Atlas Shrugs

BOMB IRAN'S NUCLEAR FACILITIES

Watch this ....sums it up precisely. (hat tip Bill)There is no way Obama can handle this.

And then refresh your knowledge because you are going to need it:

Atlas Shrugs: WHAT TO DO IF A NUCLEAR DISASTER IS IMMINENT

This guide is for families preparing for imminent terrorist or strategic nuclear attacks
with expected severe destruction followed by widespread radioactive fallout downwind.

IF ONLY A 'Dirty Bomb' Attack (Not the vastly more devastating nuclear weapon blasts with fallout discussed below.) - You can expect localized and downwind contamination from the explosion and dispersed radioactive materials. If you are near enough to see or hear any local bomb blast, assume that it includes radiological or chemical agents. You should move away from the blast area as quickly as possible. If the wind is blowing toward you from the direction of the blast, travel in a direction that is crosswise or perpendicular to the wind as you move away from the blast area. If possible cover your face with a dust mask or cloth to avoid inhaling potentially radioactive dust. Upon reaching a safe location, remove your outer clothing outside and shower as soon as possible. Refer to local news sources for additional instructions about sheltering or evacuation. The government is better prepared to direct and assist the public in a 'dirty bomb' incident, unlike an actual nuclear weapon attack discussed below.

In a national crisis of imminent nuclear weapon attacks, read all the way through this guide first,

THEN TAKE EFFECTIVE PROTECTIVE ACTION WITH CONFIDENCE... FAST!

#1 - STAY OR GO?

You must decide FIRST if you need to prepare where you are, or attempt evacuation. The nature of the threat, your prior preparations, and your confidence in your sources of information should direct your decision. If you know already you will be preparing to stay at your own home or, at least, the immediate local area, go now to #2 below.

If you are considering evacuation, your decision requires a very high confidence that it is worth the risk. You do not want to get stuck between your current location and your hoped for destination, as there will probably be no easy getting back. If you fail to get to your destination, you may be exposed without shelter, in a dangerous situation with little effective law enforcement, perhaps among panicked hordes of refugees. Whatever supplies you have may be limited then to what you can carry on foot. IF you are in a big city or near a military target, AND you have relatives or friends in the country that you know are awaiting you, AND the roads between you and them are clear, AND the authorities are not yet restricting traffic, AND you have the means and fuel, evacuation may be a viable option for a limited time. DO NOT attempt evacuation if all of the above is not clearly known, or if the situation is deteriorating too quickly to make the complete trip. You do not want to get stuck and/or become a refugee being herded along with panicked masses. If evacuation is truly a viable option, do not wait - GO NOW! Do so with as many of the supplies listed on the last page as possible. Better to be two days too early in arriving than two hours too late and getting snagged mid-way, potentially exposing your family to a worse fate than having stayed where you were. Because of the very real danger of getting caught in an evacuation stampede that stalls, almost all families will be better off making the best of it wherever they currently are.

#2 - WHAT YOU NEED TO DO FIRST

Go here for the entire instruction booklet. Read it all. Now

IRAQ ARCHBISHOP MURDERED BY iSLAMIC JIHAD

It's a holy war. Like it or not. Christians have been under seige, under attack by al qaeda and pious Muslims groups. There are no Jews in Iraq - the Iraqi constitution forbids it. Want to see what the global jihad looks like, look at Iraq.

Chaldean Archbishop Found Dead After Iraq Kidnapping (Update1)    

By Camilla Hall

March 13 (Bloomberg) -- A Chaldean Catholic archbishop kidnapped in northern Iraq last month has been found dead, the information service of the Italian bishops' conference said.    

The archbishop of Mosul, Paulos Faraj Rahho, was abducted on Feb. 29, the SIR service said. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki had called for the release of the archbishop.    

``Monsignor Rahho is dead. We found him lifeless near Mosul. His abductors buried him,'' SIR cited the auxiliary bishop of Baghdad, Shlemon Warduni, as saying.    

Chaldean Catholics make up the largest community of Christians in Iraq, Agence France-Presse said. There were as many as 800,000 in the country before the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, though many have been killed or kidnapped by Sunni and Shiite Islamists and criminal gangs since then, the news service said.   

Pope Benedict XVI was ``deeply saddened'' by news of the death of the archbishop of Mosul, a Vatican spokesman told reporters today in Rome

Al Qaeda Kidnaps Austrian TouristsIt's the Jews fault

As the obvious becomes more obvious, and the lines drawn between Islam and the West become  deeper and more decided, expect the Orwellian propaganda, the PC double speak and the rampant Judeophobia to get ratcheted up to almost deafening levels.

Al-Qaeda Kidnaps Western Tourists as 'Retribution' Over Israel Israel National News

(IsraelNN.com) Members of the North African branch of the international terrorist organization Al-Qaeda announced Monday that they are holding two Austrian tourists hostage "in retribution" for what they claim is Western support for Israeli counter-terrorism operations. Al-Qaeda threatened more such kidnappings.

In an audio tape aired by the Gulf-based Al-Jazeera satellite network, a man who claimed to represent Al-Qaeda in Islamic North Africa (AQIM), Salah Abu Mohammad, identified the two Austrians and said they were in good condition. The alleged hostages, a man and a woman who had been touring southern Tunisia, were reported as missing in mid-February, according to Austrian officials.

"We tell Western tourists that, while they come into Tunisia seeking joy, our brothers are being slain in Gaza by the Jews with the collaboration of the Western states," Abu Mohammad said. "The jihadists have previously warned and alerted [Westerners] that the apostate Tunisian state cannot and will not be able to protect you, and the hands of the jihadists can reach you wherever you are on Tunisian soil."

AQIM will issue their demands for release of the two Austrians soon, Abu Muhammad said. He further warned Austria not to take any action in Algeria, AQIM's suspected home base of operations. Tunisian authorities, meanwhile, doubt that the hostages are still in their country.

Would be bombers: "wanted to carry out a suicide attack against the Jews".

Endless Arab Islamic terrorism.

Algeria: Eight would-be suicide bombers 'headed to Gaza', says report hat tip rut

Algiers, 10 March (AKI) - Eight would-be suicide bombers left eastern Algeria a few days ago and are reportedly heading to the Gaza Strip to commit suicide attacks against Israeli soldiers, reported pan Arab daily al-Sharq al-Awsat on Monday.

The young men reportedly left their homes days ago without saying anything to their families.

Reportedly, their intent is to join Hamas' armed wing, the Izzadin al-Qassam brigades, considered a terrorist organisation by the European Union, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.

The report said that after a few days, two of the would-be bombers reached Gaza and called their parents saying they were in good health and that they wanted "to carry out a suicide attack against the Jews."

The eight men, aged between 18 and 24 come from the village of al-Raqiba in the province of Wadi, about 600 kilometres from the capital Algiers.

Where the Hell is the UN Now?

I guess the Jew hating didn't help infidels!

Endangered Gaza Christians Mull Flight Amid Deaths, Firebombs - Daniel Williams
The stone walls of St. Porphyrius Church in Gaza City were raised in the fourth century, a reminder of Christianity's long role in the city's history. The saga may be coming to an end. Christians in Gaza are increasingly menaced by Islamic fundamentalists and say they are on the verge of being driven out.
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    Artemios observed that, according to legend, the old columns in his church were from a temple destroyed by Samson after his haircut at the hands of Delilah. "The edifice of tolerance is crashing down over our heads,'' he said. (Bloomberg)

Glick Eviscerates West on Kosovo

Glick weighs in on Kosovo and not surprisingly, sees it as   Bolton and Bostom and Williams and Jatras and Gorin and  Atlas does). Another intellectual leading light sees the terrible mistake we are making in supporting an Islamic state in the heart of Europe.

KOSOVO'S STARK WARNING Caroline Glick
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Additionally, the prosecution of Albanian war criminals is "hampered by the unwillingness of the local population to testify" against them. This is in part due to the fact that "there is still no specific legislation on witness protection in place."

The fledgling failed-state of Kosovo is a great boon for the global jihad. It is true that Kosovar Muslims by and large do not subscribe to radical Islam. But it is also true that they have allowed their territory to be used as bases for al-Qaida operations; that members of the ruling Kosovo Liberation Army have direct links to al-Qaida; and that the Islamic world as a whole perceived Kosovo's fight for independence from Serbia as a jihad for Islamic domination of the disputed province.

According to a 2002 Wall Street Journal report, al-Qaida began operating actively in Kosovo, and in the rest of the Balkans, in 1992. Osama bin Laden visited Albania in 1996 and 1997. He received a Bosnian passport from the Bosnian Embassy in Austria in 1993. Acting on bin Laden's orders, in 1994 his deputy, Ayman Zawahiri set up training bases throughout the Balkans including one in Mitrovica, Kosovo. The Taliban and al-Qaida set up drug trafficking operations in Kosovo to finance their operations in Afghanistan and beyond.

In 2006, John Gizzi reported in Human Events that the German intelligence service BND had confirmed that the 2005 terrorist bombings in Britain and the 2004 bombings in Spain were organized in Kosovo. Furthermore, "The man at the center of the provision of the explosives in both instances was an Albanian, operating mostly out of Kosovo... who is the second ranking leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Niam Behzloulzi."

Then, too, at its 1998 meeting in Pakistan, the Organization of the Islamic Conference declared that the Albanian separatists in Kosovo were fighting a jihad. The OIC called on the Muslim world to help "this fight for freedom on the occupied Muslim territories."

Supporters of Kosovo claim that as victims of "genocide," Kosovar Muslims deserve independence. But if the Muslims in Kosovo have been targeted for annihilation by the Serbs, then how is it that they have increased from 48% of the population in 1948 to 92% today? Indeed, Muslims comprised only 78% of the population in 1991, the year before Yugoslavia broke apart.

In recent years particularly, it is Kosovo's Serbian Christians, not its Albanian Muslims, who are targeted for ethnic cleansing. Since 1999, two-thirds of Kosovo's Serbs - some 250,000 people - have fled the area.

The emergence of a potentially destabilizing state in Kosovo is clearly an instance of political interests trumping law. Under international law, Kosovo has no right to be considered a sovereign state. Even UN Security Council Resolution 1244 from 1999, which the KLA claims provides the legal basis for Kosovar sovereignty, explicitly recognizes Serbian sovereignty over Kosovo.

For Israel, Kosovo's US-backed declaration of independence should be a source of alarm great enough to require a rethinking of foreign policy. Unfortunately, rather than understand and implement the lessons of Kosovo, the Olmert-Livni-Barak government is working actively to ensure that they are reenacted in the international community's treatment of Israel and the Palestinians. Today, Israel is enabling the Palestinians to set the political and legal conditions for the establishment of an internationally recognized state of Palestine that will be at war with Israel.

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You must, of course, read it all.

Al Manar Reporter Arrested in Terror Plot

Please note that al manar, Hezb'Allah's news network, is a news source for Google but they have banned the pre-eminent journalist who exposes U.N. corruption has disappeared from google.

"We periodically review news sources, particularly following user complaints, to ensure Google News offers a high quality experience for our users," it said. "When we reviewed your site we've found that we can no longer include it in Google News."

Just for knowing, I got my best intel on the UN from Matthew Lee, the editor-in-chief, Webmaster and pretty much the only reporter for Inner City Press, a pint-sized Internet news operation.

Google, aligned with the Islamic terror force. Media jihad baby.

Morocco Arrests 23, Including Manar Correspondent, Over Terror Plot hat tip rut

An investigation by the judicial authorities led to the sweep Monday in the capital Rabat.

A security source told Agence France Presse several arms were seized during the raids.

A report by the state-run news agency MAP identified only three suspects: Mustapha Moatassim, the secretary general of a small, legal Islamist party, Al Badil Al Hadari, Mohammed Merouani who heads the illegal Umma Party and the alleged group ringleader Abdelkader Balliraj.

The report said those arrested had ties to radical Islam. It did not specify what type of plots the alleged terror group had been planning.

Police said they had probed "the ramifications and connections of the network with others active in Morocco and abroad."

Asharq al-Awsat said that a well informed security source refused to comment on the link between Abdel Hafiz al-Saryati, the correspondent of Hizbullah's Al Manar TV, and the others arrested over the alleged terror plot.(Naharnet-AP-AFP) (Photo courtesy of Asharq al-Awsat is of Abdel Hafiz al-Saryati)

“From Baghdad to Gaza - Jihad until Victory”

“From Baghdad to Gaza - Jihad until Victory” -it's all about the jihad folks. The "war peace process" is one ginormous trojan horse. There is no such thing as a"Palestinian".

E-jihad IAI: “Dari Baghdad sampai Gaza - Jihad sampai Menang” (hat tip wolf)

I ahte running the URLs because the jihadis just take them down and set up elsewhere (more frequently Indonesia) and then we have to track them down again. So while it appears to be a great thing to get sites taken down, the fact is it makes our job harder.

The following article is from a different Islamic site. He explains there is no such thing as moderate Islam but I have been telling you that for years.

Who represents “mainstream Islam”?

This is a burning question that is often posed by the West to the Muslim Communities residing in the West. So immediately, we are going to face a problem. Here, the West wants us to say that the Muslims residing in Western lands are “mainstream Muslims” that follow “mainstream Islam.” In other words, they want us to forget that their is a powerful voice in the Middle East and South Asia, and instead, fill our heads with air making us think and feel that we are the superior part of the Ummah because we have an education and have more money and can speak English well. If they were to ask “mainstream Muslims in the West,” then this would have never ever become an issue. The idea of “mainstream Islam” is where the trap is placed. So the Muslims turn to media savvy people like Hamza Yusuf or so-called intellectuals like Tariq Ramadan. This trap is so well-placed and hidden that almost the majority of the Muslims in the West don’t see it. For those who do see it, they stay quiet on the issue. Why is this?

When a Muslim in the West is asked who represents “mainstream Islam,” he doesn’t realize that the West is playing their role of divide and conquer. This is their strategy. So the Muslims will look to those that “make Islam look bad” to Kuffaar - as if Islam is obsessed with its image in the eyes of the disbelievers - such as the Mujaahideen, the Mujaahideen Shuyookh such as Shaykh Abu ‘Aasim Muhammad al-Maqdisi, and the staunch Mujaahideen supporters such as Abu ‘Izzadeen and they (the ones who worry) will openly display a type of Baraa’ah against these brothers by calling them “extremists” and “radicals” etc. even though our role as Muslims is to unite - not on the basis of how the non-Muslims would see us - but on the basis of belief and activism.

Brother Anjem Choudhury, for instance, is labeled an extremist by many Muslims and Muslim groups in the West even though he never said anything which is considered Fisq, Kufr or Shirk. Forget that, he didn’t even say anything which is considered Makrooh! So what is holding us back from uniting with him and his likes? It is nothing except the obsession with the “image of Islam” (which is another issue) towards the Kuffaar. Some might ask, “So… what is the problem with that? Is that not considered Da’wah?” In some cases it is and in some cases it is not. The problem comes when we try to apply one principal (such as the old woman who threw her trash on the Prophet (sallallahu ‘alayhi wassallam) every time he passed by) to all situations. There is a context and timing for everything and it is time for us to loosen up on the aspect of becoming fearful of what the Kuffaar might say or will say since failing to do so will make us feel stupid when reading the aayah,

وَلَنْ تَرْضَى عَنْكَ الْيَهُودُ وَلا النَّصَارَى حَتَّى تَتَّبِعَ مِلَّتَهُمْ

Never will the Jews or the Christians be pleased with you unless you follow their Millah (path/religion/lifestyle). (2:120)

And every time we do read it, we find ourselves ignoring tafakkur (reflection) upon this noble verse. Is it due to the clarity in the statement of Allah Ta’aala? I believe so.

