British Muslim computer geek, son of diplomat, revealed as Al Qaeda's top cyber terrorist

Proof that AQs strategy of posting to the internet is working. This is also more proof that the terrorists are NOT poor idiots. They are recruiting many desperate people from that group, but it is the educated elites who are running the show for the terror groups.

Not that the Left will admit that they are wrong about their stereotypes.

British Muslim computer geek, son of diplomat, revealed as Al Qaeda's top cyber terrorist | the Daily Mail: "Tsouli arrived in London in 2001 with his father, a Moroccan diplomat. He studied IT at a college in central London and was quickly radicalised by images of the war in Iraq posted on the internet.

By 2003 he had already begun posting his own material including a manual on computer hacking and a year later had moved on to publishing extremist images and al Qaeda propaganda on the web.

It is claimed al Qaeda leaders in Iraq spotted Tsouli's work and took the decision to recruit him, using his expertise to post their own extremist videos to a wider audience.

In 2005, Tsouli became administrator for the web forum al-Ansat, used by 4,500 extremists to communicate with each other, sharing such practical information as how to make explosives and how to get to Iraq to become a suicide bomber.

But the enterprise had become so huge, it began to attract the attention of cyber-trackers who monitor the internet for extremists, leading to Tsouli's arrest."

We pay the enemy and America’s corporations profit

It is very disturbing that the terrorists are being supported by so many multinational corporations. Here is an except:

We pay the enemy and America’s corporations profit » 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America: "General Electric has admitted that it has contracts in Syria and Iran for electric power plants, oil and gas, lighting, and medical equipment (that latter is humanitarian stuff not subject to sanctions and no one is citing them). GE claims that none of it is being used for military purposes by “Iranian forces” or “Syrian forces.” Here is an excerpt from GE’s response to a 2006 inquiry by the SEC, Office of Global Security Risk:

“In addition to diagnostic, monitoring and life science medical products, our products and services that are sold or otherwise distributed include power generation systems and parts, oil & gas equipment, power control/supply and lighting products in Iran, each of which is sold or distributed pursuant to legal obligations entered into prior to February 2005. We sell our products and services directly and through distributors located in Iran and elsewhere. Our customers include private companies, government-owned electrical utilities and refineries, the Ministry of Oil, public/private hospitals and universities. To the best of our knowledge, none of the products or services we provide has been, or could be, employee in any military application or used by the armed forces of Iran for strategic, tactical or training purposes.�"

America's Secret Army

Murphy's Law: America's Secret Army: "America's Secret Army

January 8, 2008: Most American men are unaware that they are in the army, or, as described by the Militia Act of 1903 (popularly known as the Dick Act), the unorganized militia. The main purpose of the Dick Act was to sort out over a century of confusion over the relationship between the state militias (now known as the National Guard) and the federal forces. The 1903 law was the first of many laws hammered out to create the system now in use. But in the last century, not much attention has been paid to the little known 'unorganized militia' angle. This force contained every able-bodied adult male who was not a part of the organized militia. The 1903 law legalized the right not to be part of the organized militia, because a 1792 law had mandated that every adult male be part of the militia. The problem was, most men didn't want to be bothered. To deal with this, state governors created two classes of militia; paid (who trained and were armed and organized into units) and unorganized (everyone else.)"

America's Secret Army

Murphy's Law: America's Secret Army: "America's Secret Army

January 8, 2008: Most American men are unaware that they are in the army, or, as described by the Militia Act of 1903 (popularly known as the Dick Act), the unorganized militia. The main purpose of the Dick Act was to sort out over a century of confusion over the relationship between the state militias (now known as the National Guard) and the federal forces. The 1903 law was the first of many laws hammered out to create the system now in use. But in the last century, not much attention has been paid to the little known 'unorganized militia' angle. This force contained every able-bodied adult male who was not a part of the organized militia. The 1903 law legalized the right not to be part of the organized militia, because a 1792 law had mandated that every adult male be part of the militia. The problem was, most men didn't want to be bothered. To deal with this, state governors created two classes of militia; paid (who trained and were armed and organized into units) and unorganized (everyone else.)"

Republicans Transform

HAHAHA! What a great idea! .

IMAO: Republicans Transform: "Posted by Frank J. at 11:28 AM
'I'm ready to debate Obama!'
A reader of the Corner sent in an idea that I think was a pretty good suggestion: The Republicans stop their feuding and their fighting and combine announcing Fred Thompson as president, Mitt Romney as Vice President, McCain as Secretary of Defense, and Giuliani as Secretary of Homeland Security. This is a cool idea. Now, anyone who is a not a moron likes everything about Fred Thompson, so he'd be a great president. Mitt Romney is a conservative in training, so he'd be good for vice president. The only thing McCain is right on is the war, so why not put him a position where that's the only view that matters. And Giuliani would be a great Secretary of Homeland Security if he would just prove his bona fides on illegal immigration by beating a Mexican drug smuggler to death with a Maglite -- something I'm sure he'd be more than willing to do.

In addition, it could be announced that Mike Huckabee will be the White House Press Secretary where he can use his talking skills for good instead of evil. And Ron Paul could be made a security guard at the National Archives so he can make sure no one messes with the Constitution.

If Republicans announced a ticket with all the frontrunners on it, wouldn't they be unstoppable? They'd be takin"

Britain's Muslim Gang Culture: Coming Soon to a Town Near You?

Ah, it is so nice to know that Islam is the Religion of Peace. If they were not so Peaceful they might prove dangerous. Of course, the appologetics also like to say that Islam does not accept forced conversions. Just like Mohammad never rode an army up to a village and demand they convert or die. He was the Prophet of Peace and Tolerance.

May the Peace of Allah avoid you. May the Peace of Jesus protect you.

Britain's Muslim Gang Culture: Coming Soon to a Town Near You?: "
The “Muslim Boys”

On Wednesday January 4, 2006 a black mother gave evidence at an inquest. At Southwark Coroners Court in southeast London, Ruth Marriott spoke of the last days of her son Adrian Marriott. He had been an accountancy student, but was also a gang member, belonging to the Peel Den Crew. He was shot five times in the head on June 8, 2004, a few weeks before his 21st birthday. His body was found in parkland off Barrington Road in Brixton.

52-year-old Ruth Marriott told the inquest: 'We heard the shooting. We heard gun fire. The thought did strike me that Adrian could be involved, but it was a fleeting thought. Then we heard from police the following evening what had happened. Adrian was told on the Sunday prior to his death that he would be killed if he did not become a Muslim by the Wednesday, which was the day he died.'

John Sampson, the coroner, asked if her son had taken the threat seriously. She answered: 'I do not think he did.' Sampson later declared that Adrian Marriot had been unlawfully killed.

Ruth Marriott last saw her son on the day"

Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam

It is not much of a story, but Obama DID attend the mosque with his father. He WAS listed as a Muslim on his school papers. According to Sharia Law Obama is a Muslim because it is illegal to leave Islam. If your parent is Islamic, then you are too. Leaving is illegal and carries a death sentence.

Of course, the Christian church he loves to talk about is not much of an improvement since it denies being American. You should check that out.

In a time when religion is becoming key to the world dynamic, it is ludacris to have a lapsed Muslim and bigoted Christian in a position of power. He should be marginalized and shunned.

FrontPage Magazine: "Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam
By Daniel Pipes
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, January 07, 2008

In a recent analysis, “Was Barack Obama a Muslim?” I surveyed available evidence and found it suggests “Obama was born a Muslim to a non-practicing Muslim father and for some years had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of his Indonesian step-father.” In response, David Brock’s organization, Media Matters for America (MMfA), which calls itself a “progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media,” has criticized one of my sources of information.

MMfA contends in “Daniel Pipes relied on disputed LA Times article to revive Obama-Muslim falsehood,” that “key aspects” of a March 16, 2007, Los Angeles Times article I quoted were later challenged by another newspaper account, “History of schooling distorted,” by Kim Barker in the Chicago Tribune on March 25."

Multiculturalism is breeding intolerance - Telegraph

It is great to see that the politicians are finally seeing the disaster that their policies have begat. It might be time to abort these disgusting policies like a Leftist would a child.

Multiculturalism is breeding intolerance - Telegraph: "Multiculturalism is breeding intolerance

By Philip Johnston
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 07/01/2008

It has taken a long time to happen, but at last an authoritative and senior establishment figure has pointed to the elephant in the room. Before the Bishop of Rochester's article yesterday in The Sunday Telegraph, the debate about immigration focused almost exclusively on who benefits financially. We have tiptoed around its effect on our society and culture. Even the somewhat belated recognition by ministers that newcomers should show a commitment to British values and demonstrate a knowledge of English tends to be couched in economic terms and ones favourable to the immigrants themselves - that they will get a job more easily and their lives will be enhanced if they are more integrated.

Multiculturalism is breeding intolerance
'Few politicians have been willing to question the impact of a growing Muslim population'

However, few politicians have been willing to do what Michael Nazir-Ali has done, which is to question the impact of a growing Muslim population upon the very fabric of the nation, turning it within half a century into a multi-faith and multicultural land."

