Mayor kicks Marines out of Toledo

Marines don't need practice, it would scare people who have seen it before! No scaring the poor liberals or terrorists! That would be unfair.

Mayor kicks Marines out of Toledo : News : WNWO NBC24: "Mayor Carty Finkbeiner on Friday ordered some 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines from Grand Rapids, Michigan, out of Toledo just before the unit was suppose to start a weekend of urban warfare training downtown.

The mayor’s spokesperson Brian Schwartz said, “the mayor asked them to leave because they frighten people. He did not want them practicing and drilling in a highly visible area.'

Toledo police said they knew about the training and had approved the unit’s use of the Madison Building and the Promenade Park area. The training was scheduled to start Friday afternoon and last until Sunday. Police said the unit’s presence would have a minimal impact on the city. Police issued a press release earlier in the week saying the marines would be wearing green camouflage uniforms, operate military vehicles, carry rifles, perform foot patrols, and fire blank ammunitiion during the exercise.

Schwartz said there was a breakdown in communication between police and the Finkbeiner administration that led to the mayor’s action."

Chronic pain seen altering how brain works - Yahoo! News

Just an interesting item. Thought provoking.

Chronic pain seen altering how brain works - Yahoo! News: "Brain scans of people in chronic pain show a state of constant activity in areas that should be at rest, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday, a finding that could help explain why pain patients have higher rates of depression, anxiety and other disorders.

They said chronic pain seems to alter the way people process information that is unrelated to pain.

'It seems that enduring pain for a long time affects brain function in response to even minimally demanding attention tasks completely unrelated to pain,' the researchers wrote in the Journal of Neuroscience.

Dante Chialvo, a researcher at Northwestern University in Chicago who worked on the study, said: 'People with chronic pain -- meaning pain that lasts more than six months after their injury -- have many other issues that affect their quality of life as much as pain. It is not known where they come from.'"

Arrested and strip searched for talking to a man

The joys of living in a totalitarian state. Why do Americans think that just because they were there for a little while and were treated special, that is the real way of life? How ignorant does one have to be to think that Islam does not rule in the Islamic Kingdom?

lgf: moving every zig for great justice: "Yara, who does not want her last name revealed because of safety concerns, is a managing partner at a Saudi financial company. She went to hear Bush speak, and she said she invited him later to tour her company’s offices, to give him a sense of what life was really like for women living in the capital.

“I was boasting about Riyadh, telling him it doesn’t deserve its bad reputation,” she said. “I told him I never experienced any harassment. I’d had no trouble as a woman. It was business as usual.”

But on Monday, Yara learned that she had been wrong. She was thrown in jail, strip-searched, threatened and forced to sign false confessions by the kingdom’s “Mutaween” police. “When I was arrested, it was like going through an avalanche,” she said. “All of my beliefs were completely destroyed.”"

Egypt braces for border showdown with Hamas, Israel sustains 30-missile pounding from Gaza

More missiles fired to kill random innocents. The UN and world yawn.

However, the good news is that the Egyptians and even Saudis are more afraid of allowing the Pallys freedom than the Free World is! Of course they fear these murderous animals. The Pallys have been indoctrinated in murder and hate for decades. It is all they know! Only the older ones can remember a life without hate - and when they are honest they remember that it is the Arabs who used them to embarrass the Jews fleeing from the concentration camps.

But who cares? It is only World Peace! The best way to achieve World Peace, according to the Left, is to impeach Bush and kill the Jews! There were never any wars that did not involve Bush and the Jews trying to conquer the world! It is easy to rewrite history, it is harder to remember it once your brain has been told lies over and over for decades.


DEBKAfile - DEBKAfile: Egypt braces for border showdown with Hamas, Israel sustains 30-missile pounding from Gaza: "Egypt braces for border showdown with Hamas, Israel sustains 30-missile pounding from Gaza

February 8, 2008, 9:05 PM (GMT+02:00)

Friday, Feb. 8, Egyptian troops manning the Gaza-Sinai border were given extra security after Hamas threatened to attack them and stage kidnappings, if 15 of their gunmen were not released. The Egyptians were told to stay together in armed groups of three and posted snipers on the rooftops on their side of the divided Gazan town of Rafah.

The escalation of Palestinian violence from Gaza has created an explosive situation on its Israel and Egyptian borders. Friday, terrorist groups fired 30 missiles at Israeli civilians, targeting Ashkelon as well as Sderot and its neighbors. At least 10 people suffered shock and minor injuries. The damage was heavy. Terrorist spokesmen advised Israeli civilians to leave town as more intensive barrages were ahead. Israel and its emergency services are on high weekend alert.

An intelligence source told DEBKAfile that if the situation veers out of control, Egyptian troops may be ordered to cross into the Gaza Strip to capture Palestinian terrorists. Hamas threatens to retaliate against Egyptian forces in Sinai.

The 15 armed Palestinians arrested in the Egyptian peninsula crossed from Gaza after Hamas blew up the wall separating Gaza from Sinai 12 days ago and set off a general exodus. More armed bands are suspected at large on the Egyptian-Israeli border poised for incursions.

DEBKA-Net-Weekly disclosed Friday that President Hosni Mubarak decided to crack down on the Hamas-led mass Palestinian invasion of Sinai after Saudi King Abdullah, a former Hamas patron, warned him that the Palestinian fundamentalists were on a rampage which unchecked could provoke destabilizing radical violence against Arab regimes.

DEBKA-Net-Weekly published the details of the exchange of messages between the two Arab rulers in its latest issue.

Thursday, Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Abul Gheit warned anyone crossing the border would have their legs broken. He mocked Hamas for firing rockets into Israel - thereby provoking the Israel blockade of Gaza - as “a laughable caricature.” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum advised the Egyptian minister to stop making threats.

In Cairo, defense minister Mohammed Tantawi backed Abu Gheit by saying no one was allowed to violate national security and Egypt has an arsenal “that conforms with the most modern technology in the world.""

Nurses may be banned from wearing uniforms home 'to ease public superbug fears' | the Daily Mail

No more sexy nurses? What a crime! Whose afraid of a little bug anyway?

