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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 01/27/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Donna Reed aka Alma "Lorene" Burke in "From Here to Eternity" aka Mary Hatch Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life" aka Donna Stone in "The Donna Reed Show" (Died in 1986 at age 64)



"I been lookin' around awhile
You got something for me
Oh, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key"

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 01/27/2011 1:16 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Afghan Forces Kill 20 Militants
[Tolo News] At least 20 cut-throats were killed in separate Afghan forces operations in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, local officials said.

More than 16 faceless myrmidons were killed last night in Afghan forces' operations in Khwaja Ghar district of Takhar province on Tuesday, Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, a front man for 303 Pamir Zone told TOLOnews on Wednesday.

Mr Ahmadzai said four other cut-throats including their commander were killed in Afghan forces' operation in Ghormach district of Faryab province on Tuesday.

There were no military or civilian casualties in the operations, he added.

Taliban have not yet commented about the operations.

Local officials said some operations will begin in other parts of northern Afghanistan to wipe out the bad boys.

Nato and Afghan forces have increased military operations in the country recently.
Posted by: Fred || 01/27/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  The Afghan army fired in the right direction and hit something. Amazing!
Posted by: Gmanzato || 01/27/2011 17:23 Comments || Top||


7 Militants Renounce Violence in N Afghanistan
[Tolo News] Seven cut-throats laid down their weapons and gave up violence in restive northern Baghlan province, local security officials said on Wednesday.

Baghlan, a once-peaceful province, lies 160 kilometers north of Kabul and has recently been the scene of some Islamic myrmidon attacks.

This year, as key military officials say, much concentration will be over northern Afghanistan in order to increase government forces' control over the region.

Afghan forces along with their western partners have launched several counterinsurgency offensives in this region that seem to be working to hit back gunnies and ruin their footholds.

Military officials have appeared to be optimistic about progress being made in the fight against insurgency.
Posted by: Fred || 01/27/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Egypt: Protesters call Mubarak to resign
[Ennahar] Clashes took place in downtown Cairo with several hundred demonstrators and, further east, in the port city of Suez where 2,000 people gathered, demanding the departure of Hosni Mubarak, after twenty three years in power.

At least 500 people were jugged Wednesday in Egypt after the authorities' decision to ban demonstrations against geriatric President Hosni Mubarak, according to security services, after the events of Tuesday Signs of violence that killed four- 3 protesters and a policeman The "6 April Movement", a group of pro-democracy activists, called for new rallies Wednesday to call for the right to live, freedom and dignity."

The Interior Ministry has warned however that "no act of provocation, protest rally, march or protest will be allowed."

Activists, very active with young people through social networks on the Internet, said they would ignore this warning, and gatherings could also take place.

The anti-government protests on Tuesday which have mobilized thousands of people across the country are the largest of their kind that occurred in Egypt since the arrival of Mubarak to power in 1981.

Dominated by slogans demanding the departure of Mr. Mubarak, 82, they were inspired by the revolt in Tunisia, which led to the departure of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in mid-January.

"Thousands of people demonstrate against poverty, unemployment, inflation and corruption, and demanding the departure of the government," according to the independent daily al-Masri al-Yom.

The Cairo Stock Exchange closed down 6.14%, and the Egyptian pound has plunged in the day to 5.83 pounds per dollar, its lowest level since January 2005.

The idea of events was strongly backed up, especially among young and middle-class, through social networks.

Micro blogging site Twitter has said being blocked in Egypt since Tuesday afternoon, as well as the applications related to this service. The Swedish Bambuser website, which allows direct viewing in "streaming" on the Internet video filmed by mobile phone or webcam, was also blocked.

The calls have increased from overseas asking Egypt to undertake reforms to meet the expectations of its population, and further underlining the importance of its moderating role between the Arab world and Israel.

The government should be "sensitive" to the aspirations of his people, found the American presidency, encouraging Cairo to "conduct political, economic and social reforms."

The European Union has urged Egypt to listen to the demands for political change. Berlin said it was "very worried" by the situation, while Gay Paree has deplored the deaths and recalled being in favour of "more democracy in all states."

Italy had hoped that Mr. Mubarak continues "to govern with wisdom and foresight."

Israel, speaking through its deputy prime minister Silvan Shalom expressed hope that the troubles will not impact on its relations with Israel. Egypt is the first Arab country to recognize Israel.

With over 80 million inhabitants, Egypt is the most populous country in the Arab world, and over 40% of its population lives on less than two dollars a day per person. Several immolations by fire took place in Egypt in recent days, reminiscent of a young Tunisian who sparked the rebellion in his country.
Posted by: Fred || 01/27/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Somehow get the uneasy feeling that the Muslim Brotherhood is waiting in the wings to take advantage of all this "unrest". Please, somebody, tell me I'm wrong.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 01/27/2011 11:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Hang Tough, Hosni.

You've been a stabilizing presence in that regional powder-keg for a couple of decades now.

You are to be commended for that.
Posted by: pan || 01/27/2011 23:08 Comments || Top||


Arabia
At Least Five Soldiers Dead in Yemen Suspected Qaeda Ambush
[Yemen Post] At least five soldiers were killed and others injured in a suspected Al-Qaeda ambush in Yemen's eastern Hadramout province on Wednesday.

A security source was quoted by Almasderonline.com as saying that Al-Qaeda hard boyz targeted a security patrol escorting a post vehicle in the Al-Shihr district killing almost five and injuring others of those who were in the patrol.

The hard boyz intercepted the patrol, fired on the soldiers and looted YR 10 million the vehicle was transporting from Mukalla city, the source was quoted as saying.

A hunt was launched for the suspects, the source said.

Since its foundation in 2009, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP has stepped up attacks against the army and the security forces throughout the republic, mainly in southern, southeastern and eastern regions, with most of the AQAP attacks reported in the last year.

Dozens including commanders and high-ranking officers were killed and injured in ambushes, suicide kabooms and direct raids against security patrols, military convoys, intelligence and security buildings and cars.

