Fourteen Saudi nationals in US custody at the Guantanamo Bay prison are on their way home, the Pentagon said yesterday. The repatriation of the 14 Saudis increases the number of repatriated Gitmo detainees to the Kingdom to 29 this year, not counting the two who returned dead after allegedly committing suicide earlier this month.
The Pentagon's statement said that the latest repatriation leaves about 120 detainees of various nationalities that the United States has determined are eligible for "transfer or release" and about 450 prisoners in total. Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki told Arab News that officials here were awaiting the arrival of the detainees. But he did not provide details about their fate here in the Kingdom. Al-Turki did not give a timeframe for their release or disclose their identity. "As soon as they set foot on land and we make sure of their identities, a statement will be issued," he said.
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An obvious failure on our part. Let them ALL return to Soodi in the horizontal.
(KUNA) -- The Saudi Grand Mufti and Chairman of Senior Ulema (Muslim scholars) Commission and Religious Research and Ifta Department, Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al Al-Sheikh, condemned Saturday criminal acts perpetrated by the deviating group and stressed that security men have performed a great duty and provided an honorable service for their nation.
Al-Sheikh was quoted by the Saudi Press Agency (Spa) as calling on the society not to hide any criminals and to provide tips-off to security men about any suspicious activity, demanding that citizens should protect the religion, security and stability of the country. Al-Sheikh described the deviants as enemies of the religion, economy, nation, unity and leadership, and called on all believers to be united to combat all crimes. He thanked security men for containing the subversion of the deviants, indicating that the deviants have been led by their enemies.
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The Grand Muffin has the crazed look about him.
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Islam's dental plan looks like it really sucks...
A man who used his computer skills to help encrypt e-mails and produce anti-Western DVDs for radical Muslims said he tried to warn British police about two of the men responsible for the July terrorist attacks in London, a newspaper reported Saturday. Martin Gilbertson said he met Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer in Beeston, West Yorkshire, which is about 195 miles (310 kilometers) north of London. He told The Guardian newspaper he was introduced to them at a party held to celebrate the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
Gilbertson, who the newspaper said was a former Hell's Angel and roadie for the band Motorhead, said he was working as a computer technician for people who were involved in a local Islamic bookshop and youth center. "I was alarmed and disgusted by what I heard, but I kept my views to myself and they were friendly," Gilbertson, 45, said. "They needed my skills, and I was perceived to be anti-government."
By October 2003, he said the material alarmed him to the extent he went to a local police station and asked to deliver it to anti-terrorist officers. Gilbertson said he took the work to supplement his meager wages. "I'm good at what I do, and I've got kids to feed. And after a while, I became so alarmed by what was going on around me, I went to the police."
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(KUNA) -- A prisoner serving six years for a terrorist offence today denied that he was the source of the intelligence behind this month's police terror raid in east London. Mohammed Abu Bakr Mansha, 22, was named in the British press last weekend as the man who tipped off police that a house in Forest Gate was being used to prepare a terror attack. But his lawyer Sara O'Keefe today said that he "vehemently" denied the allegation, and was now in fear for his own safety and that of his family because he was being branded a "grass" — informer.
She confirmed that Mansha was a friend of brothers Mohammed Abdul Kahar and Abul Koyair, who were arrested in the June 2 raid then released without charge after no evidence of a terror plot was found. But, she denied reports that the brothers had visited him in prison. Miss O'Keefe said that Mansha was appealing against the length of his sentence for plotting to kill an Iraq War veteran, which she said was inappropriate because of his youth and his extremely low intelligence level. She confirmed that police had visited him in prison, but said he insisted he told them nothing.
Mansha has been moved between prisons twice in recent months, and is now in a segregation unit for his own safety, she said. "He vehemently denies being the source," Miss O'Keefe told BBC Radio. "He knows that in the local area in Forest Gate, there are people who don't like him, maliciously making rumours up. Obviously, he is now concerned for his family and friends. He is concerned they will be followed and perhaps even further action taken against them just because they are related to him. He knows the brothers quite well. They both grew up in the Forest Gate area and I believe the older brother went to school with my client and they were friends... But they have not visited him in prison. Mutual friends have visited him in prison.
