From USNews’ David Kaplan:
Who’s funding the insurgents in Iraq? The list of suspects is long: ex-Baathists, foreign jihadists, and angry Sunnis, to name a few. Now add to that roster hard-core Euroleftists.
Turns out that far-left groups in western Europe are carrying on a campaign dubbed Ten Euros for the Resistance, offering aid and comfort to the car bombers, kidnappers, and snipers trying to destabilize the fledgling Iraq government. In the words of one Italian website, Iraq Libero (Free Iraq), the funds are meant for those fighting the occupanti imperialisti. The groups are an odd collection, made up largely of Marxists and Maoists, sprinkled with an array of Arab emigres and aging, old-school fascists, according to Lorenzo Vidino, an analyst on European terrorism based at The Investigative Project in Washington, D.C. “It’s the old anticapitalist, anti-U.S., anti-Israel crowd,” says Vidino, who has been to their gatherings, where he saw activists from Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Italy. “The glue that binds them together is anti-Americanism.” The groups are working on an October conference to further support “the Iraqi Resistance.” A key goal is to expand backing for the insurgents from the fringe left to the broader antiwar and antiglobalization movements.
In the US, we find these folks at rallies sponsered by International ANSWER. And of course in Maxine Waters’ car, whenever she happens to be driving it.
(h/t VP)
If I were a cynical man, I might question their patriotism…
Disgusting, supporting fascists out of spite.
Literally, the folks attending the International A.n.s.w.e.r. group’s rallies are the same old Lefties at the Euro gatherings: Answer is associated with the World Worker’s Party – http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michaelkelly/mk20030122.shtml
Lovely.
Not surprised. They’ve been funding the PLO, Hamas, Hizb’Allah and their ilk since forever.
Indeed, these people are not dissenters – they are our enemies.
I believe that a portion of the Bush Doctrine states that “If you support terroristic regimes, you’re an enemy of the United States”.
I think these despicable groups need to get the message, and I’m all for duct taping that message to the nose of an American made good old-fashioned 500-pound “dumb bomb”. After all, if they were good enough to reduce Germany to rubble in 1945, they’ve got to be able to take out a few gatherings of terrorists fundraisers.
I’d settle for seeing these a**hats charged with conspiracy to commit murder. I’d rather the intelligence services whack some of them to remind the others that this is not a game they want to play.
Hey People
We can not leave the Iraqi people to this den of wolves. They must be irradicated. All of these terrorists mfers. They lay in wait for the US to pull out. I hope a article I read the other day about the bases being built in Azerbaijan is true.
There’s been some major connections built with the govenment there since the inception of the new oil line built from the Caspien out to Turkey.
the idea is to consolidate the posts through Europe especially Germany and some to the Arab states. The location would be supremly advantageous for the US in keeping a strong military presence and a faster, easire response to trouble.
Fact is Sec. Rumsfeld said this was going to be a long hard slog. He wasn’t lying or speaking to soon either. this whole anti-america thing is really a spiritual battle from the un-beliving leftie/commis/socio-muslim/asshole/fundamentalists against all of the Judeo-Christian spirit of the U.S, Israel and other of our ‘real’ allies. Oh, how they hate us. They are a evil satanic lot.