Guess they don't want the US people to notice the shit they are about to pull!
The UN atomic agency will put off until Thursday deciding whether to help Iran build a nuclear reactor that could provide plutonium for weapons but the project is still expected to be rejected, diplomats told AFP.
Western and non-aligned states have been unable to reach a compromise on the matter at a session on technical cooperation running from Monday to Wednesday of the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board of governors, diplomats said Tuesday.
Diplomats said the plan now was for the technical session to make no recommendation, as it usually does, on a package of aid projects and for the matter to be taken up fresh when the IAEA's 35-nation board of governors meets in a regular political session Thursday and Friday.
"G-77 nations (developing states) are saying that approving aid is a technical decision but that removing a project is a political decision," a Western diplomat told AFP.
IAEA deputy director for technical cooperation Ana Maria Cetto had Monday told the board that technical aid for Iran's Arak reactor, which Tehran is going ahead with in any case, did not pose a proliferation threat and so could not be denied by the agency.
The European Union, however, argued that while the aid might be benign, the reactor itself would produce significant quantities of plutonium and would involve "a significant proliferation risk."
"We cannot support providing technical assistance to a heavy water research reactor project that the board has several times asked Iran to reconsider," Finnish ambassador Kirsti Helena Kauppi said on behalf of the EU.
Kauppi said Iran's request for IAEA funding was "not consistent" with the resolutions of the board of governors and the UN Security Council, which has threatened sanctions to get Tehran to rein in its nuclear program.
US ambassador Gregory Schulte said "the reactor, once completed, will be capable of producing plutonium for one or more nuclear weapons each year."
Iran is requesting technical help in guaranteeing safety at the heavy-water reactor under construction at Arak, 200 kilometres (120 miles) south of Tehran.
Schulte said the United States would however not oppose seven other projects for Iran which are in the package of 832 projects being considered.
Other Iranian projects include aid for "human resource development and nuclear technology support" and helping start up the Bushehr nuclear power reactor, according to IAEA data.
The United States, the EU, Canada and Israel were among those calling on the IAEA to block the Arak aid, while Russia, China and non-aligned states argued that it should be granted in speeches on Monday.
The non-aligned states were particularly anxious to protect the principle of the transfer of peaceful nuclear technology to developing countries.
The West has a majority on the board but is working for a consensus decision.
Diplomats said a compromise being hammered out was to defer a decision on Arak, rather than reject the idea of technical cooperation outright.
"The Arak project will be removed from the (technical cooperation) list so that the list can be adopted," one diplomat said.
"The Arak project will be deferred without a deadline," the diplomat said, adding that Iran was pushing however for a deadline for aid to be forthcoming.
The IAEA had in February asked Iran to "reconsider" building the Arak reactor.
This was re-stated in a UN Security Council resolution in July, which also called on Iran to suspend making enriched uranium, which like plutonium can fuel civilian reactors but used in highly enriched form to make atom bombs.
The Security Council is now working on a resolution to impose sanctions on Iran, as Tehran has refused to suspend uranium enrichment.
Iran says it is building the Arak reactor to produce medical isotopes and to replace a smaller, ageing, light-water reactor in Tehran.
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Wasn't it that idiot Levant who made it clear how important the luxuriant female moustache is to the Syrian male of a certain age? He seemed to get a tad exercised imagining that I had one, at any rate.
Story from yesterday.
Nigerian authorities have intercepted explosives being smuggled onto a domestic flight in an unaccompanied suitcase, the aviation minister said. The five golden canisters disguised as microphones were found on Saturday, Aviation Minister Femi Fani-Kayode told a news conference on Sunday. "FAAN (Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria) and Bellview Airlines have managed to foil an attempt to bring explosive devices on a Bellview flight," he said.
The find came during the latest shake-up of Nigeria's air industry in the wake of three plane crashes that killed 319 people in just over a year. Photographs of a man suspected of checking the suitcase onto the scheduled flight from Lagos to Abuja were distributed to the media. Fani-Kayode said the security services were holding the man for questioning.
"Whether these explosives were put there as a device to blow up the plane and kill Nigerians or whether they were there simply to be flown to Abuja for some other mysterious purpose, both courses of action are completely illegal," he said.
An activist of outlawed Biplobi Communist Party (BCP) was killed in a 'shootout' between his accomplices and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Pairakhalipur under Harinakundu upazila in Jhenidah early hours yesterday.
Old or new, he's a Biplobi and that's all that matters ...
The dead was identified as Sukur Ali alias Kota, 36, from the same village. According to a Rab 6 press release, a Rab team acted on a tip-off and cordoned off Sukur Ali's residence at Pairakhalipur village at around 3:00am where members of BCP were holding a secret meeting.
Wasn't so secret after all ...
The outlaws ignored Rab's call to surrender and opened fire on Rab, ...
... usual cries of 'cheez', 'it's the RAB', 'let'em have it', etc ...
... triggering a half-hour long gunfight with Rab, the press release said.
With the usual desultory fire ...
Sukur was found dead inside the house after the gunfight was over while his accomplices managed to flee the scene, claimed Rab.
They usually do claim that, don't they, one bad guy catching bullets behind the ear and the others all absconded ...
Rab recovered a pistol and six bullets from the spot.
Sukur was a minor enough Biplobi that he didn't rate a shutter gun ...
Jhenidah police said Sukur was accused in several cases including five for murder filed with Harinakundu and Jhenidah sadar police stations.
The usual 'wanted on twelve systems' ...
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How come Bangla has so many different Communist parties?
MINNEAPOLIS -- Six Muslim imams on Monday were removed from a US Airways flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and questioned by police for several hours before being released, a leader of the group said. The six were among passengers who boarded Flight 300, bound for Phoenix, around 6:30 p.m., airport spokesman Pat Hogan said.
A passenger initially raised concerns about the group through a note passed to a flight attendant, according to Andrea Rader, a spokeswoman for US Airways. She said police were called after the captain and airport security workers asked the men to leave the plane and the men refused. "They took us off the plane, humiliated us in a very disrespectful way," said Omar Shahin, of Phoenix. Boo frickin Hoo, Whaddya expect after thousands of Splodeydopes Omar flowers thrown at yer feet!
The six Muslim scholars were returning from a conference in Minneapolis of the North American Imams Federation, said Shahin, president of the group. Five of them were from the Phoenix-Tempe area, while one was from Bakersfield, Calif., he said. Three of them stood and said their normal evening prayers together on the plane, as 1.7 billion Muslims around the world do every day, Shahin said. He attributed any concerns by passengers or crew to ignorance about Islam. LOL!
"I never felt bad in my life like that," he said. "I never. Six imams. Six leaders in this country. Six scholars in handcuffs. It's terrible." LOL, That's a pretty sheltered life then eh Omar?
Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, expressed anger at the detentions. 0'how original, a Mooselimb expressing anger.
He coupled it with an expression of outrage over the beheadings of Christians in Indonesia, right?
