Iran to file annual Human Rights abuses report...

on the US and use it to "condemn the US in the UN general assembly".

Majlis Research Center has called for the approval of a law by Majlis, based on which Iran’s Foreign Ministry would be obliged to publicize US human rights violations.

In a report, the center’s Office for Political Studies elaborated on instances of human rights violations in the US, ISNA reported.The center noted that many human rights bodies, including Amnesty International and the United Nations Human Rights Commission, have expressed serious concerns over these violations. “This is while Washington constantly interferes in the internal affairs of other countries on the pretext of rights violation,“ he said.

Majlis Research Center recommended Majlis to entitle the Foreign Ministry to prepare an annual report on human rights violations in the US. The report said Iran is entitled to direct the attention of Amnesty International and other world bodies to such violations and condemn the US in the UN General Assembly.

Oh, please.

Follow up To Iranian (a-hem) work accident

Ah yes, the recent explosion at Parchin.

Work accident, or Delta Force?

Inside job, or Mossad?

Global warming?

Who knows? Chances are we never will - but here's some addl info on Parchin to think about...and it makes me smile to think that maybe, just maybe the US had a little something to do with it.

The wide range of military activities at Parchin does not stop at manufacturing missiles of different sorts; interestingly, the Chemical Project is very busy making the new generation of Explosively Formed Penetrators (EFP) especially ordered by the Qods Force to supply to its proxies in Iraq. Kalantari, a specialist and director of Quality Control at project five of Parchin facility is overseeing the manufacturing process.

The testing grounds for newly developed EFPs are a military drilling field called Hesar Amir belonging to the Defense Ministry. The field is located in the extended Parchin Complex which is the main testing grounds for all newly manufactured products.The Explosion in Parchin highlighted the IRGC's ill intentions not only in proliferating WMD, but a more acute problem in Iraq that is the manufacture of the EFP's.

There's more at the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

And there is this: Iran sticking to pledge to halt arms flow.

Yeah, because they're all blown up now!!!!!!!

Bwa-ha-ha-ha.

Tiptoe through the tulips at the Democratic debacle debate.

You practically needed a machete, the plants were so thick on the ground in the Dem's Vegas debacle debate.

Instead of the "ordinary people, undecided voters" trumpeted by CNN - each and every one was a trumped up DEM operative. (h/t Doug Ross)

They were:

LaShannon Spencer - introduced as an undecided voter. She served as the political director of the Arkansas Democratic party.

Suzanne Jackson - the Marine's mom is an antiwar activist well known in protest circles

Judy Bagley - the casino cashier is a union official with Culinary Local 226

Khalid Khan - is president of the Islamic Society of Nevada (hosts of well known Islamonut Mohammed Siddiqui) and has appeared on the CNN special "Keeping the Faith in Sin City" or how Muslims can live in Vegas with all that sin and stuff.

Maria Luisa - Remember the diamonds or pearls girl from UNLV? Well, she is not EVEN ELIGIBLE to vote because she is an immigrant on a quest to become a US citizen and oh yes, a Harry Reid staffer. (Update: My bad - it looks like Maria Luisa became a citizen in 2006. Read her touching story - if you've got a strong stomach. It pretty much glorifies the whole illegal experience.)

George Ambriz - A radical Chicano separatist and former president of M.E.Ch.A. - the hispanic separatist organization that encourages Anti American activities and civil disobedience.

Yep. Ordinary folks, just like you and me.

Read it all. (Mr. Ross has much more on the subject.)

Can you imagine how loud the Dems would be screaming if Fox News tried to pull something like this?

AQ: And another one's gone, and another one's gone...

Another one bites the dust.

The U.S. forces killed a wanted al-Qaida cell leader and his two family members on Tuesday during a raid in Mosul, capital of Nineveh province in northern Iraq, a provincial police officer said.

