Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
From WND:
Speeches for Palestinian refugees called code for Israel’s destruction
By Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM – Sen. Barack Obama has spoken at fundraisers for Palestinians living in what the United Nations terms refugee camps, WND has learned.Palestinians have long demanded the “right of return” for millions of “refugees,” a formula Israeli officials across the political spectrum warn [...]
From Palestinian Media Watch:
Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas) Feb. 22, 2008
By Itamar Marcus And Barbara Crook
Hamas Rabbit: Eat the Danes!
Hamas children’s TV dedicated a program to hatred of Denmark, the West and Israel, climaxing with a statement about the West by the co-host, a giant rabbit character named Assud:
“If they repeat it we will kill them … [...]
Trial opens in Connecticut for ex-Navy sailor charged with helping terrorists
comment by Jerry Gordon
The case of ex-US Navy Signalman and Muslim convert Hassan Abu-Jihaad, formerly Paul Hall went to trial in New Haven Federal court, today. The fascinating aspect of the case against him was how he was caught passing information about targets in his [...]
From Phyllis Chesler:
By: Phyllis Chesler
Obama Is Our First Muslim Presidential Contender In The Same Way That Clinton Was Our First Black President.
Talk Radio (The Mancow show) called last night and asked me to join them this morning to comment on the Obama-Farrakhan matter. And so I made a dutiful list of “talking points” and tried [...]
From Fox News:
BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Police are firing tear gas at Bosnian Serb rioters to prevent them from storming the U.S. consulate after protests against Kosovo’s independence.
A small group split from almost 10,000 peaceful protesters and was trying to reach the consulate, breaking windows of shops and throwing stones at police who have [...]
From Iran Focus:
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Tuesday it had detained a senior journalist at one of Iraq’s biggest television stations because he may have information about “Iranian-sponsored criminal activity”.
The U.S. military accuses Iran of financing, arming and training rogue Shi’ite militia groups that attack U.S. and Iraqi forces, a charge Tehran [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
DEBKAfile’s military sources report exclusively that the first Persian Gulf exercise without the US in many years began Feb. 24. It will last ten days. It is also the first time the United Arab Emirates and France have invoked their 19-year old military pact. France has contributed 1,500 navy marine and air force [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
This estimate was put before the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee by Israel’s military intelligence AMAN chief, Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, in his briefing Tuesday, Feb. 26.
He also predicted that Hizballah would time its reprisals for the 40th day of mourning for its military commander Imad Mughniyeh – that is March 22-23, [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources report that, 18 days before parliamentary elections to the majlis, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for the first time threw all his weight and authority behind his country’s nuclear program and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. His words explicitly celebrated the failure of the United States, the West at large and Israel to stall [...]
From Fox News:
CHICAGO — An ousted American political science professor who believes some Jews have exploited the legacy of the Holocaust recently expressed his support for the terrorist organization Hezbollah.
Norman Finkelstein, who resigned from DePaul University last fall amid criticism of his opinions on the Holocaust, told Lebanese television that his view of Hezbollah [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
20 QUESTIONS FOR NEW SCHOOL CHIEF
Mary Pierczynski, Carson City’s highly-regarded public school superintendent, is retiring at the end of this school year. The school board, therefore, must hire a replacement. However, not only doesn’t the board president want to open the process to anyone but the candidate he’s already [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
Internet Wrecking Ball
By ANDY KESSLER
Wall Street Journal
February 25, 2008
Imagine a town that has all sorts of gasoline pipelines running by it but only one gas pump. Rationing is inevitable. So are price controls.
Everyone gets equal amounts, except of course first responders like police and ambulances, which should get all the gas [...]
From Flopping Aces (Hat Tip: Rocket’s Brain Trust):
An interesting segment of the great book Shadow Warriors is about the discoveries of Company X in Iraq regarding the “missing” WMD in Iraq. I’m gonna split this up into two parts seeing as how it is quite long but well worth the time to read:
The most intriguing [...]
