Going dark for a spell.
Traveling without my pc.
(still in the shop after that bubbly spill)
Hope to be back fighting the Islamofascist Jihad after Halloween.
Boo!
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Boo!
The veil and the school bus crash
The veil and the school bus crash
The driver of the Calgary school bus that crashed and killed a kid was wearing some sort of veil. I don't know if it was a Muslim hijab, an Eastern European baboushka, or just a hoodie. I don't know because not a single one of the news reporters on the scene bothered to ask.
To me, it's obvious why: because the subject matter clearly touches on the debate about "reasonable accommodation" and how far we're willing to let Muslim culture trump Canadian culture, when the two clash. I submit to you that they clash when it comes to wearing something that blocks a school bus driver's peripheral vision. I would say the same thing about any other religious appurtenance that interfered with driving.
Here's my Sun column on the subject.
I've had a few responses so far, split between those who are appalled that I would even ask such questions, and those who are appalled that the rest of the media hasn't asked them.
It seems obvious to me that unimpaired vision is a "bona fide occupation requirement" -- legal jargon for an important job criterion that trumps political correctness. It's the same reason we "discriminate" against blind people by not letting them drive, either.
For those who say we should eliminate clear vision as a criterion for school bus driving, and allow hijabs, I'd ask:
1. Are there any limits at all? Such as the full niqab -- the one-woman-prison, often with the mesh in front of the eyes? and...
2. Do you mind if we try out such one-way multicultural experiments on your kids, and no-one else's?
The driver of the Calgary school bus that crashed and killed a kid was wearing some sort of veil. I don't know if it was a Muslim hijab, an Eastern European baboushka, or just a hoodie. I don't know because not a single one of the news reporters on the scene bothered to ask.
To me, it's obvious why: because the subject matter clearly touches on the debate about "reasonable accommodation" and how far we're willing to let Muslim culture trump Canadian culture, when the two clash. I submit to you that they clash when it comes to wearing something that blocks a school bus driver's peripheral vision. I would say the same thing about any other religious appurtenance that interfered with driving.
Here's my Sun column on the subject.
I've had a few responses so far, split between those who are appalled that I would even ask such questions, and those who are appalled that the rest of the media hasn't asked them.
It seems obvious to me that unimpaired vision is a "bona fide occupation requirement" -- legal jargon for an important job criterion that trumps political correctness. It's the same reason we "discriminate" against blind people by not letting them drive, either.
For those who say we should eliminate clear vision as a criterion for school bus driving, and allow hijabs, I'd ask:
1. Are there any limits at all? Such as the full niqab -- the one-woman-prison, often with the mesh in front of the eyes? and...
2. Do you mind if we try out such one-way multicultural experiments on your kids, and no-one else's?
Islamofascism Awareness Week - George Mason U
Not a peep about Islamofascism Awareness Week at GMU'S online fishwrap, The Broadside. I did find Ten Songs About Getting it on and Students, Staffers Silent on "Thirsty Thursday" Event (beer pong for dem POTUS candidates?)
And don't forget this...
Gun Holster Protest During this week, Oct. 22-26, college students throughout America, organized under the banner of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, will attend classes wearing empty holsters, in protest of state laws and campus policies that licensed citizens to carry concealed handguns on campus. Mason chapter leader for SCCC Andrew Dysart has appeared on numerous media outlets, including MSNBC and CNN, advocating the rights of certified and and law-abiding citizens who wish to be able to defend themselves as well as others. He has cited the shooting at VirginiaTech last spring as an example for why students feel the need to carry a concealed weapon while on campus.
Islamofascism Awareness Week at UNC-Chapel Hill
Excellent reportage from the Daily Tar Heel: Week Examines Radical Islam (again, you will notice no mention of Islamofascism in the title.)
At an event Monday, Capt. Joel Arends discussed the War on Terror and the enemies that U.S. troops are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those enemies have an agenda that is rooted in radical Islam, he told an audience of about 50 people in Murphey Hall.
Being a roundball fan - I found this interesting.
Arends also has a unique connection to the University.While he was stationed in Baghdad, his unit captured a terrorist who claimed to be a UNC professor, he said."The man questioned went into depth and detail about UNC basketball, players and statistics," Arends said.But Arends said he advised caution when determining the validity of the man's claims. "The power of American culture and Michael Jordan are far-reaching," he said.
No massive demonstrations but it sure looks like massive rationalizations abound in the UNC-CH MSA:
...But some leaders of the Muslim Students Association said they do not believe the events are the best way to tackle the topic."We denounce any sort of radicalism," said Arif Khan, president of MSA. "However, we don't think it is a positive way to bring about dialogue by discussing the negative aspects of a certain group."
But junior Ola Mohamed, who attended, did not agree with Arends' link between Islam and fascism. "Islam is a religion, and fascism is a political movement, so I don't see a connection," she said...
...Khan said it is important to understand that a radical is anyone who takes the religion and individualizes it to serve his or her own interests. "Radicals are a part of every religion, not just Islam."...
(I get so weary of this "radicals are part of every religion" excuse - perhaps, dear child, but Islam is the only one blowing sh*& up!)
Islamofascism Awareness Week at U of W - Madison
From the Badger Herald: Horowitz rips left, defends war. (Gee, nothing about Islamofascism at all in the headline...) Horowitz sounded like he was on fire!
“If Arabs in the Middle East disarm, there will be peace. If Jews in the Middle East disarm, there will be genocide,” he added.
And the moonbats were thick on the ground (key word there - thick). Listen to this one:
“[Horowitz] is a suspect in mass murder and high treason, and needs to be confronted to tell the truth and force him to defend his ridiculous racist views,” Barrett said in a later interview with The Badger Herald.
I especially loved this part:
Barrett, who was booed by the crowd after he interrupted the speech, left the Memorial Union Theater shortly thereafter in the midst of a popular UW football tradition — the “asshole” chant.
Anti-gay? What do they call this?
Before the lecture, dozens of UW students protested Horowitz’s visit, wearing green shirts to encourage unity amidst their cause and chanting “Racist, fascist, anti-gay, right-wing bigot go away.”
Islamofascism Awareness Week at Tulane
Nothing about IAW in the online edition of The Hullabaloo, Tulane's student rag yet (too many beer bongs last night, I guess), but there is this piece up by Elizabeth McNamara and Lauren Noel entitled:
"Pundit a poot decision for Tulane/Every voice should have a chance"
(How about using spellcheck ladies?)
One word: Dreck.
This part was particularly telling:
I sincerely hope that on her deathbed Ann Coulter tells us that her entire life has been a performance art piece entitled "How Ridiculous Can a Pundit Be Without Getting Shot in the Face."
And how about this?
Or I can pregame the speech and see if I can projectile vomit on her. We'll see which I choose.
Veils or bombs: School daze in Pakistan
You see all the useful idiotas trying to disrupt Islamofascism Awareness week and then you see this... Girls avoid schools as deadline expires.
The attendance girls' schools in a town in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province dropped drastically on Monday after a deadline set by local militants ended on Sunday. They had made it ‘mandatory’ for girls to wear the burqa or full veil to school.
The Pakistani daily Dawn contacted some of the students who said they belonged to poor families and did not have enough money to buy or sew burqas, which cost between 600 and 800 rupees (about 9-13 US dollars) a piece. They said that under the circumstances, the only option they had was to abandon their education.
Local militants, who call themselves ‘Janbaz Taliban’, have been sending letters to educational institutions for girls, including the Girls’ Degree College in Dargai, about 100 kilometres north of the provincial capital Peshawar.
The letters warn the school and college administrations to direct their students to completely cover themselves by wearing the traditional head-to-toe burqa.
They had stated that institutions whose students failed to follow their ‘orders’, would be blown up.
The radicals had also ‘directed’ girls to avoid sitting in the front portions of vehicles with drivers while coming and going from schools or colleges.
Islamofascism Awareness Week at Berkeley
Live blogged by California Patriot. Pics too.
“Did you know that in the Muslim marriage contract, it has three spaces for the man to fill with his other wives and their addresses”. “The man does not vow loyalty to his wife…the marriage contract itself asks the girl to list if she is a virgin”
From the Daily Californian
Islamofascism Awareness Week at DePaul U
Islamofascism Awareness Week - an update from the DePaul event can be found here over at Freedom Folks. Scroll down for pics and vid.
There's a smattering of hijab clad girls scattered throughout the audience. All I could think about was this - if they were in an Islamic country they wouldn't be in the audience sitting next to the menfolk. They'd be jammed in a room somewhere in the basement listening to an audio feed.
Lucky muslimas - they don't know how good they have it. You'd think they'd have a clue.
OK rep: "most Oklahomans do not endorse the killing of innocent women and children in the name of ideology."
Refuses Koran, did accept Bible.
"Mine is proudly on my desk on the Capitol and I don't think I ever read a part of it that condones the killing of women and children in furtherance of God's word," Duncan said. "It's one of the nicest things I've received in my three years in the Legislature."
Did the Persian Pipsqueak cut his vs to Armenia short
due to the "domestic political situation and talks in Rome"?
TEHRAN (Thomson Financial) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denied having cut short a visit to Armenia amid negotiations in Rome on Iran's nuclear programme, on his return home from Yerevan today.
'The trip to Armenia took longer than what was scheduled before,' Ahmadinejad said quoted by the state news agency IRNA, contradicting reports from Armenia.
'This trip was due to last 22 hours but because of some visits, it became one hour and half longer than the schedule,' he said at Tehran airport, adding that the two neighbouring states were determined to boost ties and cooperation.
A diplomatic source in Yerevan told Agence France-Presse earlier that Ahmadinejad had cut short a two-day visit to Armenia due to the domestic political situation and the key talks on the Iranian nuclear issue in Rome.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Nonie Darwish speaks
Read about the way Nonie Darwish was treated at Wellesley last week.
Were her detractors Hamas trained?
(h/t Gateway Pundit)
...Darwish had first been asked to speak about Muslim women who live under Muslim religious law. Then, at the last minute, Hillel had asked her to talk about something, anything else—about Israel, not about Islam. Apparently, the female Muslim chaplain on campus had warned the Hillel students not to allow Darwish to “say anything bad about Islam.” One must not expose Islam’s long record of gender and religious apartheid and if one does, one is treated as a traitor and a liar and silenced in violent ways.
…Darwish concludes: “Muslim girls like these are like gangsters. They know more about their rights in America than the Jewish girls do. The Muslim girls all have a chip on their shoulders.”
And then she is silent. Softly, she says: “We are fighting an avalanche. We are too few. I am frightened by my culture of origin. I am scared of my own people.”
Security Council "strongly condemns Paki bombings"
Read it if you feel you must - although really, what's the point? The bombings were on Thursday. Here it is Monday and the UN is just getting around to this now?
Well, I'll be - It looks like the Dems do support the jihad after all.
The Hillary-Soros team joins the attack on Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week by David Horowitz
Campus Progress, which is the baby farm of the Center for American Progress, an operation created by George Soros and Hillary Clinton and run by Bill Clinton's former chief of staff John Podesta, has put up a "kit" for attacking Islamo Fascism Awareness Week.
In doing so these so-called progressives have joined an array of leftwing organizations that include the Revolutionary Communist Party and the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoots -- the Muslim Students Association, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Muslim American Society (MAS)and the Muslim Public Affairs Council.
The agenda of this alliance led by the supporters of the jihad is to shut down discussion of the terrorist threat posed by the jihad and radical Islam by conducting a nationwide witch-hunt of alleged "bigots."
The heart of this campaign is an attempt to conflate an attack on Islamo-fascists with an attack on Islam. This is like saying an attack on "German fascism" is an attack on all Germans and therefore bigoted, or the term "white racism" cannot be used because it is an attack on all whites and therefore racist.
The campaign of this leftwing coalition is a mobile lynch party whose weapons are character assassination and very big lies. For example I am described as a "racist" in their literature -- which is the standard label applied to anyone who disagrees with the left. It is claimed that I have said that slavery was good for blacks during my campaign against a proposal to have people who were not slaveowners pay reparations to people who were not slaves, and to do so 137 years after slavery was abolished. No quotations by me to support such nonsense are supplied of course, since I have never supported slavery for anyone. What I said in my article about reparations can be read here.
It is also claimed that I have said that blacks alive today and blacks who were not slaves benefited from slavery. Another big lie. What I actually wrote was that proponents of reparations claimed that all American wealth is based on slavery, a fact which in their eyes justified reparations. I said, if this were true -- and it is probably not -- then by the reparations proponents' own logic all free blacks and blacks alive today who share in America's wealth would have benefited from slavery. This is obviously the opposite what of these malicious detractors claim I said.
You will look in vain for a statement from me that slavery increased America's economic wealth let alone that is responsible for it. That is an argument that only leftists make. These are part of the tissue of lies concocted by Campus Progress and other groups who think that George Bush is responsible for the war on terror and the terrorists are just desperate oppressed people who want to be free.
The little lies all add up to one big lie -- which is that Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is an attack on Muslims. It is not. It is a defense of those Muslims who are being murdered by the Islamo-fascists. It is a defense of freedom, something Campus Progress and the Revolutionary Communist Party and the Muslim Students Association appear to be incapable of comprehending.
Meanwhile I was invited to conduct an online chat with respondents all over the world by the Muslim website IslamOnline, which is based in Cairo. IslamOnline proved to be gracious hosts and you can read what I actually believe about Muslims here.
Philippines: Islamic Militants to blame for blast
The headline says: Islamic Militants to blame for mall blast...but you probably thought that already, no?
Did you know they were former Christians who were converts to Islam? That appears to be the current line of thinking.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has not indicated who they believe is behind the attack, but Lt. Col. Bartolome Bacarro, AFP public information chief, has been quoted as saying that the Rajah Solaiman Movement has the capability to launch such attacks in Manila. The US state department lists the RSM as a Islamic extremist group comprising Christian converts to Islam, many of whom embraced extremist Islamic ideology while working in the Middle East. It promotes the use of violence and terrorism against Philippino Christians and Westerners, with the aim of turning the Philippines into an Islamic state.
New OBL tape.
Does everything but sing Kum bah yah.
Urges Muslim unity
...those setbacks in Anbar must be a problem.
The lowdown on Iran's new Nuke Czar
And it's not looking good. Iran's New Nuclear Negotiator has Messianic ties...
