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Dupe entry: Sharia Street Justice in Missouri
Posted by: Anonymoose || 09/27/2011 12:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Sharia Street Justice in Missouri
Posted by: Anonymoose || 09/27/2011 12:23 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sorry, should read "Sharia Street Justice In Missouri".
Posted by: Anonymoose || 09/27/2011 12:25 Comments || Top||

#2  The mainstream media insist that there is no need to fear Sharia or its enforcers in America and that we are exaggerating our plight from Islam. We are told that what happens in the Arab streets can never happen in the streets of America.

Since the left supports an agenda of totalitarianism much like the islamicists, it is not a surprise that this thuggery has occurred with little fanfare by the fifth column.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/27/2011 13:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Sharia is a very, very, foreign form of lawfare. I find it puzzling why the media does not focus on what life is like under Sharia law other than they are all too stupid and lazy to do so.

I guess we are going to have to just inform each other.
Posted by: newc || 09/27/2011 21:01 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Troops in Somalia killed journalist
NAIROBI: The African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia says its investigation has found that four Burundian soldiers were responsible for the killing of a Malaysian journalist in Mogadishu earlier this month.
Whoops! Our bad! Dang, he looked just like a Shabaab, too...
The force said in a statement Monday that the four peacekeepers involved in the killing of cameraman Noramfaizul Mohd Nor were discharged from the force and will be tried in Burundi. Nor was killed Sept. 2 while covering a Malaysian aid agency's humanitarian mission in famine-struck Somalia.

Human rights groups and residents have accused the African Union force of indiscriminate shelling against civilian targets. Rights groups say the force has improved its record of indiscriminate shelling, killing fewer civilians than in the past.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/27/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Liberated Libya : No Assistance On Lockerbie
Also, the NTC said Monday the convict of the notorious December 1988 bombing of a plane over Lockerbie of Scotland was not to be put on trial again as the case is already closed.

Despite Britain's recent requests for assistance from the new Libyan authorities to re-open the Lockerbie investigation, Mohammed al-Allaqi, chief of justice and human rights issues of the NTC, told a press conference in Tripoli that, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the main convict of Lockerbie bombing, was already tried, convicted and punished, and he was released with the consent of the British government on humanitarian basis.

So the issue may not be tried twice, that is the basic rule of justice, said al-Allaqi.
The 'issue' was 'tried' by a tribunal created post facto out of thin air. The trial was a farce and not everyone responsible was tried in the first place. Gaddafi then bribed Scotland and threatened Britain with new terror attacks to force the release of Al-Megrahi.
And Britain and Scotland eagerly went along, for the sake of Libyan oil. This is the second time the question has been asked and answered. Nice of the rebels to phrase it so politely, when the Islamists among them would never turn a brother Muslim over to unbelievers under any circumstances anyway.
The Lockerbie hijack claimed about 270 civilians' lives, mostly Americans. Former Libyan leader Gaddafi refused to turn over the terrorist suspects until 1999. In 2003, Libya formally claimed responsibility for the bombing, but never offered apology for the attack.
The West has forgiven the Taliban so why shouldn't the West forgive the Gaddafi regime elements who perpetrated Lockerbie.
The Libyans know that they won't share in the terrorist's fate even if they don't hand them over.

Provocative weakness has global consequences.
Posted by: Gleremble Ulinetch9793 || 09/27/2011 02:49 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No help for you, chumps.
Posted by: Spot || 09/27/2011 7:52 Comments || Top||


British prosecutors ask Libya’s NTC for Lockerbie help
LONDON: Scottish prosecutors have asked Libya’s interim rulers for help in tracking down information which could lead to others, even deposed leader Muammar Qaddafi, being charged over the 1988 bombing of a US-bound airliner over Lockerbie in Scotland.

“In particular we have asked the NTC (National Transitional Council) to make available to the Crown any documentary evidence and witnesses which could assist in the ongoing enquiries,” a spokeswoman for the Scottish Crown Office said on Monday.

The NTC said it expected to be able to comment, later on Monday.
Once they stop laughing at you...
Abdel Basset Al-Megrahi, a former Libyan agent who was convicted of the bombing which killed 270 people, was released on compassionate grounds in 2009 and returned to Libya because he supposedly was suffering from advanced terminal prostate cancer and supposedly thought to have months to live.

