About that GEO reporter being held in a NE Ohio jail.

Last week I posted here about Nayyar Zaidi, a GEO reporter from Pakistan that had reportedly been held in a NE Ohio jail for 4 months on terror charges.

I came up blank looking for more info. Twinster J's digging yielded no clues, either. Lucky for us, commenter Abdul J kept digging and came up with the goods. (Hey Abdul. Want a job? LOL) He discovered that wherever Nayyar Zaidi is, he was able to write a column on 7/29 for Jang.

Get this. We came up blank because Zaidi uses the name Nayyar as a pen name. His real name is SYED HAIDER KAR ZAIDI - and it's not terror charges he's being held on. Nope.

He got caught up in an internet sex sting run by the Feds, a kiddie sex sting.

AKRON:

Bound over - A federal grand jury will hear the case of a Virginia man who authorities say traveled to Ohio to have sex with whom he believed to be a 13-year-old girl. The FBI Internet Crimes Against Children task force arrested Syed Haider Kar Zaidi, 64, of Woodbridge, Va., last week. Zaidi traveled from his home to Jackson Township to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex after communicating online with a law-enforcement officer posing as the girl's mother, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Zaidi also faces state charges of attempted unlawful sex with a minor, attempted child endangering, attempted illegal use of a minor for sex performance and importuning, jail records show. Defense attorney Jeffrey Haupt said it is likely that the state charges will be dismissed as the federal case proceeds.

Abdul J swears it is all a big setup. Dinah not so much. (Quite frankly, it's hard for me to give the Feds that much credit.) And anybody out trolling for hot teen sex on the internet deserves to get caught - the Feds didn't make him click that mouse! (You can read Abdul J's comments here.)

Too funny.

Not that funny: Taxpayer money going to satisfy his basketball jones.

Obama wants to replace White House bowling alley with basketball court.

Another round of visitors...

have washed up on my shore, possums.

Blogging will be light as Dinah plays hostess with the mostest.

Hope to be back among you soon.

Pakistan: US Intel lays its cards on the table.

Taking a hard line with the ISI.

It's about damn time, says Dinah.

A top Central Intelligence Agency official traveled secretly to Islamabad this month to confront Pakistan’s most senior officials with new information about ties between the country’s powerful spy service and militants operating in Pakistan’s tribal areas, according to American military and intelligence officials.

The C.I.A. emissary presented evidence showing that members of the spy service had deepened their ties with some militant groups that were responsible for a surge of violence in Afghanistan, possibly including the suicide bombing this month of the Indian Embassy in Kabul, the officials said.

The decision to confront Pakistan with what the officials described as a new C.I.A. assessment of the spy service’s activities seemed to be the bluntest American warning to Pakistan since shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks about the ties between the spy service and Islamic militants.

The C.I.A. assessment specifically points to links between members of the spy service, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, and the militant network led by Maulavi Jalaluddin Haqqani, which American officials believe maintains close ties to senior figures of Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal areas.

Read it all possums.

US and Iraqi forces go to town on Diyala

Clean sweep.

Thousands of Iraqi forces, backed by small US military teams, launched a dawn offensive today across one of Iraq’s most dangerous provinces in the latest attempt to defeat resilient pockets of al-Qaeda fighters.

Gangs of Shia insurgents are also a target of the Diyala operation, which was pre-empted by joint US-Iraqi pushes through lawless terrain to the southeast of the province that began last Friday.

The attack began with raids in Baquba, Al-Qaeda in Iraq's once self-styled Islamic caliphate and the origin of the recent rash of female suicide bombers. And what do you know? Diyala is right up there on the Iranian border...all the better to see you, Mr. Ahmadinejad.

Latest AQ video: Kill Saudi King Abdullah

for fraternizing with the enemy, Pope Benedict XVI. Such a peaceful, tolerant religion.

Abu Yahya al-Libi has issued a new video urging the killing of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah for his moves towards inter-faith dialogue with Pope Benedict XVI."

They want to spawn a new religion on the Arabian Peninsula and that is bringing religions closer together," al-Libi warns in the video message posted to Islamist websites on Monday.

The video strongly criticises the inter-faith dialogue conference held earlier this month in the Spanish capital, Madrid, under King Abdullah's patronage and organised by the Muslim World League. The three-day conference closed with a declaration that cited terrorism as a major obstacle to mutual understanding.

A photo of King Abdullah and Benedict XVI taken during Abdullah's historic visit to the Vatican last November has been posted with the video to publicise it on Islamist websites.A caption beneath the photo repeats part of al-Libi's video message. It reads: "He (Abdullah) has made religion a joke and has done so in public with Jews, Christians and Muslims."He has thrown those fighting for Islamism into jail...and has fraternised with those who have offended the Prophet, notably the adulator of the Cross, the Vatican's Pope."


"The Prophet ordered us to drive unbelievers from the Arabian Peninsula. Today, the Saudi royal family is destroying our Islamic tenets by showing Muslims it is possible to spread Christian principles.""By sitting side by side in public, they are taking part in the Crusader campaign. They are helping them, giving information to their secret services, all in order to spread their culture and religion."

Al-Libi concludes the message with a call to kill King Abdullah for having betrayed Islam.

Karachi Kids: Finally, word about the Karachi Girl.

When I say stay tuned for more info about the Karachi Kids, I am not kidding. It looks like her case may be headed to the Pakistani courts AND the airwaves. Thanks to No Compromise for letting us know about her interview on August 7 at 12 noon Pacific Time with the producers of the Karachi Kids documentary. Great get, NC! You can listen here when the big day rolls around.


In the meantime - here's the latest from the wires.

Pakistan’s top security official will discuss the issue of an American girl holed up inside an Islamic madrassa in Karachi with US State Department officials next week in Washington, official sources said yesterday.

Rehman Malik, a cabinet member and advisor on the country’s internal security, would accompany Pakistan’s newly elected premier Yousaf Raza Gilani as he starts four-day official visit of the US today.

“Mr Rehman Malik has the file and he is now directly supervising the case,” a senior official at Pakistan’s Ministry of Interior said.

The American girl, Muna Abanur Muhamed, along with four girls from Thailand and a male student from Fiji, all in their teens, received deportation orders Monday for violating the country’s visa rules. But senior administrators of Jamia Binori, a sprawling 12-acre walled madrassa, refused to handover the students, terming the government’s move as “a great injustice and discrimination against foreign students”.

The government official said Malik would be back on July 31 and a crucial decision regarding the recovery of the students would be taken then.

Earlier, Maulana Mufti Mohamed Naeemi, founder and head of the madrassa, said that “no one could dare come near a one mile radius of our compound”. He also said all the students were living inside on their free will and were happy to continue their religious education.

Reports of the American girl and other foreign students have created an outcry in the US as well as Pakistan. The US-based South Asian Foundation for Education Reforms (SAFER) last week called for the immediate return of Muna.

“The US government must act swiftly to also release Muna and all the American children held at Jamia Binoria,” SAFER’s founder Ericka Pertierra, was quoted as saying in the Los Angeles Chronicle.

Pakistan’s liberal English-language newspaper The News condemned the holding of Muna at Jamia Binoria in an editorial on Saturday.

“This of course amounts to virtual abduction. It is not known how many other children may be held in similar circumstances in other seminaries,” it said.

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said it was willing to take up the case with a top provincial court for the recovery only if the relatives and friends approach us.

“We are ready to file a constitutional petition against this Binoria madrassa but we are facing odds as no friend and relative has approached us so far,” said Iqbal Haider, co-chairman of the HRCP.-DPA

Get up to speed with all the Karachi Kids news here.

Meanwhile, back in India, It's Day 3 of the Terror Campaign

courtesy of the Religion of Peace.

First, Bangalore, then Ahmedabad and now Surat.

The diamond city of Surat in the western Indian state of Gujarat was put under the security scanner on Sunday after two cars were found there stuffed with explosives, officials said.

They said a live bomb was defused and an activist of the outlawed Muslim extremist Simi group was arrested in connection with Saturday’s serial blasts in Ahmedabad where the death toll mounted to 49.

Press Trust of India said a live bomb was defused near a hospital and two cars stuffed with explosives were found in the city on Sunday, sparking a high security alert.

Obama's other 'Brother from Another Mother'.

Hmm. President of the World's brother from another mother is currently living in China.

Barack Obama's brother pushes Chinese imports on the US.

BARACK Obama’s half-brother has been helping to promote cheap Chinese exports in a low-profile business career while the Democratic senator has been winning worldwide fame in his race for the White House. He has gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid public attention and his family links remain unknown to most of his acquaintances in Shenzhen, a border boomtown in southern China where he has lived since 2002.

Mark Ndesandjo is the son of Barack Obama’s late father and his third wife, an American woman named Ruth Nidesand who runs the up-market Maduri kindergarten in Nairobi.

Obama, however, refers to him simply as “my brother” and says he was the only uncontested heir after their father, a Kenyan, died in a car crash in 1982.

Mark has some hinky business thing going on - Read all about it here.

Chinese officials said there are unanswered questions about his internet-based company, Worldnexus Ltd. It has provided corporate communications and website design to Chinese firms seeking customers in English-speaking markets, of which the United States is the biggest.

Worldnexus is not registered to conduct business in Shenzhen and officials at the city’s commercial administration bureau said this raised potential issues of taxation and compliance with the law by its customers.

And it doesn't sound like he and Barack get along all that well.

Obama painted a disappointed picture of his half-brother in his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, in which he celebrated his own return to Kenya and rediscovery of his African inheritance.

You just wait. The nuts are going to be falling out of Obama's family tree like shi& through a goose. The Secret Service is sure going to be BUSY!

Read about Barack's OTHER brother from another mother, UK Council House habitue, Bernard here.

India: Computer responsible for bomb warning emails seized.

The property where computer is found is rented by a US National? Police seize computer in Mumbai raid.

NEW DELHI: Police have raided a house near India’s financial capital Mumbai as part of a probe into a series of bomb attacks in the western city of Ahmedabad that killed 45 people, reports said Sunday. The police seized a computer they say was the source of an email claiming responsibility for Saturday’s attacks on behalf of a little-known group calling itself the “Indian Mujahedeen,” the reports said. A similar email was sent to news channels by the same group after a series of blasts in May in the western Indian city of Jaipur that killed more than 60 people.

The NDTV news channel said the property raided was rented to a US national. No arrests or detentions were made but authorities confiscated the computer’s hard drive.

Karachi Kids II - Jamia Binoria and the American kids

Blacklisted Binoria students grapple with uncertain future.

Well, I've been waiting on pins and needles to hear what was going to happen to the Karachi Kids, both the ones just returned to their home in Atlanta and the ones still remaining at the Jamia Binoria. No news on them so far, but there is news of the BLACKLISTING of other foreign students. It looks like the foreign students at Jamia Binoria are now having visa problems as a result of the government's committment to Musharraf's Madrassa controls and is it me or does it sound like the situation may be a tad chaotic, to you?

“The deportation orders have alarmed other international students as well at the Jamia,” reveals one of the officials at the Jamia Binoria on the condition of anonymity. The source reveals that, since the deportation orders, students throng the office of the head of the Jamia Binoria, Maulana Mufti Muhammad Naeem, everyday asking him about their visa status in Pakistan. “A lot of them are so scared that they have planned to return to their home countries for good,” an official reveals, adding that, besides frequent visits by media persons and agencies demanding complete information about these kids, international reaction to the documentary “Karachi Kids” has added to the concerns of international students at the seminary.

Another anonymous student comes forward:

A former student of a Madrassa in Karachi admits it. On condition of anonymity, he says that, despite a ban, hundreds of students from around the world travel to Pakistan in quest of religious knowledge. Earlier, funded by the US government during the war against Soviet Union in the 1980s, Madrassahs in Pakistan were regarded as the best institutes for religious knowledge. However, with the US-launched war against terror and seminaries in Pakistan allegedly having links with the Taliban, foreign students have been banned admissions here.

“Therefore,” he says, “when they don’t find a legal way to get in, they resort to the illegal ways.” These ‘illegal ways’ can entail, among other things, first arriving on a visit visa and then a Madrassah using its influence and contacts to get an extension. This can also allegedly include, “bribing the concerned officials,” adds a travel agent. Sometimes, a seminary doesn’t even bother to resort to these tricks and lets the student study even after the expiry of the visit visa. The student then pays an over stay fee and is deported to their home country after completion of the degree.

The Jamia Binoria doesn’t confirm this and claims that, “the Federal Secretary Interior Kamal Shah promised to grant extension soon.” However, Kamal Shah could not be reached for comments owing to his busy schedule.

Evidently, this isn't the first time that visas have been an issue for Jamia Biniora students.

Read the rest here.

Read more about the Karachi Kids here and check out Bernie Kerik as he weighs in.

Stay tuned, possums...

Pak: GEO reporter in OH jail on terrorism charges?

Pak Journalist in US jail on Terrorism charges.

Well, well, well. What's up with this do you think?

Nayyar Zaidi, the well-known US-based Pakistani-American journalist, who has been a citizen of the United States for more than 30 years has been in US custody for the last four months on what are said to be terrorism-related charges. According to one report, Zaidi is being held on the charge of “obstruction of justice”, a very serious offence. He is also said to be awaiting a trial. The Homeland Security Department or the FBI have made no announcement about his arrest or incarceration. His family, when asked for his whereabouts, has continued to claim that “he is in Pakistan”. The Pakistan embassy, like Zaidi’s journalist colleagues, who have repeatedly phoned the family, has also been given the same answer. When asked why he is in Pakistan and what has taken him there or how long he is to be away, the callers have been told, “We cannot say” or “We do not know.” The news of Zaidi’s arrest – he is believed to be in an Ohio prison – was broken by the New Jersey-based website Des Prades at the weekend.

The original blog report can be found here at Oscar Tango. (Paging Twinster! He's supposedly being held at a Correctional Facility in Youngstown OH!)

Mr Zaidi said he had gone to Ohio to pursue his journalistic "obstruction of justice" research against those individuals who are being detained there from "all over the world". Unfortunately, he ended up being detained himself in the same facility, he said. He is awaiting trial now in which he is the defendent.(sic)

The Pakistan embassy was evidently unaware of Zaidi's confinement.

I then called the Press Attache of the Pakistan embassy in Washington. Mr Kiani, who happens to be the press attache, told me that he found out about Mr Zaidi's detention today only from the ambasaddor Mr. Hussain Haqaani who found out from Pakistan, he claimed.

Hmmm.

Pakistan: It ain't pretty...

The Islamic Jihad: Trying to bomb hussies out of existence. One make-up shop at a time. A bomb in a women's makeup shop kills a child, injures 6. Maulana Fazl Ullah's media tour continues and threatens to unleash suicide bombers if military action recommences against him.

Incidents of violence have increased in Swat valley in recent weeks despite a peace deal between the local Taliban and the government in May.Police say that up-to 50 girls schools, government buildings and music shops have been blown up or burnt in Swat valley in a month.The head of Tehrik-e-Taliban, Maulana Fazl Ullah has threatened that they will resist strongly if any operation will be started in Swat.Talking to media men in the higher zones of Tehsil Mata, Maulana Fazl Ullah blamed the NWFP government talking in the tone of America and supporting US policies as well. When security forces target the homes of Taliban then in reward we target the government owned buildings. We are not satisfied of the peace agreement with the provincial government because the provincial government did not honor its early promises”, he said.He further claimed that Taliban were agreeing for peace talks every time but if government wanted to fight then we are ready for this.

Yadda-yadda-yadda. More calls for "dialogue" with killers.

PML-N Central Finance Secretary and former MNA Muhammad Pervez Malik has said all disputes can be sorted out through dialogues and mere use of brute force never lead to resolution of problems. In a statement here on Thursday, he said, “Agreement among leaders of ruling coalition to find negotiated settlement of FATA issue rather than going for military operation is good for the country.” He said terrorism cannot be eliminated with use of force adding “The policy of dialogue is the best way to find solution of problems.”

The real problem? In his dialogue with the Taliban, the new Army Chief of Staff, General Kiyani is cutting deals left and right. And the Pak government is responding in Nancy Pelosi - Harry Reid fashion...

While Pervez Musharraf, the old soldier, is fading slowly away, new Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ashfaq Kayani is said to be quietly cutting deal after deal with al-Qaeda linked militants, whose safe haven is growing beyond the tribal regions. And the still-green civilian government of Prime Minister Gilani is all but powerless to interfere. The result is that militant and terrorist groups, feeling almost cozy in their newly secured territory, are mounting a fresh military and propaganda campaign and establishing a breathing space from which to plot future acts of terror.

