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Thursday, July 16, 2009
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The Lone Terrorist
This is a good analysis of the recent phenomenon of the "lone terrorist" as found in Israel. While this sort of attack has a history of about two years in Israel, the US, Britain and other Western countries have suffered the same for many years, the Beltway Snipers in America being a notable Jihad attack. In the West, it's been called Sudden Jihad Syndrome, where the Jihadists (immigrant and native born) takes it upon himself to inflict some violent "punishment" on his Western benefactors. These attacks are plainly religiously driven as the perpetrators invariably, either during the crime, or after capture, ascribe their actions to obeying the Islamic command to wage Jihad against the infidels. Invariably also is the press's obsessive denial of the Jihadi element and boilerplate assertion that the terrorist is mentally unstable, and not responsible, anything but accept Islam as the cause of terrorism.
Seeing this rather new bubbling over of violence by individuals makes me wonder just how many will move from being "moderate" Muslims, to violent Muslims when they percieve the time to be right. We can expect to see more of this type of terrorist attack as individuals take it upon themselves to fight Jihad.
FROM RIGHTSIDENEWS.COM:
The Lone Terrorist
Written by Yoaz Hendel
Tuesday, 14 July 2009 06:26
BESA Center Perspectives Papers No. 86, July 13, 2009
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The success of Israel's security forces in decreasing in Palestinian suicide attacks against Israeli civilians could be threatened if a new type of terrorist attack - the lone terrorist attack - becomes more frequent. The lone terrorist phenomenon is characterized by radicals who embark on individual terrorist missions without any logistical support or conventional means.
This type of attack is particularly difficult to defend against. Terrorists cannot be easily identified by their logistical plans, weapon sources or organizational affiliations. The only way to prevent this form of terrorism is by creating a high personal price tag in order to deter the potential terrorist. However, such terrorist deterrence requires clearly defined legislation. Currently, no laws exist regarding allowable punitive action, for example, against terrorists' property. Effective "price tag" deterrence legislation must also apply to the intent to kill, regardless of the results.
Terrorism has existed in different forms since the beginning of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Over the years, terror acts have evolved from stabbings and Molotov cocktails to suicide bombings and the use of vehicles to run over Israelis citizens.
The Al-Aqsa Intifada produced an unprecedented number of terrorist activities against Israel. This elicited the March-April 2002 Operation Defensive Shield and subsequent IDF actions that have significantly reduced the ability of Palestinian terror organizations to attack Israel. The suicide bomber, which had become the Israeli home front's worst nightmare, has been almost completely suppressed. The number of 53 suicide attacks against Israeli cities in 2002 was reduced to a single suicide attack in 2007 and one during 2008. However, terror has not disappeared, but acquired a different shape.
The Kassam rocket industry in Gaza has been growing since 2005, and terrorists without organizational affiliation have been emerging in Judea, Samaria, and East Jerusalem. In 2008, more than 80 percent of the terrorist attacks (to be distinguished from suicide attacks, as mentioned above) were carried out by unaffiliated terrorists who did not benefit from an organizational logistical support. The Israeli defense establishment and the media dubs them "lone terrorists," and views this phenomenon as unstoppable because a terrorist acting without preliminary preparations, a logistical base, and secret partners is very difficult to identify. It is next to impossible to gather critical intelligence to stop him.
The first terrorist attack of this kind occurred on 26 March 2007, when a resident of East Jerusalem with an Israeli identification card opened fire at students in the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva. Two other armed terrorist attacks occurred during the same year at military checkpoints.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
F-15
NEW ORLEANS (July 11, 2009) Two F-15 Strike Eagles assigned to the Louisiana Air National Guard 159th Fighter Wing fly over southern Louisiana's wetlands during a photo exercise. The 159th is stationed on Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, New Orleans. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John P. Curtis/Released)
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Britain halts some arms exports to Israel in response to Gaza conflict
An Israeli Saar 4.5 class corvette: Britain has revoked five licences in connection with the gunshipThe article mentions a petition of 38,000 signatures calling for the total ban on British sales of weapons to Israel. I wonder how many are Muslims?
