Al-P False Report on Sistani

More lies from the Media about what is happening in Iraq, this time, again, about the leading cleric who is working for peace. When the Media can't find a story to twist into their slanted mold, they have to resort to out right lies. Liars are the new Media norm. Can anyone prove me wrong? At least at the national and international levels, I do think that the local media might be doing a better job of telling the truth.

Wolf Howling: Al-P False Report on Sistani: "Grand Ayatollah Sistani is of the quietist school and, in the tradition of that school, does not involve himself in politics to a significant degree. He has been a hugely stabilizing influence in Iraq. Yet false stories about Sistani make into our MSM with fair regularity.

Last year, the NYT ran an article on their front page claiming that Grand Ayatollah Sistani had scuttled plans by the government to enact legislation bringing de-Baathification to an end. This would have been a huge setback for the reconciliation process - if it were true. Within two days, Sistani's office released a statement calling the story false. NYT never printed a correction. A similar scenario played out in the days after it was falsely reported that Sistani supported the continued existence of Sadr's Mahdi Army.

And thus we come to just an incredibly outlandish Al-P story that made its way around the blogs yesterday. Al-P, citing unnamed sources, reported that Sistani was on the cusp of issuing a fatwa to give his blessing to the targeting of American soldiers in Iraq..."

Anti-semitism disguised as "Palestinian Unity" in Anaheim

I think that if the Israelis wanted to exterminate the 'Palestinians', the Pallys would have ceased to exist decades ago. Instead, they are growing in population almost exponentially. Why is it that Muslims, especially Pallys, tend to lie when they are talking to the Western Media? Something wrong with this.

Elder of Ziyon: Anti-semitism disguised as "Palestinian Unity" in Anaheim: "Recently, Anaheim hosted the Sixth International Al-Awda Convention, where Palestinian Arabs worldwide converged to talk about their 'right of return' and the 'ethnic cleansing' that was inflicted on them.

It is striking how much Jew-hatred can occur without the single mentioning of the word 'Jew.' It is also interesting to contrast how Palestinian Arabs speak to each other, how Palestinian Arab Muslims speak to each other and how they speak to the Western world.

For example:

The highlight of the Al-Awda convention was the evening banquet featuring Bishop Atallah Hanna and Chief Justice Sheikh Taiseer Al-Tamimi.

'Palestine is and will be Arab until the Day of Judgement,' said Sheikh Taiseer. 'Occupations come and go but Palestine persevered and maintained its Arab-ness. Palestinian cities will remain forever Arab.'

This is an interesting assertion. 'Palestinians' often claim to the West that they are the original habitants of the land, descended from the Canaanites. The Canaanites were not Arab, and Palestine was invaded by Arabs in the wake of the dawning of Islam."

Historic number passed and missed by the Media

I meant to post about this a couple of days ago, but was sick and slowed down my posting.

Congratulations to Islam! They have now passed the 11,000 killed kafir mark! In the effort to prove they are peaceful, they continue to slaughter the innocents. What a wonderful world they will lead us too if they succeed in their efforts to restore the Caliphate.

