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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (699)	9/11/2006 10:25:54 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Al Qaeda blasts U.N. force in Lebanon as "enemy" Reuters ^ \| 9-11-06 today.reuters.co.uk DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri has condemned United Nations forces in Lebanon as "enemies of Islam", the first implicit threat against the peacekeeping detachment. Zawahri, speaking in a video tape aired on Arabic Al Jazeera television on Monday, also blasted a U.N. resolution that governs a ceasefire that ended 34-days of fighting between Israel and Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah. "The biggest problem with resolution 1701 and similiar resolutions designed to humiliate Muslims is...its declaration of the existence of the Jewish state," Zawahri said in the video, aired on the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. "(The resolution) also isolates the mujahideen in Palestine from the Muslims in Lebanon by the presence of international forces that are the enemies of Islam." The U.N. force, known as UNIFIL II, is being deployed in the south of Lebanon after the August 14 truce. It will contain troops from Muslim as well as Western countries. Israel's war on Lebanon was sparked by Hizbollah's abduction of two Israel soldiers in a cross-border raid in July. The U.N. Security Council resolution that led to the truce called for 15,000 U.N. troops to join a similar number of Lebanese army troops deploying in the south of the country.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (699)	9/11/2006 1:10:05 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Hizbullah Trains Thousands for 'Childrens Suicide Corps' Geostrategy Direct ^ \| September 13, 2006 Issue \| Bill Gertz Hizbullah trains thousands for children's suicide corps Lebanese sources said Hizbullah has recruited more than 2,000 children to serve in its military wing. The youngsters are 10 to 15 years old and have received weapons and bomb training. The sources said the children are recruited at Hizbullah-sponsored schools and youth clubs in southern and eastern Lebanon. Fathers sign a waiver for their children to attend the Mahdi Scout camps and begin indoctrination and training.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (699)	9/11/2006 1:12:19 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20106

Sept. 10 people wrong Projecting liberal values onto Islamic fascists mistaken Calgary Sun Monday, September 11, 2006 By Ezra Levant calsun.canoe.ca Are you a September 10th person or a September 11th person? September 10th people think the world hasn't fundamentally changed since the terror attacks of 9/11. September 11th people know it has. When September 10th people hear about a jihadist attack -- like last week's firebombing of a Montreal Jewish school, or the attack the week before in San Francisco, or the month before in Seattle -- they say it is a random crime, not related to a global struggle between Western civilization and Islamic fascism. September 11th people know even if such terrorist acts aren't centrally controlled from Iran or Pakistan, they are part of a larger movement, and that Islamic fascists use the motto "think globally, act locally." September 10th people look at Islamic fascists and project their own liberal values onto them. They wonder what we did wrong to provoke such rage; they wonder how we could split the difference with our attackers and buy peace, for that is what reasonable people do. If only we can sit down and reason this thing out together. Jack Layton is a September 10th person. He thinks we can negotiate with the Taliban, to tackle the "root cause" of their alienation. Maybe he'd bring Dr. Phil along to really get a good discussion going, have a good cry and walk away as friends. September 11th people are more culturally aware. They know liberal ideas -- like allowing a difference of opinion, like peaceful resolutions of disputes, like a belief in the innate worth of every man and woman -- are not shared by all men. In fact, liberal values like tolerance of dissent and freedom of religion and speech are the "root cause" of terrorism; it is that liberty the terrorists seek to replace with abject submission. The concept of compromise itself is anathema to the perfect truth the terrorists claim to represent. It is liberal arrogance to think they can negotiate true believers away from their true beliefs. September 10th people serve up Western-sounding excuses for terrorists (they're poor; we have not treated them fairly, it's all Israel's fault). September 11th people actually listen to what the terrorists say when they explain themselves: they are on a holy mission to make the entire world submit to Islam's sharia law. September 11th people take the jihadists at their word. September 10th people find that too terrifying to contemplate. September 10th people want to believe multiculturalism has no limits, and that all cultures are equally valid, equally moral, equally good. September 11th people respect some differences and tolerate others. But September 11th people have breaking points; they take Western, liberal values seriously, like equality of the sexes and non-violent solutions to problems. And when those Western, liberal values collide with illiberal values, September 11th people are not afraid to say: "Our values are superior, and you must accept them if you come to live with us." September 10th people are torn between their belief in our Western, liberal values, built up at great cost over centuries, and their new fad of political correctness towards minorities. And so a September 10th person who would noisily criticize a Catholic priest's moral prudeness, and invoke the separation of church and state, sits quietly as Muslim imams propose the invocation of sharia law and censorship of dissidence -- including children's cartoons of Mohammed. September 10th people have a role model. He was pleasant and fashionable and well-meaning and wrong. His name was Neville Chamberlain. September 11th people have a role model. He was curmudgeonly and hard-nosed and right. His name was Winston Churchill.