The Arab 'Right of Return' to Israel

Excellent historical study of why the Palestinians lie when they say they are from "Palestine"

Family Security Matters: "The Arab 'Right of Return' to Israel

Rachel Neuwirth

A media and propaganda campaign has been under way since the Annapolis 'peace' conference to legitimize the longstanding demands made on behalf of the Palestinian 'Arab refugees' – meaning in practice the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of refugees – from the 1948 Arab-Israel war of 60 years ago, for their return to their ancestral homes and the return of all their ancestors' former land and property in what is now Israel. The Palestinian National Authority, headed by Mahmoud Abbas, and the Palestinian Liberation Organization, founded by Yasser Arafat, have always made this demand a sine qua non for 'peace' with Israel, as do all of the Palestinian terrorist-political groups (Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, etc.). And the Palestinian Arab leadership continues to stand by this demand today, promising their supporters that they will never agree to 'peace' without its acceptance by Israel."

Al-Qaeda's white army of terror

Now the strip searches of non-Arabs is finally starting to make a little sense. What a pity. Darn terrorists are still basing the terrorism on religion, however. This mean we should be able to put a piece of pork at the door to key targets and keep the Muslims out.

Al-Qaeda's white army of terror - Scotsman.com News: "Since the 7/7 and 21/7 London bombings, police and intelligence services have had considerable success in identifying, disrupting and stopping extremist plots. As a result, groups such as al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen have been forced to change tack. Converting white non-Muslims has been one response.

The trend is well established in the United States. American-born Adam Gadahn is one of the FBI's top 10 most-wanted terrorists after converting to Islam and rising through al-Qaeda's ranks to become a prominent spokesman.

One British security source last night told Scotland on Sunday: 'There could be anything up to 1,500 converts to the fundamentalist cause across Britain. They pose a real potential danger to our domestic security because, obviously, these people blend in and do not raise any flags.

'The exact figure of those who have converted to Islam and turned to terror is not precisely known. Not everyone who converts becomes radicalised and it may be that just two-fifths go down that path, but it remains a significant and dangerous problem.'"

Plot to kill Queen foiled

God save the Queen!
I guess He did. Thank God.

Hmm. Terrorists posing as Media? I already thought half of them might be related. Just more proof.

Daily Express: The World's Greatest Newspaper :: News / Showbiz :: Plot to kill Queen foiled: "Two huge outside broadcast vans belonging to the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation were seized after a tip-off from intelligence agents.

As a result, UBC was unable to transmit live pictures of key summit events, including the Queen’s historic address to the Ugandan parliament on November 22.

Dr Ruhakana Rugunda, the Uganda Minister of Internal Affairs, said: “We received information that a terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda, the Allied Democratic Forces, was planning to carry out terrorist activities at the Commonwealth meeting. The security services in Uganda neutralised these threats.”"

Anti-war Soros funded Iraq study

What a shock to learn the Left is funding lies of the Left.

Anti-war Soros funded Iraq study - Times Online: "The Lancet study was commissioned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and led by Les Roberts, an associate professor and epidemiologist at Columbia University. He reportedly opposed the war from the outset.

His team surveyed 1,849 homes at 47 sites across Iraq, asking people about births, deaths and migration in their households.

Professor John Tirman of MIT said this weekend that $46,000 (£23,000) of the approximate £50,000 cost of the study had come from Soros’s Open Society Institute.

Roberts said this weekend: “In retrospect, it was probably unwise to have taken money that could have looked like it would result in a political slant. I am adamant this could not have affected the outcome of the research.”"

Dad of rescued women hails security firm - - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

About time that Blackwater got good press again. Thank you guy! Good work!

Dad of rescued women hails security firm - - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: "Dean VanderMey, executive director of Set Free Ministries International, a nondenominational Christian ministry in Grand Rapids, Mich., that operates throughout Africa, said daughters Brittanie, 21, and Aubrie, 19, and their friend Jamie Cook, 20, owe their lives to Blackwater's 'dedicated professionals.'

The women were rescued Sunday from an orphanage at which they were working in a remote area of Kenya after countrywide election results were bitterly disputed, sparking mob violence that killed nearly 500 people.

They arrived home safely in Grand Rapids on Monday after Blackwater operatives picked them up at an airstrip near the orphanage in the village of Kimilili. They were flown to Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, aboard a 10-passenger single-engine plane located by Blackwater officials before catching a commercial flight home.

'There were only two guards at the orphanage, and they had only spears and machetes. The girls were sleeping with knives and Mace,' Mr. VanderMey told The Washington Times. 'They didn't know if the mobs were going to come to their village or not.'"

Afghanistan Army discovers Iranian mines on road from Kabul

Why are the anti-mine groups ignoring this? Are mines made by non-Western powers fine? What would happen if the US started deploying mines along the smuggling routes?

AKI - Adnkronos international Afghanistan: Army discovers Iranian mines on road from Kabul: "Mines produced in Iran have been discovered and seized by Afghani armed forces along the road between the capital, Kabul, and the eastern city of Jalalabad.

'These mines are the latest technology and considered very dangerous,' said a spokesman from the organisation for Afghani national security.

It is not the first time that Iran has been accused of sending arms to Taliban guerillas who are fighting the government of Hamed Karzai.

Recently the head of the Canadian troops stationed in Afghanistan accused Tehran of collaborating with militants linked to the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar.

Before him, the US defence secretary, Robert Gates, spoke of Tehran's involvement in Afghanistan.

The Iranian consul in Herat has rejected any suggestion of relations between his government and Afghani Taliban leaders."

Mexican soldiers found invading United States

We can have the Marines do some live fire practice on our borders before they travel over to secure the Iraqi borders. A win-win situation! If the Mexican army is dong the drug smuggling, how can we stop them short of open warfare? And why are we giving them the latest equipment to find our patrols? Something stinks here.

WorldNetDaily: Mexican soldiers found invading United States: "A federal document obtained and released by Judicial Watch reveals that there were dozens of armed incursions by Mexican soldiers and police into the United States during Fiscal Year 2007.

The report was obtained by the Washington-based organization that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and it documents 29 confirmed incidents along the U.S.-Mexican border involving Mexican military and/or law enforcement personnel during that time.

'These documents not only show the dangerous and chaotic situation at the Mexican border, but also the complicity of some Mexican government agents in violating U.S. law,' said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

'The U.S. government must begin to take these incidents more seriously, publicize them and take measures to bring the crisis at our border under control,' he said."

Militant threat on Eiffel Tower intercepted

Not that there is much to guess about, but I wonder which group these terrorists might be affiliated with? Hmm? Which group of terrorist scum like to blow up large buildings and symbols of non-Muslim might and pride? Hmm.

Is my sarcasm showing?

I guess it is safe to assume that the Muslims of Al Qaeda are looking to punish the French for all the troops they have in Iraq. Ooops! They refused to help out in Iraq, so it can't be that. Maybe it is just that the French don't want to be Muslim. According to the Koran, that is reason enough to slaughter!

Why are the terrorists called militants? They are not fighting for freedom in France, unless it is freedom from the laws of the country they reside in. The Media are getting stupider and more moronic with the way they daily deny that the terrorists are doing wrong. It is like they are encouraging the terrorists to greater violence by agreeing that they have a good legal reason to slaughter. I used to dislike lawyers the most, now it has shifted to journalists. What a crock.

May the Peace of Allah avoid you and allow you to live.

Militant threat on Eiffel Tower intercepted: source - Yahoo! News: "Portuguese air traffic authorities have intercepted a message describing a militant threat against the Eiffel Tower and have passed it to French authorities, a Portuguese source said on Friday.

'It is true we intercepted a conversation with terrorist threats to the Eiffel Tower yesterday,' the source, who asked not to be named, told Reuters. 'Our air force informed the French air force of this matter.

Paris police referred inquiries to the Eiffel Tower where nobody was immediately available for comment.

French daily Le Monde reported on Friday that intelligence services were tracking the authors of the message."

Ron Paul is a racist bigot in his own writing

You should go to this site and read the full text. I know I will refer to it when I deal with the Paulians. Sieg Paul! Heil Paul!

"Proof: Ron Paul Lied About Not Being the Author of the Newsletters
After quotes and copies from Ron Paul's newsletters appeared in The New Republic, Ron Paul once again trotted out the old tale that he had no idea the newsletters had any racist and crackpot conspiracy theory material in them and that a mysterious person had been responsible for writing racist things in them without him knowing about them.

Now let's look at the extracts from the newsletters that have been released, specifically let's look at December 1990, image files follow below.

The newsletter calls Martin Luther King a Communist pedophile, Ron Paul has countered that he has a great deal of respect for MLK. And then we scroll down the newsletter to discover the mysterious author of this newsletter at the very bottom as he writes;

My wife Carol and our children and grandchildren join me in wishing you and your family a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year. May we start to confound the plans of the Trilateralists and other big government types making America freer, and thus truer to her own heritage in 1991."

Japan set to force through terror law

It is nice to see that the other countries are getting serious about counter-terrorist activities again. Now that so many Right-wing governments have been elected around the world, maybe the tide is starting to turn and the War on Radical Islam will final be won and over.

Nah. The Liberals will tie things up until the Islamists are on the verge of taking over. Then the rational people will throw them into the gutter and step on their worthless hides while on the way to defend their freedoms. Not that the Liberals will want to help. They will just decry the violence used to protect them. Maybe we should send them all to Arabia to live under the laws they love to defend. I wonder how long it will take before they try to sneak back?

