Pasto's right. Allah is Molloch.
from the Daily Times Monitor
h/t Dr. Bulldog
‘Major Saudi operation foiled Al Qaeda plot against haj’
Alerted by Saudi and other intelligence agencies that Al Qaeda planned to launch a bloody assault on Muslim pilgrims taking part in the haj, the Saudi government last week launched a huge counter-terrorism operation, one of the largest in recent memory, according to US intelligence officials, a Middle East Times report said on Tuesday.
Over 3 million Muslims flocked to Makkah this year for haj that began on December 6 “under the nervous eye of Saudi security forces that included 20,000 ground forces, flights of combat helicopters and a large number of armoured vehicles deployed at key locations”, the report quoted US officials as saying.
US sources said technical and other surveillance was increased in and around Makkah and the site was monitored by 10,000 security cameras and Saudi agents mixed in with the pilgrims. “Communications between Saudi fast reaction and special security units was improved and capability augmented.” No four-wheel vehicles were allowed because of fears of car bombings. The pilgrims who did not have current permits were deported.
“The Saudi operation began three months ago with pre-emptive raids by Saudi security forces on suspected Al Qaeda cells, according to a former senior CIA official. Several hundred suspects were taken into custody, he said.
The report quoted US officials as saying intelligence co-operation between the US and Saudi Arabia had grown by leaps and bounds from the Saudi stonewalling days of the 1996 terror attacks on Saudi Arabia’s Khobar Towers. “Currently teams of US Treasury Department agents along with FBI and CIA operatives and analysts are based in Riyadh and working together,” the report said.
“Co-ordination couldn’t be better,” a former senior CIA official was quoted as saying.
The report noted Saudi efforts to disperse and disrupt Al Qaeda had known no rest for the last few years. In 2007, 172 suspected terrorists were captured in an operation in April, and another 139 suspects were arrested that year including a would-be suicide bomber. In March 2008, the leader of Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia, Fahd Feraj al-Juwair, was among five terrorists killed by eastern Riyadh security forces, and by June, the government had arrested 701 Al Qaeda suspects accused of plotting attacks against the kingdom’s economic and oil installations and preparing to free jailed members.
Thanks to the intensity of current Saudi efforts, “the place today is a lot more relaxed”, the report said.
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The question is, if Islam is a religion of peace as the Saudi king keeps telling us, why is there even a need for his government to pull out all the stops to guard against some practitioners of the religion of peace killing other practitioners of the religion of peace in the homeland of the religion of peace?
On November 20, 1979 the jihad in Mecca was not preempted, with nearly 100,000 worshippers trapped inside the compound for two weeks, the siege ended with hundreds of deaths.
The Siege of Mecca is a book which tells the story the Saudi's blacked out from foreign correspondents. Author, Yaroslav Trofimov penetrates this veil of silence and reveals how Saudi reaction to the uprising in Mecca which set free the forces that produced the attacks of 9/11 and the harrowing circumstances (dawa, demographic, dhimmi, & death jihads) that surround us today.
There are signs that this foiled attempt to jihad in Mecca is but only the most recent, not the first - nor likely the last.
HRW
This effort is manure.
OPEN THE BANKS' RECORDS SO WE CAN ID AND KILL THE FINANCIERS.
Oh, so sorry, they are Al Saud and Al Sheikh?
DUH
Anonymous said...
On November 20, 1979 the jihad in Mecca was not preempted, with nearly 100,000 worshippers trapped inside the compound for two weeks, the siege ended with hundreds of deaths.
Strange you should bring this up, as this moment I was googling for a british band Mecca2Medina, that I stumbled on a rewiew for this book.
On November 20, 1979, worldwide attention was focused on Tehran, where the Iranian hostage crisis was entering its third week. The same morning—the first of a new Muslim century—hundreds of gunmen stunned the world by seizing Islam’s holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Armed with rifles that they had smuggled inside coffins, these men came from more than a dozen countries, launching the first operation of global jihad in modern times. Led by a Saudi preacher named Juhayman al Uteybi, they believed that the Saudi royal family had become a craven servant of American infidels, and sought a return to the glory of uncompromising Islam. With nearly 100,000 worshippers trapped inside the holy compound, Mecca’s bloody siege lasted two weeks, inflaming Muslim rage against the United States and causing hundreds of deaths.
