The al-Qaeda production organization, as-Sahab, issued yesterday, May 30, 2006, a 3:28 minute video in the series of the Pyre for Americans in Kharasan [Afghanistan], featuring a joint operation from March 2006 by the mujahideen of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan on American forces at an airport in Khost. Seen in the video are mujahideen traveling to the site of the rocket launching, one man holding a GPS device, in a vehicle loaded with rocket units. They are then seen walking along mountainous terrain and measuring the angle and trajectory of the rocket at night. This is followed by its launching.
For the attack on Khost airport, used by American forces in the Afghan province of Bektika, a man in the video holding the GPS device states: Thank God we have in the jihad places the apparatus of GPS. It is very accurate in finding out the distances and the direction of the enemy and we were launching rockets at Khost airport and it was very accurate.
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PUTRAJAYA: An objection from Pakistan has prevented the Non-aligned Movement (NAM) from throwing its full support behind Afghanistans efforts to prevent former Taliban from taking refuge in neighbouring countries.
Gee. Golly. Gosh. Shucks. I wonder why?
The foreign ministers of NAM member countries, meeting in Malaysia for an annual conference on Tuesday, wanted their final declaration to urge governments to curtail the movements of ex-Taliban members, Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said. But Pakistan objected and the relevant paragraph was included in parentheses, meaning it is subject to revision.
"Nope. Nope. Can't have any of that. Nope. Wouldn't do, y'know..."
Afghanistan, supported by India, pushed hard for the paragraph to be included without the brackets but was overruled by Malaysia, the chairman of the meeting, diplomats said. The language, while it is acceptable to Afghanistan and India, it is not acceptable to Pakistan, Albar told reporters on Tuesday.
It wouldn't be. It was directed against Pakistan. They weren't talking about Kyrgyzstan or Mongolia or Samoa.
This is quite normal. We have included the language and bracketed it. There is no final decision, he said, adding that it would be further discussed at the NAM leaders summit in Havana, Cuba in September.
Where it can be put off for discussion at a later date, say, two weeks after the Last Trumpet.
The paragraph reads that NAM ministers urge states to refrain from extending support, protection and shelter to former Taliban cadres, recognising that failure to do so would seriously undermine efforts by the international community to combat terrorism, and expressing concern that terrorist groups were regrouping in the southern and eastern parts of Afghanistan. It was not clear why Pakistan objected to the paragraph.
This is the place where we're all supposed to scatch our heads and wonder why.
Calls to the hotel room of the Pakistani delegation head went unanswered.
"Thissee maid! Dey no here!"
An Indian diplomat said the paragraph was in line with existing UN Security Council resolutions on curtailing the activities of the Taliban. It is a question of concern to the international community, not just to India, said the diplomat. NAM declarations generally urge member states to follow a course of action, but are not legally binding. The Foreign Office said NAM had reiterated its support to the right of self-determination. Self-determination is a fundamental principle at NAM and the organisation has again reaffirmed its support to the self-determination struggles across the world, FO spokeswoman Tasneem Aslam told PTV over the phone from Putrajaya.
Including, apparently, Pakistan's right to self-determination in Afghanistan.
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June 1, 2006: Islamic Courts militia continue to push back warlord gunmen in Mogadishu. In three months of fighting, there have been over 2,000 casualties, including over 400 dead. Over half of those losses occurred in the last three weeks because of the Mogadishu fighting. A coalition of warlords, calling themselves the Alliance for Restoration of Peace and Counter Terrorism (ARPCT) are losing their war with the Islamic Courts. The reason is simple.
The Islamic Courts (actually a coalition of eleven militias led by clerics or religiously inclined clan leaders) are more motivated, and more numerous. The Islamic Courts movement has been around for twelve years, and has grown slowly. The Islamic Courts leaders are still rapacious warlords, but they observe Islamic law (Sharia), well more or less. The bottom line is that life is easier in an area controlled by an Islamic Courts militia. For that reason, the growing number of successful businessmen in Somalia, have hooked up with an Islamic Courts militia for protection (for which they pay). At least with the Islamic Courts, when a businessman pays, he is more likely to get what he paid for.
On the down side, the Islamic Courts back Islamic terrorism, al Qaeda and restrictive Islamic customs. There are several known al Qaeda leaders hiding out in Somalia. And there are dozens of foreigners (Arabs and Pakistanis) fighting for the Islamic Courts, and who appear to be there as al Qaeda trainees. The Islamic Courts are another Taliban, although they officially deny it. But many Somalis realize that, if the Islamic Courts take over, and they provide a safe base for al Qaeda, the Americans will return.
Somalis know what happened in Afghanistan, and they know what really happened in Mogadishu in 1993 (a few hundred surrounded American Rangers killed over 500 Somali gunmen, wounded many more, while taking fewer than a hundred casualties themselves). While CNN declared this an American defeat, the Somalis know better. They don't want to see American Rangers again. But because Somali politics is based on clan politics, much mutual distrust and a chronic inability to work together, the Somali Taliban, and the American Rangers, may both show up and do what they are meant to do.
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The battle of Mog. I think less than 20 Americans were killed and the Somali wounded overflowed every hospital in the city. Who knows how many dead.
The Malaysians came out looking like asses for refusing to help with their armor.
The Saudi's actually helped by sticking their necks out to condem the Somali rioters for abusing the bodies of the dead as Un-Islamic.
The original 30-parts article, great read, made me buy the book; for thoses who can read french, read this pdf for an engagement of french troops (mix of professionals and volunteer draftees) in somalia at about the same time, much less spectacular, but pretty one-sided too.
TRIPOLI - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi assailed Nigeria on Thursday for handing over former Liberian President Charles Taylor for trial, saying the move set an unacceptable precedent that threatened all African leaders.
"Gentlemen, we've got to protect our phoney baloney jobs!"
Nigeria deported Taylor on March 29 to Liberia, which promptly sent him on to Sierra Leone where he awaits trial on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for backing rebels during Sierra Leones 1991-2001 civil war. The United Nations is seeking to move the trial to the International Criminal Court in the Hague amid security fears, but the process has been stalled as no third country has yet volunteered to act as Taylors jailer if he is convicted.
Gaddafi said handing Taylor to the ICC would undermine Africas credibility and seriously harm Nigeria, which could no longer be considered a haven. This also means that every (African) head of state could meet a similar fate -- this sets a serious precedent, he said.
Yes, doesn't it?
Gaddafi has sought a leading role in African disputes, trying to mediate a peace deal in Darfur and sooth tensions between Sudan and Chad, and each time fiercely opposing outside intervention in the continents affairs.
He's a great African leader this year.
Taylor must stay in Nigeria without facing any trial and without being handed over to any tribunal because there is absolutely no right for that, the Libyan leader said. When I talk about Taylor I might not agree with his policies but a principle should be applied, he added.
"That could be my neck in the noose someday!"
Gaddafi was addressing a gathering of heads of state of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States, including Liberias new President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who supports moving Taylors trial to the Hague.
Nigeria had given Taylor asylum in 2003 as part of a deal to end Liberias own 14-year civil war. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo later came under intense international pressure to deport Taylor to Sierra Leone to stand trial, but he insisted he would only hand over Taylor to an elected Liberian government if it made such a request.
He never expected that to happen
Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberias first elected postwar president, asked Obasanjo in early March to hand over Taylor, but she wanted him sent to Sierra Leone. Nigeria and Liberia were at odds over what to do with Taylor for several weeks. At the time, human rights activists accused Nigeria of prevaricating, precisely because Obasanjo was reluctant to set a precedent of sending an African head of state to face trial.
SEE: neck, noose
In the end, Taylor escaped from his asylum residence in southern Nigeria, in circumstances that have never been explained by the Nigerian authorities, and was captured the following day trying to cross into Cameroon.
"..and I would have made it too, if it wasn't for those damm kids!"
Only then did Nigeria fly him to Liberia, where U.N. forces immediately transferred him to Sierra Leone.
Taylor led an uprising in Liberia in 1989 that turned into a civil war that spilled across borders, killed a quarter of a million people and spawned a generation of child soldiers. Libya backed Taylor and supplied his forces with arms during the 1980s after he escaped from a jail in the United States. But since then the North African country has abandoned support for revolutionary movements and mended relations with the United States, which restored full diplomatic relations with Libya this month.
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CAIRO - Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has ruled out any formal recognition for the banned Muslim Brotherhood opposition movement as an authorised political party. If you ask my opinion regarding the authorisation of religious-based parties, I would say no, he told independent daily Al Masri Al Yom.
"Nope, nope, can't do it, nope ..."
The thorny issue has resurfaced since the Islamist movement, which is officially banned but tolerated, scored a major triumph in last years parliamentary election. The Muslim Brotherhood, whose candidates stood as independents under the slogan Islam is the solution, won 88 out of the 454 seats in parliament, making it the largest opposition bloc. During the November-December election, more than 1,300 Muslim Brotherhood members were rounded up and imprisoned, but most were later released.