TheReligionofPeace.com - Islam: Making a True Difference in the World: "List of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 2 Months
Date Country City Killed Injured Description
5/23/2008 Somalia Mogadishu 4 6 Four African Union Peacekeepers are killed in a bombing attack by Islamic militia.
5/23/2008 Afghanistan Khost 5 6 Five Afghans, including a child, are taken out by a suicidal Sunni bomber.
5/22/2008 Afghanistan Kandahar 1 1 An Afghan is killed by a bicycle bomb set by religious extremists.
5/22/2008 Afghanistan Ghazni 3 0 Three local guards are kidnapped and murdered by the Taliban with a bullet to the head.
5/21/2008 Afghanistan Kunar 1 3 The Taliban kill a small child in a rocket attack.
5/21/2008 Afghanistan Paktika 1 4 A suicide bomber takes out a civilian.
5/21/2008 Pakistan Khyber 4 0 Islamic militants are thought responsible for the shooting attack that leaves four family members dead.
5/21/2008 Iraq Rutba 4 3 A female suicide bomber murders four Iraqis.
5/21/2008 Iraq Baghdad 11 3 Eleven civilians are killed in a Mujahideen attack.
5/21/2008 Afghanistan Kunar 1 0 The Mujahideen slit the throat of a 32-year-old woman.
5/21/2008 Pakistan Swat 1 0 Islamic fundamentalists set fire to two girls' schools and gun down a local cop.
5/20/2008 Iraq Baghdad 2 5 Muslim terrorists bomb a minibus, killing two occupants
5/20/2008 Iraq Mandali 1 9 A 5-year-old girl is murdered by an al-Qaeda suicide bomber.
5/20/2008 Philippines Patikul 1 4 Abu Sayyaf terrorists ambush a patrol, killing a local soldier.
5/20/2008 Iraq Balad Ruz 3 9 Jihadis fire mortars into a residential district, killing three people.
5/20/2008 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Islamists gun down a 46-year-old father as he is gassing up his car.
5/20/2008 Afghanistan Ghazni 1 0 An Afghan civilian is killed by a Taliban bomb.
5/19/2008 Afghanistan Farah 1 0 Taliban extremists kidnap a local policeman and cut off his head.
5/19/2008 Iraq al-Baaj 11 0 Eleven young police recruits are brutally machine-gunned to death by Sunni terrorists.
5/19/2008 Afghanistan Kabul 1 0 A driver for a humanitarian agency is shot to death by Islamic militants.
5/19/2008 Afghanistan Wardak 7 0 Seven civilians are killed in a Taliban landmine attack.
5/19/2008 Iraq Suwayra 2 0 Two people are kidnapped and tortured. One is beheaded. The other shot.
5/18/2008 Pakistan Mamirogha 1 1 Islamists kill a civilian with a remote-controlled bomb.
5/18/2008 Iraq Baghdad 2 6 Jihadis set a car bomb that kills two Iraqis.
5/18/2008 Afghanistan Zabul 1 0 A Taliban bombing leaves one civilian dead.
5/18/2008 Afghanistan Helmand 4 8 A religious extremist detonates himself and ends the lives of four Afghan civilians.
5/18/2008 Pakistan Mardan 14 22 Fourteen people are blown to bits by a suicide bomber outside a bakery.
5/18/2008 Thailand Pattani 1 13 Islamists set off two bombs, killing one person.
5/17/2008 Iraq Baghdad 7 19 Suspected Shia militia kill seven civilians, including a mother of three.
5/17/2008 Afghanistan Kandahar 1 4 A child is killed when Sunni extremists attach a bomb to a bicycle.
5/17/2008 Afghanistan Paktia 3 0 The Taliban murders three Afghan civilians with a roadside bomb.
5/17/2008 Afghanistan Helmand 2 4 Taliban bombers kill two Afghan security personnel.
5/17/2008 Iraq Baqubah 3 15 A female suicide bomber blasts at least three Iraqis to Allah.
5/17/2008 Afghanistan Ghazni 2 4 Two local cops are gunned down by Sunni extremists.
5/16/2008 Somalia Mogadishu 20 25 Mujahideen stage a rocket attack in a commercial district, killing at least twenty people.
5/16/2008 Iraq Fallujah 4 9 Sunni bomber take down four Iraqis with a bombing attack.
5/16/2008 Pakistan Khar 1 0 Tehreek-e-Taliban terrorists kidnap a Pakistani man and cut off his head.
5/15/2008 Afghanistan Kandahar 1 3 Sunni extremists kill a local soldier with a remote-controlled bomb.
5/15/2008 Afghanistan Farah 16 28 Sunni extremists use a burqa-clad suicide bomber to blow sixteen people to bits at a marketplace.
5/15/2008 Iraq Jalawla 2 4 Jihadis kill two Iraqis with a roadside bomb.
5/15/2008 Pakistan Spinka Raghda 1 1 Taliban militants kill a local soldier with a bomb.
5/15/2008 Dagestan Gubden 2 1 Local Islamists gun down two cops.
5/15/2008 Germany Hamburg 1 0 A 16-year-old girl is stabbed to death by her brother in an honor killing prompted by her 'Western lifestyle.'
5/15/2008 Iraq al-Anbar 11 0 al-Qaeda operatives invade the home of eleven Iraqi policemen, killing each one.
5/15/2008 Pakistan Kohat Cantt 2 1 Local Taliban kill two Pakistani soldiers on routine patrol.
5/14/2008 Pakistan Khar 1 0 Islamic militants shoot a village guard to death.
5/14/2008 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 An ice cream vendor is shot to death by Muslim terrorists.
5/14/2008 Pakistan Peshawar 1 1 Islamic militants ambush and kill a local tribal elder.
5/14/2008 Iraq Abu Minasir 25 48 An al-Qaeda suicide bomber detonates at a funeral, killing over twenty innocent people.
5/14/2008 Iraq Yusufiya 1 7 al-Qaeda uses a teenage girl as a suicide bomber to kill another Iraqi.
5/14/2008 Pakistan Naurak 1 0 A man is kidnapped and beheaded by religious extremists.
5/14/2008 Israel Ashkelon 0 15 A baby is among fifteen injured when Palestinians send an Iranian-supplied rocket into an Israeli shopping mall.
5/13/2008 Pakistan Bajur 1 1 Islamic militants attack a military post, killing a local soldier.
5/13/2008 India Jaipur 63 216 A Hindu temple is among several targets of Islamic bombers. Over sixty innocents, including children, lose their lives in the carnage.
5/13/2008 Iraq Mosul 5 4 Five Iraqi secruity personnel are murdered by Sunni bombers.
5/13/2008 Iraq Nassiriya 1 3 Jihadis manage to kill one woman and injure three others with a mortar round.
5/13/2008 Thailand Pattani 2 0 Islamists ambush and kill a middle-aged married couple as they are traveling from their job at a rubber plantation.
5/13/2008 Afghanistan Helmand 2 6 Taliban militants kill two local cops in an ambush.
5/13/2008 Afghanistan Kunduz 1 0 A teacher is shot to death for saying that suicide bombings are un-Islamic."

NIGERIA - RESCUE OF GIRLS IGNITES ISLAMIC RAMPAGE

More Muslim Logic - kidnapping girls is fine, rescuing them is horrible and leads to riots. Unless the girls are Muslim, which would lead to riots immediately.

Why is Islam such a violent and intolerant religion? If anyone says this, they tend to prove it! What a joke.

Compass Direct News : NIGERIA - RESCUE OF GIRLS IGNITES ISLAMIC RAMPAGE: "Six churches gutted after recovery of Christians teenagers from Muslim kidnappers.

NINGI, Nigeria, May 19 (Compass Direct News) – Islamists under the auspices of a paramilitary force last week destroyed six churches to protest a police rescue of two teenage Christian girls kidnapped by Muslims in this Bauchi state town. Police recovered the two Christian girls, Mary Chikwodi Okoye, 15, and Uche Edward, 14, on May 12 after Muslims in Ningi kidnapped them three weeks ago in an attempt to expand Islam by marrying them to Muslim men. Police took the two girls, who had been under foster care, to safety in southeastern Nigeria where their biological parents live. The kidnappers had taken the girls to Wudil town in Kano state. Following the rescue of the girls, Muslims under the Hisbah Command, a paramilitary arm of Kano state’s Sharia Commission, went on a rampage on Tuesday (May 13), attacking Christians and setting fire to the churches. Joseph Abdu, pastor of the Deeper Life church, told Compass that damages to his church property amounted to about 13 million naira (US$112,857) – and that his congregation had shrunk to 40 people from the 130 who attended before the attack. Muslims have kidnapped at least 13 Christian girls in the town, Christian sources said."

