Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
From NewsMax:
This article was written by Kevin Mooney, staff writer at CNSNews.com
A congressional panel will Tuesday try to establish whether the Mexican government played a role in the prosecution of two former Border Patrol agents serving lengthy prison terms for shooting a Mexican drug smuggler.
The House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and [...]
From MEMRI:
In two recent articles in the Pakistani press, Pakistani journalists blamed the Pakistani government for the Lal Masjid showdown. Just before the mosque was stormed, Najam Sethi wrote in the pro-Kashmir Roznama Nation to describe the history of the Ghazi brothers’ ties with Pakistani intelligence services; following the confrontation, Hamid Mir wrote in the [...]
From Iran Focus:
The Wall Street Journal
By GLENN R. SIMPSON and DAVID CRAWFORD
July 31, 2007; Page A4
Deutsche Bank AG and Commerzbank AG, the two largest European banks to continue doing business with Iran despite recent U.S. pressure, say they will end most of their ties to Iranian companies.
The loss of ties to the two German banks [...]
From Family Security Matters:
The dangerous alliance between elements within our universities, the media and the global Islamofascist agenda comprises the focus of FSM Contributing Editor Peter Feaman’s Chapter Four of his book, “Wake Up, America”, presented here in three parts. The truth, as troubling as it is, is here.
By Peter Feaman
The Unspoken Alliance Between [...]
From Family Security Matters:
The bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is stretched thin financially, with dubious capabilities for carrying out policies of border enforcement that over 80% of Americans want accomplished immediately. FSM Contributing Editor Michael Cutler has the inside story.
By Mike Cutler
An article in the The Washington Times is deceptively brief, but it is [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
This piece of intelligence was behind the Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert’s comment Tuesday, July 31: “I think this summer and fall will be less hot than we expected.” He was addressing a ceremony ending a course at the National Security College in Jerusalem on expectations from the Syrian front and in the [...]
From FrontPage magazine.com:
By Mark D. Tooley
FrontPageMagazine.com | 7/31/2007
Muslim Groups in the U.S. have joined with left-wing Protestants and Catholics in planning an “interfaith fast” on the upcoming “day officially known as ‘Columbus Day,’” according to fast organizers. Called “From Conquest to Community, From Violence to Reverence: An Interfaith Fast to End the War in Iraq,” [...]
From the Counterterrorism Blog (HT: Rocket’s Brain Trust):
By Michael Jacobson
Jerusalem Post, July 30, 2007
As the US presses for a stronger UN Security Council resolution on Iran, the Treasury Department continues its international outreach to highlight Iran’s illicit financial activity. While the Treasury-led campaign has achieved considerable success, this initiative would be far more effective if [...]
From Rocket’s Brain Trust:
US House passes Iran divestment bill
By Corne’(Corne’)
Money managers who decide to divest from companies on that list would be protected from lawsuits under the bill, which shields both private-sector money managers and fund managers for state and local governments and educational …
From Yahoo! News:
By John Wilen
NEW YORK (AP) – Oil futures settled at a record high above US$78 Tuesday on expectations that crude inventories fell last week and reports of new violence in Nigeria, a large oil producer and key supplier to the U.S.
Investors believe Wednesday’s inventory report by the U.S. Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration [...]
From Fox News:
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council approved a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for Darfur on Tuesday to try to help end four years of fighting that has killed more than 200,000 people in the conflict-wracked Sudanese region.
The force — the first joint peacekeeping mission by the African Union and the United [...]
From NewsMax:
Kenneth R. Timmerman
The United States has a choice when it comes to dealing with the threats posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, says Senator Jon Kyl, R-Arizona: It’s either the 1930s, or the 1980s.
“During the run up to World War II, Europe failed to heed the warnings” coming from Germany and from Western [...]
From American Congress for Truth:
Saudi in the Classroom – A fundamental front in the war.
By Stanley Kurtz
National Review Online
The Stealth Curriculum
There’s certainly something troubling here. And once you grasp the Saudi connection, it begins to make sense. Stotsky didn’t quite put all the pieces together, but she came very close. Her stint at the Massachusetts [...]
