Mohammed, The Mad Poet Quoted....

The Koran | 10-17-03 | PsyOp

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Suspected Islamic militant confesses to plotting anti-U.S. terror attacks in Jordan

JAMAL HALABY, Associated Press Writer

Sunday, October 19, 2003

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(10-19) 08:24 PDT AMMAN, Jordan (AP) --

A suspected Islamic militant confessed Sunday to being part of a conspiracy to attack Americans in Jordan, as well as the U.S. Embassy and Jordanian bases where the plotters believed U.S. troops were stationed.

Zuhair Shdeifat, 26, told the military court where he and nine other Jordanian militants are on trial that the plotters stockpiled grenades and rockets and raised funds last year "to defend Jordan's soil."

Shdeifat did not elaborate, but said another of the defendants, Amer Sarraj, 34, had wanted "us to carry out jihad (holy war) in Jordan by attacking American military bases in Jordan."

Unlike the other nine defendants, Shdeifat has pleaded guilty to conspiring to carry out terrorist attacks and possessing arms and explosives with the intent of using them illegally.

The offenses are punishable by death. It was unclear whether the military prosecution would seek a lighter sentence for Shdeifat for pleading guilty. Shdeifat was arrested Jan. 27, but freed eight days later in an apparent deal to turn him into a prosecution witness.

Three Saudi men charged in the plot remain at large.

Military prosecutor Lt. Col. Mahmoud Obeidat accused the Jordanians of receiving funds from Saudi Arabia via two of the Saudi fugitives. The investigation has not uncovered a strong link between the conspiracy and the al-Qaida terror group, security officials said on condition of anonymity.

Obeidat's 13-page indictment sheet accused a schoolteacher, Faisal Khalidi, 30, of masterminding the Jordanian side of the plot.

Standing the dock in smart casual clothes -- while his co-defendants wore dark blue prison uniforms -- Shdeifat said Sunday that he, Khalidi and two associates had allegedly devised plans to go to Afghanistan to fight American troops pursuing al-Qaida members.

When the plotters realized it was too difficult to enter Afghanistan, they changed plans and decided to attack U.S. targets in Jordan, Shdeifat said, confirming information in the indictment sheet.

Shdeifat said he and seven other conspirators in detention had bought 20 grenades and a rocket from Iraq to use in the attacks.

Obeidat's indictment says the militants chose to attack the U.S. Embassy in Amman and the military bases of Yajouz, Azraq, Jafr and al-Safawi -- desert towns along a 248-mile highway from Amman to the Iraqi border.

When they selected these bases in early 2002, the government denied there were any U.S. troops in Jordan.

Weeks before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq began in March, Jordan said it had allowed several hundred American soldiers to operate an air-defense system to protect the country from possible Iraqi missiles.

Jordan, a moderate Arab nation with close ties to America and a peace treaty with Israel, has been targeted by terrorists several times in recent years. Twenty-two extremists were convicted of plotting to attack U.S. and Israeli tourists during the kingdom's millennium celebrations.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/10/19/international1124EDT0465.DTL

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Two U.S. troops killed near Kirkuk

Other attackers strike U.S. truck near Fallujah, witnesses say

Iraqis from the restive town of Fallujah celebrate as a U.S. Army ammunition truck blazes. Witnesses said the vehicle had been hit with a rocket-propelled grenade in an ambush.

FALLUJAH, Iraq, Oct. 19 — Two U.S. soldiers were killed and one was wounded in an ambush north of Baghdad, the military reported Sunday, and insurgents attacked a convoy in this turbulent city west of the capital, setting off huge explosions in several vehicles.

YOUNG IRAQIS here cheered and danced with each explosion and motorists sounded their horns in an apparent celebration of the attack.

In a third incident, three apparent Iraqi attackers were also reported killed.

There were no reports of casualties in the Sunday morning attack against what appeared to be a U.S. ammunition truck here in Fallujah, 35 miles west of Baghdad in the “Sunni Triangle.”

Dozens of Iraqi youths cheered and danced in celebration as contents of the flaming vehicles continued to explode. Witnesses said U.S. troops came under subsequent attack with rocket-propelled grenades as they tried to approach the truck and withdrew.

U.S. troops and Iraqi police kept journalists away from the scene, but from a distance it appeared that three American vehicles, including at least one truck and one Humvee, were ablaze.

There were conflicting reports whether the attack in the eastern end of the city was triggered by a roadside bomb or by rocket-propelled grenades.

Saturday’s deaths came barely a day after four American soldiers were killed in a roadside explosion in Baghdad and a clash with Shiite Muslim gunmen in the southern shrine city of Karbala, on the deadliest day for the occupation force in a month.

Excerpted http://www.msnbc.com/news/870749.asp?0cv=CB10

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Prayers for your daughter!

Thank you. Prayers for your son as well. Hard to decide which of those destinations would be the worst.

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He literally fears for his life, and fears his family most of all.

I pointed out numerous passages where the Koran demands this kind of behavior from it's followers. People have to understand that Islam is different from other religions. It demands utter loyalty to the religion itself above all things under pain of death.

If the laws of the state or community run counter to the Koran, they do not have to be obeyed.

As much as I love the First Amendment, it may well be our downfall if people don't wake up the the threat Islam poses in the subversion of our government and way of life. And it will never change.

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Here is another Patton quote on his experience in North Africa.

