TMZ has learned that washed up legendary singer Barry Manilow has pulled out of his scheduled appearance on "The View" tomorrow -- because he strongly disagrees with host Elisabeth Hasselbeck's conservative view! Paging Rosie O'Donnell!
UPDATE: A source tells TMZ that it's not Barry who's writing this song -- in fact, "View" producers pulled the plug on Manilow's performance when his people demanded that he appear on the show without Elisabeth. Manilow has in fact performed on the show twice before -- both last year -- when Hasselbeck's been co-hosting.
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The editors of National Review are having fun with this story. Kathryn Lopez:
Does he know that he has fans (ahem) who have the same "dangerous" views as Elizabeth Hasselbeck? Come on, man, let's head down to the Copa, where we can all get along (well, unless you're Tony...).
If I were Elisabeth Hasselbeck, I would refuse to sit next to Barry Manilow. After all, "I Write the Songs" has officially been categorized as a war crime by the Fourth Geneva Convention. Here at home, even Wayne LaPierre supports legislation to declare "Mandy" an assault weapon deserving of a complete ban. This is not to say that Manilow hasn't been of service to his country, albeit inadvertently. Unconfirmed reports claim that Abu Zubaydah would not break, even with a bullet in his groin, until they played 15 seconds of "I Can't Smile Without You," whereupon he cried like a little girl.
His name was Barry
He was a showboy
But that was thirty years ago
When he used to do the show
Now it's a talkshow
But not for Barry
Still in the suit he used to wear
Faded gel streaks in his hair
He won't return their call
No matter how they crawl
He lost his slot
And he lost his marbles
But he's found Ron Paul
He can't cope-a
Cope-a with Hassel
The toughest chick west of Newcastle
Not like Rosie
Rosie O'Donnell
Barry knows she'll melt
When he brings up steel melt
He can't cope-a
He lost his slot...
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Elizabeth Hasselbeck: Threat or Menace.
Again, "The View" is one of the reasons I appreciate that I've got the day job...
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Now if only we can get that electric duck blower Kenny G. to do the same thing, it will be a perfect day ( everything he plays sounds like the AFLAC duck going thru a shredder)
Priceless, USN, Ret.! In reality, Kenny has a superb lip but his choice of material amounts to nothing better than elevator music. Now that he is so "successful", neither does Kenny have the excuse of acquiescing to his producer's guidance in terms of track selections. Essentially, he is the Thomas Kinkade of music. SSDD, repeat ad nauseam.
If this musical tripe volcano schmaltz factory ever wants a shred of musical respect, he'd better cough up some ragtime, Dixie, be-bop and real jazz. He has the ability but, quite cleary, not the brains. Much like Whitney Witless Houston, Kenny G. is a phenomenal waste of skin talent.
As to Manilow, only the cultural nadir known as disco ever could have made us sink so low that anyone might possibly look up to him.
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USN Ret., that's perhaps the best description yet I've read of Kenny G. I'm LMAO over here!
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#4 Barry who? Oh, he is still alive?
Posted by: DarthVader 2007-09-18 16:00
My sentiments exactly, Darth, but maybe I've gotten him confused with some whining, voiceless "country and western" singer.
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OK OP, now you have crossed the line; don't ever confuse Barry with C& W; he has never had to sing about his best friend's girl losing her job so he looses his pick up, and the dog......
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Barry's not washed up - many Amers are still waiting for more songs from him. His music are mood-setting and good for when you want your babe close to you.
A Taliban spokesman said Monday that the Islamic militant group would only talk to the US-backed Kabul administration if tens of thousands of Western troops leave Afghanistan.
The hardline movements spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi had said a week ago that the Taliban were ready to respond positively to President Hamid Karzais renewed offer of negotiations. But Ahmadi appeared to be stepping back from that stance on Monday by making the apparently new condition involving the withdrawal of foreign soldiers from the insurgency-hit country.
That means they don't want to talk right now, natch. Prob'ly Mullah Omar vetoed it.
If these talks... rescue our countrys independence and result in finding a way for the withdrawal of foreign forces, (Taliban) are ready to participate, Ahmadi said in a statement. But he said that the Taliban did not believe the Afghan government had the authority to meet such conditions. He also accused the media of misinterpreting comments by the Taliban, saying they were at the service of the invading forces.
Karzai made the offer of talks with the insurgents on September 9. He has regularly offered talks with the Taliban, which was in government between 1996 and 2001, and there have been rumours that contact has already been made. Karzai also said the radical Hizb-i-Islami faction of former prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, which is fighting the government and its allies separately from the Taliban, was welcome to join a peace process.
Karzais previous suggestions of negotiations have not included the leaders of the intensifying uprising, and he and his spokesman did not say if the new offer extended to Hekmatyar or Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. Both are wanted by the United States. Karzai set up a reconciliation commission in 2005 in the hope of persuading rebels to put down their weapons. Officials say around 2,000 low-level Taliban and other militants have signed up.
The Taliban has in the past two years redoubled its insurgency, which it launched after being removed from government in 2001 for not handing over its Al Qaeda allies after the September 11 attacks on the United States.
This article starring:
GULBUDIN HEKMATYAR
Hizb-i-Islami
YUSUF AHMEDI
Taliban
Hizb-i-Islami
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Hokay. Guess we'll just get back to work bombing the crap outta you guys then...
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A Taliban spokesman said Monday that the Islamic militant group would only talk to the US-backed Kabul administration if tens of thousands of Western troops leave Afghanistan.
But ... but ... but, what about the PONY?!?!
One more time, whoever opens their yap with this sort of lunatic bullshit needs to be capped on the spot. Sometimes killing the messenger makes sense.
Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, said on Monday that the awarding of a contract to execute a border fence project with Iraq was on the verge of being completed, noting that the project is an effort to prevent terrorist infiltration and smuggling operations between the two countries. The cost of the fence is estimated at around 500 million dollars which covers the entire length of the border strip (810) km starting from Al Riqa'i border outlet east on the Kuwait and Saudi Arabia borders up to the center of the Anazeh West of Triangle border between the Kingdom and Iraq and Jordan.
500 large sounds like the baksheesh bill for this project. I s'pect the Soddy fence will be just about as vaporous as ours.
The security fence project includes warning systems and electronic sensor, towers night and day cameras and modern security techniques to prevent the infiltration of smugglers and wanted elements and terrorists stationed in Iraq as result of the deteriorating security conditions there. In a press statement, Prince Nayef added that there were no accurate information about the deviant groups. pledging to inform the Saudi public of all facts available.
Saudi Arabia announced on Monday it has purchased 72 Typhoon planes in addition to transference of technology and investment in the field of defense industries in Saudi Arabia as well as training of Saudi citizens in the field of aviation.
An official source at the Saudi Ministry of Defense and Aviation told the Saudi Press Agency the deal was approved by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdelaziz. The source added that the objective of the deal was to develop the Saudi Armed Forces within the framework of the existing close defense relations between the two countries. The contract was signed by the two governments on July 21 at a cost of 4.43 billion sterling pound.
It is worth mentioning that the price of one plane is similar to the price of the plane when it is sold to the Royal British Air forces.
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Hawker Typhoons? With 24-cylinder sleeve-valve Napier Sabre engines?
Cool. Obsolete, but cool.
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72 Typhoon ... 4.43 billion sterling pound
That's $123 million/plane. Incredible, but that's what the British claim they are also paying for the Typhoon. Another £5B for munitions and £10B for maintenance will keep a lot to Brits and Europeans employed.
The unaccounted cost is what kind of protection guarantee did Britain give the Saudis since I can't imagine Americans ever again sending their young men and women to save the Saudis.
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That's in addition to 20 billion worth of weapons from USA?
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Saudi Arabia announced on Monday it has purchased 72 Typhoon planes in addition to transference of technology and investment in the field of defense industries in Saudi Arabia as well as training of Saudi citizens in the field of aviation.
Training saudi citizens in the field of aviation has not worked out so well for us in the past. The fewer arabs who can fly the better.
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Nice. But are these planes coming with the £390k non-firing, gun-shaped ballast feature as lusted after by the UK's MoD, or the £400k firing, gun-shaped gun feature as lusted after by people with an iota of intelligence?
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RE; Training: When I was at NAS PAX we had some F/A 18s for the Saudis; doing some work for them and when it came time to transfer them to the Saudis, they were aghast to find out that wymen had actually flown the aircraft! to prevent a diplomatic row, McDonnell Douglas ( this was pre-merger) installed brand new, never been sat in seats, seat pans, the whole deal. I would imaging there is going to be some of that this time around..... it was a real laugh watching these sand rats spin and spin....
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There will come a time when all shipments to the MME (Muslim Middle East) of aircraft, arms, computers, desalination plants and even food will need to end. If we do not have the will to simply kill our enemy, then we had better find a way to starve them to death. No good will come of showing any humanity to the MME.
