sometimes you get what you ask for, and the Brits have been begging for it... maybe this time they'll get it
Posted on 07/04/2008 11:26:58 PM PDT by Uncle Ralph
It isn't every morning that you wake up and read in the newspaper that one of the worlds most dangerous terrorists has been released on bail but that is exactly what happened today when the New York Times reported on the release of Abu Doha (aka Amar Makhlouf, aka the Doctor, aka Rachid) from custody in the UK. For those that aren't familiar with Abu Doha it is worth re-stating the threat he posed to American and western interests during the late 1990s and period prior to 9/11. He is widely known to have been a senior leader within the GSPC and a founder member of one of al-Qaeda's training camps in Afghanistan subsequently becoming one, if not the most senior member of al-Qaeda operating in Europe. Prior to his arrest in February 2001 by a Special Branch officer, while he was attempting to flee to Saudi Arabia during operation ODIN he was responsible for: plotting an attempted attack on Los Angeles airport, a plot to bomb the US embassy in Rome, an attempt to bomb unspecified targets in Strasbourg as well as having a hand in organizing al-Qaeda cells for operations against United States targets within Germany. This is on top of the large number of recruits he managed to bring into the movement.
One of the more bizarre parts of this case...
(Excerpt) Read more at counterterrorismblog.org ...
Osama bin laden and the democrats are laughing themselves silly.
Expect the same from Hussein.
Anthony Kennedy must be very pleased. The rest of us, not so much.
I have no doubt.
Time to terminate with extreme prejudice.
he’s just misunderstood. he deserves another chance.
Liberals. Its true. I see it proven time after time.
Liberals ARE soft on crime and terror.
Bottom line: you cannot trust a liberal government to protect the people. How many innocents must die before people learn this?
I merely wait to hear official’s surprise when this guy disappears.
sometimes you get what you ask for, and the Brits have been begging for it... maybe this time they'll get it
The West has become the ‘helpless pitiful giant’ that Nixon predicted.
We are more hamstrung against terrorists who want to destroy us and our way of life than we are against organized crime.
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