Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
Courtesy of the Gates of Vienna:
by Baron Bodissey
Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the United States. Everybody knows that; you hear it on TV all the time. But how do the talking heads know it?
Because CAIR tells them so.
According to CAIR’s website,
There is no scientific count of Muslims in the U.S. Six to seven million [...]
Courtesy of The Fourth Rail:
Demonstrations, political maneuvering follows the attack on the Taliban and al-Qaeda training camp in the Chingai madrassa
The aftermath of the destruction of the Taliban madrassa in the town of Chingai in Bajaur agency, Pakistan was predictable. Local tribesmen and Islamist Pakistani politicians are in an uproar over the earlier strike that [...]
Courtesy of Atlas Shrugs:
I love this guy. He ought to be top of the ticket in ‘08. He understand the war on the jihad and the devastating threat of a nuclear Islamic Iran Thanks to TerrorFreeOil for this video. GET OUT THE VOTE FOR SANTORUM
Sphere ItCourtesy of Austin Bay:
No kidding. John Kerry is now claiming his insult at the expense of American soldiers was “a botched joke” aimed at the President.
Sheesh. Kerry is stuck on Vietnam, almost as stuck on Vietnam as he is stuck on his own self-absorbed, narcissistic bio-mass.
Instapundit has the background.
Kerry insulted America’s defenders. When I heard [...]
Courtesy of Clarity and Resolve:
Dude, Jihad Is So, Like… Wow…
Supporting the Troops – Massachusetts Senator Style
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Walid Phares
The Fall 2006 issue of the Journal of International Security Affairs published my article “Future Terrorism: Mutant Jihads.” The JISA also published articles by esteemed collegues from the CTB. In this piece I attempted to provide a global assessment of the Jihadi threat five years after September 11, 2001. [...]
Courtesy of Fox News:
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Tuesday that “serious negotiations” were under way over the fate of two Israeli soldiers whose July 12 capture by Hezbollah sparked a month of brutal fighting in Lebanon.
In a three-hour taped television interview, Nasrallah said a negotiator appointed by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi [...]
Courtesy of the Jerusalem Newswire:
Source: Associated Press
October 31, 2006
Saudi Ambassador to the US Prince Turki al-Faisal told a gathering in Washington Monday that America’s standing in the Middle East is an an all-time low, and can only be elevated by forcing Israel to surrender all lands being demanded by the Palestinian Arabs.
And that includes Jerusalem, [...]
Courtesy of The Jawa Report:
Listen to former Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu on the Bill Maher show. As he explains, Isreal’s war with Hezbollah is really a war with Iran. A war, in fact, between the U.S. and Iran as well.
Pay attention to how militant Islam is both like and unlike Soviet Communism. Like in [...]
Courtesy of WorldNetDaily:
Failure to analyze military plan of ‘prophet’ hurts U.S. military
The Pentagon must study the Muslim prophet Muhammad and his military doctrine to beat the growing number of jihadists, a former senior Pentagon intelligence official warns.
The failure of Pentagon brass to implement a “systematic study” of Muhammad’s military doctrine is hurting the U.S. military’s [...]
Courtesy of NewsMax:
A senior U.S. diplomat on Tuesday described Iran as more dangerous than North Korea and said that besides developing a nuclear weapon, the Islamic state was undermining regional stability.
“It (Iran) is the greatest threat to the Non-Proliferation Pact. It is much more complex and dangerous than even North Korea,” U.S. Undersecretary of State [...]
Courtesy of MEMRI:
Islamist Website Reports Woman’s Offer of Prize for Kidnapping an American Soldier in Order to Kill Him
An Islamist website reported that, on October 26, 2006, an elderly Iraqi woman offered a prize of 75 million dinar – about US $50,000 – to anyone bringing her a live American soldier in order to kill [...]
Courtesy of Iran Focus:
Tehran, Iran, Oct. 31 – Iran announced on Tuesday that its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) would soon hold a new round of war-games.
The IRGC drills have been code-named “Great Prophet 2”, according to a statement issued by the elite military force and carried by state-run news agencies.
IRGC Supreme Commander Major General [...]
Courtesy of Iran Focus:
Associated Press
By EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – U.S. Ambassador John Bolton accused Syria and Iran on Monday of trying to destabilize Lebanon’s democratically elected government by violating a U.N. arms embargo.
Bolton stressed that Syria’s obligations to respect a U.N. arms embargo authorized by the Security Council resolution that ended [...]
Courtesy of the Global Security Newswire:
The United States has been forced to suspend the investigation of a Pakistani man believed to have sought to produce weaponized anthrax for the terrorist group al-Qaeda, the Washington Post reported today (see GSN, May 23, 2005).
Microbiologist Abdur Rauf apparently remains free in Pakistan, where authorities say they have no [...]
Courtesy of the DEBKAfile:
During the weeks of Israel’s military operations to uncover Palestinian arms smuggling tunnels from Sinai into Gaza, Washington quietly sent over a military delegation of counter-terror experts to take a look at the situation on the Egyptian-Gaza and Egyptian-Israeli borders. Their first task was to find out how vast quantities of smuggled [...]