In response, Yemen has been waging large-scale operations against hard boyz killing, injuring and arresting many of them.
Posted by: Fred || 01/27/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


Caribbean-Latin America
Mayhem in Monterrey: 7 Bad Guys Die
Google Translate For a map of Nuevo Leon, click here
Mexican Army units fought several battles with armed criminal groups in and around Monterrey, Nuevo Leon since last Monday.

  • A Mexican Army detachment has killed two armed suspects in the village of La Purisma in the General Teran municipality Monday. The unit encountered a Toyota Tundra pickup truck with armed suspects aboard and returned fire killing both suspects. The firefight took place on the Montemorelos-General Teran highway. The unit was dispatched just after receiving reports of two police officers being kidnapped. An disclosed quantity of weapons and munitions were seized.

  • Various Mexican Army detachments fought drug cartel gunmen in and around Monterrey Tuesday.
    • At about 1405 hrs Tuesday in the municipality of Escodedo in Villas del Arco colony on the road to Montaclava, an army unit fought a battle with a Los Zetas armed group, killing three suspects. Among the dead were Commandante Lino a Los Zetas commander said to be responsible for fighting Gulf drug cartel forces in the area. Seized in the aftermath were nine rifles, two pistols, two fragmentation hand grenades, three 40mm grenades, and six vehicles.

    • In Cadereyta, east of Monterrey, a Mexican Army unit fought a gun battle with an armed group said to be an element of the Gulf cartel, killing one. Seized were two vehicles, 17 firearms, a grenade, 5,186 rounds of ammunition and 114 magazines.

    • At about 1440 hrs in Garcia, an army unit fought an armed group killing one suspect. Two rifles were seized, and one pickup truck was destroyed by fire, apparently in the encounter.

    • In the Fernando Amilpa colony in Escobedo, a Mexican Army unit was attacked by unknown suspects. Return fire by soldiers wounded one unidentified civilian.

    • A total of 11 roadblocks were placed by criminal elements in Monterrey Tuesday, said to be a reaction to army operations in the area. The blocks began at about 1520 hours and affected the northern and northeast zones of the city. Many of the roadblocks were centered around San Nicholas de las Garza at the northeast bypass and avenidas Sendero and Raul Salinas. Reports say armed suspects carjacked several vehicles at gunpoint, and then disabled them to block roads. San Nicholas has been in recent days a focal point of armed criminal attacks, especially on police facilities.


  • A Mexican Army unit was dispatched to Apodaca on reports of dead bodies in the Cosmopolis colony between calles Andromeda and Antares. However, reports were found to be false and the unit was withdrawn from the area.


  • A shootout between armed groups in Monterrey has left three civilians wounded Tuesday. At about 1730 Monday a firefight erupted between the occupants of two moving vehicles, said to be vans or SUVs near the intersection of avenida Eugenio Garza Sada and Revolucion. The wounded were employees of Comision Federal de Electricidad who were hit by AR-15 rounds. The driver of one of the vehicles involved hit a traffic signal, overturning it. The occupants escaped the scene.

  • Agents of the Nuevo Leon Agencia Estatal de Investigaciones (AEI) arrested three members of a criminal group in Monterrey responsible for 28 different robberies. Reports say the suspects concentrated on 7-11 convenience stores in the municipalities of San Pedro, Santa Catarina and Mithras. The suspects were allegedly after cigarettes.

  • Two municipal police officers were found dead Wednesday morning just two days after they were reported kidnapped in General Teran. Navarro David Serna 35, and Bernardino Rodriguez Franco, 58, were found on Kilometer 12 of the Montemorelos-General Terän road. Both men were beheaded and their corpses mutilated. A third unidentified man was also found at the scene.
Posted by: badanov || 01/27/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seriously strict gun control laws in Mexico - as in Chicago only the gangsters have guns.
Posted by: borgboy || 01/27/2011 15:35 Comments || Top||


La Familia Michoacana Disbands?
Google Translate. For a map, click here. For a map of Michoacan, click here.
"Narcobanners" placed in several locations in the Mexican state of Michoacan have announced the dissolution of the La Familia Michoacana drug cartel, according to Mexican news reports.

Earlier in the month following two major counternarcotics operations by Policia Federal, spokeman Luis Cardenas Palomino said that the drug cartel was near its end as a criminal organization.

La Familia Michoacana in emails to select news outlets since the first of this year have continually offered a truce, and has in the recent past offered to go out of business in exchange for the absence of Mexican federal security forces in that state.

Security forces were alerted to the presence of the messages through calls originating in Morelia, Patzcuaro, Apatzingan and Lazaro Cardenas municipalities (counties).

The messages reiterated its commitment to go out of business since December 2010, and said that the director of the Mexican federal Secretaria de Seguridad Publica Federal (SSPF) General Garcia Luna has been lying to president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa about conditions in Michoacan.

Michoacan state and Mexican federal security forces were dispatched to the various locations of the banners, and removed them.

Plenty of reasons exist for doubting the origin of the messages. Drug cartels in various location have in the past used "narcobanners' to make announcements, but so have police in the guise of cartels. Narcobanners are used occasionally between the Juarez cartel and the Sinaloa cartel, but it is also known that police have placed banners as well in the guise of cartels.

In a press conference in Mexico City Wednesday, the director of the Mexican national security council (Consejo de Seguridad Nacional) (CSN), Alejandro Poire Romero, announced that federal security forces would not ease up counternarcotics operations in Michoacan, and would continue to attempt capture of the remaining principles of La Familia Michoacan.
Posted by: badanov || 01/27/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  La Familia Michoacana in emails to select news outlets since the first of this year have continually offered a truce, and has in the recent past offered to go out of business in exchange for the absence of Mexican federal security forces in that state.
HAW HAW HAW HAW
I can easily hear every cop in Mexico Laughing about that one.
If all cops go away, we'll be good. Yeah sure.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 01/27/2011 11:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Sigh. So which cartel has displaced them in Michoacan?
Posted by: Mitch H. || 01/27/2011 14:40 Comments || Top||


Europe
Protest in Rome against blasphemy law
[Pak Daily Times] ROME: Italian politicians and religious associations protested here on Wednesday against Pakistain's blasphemy law, calling for the release of a Christian woman sentenced to death under the legislation.