Gaza Schoolyard Missile Launchers Discovered

Just another case of the wonderful Pallys hiding behind their children while they try to kill Israeli farmers and children. I am willing to bet that if the "evil Jews" had killed the terrorists as they were firing from the school yard, the World would be upset for the Israelis endangering children. However, since the soldiers just captured the weapons and took them away, the fact that they were hidden in a school does not matter.

Gaza Schoolyard Missile Launchers Discovered - Defense/Middle East - Israel News - Arutz Sheva: "IDF soldiers uncovered missiles and anti-tank rocket launchers in a Gaza schoolyard in late Thursday. The anti-tank missile launcher and a stack of missiles were found at a school in Sajaiya, in northern Gaza, during routine counter-terrorism operations."

Report: Obama mentored by Communist Party figure

Change. Hope. Yes, Lenin and Stalin gained power by demanding the Tsar change and the people hoped it would get better. That is what Obama is running on, too.

This is not a shock. Except to the Liberals who only care about his skin color. If his wife was running instead of him, then she could even read passages from the Communist Manifesto on stage and still win for these Liberal morons.

Report: Obama mentored by Communist Party figure: "Frank Marshall Davis
Barack Obama had extensive ties with extreme anti-American elements, including agents of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA, in Hawaii and Chicago, according to two new reports released yesterday in Washington, D.C., by two experienced internal security investigators.

Investigative journalist Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein, a former investigator with the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities, presented evidence Obama was mentored, while attending high school in Hawaii, by Frank Marshall Davis, an African-American poet and journalist who was also a CPUSA member.

The authors, in a separate report, document Obama's ties to radicals in Chicago who helped launch his career.

In a paper entitled 'Communism in Hawaii and the Obama Connection,' the authors document that in 1948, Davis decided to move from Chicago to Honolulu at the suggestion of what they describe as two 'secret CPUSA members,' actor Paul Robeson and Harry Bridges, the head of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen Union, or ILWU.

In Chicago, Davis had worked for the Chicago Star newspaper; in Honolulu, he was hired as a reporter for the Honolulu Record, both identified by Kincaid and Romerstein as 'communist front newspapers.'"

Afghanistan: Graphing the violence - week 20 - The Long War Journal

Afghanistan: Graphing the violence - week 20 - The Long War Journal: "NATO and Afghan forces have stepped up offensive operations in the southern provinces of Kandahar, Helmand, and Uruzgan as the US Marines have provided additional manpower to target Taliban strongholds. Coalition forces hope to blunt the yearly 'Taliban offensive.'

Data provided to The Long War Journal by Vigilant Strategic Services Afghanistan (VSSA) shows that the attacks by the Taliban and “Anti-Government Elements” such as Gulbaddin Hekmatyer’s Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin and other allied groups have increased over the past several weeks as the poppy harvest season has ended. The Taliban now has a pool of unemployed harvesters to serve as recruits.

Attacks in the southern region have more than tripled over the past four weeks, while attacks in the western region have doubled. The eastern, southeastern, and southern provinces bordering Pakistan still remain the most violent areas in Afghanistan. These regions collectively account for 77 percent of the violence in Afghanistan. NATO expects the attacks to increase as the Pakistani government sues for peace with the Taliban in the tribal areas and the Northwest Frontier Province."

Palestinian suicide truck packed with 4.5 tons explosives – most powerful ever – blows up outside Gaza-Israel crossing

Sounds like the friendly Palestinians are making another bid to get more food. Of course, destroying the roads and killing the truck drivers delivering the food and supplies are not always that great ways of showing how peaceful one is, but, well, that IS the Muslim way. Kill first, then make demands, then feel insulted, then demand peace. The Muslim way.

DEBKAfile - Palestinian suicide truck packed with 4.5 tons explosives – most powerful ever – blows up outside Gaza-Israel crossing: "Palestinian suicide truck packed with 4.5 tons explosives – most powerful ever – blows up outside Gaza-Israel crossing

May 22, 2008, 1:27 PM (GMT+02:00)

DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources report that the truck bomb containing 4.5 tons of explosives was the most powerful ever used against Israel - even in the darkest days of the Palestinian terrorist campaign. The explosion occurred early Thursday, May 22, on the Gaza side of the border, 50 meters short of the Erez crossing. It caused no Israeli casualties, but wrecked the border terminal, blasted a big hole in the border wall and shattered windows in Israel buildings. The bang was heard kilometers away. The truck bomb was followed by a group of Palestinian gunmen in a jeep.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report Israeli forces quickly roped off a large sector outside northern Gaza as a closed military zone, including Netiv Ha’asara and up to Kibbutz Yad Mordecai, to search for possible infiltrators. A second bomb vehicle heading out of northern Gaza was struck by the Israeli air force.

Mortar fire was directed simultaneously at the Sufa crossing to the south. The Palestinians kept up a hail of gunfire, which was returned by Israeli soldiers.

Jihad Islami and a Fatah faction claimed the attacks. Israel briefly closed the Sufa crossing through which the Gaza population has been supplied daily with basic commodities.

Overnight, Hamas announced that the truce talks taking place in Egypt for an informal ceasefire with Israel in the Gaza Strip had ended without results. The Hamas negotiators have returned to Damascus.

