The Foreign Office said on Monday that criminals, the drug mafia and warlords were responsible for the current problems of Afghanistan and Afghan President Hamid Karzai should set his own house in order instead of blaming Pakistan.
Speaking at a weekly press briefing here, FO spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said the source of Afghanistans problems lay in that country and the sooner the Afghan authorities realised this fact, the better. Rejecting Karzais statement that Pakistan should change its Afghan policy, Aslam said Pakistan had nothing to do with Afghan problems because the source of their problems lies in that country. However, she said Pakistan was improving border control to curb illegal movements to and from Afghanistan. She said that the new border regime would not affect the movement of people having genuine documents.
Aslam reiterated that Pakistan would not allow anyone to conduct operation on its land because its forces were strong and capable of doing so single-handedly. To a question about a joint operation of Pakistan Army and US forces against foreign militants, she said, I have said several times that no such operation will be conducted within Pakistan.
She said Pakistan was fighting the war on terrorism in its own interest and the world should acknowledge its contribution and avoid making allegations that only divert attention from the real issues. She said others should also trust Pakistan as it had trusted them, otherwise it would be difficult to win the war against terrorism.
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Those poppy fields the size of RI will have to go before the problem is solved.
Sudan cleared the way for the United Nations to boost support for an African Union force struggling to maintain peace in Darfur when it agreed on Monday to accept U.N. attack helicopters as part of the plan. The new support package will mean deployment of 3,000 U.N. police and military personnel to bolster the AU force of 7,000 in the violence-torn western region. But Sudan has not agreed to a proposed larger force of more than 20,000 peacekeepers.
Khartoum had balked at the inclusion of six helicopters, fearful they could be used for offensive purposes despite U.N. assurances they would be there to protect the peacekeepers. But on Monday, Sudan officially told the United Nations it would accept the helicopters. In a letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Ambassador Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem said, "I am pleased, upon instructions from my government, to convey to Your Excellency Sudan's approval of the helicopter component."
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Flying the new UN flag? white background over chicken-yellow writing, (Don't hurt us) in all languages?
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are they actually gonna put bullets or rockets in them too?
Somali community leaders in Sana'a said on Saturday that 130 African migrants died at sea when their boat capsized off the Yemeni coast after coast guards opened fire on them. Three boats carrying 460 African migrants, Somalis and Ethiopians, left the Somali port of Bossaso on 9 April and arrived in Yemeni regional waters late on 12 April. "As the smuggling boats entered the Yemeni waters, coast guards began firing on them, causing one boat to capsize," Sadat Mohammed, head of refugee affairs in the Somali community in Sana'a, told IRIN. "The boat was carrying African migrants, most of whom were women from Ethiopia. The shooting forced the terrified passengers to move and they couldn't maintain their balance. Their boat capsized as a result," Mohammed added.
The Somali leader said the other two boats fled and escaped being fired on. "One of these boats headed for Hosn Bel-Eid, in Abyan province. Smugglers forced the passengers off [before reaching] the coast. Thirty-five died, and some others were missing," he said.
The third boat took another route towards the southern province of Hadhramout, Mohammed said. About 35 passengers survived, but the rest are missing. Mohammed expected the strong sea waves to bring the dead bodies ashore. "Some have been buried, but there are still dead bodies scattered out there. We call on local authorities to help bury them," he said.
This is the second incident of its kind this month. A week ago, the United Nations Refugees Agency (UNHCR) said three boats arrived at the Yemeni coast with 365 people, of whom 34 drowned in deep waters after being forced overboard by smugglers. "Witnesses and survivors said two of the boats had begun dropping their passengers offshore when they reportedly came under fire from Yemeni authorities and moved back out to sea," UNHCR said in a statement. Additionally, on 22 March, 35 migrants died and 113 others went missing after making the perilous sea voyage from Somalia to Yemen.
The Somali community in Sana'a expressed concern over the deaths among new arrivals fleeing the civil war in their country. "Incidents of deaths among new arrivals are always repeated, especially as war continues and people flee homes. Not only do migrants die in Yemeni waters, but sometimes boats capsize in deep sea far away from Yemen," Mohammed said, adding that the journey by boat to Yemen costs US $100, twice what it cost a few months ago.
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SEOUL, South Korea North Korea may be preparing to shut down its main nuclear reactor, news reports said Tuesday, renewing hopes that Pyongyang will comply with a disarmament agreement days after it missed a deadline to shutter the facility.
The report came a day after a South Korean official said this government may suspend rice shipments to North Korea to ratchet up pressure on the North to comply with its nuclear disarmament pledges.
There's the stick.
The Yongbyon reactor was still in operation, but there was a high possibility that movement of cars and people at the site seen in satellite photos could be linked to a shutdown, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, citing an unnamed intelligence official. The Dong-a Ilbo daily carried a similar report. An official at the National Intelligence Service, South Korea's main spy agency, told The Associated Press they were "following and analyzing some peculiar movements" around the reactor in North Korea, without elaborating. The official spoke on condition of anonymity, citing policy.
Yonhap news agency cited another unnamed intelligence official as saying that South Korea and the United States have been closely monitoring some movement since a month ago. "The intensity of these activities has increased from about a week or two ago," the official was quoted as saying. "There are activities other than cars and people moving busily."
On Monday, an unnamed South Korean official said South Korea could temporarily suspend rice shipments to North Korea in an effort to increase pressure on the North to shut down the atomic reactor. "We can't just ignore and do nothing if ... North Korea doesn't take initial steps" to disarm as agreed in February at six-nation nuclear talks, the official said, according to the Dong-a Ilbo newspaper. Other dailies carried similar reports.
The two Koreas were set to begin talks Wednesday in Pyongyang to discuss the North's request for 400,000 tons of rice.
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LUCIANNE > IRAN SEEKING NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR EXPERTISE. Collusion in dev of BALLISTIC MISSLES possible, besides other international assistance in local Iranian reactor operations and construx. Iran in prior had already admitted to buying one of Dr. AQ KHAN's crude bomb designs. MISSLES = PEACEFUL DOMESTIC ENERGY, don't ya know. CHOSUN ILBO > NK LEAVES BANCO DELTA ASIA $$$ UNTOUCHED. RIAN > article content > it only takes a few 000 centrifuges + one Year's time for Iran to have enuff nuke materials for a weapons-grade bomb(s) [IOW, 2007].
