Archive for September, 2007
Posted in September 30th, 2007
From The Strata-Sphere:
In a world were tens of thousands of fanatical Muslims wake up each day think of better ways to try and kill as many Americans as their warped minds can conjure, there are people on the far left who are so desperate to pretend they do not exist they announce their self imposed [...]
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Posted in September 30th, 2007
Burma’s generals have brought their brutal iron hand down on peaceful monks and protesters—but in response, a massive global outcry is gathering pace. The roar of global public opinion is being heard in hundreds of protests outside Chinese and Burmese embassies, people round the world wearing the monks’ color red, and on the internet—where our [...]
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Posted in September 30th, 2007
From NewsMax:
The protester who confronted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at his United Nations conference on Tuesday gained access to the event by presenting a diplomatic ID accredited to Israel’s U.N. mission.
NewsMax’s United Nations correspondent Stewart Stogel also discovered that the U.N. launched an investigation as to who at the Israeli mission authorized the issuing of [...]
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Posted in September 30th, 2007
From NewsMax:
President Bush’s homeland security adviser Frances Townsend’s comment that Osama bin Laden was “virtually impotent” sparked speculation that the Bush administration was behind the remark.
Word is, that’s not the case.
Townsend appeared on two TV talk shows on Sept. 9, after the release of a new videotape from the al-Qaida leader. “This is a man [...]
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Posted in September 30th, 2007
From NewsMax:
The involvement of Saudi Arabian citizens in worldwide terror did not end with the 9/11 attacks — today thousands of Saudis are managing terrorist networks and orchestrating suicide bombings and jihadist attacks around the globe.
Saudi Arabia has become, in short, a world-class exporter of Islamic violence, according to Youssef Ibrahim of the New York [...]
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Posted in September 30th, 2007
From the Times Online:
Internet geeks share a common style, and Ko Latt and his four friends would not be out of place in cyber cafés across the world. They have the skinny arms and the long hair, the dark T-shirts and the jokey nicknames. But few such figures have ever taken the risks that they [...]
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Posted in September 30th, 2007
From BREITBART.com:
US military losses in Iraq for September stood at 70 on Sunday, the lowest monthly figure since July last year, according to an AFP tally based on Pentagon figures.
The figure also marks the fourth consecutive drop in the monthly death toll following a high of 121 in May. June saw 93 deaths, July 82 [...]
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Posted in September 30th, 2007
Wish he would run for President – I’d be leading the pack for his election… From the Jerusalem Post:
Former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told Tory delegates in Britain Sunday that efforts by the UK and the EU to negotiate with Iran had failed and that he saw no alternative to a [...]
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Posted in September 30th, 2007
From the Telegraph:
By Tim Shipman in Washington
The American air force is working with military leaders from the Gulf to train and prepare Arab air forces for a possible war with Iran, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
An air warfare conference in Washington last week was told how American air chiefs have helped to co-ordinate intelligence-sharing with [...]
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Posted in September 30th, 2007
From BREITBART.com:
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sunday gave Britain’s main opposition Conservative Party his action plan for winning power and overhauling Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
The former Hollywood tough-guy, famous for his roles in the “Terminator” films, told Conservative leader David Cameron to focus on issues that matter to people rather than political parties.
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Posted in September 30th, 2007
From Fox News:
MUMBAI, India — Leaders of India’s Jewish community expressed outrage Sunday over a new line of bedspreads called “The Nazi Collection” from a Mumbai-based home furnishing company that used swastikas in its promotional material.
The furnishing dealer said the name stands for “New Arrival Zone for India” and was not meant to [...]
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Posted in September 30th, 2007
From Fox News:
BAGHDAD — U.S. and Iraqi forces killed more than 60 insurgent and militia fighters in intense battles over the weekend, with most of the casualties believed to have been Al Qaeda fighters, officials said.
The U.S. Embassy, meanwhile, joined a broad swath of Iraqi politicians — both Shiite and Sunni — in criticizing [...]