His release and return to a hero’s welcome in Libya, coupled with his survival long beyond doctors’ predictions, infuriated many in the United States — home to most of the victims.

But the Crown Office noted his trial court had accepted he had not acted alone.

“Lockerbie remains an open enquiry concerning the involvement of others with Mr. Megrahi in the murder of 270 people,” the spokeswoman said.

Police at the time said they had submitted a list of eight other suspects whom they wanted to interview but that Qaddafi had refused to allow them to be questioned.

In March, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, Libya’s former justice minister and now its interim leader, said he had evidence of Qaddafi’s involvement in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

Megrahi’s co-accused at the specially convened Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands in 2000 was Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah who was cleared of mass murder. He told Sweden’s Expressen newspaper last month that Qaddafi should be tried in court over widespread suspicions he ordered the bombing.

“There is a court and he is the one to explain whether he is innocent or not,” Fhimah said. “He has to.”

In Tripoli, asked about the Scottish move, acting NTC justice minister Mohammed Al-Alagi told Reuters he expected to be in a position to comment later on Monday.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/27/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If Gaddafi didn't order the bombing then we'd have to assume not only that one of his underlings took the initiative to launch a massive attack on the West that might have (and in a sane world would have) had devastating consequences not only for the Gaddafi regime but also for the Libyan nation and people.

What we'd also have to assume is that Gaddafi would let this 'initiative' that might have spelled his doom go unpunished. That would be even less plausible.

When Gaddafi freed Al-Megrahi he protected an obedient slave. When the Gaddafi clan publicly embraced Al-Megrahi they confessed to the deed.

Lockerbie was an act of war, and if not only the Gaddafi regime but also the successor regime obstructs justified Western retribution then they should suffer the consequences.
Posted by: Gleremble Ulinetch9793 || 09/27/2011 6:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Reagan and Thatcher let is slide. Arabee murdering and slaughter has been sliding ever since. These two are held in high esteem today, at least as far as politicians go. Oh the irony of history rewritten.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/27/2011 9:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Good luck with that, morons. The time to do something about Lockerbie was in 1988. What's that old expression...a day late and a dollar short?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 09/27/2011 11:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Oh, you could still send a few Gurkhas in and ask them to bring back the bit on top, in a bag. I'm sure you'd get LOTS of volunteers.
Posted by: Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division || 09/27/2011 16:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Reagan and Thatcher let is slide.

The bomb went off December 21 1988. That was less than a month before Reagan's second term would end. That timing was not a coincidence.

Gaddafi was scared of Reagan but he took his chances with GHW Bush, who did let it slide.

If Obama wanted to he could apply the Bin Laden precedent when dealing with persons of interest in Libya.
Logistics should be far simpler, it would beef up his hawkish credentials at home and the NTC would learn a lesson about which lines not to cross when dealing with the West.
Posted by: Spats Shoger4460 || 09/27/2011 21:04 Comments || Top||


Britain
Terror charges for German converts in UK
Two German Muslim converts detained at the Port of Dover in July have appeared at the Old Bailey accused of possessing material on jihad.

Christian Emde, 28, and Robert Baum, 23, were arrested at the Port of Dover on July 15. They have been charged with having information which could be be of use in terrorism. The men are alleged to have stored the material on a computer and a hard-drive.

Emde was further charged with four similar offenses under the Terrorism Act involving articles with titles such as "Destroying Buildings" and "Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom".
That would be that slick magazine that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula puts out.
Emde and Baum appeared in court in black prayer caps and refused to stand for the judge.

