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2005-02-22 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-02-22 12:15:55 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Putin, ..., yesterday ordered the interior ministry to treat suspected Islamic militants in the south more severely.

What that entails?
Hanging on their entrails?

I suggest shootin' first and skipin' questions later.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-02-22 12:57:09 AM|| 2005-02-22 12:57:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Abu Dzeit, one of mainy aliases of Al Kaboomi himself.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-02-22 1:23:04 AM|| 2005-02-22 1:23:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 This makes it look like he committed explosive suicide without using the action to take any of his enemy with him. In other words, simple -- and religiously forbidden -- self murder to avoid the discomforts of being captured, which is expressly forbidden in the Qur'an. How, then, can this person be taken up to Paradise and the 72 sloe-eyed virgins?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-22 6:57:56 AM|| 2005-02-22 6:57:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe he gets the other 28.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2005-02-22 7:00:58 AM|| 2005-02-22 7:00:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Yesterday I posted a link to Pravda's take on the situation. The long and the short of it: they believe this guy was Very Very Important, even though there's a noticable dearth of previous articles about him both there and here...

Trailing Wife: Maybe he meant to go out with a bigger boom than he actually did. especially if he's about as competent as the rest of the terrorists in the Beslan atrocity, which started going south with an accidental detonation of one of the bombs there.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-02-22 8:40:06 AM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-02-22 8:40:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I thought I felt a chill.

We can always hope that that they asked him a few questions before the bunker blew up.

Posted by 2b 2005-02-22 8:41:45 AM|| 2005-02-22 8:41:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Heh! Spokespeople for law-enforcement authorities rejected the information, though. They said that the terrorist with such a name had been killed several months before. Maybe they did catch him a few months ago, and claimed he was dead to keep the Red Thingy Away. Timing's about right. At some point they'd want to produce the body. A big boom would nicely hide unattractive marks.

We can always hope, anyway.

Posted by 2b 2005-02-22 8:59:21 AM|| 2005-02-22 8:59:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Phil F -- Well, if that was his intention, the result was downright pathetic. But if he really does get the whole Paradise reward after all, what is he going to say to the other guys when they compare notes between bouts of laying siege to their individual sets of virgins?

Beslan Guy: I killed babies and raped little girls, and in the end sent 300 infidels to roast their bellies in hell.

Abu Dzeit: Well,I planned a bunch of things, and when the police came for me, I tried to take them with me. I did, really!

All the other Lions of Islam, who'd been listening closely, start muttering to one another, then somehow all have wandered off, leaving Abu Dzeit to the lonliness of his virgins and 10,000 servants, none of whom can supply interesting conversation....

Posted by trailing wife 2005-02-22 11:15:02 AM|| 2005-02-22 11:15:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 I wonder if the Bangledesh police are paying attention to this? A little variation in the "crossfire" plot could keep their jobs fresh and interesting.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-02-22 11:18:43 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-02-22 11:18:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Putin, the Russian president, yesterday ordered the interior ministry to treat suspected Islamic militants in the south more severely.

Simpler... Many more 20-somethings having "Heart Attacks" in custody. There must be a genetic population of Islamics with congenetal heart defects in the Caucuses. Hmmmm

Posted by BigEd 2005-02-22 3:34:28 PM|| 2005-02-22 3:34:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 The question that's bugging me now is why have we gone from hearing nothing about this guy to hearing that he was more-or-less in charge of AQ operations in the Caucasus?

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-02-22 4:37:49 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-02-22 4:37:49 PM|| Front Page Top

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