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Posted in September 30th, 2007
From The Politico:
A federal judge has ordered Rep. Jack Murtha (D-Pa.) to testify in a defamation case related to the deaths of Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha in 2005, according to the Associated Press.
Murtha, a former Marine. accused Marines of “cold-blooded murder and war crimes’’ during the Haditha incident. Frank Wuterich, a Marine [...]
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Posted in September 30th, 2007
From NYDailyNews.com:
BY HELEN KENNEDY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
GOP presidential candidate John McCain says America is better off with a Christian President and he doesn’t want a Muslim in the Oval Office.
“I admire the Islam. There’s a lot of good principles in it,” he said. “But I just have to say in all candor that since this [...]
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Posted in September 30th, 2007
From BREITBART.com:
A Saudi man divorced his wife for watching alone a television programme presented by a male, an act he deemed immoral, the Al Shams newspaper reported on Saturday.
The man, whom the paper did not identify, ended his marriage on the grounds his wife was effectively alone with an unrelated man, which is forbidden under [...]
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Posted in September 30th, 2007
From Fox News:
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The Taliban will “never” negotiate with Afghan authorities until U.S. and NATO forces leave the country, a spokesman for the group said Sunday, again rebuffing an overture for peace talks from President Hamid Karzai.
Clashes and airstrikes, meanwhile, killed 14 suspected Taliban on Saturday, capping a week that saw more [...]
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Posted in September 30th, 2007
From Fox News:
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party passed a resolution Sunday asserting the island’s separate identity from rival China and calling for a referendum on Taiwan’s sovereignty.
The resolution for a “normal country” — passed after heated debate at a boisterous party congress — calls for general use of “Taiwan” as the [...]
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Posted in September 30th, 2007
From Fox News:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani journalists marked Sunday as a “black day” to condemn police beatings during opposition protests against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s pursuit of another five-year term.
Musharraf picked up a key legal victory Saturday when the Election Commission declared him a qualified candidate for the Oct. 6 vote — as lawyers [...]
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Posted in September 30th, 2007
From Fox News:
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s government unexpectedly allowed the country’s leading opposition figure, Aung San Suu Kyi, to leave house arrest briefly on Sunday and meet with a visiting U.N. envoy, but the diplomat failed to meet with the junta’s commander.
A U.N. statement said Ibrahim Gambari, in Myanmar to persuade the government leadership [...]
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Posted in September 30th, 2007
From Fox News:
A key suspect in the alleged plot to mount an attack in Germany on the scale of 9/11 is on the run in Britain, German security officials disclosed Saturday.
Scotland Yard counterterrorism detectives are hunting the man, who escaped from Germany after a plot to explode bombs at Frankfurt airport and a U.S. [...]
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Posted in September 29th, 2007
From Fox News:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Riot police fired tear gas and used batons on protesting lawyers as Pakistan’s Election Commission rejected objections to President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s re-election bid Saturday.
A day after the Supreme Court quashed legal challenges to Musharraf’s candidacy, the Election Commission approved his nomination, a senior commission official said on [...]
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Posted in September 29th, 2007
From Fox News:
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s highest-profile female suspected drug trafficker and her Colombian drug boss lover were arrested Friday by federal agents in Mexico City, the government said.
Sandra Avila Beltran, dubbed the Queen of the Pacific and reputed to play a key role in shipping cocaine from Colombia to Mexico for the [...]
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Posted in September 29th, 2007
From Fox News:
KABUL, Afghanistan — A Taliban homicide bomber wearing an Afghan army uniform set off a huge explosion Saturday while trying to board a military bus in the capital, killing 30 people, most of them soldiers, officials said. Hours later, the Afghan president offered to meet personally with the Taliban leader for [...]
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Posted in September 29th, 2007
From Fox News:
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s parliament on Saturday approved a nonbinding resolution to label the CIA and the U.S. Army “terrorist organizations.” The move is seen as a diplomatic tit-for-tat after the U.S. Senate voted in favor of a resolution urging the State Department to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From Compass Direct News (Hat Tip: The Religion of Peace):
Christians called to fast, pray ahead of trial; European parliamentarians demand justice.
