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The "War on Terrorism" albeit necessary is
really a demonically evil smoke and mirrors.
Terrorism is simply the fuel feeding the fire
towards the soon coming
Mideast peace plan that will be brokered by
a man that rises to the position out of the
blue. This man will become the
Antichrist.
Satan is moving fast towards his plan to put his
son (the son of perdition) into power. He will
do this by using Islamic extremist (and it looks
like
Iran will be the point of the spear.) to
come to the 11th hour of annihilating Israel.
The good news is Jesus Christ will ultimately
return and defeat Satan once and for all. Before
He does He will use Satan's earthly armies to
teach God's chosen people (The Jews) one last
lesson and awaken a raiment of them to the
realization that
Jesus
Christ is their Messiah. Stay tuned it's
going to get worse before it gets better! |
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"For we wrestle not
against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of
this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places."
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Apostle Paul Ephesians 6:12 KJV |
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Countries in which Islamist terrorist attacks have
occurred on or after September 11, 2001
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They include the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al-Qaeda
affiliate; Al-Faruq Brigades, a militant wing of the
Islamic Movement in Iraq (Al-Harakah al-Islamiyyah fi
al-arak); Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna; the Mujahideen of the
Victorious Sect (Mujahideen al ta’ifa al-Mansoura); the
Mujahideen Battalions of the Salafi Group of Iraq (Kata’ib
al mujahideen fi al-jama’ah al-salafiyah fi al-‘arak);
the Jihad Brigades/Cell; "White Flags, Muslim Youth and
Army of Mohammed" ; Ansar al-Islam, a Taliban-like,
jihadist group with ties to Al Qaeda. At least
some of the terrorism has a transnational
character in that some foreign Islamic jihadists
have joined the insurgency.
Lebanon
Fatah al-Islam is an Islamist group operating out of the
Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon. It was
formed in November 2006 by fighters who broke off from
the pro-Syrian Fatah al-Intifada, itself a splinter
group of Fatah, and is led by a Palestinian fugitive
militant named Shaker al-Abssi. The group's members have
been described as militant jihadists, and the
group itself has been described as a terrorist
movement that draws inspiration from al-Qaeda. Its
stated goal is to reform the Palestinian refugee camps
under Islamic sharia law, and its primary targets are
Israel and the United States. Lebanese
authorities have accused the organization of being
involved in the 13 February 2007 bombing of two
minibuses that killed three people, and injured more
than 20 others, in Ain Alaq, Lebanon, and identified
four of its members as having confessed to the
bombing. consider it, or a part of it, to be a
terrorist group responsible for blowing up the
American embassy and later its annex, as well as
the barracks of American and French peacekeeping
troops and a dozens of kidnappings of foreigners
in Beirut. It is also accused of being the
recipient of massive aid from Iran, and of
serving "Iranian foreign policy calculations and
interests," or serving as a "subcontractor of
Iranian initiatives" Hezbollah denies any
involvement or dependence on Iran.
In the Arab and Muslim worlds, on the other
hand, Hezbollah is regarded as a legitimate and
successful resistance movement that drove both
Western powers and Israel out of Lebanon. In
2005, the Lebanese Prime Minister said of
Hezbollah, it "is not a militia. It's a
resistance."
These views have changed drastically in the past few
years, especially after Hezbollah was blamed by most
Sunni Muslims (and nearly all Christian sects) to be the
cause of the 2006 war with Israel. The majority of the
Lebanese population, supporting the pro-Western
government and its political parties known as the 14
March Alliance, now have very negative views of
Hezbollah. The current government has tried to disarm
Hezbollah on more than one occasion, but the Shiite
organization refuses to enter into discussions about its
weapons. Today, more and more Lebanese are beginning to
consider Hezbollah a terrorist organization themselves.
Israel and the Palestinian territories
Hamas, ("zeal" in Arabic and an acronym for Harakat al-Muqawama
al-Islamiyya), began support for attacks on military and
civilian targets in Israel at the beginning of
the First Intifada in 1987. As the Muslim
Brotherhood organization for Palestine its
leadership was made up of "intellectuals from
the devout middle class,... respectable
religious clerics, doctors, chemists, engineers,
and teachers.
The 1988 charter of Hamas calls for the destruction of
Israel[88], and it still states its goal to be the
elimination of Israel. Its "military wing" has claimed
responsibility for numerous attacks in Israel.
Hamas has also been accused of sabotaging the
Israeli-Palestine peace process by launching
attacks on civilians during Israeli elections to
anger Israeli voters and facilitate the election
of harder-line Israeli candidates. For example,
"a series of spectacular suicide attacks by
Palestinians that killed 63 Israelis and led
directly to the election victory of Benjamin
Netanyahu and his Likud party on 29 May 1996."
