US kills Golden Mosque bomber who worked for Saddam before working for Al Qaeda.
Unreal...
The Saudi Arabian Minister of Culture and Information blamed Zionists for the Golden Mosque blasts in Samarra!
The famous Shiite Golden Mosque in Samarra: (Top left) In 2004 before Al Qaeda blew it up. (top right) After Al Qaeda blast in February 2006 (Bottom left and right) Pictures from June 13, 2007 after terrorists blew up the two remaining minarets.
Iranian Bazteb News carried this stunner on Saturday:
The Fatwa for the destruction of Shiite's holy sites and shrines has been made up by the Zionists and enemies of Islam, Saudi Arabia's Minister of Culture and Information Iyad bin Amin Madani said.The Golden Mosque bombers were arrested in June 2006 and confessed to the terrorist attack on the shrine.According to FNA , speaking in a meeting with Iran's ambassador to Saudi Arabia Seyed Mohammad Hosseini in Riyadh on Wednesday, Madani (pictured) warned that religious strife can prevail in all Islamic countries and called on all political and religious leaders as well as intellectuals to prevent such strife.
He said following the objections to the decree by Muslim scholars he has asked all Islamic jurisprudents, the chief Mufti, the Supreme Council of Muftis, the High Council of Judiciary and other religious scholars about the source of the fatwa, "but all of them expressed surprise and said they were not informed of such a decree."
The Saudi official further underlined that if such a fatwa exists, "it is certainly a product of the Zionists and enemies of Islam."
This latest Saudi story follows the news on Tuesday that Al Qaeda has infilitrated the Saudi military... Which followed the news that the US was planning on selling Saudi Arabia arms.
UPDATE: The US military reported today that they have killed a key terrorist behind the Golden Mosque bombings in 2006 and 2007. Haitham al-Badri was the leader of al-Qaeda in Salahuddin province. The BBC reported that the Iraqi government has always blamed Mr al-Badri for the February 2006 attack on the mosque.
Al-Badri was a former operative of Saddam Hussein's government who conveniently found himself working with Al Qaeda after the fall of the Hussein government.
HERE is a list of other members of the Hussein governement who worked with Al Qaeda... HERE is an updated list.
MORE- The Associated Press does not mention that al-Badri was formerly employed by the Saddam government before finding work with Al-Qaeda.
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ReplyDeletegah, between some of these ME fatwa's & US Dems rhetoric, it's becoming harder & harder to distinguish propaganda from insanity.. *sigh*
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There's a similarity between fobbing off the Golden Mosque bombing on zionists and current US strategy to fob off most attacks in Iraq on Al Queda in Iraq. In both instances, it's a bad habit but one I'm comfortable with in the US case and not so much in the Saudi one. The difference is that the US distortion is for a specific purpose and time limited. By allowing this fiction, we encourage non Al Queda groups to put down their weapons in the hope that their acts will be glossed over and they can still successfully integrate into a new, democratic Iraq. It's a time-limited strategy that will eventually disappear with this campaign in the War on Terror. There is a reasonable exit and the overall effect is to save lives. That makes the lie an acceptable wartime gambit.
ReplyDeleteThe Saudi case is different because it does not appear to have an exit strategy and has been going on for decades. The demonstrated overall effect is not to save lives, but to geographically shift where lives are lost, jews instead of arabs, Israelis instead of Iraqis and Saudis. That result is not worth the cost.
That link to members of Saddam's government found working with al Qaeda has actually been updated and is available here:
ReplyDeletehttp://regimeofterror.com/archives/2007/07/hundreds_of_loyalists_and_bene/
Thanks for the link to my site. Appreciate it.
There's a similarity between fobbing off the Golden Mosque bombing on zionists and current US strategy to fob off most attacks in Iraq on Al Queda in Iraq. In both instances, it's a bad habit but one I'm comfortable with in the US case and not so much in the Saudi one.
ReplyDeleteDude. Seriously.
If they call themselves AQ in Iraq, and are willing to die under that banner--why are you arguing with them.
Let a spade name itself a spade.
Yours, TDP, ml, msl, & pfpp
http://tomdperkins.blogspot.com/
Hey Mark Eichenlaub, good stuff your site sir, very good stuff...
ReplyDeleteI had been following Stephen F. Hayes and Jonathan Schanzer at the Weekly Standard...
Stephen Hayes had quite a few articles showing links between Al Qaeda and Saddam...
One resource Hayes seemd to use was the Harmony and Disharmony: Exploiting Al-Qa'ida's Organizational Vulnerabilities located at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point...
Juandos,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the compliments. Schanzer and Hayes have really done some great work on the topic as has Deroy Murdock, Sam Pender, Richard Miniter, Laurie Mylroie and a host of other people. I still think, ok more than just a hunch, that within ten years or so there will be a lot more documents released like the ones Ray Robison has written about.
Do you think the Saudi truly believes that and is delusional because of the typical Arab self-denial?
ReplyDeleteOr is it he knows the truth and is simply a liar and is spouting the standard propaganda?
Is it possible that we're seeing a new Arabic idiom here, that "Zionist" is now being used an insult without meaning to imply literally that the object of the insult supports the existence of Israel? Any Arabic specialists here who can confirm or deny?
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ReplyDeleteanonymous @ 12:31 PM & 1:06 PM
whatever the reason.. there was
certainly no 'reasoning' behind it..
which more or less also fits in well
with your 'idiom' speculation.. ;)
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Hey TM Lutas, what makes you think that those stout AQ lads aren't playing both sides of the street so further inflame and already unstable environment?
ReplyDeleteYou make the following interesting comment: "The Saudi case is different because it does not appear to have an exit strategy and has been going on for decades", then you tail off into something that at the very least, well for me at least needs further explanation... I didn't get what you were trying to say...
Now your mentioning the Saudis reminded of something that may or may not be related to what you were saying...
Back in May, '03 Matt Epstein in the NRO penned the following: Trails Lead to Saudis ...
"Red flags have been raised by the fact that Sana-Bell's Washington, D.C. branch was founded by two known al Qaeda financiers, Saleh Kamel and Ibrahim Afandi. Yaqub Mirza is also listed as a founding trustee"...
Anon, I also think that-or is it-applies.
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ReplyDeleteIt is amazing the lengths some people will go to whitewash the virulent antisemitism of the Arab world. The Saudis have published articles in their state-run newspapers that Jews (not Zionists, but Jews) use the blood of children in their religious rituals. They are more antisemitic than the Nazis were, and I do not say that carelessly or lightly.
OF COURSE they are fanatically opposed to the existence of not only Israel, but of Jews period.