But Nazif insisted: There is no such thing called the Muslim Brotherhood. There is no parliamentary group of Muslim Brothers.
Denial is more than a river in your country, pal ...
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Chechnya's separatist leadership announced changes to its political structure this week (May 29), naming Akhmed Zakayev as the underground government's new foreign minister. Zakayev, who has been granted political asylum in Britain, previously served as culture minister before being dismissed earlier this year. In an exclusive telephone interview with RFE/RL, Zakayev discusses his new responsibilities as well as ongoing efforts to find a peaceful solution to the Chechen conflict.
RFE/RL: What responsibilities will you have as the new foreign minister?
Akhmed Zakayev: "My responsibilities and the work I am doing will remain the same. They are not changing and cannot be changed. The president (Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev) and the (eds: separatist) government have developed a solid strategy, according to which all work done abroad will be coordinated by one agency. The other ministries and especially the heads of the ministries will have to stay in the country (Chechnya). They will observe the situation in the front lines and will control it on the ground."
RFE/RL: Will you continue looking for peaceful solutions to the Chechen conflict?
Zakayev: "I am deeply convinced that the Chechen conflict, and a conflict in the Northern Caucasus overall, can be solved only through peaceful negotiations. We will continue to seek peace and I am sure there is no other way out. I think that the Russian authorities also clearly understand this, and that there are more and more people in Russia who seek a peaceful solution. I know that officials of the Russian government discuss this problem, not to mention nongovernmental organizations."
RFE/RL: Is your position toward reaching a peaceful settlement changing?
Zakayev: "At the very beginning of the war, (former Chechen President) Aslan Maskhadov suggested that the problems had to be solved through negotiations. Our attitude has not changed since then. The current president of Chechnya, Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev, supports this course. He has stressed several times that we are not against peace and accord. The only thing is that we will not ask for them (negotiations) again. If the opponents decide to use political methods to solve this problem, we will of course support that decision. We will also continue working with nongovernmental organizations and will do all we can in this regard."
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"I am deeply convinced that the Chechen conflict, and a conflict in the Northern Caucasus overall, can be solved only through peaceful negotiations. We will continue to seek peace and I am sure there is no other way out"
North Korea on Wednesday accused the United States of conducting more than 170 aerial spy missions over the communist state in May as part of preparations for war, state media said. The Korean Central News Agency said US reconnaissance planes, including U-2s, E-3, EP-3, RC-12 and RC-7B, flew "in war exercises" to spy on military targets in North Korea.
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Only 170!?! Lazy ass bastards. Get to work! I want 300 by the end of next month!!
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Interesting, they've still not discovered those hidden, solar powered transmitters on the AGER-2. January 23rd will be 38 years of virtually uninterrupted signals collection. Satellites and air-breathers can't get it all. Thank God for the United States Navy.
The last U2 Spy Plane and TR-1 aircraft were delivered to the Air Force in October 1989. In 1992 all TR-1s and U2 Spy Planes were designated U-2Rs. All U-2R models have since completed engine replacement and are designated as a U-2S/TU-2S. U2 Spy Planes are based at the 9th Reconnaissance Wing, Beale Air Force Base, Calif., and support national and tactical collection requirements from various operational detachments located worldwide.
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News this AM says the USA-Japan believe NK will test-fire its new missle anyday now, to which US and Allied recce will be watching.
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"...Standing before a receptive audience at Imax, she called on Muslims to stand up and speak out against the perversion of their faith by violent fanatics. That, of course, is the true remedy for radical Islamic terrorism."
Or maybe the true remedy is for Muslims to leave Islam. At the very least, the Winnipeg movie reviewer should have thought of this.
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The only radical Muslims that I know of, are people like Salman Rushdie and Ayaan Harsi Ali.
The so called "extremists" are perfectly conservative Muslims (until a generation ago, they simply didn't have the means to practice traditional Islam).
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Sorry I had my wake-up call in 1979. The nightmare continued with the Beirut bombing, embassy bombings, Somalia, 911, Burnahm kidnapping, Sobrerro beheading, Afghanistan, Iraq, soon to be Iran, etc... Their actions over the last 25 years makes Stalin look like a liberal. Why do I advocate nuking Iran? This article really sums it up well, they will only stop when western civ is destroyed or under Muzzie rule. Argg!! I'm goin to the O club for a drink!
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Or maybe the true remedy is for Muslims to leave Islam. At the very least, the Winnipeg movie reviewer should have thought of this.
I agree, of course, but for some muslims Islam is little more than a set of cultural practices. People like this Egyptian woman are as much on the side of West as the true apostates.
U.S. troops should be withdrawn from Iraq in no more than six months, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s children should be dispatched as U.S. emissaries to war-torn Sudan, U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer said Tuesday.
Boxer, D-Calif., also said she believes Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., should have paid for boxing tickets he accepted free from the Nevada Athletic Commission as it tried to influence his legislation on federal regulation of the sport.
Boxer in a news conference on her Iraq and Darfur initiatives at the Golden Gate Bridge Toll Plaza administration building said she does not believe Reid's acceptance of free ringside tickets rises to the level of corruption seen among certain Republican lawmakers in recent months, but it could have created an appearance of impropriety.
"If I were him I would just write a check" for the tickets, she said, adding she has done the same when receiving gifts that otherwise might seem aimed at winning her legislative support. "I don't want anyone to think it might."
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The Republicans have shown they will govern badly, and yet they will likely retain their majority because the Democrats take every opportunity to demonstrate they have no idea how to govern at all.
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Here have some Crank Babs. Your are doing really good now. Keep it up.
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And I want to marry a super model.
Neither one's gonna happen.
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"U.S. troops should be withdrawn from Iraq in no more than six months, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s children should be dispatched as U.S. emissaries to war-torn Sudan, U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer said Tuesday."
If stupidity had mass, Barbara Boxer would have collapsed eons ago into a supermassive, galaxy-swallowing Black Hole, an ultradense gravitational singularity from which no intelligent thought can ever escape.
Has this dimwitted bitch given ANY thought whatsoever to the consequences of the actions she proposes? I can't imagine a better way to convince the entire world that Osama bin Laden was absolutely right about us: that we are weak, fickle, frivolous, have no stomach for a long fight, and if you merely harrass us enough for long enough, we WILL eventually talk ourselves into giving up and going home.
Damn idiot liberals... crap like this makes me wonder, in all seriousness, whether we have any hope of winning this war so long as these assholes are allowed to run around loose.
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Right after Germany, Japan, and South Korea cause we know you don't want to be called 'rascist' by considering the poor little o'brown people unworthy of similar concerns for their security.
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If stupidity had mass, Barbara Boxer would have collapsed eons ago into a supermassive, galaxy-swallowing Black Hole, an ultradense gravitational singularity from which no intelligent thought can ever escape.
Coffee alert on comment6. Hay Steve you should warn us first! That has made my day!
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Woops! DAVE!
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LOL... thanks, 39 Pan! We aims to please...
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Yeah. That worked so well in Vietnam. The Donks are trying very, very, hard to make Iraq into another Vietnam.
Of course she knows full well what will happen after we pull out. Just as Kerry, Cronkite, and the others probably knew full well what would happen to people if we pulled out of Vietnam.
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Her Bozone is very strong. The Bozone is defined as the space surrounding a stupid person, more like a force-field, through which no intelligent thought can either enter or leave
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Hey Barb, in the inimitable words of a poster seen recently on Rantburg: "Jesus loves you...but I think you're a C*nt".
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"If stupidity had mass, Barbara Boxer would have collapsed eons ago into a supermassive, galaxy-swallowing Black Hole, an ultradense gravitational singularity from which no intelligent thought can ever escape." Dave, I LOVE IT! The only problem is that it wont fit on a bumber sticker.
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If any of you had the fortune to catch her on CSPAN2 - she was on the senate committee that questioned the FDC on high oil prices and gouging - it was a hoot. I've never seen such an argumentative and unprofessional display of peacocking in all my life. Up to then I had only heard of her idiocies by secondhand accounts - it was a real eye opener to see it on national t.v.
At the end of the session the president of the committee (the name escapes me - some old Repub senator from Alaska) had to tell her to shut up because she kept badgering the FDC reps w/redundancies and plus she was over her time limit.
The really crazy thing though is that somewhere out there somebody is hitting that.
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"The Bozone is defined as the space surrounding a stupid person, more like a force-field, through which no intelligent thought can either enter or leave."
And if you get enough of them friggin' dimbulbs all together in the same place at the same time it causes the space-time continuum to distort into an aberration called the bozosphere. The bozosphere is plagued by a dense flux of lightweight, witless subatomic particles called bozons, though there's plenty of morons as well.
Every now and then a bozon or moron will escape the force field of the bozosphere and show up here in Rantburg, where they become Chew Toys.