"U.S. troops at dawn raided a house in the neighborhood of al-Rifaq, eastern Mosul, killing a man, his wife and a one-year-old child," Brig. Abdul-Kareem al-Jubouri, director of the provincial security operations office, told Xinhua.

Jubouri quoted a U.S. military source as saying that the man was leader of a local group affiliated to al-Qaida organization, and he was wanted by the U.S. forces.

More on the closure of Iraq's Umm al Qura Mosque

We talked last week about the closure of Iraq's Umm al Qura mosque here.

Now, Bill Roggio over at the Long War journal fills in the backstory for us and he's right - it just keeps getting better and better.


Sunni Clerics turn on association of Muslim scholars.


Wednesday's closure of the headquarters of the Association of Muslim Scholars at the Umm al Quraa mosque marks a dramatic shift in the Sunni religious establishment. Prominent Sunni clerics, who once supported, justified, or remained silent about al Qaeda's terror tactics, have now turned on the leading Sunni religious establishment that supports al Qaeda in Iraq.

On November 14, Iraqi soldiers surrounded the headquarters of the Association of Muslim Scholars after Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al Samarrai, the leader of the Sunni Religious Endowments, or Waqf, ordered the mosque's closure. "The association has always justified killing and assassinations carried out by al Qaeda," Samarrai said the day the troops shut down the Umm al Quraa mosque.Samarrai's criticism of the Association of Muslim Scholars was pointed. He accused the Association of collusion with al Qaeda in Iraq and held the group responsible for the murder of Iraqi Sunni and Shia alike. Iraqslogger excerpted portions of Samarrai's statements, which were originally reported on Voices of Iraq in Arabic:


Do read it all.

You Tube Islamist arrested for threats against UK official.

And it just happens to be an official who is opposing the construction of the Mega Mosque. (h/t Religion of Peace)

This SURE doesn't make Islam look very good for London now then, does it?


A man who placed an "obituary" on YouTube of one of the leading opponents of plans to build Europe's biggest mosque near the London Olympics site has been arrested by police. The video, "In memory of Councillor Alan Craig", features the Leader of the Christian Peoples Alliance party, his wife and two daughters...


Commenting, Cllr Craig said: "This incident now seems over. I will not be intimidated by threats of any kind as important issues about this mosque have to be addressed in an open and fair fashion. This whole episode has exposed the reality that some Muslims accustomed to using either violence, intimidation, or the threat of violence are linked to the idea of this mosque.

"I cannot say it often enough: the proposed mosque will be bad for London, bad for the community and an invitation for the propagation of separatist and fundamentalist Islamic ideas.


Up to now, Mayor Ken Livingstone and the Labour establishment have turned a blind eye to the real nature of the organisation behind the mega-mosque. I hope they will look more seriously at them now."


Mr Craig represents Canning Town South ward in Newham borough, where he has the support of many Muslim residents in the area in his opposition to plans for the "mega-mosque" at Abbey Mills, near West Ham tube station, which will have a 12,000 capacity. It is being proposed by the controversial Islamist group Tablighi Jamaat, whose previous adherents include Glasgow airport bomber Kafeel Ahmed, shoe bomber Richard Reid and the July 7 bombers Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer.


The Christian Peoples Alliance is Britain's first political party of Christian Democrat inspiration and carries the support of sister parties across the European Union.

Nice work if you can get it: New Jihad terror manual being written

Terror for dummies? The manual will be released tomorrow and is expected to "shake up Al Qaeda. But I'm not really so sure about that. The author, jailed terror leader Sayd Imam, is being forced to write it by Egyptian authorities and get this HE'S BEING PAID!!!

The new manual will call for an end to all Jihadi operations inside Arab-Islamic countries as well as an end to the killings of civilians in general and tourists, in particular, of all nationalities.

No word on what will happen to us infidels. What do you think?