Catholic and Jewish associations joined human rights
... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you...
group Amnesia Amnesty International and representatives of the Pak community in Italy in a 100-strong demonstration in front of the Italian parliament. "We want this law to be abolished," Pak-born Joseph Philip told AFP, explaining that his uncle, a Catholic bishop, had been killed for his religious beliefs. He said he had come to the protest along with 15 compatriots. Aasia Bibi, a 45-year-old, Christian mother-of-five, was sentenced to death in November after Mohammedan women labourers who worked with her in the fields complained she made derogatory remarks about Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!).

Umberto Bossi, head of Italy's anti-immigrant and populist Northern League Party and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's partner in the centre-right coalition, attended Wednesday's protest here. "We want to express our solidarity," he told journalists. A delegation from the protest also met Foreign Minister Franco Frattini. Last Thursday the European parliament urged President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari
... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who showed remarkably little curiosity about who actually done her in ...
to pardon and release Aasia following calls from several countries, international organisations and an appeal by Pope Benedict XVI.

European parliamentarians also called on the Pak government to revise their blasphemy law and its application.

Their request followed the January 4 liquidation of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, who was rubbed out by his bodyguard after calling for reform of the blasphemy law used to sentence Aasia to death.
Posted by: Fred || 01/27/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  "We want this law to be abolished" Italy will be abolished before 'this law' is.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/27/2011 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  These demonstrations are likely to anger and inflame our Afghan allies, provoking them to attack hostages Western troops in deployed in Afghanistan.

The organizers of these demonstrations have blood on their hands and (as Pat Buchanan suggested) the government should have arrested them preemptively!

Now that the damage has been done the least that could be done is issuing strong condemnations by Western governments, NATO leadership and by ISAF of course.

/sarc
Posted by: Herb Spuck1776 || 01/27/2011 13:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Wewant this law to be abolished," Pak-born Joseph Philip told AFP, explaining that his uncle, a Catholic bishop, had been killed for his religious beliefs. He said he had come to the protest along with 15 compatriots.

Should we read that as 15 Pakistanis, or 15 Christian Pakistanis? How much would the Pakistan Daily Times care about the opinion of a group of infidel expats?
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/27/2011 20:01 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Iranian Book Celebrating Suicide Bombers Found at US/Mexican Border
A book celebrating suicide bombers has been found in the Arizona desert just north of the U.S.- Mexican border, authorities tell Fox News.

The book, "In Memory of Our Martyrs," was spotted Tuesday by a U.S. Border Patrol agent out of the Casa Grande substation who was patrolling a route known for smuggling illegal immigrants and drugs.

Published in Iran, it consists of short biographies of Islamic suicide bombers and other Islamic militants who died carrying out attacks.

According to internal U.S. Customs and Border Protection documents, "The book also includes letters from suicide attackers to their families, as well as some of their last wills and testaments." Each biographical page contains "the terrorist's name, date of death, and how they died."

Agents also say that the book appears to have been exposed to weather in the desert "for at least several days or weeks."

Authorities told Fox News that there were no people in the area at the time the book was found, and no arrests have been made in connection with it.

"At this time, DHS does not have any credible information on terrorist groups operating along the Southwest border," a Department of Homeland Security official said in a statement. "We work closely with our partners in the law enforcement and intelligence communities and as a matter of due diligence and law enforcement best practice, report anything found, no matter how significant or insignificant it may seem."

Statements from U.S. officials, including FBI director Robert Mueller, have raised serious concerns in recent years over "OTMs" -- or illegal immigrants other than Mexicans -- who have crossed the southwest border at alarming rates.

Mueller testified before the House Appropriations Committee in March 2005 that "there are individuals from countries with known Al Qaeda connections who are changing their Islamic surnames to Hispanic-sounding names and obtaining false Hispanic identities, learning to speak Spanish and pretending to be Hispanic."

Just last year, the Department of Homeland Security had in custody thousands of detainees from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. U.S. Border Patrol statistics indicate that there were 108,025 OTMs detained in 2006, compared to 165,178 in 2005 and 44,614 in 2004.

Authorities would not release a picture of the book to Fox News, or reveal how long they believe it was lying in the desert. Immigration officials have previously discovered items along the U.S.-Mexico border from Middle Eastern origin, including Iranian currency in Zapata, Texas, and a jacket found in Jim Hogg County, Texas, that was covered in patches including an Arabic military badge that illustrates an airplane flying into a tower.
Posted by: Whaviger Glomoque6347 || 01/27/2011 10:03 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh I feel sooooo safe with the nanny-state looking out for all of our best interests! Thank you big brother Obama!

/sarc
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/27/2011 11:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Very worrying stuff indeed.
Posted by: Dave UK || 01/27/2011 11:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Put Napolitano at the border. That will turn em back.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/27/2011 11:40 Comments || Top||

#4  At this time, DHS does not have any credible information on terrorist groups operating along the Southwest border...

That's like saying they have seen no evidence of rats when they have just found a rat turd on the floor.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 01/27/2011 12:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Now here is a nice coincidinc: http://rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=314743&D=2011-01-27&SO=&HC=1
Posted by: Lionel Unoluger6791 || 01/27/2011 14:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Quick! Let's put more scanners in the airports! That will fix it!
Posted by: gorb || 01/27/2011 14:22 Comments || Top||

#7  I am sure the infiltrator ditched the book at the border so as not to be caught with evidence of his intentions. And by the way, the place a homicide bomber would hit would be in the large crowd waiting to go through TSA. So watch what is going on around you from now on. DHS (Dyke at Homeland Security) is not very bright.
Posted by: Ebbeamp Prince of the Giants1524 || 01/27/2011 14:43 Comments || Top||

#8  I just spent two weeks in southern TX - people there seem quite upset about the border situation..
Posted by: linker || 01/27/2011 15:13 Comments || Top||

#9  "...it consists of short biographies of Islamic suicide bombers..."

