Arafat informed members of his Fatah Central Committee during a meeting on Sunday of Dahlan's decision, but did not himself comment on it. Dahlan resigned as head of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service in the Gaza Strip earlier this year, again citing differences over reforms.
Since Dahlan once had an original thought, he might see the end approaching for Yasser's gangsterocracy and not want to be in the line of fire. When the entire ediface collapses, he can be in a position to either get out of town quick, before the Hamas get him, or to step in as the "moderate" alternative with Israeli support.
Thanks to Steve for the reminder...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/15/2002 10:04 am || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Israel police question Jerusalem Mufti
Israeli police on Tuesday briefly detained the chief Muslim cleric in Jerusalem, Ikrema Sabri, and said they were questioning him about a newspaper interview in which he was quoted as condoning suicide bombings. Sabri, 63, the mufti of Jerusalem, has frequently made comments that have outraged Israelis and has praised Palestinians fighting Israel. Relatives said Sabri was detained at his home at about 9 a.m. Sabri's son Obeidah said police came to the family home in east Jerusalem on Tuesday morning and took his father to a police compound in central Jerusalem. Reporters saw the mufti freed about three hours later. Sabri was being questioned over a June 1 interview in the Palestinian daily Al Ayyam, in which he reportedly said that "Palestinians have the legitimate right to fight Zionist occupation," said police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby. "In addition, the mufti claimed that there is no religious law against suicide actions, rather they are legitimate acts of self defense," Ben-Ruby added.
That's the Western dilemma: we believe in freedom of religion and freedom of speech. That belief extends to spittle-spewing "clerics" who use their freedom of speech to call for slaughtering members of other religions because God told them it was okay. Eventually we'll reach the point where we realize that a shot in the head is the best cure for that sort of thing, but being Westerners we're going to feel really bad about it afterwards. The spittle-spewers wouldn't give it a second thought.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/15/2002 10:04 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


North Africa
Al Qaeda activists tried to poison Jews in Morocco
“International Jihad” organizations, under the leadership of Osama bin Laden, have attempted, in the past year, to launch eleven attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets around the globe, according to an Israeli daily. These groups have stepped up their efforts to strike at Israeli targets outside Israel, and Tel-Aviv has warned, “the next terrorist attack is just a matter of time”, according to Ma'ariv.
It's that "religion of peace" thing. You can't have peace if there are Jews in the world, so the best thing is to kill them all, because they're all Nazis... Damn. Now my head aches...
From information obtained by Ma’ariv, it appears that in the past year there were 11 attempts, of which one succeeded, to hit at Israeli and Jewish targets outside Israel, and behind them all are organizations with strong links to Bin Laden's network, and at times, Al Qaeda members themselves.
The wannabes aren't a formal part of al-Qaeda because their leaders haven't made formal submission to Binny. They're still trying to earn the jewels for their turbans...
In May 2002, for example, Morocco arrested a cell comprised of Saudi nationals from al Qaeda, which planned on blowing up synagogues and poisoning prominent figures in Casablanca’s Jewish community.
Wonder what that involved? Putting arsenic in the blood of their own children? Y'gotta be careful with that Big Lie stuff — once you repeat it enough times, you might start to believe it yourself...
In the Israeli defense establishment, there are assessments that the "International Jihad" groups will increase, in the upcoming year, their efforts to attack Israeli and Jewish interests throughout the world, as part of efforts exerted to strike at key Western targets. According to Maariv, it is believed that these attempts are to increase close to the anticipated US strike against Iraq. It should be noted that in the list of potential targets are countries that have not yet been hit at, including Thailand and Morocco.
Now, why would the "International Jihad" groups care a rat's patou about a secular dictatorship? Could it be that there's a cuddly relationship between Sammy and the King of Jihad? The feeling's becoming stronger...
Furthermore, it is expected that Al Qaeda may try to strike in Israel, either by use of units coming from the occupied territories or activists that will infiltrate the country, disguised as tourists.
They've probably been circling that target for years, looking for just the right way in, and an operation that's distinguishable from the atrocities the Paleos are committing on a routine basis. The danger to the Qaeda thugs is that they'll actually pull something off and either nobody'll notice, or al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades will get the credit.
Another one thanks to Steve...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/15/2002 10:04 am || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Laskar Jihad to disband...
Laskar Jihad, Indonesia's most violent Muslim extremist group announced Tuesday that it was disbanding in what appeared to be the first sign that the government is getting serious about cracking down on Islamic extremism in the wake of the deadly bombing of a Bali nightclub.
Guess the military decided to stop funding them, and the Soddies won't pick up the slack. Yet.
Though Laskar Jihad is not believed to be tied to the nightclub attack, its dissolution may be the first sign Indonesia is heeding the international pressure. Achmad Michdan, legal adviser to the group, which has deep ties to Indonesia's military and has waged sectarian warfare against Christians on the outlying island of Ambon, told reporters in Jakarta, the capital, that the group was disbanding. He insisted the move was unconnected to the bombing and was rooted in theological issues.
"It's a theological issue. The guys with the money told us to go to hell..."
"It has nothing to do with the bombs. There was no pressure on us from military," he said. "It is an internal matter. The clerics in Indonesia and in the Middle East have disagreed with Jafar Umar Thalib's teachings and have asked him to disband the group," Michdan said without elaborating.
He wouldn't bow down to anybody named bin Laden, so he must not be legit...
Efforts to contact Jafar Umar Thalib, the group's leader in Ambon, the capital of Maluku province about 1,600 miles east of Jakarta, were unsuccessful.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 10/15/2002 11:11 am || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "If the stock market falls any further, yer feet ain't gonna touch the ground..."

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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2002-10-15
  Laskar Jihad to disband...
Mon 2002-10-14
  Sharon suggests Paleos dump Yasser...
Sun 2002-10-13
  Panic grips Philippines following Bali attacks
Sat 2002-10-12
  No postings today...
Fri 2002-10-11
  Senate sez ''Yes''...
Thu 2002-10-10
  Police probe sniper link in fatal Virginia shooting
Wed 2002-10-09
  Chief Moose goes ballistic over sniper leak
Tue 2002-10-08
  Prince Turki: Osama Will Ace The World
Mon 2002-10-07
  Frenchies warn against toppling Sammy...
Sun 2002-10-06
  Yemenis blow Frenchie tanker?
Sat 2002-10-05
  Confirmed: DC Shooting Linked to Several of Md. Incidents
Fri 2002-10-04
  Johnny Jihad gets 20 in the slammer
Thu 2002-10-03
  Khost breathes a little easier with no Zadran...
Wed 2002-10-02
  Shootout at the O.K. Serai leaves a dozen deaders...
Tue 2002-10-01
  Ramzi sings...


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