Talk:Sami Essid

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I dunno if the "Sami Essid network" deserves that designation. The Milan "Cell" as a whole, yes, definitely, was a major base of Sunni terrorism against Europe and recruitment for Islamist aggression around the world, rivaled in Europe only by Londonistan. I'll bet the Pentagon dressed up their case a bit with terminology like "Sami Essid Network" and "Tunisian Combat Group"; I don't blame them, personally.

What got me onto Sami Essid was his colleague Abu Doha of Londonistan. Both were part of bin Ladin's earliest terrorist franchises in Europe.

LDH 19:42, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you that they tarted up the allegations against these guys big time. When they finally dropped the allegations that the Algerian Six were planning to bomb the US embassy in Sarajevo, one of the allegations against Mustafa Idr was that he taught Karate lessons to orphans in post-civil-war Bosnia. When the guards learned he had been the Croatian Karate champ, in the late 1990s, they held him down and broke all his fingers.

But, in my opinion, terms like the "Sami Essid Network" deserve coverage in the wikipedia, no matter whether they seem like ridiculous tarted-up terms to informed readers, because men are enduring years of detention, without charge, based on these allegations. Un-informed readers deserve a chance to read the facts around these allegations. And NPOV means we should resist the temptation to editorialize, if we can't find a wp:rs who has commented on their credibility...

Cheers! -- Geo Swan 20:22, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

One good thing about the Gitmo business is that it has shaken some facts loose :D Without these transcripts and other stuff that has lawyers involved, we civilians would have nothing to go by except the mass media. Anything is better than that :D LDH 20:51, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]