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Azhar Usman, a burly American-born Muslim with a heavy black beard, says he elicits an almost universal reaction when he boards an airplane at any United States airport: conversations stop in midsentence and the look in the eyes of his fellow passengers says, "We're all going to die!"
For Ahmed Ahmed, a comedian, it is even worse. His double-barreled name matches an occasional alias used by a henchman of Osama bin Laden. "It's a bad time to be named Ahmed right now," he riffs in his stand-up routine, before describing being hauled through the Las Vegas airport in handcuffs.
Taleb Salhab and his wife say they too were dragged away in handcuffs at the border crossing in Port Huron, Mich., as their two preschool daughters wailed in the back seat of their car. The Salhabs were discharged after four hours of questioning, with no explanation from customs officers.
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4 planes full of people crashed, 3000 people died a horrible death. wha, wha, f'n wah Azhar. Deal with it. An entire nation has had to be searched, delayed, frightened and jeopardized. We don't care about your discomfort. We care about our own.
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People could be more courteous about it anyway. And apologize when they're finished and make sure they get where they're going as efficiently as is reasonably possible. And the people who get inconvenienced have to be mature about it. But ya gotta do what ya gotta do, and ya gotta make sure people who fit the profile get checked out unless you want to make every fifth person in the US a security guard so you can check out everybody equally. Duh. This Political Correctness can't go on forever if it starts impacting productivity and the economy. Admit it now or admit it later, as long as you act it now. I'd love for someone to solve this so that all parties are 100% happy (except the bad guys, of course!) but until someone offers a solution instead of just whining about it all the time, I don't know what else can be done. Perhaps eventually we will have to check everyone out, but that's not so necessary yet.
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Mister Usman isn't seeing "We're all going to die!" in my eyes. He's seeing "You're all going to die!" Just wanted to clear that up.
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Can someone post a link to all the German Americans bitching about the way they were treated in 1918? Because it was a lot worse than this. And they were actually a plurality of Americans. But they knew the old country had screwed up and they fought against it. I don't have the sense that the same thing is happening now, with a few exceptions.
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I'll take them seriously when they get out on the streets demonstrating in favor of secure identities. Until then, this is just, I'm a victim, posturing.
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Still, traveling makes many Muslim Americans feel like second-class citizens. Mr. Ahmed, the comedian, often travels wearing a T-shirt that says "Got rights?"
Maybe Mr. Ahmed might consider wearing a flashing red light on his head that says "Search me".
Once again, the New York Times with it's finger on the pulse of American public opinion...
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Here's an idea: travel on back to the Muslim hellhole you crawled out of--and stay there. That way you won't be inconvenienced by Americans trying to make sure no more of your coreligionists commit mass murder. No one will miss you, I promise. Hey, when you get back there, please tell all the homeys how bad the U.S. is. We'd like word to get around so we don't get any more scumbags like you coming our way.
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When we start treating them like we did the Japanese-Americans during WW2, then they'll have the right to bitch.
Until that day arrives, I'm honestly not broken up over this at all.
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"Middle Easterners are just as scared of Al Qaeda as everybody else, but we also have to be worried about being profiled as Al Qaeda. It's a double whammy."
For those few who DO speak out against terrorists, you deserve a lot of credit. But the "umma" needs to work a LOT harder on its friends and relatives. These are YOUR folks. You have the obligation to confront them, to name it, to fight this against Islamic-based terror, even if you're scared.
phil, you have it right-let's see the majority of US Muslims demonstrating, stop remaining mute for the benefit of terrorists, stop equivocating about the horror of violence when used to further the goals of the Islamic world. They want to blend into the American landscape? Fine-let more speak up in support of this WoT-in their mosques and in our midst. Walk the talk.
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One thing to remember in all this discourse is that American Muslims are American citizens. American Jews are American citizens, Menonites, Catholics, etc. I think we need to get this right and remember what we as a nation stand for and why we have a Bill of Rights. BTW, Atta and the rest of his crew didn't sport beards, etc., so lets get a hold of our prejudices and figure out a smart way to ensure our security without doping someone up becasue of their religion. Would we Muslims sew a cresent on their clothes so we'd know who "they are" -- seemed to work well in the 30s and 40s.
Terrorist aren't dumb and if we let our prejudices lead us in figuring out who the bad guys are, we'll let in the clean shaven, blue jean wearing terrorists. Read their literature -- they've figured it out -- we better too.
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Those Muslims are American citizens, that's right. There are responsibilities along with rights in citizenship, including that old, out-of-fashion "loyalty to one's country first" concept. Loyalty to the umma first is going to result in a lot of dead non-Muslim Americans, if we don't keep our senses about us. No one is saying we should sew anything on anybody's clothes. I am suggesting a stronger effort on the part of American Muslims to take this terrorist bull by the horns. They've got some heavy lifting to do-as American Muslim citizens.
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A-Friggin-men, Jules. Quityer bitching. The next Islamist attack on teh US and things now will look like "Happy Days" with Potsie and Ralph Malph. Things will be unpleasant, and the "moderates" better keep that tipline phone number handy
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed Thursday to send the California National Guard to the Mexican border, ending a 17-day standoff with the Bush administration, a Schwarzenegger spokesman said.
The two sides had been at odds over whether California Guardsmen would join the effort to bolster the Border Patrol and who would pay for it. It's a Federal responsibility and one they've neglected
They reached an agreement under which California will contribute about 1,000 Guardsmen and the federal government will pick up the full cost, said Schwarzenegger spokesman Adam Mendelsohn.
All together, President Bush has proposed to send 6,000 National Guardsmen to the U.S. border with Mexico. The overall cost of the multiyear deployment has been put at more than $1 billion.
"This allows us to participate in the plan to secure the nation's border while also addressing the concerns the governor had raised," Mendelsohn said. Don't do it just for show, either. Allow them to defend themselves and make arrests
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New York State Democrats who nominated Hillary Clinton to run for a second Senate term on Wednesday closed out their convention by passing a resolution calling the war in Iraq "illegal."
Though media reports insist that Mrs. Clinton remains supportive of the war, Democrats gathered in Buffalo this week were seething with anti-war fever. Even New York party chairman Herman 'Denny' Farrell felt compelled to reaffirm his opposition, insisting: "Everybody's been against the war. The question is what do you do to get out of the war."
And while Mrs. Clinton's operatives were successful in beating back a challenge from anti-war candidate Jonathan Tasini, they were unable to suppress support for Tasini's position, with the Albany Times Union reporting:
"In the end, the Democrats unanimously agreed to a resolution just before the convention broke. It states the nation went to war 'illegally' and calls for the end of offensive action and the withdrawal of forces 'at the earliest practical date.'"
New York Democrats have long been unhappy with Mrs. Clinton's vote to authorize the Iraq war. But until this week, she'd largely resisted pressure to shift her position.
During her acceptance speech, however, the former first lady felt compelled to insert the line: "Stand with me as we put pressure on both the administration and the new Iraqi government to get behind a real plan for the Iraqis to assume a growing responsibility for their own security and safety so that we can begin to bring our troops home."
A Zogby poll released on Tuesday may explain why Mrs. Clinton is suddenly running away from the war. While 38 percent of New Yorkers in both parties said they'd back Clinton, 32 percent said they'd prefer an openly anti-war candidate like Tasini.
"A credible challenge from the left could embarrass Hillary," pollster John Zogby told the Buffalo News, adding that such a move could cast doubt on her credibility as a presidential candidate.
With numbers like that, Mr. Tasini says there's no reason for him to toss in the towel. While he failed to win enough Democratic delegates to have his name placed on the ballot, the Hillary nemesis said he intends to ride New York's anti-war sentiment onto the primary ballot by gathering the required 15,000 signatures.
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She voted for the war and continues to support it because most of America supports it, plain and simple. If she is one thing she is very savy when it comes to understanding the polls and the public. She may walk the fence on this to make nice with the old Dems but until America stops supporting the war her opinion will go to where the votes are, like an old whore goes to money.
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Very accurate headline. That's the platform Hill's running on. Her suooprt in the Democrat party is eroding faster than a New Orleans levee. The '68ers have great moral clarity and an emminently defeatable instinct. They may be in the minority for the next 20 years.
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It does show that the Democratic Party really doesn't believe in the Constitution only in attaining and exercising power. All those Kos Kiddies ignore that Congress authorized the action and continues to fund it.
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Check out Tasini's website. Compared to him, she looks like Reagan. She could win this in her sleep, since I doubt even New York is that far gone. Shit, even Mars isn't that far gone...
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"Stand with me as we put pressure on both the administration and the new Iraqi government to get behind a real plan for the Iraqis to assume a growing responsibility for their own security and safety so that we can begin to bring our troops home."
What plan would that be? Typical, high on rhetoric, no plan.
Actually, the rest of the speech is pretty good triangulation. She has to go left just far enough. Remember how Mother Cindy said after her meeting with Hillary that, Hillary will be on our side when the time is right....