Hamas justifies these attacks as necessary in
fighting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian
territory, and as responses to Israeli attacks
on Palestinian targets. The wider movement also
serves as a charity organization and provides
services to Palestinians.
Hamas has been designated as a terrorist group by the
European Union, Canada, the United States, Israel, the
United Nations Commission on Human Rights and Human
Rights Watch.
Islamic Jihad
Islamic Jihad is a militant Palestinian group Islamist
group based in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and
dedicated to waging jihad to eliminate the state of
Israel. It was formed by Egyptian Fathi Shaqaqi in the
Gaza Strip following the Iranian Revolution
which inspired its members. From 1983 onward, it
engaged in "a succession of violent,
high-profile attacks" on Israeli targets. The
intifada which "it eventually sparked" was
quickly taken over by the much larger Palestine
Liberation Organization and Hamas. Beginning in
September 2000, it started a campaign of suicide bombing
attacks against Israeli civilians. It is currently led
by Sheikh Abdullah Sheikh Abdullah Ramadan.
The PIJ's armed wing, the Al-Quds brigades, has claimed
responsibility for numerous militant attacks in Israel,
including suicide bombings and the group has been
designated as a terrorist group by the several countries
in the West.
North Africa
The Armed Islamic Group, active in Algeria between 1992
and 1998, was one of the most violent Islamic terrorist
groups, and is thought to have backfired the Muslim
population of Algeria. Its campaign to overthrow the
Algerian government included civilian massacres, which
sometimes wiping out entire villages in its area of
operation (see List of Algerian massacres of the 1990s;
notably the Bentalha massacre and Rais massacre, among
others.) It also targeted foreigners living in Algeria
killing more than 100 expatriate men and women in the
country. The group's favored technique was the
kidnapping of victims and slitting their throats
although it also used assassination by gun and bombings,
including car bombs. Outside of Algeria, the GIA
established a presence in France, Belgium, Britain,
Italy and the United States. In recent years it has been
eclipsed by a splinter group, The Salafist Group for
Preaching and Combat (GSPC), now called Al-Qaeda
Organization in the Islamic Maghreb.
South Asia
The major countries affected by terrorism in South Asia
are India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Though Afghanistan
had been a victim of civil war for decades, ultimately
turning into global Islamic terrorism; Pakistan has of
late become a target of the militants from either
Afghanistan or from Pakistan itself. This is possibly
because of the military action against these groups
displayed by Pakistan in the past few years, owing to
excess international pressure. However, the country that
continues to be the biggest victim of terrorism is
Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pakistan has recorded the
highest number of terror strikes till date, if nations
like Afghanistan and Iraq are kept aside for altogether
different scenarios existing in these
countries.
The year 2008 especially was extremely harrowing for
India, due to the numerous blasts that occurred
throughout the year in different cities all over the
nation.
Lashkar-e-Toiba
Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Taiba is a militant group that
seeks the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir's
accession to Pakistan. It has committed mass
militant actions against Indian troops and
civilian Indians. The Lashkar leadership
describes Indian and Israeli regimes as the main
enemies of Islam, claiming India and Israel to
be the main enemies of Pakistan. Lashkar-e-Toiba,
along with Jaish-e-Mohammed, another militant group
active in Kashmir are on the United States’
foreign terrorist organizations list. They are
also designated as terrorist groups by the
United Kingdom, India, Australia and Pakistan.
Jaish-e-Mohammed
Jaish-e-Mohammed (often abbreviated as JEM) is a major
Islamic militant organization in South Asia. Jaish-e-Mohammed
was formed in 1994 and is based in the Islamic
Republic of Pakistan. The group's primary
objective is to separate Kashmir from India, and
it has carried out a series of attacks all over
India.
The group was formed after the supporters of Maulana
Masood Azhar split from another Islamic militant
organization, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. It is believed that
the group gets considerable funding from
Pakistani expatriates in the United Kingdom. The
group is regarded as a terrorist organization by
several countries including India, United States
and United Kingdom. Jaish-e-Mohammed is viewed
by some as the "deadliest" and "the principal
terrorist organization in Jammu and
Kashmir".[102] The group was also implicated in
the kidnapping and murder of American journalist
Daniel Pearl.
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen
In Bangladesh the group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh
was formed sometime in 1998 and gained prominence on 20
May 2001 when 25 petrol bombs and documents detailing
the activities of the organization were discovered and
eight of its members were arrested in Parbatipur in
Dinajpur district. The organization was officially
banned in February 2005 after attacks on NGOs,
but struck back in August when 300 bombs were
detonated almost simultaneously throughout
Bangladesh. Dhaka international airport,
government buildings and major hotels were
targeted.
Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, Taliban and Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin
forces, are reported to have "sharply escalated
bombing and other attacks in 2006 and early
2007" against civilians. During 2006 "at least
669 Afghan civilians were killed in at least 350
armed attacks, most of which appear to have been
intentionally launched at civilians or civilian
objects. An additional 52 civilians were killed
in insurgent attacks in the first two months of
2007."
Southeast Asia
The Abu Sayyaf Group also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya
is one of several militant Islamist separatist groups
based in and around the southern islands of the
Philippines, in Bangsamoro (Jolo, Basilan, and Mindanao)
where for almost 30 years various Muslim groups have
been engaged in an insurgency for a state, independent
of the predominantly Christian Philippines. The name of
the group is derived from the Arabic ابو, abu ("father
of") and sayyaf ("Swordsmith").
Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has
carried out bombings, assassinations, kidnappings,
rapes, and extortion in their fight for an independent
Islamic state in western Mindanao and the Sulu
Archipelago with the stated goal of creating a
pan-Islamic superstate across southeast Asia, spanning
from east to west; the island of Mindanao, the
Sulu Archipelago, the island of Borneo
(Malaysia, Indonesia), the South China Sea, and
the Malay Peninsula (Peninsular Malaysia,
Thailand and Myanmar).
The U.S. Department of State has branded the group a
terrorist entity by adding it to the list of Foreign
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The
War on Terrorism
The War on Terrorism (also referred to as the Global War
on Terror, World War III, World War IV, Overseas
Contingency Operation or Bush's War on
Terror) is the common term for the military, political,
legal and ideological conflict against Islamic terrorism
and Islamic militants, and was specifically used in
reference to operations by the United States, the United
Kingdom and its allies since the September 11, 2001
attacks' and later the 7 July 2005 London bombings.
The stated objectives of the war in the US are to
protect the citizens of the US and allies, to protect
the business interests of the US and allies at home and
abroad, break up terrorist cells in the US, and disrupt
the activities of the international network of terrorist
organizations made up of a number of groups under the
umbrella of al-Qaeda.
Both the term and the policies it denotes have been a
source of ongoing controversy, as critics argue it has
been used to justify unilateral preemptive war, human
rights abuses and other violations of international law.
In March 2009, the Obama administration requested that
Pentagon staff members avoid use of the term, instead
using "Overseas Contingency Operation". The administration has
re-focused US involvement in the conflict on the
withdrawal of its troops from Iraq, the closing of
Guantanamo Bay detention camp, and increasing the number
of troops in Afghanistan.
War on Terrorism
Led by Osama Bin Laden, a radical Islamist trained by
the US during the 1980s to conduct guerilla attacks
against the Soviet Army in Afghanistan , Al-Qaeda
formed a large base of operations in Afghanistan, which
had been ruled by the Islamist extremist regime of the
Taliban since 1996.
Following the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania, U.S. President Bill Clinton launched Operation
Infinite Reach, a bombing campaign in Sudan and
Afghanistan against targets the U.S. asserted were
associated with al-Qaeda. Although others have
questioned the Sudan plant's use as a chemical warfare
plant The strikes failed to kill al-Qaeda'a
leaders or their Taliban supporters (targets included a
civilian pharmaceutical plant in Sudan that produced
much of the region's malaria drugs and around 50% of
Sudan's pharmaceutical needs ).
Next came the 2000 millennium attack plots which
included an attempted bombing of Los Angeles
International Airport. In October 2000 the USS Cole
bombing occurred, followed in 2001 by the September 11
attacks.
By 2003, 12 major conventions and protocols were
designed to combat terrorism. These were as well,
adopted and ratified by a number of states to become
international law. These conventions require states to
co-operate on principal issues regarding unlawful
seizure of aircraft for example, the physical protection
of nuclear materials and freezing assets of militant
networks.
In 2005 the Security Council also adopted resolution
1624 concerning incitement to commit acts of terrorism
and the obligations of countries to comply with
international human rights laws. Although both
resolutions require mandatory annual reports on
counterterrorism activities by adopting nations, the
United States and Israel have both declined to submit
reports.
Islamic terrorism
Islamic terrorism is the common term for violence,
rooted on Islamic fundamentalism, and aimed at
defending, or even promoting, Islamic culture, society,
and values in opposition to the political, allegedly
imperialistic, and cultural influences of non-Muslims,
and the Western world in particular (cf. "Dar al-Harb").
There are also political dimensions to the ideology, and
the history of Western influence and control after the
fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, is the common stated
reason used within the ideology to justify and explain
its use of violence as resistive and retributive against
Western, non-Muslim imperialism and political influence.