The increasing presence of messianics and their allies in high ranking positions inside the Iranian government will make it much more difficult for Western governments to believe that Iran’s leadership will at any point in the near future be ready to find a negotiated settlement for the current crisis.
At least there's this.
Judge rules Muslim dowries unenforcable by Ohio law
A Franklin County judge ruled that a man does not have to pay his former wife $25,000, promised as part of a dowry before their traditional Muslim marriage.
The judge says the payment is part of a religious agreement, not a legal contract.
The decision is the first of its kind in Ohio, and a departure from rulings in other states, which have enforced dowries as part of Islamic marriage contracts.
Columbus imam Mouhamed Tarazi says the dowry is part of the marriage contract signed by both the bride and groom before a wedding.
Tarazi called the dowry a security for the brides, who often do not work outside the home and will be unlikely to marry again after a divorce. (ed. note: Now why is that do you suppose? Hmmm?)
PKK to declare cease fire against the Turks?
that's the report over at Bloomberg. Note the use of the MAY word...
Fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, may announce a unilateral cease-fire in their conflict with Turkey, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said.
The PKK, whose members have sheltered in northern Iraq, may make the announcement "soon,'' Talabani said today in remarks made on Turkish television and carried on the Web site of his party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.
Speaking of the Persian Pipsqueak...
His economic reforms? Not so hot.
More People Fall below Poverty Line.
TEHRAN, Oct. 21--Welfare and Social Security Minister Abdolreza Mesri said on Sunday the number of people living below the absolute poverty line has increased by 7.5 percent.
Iran's Nuclear Policy Decisions?
Forget Larijani and his latest replacement, Jalili. Ahmadinejad? Nope. The decisions are coming straight from the top...that's right the Poobah Supremo, Ayatollah Khameini is the one with the finger on the button.
A prominent lawmaker said Iran’s nuclear policies are made by the Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. Head of Majlis Commission for National Security and Foreign Policy Alaeddin Boroujerdi made the remark a day after the resignation of Iran’s top nuclear negotiator and secretary of Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), Ali Larijani, in an interview with IRNA on Sunday.“The SNSC is a body that executes leader’s directives and should have enough authority to implement the leader’s policies,“ he said.The MP reiterated that the leader has the final word on sensitive issues, especially those related to the nuclear debate.
UN probes into Pakistan's radical mosque operation
UN probes into Pakistan's radical mosque operation - saw this headline and thought - finally, the UN is going to investigate the radical Islamists of the Red Mosque.
I was so wrong - silly me. What could I have been thinking? It is the UN after all.
The United Nations has initiated an inquiry into alleged human rights violations in a security operation against a radical mosque in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, media reports said Monday.
The UN rapporteur on extra-judicial or arbitrary executions Philip Alston recently sent a six-point questionnaire to the country's permanent representative at the international organization, Masood Khan, seeking explanation of the July 10 operation at the Red Mosque that killed 102 people, said the Daily Times newspaper citing sources.
'Did the Pakistani government or security forces' engagement with the mosque supporters comply with the international human rights laws?' Alton asked.
The UN rapporteur on extra-judicial or arbitrary executions? How would you like that on your business card?
Muslim concert for Darfur
I wonder, will the sexes co-mingle or will there be a special wimmen only section?
A Muslim aid concert to highlight the humanitarian crisis in Sudan's long-running Darfur conflict will be held at London's Wembley Arena on Sunday. The organisers are expecting more than 10,000 people to attend the concert. The main attraction at the concert is 27-year-old singer-songwriter Sami Yusuf, a Briton of Azerbaijani origin, whose songs are mostly about Islam and being a Muslim, along with hip-hop band Outlandish, Texan country and Western singer Kareem Salama, hip-hop band The Sound of Reason and musician Hamza Robertson.The concert organised by Islamic Relief, a charity organisation, has been inspired by the Live Aid and Live 8 concerts which drew global attention to famine and poverty in Africa, according to Islamic Relief director Jehangir Malik.
In other Islamic charity news - HOLY LAND FOUNDATION VERDICT TO BE ANNOUNCED TODAY.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Erdogan: Dems fired a bullet at Turkey...
More trash talking here. Turkish PM warns US: We will attack Kurdish rebels in Iraq.
He accused the Democrat-controlled foreign affairs committee of “firing a bullet” at US-Turkish relations by approving the “so-called Armenian genocide Bill”. “America might lose a very important friend,” he said.
Iraq says they are going to step up, although this kidnapping business is troubling.
Iraq's government said on Sunday it was taking important steps to end what it called the "terrorist actions" of Kurdish rebels who use its mountainous north as a base for attacks on neighbouring Turkey.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki held urgent talks with his national security team after rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) killed at least 12 Turkish soldiers and Turkey shelled northern Iraq.
The PKK said they had taken several soldiers hostage.
The prime minister's office said in a statement Iraq condemned the PKK. It said Iraq would work to secure the release of the hostages, although the rebels said they were not held in Iraq.
Where are they?
Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week
The calendar of events and speakers can be found here.
David Horowitz speaks out about the lefties and why they find the term "Islamofascism" so offensive in "Vocabulary of War"
Want a taste of the reaction to David Horowitz's Princeton presentation from last week? Get out the hip boots - it's pure lefty happy horseshit...
There's this from the Daily Princetonian who is upset that global warming (!) wasn't addressed:
Interestingly enough, Horowitz' lecture said almost nothing about global warming and instead focused on a diatribe against various ethnic, political and religious groups from Democrats to Middle Eastern governments, from African-Americans to Muslims of any nationality. Among his outrageous claims was the statement that the majority of racism in America is aimed against white students attending universities like Princeton, an assertion he attempted to support by referencing last year's controversy involving the Duke lacrosse team. Perhaps the most malicious comments made by Horowitz, however, were those directed at Muslims. He persistently connected the religion of over 1.5 billion people to fascism, lumping together a diverse array of ethnic and political groups by using terms such as "Islamic Nazis," "barbarians" and "Islamo-fascism." Even more disturbingly, Horowitz made the claim that groups like al Qaeda and Hamas are comparable to American organizations such as CAIR and the MSA.
He's called a racist here. Then there's this: A Nazi Mind with a Jewish face.
It looks like we have our work cut out for us...(I wonder if this is what it was like back in the 30's?)
NZ Terror arrest: Perp claims it was all just a wind up.
Mommy Moonbat protests the arrests. Dinah wants to call the fashion police on her.Wind up or no, I hope they wind them up, toss them in the clink and throw away the key.
Anti-terror police have been accused of falling victim to a well-organised hoax designed to ambush a year-long investigation into alleged paramilitary operations around the country.
Self-styled activist Jamie Lockett - one of 17 people arrested as part of nationwide police raids on suspected weapons training camps - is claiming incriminating text and phone messages were sent deliberately to wind up police who had been bugging his phone.
Bush, Clark and Key were possible 'targets' But really, it was all just a joke. Really.
Those arrested are Maori activists and anarchists.... with life coaches!
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Burma, Chevron and JADE
Naypyidaw bus station and town center: Practically deserted, just like the rest of the new Burmese capital.
US Lawmakers plan squeeze on Chevron in Myanmar. Tom Lantos, chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee introduced the measure, entitled Block Burmese JADE (Junta's Anti-Democracy Efforts) of 2007, on Thursday. The proposed measure would end tax write-offs currently enjoyed by Chevron on revenues earned in Burma. (Rights activists claim that Chevron's $ are helping prop up the junta.) The measure would also target gem imports, put additional restrictions on assets of political and military leaders, and restrict travel of junta officials to the United States.
About Chevron:
...(it) is one of biggest Western companies in Myanmar, holding a 28 percent minority share in the Yadana natural gas project following its acquisition of another US energy giant, Unocal, in 2005. The United States has already imposed substantial trade, investment and diplomatic sanctions on Myanmar, but Chevron's operations predate an enhanced 2003 US trade embargo.
Under Myanmar law, if Chevron sold its stake, it might have to pay the military junta much of the company's capital gains on the project -- estimated to be around 500 million dollars but the proposed sanctions would bar Chevron from making such a payment.
Oddly enough, the recent demonstrations by the Burmese monks which ended so disastrously? They started because of an increase in gasoline prices.
The current protests began on August 19 after the government sharply raised fuel prices in what is one of Asia's poorest countries. But they are based in deep-rooted dissatisfaction with the repressive military government that has ruled the country in one form or another since 1962.
In the words of Burmese American activist, Nyunt Than.
"People have been asking for democracy with their bare hands for 45 years," Than said. "They need help. Their bare hands against a modern army is not a good story to be told, nor to be watched."Read more about Than here.
Read about the ruling junta's lavish jungle capital, Naypyidaw, here.
Even before you arrive in Naypyidaw, it is obvious that the world’s newest capital is a place like no other in Burma. It is not just the isolation, in a jungle 200 miles from the sea; it’s not just the active discouragement of foreigners, which is circumvented easily enough. It is the road leading into it.
What the Islamic Republic News Agency has to say
about Islamofascism Awareness week and David Horowitz.
Nice. They are calling it HATRED WEEK.
When David Horowitz returns to Columbia University next Friday to mark his organization's much-hyped "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" (IFAW), he will find a determined opposition, coming from a coalition of concerned students and up to nine of Horowitz's "101 Most Dangerous Professors."
"The week of October 22-26, 2007, the nation will be rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever? a wake-up call for Americans, "claims the Terrorism Awareness Project, which is sponsoring IFAW together with the Young America's Foundation. Between them, the sponsors have tens of millions of dollars in their war chest for occasions just like this...
And listen to this useful idiot:
"Certain people are tolerated on the campus while certain people are not. And it's very evident as to who is and who's not, and why? This is about my life, personally, and this is about everyone's lives in this room." "What it does," added Noah Baron of Columbia Students for a Democratic Society, "is it builds on people's fears? And it makes it more difficult to discuss things that are already difficult to discuss? racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, Islamophobia, and things like that.
Waaah! Mommy! They're mean to me. They're crucifying us!!!!
In 2006, the media crucified student activists after they confronted the Minutemen on campus. And then, of course, there was Ahmadinejad.
Listen to them try to link the "noose incident" to the event...
Many here see Horowitz's visit as an insult and an injury to a campus community still reeling from a slew of racial attacks this semester, most recently a noose hung on the door of a Black professor at Teachers' College.
Whatever happened to that noose investigation, btw?
Must see...Atlas.
Andrew Bostom, Robert Spencer and Atlas Shrugs put their heads together to fight the jihad.The ever perspicacious Pamela at Atlas Shrugs was in attendance at Counterjihad Brussels 2007 and has the lowdown for you. Check it out.
Don't Blame Me says Baitullah Mehsud.
Unh-huh.
"I had nothing to do with it," Mehsud said by satellite phone from an undisclosed location about the attack on Ms Bhutto's motorcade.
He just listed her '3 Major offenses against Islamists' and views this as a kickoff to their latest campaign against the evil Shatan.
Militant leader Baitullah Mehsud had instructed pro-al-Qaeda cells in Karachi to kill her for three major offenses against the Islamists, which he listed as:
She is the only opposition politician who supported the military attack earlier this year on Islamabad's Lal Masjid (Red Mosque), a hotbed of Islamist radicalism, and she coninues to condemn the Lal Masjid ideologues;
She has stated that she would allow incursions by US forces into Pakistan in pursuit of Osama bin Laden;
She has stated that she would allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to question Dr A Q Khan, the former leading nuclear scientist accused of passing Pakistani nuclear technology to anti-Western countries.
I don't know - it all sounds good to me...
Jihad v Jihad in Afghanistan?
The new kid on the block goes up against Mullah Omar...
An Al Qaeda-linked commander directing a brutal wave of violence in Afghanistan, Siraj Haqqani, is trying to rival Mullah Mohamed Omar for the Taliban leadership, the US-led coalition said yesterday.
Haqqani represents a “younger, more aggressive generation of Taliban senior leadership” and has extended his influence from his base in the east to central provinces near Kabul and into the volatile south, it said in a statement.
The coalition, leading the US “war on terror” in Afghanistan, has issued a $200,000 reward for the arrest of Haqqani as part of a Most Wanted campaign, which will see posters of about 12 wanted militants put up in the east in the coming weeks.
Haqqani, son of well-known Soviet resistance commander Jalaluddin Haqqani - said to be close to Mullah Omar, is one of the most influential insurgent commanders in the east, the statement said. “His reach now certainly exceeds that of his father and Siraj is working to rival Mullah Omar for the Taliban leadership,” said Major Chris Belcher, coalition spokesman.
And he's particularly brutal. Gruesome, some might even say.
“Kidnappings, assassinations, beheading women, indiscriminate killings and suicide bombers - Siraj is the one dictating the new parameters of brutality associated with Taliban senior leadership,” he said.
Perhaps that's why Mullah Omar (who's been in hiding for six years) recently crawled out of his rathole to issue a communique to the neighbors of Afghanistan to lend a hand.
Do you think this is true?
Or just political scuttlebutt? Benazir to go back to Dubai in a week.
ISLAMABAD: Former premier Benazir Bhutto is expected to return to Dubai in a week or so to 'honour' a commitment that she had made to the Musharraf regime, official sources have claimed.
Bhutto has promised to return to the UAE citing the poor health of her spouse Asif Ali Zardari, or to see her kids there. She would return to Pakistan once President Pervez Musharraf feels the atmosphere is conducive for her to do so, ZEE News quoted sources as saying.
Musharraf had asked Bhutto to delay her return plan till the Supreme Court verdict on his Presidential election, sources said. Bhutto, however, requested the Presidency to provide her with a face-saving scenario by 'honouring' the commitment she had made with the people vis-a-vis her arrival on October 18, sources claimed. Sources said that a top intelligence official held a meeting with Bhutto in Dubai soon after Eid to discuss her return plan.
Bhutto is believed to have assured that she would be going back soon and that there are ample excuses to go back for the time being.
More Good for thee, but not for me...
from a Democrat.
The Cape Cod Commission in Massachusetts Thursday denied Cape Wind's application to bury electric cables needed to connect its proposed 420-megawatt offshore wind farm in the Nantucket Sound to the state power grid.
Cape Wind said in a release that it would challenge the Commission decision. The Cape Cod Commission is a local organization created by the state in 1990 to manage growth and protect Cape Cod's natural resources.