During the week, armed Palestinian buffeted the border fence in an effort to force Israel to climb down on its conditions for a ceasefire and demand the abducted soldier Gilead Shalit’s release be incorporated in the deal.

Hamas demanded the release of 350 jailed terrorists “with blood on their hands”, whereas Israel offered 72. Hamas sought the immediate end of the Gaza blockade, while Israel agreed to open the crossings after the truce took hold."

I Blame Bush-- Terror Attacks Down 40% Since 2001

GW is correct! This is all Bush's fault! Blame Bush!

The Media will not cover this and so the perception will continue that things are failing. Until a Democrat gets elected. THEN the Media will cover all these stories and make it all the Democrats victory. Morons.

Gateway Pundit: I Blame Bush-- Terror Attacks Down 40% Since 2001: "It's all Bush's fault.
Terror attacks are down 40% since 2001.

Andrew Bolt and The Canadian Press reported this recent study:

A group of researchers from Simon Fraser University says global terrorism is on the decline, despite previous data and public perceptions that suggest otherwise.

The university's Human Security Report Project says fatalities from terrorist attacks around the world have, in fact, decreased by 40 per cent since 2001.

But... Sadly, there are those who believe that even with Saddam Hussein and the Taliban gone that America is somehow less safe today than before 9-11.

And... Total global terror attacks were down 40% late last year due to the 55% decrease in attacks in Iraq."

Tehran University to host int'l conference on "Israel's End"

I wonder if anyone who attends this can be called a traitor to humanity and banned from returning to the West. Ever returning. Let them live in the Shia Paradise.

Thanks to GW Pundit for finding this. Emphasis mine.

Tehran University to host int'l conference on "Israel's End" - Irna: "Tehran University to host int'l conference on 'Israel's End'
Tehran, May 22, IRNA

Tehran University-Israel-Confab
Iranian Justice Seeking University Students Movement and University Students Mobilization Basij will jointly sponsor International Conference on Israel's End on May 26th, 2008.

According to public relations of the above mentioned Students Movement, the timing of the conference is adjusted to coincide with the sad 60th anniversary of Palestine's occupation by the Zionists.

The guests of the conference that would be attended by Iranian and foreign students of universities in Tehran will be intellectuals and university professors from Egypt, Venezuela, Morocco, Lebanon, Indonesia, the United States, Pakistan, Argentina, India, Iraq, Syria, Chile, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, France, Tunisia, and a number of other countries.

Supporting the Palestinian nation's righteous liberation movement and signs of the illegitimate Zionist regime's upcoming downfall are among the axes of the international conference."

Muslim convert held after nail bomb blast in restaurant

Darn, I was willing to bet that this guy was a militant Mennonite! Who would have guessed that a member of the Religion of Peace would do something like this?

Muslim convert held after nail bomb blast in restaurant | Mail Online: "A Muslim convert was being held tonight after two bombs were found in a family restaurant toilet following an explosion at lunchtime.

Police and bomb disposal teams were called in after a young white man apparently attempted to detonate a nail bomb.

Diners heard three blasts which sounded like gunshots go off in a toilet at the Giraffe cafe in Exeter city centre as they were having lunch today.

Eyewitnesses said officers had to break down the cubicle door because the 22-year-old refused to come out.

When he emerged, wearing jeans and a dark t-shirt, blood was running down his face and all over his clothes.
Enlarge Exeter nail bomb

Evacuation: Police clear Exeter city centre after a bomb explosion in a restaurant

He was arrested at the scene and taken to hospital, where he is under armed guard, for treatment to a severely lacerated eye and facial burns. None of the customers or 15 staff at the restaurant was hurt.

There were claims the suspect was a Muslim convert and detectives are now trying to determine whether he has links to Islamic extremism.

Devon and Cornwall police refused to say what offence he was being held on suspicion of but sources close to the inquiry now fear the man was arming a bomb when part of it blew up in his face.

Police revealed that a second device had been found nearby.

Police forensic teams are believed to have recovered one or two canisters of sodium-based home made explosive either from the toilet or outside the restaurant."

Iranian Assassination Teams Targeting Iraqi Officials

The Wolf howls and the bad guys shiver in their caves. Here is a great job of finding the proof theat "Bush is trying to start a war" with a country that is already at war with us. Thanks for finding this!

Wolf Howling: Iranian Assassination Teams Targeting Iraqi Officials: "Iranian Assassination Teams Targeting Iraqi Officials

Whether Iran is conducting a proxy war in Iraq seems a question that has stymied our MSM. It is, however, hard truth to Ambassador Crocker, who several weeks ago spoke of Iranian attempts to 'Lebanize' Iraq - i.e., to keep the country weak and to control it politically through an armed militia. And it is hard truth to Col. McMaster, an advisor to Gen. Petraeus who spoke several days ago on Iran's proxy acts of war, its assassination squads in Iraq, and its goals for Iraq in a speech sponsored by AEI."

Democrats and Our Enemies

I do not like all of Sen. Lieberman's position, but he is dead right on his Party and the War. Actually, I think that both Parties have drifted so far off of the Chosen Path that neither are the Parties that they used to be. Both are corrupt and worthless.

Join the new Parties, what ever you wish.

Democrats and Our Enemies - WSJ.com: "Democrats and Our Enemies
By JOSEPH LIEBERMAN
May 21, 2008; Page A19

How did the Democratic Party get here? How did the party of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy drift so far from the foreign policy and national security principles and policies that were at the core of its identity and its purpose?

Beginning in the 1940s, the Democratic Party was forced to confront two of the most dangerous enemies our nation has ever faced: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. In response, Democrats under Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy forged and conducted a foreign policy that was principled, internationalist, strong and successful.