FROM TIMESONLINE.CO.UK:
Britain halts some arms exports to Israel in response to Gaza conflict
In a move that threatens to strain diplomatic ties, Britain has blocked the sale of spare parts for Israel’s fleet of missile gunships because they were used in the recent campaign in Gaza.
The first country to revoke an arms licence in response to the war in Gaza six months ago, Britain told the Israeli Embassy in London that five of the export requests for parts for the Sa’ar 4.5 gunships had been rejected because the vessels had fired on Gaza during Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s controversial 23-day campaign against the militant group Hamas. The spare parts were intended for the ships’ guns.
An Israeli defence official said that Britain’s decision to revoke five of the 182 licences reviewed by the Government would not impair the navy’s operational abilities — but admitted that there was concern within the military that other countries might follow suit.
Officials in the Israeli Prime Minister’s office said the British ban was a “dangerous step for Israeli diplomatic relations”.
“There are people who will see this as a condemnation of the Israeli operation in Gaza. They will use the UK as an excuse to issue their own embargoes. This is not a situation Israel can accept,” they said.
An official at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office denied that the move amounted to a partial British arms embargo on Israel, but Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli Foreign Minister, appeared to disagree. “Israel has known many cases of embargo in the past. We always knew how to get by, and there is no need to get excited about this,” he said.
After the Gaza war a number of MPs called on Gordon Brown to impose a complete arms embargo on Israel.
A petition of more than 38,000 signatures was posted on the Prime Minister’s website calling for the sale of all munitions to be banned. Earlier this year, Amnesty International highlighted Britain’s role in supplying engines for the Hermes 450 drone, an unmanned aircraft widely used by the Israeli military in Gaza.
According to the most recent statistics, Britain has more than tripled its sale of weapons to Israel in the past two years. In 2007 Britain sold arms worth £6 million to Israel while in 2008 it licensed arms worth £20 million in the first quarter alone.
The FCO in London said it was acting in accordance with European Union arms licence criteria and that export sales had been stopped in the past; both for Israel and other countries when the EU ground rules were perceived to have been broken.
“In light of Operation Cast Lead, and in line with our obligations after a conflict, we conducted a review of extant export licences for Israel,” the FCO official said. David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, had announced the review in a statement to the Commons on April 21.
“We judged that, in a small number of cases, Israeli action in Cast Lead would result in the export of those goods now contravening the [EU’s] consolidated criteria. These licences have been revoked. This is standard practice. A number of licences to both Russia and Georgia were revoked following the Georgia conflict last August,” the official said.
He added: “There are no security agreements between the UK and Israel. We continue to assess all arms export licence applications against the consolidated criteria and the prevailing circumstances, which take into account the recent conflict.”
Iran Revolution Day 30:
Five Iranian Associates of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Released by US in Iraq for 2 Years Return Home VOA
An image grab taken from Iran's official Press TV station shows the five Iranians upon their arrival at Tehran.
Iran Revolution Day 30: Mullahs Arrest Prize Winning Journalists, Obama Releases Associates of Revolutionary Guards to Mullahs
FROM ATLAS SHRUGS:
Obama released executioners of Americans to Ahmadinejad: Obama Frees Iranian Terror Masters (Andrew McCarthy): "The release of the Irbil Five is a continuation of a shameful policy."
Five Iranians released from U.S. custody three days ago in Iraq, received a warm welcome Sunday at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport. The United States insists the five were not released as part of a political gesture to Iran.
The five Iranians released Thursday in Iraq, were given a hero's welcome at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport, as a crowd of well-wishers and family members greeted them on the tarmac
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Muttaqi embraced the men, as friends and relatives carried them on their shoulders into the airport. Muttaqi later gave a press conference, surrounded by the five, complaining that the United States had detained them "illegally."
