Today's sad story, from my email...
I PRINCE ABUGIWA ALI, SON OF THE LATE AMBROSE ALI,(FORMER EXECUTIVE GOVERNOR OF BENDEL STATE, PRESENTLY EDO STATE. MY FATHER WAS ARRESTED AND DETAINED BY THE MILITARY THAT TOPPLED THE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED GOVERNMENT IN 1983. MY FATHER DIED IN DETENTION DO TO LONG DETENTION AND TORTURE DO TO A MISSING FUND UNDER HIS ADMINISTRATION. SINCE THEN THE FAMILY HAD BEEN UNDER SURVELLANCE BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE SITUATION IS NOT HELPING MATTERS. Golly. Been in detention and under torture since 1983, huh? Pulled his legs off back in '88, did the thumb screws in '89, then lopped off his thumbs in '90. Boy, that musta hurt. And I'll bet he was innocent all the time, huh?
RECENTLY, SEARCHING THROUGH MY FATHER'S SECRET DOCUMENTS I FOUND OUT THAT, THE FUND WAS TRANSFERED TO A SECURITY VOLT IN EUROPE WHERE HE MY FATHER (CHIEF AMBROS ALI, LATE), DEPOSITED THE FUND BEFORE HE DIED. THIS FUND IS A TOTAL SUM OF FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION US DOLLARS($450,000,000). Holy cow, that's a lotta jack! So he wasn't innocent? He raked off almost half a billion that shoulda been going into developing the country he was entrusted with? Must really hurt, knowing your old man was a crook, and boy-oh-boy, a crook on the grand scale. You're gonna give all that money back, ain'tcha? 'Cause of all those starving Nigerians, who don't see the oil money as it flows in? You know, the little kids with the distended bellies and the flies walking across their little faces?
NOW I WANT TO SET-UP A BUSINESS IN EUROPE WITH THE FUND, AND HEREBY DECIDED TO CONTACT YOUR ASSISTANCE TO HELP IN RETRIEVING THE FUND FROM THE SECURITY VOLT IN EUROPE. Oh. You're a crook, too, huh? Is this something that runs in the family?
IF YOU CAN DO IT, YOU WILL BE ALLOWED 30% OF THE TOTAL FUND AND TO DEDUCT ALL EXPENSES THAT WILL ACCRUE THROUGH THE PROCESS OF RETRIEVING THE FUND. Wow! For me? A faceless name on a spam list? But you're a crook you just admitted it. So what's to say that I'd ever see a nickle of the swag if I was dumb enough to throw in with you?
ONCE, I RECIEVE YOU CONSENT OF ASSISTANCE I WILL MAKE EVERY DOCUMENT AVAILABLE THAT WILL LEAD TO THE RETRIEVING OF THE FUND. pLEASE I WILL LIKE YOU TO SEND ALL REPLY THROUGH EMAIL BECAUSE MY FAMILY IS UNDER SURVELLANCE BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, IN THIS CASE I HAVE KNOW ACCESS TO TELEPHONE. They're checking your snail mail, but they don't look at your ISP, where all this spam would have to originate? Boy, that's unusual. I think I'd look there, too. So what do I do with these documents? Pull the money out of the vault and put it in another bank account? Why couldn't you do that? Just hop on a plane and fly from Lagos to Luxembourg, since you're gonna be going to Europe to start your "business" anyway. So why would you need me?
PLEASE, MAKE THIS BUSINESS A TOP SECRET, BECAUSE IT IS MY LIFE AND MY FAMILY'S LIFE. ANY LEAKAGE OF INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC WILL LEAD TO THE ARREST OF THE ENTIER FAMILY. Hmmm... Trusting fellow, ain't he? How much will you pay me to keep my mouth shut, Princie?
PLEASE, SEND YOUR PHONE NO., FAX. Sure thing. I'll get right on it...