Meanwhile Mr. Gilani arrives in Washington. (I personally think a trip to the woodshed might be in order for Mr. Gilani.) Mr. Gilani has other ideas:

U.S. legislators "should be patient with the new government for a year or so and see if it is able to translate its ideas into actions," he said.

Hangu Awakening?

8 tribes agree not to shelter Taliban.

Eight tribes of Hangu district on Saturday decided not to provide shelter to the Taliban or any other militant outfit and to co-operate with the government, reported BBC Urdu. According to the BBC, the decision was made at a jirga held at the office of the Hangu district co-ordination officer and attended by representatives from numerous tribes. Talking to the BBC, Darsamand Union Council Nazim Malik Jaleelur Rehman said all the tribes had agreed against providing shelter to members of militant outfits. He said it had been decided that every tribe would be responsible for maintaining law and order in its area, and also to extend co-operation to the government if required. He said the jirga had also demanded the government maintain law and order on GT Road.

Musharraf says, forget that. Musharraf may sack government.

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf may use Article 58-2 (B) of the Constitution to sack the elected government, Opposition leader in the National Assembly Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said. "If the government fails to improve law and order as well as the country’s economy, the President may use the Article 58-2 (B) to dissolve the Assemblies and send the government home," Mr Elahi, who recently met the President, said. He said the present government has failed to tackle the challenges facing the country. "President Musharraf is concerned about the unstable political situation, economic condition and law and order in the country. The President may have to use 58-2(B) if the situation persists," Mr Elahi told a Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam) meeting on Saturday in Lahore.

Push-me, pull you with Pakistan's intelligence agency. Confusion reigns:

ISI put under control of Interior Ministry for "better coordination.

Maybe.

Maybe not.

Like I said, it's not very pretty.

A note on the bombings in India and CAIR

A reader at Powerline has sent this interesting information along. I submit it for your edification. Oh, and by the way, CAIR sucks. You can listen to them crow about their success in getting their opponent banned in this press release. Who else has their fingerprints all over the visa denial? Freaking John Conyers out of DETROIT whose district includes America's largest Arab-American population.

Thanks for covering the bombing in Ahmadabad, India. That is my home town – I grew up there and one of the hospital bombed was where I did my internship. The bombing locations are also close to where I grew up.

You mentioned Narendra Modi – who is the chief minister of Gujarat State where the bombings occurred. He was re elected recently with almost 80 percent of the vote in the state. He is extremely respected in the state – he is a simple man without any corruption or skeletons.

The U.S. has refused to give him visa for a visit for several years now, because of the riots in that state in 2001-2002. These riots started because the Muslims burned a train full of Hindus returning from pilgrimage, including women and children. Modi was blamed for not stopping the revenge riots.

Now, CAIR has lodged its objection to granting a visa to Mr. Modi. It has also pressured various organizations to rescind their invitations to Mr. Modi to speak. Under pressure by these Muslim groups, the U.S. has refused to grant Mr. Modi a visa, even though he is an elected Chief Minister of a major state in India and has been invited by multiple organizations to come to the U.S. and give speeches.

They hit the city of Banglore yesterday and another city (Jodhpur, I believe) a few days ago. The Muslim Jihadists have now declared a war against India. The fact is, terrorism is alive and well in the other parts of the world, almost all of it by Muslims. If this fact is covered more maybe Americans will wake up.

The International Business Times has posted a brief news story noting CAIR's letter to Secretary Rice supporting the denial of a visa to Modi, and there is a little more information on the issue here.

NY Threats: Nutjob, faker or bona fide jihadi?

New York Jihad: Odd letters predict NYC bombings. (hat tip to Jammie Wearing Fool. Thanks, man.)

NYPD detectives are investigating a chilling new terror threat - a series of cards from a "New York Jihad" that look like birthday-party invitations but warn of bombs in lower Manhattan this summer, The Post has learned.

The cards were mailed last week to the homes of seven city residents, including former Fox News television producer Kelley Vick and a person in the 26th Police Precinct, which covers West Harlem, according to Vick and police sources.

The card reads: "Bombs! Bombs! Bombs! Lower Manhattan. July, August, September. New York Jihad."Vick, a news producer who left Fox in early July, got the creepy mailing Thursday. She said it arrived at her Chelsea building but did not list her apartment number and had no return address. She went to police on Friday. "It says, 'You're invited to a party, so put on a happy face,' " she said. "There were faces of an elephant, a monkey, like cartoon animals."Then you open the card, and inside is a piece of periwinkle paper and space for the date and time. That's where it says, 'Bombs! Bombs! Bombs!' in fancy type.

My name is printed on the envelope. The stamp is green with a heart. Everything about it is like a cute little party invitation. It's really weird."

She said the postmark showed it had been sent Wednesday from Brooklyn.Vick took the card and envelope to the 10th Precinct station house, where she met with a sergeant who works with the NYPD's Intelligence Division and who determined that the card was mailed about 2 p.m. Wednesday, she said."He said part of the postal code was missing."Police told her another person had received the same card Wednesday. A detective called her Friday night and said a total of six others got it as well, she said.Vick, who gave The Post a copy of the card, told cops she'd worked for Fox, helping produce shows for the news network's weekend line-up. She now works as a freelance journalist.

It bears noting that this weekend's bombings in India were proceeded by email warnings. (And as we all know, it is the Islamic way to issue one last "convert or die warning" before they let something rip.)

"In the name of Allah the Indian Mujahideen strike again! Do whatever you can, within 5 minutes from now, feel the terror of Death!" said an e-mail from the group sent to several Indian television stations minutes before the blasts began. The e-mail's subject line said "Await 5 minutes for the revenge of Gujarat," an apparent reference to 2002 riots in the western state which left 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, dead. The historic city of Ahmadabad was the scene of much of the 2002 violence.

From the horse's mouth

"al Qaeda emboldened by feeble Clinton administration."


Part 1: From Salim Hamdan, OBL's driver. (h/t Doug Ross)


Osama bin Laden's driver told a pair of FBI agents that it was America's fault that the al Qaida leader was alive...The United States could have killed bin Laden in Khartoum, Sudan, before he moved to Afghanistan in 1996, Hamdan told his interrogators. They could have killed him after al Qaida's 1998 twin bombings at the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Or after the October 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole, at the port of Aden in Yemen, which left 17 U.S. sailors dead.Instead, ''Bin Laden was emboldened.'' So he struck with the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, leaving nearly 3,000 dead.



Part 2: From OBL hisself. (h/t Gateway Pundit)


We experienced the Americans through our brothers who went into combat against them in Somalia, for example. We found they had no power worthy of mention. There was a huge aura over America -- the United States -- that terrified people even before they entered combat. Our brothers who were here in Afghanistan tested them, and together with some of the mujahedeen in Somalia, God granted them victory. America exited dragging its tails in failure, defeat, and ruin, caring for nothing.

Now, think about Obama being in charge.

Blackfive has.

10 Downing Street Dork

Geeze. You can practically see his marionette strings.

Courtesy of Blackfive commenter: flag girl.

Iran holds another necktie party - pay attention libs

Biggest ever.

Iran on Sunday hanged 29 men convicted of offences including drug trafficking, murder and rape in the largest mass execution in years as the country says it is fighting increasing crime.

Double Trouble.

In Istanbul. At least 13 people have been killed in two explosions in Istanbul, which the governor of the Turkish city has described as terror attacks.

The first blast occurred in a telephone booth and the second went off as crowds gathered. About 70 people were wounded. TV footage showed bloodied men and women lying on the street and being carried to ambulances in blankets.



Police, firefighters and natural gas teams are now in the area. Initial reports had suggested it may have been a gas leak. But Governor Muammer Guler said he was "certain that this is a terror attack". He said the bombs had been placed in rubbish bins and that it was not a suicide bombing. "The blasts occurred in a very busy district and this raised the casualties. Thirteen citizens lost their lives in this heinous attack," he said.




A politician from the governing AK Party, Murat Mercan, told the BBC that Turkey would not give in to terrorists.

"Terrorists are trying to destabilise the country but Turkey has already a lot of experience on this terrorism so it won't distract our country, our society from daily, ordinary life," he said.

There have been no claims of responsibility for the blasts - yet.

Three guesses.

Probably fellow Muslims like their friends in India which carried out back-to-back, serial bombings. India Bomb toll climbs to 45, police probe blasts.

UK: Killing for Religion is Justified, say third of Muslim students

Are you really surprised by this?

The survey found that extreme Islamist ideology has a profound influence on a significant minority of Muslims on campuses across the country.

The findings will concern police chiefs, the security services and ministers, who are struggling with radicalisation among Muslim communities.

The YouGov poll was conducted for the Right-wing think tank, the Centre for Social Cohesion, at 12 universities, including Imperial College and Kings College London. It also found:

40 per cent support the introduction of sharia into British law for Muslims a third back the notion of a worldwide Islamic caliphate (state) based on sharia law
40 per feel it is unacceptable for Muslim men and women to mix freely
24 per cent do not think men and women are equal in the eyes of Allah a quarter have little or no respect for homosexuals.
Although 53 per cent said that killing in the name of religion was never justified, compared with 94 per cent of non-Muslims, 32 per cent said that it was. Of these, 4 per cent said killing could be justified to "promote or preserve" religion, while 28 per cent said it was acceptable if that religion were under attack.

There was also sympathy for the view that Muslim soldiers in the Armed Forces should be allowed to opt out of operations in Muslim countries, with 57 per cent agreeing.

"Rebels" could win Pakistan's nuke haven

Remember this map from July 10?

"Rebels" = al Qaeda and Taliban scumbags.

This is just great. The outcome of the Government's "crisis meeting"?

It is resolved to conduct a "dialogue" with the "rebels"...

Condi Rice mouths platitudes...

And the province is in danger of breaking away from Pakistan. That's when all hell's going to break loose.

A CRISIS meeting of Pakistan's new coalition Government has been warned that it could lose control of the North West Frontier Province, which is believed to hold most of its nuclear arsenal.
The warning came yesterday from the coalition leader, who, although he is part of the new Government, is regarded as having the closest links to al-Qa'ida and Taliban militants sweeping through the region.

Maulana Fazlur Rehman bluntly told his colleagues: "The North West Frontier province is breaking away from Pakistan. That is what is happening. That is the reality."

This came just days before new Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's scheduled meeting with US President George W. Bush to discuss al-Qa'ida and Taliban sanctuaries in Pakistan.

Reports last night said Maulana Fazlur Rehman, regarded as having unparalleled insight into the mood of the three million tribesmen in the NWFP, and leader of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, was backed in his assessment by members of the coalition Government from the Awami National Party, which rules in the province's capital, Peshawar. They, too, told the meeting of jihadi militant advances throughout the province, with their influence extending to most so-called "settled areas", including Peshawar.

Yesterday, the army was reported to have abruptly ended an operation in the Hangu district, close to Peshawar, after threats by militant leaders.

Maulana Fazlur Rehman and the ANP members blamed the worsening situation on "President (Pervez) Musharraf's eight-year policy to deal with the issue through the barrel of a gun, and the alliance with America". The crisis meeting resolved to pursue dialogue with the jihadis, a policy derided by US and NATO-led forces in Afghanistan.

It also declared itself to be implacably opposed to US or other forces entering Pakistani territory to deal with the growing jihadi militancy.

Analysts in Islamabad believe the warning about the situation in the NWFP will prompt renewed concern about the security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking in Australia, suggested the restive border region was the source of a surge in Taliban-related violence in Afghanistan, and said Pakistan needed to do more to prevent attacks.
"We understand that it's difficult, we understand that the North West Frontier area is difficult, but militants cannot be allowed to organise there and to plan there and to engage across the border," Dr Rice said. "So, yes, more needs to be done."

Al-Qa'ida's operational commander in Afghanistan, a 53-year-old Egyptian named Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, was interviewed on Pakistani television yesterday and claimed the organisation's strength in Afghanistan was growing so rapidly it would "soon occupy the whole country". He claimed that "the morale of our fighters in Afghanistan is very high and they are putting up a tough fight against US troops". He also claimed responsibility in the interview for a terrorist attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad.

The fact of the interview, as much as what he said, is seen as indicating an important new stage in the crisis.

"The bad guys are even popping up and giving television interviews: that's a reflection of what's happening," one foreign diplomat in Islamabad said last night.

Islamist group threatens Olympics with "blessed jihad"

Looks like the Uighurs are at it again.

A UIGHUR separatist group has taken credit for a deadly bus bombing in Shanghai in May and warned of new attacks in China during the Olympics, a group monitoring terror threats on the internet said today. In a video statement, Commander Seyfullah of the Turkestan Islamic Party claimed to have made several attacks.

They include the May 5 Shanghai bus bombing which killed three; another Shanghai attack; an attack on police in Wenzhou on July 17 using an explosives laden tractor; a bombing of a Guangzhou plastic factory on July 17; and bombings of three buses in Yunnan province on July 21.

“Through this blessed jihad in Yunnan this time, the Turkestan Islamic Party warns China one more time,” Seyfullah says in the video dated July 23, according to a transcript from the Washington-based Intel Centre.

“Our aim is to target the most critical points related to the Olympics. We will try to attack Chinese central cities severely using the tactics that have never been employed,” he continues.

20000 Terrorists in the US

Not counting the ACLU, of course.

Homeland Security: Forced to defend its growing terrorist watch list, the FBI let slip a chilling fact that should silence ACLU grumblers: America is teeming with 20,000 terrorists.

After 9/11, federal authorities estimated that as many as 5,000 terrorists were living in the U.S. The new figure is jarring not only because it's four times as large but because it's based on real persons, not estimates.

It's not something headquarters wanted to publicize. Officials had downplayed the threat so as not to spook the public. The spin had been that Britain has the homegrown problem, not us.

But that was before the ACLU launched a campaign with the Democrat Congress to demonize the watch list as a Gestapo-like tool. The FBI had no choice but to knock down their myths.

The ACLU charged that an "out-of-control" FBI is adding mostly innocent people to the list, ballooning it to "over 1 million names." "I doubt this thing would even be effective at catching a real terrorist," ACLU spokesman Barry Steinhardt harrumphed.

In fact, the list has saved countless lives, according to the head of the FBI's terrorism screening center — an assertion backed up by a recent independent review by the GAO. And the watch list monitors only 400,000 people, not a million, says the FBI official, Leonard Boyle. The rest are aliases due to the myriad spellings and variations of Arabic surnames.

In a rare public appearance on C-Span, Boyle added that the overwhelming share of individuals on the terrorist list are foreigners, while "5% to 6%" of individuals are U.S. citizens or legal residents.

That still pencils out to at least 20,000 people living in this country right now — at large and on the streets — who have "some relationship with terrorist activity," as Boyle described it. They pose a big enough threat for airlines to legally bounce them off planes, and for every law enforcement authority from border agents to local police to detain them for questioning.

At 20,000 strong, these suspected homegrown terrorists number a full army division. And they don't include the more than 440 active terrorists the Justice Department already has put behind bars since 9/11. Britain, by comparison, is watching just 8,000.

But never mind all that. The ACLU and its allies on the Hill want to scrap the terrorist watch list and take law enforcement's eye off these potentially dangerous suspects.

In a perfect world, the ACLU might qualify as a terrorist facilitator deserving of its own spot on the list.

Maybe a few Dem congresscritters should be on there, too.

Obama : Keeping it on the down low with Iranians at fundraiser.

Weird.

Obama Held Private Session With Iranian-Americans.
Calif. Fundraiser Had Odd Solicitation: Raise Cash, Have Meeting

Sen. Barack Obama held a private session with a group of about two dozen Iranian-American donors shortly before a fundraiser this month in California after one of the participants said the Obama campaign would hold such a forum if local Iranian-Americans were able to raise $250,000.

The forum -- which was not on Obama's public schedule and was closed to the press -- took place shortly before a fundraiser at the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach, Calif., on July 13. That was less than a week before Obama's trip to the Middle East, where the U.S. relationship with Iran is a critical issue.

Obama spoke for about 15 minutes, according to the Obama campaign. He did not take questions, and did not stray substantially from his standard stump speech about the need to engage with Iran and the rest of the world in new manner, according to one attendee.

While such private meetings with well-heeled donors are not out of the ordinary, at least one fundraising pitch for the event was unusual.