Sayd Imam is currently imprisoned in a Cairo jail. He was the founder and first commander of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organisation, whose supporters assassinated President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and later worked with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in the war against the Soviet Occupation. He worked with al-Qaeda number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, another Egyptian doctor and now Bin Laden's deputy, before being kidnapped in Yemen after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Imam was interrogated by the CIA and extradited to Egypt where he has been serving a life sentence since 2004.

According to a representative of Jamaa-al-Islamiya, Najih Ibrahim, the book is "a very important document because it is the most important initiative by the Jamaa al-Islamiyah directly to its members in Egypt and around the world."

Reports say that Jamaa al-Islamiya was once the largest Jihadist organisation in the Arab world which mounted countless armed attacks starting in the 1980s until it called a ceasefire after the massacre of 62 foreign tourists at Luxor in 1997.

According to the Saudi newspaper al-Watan, Sayd Imam was forced by the Egyptian authorities to write this document while in prison. The 80-page book appears to have been written in exchange for money. Despite this, al-Watan, believes that its criticism of al-Qaeda is likely to have a direct influence on the organisation and in particular on Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's second in command. Al-Zawahiri was a good friend of Dr. Fadel, who is well-known throughout the Jihadi world for having written some of the most important books on Jihadi ideology.

Sayd Imam's manual is expected to generate a crisis within al-Qaeda. Imam's lawyer, Montaser al-Zayyat, told the Egyptian newspaper al-Misriun, that Osama Bin Laden has begun a series of consultations within the terror organisation to prevent new divisions. There is concern that Sayd Imam's manual may provoke discontent and defections within al-Qaeda.

Sayd Imam has a strong influence within the Jihadi world and can influence the militants in various al-Qaeda cells. "For this reason, Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri are aware of what this can do and recently had a summit in which they expressed their concern," said Zayyat. It's this concern that led Osama bin Laden to release his an audio message in October in which he admitted mistakes made in Iraq and said that they should be corrected.

It also also led to a message by al-Zawahiri in November announcing that the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group have joined al-Qaeda - a move believed to have been taken to calm tensions in view of the expected publication of Sayd Imam's book.

Who is the Religion of Peace here again?

Buddhist Monks look at the meaning of happiness, while Muslim Muftis have a shoot out and kidnap each other.

You tell me.

Hotspot: Pakistan

It looks like the Army is getting ready to move on the Swat Valley.

Pakistan says offensive looming in militant valley

Pakistan will launch a major operation "any time from now" to clear militants loyal to a pro-Taliban cleric from a scenic northwestern valley, an army general said Saturday.

Major General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, director general of military operations for the Pakistan army, said he hoped the mountainous Swat area would be reopened for tourism by the end of December.

He said five days of clashes in which the army reports around 100 militants have been killed are only a prelude to the impending large-scale offensive...

"The operation will start any time from now. The concept is to clear Swat of militants," he added. "For the moment we are just picking up anybody visible and pounding any known hideouts with helicopters."

Sectarian clashes between Sunni and Shia kill 30. That's in Pakistan - not Iraq, folks. Each accuses the other of initiating the violence. Religion. Of. Peace.
At least 30 people were killed and over 100 others injured in sectarian clashes between rival Sunni and Shiite Muslims in northwestern Pakistan, police said Saturday.

The clashes began Friday in Parachinar, a town near the Afghan border, when gunmen opened fire on a Sunni mosque, said Mohammed Nadeem, a local police official. Since then, armed men from the two groups have been attacking each other with assault rifles and other weapons.

He said gunbattles were still raging in the town, despite a curfew and appeals from authorities for religious leaders to help stop the fighting.

Flip...

Musharraf warns on nuclear weapons LONDON, Nov 17 (Reuters): President Pervez Musharraf, defending his decision to declare emergency rule, in a BBC interview Saturday said that if elections were held in a “disturbed environment”, it could bring in dangerous elements who might pose a risk to control of Pakistan's nuclear weapons. “They cannot fall into the wrong hands, if we manage ourselves politically. The military is there - as long as the military is there, nothing happens to the strategic assets, we are in charge and nobody does anything with them,” he said.