"In the fields the plowing is done with the most peculiar combination of animals. The peasants either use a horse and camel, a burro and a camel, a bull and a camel, or a bull and a horse. I am informed that they cannot use two camels because they fight each other. Any animal hooked up with a camel becomes disgusted and loses interest in life." - General George S. Patton, Jr., Diary. November 22, 1942.

I suppose the same could be said of people and camels.

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Bump for later read.

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Alija Izetbegovic, Muslim Who Led Bosnia, Dies at 78 (was Nazi, al-Qaeda and Shariah polygamist)
nytimes.com ^ | October 20, 2003 | DAVID BINDER
Posted on 10/20/2003 1:55 AM EDT by Destro
October 20, 2003

Alija Izetbegovic, the former Bosnian president whose dream of a Muslim-led independent Bosnia and Herzegovina was transformed by Balkan ethnic rivalries into a protracted war, died Sunday in Sarajevo. He was 78 years old.

The cause of death was heart disease complicated by injuries he suffered in a fall at home, The Associated Press said.

In a sense, he became the father of a republic that was the first Bosnian state since a short-lived medieval kingdom. But it was a profoundly divided country whose very creation in 1992 provoked a fierce internecine battle between Muslims, Serbs and Croats — wars in which some 200,000 people were killed and more than were one million driven from their homes. Even after the American-brokered Dayton peace accord ended 42 months of fighting late in 1995, Bosnia and Herzegovina remained a state administered largely as an international protectorate with few prospects for future unity.

Imprisoned for his Islamic convictions during Yugoslavia's Communist era, Mr. Izetbegovic (pronounced ih-zett-BEH-go-vitch) built a Muslim political organization in 1990, as the old Yugoslavia began to dissolve into a maelstrom of competing nationalisms. After winning elections late that year, Mr. Izetbegovic led his republic toward independence that was supported by the West but not by the Serbs who made up some one-third of the prewar population.

The Bosnian Serbs had repeatedly warned of war if Mr. Izetbegovic declared independence. Gambling that international recognition would provide protection, he declared independence on April 6, 1992.

A sense of mission clearly drove him. "I would sacrifice peace in order to win sovereignty for Bosnia," he said early in his presidency, "but for that peace in Bosnia, I would not sacrifice sovereignty."

But he overestimated the commitment of the West to an independent Bosnia and underestimated the determination of the Serbs.

The Bosnian Serbs, backed by Serbia itself, initially enjoyed superior firepower and laid siege to Sarajevo, shelling the city that had hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics for all three and a half years of the war.

The Serbs claimed they were battling "Islamic fundamentalism," although the Muslims of Bosnia were overwhelmingly a secular people. In his strong religious faith, Mr. Izetbegovic was the exception rather than the rule.

As the support of Serbia eroded and Mr. Izetbegovic's Muslim-dominated Bosnian Army improved, the three sides fought to an effective military stalemate. Ultimately, after a NATO bombing campaign against the Bosnian Serbs in the late summer of 1995, this balance became the basis for a peace settlement and the silencing of the guns.

By then, Bosnia was a shambles: a country divided along ethnic lines with less than a third of the territory under the control of Mr. Izetbegovic's government, its cities shattered and many of its smaller towns razed.

Alija Izetbegovic was born on Aug. 8, 1925, in Bosanski Samac, a town in northern Bosnia now under the control of Bosnian Serbs. His father was a bookkeeper. The family moved to Sarajevo in the 1930's. He grew up among the Slavic Muslims who already in the last decades of the 19th century had developed a strong sense of identity, even of nationhood.

During World War II, when Bosnia became part of the puppet-Nazi state of the Croatian Ustashe, Mr. Izetbegovic joined the Young Muslims, a group torn between siding with the German-sponsored Handzar divisions organized by the German SS or with the Yugoslav Communist partisans led by Josip Broz Tito. Mr. Izetbegovic supported the Handzars.

After Tito's Communist government was established in 1946, a military court sentenced Mr. Izetbegovic to three years in prison for his wartime activities. Once free, he earned a law degree at Sarajevo University and remained engaged in politics.

He is survived by his first wife, Halida, who lives in Turkey; a son, Bakir; two daughters, Leila Aksami and Sabina; his second wife, Melika; and his third wife, Amira, whom he married in 1993 under Shariah, the Islamic code of law. In February 1995, the newspaper Slobodna Bosna published congratulations to him on his fourth marriage, without naming the woman.

His major work, "Islam between East and West," published in 1980, was, by the author's definition, "not a book of theology" but an attempt to define the "place of Islam in the general spectrum of ideas." The book argues that "Islam is more than a religion."

But Mr. Izetbegovic became better known for a 1970 manifesto entitled "The Islamic Declaration" that was widely brandished during the Bosnian war by Serbs as "proof" that fundamentalism was about to engulf Bosnia and entrench itself in Europe.

Circulated among Bosnian Muslims, the declaration was seized upon by the Communist government in 1983 as grounds for Mr. Izetbegovic's arrest on charges of conspiring to create a Muslim state. Convicted with 12 others, he received a 14-year sentence but was released in 1988.

His two terms in prison appeared to imbue Mr. Izetbegovic with a patience and implacability that gave him the inner strength to endure a grueling war as the symbol of his beleaguered people. But his spells of other-worldliness also maddened many international interlocutors.

As Yugoslavia began to fall apart, Mr. Izetbegovic founded the Party of Democratic Action, a Muslim grouping which triumphed in Bosnia's first non-Communist elections because Muslims then had a plurality of about 40 percent in the republic.

At first, the ethnic parties formed a coalition with Mr. Izetbegovic as president. A Serb became speaker of Parliament and a Croat was named as prime minister. But tensions soon became overwhelming.

