Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
The Miami Herald reported Wednesday that a Cuban defector who was a Cuban army colonel in charge of their military medical services for ten years has now publicly stated the Cuban government is involved in developing and stockpiling biological weapons. The defector, Roberto Ortega, claims he has now gone public because [...]
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Victor Comras
My colleague Olivier Guitta has just posted an excellent piece on the growing Sunni Shiite conflict. The heightened tensions between these two principal confessions of Islam is already putting great pressure on the Muslim Brotherhood. There has long been a significant movement within the Muslim Brotherhood supporting a closer [...]
Please take a moment to visit TexasFred’s and view this post. There is a picture of his friend there – SGT Wollaston, who narrated the presentation of the CMH to LTC Crandall. Fred is proud of his friend and rightly so – SGT. John Wollaston USA HHC 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) [...]
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Olivier Guitta
I just wrote a piece for The Examiner on the aggressive proselytizing going on in the Arab world.
Here is an excerpt:
While the media focuses on the aggressive Iranian expansion in the whole Middle East, another insidious campaign is being orchestrated by Iran to control the region. Proselytizing is the [...]
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Douglas Farah
The International Criminal Court took the small but important step of naming names in the Darfur atrocities, homing in on the inner circle of president Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
The ICC outlines the clear lines of responsibility of senior government officials in the creation and direction of the janjaweed militias now [...]
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Victor Comras
Following up on a recommendation contained in last year’s UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, the UN has put together a new on-line “counter-terrorism” handbook which is meant to help guide countries wishing to assess UN counter-terrorism support services. As the UN Counter-Terrorism Handbook Site states:
This site has been created to [...]
Courtesy of WorldNetDaily:
Consul: State’s social training required to create ‘responsible citizens’
By Bob Unruh
Homeschooling creates “parallel societies” that must be stamped out, according to the German government’s defense of its 3rd Reich homeschooling prohibition being used now to justify the imprisonment of a 15-year-old student, Melissa Busekros, whose case is being taken to appeal.
In a response [...]
Courtesy of WorldNetDaily:
Congressman has DEA reports confirming smuggler in 2nd drug incident
By Jerome R. Corsi
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., plans to reveal today Drug Enforcement Agency investigative reports that confirm a previous WND story presenting evidence the drug smuggler given immunity to testify against border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean was involved in a second [...]
Courtesy of WorldNetDaily:
Terrorists implement plan disclosed in WND interviews 3 months ago
By Aaron Klein
TEL AVIV – Hamas is using a cease-fire forged with Israel three months ago to stockpile weapons and prepare for an armed confrontation, Defense Minister Amir Peretz announced today.
Days after the Nov. 23 truce was agreed upon, Hamas leaders in Gaza granted [...]
Courtesy of WorldNetDaily:
Military launches investigation into ban on top independent online news source
By Bob Unruh
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
WorldNetDaily, the leading independent Internet news site, has been blocked from computers on U.S. Navy and Marine Corps bases across the country for an undetermined period of time, and an investigation has been launched into how – and why [...]
Courtesy of The Canadian Jewish News (Hat Tip: The Religion of Peace):
NEWMARKET — Zafar Bangash, the controversial Muslim cleric who’s involved in a proposed new mosque here, is “far more dangerous” than Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel, a Jewish activist told a town hall-style meeting of concerned citizens here on Sunday night.
Zundel, currently serving a [...]
Courtesy of the La Crosse Tribune (Hat Tip: The Religion of Peace):
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — For Abdi Mohamed, it’s not a question of whether he’ll carry passengers with alcohol in his cab. The question is whether he’ll get punished for refusing to do so.
“I am Muslim. I’m not going to carry alcohol,” Mohamed, a driver for [...]
Courtesy of NewsMax:
XIAMEN, China—When Huang Xu was a young soldier in an artillery unit on the Chinese coast in the late 1980s, war with Taiwan always seemed imminent.
