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Spanish find a Pakistani link in terror case
2008-02-12
BARCELONA: As the terrorism suspects congregated in the largely Pakistani neighborhood here over the past few months, they were joined by a young man who called himself Asim. He had come from the Pakistani borderlands where the leadership of Al Qaeda is said to have regrouped.

The suspects, he later told Spanish investigators, envisioned a wave of spectacular attacks: Coordinated suicide bombings would start in Barcelona's vast subway system and then sweep through Portugal, Germany, France and Britain if certain demands were not met.

Asim had been sent to Spain to be a suicide bomber, but he also was an informer for French intelligence working in the no man's land of Waziristan in Pakistan. After he got word to his handlers of an impending attack, the military police in Spain swooped into the neighborhood of Raval in the early hours of Jan. 19 and arrested 14 men.
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  Sure took the Spanish a long time to establish the link.
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-02-12 20:55  

#4  Nukes help. A lot.

Ours, not theirs.
Posted by: Glenmore   2008-02-12 18:54  

#3  Target the religious folk and we would be on our way to victory!!!!

The "religious folks" - the mullahs, imams, etc., are only the rabble-rousers. The real leaders are usually the kleptocrats that run the regime. Iran is the exception, not the rule. The House of Saud runs Saudi Arabia, including the religious establishment. Pakistan is run by a dozen tribes that held power in the area under the British Raj, and will never give it up without being virtually wiped out to the last man, woman, and child. Tribalism is a mainstay of Arab islamism, and provides the basis for power for every Arab government, plus many in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and even in Indonesia. There is an almost unbreakable bond between the tribes and religion, and vice versa. Even in Iraq, the most influential people are all tribal leaders. The mullahs have learned this, and support whichever tribe they feel will make their job easier.

Break the tribal cohesion, and you break islam. Break the tribal cohesion, and you can build any kind of democratic or republican form of government you wish, but unless you DO break the tribal loyalty, you can do neither.

Nukes help. A lot.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2008-02-12 15:57  

#2  Look no further than Pakistan,Iran and Saudi for our biggest enemies and Islam/Mullahs and Imans at the Centre of our fight!!!!

Target the religious folk and we would be on our way to victory!!!!
Posted by: Paul   2008-02-12 09:15  

#1  "terrorism suspects congregated in the largely Pakistani neighborhood"
Ethnicity has nothing to do with it, it's purely coincidental - and a xenophopic, anti-immigrant, 'racist' statement at that! Move along, nothing to see here.
Posted by: Glenmore   2008-02-12 07:16  

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