Obama releases the executioners back into Iran, while sanctioning the genocide against the Iranian people by these very same savages.
It was on the morning of the 11th of July that the secret police forcibly entered the flat of Majid and arrested him in front of his wife and children. He was taken to a secret location and his flat was raided, with the authorities taking into custody tape recordings and other personal possessions. Majid Saeedi was the prominent photographer of Iranike and nine other publications since 1998. In 2001, in collaboration with Time magazine, Majid covered the war in Afghanistan and garnered 4 prizes with Japanese news source Asahi Shimbun.
Satyar Emami, a fellow photo journalist disappeared sometime between the hours of Saturday and did not turn up for work on Sunday afternoon. His disappearance has been linked to that of Majid’s arrest.
Slavery in Mauritania
MauritaniaHere's a brief account of the appalling conditions you won't hear about in the mainstream media.
Where's Je$$e, and the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Rev. Wright on this issue? For that matter where's our Secretary of State Mrs.
Clinton and her boss Barack Barry Soetoro Hussein Obama?
The administrations silence on the issue of slavery is deafening.
Slavery in Mauritania
FROM THE TELEGRAPH.CO.UK:
Half a million African slaves are at the heart of Mauritania's presidential election
More than half a million slaves are at the heart of a presidential election battle in the former French colony of Mauritania.
By Nick Meo in Nouakchott, Mauritania
Published: 8:30AM BST 12 Jul 2009
A year after she ran away from her master, Barakatu Mint Sayed prays that the election on July 18 will mark the beginning of the end of slavery in Mauritania.
Her nation is one of the last places on Earth where large numbers of humans are still kept as property.
And like thousands of other slaves and freed slaves across the Saharan country, her hopes are fixed on an inspirational candidate, a man born to slave parents who has sworn to put an end to the practice of "owning" humans if he is elected president.
That candidate is Messaoud Ould Boulkheir, a 66-year-old former civil servant with a strong resemblance to the film actor Morgan Freeman. Mr Boulkheir has vowed that in power he would punish slave owners and do everything he can to free their human property.
His prospects of winning power are growing by the day - and he is being hailed as Mauritania's brightest star by his supporters.
"He is the Obama of Mauritania," said Boubacar Messaoud, an architect and veteran anti-slavery campaigner in the northwest African desert state. "He is going to bring change, and he represents social justice and equality."
Officially, slavery has long been abolished in Mauritania, but the law has never been enforced and there are an estimated 600,000 slaves, almost one in five of the country's 3.2 million people, almost 150 years since the American civil war.
Change will come too late to heal Mrs Sayed's ruined life. But she knows that victory for Mr Boulkheir could transform the future for the daughter and grandchildren whom she had to leave behind in captivity when she finally summoned the courage to escape.
A black African of Mauritania's Haratine caste, she was born into slavery about 40 years ago - she is illiterate and has only a hazy idea of time - and grew up as the property of an Arabic-speaking Berber family, in an oasis town deep in the desert.
While her master's children went to school, she was cooking, cleaning and washing from dawn to dusk. She slept on the floor, and suffered beatings.
"Sometimes I was too tired by the end of the day to eat my food," Mrs Sayed said at her new home in the capital, Nouakchott, where she now works as a paid housekeeper.
Aged about 10, she was separated from her mother by being given to a cousin of the master as a wedding gift. She remembers crying uncontrollably when they moved to a different town, where she was forbidden from leaving the master's house.
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Across the cultural divide
This is an appalling story of interfaith love and hate in Britain. The love is between a white British man and a Pakistani woman immigrant that was doomed from the start by her families attempts to kill them for the families Islamic "honor".
That this can go on in modern Britain bodes ill for freedom in the West. It illustrates the deep tentacles Islam has insinuated into British and Western society. For the woman's family to drive the couple into hiding for 15 years, and have the authorities do nothing to stop it speaks volumes.