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"Jihad Jack" Thomas, convicted of taking cash from al-Qaida, has been bashed in jail. Joseph Thomas was treated for cuts and bruises after he was attacked in Barwon Prison a week ago. And he has had a mental breakdown, his lawyer, Rob Stary, says. While he wrestles with problems inside the prison system, his parents, Ian and Patsy Thomas, have had to sell their Williamstown home of 33 years to ease the financial burden of their son's legal proceedings.
A prison source said an inmate "jumped and belted" Thomas, even though the former taxi driver was held in protective custody. "He might have a broken rib," the source said after Thomas was taken from the Lara jail for treatment. But Mr Stary said Thomas was removed for psychiatric treatment. He said prison life had caused Thomas severe mental trauma - linked to a jail stint in Pakistan "He's had what is tantamount to a breakdown," Mr Stary said. "He is very unwell." Mr Stary said Thomas was taken to Thomas Embling Hospital and then transferred to Port Phillip Prison's psychiatric unit.
Thomas was convicted this year of receiving money and an airline ticket from al-Qaida and of falsifying a passport. He has appealed against the conviction for receiving cash from terrorists. The appeal hearing has been brought forward to next month because of fears for his mental state. Thomas - the first person convicted under new anti-terror laws - is serving a maximum sentence of five years' jail for his crimes. His Supreme Court trial was told Thomas, a father of three, accepted $4750 and a plane ticket home from senior al-Qaida boss Khaled bin Attash in 2002.
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of course he's unwell you morons! He's Islamic! Take him for the nightstick rib repair, and put him in with a cellmate with the flu. Nothing better than the pain of trying to heave with broken ribs.... voice of experience here....
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He said prison life had caused Thomas severe mental trauma
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Do whatevery ye want to Jihad Jack. Just don't humiliate him.
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He was going to sacrifice his life in the name of the Master Religion(Tm), in a glorious climax of heroism, facing down the dirty infidels, fighting like a Lion (Of Islam), and he's having a breakdown because he's in jail and someone slugged him good a couple times?
Seems like Reality beats fantasy every time, doesn't it?
Frances media regulator issued a warning to the Saudi-owned Islamic television channel Iqra over controversial statements that were broadcast calling for the destruction of the state of Israel. The Conseil superieur de laudiovisuel, or CSA, has the right to assign or withdraw licenses that could affect Iqras ability to broadcast not only to France but also across the European Union. In the bureaucratic language that typifies a government bulletin, the CSA issued the following warning: The council (i.e., CSA) has issued a warning to the Iqra Channel, established in Saudi Arabia and broadcast in France by way of satellite and ADSL, against the making of statements capable of inciting (racial) hatred or violence, such as those (statements, i.e.) made on April 2, 2006, at 7.30 in the morning, which called for the destruction of the state of Israel.
Saudis from various sectors viewed the warning as a double standard and a contradiction of Western values of freedom of press and expression, which were controversially championed earlier this year in the highly publicized publication of cartoons in the European press that profoundly offended Muslims worldwide. Columnist Mohammad Salahuddin described the CSA warning directed at Iqra Channel as double-standard behavior. He called for a unified Muslim Arab front to combat such behavior with an eye-for-an-eye strategy. We should treat them the same way and stop their channels, he said. We must take all legal measures as well to defend our right to present our point of view. This is a war against freedom of speech.
Personally I dont agree with any call for destruction, said Qenan Al-Ghamdi, a former editor in chief of Saudi daily Al-Watan. However, I totally dont agree with the warning issued by the French. He added that Paris has always called for freedom of speech and this calling does not go along with their condemning of Iqra. When asked whether this move would affect the relationship between Saudi Arabia and France, he stated that, among civilizations, ideologies should face one another and that the warning would not affect the Saudi-French relationship. Iqra is not a governmental channel. A Saudi investor owns it but it does not represent the official point of view, said Al-Ghamdi.
Hasan Al-Nimer, a Shiite scholar from the Eastern Province said that its not right to judge any broadcast organization that airs its programs live on the basis of its viewers reactions. In general Westerners have their own red lines that dont take other cultures red lines into consideration, said Al-Nimer.
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In general Westerners have their own red lines that dont take other cultures red lines into consideration
Ah, the old "You draw a Muhammed cartoon" and "We want the Jews thrown into the sea" comparison.