Emde, of Konrad Adenauer Strasse, Solingen, Germany, and Baum, of Peter-Rasspe Strasse, Solingen, will appear in court in December for a plea and management hearing.
Posted by: ryuge || 09/27/2011 06:37 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  For just a fraction of a second, there, I was thinking that two Englishmen had decided to convert and become Germans.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 09/27/2011 8:55 Comments || Top||

#2  I bet Christian and Robert weren't the names they used for themselves....
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/27/2011 9:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Seventy one years ago they would have come to England in a Dornier Do 17 or perhaps a Heinkel 111. The results would have been the same.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 09/27/2011 21:31 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey: IHH draws up list of IDF soldiers linked to Gaza flotilla raid
Posted by: Gleremble Ulinetch9793 || 09/27/2011 03:10 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: WoT
Project Gunwalker: Making the Rounds in the News
A round-up of links of Project Gunwalker stories today -- a Rantburg original -- thus no external link
Yesterday's Part I and Part II of Project Gunwalker about AFT agents given money to purchase guns, were sourced to Mike Vanderboegh at Sipsey Street Irregulars and David Codrea at the Gun Rights Examiner. They presented a letter from an Agent in Charge to a gun seller, to sell the guns to an AFT agent.

A copy of the letter, which bears the handwritten note of the gun dealer who accepted it, is also posted at the Examiner.

Today's follow-ups:
Bob Owens of Pajamas Media reports that Senator Charles Grassley's office corroborates the story that ATF walked guns directly to cartel using taxpayer dollars.

A spokesperson for Senator Charles Grassley responded to the allegations by Vanderboegh/Codrea by noting:
In a March 3 letter to Attorney General Holder and Acting ATF Director Melson, Senator Grassley released Reports of Investigation (Attachment 1 to the letter linked below) in relation to the same case to which Mr. Voth's letter pertains. There is more detailed information about this non-Fast and Furious case in those previously released ROIs than in Mr. Voth's letter. The Voth letter was not obtained until later and merely corroborates the information already in the ROIs.
The letter and attachment noted by Grassley's office corroborate Vanderboegh/Codrea's claim, and show that Dodson bought the weapons from Guns for All, a FFL in Peoria, AZ.
To be up-to-date on this scandal, take the time to read or at least glance through Grassley's reports and the attachments.
If Vanderboegh/Codrea are correct -- and for the duration of this scandal they have been dead-on accurate -- Dodson was chosen by his superiors to become the "walker" of Fast and Furious guns in order to "dirty" him for his previous vehement arguments against the operations. The apparent hope was that if he was sullied in the operation himself, that he would be unwilling or unable to blow the whistle on crimes that he himself participated in. Obviously, they miscalculated his character.

The plot to ensnare Dodson sounds like a Hollywood mob movie for a very good reason; this kind of stunt has been revealed in multiple RICO prosecutions of organized crime.

The unraveling Gunwalker conspiracy has the potential of being the most devastating scandal in the history of American politics.
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ATF Chief Counsel's office warned management of Gun Rights Examiner column
Gun Rights Examiner has obtained a copy of a January 20, 2011 email from Barry Orlow, Associate Chief Counsel (Field Operations and Information) for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, calling top management's attention to a January 19 column posted by this columnist, "Open Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee staff on 'Project Gunwalker'."

Written to inform the committee of whistleblower allegations and to arrange for their protection, the ultimate goal of the open letter was to prompt a full congressional investigation.

Orlow was named by House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa in July for sending intimidating warning letters to witnesses about what they could not talk about, with the result that "at least one witness wanted to back out of testifying to his committee after receiving the letter."

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Tea Party looking for answers in ATF gun mistake
The Tucson Tea Party hosted a meeting Monday night up in Oro Valley with speakers from ATF, local law enforcement, and U.S. Congressman Paul Gosar. It was a small panel, but the crowd was anything but small.

Dolores Becker was one of the hundreds that packed into the auditorium. She said, "
We could hardly find a place to park. I was really shocked, but I was delighted."

The speakers explained what happened and didn't shy away from expressing how they really feel about it. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said, "Not only is this obscene and outrageous but it has resulted in 200 plus at least murders and deaths in Mexico."
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Fast and Furious: Using Humans as Collateral Damage
The Canyon Del Oro High School auditorium in Tucson, Ariz. was packed full of at least 500 people last night as anxious tea party members waited to hear from ATF whistleblower Vince Cefalu, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu and Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar about the Obama Justice Department's Operation Fast and Furious. The theme of the night? Accountability.

"The only thing I have ever asked is to put all the cards on the table. Tell the truth," ATF whistleblower Vince Cefalu said.