Nurses may be banned from wearing uniforms home 'to ease public superbug fears' | the Daily Mail: "Nurses could be banned from wearing their uniforms off hospital premises - because the public are afraid they could spread superbugs.

Hospital chiefs in Lancashire have revealed that nurses could be forced to get changed before and after work on site if they decide to alter their existing uniform policy."

MRSA found on 15% of hospital's curtains

I am getting more and more afraid of visiting my doctor! The odds of surviving a hospital visit are getting smaller and smaller. What should be the safest and cleanest place in the world is going to kill us all!

MRSA found on 15% of hospital's curtains: "MRSA found on 15% of hospital's curtains

Study finds some material less likely to carry bug

Hospital care

The super-bug MRSA has been discovered on 15% of a hospital's curtains, a new medical study has found.

During the research 200 curtains were randomly selected from wards and departments across the Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) in Nottingham and tested for MRSA. Of those, 31 tested positive for the bug.

But, as is standard practice, the hospital washes its curtains only four times a year unless they are known to have come in to contact with an infection."

'Mom,' 'dad,' banned; now 600,000 students could go

Only in the Liberal world of Free Speech is Speech banned. Why?

Stupid hippies.

'Mom,' 'dad,' banned; now 600,000 students could go: "'Mom,' 'dad,' banned; now 600,000 students could go
Alternatives offered to parents worried about 'repudiation' of Christian morals
Posted: February 07, 2008
12:46 pm Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

Only months after a new state law effectively banned 'mom' and 'dad' from California schools, 600,000 students soon could be following them out the door because of what has been described as the 'repudiation' of 2,000 years of Christian morality, according to leaders of a new campaign assembling education alternatives.

The campaign is called California Exodus and is being headed by Ron Gleason, pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church in Yorba Linda, who said while the country excels in social, economic, scientific and political accomplishments, it 'gets low grades on the education of its children.'

The issue is the state legislature's adoption of Senate Bill 777, which requires only positive portrayals of homosexual, bisexual, transgender and other alternative lifestyle choices.

...
"Having 'mom' and 'dad' promotes a discriminatory bias. You have to either get rid of 'mom' and 'dad' or include everything when talking about [parental issues],"
..."

Pakistan: Injuries from blast killed Bhutto, British detectives claim

Well, I guess that the Pakistani government was not too far off the truth. Not bad for a first glance!

Does anyone think that the Left and their insane conspiracy theories will be able to handle the truth? I don't think so! This will live on and on as a Bush conspiracy until the end of time.

AKI - Adnkronos international Pakistan: Injuries from blast killed Bhutto, British detectives claim: "A bomb blast not gunfire killed late Pakistani opposition leader and ex-premier, Benazir Bhutto, British detectives probing her murder conclude in a report due to be delivered to Pakistan's authorities on Friday.

The report finds that Bhutto, died on 27 December last year after hitting her head as she was tossed by the force of a suicide blast, not from an assassin’s bullet, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported.

The British probe also determined that a lone gunman, whose image was captured in numerous photographs at the scene, also caused the explosion, the Associated Press of Pakistan said, quoting unnamed officials who have been briefed on the inquiry.

It is understood that the team of British detectives findings' support the Pakistan government’s claim that Bhutto died after hitting her head on the sunroof of her car as she was campaigning in the garrison town of Rawalpindi."

Bush vs Clinton

At least in this case, I do not think the President had a hardon while he is comforting the crying women.

The Sun Also Sets

Oh no! The Russians might be right? Time to break out the cold weather gear. I know Al Gore needs to every time he goes some place to give a speech about warming. It is now called the Gore Effect! HA!

Blame people or the sun? Hmmm. Well, I think it is safe to say that the Left will ignore this because it does not further their world view. Maybe we can put off the global cooling by allowing the terrorists to nuke a few cities. The fallout will help the world to cool before the sun can effect us. Then the global cooling from the sun will seem more mild. The dead bodies can be written off the way that Communist and Muslim atrocities always get written off. As long as Christians don't set off the bombs it can be Politically Correct.

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- The Sun Also Sets: "Kenneth Tapping, a solar researcher and project director for Canada's National Research Council, is among those looking at the sun for evidence of an increase in sunspot activity.

Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. The lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a Maunder Minimum, an event which occurs every couple of centuries and can last as long as a century.

Such an event occurred in the 17th century. The observation of sunspots showed extraordinarily low levels of magnetism on the sun, with little or no 11-year cycle.

This solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe."

Leprosy outbreak causes concerns in Northwest Arkansas

What the ...??? We need to get control of our borders! These diseases should be picked up by proper screening of immigrants BEFORE they enter our communities and infect them.

Allowing this to happen is the fault of the President and Congress. I say it is time for change in Washington. Fire ALL the incumbents who have voted against securing the borders. Send them all home.

In the meantime, we need to get the fools currently there to get to work and actually do SOMETHING. Not that we can expect much from this current divided Congress. Seal the border for one year and see what happens. See if that can get the numbers of diseases and other horrors to at least slow down. I am willing to bet that it will! Who wants to try and take some of my money?

Leprosy outbreak causes concerns in Northwest Arkansas: "The medical community is warning the public: a leprosy outbreak in Springdale could blossom into an epidemic, if something isn't done soon.

Doctors say at least nine cases of leprosy have been confirmed in Springdale. Local doctors say they would be shocked by even one case of leprosy in their entire career, so they say something must be done soon, in order to stop leprosy's spread.

Springdale MD Jennifer Bingham says, 'my initial response was: I am shocked. I am shocked we are seeing this. It's a true reason to be very worried.'

Medical specialists say the Marshall Islands have the most cases of leprosy, in the world. And the city with the largest number of Marshallese people, outside the Marshall islands, is Springdale. And Bingham says, it makes sense, then, that leprosy is spreading to the city. 'It's from the Marshall islands; that's why we're seeing it.'"

Archbishop of Canterbury's inept intervention - Telegraph

What a boob! I guess this is to be expected when the Crown is going to fall into the hands of a person who admires Islam more than Christianity. Yes, I am talking about the Crown Prince of England for those who are too dense to figure that out for themselves.

