The first week in February, the Saudis are going to hold a huge Taqiyya conference -- uh, that is, Anti-Terror conference. It looks from this article as if the participants are going to zero in fearlessly on the cause of all international terrorism: why, Israel, of course.
From the Arab News, with thanks to Anthony:
JEDDAH, 24 November 2004 — Forty-three countries and several international organizations will attend the first global anti-terror conference in Riyadh from Feb. 5-8, a senior Foreign Ministry official said. “We have invited all countries that have suffered from terrorism to the conference and all have agreed to take part,” said Prince Turki ibn Muhammad, assistant undersecretary for political affairs at the ministry, Al-Riyadh Arabic daily reported.The conference aims at exchanging information and experience and fostering cooperation in the fight against terrorism. It will also address measures to help tackle money laundering as well as drug and arms smuggling.
Prince Turki said Israel’s obstinacy in dealing with the Palestinian issue as well as the international community’s apathy to the issue had contributed to the spread of violence and terrorism in the Middle East. He said the international community had begun recognizing Saudi Arabia’s firm stand against terrorism and had commended its efforts in combating terrorism at both national and international levels.
All right, Turki. I hope your little conference will explain to us how jihad violence in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Kashmir, Russia, Nigeria, and elsewhere have to do with Israel.
" “We have invited all countries that have suffered from terrorism to the conference and all have agreed to take part,” said Prince Turki ibn Muhammad, assistant undersecretary for political affairs at the ministry, Al-Riyadh Arabic daily reported."
Does this mean that they invited Israel?
*LOL*
Nice one, CGW.
But they'll circumvent that contradiction by argueing that Israel ain't really a 'country' now, is it?
What a fu@#%&ng sham! And a fu@#*ng shame!
Commentators should be sure, in discussing this absurd meeting, to compare it to the Helsinki Peace Conference that was sponsored, just a few years after the Red Army seized all of Eastern Europe, with the then-equivalent of today's KGB throwing Masaryk out the window in the Second Defenestration of Prague (or purists will argue, the Third), putting assorted Cardinals --Mindszenty comes to mind -- under house arrest or causing them to hide in foreing embassies. Meanwhile, the Peace Show went on, with Picasso's dove (the same Picasso who failed to lift a finger to save his god-child and friend, Max Jacob, from the Nazis, and entertained German officers in his rue des grands-ausgustins studio, offering them his wares), and the dewy-eyed, from Pete Seeger to Jean-Paul Sartre, egging them on.
Meanwhile, the American government seeded the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and supported the non-Communists of all kinds, and went methodically on the offensive, beating back the Communist threat despite such propaganda stunts.
This Saudi farce will not deal, can not deal, with the sources of "terrorism" for that would involve looking at how Muhammad treated his perceived enemies, and at all the stories that reflect his desire to seize the booty from all Infidels, and to use whatever instruments -- including the one to be used here, "pen, speech" (i.e. propaganda), to confuse and turn away Infidel wrath.
Will it work? There are fools aplenty. There seem to be an especially high proportion of fools at Le Monde, the BBC, the New York Times (Kristof and Friedman in the lead). But if we can simply turn our backs on that media -- the "old media" just like "old Europe" suffering from senile dementia, sentimentalism run riot, and sheer laziness, with inside-dopesterism ("when I has having lunch with twenty leading Moroccan intellectuals last week just after the Davos meeting..." -- put in your own favorite line that Friedman might offer) a substitute for sober study, thought, and analysis. No imaginative sympathy , no intelligence, no wit, no memorable phrases -- that's what we get all over the media of the Western world, with some honorable and even dazzling exceptions.
Helsinki -- Riyadh. In the end, enough people saw through Stalin, and the Politburo, and Communism, to stave it off at home, and to wait, patiently, until enough Russians saw Communism as the failure it is. Islam must be constrained, its adherents severely limited in numbers, their ability to promote Jihad, and Da'wa (which is an instrument, in a sense, of Jihad), monitored and every effort made to limit their ability to maneuver and to spread what is not merely an alien creed, but a creed hostile in every way to almost every assumption -- about individual autonomy, freedom of conscience, the equality of the sexes, the right to free and skeptical inquiry, the right to artistic expression -- that underlies the modern Western world, and indeed much of the non-Muslim East which should be our natural ally against Islam.