Cefalu was heavily involved in Operation Fast and Furious and has been an ATF agent for over 20 years. He has watched the bureau become a political entity rather than fulfilling its obligations as a law enforcement agency.

"We should not concern ourselves with any administration's agenda," Cefalu said. "It [Operation Fast and Furious] defies logic, common sense, it defies our core beliefs, our training and our experience as ATF agents."

When Cefalu started speaking out against his superiors within ATF about the way Operation Fast and Furious was being conducted, putting high powered weapons into the hands of ruthless drug cartels and then losing track of them, he was approached within 24 hours and told to stop. He was also threatened and told if he didn't shut his mouth, he would be relocated to North Dakota, a long way from where he had been working along the southern border with Mexico.

"To think that they could do this sort of operation knowing there could be a dead ATF agent at the ends of those guns made me nauseous," he said.
Posted by: Sherry || 09/27/2011 09:48 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Things are not going to get better until there is a regime change and agencies begin to uphold the law rather than break the law. They have to get away from supporting a way-left wing agenda.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/27/2011 12:18 Comments || Top||

#2  every one of the petty bureaucrats ass-covering the ATF/FBI/DOJ management needs to have his career crushed... pour encourager les autres
Posted by: Frank G || 09/27/2011 20:58 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Paks blame USA for Pak suicide bombings since 9/11
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/27/2011 11:02 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The tone of the original article plumbs a new depth of stupidity.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/27/2011 12:03 Comments || Top||

#2  A Paki version of blame the victim. A delusion that keeps Pakistan from recognizing that it is a failed state.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/27/2011 13:12 Comments || Top||

#3  China is very interested in relations with the Paks. The Chinese have had trouble with the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP). Seems training was done in Pakistan for these Turks. Intense interest in pulling Pakistan under their wing. India is a perceived treat to the Chinese dominance in the area.
Posted by: Dale || 09/27/2011 13:35 Comments || Top||


Pakistan ‘won’t launch’ Haqqani offensive
Easy to refuse since, in the first place, they can't launch an offensive.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s army chief on Monday scrapped a visit to London as Islamabad refused to bow to mounting US demands for action against al Qaeda-linked Haqqani extremists holed up in the country’s northwest.

The alliance between Pakistan and the United States in the 10-year war in Afghanistan and against al Qaeda hit rock bottom this year in the wake of the unilateral American raid that killed Osama bin Laden near Islamabad on May 2. In a series of escalating rows, Washington accused Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency of involvement in the September 13 attack on its embassy in Kabul and a September 11 attack on a NATO base in central Afghanistan.

The White House has since demanded that Pakistan “break any link they have” with the Haqqani network, which was founded by former CIA asset Jalaluddin Haqqani and is run by his son Sirajuddin - based in North Waziristan.

Pakistan’s chief of army staff, General Ashfaq Kayani, who faced huge internal pressures over the bin Laden raid, on Sunday called his top generals for an extraordinary meeting about the stinging US rebukes blaming the Haqqanis and Pakistani intelligence for recent attacks.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has called a rare cross-party conference for Thursday, although he dismissed the American allegations as little more than finding a scapegoat for US “disarray” in Afghanistan.

Gilani’s office said he had directed Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar to forcefully project Pakistan’s point of view at the UN General Assembly, which she is expected to address on Tuesday.

US ambassador Cameron Munter on Monday met with Pakistan’s foreign secretary, Salman Bashir. There was no official word on the meeting but state-run television quoted a foreign office spokesperson as saying, “Pakistan and US agreed to remove misunderstandings through close contacts and bilateral talks.”

The Karachi Stock Exchange’s benchmark KSE-100 index shed three percent to close at 11,265.03, a slump dealers put down to agitation over the US-Pakistani tensions.

“I don’t think the indicators are as such,” a senior Pakistani security official told AFP when asked if the army was going to launch an operation in North Waziristan, part of the country’s semi-autonomous tribal belt. Instead, he said, the military needs to “consolidate gains” made against political opponents local militants who pose a security threat elsewhere in the tribal region that Washington has branded an al Qaeda headquarters.

A Pakistani official told AFP that troops were too busy countering cross-border attacks from Afghanistan and local Pakistani militants in other parts of the tribal belt to take on the Haqqanis.

