Via Weasel Zippers:
Two Moroccans arrested in Italy yesterday wanted to blow up the Milan Cathedral on Christmas. They hoped an attack during the busy holiday would cost dozens of lives. This according to tapped phone calls, reports La Repubblica.
The two belonged to an Islamic terror cell which had been followed by the Italian police already for months. “The plot was discovered yet before the suspects could get explosives,” says the Italian minister of Internal Affairs, Roberto Maroni, in response.
Rachid Ilhami (31) and Abdelkader Ghafir (43) were arrested in Giussano, a city 25km away from Milan. The detectives gathered from tapped phone calls and confiscated computer files that the two also prepared attacks on a supermarket and a police bureau. They are arrested on suspicion of terrorism and eventual cooperation with al-Qaeda.
Ilhami had been living since he was ten in Italy. He is married and has two children. He worked as a blacksmith and in his free time worked in a center for peace activities, in the area of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s villa, according to Corriere della Sera.
Meanwhile, NPR wrings hands over Italians’ reluctance to allow more immigrants.
Just for the sake of argument, what would be an equivalent Islamic monument that might accidentally have a bomb dropped on it, if the Cathedral were damaged?
Huh. Imagine that.
“Just for the sake of argument, what would be an equivalent Islamic monument that might accidentally have a bomb dropped on it, if the Cathedral were damaged?”
Just about anything in Najaf would probably serve… maybe Karbala? Tomb of Ali, etc..
Just for the sake of argument, what would be an equivalent Islamic monument that might accidentally have a bomb dropped on it, if the Cathedral were damaged?
The Al Askari mosque in Samarra.
Oh, wait.
That was these same assholes. I just realized you mean us, being not so tippy toey and, well, jihadihilist.
Peace is when you submit.
Just for the sake of argument, what would be an equivalent Islamic monument that might accidentally have a bomb dropped on it, if the Cathedral were damaged?
I wasn’t aware of a “Site Holiness Ranking System” in the Christian world. There must be one in the Muslim world, since during the nasty part of the Iraq war we were constantly reminded by the mainstreamers that our sodjers allowed a shell casing to strike the 23rd holiest site in Islam, or used their left hand to touch the wall of the 623rd holiest mosque in Fallujah, or some such nonsense.
For the sake of argument, let’s just say that the Milan Cathedral is equivalent to Mohammed’s mummified left nut.
“Just for the sake of argument, what would be an equivalent Islamic monument that might accidentally have a bomb dropped on it, if the Cathedral were damaged?”
Mecca.
Not that the Milan Cathedral is, I dunno, the Vatican or Jerusalem or whatever, I’m just in a “fuck it” sort of mood.
All of them?
Peace org. How surprising. Like the various “peace” organizations that the Soviets financed over the years in the West, stocking them with useful idiots. Funny how they all called for unilateral disarmament, ’cause the WEST was always the problem.
How about the Royal Palace at Riadh?
#9 JohnAnnArbor
Waddaya mean “was”?
The Soviet Union may be extinct, but their useful idiots are still ticking away.
Just for the sake of argument, what would be an equivalent Islamic monument that might accidentally have a bomb dropped on it, if the Cathedral were damaged?
Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, Iran, & Pakistan sound like a good trade to me.
It doesn’t matter – anyone that would be hit in retaliation would be more holy and more important if you go by outrage level reported in the press.
Tapped phone calls?!? Damn that Bush and his trampling on our Constitution!
>>…what would be an equivalent Islamic monument…
Equivalent? pffft
“They pull a knife, you pull a gun. They send one of yours to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the morgue.”
Whichever one is chosen remember to nuke the site from orbit.
It’s the only way to be sure.
PT