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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Federal agents raid another Muslim charity
HT LGF
Federal counterterrorism agents raided a Muslim charity in Southfield on Monday morning, according to the FBI.

Agents with the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force executed search warrants at the headquarters for Life for Relief and Development, a Southfield-based charity that works in Arab and Muslim countries around the world.

The warrants were based on a criminal predicate, said William Kowalski, assistant special agent in charge for the Detroit office of the FBI. The affidavits in support of the warrants are sealed, he said.

At about 9 a.m., agents raided the Southfield office, hauling away documents, letters and ledgers, said Dawud Walid, head of the Michigan branch of the Council on American Islamic Relations. Agents told officials with the charity that the raid was related to some sort of criminal activity, Walid said.

Rest at Link
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/18/2006 15:12 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just down the road from where I worked when I lived in Detroit.

Charming.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/18/2006 15:44 Comments || Top||

#2  The charity has worked in Iraq, Pakistan and the Palestinian territories, among other countries.

What? Not Kashmir? Not southern Thailand? What about the Moros? Or Sudan? Or Somalia?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/18/2006 15:45 Comments || Top||

#3  ALL Muslim charities need to have their assets frozen while they undergo intense scrutiny and extensive financial auditing. They are nothing more than terrorist financiers.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/18/2006 15:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, charity is one of the pillars of Islam.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/18/2006 16:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, charity is one of the pillars of Islam.

Maybe so, but those charities that fund jihad need their clocks cleaned.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/18/2006 16:41 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West [full-length]
Posted by: Pheaper Glonter6235 || 09/18/2006 16:31 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I watched this a few weeks back. This is a MUST SEE.
Posted by: Dave D. || 09/18/2006 18:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Y'all better see this. Seriously. And then pass it on.
Posted by: ex-lib || 09/18/2006 23:04 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
10th Mt. Div. Troops Keep Extremists at Bay
FORWARD OPERATING BASE BERMEL, Afghanistan, Sept. 14, 2006 — Spc. Jose Pantoja shows off the danger of his mission along the border region of eastern Afghanistan: a scar on his cheek from an enemy bullet. During one of the longest firefights his company has encountered – nearly four hours long – three others sustained gunshot wounds, and nearly everyone took minor wounds from rocket propelled grenade shrapnel. “One of our guys actually got shot in his helmet,” Pantoja said. “It knocked him down, but he got up and kept fighting.”

Engaging in firefights is almost daily life for the Coalition troops at Forward Operating Base Bermel, most attached to Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division. They keep enemy extremists at bay in this district in the eastern part of the Paktika Province, allowing Bermel to progress with reconstruction projects and establish a firm government.

The day after the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, two platoons – about 40 to 50 troops – were on patrol in the hills near the Pakistan border. “We’ve been in quite a few firefights, particularly in the border region,” said 1st Lt. Shawn Parnell, infantry rifle platoon leader. “They tend to be pretty violent, but we’re out here proud to do the job we’re doing.”

This day, the patrol did not encounter the enemy fighters, but the Company knew they were out there. “The enemy puts observers on the hill,” said Spc. Colten Wallace of the rugged terrain they were patrolling. “When we go behind the ridgeline, they warn their guys and they set up ambushes for us. They get a good 30-minute warning that we’re coming.”

That’s why Bravo Company takes no chances. If a mission must take them beyond the ridgeline, their point of no return, they fire off mortars to flush out enemy fighters and make sure air support is on hand.

On a hilltop surveying the ground below, Capt. Jason Dye, company commander, said he believes enemy fighters are starting to establish small camps in the border region.
“Before, they maybe had 30 or 40 guys in this whole area,” he said. “Now, we’re estimating they probably have closer to 250. That’s Taliban, as far as I can tell, supported by foreign fighters.”

Parnell said this region is a major infiltration route for enemy fighters. Bravo Company’s long-term presence here is a critical factor in trying to keep out enemy extremists.
“This is a hotbed for insurgent activity,” he said. “The people here are really starting to get used to us. In the villages along the border here, it’s important to show them that we do care about them.”

He and his troops play a leading role in bringing security and stability to what was once an ungovernable region just more than a year ago when this base opened. By separating the enemy from the people of this district, Bravo Company’s mission allows reconstruction and governance to gain strength in one of the most impoverished areas of Afghanistan.

“We’ve only been in Afghanistan for five years, and we’re going to be here for the long haul,” Parnell said. “If me being here right now means my kids later on down the road won’t be here, then it’s worthwhile.”
Posted by: Bobby || 09/18/2006 13:40 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Like the pic. I keep hearing "Ride of the Valkyries" playing in the background...
Posted by: mojo || 09/18/2006 14:47 Comments || Top||

#2  “If me being here right now means my kids later on down the road won’t be here, then it’s worthwhile.”

I'm sure our fathers and grandfathers said the same thing about Germany. We're still there. However, the biggest danger for a decade or two has been too much German beer and the autobahn. Of course Central Europe has seen the longest stretch of peace since Rome was the regional power, making the chore far better than the historical alternatives. Write it up as cost avoidance.
Posted by: Theamble Snenter3844 || 09/18/2006 16:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Funny, I hear the Dance of the Hours.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 09/18/2006 16:03 Comments || Top||


Bomber targets crowd of children
A SUICIDE bomber has blown himself up in a crowd of children in southern Afghanistan, causing multiple casualties, as NATO troops handed them gift items, officials said. "A suicide attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body in a crowd of children where the troops were distributing pens and notebooks to kids," a district police official said on condition of anonymity.
Rat bastards.
He said 24 children were wounded, four of them in a critical condition, while officials said NATO peacekeepers were also injured.

NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed a bomb had exploded near a patrol in the city of Kandahar, causing "multiple casualties". "Local civilians also suffered injuries from the blast," it said in a statement. "The ISAF soldiers were evacuated to military medical facilities for treatment." It would not release the nationalities of the troops involved.

Police said the soldiers were Canadians, but this could not be immediately confirmed by the Canadian military which has 2300 soldiers in Kandahar.

"It was a suicide attack," interior ministry spokesman Zemaray Bashari said in Kabul, also identifying the patrol as Canadian. "It inflicted both civilian and military casualties."

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing and said that 10 Canadian soldiers had died. The fundamentalist group frequently gives exaggerated death tolls for its attacks. "Today a resident of Kandahar named Qudratullah detonated explosives strapped to his body targeting a Canadian foot patrol, which killed 10 Canadian solidiers," purported Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi said.
Posted by: Oztralian || 09/18/2006 05:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The BBC managed to report this without mentioning the child casuaties. Can't be to judgmental.
Posted by: phil_b || 09/18/2006 5:50 Comments || Top||

#2  No Taleban prisoners. Not ever again. At least not after any interrogation.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/18/2006 6:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Subhuman cowards, these are the brave lions of islam. This is what you can expect from the Taliwhackers if they ever get a foothold in your area. Attractive, isn't it.
Posted by: Thomort Flomoling3198 || 09/18/2006 6:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Once again, If you are among muzzies, do not bunch up, do not wait in lines. Keep a distance between each other when in a public area. Do not attend funerals, sales, sporting events, theaters, churches, restaurants, or clubs.
Your life is in danger. If you remain silent, you will hear them seething. Do not smile or laugh.
Posted by: wxjames || 09/18/2006 10:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Are taliban mostly afghans or pakistanis????
Posted by: Cheregum Crelet7867 || 09/18/2006 11:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Are taliban mostly afghans or pakistanis????