Despite U.S. assistance, the Saudi royal family proved haplessly incapable of dislodging the occupier, whose ranks included American converts to Islam. In Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini blamed the Great Satan—the United States —for defiling the shrine, prompting mobs to storm and torch American embassies in Pakistan and Libya. The desperate Saudis finally enlisted the help of French commandos led by tough-as-nails Captain Paul Barril, who prepared the final assault and supplied poison gas that knocked out the insurgents. Though most captured gunmen were quickly beheaded, the Saudi royal family responded to this unprecedented challenge by compromising with the rebels’ supporters among the kingdom’s most senior clerics, helping them nurture and export Juhayman’s violent brand of Islam around the world.
This dramatic and immensely consequential story was barely covered in the press in the pre-CNN, pre–Al Jazeera days, as Saudi Arabia imposed an information blackout and kept foreign correspondents away. Yaroslav Trofimov now penetrates this veil of silence, interviewing for the first time scores of direct participants in the siege, including former terrorists, and drawing on hundreds of documents that had been declassified on his request. Written with the pacing, detail, and suspense of a real-life thriller, The Siege of Mecca reveals how Saudi reaction to the uprising in Mecca set free the forces that produced the attacks of 9/11, and the harrowing circumstances that surround us today.
"Though most captured gunmen were quickly beheaded, the Saudi royal family responded to this unprecedented challenge by compromising with the rebels’ supporters among the kingdom’s most senior clerics, helping them nurture and export Juhayman’s violent brand of Islam around the world."
That was the end result - or let's say agreement - between the Wahbies and the Kingdom. The Saudis needed a fatwa in order to go in and use military force in such a sacred place. They got it in return for the promise to financially support the Wahbbist movement which today we see the esporting of the Wahabbist brand of Islam throughoutthe world by finacing and building mosques by SA.
Hey WC,
If you have a post on that, could you put it up again?
Pastorius said...
Hey WC,
If you have a post on that, could you put it up again?
Allow me please
Yaroslav Trofimov: Juhayman was very active in the Islamic outreach movement that had been started by Sheikh Abdul-Aziz bin Baz, the blind cleric who would later become Saudi Arabia's supreme Islamic authority. This movement sought to combat the spread of secular values, and to return Saudi youths to the teachings of Mohammed Ibn Abdul Wahhab—the ultra-puritan ideology nowadays usually known as Wahhabism. These activists viewed the existence of television, Western embassies, or portraits of the king as incompatible with Islam, and weren't shy about expressing such sentiments. This led to the arrest of many of them in 1978. However, thanks to Bin Baz's intervention, these militants were all quickly released, and proceeded to plot their invasion of the Grand Mosque the following year.
reason: Paradoxically, though Juhayman and his co-conspirators were executed, their ideas somehow triumphed. Can you explain why?
Yaroslav Trofimov: Indeed, as Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, the governor of Asir province and son of King Faisal, put it a few years ago, "we have eliminated the individuals who committed the Juhayman crime, but we have overlooked the ideology that was behind the crime. We let it spread in the country as if it did not exist."
He said this because in order to secure religious assent from the clergy, or ulama—assent without which many Saudi troops refused to fight in the holy shrine—the royal family had to promise the clerics that it would reverse the slow modernization that had been occurring in the kingdom up until then. The royals fulfilled their promise. In the weeks after the siege ended, female newscasters were taken off television; the enforcement of the ban on alcohol became much more severe; and vast amounts of oil money started flowing into the clerics' Wahhabi proselytizing campaign around the world. And it's precisely this missionary effort all over the Muslim world that subsequently created a pool of eager recruits for Al-Qaeda.
http://www.reason.com/news/show/122686.html
Much appreciation for the leads on "Siege of Mecca". This is invaluable information for anyone seeking to educate the clueless in the nature of the Islamist threat and where it originated.
" a bloody assault on Muslim pilgrims taking part in the haj, "
Yes, absolutely the most important thing in our lives right now.
This is a problem of their own bloody making, and if it hurts them, that is all to the good.
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