“We were on alert level one every day, and drilling for Taiwan (contingencies) all the time,” said the driver in the booming coastal city of Xiamen just a [...]
Courtesy of NewsMax:
KHARTOUM —Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir accused the United States on Wednesday of creating strife in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.
Red carpets strewn with flowers were laid out for Ahmadinejad when he met Bashir at the start of a two-day visit to Sudan, which like Iran is [...]
Courtesy of NewsMax:
WASHINGTON —Repression is increasing in Cuba under the control of Raul Castro, and the domination of the government by his brother, Fidel, is nearing an end, Bush administration officials said Tuesday.
“In Cuba, this year will mark the end of the long domination of that country by Fidel Castro,” Mike McConnell, the nation’s new [...]
Courtesy of NewsMax:
The former head of Cuba’s military medical services says the communist government is stockpiling biological warfare agents like the plague, botulism and yellow fever at a secret underground lab near Havana.
Roberto Ortega ran the Cuban military’s medical services from 1984 to 1994 and defected to the U.S. in 2003. He said he told [...]
Courtesy of YNet News:
Minister for strategic affairs emphasizes, however, importance of international community uniting against Iran’s nuclear program
Amnon Meranda
Published: 02.28.07, 17:03 / Israel News
The Israeli government “is doing more than any other government to deal with the Iranian nuclear issue. If we will need to deal with the Iranian threat alone, we’ll be able to,” [...]
Courtesy of YNet News:
Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission rules that contrary to accusations made after war, Israel did not use toxic substances in areas bombed by IDF
Roee Nahmias
Published: 02.28.07, 18:32 / Israel News
The Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission has ruled that no toxic radioactive materials were found in the areas bombed by Israel during the recent war [...]
Courtesy of IRNA:
A Pakistani politician said here Wednesday that today, the whole world and Muslim states are against the US.
“Muslim world oppose and are sensitive towards desecration of al-Aqsa Mosque and military strike on Iran, calling for withdrawal of the occupied forces from the Palestinian occupied lands, as well as withdrawal of NATO and US [...]
Courtesy of IRNA:
Venezuelan MP Adel El Zabayar on Wednesday referred to Iran as a friend and brother of Latin American people.
He told IRNA that the approach of Latin American people to Iran’s nation and government is based on solidarity, brotherhood and friendship.
Turning to the recent bill approved by his country’s parliament condemning the US approach [...]
Courtesy of Townhall.com:
By Michelle Malkin
How many times have you sat in front of the television over the last four years, watching anti-war activists march on Washington, chase the ROTC off your local college campus, vandalize war memorials, insult the troops and wreak havoc under the surrender banner?
How many times have you thought to yourself: What [...]
Courtesy of Defense Link:
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2007 – Terror remains the No. 1 threat to the United States and its interests, the new U.S. director of national intelligence said in congressional testimony yesterday.
In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Retired Navy Vice Adm. John M. “Mike” McConnell gave a [...]
If you stop to consider, it might occur to you that there is something surreal about Purim this year. It is almost as if we are witnessing “replay”.
Haman is once again in our midst, but this time he is called Ahmadinejad – same country, same place, same agenda. Today’s Iran is Persia of yore, and [...]
Courtesy of the Terrorism Awareness Project:
Click here to view the video…
This week, the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC) launched the second flash video of its Terrorism Awareness Project. What Every American Needs to Know About Jihad reviews the history of recent terrorist attacks against America and the West and reveals the objectives of radical jihadists. [...]
Courtesy of LA Weekly:
An L.A. ’burb is mired in gangs, cartels and south-of-the-border-style politics
By Jeffrey Anderson
The first sign of trouble for Cudahy City Council candidate Tony Mendoza was a pair of thong panties mailed to his wife, with a note telling her to watch her husband’s back. Then came the phone calls — and the [...]