I NEED YOUR MUTUAL ASSISTANCE AND CO-OPERATION FOR THIS BUSINESS. Only I will do, huh? How very flattering...
BEST REGARDS, You're welcome...
PRINCE: ABUGIWA ALI(JR).
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I have at least four of these scam mails sent to me over the past month.
These f*cks were infamous for passing fake c-notes during the World Cup in Foxborough (MA) back in '94. Is the concept of 'work' foreign to these schmucks?
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Ah, the famous 419 scam!
http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/
check this for a more exhaustive detail of these guys. morale of the story, dont answer correspondence from nigeria.
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The scam culture in that country is so bad even service clubs like Rotary have to warn their members against blindly accepting visits from Nigerian clubs, without all sorts of bona fides and written promises that they won't be attempting to immigrate (apparently State is wise to this and watches Nigerian visas closely; would they were as careful with terror-list folk).
On the other hand, blaming the entire country is a bit strong -- before this burst out into e-mail in the last couple of years, one single Nigerian scam cartel using snail mail was believed responsible for 80% of the frauds detected by the FTC.
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A daily New York lottery randomly drew the numbers 9-1-1 on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, and nearly 15,000 people were counting their winnings on Thursday after using the fateful date for their lucky picks. Oooh. Spooky.
In an ironic twist, the September Standard & Poor's 500 futures closed Tuesday at 911.00 a day before the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks. I think this tinfoil is very becoming on me, don't you?
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09/12/2002 01:29 pm ||
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While there is some truth in reports that al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the radical Muslim group Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) have formed an alliance in Afghanistan, the motivating force and dominant player in the country is the HIA, led by former Afghan premier and famed mujahideen warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. They're talking about the Secret Army of Doom. This would seem to be the publicity phase of the campaign...
Driven by the burning desire to be in charge see the last foreign soldier booted out of Afghanistan, Hekmatyar, who made his name as a fighter against Soviet occupation in the 1980s, earlier this week issued a jihad for the expulsion of the unwanted soldiers from Afghan soil. Hekmatyar was the strongest force during the years of Soviet occupation, largely because his HIA was the main benefactor of the seven official mujahideen groups recognized by Pakistan and US intelligence agencies for the channelling of money and arms. Ummm... Many of us would differ with that statement. Masood's force was the driver, while Hek spent his time playing politix and stabbing people in the back. The Pashtun part of the Muj wasn't particularly effective. The Talibs kicked him out of the country when they took power, and they refused to let him back in...
In the new political arrangement, a loose union has been established in which the Taliban's religious clerics will stay on the back benches, leaving the mujahideen commanders to orchestrate events - which they are doing from such centers as Peshawar in Pakistan, Berlin and Tehran. At the core of their agenda is securing international backing for a "freedom struggle against foreign troops", rather than the pursuit of an al-Qaeda program. In the new situation, the Taliban will play a junior role to the HIA, which will be mastermined by Hekmatyar and another former mujahideen and once minister in the Taliban government, Maulana Jalaluddin Haqqani. Haqqani's the guy who was in overall command at Shah-i-Kot. This amounts to an admission that the Talibs and al-Qaeda are dead as a political force in Afghanland...
Just months ago, when Hekmatyar left Iran, where he had been in exile during the Taliban years, many Afghan analysts claimed that the moment he set foot in his home country he would be a dead man. His bombardment of the capital in 1994, after he fell out with the mujahideen administration that ran the country from 1992 to 1996, is said to have resulted in the deaths of more than 25,000 civilians. But his support among the rank and file and veteran commanders of the anti-Soviet jihad remains strong, and widely underestimated. Yeah, you'd think that would be a recommendation against him. I hope the intel guys aren't underestimating his influence among the Pashtuns, and I'd have a hard time believing the U.S. commanders would repose much trust if any in any Pashtun pol...
