Officials: Lebanese troops fired on IAF jets - Israel News, Ynetnews
I bet the MSM will remain quiet over the fact that Lebanese troops, (probably ones not loyal to the government but to Nasrallah) fired upon Israeli aircraft doing routine reconnaissance. This might be a situation that needs to be watched more carefully because it could signal another "war", and yes Syria and her master Iran want that war to take place.
"War is deception" is, of course, a quote from Muhammad himself. "Motion For Retrial," from Investor's Business Daily (thanks to Doc Washburn):
Trail Of Terror: The Council on American-Islamic Relations is cheering a mistrial in a major terror case as a "stunning defeat" for the U.S. government. But the celebration may be premature.Federal prosecutors say they'll retry the case against leaders of the Holy Land Foundation, the nation's largest Muslim charity, which they accused of funneling more than $12 million to Hamas terrorists.
CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the case, also cheered a similar outcome in a federal case against Muslim activist Sami al-Arian in Florida. As in the Holy Land case, jurors deadlocked on several terror counts. But prosecutors threatened a retrial and al-Arian later pleaded guilty to lesser charges.
He was defended by the same lawyer defending one of the accused Holy Land leaders, Ghassan Elashi, who happens to also be a founding member of CAIR.
Barring plea bargains, the U.S. will narrow its charges and refile them — hopefully with a new judge. U.S. District Judge Joe Fish barred key evidence helping prosecutors prove willful intent to support terror on the part of defendants.
For example, he threw out a dozen documents seized by the Israeli government in raids of Hamas fronts that would have tied the Dallas-based charity closer to the terror group. Fish also allowed defendants to intimidate jurors.
Not long after the trial opened, after a morning of testimony by government witnesses, a visibly angry Elashi shouted and pointed as jurors exited the courtroom for lunch. The judge scolded him for the outburst — which included a rant about "a Zionist conspiracy" — but decided not to kick him out of the courtroom.
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No doubt they'll streamline their evidence, highlighting the more powerful exhibits, including:
• FBI wiretaps of a meeting in Philadelphia between Holy Land and Hamas big shots in which Holy Land's director is overheard scheming to disguise payments to Hamas as charity, noting that "war is deception."
• Testimony from FBI agents that Holy Land flew Hamas clerics to the U.S. to help raise funds at mosques.
• Videos of a Holy Land defendant pretending to kill an Israeli during a Hamas fundraising skit held at one mosque.
• Key chains, videos and posters praising suicide bombers found inside the Hamas front "committees" that Holy Land helped bankroll.
The defendants also kept two sets of records at their Dallas offices — one in English, the other in Arabic — which they destroyed during the FBI's probe.
Lawyers for the accused expect us to believe that all this suspicious activity was merely an attempt to help needy Palestinians with "vaccinations" and "rice." Civil juries haven't fallen for the subterfuge.
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The evidence is clear. Now it's up to the PC-plagued Justice Department to present it to jurors in a way that doesn't make their eyes glaze over. Retry the case. Only this time, don't try their patience.
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I have to admit that Dr. Sanity never ceases to amaze when it comes to some of the really great articles that she finds, and this one is no exception. Now I am not an American, but that does not mean that I am not interested in the race to become the next President of the USA. Personally, I think that neither Hillary Clinton nor Barak Obama are worthy candidates. Where Hilary is concerned, well I see her as a scheming hard hearted female dog. As far as Barak Obama is concerned, he has been shooting off at the mouth too much. The Democrats need stronger contenders, people who can be trusted to have more concern about the American people than their own selfish pursuits for power, Hilary Clinton style (stepping off soap box to continue with the purpose of this post):
If any of my readers are familiar with the movie Chicago, then you will remember the scene where the lawyer does a quick step two step as he pulls the strings and manipulates the press gallery. It is a really great scene because the reporters are well and truly manipulated by the smoke and mirrors that are being flashed before them as they accept hook, line and sinker the tale that is being fed to them, as to why Roxie shot her lover. It is with this imagery in mind that I have given Dr. Sanity's article my own title since I think that it is quite fitting to point out how the Dhimmicrats are being manipulated by the Islamist propagandists:
DUMMYCRATS, DHIMMICRATS, DEMOCRATS
One of the definitions of the word dummy is "a large puppet usually having movable features (as mouth and arms) manipulated by a ventriloquist". Of course, it also is a word that means "a stupid person".
Per Robert Spencer, Dhimmitude is the status that Islamic law (i.e., Sharia) mandates for non-Muslims, primarily Jews and Christians. Dhimmis, “protected” or “guilty” people, are free to practice their religion in a Sharia regime, but are made subject to a number of humiliating regulations designed to enforce the Qur'an's command that they "feel themselves subdued" (Sura 9:29). This denial of equality of rights and dignity remains part of the Sharia, and, as such, are part of the legal superstructure that global jihadists are laboring through violence to restore everywhere in the Islamic world, and wish ultimately to impose on the entire human race
Both sets of definitions apply to today's Democratic leadership when it comes to their foreign policy positions regarding the war on terror.
