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The New Mastermind of Jihad
Wall Street Journal ^ | April 6, 2012 | DAVID SAMUELS

Posted on 04/07/2012 6:28:24 AM PDT by lbryce

Mohamed Merah, the 23-year-old Islamist gunman who hunted down three Jewish children and a rabbi after murdering three French paratroopers in Toulouse last month, didn't act alone. In his journey from the slums of Toulouse, to the local mosques, to the terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan that he described to French police, to filming his murder of the terrified children in order to post video clips on the web, Mr. Merah was following a path marked out years earlier by the coldblooded jihadist theoretician Abu Musab al-Suri.

What is perhaps more disturbing, Mr. al-Suri was recently set free from prison in Damascus, Syria, and his current whereabouts are unknown. Turned over to Syria after his capture by the CIA in late 2005, Mr. al-Suri was released sometime in December (according to intelligence sources and jihadist websites) by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad—a move apparently intended to warn the West of the consequences for opposing his rule.

Barely noticed in the midst of Mr. Assad's own brutal assaults on civilians, Mr. al-Suri's release may well contribute to the emergence of more attackers like Mr. Merah in the West. "His videos are already being reuploaded. His audios, reposted," wrote Jarret Brachman, a former CIA analyst and the former director of West Point's Center for Combating Terrorism, in a blog post after the news of Mr. al-Suri's release first appeared on jihadist sites.

Once called "the most dangerous terrorist you've never heard of" by CNN, Mr. al-Suri, whose real name is Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, served in the days before 9/11 as the facilitator who took Western reporters to meet with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Photographs of him from those trips show a well-built man with pale white skin, .

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: abumusabalsuri; alsuri; france; islamist; islamofascism; mohamedmerah; mustafanasar; sociopath; terrorism; terrorist
Silly me. At first I thought it was a new found-inside-the-White-House Muslim Brotherhood administration ally/friend.
1 posted on 04/07/2012 6:28:33 AM PDT by lbryce
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To: lbryce
Mustafa Setmariam Nasar

you can run...but you just can't hide.
Trust me on that.

2 posted on 04/07/2012 6:38:56 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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To: Tainan

Abu Musab al-Suri, in an undated photo released by the U.S. government's Rewards for Justice program around 2004. He's been called 'the most dangerous terrorist you've never heard of.

Oh he;s on the radar now....the price is going to be collected.
3 posted on 04/07/2012 6:41:02 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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To: Tainan

No matter how many of them you kill there is always another one ready to step up


4 posted on 04/07/2012 6:41:21 AM PDT by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: reefdiver

“No matter how many of them you kill there is always another one ready to step up”

Perhaps it is because the Israelis and the West only consider the actual terrorist to be an enemy when those “stepping up” are enemies as well. Perhaps we should take on more of the feral attitudes of terrorists and include their evil spawn as targets. They only respect brutality and, at the very least, it would stop the genetic disposition in their tracks.


5 posted on 04/07/2012 6:46:12 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: reefdiver

You’ve heard the old saying, ‘raise up a child in the way that they should go and when they are old they will not depart from it’? Well, Islam breads the hate and blood lust for murder as part of the koranic teaching, so when these insane children of the devil arise to murder and slaughter and try to annihilate humanity we should not be caught surprised by their actions, they are raise up that way. We have one of them in our White House now, so these animals will be well funded in addition to being blood lusting maniacs.


6 posted on 04/07/2012 6:50:12 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: lbryce

Gazing back thru history, the only way to continually keep the mohammedans at bay is to keep them secluded in their own $hitholes and never let them out. Europe did this by defeating them repeatedly every time they attempted to invade, slaughtered them and pushed them out and back to their respective dung heaps. We have no choice but to do the same, however the West has become so emasculated by liberalism/socialism that it allows the very cancer that will speed their destruction in via mass immigration. Madness. Wake up Western nation peoples (the hell with the governments; they need to be overthrown and traditionalists voted in) or your children and grand children and great grandchildren will be at your with their muslim neighbors in their own backyards.


7 posted on 04/07/2012 6:59:00 AM PDT by john drake (Roman military maxim; "oderint dum metuant," i.e., "let them hate, as long as they fear.")
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To: lbryce

Correction; Gazing back thru history, the only way to continually keep the mohammedans at bay is to keep them secluded in their own $hitholes and never let them out. Europe did this by defeating them repeatedly every time they attempted to invade, slaughtered them and pushed them out and back to their respective dung heaps. We have no choice but to do the same, however the West has become so emasculated by liberalism/socialism that it allows the very cancer that will speed their destruction in via mass immigration. Madness. Wake up Western nation peoples (the hell with the governments; they need to be overthrown and traditionalists voted in) or your children and grand children and great grandchildren will be at “war” with their muslim neighbors in their own backyards.


8 posted on 04/07/2012 7:02:46 AM PDT by john drake (Roman military maxim; "oderint dum metuant," i.e., "let them hate, as long as they fear.")
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To: lbryce
he called for a global struggle in which shadowy motivators and facilitators would prompt jihadists to train and arm themselves in independent, self-generating terror cells that would target Western civilians.

We, as targeted citizen civilians, need to understand that the only way to prevent this type of attack is to disallow Islam as a religion. It is a totalitarian world view, like Nazism.

Our freedoms are being used against us to destroy us cell by cell. We are targeted as individuals or small cells by Islamic individuals or small cells.

They know that we will not strike first, so they have an advantage, choosing the time and place of attack; we then live in uneasiness, if not fear. Who will be surprised when the next attack comes?

We are war targets to these cretins.

Islam is the differentiator, and Islam must be purged from the west by we the people, the targeted citizen civilians.

9 posted on 04/07/2012 7:15:32 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: ecomcon

Bravo! Bravo!

Truer words have yet to appear in this forum!!


10 posted on 04/07/2012 7:18:30 AM PDT by MarineDad (Wherever mosques and JDAM's meet, civilization benefits)
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To: Tainan

I guess if you’re not going to wear a turban then they make you have big hair.


11 posted on 04/07/2012 7:29:32 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (I think in about 5 - no, 4 - years I'll have had enough.)
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To: Cincinna; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...

Thanks lbryce. Zero wants gun confiscation in the US, except for his Muzzie co-religionists.
Mohamed Merah, the 23-year-old Islamist gunman who hunted down three Jewish children and a rabbi after murdering three French paratroopers in Toulouse last month, didn't act alone.

12 posted on 04/07/2012 8:02:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: ecomcon
 
 
"Islam is the differentiator"
 
Islam is tyranny over the mind of man.


"...who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time;
 
...
 
 that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. "
 
"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"
--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786
 

13 posted on 04/07/2012 8:03:39 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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