This was the Democratic Party that I grew up in – a party that was unhesitatingly and proudly pro-American, a party that was unafraid to make moral judgments about the world beyond our borders. It was a party that understood that either the American people stood united with free nations and freedom fighters against the forces of totalitarianism, or that we would fall divided.

This was the Democratic Party of Harry Truman, who pledged that "it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."

And this was the Democratic Party of John F. Kennedy, who promised in his inaugural address that the United States would "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of freedom." "

Hezbollah Wins in Lebanon - Is This the "Grand Bargain" in Action?

If you read this full article it makes a wonderful explanation for the lack of effort to keep democracy alive in that benighted country. Which is a pity, because Lebanon used to be a wonderful oasis of life and humanity until the fundamentalists moved in and took control.

Counterterrorism Blog: Hezbollah Wins in Lebanon - Is This the "Grand Bargain" in Action?: "Hezbollah Wins in Lebanon - Is This the 'Grand Bargain' in Action?
By Andrew Cochran

Today is a day which we should mark on the calendar and remember for a long time. For on this day, it became abundantly clear that the Iranian-Syrian axis now controls Lebanon through Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda and the Taliban now control the Northwest provinces in Pakistan (see ABC News and the AP story). Both groups of terrorists won through sustained asymmetric (and, in Lebanon, conventional) warfare which eventually collapsed the will of the opposition, which was not supported in any material way by the United States and other nations. I want to concentrate on the events in Lebanon in this post.

Just eight days ago, in an emergency briefing that I helped to arrange on Capitol Hill for Congressional staff, Walid Phares accurately diagnosed the long-term Iranian-Syrian-Hezbollah strategy and forecast the outcome unless forces supporting the Cedars Revolution, specifically the U.S. and the U.N., would quickly mobilize. That didn't happen; I suspect, based on past experience, that the Administration couldn't come to a quick determination on the course of action, with the State Department probably at odds with other elements and the White House unable to build a coherent and forceful counterstrategy in time. As Walid posted below, Hezbollah not only built and runs a private strategic telecom network inside Lebanon, but now, thanks to the "victory treaty," it is capable of moving large numbers of men and material right into southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah's sizable conventional and asymmetric forces are a giant dagger aimed straight at Israel. What's the response? For some time, powerful officials in Washington and elsewhere have whispered about a "Grand Bargain" with Syria, to be concluded with the assistance of other Arab states. Rep. Gary Ackerman, chairman of the U.S. House Middle East subcommittee, concisely described the outlines of that proposal at a Congressional hearing on April 24:

"Many analysts believe that the relationship between Iran and Syria is a purely tactical and transactional one. Implicit in this belief is the idea that if only the United States would make Syria an offer of sufficient size and sweetness, the axis from Tehran to Damascus could be shattered and the Middle East transformed. Syria, in this view, might even join our team.

In exchange for the return of the Golan Heights, and the restoration of its overlordship of Lebanon, Syria would renege on its relationship with Hezbollah, give Hamas the boot, and slam the door shut on Iran. The mullahs would be cut-off from their Lebanese and Palestinian terrorist proxies and isolated completely in the region. The flow of jihadis from Syria would dry up-perhaps in return for a restoration of Saddam’s old largess with Iraq’s oil-and the situation in Iraq would settle down, further isolating Iran from the Arab hinterland. Faced with a united Middle East, the ayatollahs would set their dreams of hegemony and Islamic revolution aside, and give up their nuclear program in exchange for international security guarantees."

Notice the catch: "The restoration of its (Syria's) overlordship of Lebanon." That has now occurred through its proxies in Lebanon."

What really happened and how they report it...

Read these two reports and tell me which one is more true. Solomon presents things excellently for our education.


Solomonia: What really happened and how they report it...: "What really happened and how they report it...

The IDF downs a bomber at a checkpoint: IDF kills terrorist at West Bank checkpoint

...

Results were predictable. Yet here's how the other side reports the same incident: Israeli soldiers shoot dead young Palestinian at Huwwara checkpoint

..."

assaults directed at uniformed [military] personnel

Let me read the fine print:
Military personnel who return the violence will be jailed, while the filthy hippies and trash who conduct themselves as traitors will be tolerated rather than prosecuted as they deserve.

How backwards. Put more people in uniform and when these idiots come out to play, use them as punching bags. That will stop the attacks. Stupid hippies.

"Washington D.C.

Dept of Transportation Federal Transit Administration sends:

Recently, there have been local incidents in which military personnel have been verbally assaulted while commuting on the Metro. Uniformed members have been approached by individuals expressing themselves as anti-government, shouting anti-war sentiments, and using racial slurs against minorities.

In one instance, a member was followed onto the platform by an individual who continued to berate her as she exited the metro station. Thus far, these incidents have occurred in the vicinity of the Reagan National Airport and Eisenhower Ave metro stations on the yellow line, however, military members should be vigilant and aware of their surroundings at all times while in mass transit.

Should you be approached by any individuals expressing anti-government/anti-war sentiments, or any other types of direct verbal assault, immediately notify your local police jurisdiction. If riding metro, exit the train at the next stop, distance yourself from the individual, and notify the Metro Transit Police Department.

For this and any other suspicious activity, NGB personnel are also asked to notify the Pentagon Command Center at (703)697-1001, and the NGB Antiterrorism/Force Protection Officer, MSgt Cyril Charity, at (703)607-2396 or (571)239-1109 (after duty hours).


Here are a few friendly reminders of personal protective measures that can help you to stay safe:

-If possible, do not commute in uniform (military members) -Do not display DoD building passes, "hot cards", or personal identification in open view outside of the workplace -Do not discuss specifics about your occupation to outside solicitors

-Always try to remain in well lit, well populated train cars if traveling via metro -Be vigilant at all times!