Police arrested two men Monday on suspicion of assaulting an outspoken critic of Islam after she publicly called for a revision of the Quran's view of women.
Noor, who is deputy leader of a Somali women's group in Norway, said she was assaulted by seven or eight Somali men outside an Oslo pub in the early hours of Thursday morning. The attack came after Norwegian media published an interview with her on April 10, in which she said it was time for Islam to revise its view of women.
Kadra Noor, 26, emerged into the public spotlight in 2000, when her secret recordings of imams in Norway supporting female circumcision, contrary to some of their public statements, was aired as part of a national television documentary. Noor, who is deputy leader of a Somali women's group in Norway, said she was assaulted by seven or eight Somali men outside an Oslo pub in the early hours of Thursday morning. The attack came after Norwegian media published an interview with her on April 10, in which she said it was time for Islam to revise its view of women. "The Quran's view of women should be interpreted again," she was quoted as telling Norway's largest newspaper, Verdens Gang. "I miss a debate over the rights and duties modern Muslim women have."
Noor and other witnesses said the attackers, some shouting religious slogans, knocked Noor down, surrounded her and kicked her. She suffered cracked ribs and other injuries. "I was terrified. While I lay on the asphalt, they kicked me and screamed that I had offended the Quran," she was quoted as telling VG after the attack. She told the newspaper she was certain the attack was motivated by her comments in the news media.
Police said two men in their 20s were arrested in Oslo on suspicion of gross assault and battery against Noor. The two, whose names were withheld, were arrested after a witness recognized them and called the police. The Islamic Council in Norwaypiously condemned the attack.
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No surprise. Muhammad explained in the quran that husbands should beat their wives.
The problem with Scandinavia is their liberal tolerance towards the meteor animals. Something that is well mirrored by their descendants in Minneapolis. Which is why the MAC 11-0 vote against the Somalia cabbies was so welcoming as well as surprising.
The Trib did an online survey which blew back some amazing results. 92% said no special treatment for Muzzies in Minnesota. Something I sadly don't think we will ever see in Norway.
I'm sure Mike and Depot have some interesting views on our overseas cousins.
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This Muslim thing about clitorectomy is seriously strange. I like it when the women get pleasure from sex; it increases my pleasure. WTF is wrong with those guys?
Consider that the Koran, Bible and Torah all share Abrahamic origins. This includes the garden mythos whereby woman is regarded as luring man into temptation and bringing about their fall from grace.
Muslim cultures blame nearly every single male shortcoming upon women. It is why they must be covered so that their alluring appearance does not cause impure thoughts or inflame men's desires. Towards that end, genital mutilation is intended to prevent a woman from seeking pleasure elsewhere and sullying her marriage.
When you start from the premise that women are inherently corrupt, then any sort of vile and brutal treatment is justified.
Even without jihadist terrorism, Islam's institutionalized abuse of women would still render it invalid as any sort of true religion. It is a cult or political ideology, but the term religion, in its honorable and spiritual meaning, simply does not apply.
A U.S. soldier went on trial in absentia in Italy on Tuesday accused of killing an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq, but his lawyer said his client would reject the court's jurisdiction. After preliminary motions, it was adjourned until May 14.
And which time his lawyer will again reject the court's jursidiction.
Mario Lozano, from the U.S. Army National Guard in New York, denies wrongdoing in firing at Nicola Calipari's car when the agent was escorting a newly freed hostage to Baghdad airport in 2005. He says the driver ignored warnings to slow down or stop.
He is being tried in absentia because Washington has ruled out handing him over and his lawyer, Alberto Biffani, indicated his client could formally reject the Italian court's authority. "Of course, Mr. Lozano will reject that this court has jurisdiction in this case," Biffani told reporters.
The U.S. and Italian governments said the shooting was an accident, but an Italian judge charged Lozano with murder and two counts of attempted murder of those in the car.
Since the judges are pretty much free to do whatever they want in a country governed by the Napoleonic code.
His trial began in a courtroom inside Rome's maximum security prison, Rebibbia, the largest in the Italian capital. Seven empty cages flanked the left side of the courtroom, normally used to hold high-security defendants.
Wanna bet on the outcome of the trial?
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Show trial. They will find him guilty and make a political stink of which nothing will come but the leftist Italians feeling better about themselves.
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Since they already admitted that they (the Italians) didn't stop after being warned on what premise do they continue the trial? On a side note just wait folks this type of "Justice" will be in our courts soon enough.
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Close Aviano, Vicenza, and Naples bases. If needed, move the Sixth fleet activities to Israel. We should not get involved the next time the Balkans blow up and sends a flood of Albanians to Italy.
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Lozano, who was indicted in February, broke two years of public silence this month when he told the New York Post that the Italians' vehicle was moving at speed towards his patrol.
"If you hesitate, you come home in a box. ... I did what any soldier would do in my position," Lozano told the newspaper. "You have a warning line, you have a danger line, and you have a kill line. Anyone inside 100 metres (109 yards) is already in the danger zone ... and you've got to take them out."
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We know where this prison is. Drop a very large conventional weapon dead-center, and tell the Italians that they have 72 hours to surrender. Tell NATO the US is leaving in 72 hours. Treat the Italians with the same disdain we treat the French and the Belgians. As Ed said, close all US military facilities in Italy, and move our people either back to the States, or to another, more friendly location. Stop all US tourism to Italy, all imports FROM Italy, and all commerce WITH Italy, and watch the country's economy take a nose-dive. Tell them to either scrap their archaic laws and join the 21st Century, or rot. Might not be a bad idea to do the same thing to Belgium, Germany, and a few other European sources of idiocy, such as Spain, Greece, and Turkey. Let them stew in their own sewers for awhile, and hope they learn something.
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the Italian government paid "extortion" money (Ransom) to islamic terrorist organization to "free" a marxist "journalist" [propagandist] who herself engaged in the hoax. They were trying to escape the country before the the whole Nappy Headed Hoax was exposed for what it truely was. The lot of them should have been shot on site, or preferrably captured and hung as the international crimanals they aree in fact.