A mix, with a spineless core of Arabs.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/18/2006 12:10 Comments || Top||

#7  The Lions of IslamTM...Mo-ham-head's finest...are doing what they do best: Committing suicide and homicide simultaeously on innocent women and children.

I am sure the demon allan is pleased.
Posted by: anymouse || 09/18/2006 12:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Killing children and shooting nuns in the back--does their bravery know no bounds?
Posted by: Dar || 09/18/2006 12:26 Comments || Top||

#9  How low and cowardly can you possibly get. Willing to kill children to get a soldier or two, who's trying to do some real good in the community. It really is hopeless. These brainwashed fools have to be eliminated.
Posted by: SOP35/Rat || 09/18/2006 12:44 Comments || Top||

#10  No Taleban prisoners. Not ever again. At least not after any interrogation.

Rather than go through all the fuss with the torture while interrogating them, just remind them that there are two ways to die . . . . Which way will be decided after your info checks out.
Posted by: gorb || 09/18/2006 12:49 Comments || Top||

#11  The Taliban are a creation of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, designed to take over Afghanistan for Pakistan, which has historically desired Afghanistan as a place of retreat ("defence in depth") against invasion by India or China. Taliban means students because they were gleaned from amongst the Pashtun lads memorizing the Koran in Pakistani madrassahs. The Pashtun tribal territory lays on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border, and they are all cousins of course, so it was easy for them to gather support for taking over Afghanistan in the 1990s, and now as they raid across the border in their attempt to drive out NATO. Early on most of the Taliban were local Afghanis, but now the majority are sweepings from the madrassahs on the Pakistan side of the border, as far as I can tell. With, as Rob Crawford says, a sprinkling of Arab financiers and glory seekers.

Or at least that's my understanding. Additions and corrections by those who know more gratefully appreciated.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/18/2006 13:26 Comments || Top||

#12  Willing to kill children to get a soldier or two, who's trying to do some real good

More like:

Willing to kill whoever's trying to do some real good.

Don't be too restrictive with your definitions, SOP/35Rat.

At the end of the main war, I was criticized for insisting that the captured Taleban forces must not be folded back into Afghan society. People said that many of them had been impressed into service or were needed to jumpstart Afghanistan's rural economy. I felt they needed to be placed in internement camps that were completely staffed by armed women military police who imposed hard labor and rigorous conditions in a shoot to kill environment.

I am sick to death of bleeding hearts.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/18/2006 13:36 Comments || Top||

#13  The BBC, however, did mange to get this little snark in the second sentence in the article: The blast came a day after Nato said it had driven the Taleban from Panjwayi.

The deeper they get, the harder they dig.
Posted by: Bobby || 09/18/2006 13:37 Comments || Top||

#14  Just one more reason to ARCLIGHT the entire NWFP and surrounding areas. If there are no madrassas, no students, and no one else with the spare time to commit such offences, they will cease. An ARCLIGHT strike leaves a 2x4-mile field of SMALL toothpicks.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 09/18/2006 14:56 Comments || Top||

#15  Old Patriot, your suggestions about relandscaping the NWFP make more and more sense each passing day.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/18/2006 15:01 Comments || Top||

#16  Zenster, I realize a lot of people make this error, including the MSM, but the Taliban stronghold is in the Federally Adminstered Tribal Areas and not the NWFP (which for the most part is not on the Afghan border and where it is on the Afghan border is not populated by Pashtuns).
Posted by: phil_b || 09/18/2006 18:42 Comments || Top||

#17  Thank you for clarifying phil_b. All well and fine, let's bounce the rubble in FATA. Pakistan is no longer of any use to us, pending conflict with China or no. If Pakistan is molten glow-in-the-dark slag, China won't be going there anyway.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/18/2006 22:39 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
A bullet with her name on it
Sister Leonella, a nun who devoted her life to helping the sick in volatile regions of Africa, used to joke that there was a bullet with her name engraved on it in Somalia. When the bullet came, she used her last breaths to forgive those responsible....Sister Leonella, whose birth name was Rosa Sgorbati, had lived and worked in Kenya and Somalia for 38 years, her family said.

She was shot as she left the Austrian-run S.O.S. hospital Sunday. Her bodyguard also was slain. The two had been walking the 10 meters (30 feet) from the Mogadishu hospital to the sister's home, where three other nuns were waiting to have lunch with her.

"She had no chance," Huber added. "It was like an execution."
This kind of faith and courage always astonishes me, always surprises me.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/18/2006 15:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thanks from an ungratefl continent, Africa.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/18/2006 16:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Rest in peace, Sister Leonella.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/18/2006 16:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Musami Massacre a few years back, 1977, when the war on terror was appeased for PC thinking in its pot-smoking, dhimmi-thinking infancy. Anyone with two eyes would have seen this coming to bite the western arse. Still pisses me off.

http://rhodesian.server101.com/murder_of
_missionaries
_in_rhodes.htm

Kaffirs/Arabs/Pakisatanis, they all look the same to me, and I can tell one at a thousand yards.

Watch my tracer.

Posted by: rhodesiafever || 09/18/2006 17:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Ill try again, didn't want to cook the format. Please help, Mr Steve.

http://rhodesian.server101.com/murder_of_missionaries_in_rhodes.htm
Posted by: rhodesiafever || 09/18/2006 17:25 Comments || Top||

#5  May I help? Click on link.
http://rhodesian.server101.com/murder_of_missionaries_in_rhodes.htm

ST. PAUL'S MASSACRE, MUSAMI
During the night of February 7, 1977, seven white Roman Catholic missionaries were murdered by terrorists. They included four nuns. A newspaper report set out the story as follows: In what the sole survivor described as a senseless, insane and brutal act, nationalist guerrillas last night gunned down seven white Roman Catholic missionaries, including four nuns. Father Dunstan Myerscough, who is 65, said today that he had escaped by throwing himself to the ground as the guerrillas opened fire from five yards range. Father Myerscough said he was in no doubt that the killers were nationalist guerrillas, although they had uttered hardly a word before shooting the helpless missionaries.

MORE of story at link. Link also describes a long hidtory murder of missionaries in Rhodesia.
Posted by: GK || 09/18/2006 18:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Cut to the chase, guys.

From my linky above....

"The reactions of the media in general were predictable, with many newspapers being singularly outspoken. The Citizen of Azania had this to say on June 26:

Non-violence in many ways is being practised by the (Name your movement). I asked one of their commanders, X, what they actually do in Y, and he said they're not doing much fighting, except when they are fired upon, or when the Y defence forces find them and try to run them out.

"Basically what they are doing is moving around the villages and conducting political seminars and singing songs."

So says Mr. ABC, XYZ Ambassador to the United Nations, in a recent interview with the DEFHIJ.

This weekend, in the worst atrocity committed against white civilians in the history of Y's six-year war, terrorists of (Name that Name)'s National Liberation Army hacked and battered to death almost the entire white staff and their families at the Elim Pentacostal Mission in the Eastern border mountains.

Mr. Young is asked: "Does Mr. ZYX strike you as a violent man?"

He replies: "Not at all, he's a very gentle man. In fact, one of the ironies of the whole struggle is that I can't imagine XYZ, or ZYX, ever pulling the trigger on a gun to kill anyone".


Taquiya from true kaffirs of Islam.

Kissinger/Thatcher/Colloughan, (sp),/Royal British Family /self-interests at heart. Laissez-faire passive killers, on good pensions, I bet.

I dont want to say I knew it all along, but I was asked about my agenda a while back. May this be allegorical, and the future of life of what happens when the aforementioned c*ck-suckers give up the war for hot toddies and slippers, with a nice speaking tour thrown in.
Posted by: rhodesiafever || 09/18/2006 18:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Thanks GK, Elim Mission was about the worst of a bad bunch.

