Posted on 08/27/2005 6:39:12 AM PDT by jmc1969
The Al Qaida network in Iraq has launched efforts to strike targets in Western Europe.
Western and Iraqi intelligence sources said the Al Qaida organization headed by Abu Mussib Al Zarqawi has moved operatives to Europe for a series of attacks against NATO states. The sources said the strikes were meant to pressure members of the U.S.-led coalition to leave Iraq.
"Osama Bin Laden has asked the head of Al Qaida in Iraq, Al Zarqawi, to organize an attack in Europe, more devastating than that of Sept. 11, 2001," Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Hamid Al Bayati said.
Al Bayati told the Italian daily Il Messaggero that Al Zarqawi has established a network in Europe for imminent strikes. He said Italy was a leading target of the Al Qaida network.
Just like the protests in this country.
If these crazy rag-heads follow through on this threat, their cause will be really harmed. The euro-weenies will accept terror {in small doses} but imagine the Eiffel Tower being blown with 3,000 dead, or a beer hall in Munich with 1,500 people celebrating Oktoberfest reduced to rubble.
Europe is being slowly being overtaken with islamists but if there are major attacks they will react and we will see the war on terror being fought on european soil. The euro-weenies won't be able to surrender, there is no one to surrender to. Their choice will be simple, fight or die, surrender {much as they'd like to} will not be an option. After trying to surrender {and being killed for their efforts} it will become clear {even to them} that surrender is not an option.
Haven't they been saying this for 4 years?
We have 5 million Arabs here. It's not Islam that is the problem, necessarily, it's the "crazy rag-heads" and lax security (urban, county, state or national) NOT watching and/or NOT expelling/imprisoning those "crazy rag-heads," wherever they land.
The WTC routinely had 50,000 people in the towers ... and we still lost 3,000. I can't imagine many targets in Europe that can yield that amount of a death toll. Cartainly not the Eiffel Tower ... and I doubt a German beergarten.
I was reading an article in the last few days (here maybe) about how Muslims assimilate more readily in the US. I personally live in Los Angeles right next to one of the biggest Iranian, Iraqi, Middle Eastern, Armenian enclaves in America ... and there isn't even a hint of a problem here.
Although I cannot speak for the Islamic situations in say ... Detroit, for instance.
No, they would have to make a choice between something famous--the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Leaning Tower of Pisa--or if they want to kill a lot of people maybe bring down one of those horrible anonymous high-rises that ring most of Europe's old cities.
I know losing a momument with STRONG emotional ties would strike a blow.
The Euros don't contribute THAT much to the fight in Iraq. This sounds more like it's getting to hard to hit the Iraquis, so they're opting for softer targets. Or perhaps they're looking for funding from the Euro Lefties. In any event, as others have pointed out, it appears to be self-defeating. "Bomb the Americans? Well they deserve it. Bomb us? HEY, WAIT A MINUTE!"
And liberals in Europe will again whine that it's all their fault, and they deserve whatever these poor oppressed people (Muslims) do to them.
"Zarqawi Network Plans Attacks In Europe"
Good. Start with France, Germany and Russia.
This sounds like nonsense. Why provoke the European Union of Socialist States anyway?
If the SOL was destroyed would France build us another one?
Never questioned the security forces of the euro-weenies, just their willingness in the fight against the islamists. There are video cams all over europe and they intrusion of the governments of europe is well documented. Their techniques are not an issue, just the balls required to use them.
Iraq getting too hot for him? Guess it's time to move on to easier pickin's
Zapatero on the phone with Al Qaida: "But, Abu, we had a deal!"
Ha, no. But I did notice that national monuments were digitally recorded just months after 9/11. I'm sure if it was destroyed, that we would reconstruct it.
Ah ha, I hope to visit Germany some day. My family (farming) emmigrated to Southern California from Hanover Germany in the 1870s.
Germany is off-limits for the terrorists. The German government is towing the terrorist line and are against the war in Iraq.
Ahhhhh, the "the religion of peace" proves once again what it is really about about.....hate and murder.
Did Zarqawi make the threat from the ditch with Rev Al and Sheehan and Code Pink rallying him on? You know they liked that. You just know it. One more thing to try and pin on Bush.
"Al Zarqawi has established a network in Europe for imminent strikes" --Didnt Al Gore just do the same thing?
This bunch of murdering muslims need to be publicly executed when caught. Then let them all go crazy so we can end this murderous rampage the exremists seem to be on and have peace for future generations.
