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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Al Qaeda: Drone Strike Is Said To Kill Number Three AQ Leader

Filed under: Al Qaeda,Pakistan — Tags: , , , — Matt @ 11:36 AM

   Ok, my first thought on this, is that it sucks to be the number three guy in AQ.  It always seems like the number three guy gets killed all the time at all the countries AQ is operating at.  But this is a little different.  This is a big big fish, and we killed him.  But this is where I have a big problem with this strike.

   If we had a fix on AQ’s number three guy, then I think a capture mission would have been in order.  It would have been worth the risk in my view, and we probably could have captured a couple of other fish and documents along with the raid. We are talking about a target that is part of the inner circle of Al Qaeda, and not some junior varsity booger eater.      Of course Pakistan would not approve.  But in this case, that would be a part of the risk, and I think going in would have been extremely profitable for this war.

   That is the downside to all of these drone strikes.  For every big fish we kill, we lose out on a bunch of intelligence on the organization.  That bonanza of intel could completely open up Al Qaeda, and lead to a massacre of that group. His capture could have led to the capture of Bin Laden, and I think the political or tactical risk involved with such a capture mission would have been acceptable in this case. We are at war with a non-state enemy, and yet we continue to allow this group to take advantage of the of a state in places like Pakistan. –Matt

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Strike Is Said to Kill a Top Qaeda Leader

May 31, 2010

By ERIC SCHMITT

WASHINGTON — The operational leader for Al Qaeda in Afghanistan was killed in an American missile strike in Pakistan’s tribal areas in the last two weeks, according to a statement the group issued late Monday that American officials believe is correct.

The militant leader, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, an Egyptian, was a top financial chief for Al Qaeda as well as one of the group’s founders, and was considered by American intelligence officials to be the organization’s No. 3 leader, behind Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, another Egyptian.

“His death will only be a severe curse by his life upon the infidels,” Al Qaeda said in a statement issued to jihadist Web sites and translated by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors statements by jihadists.

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Monday, May 24, 2010

Bounties: How The Taliban And Al Qaeda Use Bounties In The War

Filed under: Afghanistan,Al Qaeda,Iraq — Tags: , , , , , , — Matt @ 10:16 AM

     “We can’t lie to our commanders: they can check to see if there was a fight in that area. We get money if we capture equipment too. A gun can fetch $1,000 [£690],” said a commander from Khost province who controls about 60 fighters.

The money usually reaches commanders via the traditional hawala transfer system found in many Muslim countries. They then share it among their men and sometimes celebrate with a feast.

     “It’s a lot of money for us. We don’t care if we kill foreigners: their blood allows us to feed our families and the more we kill, the more we weaken them. Of course we are going to celebrate this,” said a commander from Ghazni province.

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     This post is about what the enemy is doing to create an industry out of killing us. This is a disgusting topic to go over, but I still think it is important to study what the enemy is doing and learn from it. ‘Know your enemy’ is what I am all about, and this is what I am attempting to do here.

     So let’s talk about this. I guess the big difference between our bounty system, and their bounty system, is that they actually want people to either kill or capture folks and that there are no legal restrictions for that process. It is the purest form of a free market based killing mechanism.

     The west though are the only ones in this fight putting restrictions on how the bounty system is to be used, and in turn making the bounty system ineffective in my opinion. We have a 50 million dollar bounty on Usama Bin Laden’s head, but the only way to collect on it is that you can only give information on his whereabouts. A company or individual could not go after UBL and kill or capture him because the west abhors such things. It infringes on this so-called monopoly on the use of force that the we love to embrace, and meanwhile our enemies are mocking us.

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Maritime Security: The Greater Strategic Threat Of The Jihad Corsairs Of Somalia, By Dr. Walid Phares

Filed under: Al Qaeda,Letter Of Marque,Maritime Security,Somalia,Strategy — Tags: , , , , , , — Matt @ 9:16 AM

     I had actually linked to this article awhile back when I was discussing jihadist privateers, and Dr. Phares had actually written a similar article with a similar theme.  So I just wanted to get this article registered in the database here, for future research.

     The best part of this article to me, was the use of the arabic word for corsair or qursaan.  This is what the middle east press call the Somali pirates, and qursaan has it’s roots in the French word corsair.  So I thought that was kind of cool, but I am not sure if the ME press actually consider the Somali pirate a privateer or practitioner of legalized piracy?  Which leads me to my next point.

     It is difficult to determine if in fact piracy is becoming the tool of jihadists or not. I would think that most pirates at this point are just in it for the money, and would claim an islamist slant to their project if it would help them to get more money or support for their ventures.

     A couple weeks back, I posted some stuff about islamists falsely claiming to take over pirate towns to get rid of piracy. In fact they were just trying to gain control over ports so they can make money off of the secondary businesses related to piracy.  Someone has to tax these pirates, or feed them, or use them for arms and soldier shipments, or provide a place for the wary pirate to sleep.

    But it is hard to determine if these Jihadist are actually investing in piracy ventures, or directing attacks in a strategic sense.  It would not be that much of a stretch for them to do so, and that is why it is important to keep this kind of stuff in the back of our heads when looking at piracy in the modern age.

