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Islam Attacks:8 Dead in Massacre at Jewish School in Jerusalem

The Horror (graphic and terrible)

It was the  beginning of a holiday when a Jewish school in Jerusalem, a rabbinical seminary no less, was attacked by Arab savages. Imagine (although you can't because the Jews would never do such a thing) if a madrassah with young Muslim students were murdered by the Jews. THINK ABOUT IT! Jewish life is cheap? Damn you to hell. Condi, go home!

Arab Terrorists Attack Jerusalem's Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva: 6 Dead

Two Arab terrorists infiltrated Jerusalem's Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva at around 8:30 Thursday night and murdered eight Jews. At least 40 people have been wounded; one is in critical condition and a second victim was wounded moderately.

The attackers opened fire on the students before one of them was gunned down himself. A second terrorist apparently escaped and may be hiding in the yeshiva building. Security forces are deployed in the surrounding neighborhood, with police saying that all the students have been evacuated.

I can see the savages dancing.

UPDATE: The Muslims are dancing. They are dancng in Gaza. If only I were in charge. They would never dance again.

Naomi Ragen wrote this:

I write you this with a heavy heart.  This evening, about 8:30 p.m., an Arab terrorist from East Jerusalem, bearing a blue Israeli identity card, entered one of Jerusalem's elite Rabbinical academies, known as Mercaz Harav.  He carried a package into the unguarded building where rooms full of young boys in their early to late teens sat pouring over the pages of the Talmud.  Some of them had just returned from the kotel.  They were waiting for the festive evening - marking the beginning of the joyous month of Adar, the month of the holiday of Purim- to begin.

The terrorist headed for the library. He opened his package. Inside was a gun and so many rounds of ammunition that security forces at first thought it was a suicide belt because of its enormous weight.  He saw young, unarmed yeshiva students learning Torah and he opened fire at point blank range.  In a room nearby, some older students heard the shots.  At first they thought it might be firecrackers to welcome in the month of Adar.  And then they heard the screams.  Somehow, about twenty of them were able to rush out of the library and barricade themselves in another room.  They heard the shots and the screams.  They watched the shadow of the terrorist as he walked to and fro, silencing the moans of the wounded with further shots.  They waited, expecting to be killed at any moment. 

A yeshiva student in the dormitories, hearing the shots, took his personal weapon and opened fire on the terrorist, wounding him. From across the street, a former student of the yeshiva, a paratrooper and an officer, took his weapon and ran across the street.  Because of his familiarity with the yeshiva, he was able to find the exact angle from which to fire at the rampaging murderer, shooting him in the head, and putting an end to the carnage.  He did this at great personal risk.

So far, we in Jerusalem are hearing reports that eight boys are dead, and many more are injured, some of them seriously. We are hearing reports that the Hamas is giving out candy and rejoicing in Gaza.  Hamas leaders are proud of this "hero."

This is the kind of heroes that Muslims have.  The kind that kill young unarmed students at point blank range.  May G-d avenge their blood.

CAROLINE GLICK: (More here)

I heard the ambulance sirens wailing from my window and from the sheer quantity it was clear that something terrible had just happened. I checked the internet and saw an initial report relating that one student at Mercaz Harav Yeshiva was wounded. And I knew that it was a massacre. That’s how it always starts.

The police claim that they had received no intelligence information warning of an impending attack in the capital. But there were several indications that one was about to occur. On Saturday night I was walking in a park above the Old City at dusk. Suddenly a crowd of Arab teenagers appeared and started yelling Allah Akhbar. My big, barking dog scared them away. They were not serious but they were the harbinger of what came next.

Two days later mobs of Arabs attacked Jewish motorists in the city and nearly lynched two municipal inspectors whose car they assaulted with rocks and crow bars while trying to force them out of their vehicle. The pair escaped by the skin of their teeth as they swerved out of range and managed to drive away. I hate to think what would have happened if the Fatah-incited mob had attacked their tires instead of their windshield

Between Iran, Egypt, Syria, Hamas, Hizbullah, Fatah and the Israeli Arab leadership, the incitement level this week was so high, that the violence level crossed a Rubicon. It was only a question of when and where the bullets and bombs would start exploding not whether or not they would.

So the Palestinian Arabs and their friends have decided to murder Jews studying Torah in Jerusalem. They decided to go to the heart of the religious Zionist movement and open fire knowing the sort of passions such an attack will provoke. Apparently the terrorist was a Jerusalemite. One television channel reported that he lived in Jabel Mukhaber – a neighborhood abutting Armon HaNatziv. Not surprising.

The third stage of the Palestinian jihad against Israel has been germinating for months and now it is taking off. And the role that Israeli Arabs will play in this round will likely be an expanded one.

I have a theory I have been working on regarding the applicability of the US counter-insurgency campaign in Iraq to Israel’s war with the Palestinians. More and more I am reaching the conclusion that the place to launch a serious, directed hearts and minds operation is not among the Arabs of Gaza, Judea and Samaria, but among Israeli Arabs. They have to be given an opportunity and a reason to abandon their jihadist leaders and discredit them. They are the Arab population most open to such a campaign.

Eight yeshiva students murdered while studying Torah in Jerusalem. And Olmert, Livni, Condi, Bush and all their friends and supporters want to give these people Jerusalem. What do they see when they look in the mirror?

UPDATE: YidwithLid, my heart is heavy.Rachel Weeps For Her Children in Jerusalem

Turkey and Iran: Genocide Redux?