Here is an extremely interesting bit of writing by Tariq Alhomayed, the editor of Asharq Alawsat, an international Arabic daily newspaper, who catalogs Iran's many efforts to destablize the region and accumulate power to itself. In "Washington and Tehran: Negotiating Over What?", Alhomayed says:
US Democratic candidates, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, have expressed their intention to engage in “unconditional negotiations” with Iran, should either of them attain the presidency. The question is: Negotiate over what?
Are the conflicts in the Middle East a result of a crisis in Washington-Tehran relations; or rather, does it revolve around Iran’s expansion ambitions and its interference in the internal affairs of Arab states for over 20 years?
Is the Washington-Tehran crisis a result of the absence of dialogue, or is it by reason of Iran’s aspirations to destabilize the region?
The strange thing is that at a time when international efforts are being made to establish an international coalition against Iran’s pursuit for nuclear weapons, the Democrats are waving the carrot before Tehran. As such, Iran will surely interpret the message as an invitation to consolidate position on the ground and in the region until the Democrats reach power, after which it can negotiate with Washington from a position of power.
Robert Stacy McCain blogging at The Washington Time’s Fishwrap sends this update on Nonie Darwish.
Nonie Darwish is an Arab-American writer and public speaker. She is the author of the book Now they Call Me Infidel; Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror. Nonie's message is not about disloyalty but love for her culture of origin. She blames Arab leadership and the media for the endless rage and violence of the Arab street.
Phyllis Chesler describes how Nonie Darwish was treated by the the crowd at Wellesley College last week during her talk at Pajamas Media:
Last week, on October 18, 2007, our hero Darwish spoke at the all-female Wellesley College as the guest of Hillel on campus. She was not treated as a hero; then again, maybe she was, maybe her treatment is precisely how heroes are greeted on American campuses today.Nonie Darwish is speaking tonight at UC Berkeley. Andrew Marcus is filming the event and blogger Megan Sego from California Patriot Blog is in attendance.
About 80-100 students came. Far more Muslim than Jewish students came and “so many” of the Muslim girls were wearing head-scarves.
According to Darwish, the female students in head-scarves did the following: As she spoke, they made exaggerated, “mean girl” faces at her. They rolled their eyes, practiced “disbelieving” facial expressions—did everything but stick out their tongues. And they continued to talk to each other in loud whispers while Darwish spoke: “How can she tell such lies!” “I was never, ever indoctrinated against Jews!” “Can you believe what she is saying?” “We do not call Jews pigs and apes, how can she lie about her own people?”
In addition to the “mean girl” faces and the continual loud whispering, one by one, at least four to five head-scarved girls, got up to leave the room during Darwish’s speech. This meant that each girl took two minutes to move to the end of her row, physically causing the other students to get up or twist aside, causing the entire room to look at the departing student, not at their invited guest—and then each girl did precisely the same thing when she returned two minutes later, presumably from a bathroom break.
They quadruple-teamed Darwish and did not stop until Darwish ended her lecture. Twenty to thirty minutes of soft-core, well-choreographed, goon squad behavior. “They are Hamas-trained” says Darwish.
“And all the while,” Darwish says, “the Jewish students cringed and cowered, so afraid that they might have hurt Muslim feelings. (Or rather, that the Muslims might physically hurt them afterwards. According to Darwish, one Jewish student told her that “she “was locking her door. I am scared.”)
She is probably right to be. During the Question and Answer period, many of the head-scarved students expressed calculated, injured outrage. “How dare (Hillel) bring this woman to our campus? How dare she insult Islam, tell lies about Islam” etc. “We are free under Islam, how can she deny this?”
…Darwish concludes: “Muslim girls like these are like gangsters. They know more about their rights in America than the Jewish girls do. The Muslim girls all have a chip on their shoulders.”
And then she is silent. Softly, she says: “We are fighting an avalanche. We are too few. I am frightened by my culture of origin. I am scared of my own people.”
PKK is the Kurdish Worker’s Party that adopted violence in its
struggle against Turkey. As the Turkish Parliament recently voted to
authorize a limited invasion into Northern Iraq to fight the PKK
militias, one can see the rising shadows of two hostile regimes in the
region, eager to see a NATO member, Turkey, eventually clashing with
the United States through their local allies in Iraq. Indeed, the
Iranian and Syrian regimes have been pushing the precarious mechanisms
of a Turkish military intervention into Northern Iraq for a while now.
Logically, a collapse of security in the most secure part of Iraq would
lead to a crumbling of the military stabilization of the country, a
chief objective of US plans in Iraq.