"CAIR will be filing a complaint with relevant authorities in the morning over the treatment of the imams to determine whether the incident was caused by anti-Muslim hysteria by the passengers and/or the airline crew," Hooper said. "Because, unfortunately, this is a growing problem of singling out Muslims or people perceived to be Muslims at airports, and it's one that we've been addressing for some time." Pound Sand A$$hole
CAIR is very good at filing complaints.
Hooper said the meeting drew about 150 imams from all over the country, and that those attending included U.S. Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, D-Minneapolis, who just became the first Muslim elected to Congress. Shahin said they went as far as notifying police and the FBI about their meeting in advance. whaddya call a room full of 150 Imams? answer: a damn good opportunity!/ yep all week, try the veal.
Easy, we don't want them dead, we want them .. talking.
Shahin expressed frustration that _ despite extensive efforts by him and other Muslim leaders since even before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks _ so many Americans know so little about Islam. Bullshit, we know whats important, Islam is NOT a religion of Peace.
"If up to now they don't know about prayers, this is a real problem," he said. headbanging, we know
Perhaps you could have provided a simple explanation to the flight attendant. And perhaps you could have delayed your prayer a few minutes when the attendants asked you to take your seats and buckle up.
Reached by cell phone just after his release, Shahin said he didn't know where they would spend the night or how they would try to get back to Phoenix on Tuesday. Hooper said US Airways refused to put the men on another flight. LOL, Walk to Phoenix then Omar.
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I see no discrimination - just disturbing the peace and bothering other passengers! I'm sure that if 6 Evangelists, or 6 rabbis stood up and started praying they would be thrown off the plane too.
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Hmmm. According to the TV, the men said they were in town for Āa religious conference.Ā Interesting. I was talking today with a guy I know; heĀd been at a suburban hotel for an annual company sales meeting. The regional manager was having a difficult time speaking, since the party in the next conference room was praying about as loudly as is humanly possible, and had followed the prayers with a speaker who expressed in rather . . . forceful terms the depth of Muslim oppression in America. Unless there are several Muslim religious conferences going on in Minneapolis at the moment, IĀd guess that might be the one. If so, I wonder if the reported truculence of the men might have been influenced, or at least reinforced, by the speaker. Whoever he was.
Sounds like they were pumped up on hate Allah and wanted the moment to last.
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"It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping GOD in the manner most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession or sentiments provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship."
John Adams (Thoughts on Government, 1776)
Reference: The Works of John Adams, Charles Adams, ed., 221.
They should have changed their flights to avoid prayer time or used alternate means of travel. I don't want a prayer tower disturbing my peace, either. But if they insist that we be tolerant in the name of freedom of religion, maybe all Muslims flying should be seated next to a zealous evangelical Christian or Jehovah's Witness, armed with tracts and fed Red Bull the entire trip.
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Next time take a car, ragheads. If a group of "imams" stood up on my flight and began to do their chanting, you can bet your bottom dollar that either they or I would be leaving the plane.
#6
Public prayer is a deliberate strategy for occupying public space and imposing the presence of islam (in addition of being an excellent tool for conditioning the oummah and sorting out the "mild" who don't pray and submit as much as their neighbors).
John had an excellent comment on this, and how the hindu nationalists reacted to that trick by mass of muslim "indians" (IE by over swamping them with crowds of hindus massing at muslim prayer places).
In France, for example, entire streets of Marseilles, an heavily islamized city, are totally blocked by crowds of kneeling muslims at each and every prayer time.
This is the exact same strategy for individual or small groups prayers.
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In France, for example, entire streets of Marseilles, an heavily islamized city, are totally blocked by crowds of kneeling muslims at each and every prayer time.
Why does traffic stop?
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"They took us off the plane, humiliated us in a very disrespectful way," said Omar Shahin, of Phoenix.
As humiliating as having to hop on one foot putting my shoes back on with an open computerbag slung on my sholder, every time I am at ORD?...
Sorry Omar, my being raised a Catholic didn't get you perp walked off the plane, but your failure to curb your own trash within Islam should humiliate you every waking moment.
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Aproximately a 50 minutes ago (10:00 am) ABC radio news reported that a "lady passenger" on Flight 300 slipped a note to the flight attendant raising the red flags. It's reported the lady just so happens to be fluent in the language being spoken by the imams. The newscast did not report the exact words of the imams but the lady who overheard them was quite clear "the words were hateful toward the USA and threatening" (at least to the ears of an infidel).
I dare say the words were SOP for a muslim.
Interesting that ABC would report this lady's observation without any slant.
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Per the article above, it appears Imam Omar Shahin is the spokesman for the Minneapolis Six.
Google the name Omar Shahin.
Omar currently hails from Phoenix where he is (or was) Communications Director for AZ CAIR. Omar heads the program sponsored by CAIR: Training on Islam for the US Military. Omar is head of the Muslim Political Action committee for Phoenix CAIR.
Prior to his arrival in Phoenix he was an imam in Tuson where, shortly after 9-11, he opined that he didn't believe muslims were responsible for 9-11. Omar further noted that in the early 1990's his mosque supported OBL in Afghanistan but once the Russians were driven out and the CIA dropped it's support of OBL so did Omar's mosque. (cough, cough)
Google is a wonderful tool. Too bad the MSM doesn't make use of it.
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One last comment on this thread and then I'll let it go:
"The six were among passengers who BOARDED Flight 300, bound for Phoenix, AROUND 6:30 p.m., airport spokesman Pat Hogan said."
Prayer time for muzzies in the Minneapolis time zone (per Islam Finder) on Monday was 6:05 p.m.
May be nothing, but the Minneapolis Six didn't board until 6:30 p.m.
One might say they were a bit late getting to their prayers. Note too, per the article, only three of the six were doing evening prayer. One would think evening prayer would be obligatory on all six imams, not just three of them. Hmmm....
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Other than being reflexively antiAmerican and dependent on Saudi oil money, what do Democrats have in common with CAIR?
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Shahin expressed frustration that _ despite extensive efforts by him and other Muslim leaders since even before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks _ so many Americans know so little about Islam
FU Mr. Imam. Problem for you is we Americans know a LOT about Islam.
Hooray for the passengers who decided not to take that sh*t.
BTW, isn't this the same airport that is staffed heavily by Somali Muzzies? How many of the airport staff attended the "conference"?
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Based on comments here and reports on radio this morning, I'd say these six on the plane weren't conducting prayers but chanting some other thing which was overheard and frightened the other passenger. Some schmuck from CAIR, on a radio interview, was being an apologist and carefully explained they had conducted prayers in the airport, and for disrupting the airport, airport security went aboard the plane and insisted they get off, which they refused to do. This is a direct contradiction to the other tale, where the pilot went back and heard the disruption, asked them to get off the plane. They refused. He called security. They still refusedto budge for security patrol. Then local Minneapolis police redsponded. This seems to be a pack of Muzzie lies, as usual. This is very important to all of us. We can not allow this Muzzie scum to disrupt our way of life. I don't give a shit where these fools cause disruption, if it's in the public arena they should be arrested for disturbing the peace. They should be banned from all public transport..airlines, trains, buses. Let these scum walk, hire private jets, or take autos. I'd really love to encounter a pack of these scumbags in rural Arizona, Kansa, Utah, etc. I believe if they caused a large disturbance in a local diner, for instance, there may be cause for local law to take some action. Law works a little differently in some rural locales.
