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Explosives vest removed from boy no older than 13

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  • #32
    dinorebel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭dinorebel


    Musketeer4 wrote: »
    The russian thinking is that sustained heavy bombardment from the air, even of civilian infrastructure, has the long term effect of turning ordinary people against the rebels and they will lose their support.
    It will be very interesting to see how this works out in syria.

    Going by the Afghan war not well.


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,208 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    stunmer wrote: »
    I like the way you put 'freedom fighters' in quotes. Obvious contradiction.

    I put it in quotes because freedom fighters nowadays are quite different from such 80 years ago. Indescriminate targeting of civilians being a major difference, and the embracing of terror'ism' to the fullest extent.
    Do Muslims who think anyone who leaves the faith should be executed count in the 'nutjobs'?

    No idea. From what I can see Muslims themselves can't decide whether to support, deny all involvement, or fight these nutjobs. And I think it's kinda obvious who is included as being nutjobs...


  • #34
    skywanderer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 334 ✭✭skywanderer


    The Prophet Mohammed was a murdering Paedophile so I guess its a case of emulating your idol really.


  • #35
    stunmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭stunmer


    Deleted User wrote: »
    No idea. From what I can see Muslims themselves can't decide whether to support, deny all involvement, or fight these nutjobs. And I think it's kinda obvious who is included as being nutjobs...

    I wanted to ask the question below to highlight the 0.5% figure being nutjobs mentioned earlier in the thread.
    Do Muslims who think anyone who leaves the faith should be executed count in the 'nutjobs'?

    If we are to count Muslims who do agree with the death for apostasy the percentage dramatically increases (I presume at least into the 10's of millions).
    Page 55 in this report


  • #36
    Musketeer4
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 657 ✭✭✭Musketeer4


    In reference to the earlier post on 0.5% or 0.05% of muslims having jihadist/wahhabist tendencies, I don't think seizing on a simple error in the location of the decimal point has much influence the situation and what has to happen on the ground to neutralise them whether its 50,000 or 500,000 that need to be dealt with its the same game- Whack-A-Mole!

    At the end of the day a significant and ongoing use of force will be instrumental in ensuring the security of the west for some decades to come. A tragedy is that significant amoutns of public funds that could be spent on infrastructure and public projects in the west will be swallowed up by the amount of ordnance that will have to be utilised to bring peace to the middle east.


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  • #37
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Musketeer4 wrote: »
    At the end of the day a significant and ongoing use of force will be instrumental in ensuring the security of the west for some decades to come.
    Just like it has been for the last several decades so. Things are so much better and more peaceful now thanks to all the military action in the middle east these days, I certainly dread to think of going back to those awful 1990s before this constant military intervention, because Islamic terrorism was so much worse back then.


  • #38
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,208 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    stunmer wrote: »
    I wanted to ask the question below to highlight the 0.5% figure being nutjobs mentioned earlier in the thread.

    I simply wanted to grab a low percentage which would still show that there is potentially a rather high number of nutcases willing to fight or die for their beliefs.


  • #39
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Not a new phenomenon, unfortunately. We were encountering children being used in bombings back when I was in Iraq in 2004, though the MO was different. They'd have the kid with them in the car so as to look unthreatening, as opposed to simply strapping the bomb to the kid.


  • #40
    SnakePlissken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭SnakePlissken


    Winterlong wrote: »
    You would need to be one sick bastard to strap a suicide belt on to a child and send him out to kill other people.

    In other news, water is wet ;)


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