The Islamist President Gul of Turkey is joining the old Islamist President of Iran,
to further the new nexus of evil. Oh the evil that men do.
Genocide is genocide and while it may not be politically expedient to finally speak the truth about the Armenian genocide, if not now when?

Turkey Forms Alliance With Iran Against Kurds Ken Timmerman Newsmax

U.S. ally Turkey and U.S. arch-enemy Iran have formed a military alliance to drive opposition Kurds from bases in northern Iraq they have used since 2004 to launch guerrilla operations inside Iran, rebel leaders told Newsmax at a secret base in the Qandil mountains.

Both Iran and Turkey have vowed to send troops into northern Iraq, but until now evidence of active military cooperation between them has remained a closely-held secret.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stepped up political and diplomatic threats in recent days, telling the United States he would cut off U.S. access to the strategic Incirlik airbase in eastern Turkey if the U.S. tried to prevent Turkey from sending troops against the Kurdish bases in northern Iraq.

Read it all.

Kurds Blame Iran for Terror in Iraq

This is the Iran's modus operandi. Iran uses proxies to wage war. Hamas, Hezb'Allah, Syria, Peloshia  - all Iranian proxies. This what they do.

Leading Kurd Blames Iran for Terror in Iraq - Eli Lake
While Iran's connection to Sunni Islamist terrorism is hotly debated in Washington, it is not disputed in Iraqi Kurdistan which borders Iran. In an interview Tuesday, the director of the security ministry for Sulaimaniya province, Sarkawt Hassan Jalal, said he has no doubt Iran is helping send Sunni jihadists into his territory. He listed the five border towns on the Iranian side where he says they are based: Mariwan, Pejwan, Bokan, Sina, and Serdai. For General Jalal, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's original group, known as Tawhid and Jihad, was sent by the Iranians and al-Qaeda to attack the Kurds and Americans. "Iran is at the top of the terrorism in all the world. There will be peace in the world when you change the authorities in Iran," he concluded. (New York Sun)

REDRAW MAPS DESPITE CAIR'S SQUEALING

“We are dealing with colossal, man-made deformities that will not stop generating hatred and violence until they are corrected. As for those who refuse to ‘think the unthinkable’, declaring that boundaries must not change and that’s that, it pays to remember that boundaries have never stopped changing through the centuries. Borders have never been static, and many frontiers, from Congo through Kosovo to the Caucasus, are changing even now. Ethnic cleansing works.” Ralph Peters

Got my CAIR alert and they are apoplectic. Why the hissy fit? Redrawn maps - much needed I'd say. Big time.  And while I refrain from using Arabic media as sources because they are so notoriously dishonest and controlled by Arabists and Islamists, this piece was too good to be true. And  just last week  Ralph Peter touched on this very thing here (briefly albeit) so much of it rings true.

Muslims alarmed over redrawn map for Islamic world 

WASHINGTON • Muslim circles have expressed alarm and disgust at the publication of a redrawn map of the Islamic world in a journal closely linked to the US armed forces.

The Armed Forces Journal, which has published the redrawn map of the world of Islam along with a long explanatory article, is published by the Army Times Publishing Company, a part of Gannett Company, Inc, the world’s largest publisher of professional military and defence periodicals.

The proposed scheme places Pakistan on the chopping block. According to the plan, “Iran, a state with madcap boundaries, would lose a great deal of territory to Unified Azerbaijan, Free Kurdistan, the Arab Shia State and Free Balochistan, but would gain the provinces around Herat in today’s Afghanistan — a region with a historical and linguistic affinity for Persia.

“Iran would, in effect, become an ethnic Persian state again, with the most difficult question being whether or not it should keep the port of Bandar Abbas or surrender it to the Arab Shia State.

“What Afghanistan would lose to Persia in the west, it would gain in the east, as Pakistan’s North-west Frontier tribes would be reunited with their Afghan brethren Pakistan, another unnatural state, would also lose its Baloch territory to Free Balochistan. The remaining ‘natural’ Pakistan would lie entirely east of the Indus, except for a westward spur near Karachi. “The city-states of the UAE would have a mixed fate — as they probably will in reality. Some might be incorporated in the Arab Shia State ringing much of the Persian Gulf … Since all puritanical cultures are hypocritical, Dubai, of necessity, would be allowed to retain its playground status for rich debauchees. Kuwait would remain within its current borders, as would Oman.”

The redrawn map claims to “redress the wrongs suffered by the most significant ‘cheated’ population groups, such as the Kurds, Baloch and Arab Shia, but still fail to account adequately for Middle Eastern Christians, Bahais, Ismailis, Naqshbandis and many another numerically lesser minorities.”

Give the Kurds a state already!

It adds that “one haunting wrong can never be redressed with a reward of territory: The genocide perpetrated against the Armenians by the dying Ottoman Empire.”

The Kurds and The Jews Must UNITE

My dear Kurdish friends, do you not see a similarity between how Arabs have viewed your aspirations and rights in the age of nationalism and how they view that of the Jews? Recall that one-half of Israel’s Jewish population are refugee families from that allegedly “ purely Arab patrimony,” and another million of these folks fled to France, the Americas, and elsewhere.

Like the Kurdish child forced to sing songs in Syria praising his Arab identity, Jews also had to consent to a forced Arabization in order to just survive.

Time to rethink alliances. Israel and a future Kurdistan have a lot in common -  Gerald Honigman makes the argument here

Call it a civil war or not as of yet, a unified Iraq’s days are numbered. It’s a matter of just how much longer America is willing to bleed its economy and its blood.