Islamic terrorist acts have included airline hijacking,
kidnapping, assassination, suicide bombing, and mass
murder. The most prominent act attributed to
Islamic terrorism is the hijacking of commercial
passenger airliners and their use in the destruction of
the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, in the
United States, which claimed 2,998 lives. The United
States responded by declaring a "war on terrorism"
Organizations and acts
Some prominent Islamic terror groups and incidents
include the following:
Al-Qaeda is a worldwide pan-Islamic terrorist network
headed by Osama bin Laden and is most famous for
orchestrating the September 11 attacks against the
United States. It now operates in more than 60
countries. Its stated aim is the use of jihad to defend
Islam against Zionism, Christianity, the secular West,
and Muslim governments such as Saudi Arabia, which it
sees as insufficiently Islamic and too closely tied to
America.
Formed by bin Laden and Muhammad Atef in the aftermath
of the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the late 1980s, Al
Qaeda called for the use of violence against civilians
and military of the United States and any countries that
are allied with it. Since its formation Al Qaeda has
committed a number of terrorist acts in Africa, the
Middle East, Europe, and Asia. Although once supported
by the Taliban organization in Afghanistan, the U.S. and
British governments never considered the Taliban to have
been a terrorist organization.
United States
Islamic extremists or radical Muslims account for very
large portions of the terrorism carried out in United
States. Specially some events such as
World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the 9/11 event and
further much more events. Muslim popular opinion on the
subject of attacks on civilians by Islamist groups
varies. While most Muslims living in the West denounce
the September 11th attacks on the US, Hezbollah's rocket
attacks against Israeli civilian targets are widely
supported in the Muslim world and regarded as defensive
Jihad by a legitimate resistance movement rather than
terrorism. Though Al-Qaeda operates worldwide, they only
comprise of 1000 members, as compared with the
relatively peaceful Iraqi resistance's 100,000.
Europe
Major lethal attacks on civilians in Europe credited to
Islamic terrorism include the 11 March 2004 bombings of
commuter trains in Madrid, where 191 people were killed
and 2,050 wounded, and the 7 July 2005 London bombings,
also of public transport, which killed 52 commuters and
injured 700. According to EU Terrorism Report there were
almost 500 acts of terrorism across the European Union
in 2006, but only one, the foiled suitcase bomb plot in
Germany, was related to Islamist terror.
Russia
Politically-motivated attacks on civilians in Russia
have been traced to separatist sentiment among Muslims
in its Caucasus region, particularly Chechnya. Russia's
two biggest terrorist attacks both came from Muslim
groups. In the Nord-Ost incident at a theater in Moscow
in October 2002, the Chechnyan separatist "Special
Purpose Islamic Regiment" took an estimated 850 people
hostage. 39 hostage-takers were killed by Spetsnaz and
OSNAZ troops and at least 129 hostages died during the
rescue, all but one killed by the chemicals used to
subdue the attackers. Whether this attack would more
properly be called a nationalist rather than an Islamist
attack is in question.
In the September 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis 1,200
schoolchildren and adults were taken hostage after
"School Number One" secondary school in Beslan, North
Ossetia-Alania was overrun by the "Caucasus Caliphate
Jihad" led by Shamil Basayev. As many as 500 died,
including 186 children. According to the only
surviving attacker, Nur-Pashi Kulayev, the choice of a
school and the targeting of mothers and young children
by the attackers was done in hopes of generating a
maximum of outrage and igniting a wider war in the
Caucasus with the ultimate goal of establishing an
Islamic Emirate across the whole of the North Caucasus.
Turkey
Unrelated to the Shia Hezbollah of Lebanon, this Sunni
terrorist group has been credited with the
assassination of Diyarbakir police chief Gaffar Okkan,
and the November 2003 bombings of two synagogues, the
British consulate in Istanbul and HSBC bank
headquarters, killing 58 and wounding several hundred.
Iraq
The area that has seen some of the worst terror attacks
in modern history has been Iraq as part of the Iraq War.
In 2005, there were 400 incidents of one type of attack
(suicide bombing), killing more than 2000 people - many
if not most of them civilians. In 2006, almost half of
all reported terrorist attacks in the world (6600), and
more than half of all terrorist fatalities (13,000),
occurred in Iraq, according to the National
Counterterrorism Center of the United States. The
insurgency in Iraq against the US and Iraqi government
combines attacks on "Coalition troops" and the Iraqi
security forces, with attacks on civilian contractors,
aid workers, and infrastructure. Along with nationalist Ba'athist groups and criminal, non-political attacks,
the insurgency includes Islamist insurgent groups, who
favor suicide attacks far more than non-Islamist groups. |
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