Thanks, good to know help is at hand.
Posted by: rhodesiafever || 09/18/2006 18:11 Comments || Top||


President's brother and three others killed in Somalia blast
Two explosions rocked the seat of Somalia’s virtually powerless government today, killing the president’s brother and three others, officials said.
I see the talks with the Islamic courts are going as planned
The attack in Baidoa, the only town controlled by the government, was meant to kill the president, who escaped unharmed, government spokesman Abdirahman Dinari said. Mohammed Abdiqadir, the head of the presidential guard, said the president’s brother was among the dead.

A car bomb exploded outside a parliament building where President Abdullahi Yusuf had given a speech just 10 minutes before, said Mohamed Adawe, a local journalist who witnessed the explosion. The other blast happened nearby, he said. Eight cars were burned in the explosions, including three that were in the president’s convey, Adawe said. Somalia has not had an effective central government since 1991. An Islamic militia has seized control of much of southern Somalia.
Posted by: Steve || 09/18/2006 13:36 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "The president of what?
Posted by: Snake Pliskin || 09/18/2006 14:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Ahh, I see the islamic courts negotiating team has arrived.
Posted by: ed || 09/18/2006 14:58 Comments || Top||

#3  We need to sit down Somalia's leadership with the top Islamic clergy and then bomb them.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/18/2006 15:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Ahh, ya gotta love islam...classical Darwinism at its best.
Posted by: anymouse || 09/18/2006 15:18 Comments || Top||


Porn Magnets in Sudan?
Posted by: 3dc || 09/18/2006 10:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well this is the straw that breaks the camel's back on my Sudan vacation plans! To hell with them!
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/18/2006 10:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Tu3031, just carry your porm on a micro jump drive. You can buy a 2 Gig for about $50.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 09/18/2006 13:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Sarge. In that case it'll cost me abour $200
Posted by: PlanetDan || 09/18/2006 13:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Sounds more like you need one of them thar ultra high capacity portable hard drive thingies, PlanetDan.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/18/2006 15:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Ah, yes - Sudan, the perfect vacation spot...

Burning sands, miles upon mile of flatland that makes the Mohave look hilly, bleak economy, crushing poverty, Sharia law, no alcohol, and armed guerillas everywhere you look.

I wanna' go there...(not)...

Posted by: FOTSGreg || 09/18/2006 15:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Frys outpost has a 4GB for under $100:
http://shop4.outpost.com/search?cat=-46840&pType=pDisplay
I have a 1GB and it carries all my work files, manuals, keys, etc. and it's only about half full most of the time.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 09/18/2006 16:13 Comments || Top||

#7  I have the same thing on my 2Gb flashdrive. Source code, manuals, keys, etc... Plus a working IBM Mainframe (system/370 - Hercules emulator), a VAX, PDP 11, and a few other lesser known mini's (as simh emulators).

Planet Dan, you might consider a 20+Gb ipod like device.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/18/2006 16:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Genocide? or are we all 2 busy wanking over portable hardrives?
Posted by: pihkalbadger || 09/18/2006 18:30 Comments || Top||

#9  LOL Phil no I was just suggesting that you could import porn via a micro drive. I saw one that was built into a pen. Very 007.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 09/18/2006 18:55 Comments || Top||

#10  pihkalbadger, as far as I can tell, in this crowd some get off as much on big hard drives as penile attachments. ;-) Besides, if the Sudanese are busy making pornographic films, they won't have as much time or energy to kill lesser humans.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/18/2006 19:17 Comments || Top||

#11  Not to mention, tw, that the concept of women enjoying themselves in bed (even though that might be faked) might prove to be a revelation to the Sudanis.
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 09/18/2006 19:23 Comments || Top||


Boy killed as Islamists raid cinema
A 13-YEAR-OLD boy was killed and three others wounded overnight when Somali Islamic militia raided a cinema hall in southern Mogadishu to break up a crowd watching an English premier league match. They said the militiamen aboard machinegun-mounted pickups stormed Duale Cinema in Bulo-hubey district where hundreds were watching the Chelsea-Liverpool match and opened fire, killing the boy as others scampered for safety. They also smashed a television set and satellite-link equipment.

“They tried to prevent the Islamic court carrying out its duties by making violence so we have ventilated dispersed them with gunfire...”
"I saw armed men pouring into the cinema hall and minutes later they opened fire indiscriminately, killing one and wounding three others, including my younger brother," Idris Abdi Taqtar, a witness, said. Another fan Mohamed Jeeyte said the slain boy lay in a pool of blood outside the cinema hall.

The Islamists confirmed the death, but blamed the fans for sparking the violence when they blocked militiamen from entering the hall to implement a ban on cinema halls in Mogadishu. "They started violent protest and fired bullets at the Islamic militias and we returned fire," said Ise Mohamed, a commander for the Islamic gunmen. "They tried to prevent the Islamic court carry out its duties by making violence so that we have dispersed them with gunfire," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah right! "They started violent protest and fired bullets at the Islamic militias and we returned fire," said Ise Mohamed, a commander for the Islamic gunmen. "They tried to prevent the Islamic court carry out its duties by making violence so that we have dispersed them with gunfire," he said.
Posted by: Jesing Ebbease3087 || 09/18/2006 1:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Sick tossers!!!

What is wrong in watching a football/Soccer game????!!!!
Posted by: Cheregum Crelet7867 || 09/18/2006 5:33 Comments || Top||

#3  What is wrong in watching a football/Soccer game????!!!!

All the exposed manflesh gives their weak-willed wimmenfolk the vapors.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/18/2006 6:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Did Ol' Mo play soccer? Did Ol' Mo go to the cinema? I think not. You want fun? Go f*ck your camel, like Ol' Mo did.
(Not in a good mood this am.)
Posted by: Spot || 09/18/2006 8:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Not to mention the super vapours being had by the strong-willed (by definition, anyway) menfolk, well known for their oddly demonstrated fondness of a pretty lad.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/18/2006 8:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Anything that would give the people even a small glimpse of normal life must be destroyed, or the moon-god death cult might lose it's grip on a few. No soul, no humanity, no reason, no compassion, no honor, no integrity, no conscience.

Anything short of complete annihilating these pieces of sh*t is a waste of time.
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 09/18/2006 8:33 Comments || Top||

#7  FILTHY INFIDEL SOCCER FANS!!!
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/18/2006 11:13 Comments || Top||

#8  The Lions of Islam were just pissed off they couldn't find a nun to shoot in the back or a priest to kidnap, torture and hold for ransom. Let's give the ROP a pass shall we?
Posted by: Mark Z || 09/18/2006 12:14 Comments || Top||

#9  yeah, whatever.

All you Euoro-appeasers: Diarrhea Law (rhymes with sharia) is coming to a theater near you. Soon.
Posted by: anymouse || 09/18/2006 12:23 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Ex-Islamist leader returns to Algeria after exile
A former leader of Algeria's now-banned Islamic Salvation Front party returned to the North African country Sunday after 14 years in exile. Rabah Kebir, who rose to prominence shortly before the party - known by its French acronym, FIS - was outlawed in 1992, was exiled the same year.

