Al-Qaeda Murders Its Way Across the Sahara
Positioning France as the new Great Satan appears to have come — at least in part — in response to French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s stance against burqas. In June, Sarkozy told the French parliament that burqas were “not welcome” in France and compared having to wear one as analogous to being in a prison. “The problem of the burqa is not a religious problem. This is an issue of a woman’s freedom and dignity. This is not a religious symbol. It is a sign of subservience; it is a sign of lowering,” Sarkozy said.
Five days later, al-Qaeda issued a statement threatening “revenge” on France. Sarkozy’s statements, al-Qaeda said, were a declaration of war against Muslim sisters and it was therefore their duty to seek revenge “by every means and wherever we can reach them.” Whether or not al-Qaeda’s jihadists can attack France at home remains unknown. But its reach certainly extends to French outposts in Africa, such as the embassy in Mauritania.
Unable to successfully mount large-scale attacks on Western targets, the global network of al-Qaeda has been setting its sights on Africa, which serves as both a recruiting ground and a sanctuary for jihadists. When Mauritania’s foreign minister, Naha Mint Moknass, announced last week that the jihadists who planned the French embassy attack were foreign-born, it became clear that AQIM had succeeded in extending its reach deep into the Sahara.
And with global results. For the first time in forty years, the Peace Corps pulled 45 volunteers and 14 staff out of Mauritania “for security reasons.” Attacks elsewhere in Africa this summer have had significant financial results for the region. As many as 11,000 European tourists who usually visit the fabled city of Timbuktu in Mali (a neighbor to Mauritania) have all but disappeared after al-Qaeda kidnapped a number of people there. In June, one of the kidnapped tourists, a British citizen named Edwin Dyer, was killed. (Dyer was captured in Niger in January and taken to Mali where he was executed.) Tourism used to be “good for the local economy,” Mahamane Dady, an official from the Malian tourism office, told Agence France Presse. Dady continued: “But with the recent problems linked to security in the region, we are crossing our fingers.”
The posh Paris-Dakar race, which has fueled the impoverished region with cash since 1979, was canceled last year and relocated to South America after one too many terrorist threats. Plans to develop a gas pipeline across the Sahara are also now at risk. The Trans-Sahara Gas Pipeline project involved inter-government agreements between Algeria, Nigeria, and Niger and had the support of the European Union. But growing security concerns in Africa have now threatened to derail the project.
The instability in the region has caused the State Department to increase security at U.S. facilities, which in turn, say American diplomats, “has led terrorists to seek softer targets such as hotels, beach resorts, prominent public places, and landmarks.” For this reason, officials caution civilians against traveling to remote areas in Africa. “Terrorists do not distinguish between official and civilian targets,” says the State Department’s webpage.
This is islamic imperialism, nothing less and a confirmation of the hypocrisy of the religion.
Whilst they berate Israel for it’s ‘occupation of the West Bank’ they will cheerfuly attempt to ‘occupy’ any nation they settle in and dictate any terms they chose.
Hence in France and my native England we witness these arrested development sufferers attemting to call the shots, time after time.
Our own Shahid Malik newly appointed Communities Minister bawls for separate treatment within Britain for Muslims.
This man is a known and proven expenses cheat, a criminal if he was not one of the protested species in government, and man who calls for the Islamisation of Britain at a conference yet our dhimmi idiots who think they run the country elevate him.
We, in Britain have had enough.
Looks like France has too and the popular political move rightwards is, at last recognising the game these cuckoos are playing.
The Mauritanian suicide bomber was still an “amateur”, not well awared of the AQ practices, while he was walking towards the french embassy, 2 “gendarmes, off-duty, were jogging on his way, and it’s when he saw these 2 men runnning “to him” that he blow himself up.
Though he was a member of the Saharian AQ organisation that is tied to the Algerian “GSPC”, they are partly GIA dissidents, bandits, trafficants, deceipteds from inter-Saharian conflicts about borders (Polisario.
But Algerians jihadists pull the strings
http://www.afrik.com/article13252.html
BTW) one of the two french agents taken in hostage in Somalia escaped yesterday, he took benefit of the Ramadan opportunity, while his geolers were tired and or asleep, he managed to force the door of his geole.
But .. but .. but .. if we are nice to them won’t they be nice to us?
The good news is that a majority of the population don’t like these terrorists either.
The bad news is that they don’t speak out against this because they would risk physical harm in doing so. The worse news is that apologists and sympathizers for terrorists isn’t going down, helped in no small part by radicalization of mosques and de facto enforcement of Sharia standards on the general public by radicals.
Psychologists know ways to remove brainwashing, but its not viable considering the situation.
In better news today is beautiful and the temperature is nice. Have a great day!
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“On the evening of August 8, a suicide bomber wearing a belt full of explosives approached the exterior walls of the French embassy in Mauritania’s capital city of Nouakchott. He shouted “Allahu akbar” and blew himself up.”
I’m waiting for some liberal to yell “It’s Bush’s Fault!”
Of course it barely makes the news; Some might call it the ‘inconveinient truth’, something our modern news organizations filter through every day in order that we might be fed a steady diet of news that covers up the real agenda of the Islamists. DEATH.
Death for Allah. Death because Allah demands it. His kingdom come his will be done.
Allah is not Great, Allah is Greater. Know that and you MIGHT live.
The evidence for all to see is that Islam is not a peaceful religion at all! Bush was wrong – it IS a religion of evil because it requires death to any and all who do not agree with Muhammad’s words. God says “THOU SHALT NOT KILL”! That’s clear, is it not? Christ is God, Muhammad and Allah ARE NOT!
Oh, they were forced to do it by colonialism, or white imperialism, or racism, or what some non-Muslim said, or poverty, or something. You just know the libs will come up with a lame excuse to justify this- after all they’re “prople of color” and hence morally pre-justified.
It’s not just the Mahgreb, either: it’s going on in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, India, Nigeria… pretty much everywhere the Followers of Mahound can be found.
Bohemond – (8)
You forgot low self-esteem, I’m sure that’s a factor after the US having the gall to exist for over 200 years.
Regards
Islamism, like Communism, is a cult, an insane political ideology that justifies theft and opression. No sane person would ever subscribe to this nonsense so they must be forced into it by their self-appointed “betters”. The only enthusiasts for either creed are the people that think they will end up in charge. Every place they have taken control of has descended into chaos and decay. Damn them.
Tunisia has banned the face-covering veils, and is enjoying a resurgence of tourism, and the extremists have gone.
Our president goes to Cairo and declares the West has a ways to go regarding women’s rights, such as the right to wear the veil.
Un-freaking-believable!
Not to mention his support of Chavez’s buddy Manual Zedala in the Honduras so-called coup.
Just Google allah, and you will read all about a moon god 5000 years old. Mosques still have the moon on top with the morning star.
The morning star within the New Order of the Ages is a named used for whom? I will not tell you, but with all the murder the religion of peace does, one should be able to guess.
We can understand now why Mulims are allowed into the West.