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This Saudi scum has their filthy hands in every operation. Just why in hell haven't we invaded them. The only reason to take Iraq is as a launch pad for wiping out the surrounding group of scumbags. We need to shut off these Arabs Asap, even if they are Bush's closest buddies.
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From what I've been able to gather, the Saudis hate and fear George Bush, because he doesn't think of them as bestest buddies the way his father did. Again, as I understand it, the son is supposed to inherit the loves and hates of the father without questioning. If any Aramcons or others with actual knowledge of the Magic Kingdom poke their heads in, please correct me. Thanks!
Europe's Muslims have remained largely silent in the face of terrorist attacks that have killed 254 people in Madrid, London and Amsterdam. Europeans want to know why. Why have so few of them publicly condemned the train and bus bombings in Madrid and London? Why have so few spoken out against the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, killed because his work was considered an insult to Islam?
Talk to Europe's mainstream Muslims privately, however, and it turns out they have a lot to say. Seek them out in the neighborhoods where they live and work in the outdoor markets and butcher shops that sell halal meat, in the book stores that display literature on Islam and the West, in the boutiques that promote Islamic dress codes, in the Turkish restaurants and smoky Tunisian teahouses, in their schools and youth clubs and they denounce, the vast majority unequivocally, attacks against civilians in both Europe and the United States. "Van Gogh was a crazy man, but no one has the right to kill anyone who says bad things about the Quran," said Mohammed Azahaf, a 23-year-old student who runs a youth center in Amsterdam. "If you kill one, it's like killing the whole of mankind," he said, quoting a line from the Muslim holy book.
Why, then, the public silence? For some of the more than five dozen Muslims interviewed for this story in Amsterdam, Paris and London, it's a sense of shame, or even guilt, that innocents have been killed in the name of Islam; they say those feelings make them seek to be "invisible." For those lucky enough to have jobs, there is little time to protest or even write letters to newspapers. For others, there is fear of being branded anti-Islam in their communities.
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God I'm tired of these "root causes" style articles. Fluff. This is an AP Agenda piece - the writer is attempting to both illicit sympathy as well as equate silent complicity with innocence. More moral equivalency games.
After following the law, people must do what they think is right.
Judge everyone by their acts, or the lack.
Everything else is as compelling as the occasional dust bunny in your navel.
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Muslims everywhere do not condemn terror because most of their leaders support it. See this 2 year old report on mosque based terror in Europe, as written by Dutch intelligence.
www.minbzk.nl/contents/pages/42345/fromdawatojihad.pdf
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"I am not responsible for the attacks." Over and over.
What does a person's guilt or innocence have to do with whether a person protests or aggressively denounces something as wrong? I am not personally guilty of spousal abuse nor am I a victim of it, but I find it quite natural to denounce it aggressively when it happens. That they don't find it natural to denounce these murderous bombings indicates to me a severe disorder of some kind.
In the end, it's about their loyalty to that cur Mohammad, his slavemaster Allah, and the umma. All else is a secondary consideration.
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"Many of Europe's best-integrated Muslims say their lives are so far removed from those of the radicals that it simply has never occurred to them to protest."
Dateline 1945: "Many of Germany's citizens say their lives were so far removed from those of the Nazis that it simply had never occurred to them to protest."
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This is total BS. They say nothing because they agree with these acts. They feed bullshit to anyone stupid enough to swallow it. Remember the old tome, "actions speak loudr than words". Their actions are screaming at western culture but we ignore it.
I haven't seen this posted here. Plz delete and accept my apologies if a dupe. Lawmaker Wants Papers Probed Over Stories
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee urged the Bush administration on Sunday to seek criminal charges against newspapers that reported on a secret financial-monitoring program used to trace terrorists.
Rep. Peter King cited The New York Times in particular for publishing a story last week that the Treasury Department was working with the CIA to examine messages within a massive international database of money-transfer records. King, R-N.Y., said he would write Attorney General Alberto Gonzales urging that the nation's chief law enforcer "begin an investigation and prosecution of The New York Times - the reporters, the editors and the publisher."
"We're at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous," King told The Associated Press.
A message left Sunday with Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis was not immediately returned.
Wotta surprise.
King's action was not endorsed by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, GOP Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. "On the basis of the newspaper article, I think it's premature to call for a prosecution of the New York Times, just like I think it's premature to say that the administration is entirely correct," Specter told "Fox News Sunday."