On his arrival from Frankfurt, Germany, Kebir said he supported the process of reconciliation launched by Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. He had been in Germany since 1993. "I am very happy to be back in Algeria," Kebir told reporters at Algiers airport. "We are going to do all we can to promote national reconciliation."
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Bangladesh
RAB foiled in a snatch
Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy, someone's going to get a crossfire for this ...
A criminal managed to get away from Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)'s clutch at Mirersarai upazila of the district yesterday. Sources said, two plainclothes personnel of Rab -- Captain Shahriar and constable Nazmul -- went to Nandipur village under Mirersarai yesterday morning and took position inside a shop to arrest the criminal, also a Jubo Dal goon, Tobarak Hossain.

The two Rab members apprehended Tobarak when he turned up near the shop at around 11:30am, but a local mob rushed to the scene and snatched Tobarak from Rab custody after he screamed out for help terming the Rab men muggers.
"I can't hold him Cap'n! They're all over me! Start shooting!"
Captain Shahriar's revolver slipped into a nearby bush during the scuffle, added the sources.
"Sorry Constable, I lost my gun in the bush."
On request by the two Rab members, another Rab team rushed to the spot to help them out and recovered the revolver in the afternoon.
Wonder why, it wasn't like it was a shutter gun ...
Posted by: Steve White || 09/18/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ut oh, very fishy RAB report

btw did I fall asleep during class? as I do not recognize the "Jubo Dal goon" variety? but I'm sure glad RAB is on their case.

"revolver slipped into a nearby bush"... hey that has happened to me once or twice but It wasn't a revolver.
Posted by: RD || 09/18/2006 5:07 Comments || Top||

#2  *rimshot*
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 09/18/2006 7:23 Comments || Top||

#3  The problem: they went out at 11:30 AM instead of 11:30 PM. Simple mistake...
Posted by: Spot || 09/18/2006 8:28 Comments || Top||

#4  RD, I believe they are thugs which work as enforcers for Bangladesh National Party. Which is part of the ruling coalition government. You sometimes hear of clashes between the Purbla - Bangla communists (often times victims of the RAB) and the Jubo Dal.
Posted by: Rightwing || 09/18/2006 12:05 Comments || Top||

#5  thx Rightwing,


may al your Jubo Dal rosebud! ;-)
Posted by: RD || 09/18/2006 18:42 Comments || Top||


Tales from the Crossfire Gazette©
A regional leader of Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP)-Red Flag faction and a Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal leader were killed during 'encounters' with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and the police in Pabna and Chittagong yesterday.
A commie and a leftist, but no islamicist. Funny how that always turns out.
The regional leader of PBCP was killed in 'crossfire' during a shootout between his accomplices and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Ataikula upazila in Pabna yesterday.
No, we don't know where that is either.
The victim was identified as Bachchu Sheikh, 28, of the village Shripur in the upazila.
"Hey Bachchu!"
"Gezundheit!"
Rab claimed a team of the elite force, following a tip off, raided Shimulchara of the upazila around 3:30am where a gang of criminals were hiding.
The magic hour when it's too dark to see the bullets in crossfire ...
They said the criminals opened fire on them in a bid to make their escape and the team retaliated.
Once again it's time for random fire at the RAB, and directed fire by them into the back of the perp's head ...
Following the shootout Rab discovered Bachchu critically injured at the spot. They rushed him to Pabna General Hospital where he died early yesterday.
Pabna GH isn't a certified trauma center but that didn't matter in the least ...
Rab recovered a locally made gun, a few sharp weapons from the spot.
"Captain, we found these sharp sticks next to the body."
"That's evidence, private. Put it in the bag!"
"Yessir!"
Bachchu's accomplices, however, managed to escape.
Always wondered how that happened.
Rab said Bachchu Sheikh was accused in several systems criminal cases including three murder cases.

But wait, there's more!

Meanwhile, a Jubo Dal leader was killed in 'crossfire' during a shootout between his accomplices and police at Mirersarai upazila in Chittagong. The victim was identified as Ershad Ullah, 35. The Jubo Dal cadre was also accused in as many as 10 criminal cases including murder and robbery cases.
So his mother isn't going to miss him much.
Police sources said Mirersarai police arrested Ershad Ullah on Friday noon at Sandhurchar area at Ichhakhali of the upazila.
That leaves about fifteen hours for his 'confession'. Ouch.
Following his confessional statement to the police, ...
"Ouch! Oooch! Ouch! That's sharp!"
... a team of Mirersarai police went to Sandhurchar area along with Ershad to recover hidden firearms.
I've always wondered why you search for hidden arms at 3 am. You'd think it'd be easier in daylight ...
As they reached the scene, a number of Ershad's accomplices opened fire on the team in a bid to snatch him from police custody, police claimed.
"C'mon boys, open fire on the RAB so we can get Ershad back!"
"Do we want him back?"
"Shaddup boy and shoot!"
Police said they were had to retaliate in self-defence.
Of course they did, though miracle of miracles, only one person 'received bullets' ...
During the shootout, Ershad received bullets and he died on the way to a local health complex, sources said.
Apparently there's not a single trauma center in all of B'desh ...
They said Ershad was the second-in-command of notorious Alauddin Bahini and he had several criminal cases filed against him.
Remember that name, Alauddin, we'll be seeing him someday in a Crossfire™ ...
Posted by: Steve White || 09/18/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Commies need killing, too. Just think if someone had killed Castro.
Posted by: Jackal || 09/18/2006 9:00 Comments || Top||


Britain
Terror suspect zips lip in British court; fears retribution from ISI
LONDON, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Claimed fear of retribution by Pakistani security agents has brought a temporary halt to terror trial proceedings in London.

Omar Khyam, accused with six others of plotting a bombing campaign in Britain, stopped testifying at the Old Bailey after saying his family in Pakistan had been threatened by Pakistan's Directorate for Inter-Service Intelligence, or ISI. "I just want to say the ISI in Pakistan has had words with my family relating to what I have been saying about them," The Evening Standard quoted Khyam as telling the court Monday. "I think they (ISI) are worried I might reveal more about them, so right now ... the priority for me has to be the safety of my family so I am going to stop (testifying).

"I'm not going to discuss anything related to the ISI anymore, or to the evidence."

Khyam, said to be a member of an al-Qaida-related terror cell, was arrested in March 2004 after more than half a ton of ammonium nitrate fertilizer that could be used as an explosive was found in a London storage facility.

Khyam has denied charges of conspiracy to cause an explosion.

In earlier testimony he described how he had traveled to Pakistan to receive military training and how he had raised money through fraud for Islamists in Afghanistan.
Posted by: john || 09/18/2006 16:44 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Omar Khyam, my ass.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 09/18/2006 18:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Owa Tagoo Siam
Posted by: Fleash Greaper4919 || 09/18/2006 22:26 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
FBI searches home of Muslim family
JACOB LUECKE of the Tribune’s staff
Published Monday, September 18, 2006

EFL

FBI agents today searched the home of a Columbia businessman and former Iraqi who has been an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq.

Officer Bill Lee of the Columbia Police Department assists the FBI this morning during a search at 2701 Woodberry Court.

About a dozen FBI vehicles parked this morning in front of the home of Shakir Hamoodi, 54, at 2701 Woodberry Court, in the upscale The Pines neighborhood in southwest Columbia, neighbors said.

At exactly 9 a.m., the FBI agents left their cars and rushed the house. Two teenagers inside the house were brought outside and escorted to the family car and drove off, said a neighbor who did not want to be identified. The neighbor said the agents entered the house and removed boxes and other items. Some agents stood on the lawn and examined papers pulled from the house.

Hamoodi owns World Harvest International and Gourmet Foods on Nifong Boulevard. County records show he owns the Woodberry Court home with Lamya Najem, 40, who a neighbor said teaches at the Islamic School of Columbia Missouri.

