Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
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By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congress was pushing on Friday to finish legislation that would boost security at U.S. ports, but at the last minute lawmakers added provisions to prohibit Internet gambling.
Rushing to finish their work by the weekend to go home and campaign for elections in which control of Congress [...]
Courtesy of the United Press:
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (UPI)—Congress has ordered construction of 700 miles of fence along the U.S.-Mexican border in a move Mexico says will hurt relations between the two countries.
The Senate voted 80-19, with 26 Democrats joining 54 Republicans in support, Friday night before recessing for the fall political campaigns.
President Bush has said [...]
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By Peter Graff
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq imposed a total daylight curfew on Baghdad on Saturday, banning all movement, as U.S. forces said they had foiled a possible suicide plot to attack the city’s sprawling “Green Zone” government compound.
U.S. troops on Friday arrested a security guard at the home of the leader [...]
Courtesy of Reuters:
TEHRAN (Reuters) – A new Iranian computer game sets players the task of blowing up a U.S. tanker in the Gulf to block the sea route for much of the world’s oil supplies, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
The game, “Counter Strike”, invites players to plant two bombs on the oil tanker to sink [...]
Courtesy of the United Press:
NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (UPI)—Nigeria and Venezuela plan to cut production amid OPEC concern about the rapid drop in prices, the OPEC countries say.
The move, which accounts for about 170,000 barrels a day, may suggest other cuts by the oil-producing cartel, The Financial Times reports.
Figures to be released in the next [...]
Courtesy of Jihad Watch:
Warith Deen Umar Update from AP, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
NEW YORK (AP)—The former head Islamic chaplain for the state prison system was sentenced Thursday to a year of home detention by a judge who said he deserved leniency on a gun charge after decades of achievements that followed childhood poverty.
[...]Courtesy of Jihad Watch:
Holding-Political-Power-Will-Exert-A-Moderating-Influence-On-Hamas Update: “Hamas rally in Gaza draws tens of thousands, denounces Israel,” from Reuters, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
Tens of thousands of Hamas supporters held a peaceful rally in Gaza on Friday to denounce the state of Israel and declare that they would never recognize its right to exist.
[...]Courtesy of the DEBKAfile:
Frank Urbancic of the US State Department reported that Hizballah after the war with Israel remained a threat to the survival of Lebanon’s government, Israel’s security and regional stability.
“We could think of it as… an octopus, with its head in southern Lebanon and tentacles moving around the world,” said the US official.
John [...]
Courtesy of the World Tribune.com:
By Donald Kirk, Special to World Tribune.comSEOUL — South Korea’s National Intelligence Service reported that North Korean engineers have dug a tunnel 700 meters, about two-fifths of a mile, beneath the surface of Mount Mantap in North Hamkyong Province.
Word of the tunnel comes from Chung Hyung-Keun, a member of the [...]
Courtesy of The Enterprise at SouthofBoston.com:
By Jennifer Kovalich, Enterprise staff writer
BROCKTON — Five men who were picked up on federal warrants Thursday morning in an effort by federal, state and local authorities to crack down on violent crime in the city are expected to face deportation.
At 5 a.m., officials from the district attorney’s office, Brockton [...]
Courtesy of BREITBART.com:
By ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON
The Senate unanimously approved $70 billion more for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan Friday as part of a record Pentagon budget.The bill, now on its way to the White House for President Bush’s signature, totals $448 billion. It was passed by a 100-0 vote after minimal debate.
Approval [...]
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By BASSEM MROUE
Associated Press Writer
CAIRO, Egypt
Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri condemned President Bush in a video statement released Friday, calling him a failure and a liar. “Why don’t you tell them how many million citizens of America and its allies you intend to kill in search of the imaginary victory and in [...]Courtesy of Atlas Shrugs:
The silence in the mainstream media and world press of Muslim rioting, burning and chaos is eerily reminiscent of the silent complicity that aided the Nazis during that war. Attacks against Christians and Jews continue to go unreported by the mainstream media. Has anyone heard of the continued Muslim Ramadan rioting [...]
Courtesy of Atlas Shrugs:
The Democrats pick, pick, pick, pick at the national psyche with their tiny but sharp beaks, distracting us from the enemy’s march to war. Iran has no intention of halting their uranium enrichment program and building their nuclear arsenal while one of their great benefactors, China has gone thermo. It [...]
Courtesy of the Global Security Newswire:
By Jon Fox, Global Security Newswire
WASHINTON — North Korean officials have recently expressed an increased willingness to transfer a nuclear device or fissile material to another nation or a nonstate group, a U.S. expert said yesterday after his 10th visit to Pyongyang (see GSN, Sept. 28).
Selig Harrison, a senior analyst [...]
Courtesy of The Fourth Rail:
NWFP Governor Ali Jan Orakzai recommends expanding the Waziristan Accord to other tribal agencies, as the Taliban and al-Qaeda continue to hit government targets
As we reported just two days after the signing of the Waziristan Accord, and UPI later confirmed, the Pakistani government is seriously considering further negotiations with the Taliban [...]