FT.com / World - Japan set to force through terror law: "The Japanese government is on Friday expected to use its two-thirds majority in the lower house of parliament to ram through controversial anti-terror legislation in what would be the first use of such override powers in more than half a century.

The administration of Yasuo Fukuda, prime minister, has invested substantial political capital in the legislation, which would allow Japanese naval vessels to resume supplying oil to allied ships on anti-terror patrols in the Indian Ocean. If the bill is passed on Friday, Japanese ships are expected to set sail within weeks."

Albright: Bush 'One of the Worst Presidencies' in History

HAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I think she is just upset that the police state she tried to impose, ask Elian and the people of Waco, has been overturned. Could you imagine the outcry if the current President's AG had done those things? HAHAHAHA!

This is so rich!

Albright: Bush 'One of the Worst Presidencies' in History: "Nearly seven years out office, former Secretary of State Madeline Albright pulls no punches bashing the Bush administration’s handling of certain issues – calling it one of America’s “worst presidencies.”"

Sheikh' Faisal vows to Islamise Jamaica

Nope, sounds like a rational and peaceful man. He would never follow Mohammad's example and marry a nine year old.

..: Euro-Islam.info [Sheikh' Faisal vows to Islamise Jamaica ] :..: "Sheikh’ Faisal vows to Islamise Jamaica
Muslim Weekly - December 7-13, 2007

A radical preacher has declared his version of Islam as the future for Jamaica after being deported there from the UK following his imprisonment for inciting to racial hatred. Abdullah al-Faisal has warned the Christian leaders of Jamaica to 'beware' as he sets off on a preaching mission to see 'Jamaicans renounce Christianity and become Muslims'.

In his first interview since his deportation in May, al-Faisal brandishes Christianity as 'false' and 'blasphemous'.

Speaking to presenter Ian Boyne on Television Jamaica’s (TVJ) Religious Hard Talk, the firebrand preacher states that 'Christians are pagans because they worship three gods'."

How Al Qaeda Lost Pakistan

Winning: How Al Qaeda Lost Pakistan: "Al Qaeda would have its hands full if it tries to take over Pakistan. Aside from the fact that the vast majority of the population is not fundamentalist, those who are tend to the be the fiercely tribal types who don't want Arabs telling them what to do. While South Asians and Arabs have traded for thousands of years, they have never developed very warm relations. One reason the Taliban lost power so quickly in Afghanistan in 2001 was because the large al Qaeda presence there. The Arabs, who were the largest component of al Qaeda, exhibited open disdain for the Afghans (who, like most South Asians, are Indo-European).



Al Qaeda's biggest problem is that most of their support is among the Pushtun tribes, and these only comprise 15 percent of the population. They are also the poorest and least educated minority. A unique feature of Pakistan is that it's 165 million people are all minorities, although the Punjabis (44 percent of the population) are the dominant one (not just in numbers, but in education and income as well). Closely allied with the Punjabis are the Sinds (14 percent), and together these two groups pretty much run the country. What these lowland people have not been able to run are the Pushtun and Baluch tribes up in the hills. This has been a problem for thousands of years. The hill tribesmen are fearless warriors, but the lowlanders are more numerous, disciplined and, in the end, more than a match militarily for the tribes. The hill people can threaten and raid, but they can't conquer."

Report: Al-Qaida operative arrested

Why is it that so many educated Muslims like to kill? Why is it that so many on the Left insist that it is poor people who are terrorists and educating them will eliminate the threat?

Reality can really interfere with the Leftist view of the world. Poor babies.

Report: Al-Qaida operative arrested: "Al-Qaida operative arrested

Amin al-Haq, 48, an Afghan-born doctor described as a security coordinator for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, reportedly has been arrested in Pakistan.

Haq was arrested in Lahore, Pakistan's second largest city and capital of its Punjab province, The Nation reported Monday quoting Afghan sources. Haq, apparently captured two days ago, was reported undergoing police interrogation.

There has been no official Pakistani confirmation of the arrest, other reports said.

Haq was described as a leading al-Qaida fugitive from Afghanistan and a close associate of late Afghan jihadi leader Maulvi Younas Khalis.

Haq was a member of an Afghan delegation that went to Sudan in 1996 to bring bin Laden to Afghanistan, the report said. After bin Laden's arrival in Afghanistan, Haq became close to him, the report said.

Haq is the second leading al-Qaida operative from Afghanistan apprehended in Lahore, the report said. Earlier, Mohammad Rahim, described as Osama's driver in Afghanistan, was also arrested in Lahore, the report said.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International"

The future belongs to Islam

Great article. Follow the link.

The future belongs to Islam | Macleans.ca - Canada - Features: "The future belongs to Islam

The Muslim world has youth, numbers and global ambitions. The West is growing old and enfeebled, and lacks the will to rebuff those who would supplant it. It's the end of the world as we've known it. An excerpt from 'America Alone'.

MARK STEYN | Oct 20, 2006

Sept. 11, 2001, was not 'the day everything changed,' but the day that revealed how much had already changed. On Sept. 10, how many journalists had the Council of American-Islamic Relations or the Canadian Islamic Congress or the Muslim Council of Britain in their Rolodexes? If you'd said that whether something does or does not cause offence to Muslims would be the early 21st century's principal political dynamic in Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and the United Kingdom, most folks would have thought you were crazy. Yet on that Tuesday morning the top of the iceberg bobbed up and toppled the Twin Towers.

This is about the seven-eighths below the surface -- the larger forces at play in the developed world that have left Europe too enfeebled to resist its remorseless transformation into Eurabia and that call into question the future of much of the rest of the world. The key factors are: demographic decline; the unsustainabili"

Soldiers jump on suicide bomber to save civilians

I hope that these brave, selfless heroes are recognized by the world for what they are.

Bomber kills 11 at Iraqi army festival - Yahoo! News: " Bomber kills 11 at Iraqi army festival

By BRADLEY BROOKS, Associated Press Writer Sun Jan 6, 2:57 PM ET

BAGHDAD - Three Iraqi soldiers threw themselves on a suicide attacker wearing an explosives vest at an Army Day celebration Sunday — an act of heroism the U.S. said likely prevented many more deaths. Iraqi police said at least 11 people were killed in the blast, the deadliest in a series of bombings in Baghdad.

One of the attacks in the capital killed an American soldier — one of two U.S. deaths announced on Sunday.

Shortly before the bomber struck the Army Day festivities, about two dozen Iraqi soldiers were standing outside the offices of a local non-governmental agency pushing for unity in Iraq. The troops, their AK-47 rifles raised in the air, chanted pro-army slogans and a common anti-insurgent taunt: "Where are the terrorists today?"

Associated Press photographer Hadi Mizban was about five yards away from the suicide attacker when he blew himself up on a narrow street in the central Karradah area.

"The blast happened as civilians were giving flowers to soldiers and sticking them in the muzzles of their guns," recalled Mizban, an Iraqi national. "It was a jubilant scene."

Afterward, he said, the street was littered with bodies, weapons and shoes. Dazed soldiers and policemen carried their bloodied colleagues to nearby pickup trucks that whisked them to a hospital.

"There was a severed head on the street and some of the soldiers that I was photographing earlier were dead. Those who survived panicked, pulling back from the scene and shooting in the air," said the 40-year-old Mizban.

Among the dead were four police officers, three Iraqi soldiers and four civilians, a police officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters. At least 17 people were injured.

A U.S. military statement said five people were killed. The discrepancy could not immediately be explained.

These martyrs gave their lives so that others might live," said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, a U.S. military spokesman."

Islam: Making a True Difference in the World

Amen brother. If you don't like the way we live, then why did you move here?

TheReligionofPeace.com - Islam: Making a True Difference in the World: "A Muslim immigrant in Texas reportedly shot his two teenage
daughters to death because he disapproved of their 'Western lifestyle.'

(Note to all prospective Muslim immigrants: We do have a lifestyle here
in the West, so if you don't think that you'll like it, then please don't come)"

Man in fake MoH case: Law restricts speech

I hope this guy rots. Fake heros make me violently sick. He needs to be beaten half to death each week until he dies. Horrible scum. What a waste of humanity.

Man in fake MoH case: Law restricts speech - Marine Corps News, news from Iraq, photos from the war, late breaking reports - Marine Corps Times: "An elected official charged with falsely claiming he earned the military’s highest honor has filed a motion to dismiss the federal case against him on free speech grounds.

The motion argues that the Stolen Valor Act of 2005, under which water board member Xavier Alvarez was charged, is incompatible with the First Amendment because it restricts free speech by criminalizing false claims of military honors.

Alvarez, an elected representative to the Three Valleys Municipal Water District, said last year at a water district meeting that he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his deeds as a Marine.

After admitting he never served in the military, he was charged with violating the Stolen Valor Act. He pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge.

Alvarez’s lawyer Brianna J. Fuller argued in the motion to dismiss, which will be heard Jan. 14 in federal court, that “protecting the reputation of military decorations” is not a compelling enough reason to place “restrictions on false statements.”

But government prosecutors said in their opposition submitted Wednesday that the First Amendment does not protect deliberate falsehoods."

Pentagon Islam Expert Fired

Ah, even when the Muslims are slaughtering everyone they can find who will not bow to Allah five times a day, anyone who points this out gets kicked out of the Defense Department? This is insanity!

