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2004-08-11 Home Front: WoT

Pre-9/11 Website Tried to Raise $10 Million Every Month for Taliban

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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-08-11 12:24:46 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...after the ISI and the various Paki mullahs got their cut, of course.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2004-08-11 00:39|| 2004-08-11 00:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, greeeat...

This website would probably be named after Shaykh Abdullah Azzam, who was one of OBL's professors and mentors. Didn't they form the Mujahedin E Khalq together?

(The MEK- Pakistan, for those of you keeping score...)

Dan Darling is probably exhausted from AEI right now, but this is something that he can probably expand on.

Posted by Anonymous6035 2004-08-11 01:26|| 2004-08-11 01:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Abdullah Azzam was one of the first Salafist ideologues to set up the idea of a kind of Sunni Islamist internationale modeled after the Comintern (Hassan Turabi and Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman took it a step further and made it ecumenical to include Shi'ites) and he and bin Laden founded the Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK) which was basically the proto al-Qaeda set up to fight the USSR in Afghanistan. I also believe that Hamas counts Azzam as being among one of their guiding lights.

Azzam was eventually assassinated (according to what the US believes, there's more theories on this one than the JFK assassination) by a conspiracy consisting of bin Laden and a number of Egyptian MAK members led by al-Zawahiri who had previously had a falling out with the man on a number of points.

Pre and even post-9/11, Azzam.com was basically the al-Qaeda version of the old Soviet Pravda and used to publish all manner of propaganda, fatwas, and other information in an effort to keep morale up among the faithful and recruit more cannon fodder and moneymen to the cause.

Hope this is useful.

Posted by Dan Darling">Dan Darling 2004-08-11 01:48|| http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com]">[http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2004-08-11 01:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Dan,

Thanks, yo!

I just went into "Through Our Enemies' Eyes" and found that I got most of (his) spellings right. So, yay for me. However, is there something more current that you are working off of?

Besides your all-knowing database, which we are still drooling for.

Many Thanks!

Posted by Anonymous6035 2004-08-11 02:00|| 2004-08-11 02:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Yet more evidence the mullahs are smoking some heavy shit...

Posted by Rafael 2004-08-11 02:23|| 2004-08-11 02:23|| Front Page Top

#6 ...and recruit more cannon fodder and moneymen to the cause...

Some of which came from the US, if the emails of support that they used to post on that website were indeed real.

Posted by Rafael 2004-08-11 02:27|| 2004-08-11 02:27|| Front Page Top

#7 HELP! We need to raise $10,000/month to help bring down America!! Send us your last dollar. Suzie sent her last dollar and she won a place in heaven the next day â as well as picked the winning lotto numbers. Send your money today!

I think Iâm going to set up one of these sites and tell them how to smuggle money to my house. Then Iâm going to donate it to the GOP through a non-profit charity, after I take my cut. I mean how easy is this really? As they say, fools and money

Posted by B 2004-08-11 10:16|| 2004-08-11 10:16|| Front Page Top

#8 What's with the damn begging and pleading? Why don't they host a bake sale or a car wash so I can actually get something for my money!

Posted by Dar">Dar 2004-08-11 12:58|| 2004-08-11 12:58|| Front Page Top

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