During the death throes of Yugoslavia, Mr. Izetbegovic often showed prudence. At one stage, he argued for a loose confederation that might preserve the state.

By January 1992, after Croatia and Slovenia had seceded and won international recognition, Mr. Izetbegovic's options had narrowed: either independence from Slobodan Milosevic's truncated Yugoslavia, with the risk of war, or a life within it that could become as intolerable for Bosnia's Muslims as it had become for Kosovo's ethnic Albanians.

Indecision gripped Mr. Izetbegovic, who had made scant preparation for war. On Feb. 23, in Lisbon, he signed, along with leaders of Bosnia's Croats and Serbs, a European-brokered agreement creating a confederal structure for the three Bosnian ethnic groups. A few days later, influenced by what he saw as an encouraging conversation with Warren Zimmermann, the United States ambassador, he changed his mind.

The Izetbegovic government then staged a countrywide referendum on the issue of Bosnian independence. Muslims and Croats endorsed independence by 99.4 percent while the Serbs boycotted a vote their leaders said was illegal.

Street fighting broke out in Sarajevo on April 5. The next day, the European Union recognized Bosnia, and the United States did so a day later. By then, the Serbs were already shelling Sarajevo, and a concerted campaign to drive Muslims from their homes along the Drina, Bosna and Sava rivers in eastern and northern Bosnia had begun.

Through the summer, Bosnian Serb forces seized 70 percent of the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, expelling hundreds of thousands of Muslims. Many were herded into detention camps where men of fighting age were sometimes executed; women and children were pushed across the lines after suffering abuse and humiliation.

With neither the United States nor the European Union ready to go to war for the state they had recognized, Mr. Izetbegovic turned increasingly to Islamic states, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Libya, for assistance. Osama bin Laden visited him in Sarajevo in 1993 and sponsored some fighters from Arabic countries to fight on the Muslims' side in Bosnia, according to a report in the German magazine Der Spiegel.

Through more than three years of war, there were repeated international efforts to make peace. But Mr. Izetbegovic's resolve stiffened as his army grew stronger, and an American-brokered truce with the Croats in March 1994 helped him concentrate on battling the Serbs.

Determined to cut losses and establish contiguous territory in a war that was now going against them, Gen. Ratko Mladic's Bosnian Serb forces overran the eastern Muslim enclaves of Srebrenica and Zepa in the summer of 1995. The massacre of thousands of Muslims from Srebrenica by General Mladic's forces drew international condemnation and helped galvanize the United States and other Western powers into ending the war.

The ultimate determination of Mr. Milosevic to end the war and the defeat of Serb forces in Croatia also stiffened a new resolve within the Clinton administration and at NATO. Beginning on Aug. 30, 1995, American-led NATO forces hit the Serbs with air raids that turned the tide of the war.

Mr. Izetbegovic remained reluctant to the last to accept the division of Bosnia. By the terms of the Dayton accords, 51 percent of Bosnia went to the uneasy alliance of Muslims and Croats, while 49 percent went to a Serbian republic.

The nationalist leaders who signed the Dayton accords ending the violence were Mr. Izetbegovic; Franjo Tudjman, the Croatian president who died in 1999; and Mr. Milosevic, who is on trial at The Hague, accused of war crimes.

Mr. Izetbegovic continued to serve as president of Bosnia, though the position eventually became a three-person office. He stepped down in October 2000.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1004191/posts

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Soldiers’ Weapons Were Stolen by Terrorists
Israel National News ^ | 06:38 Oct 20, '03 / 24 Tishrei 5764
Posted on 10/20/2003 1:14 AM EDT by yonif

(IsraelNN.com) After killing the three IDF soldiers and seriously wounded a fourth in last night’s attack, the al-Aqsa Brigade terrorists took the soldiers’ weapons and fled in a Fiat Uno. The vehicle was recovered later in the night.

Major-General Moshe Kaplinski stated the IDF has an idea where the terrorists responsible for the attack are hiding and they would be apprehended.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1004183/posts

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Militant Islamic leader nabbed in Mindanao island
Straits Times ^
Posted on 10/19/2003 7:50 PM EDT by DeaconBenjamin

MANILA - Militant Islamic group Jemaah Islamiah's No 3 leader, Taufik Rifqi, has been captured in Cotabato city on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao.

Security officials announced their coup just hours before US President George W. Bush arrived in Manila on Saturday for talks with Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on boosting cooperation in their war against terrorism.

Taufik's group has been blamed for last year's bombings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali and is accused of links with Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network.

Taufik was apparently establishing links with other Muslim militants in Cotabato, where the military is battling rebel groups fighting for an Islamic state.

Intelligence reports suggested he was Jemaah Islamiah's second-in-command in the Philippines, a security spokesman said.

JI's top operative in the Philippines, bomb expert Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, was killed in what police said was a shootout near Cotabato less than a week ago.

His death came three months after he escaped from a police maximum-security compound in Manila.

Mr Bush praised the Philippines at the weekend as a major partner in the war on terrorism and pledged more aid to help the country fight Muslim militants.

US troops have been training Philippine soldiers in counter-terrorism measures since last year.

Meanwhile, in Manila yesterday, Brigadier-General Victor Corpus said the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines was planning attacks on civilians suspected of being informers.

Peace talks with the communists have been stalled since 2001 but both sides continue informal discussions.