Maestro On The Micro and the Macro Then...
The worms crawls in The Sharias crawl out The worms play Pinochle on yer snout..
A Muslim dentist named Omer Butt made a woman wear Islamic dress as the price of accepting her as an NHS patient. In fact Butt is said to have told the patient that unless she wore a headscarf she would have to find another practice. There! There's no Butts about that...except for the Big Butt Named Butt acting like a typical Islamic Butt.
Later this month, Mr Butt will appear before a General Dental Council professional misconduct hearing, which has the power to strike him off. strike him off? Is that an olde English turn of phrase that hopefully means Hanging?
The 31-year-old Porsche driving dentist asked to speak to the woman in private after she turned up for an appointment at his clinic in Bury. LOL...Lots more Butt Shenanigans and Pinochle at the linky. RD
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having read the entire article, I wouldn't trust the punk jihadi dentist to give the proper dose of novacaine to his non-muslim patients.
The proper remedy here would be to pull his licence to earn a healthy living off the public
t*t, but it'll never happen. This punk needs to be smacked down real hard just to send a message. Won't happen. It wouldn't be sensitive to a minority.
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I think strike him off means take away his license to practice dentistry. Either that or strike him off the list of NHS dentists, which would mean he would have to survive on private patients. He might have to trade in his Porsche for a Ford... or go on the dole.
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I like this gem buried several paragraghs down in the story:
Mr Butt is the older brother of former Islamic extremist Hassan Butt, who once declared he had 'no problem' with terror attacks on Britain and who said that September 11 "served the pleasure of Allah".
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I think strike him off means take away his license to practice dentistry. Either that or strike him off the list of NHS dentists, which would mean he would have to survive on private patients. He might have to trade in his Porsche for a Ford... or go on the dole.
Nutin gets by youse!
~:)
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It defies all anatomical explanation how these Butts act like such pricks.
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SPACEWAR > OUTSIDE VIEW - RUSSIA'S VACUUM BOMB WARNING. Old ways of fighting wars have changed + gone the way of the Dodo and Dreadnought. WARS ARE NOW NEAT, CLEAN, DECENTRALIZED + LOCALIZED - I don't think BANANAS = GWEN STEFANI's song is what SPACEWAR had in mind. *OTOH, 1960's-70's Guam Taotamonas > destruction of key Pacific Islands by selective nuke detonations to deny to enemies ala OIL/RESOURCES CATACLYSM. DON'T SEND IN THE MARINES ANYMORE, YOU SINK THE ISLAND! D ***NG IT, DIDN'T ANYONE IN ARMY INTEL EVER LOOK AT STEFANI'S BOOB RACK LIKE SHE SAYS TO!
Spain said it would create a center for studying homemade bombs used by extremists and guerrilla movements in Afghanistan , Iraq and Lebanon. The center "will study the deactivation and neutralization mechanisms" on improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, the defense ministry said in a statement.
Such devices are used mainly in places like Afghanistan and Lebanon, where Spain has deployed soldiers, as well as Iraq where they have claimed hundreds of lives among coalition and Iraqi forces. The center's work should help "strengthen the security measures for military missions" outside Spain. The ministry said it would invest three million euros (4.2 million dollars) in the centre, which will house 40 experts in the Hoyo de Manzanares suburb of Madrid. The aim is for the centre to become the top authority world-wide on the subject, and Madrid plans to propose that NATO integrate it into its structure.
Six soldiers including three Spaniards serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, were killed in June whan a car bomb struck their personnel carrier as they patrolled a road near the Israeli border.
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Should last about three months, the first Kaboom, or the funding runs out.
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Does this include all the fancy new ones being supplied by Iran?
Sweden's "political jujitsu" may yet prevent uproar among Muslims over a Swedish cartoonist's drawing of a dog with the head of the Prophet Mohammad despite an al Qaeda threat at the weekend. Security experts said conciliatory steps by the government and Swedish Muslim leaders were directed at preventing a rerun of the anger that swept the Middle East last year over a similar incident in Denmark. Islam forbids images of the Prophet and deems dogs unclean.
"The government has performed what I would liken to political jujitsu on the issue: absorbing the enemy's energy," said terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp at the Swedish National Defense College.
On Saturday, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State in Iraq, offered $100,000 for the murder of Swedish artist Lars Vilks for his depiction of the Prophet Mohammad. He slapped a lesser bounty on the editor of daily Nerikes Allehanda, which published the drawing last month in what it called a defence of free speech, and threatened top Swedish firms such as truck maker Volvo, Ericsson and Ikea.
Up until now, the publication had drawn little more than diplomatic disapproval and isolated demonstrations. But Ranstorp said: "I think certainly there is an increased danger given the attention that comes with an al Qaeda threat specifically towards a newspaper and the artist himself."
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In an interview with local news agency TT on Sunday, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt called for calm. He has already won praise from Muslim diplomats for meeting them soon after the drawing's publication to try to defuse the tension. "We shall deny all who call for the use of violence and keep at bay the extremist's attempts to worsen the issue," he said.
He said the government has been watching developments closely, including monitoring media reports in the Muslim world and talking to Muslim representatives in Sweden and abroad.
Muslim groups in Sweden have rejected the threats. Swedish Islamic leader Mahmoud Aldebe told Reuters his group had sent a letter to Arab newspapers demanding the threats be withdrawn, saying the issue should stay a Swedish matter only. This is in stark contrast to Denmark, where dialogue between government and Muslims broke down last year at the height of a crisis over Prophet Mohammad cartoons and radical imams travelled to the Middle East to fan Islamic anger. "In the Danish cartoon issue, the community in Copenhagen was the one who began the campaign," said author Walid Phares, visiting scholar at the European Foundation for Democracy in Brussels. "What we have now is a different story. It may end up the same, but it's really different so it could be controlled."
The key distinction, he said, is the origin of the threat. "The reason why Baghdadi issued that is because al Qaeda is under pressure in Iraq -- they have the fighting with the local tribes, the government is pressing them, the whole magma in Iraq is putting pressure on them," Phares said.
He said Swedish Muslim leaders' refusal to sign on makes isolated attacks by jihadist groups more likely than the mass protests triggered in the Danish crisis.
Danish terrorism expert Mikael Taarnby saw a higher security risk for Sweden, although he said interest could ebb quickly. Still, he said, "these things are unpredictable and they do have the potential to escalate and develop into a crisis of some sort. And when that happens, it becomes very difficult to stop."
Vilks arrived back in Sweden from Germany on Sunday and police said he might be offered protection. Swedish firms, meanwhile, were looking at ways to lower their profile. Jakob Larsson, Swedish security police spokesman, said his agency had prepared a terrorism risk analysis and called in extra staff to watch developments. He said Sweden's terrorism threat level remained low.
If the incident does eventually spark grassroots anger against Sweden, the main impact may be economic. Last year's Danish crisis, triggered when cartoons of the Prophet were reprinted around the world, saw at least 50 people killed in riots in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, along with attacks against Danish embassies and a boycott of Danish goods.
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With only alittle more than a 5,000 man army* to alert, I can see why Sweden is on edge!! Full out, and it would be 'Man to Man' in the streets; and everyone prolly would have to fend for themselves! How draconian!! *CIA Factbook
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Only 5k in uniform? I think the Tennessee Defense Force has a higher head count. What happens when the muzzys decide to make a grab for the big enchiladalutefisk, and overwhelm the police?
The sweedes are skr_wed.
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By conscious and repeated choice since the 70s, NGuard. By their very conscious choice.
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Wikipedia says: At present Sweden can mobilise 59,500 men and women. This force includes 4,500 officers, 18,000 conscripts and 37,000 Homeguards (a voluntary militia service). But mobilisation is assumed to take one year (although no mobilisation readiness exists), and the formations assumed are of battalion level. In a couple of months, 2,700 officers and 7,000 conscripts are available, with the state militias being available within hours
Though the Swedes don't want to mention their standing manpower, it sounds like 22,500. But then it has to go mention the Swedes can mobilize less than 10,000 men, excluding militia, in several months. Really screwy.
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The situation should not be "diffused". The situation should be escalated. You threaten us, we smash a mosque. You threaten us again, we deport one thousand of your fellow orcs. That cartoon should be plastered to the doors of every muslim in Sweden.
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Heck, that's nothing to be bothered with in Sweden. How do the muzzies feel about the traditional Christmas meal in Sweden? Its ham, like in smoked pork! How come we don't hear about that? If I was a Swede, I would bury the hatchet with my muzzie neighbor and invite him and family over for Christmas dinner.
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#6 The situation should not be "diffused". The situation should be escalated. You threaten us, we smash a mosque. You threaten us again, we deport one thousand of your fellow orcs. That cartoon should be plastered to the doors of every muslim in Sweden.
