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2005-06-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by mojo 2005-06-08 15:54|| || Front Page|| [12 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fifty fighters went in total, Abu Ibrahim says now, but after a few months he returned to Syria with three others - the only surviving members of the group.

Abu and his three cohorts should consider themselves lucky.

"Phuque with the best, and you'll die like the rest."

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-08 16:55|| 2005-06-08 16:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Article: Abu Ibrahim is unmoved to learn of the assault. "They think jihad will stop if they kill hundreds of us in Iraq. They don't know what they are facing. Every day, more and more young men from around the Muslim world are awaking and coming to the jihad. Now the Americans are facing thousands, but one day soon they will have to face whole nations."

I don't think these people understand. When we face whole Muslim nations, we will burn their cities down and kill them by the tens, if not hundreds of millions.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2005-06-08 17:12|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-06-08 17:12|| Front Page Top

Abu Ibrahim, the most radical of his family, was not one of the lucky five of his brothers and had to stay in Syria, which did not go down well with his Bedouin wife. "My wife accused me of being a coward. She accused me of being happy that I didn't have to go."

Is there maybe a hint of prior domestic disharmony here?

The husband can say "I divorce you" three times, but the wife has to nag her husband into blowing himself up.

Posted by James">James 2005-06-08 17:19|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2005-06-08 17:19|| Front Page Top

#4 very simililar to a WaPo article today

interestingly he was a peaceful Sufi but abandoned it well before the Iraq invasion, before 9-11, before pretty much everything for the Salafi branch

Posted by mhw 2005-06-08 18:16|| 2005-06-08 18:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Zhang Fei: No, they don't understand, they are incapable of understanding. Tribal.

They will be educated if necessary. It probably won't be. They overestimate their influence.

We will not be ruled by religion. Ever.

"The priests fear me, and with good reason For I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
-- Thos. Jefferson (full quote)

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-06-08 21:18|| 2005-06-08 21:18|| Front Page Top

#6 That story sounded like pretty good justification to burn Damascus.

Posted by 3dc 2005-06-08 22:21|| 2005-06-08 22:21|| Front Page Top

#7 I read this, and I think it is pretty good justification for beginning the annihilation of all Muslim fundamentalists on the planet. While we're at it, let's get also rid of ALL religious fundamentalists - Christian, Jew, Hindu - whatever.

Religious fundamentalists are too dangerous to leave standing. They are intolerant, anda danger to civilization.

Hey, this is a place to RANT, right?

Selective genocide - I'm in. But - start with the Islamacists - now. Hunt them down to the last Mullah.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2005-06-08 22:44|| 2005-06-08 22:44|| Front Page Top

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