Islamistischer Terrorismus

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Rosen: A cancer on civilization
August 6, 2004

A signal contribution of the 9/11 commission report was to identify the enemy bluntly. More specifically than generic terrorism, the commission declared we are under attack from "Islamist terrorism." This is an enemy unlike our former adversary, the Soviet Union, during the half-century of the Cold War. The Soviets were ideologically committed, powerful and ruthless, but they were also rational. The nuclear weapons standoff never escalated to all-out war because neither side was suicidal.
Today, the delivery systems of weapons of mass (as well as smaller scale) destruction are fanatical, irrational, embittered, disenfranchised, psychotic, suicidal religious zealots, many of whom perceive that they have little to lose in this ephemeral world, and hope for eternal rewards in the hereafter. These aren't the kind of people who respond to negotiations.
Call it what you will - radical Islam, Wahhabism, Jihadism - it's a cancer on civilization that must be forcefully removed, just as Nazism had to be eliminated in the last century. Until we come to grips with that reality, we will not devote the will, the resources and the sacrifice necessary to win this latest world war. After 9/11, many Americans have come to understand this.
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Jan. Photos Said Used for Terror Alert

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Aug 6, 4:36 PM (ET)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Authorities have evidence that new surveillance photographs were taken of Prudential Financial's headquarters in Newark in January, a top homeland security official said Friday, even as President Bush defended the decision to issue terrorism warnings on the basis of old intelligence.
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Iraq Evidence Led Feds to Albany Mosque
ALBANY, N.Y. — Information found in Iraq led federal investigators to become suspicious of an Albany, N.Y., mosque leader, FOX News has learned.

Last summer, U.S. troops discovered Yassin Muhhiddin Aref's (search) name, telephone number and address in a book left behind in a vacated terrorist training camp, a U.S. official told FOX News. The book also revealed that Ansar al-Islam, the group running the camp, had given Aref a title: "the commander."
Aref also made several telephone calls to individuals in Iraq within the past year, the official said.
Aref, 34, is the Imam of the Masjid As-Salam mosque in Albany, N.Y. He and one other mosque leader were arrested Thursday and charged with helping an undercover informant posing as a weapons dealer who was plotting to buy a shoulder-launched missile that would be used to kill the Pakistani ambassador in New York City.
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Arrest on warrant from Connecticut that claims terrorism links

LONDON (AP) -- British police said Thursday they had arrested a British man wanted on terrorism charges in the United States.

The Metropolitan Police said Babar Ahmad, 30, was arrested in central London on a U.S. extradition warrant from Connecticut.
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Sources: Al Qaeda may have made contact in U.S. recently
Wednesday, August 4, 2004 Posted: 6:23 PM EDT (2223 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Intelligence found in Pakistan suggests that suspected al Qaeda operatives in that country contacted an individual or individuals in the United States in the past few months, according to two senior U.S. government sources.
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Al Qaeda Infiltration?
Evidence Suggests Terror Network Has Greater Presence in U.S. Than Thought

W A S H I N G T O N, Aug. 4, 2004 — U.S. intelligence has evidence al Qaeda operatives cased major targets in New York and Washington from the inside, ABC News has learned. It was part of a meticulous surveillance operation that managed to obtain unusual access.
Information found on the computer files of Mohammed Khan, the 25-year-old computer engineer who was arrested last month in Pakistan, is responsible for the current terror alert at financial centers in New York, Washington, D.C., and Newark, N.J.
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Does Affluence Cause Jihad?
By Zachary Constantino
Campus Watch | August 5, 2004

Militant Islam is an ideology embraced by political and economic elites, including those who hold American passports.

Unfortunately, much of the academy refuses to acknowledge the fact, championing instead “hopeless poverty” and “economic deprivation” as “root causes” of violence committed by Islamist terrorists.
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But the evidence reveals that the relationship between poverty and religiously motivated violence is weak. Radicals and revolutionaries historically have emerged from the middle to upper classes of society. After a critical examination of the supposed connection between poverty and terrorism, Princeton University econmics professor Alan B. Krueger and Middle East specialist Jitka Maleckova concluded,

terrorism is less like property crime and more like a violent form of political engagement. More-educated people from privileged backgrounds are more likely to participate in politics, probably in part because political involvement requires some minimum level of interest, expertise … all of which are more likely if people are educated enough and prosperous enough to concern themselves with more than economic subsistence.[iv][4]

The spread of Islamist radicalism in the United States, where demographic surveys indicate that 66% of American Muslims earn over $50,000 per year, confirms this thesis.[v][5] Moreover, the top ten Muslim occupations in America include engineering, medicine, and corporate management.[vi][6] Daniel Pipes, a scholar of Islam, notes, “In socioeconomic terms, certainly, Muslims can find little fault with America. They boast among the highest rates of education of any group in the country—a whopping 52 percent appear to hold graduate degrees—and this translates into a pattern of prestigious and remunerative employment.”[vii][
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Jaja alles arme Schlucker die gegen die Globalisierung aufbegehren - 50.000 Dollar pro Jahr Einkommen sind Armut genug um zu bomben :rofl:

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Pakistan: Suspect Had Photos of Heathrow

Thu Aug 5, 2:05 PM ET

By PAUL HAVEN, Associated Press Writer

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan gave British authorities images of London's Heathrow Airport and other sites that were found on the computers of two al-Qaida fugitives arrested last month, intelligence officials said Thursday.
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A Letter by an Alleged Wife of a Martyr to the Wife of Paul Johnson

The recent issue of Sawt al-Jihad ("Voice of Jihad"), which is identified with Al-Qa'ida, published an article titled "A Letter to the Wife of the Slain Pagan Paul Johnson from the Wife of One of the Martyrs." [1] This letter celebrates the murder of the American hostage Paul Johnson in Saudi Arabia. The anonymous letter is attributed to the wife of one of the terrorists killed by the Saudi Security forces. The following are excerpts from the letter: [2]

'The Blood of Your Husband is the Blood of a Dog because He is an Idolatrous Infidel'

"I have heard that you appeared on television feigning innocence and wondering haughtily what was your husband's sin and what was his crime. I believe you are not ignorant of the fact that he was one of the greatest criminals indeed, although he is not considered that according to your standards, you infidels.
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