The Egyptian weekly al-Ahram reports that the Afghanis may not be willing to negotiate with Arab terrorists. According to the weekly, Arab countries and international human rights organizations are worried about how the US-allied Northern Alliance members may be handling the thousands of ?Arab Afghans? ? those Arab terrorists who volunteered their services to the murderous Taliban. Apparently, the Afghanis are massacring them wholesale. The weekly reports that ?an estimated 400-600 Arab Afghans were also killed in a prison riot that took place in the northern city of Mazar-i Sharif? A few hundred others were executed when the Northern Alliance took over the city?.? In Kabul, ?Arab fighters were shot on the spot, and in some cases the bodies of the dead were mutilated in front of television cameras.?
While Afghanis seem to hold that the only good terrorist is a dead one, Arab states have adopted a policy keeping the Arab terrorists out of their borders. ?Experts agree,? declares the Egyptian weekly, ?that these young fighters from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Algeria, Tunisia, Somalia and several other countries have no option but to continue fighting, probably until death. None of these countries are willing to allow these men to return to their homelands, especially after it was alleged that the suspected perpetrators of recent terrorist attacks had received paramilitary training in Afghanistan.? The reason for their isolation is clear: their terrorism is, more often than not, domestic in nature. Al-Ahram states, ?Many Arab fighters in Kabul are believed to be members of Egypt's Jihad group, led by Bin Laden's closest associate... Several leaders of Egypt's largest armed militant organisation, Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiya, or the Islamic Group, have reportedly been based in Afghanistan for nearly two decades? [It was responsible] for the brutal massacre of 58 foreigners and four Egyptians in Luxor in November 1997.?
In light of all of this, reports al-Ahram Weekly, ?[s]everal Arabic newspapers reported this week that al-Qa'eda leaders issued fatwas or ?edicts? to their followers saying that it was permissible for them to commit suicide if they feared they would be imprisoned.? However, like their local Hamas incarnations, the Arab Afghans have been ?caught hiding hand grenades in their clothing after they were captured. In one incident, an Arab fighter blew himself up shortly after he was taken, killing two Northern Alliance commanders and two Taliban fighters.?
While Afghanis seem to hold that the only good terrorist is a dead one, Arab states have adopted a policy keeping the Arab terrorists out of their borders. ?Experts agree,? declares the Egyptian weekly, ?that these young fighters from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Algeria, Tunisia, Somalia and several other countries have no option but to continue fighting, probably until death. None of these countries are willing to allow these men to return to their homelands, especially after it was alleged that the suspected perpetrators of recent terrorist attacks had received paramilitary training in Afghanistan.? The reason for their isolation is clear: their terrorism is, more often than not, domestic in nature. Al-Ahram states, ?Many Arab fighters in Kabul are believed to be members of Egypt's Jihad group, led by Bin Laden's closest associate... Several leaders of Egypt's largest armed militant organisation, Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiya, or the Islamic Group, have reportedly been based in Afghanistan for nearly two decades? [It was responsible] for the brutal massacre of 58 foreigners and four Egyptians in Luxor in November 1997.?
In light of all of this, reports al-Ahram Weekly, ?[s]everal Arabic newspapers reported this week that al-Qa'eda leaders issued fatwas or ?edicts? to their followers saying that it was permissible for them to commit suicide if they feared they would be imprisoned.? However, like their local Hamas incarnations, the Arab Afghans have been ?caught hiding hand grenades in their clothing after they were captured. In one incident, an Arab fighter blew himself up shortly after he was taken, killing two Northern Alliance commanders and two Taliban fighters.?