Of course, inviting unlimited Islamic immigration and then having the government bowing and scraping in abject fear of Muslims is at the core of the problem. Unfortunately, virtually all Western governments are accomodating every outrageous demand by the Muslim street out of fear and a desire for votes at election time.
History will look back at these Quislings with disgust and revulsion for selling out our Western heritage to Islamic barbarians.
FROM THE DAILYMAIL.CO.UK:
Across the cultural divide: The Muslim woman and older British man whose love survived death threats but was doomed to fail
By Tom Rawstorne
Last updated at 9:42 AM on 13th July 2009
Before he goes to sleep, Jack Briggs goes through his nightly ritual. First, he checks there is a knife within easy reach beside his bed and a baseball bat beneath it.
It has been the same routine ever since he ran away with his sweetheart, Zena, 17 years ago. She came from a Muslim family and was supposed to wed a cousin in an arranged marriage - not Jack, a white British man ten years her senior.
And so it was that, under threat of death, the couple fled their homes and have been in hiding ever since.
Forbidden love: Zena met Jack Briggs when she was 21 and the pair had to go into hiding because their relationship was a stain on her family's honour
Now, for the first time, the Mail can reveal that the couple, who had battled not just prejudice but violence, have separated after the strain of so many years of clandestine existence finally proved too great. But remarkably, says Jack, that changes nothing. Their lives are still in danger.
'The threat to me and Zena is still there, and I don't think it will make a jot of difference when her family finds out that we have split up,' he says. 'In their eyes, the damage has been done.
'It goes back to the whole honour-based culture. We have put a mark - a stain - on their family and it will never go away.
'They believe it's passed from generation to generation and the only way they can see how to lift it is through murder. It is terrible, but it is fact.'
For a couple whose extraordinary story has been likened to that of Romeo and Juliet, news that their marriage has broken down will come as a terrible shock to the legion of supporters who have followed their plight over the years.
They met and fell in love in 1992 in Leeds, when Zena was just 21. The British-born daughter of Pakistani immigrants, her father had decreed that she would marry a cousin when she came of age.
But then Jack came along (the couple met by chance when he was visiting his sister, who lived close to Zena) and from that moment on their lives would never be the same again.
Told that their relationship was a stain on the honour of Zena's family, the couple were forced to go on the run amid a barrage of death threats.
These threats were taken so seriously by the police that they received protection from Special Branch, assumed numerous new identities and moved house no fewer than 30 times.
It is a terrible irony, then, that only when they stopped running did their relationship itself run into problems. Informed three years ago by detectives that there was no longer a 'credible threat' against them, Jack and Zena attempted to settle down.
But while Zena embraced the return to relative normality, Jack struggled to cope. A disagreement over a piece of furniture brought that fact into focus.
'We'd been out and bought a wardrobe and then brought it back to our flat,' explains 47-year-old Jack.
'We had put a stain on Zena's family'
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
Spokesman: Third American Killed In Somalia
Just how many Somali "refugees" have gone back to the "old country" to wage Jihad against the Somali government? A bigger question is how many Muslim refugees from other Islamic countries now living in America have gone back to their old countries to wage Jihad?
How and where were these people recruited to join terrorist groups?
How many have gotten terrorist training in Pakistan and returned to the States?
This terrorist is called both a Minnesotan and and American. Does this mean he was a naturalized citizen? Or is he just called an American because he was living in America before he was killed in Somalia?
But don't worry, the FBI, when it stops kissing the asses of CAIR and the MAS will be right on it.
FROM LIVESHOTS:
Spokesman: Third American Killed In Somalia
July 11, 2009 - 5:34 pm
by: Mike Levine
Another Minnesota man recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia has been killed in the war-torn African country, according to a spokesman for the man’s family.
Family members of 20-year-old Jamal Bana found photos of his bloody body online, according to Abdirizak Bihi, who has represented many of the families whose loved ones left the Minneapolis area last year to join al-Shabaab, which has been warring with the moderate Somali government since 2006.