Sen. Ted Kennedy and many residents who own coastal property from where they could see the wind turbines on a clear day oppose the project along with some environmental groups concerned about disrupting the patterns of migratory birds and the potential effect on local sea life.
But, what about the poor planet and global warming and reliance on foreign energy and...
Did the United States consult us????
Talking Turkey... or trash?
In his toughest criticism of the United States since coming to power in 2002, Erdogan told a crowd in Istanbul last Friday: ”Nobody can give us lessons on beyond-border operations. Did the United States consult us when it entered Iraq from tens of thousands of kilometres away?”
As a matter of fact we did - remember this, Mr. Prime Minister Ergogan?
Mixed signals from Turkey about its intentions to send troops into northern Iraq are frustrating U.S. officials and appear to have delayed the American offensive on the key northern cities of Mosul and Kirkuk.
Belatedly — and after much haggling over technicalities — Turkey opened its airspace to U.S. military flyovers late Friday. Thus far no American warplanes have used that route into northern Iraq, although diplomatic sources said operations might begin within hours.
U.S. war planners also indicate that they may now bypass Turkey and instead use Jordanian airspace when they insert the ground troops who are supposed to secure Mosul and Kirkuk.
But the United States changed its mind after the Turkish parliament rejected its request to allow American troops to use Turkish bases...
How likely is a Turkish invasion of Iraq? Beats this suburban housewife. It's starting to look to me like the Turkish want us to do the heavy lifting for them.
(I found this analysis interesting though.)
Sedat Laciner, head of the independent Ankara-based International Strategic Research Organization, says that a Turkish move into northern Iraq would be seen outside of Turkey as "invasion" and "occupation" and could lead to increased trans-boundary Kurdish nationalism affecting also Iran and Syria, both with sizeable Kurdish minorities (four million in Iran, two million in Syria). Iraq counts five million Kurds in its north.
Laciner told IPS that the financial cost to Turkey of an attack into northern Iraq could be US$10 billion in flight of foreign capital, quite apart from the cost of the military operation. The move could also doom Turkey's controversial bid for full EU membership.
You'll be happy to know that the "root cause" crowd is being heard from.
"The military response is not sufficient on its own," commentator Mehmet Ali Birand wrote in the mass-circulation daily Posta, stressing the need to enrich the impoverished Kurdish-populated southeast. The area is missing the economic boom in the rest of the country.
Look for more to come: PM Erdogan travels to DC to meet with President Bush on Nov 5.
(I wonder if he will meet with Madam Speaker?)
You have to wonder what happened with Larijani.
On Thursday it was announced that he was going to Rome next week to meet with EU Chief Negotiator, Javier Solana.
Today he resigns citing differences of opinion with Ahmadinnerjacket regarding "Iran's peaceful nuclear case".
Deputy foreign minister Saeid Jalili has been appointed to take his place.
About Jalili:
Little is known about Jalili except that he is one of the new faces in the foreign ministry and has a promising diplomatic career. Even local photographers had difficulty finding a file picture of the new man, whose job might even be more sensitive than that of the foreign minister.
"Larijani's resignation and Jalili's appointment will have more internal rather than external impact as the nuclear issue is a state matter and therefore decided within a collective led by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei," a political observer in Teheran said.
"More important is how Ahmadinejad wants to explain to the public at home why his one of his most important men quit the president's administration and a why political newcomer is taking charge of one of the country's most sensitive jobs," he added.
Observers believe that Jalili is expected to adopt the same line with Solana as his predecessor, but many question whether he will have the same charisma and diplomatic skills as Larijani.
Update: Rick Moran thinks this is a bad deal for the US and that Jalili is a true believer. It is not known if Larijani has resigned his position as Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council - a position that gives him direct access to the Gran Supremo Khameini...
Update II: It looks like Larijani is going to be going to Rome after all. Or not. Oh, and he resigned for "personal reasons".
Iranian Karate team refusing to face "Zionists."
They must be afraid or something.
It was imposed by toss that two of the Iranian karate fighters had to compete with the Zionist karate team members on the last day of the competition. The Iranians have denied to compete with any member of the Zionist squad, as Fars news agency reported.
You call this a rebuke?
From Madame Speaker:
"Yesterday’s debate in the House to override the President’s veto of bipartisan legislation to cover 10 million children was heated on both sides. While Members of Congress are passionate about their views, what Congressman Stark said during the debate was inappropriate and distracted from the seriousness of the subject at hand – providing health care for America’s children.”
Friday, October 19, 2007
Attack on Bhutto was sophisticated, coordinated...
From Bill Roggio at The Long War Journal:
As the toll from yesterday's ambush on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto convoy rises to 132 killed and upwards of 500 wounded, the details of the strike emerge. The attack was a sophisticated, coordinated strike carried out by professional terrorists. Conflicting reports exist, but it is clear at least one suicide bomber, and possibly two, conducted the attack, possibly in conjunction with snipers, a car bomb, and a person throwing a hand grenade.
More at the link.
God Bless Scott Ott.
Pelosi Slams Muslim Ideology Behind Bhutto Blast
(2007-10-19) — As the death toll climbed past 130, with nearly 400 injured, in a suicide-bomb assassination attempt on former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemned the attack as “symptomatic of fundamentalist Islam’s crusade against equality for women.”
Rep. Pelosi, D-CA, said the fact that a prominent female politician was targeted has shaken her thinking about the war on terror.
“This misogynistic massacre has finally got it through my thick skull what President Bush has been trying to tell us for years,” she said. “These terrorists have no legitimate political grievance, no conscience, and no place in civilized society. We must crush them wherever they are to prevent the spread of their poisonous ideology and brutal tactics.”
Rep. Pelosi said that when news of the attack broke, she held a conference call with Senators Hillary Clinton, D-NY, and Barbara Boxer, D-CA. The three women agreed that “if these evil men are willing to attack a beautiful, charismatic female politician overseas, there’s not much to stop them from trying it on U.S. soil.”
The three lawmakers plan to introduce legislation next week to increase funding for the surge in Iraq, to finish the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, and to remove barriers to eavesdropping by U.S. spies on suspected terrorist communications at home and abroad.
“These woman-haters need to know that we mean business,” Rep. Pelosi said. “And to those who commit these atrocities against women, I say, we will no longer tolerate, we will no longer negotiate, and we will no longer be afraid. It’s your turn to be afraid.“
If only this were true...
The Varlet Letter
Heartfelt thanks go out to philanthropist Betty Casey - top bidder on the Varlet Letter.
Read all about Betty's life here - it's fascinating. (She's a former waitress and was once the victim of a pipe bomb explosion.)
Define Armenian Pelosi-cide
What happens when Madame Speaker plays loose and fast with genocide...and our troops.
(It's hard to believe that she actually thought she could get away with it, isn't it?)
From Jed Babbin: Pelosi's Most Dangerous Ploy.
"But the resolution is gratuitous and Democrats’ timing suspicious. It’s gratuitous because, in 1981, President Reagan referred to the Armenian massacre as genocide in a proclamation commemorating the Nazi Holocaust.
Why, if Pelosi is so committed to ending genocide, aren’t she and Senate Democrat leaders doing something about the ongoing genocide in Darfur or the massacres of protesters in Burma?"
From Charles Krauthammer: The Razor is out.
"The atrocities happened 90 years ago. Not a single living Turk under the age of 102 is in any way culpable. Even Mesrob Mutafyan, patriarch of the Armenian community in Turkey, has stated that his community is opposed to the resolution, correctly calling it the result of domestic American politics."
From Thomas Sowell: Sabotage in Wartime
"Unwilling to take responsibility for ending the war by cutting off the money to fight it, as many of their supporters want them to, Congressional Democrats have instead tried to sabotage the prospects of victory by seeking to micro-manage the deployment of troops, delaying the passing of appropriations -- and now this genocide resolution that is the latest, and perhaps lowest, of these tactics."
More North Korean looniness...
China halts all rail freight to North Korea...
because the North Koreans carjacked 1800 rail cars????
Dinah takes the Elvgren quiz..
Here I am - Elvgren style (and it really is SO me).
Thanks to another Elvgren fan, the groovy and fun Christine, over at Ironic Surrealism II for hitting me with the link.
C'mon, Always on Watch...you're up next...
Paging Lady Vorzheva...Paging Lady Vorzheva... Come in, Lady V...
Myanmar(Burma)embassies receiving PANTIES FOR PEACE
Junta military leaders believe contact with female under-roos "saps their power".
Women in several countries have begun sending their panties to Myanmar embassies in a culturally insulting gesture of protest against the recent brutal crackdown there, a campaign supporter said Friday.
"It's an extremely strong message in Burmese and in all Southeast Asian culture,'' said Liz Hilton, who supports an activist group that launched the "Panties for Peace'' drive earlier this week.
The group, Lanna Action for Burma, says the country's superstitious generals, especially junta leader Gen. Than Shwe, also believe that contact with women's underwear saps them of power.
To widespread international condemnation, the military in Myanmar, also known as Burma, crushed mass anti-regime demonstrations recently and continues to hunt down and imprison those who took part.
To widespread international condemnation, the military in Myanmar, also known as Burma, crushed mass anti-regime demonstrations recently and continues to hunt down and imprison those who took part.
Hilton said women in Thailand, Australia, Singapore, England and other European countries have started sending or delivering their underwear to Myanmar missions following informal coordination among activist organizations and individuals.
"You can post, deliver or fling your panties at the closest Burmese Embassy any day from today. Send early, send often!'' the Lanna Action for Burma website urges.
"So far we have had no response from Burmese officials,'' Hilton said.
I guess they're too weak to pick up the phone.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Paki mischief cause of blasts?
Lord only knows, this being Pakistan it very well could be the case.
(h/t The Jawa Report)
But actually, this made me think what it would be like if Hillary Clinton were elected President.
Believe you me, the prospect of Slick Willie as First Spouse shooting his mouth off to reporters for 4+ years does not make me happy.
BB wants IB chief Ijaz Shah sacked
LAHORE: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has demanded that the government sack Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief Brig (r) Ijaz Shah, PPP spokesman Senator Farhatullah Babar quoted her as saying after the late night blasts on Thursday in Karachi that killed dozens of people.
Ms Bhutto’s husband Zardari told Geo TV that he did not think that extremist elements were behind these blasts, adding that some elements within the government, including some ministers, were responsible for the blasts.
He said the PPP was a democratic party and was not a threat to jihadi elements.
He said some ministers were also on the hit list of jihadi elements.
He said he knew some people sitting in the government who could possibly be behind these blasts. But, he said, he would not disclose their names “as only Ms Bhutto would reveal these names”.
Zardari said Ms Bhutto would talk to the media on Friday (today). daily times monitor
This makes me feel all warm and fuzzy...
Hippie Museum gets super buzz killed by US Senate.
(I am so totally over all these old hippie types.)
Hippies used to say if you remember Woodstock, you weren't really there. Republicans say presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton can forget about getting $1 million in taxpayer funds for a Woodstock museum.
Clinton and Charles Schumer, Democratic senators from New York, want to earmark the federal money for a museum that would commemorate the 1969 music festival in their state.
"Woodstock Museum is a shining example of what's wrong with Washington on pork-barrel, out-of-control spending," said John McCain, Arizona senator and Republican presidential hopeful. An example, he said, of "the earmark pork-barrel spending which has made the American people disenchanted and angry."
Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., were trying Thursday to strip the Woodstock earmark from a massive health and education spending bill on the Senate floor. Democrats moved to kill their effort, but Republicans won a key 52-42 vote — seeping with presidential politics — signaling the Clinton-Schumer earmark would soon be gone.
Five Democrats voted against the Woodstock provision. So did old-school GOP members of the Appropriations Committee who had on prior occasions voted against conservative criticism of senators' earmarks.
Intifada Principal seeks reinstatement
(h/t Cristy Li/The Religion of Peace)
NYC Intifade Principal seeks reinstatement.
CAIR is cheering her on as she threatens to sue.
And get this - she currently "works in an administrative capacity for the public school system.
New York CAIR yesterday participated in a news conference at City Hall in support of the former Madrassa Principal reinstatement. Debbie Almontaser resigned after a controversy erupted over a T-Shirt with the words Intifada NYC on it. New York City School officials have said today that the former principal will not be rehired.
CAIR supported Debbie Almontaser, has threated to file a law suit against the City of New York and possibly Mayor Bloomberg for allegedly violating her rights by forcing her to resign her position as Principal of the Madrassa.
Almontaser voluntarily resigned her position as the Principal of Khalil Gibran International Academy when the City of New York threatened to close the school down if she did not leave. Almontaser currently works in an administrative position for the public school system.
Controversy continues to surround the Madrassa as radical Imam Talib Abdur Rashid, sits on the Advisory Board of the school. The Imam has served at the Mosque of the Islamc Brotherhood since 1989 the radical Islamic group has been linked to supporting terrorism and devotion to Ahmadinejad Holocaust denials.
Condi goes to Ramallah
I saw this picture last night and I have been bugged by it ever since.
With the recent hullaballoo about lighting the Empire State building for EID with green lights and seeing as how even Benazir Bhutto wore green traditional dress upon her return to Pakistan, you'd think that everyone on the planet would know that green is the color of Islam by now.
Especially over at the State Department. Right?
So then why didn't one of those overpaid nitwits advise Condi against wearing this green suit during her visit to Palestianian president Mahmoud Abbas headquarters, huh??????
Bunch of damn numbskulls.
Bye-bye Imam
I haven't been following the case of Said Jaziri, the Montreal Imam awaiting deportation from Canada so thanks to Watcher over at Eye on the World for bringing me up to speed. Now it's your turn: Montreal Imam ordered detained until deportation.
A chaotic scene erupted Wednesday after an Immigration and Refugee Board commissioner denied a controversial Montreal imam's request to be released while awaiting deportation.
Said Jaziri appeared before an Immigration and Refugee Board Commissioner, who deemed him a flight risk after a nearly four-hour hearing.
And like the Dems, Jaziri is happy to use children as "human shields", vamping it up about his pregnant (Canadian born) wife and unborn child. Read it all, included the related stories here and here, possums.
I'm sure that Jaziri and his family will be very happy at their new home in the third world shithole from whence he came.
Musharraf going for broke in Waziristan?
According to the Asia Times that's the situation on the ground... I guess the recent Hudna had a purpose after all.