I just had to read it again. TOO funny!
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/27/2011 21:26 Comments || Top||

#10  OK, so call me stupid, but I fail to see why #7 post was sink trapped; the idea floated about future terrorist suicides has probably traveled through many of the Burg's minds and the disparaging comment about an individual's life style is no different than others posted here, other than gender. bad taste maybe, but not worth a sink trap, IMHO.
Posted by: USN,Ret || 01/27/2011 23:38 Comments || Top||


Imam Said Jaziri arrested by Border Patrol agents
Frank G posted a similar article; rather than have a duplicate I imported his comments which are in yellow.
SAN DIEGO--U.S. border authorities have arrested a controversial Muslim cleric who was deported from Canada to Tunisia three years ago and was caught earlier this month trying to sneak into California inside the trunk of a BMW, according to court documents.
Should've impounded the car and let it sit in a hot asphalt lot for a week or two
Said Jaziri, the former Imam of a Muslim congregation in Montreal, was hidden inside a car driven by a San Diego-area man who was pulled over by U.S. Border Patrol agents near an Indian casino east of San Diego. Jaziri allegedly paid a Tijuana-based smuggling group $5,000 to get him across the border near Tecate, saying he wanted to be taken to a "safe place anywhere in the U.S."

The arrest marks the unexpected resurfacing of the 43-year-old cleric, whose protracted legal battle to avoid deportation drew headlines. A Tunisian immigrant, Jaziri was deported for failing to disclose a criminal conviction in France while applying for refugee status in the mid-1990s.

But Jaziri's supporters said he was targeted for his fundamentalist views: Jaziri backed Sharia law for Canadian Muslims and led protests over the publication of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons in a Danish newspaper in 2006.
Not that there's anything wrong with being targeted for that.
Jaziri is being held as a material witness in the criminal case against the BMW's driver, Kenneth Robert Lawler, who has been charged with immigrant smuggling. He is at the San Luis Detention Facility near Yuma, Ariz., according to his attorney, Wayne Charles Mayer. His bond has been set at $25,000.
Bye Ken!
Jaziri will not face charges for being in the country illegally until the case against Lawler is over. At that time he will be processed for deportation to Tunisia, said Steven Pitts, spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol.
Air drop him from 35,000 feet. Allah will save his sorry ass. He's a dirtbag
In Quebec's large Muslim community, Jaziri stood out for his outspoken views, and though his mosque was small, he drew outsized media attention for his strict interpretation of the Quran. Jaziri labeled homosexuality a sin
Except for the young boys, that's Islamic Love
Apparently his condemnation of gays didn't bother the progressive community.
and pushed for government subsidies to build a large mosque for Montreal's growing Muslim population.

"His nickname in Quebec was the controversial imam," said Lise Garon, a professor of communications at Laval University in Quebe City, adding that his case tapped into the anti-immigrant mood in the community. "I think he was deported because people hated his ideas."

Jaziri opposed his deportation to Tunisia because of fears he would be tortured by the government.
So Ben Azi wasn't all bad...
His case drew support from Muslim organizations and Amnesty International. It's unclear what his treatment was like in Tunisia.

According to the court documents, a Mexican foot guide led Jaziri and a Mexican immigrant over the fence near Tecate and he trekked overnight through the rugged back country, to a road where drivers frequently pick up immigrants for smuggling runs into San Diego.

Border Patrol agents, alerted by firefighters who saw the immigrants get in the trunk, pulled the car over near the Golden Acorn Cas!no, about 50 miles east of San Diego.
Where else would an imam hide? Well okay, in Nevada he might have hidden out at the Happy Hooker Ranch...
He told agents that his journey to the border had been a long one. He took a flight from Africa to Europe, then to Central America and Chetumal, Mexico, on the Mexico-Belize border, where he took a bus to Tijuana.
Posted by: Steve White || 01/27/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OTM's (Other Than Mexican's) are crossing the Southern US border by the dozens as shown in the video at the beginning of this sentence.

A banned radical Jihad minded Imam gets caught coming across? Of course.
Posted by: Snolutch Hupaick6422 || 01/27/2011 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  and who pays for all these flights around the world? Simple Imam with no income?
Posted by: Frank G || 01/27/2011 8:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Commodore Frank---it's from the Insh'Allah Mileage Program.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/27/2011 10:56 Comments || Top||

#4  The bus ride from Belize to Tijuana worse punishment than jail methinks.
Posted by: borgboy || 01/27/2011 15:55 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
More on the American shooter in Pakistan
A whole bunch of primary information from a Pakistani source here.
An American national, reportedly an employee of American Consulate, Lahore fired on pillion riders, killing both, at Qurtaba Chowk, here on Thursday.
Pillon rider is a fancy way of saying the guy sitting on the back seat of a motorcycle.
According to private TV channel report, a foreigner driving a white Honda car, bearing registration number MAK-4555, fired upon pillion riders, Faizan, which he claimed, were following him with malevolent intentions. Eyewitnesses reported that the also video- taped his injured victims and while trying to flee the enraged crowd hit many others, killing one trader Abad Ur Rehman.

The firing resulted in injuring both pillion riders, out of which one has succumbed to injuries in the hospital, while the other one, whose operation is still being conducted, is reported to be in serious condition.

The foreign car driver, reported to be an American national, by the name of Raymond Davis, and an employee of the American consulate of Lahore who speaks Urdu fluently, elicited violent protest by citizens, who congregated outside Thana new Anarkali, and protested vociferously against the accident.

The police fearing a violent backlash from protestors, who blocked the road, burnt tires and demanded handing over the culprit to them, have shifted the culprit to Thana Old Anarkali.

Meanwhile the administration of Services Hospital has banned the entry of kin of victims, who were also baton charged by hospital guards when they protested against this discrimination.