 

MUSLIMS BOMBING DENMARK

This low grade civil war is more than just the republishing of the motoons.  The guerrilla warfare started the day before  the toons were republished. It ain't the toons, it's the global jihad, stupid.

Bombing in Copenhagen - A turn for the worse

A bombing in Copenhagen this morning followed a week of street riots over the 'Prophet' cartoons

Around 11am today a bomb exploded in a solarium in Copenhagen. The suntan shop was situated just by the national football stadium in Oesterbro, a peaceful and affluent part of the Danish capital. The explosion completely destroyed the shop and the surrounding flats were also damaged.

The police are putting the fact that no one was hurt down to sheer luck; two other bags were found in the area and have been destroyed. Two young men between the ages of 15 and 25 were seen running away from the crime scene; they were described as "foreign-looking" and are now wanted by the police.

Which was it 15 or 25?

The explosion is a drastic escalation of the week-long riots on the streets Denmark where young Muslim men have vented their anger and frustration towards Danish society by setting fire to cars and burning bonfires in the streets.

"Frustration towards Danish society" They don't deserve Danish society.

The rioters claim that their action is a protest against the reprinting of the prophet cartoons, which took place last Wednesday when a unified Danish press decided to print/reprint the cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban. The decision to reprint was taken when the Danish security service (PET) notified the public that three men had been arrested on suspicion of plotting the murder of the cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard.

They should be shipped back to their 7th century dirt holes.

However, it is debatable whether the reprinting of the cartoons was the real reason behind the rioting. The night before they were published the air on Oesterbro was thick with the smoke of bonfires and burning rubber, carried by the wind from neighbouring Noerrebro, where much of the rioting has taken place. The cartoons no doubt had an explosive effect on matters, but the fire was already burning.

But it's OK when they do it to Israel?

What the world doesn't understand, as they gleefully throw Israel under the bus, is they are next.

Retired Egyptian General Hussam Sweilem Slams Hamas for Destroying Egyptian Border and Warns of Extremist Religious Regimes Neighboring with Egypt MEMRI

To view this clip, go here.

General Hussam Sweilem: The most important issue today is the organized crime that came from across the border. This is a violation of Egypt's sanctity, a transgression of its borders, which [Hamas] has called "the great raid." They called the transgression of our borders "a raid"...

Interviewer: Who did?

General Hussam Sweilem: Those Hamas members from Hamastan.

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Interviewer: Why is it a crime, if these people came to buy medical supplies, and to look for food?

General Hussam Sweilem: How would you explain that the people who got into Egypt... We allowed them in, but they violated Egypt's sanctity, and entered our country with bulldozers, and then with men wearing masks from the 'Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades... Those are Hamas members, not the Palestinian people... But it was completely organized. It was organized four months ago, not now.

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How can I sympathize with people who smuggled into Egypt cars with explosives belts, weapons, ammunitions, and explosive devices? How can I sympathize with a man with an explosives belt at Bani Sweif? What's he planning to do with his explosives belt there? Two [Palestinians] were arrested with explosives at Bani Sweif. What, they were going to fight the Jews at Bani Sweif? Is this proper Islamic behavior, with which I can sympathize, when they break into homes of women at Al-'Arish and Rafah, and attack Egyptian women for not allowing them to sleep in their homes? Who would allow a stranger to break into his home, when there are women there? How can I sympathize with someone who detonated an explosives device in Rafah? How can I sympathize with them, when after taking all the goods from the shops of the Egyptians, they paid with counterfeit dollars?

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MUSLIMS PLANNED TO KILL AUSSIE PM

There's no link between Islam and terror. Got it.

Terror suspects discussed killing Australian PM, court told AFP hat tip wolf

MELBOURNE (AFP) — Members of a group of Muslim men who allegedly formed a terrorist cell in Australia discussed killing the then prime minister John Howard in 2004, a court heard Tuesday.

Prosecutors said two of the 12 men allegedly involved in the Melbourne-based group raised the possibility of killing Howard in September 2004, when they were discussing what actions were permitted under the Koran.

They said secretly-recorded conversations revealed that group member Abdullah Merhi asked the leader, cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika: "If John Howard kills innocent families... Muslims, do we have to kill him?"

The prosecution said Merhi also asked if an attack on the Australian government would be wrong if it was aimed at forcing the withdrawal of the country's troops from Iraq.

Full coverage  here

Bandar's Blackmail Bombs Bulllied Blair

Prince Bandar threatened the UK with homicide bombers if they didn't stop investigating corrupt BAE  and Saudi arms deals. And, pathetically, Tony caved. Un-freakin-believable.

Mary reminded me that this is the  same Prince Bandar who sent thousands of dollars to 9/11 hijackers Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar? Good thing the FBI did an investigation and found out that there was no connection between our Saudi friends and terrorism.

BAE: secret papers reveal threats from Saudi prince

Spectre of 'another 7/7' led Tony Blair to block  bribes inquiry,

Prince Bandar, head of Saudi Arabia’s national security council, leaving Downing Street last October.

Saudi Arabia's rulers threatened to make it easier for terrorists to attack London unless corruption investigations into their arms deals were halted, according to court documents revealed yesterday.

Previously secret files describe how investigators were told they faced "another 7/7" and the loss of "British lives on British streets" if they pressed on with their inquiries and the Saudis carried out their threat to cut off intelligence.

Prince Bandar, the head of the Saudi national security council, and son of the crown prince, was alleged in court to be the man behind the threats to hold back information about suicide bombers and terrorists. He faces accusations that he himself took more than £1bn in secret payments from the arms company BAE.

He was accused in yesterday's high court hearings of flying to London in December 2006 and uttering threats which made the prime minister, Tony Blair, force an end to the Serious Fraud Office investigation into bribery allegations involving Bandar and his family.

The threats halted the fraud inquiry, but triggered an international outcry, with allegations that Britain had broken international anti-bribery treaties.

Lord Justice Moses, hearing the civil case with Mr Justice Sullivan, said the government appeared to have "rolled over" after the threats. He said one possible view was that it was "just as if a gun had been held to the head" of the government.

The SFO investigation began in 2004, when Robert Wardle, its director, studied evidence unearthed by the Guardian. This revealed that massive secret payments were going from BAE to Saudi Arabian princes, to promote arms deals.

The SFO investigation began in 2004, when Robert Wardle, its director, studied evidence unearthed by the Guardian. This revealed that massive secret payments were going from BAE to Saudi Arabian princes, to promote arms deals.

Yesterday, anti-corruption campaigners began a legal action to overturn the decision to halt the case. They want the original investigation restarted, arguing the government had caved into blackmail.

The judge said he was surprised the government had not tried to persuade the Saudis to withdraw their threats. He said: "If that happened in our jurisdiction [the UK], they would have been guilty of a criminal offence". Counsel for the claimants said it would amount to perverting the course of justice.

Wardle told the court in a witness statement: "The idea of discontinuing the investigation went against my every instinct as a prosecutor. I wanted to see where the evidence led."

But a paper trail set out in court showed that days after Bandar flew to London to lobby the government, Blair had written to the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, and the SFO was pressed to halt its investigation.

Yesterday, anti-corruption campaigners began a legal action to overturn the decision to halt the case. They want the original investigation restarted, arguing the government had caved into blackmail.

It's no wonder the Islamazis have little respect for the West. Read the rest here.

Bush Wrong on Kenya

In an compromise between good and evil, evil profits. That said, US foreign policy continues to careen into the abyss by pursuing a morally inverted strategy of equality among all men, civilized or savage. One only has to look to Gazastan to understand what an abject failure  appeasing savages is.

Bush is urging power-sharing in Kenya but  it will never work. Islam does not "share".

So Odinga's bloody rampages and rapes were a successful tactic then?

Michael sent the following with this remark, "Bush's answer to Islamic riots, murder and mayhem is "power sharing" between Christian victims and Islamic aggressors.  As noted, the President's criteria for assistance  is full and complete cooperation, militarily and  politically, with  U.S. interests.  The Administrations pro-Islamic, anti-Christian policies have allowed the Lebanese Muslims and Chinese to gain a stranglehold over African trade and industry".

Bush urges Kenya power-sharing BBC

"I've got a firm, heartfelt commitment to the continent of Africa"

President George W Bush: Full interview transcript

President Bush says Africa has been a foreign policy priority

US President George W Bush has backed calls for a power-sharing agreement to end weeks of strife in Kenya following disputed presidential elections. He said he was sending his secretary of state to Kenya to convey the message.

Mr Bush was speaking in Benin, at the start of his first presidential tour of Africa since 2003.

He said he would highlight African success stories during his six-day, five-nation visit, even though he remained committed to ending turmoil.

The one success story was a Christian Kenya.

The US president also wants to allay concerns about a new military command he wants to base in Africa to work with African militaries to deal with trafficking or terror.

How can Africa fight terror, when Bush is inadvertently supporting it?

Only in Islam baby: Dial-a-Marriage

Sharia Telephone Marriages

Islamic law allows telephone nuptials, which enables Muslims to sponsor loved ones to Canada

Screwing the West, every which way but loose.

TRUE EVIL: “Al-Qaeda Savagery”

Despite the protestations of the leftarded mindlessness, you cannot talk and reason with this. The Obamacides just don't want to get it. They feel it. And that's what's important. What they feel.

Hürriyet Video'larını izlemet için Flash 7 veya daha yüksek eklenti yüklenmeniz gerekmektedir. Yüklemek için tıklayınız!!!

Front Page of Turkish Daily Hurriyet: “Al-Qaeda Savagery” MEMRI Blog (hat tip rut)

Video of Al-Qaeda in Iraq dousing Iraqis taken as prisoners with fuel and burning them alive while shouting “Allah u Akhbar.”

Source: hurriyet.com.tr, February 13, 2008.

lol

hat tip eretz

CIVILIZATION JIHAD

The existence of a Muslim Brotherhood Memorandum that was entered into evidence at the federal trial of the Holy Land Foundation in Dallas. The following is an analysis of this memorandum by Stephen Coughlin, whose contract was not renewed by the Pentagon but who will soon be in a new position with the Office of the Secretary of Defense sent out by American Congress for Truth .

The bottom line of this memorandum is this: It calls for “Civilization Jihad” (what we typically refer to as “cultural Jihad”) against North America. As we have noted in prior emails to you, this aspect of Jihad is ominous and insidious, in that it is incremental, occurs from within, and is thus unnoticed by most people. As the people of Great Britain have painfully learned (perhaps too late), resisting this form of Jihad will, in fact, require greater vigilance and will on our part than resisting the obvious assault of terrorism.

The Memorandum clearly asserts that the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Islamic organization that has spawned some 70 Islamic organizations around the world and in the United States (such as ISNA), is the authority for the advance of “civilization Jihad.”

ANALYSIS OF MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD’S GENERAL STRATEGIC GOALS FOR NORTH AMERICA MEMORANDUM By Pentagon Joint Staff analyst Stephen Coughlin, 7 September 2007 (this is the Islamist at the Pentagon Heshie Islam had fired.)

INTRODUCTION

The following is a brief analysis of a Muslim Brotherhood document entered into evidence in the U.S. v Holy Land Foundation trial (Trial) that the U.S. Justice Department is currently prosecuting in Federal Court. Analysis is based on this document as well as other publicly available documents. (For a broad offering of Trial documents, see here). The attached documents relate to ISNA and the Trial.

The first document is a Muslim Brotherhood memorandum that was accepted into evidence in the U.S. v Holy Land Foundation (HLF) case. The first 16 pages are in the original Arabic and the second are English language translations of the same. It is dated 22 May 1991 and titled “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America” (Memorandum). The document includes an Attachment 1 that contains “a list of our organizations and the organizations of our friends.”

Among those noted in the Attachment are ISNA, MSA, AMSS, AMSE, NAIT, IFC, IPAC, IAP, UASR, ICNA (typo in the second listing) and IIIT. ICNA and ISNA are the only two organizations named in the body of the text. ISNA is additionally represented on the list as IFC (ISNA Fiqh Committee – now the Fiqh Council of North America) and IPAC (ISNA Political Awareness Committee). The second document is a signed letter from Members of Congress Pete Hoekstra and Sue Myrick to the Justice Department dated 28 August 2007 formally requesting that Justice stand down from “co-sponsoring” a conference with ISNA due to its very close relationship to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Justice attended anyhow. The Memorandum was admitted into evidence at the same time the Letter was sent addressing Congressional concerns.

Please read it all.

Bat Yeor: The Battle for America Has Just Begun.

The magnificent Phyllis Chesler conducts an important interview with the leading scholar on Islam and author of Eurabia, Bat Ye'or.

The Battle for America Has Just Begun. A Conversation with Bat Ye'or

The eminent scholar, Bat Ye’or, is tiny in height only; she is a towering intellect and a fierce judge of both human character and history. Her work predicted and documented the Islamification of Europe. We both agree that the battle for America has only begun—although I believe that it is well underway.

Here we are, two friends, ladies of a certain age, sitting in the most pleasant of surroundings , (a private club, tres ancien regime), and conversing most seriously, not about children and grandchildren, not about the ballet or the opera, (under other circumstances, a conversation we might certainly like to have), but given our times, and our views, a luxury we cannot afford. Thus, we talk about War and Peace and the Clash of Civilizations. What could be more enjoyable and yet more pathetic? Yes, pathetic. We two should be having this conversation in a government office and our views should be leading to co-ordinated government actions. More’s the pity that this is not the case.

But please: Come and join us.

Phyllis: What do you see is happening at this moment?

Bat Ye’or: The West is engaged in a very careful exercise of self-censorship. We are trying not to offend Muslim sensibilities. Western governments want to impose respect for Muslim sensibilities in the hope that this will avoid jihad. They are ready to suppress the truth.

Phyllis: What do you think of an Obama Presidency?

Bat Ye’or: Obama and his supporters do not seem to understand that Europe has failed. Today, European dissidents are forming movements against the European Union whose policies have led to the Islamification of Europe. Europe is suffering from a huge Muslim immigration problem. The Muslim immigrants do not want to integrate into a modern, tolerant state and they want to impose Sha’ria law on us all.

Phyllis: What does this remind you of?

Bat Ye’or: All these Western gestures of appeasement reminds me of the dhimmi regulations. These are a whole set of regulations whose purpose is to respect Muslim sensibilities. Therefore, Christians must conduct “quiet” services and dhimmis (infidels) must wear special clothing so as not to shock or offend Muslims with their too-fashionable or too-expensive clothing. Long ago, infidels had to dismount from their donkeys when a Muslim approached and a dhimmi could only pass a Muslim on the left (or impure) side, not on the right side.

I am not in favor of inciting anyone but really, where will this all end? And why this super-sensitivity only to Muslims? There is only one answer. Our intellectuals and politicians want to have a good relationship with the Muslim world. They think they will always have the freedoms that they currently enjoy. They do not understand that those freedoms are at risk.

Phyllis: Where does Israel fit into this picture?

Bat Ye’or: Europeans have imagined that the problem is only Israel. They were committed to allowing the Arabs to destroy Israel if that kept them, the Europeans, safe. But these Europeans do not seem to remember that Islam persecuted and then destroyed Christianity in Muslim lands. We see a repetition of this in Europe today.

Phyllis: Such politicians and intellectuals are suicidal, don’t you think?

Bat Ye’or: Absolutely. But they want so much to be loved that they are reaching out to their enemy. This is the politics of self-destruction. They are making concessions about their basic security and freedom

Phyllis: Some people are already discouraged, almost in advance, about the battle for America. What do you think?

