7-Year Old Battles North Carolina Gunman: Top News Stories at Officer.com

This is just so cute! Give the girl a medal and free ice cream!

7-Year Old Battles North Carolina Gunman: Top News Stories at Officer.com: "An armed robber was no match for a 7-year-old girl in Reidsville, North Carolina.

The gunman tried to hold-up the convenience store where little Alisha’s mom was working. (She didn’t want to reveal her last name.)

Alisha rushed to her mom’s defense when the robber pushed her. Alisha shoved him right back.

“I was pushing on him and telling him to ‘back away, back away man.’

“I didn't want him to hurt mommy.”

Stymied by the little girl, the gunman gave up on the cash and stole some cigarettes. Then he ran from the store.

Alisha wasn’t finished with him yet.

“I ran behind him and mommy called the po-po,” the pint-sized crime-fighter said.

Then things got really dangerous.

“I was trying to catch him to make him slow down but I couldn't catch him and then he pointed the gun at me,” Alisha explained.

I fell down on the ground ‘cause I thought it would go above my head.”

That’s when Alisha got scared, but she took cover under her polka dotted “blankie.”

“It’s my security blanket,” she said.

She wasn’t hurt.

But she has an idea about what should happen to the robber.

“He should be locked up by his gills, and towed to the police,” Alisha said.
"

Black Muslims are no longer above the law

FrontPage Magazine: "A handyman working for the Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland has confessed to the shotgun slaying of Chauncey Bailey of the Oakland Post. Bailey, 57, was working on a story about the bakery, under investigation by police in connection with assaults, a kidnapping, two homicides, and a case of torture. The slaying has drawn national attention but with little attention to the back story: the way Oakland politicians, police and the media favored the Black Muslim bakery and its founder Yusef Bey.

Bey founded the bakery in 1968, followed by other business and a school. The efforts were initially well received but trouble soon followed. Beginning in the 1970s, Bey showed an eye for the ladies under the age of 14, including his own daughters. He avoided prosecution and courted favors with local officials, but in 2002 he was charged with 27 felony counts of rape and lewd conduct."

Terrorist tossed off Holeland Security Board

FrontPage Magazine: "Abukar Arman admits that it has been a tough few weeks following a FrontPage exposé last month that examined his extensive online writings in defense of terrorist organizations and individuals, all while he sat on the blue-ribbon Franklin County Criminal Justice Planning Board that oversees Central Ohio Homeland Security programs (“Hometown Jihad: The Somali Terror Apologist Next Door”).

As a direct result of that report, Arman was forced to resign last Friday from the Planning Board after officials discovered that as a non-US citizen he wasn’t eligible to be on the board; and in a curiously-timed bureaucratic move, he also lost his Columbus Public Schools adult education job after they discovered that he hadn’t kept up his teaching credentials and the grant funding his position suddenly disappeared. A CPS spokesman said the move had absolutely nothing to do with the FrontPage report though these events occurred immediately after it was published, though Arman told a local paper that he believed the FrontPage story had everything to do with his present woes.

Meanwhile, the County Commission continues to sit on an Open Records Act request submitted by FrontPage on July 30th regarding Arman’s appointment to the Planning Board and their alleged investigation into his extremist statements while simultaneously sharing some of the same i"

Suicide attack kills, injures 87 in Tal Afar ...8/6/2007

Kuna site|Story page|Suicide attack kills, injures 87 in Tal Afar ...8/6/2007: "A suicide bomber slammed his truck into the densely-populated village of Qabak in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar, Mosul, killing at least 33 people, and injuring 54 more, including 17 children and ten women, local authorities said on Monday.

The attack occurred in a crowded Shiite neighborhood of the religiously mixed area, northwest of Baghdad, as houses collapsed due to the mighty blast, an Iraqi police source told KUNA.

The attacker drove an ice-loaded truck filled with explosives and covered with a layer of gravel, the source said."

Terror suspect hides bomb in lamb

The Pallys sure like to explore new ways to kill! May G-d make their fingers forget how to set the detonators so they blow themselves up.

Terror suspect hides bomb in lamb | Jerusalem Post: "A 10-kilogram bomb hidden inside the carcass of a lamb was discovered Monday by IDF troops south of the West Bank village of Salim. The bomb was discovered on the side of the road and Central Command sources said they believed it was intended to be used against the nearby settlements of Itamar or Elon Moreh.

Meanwhile Monday, a Kassam rocket struck a kindergarten in Sderot, causing damage but no injuries. Earlier in the day, three Kassams fell near communities in the western Negev. No one was wounded.

An IDF soldier was lightly wounded Monday morning during clashes in Nablus, where troops from the Paratrooper's Brigade arrested a senior Hamas terrorist.

The use of the lamb carcass on Monday was not the first time that Palestinian terrorists have rigged animals with explosives. In 2003, a donkey loaded with explosives blew up as a bus passed on the road from Jerusalem to Gush Etzion. In 2001, a Palestinian drove a donkey cart laden with explosives toward a group of soldiers. At the last minute he jumped off the cart and detonated the bombs that exploded only partially.

The cart had been loaded with four gas canisters, two mines, a bag of oil and a bag of nails."

Sabotage is suspected over foot-and-mouth - Times Online

Can we guess that about a third of the staff at the lab are non-British? And most of those are Muslim? Coincidence? Hmmm...

Sabotage is suspected over foot-and-mouth - Times Online: "The deliberate release of viral material, possibly in an act of sabotage, may have caused the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, officials said last night.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said in a report ordered by the Prime Minister that “release by human movement [of the FMD virus] must be considered a real possibility”.

Inspectors all but discounted theories that the virus escaped by air or water from the laboratory complex close to where the outbreak started, although they are continuing to investigate the possibility of equipment failure or a security breach.

The HSE concluded in the report — which was sent to Hilary Benn, the Environment Secretary, last night — that there was “a strong probability” that the virus came from the research centre three miles from the first outbreak in a herd of cattle in Surrey."

CITY PRINCIPAL IS 'REVOLTING'

Good to see that the only public school dedicated to a religion is also a school that teaches violence and hatred. With public money. Maybe the West deserves to be destroyed if they think this is good stuff.

CITY PRINCIPAL IS 'REVOLTING' | By CHUCK BENNETT and JANA WINTER | New York News | New York City News | NY News: "Activists with ties to the principal of the city's controversial new Arabic-themed school are hawking T- shirts that glorify Palestinian terror, The Post has learned.

The inflammatory tees boldly declare 'Intifada NYC' - apparently a call for a Gaza-style uprising in the Big Apple.

The organization selling the shirts, Arab Women Active in Art and Media, shares office space on Brooklyn's Third Avenue with the Saba Association of American Yemenis.

Dhabah 'Debbie' Almontaser, principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy - which is scheduled to open in Brooklyn next month - is a board member and spokeswoman for Saba."

Beuchamp lied, Leftists cried

The Left loves to hear horror stories, but has so much trouble finding real ones that they are stuck having soldiers make them up for them. How low can they go? I am not sure! I keep thinking they hit the bottom and then they find a new layer. Disgusting what they will do to make the troops look bad.


The Weekly Standard: "THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp--author of the much-disputed 'Shock Troops' article in the New Republic's July 23 issue as well as two previous 'Baghdad Diarist' columns--signed a sworn statement admitting that all three articles he published in the New Republic were exaggerations and falsehoods--fabrications containing only 'a smidgen of truth,' in the words of our source.

Separately, we received this statement from Major Steven F. Lamb, the deputy Public Affairs Officer for Multi National Division-Baghdad:

An investigation has been completed and the allegations made by PVT Beauchamp were found to be false. His platoon and company were interviewed and no one could substantiate the claims."

Flashlight Weapon Makes Targets Throw Up

I want one! Who can I use it on?

FOXNews.com - Flashlight Weapon Makes Targets Throw Up - Science News | Current Articles: "Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc., of Torrance, Calif., has been granted a contract by the Department of Homeland Security to develop what it calls the 'LED Incapacitator,' according to a DHS online newsletter.

The handheld device using light-emitting diodes to emit super-bright pulses of light at rapidly changing wavelengths, causing disorientation, nausea and even vomiting in whomever it's pointed at."

Two Middle Eastern Men Carrying a Bomb Detained in South Carolina

Why is this not in the main Leftist news Media? I guess Islamic bombers in the US is ignored because it is just another Bush plot to scare the civilians.

The Corner on National Review Online: "Goose Creek - Two men are being held in the Berkeley County Detention Center after police find explosive making devices in their car. The men had atleast one ready to go bomb and bomb making materials that include chemicals. The men 21-year-old Yousef Megahed and 24-year-old Ahmed Mohamed (seen in the video attachment) were pulled over Saturday evening during a routine traffic stop near Myers Road and Highway 176. Among the explosive devices found were igniters and fusers. Few details about the suspects are known at this time. They are believed to be students at a Florida college. They are of Middle Eastern descent and are not US citizens. Neither man has been charged, but charges are expected Monday. A press conference will be held at the Berkeley County Sheriff's office Monday at 11:30 in the morning. Among the potential charges is possession of unlawful explosives. Officials are not at this time releasing any additional information on the number of charges or types of explosive devices they found. Highway 176 in Goose Creek was shut down and has since reopened."

Man Helps Elderly Neighbor to Hospital, Gets Hard Time for "Immoral Behavior"

The joys of Islam. What else can I say, that I have not already?

The American Israeli Patriot: Man Helps Elderly Neighbor to Hospital, Gets Hard Time for "Immoral Behavior": "Would he have been better off if he just let her die? Welcome to the world of contorted justice. Welcome to the wonderful world of Islam.