Archbishop of Canterbury's inept intervention - Telegraph: "Dr Rowan Williams's argument that there should be 'a constructive accommodation with some aspects of Muslim law' is, to a certain extent, recognition of a situation which already exists.
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The problem lies, rather, in the status of the messenger and the timing of his intervention. If there is a case for the creation of sharia courts, it would be better made by a joint group representing the three Abrahamic faiths - Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Coming from the senior bishop in the Church of England, it is vulnerable to interpretation as appeasement of Islamic extremism prompted by fear of social unrest."

UN rights chief reverses course on anti-Semitic Arab charter

The UN is finally forced to admit to having anti-Semitic legislation! Not that anyone cares, except for a few honest people that respect human life and dignity. Which the Israelis can't have while under constant bombardment from the murderous pigs that surround them.

If the Pallys stopped the killing and decided to get lives dedicated to peace and hard work, maybe they could be raised to a level above rodent on the humanity scale. However, they are dedicated to slaughter, and the UN and Euros and so many others support their blood lust to keep it busy in the Middle East and away from their countries. I see that plan worked! The terrorists are in Europe and ever place else that Islam goes. Is that a coincidence?

Dhimmi Watch: After UN Watch protest, UN rights chief reverses course on anti-Semitic Arab charter: "UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has backed off from her earlier endorsement of an Arab text calling for the “elimination” of Zionism"

Adding Up to Failure by Jay P. Greene, Catherine Shock, City Journal Winter 2008

Americans are making themselves dumber and dumber. Math is almost banned in the US education system to make room for all the Politically Correct Multicultural tripe that gets passed off as humanitarian and logical. But it is NOT!

Multiculturalism deals with feelings of guilt and pity for all the poor nations around. Why should I feel guilty for being born in the best nation on earth instead of some suck hole? This is not the way to make things equal between peoples. There will never be complete equality. It is impossible to achieve. To use some crazy Communist examples - Were Marx and the Czar equal? Were Stalin and the peasants equal? Nope! Even when they claimed to be? Nope!

Life is unfair. If you think otherwise just look at the crazies who live down the street. Any street. Life is unfair!

Prove that life is equal before you make society equal. Force the earth to be equal. Good luck!

Adding Up to Failure by Jay P. Greene, Catherine Shock, City Journal Winter 2008: "Ensuring quality math instruction is no minor matter. The Programme for International Student Assessment’s latest results paint a bleak picture: U.S. 15-year-olds ranked 24th out of 30 industrial countries in math literacy, tying Spain and surpassing only Greece, Italy, Portugal, Mexico, and Turkey, while trailing Iceland, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic, and all of our major economic competitors in Europe and Asia.

The issue isn’t whether we should be teaching cultural awareness in education colleges or in public schools; it’s about priorities. Besides, our students probably have great appreciation already for students from other cultures—who’re cleaning their clocks in math skills, and will do so economically, too, if we don’t wise up."

American al-Qaeda leader also killed?

This could be great news! However, until confirmed it must be a quiet rumor. Maybe we can celebrate soon!

Power Line Forum | American al-Qaeda leader also killed?: "Following unconfirmed reports of killing of a high-profile al-Qaeda commander Abu Laith al-Libi, there are now rumours that an American al-Qaeda militant Adam Gadahn, also known as Azzam al-Amriki, had been killed in the alleged Predator attack by the US on a house in Mirali, North Waziristan, a few days back.

32-year-old Adam Gadahn, who is American citizen belonging to southern California, has been accused by the US of praising the perpetrators of September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington and attending al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistani tribal areas.

According to sources, American officials who are yet to publicly confirm the killing of Abu Laith al-Libi, had reportedly sharing information with western media that most likely another most wanted figure, Adam Gadahn, has also been killed in the air strike by the CIA-operated unmanned drone on a house in Khushali Torikhel village near Mirali town.

According to sources, the American al-Qaeda militant, who has been reportedly spending much of his time in Afghanistan and Pakistani tribal areas along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, had reached Mirali for an important meeting with other senior al-Qaeda commanders for planning the so-called spring offensive against US and Nato troops in Afghanistan."

Philharmonic says America is no better than North Korea

The Wall Street Journal Online - Best of the Web Today: "The Associated Press reports that some in the Philharmonic, including Korean-American violinist Lisa Kim, have misgivings about the trip. But Lorin Maazel, the Philharmonic's music director, waves away those concerns:

Maazel rejects such assertions, noting that he had conducted concerts in Brezhnev's Russia, Salazar's Portugal and Franco's Spain.

'I thought I was making music and stretching out a welcoming hand to the folks who might not have been believers of the regime under which they were living. I feel this way certainly about North Korea,' he said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Besides, he added, 'People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw bricks, should they? Is our standing as a country--the United States--is our reputation all that clean when it comes to prisoners and the way they are treated? Have we set an example that should be emulated all over the world? If we can answer that question honestly, I think we can then stop being judgmental about the errors made by others.'"

In a coordinated U-turn, US and Russia both treat Iran’s space launch as attesting to a nuclear weapons program

DEBKAfile - DEBKAfile Reports: In a coordinated U-turn, US and Russia both treat Iran’s space launch as attesting to a nuclear weapons program: "In a coordinated U-turn, US and Russia both treat Iran’s space launch as attesting to a nuclear weapons program

February 6, 2008, 3:55 PM (GMT+02:00)

Wednesday, Feb. 6, Moscow followed Washington in voicing concern that the launch of Iran’s Safir-1 space rocket Monday, Feb. 4, attested to the existence of a nuclear weapons program. This diametrically contradicts the US National Intelligence Estimate of last December, which concluded Iran had shelved its covert military nuclear program in 2003.

Moscow too has evidently abandoned its persistent denial of evidence that Tehran is developing a nuclear bomb.

The two comments from the WhiteWhite HouseHouse and the Kremlin also point to PresidentsPresidents GeorgeGeorge W.W. BushBush and VladimirVladimir PutinPutin having settled their dispute over harsh sanctions against Iran.