From ISN (HT: World Politics Review):
Turkey is on the edge of an incursion into northern Iraq to attack Kurdish rebel bases, but in the post-election period, Prime Minister’s Erdogan’s intentions remain unclear.
By Ben Judah in Istanbul for ISN Security Watch (31/07/07)
The threat of war hangs over the Qandil Mountains that mark the final Eastern borders [...]
From The Washington Times (HT: World Politics Review):
By Nate Braden
The song has that lilting quality of a trance common to Middle Eastern music, punctuated with the strident repetition of Allahu Akbar — God is great — which dominates the song’s refrain as well as the background shouts of men detonating explosives beneath American vehicles.
This is [...]
From BREITBART.com:
By MIKE ECKEL
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP) – A video that remained secret for nearly three years after the horrific Beslan hostage crisis has cast new doubt on official conclusions about what led to the deaths of 334 people, more than half of them children, during one of Russia’s worst terrorist attacks.
The footage is far [...]
From Fox News:
TEHRAN, Iran — The Iranian judiciary confirmed that two journalist from the country’s Kurdish minority have been sentenced to death, a rare verdict against media people here, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported on Tuesday.
“Adnan Hassanpour and Hiva Boutimar have been sentenced to execution on the charge of Moharebeh,” the [...]
From Fox News:
GHAZNI, Afghanistan — Police discovered the body of a second South Korean hostage slain by the Taliban in central Afghanistan while the group threatened Tuesday to kill more hostages if their demands were not met by Wednesday, the latest of several deadlines.
South Korea, meanwhile, pleaded with the international community to set aside [...]
From Fox News:
An inmate of Guantanamo Bay who spends 22 hours each day in an isolation cell is fighting for the right to stay in the notorious internment camp.Ahmed Belbacha fears that he will be tortured or killed if the United States goes ahead with plans to return him to his native Algeria.
The London [...]
From Fox News:
Michael Yon is an independent journalist and former Green Beret who was embedded in Iraq for nine months in 2005. He has returned to Iraq for 2007 to continue reporting on the war. Here is a portion of his latest dispatch exclusively for FOXNews.com.The Battle for Baqubah is still underway.
Small TICs [Troops [...]
From Joel Rosenberg:
By Joel C. Rosenberg
(DENVER, COLORADO, July 31, 2007)—Russia and Iran continue to strengthen their military ties, while Vladimir Putin and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continue to draw closer as strategic allies.
In December 2005, Russia sold Iran $1 billion worth of missiles, after years of selling submarines and other advanced weapons systems to the radical Islamic [...]
From CLC07:
By: Chuck Muth
FREE Child-Care Services Will Be Available At 2007 Conservative Leadership Conference
(Washington, DC) – The 2007 Conservative Leadership Conference, nicknamed “Rightoberfest,” announced today that it will provide free, licensed child care services for parents attending the event.
Care will be provided by The Bridge Center of Reno, Nevada, for children from 1-10 years of [...]
From The New York Sun (HT: Lucianne.com):
By P.J. HUFFSTUTTER
When Majed Afana needs to pray while attending classes at the University of Michigan at Dearborn, the 19-year-old Muslim usually will duck into the campus library’s bathroom, strip off his shoes, and awkwardly strain to wash his feet in the sink.
Water often pools at his feet, he [...]
From National Review Online (HT: Rocket’s Brain Trust):
Congress looks to divest.
By Michael O’Brien
Popular talk of “divestment” from a country or corporation can call to mind the workings of left-wing radicals in the minds of many Americans. A new movement surfacing across the country, though, could bring divestment to the forefront of the War on Terror, [...]
From Citizen’s Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
Mark Sanford vs. the Good Old Boy Party: Can South Carolina government be brought into the 21st Century?
By Fred Barnes
The Weekly Standard
Governor Mark Sanford is standing in front of Brown’s Bait and Tackle. It’s located on the outskirts of Greenville beside a small lake. The shop’s owner wears a T-shirt identifying [...]