Bat Ye’or: This battle is not yet lost. The handful of us who are working to alert others to the dangers specific to the 21st century are doing heroic work against all odds. We—you—have not failed. I believe that we are planting seeds. When America battled communism it had whole organizations committed to doing so. We—you—have nothing like that today in the war against Islamic terror.

Phyllis: I know that your work was initially attacked or “disappeared.” How much has this changed?

Bat Ye’or: My work has been well received in Italy by the most prominent Italian intellectuals. I am, however, conspicuously avoided in the UK by the media and in universities—although I did speak before Parliament two years ago. In France, everyone’s speech is less free than elsewhere. It is the most intellectually repressive society.

After I returned home, I read that French intellectuals, headed by Bernard Henri-Levy are organizing to support Aayan Hirsi Ali’s request for French citizenship. Have the French finally begun to wake up? Or does this say something about Sarkozy’s future politics and his potential interest in a high-profile symbol?

MUSLIM CONVERTS SMEARS BALI VICTIMS

THE FACE OF THE ENEMY

Muslim convert slurs Bali victims SMH.AU.COM

RABIAH HUTCHINSON, the Mudgee-born grandmother accused of being the "grand dame" of extremist jihadis in Australia, says she has limited sympathy for the victims of the Bali bombings because those holidaying on the Indonesian island engaged in pedophilia and drug taking.

And her close friend, Raisah bint Alan Douglas, another Australian convert to radical Islam who also married a suspected terrorist supporter, has praised Osama bin Laden, saying he followed a "correct" version of Islam.

The women are featured in a documentary to be aired on ABC television tonight, Jihad Sheilas.

Ms Hutchinson is a former hippie who converted to Islam in Indonesia in 1973. Ms Douglas also hails from country NSW, Dubbo, and has been married five times to Muslim men, including her current husband Omar Abdi Mohamed, a suspected terrorist financier who was deported from the US.

Ms Hutchinson was schooled by the leaders of Jemaah Islamiah, Abdullar Sungkar and Abu Bakar Bashir, at one time marrying the head of JI's Australian wing in the 1990s.

"I have the greatest respect for them," she said of the two men, adding she believed Abu Bakar Bashir was not involved in the Bali attacks which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.

"Do I feel for the people who died? Not as much as for those 200 Afghani people that gave me and my children shelter," she said. "Why? Because they were holidaying in someone's country, sometimes engaging in child pornography or pedophilia or drug taking."

The 200 Afghans Ms Hutchinson referred to were villagers who she said were massacred by US-led forces following the September 11, 2001, attacks because they refused to give her up to the authorities.

Ms Hutchinson had taken her six children to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to experience a pure Islamic state.

More "anti-Islamic" Islamic Terror

Not allowed to say "Islamic" terror. Did they kiss Hitler's ass like this too? Just askin....

Suicide bomb suspects held at Gatwick after tip-off  HT The Informed Source

From The Sunday Times David Leppard

SCOTLAND YARD is braced for a fresh wave of possible terrorist attacks against public transport after a group of suspected Islamist suicide bombers were arrested in a secret security operation at Gatwick airport.

Six Pakistani men were held under anti-terrorism laws 10 days ago after they flew in from Barcelona. The arrests were prompted by a tip-off from the Spanish intelligence services after the discovery of a suspected Al-Qaeda terror cell in the city. The cell is alleged to have planned to detonate suicide bombs on the Barcelona Metro. The Spanish warned a similar attack was being planned here.

Bhutto Accuses Osama's Spawn from Grave

This is all out war so when  do we start doing the real fighting and stop funding the jihad? Stop kissing the ass of the jihad worldwide, and start eradicating the death cult so we can go back to the business of living?

From The Sunday Times

Benazir Bhutto accuses Osama Bin Laden's son from beyond the grave

Dean Nelson and Ghulam Hasnain

IN A POSTHUMOUS autobiography excerpted in The Sunday Times today, Benazir Bhutto names the 16-year-old son of Osama Bin Laden as the leader of one of four gangs of “designated assassins” sent to kill her.

The former Pakistan prime minister, who was assassinated as she left a rally in Rawalpindi in December, reveals she was warned by both President Pervez Musharraf and a “friendly Muslim government” that Hamza Bin Laden was planning her murder.

The naming of Bin Laden’s teenage son appears to bolster intelligence claims that Hamza is being groomed as a future leader of Al-Qaeda.

In her new autobiography, Bhutto writes: “I was told by both the Musharraf regime and the foreign Muslim government that four suicide bomber squads would attempt to kill me. These included, the reports said, the squads sent by the Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud; Hamza Bin Laden, a son of Osama Bin Laden; Red Mosque militants; and a Karachi-based militant group.”

Little has been heard of Hamza since he featured in a joint Taliban and Al-Qaeda video, shot in 2001, of a militant attack on a Pakistan army camp in South Waziristan, a militant stronghold near the Afghan border.

Al Qaeda Claims Attack on Israel Embassy

Crush the bastards already.

Al-Qaida claims Mauritania attack J Post hat tip wolf

An al-Qaida affiliate purportedly claimed responsibility for a shooting attack on the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania's capital, saying it had carried out the assault in response to Israeli policies in the Gaza Strip, an Arab television station reported Saturday.

[...]

"I call on every sincere and zealous Mauritanian... to hurry to aid Islam in their land and to expel from it the embassy of the trespasser Jews," Ayman al-Zawahiri said on the videotape released on February 13, 2007.

The statement by Zawahiri was one of the first times that Mauritania had been the focus of a public address by a core al-Qaida leader, indicating a possible increase in interest in the sparsely populated, dune-enveloped nation.

 

Who Cut the Cables

Who indeed?

Who's Cutting the Cables? Defense Tech

(hat tip Liam)

Uh oh, folks! Maybe it is time to be more concerned about terrorists cutting those undersea cables in the Middle East.

CNN and the International Herald Tribune both report that, early today (Friday) local time, another cable was cut, this time in the Persian Gulf, about 35 miles off Dubai.

The abiguity in previous news reporting about whether one or two fiber optic cables were cut in the Med on Tuesday, and whether they were cut in the same place 8 miles off Alexandria or at opposite ends of the Med at the same time, has been replaced by a much worse conundrum. It’s not at all ambiguous now that at least two distinct cables were cut about 250 miles apart, on opposite sides of the huge Arabian Peninsula landmass.

What could possibly account for such sudden and nearly crippling impairment of Internet access, e-mail, and phone lines? Granted it’s still early hours as of this writing, but a Dubai telecom executive told AP that the cause hadn’t yet been identified, and this latest service outage was “very unusual.” Congestion in the Middle East and parts of India has gotten severe, following so quickly after the break(s) on Tuesday. (If you think the U.S. is immune to these problems, remember how dependent American businesses and consumers are on support outsourced to India.)

MAURITANIA: RELIGION OF DEATH ATTACKS ISRAEL EMBASSY

Islam strikes again! MAURITANIA!

Terrorist Cell Attacks Israeli Embassy in Mauritania Israel National News
by Hana Levi Julian (hat tip rut)

(IsraelNN.com) Several people were wounded in an Islamist terrorist attack on the Israeli embassy the Islamic Republic of Mauritania Friday morning, according to eyewitness reports.

Six gunmen yelled "Allah Hu Akbar" ("G-d is Great" in Arabic) before firing their weapons at the embassy compound in the nation's capital, Nouakchott just after 2:00 a.m. One unidentified eyewitness said five people were wounded, including one foreign national, according to Ynet.

The terrorists fled on foot and then jumped into a getaway car after exchanging fire with the embassy's guards. There has been no official comment from the Mauritanian government so far.

There's more. Go. Vomit.

YOUR FUTURE AWAITS YOU: THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ISLAM

Jihad in America. Violent beatings,  raped at 8 an 9 by their jihadi father and finally murdered. Allah akbar.  Sharia in America.

Welcome to your future. It's closer than you think. (hat tip Michael via Middle East Info org)

GENOCIDE - SLAVERY - PIRACY AT SEA
20 years of genocide in S-Sudan: 2 million deaths, 4 million displaced
State-sponsored genocide in Darfur: 400,000 deaths, 2,5 million displaced
Saudi Religious Leader Calls for Slavery's Legalization 

FORCED MARRIAGE - CHILD MARRIAGE
LEGALIZED PEDOPHILIA AND CHILD RAPE
KILLING FOR 'HONOR': LEGALIZED MURDER
FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM)

EXTORTIONATE HOSTAGE-TAKING
PUBLIC BEHEADING - STONING TO DEATH
FLOGGING - CRUCIFIXION 
AMPUTATION OF HANDS AND FEET

Islamic Sharia justice chopped off hand and foot of "convict", 1998 (RAWA, Feb 7, 2006

Woman being prepared for stoning to death in Iran (FP, Jan 27, 2005)
Iranian public stoning to death (15:31 min)

Flogged Iranian woman and gay

Iranian stamp celebrating the hostage-taking of 63 diplomats in Teheran, US stamp

Saddam's Chemical Weapons Campaign: Halabja, March 16, 1988 (U.S. State Department, Mar 14, 2003): "Saddam Hussein is the first world leader in modern times to have brutally used chemical weapons against his own people."

Genocide in Iraq. The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds (Human Rights Watch): "By our estimate, in Anfal at least 50,000 and possibly as many as 100,000 persons, many of them women and children, were killed out of hand between February and September 1988. Their deaths did not come in the heat of battle -- "collateral damage" in the military euphemism. Nor were they acts of aberration by individual commanders whose excesses passed unnoticed, or unpunished, by their superiors. Rather, these Kurds were systematically put to death in large numbers on the orders of the central government in Baghdad -- days, sometimes weeks, after being rounded-up in villages marked for destruction or else while fleeing from army assaults in "prohibited areas".

WMD, R.I.P. Everyone now agrees it was right to attack Iraq pre-emptively (Gordon Crovitz, Wall Street Journal, June 1, 2004): "A familiar news story: A hard-line government uses its powerful military to launch a unilateral pre-emptive strike. The United Nations and Europe are horrified, along with most of the American media. They condemn the strike and brush off claims that it was justified as an act of self-defense against an unpredictable tyrant. So was it a terrible mistake, a lamentable error of judgment? Not at all. History now smiles on Israel's elimination of Saddam's nearly completed weapon of mass destruction more than 20 years ago."

Lesson for the 'Don't-Touch-Saddam' lobby (Paris based Iranian Amir Taheri, JP, Jun 13, 2003)

CIA World Factbook (Sudan): "Since 1983, the war and war- and famine-related effects have led to more than 2 million deaths and over 4 million people displaced. The war pits the Arab/Muslim majority in Khartoum against the non-Muslim African rebels in the south."

Sudan Peace Act (U.S. Congress, H.R.5531, Oct 7, 2002):"The Government of Sudan has intensified its prosecution of the war against areas outside of its control, which has already cost more than 2,000,000 lives and has displaced more than 4,000,000 people. ... The Government of Sudan utilizes and organizes militias, Popular Defense Forces, and other irregular units for raiding and enslaving parties in areas outside of the control of the Government of Sudan in an effort to disrupt severely the ability of the populations in those areas to sustain themselves. ... The acts of the Government of Sudan, including the acts described in this section, constitute genocide as defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (78 U.N.T.S. 277). ... The Congress hereby--
(1) condemns--
(A) violations of human rights on all sides of the conflict in Sudan;
(B) the Government of Sudan's overall human rights record, with regard to both the prosecution of the war and the denial of basic human and political rights to all Sudanese;
(C) the ongoing slave trade in Sudan and the role of the Government of Sudan in abetting and tolerating the practice;
(D) the Government of Sudan's use and organization of `murahalliin' or `mujahadeen', Popular Defense Forces, and regular Sudanese Army units into organized and coordinated raiding and slaving parties in Bahr al Ghazal, the Nuba Mountains, and the Upper Nile and the Blue Nile regions; and
(E) aerial bombardment of civilian targets that is sponsored by the Government of Sudan; and
(2) recognizes that, along with selective bans on air transport relief flights by the Government of Sudan, the use of raiding and slaving parties is a tool for creating food shortages and is used as a systematic means to destroy the societies, culture, and economies of the Dinka, Nuer, and Nuba peoples in a policy of low-intensity ethnic cleansing." The [Sudan Peace] Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives on October 7, 2002 by a vote of 359-8. The Senate passed the same language by unanimous consent on October 9, 2002 (U.S. Department of State, Oct 21, 2002).

Stopping Iran's atomic quest (National Post, Sep 29, 2003): "In a prominent national sermon in December, 2001, former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani declared that the day 'the world of Islam comes to possess [nuclear] weapons' will be 'the day ... global arrogance will come to a dead end.' He added that a bomb used against Israel 'would leave nothing on the ground' and would rid the world of much 'extraneous matter,' by which he appeared to mean millions of Jews."

Idi Amin's obscenely easy exile (Ethan Bronner, International Herald Tribune, Aug 20, 2003): "Was it possible that a man who, in the 1970's, had ordered the deaths of 300,000 of his countrymen, raped and robbed his nation into endless misery and admitted to having eaten human flesh was whiling away his time as a guest of the Saudi government? It was. There, in a spacious villa behind a white gate, Amin made his home ..."

PROCLAMATION OF THE SAHARAWI ARAB DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC (February 27, 1976): "We want to draw the attention of the United Nations Organisation, the Organisation of African Unity and the Arab League to their historical responsibility towards a peaceful people, victims of an attempt at extermination, a veritable genocide."

Pictures of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), 2002
(These pictures are not suitable for children. They are extremely disturbing!!!)

"Instruments" used for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), 2003

Egyptian girl undergoing Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

Excerpts from Hosken Report, Somalia Genital and Sexual Mutilation of Females, Fourth Revised Edition, 1993 (Women's International Network News) (PDF 66 KB): "The child, completely naked, is made to sit on a low stool. Several women take hold of her and open her legs wide. After separating her outer and inner lips, the operator, usually a woman experienced in this procedure, sits down facing the child. With her kitchen knife the operator first pierces and slices open the hood of the clitoris. Then she begins to cut it out. While another woman wipes off the blood with a rag, the operator digs with her sharp fingernail a hole the length of the clitoris to detach and pull out the organ. The little girl, held down by the women helpers, screams in extreme pain; but no one pays the slightest attention.The operator finishes this job by entirely pulling out the clitoris, cutting it to the bone with her knife. Her helpers again wipe off the spurting blood with a rag. The operator then removes the remaining flesh, digging with her finger to remove any remnant of the clitoris among the flowing blood. The neighbor women are then invited to plunge their fingers into the bloody hole to verify that every piece of the clitoris is removed."

Health consequences of FGM (Fact sheet no. 241 Female Genital Mutilation, World Health Organization, WHO official website, June 2004): "Immediate complications include severe pain, shock, haemorrhage, urine retention, ulceration of the genital region and injury to adjacent tissue. Haemorrhage and infection can cause death. More recently, concern has arisen about possible transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) due to the use of one instrument in multiple operations, but this has not been the subject of detailed research. Long-term consequences include cysts and abscesses, keloid scar formation, damage to the urethra resulting in urinary incontinence, dyspareunia (painful sexual intercourse) and sexual dysfunction and difficulties with childbirth. Psychosexual and psychological health: Genital mutilation may leave a lasting mark on the life and mind of the woman who has undergone it. In the longer term, women may suffer feelings of incompleteness, anxiety and depression."