V/R,

National Operations Center"

Dutch Rewrite History To Show Moroccan's As Liberators Of Europe

Since 19 Moroccans died liberating Europe, they are now hailed as Liberators? I think a case can be made to celebrate all the other nations that aided in the Liberation, but to act as if they were primary contributors? This is just a case of including the Muslims over the European locals.

PipelineNews.org - The RIGHT News...RIGHT Now: "Instead of trying to reinforce Dutch historical identity, one of the country's politicians is trying to rewrite it in the name of diversity. On the eve of 'Liberation Days,' Minister Jet Bussenmaker [Labour party] decided to include Moroccans, Surinamers and Antillians as liberators of Europe, despite their insignificant contribution.

Bussenmaker also concluded that this 'history' must be taught to public school teachers and be included as part of the standard curriculum. According to one commentator the Dutch May 4th and 5th celebrations are 'too white.'

Concern about the feelings of the non-native Dutch population feeling left out of the World War II commemorations was raised several years ago when Moroccan youths were seen playing football with memorial wreaths which had been laid at a monument for the war dead.

In the ensuing furor over Bussenmakers proposals some Dutch papers carried headlines proclaiming, 'Did the Moroccans really liberate Europe?' 'Moroccans liberators? Utter nonsense or history?'

One journalist wrote:

'How can it be that the people from Morocco, Suriname and the Antilles has remained so long ignored?...Maybe because their role was really small…After searching long and hard the graves of 19 Moroccan soldiers were found...Now I don't want to belittle these soldiers, [because] they..."

HUNDREDS OF UK MUSLIM WOMEN FIND OUT THEY AREN'T REALLY MARRIED

HAHAHAHAHA!
Sharia Law gets busted in the UK. Too bad that it is increasing the amount of money that the already overtaxed populace.

Well, the British are so depressed that they will not revolt against this. Few of them know how to fight anymore and those few are insulted and emotionally, verbally, and, sometimes, even physically attacked. The Crown is weak and the British are NOT coming. I wonder if they will like Sharia Law for all?

TheOPINIONATOR: HUNDREDS OF UK MUSLIM WOMEN FIND OUT THEY AREN'T REALLY MARRIED: "Hundreds of UK muslim women are learning that their marital 'I do' was really a 'No - you didn't'. --------

Apparently several 'prestigious' mosques have refused to register, as per British law, marriages performed at the mosques. The imams, conducting the ceremony, are also unauthorized to conduct legal marriages. These mosques have chosen instead to follow what is required under Islamic law. One suspects that this is the case for the majority of mosques throughout Great Britain.How does this matter?

Well as these mosque-married muslim women found themselves in failed marriages and sued for divorce they made the discovery that, according to British law, they have not been married at all! And thus they and their children are NOT entitled to protection under the marriage law and are not eligible for maintenace payments from the wife's 'husband'.

In an effort to stubbornly thumb their noses at British law in an attempt to place Sharia law over British law --these mosques have placed their female members and their children in the position of having lived in a unmarried state with no legal status.

Of course - it is the British taxpayers who will pick up the support payments, housing benefits, etc. that the 'ex'-husband is now free to abstain from paying."

The Secrets of Arab Success

Well, not so much success. This is an excellent read of why the Arab mentality is so different than the Western ones. It should be read by the many armchair quarterbacks who are demanding that Arabs and Muslims are just like the people everywhere, especially in America.

People treat Muslims, especially Arabs, the same as Westerners, at their own peril. They think very differently than us.

Murphy's Law: The Secrets of Arab Success: "All these traits were reinforced, from the 1950s to the 1990s, by Soviet advisors. To the Russians, anything military was secret, enlisted personnel were scum, there was no functional NCO system, and everyone was paranoid about everyone else. These were not 'communist' traits, but Russian customs that had existed for centuries and were adopted by the communists to make their dictatorship more secure from rebellion. Arab dictators avidly accepted this kind of advice, but are still concerned about how rapidly the communist dictatorships all came tumbling down between 1989-91.



Such a system can produce fearsome looking armies, but not a force that can survive an encounter with well trained and led soldiers. The same techniques are applied to government and the economy, producing tyranny and backwardness that appalls Westerners, and angers the citizens of these unfortunate states. That anger has produced many reform efforts. Including such unholy horrors as al Qaeda.



Arab leaders, especially in the Persian Gulf, are generally pretty smart, and aware of what they are working with. So they hire lots of foreigners for key technical jobs. But you still have a lot of suspicious, paranoid, poorly educated and insecure people in charge. Changing all this is, understandably, difficult."

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Powerful. The Princess nails it again.

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Where's the Beef? Mystery Grows Surrounding Whereabouts of Adam Gadahn

I guess if Adam G the Traitor is dead, that is no worry of mine. I feel a little sorry for his parents. Even if I blame them, only a little, for the eventual fate of their son.

Since The Traitor is missing, I think I am going to put my money on him being badly injured and in a safe house getting treated as well as any other pig might. About half of the Al-Qaida's leadership seems to be doctors turned to terrorists, it should be a good place to get semi-decent care.

I wonder if he is getting care in Syria or Iran?

