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Al Qaeda Relying on 'Peace' Movements
Center for Security Policy via FrontPageMagazine.com ^
| 4/20/04
| Center for Security Policy
Posted on 04/20/2004 2:55:43 AM PDT by kattracks
Borrowing a page from North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap, Osama bin Laden is making the US and European "peace" movement an instrument of his strategy. The al Qaeda leader's most recent tape, aired on Al Jazeera April 15, "appeared to mark a new strategy of trying to manipulate antiwar sentiment in Europe to bring pressure on governments that support the United States," according to the Washington Post.
Spanish voters' election of an anti-American socialist in the days following the March train bombings in Madrid encouraged al Qaeda. In his tape, the Post reports, "Bin Laden refers to demonstrations in Europe as 'positive interaction' and mentions 'opinion polls, which indicate that most European peoples want peace.'"
Bin Laden is openly trying to exploit politicial divisions in Europe and the US in the way that General Giap counted on the American "peace" movement to weaken the American people's resolve even though they were winning the war. Former North Vietnamese General Staff officer Bui Tin once said that the "peace" movement was "essential to our strategy."
The open support of Hanoi by Jane Fonda, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark (now head of International ANSWER, which coordinates the largest protests) and others "gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses," Bui Tin said. "Through dissent and protest," the US "lost the ability to mobilize a will to win."
TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afterbash; alqaeda; answer; giap; peaceniks; sedition; waronterror; wot
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posted on
04/20/2004 2:55:43 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
follow the money
2
posted on
04/20/2004 2:59:46 AM PDT
by
risk
To: risk
The unholy alliance between socialists and jihadists are a few more spokes connected with the axis of evil.
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posted on
04/20/2004 3:10:22 AM PDT
by
OneLoyalAmerican
(A Fireman in the NAVY was promoted more times than Lieutanant junior grade John F'n Kerry.)
To: OneLoyalAmerican
The socialists/communists "peace movement". It's been going on since I was born and I'm no spring chicken.The one time I recall the socialists /communists wanting us to go to war was against Hitler,in order to help the Soviets.
They then went about sabatoging us in Europe,China,in Korea and in Viet Nam.They have strange bedfellows in the Islamists..another enemy of my enemy phenomenon.
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posted on
04/20/2004 3:22:34 AM PDT
by
MEG33
(John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
To: kattracks; Flyer; dix; bobbyd; Eaker; humblegunner; PetroniDE; thackney; Allegra; Xenalyte; ...
Grossly obvious "Ping"...
Later,
Steve
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posted on
04/20/2004 5:27:34 AM PDT
by
stevie_d_64
(Houston Area Texans)
To: kattracks
This is really great! and I'm not being facetious!
From now on, when I get into a discussion with one of the MANY peaceniks in Ithaca, I can simply end the conversation with something like, "How does it feel to be a tool for the terrorists?"
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posted on
04/20/2004 6:18:47 AM PDT
by
AFPhys
((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
To: stevie_d_64; Flyer; humblegunner; Eaker; bobbyd; dix; Xenalyte; kattracks; RikaStrom; ...
Grossly obvious "Ping"... Well, there's a good sign to hold at your next FReep of those hideous unwashed scumbuckets.
"Al Qaeda Thanks You for Your Support."
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posted on
04/20/2004 6:22:35 AM PDT
by
Allegra
(Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, MUSHROOM!)
To: Allegra
I like it, I like it!!!
"Al Qaeda Thanks You for Your Support"
"You hideously unwashed communist scumbuckets"
All on one sign...I kinda elaborated a bit...
Just a tad...
hehehe
Later,
Steve
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posted on
04/20/2004 3:16:34 PM PDT
by
stevie_d_64
(Houston Area Texans)
To: Allegra
PER-FECT!
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posted on
04/20/2004 9:30:34 PM PDT
by
GOP_Thug_Mom
(O, Sacred Heart of Jesus, Have Mercy On Us!)
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