December 09, 2008
Failed Mohammad Cartoon Bomber Gets Life
24 year old Youssef Muhammad el-Hajdib has been sentenced to life for a failed plot to bomb German trains in retaliation for a German newspaper reprinting the now infamous Mohammad cartoons. The Lebanese born man and an accomplice had planted multiple bombs on German trains in 2006 but none of them exploded correctly. Instead, the charge caps went off without detonating the primary explosives -- propane gas tanks.
El-Hajdib claims he didn't really want the home made bombs to go off. That he just wanted to send a message to Germans that they shouldn't tolerate mocking Mohammad. Yeah right, and I hit that pop fly on purpose!
Thank God for small miracles and retarded jihadis!
Unsurprisingly, the New York Times article reporting el-Hajdib's conviction fails to mention the Mohammad cartoon connection. Uncharacteristically, the CBC does mention it. Well, I guess there's a first for everything. CBC:
El-Hajdib said Hamad planned the attacks as revenge after some German newspapers reprinted caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, first published in a Danish newspaper in 2005. He admitted taking part in the plot but said Hamad oversaw it...Which immediately brings to mind Mohammad Atta and the Hamburg cell. I wonder how many other Osama bin Laden fans are roaming the streets of Germany?Judge Breidling said el-Hajdib had a "radical Islamic attitude" and counted among his role models al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the former leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