Flop...
Foreign Office denies BBC report based on Musharraf interview (APP): Pakistan on Saturday denied a BBC report that claimed President Pervez Musharraf had told the network in an interview that the country's nuclear weapons could fall into wrong hands. In the interview the President had stated that these weapons could not fall into wrong hands, the Foreign Office spokesman said while commenting on the BBC report. “This report is a complete distortion of the President's interview,” the spokesman said. The spokesman said that contrary to the report, President Musharraf had reiterated that the nuclear weapons “cannot fall into wrong hands”. “He (President) had argued that because the military organization is responsible for their safety and security, our strategic assets are totally secure and in no danger of falling in wrong hands,” the spokesman said.

US warns Pakistan's Musharraf over military aid: diplomats but Pervez doesn't appear to budge.

A top US envoy warned Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf Saturday that Washington will its review military aid to the country unless he lifts a state of emergency, diplomats said. John Negroponte, number two in the US State Department, met Musharraf for two hours of talks Saturday which diplomats had said he would use to send "a very strong message" to end the two-week-old emergency rule. Western diplomats said Negroponte told Musharraf "military aid would be under review" if he did not quit the army, hold elections on time, lift curbs on the media and release political prisoners. "Both sides gave their views very clearly," one diplomat said. But the military ruler told Negroponte that he could only restore the constitution when the security situation improved, a senior presidential aide told AFP.

Militants blame John Negroponte for violence in Swat. Read their spin.
"A ceasefire is a possibility but it is up to the government to decide," he said. "However our government is under intense American pressure and therefore it is compelled to carry out the operation. But if you ask our opinion, a compromise is very easy. "Our people want the enforcement of Islamic laws. If the government would enforce those laws, a ceasefire will happen immediately," said Sirajuddin.

Three Supreme Court Judges want to quit bench in advance of next week's hearing on Musharraf's imposition of emergency law - I think.
Three judges on a 10-member Supreme Court bench hearing petitions against the imposition of emergency on Friday said they wanted to opt out of the bench.Justice Mohammad Nawaz Abbasi, Justice Faqir Mohammad Khokhar and Justice M. Javed Buttar said judicial propriety demanded that they detached themselves from the bench after President Gen Pervez Musharraf had cited their recent judgments to justify the imposition of emergency.

Widow of slain Pakistani reporter killed in blast: More handiwork from the Religion of Peace.
The widow of a Pakistani journalist, shot dead last year after reporting that an Al-Qaeda leader was killed by a U.S. missile, was killed in a bomb blast on Saturday. The bomb planted outside the family house in Mir Ali town, in North Waziristan near the Afghan border, went off early in the morning, killing Mehr-un-Nisa, on the spot. “All her five children who slept in the same room survived miraculously,” said her brother-in-law, Ihsanullah Khan. Mehr's husband, Hayatullah Khan, was found dead in June 2006 nearly seven months after he was abducted shortly after reporting on an explosion in a militant hideout near the Afghan border that killed Abu Hamza Rabia. Hayatullah who reported for various publications, was the first journalist to photograph fragments found at the scene that appeared to be from a U.S. missile.

Still with me? Read more from Benazir Bhutto's niece, Fatima, about Benazir and her return to Pakistan. She's not happy.
The clash between Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto during the country's current state of emergency is a "farce", according to Bhutto's niece, Fatima...

As for Benazir's house arrest, revoked on Thursday, the young Bhutto described it as a joke."Have you ever seen anyone placed under house arrest released continually for interviews and even receive an American consul?" she said.

Is Islam good for London?

Attendees at the "Is Islam good for London" debate.

If they were in a Muslim country the women would be off in the basement listening to the debate on an audio feed.

And that pic in the background would be put to the torch.

Just sayin.'

You gotta know what my answer is...and that would be a resounding no.