The insurgents are demanding the party and its armed wing, the New People's Army, be taken off a US list of terror organisations as a condition for resuming negotiations to end more than 30 years of rebellion to establish a Marxist state.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1004083/posts

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Religious killings on the rise in Pakistan despite crackdown [Sunni v. Shia]
Straits Times ^
Posted on 10/19/2003 7:45 PM EDT by DeaconBenjamin

Killings among rival Sunnis and Shi'ites have left 76 dead, casting doubts over anti-militant drive

ISLAMABAD - The resurgence of killings among the rival Sunni and Shi'ite sects of Islam, climaxing with the murder of Sunni icon Azam Tariq, has underscored long-held doubts about the direction of Pakistan's crackdown on Islamic militancy, analysts say.

Tariq's death 'was the most foretold in Pakistan', the Daily Times newspaper said, questioning how one of the most high-profile sectarian leaders could be gunned down in broad daylight as he entered the nation's capital.

To date, no one has been arrested for the Oct 6 killing, the most high-profile of at least 76 Shi'ite and Sunni deaths this year.

President Pervez Musharraf has carried out an official crackdown on Muslim extremists, a hallmark of his rule.

In January last year, four months into his role as one of the war on terror's most important allies, General Musharraf outlawed five Islamic militant groups and ordered the arrest of up to 2,000 of their followers.

Most of their leaders were already behind bars, locked up ahead of the United States' bombardment of Afghanistan in October 2001, to stave off a feared violent backlash.

Almost two years on, at least four of the outlawed organisations are operating under new names and their leaders are out of jail.

Tariq went straight from his prison cell to a seat in the federal Parliament despite his violent Sunni organisation Sipah-e-Sahaba being among those outlawed in January last year, and despite the 17 Shi'ite murder cases he was charged with.

Six months before his assassination, Tariq had set up a new organisation, Millat-e-Islamia, with similar office-holders to the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba. It was a familiar pattern.

Jaish-e-Mohammad, one of the most militant groups fighting Indian rule in Kashmir, has been renamed Jamaat-ul Furqan under its leader Masood Azhar, who was released from jail last December.

Another Kashmir-focused group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, has reverted to the name of its political wing, Jamaat-ud Dawa.

Lashkar's founder Hafiz Saeed was freed from prison late last year.

He now travels the country preaching jihad against India.

The Shi'ite extremist group Tehreek-i-Jafria renamed itself Islami Tehreek.

Some analysts say Gen Musharraf is seeking to keep both militants and the West happy.

'It is a strategy,' said an Islamabad-based Western analyst.

'By banning these groups he can keep the Americans happy, and at the same time these groups can re-name themselves and keep operating untouched at a lower profile, and the government gets to keep the proxy tools of its foreign policy,' he said, referring to rebels fighting Indian forces in disputed Kashmir.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1004081/posts

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New Al-Qa'ida Online Magazine: Interview with a 'Most-Wanted' Saudi Islamist-Kill Americans
MEMRI ^ | 10-18-03
Posted on 10/19/2003 7:11 PM EDT by SJackson
Special Dispatch Series - No. 591
October 17, 2003

New Al-Qa'ida Online Magazine Features Interview with a 'Most-Wanted' Saudi Islamist, Calls for Killing of Americans and Non-Muslims

Supporters of the Al-Qa'ida organization in Saudi Arabia launched a new on-line magazine, " The Voice of Jihad." The magazine was described as a "bimonthly dealing with Jihad and the Mujahideen in the Arabian Peninsula." The following are excerpts from the first issue: [1]

Why is Jihad Necessary in Saudi Arabia? - An Editorial

The editorial of the first issue of " The Voice of Jihad" was penned by "Jihad warrior Suleiman Al-Dosari, " who wrote: "A tremendous obligation has been entrusted upon us – Jihad for the sake of Allah… Allah has imposed the obligation of Jihad in [several] cases, all of which exist in this generation: starting from repelling the aggression of the infidels, through fighting the apostates, supporting the oppressed, and liberating captives and prisoners. It includes voluntary Jihad, [that is] fighting the infidels so that they will pay the Jizya [poll tax paid by non-Muslims living under Muslim rule], with humiliation, into the hands of [the Muslim rulers]. All these are commandments that apply to every Muslim individually, or obligations that apply collectively. But as long as they are not carried out by a large enough number of Muslims, they are commandments that apply individually…

"One of the greatest places in which Jihad is a commandment applying to each Muslim individually is the land of the two holy places [i.e. the Arabian Peninsula]. In this land there is the occupying Crusader enemy who steals the land's treasures, determines its policy, and sets out from it to make war on the Muslims. It also has an apostate agent government, and it implements the plans of colonialism, supports the infidels, and rules by a law that is not the law of Allah… Its prisons hold the oppressed who are subjected to insufferable tortures, and in it there are aggression and curses against Allah, insult to the religion, and contempt for the believers, [and all this] under the protection and patronage of the family of Saud, whose members simultaneously silence the reformists [the opponents of the regime demanding 'reform' towards a more fundamentalist state] as well as those who call for virtue, and jail those who call on them to impose the law of Allah.

"It is amazing that many Jihad youths turn to other arenas and abandon this great arena and the [mission of the] liberation of the pure land [namely Saudi Arabia] from the defilement of the Crusaders and their lackeys, even though this land is the worthy land for Jihad that requires purification and liberation more than any other land.