I remember when we had people who were hired because they were on opposite sides of the argument and could help our leaders to see both sides and make the best decisions based upon that advice. Now, only the PC line is allowed for fear of insulting the people who want to kill us. We insult them by not accepting their god as our own. That is all they need.

lgf: Pentagon Islam Expert Fired: " Stephen Coughlin, the Pentagon specialist on Islamic law and Islamist extremism, has been fired from his position on the military’s Joint Staff. The action followed a report in this space last week revealing opposition to his work for the military by pro-Muslim officials within the office of Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England.

Mr. Coughlin was notified this week that his contract with the Joint Staff will end in March, effectively halting the career of one of the U.S. government’s most important figures in analyzing the nature of extremism and ultimately preparing to wage ideological war against it.

He had run afoul of a key aide to Mr. England, Hasham Islam, who confronted Mr. Coughlin during a meeting several weeks ago when Mr. Islam sought to have Mr. Coughlin soften his views on Islamist extremism.

Mr. Coughlin was accused directly by Mr. Islam of being a Christian zealot or extremist “with a pen,” according to defense officials. Mr. Coughlin appears to have become one of the first casualties in the war of ideas with Islamism.

The officials said Mr. Coughlin was let go because he had become “too hot” or controversial within the Pentagon.

Misguided Pentagon officials, including Mr. Islam and Mr. England, have initiated an aggressive “outreach” program to U.S. Muslim groups that critics say is lending credibility to what has been identified as a budding support network for Islamist extremists, including front groups for the radical Muslim Brotherhood."

Extremism Creating 'No-Go' Areas for Non-Muslims in Britain

Muslims multiculturalism? Is that the same as slavery for non-Muslims?

FOXNews.com - Bishop: Extremism Creating 'No-Go' Areas for Non-Muslims in Britain - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News: "Islamic extremism in Britain has created communities that are 'no-go areas' for non-Muslims, a Pakistani-born Church of England bishop said in The Sunday Telegraph.

Michael Nazir-Ali, the bishop of Rochester, told the newspaper that Britain's policies of multiculturalism have created separate Muslim communities that fail to integrate into mainstream society.

'There has been a worldwide resurgence of the ideology of Islamic extremism. One of the results of this has been to further alienate the young from the nation in which they were growing up and also to turn already separate communities into `no-go' areas where adherence to this ideology has become a mark of acceptability,' said Nazir-Ali.

'Those of a different faith or race may find it difficult to live or work there because of hostility to them,' he said.

A British Muslim leader criticized Nazir-Ali's comments.

'It's irresponsible for a man of his position to make these comments,' Imam Ibrahim Mogra of the Muslim Council of Britain said in comments published by The Sunday Telegraph. 'He should accept that Britain is a multicultural society in which we are free to follow our religion at the same time as being extremely proud to be British. We wouldn't al"

Who Benefits From Bhutto's Death?

I still say that only the terrorists benefit, but this article gives an interesting analysis of the situation. Good reading.

India-Pakistan: Who Benefits From Bhutto's Death?: "The rioting in Pakistan, following the assassination of presidential candidate Benazir Bhutto, has died down, leaving about sixty dead. India has taken its border troops off alert, as there has been no flood of refugees. The Pakistani elections, scheduled for January 8th, have been delayed a month. The government has photos of the assassins, and is offering a huge reward ($164,000) for information about their identity. Officially, the Taliban and al Qaeda deny carrying out the Bhutto killing, but the government has many convincing radio intercepts that say otherwise, and the terrorists are openly pleased about the death of a politician who called for more effective counter-terror operations. While many blame the government for killing Bhutto, the terrorists had more to gain by having her gone. Bhutto was the military government's easy way out of their increasingly unpopular dictatorship. The other major candidate for president, Nawaz Sharif, has a grudge against the military (which overthrew him), while Bhutto has been more accommodating."

Why the Surge Worked

Not only are we winning, but here is an article that explains why. Not that the basics of this are unknown to people who can read the untold stories that the Media ignores. It has been a good run, but the Left and their Jihadi puppets are losing. I can almost pity them. Losers.

Winning: Why the Surge Worked: "Over a year ago, a new plan was announced for improving security in Iraq. The plan was simply to increase U.S. presence in the country by 30,000 personnel with a three-fold contribution by Iraqi forces. Other Coalition nations provided additional personnel for the plan. The center of this plan would be Iraq's center of gravity, Baghdad, which is the political center and largest city in the country. The sectarian 'fault line' runs throughout out the city.



Now, over a year later, the Surge plan has been successful. Violence is down 60 percent nationwide. Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) has been expelled from Baghdad and Anbar Province and is currently on the run. Iraqi Ministry of the Interior (Waziriat al Dakhaliyah) has recently stated that AQI is 75 percent destroyed. Both the reduction in violence levels and AQI losses can be reinforced through Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)."

Bhutto assassins released from Gitmo?

Read this to learn about how the peaceniks forced the release of some of the top Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders so that they could kill the advocates for peace.

American Thinker: Go Directly To Jihad, Do Not Pass Gitmo: "Everyone, it seems, from Human Rights Watch to Amnesty International to Hollywood and even to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, is upset with our treatment of Guantanamo detainees and thinks GTMO should be closed.

Here are the facts:

(1) a large number, perhaps a majority, of GTMO detainees have already been released; and

(2) a good number of those have returned to their deadly jihadi ways, where by their own words 'jihad' means 'we will attack them in the US and Britain until they either accept Islam or agree to pay jizya.'

And now there is a connection to the Bhutto assassination."

Press, political pressure helped 'lose' Fallujah, report says - - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

I am so shocked. Really.

It is about time that someone admitted that the media influences the politicians and public who then can order the military to change the way it operates. Which can lead to additional deaths.

Press, political pressure helped 'lose' Fallujah, report says - - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: "A secret intelligence assessment of the first battle of Fallujah shows that the U.S. military thinks that it lost control over information about what was happening in the town, leading to 'political pressure' that ended its April 2004 offensive with control being handed to Sunni insurgents.

'The outcome of a purely military contest in Fallujah was always a foregone conclusion — coalition victory,' read the assessment, prepared by analysts at the U.S. Army's National Ground Intelligence Center, or NGIC.

'But Fallujah was not simply a military action, it was a political and informational battle. ... The effects of media coverage, enemy information operations and the fragility of the political environment conspired to force a halt to U.S. military operations,' concluded the assessment."

A cold spell soon to replace global warming

Others have said similar things, but this one has the science written into it. Good reading!

RIA Novosti - Opinion & analysis - A cold spell soon to replace global warming: "Stock up on fur coats and felt boots! This is my paradoxical advice to the warm world.

Earth is now at the peak of one of its passing warm spells. It started in the 17th century when there was no industrial influence on the climate to speak of and no such thing as the hothouse effect. The current warming is evidently a natural process and utterly independent of hothouse gases.

The real reasons for climate changes are uneven solar radiation, terrestrial precession (that is, axis gyration), instability of oceanic currents, regular salinity fluctuations of the Arctic Ocean surface waters, etc. There is another, principal reason—solar activity and luminosity. The greater they are the warmer is our climate.

Astrophysics knows two solar activity cycles, of 11 and 200 years. Both are caused by changes in the radius and area of the irradiating solar surface. The latest data, obtained by Habibullah Abdusamatov, head of the Pulkovo Observatory space research laboratory, say that Earth has passed the peak of its warmer period, and a fairly cold spell will set in quite soon, by 2012. Real cold will come when solar activity reaches its minimum, by 2041, and will last for 50-60 years or even longer."

'Establish Islamic state'

They keep advocating for what Allah promised them, yet the Left refuses to believe it. Worse, they refuse to read the Koranic verses that the Islamists quote. The Left listens to the lies of the terror supporters about the Koran and Islam instead of learning for themselves. It is bad for the Christians and Jews, but the other religions get treated even worse by Islam. And most Leftists refuse to admit that there is a God, much less Allah. They blame it all on the West, but what will they do once the Muslims start to force them at gunpoint to pray five times a day?

We are going to be in big trouble soon if the world leaders do not figure out what to do about this threat. If the KKK or Nazis made public statements like this, the police would be all over them. Which is why they don't do it in groups this big. The Islamists need to learn this lesson. Soon.

'Establish Islamic state' - Israel News, Ynetnews: "At its conference in north London on Saturday, the leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain, Jalaluddin Patel, said that the call for the establishment of a global Islamic state 'holds currency on the streets of Cairo, on the streets of Karachi... and on the streets of Tripoli. And indeed in almost every city in the Muslim world.'


'Brothers and sisters, ladies and gentlemen, plans are being made east and west... for this Muslim world,' Patel declared.


'We from Hizb ut-Tahrir believe passionately that true liberation will come to the Muslim world when we dispense with these ruling elites and these western-inspired systems, and in their place we establish Islam through state and society,' he said, adding that 'Islam solves each and every problem that the Muslim world faces today.'"

Achmed the Dead Terrorist

Oh my ...!

YouTube - Jeff Dunham - Achmed the Dead Terrorist

Top Military Commander Sacked From Taliban

Sounds like things are going well for the thugs

GroundReport | Top Military Commander Sacked From Taliban: "After his elder brother Mullah Dadullah was killed in the joint operation in May by NATO and Afghan forces, Mansoor had taken over as one of the top military commanders for the Taliban. Mullah was the highest ranking officer to be killed since the overthrow of the Taliban regime since 2001.