The FBI has been looking into how more than 20 young, Somali-American men from the Twin Cities and elsewhere were recruited to train and possibly fight alongside al-Shabaab.
Like many families of men who left unannounced for Somalia, Bana's mother had been regularly searching the Internet for any information about her son in Somalia, according to Bihi.
She came upon a series of photos on a Somali Web site, purporting to show an Afghan or Pakistani fighter who was killed during a fight in Mogadishu on Saturday. But, Bihi said, Bana's mother knew instantly that the gruesome photos – depicting a person with a bloody gunshot wound to the head – were that of her son.
“He doesn’t look Somali. He has very light skin,” Bihi said. “So they thought he is a foreign jihadist from Afghanistan or Pakistan.”
Bihi said the Somali government took the photos to show the world that they had killed a foreign fighter. He said most of the photos were taken inside the Somali Presidential Palace, after Bana's body was removed from the streets of Mogadishu.
One photo shows the body being carried on a stretcher in the middle of a street, as soldiers and a man in a red collared shirt, with a rifle slung over his shoulder, look on.
Fox News has decided not to show the photos in full, due to their graphic nature.
An FBI spokesman in Minneapolis said the FBI is aware of the photos, but he would neither confirm nor deny that they show Bana's body.
Before leaving for Somalia, Bana had studied electrical engineering at a community college.
Bana would be the third known American to die alongside al-Shabaab.
Bihi’s nephew, 17-year-old Burhan Hassan, was killed in Somalia last month. He was a senior at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis when he left for Somalia with Bana in early November last year.
It's unclear exactly how Hassan died. Law enforcement officials said Hassan was likely killed by artillery fire or a stray bullet. But his family has accused al-Shabaab of murdering him.
Bihi suggested that Bana was also killed by al-Shabaab, after being “brainwashed” to join them.
In October 2008, 27-year-old college student Shirwa Ahmed of Minneapolis became "the first known American suicide bomber" when he blew himself up in Somalia, killing dozens, according to the FBI.
Bihi was planning to hold a press conference about Bana late this afternoon.
Saudi religious police blamed in 'honour' killing of sisters
Another case of an "honor" killing in Saudi Arabia, this time two sisters were murdered. As usual this was a family affair with the brother killing his two sisters in the presence of the father. This was initiated when the "religious" police arrested the two sisters for "mixing with" unrelated men. This should be no surprise as just last year the religious police caused about a dozen school girls to perish in a fire because they were not "properly" dressed.
Notice the boilerplate disclaimer that this has nothing to do with the "religion of Islam or Saudi tradition".
Of course, it has EVERYTHING to do with Islam, for without Islam these "honor" killings would not otherwise be tolerated. They are excused by the international community precisely because they are seen as part and parcel with Islam.
FROM GOOGLE.COM:
Saudi religious police blamed in 'honour' killing of sisters
RIYADH (AFP) — A Saudi women's group on Friday blamed the country's religious police in the "honour" killing of two sisters shot dead by their own brother after they were arrested for mixing with unrelated men.
The Society for Defending Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia said the religious police had placed the sisters' lives in danger when they arrested them and then placed them in a Riyadh women's shelter.
The two women, identified as Reem, 21, and Nouf, 19, were murdered after they left the shelter on July 5.
The brother shot them in the presence of their father who, according to newspaper reports, quickly forgave the son for defending the family's honour.
But the society blamed the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, or the religious police, for sparking the brother's anger over his family's honour by arresting the girls in the first place.
"The hands of the religious police, as well as the brother's hands, are stained with the blood of these innocent young women," the group said in a statement.
"These women have not committed any crime to be killed in a such brutal way."
Under Saudi Arabia's Islamic sharia legal code, unrelated men and women are not allowed to mix together, and the religious police actively enforce the rules by patrolling areas frequented by young people.
"Arresting women for mingling with (unrelated males) should be stopped because it puts many Saudi women in danger and sometimes (costs) them their lives," the statement said.