'Nigerian Lands in Jail for Helping 60-Year-Old Woman in Riyadh' by Javid Hassan and Raid Qusti for Arab News:

RIYADH, 6 August 2007 - A new convert to Islam, fired with zeal to do a righteous act, had no idea that he would pay a heavy price for helping a sick woman, one that has landed him 50 days and counting behind bars.

The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice found him guilty for committing a crime: Being in the presence of a woman who is not a relative (a so-called “illegal state of seclusion”)."

Young Israelis blast Gaza strip - with vegetables | the Daily Mail

You HAVE to read this article and see the pictures! This is funny stuff!

Young Israelis blast Gaza strip - with vegetables | the Daily Mail: "Left-wing activists who are fed up with rocket attacks have developed homemade launchers to blast eggs and vegetables towards the Gaza Strip.

The young Israelis used recycled materials to construct their bizarre 'weapons'.

Ammunition: Apples are ready to load into the 'weapon'

They fired tomatoes, cucumbers, chillis and even corn on the cob - to make their point.

Chilli power: Man loads the homemade launcher

The group are protesting against rockets being fired by Palestinian militants towards Israeli border towns.

Defiant: Protester fires vegetables

They want to raise awareness about the grim situation they are facing."

Israel Receives Eviction Notice From Iran

Nothing really new here, but when will the Muslims end the occupation of Persia?

The American Israeli Patriot: Israel Receives Eviction Notice From Iran

Next stop Uganda? "Iran president tells Israel to find a new home" from AFP:

ALGIERS - Iran’s outspoken President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on Israel to “go find somewhere else” for its state and leave its territory for the creation of a Palestinian state, according to an interview published on Saturday.

“Our support (for the Palestinian people) is unconditional. As for the Israelis, let them go find somewhere else,” Ahmadinejad told several Algerian newspapers ahead of a visit to Algiers that starts Monday.

Al Qaeda Cell May Be Loose in U.S., British Plot Hints - August 6, 2007 - The New York Sun

What an obvious statement - of course there are cells in the US! Even Leftists have to admit this, except when they are denying that terrorists are targeting the US at all.

Al Qaeda Cell May Be Loose in U.S., British Plot Hints - August 6, 2007 - The New York Sun: "Since the thwarted plot in London and Glasgow over the weekend of July 1, American intelligence officials have gone public with their concerns about a Qaeda presence in America. The secretary of homeland security, Michael Chertoff, said he had a 'gut feeling' on an increased risk of attack. More recently, the commander for Northern Command, the American military operational region that includes North America, Air Force General Victor Renuart told the Associated Press in an interview on July 25, 'I believe there are cells in the United States, or at least people who aspire to create cells in the United States.' He added, 'To assume that there are not those cells is naive and so we have to take that threat seriously.'

The heightened threat environment also played a role in the passage of a law Saturday evening to give the National Security Agency temporary authority for the next six months to conduct warrantless wiretaps against suspected al Qaeda contacts on American soil. On Friday, as Congress was still wrangling over the specifics of the changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the director of national intelligence, Admiral Michael McConnell, was unusually blunt about the threat. Commenting on the Democratic proposal that the White House rejected, Admiral McConnell said, "I must have certainty in order to protect the nation from attacks that are being planned today to inflict mass casualties on the United States.""

Confessed killer saw himself as 'a good soldier'

Black Muslim "soldiers" running around killing people critical of them. Yup! Sounds like the Black Muslims are keeping in touch with their Muslim brethren. They all seem to handle criticism with murder and violence. Thanks for reminding us!

Inside Bay Area - Bailey's confessed killer saw himself as 'a good soldier': "In his confession to police, 19-year-old Devaughdre Broussard told detectives he considered himself 'a good soldier' when he shot and killed journalist Chauncey Bailey for writing negative stories about Your Black Muslim Bakery, where Broussard was a member and worked as a handyman, authorities said.

Broussard, who also uses the spelling Brossard, was formally booked Saturday on suspicion of murder. He was already on probation for a robbery conviction in San Francisco, and also had a pending case on charges of assault with a firearm from a 2006 San Francisco incident. In addition, there was a failure-to-appear warrant out for his arrest in that case.

He was taken into custody Friday along with six other people in an early morning police raid on the bakery and affiliated buildings as a result of a two-month police investigation. Broussard had been staying at one of the raided houses on 59th Street, its rear yard connecting to the bakery property. At the house, police recovered the shotgun they believe was used to kill Bailey, the 57-year-old editor of the Oakland Postnewspaper."

Uganda: Stolen Explosive Materials Spark Terrorism Scare (Page 1 of 1)

Thanks to TerroristWarning.com for the alert. Tick, tick, tick, boom! The bad guys are still collecting radioactive materials, even if the Left is ignoring it.

allAfrica.com: Uganda: Stolen Explosive Materials Spark Terrorism Scare (Page 1 of 1): "DANGEROUS radioactive materials often used by terrorists to manufacture bombs have been stolen from Mulago Hospital, throwing top security chiefs in the country into a panic.

Some of the radioactive materials belonged to Mulago Hospital while others had been captured from suspected Al-Qaeda terror cells in Jinja District last year and stored at the hospital.

The materials were stolen nearly two weeks ago. After the capture of the explosive materials from the suspected Al-Qaeda cells, the security personnel took them to Mulago government hospital for proper management because of its sophistication."

Gingrich says war on terror 'phony'

This article is an interesting look at the Bush Administration's failure to take the War on Terror seriously. A good read.

Gingrich says war on terror 'phony' | ajc.com: "'What I'm trying to start is a new dialogue that is evidence-based,' Gingrich said Thursday. 'It doesn't start from the right wing, it doesn't start from the left wing,' he said, but is an effort to get politicians and voters to 'look honestly at the evidence of what isn't working and tell us how to change it.'

Gingrich was interrupted with applause once, when he called for an end to the biting partisanship critics say has polarized national politics and paralyzed the workings of government.

'We have got to get past this partisan baloney, where I'm not allowed to say anything good about Hillary Clinton because 'I'm not a loyal Republican,' and she's not allowed to say anything good about me, or she's not a 'loyal' Democrat. What a stupid way to run a country.'"

Anti-terror chief 'misled' public

Mistakes happen. These were stupid mistakes, but they happen. Do I think it was a conspiracy to kill this punk kid instead of the real terrorists? Heck no! All these mistakes bear the hallmarks of being just mistakes. The only thing that makes this seem bad to me is that Lord Mayor Livingston is supporting keeping Asst. Comm. Hayman on the job after this. If "Red Ken" thinks he is doing a good job, then I automatically suspect him of being a crook!

BBC NEWS | UK | Anti-terror chief 'misled' public: "There were 'serious weaknesses' in the Metropolitan Police's handling of information after the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, a report has found.

Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman 'misled' the public, the Independent Police Complaints Commission ruled.

The IPCC has examined statements issued by police after the 27-year-old was mistakenly shot dead by officers at Stockwell Tube station on 22 July 2005."

U.S. Says It Killed Al Qaeda Mastermind of Golden Dome Mosque Bombing; 13 Killed in Baghdad Blast - International News | News of the Wor

Darn! How will the Left spin this? They are having a lot of trouble explaining how the many successes that have been been coming from Iraq...

FOXNews.com - U.S. Says It Killed Al Qaeda Mastermind of Golden Dome Mosque Bombing; 13 Killed in Baghdad Blast - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe N: "U.S. troops killed the Al Qaeda in Iraq mastermind of the bombing that destroyed the golden dome of a famed sacred Shiite shrine last year and set in motion an unrelenting cycle of sectarian bloodletting, the military said Sunday.

Haitham Sabah Shaker Mohammed al-Badri, the group's Salahuddin province emir, was killed in a U.S. operation east of Samarra on Thursday, the military said He also was responsible for the June 13 bombing that toppled the Askariya shrine's twin minarets, it said.

Rear Adm. Mark Fox, a U.S. military spokesman, said al-Badri had been among insurgents spotted by U.S. aircraft moving into 'tactical fighting positions.'

'From the surveillance that was going on, it looked like they were setting up an ambush,' he told reporters in the heavily guarded Green Zone. 'So they brought in rotary wing and close air support and there was some strafing that occurred from helicopters.'

'Al-Badri's body was positively identified by close associates and family members,' Fox said."

Foot And Mouth Outbreak At Surrey Farm |Sky News|UK News

Lab accidents happen, but they should not be allowed too! Scary things happen.

Foot And Mouth Outbreak At Surrey Farm |Sky News|UK News: "The foot and mouth outbreak at a farm in Surrey may have been caused by a leak from a nearby animal research laboratory.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)said the virus is the same as one being used at Pirbright Laboratory, just a few miles from the farm.

Defra could not say definitely if the laboratory was the source of the disease, but immediately increased the size of the protection zones covering farms in the area.

Experts said the strain was not one recently found in animals, but was similar to ones used in diagnostic laboratories and vaccine production."

'Radioactive Boy Scout' Charged in Smoke Detector Theft

Finally prosecuting people for stealing radioactive materials in minor amounts is good. Now if they will start finding the Muslims doing it. I am going to give the government the benefit of the doubt and say they started with a white guy to avoid charges of racism, but what about all the Muslims getting this material?

FOXNews.com - 'Radioactive Boy Scout' Charged in Smoke Detector Theft - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News: "A man who became the subject of a book called 'The Radioactive Boy Scout' after trying to build a nuclear reactor in a shed as a teenager has been charged with stealing 16 smoke detectors. Police say it was a possible effort to experiment with radioactive materials.

David Hahn, 31, was being held Friday on a $5,000 bond in the Macomb County Jail after he was arraigned Thursday on felony larceny charges. Clinton Township police Capt. Richard Maierle said Hahn denied the charges."

Learning from History

Here is a great lesson in history and leadership. If this lesson is not learned, then prepare your prayer rug and slap a burka over your women. I am getting ready for us to lose, even though I am praying for the opposite.