Sources in the Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan maintain that it has restructured its command and control systems across Afghanistan, with key commanders in Ghazni, Hekmatyar's home town, Gardez, Logar, Kunar and Kandahar being given specific tasks for action against foreign troops. Further, the local administration in eastern Afghanistan, including the police and the Afghan army, is completely at the mercy of these HIA commanders. Even the powerful commander of Jalalabad, Malik Hazrat Ali, who is a confidant of Afghan Defense Minister General Qasim Fahim, has given assurances to local HIA commanders that he will remain neutral in the next offensive, which is likely to be launched in Jalalabad and the southern Kabul region. The HIA is also in the process of making contact with commanders in northern Afghanistan, where new "activities" can be expected to start soon. Just the sort of thing we'd expect. If the Hezbies don't do too well, though, Hazrat Ali will turn on them and chew them up, though not to the point of annihilation...
The new fight being led by the HIA will be named a freedom struggle against the occupation of foreign troops and tyranny against Pashtuns, and it is expected to gather widespread support among different Afghan factions, irrespective of their political affiliations. An important strategy will be to fan the flames of Pashtun dissatisfaction with the Tajik ascendancy in the Kabul government. It's going to be a Pashtun-based rebellion, with a few useful idiots from among the Tadjiks and Uzbeks, probably no Hazaras...
Hekmatyar has also begun a campaign to win hearts and minds with a taped speech released all over eastern Afghanistan in which he queries why it is that only Pashtuns are the targets of US bombing, and not Tajiks and Uzbeks. He says that ordinary Afghan people have been humiliated by US and other soldiers entering their houses and taking away their personal weapons - and even searching their women. Maybe it's because all the support for the al-Qaeda and the Talibs is to be found among the Pashtuns? Maybe the Tadjiks and Uzbeks are tired of that nonsense?
The tape is backed up by other literature that is being spread across the country, much of it originating from Iran and being given a safe passage into Afghanistan by the Governor of Herat, Ismail Khan, another famous anti-Soviet mujahideen, even though he is Tajik. Most of Hek's money probably originates in Iran, as well. When the Paks dumped him in favor of the Talibs he simply found a new sponsor. Despite the religious differences, the ayatollahs are supporting jihad in general, operating on the assumption that once the khalifate's been established they can fight it out among themselves. Ismail Khan probably doesn't give a clam about it, figuring it's a purely internal Pashtun thing; he probably has Hek's private assurance that he'll be left alone in his Dukedom of Herat, for what that assurance is worth. (Probably not as much as the hostages he's probably got from Hek's family)...
Al-Qaeda, meanwhile, will continue its operations with the help of the underworld, both in Pakistan and Afghanistan. But the mainstream business in Afghanistan is now firmly in the hands of the Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan, not for an international agenda, but to fight for the evacuation of foreign soldiers. Ow. I just dislocated my shoulder patting myself on the back.
The weak point in Hek's position is that he's running a purely Pashtun rebellion. There's no incentive for the other tribes to support him, and quite a few incentives not to. There's also the fact that the Talibs kicked him out without much effort and treated him with contempt while he was sucking up to the ayatollahs. That's what Karzai should be pushing as counterpropaganda. But I haven't seen the Kabul regime hanging the recent festivities on the Secret Army of Doom and Hekmatyar. They're still blowing the Taliban-Al Qaeda tune. I hope that's because they're doing things behind the scenes, but it could also be because Sinister Forces within the government are cautioning against a fight with Hek...
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So Hek wants the evacuation of foreign soldiers from Afghanistan? Does that include the Arab Foreign Legion?
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U.S. forces came under rocket attack in eastern Afghanistan today, a day after the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. Colonel Roger King, a spokesman at Bagram air base north of Kabul, said one rocket landed 400 meters north of the U.S. special forces base at Gardez and another in a small village to the northwest. There were no reported casualties. He said the rockets were fired from nearly half a mile away, the maximum effective range of the Russian-made weapons. "Two out of three were duds," he said, adding that the other rocket caused no damage. At least one of them landed in the right county...