The two leaders began pulling their acts on Iran together in December 2007, as DEBKAfile first revealed, when Bush suddenly withdrew his objections to Russian fuel shipments for Iran’s Bushehr reactor. Tuesday, Feb. 5, in answer to a question, the WhiteWhite HouseHouse spokeswoman DanaDana PerinoPerino said Iran’s “space” missile was cause for worry. Such technology, she said, is the same as that needed to deliver a nuclear bomb.

Wednesday, Feb. 6, Russian deputy foreign minister Alexander Losyukov followed suit. He commented that Monday’s test launch of Iran’s “Safir-1 (Explorer-1) raises suspicions over Tehran’s claims of peaceful nuclear intentions and suggested its possible desire to create a nuclear weapon.

It was “of course a cause for concern.” Long-range missiles are components of a nuclear weapons system, the Russian official said - the first time any senior Russian official had admitted to suspecting Iran of underhand nuclear weapons activity.

DEBKAfile’s Washington and Moscow sources report: The statements from the two capitals indicate that Bush and Putin continue to cooperate on Iran and have decided to leave the controversial NIENIE behind them. The question is: Where does their collaboration go from here? Or, specifically, how does the WhiteWhite HouseHouse propose to reward the Kremlin for adopting its hard line on Iran?

The place to watch may be Poland and the CzechCzech RepublicRepublic, where the US president might be flexible in his push for missile interceptor bases in consideration of Moscow’s adamant resistance."

Jihadists, Islamists, and "Extremists" - what's in a name?

Why are the leaders so afraid of naming the people who are trying to kill us? I could kick all their butts for their cowardice. I dislike to call them that, because I know so many of the junior leaders know the score and know to call a terrorist a terrorist.

Counterterrorism Blog: Jihadists, Islamists, and "Extremists" - what's in a name?: "Jihadists and Islamists are also concerned about 'extremists', which illustrates the non-value of the term 'extremist' in referencing the enemy. For example, Osama Bin Laden is concerned about 'extremists' in Iraq. Bin Laden made this clear in his October 22, 2007 message calling for Jihadists in Iraq to unite. In that message, Bin Laden warns of the 'ta'assub' (fanatics, extremists), who would sow dissension among Jihadist mujahideen. Islamists have the same concern about 'extremists'. For example, in the documentary Islam versus Islamists, Tempe Wahhabist Imam Ahmad Al Shqeirat views anti-terror Muslims like Dr. Zuhdi Jasser as an 'extremist'. Moreover, in the eyes of Islamists, those accused of 'blasphemy', 'apostasy', and any other challenge to the Islamist ideology are 'extremists'. When developing a United States threat assessment, is defining the enemy as 'extremists' the best that the intelligence community has to offer?"

A deafening silence that betrays our values - Telegraph

A voice that believes in traditional values? Maybe they will have to be silenced for not toeing the socialist/multicultural line.

A deafening silence that betrays our values - Telegraph: "People who come from cultures where coercive behaviour towards women is the norm should be made to realise that it will not be tolerated in this country.

And yet what do we actually get from the Government? So far, a failure to tackle cultures that endorse the brutal oppression of women. As we also report today, the Government has just taken the dismally retrograde step of recognising polygamy: men with more than one wife will be able to claim benefits for each additional spouse. How this can be squared with the Government's rhetoric of commitment to women's rights is beyond us: it is a quite clear incitement to the humiliating and blatantly unjust practice of allowing men, but only men, to take more than one spouse.

'The issues are so sensitive that nobody has been prepared to talk about them,' says Shahien Taj, director of an organisation dedicated to trying to free women from the oppression of cultures which endorse their coercion. She laments the detrimental effect that silence has on her work. The Government has a duty to talk about the issues, and to do something about them. In failing to do so, it betrays our most fundamental values - and thousands of women in Britain."

Sudan's Lost Boys

This is a sad yet inspirational story that will make you think. Read it and think.

In other words - Leftists can ignore this. Bush is never mentioned so there is nothing that you might get outraged at. The killers are not Americans either! This story is about Christians being slaughtered by Muslims, not the kind of thing that inspires outrage in the Left. So, go back to Kos and laugh at how Bush looks like a chimp crossed with Hitler while Americans try to think of a way to help these kids.

Argus Leader Media - News: "Joseph Akol Makeer brought a story of horror and a mission of hope to Dell Rapids St. Mary gym Friday afternoon.

The 30-year-old Fargo man - one of the Lost Boys from the east African nation of Sudan - came to the school to accept a fundraising check of $124.66 for the orphanage he wants to build in his village of Duk Payuel in southern Sudan.

But he also came with a grim tale about survival in a land ripped apart by civil war - one that no child of Midwestern America could fathom."

Islamist preaching in American political offices

FrontPage Magazine: "The events cited above represent an encroachment of Islam into our society for which there is no reciprocity. Christians and Jews are not permitted to pray publicly in most of the Muslim world, let alone open a government session with a prayer. In Saudi Arabia, Bibles and non-Muslim religious symbols are confiscated from tourists at the airport upon arrival. Non-Muslims are not allowed to travel to certain parts of the country. If non-Muslims are caught practicing their religion, they can face deportation, imprisonment or worse. In much of the Muslim world, converts from Islam are sentenced to death for apostasy.

Americans would be wise to heed the words uttered by Muslim Brotherhood founder, Sheik Yusuf Qaradawi in 1995, “America will not be conquered by the sword, but by da’wa.” This Muslim proselytizing is already well underway to a significant extent in the United States with the assistance of our very own “unbeliever” politicians, who fail to recognize that the true agenda of radical Islam is worldwide domination and the subjugation of non-Muslims."

Hamas steps up attacks: 20 missiles Tuesday, including 3 Grad rockets at Ashkelon

What a wonderful day in Israel. I guess the UN and the Left will claim that it is Israeli aggression. Because Joos are always shooting at the poor innocent Pallys.

DEBKAfile - Hamas steps up attacks: 20 missiles Tuesday, including 3 Grad rockets at Ashkelon: "Hamas steps up attacks: 20 missiles Tuesday, including 3 Grad rockets at Ashkelon

February 6, 2008, 8:18 AM (GMT+02:00)

Six people were injured by the second Palestinian missile salvo of the day from Gaza. The school building and houses were damaged and electricity was cut off in parts of Sderot. No casualties in Ashkelon.

