Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
From American Congress for Truth:
Comment by Jerry Gordon
Looks like a third victory for Muslim Brotherhood fronts in US federal courts in 2007. On Friday, a US Chicago Appeals Court overturned a 2004 lower court decision awarding $156 million to the parents of a 17 year old son killed by terrorists at a bus stop in [...]
From American Congress for Truth:
comment by Jerry Gordon
Boston Magazine has just published a profile of our colleague Joseph Shahda, internet jihad counter terrorist. The article fairly represents the singular efforts of Shahda that have succeeded in closely down several dozen Jihadi websites and chat rooms. We had reached out to Shahda as a result of [...]
From American Congress for Truth:
comment by Jerry Gordon
Egypt’s President Mubrak announced today that more than 3,000 Palestinian haj pilgrims returning from Saudi Arabia will not be permitted to enter Gaza through the Rafah border. Instead they have put into 11 temporary camps 15 miles south in the Northern Sinai town of el-Arish. The Israelis fear [...]
From American Congress for Truth:
comment by Jerry Gordon
Walid Phares, author of “Confrontation” “The War of Ideas” and the “Future Jihad” has this assessment or ’score card’ as to how the various battles against globe girdling Jihad are going at the end of 2007. The key message is there is no global cohesion in this ‘war [...]
From American Congress for Truth:
Comment by Jerry Gordon
With all of the brouhaha over the tragic assassination of Benazir Bhutto, what has been missed was how brutal and corrupt Pakistan is as an Islamic country. I received an anecdote of a business trip to Pakistan in the late 1990’s from a close friend, Dr. Richard L. [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
Dear Friends & Subscribers,
First, I want to thank you for your continuing interest in my little News & Views e-newsletter and the Muth’s Truths blog. It’s hard to believe we’re entering our 14th year of publishing. Somehow, I never seem to run out of material. Especially when it comes [...]
From American Congress for Truth:
comment by Jerry Gordon
Young Nicholas Guarigilia, a student at John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University in New Jersey has become a pundit on a variety of topics related to the Islam and the Middle East. He regularly posts at Global Politician and World Threats. [...]
Tongue in cheek folks – read it carefully… I laughed myself silly over it. Cudos to Nancy Morgan and her wit… From Right Bias:
By Nancy Morgan
Hillary has the most experience of all the candidates – by far.
With the assassination of Benizir Bhutto this week, the focus of the presidential race has shifted. The new defining [...]
From Infidels Are Cool (one of our very favorite blogs…):
But, of course ask them to convert first….
Convert or die: It’s the Islamic way
A FANATICAL Pakistani cleric told The Sun yesterday of his chilling dream to turn the world Muslim – by force if necessary.
Qari Hifzur Rehamn, 60, spoke openly of imposing [...]From JammieWearingFool:
Proposal to abolish Czech totalitarian regimes institute at court
Brno- The Czech Constitutional Court (US) has received a proposal to abrogate the law on the basis of which the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes has been established, CTK has learnt.
The proposal to abolish the state-established facility that is to research into Nazism and [...]
From 1389 Blog:
New U.S. TSA rules take effect New Year’s Day 2008
In a nutshell: You will no longer be able to pack spare batteries in checked baggage, but, within limits, you will be allowed to pack spare batteries in carry-on baggage. Most lithium batteries for consumer electronic devices such as laptops and video cameras will [...]
From American Congress for Truth:
Comment by Jerry Gordon
Just prior to the Christmas break the U.N. General Assembly passed a number of resolutions. One called for a moratorium on the death penalty. Another was the annual resolution castigating Israel on behalf of the Palestinians that passed overwhelmingly. Then there was a resolution to create a follow [...]
From Iran Focus:
TEHRAN, Dec 31 (Reuters) – Iran said on Monday it would not back down from its demand for a share of around 20 percent of the Caspian Sea, which boasts huge hydrocarbon reserves and valuable caviar stocks.
The leaders of the five Caspian Sea states, including Russia, pledged at a summit in Tehran in [...]
From Iran Focus:
By Christian Schmollinger
Dec. 31 (Bloomberg)—Crude oil rose in New York, poised for its biggest annual increase since 1999, as Iran announced plans to start its first nuclear reactor next year, raising concern that the move will heighten a confrontation with the U.S.
Iran, holder of the world second-biggest oil reserves, will begin generating atomic [...]
From Iran Focus:
By Zahra Hosseinian
TEHRAN, Dec 31 (Reuters) – Turkmenistan has stopped natural gas exports to Iran, causing winter shortages in some parts of its neighbour, Iranian officials said on Monday.
The major Central Asia producer blamed technical problems but some Iranian media reports suggested it had halted deliveries because it wanted to raise the price [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
While world attention was fixed on Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal in the turbulence following Benazir Bhutto’s assassination on Dec. 27, Iran went on developing its nuclear arms program undisturbed and with no sanctions on the horizon.
Two days after Iran received its second shipment of enriched uranium from Russian to fuel the still unfinished Bushehr [...]
