When Northern Nigeria became an Islamic state-within-a-state, it was supposed to become a peaceful utopia....Kristallnacht in Nigeria against Christians: 15 dead, 11 churches razed. ROPMA.

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1 Where is the Christian outrage? Not one word....
Especially from Christians who push DIVESTMENT from Israel... These Christians do not give a rat's ass about freedom or persecuted people. This is why Hitler was so successful for so long. Christians do not give a crap, and Jews are so naive that they think everything will be ok in the end....real brilliance!
If Islam is not eradicated-entirely-Islam will eradicate everyone else.

Posted by: Steve Sharon at February 18, 2006 04:41 PM (dbpS1)

2 Damn straight Steve. It's them or us, and for my part, it's damn sure not going to be us.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at February 18, 2006 04:47 PM (0yYS2)

3 11 churches hmmmm. that is the same number as were recently burned in Alabama.

Posted by: john ryan at February 18, 2006 04:59 PM (TcoRJ)

4 Dude,
11 churches burned in a RIOT over CARTOONS in a single DAY. Who's to say the SEVEN churches burned in Alabama weren't burned by ROPers who were pissed over same thing?

Posted by: Rusty at February 18, 2006 05:28 PM (JQjhA)

5 Muslims, despite all the years they have been supposedly trying and despite billions in oil wealth have been unable to create ONE utopic islamic society. Turning dozens of islamic countries into one utopic islamic country is just not possible and all the blame lies with themselves.

Posted by: Graeme at February 18, 2006 05:57 PM (6TH8d)

6 john

No clue as to what your point is supposed to be - but I finally realized why you are rarely if ever subjected to some of the more hostile (and occasionally vile) attacks a few here on the right sometimes launch into against other liberal/leftists. Curious?

Posted by: hondo at February 18, 2006 06:01 PM (fyKFC)

7 Graeme, I been preaching about that same subject ever since I saw the photos Michael Totten took in Kurdistan over the past few days. The Kurdish leaders have a vision for their people, a vision to make things better and become a part of the civilized world.

And there is no reason the Arabs could not have a paradise in the Middle East. They have the money, the people, but not the mental capacity. Why?

It is because of radical Islam. The religion, as it is now being practiced in the ME, is full of hate and bile spewed at a small nation insignificant in comparison to the Arab nations. Dictators, poverty, hate and ignorance reign supreme. Paradise lost, indeed!

Posted by: jesusland joe at February 18, 2006 07:21 PM (rUyw4)

8 I think we can drop the "radical" label in front of the word "Islam" -- it's already implied JJ

Posted by: dave at February 18, 2006 08:24 PM (CcXvt)

9 Radical is to islam, as virulent is to plague.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at February 19, 2006 07:12 AM (0yYS2)

10 Just to tell you that Christians in Nigeria launched reprisal attacks against the muslims .

More than 30 muslims were killed. Christians in Nigeria fight back.

All these events are regrettable

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This can't be the same Sudan that is on the United Nation's High Commission on Human Rights? That's some other Sudan, right? Because the savior of the world, the U.N., would never allow one of the worst violators of human rights in the world to help police human rights violations. That's simply not possible.Amnesty International:

At 5:55 pm local time yesterday, security forces in plain clothes entered the building where the NGO Forum was being held. The security forces -- their number varying from six to 15 during the occurrence -- ordered all delegates to switch off their mobile phones. They said that the meeting was "unauthorized" and demanded the names of all participants. Participants, numbering approximately forty, were ordered to hand over all documents and laptops. Some resisted; the security forces forced upon their bags. Some small scuffles broke out. At this point more security forces entered and surrounded the room. Still and digital photographs, along with recorded video, were taken of all the participants. Some participants were pushed, threatened, and told "you better do what we say or you will face problems later". There were repeated demands to participants to hand over their belongings.

Security forces attempted to divide the participants into international and national groups. Attempts were also made to separate women from men. Many refused both requests.

