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16:50 - As long as it takes
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/15/sprj.irq.abbas.arrested/index.html
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1985 isn't so long ago. But regardless, when it comes to incidents like the Achille Lauro, the memories stay fresh.
I think it's all to the good that one of the first (of what may be a good many) terrorist nabs we've made in Iraq is of someone whose notoriety is from an incident nearly twenty years ago. It'll send the message that when we go after terrorists, it doesn't matter how many years we have to search or what protective governments we have to overthrow-- we'll do the Mountie thing and always get our man.
This, along with the Ron Jeremy arrest last month, should at the very least give a lot of people the cold heebie-jeebies: commit an act of terrorism that gets the Americans involved, and you'll be running for the rest of your life. And even if that sounds like fun, we will get you.
From the comments at LGF:
It should also be publicized that as "senior emeritus terrorist," he freely attended those Hamas/Fatah/Is. Jihad hate-fests in Egypt over the last two years and that Egypt laughed at our demands for his arrest.
And the fact that he was turned back at the Syrian border is a good sign too-- seems maybe some people are starting to listen. The dominoes are beginning to fall...
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