Also not a surprise.
Stories about the money-monitoring program also appeared last week in The Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times. King said he thought investigators should examine those publications, but that the greater focus should be on The New York Times because the paper in December also disclosed a secret domestic wiretapping program. He charged that the paper was "more concerned about a left-wing elitist agenda than it is about the security of the American people."
When the paper chose to publish the story, it quoted the executive editor, Bill Keller, as saying editors had listened closely to the government's arguments for withholding the information, but "remain convinced that the administration's extraordinary access to this vast repository of international financial data, however carefully targeted use of it may be, is a matter of public interest."
After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Treasury officials obtained access to a vast database called Swift - the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. The Belgium-based database handles financial message traffic from thousands of financial institutions in more than 200 countries. Democrats and civil libertarians are questioning whether the program violated privacy rights.
The service, which routes more than 11 million messages each day, mostly captures information on wire transfers and other methods of moving money in and out of the United States, but it does not execute those transfers.
The service generally does not detect private, individual transactions in the United States, such as withdrawals from an ATM or bank deposits. It is aimed mostly at international transfers.
For which there is no expectation of privacy in the first place.
Gonzales said last month that he believes journalists can be prosecuted for publishing classified information, citing an obligation to national security. He also said the government would not hesitate to track telephone calls made by reporters as part of a criminal leak investigation, but officials would not do so routinely and randomly.
In recent months, journalists have been called into court to testify as part of investigations into leaks, including the unauthorized disclosure of a CIA operative's name.
He said the First Amendment right of a free press should not be absolute when it comes to national security. Amen.
Guess who? He's at it again
American presence in Iraq is more dangerous to world peace than nuclear threats from North Korea or Iran, U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said to a crowd of more than 200 in North Miami Saturday afternoon.
Murtha was the guest speaker at a town hall meeting organized by U.S. Rep. Kendrick B. Meek, D-Miami, at Florida International University's Biscayne Bay Campus. Meek's mother, former U.S. Rep. Carrie Meek, D-Miami, was also on the panel. War veterans, local mayors, university students and faculty packed the Mary Ann Wolfe Theatre to listen to the three panelists discuss the war in Iraq for an hour.
A former Marine and a prominent critic of the Bush administration's policies in Iraq, Murtha reiterated his views that the war cannot be won militarily and needs political solutions. He said the more than 100,000 troops in Iraq should be pulled out immediately, and deployed to peripheral countries like Kuwait. "We do not want permanent bases in Iraq," Murtha told the audience. "We want as many Americans out of there as possible."
Who's this 'we' nonsense?
Murtha also has publicly said that the shooting of 24 Iraqis in November at Haditha, a city in the Anbar province of western Iraq that has been plagued by insurgents, was wrongfully covered up.
His knows this how exactly?
The killings, which sparked an investigation into the deadly encounter and another into whether they were the subject of a cover-up, could undermine U.S. efforts in Iraq more than the prison abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib in 2004, Murtha said. "[The United States] became the target when Abu Ghraib came along," Murtha said.
We were the target from day one in Iraq, and have been target for the last fifty years.
U.S. efforts to win over Iraqis were tarnished when it was revealed that U.S. military personnel had abused and humiliated people held at Abu Ghraib, a prison outside Baghdad.
Most in the crowd agreed with Murtha and the need to redeploy troops from Iraq as soon as possible. "I believe we are in a mess over there [in Iraq]," said Alnoor Jamal, 49, of Miami.
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U.S. efforts to win over Iraqis were tarnished when it was revealed that U.S. military personnel had abused and humiliated people held at Abu Ghraib, a prison outside Baghdad.
Somehow I think I would rather be humiliated than IED'd, decapitated, have acid thrown in my face, etc. But I'm not muslim, either.
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Personally, I think Murtha's suffering from Sheehan Disease - or else he really has gone stark raving mad.
Sheehan Disease is a mental disturbance commonly found among previously little-known citizens who have craved attention for a considerable period of time. It is commonly undiagnosed until such time as the individual gains the attention they have been craving, usually via the media or after being instigated by or exposed to similarly sick individuals (known sufferers include Cindy Sheehan, Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Al Gore, Noam Chomsky, Ward Churchill, and many others), at which time it springs full-blown upon the unwitting victim.