"There are many reasons for this [amazing phenomenon], among them… the cruel attack led by those who abandoned [the Jihad movement] who tremble in fear [the clerics who support the Saudi regime] and who find nothing wrong with their land being occupied by American female soldiers…"

Kill Americans Whose Blood is 'Like the Blood of a Dog' - An Article

The magazine featured an article by Sheikh Nasser Al-Najdi, who wrote: "…Dogs, like other animals, are not assigned [religious] missions and commandments, and [religious prohibitions] are not forbidden them; they were created according to a particular nature, and they do not deviate from their nature. They are different from the infidel, who was created by Allah in order to worship Him and in order to believe in His monotheism, but who denied Him, and took other gods beside Him.

"Anyone who is satisfied with what is said above concludes that the heresy of that infidel and his rebellion against the religion of Allah requires the permitting of his blood and [sanctions] his humiliation, and that his blood is like the blood of a dog and nothing more.

"What is said above is sufficient to cause the monotheist… to burn with desire for the blood of the infidel, to slaughter the enemy of Allah, and to cut him up into pieces. This is not strange at all. If a believer would not be willing to stand the sight of someone walking on the earth whom he had heard cursing his father or harming his honor, then how much more so when someone curses his God, Whom he loves more than the love he feels for his beloved. How [will he stand it] while Allah permits him [to kill the infidel] and he knows that killing this man, as far as Allah is concerned, is like killing a dog?…

"My Jihad-fighting brother, don't you want Paradise? Don't you want to protect yourself from Hell?… Kill the polytheist, kill the one whose blood is like the blood of a dog, kill the one whom Allah ordered you to kill and whom the Prophet of Allah [Muhammad] incited you against. Have you not seen him, whose blood is like the blood of a dog, cursing your religion and taking your sister captive? Have you not seen him, whose blood is like the blood of a dog, occupying the lands of the Muslims, controlling the land of the two holy places, and leading colonialism in Mecca and Al-Madina? The one whose blood is like the blood of a dog that ignored all the nations of the world and chose the Muslims, to make them weep and make the world laugh at them. The one whose blood is like the blood of a dog has introduced his treacherous agents to [rule] over the loyal faithful clerics…

"Bush, the son of Bush, is a dog and the son of a dog; his blood is the blood of a dog; his bark is the bark of a dog; and he has all the traits of a dog except for loyalty. Thus, he is a hyena… [Saudi Interior Minister] Nayef Ibn Abd-Al-Aziz may Allah fight him, has no brains, honor, shame, religion, manhood, morality, or credibility…"

More Articles: The U.S. is the Most Abhorrent Enemy in the History of Islam

The magazine's first issue features numerous articles, including one by Qeis bin Habira that calls on "Jihad warriors for the sake of Allah on the Islamic frontier in Hindu-Kush, Tora Bora, Jenin, Gaza, Grozny, and the land of the two holy places" to wage Jihad. The article concludes with the blessing, "See you in Paradise."

Also featured is a poem cursing Arab rulers, and a translation of "the important excerpts" from an undated and un-attributed New Yorker article on the National Security Agency; the "Voice of Jihad" titled this article "Saudi Arabia As Seen by the U.S."

In addition, the magazine quotes Sheikh Nasser Al-Fahd, who was arrested in Saudi Arabia after expressing support for the May 2003 Riyadh bombings: "I examined at length the history of Islam; I turned its pages; and I looked at the enemies of Islam, their wars against it, the Crusaders, and the idol-worshipers, in the East and the West, over more than 10 generations – and I found no enemy more hostile and abhorrent than America."

The magazine posted a review of Sheikh Abdallah Azzam's book " The Virtues of Jihad Granted to the Slaves of Allah," and published a chapter from Sheikh Ayman Al-Zawahiri 'sbook " Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet" that tells of 'Issam Al-Qamari, a leader of the Egyptian Jihad organization who was killed in 1988 after escaping from an Egyptian prison.

The magazine also offers its readers an article by Abu Abdallah Al-Sa 'di which argues againstthe claim that bombing is not a legitimate way of bringing about political change.

Biography Excerpt: Al-Qa'ida Leader Sheikh Al-'Ayyiri

The magazine includes part of a biography of Sheikh Yousef Al-'Ayyiri, an Al-Qa'ida leader in Saudi Arabia who was on Saudi authorities' list of 19 most-wanted Islamists which was issued a few days before the Riyadh bombings. Sheikh Al-'Ayyiri managed the Al-Qa'ida website until he was killed by Saudi security forces in June 2003. His biography says that he served as Osama bin Laden's personal bodyguard in Afghanistan and then in Sudan until he returned to Saudi Arabia and was arrested following the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing.

Upon his return from Sudan to Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Salman Al-'Odeh told him, "I am proud to be one of the soldiers of Abu Abdallah [bin Laden]." However, when a wealthy Saudi demanded that Al-'Ayyiri bring him a letter from Sheikh Al-'Odeh as a condition for donating 8 million Saudi riyals to Khattab, the commander of the Jihad in Chechnya, Al-'Odeh refused, saying: "I do not believe in the Chechnya matter."

Sheikh Al-'Ayyiri was close to Khattab, and after he was released from the Saudi prison he wrote several essays for the "Voice of the Caucasus" website, among them "A Guide to the Perplexed on the Captives," "Martyrdom Operations: Suicide or Shahada?" and other political articles, the most recent of which was "The Moscow Theater Operation and Its Benefits for the Mujahideen." The second part of Al-'Ayyiri's biography will appear in the next issue.

