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How London brought terror on itself
Asia Times ^ | 18 July | B Raman

Posted on 07/17/2005 10:34:22 PM PDT by ttsmi

That three of the suspected perpetrators of the bomb attacks on London on July 7 were British youths of Pakistani origin should not only have been no surprise to British intelligence, it should have been anticipated: the radicalization of Britain's Muslim youth of Pakistani origin began in the mid-1990s with the full knowledge and complicity of British and US intelligence agencies. According to estimates, about 200 Muslims of Pakistani origin living in the United Kingdom went to Pakistan, received training in the camps of the HUA, and joined the HUA in Bosnia with the blessings of London and Washington. Among them was Omar Sheikh, who went on to mastermind the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.

(Excerpt) Read more at atimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: london; terror

1 posted on 07/17/2005 10:34:22 PM PDT by ttsmi
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To: ttsmi

Translation - no one is responsible for their own actions and everything is the fault of either the Americans, the British or the Joos.


2 posted on 07/17/2005 10:42:34 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: ttsmi

The US helped muslims throw the Russians out of Afghanistan, and as a consequence the muslims roam the world attacking any and all.

Britain and the US helped muslims throw the Serbs out of Bosnia, and as a result muslims roam the world attacking any and all.

Britain has relaxed immigration standards for Pakistanis, and Britain becomes a safe haven for them, and so obviously muslims must attack them.

Its like the story of the frog and the scorpion. The scorpion asks the frog for help, saying "why would I hurt you? I need you". So the frog helps him, the scorpion stings him, saying "hey, I'm a scorpion, what did you expect".

The writers point is essentially that. They are muslims, what did you expect.


3 posted on 07/17/2005 10:43:40 PM PDT by marron
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To: ttsmi
A decade before Bosnia, the CIA had raised and funded a large corps of jihadis of Arab origin - including Osama bin-Laden - to help the Afghan mujahideen in their jihad against Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

That is an absolute lie as far as bin Laden is concerned. Not one dime, not one penny of our money went into bin Laden's pocket during the Soviet's occupation of the Soviet Union. I guess I'll put the author on the American-hating ignore list.

4 posted on 07/17/2005 10:45:17 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: vbmoneyspender

Thanks for remembering that.


5 posted on 07/17/2005 10:47:02 PM PDT by Howlin (Is Valerie Plame a mute?)
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To: vbmoneyspender

A decade before Bosnia, the CIA had raised and funded a large corps of jihadis of Arab origin - including Osama bin-Laden - to help the Afghan mujahideen in their jihad against Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
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That is an absolute lie as far as bin Laden is concerned. Not one dime, not one penny of our money went into bin Laden's pocket during the Soviet's occupation of the Soviet Union. I guess I'll put the author on the American-hating ignore list
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Well spotted. I went into a twenty minute rant at a friend last week after he told me the US funded Bin Laden. It was teh Saudis that funded him.


6 posted on 07/17/2005 10:49:15 PM PDT by kingsurfer
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To: anyone

Translation - no one is responsible for their own actions and everything is the fault of either the Americans, the British or the Joos.

Left out Halliburton and Carl Rove...but I guess no one is going to touch HIM again for a while!! hahahaha

Tom


7 posted on 07/17/2005 11:06:14 PM PDT by AirBorn
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To: kingsurfer

Even if that contention were true -- that kind of reasoning drives me nuts. It is the same as arguing that if you give money to some person to help someone else and then 7 years later that person murders somebody, you are responsible for the murder. That is a ridiculous position to take. And in fact it is so ridiculous that I have to believe the people who make the argument are doing so for no other reason than that they want to see the United States hamstrung from ever taking any kind of affirmative action against our enemies.


8 posted on 07/17/2005 11:09:44 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: CHARLITE

ping

thanks again to Bubba picking the wrong side in an "illegal war" in Bosnia


9 posted on 07/17/2005 11:16:57 PM PDT by King Prout (I'd say I missed ya, but that'd be untrue... I NEVER MISS)
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To: marron

Muslim's have been attacking U.S. interest for at 50 years that I personally know of and probably a lot longer.


10 posted on 07/18/2005 2:37:39 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: mariabush

Thomas Jefferson had to deal with Muslim pirates (AKA Barbary Pirates) in the Mediteranian in the 1800's.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/mtjprece.html


11 posted on 07/18/2005 3:18:29 AM PDT by PogySailor
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To: PogySailor

There you go!!!!!!!!


12 posted on 07/18/2005 3:21:45 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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