Al-quaeda and Taliban?
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They are not unrelated. However, prior to the invasion of Iraq, AQ and the Taliban were indirectly linked to Saddam's regime. Saddam supported terrorism and anti-US movements in general, rather than specifically focusing on the advancement of Osama bin Laden and the agenda of the Taliban or AQ.\n\nRecent activity in southern Afghanistan can partly be linked to increased Taliban activity (which usually spikes following the spring thaw of the ice covering mountain passes), and partly to tribal infighting and territorial disputes among drug smugglers. As NATO extends its forces into southern Afghanistan, the violence will most likely spike and then subside as arrests are made and terrorists, criminals and warlords are killed during the offensive and battles among themselves.\n\nThe technology being used is not necessarily more advanced. What has improved (unfortunately) are the tactics being employed both in Iraq and Afghanistan. Terrorists, insurgents and drug smugglers are learning from operational successes and failures and are adapting techniques and placement and amount of explosives in a more efficient and unfortunately effective manner. Insurgents have begun using shaped charges more effectively to focus the blast pattern, which makes the explosion more deadly for the victim.\n\nLong way of saying I agree with your point that AQ and the Taliban were connected, at least indirectly, to Saddam.
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neither them are powerful compared to Al Qaeda.\n\nmossad and cia still starving to crackdown alqaeda fugatives.\nand keeping up the death toll rising all the day.
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Unfortunately the story is mentioned in Islamic history. This is the problem when faith gets mixed with politics. Assissanation and killing opponents is very common among politicians, but it was not supposed to be for a prophet.
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they dont really want to ....they had a half assed attempt in afganastain,and they are still there now,with the Taleban gaining control more and more.They focused all there efforts on Iraq,if they had put half the effort they put in to Iraq in to Afaganastain,they would have the bastard.
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Well, I think your idea could make sense, but it's a bit of a strech.\n\nHow do you explain that all the hijackers were Middle-Eastern and were connected with Al-Qeada? When you're fanatical enough to join a militant group that fights for your religion it's very hard to buy you off.
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That's great. Have to remember that one. Can we all agree not to prosecute me if I'm one of the guys that finds him & I shoot him in the balls & let him bleed out on video?\n\nPS, the Taliban didn't offer bin Laden after 9/11. Sudan offered him to Clinton in the 90s, but we didn't have a warrant for him.
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None. It’s not his decision or his right, or that on anyone else's with a God complex.  He's a wealthy Saudi man who didn't fit in.  No one appointed him the representative of anyone.  The only way I could see him able to avenge anyone is the people who chose to follow him.  Most of these people I consider zealots and bigots who should be stopped (sort of like the Klu Klux Klan or the Spanish Inquisition), so I don’t see avenging their captures or deaths as a legitimate act.  I do see that some Arabs and Muslims have real reasons to be upset, but I don’t see how Bin Laden is their “avenger.”  I think that people who don't directly target civilians or support regimes like the Taliban who so grievously harm their civilians would be the best people to represent those civilians.  I also think it should be people from that group: rich Saudi men with tremendous advantages who still couldn't make a positive difference on his co-citizens' lives in his own country need not apply.
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because islam is intollerant. were the taliban isolated extreemist islamics? When you consider that saudi arabia and iran are governed by very similar laws, though not as draconian then one can see the taliban is not so "unique" in islam after all. Once again all that was said is "oh well".. no protests by "moderate peacefull" muslims against this type of behavior ever occured
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Please refer to this link, Sir.  It's full of stuff on that subject.\n\nhttp://shaukani.wordpress.com/2006/04/15/the-salafi-dawah-and-being-honest-about-ourselves/\n\nHave a nice day.
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Someone say something about Zarqawi???? Oh yeah, he's the guy that has the Shiites and Sunnis killing each other and starting a civil war. Not the US my friend. I don't kill people IVBEDS and IED's kill people and who is setting those of I wonder? The US?, me thinks NO, Muslim Extremists, me thinks YES!\n\nAlluah akbhar brudda!!