WorldWatch - June 3, 2007 - Learning from History - The Ornery American: "So the question remains: Are we too stupid to learn from history? Must we, on the verge of victory, turn our future over to the fools and appeasers?

That's what the polls are saying right now. Those polls will change. But, as with England in 1939, the polls will change too late. Without leadership, the people do not see the danger in time.

Americans just want to be left alone. Our enemies are determined not to leave us alone. But our media, our intellectuals, and the Democratic Party are trying to soothe us and assure us that we don't actually have to fight anybody. We can win just by sitting still and ... being America.

America didn't get to be America by sitting still."

Murder rates in Britian by non-Brits

Excellent number crunching by a good mind. The full facts and figures are nice to see and it helps to make the dangerous situation easier to understand. Read this! It is key to an understanding about how the governments are selling out the people in the name of Political Correctness.

Blogger: RECONQUISTA - Post a Comment: "Murder rates Brit natives/non-Brits In Britain The idea for this talk, and the basic numbers, were given to me by a man on the internet who uses the screen-name “alanorei”. Thank you alan.

Let’s take a look at some of the murders in this country for the two and a half years from January 2005 up until two weeks ago when PC Henry was murdered in Luton (by an illegal immigrant from Nigeria). It must first be said that the majority of murders in Britain are of non-Brits by non-Brits, and of Brits by Brits. Apart from the sheer rate at which non-Brits are murdering each other compared to their overall numbers, these two sets of figures are uncontroversial."

The Docs of War

Australia/Israel Review - The Docs of War: "According to Butt, people like Brown hope the problem of Islamic extremism will disappear if they repeat the mantra that Islam is a religion of peace and refuse to confront the “difficult and often complex truth that Islam can be interpreted as condoning violence against the unbeliever.”

Wars, he points out, cannot be won through denial, the psychological defence system by which people protect themselves from individuals or groups which are perceived to threaten or discomfort them. “Yet, in ways large and small, Western leaders and institutions deliberately avert their gaze from the reality of the Islamist threat.”

Gordon Brown is going through a period of not-so-subtle disengagement from the largely unqualified support for Washington that had been the default position of Tony Blair. Bending the knee to the Muslim community might be part of that process."

European Socialists Take Aim at "Islamophobia" | The Brussels Journal

European Socialists Take Aim at "Islamophobia" | The Brussels Journal: "Socialists in the EU Parliament are pushing for a “Judeo-Christian-Islamic” Europe, whatever that is. Islam has nothing to do with European culture, regardless of what the European Union might say. Notice also that the EUrabians are very preoccupied with the “grievances” of Muslims. Nobody ever asks native Europeans about our “legitimate grievances.” Since we are Christians and – dare I say – white, we do not by definition have any.

A newspaper in my country stated that we should cooperate with the Muslim Brotherhood because they are so “moderate.” Earlier this year the current leader of the MB, Mahdi Akef, stated that the ongoing Jihad will smash Western civilization. Akef decreed that in the event that Muslims cannot achieve this goal in the near future, “Muslims are obliged to continue the jihad that will cause the collapse of Western civilization and the ascendance of the Muslim civilization on its ruins.” The spiritual leader of the Brotherhood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, has voiced his support for suicide bombings and publicly boasted about how Muslims will conquer Europe."

Gaza 'Under Siege'?

Collactive: HonestReporting - Gaza 'Under Siege'?: "Despite Hamas's claims to have 'restored law and order' in the Gaza Strip, the terror organization has done nothing to prevent Qassam missiles from raining down on Sderot and the surrounding region. Hamas has even launched mortars at the very border crossings that serve as a lifeline to the Palestinian population. In addition, kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit continues to be held in Gaza. Any reasonable analysis of the situation would conclude that Israel, having previously withdrawn from Gaza, would be under no obligation to aid such a hostile entity.

The New York Times / International Herald Tribune reports from the Kerem Shalom border crossing: 'between mortar attacks by Hamas and other militants, about 20 truckloads of milk products, meat, medicines and eggs passed from Israel into Gaza, part of the effort to keep basic commodities reaching the 1.5 million Palestinians of the largely isolated strip.' The article highlights mortar attacks on the crossing. Likewise, The Times of London also acknowledges the dilemma of closing the border and the need for restrictions on trade as well as the impact on the Palestinians."

The Death of Sweden

The Viking blood is so thin and full of self-disgust that they are now fighting to make themselves extinct. I am going to be sick. Fight back! Europe is not that horrible! Being white is not a crime! The world is full of interesting and wonderful things because of the Europeans. Did they do some horrible things? Sure, but not as much as it seems if one listens to the Leftists. Send the Left away and return to life!

The Death of Sweden | The Brussels Journal: "According to some observers, Islamophobic hatred is on the rise in Europe. Let's have a look at what constitutes 'racist hatred.' The following is used as an official example of what is considered an Islamophobic hate crime in Sweden: A Muslim family in a Swedish neighborhood asks whether it is possible for them to get something else to eat other than sausages made out of pork. Linda then answers: 'No, we live in Sweden.' The family asks what she means by that. Linda repeats that 'We live in Sweden, and you have to respect that.' The man of the family says that 'We respect you, why can't you respect us?' Linda then replies that 'No, unfortunately not.' She laughs and walks away.

Contrast this with an example from 2006, when Chancellor of Justice Göran Lambertz discontinued his preliminary investigation regarding anti-Semitism at the great mosque in Stockholm. He wrote that 'the lecture at hand contains statements that are strongly degrading to Jews, among other things, they are throughout called brothers of apes and pigs.' Furthermore a curse is expressed over the Jews and 'Jihad is called for, to kill the Jews, whereby suicide bombers – celebrated as martyrs – are the most effective weapon.' Lambertz thought that the "recently mentioned statements in spite of their contents are not to be considered incitement against an ethnic group according to Swedish law." His conclusions were that the preliminary investigation should be discontinued because this incitement against Jews could be said to originate from the Middle East conflict."

Keep on fighting!

"What we still don't understand is why you Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi. You had us on the ropes. If you had pressed us a little harder, just for another day or two, we were ready to surrender! It was the same at the battles of TET. You defeated us! We knew it, and we thought you knew it. But we were elated to notice your media were definitely helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the battlefields. We were ready to surrender. You had won!"
- General Giap, North Vietnam (memoirs)

There is a lesson here for the modern Leftists who want the US to lose the current war. Think about it you Leftist losers!

Blogger News Network » CNN to Air God’s Warriors, Equating Christians to Muslim Jihadists?

CNN thinks Jerry Falwell is Osama bin Laden! This is as stupid as it gets. If this runs in its current shape, I will ban CNN and articles from CNN on this blog. Much as Kos bans Fox and sites he perceives as conservative. The Left gets so stupid that it can make an honest person sick

Blogger News Network » CNN to Air God’s Warriors, Equating Christians to Muslim Jihadists?: "With great fanfare, CNN is announcing the broadcast over three nights in August of a “Worldwide TV event” hosted by Christiane Amanpour titled “God’s Warriors.” But some fear that these three nights, each night focusing on a particular religion, will equate Christian political activists in America (the so-called “Christian Right”) to Muslim suicide bombers and radical Jihasists the world over. And after reading the CNN press release announcing the “event,” it’s hard to doubt that those fears will be accurate."

Why Military Jihad in Modern Times Is Illegal

Family Security Matters: "Jihad, like a number of other historical developments throughout the world, was a religiously-based geopolitical and military campaign that affected large parts of the world for many centuries. It involved initial theological teachings and injunctions, followed by 14 centuries of interpretations by adherents, caliphs, sultans and their armies, courts, and thinkers. The historical reality of jihad has been intertwined with the evolution of the Islamic state since the seventh century. It is emphatically not a modern, recent, and narrow creation by a small militant faction. It has to be seen in its historical context.

But on the other hand, this giant doctrine, which motivated armies and feelings for centuries, also inspired contemporary movements that shaped their ideology based on their interpretation of the historical jihad. In other words, today's jihadists are an ideological movement with several organizations and regimes who claim that they define the sole interpretation of what jihad was in history and that they are the ones to resume it and apply it in the present and future. It is equivalent to the possibility that some Christians today might claim that they were reviving the Crusades in the present. This would be only a 'claim' of course, because the majority of Christians, either convinced believers or those with a sociological Christian bent, have gone beyond the"

VA-DoD Disability Reforms

VA-DoD Disability Reforms: "The President’s Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors, in releasing its final report Wednesday, recommended getting “DoD completely out of the disability business” by giving VA sole responsibility for setting disability ratings and awarding compensation. Disabled service members would see the current “confusing, parallel systems of ratings and compensation” replaced by a single, simple and more generous system.

Other commission recommendations call for: a patient-centered recovery plan for each severely-injured member; aggressive prevention and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury; strengthened support services for families of wounded members; faster transfer of patient information between DoD and VA; and shoring up staff at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center until its closing in 2011."

A Green Sings the Renewable Energy Blues - Opinion

FOXNews.com - Junk Science: A Green Sings the Renewable Energy Blues - Opinion: "Ausubel calculated the amount of energy produced by various renewable energy sources — including hydroelectric, biomass, wind and solar power — in terms of power output per square meter of land disturbed.

If you could collect the average annual rainfall of the 900,000-square-kilometer Canadian province of Ontario — about 680,000 billion liters of water — and store it behind a dam 60 meters tall, you would produce about 11,000 Megawatts of electricity — which is only about 80 percent of the output of Canada’s 25 nuclear power stations, Ausubel says.

In other words, this works out to a power production rate of 0.012 watts per square meter of land. It would take 1 square kilometer of land to provide enough electricity for about 12 Canadians, according to Ausubel, who says this inefficiency is a key reason for the reduced demand for hydroelectric power."