You're exactly right.
The problem is *ISLAM*. The problem has always been Islam.
Algerias ambassador to Sweden on Monday condemned death threats from Al Qaeda in Iraq against a Swedish artist who drew a blasphemous cartoon of the Holy Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) and a newspaper editor who published it. I vehemently condemn this kind of practice ... Islam has nothing to do with this, by any means, Merzak Bedjaoui told AFP.
We'll be sure to condemn whenever Pentecostalists do it.
An Al Qaeda front organisation in Iraq, the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Iraq, issued a statement on the Internet on Saturday offering $150,000 to anyone who slit the throat of Lars Vilks, the artist. It also offered $50,000 for the death of the editor-in-chief of the Nerikes Allehanda newspaper, Ulf Johansson, who published the blasphemous cartoon.
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After three terrorism cases in less than two years, including an alleged bombing plot broken up this month, intelligence officials say Denmark is on the front line in the battle against terrorism in Europe, says a report published in The New York Times on Monday. Even though weve prevented one terrorist attack, we know that there are still people in Denmark and abroad that have the capacity, the will and the ability to carry out terrorist attacks in Denmark, the newspaper quotes Jakob Scharf, the head of Danish intelligence, as saying. According to the report, Scharf was referring to predawn raids on Sept 4 that resulted in the arrests of eight suspects, two of whom are still in custody on terrorism charges and are accused of planning a bombing attack.
The report says American authorities helped Danish security officials locate the suspects through electronic intercepts from Pakistan, just as they did in arrests the same day in a bombing plot in southern Germany, intelligence officials in Washington said.
They said one of the men in the Danish case received instruction within the past 12 months in explosives, surveillance and other techniques at a terrorist training camp in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan. With Europe again focused on the threat posed by terrorist plots, Denmark illustrates the powerful interplay between foreign agitation and domestic discontent. The country became a target of foreign Islamist terrorist groups two years ago after a conservative newspaper here published controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), drawing worldwide attention.
At home, the children of Muslim immigrants complain of job discrimination and integration problems, feeding the disenchantment of the small but growing Muslim population, says the report. In the schools, Danish teachers are always talking about democracy and human rights, but now they see what Denmark is doing in Afghanistan and what they did here with the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, said Imran Shah, 31, who leads a youth group at a local mosque. They ask themselves, is this a democracy or are they talking about double standards?
According to the newspaper, while much of the worlds attention was focused on the arrests that took place that same day in Germany, but were announced one day later, intelligence officials here and in Washington said at least one suspect in the Danish group had direct ties to leading figures in Al Qaeda, which has regrouped in northwestern Pakistan.
Whats coming from this is that they are now able to give military and terrorist training and able to plan and steer specific operations in Europe, Mr. Scharf, the Danish intelligence chief, said. Al Qaeda is back. With a population of 5.5 million, Denmark is smaller than New York City by several million people, but it is a disproportionately large target on jihadist websites. Not only did Denmark achieve infamy across the Muslim world for the publication of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) cartoons, which incited violent and even deadly protests in other countries, it also has troops both in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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In the schools, Danish teachers are always talking about democracy and human rights, but now they see what Denmark is doing in Afghanistan and what they did here with the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, said Imran Shah, 31, who leads a youth group at a local mosque. They ask themselves, is this a democracy or are they talking about double standards?
Democracies have the right to overthrown tyrannous regimes at their whim. They also tend to come replete with such basic amenities as freedom of speech and religion plus other individual liberties. Just because none of these rights are recognized by Islamic theocracy does not automatically make them into double standards. They are merely foreign concepts to this world's largest gang of unenlightened savages.
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FREEREPUBLIC > Pert says Europe cannot stop its Islamization, NOT LEGALLY NOR BY ARMED FORCE. Does not matter whether invited in, snuck in, or invaded by Muslim-specific collective force of arms.
Two leading European Muslim organizations have condemned the threats issued by al-Qaeda in Iraq on the lives of Swedish artist Lars Vilks and newspaper editor Ulf Johansson.
The Dublin-based European Council for Fatwa and Research labelled the death sentence haram, or prohibited by the Islamic faith, and said it planned to issue a counter-fatwa. "We don't agree with what al-Qaeda is supposed to have said. We do not agree with killing people like this because this is not in Islam," secretary general Hussein Halawa told Sveriges Radio.
The 29-nation Federation of Islamic Organisations in Europe also distanced itself from the death sentence and said it was working to prevent the conflict from spreading.
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The Dublin-based European Council for Fatwa and Research labelled the death sentence haram, or prohibited by the Islamic faith, and said it planned to issue a counter-fatwa.
Make sure to watch the other hand. How about someone asking these chaps what their stand on universal shari'a law is. I'll bet their answer won't be nearly as concilatory.
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A "Counter Fatwah"?!!! These clowns can, apparently, play "Good Cop / Bad Cop" all day long and stay within the bloody confines of their "religion."
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Fatwa vs counter-fatwa means your religion means nothing. It is just a confused conglomeration of lunatics who twist the Koran to whatever meaning suits their purpose. There is no pope. There is no Dalai Lama. There is no convention, no council of clerics, no central authority. Just the writings of a seventh century warlord that can be interpreted by any modern day warlord any way he sees fit.
Police have told Swedish artist Lars Vilks that it is not safe for him to remain at his home in southern Sweden following threats on his life from an al-Qaeda front organization in Iraq.
The artist behind a controversial caricature of the Muslim prophet Muhammad was only allowed access to his home outside Nyhamnsläge after police had conducted a thorough search on Monday morning. Police allowed the artist to pick up a few belongings but told him that they did not want him staying there in the foreseeable future. "I'm prepared to move somewhere else," Vilks told news agency TT.
Apparently it hasn't occurred to them to protect him.
The artist has had to cancel a number of planned lectures but says that he is able to do most of his work sitting in front of his computer.
Asked whether the sketch of Muhammad as a roundabout dog was worth all the trouble, Vilks remained defiant. "Yes, I still think so. I think the artwork has developed well so far and is on its way towards becoming superb," he said.
I like this man's way of thinking.
Vilks described the events and the debate surrounding his drawings as a repeat of the Danish caricature row, except on a smaller scale and so far without bloodshed. "I still hold out strong hopes of a happy ending in that this too may end up as a farce," he said.
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I'd prefer the authorities stake out the place with competent snipers
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We can't protect you from the muslims who wish to kill you because you drew a cartoon, Mr. Vilks. We suggest you abandon your home then run and hide. Not to worry. You won't be alone. It won't be long until we join you.
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"Here's your pistol, and this is the remote for the claymores out front..."
Bush threw an unexpected change-up in his announcement this morning. Towards the end of his remarks about his nomination of Michael Mukasey as attorney general, he also said that outgoing Justice Department official Peter Keisler would serve as the acting attorney general until Mukasey is confirmed.
The administration had said that Solicitor General Paul Clement would serve as the acting attorney general. But Keisler, who announced his retirement from the Department two weeks ago, will apparently stick around in his stead.
That's a move likely to provoke Democrats, who had been signaling that they'd block Keisler's pending nomination to the D.C. Court of Appeals. Keisler was first nominated in last year and was renominated this year. Only this May, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) warned that Keisler's nomination was "controversial." As a result, Keisler will now be in the odd position as acting attorney general of having to deal with the Democrats who are holding up his still-pending nomination.
Among the strikes against Keisler for Democrats was the fact that he's a co-founder of the conservative Federalist Society. He also "oversaw the Bush administration's lengthy legal fight over the rights of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay."
Investigators in Marion County, Fla., are searching for the author of nine postcards sent to different schools on the same day with the words 'Jihad-Boom" and handwritten cartoons of a building apparently exploding with people inside.
Investigators released the postcards with the threatening drawings on them Monday in hopes of generating leads in the case.
Officials said that the postcards are made up of various and traditional themes, and each one has a distinctive hand-drawn cartoon on it. Several of the threats arrived on postcards featuring Walt Disney World. Detectives said the threat-maker crossed his or her No. 7s and attached a suffix to the address. Six of the nine postcards spell the word "Jihad" correctly, while the others are incorrect.
The U.S. Postal Service said that the postcards were all mailed to the schools from the Ocala-Gainesville mailing district before the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
A $10,000 reward has been issued to anyone who provides information which leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for using the postal service to mail the threatening postcards to schools.
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My guess is someone at one of the many Muslim Student Associations, either at UCF or UF.
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Too bad their "fireworks experts" are in jail up in South Carolina...
An American contractor who buried secret payments from Iraqi subcontractors in a Baghdad yard was sentenced Monday to five months in prison for trying to smuggle $50,000 into the United States.