The American national has defended his firing over the excuse of his life being in danger, as the pillion riders were after his life. Weapon(s) and a latest wireless set have been confiscated from him.
A Beretta 9mm and three cell phones, according to other reports.
Some eyewitnesses have reported that two youngsters had tried to rob the Americans at gunpoint, at which the Americans acting swiftly retaliated with fire, killing both pillion riders.

SP operations, Omar Saeed informed that armed persons tried to attack the Americans, who retaliated with fire killing both, while weapons have also been known to have been discovered on their bodies.

The information officer of the American Consulate has refused to comment on the issue, while sources have disclosed that the accused Davis Raymond was a former employee of the notorious CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), currently employed by another equally notorious organization, Backwater.
I think they mean Blackwater, now known as Xe.
Renowned defense Analysts like Brigadier Farooq Hameed are of the view that the ease with which the culprit indulged in video recording of the episode, belies the incident as a mere retaliation to a robbery, and could be very well something more serious; as declaring it as robbery could very well be a cover story, in a bid to hide facts.

He said that elements enjoying full-armed backups, powerful communication systems and sophisticated firearms could never be embassy staff.
Possibly not Pakistani embassy staff. But Americans are different.
He linked up some previous occurrences, whence American suspects were stopped and hauled by military police and civil police, in Lahore Cantt, only to be released personally by CM, Shahbaz Sharif, after which the Americans mysteriously disappeared from Pakistan. Similar attempt to ensure a safe exit of Davis Raymond cannot be ruled out.
Well, now that was an interesting paragraph. What are these "previous occurrences"?
Accused of blasphemy, perhaps?
He demanded that factual and solid investigations regarding the incident should be carried out, and the culprits should be kept in secure custody.

CCPO, Lahore, Aslam Tareen has said that the issue was being investigated, but however it seems to be a case of attempted robbery. He said that police was checking the record of those killed.
Eyewitnesses saying the lads were attempting robbery with violence, weapons discovered on their bodies... clearly Mr. Davis is guilty as hell for resisting.
Meanwhile a Private TV channel quoting hospital sources informed that one killed person sustained 6 bullets in back, while the other one was hit with one frontal and three rear bullet hits.
Likely made-up bullshit to fan the flames that they were shot in the back.
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#1  God Speed Brother.
Posted by: Glons Oppressor of the Veal Cutlets4023 || 01/27/2011 20:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Some eyewitnesses have reported that two youngsters had tried to rob the Americans at gunpoint, at which the Americans acting swiftly retaliated with fire, killing both pillion riders.
Posted by: gorb || 01/27/2011 23:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Some eyewitnesses have reported that two youngsters had tried to rob the Americans at gunpoint, at which the Americans acting swiftly retaliated with fire, killing both pillion riders.

Had the American been a Pakistani, it seems the crowd would have hauled away the two "pillion riders" for summary dismemberment and cremation, and the shooter would have been hailed as a hero.
Posted by: gorb || 01/27/2011 23:39 Comments || Top||


ATC acquits 9 accused in Shershah case
[Geo News] Administrative judge of Anti Terrorism courts, Justice Sajjad Ali Shah Wednesday ordered release of nine accused in Shershah Kabari Market case for lack of evidence, Geo News reported.

Thirteen people were bumped off and several others injured in an incident of violence in Kabari Market in November last year.

Police today presented the accused identified as Johar alias Jawwad, Iqbal, Tehseen, Asghar, Aijaz, Tufail, Akbar Abid and Rasheed alias Raja before ATC for a second remand.

In the last hearing, Justice Sajjad had also summoned the plaintiff Anees Ahmed for today's hearing.

Anees Ahmed was asked by the court to identify the accused who he had nominated in the case. But the plaintiff failed to identify any of the accused and the court released them all.
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Iraq
Iraq: bomb strikes funeral, killing 48 in Baghdad
A car bomb exploded outside a funeral tent Thursday in a mainly Shiite area of Baghdad, killing at least 48 people – the latest in a wave of attacks that has triggered fury over the government's inability to stop the bloodshed.
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Ninewa police arrest 2 gunmen in western Mosul
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Ninewa police arrested two gunmen on Wednesday in western Mosul, a security source said.

“The police wounded a gunman and arrested another one near a tunnel in western Mosul,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The gunmen were arrested and police found hand grenades with them,” he added.
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Police nab Palestinian cell linked to murders of American and Israeli
[Haaretz] Police believe that the same cell carried out the murder of 53-year-old Netta Blatt-Sorek, a resident of Zichron Ya'akov, whose body was found a year ago near the Jerusalem-area monastery of Beit Jamal last year.

The bully boyz are suspected in two cases of attempted murder, one count of rape, another of attempted rape, seven incidents of robbery, seven cases of breaking-and-entering, and for shooting at an Israeli military jeep.

Jerusalem District Police chief Aharon Franco said that the cell started off as a group of petty criminals and turned into a nationalist threat when it began carrying out attacks to avenge the January 2010 liquidation of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai, an incident which has been widely blamed on Israel's Mossad.

Thirteen members of the cell have already been jugged; four of them are expected to be indicted on Wednesday.

Police began detaining the suspects in December 2010, about a day after Luken's body was found near Moshav Mata, where she and Wilson had been attacked by two men while hiking in the area. Wilson managed to survive after she played dead and then dragged herself bound and hand-cuffed to the road nearby.

The suspects were all known to police prior to the investigation and most of them had served jail-time in the past.

Wilson's detailed witness testimony enabled police to narrow down the suspects and link the cell to the other security incidents in question, Franco told news hounds in a briefing on Wednesday after the gag order on the case was lifted.

Israel Police, together with Shin Bet forces, special task units of the Border Police and Israel Defense Forces jugged three of the suspects -- Kifah Ghanimat, the suspected ringleader, Mohammed Ghanimat, and IIyad Fatpatah -- a day after Luken's body was discovered. The suspects are all residents of the West Bank.

All three confessed to Luken's murder and led Sherlocks to suspect their involvement in Blatt-Sorek's murder a year earlier. Police say the three men told interrogators they wanted to kill a Jew - though Luken was in fact a Christian.