Like I said, weird. I don't like people who do stuff on the down low. Nothing good can come of it.

Having said all that - do you think this has Hillary's fingerprints on it?

Barack's Bro living in a council house in the UK

This just keeps getting better. Check out the protected pictures at the link. I know we alway compare Obama to Jimmah Carter. Well, I think we just met our Billy. Too bad he's Muslim - instead of "Billy Beer" we could have "Bernard Beer". Then there's Raunchy Ian. And yes, the goatherder card is played. Read it all, possums.

From The Sun: Obama's Brother is in Bracknell

HE may be living in a Bracknell council house, but soon he could be dining with his brother at the White House.

The Sun was the first newspaper to track down and speak to Bernard Obama, 37.

And he said of Democrat candidate Barack: “I’m very proud of my big brother.

“It’s quite a funny feeling that he might be the next President of the USA.”

Muslim Bernard — an avid Manchester United fan and Sun reader — is staying with his bingo-loving mum Kezia, 67, who has lived in the Berkshire new town for six years.

He was glued to the TV news in the modest suburban bungalow last night as Barack, 46, was due to arrive in Britain.

Bernard leads a quiet life, running a car parts firm in Nairobi, Kenya.

But he is a regular visitor to the UK to visit Elvis fan Kezia.

She married Barack Obama Snr in Kenya in 1957 when she was a teenager. He later left for the US and went on to meet Ann Dunham, who gave birth to his now widely acclaimed son.

Obama Snr, a Kenyan goatherd who became a leading economist in his east African homeland’s government, was killed in a car crash in 1982.

Barack Jnr was 21 and Bernard 12. He said: “Our father passed away when I was young and I didn’t get the chance to get to know him very well.

Someone please explain how this all works to me. So the goatherder first married Kezia, then went off and married Ann, had Barack and then he went back to Elvis loving Kezia and then Bernard was born? How many years later?

Mmm-mmm-mmm.

Like I said, this just keeps getting better.

The pair’s dad left Kenya in 1959 when he took up a US scholarship. Kezia, then three months’ pregnant with daughter Auma, already had a year-old son Malik to look after. Barack Snr met Barack’s mum Ann in Hawaii, and she gave birth to the now presidential hopeful in August 1961.

The Democrat’s dad returned to Kenya in 1965 and Kezia subsequently gave birth to two sons, Abo in 1968 and Bernard in 1970.

Barack’s former brother-in-law Ian Manners, 55 — divorced from Bernard’s and Barack’s sister Auma — is writing a book about his in-laws.

Daughter Akinyi, 11, spent Christmas with Barack in the US. She said: “I asked him if I could meet Beyonce. He smiled and said he’d see what he could do.”

Barack attended Ian’s 1996 wedding to Auma and famously ran out of a pub in Wokingham, Berks, during Ian’s stag bash when a raunchy dancer took to the stage. Businessman Ian said: “We were having a few drinks, then a stripper dressed as a St Trinian’s schoolgirl appeared.

“She was no Miss World and it was the last thing I wanted. As soon as Barack saw what was about to happen he made a hasty retreat. “He was in politics already and left the pub immediately.”

Wimp.

In his Berlin speech Obama talks...

Bridget and Meghan McCain with dad.

about lifting a child from Bangladesh out of poverty.



John and Cindy McCain already did.



(Way to go, Gateway Pundit. Good one.)

US: Muslim Day at Six Flags

They just can't stop proselytizing, can they? Convert or die, infidel.

"An opportunity to talk to curious non-Muslims about Islam at the park.'

On any other day, Sobia Ahmed would opt to forgo many of the snacks on offer at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee. To perform the Islamic prayers she recites five times a day, she likely would slip onto a secluded path at the amusement park or look for solace under a shady tree for a few furtive minutes. But this Saturday Ahmed and her family will eat and pray at their leisure in the park with hundreds of other Muslims from the Chicago area who plan to visit the sprawling entertainment center for a day catered especially to them.

For the fourth time since 2004, Six Flags in Gurnee is sponsoring Muslim Day, bringing in outside caterers to provide halal food and turning an amphitheater into a makeshift mosque to accommodate Muslims who observe dietary laws and strict prayer schedules. Muslims who plan to go say they appreciate the sense of community the event creates as well as the opportunity to talk about Islam with curious non-Muslims at the park.

A brief history of the event:

Started in New Jersey by an interethnic Muslim organization called the Islamic Circle of North America, Muslim Day at Six Flags has grown from a one-time gig focusing on youth—which took place a few days before the Sept. 11, 2001, tragedy—into a popular annual family event at several of the company's theme parks, Muslim organizers and park representatives said. One of the New Jersey organizers died in the World Trade Center, which stalled efforts to organize a Muslim Day in 2002, according to Raza Farrukh, the Islamic group's New Jersey representative.

Today the New Jersey event is so big that the organizers typically buy a day at the park for Muslims only. There are also special days for Muslims at parks around Atlanta, Boston and Los Angeles, in addition to Chicago, organizers said.

Hmm. Who's blowing up Iran?

It's a mystery.

The Revolutionary Guards' investigation into last weekend's explosion is understood to be looking into the possibility that it was caused by sabotage. Iran has suffered a number of unexplained explosions in recent months, including an explosion at a mosque in Shiraz, which had been holding a military exhibition, and another incident at a missile site that killed dozens of Iranian technicians.

Thank God, we have a respected American turncoat "investigative journalist " to explain it all to us.

Last month Seymour Hersh, the respected American investigative journalist, reported that US President George W Bush had authorised up to $400 million (£200 million) to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran to destabilise the regime.

More from Vijay Kumar, our favorite anti Sharia Candidate!

Good news! Frontpage Magazine has another interview up with Vijay Kumar.

Entitled "Why I left the Left" by Jamie Glazov he says this about his arrival in America back in 1979 after the Islamic Revolution.

"I felt truly free for the first time in my life. Like a wild horse."

Can you imagine what it must have been like for him?

Man, he has this Islam thing nailed. Hop over and read all about him.

Thanks to commenter Will for the tip on this one!

See also: Kumar for Congress.

UK: You must be nicer to Muslims, says the UN

File this under "And you can Bite Me"

Britain was told yesterday by a United Nations committee to take firm action to combat 'negative public attitudes' towards Muslims.

The nine-member human rights committee also criticised some of the UK's antiterror measures. The body, which is composed of legal experts, said it was concerned ' negative public attitudes towards Muslim members of society' continued to develop in Britain.

Blah-blah-blah-islamophobia-blah-blah-blah.

As always, the real gold is in the comments:

"Get knotted!" - Vince West London.

"After Rwanda and Darfur to mention two of its many complete failures, there is little future for the UN. No UK government should take any lectures from it - and certainly not on the subject of religion. We have freedom of speech - we can say what the hell we like about Islam. Muslims are treated according to their own behaviour and attitude as everyone else is. What are the UN suggesting - some kind of thought police? To hell with them." - Chris, Walsall.

Imagine my surprise to read that foreigners are telling us how to run out country AGAIN! The sooner the EU and UN realise that this is our home and we make the rules the better. Our Government needs to start representing and standing up for US not bend over and cowtow to people who don't have to live here. If people who have freely chosen to come to our country don't like what they find then they can freely leave again. If I went to Saudi Arabia and was caught drinking then punished to the full extent of their law would the UN tell them to take a softer stance on Christians? I think not!" - Tim Macgregor, Dromore NI.

Having lived in a northern town for many years, which is dominated by Muslims, who are openly hostile with many ghettos being no go areas. Where it is unsafe to drive through these areas without being threatened by Muslim youths, Britain as a whole has bent over backwards to help these Muslims but the problem continues to get worse. The Hindu, and Sikhs have integrated very well, despite adhering to their faiths. Why can't Muslims follow their example? - AFP, France.

We have enough do-gooders of our own who have effectively destroyed our society. We most certainly do not need outside help. - Christina, Lesmahagow Lanark.

On your bike! - Cara, Surrey.

An interesting thought v.3

Here's another interesting thought:

What do Obama and Osama have in common?

They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon.

'ba-da-bump'

Other interesting thoughts:

An interesting thought v.2

An interesting thought v.1

Dearbornistan: Mickey D's gets sued by guess who?

Give us our money, suckahs.

Dearborn McDonalds sued by 2 Muslim woman. For 10 million dollars.

The hijab is not part of the McDonald's uniform and the lawyers and the Islamopimps from CAIR are in high dudgeon. Sorry to say, I always smell a setup with these kind of things.

This manager must have just stepped off of some spaceship to think he can do this in this back yard, in Dearborn," said Nabih Ayad, a civil rights lawyer who represents the women.

Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations-Michigan, said that he has eaten at McDonald's restaurants in Turkey that cater to Muslims and employ them, including numerous women who cover.

"It is extremely disturbing that such discrimination could take place at a location which does not mind collecting Muslim dollars, yet places restriction on Muslim women who wear hijab."

Whitfield said the manager told her she could not wear her headscarf because, "It gets too hot back there."

Note to hijab wearing militants everywhere: It's a hygiene issue, ladies and nobody wants your greasy schmatta in their fries. And can you say fire hazard? I don't think it would be very pretty to be caught in a grease fire in one of those things... Which brings me to the bacon. I suppose that's the next thing to go - although knowing that this occurred in Dearbornistan probably means the bacon is already long gone from this Mickey D's.

Note to Toi and Qiana: If you have your heart so set on an exciting career in fast food maybe your new best friends over at CAIR can send you to Turkey and you can be a "woman who covers' there. Heck! Go for the gold and have them send you to Saudi Arabia - but guess what? Oops. Women aren't even allowed to work there! There's some Muslim equality for you, sistahs! How do you like your Islam now?

And Dawud Walid? They aren't MUSLIM DOLLARS they are AMERICAN DOLLARS, fool.

I keep thinking about those "Karachi Kids"...

Friday prayers at Jamia Binoria

...but haven't been able to find anything in the news about them OR the status of the ones still left behind at Jamia Binoria International. That got me to thinking about Jamia Binoria.

In my mind's eye, I was seeing a rundown, ramshackle facility off in the middle of nowhere. After all the Karachi Kids trailer showed the place to be dirty, squalid and crowded.

Imagine my surprise to find the Jamia Binoria website to be quite glossy and fairly slick. It was weird though. There were pictures of the two grand mosques, the madrassa, the library, they even show the restaurant ("the only half way decent eat out place in the whole of SITE area" crows the website).

All quite nice, except for one thing. There wasn't a single picture of a kid to be found anywhere.

It was creepy.

But it got even creepier when I printed out the "True English Translation - The Jamia Binoria, Site, Karachi, An Introduction" to read.

Here are some of the highlights.

Established "at a Place (sic) which was forlorn, deserted and unpopulated, It all started with a small mosque at a place mostly thronged with street dogs." Today, it "accommodates thousands of students from the country and abroad who some to seek and get education and knowledge of religion."

It is religious institution established in the style and form of Darul-Uloom Dewband (The City of Knowledge at Dewband) – India. (aka Deoband) a curriculum based on the 17th century (!) Indo-Islamic Dars-e-Nizami, teaching shariah (law), fiqh (jurisprudence) and traditional Islamic spirituality known as Sufism.

(Per Wikipedia: "The course of study consists of four stages. The first three stages can be completed in a total of eight years. The final stage is a post-graduate stage where students specialize in a number of advanced topics, such as the sciences of Hadeeth, Fiqh etc." )

One of the school's main aims and objectives? And I quote:

To work for the domination of Islam by helping local and international movements and Organizations morally, and give support to them with the help of manpower.

Hmm. "Domination of Islam. Local and international movements. Help with manpower." Sure sounds like the Jihad on a raging crusade to me...

The school is very proud of their affiliation with the largest madrassa governing body in Pakistan, Wafaq-ul-Madaris al Arabia and the school's claim to fame appears to be the learning of the Koran by heart.

And it IS definitely all about the Koran there.

The dominance, expansion and the rise of Muslims were due to the teaching of the Holy Quran and to adhere to them. The Quranic teachings led them into renaissance. The same is true for Muslims now to come out of the abyss of disgrace and ignorance...History bears witness that as long as Muslims had upheld the Holy Quran they were on the track of progress and success. They achieved great glory and ruled the world. They were made so strong that no one dared to stand against them.

About their scholars:

The out-going scholars of the Jamia are fighting a crusade against infidels and pagans. They are engaged in teaching the Holy quran and the Traditions of the Holy Prophet_Hadith everywhere, let it be USA, France, Canada, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the UK.

About the Department of Foreign Students and it's main mufti:

Fifteen years ago Maulana Mufti Mohammed Naeem went to the USA on a Ramadan preaching mission. (He's been coming back with his hand out every year since.) While there he "keenly and deeply observed the patterns and life style of the people. He saw that Muslim parents here strongly desired to keep intact their relations with their religion." He felt "they were very much worried and concerned about their children there, as they are being brought up in a different and more unreligious environment. They feel that there is no one to teach and guide them about religion. They could go astray in that irreligious atmosphere... The parents are not in a position to protect their children from the seductive society... There is no safeguard against the onslaught."

He heard their concerns and "decided to do whatever he could do to provide them and their children a safe haven for religion and learning and teaching religion."

According to the guide for perspective parents, Jamia Binoria is the only one "providing some conducive atmosphere to them." Imagine that. Still it sounds like there were problems.

They come across many difficulties and untoward situations in regard of their accommodation, food and social and psychological adjustment. Because of these odds the parents do not prefer to get the children admitted here, and if foreign students get them admitted without realizing the situation then soon they drop out and return home. (ed. note: Unless you take their passports and refuse to hand the kids back over to their parents, right Naeem?)

This all changed though when a group of American students came over during their summer vacation and became personal guests of the Mufti:

They were taught how to read the Holy Quran and the basic teachings of religion. When those children went back, the people in the USA were amazed by the changed the stay of those children had brought in them. The people also realized that particular arrangements and care were taken to make their stay comfortable. Now the parents were not hesitant to send their children here for the studies.

Consequently, a separate department for foreign students has been established in the Jamia. Separate teaching faculty is appointed to teach foreign students who can teach them in accordance with their psychology. Arrangements for their separate accommodation are being made with air conditions and special care is taken for a neat and clean atmosphere. They are given proper beddings and every sort of faility is made available to them. Weekly menu of mess system is established. Thus, every sort of effort is being made to make their stay comfortable and they should not feel themselves strangers in here, rather they feel at home during their stay here. This department has registered much more success than expected due to the efforts of Mufti Mohammad Naeem.

Today?

There are more than five hundred foreign students from different countries.

About the facilities:

1.Air Condition rooms to stay for the students.
2.Classrooms are carpeted.
3.Menu of their liking and taste.
4.Pick and drop service for the students from and to airport.
5.Washerman service available for their laundry.
6.Cold and hot water is available.
7.Medical facillities and best hospital services are available.
8.Sports.
9.Visa and ticket service are available.
10.Separate kitchen for foreign student where food is prepared to their taste and liking.

Some terms and conditions for admission of foreign students:

If you're "Learning the Holy Quran by heart" level you must be between 8-12 years old. (ed. note: heartbreakingly young.) The Book Level means you must be between 15-20 years of age. You must also:

Present passport.
Follow the rules and regulations of the Jamia.
Political involvement.
Refrain from non-shariah things and deeds, and abide by the shariah.

Tuition cost for all this?

Admission fee for this department is $50. Monthly fee is also $50.

Okay, now watch this over at the Karachi Kids again and tell me what you think about the facilities for foreign students and any parent who would think pawning the kid off for $50 a month in a foreign country is a good deal.

I have a real problem with any American that would send their kids to this place. IMO, they should be thoroughly investigated for any potential terror ties and have their home evaluated by social services with regard to their suitability as parents.

And any American mosque that invites the Maulana Mufti Naeem to speak during Ramadan should also be investigated. (Of course, after the invites are issued and the Mufti accepts he should be denied a visa.)

Sure makes you wonder what's going on with those kids.

(FYI, I'm busy working on Jamia Binoria pt. 2 for later - There will be more about Maulana Mufti Naeem, the "Jamia Binoria For Women" and coming soon to neighborhood near you, "Jamia Biniora USA". )

While Barack was in Berlin

preaching his gospel of a world without nukes.

Iran was announcing that they would no longer be cooperating with the IAEA.

Iran signaled Thursday that it will no longer cooperate with U.N. experts probing for signs of clandestine nuclear weapons work, confirming the investigation is at a dead end a year after it began.