According to the security official, an ultimatum had been delivered to the militants recently during a temporary ceasefire. The army would set a deadline and give safe passage into Afghanistan to all al-Qaeda members and Taliban commanders who had gathered in Waziristan to launch a large-scale post-Ramadan operation in Afghanistan. They, along with wanted tribal warrior leaders, would all leave Pakistan, and never return.
After their departure, under the direct command and surveillance of newly appointed Vice Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kiani (who will replace President-elect Pervez Musharraf as Chief of Army Staff), fresh troops and paramilitary forces would be sent in to establish bases at all strategic points and disarm the local tribes.
The Durand Line (the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan) would be fenced and border controls would be tightened.
The militants rejected the ultimatum.
Why we should care.
A qualified estimate by intelligence officials is that Pakistani military pacification of the Waziristans would slash the capability of the Afghan resistance by 85% as well as deliver a serious setback to the Iraqi resistance.
Why the terrorists care.
The militants have little option but to stand and fight, rather than slip across the border or melt into the local population. Aside from the sanctuary and succor afforded them in the Waziristans, most of the fighters there are either Waziris, or from other parts of Pakistan, or foreigners.
They would be unable to support themselves in Afghanistan, especially as most of the non-Waziris do not speak Pashtu - a fact that also prevents them from disappearing into the Waziristan populace.
Their presence in the Waziristans also has a direct bearing on their funding: money can be transferred through bank and non-bank channels, including the informal fund transfer system known as "hawala".
What it could mean.
If the planned battle is successful and Waziristan is pacified, the global Islamic resistance would be back where it was in 2003, when it had fighters but no centralized command or bases to carry out organized operations, said a Pakistani security official. "As a result, the guerrilla operations were sporadic and largely ineffective."
The safety of Taliban and al-Qaeda assets in Waziristan is a matter of life and death and, therefore, the militants have devised a forward strategy to target the Pakistani cities of Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad, hoping to break the will of the Pakistani armed forces. The Pakistani military, meanwhile, is trying to break the will of the militants with ongoing bombing raids.
Underscoring the seriousness with which the military is planning for the coming battle, it is reported that Shi'ite soldiers from northern Pakistan are being sent to the Waziristans. In the past, the Pakistani Army has been plagued by desertions of Pashtun and Sunni troops who refuse to fight fellow Pashtuns or Sunnis.
You had to know this was coming...
Twin blasts near Bhutto. She's okay but it sounds like it could have been an extremely close call. 45 115 132 killed. 100 injured.
An initial small explosion was followed by a huge blast just feet from the front of the truck carrying Bhutto during a procession through Karachi. The blast shattered windows in her vehicle. Neither Bhutto nor any of the others riding on the truck was hurt, police officer Hasib Beg said.
Karachi police chief Azhar Farooqi told Dawn News that Bhutto was rushed from the area under emergency plans prepared ahead of her return.
And in other related DC Muslim Sniper news...
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali is not the only Muslim DC sniper we should be thinking about today.
Yesterday was the fifth anniversary of the start of the DC sniper attacks. Geez, just in time for another MSM whitewash!!!!
Read Rehabbing the DC Snipers over at IBD that rips the veil off of CNN's writing their own narrative when they tee up "child abuse" and "spousal revenge" as motive. They completely ignored the Muslim angle in their recent program "The minds of the DC Snipers" - what a surprise! Islam is the religion of peace doncha know?
The jailhouse drawings of the younger sniper, Malvo are among the things not mentioned in the program:
• One sketch of Osama bin Laden exalts him as a "Servant of Allah."
• A self-portrait of him and Muhammad is captioned: "We will kill them all. Jihad . . . Allah Akbar!"
• A sketch of the burning Twin Towers has as its caption: "America did this. You were warned."
• A poem scribbled alongside an American flag and star of David drawn in cross hairs reads: "Our minarets are our bayonets, Our mosques are our baracks, Our believers are our soldiers."
• The Quran (Surah 2:190) is quoted as follows: "Fight in the cause of Allah those who fight you and slay them wherever ye catch them." Also: "Islam the only true guidance."
• The White House is drawn in cross hairs, surrounded by missiles, with the warning: "Sep. 11 we will ensure will look like a picnic to you," and "you will bleed to death little by little."
• Another warning reads: "Islam. We will Resist. We will conquer. We will win."
IBD's conclusion is correct:
CNN's "special investigation" is nothing more than a politically correct whitewashing of the truth aimed at pleasing Muslim groups like CAIR, which has argued that "there is no indication that this case is related to Islam or Muslims."
Saudi supported school should be shut down: But will anyone do anything about it?
The Saudi Islamic Academy's most famous alum.Ahmed Omar Abu Ali
It's only a recommendation.
A private Islamic school supported by the Saudi government should be shut down until the U.S. government can ensure the school is not fostering radical Islam, a federal panel recommends.
In a report released Thursday, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom broadly criticized what it calls a lack of religious freedom in Saudi society and promotion of religious extremism at Saudi schools...
More at the link, including this:
The report also criticizes the school's administrative structure, saying it is little more than an offshoot of the Saudi Embassy, with the Saudi ambassador to the United States serving as chairman of the school's board of directors.
The structure "raises serious concerns about whether it is in violation of a U.S. law restricting the activities of foreign embassies."
After the Sept. 11 attacks, critics questioned the nature of the religious education at the Saudi academy. The school again found itself in the spotlight in 2005, when a former class valedictorian, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, was charged with joining al-Qaida while attending college in Saudi Arabia and plotting to assassinate President Bush.
Abu Ali was convicted in federal court and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He is appealing his conviction.
See Abu Ali's alma mater here. I checked out the newsletters - let's just say that anytime I see words written in Arabic without an English translation in an American "school" I get nervous. The elementary school's newsletters don't provide translation. And the high school's? Well, they're very proud of their Mecca project...
The family of Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, from left, Omar Abu Ali, father, Faten Abu Ali, mother, and Tasneem Abu Ali. I'm sure they're very proud of their son and brother.
Nicolas and Cecelia.
Splitsville.
Interesting factoid: Nicolas Sarkozy presided over Cecilia's first marriage when he was Mayor of the Parisian suburb, Neuilly.
This quote seems to sum up the whole deal:
Unless it means I can go to Libya and negotiate on the behalf of the French government. But don't ask me to meet with cowboy George Bush or to go to that dreary Bulgaria.
Bhutto arrives in Pakistan
Another reason the hijab is idiotic...
Not a good look.
She stepped down onto the tarmac at Karachi airport at around 2 p.m. local time, wearing a traditional green dress and white veil, the colors of the Pakistani flag.
"The most important step — to be back on Pakistani soil," she said, after praying. She was clearly tearful.
On the plane from Dubai, the city where she has lived for much of the last decade, she was surrounded by chanting supporters, and she moved through the cabin talking to the press and to admirers. When asked how she felt, she said "very excited, very happy, very proud, a tremendous sense of responsibility."
She added: "I think the time has come for democracy. If we want to save Pakistan, we have to have democracy."
In related Benazir Bhutto news: Swiss Judge wraps up Bhutto money laundering probe.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Do-Nothing Congress... Unfit to legislate. Unfit to lead.
From this morning's press conference.
President Bush: Good morning. We're now more than halfway through October, and the new leaders in Congress have had more than nine months to get things done for the American people. Unfortunately, they haven't managed to pass many important bills. Now the clock is winding down and in some key areas Congress is just getting started.
Congress has work to do on health care...
Congress has work to do to keep our people safe...
Congress has work to do on the budget...
Congress has work to do on education...
Congress has work to do on housing...
Congress has work to do on trade...
Congress has work to do for our military veterans...
Congress also needs to complete the Veterans Affairs appropriations bill that funds veterans' benefits and other ongoing programs...
Congress has work to do for law enforcement and the judiciary…
With all these pressing responsibilities, one thing Congress should not be doing is sorting out the historical record of the Ottoman Empire.
Unfit to legislate. Unfit to lead.
House Democrats have been forced to pull their proposed legislation to change the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) because they couldn't round up enough support among Dems who need the votes of non-liberals to be re-elected. You probably recall that the Democratic leadership was embarrassed two months ago when these same non-leftist Dems joined with Republicans to pass a temporary FISA fix so that our intelligence agencies could monitor the overseas communications of terrorists without obtaining a warrant. Still unwilling to provide the administration with the FISA fix it needs to ensure the gathering of information vital to the national security, the Democratic leadership has been slapped down again by members of its own caucus.
More at the link.
Okay, remember how Dubai wanted to buy our ports and 20% of NASDAQ?
Gee, they just refused to issue visas to a Jewish trade delegation from International Forum.
And about Dubai Ports?
Dubai has, in the past, enforced an anti-Israel trade ban. Last year, The Jerusalem Post revealed that the Dubai Ports World, which is entirely owned by the government of Dubai via a holding company known as Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation (PCZC), joined the Arab boycott against Israel. Dubai Ports World actively enforced a trade embargo against Israel.
Yay Islam! 1327 killed in 282 terror attacks in 20 countries this Ramadan! Way to go!
Once again, Islam puts up big Ramadan numbers: 1,327 dead bodies in 282 terror attacks in 20 countries during its holiest month.
Congratulations to the Religion of Peace!
More on the return of Bhutto...
The issue of major concern confronting Pakistan today is the pitching of forces of moderation versus extremism. The resolution of this issue will affect the world, particularly South Asia, Central Asia and all the Muslim countries. Bhutto believes that extremism and obscurantism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Dictatorship that denies basic rights to the people creates social hopelessness and ignites desperation that fuels religious extremism.
Pakistan's 60-year history is a sprawling mosaic with huge dark patches of dictatorship punctuated with dotted hues of democracy. Never before in the Pakistani polity has religious fundamentalism ever been a significant part of nation's political awareness as it is now. Inherently a liberal, centrist and moderate nation, Pakistani people -- by and large -- have remained glued to the democratic ideals of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah who stoutly believed that Pakistan would not be a theocratic state and that religion would not have anything to do with the business of the state.
Historically, the religious parties have not received more than 11 per cent of the total votes in the national elections. It is interesting to note that in the general elections held in 1997, the leader of one of the main religious parties, Qazi Hussain Ahmad, preferred keeping back from the polls to losing his seat to his opponent. Likewise, the leader of the Jamiat Ulema Pakistan, Maulana Fazlur Rahman, got fewer votes than a female film star who also lost the poll. On the other hand, despite persistent state persecution since its inception, the Pakistan Peoples Party has remained the largest political party of Pakistan.
More at the link.
Benazir Bhutto's welcoming party.
Our party workers are being intimidated that they should not go to the airport to receive me. These threats are being made by Afghan militants, Arab militants, and Red Mosque militants,' she told media in Dubai, from where she is scheduled to leave for Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Thursday morning. Bhutto said her party workers were not intimidated by the threats and around a million of them would receive her at the airport. 'From the rouged mountains of Karakoram range in the northern areas of the country to the shore of the Arabian Ocean in the port city of Karachi, a sea of people will gather still with hope. They dream of democracy, of employment, of education, of energy, and most important of empowerment,' she said.
Security for the event is high.
Authorities in Karachi, a city of around 15 million people, were taking stringent security measures to ensure her safety. Police sealed several roads around the city airport and deployed a bomb disposal squad. A shipping container fortified with bullet-proof glass was prepared to carry Bhutto in a rally she would lead after her arrival in the city. More than 3,000 police and paramilitary troops will guard the route of her procession. Bhutto's party had also shipped in bullet-proof vehicles and electronic jamming equipment to help avert possible attacks.
More at the link.
And at this link. Two - three radical Muslim suicide groups active in Karachi with threats being made by Baitullah Mahsud. Seven bomb disposal units will be deployed. She will be guarded by 20, 000 policemen. Marksmen will be on buildings throughout the 18 hour procession which the government has requested she shorten.
Wondering about US aid to Pakistan?
From 2001 to 2007, the United States extended $10.09 billion in assistance to Pakistan, the highest single year figure being $1.77 billion, which was remitted in 2007. The projected figure for 2008 is $840 million only. According to figures tabulated by the Congressional Research Service, the breakdown is as under: Total economic support funds ($1.89 billion), other development aid ($453 million), foreign military financing ($1.27 billion), other security-related aid ($377 million), coalition support funds ($5.93 billion), total non-food aid plus coalition support funds ($9.9 billion) and food aid ($177 million). khalid hasan
(khalid sounds kinda miffed about that drop in US dollars...)
Chemical Ali - dead man walking.
Supposedly.
No date yet set for execution.
Ali Hassan al-Majid, the former Iraqi defence minister held responsible for Saddam Hussein's genocide against the Kurdish people, known as al-Anfal (the Spoils), seems certain to be executed.
Ali, also known as 'Chemical Ali', was found guilty of conducting an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Kurds - including chemical weapons and mass executions at the end of the first Persian Gulf war in 1991. Human rights groups estimate up to 100,000 people perished in the campaign.
Iraq's chief prosecutor, al-Anfal Munqidh Al Firaoun, told Adnkronos International (AKI) on Tuesday no-one in the country had the legal power to cancel or modify the death penalty issued against Ali.
Ali, a first cousin of Saddam's, received five death sentences for genocide and crimes against humanity when he was convicted on 24 June this year. According to the ruling, he was supposed to be executed within 30 days, but no date has yet been set for his execution.
In an exclusive interview with AKI, al-Firaoun said under the Iraqi constitution the president, on the advice of the prime minister, had the power to modify the death penalty for certain crimes but not for genocide. "The execution of the sentence was postponed during Ramadan and Eid, but we hope that it will happen quickly," he told AKI."
(I don't know about you but, I'll feel better about all this when we have a date certain.)
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Why is Yahoo/AP pimping for al Qaeda? (Make that: Why is Yahoo/AP pimping for al Qaeda - Again.)
Afghan Suburban 1x1This Yahoo slideshow starts innocently enough - even though it uses Karzai's most damaging quote as part of it's lede. It goes downhill from there, quickly degenerating into a trailer for al Qaeda. With a Blackwater image right smack dab in the middle of it all. I'm not sure I get their point. The pictures are getting recommendations too! Disgusting.
Tres gay! Progressive!The best pic of the bunch: The Red Mosque, which is actually pepto-bismol pink-ish. (You will recall the govt painted it yellow after recently giving the radical element the old heave-ho.)
Putin visits Supreme Leader
Persian Pipsqueak, Pooty-poot and Poo-bah Supremo.