From The Australian:
Richard Kerbaj and Milanda Rout
MUSLIM university students want lectures to be rescheduled to fit in with prayer timetables and separate male and female eating and recreational areas established on Australian campuses.
International Muslim students, predominantly from Saudi Arabia, have asked universities in Melbourne to change class times so they can attend congregational prayers. They [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources name them as Zbigniew Brezhinsky, President Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser, who now advises Democratic Senator Barack Obama on foreign policy, and the Iranian-American Hassan Nemazee, one of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s principal donors.
The advisers to the two Democratic contenders were in Damascus last week as part of a RAND [...]
From the Jerusalem Post:
By REBECCA ANNA STOILWhile a set of European-run simulations could indicate that Iran will be ready to build an atomic bomb sooner than anyone predicted, uranium enrichment is only one of three benchmarks the rogue nation will have to reach before it is ready to launch a nuclear attack against [...]
From the Jerusalem Post:
Libyan security forces are preparing to release a group of rebels allegedly allied with Al-Qaida, following talks between the group and the Libyan regime.
Discreet talks between members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and the government were renewed a few weeks ago after a long break, the London-based Al-Hayat reported.
The Al-Gaddafi [...]
From Fox News:
An Iraqi police official was killed and at least four other people were wounded Monday when a homicide bomber in a wheelchair attacked a police facility in Samarra.
The bomber detonated explosives he’d concealed in the wheelchair in a blast that took the life of Samarra assistant police chief Major-General Abdul-Jabbar Rabee Muttar, Capt. [...]
From Fox News:
Barack Obama’s campaign is expressing outrage at a new photo attributed to Clinton campaign sources that depicts the Democratic presidential candidate dressed in Somali garb.
The picture, which appeared at the top of Monday’s Drudge Report, says Clinton staffers circulated the 2006 photo over the weekend. It shows the Illinois senator fitted as a [...]
From Fox News:
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The trial of a former Navy sailor on terrorism charges promises to offer a glimpse into how prosecutors say an American serviceman communicated with suspected terrorists over the Internet while on duty and leaked information that could have doomed his own ship.
Prosecutors, defense attorneys and spectators began arriving [...]
Ah, the endorsement of a crazed bigot. Every candidate’s dream… Says a lot about Obama I’m afraid. From Yahoo! News:
By SOPHIA TAREEN, Associated Press WriterCHICAGO - In his first major public address since a cancer crisis, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday that presidential candidate Barack Obama is the “hope of the [...]
From Iran Focus:
The Wall Street Journal
By GLENN R. SIMPSON
February 25, 2008; Page A1
The Treasury Department is gathering evidence it says shows that the central bank of Iran is helping other Iranian institutions elude U.S. economic sanctions, in what could be a prelude to penalties against the central bank.
The investigation, described by financial-intelligence officials in three [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
The battles Mon. Feb. 25, four days after the Turkish ground incusion into Iraqi Kurdistan center on Hakurk, 20 km south of the Turkish border. The Turkish military reports 112 PKK Kurdish Party rebels killed and the loss of 25 soldiers. The PKK claims to have killed 27 soldiers after downing a Turkish [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
DEBKAfile reports: The Palestinian masses did not rise to the summons for 40,000 individuals to turn out Monday, Feb. 25 and draw a human chain along the 40-km border Gazan-Israel to protest the Israeli blockade. Deterred by determined Israeli military preparations to halt their approach to the border and Israeli ministers’ threats to [...]
From American Congress for Truth:
comment by Jerry Gordon
Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy (CSP) has just released its first Mapping Sharia in America project findings based on an investigation of more than 100 Mosques here in America. The findings confirm that 75 out of 100 investigated are purveyours of Saudi and Muslim Brotherhood hate, extremism [...]
