Archive for February, 2006
Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of The Jawa Report:
Former Democratic Attorney General Ramsey Clark (far left) spotted in Bulgaria marching with Communists and next to former Saddam Hussein advisor. Marching against what? Against U.S. troops, of course! He is a Democrat…
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of The Counterterrorism Blog:
Shortly after the 9/11 attacks President Bush could not have been clearer in stating what was supposed to be the firm American Government position concerning terrorists and terrorism supporters. He said you were either with America against terrorism or with the terrorists, and if you supported terrorism, you were America’s enemy. [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of The Counterterrorism Blog:
The Washington Post’s Outlook section this week provided an extremely worthwhile look at why Osama bin Laden is still at large, and why it is a big deal. Some of this has been covered in earlier blogs, but are worth repeating.
Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani journalist explains here what others from the [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of Clarity and Resolve:
They may have given up their WMD programs to keep up appearances on the outside, but Libya is still medieval all the way on the inside—in a wholesome, Islamic sort of way.
LONDON - Libya is arbitrarily detaining women and girls indefinitely in “de facto prisons” masquerading as “social rehabilitation” facilities, Human [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of ThreatsWatch.org:
World remains transfixed as Iran makes measurable gains throughout Middle East
By Steve Schippert
As Iranian President Ahmadinejad was leaving Kuwait after meeting with the new emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad, IAEA director Mohamed ElBaredei’s Iran report was making the perfunctory leaked rounds among chosen members of the media ahead of the March 6 Board of [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of NewsMax:
Kenneth R. Timmerman, NewsMax.com
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are making preparations for a massive assault on U.S. naval forces and international shipping in the Persian Gulf, according to a former Iranian intelligence officer who defected to the West in 2001.
The plans, which include the [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of Militant Islam Monitor.org:
MIM: John Grogan, an Inquirer columnist, was so busy lauding Muslims who exercised their right to free speech, while opposing his paper’s use of theirs, that he ignored the fact that Iqbal Baqai, the state rep of ICNA (an organisation with ties to Al Qaeda) ,who helped organise the protests went [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of Militant Islam Monitor.org:
MIM: After his last job as fundraiser and Southeast Asia Affairs coordinator for terror ‘charity’ Kindhearts came to an abrupt end, when the US Treasury froze their assets under the Patriot Act, Zulfiqar Ali Shah has found a new job as the religous director of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee. The [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of The Jerusalem Post:
The London-based Dar al-Hiyat newspaper reported on Tuesday that Iran would allocate $250 million to the Palestinian Authority to replace the funding withheld by Israel and the United States following Hamas’ election victory.
In an interview with the newspaper, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal said that he officially approved the Iranian support for [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of the Iran Press Service:
By Safa Haeri
PARIS, 28 Feb. (IPS) The recent tragic events in Iraq following the explosion of the shrine of two Shi’ite imams in Samarra demonstrated the maturity of Iraqi political and religious leaders in the one hand and the sickening immaturity of those in charge of the ruling theocracy in [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of Iran Focus:
Tehran, Iran, Feb. 28 – A senior Iranian cleric has approved attacks on foreign embassies in Tehran over the publication of insulting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in European dailies, a website belonging to the office of hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reported.
“Muslims must take the most ferocious stance against insults to [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of the DEBKAFile.com:
Urgent consultations in European and Arab capitals and Jerusalem are reported by DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources over the threatened targets published by Al Qaeda’s Gaza cell – the Army of Jihad – dated Feb. 16.
Not only must “non-Muslim foreigners of all nationalities” leave, but “foreign embassies and consulates must be evacuated and their [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of NewsMax:
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com
Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2006
A terrorism expert has revealed a chilling scenario of just how Jihadists could deeply penetrate Dubai Ports World, the embattled United Arab Emirates company that is poised to take over operations at many key U.S. maritime terminals.
Dr. Walid Phares, terrorism [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of NewsMax:
A ship owned by a Chinese government-run company that currently operates two giant terminals at the Port of Long Beach, California was found 10 years ago to have been used to smuggle a huge cache of illegal weapons – with the smugglers saying they planned to import missiles that could “take out a [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of Irish Online:
Arab and Islamic governments should pressure the United Nations to ban the slandering of religions, said more than 200 Arab politicians who renewed their criticism today of the contentious Prophet Muhammad cartoons.
The call, which was made at the end of a two-day conference at a Dead Sea resort in Jordan, comes amid [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of Middle East Times:
ABIDJAN — A Paris gang leader was arrested overnight in Abidjan and has confessed to the kidnap, torture and murder of a young French Jewish man, Ivorian investigators said on Thursday, in a case that has horrified France.
Youssouf Fofana, 25, who fled to Ivory Coast shortly after the dying Ilan Hamili [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of Michelle Malkin:
Danish blog Agora reports on the latest victim:
The Danish site ytringsfrihed.org which leads a campaign to collect signatures in support of Freedom of Speech was hacked yesterday. The site released this statement:
Ytringsfrihed.org hacked
Some may have been surprised if they visited our site February 27 [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of Michelle Malkin:
I’m not alone.