(Panties Be Upon Them)
Okay, first the Persian Pipsqueak is pigeon-toed. (either that or he REALLY has to pee.)
And I'm also thinking Pooty-poot wears his pants too tight and too short.
( I do think that says something about the man.)
Poobah Supremo - I bet his zipper's undone underneath those robes...
Dick Cheney and Barack Obama kissing cousins - for real!
That's according to Lynn Cheney. And you'd think she'd know.
(Ed. note: I'd pay cash money to see Lynn Cheney go up against Michelle Obama. Pay-per-View. I'm serious and my money's on the old broad.)
Passage of Armenian Genocide resolution in JEOPARDY
Dems withdraw support of Armenian Genocide Resolution.
A House vote to label the century-old deaths of Armenians as genocide was in jeopardy Tuesday after several Democrats withdrew their support and sounded alarms it could cripple U.S. relations with Turkey.
Wafflers include John Murtha(!)who had this to say for himself:
"From my discussions with our military commanders and foreign policy experts, I believe that this resolution could harm our relations with Turkey and therefore our strategic interests in the region," Murtha, D-Pa., said in an e-mailed statement on Tuesday.
Some of the other rats deserting the 'Rats sinking ship:
Also this week, at least six Democrats withdrew their sponsorship of the bill and two other Democrats, Reps. Alcee Hastings of Florida and John Tanner of Tennessee, asked Pelosi to forgo the vote. Hastings, who has voted against combat funding for Iraq, and Tanner, a member of a conservative Democratic coalition known as the Blue Dogs, said they feared backlash from Turkey would cut off U.S. access to a critical air base.
I have to say that the defeat of this resolution would be a very satisfying and righteous one. Moral imperative, my Aunt Fanny. Underhanded political ploy is more like it, Madam Speaker.
The loss of support is a major setback to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill, who have fiercely defended the resolution to Republicans and the Bush administration as a moral imperative in condemning the World War I-era killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks.
President Bush called Pelosi on Tuesday to ask her not to call for a House vote on the resolution. "The president and the speaker exchanged candid views on the subject and the speaker explained the strong bipartisan support in the House for the resolution," Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami said, noting that Bush initiated the phone call.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., told reporters Tuesday that the plan remained to vote on the measure before Congress adjourns by the end of the year.
But, he added, "there are a number of people who are revisiting their own positions and we'll have to determine where everyone is," he said.
More at the linky.
Dancing in the Desert, as seen thru the thermal sight on a Bradley
And if I'm not mistaken, our soldier's jamming to Jamiroquai.
Guess who's coming to dinner? Uncle Sam!
(Ramadi Shahids issue invitation by way of small arms fire and mortar. Uncle Sam responds. Surprise! It looks like Adbul won't be down for breakfast in the morning. Neither will Abdullah, Mohammed, Najif, Sharif or any other of those insurgent suckers messing with us.)
The story of Bilal B.
Make sure your children do not have to live in such a crap...
Freeper Knighthawk has posted this open letter over at Free Republic. It recounts the recent shooting of Bilal B, after he walked into an Amsterdam police station and started stabbing people and the mayhem that has occurred as a result. He also tells you what the newspaper accounts linked at the end do not...
The story starts when the newschannel AT5 was told by sources the perpetrator is a Dutch (white) guy. But after a full day of silence they have to admit it's a Moroccan criminal. The government first claimed it took so long because the man could not be identified because they could not match his fingerprints, but that is a blatant lie.
He was not just a criminal, since the age of 12 he is known as a criminal, also stabbing some one in the head with a screwdriver. His criminal recored is very 'impressive' so to say. In 2003 he is convicted for a big robbey (sic)involving computers and has to serve a 15 month prison term.
There he is visited by a man named Mohammed Bouyeri, who later killed Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh as an act of terrorism, shooting and stabbing him leaving a warning-note to all enemies of islam.
In 2005 he is released and the CID, the Dutch crime intelligence service, warns that Bilal maintains close ties to the Hofstad group, an islamic terrorist group were Mohammed Bouyeri belongs to, and Samir Azzouz who serves a long prison term for planning terrorist attacks.
The CID warns that the Hofstad group is planning to shoot down an El Al plane at Schiphol. The CID names Bilal's brother Abdullah as the main planner of the attack, and they say Bilal is also involved.
The group gets arrested for planning an attack on politicians and the headquarters of the AIVD, the Dutch intelligence service. Bilal, his brother and Azzouz are arrested but released after 2 weeks. Bilal is only heared as a withness. The AIVD keeps monitoring the brothers for their ties to the Hofstad group.
Bilal was staying at a mental institution for schizophrenia were he was released but later readmitted on his own request. He escaped during an escorted trip and then decided to enter the police station to stab at everyone in range.
The government keeps claiming he is mentaly ill, however Bilal choose the date to do this very well: exactly 2 years after his brother was arrested...
The Dutch government choosed to lie about the background of the attacker, then they claimed they could not identify the man even though of his huge criminal record and his history with the CID and AIVD, then they did everything to stop the Moroccans from rioting, except telling them that if they did they would be arrested. Also the family of the perpetrator was visited and imams and others got mobilized to hug the Moroccan society, while the two stabbed police officers were not even mentioned!
So riots broke out, a police station was under seige and vandalized and private property was damaged. Also 2 reporters were attacked. And guess what? No one got arrested...
Yes, we surrendered to islamic terrorism and criminals. The multicultural society at it's best people. So are you also willing to have your country wrecked by islamic thugs like this? Who riot like in the Netherlands or France, while your government appeases them and at the same time disallows you any self-defence?
Make sure your children do not have to live in such a crap...
Related sources: Bilal B. attacked Dutch police officers.
Vandalism in Amsterdam October 16, 2007.
For additional information about Bilal B and the situation on the ground there in the Netherlands head over to Klein Verzet's Suicide Attack in Amsterdam. Excellent reportage to be found there, including the somewhat startling revelation that Bilal B's sister is a judge in the Netherlands! And he was hollering something in Arabic as he went on his killing spree. Allah Ackbar, perhaps?
Taliban savages Redux
More pictures and followup to the destruction of the Jehanabad Buddha in Pakistan's Swat Valley. Disgusting, ignorant savages. Dynamite failed so they returned with a generator, electric drills, ladders and ropes. I sure hope some bad ass karma is coming their way.
The Jehanabad Buddha is considered the second most important Gandhara monument after the Buddhas in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, which were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.
The Jehanabad Buddha is considered the second most important Gandhara monument after the Buddhas in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, which were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.
Turks get massively pwned by the Swedes
Update: Gateway Pundit has the screen shot and funny lines like: Pwned! Swedish Hackers Juice Turkey." "Turkey hackers get basted" and Turkey gets the sauce". Too funny.
Retaliation for Lars Vilks hack attack.
Swedish hackers have retaliated against their Turkish counterparts following an attack earlier this month on some 5,000 Swedish websites. On Saturday, a group of disgruntled hackers posted a comment to the Flashback web forum linking to a stolen database containing thousands of user names and passwords from Turkish forum Ayyildiz.
"We have chosen to leak these user details in response to the many recent attacks on Swedish web hosts and websites following the publication of a satirical drawing by Lars Vilks portraying the Muslim prophet Muhammad as a roundabout dog."
The group said that Ayyildiz was a forum used by Turkish hackers to brag about their destructive exploits on the internet. Having stolen the identities of the Turkish users, Swedish hackers proceeded to post messages on their forum informing them of the successful security breach. Ayyildiz was temporarily taken out of service as a result of the attack.
The Swedes also broke into the e-mail and MSN accounts of Turkish web users and sent messages using the stolen identities. Among the images in circulation was a pornographic illustration of Muhammad and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the modern Turkish state.
"This type of 'hacktivism' has been on the increase over the last five or six years," IT security expert Joakim von Braun told The Local. He added that the outbreak of a hacking war could prove devastating for businesses and government institutions, "Companies in particular stand to lose a lot of money if their websites are attacked and taken down by hackers," said von Braun.
Looks like they've caught Jawa Fever...
Say What? A Paki - AQ cease fire?????
Hudna already? (tribal leaders are crying uncle.)
The Pakistan military and militants have agreed a temporary ceasefire following some of the bloodiest clashes along the Afghan border for six years, a tribal elder said Tuesday.
Government to consider cease fire. (military are thinking about it.)
The political administration and local Taliban will hold detailed negotiations for cease-fire in North Waziristan.Director General ISPR Major General Waheed Arshad told PTV the militants and tribesmen requested for a ceasefire and the government will consider it but so far no decision has been taken.
Musharraf blinked.
Kimmy gets nervous after that deal in Syria
N Korea builds up guard at nuclear test site.
North Korea has increased security around a site where it conducted a nuclear test last year, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Sunday.
Connecting the dots at the axis of evil. (Bwa-ha-ha)
Last month's airstrike by Israel on a Syrian installation left the rogue regime silent, the U.N. seeking more details and the media tongue-tied. Here's the fact that's missing:
Bush was right about the evil afoot...
Somebody woke up the IAEA.
A U.N. watchdog group is checking reports that Israel destroyed a partially built nuclear reactor in Syria. The International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday it was in contact with Damascus following a report in The New York Times that the target of Israel's Sept. 6 airstrike in northern Syria was a reactor under construction. The agency said it had no information about any undeclared nuclear facility going up in Syria, which has said Israel's air force attacked a disused military building.
But where are the A-rab states? What no outrage? No being offended? No high dudgeon?
Syria made only muted protests, and Arab leaders have remained silent.
What's that tell ya?
Monday, October 15, 2007
Poison Paki Hooch
Legalize it.
'Doctors say my eyesight is gone, totally, irreversibly gone. Allah has punished me because I did not respect the holy month of Ramadan,' Mohammad Jamil says from his hospital bed in Pakistani port city of Karachi after a drinking experience that has scarred him for life.
Jamil, 22, may consider himself lucky to have been only blinded. More than 40 people who partook from the same batch of home-made hard liquor died hours after they were admitted to hospital suffering from nausea, severe cramps, shaking and blurred eyesight.
Police on Saturday arrested six people for selling Kuppi or Tharra, a cheap methyl-based alcohol intended for industrial use but which is a standard ingredient in illegal moonshine that is easily obtained across the predominantly Muslim country.
With only three per cent of Pakistan's population of 160 million are entitled to buy and consume alcohol, quality-controlled liquor produced by the country's monopoly brewery is pricey and restricted to the black market.
'A Muslim has to pay 650 rupees (11 US dollars), almost double the price a Christian pays at a liquor shop, to buy a one litre vodka bottle from an illegal supplier,' said Chaudhry Tariq, head of Islamabad's Excise Department which issues alcohol permits to non- Muslims.
High prices on the black market drive millions of Muslim imbibers to...
More at the (hic) link.
Will we ultimately be sold down the river by the Financial types?
It is an issue of some concern to this informed observer.
Demand for Islamic mortgages skyrockets.
The demand for Islamic mortgages has “gone through the roof” according to one lender.
Lloyds TSB says that demand for the packages, which adhere to the principle of Sharia Law that says people must not make money from money i.e. charging interest, has increased significantly.
Emile Abu-Shakra, Lloyds TSB media relations manager, said: “We certainly had, during the course of my time here, people who were literally renting their whole lives. One customer was about mid fifties and had been renting from the start because he couldn’t see that there were any options.”
This is the part that worries me:
He also pointed out that although the deal is targeted at Muslims, home owners of any creed could take it up. “It’s obviously designed for the rules of Islamic law, but absolutely anyone could get one,” explained Abu-Shakra.
Figures released by Datamonitor suggest the Islamic mortgage market could be worth £1.8 billion by 2009.
That's a lot of clams and these financial guys? There are a lot of them that would sell their mothers. Just saying.
Let's make a halal deal.
Afghan Koran desecration claim is total BS.
But of course we knew that already.
I also guess that's why the debunking of the claim is buried in the bowels of this article.
The U.S. military, meanwhile, said it had looked into allegations that soldiers had desecrated the Quran during a raid on a home in the eastern province of Kunar and found no evidence of wrongdoing.
The allegations had outraged villagers, who met with the governor, provincial leaders and U.S. military commanders on Sunday.
Kunar deputy provincial governor Noor Mohammad Khan said American soldiers raided the home of Mullah Zarbaz on Saturday, arresting him and three others. Villagers claimed that soldiers ripped, knifed and burned a Quran during the raid, allegations that led to an angry demonstration, Khan said.
But Maj. Chris Belcher, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, which oversees Special Forces soldiers who usually carry out nighttime raids, said the allegations had been investigated and were found to be baseless."We looked into it. There was no desecration of the Quran or any religious symbol by U.S. forces," Belcher said. "Had a soldier desecrated it, we would take action."
Bonus info buried in the same story:
In an interview with Australian Broadcasting Corp., President Hamid Karzai said Afghanistan has suffered "the law of unintended consequences" because of the war in Iraq."We did suffer by movements of people, by movements of extremist ideology, by transfer of knowledge by extremists to one another," Karzai said in the interview, which was broadcast Monday.
"There is no doubt that al-Qaida is linked all across the world."Karzai said he knew "with confidence" that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban chief Mullah Omar were not in Afghanistan. But he said he did not have "precise information" on where they were. Afghan officials say the two are hiding in Pakistan.
File this under: Good help is so hard to find
Afghan suicide bomber kills his own family. Second bomber chickens out, then kills himself when suicide vest explodes..
A mother who tried to stop her son from carrying out a suicide bomb attack triggered an explosion in the family's home in southern Afghanistan that killed the would-be bomber, his mother and three siblings, police said Monday.
The would-be bomber had been studying at a madrassa, or religious school, in Pakistan, and when he returned to his home in Uruzgan province over the weekend announced that he planned to carry out a suicide attack, Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary said.
Surviving family members told police that the suicide vest exploded during a struggle between the mother and her son, said Juma Gul Himat, Uruzgan's police chief. The man's brother and two sisters were also killed.
Family members said the would-be bomber gave his family $3,600 before telling them he intended to carry out the attack, Himat said.
Bashary said the explosion happened on Sunday, but Himat said it occurred on Monday morning. It was not clear why the two accounts differed.
In a second accidental explosion, another would-be bomber killed himself Friday in Paktika province when he tried to take off the bomb vest he was wearing and it exploded, Bashary said. The man told authorities he had been instructed by his handlers in Pakistan to launch a suicide attack, but changed his mind when he saw people praying in a mosque.
