More denials from Yarkas From Expatica, "9/11 chief suspect denies Bin Laden links," with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
MADRID — A man accused of helping plot the 9/11 attacks on the United States told a Spanish court he did not support Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden and had never met him.The Syrian-born Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, also known as Abu Dahdah, admitted he did back Islamic holy war as a "self-defence concept".
He is accused of organising a meeting where plans for the 2001 attacks in the US were finalised, and of running an Al-Qaeda recruitment unit in Spain since 1995.
"I am not a supporter of Bin Laden's doctrines, and I have never met him," he told the court in Madrid on the third day of a major trial involving 23 other defendants.
"But I acknowledge that I fully support, morally and emotionally, Muslim peoples who defend themselves against their aggressors," he added, quoting conflicts in Bosnia-Hercegovina and the Russian republic of Chechnya.
When pressed by the chief magistrate to explain what he meant by "jihad," or holy war, Yarkas replied: "It means defending oneself. Self-defence."
The 41-year-old has denied all links with the plotters behind the 9/11 attacks. His cross-examination began on Monday.
If found guilty, Yarkas faces the prospect of a prison sentence totalling more than 60,000 years — 25 years for each of the 3,000 lives lost...
I'm sure those Spaniards will do their best to throw the book at these jihad cowards! Yeah right, most of those degenerates are d'himmi cowards extraordinaire!
Why wasn't this bolded, Mr Spencer?:
When pressed by the chief magistrate to explain what he meant by "jihad," or holy war, Yarkas replied: "It means defending oneself. Self-defence."
Here it is in bold type:
TAQIYYA
It's a pity that this term, which doesn't even have much foundation in mainstream Islam (It is a sectarian (Shi'ite) concept after all), is being used to dismiss anything that disagrees with the premise of the reader.
Shukri:
Admit it-
"Jihad"
does not mean "self defense" even in your b.s. fantasy world oF
Re-interpreting Islam for Presumed Dummies
-now does it?
It once meant "Striving" or "Struggle" or "Sacred effort" or "A War in the soul" or "Interior Battle", and has come to mean, through common usage and militant, violent action: "holy war".
Stop the with fog machine!
No one is buying it.
Not even the holy warriors.
Jihadists by any other name.
http://www.al-islam.org/encyclopedia/chapter6b/1.html
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The following exposition will Insha Allah demonstrate the existence
of al-Taqiyya in the Quran, Hadith, the Prophet's (PBUH&HF) custom, and the
companions' custom. As usual, Sunni books will be used to further the
argument. This is in keeping with the commitment to reveal the truth by
showing that the Sunnis reject the Shia's arguments, while THEIR OWN books
are replete (full) with the SAME ideologies that the Shia uphold! Although
some Wahhabis staunchly argue their aforementioned statements, and
aggressively defame the Shia and refute their doctrines, they have failed
to explain the validity of their argument vis-a-vis the existence of these
SAME doctrines in their own books, as has been demonstrated in ALL the past
posts about the Shia. Those who think that they are the true protectors of
the custom of the Prophet (PBUH&HF) and the only guardians of the Islamic
Faith, how can they explain their own rejection of that which they are
supposed to protect? Rejecting al-Taqiyya is rejecting the Quran, as will
be shown shortly... Read it all Shukri
"Why wasn't this bolded, Mr Spencer?:
When pressed by the chief magistrate to explain what he meant by "jihad," or holy war, Yarkas replied: "It means defending oneself. Self-defence."
And you LIVE in the United States?
Moose
Well, Shurki, in that jihad doesn't mean self-defense - but is used to justify islamic aggression against other cultures, historically (Spain, India, the Balkans, North Africa, the Middle East) and in the present day (Africa, New York, Britain, France, etc) - and in that taquiyya is acknowledged not only by Shiites but also by Wahhabis and indeed some Sunni scholars, and in that your own lies and half-truths have been illustrated here again and again, and in that you yourself advocate the forced implementation of sharia (and, presumably, islam), what would you expect everyone that reads this site to conclude about taquiyya and islam?
Geoff
Persecutions , afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch [Syria].. ; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Timothy 3:11-13
http://www.spainherald.com/421.html
Socialist leader met with March 11 terrorist in jail
Spain Herald; Thursday, March 17, 2005
Fernando Huarte Santamaría, a leader of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) in the northern city of Gijón, Asturias, contacted Algerian terrorist Benesmail Abdelkrim in the Villabona prison in 2001. Huarte even got Abdelkrim a furlough to go to the dentist and paid his bill; the two last met in October 2004. A few days later, the police arrested Abdelkrim and found the address of a well-known ETA terrorist in his pocket. Abdelkrim served time with two other notorious prisoners, Spaniard Antonio Toro Castro and Moroccan Rafá Zouhier, two police informants accused in the March 11, 2004 bombings.
In April 1997 police first arrested Benesmail Adbelkrim, a member of the Armed Islamic Group (AIG), along with nine other terrorists including Allekema Lamari, one of the March 11 bombers who later committed suicide when surrounded by police in Leganés. Abdelkrim, considered Lamari's right-hand-man, spent four years in the Ocaña prison, where officials state that Abdelkrim and the ETA terrorists imprisoned there shared a strong comradeship; they say, "He was just like one of them." In July 2001 Abdelkrim was transferred to Villabona, where he maintained good relations with the ETA terrorists serving time there. According to the newspaper El Mundo, Benesmail made friends with ETA member Juan María Igarataundi and ETA youth brigadist José Luis Camarero, who said about him, "He's a superserious guy. He's one of those guys who always carries a bomb whenever he goes out. He says we do some things wrong. According to him, you plant the bomb and don't call in a warning."
The Algerian terrorist was obsessed with news. He borrowed a TV from the ETA prisoners in order to watch the airplanes crashing into the World Trade Center on 9-11, and he discussed the press with the ETA prisoners. Officials said, "The newspaper Gara (pro-ETA) circulated through the cells. They called each other brothers." At this time Benesmail met Toro Castro and Zouhier, involved in the March 11 plot; Toro was looking for a buyer for the 150 kilos of dynamite he had possession of. In 2001, Fernando Huarte Santamaría, a leader of the PSOE in Gijon and the president of the Al-Fatah National Association of Friends of the Palestinian People, met Abdelkrim, to whom he sent Arabic-language magazines in prison. According to the newspaper La Nueva España, in December 2001, Huarte initiated contacts with a dental clinic in order to perform an operation on the terrorist, which took place in February 2002. Socialist leader Huarte not only helped pull the strings that got Abdelkrim his furlough, but even paid the bill. Other members of the Gijon PSOE knew about these contacts. Huarte is in charge of security for PSOE events in Gijon, and performed these tasks while visiting Abdelkrim various times in prison, the last time on October 9, 2004, seven months after the Madrid bombings. ...