What mother Cindy failed to understand is, she will also go the other way when the time is wrong...
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What someone needs to do is get names and photos (where available) of all the Iraqi Army and Police that have been killed and all the men killed while trying to join those organizations and make a collage of them with words supporting their quest for freedom and thanking the US for the opportunity from other Iraqis. The final quote should ask "Have our sacrifices been in vain?"
It would be a great tool both in NY and nationally.
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" That's the platform Hill's running on. "
shes running on her record. The NYS Demo party convention can vote whatever the hell they want. Its a scrap of paper.
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she should at least leave them cab fare on the dresser when she's done with them
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What law did it violate?
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LH, not to be difficult or anything (it's Rantburg, after all ;-) but if the platform is just a scrap of paper, why bother?
I understand that virtually every candidate has one problem or another with his/her party's platform. Some platforms are clearly written by borons and morons (see Dave D's discussion elsewhere for definitions).
But this is a key issue, and Hillary is the flagship candidate this fall. And she can't control the platform? What does that say about her clout in her own (er, adopted) state?
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The question is not if he is capable or the right guy, he most certainly is on both counts. The question is if he can overcome the good ol boy issues there and be the catalyst for change. I put him on line with Bolten, tough job, wish him the best.
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If you don't see a number of retirements over the next 30-60 days, I'd be very surprised.
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Let's not forget the 25% of staff who left during Mr. Goss's brief tenure. Based on recent antics, I think it's reasonable to expect more need either to adapt the proper behaviour of employees of a spy organization or to leave, but I do hope General Hayden doesn't have to clear out another 25,000 bodies in the near future. That would be an awfully big change for the organization to adjust to.
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Report I got from someone who knows his work is that he reports well, and makes all sound hunky dory, but that there were some major technological snafus costing in the billions at NSA on his watch. Don't know how this will translate to CIA.
June 1, 2006: Russia has become increasingly creative and flexible in making deals to sell its high tech weapons to foreign nations. Most recent case in point is a deal with India, whereby Russia will take 18 Su-30K fighters in trade for 18 more modern Su-30MKI models. The Su-30Ks were delivered in the late 1990s. The 18 Su-30K aircraft will be refurbished and sold to Belarus, where they will become part of the air defense system.
Russia also has a deal with India to allow 140 Su-30MKI aircraft to be assembled in India, using Indian, French (electronics) and (mostly) Russian components. The MKI model is designed to Indian specifications, thus the inclusion of French electronics. The Su-30MKI is actually an upgraded Su-27. The two seat, 34 ton aircraft is similar to the U.S. F-15E, and is equipped to carry up to three tons of missiles and smart bombs.
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This reminds me of a t-shirt worn by an air force brat in homestead, fl. The shirt boasted I can't remember the squadron was the largest distributor of MiG parts in the southesat
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I meant southeast, preview is my friend. Now if only one of my rocket buddies will return the disks of the pics I took at museum at Peenemunde. Along with the V-2 stuff they had lots of DDR stuff on display. One thing I got a pic of was a flogger intake stuffed full of Mickey D bags.That's a rantburg graphic in the making
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In one of the huge and lavish residences in Quetta Cantonment, the powerbroker neighbourhood of Quetta city, military leaders and rich and influential civilians gathered earlier this week for a private dinner in honour of cricketing-hero turn politician Imran Khan. Conversation for the first time avoided the constant lambasting of the Punjab province, seen as an usurper of Baluchi rights and resources, and focused on President Pervez Musharraf's unsuccessful attempts to tame Pakistan's borderlands, fingered by the US in its war against terror.
"Slamming the Pakistan Army and its main constituency, the province of Punjab, is now all the fashion here in Baluchistan but this time, because Imran Khan who comes from Punjab was here, Baluch nationalist leaders avoided this, as they respect him a lot," said a top bureacrat, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Imran Khan who is now chief of the opposition Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf (Pakistan Justice Movement) was a charismatic sportsman, sex symbol and one of the nation's sporting heroes for his formidable cricket exploits. "You know why this happens," Imran Khan chimed in. "This is because I talk about the issues that concern the masses," he said.
"Whether it's a military operation in Waziristan or in Baluchistan, I condemn them. I am convinced that this is not being done for national security but to appease foreign powers," Imran Khan maintained.
The Pakistan army has been battling Islamic militants in the Waziristan region since Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters fled into the area after the American-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Tens of thousands of Pakistani soldiers were sent into the area in 2003.
When Adnkronos International (AKI) mentioned that Imran Khan's support for the Taliban made him popular in the Pakistani tribal belt but at the same time potrayed him as "radical", Imran batted back the accusations. "These terms - radical Islamists, fundamentalists, Islamic militants - have been invented in the West, and I do not subscribe to them at all. I am a Muslim and a liberal. Mind you a Muslim is always a liberal person, as this is the very essence of Islam... But tell me after what the Pakistan army has done in Waziristan should there not be a reaction?" Imran questioned.
"The fact is that we are doing American's dirty job in Waziristan at a cost of 70 million dollars a month," Imran commented, "Is it not shameful that we take this money to bomb our own citizens in Waziristan? It is my duty to raise my voice against this," Imran maintained.
He then embarked on an impromptu history lesson of Waziristan and the other remote tribal areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan. "They are people whom the British, during their rule of India, used to pay to have peace. Britain was the superpower of its time, but did not dare to play around with Waziristan," he cautioned. "Now look at our foolishness. We bombed them and levied penalties on them. Do you expect surrender? They have never surrendered in history," Imran Khan said.
"Whether it is Baluchistan [a restive oil-rich province where the army is also battling tribal leaders and militants] or Waziristan, General Musharraf's absurd policies jeopardise national interests. If someone, like me, takes a stand and resists government policies, the masses support him," he maintained.
"Our eyes are on September this year when we would finally mobilise the masses and go to any extent [to remove Musharraf] be it mass resignation from parliament or street marches," Khan concluded.
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somebody needs to bat his cricket balls.
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"I am a Muslim and a liberal. Mind you a Muslim is always a liberal person, as this is the very essence of Islam..."
Water is dry, the sun is cold.
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This is pure political posturing. His party did poorly in the last election because no one was interested in a westernized muslim with a Jewish wife (who converted to Islam). So now he is pretending to be a champion of the pro-Taliban tribesmen.
The high-wire pic is for our government's balancing act.
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said on Wednesday it was planning to let Pakistan buy advanced Boeing Co. Harpoon anti-ship missiles and related equipment valued at up to $370 million in a significant upgrade of the Asian nations existing weapons systems.
Of the total Block II Harpoon missiles sought by Pakistan, 50 would be for launch from submarines, 50 from surface ships and 30 by air, the Pentagons Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a notice to Congress required by law. The equipment would provide a significant upgrade to Pakistans existing systems and allow for improved target acquisition, said the agency, which handles US government-to-government weapons sales.
The notice does not mean that a sale has been concluded. In addition, Congress can interfere.
And prob'ly will.
This proposed sale will contribute to the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to improve the security of a friendly country that continues to be a key ally in the global war on terrorism, the agency added.
Chicago-based Boeing describes the advanced Harpoon as capable of knocking out coastal defenses, surface-to-air missile sites and exposed aircraft as well as ships in port. It uses a satellite-aided inertial navigation system.
Wonder who controls the switch for the satellite-aided navigation? Ooops, thought Mumbai was that-away.
The upgraded targeting capability significantly reduces the risk of hitting noncombatant targets, thus improving Pakistans naval operational flexibility, the agency told Congress.
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A study led by former U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix called Thursday for outlawing nuclear weapons and reviving global cooperation on disarmament including security guarantees to curb the nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea.
As long as any nuclear, chemical and biological arms remain in any country's arsenal, "there is a high risk that they will one day be used by design or accident," the two-year probe by the independent Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission concluded.
Despite the end of the Cold War the stocks of such weapons remain "extraordinarily high" including 27,000 nuclear weapons, about 12,000 of them still actively deployed, the commission said, making 60 recommendations to free the world from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
At a news conference launching the 227-page report entitled "Weapons of Terror," Blix stressed that "the first line of defense against the spread of nuclear weapons is indeed to make states feel that they don't need them" which must be rooted in foreign policy not military action.
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Read that as long a any nation has nukes and armed civilians we will not be able to impose our TRANZI plans for a one world government run by the UN and people like Blix.
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Sounds like a lovely idea, Doctor Blix. You take care of the bad guys's stockpiles, like Iran, Pakistan and North Korea, 'k? Oh, and let's not forget Saddam Hussein's toys buried in the Bekaa Valley... And then we'll take care of our own. I think that's a fair division of labour, don't you?
Hans Blix, the UN's former chief weapons inspector, and a blue-ribbon international commission say the United States should halt deployment of its missile defence system and concentrate instead arms control measures.
In a report to be presented to the UN Thursday, Mr. Blix and the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission warn that missile defence systems like the one being built by the United States threaten global peace and security.