And, my Kurdish friends, if you believe the Shi’a have your own best interests close to their hearts, guess again. But you are not that foolish. And we already know quite well what Sunni Arabs think about your cause. We’ve had close to a century of those lessons.

I guess I can understand some of you distancing yourselves from Israel, the Jew of the Nations.

You have to live, after all, amongst those who have already proclaimed that the birth of Kurdistan would be viewed as that of another Israel.

And Israel, at times, has also distanced itself from you--largely in order to appease its powerful on again, off again Muslim friends, the Turks. I’m not thrilled about that. While the Turks have no trouble demanding a 22nd state for Arabs--and second one for them in “Palestine” (Jordan already created in 1922 from the bulk of the original 1920 mandate), they expect everyone, including Israel, to oppose Kurdish aspirations for a sole state of their own.

Now, when the Arabs’ Anfal campaign to eradicate your people a few decades past is again at least being mentioned (but certainly not showcased as it should), the gassed Kurdish children of Anfal and those of the Jews at Auschwitz share this other nasty thing in common. They were both targeted for genocide because of who they were.

Think of the charges that have been brought against Israel because of its war against Hizbullah--an organization which hijacked a nation and which is dedicated to Israel’s destruction.

Disproportionate force we have constantly heard.

Truth be told, if killing Arabs was all that Israel wanted to do, with the amount of bombs and such dropped, there would not be one Arab left by now in the targeted areas. Israel tried as hard as possible--given the fact that Hizbullah, like Hamas & Co., habitually uses their own people as human shields--to limit the loss of innocent life. But I believe you already know this.

So, what’s next?

Demand your rights when the inevitable comes. Do not settle for less this time.

The hard-won autonomy you have must be solidified.

Hopefully, my own country will come to its senses--despite the Arabists too often in control at the State Department--and realize that the one best shot at furthering American values in the region lies with the creation of a strong Kurdish state, willing to live in peace with its neighbors, but also able to deflect their aggression. As Israel has been a haven for Jews seeking freedom and safety, open your even larger doors to your own oppressed brethren elsewhere.

Amazing how the State department has enabled the worst despots in modern history in interest of expediency.

Don’t foment turmoil amid Kurdish populations in Iran, Turkey, and Syria, for this will backfire both on yourselves in Iraq and your brothers across the borders. Having said this, you should not shy away for demanding civil rights for those folks. Those who seek to live in an independent Kurdish state will have--like Jews with Israel--a place to go to.

While Ahmadinejad sets up cartoon exhibitions denying the Holocaust and demanding Israel’s destruction allegedly for Arab rights, he continues to butcher Azeris, Kurds, Baluchis, and Arabs in his own country for the crime of demanding their own rights in Iran.

I dare dream a dream…Are you ready? Here it goes…

America sets up bases in the Kurdish north--with your consent, of course. Like Incerlik in Turkey.

It trains and equips a powerful Kurdish military, equipped with the same state of the art weapons it supplies to Arab despots.

While the Arabs blow each other apart to the south and Iran plots its long-awaited revenge, an economically, politically, and militarily secure Kurdish state emerges in the only area in Iraq that has any real chance at stability…your own.

I see a future alliance between the forces of peace and tolerance…Israel and Free Kurdistan.

While I would like to include others in this as well, the sad fact is that even in the so-called moderate Arab countries, most are still just biding their time and have still not reconciled to the fact that other peoples, besides Arabs, are entitled to a slice of national dignity in the region…especially since those folks have suffered under Arab rule. And for those who claim that all was well for Jews until they dared dream that dream spoken of earlier, I have not one but two bridges to sell you. The Sorbonne’s Tunisian Jewish professor, Albert Memmi, and the Egyptian Jewess, Bat Ye’or (dhimmitude), are essential reading on this topic. As with Kurds, Jews were simply expected to submit and accept Arab subjugation and Arabization.

Together our peoples hold the promise for a better future for all in the region. Hopefully, others will eventually join us in building that better tomorrow for all.

Impossible, you say? The Jew’s King Solomon had an alliance with Hiram from Phoenicia--Lebanon--millennia before the Arabs’ Caliphal imperialist armies conquered both lands (around the same time they took yours as well). The Temple of Jerusalem was built from Hiram’s cedars.

An Israeli child is born with the expectation that he or she will help heal and bring good to the world…including to those who seek only to destroy. I wish I could say the same for the Arab child. Too often the latter is seen as a potential human bomb to blow up those who simply want a small slice of the same rights Arabs demand so much of for themselves. Arafat loved to call the Arab mother his best weapon.

Sadly, for the Arab, there are too many Darfurs, Anfals, and such--in both the past and the present--for this self-centered, subjugating, intolerant behavior to be mere coincidence.

And, my dear Kurdish friends, both of our peoples deserve something better.

Think of the potential in the days, months, and years which lie ahead.

Read it all.

UPDATE: More on Turk oppression here hat tip saratoga

The Turkish government - which is openly islamist and expressed support for the rioting islamists in Paris last fall - has confiscated 1,200 children's books bound for the Kurdish province, and is planning to burn them. They want each and every copy read and certified by Turkish interpreters, to assure that the books do not contain any "insult against Turkey". The books are by Swedish authors like Astrid Lindgren and tell stories about, e.g., Pippi Longstocking. Obviously, only a kook would suspect that these books contain any "insult against Turkey", so the only explanation is that Turkey's islamist government is showing its version of respect for freedom of speech by confiscating and threatening to burn the books.