From The Independent:
By Andrew Grice, Political Editor at Camp DavidGordon Brown has paved the way for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq by telling George Bush he would not delay their exit in order to show unity with the United States.
After four hours of one-to-one talks with the US President [...]
From ICEJ:
Peres dismisses report, says Israel’s position will not change
One of the two Israeli soldiers held by the Hizb’Allah paramilitary terror group in Lebanon for more than a year has died and the other is still alive, the Lebanese daily newspaper an-Nahar reported on Saturday. The daily quoted unnamed German diplomatic sources as saying [...]Citizens Flee the UK in Droves – Atlas Shrugs
BANKRUPT ISLAMIC TERROR! – Atlas Shrugs
You mean Saddam’s fall was a welcome event? Thoughts on the Iraqi soccer victory – Austin Bay
Bhutto: Musharraf Must Resign From Army – Captain’s Quarters
There’s Something Missing From This Picture – Captain’s Quarters
Iran Objects To Its Isolation – Captain’s Quarters
UN Decries Rape [...]
From the Jerusalem Post:
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora criticized a proposed US arms deal Monday that offers a sharp increase in defense aid to Israel, a rare rebuke against Washington by the Western-backed premier.
A statement issued by Saniora’s office said he expressed “displeasure, surprise and astonishment” when he learned of US plans to increase military [...]
While this article says Justice Roberts is fine, we are hearing rumors and unconfirmed reports that he had a grand mal seizure with the potential for brain damage. We certainly hope and pray this is not true… If it is, expect the liberal ghouls to dance in the streets after last week’s pronouncement that they [...]
From NewsMax:
This article was written by Kevin Mooney, staff writer at CNSNews.com
When Turkish nationals sought to buy Florida driver’s licenses in 2003 without taking the required examination, a tip-off by a concerned citizen alerted counter-terrorism officials, who then used undercover agents to infiltrate the group.
After monitoring the suspects for a two-month period, officials learned that [...]
From WND:
Bush continues to fund, arm Abbas’ militias ‘heavily infiltrated’ by terror group
By Aaron Klein
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
JERUSALEM – The director of a major Palestinian security force who coordinated security directly with U.S. officials is suspected of being an agent for the Hamas terror organization, WND has learned.
Yussef Issa, director of the Preventative Security Services, is [...]
From NewsMax:
Stewart Stogel
UNITED NATIONS —Four years after the invasion of Iraq, a significant number of Saddam Hussein’s prohibited weapons are apparently missing.
NewsMax has learned that 25 surface-to-surface missiles, known as the al-Samouds, cannot be accounted for, say sources inside the U.N.
Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad tell NewsMax they too cannot find any records [...]
From the WSJ (HT: Tammy Bruce):
Organization Aims to Capitalize
On Intelligence Gains From Gaza Takeover
By CAM SIMPSON in Jerusalem and NEIL KING JR. in Washington
July 30, 2007; Page A4
When the Islamist group Hamas conquered the Gaza Strip in June it seized an intelligence-and-military infrastructure created with U.S. help by the security chiefs of the Palestinian territory’s [...]
From Militant Islam Monitor:
Deals from the Dark Ages
George Jonas
National Post
Saturday, July 28, 2007 http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=2a9bdf8e-e6c4-437b-921a-40838a00b54e
On Wednesday, the bullet-riddled body of 42-year-old Bae Hyung-kyu was discovered in the Qarabagh district of Afghanistan, the region where 23 South Korean Christian aid workers had been abducted on July 19 by the Taliban. The initial response of Baek Jong-chun, South [...]
From Iran Focus:
CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday that he and President George W. Bush agreed on the need to pursue tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program.
“On Iran, we’re in agreement that sanctions are working and the next stage we are ready to move towards is [...]
From Iran Focus:
By Louis Charbonneau
BERLIN (Reuters) – U.S. sanctions have hit the European operations of Iran’s Bank Sepah hard, despite Tehran’s contention the penalties have had little impact and initial U.S. concern they did not go far enough, Western diplomats say.