Earlier, an Israeli air strike killed seven Hamas members at a base near Khan Younes in southern Gaza Strip the day after a pair of suicide bombers killed a 73-year old woman, injured 48, in the southern Israeli town of Dimona Monday. Hamas operatives have been ordered to go to ground.

During the day, four Palestinian missiles damaged two factories in Sderot and Palestinian sharpshooters fired at farmers in the fields of Kibbutz Nir Oz, where a volunteer was shot dead three weeks ago. Another two Qassams were fired south at the Kerem Shalom crossing, one falling on the Egyptian side of the border.

Monday, a leader of the Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees was killed in an Israeli air attack targeting his car in Beit Lahiya.

The two suicide bombers who attacked Dimona Monday, Feb. 4, were identified at a Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades news conference in Gaza as Mussa Mahmoud Arafat, 22, from Absan, Gaza Strip, a member of the Popular Fr"

AP confirms secret camp inside Gitmo

I think these freaks should be set free in Berkley. The locals can give them heroes welcomes and then the terrorists can kill the hippies for all the rest of us.

AP confirms secret camp inside Gitmo - Yahoo! News: "For the first time, the top commander of detention operations at Guantanamo has confirmed the existence of the mysterious Camp 7. In an interview with The Associated Press, Rear Adm. Mark Buzby also provided a few details about the maximum-security lockup.

Guantanamo commanders said Camp 7 is for key alleged al-Qaida members, who must be kept apart from other prisoners to prevent them from retaliating against long-term detainees who have talked to interrogators. They also want the location kept secret for fear of terrorist attack."

Study alleges 'honour killings' conspiracy

Islam is Peace and Islam respects women. Honest!

Study alleges 'honour killings' conspiracy - Telegraph: "Following the murder of Banaz Mahmod, a Kurdish woman who had pleaded with police to protect her against her family in south London, Mr Afzal said that 'substantial numbers of the community actually did not assist and support prosecutors. Instead they supported the family members who were responsible for the killing'.

He said: 'In some northern towns there are real horror stories - from places like Blackburn where people say that you might as well be in rural Kashmir for all the way that women are seen and treated.'

One woman every month is the victim of an 'honour' killing, the CPS says.

'This has been a silent and invisible practice for too long,' says Shahien Taj, the director of the Henna Foundation, a women's group based in Cardiff."

Makaniak

Iowahawk just gets better and better!

iowahawk: "TV Classics: 'Makaniak'

makaniak

The TV police drama genre saw a major overhaul in 1970's, taking on a darker, grittier tone that reflected urban realities of the time. Spurred by the success of programs like 'Torino Squad' (starring Lash La Douche of the hit western 'Johnny Nuance') and the campus drama 'Chutch,' NBC debuted the hard-hitting undercover cop series 'Makaniak' in October 1975. The short-lived program starred Tony Arizona as maverick police detective Leo Makaniak, a tough-as-nails, disillusioned Vietnam vet who gains access to the city's seamy drug and prostitution underworld through tough street talk, a burly fu manchu, and skilled car hood-sliding.

'Makaniak' earned critical praise for its portrayal of a conflicted, tough-but-sensitive undercover cop who played both sides of the law, but it struggled in the ratings and was cancelled midway through its second season.

'I'm not sure what what went wrong,' says former star Arizona. 'Maybe it would have been more popular if Makaniak actually arrested a bad guy.'

EPISODE 1-07: 'THE FIRST ONE'S FREE'

OPENING CREDITS

Split screen montage: Makaniak running down sidewalks, combing mustache, sliding across car hoods

Theme: 'Remember Which Side You're On' (performed by Luther Van Peoples)

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When you're out on"

Elderly Burned Convert Dies In Bangladesh

No tolerance in the Religion of Peace.

NEWS ALERT: Elderly Burned Convert Dies In Bangladesh | Bangladesh | Asia/Pacific: "Christian villagers in a Muslim-majority area of Bangladesh on Tuesday, February 5, mourned the death of a 70-year-old woman who died from burns she suffered when a mob reportedly set her home ablaze as a punishment for converting from Islam to Christianity.

Rahima Beoa, who was planning to be baptized on February 13 in Cinatuly village in Rangpur district, 248 kilometers (154 miles) northwest of the capital Dhaka, suffered burns on at least 70 percent of her body, local villagers said. Suspected Muslim extremists set their home, made from bamboo and wood, ablaze on January 7, while she and her 9-year-old grand child were sleeping, reported Compass Direct News, a Christian news agency."

Who is cutting the undersea cables?

albawaba.com middle east news information::Who cuts undersea cables in the Middle East?: "A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each."

Only three terrorists were waterboarded

Weird, I bet MSNBC choked trying to write this. I bet they are putting it down as a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and Bush Lies. What else does the Left and Media think about? They are so deranged about this President that they can not see straight.

Too bad it is only three people this was used on. I can imagine using it just for fun down at Gitmo. At least that is the image that is implanted by the Media and furthered by the Left. Stupid gits have never been in the military and do not understand how professional they are.

U.S.: Al-Qaida shifting to Pakistan - Security- msnbc.com: "Hayden said that Khalid Sheik Mohammed — the purported mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States — and Abu Zubayda and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri were subject to the harsh interrogations in 2002 and 2003. Waterboarding is an interrogation technique that critics call torture.

Waterboarding induces a feeling of imminent drowning with the restrained subject’s mouth covered and water poured over his face.

“Waterboarding taken to its extreme, could be death, you could drown someone,” McConnell acknowledged. He said waterboarding remains a technique in the CIA’s arsenal, but it would require the consent of the president and legal approval of the attorney general."

Terrorism Experts say Libyans are third force behind al-Qaeda

Now that the Saudis and Egyptians are being weakened by the relentless international attack on AQ, the Libyans are stepping in to take over. Will the next US president have the strength to face them that President Reagan did? Or will the next president take the Carter/Clinton way and ignore the problem?

AKI - Adnkronos international Terrorism: Experts say Libyans are third force behind al-Qaeda: "According to US counter-terrorism experts from West Point's military academy, the Libyan connection inside the terrorist group al-Qaeda is very strong and second only to the Egyptian and Saudi forces.

