Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
UK: Manchester jihad mass murderer’s older brother smiles as he is arrested for role in massacre
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Jihad Watch : He likely smiled because, if he played a role in his brother’s jihad
massacre, he thinks he has earned great blessings from Allah. “Terrorist’s brother arrested: Dramatic moment armed police swoop to
arrest Ismail Abedi, 23, over his sibling’s arena massacre,” by Rachael
Burford, Thomas Burrows, Rory Tingle, Joseph Curtis, Abe Hawken, Richard
Spillett and Nick Fagge, Mailonline, May 24, 2017:
This is the moment anti-terror police swooped on Salman
Abedi’s brother in the street and arrested him in connection with last
night’s ISIS terror attack in Manchester Arena. Footage shows officers leading the handcuffed Ismail Abedi, 23, to a
police van outside a Morrisons supermarket in Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, south
Manchester at about 10.30am this morning.Witnesses said the IT manager was ordered to ‘get on the ground’ and that he was seen smiling as a team of officers, who had arrived in a black Mercedes, made the arrest
It came just hours after his terrorist brother Salman Abedi, 22,
slaughtered 22 people and injured another 119 after an Ariana Grande
concert. Abedi, a former business student at Salford University, grew up in
the Whalley Range area of the city. He was registered as having lived
with his mother Samia Tabbal, father Ramadan, a former airport security
worker, and brother, Ismail Abedi, who was born in Westminster in 1993.
But everything changed in 2011 when his father abruptly left his job
and home to fight in Libya, leaving his family to fend for themselves,
according to a local imam. Abedi and his brothers appear to have followed in his footsteps by
sharing stories of British jihadis fighting in Syria on social networks
and even praying and ‘chanting’ in the street. Photos and video show raids at Abedi’s home in Fallowfield, where a
controlled explosion took place, and his brother Ismail’s address, near
where he was arrested.
Forensic officers, carrying a manual called ‘Know Your Chemicals’,
were seen exiting the younger Abedi brother’s address after the door was
blown off. Chemical experts were seen outside with specialist instruments amid fears that he could have obtained radioactive material. It was also claimed last night that he had travelled by train from London to Manchester on Monday in advance of the attacks.
It raised suspicions that he may have met co-conspirators or been
supplied with his explosive device by an as-yet-unidentified bombmaker…. Abedi, the third of four children by Libyan refugees who came to the
UK to escape the Gaddafi regime, was known to authorities. He was born
in the city and neighbours described him as an abrasive, tall and skinny
Manchester United fan. His brother, who was being questioned by police, is married to a
maths teacher and worked for Park Cake Bakeries in Oldham until January.
An online CV also shows Ismail Abedi was an IT engineer for Manchester
Islamic Centre from 2012 until 2016.