This is what we can expect from the [inter]Nationalist socialists with their show trials to distract from the important news from Iraq
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gromgoru: Not enough "working girls" in Israel.
in that case gromgoru you'll have to help increase the available wymins by getting castrated along with any other sour puss ilk such as yourn-own-self!
PARIS (AP) - Nine months before al-Qaida slammed airliners into the World Trade Center, French intelligence suspected the terror network was plotting a hijacking _ possibly involving a U.S. airline _ and warned the CIA, former French intelligence officials said Monday.
But the French warning hinted at a plot in Europe, not the United States, and there was no suggestion of suicide attacks or multiple planes. One former official said al-Qaida may have leaked misinformation to divert intelligence agencies from the bigger, deadlier plot to come on Sept. 11, 2001.
The warning was another example of how intelligence agents sensed al-Qaida was hard at work in the months leading up to Sept. 11 but were unable to piece together fragmented warnings into a coherent plot.
Le Monde first reported the story Monday as it published excerpts of 328 pages of classified documents from France's main foreign intelligence agency, the DGSE. One note, dated Jan. 5, 2001, reported that al-Qaida was plotting a hijacking.
Details were vague.
"It wasn't about a specific airline or a specific day, it was not a precise plot," Pierre-Antoine Lorenzi, the former chief of staff for the agency's director, told The Associated Press. "It was a note that said, 'They are preparing a plot to hijack an airplane, and they have cited several companies.'"
Le Monde printed a copy of part of the note. In early 2000 in Kabul, Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden met with Taliban leaders and armed groups from Chechnya and discussed the possibility of hijacking a plane after takeoff in Frankfurt, Germany, the note said, citing Uzbek intelligence.
The note listed potential targets: American, Delta, Continental, and United airlines, Air France and Lufthansa. The list also mentioned a "US Aero," but it was unclear exactly what that referred to.
Two of the carriers, United and American, were targeted on Sept. 11.
CIA spokesman George Little said Le Monde's article "merely repeats what the U.S. government knew and reported before Sept. 11 _ that al-Qaida was interested in airliner plots, especially hijackings."
"The article does not suggest that U.S. or foreign officials had advance knowledge of the details surrounding the Sept. 11 plot," he said. "Had the details been known, the U.S. government would have acted on them."
The Sept. 11 Commission and a joint congressional inquiry into the attacks have described vague warnings of potential threats in the months before Sept. 11, 2001.
The 9/11 commission said that, as the year began, the CIA started receiving "frequent but fragmentary" threat reports. Among other warnings, the intelligence community sent out a March 2001 terror threat advisory about a heightened threat of Sunni extremist attacks against U.S. facilities, personnel and other interests.
AoS note: apologies to Bobby -- I was doing a minor edit and accidentally deleted the article with your comments. I was able to replace the article text but your comments are gone. Mea culpa!
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But then there was that Gorelick Wall of Separation...
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I predict that something bad will happen someday, somewhere.
Now I will be able to say "I told you so" when it does happen.
There is a BIG difference between vague warnings and actionable intelligence.
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Now Excalibur, you're going to get some people who watch this list all hot and bothered because you've insulted the French (like they got all hot and bothered because I insulted the CV Charles Gaul with me and SteveS).
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Now Excalibur, you're going to get some people who watch this list all hot and bothered because you've insulted the French
Criticism of the french, France, and anything related does not bother me; in fact, I agree with it more often than not, like for the Charles de Gaulle, which is a joke, as its namesake was a very nuisible, petty man full of delusions for my country.
On the other hand, PC racism and stoopid prejudice irk me, because they directly target me (basically, you're telling me that I'm a worthless sh*t, as well as my loved ones, that's nice), and are irrational. And excalibur is tiring, because he's as regular as a clockwork (remind me to gloat next time Canada moves a bit further into dhimmitude, shouldn't take long, just like the once-Great Britain).
I'll be the first to agree with the diagnosis about France, what it has brought to the world in term of false ideologies, it's shortcomings, its wrongdoings,... but the "ahhh, they smell like garlic, they don't bath, they surrender, they eat horse/snails/frogs, blah, blah,..." p*sses me off greatly, just like the equivalent mean, dumb anti-americanism so prevalent in France p*sses me off as well, because it's as unfounded and ultimately pointless.
And above all, it's so PC, and easy, like the blonde jokes, authorized racism; try having the same racial slurs against, say, the blacks or the jews here in RB, see how long you'll last.
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I would like to say that while I have issues with France as a reliable ally (I am being diplomatic here) I love going to France, seeing French friends, eating French food, enjoying the French countryside and joining their obvious appreciation for the wonderful sensory gifts that God has provided us. There are a lot of things French that are great. Sure Parisians can be jerks, but New Yorkers are no different.
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the FRENCH underground were something to behold, super patriots and brave as hell too.
and the French Foreign Legion ain't exactly pussies either. [Leadership is French]
re: "the next event in France"
Aside from the tragic loss of life..
It'll be interesting when the Splodeydopes do a spectacular bombing in France. I recon that the great great grand children of the underground will rise up and set things straight with the Islamists. may it be long and bloody.
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#12: "the great great grand children of the underground will rise up and set things straight with the Islamists. may it be long and bloody."
Word, RD.
Particularly the bloody part.
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In France's + USA's defense of their INTEL, let us not fergit that. incidents of passenger violence aside, the past hijackings of commercial airliners by Muslim = Muslim-led terrorists typically involved flying the planes to foreign or sympathetic countries, landing them there, and either blowing the planes up or demanding ransom for release. Within a specific scope, the history of Muslim airline hijackings does NOT indic wilingness to fly into buildings - BACK THEN IT WAS ABOUT $$$ + GETTING PRISONERS RELEASED WHILE "STICKING IT TO THE MAN".
Coalition parties Christian democrat CDA, ChristenUnie and Labour PvdA are divided on whether Palestinian prime minister and Hamas party member Ismail Haniyeh should be granted a visa to attend a gathering in the Netherlands.
