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2007-02-21 Africa North

GSPC takes new name, Al Qaeda In Africa, seriously, spreads across North Africa

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Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-21 06:38|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Who bets the Saudis are funding them!!!!!

Saudis are the root of anti west hatred/Global Islamic rule worldwide.Pleast note GWB/TB!!!!!

Posted by Ebbolump Glomotle9608 2007-02-21 07:30|| 2007-02-21 07:30|| Front Page Top

#2 The GSPC seem to be funding themselves through the ransoms of kidnapped foreigners and a variety of criminal enterprises, according to the article, Ebbolump Glomotle9608. Not that the Saudis aren't elbow deep in enough evil, anyway.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-21 07:39|| 2007-02-21 07:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Trailing Wife

Most if not all Sunni terrorist groups worldwide have their funding traced back to one country-Saudi Arabia!!!

Posted by Ebbolump Glomotle9608 2007-02-21 08:00|| 2007-02-21 08:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Henri Crumpton as seen by the Wapo:

In From the Cold and Able to Take the Heat

Posted by SwissTex 2007-02-21 08:41|| 2007-02-21 08:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Wiretaps, interrogation of terrorist suspects and recovered documents suggest that the network has associates in France, Italy, Turkey and even Greece, which is favored as an entry point to Europe because of its relatively lax immigration controls, according to counterterrorism officials.

"even Greece"? Say it ain't so! Paging the one who'll remain un-named. Clean up, aisle 3!

Posted by BA 2007-02-21 09:53|| 2007-02-21 09:53|| Front Page Top

#6 I didn't know we had an ambassador at large for counterterrorism.

I didn't either, Seriously, i'd love to know just exactly what his job description is and exactly what he really does, should be fascinating, I have this mental image of Spymaster "Q" of the Bond Movies.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-02-21 12:32|| 2007-02-21 12:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Redneck

click on the link on #4

Posted by SwissTex 2007-02-21 13:01|| 2007-02-21 13:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Ebbolump Glomotle9608, Hamas, which is a subsidiary of the original jihadist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood based in Egypt, receives its funding from Iran, which of course is Sunni. So the Saudis are not the only ones funding terror groups on their side of the religious divide. In fact, Iran funds quite a few of the Palestinian terror groups these days, in addition to paying directly for successful attacks on Israelis. And they also provide funds, weapons and training to both Sunni and Shiite terror groups in Iraq, presumably because the Persian hatred of Arabs trumps the brotherhood of shared Shia beliefs, and anyway, civil war in Iraq can only redound to the benefit of the Mullahs adding the southern part of the country to their own.

It seems to me the Saudis are looking farther afield -- to the conquest from within of the West (America, England, continental Europe) radiating from the many new-built mosques staffed by Saudi-trained immams, to the conquest from within of Islam, again radiating from the many new-built mosques staffed by the self-same Saudi imams. From what I can gather, Saudi money is not flowing as freely to Al Qaeda and to the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, because both groups are showing themselves to not be the strong horses they first appeared, both smashing themselves on the rock of Western retaliation, on the military side as well as the law enforcement side. But an awful lot of Saudi money seems to be going into building, stocking and staffing mosques around the world (who was to pay for that monster thing that was to be built near the Olympics in London, after all?), not to mention sending over so many clever, young Saudi men to study at our universities.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-21 13:01|| 2007-02-21 13:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Redneck

Click the link on comment #4.

Posted by swiss Tex 2007-02-21 13:03|| 2007-02-21 13:03|| Front Page Top

#10 #7: Redneck

click on the link on #4

Thanks, Damn I hit that one squarely in the Bullseye, "Q" for real, Happy Hunting Henry.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-02-21 16:00|| 2007-02-21 16:00|| Front Page Top

#11 All together, boyz, wid feeling, "NO OWG JIHADIST-ISLAMIST CALIPHATE HERE. PEACE IN OUR TIME".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-02-21 20:29|| 2007-02-21 20:29|| Front Page Top

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