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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-13-11 09:22 AM
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Jihadist groups watch revolution pass them by
Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) -- Jihadist groups across the Middle East have applauded and encouraged the popular movements in Tunisia and Egypt, but their exhortations have made little impact on the course of events. In fact, they've hardly been noticed.

Even so, a survey of postings on jihadist websites and forums suggests Islamist groups see opportunities to exploit what has happened.

Al Qaeda and associated Islamist groups, long committed to the overthrow of Arab governments, have so far been marginalized spectators rather than drivers of protest, behind the curve of what U.S. President Barack Obama has called the "arc of history."

The first statement from al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb -- al Qaeda's North African affiliate -- about the protests in Tunisia came more than three weeks after they started. An audio message from the group's leader, Abu Musab Abdul Wadud, urged Tunisians to train in the group's military camps and called for the ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali by a government based on Islamic Sharia rule.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/12/analysis.egypt.revolution.jihadists/

Nobody is going to fight for their freedom from a government dick-tator just to give it away to a holy dick-tator.

A message to ALL the religious tyrants in the world including the American Taliban...

It's OVER!

The future doesn't want you there!
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