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The Muslims are Democrats: there are 1.2 billion of them but 1.7 million vote. There must be at least a hundred thousand dead Muslims voting in Detroit alone.
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"Ignorance about Islam"? Au contraire--it's precisely because of an awareness of Islam and its practitioners that there was just such a reaction from the other passengers!
If this were not a staged incident, I would suspect the ignorance--and arrogance--is on the side of the imams. However, I very strongly suspect this was discussed, rehearsed, and performed purposely to generate such a reaction and give the Muzzies yet another more reason to seethe.
Thanks, Mark Z, for the insight to the expected prayer times! Another red flag right there--late prayers on board a plane with only a 50% participation from "scholarly" religious officials? Mmm hmm...
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There's prolly a Time Zone Chart somewhere in the Haddiths.
You just know that the 3 slackers imams were lusting praying in their hearts.
#23
Whoa! Five years ago the figure was 1.2 billion. WTF is going on here?????
Numbers are strenght, therefore numbers are inflated (the 1,2 billions might not even be certain, as all in muslim countries are automatically considered muslim); while I was still watching teevee, I remember several Moderate Muslims getting a bit loose with stats in talk-show, like saying "muslims are 1/3 of the world's population, therefore you've got to respect us", with no one contradicting them, of course.
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I'm expecting that sooner or later, in the name of 'religious tolerance,' all aircraft, in flight, will have to deviate from their normal flight plan and turn towards Mecca, so as to avoid another "Muzzies in the Aisle' episode. (they can stay seated.)
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This smells to me. Most people are so politically correct or at least unwilling to instigate conflict that they wouldn't say a thing unless what was happening was really in your face. I suspect their "prayer session" was planned beforehand to provoke just this reaction. And the bit about the lady who understood arabic (assumption on my part) is really interesting. I wonder what they were really saying. Imagine if they were standing there saying "I hope you all die. The US is shit and we will take it over soon. I hope you all die." in the arrogant belief that no one could understand them. It would be wonderful if what they actually said as understood by the woman were broadcasted far and wide. Undfortunately I know that will never happen.
Always the same. The Islamics blab about fair treatment, complain that they're being discriminated against, and expect "open-mindedness" from their host countries, but never do anything to earn the respect they crave/demand. Besides, it's just a ruse to get Westerners to let their guard down, accept them, then they take over (in time). For anyone who thinks I'm crazy, this strategy of infiltration/out poplulating/ and taking over culturally and politically in order to maker the world "Islamic" is in their own playbooks.
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Islamic victory through (eventual) population replacement.
I dunno for other countries, but the 4 to 6 millions for France at the link is under-estimated IMHO. Official figure has been 6 millions for quite some time already (a decade, I'd say, from what I remember).
True, one non-idiotarian demograph, MichĆØle Tribalat caused quite a stir by estimating the actual number at only 3,7 millions in 2004 (according to her, the gross over-estimation was resulting from numbers inflation by muslim leaders)... but the "officious" number more often advanced is 8-10 millions, growing of at least 80% of 350 000 entries every year (french population is growing relatively fast for a developed country, yet global birthrate is 1,9, below replacement level, all growth comes from immigration, overhemingly african and muslim).
Lately, azouz begag, muslim minister of the "promotion of equality of chances" (yup, you read that right) let slip that there was 15 millions non-europeans here.
Also, in a strictly rumor-mongering way, conservative forums have quoted a (of course) un-named RG official (police intelligence) who supposedly estimated muslim pop in France around 18 millions, from a 62 millions pop... which would explain the "go with the flow" and panic of the Establishment (I have no doubt actual numbers, whatever they are, are fully known by the power).
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I know the article states they're from the Phoenix area. But, with that other goon being stopped last week in Detroit (from Kenya to Amsterdam to Detroit to Phoenix) heading to Phoenix also, I wonder if something's up. Everytime I hear Phoenix, I think of the warning on Adnan Shukrijumah, the supposed next mastermind. Add that the Detroit boy had info on nuclear materials and cyanide on his laptop, carrying ~$80,000 in cash, could these goons being planning to "meet up" w/ Shurkrijumah in Phoenix (he's supposedly thought to be trying to sneak across our southern border into the US)? Maybe I'm being a lil' too much of a conspiracy theorist, but the timing of all this is suspect to me (FBI on Shukrijumah went out this summer, I believe). And pre-9/11, I was a completely level-headed engineer who wouldn't ever suspected a conspiracy like that. It makes me question everything now.
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When the tumor is too big to excise without killing the host, the host is already dead - it serves only the tumor.
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He attributed any concerns by passengers or crew to ignorance about Islam.
Wrongo. I'd wager the passengers' concerns were due explicitly to knowledge of Islam and not otherwise. Any sane airline passenger had damn well better be concerned upon hearing a group of beturbaned Muslims proclaim "Allahu Snackbar!" in their presence.
Take a guess at how many people have heard those same exact words just before meeting with a horrible death.
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Everytime I hear Phoenix, I think of the warning on Adnan Shukrijumah, the supposed next mastermind.
One of the first murders carried out by al'Fuqra was in the Phoenix area. I suspect the area has quite a jihadi population.
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Just out of curiosity, did any fellow passengers tell em to sit down and shut up?
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Here's some photos of the poor "humiliated" gents. Nope...can't imagine anybody getting nervous about boarding a plane with them...damn irrational fears anyhow.
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saw several of them in the local cantina, eating great mex food and swilling hate dos equis. I'm sure it's the same in AZ
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I've already told about being on flights out of Saudi where there is an announcement by the pilot when the plane crosses out of Saudi airspace... Never heard that any other time on any other flights, lol. And, of course, 50 Sky Waitress call lights immediately go off and the wymyns all head to the head to change out of their Ninja sacks.
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Excellent!
ABC reports just now that when they attempted to reboard this morning, US airways enforced its "Sorry- no flying for bad boys" policy after refunding their tickets last night.
"But what are our rights as American citizens?!?" says disrupted iman.
They sounded a lot like the final team who misses the connection on Amazing Race 10, and they just know they will be last to make the carpet.
20 hours later, they finally get aboard a NW Airlines. It would have been quicker to grab one of those pious islamic taxi drivers in Minneapolis and drive to Phoenix.
"Team Iman.. I am sorry to tell you you are the last team to arrive. You have been eliminated."
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"But what are our rights as American citizens?!?" says disrupted iman.
Lol, Capsu78! Mebbe the answer should be, "Precisely the same 'rights' as a non-Muzzy receives in Saudi." That reciprocal laws thingy has always made perfect sense to me.
But what are our rights as American citizens?!?" says disrupted iman.
1) Still Alive
2) Not tortured
3) Body parts still attached and functioning
4) freedom to bitch and moan give your version of what happened without impinging on (1),(2), and (3)
5) free to walk home on the public highways, as long as you don't make a nuisance of yourselves.
6) some others I haven't mentioned.
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.com: your metaphor in #32 has put me a jolly holiday mood tonight (meaning I got myself an extra large G&T).