CDA and ChristenUnie do not think he should be issued permission to enter the country. The PvdA thinks he should be granted permission to come to address the gathering as prime minister, but not as a private individual, MP Martijn van Dam said on Monday.
Haniyeh has been invited to Rotterdam for the Palestinian-European conference on the fate of Palestinian refugees planned for 5 May. He has not applied for a visa yet, but if he should do so then the Netherlands plans to refuse his application, Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen said on Saturday. Hamas is on the European list of terrorist organisations. The Palestinian government does not recognise the state of Israel and refuses to denounce violence against Israel. This is why Verhagen wants only to hold talks with individual members of the Palestinian government who do satisfy these requirements, so as to support the moderate tendencies in the regime.
The Dutch government on Monday ruled out a visit by Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, saying he will not get a visa because the European Union considers his Hamas party a terrorist group.
Hey look! A spine! Where'd they find that in Y'urp?
Haniyeh's office contacted the Dutch government to enquire about documents needed to request a visa as the Palestinian premier wanted to attend a conference on the Palestinians and Europe in Rotterdam on May 5, a spokesman for the Dutch Foreign Ministry said. "He will not be granted a visa, should he request one officially," the spokesman said. "Hamas is considered a terrorist organisation by the European Union."
Thank goodness someone in Europe thinks that.
"It is consistent not only to avoid contact with Hamas ministers but also not to let them come to the Netherlands or anywhere else in Europe and spread the message of Hamas," he added.
The European Union has a policy of avoiding contacts with Hamas ministers.
Sorta. Kinda. They'd like to talk, really, except they're afraid of the backlash.
Is Ayman Zawahiri Behind The Anthrax Mailings? Analysis of the means, motive, modus operandi and opportunity of the anthrax mailings in Fall 2001 suggests that US-based supporters of Ayman Zawahiri were responsible for the anthrax mailings in the Fall of 2001. The Federal Bureau of Investigation appears to have pursued all possible leads and left no stone unturned. Attorney General Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 18, 2007 that FBI Director Mueller was very committed to seeing it to some kind of conclusion in the relatively near future. Long article at link, tying several nuggets of intelligence together into a credible scenario
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Bunyip, read the whole thang, and yes it does haver some nuggats.
Brian Williams reports that investigators have told NBC that the water used to make the spores came from the Northeastern United States based on an analysis of isotopes. That finding likely has served to focus the FBIs investigation..
MSNBC, relying on an unnamed FBI spokesperson, reported that the FBI has narrowed the pool of labs known to have had the US Army anthrax strain known as the Ames strain that was a match from 16 to 4 but could not rule out that it was obtained overseas.
Although sometimes reports referred to its ubiquitous distribution, the major revelation on the subject came in 2005 when pursuant to two treaties, samples of anthrax was evaluated from Georgia and Azerbaijan and it was determined that former Republics of Russia also had Ames. Just as former bioweaponeer Ken Alibek [Kanatjan Alibekov] had said in 2001, Russia had obtained Ames years earlier through a spy at Ft. Detrick.
In a court filing dated May 20, 2005, an attorney for the United States Department of Justice wrote: The investigation into the anthrax attacks is one of the largest and most complex investigations in law enforcement history. To bring those responsible to justice, the investigation remains intensely active. In a press conference in October 2005, Director Mueller said that the FBI was pursuing all domestic and international leads.
seems as if the Fumbling Bunch of Idiots got tired of harassing Stephen Hatfield.
Dr. William C. Patrick III spent over three decades at Fort Detrick, Maryland, the U.S. Army's base for biological weapons research. From 1951 to 1969, he developed germ agents for warfare. When the U.S. officially ended its offensive program in 1969, Patrick's work turned to germ defenses.
Here, he reflects back on these years with New York Times reporter Bill Broad and NOVA producer Kirk Wolfinger. And he demonstrates for NOVA's cameras how a biological agent such as anthrax might be used.
A Brooklyn bookseller was sentenced yesterday to 13 years in jail after admitting to federal authorities that he was involved in a money-laundering scheme to raise money for jihadists in Chechnya and Afghanistan, officials said.
Prosecutors said Abdelrahman Farhane, 52, used his Islamic bookstore to help raise money for terrorists who were planning to buy weapons. He also pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents. Judge Loretta Preska imposed the sentence even as Farhane's children protested his innocence, saying he was confused and duped into believing he was helping to fund an operation aimed at helping poor people. "I love America," Farhane said before his sentencing.
Mr. Farhane is accused of conspiring to send money to Afghanistan for the purpose of buying communications equipment and weapons for Islamic fighters warring against American soldiers there.
In December 2001, a confidential FBI source visited Farhane's Atlantic Avenue store and discussed with Farhane, in recorded conversations, a plan to send money overseas to support jihad. The conversations focused specifically on Chechnya and Afghanistan, where "fighters" could obtain wireless communications equipment and advanced weaponry, officials said. "He wasn't thinking of enemies to America," said Farhane's daughter, Asmaa Farhane, 25. "He was thinking of poor people."
Farhane's attorney, Michael Hueston, said Farhane did not admit to being a terrorist.
* But not by the neck.
h/t: LGF
Starting May 11, airport taxi drivers who refuse to transport riders carrying alcohol will be suspended for 30 days. And after a second offense, their license would be revoked for two years.
The Metropolitan Airports Commission voted 11-0 Monday to approve the crackdown, which some Muslim drivers say violates their religious beliefs. Commissioners called the change reasonable, practical and important for rider safety. "We are sending a message that if you want to drive a taxi at our airport you can't refuse our customers," Steve Wareham, operations manager of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The only approved refusals would involve the driver's safety or would be prompted by riders, such as excess luggage or large families.
Jeff Hassan, a lawyer representing Muslim cabbies, said the issue might wind up going to the Minnesota Supreme Court. According to MAC figures, there have been about one dozen alcohol-related refusals each month, out of roughly 60,000 monthly rides. There are currently 900 licensed cab drivers at the airport. About three-quarters are Somali, and a majority of those are Muslim.