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The U.S. military has deployed artillery to Afghanistan for the first time, giving ground forces the ability to counter mortar and rocket attacks by al Qaeda and Taliban fighters. A senior military official said the Army has deployed six 105mm howitzers at the main U.S. base in the southern city of Kandahar as part of an effort to bolster protection of the 8,000 American troops in the country. The howitzers, equipped with counter-fire radar, enable U.S. forces to pinpoint the location of enemy mortar and rocket fire and respond with artillery shells. A spokesman for Central Command, which is overseeing the war, declined to comment on the reason for the deployment yesterday. It involves elements of the 82nd Airborne's 319th Field Artillery Regiment. What's to comment? I understand the counterbattery radars have gotten pretty good with the faster components available in the past few years. When Mahmoud swallows a couple 105mm surprises he might move on to some other, less dangerous, harrassing tactic.
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President Bush will challenge the United Nations on Thursday to "act" and enforce its resolutions concerning Iraq, saying "inaction is simply not an option," a senior administration official told reporters. Without offering a preview of the speech, Bush said Tuesday following an event at the Afghan Embassy in Washington that he would make his case to the United Nations because "this is an international problem. We must work together to deal with the problem," Bush said. There seems to be a difference between passing resolutions and showing resolve...
A senior administration official indicated Bush would not call for any deadlines for the United Nations to act or issue any ultimatums, saying the president's goal was to rally "international support for taking action to deal with the threat." Probably because they won't buy it at this stage. The nay-sayers remember what happened last time there was a deadline...
At the same time, the official added, "The president is also going to make very clear that the United States is not prepared to stand by and let this situation continue." Bush has not made any decisions about what course of action to take, the official said. Seems like he's got the broad goals worked out, and maybe just doesn't have the detail decisions filled in yet...
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Just saw the speech. Our President did a fine job overall, although I think the call for "spreading liberty" in other ME nations was waving a red flag. Also, he should have, IMHO, used the words "Saddam flouted the resolution.", rather than "Saddam broke his promise."
There will be plenty of time to set deadlines: 9/12 was a good time to call for it, given that half the nations there put more weight on symbology than substance. Besides, an OPTIMAL attack can't be launched before it gets cooler in Iraq, so that our boys can don their NBC gear.
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I didn't get to see the speech, but I read the text just now on whitehouse.gov. The President said just about exactly what I was hoping he would say - in essence, he warned the member states of the UN that if they didn't take action now in the face of a decade of systematic flouting and defiance of multiple UN resolutions, the UN itself might as well pack up shop and go home.
I agree with G that we won't see the actual operation get underway until the weather gets cooler, which will be at least a month yet, maybe two. This will also give GWB and his team more time to make _their_ case to the nation and the so-called "candid world".
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War starts the week of Oct. 20, or no later than
All Souls Day.
How do I know? You may well ask.
USS Constellation pulls out of San Diego next week, early for its regular schedule. Constellation, the oldest fleet carrier, is no
longer robust enough to stand in the battle line.
It will replace a modern carrier, probably in the Formosa Straits. It will take about 3 weeks for Constellation to reach Taiwan. Another 2 weeks or maybe a little less for the ship she replaces to reach the Arabian Sea.
Then boom.
The announcement today that Central Command is relocating from DisneyWorld to Qatar "in November" clinches the conclusion. The only element of strategic surprise left is timing. So the balloon goes up before November, and after roughly Oct. 20.
It is said that we cannot number the hour and date of our death. True. But we can number the hour and date of other people's deaths.
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As much of the world paused Wednesday to mourn the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, a group of Islamic militants praised the ''positive outcomes'' of the violence they claim to reject, and offered support to the aims of Osama bin Laden. 3000 dead is a positive outcome from their point of view...
The fundamentalists, in what appeared to be the most radical Muslim gathering on the anniversary of the terrorist atrocities, said al-Qaida had a ''rational justification'' for the attacks, but denied having ties to bin Laden's terror network. "Nope. Nope. Not us..."
