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| Saudis in Iraq ’preparing for a holy war’ | |
| 2003-08-19 | |
| EFL Increasing numbers of Saudi Arabian Islamists are crossing the border into Iraq in preparation for a jihad, or holy war, against US and UK forces, security and Islamist sources have warned. You don’t hear about too many jihadis leaving Iraq, do you? A statement purportedly from al-Qaeda was broadcast on Monday by the Arab satellite television channel al-Arabiya. It claimed the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and the leader of the Afghanistan’s ousted Taliban regime Mullah Mohammed Omar were still alive.
Any suicide bomber is most likely a foreign jihadi. Paul Bremer, the US administrator in Iraq, said recent raids, including one near al-Qaim last month, uncovered fighters "carrying travel documents from a variety of countries". We’d like some details, please. According to Saad al-Faguih, a UK-based Saudi dissident, the Saudi authorities are concerned that up to 3,000 Saudi men have gone "missing" in the kingdom in two months, although it is not clear how many have crossed into Iraq. How do you know they are "missing"? They fail to pick up their monthly check? Saudis who have gone to Iraq have established links with sympathetic Iraqis in the northern area between Baghdad, Mosul and Tikrit, where they have hidden in safe-houses, a Saudi Islamist source said on Monday. The Iraqis will fight till the last (fill in the blank). Pressure on Islamists in Saudi Arabia has grown since the bombing of an expatriate residential compound in May killed 35 people. The subsequent arrest of many Islamists has forced some underground while others are trying to flee to Iraq. From the frying pan to the fire. A senior UK official said there was evidence of extremists from several countries focusing on Iraq, though it was unclear what role al-Qaeda played. "I don’t know whether you can talk about an al-Qaeda strategy in Iraq, though there is great evidence of al-Qaeda involvement in the jihadi cause inside Iraq. But there’s as much talk about other people doing things inside Iraq," the official said Like the Syrians, Iranians, Paleostinkiens, etc, etc.. | |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #5 Kill them all, take no prisoners, show no remorse, let their bodies rot in the desert. Bomb the mosques and the islamic schools, assassinate the clerics, kidnap and torture every mullah that writes a fatwah or advocates a jihad. Nail a hogs hide to every school or mosque that teaches hate, throw a hog's head through every window. Fight terror with terror. Make them fear us, they will never respect us but they should fear us. I am tired of trying to apply logic to the situation. Perhaps Kurtz in "Heart of Darkness" had the right idea. |
| Posted by: SOG475 2003-8-19 9:49:25 PM |
| #4 It's like a big game of "Whack-A-Mole." The .50 cal deer slug fired from a sniper rifle or Ma-Deuce is particularly good at this. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-8-19 7:53:48 PM |
| #3 Troops, it's "Jihadi Season" -- no permits needed, no bag limit, everything from .223 Remington to 120mm DU "super size deer slugs" is legal ammunition. Good luck and good hunting . . . and come home safe. |
| Posted by: Mike 2003-8-19 4:45:04 PM |
| #2 That would be a bunch of -ss holes. Use whatever's handy. Do we really need an open border between SA and Iraq? Close the border and shoot anything that moves. Same with Syria. Want to visit? Get a visa and fly in. |
| Posted by: Tom 2003-8-19 4:40:53 PM |
| #1 Would that be .50 cal. holes or 7.66 mm holes? |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2003-8-19 1:54:26 PM |