Lying in wait
An Arabic-language website is reporting that a jihadist organization in the Gulf “has learned of a plan to assassinate President Bush” during his Middle East tour, which begins today. The president plans to be in the region, including Saudi Arabia, winding up at the Sinai Peninsula resort of Sharm el-Sheikh for the World Economic Forum May 18. Sharm el-Sheikh, you’ll recall, already has been the site of multiple terrorist explosions in 2005, which killed 88 and were attributed to a Saudi-based Wahhabi group. According to the Middle East Media Research Institute, members of the pro-al-Qaeda cell have undergone sniper training and “will lie in wait during [Bush's] upcoming visit [to Saudi Arabia].” I’m struck by those words: We’ve had nearly seven years without a large-scale terrorist attack successfully targeting U.S. citizens (with the major exceptions of Iraq and Afghanistan), but we would be foolish people to forget that well-armed factions are “lying in wait.”




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There is certainly a danger along that line, but this may well be bluffing too.
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What angers me about this is that his trip is not even being covered by most of the media. Just like his Africa trip. It’s gotten to where they don’t cover him at all unless it’s to sling mud.
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I think they botched the translation. They confused the Arabic words for “pro-al-Qaeda sniper” with “McCain staffer”!
It’s an easy mistake to make.
But seriously, the man launched a stupid and poorly planned war that has destabilized the entire Middle East and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Does it really come as a shock to you all that there are snipers the Middle East who would love to kill Bush?
Aren’t these the assumptions that the secret service makes?
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“But seriously, the man launched a stupid and poorly planned war that has destabilized the entire Middle East and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.”
Seriously? The middle east was stable before George Bush came a long? What a laff….
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Every time the President travels overseas, the Islamofascists claim they will kill Bush any number of ways – some quite unusual like saying they will set fire to him, turning him into a burning Bush of all things. This is true of any president and not peculiar to Bush..
No question they would kill him if they could and would surly like to before the left takes the presidency.
It will make them look even worse to the rest of the world when, after the left appeases these terrorists by surrendering to them, giving them everything they want as a gift, while the left returns home with their surrender monkey tail between their legs, these Islamic whack jobs will still cut off Obama’s head for giving up Islam and renouncing Allah after studying Islam in the Whabbi Terrorist School he attended for 4 years in Indonesia. That’s a real no no for any Muslim. Sorry, can’t leave the faith unless you lose your head – no exceptions, do not pass go. No amount of dreaming, hoping and changing can stop any card carrying Islamofascist with Fatwa allowing, head chopping on his brain.
Yep, we may not care one iota that Obama left Islam in his dust and commend him for it, but they will have his head served up on a plate to Ossama. I think I would rather be Bush and only be worried about being set alight.
Somehow I don’t think that the military will be all that enthused to protect a Surrender Monkey like Obama who makes them look like their efforts, hardships and sacrifices were in vain. Someone who makes them out to be evil, murdering war criminals.
Oh well. I suppose Obama could re-convert to Islam to save his head. But, they might not believe him. They actually prefer cutting of the heads of Muslims – truth be known.
Perhaps Obama has this security problem already figured out, long ago and plans to hire Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam to protect him. This accounts for his participation in the Million Man March and his traveling with Louis to see Qaddafi. You have to give Obama credit for dreaming correctly about being a global thinker and hoping to save his neck with changes for the better.
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Luke – The ME has been unstable for a few thousand years, and has always been on the brink of blowing up. GWB just gave it the most recent stir.
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Yeah, you still shouldn’t be shocked that there are people there who want him dead.
And what’s with the not even attempting to think rationally? You can only destabilize things that are stable? That’s idiot reasoning, easily disproved by Bush’s presidency.
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Sigh…
Ok Luke, have it your way. The unstable Middle East was further destabilized by one man. It’s all his responsibility, and Congress can wash it’s hands of all responsibility, and along with the state department, the intelligence branches, the other allies, and, of course, the Islamic Jihadists and Islamic fascists and Islamic freaking whatevers.
You are right. What was I thinking?
Happy now?
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Congress never called itself the decider. But what I like about your post, is that your admitting that the Iraq war was a horrible mistake. Don’t continue making that mistake by voting for John McCain.
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“GWB just gave it the most recent stir.”
Well, Osama really started the latest stir. But for 9/11, there wouldn’t have been any political will for going into Afghanistan or Iraq.
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no-one bothers to check this organization??
According to wikipedia its a pro-Israeli organization founded by a retired colonel of the Israeli Defense Force, an adviser to Rabin and was an administrator of the occupied territories. ITs been critized in the past for selecting the worst possible Arab media to translate and then to distort the translations.
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Now just why would a pro-Israeli organization threaten to assassinate Bush?
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Sorry you didn’t catch the sarcasm Luke.
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The jihadis hate Bush. Luke hates Bush. The platform of the Democratic party is “Hate Bush!”. Howard Dean, head of the DNC said “I hate Republicans and everything they stand for”. If the jihadis succeed, Democrats succeed.
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Why doesn’t anyone remember that while in the country of Georgia, a nutcase threw a live grenade at the President?
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