Robert Grove, 63, was arrested at Philadelphia International Airport in March after customs agents found stacks of $100 bills hidden in his day planner, a carrying case around his neck and his backpack. He had declared just $350 in merchandise on a customs form. Grove, a retired Army colonel, had been questioned about Iraqi kickbacks months earlier by U.S. officials investigating his employer, West Chester-based Weston Solutions Inc., prosecutors said.
A company lawyer had accompanied Grove to the interview, and Grove said he knew nothing of any employees on the take, Justice Department lawyer Nathaniel Edmonds said. A second Weston employee charged in a similar case told authorities he had seen Grove taking payments, Edmonds said after the hearing.
Nail him. Hard. No matter that he's retired, he wore the uniform for decades and has disgraced it.
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Too bad he won't be spending his time in jail at Abu Gharib. I sure hope he loses his Army pension.
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Recall his sorry ass to AD and then courts-martial him for this and bringing discredit to the services. Wasn't his wife involved in this somehow also?
As many as 129 personnel of Pakistan Army, Frontier Constabulary and 56 police were killed in 22 suicide attacks in nine months since January 2007.
According to an Interior Ministry report on suicide attacks, 51 suicide attacks took place since January 2007 to date in which 14 attacks targeted military personnel, four targeted Frontier Constabulary (FC), four targeted police, while the remaining 29 targeted the civilian population. The report also showed that Lal Masjid military operation had caused an increase in suicide attacks on army and paramilitary forces.
According to the report, the deadliest attack on Pakistan Army was conducted on September 14 in Tarbela Ghazi in which a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the mess killing 16 personnel of Special Services Group (SSG). Its for the first time in military history that militants targeted the elite force of Pakistan Army and that too in a highly secure and fortified military base. The report also reveals that military was mostly targeted in NWFP and tribal areas. Mir Ali, Miran Shah and Tank remained the most favorite targets of suicide bombers.
During the period in question three suicide attacks took place in the Punjab targeting army. The first attack was conducted in Kharian Cantonment on March 29 and the second and third in Rawalpindi on September 4 at the same day. According to the report, 56 police personnel died in four suicide bombings during this period. The deadliest attack on police was carried out in Qissa Khawani Bazaar, Peshawar, on January 27 during the holy month martyring 12 police officials including a deputy inspector general of police.
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Afghanistan, India, Myanmar and Pakistan were listed in an annual US government report on Monday as part of a total of 20 countries that are major hubs for trafficking or growth of illegal drugs. But in the report, President George Bush determined that only Myanmar and Venezuela had failed demonstrably to tackle the problem over the past 12 months, opening the way to withdrawal of certain US aid. The report released by the State Department said that Afghan President Hamid Karzais government had strongly attacked drugs trafficking. But, it said, one-third of the Afghan economy still remains based on opium and was strengthening the (Taliban) insurgency. But Christy McCampbell, deputy assistant secretary for international narcotics, told reporters that Bush was aware of the difficult situation facing President Karzai and commended his determination to fight drugs.
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We can't seem to get rid of the market for the stuff so why not legalize it, buy it direct from the farmers, and give it away - and cut out all the middle-man profit. Not to mention all the robberies the 'customers' commit to get the money to buy it with.
That may sound harsh until you consider how many lives will be screwed up by the heroin. And it isn't just the junkies that suffer. It's the families, the communities and society at large. Remember also that the decision to "try a little" isn't usually made by a mature adult but by some kid. You wouldn't want these kids smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol but they can get all kinds of drugs even easier because the dealers don't check their IDs.
Shoot the farmers. They are the enemy. Shoot enough of them and the rest might decide it's healthier to grow other crops.
Long piece in the LA Times that looks at the human price behind Saddam-era state archives in Iraq. Too bad the progressive crowd won't read this.
BAGHDAD Staring directly at the camera, Zahra Badri begins: "I have not had one good day in my life." Saddam Hussein's regime imprisoned and killed 23 of the Shiite woman's relatives, including her husband, her son and her pregnant daughter. To save two other sons, she kept them hidden inside her home for more than 20 years.
As Iraq is swept up in new bloodshed, a small team of archivists and videographers has begun the painstaking work of collecting, classifying and preserving evidence of such atrocities. Some of it is newly recorded, a cataloging of terrible memories, but much of it was documented in obsessive and chilling detail by Hussein's vast bureaucracy.
Each one of the more than 11 million yellowing pages and more than 600 hours of footage amassed by the Iraq Memory Foundation is witness to a family's pain, says its founder, Kanan Makiya, a longtime Iraqi exile in the United States and author of "Republic of Fear," the book that brought Hussein's savagery to international attention in 1989.
Many of those interviewed donate photographs and other personal mementos -- Badri gave the foundation her daughter's wedding dress.
Inspired by South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Makiya had hoped the material would be used to help Iraqis face their past, heal their wounds and make a fresh start after U.S.-led forces toppled Hussein in 2003. Instead, he watched as the country slid into a nightmarish cycle of revenge, and as the memories that were supposed to help reconcile a tortured people became the subject of bitter dispute.
"In essence, what we ended up doing was the truth part, but nobody did the reconciliation part," he said by phone from London, where he was visiting a foundation colleague. "That needed Iraqi politicians to lead it, and here . . . the new political class failed Iraq, as it has failed Iraq on so many levels."
Until Iraqis face the horrors in their past, he believes, they are doomed to repeat them. Every day, Baghdad streets yield another grim collection of corpses, many punctured with electric drills or seared with hot irons. They are victims of sectarian death squads linked to some of the largest groups in government and remnants of the former regime trying to claw their way back into power.
Much, much more, including personal statements, at the link.
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Salam al-Maliki, a leading figure in the Al-Sadr's trend, led by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and former transportation minister, has denied that Al-Sadr has anything to do with the murder of Shiite cleric Abdul-Majid Al-Khoei, former chief of the Imam al-Khoei Foundation in London, who was assassinated in al-Najaf in April 2003.
In reply to a remark made during an Asharq Al-Awsat interview with Ahmad Chalabi, leader of the National Congress, Al-Maliki said: "I totally rule out that Al-Sadr has anything to do with the murder of Abdul-Majid al-Khoei in al-Najaf." He pointed out that "the ramifications surrounding the murder of Al-Khoei are not clear because they coincided with the beginning of the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime and the entry of the US forces in Iraq. During that time, lawlessness and insecurity prevailed in the country."
In a telephone statement from his town of Basra to Asharq Al-Awsat, Al-Maliki said: "I rule out the possibility that Al-Sadr had any connection to the murder of Al-Khoei. What I know is that the people meant by the incident Haydaral-Ruyfay'i al-Klidar, official in charge of the Imam Ali's shrine in Al-Najaf, and that Al-Khoei was not targeted in the incident."
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Mookie's carbon footprint is entirely too large.
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accused "foreign parties, neighboring countries, enemies of the Shiaa sect, and Zionist forces
Took a lot of folks to bump him off. What about the vast, right-wing conspiracy? Didja forget them?
"the British forces defended only themselves, broke the laws, arrested people and raided their homes, creating an abnormal security situation in the city."
Defended themselves from who? Your "educated class"
Basra belongs to an educated class that has a high national consciousness free of religious or ethnic discrimination."
You have a communist party. How about a church or synagogue?
No wonder you're a "leading figure in the Al-Sadr's trend".
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The Shiite bloc that leads the Iraqi government urged the political movement of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Monday to reverse its decision to quit the bloc, saying national unity is at stake. We call on our brothers in the Sadr movement to review their decision, the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) said in statement.
We underline the need for unity between Iraqs political forces whether inside or outside the coalition, it said. Liwa Sumaysim, head of the political committee of the Sadr group, announced on Saturday that the movement was withdrawing its 32 MPs from the UIA, leaving Prime Minister Nuri al-Malikis coalition in control of only about half the seats in parliament.
The UIA said it had been astonished by the withdrawal as it came contrary to dialogue and discussions with them inside the alliance. The Shiite alliance, it added, had formed a committee to negotiate with the Sadr movement to try to persuade it to reverse its decision.
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The popularity of the Hamas militant group has fallen far behind rival Fatah, according to an opinion poll released Monday, and Palestinians were overwhelmingly opposed to the Islamic group's heavy-handed tactics in the Gaza Strip.
The poll, conducted by A-Najah University in the West Bank city of Nablus, was the latest sign of public discontent with Hamas following its violent takeover of Gaza in June, when its gunmen defeated pro-Fatah security forces. In the poll, 78 percent of respondents said they didn't approve of the practices of the Executive Force, the paramilitary Hamas force policing Gaza. Although Hamas leaders have said the Executive Force have returned law and order to chaotic Gaza, 65 percent of respondents said security was deteriorating in the strip. Just 21 percent said they believed Hamas is capable of governing the Gaza Strip.
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In other news, strichnine trails cyanide 70% to 30%.