Question: Based on your experience in the Magic Kingdom, is there no such thing as "silent prayer" among the muzzies? I know such a thing exists in my religion (indeed, silent prayer is standard). What about amongst...you know...them?
I ask this in all seriousness because the Minneapolis Six will claim discrimination because of "who" they are. In truth it was their "behavior" that got them booted off the plane.
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No, they don't pray silently - there's a "prayer leader" (and I assume all of these yankers qualify for that dubious title) who does the chant thingy for the prayees (the 5 daily prayers are all different, of course, lol). Have I ever been in a moskkk to hear this for myself, you ask? Nope. Didn't need to. Though there were moskkks all over Aramco, I was "privileged" to have some zoomers who found it inconvenient, so they just took over a large cube and started holding the noon prayer - and it was right next to mine.
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Over at Powerline, there's a report that three of these jerks asked for seatbelt extensions, but the crew didn't think they needed them.
Why ask for one if you don't need one? It would make the seatbelt worthless, and would be uncomfortable -- instead of one buckle, you'd have to deal with two.
Then it occurs to me. The extension would make a handy flail, if you were so inclined.
Nah. Just a suspicious mind.
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That answers that. Thanks.
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DepotGuy,
Thanks for photo link. Those are scary lokkin' MF'ers if you ask me. I think we need a new law that offers a bounty for anyone looking like a likely camel molester. How did worthless shits like these jackoffs get to be citizens ? Are they citizens ? That is really scary. Damn, got to head out to the garage and work on loading more brass.
A federal judge overturned a lower ruling Monday and ordered detention for a man stopped at Detroit Metropolitan Airport with articles about nuclear plants and suitcase bombs and the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
U.S. District Judge Paul D. Borman ruled Sisayehiticha Dinssa, 34, was both a flight risk and a danger to the community. He overturned a ruling by U.S. Magistrate Judge R. Steven Whalen, who earlier on Monday ordered Dinssa released under strict supervision.
Good call, judge. How in the world could someone release this joker?
Dinssa, an Ethiopian-born U.S. citizen who lists his address as Dallas, Texas, was arrested Tuesday at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after arriving from Kenya by way of Amsterdam. He is charged with currency smuggling after telling Customs agents he was only carrying about $18,000 before a search of his luggage turned up nearly $80,000.
Though he faces no terrorism charges to date, Assistant U.S. Attorney Leonid Feller told Borman that evidence found in Dinssa's luggage and inside his laptop computer makes him a potential threat to national security. Agents found articles about nuclear plants, suitcase bombs and a hard-copy commemorative edition of the Dallas Morning News from Sept. 11, 2002 -- the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Feller said.
Does seem a little suspicious, doesn't it.
Agents also found a hand-written note saying: "This community is angry. Something is going to happen. We are going to see justice. This is a powder keg waiting to go off."
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I'm sure they wanted to let him out in order to follow him around and see who he contacted.
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Judge R. Stephen Whalen - appointed Sept 11, 2002. Apparently that date is all about him, probably still upset that people think about it for other reasons. Asshole
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Judges who continue to make these idiot decisions need to be held up for public escoriation. We can not, as a society, afford these idiots to imperil our safety with their personal adgendas. They need to be removed from the bench if they can not make reasonable decisions.
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related hidden currency note: this morning there was a very brief news article concerning the fact that customs agents caught a man ( no name or nationality given, IIRC) bringing in >$80K inside a false bottom in a vehicle gas tank. this was at the Peach Arch border crossing in Blaine WA. drug runner, or something more sinister?????? no mention of it in this morning's two Seattle papers.
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You would think news about suspicious activities at border crossings would make the local news every day right after the first reports, but I guess the MSM just ain't interested. The Detroit papers (1) and (2) seem to do a pretty good job for their locale, and I check them every day for news related to the jihad.
A second man was charged Monday with conspiring to support terrorists by enabling customers to obtain satellite broadcasts of a Hezbollah television station. Saleh Elahwal, 53, of Matawan, New Jersey, was charged in a case that has drawn scrutiny over how far the federal government can go in claiming someone is helping terrorist groups.
In August, Javed Iqbal of Staten Island was charged with helping his customers receive broadcasts of al Manar, which the U.S. government designated as a global terrorist entity this year. Prosecutors said FBI agents found multiple satellite dishes that helped Iqbal distribute the broadcasts through a Brooklyn company called HDTV Limited.
Al Manar features news programming that promotes Hezbollah's positions and shows statements from the terror group and speeches by its leader, the federal government has said. Iqbal has been subject to electronic monitoring since he was released on $250,000 (Ā194,690) bail over the objections of the government after his initial arrest. Iqbal and Elahwal each could face up to 110 years in prison if they are convicted of all 11 counts in the rewritten indictment unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. The indictment accused the men of carrying out the scheme from September 2005 through August.
Messages left with lawyers for both men were not immediately returned. Farhan Memon, a spokesman for Iqbal, said the case would leave Americans outraged if it were the governments of Iran or China banning major U.S. news stations and saying they were terrorist outlets. Americans, he said, would "be hopping up and down crying, 'Freedom of speech! Freedom of the press!'"
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Quit palying with them. Stick them in a hole and throw away the key.
KASHMIRI terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba is believed to have recruited a "honeytrap brigade" of female militants to gather vital information from Indian soldiers about troop deployments and strategy. The existence of the brigade has reportedly alarmed Indian security agencies already concerned about incidents in which their soldiers have passed on classified information to the terror group linked to al-Qa'ida.
Intelligence agencies have become aware of a steady stream of women returning to Kashmir after receiving arms and tactical training in camps in Pakistani territory. The interrogation of a 20-year-old Kashmiri woman, Khalida Akhtar, arrested in Srinagar recently, revealed details of the band of women terrorists. The woman had got to know an Indian army officer and had met him several times and attempted to get information from him. But the officer approached his superiors, and the woman was arrested when she arrived to meet him at a Srinagar park.
Members of the honeytrap brigade were being used "to trap army officers and jawans (soldiers) to monitor troop movements so LeT gains vantage positions" during encounters with the Indian armed forces, it was reported last night.
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The Indians better instruct their soldiers to suspect every woman, and pick them up for questioning and water board swimming before having some fun.
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The Indians better instruct their soldiers to suspect every woman, and pick them up for questioning and water board swimming before having some fun.
Lately, that seems unnecessary. Forcible rape in broad daylight seems to be fast becoming the national sport there.
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John will correct me, but I think the rape epidemic is not new, what's new is the recognition of the problem and increased awareness, as the country gets a growing middle class.
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Why would anyone be surprised by this? The Soviets trained every major terrorist group {outside the Chechens} before they fell, and they were the undisputed masters of the honeytrap. SOP for the Soviets, so SOP for the terrorists.
(KUNA) -- A bomb exploded early on Monday outside a shop in Pakistani tribal agency of South Waziristan bordering Afghanistan but there was no life loss, officials said. The time bomb exploded outside a snookers' shop in Tank town of South Waziristan agency, the security officials told KUNA. They said there was no life loss but the explosion damaged the shop. No group claimed responsibility for the blast, but local political officials suspected local pro-Taliban militants planted the bomb.