However, the Taliban did not state how or why Mansoor Dadullah had disobeyed orders. But the statement said that those working with him should continue on with their normal daily duties.

“Mansoor Dadullah does not obey the rules of the Islamic emirate and violates it.

“Therefore it was decided not to appoint any post in the emirate to him,” according to the Taliban statement."

Central Ohioans Against Terrorism: Anisa Abd El Fattah backs Ron Paul and neo-Nazi STORMFRONT

Here is a cool site with a good message. The link here is to a long article that is now tying CAIR to Ron Paul and his Nazi friends. Not that there is any doubt about these freaks all being in bed together.

Freaks are all allowed to speak freely and to vote for whomever they legally can. That does not mean that they have to be allowed a voice in public where people are required to listen to them. Where is the nutcase chanell for these nuts to spout off on? Oh! CNN! Duh!

Central Ohioans Against Terrorism: Anisa Abd El Fattah backs Ron Paul and neo-Nazi STORMFRONT: "Sultan Knish informs us that our local HAMAS operative, former CAIR national board member and would-be Columbus Public School Board member Anisa Abd El Fattah/Caroline Keeble has a couple of recent posts on the 'Muslims for Ron Paul' Yahoo forum coming out in favor of presidential hopeful Ron Paul and wishing neo-Nazi website STORMFRONT the best of luck in their battle against ADL. How nice.

This is the same Anisa Abd El Fattah who spent this past weekend speaking at a conference for an Iranian government front group identified by former FBI Director Louis Freeh as a direct domestic terror threat.

But don't worry: the Columbus Dispatch still thinks she's a moderate.

In her first message, she encourages candidate Paul not to bow to outside pressure calling for him to return donations from neo-Nazi leaders:"

Terrorists force Brussels to cancel parts of New Years celebration

Nope, Europe is not going to submit.

No Brussels fireworks amid terror threat - Yahoo! News: "Traditional New Year's Eve fireworks in central Brussels have been canceled due to a continuing terror threat in the Belgian capital, officials said Sunday.

The popular downtown Christmas market will close early, at 6 p.m., on Dec. 31 rather than staying open all night, and the adjacent skating rink will shut at 8 p.m.

Authorities warned of an increased risk of attack after police last week detained 14 people suspected of plotting to help an accused al-Qaida militant break out of jail."

Americans learning it all in Iraq

This is great! HA! I love that the Americans know who all the key players are, but we can't catch them. HAHAHAHA!

I wonder if this is going to give more for the "Why can't we find Osama?" crowd to complain about?

As if there was a way to find him just by having thousands of people wandering through the mountains while thousands of snipers hide across the valleys. If that could work then more of the Most Wanted might be in prison.

Intelligence: You Can't Fool Me: "You Can't Fool Me
December 29, 2007: U.S. casualties in Iraq this month are at the lowest they have ever been since U.S. troops entered the country in early 2003. At the same time, American soldiers and marines are still conducting a lot of raids, but are doing it in places the previously tended to stay out of because of the high risk. But it's just those high risk areas where the worst of the bad guys tended to live. So the current raids are yielding lots more information on who was involved in the violence over the last five years, and how they did it. While a lot of the terrorists have been killed, and others have fled the country, they leave documents, family and friends behind. They also leave things like a rifle taken from one of three U.S. troops captured in May of 2007. There has been an intense search for those three since then. One of the soldiers was soon found dead, but the fate of the other two has never been confirmed. But recently, when the rifle was found hidden in a home, the occupant proceeded to provide useful information.



A lot of other useful information, that never makes the news, is collected every day. These little bits of data are filling in pictures of who current terrorist leaders and technicians are, and where they may be. The army's use of databases has made every little bit of data more useful. Enormous amounts of data have been collected on the families of known terrorists. A lot of these violent groups tend to be family affairs. In Iraq, people tend to trust only family, and even there one must be careful. So American troops, armed with quick access to these personnel files, know who to arrest, who to let go, and who to question intensively. Those being questioned are also shaken at the depth of knowledge their interrogators often have of who's who in Iraq, even at the village or neighborhood level. It's not so easy to fool the Americans any more."

Egypt continues to deny hundreds of Hamas and allied terrorists permission to land from Red Sea ferries and carr

Once again the Saudis turn a blond eye to terrorism and terrorists within their territory as long as they are not commit acts against the Muslims there. I wish someone could devise a way to separate the Saudis from the Islamists so that they could be punished! As it is, any attempt to punish the Saudis is seen as a direct attack on Islam. There has to be a way...

DEBKAfile - DEBKAfile sources report: Egypt continues to deny hundreds of Hamas and allied terrorists permission to land from Red Sea ferries and carry $150m to Gaza: "Hamas leaders had been trying to smuggle suitcases packed with Jordanian and Egyptian currency into Gaza from the end of the Mecca pilgrimage last Friday.

If delivered, the money is enough to keep Hamas’ military operations going for another three to four months, including missile and other attacks. Our intelligence sources report that several Hamas operatives aboard the ferries are high on Israel’s wanted terrorist list.

They collected around $50 m from Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a secret rendezvous at a Saudi shrine on Wed. Dec. 19; the rest from Hamas’ parent, the Muslim Brotherhood, which was handed over under cover of the pilgrimage. In September, Brotherhood branches worldwide launched a secret fundraising drive under the slogan: “Contribute to save Hamas rule in Gaza.”

Saudi authorities permitted the cash to be brought into the kingdom and handed to Hamas leaders. Egypt allowed Hamas leaders to leave the Gaza Strip for the hajj but prevented them from returning with their war chest. This resolve was the outcome of Mubarak’s talks with visiting Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak last week and their decision to join forces to combat the war activities mounted"

France cuts ties with Syria

Sarkozy orders suspension of France’s diplomatic ties with Syria

December 30, 2007, 4:07 PM (GMT+02:00)

Aftr talks with Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, French president Nicolas Sarkozy said: “I have ordered by team to suspend diplomatic relations with Syria until we see Syria cooperating in the presidential election in Lebanon.”

Parliament postponed the vote Saturday for the 11th time over the intransigence of the pro-Syrian bloc.

The French president stopped short of severing relations with Damascus, saying:

“I will no longer maintain ties with Syria and order all my colleagues to follow suit.” We can wait no longer. Syria must stop talking and act.

French fight against Religion of Global Warming

Wow. Since the Socialists tend to love following the French lead, I wonder how this will play out. Actually, I am going to love watching it!

Bloomberg.com: Muse: "Climate-change skeptics are taking a beating these days even in France, where people long resisted the green creed.

Paris bookstores brim with guidebooks -- including one shaped like a toilet seat -- that tell readers how to help save our planet. Yet the dissidents refuse to shut up, even now that Al Gore has won the Nobel Peace Prize and the U.S. government has agreed to negotiate a new global-warming treaty by 2009.

The most conspicuous doubter in France is Claude Allegre, a former education minister and a physicist by profession. His new book, ``Ma Verite Sur la Planete'' (``My Truth About the Planet''), doesn't mince words.

He calls Gore a ``crook'' presiding over an eco-business that pumps out cash. As for Gore's French followers, the author likens them to religious zealots who, far from saving humanity, are endangering it. Driven by a Judeo-Christian guilt complex, he says, French greens paint worst-case scenarios and attribute little-understood cycles to human misbehavior.

Allegre doesn't deny that the climate has changed or that extreme weather has become more common. He instead emphasizes the local character of these phenomena.

While the icecap of the North Pole is shrinking, the one covering Antarctica -- or 92 percent of the Earth's ice -- is not, he says. Nor have Scandinavian glaciers receded, he says."

Hate cleric Omar Bakri calls for 'ban' on Christmas

Why don't Muslims everywhere denounce this freak? In the US the Christian establishment has distanced itself from the "Westboro Baptist Church" and its hate filled rants. Why is it that Muslims can't do the same thing with their extremist freaks?

Also, Bakri has lived on government aid for 19 years. Why? The English are supporting terrorism supporters so that they can spread the hate? Send this guys family to him if he wants to see them. If they do not want to go, then strip off their hijabs and make them live like English! I think the kids might like it.

Hate cleric Omar Bakri calls for 'ban' on Christmas| News | This is London: "Hate preacher Omar Bakri, who is barred from Britain, is calling on Brits to boycott Christmas.

Using the internet to post a rant against the festive season, Bakri claims Christmas should be 'completely forbidden'.

In another chilling post the radical cleric said Christmas Day would be the perfect day to launch a terror attack on the UK.

He said: 'To have Christmas tree, visit so-called Christmas Father - that is completely forbidden.

'Make sure you do not watch TV. Do not let them hear jingle bells. Do not send your children on Christmas trip.'"

Heb. U. Paper Finds: IDF Has Political Motives for Not Raping

Talk about being between a rock and a hard place! If the Israelis rape, then they are monsters, if they do NOT rape, they are political monsters.

The IDF is a very professional organization which assumes, correctly, that every mistake will make the news and be slanted to an even more negative problem. Also, the Jewish religion and culture reject the kind of scum who rape.

Heb. U. Paper Finds: IDF Has Political Motives for Not Raping - Politics & Government - Israel News - Arutz Sheva: "A research paper that won a Hebrew University teachers' committee prize finds that the lack of IDF rapes of Palestinian women is designed to serve a political purpose.

