Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
Courtesy of Iran Focus:
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s central bank governor said Tehran had plans to end the sale of its oil in dollars completely, state television reported on Friday, part of a move to protect the Islamic Republic from mounting U.S. pressure.
Washington is leading efforts to isolate Iran over a nuclear program which the West [...]
Here’s your apology – pound sand you meglomaniac… And if he harms those marines – I say, nuke ‘em…
Courtesy of Fox News:
LONDON — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted Saturday that 15 captured British sailors trespassed in Iranian waters and called world powers “arrogant” for failing to apologize, the country’s official news agency reported.
“Instead [...]
Hat Tip: Chuck Muth
By BRENDAN MINITER
Wall Street Journal
March 31, 2007; Page A10
Late Wednesday night South Carolina state Rep. James Smith, a Democrat, flew into Columbia, the state capital. The captain in the Army National Guard was training with his unit out of Fort Riley, Kan., for ultimate deployment in Afghanistan, but his trip home was [...]
Courtesy of Fox News:
BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government has endorsed a decision to relocate and compensate thousands of Arabs who moved to the northern city of Kirkuk as part of Saddam Hussein’s campaign to push out the Kurds, the justice minister said Saturday. The decision was a major step toward solidifying the status of [...]
Courtesy of Fox News:
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The U.N. chief warned Saturday that arms smuggling from Syria could threaten the cease-fire in Lebanon and urged full compliance with a U.N. resolution that ended the summer war between Hezbollah and Israel.
U.N. Resolution 1701 which halted the 34 days of fighting calls among other things for a [...]
Courtesy of the DEBKAfile:
At the head of a delegation to the Middle East of Democratic lawmakers, Pelosi will address the Knesset Sunday, April 1. She will also call on Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
The Syrian embassy in Washington hailed the trip by the highest ranking US official to visit Damascus [...]
Courtesy of Fox News:
LONDON — An Iranian opposition group claimed Saturday that Iran’s capture of 15 British sailors and marines was planned in advance and carried out in retaliation for U.N. sanctions imposed against Tehran.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran — the political wing of the Iranian MEK opposition group which is listed [...]
Courtesy of Fox News:
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s ambassador to Russia renewed a threat Iranian officials made earlier this week, saying 15 British sailors held by Iran could be tried for violating international law, Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported Saturday.
Gholam-Reza Ansari told Russian television Vesti-24 on Friday that Iran had launched a legal investigation [...]
Courtesy of The Fourth Rail:
Baitullah Mehsud’s Taliban mass; 25 Taliban, 1 security officer killed after school principal kidnapped
The Taliban continue to challenge the Pakistani government’s writ in the Northwest Frontier Province. Taliban forces, estimated at “more than 200 Taliban soldiers” by Tank District Police Officer Mumtaz Zarin, massed and attacked the city of Tank on [...]
Courtesy of Clarity and Resolve:
Shia Terror State British Troop Hostage Updates
Top Shia Terrorist Takes One for the (Iranian) Team
Black Market Nuclear Jihad
Iran Hostage Coerced Into Islamocrat/Leftocrat Agitprop
UN: The World Could Use Some More Sharia
EU: The World Could Use Some More Dhimmitude
Israel’s Peace Partners: Don’t Worry – We’re Just Lying to the Infidels
Religion of Gunning Down [...]
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
Let’s see. The US is in the middle of a fight to secure Iraq, drive the Taliban out of Afghanistan, and end Islamist terrorism. Iran won’t stop developing nuclear weapons, Syria assists them in funding and supplying Hezbollah, and Lebanon can’t keep control over the sub-Litani region to keep Iranian proxies from [...]
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
The Saudis have pressed in recent days for Israel to accept in principle their 2002 plan for normalization in the region. Calling on the Israelis to accept a return to 1967 borders and some version of the right of return, the Arab nations endorsing the plan seem to have forgotten that the [...]