ISTANBUL, September 28 (Compass Direct News) – An e-mail message to several Turkish Protestant leaders in June surfaced in the Turkish press last week, revealing the names of Malatya officials alleged to have plotted the [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From AKI (Hat Tip: The Religion of Peace):
Tehran, 28 Sept.(AKI) – A court in the Iran’s second largest city, Mashad, has sentenced to death by stoning a mother-of-three for having an extra-marital affair, an Iranian newspaper reported Friday.
The daily Quds said the married woman’s lover had confessed to having had sex with her and that [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From NewsMax:
After 9/11, the State Department allowed more and more Iranians to legally enter the United States through Diversity Visas, an immigration program that two government investigations have identified as a national security risk. Iran, among four other nations, is defined as a terror-sponsoring state by the State Department.
State Department documents tracking the Diversity [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From the Jerusalem Post:
Israel has already made a decision to attack Syria and was just mulling over where to land its first strike, Ahmad Jibril, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed in an interview published Friday by Arabic newspaper Al Hadat.
Jibril estimated that Israeli action, several weeks after an alleged [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From Reuters:
By Jim Wolf
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. interceptor missile on Friday shot down a dummy warhead replicating an incoming North Korean missile in the seventh successful test of Boeing Co’s long-range missile shield, the Pentagon said.
The Missile Defense Agency said in a statement it completed a test “involving a successful intercept by a ground-based [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From Fox News:
NEW YORK — In a setback for the United States, Iran won a two-month reprieve from new U.N. sanctions over its nuclear program on Friday. The Bush administration and its European allies ceded to Russian and Chinese demands to give Tehran more time to address international concerns.
An agreement reached in talks here [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From Global Security Newswire:
A Russian official said yesterday that Russia has intelligence indicating that terrorists have been attempting to acquire nuclear weapons, the Russia and CIS Military Newswire reported (see GSN, Sept. 27 ).
“We know for sure, with evidence and facts in hand, about this steady interest and a goal pursued by terrorists to obtain [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From Global Security Newswire:
Investigators with the Government Accountability Office found various security vulnerabilities along the U.S.-Canadian border that terrorists could exploit to bring an unconventional weapon into this country, agency officials said yesterday in congressional testimony (see GSN, Aug. 16, 2006 ).
“That border is so long. Security on the border has not really increased [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
TUBE TIP
I’m scheduled to do a CNN interview today around 2 pm Pacific (5 pm EST) defending the politically incorrect view that parents should be allowed to allow their teenagers to drink alcoholic beverages in their own homes under parental supervision as a way to teach them how to drink responsibly. [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From Iran Focus:
The Australian
PARIS: Iran is building a new bomb-proof underground site for developing nuclear weapons, linked by tunnel to its complex at Natanz, the main exiled Iranian opposition group said yesterday.
“Information we have from inside the regime indicates the site is destined for military nuclear activity, mainly for the further enrichment of uranium,” Mehdi [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
Dhimmitude has taken a strong hold in Britain – very sad… From Iran Focus:
The Daily Telegraph
By Alex Spillius
Britain is resisting American-led efforts to impose tougher sanctions on Iran, as the international community struggles to formulate its next move to prevent the Islamic state building a nuclear bomb.
Although Britain and its allies share the common goal [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From Haaretz.com:
By Avi Issacharoff and Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondents
Fifty thousand Palestinian gunmen and hundreds of suicide bombers are ready to repel or at least impede any large-scale Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, an official from the ruling Hamas faction said on Friday.
The statement came one day after 12 Palestinians were killed in separate [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From The Strata-Sphere:
Would any sane person put a pro-palestinian, firebrand Muslim, to head an immigration commission just outside our nation’s capitol? Apparently a Democrat would:
Governor Timothy Kaine recently made a controversial new appointment to the state’s immigration commission. Omeish is the president of the Muslim American Society. Critics say he’s an Islamic radical, and they’re [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From American Congress for Truth:
Posted on www.littlegreenfootballs.com. Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 8:50:50 am PDT
When the former leader of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, Fawaz Damra, was linked to funding of terrorists and deported in a very high-profile case, you might have expected that the new imam of the Islamic Center would be more moderate.
