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Suicide bombers who killed 52 people and injured more than 700 on London's transit system in July probably had contact with members of the al-Qaeda terrorist network, according to a British report.
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al-Qaeda must have the best publicist in the universe because I can't remember a single time since 9/11 when I heard mention of another terrorist group.
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You haven't heard of Hamas? The Muslim Brotherhood? The Tamil Tigers? Hezbollah? The Taliban? Or the new groups that claim responsibility every time a new hostage gets taken in Iraq?
quote:Originally posted by nwataya: The Tamil Tigers?
Erm... what were the Tamils doing in that list?
ETA: Oops my mistake, I thought the list was supposed to be all Muslims.
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Just a nitpick really, but although the Muslim Brotherhood may have links with terrorist organisations I'm not sure that it would be entirely accurate to describe the organisation itself as a terrorist group.
quote: Since the 1970s, however, the Egyptian Brotherhood has disavowed violence and sought to participate in Egyptian politics. The U.S. State Department does not include the group on its list of terrorist organizations.
The link above referes mainly to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, but there are numerous other branches, which might have closer ties to terrorism.
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quote:Originally posted by nwataya: The Tamil Tigers?
Erm... what were the Tamils doing in that list?
ETA: Oops my mistake, I thought the list was supposed to be all Muslims.
Is that a rip on me or the media? Which other non-Muslim organizations should I have listed? I'm just going off of the ones I remember from the news. I would have included the IRA, if they had done a single thing that I had remembered seeing in the news over the last 5 years. What murderous Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist groups have you seen blowing up people outside of the authority of a state?
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Apparently not. Would it have been a big story stateside too?
Edit: I should have probably mentioned the Lord's Resistance Army though. And the Janjaweed as well. Although those two don't fit into the stereotypical idea of a terrorist organization that I have in my head, they probably fit the definition too.
quote:Originally posted by nwataya: The Tamil Tigers?
Erm... what were the Tamils doing in that list?
ETA: Oops my mistake, I thought the list was supposed to be all Muslims.
Is that a rip on me or the media? Which other non-Muslim organizations should I have listed? I'm just going off of the ones I remember from the news. I would have included the IRA, if they had done a single thing that I had remembered seeing in the news over the last 5 years. What murderous Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist groups have you seen blowing up people outside of the authority of a state?
What I meant was I read the original series of posts incorrectly and thought you were listing only Muslim terrorists. I was pointing out the majority of Tamils aren't Muslim. Then I re-read the post and hence corrected myself.
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