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  • Zarqawi Driven by Emotion, Ex-Cellmates Say

    04/04/2005 6:48:36 AM PDT · by AmericanMade1776 · 19 replies · 968+ views
    Yahoo news ^ | April 4,2005 | Suleiman al-Khalidi
    During their years in a Jordanian prison, inmates remember Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in his Afghan dress weeping uncontrollably in the courtyard whenever he knelt to pray. Abu Musab cried constantly. He was very emotional, almost like a child," said 35-year-old Yousef Rababaa as he recalled the young militant. Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born one-time street thug who is now the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, is remembered as a gentle man obsessed with Islam's past glory. His intense loyalty, his former cellmates say, went hand in hand with a fanatical adherence to his religion. He dreamed of an Islamic utopia...
  • A Comment on the Atmosphere of FR

    12/30/2004 12:26:25 PM PST · by K1avg · 723 replies · 10,073+ views
    A concerned FReeper | December 30, 2004 | K1avg
    For the past several months, fate has conspired to keep me away from the computer. I haven't posted nearly as much on FR as I used to. With the holidays, though, I've had an opportunity to catch up a bit. What I found on my return is a bit disconcerting. While there's always been an element here that refuses to reason and does little more than insult Democrats and RINOs, it seems that this mentality has taken over a large portion of our membership. I've encountered more shrill, radical nonsense in the past couple of days than I had in...