French, Germans and Chicagoans

I missed this one, but it is good to know that some Frenchmen have respect for the US and are glad that they do not speak German. It might be a small minority, but once we have to save them from the Muslims even more might decide we are not so bad after all. Maybe.

LEATHERNECKM31: French, Germans and Chicagoans: "The group, France Will Never Forget was formed in 2003 and honored with a rose each of the 60,522 graves of all US soldiers who fell and were buried in France in WWI and WWII. The event was made possible by the generosity of hundreds of companies, associations, and individuals.

Legion_of_honor_2 In 2004 the organization enabled 100 United States war veterans to travel to France to be awarded the Legion of Honor by the President of France. In 2005 the organization single handedly financed a commemorative trip with first-class accommodations for 10 WWII US Veterans, last members of the platoon who liberated the Eiffel Tower. Two of them were awarded the Legion of Honor by the French Defense Minister. In 2006 The French will never Forget continued its efforts by participating in person and financially to several ceremonies awarding the Legion of Honor to several US veterans, this time on American soil."

Freed Guantanamo inmates take up arms - World - theage.com.au

They are trained to lie and only the Left believes them! The military is forced to release these scum because of political pressure. I think each of the freed prisoners should have five Leftists vow to die if the terrorist kills again. This might make some of these Leftists start to really think! Besides, I am starting to see little wrong in the abuse of Leftists who abuse the legal system to free murderers.

Freed Guantanamo inmates take up arms - World - theage.com.au: "AT LEAST 30 former Guantanamo Bay detainees have been killed or recaptured after taking up arms against allied forces following their release.

They have been discovered mostly in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but not in Iraq, a US Defence Department spokesman told The Age yesterday.

Commander Jeffrey Gordon said the detainees had, while in custody, falsely claimed to be farmers, truck drivers, cooks, small-arms merchants, low-level combatants or had offered other false explanations for being in Afghanistan.

'We are aware of dozens of cases where they have returned to militant activities, participated in anti-US propaganda or engaged in other activities,' said Commander Gordon."

WorldNetDaily: Border agent says China ordered his prosecution

The border control officers have less power than mall cops, with much more important jobs! How can they work if they get arrested for making arrests?

WorldNetDaily: Border agent says China ordered his prosecution: "A Border Patrol agent who was acquitted of a charge of using excessive force during a 2004 arrest of a Chinese national on suspicion of drug smuggling is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for $25 million.

And in a companion lawsuit, Robert Rhodes is seeking another $25 million from three Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with the Office of Professional Responsibility.

He says the agents disregarded their oaths by pursuing a politically motivated prosecution against him to appease their superiors, who allegedly were seeking to do what communist China wanted.

'I was involved in a political prosecution that our government began at the demand of the government of communist China,' Rhodes told WND. 'The prosecution was promised to China by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell and then-Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tom Ridge.'"

WorldNetDaily: Court: Defendant's satanist robe OK for murder trial

More rights to satanists because of the extra rights for muslims. This is getting ridiculas!

WorldNetDaily: Court: Defendant's satanist robe OK for murder trial: "Florida trial Judge Peter Adrien has ruled that a satanist on trial for allegedly killing and dismembering another man, then eating portions of the body, may wear his full religious regalia when he defends himself in court.

The prosecutor in the case, Assistant State Attorney Herbert E. Walker III, told WND the motion was brought by Lazaro Galindo, who is on trial for the 2000 death of Argelio Gonzalez.

Walker said he did not object to the request, because Galindo cited recent decisions that have allowed Islam into U.S. courtrooms for Muslim faithful, and he didn't want to set up a circumstance that could result in grounds for an appeal if Galindo is convicted."

A new critique of the 2004 Lancet Iraq death toll study

This is too much too write a short blog about. The paper is too much for little me who only got a 'c' in statistics class! But I like the conclusions it draws and will slog through it to get a better understanding later. Thanks Michelle for finding this!

Michelle Malkin » Document drop: A new critique of the 2004 Lancet Iraq death toll study: "Remember that massively-publicized 2004 Lancet Iraq death toll study? It was cited in nearly 100 scholarly journals and reported by news outlets around the world. “100,000 Civilian Deaths Estimated in Iraq” blared the Washington Post in a typical headline.

There were attempts made by lay journalists to debunk the 2004 study (as well as the 2006 follow-up study that purported to back up the first). But none of those dissections comes close to a damning new statistical analysis of the 2004 study authored by David Kane, Institute Fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. I read of Kane’s new paper at this science blog and e-mailed him for permission to reprint his analysis in its entirety here so that a wider blog readership could have a look. He has given me his permission and adds that he welcomes comments and feedback. He’ll be presenting the paper at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Salt Lake City on Monday — the largest conference of statisticians in North America.

Much of the math here is mind-numbingly complicated, but Kane’s bottom line is simple: the Lancet authors “cannot reject the null hypothesis that mortality in Iraq is unchanged.” Translation: according to Kane, "

"Young Muslims die for their belief.”

The Muslims are confident of their upcoming global domination. They can even brag about it now! What can be done to stop them?

America: PostGlobal on washingtonpost.com: "After the Babri Masjid was destroyed in 1993, many SIMI members -- who’d outgrown the organization's 30-year-old age cap -- and others broke off to form the National Development Front to fight against what Koya calls a “nexus of interests coming together: Hindutva extremists, America, Israel, the Indian elite and all of their neo-liberal policies.” He says that these forces were bent on undercutting the Islamic way of life.

NDF found support in northern Kerala and now has 30,000 active members and over 100,000 more supporters, according to Koya. It is chasing the more moderate Muslim League in the north of Kerala to become the dominant Muslim political force in the state.

“You praise Bin Laden, but would you encourage your youth to kill Americans?” I ask Koya.

“I wouldn’t encourage it. How can you encourage it?” he begins, and then changes course, “But dying is not a bad thing either. It depends on how you view things. Americans eulogize their soldiers after they kill children in Iraq. Young African Americans die for their country. Young Muslims die for their belief.”

“Should America worry about Kerala?” I ask.

“There will be no terrorism here. India is a democracy so we can protest and vote when we disagree. We don’t need to kill. But India is coming after Muslims slowly and if we lose our rights, our right to think even, we will be left with no other choice. Islam is not hypocritical in that way. Violence can be justified. But India is a democracy so we have other means for now, don’t worry.” He raises his eyebrows again, smiles and asks, “Are you worried?”"

Schoolboy guilty of terrorism offences - Telegraph

If enough of these kids kill themselves, maybe the war will end quicker. I doubt it though.

Schoolboy guilty of terrorism offences - Telegraph: "A schoolboy who ran away from home to become a Muslim martyr and three students who recruited him are facing jail after a jury found them guilty of terrorism offences.

Mohammed Irfan Raja was supposed to be on his way to school in Essex when he ran away to join a group of radicalised students in Bradford.

Mohammed Irfan Raja, convicted of having materials for terrorism, schoolboy guilty of terrorism offences
Mohammed Irfan Raja, 18, is facing jail after being convicted of having materials for terrorism

Raja, from Ilford, who was then 17, caught a bus to West Yorkshire as part of a plan to travel to Pakistan for terrorist training.

He left his parents a note which said: 'If not in this (world) we will meet in the Garden of Paradise, Inshallah [God willing].

'The situation is such that you will live another 30 years, maybe 40 years. When death will befall you, maybe then you will appreciate what I have done now.' A 'PS' added that he was going abroad."

Activist's remarks about Islam, sex probed - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

Activist's remarks about Islam, sex probed - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: "Organizers of a conservative online forum in Canada say their free-speech rights are under attack after they received a letter saying a complaint has been filed with the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

The complaint, filed by a private citizen and accepted for further investigation by the commission, protested a critical posting on the forum's Web site regarding Islam and homosexuality.

The remarks were posted on FreeDominion.ca, a sister site to the conservative U.S. forum FreeRepublic, by FreeDominion member Bill Whatcott, a former homosexual prostitute turned outspoken Christian activist.

“I can't figure out why the homosexuals I ran into are on the side of the Muslims,” Mr. Whatcott wrote on the Web site. “After all, Muslims who practice Sharia law tend to advocate beheading homosexuals.”"

Jihad Watch: UK: Muslim beats man to death as "Allah was telling him how to bring about world peace"

How can the kuffar Brits stop a Muslim holy man for carrying out the will of Allah? This was for World Peace!

Jihad Watch: UK: Muslim beats man to death as "Allah was telling him how to bring about world peace": "Unfortunately he is not the first to get the idea that peace will come through the killing of the kuffar. From CourtNewsUK (thanks to a tea-loving snail):

BENOMOR:CRAZED IMMIGRANT BEAT MAN TO DEATH WITH HIS BARE HANDS HARLINGTON, MIDDSX. A Tunisian immigrant beat a man to death with his bare hands and feet believing Allah was telling him how to bring about world peace, a court heard. Bearded Laidi Benomor, 30, attacked six people as he went on the rampage in the Harlington High Street near the Holiday Inn at Heathrow."

Former Guantanamo detainee blows himself up - Telegraph

Released because he was innocent? We should put the Peace Activists in Gitmo to discuss how non-violent they all are.

Former Guantanamo detainee blows himself up - Telegraph: "A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who took up arms alongside the Taliban after he was released from detention has blown himself up to avoid capture, Pakistani security forces said today.

Abdullah Mehsud killed himself with a hand grenade after he was cornered by troops at a house in the south-western Pakistani town of Zhob. He was wanted for the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers in 2004.

'My information is that (he) killed himself,' said Atta Mohammed, the head of the police in Zhob. 'Thanks be to God that only he was blown up and our men were safe.'

Mehsud, 32, was released from the US detention centre in Cuba after two years in 2004 but immediately went back to violence when the Pakistani government began an offensive against the Taliban in the troubled region along the border with Afghanistan."

