Posted on 01/27/2008 11:15:04 AM PST by jdm
Arrests in Spain stopped a string of terrorist bombings across Europe, according to Australia's Daily Telegraph. At least the fourteen men arrested plotted to hit transportation centers in Spain, Portugal, France, and Germany, an operation that would have been credited to al-Qaeda and Pakistani warlord Baitullah Mehsud, the man behind the assassination of Benazir Bhutto:
A GROUP of alleged Islamist extremists were planning a wave of suicide attacks across Europe before they were detained in Barcelona last weekend.The group intended to carry out three attacks in Spain and one each in Portugal, France and Germany, an unnamed man who infiltrated the group told top-selling daily El Pais.
The report comes one day after Spanish judicial sources said that three of the six members of the group, who allegedly planned to blow themselves up, were still at large.
The preferred targets were public transportation networks, especially metro systems because of the difficulty which emergency services would have in reaching the injured there, according to the newspaper.
The attacks would be claimed in the name of al-Qaeda by Islamist warlord Baitullah Mehsud from Pakistan's tribal region of South Waziristan.
What do Spain, Portugal, France, and Germany have in common? None of them belong to our fighting coalition in Iraq. None of them contribute combat troops to the hot zones in Afghanistan, either. In fact, only Spain among these nations ever did contribute combat troops, in Iraq, and they withdrew them after the bombings in Madrid in March 2004. It seems that retreat didn't keep the jihadis from targeting Spain again.
This shows -- again -- that appeasement and retreat does not sate the bloodthirstiness of radical Islamist terrorists. It only makes them more confident of their ability to cow their opponents into concessions. They want to continue murdering non-Muslims (and Muslims) until they can triumph over the West and take their ordained place as our masters in the worldwide Caliphate.
They will not surrender, but they think we will. They have already identified the nations most likely to do so and continue targeting them for murder.
This would be the same foiled plotters as yesterday and day before yesterday.
sounds like P-town speak.
funny video. stupid jihadists.
aargh! live leak sucks sometimes.
sorry.
More information here...
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019680.php
and names here...
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019686.php#comments
Thanks to Robert Spencer and the outstanding posters at jihadwatch.
1) Didn't help with the Iraq war
2) Insulted the President constantly
3) Worked via the U.N. to undermine the U.S.
Haven't the Surrender-Heads been insisting this whole time that if we just ignore the problem, it'll go away on its own?
So they’re not safe? Imagine that?
Ah yes,.. the BlameStream Media.
LOL — that’s a good one — “BlameStream.”
Suspect that will join your gem phrases on your web site. lol
OH YEAH!! ;-)
Ping
ABC NEWS: "URGENT MANHUNT ACROSS EUROPE FOR TERROR PLOTTERS Spanish AG: 3 Cell Members May Be on a Mission to Attack Outside of Spain" by Richard Esposito and Paco Medina (ARTICLE SNIPPET - Page 2: "Spanish authorities believe the intended target was the Barcelona subway system and that the plot would have used two to four suicide bombers wearing explosive vests that were to be detonated simultaneously while another plotter detonated three to four more devices placed in the subway, investigative sources told ABC News.") (January 25, 2008)
"What do Spain, Portugal, France, and Germany have in common? None of them belong to our fighting coalition in Iraq. None of them contribute combat troops to the hot zones in Afghanistan, either. In fact, only Spain among these nations ever did contribute combat troops, in Iraq, and they withdrew them after the bombings in Madrid in March 2004. It seems that retreat didn't keep the jihadis from targeting Spain again.
This shows -- again -- that appeasement and retreat does not sate the bloodthirstiness of radical Islamist terrorists. It only makes them more confident of their ability to cow their opponents into concessions. They want to continue murdering non-Muslims (and Muslims) until they can triumph over the West and take their ordained place as our masters in the worldwide Caliphate.
They will not surrender, but they think we will. They have already identified the nations most likely to do so and continue targeting them for murder."
that video was REALLY funny. thanks for a good laugh!
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