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An unholy alliance. A bigger war than we think?

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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This article from the NY Daily News on line if true is really scary. It talks about how even though Al Qaeda is Sunni Muslim, and Hezbollah is Shiite, they cooperated on the attack in Kenya. And how this is a new alliance. If this is true, no wonder the leaders of the West don't care that supporting a war could be the end of their careers. There's no choice.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/58752p-55020c.html

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    again be very sceptical of the spin you are being fed. I doubt very highly if Hezbollah has anything to do with Al Qaeda. Their fight is purely with Israel and they have no cause to be sending people to Kenya to shoot at planes, they can do that right where they are.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    You know where Hezbollah does most of its fund raising?

    America. Under the guise of helping needy children.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    interesting, so perhaps the international community should accuse the Bush administration of aiding and harboring terrorists as well, eh? ;)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The CIA is claiming that's what set off the big scare, when they discovered Hezbollah, Shiites, working with Al Qaeda, Sunni, to try to bring down the Israeli airliner in Kenya.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Clandestine
    interesting, so perhaps the international community should accuse the Bush administration of aiding and harboring terrorists as well, eh? ;)

    That's good enough for me to claim a 'link' between G. W. Bush and terrorists :lol:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Aladdin


    That's good enough for me to claim a 'link' between G. W. Bush and terrorists :lol:
    We have an excuse to go in there and change the USA government then....it has nothing to do with US resources honest:p
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    No no no, its not regime change (if Jack Straw is to be believed), we just want to disarm Dubyah, honest! :lol:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Renzokuken

    We have an excuse to go in there and change the USA government then....it has nothing to do with US resources honest:p

    Go for it. :cool:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Greenhat


    Go for it. :cool:

    Wonder how they would react to 280 million "Cowboys", waiting at the shore.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by hk9147


    Wonder how they would react to 280 million "Cowboys", waiting at the shore.

    How quickly they forget that this is the home of "barbaric heathens, with GUNZ!" :eek:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    No need for violence or force. We'd simply drop a few thousand bags of pretzels over the White House... and wait.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by pnjsurferpoet
    You know where Hezbollah does most of its fund raising?

    America. Under the guise of helping needy children.

    Just a quick historical note to add here -

    Do you know where the IRA got (and to a large extent continues to get) the majority of the funds to run its terror campaigns in Northern Ireland?

    America. Under the guise of supporting Irish terrorists to bomb and kill innocent civilians. and still people gave money to them.

    But that was different? wasn't it?? Supporting terrorism was alright then, because it wasn't on Americas doorstep
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by JonBoi


    Just a quick historical note to add here -

    Do you know where the IRA got (and to a large extent continues to get) the majority of the funds to run its terror campaigns in Northern Ireland?

    America. Under the guise of supporting Irish terrorists to bomb and kill innocent civilians. and still people gave money to them.

    But that was different? wasn't it?? Supporting terrorism was alright then, because it wasn't on Americas doorstep

    Actually, the IRA got and still gets the majority of its funds from criminal activities. That is according to Scotland Yard. Not a lot of funds are raised in the US to bomb people. Lots were raised to assist in the cause of reuniting Ireland. Just because the idiots who give to those causes don't bother to think about what it means to support the cause doesn't mean that the US government is supporting the IRA. Those funds weren't gov't funds.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    No, you're right. The IRA does continue to procure the majority of its funds from illegal racketeering, smuggling, drug-dealing etc. but you also cannot ignore the substancial aid given to the IRA by Noraid.

    I wasn't suggesting the U.S government contributed to this. God knows, if it hadn't been for the clinton administration, there probably wouldn't have been the Good Friday Agreement.

    Was just making the point that you shouldn't be too surprised to see terrorists attempting to secure funds from inside America. It has happened before, only difference now is that the terrorists have to hide what they are collecting for.

    You cannot say that people who gave to Noraid had no idea where the money was going to... these people willingly gave money to terrorists.
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