Symptoms of Sheehan Disease include inability to focus on the subject matter of questions asked of them. Instead, the victim focuses single-mindedly on the sole topic or issue which has apparently suddenly vaulted them to fame and the attention they seek. Additional symptoms include addle-mindedness, inattention to others indicated by a slack jaw, glassy eyes, or vacant look, often accompanied by a so-called "thousand mile stare". The victim is also frequently confused by actual facts and has a marked tendency to make up facts as they go along, often with little or no attention to reality as the majority of sane people perceive it.
Sheehan Disease is classified as a mental disorder similar in nature to schizophrenia, psychopathy, or sociopathy, and can frequently lead to these other disorders as well, especially if the victim suddenly loses the attention of others that they crave so much.
Sheehan Disease currently has no cure or absolute course of treatment though several forms of treatment have been recommended (see below). It is considered highly communicable among individuals subject to short attention spans, left-wing political persuasions, communists, socialists, liberals, Hollywood actors and actresses, and Democrats in general.
Recommendations upon encountering an individual suffering from Sheehan Disease are several-fold, but include immediately vacating the area, intensive deprogramming of the victim, imprisonment in a mental ward or institution, or immediately punching the victim in the mouth. It has been shown that attempting to engage the victim in sane conversation and attempting to show them and convince them that they are wrong, sick, and/or mislead or misinformed invariably fails and leads to loud and often extreme conversations or the one of the aforementioned treatments, especially the treatment of punching them in the mouth.
Sheehan Disease appears at this time to be incurable.
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"Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the troops Caine out of Iraq action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers."
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Because he is a retired Marine Reserve colonel who served in Vietnam, Rep. Murtha is regarded as one of the Democrats' leading strategic thinkers. This, sadly, may be the case.
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You Dems are all about treason. How can you stay a Democrat when shitheads like Murtha and Kenedy are you leading lights and sedition and treason are major party planks?
Dems I would not waste pee on you if you were on fire. All Dems are fair game. Time to start treating you Dems the way you treat us. No mercy for you.
SEVEN men arrested in the US for planning to blow up America's tallest building and FBI offices were not Muslims and not linked to the US Islamic community, Islamic leaders insisted yesterday. The suspects - five Americans and two foreigners - arrested on Thursday after approaching an undercover FBI agent who they thought was an agent of al-Qaeda, were described as a cult. They were accused of trying to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago with help from al-Qaeda. But authorities said the men never actually made contact with the terrorist network and were instead caught in an FBI sting involving an informant who posed as an al-Qaeda operative.
Federal prosecutors said the men, who operated out of a warehouse in Liberty City, a poor section of Miami, took an oath to al-Qaeda and plotted to create an "Islamic army" bent on violence against the US. The charges stated that the group, calling itself the "Seas of David", had studied the Sears Tower and other buildings as possible targets.
Those arrested ranged in age from 22 to 32 and included an immigrant from Haiti and a Haitian who was in the US illegally. Group leader Narseal Batiste told the undercover agent he was "organising a mission to wage jihad". Batiste requested money, boots, uniforms, machine-guns, radios and vehicles. The suspects were not Muslims, local Islamic leaders said. "As far as we are concerned they have no relation with our community, their ideology has nothing in common with the ideology of Islam and they should not be called Muslim," said Ahmed Bedier, of the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "This seems like some sort of cult group."
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Maybe not, but they sure grasped the governing principle of Islam.
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lying MF'ers. Remember this every time they lie on something else.... archive fodder....you KNOW the MSM doesn't have the interest or attention span to repeat this...
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Of course not, it was some other religious group 'waging jihad'.
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"No muslim would do such a thing." Repeat ad infinitum.
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"Seas of David..ians"
They appear to be such happy young men, all had mothers I suspect, fathers as well, somewhere. Obviously a wicked FBI 'set up' sting operation to make Bush look good in the GWOT. I hope the Rev AL, Jesse, and the ACLU are on this one. These lads need our help!
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McVeigh and Nichols were about as far from muzzie as you could get.
*Someone correct me if I'm mistaken, but I have been told that a few reliable books and sources claim McVeigh made over 29 visits to a part of the Philippines known to harbor pro-Al Qaeda, radically anti-American Islamists.