Hassan, had earlier told hearing officers about a 1990 Minnesota Supreme Court ruling that allowed Amish people to forego displaying bright orange triangles on their buggies for religious reasons. Many airport taxi drivers say the proposed penalties would force them to chose between their Islamic beliefs and their jobs. So?
They say their religion prohibits drinking, selling and carrying alcohol, so transporting a rider with alcohol would be a sin. Sending money to terrorist orgs is OK.
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Make it a two-for-one deal? you leave, and take a "friend" with you? (wife, whatever, and don't come back)
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Hassan, had earlier told hearing officers about a 1990 Minnesota Supreme Court ruling that allowed Amish people to forego displaying bright orange triangles on their buggies for religious reasons.
Amish aren't proving public taxi service. And Somalis can take comfort that, they too, don't have to display orange triangles on their buggies.
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Been following this story. Disturbingly I haven't seen to many mentions of the muzzies going off on seeing eye dogs. Which If I'm not mistaken is a federal law.
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All this drama for (roughly) .9998% of the fares? Reckon that if the MAC doesn't back down ( always a possibility) the 12 cabbies involved will find some other employment. Perhaps towel boys at the community college mussie only washroom......
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"Many airport taxi drivers say the proposed penalties would force them to chose between their Islamic beliefs and their jobs."
Works for me.
What, don't they have any faith that Allan will provide?
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Of course, no mention is ever made of how local Islamic clerics issued fatwas absolving the Somali cabbies of any wrongdoing so long as they did not imbibe the alcohol themselves. That would make the whole issue a non-issue and lob the ball back into the Somalis' court for contriving this entire dispute.
Let me know when the media finally begins to identify this sort of intentionally inflated grievance ploy that Muslims are so fond of. The flying imams was another prime example of this.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JD) ameer Hafiz Muhammad Saeed said on Monday that Pakistan should not maintain diplomatic relations with India because its leaders took pride in dismembering Pakistan.
He was responding to Rahul Gandhis reported statement that his Congress Party of India, was responsible for the dismemberment. Saeed said the statement by Indra Gandhis grandson proved that all rulers of India, whether they are considered extremist Hindus or not, try to outdo others in their enmity towards Pakistan. He said efforts for normalising relations with India had proved meaningless after such statements. A genius. The man's a genius.
This article starring:
HAFIZ MUHAMAD SAID
Jamaat-ud-Dawa
Indra Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi
Jamaat-ud-Dawa
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No need becuz they'll still have a relationship after the CHICOMS post-USA = USSA take over both nations, for "resources" and espec "living space" as the Chicoms themselves say.
Local Taliban leaders distributed pamphlets on Monday in Mir Ali subdivision of North Waziristan warning that murderers would be sentenced to prison and fined under the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).
Local militants also banned the sale and purchase of intoxicants like liquor, hashish and an orange variety called tharra that is used in homemade liquor, in the jurisdiction of Mir Ali. Residents said the pamphlet was to tighten the noose around foreign militants like Uzbeks who were driven out from Wana, Azam Warsak, and the Kaloosha areas of South Waziristan.
The pamphlet warned that if anyone attempted to buy the prohibited items in any village of Mir Ali subdivision, they would be punished under the Pakistan Penal Code.
This is a departure from the militants usual method of punishing criminals under the Shariah. The local Taliban said that dacoits, thieves and kidnappers were completely prohibited in Mir Ali subdivision and that any criminal captured would be punished.
The pamphlets language implies that North Waziristans Taliban are planning on driving out the Uzbek warriors in the area in the same way that the South Waziristan Taliban flushed them out of their agency. The local Taliban also presented the limits of Mir Ali bazaar in the pamphlet.
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"Billy Mays here, with new Orange KaBOOM!, now with Tharra!"
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Suspected Taliban distributed pamphlets in Bajaur Agency declaring beggars, vendors and cattle sellers as US spies and ordering restrictions on their movement in the area, subject to punishment. The pamphlets stated that there are US spies disguised as beggars and cattle sellers in the area, who will be punished if caught after April 20. No one will be allowed to participate in un-Islamic activities, said the pamphlets that did not mention the name of any organisation. Reportedly, suspected Taliban have also pasted posters at mosques in Sadiqabad and Inayat villages, asking beggars, vendors and cattle sellers to end their businesses by April 20 or face the consequences.
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Good thing they haven't figured out that the US spies are actually disguised as senior members of the Taliban.
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Hey, that could work here. Publish a pamphlet that charges that Illegal Immigrants are Taliban and AQ and pass it around all the major congregations of IM's.
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Good. The plant worked. Now they won't notice the robotic rats.
The alleged mastermind of the London terror plot, British-born Pakistani Rashid Rauf, believes that jihad is obligatory for all Muslims, and after release he wants to live in Pakistan and set up a Compressed Natural Gas station in Jhelum, Mehboob Ilahi, Raufs fellow prisoner, told Daily Times after being released late Saturday night.
Rashid wants to live in Pakistan because he is against the un-Islamic British society, said Ilahi, who spent six months with Rauf in a sub-jail of Police Civil Lines in Rawalpindi. An Islamic conference attracted Rauf towards Pakistan. He is a very pious Muslim, said Ilahi. Rauf told me that he was arrested during a journey to Multan at Lodhran Phatak when a man sitting with him in the bus asked him [Rauf ] what his opinion was on jihad and he replied that he believed it was every Muslims obligation, said Ilahi. He said Rauf had not been arrested in Rawalpindi as previously reported, but instead had been apprehended at Lodharan Pathak on August 8.
Ilahi, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal National Assembly member Maulana Abdul Azizs brother, was reportedly arrested on August 25, 16 days after the foiling of the London terror plot. The government had provided terror charges against him but he was released after the Supreme Court review board found him innocent. Rauf and I were kept in a very small cell. The police did not even provide enough water for us to wash up after sex perform ablution, said Ilahi. Investigation personnel have badly beaten Rauf during interrogations and once he lost consciousness for three days following a beating, Ilahi added.
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Jihad obligatory for every Muslim: Rashid Rauf
Kewl, just so long as snuffing Muslims of any sort is obligatory in the West. No? FOAD!
