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2007-05-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Achille Lauro hijacker at Lebanon's Nahr al-Bared camp

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Posted by Fred 2007-05-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Unless this brave lion of islam suddenly gets dead, we should try to obtain Bassam al-Ashker from the Lebanonese, send him to Gitmo or have him have his day in court for the murder of Leon Klinghoffer in the U.S.--just to let terrorists know that we do not forget. Of course we could arrange to just kill him in Lebanon.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-05-28 09:24|| 2007-05-28 09:24|| Front Page Top

#2 A couple of points:

1) Excerpts:

Bassam al-Ashker, now 39, told reporters by telephone that he is now a militiaman for the mainstream Fatah faction of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas

AND:

"I organize the training of young Palestinian recruits who we send to fight the Americans alongside the Iraqi resistance," Ashker told reporters. "I have even fought them myself in Fallujah and Ramadi," two rebel bastions west of Baghdad.

The conclusions I draw from this:

a) Every nickel "donated" to Fatah and Abbas funds the murder of American servicemen, Iraqi military and civil authorities, and Iraqi citizens.

b) Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon are terrorist training sites.

c) Palestinian recruits and their instructor cadres are transiting somehow from Lebanon to Iraq. Syria has long been accused of allowing such access. And Syria is Persian satellite.

2) The original source for the Naharnet article is the Agence France Press (AFP). I don't recall this kind of detailed reporting involving a Fatah-related subject prior to Sarkozy's election. Come to think of it, the attack on the Nahr al-Bared camp took place shortly after his election, didn't it?

Posted by mrp 2007-05-28 09:53|| 2007-05-28 09:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Send Billy Waugh after him.

Posted by Super Hose 2007-05-28 13:36|| 2007-05-28 13:36|| Front Page Top

#4 I really, really do wish the US still had a couple of commissioned battleships. Replace those heavy, cumbersome turrets with GMLRS launchers, stand offshore, and start lobbing in missiles. When there's nothing left standing, napalm the rubble and bake it into a solid mass of twisted iron, crushed rock, and ash. When Iran and Syria make threatening noise, run a few nuke strikes through the heart of their "empires", and let them take care of themselves afterwards. We need to do the Mongols one better, and totally CRUSH for all time the entire muzzie world. We could all live a little easier afterwards. Oh, and we can then go in and steal all the oil we want or need, kicking the Russians and Chinese in the teeth as we do so.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-05-28 14:35|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-05-28 14:35|| Front Page Top

#5 PLF Commando, jeez, the destruction of the language continues. Pretty damn sophisticated even then. Meanwhile US Administration Extremists souoght to undermine the Italian justice system.

Posted by Shipman 2007-05-28 18:57|| 2007-05-28 18:57|| Front Page Top

#6 A useful analysis, mrp.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-05-28 20:54|| 2007-05-28 20:54|| Front Page Top

#7 If this fucker doesn't get smothered with a ham sandwich, there is no justice.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-05-28 22:13|| 2007-05-28 22:13|| Front Page Top

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