The DNA sample taken from Kifah Gnimat matched the DNA findings preserved from the site where Blatt-Sorek's body was found. In his confession, Kifah Gnimat implicated Ibrahim Ghanimat, who was subsequently jugged.

Police had not been convinced that Blatt-Sorek had been murdered due to inconclusive autopsy results, and had not ruled out the possibility that her death had been suicide.

Her family insisted that she would not have killed herself, however and urged police to investigate the case as a murder.

Franco stressed during his briefing Wednesday that he had agreed to "look into the severe option and treat [Blatt-Sorek's case] as a murder" despite the expert opinion provided by the pathologist.

Police Sherlocks began to suspect during their questioning that the cell was involved in a series of criminal activities in the Jerusalem-area city of Beit Shemesh since 1997. The suspected ringleader, Kifah Ghanimat, was found to have had a hand in most of the perpetrated crimes.

In addition to the murders, Ghanimat is personally suspected of raping a Beit Shemesh resident in a nearby cave. The rest of the group is suspected of stabbing an Israeli couple in the same area, robbing tourists, stabbing tourists, breaking and entering homes in the area and car theft.
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Tense Calm in Lebanon after 'Day of Rage' Left 45 People, Including 35 Soldiers, Wounded
[An Nahar] A tense calm returned to Leb on Wednesday after violent daylong demonstrations across the country left 45 people maimed.

An-Nahar newspaper on Wednesday said among the injured was 35 Lebanese army soldiers, two coppers and 8 civilians.

Lebanese soldiers were seen falling back as protesters, wielding sticks, pursued them during the demonstrations.
A heavy army presence could be seen across Leb as shops re-opened, but several international schools remained closed fearing another outbreak of demonstrations.

Anti-riot troops patrolled the streets of Beirut and the northern port city of Tripoli, a Sunni bastion and hometown of prime minister designate Najib Mikati who had been nominated for premiership by Hizbullah and its allies.

Banners reading "Miqati, appointed by Khamenei," Iran's supreme leader, remained hoisted in Tripoli on Wednesday as tanks were deployed outside Miqati's home and offices.

Residents of Tripoli said they also planned to set up a tent in a city square around noon to protest his appointment.

Demonstrations against Miqati's appointment turned violent on Tuesday as protesters burned tires and temporarily blocked main highways.

Frenzied demonstrators in Tripoli torched an Al-Jazeera van. In Beirut, stone-throwing and baton-wielding protesters attacked media considered close to Hizbullah.

Supporters of outgoing prime minister Saad Hariri, backed by Soddy Arabia and the United States, view Miqati's appointment as a bid by the Shiite Death Eater group to impose their choice for the premiership, a post reserved for a Sunni Mohammedan.

Miqati himself is a Sunni Mohammedan but is viewed by Hariri supporters as a turncoat.

His appointment came after Hizbullah and its allies toppled Hariri's government in a long-running dispute over a U.N. court probing the 2005 murder of ex-premier Rafik Hariri, Saad's father.

The Netherlands-based Special Tribunal for Leb is reportedly readying to indict Hizbullah members in connection with the Hariri murder, a move the Death Eater group has warned against.
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#1  45 People, Including 35 Soldiers, Wounded

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Full court press: Leb, Tun, Egypt, and now Yemen
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#1  The mid-east is rebooting. I hope whatever operating system it loads is not as buggy as the last version.
Posted by: Bunyip || 01/27/2011 7:00 Comments || Top||

#2  All the world's dirty birds know they have just this year to make their messes without Carter II responding to it. Next year Reagan II will be running for President on a platform of house cleaning.
Posted by: rammer || 01/27/2011 8:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Next year Reagan II will be running for President on a platform of house cleaning.

I hope so. The children have been at play in DC for a couple of years now.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/27/2011 11:39 Comments || Top||

#4  The children have been at play in DC for a couple of years now.

With little supervision, I might add!
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/27/2011 11:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Also, Somalialand want to separate and there are protests in Jordan. Problem with these movements is they are about US, and our influence. They want to break their countries from US influence.
No leaders are in place yet so in most cases these countries will end up with a moslem shit sandwich.

I see the Moslem Brotherhood creeping around in the periphery.
It could become quite rambunctious.
Posted by: newc || 01/27/2011 12:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Hmmm, I wonder what will replace the current governments or will this light off a civil war? None of the names on the list are a surprise, but I am not too sure who is running the show and who will be left standing. Except for the case in Lebanon, the rest of these could EASILY be Iran 2.0
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 01/27/2011 14:25 Comments || Top||

#7  newc, I suspect there are multiple motives behind these movements. Removing US influence is one, but so too is the fact that the governments in charge are often arbitrary, corrupt or simply hapless to provide middle class amenities to large and rapidly growing populations. They've sent kids to school and teens to universities, but the graduates emerge into economies dominated by a few families and without what they see as suitable opportunities for employment and political participation.
Posted by: lotp || 01/27/2011 15:05 Comments || Top||

#8  lotp, I think you inadvertently hit the nail on the head.

...simply hapless to provide middle class amenities...
It's not the governments job to provide the amenities. It's the governments job to provide the environment (aka liberty) which allows those amenities to develop.

The people in these holes don't get it. They see the government getting fat through corruption and are really bitching that THEY'RE not getting fat through corruption. They don't want to work for it any more than the current crop of corrupt weasles.
Posted by: Alan Cramer || 01/27/2011 15:11 Comments || Top||

#9  Well, I see it as more of a flash mob. At least from what I see in Egypt.
SWC has a thread on it here. And of course, Sandmonkey is tweeting. - and there is the power of facebook.

And yes, Leb is Iran 2.0, highly armed, right on the border of Israel. Israelis are working up force protection right now - digging in real well.
Posted by: newc || 01/27/2011 15:21 Comments || Top||

#10  Maybe, Alan. But open economies dominated by middle class jobs and free-ish markets don't happen overnight. They certainly didn't do so here in the early days of our country, despite the wealth of natural resources and land that colonists enjoyed.

