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| Europe |
| Suicide'production line' stopped |
| 2005-06-23 |
| A PRODUCTION line of young suicide bombers from across Europe is being funnelled through a highly professional terror infrastructure based in the Syrian capital Damascus to their deaths in Iraq. New details of the operation emerged with an armed raid on the Manchester safe house of a suicide bomber killed in an attack on coalition forces in Iraq. The early-morning raid by 30 police was the first confirmation that militants from Britain had been recruited for suicide missions in Iraq. It was the latest in a series of arrests across Europe in the past week that revealed a burgeoning network recruiting volunteers to fight in Iraq. The largest amount of intelligence on the network has been gleaned by the US, which has warned Syria on numerous occasions to clamp down on the individuals, some of them known businessmen, who are suspected of being the "facilitators", providing all the necessary groundwork and preparation for the volunteer bombers. Senior US officials say there is a rapid turnover of bomber recruits and that everything is done to make sure that once they have put themselves forward for an Iraq mission they are not given enough time to change their minds. They said there were hundreds of Arabic websites concerned with jihad that called for volunteer fighters. Anyone reacting to one of the websites and showing interest in carrying out missions in Iraq was contacted and given instructions. Network facilitators throughout Europe and the Arab world were in place to move the production line along. The officials said the volunteers were flown to Damascus and taken to a safe house where their personal documents were removed and replaced with false identity papers. "They don't spend much time in Damascus but as soon as things are ready they are escorted to the border with Iraq, and either through bribery or because of lax border arrangements, the recruits are taken into Iraq," the officials said. |
| Posted by:Spavirt Pheng6042 |
| #4 Farmer Joe was just tellin farmer Jeb from across the way the other day how the darn blasted guberment boys had cut and removed his waterpipe to the fields. Well, farmer Jeb said was a dawg gone shame and that just shows how ruthless the guberment boys in Washingtun are. Then old farmer Joe, just kicks a clod of dirt and looks around both ways real leery like and tells Jeb real secret-like, " They may be dancing over my cut water line, but I;m gonna run lines to everybody's fields and watch them boys sweat theselves to death!" Old farmer Jeb just says, "Aw shucks Joe! That ain't right! Two wrongs don't make a right!" Farmer Joe jus saiz, " Yeah Jeb, two wrongs don't make a right, but it sure will make me feel good!". |
| Posted by: Fun Dung Poo 2005-06-23 13:54 |
| #3 I'm waiting for Condi or GWB to announce... "the authorization of my theater and tactical commanders to engage in hot pursuit of any hostile forces which exit the territory of Iraq and to use all means necessary to destroy them or any other formations which seek to obstruct such a pursuit." |
| Posted by: Choth Slaick3903 2005-06-23 09:25 |
| #2 I suggest a demonstration of our bunker buster technology on the Syrian Army and Airforce Headquarters buildings. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-06-23 01:25 |
| #1 Time to bring a world o' hurt down on Assad's entire jihadi industry. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-06-23 00:53 |