Courtesy of The Fourth Rail:
Iraqi forces capture Ali Mahmoud Yahya, Emir of the Mujahideen Shura in Mosul
al-Qaeda in Iraq’s Mujahideen Shura.
Iraqi and Coalition forces continue to rack up senior al-Qaeda in Iraq and insurgent leaders. The Kuwaiti News Agency reports “Ali Mahmoud Yahya, [also known as] Abu Huthaifa and works as an Amir of a [...]
Courtesy of The Fourth Rail:
Al-Qaeda in Iraq’s commander says 4,000 foreign fighters have been killed since 2003, calls for release of the Blind Sheikh, influx of bomb makers and nuclear scientists
Banner announcing the release of the al-Mujahir audiotape, from the al-Bouraq Forum
Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, the new leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq’s Mujahideen Shura, has released [...]
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
The Dean of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University has abruptly left her position after her invitation to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad got cancelled by University president Lee Bollinger. Lisa Anderson resigned from her position, and the big question on campus is if Bollinger’s intervention caused it or whether the exposure of her [...]
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
The Greeks have reportedly found a new method to deal with their illegal immigration problem, according to Der Spiegel. When interdicting boats that carry illegal immigrants on the Aegean, the Greek Coast Guard simply returns them to the sea—but minus their boats. According to Turkish authorities, six people drowned and three remain [...]
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
The deal between Pervez Musharraf and the tribal leaders of Waziristan looks more and more like a surrender rather than a partnership against terror. The British newspaper The Guardian reports that American military sources indicate that attacks from Islamists in the border regions have more than doubled since the deal was announced:
Taliban [...]
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
The Senate got bipartisan support for the passage of the White House’s comprehensive terrorist prosecution bill this evening, putting an emphatic stamp on a victory for the Bush administration. In the end, the bill garnered 65 votes and Bill Frist fought off attempts to bury the bill in amendments:
The Senate on Thursday [...]
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
The leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, released an audiotape that tries to recruit more radical Muslims to the Iraqi jihad. In doing so, Zarqawi’s replacement shows why the US considers Iraq a central ground for the war on terror and how effective our effort there has been against the [...]
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Douglas Farah
There has been some outcry and dismay over the U.S. government decision to deny a visa to Tariq Ramadan, one of the new generation of leaders of the international Muslim Brotherhood, who has achieved near superstar status among Muslims in Europe.
While consistently presenting a moderate face of Islam in [...]
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Zachary Abuza
One of the justifications for the Thai coup was Thaksin’s mishandling of the Southern insurgency, which has claimed some 1,700 lives in the past two-an-a-half years. The general chafed at the political interference of Thaksin and his deputy Chidchai, their rotations of generals, failed policies, and blatant dismissal of [...]
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Walid Phares
(Text of an essay-assessment at the fifth anniversary of September 11)
As we have marked the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America, and we review the half a decade of war on terror since, the central question that comes to the minds of both experts and policymakers is [...]
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By Jeffrey Imm
Update to previous blog: Al-Qaeda’s Iraq leader issued a message today calling for kidnapping of Christians during Ramadan and for scientists to join the Jihadists in using radioactive or biological weapons against USA bases in Iraq. (Audio can be downloaded here.)
Al-Qaeda Leader in Iraq Abu Hamza al-Muhajir (aka Abu [...]
Excellent article – I highly recommend The Week Magazine…
Courtesy of The Week Magazine:
What do Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez have in common? They each control a huge portion of the world’s oil supply—and each of them is a “nut,” said Kathleen Parker in the Orlando Sentinel. Ahmadinejad set the wackiness bar pretty high [...]
Courtesy of FrontPage magazine.com:
By Alan W. Dowd
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 29, 2006
During his visit to the U.S., Pakistan’s Pervez Musharraf found himself in the middle of one of Washington’s favorite pastimes: the Beltway blood-sport known as he said/he said.
In this instance, the media first reported something Musharraf said—that former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage warned [...]
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By Vasko Kohlmayer
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 29, 2006
Discussing his recent compromise with the White House on detention and interrogation of captured terrorists, John McCain said on the Today show that ‘there will be no such thing as waterboarding…You will never see that again. We stood up and said that cannot be done.’
It is [...]
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By Henry Mark Holzer
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 29, 2006
It is an article of faith on the Left and among its fellow travelers that the Bush administration stole two elections, made war on Iraq for venal reasons, tortured hapless foreigners, and conducted illegal surveillance of innocent Americans. A corollary of this mindset is that [...]
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By Stephen Brown
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 29, 2006
Beaming under her thick head scarf, congenial-looking Muslim convert Ingrid Mattson makes a great photo.
And it is not only because the white, ex-Catholic Canadian woman from Kitchener, Ontario, could be the poster child for the new face of Islam in North America. The former atheist, who [...]
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By Carol Gould
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 29, 2006
The obsession Britons have with the ‘atrocity’ that is the Jewish State can easily render one ill when attempting to deal with this national disease. In the past week the ‘Independent’ has been running a series of dramatic front pages with images of death and destruction [...]
And as we bicker and scrap among ourselves, Iran blithely prepares for our annihilation. We whine and complain and both sides point fingers – but NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING. Do we really want to wait for a dozen American cities to get nuked from g-d knows which direction (take your pick – Iran, South [...]