As someone once said: he who is willing to burn books will eventually burn humans.

IRAN, TURKEY INVADE IRAQ TO KILL KURDS

WATCH THIS VIDEO. Iran and Turkey have been crushing, murdering these people. Iran's brutality towards the Kurds is well documented.

Turkey and Iran Raid Northern Iraq
Both Turkey and Iran have been launching military raids into northern Iraq against the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), labeled a terrorist group by the U.S., Britain, and the EU. Turkey recently launched a massive military operation involving more than 250,000 troops against the PKK in the mountains along Turkey's borders with Iran and Iraq. Extensive incursions into northern Iraq have been reported.
    Iran, meanwhile, has begun attacks on PKK units based in Iran, and the Iranian military has entered Iraqi territory in hot pursuit of PKK militants.The PKK's violence all but ceased after its leader Abdullah Ocelan was arrested in 1998, but it resumed activities in June 2004.

The  PKK started out wrong.  No question.  But now the imprisoned leader has called for an end to the armed conflict. We should send someone to meet with them and lay down the law.  Eliminate all terror actions or you will get crushed.  But we also have to lay down the law to the Turkey.

I am not advocating acts of terror but the PKK are abandoning their armed struggle and need to be brought into the political process to promote equality and respect for minorities.  The PKK needs to develop a more civilian political movement designed to communicate with the rest of the world.  There must be a complete end to all terrorist activities. The PKK want  the problems to be resoved politically and democratically, through dialogue. Why aren't we negotiating a cease-fire here?

REGIME CHANGE IRAN AND FREE THE KURDS!

The leftists here in America sit at their fine tables, eat at their favorite Beverly Hills boites, or Manhattan bistro harangue Bush and his cabinet of warriors, keep the lower classes from shopping at Wal-Mart because they know what's best. While under the guise of their self perceived good work, women, children live under the most barbaric of tyrannic rule, rape, slavery. Howard Dean compared President Bush to the president of Iran made an appearance on the ABC's 'Good Morning America' on Thursday here.

Did we once hear from the left of the real good that was done for the women and children of Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa? Or the unspeakable crimes against humanity in Iran here.

The wouldn't give a laser removed hair off their finely coiffed heads about the unspeakable wretched lives to those living under the boot of Islamic rule. Do they even think about women setting themselves on fire just to escape their intolerable existence.

No, but I am sure they are sweating what booth they are getting at 44.

Iran: Self-Immolation Of Kurdish Women Brings Concern  

[...]more than 150 Kurdish women who have committed suicide in the past nine months, the majority of them by setting themselves on fire. Observers and activists say self-immolation of women is also happening in some other Western provinces of Iran that have large Kurdish populations, such as Ilam, Kermanshah, and Kurdistan. Domestic violence, social injustice, and discrimination are cited as the main reasons for self- immolation among women.

Traditional Life

Mohammadi tells RFE/RL that due to conservative traditions and social restrictions, women in her region have little hope in life and often a grim future.

"Desperation is the main reason for the self-immolation [of women]," she continued. "Women face more pressure in a traditional society and in our region because of deprivations and the rule of [old] traditions this pressure has become much stronger. Women in our region are seen as 'second class' citizens. The economic situation of women is a main factor; they are totally dependent on men and also the laws of our country are such that the courts never protect women."

The Kurdistan Human Rights Organization has said that for many women in the region, burning oneself is an outcry against the "patriarchal system" that rules the society and also against the abuse of their basic rights.

"I think that women do not want to really commit suicide but they want, in fact, to make their cry for help to be heard and say that they are facing injustice," he said. "They use this means, [even though] it is the worst form of suicide.

Education needed Read it all here

I think as the Middle East hurls itself into the 21st Century, we ought to give the Kurds a state, a secular, non Islamic theocratic state. Free the  long suffering Kurds already.
 

Killing Kurds

They are killing Kurds in Iran, in Turkey, ........they deserve a state.

"Turkish state not helping Kurds dying from flu" Read here

Due to extreme poverty, many [Kurds] have chosen to eat their sick animals rather than bury them in lime pits. Several residents said Turkish authorities had failed to properly inform the Kurdish-speaking community about what bird flu is and how it spreads to humans.

From Policybyblog; Bird Flu: Those two words are getting major big media coverage and government attention.

Here is one item covered by the BBC of a few days ago.

Two teenagers in Turkey have died of bird flu, Turkish officials say, in the first cases outside South-East Asia.

CNN reported: "TURKISH BOY" dies from Bird Flu.

CBS: Also, now, as of today reported a third death in the same family.

MSNBC reports new cases in the Turkish capital.

The stories are treated as a medical item. Important--but nonpolitical. But there is one factor missing. Southeastern Turkey is a Kurdish region.

Why is this vital information?

Vladimir "van Wilgenburg" a young Dutch student and journalist blogs "From Holland to Kurdistan," independently studying news from the Kurdish region of Iraq and the Kurdish lands in Iran, Syria and Turkey. He reveals an important detail of the Bird Flu story: The first family hit by the flu and the deaths were ethnic Kurds, a people long persecuted by the Turkish government.

Like I said, give these guys their state........

Hmmmm, Israel and Iran, Quel Difference!