From the Jerusalem Post:
By HAVIV RETTIG“Islam and the Koran have been politicized” by extremists and “there’s a lack of capacity in the Muslim community [in Britain ]” to hear liberal, tolerant Muslims, Maqsood Ahmed, senior adviser on Muslim communities at the British Department for Communities and Local Government, told the Global Forum for [...]
From Iran Focus:
By Parisa Hafezi
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran warned Western countries on Sunday that they would be the ones to suffer if they pass a new U.N. sanctions resolution on the Islamic Republic.
Iran has failed to convince world powers that its nuclear program has only peaceful aims. Britain and France have said they hope the [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
Israeli foreign minister and acting PM TzipiTzipi LivniLivni and defense minister Ehuda Barak released a joint statement ahead of the Palestinians planned march on the Gaza-Israel border Monday. Israel will defend its territory and prevent infiltration to its sovereign borders,” the two ministers stated Sunday night.
“Hamas is directly responsible for activity which puts [...]
From BREITBART.com:
Pakistan has ordered all Internet service providers to block the YouTube website for containing “blasphemous” content and material considered offensive to Islam, officials said Sunday.
An inter-ministerial committee has decided to block YouTube because it contained “blasphemous content, videos and documents,” a government official told AFP.
“The site will remain blocked till further orders,” he said.
Other [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
Beefed-up Israeli military and security forces prepared to repulse thousands of Palestinians planning to crash the full length of the Gazan-Israeli border and its crossings at 10:00 a.m. IT Monday, Feb. 25.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report Hamas is engineering a “popular” protest to be much more violent than the Jan. 23 Palestinian surge into [...]
From RightBias.com:
Nancy Morgan
www.RightBias.com
February 24, 2008
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Last night I got together with my neighbors in Murrells Inlet, SC. By unanimous decree, they decided to appoint me as their voice. We’ve decided that I will speak for all of us ‘average’ Americans who seldom have their voices heard. You know who I mean, the ones you never see [...]
Key Excerpt:
Well, there are several things me no likey:
1. I don’t like our nation being threatened by Islamo-facsists. I think they should die on their turf and on our terms. Yes, I’m not buying this “religion of peace” yumminess.
2. I don’t like what democrats have become.
3. I don’t like people screwing around with my right [...]
Kosovo: The Future of Eurabia? Watch this video!!
by Jerry Gordon
The world media has focused this week on the riots in Belgrade, Serbia that resulted in the sacking of our embassy. Most unfortunate. The world’s media then chastises the Serbs for their violent protest of the US and EU recognition of the mini-Islamist state of Kosovo [...]
From Muth’s Truths:
Shadegg, Big Mac, School Choice & Barack
By Chuck Muth
February 24, 2008
OK, something a little different for this week’s Muth’s Truths.
First, I can’t tell you how much it meant to the limited-government conservative movement for Rep. John Shadegg, Arizona Republican, to change his mind, not retire and put himself and his family through another [...]
From NewsMax:
Barack Obama has cast more than 1,100 votes since entering the U.S. Senate in January 2005, and those votes indicate the likely position he would take on several issues as president.
In each of his three years in the Senate, Obama has voted with the majority of Democrats at least 96 percent of the time.
Here [...]
From NewsMax:
One year ago, Kremlin critic Paul Joyal was gunned down in the driveway of his suburban Maryland home. The case remains unsolved — but some see the hand of Russia in the shooting.
Joyal, 53, is the former chief of security for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and a former business partner of retired [...]
From Fox News:
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Clashes between government forces and Tamil separatists killed at least 40 combatants across northern Sri Lanka, the military said Sunday.
The battles Saturday in Jaffna, Mannar and Vavuniya districts left 39 insurgents and a soldier dead, a military official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized [...]
From Fox News:
CUKURCA, Turkey — Kurdish rebels said they shot down a Turkish military helicopter during fighting in northern Iraq, a pro-Kurdish news agency reported, but there was no confirmation from Turkey and no way to verify the claim independently.
The Firat news agency, which often carries statements of the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party, [...]
