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War on Terror

Tentacles of terror

By B Raman

December 31 2009

The recent attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airline, which was part of a wider conspiracy orchestrated from Yemen, clearly shows that the Obama Administration now faces a two-front war against Al Qaeda: One in the AfPak region and the other in the Yemen-Saudi axis

According to the NEFA Foundation of the US, a non-Governmental organisation created following 9/11 to track Islamic terrorism, Al Qaeda's network in Yemen has issued an official communiqué claiming responsibility for the failed terrorist bomb plot targeting a Delta/Northwest airliner travelling from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas day. The communiqué included original photographs of would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab grinning in front of an Al Qaeda banner. The group acknowledged that the device had failed to properly detonate, but promised that it would "continue on this path until we achieve success." The statement also congratulated Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan and urged fellow Muslims to follow his footsteps and kill American soldiers.

According to the same foundation, Al Qaeda's network in Yemen has issued an official response to the airstrike earlier this week on a suspected Al Qaeda gathering in the region of Shabwah that reportedly killed up to 30 people, including a number of senior Al Qaeda operatives.

http://newageislam.com/tentacles-of-terror/war-on-terror/d/2319

The War on Terror is a Hoax -- PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

The War on Terror is a Hoax -- PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

There were no al Qaeda in Iraq until the Americans brought them there by invading and overthrowing Saddam Hussein, who kept al Qaeda out of Iraq. The Taliban is not a terrorist organization, but a movement attempting to unify Afghanistan under Muslim law. The only Americans threatened by the Taliban are the Americans Bush sent to Afghanistan to kill Taliban and to impose a puppet state on the Afghan people. Hamas is the democratically elected government of Palestine, or what little remains of Palestine after Israel’s illegal annexations. Hamas is a terrorist organization in the same sense that the Israeli government and the US government are terrorist organizations. In an effort to bring Hamas under Israeli hegemony, Israel employs terror bombing and assassinations against Palestinians. Hamas replies to the Israeli terror with homemade and ineffectual rockets.

http://www.newageislam.com/the-war-on-terror-is-a-hoax----paul-craig-roberts--/war-on-terror/d/1182

Digesting the Marriott blast

Digesting the Marriott blast

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

This “it-is-not-our-war” group is clueless about what the Americans and their European allies — and others stretching as far eastward as Japan — can and may do after they no longer have to regard us as an ally but face as an ally of their enemies. Why doesn’t this group make any reference to the alternative strategy — “eat grass honourably?” — in the presumed post-pullout phase? Who will face up to the trespasses made by the NATO-ISAF forces into Pakistan? How will trespasses by Al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban in safe havens in FATA violate our sovereignty any less? Are we ready to trust the security of the state to Al Qaeda who will, if all goes according to its plan, of course be in charge of the armed forces and will control our nuclear capability? In fact it is this thought about nuclear weapons that inclines the “it-is-not-our-war” club to pre-emptively allege that the Americans are in Afghanistan to “grab our nuclear weapons”. But surely the global consensus on taking out the nuclear weapons acquired by Al Qaeda will develop much more dangerously than it is developing now.

http://www.newageislam.com/digesting-the-marriott-blast/war-on-terror/d/798

Al Qaeda's brutality, edicts alienate Iraqis

Al Qaeda's brutality, edicts alienate Iraqis

8 August 2008

Men would have fingers cut off for smoking, hair salons and shops selling cosmetics were bombed, ice vendors were killed because ice was not available during the time of Islam's Prophet Mohammad -- all common tales of al Qaeda justice.

http://www.newageislam.com/al-qaeda-s-brutality,-edicts-alienate-iraqis/war-on-terror/d/501

‘Osama driver knew 9/11 target’

‘Osama driver knew 9/11 target’

“He served as bodyguard, driver, transported and delivered weapons, ammunition and supplies to al Qaeda,” Stone said. The first two prosecution witnesses were U.S. military officers who were in Afghanistan during the early days of the U.S. invasion in 2001. Both addressed a key issue at trial — whether Hamdan had surface-to-air missiles when he was captured at a checkpoint near Takhteh Pol in November 2001.

http://www.newageislam.com/%E2%80%98osama-driver-knew-9/11-target%E2%80%99/war-on-terror/d/297

Pre-election political scene in India and the Muslims

Pre-election political scene in India and the Muslims

By B. Raman

It was in this context that in the last week of April, 2006, Osama bin Laden projected the global jihad being waged by Al Qaeda as directed against a joint conspiracy of the crusaders, Jewish people and the Hindus against Islam and Muslims. However, this characterisation has not been repeated by him since then and the anger over India's silence has not found renewed expression. However, one could not conclude from this that the anger has dissipated.

http://www.newageislam.com/pre-election-political-scene-in-india-and-the-muslims/islam-and-politics/d/268

What Obama should say on Iraq

What Obama should say on Iraq

BY FAREED ZAKARIA

'I start from a different premise. I believe that the Iraq War was a major strategic blunder. It diverted us from the battle against Al Qaeda and the Taleban in Afghanistan-the people who launched the attacks of 9/11 and who remain powerful and active today. We face threats in Iraq, but the two greatest ones, as General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker have testified, are Al Qaeda (which is wounded but not dead) and Iran. Both are a direct consequence of the invasion. There was no Al Qaeda in Iraq before 2003, and Iran's influence has expanded massively since then.

http://www.newageislam.com/what-obama-should-say-on-iraq/islam-and-politics/d/132