Unfortunately if you agree with me, you will find yourself in the minority according to the Evening Standard's opinion poll which shows seven that out of 10 people believe Muslims make a "positive contribution" to the economy of the capital.

This poll was held in conjunction with the Evening Standard's "Is Islam good for London?" debate held last night.

Panelists (and their answer to the question is Islam good for London) included:

No - Rod Liddle, Former editor of BBC's Today Programme.

Yes - Inayat Bunglawala, Asst. Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Britain

No - Joan Smith, Novelist, columnist and human rights activist

Yes - Prof Michael Burleigh, Academic, historian and author

Yes - Ed Husain, Author of the highly-acclaimed book, The Islamist

More of their remarks can be found here.

Celebrity Dhimmi bonus! Jemima Khan is in the house! She just "happens" to get called on and earns her useful idiot designation by offering a lame brain "It's all in the interpretation" defense of Islam. When challenged about the reality of Islamic terror, she excuses the cold, hard truth that today's terror is Islamic by referring to the past evils committed by Christians.


It's not pretty, folks. Coverage and video of the event can be found here.

The dollar, the Saudis and our friends at OPEC

Saudis seek to squelch dollar debate.

The accidental airing of a closed OPEC session Friday provided a surprise glimpse into a sensitive debate over the weakening U.S. dollar, with Saudi Arabia's foreign minister warning that even talking publicly about the currency's decline could further hurt its value.

The high-profile blunder ahead of a rare OPEC summit revealed the debate as Iran attempted to convince other member countries to express concern over dollar depreciation in the meeting's final declaration.

Oil is priced in dollars on the world market, and its depreciation has concerned oil producers because it has contributed to rising crude prices and has eroded the value of their dollar reserves. Cartel officials have resisted pressure to increase oil production to ease prices.

Who was behind the press to abandon the dollar?

Why, none other than Iran and Venezuela....of course, it was seconded by Nigeria.

“The reality is that we have this problem. I think we should draft the declaration to reflect our concerns,” Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said during a pre-summit meeting here with fellow ministers from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

Their proposal:

Iran and Venezuela have proposed trading oil in a basket of currencies to replace the historic link to the dollar, but they have been unable to generate enough support from fellow OPEC members. Both nations have antagonistic relationships with the U.S., suggesting their proposals may have a political motivation as well.

Gee, ya think?

The Saudis came out swinging:

But Saud al-Faisal, foreign minister of U.S. ally Saudi Arabia, came out against the proposal with unusually frank comments.

“In my feeling, the mere mention that the OPEC countries are studying the issue of the dollar is itself going to have an impact that endangers the interests of the countries,” he said.

“We all should be worried if any action that we take will lead us to do some injury to our returns on our product,” said Mr. al-Faisal. “Nobody wants to have less money than more money. I am sure that we all agree on that.”

He went further today in his speech at the opening of the summit, adding:

" oil should not be allowed to become a tool of war.."

Now, about that inadvertent transmission of the session. Was it a real blunder or... just some OPEC political theatre? You gotta wonder.

The closed meeting was accidentally broadcast to journalists and after approximately 40 minutes, an official rushed into the press room and yanked the television cable out of the wall.

Update: Hugo Chavez speaks. 100USD is fair price for oil...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said 100 usd is 'a fair price' for a barrel of oil, adding prices could rise as high as 200 usd if the US continues to threaten OPEC members such as Iran.

He said in his speech to the Third OPEC Summit in Riyadh that '100 usd is a just price, it is a fair price'.

'If the US is crazy enough to invade iran or to threaten Venezuela, then the price of oil will not be 100 usd, it will be 200 usd,' he said in his speech to dignatories at the inaugural session of the summit, attended by heads of all member states.

'(The opec states) need stability, we need to know the world powers do not expect us to guarantee regular supply and stqbility of prices without anything in return.'

Update: And look who else decided to join in the fun? Ahmadinejad joins leaders in Riyadh for OPEC Summit.