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
I suppose no one can ever underestimate the dysfunction of African governments, but the support given Robert Mugabe by the Southern African Development Community has to serve as a singular moment of disgrace. The SDAC didn’t just ignore the increasingly brutal methods of Mugabe in clinging to power—they endorsed them:
Zimbabwe’s neighbours fell [...]
Courtesy of Captain’s Quarters:
The reputation of Pope Pius XII has suffered from an endless series of accusations of collaboration with the Nazi regime before and during World War II. In books such as John Cornwell’s Hitler’s Pope and others, the Pope and the Roman Catholic church face accusations of moral cowardice in the face of [...]
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Douglas Farah
Today the U.S. Treasury Department took another step to crimp the style of Russian weapons trafficker Viktor Bout.
The OFAC freezing action of seven companies and three individuals in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) followed yesterday’s similar action by the United Nations Security Council and is aimed in part [...]
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Bill West
A few days ago, a rickety wooden sailboat overloaded with some 100 illegal Haitians penetrated our nation’s coastal defenses in south Florida. The Haitians made landfall just north of Miami near a fire station along the beach and, thanks to observant citizens, authorities did manage to capture what were [...]
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Michael Cutler
I testified today before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law on the subject, “Past, Present, and Future: A Historic and Personal Reflection on American Immigration.” The hearing was held at Ellis Island, through which my mother first set foot on American soil [...]
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Matthew Levitt
Michael Jacobson’s latest op-ed about the FBI’s counterterror tools and the Patriot Act appeared in today’s Baltimore Sun.
From the Baltimore Sun
Keep terror-fighting tools, but explain them better
By Michael Jacobson
March 30, 2007
In response to recent revelations about the FBI’s misuse of national security letters – administrative subpoenas issued by the [...]
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By Olivier Guitta
I just wrote a piece for The Weekly Standard on the explosive situation in Morocco.
Here is an excerpt:
On March 11, three years to the day after the Madrid bombings, a cybercafe in Casablanca was hit. Two terrorists carrying explosive belts entered the cybercafe to surf the web. They were [...]
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Animesh Roul
After months of speculation, Bangladesh authority has reportedly executed six Jama’atul Mujaheedin Bangladesh (JMB) militants in the early hours of March 30 (Friday). The six militants – Shaikh Abdur Rahman, Siddiqul Islam, Abdul Awal, Khaled Saifullah, Ataur Rahman Sunny and Iftekhar Hasan Al-Mamun were executed in four separate prisons [...]
Courtesy of the Counterterrorism Blog:
By Olivier Guitta
Syria is at the crossroads. A perfect storm is gathering above Damascus.
For proof from The Croissant come 2 interesting stories from usually well-informed Kuwaiti Al Seyassah :
1- Syria’s plan to avoid indictment for Hariri’s assassination
There is an opportunity for Syria to execute Ghazalé [Who is Rustom Ghazalé? Was the [...]
Courtesy of WND:
Public awareness campaign is only hope, says 3-year University of Georgia study
By Joseph Farah
WASHINGTON – The most extensive study of the effects of nuclear detonations in four major U.S. cities paints a grim picture of millions of deaths, overwhelmed hospitals and loss of command-and-control capability by government.
But the three-year study by researchers at [...]
Courtesy of Neal Boortz:
The worthless United Nations continues to be useless. Iran goes into Iraqi waters and kidnaps 15 British sailors, one of them a woman, and the best they can do is to express “grave concern.” Oh wow! Grave concern! I’m sure that really curled some beards in Iran. The U.N. originally intended to [...]
Courtesy of Neal Boortz:
The Senate approved a bill yesterday calling for the surrender of U.S. forces in Iraq within a year. The bill, which has no chance of becoming law. Bush says he will veto it. On the other hand, since there’s no abortion or stem cell research provisions in the bill … who knows? [...]
Courtesy of NewsMax:
MOGADISHU, Somalia—Insurgents shot an Ethiopian helicopter gunship out of the sky Friday and mortar shells slammed into a hospital during the worst fighting in the capital in more than 15 years, leaving corpses in the streets and wounding hundreds of civilians.
