Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
Courtesy of BizzyBlog:
Let’s see (go to Curt’s “UPDATE 1530hrs PST” at the link, and read the whole post to get fully up to date; UPDATE — It’s on the wires; also here):
* Jamil Hussein has not made an appearance but has supposedly confirmed his story about the burning of the six [...]Courtesy of the Washington Post (Hat Tips: Bill Faith and Tom Blumer):
The Associated Press
Thursday, November 30, 2006; 6:51 PM
BAGHDAD, Iraq—Iraq’s Interior Ministry said Thursday it had formed a special unit to monitor news coverage and vowed to take legal action against journalists who failed to correct stories the ministry deemed to be incorrect.
Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim [...]
Courtesy of Clarity and Resolve:
Grim Milestone for Jihad Intl. Inc. in Iraq
Pope Benedict Hangs Tough in Secular™ Turkey, al-Qaeda Seethes
They’re Comin’ to America
Thai Jihad – HRW Notices
Sphere ItCourtesy of Fox News:
WASHINGTON — For the past four years, without public notice, federal agents have assigned millions of Americans and other international travelers computer-generated scores assessing the risk they pose of being terrorists or criminals.
The travelers are not allowed to see or directly challenge these risk assessments. And the government intends to keep [...]
Courtesy of BREITBART.com:
By GEORGE JAHN
Associated Press Writer
VIENNA, Austria
Oil prices briefly shot above $63 a barrel Thursday in a rally that brokers attributed to technical trading, coupled with buying prompted by the approach of the Northern Hemisphere winter.Natural gas futures also climbed following the release of government data that showed a net withdrawal of natural [...]
Courtesy of FT.com:
By Richard Beales in New York
Published: November 30 2006 18:42 | Last updated: November 30 2006 21:40
The dollar suffered sharp falls on Thursday, hit by reports of weak US business activity and a benign inflation picture.
The euro rose 0.7 per cent against the dollar to $1.3247 by late afternoon in New York after [...]
Courtesy of the Daily Mail:
Doctors treating former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, who is gravely ill, believe he was poisoned. It follows the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko from poisoning and the discovery of radioactive material at 12 UK sites as four BA planes were grounded.
The call came as an aide to Mr [...]
Courtesy of BREITBART.com:
By JENNIFER QUINN
Associated Press Writer
LONDON
The FBI is joining the British probe into the poisoning death of a Kremlin critic, the agency announced Thursday as investigators found traces of radiation at a dozen sites in Britain and a former Russian prime minister reported symptoms consistent with poisoning.British authorities requested the involvement of the [...]
From Fox News:
WASHINGTON — Al Qaeda terrorists are eyeing U.S. financial Web sites for possible cyber attack, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed Thursday night to FOX News.
The federal Computer Emergency Readiness Team CERT —the cyber security branch of DHS —said it had translated information from a jihadist Web site, and that information leads [...]
Courtesy of LGF:
Flopping Aces has a response from AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll, in the case of their nonexistent news sources filing imaginary stories. It’s really not much of a response; they’re standing by their reporting, to no one’s surprise. At no point does Carroll deal with the major issue—the only issue, really: that enemy [...]
Courtesy of Jihad Watch:
No more pencils, no more books, because we can’t guarantee your safety. An update on this story. “Thailand to close all 944 schools in Muslim south,” from AFP:
BANGKOK : Thailand will close all 944 public schools indefinitely in the country’s restive Muslim-majority south after a string of arsons and shootings that left [...]
Courtesy of The Jawa Report:
Michelle Malkin does an excellent job in today’s Vent. Go check it out. The second half of today’s Vent talks about an earlier story, run in the Los Angeles Times, about 30 civilians alleged to have been killed in Ramadi. Now thoroughly debunked. But which the Times refuses to retract.
Incidentally, al [...]
Heh…
Courtesy of The Jawa Report:
Say what you will about the liberals, but when they blow it, they blow it big.