A smiling Ahmadinejad, who waved to television cameras as he walked from his plane, was greeted by Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah.

Leaders from Algeria, Angola, Indonesia, Iraq, Kuwait, Nigeria, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have already arrived in Riyadh, the centre of which has been brought to a stand-still because of security arrangements.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is expected later Saturday and he is to be joined by leftist Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa who will seal the return of the country to OPEC, bringing the cartel's membership to 13.

A representative of Libya is also expected but it is unknown if leader Moamer Kadhafi will attend.

Saturday and Sunday have been declared a public holiday for residents of the Saudi capital due to the tight security, with the main roads in the centre of the city closed to traffic.

OPEC now numbers 13 - hope it's unlucky for them.

Update: Well, we can all heave a deep sigh of relief now. Al Gore will be so pleased! OPEC plans to fight climate change. Their grand plan (and yes, there is something in it for them):

The group's Secretary General, Abdullah al-Badri, said on Thursday that carbon capture and storage (CCS) could be a solution and that OPEC would be willing to play its part to develop the technology.

CCS involves capturing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) that are produced from burning fossil fuels, and storing them underground chiefly in depleted oil and gas fields.

CCS may be one of the best ways to cut emissions of man-made heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming, but development has been slowed by high costs and legal and safety risks, a United Nations study said.

The technology, most valued for capturing carbon from coal, may benefit oil producers economically, not least because the CO2 can be used to push yet more oil out of near-depleted wells.

The Dinah Lord Classic

It's a beautiful Saturday morning, people.

Let's hit the links!

In Veni, Vidi, ...Verto? Taheri on Putin's Visit to Tehran: GW over at Wolf Howling gives us the down low on the Pooty-poot's reaction. Let's just say they didn't play golf and Putin didn't catch the 'Mahdi fever' while he was there.

Citizen Warrior hits a hole in one with this one! Good one, CW! Modern Revelations about Islamic Revelations.

Just in case you missed it - Marked Manner points out an important endorsement picked up by Hillary Clinton after this weeks Democrat debacle debate. Hamas supports Hillary Clinton in 2008 (P.S. Check out all the jihadi links in the sidebar Marked Manner has for you to pwn with.)

Watcher is keeping his/her Eye on the World (and on the ball!) with this feel good story out of Iran. Iran: Massive Explosion in Parchin Missile site of Guard Corps.

Aurora over at The Midnight Sun managed to get the real deal on the Hollyweird writer's strike. That's right. It's All Rush Limbaugh's Fault.

I've long worried about the Wahhabi threat in our prisons. WC over at The Gathering Storm posts about a recent court decision on a case brought by - wait for it, MODERATE MUSLIM PRISONERS that might just offer a ray of hope. Disgruntled Muslim Prisoners Fed Up with Islamic Indoctrination

Remember the CIA/FBI spy that was in the news for a nanosecond before being buried deep in a sand trap? USpace at Hard To Swallow puts his own unique spin on the situation with Tanka and quality linkage in Hard To Swallow: MSM Passes on Bush-Bashing to Stay Quiet about Possible Alien Jihadi Spy Inside CIA via FBI...
Check it out.

19th hole...you're going to need a drink to get through this. (Watch the hands there, Willie Jeff!)

Chavez demands apology from the King of Spain

claims he "didn't hear" King Carlos telling him to shut up and goes on to say this:

"If I had heard him ... I would have stared him down like an Indian, because I am an Indian and a little bit black and white," he said.

One year of captivity for kidnapped contractors.

Thank you Vicki No Veil for reminding us.

(h/t The Jawa Report)

This is an anniversary that should never have been allowed to take place. One year ago today, five employees of Crescent Security were guarding a convoy of trucks taking supplies from Kuwait to Iraq, when they were stopped at a phony checkpoint. The contractors, Americans Paul Reuben, John Young, Jonathan Cote and Josh Munns, and Austrian Bert Nussbaumer, were abducted by men including some believed to be disgruntled former Crescent Security employees. Others have described the kidnappers as being part of Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army.