If you've never been in the Middle East, or done business there, it may not be apparent just how much of what we take for granted is missing. Job advertisments and job fairs at schools. Promotion based on merit, most of the time. Even the idea of a career path that is linked to a discipline and skills rather than to political connections.

Missing. Just not there for even the most industrious to base a decent life on.

Been there. Seen it.
Posted by: lotp || 01/27/2011 15:23 Comments || Top||

#11  Al Arabiya has latest updates

Including video, map of cities with protests and map of downtown Cairo.
Posted by: Frozen Al || 01/27/2011 15:54 Comments || Top||

#12  Burn, baby, burn!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/27/2011 16:44 Comments || Top||

#13  Gromguru,

Here are pictures of Suez where the rioters have set fire to both the Police station and the fire station.
Posted by: Frozen Al || 01/27/2011 16:54 Comments || Top||

#14  Gracias.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/27/2011 17:16 Comments || Top||

#15  Truthfully, I am underwhelmed. I think the vast majority of these riots will fail to overthrow governments, because they lack what revolutionary movements need. The real mystery is why Ben Ali folded so quickly.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/27/2011 18:16 Comments || Top||

#16  El Baradai has been positioning himself to replace Mubarak. I wonder where his support is coming from, tho.
Posted by: lotp || 01/27/2011 19:23 Comments || Top||

#17  The support for Hosni's replacement will come from the Musselman Brotherhood.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 01/27/2011 19:40 Comments || Top||

#18  TW: Zhang Fe, we agree on the reason America is hated more than the rest of the non-Muslim world by the Ummah. For the rest, you are right, but Muslim governments do push the anti-Zionism/antisemitism hard -- trying to distract them from bad governance. (Not that it appears to be working any more.) But their people are not better educated for Ramadan television series based on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and maps missing a neighboring nation, however much they may not want it to be there. Were the maps correct, the teachers might (would probably) teach that Israel ought not be there, but that is different than "I can't see you, so you're not there!"

Thanks to 1948, anyone in the Muslim world who says anything remotely non-negative about Israel will be shunned and even targeted for physical violence, given the proclivities of Muslims for vigorous action over innocuous things like apostasy and blasphemy. But it's not simply Muslims who have atavistic impulses. The following Aviation Week article says something similar about the Chinese, and is consistent with my personal interactions with actual Chinese both abroad and in China itself:

People who live outside of authoritarian states often imagine that the governments in such countries are in control of everything and that those states’ firm or aggressive behavior internationally stems from the hard attitudes of the people in charge.

But in China the average person probably wants much stronger defense and foreign policies than the government has. This attitude is rooted in intense and rising nationalism, which is itself encouraged by the ceaselessly nationalistic propaganda of the media, even the media that the government does not strongly control.

Chinese children are also taught at school to be nationalistic.

Even without propaganda, Chinese people would probably be highly nationalistic, anyway, because of their grand and ancient culture, the size of the country and knowledge that it is becoming great again.

As a result, the idea of extraordinarily aggressive foreign policy, or even war, comes up in ordinary conversations with ordinary people.

So, while the Chinese government was badly criticized abroad for the strength of its reaction in the recent flare-up of its dispute with Japan over the Senkaku Islands this year, at home it was widely criticized as gutless.

From casual conversations with several Chinese friends, I got the impression that war with Japan would have been a perfectly satisfactory policy to them. Obviously they were not thinking things through. But the point is that ordinary Chinese believe in strong measures to protect China’s interests. And it must be stressed that most of them only have those thoughts when China’s interests are at stake.

Readers in Western countries might remember the 2008 street marches by Chinese students studying abroad who were angry at what they saw as Western bias amid riots in Tibet. The anger that you saw was a good insight into the strength of nationalist feeling here.

This leads to a surprising conclusion: the Communist Party of China is to some degree a heat shield between the rest of the world and the Chinese people. A democratic China would have no such heat shield. It might be a lot hotter to handle.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 01/27/2011 20:00 Comments || Top||

#19  Truthfully, I am underwhelmed. I think the vast majority of these riots will fail to overthrow governments, because they lack what revolutionary movements need. The real mystery is why Ben Ali folded so quickly.

Do you mean cooperation from factions of the existing government?
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 01/27/2011 20:04 Comments || Top||

#20  Thank you, Zhang Fe. What I see there is chicken/egg. The common people have strong feelings, government propaganda reinforces and drives those feelings further, then the government finds itself with a population panting for the kind of aggressive action that would get their rubble bounced.

Would I be correct in assuming your prediction is that if Mubarak falls, the next government will start a war with Israel?
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/27/2011 20:25 Comments || Top||

#21  This is the same el baradei clown who was running the nuke inspections? Right?

If so this guy is way more dangerous than just being a shitty nuke inspector. He's been playing the west.
Posted by: Hellfish || 01/27/2011 20:33 Comments || Top||

#22  Wasn't one of the stated grievances by some group that it was the wikileaks which exposed Mubarak and co. to accepting USA money?

Average Mo looks around, sees the poverty, then sees what the gov has. How much would you trust The Street (the rumor pushers et al that is) to not try to make that connection?

Just asking questions, few days from knowing much for certain anyways I'd guess. Baradi was UN, so he plays everyone.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/27/2011 22:07 Comments || Top||

#23  tw: Thank you, Zhang Fe. What I see there is chicken/egg. The common people have strong feelings, government propaganda reinforces and drives those feelings further, then the government finds itself with a population panting for the kind of aggressive action that would get their rubble bounced.

The way I see it, the job of government propaganda is to traffic in Muslim shibboleths / capture the zeitgeist and stay away from subjects that make the government look bad. My sense is that most governments (allied or hostile) tend to dial down the propaganda to a level slightly below the public's existing prejudices because dialing it up raises the public's expectations - after all, inaction in the face of (trumped-up) extreme enemy provocation would make the government look impotent. But the anti-Jew/-Israel/-US government propaganda has to be out there, because the mosques - a traditional outlet for rebels - are looking for any signs of government apostasy in regard to what the ummah considers the big issues of the day. Any government turn away from the Muslim consensus could lead to imams turning en masse against the ruling power and inciting the public to armed revolt. Even if it's a non-violent revolt, dictator wants to have to deal with it - political prisoners cost money to feed and cause problems with Western donors.

tw: Would I be correct in assuming your prediction is that if Mubarak falls, the next government will start a war with Israel?