On Tuesday, Bob Geiger at the Huffington Post demanded to know if rightwing bloggers (including The Jawa Report) would be apologizing to the Associated Press for doubting their now-discredited story about the six burning [...]
Courtesy of Iran Focus:
By Chen Aizhu
BEIJING, Nov 29 (Reuters) – China’s Sinopec Group is near to clinching one of its biggest overseas deals, to develop Iran’s giant Yadavaran oilfield, a top Chinese industry official said on Wednesday.
Yadavaran, in southwest Iran, is expected to produce 300,000 barrels per day, about the same amount Iran now exports [...]
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Dennis Lormel
Robert W. Werner, Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced his resignation on November 21, 2006. FinCEN is the United States’ Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and plays an important role in the government’s anti-money laundering and terrorist financing efforts. Mr. Werner is the third Senior Executive to leave FinCEN [...]
Courtesy of Austin Bay:
“Who is Jamil Hussein?”
I wrote the column just as the fight between Multi National Corps-Iraq and the Associated Press was beginning to boil. It is now past boil.
The column makes the case (again) for a new National News Council.
For years I have supported forming a National News Council — in part because [...]
Courtesy of MEMRI:
Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah announced today, November 30, 2006, that popular street actions to topple the government of Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Al-Siniora are set to begin Friday, December 1. Nasrallah called for a mass assembly and for a sit-in demonstration of indefinite duration in the heart of Beirut. The other Lebanese opposition [...]
Courtesy of BREITBART.com:
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said that when he called US President George W. Bush a “devil” before the UN General Assembly, he was talking straight from the heart.“The way I called him a devil was not something I had planned, it came from the heart, because for me, it’s the truth,” Chavez [...]
Courtesy of The Washington Times:
By Bill Gertz
Chinese computer hackers penetrated the Naval War College network earlier this month, forcing security authorities to shut down all e-mail and official computer network work at the Navy’s school for senior officers.
Navy officials said the computer attack was detected Nov. 15 and two days later [...]Courtesy of The New York Times:
By DAVID E. SANGER and DAVID S. CLOUD
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 — The bipartisan Iraq Study Group reached a consensus on Wednesday on a final report that will call for a gradual pullback of the 15 American combat brigades now in Iraq but stop short of setting a firm timetable for [...]
Courtesy of Fox News:
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Thursday he believed Iraqi forces would be ready by June 2007 to take full control of security in Iraq, an issue on which he pressed President Bush during their meeting in Amman, Jordan.
In making the argument that his military and police could handle [...]
Courtesy of NewsMax:
Pope Benedict XVI has invited former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to be a political consultant to the Vatican and Kissinger has accepted, according to a published report.
Quoting an “authoritative” diplomatic source at the Vatican, the Italian newspaper La Stampa disclosed that Kissinger was asked at a recent private audience with the [...]
Courtesy of Homeland Security National Terror Alert:
A prominent research center has published a survey showing the threat of bioweapons is serious and growing. The study comes five years after the discovery of deadly anthrax in envelopes and other containers sent through the U.S. postal system. The spores killed five people and sickened 22 others. VOA’s [...]
Courtesy of Vital Perspective:
Lockheed Martin has had success in testing its Sky Shield system against Katyusha and Qassam rockets. The system uses radar and a rapid-fire 35mm canon that creates a barrier by firing tungsten-tipped ammunition in a spiral pattern. Incoming warheads are destroyed as they fly through the field of shrapnel. Sky Shield reportedly [...]
Courtesy of The Law Dog Files:
One of my lost posts:
Everywhere I go on the internet, I keep seeing Barack Obama as the new Democratic Golden Boy and shining path to the White House.
This is one of those things that just leaves me flabbergasted.
Barack Obama’s middle name is Hussein.
I look at recent history involving people named [...]
A call to arms – will you join us?
Courtesy of the Gates of Vienna:
by Baron Bodissey
The Great Islamic Jihad is certain that Western Civilization is about to come to an end.
