Mar 14 2007
Pardoned Terrorist In Morroco Turns To Bombing
The good news in this story is Morroco avoided a suicide bomb, but that crazy part is one or two of the suspects had been pardoned of previous terrorism charges. And it took ineptitude to incover the plot, not surveillance:
Police have arrested 13 people allegedly linked to a man who blew himself up in a Casablanca Internet cafe and found bomb-making equipment on Wednesday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
Like the bomber, at least one of those arrested had been in prison on terrorism charges before being pardoned, ministry spokesman Abderrahman Achour told The Associated Press.
Abdelfettah Raydi died when explosives hidden on his body went off in an internet cafe in the Casablanca slum of Sidi Moumen, injuring Raydi’s accomplice, Youssef Khouidri, and three bystanders.
Goes to show you what happens when you show a terrorist any mercy.
Dale, there are a few who “get” it, and the number is growing. A couple weeks ago Blogs for Bush had a post about Dean Esmay’s (Deans World) decision to no longer tolerate any anti-Islamic rhetoric on his blog. Several commentors illustrated that they “get” it, but I found one comment in particular extrordinarily enlightening:
RS
I won’t say what and I won’t say why because it is classified to probably dozens of years beyond my death, but I was a periscope photographer and a couple of other few odd jobs person on a submarine I was stationed on.
I won’t say what we did, or even that we did anything but stay in port tied up to the dock, but somebody paid a trip one time for me and the CO and the XO to take what I guess was a junket to 37 embassies around the world to give a briefing of how our port stay alongside the pier was going so swimmingly.
Vacations can be good, especially if you happen to be stationed in Hawaii.
Gents: I don’t like to take credit for anything, but here is one last thought, and something I will claim credit for, even if I can’t prove it!
I first wrote about this, in 1991, when it was known, at that time, to only a very limited number of extremely knowledgeable Islamic scholars!
I was the first person, to inject it into the IC!
I made sure that people inside the FBI, and CIA found out about it.
I wrote about on Blogs, and I emailed hundreds of contacts, with point papers I wrote on the subject.
Via various sources I re-injected into the IC, and CENTCOM, prior to the invasion of Iraq, and post – 9/11!
You can read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqiyah
So, I leave you with this question, how can you ever trust, or negotiate in good faith, with an individual whose very religion/core belief, brainwashes them into believing that it is accepted, and in some cased, required, to LIE, especially to non-Muslims, or “Apostates”, as they like to call us?
Answer me that?
That is something Lurker, that we should teach to EVERY school-child in America!
Dale, I got it on 9-11-01 @ 8:45 a.m. CST.
A friend called me to tell me what happened. I was still sleeping (having been on the computer till late) and told her I would call her back. I couldn’t go back to sleep so I got up, walked to the kitchen and on the way, hit the remote which is always on Fox. I never made my coffee that day. I spent the day in front of the TV and on the phone with the friend that called. Her husband, a close, close friend of mine, is an Austin firefighter. He had been called in and did not know when he would be home. He is a medic, HazMat specialist among other skills. The Texas Capitol had been evacuated along with all other state offices. He called me and told me there were threats to the Capitol (it never made the news). The Houston ship channel had been shut down and was on high alert. By 3:00 p.m. his Captain was on her way to New York.
When AFD did call me the next day he said to me “you know we are at war?” I said “yes, we have been for a long time but no one noticed.” We both are avid readers and had been looking into the threat of radical Islam since ’93.
I know that the America I have always loved and been proud to be a citizen of died that day. I know that basically, America lost her virginity that day.
Always we have had the security of oceans between us and the rest of the world. We have been secure that we would know if someone was coming after us. 9-11 burst that bubble. We are now in grave danger and it is because we are the most open society on the face of the earth.
I know that I will not see the end of this war but I will live to see more attacks on our soil. I know that my children will have to grow a spine or submit. I know that my grandchildren will fight this war.
When I listen to John Murtha, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, et al, I just want to go to D.C. and choke them. I want them to tell me how, by caving to the demands of radical Islam, we are going to be safer. I want to ask them if they really understand that our desire for peace is considered a weakness by our enemies and when they talk of “withdrawal” they only encourage the enemy. And I want to ask them if they thought that had George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Ben Franklin been of the same mindset as them, if we would still be paying our taxes to London.