NBC Weapons: Albania First To Be Chemical Free

Finally! The first country to disarm has! Now we just have to stop new weapons from being mixed up in the labs. How much longer until the rest of the weapons are destroyed? I hope it is soon!

NBC Weapons: Albania First To Be Chemical Free: "Albania became the first nation to destroy its entire chemical weapons inventory, under the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). This treaty has most nations possessing chemical weapons (including Russia, China and the United States) agreeing to destroy their stockpiles, and for the wealthier ones to help the poorer ones in that endeavor. Thus Greece, Italy, Switzerland and the United States all helped Albania destroy about 16 tons of mustard, lewisite, mustard/lewisite mixture, adamsite, and chloroacetophenone chemical weapons.



For nearly half a century, Albania was run by one of the most oppressive and paranoid communist dictatorships in the world. We're talking a North Korea class government here, that collapsed in 1991, along with the more liberal communist police states of Eastern Europe. Albania has always been one of the poorest nations in Europe, and thus was able to build a relatively small arsenal of chemical weapons."

Counter-Terrorism: Why Warriors Make Lousy Terrorists

Interesting look into why Afghanistan and Iraq are so different. I also like to see more about the problems of Al Qaeda! A good read.

Counter-Terrorism: Why Warriors Make Lousy Terrorists: "Al Qaeda has been on a downward spiral since September 11, 2001, and there's no general agreement on why this is. No attacks in North America, and the many thwarted plots there, revealed a lack of professionalism quite at odds which attacks in the 1990s, and up to September 11, 2001. The terrorist violence in Iraq, often attributed to al Qaeda, is largely the work of Saddams rather efficient security organizations. Those lads were not much good at fighting the U.S. armed forces, but they have, over three decades, become quite good at killing Iraqis, and terrorism in general.



The attacks in London and Madrid were local Moslems, and got a lot more ink than the much more numerous failed attacks in the same area. Then there's Afghanistan, where suicide bombings skyrocketed last year. But there was something odd about the suicide bombing attacks in Afghanistan; 43 percent of them only killed the bomber. This year, suicide bombing attacks, at about two a week, are up about twenty percent over last year. But the percentage of attacks in which only the bomber dies has remained the same."

DEBKAfile - DEBKAfile reports: Problem of Jews and Christians expelled from Arab lands must be dealt with in any Middle East peace process – US Congre

About time that this is being looked at! These poor families escaped from the Muslims and have been ignored. Why are the Palestinians considered refugees while the Jews are not? Is this just more antisemitism from the UN?

DEBKAfile - DEBKAfile reports: Problem of Jews and Christians expelled from Arab lands must be dealt with in any Middle East peace process – US Congressional caucus states: "Of the million-strong, 2,500-year old Jewish communities of the Middle East, only 8,000 remain in 10 Arab countries, said former Justice Minister and Attorney General of Canada Dr. Irwin Cotler in his briefing to the bipartisan Congressional Human Rights Caucus in Washington co-headed by Frank R. Wolf (R.-VA) and Tom Lantos (D-CA), Thursday, July 19. Yet against the 101 UN resolutions passed on the Palestinian refugees since 1947, not one addressed the forcible expulsion of Jews from Arab countries by state-orchestrated oppression, persecutions and pogroms.

This raises serious questions about the appropriateness of the United Nations having a role in the Middle East Quartet meeting in Lisbon Thursday, said Cotler, counsel to former prisoners of conscience Andrei Sakharov and Nelson Mandela. he whole question of refugees and refugee claims is at the forefront of the Peace Process, and integral to the Roadmap. Rights for Jewish refugees from Arab countries, 600,000 of whom were absorbed in Israel, have to be part of any peace process with a claim to integrity.

The Caucus, after hearing four speakers on behalf of the Justice for Jews from Arab Countries organization, decided to promote two Middle East refugee resolutions already"

Jihad Watch: Italy: Group used mosque as jihad training camp

Will it ever end? I am so tired of these stories! I am even more tired of how the Media and Government ignore these incidents. If a Christian church was doing this stupid crud, the Media would be all over it!

Jihad Watch: Italy: Group used mosque as jihad training camp: "ROME - Italian police arrested three Moroccans — an imam and two of his aids — they accuse of being part of a militant cell that allegedly used a mosque in a central Italian city as a terror training camp.

The group held courses on hand-to-hand combat and used propaganda films and documents downloaded from the Internet to teach how to prepare poisons and explosives, pilot a Boeing 747 and send encrypted messages, anti-terrorism police in Rome said in a statement. A fourth Moroccan was still being sought, the statement said."

Hizballah moving rockets into towns

The original AP article has vanished. I wonder why?

Hezballah just keeps getting stronger and stronger while the UN keeps the Israelis from spying too closely. It is past time to depopulate anyplace the Jihadi/Palestinian Death Religion. Way past time. Also time to end the UN and their corruption.

Jihad Watch: IDF: Hizballah moving rockets south: "Hizbullah guerrillas have moved most of their rockets in south Lebanon among civilians in villages in an apparent attempt to avoid detection by Israel and UN troops, IDF officials said Sunday.

The new moves are part of Hizbullah's reorganization after the Second Lebanon War, the officials said. During the summer's war, Hizbullah fired almost 4,000 rockets at Israel.

While Lebanon criticized the IDF for targeting civilian areas during the war, Israel said Hizbullah was to blame for operating among civilians and putting them at risk.

Last summer, many of Hizbullah's rocket batteries were located in unpopulated rural areas, where the guerrillas dug networks of tunnels and fortifications, the officials said. But the army's new intelligence indicates that those positions had now largely been abandoned in favor of populated villages, which provide better cover for the group's activities. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity."

Serious Security Questions at Sky Harbor Airport - ABC15.com: Phoenix, Arizona News, Weather, Radar, Breaking News, Traffic and Web Cams

This whole airport needs to be washed out. It sounds like a monkey with a lobotomy could do a better job.

Serious Security Questions at Sky Harbor Airport - ABC15.com: Phoenix, Arizona News, Weather, Radar, Breaking News, Traffic and Web Cams: "The ABC15 Investigation is getting national attention. ABC15's Lisa Fletcher will be on Good Morning America Monday at 7 a.m.

It's what you have to do when you fly - use X-ray machines, metal detectors, and deal with liquid restrictions in your carry-on luggage. You know the drill.

Security checkpoints are just part of travel these days. They're supposed to keep us safe, so we use them - but not all of us and not all the time.

We've discovered a 4.5 hour time frame each night when virtually anything can be brought into the secure side of Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. There's no metal detector, no X-ray machine, and it's apparently not a problem."

Report: Iran to pay $1b for Syria to procure weapons - Haaretz - Israel News

Why is this kind of stuff allowed to happen? Everyone knows that the Iranians are behind almost every terrorist action in the last few years. It is also well known that Assad is just a puppet for the Iranians. Now that the Iranians and Syrians are blatantly violating the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaties, When will the UN get its head out of its butt and enforce the laws? If they are too impotent to react to this kind of hostile threat to world peace, then maybe they are too worthless to exist. Just like the countries who threaten others like this.

Report: Iran to pay $1b for Syria to procure weapons - Haaretz - Israel News: "Iran will lay out $1 billion to procure for Syria advanced weapons and assist it in nuclear research and the development of chemical weapons, according to a report published yesterday in the London-based daily Al-Shark al-Awsat.

The reports says the strategic cooperation agreement between Damascus and Tehran was signed during the visit late last week by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Syria. The report describes the cooperation between the countries as including military, economic, scientific and technical aspects.

The military cooperation includes Iranian funding for the procurement from Russia of MiG-31 fighter planes, Sukhoi-24 attack aircraft, helicopters and T-72 tanks. Iran will also provide Syria with technical assistance in nuclear research and the development of chemical weapons."

Marine Gets Discharge, No Prison Time for Kidnapping, Conspiracy Conviction in Death of Iraqi - Local News | News Articles | National Ne

Good news! Warriors will make mistakes, and the situation in Iraq does not allow for that. At least this will take the pressure off of other soldiers who are more willing to die than make a silly mistake. Good luck Mr Thomas!

FOXNews.com - Marine Gets Discharge, No Prison Time for Kidnapping, Conspiracy Conviction in Death of Iraqi - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News: "A Marine convicted of kidnapping and conspiring to murder an Iraqi civilian who was killed by troops looking for an insurgent will not serve prison time, a military jury decided Friday.

Cpl. Trent Thomas was sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge and reduced pay. He could have received life in prison for his role in the April 2006 killing of the retired Iraqi policeman in the village of Hamdania.

Thomas, of Madison, Ill., was among seven Marines and a Navy corpsman accused of snatching 52-year-old Hashim Ibrahim Awad from his house, marching him to a nearby ditch and shooting him after they botched an attempt to capture a suspected insurgent.

Prosecutors said squad members tried to cover up the killing by planting a shovel and AK-47 by Awad's body to make it look like he was an insurgent planting a bomb.

A military jury of three officers and six enlisted Marines deliberated Thomas' sentence for less than an hour before returning its decision.

On Wednesday, the jury convicted Thomas, 25, of kidnapping and conspiracy and acquitted him of other charges, including the most serious, premeditated murder."

Obama says that genocide is fine if Arabs are involved

Obama says that the lives of Arabs and Africans are not worth fighting to save. He will only fight to save White Europeans. If they are not to violent about the murders. Or if he is not too scared of them.

FOXNews.com - White House Hopeful Barack Obama Says Preventing Genocide Isn't Reason to Keep U.S. Troops in Iraq - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum: "Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq is not a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.