Palestinian Authority Information Minister Riad al-Malki revealed Monday that the PA's security echelon has uncovered a Hamas plan to target the authority's facilities in the West Bank and has confiscated weapons the group was to use for its implementation, Israel Radio reported. Maliki denounced increased IDF action in the Gaza Strip, as well as "useless" firing of rockets into Israel in an announcement to the press following a government meeting in Ramallah.
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A federal appeals court panel has refused to reinstate a lawsuit brought against Caterpillar Inc. by the family of a 23-year-old American peace activist crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer.
The three judges from the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the lawsuit presented foreign policy questions best left to the White House.
She couldn't even get one vote with the Ninth Circus?
Rachel Corrie, of Olympia, Washington, was crushed in 2003 by a 54-ton Israeli bulldozer as she stood protecting a Paleo arms tunnel before a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip. Her parents, Cindy and Craig Corrie, sued Peoria, Illinois-based Caterpillar, which manufactured the bulldozer, seeking to hold the company civilly liable for aiding and abetting human rights violations - the destruction of arms tunnels civilian homes.
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I guess the Corrie's case has finally fallen flat.
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If these two loons couldn't get the loons on the ninth circuit to listen, they ain't going to get anyone to. The only way they're going to get attention for Rachel is to open a pancake house.
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What a load of crap. Plaintiffs would have to prove that Caterpillar's conduct was the proximate cause of St Pancake's death. And they would have to prove forseeability of the fact that a protester would jump in front of a working machine operator. In fact, an Oregon train engineer successfully sued a protester for the anguish that he suffered after running over his leg. That suit sounds cruel until you try to understand how the engineer actually felt.
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A federal appeals court panel has refused to reinstate a lawsuit brought against Caterpillar Inc. by the family of a 23-year-old American peacemurderactivist crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer.
There - fixed it for ya!
No charge - we believe in truth in news reporting....
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Rachel Corrie wasn't in Soudan helping those who really suffer. She was in the West Bank with those who dream of genocide. She was not better (in fact worse because they didn't knew what was happenning in Auschwitz) than the Jewe who enlisted in the ghetto police under the Nazis. A Jewish Nazi.
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Actually, I am surprised the suit failed. I wonder if they framed it wrong. All accounts I read said she was crushed because the operator could not see her - she was in a blind spot, which would be a design flaw, which would seem to expose Caterpillar to a liability claim, based on precedent of other liability cases (for other products).
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the Cats are enclosed/armored and modified by the evil Joooooos. You don't normally see armored Cats on construction sites...
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The D9 is so big that there are visibility problems with objects where the line of sight is blocked by the dozer itself. The bigness itself creates the problem.
Because of the visibility issue, in the US, spotters are, in urban and suburban areas, used to guide the work of the dozers. In Israel, the IDF had spotters to guide the dozers also; however, the spotters couldn't do their work because of Palestinian snipers.
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Caterpillar (CAT) up $1.29 (1.75%) as of 11:00 EDT this morning.
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It's not like she couldn't have got out of the way. There's no way Caterpillar can be at fault for Corrie's stupidity.
However, I'd like to point out that she was not crushed to death. I saw pictures of her (I think this was on LGF, but I was unable to find them) being taken into the hospital, and she was most certainly not "crushed". You can see a picture here (fifth photo) of Corrie after the incident (this site is one of her supporters).
There, it's reported that she's still alive and talking afterwards, and claims that her back is broken. I wouldn't be at all surprised if her friends' incompetent handling is what really killed her ("She says her back is broken! Be sure to move her spine around a lot!").
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The fact that a living Corrie, able to say whatever she wanted, would be a lot less useful to the PA than a dead "martyr" they could use as a sock-puppet might have had something to do with her "tragic death"...
Hamas leaders are looking nervously over their shoulders boosting their personal security over fears of assassination, the London-based Arabic-language newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi reported on Monday. "Hamas has boosted security around their leadership in the Gaza Strip due to fears that certain Palestinians will try to assassinate them," security sources in the organization told the paper.
Any chance those "certain Palestinians" are working on orders from Damascus?
According to the sources, security will be especially strengthened for deposed Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar, as well as the chairman of the Hamas block in the PA parliament and former PA Interior Minister, Sayid Seyam.
In a pamphlet, which was distributed by the group, Hamas warned that it would seriously harm anyone who assassinated their leaders. It called on its members to travel well protected and to take precautions.
Meanwhile, Hamas spokesman Salah Bardawil denied reports of a disagreement between Zahar and deposed PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. "These rumors are coming at a time when Israel is beginning to assassinate Hamas leaders," Bardawil said. "The meaning of these lying rumors are that Zahar and Haniyeh are at the top of a list of those being targeted by Israel for assassination."
Fatah-affiliated websites recently reported that a serious disagreement had erupted between the two Hamas leaders. According to one of the sites, Haniyeh had stopped leaving the Palestinian refugee camp in which he lives, out of fears that he would be attacked or murdered by men loyal to Zahar. The site quoted one source as saying that Haniyeh's house was constantly being guarded by armed security to prevent such an attack.
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Problem, LR is that the mobs have to be rioting, and otherwise actualy breaking the law first.
/moonbat-troofer
Being a disloyal, smelly freakazoid is still leagal, despite the best efforts of Chimpler McBushburton and his Rethug wingnutz.
/moonbat-troofer
During one of the marches on the Capitol last week, 1 freakazoid jumped the barriers and got body slammed, hard. The general reaction was "ehh... I'm too old to get arrested."
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Need to modify some FAE bombs to dowse the targets with BBQ sauce or melted butter before microwaving them.
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It is always difficult to spot the difference between bluster and genuine defiance. But Iran's response to the recent threats of war seems to mix real defiance with a degree, almost, of complacency.
There is a firm belief here in Tehran that the United States is simply not in a position to attack Iran.
"I don't think anyone in Iran has taken these threats seriously. They think that it's more rhetoric and for putting extra psychological pressure on Iran," says Sadegh Zibakalam of Tehran University.
As the newspaper Jomhuri-ye Islami put it on Monday morning: "Iranians are deeply aware of the fact that America is so busy in Iraq and Afghanistan that it cannot do anything against Iran."
"The US is simply trying to wage a psychological war against Iran... we must not show them that we have been frightened and we are going to back down", said Sadegh Zibakalam, Tehran University
Whether most Iranians truly believe that, it is impossible to tell.
But it is certainly the accepted wisdom among those close to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
It is repeated so often in the media - at least the media close to the leadership - it has become a cliche difficult to debate or question.
In fact President Ahmadinejad is increasingly confident there will not even be fresh UN sanctions over Iran's controversial nuclear programme. As he has put it several times recently: "The nuclear issue as a political issue is closed... the Iranian file is finished with."
The Iranian leadership believes the current warnings, from both Washington and Paris, are just psychological warfare. So the response has been to increase the volume in return.
At Friday prayers last week, Ayatollah Khamenei was particularly blunt. He accused US President George W Bush of being a war criminal, and said the US plans for the Middle East had been comprehensively defeated.
"As far as the president is concerned, as far as the supreme leader is concerned, the United States is simply trying to wage a psychological war against Iran and we must be strong enough, we must be resolute enough," said Dr Zibakalam.
"We must not show them that we have been frightened and we are going to back down."
Ayatollah Khamenei has told those around him that there are only two countries truly opposed to the Iranian nuclear programme: the United States and Great Britain. (Iran does not recognise the existence of Israel as a country.)
There even seems to be a belief that Washington can somehow be overwhelmed by international opinion.
So President Ahmadinejad is on a public relations campaign to convince the world of Iran's peaceful intentions - culminating in a visit to the UN General Assembly in New York this month.
An anti-war protest in Washington at the weekend was given major coverage in the Iranian press - all evidence for Tehran that US public opinion simply will not allow an attack on Iran.
It is certainly true that Washington faces a struggle to win approval for new UN sanctions against Iran. By agreeing to talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran has won the grudging support of Russia and China, at least for the moment.
Tehran says President Vladimir Putin of Russia is even going to visit Iran next month.
So the next two or three months could well be a time of plenty of talk, and little movement over Iran's nuclear programme.
But all the while, Washington's list of grievances against Tehran grows. Iran is blamed (or made a scapegoat) for violence in Iraq and Afghanistan. The idea that, given enough time, Washington will somehow forget about Iran is wishful thinking in the extreme.
The worrying thing is not just that Washington and Tehran disagree. More fundamentally, they completely misunderstand each others' intentions. And that is how wars start.
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At this point, I would say they are right. I don't think the west will do anything massive now. Maybe a raid, or pin-prick somewhere. Iran will really have to do more of a cassi belli than kill our soldiers with their weapons in Iraq.
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The Iranian street knows whats 'coming', one only needs to ask to see their cellars and pantrys. One year of water, flour, wheat,sugar and can goods being stocked. What's interesting about this, they'll then go out into the streets and demonstrate for the government to 'buck up' and defy the US!