Okinawa is paradise!
I personally liked Okinawa better than Hawaii. The people were nicer.
Merlin: I was stationed at FOSIF Rota for 3 years, we did LOTS of “sub stuff” out there, it was an eye-opener for a ground guy!
Retired05: I was co-located with the Navy CSG types! And some “civilians” too….best of all worlds, that tour was….
RS: that is great! Thanks for sharing that quote!
Dale , you may be leaving for tonight, but man you surface not often enough.
Give it an up bubble and put 30 degrees rise on the bow planes.
Rig ship for surface man, you are too much of a resource to be lost.
Visit often, ask AJ for my email, I have one for you and I don’t even know if it works, but I sure will at least fire a good water slug at it.
Moskow is nice in the summer , but no matter what time it is during the year Petropovlosk sucks, that is pure and simple.
RS, Islam in the early days, did provide a lot to the world. Scholars, mathematicians, poets. But it became preverted. Robert Spencer’s book “Islam Unveiled” is a good book on the subject.
But Islam itself is incompatible with our western values. And the twain shall never meet. Unless Islam has an era of reformation and enlightenment, we will battle it until one or the other is no longer.
So why would one think that Israel can ever find peace? Surely they know that negotiation is not an option. Gaza is copying Hezbholla, I guess they will have to bomb Gaza into non-existence the next time around.
God bless you guys who have helped keep this Nation safe. Thank you is hardly enough. I think of you every time I rise to sing the National Anthem.
This was the best conversation I’ve ever seen on this site! Great reading guys!
Just an OBTW Dale. I liked your first post tonight.
Like my daddy always told me,
Tact is the ability to tell somebody to go to hell and make them feel they were glad they were on their way.
Subtle and with a bit of nuance. Sweet.
Retired05: Spencer is good.
I would caveat what you said about Islam in the early days; that meme, by the same Muslim Convert historians mainly, has been that Islam, “saved” or “rescued” Western civilization, by preserving and passing on Greek & Roman philosphies, science, etc., and in fact, they even attribute the Rennaissance in Europe to the Muslims doing that!
And true, there were Muslim innovators, in the fields of Astronony (Nadir, Betelgeuse are Arabic words); Mathmatics (Algebra is an Arabic word), and medicine, etc.
But, the real truth was, that as long as the Muslims were kicking the crap out of declining Agrarian societies, and Hydraulic empires, such as Egypt, and absorbing their knowledge and science, they were doing okay!
And , they were not so much “innovators”, as actually Users of the Greek and Roman sciences!
That fact that they later transcribed it, and passed it to the Europeans, coming out of the so-called Dark Ages, does not mean it was theirs!
It just means they co-opted it for 700 years! (Library of Alexandria, anyone??)
Al Andalusia, the so-called golden age of Islam, the pinnacle of Islamic Civilization, was made mainly possible by the Christian and Jewish dhimmi scientists, philosphers, physcians, and even skilled craftsmen!
Remember, the Islamic armies, that travelled from the Hejaz and Najd areas, to the Pyrennes in Spain, in slightly over 100 years, never numbered more than 50,000 people, at the maximum!
That was a lot of territory to cover, and a lot of people to assimilate!
The fact is, the language (Arabic), because it was the “court language” may have predominated, and Islam became predominant because of the Jizya (poll tax on non-Muslims), forced conversions, the sword, and just plain ass-kissing, but the fact is, those populations absorbed the Muslim armies, not vice versa!
Remember, prior to Muhammed, Mecca was wart on the ass of the world! There wasn’t anything there! There was no great civilization hanging out there!
The Queen of Sheba’s people, down in Yemen, was the closest thing to that!
Besides, it’s a historical fact, that Nomadic Empires, which is what the Arab/Islamic Empire arose out from, are short-lived and always collapse from external pressures!
Hydraulic Empires, such as Rome, Greece, China, Great Britain, and even the United States, are long-lived, and always collapse due to internal rot!
Again, I don’t deserve any praise, nor seek any.
I gave that up years ago.
