Scum-watch: Graffiti and straw men.
A 21/7 SUICIDE bomb suspect wrote al-Qaeda graffiti on the walls of his jail cell after his court case started, the trial heard.It was spotted by a guard at London’s Belmarsh Jail, the court heard.
Mohammed and five others deny the plot at Woolwich Crown Court. The trial continues.
The only problem with this is that unless Mohammed meant base instead of book, the sentence makes little sense. The origins of how bin Laden's organisation came to be called al-Qaida is disputed, as the opening to the Wikipedia entry makes clear. Translated, it simply means "the base". This may have been either down to the first training camp established by bin Laden and his followers, which was simply named the base, or, as Robin Cook wrote in a comment piece the day after the the London bombings and shortly before his death, the name of the computer file held by the CIA on the Afghan mujahideen:
Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians. Inexplicably, and with disastrous consequences, it never appears to have occurred to Washington that once Russia was out of the way, Bin Laden's organisation would turn its attention to the west.
If we want to take Mohammed's alleged scrawling even more literally, he may have been referring to Jason Burke's outstanding brief history of al-Qaida, which makes clear that understanding the threat is key to its defeat. More likely is that it was a typical toilet wall inking, the kind that the bored teenager scratches into his desk at school. Not that explaining this to those who have commented on the article would likely do much good.
Bring back hanging for these people! If the UK isn't such a soft touch maybe they would ****** off!
Seeing as the whole basis for the case is that Mohammed was attempting to carry out a suicide bombing but failed, I doubt bringing back hanging is going to do much to deter the average jihadi set on dying for his cause.
A nice public execution. It's time we took the gloves off dealing with these vile individuals. Our liberty, freedom and society as we know it is at grave risk if we don't do something now!
What better way to prove that we're above such barbaric acts of senseless violence than by executing criminals in public? Everyone come and get a nice look, then you can go home and watch al-Zarqawi et al doing the same thing to hostages in Iraq.
Today's Scum leader is even more ignorant and stupid than usual:
Our best hope
The new Star Wars is vital for our defence. We must embrace it.
Only just one slight problem with this. Even if North Korea's missile technology worked, and the last test failed miserably, then the furthest they could hit would be the west coast of America. As for Iran, their longest range missile (they are developing others, but how far along the production stage they are is unknown) could conceivably travel 2200km, meaning it could possibly strike Israel, which would quickly result in Tehran experiencing a nuclear winter. Iran is still years away from actually producing a nuclear weapon capable of being attached as a warhead to a missile. Neither country is a direct threat to the United Kingdom. This leader is in other words, a scaremongering pack of lies. For an opinion not written by deliberately misleading lazy lying journalist scum, try the Grauniad's leader.
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unless Mohammed meant base instead of book, the sentence makes little sense
Depends how it's meant to be punctuated (in my experience, many graffiti are sadly deficient in both their spelling and punctuation). If you read as something like 'Al-Qaida! The Book that will guide you to victory! [i.e. The Koran]', then it starts to make a bit more sense.
Posted by
not_saussure |
Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:13:00 PM
True, although I think if he had been referring to the Koran he'd have made that clearer, as most grafitti isn't exactly subtle. Either way, it's utterly daft to make an issue of it in court. The evidence against them is already damning.
Posted by
septicisle. |
Saturday, February 24, 2007 11:28:00 PM
The only reason Pakistan/Libya/North Korea etc. have the nuclear technology is because of A.Q. Khan stealing it. The chances of them giving it to Iran seem limited, to say the least...
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John Angliss |
Sunday, February 25, 2007 1:21:00 AM