Key bits excerpted from a slightly longer article.
[PJMedia] Sufi leader Mustafa Zayid, Coordinator of the Sufi Coalition Forces in Egypt, stated in published comments to Watan "that Ansar Bayt al-Muqadis is a pseudonym for the terrorist Brotherhood organization, clarifying that what the U.S. State Department did was one of the administration's tricks to deceive the world, mocking it into believing that the U.S. is combating terrorism."
He further added that "the U.S. supports the Moslem Brüderbund and sponsors its terrorist activities throughout Egypt."
Nor is the Sufi the only one making such charges. According to Nabil Na'im, a Salafi, former member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... and confidante of al-Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri ... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is... , Ansar Bayt al-Muqadis is funded by Khairat al-Shatter, the currently imprisoned, multi-millionaire Brotherhood leader.
Of note is the fact that, although al-Shatter was never part of the Morsi government, U.S. diplomats often met with him, including Ambassador Anne Patterson and Sen. John McCain.
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If you are chronically unemployed, can't afford gas for the lawn mower, and are 2 years behind on HOA fees, you'll probably not be elected as Association President.
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An Al Gore sale. Seems a lot of coal plants are also going to do some layoffs as well. Not that enough new generators are coming on line to replace that energy production loss.
In describing Michael Mann's malfeasance, Mark Steyn relates this amusing anecdote:
Mr Lawrence gave generously to Bill Clinton, who enjoyed playing a round with Shelia, the attractive fourth Mrs Lawrence and, for a while, a frequent golf partner of the President's. But Larry wasn't just a businessman and political donor, he'd had an amazing life doing all kinds of things. After graduating from the University of Arizona, he'd played professional football, and been vice-chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize nominating commission, and all this while coping with the head injury he'd sustained after being torpedoed off the coast of Murmansk in 1945.
Which was the reason they buried him at Arlington. Larry didn't like to talk about his heroism that day. As he told Senator Harlan Matthews during his nomination hearing at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee:
"I was 18 years old and I was on board the SS Horace Bushnell in a convoy to Murmansk, which was an all-volunteer run known as the 'Suicide Mission.' We were torpedoed 15 miles off Murmansk. I was just coming out of the hole, and everybody down below was killed. I was thrown clear. I am told - - I have no memory of what happened -- that thereafter I suffered a serious concussion and was taken in a coma, subsequently, after going in the water, to Murmansk, then Scotland, and back to New York and home. It is something I do not particularly relish remembering for the record, Senator. You know. You were there. I told them to mail me the medal, but my wife insisted that we have the ceremony."
He was so modest and retiring about what he'd done in the dark frigid waters off Murmansk on that "suicide mission" that Dianne Feinstein had to finish the story and tell how he had ignored his own grave wounds to rescue his wounded comrades. Senator Feinstein pronounced him a hero.
No wonder they buried him at Arlington.
The only problem was none of it was true. He'd never graduated from the University of Arizona, never played professional football, never been torpedoed off Murmansk, or indeed served in the military at all. And he'd never been vice-chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize nominating commission.
When it all came out, and the fulsome obituaries were replaced by the emptysome rewrites, they dug him up from Arlington in the dead of night and shipped him back to San Diego, to be buried near his merry widow's country club.
Search the man's name or the ship's name in your favorite search engine and quite the story comes out. Mr. Steyn is absolutely right, and this was a black eye (or at the very least a stubbed toe) for our philandering 42nd president...
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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