"This act has nothing to do with the religion of Islam or Saudi tradition."
The women's group called on the Saudi authorities to charge the brother with murder and also bring to justice members of the religious police involved in the two girls' case.
Did Islam Destroy the Classical Civilization?
Here is a fine dissertation debunking the widely held belief that Islam saved classical Greek civilization. The actuality is that Islam is primarily responsible for the decline of Western civilization during what is known as the dark ages.
FROM ISLAMWATCH.ORG:
Did Islam Destroy the Classical Civilization?
Sunday, 12 July 2009 05:53 John J. O’Neill
While Islam is viewed as the savior and nurturer of the Classical Greek Civilization, there is an alternative story to this near-universal widsom of our time. Islam may well have had initiated the death of the Classical Civilization. Find out why???
One of the most enduring problems of history is the decline of Classical Civilization. How is it, scholars have long asked, that the civilization of Greece and Rome, which had endured over a thousand years, gave way to the world of the Medieval; an age which saw, for a while, the decline and apparent disappearance of the rationalist spirit of Greece and Rome? In academic and journalistic literature and in the popular imagination there is no mystery at all: After the Barbarian Invasions of the fifth century, we are told, the peoples of Western Europe reverted to living in thatched, wattle-and-daub huts. Cities were destroyed and abandoned, the art of writing virtually lost, and the mass of the population kept in a state of ignorance by an obscurantist and fanatical Church, which effectively completed the destructive work of the Barbarians. Into this darkened stage, the Arabs arrived in the seventh and eighth centuries like a ray of light. Tolerant and learned, they brought knowledge of the science of antiquity back into Europe and, under their influence, the Westerners began the long journey back to civilization.
That, in a nutshell, is the story told in an enormous number of scholarly treatises and academic textbooks. It is a story implicitly accepted by a large majority of professional historians, both in Europe and North America – among them Bernard Lewis, the doyen of Middle Eastern studies in the English-speaking world; and yet it is a version of the past that is completely and utterly false. Indeed, it would be difficult to imagine a narrative further removed from what actually happened. And, shocking as it may seem, historians have known this for several generations. Why this knowledge has never been fully disseminated or integrated into academic thought is a moot point, but the fact that textbooks designed for schoolchildren and students of higher education can still be printed promoting the above version of events should be a cause of deep concern. For the truth is that when the Arabs reached southern Italy and Spain they found not a bunch of primitive savages, but a highly sophisticated Latin civilization, a civilization rich in cities, agriculture, art and literature, and presided over by completely Romanized Gothic kings. How do we know this? Well, the Arabs themselves said so. On their arrival in Spain, Gothic Spain, the Muslim conquerors of 711 were astonished at the size and opulence of its cities. Their annalists recall the appearance at the time of Seville, Cordova, Merida and Toledo; “the four capitals of Spain, founded,” they tell us naively, “by Okteban [Octavian] the Caesar.” Seville, above all, seems to have struck them by its wealth and its illustriousness in various ways. “It was,” writes Ibn Adhari, among all the capitals of Spain the greatest, the most important, the best built and the richest in ancient monuments. Before its conquest by the Goths it had been the residence of the Roman governor. The Gothic kings chose Toledo for their residence; but Seville remained the seat of the Roman adepts of sacred and profane science, and it was there that lived the nobility of the same origin. (Cited from Lious Bertrand and Sir Charles Petrie, The History of Spain, London, 1945, p. 7)
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Obama Frees Iranian Terror Masters
Obama shows his true colorsFile this under Enemy Within. At the top.
It may seem extreme to say that Barack Barry Soetoro Hussein Obama has committed treason by having five Iranian terrorists released, but there is no other term that fits.
FROM NATIONALREVIEW.COM:
Obama Frees Iranian Terror Masters
The release of the Irbil Five is a continuation of a shameful policy.
