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British Intel Shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites
DarkWolf0 writes "I guess it should not be too surprising --
the British Times Online discusses the recent shutdown of multiple websites associated with al-Qaeda. I wonder how easy it would be to associate any particular activity with 'terrorism.'"
"damn near all terrorists are Muslims"
Not even close. EVERY country and religion has terrorists - including Christianity and the good ole US of A.
The first terrorists were the Sicarii two thousand years ago. They were part of Jesus's followers. They were named after the short-bladed weapon they used to commit assassinations of Jewish collaborators with the Romans.
Your connection of Islamic terrorism with "the invasion of Iraq" is short-sighted bullshit. Nobody is saying it's because of Iraq - we're saying it's because of the Western world's Mid-Eastern political policies going back seventy-five to a hundred years. And today, specifically those policies related to supporting dictatorial regimes in the "pro-Western" states and especially the support of the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians in the name of Zionist fanatics who want Israel to rule the entire Middle East.
Iraq has merely aggravated the situation by turning a controlled (if dictatorial) country into a chaos land where terrorists have a free hand to attack Americans and get training and equipment to eventually attack Americans anywhere.
Get a fucking clue.
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Was a charge of conspiracy leveled, ajudicated, and then only after a penalty issued by a judge and a thorough appeals process the web site shut down?
You screaming and yelling that its a conspiracy doesn't make it so.
The fact of the matter is that after the first set of bombings Britain immediately outlawed certain kinds of speech. Specifically any speech by a muslim which could be construed as an incitement to terrorism.
In my mind this means the terrorists have already won. I know many people disagree with me but the freedom of speech was not designed to protect popular opinion.
evil is as evil does
"We bombed the shit our of fallujia twice knowing full well that there were going to be non combatants killed"
There is a huge difference between a) destroying military assets as the primary target and having collaterol damage, and b) going out to kill civilians with no military assets in mind.
Your logic only leads us to one place: that terrorism is ok, because it not immoral. I suspect your enthuisiasm to protect terrorists' rights would vanish if you knew that a suicide bomber was sitting next to you on the train and about to blow you to kingdom come. Do you really think that you'd say to a police officer about to kill him: "oh, stop, don't shoot! this man has rights!"? I doubt it. You'd be squealing like a pig, praying that the suicide bomber wouldn't flick the switch. And the only reason he wouldn't is because the officer would get him...not because you protected his rights.
Wake up you muppet.
When I said 'You should follow the Lama', I meant the Buddha not the camel-related South American animal.
"There is a huge difference between a) destroying military assets as the primary target and having collaterol damage, and b) going out to kill civilians with no military assets in mind."
No, there might be a tiny little bit difference but not a HUGE difference. When we bombed the shit out of fallujia we were not destroying a military asset, we were destroying a city so in that case there is ZERO differnce.
"Your logic only leads us to one place: that terrorism is ok, because it not immoral. "
Only if you have no clue to as what logic is. I am simply saying that terrorims is a matter of a silly semantic game. All war is terrorism, terrorism just war. There is no difference between the two. There is no differnce between a war pig like Osama Bin Laden, a war pig like Saddam Hussein and a war pig like George Bush. They all wage war to get what they want, they don't care how many people die to get what they want.
evil is as evil does
Definitions eh?
Here are a couple for you;
Terrorist: Someone who uses illegal acts to scare, kill and otherwise supress opposition.
Soldier: Someone who scares, kills and otherwise supresses opposition.
The only difference is which side you are on, otherwise they are identical.
If you don't think this "war on terror" has led to the death of a lot of innocent people at the hands of the "legal" side, you are clueless.
slashdot troll = you make a compelling argument I do not like the implications of.