Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
From Fox News:
BAGHDAD — Two U.S. soldiers were charged with the premeditated murder of three Iraqis, while 26 people died in American raids in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood, the U.S. military said Saturday.
North of the capital, police said a homicide bomber exploded himself in a crowd of police recruits, killing at least 16 people [...]
From Fox News:
GLASGOW, Scotland — A motorist tried to ram an SUV in flames into the main terminal building of Glasgow airport Saturday, witnesses said, according to news reports.
Witnesses described an SUV driving at full speed toward the terminal building with flames pouring out from the car, the British Broadcasting Corp. said.
The car was [...]
From Townhall.com:
By Fred Thompson
Yesterday was a good day. Talk radio, along with the blogs, helped block an immigration bill that the American people overwhelmingly opposed. Then, a congressman, who is also an ex-radio talk show host, managed to get a “yes” vote on language in a House bill that could permanently stop those who want [...]
From Citizen’s Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
MABEY GOOD NEWS FOR GOP, MABEY NOT
Las Vegas Review Journal reporter Molly Ball wrote earlier this week that Republican Assembly Minority Leader Garn “Maybe” Mabey told her the odds were “about 80-20” that he wouldn’t run for re-election. In other words, the man remains a weather vane of indecisiveness. [...]
From Militant Islam Monitor:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ODU1YWMyN2M4MWY0OWViMTBkMzY0MTM1Yjg1NGY5ZTQ=
Radical Outreach
Bush coddles American apologists for radical Islam
By Steve Emerson
At Wednesday’s rededication ceremony of the Saudi-funded Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., President Bush missed a perfect opportunity to repudiate apologism for radical Islam, and instead announced his latest plan to get the Muslim world to stop hating America: appoint a special envoy [...]
From Iran Focus:
Associated Press
By JAN SLIVA
Associated Press Writer
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) – The top U.S. missile defense official warned Thursday that the ballistic threat from Iran and North Korea was rapidly growing and defended Washington’s plans to base parts of its anti-missile shield program in Central Europe.
But NATO called for more evaluation of the potential danger, [...]
From Haaretz.com:
By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondent and News Agencies
Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon expressed ‘deep concern’ Friday that Lebanon’s continuing internal political instability will hinder its implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, the ceasefire agreement that ended the Second Lebanon War which calls for the disarmament of all militant groups in the [...]
From FrontPage magazine.com:
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 29, 2007
This week’s gasoline riots in Tehran were entirely predictable. They are also the clearest measure we have seen in recent times of the remarkable fragility of Iran’s Islamic regime.
Predictable, because they have been debated publicly in Iran for weeks and delayed several times, for fear of [...]
From FrontPage magazine.com:
By Dr. Paul Kengor
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 29, 2007
Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to have a habit of making outrageous statements. In the latest, he compared Soviet atrocities under Stalin to American actions during wartime. “Yes, we had terrible pages [in our history],” Putin acknowledged, noting Stalin’s 1934-38 Red Terror, when one of every [...]
From Fox News:
CAIRO, Egypt — The death of a 12-year-old Egyptian girl at the hands of a doctor performing female circumcision in the country’s south has sparked a public outcry and prompted health and religious authorities this week to ban the practice.
The girl, Badour Shaker, died earlier in June while being circumcised in an [...]
From the American Congress for Truth:
By RALPH PETERS
June 19, 2007—HAMAS won its shut-out victory in Gaza with alarming ease. And the reason Hamas won is even more alarming: Fanaticism trumps numbers.
You’ll hear no end of explanations for the terrorist triumph: Hamas was backed by Iran; Gaza is Hamas’ base of support; some Fatah units ran [...]
From American Thinker (HT: Rocket’s Brain Trust):
Thomas Lifson
As the gasoline riots continue in Tehran (and who knows where else in Iran?), popular discontent with the mullahs’ regime increases as economic hardships multiply. Kenneth Timmerman, writing in Front Page Magazine, discusses both the economic roots of unrest and the prospects for heightening it.
Among several interesting bits [...]
From Rocket’s Brain Trust:
“Way cool. At least the feds are doing something now to identify companies doing bus with terrorist regimes. That was a major complaint of Cal-PERS re the Sudan divestiture. The feds have really been dragging their feet and should have been ahead of the ball on this one. [...]
From Townhall.com:
By Fred Thompson
Recently, the new UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the root cause of the current genocide in Darfur is … global warming. Now if you’ve been following the tragedy of the Darfur region in the African nation of Sudan, you know how absurd that statement is.
There’s not room here for even [...]
From CNN:
LONDON, England (CNN)—A second car found on a London street on Friday contained possible bomb materials, sources told CNN, hours after police disarmed an explosives-filled car in the city’s busy theater district.
The second car was towed from Trafalgar Square to Park Lane overnight, because it was illegally parked, the sources said.
At the Park Lane [...]
From BREITBART.com:
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – A Mickey Mouse lookalike who preached Islamic domination on a Hamas- affiliated children’s television program was beaten to death in the show’s final episode Friday.
In the final skit, “Farfour” was killed by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour’s land. At one point, the [...]