From BREITBART.com:
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) – Saudi Arabia began interrogating 57 men Saturday who were arrested after allegedly flirting with women in front of a shopping mall in the holy city of Mecca, a local newspaper reported.
The country’s religious police arrested the men Thursday night, alleging behavior that included dancing to pop music blaring from [...]
From The New York Times:
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia — Shortly before parliamentary elections in December, foremen fanned out across the sprawling GAZ vehicle factory here, pulling aside assembly-line workers and giving them an order: vote for President Vladimir V. Putin’s party or else. They were instructed to phone in after they left their polling places. Names [...]
From BREITBART.com:
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the U.S. and its allies Saturday to “apologize” to Iran for accusing it of seeking nuclear weapons—a day after the U.N. nuclear watchdog released its latest report on Iran’s atomic program.
Ahmadinejad said the report by the International Atomic Energy Agency vindicated Iran and warned [...]
From Iran Focus:
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran said on Sunday it had reinforced its border security after Turkey launched an offensive in north Iraq against Kurdish rebels, a move an analyst said was likely aimed at stopping rebels hiding in Iran.
Turkey said it launched the cross-border offensive after Iraqi authorities failed to stop an estimated 3,000 [...]
From Iran Focus:
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran on Sunday warned it would hit back with an appropriate response to new UN Security Council sanctions over its contested nuclear programme, as Western powers stepped up efforts to punish Tehran.
Britain, France and the United States are pushing for a new sanctions resolution in the coming week after the [...]
From Iran Focus:
Scotland On Sunday
By Nathalie Thomas
IRANIAN oil minister Gholamhossein Nozari last night dashed Western hopes of an increase in oil production, signalling Iran would back a cut at Opec’s next meeting in March.
Despite US crude oil prices hitting a record high of US$101.32 on Wednesday, remarks posted on the Iranian Oil Ministry website, Shana, [...]
From Iran Focus:
The Associated Press
By GEORGE JAHN
VIENNA, Austria (AP) — A senior Iranian official blames the U.S. for his country’s refusal to respond to accusations it tried to make nuclear weapons. He says information provided by Washington on such attempts is fabricated and came three years too late.
Iran’s chief delegate to the International Atomic Energy [...]
From Iran Focus:
The Sunday Telegraph
By Kay Biouki in Teheran and Gethin Chamberlain
The Ayatollah Khomenei brought millions on to the streets of Iran to overthrow the decadence of the Shah. Now the late leader’s grandsons and other Iranian clerics face a backlash over their families’ fondness for fast cars, big houses and hot tubs.
A website linked [...]
From Iran Focus:
By Fredrik Dahl
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Wearing a brightly colored headscarf and high-heeled boots, the woman refused to be bundled into the police van without a fight.
Protesting loudly and even trying to escape, her standoff with Iranian police cracking down on women violating the Islamic dress code lasted several minutes.
But the outcome of the [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
Dozens more were injured when a bomber detonated a bomb vest in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims in Iskandiriya Sun. Feb. 24, walking south to Karbala to celebrate the Arbaeen religious festival. Four more pilgrims were killed earlier in Baghdad. Al Qaeda also struck twice in the Anbar provincial town of Falluja Sunday, [...]
From the DEBKAfile:
DEBKAfile’s intelligence report exclusively the findings of a special inquiry launched by Hizballah to solve the mystery of who killed the master terrorist Imad Mughniyeh and how.
DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources stress that, above all, Hizballah was keen to clear itself of suspicion that Mughniyeh was betrayed by an insider planted by Mossad, and this [...]
From Townhall.com:
By Diana West
The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne Jr. thinks there’s “something peculiar” about conservatives who turn “Islamic extremism into a mighty ideological force with the power to overrun the world.”
In a way, he’s right. There is indeed something peculiar about portraying “extremism,” Islamic or otherwise, as an ideological movement of sufficient mass and might [...]
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