The announcement from Iranian Vice President Gholam Reza Aghazadeh compounded skepticism about denting Tehran's nuclear defiance, just five days after Tehran stonewalled demands from six world powers that it halt activities capable of producing the fissile core of warheads.

And "prominent Democrats" led by John Kerry were calling for increased US diplomatic presence in Iran. They want to "engage the regime in Tehran and reach out to the Iranian people."

Switzerland v Libya - an illustration of why we need to get off foreign oil

When I saw that Switzerland had taken Muammar Qaddafi's son, Hannibal, (and his wife) into custody for mistreating hotel employees last week, I found it interesting, but not particularly newsworthy.

Col Gaddafi's youngest son Hannibal, 32, and his wife Aline were arrested last Wednesday after an incident in a five-star hotel in Geneva. He was released on bail two days later after posting bail of 500,000 Swiss Francs. His wife, who is nine months pregnant, was taken to hospital during police questioning.

The couple were charged with assaulting two of their staff, a Moroccan man and a Tunisian woman, with a belt and coat hanger. The woman was hospitalised.

It's not like Hannibal, whose real name is Motassim Bilal, hasn't been in trouble in Europe before. He has.

Well, I started paying a bit more attention today that when I saw that Libyan Tankers Stopped Carrying Oil to Switzerland. (Libya is the biggest supplier of crude to Switzerland. I've seen reports ranging from 50% to 90%.)



Libya's state-run oil tanker company said it will stop carrying oil destined for Switzerland following the arrest in Geneva of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi's son.


Switzerland will have to find other tankers than those of General National Maritime Transport Co. to help import the 60,000 barrels a day of oil it gets from Libya, company chairman Ali Belhag said in a telephone interview from Tripoli. Qaddafi's son, Hannibal, helps run the company

``Tankers will stop carrying oil that has Switzerland as the final destination,'' he said. ``This decision is from our company, other shipping companies are not affected.''



The holder of Africa's largest oil reserves, Libya is the biggest supplier of crude to Switzerland. The Alpine nation buys 4 percent of the North African state's daily output of 1.7 million barrels, according to the U.S. Energy Department.



The company demanded an apology from the Swiss government and that a lawsuit against Qaddafi's son and his wife for mistreating hotel employees in Geneva last week is dropped, said Belhag, who spoke as he was taking part in a demonstration against the Swiss embassy in Tripoli. The Libyan port authority will not accept handling Swiss cargo until these demands are met, he said.



For it's part Switzerland is discouraging trips to Libya while officials claim there will be no disruption to supply.



Rolf Hartl, managing director of the Swiss Oil Association, said he had not received confirmation of a Libyan cutoff. On Wednesday, he had predicted an oil boycott would not significantly impact Switzerland.


"We have compulsory stocks which cover Swiss domestic demand for about two-and-a-half months for gasoline, diesel and heating oil and about three months for jet fuel," he told World Radio Switzerland.


"We would have ample time to adjust our supply scheme and to cover the loss of Libyan imports."

Let's all hope so.

Obama creates chaos and confusion in 12 minute Jerusalem visit

Oy vey.

OBAMA VISITS WESTERN WALL IN OLD CITY JERUSALEM... ARRIVES AT 5:08 AM LOCAL TIME [10:08 PM ET]... SUNRISE... SHOUTING MAN: 'JERUSALEM IS NOT FOR SALE, OBAMA'... MOB SCENE... CHAOS... BOWING HIS HEAD IN PRAYER... PLACES NOTE IN WALL... POSES FOR PHOTOS... LOTS OF SHOUTING... LEAVES 5:20 AM... DEVELOPING...

Source - Drudge Report

"Tabloid trash and full of lies."

Keep reading for latest updates:

John Edwards responds to last night's National Enquirer reports of his Baby Mama Drama at the Beverly Hilton.

Thanks to Breitbart we can hear him not actually deny the report.



Update: And those intrepid mateys over at DBKP are just full of juicy details about the incident and are also reporting that there is now one mainstream news outlet preparing to run with the story. Funny, the blogosphere was buzzing about it last night. I thought for sure they would be all over it TODAY. Just like Rush Limbaugh and his pill problem.

Update: There's more! DBKP now has an interview with National Enquirer editor-in chief, David Perel up - and it's a doozy!

Update: The story still perks with the observation of Mickey Kaus over at Slate that the MSM, with their media blackout of the story is engaged in a Protect Elizabeth = Protect John as Obama's AG operation.

Update: It looks like the LA Times has been the first to hold it's nose and jump in the pool -on their op-ed page.

Saddam's memoirs found

the family wants them to be published.

Spare us. Please.

Saddam's Hussein's lawyer has revealed the existence of the memoirs of the former Iraqi president.

Bedey Aref told Adnkronos International (AKI) that the "extremely personal" memoirs by Saddam were leaked to other prisoners that he met during his trial.

"All the pages of his memoirs have reached Saddam's family and they are currently organising and classifying them in order to have them published on the second anniversary of his death sentence," Aref told AKI.

UK: Abu "Hook Man" Hamza al Masri's extradition appeal

is refused in the House of Lords, the country’s highest court of appeal.

That's the good news.

The bad news? He can still appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.

Source - The AP via The IHT.

Poor Geert! Even his own party members ratted him out

After hearing that they might be under threat they got so afraid for their OWN safety, they informed on him.

PVV - MPs informed Government about Wilders' film Fitna.

Three MPs of Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom (PVV) secretly informed the National Anti-terrorism Coordinator (NCTb) of the contents of Wilders' anti-Islam film Fitna prior to its publication. Wilders did not know this, Elsevier weekly magazine reports.

On 4 March, NCTb chief Tjibbe Joustra and the National Coordinator of Guarding and Security, Arjen Jonge Vos, had a meeting on Fitna with Wilders and his PVV MPs. At it, the MPs were warned about the consequences of the film for their personal safety, even though Joustra and Jonge Vos at that moment did not know what Fitna would show.

Three PVV MPs were so disquieted by that meeting that they afterwards asked for personal protection. To give their request some clout, they spilled the beans about the contents of Fitna, according to Elsevier.

Elsevier bases its report on a "source close to the top of the security services". According to the source, the three PVV MPs went to NCTb chief Tjibbe Joustra independently of one another with the message that the contents of Fitna would be explosive. This happened shortly before the film appeared on the Internet on 27 March.

The source cited what the PVV MPs told: "The controversial cartoon of Mohammed, with the Prophet wearing a turban with a lighted fuse, will be shown. Wilders wants to show the turban exploding and the Prophet being destroyed by his turban bomb. He also wants to cut the Koran up in pieces and burn it in an open fire."

The film was speedily brought out via the Internet after this. But the Koran is not cut into pieces or burned in an open fire in it. In April, the government claimed that Wilders changed the film at the last minute, saying he had informed the NCTB about the contents already at the end of 2007. Wilders empathically denied this and accused the government of lies.

According to Elsevier the information from the three PVV MPs was enshrined in a document only known to an extremely small circle. To confirm this, Elsevier gained access to a document distributed to a slightly bigger circle with a chronology of the crisis, according to the magazine.

The names of the three PVV MPs are not known to Elsevier.

This is the first time that the PVV has appeared to have internal dissention.

In a reaction, Wilders says he knows nothing about the alleged actions of his colleagues, but would very much like to know which MPs they are supposed to be.

I would too.

Denmark: The Pedophile Highwayman rides again.

In Denmark: The Case of The Pedophile Highwayman we read how brave souls are standing up to the Muslim thugs of Gellerupparken.

Muslim thugs who were attempting to ethnically scrub the area of Greenlanders.

Well, they're ba-a-a-ck.




This time in North Jutland.

Source - SIOE

Somalia: Islamist opposition names hard liner as their leader

I'll say he's a hardliner. He has also been designated a terrorist under U.S. Executive Order 13224 and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1267 for his associations with al Qaeda.

He denies everything, of course.

The redbeard is a nice look, isn't it? He either has a "prophet complex" or has been on the hajj.

Somali opposition coalition, the Alliance for the Reliberation of Somalia (ARS), Tuesday named the hard-line Islamist cleric Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys as chairman, replacing Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, who is seen as a moderate.

"We have named Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys as the chairman of the Alliance and we no longer recognize Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed as the legitimate leader of the alliance," Ismael Addow, a member of the alliance, told Somalia's Shabelle Radio by phone from Asmara, the Eritrean capital.

Aweys has been the spiritual leader of the Islamic Courts Union which controlled much of southern and central Somalia for the latter half of 2006 before they were driven out by a joint Ethiopian and Somali government forces. He is on the U.S. list of "Wanted Terrorists" and is now in exile in Asmara.

For his part Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed claims to still be in power.

More about Sheikh Aweys - back in 2006 he was denying that terror groups operated in Somalia. And in this 2007 Kevin Sites video he again denies the presence of 'foreigners" or al Qaeda in Somalia.

Today, he compares himself to Mandela and says Americans must "use their great wisdom and should not call a freedom fighter a terrorist." You notice he did not mention the JIHADIST!

Let there be no doubt. This man is a terrorist. Here's what he said last month prior to the signing of the Djibouti Agreement.

"We shall continue fighting until we liberate our country from the enemies of God"

Meanwhile the fighting continues apace with headlines like this Mortar attack kills two Ethiopians. and this, 5 children killed in crossfire.

Somalia: Aid Workers now being targeted

by the Religion of Peace.

Ominous leaflets recently surfaced on the bullet-pocked streets of Mogadishu, Somalia's ruin of a capital, calling aid workers "infidels" and warning them that they will be methodically hunted down. Since January, at least 20 aid workers have been killed, more than in any year in recent memory. Still others have been abducted....

The attacks on aid workers – including Westerners, Somalis working for Western organizations and Somalis working for local groups – have escalated this month. Two weeks ago a high-ranking UN official was shot as he stepped out of a mosque. Last Sunday, a trucking agent in charge of transporting emergency rations was killed. On Thursday, three elders who were helping local aid workers distribute food at a displaced persons camp were shot and killed.

In response, the United Nations is withdrawing some employees from dangerous urban areas and cutting back on operations across the country.

Somalia: Pakistan and Iraq fighters killed in clashes

Interesting.

A commander with Somalia's army told the BBC Somali Service on Monday that two foreign fighters were killed alongside 10 local rebels during clashes yesterday in Lower Shabelle region. Regional commander Col. Dahir Mohamed Hersi said the two dead fighters are from Pakistan and Iraq, while urging journalists to "go see" the dead bodies.

Col. Hersi's claim that foreign fighters were killed in Somalia could not be independently verified, as the country remains Africa's most dangerous place for journalists.

But local sources told Garowe Online that they saw 3 dead soldiers and "nearly 10" insurgents lying on the ground, as the fight subsided around sunset.

Two civilians were also killed, the confidential sources added.

Somali and Ethiopian troops, who were traveling from Baidoa to Mogadishu, were reported to have taken control of the area, although the troops have not yet resumed their trip to the capital.

Violence continues in Somalia despite the signing of a peace pact last month between the Ethiopian-backed interim government and an Islamist-led opposition coalition.

Somalia: Another day, another pirate attack

Filipinos aboard ship seized off Somalia.

A ship with 20 Philippine sailors has reportedly been hijacked off the coast of Somalia. A spokesman for the Philippine foreign ministry told reporters that the Japanese-owned Stella Maris was seized by pirates on Sunday.

He said officials had been in contact with the sailors, who were in a good state of health. But he added that it was against the Philippine government's policy to pay a ransom to the kidnappers.

The Stella Maris, which was carrying a cargo of lead and zinc, was boarded by 38 armed men in the Gulf of Aden, according to the Spanish news agency EFE.

Obama in Germany - it's not a campaign event

Really. Seriously. It's not. Honest.

Update: You know what I just realized?

There's no American flag on this poster.

Very telling, don't you think?

Who's winning the war on terror?

WE are

Over half of American voters (51%) now believe the United States and its allies are winning the war on terror, the highest figure recorded in nearly four years by Rasmussen Reports in a nationwide survey.

Source - Rasmussen Reports.

Obama is a no see-um when it comes to the Arabs

No photo ops with Obama and his Arab supporters, please.

There is something that Barack Obama's campaign doesn't want you to see: The candidate among the Arabs.

In his whirlwind tour, the candidate sped through this city where he is held in joyous high regard both for his Muslim roots and the perception, rightly or wrongly, that he might pursue a more "even-handed" Middle East policy (read: more pro-Arab, less pro-Israel).

If Obama had chosen to linger in Jordan more than just eight hours yesterday, he could have headlined a rally here that would have drawn enough jubilant Muslim supporters to fill the Dead Sea.

But the last thing Obama's campaign - which brilliantly choreographs every event - wants are pictures of him before a multitude of ecstatic Arabs.

Such images would terrify American voters already wary of the guy with the funny-sounding name, and only serve to reinforce the widespread myth that Obama is a Muslim. Instead, the campaign will let you see a mass rally in Berlin, with thousands of supporters - possibly 100,000 or more - cheering and fainting and crying.

The campaign also will let you see Obama in Jerusalem thronged by Jews, possibly even visiting the Western Wall, and mingling in solidarity with Israelis in the embattled town of Sderot, the favored target for Palestinian rocket attacks.

But no Arabs. They've been pushed out of the picture just like those two veiled Muslim-American girls who attended an Obama rally in Detroit not long ago.

Instead of holding a public event here - say, a visit to a Jordanian school, a small business or a health-care center - Obama chose only to answer questions from reporters at a press conference and dine privately with King Abdullah.

"People on the street don't even know that he is here," explained one veteran Jordanian journalist here. "Everyone would like to come out and cheer him, but I know that would probably hurt him in America."

Source - NY Post

The Straight Talk Express makes the Muslims whine

God bless, Colonel Bud Day.

"the Muslims have said either we kneel, or they're going to kill us. I don't intend to kneel...and John doesn't advocate to anybody that we kneel."

Muslim spokesmen in the U.S. are outraged over remarks made last Friday by Bud Day, a key supporter of John McCain. Day, a much-decorated Air Force Colonel and Medal of Honor recipient who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam with McCain, said during a conference call organized by the Florida Republican Party that “the Muslims have said either we kneel, or they’re going to kill us.” Day added: “I don’t intend to kneel, and I don’t advocate to anybody that we kneel, and John doesn’t advocate to anybody that we kneel.”

The reaction was swift. Saif Ishoof, president of the Center for Voter Advocacy, said that Day’s remarks were “perpetuating a form of Islamophobia.” Khaled Saffuri, the Executive Director of the Islamic Institute (which he co-founded with Grover Norquist), was also deeply offended. “‘This is as close to racist as it gets,” he declared. “These are cheap street tactics. Even if this is called a mistake or a slip of the tongue, it shows a bigger problem with racism. McCain and the Republican party should denounce this.” (Keith Olbermann also termed Day’s words “racism and religious hatred,” although neither he nor Saffuri explained what race Islam is.)

Corey Saylor, national legislative director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), also called on McCain to distance himself from Day, stating that “CAIR would like to see Senator McCain come out and make a clear statement repudiating these remarks. We don’t believe they’re helpful at all in either putting out the campaign’s message or winning the hearts and minds in the Muslim world that America needs to be winning.”

The Straight Talk Express did reverse itself, (a little) but did not throw Colonel Day under the bus. Thanking God.

However, a repudiation from McCain was not immediately forthcoming. McCain campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb said only: “The threat we face is from radical Islamic extremism.” However, a spokeswoman for the Republican Party, according to the Miami Herald, “said later that Day acknowledged he misspoke and ‘made an unfortunate mistake’ because he meant to say ‘terrorists’ and not ‘Muslims.’ The Herald itself took for granted that Day had said something wrong, calling his remarks a “gaffe on Muslims.”

Unnoticed, however, in the controversy over Day’s remarks was the fact that what he said was essentially accurate. While it is certainly true that not all Muslims are trying to “make us kneel,” there can be no legitimate question whatsoever that there are indeed Muslims who are engaged in such an effort. The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States is, according to a Brotherhood operative, engaged in a “grand jihad” aimed at “eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”

What’s more, there is considerable reason to suspect that some of the Muslim leaders who have been most indignant over Day’s words are involved in this “grand jihad.” Investigative journalist Kenneth Timmerman wrote in 2004 of Khaled Saffuri’s considerable influence in Washington, and then noted that “some of the very people Saffuri introduced to Bush and Rove are in federal prison on terrorism-related charges. Others have been expelled from the country. Still other former colleagues and donors have become subjects of a massive federal probe into U.S. funding of terrorist organizations that is code-named Operation Greenquest….Saffuri’s ties to radical Islamists and apologists for terror are neither superficial nor coincidental.” And CAIR, of course, was in 2007 named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding case, and has had several of its officials arrested and convicted on terrorism-related charges.