By Andrew C. McCarthy
There are a few things you need to know about President Obama’s shameful release on Thursday of the “Irbil Five” — Quds Force commanders from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) who were coordinating terrorist attacks in Iraq that have killed hundreds — yes, hundreds — of American soldiers and Marines.
First, of the 4,322 Americans killed in combat in Iraq since 2003, 10 percent of them (i.e., more than 400) have been murdered by a single type of weapon alone, a weapon that is supplied by Iran for the singular purpose of murdering Americans. As Steve Schippert explains at NRO’s military blog, the Tank, the weapon is “the EFP (Explosively Formed Penetrator), designed by Iran’s IRGC specifically to penetrate the armor of the M1 Abrams main battle tank and, consequently, everything else deployed in the field.” Understand: This does not mean Iran has killed only 400 Americans in Iraq. The number killed and wounded at the mullahs’ direction is far higher than that — likely multiples of that — when factoring in the IRGC’s other tactics, such as the mustering of Hezbollah-style Shiite terror cells.
Second, President Bush and our armed forces steadfastly refused demands by Iran and Iraq’s Maliki government for the release of the Irbil Five because Iran was continuing to coordinate terrorist operations against American forces in Iraq (and to aid Taliban operations against American forces in Afghanistan). Freeing the Quds operatives obviously would return the most effective, dedicated terrorist trainers to their grisly business.
Third, Obama’s decision to release the five terror-masters comes while the Iranian regime (a) is still conducting operations against Americans in Iraq, even as we are in the process of withdrawing, and (b) is clearly working to replicate its Lebanon model in Iraq: establishing a Shiite terror network, loyal to Iran, as added pressure on the pliant Maliki to understand who is boss once the Americans leave. As the New York Times reports, Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, put it this way less than two weeks ago:
Iran is still supporting, funding, training surrogates who operate inside of Iraq — flat out. . . . They have not stopped. And I don’t think they will stop. I think they will continue to do that because they are also concerned, in my opinion, [about] where Iraq is headed. They want to try to gain influence here, and they will continue to do that. I think many of the attacks in Baghdad are from individuals that have been, in fact, funded or trained by the Iranians.
Fourth, President Obama’s release of the Quds terrorists is a natural continuation of his administration’s stunningly irresponsible policy of bartering terrorist prisoners for hostages. As I detailed here on June 24, Obama has already released a leader of the Iran-backed Asaib al-Haq terror network in Iraq, a jihadist who is among those responsible for the 2007 murders of five American troops in Karbala. While the release was ludicrously portrayed as an effort to further “Iraqi reconciliation” (as if that would be a valid reason to spring a terrorist who had killed Americans), it was in actuality a naïve attempt to secure the reciprocal release of five British hostages — and a predictably disastrous one: The terror network released only the corpses of two of the hostages, threatening to kill the remaining three (and who knows whether they still are alive?) unless other terror leaders were released.
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
TAKE IT EASY ON MUSLIM EXTREMISTS, POLICE TOLD
I read several newspapers from Britain every day and am appalled by the way the government is turning over control of the country to the Muslims. Every day there is some concession or another to accommodate the Muslim demands for special treatment due to their "religion".
What is most distressing however, is that I am seeing much the same sort of capitulation to Islam here in America. If we do not wake up SOON, and stop Muslim immigration and infiltration into the government, we will find ourselves fighting in the streets to keep from being killed of made dhimmis.
Here is just one more example of government accommodating Muslim thugs out of RAW FEAR and abject cowardice.
Where will you be when the Jihad hits the street?
FROM THE EXPRESS.CO.UK:
TAKE IT EASY ON MUSLIM EXTREMISTS, POLICE TOLD
Police will be urged to turn a blind eye to provocative acts by Muslim protest groups
Saturday July 11,2009
By Macer Hall
POLICE will be ordered not to charge Muslim extremists in many hate crime cases – to stop them becoming more militant.
Guidelines will tell forces to press for conviction only in cases of clear-cut criminal acts.