Interview with a 'Most-Wanted' Islamist Leader

The magazine published an interview with Abd Al-'Aziz bin 'Issa bin Abd Al-Mohsen, also known as Abu Hajjer, another of the Saudi authorities' 19 most-wanted Islamists. In the interview, Abu Hajjer, a Riyadh native, tells of how he was recruited:

"Thirteen years ago, we all used to hear about the events in Afghanistan. In the mosques they talked [about it], with the support of the government, and so did the preachers on television. Jihad was approved of in those days, and the government reduced [airplane] ticket prices [to Pakistan]. We had relatives, neighbors, and friends who went to the land of Jihad, and in the calls to prayer you would always hear news of the brothers and of the heroic deeds of the Jihad warriors in the Afghan land.

"The truth is that [our] souls longed to be with the Jihad warriors, but there were obstacles. Like today, some clerics did not think that the Jihad is a commandment applying individually to every Muslim, and that the individual must go out to Jihad [even] without his parents' permission. Obviously, we tried to persuade everyone, but all attempts failed. Then, one sheikh gave me a Fatwa that said that going out to prepare [for Jihad] is a commandment that applies to every Muslim, and there is no need to ask permission to do so from parents, and so I went to the land of the Jihad…"

Abu Hajjer then tells of the battles he fought in Afghanistan: "Afterwards, I joined the brothers in Algeria. I was in the supply team and our mission was to transfer weapons and equipment from Europe to Morocco and from there to Algeria. I remained there for months, until most of the members of that squad were imprisoned, and six of them were killed… Afterwards I participated [in Jihad] in Bosnia-Herzegovina… [and from there] I continued on to Yemen, and from Yemen to Somalia and Ogadin, a region of the Somali land occupied by the Ethiopian Crusader state that is acting to convert the Somali Muslims to Christianity.

"I saw with my own eyes the churches in this region, although 100 percent of the Somalis are Muslims subject to cruel attack... I joined my brothers in the Somali Islamic Union, and there was a lengthy affair that ended in my imprisonment for a period of two years and seven months, at the end of which I was extradited to the tyrants in the land of the two holy places and was jailed for a time. A month after my release, I traveled to Afghanistan and participated together with the brothers in training and fighting against the Americans.

"Today, Allah be praised, I am [in Saudi Arabia] at the front that we sought to purify and liberate from the defilement of the treacherous rulers and, even before them, from the defilement of the American Crusaders and their allies… [In contrast to the rumors] I did not go to Iraq. I swore to purify the Arabian Peninsula from the polytheists. We were born in this land and we will fight in it against the Crusaders and against the Jews until we expel them or until we taste what Hamza bin Abd Al-Mutaleb tasted [i.e. Shahada]…

I received many offers from sheikhs… [to go to Iraq]. Unfortunately, what they wanted was to get us out of the Arabian Peninsula… True, Iraq is a front, and, Allah be praised, we are investing efforts in it… It is a front that we want to utilize for fighting the Americans, like the other fronts [of Jihad]… To all those who suggested that I [go to Iraq] I say, 'Forget it.' You must think also about the conflict with these infidels [in Saudi Arabia]."

The interview will continue in the next issue, in which Abu Hajjer will talk about "his connection with Sheikh Osama bin Laden, give advice to the wanted men in the land of the two holy places, talk about Jihad in the Arabian Peninsula, and more."

The magazine also published the first of a three-part series by Mus 'eb Al-Sahli, "Sorcery and Jihad Warriors," in which he tells of Jihad warriors who feared that they would be harmed by sorcery and explains how to guard against Satan and his messengers.

The last article, by Sheikh Abdallah bin Nasser Al-Rashid, addresses the question of whether it is permitted to call someone who is killed in Jihad a Shahid. After a final paean to Jihad, the magazine asks its readers not to wait for the next issue, but to go out and fulfill the commandment of Jihad.

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[miltonim]

Spain links Syrian cabal to Sept. 11 plot--Prosecutors follow the money trail
Chicago Tribune ^ | October 19, 2003 | John Crewdson, Drew Crosby
Posted on 10/19/2003 7:03 PM EDT by SJackson

By John Crewdson, Tribune senior correspondent. Reporting and research assistance was provided by Drew Crosby in Madrid

MADRID -- The most sweeping criminal indictment to arise thus far from the Sept. 11 attacks reflects a quiet but dramatic change in understanding by investigators here and across Europe of the terrorist organization known as Al Qaeda, and the international Islamic radical-terrorist network of which, they now agree, it is merely a part.

As laid out in the indictment, the defendants' alleged activities--from arranging travel and providing introductions to procuring false documents and, especially, moving money--provide the first detailed look at one of Al Qaeda's most potent weapons: the ability to call on networks of sympathizers whose collective numbers are far greater than Al Qaeda's few hundred card-carrying members.

Not one of the dozen key defendants named here last month as members or supporters of an alleged Madrid-based cell accused of working for Al Qaeda and helping advance the Sept. 11 plot is a native of Spain, or even nearby Muslim North Africa.

Instead, all migrated to Spain from Syria, where--according to the Spanish indictment--most became affiliated with an ultramilitant Islamic group called the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.

Virtually from the moment of the Sept. 11 attacks, investigators in Europe and the U.S. were perplexed by what appeared to be a Syrian connection to the hijackings, both here and in Hamburg, Germany, whose university campuses produced three of the four Sept. 11 pilots and several accused or convicted accomplices.

At first, some questioned whether the Syrian government had perhaps known of the plot, or even whether Syrian intelligence had somehow been involved. Neither now appears to be true, investigators say, citing Syria's limited but useful cooperation with Western intelligence agencies attempting to unravel the connection between Sept. 11, Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.