And nothing, not foreign aid, not access to foreign technology, or medical care, or education, must be made freely available for that only prolongs the illusion that the Islamic world can continue to batten on the inventions, discoveries, way of life of the West that makes those universities, those hospitals, those technological achievements, possible -- all the while simply using the OPEC oil money, itself an accident that does not reflect any economic achievements of the Muslim oil states but rather an accident of geology (though they like to ascribe it to Allah's munificence. No. That has to end, so that a sufficient number of Muslims will recognize the failures of their own societies, will not be bailed out thorugh foreign aid,, or allowed to export their own overpopulaton -- that hideous overbreeding which is not innocent, but undertaken often for consciously "Islamic" (i.e. geopolitical desire for conquest of Infidel lands) reasons -- to overwhelm, demographically, the aging population of Western Europe. That Western Europe can now, given the end of Communism, find its workforce in Eastern Europe and Russia. It need no longer continue the folly of allowing in people whose mere presence causes huge expenditures for welfare, for prisons, for secuirty in monitoring those populations, which are -- save for a handful -- essentially permanently immune to any efforts at real integration, becuase Islam is "to dominate, and not to be dominated" -- not to integrate with any Infidel population. That shows a misunderstanding of Islam by those in power in Europe so complete as to beggar belief.
And the result will be -- here, and there -- someone will begin to get the bright idea that we can have unfettered Islam, and continued failure in every respect, or we can reduce it to a handful of rituals,and possibly not be reduced to being the cynosure of all suspicious non-Islamic eyes, made permanently wary by their undrstanding of taqiyya, kitman, and related behavior.
A few more episodes, a few more attacks a few more cats out of a few more bags. The Saudis, no doubt, wish that Bin Laden and others had held their fire, and let the demographic conquest, and Da'wa, proceed unhindered for another 20 or so years. But they acted just a bit too soon -- at least, too soon if the Europeans, or enough of them, come to their senses in time. One hopes.
Saudi anti-terror meeting. An oxymoron if I have ever seen one.
The Saudis could look no further than islamic military outpost (mosques) in their own country if they want to get to the bottom of the cause of terrorism.
Anti-terror meeting? Mmmmm no I dont think I would call it that.
New PR Campaign to Fool the Infidels Who are Getting Wise to our Agenda at Dangerous Levels and We Need To Come Up With Some New Ways to Fool Them meeting sounds more like it.
I would even go with Terror Planning Event.
Posting your comments on this one?:
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi locust hunters who believe the insects hold a cure for diabetes were warned on Wednesday they could be crunching on a poisonous snack.
The official Saudi Press Agency quoted Ghazi Hawari, head of the desert kingdom's anti-locust center, as saying any swarm which crossed its borders would be sprayed with insecticide.
It said Hawari "warned against catching locusts and eating them in the belief that they are a cure for diabetes and stressed the danger of eating them after spraying operations."
Diabetes is a common affliction in many Gulf Arab countries
Prince Turkey is definitely out of step with SA's ambassador to the US who put the blame squarely on Arabfart's shoulders for turning away from Barak's offer.
As for SA hosting such a conference, nice touch considering what they have contributed to Jihaddism, nationally and internationally.
Posted by: Cid Campeador at November 26, 2004 02:45 PM
hOW SAD FOR THEM NOW THAT THEY THINK THEY OWN THE COCOA FEILDS CHO. COVERED LOCUS FOR THE CURE SO CLOSE BUT YET SO FAR AWAY??
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/24/binladen.khalifa/index.html
Bin Laden's brother-in-law speaks
Former confidant details life with terrorist leader
From Nic Robertson and Henry Schuster
CNN
Wednesday, November 24, 2004 Posted: 8:11 PM EST (0111 GMT)
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (CNN) -- Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law, and former best friend, says he's not surprised the terrorist leader has been difficult to capture.
"Who is going to capture him and where?" Jamal Khalifa said.
Khalifa spoke to CNN in an exclusive interview about bin Laden and their past, which he said took the two men from university to Soviet-occupied Afghanistan before they parted company.
"For 10 years, the Russians did not capture even one leader of the Afghan mujahedeen with the full forces everywhere. So I think it is a little bit difficult," he said.
These days, Khalifa runs a fish restaurant just outside the Saudi Arabian port city of Jeddah.
"Ten years we are together," said Khalifa. "When we were in the university and after that. Always we are together. We live in one house."
Bin Laden and Khalifa met at Jeddah's King Abdulaziz University in the late 1970s and became close friends, nearly inseparable, Khalifa said.
They also shared a teacher, Abdullah Azzam, a Palestinian cleric who later joined bin Laden as founders of al Qaeda. Azzam's teachings helped influence bin Laden and Khalifa to go to Afghanistan and join the jihad against the Soviet forces that had invaded that country in 1979.
It was a sign of bin Laden's respect and affection for Khalifa that he arranged for Khalifa to marry his sister. But Khalifa thought a degree of caution might be in order, since they were headed into a war zone.
"He is the one who suggested ... I marry his sister," Khalifa said. "I told him, 'Osama, we are going to die and you are talking about marriage. So let's go first and if I come alive, we will do it.' So, I came alive."
Khalifa said he spent most of his time in Pakistan, setting up an Islamic relief charity, building schools and mosques for refugees displaced by the war in neighboring Afghanistan.