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Once again - once again - our fifth column of traitor media, traitor academics and traitor celebrities almost guarantee war will be necessary; our ability to offer deterrence is so undermined by the near enemy.
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YNETNEWS > ISRAEL > MUST PREPARE FOR AN IRANIAN RESPONSE. Nutshell - Iran has history of retaliating vv Terror whenever Israel undertakes actions against Iran-controlled/suppor personages or groups. ALSO< IRAN > PLEDGED TO RESPOND AGZ ISRAEL IN CASE OF ANY ISRAELI ATTACK AGZ SYRIA. Wel-l-l, Israel has just attacked and bombed Syrian territory.
FWIW
Proof of cooperation between Iran and Syria in the development and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction was brought to light Monday in a Jane's Magazine report that dozens of Iranian engineers and 15 Syrian officers were killed in a July 23 accident in Syria.
According to the report, cited by Channel 10, the joint Syrian-Iranian team was attempting to mount a chemical warhead on a scud missile when the explosion occurred, spreading lethal chemical agents, including sarin nerve gas and VX gas.
The factory was created specifically for the purposes of altering ballistic missiles to carry chemical payloads, the magazine report claimed.
Reports of the accident were circulated at the time, however, no details were released by the Syrian government, and there were no hints of an Iranian connection.
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Looks like they put some bad stuff to good use.
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"Tis why Dubya is correct about dev GMD - by circa Year 2020-2030, many smaller or presently 3rd World Nations will have Nuclear-WMD arsenals in some form, legal or illegal.
Yeah, we may be able to deter Iran from using them. Directly. But the regime has stated that they are at the service of those who would undo the US. Which means to me that they will hand them one-off deniable nuclear material/bombs and wait to see what happens next. In my opinion, Abizaid isn't factoring this in, or he isn't giving it the weight he should be. Or maybe he is . . . .
Insurgency grew during his command. Is shrinking under Petraeus.
I respect the general but I think he's mistaken: once Iran has the bomb it will do two things. First is to mate it to a missile and use the threat of that to cow neighboring states to their well. Second is to work for the day they can hand it to their favorite group of terrorists with plausible deniability. Either outcome is really bad for us.
WASHINGTON - Every effort should be made to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, but failing that, the world could live with a nuclear-armed regime in Tehran, a recently retired commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Monday.
John Abizaid, the retired Army general who headed Central Command for nearly four years, said he was confident that if Iran gained nuclear arms, the United States could deter it from using them. "Iran is not a suicide nation," he said. "I mean, they may have some people in charge that don't appear to be rational, but I doubt that the Iranians intend to attack us with a nuclear weapon."
The Iranians are aware, he said, that the United States has a far superior military capability. "I believe that we have the power to deter Iran, should it become nuclear," he said, referring to the theory that Iran would not risk a catastrophic retaliatory strike by using a nuclear weapon against the United States. "There are ways to live with a nuclear Iran," Abizaid said in remarks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank. "Let's face it, we lived with a nuclear Soviet Union, we've lived with a nuclear China, and we're living with (other) nuclear powers as well."
None of whom were/are waiting for the twelfth imam to appear.
He stressed that he was expressing his personal opinion and that none of his remarks were based on his previous experience with U.S. contingency plans for potential military action against Iran.
Abizaid stressed the dangers of allowing more and more nations to build a nuclear arsenal. And while he said it is likely that Iran will make a technological breakthrough to obtain a nuclear bomb, "it's not inevitable."
Abizaid suggested military action to pre-empt Iran's nuclear ambitions might not be the wisest course. "War, in the state-to-state sense, in that part of the region would be devastating for everybody, and we should avoid it in my mind to every extent that we can," he said. "On the other hand, we can't allow the Iranians to continue to push in ways that are injurious to our vital interests."
So we should avoid war but shouldn't avoid war.
He suggested that many in Iran perhaps even some in the Tehran government are open to cooperating with the West. The thrust of his remarks was a call for patience in dealing with Iran, which President Bush early in his first term labeled one of the "axis of evil" nations, along with North Korea and Iraq. He said there is a basis for hope that Iran, over time, will move away from its current anti-Western stance.
Starting the day after the Mad Mullahs are deposed.
Abizaid's comments appeared to represent a more accommodating and hopeful stance toward Iran than prevails in the White House, which speaks frequently of the threat posed by Iran's nuclear ambitions. The administration says it seeks a diplomatic solution to complaints about Iran's alleged support for terrorism and its nuclear program, amid persistent rumors of preparations for a U.S. military strike.
Abizaid expressed confidence that the United States and the world community can manage the Iran problem. "I believe the United States, with our great military power, can contain Iran that the United States can deliver clear messages to the Iranians that makes it clear to them that while they may develop one or two nuclear weapons they'll never be able to compete with us in our true military might and power," he said.
Containment worked modestly well with the old Soviet Union because nearly the entire West was -- officially, at least -- signed on to it. It didn't work with Iraq because Germany, France, China and Russia wouldn't agree to continue sanctions. Why would anyone think containment work with Iran, given the situation is likely to be similar to Iraq? China and Russia have already made clear that they'll do business with the Mad Mullahs.
He described Iran's government as reckless, with ambitions to dominate the Middle East. "We need to press the international community as hard as we possibly can, and the Iranians, to cease and desist on the development of a nuclear weapon and we should not preclude any option that we may have to deal with it," he said. He then added his remark about finding ways to live with a nuclear-armed Iran.
And if none of that works, what then?
Abizaid made his remarks in response to questions from his audience after delivering remarks about the major strategic challenges in the Middle East and Central Asia the region in which he commanded U.S. forces from July 2003 until February 2007, when he was replaced by Adm. William Fallon.
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The difference between the previous strategy and the current one is the difference between starting your house with a magnificent roof versus building a solid foundation.
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Gen. Abizaid is no dummy. Of all the options presented to him at the time he was in charge and did pretty damn well.
Of course you couldn't tell from the MSM 24/7/365 HACK JOB on him and GWB but overall he took a track and pursued it well.
In Fact under his watch we made headway in secret talks with the Sunnis Tribes. Wasn't the Chubby Homocidal Maniac Zarqawi offed under his watch.
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Abizaid: "World could abide nuclear Iran"
CRITICAL PROBLEM:
If you are wrong General Abizaid, what then?
General Abizaid, "WE CAN LIVE WITH THAT."
OH Yea General Abizaid? What's this WE Shit?
I don't care so mutch about us old bastids General Abizaid..
How about my Children or my Children's Children? How about all of our Children? USA, EUrope, Israel...
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Okay, I'll bite, iff RUSSIA's panties are in a wad over spreading US-influence in its peripheries, what makes the Abhizaid think it will tolerate a Radical Iran wid nuke IRBMS, let alone ICBMS + TCMS, etc. *Lest we fergit, IRAN HAS ALREADY SAID OR INFERRED IT IS WILLING TO USE ANY AND ALL ARMED PROXY ORGS [read - Terror groups]UNDER ITS CONTROL TO STRIKE BACK AT THE US AND US INTERESTS - read, US Allies. Russia [and CHINA]knows the Islamist Sword/Bomb is aimed at it also, not just the USA-West.
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Sorry, AD, this is a very unimpressive display and as lotp notes, his tenure was not the highlight of our time in Iraq. What is even more frustrating is that Casey is CoS. Bright they may be, but victorious they weren't. And in war there is no substitute for victory.
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Sure, the world could live with a nuclear Iran.
And the world could live under shari'a law.
There's also a lot of people on this earth that will work extremely hard to make sure neither happens, even if it takes nuclear war. A nuclear Iran would be the single greatest strategic blunder of this new century. People like Abizaid who paint pictures of a world that countenances a nuclear Iran do nobody any good. It is tantamount to appeasement. Far better to continue working out strategies for crushing Tehran's mullahs than concede the battle before it is fought.
Six hundred Iranian Shihab-3 missiles are pointed at targets throughout Israel, and will be launched if either Iran or Syria are attacked, an Iranian website affiliated with the regime reported on Monday.
"Iran will shoot at Israel 600 missiles if it is attacked," the Iranian news website, Assar Iran, reported. "600 missiles will only be the first reaction." More like the last reaction, I think. There probably won't be too many more opportunities for a reaction left after the Israeli counter-strike
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Spook86 takes a look at Iran's claim of 600 Shihab-3's, and concludes it's a bit of an exaggeration...
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600 is not an exagerration of the number of Iranian missiles which can hit Israel - if you count the Kassams, etc. they've loaned to their Hizbully buddies in Lebanon.
EMP would only degrade a missile THAT HAD an electronic guidance system.
gorb, I believe Kassam's guidance systems are the sophisticated point and shoot variety. Immune to EMP.