In consultations with West Point's experts by Arabic language newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat, the assassination of Abu Layth al-Libi, an al-Qaeda field commander, has not diminished these connections.

After the Egyptian and Saudi terrorist forces which dominate the Jihadist movement. 'There has been a recent rise of Libyans inside the al-Qaeda network,' explains terrorism expert Vahid Brown.

'Today, Egyptians and Saudis control the military strategies and sources of funding, but there are various signals that point out the increasing influence and usage of Libyans.'

In the last few months many propaganda videos have appeared on the Internet showing Libyan militants present among the ranks of the terrorist group.

The number of Libyan militants has reportedly increased on three fronts - Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Libyans are also the second in number and importance, after the Saudis, inside Iraq."

Whitehall draws up new rules on language of terror

The English who ruled the world are embarrassed of their offspring. Who is afraid of insulting people who want to kill innocents? I will be non politically correct and say that this is completely retarded! You are stupid if you think that a terrorist shouting "Allahu Akbar!" as she blows herself up in a cafe of innocent diners is not a Muslim. You might even be called dangerously stupid.

Whitehall draws up new rules on language of terror | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Politics: "A new counter-terrorism phrasebook has been drawn up within Whitehall to advise civil servants on how to talk to Muslim communities about the nature of the terror threat without implying they are specifically to blame.

Reflecting the government's decision to abandon the 'aggressive rhetoric' of the so-called war on terror, the guide tells civil servants not to use terms such as Islamist extremism or jihadi-fundamentalist but instead to refer to violent extremism and criminal murderers or thugs to avoid any implication that there is an explicit link between Islam and terrorism."

Family of teen Muslim invited men to rape her

Ah, the joys of Islamic Law. May the Peace of Allah protect these horrible people.

Family of teen Muslim invited men to rape her - Times Online: "A GIRL of 15 was tricked into a 'telephone marriage' ceremony to a Sheffield man with a mental age of five in a ceremony recognised by sharia (Islamic law).

When the girl arrived from Pakistan expecting to meet the handsome man she had been shown in a photograph, she found that he was 40 years old, unemployed and disabled.

To make matters worse, her mother-in-law decided to exploit her attractive looks by forcing her into prostitution.

The family invited men to the family home to rape her before she managed to escape to the police by bolting through the front door. She was taken into care and now lives in a refuge.

The case is highlighted in a report by the Centre for Social Cohesion, which has found that policemen, councillors and taxi drivers are turning a blind eye or even conniving in enforcing the Asian community's strict 'moral code' on young women."

EU official: Half of European anti-Semitism related to radical Islam

Another obvious statement. The politicians are slowly figuring out that Islam is not that nice. I wonder if it will be figured out in time to save the West from Islam?

EU official: Half of European anti-Semitism related to radical Islam | Jerusalem Post: "Some 50 percent of anti-Semitic incidents on the European continent are connected to radical Islamic elements, according to a senior European Commission official.
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A photo provided by police shows the words 'Jew out' in German, smeared on a gravestone at a Jewish cemetery in Czestochowa, Poland, Monday.
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The figure comes from European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security Franco Frattini, who is responsible in the EU for combating racism and anti-Semitism in Europe. Frattini mentioned it in a conversation with Minister for Diaspora Affairs Isaac Herzog last week, and said it was based on European Union reports."

Hamas shoots 14 missiles at Sderot and environs Tuesday. An Israeli air strike kills seven terrorists in Gaza

Those friendly misunderstood innocent Pallys love to show how peaceful and civilized they are. Thank the Lord that the IAF can still find the terrorists.

DEBKAfile - Hamas shoots 14 missiles at Sderot and environs Tuesday. An Israeli air strike kills seven terrorists in Gaza: "Hamas shoots 14 missiles at Sderot and environs Tuesday. An Israeli air strike kills seven terrorists in Gaza

February 5, 2008, 9:55 PM (GMT+02:00)

Six people were injured by the second Palestinian missile salvo of the day from Gaza. The school building and houses were damaged and electricity was cut off in parts of Sderot.

Earlier, an Israeli air strike killed six Hamas members at a base near Khan Younes in southern Gaza Strip the day after a pair of suicide bombers killed a 73-year old woman, injured 48, in the southern Israeli town of Dimona Monday. Hamas operatives have been ordered to go to ground

During the day, four Palestinian missiles damaged two factories in Sderot and Palestinian sharpshooters fired at farmers in the fields of Kibbutz Nir Oz, where a volunteer was shot dead three weeks ago. Another two Qassams were fired south at the Kerem Shalom crossing, one falling on the Egyptian side of the border.

Monday, a leader of the Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees was killed in an Israeli air attack targeting his car in Beit Lahiya.

The two suicide bombers who attacked Dimona Monday, Feb. 4, were identified at a Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades news conference in Gaza as Mussa Mahmoud Arafat, 22, from Absan, Gaza Strip, a member of the Popular Front, and Louis Lahuani, 24, from Sabra, Gaza City, member of the Aqsa Brigades. Both reached Dimona from the Gaza Strip through Egyptian territory.

The Fatah spokesmen named their suicide mission “Assuring the Faithful”, which recalls Hizballah’s name for the 2006 Lebanon War “Assurance for the Faithful”, indicating their links with Hizballah. Tuesday, Hamas added its name to the list of claimants."

Female Muslim medics 'disobey hygiene rules'

Enforcing this new set of rules might be seen as anti-Islamic and therefore a violation of the Muslim's civil rights to practice their religion. The patients who are contaminated are secondary to the problem. Islam is perfect, right? So, if drinking camel urine is a cure for most ills in the Koran, then why should women have to expose their forearms to soap and water?

From the Hadith: (http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/071.sbt.html)
Volume 7, Book 71, Number 589:

Narrated Anas:

Some people were sick and they said, "O Allah's Apostle! Give us shelter and food. So when they became healthy they said, "The weather of Medina is not suitable for us." So he sent them to Al-Harra with some she-camels of his and said, "Drink of their milk." But when they became healthy, they killed the shepherd of the Prophet and drove away his camels. The Prophet sent some people in their pursuit. Then he got their hands and feet cut and their eyes were branded with heated pieces of iron. I saw one of them licking the earth with his tongue till he died.