Why was none of this been mentioned in mainstream media coverage of this story? It isn’t really surprising that it wasn’t, given the tendencies and perspectives of the mainstream media – indeed, it would have been more surprising if they had mentioned it. But Bud Day’s remarks should have been judged for their accuracy: are there, or are there not, Muslims trying to make us kneel? No one would have objected in 1944 if a military spokesman had said that “the Germans are trying to make us kneel,” and someone who took offense to such a statement on the grounds that not all Germans were pro-Nazi would only have been ridiculed.

However, CAIR has shown in the past that the accuracy of statements to which it takes umbrage does nothing to mitigate their hurt feelings. And now the primacy of hurt feelings has been enshrined into law in Canada: as we have seen in the Mark Steyn trials in Canada, truth and accuracy is no defense against charges of “hate speech.” In a sane world, instead of taking offense, Islamic spokesmen in the U.S. would have been assuring reporters that they were working energetically within Muslim communities against those who wished to make non-Muslims kneel. But sanity is at a premium in the public debate on Islamic jihad today.

Source - Robert Spencer, Frontpage Magazine

Hoo-boy. John Edwards cornered by National Enquirer

visiting the Beverly Hilton and his love child's mama?

At 2:40 in the morning????

That's what Drudge is saying.

Death by 1000 Paper Cuts has it all for you - including the fact that Time Magazine has just released Obama's VP Short list and John Edwards was on it...

Keyword there : "was"

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Update: More about the Danish embassy bombing

Not only is al Qaeda taking credit for the bombing - they claim the bomber was "a young man from where the prophet was born" aka Mecca and that he was "enraged over the Mohammed Cartoons."

The tape shows Yazid defend the use of suicide attacks and be totally unapologetic about the Pakistanis killed in the blast. To his way of thinking they betrayed Islam when they sided with the US and so they deserve it. Got that?



Read a bit more about the Geo interview and Yazid, now considered to be AQ's number three man in Afghanistan. (It's interesting to note that five earlier occupants of the number three spot have been captured or killed since 2001.

Zayid's interview with Geo was said to have been conducted at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan a few days ago.

An Egyptian who served time in jail with al Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri after the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981, Yazid is now commander of operations in Afghanistan.

He has been referred to as al Qaeda's third most senior figure, after the elimination or capture of five earlier occupants of the Number Three spot since 2001.

Earlier, the September 11 Commission described Yazid as the network's "chief financial manager."

(I'd be looking over my shoulder if I was Yazid, wouldn't you? May he soon recieve an infidel wakeup call in the middle of the night. Fingers crossed, possums.)

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Good for thee, not for me. That's the Democratic Party

It's a gimmick when John McCain suggests it for people like you and me - not so for the DNC.

City of Denver gives DNC a pass on the gas tax.

The committee hosting the Democratic National Convention is using the city's gas pumps to fill up on fuel, avoiding state and federal highway taxes, officials said today.

And they want their cars washed, too.

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UK: The Archbishop of Sharia goes tribal.

And it's a downright kum-ba-yah moment. Do you think he's a drinker? I mean, really. What else would explain the actions of this guy?

Bishops invited to sit under Church's shady tree and give tribal politics a go.

It is the African way. Tribal leaders settle their differences by sitting around a campfire for hours, and sometimes days, in a ritual exchange of ideas, following a process handed down by their forefathers.

But will it work in Kent? Yesterday the Archbishop of Canterbury invited hundreds of feuding bishops to an Anglicised version of the indaba, to talk not about stolen cattle and territorial disputes but about sexuality.

The early signs were not good. “If indaba is such a great idea, why is Africa such a mess?” one bishop is supposed to have said, although he denied it yesterday.

Dr Rowan Williams invited 650 bishops attending the ten-yearly Lambeth Conference at Canterbury to choose from one of several indaba groups, a key part of the next fortnight’s agenda. These meetings, named after a Zulu word meaning a gathering for purposeful discussion, had several themes: sexuality, heresy, Judaeo-Christian relations, ecumenicism, shared mission in Europe.

Earlier, journalists had been invited to apply to join one of these indaba groups. The Times asked to attend one yesterday but was refused – despite the session being entitled “Never say no to media”.

Some bishops opted out from the start, preferring to go shopping in Canterbury, but even among those prepared to give them a try, the muttering soon began. Indaba groups need time. Hours of it. This is not what the bishops at Lambeth have. They have clocks that have to be watched, meetings to get to, lunches to eat, sermons to preach and schisms to prevent. Indaba groups also need both sides in a dispute to be present: a quarter of Anglican bishops, overwhelmingly conservatives from the developing countries, have boycotted Lambeth.

Imagine what he'll try to do with the Muslims after they get his dhimmi "common word for the common good" Look for the tents to go up and the goats to be grazing!

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Pakistan: Al Qaeda claims responsibility for Danish embassy bombing

Mustafa Abul Yazid

You'd think if Geo TV could find this guy, the Pakistani government would be able to find him as well, no?

A senior al-Qaeda leader has said that the terrorist network was responsible for the 2 June bombing at the Danish embassy in Islamabad which killed at least six people, all of them Pakistanis.

Mustafa Abul Yazid, the 53-year-old al-Qaeda commander who is also known as Sheikh Saeed, made the remarks in a rare TV interview with Pakistan's private television channel, Geo TV.

Geo TV was very proud of the fact that this is the first televised interview of an al Qaeda senior leader in 5 years.

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Hah!

The good folks over at Snapped Shot offer their contribution to the Islam is Peace NYC subway marketing campaign, You know, the one featuring 1993 WTC unindicted terror co-conspirator and radical imam, Siraj Wahhaj. I'd say this one is right on target!

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American girl still held in Pakistan's Jamia Binora madrassa

Remember the Karachi Kids? It looks like there's a Karachi Girl...

The Pakistan government has issued her deportation orderbut Mufti says: "We will not hand her over" and" no one would dare come within a mile of our compound." US embassy official claims to be "watching the situation."

Do we have the potential for another Red Mosque type situation at Jamia Binora? Would it be wrong of me to hope so?

Pakistan's immigration authorities issued immediate deportation orders on Monday for an American girl awaiting an uncertain destiny holed up in a fundamentalist Islamic seminary.

Muna Abanur Mohammed is among the eight students at Jamia Binora, a leading madrassa in southern port city Karachi, who were placed on a blacklist last month by Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, due to the expiration of their religious education visas to study the Koran.

"Yes we have received the deportation orders but we will not hand her over," Maulana Mufti Mohammed Naeemi, founder and head of the madrassa, a 12-acre sprawling walled compound seminary, told Deutsche Presse-Aguntur dpa.

"No one could dare come near a one mile radius of our compound," he said.

Senior immigration officers at state Federal Investigation Agency, requesting anonymity, said they had no immediate instructions from the federal authorities to carry out any swoop on the madrassa to remove students holed up inside.

Meanwhile, a US embassy official in Islamabad said they were closely watching the situation.

"We are aware and monitoring the situation," Press Attache Megan Eliss said.

A madrassa insider told dpa that the US embassy was in constant contact with the girl.

So far, out of the eight students, two American teens, known as the Khan brothers, were removed last week by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Pakistani authorities and sent back to Atlanta, Georgia, following the intervention by US Representative Michael McCaul, a Republican from Texas.

Both brothers were evacuated following a documentary Karachi Kids shown by US-based Fox Television, which claimed that teens were forced to study at Jamia Binoria.

Naeemi said the madrassa would try its level best to negotiate with the Pakistan government for an extension of Muna's visa.

But he could not say how long he would manage to violate Pakistan's writ by holding the girl at his seminary.

The other five students who have also been served deportation orders include four girl students from Thailand and one male from Fiji.

Why do I not find this photo very encouraging?

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, center, meets with nine Arab foreign ministers in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, July 21, 2008

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Obama removes flag from plane

How downright patriotic of him.

I guess we shouldn't be surprised. After all, "he bows to nobody in his understanding of the world."

As part of a month-long aircraft makeover, a painted American flag was removed from the tail of Sen. Barack Obama's official campaign airplane and was replaced with the presidential candidate's trademark "O" symbol.

The refurbished 757 was unveiled to members of the news media today, 41 of whom boarded the craft and took off to meet Obama in Amman, Jordan, where the presidential candidate will stop as part of a Middle Eastern and European tour.

Obama traveled to the Mideast earlier this week on board a separate airplane.

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On the Iranian catwalk for this fall...

Iranian authorities showcase "correct female Islamic dress".

For women who have been "forced" to wear whatever the fashion industry imposes on our society." Now, the imams are the ones doing the imposing. (see here for Obama's version of correct female dress)


Iran's Culture and Islamic Orientation Minister Saffar Harandi hailed the Islamic 'fashion parade' as "unprecedented"."This is an unparalelled event for Iranian women, who until now have not had the opportunity to dress how they want to but have been forced to wear whatever the fashion industry imposes on our society," Harandi stated. Journalists and photographers attended the show but few members of the public. The 'fashion show' followed a 'moralisation drive' launched by Iran's authorities that was aimed at clamping down on Western-style dress and hairstyles.


You can see the styles (hah!) here.

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Italy: First Muslim Country singer performs

The pride of Ponca City, Oklahoma.

First Muslim country music singer has shown that Middle-Eastern and Western music can form an exciting new hybrid that builds bridges between cultures.

Kareem Salama, born and raised in Ponca City, Oklahoma in the southern US, is the son of Egyptian immigrants. He began to get into country music while studying in graduate school. He performed in front of a mostly Italian crowd at the Villa Celimontana Jazz Festival held in Rome on Sunday. His songs were well received by the crowed, which energetically clapped after every song. "People in Europe have strong stereotypes about what country music is," said Salama.

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Ex Pakistani Minister gets death threats...

Why? A light hug from a hang gliding instructor after a successful jump for charity.

Former federal tourism minister Nilofar Bakhtiar said on Sunday she had received threats of “dire consequences” if she failed “to immediately leave the country along with her family” and sought protection for herself and her family.

Addressing a press conference, Ms Bakhtiar said she would never leave the country and it was the responsibility of the government to provide fool-proof security. (fool-proof?)

Last year, the Lal Masjid management, which also ran the Jamia Hasfa seminary, had issued a Fatwa against the former minister after she was pictured hugging one of her instructors following a charity paragliding in France.

At that time, the Lal Masjid’s in-charge, Maulana Abdul Aziz had urged the government to sack her for having posed for the photograph which he had termed ‘obscene’.

Threatening calls were also received by the administration of the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Press Club where the press conference was to be held. The callers said the club would be attacked if Ms Bakhtiar was allowed to address journalists.

The club administration informed security agencies and a bomb disposal squad scanned the press club building. The press conference was held after security officials cleared the venue but they advised the former minister to “leave the place as soon as possible”.

She said some newspapers had reported that Umm-i-Hassan had issued similar threats. But after the press conference, she said that Umm-i-Hassan had clarified that she was not behind the threats.

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Egypt: Hyatt's new owner throws $1million dollars worth of booze in the Nile

And it wasn't because it went bad or anything - no, it's because he's Muslim.

Duke's pub in downtown Cairo is supposed to provide a familiar slice of English comfort amid the noise and pollution of the Arab world's biggest city. There are soft green leather furnishings and a beautifully polished oak bar, but the most essential ingredient - alcohol - is conspicuous by its absence.

Amir, the pub's grey-haired bartender, stared disconsolately at a display of fruit syrups behind the counter. "What's an English pub without beer?" he sighed.

Duke's has been dry since May, when staff at the Grand Hyatt hotel complex, which houses the pub, were ordered to empty every bottle of booze on the premises into the Nile. Cases of the finest cognac and champagne in the region were among the casualties, with local press reports suggesting up to $1m (£500,000) worth of alcohol was washed away.

The man behind the move is the hotel's owner, Saudi sheikh Abdel Aziz Ibrahim, who has decided to make all of his business interests alcohol-free. Now, the sheikh is locked in a three-way tussle with the Global Hyatt Corporation and the Egyptian tourist authorities, a skirmish that reveals much about the religious and cultural dilemmas facing modern Egypt.

The sheikh's decision provoked a furore when it became public, dividing opinion within a society that has become ostentatiously more religious in recent decades.

Newspaper columnists condemned the move as a betrayal of Cairo's reputation as a freewheeling capital of liberal tolerance, warning that the removal of alcohol from luxury hotels could have a catastrophic effect on Egypt's vital tourist industry.

Supporters of the sheikh insisted that foreign visitors must respect Muslim cultural norms.
The Egyptian Tourist Federation has announced it will shortly strip the hotel of its five-star status. "It's a clear-cut game of regulations," a spokesperson said. "If you go dry, your rating goes down."

The international Hyatt group, which manages the hotel, has been in furious negotiations with the sheikh. The issue has brought to the surface the simmering resentment held by many Cairenes against oil-rich Gulf Arabs who pour into their city each summer and are buying up swaths of the Egyptian entertainment sector.

Many forms of entertainment, from film studios to belly-dancers, have been snapped up by petrodollars and although the Saudi investment provides a much-needed injection of cash into the ailing Egyptian economy, critics fear that the changing cultural landscape - dancers are now covering up and films are avoiding scenes of hugging or kissing - is being used as a vehicle to spread the strict form of Wahhabi Islam prevalent in the Gulf.

Egypt has traditionally been characterised by a more moderate brand of Sunni Islam that has allowed institutions such as hotel bars to flourish in Cairo. Yet commentators say the ongoing crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's largest Islamic political movement that is formally banned from parliament, has left society susceptible to Wahhabism's assault on "prurient" cultural pastimes.

"The people want their religious needs fulfilled but a vacuum exists because moderate Islamic movements like the Muslim Brotherhood aren't allowed to operate freely by the regime," said Fahmy Howeidy, a prominent Islamic thinker and popular newspaper columnist in Egypt.

Although Howeidy sees the Grand Hyatt row as an isolated incident, he warned that government attacks on the Muslim Brotherhood could undermine the liberal conception of Islam entrenched in Egyptian society which, he said, had stopped radical groups such as al-Qaida winning over large sections of the population.

"The Hyatt alcohol ban is an exceptional case," he said, "but it should remind us that the government needs to act to prevent exceptional cases like this happening again."

Back at the Grand Hyatt, Norwegian tourist Liv Jensen was leading her dejected husband and daughter down to the Hard Rock Cafe, the last bastion of intoxication left on the site. "Who would have thought an international hotel like this wouldn't serve us a drink?" she said as they entered the restaurant.

Hard Rock, which is separately owned and thus not under the sheikh's jurisdiction, has seen business boom since May.

In Duke's bar, Amir rearranged the coffee cups and paced the deserted establishment. "We don't get many customers any more," he confirmed.

The 52-year-old was scathing about the influence of the Saudis. "It's an act, just for show," he says, referring to the religious proselytising of the sheikh and his compatriots. "I don't know what I'm going to do. I've been pulling pints and mixing cocktails here for 15 years, and I'm too old now to move on."

Obama tells reporters: Dress for Sharia success

Obama campaign issues dress code for female reporters. (courtesy of Hot Air)

Reporters traveling overseas with Sen. Barack Obama were thrown a bit of curve last week when the campaign emailed a “dress code” for Israel and Jordan. Aides had passed along as a courtesy the list that they had distributed to their staff to follow. But some of the tips raised a few eyebrows, particularly among the female reporters.

“Do not wear green.” (Explained later as the color of Hamas)

“Do not wear nail polish.”

“Women should only wear a limited amount of jewelry.”

“Shoulders and arms must be fully covered (no strapless tops, no tank tops, no short sleeve shirts.)”

“Closed-toe shoes, women should also wear stockings.”

At historical and religious sites, a suit or slacks should be worn, shoulders and arms must be covered (“no strapless tops, no tanks tops no short sleeve shirts”), shoes might need to be removed, and women may be asked to cover their heads and “should be prepared with a scarf/pashmina,” the email stated.

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Terror on the trains

Allah board! Because there's a lot of Islamophobia out there....