Whatever happened to the spirit of "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!"?

I agree with the government's policy of not negotiating with terrorists, but that assumes that the hostages aren't just being abandoned to their fate. To me that means searching for and rescuing the hostages and then killing or arresting the abductors. It doesn't mean that families should have to shoulder the responsibility of finding their loved ones and selling t-shirts to raise money for their ransom. I greatly admire the families that have refused to give up and let their husbands and sons be forgotten. But it shouldn't be necessary.

Please continue to pray for the safe release of these and other hostages in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pray that their families will be strengthened and renewed to continue their efforts, and that they will be blessed by a happy reunion with their loved ones.

This is a crying shame. Prayers up, Miss Vicki.

Imran Khan on hunger strike. Sort of.

What is it with these lefties and their fake hunger strikes? (Columbia. Code Pink.)

He did have some juice and water.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan, protesting against his detention, emergency and arrest of his party workers, observed a hunger strike on Friday in Dera Ghazi Khan jail, sources revealed to The Post.The jail administration tried its best to make him eat but in vain, the sources said. However, he (Imran) agreed to take juice and water some time later, they added. According to reports, Imran was transported to Dear Ghazi Khan jail in a police truck after 14 hours of tedious journey.The PTI chief was treated as a dangerous criminal and no one was allowed to meet him, sources said. On his arrival, two doctors, one from the jail admin and other from DG Khan, examined him and issued a fitness certificate.

It must be catching - the Paki lawyers are trying it too.

A wicked googly - if you can make heads or tails of How and Who Bowled Imran Khan out, you're doing better than me.

Al Qaeda: Chased out of Iraq with their tails between their legs.

Chased out of Waziristan and now Al Qaeda chased from last Baghdad bastion.

(I pray that we will be able to continue to chase these scumbags to the ends of the earth.)

An armed Sunni group has ended Al-Qaeda’s tight two-year grip on north Baghdad’s volatile Adhamiyah neighbourhood and is now in control, an AFP correspondent witnessed on Friday.

A local militia calling itself the “revolutionaries of Adhamiyah” took over the Sunni district on the east bank of the Tigris on November 10 in a swift and audacious raid that sent Al-Qaeda fleeing from its last stronghold in Baghdad.

On Friday, members of the “revolutionaries of Adhamiyah” controlled main roads into the neighbourhood as well the square housing the famous Abu Hanifa mosque where Saddam Hussein made his last public appearance before fleeing Baghdad in 2003 as US-led forces invaded the country. A Sunni bastion encircled by Shiite districts, Adhamiyah had been one of the most dangerous areas of Baghdad, under the tight control of Al Qaeda “emirs”.

Next stop - I wonder, will it be the Pakistani tribal regions or Africa?

7 Terrorists Nabbed in France

Seven Suspected "Militants" held in France. (h/t The Jawa Report)

French authorities have detained seven suspected Islamic militants who allegedly trained to fight in Iraq by firing weapons in the woods of eastern France, police officials said Friday. Six of the men are French nationals of Bosnian origin, and the seventh is Algerian, the officials said. The men, ranging in age from early 20s to mid-40s, were arrested on Tuesday in the towns of Besancon and Pontarlier in eastern France. At least one was a student; another is a teacher.

Police and anti-terror investigators say anger over the Iraq war (oh yeah, that's right. See below.) has radicalized some young Muslims in France, which has Western Europe's largest Muslim population, estimated at 5 million.

Judicial authorities believe dozens of youths, some just young teens, have left from France for Iraq to join the insurgency. Some have been killed there. Police are particularly worried that some French youths with roots in North Africa may be traveling to Iraq, without being noticed, traveling via countries including Algeria and Morocco.