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Great! This solves a LOT of problems. If it's every muslim's obligation to wage jihad, then it's ok for every Westerner to shoot all muslims. This way, we don't have to worry about the mythical "moderate" muslim, and don't have to worry about stepping on an muslim's toes. Whack 'em and stack 'em. Start in the US, move to Great Britain and Australia, and then on to Yurp. Might even "mistake" some of the far-left "EU bureaucrats" for muslims, and clean up two messes at once. We DO need to give notice - I suggest 30 days - to all muslims living in North America (no sense cleaning our house and leaving the neighbors infested) to leave for parts elsewhere. Leave the Middle East (Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Soddy Arabida, the Gulf Emirates, Egypt, Lybia, Sudan, and Somalia) as a refuge, but clean 'em out of everywhere else. Make sure they can enter, but nobody can leave. Those that refuse to move get a .30cal "reminder".
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If you guys sat thru what I chose to sit thru at my church over the weekend, you, too, would come to realize that jihad means to strive, they're not muslims.......
And the hijab was no big deal, after all, Mary covered her hair.
The Crusades were our fault.
I knew what to expect, yet I was too lazy to do my homework.............
Indias defence minister on Monday accused Pakistan of continuing to support cross-border terrorism in Indian-administered Kashmir. There is no change in Pakistans support for cross-border terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, said Defence Minister AK Antony while speaking at a five-day army commanders conference reviewing the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and northeastern states. This remained a cause of concern for India, he added.
The defence minister also said that the armed forces could not afford to drop their guard and needed to maintain high operational readiness. He said for Indo-Pak talks to succeed, Islamabad would have to put an end to cross-border terrorism. Referring to Islamabad increasing its defence expenditure and receiving military assistance from various countries, Antony said Although we wish to continue peace talks with Pakistan, it is imperative for us to keep a close watch on various developments and maintain constant vigil.
Earlier, inaugurating the conference, Antony said the policy of iron fist with velvet gloves was paving dividends in Jammu and Kashmir. He said the situation in Jammu and Kashmir was largely under control, with the level of violence having been brought down by effective security operations. However, he maintained that while the violence levels had been reduced, the overall threat still persisted.
Antony asked the commanders to curb day-to-day expenses to ensure that more funds would be available for weapon upgrades and modernisation of the forces. An army spokesman here said that the five-day conference would also deliberate upon modernisation and the operational readiness of the Indian Army. He said a detailed discussion was also expected on Value Based Leadership, keeping in view increasing suicides and fratricides within the army.
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The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) government is planning on launching an awareness campaign to educate people against using force to fight vice. The campaign is meant to address the anonymous threatening letters that have been received at schools, barbers and music and video shops in recent weeks.
I want the Religious Affairs Ministry to spread the message of peace and virtue across the province. Muslims should follow the path of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) if they want to combat vices in society, NWFP Chief Minister Akram Durrani told Daily Times after chairing a provincial seerat conference.
The proposed awareness campaign comes on the heels of suggestions from law-enforcement agencies and senior bureaucrats that the matter should be confronted politically and criminal activities should be left to police to tackle. Durrani said that if ulema promised the government their help we can easily control the issue of what he called religious emotions. We have to focus on resolving all the issues being faced by the people of Pakistan including the situation arising out of terror incidents in the tribal belt and its impacts on settled areas by adopting a realistic approach towards ground realities, Durrani added.
We should help people understand that education is not a vice, Dr Qibla Ayaz, religious scholar, told the conference. Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazlur Rehman) provincial ameer Senator Gul Naseeb said no one should be forced to grow a beard if they did not wish to.
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President General Pervez Musharraf on Monday acknowledged that the Taliban enjoyed support in the tribal areas and said the government was making efforts to neutralise this support.
Our strategy in the tribal areas is succeeding, he said while addressing the 60th four-day Formation Commanders conference at General Headquarters here. Referring to recent clashes between militants and local tribesmen, Musharraf said the operation had been conducted with the armys support. Pakistan faces the menaces of extremism, obscurantism and religious bigotry, he said.
Musharraf said that due to its geo-strategic location, Pakistan would continue playing an important role and contribute positively towards peace and harmony in the region. The president praised the sacrifices of the army, Frontier Corps, intelligence services and other security agencies in operations against terrorists. He said Pakistan was fighting the war against terrorism in its own interest.
President Musharraf said the countrys armed forces were fully capable of facing any external challenges. The president expressed optimism about conflict resolution between Pakistan and India. He also highlighted the economic progress of the country. With seven percent GDP growth, increasing FDI, expanding base of revenue generation and good agriculture output, Pakistans economy is better than ever. Concerning the issue of Jamia Hafsa, the president said the government was committed to maintaining the writ of law at any cost. The president also said that the issue of the reference against the chief justice would be solved through legal means. Addressing the conference, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said, Our reforms in the financial, political and social sectors have been acknowledged and have improved the countrys international rating. He added that poverty in the country had reduced from 34 to 25 percent.
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Iran has been making concerted efforts to recruit Jewish and Arab Israelis as spies against Israel, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Service) revealed Tuesday. According to the report, Iranians have, over the past two years, been targeting Israelis of Iranian origin who traveled to Iran to visit relatives.
Counterintuitively, Iran is not considered an enemy state by Israel, and Israelis can travel freely to the country. In the past two years, over 100 Israelis have applied for visas to Iran, 10 of whom were questioned by the Shin Bet and discovered to have been recruited as spies by the Iranians.
The Shin Bet said that Iran's intelligence gathering focused on three main points: Israel's decision-making echelon; Israeli military and defense establishments; and the strengths and weaknesses of Israeli society.
Since Iran does not allow anyone into the country whose passport bears an Israeli entrance stamp, Israelis who want to travel to Iran must pass through the Iranian Consulate in Turkey, where they are issued special documents that allow them into to Iran, or alternatively - take out an Iranian passport.
From the interrogation of the ten suspected spies, it emerged that Iranian intelligence officers disguised as diplomats work at the Iranian Consulate in Turkey. Israelis who arrive are taken into a separate room and questioned for hours about their military background, their families, political issues in Israel and possible connections to defense officials.
The Shin Bet identified one of those officers as "Takwi," otherwise known as "Abdulli," and another as "Zinali."