Not an all-out war, but with a Muslim Brotherhood regime in Cairo, Hamas won't have to charter boats out of Turkey to get its weaponry. Note that prior to Camp David, Egypt used to hit Israel with periodic artillery barrages, inflicting serious damage on the Israeli economy because of frequent reservist call-ups of skilled professionals in the civilian sector. My guess is that these attacks could resume. Except that Egypt is now armed with F-16's and M1 tanks, making retaliatory raids by Israel much more costly in Israeli lives and equipment. Limited scale border attacks mounted over years could really do a number on both Israeli morale and economic growth, given that that Israel's economy can't really afford to deal with year-round repeated call-ups of the reservists who will have to deal with the heightened military alert status that would be the response to such Egyptian attacks. Eventually, Israel would have to mount a 1967-style war to reclaim a Sinai buffer, and even that still wouldn't solve the problem. The Cold Peace Israel currently has with Egypt isn't ideal, but it's the best that can be hoped for, given the current Arab zeitgeist.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 01/27/2011 22:42 Comments || Top||

#24  Zhang Fei, arguing that the ChiComs are a good thing because they keep the lid on the pressure cooker is no different than arguing that supporting Hozni is good because he keeps the Muzzies down. So, you are tempting me into an easy solution to a hard problem -- just ignore it.

But I refuse.

Every nation needs a vision to be better. Obama fumbled the ball last night, but what he got right was that America needs to be improved. Cameron is taking a beating for austerity, but he deserves credit for putting the future ahead of the now.

Where is the vision to make China better? Not wealthier, not bossier, not bigger, but better. Same, same for Egypt or Saudi or South Africa or Bangladesh.

No vision, no chance. Just sayin' Expect what was planned -- moral stagnation until collapse.

Posted by: rammer || 01/27/2011 23:01 Comments || Top||

#25  Zhang Fei, arguing that the ChiComs are a good thing because they keep the lid on the pressure cooker is no different than arguing that supporting Hozni is good because he keeps the Muzzies down. So, you are tempting me into an easy solution to a hard problem -- just ignore it.

But I refuse.

Every nation needs a vision to be better. Obama fumbled the ball last night, but what he got right was that America needs to be improved. Cameron is taking a beating for austerity, but he deserves credit for putting the future ahead of the now.

Where is the vision to make China better? Not wealthier, not bossier, not bigger, but better. Same, same for Egypt or Saudi or South Africa or Bangladesh.

No vision, no chance. Just sayin' Expect what was planned -- moral stagnation until collapse.


I'm a conservative in a fundamental sense. One sense is the idea of limits - the notion that there are certain things that we can't do because (1) we don't know how, (2) the expense is too great, (3) our resources are too limited, (4) the negative consequences are too unknowable, et al. The fact is that we have spent $1.5T in Iraq and Afghanistan to end up with governments where the Christian minorities are slaughtered at will, and nearing extinction via murder, conversion (due to fear of the first) and emigration. These governments are also borderline hostile to the US, even as we continue to shovel $100B a year into their economies. Imagine their attitude when we stop shoveling that money in. I think we need to stop thinking of democracy as a holy grail. For what is the US profited, if it shall gain a world of democracies, and lose every single ally in the process? The unfortunate thing is that that the American officer in "Full Metal Jacket" was wrong - despite our most fervent wishes, inside every g**k is *not* an American trying to get out. They have their own culture and their own shibboleths, and many of these are in mortal opposition to ours.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 01/27/2011 23:22 Comments || Top||

#26  This is the same el baradei clown who was running the nuke inspections? Right?

He's been doing things for the UN since 1964. I'd always thought he was a physicist who was kicked upstairs, but it turns out all his degrees were in law, including his Bachelor's, and his expertise is working the UN system.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/27/2011 23:25 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Border authorities arrest controversial Muslim cleric east of San Diego
U.S. border authorities have arrested a controversial Muslim cleric who was deported from Canada to Tunisia three years ago and was caught earlier this month trying to sneak into California inside the trunk of a BMW, according to court documents.

Said Jaziri, the former Imam of a Muslim congregation in Montreal, was hidden inside a car driven by a San Diego-area man who was pulled over by U.S. Border Patrol agents near an Indian casino east of San Diego. Jaziri allegedly paid a Tijuana-based smuggling group $5,000 to get him across the border near Tecate, saying he wanted to be taken to a "safe place anywhere in the U.S."

The arrest marks the unexpected resurfacing of the 43-year-old cleric, whose protracted legal battle to avoid deportation drew headlines in Canada. A Tunisian immigrant, Jaziri was deported for failing to disclose a criminal conviction in France while applying for refugee status in the mid-1990s.

But Jaziri's supporters said he was targeted for his fundamentalist views: Jaziri backed Sharia law for Canadian Muslims and led protests over the publication of the prophet Muhammad cartoons in a Danish newspaper in 2006.

Jaziri is being held as a material witness in the criminal case against the BMW's driver, Kenneth Robert Lawler, who has been charged with immigrant smuggling. He is at the San Luis Detention Facility near Yuma, Ariz., according to his attorney, Wayne Charles Mayer. His bond has been set at $25,000.

In Quebec's large Muslim community, Jaziri stood out for his outspoken views, and though his mosque was small, he drew outsized media attention for his strict interpretation of the Koran. Jaziri labeled homosexuality a sin and pushed for government subsidies to build a large mosque for Montreal's growing Muslim population.
What is with the growing evidance and stories of radical Islam and terrorists people and physical evidence being found at the Mexican/US border? The Obama administration looking the other way to boost their ratings by having their own 9-11? Sad thing is, I am not joking all that much about it. Maybe only 60% joke there since I believe they are that evil.
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