Officers will be advised not to proceed when evidence of lawbreaking is “borderline”.
Examples of crimes to which a blind eye may be turned include incitement to religious hatred or viewing extremist material on the internet.
Last night critics warned that the move could mean Islamic radicals being give the freedom to encourage violence.
Some saw the move as a politically correct attempt to appease extremists who hate Britain.
It could even mean officers tolerating many activities of Muslim preachers of hate like the hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza.
Tory MP David Davies said: “This sounds like abject surrender. Everyone should be equal in the eyes of the law.
“It doesn’t matter whether someone is suspected of incitement to hatred or shoplifting – they should all face the same risk of prosecution.
“There should be no special favours or treatment for any section of the community.”
Officials insist there is no suggestion that people who have clearly committed offences will avoid prosecution.
Instead, they want to avoid alienating Muslims on the fringes of extremism by dragging them to court over petty allegations unlikely to result in conviction.
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Catastrophe - How Shariah Law Has Taken Over The West
Dick Morris lays out the consequences of allowing Sharia finance in Western banking.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Into Taliban country
It's all well and good that there are low American causalities in the Afghanistan surge, but Taliban are not being killed this way. The allied strategy to occupy and hold territory will eventually tie down large numbers of troops while the Taliban regroups for attacks on other areas. If the allied forces cannot swarm and overwhelm the Taliban over large areas, a stalemate will develop with the advantage going to the terrorists.
What is really needed is a concerted effort to run down the Taliban leaders and other enablers similar to the Israeli efforts to destroy Hamas leadership. I've said this before but a Phoenix program on a global scale is needed to eliminate the "brains" of the Islamic Jihad. Phoenix was the single most successful program in the destruction of the Viet Cong leadership. Without leadership and infrastructure, there will be nothing but bands of uncoordinated terrorists to deal with. That means following and eliminating terrorist leaders and enablers wherever they may be.
Let's hope someone, somewhere in government realizes that Islamic Jihad is accelerating and making mighty inroads into Western society at all levels.
Where will you be when the Jihad hits the streets?
FROM THE ECONOMIST.COM:
Into Taliban country
Jul 9th 2009
America’s “surge” in Afghanistan begins—and allied tactics change
LASHKAR GAH
From The Economist print edition
UNDER cover of night, driving through the desert or landing from helicopters, America’s marines went “big, strong, fast” into the Taliban’s strongholds in Helmand province. More than 4,000 marines and about 650 Afghan soldiers reached their targets in just seven hours.
Operation Khanjar (Thrust of the Sword), which began on July 2nd, was the biggest action by the marines since they retook the Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2004. But unlike their comrades in that bloody urban battle, the marines now in Afghanistan have, for the most part, thrust their swords into hot air. With the Taliban melting away in many places, the marines’ biggest enemy has often been the heat—“hot as fire”, says their commander, Brigadier-General Larry Nicholson. Some complained they had not been able to fire enough rounds to lighten their heavy packs.
But General Nicholson, for one, was not disappointed. His object was not to kill Taliban soldiers but to protect the population. Each company commander was told his first task should be to organise a council, or shura, with local elders to deliver the message that the marines had come to stay and to extend the writ of the central government in Kabul. A parallel operation, Panchai Palang (Panther’s Claw), has been a gritty and bloody affair in which British forces have been slugging it out with the Taliban for control of the district of Nad Ali. The British have lost seven soldiers, including a battalion commander in the Welsh Guards, Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, this month alone.
The operations have two main aims: to enlarge and merge the patches of territory controlled by NATO along the “green zone” (the ribbon of irrigated land alongside the Helmand river and its tributaries) and to interdict the flow of Taliban fighters and weapons through the desert from Pakistan. The marines are pushing into insurgent-held areas in the districts of Nawa and Garmser (see map). They have also struck deep in the south to build a new base in the town of Khanishin, from where marines will try to disrupt Taliban supply routes. On July 8th the Afghan flag was raised over the town’s 18th-century fort.
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