One senior German intelligence official described the Muslim Brotherhood as "one part of the intelligence network of the mujahedeen." The Brothers, the official said, are not an extension of Al Qaeda but affiliated with it in the same way as Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiyah, which reportedly financed last year's Bali nightclub bombings with $30,000 provided by Al Qaeda, or a Salafist group in Morocco that allegedly used $50,000 in Al Qaeda money to pay for five suicide bombings in Casablanca earlier this year.

When Al Qaeda first appeared on the terrorist scene in the early 1990s, the Muslim Brotherhood was already well-established. It was 70 years ago last year that the Syrian Brotherhood, an offshoot of the even older Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, first dedicated itself to the overthrow of Syria's secular government.

In 1982, the Syrian army struck in an attempt to wipe out the organization, killing 5,000 to 10,000 Muslim Brothers in the Syrian city of Hama.

On Excerpted - ^

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[miltonim]

Don't Rely on the Media: Palestinian Authority violence against Americans.

Daniel Pipes’ Weblog ^ | October 18, 2003 | Daniel Pipes
Posted on 10/19/2003 7:02 PM EDT by quidnunc

Is there any subject that the mainstream media treats worse than the Palestinian Authority (PA)? Case in point: placing the Oct. 15 murder of three American security personnel in Gaza. Here is USA Today's comment, representative of media assessments of the topic: "the killings reflected a potentially dangerous new escalation in a conflict that for the past half-century has largely treated U.S. officials as bystanders. Terrorist Palestinian groups have generally avoided attacks on U.S. officials."

To find out the real situation, one has to go to such sources at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), Palestinian Media Watch, and The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

CAMERA's Eric Rozenman points to a long history of the PLO targeting American officials (Ambassador to Sudan Cleo A. Noel Jr. and his colleague George C. Moore in March 1973; U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Frances E. Meloy and his colleague Robert O. Waring in January 1977). It notes that approximately 103 American citizens have been killed by Palestinian terrorists in Israel and the disputed territories since 1968; and at least 39 Americans have been murdered in the past three years. CAMERA concludes that "reports stating that the three security guards murdered on October 15 are the first Americans killed by Palestinian terrorists, either following September 29, 2000, or before, are simply wrong."

Palestinian Media Watch's Itamar Marcus argues that "In its English statements, the PA presents itself as an American ally, while its Arabic messages incite its people to hate and kill Americans," then documents this statement with a list of hair-raising quotes, calling on Saddam Hussein to kill American soldiers, threats against Americans, and promises that the United States will be destroyed. PMW concludes that the American security personnel were murdered "by Palestinians fulfilling their role in their war against Americans, as they have been taught by their leaders, through years of hate-mongering and calls for violence against Americans."

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy's Matthew Levitt provides extensive background in his "Terrorist Attacks against Western Officials in Gaza, The West Bank, and Israel." He quotes Palestinian threats (an al-Aqsa Brigades leader: "Now, American targets are the same as Israeli targets"), points to U.S. government expectations of such attacks (George Tenet in February 2002: if Palestinian groups "feel that U.S. actions are threatening their existence, they may begin targeting Americans directly"), and recalls Palestinian attacks on other Western personnel (Canadian and Danish, in particular). He concludes that the Oct. 15 incident was "neither unprecedented nor unexpected."

Unfortunately, this means that if you read just the newspaper — never mind only watching television — you basically don't know the score on an issue as complex and historical fraught as Palestinian violence against Americans. To be well informed requires reading the work of think tanks and advocacy organizations.

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[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

During the program a man, a Muslim, called in to the show to accuse O'Reilly of being unfair and taking things out of context, etc. He then said that you need to have an Imam explain these passages to you so you can understand their meaning. This of course means one of several things. The first possible meaning is that the average person is too stupid understand the Koran without help. Another is that Mohammed chose not to speak plainly and clearly when relating Allah's word for one reason or another. Or, possibly, that the Imam's tell their followers this so that they may remain in control of the religion, and interpret it as they please without fear of contradiction.

Sheesh. Lousy, fabricated, dishonest, excuse.

"You need to have an Imam explain these passages to you so you can understand their meaning"

What an incredibly deceitful bibliographic hermeneutic. Frickin' Moslems.

I won't say it if you won't. I won't say it if you won't. I won't say it if you won't. I won't say it if you won't. I won't say it if you won't. I won't say it if you won't. I won't say it if you won't. I won't say it if you won't. I won't say it if you won't. I won't say it if you won't. I won't say it if you won't. I won't say it if you won't. I won't say it if you won't. shhhh......

[miltonim]

'Saddam' Letter Urges Jihad

AFP ^ | 10-19-03

Posted on 10/19/2003 5:50 PM EDT by Brian S

October 20, 2003

A LETTER purportedly written by ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, and which emerged today, urges tribal leaders to launch a jihad, or holy war, against "the hated invaders" and those who cooperate with them.

"I urge you to help your brothers in the resistance. Call the sons of your tribes to the jihad because the day of salvation is near," the message, obtained by AFP, said.

The letter, dated October 9 and bearing Saddam's signature, was distributed on October 13 to about 20 people in Saddam's stronghold of Tikrit - a flashpoint of anti-US violence - according to people who call themselves "men of Saddam Hussein".

It was not clear whether Saddam's signature on the note was authentic.

The message praised those who struck at the "invader", a reference to US-led coalition troops who ousted him from power.