Deployment of such systems risk creating or aggravating arms races, says the commission's final report.
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Lol. Hans Brix. Like a bad penny. Blue Ribbon, eh? Make a top-shelf apple pie, do you?
Thank you so much for your unsolicited opinion. Do fuck off.
They appear more concerned with the US defending itself than with Iran getting nukes.
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Wonder why Hans wants to see it stopped?? So rouge fckhead states can take potshots with ICBM's at America with nasty results?? I think so. I would dearly love to know how he thinks a working missile defence sytem would make the world a more dangerous place, my only thinking is it makes the world a much scarier place for the likes of the NORKS and Iranians which is cleary who Hans is rooting for....lol Hans the dictator 'Fan Boy'
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Pretty sure we'll be needing that US hardware when the Mullahs eventually get their 'toy'. There's a whole movement in Europe just wanking over the prospect of being nuked or so it seems. They should grow beards and wear burkhas in preparation. Fuckwits.
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OK, Hans. We will stop building our missile defense. However, if anyone shoots a missile at us, we promise to turn the entire country into a radioactive glass parking lot. And if anybody else shoots at us, we will turn that country into a parking lot as well. We have enough nukes to do it.
Or would you rather we just set up a system to shoot down any incoming missile before it hits?
Think about it. Which plan would cause less death and destruction?
"In the long run, after change in the U.S. administration,"
"With help from others, Iran has become capable of producing its own missiles as well as nuclear weapons. Negotiation is the only practical way to control Irans nuclear and missile potential."
"China too, with an eye on Taiwans moves toward independence and on the deepening of its nuclear arms inferiority vis-à-vis the U.S. through deployment of U.S. missile defenses, is likely to strongly resist proposals for limiting or reducing its missile stocks. Similar considerations will sooner or later affect Russia."
Author is Jonathon Dean of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Tranzi BS
For a list of and links to all the papers go Here.
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Oh hewwo Hans Bwix......stan a widdow mo to yo weft...a widdow mo....a widdow mo......
"In this respect, the Iraq war was an unmitigated disaster, and the unrepentant attitude of the warmakers even after their primary rationale for military intervention - the alleged WMD stocks and programs of Iraq - proved absolutely wrong is not helpful at all (nor is the re-election of the main four pro-war governments, Bush, Blair, Fogh-Rasmussen, and Howard)."
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So that was what was wrong with the Middle Ages! All those walled cities just encouraged others to attack. After 1700 or so, warfare just disappeared from Europe.. didn't it?
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Hans' point would be better taken if other nations were not super-biusy with nasty missiles, submarine-launched weapons, nuclear experiments, armament factories etc.
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Of course ABM systems are impossible to make work, that's why you have to build lots of warheads to try to swamp it when it's not working
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"Deployment of such systems risk creating or aggravating arms races,"
And just who the f*** is building systems and threatenting first use? Hint - its not the US, India, Israel, Russia or even China. Try the guys who are blackmailing other countries with them - or threatening to "obliterate" Israel.
"arms control measures"
This idiot assumes we are talking about rational opponents. The holocaust-denying antisemetic apocolyptic guys in Teheran and the cult of personality dictator in Pyongyang most definitely are NOT.
Blix is 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound sack. Why doesn't ANYONE call him out on this in public or the press?
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Honest to God, if bullshit was music Blixie would be the Stockholm Philharmonic. What the hell are we supposed to use for defense against Nuts With Nukes, Hans-- U.N. resolutions?
Get out of the way.
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...if bullshit was music...
...then Hans Blix and the Weapons of Mass Destruction would make a good name for a rock band.
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I've been a big proponent of missile defense for more than 20 years, dating back to the High Frontier days. But the most convincing argument I've ever heard why we need it is Blix saying we don't.
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Deployment of such systems risk creating or aggravating arms races, says the commission's final report.
Translation: Deployment of such systems risk forcing North Korea, Iran [,and Blix'es other friends] to spend too much resources trying to counter them...
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5089 is running some weird 12cpu BeoWoof lashup with a dedicated t3. Lord knows how many minions he's got.
At least somebody's running one of those! Your own personal supercomputer. Easy, cheap, and fast (and the way supercomputers are being built today largely). Unfortunately, they're so easy that almost anyone can build one - even the bad guys (anyone who knows what they're doing could build a Beowulf cluster using cheap, off-the-shelf units like Fry's sells (Linspire GQ machine running at 1.5 GHz and easy as hell to convert to WinXP or Linux) for $149 apiece). The idea of a bad guy HQ running a supercomputer is no longer scifi.
Hey Anon5089, drop me a line off-list in regards to your Beowulf (I'm planning on building one and bought a book on 'em earlier this year).
A new video recording is now available for download from the NEFA Foundation website documenting the phenomenon of foreign fighters in Iraq and their precise role within the ongoing insurgency. (http://www.nefafoundation.org, look for download link at mid-right: "The Role of Foreign Fighters in the Iraqi Jihad")
Additionally, a torrent of reports has continued to flood radical Internet chatrooms concerning the identities and biographies of fallen Al-Qaida combatants in Iraq, most of them foreign nationals. Among those chronicled in these latest reports:
- Abu Dujanah al-Qahtani (Saudi Arabia): A former Saudi National Guard soldier who participated in various assaults in far western Iraq organized by senior Afghan-trained Al-Qaida commanders.
- Abu Hummam al-Urdani (Jordan): A black belt Tae Kwon Do instructor who "assumed responsibility for training at the desert-based Rawa military camp" in 2003. The now-defunct Rawa camp is widely hailed in mujahideen circles as Al-Qaida's first training camp for foreign fighters in Iraq. Al-Urdani later joined Al-Qaida's notorious Omar Corps, dedicated to murdering Shiite militiamen and their families.
- Abu Radwan al-Urdani (Jordan): Better known as Raed al-Banna, a law student from Salt, Jordan who spent time working in the United States, including during the period of September 11, 2001 "when the men of Islam finally struck and wrought destruction in the heartland of America in broad daylight." According to the mujahideen, the weight of 9/11 "moved Abu Radwan and so he embraced blessed Allah once again." Abu Radwan, a.k.a. Raed al-Banna, later volunteered as an Al-Qaida suicide bomber in Iraq targeting Shiites in the town of Hilla. The devastating attack that he carried out "claimed the lives of 150 cursed enemies, and wounded more than 300--we ask Allah that they do not recover from their injuries."
- Abu Usama al-Ansari (Iraq): A former illegal arms smuggler during the regime of Saddam Hussein who reformed himself and became a mujahid after the U.S. invasion in 2003. According to the mujahideen, Abu Usama "was inspired by the Shaykh and mujahid, Abu Anas al-Shami [a.k.a. Omar Yousef Jumah]... who spent a period of time residing at Abu Usama's house, urging people to join the fight. Abu Usama used to teach his brothers many of the lessons and sayings of Abu Anas."
- Abu Asil al-Jazairi (Algeria): A former senior official in the comparatively moderate Muslim Brotherhood movement who was "eventually guided toward the righteous path" and used his "administrative and organizational experience" to help Al-Qaida instead. According to the mujahideen, Abu Asil "was assigned the responsibility of overseeing the borders [of Iraq]. In other words, he was responsible for all the Arab brothers that came to fight in the jihad... He loved to quote from Shaykh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's statements... and did this so frequently that he practically knew all of his speeches verbatim by heart."
- Abu Ibrahim al-Tunisi (Tunisia): A veteran Tunisian mujahideen commander who "spent most of his life fighting on the frontlines and practicing jihad in Afghanistan, Europe [presumably Bosnia-Herzegovina], and Iraq. He was responsible for Shaykh Usama Bin Laden's guesthouses in Afghanistan... [and later] arrived in Rawa [Iraq], the city of martyrs, where he spent some time and assumed the role of commander of [Al-Qaida's] security branch."
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Iraq's new prime minister declared a state of emergency Wednesday in the southern city of Basra, vowing to crack down with an "iron fist" on rival gangs battling each other for power. Violence has been escalating in Shiite-dominated Basra, with a wave of kidnappings and the slaying of nearly 140 people — mostly Sunnis but also Shiites and police — in May alone, police said. The tension has been brewing largely due to the growing influence of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army, and the armed Badr organization, both Shiite groups.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, himself a Shiite, declared the monthlong state of emergency during a visit to the oil-rich region, said Syed Muhammad al-Haidari, a top Shiite official traveling with him. Al-Maliki gave a strong denunciation of the violence that Sunni religious leaders have blamed on Shiite death squads. "We shall use an iron fist against the leaders of the gangs or those who threaten security," he said earlier in a speech, apparently referring to the militias as well as rival tribal groups. "And we shall ask all security departments to draw up an effective and quick plan to achieve security. The size of the security power in this province as far as I know should be sufficient to maintain full control of the security situation, but it seems that these forces are useless with the deteriorating of the security situation in this town," he told about 700 tribal sheiks, religious leaders, officials, army officers and other residents.