After the initial contact at the consulate in Istanbul, the Israelis who arrive in Iran are taken again for questioning and, in many cases, their travel documents are confiscated. In some cases, Israelis are stuck in Iran for several months, the Shin Bet said. The Israelis are then contacted again with an offer to help them trace their documents and leave Iran.
Once the documents are returned, the Israelis are usually asked to begin gathering information to pass on to their handlers. In some cases, the Israelis were requested to obtain research papers and photos of classified military installations in exchange for thousands of dollars. In the case of an Israeli who was offered a large sum to cooperation with Iranian intelligence, Iran hinted that his refusal would meet with a negative response. In some cases, Iranian intelligence has been known to arrest the Israeli citizens' relatives in Iran. There are currently 25,000 Jews residing in Iran.
The Shin Bet has urged the Knesset to pass legislation defining Iran as a combatant country.
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Its about time we visited some French revolution style Le Terorisme on the Mullahocracy there in teheran. Preferrably when Treasonous Nancy Pelosi goes there to establish "a diaqlougue" with these filthy stinking Totalitarians she and her ilk so adores. Bring it on
Security guards at the Palestinian parliament today scuffled with a crowd of Palestinian journalists who were demonstrating in support of a kidnapped British Broadcasting Corp. correspondent, pushing back reporters and beating two of them with rifle butts.
About 200 journalists had gathered outside the building, seeking information about BBC correspondent Alan Johnston. When journalists tried to enter parliament to talk to lawmakers about the case, the guards violently pushed them back and barred them from entering. They journalists called on lawmakers to come out of the building to talk to them. Some held signs and photos that said "Free Alan."
Johnston, 44, was abducted by gunmen in Gaza City on March 12 and has not been seen or heard from since then. On Sunday, a previously unknown group, "The Brigades of Tawheed and Jihad," said it had killed Johnston to support demands for the release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. But Palestinian officials have said they could not confirm the claim.
"We came to ask those lawmakers about the facts and the truth on the fate of our kidnapped colleague," said Saadi Alkasaef, an activist in the local journalists' union. "It's more than a month right now and we are concerned for Alan's life after the statement released two days ago. We came peacefully, but we are being assaulted now."
A planned parliamentary session went on as scheduled, but after the scuffle outside, the journalists did not attend.
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30 days of blackout of news about the incident would produce lots of good results, including a drop of the salaries of everybody in the BBC, Guardian, etcetcetcetc
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Has the BBC been downsizing staff like the mainstream media companies Stateside? Every few months we read of more journalists forced into seeking alternative careers. Even the analysts who used to report on the sector are starting to throw in the towel, regarding the exercise as pointless when they've been reporting the same decline quarter after quarter after quarter...
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TW, that's why journalists are so sour on the economy: while the rest of us are doing well -- unemployment down, real wages up, stock market up -- they aren't doing well. And guess who reports the news.
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A federal judge on Monday rejected prosecutors' request to close portions of an upcoming trial for two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of violating the Espionage Act.
The government's proposal to keep huge swaths of evidence in the case out of public view was unprecedented and violated both the defendants' and the public's right to an open trial, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis said.
The defendants - Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, who had been lobbyists with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee - are charged with illegally disclosing sensitive national defense information to persons not entitled to receive it, including journalists and foreign diplomats.
Under the prosecutors' plan, only the judge, lawyers and the jury would have been given access to classified evidence. Ellis said the proposal not only raised constitutional questions, but would have been unwieldy and likely confuse jurors.
On rare occasions, prosecutors have been allowed to use what is called the "silent witness" rule, in which only a jury receives classified information that is never disclosed to the public.
The defense contends that much of the information in question was already publicly available. Indeed, during Monday's hearing Ellis said that some of the information deemed classified by the government includes news reports.
Rosen's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said he was pleased with Ellis' ruling and called the government's proposal unconstitutional and "worse than unprecedented."
A coalition of media organizations, including The Associated Press, and a coalition of Jewish organizations had also opposed the government's proposal.
Prosecutors said they would review their options, including a possible appeal that would delay the scheduled trial date of June 4. Another option is to craft unclassified substitutions of the classified evidence that would be given to the jury and would be made public.
The indictment alleges that Rosen and Weissman conspired to obtain classified reports on issues relevant to American policy, including the al-Qaida terror network; the bombing of the Khobar Towers dormitory in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19 U.S. Air Force personnel; and U.S. policy in Iran.
A former Defense Department official, Lawrence A. Franklin, already has pleaded guilty to providing Rosen and Weissman classified defense information. Franklin was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison.
Hundreds of monks called Tuesday for Buddhism to be named Thailand's national religion, a move rejected as too divisive in the past, as an Islamic insurgency worsened in the Muslim south.
The call from the monks revives a debate that dates back to 1997 when a campaign to make Buddhism the national religion was dropped amid concerns that it would divide the country. The issue has been revived as a new constitution is being drafted by a committee appointed by coup leaders who ousted elected Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in September. The coup leaders have promised to put a new constitution to voters in a referendum as early as September.
Along with holding a silent rally outside of Parliament, monks sent a representative Tuesday to meet with Prasong Sunsiri, the chairman of the constitutional drafting committee, to press their demands that Buddhism be included. "It must be pointed out that this national religion campaign is taking place amid widespread paranoia within the clergy against Islam following the southern violence," Sanitsuda Ekachai, a columnist for the English daily Bangkok Post, wrote earlier this month. "There has also been wide distribution of leaflets alleging that Islam is a threat to Thai Buddhism."
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Big mistake. DO NOT call for a state religion. It could then be just as easily changed over to Islam. Start killing jihadis in large numbers if you want some positive results.
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Good luck findin' 'im. If the general isn't in a deep, dark cell somewheres under heavy sedation he's in little bitty pieces scattered all over the countryside (or should be).