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By JOHN F. BURNS\n\nJanuary 27, 2002\n\nAZHAKHEL BALA, Pakistan, Jan. 20 — Little in the manner of Ijaz Khan Hussein betrays the miseries he saw as a volunteer in the war in Afghanistan.\n\nMr. Khan, a college-trained pharmacist, joined the jihad, or holy war, like thousands of other Pakistanis who crossed over into Afghanistan.\n\nHe worked as a medical orderly near Kabul, shuttling to the front lines, picking up bodies and parts of bodies. Of 43 men who traveled with him to Afghanistan by truck in October, he says, 41 were killed.\n\nNow with the Taliban and Al Qaeda routed, have Mr. Khan and other militants finished with holy war?\n\nMr. Khan, at least, said he had not.\n\n"We went to the jihad filled with joy, and I would go again tomorrow," he said. "If Allah had chosen me to die, I would have been in paradise, eating honey and watermelons and grapes, and resting with beautiful virgins, just as it is promised in the Koran. Instead, my fate was to remain amid the unhappiness here on earth."\n\nJihad literally means striving. The Prophet Muhammad gave Muslims the task of striving in the path of God. Whether that striving is armed or a personal duty of conscience is a question causing consternation in the world's 1.2 billion Muslims, and that question goes to the heart of President Bush's war on terrorism.\n\nIn the Muslim world, it seems that Osama bin Laden is now a fractured idol, and many Muslim scholars criticize him. Yet he also remains appealing to others, almost as a political Robin Hood.\n\n"Osama bin Laden is not a theologian, or a jihadist in the traditional sense of the term; he's a political activist," said one critic, Olivier Roy, a French scholar who has written several books about Afghanistan. "He has Islamized the traditional discourse of Western anti-imperialism. So a lot of Muslims support him, not because they see him as a true warrior for Islam, but because they hate America, and he's the only man in the Islamic world that they see fighting the Americans. He's like Carlos the Jackal converted to Islam."\n\nIn mosques and Islamic seminaries from Morocco to Indonesia, moderate Muslims have been scouring the Koran to demonstrate that a true vision of jihad can never be squared with Sept. 11, even while expressing how aggrieved Muslims may be with America over issues Mr. bin Laden has identified in his videotapes, like Israel's treatment of Palestinians, the presence of American troops in the Arabian peninsula and the United States' role in maintaining sanctions against Iraq.\n\n"Don't make the mistake of thinking that Osama bin Laden is the true face of a billion Muslims, or the true voice of the Koran," said Dr. Safir Akhtar, a research scholar at the Islamic University in Islamabad, a Saudi-financed institution that has long been a magnet for young militants from around the Islamic world.\n\n"He may have a special appeal through his religiosity," Dr. Akhtar said, "and his spartan way of life, and he has certainly drawn deeply from Muslims' deep sense of frustration, but people think of him more as an adventurer than as an Islamic leader, and they know from their own studies that his sense of jihad is deeply flawed."\n\nConversations with ordinary Muslims in Pakistan tend quickly to turn to their disillusionment with the inglorious figure Mr. bin Laden has cut since Sept. 11 — as he counseled future jihadis that "this world is an illusion," valueless beside paradise, and posed for the videotapes with a Kalashnikov and a camouflage jacket, while avoiding the hazards of combat himself. Moreover, many of Islam's most militant theologians now rebuke Mr. bin Laden, who suggested in the videotapes that he cast himself in the mold of Saladin, who recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders in the 12th century.\n\nFrom Cairo, Beirut and Tehran, and a dozen other centers of fervent Islamic belief,
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TRY TO THINK ONE THAT WASNT ABOUT RELIGION!! \n\nCountry Main religious groups involved Type of conflict \nAfghanistan Extreme, radical Fundamentalist Muslim terrorist groups & non-Muslims Osama bin Laden heads a terrorist group called Al Quada (The Source) whose headquarters were in Afghanistan. They were protected by, and integrated with, the Taliban dictatorship in the country. The Northern Alliance of rebel Afghans, Britain and the U.S. attacked the Taliban and Al Quada, establishing a new regime in part of the country. The fighting continues \nBosnia Serbian Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholic), Muslims Fragile peace is holding, due only to the presence of peacekeepers. 2 \nCôte d'Ivoire Muslims, Indigenous, Christian Following the elections in late 2000, government security forces "began targeting civilians solely and explicitly on the basis of their religion, ethnic group, or national origin. The overwhelming majority of victims come from the largely Muslim north of the country, or are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants..." 5 A military uprising continued the slaughter in 2002. \nCyprus Christians & Muslims The island is partitioned, creating enclaves for ethnic Greeks (Christians) and Turks (Muslims). A UN peace keeping force is maintaining stability. \nEast Timor Christians & Muslims A Roman Catholic country. About 20% of the  population died by murder, starvation or disease after they were forcibly annexed by Indonesia (mainly Muslim). After voting for independence, many Christians were exterminated or exiled by the Indonesian army and army-funded militias in a carefully planned program of genocide and religious cleansing. The situation is now stable. \nIndia Animists, Hindus, Muslims & Sikhs Various conflicts that heat up periodically producing loss of life.  \nIndonesia, province of Ambon Christians & Muslims After centuries of relative peace, conflicts between Christians and Muslims started during 1999-JUL in this province of Indonesia. The situation now appears to be stable. \nIndonesia, province of Halmahera  Christians & Muslims 30 people killed. 2,000 Christians driven out; homes and churches destroyed. \nIraq Kurds, Shiite Muslims, Sunni Muslims, western armed forces By mid-2006, a small scale civil war, primarily between Shiite and Sunni Muslims started. The situation appears to be steadily degenerating. \nKashmir Hindus & Muslims A chronically unstable region of the world, claimed by both Pakistan and India. The availability of nuclear weapons and the eagerness to use them are destabilizing the region further. More details Thirty to sixty thousand people have died since 1989. \nKosovo Serbian Orthodox Christians & Muslims Peace enforced by NATO peacekeepers. There is convincing evidence of past mass murder by Yugoslavian government (mainly Serbian Orthodox Christians) against ethnic Albanians (mostly Muslim) Full story \nKurdistan Christians, Muslims Assaults on Christians (Protestant, Chaldean Catholic, & Assyrian Orthodox). Bombing campaign underway. \nMacedonia Macedonian Orthodox Christians & Muslims Muslims (often referred to as ethnic Albanians) engaged in a civil war with the rest of the country who are primarily Macedonian Orthodox Christians. A peace treaty has been signed. Disarmament by NATO is complete. \nMiddle East Jews, Muslims, & Christians The peace process between Israel and Palestine suffered a complete breakdown. This has resulted in the deaths of thousands, in the ratio of three dead for each Jew.  Major strife broke out in 2000-SEP. Major battle in Lebanon during mid-2006. No resolution appears possible. \nNigeria Christians, Animists, & Muslims Yourubas and Christians in the south of the country are battling Muslims in the north. Country is struggling towards democracy after decades of Muslim military dictatorships. More details \nNorthern Ireland Protestants, Catholics After 3,600 killings and assassinations over 30 years, some progress has been made in the fo
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They never said they will help us. The said they will attack us but certainly not help us. Al qaeda has connections to the gurus that took over Somalia, they are fighting us in Iraq and Afghanistan. Check a news site or something.
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No! this verse refer to those who are attacking muslims unfairly and give them hard time. if you continue reading the next verse (90) you will understand.\n\nQuran 4:(89, 90)\n[89] They wish that you reject Faith, as they have rejected (Faith), and thus that you all become equal (like one another). So take not Auliyâ' (protectors or friends) from them, till they emigrate in the Way of God (to Muhammad (peace be upon him)) But if they turn back (from Islâm), take (hold) of them and kill them wherever you find them, and take neither Auliyâ' (protectors or friends) nor helpers from them. \n\n[90] "Except those who join a group, between you and whom there is a treaty (of peace), or those who approach you with their breasts restraining from fighting you as well as fighting their own people. Had God willed, indeed He would have given them power over you, and they would have fought you. So if they withdraw from you, and fight not against you, and offer you peace, then God has opened no way for you against them." \n\n\nalso in this verse it explains even more\nQuran 2:190\n\n"And fight in the Way of God those who fight you, but transgress not the limits. Truly, God does not love the transgressors."
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hahahah. It has to be Osama. Perhaps you will find a playgirl magazine with Osama's photos in their bathroom. \n\nIt's funny some of the liberals are associating christian values to conservatism, as if the liberals are atheists.\nIn fact they themselves support fanatics like Bin Laden.
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I believe that the holy quaran has some good priciples, but some things I can not believe.  I believe that ANY human 'claiming'whether islamic or christian can be a terrorist. There is a bunch of bad apples everywhere you look, just as there are good apples. I have nothing against Muslim, their religion, or the Quran.  I do have a problem with terrorist, whether they claim to be religous or not.
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not sure i agree 100%,  taliban was a threat to world peace,  there were un resolutions authorizing use of force,  but we did botch up iraq and should have turned authority over to UN a lot more then we have, but it wasnt imperalistic since there was "some" legal basis.\n\nim not a lawyer of world law but just you know, jim darwin, opinion like a0hole ive got one