Volume 7, Book 71, Number 590:

Narrated Anas:

The climate of Medina did not suit some people, so the Prophet ordered them to follow his shepherd, i.e. his camels, and drink their milk and urine (as a medicine). So they followed the shepherd that is the camels and drank their milk and urine till their bodies became healthy. Then they killed the shepherd and drove away the camels. When the news reached the Prophet he sent some people in their pursuit. When they were brought, he cut their hands and feet and their eyes were branded with heated pieces of iron.

Volume 7, Book 71, Number 591:

Narrated Khalid bin Sad:

We went out and Ghalib bin Abjar was accompanying us. He fell ill on the way and when we arrived at Medina he was still sick. Ibn Abi 'Atiq came to visit him and said to us, "Treat him with black cumin. Take five or seven seeds and crush them (mix the powder with oil) and drop the resulting mixture into both nostrils, for 'Aisha has narrated to me that she heard the Prophet saying, 'This black cumin is healing for all diseases except As-Sam.' Aisha said, 'What is As-Sam?' He said, 'Death."

Volume 7, Book 71, Number 592:

Narrated Abu Huraira:

I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "There is healing in black cumin for all diseases except death."

Female Muslim medics 'disobey hygiene rules' - Telegraph: "Hygiene experts said last night that no exceptions should be made on religious grounds.

Dr Mark Enright, professor of microbiology at Imperial College London, said: 'To wash your hands properly, and reduce the risks of MRSA and C.difficile, you have to be able to wash the whole area around the wrist.

'I don't think it would be right to make an exemption for people on any grounds. The policy of bare below the elbows has to be applied universally.'

Dr Charles Tannock, a Conservative MEP and former hospital consultant, said: 'These students are being trained using taxpayers' money and they have a duty of care to their patients not to put their health at risk.

'Perhaps these women should not be choosing medicine as a career if they feel unable to abide by the guidelines that everyone else has to follow.'"

Slain Al-Qaida commander openly met Pak officials in Peshawar

Slain Al-Qaida commander openly met Pak officials in Peshawar-Pakistan-World-The Times of India: "Slain Al-Qaida commander openly met Pak officials in Peshawar
4 Feb 2008, 1711 hrs IST,PTI


ISLAMABAD: Top Al-Qaida commander Abu Laith al-Libi, killed last week in northwestern Pakistan, openly met Pakistani officials and a Libyan diplomat in Peshawar despite a USD 200,000 reward on his head, a media report said on Monday.

Libi's death in Pakistan was reported by Al Qaida-linked websites and it is believed he was among 12 militants who died in a missile strike carried out by an unmanned aerial vehicle on a house at Khushali Torikhel village in Pakistan's troubled North Waziristan tribal area on January 29.

The terrorist leader from Libya had lived in northwestern Pakistan for years and "felt secure enough to meet officials and visit hospitals" in Peshawar, the Washington Post quoted officials and residents of the city as saying.

As he organised suicide bombings and other attacks in Afghanistan, Libi "found a comfortable refuge in Pakistan's border region", the paper quoted sources as saying.

He "met openly with a Pakistani politician and a Libyan diplomat and called on foreign fighters recovering from their wounds".

The way in which Libi moved unchallenged around the heart of Peshawar, a city of 1.2 million people, underscored "how freely he and other Al-Qaida leaders have been able to operate in Pakistan", the report said.

On one occasion in 2006, Libi "strode into the central prison in Peshawar and another Libyan fighter sat behind bars in the custody of Pakistani authorities... the Al-Qaida leader, the Pakistani politician and the Libyan diplomat argued over whether the militant should be deported against his wishes to Libya or released to fight another day, said Javed Ibrahim Paracha, the PML-N leader who helped arrange the meeting.
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Clinton Health Plan May Mean Tapping Pay - Examiner.com

Nope, she is not going to be a totalitarian dictator! She just wants to force you to buy or else. Her way or the highway.

Clinton Health Plan May Mean Tapping Pay - Examiner.com: "Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she might be willing to have workers' wages garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance to achieve coverage for all Americans.

The New York senator has criticized presidential rival Barack Obama for pushing a health plan that would not require universal coverage. Clinton has not always specified the enforcement measures she would embrace, but when pressed during a television interview, she said: 'I think there are a number of mechanisms' that are possible, including 'going after people's wages, automatic enrollment.'"

Palestinian Murders Woman in Suicide Blast

The brave holy warriors attack children and innocents. What brave warriors. They are ready to go to Allah and tell him how they BRAVELY charged the DANGEROUS Jews and FOUGHT them to the death. SO BRAVE! Not that they could fight a real man in a real fight. They are cowards and Allah will spit on them.

The Jawa Report: Palestinian Murders Woman in Suicide Blast: "One woman killed, 38 wounded as two Palestinian terrorists attacked a cafe in Israel. One of the would-be suicide bombers was killed before he could detonate himself (thank God for small miracles).

That's right, they attacked a cafe. Cowards.

Who was behind the terrorism? The armed wing of the West Bank government's Fatah party, the al Aqsa's Martyrs Brigade, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)."

THE NEW PLAGUES

Yikes! Look at this list of resurgent bugs that the 3rd World is dragging into the 1st World.

WorldNetDaily: THE NEW PLAGUES: "Americans have long taken the wonders of medical science for granted, watching as disease after disease has been conquered with antibiotics, vaccines, better nutrition and pharmaceutical 'miracle drugs.' But today, the magic isn't working … and something scary is happening.

Thanks to self-destructive 'alternative lifestyles,' out-of-control immigration, the overuse of antibiotics and other causes, long-'vanquished' illnesses are once again ravaging the U.S., puzzling scientists and terrifying millions of victims and their loved ones.

That's the explosive subject of the February edition of WND's elite monthly Whistleblower magazine, titled 'THE NEW PLAGUES.'"

Attorneys for Guantánamo captives back Obama's bid

The disgusting behavior of the Far Left is still strong. And the Leftwing Surrender Monkeys still want Obama because they know he doesn't lie as often as the Clintons do. There has to be a better choice for our country and the world. Inshallah.