The UAE has now also banned BoingBoing. Check out the screenshot:
Quips BoingBoing:
They’re pretty good at controlling internet ports. As a reminder, they appear destined to control America’s physical ports as well.
Here’s how to get around the censors.
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of Michelle Malkin:
Vital Perspective has the full text of the embargoed report by IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei, “Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
In the Current Overall Assessment section, ElBaradei writes that even after three years of intensive Agency verification, the IAEA still cannot conclude that there are no [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of The Jawa Report:
Be on the lookout for creeping facscism in Africa. Two questions: How is it that the traditional interpretation of Islamic law is now somehow ‘fanatical’? Why is it that so few seem to realize that ‘freedom of religion’ in Islam means its Orwellian opposite?
Incidentally, if a ‘moderate’ Islamists wishes only to [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of The Counterterrorism Blog:
Indeed, as the weekly La Gazette du Maroc reported citing insiders Moroccan sources, Saad Hussaini was arrested in Syria and extradited to Morocco. As far as I know, Moroccan officials have not confirmed this scoop yet.
Hussaini is one of the leaders of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group GICM and is most [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of Clarity and Resolve:
This whole sordid bid for a United Arab Emirates government-run company to run our ports just smells more foul with each passing day. Today we learn that these lovely folks are involved with rank anti-Jew anti-Israel anti-Zionist business practices: Exclusive: Dubai ports firm enforces Israel boycott (salute to W.E. at Vital [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of Ace of Spades:
Pretty chilling stuff:
Everyone has seen the videos of beheadings that Muslim Jihadis release. You see that during the most despicable acts imaginable, which is the cold blooded murder of another human being, they invoke the name of their deity Allah. This shows that they do not perceive this dastardly act as [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of Ace of Spades:
Nice:
About 5,000 children chanting “Hang those who insulted the prophet” rallied in Pakistan’s largest city on Tuesday in the latest protest in the Islamic nation against the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
The children, ages 8 to 12, burned a coffin draped in U.S., Israeli and [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of FrontPage magazine.com:
By Daniel Pipes
FrontPageMagazine.com | February 28, 2006
The bombing on February 22 of the Askariya shrine in Samarra, Iraq, was a tragedy, but it was not an American or a coalition tragedy.
The destruction of the Golden Dome, built in 1905 and one of the holiest shrines of Shi’ite Islam, represents an escalation of [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of FrontPage magazine.com:
By David Dastych
Canada Free Press | February 28, 2006
Introduction
In the 1970s and 1980s there were several indications about Saddam Hussein’s development of the WMD programs (biological, chemical and nuclear). The Israeli attack on the Iraqi French-made Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981 slowed down the progress of the Iraq’s nuclear weapons program but [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
* Black nationalist Democratic councilman from New York
* Onetime Black Panther who frequently inveighs against “white” influence
* Apologist for Robert Mugabe and Fidel Castro
Charles Barron is a black nationalist activist and Democratic councilman from the predominantly black 42nd District in Brooklyn, [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of Insight:
LAREDO, Texas – This border area is one of the least publicized international crisis zones. More Americans have been kidnapped just in this area than in all of Iraq by Islamic terrorists.
Twenty-six Americans are now officially listed as missing in the Laredo-Nuevo Laredo region of the U.S.-Mexico border—in addition to the more than [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of BREITBART.com:
By
TONI LOCY
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON
The Supreme Court dealt a setback Tuesday to abortion clinics in a two-decade-old legal fight over abortion protests, ruling that federal extortion and racketeering laws cannot be used to ban demonstrations.
Anti-abortion groups brought the appeal after the 7th Circuit had asked a trial judge to determine whether a [...]
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Posted in February 28th, 2006
Courtesy of The Jerusalem Post:
The parent company of a Dubai-based firm at the center of a political storm in the US over the purchase of American ports participates in the Arab boycott against Israel, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
The firm, Dubai Ports World, is seeking control over six major US ports, including those in New [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2006
Courtesy of Reuters:
DUBAI (Reuters) – A Web site often used by militants posted a video tape on Monday in which a purported al Qaeda escapee from a U.S. airbase in Afghanistan vowed to fight Americans in Iraq and the United States.
The man, identified as Faruq al-Iraqi, said he was one of four al Qaeda members [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2006
Courtesy of Little Green Footballs:
Palestinian Media Watch continues revealing the sick death cult propaganda that airs regularly on Palestinian television: PA TV Star: Mother Upset Her Daughter Failed as Suicide Bomber. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
In spite of PA pledges not to incite, an interview broadcast last week featured the mother of Wafa Al-Bas, the 21-year-old [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2006
Courtesy of The Counterterrorism Blog:
The Iraqi Interior Minister’s claims today that Iraqi forces arrested a “high-ranking aide” to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and that U.S. journalist Jill Carroll is alive and he knows who kidnapped her, should be viewed with skepticism, according to Evan Kohlmann. He appeared on MSNBC to discuss the Jill Carroll claim and [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2006
Courtesy of Clarity and Resolve:
The peaceful religionists in Australia are (predictably) seething six ways to Friday prayers over Treasurer Peter Costello’s plain language about those who would like to be governed by a hyperreligious seventh century Arab legal apparatus and his hearty invitation for them to do so elsewhere. Now the nation’s official Islamic Why [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2006
Courtesy of the Agape Press:
(AgapePress) – A Christian activist says the White House needs to get its priorities straight when it responds to the bombing of an Islamic place of worship in the Middle East while remaining silent in the wake of serial arson attacks on Christian sanctuaries in the United States.