French counterterrorism officials worry that such militants could return home with skills learned in combat and a desire to carry out terror attacks in France — even though the country opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and has ruled out sending troops to help U.S. forces battling insurgents there.

Oh, but it's all about Iraq...really.

On a personal note, my husband travels to Besancon on business all the damn time...

Iraqi MDs murdered by the Religion of Peace.

Male gynos attacked by Islamists.

Male gynaecologists are being targeted by Islamic extremists in Iraq as they are accused of invading the privacy of women. Women’s NGOs have raised concerns as there are few women gynaecologists in the country and their male counterparts are scared to continue working.

“Because of the extremists’ religious views, doctors are scared to continue with their work and the number of women gynaecologists is very low and cannot meet the demand,” said Mayada Zuhair, spokeswoman for the Women’ Rights Association (WRA).

“Extremists say that [male] doctors are not allowed to see the private parts of women and two male doctors were reportedly killed last week after leaving their clinics. A message was left near their bodies saying that was the end for any doctor who insists in invading the privacy of Muslim women,” Mayada added.

Makes you wonder what they would be thinking about this: Virgin Territory: Muslim Women's Virginity Repair High Priority for NHS - while UK soldiers wait for treatment.
(h/t tip to the dynamic and lovely Miss Velvet over at Ironic Surrealism.)

UN sanctions looking less and less likely

China deals blow to Western efforts to punish Iran... drops out of November 19 meet.

China has dealt a blow to Western efforts to increase diplomatic pressure on Iran over its nuclear program by dropping out of a meeting to discuss tougher sanctions against Tehran.

Russia, which like China opposes further U.N. sanctions against Iran, added fuel to the fire by announcing on Friday that the U.N. nuclear watchdog would soon start inspecting and sealing atomic fuel bound for an Iranian reactor... Russia has given no specific date when it will send the nuclear fuel to Bushehr, but says it would be sent six months before the plant's start-up.

These guys are really starting to annoy me. I would like to deal a blow to Chinese efforts to host the Olympics.

The UK, France and Germany are all holding firm with France, and now Germany, pushing for EU sanctions similar to the US's.

Meanwhile Iran and China vow to boost ties and the Iranians want the US to apologize for lying to world public opinion, of all things. Oh please, don't make me laugh.

The US does some saber rattling by way of reply.

It's interesting to note that the NY Times is reporting that Iran was blocked from purchasing Nuclear materials at least 75 times over the last nine years.

/But it's for peaceful purposes, right?

More on that SA nuke break in...

Reactor raid renews fear about nukes in Africa.

Six security officials at Pelindaba, a high-security facility west of Pretoria, have been suspended, according to Rob Adam, chief executive of the South African Nuclear Energy Corp. Officials suspect the Nov. 8 raid was carried out by "technically sophisticated criminals" familiar with the facility's electronic security systems.

Formal commission of inquiry called for.

ACDP president Kenneth Meshoe has called for a formal commission of inquiry to determine how armed attackers were able to bypass the security systems at one of South Africa’s most closely guarded national key points.

Meshoe said he was not sure what South Africa could teach other countries about security at nuclear sites after such an embarrassing incident.

“It is embarrassing that a country that is hosting the International Atomic Energy Agency convention on nuclear safety soon should have such serious security breach.”

Not to worry, Mr. Meshoe. It is the IAEA after all.

Read about South Africa's nuclear history - the only country to build and dismantle nukes here. (the Penlindaba facility just makes medical nukes now)

It's important to note that SA played a large role in the Paki acquisition of nukes. (courtesy of the Acorn.)

...South Africa was also an important node in Pakistan’s illicit nuclear proliferation network. In addition to using the country as a trans-shipment point, A Q Khan’s accomplices had an entire centrifuge factory there. Given that Pakistan’s proliferation apparatus is still functional, and other cases of South Africans involved in

Want to read more? Idaho Samizdat is your man. Read the 6 questions he has concerning the event here.