Some Good News from the GWOT
A couple of good news items today from the war on terror.
French police have apparently captured the man believed responsible for the daytime knife attack on a French soldier in the La Défense shopping mall/transportation center west of Paris last week. The man captured is 21 years old and has been identified only as “Alexander D”.
In case anyone was wondering: yes, the arrested man is an adherent of Islam – French authorities characterized him as a recent convert. The Paris public prosecutor has indicated that investigators believe he “acted in the name of his religious ideology” while committing the crime. The suspect apparently first came to French authorities’ attention in 2009, and was believed to have “become more radical” roughly 3 months ago.
In other news, Pakistani authorities have reported that at least four senior Pakistani Taliban militants were killed by a “US drone strike” in the North Waziristan region. One of the dead was reportedly Wali-ur-Rehman, deputy head of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Rehman was the TTP’s most senior military commander and is believed to have been the primary planner and coordinator of their military operations during the past several years.
Rehman’s demise is not yet confirmed. TTP has denied that Rehman was killed, but has admitted other militants were killed in the attack.
Rehman has a long history of coordinating attacks in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is believed to have masterminded the 2008 bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad that killed 50 as well as a 2009 attack on a US base in Khost that killed 7 US personnel. The Pakistani government has offered a bounty on Rehman since 2009.
May Rehman already be acting as Shay’tan’s personal sex-slave, and may he continue to do so for eternity.
Category: Terror War
What a bummer to get to Arab heaven and find out your 70 virgins are all ugly dudes! Who knew there were clauses in that contract too. You have to read the fine print I tell you. Do these guys get to have a lawyer go over the details before hand? I mean when you strap on a chest bomb or hear the last faint whiz of that drone, you better be damn sure of where you’re heading and what you’re getting.
“In case anyone was wondering: yes, the arrested man is an adherent of Islam….” Yeah, sure, and the Pope is Catholic, I suppose.
@2 Yea, I am SOOO surprised he is an Islamic. Such a peace loving, democracy wanting people they are. I could have pulled that deduction out of my ass before I read the “Some Good News fron the GWOT”. But he is just one of the “minority of violent fundamentalists”.
And, as said back in the old ‘hood….adios mutha fahkas!
Good!
Headline you’ll never see: Four Pakistani Taliban Killed By Pakistani Soldiers
As much as we talk s$%t about the French, at least they have the fortitude to call it what it is. A Muslim committing terror in the name of religion.
I guess they won’t try to get away with “Workplace Violence”.
Clearly the report is mistaken. Islam is a religion of tolerance and peace…. /sarc