/secrete intel:
HEZ_By_Diaper_Ahlla USES a piece of string,
gravity, a stick in the ground,
a bubble sealed in sum acient gum oil,
mucho spittle in the hand and a few SnackBars.
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Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad ordered on Monday reopening two border checkpoints with neighboring Lebanon. Vice President Farouk Al-Sharaa, addressing a visiting delegation of notables, political, economic and social figures from northern Lebanon, said Al-Assad odered the opening of Al-Arida and Al-Dabbousiah border points.
A statement issued by Al-Sharaa's bureau said the Lebanese delegation briefed him on their suffering that resulted from the recent fighting at Nahr Al-Bared that affected businesses and transportation in nearby regions. It said that Al-Assad ordered the opening the border gateway in response to an appeal by the delegation.
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Invoking the war in Iraq, the chief UN nuclear inspector criticized talk of attacking Iran as "hype" Monday, saying such options should only be considered as a last resort and only if authorized by the UN Security Council. "I would not talk about any use of force," said Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in an indirect response to French warnings that the world had to be prepared for the possibility of war in the event that Iran obtains atomic weapons.
Saying only the UN Security Council could authorize the use of force, ElBaradei urged the world to remember Iraq before considering any similar action against Teheran. "There are rules on how to use force, and I would hope that everybody would have gotten the lesson after the Iraq situation, where 700,000 innocent civilians have lost their lives on the suspicion that a country has nuclear weapons," he told reporters.
He was alluding to a key US argument for invading Iraq in 2003 without Security Council approval - that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear arms. Four years later, no such arsenals have been found.
ElBaradei, speaking outside a 144-nation meeting of his agency, urged both sides to back away from confrontation, in comments addressed both to Iran and the US-led group of nations pressing for new UN sanctions on Teheran for its refusal to end uranium enrichment. "We need to be cool," he told reporters, adding: "We need not to hype the issue".
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Will someone please push a slug into this terrorist tool?!?
#3
Had ElBaradei spent more time instilling the fear of God into the Iranians and the Norks after seeing his failure with Saddam, we'd probable have a better chance of half hearted compliance on their part by now. However on the other hand, his method and style of acquiescent obsolescence has triggered the acceleration the West needs, to meet the delimma headon!
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"There are rules on how to use force, and I would hope that everybody would have gotten the lesson after the Iraq situation, where 700,000 innocent civilians have lost their lives on the suspicion that a country has nuclear weapons," he told reporters."
Actions speak louder than words - so i am quite glad that someone (The Americans) decided to take action instead of sitting around at some table talking crap and not getting anywhere. Nukes or no nukes, Iraq's proven itself to be worthy of being attacked by foreign forces.
#6
Thats right Tarzan; Saddam had from 1991 to 2003 to 'come clean' with the UN, and "W" still gave him 48 hours to 'surrender' or leave Iraq! During all of this, where was Mohamed ElBaradei? Why didn't I hear an impassioned plea from him to Iraq to immediately comply to the sanctions? ElBaradei needs to be fired if he doesn't resign, and before the war break out with Iran; Elbaradei should go back to Egypt, hang his Nobel on the wall,eat his oatmeal and stay out of the 'west's hair', as he has nothing to offer but prevailing Islamic doctrine, and concern for his 'brethren'.
#7
I can understand his position. It would really put a crimp in his efforts to help the Iranians get nuclear weapons.
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Can anyone name a country that the UN has prevented from acquiring nukes? I thought not. The UN just gives cover to dictators the world over for anything they want to do.
He also should know better than to repeat the "700,000" civilian casualties BS.
FOAD.
#14
Kind of makes you wonder why his father left his beloved Lebanon to seek out a female 'WASP' in the good ole USA? The apple hasn't fallen to far from the tree...somebody please ask Abizaid, if he would consider returning to his family roots in Lebanon; a country soo warm and close and neighborly with Iran?
In the course of my readings I've come across the term of art "islamo-christian". To be labeled as such is not a compliment.
Said term of art gives me pause. Assuming Gen. Abizaid (ret.) was quoted accurately, I now have further cause for pause. Nothing Abizaid is said to have said in the article I read gives me an ounce of comfort.
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#8: "Can anyone name a country that the UN has wanted to prevented from acquiring nukes, except the U.S.? I thought not.
There - fixed that for ya', Spot.
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where 700,000 innocent civilians have lost their lives
Tarzan Uleamble6134, I believe the British medical journal The Lancet, whose editor has gone on marches against the U.S. invasion of Iraq, not long ago put total deaths due to the U.S. invasion and occupation at 65,000. The 700,00 figure has all the trustworthiness of well-ironed, wet toilet paper.
#18
Abazaid is not a crypto-Muslim or a traitor. His father, by the way, was a Chief Petty Officer in the US Navy.
He is open, however, to charges of having become a comfortably bureaucratic general rather than a warfighter.
Before Petraeus led the surge, he led the 101st in Mosul. Under his command, the city was both quiet and the attitude of the locals to US troops was reasonably good. Under his successor the damned place fell apart. Petraeus is a damned good leader, from what I've heard. Abazaid is smart, skilled in many ways, but maybe more of an intellectual that Petraeus (who's plenty smart and book learned too, but more action oriented).
Abazaid commanded via a desk for most of his career.
Israeli officials are treating Iran's latest claims that it has 600 Shihab-3 missiles aimed at targets throughout the country the same way it treated Teheran's claims last month to have crossed a key nuclear threshold: by listening carefully, but not believing everything they hear. "We don't believe all the Iranian rhetoric. I don't even think the average Iranian believes it," a senior official in the Prime Minister's Office said of the Monday claim. "We are not flippant and are watching carefully, but that doesn't mean we believe everything they say."
The official said that few in the world believed Iranian claims earlier this month that they had 3,000 centrifuges in place and running - a process that could produce enough enriched uranium for an atom bomb within a year. "They just want the world to believe that they have passed the point of no return, so that any further pressure would be useless," the official said.
Likewise, regarding the Shihab missiles, the official said the Iranians wanted to try and frighten the world away from thinking about possible military action.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a similar statement at a briefing with senior journalists from Israel's Russian-language media on Monday, saying that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was trying to frighten the world into thinking that it was "too late" to get the Iranians to stop their nuclear march. Olmert said Israel was not afraid of the situation in Iran: "We are concerned, but we don't have to lose our head."
Earlier Monday, an Iranian Web site affiliated with the regime reported that 600 Shihab-3 missiles were pointed at targets throughout Israel and would be launched if either Iran or Syria were attacked. "Iran will shoot 600 missiles at Israel if it is attacked," the Iranian news Web site, Assar Iran, reported, saying such a barrage would "only be the first reaction."
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The way I see it, Iranian "leaders" have already threatened destruction. The legal realm for action is wide open. They are apostates anyway.
#2
"We don't believe all the Iranian rhetoric. I don't even think the average Iranian believes it,"
This remains a huge mistake on the part of this world's non-Muslim population. These blowhard terrorist wankers need to be taken at their word. They must be held directly responsible for every little threat and menacing gesture made. There must be consequences for such maliciousness. By not punishing such acts we only encourage more of them.
Additionallyby not reactingwe cement our own image as a paper tiger and further embolden those who are so fond of saber-rattling. Some Muslim heads need to be blown off in midsentence before a few really big crowds to get this point across. Allowing such inflammatory rhetoric to go unrewarded only serves our enemey's ends and not our own.
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The 'Doomsday Scenario' Israel will launch after a 'Green Light' given by the Mossad,Shin Bet,The Shayetet, and Patriarchs of Jerusalem in an Above Top Secret meeting. Of the 200+ nuclear warheads Israel possesses; 20 of these LOG (Light Of GOD)weapons will be activated from hidden desert launch points, fighter jets, and submarines to subdue the enemy.
The trump card will be the US's position on 'taking the honor' (with the capacity); to preserve it's status as the only country in the history of the world to deploy and detonate such weapons against another country! This of course assumes that tactical nuclear bunker busters weren't used in Syria last week!
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Iran would be suicidal to launch 600 at Israel. They would have to cross over Iraq and risk US counter strikes/anti-missile launches. Plus Israel has counter-missile batteries around valuable targets. Oh sure, some missiles would get through and kill people in the countryside, but the Israeli rage would be so great that they would have to strike Iran hard and the US most likely would join in the fun.
Tehran's strong protest at the murder of son of a staff member in Iran's Embassy in Moscow
Iran's Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned the Russian Ambassador to Tehran Alexander Sadovnikov and informed him of Tehran's strong protest at the murder of son of a staff member in Iran's Embassy in Moscow. The Director General of the Commonwealth of Independent States Department at the Foreign Ministry Saffari said the Russian diplomat had been summoned to give explanations on attacks on Iranian citizens in Russia over recent years.