The head of an al Qaeda-led group in Iraq said the country has become a "university of terrorism" producing highly qualified warriors since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. In an audio recording found on the Internet on Tuesday, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, also sought to mend fences with other anti-U.S. insurgent groups in Iraq following reports of tensions between them. The authenticity of the tape, issued to mark the fourth anniversary of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, could not be verified. But it was posted on Web sites used by al Qaeda and other insurgent groups in Iraq. "From the military point of view, one of the (enemy) devils was right in saying that if Afghanistan was a school of terror, then Iraq is a university of terrorism," said the leader of the group set up last year by al Qaeda's Iraq wing and some other Sunni groups. I believe that actually Al Baghdadi's group was formed by the remnants of A.Q.'s Iraq wing and those other Sunni terror groups. A slight but meaningful difference, that impacts strongly on the validity of the simile.
"The largest batch of soldiers for jihad in the path of God in the history of Iraq are graduating and they have the highest level of competence in the world." Perhaps those that survive do, although that's debateable. But then, so few survive long enough to achieve even minimal competence.
"The fear of the American Marines has disappeared from the hearts of the people of the world, as the mujahideen have become thousands from the few they were after the fall of the infidel Baath regime," Baghdadi said. "These are just some of the achievements of four years of jihad." He has to say something, but all he has is parroting the words of the enemy devils. Pathetic.
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"The largest batch of soldiers for jihad . . . in the history of Iraq are graduating and they have the highest level of competence in the world."
Actually what is happening is similar to the what happened on the Western Front during WWI: Any Jihadi who sticks his head up is getting it blown off. People have been predicting that all these "expert terrorists" would return from Iraq to their home countries. It hasn't happened. How could that be?
If all these Jihadis are so enthusiastic, why do they have to be handcuffed to the steering wheel of their VBIEDs?
Al
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It sounds like democrat political talking points!
Maybe al-Bundie Baghdadi watches Bill Marh on HBO or reads the NY Times.
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It sounds like democrat political talking points!
Maybe al-Bundie Baghdadi watches Bill Marh on HBO or reads the NY Times.
Op Editors and News Editors for NYSLimes, BBC, MSMBC, cBS, ABC, PBS, al-Rooters, CNN, allah-AP etc. Hold regular Round Table negoiations with their Islamic Terrorist Media Counterparts, [sic Political Organs of the Islamic Bowel Movement] in-order to synchronize terrorist attacks with broadcast and copy deadlines.
Why may you ask.. to get Hilda-Beast elected Prez of the United States of America.
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Hold on, it's not just Dem talking points, it's the preposterous s**t that is sometimes "leaked" to the WaPo/NYT by someone in the "intelligence" community. Curiously, they never cite any facts, or even concrete assumptions, that might underly the conclusion that war in Iraq "creates terrorists".
It's a "university" where 1) most of the "graduates" probably die or end up in custody; 2) we learn as much or more than they do through their presence and activities (probably more - while the enemy constantly comes up with new ways to inflict casualties that are not material to the military outcome, they've done bupkis to change their utter inability to confront us conventionally); 3) good luck applying your "degree" against opponents who, unlike the US, still believe that war is about will and use of force - not many Jordanian or Moroccan or Indian or Chinese interior security types would ever blab something like "there is no military solution" - they know there is, and unlike us they'd take decisive action.
Besides, a few guys who know how to rig truck bombs is literally no big deal - the elimination of the most likely source of WMD capacity for non-state actors is a huge, huge deal. Kinda the whole point - not that you could get an administration official to explain it, even at gunpoint .....
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Hold on, it's not just Dem talking points, it's the preposterous s**t that is sometimes "leaked" to the WaPo/NYT by someone in the "intelligence" community. Curiously, they never cite any facts, or even concrete assumptions, that might underly the conclusion that war in Iraq "creates terrorists".
It's a "university" where 1) most of the "graduates" probably die or end up in custody; 2) we learn as much or more than they do through their presence and activities (probably more - while the enemy constantly comes up with new ways to inflict casualties that are not material to the military outcome, they've done bupkis to change their utter inability to confront us conventionally); 3) good luck applying your "degree" against opponents who, unlike the US, still believe that war is about will and use of force - not many Jordanian or Moroccan or Indian or Chinese interior security types would ever blab something like "there is no military solution" - they know there is, and unlike us they'd take decisive action.
Besides, a few guys who know how to rig truck bombs is literally no big deal - the elimination of the most likely source of WMD capacity for non-state actors is a huge, huge deal. Kinda the whole point - not that you could get an administration official to explain it, even at gunpoint .....
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mine was tongue in cheek Verlaine, they [MSM & Terrorist] are soul mates in craven spirt in that the terrorists sell copy and programing,.. that said I doubt if they [MSM] EVER have had even one conference call with the Islamo-puds.
;-)
although I swear that MSM, Pols and Academe have their EGOS on the line big time having bet long ago that the WOT is a big fat failure..not enuff nuance you see...
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Yes Verlaine, you are on topic, and I quite agree the Islamo-tard grads are mostly dead, mangled or in one of the huge camps in the desert. So much for the finishing skool. It's more like the finished skool.
I cut and pasted GolfBravoUSMC's topic and was expounding on it.
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SEOUL, South Korea North Korea may be preparing to shut down its main nuclear reactor, news reports said Tuesday, renewing hopes that Pyongyang will comply with a disarmament agreement days after it missed a deadline to shutter the facility.
PARIS (AP) - Nine months before al-Qaida slammed airliners into the World Trade Center, French intelligence suspected the terror network was plotting a hijacking _ possibly involving a U.S. airline _ and warned the CIA, former French intelligence officials said Monday.
Local Taliban leaders distributed pamphlets on Monday in Mir Ali subdivision of North Waziristan warning that murderers would be sentenced to prison and fined under the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC). 
Suspected Taliban distributed pamphlets in Bajaur Agency declaring beggars, vendors and cattle sellers as US spies and ordering restrictions on their movement in the area, subject to punishment. The pamphlets stated that there are US spies disguised as beggars and cattle sellers in the area, who will be punished if caught after April 20. No one will be allowed to participate in un-Islamic activities, said the pamphlets that did not mention the name of any organisation. Reportedly, suspected Taliban have also pasted posters at mosques in Sadiqabad and Inayat villages, asking beggars, vendors and cattle sellers to end their businesses by April 20 or face the consequences.
The alleged mastermind of the London terror plot, British-born Pakistani 
