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| The Faithful Son Aqil |
| 2007-09-24 |
| From Jihad Unspun ... “Aqil was well-mannered and compassionate. Briefly, that’s what Hani or “Aqil was! He came from the captivating beauty and great land of Egypt; from “Al-Fayyum” and the abundance of water, greenery, the Nile [river] and the gardens. The martyr was raised up in the school of the prisoner Skeikh `Omar `Abd-al-Rahman, and he grew up under the aggression of Egypt’s tyrant “the unblessed Mubarak.” This man knew nothing but the road to the mosque, and the Qur’an as a companion. Early enough, Allah guided his mind to jihad and martyrdom despite his parent’s strong guardianship. With his noticeable creativity and talents he would have easily qualified to enroll in the faculty of engineering or the department of accounting. Nevertheless, only jihad was on Aqil’s mind. He frequented the Internet clubs, and he was sending his personal information to every friend he would come to meet on the Internet websites, and he was asking everyone to find him a way to Iraq. .... A man who has connections with the people of jihad, suggested to Aqil to refrain from sending his personal data through the Internet; otherwise, this is going to lead him to the nearest jail where he lives; anyway, it’s only Allah who will send him the happy outcome. .... |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #9 Ever gallant, Zenster dear, but patient I am not. Patience takes waaay more energy than I have to spare these days. I just know that Mike Sylwester really, really cares about WoT stuff even if he does manage to rub some people the wrong way without intending to, so I went looking for what he thought was important enough to post the article. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-09-24 22:51 |
| #8 A distinct tribute to your eternal patience, trailing wife. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-09-24 15:04 |
| #7 I managed to find some interesting nuggets in this one, Zenster, and in the others Mike S. posted, too. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-09-24 14:10 |
| #6 Mike S. dear, perhaps you could extract the key facts from the offensively flowery rhetoric? That's asking a lot, trailing wife. What would be left? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-09-24 14:03 |
| #5 Mike S: I'm going to join the request that JU posts be edited down. We know where they stand, and the flowery rhetoric, as TW correctly notes, gets in the way of the nugget of information, whatever it might be. We edit almost all other posts to remove fluff and unrelated information. I ask you to do the same here. We mods don't have enough time in the day to do the editing for you, and the alternative is to just delete the posts. Also, your hilited comments should NOT be italicized, and should NOT have a trailing open line. Thanks. Steve White (moderator) |
| Posted by: Steve White 2007-09-24 11:33 |
| #4 until he reached Mosul...three months after the fall of Baghdad which makes him the oldest...of the Muhajireen [migrants,] if not the third oldest migrant to the land of Al Rafidayn, and the first of the Muhajireen and Al Ansar to carry arms... because of the great number of martyrs, we do not sense the bitterness anymore; It confirms that Aqil and Abdullah were were not exactly cannon fodder. More importantly, the bit above confirms they've noticed they're doing very badly in the little war they started, despite all the rhetoric and the popular head-chopping videos on YouTube and the endless flow of madrassa students and mosque brainwashees. Even cutting significantly into the original cadres, the ones who had actual training and experience in their responsibilities. Mike S. dear, perhaps you could extract the key facts from the offensively flowery rhetoric? There are an awful lot of posts to get through -- not like the early days, and it took me two readings to find those bits. It takes a little more time, but I know how deeply you care about the war on terror going well. Thank you! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-09-24 10:37 |
| #3 . . . Aqil fired all the rounds from his M16 American rifle which was found right next to him and all the twelve magazines “he had in his possession” were empty . . . And, yet, he didn't hit anything! |
| Posted by: Mike 2007-09-24 09:54 |
| #2 It's a useful reminder of just what the Mike Sylwesters of the world admire. |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-09-24 08:47 |
| #1 thanks *not* for your usual Jihad Unspun crap, MS. It's not Page one, or anything else, IMNSHO |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-09-24 08:44 |