Attorneys for Guantánamo captives back Obama's bid - 01/29/2008 - MiamiHerald.com: "More than 80 attorneys who have been offering free-of-charge legal services to Guantánamo detainees issued a statement Monday supporting Democrat Barack Obama's presidential bid.

''We are at a critical point in the presidential campaign, and as lawyers who have been deeply involved in the Guantánamo litigation to preserve the important right to habeas corpus, we are writing to urge you to support Senator Obama,'' the lawyers said in an open letter dated Monday.

Lawyers signing it included partners from major U.S. law firms and small-town practitioners as well as Michael Ratner, whose New York Center for Constitutional Rights has for years coordinated legal efforts to provide representation to each of the men held without charge at the offshore prison compound in southeast Cuba."

MacGyver Syndrome: a Jihadist with a laptop and fertilizer

Thank God these pigs are off the streets, but how many are being missed?

ICT - International Institute for Counter-Terrorism - News - Commentaries - MacGyver Syndrome: a Jihadist with a laptop and fertilizer: "MacGyver, a popular character from the American television series of the 1980s, was an exceptionally resourceful secret agent. The high profile character was known for his ability to create improbable explosives and problem-solving devices from extremely common items: plugging a sulfuric acid leak with chocolate, repairing a blown fuse with a chewing gum wrapper, or creating bombs out of gelatin cold capsules. Recent developments in European-based Jihadism seem to be moving in a similar direction, suggesting a new MacGyver-inspired trend in terrorist methods. Instead of purchasing traditional explosives, self-indoctrinated and self-trained Jihadi operatives are increasingly relying on household chemicals and the Internet. The arrests in Italy this past summer demonstrate this phenomenon.

On July 21, 2007, a joint Italian security force operation codenamed 'Hamam', succeeded in capturing the Imam of Ponte Felcino, a small and quiet village near Perugia, along with two of his closest collaborators."

Tighter U.S. Border ID Rules Begin:

Get your passports ready!

Tighter U.S. Border ID Rules Begin: Homeland Defense & Terror News at Officer.com: "Motorists easily passed through border checkpoints Thursday as enforcement of new rules for the types of identification U.S. and Canadian citizens must present to cross into the country began without the backups and confusion some travelers had feared.

Under the new rules, people will no longer be allowed to simply declare to immigration officers at border crossings that they are citizens, said Jayson Ahern, deputy commissioner with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Instead, those 19 and older will have to show proof of citizenship - a passport, trusted traveler card or a birth certificate and government-issued ID such as a driver's license."

'We're Sitting on a Powder Keg': Immigrants Protest Death of Moroccan Teenager in Cologne

The nice friendly Muslims riot because they are not allowed to mug people. How sad that they are not allowed basic freedoms! Those horrible Germans! What are the poor Muslims going to do for fun without muggings?

Justice for Islam! More attacks on the kaffir! Make mugging legal!

'We're Sitting on a Powder Keg': Immigrants Protest Death of Moroccan Teenager in Cologne - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News: "Following the violent death of a Moroccan teenager in Cologne, hundreds of immigrants have taken to the streets in nightly demonstrations to protest what they see as evidence of their second-class status in Germany. Police warn the city could be ready to explode.

Members of the immigrant community have been protesting the death of a teenager in Cologne.
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Members of the immigrant community have been protesting the death of a teenager in Cologne.
The owner of an electronics shop on Cologne's Kalker Hauptstrasse had rolled down the shutters on the windows in case there was unrest. Now they have photos of a 17-year-old Moroccan boy taped to them. The teenager, whose name was Salih, was killed in front of the shop two weeks ago.

The sidewalk is a sea of candles as hundreds of people chant: 'Salih! Salih! We want justice!' They feel that Salih was one of them -- a youth from an immigrant family.

For the police, the case is clear cut. According to their version of events, Salih allegedly wanted to mug a 20-year-old German man, who tried to defend himself. But he panicked and pulled out a pocketknife that he plunged into Salih's heart with an unlucky stab. Prosecutors said it was a clear case of self-defense."

YouTube - code pink

The fun freaks of Code Pink block the doors of the Marine recruiter office. The cops remain "neutral" on the side of the Pinkos and help to keep the young recruits out.



YouTube - code pink

Russian Spies Targeted and Used Clinton Official

Ah, the joys of the Clinton days! No enemy was too horrible except for the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy". They still take millions from foreigners who love to give money to their 'Library'. Or is it a whore house? In the case of that family, how would we differentiate?

Family Security Matters: "How should the media handle sensational allegations that one of the most esteemed members of their profession, former Time magazine journalist and top Clinton State Department official Strobe Talbott, was a dupe of the Russian intelligence service? How should they deal with hard evidence that one of their sacred cows, the United Nations, is penetrated by Russian spies?

The answer is that most of them will ignore it.

This is the fate they’re giving to Comrade J, a blockbuster book about Russian espionage written by former Washington Post reporter and author Pete Earley."

An Israeli military patrol ambushed near the divided Israeli-Lebanese border village of Ghajar

I thought the UN enforced a no fire zone in southern Lebanon? Where were they? Where are they? I have to wonder if UN peacekeepers without US troops are actually worth the pay the US pays. Just more proof that Israel is under more attacks from Muslim terrorists that the UN wants to ignore. What a waste of my tax dollars.

DEBKAfile - DEBKAfile: An Israeli military patrol ambushed near the divided Israeli-Lebanese border village of Ghajar: "Sunday night, Feb. 3, a routine Israeli military border patrol came under gunfire outside the village. They soldiers fired back. The Lebanese reported two dead on their side of the border. There were no Israeli casualties. Israeli reinforcements arrived on the scene. This was the first cross-border shooting incident from Lebanon since the end of the war of summer 2006.

It is not clear which Lebanese organization staged the attack – whether Palestinians, al Qaeda, which known to have a strong presence in the Palestinian Ain Hilwah camp near Sidon in South Lebanon, or drug traffickers. Hamas too is engaged in building a base in this camp and has begun cooperating with al Qaeda."