[Cultural Jihad]

File this story under: The mystery of iniquity. We ought to send the bill to their parents for any damages their Me-ocratic tantrums cause.

[piasa]

On another thread we dug up some articles that detailed the joining of al Qaeda with anarchists and communists in Italy. Milan-cell type al Qaeda and the Oil for Food bribes lefties have actually been meeting. One article said it was in connection with Bush's visit to Italy a while back. One of the leftwingers who attended is Father Benjamin- a French priest who despises Bush - and who just happens to have been on the Baathist oil vouchers nipple.

I would expect that these groups' cooperative efforts extend across the Atlantic to our crazies as well.

[piasa]

Here's a clip from one of those articles:

(snip) ...Italian police are investigating the IPA, whose members originally were Iraqi communist dissidents living in European exile. Their leader, Abdul Jabbar Kubaisy, reconciled with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in February 2003 and committed the group "to confront American imperialist aggression."     Mr. Kubaisy returned to Baghdad when the United States invaded Iraq, leaving his deputy, Awni al Kalemji, to organize anti-American propaganda, according a senior official of the Italian military intelligence organization SISMI.
    Mr. Kalemji took part last summer in the "Anti-Imperialist Camp," a weeklong gathering of communists and other leftists including revolutionaries from Iraq, the Philippines, Nepal, the Palestinian territories and Venezuela. The camp was held in the Umbrian hill town of Assisi, home of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226), patron saint of animals and the environment and founder of the Franciscan Order of monks.
    Also present were radical intellectuals such as Franco Cardini, a leading expert on medieval history who says that recent videos of Osama bin Laden are fakes distributed by the CIA to foster anti-Islamic sentiment.
    Another participant was the Rev. Jean-Marie Benjamin, a French Roman Catholic priest who in February 2003 organized a visit to the Vatican by then Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz.     Father Benjamin's name appeared on a list of 270 persons and organizations that received suspect vouchers under the U.N.-run Iraqi oil-for-food program, the subject of several investigations.     Organizers of the Anti-Imperialist Camp still are collecting funds for the IPA, asking for the equivalent of $12 from each participant, Libero reported recently. It said the contributions were going into a special bank account but did not say where they went from there.... (/snip)

Source: -- "Al Qaeda seeking funds in Italy," By John Phillips, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, June 12, 2004

[Maceman]

We ought to send the bill to their parents for any damages their Me-ocratic tantrums cause.

No. They need to be charged with aiding and abetting terrorists. Trying to confuse, disrupt and over burden anti-terror security resources is a direct act of support for terrorism.