The abstract of the paper, authored by doctoral candidate Tal Nitzan, notes that the paper shows that 'the lack of organized military rape is an alternate way of realizing [particular] political goals.'

The next sentence delineates the particular goals that are realized in this manner: 'In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it can be seen that the lack of military rape merely strengthens the ethnic boundaries and clarifies the inter-ethnic differences - just as organized military rape would have done.'"

Pakistan's Bhutto Assassinated in Attack

What a waste of life. This lady stood for change and moderation, so, of course, some extremists were seriously upset and had to kill her.

Pakistan's Bhutto Assassinated in Attack: "Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide attack that also killed at least 20 others at the end of a campaign rally, aides said.

'The surgeons confirmed that she has been martyred,' Bhutto's lawyer Babar Awan said.

A party security adviser said Bhutto was shot in neck and chest as she got into her vehicle to leave the rally in Rawalpindi near the capital Islamabad. A gunman then blew himself up.

'At 6:16 p.m. she expired,' said Wasif Ali Khan, a member of Bhutto's party who was at Rawalpindi General Hospital where she was taken after the attack."

Breaking the terrorist habit in the Middle East

Turning Abbas's logic on its head | Jerusalem Post: "To begin, some basic facts about the Palestinian economy, drawing on a fine survey by Ziv Hellman, 'Terminal Situation,' in the Dec. 24 issue of Jerusalem Report:

# Palestinian per year per-capita income has contracted by about 40 percent since its $2,000 peak in 1992 (before the Oslo process began) to less than $1,200 now.

# Per-capita Israeli income, 10 times greater than the Palestinians' in 1967 is now 23 times greater.

# Deep poverty has increased in Gaza from 22 percent of the population in 1998 to nearly 35 percent in 2006; it would be about 67 percent if not for remittances and food aid.

# Direct foreign investment barely exists, while local capital mostly gets sent abroad or is invested in real estate or short-term trading.

# The Palestinian Authority economy, Hellman writes, 'is largely based on monopolies in various industries granted by PA officials in exchange for kickbacks.'

# The PA's payroll is so bloated that the cost of wages alone exceeds all revenues.

# A dysfunctional judicial system in the PA means armed gangs usually decide commercial disputes.

UNSURPRISINGLY, Hellman characterizes the Palestinian economy as 'in shambles.' Such shambles should come as no surprise, for as the late Lord Bauer and"

Muslims ban Jews from praying at Holiest Temple

WorldNetDaily: Jews demand right to pray on Temple Mount: "Rabbinic leaders and Temple Mount activist groups here today demanded the Israeli government allow Jews to pray on the Temple Mount – Judaism's holiest site.

Israeli restrictions forbid Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount and only allow Jews to ascend for certain hours on some days while the Mount is open to Muslims yearlong. Muslim prayer services take place throughout the day on the many mosques and Islamic religious schools situated on the holy site.

'We demand the Government of Israel allow the Jewish people to have freedom of religious expression on the Temple Mount. This will serve as a preliminary step in confirming the Jewish people's inexorable connection with the Temple Mount, location of the Holy Temple, under the sovereignty of the people of Israel,' states a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert signed by the leaders of the New Jewish Congress, the Sanhedrin and the Holy Temple and Temple Mount movements."

Hindus Attack Churches on Christmas

This is horrible, but in a way I am glad that it is not Muslims, for once.

Hindus Attack Churches on Christmas: "the New Delhi-based Catholic Bishops Conference of India said the fighting began Monday when Hindu extremists objected to a show marking Christmas Eve, believing it was designed to encourage Hindus at the bottom of the religion's rigid caste hierarchy to convert to Christianity. Low-caste Hindus are often a target of missionaries.

An argument over the Christmas show got out of hand and some of the Hindus opened fire on the Christians, wounding three of them, said John Dayal, a spokesman for the Bishops Conference.

The Hindus then went on a rampage Tuesday, Christmas Day, chasing people out of six churches and setting the mud-and-thatch buildings ablaze, he said.

Later, dozens of people from each community clashed, Dayal said. One person was killed, he added, but could not say if the dead man was a Hindu or Christian. Another 25 people were wounded, the Press Trust of India news agency said.

Much of the ill-will in the area, about 840 miles southeast of the national capital, New Delhi, stems from anti-missionary sentiment. Some hardline Hindus are pushing for all missionaries to be expelled while Christians have challenged the conversion law in court, saying it violates India's constitution."

Iraqis pack churches for Christmas

Peace on Earth. Thanks to Jesus and his birthday. May God bless that land

Iraqis pack churches for Christmas - Yahoo! News: "Christians have often been the target of attacks by Islamic extremists in Iraq, forcing tens of thousands to flee. Many of those who stayed were isolated in neighborhoods protected by barricades and checkpoints. Less than 3 percent of Iraq's 26 million people are Christians — the majority Chaldean-Assyrians and Armenians, with small numbers of Roman Catholics.

A coordinated bombing campaign in 2004 targeted churches in the Iraqi capital, and anti-Christian violence also flared last September after Pope Benedict XVI made comments perceived to be against Islam.

But this year, with the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha coming just before Christmas, Iraq has been living through some of the most peaceful moments since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.

Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly, leader of the ancient Chaldean Catholic Church and Iraq's first cardinal, celebrated Mass before about 2,000 people in the Mar Eliya Church the eastern New Baghdad neighborhood of the capital.

'Iraq is a bouquet of flowers of different colors, each color represents a religion or ethnicity but all of them have the same scent,' the 80-year-old Delly told the congregation.

Muslim clerics — both Sunni and Shiite — also attended the service in a sign of unity."

iowahawk and Common Wisdom

iowahawk: "The holidays are a special time for all Americans. It is a time when we gather together with friends and neighbors to celebrate and share the festive spirit of the season. Some of us celebrate Christmas, some Kwanzaa or Eid; others, like my running mate Jeff Goldstein, Hannukah. In my family we gather around the p'canclhu, and re-enact the transmogrification of Loumbogu, the hundred-headed goat-thing of Su'yocra Tantchohg.

But no matter what traditions we follow, this is a time to look back on the many blessings we share as Americans. Like you, I am grateful for our freedoms and opportunities and material abundance. Above all, as a candidate for President of the United States, I am especially grateful for the opponents that our political process has provided me. Let's pour a glass of eggnog and gather by the fire for a review, shall we?"

Muslims break taboo to allow guide dog into mosque -Times Online

East meets West and West wins? I wonder if the Islamists will burn these people as heretics?

Muslims break taboo to allow guide dog into mosque -Times Online: "A RETRIEVER is in training to become the first dog in Britain to be permitted to enter a mosque, acting as a guide for its blind Muslim owner.

The animal has been chosen because it salivates less than usual, thus reducing the risk of flicking spittle onto other worshippers at the Al Falah mosque in Leicester.

Keeping pet dogs is considered “haram” (the Arabic word for “forbidden”) in Islamic teaching, because they are regarded as unclean, particularly their saliva.

The mosque took its decision after advice from imams and scholars at the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), who carried out a full review of Islamic teaching on dogs."

Malaysian Catholic weekly told to drop use of 'Allah' - The China Post

I see that the Muslims are now denying that there is a link between them and the religions they have claimed as having the same base. Interesting. Very interesting.

Malaysian Catholic weekly told to drop use of 'Allah' - The China Post: "A Catholic weekly newspaper in Malaysia has been told to drop the use of the word 'Allah' in its Malay language section if it wants to renew its publishing permit, a senior government official said Friday. The Herald, the organ of Malaysia's Catholic Church, has translated the word God as 'Allah' but it is erroneous because Allah refers to the Muslim God, said Che Din Yusoff, a senior official at the Internal Security Ministry's publications control unit.

'Christians cannot use the word Allah. It is only applicable to Muslims. Allah is only for the Muslim god. This is a design to confuse the Muslim people,' Che Din told The Associated Press. The weekly should instead, use the word 'Tuhan' which is the general term for God, he said."

NBC Weapons: More Stryker Substance Seekers Secured

NBC Weapons: More Stryker Substance Seekers Secured: "The U.S. Army is buying another 95 M1135 Stryker NBCRV (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicle) vehicles. The first 21 were bought two years ago, mainly for evaluation and field testing. Some were sent to Iraq, where they performed well. The army wants to eventually have 355 of these vehicles, providing each of the army's 40 Chemical Warfare companies with six of them, while each of the seven Stryker brigades get three. The U.S. has never had a vehicle like the NBCRV, and during the 1991 Gulf War, depended on Czech NBCRV vehicles to do the job. The Stryker NBCRV vehicle keeps the crew protected from any contamination, and contains detection equipment that provides a lower (than previous equipment) false alarm rate. The sensors carried attempt to detect nuclear, biological or chemical threats in small enough quantities that nearby troops can be warned to get their protective gear on before much damage is done. The Stryker NBCRV can move about quickly on roads, or cross country, and can be transported in a C-130 (or larger) air transport. The detection equipment in the Stryker NBCRV is being reconfigured so that it can operate as a separate unit, for stationary operation."