Courtesy of the DEBKAfile:
This warning came from the IDF OC southern command Maj.-Gen Yoav Galant in a briefing to Knesset foreign affairs and defense committee Tuesday, Oct. 31. He described Hamas commando and anti-tank units under training and an organized Hamas weapons industry topped up by massive arms smuggling. The IDF has prepared effective plans [...]
Courtesy of the DEBKAfile:
According to DEBKAfile’s military sources, the low Israeli air passes, about which the Lebanese government complained, recorded Hizballah’s reestablishment in Beirut’s Shiite Dahya district, two months after its military centers were flattened in the Lebanon war. It is now a closed military zone whose entry is closely guarded by Hizballah operatives.
Israeli warplanes [...]
Courtesy of BREITBART.com:
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM
Associated Press Writer
HAZLETON, Pa.
Elvis Soto’s variety store used to make money. But few customers have been walking through his door lately, and his merchandise calling cards, cell phones, car stereos, clothing is collecting dust on the shelves.With bills mounting, Soto might have to take another job to stay [...]
Courtesy of the World Tribune.com:
LONDON — Israel has confronted Germany near Lebanon in the latest of a series of incidents.
For the second time in less than a week, Germany reported that Israel Air Force aircraft confronted a German Navy vessel off the coast of Lebanon. The German Defense Ministry said Israeli F-16 fighter-jets buzzed [...]Courtesy of Fox News:
BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. troops complied with orders from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Tuesday to abandon checkpoints around Baghdad, including ones in and around the Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City.
Soon after U.S. forces began removing concrete blocks and sandbags from security checkpoints, a homicide car bomber targeted a wedding [...]
Courtesy of Daniel Pipes:
by Daniel Pipes
New York Sun
October 31, 2006
[NY Sun headline: “U.N. Indecision on Iran Leaves Bush With Tough Choices”]
As the Iranian government announced last week a doubling of its uranium enrichment program, the United Nations Security Council bickered over a feeble European draft resolution. It would do no more than prohibit Iranian students [...]
Courtesy of Clarity and Resolve:
RoP in Pakistan Seething Over Permanent Madrasa Closure
Firebombing Murder-Attempting Youths™ Arrested
Wake Up Britain, Wake Up West
The New Solution to Beating Jihad: Jizya
Eurocratic Swedes: U.S. Biggest Threat to World Peace
American C&R
Sphere ItCourtesy of American Conservative Daily:
Posted by J.J. Jackson in War On Terror
Tuesday, October 31. 2006
CHINGAI, Pakistan (Oct. 30) – Pakistani helicopter gunships on Monday destroyed a religious school the military said was fronting as an al-Qaida training camp, killing 80 people in the country’s deadliest military operation targeting suspected terrorists.
Islamic leaders and al-Qaida-linked militants blamed [...]
Courtesy of Iran Focus:
By Mohammed Abbas
ABOARD RFA BRAMBLELEAF (Reuters) – Twenty five nations took part in a U.S.-led naval exercise on Monday in waters not far from Iran aimed at training forces to block the transport of weapons of mass destruction and related equipment.
The exercise comes as tensions rise between Iran and the West over [...]
Courtesy of BlackFive:
Okay, all of you Vets and active/reserve/guard folks can stop emailing me now. I’ve got the emails. Basically, most of you have said “@#$% that guy.” I’ve got 120+ emails about this jacka$$ before 0800…
I’ve posted many times before that I have never been interested in investigating what he claimed [...]
Courtesy of the Gates of Vienna:
by Baron Bodissey
Pervez Musharraf and Pakistan’s military forces have finally done something to warm my heart: they blew up a madrassa.
According to today’s Times Online:
Pakistani forces have killed up to 80 alleged militants near the Afghan border after launching an air strike on a religious school that officials said was [...]
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Zachary Abuza
On 16 October 2006, Yemeni security forces arrested a group of eight foreigners who were involved in running guns to the Islamic Courts Union, the Islamist group that has taken control of the Somali capital of Mogadishu. The eight foreigners included a Yemeni and four Europeans – a Dane, [...]
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Steven Emerson
The last three days of the Mohammed Salah and Abdelhaleem al-Asqar trial for their alleged support of Hamas has featured the direct examination by the government of a former Israeli Security Agent known only as “Nadav.” The Courtroom was cleared of spectators but the public and media were allowed [...]
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By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
I just spoke with a military intelligence source who confirmed that the Bajur airstrike (see Andy Cochran’s post on it) was conducted by a U.S. Predator, adding that helicopters were also involved. The strike occurred around dawn, as people in the camp were preparing for their morning prayers. My [...]
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Victor Comras
Ted Frank’s provocative Op-ed in Friday’s Wall Street Journal questions the rationale for allowing victims of terrorism to hold third-party institutions potentially liable for their own contributory actions. He wants Congress to enact new restrictions on attorneys and on the judicial system to lessen the risk that banks and [...]
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
Rick Santorum continues to rely on national-security issues as his main focal point for the home stretch to the midterm elections. Despite the advice of analysts, Santorum refuses to subjugate issues such as terrorism and Iran in favor of economic and social issues, declaring the war on terror and all its implications [...]