     The other thing I was thinking about the other day, is what is the Islamic version of the Letter of Marque?  Is it the Fatwa or would you call this Ghazawat? Interesting stuff. –Matt

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The Greater Strategic Threat of the Jihad Corsairs of Somalia

by Walid Phares, Ph.D.Published 21 Apr 09

Most of the media discussion about piracy in the Gulf of Aden has drifted understandably towards the sensational part of the story: how are the Pirates able to roam the Ocean? Is paying them ransom a better option than to engage them militarily? Last but not least, will a military intervention against the Pirates worsen the situation; will it lead to a massive escalation in Somalia and a Vietnam like quagmire for many years to come?

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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Call To Action: Everybody Draw Mohammad Day–May 20th!

Filed under: Al Qaeda,Call To Action,Funny Stuff,War Art — Tags: , , , , , — Matt @ 2:09 AM

   The drawing below that Lars Vilks did, as well as the Mohammad in a bear suit that the guys at South Park/Comedy Central put together, are two prime examples of the kind of stuff that really winds up these extremists.  What’s better, is now there is a holiday being promoted on Facebook that declares May 20th as ‘Everybody Draw Mohammad Day’!  I love it.  And check out how many friends that page has? lol

   All I have to say to Al Qaeda and company is that you better sell some more drugs and get some more donations from your rich muslim friends for all of the bounties you are going to have to post, because you are about to get an onslaught of funny Mohammad drawings. –Matt

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Join up on Facebook for Everybody Draw Mohammad Day here.

Use your artistic skills (or lack thereof) and submit your drawings of Mohammad to drawmohammad @ gmail.com

Select entries will be featured on this page and on our website (currently under construction).

Invite all your friends to join this page – if individual freedom is important to you, now is the time to act!

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Mohammed Dog

Swede cartoonist Lars Vilks attacked

May 12, 2010

Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who sparked controversy by drawing Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog, was on Tuesday attacked while giving a lecture at a university, police said.

“The man was sat in the first row and suddenly he rushed at me. He punched me in the head and I lost my glasses,” said Vilks, adding that at the very most he was “a little bruised”.

Police said around 250 people were present at the time of the attack at the university of Uppsala, north of the Stockholm.

Story here.

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From the Facebook Page

In 2005, more than 100 people were killed in “cartoon riots”. Instead of speaking out against this insanity, people of the free world were bullied into the corner and decided that it would be better to appease Islamists with self-censorship under the threat of violence, since there is certainly plenty of evidence that they are more than willing to deliver on their threats. “If you dare portray Mohammad or criticize Islam” – you can end up dead.

The message was clear – and we were willing to give up our rights and forsake our values under the threat of violence from a group of thugs.

In 2010, we reached a new low when Comedy Central has decided to remove any mention of the name “Mohammad” from an episode of South Park, again as result of death threats from people who claim to be followers of a “religion of peace”.

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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Somalia: Respected Islamic Scholars Declare War As ‘Un-Islamic’

Filed under: Africa,Al Qaeda,Somalia — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — Matt @ 12:49 AM

   You know, I think this is pretty significant.  There have been some new and startling developments in the war in Somalia, and I think it is important to highlight what is really going on.  The other reason I want to post this, is to set the record as to who is really responsible for all of this chaos over there.

   First off, my message to these extremists groups in Somalia is that Blackwater did not bomb your mosques.  Nor did Blackwater dig up Sufi graves and hide the bodies.  Nope.  Nor did Blackwater allow piracy to continue under their watch in Somalia, or cut off food supplies to the people of Somalia via banning the World Food Program food shipments, or proclaim that a 13 year old girl who was gang raped by thugs to be a whore and then have her stoned to death in public.  Nope, Blackwater didn’t do any of that.

    But I will tell you who did.  It was al Shabab and company, and now that Somalia’s true Islamic scholars have spoken and rejected their war, from here on out they will have that hanging over them. How can you wage holy war, when you don’t have a case for such a thing?

   Further more, I will go as far as to say that al Shabab and company care more about power and making money, than living some kind of purist lifestyle under Sharia Law.  In other words, I call them hypocrites.  You administer your form of sick justice on helpless little girls, yet look the other way when it comes to piracy, desecrating graves, bombing of mosques, chewing khat, recklessly launching mortars into population centers and otherwise making a hard life for the people of Somalia, even worse.  And now you have lost the support of the guys who are more knowledgeable of Islam than you. And last I checked, these scholars said nothing about Blackwater at the Garowe Islamic conference. Nope, they were referring to your now ‘un-holy war’ and you have no one to blame but yourselves.

   On a side note, I do think it is funny that islamic extremists fear contractors as much as they do.  It used to be that the Marines or Special Forces where the ones that everyone feared or put the blame on for everything.  But hey, if you guys want to make us into the new bogeyman, so be it……. Boo! lol –Matt

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Aweys rejects clerics’ verdict on Somalia war

11 May 11, 2010

The Islamist leader of Somalia’s Hizbul- Islam rebel group Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys dismissed the declarations of the country’s most respected Islamic scholars, who were in attendance at the recently concluded Garowe Islamic conference, Radio Garowe reports.

The Islamic conference was held last month in Garowe, capital of Puntland in northern Somalia, where more than 50 respected Somali clerics declared that the ongoing war in Somalia as un-Islamic.Aweys defended the war his waging against the foreign troops and UN-backed government as “in accordance with Islamic law.’“The war we are waging is in accordance with Islamic law, because we are not after power. We want to implement Sharia Law in the country,” said the 65-year old cleric.

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