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An American oil worker taken hostage by Nigerian terrorists claiming to be part of the Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta has been identified as Patrick Landry. Three others were taken hostage. They are: Briton Nigel Watson-Clark, Honduran Harry Ebanks, and Bulgarian Milko Nichev.

As I speculated earlier, the terror organization is part of a larger Ijaw rebellion. Although Nigeria is dominated by Muslims, the ethnic Ijaw minority are mainly Christian and have been complaining for decades about corruption, mismanagement, and mistreatment by the central government. Whatever the misdeeds of the Nigerian government, taking hostages is NEVER a legitimate avenue of political protest.

Melbourne Herald Sun:

SEPARATIST rebels in Nigeria are close to achieving their aim of paralysing oil production in the Niger delta, after a series of attacks and kidnappings.

Yesterday four foreign oil workers kidnapped by militants spoke to the media by phone on their sixth day in captivity.

They read their captors' demands, including a 48-hour deadline, and warned the military against attempting rescue.

The kidnappers have staged a series of attacks on oil pipelines, platforms and workers over the past three weeks, denting supply from the world's eighth largest exporter and driving up world prices...

"I'd like to contact my family and let them know that I am all right and everything with us is good," said a man who identified himself as Harry Ebanks from Honduras. "The only thing (is) the environment is not good with us because there is a lot of mosquitoes and it is dangerous for us."

The Briton, who identified himself as Nigel Watson-Clark, read a list of five demands by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta.

"The Nigerian Government should not make any military intervention," he said. "They should not make any attempt to rescue us as it has been made clear that it may result in the loss of our lives."

A man identifying himself as Patrick Landry, a US citizen, said: "This climate in the conditions we're in is not conducive to us, especially as I am an older man and my health is not good.

"I'd like y'all to contact my family and let them know that I'm all right, these people are treating me good, but the climate is not what it should be." ...

The group demands local control of the delta's oil, payment of $1.5 billion by Royal Dutch Shell to the Bayelsa state government to compensate for pollution, and the release of three men including two ethnic Ijaw leaders.

"If the Nigerian Government does not meet these demands in 48 hours, whatever happens is in their own doing," the British hostage said.

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Probably victims of Ijaw extremists (who are animists and Christians), but there is a growing Islamist movement in Nigeria as well with its accompanying violence. Nigeria is proof that oil has a terrible track record at making nations wealthy.

UPDATE: Regular commenter Jesusland Joe informs me that his cousin works for Shell in Nigeria. If any one learns of the name of the hostage, please e-mail me. We pray that this hostage will be released unharmed. UPDATE II: Jesusland Joe has confirmed his cousin is o.k.

Washington Post:

Gunmen stormed an offshore oil platform run by Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria and kidnapped four foreign workers, including an American, while apparent sabotage ruptured a pipeline at a facility processing 106,000 barrels of crude daily, officials said Thursday.

Gunmen in three boats seized the workers from a support vessel attached to the oil platform Wednesday, Shell spokesman Andy Corrigan said in London.

Military spokesman Maj. Said Hameed said the four included an American, a Bulgarian, a Briton and a Honduran, and "efforts are being made to secure their release."

In a separate incident, a major pipeline feeding Shell's Forcados oil export terminal ruptured overnight at Brass Creek, forcing the company to stop production of 106,000 barrels of oil daily, Shell said.

A Shell spokesman in Lagos said the pipeline exploded, though details were sketchy. In December, a major Shell pipeline was blown up by unknown attackers, forcing the company to shut down large volumes of crude oil.

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Sick. Disgusting. Disheartening.

While African women in Darfur were being raped by the Janjaweed militiamen, Arab women stood nearby and sang for joy, according to an Amnesty International report published yesterday. The songs of the Hakama, or the "Janjaweed women" as the refugees call them, encouraged the atrocities committed by the militiamen. The women singers stirred up racial hatred against black civilians during attacks on villages in Darfur and celebrated the humiliation of their enemies, the human rights group said....

