His group was planning on using ultra-light helicopters in their terror attacks inside Iraq.
AKI reported:
Venice, 1 Oct. (AKI) - Italian police have arrested an Iraqi man on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack on US military bases in Iraq. Saber Fadhi Hussien, was detained near Venice last Friday during an early morning raid, Carabinieri paramilitary police said.Related: The News Junkie is reporting on a terror bust in Austria today at the US Embassy.
Hussien, a former member of late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's disbanded Baath Party, is allegedly the head of an al-Qaeda cell. He was arrested at the airport as he was boarding a plane bound for Damascus, via the Romanian capital, Bucharest.
The cell was allegedly planning attacks using suicide bombers, anti-tank weapons and ultra-light helicopters, according to investigators. They said Hussien was intending to travel to Syria and meet a contact for al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Police said he had been in touch with aides of the group's founder, the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, killed last year in Iraq by a US airstrike.
The ultra-light helicopters can fly low enough to avoid radar and could transport up to 250 kilogrammes of explosives. It is believed to be the first time terrorist groups in Iraq have considered using light aircraft to overcome the tight security surrounding international forces in the country.
This is a great little insight to those who think we're misstepping by being in Iraq rather than focusing on Afghanistan (by the way, the military multi-tasks just fine, thank you.
ReplyDeleteThis is a comphrensive GLOBAL war on terror. It is not confined to one country. Iraq may not have attacked the U.S. on 9/11, but neither did Afghanistan; al-Qaeda attacked the U.S. on 9/11.
People really need to think outside the box that limits this war to a single country.
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ReplyDeleteAmy Proctor @ 10:53 AM
[People really need to think outside the box
that limits this war to a single country.]
i couldn't agree more..
The Muslim World Needs Advocates
for Freedom, Not Democracy
excerpts:
[This week’s freak show at the United Nations and Columbia University featuring the fascist Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brought with it a flurry of valid criticism from Americans, who value freedom and the dignity of our nation, and were aghast at the disgrace that welcoming such a thug exemplifies. One couldn’t help but wonder where our nation’s collective bearings were, in tolerating the exploitation of our media and political bandwidth – not to mention Columbia’s students – by the Iranian propagandist and thug-in-chief.
History has shown that lying dictators never respond to debate or reason, and only become more emboldened by “leaders” who refuse to see or challenge self-evident lies.
Family Security Matters carried the only panel in the media that included Americans of Middle Eastern descent who were willing to strongly condemn the invitation granted to the Iranian despot. There are actually droves of such individuals who choose not to live in the world of apologia and appeasement, in stark contrast to the perception that is constantly being put forth by Islamist (Political Islam) organizations in America, and by the American left.
Many columnists this week have touched on the plethora of lies and abominable assertions that Mr. Ahmadinejad put forth, including his denials of the Holocaust, his overtly hostile militant threat to America and Israel, and his government’s fascist oppression of Iranian citizens whether female, gay, journalists, or students. The fact that merely one day before arriving in New York, Iran held a parade that featured huge banners reading “Death To America” in Farsi (but which read “Down With America” in English, below) escaped the scrutiny of Ahmadinejad’s hosts, and the entire mainstream news media.
Furthermore, to hear that top tier media figures had dinner with Ahmadinejad after all this – and yet didn’t challenge his most egregious lies, or the clear and present dangers that Iran’s words and actions so clearly demonstrate – gives pause to the concept of responsible journalism, not to mention a modicum of patriotism.
Up to this point, however, little if any attention has been paid to Ahmadinejad’s hypocritical embrace of “democracy.]
[Ahmadinejad is a quintessential Islamist, parroting the Iranian Revolution’s “mullahtocracy,” which came to power in 1979 amidst a furor of “revolution.” He maintains power under the illusion of elections and “democracy.” What the West is missing, is that the word “democracy” carries with it many meanings, according to who is using it, and in what context. For example, the U.S. State Department seems to believe it includes minority rights, due process, pluralism, and the rule of law. Yet this definition is actually describing a constitutional republic, which, by law, limits the reach of government, defends the rights of minorities against the government and oppression by the majority, and thrives in federalism. Democracy is merely a mechanism by which citizens, in such a society, choose their leaders. But to Islamists like Ahmadinejad, and to many in the Western world, “democracy” means unlimited majority rule, in which 50 percent +1 of any electorate can vote for anything it wants, up to and including to enslave itself.
We have to be careful what we wish for in the Middle East. Simply pushing for “democracy,” without a clear objective definition, is only going to facilitate a greater global division between freedom-loving Western nations and Islamist “democracies.” Democracy embodied in a government that entertains free elections can result in freedom – or, as was recently demonstrated via the elections of HAMAS in the Palestinian territories, and Ahmadinejad’s mullohtocracy in Iran, are prime examples of the dangers of unrestrained populist Islamism. The result in both cases was the ascendancy of murderous, brutal rule of Islamists, all under the “democratic” process. Need we even discuss that Adolph Hitler – whose manifesto, “Mein Kampf,” is now a top-seller in the Middle East – was also “democratically” elected?]
[America is losing “the war of ideas,” in no small part because we – and particularly, our young people – are unaware of the results of unlimited democracy, as contrasted to the results of free people whose natural rights are protected, under a government whose powers are clearly defined and vigorously enforced. As William Dalrymple pointed out in a recent column for the Guardian Limited, “Democracy, not terror, is the engine of political Islam.” Our forward Middle East Initiative, which focuses only on elections and democratization, feeds into the hands of Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Syria, and across the Middle East. The Arabic Muslim Brotherhood will always embrace a society of elections democratiya (Arabic for democracy) – but not one based on Hurriya (Arabic for universal freedom)
The battle against the Islamists from within the Muslim community is just beginning, and will need not only assistance – but moral sanction and visibility – if the West is to gain traction against the forces bolstering the Islamists across the globe. Terror is a means for the militant Islamists. Savvy leading advocates of political Islam, like the Muslim Brotherhood, who are trying to mainstream themselves with ignorant Westerners, have conveniently sworn off violence all the while they provide apologetics for the root causes of terror. Meanwhile, militant Islamists like President Ahmadinejad maintain power, and receive the tacit acceptance of the West, while pretending to honor “democracy” and simultaneously assaulting individual liberty.
It is toxically misguided for the U.S. simply to advocate “democracy,” rather than constitutional republics based in the separation of powers, and the separation of religion and government. If we allow our short-sightedness to usher in Islamists in the Middle East, without an ideological counter from within the Muslim consciousness, we only delay an inevitable clash between our constitutional republics, which are based in universal religious freedom – and Islamist theocracies, which are based in “democratic” rule, with no laws to protect the smallest minority from the oppression of the majority.
The real work in this ‘long war’ will be done only by those who can create forums that fundamentally redefine and reshape shape our mission, and target Islamism as a political ideology. If we seek to change hearts and minds in the Muslim world, we cannot buy into “democracy” as a panacea that will liberate people wherever it is tried. Rather, as America’s founders did, we must proudly embrace and articulate freedom as the only option that will prevent the clash of cultures that is surely to come, if we continue to avoid doing so.
Enabling, encouraging and emboldening “democratically - elected” theocratical despots like Ahmadinejad – as was done by our intellectual and media elite this week – will only result in more tragedy and human suffering. If Ahmadinejad’s government and his fascism show us anything, it is that “democracy” is not a solution, but rather is another weapon in the arsenal of militant Islamists. John Adams warned our young nation:
Remember, Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself! There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.]
please read the whole thing.. and check
the AIFD site out as often as you can..
imho, Dr. Jasser should be a
candidate for US President!!
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