Posted on 01/01/2003 8:52:49 AM PST by Conservative News Hound
Quite a grand illusion could be in the making.
Yasser DOES have something to gain by allying with Binny - or Binny's successor: many of his own terrorists are members of al Qaeda as well as the PLO, Hezballah, al Aksa, etc. His potential enemies are WITHIN his own regime. If Yasser doesn't do what al Qaeda wants him to do, all al Qaeda has to do is give the word to it's operatives: instant Pali "uprising" against Yasser's regime. Yasser, being a coward like all terrorist dictators, has to be fully aware of this fact.
Conversely, Yasser stands to lose if he allies with al Qaeda: American pounding of him in the process of pounding al Qaeda in the PA territores and Lebanon...it HAS to go hand in hand. No sense in pounding Pali terrorists if we don't simultaneously pound Lebanon, because the Palis will just run for Lebanon, which will continue to protect them.
Yasser's obvious solution to this little problem: insist in public his terrorist regime has no ties to al Qaeda, while SECRETLY allying with them..or just giving them the nod and letting them continue to operate in his territories.
Yasser knows this solution will work: look at all the public support he gained by insisteng he wants peace with Israel, that Israel is the aggressor and denouncing Pali murder of innocent civilians...while encouraging it and having his state controlled media constantly telling Palis that there ARE no innocent Israelis, so kill them all. Heck, some idiots are even convinced the PA isn't a terrorist organization. Al Qaeda is most definitely NOT working against Pali terrorist interests: one of it's stated goals, like Yasser's stated goal, is the annihlation of the state of Israel, and the birth (for the first time in history) of a state of Palestine. Yasser hates America too...he's just too cowardly and small minded to attack us openly yet.
Exactly. Anyone who honestly believed that Syria would act in the best interests of ANYONE but Syria's terrorist-enabling regime is a totol idiot.
A complete waste of time.
I believe that the Arabs will work hard to create unity among various terrorist factions. In fact, I believe it is their first priority. Attacks on US may not come this year or next, until the Islamofascists gain majorities in all Muslim countries, at which point they will think they're unstoppable.
The core of the terrorist movement is, in my opinion, the Saudi princes' will to world financial domination.
Destro-
Way back when...there was a FR link with a series of threads about this. I think it was entitled Bin Ladin Gate.
I can't find the link in my notes. Do you remember what I'm talking about?
Argentina's Menem to be freed in arms case (Clinton used him to smuggle arms to Bosnian Muslims)
This week, Menem, who was placed under house arrest because he is 70, was supposed to be honeymooning in his parents' native Syria with his second wife, Cecilia Bolocco.
In statements last weekend, Menem seemed to indicate that if such a deal had happened with Croatia, it happened with the knowledge of the State Department. A Washington Post article in 1996 outlined U.S. knowledge of arms smuggling to Croatia from countries that included Argentina. However, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher denied Monday that Washington had prior knowledge or gave support to any Argentine weapons deal with Croatia.
Statement Warns of More Attacks (Stop support for Israel, Russia, and convert to Islam or else) Yahoo! ^ | Nov. 16, 2002 | ALAA SHAHINE
Posted on 11/16/2002 9:15 PM CST by Michael2001
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A statement attributed to al-Qaida threatened more attacks in New York and Washington unless America stops supporting Israel and converts to Islam, an Arab TV reporter who received the unsigned document said Saturday.
Yosri Fouda, correspondent for the satellite station Al-Jazeera, told The Associated Press he received the six-page document on Wednesday. That was a day after the TV station broadcast an audiotape purportedly made by Osama bin Laden (news - web sites).
Fouda, who is known for good contacts within al-Qaida, would only say that the statement came from his sources with the group. But he insisted he was certain it came from the terrorist movement's leadership.
Fouda, speaking by telephone from London, said the statement called on Americans to stop supporting Israel and other governments that "oppress" Muslims or face more attacks. The statement also called on Americans to convert to Islam, he said.
Fouda quoted the statement as saying: "Stop your support for Israel against the Palestinians, for Russians against the Chechens ... for corrupt leaders in our countries ... (and) leave us alone or expect us in Washington and New York."
He added the statement demanded U.S. troops leave the Arabian Peninsula, and justified the killings of American civilians because they pay taxes that finance military operations.
There was no immediate reaction from Washington. No officials were available for comment at the Pentagon (news - web sites) or the National Security Council Saturday afternoon. A report on the statement as described by Fouda was carried in The Sunday Times of London.
Fouda is a prominent Arab television journalist who has broken several important stories about al-Qaida. In September, Al-Jazeera broadcast Fouda's interviews with two top al-Qaida operatives hiding in Pakistan, Ramzi Binalshibh and Khaled Sheik Mohammed.
Binalshibh was arrested in Karachi, Pakistan, shortly after the broadcast and was transferred to U.S. custody.
Fouda said the statement also referred to the crisis between the United States and Iraq as one more reason to attack Americans.
"You are placing Muslims under siege in Iraq, where children die every day. Oh, how weird that you don't care for 1.5 million Iraqi children who died under siege, but when 3,000 of your compatriots died, the whole world was shaken," Fouda quoted the statement as saying.
WE MUST NEVER FORGET!!!
I concur.
Right now and for many years the power and politics of the Middle East has been in stasis, though with a distinct momentum toward the Islamists.
The removal of Saddam will (predictably) upset the status quo and power balances of the entire region, which I believe is the main purpose (e.g., the Saudi dominance in oil, financing of terrorism and "martyrdom", the slide of Iran to a more democratic government).
Arabs correctly see the removal of Saddam as a move to disrupt the entire region. But the reason for disrupting their status quo is primarily to stop the Islamists.
As Christopher Hitchens notes, a side benefit of removing Saddam is that it will wipe the smirk off of Saudi faces.
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