Priest gets visit from hate crime police for hijab remark
In the church bulletin, no less. And it was published over a year ago.
A priest has been interviewed by police on suspicion of inciting racial hatred for expressing his Christian views in his parish newsletter.
Father John Hayes, 71, was quizzed for more than an hour after commenting on the case of a Muslim girl who went to court over her wish to wear a full veil in class.
A sergeant and community support officer turned up without warning at his presbytery after an allegation was made to a Scotland Yard 'hate crimes' unit.
The inquisition in Hornchurch, East London, prompted a furious row about policing priorities. In the past 12 months there have been five murders, 33 rapes, 424 robberies and 2,267 burglaries in the local police borough of Havering.
Yet, despite being accused of turning a blind eye to the inflammatory remarks of some Muslim preachers of hate, the Met still found time to quiz Mr Hayes.
More at the link.
FISA fails kidnapped G I
Wire Law Failed Lost GI
US intelligence burns, while Dems fiddle. 10 hours! That's a lifetime for a kidnap victim and in this case it cost soldier Alex Jimenez his life.
About the delay:
U.S. intelligence officials got mired for nearly 10 hours seeking approval to use wiretaps against al Qaeda terrorists suspected of kidnapping Queens soldier Alex Jimenez in Iraq earlier this year, The Post has learned.
About the attack:
In the early hours of May 12, seven U.S. soldiers - including Spc. Jimenez - were on lookout near a patrol base in the al Qaeda-controlled area of Iraq called the "Triangle of Death."
Sometime before dawn, heavily armed al Qaeda gunmen quietly cut through the tangles of concertina wire surrounding the outpost of two Humvees and made a massive and coordinated surprise attack.
Four of the soldiers were killed on the spot and three others were taken hostage.
A search to rescue the men was quickly launched. But it soon ground to a halt as lawyers - obeying strict U.S. laws about surveillance - cobbled together the legal grounds for wiretapping the suspected kidnappers.
Starting at 10 a.m. on May 15, according to a timeline provided to Congress by the director of national intelligence, lawyers for the National Security Agency met and determined that special approval from the attorney general would be required first.
For an excruciating nine hours and 38 minutes, searchers in Iraq waited as U.S. lawyers discussed legal issues and hammered out the "probable cause" necessary for the attorney general to grant such "emergency" permission.
Finally, approval was granted and, at 7:38 that night, surveillance began.
From the poor mother:
"This is terrible. If they would have acted sooner, maybe they would have found something out and been able to find my son," said Jimenez's mother, Maria Duran. "Oh my God. I just keep asking myself, where is my son? What could have happened to him?" Duran said she was especially frustrated, "because I thought they were doing everything possible to find him."
"You know that this is how this country is - everything is by the law. They just did not want to break the law, and I understand that. They should change the law, because God only knows what type of information they could have found during that time period."
This is war, people.
Get. With. The. Program.
Read it all...
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Blackwater to the rescue
of Polish Ambassador Edward Pietzry.
Video of the October 3 rescue of Polish Ambassador Edward Pietrzy show just how risky the maneuver was for the skilled Blackwater helicopter pilot.
It's no small thing to land a helicopter with its spinning rotor blades into a city street. Apart from possible terrorists and insurgents, the real dangers to the crew were the many lightposts and telephone and electrical lines that bordered the landing area.
The Blackwater "Little Bird" is shown landing, with high lamp posts on the right and what appear to be telephone or electrical poles on the left. The lower photo shows phone or electrical wires strung across the street. The slightest pilot error, shift in weight or unexpected wind could have caused havoc with the helicopter and with the people on the ground. The mission, however, was a complete success.
Postcards from the Kotex box: Another declasse Code Pink exhibition
Code Pink Vs. The Marines. (courtesy of Zombietime and via LGF.)
This is Ber-serkeley, but I used to live in San Francisco and I'll come right out and say it, San Francisco has become a third world shi&hole due to 'San Francisco values' and 'useless idiots' like these. Berkeley is even worse.
So I'm helping to spread the word.
Madame Zombie - you rock.
First, it was Chelsy and now THIS?
Al Qaeda to target premiership?
Okay, it's News of the World and it's an unidentified source, so the 48 hour rule definitely applies, but still....the images conjured up of a soccer stadium in flames are just to dreadful to contemplate.
AL-QAEDA terrorists are plotting to bomb a Premiership football game LIVE on British TV.
A shock new government report reveals Osama bin Laden's fanatics are targeting top soccer stadiums packed with thousands of fans.
They know the awful sight of grounds like Chelsea's Stamford Bridge or Manchester United's Old Trafford in flames will flash around the world just like the 9/11 Twin Towers outrage.
The chilling review by Homeland Security Minister Lord West will reveal that despite increased anti-terror spending there are still massive gaps in our defences that Britain's enemies are determined to exploit.
As well as soccer clubs, the experts identify other "soft targets" such as Britain's biggest shopping centre, BLUEWATER in Kent, and the vast BACTON GAS TERMINAL in Norfolk.
A top-placed security source, who contributed to Lord West's report, revealed:
"We have concrete intelligence that al-Qaeda is planning an attack that would be seen live on television.
"We understand they're targeting a Premiership stadium, probably by a suicide pilot flying a light aircraft right into the stand while a match is being broadcast.
"Although protection is good at some stadiums it's nowhere near good enough at others."
And Patrick Mercer—the former Tory security spokesman brought in to advise Prime Minister Gordon Brown—said:
"This is a terrorist's dream—an iconic target being attacked with big casualties and real-time worldwide coverage.
Read more.
You might be Taliban if ...
Your troop transport is a Toyota pickupYou might be Taliban if .............
You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer....
You own a $300 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can't afford shoes....
You have more wives than teeth...
You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide. ...
You've ever opened a can of falafel with a mortar round. ...
You used a Stinger missile given to you by George Bush Sr. to shoot at a helicopter sent by George Bush Jr....
You've ever had your camel repossessed....
You can't think of anyone you HAVEN'T declared Jihad against....
You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry ammunition in your robe....
You've ever been asked, "Does this burka make my ass look fat?"...Y
You think "The Kite Runner" is the funniest book you ever read....
You've felt the urge to rub one out after seeing a woman's exposed ankle....
You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs....
You've ever uttered the phrase, "I love what you've done with your cave."...
You wipe your ass with your bare left hand, but consider bacon "unclean."...
You think that "Party Pooper" is a rear part of a camel.
(Shamelessly lifted from Fortress Australia Outpost.)
BTW-FAO also has an ALL HANDS ON DECK letter that MUST be read. It's entitled, 'Divide and Conquer.' Go over and check it out.
Al Qaeda in Iraq: Are you hearing...
Walking softly and carrying a big stick.footsteps?
Abu Duha, Mosul's number one al Qaeda goes to meet his 72 virgins courtesy of the Red, White and Blue.
No way! Prince Harry's gal pal an al Qaeda target?
Be careful, girl!Hope this isn't the case, but really - isn't is this just "so" al Qaeda?
Picking on girls.
Kate Middleton could give her some shooting tips, but now SHE's being picked on by PETA.
Dang. If it's not al Qaeda, it's the PETA wankers.
Be careful both of you, girls!
Christian + Mortad + Sermon = Flogged in Iran
Iranian Christian Couple Whipped For Attending Sermon (h/t Gateway Pundit)
Click on the link to see the pics and then wonder just what the hell the American left is doing complaining about things here in this country, making snide remarks "about the 'good Germans' amongst us".
Fools and crybabies, one and all.
THIS makes a noose tied around a door handle look awful damn wimpy.
A Christian couple were flogged in Iran for participating in an “underground Church”, an Iranian Christian group said in a report on its website earlier this week.
The unnamed couple were arrested on September 21, 2005, the report said, adding that a Revolutionary Court reviewed their case in July 2007.
Even though the couple had decided to marry seven years ago, the country’s marriage laws - which prohibit the union of ex-Muslims and members of other religious minorities – prevented them from obtaining a certificate of marriage.
The report said that the woman was born a Christian in an Assyrian-Iranian family and the man was a convert to Christianity prior to getting married. The court ruled that both the man and the woman were Mortad, a description of someone who has committed apostasy by leaving Islam.
The last time the wife was present there to make a signature, one of the agents (who was called Haj Agha, a clergy man) sexually abused her. As a result she was so terrified that she decided not to go back there again, not even for a signature!
After few days, in September 2007, two female and 4 male agents go to this couple's house and by showing them an official letter from the Court, execute the sentence of whipping right there in their house.
According to the latest news, this couple are under a high mental pressure right now.
Iranian assassins plot to kill Pooty-poot?
Iran denies threat exists; blames George Bush and the Great Satan. (well, not in so many words but you can read between the lines.) Pooty-poot to be the first Kremlin biggie to visit Iran since Josef Stalin...
Russian special services have been warned of a plot to assassinate President Vladimir Putin when he visits Iran on Tuesday, Interfax news agency said on Sunday.
Iran's Foreign Ministry dismissed the report as totally baseless and intended to undermine Russian-Iranian relations.
Interfax said Russian security services had been told that suicide bombers and kidnappers were training to kill or capture Putin during this week's historic visit, which will be watched closely in Washington and other Western capitals.
"A reliable source in one of the Russian special services, has received information from several sources outside Russia, that during the president of Russia's visit to Tehran an assassination attempt is being plotted," the report said.
"A number of groups of suicide bombers are preparing for this aim."
San Fran Nan can...
blow it out her 'congressional approval' pie hole as far as I'm concerned.
"We don't believe that any authorities that the president has would give him the ability to go in without an act of Congress," Pelosi told ABC's "This Week" program.
"Any president, if we are attacked, if our country is attacked has -- even under the War Powers Act -- very strong powers to go after that country. But short of that, he must come to the Congress," said the top Democrat in the House of Representatives.
Bloggy Mountain Breakdown
It's a foggy, gray Sunday morning here along the front range and Dinah has decided to stop and take a deep breath for just a moment. Snow showers are softly falling outside the window. I've just brewed a fresh pot of coffee, and get this: seven wild turkeys just walked across the yard outside my window.
Oh, and the Dinah Lord playlist is playing softly in the background. That's right, possums. Now, you can listen to some of Dinah's long time fave tunes as we fight the dirty Islamofascists together. (Maria Muldaur's, "Midnight at the Oasis" is on as I type this. Thanks to USpace over at Hard to Swallow for turning me onto this great little gadget. FineTune.)
(To operate: See the Fine Tune icon in the sidebar? Just click to play and if you don't like that particular track -you can move your mouse over it and click to change it. There's also a pull down "radio" feature that you can click on to find something more to your liking at FineTune should Dinah's tunes be too fuddy-duddy. Although Dinah bets you will listen and you will DANCE. Remember how much the Mullahs hate the rock and roll! The Clash's "Rock the Casbah", is playing now baby. Hard not to shake the old moneymaker when you hear that old chestnut.)
All set?
Very good.
Time for some reflection. Peter Gabriel's "I Grieve" is up now. (also one of the songs Dinah wants played at her celestial send-off. For real.) You'll grieve when you read this post about Scott King, a hero who died serving his country and saving the lives of his fellow soldiers. Please visit Crusader Rabbit and pay your respects.
Heroes are on the agenda over at Always on Watch, as well. (Now up Toby Keith with "Beer for my horses".) Stop by and pay tribute to your personal hero. I'm still thinking...
You wouldn't think that Idaho Senator Larry Craig would be making any hero list would you? (Think Bonnie Raitt's, "Tangled and Dark" here.) Well, you'd be wrong. I don't care that he's gay, hell he could be putting the wood to a Martian for all I care, BUT lying to the people you love, about who you really are is not heroic in my book. To say nothing of his constituency! Come clean with yourself and the world, Larry. (Listening to George Benson's, "Tell it like it is" and thinking of Larry's wife, mom and children.)
Okay, Seal's, "Crazy" is on now - long time readers of Dinah Lord know we don't have to explain why she likes that one! But speaking of crazy, The Persian Pipsqueak didn't give the Jews 'their" answer' Friday. Or if he did, I didn't hear it. That Iranian regime sure likes to shoot off their mouth, don't they?
Now listening to Santana's, "She's not there" and thinking of Miss Velvet over at Ironic Surrealism II's recent brush w/ blog meltdown! Aiiiiii! That was close. Thankfully, disaster was averted and stats were maintained. Go tell her how glad you are she's okay. And if you're still listening (Marc Cohn's, "Lost you in the Canyon" is up now.) head over to The Amboy Times for The list of things that offends Muslims. This is a keeper, my friends and Miss Velvet turned me onto it! ("Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel. )
Cheers - Dinah (as she gets up and gets her groove thang going...)
Ransom $ fueling Afghanistan fighting
(From L to R) Mullah Walleye, Sheikh Sylvester al Stallone and Mohammed 'Pretty Boy' Lezbollah in recent interview.Taliban use ransom cash to fund UK blitz. Well, that and the opium which the mullahs have said is no longer haraam - when you use it to fight the infidel. At least that's what the Tali-wackers are claiming in this article.
Millions of dollars handed over to secure the release of South Korean hostages in Afghanistan have been used to buy weapons deployed against British and American forces in the country, the Taliban claims.
Major Alexis Roberts, 32, Prince William's former platoon commander at Sandhurst, was one of the victims of the Taliban offensive funded by the hostage money.
According to Taliban fighters interviewed by The Sunday Telegraph, the money has also been used to train recruits to carry out terrorist attacks in Britain and America.
South Korea denies the payment of ransom. Claims it's all Taliban propaganda.
Absurdity, thy name is Myanmar state controlled media.
Rest in peace: Mr. Kenji NagaiPer the Burmese junta: It was dead journalist's own fault. Serves him right. If he would have behaved like a tourist...
MYANMAR'S state-controlled media said on Sunday that a Japanese journalist, killed during a crackdown on recent pro-democracy protests, was to blame for his own death because he put himself in harm's way.
Mr Kenji Nagai, 50, a video journalist for Japan's APF News agency, was among at least 10 people killed in the Sept 26-27 crackdown, when soldiers fired automatic weapons into a crowd of pro-democracy demonstrators.
'This was an accident. The journalist was not deliberately targeted,' said an editorial in The New Light of Myanmar newspaper, a junta mouthpiece. 'The fact that the Japanese journalist was among the protesters amounts to inviting danger.'
