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Female Al Qaeda Arrested
When Belgian police arrested 14 terrorists yesterday as part of an operation to thwart a planned terror attack, an "al-Qaeda living legend" was among them. Malika El-Aroud is a female Al Qaeda recruiter known for her ability to use the internet to draw men and women into jihad. Belgian police said that they aimed to prevent El-Aroud from moving to Afghanistan where she would have played a role fighting coalition forces. Her late husband, Abdessater Dahmane, was one of two men who assassinated Afghanistan's key anti-Taliban commander Ahmed Shah Massoud two days before 9/11. In 2006 El-Aroud professed her love for Osama bin-Laden to CNN: "Most Muslims love Osama. It was he who helped the oppressed. It was he who stood up against the biggest enemy in the world, the United States. We love him for that."
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this is a very revealing story. im sure that my lack of knowlage on the culture of the middle east is not uniqe. i was under the impression that women in arabia were not permitted to embark on the important tasks of society on the whole much less the "work" of god. it seems to me that women in that area are allowed not the position of the stone ages but that of the middle ages. social evolution, its like we're looking back in time!
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