And now for one of your favorite features: The week in Wipe-Israel-off-the-map Iran vs. the week in Israel

Iran Building Nukes in Underground Locations
Iran has built, with the help of North Korea, dozens of underground tunnels and facilities for the construction of nuclear-capable missiles, Alireza Jafardazeh, a former spokesman for the Iranian opposition National Council of the Resistance of Iran, said Monday in Washington. Jafarzadeh described an "extensive large-scale operation" for the development of nuclear-capable missiles "in the most sophisticated, hidden way" in tunnels in a mountain range east of Tehran.

"Ms. Rice is delusional if she thinks she can say hello to Ahmadinejad"

A Kurdish journalist sewed his mouth up in the Marivaan Prison

Tabriz News – Human Rights Service: Maad’deh Ahmadi, imprisoned Kurdish journalist who is incarcerated in Marivaan Prison sewed his mouth up after announcing that he was going on hunger strike. Ahmadi who is from Sanandadj was arrested during the July/August uprisings in Kurdistan and sent to prison. He began his hunger strike in order to protest the voiding of his bail.

Blogger and political prisoners being framed and threatened by regime

 The Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners
Family members of imprisoned political activist blogger, Mojtaba Saminejad  report that the blogger is being framed by the regime. One of the charges being leveled against him is the distribution of the telephone number of what the regime now labels “the Committee for the Defense of Swines and Critters” (referring to the Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners). Saminejad announced that this charge is an open attack on all political prisoners and said that he will expose this in a written complaint against the authorities of the prisons. The Student Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners while condemning these types of fabrications and the defilement of the honor of the political prisoners expressed grave concern for the conditions under which Saminejad is being held.

Also  Behrooz Javid-Tehrani  was transferred out of Rejaishahr prison to the Tehran revolutionary court. According to reports from reliable sources, the deputy public prosecutor threatened Javid-Tehrani with being “transferred to a much worse place, if he does not stop his hunger strike.”On Thursday, Nov. 17th, an unidentified person contacted the family of Khaled Hardani and threatened the entire family, saying that if Hardani continues his “activities” in prison, he will surely be executed. 

A worker from Esfahan self-immolates in front of the Islamic Parliament’s Assembly

AFTAB, the regime-run site reports that Qolam-Hossein Qorbaani, a worker from Esfahan who was among the protestors gathered in front of the Islamic Parliament’s Assembly in Tehran self-immolated on Thursday, Nov. 17th.  He arrived in Tehran from Esfahan and joined the protestors on October 21st; his complaints and requests to speak with Kamran, the representative from Esfahan had been ignored day after day.

Qorbaani who had serious financial problems, set himself on fire in front of Kamran’s office; one of Kamran’s employee however came to his rescue. Qorbaani was rushed to the hospital with 80% burns all over his body. He is not expected to survive.

Reports of more executions of gay men in Iran prompted an international gay rights group to renew its call for the United Nations to investigate and hold Iran accountable for possible human rights violations. Earlier in the month another young man was hanged in a town square in northern Iran, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

"We are alarmed at these latest hangings and call for an immediate investigation by the U.N. and national human rights monitors," said Paula Ettelbrick, executive director of the IGLHRC. "It's clear that a pattern is emerging in which young men are executed as couples and that the crimes they allegedly committed always involve some form of sexual assault of another male."

Members of the regime’s information and security forces in provinces arrested FARDA, Ahamdinejad’s site reports that several of the directors and authorities of the regime’s information and security forces in one of Iran’s central provinces have been arrested and charged with accepting bribes and being involved in numerous cases of kidnapping [of rich people] for the ransom money. The defendants who set baits such as setting up managers and directors of wealthy companies prostitutes and then with fake arrest warrants they would arrest warrants would arrest and then under the guise of “bail” would charge them enormous amounts of money in order to be released.

“Israel must be wiped off the map” is an appropriate motto and promotes Imam’s tenets Khamnei’s newspaper in an article written on Monday, Nov. 21st both criticized Ahmadinejad for his attempt to reestablish ties with the government of Egypt and praised him for the appropriate comments about “wiping Israel off the map”.

“The Imam’s (Khomeini) tenets has obligations and anyone who considers him or herself to be a follower of the ‘line of the Imam’ is bound to those obligations. The Presidents motto is not only appropriate but it is faithful to and promotes the Imam’s tenets, that said, the president should not make any ‘Camp David’ type of attempts to reestablish relations with Cairo just now. If this administration has any ‘talents’ it should be in forcing Hosni Mubarak to apologize for signing the dread Camp David accord, then it should be they who should extend themselves for reestablishing political relations.”

Mullah Jannati: “Non-Muslims are varmint that roam around the earth and spread corruption”

The regime-run news website, ENTEKHAAB reports that Mullah Jannati, the Secretary General of the Guardian Council of the Islamic regime said: “Non-Muslims are varmint that roam around the earth and spread corruption.” Jannati, whom in his speech was hoping to encourage the young Basijis to get involved in suicide missions or martyrdom-seeking operations against non-Muslims continued: “If there is a rule like this Islamic rule that stands steadfast and true, it’s due to the martyrs. We owe it all to them. If it weren’t for them our youth would never have been so entrenched in this magnificent Islamic spirit.  When the youth saw that a rule such as the Islamic rule which is positively involved in selfless service exists, they became excited beyond description and rushed to vote so that they can invest in a regime that wants to revive the pageantry of Islamic war.”