The editorial also said Mr Nagai had entered on a tourist visa. 'He should have come in with a journalist visa, since he was a journalist,' it said. 'If he had behaved like a tourist he would not have faced this tragic end.' Myanmar is believed to have rejected all visa applications from journalists during the pro-democracy protests.
(thinking of you, U! This has got absurd thoughts written all over it.)
MYANMAR'S state-controlled media said on Sunday that a Japanese journalist, killed during a crackdown on recent pro-democracy protests, was to blame for his own death because he put himself in harm's way.
Mr Kenji Nagai, 50, a video journalist for Japan's APF News agency, was among at least 10 people killed in the Sept 26-27 crackdown, when soldiers fired automatic weapons into a crowd of pro-democracy demonstrators.
'This was an accident. The journalist was not deliberately targeted,' said an editorial in The New Light of Myanmar newspaper, a junta mouthpiece. 'The fact that the Japanese journalist was among the protesters amounts to inviting danger.'
The editorial also said Mr Nagai had entered on a tourist visa. 'He should have come in with a journalist visa, since he was a journalist,' it said. 'If he had behaved like a tourist he would not have faced this tragic end.' Myanmar is believed to have rejected all visa applications from journalists during the pro-democracy protests.
(thinking of you, U! This has got absurd thoughts written all over it.)
And I thought my family was nuts...
Sixteen killed in Pakistan family feud
A BEREAVED father led an armed group that opened fire on his daughter's in-laws in central Pakistan killing 16 people including three children, police said.
The father and his associates attacked the in-laws as they gathered yesterday at their home south of Multan city to break their fast for the holy month of Ramadan, police said.
The shootings were an apparent revenge attack for the deaths of four members of the father's own family including his daughter last year, local police official Sheikh Abid Akhtar said.
Here we go again...
US soldiers accused of Koran burning in Afghanistan.
THE US military said it would investigate claims that its soldiers had burnt a copy of the Koran in Afghanistan, as angry locals demanded action and threatened retaliation.
Allegations that troops tore up and burnt the Muslim holy book during a raid in the eastern province of Kunar yesterday led several hundred villagers to demonstrate the same day, blocking a main road for hours.
You have desecrated our religion,” resident Azim Khan told the US delegation.
“If the perpetrators do not apologise to Afghans and to all the Muslims of the world, and if they are not brought to justice and punished for what they have done, we will stand against you, you will see an uprising,” he said.
US Captain Jason Coughenour said the allegations would be treated seriously. “We respect your religion,” he said. “We will launch an investigation and find out who has burnt the Koran. If it has been done by an American, we will punish him.”
The US-led coalition yesterday confirmed the raid in which four men were arrested but denied that any religious articles were desecrated.
I pity poor Capt Coughenour having to deal with this bull shit.
Thank you, America.
Dateline: Camp Victory. US troops free hostage held in Iraq
Multi-National Division Soldiers captured a kidnapper and freed a hostage being held for ransom Oct. 9 after being tipped off by residents of Northern Baghdad’s Adhamiyah neighborhood.
Members of the 2nd BCT, 82nd Airborne Division, conducted the operation which freed Majhid Hamid Majeed, a 33-year-old shop owner and father of five, from the confines of the tiny, squalid room where he was being held hostage.
Majeed had been abducted the previous day by kidnappers who beat him and threatened to kill him unless his family paid a $10,000 ransom. As word about the kidnapping spread through the community, a Concerned Citizen called a local tip line with information about the identities of the kidnappers.
A platoon from Troop C, 3rd Battalion, 7th Cavalry was on patrol when the tip came in. The patrol was immediately redirected to the residence the kidnappers were supposedly using as their base. When the Soldiers burst through the door, the kidnapper who was guarding Majeed literally jumped out of his shoes and made a break for the roof, said Hot Springs, Ark., native Staff Sgt. Jeremy Hand. The Soldiers caught him before he could make it out of the house.
For Orlando, Fla., native Spc. Thomas Anderson, a medic who had taken part in the operation, seeing Majeed reunited with his family was a gratifying sight.
“This guy has got five kids, and he gets to go home to them tonight because of us. That makes you feel pretty good,” Anderson said.
It sure does make you feel good. (I liked the part where the kidnapper was so freaked out that he jumped out of his shoes.
Thanks to our American GI's and their valiant allies.
Aussie Feds: Banning the Burka at airports?
Throw the burka on the barbie, girls because it's apparently under consideration down under.
THE Federal Government believes wearing Islamic scarves should be banned at Australian airports, senior government sources have revealed.
Under the radical security proposal, even the most inoffensive Muslim scarf, the hijab, which covers a woman's hair and neck, would be banned, along with several other types.
Security officials are especially concerned by two other very concealing types of scarf, the niqab and the burka.
In other related news, John Howard (swoon) has called elections for November 24.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
A Panty Raid on Code Pink: They called everybody but Homeland Security
Have I told you lately that FReepers rule? They do.
Six D.C. Chapter members, a member of Gathering of Eagles, Iraq war vet Phil Kiver and two of his friends went to the so-called Code Pink House at 712 5th St., NE (attn. Keith Olbermann, don't get your panties in a bunch: Code Pink publishes this address all over their website) to call for their eviction over zoning violations.
Specifically Code Pink is running a corporate lobbying office in a zoned residential neighborhood, operating a boarding house for transients and operating a kitchen. The house they are renting is zoned for single family dwelling. It sits right in the middle of a block of residences.
We arrived at 2 p.m. carrying copies of a zoning complaint that had been filed back in May with the D.C. government to give to the Pinkos' neighbors. It appears the D.C. government has not taked action on the complaint.
As we were unloading our freep stuff from one of our cars up the road from the Pinkos' office, a woman (not wearing pink, BTW) asked if we were there to protest Code Pink. When I told her, "Yes," she immediately got on her cell phone and walked around the corner at 5th and H St. A couple minutes later she ran sprinting past me and hauled her ample behind down 5th St. to the Code Pink office where where she turned and raced up the stairs in to the front door.
About five minutes later, the first of many police officers to be called to check us out this afternoon arrived...
Read it all, possums. It looks like the Code Pinkos are going to be getting a taste of their own medicine. Sweet!
Ayatollah Khamenei: Boycott Annapolis
Supreme leader of Iran urges boycott of Mideast talks
The Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Saturday called for all Muslim countries to boycott an American-sponsored meeting for Middle East peace that is planned for late November.
"Efforts are being made to once again make an imposition on the Palestinian people in the name of peace," said Ayatollah Khamenei in a sermon marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, giving it special significance. "The result of all conferences held in the name of peace so far have been to the detriment of the Palestinian nation." He said that the aim of the meeting "is to rescue the Zionist regime," meaning Israel.
(Is this the same guy we saw in the giant Kotex box at Eid in Isfahan?)
Eid prayers in Isfahan.
Since we've been painting the town green for Eid in Gotham City, I thought you might enjoy seeing how they've been whooping it up in Isfahan.
They're tripping, man.
Like LA Dodger fans, many Isfahan Eid worshippers can't make it before the third inning due to traffic.
Three (million) sheets to the wind.
Bottom's up! 
The White Dove of Peace gets ready to let them know what she thinks of all that wipe Israel off the face of the earth crap...
By all that is holy, Ruhollah what did you have for lunch?
Hey, what's the Ayatollah doing in a giant Kotex box, for crying out loud?
I pledge allegiance to al Qaeda...
Actual dirtbags videotaped taking an oath to al Qaeda from a videotape shown yesterday to a jury for this trial. "Okay?... Now, you will repeat after me."
Check this out...
Iraq sees dramatically low death toll.
Let's all pray it continues.
The civilian death toll in Iraq fell to its lowest level in recent memory Saturday, with only four people killed or found dead nationwide, according to reports from police, morgue officials and credible witnesses.
Saturday marked the beginning of the Eid al-Fitr feast for Shiites, the three-day capstone closing out the Ramadan month of fasting. Sunnis began celebrating the holiday on Sunday.
The daily number of civilians killed, not including those on days when there were massive casualties from car bombs, had climbed above 100 at the end of last year and the beginning of 2007.
Saturday's decline in deaths was in line with a sharp drop in September of both Iraqi civilian and U.S. military fatalities.
The four dead included three death squad victims found in Baghdad and the bodyguard of the Kirkuk police commander who was killed in a roadside bombing.
Afghanistan's baby brides - 16 % marry before age of 15
Sunam in her wedding dress - she is 3 years old.
This breaks my heart and makes me sick at the same time.
Little Sunam is among the 16 per cent of Afghan children married before they reach 15.
Her dad Parvez promised Sunam to her seven-year-old cousin Nieem. It was a gift to the lad’s mum, Parvez’s sister, who wanted a daughter.
The children, from Kabul, will probably marry when they are 14 or 15. Their aunt Najiba says the match is “unbreakable” and they will not be able to divorce under tribe traditions.
The children, from Kabul, will probably marry when they are 14 or 15. Their aunt Najiba says the match is “unbreakable” and they will not be able to divorce under tribe traditions.
The minimum legal age of marriage in Afghanistan is 16 for girls and 18 for boys. But many wed earlier, as a bride can fetch twice the average yearly salary for her family.
Human rights groups are calling for the practice to end. Manizha Naderi, of Women for Afghan Women, said: “It’s barbaric.”
Friday, October 12, 2007
Wise words from Mama Winger.
Islam is like one giant battered woman's shelter...
without the shelter.
Come Mr. Taliban, come kill the dirty kuffar...
Daylight come, Insh'Allah it be done.
(h/t Religion of Peace)
Caribbean singer Harry Belafonte's popular "Banana Boat" song was twisted by terror camp leader Atilla Ahmet to preach jihad to kids at the Jameah Islamic school, near Crowborough in Sussex.
Ahmet, according to the Daily Mail, called it his "Jihad Calypso", and convinced children at the school to sing it along with him at a performance.
That performance was later recorded, a court here was told.
The lyrics of the 84-worded song went as follows:
"Come Mr. Taliban, come give me kuffir...my Kalasnikov.
Come Mr. Taliban, come bomb England... before the daylight come, you wanna see Ten Downing Street.
Come Mr. Taliban, come implement Shariah.
Come Mr. Taliban, come bomb England before the daylight come,
Insh'Allah, it will be done.
Hey Mr. Taliban, come kill the dirty kuffir, get rid of the haram, because we want halal.
Hey Mr. Taliban, boom, boom, boom, come bomb England before the daylight come.
Insh'Allah, it will be done.
Ahmet, a former preacher at Finsbury Park Mosque, has pleaded guilty to three counts of soliciting murder in connection with a case now being heard at Woolwich Crown Court. Mohammed Hamid and four other men are on trial accused of links to a plot to conduct terrorist training camps in the UK.
They deny the charges.
Of course they do.
(Want to bet that Moonbat Belafonte records his own version of his Jihad Calypso?)
Prison Justice...
Is rough justice. Reprisals feared.
Prisoner throws boiling oil over dirty bomb terror leader.
A prisoner has been accused of throwing boiling oil over an al Qaida terrorist who planned to murder thousands with dirty bombs.
The 22-year-old inmate is accused of scarring for life Dhiren Barot, who was jailed for life for leading a British-based terrorist cell that plotted bombings across the world.
Barot's lawyer claimed he had the boiling oil thrown over him during the attack in the high security Frankland Prison in County Durham.
The unnamed prisoner faces charges of wounding and assault occasioning actual bodily harm following the incident on July 6.
He will appear in court later this month.
After the alleged attack, which left Barot, 35, with excruciating burns, a news blackout was imposed to protect medical staff from possible attack while he was treated at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Lyrical Terrorist: Heathrow Employee by Day...
Terror poet by night.
A worker at Heathrow airport who called herself the “lyrical terrorist” wrote a poem entitled How to Behead and another on martyrdom, a court was told yesterday.
Police discovered the poems and a library of documents relating to terrorism in Samina Malik’s bedroom in Southall, West London. One document in her handwriting read: “The desire within me increases every day to go for martyrdom, the need to go increases second by second.”
Jonathan Sharp, for the prosecution, told the Old Bailey that Ms Malik, 23, liked to be known as the “lyrical terrorist” or “a stranger awaiting martyrdom”. He said: “She is a committed Islamic extremist, who supports terrorism and terrorists. She had a library of material that she had collected for terrorist purposes.”
Ms Malik, who is British born, was arrested in October last year after an e-mail that she had sent was found on another person’s computer. When her bedroom was searched police found a ringbinder full of documents that included poems and a list of weapons, Mr Sharp said. He added that Ms Malik had joined an extremist organisation called Jihad Way, which was set up explicitly to disseminate terrorist propaganda and support for al-Qaeda.
Ms Malik denies possessing articles for terrorist purposes and possessing records for terrorist purposes.
The trial continues.
Dinah's verdict is in: Off with her lyrical head...
Muslims to Pope: Peace Letter or Throwdown?
Warn global security is at risk.
Distinguished Muslim scholars have written to Pope Benedict XVI warning global security is at risk if Muslims and Christians cannot make peace with each other, said the British newspaper, The Daily Mail, on Thursday.A total of 138 scholars from every Muslim sect sent the letter to the pope and other Christian leaders.
"As Muslims, we say to Christians that we are not against them and that Islam is not against them, so long as they do not wage war against Muslims on account of their religion, oppress them and drive them out of their homes," the letter said.
The newsaper said the letter also stressed the need for both faiths to reach an understanding, because they comprised "more than 55 per cent of the population, making the relationship between these two religious communities the most important factor in contributing to meaningful peace around the world."
The letter was drafted by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, a Jordan-based non-government organisation founded in 1980 by the late King Hussein. It also said the Koran placed a duty on Muslims to treat Christians and Jews with particular friendship.
I especially liked that "particular friendship" part.
I wonder if they mean particular friendship like this, this or this?
The situation is grave...
Anger over plan to dig up 350,000 bodies in historic London cemetery for Muslim burial site
(h/t Weasel Zippers)
A row has erupted over a plan to dig up a third of a million bodies from an historic east London cemetery to make way for a new Muslim burial site. Tower Hamlets council in London is considering reopening the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park in Mile End to answer a long-running campaign for a Muslim graveyard in the area. The park, off Bow Common Lane, was deconsecrated as a Church of England cemetery by Parliament in 1966, after being deemed full with about 350,000 bodies buried there.