Think [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From Rockets Brain Trust:
Massachusetts House votes to divest from Sudan
By Eric Jon Magnuson
[Massachusetts state] House lawmakers on Thursday approved a bill requiring the state’s pension fund to divest from companies doing business in Sudan, but declined to add Cuba, Iran, Syria, and North Korea to the list. ...
Sudan: The Passion of the Present – http://platform.blogs.com/passionofthepresent/
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Governor [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From NewsMax:
PUERTO PENASCO, Mexico — Mexican President Felipe Calderon told U.S. governors Thursday that immigration is an inevitable, natural phenomenon and he urged the U.S. Congress to approve reforms that would allow more Mexicans to work legally north of the border.
Calderon demanded that the United States respect “the right to work wherever one can [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From the DEBKAfile:
The latest round of the international campaign against Iran’s covert nuclear activities is coming out of Paris, DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources report. A statement by President Nicolas Sarkozy Thursday, Sept. 27 that he does not believe Iran’s program is peaceful was followed by a press conference at which the National Council of Resistance of [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From FrontPage magazine.com:
By Jamie Glazov
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Thomas Joscelyn, an expert on the international terrorist network. He has written extensively on al Qaeda and its allies, including Iran. He is the author, most recently, of Iran’s Proxy War Against America, a booklet published by the Claremont Institute and available for download at its [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From FrontPage magazine.com:
By Joe Kaufman
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, September 28, 2007
On Sunday, October 14, 2007, Six Flags Over Texas, a Dallas-area amusement park, will be invaded by a radical Muslim organization that has physical ties with the Muslim Brotherhood and financial ties to Hamas. While most patrons of the park come for the games and rides, [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From FrontPage magazine.com:
By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, September 28, 2007
Columbia University this week managed to hand a PR victory to Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It’s time for another New York institution – the state Office of the Comptroller – to join the drive to undermine this evil and dangerous regime.
California Gov. Arnold [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From Fox News:
WASHINGTON — U.S.-led forces have killed one of the most important leaders of Al Qaeda in Iraq, a Tunisian believed connected to the kidnapping and killings last summer of American soldiers, a top commander said Friday.
Brig. Gen. Joseph Anderson said the death of the terrorist in a U.S. airstrike Tuesday south of [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
By: Michael D. Evans
One would think that by now, the President of Iran would remain silent when he comes to the United States knowing how unfavorably his words are received. Just the opposite is true. He seems to be looking for more opportunities to inflame the West as he did at Columbia University, at the [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From Townhall.com:
By Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON —Ahmadinejad at Columbia provided the entertainment, but Sarkozy at the U.N. provided the substance. On the largest possible stage—the U.N. General Assembly—President Nicolas Sarkozy put Iran on notice. His predecessor, Jacques Chirac, had said that France could live with an Iranian nuclear bomb. Sarkozy said that France cannot. He declared Iran’s [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From Townhall.com:
By Lorie Byrd
What a difference a day makes. Or rather, several days and quite a few hours of congressional testimony and public statements regarding the status of the troop “surge” in Iraq from General David Petraeus. Not only are the leading Democrats running for President not calling for immediate withdrawal, but they [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From CurrencyTrading.net:
By Jessica Hupp
The US economy is on an increasing shift into the digital world. As such, the threat of online terrorism increases right along with the shift. This includes attacks that paralyze entire web sites, viruses, theft of intellectual property, and other malicious actions designed to cause harm online.
These online nuisances add up to [...]
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Posted in September 28th, 2007
From BREITBART.com:
A top Russian investigator was shot dead on Thursday as he walked out of a restaurant in central Moscow in an apparent contract killing, the Kommersant daily reported.
Nazim Kaziakhmedov was shot twice in the chest and once in the head by an attacker dressed in black and wearing a baseball cap, Kommersant said on [...]
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