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Well, the "Trojan Horse" probe is to be headed by ex-Met counter-terrorism chief Peter Clarke
. It looks like the authorities are taking it very seriously. And on the subject of British Islamic Terrorism, the Abu Hamza terror trial begins with jury selection in the US.
Beware the Crazy Man.
Obvious conclusion is obvious. I wonder what her solution would be though.
Who Am I?
Weird. I dont think that would ever happen at an American school. Too many fingers in the pie.
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."
Who Am I?
Our results show that Chinese people do not equate Xinjiang separatists with Xinjiang civilians, even after Kunming. Eighty-seven percent of respondents agreed with the statement “Those who support terrorism in Xinjiang are only a small minority among Xinjiang civilians.”
Well, that's reassuring.
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."
scratching at .8, just hopin'
Oh shit. Boko Haram kidnapped 234 female students in northern Nigeria.
In the Portuguese channels, the Boko Haram kidnapping was reported only once or twice. Are there any possible areas where the girls are being kept by them?
Who Am I?
Apparently they are searching someplace called "the Sambisa Forest".
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."
Organized Canine Bureau Special Agent
In response to the attack caused by Xinjiang militants, these guys are deployed to the region to take care of them.
HGW XX/7
Snow Leopard Commando is a bloody fantastic name to give a SOF unit.
Schild und Schwert der Partei
Organized Canine Bureau Special Agent
They used to be the Snow Wolf Commando Unit before the PAP went for a name change.
"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"
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To Nigeria:
edited 5th May '14 11:13:48 PM by Greenmantle
Keep Rolling On
HGW XX/7
Knife attack in Kwangchow injures several.
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
"God has instructed me", he says. Pffffttt. Yeah, right. If he had actually read the Quran and the Hadiths properly while throwing away any cultural or personal biases, he'd be giving those girls back to their families and willingly handing himself over to arrest in utter shame and self-deprecation.
HGW XX/7
Boko Haram don't even have much - or indeed any - support among the local Muslim populace; it's not like the PLO or the Taliban, who, if you squint, at least have some underlying greivance which is halfway legit. They're just thugs.
Schild und Schwert der Partei
Thugs with free reign to do more or less whatever the hell they want. Nigerian authorities are too busy arresting protesters who criticize the government's inaction to prevent it happening again today.
Who Am I?
Boko Haram is more or less what you would get if there had been 5000 kids involved in "Lord of the Flies".
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."
HGW XX/7
Obama has dispatched military and technical experts to Nigeria following a request from the Nigerian government. Cameron has offered ISR aircraft and special forces.
Schild und Schwert der Partei
Not content with enslaving a few hundred young women, Boko Harem has apparently slaughtered at least 150 people in the Nigerian village of Gamboru Ngala.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/07/world/africa/nigeria-abducted-girls/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Who Am I?
Boko Haram is apparently an extremely mysterious group. No one seems to know how many people are in it, where they live, who they are, or where they get their funding. They appear to operate more like an underground criminal organization than an insurgency movement.
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."
What I find particularly "interesting" is how Wikipedia translates their name variously as "Western education is sinful" or similar concepts.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
That is what it means.
For a sense of what we're talking about here, they've tried to ban teaching that the world is round and how rain forms.
And let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that)
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
... So in their belief system, the Earth is flat and... OK, how do they believe rain forms?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
HGW XX/7
Allah pisses it, I imagine.
Re: Boko Haram's backers
It's not clear to what extent you need backers to operate down there; they could survive just by banditry. One possibility is that it's intra-African regional politics. Rwanda did some extremely shady things during the Congo War, for instance. Could be one of Nigeria's neighbours isn't as friendly as they thought. It's a pretty cut-throat geopolitical environment down there.
edited 7th May '14 10:56:27 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der Partei
That school headline sounds like something pulled directly from a tea party tract. It'll be a shame if even part of the allegations ends up true, the islamophobes practically drool over such stories.