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December 7, 2004
Military captures bomb cell members - Are We Listening?
Topics: Middle East News and PerspectivesNice neighborhood. What interested me about this article is not necessarily the event itself nor that it happened, it was more about the kind of people that we are facing. I guess I'm getting a little tired of hearing about it, much more so writing about it. I feel like I am helping to give the Islamathugs an audience, or at least helping to increase the one they already have. But my problem and that of a lot of my fellow bloggers is that these guys were ignored for far too long by the Clinton Administration, to some degree by the first President Bush (of course the exception being the first Gulf War), all of Europe, and the few moderate Arabs that exist wherever they are.
First of all, most civilized human beings have some kind of moral or at least ethical compass that makes them feel a little queasy about blowing-up innocent people, just in hope that someone they don't happen to like comes along. But these guys, in their house, in their own neighborhood, these are not nice people. Listen to the article:
The Age in Australia is reporting that U.S. troops captured 14 Iraqis, including 10 wanted for making various explosive devices to attack coalition forces, the military said.
The soldiers, from the 1st Infantry Division, detained seven members of a car bomb-making cell in As Siniyah, about 20 km south of Beiji, 250 km north of Baghdad.
Another seven people, including three suspects wanted for making roadside bombs, were captured during raids on six houses in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown, about 130 km north of the Iraqi capital.
During a search of one house, soldiers found three complete improvised explosive devices, or homemade bombs, a weapon which has been used to deadly effect against hundreds of American and Iraqi soldiers since the onset of the war last year.
The detainees have been taken to US military facilities for questioning.
Not a long article, but it says a lot if we are listening. More than a dozen buddies get together in a half a dozen houses to make bombs for killing people that they don't even know and who are most likely are going to be murdered because they just went to the store at the wrong time, or drove down to Aunt Ali's house at the wrong time. We are also hearing that they are planting the bombs in or beside roads that are certainly in view, and those who do the viewing do nothing and say nothing about it. Did these guys just happen to grow up in a "wrong" neighborhood? Not hardly, not a good enough reason for thousands of people being willing to blow themselves up in the name of their version of God. Now, certainly there are a very large number of people, including Muslims, that are indeed good and decent human beings, that live in the Middle East.
But there is a very dark culture of death and a mindset of evil
that exists in a very large number of Arabs. The Islamathugs like the
ones in the above article are shouting at the West and the West hasn't
been listening. It's not now and it hasn't been about Sept 11 and it's
not about whether or not Saddam had WMD. It is all about Islamic
extremism funded and perpetuated by the Saudis and other dictatorships
in the Arab states, preached from mosques by radical clerics, and heard
by uneducated people that have had nothing to do with their time but
try to scratch out a living in lands that over-flowed with oil money
that has been shamefully and selfishly misused by their leaders. This
culture and mindset has been growing for longer than anyone now living
has been alive, and everyone has watched it grow, heard it's voice of
hate and violence, and just simply did nothing about it. Now we have a
monster on our hands, the monster of radical Islam, and there are
uncountable numbers of people who listen to their rhetoric, and endorse
it.
If George W. Bush had not attacked Iraq and given us a foothold to fight these mindless thugs, we would all have lived to regret it. We can only hope that this war on terror hasn't started too late. We had all, non-Muslims, moderate Muslims, and secularists alike pray to God that we can beat this thing. Radical Islam is a threat, a very real threat. It is a threat to the survival of civilization as we now know it.
Posted by Hyscience at December 7, 2004 1:46 PM
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