Courtesy of Townhall.com:
By Mike S. Adams
Yesterday afternoon, I logged on to the “Global War” blog (global-war.bloghi.com) of Associate Professor Julio Pino – a Muslim convert who teaches at Kent State University. The heading for the site used to read “The Worldwide Web of Jihad: Daily News from the Most Dangerous Muslim in America.” Now it [...]
Courtesy of FrontPage magazine.com:
By P. David Hornik
FrontPageMagazine.com | February 28, 2007
During Condoleezza Rice’s three-hour meeting with Mahmoud Abbas last week in Ramallah, she reportedly “employed a threatening tone.” A Palestinian Authority official said that “We’ve never seen her in such a bad mood.”
Later at a press conference after meeting in a Jerusalem hotel with Abbas [...]
Courtesy of FrontPage magazine.com:
By Jacob Laksin
FrontPageMagazine.com | February 28, 2007
The Cold War is back in a big way in Germany. The November passing of East German spymaster Markus Wolf has rekindled a debate over the sins of the communists, one that has been further stoked by the German film “Das Leben der Anderen” (“The Lives [...]
Courtesy of FrontPage magazine.com:
By William R. Hawkins
FrontPageMagazine.com | February 28, 2007
As Sen. Joe Biden, D-DE, assumed the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in January, he claimed that top officials in the Bush administration have privately concluded Iraq was lost and are simply trying to postpone disaster so the next president will “be the [...]
Courtesy of FrontPage magazine.com:
By Mark D. Tooley
FrontPageMagazine.com | February 28, 2007
On Friday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed that Iran will not backtrack on its nuclear program. And on Thursday, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that Iran had ignored a United Nations Security Council ultimatum about potential nukes.
But do not fear! An ecumenical delegation from [...]
Weekly Podcast episodes to air during the legislative session
For Immediate Release
February 20, 2007
Contact: Minority Leader Garn Mabey
(702) 809-6834
CARSON CITY, NEVADA: Today, Assembly Minority Leader Dr. Garn Mabey announced the start of the weekly Podcast for the Republican Assembly Caucus. The series will run through the legislative session and new episodes will be posted each [...]
Courtesy of The Blotter:
Brian Ross and Z. Byron Wolf Report:
In the most definitive statement in years, America’s top intelligence official said Tuesday Osama bin laden is in Pakistan actively re-establishing al Qaeda training camps.
The newly appointed Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell made the assertion about bin Laden and his No. 2 man, Ayman al [...]
Unconscienably stupid and borderline criminal… This madness won’t end until our country is gone; invaded by those who would take control in an illegal, relatively bloodless coup.
Courtesy of The News-Press:
By Bill Cotterell
news-press.com Tallahassee bureau
Originally posted on February 27, 2007
TALLAHASSEE —A state legislator whose district is home to thousands of Caribbean immigrants wants to ban the [...]
Courtesy of Fox News:
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistan on Wednesday rejected a claim by the U.S. intelligence chief that Usama bin Laden and his deputy were hiding in northwestern Pakistan, and that Al Qaeda was setting up camps near the Afghan border.
Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao, told The Associated Press there were no [...]
Courtesy of Fox News:
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A report that 18 boys were killed this week in a car bombing in Ramadi is “false,” a senior U.S. military official said Wednesday.
Iraqi state television reported Tuesday that the attack occurred that day in the Sunni insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad. Iraqi police and military confirmed the [...]
Courtesy of Fox News:
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A car bomb killed at least 10 people packed into a Baghdad market Wednesday, while an Iraqi government spokesman praised a decrease in attacks during a new security plan in the capital.
U.S. forces killed eight suspected militants in a raid north of the city, and captured six others [...]
John Kerry – STILL an asshat…
Courtesy of Fox News:
WASHINGTON — A Senate hearing that began with glowing tributes to a St. Louis businessman and his qualifications to become ambassador to Belgium turned bitterly divisive Tuesday after he was criticized for supporting a controversial conservative group.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., grilled nominee Sam Fox about why [...]
