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UAE to Try 41 on Charges of Seeking 'Caliphate'
2015-08-03
[ALMANAR.LB] The United Arab Emirates is to try 41 people on charges of seeking to overthrow the government to set up an ISIL (so-called Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
in Iraq and Levant) group-style caliphate, prosecutors said on Sunday.

Such mass trials on terrorism charges are rare in the UAE which has largely been spared the Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
militancy that has hit other Arab states.

The suspects, who include Emiratis as well as foreigners, are accused of setting up a group "with a terrorist, takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
ideology," in a bid to "seize power and establish a caliphate," the prosecutor general said in a statement carried by the official WAM news agency.

They are accused of setting up cells to train members in handling weapons and the manufacture of explosives in preparation for attacks on UAE soil.

Prosecutors charge that they were "in contact with foreign terrorist organizations... to help them achieve their goals."
Posted by:Fred

#1  UAE's gotta do something about their Hard Boy threat before the KSA invades 'em ...

* GROONG > [FarsNews] SAUDI DEFENSE MINSTER THREATENS TO OCCUPY KUWAIT, over the KSA'S dispute wid Kuwait per the Khafji oil fields.

IMO Artic also read, KSA TO OCCUPY KUWAIT BEFORE IRAN DOES???

VERSUS

* PHILIPPINE STAR > GULF ARABS WELCOME [P5+1, Iran] NUCLEAR DEAL BUT SEEK [US] ASSURANCES.

AKA US-n-Only-US "Guarantees" on Iran.

* WORLD NEWS > [Business Insider] IRAN: WE WILL NOT WORK WID US TO FIGHT ISIS.

IRAN = WE ARE A CO-SUPERPOWER NOW LIKE THE USA, "PERSIA" CAN HANDLE ANYTHING BY OURSELVES, + ALSO ITS OUR BACKYARD = SPHERE OF INFLUENCE???

D *** NG IT, NO AMERIKANS ALLOWED, not that Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama would be there to begin with but that's another story.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-08-03 22:29  

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