Why do they make their initial contact in a mosque? Don't the mosque leaders, aware of the Qur'an's peaceful teachings, turn them away? Why aren't American policymakers taking note of the implications of this fact? From the TimesOnline, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
IN A garden café on the airport road into Damascus clusters of young men gather to drink coffee, smoke shisha and hear some awe-inspiring accounts of death and glory that will lead many on a journey to certain death in the battle raging across the border in Iraq....“It’s an individual decision. Once you’ve decided, you go to a mosque to make the initial contact. Then you are sent to a private home and from there for a week’s intensive training inside Syria,” she said. According to former fighters who spoke to The Times in Damascus, volunteers are given a crash course in using Kalashnikov rifles, firing rocket-propelled grenades and the use of remote detonators. The training takes place at secret camps in the Syrian desert, near the Iraqi border. Some attacks are even planned in advance in Damascus and Aleppo. Once the team is ready, a guide leads them across the rugged border into Iraq where they are taken to a safe house....
Over the past few weeks US Marines have carried out a series of offensives in the western Iraqi province of Anbar to try to smash the Euphrates supply line, yet most of the towns along the river valley remain in rebel hands. The main border town of al-Qaim is even nicknamed the “jihad superbowl” by US forces.
Once you’ve decided, you go to a mosque to make the initial contact. Then you are sent to a private home and from there for a week’s intensive training inside Syria
I'm Shocked...shocked I tell you. /Sarc off.
And where's the funding coming from for this "intensive training" in Syrian private homes for wannabe jihadis?
The main border town of al-Qaim is even nicknamed the “jihad superbowl” by US forces.
Wow. Imagine the headline "Defending champions US Marines take on jihadi gasoles in this year's superbowl!"
Maybe that would finally get the average American interested in getting to now the real nature of the jihadi team better...
Islam is the enemy.
The US and Europe, via the Jizyah we pay for Arab oil now at over $60 a barrel, the Saudis and Kuwaitis and Gulf States, can buy more Yachts, build more mosques, pave more roads and still have millions left over to print distribute Jihad material, recruit, pay and train Jihadis.
Are you listening Mr. Bush, thanks for backing out of Kyoto, thanks for NOT investing in alternative energy and mass transit.
Let's keep paying Jizyah to the ARabs so we can fund more Jihadis, and fund Muslim subversion.
Talk about capitalists selling the rope to hang themselves.
Are you listening Mr. Bush, thanks for backing out of Kyoto, thanks for NOT investing in alternative energy and mass transit.
The US should work towards cutting its dependence on oil, but it won't cut the flow of money to the jihad. The Chinese will pick up any slack that improvements in US policy would create. It will take something truly groundbreaking, like efficient fusion power, to end the global thirst for oil.
Or we could run out of oil.