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The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has directed all banks and development financial institutions to freeze the accounts of two granddaughters of late tribal chieftain Nawab Akbar Bugti because of their alleged links with the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA).
Ummm... How long's he been croaked?
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Terrorist organisations have despatched suicide bombers around the country to attack government officials and other VIPs, according to intelligence reports sent to the Interior Ministry.
According to one report, at least eight suicide bombers have been sent for attacks, and two of these completed their missions with the recent blasts at Dargai and Peshawar. A separate report says another 11 suicide bombers have been sent to target VIPs, diplomats and embassies, and foreign businesses, sources told Daily Times. The bombers are said to be Pakistanis and Afghans. The Interior Ministry has ordered heightened security around the country, particularly around Afghan refugee camps.
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Attention all points; be on the lookout for muslims with explosives.
An explosion ripped through two cars of a passenger train in eastern India on Monday, killing four people and injuring at least 50 others, police said. The cause of the blast was not immediately known. It was not clear if any explosive device had been planted in the train or on the track.
The explosion occurred near Belacoba train station, about 550 kilometers (345 miles) north of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal state, said the state's Home Secretary Prasad Ranjan Roy. Officials did not name any suspect, and no one immediately claimed responsibility.
More, from Bangla Daily Star...
Ten people died and at least 60 were injured yesterday in a blast that rocked a passenger train in the West Bengal, a spokesman for the Indian Railways said. The train was on its way from Haldibari to New Jalpaiguri in the state when the explosion hit one of its carriages at Belakoba station, 500km from the state capital Kolkata, said Prasad Ranjan Roy, West Bengal's home secretary. "Six people were killed and 60 wounded in the blast," Trikal Rabha, a spokesman for Northeastern Frontier Railway, told AFP from Guwahati city in neighbouring Assam state. "The toll may go up as 25 people are in a critical state."
Rescue workers have reached the spot and are shifting the injured to hospitals in New Jalpaiguri, 18 kilometres (11 miles) from site of the blast, Rabha added. It was not immediately known what caused the explosion as the area where the blast took place is in a remote corner of West Bengal state, bordering the Himalayan countries of Bhutan and Nepal, police said. Separatist rebels of the Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) -- fighting for a separate homeland -- are known to be active in the region, police said. The KLO is known to maintain close links with the banned United Liberation Front of Asom, one of the most powerful insurgent groups operating in India's restive northeast.
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Now, whaddaya think the odds may be of Muzzie participation ? 1000:1 ? Funny, wherever there's Muzzies, there's explosions.
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Not this time, SO. It's more likely local commie hard boyz. Not many muzzies in that part of India. I may be wrong - there seems to be a lot of leaking along the India/Bangladesh border, and it's not about "jobs" - at least, not work-type jobs. There are about six different local groups demanding "autonomy" in the region, and they also play with explosives.
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OT. That train looks like the 20th Century Limited.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces backed by helicopters swept into BaghdadĀs Sadr City Shiite slum in a dark-of-night raid Tuesday that netted seven militiamen, including one believed to know the whereabouts of an American soldier kidnapped nearly a month ago.
Angry Shiites denounced the raid and a lawmaker from the district stood outside the Imam Ali hospital, holding the body of a boy killed in the attack and vowing he would not return to parliament until all American forces were out of Iraq.
Police said three Iraqis, including the boy, were killed and 15 wounded. No soldiers were hurt, the military said.
The raid came just weeks after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, had taken on the role of protector of the sprawling Sadr City district by ordering the U.S. military to lift a blockade of the slum.
American forces had sealed the district for several days looking for kidnapped U.S. soldier Ahmed Qusai al-Taayie, a 41-year-old reservist from Ann Arbor, Mich. He was visiting his Iraqi wife in Baghdad on Oct. 23 when he was handcuffed and abducted by suspected rogue gunmen from the Mahdi Army, a militia loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
Trading gunfire
The 3 a.m. assault in the east Baghdad grid of streets lined with tumbledown concrete block structures and vacant lots was the third in four days by U.S. and Iraqi forces.
The U.S. command said Iraqi forces came under fire during the raid, and that U.S. aircraft returned fire.
The operation Ādetained an illegal armed group kidnapping and murder cell leader ... reported to have firsthand knowledge of the control and movementĀ of al-Taayie, the military said, adding that six other cell members also were detained.
Al-Sadr is a major political backer of al-Maliki, who had rejected American demands to disband the heavily armed militias and their death squads that have carried out a brutal campaign of revenge attacks on IraqĀs Sunni minority in a cycle of violence following the Feb. 22 bombing of a Shiite shrine.
Al-Maliki, however, looked the other way during most recent joint U.S.-Iraqi raids, an about-face his aides said was prompted by anger over the U.S. soldierĀs abduction and a mass kidnapping carried out this month by suspected Mahdi Army gunmen. Mustache cursing at link.
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Mustache cursing at link.
>:)
U.S., Iraqi forces sweep Sadr City
for all that is holyw Let our guys and gals finish the job this time!
BAGHDAD, Iraq Ā Coalition Forces conducted an operation against terrorist activities in the vicinity of al-Habbaniyah Tuesday.
Intelligence reports indicated two targeted buildings were being used for terrorist activity. Coalition Forces discovered a weapons cache consisting of rocket-propelled grenades, multiple explosives and small arms in the first targeted building.
After breaching the second targeted building and discovering another weapons cache, Coalition Forces realized the building was a mosque. There were no external markings on the building to indicate it was a mosque. You could only tell because of the weapons cache.
Both the weapons cache from the mosque and the weapons cache from the first building were destroyed.
Unfortunately, no reports of the mosque itself being destroyed.
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I still believe that munitions caches should be blown up "as is", "where is". After a while home owners and Imams will be a little more selective about who stores what in the basement.
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"Coalition Forces Attack Mosque Insurgent Stronghold and Weapons Cache."
There that's better.
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Another armory taken down. Did they blow it or leave it standing ? Once these are used for military purposes they should not be left standing. Further, the local imam should be marched out and executed for complicity right on the spot.
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If Islam is a religion of peace, then any place of worship that condemns weapons cannot be a 'mosque,' and should be hit with 500 pounders. Of course, maybe Islam is not a religion of peace.
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Henceforth and history not withstanding, it should be standard military policy that every jihadi/terrorist weapons cache found should be destroyed WHEREVER it lies.
Collateral damage aside, over time the boyz'll get the message. If it takes them awhile, so be it.
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You could only tell because of the weapons cache.
Amen.
There is a downside to destroying the weapons storage facilities mosques, though: It will be harder to find the caches if you have more places to look. :-)
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Islam has no room for humor. No room for joy. No room for lightheartedness. No room for the things that make life worth living. It must be destroyed, or it will inevitably mean enslavement for all.
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Thank you mojo. You're right. The words I was lookin' for were: 'tough room".
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Redd Foxx told the story of his ancestor who fought in the Revolutionary War: he was heard to shout out from the battlefield "DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES!"