IslamicTerrorism: Then, Now and Later

Great analysis of the past year and what happened to the Islamists

Terrorism: Then, Now and Later: "It's not been a good year for Islamic terrorism. In Iraq, al Qaeda was crushed when the principal al Qaeda supporters, the Sunni Arab minority, turned on the terrorists. Same thing happened, to a lesser extent, in Afghanistan, where some of the pro-Taliban tribes turned anti-al Qaeda, and killed hundreds of al Qaeda fighters. In North Africa, defeated Algerian terrorist groups joined al Qaeda, and tried to revive their revolution. This meant adopting the al Qaeda suicide bomber tactics. While al Qaeda was able to do more than one bombing a day (at their peak) in Iraq, and several a week in Afghanistan, the Algerian branch averaged less than one a month. These attacks grabbed headlines, but the public reaction was all wrong, for the terrorists. The average Algerian saw dead Moslem women and children, and became even more hostile to Islamic terrorism."

Wars Update: Hidden Headlines Revealed

This is a wonderful list of what is happening around the world in all the wars. It is nice to see that peace is closer than ever.

Wars Update: Hidden Headlines Revealed: "While the headlines concentrate on peace breaking out in Iraq, that's but part of a worldwide trend for the last few years. Violence has also diminished, or disappeared completely, in places like Nepal, Chechnya. Congo, Indonesia and Burundi. This continues a trend that began when the Cold War ended, and the Soviet Union no longer subsidized terrorist and rebel groups everywhere. The current wars are basically uprisings against police states or feudal societies, which are seen as out-of-step with the modern world. Many are led by radicals preaching failed dogmas (Islamic conservatism, Maoism), that still resonate among people who don't know about the dismal track records of these movements."

SUGIERO

I found a link to this blog and like it, so I thought you might too. Enjoy!

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Family Adopts Slain Marine's Dog Partner

This is sad and touching. The K9 units get ignored all to often by the military brass.

FOXNews.com - Family Adopts Slain Marine's Dog Partner - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News: "Marine Cpl. Dustin Jerome Lee and his German shepherd, Lex, scoured Iraq for roadside bombs together, slept next to each other and even posed in Santa hats for a holiday photo.

When a mortar attack killed the 20-year-old Marine in Fallujah a few months later, Lex, whimpering from his own injuries, had to be pulled away, Lee's father was told.

That strong bond compelled the slain Marine's family to adopt 8-year-old Lex even though the military said he still had two years of service."

Saudi Authorities Foil Terror Plot Against Hajj Sites

They are so full of hate that they will bomb each other just to clarify a point. Wow.

FOXNews.com - Saudi Authorities Foil Terror Plot Against Hajj Sites - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News: "Saudi police arrested a group of men planning to attack holy sites around Mecca during the just completed annual Muslim pilgrimage, the Interior Ministry announced Friday.

'Security forces have foiled a plot to carry out a terror attack on holy sites outside Mecca with the aim of confounding security forces,' Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki told The Associated Press.

Nearly 3 million pilgrims came to Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj season that wound up Friday with a final visit to Mecca after days of carrying out rituals in the surrounding hills."

Belgian Forces Arrest 14 Extremists in Plot to Free Jailed Terror Suspect - International News | News of the World | Middle East News |

Peace Love and murder, what a nice bunch of kids.

FOXNews.com - Belgian Forces Arrest 14 Extremists in Plot to Free Jailed Terror Suspect - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News: "Belgian police Friday arrested 14 Muslim extremists suspected of planning to free an Al Qaeda sympathizer imprisoned for planning a terrorist attack on U.S. air base personnel, officials said.

Security was heightened at airports, subway stations and other public places across the capital, and the U.S. Embassy issued a warning to Americans that 'there is currently a heightened risk of terrorist attack in Brussels' although it had no indication of any American targets.

Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said the government had information suggesting 'preparation of an attack.'

'Other acts of violence are not to be excluded,' he said.

The prisoner, Nizar Trabelsi, a 37-year-old Tunisian who played soccer for several German teams, was sentenced to the maximum 10 years in prison four years ago. He had admitted planning to drive a car bomb into the canteen at Kleine Brogel, a Belgian air base where about 100 American military personnel are stationed."

Over 400 Prominent Scientists Disputed Man-Made Global Warming Claims

This is just part of the amazing new study that has hundreds of scientists complaining about not being heard on the climate change debate. It turns out the number of scientists who dispute man made global warming out number the number of those who blame mankind. It also discusses the way that the scientists who blame mankind have intimidated the other scientists into silence.

You might want to send this to all of your favorite followers of Gore. If they can read the big words.

.: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works :: Minority Page :.: "This new report details how teams of international scientists are dissenting from the UN IPCC’s view of climate science. In such nations as Germany, Brazil, the Netherlands, Russia, New Zealand and France, nations, scientists banded together in 2007 to oppose climate alarmism. In addition, over 100 prominent international scientists sent an open letter in December 2007 to the UN stating attempts to control climate were “futile.” (LINK)

Paleoclimatologist Dr. Tim Patterson, professor in the department of Earth Sciences at Carleton University in Ottawa, recently converted from a believer in man-made climate change to a skeptic. Patterson noted that the notion of a “consensus” of scientists aligned with the UN IPCC or former Vice President Al Gore is false. “I was at the Geological Society of America meeting in Philadelphia in the fall and I would say that people with my opinion were probably in the majority.”

This new committee report, a first of its kind, comes after the UN IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri implied that there were only “about a dozen' skeptical scientists left in the world. (LINK) Former Vice President Gore has claimed that scientists skeptical of climate change are akin to “"

Sarkozy loses patience with Assad

I wonder how the Left will spin this! Any ideas?

Sarkozy loses patience with Assad | Jerusalem Post: "'I have reached the end of the road with [Syrian President Bashar] Assad. Words alone won't suffice, I want actions,' French President Nicolas Sarkozy was quoted as telling reporters Wednesday at the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

Sarkozy has run out of patience with Assad

France has grown increasingly impatient with Syria, particularity over its intervention in Lebanese politics and its alleged involvement in political assassinations in the country.

Sarkozy spoke with Assad on several occasions recently in order to bring about a solution to the crisis over the Lebanese presidency, but it appears that his patience is now wearing thin. 'I spoke to him three times recently and I spoke with him clearly and honestly,' said Sarkozy. 'I took the risk and spoke with him when no one else would,' Asharq Alawsat quoted the French president as saying."

Offended Muslim Syndrome & Self-Help Support Groups

This should be required reading among counterterror leaders and politicians who must work with Muslims.

Groupthink :: View topic - Offended Muslim Syndrome & Self-Help Support Groups: "Following the misery inflicted on Islam by a toy bear that ended up with calls for the execution of an English woman, more Muslims are stepping forward with stories of long-suppressed emotional trauma imposed on them by so-called reality. This has led to the creation of support groups and social networks that help followers of the Prophet Mohammed cope with the agony of learning about life outside of their immediate environment, offering assistance with technical resources, practical guidance, and strategies for early intervention and punishment of those who offend Islam."

“Everybody was targeted, but the Americans took precedence.”

Family Security Matters: "MEMRI transcribes an interview with a person claiming to be a former leader of al Qaeda in Iraq. Several things are striking. One is the rather striking disregard for human life, and the assumption in the discussion that one human being (if of the proper Muslim stripe) can and should kill everyone else. There is no wavering on this, as seen in the response about whom the Islamists are targeting:

“Everybody was targeted, but the Americans took precedence.”

Interviewer: “Who is ‘everybody’?”

Jawhar: “Whoever fights against ‘there is no god but Allah.’ Is there anyone who defends the Americans any better than them? The infidels are one and the same. An infidel is an infidel – whether he is a Palestinian, a Jew, or an Argentinean. The infidels are one and the same, while an American Muslim is a Muslim. So what’s the problem? What, an Iraqi who is an apostate and who helps the Americans should be treated like a VIP? He is worse than the Americans.”

It is also interesting to note the claim not to hold Iraqis for ransom, which would be against Islamic law. Unfortunately, that means they are usually killed."

Achalpur Riots

Why do Muslims around the world feel the need to kill? Why do Media around the world fear to tell the truth? What is it about Islam?

Achalpur Riots: "Achalpur Riots: Kashmir in Maharashtra
Photo Evidence of Truth

On 23 October 2007, at Achalpur in Amaravati district (Maharashtra), fanatic Muslims pelted stones from a mosque at the immersion procession of Sree Durga Devi all of a sudden. It is noteworthy that Riot started by Muslims was pre-planned. The pseudo-secular media has ignored this carnage of Hindus by just mentioning the word 'Riots'. Still our secular Government has just declared small financial aid. No serious legal action has been taken. The horrified Hindus have yet not dared to return to their homes & are staying in camps. Hence, we want to bring the real truth of Achalpur to you, the common man because if you ignore it now, tomorrow these Jihadis will be at your doorstep."

Homeland Insecurity: Terrorist Fundraising in the Heartland

How do things like this happen? You would think that the State Department was working for the terrorists instead of for America! Can we arrest the people who issued this visa as traitors?

Pajamas Media: Homeland Insecurity: Terrorist Fundraising in the Heartland: "Nearly 15 years after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and 6 years after 9/11, the federal agencies responsible for our domestic security against terrorism appear to be entirely unaware, unequipped and unconcerned about the continued operations of Islamic terrorists inside the US.

Exhibit A in support of this thesis is the recent fundraising visit to the US by major Somali terrorist leader Zakaria Mahmoud Haji-Abdi. Abdi is deputy chairman of the Eritrean-based Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS). The ARS is organizationally integrated with the al-Qaeda-backed Islamic Courts Union (ICU), which is waging the deadly terrorist insurgency in Somalia against the UN and US recognized Transnational Federal Government (TFG). The insurgency is responsible for the violence that has caused the deaths of nearly 6,000 Somalis this year in Mogadishu alone and forced at least another half million refugees to flee from there.