Apparently, those "euro-weenies" DO have the balls required since only Spain, Britain and Holland have had problems with the Islamist crazies.
The euro-weenies are the Spaniards who cut and run from Iraq after the train bombing.
The euro-weenies are the Dutch and British who simply decide to "take it" from the Muslim crazies. God knows they both have the security systems. They lack the WILL, the balls, to execute what they know they should do.
If those other European countries, that is THE OTHER 30 COUNTRIES OF EUROPE, HADN'T the balls, we would already have been reading about their disasters, a la England, Spain and Holland.
They DO use their video cams and keep a lid on the crazies. They prosecute them, put them in prison; they throw them out of their countries and they spy on them for information.
We do the same.
What else are they supposed to do?
Perhaps you just hate Europeans.
O.K Its coming time to blow up Mecca and Medina very soon.
Theses people are very serious about destroying us and
Israel.Read the latest www.jihadwatch.org.
The liberals and Political Correctness crap is going to
get us all kill.Come on BUSH let the B1 bombers loose
already please.
You are correct.
Detroit has now won the official title of the MOST LIBERAL CITY in America. Perhaps that might be part of the problem. I'm not sure.
Muslims here, whether they are Arabs or not, keep a low profile. They always have. Many are 4th and 5th generation Arabs. Many middle easterners are Christians. Danny Thomas was one. So is his daughter. Not so easy to lump them all into one category, though the Arab/Palestinian/Muslim-haters do so.
Most of the Palestinians here (about 1 million) are Christians and wear crosses and crucifixes to VIVIDLY demonstrate that they might be Arabs, but they are CHRISTIANS. They often have a cross up on their wall in the mom n' pop stores they own. They also put up an American flag, just to "turn off" any "switch" that may be on when someone sees them.
Iranians, Turks and other "middle eastern types" can get away with almost anything because MOST Americans wouldn't know the difference between a Mexican, Peruvian, Iraqi, Brazilian, Indonedian, Pakistani or Cuban. The men are generally swarthy, with black hair, brown eyes and a moustache. (Lol. So are many Sicilians and Greeks.)
Hispanics can be confused with Arabs too. It's quite amusing to see the Muslim/Arab/Palestinian haters at work because they just DON'T know the difference.
Finally, 3/4 of all Muslims ARE NOT ARABS. The biggest Muslim country in the world is Indonesia, then Pakistan -- no Arabs there -- all Asians. The Ubezistanis, Afghanis, Kazakistanis and such all all "white," no Arabs there either, and ALL are Muslim.
It's much simpler when the boob-tube identifies them to us, ESPEICALLY for the All-Muslims-are evil-haters. These folks (and the rest of us) can be clear about the "rag-head crazies" and not have any mix-ups with Hispanics, Christians or other non-Arab "enemies."
Whew, the MSM boobus-toobus does have some use.
What utter crap!
The french will do what they have always done: Nothing Absolutely nothing and will blame the US for their predicament.
The "euro-weenies" are not as intimidated by PC as we are. Europe has a history of ethnic confrontations and it will not take much to trigger some serious "ethnic cleansing" with a wink and a nod from the government when they are pushed too hard unlike here in the US where our government is more likely to punish the victim than the perpetrator.
You are right.
Americans worship at the altar of P.C., especially racial and religious P.C.
Europeans (Asians, Africans, Arabs, Persians, as well, for example) have the confidence of being older cultures, with long traditions that establish self-confidence. They know who they are, are proud of it and have their way of life carved out the way they want it.
As for punishing the victim, yep, we do that. Any minority, racial or religious, has the upper hand here, both legally and morally. Euro-Christian Americans need not open their mouths about anything....we are ALL wrong even as we think. Lol.
If the islamotrash are patient, Europe will fall into thier hands like rotten fruit. But if they push too hard they will discover to their chagrin that the euros don't have Constitutional protections such as we do here. They are making this mistake now in UK, and will be rudely disappointed when a passle of their mullah-scum are rounded up and shipped back to A_hole-stan.
Are you being facetious? I didn't say we would rebuild the WTC. There is a big difference.
You're kidding.
The frogs make good vodka? Well, whodda thunk!
The frogs were always nice to me (middle-aged woman). I enjoyed talking with them. Always in English if there was a conversation beyond two phrases.
The Parisians weren't rude -- just completely uninterested.
I detest the Klintoons and everything about them.
Someone on the FR once told me that Hillary was worse than Bubba. I didn't believe him until I read the latest book about her.
I stand corrected. She IS worse.
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