From Phyllis Chesler:
I knew that Trouble had found me yet again when an Old Asia Hand cautioned me to not “jump off the deep end” and jeopardize my otherwise valuable credibility. Apparently, my second blog about Bhutto’s assassination had begun to ring all kinds of bells and whistles amongst my colleagues, friends, and readers. She [...]
From Fox News:
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea, the United States and Japan expressed disappointment Monday as an end-of-year deadline for North Korea to declare all its nuclear programs under an aid-for-disarmament deal appeared set to pass unmet.
“Our government urges North Korea to faithfully declare all nuclear programs at an early date and complete [...]
From Fox News:
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan police battled thousands of opposition supporters enraged over President Mwai Kibaki’s allegedly fraudulent re-election, firing tear gas and live ammunition as the death toll from the violence rose to 103, officers and witnesses said.
Several officers said they had orders to shoot to kill, while opposition supporters said they [...]
From Fox News:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A newly released video of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination and an inconclusive medical report raised new doubts Monday about the official explanation of her death and were likely to intensify calls for an independent, international investigation.
The footage, obtained by Britain’s Channel 4 television, showed a man firing a pistol at [...]
From Fox News:
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Traditional New Year’s Eve fireworks in central Brussels have been canceled due to a continuing terror threat in the Belgian capital, officials said Sunday.
The popular downtown Christmas market will close early, at 6 p.m., on Dec. 31 rather than staying open all night, and the adjacent skating rink will [...]
From My Way News:
By THOMAS WATKINS
LOS ANGELES (AP) – In a murderous quest aimed at “cleansing” their turf of snitches and rival gangsters, members of one of Los Angeles County’s most vicious Latino gangs sometimes killed people just because of their race, an investigation found.
There were even instances in which Florencia 13 leaders ordered killings [...]
Doug Giles truly has a spine – I couldn’t agree more with him… From Townhall.com:
By Doug Giles
The thought of having to choose between Huckabee and Hillary (or whomever the Left tosses up) come November 2008 is about as appealing to me as the option of watching Rosie O’Donnell river dance naked at 11:00 PM verses [...]
From WND:
Talker amends lawsuit against organizer of Muslim boycott to include RICO charges
WASHINGTON – It’s no longer just a charge of copyright violation in the case of Michael Savage v. Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Now the radio talk star is going for the legal jugular in his battle with the group that bills itself as a [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
The number of passengers proved greater than estimated when they disembarked at Nuweiba, on the Sinai shore of the Gulf of Aqaba Sunday, 30 Dec. After being herded together they were bussed to a detention center in the northern Sinai town of El Arish.
The Hamas group, carrying app. $150 million collected during the [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
After talks with Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, French president Nicolas Sarkozy said: “I have ordered by team to suspend diplomatic relations with Syria until we see Syria cooperating in the presidential election in Lebanon.”
Parliament postponed the vote Saturday for the 11th time over the intransigence of the pro-Syrian bloc.
The French president [...]
From Fox News:
PHOENIX — Biologist Karen Krebbs used to study bats in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on the Arizona-Mexico border. Then, she got tired of dodging drug smugglers all night.
“I use night-vision goggles, and you could see them very clearly” — caravans of men with guns and huge backpacks full of drugs, trudging [...]
From Fox News:
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A key Taliban commander who was reportedly kicked out of the militia said Sunday that he believed Taliban leader Mullah Omar has not signed off on the dismissal order, and blamed the report on a “conspiracy” by his enemies.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said a day earlier that Mansoor [...]
From Fox News:
BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces were on high alert Sunday around Baghdad and in the Sunni heartland north of the capital as the country marked the one-year anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s execution.
In Baghdad, Iraq army Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi said security forces were “ready and prepared for any emergencies that might [...]
From Fox News:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The husband and teen son of slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto have been named co-chairs of her opposition party, sources tell Fox News.
Asif Ali Zardari and 19-year-old Bilawal Bhutto were chosen to take the reigns of the Pakistan People’s Party Sunday in the wake of Bhutto’s assassination [...]
From Reuters:
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s first atomic power plant will start operating in mid-2008, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Sunday, two days after the country received a second delivery of nuclear fuel from Russia.
Mottaki also told Iranian media that Tehran wants assurances that the United States will accept the results of the talks before [...]
From NewsMax:
The Israeli army has announced a new campaign to prepare the nation’s citizens for an attack with chemical or biological weapons.The campaign will offer civilians detailed information on how to protect their homes against weapons of mass destruction — how to choose a protected room and how to seal doors and windows against [...]
From Fox News:
CAIRO, Egypt — Usama bin Laden warned Iraq’s Sunni Arabs against fighting Al Qaeda and vowed to expand the terror group’s holy war to Israel in a new audiotape Saturday, threatening “blood for blood, destruction for destruction.”
Most of the 56-minute tape dealt with Iraq, apparently Al Qaeda’s latest attempt to keep [...]
From Fox News:
KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistan rejected foreign help in investigating the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on Saturday, despite controversy over the circumstances of her death and three days of paralyzing turmoil.
