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July 13, 2005
The Iraq-Al Qaida Connection and Muslim Skinheads
Wow, today's a big day for blogging...
Two really interesting articles came out today related to the war on terror and the London bombings. The New York Post has published an article called "It's the Terrorism" that addresses the fact that evidence is starting to suggest that the London bombings were suicide bombings. The writer says, "Save for the 9/11 attacks that leveled the World Trade Center, the United States has not had to confront the reality of suicide bombings. But for how much longer?"
I don't like that whole "Save for the 9/11 attacks" comment. Shouldn't those attacks be considered something like the mother of all suicide bombings rather than an "exception to the rule" type of thing? Wouldn't it be more appropriate to say that in America almost 3,000 have died in suicide bombing attacks carried out on September 11, 2001, and that there have been none since, but we should be prepared?
Another point he makes:
Meanwhile, a compelling series in The Wall Street Journal explores radical Islam's presence in western Europe. Yesterday's installment traces it back to the 1950s, when a mosque built by ex-Nazi Muslim soldiers became an outpost for the Muslim Brotherhood — the progenitor of today's Islamist terror networks.
I have not been able to check out the WSJ article, because they're listed as "for subscribers only"... But the similarities between Nazis and Muslim jihadists is disturbing, when it comes to hatred for the Jews, genocide, and the extermination of "infidels".
The writer brings up something else that I have not seen in the news at all. He/she says: "That Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a key element in the worldwide terrorist network of which Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda were the kingpins is largely now beyond dispute." Beyond dispute? That's news to me. A lot of people have said we need to stay until the job is finished, but haven't resigned themselves with the reason we went there in the first place. The 9/11 Commission's report had everyone convinced that there was no connection at all.
We all remember during the election last fall all the people who said Bush shouldn't be re-elected because there wasn't any proof of connections between Iraq and Al Qaida.
Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, claims that Saddam Hussein's regime "had nothing to do with Osama bin Laden, it had nothing to do with al Qaeda." And CNN anchor Carol Costello has said, "there is no evidence that Saddam Hussein was connected in any way to al Qaeda."
But Stephen F. Hayes and Thomas Joscelyn have compiled a very convincing case for the Iraq-Al Qaida connection in an article called "The Mother of All Connections".
Whether Bush had made his case well enough before the American people prior to going in may be a big issue. But I think that peace-loving people of all sorts need to have their eyes open as to who's connected to whom in the web of terrorism.
Posted by aaronlord at July 13, 2005 08:48 PM
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