First they threatened El Salvador not to send fresh troops to Iraq. Now those that are there must leave. It's yet another example of the now-famous Arroyo-Zapatero maneuver: influence the political process of cowardly sovereign states by threatening violence. From AFP:
DUBAI, Aug 16 (AFP) - An Islamic extremist group has given El Salvador 20 days to pull out its military contingent from Iraq before it starts "carrying the war to El Salvador," an Islamist Internet website said yesterday."We give you 20 days to withdraw from Iraq," said the group, calling itself the Mohamed Atta-Al-Qaeda Jihad Brigades.
"This is the final deadline before we carry the war to El Salvador itself."
This warning comes as a new 380-strong El Salvador contingent is scheduled to fly out to Iraq today to relieve the present force stationed there.
The Islamic group issuing the threat, named for a suspected hijacker involved in the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, issued a similar warning earlier this month, saying it would carry out attacks inside El Salvador.
El Salvador's President Antonio Saca has said his country will not give in to threats.
Yet El Salvador is beset by appeasers too:
Yesterday, more than 100 government opponents marched in the capital for the second time in a week on to protest the impending deployment of the third Army contingent to Iraq.In Iraq, "what there is, is a war and an occupation in which we have no reason to participate," said Shafik Handal, leader of the former guerrilla-group-turned-political-party, the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front.
Handal was defeated in El Salvador's presidential elections in March by conservative US ally and businessman Tony Saca. The president has explained that sending peacekeeping troops to Iraq is a way of expressing thanks to nations around the world for helping El Salvador reach the 1992 peace accords that ended this country's 12-year civil war.
This is just a test from the terrorist groups just to find out who the weakest links in the chain are ( so far : Spain and Phillipines-You ARE the weakest link GOOD-BYE!!!).
Whichever countries back down to them will forever be seen as cowards by the islamic world.We already know they view even such values as generosity and tolerance as weaknesses and flaws (e.g- Europe and Americas terrible habit of letting muslims walk allover their governments and laws).
God help anyone who backs down to such empty threats,these countries,El Salvador being the most recent, need to be strong and not give in and be defiant in the face of such scum, the islamonazis are getting far too much leaway as it is.
Shafik Handal? What the hell kind of name is that for an El Salvadoran? Well, when Al-Qaeda gives the orders to blow things up in San Salvador, we know where to start looking.
Shafik Handal? What the hell kind of name is that for an El Salvadoran? Well, when Al-Qaeda gives the orders to blow things up in San Salvador, we know where to start looking.
Mohamed Atta-Al-Qaeda Jihad Brigades
Gee, seems like all those Islamic rules are impeding Muzzie's ability to come up with creative names for their little groups.