"Your strikes, which they did not expect, hurt them. Their demons made them believe Iraq would be just a mouthful. To the contrary, it has been poison for them."

"Victory is near," the note said, urging tribal chiefs to unite.

"Strike with an iron fist any person ... who serves the hated invader," it said.

He also urged the tribal chiefs to stage a peaceful protest on October 15 to denounce the US military occupation.

On that day, several people fired shots in the air in Baghdad to mark the anniversary of a pro-Saddam referendum, and one person was wounded in Baqubah, 60km north-east of the capital, when Iraqi police fired shots to disperse a similar demonstration.

The message closes by stating: "God is Great. Long live Iraq. Long live Arab and free Palestine."

The typewritten letter bears the Iraqi presidential seal.

US troops have been searching for the former dictator since they seized Baghdad on April 9.

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[miltonim]

Laden hands over mantle of terror to son: Report

Times of India ^ | 10-19-03
Posted on 10/19/2003 4:57 PM EDT by Brian S

PTI[ SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2003 08:06:03 PM ]

LONDON: Terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has appointed his eldest son 26-year-old Saad Bin Laden as his successor and ordered him to attack British and US targets, a report quoting his latest audio tape said on Sunday.

The tape purportedly from the al-Qaeda leader on Saturday promised more suicide attacks inside and outside United States and other countries that supported the Iraq war and demanded the Americans to quit Iraq.

The news that Osama bin Laden had named son Saad as his successor forced British Intelligence Agency Mi5 Chief Eliza Manningham-Buller to warn that al-Qaeda was now stronger than ever, 'The Sunday Express' reported.

Bin Laden's decision to hand over the operations of al-Qaeda is seen as an indication that he is ill, the paper said.

Saad has been linked to last week's killing of Americans in Gaza. For the past one year, he has been based in Iran.

Laden, in his latest audio tape said, "We, God willing, will continue to fight you (US) and will continue martyrdom operations inside and outside the United States until you abandon your oppression and foolish acts."

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[miltonim]

Eight Qassam missiles fall in Negev

Jerusalem Post ^ | Oct. 19, 2003 | JPOST.COM STAFF
Posted on 10/19/2003 2:46 PM EDT by yonif

Palestinians fired eight Qassam missiles into the Negev on Sunday, media sources report.

Three missiles landed in an open space within the town's residential area.

There were no injuries and no damage was sustained.

Two missiles on kibbutz land in the area, and two nearby. The missiles were apparently launched from Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.

Sderot residents were requested to remain in their homes in case more missiles were fired.

Five reservist batallions will be deployed in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the framework of a limited mobilization of reservists who received call up notices during the Succot week as part of an effort to beef up the security presence in the Territories due to the ongoing violence.

Earlier in the month, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz paved the way for a limited call up of reservists and cancelled all IDF training and officers courses due to the increase in the number of alerts received by the security establishment of plans by terrorists to perpetrate attacls.

Mofaz handed over the sole authorization of calling up reservists and cancelling training courses to Chief of General Staff Lt.Gen. Moshe Ya'alon who judging on operational requirements makes the necessary decisions.

(With Margot Dudkevitch)

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[miltonim]

Three Israelis Murdered in Shomron Terror Attack

Israel National News ^ | 20:14 Oct 19, '03 / 23 Tishrei 5764
Posted on 10/19/2003 2:36 PM EDT by yonif

(Sunday 19 October 20:00) Three Israelis were murdered by terrorist gunfire in the Shomron shortly before 19:00 tonight. The terror attack occurred near Ein Yabrud, an Arab village located [northeast of Ramallah] in proximity to the Shomron community of Ofrah. According to the preliminary information available, the Ofrah paramedic ambulance was informed of the attack at 19:00, immediately responding to the location a short distance away. It remains unclear at this time but reports indicate the initial response may have been delayed due to ongoing gunfire.

An army report indicates that in addition to the gunfire, a bomb may have been hurled at the victims. This has not yet been confirmed.

In addition to the Ofrah MDA bullet-resistant ambulance, a bullet resistant military ambulance with a physician on board was also dispatched to the scene. The medical team was unable to resuscitate three of the victims who were pronounced dead on the scene. A fourth victim was transported in the Ofrah paramedic ambulance to the trauma unit of Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital. There are also reports of an unspecified number of persons who sustained light injuries.

The site of the latest Arab terror attack is the same location where Ofrah resident 30-year-old Assaf Hirschkovitz was murdered on May 1, 2001, between the junction to Beit El and his home community of Ofrah.

Hadassah trauma unit officials report the victim has arrived and appears in moderate condition. The army has imposed a curfew on Ein Yabrud. A manhunt for the terrorists is ongoing. Helicopters have been deployed. The Ofrah first response team remains deployed awaiting further instructions from the army.

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[PsyOp]

Some 12,000 Koranic schools provide free room and board to some 700,000 Pakistani boys (ages 6 to 16) where they are taught to read and write in Urdu and Arabic and recite the Koran by heart. No other disciplines are practiced, but students are proselytized with anti-American, anti-Israeli and anti-Indian propaganda. By the time they graduate, the majority is convinced that becoming a jihadi, or holy warrior, is the only way to block America's alleged plans to destroy Islam.

Pakistan-Saudi trade nuke tech for oil

[PsyOp]

Islam is dying. In its death throes, it has turned not just on its perceived enemies, the modern world, but upon itself, killing with seeming indifference both Muslim and non-Muslim as it thrashes about, filling each day with new corpses, the last of which will be its own.

The Decline and Fall of Islam