It was ripped out of me, when I got my Legion of Merit as a mid-level Marine Capt (O-3) for something I did versus the Iraqi Intel Services!
A Marine Corps Capt with a LOM!
Ask Retired 05 how common that is/was?
I was only the third case I knew of, from the fall of Saigon, until 9/11!
I don’t know about anything since then!
If I was so “smart”; with that on my record, I’d be a Col or Navy Capt like all my peers and friends are, and who still email me saying they wish I was their “2”, and with them in either Afghanistan and/or Iraq!
No, I’m not that clever, I let a Marine Col (who later became a 3-star General!!!) get jealous of that LOM, because he was a Col, who had been to ‘Nam, was a Bn Cmdr, and then a Regt Cmdr, and he didn’t have one, so he decided he’d show me, and ended my career with a bad FITREP!
Yep, praise, kudos, medals, does a peson no good; just pisses people off, and gets you cashiered from the thing that you love and want to do; and as a result, people die, because you can’t share your knowledge!
Makes a lot of sense….
Oh well………….
Bikerken
I have met Dale on so many blogs that even he does not know because of my various names I use in other places.
All I can say is that this man is a fountain of knowledge and I wish some of our most influential of persons could have the benefit of his wisdom.
They could do oh so much better if they did.
I hope he comes back, often and with force.
Eyes could be opened, if you read him well.
I exaggerate not. It would be wrong to do so.
Especially in this case.
Dale, I agree that Islam took from other cultures and improved on them. But haven’t all cultures done that? Taken from one culture and another, blended them, perfecting what they take?
Your point is not lost on me. The sad part is that it ended and the ending was basically caused by one Muslim. Spencer addresses that in his book. How sad that one man can cause a whole society to regress and continue to regress until modern day.
I am a Catholic. And I realize that Catholicism would not have survived without reformation and enlightenment. The reason Islam has survived without those things, IMHO, is because of the area of the world where it exists. Basically, rat hole countries. Save Egypt. And the glory that was once Egypt, is now just a memory because of Islam.
One has to wonder what lies in store for our nation. Will we learn to live in fear? Will we come to realize that all our politically correct mantra is our undoing? Will we finally develope spines and become our ancestors who stood on the wall of the Alamo (remember I am Texan) to fight odds that are impossible knowing that in the end we will be victorious?
I look at the politicians I disagree with and I hear the same crap I heard in the 70’s from peace rally student protesters who were buying into the teachings of Marx, Lenin and Gramsci. Even the key words now are the same; social justice, equality, tolerance. Those same America haters are now walking the halls of Congress and the Senate and saying virtually the same thing now they said then. I remember calling my brother, a retired Lt. Cmdr who served on Kerry’s sister ship, and asking him if he would vote for a fellow sailor. My brother who never curses, gave me an ear full. Traitor then, traitor now. I tell you true, it makes me wonder exactly what is in their hearts. Are they really the new New Left? Is that why they are so anxious to give our nation away? To accept defeat with “cut and run” policies?
Merlin, wars are fought by armies. They are won by a few good men ready to deal with the truth. Dale is one of the few.
My hope is he makes his visits often.
Merlin, Dale speaks more common sense and truth about the true aim of Islam than anyone I’ve heard. Personally, I don’t buy Islam as a religion, I believe it is the worlds oldest largest cult. I would be interested in what Dale has to say about the large number of arabists in the IC and what effect they have had on our security and policies. I’m not sure if the Jamie Gorelick (politics above all) types are more dangerous than the political correct types that are too stupid to realize that Islam is not the most peaceful religion in the world.
Just another parting word about Scott in Michaels own way of saying it that cuts to the clear line of truth.
Scott was the youngest man ever to complete Navy SEAL training. He was only 17. Can you imagine what that must have taken?
If Mike wondered and puzzled on this, I am totally at a loss to even comprehend it.
Some things are known, some things are not. The world works like that now matter how much you wish it didn’t.
Bk
I wish more could have had the chance to listen to him as I have.
I managed to grab onto his threads early and with delight.
Clarity and compact are his call signs.
There is no blather or useless fluff in his presentation.
It is like a straight arm to the heart, with all the associated pain unless you take it for what it reveals.
A welcome change, not often viewed.