''The attack in New York was a counterattack for the attacks in Iraq and Palestine,'' said Muhammad al-Massari, a Saudi dissident who attended the meeting at Finsbury Park Mosque in north London. ''One Muslim decided to take action... He took one eye for a hundred. He still has 99 eyes to go,'' al-Massari added and praised bin Laden as a hero ''fighting for his beliefs.'' Ummm... So are we. And we're better fighters...
A dozen or so men with kaffiyehs over their faces stood on the steps of the north London mosque, barring about 50 journalists from entering the building, which is widely regarded as a center of radical Islam in Britain. About what we'd expect...
Sheik Omar Bakri Mohammed said the meeting at Finsbury Park Mosque, titled ''Sept. 11, 2001: A Towering Day in History,'' argues that the attacks were justified because Muslims must defend themselves against armed aggression. Oh, yasss... I've always found that the best way to defend against armed aggression has been to kill as many civilians as possible...
''I don't believe in using violence,'' Mohammed told journalists before the meeting. "I'll let the cannon fodder do that..."
''Definitely al-Qaida has got rational justification for what they did on Sept. 11. Maybe I disagree with them, but they have the right to fight back especially after they (the United States) bombed Sudan, then they bombed Afghanistan.'' Yup. Fair's fair, ain't it? So there's no way, by that logic, to deny the U.S. the right to fight back against them fighting back.
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"Maybe I disagree with them"... ...or maybe I won´t.
By Vladimiro Pantaleone, Reuters Gawd, I love that name! I'll bet the girlies are elbowing each other to get to him...
PALERMO, Italy - Italian police, working with U.S. naval intelligence, said on Thursday they had arrested 15 Pakistanis believed to be members of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. The men were taken into custody last month after arriving in the southern Sicilian port of Gela on a merchant cargo ship from Morocco. They are charged with conspiracy to commit terror acts. I love it when they come halfway around the world to blow something up and then get caught when they get off the boat...
"We are certain that these people are part of a terrorist organization, and we are almost certain that that organization is al Qaeda," Santi Giuffre, chief of police for the Sicilian province of Caltanissetta, told a news conference. "We have found interesting documents that would prove the accusations." He means how-to manuals, laptops, CDs, that sort of stuff...
He said police had seized telephone numbers, including several in Spain and France, which linked the men to al Qaeda. The men had also used codenames and codewords which raised suspicion of an al Qaeda connection. Notes and documents referring to al Qaeda were found on board their Romanian-registered vessel, which set sail from Casablanca in mid-July and was scheduled to visit Tunisia, Malta and the Libyan capital Tripoli. All the men were carrying an open return air ticket from Karachi to Casablanca. "Hokay. You fifteen, you get on the boat and go blow up the European parliament. When you're done, beat it to Casablanca and fly home to GHQ. And try not to get caught, okay? And stay out of Rick's. I don't want to hear about you guys drinking again!"
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The Paks say they ain't theirs: A Pakistani embassy official in Rome said there was no evidence the arrested men were Pakistanis and said his embassy had been allowed no access to the suspects to find out. "I think at this point it is false and misleading to say that they are from Pakistan. We told the Italian authorities three days ago that the suspects possessed false documents," Qasim Muttaqi, the embassy's councillor for consular affairs, told Reuters.
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Pretty easy to determine if they are: Turbans + Pashtun or Urdu = Pak. It's pretty distinctive. Presumably the Navy intel guys were monitoring their communications, and they weren't in Arabic; or if they were, they "had a fonny assent."