At least 30 people, and likely many more, have been killed since Thursday.
The [...]
Courtesy of NewsMax:
Stewart Stogel
The Security Council “statement” criticizing Iran’s continued “detention” of 15 British Royal Navy sailors is only the first step in what may turn into a major diplomatic attack by London, say U.N. diplomats.
The watered-down statement, unexpectedly accepted by British Ambassador to the U.N. Sir Emyr Jones Parry late Thursday, while criticizing the [...]
Courtesy of NewsMax:
Kenneth R. Timmerman
Israel will be at war by summer, a prominent opposition member of the Israeli Knesset told NewsMax in an exclusive interview this week.“We have no choice. We will have to do it,” said Dr. Arieh Eldad, member of the opposition National Union Party.
In a wide-ranging interview during a Passover visit [...]
Courtesy of Iran Focus:
London, Mar. 30 – The following is the text of a letter from Iran’s Foreign Ministry to the British ambassador in Tehran regarding the recent arrest of 15 British sailors and marines on the Iran-Iraq waterway. The United Nations Security Council expressed “grave concern” on Thursday at the group’s continued detention. The [...]
Courtesy of Iran Focus:
WASHINGTON, March 30, 2007 (AFP) – Nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz will sail Monday to support US operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US Navy said, amid a spike in tensions over Iran’s seizure of 15 British marines and sailors.
The Nimitz, and its battle group of destroyers and guided missile cruisers, [...]
Courtesy of the DEBKAfile:
The advice came from officers with US Central Command 5th Fleet HQ at Manama, who spoke of security tension, a hint at an approaching war with Iran. Arab sources report the positioning of a Patriot anti-missile battery in Bahrain this week; they say occupancy at emirate hotels has soared past 90% due [...]
Courtesy of BREITBART.com:
By PATRICK CONDON
Associated Press Writer
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Six Muslim men removed from a plane last fall after being accused of suspicious behavior are suing not only the airline but the passengers who complained—a move some fear could discourage travelers from speaking up when they see something unusual.
The civil rights lawsuit, filed earlier this [...]
Courtesy of NASDAQ:
TEHRAN (AP)—About 700 people staged a brief demonstration in the Iranian capital Friday against the U.K. and the 15 U.K. sailors being held by Iran.
Leaving Tehran University campus after Friday prayers, the protesters walked a few hundred meters down the road chanting “Death to Britain!” and “We condemn the British invasion!”
The demonstrators dispersed [...]
Courtesy of Time:
The soldiers who were there still talk about the September 7 firefight on the Iran-Iraq border in whispers. At Forward Operating Base Warhorse, the main U.S. military outpost in Iraq’s eastern Diyala Province bordering Iran, U.S. troops recount events reluctantly, offering details only on condition that they remain nameless. Everyone seems to sense [...]
Courtesy of the Times Online:
David Brown and Michael Theodoulou in CyprusThe detained sailors and Marines are likely to be kept in good physical conditions but will find their detention by Iranian forces a frightening experience, experts say.
The 15 are most probably being held in the military barracks at Jamshidiyeh in the foothills of the [...]
Courtesy of Bloomberg.com:
By Mark Drajem
March 30 (Bloomberg)—The U.S. Commerce Department, reversing more than two decades of practice, decided today to levy new duties on imports from China to compensate for Chinese subsidies to exporters.
The change of policy by the Bush administration, which debated the action for months, applies initially to imports of coated paper from [...]
Disgraceful – inaction against an act of war… America the weak strikes again… More interested in a vacation than the lives and future of 15 marines. What comes around goes around folks. Cantor seems to be one of the few with enough guts to say what needs to be said.
Courtesy of BREITBART.com:
By ANNE FLAHERTY
Associated Press [...]