Shouting broke out in the auditorium before al-Maliki delivered his speech, with several tribal leaders accusing local officials and security forces of being behind the mounting violence. But al-Maliki calmed them down from the podium, saying "we cannot negotiate with everybody shouting."
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I know a couple of really effective proctologists, if that will help.
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res·tive (rstv)
adj.
Uneasily impatient under restriction, opposition, criticism, or delay.
Resisting control; difficult to control.
Refusing to move. Used of a horse or other animal.
[Middle English restif, stationary, from Old French, from rester, to remain, from Latin restre, to keep back : re-, re- + stre, to stand; see st- in Indo-European Roots.]
restive·ly adv.
restive·ness n.
Usage Note: Restive is properly applied to a feeling of impatience or uneasiness induced by external coercion or restriction, and is not a general synonym for restless: The government has done nothing to ease export restrictions, and domestic manufacturers are growing restive (not restless). The atmosphere in the office was congenial, but after five years I began to grow restless (not restive).
"Restive Basra"? How bout "Death Cult homicidal pieces of shit infested Basra"?
LGF Hattip
The current issue of the Hamas weekly newspaper Al-Risala features a cartoon of a little boy urinating on the Statue of Liberty, who holds a book titled Democracy.
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Anyone have a color lithograph machine? I need to print about 500,000 leaflets of me and my buddies defecating on the Koran so we can drop them over Gaza.......
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a cartoon of a little boy
Nope, cartoon of a paleo little boy (cf. the kheffye, or whatever you spell it), that is, of the embodiment of the Victimhood of the Arab Nation, that is of the Oummah.
Anyway, islamists are very clear on where they stand on democracy, they see it as a false religion where man rulz, while it should be allan (and his Holy Men).
This article seems to have been published as a straight news piece, but the bias is so obnoxious that I put it in Opinions. If you worship at the shrine of St. Pancake, get out your hankies; everyone else get out your barf bags.
As an economic stranglehold takes effect, Gazans are selling off jewelry to pay grocery bills
The Gaza gold market is a familiar landmark in this city's old quarter, a centuries-old remnant of what was once a sprawling warren of covered streets. A visit there these days offers a startling glimpse into the economic hardship gripping ordinary Palestinians.
In stalls tucked away in a vaulted passage, people are selling their most precious possessions, gold jewelry given to wives by their husbands, usually as dowries at marriage to serve as a security in case of divorce or economic hard times.
The cutoff of foreign aid and tax transfers from Israel to the Hamas-led Palestinian government has pushed the economy here into free-fall. More than 160,000 government employees, who support about a third of the Palestinian population, have gone unpaid for nearly three months, deepening poverty and crippling business activity.
"The situation is extremely difficult," said Um Muhammad, 33, a government-employed nurse who was selling gold jewelry and agreed to identify herself only by her nickname. "We need the money for food and daily expenses."
In another stall, Mahdia Abu Nada, 55, was selling gold bracelets. Her husband, who works in a government hospital, is not getting paid, and the couple has no money for rent or grocery bills, let alone tuition for children in college. "I'm selling all the gold that I've saved for 20 years, because we can't live," Abu Nada said. She produced a list of grocery items she had bought on credit, worth $112, that she has not been able to pay for. "The government was chosen by the people," Abu Nada added, echoing an argument often heard here, that the Palestinians are being punished for their vote for Hamas in January elections.
Behind the counter, Abu Fayez, the gold dealer, offered a grim prediction. "Today is better than tomorrow," he intoned. "Because tomorrow, people might no longer have any gold to sell."
At the next stall, Amjad Tafish, 28, an unemployed tailor, was selling all his wife's gold jewelry after six years of marriage. There was no work, he said, because repeated closings of Gaza's main cargo crossing had halted work at local sewing shops, which depend on the crossing for materials and export of finished products. "I haven't done a stitch of work in two months," Tafish said, adding that he used to earn the equivalent of about $20 a day. Now, he said, buying meat and chicken are beyond his means, and meals at home are limited to simpler foods.
The sale of the jewelry would give Tafish the equivalent of about $3,000, said the dealer sitting across the counter.
Reem Abu Hasira, 23, who works in a bridal-gown rental shop, was selling gold earrings she had received for her wedding, for which the dealer said she would get the equivalent of $90. Abu Hasira said that her husband, a taxi driver who ferries government employees to work, had lost his income because without wages the workers could no longer pay for the ride. Neither was there any business at the shop where she worked. Only four wedding gowns had been rented out in the last two months, she said.
Adel Abu Sayma, 40, a dealer, said that business at the gold market was going only one way, "sellers only," and that ordinary Gazans are paying the price of a political dispute. "The people have become the victims of the governments," he said.
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OK, let's pause an appropriate amount of time while I play a dirge on the world's tiniest violin, in honor of the paleo-suffering. OK, that's long enough.
You reap what you sow, you bastards. Enjoy starvation.
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More than 160,000 government employees, who support about a third of the Palestinian population, have gone unpaid for nearly three months, deepening poverty and crippling business activity.
Hey, does this mean about 33% of the work force is employed by the government? I'm very impressed, in France it's only 24-25%. It's not everyday we're beaten at the statist game.
Lots of middle eastern women wear gold as a form of family savings for emergencies. My Taiwanese friends do the same, on the grounds that if you have to flee a country quickly the gold is portable and may feed your family or pay a bribe to get them out alive.
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It isn't just that for Muslim women, lotp. If they've been triple-talaq (?) divorced, they must leave with only what they are wearing. Thus they make a point of wearing the family wealth to ensure they have something to live on, and to make the whole exercise expensive for the husband, who otherwise has no reason not to divorce them on a whim... or so it was explained to me.
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The government was chosen by the people," Abu Nada added, echoing an argument often heard here, that the Palestinians are being punished for their vote for Hamas in January elections
Yup, you chose a party that represents terror, horror, violence and death. Why are you suprised when you immediately experience what you voted for?
How do like your choice so far? Thinking about changing your minds yet? Oh, forgot. You don't have minds, just a death wish.
Jordan plans to scrap prison sentences for offences involving the press, the government said on Wednesday, a day after two journalists were handed jail terms. "The government is committed to legally abolishing prison sentences for journalists in press and publications-related offences," government spokesperson Nasser Jawdeh told AFP.
"This policy has been clearly expressed by the king (Abdullah II) on a number of occasions," he said. "The government will do so through a clear clause to this effect in the new press and publication law that it will present to the parliament," said the spokesman.
A Jordanian court on Tuesday sentenced to prison two newspaper editors for "attacking religious sentiment" by reprinting cartoons deemed offensive to Prophet Muhammad, their lawyer said. Jihad Momani, former editor of the weekly Shihane tabloid, and Hisham al-Khalidi, editor-in-chief of the tabloid Al-Mehwar, "were each sentenced to two months in prison", attorney Mohammed Kteishat told AFP.
The defendants have been on bail since their arrest in February for printing the drawings, first published in September by Danish daily Jyllands-Posten. Momeni and Khalidi both pleaded not guilty.
The government spokesperson said "the case of the two editors in question is not a new one, it has been in the legal system for months now and the sentence passed yesterday (on Tuesday) is being appealed". The two journalists are currently free on bail until their appeal is heard, he said.
Early in February, King Abdullah said that insulting the Prophet was "an unjustifiable crime ... that could not be justified on the pretext of freedom of expression".
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Well sure King, but what if he wasn't a 'prophet'? What if her were a mass-murdering, raping, pedophilic, war-mongering, alcoholic thief? I'm just sayin'.....
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Im'm impressed by King Abdullah. But then it isn't like the islmaists can do more than is already being done to try to kill him.
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"We will substitute severe beatings for jail terms"
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I'll be more impressed with the king when he requires primary and secondary textbooks be updated to treat neighboring Israel as a proper country filled with real people instead of land temporarily occupied by murderous, evil Jooooos. Recall, the EU-financed textbooks now used by the Palestinians are less hateful than the ones they'd inherited from their days as a Jordanian protectorate. www.MEMRI.org has an analysis somewhere on the site, as I recall.
The cash crunch has resulted in a worsening humanitarian crisis, prompting the United Nations and aid organizations working in the Palestinian territories to ask donor nations for additional funding yesterday. In November, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and various NGOs asked the international community for $215 million in their annual emergency aid appeal for programs in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Yesterday, they took the rare step of revising that plea just six months after first making it, saying an additional $170 million would be necessary to avert disaster. "The situation has deteriorated to such a degree that we're now forced to revise it upward," OCHA head David Shearer told potential donors and journalists at a press conference in East Jerusalem. The additional aid money would be channeled largely into job creation programs, cash and food handouts for the needy and health care.
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And wasn't it just yesterday that the news from there was that all civil service salaries would be paid? Seems to me that if indeed that happens, then that should be at least a partial stimulus to get their economy sputtering along. And somewhere about the third or fourth turnover of that new money, there should be some new weaponry purchased. And then Israel can close the spigot just a wee bit tighter. Or not.
