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To: one_less who wrote (281)	7/7/2005 12:07:41 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 326

Report: Islamic Group Claims London Blasts foxnews.com The statement was published on a Web site popular with Islamic militants, according to Der Spiegel magazine in Berlin, It's bizarre how this articles quotes Der Spiegel, but doesn't give the URL of the Islamic website. The UN should pass some resolution which would give them the ability to go in a sieze the management of this website and make them provide the names of those that are claiming responsibility. If some wacko killers are claiming responsibility for this bombing, they should be pursued by the oh so inactive, nebulous "international community" and identified and brought to justice. If Time reporters have to go to jail because they repeated Bob Novak's outing of Plame, the publishers of this website might as well have some pressures put on them to indentify those who claim to be the killers.

To: one_less who wrote (281)	7/12/2005 9:58:39 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 326

Muslim scholar: Killing civilians OK Head of Islamic center in London responds to attack -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: July 12, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern Responding to questions about the terrorist attack on London, a Muslim scholar in the British capital asserted Islam makes no distinction between civilians and military targets. "The term 'civilians' does not exist in Islamic religious law," said Hani Al-Siba'i, head of the Al-Maqreze Centre for Historical Studies in London. Al-Siba'i, in an interview with the Arab news channel al-Jazeera, elaborated, "There is no such term as 'civilians' in the modern Western sense. People are either of Dar Al-Harb or not." Dar Al-Harb refers to the Muslim concept of the world being divided into two "houses," the House of Islam and the remaining territories, the House of War, or Dar Al-Harb. Al-Siba'i speculated that a Western nation could have been responsible for the attack, but he acknowledged it could have been carried out by Osama bin Laden's terrorist organization, according to a transcript provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI. "If al-Qaida indeed carried out this act, it is a great victory for it," he said. "It rubbed the noses of the world's eight most powerful countries in the mud."