Jeff Lanza, a spokesman for the FBI in Kansas City, would not say what prompted the raid, but he said the home was not a threat to the community.

...

Hamoodi has made several public appearances in opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq. At one event, a July 2005 speech at a Rotary Club event in Jefferson City, he was identified as a nuclear engineer living in Columbia.

In 2003 he participated in an MU forum on the war and said: "The U.S. Army is as unwanted as Saddam Hussein. The U.S. Army is probably more unwanted than Saddam Hussein."

After Saddam’s capture, Hamoodi told the Tribune the event was insignificant. "They found him in a hole, he can’t lead the resistance from a hole," Hamoodi was quoted as saying. "The war was a lie. Innocent people were killed. Is this worth finding weapons of mass destruction?"
Posted by: Gloluting Spereger7514 || 09/18/2006 16:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Pakistan printing fake Indian currency at Queta
NEW DELHI: A Pakistani government printing press in the city of Quetta is reportedly churning out large quantities of counterfeit Indian currency.

The rupee notes are then smuggled into India as "part of Pakistan's agenda of destabilising the Indian economy through fake currency," an Indian daily said.

The notes are "supplied by the Pakistan government press free of cost to Dubai-based counterfeiters who, in turn, smuggle it into India using various means," the report said quoting a CBI note to Indian security agencies and the finance ministry.

Pakistan's intelligence agency, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) allegedly plays an active role in the scam.

The notes "are pushed into India by ISI through all possible channels using smugglers, underworld gangs, terrorists and general air/rail passengers".

The Indian intelligence agency picked up the trail of the counterfeiters from interrogations of a Gulf-based bookmaker who was deported from Dubai to India.

The Reserve Bank of India has estimated the amount of fake currency in circulation at almost 1.7 trillion rupees (37.5 billion dollars), the report said.

Quetta is the capital of Pakistan's volatile southwestern Baluchistan province, where tribal leader Nawab Akbar Bugti was recently killed in a government raid.

The story came on the heels of a meeting in Cuba between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.

The two leaders agreed to resume ministerial-level peace talks stalled in the wake of the deadly Mumbai bombings in July and to cooperate on fighting terrorism.
Posted by: john || 09/18/2006 16:48 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There are various aspects to the problem. For one, intelligence agencies have been unable to pinpoint what Pakistan has done with the 4 kg of "green to blue (colour shift)" Optically Variable Ink a patented product of a Swiss manufacturer ostensibly for a security feature in its passports. This is the same ink India uses for currency notes of the Rs 500 denomination. One kg of ink can produce 32 lakh notes.
Posted by: john || 09/18/2006 16:51 Comments || Top||

#2  I think we now know what the Paks used the ink for... and it was not for passports..

Posted by: john || 09/18/2006 16:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Well it fits
Cuba manufactures rag paper that matches that of US currency and spreads it all over the world.

Cuba may counterfit US money.
Iran counterfits US money.
North Korea counterfits US money.
It would not surprise me if Pakistan does as one wonders what they sell on the world market to generate revenue other than scams like BCCI.

Posted by: 3dc || 09/18/2006 18:36 Comments || Top||

#4  We [USA] certainly have the tech and expertize to to produce flawless counterfeit currency and then retaliate against any State which counterfeits and circulates our currency.
Posted by: RD || 09/18/2006 19:20 Comments || Top||

#5  and i'm sure India does too.
Posted by: RD || 09/18/2006 19:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Maybe we should drop trillions of counterfit Rupees on the Emirate of Wara-whaever-a-stan.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/18/2006 19:50 Comments || Top||

#7  Is anything legitimate produced in Pakistan?
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/18/2006 20:21 Comments || Top||

#8  We [USA] certainly have the tech and expertize to to produce flawless counterfeit currency and then retaliate against any State which counterfeits and circulates our currency.

I like the way you think, RD.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/18/2006 23:35 Comments || Top||


Kashmir Korpse Kount: 8
"Eight! Eight dead turbans!
Aph aph aph aph aph!"
Eight suspected militants were shot dead by troops after gun battles across Indian Kashmir as part of intensified efforts to hunt down insurgents, police said on Sunday. Six suspected militants were killed in three separate gunbattles late on Saturday in the southern Pulwama district, a police spokesman said, adding two policemen were also hurt in one of the gun battles. "The firefights erupted when troops backed by police found the militants in their hide-outs in the district," the spokesman said. In other fighting, troops killed two rebels on Saturday in the northern Kupwara district which borders Azad Kashmir, police said.
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#1  Love the graphic! Today's Korpse Kount is brought to you BY The Kount. And the letter 'K'
Posted by: USN, ret. || 09/18/2006 14:01 Comments || Top||


Blast outside Punjabi doctor's house injures 5
QUETTA: A bomb blast outside a Punjabi settler's house injured two children and three women in Khuzdar district on Sunday. Unidentified people had planted the bomb near a wall of Dr Tahir Sheikh's house. The blast also damaged two rooms and the boundary wall of the house.

Sources said the family had no enmity with anybody in the area. The attack appeared to be part of the ongoing violence against Punjabi settlers in Balochistan, following the killing of tribal chief Nawab Akbar Bugti. "The family was so shocked that they decided not to take the injured women and children to hospital," a local journalist told Daily Times. He quoted the owner of the house as saying that police had failed to provide protection to Punjabis. The family did not allow police to enter the house as well.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "The family was so shocked that they decided not to take the injured women and children to hospital,"

I read that three times, and I still can't force it to make sense.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/18/2006 8:35 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder if it means they didn't trust the authorities, including doctors and any security staff at the hospital?
Posted by: lotp || 09/18/2006 9:10 Comments || Top||

#3  More probably, they didn't dare leave the house.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 09/18/2006 20:03 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Terrorists Now the Chief Targets of Terrorism
September 18, 2006: The worst trends of the week include; Terroist Sunni Arabs fleeing the country, corruption in the police, Shia and Kurd death squads, government corruption and Sunni Arab terrorism. The Sunni Arabs are getting out of Iraq because the Kurd and Shia, especially the Shia, death squads are operating more frequently in formerly "safe" Sunni Arab areas. Anbar province (western Iraq) is becoming particularly active, and the government has told tribal leaders out there to either do something to reduce the terrorist attacks launched from bases in Anbar, or face escalating attention from death squads and army (American and Iraqi) raids. A coalition of Sunni Arab gangs tribes has agreed to do something about the terrorism. But it will take a few weeks to see if this latest pledge is worth squat any more than the last few. The Sunni Arabs show more enthusiasm for anonymous terrorism, than tribal warfare. However, over the last two years, several tribes have expelled all al Qaeda members from their territory. However, there are plenty of Sunni Arab nationalist ("we should run the country") terror groups to fill in. While the Sunni Arab terrorists have not brought down the Shia dominated government, they have kept the Sunni Arab tribal and religious leaders terrified. That may be changing, as more tribal leaders improve their own militias, and learn from the tribes that have chased out the terrorists and assassins. The government has made it clear that, until the terrorist violence stops, the entire Sunni Arab community will be held responsible. The government is saying, in effect, that they will not try too hard to halt the anti-Sunni death squads until the Sunni Arab leadership makes an effort, a real effort, against the terrorists.
Now you know why Tigers eat their young!
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 09/18/2006 15:20 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Red on Red? Jeepers, that's just horrible.

Cough, cough...
Posted by: Parabellum || 09/18/2006 17:25 Comments || Top||

#2  And of course the MSM is all over this story.

Not!