The regime’s new crimes in the town of Mahabad, Kurdistan Reports from Mahabad (province of Kurdistan) indicate that the regime’s agents have once again begun another reign of terror on the residents of this town. On Sunday, Nov. 20th at 10 AM a 27-year-old man, Sheerkou Amini, son of Ali Bob, resident of the town of Mahabad was shot and killed by the regime’s agents. A native of Mahabad explained that during the summer protests in Mahabad, Sheerkou Amini had been arrested by the regime’s agents and released after a while; he was however rearrested and after having been brutally tortured for a few weeks was dropped off in front of his house 6 days ago.

On Sunday morning, Sheerkou had gone for a walk in one of Mahabad’s neighborhoods where he was accosted by one of the regime’s agents manning the new area command center. Another agent who was in a distance heard the insults and saw the escalating argument between the guard and Sheerkou. The first agent who was involved in the fight with Sheerkou, then shot him 3 times, at which point, his colleague approached and opening fire, sprayed Sheerkou with bullets as well.

The locals immediately rushed to the scene; Sheerkou died on his way to the hospital. The enraged crowd then gathered in front of the command center and began protesting.

Sheerkou’s family was denied the right to collect their loved one’s lifeless body. This lead to the family and neighbor’s immediate condemnation and demand on the governor to release the Sheerkou’s corpse.

Three youths sentenced to prison and flogging for being “unruly”  

The official regime newspaper, KAYHAN reported the sentencing of 3 youths described as “unruly”, to prison and flogging. The newspaper wrote: “With the verdict of the court these individuals were sentenced to 6 months in prison, 74 lashed each and being paraded and brandished in various areas around town.”

In the midst of the political tumult of the regime a number of Iranian oil experts, left Iran. MEHR, the regime-run news agency reported: “During recent weeks several of the petroleum experts from various oil companies such as Pars Optimum Tuning Fuel, oil and Gas. The fact that the Ministry of Oil does not enjoy the leadership of a qualified minister has led many of the projects that were being researched and developed to fold and collapse, leaving the employees wandering and dismayed with no choice but to emigrate.”

Three people executed for raping an Islamic a novitiate seminarian

According to the regime-run newspaper, IRAN, 3 imprisoned Kermanshahi youths Eunis, Hossein and Ruhollah who had worked as haulers were found guilty of “molesting the dignity of a 19 year old” and were executed by hanging at the Deezelabad prison, in the city of Kermanshah at midnight on Friday, Nov. 18th.

This newspaper has not offered more information regarding this item however a while back, KAYHAN, the official regime newspaper reported of a scuffle between 3 men and a 19 year old seminarian.

The item viciously read: “When a group of hoodlums and misfits(from Kermanshah who found their debate with an enlightened young regarding the value of Islam, impotent, they raped him out of their frustration. However Allah does not abandon it’s obedient children and in the name of these soldiers, strikes down and smites their violators.”

Provided by Iran Press News

Update November 24th
ISRAELINSIDER: ISRAEL THINK TANK: IRAN PLAYING FOR TIME ON NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENT (no surprise here but still frightening - Atlas)
The European Union has agreed to give Iran more time to negotiate on its nuclear program in a move that postpones taking Tehran to the UN Security Council for violating non-proliferation safeguards here. [These guys are suicidal -lunatics, Atlas]

And more breaking developments fom Regime Change Iran: 

ABC News reported that Iran has built, with the help of North Korea, dozens of underground tunnels and facilities for the construction of nuclear-capable missiles.

Sounds like more proof of President Bush's axis of evil - Atlas

Newsweek reported on this week's Iran/Iraq memorandum of understanding to cooperate on sensitive intelligence-sharing matters.

and now for a brief glimpse at their neighbor Israel;

Israeli pulmonary imaging technology lets you breathe easier     'This is the first completely novel medical technology in the world in the last 30 years,' says the CEO of Deep Breeze Medical, which has developed a breakthrough non-invasive pulmonary imaging technology that helps clinicians diagnose, assess and treat various respiratory conditions ranging from asthma to emphysema. Come learn about the biggest thing since the ultrasound. More...

Global Democracy | High-level dialogue strengthens US-Israel relationship    Current and former US leaders and policy makers participated last week in events marking the 10th anniversary of the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. But the visits had another focus that brought them beyond ceremony: a dialogue on shared concerns aimed at deepening the relationship between the US and Israel. More...

Technology | Israeli sensor technology understands time differently    Nexense's super-sensor technology is being customized by companies like Timex, General Electric and the Sealy Corporation to create products which can help notify a family member if a loved one is in distress, or reduce loss of sleep due to snoring - the secret is all in the measurement. Coming soon to a mattress near you. More...

Profiles | Stepping out with Ivri Lider    A testament to the country's progressive cultural diversity, Israel's pop prince Ivri Lider is a star who happens to be gay - not a gay star. With gold albums, sold out concerts and chart-topping film scores to his credit, the talented Lider is also making a name for himself in North America.  More...

Culture | Turning olive oil into an olive branch    The burgeoning olive oil industry in Israel is creating cooperation and partnerships between Jews, Moslems, Christians and Druse who share a passion for growing olives and making olive oil - an endeavor that is both a centuries-old tradition and big business. More...

Global Democracy | Israel and Georgia create a peach of a business environment

Culture | American and Israeli students show that all the world's a stage

Technology |Getting your MBA - the Israeli way

Global Democracy | Women leaders gather in Israel to combat crime of trafficking

Technology | Weizmann Institute chosen world's top university for life scientists

Health | Israeli vaccine could provide universal answer to flu epidemics

Technology | Israeli 'clean' solution insures drinking water is disinfected

Israel's humanitarian rescue missions abroad

Israel's high tech frontier

A Jerusalem mosaic
Amos Kamil
Hospital emergency rooms are the great equalizer of Israeli society.