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Political hacks and terrorists simply don't know how to run a government. Leave it to the UN to think that throwing money at Gaza will solve everything.
KUWAIT: Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami called on Muslim oil-producing countries to give 1 percent of their oil revenues to the cash-strapped Palestinian government led by Hamas. Speaking at a meeting of the Islamic Development Bank, which gives loans to Muslim countries, Khatami said the United States and Israel were depriving Palestinians of their rights by withholding funds and that Islamic states needed to do more to help. "All those who respect the rights of human beings should deposit in this fund for the Palestinian government," he said.
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The United States and Israel are depriving the Palestinians of their rights by continuing to exist. The Iranians are working on that.
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So far there are $19 Billions in pledges, received and accounted for are 39 euro, $576 from the Young Boomer League, 2 Vanni, 4 young camels with hoof problems, 1 goat, a sawed off shutter-gun in kind, 12 round bullet, 4000 video cd of Most Majestic Osama, 3 Knight Rider tapes, 7500 freeze-dried excuses, Tool O'Tools Bruce of Arabia thobe and 9800 MREs (new!) from our friends in strategic depth Afghanistan.
EAST Timor President Xanana Gusmao may convince rebel leader Alfredo Reinado to surrender his weapons, Reinado said today, as Australia's military chief prepares to meet the rebel leader.
Reinado leads about 600 soldiers sacked from the country's defence force. They are now based in the mountains south of the capital Dili.
Brigadier Mick Slater will attempt to meet Major Reinado today, but has said the rebel leader does not pose a security threat.
Graphic: Behind the East Timor chaos »
In pictures: Violence on the streets »
Major Reinado is digging in at his headquarters and said earlier this week he would not disarm until Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri quit.
The rebels claim Dr Alkatiri is a "criminal" who ordered troops to open fire on unarmed protesters a month ago, killing five people.
But the rebel leader now said he would lay down his weapons if the president gave him strong reasons for doing so.
"The weapons belong to the country and belong to the people, and doesn't belong to me, doesn't belong to the President," Major Reinado said on ABC radio.
"But he as the president has the power to ask to me to do so, I will do it."
Major Reinado repeated his call for Dr Alkatiri to step down.
"I don't have any intention to overthrow him, but he has to step down for the things he has done for the nation," he said.
"He has failed in his leadership and he has caused a lot of problems for the country. He has to step down to respond to that."
Brigadier Slater said the situation on the ground was getting better day by day, a week after Australian forces arrived in East Timor.
"We're slowly getting on top of it," he said.
Australian troops were sent in last week to help arrest weeks of violence sparked by the sacking of 600 soldiers who alleged discrimination by their superiors.
Brigadier Slater said the major factional leaders wanted peace.
"They actually want peace and they have realised that they are not going to get peace through fighting," he said.
Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad has urged Muslims to build their own weapons rather than relying on Western imports, a news report said Thursday.
Mahathir argued that Muslims would be oppressed as long as they lacked homemade military might. He said that Muslims could not defend and protect themselves because "we have not mastered the knowledge of science," the Bangkok Post reported Thursday.
He said importing weapons from Western nations left a degree of vulnerability in the defense systems of the Muslim world.
"To enhance our own defense capabilities, we must build our own brand of sophisticated weapons," the report quoted him as saying. He said this was not because Muslims wanted to attack others, but that they needed to protect their own people.
Mahathir, who served as Malaysia's prime minister from 1981 to 2003 and has often voiced criticism of Western powers, was speaking to a group of mostly Muslim students at a gathering in the northern state of Kedah.
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See, there is the problem with this. Muslims only destroy stuff. They can't create stuff. You need to be able to create the stuff to blow other stuff up.
Don't worry. Russia and China will still be happy to sell them blowing up stuff.
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'You need to be able to create the stuff to blow other stuff up' Yeah but......but.....but.....what about the 'Big Bang', y'know...order from chaos and all that?
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I agree with Pebbles: islam has not done anything original...other than the suicide bomber...in almost a 1000 years. Design an build your own weapons. In fact design and build your own fleet of aircraft.
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels are believed to be channeling funds through Malaysia and Singapore to buy weapons in the region, Sri Lanka's foreign minister said according to a report on Wednesday. Mangala Samaraweera said in an interview with the New Straits Times that he had informed his Malaysian counterpart Syed Hamid Albar about the issue, and offered to share intelligence with security agencies here. The Sri Lankan minister said his government had learned that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) could be buying weapons with funds given by sympathisers and moved through bank accounts here and in Singapore. He said this tied in with the fact that most of the rebels' arms buying took place in Southeast Asia, particularly in Cambodia and Thailand. "The process of channelling funds raised in European Union nations and the United States to Malaysia and Singapore is rather complicated," he said. "This is why we are seeking the cooperation of countries like Malaysia."
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The European Union on Wednesday formalised a ban of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, and urged both the rebels and the island's government to halt a rash of killings that are threatening to plunge the island back into civil war.
The ban by the 25-nation bloc, which was agreed behind closed doors in Brussels will freeze the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE) funds and assets in member states as well as prohibit the provision of financial services to them. "The EU still sees a need for the LTTE to amend its violent course and return to peace talks," Austria, current EU president, said in a statement on behalf of the bloc. "The EU stresses that its decision is directed at the LTTE and not at the Tamil people." "The upsurge of violence is not caused by the LTTE alone," it added. "The EU strongly urges the Sri Lankan authorities to curb violence in government-controlled areas. The EU notes with concern the growing number of reports of extra judicial killings."
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Hundreds of Shiite Muslims enraged by a TV comedy that mocked the leader of Hezbollah took to the streets of southern Beirut on Thursday night, burning car tires and blocking roads -- including the highway to Lebanon's international airport, police and witneses said.
The trouble began shortly after a TV show on Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. -- a privately-owned Christian channel -- in which an actor spoofed Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, wearing the Hezbollah leader's trademark black turban and sported a similar beard and spectacles.
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LOL - seething on Pavlov's command - stupid hamsters
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The regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad has found religion.
Green and yellow banners fluttered at every turn in this capital's ancient stone bazaar a month after they marked the Prophet Muhammad's birthday April 10. For the first time in years, Muslims were allowed to openly observe that day. Other government bans on religious life also have diminished in recent weeks: Mosques are open between prayers. Religious weddings, once deemed to be risky public assembly, no longer need state security clearance.
Mosques are urging women to join study groups that champion their role in Islam. The state military academy has invited religious authorities to speak for the first time in decades.
In the street, Syrians of every faith are adjusting to a strange political spring. The oft-brutal regime, while cracking down anew on secular reform advocates, is courting favor with Islamists to keep at bay some publicly defined devils: dissidents and the Bush administration.
The Bush administration reversed course Wednesday and announced a willingness to take part in direct talks with Iran over its nuclear program, but only if Iran agreed to suspend its uranium enrichment activities.
Iran called the offer "a propaganda move," and many U.S. and allied officials acknowledged that Tehran may reject the central U.S. precondition for talks. But if Tehran spurns the offer, U.S. officials hope that would draw leading world powers together in agreeing to impose painful economic sanctions on Tehran.
"Iran now faces a clear choice," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said. "This is the last excuse."
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Stupid M.E. Dictator Arrogance, Scene 1.
Saddam:
Ha! I have the French, Germans, Russians, and Chinese in my pocket!
He dares not attack! He can do nothing!
I have outsmarted the stupid arrogant American cowboy!
Bush & Aide:
Get me Myers on the horn. That boy owes me $20.
And we gots some plans to go over.
Yes, sir, Mr President.
Stupid M.E. Dictator Arrogance, Scene 2.
Mullahs:
Ha! We have the Russians and Chinese in our pocket!
He dares not attack! He can do nothing!
We have outsmarted the stupid arrogant American cowboy!
Bush & Aide:
Boy this is kinda weird, doncha think?
I mean it's like that veggie doo thing.
Uh, Mr President, I think you mean deja...
Well, whatever ya call it, it's gosh-darned weird.
Get me Pete on the horn. That boy owes me $20.
And we got some plans to go over.
Yes sir, Mr President.
Iran does not pose an immediate nuclear threat and the world must act cautiously to avoid repeating mistakes made with Iraq and North Korea, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said on Tuesday.
Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the world shouldn't "jump the gun" with erroneous information as he said the U.S.-led coalition did in Iraq in 2003, nor should it push the country into retaliation as international sanctions did in North Korea. "Our assessment is that there is no immediate threat," the winner of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize told a forum organized by the Monterey Institute of International Studies south of San Francisco. "We still have lots of time to investigate."
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And when they are, by his estimation; he'll be loooong gone from office. What a nice cushy job...I want it next!!