The Islamic militant group blamed by officials for the attack that killed Bhutto denied any links to the killing on Saturday, and Bhutto’s [...]
From the Jerusalem Post:
A series of explosions ripped through an army base in the Colombian city of Medellin on Saturday, killing at least two people and forcing nearby residents to flee.
The first of at least six large blasts was apparently triggered by a grenade that detonated inside a weapons arsenal, according to witness accounts cited [...]
From the Jerusalem Post:
Gunmen ambushed a police convoy transporting three alleged kidnappers to a prison in northern Mexico, killing seven officers and freeing two of the suspects, authorities said Saturday.
Two state police officers were wounded in the attack Friday and the third alleged kidnapper was flown to Mexico City where he is being questioned by [...]
From the Jerusalem Post:
By TALIA DEKELThe IDF and Shin Bet uncovered 6.5 tons of potassium nitrate hidden in sacks that were disguised as aid from the European Union, the army announced on Saturday.
Security forces discovered the stash in the cargo of a Palestinian truck at a West Bank checkpoint earlier in December. According [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
Our military and intelligence sources reported earlier that the hundreds of Hamas and other terrorist chiefs aboard the Jordanian ferry The Princess threatened to torch the craft anchored opposite Nuweiba, Sinai, and scuttle it with everyone aboard unless Egypt permitted them to land without conditions.
A 62-year old Palestinian female passenger, Shafiqa Bahisi, died [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Washington’s chosen linchpin-to-be in Islamabad, was an unmitigated disaster for America’s war on al Qaeda and its jihadist allies in the key Pakistan-Afghan arena. The 27/12 murder closed a cycle sent spinning by al Qaeda’s 9/11 assault on America in the early days of President George W. Bush’s [...]
From American Congress for Truth:
comment by Jerry Gordon
Stephen Coughlin is the Islam Law ‘go to guy’ on the Pentagon Joint Staff. Coughlin is the author of a brief on Islamic law and Jihadist doctrine that has recently been cleared by both the Joint Staff and DIA for publication. I have copies of Coughlin’s documents and [...]
From Bob McCarty Writes:
Speaking before a crowd of would-be voters in Coralville, Iowa, on yesterday, Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama said the following, according to ABC News Political Radar:
Barack Obama“It’s that experience, that understanding, not just of what world leaders I went and talked to in the ambassadors house I had tea with, but understanding [...]
From the Telegraph:
By Isambard Wilkinson, Pakistan Correspondent, and Bonnie Malkin
The Pakistan government today offered to exhume the body of Benazir Bhutto, as the row over the murdered opposition leader’s cause of death intensified.
The Interior Ministry claims the former leader died after hitting her head on her car’s sunroof during the suicide attack, a version of [...]
From Fox News:
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s interior ministry spokesman said Saturday that 75 percent of Al Qaeda in Iraq’s terrorist network had been destroyed this year, but the top American commander in the country said the terror group remained his chief concern.
Maj. Gen. Abdul Kareem Khalaf said the disruption of the terrorist network was due [...]
From Fox News:
CAIRO, Egypt — Egyptian authorities have opened an investigation into a video clip uncovered by an anti-torture activist that allegedly shows a police officer slapping a woman and forcing her to strip, a security official said Saturday.
Egypt, where human rights groups say police abuse is pervasive, has seen a series of investigations [...]
From Fox News:
KARACHI, Pakistan — Mass rioting following the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has led to the deaths of 38 people and caused tens of millions of dollars in damage, the government said Saturday.
Rioters destroyed 176 banks, 72 train cars and 18 rail stations, said Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema. At [...]
From American Congress for Truth:
by Jerry Gordon
We got an email from one of our ACT members, Jeanette, containing the announcement of a new Sharia compliant banking subsidiary of University Bank in Ann Arbor, Michigan-home of the University of Michigan: Universal Islamic Financial Corporation (UFIC). UFIC is trying to become in its own words- the go [...]
From American Congress for Truth:
comment by Jerry Gordon
Geert Wilders, Dutch Parliamentarian is a ferocious critic of Jihadists in Holland. He is the living legacy of assassinated Dutch politician Pym Fortune and film director Theo Van Gogh, murdered by a crazed Dutch Moroccan, jarring his countrymen into recognizing that Islam is the enemy of Dutch enlightenment [...]
From American Congress for Truth:
Comment by Jerry Gordon
I read this Daily Mail article and said to myself, well there goes ‘Londonistan’, as Melanie Phillips, a columnist for the Daily Mail might say in one of her daily posts on her blog. Here we have official British government prosecutors hiding from the public in the U.K.that [...]
From American Congress for Truth:
comment by Jerry Gordon
Read this new book, “The Terrorist Watch” by Ron Kessler to gain some insight into what the alphabet soup of purported US counter terrorism agencies, FBI, DNI, DIA, CIA, NSA, DHS are doing and, frankly, not doing to keep Al Qaeda from perpetrating another series of 9/11 events. [...]
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