'Well, look, if that's the criteria by which we are making decisions on the deployment of U.S. forces, then by that argument you would have 300,000 troops in the Congo right now — where millions have been slaughtered as a consequence of ethnic strife — which we haven't done,' Obama said Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press.

'We would be deploying unilaterally and occupying the Sudan, which we haven't done. Those of us who care about Darfur don't think it would be a good idea,' he said.

Obama, a first-term senator from Illinois, said it is likely there would be increased bloodshed if U.S. forces left Iraq.

'Nobody is proposing we leave precipitously. There are still going to be U.S. forces in the region that could intercede, with an international force, on an emergency basis,' Obama said between stops on the first of two days scheduled on the New Hampshire campaign trail. 'There's no doubt there are risks of increased bloodshed."

U.S. Cannot Withhold Classified Evidence from Court in Detainee Review Cases, Appeals Court Rules - Local News | News Articles | Nationa

Who is the idiot judge here? They want to force the military to reveal how they gather the information about the terrorists. Allowing liberal terrorist loving attorneys access to this information is the same as publishing it on the internet! Then the terrorists still skulking about the hinterlands will know how their murderous companions were caught and what to watch out for. Just take these scum and drop them into the ocean from 10,000 feet. Feed the sharks! Drop the lawyers too.

FOXNews.com - U.S. Cannot Withhold Classified Evidence from Court in Detainee Review Cases, Appeals Court Rules - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News: "When Guantanamo Bay detainees challenge their status as 'enemy combatants,' judges must review all the evidence, not just what the military chooses, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected the Bush administration's plan to limit what judges and the detainees' attorneys can review when considering whether the Combatant Status Review Tribunals acted appropriately.

'Counsel for a detainee has a 'need to know' the classified information relating to his client's case,' the appeals court ruled. 'The government may withhold from counsel, but not from the court, certain highly sensitive information.'

The appeals court decision is likely to be considered by the Supreme Court as it decides whether detainees should have greater access to U.S. civilian courts.

When detainees are brought before military CSRTs, they are not allowed to have lawyers with them and the Pentagon decides what evidence to put forward. Unlike in criminal trials, there is no obligation for the government to turn over evidence that the defendant might be innocent. If the military reviewers determine a prisoner is an enemy combatant, he can challenge that designation in the U.S. Circuit"

Increase in Anti-Semitic Violence Troubles Jews in Britain - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News

FOXNews.com - Increase in Anti-Semitic Violence Troubles Jews in Britain - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News: "Rabbi Alex Chapper recalled that he was a target of that hostility when he walked home from Sabbath services with some of his congregants two years ago in a London neighborhood that has a swelling Moslem population. The Jews were followed by a group of Muslim youth shouting anti-Semitic insults.

“We’re Pakistani,” one of the young people yelled. “You’re Jewish. We will kill you.” The rabbi said several of the youths threw punches at the Jews, until one of the congregants flagged down passing car and asked the driver to call the police. The assailants fled.

“Not a week goes by when someone doesn’t make anti-Semitic remarks to me when I’m walking to the synagogue for Sabbath services,” lamented the 34-year-old rabbi.

'People in passing cars give the Hitler salute, or they throw things at me. I wish I was in a place where I felt less threatened, but I am here. I have a job to do. I have to get on with it.”"

‘Honour’ gang laughed as victim suffered - Times Online

Another sickening example of why Islam is not compatible with Western values. Take all the women away from the men and see how many want to go back! That might be nice for them. Many would not return! Not if they have been in Western countries for a while.

‘Honour’ gang laughed as victim suffered - Times Online: "During the three-month trial in which the father and uncle were tried for murder, the jury was told that Miss Mahmod had approached police on four separate occasions saying she feared for her life. At one point she gave officers at Mitcham police station a list of five names of those she feared would one day kill her, including the name of Hama. A month before her murder, she told a police officer that her father had plied her with drink before trying to kill her.

An Independent Police Complaints Commission investigation and an internal Metropolitan Police inquiry were set up after the convictions to try to establish why further steps were not taken to save Miss Mahmod’s life. An officer who dealt with the case believed she was seeking attention and was drunk, despite needing treatment for cuts to her wrist."

The Al-Qaeda Reader by Janet Levy

THis is the terrorists reasoning behind killing us Westerners, and STILL the morons of the Left are ignoreing it as a Bush plot. Maybe the jihadis will do us a favor and start beheading the Leftists for us. Maybe.

FrontPage magazine.com :: The Al-Qaeda Reader by Janet Levy: "A recently translated collection of Al Qaeda treatises, The Al-Qaeda Reader, calls into question many of the operating conceptions the Western world holds about the religion of Mohammed and its attitudes toward the West. Written by Osama Bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri, the #1 and #2 Al Qaeda leaders, and translated by Raymond Ibrahim, a Middle East and Islam historian who works for the Library of Congress, The Al-Qaeda Reader contains exhortations and religious exegeses directed to Muslims, as well as propaganda tracts and warnings to non-Muslims of their imminent defeat and the consequences they will suffer for their perfidious actions, plus, invitations to embrace Islam. A timely and critically important collection, it provides a clearer picture of our enemies and casts serious doubt on the President’s assumptions of shared Muslim/Western aims.
In their entreaties to fellow Muslims, Bin Laden and Al Zawahiri pronounce the requirements of their faith. They base their beliefs on the Koran’s delineation of a world with two camps: the Dar-al-Harb, the world of the infidel or the world of war, and the Dar-al-Islam, the domain of peace inhabited by faithful Muslims. Bin Laden and Zawahiri declare the obligation of Muslims is to follow the only authentic sources of Islamic jurisprudence: the Koran, the Sunna (the codified legal and social practices of Islam) and the rulings of religious leaders, the ulema. Their treatises include strict definitions of true Islam which prohibits relationships and peaceful coexistence with non-Muslims or kuffirs. They denounce separation of church and state, condemn democracy and affirm the sanctity of jihad. "

Muslim hardliners sue Indonesia anti-terrorism unit

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This is almost a parody of the fight against terror! Too funny!

Muslim hardliners sue Indonesia anti-terrorism unit | Reuters.com: "Controversial Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir launched a court case on Thursday demanding Indonesia's anti-terrorism police unit be disbanded because it harmed Islam.

The lawsuit charges that Detachment 88, a police unit funded and trained by the United States and Australia, targets innocent Muslim activists and does the bidding of Western powers hostile to Islam.

'Special Detachment 88 is harming Islam because they say Muslims are terrorists and they give Islam a bad name,' said Bashir, jailed for 30 months for conspiracy over the 2002 Bali bombings but later cleared.

'The unit was formed not to fight terrorists but to fight Islam. That's exactly what infidels do,' he told reporters after the session adjourned."

Islam not integrating in Sweden

Sweden struggles to integrate Muslim immigrants: "Once a thriving industrial town with full employment, Malmoe has seen many of its plants shut down since the 1990s. That, combined with a never-ending stream of foreigners arriving, has led to rising juvenile delinquency and rampant unemployment.

Of the town's 280,000 inhabitants, a third are foreigners and 60,000 are Muslims.

'We are an open city. We see these immigrants as a resource for our society,' Malmoe's Social Democratic mayor Ilmar Reepalu told AFP.

'The problem is that we have welcomed too many immigrants at the same time,' he said, pointing out that last year Malmoe took in more Iraqi asylum-seekers than Germany, Spain, France and Italy combined."

Islam not integrating in Netherlands

Islam in Europe: Netherlands: A Judeo-Christian-Muslim state: "According to Minister Ella Vogellaar, in an interview with Trouw, Muslim culture is so deeply entrenching itself in Dutch society that in the long run one would speak of a land that is based on a 'Judeo-Christian-Muslim' tradition.

The minister for Housing and Integration hopes to end the 'negativity en the fear of Islam'. 'I want to help Muslim feel at home here. Islam and Muslims must take root here, precisely because Muslims are also citizens of this land.'

Vogelaar doesn't have problem if the (local) government supports to religious institutions of New Dutch, even financially. 'So long as you subsidize social goals and not religious activities. Otherwise you cross a border.'

Vogelaar is now speaking differently than various politicians in the past years. Started from the first Balkenende government in 2002, the policy stressed adaptation to Dutch norms and values."

Islam not integrating in Italy

ANSAmed: "There is more fear and distrust in Italian cities about immigrants identified as 'Arab', or those coming from Islamic cultures. With the drop of opinions in favour for granting these immigrants the right to vote in local elections, a strong rise in opposition to the construction of mosques, and a progressive decline of those who see favourably the formation of mixed couples. These are the results of a study carried out by the Milan Chamber of Commerce in Milan, Bologna, Rome, Naples and Palermo. According to a representative sample of the population, the opinions in favour of the opening of a new mosque fell to 28% against 48% last year. The motivations of the 'no' are various: according to 30% of those against 'public money could be better spent', 28% think that Islam is 'a dangerous religion which does not allow integration', 24% of those against clearly speak of mosques as 'gatherings of terrorists.' The favouring to granting the right to vote in local administration for immigrants regularly present for 10 years is in vertical fall in the Italian cities: in 2005 a total 63% were in favour, last year 51%, in this year's polls only 28%."

Lesbian Muslim Terror Suspects Act Crazy to Test System

Debbie Schlussel: "Al-Homsi, a Syrian with dual citizenship, was friends with Wadih El-Hage, Osama Bin Laden's personal secretary, convicted of the two 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa.

'Kimberly' Asma Al-Homsi & Aisha Abdul-Rahman Hamad:
Lesbian Muslim Terror Suspects Act Crazy to Test System

In February, the two women--who live together as lesbian 'domestic partners' (which is supposed to be haram--forbidden--by Islam) were caught surveilling planes' take-off and landing at Dallas' Love Field airport with binoculars. And they were also caught pacing and counting the number of paces inside the airport terminals (which authorities say is a typical surveillance and planning technique).