From This Is London:
An Islamic fanatic predicted a terror blast in London – hours before today’s thwarted bomb attack on a West End nightclub.
The chilling message, posted on a jihadist internet forum, warned: “Today, I say, Rejoice, by Allah,London shall be bombed.”
Meanwhile, an international manhunt was launched tonight to find the gang – believed to [...]
From BBC News:
A car bomb planted in central London would have caused “carnage” if it had exploded, police say.
A controlled explosion was carried out on the car, packed with 60 litres of petrol, gas cylinders and nails, in Haymarket, near Piccadilly Circus.
An ambulance crew saw smoke coming from the green Mercedes, near the Tiger Tiger [...]
From BREITBART.com:
By DAVID STRINGER
Associated Press Writer
LONDON (AP) – Police in London’s bustling nightclub and theater district on Friday defused a bomb that could have killed hundreds after an ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from a Mercedes filled with a lethal mix of gasoline, propane and nails, authorities said.
The bomb near Piccadilly Circus was powerful enough [...]
From Sky News:
Sky News sources say one of the first police officers on the scene of the London West End car bomb may have saved dozens of lives by defusing the explosives before the bomb squad arrived.
It is believed the quick-thinking cop recognised that the car was wired to blow up, jumped in and disconnected [...]
From NewsMax:
A day after pitching his conservative credentials down South, likely presidential hopeful Fred Thompson took a broader approach Thursday in his first trip to New Hampshire.
The actor and former Tennessee senator said the United States will again become a “beacon of inspiration” to the rest of the world if it returns to the core [...]
We will be traveling in Idaho and Montana thru July 8th. Consider this an open thread and discuss whatever you like… We will be posting – but it will be hit and miss…
Sphere ItFrom Fox News:
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, reversing course, agreed Friday to review whether Guantanamo Bay detainees may go to federal court to challenge their indefinite confinement.
The action, announced without comment along with other end-of-term orders, is a setback for the Bush administration. It had argued that a new law strips courts of their [...]
From Fox News:
LONDON — Police thwarted a terror attack Friday near the famed Piccadilly Circus in the heart of London, defusing a crude bomb made of gasoline, propane gas, and nails after an ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from a silver Mercedes outside a nightclub.
A British government official told FOX News that a number [...]
Check out Bob Owens’ post at the Confederate Yankee. Once again the AP gets it ALL wrong… At least they are consistent.
First the AP claimed that 23 burned to death in the Hurriyah mosques. Now they claim 20 men were decapitated in Um-al-Abeed. The only thing they lack are witnesses and evidence. It seems to [...]
From NewsMax:
Stewart Stogel
UNITED NATIONS —In a wide-ranging comprendium on Saddam Hussein’s secret weapons programs, the U.N. Monitoring, Observation, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) reveals that in late 1989, Saddam’s military launched a modified Scud missile that could have carried a nuclear warhead.
In a document released on Thursday, UNMOVIC states:
“In its only test flight on Dec. [...]
From the Guardian Unlimited:
Luke Harding in Moscow
President Hugo Chávez yesterday hinted that Venezuela could try to become a nuclear power, during a visit to Russia apparently timed to antagonize the White House.
Mr Chávez defended Iran’s right to pursue a nuclear programme and said it might be a good idea if Venezuela eventually did the same [...]
From the International Herald Tribune:
By Nazila Fathi and Jad MouawadTEHRAN: Unrest spread in Tehran on Thursday, the second day of gasoline rationing in oil-rich Iran, with drivers lining up for miles, gas stations being set on fire and state-run banks and business centers coming under attack.
Dozens were arrested, and the Tehran police chief, Ismail [...]
Celebrations and dancing in the streeta will now ensue…
Enforce our damn laws and secure the border
Pro-Amensty WSJ, Still Smarting Over Defeat, Demands To Know: WHERE DOES HOT AIR’S FUNDING COME FROM? – Ace of Spades
RINOs, Bought and Paid For – Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD! – Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
Let the Gloating Commence – Anti-Idiotarian [...]
And now the Dhimmi In Chief genuflects towards radical Islam… Disgraceful. From WND:
President appoints envoy to Organization of the Islamic Conference
The Council on American-Islamic Relations – recently linked to a plot to fund the terrorist group Hamas – said it welcomed an announcement yesterday by President Bush to name a special envoy to the Organization [...]
From The Daily Standard (HT: The Religion of Peace):
New leaders are following a new strategy.
by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
& Kyle Dabruzzi
IN THE PAST YEAR, we have seen the battlefield deaths of such prominent terrorists as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq, and Shamil Basayev and Abu Hafs al-Urdani in Chechnya, as well as a host of less publicized [...]
From NRO (HT: The Religion of Peace):
Bush coddles American apologists for radical Islam
By Steve Emerson
At Wednesday’s rededication ceremony of the Saudi-funded Islamic Center of Washington, D.C., President Bush missed a perfect opportunity to repudiate apologism for radical Islam, and instead announced his latest plan to get the Muslim world to stop hating America: appoint a [...]