An Islamic group plans to blitz 1,000 subway cars with advertisements this September in a campaign being promoted by a Brooklyn imam whom federal officials have linked to a plot to blow up city landmarks.

The group says its mission is to explain the true nature of Islam to non-Muslims who believe the religion is bent on acts of violence - but Siraj Wahhaj, the inflammatory imam who appears in a promotional YouTube video for the project, has defended convicted bomb-plotters and called the FBI and CIA the "real terrorists."

US Attorney Mary Jo White even named Wahhaj one of 170 unindicted co-conspirators in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the thwarted plan to blow up a slew of buildings.

"In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing, and the only thing that will remain will be Islam," Wahhaj said in one of his sermons.

The stark, black-and-white ads of the Subway Project promote Islam with the goals of clearing up long-held misconceptions about the faith and reaching out to those interested in becoming Muslim, according to the Islamic Circle of North America, the group behind the campaign.
Timed to run during the month of Ramadan, the ads come in pairs, reading "Q: Prophet Muhammad?" or "Q: Islam?" and the corresponding answer is always "A: You deserve to know."

Those interested in knowing more are directed to call (877) WHY-ISLAM or to visit whyislam.org, which provide literature that teaches and proselytizes about the faith.
The group insists it is not looking to transform subway cars into the "G-had train."

"Anyone who looks at this ad objectively can see that it is not preaching anything," Azeem Khan, the group's assistant secretary general, told The Post. "There is a lot of Islamaphobia out there. We provide people with a chance to speak with an actual Muslim who is informed."

Wahhaj, imam of Al-Taqwa mosque, is a former member of the Nation of Islam and was the first Muslim to give an invocation at the House of Representatives.

Formal charges were never filed against him by White, although he did serve as a character witness for the defense in the trial of Omar Abdel-Rahman, "the blind sheik" who is now serving a life sentence for his role in plotting the 1993 WTC bombings.

In the promotional video for the Subway Project, Wahhaj is the first to speak.

"Every day in this city, some 4.9 million people ride the subways - that is a lot of people," he says. "Imagine them seeing the word Islam. Imagine them seeing the word Muhammad."

The MTA confirmed that the group has signed a contract for the ad campaign but would not comment further.

Happily mouthing multicultural platitudes to explain their subjugation

An excellent piece on the plight of Geert Wilders from Diana West of the Washington Times. (reading it makes me wonder about Dr. Wafa Sultan and whether or not she is still in hiding. I've not been able to find any recent news about her. Has anyone heard anything?)

Having run the polite-but-grim gauntlet of Dutch government security to gain access to Geert Wilders, I finally understood what the 24-hour security requirements of the man’s continued existence really mean: To make the survival of Western-style liberty in the Netherlands his political cause, this Dutch parliamentarian has to live under high-tech lock and key.

This stunning paradox, with no end in sight, illustrates how far political freedom in the West has already eroded. Think of it: For writing about the repressive ideology of Islam, for arguing against the inequities of Sharia (Islamic law), for making a video (“Fitna”) to warn about Islamic jihad, Wilders lives in his own non-Islamic country under a specifically Islamic death threat.

If it is politically incorrect to notice this, it is also indisputably true. True, too, is that, sans state security, this death threat could conceivably be carried out anytime, anywhere — from the picturesque streets outside the Dutch parliament, to the house Wilders hasn’t slept in since 2004. That, of course, was when, on an Amsterdam street, a Muslim assassin plunged a knife into Theo van Gogh’s corpse, thus attaching the Islamic manifesto threatening both Wilders and his then-parliamentary colleague, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, with death.

Not long ago, political debate in the Netherlands met with, well, more political debate. Now, however, with a growing Muslim minority — and it’s politically incorrect to notice this, too — political debate sometimes meets with Islam-inspired political assassination.

At least it has, traumatically, twice in recent years: once, with the 2002 murder of the anti-Islamic-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn by an animal rights activist who claimed Fortuyn was scapegoating Muslims; and the following year with the ritualistic Islamic murder of Van Gogh, director of “Submission,” a short video made with Hirsi Ali about Islamic mistreatment of women.

In all, such Islam-inspired violence has been enough to chill Islam-inspired debate.

And that’s just the situation at home. This week, even as Amsterdam’s chief public prosecutor, Leo de Wit, announced that no charges would be brought against Wilders for “discrimination” or “incitement to hatred” related to Wilders’ writings or video (“We find Mr. Wilders’ remarks were limited to Islam as a religious movement,” De Wit said), Jordan announced it is bringing a “Fitna”-related criminal case against the Dutch parliamentarian.

In other words, Jordan will indict a Dutch politician according to Jordanian (read: Islam-inspired) law.

Of course, like other Western peoples, the Dutch seem content to censor themselves, happily mouthing multicultural platitudes that effectively rationalize their own culture’s Islamization.

Not Wilders. I recently asked the 44-year-old Dutchman what was stronger in his country: Islam or multiculturalism.“Unfortunately, they are both strong,” he replied, seated in his lightly furnished but heavily guarded office. “But cultural relativism is the biggest problem.” He went on to explain: “Multicultural society would not be that bad — I don’t really believe in it — but it would not be that bad if, at least, we would be strong enough to say that our culture is better and dominant. But when you combine multicultural society with a dominant sense of cultural relativism, you are heading in the wrong direction. You are committing suicide when it comes to your own culture.”

“I’m not saying that every Muslim in the Netherlands is a criminal or a terrorist,” he explains. “We know the majority is not. Still,” he continues, “there is good reason to stop the immigration, because the more we have an influx of Muslims in the Netherlands, the strength of the (Islamic) culture will grow, and the change of our societies will increase.”

He sees his efforts as “a fight against an ideology that I believe at the end of the day will kill our freedom, kill our societies and change everything we stand for.”He’s right — and, yes, it’s politically incorrect to say that, too.

Everything the West stands for, starting with freedom of speech, is already changing as our institutions, up to and including, for example, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, increasingly proscribe critical references, or indeed, any references to Islam. While it’s clear that the European manifestation of Islamic ideology has already killed Wilders’ personal freedom in the Netherlands, the general impact on freedom throughout the West has yet to be fully appreciated.

“I have a mission,” Wilders said.“I believe very strongly in what I say, and my party fortunately shares this view. And nobody in the Netherlands is doing (what I do). And somebody should.And I pay a high price for it.”What is the expression — freedom isn’t free? This is literally and acutely the case when it comes to this heroic and dedicated Dutchman.


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What does the figure 270 million represent?

From Political Islam.

The estimated number of non-Muslims killed in the political act of jihad.

See here for details.

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Iraq PM did not back Obama's withdrawal plan

I don't think you'll be hearing much about this on the evening news though.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki did not back the plan of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq and his comments to a German magazine on the issue were misunderstood, the government's spokesman said on Sunday.

Ali al-Dabbagh said in a statement that Maliki's remarks to Der Spiegel were translated incorrectly.

The German magazine said on Saturday that Maliki supported Obama's proposal that U.S. troops should leave Iraq within 16 months. The interview was released on Saturday.
"U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right time frame for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes," Der Spiegel quoted Maliki as saying.

Dabbagh said statements by Maliki or any other member of the government should not be seen as support for any U.S. presidential candidate.


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UK: Don't send Hamza to US - they might hurt him!

MPs call for halt to extradition of 'terrorist' cleric Abu Hamza to US after CIA admits torture

So torture equals nothing worse than being dunked on in the pool to these idiots. If that is truly the case I used to get waterboarded everytime I went to the lake with my cousins while growing up. Waaa! Where's MY human rights lawyer?

Britain should stop extraditing prisoners to America following the CIA’s admission that it ‘tortured’ terror suspects, an influential group of MPs has demanded.

The move by the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee would prevent the extradition of hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza, who faces terror charges in the US, and Babar Ahmad, accused of fund-raising for the Taliban.

Ministers have previously been willing to take at face-value statements from President George Bush that the US does not resort to torture. But the committee says this should no longer be the case after CIA admitted the ‘waterboarding’ of three detainees.

These kind of bleeding heart idiots are out of their bleeding minds. While they stand up and spew this kind of nonsense we are reading things like this:

Iraqi kidnappers claim British hostage has killed himself. Video released.

The video, entitled Intihar - Arabic for suicide - opens with a photograph of a man identified as Jason in the militants’ statement, which appears on-screen in Arabic.

It accuses the British government of responding indifferently to previous messages from the kidnappers and said this had pushed Jason to commit suicide.

“This procrastination and foot-dragging and lack of seriousness on the part of the British government has prolonged their psychological deterioration, pushing one of them, Jason, to commit suicide on 25/5/2008,” the statement says.

“He surprised our brethren, who were taking care of him, with his suicide.”



The bloody worst part? The murderous bastar%s will only provide the proof of the hostage's death if the British government agrees to negotiate with them.

PM Gordon Brown has demanded the hostages release. "They have suffered enough." but his 'humanitarian appeal' (found in the video) to the kidnappers would be laughable if it wasn't so pathetic and lame. Why not just invite them for tea, Gordon?

"I will work with the Iraqi government as I said to Prime Minister Maliki yesterday to secure their release, and will do everything in our power to work with everyone who is in a position to help us release these hostages.

"These men have suffered enough."

There has been no comment regarding the UK hostages from the MPs on the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee


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UK: State pupils to be taught Islamic traditions and values

in mandatory 'Citizenship classes'.

State school pupils are set to be taught Islamic traditions and values in compulsory citizenship lessons. The move - part of a package of initiatives announced by Communities Secretary Hazel Blears yesterday - is designed to curb extremism.

Dinah Lord has managed to get her hands on a syllabus of courses to be included in the program. So let's review some of the Islamic 'traditions and values' to be covered:

Beheading 101 - students will explore that age old Islamic tradition of lopping the head off of non-believers. Topics to be included: "Why use a knife when a sword will do?" and "How to keep your edge in the world of infidels" also "Cleaning up: What will handle those nasty blood and brain stains on mom's carpet."

How to beat your future wives - without really trying - Students will learn the ins and outs of beating their many future wives in a rotation schedule to ensure complete and total obedience to their Muslim husband.

Child rape and temporary marriages - Students will study the history of child rape and the importance of asking themselves "What would Mohammed do?" when babysitting their young relatives. Also taught in this class will be Muta, the concept of temporary marriage that will enable students to 'do what Mohammed did" and still avoid prosecution.

Honor killings for kids - Sick and tired of your sister hogging the loo in the mornings? Bothered by her gabbing on her mobile all hours of the night and day? Feeling grumpy about her bloody girlfriends calling you names? Take matters into your own hands and strangle her! It's all about honor in the course "So your sister is a slut, now what?" Students will learn how to assert their manhood and earn the respect and admiration of their male relatives. Not only will you earn their respect, you will be able to get off with a slap on the hands if your follow the easy steps outlined in class. Go for it, dude!

Female Genital Mutilation for fun and profit - Guaranteed to be a moneymaker for you, this in-depth course takes a look at the smart way to run a "chop shop for chicks " and make a bundle while doing so. Instructions on how to market your 'product' to squeamish Westerners will be included in this class and your instructor is guaranteed to be a cut-up.

Pilot schemes will begin in October in London, Leicester, Birmingham, Oldham, Rochdale, and Bradford.

I wish this WAS all a joke, possums. Unfortunately, it's not.

Islamic Art - we've got our own issues

I read with interest (and quite frankly, mocked) the Louvre's new Islamic Art wing here. Well, it looks like we've got Islamic propaganda troubles of our own here in Amerabia.

Read about the Islamic Science exhibit at the Liberty Science Center (located right across the river from the WTC!!!) from Sultan Knish:

Islam means submission or slavery, the literal opposite of liberty. When Muslim terrorists attacked America on 9/11, their attack took place a block off Liberty St. And now the Liberty Science Center across the river from the World Trade Center has become the first place in North America to host a phony exhibition on the wonders of Islamic science and the glory of Arab culture full of the same fraudulent promotion for a barbaric culture of murderers, bigots and thieves. With enough money invested the Arab and Muslim world has demonstrated the ability to take advantage of American tolerance and Western political correctness to promote their propaganda and self-glorification abroad. The Liberty Science Center exhibition is not simply about promoting a myth of Islamic culture, it is about promoting Islam. Read the following paragraph from the official Liberty Science website.

Like the Sultan says, when was the last time you saw an exhibit on Christian or Jewish Science, I mean really.

Read it all here.

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Pakistan: Muslim Clerics seek death for Christian

because he married a Muslim woman.

The couple is now in hiding.

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The Louvre's new Muslim wing

Can you say Eurabia?



Paris aims to cement its position as the "European capital of Arab and Islamic culture."

It is known as the Veil and is described by its architects as a giant glass Muslim headscarf in the heart of Paris. The former French president Jacques Chirac saw it as one way to avert a clash of civilisations in the run-up to the Iraq war. President Nicolas Sarkozy calls it the symbol of France's friendship with the Arab world.

I call it merde.

The Louvre, which registered a record 8.3 million visitors last year, boasts one of the world's most comprehensive Islamic art collections. More than 10,000 pieces range from the 7th to 19th century, featuring glasswork and ceramics, Ottoman empire art and one of the world's most important collections of carpets. Yet most of the Islamic works have been in storage for more than 20 years, never afforded the same prominence as western exhibits.

Why haven't the Islamic works been "afforded the same prominence?"

Perhaps because they're boring and banal?

As you know, depictions of the human form is haraam in Islam and I mean really, how many old stinky rugs and patterned tiles can you look at before you go off in search of something more visually exciting?

It's no surprise that the museum was started by that old reprobate, Jacques Chirac in 2003 and was funded in large part by Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, whose €17m contribution to the project is one of the biggest private cultural donations made in France. The last "grand project" between France and Islam, François Mitterrand's, L'Institut du Monde Arabe (the Arab World Institute) was formed to:

"disseminate information about the Arab world and set in motion detailed research to cover Arabic and the Arab world’s cultural and spiritual values."

It is currently reorganising after financial difficulties. Its funding is shared between France and the 22 Arab league countries, some of whom have been accused of being late in their payments.

Hmm. So they want to disseminate information about the Arab World. No thanks, all I needed to learn about the Arab World I learned on 9/11.

My question - how long will it be after the opening of the Lourve's Islamic Art wing until "decadent" Western works like these will be removed from public display due to offended Muslim sensibilities?

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Jordan: 6 tourists wounded in bus attack

Jordanian government is quick to downplay "political element" then puts their fingers in their ears and loudly sings "la-la-la-he-didn't-have-a-beard-so-he's-not-an-Islamic-militant-and-that-doesn't-count." Hmm. But it says here that the attacker was Palestinian.

What's that tell you about the 'political element'? From AFP

Witnesses told AFP that an individual began shooting at the bus near the Roman amphitheatre in the city centre at around 11:00 pm (2000 GMT).

At the time of the attack, tourists were arriving to attend an evening of music at the amphitheatre, said witnesses.

The Lebanese-Jordanian event at which the orchestra was playing was not part of the Festival of Jordan, which has been surrounded by controversy.

A group of 14 Jordanian trade unions called for Arab and Jordanian singers to boycott the festival, saying the French company Publicis that organised it had also worked on the celebrations for Israel's 60th anniversary earlier this year. Both Publicis and the Jordanian government have denied the accusation.

It is the fourth attack on tourists in Jordan in the last two years.

Needless to say, the US embassy has issued a travel advisory, asking Americans to stay away from the amphitheatre and other crowded venues.

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Denmark: The case of The Pedophile Highwayman

Remember the Greenlanders of Denmark and how they were being chased by Muslims from their homes in Gellerup?

Some want to categorize this attempt at ethnic scrubbing by the Islamos as 'old news' and sweep it under the rug. Such good, little dhimmis we have over there in Denmark.

Well, SIOE is reporting that not everyone is being a good, little dhimmi.

A nameless resistance group has taken responsibility for the action. There were banners hung up along the motorway in Denmark saying “stop Islamic racism” and “stop Islamic racism, long live Greenland.” Mohammed has also been hanged on lamposts around the country with signs hung around his neck with inscriptions like “pedophile highwayman.”


The editors received these images with the wording:

“Here are the first pictures from our action on Zealand. We send the other images from Funen and Jutland and the rest of Zealand in the next few days. Our action will continue until the Islamic Religious Affairs controls the racists in Gellerup, allows Greenlanders to come back, treats them properly and gives each of them a personal apology. We will continue to hang muhammed until this happens."



