Mortar Launched from Yemen into Saudi Arabia

Filed under: General, Yemen — by Jane Novak at 8:34 am on Monday, October 24, 2005

SANA’A – Saudi security forces have said today that an explosion on farmland in the Saudi Arabian area of Najran the day before yesterday was caused by a mortar rocket launched from inside Yemen.

The Saudi newspaper Al-Watan reports a high level source in the region of Najran as saying that a joint investigation involving teams from both countries are continuing their investigation to discover the source of the bomb.

The mortar is said to have been launched from over a distance of 25 kilometres from within Yemeni territory.

No, everything is fine, nothing to see, keep moving.

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Comment by George M weinert V

10/24/2005 @ 1:42 pm

Surahs of the Quran used by Islamists to justify attacking non-Muslims to establish a Caliphate.

These are mere excerpts of the Holy Quran. These excerpts are not comprehensive of the message of the Quran nor are they meant to be representitive of the totality of its message. The sole reason for reproducing these Surahs here is to note which Surahs the Islamists refer to repeatedly to establish the rational for their goals and activites. These are not all the Surahs referred to by the Islamists, but they are central to their arguments.

Surah 61:4 “Truly Allah loves those who fight in His Cause in battle array, as if they were a solid cemented structure,”

Surah 2:190-193 “Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you but do not transgress limits…And slay them wherever ye catch them. And turn them out from where they have turned you out; for persecution is worse than slaughter; But fight them not at the sacred Mosque unless they first fight you there; But if they fight you, slay them. Such is the reward of those who reject faith. But if they cease, Allah is oft-forgiving, Most Merciful. And fight them on until there is no more persecution. And the religion becomes Allah’s. But if they cease, Let there be no hostility except to those who practice oppression”

Surah 9:38-39 “O ye who believe! What is the matter with you, that, when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah, ye cling heavily to the earth? Do ye prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the Hereafter. Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place; but Him ye would not harm in the least. For Allah hath power over all things. Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place; but Him ye would not harm in the least. For Allah hath power over all things,”

Surah 8:59-70 “Their state is like that of the people of Pharaoh, and of those before them who treated their Lord’s signs as lies. We therefore destroy them in their sins, and We drowned the people of Pharaoh; for they were all doers of wrong. The worst beasts truly in the sight of God are the thankless who will not believe; They with whom thou hast leagued, and who are ever breaking their league, and who fear not God! If thou take them in war, then, by the example of their fate, scatter those who shall follow them – that they may be warned: Or if thou fear treachery from any people, throw back their treaty to them as thou fairly mayest, for God loveth not the treacherous. And think not that the infidels shall escape Us! The shall not weaken God….O Prophet! stir up the faithful to the fight. Twenty of you who stand firm shall vanquish two hundred: and if there be an hundred of you they shall vanquish a thousand of the infidels, for they are a people devoid of understanding….No prophet hath been enabled to take captives until he had made great slaughter in the earth. Ye desire the passing fruitions of this world, but God desireth the next life for you. And God is mighty and wise.

Sura 9:5 “And when the sacred months are passed, kill those who join other gods with God wherever ye shall find them; and seize them, besiege them, and lay wait for them with every kind of ambush: but if they shall convert, and observe prayer, and pay the obligatory alms, then let them go their way, for God is gracious, merciful.

Sura 9:12 “But if, after alliance made, they break their oaths and revile your religion, then do battle with the ring-leaders of infidelity – for no oaths are binding with them – that they may desist. What! will ye not fight against those Meccans who have broken their oaths and aimed to expel your Apostle, and attacked you first? Will ye dread them? God is more worthy of your fear, if ye are believers! So make war on them: By your hands will God chastise them, and will put them to shame, and will give you victory over them, and will heal the bosoms of a people who believe;”

Sura 9:30 “Make war upon such of those to whom the Scriptures have been given as believe not in God, or in the Last Day, and who forbid not that which God and His Apostle have forbidden, and who profess not the profession of the truth, until they pay tribute out of hand, and they be humbled. The Jews say, “Ezra is a son of God”; and the Christians say, “The Messiah is a son of God.” Such the sayings in their mouths! They resemble the saying of the infidels of old! God do battle with them! How are they misguided? They take their teachers, and their monks, and the Messiah, son of Mary, for lords besides God, though bidden to worship one God only. There is no God but He! Far from His glory be what they associate with Him! Fain would they put out God’s light with their mouths: but God only desireth to perfect His light, albeit the infidels abhor it. He it is who hath sent His Apostle with the guidance and a religion of the truth, that He may make it victorious over every other religion, albeit they who assign partners to God be averse from it.

“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant” – CAIR

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Comment by Doug

10/24/2005 @ 10:03 pm

<skeptic>25km?

Comment by Jane

10/24/2005 @ 10:06 pm

Thats exactly what somebody else said. Thats a big distance for a mortar. Theres something flakey going on here, as normal. Maybe it was a skud.