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Police and federal authorities in Baltimore detained six men from predominantly Muslim nations as part of an investigation into possible links with terror groups. All six were taken into custody on Sept. 10 after Baltimore city police discovered suspicious photos, notebooks and other written material, some of it in Arabic, inside their apartment. Investigators were having the Arabic texts translated. Five of the men, described as natives of Afghanistan, Pakistan or Somalia, faced possible deportation by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service for alleged visa violations. A sixth man from Morocco was in state custody on a separate matter. I'm sure somebody will soon be bitching about these Unfair and Unjustified Detentions of People Who Could By Some Stretch of the Imagination Be Totally Innocentâ¢. But since I live in Baltimore, it won't be me.
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Veteran politician and founder of leading opposition alliance Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan has stepped down as the chief of Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) on Tuesday saying his health did not allow him to continue. He wants to keep it...
The veteran opposition leader denied any differences in the alliance and said "the ARD is intact and soon it will elect its new chief from among the components of the alliance." At present, the central secretary-general of the alliance Zafar Iqbal Jhagra of the PML-N is acting as president, but there are chances that the PPP-P president Makhdoom Amin Fahim will be elected as the new chief. Nasrullah said he and his party would remain in the alliance. He said he felt proud that he had formed all the opposition alliances except Islami Jamhoori Ittehad, which was formed by the former ISI chief Lt Gen Hameed Gul. Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy is an umbrella organization for all the fundo political parties — which are working toward not democracy, but a khalifate.
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A state in Malaysia controlled by the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) has banned the issue of entertainment licences for any live performances. Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, the chief minister of the east cost state of Kelantan, told the Malay-language Berita Harian that the ban also applies to hotels and arts associations. The directive was in line with the Entertainment and Entertainment Establishment Control Enactment 1998 which banned all forms of performances deemed to contravene Islam. That's pretty much all of them, isn't it? Except for the public readings from the Koran...
'Performances which use women as models to attract attention only happens during the colonial era and while the colonialists have left, that sort of behaviour has continued. This is completely unacceptable,' he said. "They should have taken all those women with them when they left..."
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"Right. This is unacceptable because it brings money into the area. The last thing we want is for anyone to be able to support themselves. The only way to get wealth in the Islamic world is to steal from (and kill) others and take their property."
Just another way for Islam to turn a prosperous area into another poverty-stricken hellhole.
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This is the same state, immediately adjacent to Singapore that baned bikinis on the beach and men and women in the same pools at the 4* hotels. Effect on tourism and state economy has been pretty bad. Too bad...
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The leader of Malaysia's Islamic opposition accused Western nations Thursday of waging a "crusade" against Muslims since the Sept. 11 attacks and warned that U.S. military strikes against Iraq would raise the risk of more terrorist assaults inside America. Oh, shut up. You're boring.
Abdul Hadi Awang, the head of Malaysia's largest opposition party and driving force behind a push toward a more conservative version of Islam in this Southeast Asian country, said the United States was demonizing Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein without proof, while ignoring abuses by its allies such Israel. That's because they're demonic. You know — horns, tails, whiff of brimstone? They kill people. They kill them for policy and they kill them for pleasure. The only reason pinheads like this make statements like that is because the don't expect the U.S. to send somebody to disappear them. If we were demonic like Sammy and Binny, we would.
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Without proof?What does he want, a confession on videotape?!Oh yeah, I forget...
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Osama bin Laden's top aide married two widows of a senior al-Qaida leader killed by a U.S. air strike in Afghanistan last year, a former Egyptian militant leader said Thursday. Ayman al-Zawahri, along with bin Laden, is in hiding from U.S. forces hunting the remnants of the al-Qaida terror network and is thought to be in Afghanistan or Pakistan. Or hanging out with Elvis, down at the Burger King...
Al-Zawahiri's marriage to the two women, both widows of Tarek Anwar, a leading member of bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network, "is an indication that al-Zawahri is alive and in good health," said Hani el-Sibaie, a former leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad now based in London. The wedding pictures would be. Just a statement that it happened isn't.
El-Sibaie said he did not know when or where the marriages occurred. The whereabouts of al-Zawahri and bin Laden are unknown. My guess: Ayman's in NWFP, where this is the social event of the year. Binny's in Afghanistan, six feet under...