At the same time, bin Laden was becoming a leader of Arabs who came to Pakistan and Afghanistan. He was able to use some of his family fortune and contacts to raise money for the jihad, and he led men into combat.
Khalifa said that he was troubled at the time that bin Laden was creating his own fighting force from the men, who were known as the Afghan Arabs. "I saw him starting to group the Arabs in one place and start to let them go and fight by themselves."
Khalifa said he didn't realize that he was witnessing the beginnings of al Qaeda. But he said that what he saw he didn't like. He had a visit from three men, including Abu Ubaidah and Abu Hafs, who later became al Qaeda's first two military commanders.
They asked him a series of questions. Only later, he said, did he understand he was being screened about becoming a member of al Qaeda. This was in the late 1980s.
'Osama, you are doing something wrong'
"I am the first one who stood up in front of Osama and told him, 'Osama, you are doing something wrong. You are going to the wrong direction,'" said Khalifa, who said he did not approve of the worldwide jihad that bin Laden and his advisers were planning.
Sheik Azzam, their mentor, was murdered under still-mysterious circumstances shortly afterward, and bin Laden became the uncontested leader of al Qaeda.
"He is a wealthy man, he has very good connections, and many people really love Osama," Khalifa said.
He said he parted company with bin Laden in the late 1980s, but they remained in touch. He last saw him in early 1992 during a family visit to Sudan.
The bin Laden Khalifa saw on video most recently aired on Arabic-language news channels looks like a man who has aged a great deal, he said.
On that tape, bin Laden once again took responsibility for the attacks of September 11, 2001. Khalifa believes that to be the case, but he says his brother-in-law was the leader of the attacks, but not the organizer.
"He cannot organize anything. I am the one who is leading. I am the one who is leading him in the prayer. I am the one who is leading if we go for outing, for picnic, for riding horses," Khalifa said with a laugh.
Khalifa has become more outspoken in his criticism of bin Laden. Last year, after a wave of terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia, he published an open letter to bin Laden in a Saudi paper, asking him to renounce the terrorism being committed in his name.
"Please come out, tell those people to stop," Khalifa wrote in the letter. "You are the one who can tell that, and you are the one who can stop it."
He never got a response from the man who was once his best friend. But there have been more attacks.
Khalifa has been the target of an extraordinary amount of scrutiny because of his background.
In the Philippines, where he went from Afghanistan, officials charged in a 1994 report that he was using businesses and prominent Islamic charities as fronts to funnel money to terrorists. Much of the investigation was done after Khalifa had left the country.
No charges were filed, Col. Boogie Mendoza of the Philippine National Police, said, because at the time the Philippines had no anti-terrorism laws. Currently, Khalifa does not face any charges in the Philippines. In fact, Mendoza said, if Khalifa returned to Manila, he would likely be put under surveillance but not be arrested.
Khalifa next traveled to San Francisco, California. He was arrested there by the U.S. government after it learned he was wanted in Jordan, where he had been convicted in absentia on a charge of plotting to overthrow the government. After being deported to Jordan, he was retried and acquitted.
Although Khalifa is named as a defendant in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit brought by the families of 9/11 victims, he contends there is no evidence to link him to the attacks.
On September 11, Khalifa was on a business trip in Southeast Asia. After he returned to Saudi Arabia, he was jailed for several months. He said he still doesn't know why he was arrested.
"They came and said, 'You are clear and you can go now.' That's it. So I don't know what is going on," he said.
Nawaf Obaid, a national security consultant for the Saudi government, said officials there now believe Khalifa "does not pose any security threat to any government and that he has broken all ties that have linked him to his charitable groups when he was operating out of the Philippines."
EARTHQUAKE IN INDONESIA TODAY??
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Wisdom,Sight and Courage to stay the course to Victory to Destory ALL Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Worlds Eyes to their Thraet Amen
In laymen's terms this article is:
FOXES IN HENHOUSE GATHER TO BAN FOXES.
Sure.
When the Ka'aba is turned into a go-cart race track or a four screen drive-in movie theater, then I'll trust the Muslim majority in Saudi Arabia with anything they claim.
As Theo Van Gogh said about 'Muslimspeak'(before he was slaughtered in his hometown my an Islamic fanatic):
"We spit on you, and you call it is a Spring shower."
It's time for the West to declare a fatwa on all of these liars. From Bandar to Bin Laden.
Bin Laden is alive and well and enjoys the company of his many wives and children and devoted followers. Where? In a cave?
You still believe in Santa Claus and the toothfairy? Of course he is in Iran with the protection of the Mullahs: Muslimbrothers! How could they let such an opportunity pass without helping this folk hero to enjoy their hospitality? Oh, and there is no doubt in my mind that Bin Laden has any problems flying in and out of Saudi Arabia, private jet provided by the house of Saud!There is unity and understanding, and it's all in the name of Jihad.
When are we going to start up our Jihad watch news channel Mr. Spencer?