Islamic Fascism looks forward to the rule of the new Caliphate, in which the whole world will swear submission to Allah and bow five times [...]
Courtesy of The Fourth Rail:
Taliban ban newspaper sales in North Waziristan; free press in Western Pakistan is in danger; North Waziristan Taliban Shura to meet on Friday
While many in the western press and various governments continue to debate the results of the Waziristan Accord, which turned North Waziristan over to the Taliban and al-Qaeda, Pakistani [...]
Courtersy of the Opinion Journal:
A civilization that has lost confidence in itself cannot confront the Islamists.
BY VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
Our current crisis is not yet a catastrophe, but a real loss of confidence of the spirit. The hard-won effort of the Western Enlightenment of some 2,500 years that, along with Judeo-Christian benevolence, is the foundation [...]Courtesy of Winds of Change:
by ‘Molon Labe’ at November 30, 2006 12:01 AM
does partially disemboweling a man, followed by publicly tearing him apart via 4 motorcycles tied to his hands and feet, count?
His crime was to defy the Taliban and educate girls. Let me know when the massive outcry begins.
sound of crickets chirping
Sphere ItCourtesy of Power Line:
ABC News reports that according to U.S. defense sources, incontrovertible proof now exists of Iran’s material assistance to Iraqi Shiite forces:
U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories. According to a senior defense official, coalition forces have recently seized [...]
I know, we’ll just talk them to death… If that doesn’t work, I bet begging will… Immaculate seduction leads to absolute corruption. Behold Iran’s true intent:
“And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and [...]
In a word – NEVER…
Courtesy of LGF:
Lipscomb University theologian Lee Camp told an interfaith gathering yesterday that in order to live peacefully with Muslims, Christians are going to have to give up the idea that there’s anything special about Jesus: Christians must ‘let go’ some beliefs for sake of peace, theologian says. (Hat tip: Kurt.)
To [...]
Courtesy of LGF:
Kenneth Timmerman on the real message of Ahmadinejad’s latest missive to America: Iran’s Ahmadinejad: America’s New Pen Pal. (Hat tip: Newsbeat1.)
Media commentators in the U.S. are likely to pick up on the “public relations” side of the letter. Ahmadinejad calls on the U.S. to bring the troops home from Iraq, to cut off [...]
Courtesy of LGF:
The driving forces of international terrorism, Iran and Syria, seem to be preparing a major move in Lebanon to wipe out the gains from the Cedar Revolution: Lebanon’s pro-Syrian opposition calls for protests.
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Pro-Syrian Hezbollah and its allies called for a peaceful protest and open-ended sit-in in central Beirut on Friday [...]
Courtesy of JunkYardBlog:
Remember Taser-boy at UCLA?
Remember how Iran got all in our face about that? Well, here’s how the student Basij, a division of the Revolutionary Guard, handled an uppity student there:
STUDENT KILLED IN FRONT OF FIANCEE. Students gathered outside the Teachers Training College in the city of Sabzevar on November 19 to protest the [...]
Courtesy of Jihad Watch:
Marisol caught the same things I note here, but I thought they deserved emphasis in their own thread:
Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, said:
When you meet your enemies who are polytheists, invite them to three courses of action. If they respond to any one of these, you also accept it and withold yourself [...]
Courtesy of Jihad Watch:
The grotesque attempt to ambush the Pope on his immediate arrival, to lecture him like a schoolboy on the wonderfulness of Islam, to demand that the “theology” of this or that faith be forever beyond any discussion, was all done by Dr. Ali Bardakoglu, head of the state-run religious affairs department.
One can [...]
Courtesy of Jihad Watch:
Don’t fit the Pope for a zunnar* just yet. By Sinan Fisek for Agence France-Presse, with thanks to Mackie:
POPE Benedict XVI put the brakes on his charm offensive in EU-hopeful, Muslim majority Turkey, stressing Europe’s “Christian roots” and taking a strong stand on religious freedoms and minority rights.
