Messages Hint at London Blast Recruiting (* repeating the word "crusade")

[sabra]

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http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050716/API/507160874
Messages Hint at London Blast Recruiting

By BRIAN MURPHY
AP Religion Writer
LEEDS, England
Amear Ali remembers how the film images clicked by in rapid-fire sequence to a soundtrack of pounding drums: dead Iraqi children, Palestinians under siege, Guantanamo prisoners, snippets of President Bush repeating the word "crusade."

"You could see how it could turn someone to raw hate," said Ali, recalling his brush last year with the hard-edged marketing of extremism at an Islamic bookstore operated by his brother-in-law. "It even started working on me. Then I said to myself, `Get out. This stuff is poison.'"

The shop was drawn deeper Saturday into the international investigation of the July 7 London bombings, and Ali's introductions into the militant messages could help explain the possible recruitment tactics used in the neighborhood where the suicide mission apparently took shape.

Attempts to discern the motives and mind-set of the suspected bombers remain among the murkiest parts of the probe. But Ali - a 36-year-old father of four boys - claims hardline Islamists had been quietly making contacts and spreading propaganda for years in the Beeston area, a hillock of one-room stores and red brick row houses dominated by families with roots in Pakistan.

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. and its not like Bush hasn't been helping them

First there is unwavering support for Israel on the part of Bush (Not trying to start a flame war, I'm just saying this is how the US is perceived by many in the world)

Second Bush starts a war against Iraq, bungles the invasion, ruining the infrastructure and providing little or no security for the people.

Third Bush uses inflammatory words like "crusade" and lets people like Gen. Boykin run around making anti-Islamic speeches.

All of these things are inflaming impressionable people around the world, and is increasing the threat of more chaos and destruction.

[stepnw1f]

2. Bush Is Inciting Global Chaos!

And benefiting from it too.

He smiles while getting over a hundred thousand people killed in an illegal war. Removes all security from the people, while making them more vulnarable to terrorists.

Who is selling everybody the guns to kill each other?

BINGO!!!

Need a market? Create One!

War=Profiteering

[meganmonkey]

3. Yep - the war in Iraq is step one

in what the Neocons and military corporations hope will be a neverending global war. They don't care that there aren't enough troops, they don't want to 'win' - they just want it to go on and on while the money just keeps getting spent...

:cry:

[AndyTiedye]

4. They Want To Make it so Bad They "Have To" Start Up the Draft

And once ** has the draft at his disposal, they will conscript everyone
who can hold a gun and doesn't have the Repub connections to take after
our pResident.
Then the Crusade goes into high gear. Welcome to World War III.

[kurtyboy]

5. Bush did not repeat the word "crusade"

Amear Ali's experience with the extremist marketing had that image repeated again and again.

But it does go to show what a blunder-fuck Bush was in the period following 9-11. He MUST have been told to avoid that language, but went ahead in his self-aggrandizing Cowboy manner and pumped it out, perhaps failing to understand that a single word could come to incite more death even years after its utterance.

Just like his proclamation about bringing OBL in "dead or alive", or taunting the insurgency in Iraq with "Bring 'em on", the antisocial prick seemingly has no sense of the gravity of his position as a spokesman for Western Democracy.

OR

If he does have that sense, he is the most conniving, despicable, cynical shit-nozzle that ever lived.

Unfortunately, the rest of us Americans have to live and die with the way the majority of the world judges him, either way.

[saigon68]

6. "BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE