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2004-09-01 Caucasus

Euro security experts sez there ain't no al-Qaeda in Chechnya

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-09-01 5:33:04 PM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 You can tell they're al-Qaeda if they have their official al-Qaeda decoder ring on.

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-09-01 5:42:38 PM|| 2004-09-01 5:42:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 One hive, many bees.

Posted by lex 2004-09-01 5:46:58 PM|| 2004-09-01 5:46:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 "...but other radical Islamists tend to try and avoid targeting them..."

Well, I could ask about schools attacked by Taliban "guerillas" in Afghanistan, and about relatives of government soldiers targeted by the "guerillas" in Iraq, or the numerous women and children targeted by Palestinian "activists" in Israel...

Or about that girl recently hung in Iran...

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-09-01 5:47:57 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-09-01 5:47:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 The source said 'We characterise it still as domestic terrorism. ~~Therefore more time at the cafe for us. Do page if something important should happen.~~'

A rationale for doing nothing.

Posted by eLarson 2004-09-01 5:49:09 PM|| 2004-09-01 5:49:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Who would have thought that Baghdad Bob would sign on with a Euro-security agency?

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-01 5:56:52 PM|| 2004-09-01 5:56:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Sometimes people seem to believe AlQ is a monolithic structure like the old Commie party. AlQ is really more of a affinity group of like-minded organizations, a "United Front". A number of arab terrorists have gone there, are there, and continue to go there.

Posted by Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-09-01 6:19:18 PM|| 2004-09-01 6:19:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Right, no al-Qaeda there. That explains why the terrorists were shouting in Arabic.

Posted by Pravda 2004-09-01 6:46:24 PM|| 2004-09-01 6:46:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 chechen borg members are still part of the borg

Posted by Frank G 2004-09-01 7:00:26 PM|| 2004-09-01 7:00:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 The Wacky World of Official Terror Experts...

The Un-named Euro and Western sources, heh. This must be what the EU Terror Chief has been up to...

So they fibbed on their website about the hijackings, so it can't be AlQ or even AlQ-related... *snicker* uh, since when did AlQ become a paragon of truth? Since when did they give a shit what means their wide and varied brothers and sisters in arms used? When will the world get off the idiocy of requiring an AlQ connection to call terrorism terrorism?

Lol! I guess I'll have to design an AlQ ID card. If they find one in the debris, then it'll be official, if not, sorry bub, your terrorists weren't real terrorists. No support for you - so sorry!

These statements have all the hallmarks of paper-pushing bureaucrats and think-tank retirees. Wotta buncha twitters.

Posted by .com 2004-09-01 7:17:11 PM|| 2004-09-01 7:17:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Unnamed security source in Europe?

Is this who they talked to?
Those quotes are about the same.

PS - this is Hans Blix in case someone didn't recognize him. . .

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-01 7:40:38 PM|| 2004-09-01 7:40:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 The same individual now used euphamistically in the epithet: "You really stepped on your Blix".

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-09-01 8:30:41 PM|| 2004-09-01 8:30:41 PM|| Front Page Top

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