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Bob Hope used to talk about playing "tough rooms" in Cicero Illinois during the "gangster era." He said "the only reason we had intermissions was so the audience could reload."
(KUNA) -- Three members of the Iraqi army and police were killed on Monday and four others wounded when a booby-trapped car driven by an insurgent exploded near a joint police and army patrol in Al-Baaj district west of Mosul in north of Iraq.
Furthermore, Iraqi police source in Mosul told KUNA that unidentified gunmen assassinated today head of the sciences department in the Faculty of Medicine Dr. Ahmad Al-Taei.
Director of Joint Coordination in the Mosul Police said that the security authorities had found 47 corpses including 25 that were fetched in the city's eastern sector. Eleven corpses were found in the other part of the city while six others were fetched in various parts of the city.
In other developments, spokesman of the US army General William Caldwel said the security forces in Iraq had been able since the beginning of this year to kill and arrest more than 1,000 foreign insurgents. Speaking at a news conference, Caldwel said that 425 foreign fighters were killed and 670 others arrested including some who carried Syrian, Sudanese, Egyptian and Saudi nationalities. He added that 50 to 60 foreign fighters infiltrate into Iraq across the Iraqi-Syrian borders.
Daily? Weekly? Monthly?
Abdelaziz Al-Hakeem, head of the parliamentary majority called on the Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al-Mualem to control the Syrian part of the border by forbidding the infiltrators from crossing the borders into Iraq.
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(KUNA) -- Two Iraqi civilians were killed Monday when mortar shells fell on one of the biggest crowded shopping districts in the capital, while an Iraqi government official survived an assassination attempt, Iraqi police said. An Iraqi police source told KUNA three mortar shells targeted the Elwah Jamailah market close to Al-Sadr city in Baghdad. The source added the attack resulted in killing two people and injuring four others.
Meanwhile, Iraqi government television said Iraq's Health Ministry Undersecretary Hakim Al-Zamili survived today an assassination attempt as two of his body guards were killed in the same incident in eastern Baghdad. The assassination attempt comes in a series of other attacks targeting Iraqi officials. One such official was kidnapped from his house in Al-Athamyia north of Baghdad.
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gotta get some euros for the Christmas shopping, ya know?
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Remember the man: Fabrizio Quattrocchi. He died with honor and dignity. The western ideal of honor and dignity is unknowable to the islamic mindset.
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Why is anyone providing aid to the enemies of civilization?
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Must be the Italians aren't 100% on their side yet.
Hamas is "very satisfied" with reports here some Israelis in communities near the Gaza Strip are ready to flee their rocket-plagued towns while students reportedly have been skipping school for fear of being caught in regular Palestinian attacks, a senior leader of Hamas' so-called "military wing" told WND in an interview yesterday. "The importance of what is happening in Sderot proves to the Palestinians, especially those who say rockets bring no results, that rocket attacks do bring big benefits," said Abu Abdullah, who is considered one of the most important operational members of Hamas' Izzedine al-Qassam Martyrs Brigades, Hamas' declared military wing. "We promise we will keep hitting them because this process (of launching rockets at Jewish communities) is starting to bring results. We are working to improve our rockets to hit further and cause more Jews to evacuate," said the terror leader, speaking to WND from Gaza.
Sderot is an Israeli city of about 20,000 located nearly three miles from the Gaza Strip border. Since Israel's withdrawal from Gaza last summer, hundreds of rockets have slammed into the town and other nearby Jewish communities fired by Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip. Four rockets landed in Sderot yesterday and eight more landed nearby.
Qassam rockets have been hitting as far as the strategic port city of Ashkelon, about five miles from Gaza, which is home to large oil refineries and one of Israel's most powerful electric generators. Qassams are improvised steel rockets, about four feet long, filled with explosives and fuel. They can travel between one and five miles depending on the sophistication of the particular rocket
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This is the kind of news Europe needs to read as we only hear that the Israeli are the aggressors and the Paleos are innocent victimised poor people!!!!
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I mean the kids are getting a day off school, how often do I get to do that... rarely! Get the kids back in school and do whatever is possible to make that happen!!! Rabble!
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The Israelis are on the verge of giving up. All the signs are there. Because they won't go Roman on the Paleos, they're being worn down to nothing, from a will power perspective.
And that is pretty much the way it will go here and elsewhere. There will be too few with the will to resist, and they will be actively undermined by the lemmings that wish to commit suicide.
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The West is dying if not just a already dead rotting corpse the scavengers are picking at.
Isreal's & the West's only hope in this war is to push the LLL forces out of power and go old school. Isreal's only way to stop those rockets is to respond in kind X 10 unashamed at the civilian loses that will result. Counter battery fire from either Artilery, Missiles, or air power should answer every rocket. They launch a rocket Isreal levels that block in Paleo land. It would be short order after that the Paleo's would either realize they were playing a losing game or thier was none left to worry about.
I am starting to believe the real WAR is right here. The LLL's for the sake of thier warm fuzzies are going to drive the West into Death at which point I guess the past descretions of the west will be vindicated and the LLL's can go to thier grave redeemed or something.
How did we sink so low even our very lives are no longer worth fighting for.
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I was going to comment, but C-Low hit it dead on. My only addition is use artillery. It is devastating when you're on receiving end. Just fire at will and take out the bolocks living everywhere near origin point. When they all suffer enough they'll stop. Not until.
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How did we sink so low even our very lives are no longer worth fighting for.
Free LOVE! If it FEELS GOOD, do IT! Don't spank your kids. You are not responsible for your actions, you're a victim! The MAN is holding you/me down! Forget God, live for today!
Pick one, or all of them. It was the infectious memes spread by the LLL and their willing accomplices in the MSM. What needs to be done here and abroad is ugly, so, it won't get done. Humanity heads once more into the long darkness of barbarianism. It will be slow, and painful.
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I think there are enough of us who are willing to go Mongol on the entire world that we won't go quietly. As for Israel, sooner or later they're going to have to flatten Gaza. The sooner they do it, the fewer Israeli casualties there will be. It will also send a HUGE message to Hezbollah that they better watch what they wish for, they may get it. Raw, naked power is the only thing the muzzie mindset can understand. We need to show them we can be - and will be - the nastiest group on the earth. When the LLL raises its ugly head and starts moaning, they need to find an axehandle making contact with their forebrain. We're in a two-front war - against the muzzie totalitarians and the LLL moonbats. We need to be equally vicious with both. It's the only way we as a civilization can survive.
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I think the West has alot more resolve the people give us credit for. The problem as everyone points out is the LLL types who won't condone what we NEED to do unless we get several cities nuked. And even then they'll be saying what a shame it is that we have to do it.
I'm simply waiting until something ignites a firestorm among us that causes us to finally take action.
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Since the MSM are, wholsesale, on the other side, there prolly is a serious disconnect in the perception vs. reality.
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Izz el-Deen al-Qassam, the armed wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, said it launched the makeshift rockets at Sderot and had not known Arbour would be there.
nice fuck up. Now go pound them,IAF
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Bet that went over like a TURD IN A PUNCHBOWL!!!
