Arrested Gaza Flotilla "Peace Activists" Are Al-Qaeda & Muslim Brotherhood Members; Have Record of Radicalism
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 6:03 PM
What a shock. A majority of the arrested “peace activists” who brutally attacked the Israeli soldiers with pipes, metal rods. chairs and knives are linked to terror groups including Al-Qaeda. Several are members of the Muslim Brotherhood. The activists include Turks, Yemenites and Indonesians. And, many of the arrested “peace” fanatics have no identification papers.
The terror-linked “peace activists” even brought their own “Hezbollah slingshots” with them on their “peace” mission. (IDF)
YNET News reported:
The ongoing interrogation of passengers who were aboard the Marmara – the Gaza aid flotilla’s flagship – revealed that the majority of those who attacked the Israeli Naval Commandos boarding the ship have direct and indirect Global Jihad ties.
Israel’s investigation has revealed some 100 people infiltrated the peace and humanitarian aid activists making their way to Gaza, with the explicit design to attack Israeli soldiers using cold arms.
Some among that group are believed to have ties with World Jihad groups, mainly al-Qaeda.
The majority of suspects are Turks, but some are Yemenites and Indonesian. One Yemenite Islamist was photographed with a dagger in his belt prior to the raid.
The suspects are not cooperating with investigators. Most of them have no identification papers, and Israeli authorities are still trying to ascertain their identity.
So, will the Western media omit this from their reports, too?
More… There were 3 Pakistanis with the Gaza Flotilla, too.
UPDATE: Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S, said the terrorists had ties to Al-Qaeda.
WCBS reported:
Israel also said terrorists were involved that have ties to al Qaeda.
“I believe that the organization involved in organizing the Turkish part of the flotilla was deeply linked to Islamic extremist organizations in the world,” Ambassador Oren said. “This is not just Israel’s conclusions. There is evidence from the CIA.”
Still more… MEMRI had this on the jihadists:
Arab Media Reports on Flotilla Participants: Writing Wills, Preparing for Martyrdom, Determined to Reach Gaza or Die
The Egyptian flotilla delegation included two members of the Muslim Brotherhood bloc in the Egyptian parliament: Muhammad Al-Baltaji and Hazem Farouq.
Al-Baltaji, who is deputy secretary-general of the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc in Egypt, said at a March 2010 conference, “A nation that excels at dying will be blessed by Allah with a life of dignity and with eternal paradise.” He also said that his movement “will never recognize Israel and will never abandon the resistance,” and that “resistance is the only road map that can save Jerusalem, restore the Arab honor, and prevent Palestine from becoming a second Andalusia.[1]
More…
Prominent activists in the Yemeni flotilla delegation were three MPs from the Al-Islah party, an Islamist party that is close to the Muslim Brotherhood. One, Sheikh Muhammad Al-Hazmi, was photographed on the deck of the Mavi Marmara brandishing his large curved dagger.
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gus commented:
I’m sure Katie Couric will be reporting the FACTS tomorrow am.
jomojava commented:
Who would have ever guessed this?
pamlinson commented:
Is ANYONE surprised by this??? Even you lefties, are you surprised? There is no level too low for them, the ends justify the means as far as they are concerned. There is enough evidence to what really happened that you would have to willfully refuse to see it. We are starting to see it on full display in our liberal news.
sliderblaze commented:
im sure the left classifies these people as freedom fighters, remember the insurgents in iraq were freedom fighters to these poeple too
sliderblaze commented:
oh yeah, any word on if McKinney was on there too?
hiroshi_tea commented:
even if the media reports this, it would mean nothing to the leftists because this information comes from the Israelis anyways. They have already decided to trust the messages of muslim extremists over the words of a legitimate nation. There’s no hope
Mats commented:
Israel has every right to defend itself. IF muslims face real armies, they loose.
M. Schulte commented:
Oh no, don’t say there’s no hope. Hope, real hope, not Obummer’s version of it, is all we have.
Andreas K. commented:
Just in from the UK:
Gaza aid ship protesters try to storm BBC Manchester
wanumba commented:
Totally validates Israeli’s need for a blockade of Gaza.
AvantBev commented:
“Most of them have no identification papers, and Israeli authorities are still trying to ascertain their identity.”
They are citizens of the UMMAH – islamic community — and are waging war on its behalf as instructed by their “prophet’s” words and in accord with his actions.
Let’s stop the obfuscation and Barney the Dancing Purple Dinosaur happy talk, shall we?
We are not engaged in “two” wars; there is one war being waged from Philippines to Thailand to Sudan to Gaza to NYC Times Square. It is called JIHAD and it is 1400 years old, the OLDEST of WORLD wars.
And let’s stop worrying about national identities. They CHOOSE their identity as Muslims loyal to the spread of shariah law and jihad until all submit to say “There is no god but Allah and Mo is his prophet.” Don’t worry if the passport says “Yemen” or “Turkey” or “Malaysia”; a jihadi is a jihadi.
J.W. Cox commented:
The link is to a not-very-well-reported story.
If “The suspects are not cooperating with investigators. [And] Most of them have no identification papers, and Israeli authorities are still trying to ascertain their identity,” then how can it be said that:
1) “a majority of the arrested “peace activists” who brutally attacked the Israeli soldiers have links to terror groups including Al-Qaeda”
2) “some 100 people infiltrated the peace and humanitarian aid activists…with the explicit design to attack Israeli soldiers using cold arms. [And that] Some among that group are believed to have ties with World Jihad groups, mainly al-Qaeda.”
I can certainly believe that at the very least the humanitarian project was at the least subverted for political/terror goals. But this story doesn’t really give any details; and the details it gives are confusing.
Sliderblaze commented:
Whoa bev. In was told by our govt jihad was legit
jainphx commented:
I’m shocked!!! Thought for sure they would all be Southern Baptists. What a world, now live video of what happened is a lie, and only the People on the ship were even capable of the truth. Israel I’m afraid you’re on you’re own here. The only ones on your side are us conservatives and Christians.
J.W. Cox commented:
And I would add that FT’s David Goldman certainly considers the nationality of the “activists” to be important. In this post http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/spengler/2010/05/31/the-political-equivalent-of-a-sociopath-blows-up-the-middle-east/, he looks at why that’s important, in terms of revealing the changing political dynamics of the region and the failure of the Obama Attitude (since one can’t really call it a “Doctrine”).
sliderblaze commented:
Cox, you are assuming that only the suspects can give information of what is going on and who they are. how many times is it revealed that through, internet posting, writings etc. have given pieces of the puzzle. Not to mention nationality over there is pretty easily determined through language, dialect etc. Some may have been found through law enforcements people of concern
squeaky commented:
[Flotilla ‘Aid’ to Gaza Includes Expired Medicines, Old Equipment] – reminds me of a food drive where they had to ask people not to
donate expired cans of non-perishables. or a clothing drive to aid people in a tropical area and they had to ask people not to donate their cold weather cast-offs.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137816
aro5o75 commented:
Slingshots, pipes and knives…..they must be the moderate mooselimbs that Obozo is soooo fond of.
gus commented:
J.W.COX. Why don’t you make like a jihadist and blow yourself. Up.
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