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Terror Networks
A new face of jihad vows attacks on U.S.
2007-03-16
It was a dark and stormy night Deep in a violent and lawless slum just north of this coastal city, 12 men whose faces were shrouded by scarves drilled with Kalashnikovs. In unison, they lunged in one direction, turned and lunged in another. "Allah-u akbar," the men shouted in praise to God as they fired their machine guns into a wall.

The men belong to a new militant Islamic organization called Fatah al Islam, whose leader, a fugitive Palestinian named Shakir al-Abssi, has set up operations in a refugee camp here where he trains fighters and spreads the ideology of Al Qaeda.

He has solid terrorist credentials. A former associate of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda of Mesopotamia who was killed last summer, Abssi was sentenced to death in absentia along with Zarqawi in the 2002 assassination of an American diplomat in Jordan, Laurence Foley. Just four months after arriving here from Syria, Abssi has a militia that intelligence officials estimate at 150 men and an arsenal of explosives, rockets and even an antiaircraft gun.

During a recent interview with The New York Times, Abssi displayed his makeshift training facility and his strident message that America needed to be punished for its presence in the Islamic world. "The only way to achieve our rights is by force," he said. "This is the way America deals with us. So when the Americans feel that their lives and their economy are threatened, they will know that they should leave."

Abssi's organization is the image of what intelligence officials have warned is the re-emergence of Al Qaeda. Shattered after 2001, the organization founded by Osama bin Laden is now reforming as an alliance of small groups around the world that share a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam but have developed their own independent terror capabilities, these officials have said. If Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who has acknowledged directing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and a string of other terror plots, represents the previous generation of Qaeda leaders, Abssi and others like him represent the new.

Long article, the rest is at the link
Posted by:ryuge

#7  Oh goodie. We were running out of targets. Nice to see some fresh meat.
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-03-16 11:10  

#6  Let's see. Giving a news conference in Tripoli to the NYT. Seems the Lebanese government isn't even pretending to search for him. A LBG could have scored a two-fer.
Posted by: ed   2007-03-16 08:54  

#5  ...Yeah, yeah, line forms to the left.
Just more of the MSM meme that ANY resistance just creates new terrorists.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2007-03-16 08:51  

#4  This is the love we get for keeping Israel on such a short leash last summer.

If reporters can find this guy, why can't the CIA or Mossad? One appropriate 'work accident' and there'd be 150 fewer oxygen wasters to bother us.
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-03-16 08:28  

#3  So the NY Slimes once again overtly assists the terrorists by providing a forum. Just once, these "purveyors of pander" could actually provide coordinates or other intel to those who could put it to good use. Ironically, this would do more to boost circulation than any of their Times Select schemes.

OK I'm done now.
Posted by: doc   2007-03-16 08:27  

#2  Address or coordinates please.
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-03-16 08:27  

#1  Tupac Shakur Kolbassi...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2007-03-16 08:18  

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