“These are kind of more pressing issues that we have to tackle,” the security official said.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/27/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You protect your assets not attack them stupid
Posted by: Glatle Glealing7009 || 09/27/2011 13:23 Comments || Top||


Kayani cancels UK visit
LONDON: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has canceled a Monday visit to Britain as the US outrage grows over allegations that ISI helped Haqqani network attack American targets in Afghanistan.
Feeling some heat or worried that things might proceed without him at home?
Britain’s Ministry of Defence said Gen Kayani, who was expected to meet privately with UK Defence Minister Liam Fox, had canceled the visit, declining to speculate on why the visit was scrapped.

A Pakistani official said Kayani was staying in Pakistan to hold talks on the crisis sparked by the US accusations against Pakistan’s military-run Inter-Services Intelligence agency.

Last week, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm Mike Mullen, accused the ISI of having backed an Afghan insurgent group in the planning and execution of a September 13 assault on the US embassy in Afghanistan as well as a truck bomb that wounded 77 American soldiers days earlier. Kayani has dismissed the allegations as baseless.

But a Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee has said the US should consider military action as an option against Pakistan. Sen Lindsey Graham also said assistance to Pakistan should be reconfigured, and that the US should no longer designate an amount of aid for Pakistan but have a more “transactional relationship” with the country.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/27/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ahh. my heart pumps piss
Posted by: Kojack || 09/27/2011 16:43 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Turkish PM's guards in brawl at UN summit
SECURITY guards for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan fought with UN guards at the annual UN summit last week when the Turkish leader tried to get in to see the historic Palestinian application speech.

One UN guard was taken to hospital, UN sources said.

UN spokesman Martin Nesirky confirmed there had been "unfortunate misunderstandings" between UN security and guards for an unnamed country on Friday, but gave no other details.

Mr Erdogan had been at a meeting on a level above the UN General Assembly hall when he heard Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was about to give his speech to back the historic application.

According to the Turtle Bay blog on events at the United Nations, Mr Erdogan rushed to get into the meeting but his entourage was told they could not use the exit they were trying to get through.

"The Turkish guards demanded that their president be allowed to pass and allegedly pushed the UN security guards. The UN guards pushed back and the Turks apparently began swinging," Turtle Bay said.

An official who saw the brawl told AFP UN security quickly called reinforcements and drew the curtains around the floor where the incident happened.

"There were some unfortunate misunderstandings involving security between UN uniformed officials and security officials of member delegations," UN spokesman Mr Martin Nesirky said.
Posted by: tipper || 09/27/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pity they weren't armed.
Posted by: phil_b || 09/27/2011 2:28 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: gr(o)mgoru || 09/27/2011 4:03 Comments || Top||

#3  The New York Times adds that Erdogan and his bodyguards were trying to force their from the fourth floor balcony to the ground floor Of the hall, which did not connect. Had the U.N. guards permitted them through, they would have fallen over the railing. As a reward, one guard was hospitalized with broken or bruised ribs, blood may or may not have been spilt on the floor, and the Turkish guards started several more fights over the course of the day.

The WallStreet Journal adds that PM Erdogan,s entourage had gotten into several more altercations at the U.N. over the previous days. He has two registered bodyguards, plus a number of registered "advisors" who also act as bodyguards and have been causing problems.

U.N. officials familiar with the incident said fights erupted on three separate floors as Mr. Erdogan was hurrying to take his seat among the Turkish delegation on the General Assembly floor. Mr. Erdogan was late for an address by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, and tried to enter from the Assembly's fourth-level balcony, which has no access to the floor, the U.N. officials said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/27/2011 12:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Had the U.N. guards permitted them through, they would have fallen over the railing.

But I thought turkeys could fly.
Posted by: Skunky Glin**** || 09/27/2011 21:25 Comments || Top||

#5  ION TOPIX > TURKEY TO AZERBAIJAN: STAND WID US AGZ ISRAEL.

versus

* WAFF > IRAN: TURKEY [covertly] MAINTAINS RELATIONS WID ISRAEL BEHIND THE SCENE | IRAN ACCUSES TURKEY ON ISRAEL POLICY [Turk-Israel dispute merely a facade].