Hmm. Wonder what will happen next?

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Iran: Party's over.

Rave no more.

About 70 young Iranians were arrested on the outskirts of the city of Shiraz on Wednesday night at a private birthday party.

They are being accused of "participating in a promiscuous party," and "alcohol consumption".
Police raided the villa where the party was being held and arrested everyone who did not manage to flee.

Reportedly, many of the arrested youth showed signs of bruising when they appeared in court, said Iran Press News. In Iran, any contact with a member of the opposite sex who is not a family relation, is considered a crime, as well as the consumption of alcohol which is punished by public flogging.


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Pakistan: 71% support 'dialogue' with pro-Taliban militants.

Sobering.

From a June survey conducted by the International Republican Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan organization that promotes democracy. About the poll.

Seventy-one percent of Pakistanis support dialogue with pro-Taliban militants in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan over military intervention, according to a survey published Thursday.

When asked what was the most effective way to deal with terrorism, 61 percent cited economic development and education, nine percent said military force, and 24 percent said both.

“IRI's poll reveals that the Pakistani people are unambiguous, preferring negotiation and development to military options,” the group said.

More than 70 percent of Pakistanis opposed the country's cooperation with the United States' “war on terror,” with just 15 percent in favour, according to the poll of 3,484 people selected at random.

However 81 percent people supported new government's policy on terrorism.

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Pakistan: Koran burning rumor sparks violence

A child was taken to a guesthouse, stripped, beaten up and purportedly paraded naked through the streets for burning the Koran. What evidence did the Islamos have? Evidently none.

The good news? No one will be charged with blasphemy. The bad news? It appears that nothing happened to the mob that did this to the poor kid.

Tension gripped a small town in Pakistan, after rumours that a Hindu child had burnt a copy of the Muslim holy book, the Koran. The incident took place in a remote mountainous area between Hyderabad and Karachi.
Following the incident, people reportedly gathered in the town of Thano Ahmed Khan to pressure police to take action against the child. Later it was revealed that the child, who works in a grocery store, had mistakenly given a buyer some goods wrapped in a page from a textbook which had a Koranic verse on it.

According to reports, the child was taken to a guesthouse, stripped and beaten up. Another report, denied by police, said that the boy was paraded naked in the area.

The boy's father, Maharaj Jaman Das, who holds an important religious position in the community, offered an unconditional apology to the protesters and said his son did not know what was written on the paper.

Police tried to verify the incident but no one in Thano Ahmed Khan could produce the paper which contained the Koranic verse. Police in Thano Bula Khan told the Pakistani daily, Dawn, that no charges had been laid as no one had given any evidence that an act of blasphemy had occurred.


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Terrorists: We catch them with one hand...

and the other sets them free.

Five acquitted in Madrid bombings.

Spain's highest court on Thursday cleared four people found guilty of crimes related to the 2004 Madrid train bombings, including the man suspected of masterminding the attack.

191 ordinary citizens were killed, 2000 were injured in the Madrid bombings.

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Time for some campaignin'

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Heh.

Taliban: Pak-Afghan border troop buildup "a gift"

Makes it easier to kill Americans, says Taliban leader .

* Villagers and officials say hundreds of coalition troops, tanks and APCs airlifted to border area * ISPR spokesman says media creating ‘unnecessary hype’ about troop movement

* Pakistan Army deployed along border placed on high alert

Read more here,

Hard to say if it's an honest to Allah surge, "posturing" or just alarm bells going off in the region. It would appear there is an ominous sense of foreboding in the air.

NATO is saying that it is all just "routine exercise to rotate and reposition troops" and then launches a strike into Pakistan after coming under rocket fire. NATO officials still vowing that there will not be any "incursions" into Pakistan

Meanwhile, US troops abandon the fort in Wanat on the Paki-Afghan border where 9 troops were ambushed and killed last week.

And The Battle of Wanat already has a wICKipedia entry.

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Scarves making headlines...

From left: models at Paul Smith, Dolce and Gabbana and Gaultier.

Or hijab making headway on the catwalk?

Back to the Medieval...

Headscarves are becoming the new hot trend in Western fashion, with famed designer labels and industry biggest names explaining the appeal of the headwear as a comeback of elegance and chastity to the runways.

Industry experts agree the new headscarves trend is about bringing a touch of modesty and chic to the runways. According to Dennis Nothdruft, curator of London's Fashion and Textile Museum, the headscarf resurgence is about a new sense of "chastity" in fashion. He affirms that the trend is not all new after all. "Women wore headscarves in medieval times to maintain their modesty," he explains.

Vivienne Alexander, of Hermès fashion house, says that a sizable proportion of their customers are Muslims, who wear their products as hijab, Islam's obligatory code of dress for women.
But she affirms that the large bulk of the clients are non-Muslims who are seeking a modest, elegant look. "This is more about a return to that elegant Grace Kelly era than anything else."

And if you believe that, I'm Grace Kelly.

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Sex Pistols praise Allah

Get booed.

I wonder what waving your "arms in mock Muslim prayer" looks like. Just like I wonder how long Johnny Rotten would last under an Islamic regime. (h/t Religion of Peace)

In a bizarre and misjudged gaff midway through their Sunday night set, the ageing rocker asked the crowd: “So who thinks America should still be in Iraq?” The question was met by boos and jeers, prompting Rotten to wave his arms in mock Muslim prayer chanting, “Praise Allah, Praise Allah” repeatedly.

The main stage crowd were initially taken aback by the mystifying gesture, before boos began echoing around the crowd. Realising his mistake, Rotten then changed his chanting to "Praise Serbia, Praise Serbia" before quickly launching into another song.

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In the interest of keeping it fair and balanced...

From those wags over at National Review.

I think they're both great. Who says conservatives have no sense of humor?

Archbishop of Canterbury: Christian doctrine offensive to Muslims

Urges alliance of two faiths in a "highly conciliatory" letter to Islamic leaders. His open letter is a whopping 17 pages long and serves to invite them over for a conference. No doubt tea will be served. I wonder if the Archbishop will read them some of his poetry?

Initial response to the Archbishop's letter is beginning to trickle in...

Cleric in kill them, hate them rant at London Mosque.

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Osama's driver: It was sheer torture, I tell you!

Alleged al Qaeda driver testifies on interrogation tactics. Oh! The sexual humiliation of it all.

<-Hamdam OBL's toadie, in happier times.

Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the alleged al-Qaeda driver who faces an historic military trial next week, testified Tuesday that a female interrogator elicited information from him using sexually suggestive behavior that was offensive to him.

Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, told a military court conducting a pretrial hearing that during questioning in 2002 a woman interrogator "came close to me, she came very close, with her whole body towards me. I couldn't do anything. I was afraid of the soldiers.''

"Did she touch your thigh?," asked Hamdan's lawyer, Charles Swift.

"Yes...I said to her 'what do you want?'' Hamdan said. "She said 'I want you to answer all of my questions.'''

"Did you answer all of her questions after that?'' Swift asked.

Hamdan said he did.

OH, I bet he did! (I would pay good money to see film of this interrogation. I bet it was hysterical.)

Through his lawyer, Hamdan is asking the judge to toss out the incriminiating statements "he allegedly gave to interrogators at Gitmo. Their argument: They were obtained through "coercive interrogation tactics".

No doubt some lefty judge will buy it.

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Hoo-boy.

From The New Yorker courtesy of Politico.com.

If the National Review pulled a stunt like this, the heads of the editorial staff would be impaled on pikes outside Obama's New York Headquarters.

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Miscreants get piggy with it, Muslims riot.

From Jihad Watch: Pig's head in mosques lead to Muslim rampage.

BANGALORE: Violence broke out in two separate areas of the city when miscreants placed severed pig’s heads inside the compounds of two mosques in Jaya Chamarajendra (JC) Nagar and Hebbal on Friday.

Four police personnel including a Central Armed Reserve Police Inspector, Dayanand, and a police constable of Regulated Market Committee (RMC) Yard police station, Venkatarama T, sustained injuries while on duty trying to bring the situation under control.

Police resorted to lathi-charge and fired tear gas shells to disperse violent mobs who went on a rampage, shouting slogans and damaging buses and lorries.

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Busted: West seizes £800m-worth of drugs from Iranian ports

Tehran strenuously denies involvement in narcotics smuggling, widely claimed to be a crucial source of income for the Taliban

Worsening tension between Iran and the West has been given a new twist by the revelation that the Royal Navy and allied forces have intercepted smuggled narcotics worth more than £800m coming out of Iranian ports. Much of the money, it is claimed, helps to fund the Taliban in Afghanistan. Although raids on drugs-carrying dhows have been going on for several months near the sensitive Straits of Hormuz, at the mouth of the Gulf, they have only now been made public.

According to military sources, the dhows carrying the narcotics are loaded in a number of small Iranian ports, but Tehran strenuously denies being involved in the illicit trade. It says any Western allegation of a link to trafficking is propaganda, partly aimed at justifying its large-scale naval presence in the area.

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Western powers have long claimed that the Straits of Hormuz are used by terrorist groups for running drugs. One of the first seizures took place five years ago when the destroyer USS Decatur captured a dhow carrying £5m-worth of hashish.

Iran has a growing drugs problem, and hundreds of Iranian border guards have been killed in shootouts with smugglers at the Afghan border.

But US and British officials say the Iranians have armed both Sunni and Shia insurgents in Iraq. Iran also has strong ties to its fellow Shias in Afghanistan, but has been accused nonetheless of supplying weapons to the Taliban, a charge it strongly denies.

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Guess who went to Obama's Grandmama's big party in Kenya?

None other than first Muslim in Congress, Keith Ellison. (h/t Marked Manner.)

From the Star-Tribune article detailing his trip. Looks like Obama threw old Keith a bone to make up for throwing those Muslim sisters off the stage the other day:

Rep. Keith Ellison continued his efforts as an unofficial American ambassador on a recent trip to Africa. For Ellison, it was also an emotional trip of personal discovery.

The 10-day journey, which ended Monday, culminated in a July 4th reception at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Nairobi, Kenya, where Ellison met Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama, the grandmother of presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Describing the emotion of an African-American's first journey to Africa, he made the motion of lifting soil up to his face and holding it to his cheeks, a gesture suggesting profound respect.

What do you think Keith's carbon footprint is? Man, since getting into Congress he's put more miles on him than a Greyhound Bus.

The Minneapolis Democrat, known around the world as the first Muslim in Congress, just completed his ninth trip abroad, returning this week from Africa, where he was part of a seven-member congressional delegation.

About Mama Sarah:

Sarah Obama was the third wife of Obama’s paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama. She was just 16 years old when she married Obama’s grandfather, an older man who was her father’s friend.

Despite living in a village in Kenya, Mama Sarah is well aware of Sen Obama’s fame in the US, and has photographs of his successes on her walls. She is closely following the political campaign.

Sen Obama has visited his Kenyan relatives three times in Kogelo, while step-grandmother has gone to the US twice. The two speak to each other through an interpreter.

The account of the party for Obama's Muslim grandmama, twice removed, can be found here.


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Another interesting thought

Obama's 143 days of experience: From Cheri Jacobus via Gateway Pundit:

Just how much Senate experience does Barack Obama have in terms of actual work days? Not much.

From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he logged 143 days of experience in the Senate. That's how many days the Senate was actually in session and working.

After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan.

143 days -- I keep leftovers in my refrigerator longer than that.

In contrast, John McCain's 26 years in Congress, 22 years of military service including 1,966 days in captivity as a POW in Hanoi now seem more impressive than ever. At 71, John McCain may just be hitting his stride.

GP notes: John McCain was a Prisoner of War 13 times longer than Barack Obama was a US senator before he decided to run for President.

Our first interesting thought can be found here.

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LA Times goes all root causes on US consul attackers

Gee, Officer Krupke. They're depraved on account they're deprived.

Attackers of U.S. Consulate in Turkey shared a bleak background

Their profiles are similar to those of young men involved in Al Qaeda-inspired attacks: uneducated, poor, not known to be devout until they met a charismatic 'elder brother.'

Boo-hoo. The poor attackers included: A former goat herder with a grade school education and two textile workers, one who is believed to have trained in Afghanistan and one, whose family claimed was 'mentally unbalanced'.

Boo-hoo-hoo.

The drab, run-down district where the attackers lived is a world apart from the deep-blue Bosporus, the chic cafes, the minarets and monuments of tourist Istanbul, though the city center is only a 40-minute drive away. Tens of thousands of economic migrants from Turkey's poorest corners have come here to seek better lives. Often, they find only greater hardship.

Boo-freaking-hoo. No mention is made of the real root cause: ISLAM.

They do manage to work the anti-America angle, though...

The attack galvanized anti-American sentiment that is never far from the surface here. One of the police officers wounded in the attack, Osman Dagli, said he tried to take shelter in the consulate after he was hit, but the doors were not opened to him.

The U.S. ambassador, Ross Wilson, said American security staff did aid the injured policemen. But the consulate goes into a state of automatic lockdown at the first sign of attack, and no consulate guards came outside during the gunfight.

Dagli, who killed two of the attackers before running out of bullets, told Turkish newspapers that consular officials sent him flowers in the hospital but that he refused to accept them.

I don't know about you, but it sounds to me like the Turkish guards were woefully unprepared and ill trained. In this 9/11 world you'd think more professional security precautions would already be in place at our consuls and embassies around the world.

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That'll teach me... US judge orders jihad terrorist free on bond

Here I was making fun of the UK's catch, release, then feather their nest terror policy and then I read this over at LGF. My head exploded:

A federal judge is overruling government objections and has ordered free on bond a former professor who has been in custody since 2003 as part of a wide-ranging terrorism investigation.

It’s unlikely that former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian will immediately be set free. It’s expected that he’ll be transferred to immigration authorities since he’s subject to deportation.

But U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema’s order could trigger provisions that bar the government from prosecuting Al-Arian for criminal contempt.

Remember when Musharraf declared a state of emergency and fired 60 Islamist sympathizer judges? The 'world community' was outraged, Pakistani lawyers took to the streets en masse - hell, the last time I checked they were still there. What's that tell you? Perhaps, they could be a tad extreme? Whatever, I'm beginning to think that Musharraf has a point and that we could use a little judicial spring cleaning over here ourselves.

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UK: Muslim beheading scene on TV drama provokes outrage.

Fools.

Guess who's holding the sword???? Why, it's the "EXTREMIST Christian". No surprise given that the show is a figment of the terminally pc BBC's imagination.

A BBC drama has triggered a barrage of complaints after it showed gruesome images of a Muslim being beheaded.

Bonekickers, about a group of archeological sleuths, depicted an extremist Christian decapitating a man with a sword.

The bloody scene has prompted 100 complaints since it was broadcast on BBC1 on Tuesday evening.

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Hot pursuit into Pakistan?

The other day in a comment Mr./Ms. MacZed asked the following question:

If you go to the NEFA website there are recent interviews with the leader of one Agency's Jihadis...he states that he can make one call and 120,000 armed men will come running to his banner. How many agencies are there in the NWFP? Yet it is a No-Go zone for our military. Bush said at the beginning of the War on Terror that any who harbor Terrorists will be considered an enemy of freedom and be treated as a terrorist. What happened to that strong approach?

I had been wondering the same thing, but alas, I had no good answer, either. So I perked up when I ran across this at Investors Business Daily. Mr./Ms. MacZed? This blurb's for you.

Hot Pursuit into Pakistan?

It appears hawks within the Pentagon and CIA have won a long-running policy battle with risk-averse officials in the administration and diplomats at the State Department. The result is a more aggressive, go-it-alone policy in response to Pakistan's failure to disrupt terrorist training camps and cross-border attacks against our troops and the Afghan government.

Politics and diplomacy had not produced the desired results, and they've had ample opportunity to work. For nearly seven years now — as we've coaxed, cajoled and even bribed our "ally" with billions in aid — Osama bin Laden and his henchmen have remained hidden inside Pakistan's tribal areas. Patience with Islamabad has run out. It's time for unilateral military action.

The U.S. military confirms it is sending extra air power to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border by moving the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman. The battle group ostensibly will provide air support for special forces who reportedly have been given the green light — after tumultuous debate within the White House — to conduct raids deep inside Pakistan's tribal belt to eradicate al-Qaida and Taliban bases.

What apparently got the State Department off the dime? Let's review.

• A 2006 peace deal brokered by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf that has led to a 40% increase in the number of cross-border attacks from Pakistan's tribal belt, where insurgents now operate with impunity.