During an attack on the village of Disa in June last year, Arab women accompanied the attackers and sang songs praising the government and scorning the black villagers.

According to an African chief quoted in the report, the singers said: "The blood of the blacks runs like water, we take their goods and we chase them from our area and our cattle will be in their land. The power of [Sudanese president Omer Hassan] al-Bashir belongs to the Arabs and we will kill you until the end, you blacks, we have killed your God." ...

The Janjaweed have abducted women for use as sex slaves, in some cases breaking their limbs to prevent them escaping, as well as carrying out rapes in their home villages, the report said.

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Spanish authorities have announced that they have captured seven terror financiers. The seven are said to have helped finance the al Qaeda linked GSPC.

BBC:

At least seven people have been arrested in Spain on suspicion of helping to fund an Islamist terror group said to have links with al-Qaeda....

He said the detainees were suspected of raising money and providing logistical support for the Salafist Group for Call and Combat - an Algerian-based extremist group.

He said the group was "perfectly structured", had a hierarchy and was dedicated to committing petty crime and forging documents and credit cards.

Mr Alonso added that money was sent to Algeria either in person or through a complex system of bank transfers that made it difficult to trace.

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Jason at Generation Why does the yeoman's work of investigating Rep. John Murtha's (D-France) policy stances. The single greatest mistake made by the Clinton Administration was cutting and running from Somalia. Why, you ask? Because the financial and logistical force behind the warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid was a much more insidious and, at the time, unknown character: Osama bin Laden.

As Jason notes in his excellent post, Murtha urged cutting-and-running from Somalia too--making the sacrifices of the men who died their vanity.

Osama had something of a religious experience while in Somalia in which he predicted that America would cut-and-run. When the U.S. did pull its troops from Somalia, some Muslims--including Osama himself--took this as a sign that bin Laden had mystical powers. Bin Laden would later recall to ABC News:

"Our people realize[d] more than before that the American soldier is a paper tiger that run in defeat after a few blows," the terror chief recalled. "America forgot all about the hoopla and media propaganda and left dragging their corpses and their shameful defeat."

More from Jason at Generation Why. more...

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A ship carrying relief supplies to war-torn Somalia was captured by Islamist militants two motnths ago. Unfortunately, the mostly Kenyan crew is still being held hostage. Many Somali 'militias' have close ties to al Qaeda. It was an al Qaeda trained militia that fought American soldiers in the Mogadishu battle made famous by the movie Black Hawk Down. more...

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Where do I think bin Laden is? more...

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So far, I've only seen this AKI report which claims the US has dispatched 2,000 troops to the small Western Sahara nation of Mauritania. Last week, members of the Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), an al Qaeda linked group which has been fighting secularists in Algeria for some time, killed 17 Mauratian troops.

I know I've said it a dozen times, but if you want to find the hot bed of Islamic radicalism look to Africa. Also, the 2,000 US troops might also want to keep an eye out for Osama bin Laden while they are there. If I had to make a bet on where he is, I'd place it on Africa.

Via Open Source Intelligence this AKI story: more...

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It looks like US led NATO forces will finally begin to do something about the mass-starvation induced by Islamist militants in the Sudan's Darfur region. It's been way too long in the making, and let's hope whatever planning needs to be done gets done quick. Children in the region are dying today thanks to the relentless onslought of Islamist militia forces and their supporters in Khartoom.

Do you think the US or its European allies will get credit for, once again, coming to the aid of Muslims? Don't hold your breath. Expect the reaction from the Islamic world to be a) too little too late. The US let tens of thousands of Muslims die (ignoring the fact that they died as a result of other Muslims actions) b) the US is once again invading a Muslim country in a Zionist inspired crusade (remember, it was the 'victory' over US forces trying to end mass-starvation in Somalia that inspired Osama bin Laden to take his war against us up a nocth).