Female Genital Mutilation (World Health Organization, 1999, p. 149-154): (PDF, 672 KB)
97% of Egyptian women[= 29 million] have undergone Female Genital Mutilation
98% of Djibouti women [= 250,000] have undergone Female Genital Mutilation
98% of Somali women [= 5 million] have undergone Female Genital Mutilation
25% of Mauritanian women [= 750,000] have undergone Female Genital Mutilation

Egypt outlaws female circumcision (Aljazeera, Jun 28, 2007): "Egypt has banned all female circumcision, the widely-practised removal of the clitoris ... About 97 per cent of Egypt's women have undergone circumcision."

Report on Female Genital Mutilation, Egypt (U.S. Department of State, Jun 1, 2001):
"... practice is nearly universal among women of reproductive age in Egypt ... findings show that 97 percent of women surveyed have undergone one of these procedures ..."

Report on Female Genital Mutilation, Sudan (U.S. Department of State, Jun 1, 2001): About 90% of Sudanese women [= 14.4 million] have undergone Female Genital Mutilation

Report on Female Genital Mutilation, Yemen (U.S. Department of State, Jun 1, 2001):
"... 96 percent of women in Hodeidah, Hadraumaut and Al-Maharah had undergone this procedure, while Aden and Sana'a city were 82 percent and 45.5 percent, respectively."

The World Medical Association Statement on Female Genital Mutilation, Oct 1993: "The World Medical Association condemns the practice of genital mutilation including circumcision where women and girls are concerned and condemns the participation of physicians in the execution of such practices."

IAC - Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices (accessed Aug 12, 2007): "Female genital mutilation comprises all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs whether for cultural or other non-therapeutic reasons." ... "IAC enjoys Consultative Status with the African Union (AU), the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and an Official Status with the WHO. It collaborates with several Non-governmental Organizations and some UN Agencies among which are Agence Intergouvernmentale de la Francophonie, UNFPA and UNICEF."

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (accessed Aug 12, 2007): "Female genital mutilation (FGM), or female circumcision as it is sometimes erroneously referred to, involves surgical removal of parts or all of the most sensitive female genital organs. ... It is believed that, by mutilating the female's genital organs, her sexuality will be controlled; but above all it is to ensure a woman's virginity before marriage and chastity thereafter. In fact, FGM imposes on women and the girl child a catalogue of health complications and untold psychological problems. The practice of FGM violates, among other international human rights laws, the right of the child to the 'enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health', as laid down in article 24 (paras. 1 and 3) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child."

Policy Statement | Female Genital Mutilation (American Academy of Pediatrics, PEDIATRICS Vol. 102 No. 1 Jul 1998, pp. 153-156): "... pediatricians and pediatric surgical specialists should be aware that this practice [FGM] has serious, life-threatening health risks for children and women. The AAP opposes all forms of FGM …" [Disturbing graphical descriptions included]

The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR official website, Jul 9, 2004): "In France, the Netherlands, Canada and the United States, it has been officially recognized that genital mutilation represents a form of persecution and that this can be a basis for refugee status. In one case, a woman who feared persecution in her country because of her refusal to inflict genital mutilation on her infant daughter was recognized as a refugee."

Why is FGM any different to the circumcision of boys? (Spinifex Press, Nov 14, 2004): "The circumcision of boy-children, in the form it is known in Australia, involves the removal of the foreskin, or prepuce, from the penis. This act is performed for reasons of religion, in the Jewish faith, or for culturally imposed concepts of hygiene or for aesthetic reasons. 'The degree of cutting in female circumcision is anatomically much more extensive [than in male circumcision]. The male equivalent of clitoridectomy (in which all or part of the clitoris is removed) would be the amputation of most of the penis. The male equivalent of infibulation (which involves not only clitoridectomy, but the removal or closing off of the sensitive tissue around the vagina) would be removal of all the penis, its roots of soft tissue, and part of the scrotal skin.'(Nahid Toubia, Female Genital Mutilation, p.9) Unlike FGM, male circumcision is not performed with the aim of diminishing the sexual desire or drive of the male, nor to ensure chastity or virginity."

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khomeini's Religious Teachings on Marriage, Divorce and Relationships (Parvin Darabi, USA-based Dr. Homa Darabi Foundation website, Jun 10, 2006: "A man can marry a girl younger than nine years of age, even if the girl is still a baby being breastfed. A man, however is prohibited from having intercourse with a girl younger than nine, other sexual act such as forplay, rubbing, kissing and sodomy is allowed. A man having intercourse with a girl younger than nine years of age has not comitted a crime, but only an infraction, if the girl is not permanently damaged. If the girl, however, is permanently damaged, the man must provide for her all her life. But this girl will not count as one of the man's four permanent wives. He also is not permitted to marry the girl's sister."

Women and Children as the Spoils of "Holy War" (iAbolish - The Anti-Slavery Portal)
Danford Report (US Department of State)
Danford Report (US Department of State) (PDF, 629 KB)

STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT George W. Bush, October 21, 2002: "The [Sudan Peace] Act is designed to help address the evils inflicted on the people of Sudan by their government -- including senseless suffering, use of emergency food relief as a weapon of war, and the practice of slavery …"

Slavery and Slave Redemption in the Sudan (Human Rights Watch, March 2002):
"... government-backed and armed militia of the Baggara tribes raid to capture children and women who are then held in conditions of slavery in western Sudan and elsewhere. They are forced to work for free in homes and in fields, punished when they refuse, and abused physically and sometimes sexually. Raids are directed mostly at the civilian Dinka population of the southern region of Bahr El Ghazal. The government arms and sanctions the practice of slavery ..."

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Papers on Slavery in Sudan, Sudanese Justice incl. Stonings and Amputations

Links to Sudan Slavery Groups

Despite Legal Ban, Slavery Persists in Mauritania. Workers Chained by Caste, Economy In Impoverished West African Nation (Douglas Farah, Washington Post, Oct 21, 2001): "Slavery ... was outlawed only in 1980, making the country one of the last in the world to ban the practice. ... the law outlawing slavery says that slaves can be freed only if their master receives 'compensation'. ... women who are forced to leave their children behind as the property of their former owner."

Saudi religious leader calls for slavery's legalization (Daniel Pipes, Nov 7, 2003): Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan [is] the author of a religious textbook (At-Tawhid, "Monotheism") widely used to teach Saudi high school students as well as their counterparts abroad studying in Saudi schools (including those in the West). "Slavery is a part of Islam," he announced in a recent lecture. "Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam." He argued against the idea that slavery had ever been abolished, insulting those who espouse this view as "ignorant, not scholars. They are merely writers. Whoever says such things is an infidel." Al-Fawzan is no maverick. He is:

• A member of the Senior Council of Clerics, Saudi Arabia's highest religious body;
• A member of the Council of Religious Edicts and Research;
• Imam of the Prince Mitaeb Mosque in Riyadh; and
• Professor at Imam Mohamed Bin Saud Islamic University, the main Wahhabi center of learning.

Genocides, Crimes and Massacres Committed by the PLO and the Syrians Against the Lebanese, 1975-2002 (Guardians of the Cedars)

Kill a Jew for Allah. The Mideast problem. (John Derbyshire, NRO, Mar 22, 2002): "Look: Possibly there would be some abstract justice in closing down the settlements, I don't know. I don't see it myself, I must admit. Why should Jews not live among Arabs? Lots of Arabs live in Israel, and do very well there. There are rich Israeli Arabs; there are Israeli-Arab pop stars and comedians; there are Israeli-Arab intellectuals, teachers, writers, businessmen, athletes. Why, when the whole thing gets sorted out, should there not be Jews living in Arab territory — as there were for centuries past? What, exactly, is wrong with the settlements? I don't see it."

As Palestinian bombers explore sinister ways of killing Israelis, one man wanted to bring bio-terror to the Holy Land (Claudia Cowan, Fox News, Apr 22, 2004): But unlike conventional bombs other terrorists have used to blow up buses or cafes, Abdullah's bomb -- had he finished making it -- would have been laced with HIV-tainted blood (search). "After a period, it will kill a lot of people," he said. At the time of his arrest last month, when another prisoner alerted authorities about his plans, Abdullah was looking around for an AIDS-infected donor. "We were looking to use his blood only," he said, adding that somebody else would have actually carried out the attack.

Genocide (Louis Rene Beres, FrontPageMagazine, Sep 4, 2003): "Readers of daily newspapers are now well acquainted with unending Palestinian calls for the annihilation of Israel. What might not be apparent, however, is that such calls - sometimes in the carefully whispered voice of the Palestine Authority, more often in the strident voice of PA accomplices in Hamas and other related terror groups - constitute an especially serious crime under international law. ... For example, the Fatah organization website still calls openly for the "eradication" of Israel. This call echoes earlier genocidal codifications in the still unchanged Palestinian National Charter, in Fatah's ongoing calls for Inqirad mujtama (the extinction of Israeli society), and in the Charter of Hamas ("There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except by Jihad....I swear by that who holds in His Hands the Soul of Muhammad! I indeed wish to go to war for the sake of Allah! I will assault and kill, assault and kill, assault and kill.")"

Piracy in Somali and Iraqi waters in 2005 (International Maritime Bureau, Jan 31, 2006)

Pirates seize tanker off Somalia (AlJazeera TV, Qatar, Mar 30, 2006):"Somalia's lawless Indian Ocean waters are among the world's most dangerous. Craft plying the waters often are attacked by armed men in heavily armed speedboats who demand ransom for the return of the ship or cargo, which often ends up being stolen. The piracy has often stopped food aid getting into the poor country. Sailors have been held for as long as 100 days and a cruise ship with more than 300 on board was attacked with rockets and machine guns last year."

Barbary pirate (Wikipedia, Jan 10, 2007): ... the Barbary pirates, or corsairs, were pirates that operated out of Tunis, Tripoli, Algiers, Salé and ports in Morocco, preying on shipping in the western Mediterranean Sea from the time of the Crusades as well as on ships on their way to Asia around Africa until the early 19th century. Their stronghold was along the stretch of northern Africa known as the Barbary Coast (a medieval term for the Maghreb after its Berber inhabitants), although their predation was said to extend throughout the Mediterranean, south along West Africa's Atlantic seaboard, and into the North Atlantic, purportedly as far north as Iceland. As well as preying on shipping, raids were often made on European coastal towns. The pirates were responsible for capturing large numbers of Christian slaves from Europe, who were sold in slave markets in places such as Morocco."

British Slaves on the Barbary Coast (Robert Davis, BBC, 07-01-03): "In the first half of the 1600s, Barbary corsairs - pirates from the Barbary Coast of North Africa, authorised by their governments to attack the shipping of Christian countries - ranged all around Britain's shores. In their lanteen-rigged xebecs (a type of ship) and oared galleys, they grabbed ships and sailors, and sold the sailors into slavery. Admiralty records show that during this time the corsairs plundered British shipping pretty much at will, taking no fewer than 466 vessels between 1609 and 1616, and 27 more vessels from near Plymouth in 1625. ... According to observers of the late 1500s and early 1600s, there were around 35,000 European Christian slaves held throughout this time on the Barbary Coast - many in Tripoli, Tunis, and various Moroccan towns, but most of all in Algiers. The greatest number were sailors, taken with their ships, but a good many were fishermen and coastal villagers. Out of all these, the British captives were mostly sailors, and although they were numerous there were relatively fewer of them than of people from lands close to Africa, especially Spain and Italy. The unfortunate southerners were sometimes taken by the thousands, by slavers who raided the coasts of Valencia, Andalusia, Calabria and Sicily so often that eventually it was said that 'there was no one left to capture any longer'."

US Marines' Hymn (official US Marine Corps History Division website, Jan 9, 2007): Following the war with the Barbary Pirates in 1805, when Lieutenant Presely N. O'Bannon and his small force of Marines participated in the capture of Derne and hoisted the American flag for the first time over a fortress of the Old World, the Colors of the Corps was inscribed with the words: "To the Shores of Tripoli." ...

Play US Marines' Hymn:
"From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli,
We fight our country's battles in the air, on land and sea.
First to fight for right and freedom, and to keep our honor clean;
We are proud to claim the title of United States Marine." ... 

The Arab jihadi pirates of 1784 (Arab-American journalist Joseph Farah, WND, Apr 27, 2004): "Most Americans probably think the Islamic terrorists declared war on the United States Sept. 11, 2001. Actually, it started a long time before – right from the birth of the nation. In 1784, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin were commissioned by the first Congress to assemble in Paris to see about marketing U.S. products in Europe. Jefferson quickly surmised that the biggest challenge facing U.S. merchant ships were those referred to euphemistically as 'Barbary pirates'. They weren't 'pirates' at all, in the traditional sense, Jefferson noticed. They didn't drink and chase women and they really weren't out to strike it rich. Instead, their motivation was strictly religious. They bought and sold slaves, to be sure. They looted ships. But they used their booty to buy guns, ships, cannon and ammunition. Like those we call "terrorists" today, they saw themselves engaged in jihad and called themselves 'mujahiddin'... America was struck with its first mega-terror attack by jihadists. In the fall of 1793, the Algerians seized 11 U.S. merchant ships and enslaved more than 100 Americans. When word of the attack reached New York, the stock market crashed. Voyages were canceled in every major port. Seamen were thrown out of work. Ship suppliers went out of business. What Sept. 11 did to the U.S. economy in 2001, the mass shipjacking of 1793 did to the fledgling U.S. economy in that year."

America's Earliest Terrorists | Lessons from America's first war against Islamic terror (Joshua E. London, NRO, Dec 16, 2005): "As timely and familiar as these events may seem, they occurred more than two centuries ago. The president was Thomas Jefferson, and the terrorists were the Barbary pirates. Unfortunately, many of the easy lessons to be plucked from this experience have yet to be fully learned. The Barbary states, modern-day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, are collectively known to the Arab world as the Maghrib ("Land of Sunset"), denoting Islam's territorial holdings west of Egypt. With the advance of Mohammed's armies into the Christian Levant in the seventh century, the Mediterranean was slowly transformed into the backwater frontier of the battles between crescent and cross. Battles raged on both land and sea, and religious piracy flourished. ... These future United States presidents questioned the ambassador as to why his government was so hostile to the new American republic even though America had done nothing to provoke any such animosity. Ambassador Adja answered them, as they reported to the Continental Congress, 'that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.'"

SUPERHEROS: BAT, BOSTOM, BOB (SPENCER)

Earlier this week, I sighed heavily when yet another high minded intellectual, David Frum,  following in Dinesh's footsteps, had switched gears and gone on to attack the very people that will lead us to victory in the war on the Jihad. The greatest historians of our time, once again getting nailed to the cross, for telling the truth. Kill the messenger. As if the counter jihad movement wasn't small enough!

The links (at Jihad Watch) and full texts to the eviscerating rebuttals of Frum’s self-righteous juvenilia by Bat Ye’or, and Robert Spencer, are provided below. 

When I ran Robert's rebuttal, I wrote here, " David Frum has entered the jihad fray hoping to project his Western thinking onto what he would like the  Koran to be. Isn't that special? And tiresome. This is not Frum's milieu and it shows. I have been studying and covering this single subject intensively for 3 years now after coming to it after 9/11/01. I won't pretend to know as much as Spencer, Yeor, Bostom, Warraq, but I do know that they provide empirical evidence. They do the work to substantiate their deductions. It's not theory. It's fact and they back it up."

I blame Bernard Lewis for a lot of bad information, bogus intel and  fallacious deductions. Considered the world's leading scholar on Islam, he is an apologist and in many cases confused,dithering even,  if not  a liar.  His historical inaccuracies are well documented but his positions are enormously influential to world leaders and opinion makers so the harm he does is incalculable.