Courtesy of the Guardian Unlimited:
EU foreign ministers support British position and warn of ‘appropriate measures’ if 15 sailors and marines not released
Julian Borger, Tania Branigan and Simon Tisdall
Saturday March 31, 2007
The Guardian
The EU threatened to act against Iran last night if it did not immediately and unconditionally release the 15 British sailors and marines it [...]
Courtesy of Townhall.com:
By Linda Chavez
Tolerance is a two-way street, as a group of Somali taxi drivers in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., are about to find out. In May, the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) in the Twin Cities is set to adopt new rules that will punish cabbies who refuse to haul passengers carrying liquor, [...]
Courtesy of Townhall.com:
By Oliver North
WASHINGTON, D.C.—On March 27 the solons of the U.S. Senate voted to assure defeat in Iraq by setting a “date certain”—one year from now—for the withdrawal of U.S. forces. As the 50-48 vote was being tallied, 15 British sailors and Royal Marines were being held hostage somewhere in Iran. While the [...]
Courtesy of Townhall.com:
By Charles Krauthammer
“Our bill calls for the redeployment of U.S. troops out of Iraq so that we can focus more fully on the real war on terror, which is in Afghanistan.”The Senate and the House have both passed bills for ending the Iraq War, or at least liquidating [...]
Courtesy of Townhall.com:
By Kathleen Parker
With an unintentional irony that might even tickle the Prophet himself, a new book called “Killed Cartoons” killed a cartoon. Not because it was bad, but because it was just too good.The book, edited by David Wallis and published by Norton, features political cartoons that other publications considered too hot [...]
Courtesy of the Global Security Newswire:
The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration is considering a request from the Los Alamos National Laboratory to begin limited operations at a biodefense laboratory, the Albuquerque Journal reported yesterday (see GSN, Aug. 4, 2005).
The Biosafety Level 3 facility would promote the New Mexico laboratory’s research of potential bioterrorism threats, through [...]
Courtesy of the Global Security Newswire:
The United States has completed work on a new laboratory designed to assess the radiation exposure of victims of potential terrorist attacks involving nuclear or radiological weapons, the National Nuclear Security Administration announced yesterday (see GSN, March 9).
The Cytogenics Biodosimetry Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn., would aid the medical treatment [...]
Courtesy of the Global Security Newswire:
China’s pursuit of antisatellite weapons could lead it to deploy nuclear weapons in space, a senior U.S. military official said yesterday (see GSN, March 12).
China has pursued an “impressive” variety of tools to defeat U.S. space-based technologies, said Gen. James Cartwright, head of the U.S. Strategic Command, in testimony to [...]
Courtesy of the Global Security Newswire:
Western nations this week discussed ramping up diplomatic pressure on Iran for preventing international inspectors from installing cameras at a key nuclear site, Reuters reported (see GSN, March 29).
The dispute is over an International Atomic Energy Agency request to place cameras within an underground facility at Natanz, where technicians are [...]
Courtesy of the Global Security Newswire:
Arab leaders expressed concern yesterday that the Middle East could be facing a nuclear arms race and encouraged all nations in the region to forgo atomic weapon ambitions, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, Feb. 16).
Long-standing tensions over Israel’s assumed nuclear capability, combined with Iran’s uncertain nuclear goals ,spurred Arab [...]
Courtesy of ICEJ:
There is a growing threat that terrorist groups such as HizbAllah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad will acquire nuclear or other WMD technology, a senior US State Department official told The Jerusalem Post this week. He indicated that there are a “large number” of nuclear smuggling incidents each year, some of which are “substantial” [...]
Courtesy of Fox News:
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit Syria, a country President Bush has shunned as a sponsor of terrorism, despite being asked by the administration not to go.
“In our view, it is not the right time to have these sort of high-profile visitors to Syria,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack [...]
Unadulterated bullcrap – they don’t want the agency to know how far along they are in their apocolyptic plans against the US and Israel… If anything, this could ensure they get attacked and that is what they want – the mother of all showdowns in a holy war.
Courtesy of Fox News:
VIENNA, Austria – — [...]
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