The annual 'once in a lifetime' experience
Azriel Ganz
Discovering Israel via the 'Wheels of Love' charity bike ride for the Alyn Hospital.

Take responsibility for the world's poor
Einat Wilf
Israel has an opportunity to play an important role in eradicating poverty.

And did you know the Weizmann Institute of Science has been voted the best university in the world for life scientists to conduct research?

Sad how Israel must justify her right to exist. - Atlas

November 24th: Israeli PM Ariel Sharon chooses Kadima, Hebrew for forward, as his new party's name. Sharon's new party to meet in Tel Aviv

Israel Emerges as the Go-To Country for Anti-Terrorism Technologies - Susan Karlin
Israel, by necessity, has become the hotbed for counterterrorism research. Innovating well out of proportion to its size, Israel has spawned companies selling guns that shoot around corners, software that translates dog barks into English-language warnings, and lasers that can detect explosives from 100 feet away. Working their way through labs now are intelligent robotic cameras, and nanolasers and nuclear resonance imagers to detect chemical and bioweapons.

Iraq Ad Campaign: Thank You America

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"The United States has never wavered in its quest to help Iraqis build a democracy that rewards compromise and consensus. The ever generous American people have paid a tragic price, the lives of their finest men and women, to advance the banner of freedom and democracy, a sacrifice for which we are profoundly grateful. "H.E. Masoud Barzabi, President, Kurdistan Region in Iraq
Watch all of the ads here

hat tip: Cirque, hawk

UPDATE November 10th:

KAREZGAY PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Chief Master Sgt. Debra Ballentine, 455th Expeditionary Mission Support Group superintendent, helps distribute school supplies during an Adopt-A-Village visit here Nov. 3. Chief Ballentine and other Airmen participating in the ongoing Global War on Terrorism at nearby Bagram Air Field took time to spread some cheer and share smiles with the people of Afghanistan as part of the humanitarian relief effort. More than 1,200 pounds of winter clothes, blankets, school supplies and toys were distributed to the local village. Chief Ballentine, a native of Lacey, Wash., is deployed to Bagram from Travis Air Force Base, Calif. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Staff Sgt. Marcus McDonald)

Syria: The Good News and The Bad

The Good News?

Syria: Interior Minister Commits Suicide
AP via Yahoo! News Syria's interior minister, one of several top officials caught up in the U.N. investigation into the slaying of Lebanon's former prime minister, died Wednesday. The country's official news agency said he committed suicide in his office.

I am sure he was murdered and is supposed to be the fall guy for the Hariri murder but we  know that and won't be fooled right?

The Bad News?

Four Kurds jailed in Syria AFP via Yahoo!
Syria's state security court sentenced four Kurds to two-and-a-half year jail terms for belonging to "a secret organization".

The "secret organization"? The four are members of the Democratic Union Party, a banned Kurdish party in Syria. This is the usual accusation against any Kurd who appears before this court," Badr said Sunday.

"It has no basis because all Kurdish parties are asking for a democratic and just solution to the Kurdish problem in the framework of Syria's territorial unity."

Kurdish leaders in Syria deny any secessionist aims and say they only want their language, culture and political rights to be recognized by the government.

About 1.5 million Kurds live in Syria, where they make up about nine percent of the population

The Kurds deserve our unequivocal support, the Kurds deserve our respect, the Kurds deserve a homeland.  If history has taught us anything its that funding our enemies does not work. These guys are our friends. Big time. Their bravery, loyalty, downright "menschiness" is Iraq is equal to those of Israel.

Stop sacrificing these people. It's time we backed them. Out loud. They have been on the receiving end of Radical Islamofascism for too long and suffered untold horrors. Never bitter, they rise to the occasion every time. Their annihilation must end.

AFP/File Photo:        Kurdish woman waving a picture of Iraqi President Jalal..

WE Must Save the Kurds, Anything less is Unconscionable

Turkish nationalists lynch Kurdish demonstrators, Turkish police watch

Tensions began on Sunday morning when Kurdish demonstrators in Istanbul threw stones and firebombs during a rally to protest the solitary confinement of imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan.

Later, paramilitary police blocked thousands of other pro-Kurdish demonstrators from reaching the northwestern port town of Gemlik to stage an unauthorised demonstration. The port is used by Ocalan's lawyers to travel to the prison island of Imrali, where the rebel leader is the only inmate.

Paramilitary troops stopped dozens of buses packed with demonstrators before they could reach Gemlik, in the western province of Bursa.

Turkish police stopped and turned back tens of thousands of Kurds heading with buses towards Gemlik in western Turkey to carry out a gigantic peaceful demonstration in support of the Kurdish national leader Abdullah Ocalan.

the story gets Worse.....................

Turkish-Iranian bombarding of villages in the Kurdistan-Iraq

Turkish and Iranian forces have bombarded a number of border villages in the region between the north of Iraq, and Iran and Turkey. [Kurdistan]

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The weekly Hawlati newspaper (Independent Kurdish Newspaper) stated that the Turkish-Iranian bombarding of these villages has led to severe physical damages in them.

The newspaper pointed out that the Turkish bombarding of Bishon village, which is affiliated to Bairan in the north of Iraq [Kurdistan], which took place the day before yesterday, has led to the eruption of a great fire in the forests in the region.

