Terror

[rowyn]

Getting just what they wanted.

"CNN also has obtained an al Qaeda document that spells out the terrorist group's plan to separate Spain from the U.S.-led coalition on Iraq.
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"The strategy spelled out in the document calls for using terrorist attacks to oust Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's Partido Popular from power and replace it with the Socialists.
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"'We think the Spanish government will not stand more than two blows, or three at the most, before it will be forced to withdraw because of the public pressure on it,' the al Qaeda document says.
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"the Socialists unseat[ed] the Popular Party three days after near-simultaneous bombings of four trains killed 200 and shocked the nation.
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"Prime Minister-elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Monday he wants the 1,300 Spanish troops in Iraq to return home by June 30 if the United Nations 'doesn't take control of Iraq.'

"'I think Spain's participation in the war has been a total error,' he said."

I feel sick.

Comments

Re: Japan is less vulnerable

[level-head.livejournal.com]

He IS a Muslim, in fact. His name is Abdullah al Muhajir. He changed it from Jose Padilla when he became a Muslim.

It is fashionable for the media to call him by his prior name, which (ironically) makes him sound more American. It is NOT his name. And in fact, he was arrested at the airport flying in from Pakistan -- it was one of multiple trips where he trained with al-Qaeda on explosives, and was financed by them.

Let's see.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/06/10/dirty.bomb.suspect/

And of course, the media continued to be infatuated with this fellow, and NEVER called him by his Muslim name. Time Magazine's web site named him the "Person of the Week":
http://www.time.com/time/pow/article/0,8599,262269,00.html

Note the reference to Morocco.

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