A profile of Moroccan jihadist Karim Mejjati, from the Washington Post, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- In the post-Sept. 11 world, Karim Mejjati was the perfect undercover al Qaeda operative. The former medical student from Morocco could speak several languages, had many passports and excelled at building bombs. He was also good at avoiding attention as he crisscrossed four continents to organize a wave of catastrophic attacks.
What's that? A medical student who could speak several languages? But...but...isn't poverty and ignorance supposed to cause terrorism? Karim Mejjati is just one of innumerable examples that show the bankruptcy of that all-too-common view.
On May 12, 2003, an al Qaeda network that investigators say was put together by Mejjati in Saudi Arabia blew up three residential compounds for foreign workers in Riyadh, leaving 23 dead. Less than a week later, about 3,000 miles away, suicide bombers trained by Mejjati carried out the deadliest terrorist attacks in Moroccan history, killing 45 people in Casablanca.For the next two years, authorities in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and North America pressed a secret but intensive global manhunt for the French-schooled suspect, fearing that he had set up other al Qaeda sleeper cells that had yet to be activated. Saudi Arabia put him near the top of its list of most wanted terrorism suspects. In Morocco, he was sentenced in absentia to 20 years for the Casablanca bombings. The FBI named him in a global anti-terrorism alert, warning that he was suspected of planning attacks in the United States.
According to investigators, his success in organizing terrorist networks in multiple countries is clear evidence that al Qaeda can still order devastating attacks around the world, even though most of its commanders have been killed or on the run since Sept. 11, 2001.
The search for Mejjati, 37, ended last month in a small town in the heart of Saudi Arabia when he was killed in a gun battle with security forces who stumbled on his hideout. Now, investigators trying to retrace his footsteps acknowledge that they still do not know how many more sleeper cells the well-educated explosives expert may have created.
Read it all.
Today’s Extras on Jihad’s 5th Column (Otherwise known as the ‘daily blather,' or nonsense, according to kj):
Brown Student Organizes Aid for Terrorists:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17860
The US is a ‘police state’:
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/4/26/105917.shtml
SFSU Hosts a Terrorist:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17915
The distinction between education and indoctrination:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17621
Massad’s Bad Book:
http://sandbox.blog-city.com/read/1205537.htm
Vive La Franc! And the Hizbollah:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/Armstrongwilliams/aw20050502.shtml
Speaking of an Al Qaeda organization in the traditional sense is misleading coz AQ is more a new kinda orgzn - the 'network orgzn'. Legend has it that the Internet was created when the Pentagon ordered DARPA to build an info network that could withstand a nuclear attack. And the network design for organizations was born. Al Qaeda is 1 such and it probably has the ability to survive the 'nuclear option', if you will.
The surest way to defeat jihadism is to acknowledge that islam and not radical islam, is the problem. And mass apostasy is probably the solution.
OT, LGF heavily criticizes 'Kingdom of Heaven' and many lizardoids are vowing to boycott the movie. A pity. The trailer I saw online looked promising if anything. But if the movie's anywhere near as dhimmi as potrayed, I'll have 2 give it a pass too.
Violetti:
Check the JW/DW archives. There has been much written about Kingdom of Heaven, and it isn't exactly laudatory.
"Now, investigators trying to retrace his footsteps acknowledge that they still do not know how many more sleeper cells the well-educated explosives expert may have created"
And what created Karim Mejjati? Al-Qeada?
What created Al-Qeada?
The Koran.
Until the Koran is confronted by the voices of this world - we can all brace ourselves for a great amount of bloodshed.
And as the river of blood keeps rising - there will STILL be those who preach "Islam is a religion of Peace" and those who spit on the ONLY thing that will stop it - The Truth.
In a way - it is fitting. The world self-destructs - and will have no one to blame but itself. It will blame God - but the fault will lie with this world.
Gal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
This world is sowing the Koran - an exceedingly violent book.
It's going to get worse - MUCH worse.
But according to the popular British t.v. 'documentary' series "The Power of Nightmares" Al-Qaidi is a propaganda device invented by machiavellian "neo-cons" in American to rule the world through fear by waving this non-existent bogeyman to enable them to destroy the Bill of Rights, peek into your library records, and win elections forever and ever.
Somebody better tell this guy quick!
Re Mejjati's background, Robert is right to make sarcastic comments about "ignorance and poverty" as the seedbed of terrorism. The bulk of the truly dangerous operatives are either people who got wealthy off of drugs and pimping (Zarqawi) or the bored sons of privilege (Bin Laden). This was the case with Communism as well. For all the talk about the "working class" or "peasant revolutionaries", every Communist leader was a middle or upper class intellectual, not someone who had to work with his hands and back.
So, maybe the place where the real seeds of trouble lie aren't in the twisting alleys flanked with crumbling adobe walls, but in gleaming, air-conditioned universities and the mansions of the idle rich.