On July 4th, the women were reported driving near the runways at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport."

'New' al Qaeda tape may contain old clip of bin Laden - CNN.com

I know that the Islamists feel this way, but the Leftists will refuse to believe it. After all, martyrdom needs to blamed on Bush to be understood by the Left. How did Osama forget this important part of his speech?

'New' al Qaeda tape may contain old clip of bin Laden - CNN.com: "Osama bin Laden stresses the importance of martyrdom for Muslim causes in a videotape that purportedly contains a 50-second message from the al Qaeda leader.

The 40-minute videotape, whose audio was being translated from Arabic by CNN, was intercepted before it was to appear on several Islamist Web sites known for carrying statements from al Qaeda and other radical groups.

The videotape, titled 'A Special Surprise from As-Sahab. Heaven's Breeze Part I,' was made in the last four weeks, but the clips appear to be old, said Octavia Nasr, CNN's senior editor for Arab affairs. There is no indication of where it was shot, and CNN cannot verify its authenticity.

'We're aware of the tape,' a government official, who didn't want to be identified, told CNN. The official agreed that the tape's content is not necessarily new."

Yet another fresh mass grave in Iraq

Michael Yon is doing a great job over there. I wish I could work with him, but I am too beaten up to do that. Check out the pictures here took of this poor village that the terrorists emptied out. The villagers were found in a mass grave outside of town. Some of the pictures are very graphic, so be warned!

Michael Yon : Online Magazine » Blog Archive » Bless the Beasts and Children: "Captain Clayton Combs has been fighting hard in Diyala for about ten months, much of it side-by-side with Iraqi soldiers from the 5th Division. Each time I’ve come into contact with the 5th, they seem far better than most. American officers and sergeants who work with the 5th have good things to report about them, saying that although the 5th still has far to go, and cannot sustain itself logistically, it can fight.

Captain Combs said this particular Iraqi unit, the 3-25, has never run away from combat, and never refused to close on the enemy. Combs said, “I’ve fought with 3-25 for 10 months in Diyala and they have always come when I am in trouble. They always go on patrols when I ask. They never back down.”

I asked Captain Combs to repeat what he said, making sure he knew I was planning to quote him directly. A veteran like Combs would be unlikely to append his name to such words if he weren’t dead serious. Captain Combs repeated his words and stuck by them. He then demonstrated that faith when we took off deeper into the danger zone with nine soldiers from 5th IA: just Captain Combs, Iraqi soldiers and me. As we passed through the village, Captain Combs pointed out the nice houses, saying the people had been simple farmers with comfortable homes and lives.

Until al Qaeda came."

“This summer will see Muslim victories in the region and the defeat of our enemies!” – Ahmadinejad in Damascus

This guy is desperate for a war so that he can refocus the world's attention from his nuclear programs. He is also making sure that most of the dead are Syrian or Palestinian. This gives him a little bit of deniability. Not that he is fooling anyone.

DEBKAfile - “This summer will see Muslim victories in the region and the defeat of our enemies!” – Ahmadinejad in Damascus: "The Iranian president trumpeted Iran’s intentions for the Middle East when he arrived in Damascus Thursday, July 19. DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources reveal that behind the braggadocio, his conversation with Iran’s closest ally, Syrian president Bashar Assad, was acrimonious. In fact, he warned Assad he had better stop signaling his willingness for peace talks with Israel because this behavior was hampering Iran’s plans for a war this summer.

Ahmadinejad reminded Assad that Tehran had spent almost a year on detailed preparations for a summer war and would not tolerate the Syrian ruler sabotaging this effort. Assad was reminded of his huge debt to the Islamic Republic. In the last few months alone, Iran put up hundreds of millions of dollars for Syria’s arms purchases from Russia; Syria gets its oil gratis and raw materials and finished goods at subsidized prices."

British Fighter Jets Scrambled as Russian Bombers Approach Airspace

Great. With the War on Terror spreading forces out, the Russians are trying to restart the Cold War. Round up the peaceniks and send them to Russia where they can beg for peace all they want.

FOXNews.com - British Fighter Jets Scrambled as Russian Bombers Approach Airspace - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News: "Fighter planes from Britain and Norway scrambled on Friday to keep watch on Russian bombers that were approaching the countries' air space, officials said.

The incidents occurred amid high tensions between Britain and Russia, as each country ordered the expulsion of four diplomats from the other side. There was no indication that the fighter plans were connected to the row.

Norwegian military spokesman Lt. Col. John Inge Oeglaend told The Associated Press said his country's F-16s were sent into action twice: once when two Russian Tu-95 bombers headed south along the Norwegian coast in international air space. They turned around above Aberdeen on Scotland's North Sea coast.

In the second, two Tu-160 bombers were spotted flying near Norwegian air space over the Barents Sea, he said.

Oeglaend characterized the incidents as routine and but said it was a 'bit unusual that the first two bombers went so far south.' Aberdeen's latitude is about 50 miles below the southern tip of Norway."

Iraqis Being Smuggled Across the Rio Grande

All I can say is: SEAL THE F'N BORDER! Turn over the border to the National Guard and Marines. Make the first twenty feet into a free fire zone and let the good times roll. Remember: happiness is a belt-fed weapon. Uh-rah!

The Blotter: FBI: Iraqis Being Smuggled Across the Rio Grande: "The FBI is investigating an alleged human smuggling operation based in Chaparral, N.M., that agents say is bringing 'Iraqis and other Middle Eastern' individuals across the Rio Grande from Mexico.

An FBI intelligence report distributed by the Washington, D.C. Joint Terrorism Task Force, obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com, says the illegal ring has been bringing Iraqis across the border illegally for more than a year."

Pakistani forces backed by US special units are closing in on al Qaeda’s No. 2 Ayman Zawahiri and possibly also Osama

Oh no! If Osama gets killed then how will the Leftists demogouge President Bush? This story could spell big trouble for the Leftist groups around the world. I almost pity them, if I did not want them all slapped on the head for stupidity!

DEBKAfile - DEBKAfile Exclusive: Pakistani forces backed by US special units are closing in on al Qaeda’s No. 2 Ayman Zawahiri and possibly also Osama bin Laden: "counter-terror sources report exclusively that a frantic effort by al Qaeda and Taliban to head off the pursuit set afoot the bloody battle in Islamabad’s Red Mosque, the attempts to shoot down President Pervez Musharraf’s plane and the suicide attacks on Pakistani military convoys, which cost 68 lives Saturday and Sunday, July 14-15.

Until the middle of last week, Zuwahiri sheltered with the local Pashtun tribes in Bannu, a town in the northwest Pakistan tribal federation of North Waziristan. The approach of Pakistani and US intelligence and special forces caused him to switch hiding places and move to Tank or Tang, a town 120 km south of Bannu.

On Saturday, two soldiers were injured by a bomb explosion in that town, having just missed their quarry.

Musharraf meanwhile decided last week to storm the Red Mosque on a tip-off from his own Inter-Service Intelligence that two of Zawahiri’s closest lieutenants, Majid Hassan al-Tawil and Mohammad Othman, were inside.

They were reported to be preparing a mega-attack in Islamabad and other important Pakistani towns to disrupt the combined Pakistani-US operation to capture their master.

At that point, Pakistani intelligence turned up a lead to the whereabouts"

Islamic Bio Weapon Hits New Zealand

I wonder if this was an intentional effect of the Islamic jihad against the vaccines? These poor kids are being infected and killed just to enrage the people against the West. Poor New Zealand has tried to be a purely neutral in the wars around the world and is still getting hit. This just underscores the importance of vaccines and health checks.

NBC Weapons: Islamic Bio Weapon Hits New Zealand: "Al Qaeda has not commented on their latest success at biological warfare. Recently, efforts by Islamic radicals in Pakistan and Nigeria caused polio to show up in New Zealand, a nation where a quarter of the children are not vaccinated against polio (which has not been seen in the country for decades.) This is a common pattern in many Western nations, because of a growing desire among many parents to avoid vaccinations, in response to rumors of side effects.



The immediate cause of it all was a passenger on a flight from Pakistan into Australia, who was later found to have polio. The rush is on to contact fellow passengers, including those who flew on to New Zealand, and vaccinate those who need it. Until this done, there could be another outbreak of polio in New Zealand. Australia has a much higher percentage of its population immunized against polio, so the presense of infected people is much less of a threat."

The Lie Mutually Agreed Upon

More good insight into the media war that the terrorists are conducting. The Media is still trying to find ways to force the US coalition to lose, but the truth is occasionally getting out.

Information Warfare: The Lie Mutually Agreed Upon: "Yet another Marine has won a court victory in the investigation of the battle at Haditha – adding more doubts to the claims of a massacre. In this case, the officer conducting an Article 32 hearing (equivalent to a grand jury hearing in civilian courts) has ruled that charges should be dropped. In essence, the claims of a massacre at Haditha are now looking false. That said, al Qaeda, through some adept media manipulation, has still won a victory."

Iraq: The Real War and Why It's Ignored

Another insightful analysis of the war in Iraq and what how it is really going. Despite the Left's intense desire to surrender before the war can be won.

Iraq: The Real War and Why It's Ignored: "Take a look down south, the Shia Arabs, who have been locked out of the government, not to mention the education system and many economic opportunities, for generations. Suddenly they had to come up with replacements for the unemployed Sunni Arab bureaucrats and military commanders. Suggestions that the Sunni Arab civil servants and military officers be kept on the job ignored the fact that this was how Sunni Arabs took over in the first place. The Sunni Arab domination of the government and economy IS the problem. Saddam's main job was to see that it stayed that way. So, since 2003, the Shia Arab replacements have been climbing a steep learning curve. It has not been pretty, especially when you throw in all the corruption."

