Posted on 01/01/2010 10:23:30 PM PST by Cindy
Abdelmutalib's Act of War By Walid Phares
SNIPPET: "In the Arab world there is a saying: “Take their truth from their crazies.” I didn’t think it would fully apply in geopolitics until I heard Libya’s dictator, Moammar Qadhafi, claiming on al Jazeera few years ago that Bin Laden had acquired intercontinental missiles.
The “crazy boy,” as the late Egyptian President Sadat used to call him, argued sarcastically that al Qaeda has developed an unstoppable weapon: human transoceanic missiles (Sawareekh bashariyya abira lil qarrat). He meant by that Jihadists who were committed to istishaad (martyrdom) by blowing up commercial jets over targets in America.
The man who has been ruling Libya for the past forty years knows his region very well and despite his peculiar behavior, has predicted what most observers of the Jihadist movement have also projected: al Qaeda and its allies worldwide have discovered the Achilles heel of American defenses: the inability of its security apparatus to identify the readying of the new weapon, its deployment and its launching.
The situation is so bad, that a man who was on some “persons of interest” list was nearly able to massacre hundreds of passengers and possibly innocent people on the ground but for the failure of his underwear bomb and the courage of a citizen of the Netherlands who rose to defend humanity with his bare hands."
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415490/posts
BINARY EXPLOSIVES: FROM DISCUSSION TO IMPLEMENTATION
INTERNET HAGANAH.com ^ | December 26, 2009 | Aaron Weisburd
Posted on December 26, 2009 2:37:05 PM PST by Cindy
SNIPPET: “Discussion: I first observed discussion of binary explosives on the al-Firdaws forum in January of 2007. In light of recent events I will post here my archive:”
SNIPPET: “Implementation: On Christmas Day, 2009, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab boards a flight in Amsterdam, bound for Detroit, and on final descent he attempts to set off what was most likely a binary explosive. Thank goodness he either screwed up or had bad instructions, because the chemicals he was working with were evidently quite good.”
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> and the courage of a citizen of the Netherlands who rose to defend humanity with his bare hands.”
Worth repeating. That fellow needs a medal.
YEP.
Ditto.
I am sorry, but this article makes little sense. Sadat was long dead by he time Al Qaeda was created in August 1988. And how Sadat could have been concerned with OBL, who was a virtually unknown Saudi running around Peshawar at the time of Sadat’s death, is beyond me.
Sorry, I should have read with greater care. The “crazy boy” is Qaddafi. And the statement was indeed made, and as I recall, quoted in an article by Heikal.
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