From The Times (HT: The Religion of Peace):
By Michel Moutot, AFP
BEIRUT – Hezbollah is busy preparing for its next war with Israel in the knowledge that the Jewish state will not rest easy with the results of last summer’s 34-day conflict, military analysts in Beirut believe.
Since the United Nations-brokered ceasefire came into force last August [...]
From BBC News:
By Martin MurphyVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez has arrived in Russia, where he will meet his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for talks on military co-operation.
Mr Chavez is expected to visit a helicopter factory and discuss the possible purchase of diesel submarines.
This is Mr Chavez’s second visit in under a year to Russia, [...]
From NewsMax:
He hasn’t announced his candidacy yet, but Fred Thompson beat out all Republican presidential candidates in a poll of likely Georgia voters.
In the poll conducted by Strategic Vision, LLC, the former senator and “Law & Order” star got 25 percent of the vote from Republicans, while Rudy Giuliani received 20 percent, John McCain was [...]
From NewsMax:
In a rare display of nonpartisanship, the House Foreign Affairs Committee has passed by a 37 to 1 margin a bill increasing pressure on Iran over its nuclear program – but the Bush administration opposes the legislation.
The Iran Counter Proliferation Act, approved on Tuesday, would impose sanctions on countries that invest in Iran, particularly [...]
From Militant Islam Monitor:
MIM: This information provided by King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz regarding their attempts to turn Bosnia into an Islamic state and help for Alia Izetbekovics proves that the Bosnians are not “moderate” Western Muslims as they and their supporters falsely portray them to be but radical Islamists who pose one of the [...]
From MEMRI:
In the wake of Hamas’ takeover of Gaza, some in the Egyptian press have expressed fears that the Muslim Brotherhood may seize power in Egypt. They expressed concern at the similarities between Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, and said that lessons should be learned from the Palestinian experience in Gaza.
The following are excerpts of [...]
From Global Security Newswire:
U.S. officials offered different reactions yesterday to the latest North Korean missile tests, which occurred amidst efforts to persuade the isolated state to begin meeting its February pledge to end its nuclear weapons program, according to Reuters (see GSN, June 27 ).
“The United States is deeply troubled that North Korea has decided [...]
From the Global Security Newswire:
Saddam Hussein’s cousin and two other former officials of his regime are likely to be hanged in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, the Associated Press reported Tuesday (see GSN, June 25 ).
An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced the three men to death for their role in the systematic murder of up [...]
From Global Security Newswire:
By Jon Fox
Global Security Newswire
WASHINGTON — Years after the black market nuclear network associated with Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan was exposed, details remain unknown and the network is likely still in operation, a senior Democrat in the House of Representatives said yesterday (see GSN, June 12 ).
Khan, a metallurgist who stole [...]
From Iran Focus:
BBC News
Iran’s top security body has ordered local journalists not to report on problems caused by petrol rationing, a day after its surprise introduction.
Angry motorists have reacted violently to the curbs, attacking up to 19 petrol stations in the capital, Tehran.
There are still long queues outside filling stations.
The authorities switched off the mobile [...]
From Iran Focus:
The Guardian
Nasser Karimi in Tehran
Iranians set fire to a dozen petrol stations in Tehran in the early hours yesterday, angered by the sudden start of fuel rationing, a step that threatens to further increase the unpopularity of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
After the violence security was strengthened at several stations, and there was calm as [...]
From Iran Focus:
By Alister Bull
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iranian operatives are training fighters in Iraq and helping to plan attacks there despite diplomatic pressure on Tehran to halt such interference, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
The latest accusation leveled against Iran by the U.S. military followed rare diplomatic talks in Baghdad last month between the two old [...]
From Iran Focus:
London, Jun. 27 – The international human rights group Amnesty International accused the Iranian regime on Wednesday of continuing to execute minors.
At least 71 child offenders were awaiting execution in Iran, Amnesty said in a report entitled, “Iran: The last executioner of children”.
It said that more child offenders had been executed in Iran [...]
From Iran Focus:
London, Jun. 27 – British Prime Minister Tony Blair used his final day in office to warn against the threat of terrorism posed by the Iranian regime.
In his last-ever Prime Minister’s Question Times, Blair told lawmakers, “What is important is that those people who are fighting us in Iraq, who are either backed [...]
From Family Security Matters:
China’s activities in Africa undermine what little leverage Western governments and international organizations have with recalcitrant regimes there. FSM Contributing Editor J. Peter Pham, Ph.D., delves into the stark realities underlying China’s interest in Africa. What is going on there?
By J. Peter Pham
In recent years, United States policy makers and analysts as [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
Early this week, Tehran deployed in southern Iraq and southern Iran contingents of Revolutionary Guards Corps of suicide fighters in anticipation of an American attack on Iranian soil.
Those units were posted to fight off a possible US Marines landing in southern Iran. Tehran believes the American force will be assigned with destroying RG [...]
From FrontPage magazine.com:
By Steven Plaut
JewishPress.com | June 28, 2007
After their military defeat by regular forces, the occupied population produced terrorists who engaged in bombings, sniping, poisonings, and other attacks on occupation forces and on the civilian population. They operated as irregulars in small terror units, armed with automatic weapons and bazookas.
Women and minors as young [...]
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