First, it was claims of Iranian TV getting it's signals jammed...
now it's the Israeli's?
(You can read about the Iranian deal here.)
More Manufactured Muzlim Rage...and it's time release
Sharif don't like it.This time it's this US building that offends the poor dears (after some creative Muzlim tweaking, of course.)
And it takes the poor slobs in Kashmir a year to get the memo. NOW they're protesting. Hah!
Kabaa Rage by Andrew Bostom over at American Thinker.
One year ago, on October 10, 2006 an Islamic website alerted Muslims to yet another of the seemingly endless litany of "insults to Islam." The message claimed a cube-shaped building under construction in New York City, on Fifth Avenue between 58th and 59th Streets in midtown Manhattan, bore a deliberate resemblance to the sacred Meccan "Kabaa", and as such was meant to provoke Muslims.
After taking liberties to contrive a resemblance between Apple's (as in Macintosh computers) "Mecca," and the actual Meccan Kabaa (see here), the Islamic website maintained the New York structure intended to be open 24 hours a day (alas, like the Kabaa), and moreover, contained bars selling alcoholic beverages-both blatant "insults to Islam." The message further urged Muslims to disseminate this "alarming" information, in the hope that "Muslims will be able to stop the project."
Fast forward almost exactly one year, and a strangely delayed outpouring of "Kabaa outrage" was expressed on October 6, 2007 -- in Kashmir. As reported by the Iranian (Islamic Republic) News Agency, hundreds of Muslim college students in the Northern Kashmir city of Baramulla took to the streets in demonstrations, "to decry a bar built in the shape of the holy Kaaba in New York." Proclaiming anti-American and pro-Islamic slogans, the students insisted that the putative construction of a wine-shop or a bar like the Kaaba was tantamount to the desecration of the holy sites of Islam. "Muslims all over the world should protest at this," they stated. They also demanded that the "bar" be closed down immediately, accompanied by a "US apology" to the Muslim world for creating the Kaaba replica.
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Drummer and lyricist for The Clash Joe Strummer composed a 1982 lyric that captures the situation. Protesting Ayatollah's Khomeini's ban on rock music, Strummer's words were "Sharif don't like it [he thinks it's not kosher]." Kabaa rage has been manufactured by today's Islamic "Sharifs" (i.e., protectors of the Muslim super-tribe, and tribal assets), because the "Sharifs don't like it." Given the living legacy of conspiratorial anti-Jewish animus in Islam's foundational texts, and early history, these Sharifs of 2006/2007 may think Apple's New York City "Kabaa" is all too "kosher!"
(Now, I'm going to be singing 'Rock the Casbah' all damn day.)
His Jesus Pic offends Muslims - he gets the axe
I used to sit in church every Sunday and stare at this pic of JesusAN AIRPORT suspended a Roman Catholic worker after a Muslim colleague protested about an image of Jesus pinned up on a staffroom wall. Gareth Langmead, 40, was stunned to be sent home from Manchester airport after putting up the image of the Sacred Heart. Bosses are said to have ordered the car parks supervisor to be escorted off the premises after the Muslim complained.
Mr Langmead was only reinstated three days later after an investigation found that his action was not intended to be “malicious or provocative”.
The row comes a year after BA check-in worker Nadia Eweida was suspended for wearing a cross at Heathrow. Yesterday friends and union representatives backed Mr Langmead.
One friend said: “He’s really gutted about this. “When he found the image in an office drawer, he thought it would be nice to pin it up. “In the end he was treated like a criminal and walked off the premises. He wasn’t trying to annoy anyone.
He is Christian and it is a Christian piece of art. What is wrong with that?” Unison union official Glyn Platt said: “Suspending him was an over-reaction – this could have been dealt with informally.
“It would have been more appropriate for someone to have had a quiet word with him, or to ask him to take the picture down if it caused any offence, rather than take any action. “There are no guidelines on what should or should not be pinned on a wall.”
It is understood that Mr Langmead found the picture while cleaning out an office. He felt unable to throw it in a bin because of its religious importance and could not take it home in case that was seen as theft.
It is understood the co-worker who complained alleged that hanging the picture was an “act of provocation”. But the investigation ruled that Mr Langmead, of Atherton, near Wigan, had not meant to cause offence.
A Manchester airport spokes- man said yesterday: “This investigation was concluded swiftly. “The employee has returned to work with a clean record. “We have agreed with our airport chaplain that he and his team will work with the employees involved to foster a greater level of understanding of each other’s beliefs and how this applies to the workplace.”
Ack! And now the poor guy has to go through sensitivity training? How about working with the Muzlim crybaby to explain deportation procedures?
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Islamists destroy Giant Buddha
I'll say it. Ignorant savages.
Islamist radicals in Pakistan have attempted to destroy an ancient carving of Buddha by drilling holes in the rock and filling them with dynamite.
The Buddha is thought to date from the seventh century AD
The 23ft high image was damaged during the attack, which brought back memories of the Taliban's destruction six years ago of the giant Buddhas at Bamiyan, in neighbouring Afghanistan.
The Buddha, in the Swat district of north-west Pakistan, is thought to date from the seventh century AD and was considered the largest in Asia, after the two Bamiyan Buddhas.
The explosion on Monday night damaged the upper part of the rock.
Pakistani troops have stepped up recent operations against militants in the fertile Swat valley, where thousands of locals are in thrall to Mullah Fazlullah, a rabble-rousing cleric who has called for suicide attacks and holy war. Fazlullah's men have continued to wage an offensive against what they deem 'un-Islamic' activity, last week blowing up dozens of music, video and cosmetics stalls at a market.
The Swat Valley used to be known as Pakistan's Switzerland, (Switzerstan?) and had a thriving tourism business, but that all changed when Mullah Fazlullah rode into town on his black horse...
...(Fazlullah) apparently rides a black horse and has thousands of followers willing to attack security forces on his command. He has also been labeled the FM maulana because his popularity has apparently come in large part because of the FM radio channel he operates -- without permission, of course -- in the area. In recent months, he was in the news after he told his followers not to let their children be administered polio drops because that was an American-Zionist plan to make them sterile.
Sounds like a real charmer, no? The police in the area up and ran from him and here's a Sept 26 editorial pleading for help in Swat.
Since Swat was attacked by the “FM mullah” Maulana Fazlullah on behalf of Al Qaeda in Waziristan, the Peshawar government has been biting its nails instead of acting. Fazlullah is the son-in-law of the leader of Tehreek Nifaz Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM) who led thousands of Pushtun youths to Afghanistan in 2001 and is now doing time in a Pakistani jail. The police has simply run away and the citizens of the Swat valley have been asked to fend for themselves. The citizens have therefore accepted the rule of Fazlullah and one can expect them to go the way of the people of South Waziristan now being ruled by Al Qaeda proxies. Although the army is under pressure, one still hopes that it can somehow get its act together for the sake of the nation. *
Another reason the Democrats aren't fit to lead this country.
File this one under - "They just don't get it, do they?"
From Jihad Watch: North Carolina Congressman refuses to come out against Sharia law.
US disrupting Iranian Satellites...
Preventing us from seeing Iranian Press TV???
The US is disrupting signals from the Iranian satellite news channel Press TV to prevent Americans from watching its programs. The United States and Western countries deny their people the right to see an unbiased picture of the world and become familiar with other cultures, an informed source told IRNA.
The source added that the move to intercept the satellite signals of Press TV in the United States indicates the weakness of US administration and its fears of facing the world realities.
Earlier, US troops in Afghanistan had arrested and tortured Faez Khurshid, a Press TV correspondent, in Kabul. He was released after an 18-hour ordeal.
(Alas, he wasn't wearing his Don't Taze Me Bro t-shirt)
Funny, I don't seem to have any problem accessing their website. And it looks like you can watch Press TV there should you so desire.
We will teach them a lesson they will never forget.
Rattling sabers at new Iranian base at Afghan border.
Iran has inaugurated a new air force base in Birjand, close to its eastern border with Afghanistan. The new Ghaem al Mohammad air base is reportedly equipped with the latest generation radar system and will play host to a squadron of Iranian fighter jets.
"This base will serve to respond to any attempt by the enemy to attack the Islamic republic," said General Ahmad Mighani. "Our enemies must know that if they attempt to attack our country, we will teach them a lesson they will never forget," he said.
Empire State Bldg goes green for Eid
Oy! What's this world coming to?Woe is me.
New York's iconic Empire State Building is to be lit up green from Friday in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid, the biggest festival in the Muslim calendar marking the end of Ramadan, officials said.
"This is the first time that the Empire State Building will be illuminated for Eid, and the lighting will become an annual event in the same tradition of the yearly lightings for Christmas and Hannukah," according to a statement.
Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month, is expected to be celebrated in New York from Friday, depending on when the new moon is sighted, and the city's tallest skyscraper will remain green until Sunday.
NIMBY Nancy souring on her leftie friends?
Greetings from Hooverville by the BayReading this put me in a very good mood.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in a determinedly good mood when she sat down to lunch with reporters yesterday. She entered the room beaming and, over the course of an hour, smiled no fewer than 31 times and got off at least 23 laughs.
But her spirits soured instantly when somebody asked about the anger of the Democratic "base" over her failure to end the war in Iraq.
"Look," she said, the chicken breast on her plate untouched. "I had, for five months, people sitting outside my home, going into my garden in San Francisco, angering neighbors, hanging their clothes from trees, building all kinds of things -- Buddhas? I don't know what they were -- couches, sofas, chairs, permanent living facilities on my front sidewalk."
Unsmilingly, she continued: "If they were poor and they were sleeping on my sidewalk, they would be arrested for loitering, but because they have 'Impeach Bush' across their chest, it's the First Amendment.
I don't know, she sounds slightly sour to me and she's definitely having NIMBY issues.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in a determinedly good mood when she sat down to lunch with reporters yesterday. She entered the room beaming and, over the course of an hour, smiled no fewer than 31 times and got off at least 23 laughs.
But her spirits soured instantly when somebody asked about the anger of the Democratic "base" over her failure to end the war in Iraq.
"Look," she said, the chicken breast on her plate untouched. "I had, for five months, people sitting outside my home, going into my garden in San Francisco, angering neighbors, hanging their clothes from trees, building all kinds of things -- Buddhas? I don't know what they were -- couches, sofas, chairs, permanent living facilities on my front sidewalk."
Unsmilingly, she continued: "If they were poor and they were sleeping on my sidewalk, they would be arrested for loitering, but because they have 'Impeach Bush' across their chest, it's the First Amendment.
I don't know, she sounds slightly sour to me and she's definitely having NIMBY issues.
Update - Michelle Malkin was all over this and has the rest of the story - from one of Nancy's neighbors. NIMBY is right because San Fran Nan had them ordered down the street in front of the neighbor's house. You've got to read this - hysterical.
If might add a personal note. I lived in San Francisco back in the 80's and since then . downtown San Francisco has practically been turned into a third world shithole by the policies of the Liberal Dems. Nancy should walk downtown between the Bank of American and the Pacific Stock exchange sometime. The last time I was there I had to step over or around 4, count 'em 4 - homeless bums sleeping on the sidewalk in that short distance. Instead of fresh air from the Bay - all you smell is urine. The City Hall area resembles something out of Hooverville. It's disgusting and is another example of why the Dems really arent' fit to govern. IMO.
And if you're looking for another reason? Here's one.
Another asked about a Republican congressman's complaints that the word "God" was removed from certificates accompanying congressional flags. "I don't know what his point is," Pelosi volleyed.
The Dems just don't get it.
And if you're looking for another reason? Here's one.
Another asked about a Republican congressman's complaints that the word "God" was removed from certificates accompanying congressional flags. "I don't know what his point is," Pelosi volleyed.
The Dems just don't get it.
In case you haven't heard...
7 Students confess to faking flyers at GWU.
The GW Hatchet has the deets and Hot Air fleshes out the identity of one of the major players.
Gee, what a surprise they're moonbats.
And speaking of student moonbats - Anti Racist blog has fresh video up of Daniel Pipes' Wayne State speech, including the clip where a moonbat gets thrown out of the hall on his keester. Unfortunately, no tazers were used in the ejection of this moonbat.
Hoo-hoo. Feel like having a good laugh? Hot Air has come up with one of the GWU perpbat's "confessed cohorts" Facebook page. It's a doozie.
Ahmadinejad: Ground Zero is 'false idol' like Holocaust
That's what he said.
The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks already have been used as the reason to attack and kill "hundreds of thousands" of people, according to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said he worries the attack will become another "false idol" like the Holocaust.
The comments came in a video statement on Iran's television news channel on Sept. 20, and were translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute's program to monitor television transmissions.
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Polish Sex Bomb to drop on Afghanistan
Well, drop IN on Afghanistan, that is.
The Poles have been having a rough go of it lately, maybe this sex bomb (not safe for work or jihadis, possums) will cheer them up a little bit.
Poland’s Ministry of National Defence is preparing a visit to Afghanistan by singer Dorota ‘Doda’ Rabczewska, to rally the troops and improve morale of the 1100 soldiers stationed there.
The date of 23 year old Doda’s ‘field concert’ remains top secret military information. “We held a meeting with Doda and all that’s left to do is to determine the details of the concert,” Ministry’s spokesman Jarosław Rybak said
Daniel Pipes at Wayne State...
An excellent write up of the Daniel Pipes Wayne State event can be found here at Anti Racist Blog. Thanks to them for documenting the Islamomoonbats and Jew Haters found there.
Wonder if the FLIES were there as well?
NY City libraries offer Terror Recruiting Texts...
All in the name of "inclusion" and "representing the widest diversity of views."
Hard-line Islamic books that justify violence against non-Muslim societies - including texts used as terrorist "recruiting tools" - are freely available in New York City public libraries.
A Daily News spot check found a book by an Islamic theorist who inspired Osama Bin Laden and terror Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, as well as others that promote the hatred of other religions and one with the misogynistic title: "Women Who Deserve to Go to Hell."
Several of these texts can be found at the Brooklyn Public Library's main branch, a mile from the Al Farooq mosque, where Rahman once inspired followers to try to blow up New York.
In the main stacks sits "Milestones," a notorious work revered by Bin Laden and Rahman and penned by Seyyid Qutb, a Muslim Brotherhood member executed in 1966 for trying to overthrow the Egyptian government.
There's more if you can stand it here.