Comments on: London 2005

By: thabet

thabet — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve always wondered how people behind such attacks conjure these names up. Perhaps they all share an algorithm that generates an appropriate name based on a few simple inputs?

Name: Abu Yusuf; Location: Western Europe; Preferred Islamic Terminology: Din and Shaheed; Preferrance for Military Terminology: Yes; Affiliated with Al-Q: Yes. And hey presto, we have the Abu Yusuf Martyrs Brigade For Defence of Religion Al-Qai’da Organisation in Europe.

Hmmmm… there’s one of those “What type are you” quiz in all this…

More seriously, I would be interested in how the USofA is covering this?

By: thbt

thbt — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Oh, and thank you for your thoughts and prayers.

salaams

By: Morcy

Morcy — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

There’s more about the coverage on FOX here:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/7/8/2458/31146

That post is built from the quote represented visually in the CM post.

I have a feeling for how jingoistically this is going to get played in the US—with the overriding idea that this is somehow proof that we need to redouble our efforts in Iraq—that I’m avoiding all news coverage.

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Does your sarcasm about the name of the rag and bone outfit who have already claimed responsibility imply that it was not an extremist Islamic cell who carried out the attacks? Perhaps it was a set up by Mossad or the CIA?

British-Pakistanis have already carried out suicide bombings around the world. An article on why you think British born Pakistanis are resorting to a fascistic ideology and carry out acts of random and blood-curdling violence in the name of Islam would be interesting to read, one that does not blame the Jews, America, racism, or any of those other chimeras, but actually examines the impulse to violence within a certain school of Qutb-Maududi inspired Islam being taught and lapped up in Britain in Pakistani mosques and ghettoes. It will not surprise me if the men who carried this out were British Pakistani University graduates from Bradford, Birmingham or London.

By: Qadeer Ahmad Rana

Qadeer Ahmad Rana — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

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By: sepoy

sepoy — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Luke: “Does your sarcasm about the name of the rag and bone outfit who have already claimed responsibility imply that it was not an extremist Islamic cell who carried out the attacks? Perhaps it was a set up by Mossad or the CIA?” No. It was done by whomsoever did it. I don’t have any notions or ideas. Let the investigation resolve that.