Abdi was the keynote speaker at a fundraising event and conference hosted by the United Somali Diaspora and held at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Minneapolis on November 24. An article published the following day by SomaliTalk (in Somali) features numerous pictures of the event, documenting Abdi’s attendance. (Minneapolis is home to the largest Somali population in the country.) A follow-up conference was held th"

'France worried by Iran-Israel tension'

Glad to see a European who understands the way international relations really works outside of martinis and cocktails.

'France worried by Iran-Israel tension' | Jerusalem Post: "French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in an interview published Wednesday that there is a danger of war erupting over Iran's nuclear program if 'the Israelis consider their security is truly threatened.' [French President Nicolas...] French President Nicolas Sarkozy flanked by French Justice Minister Rachida [file]. Photo: AP [file] In the interview with Le Nouvel Observateur magazine, Sarkozy said France was more worried about tensions between Iran and Israel than between Iran and the United States. 'I have never been for war,' Sarkozy was quoted as saying. 'The problem for us is not so much the risk that the Americans could launch a military intervention, but that the Israelis consider their security is truly threatened."

British PM plays up Afghan gain to divert attention from debacle in S. Iraq

DEBKAfile - DEBKAfile Reports: British PM plays up Afghan gain to divert attention from debacle in S. Iraq: "After four days of heavy fighting, Afghan National army and international forces covered by US and British marines entered the outskirts of the strategic town of Musa Qala in northern Helmand, south of Kabul, Monday, Dec. 10. This was the moment that British premier Gordon Brown decided to head for Helmand and Kabul from southern Iraq, after his announcement there that “The war in Iraq is over.” He said that all British troops will be home by the spring of 2008, and the UK will hand Basra province over to Iraqi control in the next two weeks, leaving the last 2,500 British troops in place...
In southern Iraq, 1,430 miles West of Helmand Province, the British army’s situation is less happy.

US strategists and officers remark that Brown's announcement of a drawdown of British forces - because, he said, the Iraq war is over - was a backhanded admission that they had been defeated in their effort to secure southern Iraq against Shiite militias."

Baby tax needed to save planet, claims expert | NEWS.com.au

Here is a real nut! This sounds like a good way to punish the poor and downtrodden of the world. If this happens, not that I think it will, then only the rich and elites will have babies. Will this guy sterilize himself and his kids to pave the way and give us a good example to follow?

Baby tax needed to save planet, claims expert | NEWS.com.au: "A WEST Australian medical expert wants families to pay a $5000-plus 'baby levy' at birth and an annual carbon tax of up to $800 a child. Writing in today's Medical Journal of Australia, Associate Professor Barry Walters said every couple with more than two children should be taxed to pay for enough trees to offset the carbon emissions generated over each child's lifetime. Professor Walters, clinical associate professor of obstetric medicine at the University of Western Australia and the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth, called for condoms and 'greenhouse-friendly' services such as sterilisation procedures to earn carbon credits."

Harvard Libs Fault Iran NIE

HA! The Left and Right intellectuals both agree that this NIE was bull. So, why do the Far Left and Media still quote it as gospel? Are they that desperate to find something that President Bush lied about? If so, they really need to get a life! Well, they do anyway, but this helps prove it.

Harvard Libs Fault Iran NIE - Say Anything: "When intelligent people on both the Left and the Right can agree that something doesn’t make much sense, its probably time for a serious second look. Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law professor, constitutional scholar, and a liberal’s liberal, doesn’t think much of the latest NIE on Iran. And that’s putting it mildly. Dershowitz writes:
The recent national intelligence estimate that concluded that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 is just about the stupidest intelligence assessment I have ever read. It falls hook, line and sinker for a transparent bait and switch tactic employed not only by Iran, but by several other nuclear powers in the past. The tactic is obvious and well-known to all intelligence officials with an IQ above room temperature. It goes like this:"

Iraqis begin to emerge from the dark

I am glad that the Iraqi people can now enjoy an almost normal life. Those fanatics are dying away, literally. It is time for healing to begin.

Iraq was a festering sore, the US put on a bandage that was not applied properly and the infection got worse. Now the wound is healing. The Surge of 'antibiotics' stabilized the situation so that the sore is healing properly. There are still some of the virus floating around, but if the bandage and the medicine continue to work, then the virus should not be able to rebound and damage the healing body of Iraq. If the medicine is stopped too soon then the virus might be able to kill this weak young country.

Democrats, the Party of the People, want this young country to die. Republicans, the Party of the Republic, want Iraq to flourish and provide a stable base for the other Middle Eastern countries. Moderates want the world to be safe and at quiet - not that it ever has been, but we can all dream.

Iraqis begin to emerge from the dark - Telegraph: "Three years after kidnappings, a car bomb and threats from religious extremists brought the curtain down, the theatre's players have at last deemed it safe to tread its dusty boards once again. Their play, which tells the story of those dreadful times, is just one of many signs that life in Baghdad may be finally returning to normal. 'For years we lived in danger, because the religious extremists disapproved of people dancing and performing on stage,' said the theatre's dance instructor Hannah Abdullah, 38, as she put a mixed troupe through their paces in the darkened auditorium. 'Three of our dancers were kidnapped for that reason, and we could only perform outside of the country. But now things are better. The play tells about all the car bombings and killings, and how the mothers of the dead wept many tears. But it finishes with the sun appearing and everybody forgetting about the civil war.'"

‘Lyrical Terrorist’ Spared Prison

This 'lady' is sick. And the people who claim that this is only because she is a Muslim are sick, too.

Britain: ‘Lyrical Terrorist’ Spared Prison - New York Times: "Samina Malik, a 23-year-old Heathrow airport worker who last month became the first Muslim woman to be convicted of a terrorism offense in Britain, was given a suspended nine-month prison sentence and 100 hours of community service. Ms. Malik, who called herself the “lyrical terrorist” in online forums because she thought it was “cool” and posted poems with titles like “How to Behead,” was convicted in the same London court of possessing records likely to be useful in terrorism, mostly jihadist manuals from the Web. Many among Britain’s 1.6 million Muslims said she should not have been prosecuted, describing her actions as foolish and offensive, but not criminal. Before the sentencing, Muhammad Abdul Bari, the head of the Muslim Council of Britain, the country’s largest Muslim organization, told The Times of London that “many young people download objectionable material from the Internet, but it seems that if you are a Muslim, then this could lead to terrorist charges, even if you have absolutely no intention to do harm to anyone else.”"

Afghan police:Taliban hangs teenager boy for so-called "spying"_English_Xinhua

The Religion of Peace. Ah. If only the whole world could be blessed with Islam so that we can all be at peace - like these kids.

Afghan police:Taliban hangs teenager boy for so-called "spying"_English_Xinhua: "A teenager boy was hanged by Taliban insurgents on Saturday morning in Sangin district of southern Afghan Helmand province for alleged 'spying' activities, local police said.
Helmand provincial police chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal told Xinhua that the Taliban claiming the child was spying for the Afghan government and foreign troops had killed the innocent boy by hanging.
'Actually the poor boy has nothing to do with the government and foreign troops,' Andiwal said."

Nancy Pelosi Approved of Waterboarding

When she had nothing politically on the line, she approved, once she had to take a stand to help the terrorists, she took it instead.

Vote Democrat and see if we can save more terrorists for politics.

lgf: Nancy Pelosi Approved of Waterboarding: "In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA’s overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk. Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said. “The briefer was specifically asked if the methods were tough enough,” said a U.S. official who witnessed the exchange."

Imam's daughter in hiding after her conversion to Christianity sparked death threats | the Daily Mail

The Religion of Peace is afraid of people who leave it?

Why? What are they afraid of?

Imam's daughter in hiding after her conversion to Christianity sparked death threats | the Daily Mail: "The daughter of a British imam is living under police protection after receiving death threats from her father for converting to Christianity. The 31-year-old, whose father is the leader of a mosque in Lancashire, has moved house an astonishing 45 times after relatives pledged to hunt her down and kill her. The British-born university graduate, who uses the pseudonym Hannah for her own safety, said she renounced the Muslim faith to escape being forced into an arranged marriage when she was 16. She has been in hiding for more than a decade but called in police only a few months ago after receiving a text message from her brother. In it, he said he would not be held responsible for his actions if she failed to return to Islam."

Gunman Opens Fire Inside Colorado Christian Missionary Center

FOXNews.com - Two Dead, Two Wounded, After Gunman Opens Fire Inside Colorado Christian Missionary Center - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News: "The manhunt for a gunman who killed two people and wounded two others when he opened fire inside a Christian missionary training facility near Denver dragged on Sunday, as police appealed to the public for help catching a killer on the loose. The shooter entered a dormitory on the campus of Faith Bible Church, a Youth With a Mission training facility for Christian missionaries, in Arvada, Colo., a Denver suburb, at about 12:30 a.m. Sunday and shot four people, killing two of them, before fleeing on foot.
The gunman, described by witnesses as a white male in his twenties wearing a dark skull cap and jacket, who may also have had a beard and eye glasses, remained at large, Arvada Police spokeswoman Susan Medina told Fox News."