On the other hand, the Iranian bombarding of Nazadagh region, near Khwakork Mountain has led to severe physical damages in the village and the death of a great number of cattle that the villagers are raising.

This is the deliberate targeting of a civilian village.  Let's not kid ourselves into thinking that the Iranians have real precise weaponry.  Even if they were targeting specific terrorists holed up in a village, they have to know that they are going to create a whole lot of collateral damage.  But Americans didn't do it so the terror nation gets a free pass.  The blogosphere needs to wake up on this.

 

As I have said before, I will not give a free pass to the PKK guys who run around and plant bombs where civilians could easily be killed.  Terrorism is terrorism.  It isn't noble.  It isn't moral.  It is never justified.  Perhaps the Turks and Iranians have good reason to clamp down on some elements who are committing acts of violence against the citizenry.  But let's always remember who these governments are and what they stand for.  They don't use violence to protect freedoms.  They use violence to oppress people and stop freedom.

 

If this report is true, where are the TV cameras?  A people of 30 million are being targeted and held back from freedom.  Yet the Palestinian terror state gets all the media.  This is just wrong.  The Bush Administration should be pushed to comment on this report.  And I mean PUSHED.  The same country that is interfering with the formation of a legitimate government in Iraq is bombing villages.  The same country that has sponsored the killing of US servicemen in Iraq is bombing a village.  The same country that is building secret nuclear programs and is backed by Russia and Germany in the UN is bombing a village.  And the Turks want to join the EU.  How many EU member states bombed a village today?  People need to be held to account.

 

This is why the Kurds should have independence.  They deserve the right to defend themselves.  With those rights, come responsibilities.  It will be up to the Kurds to show the world they can handle those responsibilities.  The unelected Iranian Mullahs have shown the world they can't.

 

Tim

and WTF is the kidnapped Dr. Roya Toloui...............where are the feminazis when you really need them?

Jailed Women's Rights Activist Needs Your Help

Dr. Roya Toloui, a champion of the rights of Iran's Kurdish minority and of women was detained from her home in Sanandaj on August 2. She is reported to be facing charges of "disturbing the peace" and "acting against national security." 'Human Rights First' is calling for her immediate and unconditional release from detention.

"Everyone suspected that the election of Ahmedinejad [Iran] would bring this kind of evil to Kurdistan, but why did they have to be right? "

................moaned  a blogger on a Kurdish website;

While the left and the feminists rail against Bush and the Bush doctrine, grave, terrible crimes against humanity go unpunished. Women suffer horribly under sharia. Child rape, human trafficking, the litany of abuses are mind blowing.
While Hollywood makes inane ridiculous movies that are nothing short of an insult to our intelligence, our youth are distracted. Playing in  sandbox of delusion while historical, life altering events continue apace across the free world.

Where is our moral fiber? Where is our moral compass? What kind of shmucks have we given the keys to our national psyche?

Eisenhower upon leaving presidential office warned us to beware the "military industrial complex". I say beware the "entertainment/media industrial complex". How can this group of influence peddlers abandon the very thing the makes America the great human experiment that she is. The war between good and evil has never been so blatant. So easy to see, understand and yet we stand around and continue to contemplate the illogical, irrational arguments of the left.

Hollywood should be telling the stories of our war heros (see sidebar) and rallying around the great fight for freedom, much the way Old Hollywood did during World War II. Instead they are polluting our fine young minds with tripe, and t & a, and punked, utter nonsense.

How can we ignore the patently obvious?

These pictures are but a small glimpse into the barbarism being exacted on the Kurds in Iran. The Kurds have been our great ally in Iraq. They are rising up in Iran and getting slaughtered. WE CANNOT, MUST NOT turn a blind eye. Outside it's America.....................

"America must not repeat its shameful policies of the past which have treated our Kurdish friends worse than Arabs who deliberately blow us apart. The same State Department, which rejected the Jews' right to a state in 1948, continues to see justice only through Arab eyes regarding the Kurds as well. "

"Too many Kurds have died as a result of such justice for Arabs only double standards. The Foggy Folks have already repeatedly told stateless Kurds that they dare not dream of the same thing that those very same Foggy Folks demand for Arabs...independence. There is no American-sponsored roadmap for the Kurds. But, in the Arabs' case, state #22--and second, not first, one to be created for them in "Palestine"--is considered a must."'

Below is a collection of links to news and commentary on the recent protests in Eastern Kurdistan published on KurdishMedia.com so far.

Iran’s violent campaign against the Kurdish people must stop! [10/08]KAES defends rights of the people of Eastern Kurdistan [09/08]
KNC: Iranian regime is incapable of reform [09/08]
Piranshahir like a deserted city on Sunday [08/08]
Twenty killed in clashes as unrest sweeps Iran [08/08]
The uprising continues in Eastern Kurdish cities [08/08]
Congress of Iranian Nationalities for a Federal Iran in support of the people of Kurdistan [08/08] 
Iranian regime prevents doctors from seeing injured Kurds [07/08]
PUK security shoots at Eastern Kurdish protesters in Sulemani [07/08]Ahwazi Arabs in solidarity with Iran’s Kurds [07/08]
Attacks on the Kurds in Eastern Kurdistan condemned in Wan [07/08]Further unrest in Kurdish western Iran kills two [07/08]
Reported protests in Eastern Kurdistan [07/08]
Iranian oppression of Kurds condemned by rights group [07/08]