Over at Jihadwatch Bat Yeor comes out swinging and Bostom's response  follows. Yes, Bat, Bostom, Bob, this post is a grand slam.

Bat Ye’or: Rejoinder to David Frum

David Frum's piece is here; my response is here. And now the great historian Bat Ye’or has kindly sent me this response:

In his latest article, “Ancient Holy Books, Modern Dilemmas” (posted January 8, 2008), David Frum poses as a referee in a disputation, pretending there are two alleged extremes, whereas he ignores the rules and the meaning of the subject itself. This hoax has often been used by Sages who pontificate: “As usual, the truth is in the middle.” But often this scenario of two opposed extremisms allows the Sages to pride themselves on what is only the appearance of wisdom. Moreover, this catch-phrase is meaningless, because truth is not found at a linear distance between two extremes. Between the Nazi genocidal policy toward the Jews and the victims’ affirmation of their right to live there is no middle-way solution. Would we discuss how many Jews it would be right for the Nazis to exterminate? Between slavery and human equality, there is no middle position. Between the dehumanization of dhimmitude and the inalienable right to freedom, dignity and equality, there is no meeting in the middle. Would one haggle over the amount due for protecting one’s life and rights?

David Frum describes my work as a study of Islam, whereas it is research into a neglected and specific domain involving Islamic theology, jurisprudence and history in relation to non-Muslims. Within this particular field, I only examined the Jewish and Christian aspect, not that of the Zoroastrians and other religious denominations. It is therefore not an assessment of Islam in general. Even more, in none of my writing is there the implication that Islam must disappear for the sake of peace. Maybe Frum has hidden his own thought, which he unconsciously projects on Robert Spencer and myself, while contrasting our alleged somber designs with his own generous wisdom -- which is not, in the least, very original. It hangs on the usual love paradigm of interfaith dialogue, dhimmi biased vision, and subvention of billions of dollars, while waiting with humble timidity for a powerful Muslim majority to reinterpret the Koran as a book of universal love and peace. I do not object to that, except that meanwhile, Muslim reformers even in Europe must hide to save their lives, while terrorism claims countless innocent victims throughout the globe, and tomorrow we might be facing a global nuclear jihad.

Here Bostom comes tearing out of the gate over FPG:

David Frum’s Axilla of Ignorance* January 11th, 2008 (25 minutes ago) by Andrew Bostom

*(“Axilla of Ignorance,” coined by Ruth King)

Inexplicably David Frum of the American Enterprise Institute—hardly an authority on Islamic doctrine, or history—has nevertheless lashed out——albeit inaccurately, and within the constraints of his own crude understanding—at two contemporary scholars, Bat Ye’or and Robert Spencer. A serious, respected writer/essayist on jihad terrorism sent me this assessment:

I don’t know why I should be surprised at this kind of thing any more, but I am. Frum really should have known better.

His criticism makes it sound as if you [AB] and Bat Ye’or and Spencer simply read the Koran and the Life of Mohammad, and inferred the nature of Islam from these isolated texts. As I said in my book—I would have no problem if Muslims decided to go back and read jihad out of the Koran; it would be okay if they pretended jihad had never played any important role in the expansion of Islam. I would rejoice if Muslims really behaved as Frum thinks he would behave if he were a Muslim! But it ain’t gonna happen.

Secularized Westerner intellectuals like Frum simply cannot imagine what it is like to be possessed by a living faith that commands its faithful to expand the community of the faithful by violent methods. This kind of fanaticism, as I argue in my book, is outside their imaginative scope. So whenever contemporary scholars like you, Bat Ye’or, or Spencer point out what every schoolboy once knew about Islam, you are the ones who are treated like extremists. When your first book came out I was astonished that anyone thought it was controversial. You didn’t make up the idea of jihad—you simply documented the historical Muslim theory and practice of it. And yet that is considered as “going too far.” The same thing can be said of Bat Ye’or work. If the two of you were merely investigating a historically transcended and outmoded form of Islam, I suppose you could be blamed for failing to let the dead bury the dead. But today people are still dying and killing in the name of Islam—but we are forbidden even to see the truth, let alone speak it.

The links (at Jihad Watch) and full texts to the eviscerating rebuttals of Frum’s self-righteous juvenilia byBat Ye’or, and Robert Spencer, , are provided below.

Bostom couldn't resist the medical terminology pun on Frum's supposed formulation "Axis of Evil" 

The Birth of a Terror Nation

FROM AN ISLAMIC WEBSITE:

This is a picture of a Palestinian mother stepping on the corpse of her son who betrayed the Muslims by helping the Israelis.

If all mothers were like this,

Our lands would be liberated in no time.

hat tip the intrepid wolf , "Just look at the photo, is not the behavior of barbarians and blood thirsty people? And Bushman wants to give these terrorists, these mothers a state?! "

GIVE 'EM A STATE! A CONTIGUOUS STATE! BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS IN AID! ARMS! MUNITIONS! JEWISH LAND! JEWISH BLOOD! RESPECT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITAY!

UPDATE: It's been brought up in my comment section that this woman may not be the real mother.  I do not know but so what? I grabbed this off an influential Islamic website, here is the screen shot which said she was. This is the message from an influential website who represents 'Mainstream Islam' . This is what Islam is injecting into the brains of their followers. So while I do not know if this woman gave birth to the murdered boy, I do know they say she did and they are using it to send this message.

If it's not the mother,  its a muslim lie. Still its their message!

UPDATE: Check out the top post of this site today:

Who Represents "Mainstream Islam"?

This is a burning question that is often posed by the West to the Muslim Communities residing in the West. So immediately, we are going to face a problem. Here, the West wants us to say that the Muslims residing in Western lands are “mainstream Muslims” that follow “mainstream Islam.” In other words, they want us to forget that their is a powerful voice in the Middle East and South Asia, and instead, fill our heads with air making us think and feel that we are the superior part of the Ummah because we have an education and have more money and can speak English well. If they were to ask “mainstream Muslims in the West,” then this would have never ever become an issue.

The idea of “mainstream Islam” is where the trap is placed. So the Muslims turn to media savvy people like Hamza Yusuf or so-called intellectuals like Tariq Ramadan. This trap is so well-placed and hidden that almost the majority of the Muslims in the West don’t see it. For those who do see it, they stay quiet on the issue. Why is this?

When a Muslim in the West is asked who represents “mainstream Islam,” he doesn’t realize that the West is playing their role of divide and conquer. This is their strategy. So the Muslims will look to those that “make Islam look bad” to Kuffaar - as if Islam is obsessed with its image in the eyes of the disbelievers - such as the Mujaahideen, the Mujaahideen Shuyookh such as Shaykh Abu ‘Aasim Muhammad al-Maqdisi, and the staunch Mujaahideen supporters such as Abu ‘Izzadeen and they (the ones who worry) will openly display a type of Baraa’ah against these brothers by calling them “extremists” and “radicals” etc. even though our role as Muslims is to unite - not on the basis of how the non-Muslims would see us - but on the basis of belief and activism.

Brother Anjem Choudhury, for instance, is labeled an extremist by many Muslims and Muslim groups in the West even though he never said anything which is considered Fisq, Kufr or Shirk. Forget that, he didn’t even say anything which is considered Makrooh! So what is holding us back from uniting with him and his likes? It is nothing except the obsession with the “image of Islam” (which is another issue) towards the Kuffaar. Some might ask, “So… what is the problem with that? Is that not considered Da’wah?” In some cases it is and in some cases it is not. The problem comes when we try to apply one principal (such as the old woman who threw her trash on the Prophet (sallallahu ‘alayhi wassallam) every time he passed by) to all situations. There is a context and timing for everything and it is time for us to loosen up on the aspect of becoming fearful of what the Kuffaar might say or will say since failing to do so will make us feel stupid when reading the aayah,

وَلَنْ تَرْضَى عَنْكَ الْيَهُودُ وَلا النَّصَارَى حَتَّى تَتَّبِعَ مِلَّتَهُمْ

Another thing is that we get fooled easily by those Muslims and Muslim Scholars who say, “We are living in hot times… this is dangerous times… so we need to be a lot less confrontational…” And the reality behind such a statement - and volumes can be written about it - is that it explodes with both ignorance on the subject as well as weakness in foresight. These “hot times” - as they call it - is exactly what we need and we need to make it hotter so that the ground splits us apart from the people of Baatil. Take the invasion of ‘Iraaq for example. Besides its apparent evil, a lot of good has come out of it. It has split the American Society from its Government. The American Society says no to the war and the Government says yes. This allowed the politicians to gain advantage of their political race. Of course, in no way are we supporting or speaking in favor of voting. So if it weren’t for the invasion, it would have taken a lot longer to get the American public to realize that there are crooks running their Country. Of course, we are in no way supporting the invasion or speaking in favor of it. Hence, this “splitting” between the people of truth and the people of falsehood - and it is necessary to do it now because the fight started a long time ago and every Muslim in the world needs to play their role in order to advance the victories of the Muslims - is not only important, but absolutely necessary if we want to see any fruits in the Ummah later down the line.

There's a lot more but you get the picture. Moderate Islam. Chaste ho. Honest liar. Healthy cancer.

 

Al Qaeda jihadis Troll Facebook & MySpace

Unbelievable. These savages have no life, so that you and I have ... no life.

Al-Qaida eyes troops' Facebook, MySpace listings

British intelligence monitors operatives gathering details from websites

LONDON - In an unprecedented New Year "high priority" warning, MI5, Britain's Security Service, has asked British troops to remove all personal details they posted over the Christmas period on the social networking websites Facebook, MySpace and Friends Reunited.

Under the heading "Personal Security," the two-page document, signed by MI5 chief Jonathan Evans, was circulated on New Year's Day to all British commanders in Britain, Afghanistan and Iraq.

"You are requested to ensure that service connections on chatroom and dating sites do not appear. Be especially careful if you use Facebook, MySpace or Friends Reunited."

The MI5 analysts have seen that many thousands of servicemen and women had posted personal details on those websites and had included news of their careers, pictures of themselves in uniforms and details of past postings.

"Those details in the hands of al-Qaida operatives offer invaluable information," Evans warns.

Access to Facebook is restricted to members. But all that is required to register is an e-mail address.

"We now know al-Qaida is using hundreds of false accounts to access the personal pages of many service personnel listed on regimental forums on the site," states the MI5 document.

As an indication of the danger on New Year's Eve, one MI5 analyst uncovered the names of 954 servicemen on the Royal Marines network on Facebook and another analyst found on MySpace no fewer than 127 names of Royal Anglican Regiment soldiers.

"Many of the soldiers gave their full names, dates of birth, home towns, names of family members, girlfriends or wives, the locations of where they had served and photos posing with colleagues and weapons."

No Go Zones for Brits in Britain

While I would think this would astound me, it might have in a prior lifetime. Not now. What does astound me is what is happening here in America. Two lovely Arab girls were murdered in cold blood byn their father in Texas and you can hear a pin drop ..... a pin drop! No one is talking about. There should be righteous outrage. Taking to the streets. Two lovely Arab American girls were murdered by their father in an honor killing. Pretend it was something like Matthew Shepard -- what then?

If you think what is happening in Britiain can't happen here. YOU ARE WRONG.

Bishop warns of no-go zones for non-Muslims By Jonathan Wynne-Jones and Robyn Powell, Telegraph

Islamic extremists have created "no-go" areas across Britain where it is too dangerous for non-Muslims to enter, one of the Church of England's most senior bishops warns today.

[..]

His comments come as a poll of the General Synod - the Church's parliament - shows that its senior leaders, including bishops, also believe that Britain is being damaged by large-scale immigration.

Bishop Nazir-Ali, who was born in Pakistan, gives warning that attempts are being made to give Britain an increasingly Islamic character by introducing the call to prayer and wider use of sharia law, a legal system based on the Koran.

In an attack on the Government's response to immigration and the influx of "people of other faiths to these shores", he blames its "novel philosophy of multiculturalism" for allowing society to become deeply divided, and accuses ministers of lacking a "moral and spiritual vision".

Echoing Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Commission for Equalities and Human Rights, who has said that the country is "sleepwalking into segregation", the bishop argues that multiculturalism has led to deep divisions.

David Davis, the shadow home secretary, has accused Muslims of promoting a kind of "voluntary apartheid" by shutting themselves in closed societies and demanding immunity from criticism.

In the Synod survey, to be published this week, bishops, senior clergy and influential churchgoers said that an increasingly multi-faith society threatens the country's Christian heritage and blamed the divisions on the Government's failure to integrate immigrants into their communities.

It found that more than one in three believe that a mass influx of people of other faiths is diluting the Christian nature of Britain and only a quarter feel that they have been integrated into society.

The overwhelming majority - 80 per cent - said that the Government has not upheld the place of religion in public life and up to 63 per cent fear that the Church will be disestablished within a generation, breaking a bond that has existed between the Church and State since the Reformation.

Calls for disestablishment have grown following research showing that attendance at Mass has overtaken the number of worshippers at Church of England Sunday services.

Bishop Nazir-Ali, whose father converted from Islam to Catholicism, was criticised by Ibrahim Mogra, of the Muslim Council of Britain. He said: "It's irresponsible for a man of his position to make these comments.

"He should accept that Britain is a multicultural society in which we are free to follow our religion at the same time as being extremely proud to be British. We wouldn't allow 'no-go' areas to happen. I smell extreme intolerance when people criticise multiculturalism without proper evidence of what has gone wrong."

Oh, that's rich.

	Religious membership in Britain: click to enlarge

But the Bishop's concerns are shared by other members of the General Synod.

The Rt Rev Nicholas Reade, the Bishop of Blackburn, which has a large Muslim community, said that it was increasingly difficult for Christians to share their faith in areas where there was a high proportion of immigrants of other faiths.

He believes that increasing pressure will be put on the Government to begin the process of disestablishment and end the preferential status given to the Church of England. "The writing is on the wall," he said.

Gordon Brown relinquished Downing Street's involvement in appointing bishops in one of his first facts as Prime Minister - a move viewed by some as a significant step towards disestablishment.

Read it all. Depressing.

Jihad in Kenya. Obama, your move

Over at Defense Update

Any weakening of democracy in Kenya will have a domino effect across the continent, threatening infiltration of Islamic fundamentalist elements into any unstable state. More here.

Obama's questionable ties with  violent supporter, Raila Ondinga, with allegiances to Islamic fundamentalists is a frightening mistake of enormous import.

In my piece Kenya, Islam and Obama Hussein (picked up by many bloggers) Obama's support of Odinga shows a spectacular lack of judgment or dangerous leanings. It is understandable that Obama Hussein would have Islamic sympathies having been schooled in a Jakarta madrassa, both father and stepfather are Muslim and Sarah Hussein Obama of Kenya, Barack Obama’s stepgrandmother,  is a lifelong Muslim. “I am a strong believer of the Islamic faith,” she says. But even so, even Obama can see the terrible turn societies take when they embrace sharia/Islamic law.

In return, as President of Kenya, Raila agrees to 14 actions, listed a) through n) on page two.  Read them all, and be sure you're sitting down.  Here's a sample:

b) Within 6 months re-write the Constitution of Kenya to recognize Shariah as the only true law sanctioned by the Holy Quran for Muslim declared regions.

c) With immediate effect dismiss the Commissioner of Police who has allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists to oppress the Kenyan Muslim community.

g) Within one year facilitate the establishment of a Shariah court in every Kenyan divisional headquarters. [Note: everywhere in Kenya, not just in "Muslim declared regions."]

Again, read all of them, for others are just as bad or worse.

Dr. Jack Wheeler advises Obama here to stand up for freedom and the West (here).