US CONGRESSMAN ASSISTS FUNDS TO REACH ENEMY IN IRAQ

Wow! THIS story is about the treason of American citizens, including a congressman! I have not read the book, yet, but am going to order today. Thanks to Jawa for this link.

Anti-Mullah: US CONGRESSMAN ASSISTS FUNDS TO REACH ENEMY IN IRAQ: "A New York Times best-selling author says members of the supposed 'peace movement' delivered hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and supplies to terrorists engaged in a bloody street battle against United States Marines in Iraq.

The latest book by Lt. Col. Robert 'Buzz' Patterson (U.S. Air Force-Ret.) is called War Crimes: The Left's Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror.

In the book, he claims that two anti-war groups -- 'United for Peace & Justice' and 'CODEPINK: Women for Peace' -- literally gave aid and comfort to terrorists when they delivered $600,000 in cash and supplies they claim was humanitarian aid to civilians.

According to Patterson, Congressman Henry Waxman (D-California) facilitated the transaction for CODEPINK by signing a letter allowing them to get the cash and supplies into Fallujah."

A Story to Watch

The new website Media Mythbusters has found a disgustingly horrible blog supposedly written by a soldier in Iraq. However, it does not sound like a soldier wrote it! It has all the sounds and feel of the other fake stories that the Left loves to plant in the media, ala Mr Kerry. Keep an eye on this site and help with this story!

Media Mythbusters Blog » Blog Archive » A Story to Watch: "One of the New Republic “Shock Troops” stories is about soldiers in a chow hall openly and loudly mocking a woman whose face had been “melted” by an IED. Another is of a soldier picking up a skull from a mass grave with hair and rotting skin still attached and wearing it around all day, even under his helmet."

Dry Bones Blog: Pasteur in Politics. . .

Once again, Mr Bones seems to hit the issue on the head. Too many fools are trying to find easy solutions to Jihad that do not involve actually changing the jihadis, only the victims. It is past time to just eradicate the problem!

the Dry Bones Blog: Pasteur in Politics. . .: "An antiSemitic, antiFemale, antidemocratic, fascist movement is now challenging Western civilization around the world. Any intelligent defense of democracy would require that we investigate, analyze, and try to understand the appeal of this poisonous movement.

Captured terrorists provide us with an opportunity to study the phenomenon up close... But apparently neither Israel, America, Europe, or India have yet come to recognize that fact. The holding pens of America's Gitmo facility and Israeli prisons should be laboratories for the study of these zombified 'True Believers'. They have not. Instead they have become organizational centers for IslamoFascists.

Will the West come to understand (before it's too late) that we can't win an ideological war without confronting the enemy ideology?

So what do you think?

Nu?"

Top Iraqi Al Qaeda Leader Arrested

What horrible news, if you are a terrorist or Liberal. Good news for everyone else though! May Allah continue to aid the rest of these murderous pigs the same way.

FOXNews.com - U.S.: Top Iraqi Al Qaeda Leader Arrested - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News: "The U.S. command said Wednesday the highest-ranking Iraqi in the leadership of Al Qaeda in Iraq has been arrested, adding that information from him indicates the group's foreign-based leadership wields considerable influence over the Iraqi chapter.

Khaled Abdul-Fattah Dawoud Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, also known as Abu Shahid, was captured in Mosul on July 4, said Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner, a military spokesman.

'Al-Mashhadani is believed to be the most senior Iraqi in the Al Qaeda in Iraq network,' Bergner said. He said al-Mashhadani was a close associate of Abu Ayub al-Masri, the Egyptian-born head of Al Qaeda in Iraq.

Bergner said al-Mashhadani served as an intermediary between al-Masri and Usama bin Laden and Al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri."

Christians crucified by terrorists in Iraq

The Religion of Peace is proving the Tolerance of Allah.

WorldNetDaily: Report: Christians crucified by terrorists in Iraq: "Christians in Iraq, including converts from Islam and people involved in mixed-faith marriages, are being crucified by Muslim terrorists, according to a Dutch member of Parliament studying the war-torn country.

Several Iraqi Christians 'are nailed to a cross and their arms are tied up with ropes. The ropes are put on fire,' Joel Voordewind told BosNewsLife, an online news agency focusing on Christians and Jews in difficult circumstances.

According to the site, Voordewind described how a person, who 'survived' a crucifixion, 'even showed holes in his hands,' apparently from nails.

Voordewind said victims of the crucifixions are 'in most cases Christian converts who abandoned Islam or people who, religiously speaking, are involved in mixed marriages.'"

BLACKFIVE: USMC Commandant Speech on the Long War

Go read the full text of this speech. It is more than worth it! Too bad the politicians can't be this honest about the War and how we are winning. It takes a Marine to know war, and Harry Reid is no Marine! Semper Fi, Commandant!

BLACKFIVE: USMC Commandant Speech on the Long War: "Remarks of

Commandant of the Marine Corps, General James T. Conway

“George P. Shultz Lecture Series”



Marines’ Memorial Association and World Affairs Council

San Francisco, CA

Wednesday, July 10, 2007"

Islamists attack aid agencies

The Hindu News Update Service: "Enraged Islamic militants set on fire offices of two international aid agencies working in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province today in retaliation to the military action against militants in the Lal Masjid.

Local residents said that around 100 people, some of them armed, had come down from villages in the mountains surrounding Batgram town near Mansehra and attacked the offices of 'Care International' and the 'French Red Cross' and set the big tents on fire.

The aid agencies were working in the area for the survivors of the October 2005 earthquake that killed some 75,000 people in the NWFP and Northern areas.

'They were some 100 men who first attacked the offices, and chased the people including some foreigners there. They then resorted to large-scale looting there, taking everything from eatables to electronic items. They went back to the mountains without any resistance from a couple of policemen who were standing close by,' a local journalist said.

He said the militants had come down in the afternoon backed by their supporters high up in the mountains who kept the law enforcement agencies at bay with sniper shooting."

TB patient escapes from hospital

Pine Bluff Commercial Online Edition: "A man kept in isolation after he was diagnosed with contagious tuberculosis broke a hospital window and fled from his room at a Little Rock hospital.

Franklin Greenwood, 50, was placed in isolation on June 29 after he was seen coughing up blood outside of the city's traffic court and was released by a judge to the state Health Department's custody. He left the hospital on July 1. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported Greenwood's disappearance in Wednesday's editions.

A state health official said Greenwood has a form of tuberculosis that would respond to treatment but that it is still important to find him because he is contagious.

Greenwood had been at Little Rock District Court for traffic offenses, officials said. He was taken to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital, where he was under a medical isolation order, according to the Health Department."

Information Warfare: Japanese Propaganda and American Mass Media

Information Warfare: Japanese Propaganda and American Mass Media: "U.S. troops have been mystified at how differently the war they fight in Iraq is portrayed by the U.S. media back home. Most just shrug it off as 'politics,' and yet another reason to not trust what the mass media presents as reliable reporting. But recently, the troops have been passing around an interesting discovery. Namely, that the Japanese psychological warfare effort during World War II included radio broadcasts that could be picked up by American troops. Popular music was played, but the commentary (by one of several English speaking Japanese women) always hammered away on the same points;



1 Your President (Franklin D Roosevelt) is lying to you.

2 This war is illegal.

3 You cannot win the war."

Facing jail, juror whose hijab hid an MP3 player | the Daily Mail

This is another example of how little respect the Muslims have for Western values. She just does not care about the laws of the country she lives in, so why not deport her back to a country that she can respect? Like Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia?

Facing jail, juror whose hijab hid an MP3 player | the Daily Mail: "A Muslim juror was thrown off a murder trial when she was caught listening to an MP3 music player under her headscarf.

Ruhela Khanom, 20, was exposed by another juror who spotted headphone wires around her neck.

At the time of the discovery, the defendant was giving evidence from the witness box.

Legal experts described the incident - which took place 13 days ago - as 'astonishing' and 'unique'.

The judge had banned reporting of the case until the conclusion of the trial at Blackfriars Crown Court in the City of London yesterday."

Enrique Iglesias sings for the Syrians

Debbie Schlussel: "There's a reason why the uncle of the current Syrian President, Rifaat El-Assad, is known as 'The Butcher of Hama.' In 1982, he murdered over 20,000 residents of and flattened the entire town of Hama, all under the sanctioning eye of the patriarch of the ruling Assad dictator family, the late Hafez El-Assad (father of current leader/President Bashar Assad).

But don't tell it to Iglesias. He and his Syrian escorts gloated over each other. He told SANA, the state-run Syrian News Agency:

I came to Syria on my personal desire.

Then, he went on a personal tour of Damascus, accompanied by his Syrian propagandist minders.

To hear this idiot dhimmi pop star, Syria is a democratic bastion of peace and understanding. And you know that he was warned otherwise. His own words say so:

Iglesias said he wasn't concerned about performing in Syria, 'although many people have told me not to.'"

Michael J. Totten: Syria Invades Lebanon

Why is this being ignored in the media and diplomatic circles? If Israel had invaded like this, the UN would have declared war on them! Why is Syria allowed to do almost anything it wants?

Michael J. Totten: Syria Invades Lebanon: "A few days ago Lebanese daily newspaper Al Mustaqbal quietly reported a limited Syrian invasion of Lebanon. (Via Naharnet.)

Syrian troops on Thursday reportedly have penetrated three kilometers into Lebanese territories, taking up positions in the mountains near Yanta in east Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

The daily Al Mustaqbal, citing sources who confirmed the cross-border penetration, did not say when the procedure in the Fahs Hill overlooking Deir al-Ashaer in the Rashaya province took place.
The sources said Syrian troops, backed by bulldozers, were fortifying positions 'in more than one area' along the Lebanese border, erecting earth mounds and digging 'hundreds' of trenches and individual bunkers."