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Philipino wife who is supposedly muslim.
Let me emphasize there are references to her being muslim. I don't see major news sources stating this for a fact.
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Nichols was the organizer and money bag man making the connections in Phillipines. I'm glad he's not dead. Let's hope we're doing all we can to extract information from him. Then everyone will know that this was yet another Muzzie attack. (How can you miss it, same modus opperandi used all over the world, especially in Beirut) All those relatives of those who perished in OKC should finally be told the truth. I believe Clinton knew this immediately but hushed it down so as not to panick the public so soon after the first failed NYC tower attack.
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If I'm making out the fine print correctly, Mr. Phanor appears to have adopted the nom de jihad "Brother Sunni". That would suggest this gentlemen aspired to live in the tradition of which prophet, again? It's coming to me; slaughtered the unbelievers, married a nine year old, taught the hatred of Jews. What's his name again?
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Hmmm...but the Gitmo animals, many of whom were trained by al Qaeda, meet CAIR/ISNA Muslim credentials, and are due prayer rugs and Korans.
Off-topic but might be of sufficient interest because it proves a point:
Illustration: where Muslims are the majority, forced assimilation follows. Where Muslims are the minority, coerced accomodation follows. Right? Ergo: never accomodate Muslims.
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Actually the guy on the bottom left, the ringleader I think was brought up in Chicago by a pretty "NO BS" dad who scrimped and saved to put him through Brother Rice Catholic HS.
Not sure when he found the religion of peas.
The top U.S. commander in Iraq has drafted a plan that projects steep reductions in the U.S. military presence there by the end of 2007, The New York Times reported on Saturday. Citing U.S. officials with knowledge of a classified Pentagon briefing this week by Gen. George Casey, the Times said the first cuts would come in September, and the number of U.S. combat brigades in Iraq is then projected to fall to five or six from the current level of 14 by the end of next year.
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Will the NYT reveal classified info every day?
More importantly, how much longer is the Justice Dept going to sit on its hands?
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Casey has been talking about this reduction for over a year now. The big caveat, as always, is that it depends on conditions on the ground.
The Slimes is tweaking the Feds short hairs. As for the SWIFT "relevation", see Victor Comras' post
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Will the NYT reveal classified info every day?
Perhaps, since they'll replace their Classified Ads section with a Classified Information section. I'll bet their circulation in Waziristan is booming.
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Let's indeed encourage the enemy to continue the mindless killing on the hopes that if they just hold out a little longer they will win.
Plans. The military always makes plans. The actual execution is specifically dependent upon conditions. Once again, it is the theater commanders call on how many troops he needs or will need that determines the level. And that will be a sliding estimate determined upon enemy actions. What the idiots-in-charge at the NYTs don't understand, is that by now encouraging the enemy, the likelihood of 'steep' reductions is unwarranted because of resultant increases in enemy activity.
TIKRIT, Iraq - US forces apologised to a senior Sunni Arab religious leader and his two sons after arresting them in a raid on the familys home they said was based on bad intelligence, an Iraqi security source said. Sheikh Jamal Abdel Karim al-Dabaan and his sons were released on Saturday, hours after their arrests, said the source, an official at the joint US-Iraqi co-ordination centre in Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad.
There was no immediate comment from the US military.
Dabaan is a top Mufti, or religious authority, for most of Iraqs minority Sunni Muslim community. The deputy governor of Salahaddin province, a mostly Sunni region, said earlier most provincial government offices had suspended work in protest at the arrest of Dabaan and were refusing to return to work until he was freed.
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And here I thought we were finally going after the holy men. I guess that I could weave some fantasy that we turned him during captivity, but I'm not good at that sort of self-deception.
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Yeah, it was a message, Frank. It would have worked really well against the Mafia. But this ain't the G-men against the mob. This is war. And unlike the mob, the Islamists have their own highly networked propaganda apparatus. Here's the message that the Islamists and Baathists are spinning right now: "See, we went on strike for a day and the Amriki caved. They searched and threatened for three days and they couldn't get anyone to give up where we were holding those soldiers of theirs we captured."