* SAME > TURKEY TO DEFEND ITS SEA INTERESTS, SAYS PM [Erdogan].
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/27/2011 23:05 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas concerned Palestinian state will not attack Israel
Al Qassam website - De facto and ineffectual Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said he would launch “in-depth talks” with Palestinian resistance group Hamas on issues pertaining to the government and “Palestinian horizons”.
The Paleo horizon is at the end of the tunnel connecting Gaza to Egypt...
This came in remarks by Abbas during his return trip from the UN General Assembly after applying for full membership in the United Nations for the Palestinians.

“We will hold in-depth talks with Hamas in the coming period not only to address reconciliation but the in-depth talks will be around the general of the Palestinians’ action,” he said.

Meanwhile, Hamas’s refugees’ affairs department has criticized Abbas’s move at the UN, saying it bolstered the Palestinians’ recognition of Israel as never before.
Said another way, it demonstrated the world's apathy for you guys despite all the fawning from the intellectuals, elites and socialists (but we repeat ourselves)...
The statement also predicts that Abbas would ask the Palestinians to refrain from all armed resistance against Israel, because if recognized as a state by the Palestinians, acts of armed resistance against Israel would be classified as aggression from one state against another and could draw heavy response from Israel and possibly result in a renewal of occupation.
Since it would, after all, be an act of war.
The statement says that by conferring legitimacy to Israel and officially recognizing it as a state with pre-1967 borders the right of the Palestinian refugees ejected from beyond those borders to return is put at risk.
Since the 'refugees' are better used as a bargaining chip than allowing them to get on with their lives.
The statement also criticizes Abbas’s historic speech at the General Assembly for not attaining guarantees from any country protecting the fundamental rights of the Palestinians.
Noticed that did you? All 192 countries in the world and not one of them gives the proverbial rat's patootie about you guys.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/27/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let them have their state, tell them the first rocket or attack from that state into Israel will be a declaration of war that will end with the entire area being taken by right of conquest and EVERY SINGLE person there will be expulsed and the land will forever belong to Israel.
Posted by: Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division || 09/27/2011 9:12 Comments || Top||


So much for journalistic integrity: Al Jazeera reporter admits is Hamas man
During Shin Bet interrogation, former Afghanistan bureau chief Samer Allawi says he traveled to Syria to help terror group.

Samer Allawi, Al Jizz's former Afghanistan bureau chief, reached a deal with the Israel State state prosecutors office on Sunday under which he will receive a suspended sentence of three years after he confessed to conspiring in Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, operations.

Allawi, a Paleostinian, was incarcerated in August on the border between the West Bank and Jordan at The Allenby Crossing.

During an investigation with The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) Allawi said he was recruited to Hamas in 1993 and he served there until 2004 in a senior committee that oversees Hamas operations abroad and is responsible for fundraising.

In 2001 and 2003 he traveled to Syria where he reported on his activities to Mousa Aba Marzook, deputy to Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Damascus
...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...

Aba Marzook offered Allawi to become an official Hamas representative in Iran, but he rejected the offer.

During the interrogation with The Shin Bet, Allawi said he attended a meeting in 2000 in Soddy Arabia in which he said he would be part of a terror operation on behalf of Hamas. He also offered to use his position as a news hound to promote Hamas interests.

In 2006, Allawi traveled to Qatar and met with additional Al Jizz news hounds, who The Shin Bet said were Hamas operatives, and discussed the possibility of using their position to advance Hamas by critizing the US military in Afghanistan.

During his interrogation, The Shin Bet said he also discussed his activities as a member of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan from 1988 till 1992 during which he said that he participated in a rebel raid on an Afghan military base and participated in guerrilla operations against Soviet forces. 
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/27/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In other words Associated [with terrorists] Press has some competition.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/27/2011 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  The BBC are keeping quiet but...