Courtesy of Iran Focus:
London, Feb. 27 – Canada imposed sanctions on Iran on Tuesday in line with a United Nations Security Council resolution in December which ordered a blockade of the country’s suspected nuclear weapons program.
“The Government of Canada has satisfied its obligations and is fully implementing Resolution 1737, which is intended to bring about [...]
Earlier I wrote concerning the links to Beware the Christian Jihad? I just heard from James who linked and not only was he polite but explained what was going on. I appreciate that and it is obvious that I misunderstood – so this is the blogger in charge saying sorry, I botched it. And you [...]
Courtesy of The Fourth Rail:
Multinational Forces Iraq is negotiating with elements of the Mahdi Army
With Muqtada al-Sadr now in Iran, the Iraqi government and Coalition forces are stepping up efforts to divide and conquer his Mahdi Army. Asharq Alawsat has confirmed that Multinational Forces Iraq (MNF-I) is “holding talks with commanders of Muqtada al-Sadr’s Al-Mahdi [...]
Courtesy of The MEMRI Blog:
The arrest by the U.S. of Ammar al-Hakim, the son of the Shi’ite leader Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim, over the weekend as he was returning from Tehran stirred up great political emotion among the Iraq Shi’ite community.
It was reported today that at the time of his arrest, Ammar Al-Hakim was carrying $50 [...]
Courtesy of The MEMRI Blog:
Arab security sources told the Kuwaiti paper Al-Rai that two weeks ago there was an important meeting in Iraq, with the participation of senior intelligence elements from a certain country and senior Al-Qaeda officials, to draw up the implementation of the threat issued some time ago by Al-Qaeda against the Gulf [...]
You know a wise blogger once said (Michelle Malkin I believe…) be careful linking articles that you have not fully read. That is good advice and I have attempted to always follow it.
One of my favorite authors and bloggers is Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch. Brilliant, articulate and a good person all around. Robert [...]
Courtesy of Austin Bay:
First off, the “oil reform” program in Iraq is overdue. Implementing the new program will strengthen the national government while giving all regions an economic stake in its political success.
Why did it take so long? Democracy is often a slow, muddled, and snarled operation. A few facts ought to temper criticism of [...]
Courtesy of Clarity and Resolve:
Taliban Aims for Cheney, Misses
The Great Infidel Tomato Conspiracy
Iraq Quagmire Roundup
Shia Terror State In It Up to Its Eyeballs
Religion of Mass Child Murder
U.S. Jihad Zakat Denied
Sphere ItCourtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
Democrats have delayed further consideration to restrict or cripple the Iraq war deployments, apparently stunned by the lack of cohesion among their own caucuses and fearful of the backlash their efforts might produce. Harry Reid has delayed the progress of a Joe Biden bill to revoke the 2002 AUMF, and Nancy Pelosi [...]
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
Venezuelan president-cum-dictator Hugo Chavez continued his confiscation of private property and foreign investment yesterday by seizing oil projects and assimilating them into the state-owned petroleum organization. Delivering on his pledge to create a socialist state along the same lines as Fidel Castro’s Cuba, Chavez told foreign-owned firms that they now had to [...]
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
Dick Cheney made an unannounced visit to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan after a stop in Pakistan to tell Pervez Musharraf that the US needs him to fight the al-Qaeda and Taliban forces organizing in Pakistani territory. As if to underscore that message, a suicide bomber attacked Bagram while Cheney visited, killing [...]
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
The plan recently approved by the Kurds to split the oil revenue of Iraq with the Sunnis won approval from the Iraqi cabinet. It now faces debate in the National Assembly, whose final approval will resolve one of the toughest issues in post-war Iraq and one that has helped fan the flames [...]
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
Remember when people started speculating that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have lost some political ground with his reckless rhetoric and nuclear brinksmanship? Many of us wondered whether it was for real or just a sop to international sensibilities. The veracity seems more clear now, as even the state-run newspapers have begun openly criticizing [...]
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