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Would you meet with him after he got turned loose? Let the word out that he turned on his minions to save himself... arrest a few to reinforce, and keep the word out that he's OUR bitch
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Possibly not. Even if they iced him, they would probably still claim that he was a Great Islamic Hero™ and that the American's Shiite puppets did him in. Hilter and Stalin both used that gambit a few times.
IRAQI Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will offer an amnesty to some rebel groups and call for the disarmament of militias as part of a 28-point national reconciliation plan to stem violence, a politician said overnight.
Mahmud Othman said the plan, to be presented to parliament later today, aims to "offer amnesty to everyone except war criminals and those who have killed innocent Iraqis". "The plan aims to open dialogue with all insurgent groups except Al-Qaeda and Saddamists, and to disarm militias," Mr Othman said. He said the plan demands a "timetable for the build-up of armed forces to control the security situation so that the role of coalition forces will come to an end". Mr Othman said the reconciliation plan will offer compensation to families of civilians killed by "coalition troops and those who have been wrongly detained, especially civil servants who lost out on career opportunities". The plan will also focus on improving Iraqis' standard of living, he said.
Minister of State for National Security Shirwan al-Waili, a Shiite close to Maliki, welcomed the plan, calling it "a broad policy with political, social and economic ramifications" and it "addressed the entire Iraqi society". Sunni Arab MP Salim Abdullah also welcomed it, but said the "devil was in the details". He said it will only work if the amnesty extends to as many armed groups willing to enter dialogue as possible. "The opportunity is ripe to attract all national forces," he said.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government is under growing pressure to reoccupy the northern part of Gaza in a move to end the firing of Qassam rockets into Israel by Palestinian militants. Two senior Likud members including former Defence Minister, Moshe Arens, have called on the government to embark on a major military operation that would see the Israeli army (IDF) launch a ground attack in northern Gaza. On Friday, Likud member, Yuval Steinitz, who is the former chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, called on the military to launch a ground attack in Gaza similar to Operation Defensive Shield in the West Bank, which the IDF launched following the Passover bombing of a Netanya hotel in 2002. "I call on the Israeli government not to wait any longer and to begin a comprehensive ground operation in Gaza to fundamentally damage the terror infrastructure in a few weeks," Steinitz told Israel Radio. Steinitz's comments followed similar statements made by Arens. "The obvious move to cut down on this danger is for the IDF to reoccupy unilaterally some of the areas in the northern Gaza Strip that were so foolishly abandoned unilaterally last August."
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With eveyrone in the region out to destroy them, the Israelis need a buffer zone on all their borders. Set up a 5 ot 10 mile buffer zone in Gaza. It works in the Golan Heights.
(KUNA) -- German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier called Saturday on Iran to stop uranium enrichment as soon as possible to set an apt atmosphere for negotiations between Tehran and the international community. At a press conference following a meeting with his Iranian counter Manouchehr Motaki, the German foreign minister said that the international community was ready to present economic and technical support for Iran if Tehran stopped its uranium enrichment activities. Steinmeier also hinted at nuclear cooperation with Iran if it met the condition. He, nevertheless, warned that economic sanctions would be imposed on Iran if Tehran failed to cease uranium enrichment.
Motaki, in the other hand, affirmed his country's refusal to stop uranium enrichment as demanded by the five permanent member states of the UN Security Council plus Germany. Motaki yet said that Tehran was willing to reach a solution with the international community regarding its nuclear dossier.
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After boosting its relations with Arab countries like Syria and Iraq, and with groups like Hezbollah and Hamas, Iran is currently seeking political and economic cooperation with a number of other states - like Venezuela, Sudan and Cuba - as part of a series of calculated foreign policy moves aimed at exacerbating an already tense stand-off with the Bush administration over its nuclear program, according to an article on The Guardian.
"Iran wants to bolster its position by allying itself with countries or groups that can temporarily enhance its regional role and influence," says Sami Moubayed, a Syrian political analyst.
High-level meetings have been held in recent weeks with several Arab and Muslim states. Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hamid-Reza Asfi, recently said that Tehran has intensified its "diplomatic activity to explain the situation to other countries."
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The other countries that think we are "big, bad ogres" can all go under strict sharia (rhymes with diarrhea) law for all I care.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Fourteen Saudi nationals in US custody at the Guantanamo Bay prison are on their way home, the Pentagon said yesterday. The repatriation of the 14 Saudis increases the number of repatriated Gitmo detainees to the Kingdom to 29 this year, not counting the two who returned dead after allegedly committing suicide earlier this month. 