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
The Israelis requested German troops as part of the scaled-up UNIFIL forces that would enforce the terms of Resolution 1701. Ehud Olmert went out of his way to request the troops from the Angela Merkel government, a remarkable development sixty years after the Holocaust. Germany, feeling vindicated after generations of effort to [...]
Courtesy of FrontPage magazine.com:
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | October 31, 2006
The Mufti of Australia, Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali, has gained international attention this week by saying that women are generally at fault if they are raped. Speaking to a Muslim audience in Sydney, he explained that rape (specifically, zina, sexual activity forbidden under Islamic law—a word [...]
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By Yuri Yarim-Agaev
FrontPageMagazine.com | October 31, 2006
The recent nuclear test by North Korea has once again underscored how little progress has been made to curb that country’s bid for a nuclear program. Six-party negotiations and even a U.N. resolution unanimously passed by the Security Council have all proven failures.
The main problem with [...]
Courtesy of The Washington Times:
By Bill Gertz
China helped North Korea develop nuclear weapons and in the past year increased its support to Pyongyang, rather than pressing the regime to halt nuclear arms and missile activities, according to a congressional report.
The final draft report of the U.S.-China Economic Security Review Commission also [...]Courtesy of Fox News:
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has said it would offer cash incentives to travel agencies to encourage Western tourists to visit the country, giving a premium for Americans , the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Tuesday.
The proposal is Iran’s latest bid to reach out to ordinary Americans in an attempt by [...]
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BAGHDAD, Iraq — A witness told Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial on Tuesday that he survived a massacre by feigning death when Iraqi soldiers shot at Kurdish detainees lying at their feet.
The witness, who testified from behind a curtain to conceal his identity, said he was one of dozens of prisoners [...]
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BEIJING — North Korea agreed Tuesday to rejoin six-nation nuclear disarmament talks in a surprise diplomatic breakthrough three weeks after the communist regime conducted its first known atomic test, the Chinese government said. The U.S. envoy said they could resume as early as November.
Chinese, U.S. and North Korean envoys to the [...]
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BAGHDAD, Iraq — A homicide car bomber targeted a wedding ceremony in Baghdad Tuesday, killing 11 people, including four children, and wounding 12 others, police said.
The violence came after all checkpoints around the Shiite militant stronghold of Sadr City and other parts of the capital were ordered removed by Iraqi [...]
Courtesy of Reuters:
PHOENIX, Arizona (Reuters) – Police have arrested more than 40 people and broken up a family-run smuggling ring that hauled illegal immigrants from Mexico to Arizona for generations, officials said on Monday.
The operation, which began in 2001, broke up a ring that smuggled undocumented immigrants to Bowie, Arizona, southeast of Phoenix, from Agua [...]
Courtesy of JunkYardBlog:
It’s like a Benetton ad—for Al Qaeda:
The sting – which led to the arrest of eight men, including a Dane, a Briton, a German and a Somali – is believed to have been orchestrated by the CIA, and there were suggestions the men could be taken to Guantanamo Bay to be interrogated. A [...]
Courtesy of Little Green Footballs:
According to this report at Middle East Newsline, Iran is expanding its influence in Syria by providing financial rewards for converting to Khomeini-style Shi’ite Islam. (Hat tip: sr_soph.)
WASHINGTON [MENL] — Iran was said to have significantly expanded its influence in Syria and encouraging Alawis and Sunnis to convert to Shi’ite Islam.
[...]Courtesy of The Fourth Rail:
Questions over target of strike in Bajaur, who conducted it, and why. Zawahiri may have been a target.
As we reported just this morning, there were going to be questions about the air strikes in Chingai that targeted a local madrassa serving as an al-Qaeda and Taliban training camp. Just hours after [...]
Courtesy of the Gates of Vienna:
by Dymphna
Ed Driscoll calls it the “new metric… for daily French stability”...
Apparently, as long as the nightly burning of Citroens and Peugeots by local “youths” remains at 200 cars or less, and only one woman receives burns covering 60 percent of her body when the bus she’s traveling is torched [...]
Courtesy of Clarity and Resolve:
Israel’s Peace Partners Not Idle, Just Frustrated
Pak. Intelligence: U.S. Targeted al-Zawahiri at Madrasa
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Andrew Cochran
An NBC News stringer on the ground in Chingai, Pakistan, confirms that the madrassa attacked by Pakistani forces (perhaps with American help through a Predator drone) was indeed a recruiting and training camp for Al Qaeda and the Taliban. “I saw Faqir Mohammed, an al-Qaida commander in the Bajur [...]
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Douglas Farah
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took the unusual step of redesignating arms trafficker Viktor Bout and some of his henchmen for their activities in arms trafficking in the troubled Democratic Republic of Congo. The move was authorized by an Executive Order signed Friday by President [...]
Courtesy of Fox News:
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s firebrand president warned on Monday that his country would oppose an “appropriate and firm response” to any U.N. sanction over its nuclear program.
“Efforts by the big powers will only incite anger and hatred,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a large crowd on the outskirts of Tehran. “The Iranian nation [...]
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