Al
Posted by: frozen al || 09/18/2006 20:14 Comments || Top||

#3  What goes around comes around.
Posted by: Fleash Greaper4919 || 09/18/2006 22:27 Comments || Top||


Baghdad Neighborhood Returning to .... Normal?
BAGHDAD, Sept. 18, 2006 — Since the beginning of Operation Together Forward, Baghdad’s Ameriyah neighborhood has seen several social and economic improvements as the Iraqi army and Multi-National Division – Baghdad (MND-B) forces work to rid the area of terrorist violence.

The combined military operations in the area includes a variety of civil service projects, such as a large-scale trash cleanup, medical services, and establishing a generally close working relationship with local residents – all of which serve to deter further terrorist attacks.

“Many of the shops that were once closed have reopened, such as a butcher shop and a bakery,” said Staff Sgt. John Davis, of Company A, 412th Civil Affairs Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Multi-National Division – Baghdad. “Main roads in the neighborhood are starting to look and feel like a neighborhood again, and economic activity and employment have increased since the beginning of the operation.”

“The whole idea of Operation Together Forward is to help the Iraqis restore a sense of normalcy to their lives,” said U.S. Army Capt. Stacy Bare, Company A, 412th Civil Affairs Battalion.

The projects being worked are the direct result of requests from the neighborhood stake holders and the local population themselves, said Bare, and the local government is leading the charge back to prosperity in the area.

“The residents are quite accustomed to Coalition Forces’ presence in the area,” said Spc. Zachary Gray, Troop G, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, who works as a security escort in Ameriyah. “The civilian population is not hostile to our intentions despite the necessity of blocking off roads and enforcing a curfew. During the day, Ameriyah is extremely busy.”

As of Sept. 14, Iraqi Security Forces and MND-B have cleared more than 55,500 buildings, 60 mosques and 50 muhallas, say what? detained more than 90 terrorist suspects, seized more than 1,200 weapons, registered more than 780 weapons and found 33 weapons caches. The combined forces have also replaced more than 1,100 doors, 35 windows and 1,350 locks damaged during clearing operations and have removed more than 110,000 cubic meters of trash from the streets of Baghdad.
Photo of traffic congestion at link
Posted by: Bobby || 09/18/2006 14:42 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  33 weapons caches; 110,000 cubic meters of trash.

I knew there was a pony in there somewhere.
Posted by: KBK || 09/18/2006 15:34 Comments || Top||


Iraq attackers kill 30
Insurgents killed at least 30 people and aggravated Iraq's hostile ethnic divide with a string of bombs in the northern city of Kirkuk, as well as attacks in volatile Anbar province and in Baghdad on Sunday.

In Kirkuk, a huge suicide truck bomb in coordination with four other vehicle bombs killed 23 people and wounded 77 others. Mortars and car bombs killed five in the city of Fallujah in Iraq's biggest and most volatile province of Anbar, where U.S. forces are being reduced to reinforce the capital Baghdad. Kirkuk is an oil-rich flashpoint in the north disputed by Sunni Arabs, ethnic Kurds and Turkmen. A failure to contain violence could spark all-out war across a country already in the grip of sectarian strife between Muslim Shi'ites and Sunnis.

In the deadliest blast on Sunday, a suicide attacker driving a truck rigged with explosives blew himself up outside a police center killing 17 people, mostly civilians, police said. The toll included 10 women and two children visiting relatives. Within an hour, a car bomb targeting a U.S. military patrol killed three civilians and wounded six in the city. Minutes later, another suicide car bomber rammed into an Iraqi army checkpoint, wounding two soldiers. Two other car bombs followed.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Do they at least have a handle on who the suicide bombers are for each side?
Posted by: Penguin || 09/18/2006 1:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Do they at least have a handle on who the suicide bombers are for each side?

yep...plural, handle"s"... shovels, tongs, garbage bags, bagies, paper towels, handi wipes.
Posted by: RD || 09/18/2006 4:46 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
One wounded after Gaza militants fire rockets into Israel
JERUSALEM - One Israeli was lightly wounded Sunday after Palestinian militants in Gaza fired two rockets from the coastal strip into Israel, military sources said. One rocket landed in the Israeli town of Sderot and the other exploded nearby, causing damage to buildings and cars, they said.

The Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the radical Islamic Jihad faction, claimed responsibility for firing the two rockets shortly after dawn.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/18/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Hurry Mahmoud, we must tell our Sheik about the glorious success of the new Islamic pointy ended design, the Minaret Mark I, may Allahs name be praised"
Posted by: Admiral Allan Ackbar || 09/18/2006 5:44 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Muslims vow to 'conquer Rome'
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2006 15:50 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wonder how the "European Union" would defend it self against a blitzkrieg started from Northern Africa into parts of Europe. Together with internal uprisings from the Muslim populations in their big cities.....can you imagine??
Posted by: Threase Threque8712 || 09/18/2006 15:55 Comments || Top||

#2  The Euros' secret weapon is that their enemies are muzzies.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 09/18/2006 16:01 Comments || Top||

#3  I wonder how the "European Union" would defend it self against a blitzkrieg started from Northern Africa into parts of Europe.

Quite easily, if they set themselves to it.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/18/2006 16:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Why I so strongly believe in the right to arm and defend myself.

Blackvenom-2001
Posted by: Blackvenom-2001 || 09/18/2006 16:32 Comments || Top||

#5  How will Hugo Chavez square this with his catholic constituents. He backs the Muslims against the US, but thinks it's Ok for this?
Posted by: plainslow || 09/18/2006 16:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Europe can be somewhat divided into those who practiced genocide (the Germans, Serbs, Russians) and those who apologized and made excuses for genocide (the left). They all feel guilty about it now but when push comes to shove I think the Muslims better be careful.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/18/2006 16:37 Comments || Top||

#7  The Euros know that if there's any real danger the US will pull their yarbles out of the fire.* It's happened before. It's what allows them to be better than us.

*Guarantee against external invasion only. Internal collapse not included.
Posted by: Baba Tutu || 09/18/2006 16:44 Comments || Top||

#8  Plain Slow,
Actually Chavez is a Protestant.

Al
Posted by: frozen al || 09/18/2006 16:46 Comments || Top||

#9  He may be frozen al, but his country is mainly Catholic. But the Mulims who condemn this are his buddys. And protestants are mad at these threats as well.
Posted by: plainslow || 09/18/2006 16:52 Comments || Top||

#10  The Europeans will only act when they get scared enough. Frightened people will do things their grandchildren will look back on in horror.

Of course, they'll be able to because of what their grandparents do. No one does killing on an industrial scale like european based cultures.
Posted by: Steve || 09/18/2006 16:52 Comments || Top||

#11  Actually IMO Chavez is a communist and an atheist.

He could give a rip regarding anyone's religion so long as they toe the party line and back his so-called leadership.

As long as it's convenient to use his protestant and catholic citizens in such a manner as it serves his aims of becoming the "new Castro" he will continue to. As soon as they become "too uppity" or no longer of any use he will rid himself of them by the most expedient means.

Posted by: FOTSGreg || 09/18/2006 16:54 Comments || Top||

#12  I agree with you FOTSgreg. But they can sure cause him some headaches. If not, amybe force his hand which will lead him to a mistake that could hurt him bad. That would be good.
Posted by: plainslow || 09/18/2006 17:02 Comments || Top||

#13  Sure. They've been trying to take out Israel for sixty years , and since they've been trying, Israel's gotten bigger.
What are they gonna do, whine Rome to death?
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/18/2006 17:04 Comments || Top||

#14  The Serbs committed genocide? Sounds like you have a bad case of CNNitis there.
Posted by: Choluck Jineger5890 || 09/18/2006 17:12 Comments || Top||

#15  #6 rj, I think you're right. Everyone's excited that the Swedes finally elected some grown-ups over the weekend, and that's great. But this weekend's elections here in Ye Alte Deutschland were also interesting: now the NPD (neo-nazis) holds almost 8% of the Bundestag. That's enough that they cannot be ignored and may well become part of the ruling coalition.