What a rare opportunity we have as voters to see how Obama will handle the jihadis vs the West. A telling moment. Will he renounce his allegiance to supporters of Isalm?

And here is the biggest non-surprise:  Raila Odinga has, in his own words, a "close personal friendship" with Barrack Hussein Obama Junior.

When Obama went to Kenya in August of 2006, he was hosted by Raila and spoke in praise of him at rallies in Nairobi:

Obama's bias for his fellow Luo was so blatant that a Kenya government spokesman denounced Obama during his visit as Raila's "stooge."

As the riots and bloodshed continues, as Raila Odinga continues to pour tribal and religious gasoline of Kenya's fire, his stooge will need to do more than send a recorded plea for calm and conciliation broadcast on Voice of America (12/31).

Imagine instead, Obama canceling his campaign schedule, flying to Nairobi, and mediating direct negotiations between Odinga and Kibaki which triumphantly result in an agreement "for all Kenyans regardless of their tribal or religious affiliation" and end to the violence.

Returning to America, the nomination and quite possibly the presidency, would be his.

Does he have the cojones to fly to Nairobi or will he remain Obambi pleading for votes in New Hampshire?

I think it will be the latter.  He hasn't got it in him. So rather than being the hero people want him to be, he'll end up pestered by some reporter at some snow-bound campaign stop about his friend Raila wanting to impose Moslem Sharia law on Christians in Kenya.

"And a follow-up, sir - does it bother you that your friend Raila's son is named Fidel?"

Your move, Obama. Let's see what you're made of.

 

MOU between Odinga and the Muslims document here

Please check out the well documented article in Defense Update: KENYA ETHNIC CHAOS COULD PROVOKE AL QAEDA COMEBACK. That happens and you are looking at another Darfur.

The country, famous for its palm-fringed beaches and wildlife parks, visited by millions of tourists, shares borders with Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia. While its 36 million people are split into more than 40 ethnic groups, Kenya was nevertheless sofar widely regarded as a haven of relative peace and prosperity in a region plagued by conflict, poverty and disease. All this might now change rapidly, if a solution cannot be found immediately to prevent total disaster. By inviting dangerous elements like Al Qaeda or it's affiliates into the void, these could make their comeback into this little 'Garden of Eden'. In fact, Kenya's attorney general Amos S. Wako has warned that his country is "fast degenerating into a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions". About a third of Kenya's population are Muslims, many more are refugees, driven by the unrest in neighboring Somalia, creating further problems of the already largely deprived Muslim population in the country.

Already in 2005 such warning came from Major General Douglas Lute, then director of operations at US Central Command "There will come a time when Zarqawi will face too much resistance in Iraq and will move on," the general predicted, referring to the head of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. (Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born Islamist who was later killed in an American airstrike). Al-Qaeda has spent years operating in Kenya and is widely remembered by the 1998 twin bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi and in neighboring Tanzania, that killed 224 Kenyans, Tanzanians and Americans and injured over 4,000 more. This bloody attack was followed shortly by a 2002 suicide car bombing targeting a hotel popular with Israelis near Mombassa and the attempted destruction of an Israeli airliner by shoulder fired missiles, from near its airport. It had awakened U.S. security officials to the dangers posed by militant Islam in East Africa. In the years since, the Horn of Africa, and Kenya in particular, has come into new focus of U.S. counterterrorism.

Read the whole article here.

UPDATE: Robert Spencer over at Jihadwatch on Obama's pal Odinga;

The New York Times story from a few days ago on the people who were burned to death inside a church in Kenya blames it all on tribal warfare. But there may be other factors involved also.

"Mob Sets Kenya Church on Fire, Killing Dozens," by Jeffrey Gettleman for The New York Times:

NAIROBI, Kenya — Dozens of people seeking refuge in a church in Kenya were burned to death by a mob on Tuesday in an explosion of ethnic violence that is threatening to engulf this country, which until last week was one of the most stable in Africa.

[...]

Government officials said Tuesday that they would crack down on anyone who threatened law and order, and they banned political rallies. Meanwhile, Raila Odinga, the opposition leader who lost the election, has vowed to hold a million-person march on Thursday, which many Kenyans fear could become a bloodbath.

[...]

On Monday night, several hundred Kikuyus barricaded themselves inside the Kenya Assemblies of God church in Kiambaa, a small village near the town of Eldoret. The next morning, a rowdy mob showed up.

According to witnesses, the mob was mostly Kalenjins, Luhyas and Luos, Mr. Odinga's tribe, which makes up about 13 percent of the population. They overran Kikuyu guards in front of the church and then pulled out cans of gasoline. There were no police officers around, witnesses said, and no water to put the fire out.

Most people escaped. But in addition to those killed, dozens were hospitalized with severe burns. Witnesses said most of the people hiding inside had been women and children.

The Eldoret area has become a killing zone. Residents say dozens of Kikuyus have been hacked to death, including four who were beheaded on Monday.

In Nairobi, a much-feared Kikuyu street gang called the Mungiki seems to be taking revenge. According to residents in a Luo area, the Mungiki, who are said to take an oath in which they drink human blood, were sweeping through the slums and killing Luos.

The government is now blaming Mr. Odinga for the violence.

That they are blaming Odinga is significant.

1. Kenyan Christians could be subjected to Sharia law

2. Raila Odinga, the current frontrunner in the upcoming presidential election in Kenya, has promised that he will implement strict Islamic Sharia law if he receives the Muslim vote in the country and is elected president.

3. 30 Muslims arrested in Kenya for arms smuggling

4. Muslim supporters want Muslim politician to counter Christian evangelism in northern Kenya. "The African Front ," by Joshua Hammer in the New York Times, December 23, 2007:

He supported Kura's claim that Harugura was being financed by Somalis from the Northeastern Province. "They believe that Harugura is the person to bring back the Rendille tribe from Christianity," Lesiantam said. "And he has promised that during the first five years, he will have mosques built in every urban center we have in this constituency."

5. Islamic charities in Kenya are providing Al-Qaeda with operating funds. "Al Qaeda Skimming Charity Money: U.S., Saudi Crackdown Has Largely Failed To Stop Money Flow," from CBS News, June 7, 2004.

UPDATE: For more on Obama's close ties to Kenya and his bigamist father with many wives, go here. (hat tip rut)

Barack Sr, a Muslim, would go on to marry two more women - Barack Jr's mother Ann Dunham, an American he met during a scholarship to the United States, and an American teacher called Ruth.

[...]

By the summer of 1959, he was bound for Hawaii, leaving Kezia three months pregnant with Auma.

Instead, Barack Sr met Barack Jr's mother, Ann, in Honolulu. She was an 18-year-old fellow student from Kansas and within months they were united in what appears to have been a bigamist marriage.

Not really, Muslims can take many wives.

Barack Jnr was born in August, 1961.

Two years later, Barack Snr was accepted at Harvard and left Ann and their little boy behind for the east coast.

Throughout this time he had written regularly to Kezia, even sending pictures of Ann and Barack Jr.

What he failed to tell his first wife was that he had also met a second new woman, an American teacher called Ruth.

Nor did he tell her, on his return to Kenya in 1965, that she had become his third wife.

Lying Bastards!

Atlas called it alright. Islam Murders US Diplomat to Sudan in Cold Blood

"This is a hit not a random killing of US Diplomat in Sudan.  The shooters (al-Qaeda) were waiting in front of US Diplomat John Granville's house.  This attack is right out of the al-Qaeda playbook, same type hit on US Diplomat Lawrence Foley in Amman Jordan which was an al-Qaeda operation.

Obscure extremist group claims slaying of US diplomat in Sudan

Flashback:

"an isolated incident which has no political connotations." 
Quote from the Sudanese government over and over in all the newspaper publications around the world in regard to the Islamic terrorist attack upon our US Diplomat in the Sudan, John Granville.

Sudan's foreign ministry however insisted the attack was "an isolated incident which has no political connotations."  The interior ministry said the diplomatic car had been caught in a fight which broke out as some Sudanese nationals were on the street celebrating the New Year.

"The soldiers of Tawhid carried out an operation of killing the American diplomat and his Sudanese driver who sold his religion for few benefits of life, in the section of Al-Riyadh in eastern Khartoum," read the translation provided by SITE. (More here)

Click here for photos.

Islam Destroys Another Great Western Tradition

Last week, New Years fireworks were canceled in Belgium because of the Islamic threat. Now this. And yet heads remain inserted in the sand;

Dakar Rally Canceled After Terror ThreatANGELA DOLAND Associated Press Writer hat tip IDF

PARIS (AP) - Al-Qaida threats against the Dakar Rally and an attack in Mauritania forced organizers to cancel the annual race on Friday, the eve of the 5,760-mile trek across North African desert scrubland and savannah.

It was the first time the automobile, motorbike and truck rally has been called off in its 30-year history. In a statement, organizers blamed "threats launched directly against the race by terrorist organizations." the Dec. 24 killings of a French family and international tensions.

The race's central appeal—its course through African deserts, scrubland and savannas—is also its weak point, making it difficult to protect thousands of people as they cross remote regions.

"No other decision but the cancellation of the sporting event could be taken," organizers said.

France, where the race organizers are based, had urged the rally to avoid Mauritania after the four family members were killed in an attack blamed on a terror cell that uses the Mauritanian desert as a hideout.

They are screwing with the motor sports world? Now that's real chutzpah!  Unreal.

Al Jazeera Hearts Al Qaeda

We've always known the evil of al jizz but now the rest of the world is finding out. Late yes but better late ..........

Algerian Press Declares War on "Terrorist" Al-Jazeera over Online Poll Asking "Do You Support Al-Qaeda's Attacks in Algeria?" MEMRI

Go here now.

On December 12, 2007, the day after the double suicide-bombing in Algiers for which Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility, Al-Jazeera TV's website aljazeera.net posted an online poll asking, "Do you support Al-Qaeda's attacks in Algeria?" After three days of voting and 30,010 responses, the results were 54.7% in support and 45.3% opposed.(1) The Algerian press and media were unanimous in denouncing the poll, and Al-Jazeera was widely accused of supporting terrorism.

It should be noted that Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb posted a screenshot of the Al-Jazeera poll on its homepage (www.qmagreb.org), with the caption "The Results of the Vote as Shown on Al-Jazeera!"(2)    

Following are reactions to the Al-Jazeera poll from the Algerian press:

Director of Algerian National TV: Al-Jazeera Is Now an Official Spokesman for Al-Qaeda

Read all the reactions here.

"The Inexorable Suicide of Europe"

Brussels Journal is carrying Ambassador Lampert's Cassandra warning to Europe here. Check out this excerpt. Nothing I haven't been telling you for years now but still .............. read it all. It seems all they can do is lament and wring their hands but can't seem to do anything about it. Screaming noiselessly into the void. Attempts to create some sort of ad hoc network of freedom loving men hits snags and gets sidetracked.

An analysis from Christian Lambert, a former French ambassador, writing at Les 4 Vérités, predicts a terrible fate for Europe. He titles his essay, "The Inexorable Suicide of Europe."

The Brussels administration admits officially that each year some 550,000 immigrants from Africa, the Middle East and China, plus South America, enter the European Union. In reality the figure is twice that, in other words, more than a million.

We will briefly take it country by country.

Italy wins the prize right now. For this to become known, a young Italian girl had to be raped and murdered by a Gypsy. Then Rome was forced to reveal that Italy, a country even more poorly governed than France, which is saying a lot, now has 3.7 million immigrants (the official figure), that 700,000 new arrivals were recorded in 2006, and that 560,000 Gypsies have settled there. More than 100,000 of them arrived in the ten-month period after January 1, 2007.

More than 50% of the crime in Italy is due to these "Rumanians". In addition, every year some 60,000 immigrants from Tunisia and Libya (where even Colonel Qadhafi admits that his country is invaded by Sub-Saharians waiting to get into Europe and certain to succeed in their goal) arrive in Italy via the island of Lampedusa. In general, it is easy to enter Europe through Italy where the administration is "lax"...

In Greece, it's worse and Cyprus is one of the great doors of entry into Europe.

In France, nothing has changed. It can be assumed that 350,000 new arrivals enter our country each year, 70% of them from Africa. The number of visas granted has not lessened. It is still more than 2 million – 2,038,000 in 2006 – which proves that the fight against massive immigration is, like all the rest, purely verbal.

While I'm on the topic, I should note in passing that the town of Aulnay-sous-Bois, in Seine-Saint-Denis, has just experienced 4 days and nights of street fighting between gangs of "Afro-Maghrebins" and the police, according to the press itself. At Villiers-le-Bel, Val d'Oise, it is even more serious. The police, attacked with rifles, proved to be impotent. In order to quell these riots military units specializing in street fighting are now necessary, especially since stockpiles of war weapons from the Balkans are being stashed in the suburbs.

In Germany there are 4 million Turks, and new arrivals every day. One German told me that Islamist Turks feel more at ease practicing their religious activities in Germany than in Muslim Turkey.

In Great Britain, 50 powerful Muslim associations control millions of faithful followers, mostly Pakistanis. In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, beneath the smile of her gracious very Christian Majesty, there are now koranic schools where children can learn to become kamikazes and blow up automobiles.

In the Netherlands where there are many North African, Caribbean and Indonesian Muslims serious trouble is on the increase. The press writes that the situation is becoming "à la française", in other words: pillaged shops, torched cars, violent confrontations with the police.

Scandinavia is not to be left out where, in order to be in tune with the times, Norway discovered and recruited, as a government minister, a black woman from Martinique.

I might add that there is no common European policy on immigration. Spain and Italy amnestied millions of illegals – a tremendous message for others – without even informing their neighbors.

On the other hand, in the countries of Eastern Europe, there are no immigrants. Why? Because these countries were subjected to communism and are therefore underdeveloped, with no welfare state or free hand-outs, housing, health care or schools.

Some say that one must not exaggerate. The great invasions from the 4th to 7th centuries eventually worked themselves out, didn't they? Great ignorance. We have to realize that these invasions had only a limited effect on the population of nascent France. As a matter of fact, in general, gangs of invaders and vandals, totaling only a few thousand individuals did not settle down in France, except for the Franks to the East. Furthermore, these barbarians quite rapidly converted to Christianity, more precisely to arianism.

It is true that at the time the merovingian monarchy did not distribute to these barbarians welfare of all kinds, declaring: "You are a great opportunity for France. Come, all of you, and join us with your large and beautiful families." No. Back then, people still had common sense.

And now, what will happen? In the short term, immigration will continue to flood in. Problems which have never been this serious will continue to spread and worsen. In the very long term, Europe, which created the most beautiful civilization that humanity has ever produced, will disappear.

Back from Dead: The Baghdad Sniper

The Baghdad sniper is back. Check out his site, it's one for the books. His video library embodies jihad porn.

                                    

In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful,

[Fight them, and Allah will punish them by your hands, cover them with shame, help you (to reach victory) over them, heal the breasts of Believers] 9:14

Praise be to Allah, the Almighty
Peace and Prayers be upon the Prophet,
his Family and his Companions.

Despite all that happens to our Nation from the disasters and wounds, it did not forget to celebrate the feast, so the Central Media Department of the Islamic Army in Iraq, devoted to show the joy by presenting the victory of the nation's sons, the Mujahideen, to be the first feast gift to our nation, and secondly to show the world our victories, and finally as a sympathetic message to the deceived people who don't know the truth about what happens to their sons in Iraq.

Juba who follows the almighty orders [and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war)] insisted on spoiling the enemy's happiness with his death rumors, and sent to them his message through the third part of the Baghdad sniper video series.

May Allah make all the Nation's days full with happiness and also for all the oppressed around the world.

