Security Weekly: From Failed Bombings to Armed Jihadist Assaults

may 27th, 2010

intriguing comments by stratfor:

1. quote from awlaki, the US-born jihadi. he knows english and is supposed to be a mohammedan 'spiritual leader', so his explanation of the term 'innocent' is interesting. it is exactly what i have been saying the definition of 'innocent' is in the mohammedan lexicon: innocent == mohammedan non-combatant. all others are by definition guilty, including hindu infants and hindu toddlers! that you, awlaki, for confirming my conjecture. this is why they had no compunctions about torching the sabarmati express and burning to death lots of hindu children.

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In the May 23 al-Malahim interview (his first with AQAP), al-Awlaki not only said he was proud of the actions of Hasan and Abdulmutallab, whom he referred to as his students, but also encouraged other Muslims to follow the examples they set by their actions. When asked about the religious permissibility of an operation like Abdulmutallab's, which could have killed innocent civilians, al-Awlaki told the interviewer that the term "civilian" was not really applicable to Islamic jurisprudence and that he preferred to use the terms combatants and non-combatants. He then continued by noting that "non-combatants are people who do not take part in the war" but that, in his opinion, "the American people in its entirety takes part in the war, because they elected this administration, and they finance this war." In his final assessment, al-Awlaki said, "If the heroic mujahid brother Umar Farouk could have targeted hundreds of soldiers, that would have been wonderful. But we are talking about the realities of war," meaning that in his final analysis, attacks against civilians were permissible under Islamic law. Indeed, he later noted, "Our unsettled account with America, in women and children alone, has exceeded one million. Those who would have been killed in the plane are a drop in the ocean."

While this line of logic is nearly identical to that historically put forth by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the very significant difference is that al-Awlaki is a widely acknowledged Islamic scholar. He speaks with a religious authority that bin Laden and al-Zawahiri simply do not possess. 

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2. the utter incompetence of india's security forces. thank you, nehru and congress and the media for all your political interference that has eviscerated the security forces and removed any laws that might help fight terrorism. the police are so scared of being accused of being mohammedan-unfriendly by the banshees in the media that they simply avoid arresting any mohammedan.

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even though Mumbai became a protracted operation, its planning and execution indicated it was intended as an attack in which the attackers would inflict maximum damage and not be taken alive. It was only due to the good fortune of the attackers and the ineptitude of the Indian security forces that the operation lasted as long as it did.

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This is FREE intelligence for distribution. Forward this to your colleagues. From Failed Bombings to Armed Jihadist Assaults By Scott Stewart | May 27, 2010 One of the things we like to do in our Global Security and Intelligence Report from time to time is examine the convergence of a number of separate and unrelated developments and then analyze that convergence and craft a forecast. In recent months we have seen such a convergence occur. http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20100526_failed_bombings_armed_jihadist_assaults?utm_source=SWeekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=100527&utm_content=readmore&elq=54e70b435d7446bebfa252552d4c46e2