Counterterrorism Blog: Where's the Beef? Mystery Grows Surrounding Whereabouts of Adam Gadahn: "This afternoon, Al-Qaida's As-Sahab Media Foundation has released the second audio recording of Usama Bin Laden in the space of only three days--this time, openly addressed "to the Islamic nation." But, perhaps what is most interesting about Bin Laden's latest set of audio recordings is not what they contain--but rather, what they inexplicably lack: the English-language subtitles and matching transcript that have, until recently, been a customary feature of professional-quality As-Sahab videos. An analysis of the history of As-Sahab recordings and their evolution over time would seem to indicate that the responsibility for creating these English-language products fell largely on the shoulders of one man alone: Adam Gadahn (a.k.a. "Azzam al-Amriki"), the California native who was recruited by Al-Qaida computer specialists living in Garden Grove in the late 1990s, and who later traveled on to Pakistan seeking to join his new hero Usama Bin Laden. Gadahn's voice and, more recently, his face have been an integral part of As-Sahab releases since their first video production in 2001, "The Destruction of the U.S.S. Cole" (a.k.a. "State of the Ummah"). He has frequently appeared as a freely identified commentator in As-Sahab videos, with clips of him speaking in English juxtaposed amid footage of Usama Bin Laden and Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri.

In January 2008, the U.S. military used a Predator drone to launch an airstrike on a house in Mir Ali, Pakistan, which was suspected to be hiding several high-ranking Al-Qaida leaders and operatives. Within days, Al-Qaida issued a series of statements and video recordings acknowledging that the airstrike had caused serious casualties, including Abu al-Laith al-Liby--a senior Al-Qaida leader considered to be the "Field Commander" in charge of foreign mujahideen military operations across large swaths of southern Afghanistan. But according to NEFA Foundation sources inside Pakistan, the legendary Abu al-Laith was not the only loss suffered in the strike at Mir Ali. These sources indicated that a host of other less-senior-but-still-significant Al-Qaida members were also inside the house at the time, including Abu al-Laith's deputy, a Somali holding Australian or U.S. nationality, two Kuwaiti jihadis, and--most interesting of all--none other than Adam Gadahn himself. Al-Qaida has never confirmed nor denied reports of Adam Gadahn's death, and that has only added to the growing mystery surrounding his whereabouts."

Israel as a Commonwealth? Why?

I was asked a question in the comments by a guy who seems to fear the Israelis. It has taken me a week to respond, so I thought I should post his questions and my answers on the front page.
St Michael Traveler said...

Think Outside of Israeli Lobby Box

We have had 60 years of experimenting about the Israeli- Palestinian struggle. The region would need help before we will be dragged into a World War III.

No one can reject the fact that creation of Israel on the land of Arabic nations has created tremendous political and economical problems for the United States. We may have to look outside of the box to diffuse the problems. One solution would be for Israel joining us as a member of the Unites States’ Common Wealth.

Would Israel consider joining us as a member of the Unites States’ Common Wealth?
What are costs and benefits for US?

We are already supporting Israel economically, politically and by sharing intelligence and military hardware. In addition, some Israeli Americans with both Israeli and American citizenships serve in the Israeli Armed Forces. Israel never would have to be fearful of any other nation; our great American Armed Forces will protect the common wealth as they would the homeland.

Would it be politically more advantages for the United States to manage the Jewish state as a member of our Common Wealth?

Would it be economically more advantages for Israeli people to be a member of our nation?

The Israeli Common Wealth will be free to exercise the religious freedom that our great nation would offer without being isolated among the hostile Arabs.

Should the Common Wealth include the Arabs who were forced to leave the land when Zionist invaded the land?

Should the area of the Common Wealth include all of the Palestinian Land?

Would really two nation model for Palestinian and Israeli work in the future?

Should we be looking at the region as a Federal States with one government elected by all of the people?


We have been forced into one box by the Israeli Lobby; we need to look outside of this box. What do you think?

Sorry it took a little while to respond. Life keeps me busy sometimes and it is hard to write in depth.

-Making Israel a part of the US as a commonwealth state would not help anyone that I can think of. Since the Muslims and Arabs already hate Israel and the US I do not think making this hate focus onto one entity would be a good thing. Besides, the Jews moved to Israel to have their own land that they can not be chased off of.

-That covers the political and economic questions, too.

- I do not understand what you are saying about the religious freedoms. Israel is based on Judaism, but allows all faiths to be practiced. They have many Christians and Muslims in their territory who are allowed full rights as Israeli citizens.