May Allah accept this effort.

The Islamic Army in Iraq
Jihad and Reform Front

The Devil Wears faux Prada

Indeed. I would never wear faux or counterfeit -- neither should you. Buy the best of what you can afford and stay away from the terror booty.

Fake Prada fuels Senegal's Muslim brotherhood Mail and Guardian

For Senegalese street sellers from Manhattan to the Vatican, selling fake Prada purses and Chinese-made Gucci sunglasses is as much a question of religious devotion as of making a quick buck.

Many traders are members of the Mouride brotherhood, a branch of African Sufi Islam which has become Senegal's most influential religious, political and economic force.

A unique mix of militant capitalism and moderate Islam, its central doctrine of hard work as a means to paradise has led thousands to leave Senegal's sunny shores with one goal -- to earn money and send it back to the holy city of Touba.

Read it all.

 

Muslim Bomber Plotting to Blow Up US Planes Escapes in Pakistan

Perhaps the Paki translation of "escape" is "release" because I am not buying this line of taqiya. They let him go. For sure.

British terrorist suspect escapes custody in Pakistan Asia Pacific News  hat tip Daryl

ISLAMABAD: A British man suspected of plotting to blow up US-bound trans-Atlantic airliners has escaped from police custody in Pakistan, officials said early Sunday.

"Rashid Rauf escaped from police custody and we are making every possible effort to re-arrest him," interior ministry spokesman Brigadier Javed Cheema told AFP.

Rauf was arrested in central Pakistan in August 2006 and had been behind bars since then.

The twenty-five-year-old was brought before a judge at a court in Islamabad for an extradition hearing when he escaped Saturday afternoon.

The police chief of Islamabad, Shahid Nadeem Baluch, told AFP early Sunday: "The hunt is on to track him down. We have conducted some raids but so far there hasn't been any breakthrough."

No breakthroughs? Shocka.

The British government had requested Pakistan extradite Rauf to London where he is wanted by police in connection with the murder of his uncle in 2002.

RELATED:  Terror Watch: The Suspects Who Got Away

Al Qaeda's Islamic Army of Iraq

Getting  word out to future jihadist's everywhere, Al Qaeda's Islamic Army in Iraq has just gone English. Check it out here hat tip wolf

Screenshot off the The Islamic Army of Iraq

Anyone that tells you Iraq is not a central front on the war on Islamic jihad is clearly either  outright  or subliminally suicidal.

4-12 IAI/ Watch film of launching American headquarter with rockets and burning it

23-11 IAI/ Download the film of Destroying a minesweeper for Crusader American army in al-Athem area

11/11 IAI/ Denying media lies about killing 18 of al-Qaeda elements

1-11 IAI/ Download Film of damaging a crusader Hummer in Mosul city

 

More Muslim Oppression in Malaysia

Spin the globe, pick a point, any point, and ask yourself, "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."

Five ethnic Indian activists held under Malaysia's security law Channel News Asia

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia said Thursday it has arrested five leaders of ethnic Indian rights group Hindraf under controversial security laws that allow for detention without trial.

Hindraf enraged the government last month by mounting a mass rally alleging discrimination against minority ethnic Indians in Malaysia, which is dominated by Muslim Malays.

Police used tear gas, water cannons and baton charges to break up the street protest which drew 8,000 people, and came just two weeks after another rare demonstration organised by electoral reform campaigners.

Deputy Internal Security Minister Mohd Johari Baharom confirmed the five were held under the Internal Security Act (ISA), which human rights groups are campaigning to have abolished.

"They can be held for two years for sedition and also for carrying out activities that threaten national security," he told the state Bernama news agency.

A Hindraf spokesman said the arrests of P. Uthayakumar, M. Manoharan, R. Kenghadharan, V. Ganabatirau and T. Vasanthakumar would not silence the movement, which the government has accused of stirring up racial tension.

"Regardless of the arrests this struggle will move on. We have many leaders who are waiting to take over and we will not go backwards but move ahead with the fight for the rights of Indians in Malaysia," S. Jayathas told AFP.

Italy Soccer Officials "Astounded"by Muslim Lawsuit

Nothing is sacred, I tell ya. I want me a tee shirt, and I'm Jewish :)

Muslim lawyer sues over Inter Milan 'Crusaders' kit Times hat tip trk

A Turkish lawyer is taking legal action against Inter Milan, the Italian football team, for wearing a strip with “Crusader-style” red crosses that he alleges is ”offensive to Muslim sensibilities”.

Another day in the Global Jihad

MAJOR BOMBING IN LEBANON: Anti-Syria, Anti-Hezbullah General KILLED

3 Car Bombs Kill 27 in Southern Iraq

On Taliban Turf, Long Lines of Ailing Children

Syria arrests protesters on Human Rights Day: groups

West reinserts head up ass.

Uh, stepped away for a moment. Here's more

India train bomb kills 5

The Face of the Clash of Civilizations

An Afghan soldier captures a suspected Taleban near Musa Qala. This death cult must be crushed I tell ya.

Afghan flag flies over former Taleban-held town

Muslim "PIRATES" Declare War on Japan

The  pirates off the Barbary coast (think Thomas Jefferson and the shores of Tripoli) were Muslims too. Regular Atlas readers know these "pirates" have been engaging in these hostile acts for some time now. Basta!

Somali pirates threaten to kill tanker crew Telegraph hat tip

A tense standoff has developed off the Somali coast between US warships and pirates who have hijacked a tanker packed with explosive chemicals.

Somali pirates are able to operate with relative impunity off the volatile Horn of Africa.

Under seige from the US navy, the pirates have now threatened to kill all 22 crew members of the Japanese Golden Nori unless a $1 million ransom is paid.

Pay nothing! Declare war and spare the world this scourge.

The tanker, carrying up to 40,000 tons of inflammable benzene, was captured as it was sailing from Singapore to Israel.

Two US Navy ships picked up the ship's distress calls and fired on the pirates' speedboats, sinking two.

The warships followed the kidnapped tanker into Somali coastal waters and trapped it close to the Somali port of Bossaso, preventing supplies from getting to the ship.

Previous:  Atlas Shrugs: GWOT: Navy Battles Pirates

Atlas Shrugs: Thomas Jefferson's  Quran

"Pirate" Hijack Points to Al-Qaeda Presence

'I Could Tell the Guy Firing the Bazooka Was Smiling'

UPDATE: More on this region here from Caroline Glick hat tip Wolf

CONDI'S AFRICAN HOLIDAY Jerusalem Post

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice introduced a new venue for her superficial and destructive stewardship of US foreign policy during her lightning visit to the Horn of Africa last Wednesday.

The Horn of Africa is a dangerous and strategically vital place. Small wars, which rage continuously, can easily escalate into big wars. Local conflicts have regional and global aspects. All of the conflicts in this tinderbox, which controls shipping lanes from the Indian Ocean into the Red Sea, can potentially give rise to regional, and indeed global conflagrations between competing regional actors and global powers.

The Horn of Africa includes the states of Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan and Kenya. Eritrea, which gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993 after a 20-year civil war, is a major source of regional conflict. Eritrea has a hot border dispute with Ethiopia which could easily ignite. The two countries fought a bloody border war from 1998-2000 over control of the town of Badme. Although a UN mandated body determined in 2002 that the disputed town belonged to Eritrea, Ethiopia has rejected the finding and so the conflict festers.

Eritrea also fights a proxy war against Ethiopia in Somalia and in Ethiopia's rebellious Ogaden region. In Somalia, Eritrea is the primary sponsor of the al-Qaida-linked Islamic Courts Union which took control of Somalia in June, 2006. In November 2006, the ICU government declared jihad against Ethiopia and Kenya. Backed by the US, Ethiopia invaded to restore the recognized Transitional Federal Government to power which the ICU had deposed.

Although the Ethiopian army successfully ousted the ICU from power in less than a week, backed by massive military and financial assistance from Eritrea, as well as Egypt and Libya, the ICU has waged a brutal insurgency against the TFG and the Ethiopian military for the past year.

THE SENIOR ICU leadership, including Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys and Sheikh Sharif Ahmed have received safe haven in Eritrea. In September, the exiled ICU leadership held a nine-day conference in the Eritrean capital of Asmara where they formed the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia headed by Ahmed.

Read it all here.

RELIGION OF PIECES BOMBS ALGERIA12/11 - Scores Dead, People trapped

A large part of the UN building was destroyed in the blast. 2 car bombs in Algiers, again, al-Qaeda again, 45 dead scores wounded, UN offices targeted, this just days after a contingent of 6000 UN forces took a Taliban (al-Qaeda) stronghold in Afghanistan.

UN building in shambles, people trapped.  A UN worker caught up in the Hydra attack told the BBC that part of the building was destroyed and it was feared people were trapped. hat tip Bill W

Dozens killed in Algeria bombings

There are fears people are trapped in the debris

At least 47 people have died in two bomb blasts in the Algerian capital, Algiers, officials have said. The first explosion is reported to have happened in the Ben Aknoun district, near the supreme constitutional court.

That was followed shortly afterwards by a second blast at the United Nations offices in the Hydra neighbourhood.

A UN worker caught up in the Hydra attack told the BBC that part of the building was destroyed and it was feared people were trapped.

Dozens were wounded in the blasts, officials say.

'Homicide bomber'

Body of child being carried out of blast area.

UPDATE: AL QAEDA GROUP BLAMED FOR BOMB BLASTS Times online

Rescue crews carry the body of a bomb blast victim after the explosion near a schoolbus in Algiers David Byers and agencies

At least 10 United Nations staff and a number of schoolchildren were among 52 people slaughtered today in two huge car bomb attacks blamed on al-Qaeda affliated militants in the Algerian capital, Algiers.

A pair of blasts occurred within minutes of each other, the first destroying a school bus outside the Constitutional Court building and the second detonating outside United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in the suburb of Hydra.

A group calling itself the al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb has been blamed for the attacks, the deadliest so far of a series of bombings in the last few months.

The targeting of the UN in one of the bombings will raise fears that the group is planning to internationalise its campaign and begin to target European, and in particular French, targets.

UPDATE: In other news on the global jihad: 

HOMICIDE attack at Pakistani nuclear weapons complex hat tip Larwyn

BOMB  Kills Iraqi Police Chief hat tip Daryl

UPDATE: Algeria:School bus targeted in algiers suicide bomb blast. Dec. 11: A victim seated inside the wreck of a car is seen at the site of a bomb blast in Algiers. (hat tip Bill W)

UPDATE: Algiers "9/11' terror attack by al-Qaeda

3/11 Madrid bombing ....9/11 NYC Washington attacks.....7/11 Mumbai (Bombay) bombing ..... 12/11 Algiers bombing

Islamic Web Site: Al Qaeda in North Africa Claims Responsibility for Algeria Bombings
ABC News

Religion of Pieces Blows up Kids Bus, Kills 5

Deja deja vu: Quoting Pope Benedict  who was quoting the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus, one of the last Christian rulers before the Fall of Constantinople to the Muslim Ottoman Empire, on such issues as forced conversion, holy war, and the relationship between faith and reason, "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached".

Suicide bomb hits bus carrying kids in Pakistan MSNBC
At least 5 children wounded in blast at military base; driver, guard also hurt

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A suicide bomber struck a bus carrying schoolchildren Monday at a military base in northwestern Pakistan, wounding at least five children, an army spokesman said.

The attack occurred at the army's base at Kamra, and the wounded children were being transported to a hospital, Maj. Gen. Arshad Waheed said. The bus driver and a guard were also injured.

"This barbaric attack shows how cruel the terrorists are," he said.

Islamists .............. terrorist is nonsense.

The latest attack came a day after a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a police outpost, killing four people and wounding several others. That attack occurred in Pakistan's Swat valley, the site of a military operation against Islamic militants loyal to a fugitive cleric.

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My new screensaver

Arrahmah site for jihad lovers

Speaking of "moderate" Indonesia (where Presidential hopeful Obama Hussein was educated in a madrassa:) Catholic students are forced to wear the veil

Paris Dispatch: Sarkozy, the Real Bush?

In today's Frontpage Magazine Patrick Poole illustrates how the Punk Jihad in France ties into the strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood project here and here. Poole's piece is a must read: PARISIAN INTIFADA

The urban warfare we are seeing in Paris, as well as the systematic violence by Muslim immigrants in other major cities throughout Europe, are in accord with the strategic planning documents drafted by the Muslim Brotherhood in recent decades in their hopes to establish a global caliphate through jihad. 

Sophie sent us th above picture of the "police inspector who was lynched by the scum last Sunday." Moreover, Sophie  added an appendix that relates the Algerian Minister's anti-Semitic insults to Sarkozy.
JTA ran a spot on op-ed by Bernard Harrison, emeritus E.E. Ericksen Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah, and author of "Israel, Anti-Semitism and Free Speech" on Sarkozy's tough stand on the Jew hatred infecting France (and the whole of Europe.) Op-Ed: Diagnose, then attack, anti-Semitism 

Seamless denial of anti-Semitism must be confronted and attacked
EAST SUSSEX, England (JTA) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy, during his recent visit to Washington, stated in widely reported remarks that the resurgence of anti-Semitic propaganda and associated violence around the world should not be minimized or explained away, but attacked head-on.

Addressing the American Jewish Committee, Sarkozy recalled being aghast to hear a Gaullist minister dismissing recent anti-Semitic violence in France with the throw-away line, "Yes, there are synagogues burning, but there are also cars burning."

Fighting anti-Semitism, Sarkozy said, involves agreement on what constitutes it.

"We cannot fight against what is denied," he said. "Unless you agree on a diagnosis, you cannot find the remedy."

Read it all. In the latest Muslim rioting Sarkozy comes out swinging and Sophie, our Atlas Paris correspondent agrees. Here Sophie reports on the rest of the unrest. Atlas Exclusive.

Sarkozy backs the police and calls a scum a scum!!! Sophie Fernandez Debellemanière

This morning, Nicolas Sarkozy publicly refuted the do-gooder approach, that poisons public debate on violence in France, by declaring to two thousand policemen at their headquarter of La Défense that: “What happened in Villiers-le-Bel does not have anything to do with a social crisis. I has everything to do with the “voyoucratie” —neologism that should be translated in English by scumocracy”.

Nicolas Sarkozy needed to sound reassuring, as the quasi-totality of the hundred wounded policemen were gunshot and several police unions were concerned about this drastic increase in the dangerousness of their job. He declared: “If we allow a little scum to become a hero in his cité, it will be an insult to the République and to your work”. French President also pleased the huge majority of French people — and especially those unfortunate people who are the rioters’ neighbors and have to bear them everyday—when he said: “I refute the do-gooder approach, which founds a victim of the society behind each delinquent and a social crisis behind each riot.”

These sensible and reassuring words arrive in a relative calm in riot-hit French suburb: yesterday, according to the Val-d’Oise police services, “only a few vehicles and garbage cans were set on fire in Villiers-le-Bel”. The situation got better thanks to the great efforts of one thousand policemen who courageously braved the armed scums.

Atlas Shrugs’s readers must also be aware of a parallel polemic in French media that says a lot about the crazy mentality that reigns in French media and society, and make Nicolas Sarkozy’s work so necessary. It is about the circumstances of the traffic accident itself and whether the two policemen who were in the police car, which colluded with the victims’ “mini motocross” left the accident place before or after the firemen arrive. The two policemen were certainly terrified and may he flown away, some how with reason when we see what happened to the inspector who friendly tried to interpose (and got his lung perforated as well as many contusions)… Anyway, so that you all understand the absurdity of this polemic, I must recall you that: 1: the mini motocross was stolen
2: it did not carry any light, nor the two guys wore helmets.
3: the law bans driving this type of engine on the public highway

In conclusion, in Paris suburbs, a higher control on vehicles --as well on weapons!-- is indispensable before trying to solve any social crisis. And if Nicolas Sarkozy’s discourse is exemplary in terms of rationality and refusal of victimization, French people are now waiting for concrete measures.