Ahmad-Reza Khorrami, a university student, was stabbed to death by unknown men near his house in the Russian capital
In the meeting, Iran sought Russia's judicial investigation into the issue and finding and punishing the culprits. Sadovnikov voiced deep regret over the incident and vowed to inform Moscow of the protest as soon as possible.
Ahmad-Reza Khorrami, a university student, was stabbed to death by unknown men near his house in the Russian capital.
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Sounds like some negotiating tactics between Putin and Ahmanidiot over terms on weapons deals.
A member of Israel's left-wing opposition on Monday demanded that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert brief lawmakers on a still unconfirmed air strike against Syria that has sparked rampant speculation.
Zehava Gal-On, an MP for the Meretz party, wrote to attorney general Menachem Mazuz in a letter, demanding that Olmert brief lawmakers on the incident in keeping with Israeli law. "In the light of foreign reports on an Israeli air attack in Syria, and the total blackout in Israel on whether anything happened or not, I ask you to make the prime minister face his obligations decreed by law," she wrote.
She said Israel's basic law stipulated that the prime minister has a duty to inform parliament's defence and foreign affairs committee or one of its deputy bodies on any extraordinary military operation. "It is not possible that under the basic law and the basic principles of democracy, parliament cannot supervise beyond border military operations," the lawmaker wrote.
On Sunday, military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin boasted that Israel had recovered its "deterrent capability" in reportedly alluding to the strike.
Damascus said that its air defences fired on Israeli warplanes which dropped munitions on its territory on September 6, and has protested to the UN Security Council. Israeli officials have kept up a wall of silence over the incident. Foreign media reports have speculated that Israel bombed weapons paid for by Iran and destined for Lebanon's Hezbollah militia, or that the incident was related to a suspected nuclear shipment from communist North Korea to Syria.
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What are you? Democrats?
This is disgusting. Meretz would not know law even if it were flashing right before her. Which it is right now.
What a foolish party.
Let the grownups run this girl, you are way outclassed.
#3
The question at this point in time, is whether Israel would confirm or deny the use of 'mini' tactical nuclear bunker busters, in the successful operation in the Syrian desert. Assuming they were used, The Israeli military has no compelling strategic advantage of overtly 'admitting' this, unless the preponderance of the independent evidence weighted for it's admission. Iran would know by now from Russian intelligence (satellite, remote sensing, fallout dispersion etc), that the method was utilized, and may factor into why Tehran did not come rushing the 'calvary over the hill' in Syria's defense!
Assuming some type of 'dial a yield' device was deployed, and it's penetrator reached sufficient depth to explode into an arc dome below the surface, the "Big Hole In The Desert" could be the aftermath of the collapse, containing the fallout to a minimum. I'm still researching whether 'other nation' reports on seismic activity spiked during that time slot that night. In any event, with this 'message' being sent to Iran, Israel has no prevailing duty to reveal its "deterrent capability" to it's enemies, despite Zehava Gal-On's demands!!
Irans military has the capacity to strike American interests in the Middle East to a range of 2,000 kilometres, a top general in the elite Revolutionary Guards warned on Monday. Today the Americans are around our country but this does not mean that they are encircling us. They are encircled themselves and are within our range, General Mohammad Hassan Koussechi told the official IRNA news agency. If the United States is saying that they have identified 2,000 targets in Iran, then what is certain is that it is the Americans who are all around Iran and are equally our targets. Today... we have reached capacities that allow us to hit the enemy at a range of 2,000 kilometres, added Koussechi.
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But will the Iranians take escalating destruction? They will turn on the Ayatollahs.
#4
I spat up parts of my cup of coffee pondering how "W" would react to just one direct hit and sinking of an Aircraft Carrier by a shahab losing all 6,000 men! I didn't want to go there.
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Sorry, I stand corrected; I have been informed that it is virtually impossible for a shahab to sink a carrier even with a direct hit, and that no US carrier has ever been sunk in war! Still, my thought of "W"'s allowing his Admirals and Generals to 'remedy' the situation is still frightening!!
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There hasn't been a US carrier sunk by enemy action since USS Bismarck Sea in February of 1945 -- and that was an escort carrier. The last fleet carrier lost to enemy action was Hornet in 1942.
The Shahab is an improved Scud (which is, itself, not much more advanced than a V-2). I can't imagine you could hit a moving target with one.
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Shahabs are ballistic missiles without the targeting capability to hit a carrier. The real threat to ships is Chinese Silkworm anti-ship missiles from Iranian small boats.
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A word to the Iranians: If your enemy is in range, so are you!
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And we have recently sunk 2 carriers all by ourselves: the Oriskany off the coast of Florida to become an artifical reef ( filmed by the Discoery channel with some really neat 'hangarcam shots filling with water) and the America; somewhere off the East Coast in an effort to understand the damage a carrier to take. The location and results, to my knowledge, are very tightly controlled (for obvious reasons)
#13
"Now that they've got us right where we want them."
Jeez, Is everyone a "Bhagdad Bob" in the muzzie mideast?
Yes, and it is a severe failing of the West that we do not routinely expose the abject lies of their rhetoric. These spittle spewers continually inflame the public thereby entrenching completely false perceptions and expectations. I doubt few Muslims comprehend the immense danger their leadership steers them towards. We need to detonate a few nuclear devices in unoccupied areas to make this point. Remember the photo of KSM, all dishevelled and ill-shorn? That is the sort of demeaning and humiliating treatment Islamic figureheads must be given at every turn.
When Ahmadinejad says "they will never strike Iranian soil", lob in a cruise missile later that afternoon to falsify his blather. The West has absolutely ZERO concept of how potent propaganda is in high context Muslim cultures. Think WWII Japan.
#14
In the propaganda area maybe Russia's big fuel air bombs make sense. One blown up in the desert but visible from either Qom or Tehran would require lots of face saving by NutJob.
Something close enough that it lights up the night.
Maybe even a couple at high altitude. Visible but too high for much if any damage. Deny everything - suggest meteors. Mumble about Allan being upset.
Or, release some barium in the upper atm. over Iran and play video on it with some major lasers...
Start with a US Marines ad and work it from there.
#15
If only PsyOps would hire Zenster and 3dc as planning consultants! (I can imagine every single telephone and computer going off at once, with the message, "The Twelfth Imam wants you to go out into the street and prostrate yourself NOW!")
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Sweden's "political jujitsu" may yet prevent uproar among Muslims over a Swedish cartoonist's drawing of a dog with the head of the Prophet Mohammad despite an al Qaeda threat at the weekend. Security experts said conciliatory steps by the government and Swedish Muslim leaders were directed at preventing a rerun of the anger that swept the Middle East last year over a similar incident in Denmark. Islam forbids images of the Prophet and deems dogs unclean.
Algerias ambassador to Sweden on Monday condemned death threats from Al Qaeda in Iraq against a Swedish artist who drew a blasphemous cartoon of the Holy Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) and a newspaper editor who published it. I vehemently condemn this kind of practice ... Islam has nothing to do with this, by any means, Merzak Bedjaoui told AFP. 
After three terrorism cases in less than two years, including an alleged bombing plot broken up this month, intelligence officials say Denmark is on the front line in the battle against terrorism in Europe, says a report published in The New York Times on Monday. Even though weve prevented one terrorist attack, we know that there are still people in Denmark and abroad that have the capacity, the will and the ability to carry out terrorist attacks in Denmark, the newspaper quotes Jakob Scharf, the head of Danish intelligence, as saying. According to the report, Scharf was referring to predawn raids on Sept 4 that resulted in the arrests of eight suspects, two of whom are still in custody on terrorism charges and are accused of planning a bombing attack. 
Police have told Swedish artist Lars Vilks that it is not safe for him to remain at his home in southern Sweden following threats on his life from an al-Qaeda front organization in Iraq. 
Bush threw an unexpected change-up in his announcement this morning. Towards the end of his remarks about his nomination of Michael Mukasey as attorney general, he also said that outgoing Justice Department official Peter Keisler would serve as the acting attorney general until Mukasey is confirmed. 
As many as 129 personnel of Pakistan Army, Frontier Constabulary and 56 police were killed in 22 suicide attacks in nine months since January 2007.
A federal appeals court panel has refused to reinstate a lawsuit brought against Caterpillar Inc. by the family of a 23-year-old American peace activist crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer. 
Hamas leaders are 
Irans military has the capacity to strike American interests in the Middle East to a range of 2,000 kilometres, a top general in the elite Revolutionary Guards warned on Monday. Today the Americans are around our country but this does not mean that they are encircling us. They are encircled themselves and are within our range, General Mohammad Hassan Koussechi told the official IRNA news agency. If the United States is saying that they have identified 2,000 targets in Iran, then what is certain is that it is the Americans who are all around Iran and are equally our targets. Today... we have reached capacities that allow us to hit the enemy at a range of 2,000 kilometres, added Koussechi.