-Your history is messed up. The Zionists started to return to the land because of the rising Jew-bashing in Europe and the Middle East. For some silly reason the Jews hated being beaten for their faith and decided that it might be time to return to the Promised Land. As they returned, they bought land from the Arabs, both Christian and Muslim, and farmed it. They bought tracts of desert and swamps, or what ever the Arabs would sell. Look at Tel Aviv, which was worthless before the Jews bought it to create the first city for Jews that was not going to be subject to pogroms.
Then the Arabs noticed that the Jews were arriving in ever increasing numbers. The Ottoman Empire fell and the new politics of the area led to the Muslims needing a scape goat for their issues, so they blamed the Jews, just as the Europeans did. Notice that Hitler and the Muslims formed an alliance that kept the Muslims from joining the Allies and sent many units to help fight for the Axis. The Koran says that the Muslims can not trust the Jews who are all liars and thieves who are hated by Allah. The Nazis still are revered in the Arab world for their attempted genocide of the Jews. Some versions of the Koran have the Swastika on them for a reason.
After the Jews helped the British to win WWII, they were promised a homeland. The Europeans wanted to get rid of these people and so the UN was glad to find them a home. Since the Jews had been fleeing to Judea for half a century, and the pace had risen significantly during the 1930s and '40s, the Jews demanded the right to return to the homeland that God had chased them off of centuries before. The Arabs now tried to make it illegal to sell land to Jews or to have Jews for neighbors. Which is also in line with Koranic teachings. The Arabs started to kill Jews for sport and to terrorize them off the lands that they had already bought. Meanwhile, the Jews took the swamps and deserts and converted them into lush gardens and farms. Now the Arabs claimed that the worthless land they had sold before had been forced or tricked by the evil Jews.
The Muslim clerics denounced the Jews and ordered their followers to slaughter them. They did not form armies, yet, but used raiders to enter Jewish villages and kill anyone they could find. They even brought in families to take land and ensure that Muslim land was inhabited so that the British would know who held the previously barren regions. The British needed oil, so they remained neutral on the side of the Muslims. The British Army, with years of combat experience in Europe and Africa, now worked on keeping the Jews disarmed and helpless so that the Arabs would not feel threatened. Jews around the world saw the plight of their coreligionists and sent money, food, arms and other aid, which the British intercepted and kept most of so that the Arabs would see that the power of the Empire was allied with them.
Jews freed from Concentration Camps were trying to get to the Promised Land and freedom. The British kept them out. Finally, the Jews asked the UN to acknowledge them as a legitimate country. The UN votes to separate Israel from the Trans-Jordan and put a King in as the head of Jordan while the Jews get to form their own country and government.
The Arabs are so full of hate at losing this sliver of worthless land, that they immediately form multiple armies to invade the new nation. Fighting had already been happening because of bounties that rich Muslims put on the lives of Jews. To prepare for the invasion, the Arabs ordered their people to get out of the way so that anyone left behind could be slaughtered. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem even bragged about the size of the upcoming slaughter and told how bloody it would be. However, when the Arab armies invaded, they found that every Jewish village was armed and defended. The years of raids had taught the Jews much about defense and the Arab armies were getting badly beaten. The Jews ended up taking some of the emptied Arab villages so that the Arabs could not use them to conduct further raids against the Jewish settlers. Thousands of innocent farmers and families died at the hands of the attacking Muslims. Thousands of armed and trained Muslims died trying to kill those farmers.
In 1967, the Muslims tried again with better training. This time, the Jews won and then counter-invaded. They took the West Bank from the invading Jordanians and Gaza from the invading Egyptians. Notice that neither country has asked for those lands back. Both countries have used force to keep the people from entering their parent countries. The Jordanians have even used artillery and tanks to force the refugees that tried to get out of the areas the Jews controlled.
These refugees were not fleeing the brutality of the Jews. They had been forced to move into the Trans-Jordan by the Muslim leaders by the promise of land, loot and slaves. They now found themselves on the losing end and feared the legitimate reprisals of the settlers who they had been trying to slaughter. Of course they ran! Their masters in the Muslim countries had failed to slaughter the Jews as promised and those Jews were now trying to take land so that the next, inevitable, invasion came, they would be safe.
That war continues today. Your twisted history of who invaded whom in that area needs some correction. The invasions were Muslims who forced fellow Muslims out of the way so that Jews could be slaughtered.
That means that the Muslim refugees should have been integrated into Muslim countries decades ago. Why do the Israelis and US give so much more to those displaced Muslims than their Muslim brothers?
- If you want to include all "Palestinian" land in your Commonwealth, can you tell where Palestine was? Who was the political leader? What was the currency? How was it formed?
- The only reason that the so-called Two State Solution has not worked is the the Muslims in the region refuse to settle for anything short of the extermination of the Jews, as called for in all the political/religious speeches/literature in the area.
- What are you talking about? "looking at the region as a Federal States with one government elected by all of the people?" Huh?
- I am not sure why you are worried about the Israeli Lobby. I am more worried about why people fear Israel. Why should they? If the Arabs stopped attacking, then the Jews would settle down and return to farming and business. If the Jews laid down their arms, they would be dead in hours.

I think you need to worry less about the Israelis lying to you and more about who is lying about the Israelis.

White House takes swipe at NBC News

Well, who would have guessed that the nice folks at NBC, who vote 98% Democratic, would ever edit the words of the President to say something that he did not say? They would never do that! Never, never, never!

TheHill.com - White House takes swipe at NBC News: " White House takes swipe at NBC News
By Klaus Marre
Posted: 05/19/08 03:40 PM [ET]

The White House on Monday sent a scathing letter to NBC News, accusing the news network of “deceptively” editing an interview with President Bush on the issue of appeasement and Iran.

At issue were remarks Bush made in front of Israel's parliament earlier this week.

Specifically, White House counselor Ed Gillespie laments that the network edited the interview in a way that “is clearly intended to give viewers the impression that [Bush] agreed with [correspondent Richard Engel's] characterization of his remarks when he explicitly challenged it.

“This deceitful editing to further a media-manufactured storyline is utterly misleading and irresponsible and I hereby request in the interest of fairness and accuracy that the network air the President’s responses to both initial questions in full on the two programs that used the excerpts,” said Gillespie in the letter to NBC News President Steve Capus.

Gillespie used the opportunity to also inquire whether NBC News still believes that Iraq is in the midst of a civil war. In November 2006, the network decided to label the infighting in the country a “civil war.”

“I noticed that around September of 2007, your network quietly stopped referring to conditions in Iraq as a ‘civil war,’ ” Gillespie wrote. “Is it still NBC News’s carefully deliberated opinion that Iraq is in the midst of a civil war? If not, will the network publicly declare that the civil war has ended, or that it was wrong to declare it in the first place?”

Gillespie also hit NBC News on its reporting on the state of the economy.

“I’m sure you don’t want people to conclude that there is really no distinction between the ‘news’ as reported on NBC and the ‘opinion’ as reported on MSNBC, despite the increasing blurring of those lines,” Gillespie concluded. “I welcome your response to this letter, and hope it is one that reassures your broadcast network’s viewers that blatantly partisan talk show hosts like Christopher Matthews and Keith Olbermann at MSNBC don’t hold editorial sway over the NBC network news division.”"