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2005-01-11 Terror Networks & Islam

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-01-11 12:20:55 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Still cannot reconcile this. (among other things)

12. On June 20, 1994 Ramzi Yousef and al-Zarqawi, at the instigation of the Iraqi intelligence, caused an explosion at Mashad in the Iranian territory adjoining Pakistan which killed a large number of Shias. Zarqawi, along with the late Riaz Basra, the leader of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LEJ), the militant wing of the SSP, helped the Taliban in the capture of Kabul in September, 1996.

Three scenarios. 1. Rahman is wrong about 1996 activity in Kabul, and Zarqawis ex-prison buddies are lying for him.

2. Rahman is right about '96, Zarqawi's ex-prison buddies are telling the truth. Zarqawi is actually dead but his passport lives on.

3. Rahman is wrong about '96. Zarqawi's friends are also telling the truth about his abilities. Zarqawi has always been a puppet of the Baathist Iraqis. LeJ = Iraqi asset?

Posted by Pete Stanley 2005-01-11 3:47:52 AM|| 2005-01-11 3:47:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Sorry, Raman.

Posted by Pete Stanley 2005-01-11 3:53:24 AM|| 2005-01-11 3:53:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 All I want to know about the "mind" of al-Zarqawi is that it is spread all over a street or wall courtesy of a USMC 7.62mm bullet fired from a DMR. I think that is the best way to put this "poor, frustrated young man" out of his and the world's misery.

Posted by Remoteman 2005-01-11 5:29:35 AM|| 2005-01-11 5:29:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 he was freed under a royal amnesty in 1999.
WTF is it with the mooselimbs and their letting people out of jail? He was trying to overthrow the government for goodness' sake, then you go and let him out?! You really think he's reformed? Oh yes, he memorized the Koran, lol.

Posted by Spot 2005-01-11 8:56:47 AM|| 2005-01-11 8:56:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Pete.. I've been predicting that we will know when Zarqawi is captured, because the news reports about him will change from "elusive mastermind" to "dumbo that wasn't all that important anyway".

Suddenly, after rumors of his capture, we get the indepth news reports with interviews from prison cell mates saying he was "dumbo".

You do the math.

Posted by 2b 2005-01-11 9:24:03 AM|| 2005-01-11 9:24:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Sorry, Raman.

Is his nickname "Top"??

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-01-11 10:34:52 AM|| 2005-01-11 10:34:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 "Now 38, al-Zarqawi dropped out of school at 17, family members have said. A thug in his teens, al-Zarqawi was known for heavy drinking and street fighting. In the 1980s, he was jailed for sexual assault, security officials have said without providing details."
"Al-Zarqawi embraced religion when he was in his early 20s. Like many poor, frustrated young men, he was drawn to the calls of pride and identity made by radical preachers."

or, another psychotic sociopath finds facilation for his perversions in the religion of Peace and Love. Along the lines Remoteman, I'd like to see him beaten with his good leg until we see what is really in his mind.

Posted by TomAnon 2005-01-11 2:36:43 PM|| 2005-01-11 2:36:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 If only we had set up some basketball camps like they do in the US inner cities, Zarq would have had something else to do with his idle time.

No, he definitely has an infidel complex.

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-11 2:53:25 PM|| 2005-01-11 2:53:25 PM|| Front Page Top

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