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An obvious Israeli plot. 1) Muslims do not believe in violence 2) Why would Muslims rocket their own land? (The Israelis are temporary keepers of the property.) 3) Who stands to gain? (The Zionist spreaders of propoganda putting Israel in a false light.)
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Actually it was a set-up so that after the UN personnel died, the UN could have blamed the Jews again. I'm sure they would have found a way to do that.
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Yes, AH9418. We feel that the Joooos should've kept our supreme personnel safe at all times. But, the Joooos shan't be too hasty in defending themselves, ya know.
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Entire segments of the security fence near Jerusalem have been breached, allowing dozens of Palestinians to enter the country from the West Bank on a daily basis, Channel 10 reported on Monday evening. According to the report, no fence remained at all for a stretch of some eight kilometers, and every meter or so, the upper part of the fence was bent. Holes in the barrier were noted approximately every 100 meters, and the alarm system had been disconnected. The discovery raises the question of the effectiveness of the barrier, which was built to keep terrorists from infiltrating the country.
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Olmert's not responsible...in fact he's irresponsible.
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Isn't the IDF handling the fence? Why in Gods name is this being allowed to happen?
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Israeli morale is low these days. Its time for some major pre-emption.
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For all their faults, the old Communists understood how to handle borders. Of course they were working at keeping people IN, but the same principles would apply to keeping them OUT. If they enter the kill zone, kill them.
Unidentified gunmen fired shots at Ramallah Mayor Janet Mikhail's car while it was parked outside her office early Monday morning. They also fired at the municipality building and at the home of one of the mayor's senior aides. No one was wounded, but Mikhail's car was hit by several bullets.
A group of gunmen, some of them wearing masks, approached the municipality building and opened fire with automatic rifles at the mayor's car and office, eyewitnesses told The Jerusalem Post. The gunmen fled before Palestinian Authority policemen arrived at the scene. Following the attacks, scores of municipality workers staged a sit-in strike in front of the municipality building, demanding that PA security forces take measures against the perpetrators. The workers complained that this was not the first such attack on the municipality building. Local residents also complained that their city had become a safe haven for gangs and criminals who are intimidating them and extorting wealthy families. According to the residents, some of the gangsters introduce themselves as members of various PA security forces and Fatah. In recent months several restaurants were targeted by armed gangsters demanding money and jobs. The attacks have prompted some merchants to close their businesses and leave the city.
Mikhail, a Roman Catholic, is Ramallah's first woman mayor. She was chosen as mayor in December 2005 by the newly elected 15-member city council, which voted 9-6 to elect her after the three Hamas-affiliated Change and Reform council members supported her. She was headmistress of a girls school in Ramallah for 20 years before retiring. Mikhail ran in the municipal election as a political independent, although some residents believed she was affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Her Ramallah for All list won six seats.
In response to the shootings, Mikhail called on the PA to form a commission of inquiry into Ramallah's state of anarchy and lawlessness. She described the assailants as outcasts and thugs. No group claimed responsibility for the attack and the motive remained unclear.
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Gunmen shoot at Ramallah mayor's car. Or Hells little Helpers shot up the place.
That the story and the history of the West Bank and Gaza, the beginning period, the middle period and The End.
IDF troops arrested a wanted Islamic Jihad operative who barricaded himself in a house in Bethlehem on Monday. During the operation, troops also shot and wounded three Palestinians who threw Molotov cocktails at the soldiers, according to the IDF spokesperson.
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(KUNA) -- A Palestinian rocket hit Monday a house in southern Israel, said an Israeli army spokesperson. In a statement to Israeli radio, he said the rocket, launched from northern Gaza Strip, caused destruction to the house, but did not result in any casualties. According to the spokesperson, Palestinian gunmen launched eight rockets on southern Israel today, most of which targeted Sderot.
Meanwhile, Palestinian Fatah Movement's military wing claimed responsibility launching a "developed rocket" on Saad area in southern Israel. "The bombing is a continuation to resistance and Jihad against the enemy and retaliation to the massacres carried out by the Zionist enemy in northern Gaza," said the movement in a statement issued in Gaza.
Hamas' military wing also claimed responsibility for the Qassam rockets that targeted Israeli settlements in eastern Gaza Strip today. "We will retaliate to the bombing of civilian houses by bombarding Zionist settlements and the Zionist will pay the price of its crimes," said Hamas' military wing in a statement.
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(KUNA) -- Hundreds of Palestinians gathered around and at the home of a Hamas activist in Gaza city, after he was threatened to be bombed by Israeli warplanes, said eyewitnesses on Monday. "The Israeli occupation army told the Hamas activist, Jamal Sayam, over the phone that they intended to bomb his house tonight," said the eyewitnesses.
According to local Gaza radio, the Israeli army gave Sayam 10 minutes to evacuate his house before Israeli rockets hit it. Mosques called through speakers for Gaza city's residents to protect the house in Zaitona district, they said, noting that hundreds of Palestinians formed a "human shield" at and around the house.
Leaders of different Palestinian factions participated in the protest, insisting they would not leave the house as long as the Israeli threat continued. A similar protest took place earlier today Beit Lahai to protect the house of Palestinian Interior Ministry leader, Wael Rajab, who also received a threat from Israeli forces.
Meanwhile, Hamas' military wing announced launching today a rocket at an Israeli military location East of Jahar Al-Deik village in mid Gaza Strip. The operation had come in retaliation to Israeli aggression against Palestinian people, said a statement by the Hamas' brigades.
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Something doesn't quite ring true, if you had a military strike underway 10mins just doesn't work. Prob just the paleo hysteria machine in action. On the other hand all those terro wanabees in one place would make a damned tempting target to some IAF leftenant.
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If this is going to be the Palestinian response with Israel backing down for fear of killing human shields, then Israel should make it a point to start making multiple calls, prank calls if you will, warning of imminent destruction.
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I would if I were the IDF. Call every half hour with a new location to bomb. After a few days with no REM sleep because of all the hollering over the loudspeakers, residents will tell them to knock it off. And then the fun can begin again. Do you think a Hamas operative will stay put if he gets a call, even if his brainwashed drones human shields don't show up?
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This is just plain nuts! Israel: knock off the phone calls and just start bouncing the rubble. Make some if there isn't any where you need it; quit phuqueing around with these sand apes. Either that, or as previously posted, start calling everybody; i am pretty sure there are some out of work campaign workers here in the States that know how to work a phone tree for you.
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Per Frank's suggestion, let these idjits respond to a given call-ahead only to watch another location within line-of-sight get demolished. Preferrably close enough to where some of the gathering gets hit with shrapnel or debris. Make them understand that such actions are futile and hazardous to their health. Goodness knows that there's no shortage of close proximity target pairs.
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I'll bet the human shields never saw the Hamas target being whisked away to safety. Bet the leaders didn't pop their faces into the media scrum until long after the drop time had passed without attack.
Two Hamas operatives were killed and four people were seriously wounded, including a 1-year-old girl, when an IAF missle blew up a car in Gaza City after nightfall Monday. The army confirmed the strike. The car was hit while parking in front of the house of a well-known Hamas member in the Shejaiyeh neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, near the border with Israel, when an IAF missile wrecked the car, Hamas officials said. They identified the dead as Abdel Khader Habib, a field commander, and his bodyguard. A third person escaped from the vehicle, they said.
