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2006-04-30 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

US concerned over possible al-Qaeda, Hamas links

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-04-30 01:18|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 That's the way to the top, linking up with Al-Qaeda. It worked so well for the Taliban and all.

Posted by Perfessor 2006-04-30 06:51|| 2006-04-30 06:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Israel is right to be concerned about this (and us, too).

Read Michael Totten's latest from the region. Iran has moved in with Hezboallah on the Lebanese border. They're bringing in bullet-proof windows, high powered arms, money and other equipment.

The coalescing of these groups, with Iran also sponsoring Hamas, is one more sign that Ahmadinajad and the MMs are going to destabilize the world if they can. It's pretty clear the Europeans won't stop them and Russia and China think they have a stake in their success.

Now add in those centrifuges whirling away ... or the purchased devices and missiles, plus the anti-missile defense systems that Iran is getting from Russia.

We may have disrupted the al-Qaeda / Taliban connection, but that's just one tactical move.

These people intend to create a worldwide caliphate with Islam dominating over what they consider will be its humiliated enemies (Israel, the US). And meanwhile Europe indulges its insecurities and its guilt by attempting to trip up the US and undermine Israel, while Putin plays a deep game with a weak (but dangerous) hand and China continues its decade-long rise to world power, enabled in part by technologies sold to them under the Clinton administration.

The challenge to us is real IMO.

Posted by lotp 2006-04-30 07:37|| 2006-04-30 07:37|| Front Page Top

#3 And it is not clear to me that we are up to the challenge.

Bush cannot initiate effective action in Iran without Congressional approval. He will not get that approval from this partisan congress unless it is clear that failure to do so would mean electoral defeat. I simply don't sense that will in the electorate.

Instead of looking at the truly major events happening in Iran, the people are fixated on gas prices and wetbacks, one problem somewhat derivative, the other long term and minor. It's going to take something bigger than 9/11 to get the American people to take action against the Religion of Pieces.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-30 08:57|| 2006-04-30 08:57|| Front Page Top

#4 It's going to take something bigger than 9/11 to get the American people to take action against the Religion of Pieces

The growing interest of Joe Couch in Darfur might serve this purpose. If Clooney and his crowd can get LLL's all hot and bothered about raging into Darfur to save "the people", the actual causes of strife in the region might actually start to come out.

The fact that Sudan refuses to enterain the idea of any infidels stepping into their land and the long list of muzzie on muzzie violence and the complete silence (and closed purses) of other muslims, might actually come out in MSM.

Might actually start to put 2 and 2 together, correctly.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-04-30 09:49|| 2006-04-30 09:49|| Front Page Top

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