El-Sibaie, speaking to The Associated Press by telephone from London, did not reveal his sources for the news of al-Zawahri's marriage. El-Sibaie runs the Center for Studies and Historical Research, known for releasing information on al-Qaida and other Islamic militant organizations. He's a "legit" front organization...
Anwar was killed in November when the United States shelled the southeastern city of Khost as part of its war on terror, el-Sibaie said. He said the wives were with their husband during the bombing. Three of Halawa's children died alongside Anwar. His widows were Sayyeda Halawa, a mother of five, and Omayma Hassan, who is childless. Tough when that happens, ain't it?
According to el-Sibaie, Halawa was first married to Ahmed al-Najjar, a Jihad leader executed by Egyptian authorities in 1999. She moved from Albania to Afghanistan with her five children, where she married Anwar. She's a pretty hard luck babe, isn't she? Being passed from jihadi hand to jihadi hand like that, I mean.
Al-Zawahri's wife and three children were reportedly killed in December in a U.S. airstrike on Kandahar, Afghanistan. He was not believed to have been with his family at the time. He was reported at the time to have been injured or dead. He was "heard from" on tape a couple days later, nothing since.
Thanx to Steve for the headzup!
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Looks like the al-Qaeda Arabs are prepared to fight to the death of the last Pak-Afghani. That will get them to al-Firdaws (highest place in heaven).
Pakistani dissident late Mir Murtaza Bhutto brother of Pakistanâs former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, had proposed the idea of using an airplane to hit targets in the United States as early as the spring of 1991, former terrorist Carlos the Jackal said in an interview published on Wednesday. In fact, he wasn't the first. When the Wright Brothers came down at Kitty Hawk, there were a couple guys in turbans waiting for them, asking if they could borrow that contraption...
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"Former terrorist" Carlos the Jackal? When did he join the Boy Scouts?
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, going where few other leaders dare to tread, has linked the Sept. 11 suicide attacks to the perceived arrogance and selfishness of the United States and the West. I link them to Islamists hijacking four jetlines and killing all the passengers...
Chretien is the first head of a western major nation to suggest that the suicide hijackers might have been motivated by what he describes as the misguided policies of a rich and powerful West that did not understand the need for restraint. Seems it was the Islamists who failed to exercise any restraint. We've been leaving them undisturbed in their rathole countries for years. Festering...
The veteran prime minister, who has been in power for nine years, told the CBC in an interview aired late on Wednesday that there was "a lot of resentment" about the way in which powerful nations treated the increasing number of poor and dispossessed people in the world. Now there can be "a lot of resentment" in the United States against the Great White North...
"You know, you cannot exercise your powers to the point of humiliation for others. That is what the Western world â not only the Americans, the Western world â has to realize. Because they (the have-nots) are human beings too. There are long-term consequences if you don't look hard at the reality in 10 or 20 (or) 30 years from now," he said. When we fought the Japanese and the Germans, we exercised our powers to the point of humiliation. Once they'd been ground down to nothing, we helped them rebuild into stable societies and today we meet them as equals. It's the cases where we've pussyfooted around and shown restraint where the problems have kept coming back to gnaw us in the collective derriere. If we hadn't "shown restraint" after Gulf War I, Bush might be playing golf with the current president of Iraq today, instead of being on the verge of throwing restraint to the winds.
New Brunswick for the 51st state! 54-40 or fight!
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Are you sure about the spelling? I thought it was Cretin.
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On behalf of intelligent Candians everywhere, I apologize for Chretien absolving terrorists of any responsibility for their own actions. I personally believe heâs trying this new technique in anticipation of it working to excuse his own actions as his sun (oh so very slowly) starts itâs 18 month set. Canadian media and the population at large mostly ignore him, hoping heâll go away â pass that along to ABC. We know heâs nuts, after all hereâs the proof. And as we all know the proof is the proof and when you have good proof, itâs proven.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
