“We have every legitimate right to do such acts, for isn’t it America that comes to our region and kills innocents and children?” Mr. Abssi said. “It is our right to hit them in their homes the same as they hit us in our homes.
A whole new group of jihadists is coming together in Lebanon.
The men belong to a new militant Islamic organization called Fatah al Islam, whose leader, a fugitive Palestinian named Shakir al-Abssi, has set up operations in a refugee camp here where trains fighters and spreads the ideology of Al Qaeda.
There's a three page report in the New York Times but already there's something familiar about the latest fatwah -- expected, anticipated. We knew this would happen. It was inevitable; it springs from the arrogance and stupidity of the Bush administration; and it will set off -- undoubtedly -- a whole new series of recriminations and counter-recriminations. Arrogant. Stupid. And ignorant.
When will we learn.