Here is Le Figaro’s article where brave police inspector Jean Illy relates how he was lynched by a group of scums, while trying to tell them that the whole truth would be made out of the traffic accident in which their two young fellows died:

Commissioner Relates 
His lynching in Villiers-le-Bel
Christophe Cornevin and Cyril Louis
29/11/2007 | Updated: 10:50 | .

Assaulted Sunday by about thirty young, Commissioner Illy had three ribs and his nose broken, plus an arcade eyebrow exploded.

Divisional Commissioner Sarcelles (Val), Jean Illy was seriously injured Sunday in the first night of violence, Villiers-le-Bel. He arrived on the spot shortly after the traffic accident that claimed the lives of two teenagers, he was beaten by young he tried to calm down. Upon return from China, Nicolas Sarkozy visited yesterday morning at his bedside.

The face was swollen, his body covered with bruises, Divisional Commissioner Jean Illy barely breathing on his hospital bed, Eaubonne. Three of his ribs were broken. One of them punctured a lung. His nose was broken and his arch eyebrow recousue reveals his eyes to black. For four nights, the operator of the Central Police Sarcelles not sleeping, or evil. With a calm that demands respect, an official of 43 years reconstructs the unlikely scenario of the attempted lynching against him Sunday at Villiers-le-Bel. "By late afternoon, the head of the brigade safety Metropolitan name is permanently for me to report a traffic accident, and to me says a big pressure is mounting." So rest with his wife and children, the Commissioner decides to proceed immediately on the scene. "I always reserve the Republic" sourit-il.

Before leaving, this follower of Buddhism, which does not like violence, decides not to take his service weapon. Once on the ground, he spotted the motorcycle and patrol car accident, but noted that the two teenagers were taken by the emergency services. One police officer present at that moment, he turned to local residents gathered in the vicinity. "I just wanted to reassure the public by promising that the light would be made on this case, under the supervision of a judge," he says. It is immediately apostrophé by twenty-five to thirty young people Hooded.

"Keufs have killed our friends! This is the enc ... ! "Said one of them. A "big brother" working as an agent for mediation, trying to calm the game In vain. "Suddenly I heard loud bangs in my back," recalls Jean Illy. A portion of the tape comes to tear up the windows of his unmarked car. Cerné, unarmed no radio, no uniform on the horizon, the officer heard the "big brother" drag him in the ear: "You have to leave, they were mad with rage, I can no longer contain them." An forecastle began to scream: "It's a scandal, your men fled. As a matter of principle, it is necessary that it is paid, it is necessary that the cops die tonight! "

The officer tries to retreat. Impossible. His car was in flames. "Run, run, they want you to the skin," even the cowardly "big brother" panicked. "I swoop, but in the direction of their city, in the mouth of the wolf," says Jean Illy. I then decided to cope with thirty guys armed with iron bars and baseball bats. "That martial arts expert on Vietnamese and Chinese boxing pare the first shots using the techniques of self-defense. "Then I get an iron bar in the middle figure and the blows rain down, I fell on the floor, put myself into a ball while they are working on me," grimace-t-il. His ordeal will endure endless minutes. Until he succeeds in getting up, breathless, to be borne by a young colleague and rescue services.

Arriving at the head of the district of Sarcelles in 2005, the Commissioner Illy is described as a "man on the ground". If it is at the head of several hundred men, he refused to be caught up in administrative tasks. "It's a real boss, who knows the territory and knows mount coal in the event of trouble, assured the mayor of Sarcelles, François Pupponi. One can also say he has paid Sunday that sense of touch. "With other words, put a commissioner for more than a year under his command confirms:" Jean has understood that in the eyes of his men, a conductor earns its legitimacy by showing where the mayhem. "Equipped with a" true southern temperament, gay and dynamic, "according to an old acquaintance, a native of Drome, a graduate of Saint-Cyr- au-Mont-d'Or in the early 1990's, has made most of his career in Corsica then in Nice, where he served in the office of prefect, as adviser on security.

"At that time, already, it was a kind of athlete of the National Police who inspired confidence from his boss because he was both good specialist of Public Security, connoisseur of Corsica and familiar information general, "remembers Pierre Breuil, prefect of the Alpes - Maritimes between 2002 and 2006. At that time, the commissioner Illy is committed to implementing the political culture of the result desired by the Minister of the Interior, where he organizes several visits to the department.

"On this occasion he did know of close associates of Nicolas Sarkozy who, when he applied to join the Paris region, were able to support his candidacy," said the prefect Breuil. Entered according few weeks before urban violence in November 2005, the Commissioner of Sarcelles does not seem to consider, despite his thirty days of temporary work, hang up the gloves.

Just says, as to the attention of his attackers: "For the time being, I have identified on a photo of a kind which m'invectivait but, if I am not a spiteful, I I have a very good memory so that my colleagues find the others ... "

 

Appendix: The Algerian veterans' minister, Mohamed Cherif Abbas, has made scandalous anti-Semitic remarks about France's "Jewish lobby" being behind Nicolas Sarkozy’s election.

Sarkozy has antagonized some in Algeria by saying France should no longer "repent" for its colonial past, while Algeria still demands for an apology for the "crimes" of colonization. But Mohamed Cherif Abbas’s words may also be the result of pure anti-Semitism; given that Nicolas Sarkozy’s grandfather was a Jew from Salonique and that he frequently appears in France as Israel’s defender.

Islamazis Demand Execution for Teddy Bear Teacher

The murderous, bizarre savages want to kill this poor woman, over a cute, cuddly Teddy Bear whom the children named Mohammed. First reported here at Atlas.

Teddy bear teacher appears in court as Islamic fanatics demand execution This is London.com

Teddy bear teacher appears in court as Islamic fanatics demand execution A major security operation was under way today as a British teacher charged with inciting hatred for letting her pupils call a teddy bear Mohammed was brought before a court in Sudan. Gillian Gibbons looked tired and distressed but was not handcuffed has she appeared at a court in Khartoum Full story here hat tip EJO

Kidnap threat: Security was heavy outside the courthouse where Mrs Gibbons appeared today.

Trucks protected by armed police transported Gillian Gibbons from her cell at the CID headquarters in Khartoum where she had been kept in custody following her arrest on Sunday for allowing pupils to name a school teddy bear Mohammed.

Security was also tight at the city's court building as fears that extremists might stage a kidnap attempt ran high.

Mrs Gibbons faces 40 lashes and a year in jail after after being charged with insulting Islam. Reports today suggested the complaint against her had been made by a secretary at the school.

She was charged after behind-the-scenes political moves to avoid a court case collapsed amid growing Islamic anger in the east African country.

[...]

Mrs Gibbons, a former deputy head in Liverpool, moved to Khartoum in August to fulfill her dream of teaching abroad after her marriage broke down last year.

Her husband must have been a piece of work if Sudan was a respite.

[...]

The mother of two grown-up children was arrested on Sunday after parents were said to have complained she had insulted Islam's prophet by naming a teddy bear Mohammed as part of a class project.

However, a boy of seven came forward on Tuesday to say it was "all his fault", as he and his classmates at the Unity High School had voted to call the bear Mohammed after his own name.

oyish .....was the boy flogged?

Mrs Gibbons technically faces three charges - insulting Islam, inciting religious hatred and contempt for religious beliefs - each of which carries a maximum penalty of 40 lashes and a year in jail.

Read it all.

UPDATE: Check out the BBC, handmaiden to Islamic jihad:

The self-loathing Brits who think teddy bear teacher deserves her fate Monkey Tennis Center

Other than among Islamic hardliners, you would think that the plight of British teacher Gillian Gibbons, who faces jail and 40 lashes in Sudan for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Mohammed, would elicit near-universal sympathy.

Not so, judging by the comments of a sizable minority of commenters on the BBC's website, who appear to think that Mrs Gibbons deserves everything she gets. This is just a selection of their views (brackets are mine):

Go and read it.

UPDATE. uh oh......... we're in trouble now! hat tip Norman
Ebay jihad!

UPDATE:British teacher convicted in Sudan over teddy bear named Muhammad
International Herald Tribune

Gillian Gibbons was convicted of inciting religious hatred for letting her pupils name a teddy bear Muhammad and sentenced to 15 days in prison and deportation from Sudan.

The Brits ought to have invaded this tribal Islamic savage nation and freed Gibbons and all those poor, repressed tortured people and slaves. Yeah, we are going to have to start doing that. It is only a matter of time.

 

The Jihad Never Stops .... Killing

Suicide Bomber kills 6 children in Afghanistan

Suicide bomber kills 9 Afghans and Italian soldier

Suicide bombings kill at least 20 in Pakistan: officials

Mosul bomb attacks kill 21 Iraqis

(Narathiwat, Thailand) - An older Buddhist couple are murdered by Islamic gunmen in a drive-by attack.

(Yala, Thailand) - A middle-aged man is shot to death by Islamists while sitting in a tea shop.

UPDATE: Seven police beheaded in southern Afghanistan

UPDATE: Uttar Pradesh bombings mark new phase of Islamist terror

Praveen Swami

E-mail sent to TV stations a political manifesto for terror cells The Indian Mujahideen sent the mail from a purpose-generated address NEW DELHI: Investigators believe an e-mail sent minutes after the serial court bombings in Uttar Pradesh began is a first-of-its kind manifesto for Islamist terror cells operating across India. Issued by an until-now unknown organisation, the Indian Mujahideen, the e-mail was sent from guru_alHindi@yahoo.fr, a purpose-generated address created on November 22, to several national television stations. Uttar Pradesh bombings mark new phase of Islamist terror Praveen Swami E-mail sent to TV stations a political manifesto for terror cells  - NEW DELHI: Investigators believe an e-mail sent minutes after the serial court bombings in Uttar Pradesh began is a first-of-its kind manifesto for Islamist terror cells operating across India. Issued by an until-now unknown organisation, the Indian Mujahideen, the e-mail was sent from guru_alHindi@yahoo.fr, a purpose-generated address created on November 22, to several national television stations.

Under Reported Global Jihad News

Michael sends these under reported stories along: In the three stories below you will find: global jihadists, anarchists, Hizballah, cocaine, counterfeit clothing, cash transfers, guns, dirty bomb plans, psychedelic mushrooms, global jihad on and off the Internet and last, but not least, child porn.

What's not to like...

Spain: Islamic terrorist cell members sentenced

Madrid, 29 Oct. (AKI) - Abdelkader Ayachine and Wissam Lofti, two of the six alleged terrorists belonging to an Islamist cell in the northern Spanish city of Burgos, have been convicted of inciting Jihad (holy war) through the Internet, and to have provided financial support to jailed Islamists.

Spanish paramilitary police last week detained the alleged members believed to have been involved in recruiting jihadists to carry out terror attacks internationally , including in Iraq reported Spanish daily El Mundo.

The judge said Ayachine and Lofti: "form part of an organised group belonging to a Salafite-jihadi movement, with important links to radical Islamic terrorism, created around an extremist leader, radical and violent that exerts huge influence and power over the rest of the members."

All the suspects have ties to fundamentalist (Salafite) jihadi ideology, according to Spain's interior ministry.

Ayachine, considered the leader of the Islamist cell, ran a butcher's shop in the city of Burgos, was also accused of child pornography, because according to the magistrate he "downloaded and transferred numerous photos and videos of child pornography"

The rest of the detained have been released but must report every 15 days to the court.

Authorities Raid Urbandale [Iowa] Man's Apartment

An Urbandale man is being investigated after witnesses reported hearing him talk about making a dirty bomb.

Two witnesses told law enforcement that Justin Sheridan has done things and said things that they consider a threat to the public. That was enough for law enforcement to open an investigation that they classify as a terrorism threat case.

State and local agents moved in to search Sheridan's apartment and vehicle last week.

A written statement to law enforcement from an informant states that "(Sheridan) told me he's found out how to make...a fertilizer bomb, and that he doesn't expect to live long...so he said he's going to go out with a bang...he's an anarchist."

The statement also said, "I notified the FBI because he's started to collect smoke detectors for material in making a bomb... using the radioactive material in the detectors."

A second informant told law enforcement, "Justin Sheridan wanted (me) to provide smoke detectors from the job sites...so that he could remove the 'Alpha emitter to make a bomb.'"

A task force of agents searched Sheridan's apartment and found "a cardboard box with smoke detector parts wrapped in tin foil. The parts are Americium - 241 Alpha Emitters."

"This individual was attempting to collect very small, minute traces of radioactive material that's in a smoke detector. But as I understand it, it's such a minute amount of radiation that it really doesn't pose a problem to anybody unless they actually ingest it," said James Saunders with Iowa Department of Public Safety.

Agents also seized computer equipment, guns, gun magazines, ammunition, a "tactical" black vest and ski mask, and a vibrating lock pick.

Agents told KCCI that, while searching the apartment, they found evidence of an illegal psychedelic mushroom growing operation. They called in drug agents, who sought a second search warrant to focus on the drugs.

The informant who went to the FBI told law enforcement, "After Virginia Tech, Columbine and other incidents, I didn't want any potential loss of life having not done anything to stop it."

"He did pose a risk. And so we're fortunate that the public stepped up and reported the suspicious activity, and law enforcement took immediate action," Saunders said.

Saunders said the public was not at risk from the radioactive material because it was so small an amount. Agents are testing the weapons found, and they're searching Sheridan's computer before deciding whether to file any charges.

Sheridan was booked at the Polk County Jail and has since been released.

Busted Los Angeles drug ring had ties to Hezbollah

WASHINGTON - A seemingly small-time drug ring busted this week in Los Angeles was actually targeted for funding the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, the Daily News has learned.

Prosecutors left out the terror tie when they announced Tuesday that federal agents and local cops had arrested a dozen people for allegedly peddling cocaine and counterfeit clothing in Bell, Calif.

But several sources familiar with the investigation said the predominantly Arab-American gang was believed to have smuggled its crime cash to the Iranian-backed terror group.

"This was a classic case of terrorism financing, and it was pretty sophisticated how they did it," a source close to Operation Bell Bottoms told The News.

The defendants once crammed $123,000 in money orders into a stuffed animal flown to Lebanon, an indictment alleged.

The Justice Department's national security division and an FBI counterterrorism agent have signed all the court filings.

Because information linking the gang to Hezbollah came from classified intelligence, the alleged ringleader and "his siblings and associates" face criminal charges instead of a terror rap.

CBS footage shows Omar Khadr "allegedly building bomb materials" (The Globe & Mail) 
The cited 60 Minutes video clip on Omar Khadr here

CBS News has broadcast shocking new footage of a Canadian terrorism suspect allegedly building bomb timers and planting land mines while he was a 15-year-old militant hoping to take on American soldiers in Afghanistan. The footage, some of it shot on a night-vision camera by alleged al-Qaeda fighters before it was seized by U.S. forces after a deadly raid, leaves a more sinister impression of Omar Khadr than the widely circulated photo of him as a boy benignly smiling at the camera. That teenaged terrorism suspect's image has been reproduced the world over since he was arrested in Afghanistan in 2002 and sent to the Guantanamo Bay prison experiment on allegations of killing an American soldier. The military has long been planning to show the seized videotape during trial, but proceedings have repeatedly stalled before the evidence could be aired.