The Dread Pundit Bluto asks if this signals the end to the UN since NATO seems to be doing pretty much all of what the UN was supposed to be doing.

Here is the press-release: more...

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While the headlines all over America over the past couple of days talked about Amnesty International's absurd claim that Guantanomo bay was this generations 'gulag', they ignore the tens of thousands of children forced to join rebel groups and state sponsored militias in Africa. Slublog has the details.

Hat tip: Gaijin Biker

UPDATE: Lawhawk notes about the 308 page AI report:

North Korea, which actually does have a gulag system set up in the old Soviet model, gets less space accorded to its human rights abuses than the US.

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UPDATE: You think this might be related? Interrogation of Al Qaeda Leader Yields Captures

Via Editor in Pajamas I find this Reuters article that the Powerline dudes put up:

U.S. Marines landed on Somalia's coast in one of their most visible hunts for militants in the country since they set up a Horn of Africa counter terrorism force in 2002, Somali officials said on Thursday....

It was not clear who the Marines were looking for.

The Marines' arrival coincided with signs of U.S. military activity elsewhere along the coast of Somaliland, a relatively stable region which declared independence in 1991 to escape chaos engulfing the rest of Somalia, but which is not internationally recognized....

Somaliland's interior minister declined to comment. Officers from the U.S. task force based in neighboring Djibouti since December 2002 to hunt down any militants in the region were not immediately contactable for comment.

Washington fears al Qaeda cells may be seeking new havens in the Horn of Africa where weak political institutions and poor policing of deserts and coastlines might provide places for militants to plan attacks on Western targets elsewhere.

In late 2003, some militia bosses and ordinary residents reported that a top al Qaeda suspect -- Fazul Abdullah Mohammed from the Indian Ocean Comoros islands -- had been spotted in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

U.S. officials say he masterminded the bombings at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and the bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya in 2002 that took place within minutes of a failed attempt to shoot down an Israeli airliner.

In March 2003, a suspected associate of Fazul, Suleiman Abdalla Salim Hemed, a Yemeni, was captured in Mogadishu with the help of warlord Mohammed Dheere and taken into U.S. custody.

A) Because large swaths of Africa are militantly Islamist.
B) Because bin Laden would be welcome in many of these areas.
C) Because bin Laden believes that he has prophetic powers.
D) Because bin Laden first became aware of these 'powers' when he 'prophesied' that the might of America would be cut down in Somalia.
E) As a mystic it seems like the logical place to go.

That's the basic case. I could be wrong. Heck, I hope I'm wrong and that he's dead somewhere.

Anyway, if you're interested you can check out the 'I told you so' category below. more...

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1 I hope he's in Africa, considering the Mercurial moods of the continent, and all the different factions with so many scores to settle, he would get sold out pretty quickly. After all, $25 mil is a lot of cheese, and in Africa, you can but a lot for that.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at May 06, 2005 03:48 PM (0yYS2)

2 IM: Excellent points. I certainly hope they get the bugger alive, too.

Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at May 06, 2005 03:59 PM (x+5JB)

3 His chances of being delivered alive depend entirely on who captured him. Considering his mojo, he might get eaten and only his head delivered. Yes, they still do that in some parts of Africa.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at May 06, 2005 11:41 PM (0yYS2)

4 how about he is on moon.
http://answering-islam DOT org DOT uk/Hoaxes/neil.html
May be some muzlim propet was on moon too.or some muslim run lunar lavatory
Neil heard the fart de allah.The call to the communal mas********
.? ) cant get enough.

Posted by: Monzter at May 07, 2005 06:27 AM (rA3Xj)

5 Hmmmm...
Bin Laden in afghanistan, in sudan, in somalia. Are there any similarities there? Just think if he could bring his ideology to the whole world.

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Zimbabwe on U.N. Human Rights Commission.

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