Terror Arrests in Spain and Thailand

Terrorism is a tactic. You have to show willingness to use arms to try and defeat them while showing those who are thinking of using terrorism that were not that bad and we want to help them. I personally believe it is beter to go and fight the problem sooner, rather then later (I.E: Look what hitler did, in 1933,34,35,36 and even up to 38 [a year before WWII started] France could of easily defeated Germany by itself.) There were many terrorist attacks before 9/11 (First WTC attack, Embassy bombings, the Cole bombings) were al-qaeda wasn't as mainstream as it is now and could be beaten more easily. Now they (and splinter cells) are everywhere and will be harder to beat. IMO, we should take out the Iranian leaders somehow or get them to stop supplying al-Qaeda some how. During the british hostage negotiations, i was thinking we should of just taken Ahmajid and the Ayatollah and trade them for the hostages. In the words of Roossevelt, we should speak softly and carry a big stick.

How about quran??  What this holy book says about the terrosrism. 

Most Islamic fundamentalists see west culture as a threat to the Muslim
culture. TV, the internet, movies, McDonalds, and games carry
western culture to the Islamic world ). Islamic fundamentalist called people to fight against this cultural invasion
and scared people if they follow western culture, they will lose their
religion. This fight called jihad against the west by terrorists. Jihad
became an international problem to solve because this idea influenced
most Muslims. Jihad became a common word to state terrorist violence against
civilians. Unfortunately, the real meaning of the jihad is confused
today. If a Muslim calls, he is a great supporter of the jihad; people will
assume he is a terrorist. Confused meaning of jihad became a international
icon of Muslims all around the world. If someone is looking for real solution
to the Islamic terrorism, teaching of real understanding of jihad is very
important. There are two kinds of jihad. First is called a Greater
Jihah which encourages people to fight wrong convictions, carnal desires, and
evil inclination. The other jihad is Lesser Jihad which brings others
to path of Islam. The second type of jihad is misinterpreted as using
weapons to non Muslims to convert them . Prophet Muhammad was
praying all nights, fasting mostly and helping the poor people. This was his
Greater Jihad which was educating his soul. His second Lesser Jihad was
teaching people Islam. He never used force to convert people into
Islam.
The Prophet Muhammad had wars, but these were for self defense because
nonbelievers attacked Muslim cities to kill Mohammed. He fought against
enemies but he had to follow Islamic war rules. The Koran says that a
Muslim cannot kill women, children, or elderly, destruct land and corps
in
a war . If the real meaning of the jihad is examined
correctly, it is easy to spread real the idea of the jihad. After
Muslims all around the world learn real meaning of the jihad, it will be easy
tofinish international terrorism. 

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MADRID — The police in Spain and Thailand arrested 10 people suspected of operating a counterfeiting network that provided fake European passports to Qaeda-linked terrorist groups in order to smooth their entry into Western countries, the Spanish Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
Seven people — six Pakistanis and one Nigerian — were arrested in Barcelona in raids late Tuesday and early Wednesday, and three more — two Pakistanis and one Thai — were arrested in Bangkok in the same period, the ministry said in a statement.
One of the Pakistanis arrested in Bangkok, a 42-year-old named Muhammad Athar Butt, known as Tony, directed the forging operation from Thailand, according to a Spanish security official. Mr. Butt was also in charge of cells in Brussels and London, the security official said, speaking on condition of anonymity about a current investigation.
The arrests struck at “an important passport operation for Al Qaeda, weakening its international counterfeiting apparatus, and therefore, its capacity to operate,” the ministry statement said, adding that the raids came after a year-and-a-half-long international investigation, which is continuing.
The police said the network was linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based terror group behind attacks in Mumbai, India, in November 2008 that killed at least 163 people. The network also provided counterfeit passports and other documents to the Tamil Tigers, the Sri Lankan separatist group defeated last year by the government after decades of war, the police said.
The terror organizations would request forged passports from the network according to nationality and age, the authorities said. Members of the network would then steal passports from tourists, mainly in Barcelona, and send them to Thailand where they were forwarded to the terror groups, they said.
The ministry statement hinted at how the plot was discovered, saying that officials had “detected the transport to Thailand of numerous passports stolen from Spain.”
The raids come at a time of heightened concern among American and European officials over a possible terrorist strike in Europe. In October, the State Department in Washington issued an alert for American travelers to Europe to be vigilant about possible attacks.
In uncovering a suspected document forging ring, the arrests in Spain and Thailand offer a window into the shadowy nexus between terrorist organizations and loose criminal networks in Europe and Asia that facilitate terrorist activities by helping provide militants with transportation, weapons or logistical support. Some terrorist groups use in-house facilitators — to raise money, for instance — while they outsource other needs for their illicit operations.
Counterterrorism specialists say that disrupting facilitators who provide militants valuable services can sharply disrupt terrorist groups, at least until they find replacements.
The police seized nine passports awaiting shipment to Thailand and another that had already been forged, along with a computer and 50 cellphones in raids on the suspects’ homes in Raval, a downtown neighborhood that is home to a large immigrant community. Spanish television showed footage of one of the arrests, with a man taken away in handcuffs at dawn by police. The man was heard repeatedly saying, “I’m not a terrorist, that is a lie.” An interior ministry official familiar with the case said further arrests could not be ruled out.
In January 2008, Spain’s military police arrested 14 men in the Raval neighborhood, part of a vast, coordinated suicide plot that officials said demonstrated the growing threat of terrorist activities migrating from Pakistan to Continental Europe.