Jan 05

How to re-create a jihadist

Israel, Middle East, political violence, Saudi Arabia Comments Off

Jabar al-Fifi,  former Guantanamo detainee and reborn al-Qaeda jihadist, was recently arrested in in Saudi Arabia. Last month he told a TV interviewer why he went back to waging war on America after getting married and accepting money from the Saudi government. From kingdom-controlled Arab News:

Al-Fifi said he relapsed back into terrorism and fled to Yemen after going through a rehabilitation program at Prince Muhammad bin Naif Center for Counseling and Care. “I was looking for martyrdom and was deeply affected by the war in Gaza and the atrocities in Iraq.” he said.

This is how Israeli actions endanger American lives.

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Jan 11

Amateur hour for US media on terrorism

Lebanon, Middle East Comments Off

Rami Khouri in The Daily Star on what American TV experts won’t talk about:

“… if the starting point for fighting terror is only the terror attacks themselves and the societies from which they emanate, without a fuller acknowledgment of the wider cycle of political violence that also includes sustained aggressive policies by the US, the United Kingdom, Israel, Arab governments and others in the region, we will only perpetuate the current insanity mentioned earlier: the simultaneous proliferation of terrorism, American armed forces, Israeli assassinations, and other elements of the full cycle of political violence in the Arab-Asian region.
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