In March the U.N. Security Council imposed a second round of sanctions on Iran for [...]
From Iran Focus:
The Daily Telegraph
By Kitty Logan in Ghandouriyeh
In the blazing heat of south Lebanon, men drenched in sweat labour over a cratered road. The sun is relentless and so is the pace of work in the village of Ghandouriyeh.
One year after the war with Israel, triggered by Hizbollah’s cross-border rocket attacks, Lebanon’s roads are [...]
From Haaretz.com:
By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service
The Israel Defense Forces is preparing to evacuate next week settlers who have broken into the wholesale market in the West Bank city of Hebron.
The IDF recently sent a letter to the settlers’ attorney, Haim Cohen, saying it would charge settlers the cost of evacuating them if [...]
From Citizen’s Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
ENSIGN VOTES “NO” ON BACK-DOOR HILLARY-CARE
When Hillary Clinton’s scheme to establish a third world-level national health care system in this country went down the tubes in the early 90s, she declared she’d just work to implement it at a slower pace. And apparently she’s found just the right vehicle in [...]
From Family Security Matters:
Veteran Israeli Intelligence expert, Juval Aviv, said in recent media interviews that his sources on terror plots directed at the United States indicate that multiple attacks on our homeland are in the final stages of preparation. Read the details.
By FSM Editors
Counterterrorism expert Juval Aviv met recently with reporters at Fox News [...]
From Family Security Matters:
Michael Cutler
Stop throwing confetti over defeating the immigration reform bill, says FSM Contributing Editor Michael Cutler, because members of Congress have changed tactics and are now attempting a “strip-the-car” approach to legalizing aliens. What does this curious analogy mean?
By Michael Cutler
An article in the July 26 edition of the Washington Times reports [...]
From Family Security Matters:
Jonathan Strong
Since its inception, NATO has been a reliable deterrent to events threatening global stability. FSM Contributing Editor Jonathan Strong has a thoughtful retrospective on NATO’s history, while presenting persuasive arguments for a new alliance of countries in defense against radical Islam.
Since the end of World War II, a collection of Western [...]
From the Guardian Unlimited (HT: World Politics Review):
The rush to process uranium is to generate electricity, officials tell Julian Borger in Isfahan. But there are no power stations
In the bowels of Iran’s uranium conversion facility in Isfahan strands of black and red wire stretch from the concrete wall to giant white tanks full of a [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
Some 70 jihadis occupied the shrine named of Pashtun freedom fighter Sahib Turangzai in the Mohmad tribal regional town of Lakarai Sunday and renamed it for the mosque besieged and demolished in the capital earlier this month leaving 102 dead. In the lawless North Waziristan region near the Afghan border, three Pakistani troops [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
The pro-US Fatah head of the Ramallah government, Salam Fayyad, stated at an Arab League Council meeting in Cairo Monday, July 30: “We are an occupied nation and resistance is the legitimate right of the Palestinian people.”
DEBKAfile notes: “Resistance” is the Palestinian euphemism for armed terror including suicide bombing. The separate Fatah administration [...]
From Fox News:
BAGHDAD — A minibus exploded Monday in a Baghdad market, killing at least six people — a brutal reminder of the dangers facing Iraqis, who only hours ago were joyously united after their underdog national soccer team won the prestigious Asian Cup.
The U.S. military also said three soldiers had been killed in [...]
From Fox News:
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Taliban militants shot dead a male South Korean hostage on Monday, claiming the Afghan government was not listening to rebel demands.
Afghan government officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirmed to FOX news that a purported Taliban spokesman said a male captive was shot dead because the [...]
From FrontPage mgazine.com:
By P. David Hornik
FrontPageMagazine.com | 7/30/2007
Some thought the spectacle of horrific Palestinian internecine violence in Gaza would lead the world to cool off toward the Palestinians for a while. In fact, the opposite has happened. Recent days particularly have seen intensified diplomatic and other activity in the Palestinian sphere.
Tony Blair, in his new [...]
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