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No threat except to Hillary's ambitions to be POTUS in 2008, and Radical Islam-Moud's ideo- and war justification for new recruits. Its against Islam to field an army that won't blow itself into smithereens - D*** it, its just not done in 72 Raisins = Virgins circles.
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...said the world shouldn't "jump the gun" with erroneous information as he said the U.S.-led coalition did in Iraq in 2003, nor should it push the country into retaliation as international sanctions did in North Korea.
IOW: do nothing at all. Great plan, Mohamed. I can see why you got your job.
The United States, in a major policy shift toward Iran, offered on Wednesday to join European nations in talks with Tehran if it suspends a uranium enrichment program that Washington says will lead to a nuclear bomb. The U.S. overture to its longtime foe could be turned down by Tehran, which has rejected such conditions before. But Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Iran must show it wants to negotiate "in good faith" or face the consequences. "It's time to know whether Iran is serious about negotiation or not," she told a news conference.
Any direct talks with Tehran on such a substantive issue would mark a big change in U.S. relations with Iran. Washington has not had formal diplomatic ties with Tehran since after the 1979 Islamic revolution when fundamentalist students held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
Rice said the offer of talks was part of a package of incentives and sanctions to try to get Iran to curb its nuclear program. She said the "essential elements" of the package have been agreed with Britain, France and Germany and will be discussed further on Thursday when ministers meet in Vienna. The Iranian government had no immediate comment on the American offer but the foreign policy spokesman for its parliament reportedly was dismissive of the U.S. precondition.
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Must-read PDF on the guy who is probably the most significant Salafist ideologue since Abdullah Azzam or possibly even Sayyid Qutb. Also confirms that he and the rest of the al-Qaeda leadership were/are being hosted inside Iran by the IRGC and that they can enter or leave the country as long as they clear it with the IRGC high command.
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O, Nasar.
Never mind.
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McIntyre in the Morning has begun an investigation into Academia Semillas del Pueblo, an LAUSD charter school. The website for the K-8 school says it is, "dedicated to providing urban children of immigrant native families an excellent education founded upon their own language, cultural values and global realities." The school's student body is 91.3% hispanic and 8.7% native / alaskan native. There is not a single white, black, or asian student.
The school receives support not only from the tax payer but also the National Council of La Raza and the Pasadena City College chapter of MeCHA (Movimemeniento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan). In various interviews and actions the school's founder, principal and council trustee secretary, Marcos Aguilar, has shown contempt for racial integration. Like everyone else connected to the school, Aguilar has refused repeated attempts by McIntyre in the Morning for an interview, telling our reporter he only speaks with spanish speaking media and warning the reporter, "I would be very careful before I came down here."
A local radio reporter was assaulted Thursday while leaving a Los Angeles charter school that his station has said imparts separatist ethics, a station official said. The reporter, Sandy Wells, was not hurt, according to station spokesman Steve Sheldon.
Wells was leaving the campus of Academia Semillas Del Pueblo, 4736 Huntington Drive, after interviewing the principal when a car came around the corner, jumped the curb and the driver tried to run him down, Sheldon said. Wells managed to dodge the car, but the driver, a man who appeared to be in his mid-20s, got out and tackled him, taking away his tape recorder, he said.
The incident was reported to police, Sheldon said, adding that it is believed to be linked to the station's reporting on the school. The Los Angeles Unified School District said it would issue a statement on the assault later in the day.
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D'oh! Attacked
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should've HT'd Drudge too...not enough coffee
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Send in the guard, shut down the 'school' at gunpoint and deport every illegal ass back to Mexico. Never happen, but I can dream, can't I?
A veteran who lost both arms in the war in Iraq is suing filmmaker Michael Moore for $85 million, alleging that Moore used snippets of a television interview without his permission to falsely portray him as anti-war in "Fahrenheit 9/11." Sgt. Peter Damon, a National Guardsman from Middleborough, is asking for damages because of "loss of reputation, emotional distress, embarrassment, and personal humiliation," according to the lawsuit filed in Suffolk Superior Court last week.
Damon, 33, claims that Moore never asked for his consent to use a clip from an interview Damon did with NBC's "Nightly News." He lost his arms when a tire on a Black Hawk helicopter exploded while he and another reservist were servicing the aircraft on the ground. Another reservist was killed in the explosion.
In his interview with NBC, Damon was asked about a new painkiller the military was using on wounded veterans. He claims in his lawsuit that the way Moore used the film clip in "Fahrenheit 9/11" Moore's scathing 2004 documentary criticizing the Bush administration and the war in Iraq makes him appear to "voice a complaint about the war effort" when he was actually complaining about "the excruciating type of pain" that comes with the injury he suffered.
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Let's hope he wins a very, very big settlement for additional pain and suffering. Wouldn't if be fun if he called in NBC as a witness to the actual interview, and forced showing of the entire thing side by side with Mr. Moore's version, pointing out exactly how the twisted effect was achieved.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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The al-Qaeda production organization, as-Sahab, issued yesterday, May 30, 2006, a 3:28 minute video in the series of the Pyre for Americans in Kharasan [Afghanistan], featuring a joint operation from March 2006 by the mujahideen of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan on American forces at an airport in Khost. Seen in the video are mujahideen traveling to the site of the rocket launching, one man holding a GPS device, in a vehicle loaded with rocket units. They are then seen walking along mountainous terrain and measuring the angle and trajectory of the rocket at night. This is followed by its launching.
PUTRAJAYA: An objection from Pakistan has prevented the Non-aligned Movement (NAM) from throwing its full support behind Afghanistans efforts to prevent former Taliban from taking refuge in neighbouring countries. 
TRIPOLI - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi assailed Nigeria on Thursday for handing over former Liberian President Charles Taylor for trial, saying the move set an unacceptable precedent that threatened all African leaders. 
CAIRO - Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has ruled out any formal recognition for the banned Muslim Brotherhood opposition movement as an authorised political party. If you ask my opinion regarding the authorisation of religious-based parties, I would say no, he told independent daily Al Masri Al Yom.
Chechnya's separatist leadership announced changes to its political structure this week (May 29), naming Akhmed Zakayev as the underground government's new foreign minister. Zakayev, who has been granted political asylum in Britain, previously served as culture minister before being dismissed earlier this year. In an exclusive telephone interview with RFE/RL, Zakayev discusses his new responsibilities as well as ongoing efforts to find a peaceful solution to the Chechen conflict.
New York State Democrats who nominated Hillary Clinton to run for a second Senate term on Wednesday closed out their convention by passing a resolution calling the war in Iraq "illegal."
Hans Blix, the UN's former chief weapons inspector, and a blue-ribbon international commission say the United States should halt deployment of its missile defence system and concentrate instead arms control measures.
The cash crunch has resulted in a worsening humanitarian crisis, prompting the United Nations and aid organizations working in the Palestinian territories to ask donor nations for additional funding yesterday. In November, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and various NGOs asked the international community for $215 million in their annual emergency aid appeal for programs in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels are believed to be channeling funds through Malaysia and Singapore to buy weapons in the region, Sri Lanka's foreign minister said according to a report on Wednesday. Mangala Samaraweera said in an interview with the New Straits Times that he had informed his Malaysian counterpart Syed Hamid Albar about the issue, and offered to share intelligence with security agencies here. The Sri Lankan minister said his government had learned that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) could be buying weapons with funds given by sympathisers and moved through bank accounts here and in Singapore. He said this tied in with the fact that most of the rebels' arms buying took place in Southeast Asia, particularly in Cambodia and Thailand. "The process of channelling funds raised in European Union nations and the United States to Malaysia and Singapore is rather complicated," he said. "This is why we are seeking the cooperation of countries like Malaysia."
The European Union on Wednesday formalised a ban of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, and urged both the rebels and the island's government to halt a rash of killings that are threatening to plunge the island back into civil war. 
Iran does not pose an immediate nuclear threat and the world must act cautiously to avoid repeating mistakes made with Iraq and North Korea, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said on Tuesday. 
The United States, in a major policy shift toward Iran, offered on Wednesday to join European nations in talks with Tehran if it suspends a uranium enrichment program that Washington says will lead to a nuclear bomb. The U.S. overture to its longtime foe could be turned down by Tehran, which has rejected such conditions before. But Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Iran must show it wants to negotiate "in good faith" or face the consequences. "It's time to know whether Iran is serious about negotiation or not," she told a news conference.
A local radio reporter was assaulted Thursday while leaving a Los Angeles charter school that his station has said imparts separatist ethics, a station official said. The reporter, Sandy Wells, was not hurt, according to station spokesman Steve Sheldon.
A veteran who lost both arms in the war in Iraq is suing filmmaker Michael Moore for $85 million, alleging that Moore used snippets of a television interview without his permission to falsely portray him as anti-war in "Fahrenheit 9/11." Sgt. Peter Damon, a National Guardsman from Middleborough, is asking for damages because of "loss of reputation, emotional distress, embarrassment, and personal humiliation," according to the lawsuit filed in Suffolk Superior Court last week.