Christian Defense Coalition director [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2006
Courtesy of Ace of Spades:
If you think white Christian men have tough words about Muslim extremism, wait ‘till you get a load of Wafa Sultan, a Muslim woman, giving them the wood.
Wow.
Thanks to Ogre Gunner.
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Posted in February 27th, 2006
Courtesy of My Way News:
By LIZ SIDOTI
WASHINGTON (AP) – Citing broad gaps in U.S. intelligence, the Coast Guard cautioned the Bush administration that it was unable to determine whether a United Arab Emirates-owned company might support terrorist operations, a Senate panel said Monday.
The surprise disclosure came during a hearing on Dubai-owned DP World’s plans to [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2006
Courtesy of David Limbaugh:
In their opportunistic opposition to the Dubai Ports World takeover of commercial container operations at six major U.S. ports, Democrats aren’t just reversing themselves on so-called “racial profiling” but on their phony condemnation of President Bush for allegedly shattering our alliances in the War on Terror.
Since 9/11, Democrats have railed against any [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2006
C0urtesy of Atlas Shrugs:
The mainstream media speaks of Osama Bin Laden with respect, affection and deference. TheWtc_911_jump_01 Washington Post attribute great military victories to Dracula in his cave and assigns him near great statesman status.
This mass murdering pig gets fabulous worldwide press and our President Bush, working his ass off to fight Radical Islamic [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2006
Courtesy of Mosquewatch:
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan was quoting the Bible this weekend at the 2006 State of the Black Union Conference.
He was talking about how the Bible calls for a “baptism of fire” and, in his judgment, “America must burn.”
Isn’t the Bible the holy book of infidels – Christians and Jews? Why would [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2006
I had the incredible privilege of hearing this speech firsthand last week. John Poncy is a devout patriot whose love for our military, our country and our leadership as well as the people of our great nation is heartfelt with each word. It is my honor to have a copy of his speech for you [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2006
Courtesy of WorldNetDaily:
U.S. company offered to build offshore inspection facilities with private financing
With all the controversy over the United Arab Emirates company approved to run port operations, one man with a lot of experience and expertise in the area says it really doesn’t matter who gets the contract – though he is sure it should [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2006
Courtesy of the Right Truth:
Mahmoud Maawad, Egyptian student at the University of Memphis arrested last year by the Joint Terrorism Task Force, was planning or participating in a potential terror attack inside the United States. “He entered the U.S. at New York City from Egypt in 1998, and his visitor’s visa expired in 1999. He [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2006
Courtesy of NewsMax:
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com
Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2006
A terrorism expert has revealed a chilling scenario of just how Jihadists could deeply penetrate Dubai Ports World, the embattled United Arab Emirates company that is poised to take over operations at many key U.S. maritime terminals.
Dr. Walid Phares, terrorism [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2006
Courtesy of MEMRI:
The following are excerpts from a television program with Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi, aired on Qatar TV on February 25, 2006. Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi is head of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, president of the International Association of Muslim Scholars (IAMS), and the spiritual guide of many other Islamist organizations across the world, [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2006
Courtesy of MEMRI:
By: A. Shefa*
In the recent Egyptian parliamentary elections, held November 9-December 9, 2005, the Muslim Brotherhood increased its presence in the parliament five-fold, receiving 88 seats, up from 15 in the 2000 elections. [1]
The movement’s election slogan “Islam is the Solution” generated criticism both among reformist Egyptian intellectuals and [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2006
Courtesy of Iran Focus:
Tehran, Iran, Feb. 27 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iraq was the “embodiment” of America’s political defeat in the Middle East as he accused the United States of being behind the bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in the Iraqi city of Samarra.
“The Americans are trying [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2006
Courtesy of Iran Focus:
London, Feb. 27 – Iran Focus has obtained a list of 20 terrorist camps and centres run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
The names and details of the training centres were provided by a defector from the IRGC, who has recently left Iran and now lives in hiding in a neighbouring [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2006
Courtesy of Iran Focus:
Tehran, Iran, Feb. 27 – Iran’s prison population has increased more than 10 times since the 1979 Islamic revolution, the country’s head of prisons announced.
Ali-Akbar Yassaqi, head of the Organisation of Prisons of Iran, said that the total number of prisoners in Iran was 130,118, up from the 13,000 at the beginning [...]
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Posted in February 27th, 2006
Courtesy of Iran Focus:
Tehran, Iran, Feb. 27 – A man accused of being a “trouble-maker” was flogged in public by police in the northern Iranian city of Rasht, a semi-official daily reported on Monday.
The man, only identified as Farshid N., received 74 lashes in Shik Street, Jomhouri Islami wrote.
A court in Rasht convicted Farshid of [...]
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