Flanked [...]Courtesy of Iran Focus:
London, Nov. 30 – United States President George W. Bush said on Thursday that he was very worried about Iran’s desires to obtain a nuclear weapon.
“I am very worried, as should the world, about Iran’s desires to have a nuclear weapon and, therefore, will continue to work with the world to send [...]
Courtesy of Iran Focus:
The Washington Times
TODAY’S EDITORIAL
One of the worst-kept secrets in Washington is the Iraq Study Group’s expected recommendation that the United States negotiate over Iraq’s future with rogue regimes in Iran and Syria—whose support for terrorist groups and militias helped turn post-Saddam Iraq into a powderkeg in the first place. Administration critics depict [...]
Courtesy of Hot Air:
by Allahpundit
We’re a week late on this but better late than never. Thanks to our web czar, Mark Jaquith, for rescuing it from the memory hole.
No comment necessary except that these guys are a hell of a lot better at photoshop than Adnan Hajj ever was. Note the photographer’s allusion to fake [...]
Courtesy of Hot Air:
by Allahpundit
Centcom said he’d mention it at today’s MOI presser, and so he did:
[W]e have some of the respected news outlets that deal with news fast and have a relation with many TV channels and the media in general, who distributed a story quoting a person called Jamil Hussein. Afterward, we searched [...]
Courtesy of Clarity and Resolve:
Gaza – Jihad Against the Modern Era
Spanish Dhimmitude Watch
Terrorist to Terrorists: Tear Down This Free Society
Baker Group to Israel: You’re Not Bleeding Enough
Armageddonjihad Works the Mohammedan Angle
Saudis: We Can Jihad Too
Afghanistan – RoP Disembowels & Tears Man From Limb to Limb
Armageddonjihad Works the Useful Idiot Crowd
Sphere ItCourtesy of Bareknucklepolitics:
More Proof Iran Supports Terrorists.:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2006 — U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories. According to a senior defense official, coalition forces have recently seized Iranian-made weapons and munitions that bear manufacturing dates in 2006.
[...]Courtesy of Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler:
Apparently Newt Gingrich, indefensibly, suggested that it might be a good idea to put a lid on the lice-infested cyber hadjis swarming all over the Internet and, predictably, a bunch of people are up in arms about it, screeching and howling and beating their chests about censorship, Gestapo, tyranny and the Coming [...]
Courtesy of American Conservative Daily:
Posted by Carolyn Hileman in Immigration
Wednesday, November 29. 2006
For almost 150 years, if you were born in the U.S. You were an American citizen eligible for state benefits. That would change if a new bill, written and sponsored by District 6 State Representative Leo Berman, passes.
“They are violating the most basic [...]
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
Almost from the first days of this blog, I have noted the continuing scandal of the United Nations peacekeeping efforts and their chronic sexual abuse of female refugees, many of them young girls. Despite over two years of these stories, the UN still has done nothing to purge itself of the disgusting [...]
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
Japan rattled a significant saber yesterday in its parliamentary session. In a debate clearly intended for the Chinese rather than the Japanese audience, Foreign Minister Taro Aso told a security committee that Japan could easily and quickly begin production of nuclear weapons:
Japan has the technological know-how to produce a nuclear weapon but [...]
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad decided to take a page out of Ronald Reagan’s playbook and talk directly to the people of his enemy—us, the Great Satanettes. In a letter to the “Noble Americans”, the Iranian president informs the benighted American electorate that all of our problems have a single source. Guess who that is? [...]
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Douglas Farah
Finally, rather than pretending Somalia is an unimportant side show in fighting Islamists in Africa, a senior official has actually acknowledged what is really happening.
Jendayi Frazer, the State Department’s head of Africa, told reporters that al Qaeda is operating “with great comfort” in Somalia. In previous statements Frazer and [...]
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