Courtesy of My Way News:
By JENNIFER LOVEN
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – President Bush suggested Thursday that Democrats don’t have the stomach to fight the war on terror, battling back in the election-season clamor over administration intelligence showing terrorism spreading.
“Five years after 9/11, the worst attack on the American homeland in our history, Democrats offer nothing but [...]
Courtesy of the AP:
By ANNE PLUMMER FLAHERTY
Associated Press Writer
The 65-34 vote means the bill could reach the president’s [...]
Courtesy of Hot Air:
by Allahpundit
And to think the crazy wingnuts said UN peacekeepers would do more to protect Hezbollah from Israel than vice versa.
U.N. peacekeeping forces in south Lebanon intervened for the first time Thursday with Israeli forces who arrested journalists in violation of Resolution 1701…
Members of UNIFIL’s French battalion almost [...]Courtesy of the Jerusalem Newswire:
Source: The Jerusalem Post
September 28, 2006
Defense Minister Amir Peretz has threatened to order a major ground invasion of Gaza if terrorist rocket fire does not cease.
He hopes, however, that his threat alone will be enough to deter the terrorists and bring the daily bombardment of communities in southern Israel’s Negev region [...]
Courtesy of Little Green Footballs:
More bloodthirsty medieval ranting today, in a new audiotape from Al Qaeda’s leader in Iraq, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir: Iraq terror leader recruits scientists.
CAIRO, Egypt – In a new audio message Thursday, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq called for explosives experts and nuclear scientists to join his group’s holy war against [...]
Courtesy of YNet News:
US counterterror experts testify that group continues to threaten Lebanese government, Israel and has ability to launch an attack on the US as well. FBI official: Hizbullah sympathizers in US raise money through money laundering, drug trafficking and fraud
Ynet and AP
Latest Update: 09.28.06, 21:47
US Counterterrorism officials on Thursday testified that Hizbullah ’s [...]
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Assad decree urges immigration to territory with help of international group
By Aaron Klein
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
JERUSALEM – Syrian President Bashar Assad yesterday issued a decree urging his citizens to move to the Golan Heights, claiming the International Committee of the Red Cross would help flood the Golan with Syrians.
Assad said the Golan Heights would [...]
Ya think?
Courtesy of WorldNetDaily:
Tasked with pinpointing motivation, analysts find terrorists ‘rational actors’ following ‘holy book’
With suicide bombings spreading from Iraq to Afghanistan, the Pentagon has tasked intelligence analysts to pinpoint what’s driving Muslim after Muslim to do the unthinkable.
Their preliminary finding is politically explosive: it’s their “holy book” the Quran after all, according to intelligence [...]
Courtesy of Clarity and Resolve:
Internet Holy Warriors: Jihad Intl. Inc. Coming After Pope
CAIR’s Ongoing Campaign Against The Truth
Pentagon: It’s In the Koran
The Tehranhattan Project & Eurocratic Folly
House Approves U.S. Right to Self-Defense Against Jihad
The Angry Left & the Angry Umma Sound the Same
More European Anti-Dhimmitude
Saudis to Build Apartheid Wall
German Anti-Dhimmitude
Return of the Euro-”Youths”
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A U.S. Army X-band radar has been activated in Japan to track ballistic missiles, the Associated Press reported today (see GSN, June 23).
Brig. Gen. John Seward attended an activation ceremony Tuesday at Camp Shariki in northern Japan.
The powerful radar is able to identify small objects at distances of thousands of [...]
Courtesy of the Global Security Newswire:
By Jon Fox, Global Security Newswire
WASHINGTON — House and Senate negotiators last week gave the U.S. Defense Department’s missile defense program $110 million more than requested for the fiscal 2007 budget (see GSN, Sept. 12).
Congressional appropriators set the overall funding mark for ballistic missile defense at $9.4 billion for fiscal [...]
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Nuclear talks between Iran and the European Union ended today in Berlin with no agreement and dimming hopes for a resolution to the Iranian nuclear crisis, Reuters reported. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said the talks could resume by the middle of next week, but “we still have [...]
Courtesy of The American Forces Press Service:
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2006 – The Iranian government is behind shipping components used to make improvised explosive devices to Iraqi insurgents, a senior intelligence official in Iraq said yesterday.
Labels on weapons stocks seized inside and outside Iraq point to Iranian government complicity in arming [...]
Courtesy of The Fourth Rail:
Pakistani government abandons North Waziristan as the Taliban opens an office in Miranshah.
The Pakistani government, led by President Pervez Musharraf, has repeatedly stated the Waziristan Accord does not mean the government has ceded control of the region, and that the deal was between the government and the tribes, not the Taliban. [...]
Courtesy of The Fourth Rail:
Sheikh Hassan Turki flaunts the involvement of “foreign fighters” in Somalia as Shariah law is enforced in Kismayo
Al-Qaeda’s involvement in the rise of the Islamic Courts has been a well know fact for months, even though the Islamic Courts and many western analysts and media outlets have papered over this issue. [...]
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