Malika El-Aroud, apparently
Yes, that Malika El-Aroud (with highly appropriate "red-eye" in the photo): The one collecting $1100 a month in unemployment benefits while agitating for jihad online.
An update on this story. "Belgian police arrest 'al Qaeda legend'," from CNN, December 11:
(CNN) -- Belgian police Thursday arrested a woman they called an "al-Qaeda living legend" as part of an operation to thwart a terror attack being planned to coincide with an EU summit in Brussels, a Belgian police source told CNN.
Police seized 14 people, one of whom was planning to carry out a suicide attack in Belgium, the source said. They had contacts at the "highest levels of al-Qaeda," the source said.
The police source said officers "had only 24 hours to act."
The leaders of the European Union's 27 member states are meeting in Brussels Thursday and Friday. It is not clear that the heads of state and government themselves were the target of the planned attack.
The federal prosecutor's office in Belgium identified one of the suspects as Malika El-Aroud, the widow of one of the men who assassinated a key opponent of the Taliban in Afghanistan two days before September 11, 2001.
El-Aroud's late husband was one of two men who killed Ahmed Shah Massoud, a leader of the Northern Alliance, in a suicide mission ordered by Osama Bin Laden.
Belgian police aimed to prevent El-Aroud, whom the police source called an "al-Qaeda living legend," from moving to Afghanistan to play a role in the fight against the coalition forces there, the source said.
She is thought to be a recruiter for the anti-Western network, rather than a fighter, the source said.
El-Aroud described the "love" she and her late husband felt for Osama bin Laden in a 2006 interview with CNN.
"Most Muslims love Osama. It was he who helped the oppressed. It was he who stood up against the biggest enemy in the world, the United States. We love him for that," she told CNN then.
Gazing into CNN's cameras she said, "It's the pinnacle in Islam to be the widow of a martyr. For a woman it's extraordinary."
"Most of those arrested" Thursday had Belgian passports, the police source said. All 14 are of Moroccan descent.
Three of the suspects had traveled to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region to participate in fighting or training camps, and were in contact with an unnamed suspect who had direct links to important al-Qaeda figures, police said.
Two of those three returned to Belgium several months ago and started surveillance operations, and the third returned to Belgium a week ago, police said. Intelligence showed that third person was ready to carry out a suicide attack, police said.
Information showed the suspect who was to carry out the attack had received the green light to execute the operation, police said. Investigators noted the suspect had said goodbye to his family "because he wanted to go to paradise with a clear conscience," police said.
Authorities also found a video meant for the suspect's family, which police said was probably a farewell tape. They did not find any explosives, the police said in a statement.
The 14 suspects were arrested after police carried out 16 search warrants in Brussels and one in the western Belgian city of Liege. During those searches, police seized computer equipment and documents and the 14 people, including the three who traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan and 11 others suspected of having given them logistical and material support.
Police said their investigation has been under way intensively since the end of 2007.
Liege is an eastern city, not a western city.
I feel so sad..........
Now can she be deported to Somalia? Not that any other Islamic Paradise wouldn't do in a pinch, but............ the irony of leaving a modern, European state to live in a "country" where there is basically a bunch of gangs running around shooting each other. Couldn't happen to a nicer muslimah.
(Yawn)--Another day, another Islamist terror plot averted . . . another Black Widow apprehended . . . so it goes.
Golly, those International Hindu Zionist Crusaders sure do hatch a lot o' plots!
I've said a few times already, I only feel a modicum of sympathy anymore for female Mohammedans.
I don't know who she is really but 'She got Bette Davis Eyes'...
Muslimahs are the followers of Mohammad they equally and have proven to be jihadis. There have been many female Islamic suicide bombers. They follow Islam they are not apostates.
Thanks goodness! Now, let's hope the depraved Belgian Muslim appeasers don't just let her go again, bowing down to weeping and THREATS.
The woman is a hideous menace. Any woman who would willingly adhere to the most "radical" parts of Islam - the TRUE Islam, as we know well - is ABSOLUTELY DEMENTED.
I'm sure that some beleaguered Muslim women can be and are rehabilitated to the kinder, gentler reality of the non-Muslim world, but those who are in the West yet cling to this evil are really lost and without redemption. Some years ago, I was stunned to meet a "liberated" female immigrant who, while not having any appearance to indicate her Muslim status, nevertheless proudly declared herself a Muslim. Since then, many of us have encountered one mindboggling example of same after another. Religious Stockholm Syndrome - the brainwashing is that thick. They just can't escape this mental enslavement.
This sick, deranged woman is a clearcut example.
By the way, some of you might remember my website islamwatchers.blogspot.com Google/Blogger destroyed it for "Violation of TOS." I guess they can't handle the truth about Islam, even when it comes straight out of Muslim mouths. Not a good sign.
P.S. Typepad is still screwing up.
This is a belated nod to Hugh for his intriguing quotes by President JQ Adams on Islam. Our former President sounded as if he had just read some of Robert's books. As erudite as he was, my hunch is that back before PC blinded people, Islam was more accurately and honestly understood by a greater proportion of the population. As Hugh pointed out, the past 40 years have been pretty devastating to intellectual honesty. The passage of time doesn't always bring progress.
While times can change, Islam remains remarkably constant.
Think about the fact that strict Islam does not allow women TO HAVE A FACE. A face is how one exists in society, in life, as a human being among human beings. It expresses oneself, it is in a constant give and take with the world. A woman so imprisoned will be spiritually impoverished and socially retarded. The resentment against her restrictions will turn envy and hate of those who are free of this bizarre monstrosity. These are the eyes of an insane and tormented animal. I almost can't hate her. Almost.
test. (sorry)
test again (sorry again)
The ugliness of Islam has a myriad of heads, including this malevolent bitch from Belgium. Could you make up an ideology which invites more contempt than Islam? You'd be hard pressed to do so.
With "jewdog" on the insight of Quincy Adams and the idiocy of the modern age. The 1960s is arguably the most dumbing-down decade in man's history. Virtually all the stupidities that confront us today, including political correctness, multiculturalism and suicidal assessment of one's heritage, can be traced back to that tragic, aberrant ten years.
I thought Belgium's policy was to ignore Belgian based jiahdis in exchange for them not hitting targets within Belgium? AQ seems to have broken the rules here, especially by targetting the EU leadership. Funny how they have so much trouble finding them when the targets aren't of great strategic value...
Is that Belgium's new national costume? How fetching.
Gazing into CNN's cameras she said, "It's the pinnacle in Islam to be the widow of a martyr. For a woman it's extraordinary."
Muslims are so mentally ill. Being the WIDOW of a MASS MURDERER is "the pinnacle." Not having actually done something positive or to have contributed anything of value to the world, but murder. Not to live one's own life, but to have been pimped into incestuous Sharia sex slavery to someone who did. Not to be anyting in one's own eyes, but to have one's identity be dependent upon the sicko worldview of a bunch of inbred, terrorist, pedophile zombies. That one sentence is so disgusting and disturbing on so many levels. Hope she spends her life in a cold, rat-infested room with nothing but a toilet and a tough chick named whatever the Flemish verison of "Guns" is.