• U.S. intelligence reports showing al-Qaida's leadership has carved out a secure base inside the tribal area, along with a band of camps for training a new cadre of Western-looking terrorists to attack the U.S.

• Reports that the flow of foreign fighters and funding into the Pakistani border region from the Middle East has soared as jihadists relocate from Iraq.

• U.S. and Afghan intelligence showing evidence the Pakistani military is arming, training and sharing logistical data with Taliban insurgents to help them target U.S. and Afghan troops.

• A border incident last month in which Pakistani soldiers fired on U.S. forces.

• Evidence the Pakistani government may be behind a campaign to destabilize the U.S.-backed Afghan government, including assassination attempts on Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

• The bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul, which killed 41 including Indian officials. Karzai has blamed Pakistan's military intelligence agency.

I say let's go get 'em.

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Archaeologists with rocks in their head

Archaeologists to refuse help over possible Iran strike.

PERSEPOLIS, once the capital of the Persian empire, and the massive mud-brick Bam citadel are among the nine listed World Heritage Sites in Iran. Yet leading archaeologists are urging colleagues to refuse any military requests to draw up a list of Iranian sites that should be exempted from air strikes.

"Such advice would provide cultural credibility and respectability to the military action," said a resolution agreed by the World Archaeological Congress in Dublin, Ireland, last week. Instead, delegates were advised to emphasise the harm that any military action would do to Iran's people and heritage.

During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, bombing damaged important monuments, including the Al-Zohur Palace in Baghdad, and museums and archaeological sites were later looted - even though archaeologists had been consulted in advance. "If these archaeologists had little impact in terms of saving even the few selected archaeological sites listed, what did they achieve?"

Maybe stuff like this? Archaeologists debunk claims of looting in S. Iraq war zone.

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Tony Snow R.I.P.

Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come...
will be able to separate us from the love of God.
Romans 8:38-39

Tony loved his family, loved his God and loved his country.
He was a great American.

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Life under al Qaeda

Is sounding a little bit like the Democratic Convention in Denver.

From The Boston Herald: Al-Qaeda took particular interest in clamping down on various food items.

“Islamo-puritans found the sight of cucumbers and tomatoes side by side sexually charged, so they ordered produce stands to keep them apart, and told restaurateurs like Khalaf Khalid to serve them on separate plates. “We obey them because they threatened to blow up the restaurant and kill us if we didn’t,” Khalid said, back when al-Qaeda was in command.

Al-Qaeda also took a “Just Say No” attitude toward ice. Mohammed didn’t have it, so Mosul’s residents could not, either.

“They prevented production and sale of ice in Mosul from last year,” Khalaf Abed Al-Hadidi, an ice manufacturer, told Agence France Presse. “Last summer was tough for us, but we couldn’t use the ice factory.”

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We got the watches, the air power and...COMBAT BARBIE!

Female Soldier dubbed Combat Barbie wins place in Miss England 2008 final.

A female squaddie who fought off a suspected Iraqi insurgent has swapped guns for glamour and won a place in the final of Miss England 2008.

Katrina Hodge, 21, dubbed 'Combat Barbie' after being honoured for saving the lives of members of her regiment, will represent England at Miss World 2008 if she wins in July. She wants to use her place in the Miss England competition to highlight the work of the Armed Forces.

Ms Hodge was given a bravery commendation in 2005 after members of her regiment were threatened at gunpoint by a suspected Iraqi insurgent after the vehicle they were travelling in overturned. She said: 'I was in complete shock at first. The force of the accident caused our vehicle to roll over three times and threw us off guard. 'As I came round, the Iraqi suspect was standing over us with the rifles. I knew if I didn't act fast then our lives would be in danger. I punched him and the force startled him enough for me to retrieve the rifles from him.'

Ms Hodge, a military clerk with The Adjutant General's Corps, has already won the Miss Tunbridge Wells crown. She said: 'I was delighted to have been selected for the Miss England final and it is a great honour.


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Journey Inside the Taliban

Briton's dangerous secret meeting with the warlords who will never surrender
By JAMES FERGUSSON

The Taliban, I learned, have a saying: 'You may have the watches, but we have the time.'

Hey, Mohammed. We got the air power. But seriously, who does their laundry? Don't these guys look well laundered for members of the Taliban militia??? Look at their snowy white turbans and immaculately pressed Taliban wear. I smell staged photo op.

Whatever, it just ends us being a huge, sloppy wet kiss to the Taliban by a Daily Mail reporter. What a symp. I knew we were in moonbat territory when I read this.

I wondered, too. Did men this brave and this resourceful really conform to the Western stereotype of small-minded, mad-eyed extremists? They sounded far more formidable than that. That's why I went to Afghanistan in February last year, three months after the siege of Now Zad was lifted, with the specific intention of meeting them.

There's way more. Read it all. And ask yourself, who does the laundry?

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Iraq: Uday's stolen cars found.

Stolen from the Presidential palace in 2003. Cars were buried in an al-Dora orchard.

The Iraqi police claim that they have foiled an attempt to smuggle Saddam Hussein's son's valuable cars out of the country.

The cars belong to Saddam's eldest son, Uday. Two Rolls Royces and several vintage classics were reportedly stolen from Uday's palace during looting that followed the 2003 US invasion.

The cars had been buried underneath an orchard in al-Dora, a city south of Baghdad. The police said they learned of the smuggling plot after a tip-off. It was not immediately clear what would happen to the cars, however.

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I read with sadness about the recovery

of the remains of kidnapped soldiers Sergeant Alex Jimenez and Private First Class Joseph J. Anzack Jr.

Then I read this about the search for Alex Jimenez and now I am HOT.

The search for him was halted for 9 hours and 38 minutes while the lawyers argued over wiretaps.

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.

This week, Congress plans to vote on a bill that leaves in place the legal hurdles in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - problems that were highlighted during the May search for a group of kidnapped U.S. soldiers.

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.

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. "The intelligence community was forced to abandon our soldiers because of the law," a senior congressional staffer with access to the classified case told The Post.

"How many lawyers does it take to rescue our soldiers?" he asked. "It should be zero."

Speechless.

Private Byron W. Fouty, 19.of Waterford, Mich., is still missing.

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Karachi kids : the latest.

Federal agents were seen outside the home of two teenage brothers early Friday morning and were expected to talk to the two boys about their religious teaching they received in Pakistan.
As you know it was Congressman Michael McCaul of Texas who met with Musharraf and asked for the boys release so I found this statement to be interesting.

The Khan family said they did not contact McCaul for his help, and McCaul said he heard about their situation from another source.

Are the Khan family saying they didn't ask for help in getting the boys back to avoid retribution from the Religion of Peace or what? Surely, they had contact with the Congressman before he went to Pakistan. Surely, they knew about the Karachi Kids documentary. I don't know, but I'm starting to wonder what the real deal is with dad. And what about Mom? So far she appears to be a non-entity in the whole situation.

From the Atlanta Journal Constitution:

The Khan family recently tried to get the boys out of Pakistan but were unable to obtain exit visas. "I sent a ticket. But I couldn't get the paperwork," Fazal Khan said Wednesday.

In broken English mixed with Urdu, he said he would be happy to have his boys back. "I am responsible for my children."

In Atlanta, the Khan brothers loved to watch "The Simpsons" and skateboard. They said in the film that their father grew angry with their habits and once threw the television out of the house. They said their father decided to send them to Pakistan after he discovered dust on their Quran, a sign they had failed to pick it up in a while.

The brothers arrived in Pakistan in 2004, unable to speak Urdu and communicate with others. They faced the daunting task of memorizing a 600-page Quran. Noor estimated it would take him eight years.

"My dad told me, 'I am not bringing you back until you memorize the Quran,' " he said on camera.

Fazal Khan did not want to answer in-depth questions about his sons, but said this week that he wanted them to have more exposure to Islam.

Let's hope the FBI can determine just how much more exposure to Islam they received.

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China: Just up and closes down mosques in advance of Olympics

Terror threat to games: China shuts 41 mosques.

Chinese authorities have replaced top police and security officials in the Muslim dominated Xinjiang province, which is the hotbed of separatism and political violence. They have also closed down 41 "illegal" places of worship. These places of worship were used as training ground for conducting a "holy war", Chen Zhuangwei Chen, the police chief of Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang province, said.

Uighurs.

Why were the police and security officials removed from their posts? The central government was "unhappy" with their inability to "put down" the surging separatist movement in the province.

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France: Moroccan woman denied citizenship.

Batten down the banlieues. The "Yutes" aren't going to like this one.

Her radical practice of Islam "incompatible" with French values.

Married to a French national, the woman arrived in France in 2000, speaks good French and has three children born in France. She wears a black burqa that covers all her body except her eyes, which are visible through a narrow slit, and lives in "total submission" to her husband and male relatives, according to reports by social services. Le Monde said the woman is 32. The woman's application for French nationality was rejected in 2005 on grounds of "insufficient assimilation". She appealed to the Council of State, which last month approved the rejection.

LeMonde, the French newsdaily states that this is the first time "a Muslim applicant had been rejected for reasons to do with personal religious practice."

Let's hope there will be many more. You want to live the Muslim way? Stay in your Muslim country. End of story.

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The old hide the jihad in the burka trick...

Results in jail time. Fiancee of July 21 bomber jailed for helping him escape - in her MOTHER'S burka. They even shaved his arms and gave him a white purse to clutch. Good. Unfortunately, being as this occurred in the UK, she'll probably be released and back on the dole in 6 weeks.
The fiancée of one of the failed July 21 bombers was sentenced to three years in jail today after assisting in his escape.

Fardosa Abdullahi was 18 when she gave Yassin Omar her mother's burka so he could disguise himself as he fled London to Birmingham the day attack the attacks in 2005. Abdullahi, 20, admitted helping her fiance escape the capital at a hearing at the Old Bailey last month, but her plea was only made public today.

She tried to cry off her sentence because she was "vulnerable" at the time and had a long history of mental illness. (aka Islam) She is now pregnant (the perfect candidate for motherhood) and it looks like that baby is going to be born in prison. I can only wonder if her jihadi is the daddy.

Judge Paul Worsley rejected her plea to avoid a jail sentence because she is now pregnant and was vulnerable at the time of the offence and had a long history of mental illness. He said: 'The message must go out that this court will not go soft of those who assist terrorists even those who are young, vulnerable and under pressure, as you undoubtedly were.'

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UK: Women have more children than at any time since 1973

Paging Mark Steyn.

Two-thirds of those born were born to women who are originally from overseas.

Each woman now has 1.91 children on average - the highest since 1973 - according to the Office for National Statistics.

As a result the number of births - 690,000 - increased by 20,000 in 2007 compared to the previous year, when there were 1.86 children per woman.

A third of those were born to British mothers and the rest to women originally from overseas.

One factor in the rise is the tendency for foreign-born mothers, particularly from the Indian sub-continent, to have large families.

Indian sub-continent = Muslims.

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Turkey: 4 detained after attack on US consul

"Right now, there are four people under custody,"

Besir Atalay, the Turkish interior minister, said in front of the Istanbul Security Forces Headquarters. "Three of them are in Istanbul, and the fourth one was brought from outside Istanbul."

Several Turkish news outlets have speculated about Al Qaeda involvement in the attack and there are claims that at least one gunmen received armed training in Afghanistan.

NTV, a private news television, claimed that Erkan Kargin, 26, one of the gunmen who was killed at the consulate, had been sentenced for his membership in IBDA-C, an illegal fundamentalist group here.

The two other assailants, Bulent Cinar, 23, and Raif Topcil, lived on the same street in Istanbul, and the police confiscated a number of publications and documents with unidentified religious content at their apartments, the same report said.

Hmmm. "Unidentified religious content"... suicide attacks ... illegal fundamentalist group ...

Now, who the heck could that be?

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al Qaeda's Austrian hostages - doing very poorly.

God bless them, the Austrian tourists who have been held by al Qaeda of the Islamic Magreb are still out there. Kidnapped on 3/1o, the latest report on their condition that I could find was from July 4.

Austrian al Qaeda hostage doing very poorly.

One of the two Austrians kidnapped by Al-Qeada in February is "doing very poorly," a Malian source close to the negotiations to free the hostages said Friday.

"One of the two hostages is doing very poorly. He should be placed under medical supervision urgently," a Malian official who wanted to remain anonymous told AFP.

He would not say which one of the hostages was ill or what his ailment was. One of the kidnap victims, Wolfgang Ebner, 51, told his son he was suffering from cholera and malaria when he spoke to him on the telephone in mid-June. The phone call was the first sign of life of the hostages in 110 days.

Their status:

The hostages "could have been freed" some 10 days ago "but something didn't work out," the Malian official said without giving details.

The kidnappers initially demanded the release of a number of Islamic extremists imprisoned in Algeria and Tunisia in exchange for the hostages.

They later asked for the withdrawal of Austrian troops from Afghanistan and the release of two Islamic militants jailed in Vienna.

Another source close to the negotiations said a five million euro (7.9 million dollars) ransom was also being sought.

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Karachi Kids: A statement by Imran Raza

Another email regarding today's release of the two American madrassa boys.

Imran Raza, the director and executive producer of the documentary "Karachi Kids" who discovered up to 80 American children in a Taliban-backed madrassa in Pakistan released the following statement regarding the return of two American children to Atlanta:

I am grateful for the safe return of the two American children from Atlanta from a Taliban- backed madrassa but the mullah claims to have up to 78 more in his institution. The headmaster comes to the United States once a year and personally recruits American children to enroll in his madrassa.

The remaining 78 children must be returned to the United States. This pipeline to jihad must be closed.

Let me be clear - these children do not learn math, or science, or liberal arts. They learn one thing - they memorize over the course of seven years every verse of the Koran coupled with the radical interpretation of their teachers.

This is just the first step in integrating these children back to American society. I am proud we did our part so we could say 'Welcome Home."

It is imperative that Members of Congress and the State Department undertake an accounting of just how many Americans are in the other 20,000 madrassas in Pakistan. Hundreds remain behind.

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Lebanon: Buns and Guns restaurant opens

The sandbags lend a nice touch, don't they?




Hezbollah has it their way.

The restaurant's founding comes during a particularly tense period in Lebanese politics. Fighting between supporters of the government and the Hezbollah-led opposition in May killed 81 people and raising fears of a renewed civil war. It ended only after a political deal that gives Hezbollah and its allies a strong portion of a unity government. But the restaurant's owners say the military motif has nothing to do with the security situation in Lebanon, but is meant to attract customers.

"The idea came before all the clashes that happened in Lebanon," co-owner Ali Hamoud told Associated Press Television News on Tuesday. "But in the end, (the fighting) helped in advertising the restaurant."

He said the restaurant had no direct connection with Hezbollah. But it could not operate in the heart of Hezbollah's south Beirut stronghold, where the guerrilla group's word is law, without its blessing — and Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV ran a story about the restaurant, a sign of the movement's support.

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UK: Abu Qatada squeezes the Charmin.

Crying out for a caption.

I found this pic of dirty, rotten, terror rat abu Qatada - make that abu Bumwad Qatada over at Asharq Alawsat with a photo credit so I don't think it's photoshopped.

It is nice to see how the terror bourgeoisie in the UK live, isn't it?

Wonder what Osama Bin Laden and Zawahiri are thinking about this pic.

You can bet they aren't wiping their butts with Charmin in the cave.

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Somali pirates free Lehmann Timber.

After a "large" ransom is paid.

Pirates have released a German cargo ship and 15 of its crew members unharmed, which was seized 41 days ago after receiving a large ransom, a shipping company said today.

East Africa's Coordinator of Seafarers Association, Mr Andrew Mwangura mentioned that the pirates released the MV Lehmann Timber after receiving US$750,000 ransom, saying soon after release the vessel was sailing for a safe port a day after the hijacking ended.


Unfortunately, the German Yachties are still being held. See here.


Pirates are currently demanding US$2 million dollars for the release of a German couple seized on 23 June as they sailed through the Gulf of Aden on a trip from Egypt to Thailand. This kidnapping is said to be the first instance where sea robbers snatched a small vessel ferrying a non-militant crew.



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Ahmadinejad: "US Generals are on my side."

I think those X-rays the other day must have scrambled the Persian Pipsqueak's little brain.

Top members of the US military "hold a special place for him in their heart."

In a video aired on Iranian public TV, hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has claimed that top members of the US military "hold a special place for him in their heart," Shahb News reported.