But the Iran plans for Iraq, which I have analyzed in a previous
article, consist of three types of destabilization: An Iranian push in
the south, a Syrian opening for the Jihadists in the center, and
dragging Turkey to a dogfight in the mountains of the north.
In order to launch the third leg preemptively into Iraqi Kurdistan,
Tehran and Damascus have been pushing all the right buttons for the
confrontation. Iran's shelling of villages in the northern part of
Iraqi Kurdistan over the past months aimed at encouraging Turkey to do
the same.
Opening salvos by the Ayatollahs are to test the Kurdish and US
reactions. Moreover, Iran's Pasdaran - the Revolutionary Guard that
provides training and support to terrorist groups throughout the region
and abroad - is said to have infiltrated some circles within the PKK,
since the latter was based in Syria a few years ago. The PKK suddenly
has been waging inexplicable operations inside Eastern Turkey with a
new energy, after years of calm. Sources believe the PKK was
manipulated by both Iran and Syria into these terror acts on Turkish
soil while the official bases of the group are on Iraqi soil. Hence the
attacks triggering Turkish anger and responses may have been
manipulated by the "axis."
But the Syrian regime has another card it could have played.
According to well informed sources in the region, and not to the
surprise of experts, the Alawite regime in Syria (Alawites are
important to the leadership of Syria, as President Bashar al-Assad and
his father, Hafez are Alawite) has had good relations with Alawite
officers inside the Turkish armed forces. The “Alawite connection” may
have been activated to encourage a military response and incursion into
northern Iraq. But nevertheless, the Assad regime and the Turkish
Islamist Government - reinforced by the last Presidential election in
Ankara - have a joint objective interest in weakening the US presence
in Iraq.
Assad thinks that he can help create a major Turkish-Iranian-Syrian
alliance against the Kurds in Northern Iraq. And by the same logic, the
Kurds, solid US allies, will be facing another formal ally of
Washington on Iraqi soil: Turkey. The plan is to drag the Turkish Army
(traditionally not inclined to find itself face to face with its major
ally) to enter a territory where "terrorists are based," but where they
could be indistinguishable from those Kurdish Peshmergas who are the
backbone of the new post-Saddam Iraq. The rest can be guessed.
As the “axis” is using all its cards to crumble Iraq’s and Lebanon’s
democracies, the Kurds in Northern Iraq should have acted quickly and
strategically. There shouldn’t have been any PKK bases in their areas
because these are a recipe for disaster.
The situation in Iraq as a whole is still complex, precarious and
explosive, despite the advances made by the new US military plans,
including the surge. The north must remain stable and secure and, above
all, at peace with the only “NATO” border it has. The other frontiers
Iraqi Kurdistan has are with the Pasdarans and the Syrian Baath. Both
want the new Iraq’s head.
Instead of playing charms with Tehran and Damascus, the Kurdistan
city of Soleimaniye must reinforce its own deterring force and maintain
stability and peace on its northern border with Turkey. Knowing all too
well that the new Islamist Government in Ankara is shifting the grounds
inside the modernist Kemalist Republic, Iraq’s Kurdish leadership
mustn’t offer any reason for a Turkish adventure in their areas.
Hence, it is recommended that the Kurdish leaders of Iraq be the
ones to reign in the PKK to avoid having the Turkish Army crossing the
borders. The US can - and should - broker arrangements between the
Iraqi Kurds and the Turkish military to avoid the rise of an
anti-Kurdish Triangle in the region.
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Dr Walid Phares is the director of Future Terrorism Project at the
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a visiting scholar at the
European Foundation for Democracy, and the author of The War of Ideas:
Jihadism against Democracy.
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Police broke up a protest today by hundreds of angry Muslims upset over the publication of an offensive cat cartoon.
Dhaka, 21 Sept. (AKI) - Police in Bangladesh broke up a protest by hundreds of Muslims in the capital Dhaka over the publication of a cartoon that they say offended their religion.
A report on the local newspaper The Daily Star said that several hundred activists of six Islamic organisations began the protest march outside the capital's Baitul Mokarram mosque after Friday prayers.
Bangladesh's caretaker government suspended the publication, Alpin, a weekly satire magazine of leading Bengali daily Prothom Alo. The magazine's publishers also apologised and appealed for forgiveness for the drawing.
The cartoon shows a small boy referring to his cat as "Mohammad cat". The image provoked outrage and protestors said that it was a deliberate attempt to ridicule Islam's Prophet Mohammad.
The cartoonist, Arifur Rahman, was arrested on 17 September by the police.
The Daily Star reports that the editors from several leading newspapers including Prothom Alo have appealed for forgiveness.
The editors urged the country's religious leaders or ulema to consider the newspaper's apology and also called for calm and restraint.
Paris-based press freedom group, Reporters Without Borders, has called for the release of Arifur Rahman.The demonstrators demanded the execution of the paper's editor, Matiur Rahman- BBC.