But at least they got a really good car swarm in.
On Monday, nine people were wounded in an air strike that targeted a car carrying Hamas members.
Elsewhere Tuesday, the IDF shot and killed a Palestinian man who pulled a gun on troops near the Bekaa valley settlement of Peza'el on Monday evening, Israel Radio reported. A further investigation revealed, however, that the man had been armed with a toy gun.
But he was really dead.
A bit more, from KUNA
(KUNA) -- The Israel war planes assassinated on Monday night two members of the Ezzidine Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas military wing, in Gaza after bombarding their vehicle with a rocket. Palestinian medical and security sources said that an Israeli warplane fired one rocket at a white Mitsubishi in Al-Shjaiya suburb in east of here leaving the two men killed. The sources added that four people who were nearby were wounded including a one-year-old girl.
They added that the two martyrs, Abdelqader Habib and Basel Obeid were taken to Al-Shifa hospital. They are among the field commanders in the Brigades.
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They added that the two martyrs, Abdelqader Habib and Basel Obeid were taken to Al-Shifa hospital
in ziploc quart-sized freezer bags
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The rockets keep coming, the martyrs keep going.
Beirut, 21 Nov. (AKI) - Lebanon's Industry Minister, Pierre Gemayel was shot dead in Beirut on Tuesday by unknown gunmen. The minister was hit when the motorcade he was travelling in drove through a Christian neighbourhood in the Lebanese capital. A Christian, Gemayel was the son of a former Lebaneser president Amin Gemayel and a prominent anti-Syrian politician. RIP. I believe he is the son of Amin Gemayel, former Christian president of Lebanon.
Assassinations are seldom solved in Leb. My guess is that the killers won't be found. They're likely in the same place is the guys who killed Tueni and maimed May Chidiac. They may even be the very same people. I'm also guessing that if they were caught they'd coincidentally be either Shiites (barely likely not) or owned by Syria. Kofi's back to asking Syria and Iran to ensure Leb's "stability," which recall Syria did for the past 30 years or so. Once the civil war's fired up again, Syria will be the logical candidate to step in and do what it does best, which is to colonize its neighbor.
More, from Ya Liban...
Prominent anti-Syrian Christian politician Pierre Gemayel was assassinated in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday. Gemayel, an outspoken critic of Syria, was assassinated near Beirut on Tuesday, security sources said. Gunmen opened fire as his convoy drove through the Christian Sin el-Fil neighbourhood. Gemayel was rushed to hospital where he later died of his wounds.
Gemayel, a member of the Christian Phalange Party and industry minister, was the son of former President Amin Gemayel. He was an opponent of the influence in Lebanon of Syria, who many Lebanese blame for the February 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
Lebanon is in the throes of a political storm pitting the anti-Syrian ruling majority against the pro-Damascus opposition. The political tension threatens a new civil war to spill into street confrontations.
Lebanon's Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said on Tuesday his depleted cabinet was legitimate despite the resignation of six pro-Syrian ministers, and warned that any anti-government protests could turn violent. Pro-Syrian Hezbollah and its allies are preparing to take to the streets to topple Siniora's government, which they accuse of being allied with the United States, arguing that it has lost its legitimacy since Shi'ite Muslims are no longer represented.
The depleted cabinet last week approved draft U.N. statutes for a tribunal to try the killers of Hariri despite the resignation of six pro-Syrian ministers. Many Lebanese blame Syria for the killing of Hariri in a suicide truck bombing last year. Damascus denies involvement. A U.N. commission investigating the assassination has implicated senior Lebanese and Syrian security officials.
Gemayel is the first anti-Syrian politician to be killed since Gebran Tueni, who was assassinated in a car bomb blast on December 12, 2005.
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"shot in his car in Jdeideh, a Christian neighborhood, his constituency on the northern edge of Beirut."
Get people talking about who they saw in the area-EVERYONE they saw. You'll have to cut through some hysterical gossip, but there will be grains of truth in all that talk.
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According to the Lebanese blog http://blacksmithsoflebanon.blogspot.com/ (Note: unverified):
Update:
The FPM political and news website has just reported an attack on the offices of Minister of State Michel Pharaon, said to have taken place at the same time as the assassination of Minister of Industry Gemayel.
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Circular history in action - who says history is an upward pointing line on a sheet of graph paper? Its 1982 again, Bashir is elected and soon after blown up by the Syrians. When the Phalange had the backing of the Israeli Army they couldn't get the job done, how in the hell can they take on Syria now?
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Am I the only one who's having a hard time feeling sorry for these idjits? Yeah, it's sad that parts of Lebanon's pluralistic population have to go through such insanity, but at the same time, the usual corruption and terrorist alliances nigh well demand they enjoy this sort of mayhem on a regular basis. It's just too bad that the bad guys don't get their share of the lead. Maybe it should serve as a cue to the other factions that they need to dust off their armories.
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Via Victor Davis Hanson writing at The Corner. I still hope he has Dick Cheney's ear.
Re: Syria's Strategy [Victor Davis Hanson]
Another assassination in Lebanon, by the same Syrian thugs who have killed so many in Lebanon-and long ago were de facto invited into that country to offer "order" by the same Bakerism that has now returned.
One of the great achievements of the present Bush administration was forcing Syria out of Lebanon and allowing democracy a chance there. Do we really wish to undo all that by offering protocols and concessions to those who are aiding in the killing of our soldiers in Iraq?
What I like about the Bush administration is its principled resolve: as the hawkish liberals bailed, so they stayed the course; as the paleos condemned them as naifs and worse, they kept trying to push reform in the Middle East; when many of the Neocons bailed on the war they so long wanted, they still were firm.
But after going through all that, would they really sit down with murderous regimes in Iran and Syria, whose intelligence operatives are daily killing reformers from Beirut to Baghdad, and who are the archetypes of all that they abhor in the Middle East? Say it ain't so.
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A dpa wire announced that Pierre Gemayel will be buried on Wednesday. Hez and their allies are expected to begin their street demonstrations on Thursday.
Excerpt from the link:
The Anti-Syrian Lebanese "March 14 Forces" called on their followers Tuesday for a massive participation in the burial of Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel. "The March 14 forces calls on their followers and friends who took part in the Revolution for the Independence to participate massively in the popular burial of the heroic martyr Pierre Gemayel," said former MP Fares Saeed, reading a statement by the March 14 forces.
The service will be held at the Maronite Catholic cathedral of St. George in downtown Beirut at 1100 GMT on Thursday after it was delayed from Wednesday, said the statement.
(KUNA) -- The Lebanese military said Monday that two Israeli reconnaissance planes have violated Lebanese air space in several southern areas. Lebanese army said in a statement that one Israeli aircraft breached the southern parts of the country in the early hours today, while another jet which made circles coming from sea close to southern city of Tyre. Yesterday, two Israeli planes have breached Lebanese airspace as a sign of a continuous violation to Lebanese air space and direct Security Council resolutions.
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