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Jihad in northern Cyprus, which is illegally controlled by secular Turkey. Evidently secular Turkey is not secular enough to keep the jihadists out of northern Cyprus; it only maintains its "secular" character by a continuing series of concessions to radical Muslims; maybe this is one. From VOA News, with thanks to twostellas:
Cyprus' justice minister says Chechen terrorists are training in Turkish Cypriot areas in the north of the divided island. Justice Minister Doros Theodorou leveled the charge in an interview published Sunday in the newspaper Phileleftheros, but he declined to give the details of intelligence reports he said supported his claim.Mr. Theodorou did say the terrorists are training to attack Russian targets.
While the Greek Cypriot government is internationally recognized, the Turkish region of Cyprus is recognized only by Turkey.
Posted by Robert at September 26, 2004 9:26 PM
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Strange, isn't it that no one in the EU or UN or anywhere else is concerned about an illegal occupation of Greek land by Turkey? Not really though, it is only when land that Moslems consider to be theirs, but is not ruled and inhabited by them, that there is a world-wide drive to let these self-styled "victims" have their land "back."
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at September 26, 2004 11:38 PM
Nicely put unicorns62k.
What if the greeks were now to launch an intifada against illegal turkish occupiers et al?
And anyway, once the uS realises it needs Turkey les than turkey needs the US,then Greece, US and russia can cooperate in getting the turks outta Cyprus through not-so-gentle gunboat diplomacy if necessary. As for the frothmouths in france and Germany, they've neither the troops nor the guts to do anything about this whole affair. One just has to recall how much they could do to stop the slaughter in the balkans before forceful US leadership did the job there.
Posted by: voletti at September 26, 2004 11:58 PM
violetti wrote:
>One just has to recall how much they could do >to stop the slaughter in the balkans before >forceful US leadership did the job there.
Yes, indeed. Only trouble is the US leadership intervened on the wrong side, killing thousands of Serbian soldiers and innocent civilians on behalf of the head-choppers and fanatics who rounded up Christian men, women and children, put them in village churches and then burnt the churches to the ground.
Oh well, it did detract attention from 'forceful' Clinton's sexual escapades in the White House. For a while anyway.
Benelux
at September 27, 2004 4:54 AM
If only the United States would help Cyprus, but that is just wishful thinking. The reality is the opposite. Recently I read a study called "The Greek Americans" by Alice Scourby. Briefly she talked about the Greek American lobby that worked feverishly after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus to block arms sales and transfers to Turkey, because those weapons Turkey used in invading Cyprus were given to it for free as a NATO member, using those weapons to invade Cyprus violated the US Foreign Assitance Act of 1961. There was this one Greek Cypriot bishop who was prominent in his pleas for Cyprus. The then United States President and his Secretary of State tried to dissuade this bishop from his lobbying efforts for Cyprus's cause and were trying to remove the Congressional ban on weapons to Turkey enacted after the invasion, because in their eyes Turkey was more strategically important than Greece, so they tried to convince this bishop it was not inimical to Greece's interests to remove the Congressional ban on weapons to Turkey.
More recently the United States cracked down almost unilaterally on American weapons in use by the Cypriot National Guard that were transfered to Cyprus by Greece. Since the Turkish army is not transfering the weapons to a third party and the Turkish military has had most of its weaponry there since before the Arms Export Control Act of 1987, the Turkish military has avoided a similar crackdown in Cyprus. This is a very hypocritical position. Turkey has hundreds of United States made tanks and APCs that it used to invade Cyprus, but the United States government did not raise much of a fuss over the 35,000 Turkish troops in Cyprus or these weapons because of this technicality Washington is hiding behind. It would be nice if the United States would stop things like I mentioned and also stop selling advanced weaponry like Amraams to Turkey(and other muslim countries).
As for the support for Chechens it does not surprise me. The Chechens were Islamized by the Ottoman Empire and many Chechens too fanatical to accept Russian rule when the Caucaus was conquered by the Czar's armies immigrated in a diaspora to parts of the world still dar-al-Islam. The descendants of this diaspora in Turkey are over a million.
Posted by: Nikephoros_Phokas at September 27, 2004 4:58 AM
Benelux~ it only makes sense that Clinton helped the wrong side, since the Left has similar philosophies.... case in point:
Academia for Taliban!
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15242
And here we have Academics for Pedophilia! Won't the islamofascists love this one:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/9/23/94446.shtml
Posted by: Gary at September 27, 2004 7:03 AM
The US is in it for the Oiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil!
Riiiiight.
Canadian Oil company and the Sudan:
http://techcentralstation.com/092704F.html
Looks like another argument to use against people on the Left shrieking 'US imperialism!'
Posted by: Gary at September 27, 2004 7:37 AM
Right on, Unicorn. An occupation isn't really an occupation unless the occupiers are occupying land that Muslims have ever lived on. Just like a massacre or a genocide; it doesn't count unless Muslims are the victims, and then only if non-Muslims are the perpetrators.
It is also disgusting the way "palestinians" and their apologists have usurped so many phrases and descriptions of Jews.... prior to the 50's, a "palestinian" was a Jew that lived in the British Palestinian Mandate, a possession of King George. They have also taken over the word "Right of Return", "diaspora," and many others. They have even assigned the descriptives "Nazi", "fascist" to Jews, imagine the nerve!
Israel, please. Finish the Wall.
Posted by: kj at September 27, 2004 9:28 AM
Don't worry, Benelux. Lord Dub will fix all of that, after all, there's a War on Terror!
Clinton's sexual escapades didn't kill 1050 US Marines and Soldiers. Yeah, we all remember how the "patriots" rallied around the troops and the president during the Balkans War, don't we? What a joke you monkeys are. First, if you did support the president, you hated America and the troops. Now, if you don't support the president, you hate America and the troops. Pure hypocrisy.
Not that it matters now; the whole shithouse is going up in flames in five weeks.
ALQAEDA FOR BUSH!
Posted by: kj at September 27, 2004 9:32 AM
Let's see:
Simon LaGreed
or.....
Dudley DoRight. Even if he is stumbling and not quite getting his words right, he's still the better choice.
Gee, why would one despise the first and cheer for the second?
I see no hypocrisy in that.
btw, the joke (well, you're whole statement, but I mean the last line) falls flat when applied to the wrong person.
Posted by: Gary at September 27, 2004 10:20 AM
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