Orla Goering crying at Arafats demise tells you all you need to know...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/27/2011 8:48 Comments || Top||

#3  using their position to advance JIHAD by critizing the US anyway the MSM can.
Does it really matter if a journo has been formally recruited by terrorists, or not?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/27/2011 11:49 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Amnesty International condemns Thai insurgents
Golly. I am shocked.
Posted by: ryuge || 09/27/2011 06:23 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's been how many years? Yawn. They could have been reading the Rant for years to get the news. Oh, wait a minute, what am I thinking. This has nothing to do with Am-nasty International's anti-American agenda. Move along.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/27/2011 8:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Because they don't kill Jews?
Posted by: gr(o)mgoru || 09/27/2011 9:56 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran Says Could Deploy Navy Near U.S. Coast
Iran raised the prospect on Tuesday of sending military ships close to the United States' Atlantic coast.

"Like the arrogant powers that are present near our marine borders, we will also have a powerful presence close to American marine borders," the head of the Navy, Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said, according to the official IRNA news agency.

Speaking at a ceremony marking the 31st anniversary of the start of the 1980-1988 war with Iraq, Sayyari gave no details of when such a deployment could happen or the number or type of vessels to be used.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 09/27/2011 12:39 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seriously, I hope that none of our sailors injure themselves laughing.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 09/27/2011 12:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Sink em. Remember the Cole!
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/27/2011 13:04 Comments || Top||

#3  For some reason, an old adage came to mind:

"Every ship can function as a mine-sweeper - once.
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 09/27/2011 13:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Sure. Come on over...
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/27/2011 13:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Spam spam spam SPAAAAAMM wonderful spam!
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/27/2011 13:28 Comments || Top||

#6  I hope they wait until after the next president is inaugurated. If they come before that, we're hosed.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 09/27/2011 14:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Does that mean we can take their seamen hostage even when they are in international waters - much like they took those British sailors hostage?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/27/2011 14:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Make sure they bring a tugboat along...
Posted by: Steve White || 09/27/2011 15:41 Comments || Top||

#9  Probably a visit to Chavez's Venezuela. Wonder if they know about Hurricane season?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/27/2011 16:05 Comments || Top||

#10  They call the camel the "ship of the desert" cause it's full of Iranian seamen...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/27/2011 16:24 Comments || Top||

#11  I sure hope they have a navy large enough to cover the east coast.

They don't?
Posted by: Kojack || 09/27/2011 16:42 Comments || Top||

#12  Ah, yes - a trip across the Atlantic in this time of year with ships designed for littoral conditions and tropical climates. Ought to be a major fun cruise. If they don't get to use the Suez Canal, then they have to take the route around the Cape of Africa. That should be good for a couple of their ships lost at sea by itself.
Posted by: Shieldwolf || 09/27/2011 18:00 Comments || Top||

#13  It could save us the trouble of motoring all the way over to the Gulf of Rumsfeld to hunt them. Have you seen the price of fuel lately?
Posted by: SteveS || 09/27/2011 21:31 Comments || Top||

#14  IMO prob vee LR Subs, Frigates, + MP Arsenal/Fire Ships.

Perhaps more importantly, IRAN = USURPING THE HISTORICAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE OTTOMAN = TURKISH NAVY, I.E. DISSING TURKEY???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/27/2011 23:09 Comments || Top||

#15  TOPIX > [Fox News] PAKISTANI THREAT ESCALATES AS IMAMS [50 ea.] CALL FOR JIHAD AGZ THE UNITED STATES, iff the US ever militarily attacks + invades Pakistan.

and

* SAME > DECLINE WATCH: PAKISTANI CLERICS ISSUE FATWA AGZ CALLING THE US A SUPERPOWER.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/27/2011 23:47 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Ohio mosque designed to blend in, not stand out
Hilliard, Ohio mosque has no minarets, many windows to demonstrate transparency.
The feeling among the mosque's founders was, "We're in the United States, we need to do something different, we need to first make it do things that mosques ought to do in the United States, and also it's got to look like something that comes from the United States," said Farag, 49, who emigrated from Libya as a youth.
Wise choice. There is a photo of the building at the link.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/27/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "..not just a mosque, but a museum to all things Muslim..." looking at the walls, reminds me of a modern concrete version of a late 1800's Army fort; something that will withstand an attack. like the Alamo.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 09/27/2011 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  They can add the minaret later.
Posted by: gorb || 09/27/2011 2:39 Comments || Top||

#3  OUT: Mosque
IN: Islamic Cultural Center

Like "wetlands" used to be "swamps"...
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/27/2011 16:46 Comments || Top||



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