(KUNA) -- The Saudi Grand Mufti and Chairman of Senior Ulema (Muslim scholars) Commission and Religious Research and Ifta Department, Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al Al-Sheikh, condemned Saturday criminal acts perpetrated by the deviating group and stressed that security men have performed a great duty and provided an honorable service for their nation.
A man who used his computer skills to help encrypt e-mails and produce anti-Western DVDs for radical Muslims said he tried to warn British police about two of the men responsible for the July terrorist attacks in London, a newspaper reported Saturday. Martin Gilbertson said he met Mohammed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer in Beeston, West Yorkshire, which is about 195 miles (310 kilometers) north of London. He told The Guardian newspaper he was introduced to them at a party held to celebrate the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
Miss O'Keefe said that Mansha was appealing against the length of his sentence for plotting to kill an Iraq War veteran, which she said was inappropriate because of his youth and his extremely low intelligence level. She confirmed that police had visited him in prison, but said he insisted he told them nothing.
Thomas was convicted this year of receiving money and an airline ticket from al-Qaida and of falsifying a passport. He has appealed against the conviction for receiving cash from terrorists. The appeal hearing has been brought forward to next month because of fears for his mental state. Thomas - the first person convicted under new anti-terror laws - is serving a maximum sentence of five years' jail for his crimes. His Supreme Court trial was told Thomas, a father of three, accepted $4750 and a plane ticket home from senior al-Qaida boss 
Frances media regulator issued a warning to the Saudi-owned Islamic television channel Iqra over controversial statements that were broadcast calling for the destruction of the state of Israel. The Conseil superieur de laudiovisuel, or CSA, has the right to assign or withdraw licenses that could affect Iqras ability to broadcast not only to France but also across the European Union. In the bureaucratic language that typifies a government bulletin, the CSA issued the following warning: The council (i.e., CSA) has issued a warning to the Iqra Channel, established in Saudi Arabia and broadcast in France by way of satellite and ADSL, against the making of statements capable of inciting (racial) hatred or violence, such as those (statements, i.e.) made on April 2, 2006, at 7.30 in the morning, which called for the destruction of the state of Israel.
SEVEN men arrested in the US for planning to blow up America's tallest building and FBI offices were not Muslims and not linked to the US Islamic community, Islamic leaders insisted yesterday. The suspects - five Americans and two foreigners - arrested on Thursday after approaching an undercover FBI agent who they thought was an agent of al-Qaeda, were described as a cult. They were accused of trying to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago with help from al-Qaeda. But authorities said the men never actually made contact with the terrorist network and were instead caught in an FBI sting involving an informant who posed as an al-Qaeda operative. 
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government is under growing pressure to reoccupy the northern part of Gaza in a move to end the firing of Qassam rockets into Israel by Palestinian militants. Two senior Likud members including former Defence Minister, Moshe Arens, have called on the government to embark on a major military operation that would see the Israeli army (IDF) launch a ground attack in northern Gaza. On Friday, Likud member, Yuval Steinitz, who is the former chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, called on the military to launch a ground attack in Gaza similar to Operation Defensive Shield in the West Bank, which the IDF launched following the Passover bombing of a Netanya hotel in 2002. "I call on the Israeli government not to wait any longer and to begin a comprehensive ground operation in Gaza to fundamentally damage the terror infrastructure in a few weeks," Steinitz told Israel Radio. Steinitz's comments followed similar statements made by Arens. "The obvious move to cut down on this danger is for the IDF to reoccupy unilaterally some of the areas in the northern Gaza Strip that were so foolishly abandoned unilaterally last August." 
(KUNA) -- German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier called Saturday on Iran to stop uranium enrichment as soon as possible to set an apt atmosphere for negotiations between Tehran and the international community. At a press conference following a meeting with his Iranian counter Manouchehr Motaki, the German foreign minister said that the international community was ready to present economic and technical support for Iran if Tehran stopped its uranium enrichment activities. Steinmeier also hinted at nuclear cooperation with Iran if it met the condition. He, nevertheless, warned that economic sanctions would be imposed on Iran if Tehran failed to cease uranium enrichment.
