The AP didn’t get the memo that jihad is a good thing
The AP has a story about some fellows who apparently wanted to participate in man-caused disasters:
Authorities say two New Jersey men who intended to kill American troops were arrested at a New York City airport before boarding flights on their way to join a jihadist group in Somalia. Federal authorities say 20-year-old Mohamed Mahmood Alessa and 24-year-old Carlos Eduardo Almonte were arrested Saturday…
The arrests were made as part of an investigation known as Operation Arabian Knight. Authorities said an undercover NYPD officer had infiltrated the suspects’ group of friends and was able to monitor their consumption of jihadist videos…
The two men had planned their trip Somalia for several months, saving thousands of dollars, undergoing tactical training and test runs at paintball fields to condition themselves physically, and acquiring equipment and clothing they could use when they joined al-Shabaab in Somalia, the officials said. Both had bragged about wanting to wage holy war against the United States
Apparently the AP (and Wikipedia) didn’t get the memo from John Brennan, assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, who said that we don’t “describe our enemy as jihadists or Islamists because jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself.”
June 8th, 2010 at 7:05 pm
That idiocy about it being a “peaceful internal struggle” doesn’t pass the horselaugh test, and their continuing efforts to sell it just make them look like idiots — or make it seem that they think we’re idiots.
How in hell are we supposed to win a war when we aren’t permitted to talk honestly about our enemy? (It’s hard to avoid the suspicion that those peddling this crap don’t really think we should win.)