A German lady (of Jewish ancestry, actually) said to me today: "we could really stand to have those guys in charge -- just for a couple of months, y'know, to clean house. It needs doing and no one else will do it." I am horrified that I agree.
Posted by: ST || 09/18/2006 17:41 Comments || Top||

#16  You'd be even more horrified by the results.

Perhaps the Germans are like the Muzzies. They just can't do democracy yet?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 09/18/2006 17:48 Comments || Top||

#17  Germans value order a great deal. It's one of the things that drive them crazy about Americans - we ignore "rules" like stupid UN resolutions from Human Rights meetings headed by the likes of Ghaddafi and Chavez.

For them, 'democracy' and 'living by the rules' are closely related ideas. If the Muslims are perceived as inherently flouting 'the rules' then I can well see a bout of cleansing. But it will take a long while to trigger, I think, because they hate to think of themselves as acting in anger.
Posted by: lotp || 09/18/2006 18:01 Comments || Top||

#18  ST, are you seriously contemplating putting neo-nazi's in charge of modern Germany??? Wow.
Posted by: RJB in JC MO || 09/18/2006 18:10 Comments || Top||

#19  RJB, f*** no. But I saw her point. By the time Europe realizes that it's eat or be eaten, it may come to that.

Outlawing the NPD was almost a reality just a few years ago -- and now they're drawing 8% of the vote. Quite a measure of where things are going.
Posted by: ST || 09/18/2006 18:19 Comments || Top||

#20  Well RJB, its not like aligning yourself with a butcher as accomplished as Stalin to rid the world of Nazis before, now is it?
Posted by: Cruque Claish5524 || 09/18/2006 18:20 Comments || Top||

#21  Choluck Jineger5890, if you look at the Serb actions in regard to Bosnia, genocide is an apt description of what was going on.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/18/2006 18:28 Comments || Top||

#22  Tried to cj5890, tried to. Multinational forces stopped that shit, led by by NATO. Is that some snivelling little serb? Wearing a target t shirt? laughable little pricks.
Posted by: pihkalbadger || 09/18/2006 18:50 Comments || Top||

#23  2 words form this Catholic:

Bring It.
Posted by: Oldspook || 09/18/2006 19:21 Comments || Top||

#24  This is end of the world stuff. The taking of Rome is an important element in Muslim thought. It relates to their end-of-the-world hopes and dreams. (search for "rome")
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muslim/041.smt.html

Taking on Rome is a sign of the judgment day:
http://www.islaam.net/main/display.php?id=635&category=3

Posted by: some guy || 09/18/2006 19:37 Comments || Top||

#25  In the early 1990s the neo-Nazis won a measurable number of votes in one or a few of the Laender, and the reasoning was the same then. I even knew a lovely German lady -- her husband was a colleague of Mr. Wife's -- who voted neo-Nazi just to force the major parties to clean themselves up. The evidence of German political immaturity is that they demand stupidity-as-usual from the major parties, and actually believe they can trust the radicals at both extremes to clean out the mess periodically. Another reason they distrust the American process is because we actually monitor our major parties, and clean things up ongoing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/18/2006 19:42 Comments || Top||

#26  I'd love to see them try. That would be Muslim overreaching at its most extreme.

They still don't get it that the West has been fighting them with a tiny fraction of their resources so far. If we ever did decide to open up the gates of Hell, they wouldn't have a chance, and there wouldn't be any Paradise at the end of it (please, please, dip the bullets in lard first...and let them know we did it....)
Posted by: Swamp Blondie || 09/18/2006 19:52 Comments || Top||

#27  "Iraqis burned him [the Pope] in effigy"

And our troops are there, fighting, bleeding and dying for these scumbags. I'm having a real hard time believing ANY middle-eastern muslim is worth it.
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 09/18/2006 19:54 Comments || Top||

#28  mscegeek1 - I'm having a real hard time believing ANY middle-eastern muslim is worth it.

Then go read Iraq the Model - two smart, informative, decent, courageous brothers in Baghdad who've run a great blog since the liberation of Iraq. These guys GET IT. A lot of their friends, neighbors, and relatives get it. And if they didn't run their own blog - their voice and the voice of the many like them would NEVER be be heard.
Posted by: DMFD || 09/18/2006 20:26 Comments || Top||

#29  The muzzies have obviously never done battle with a very pissed off Jesuit. Turn loose a few priests that have S.J. (Society of Jesus) at the end of their name and there will be hell to pay.

They aren't called "soldiers of Christ" for nothing. Picture a highly motivated Oldspook with orders from His Holiness and a real case of the ass and well. . . 'nuff said.

I'm only half kidding.
Posted by: GORT || 09/18/2006 20:48 Comments || Top||

#30  But this weekend's elections here in Ye Alte Deutschland were also interesting: now the NPD (neo-nazis) holds almost 8% of the Bundestag.

I bet you 99% of those votes came from north-eastern Germany. I'll raise an eyebrow when half of them come from Munich. Until then...
Posted by: Rafael || 09/18/2006 22:13 Comments || Top||

#31  Well of course...that's where the election took place.
Still...I'll raise an eyebrow when they get substantial votes in Munich. Until then...
Posted by: Rafael || 09/18/2006 22:21 Comments || Top||

#32  Muslims vow to 'conquer Rome'

2 words form this Catholic:

Bring It.


Just one word from this scientific agnostic: Carthage
Posted by: Zenster || 09/18/2006 22:26 Comments || Top||

#33  And one word from this ex latin student:

Delenda est Mecca.
Posted by: leroidavid || 09/18/2006 23:15 Comments || Top||

#34  The WOT > also a WAR AGAINST GLOBAL ANTI-DEMOCRACY, + ANTI-POPULAR/PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY, among many other premises-labels. How Radical Islam is being portrayed in Fascist = Limited Communist, America = Amerika will also occur in Western and Democratic Europe/Eurasia.
"TO CONQUER ROME" > OBVIOUSLY NO THREAT TO WESTERN/GLOBAL DEMOCRACY-CIVILIZATION HERE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/18/2006 23:47 Comments || Top||


The Pope must die, says Anjem Choudary
A notorious Muslim extremist told a demonstration in London yesterday that the Pope should face execution. Anjem Choudary said those who insulted Islam would be "subject to capital punishment". His remarks came during a protest outside Westminster Cathedral on a day that worldwide anger among Muslim hardliners towards Pope Benedict XVI appeared to deepen.

The pontiff yesterday apologised for causing offence during a lecture last week. Quoting a medieval emperor, his words were taken to mean that he called the prophet Mohammed "evil and inhuman". He insisted he was "deeply sorry" but his humbling words did not go far enough to silence all his critics or quell the violence and anger he has triggered. A nun was shot dead in Somalia by Islamic gunmen and churches came under attack in Palestine.

Choudary's appeal for the death of Pope Benedict was the second time he has been linked with apparent incitement to murder within a year. The 39-year-old lawyer organised demonstrations against the publication of cartoons of Mohammed in February in Denmark. Protesters carried placards declaring "Behead Those Who Insult Islam".

Yesterday he said: "The Muslims take their religion very seriously and non-Muslims must appreciate that and that must also understand that there may be serious consequences if you insult Islam and the prophet. Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment."

He added: "I am here have a peaceful demonstration. But there may be people in Italy or other parts of the world who would carry that out. I think that warning needs to be understood by all people who want to insult Islam and want to insult the prophet of Islam."

As well as placards attacking the Pope such as "Pope go to Hell", his followers outside the country's principal Roman Catholic church also waved slogans aimed at offending the sentiments of Christians such as "Jesus is the slave of Allah".

A Scotland Yard spokesman said of his comments: "We have had no complaints about this. There were around 100 people at the demonstration. It passed off peacefully and there were no arrests."

Larger Islamic groups in Britain said they accepted the Pope's apology. Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain said: "The Vatican has moved quickly to deal with the hurt and we accept that. It was something that should never have happened - words of that nature were always likely to cause dismay - and we believe some of the Pope's advisers may have been at fault over his speech."

Yesterday's sermon by the Pope was the first time a pontiff has publicly said sorry. He said he regretted Muslim reaction to his speech and stressed that the quotation did not reflect his personal opinion.

Anger and violence - including attacks on seven churches in the West Bank and Gaza - have characterised one of the biggest international crises involving the Vatican in decades. The Pope appeared determined to move quickly to try to defuse the anger but the fury of many radicals was unabated last night and there were fears for his safety. Iraqi jihadists issued a video of a scimitar slicing a cross in two, intercut with images of Benedict and the burning Twin Towers. The website run in the name of the Mujahedeen Army, used by extremist groups who have claimed responsibility for attacks in Iraq, was addressed to "You dog of Rome" and threatened to "shake your thrones and break your crosses in your home".

In a reference to suicide bombing, it said: "We swear to God to send you people who adore death as much as you adore life."

The threat of violence against Catholics and Christians was emphasised by the murder of an Italian nun in Somalia. Sister Leonella, 66, was shot as she walked from the children's hospital where she worked to her house in Mogadishu, a city recently taken over by an Islamic government. A Vatican spokesman said he feared her death was "the fruit of violence and irrationality arising from the current situation".

Father Frederico Lombardi said he hoped it was an isolated event. "We are worried about this wave of hatred and hope it doesn't have any grave consequences for the Church around the world," he said. The murder suggested that extremists are determined to use the Pope's embarrassment as an excuse for violence.

In Turkey, state minister Mehmet Aydin said the Pope seemed to be saying he was sorry for the outrage but not necessarily for his remarks. "You either have to say this, 'I'm sorry' in a proper way or not say it at all," he told reporters in Istanbul.

There were fierce denunciations of the pontiff from Iran. The English-language Tehran Times called his lecture in Bavaria last week "code words for a new crusade". The powerful cleric Ahmad Khatami told theological students in the holy city of Qom: The "Pope should fall on his knees in front of a senior Muslim cleric and try to understand Islam."

But the Turkish government signalled it was content and that the Pope's visit to the country in November can go ahead.

In his sermon yesterday at the Papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo outside Rome, Benedict spoke amid strengthened security. He said: "I am deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address at the University of Regensburg, which were considered offensive to the sensibility of Muslims. These in fact were a quotation from a medieval text, which do not in any way express my personal thought. I hope this serves to appease hearts and to clarify the true meaning of my address." No other Pope is thought to have made such an apology.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2006 15:17 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A notorious Muslim extremist told a demonstration in London yesterday that the Pope should face execution.

That is a death threat and this maggot needs to be jailed immediately.

Choudary's appeal for the death of Pope Benedict was the second time he has been linked with apparent incitement to murder within a year. The 39-year-old lawyer organised demonstrations against the publication of cartoons of Mohammed in February in Denmark. Protesters carried placards declaring "Behead Those Who Insult Islam".

Well, shuckey darn, what have we here? A pattern of making death threats. This turd needs flushing right away.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/18/2006 15:51 Comments || Top||

#2  As well as placards attacking the Pope such as "Pope go to Hell", his followers outside the country's principal Roman Catholic church also waved slogans aimed at offending the sentiments of Christians such as "Jesus is the slave of Allah".

A Scotland Yard spokesman said of his comments: "We have had no complaints about this. There were around 100 people at the demonstration. It passed off peacefully and there were no arrests."


There were "no complaints"? Not a single man or woman in London complained to the authorities about this event?
Posted by: mrp || 09/18/2006 15:54 Comments || Top||

#3  The Beeb seemed to ignore this demo on last night's news but ITN gave it top story. To paraphrase what one churgoer said on camera - 'Try having a demonstration like that outside a mosque in London.'
Posted by: Howard UK || 09/18/2006 15:56 Comments || Top||

#4  These guys are about to heal the schism of the Reformation if they keep this up.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 09/18/2006 16:00 Comments || Top||

#5  "Try having a demonstration like that outside a mosque in London."

Sounds like a great idea, Howard.

Can I have the popcorn concession? ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 09/18/2006 16:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Choudary's appeal for the death of Pope Benedict was the second time he has been linked with apparent incitement to murder within a year. The 39-year-old lawyer...

Why hasn't he been disbarred? I assume Britain has something akin to the Bar.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/18/2006 16:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Not without a piece of hickory to defend myself, Barbs
Posted by: Howard UK || 09/18/2006 16:36 Comments || Top||

#8  I think this guy is just suffering from having watched the lame movie THE POPE MUST DIE.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/18/2006 16:38 Comments || Top||

#9  I miss your purty mouth, Pookie. Maybe I'll see it soon...
Posted by: Omar Bakri: Shiek in Exile || 09/18/2006 17:12 Comments || Top||

#10  Can you say Knights Templar????? Keep it up.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 09/18/2006 18:09 Comments || Top||

#11  So, if he makes death threats, is he not a terrorist? Is England now harboring terrorists if they do not arrest him? Just wondering. Oh, Anjem Choudary, you are a poopie face.
Posted by: newc || 09/18/2006 19:25 Comments || Top||

#12  Its this simple: the Mullahs who preach and incite this hatred must be killed.

We should be doing this as a matter of course in the war on Islamic Fascism.


It will come down to that. I've been saying for years here: Islam must reform from within, or it will be reformed from the outside, violently.

Posted by: Oldspook || 09/18/2006 19:26 Comments || Top||

#13  Britain has 'hate crimes' and 'hate speech' laws. While I disagree with many aspects of these laws, it's time to use them. Arrest this scumbag. Try him. Convict him. Throw him in prison for a long time. Send a message to every British muslim that this will NOT be tolerated.
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 09/18/2006 19:59 Comments || Top||

#14  Choudary ought to be found in an alley with a hatchet sticking out of his face.
They have their "warnings", we should have ours...
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/18/2006 20:26 Comments || Top||

#15  Islam is a Religion of Jihad Peace and Anger Love and anyone who says otherwise must be KILLED!
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 09/18/2006 20:30 Comments || Top||

#16  Its this simple: the Mullahs who preach and incite this hatred must be killed.

We should be doing this as a matter of course in the war on Islamic Fascism.


Oldspook, please know that .com, Frank and myself (plus assorted others) have been screaming to the rafters for this over the last few years. It is the only tactic that will make Islam either rethink its drink or hit a dry well.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/18/2006 22:34 Comments || Top||


Bomb explodes outside church
Basra - A bomb exploded outside a church in the main southern Iraqi city of Basra, a police officer told AFP on Saturday. There were no casualties. The bomb exploded in central Basra's Al-Ashhar neighbourhood at 08:00 (1600 GMT) on Friday, said the officer, speaking on condition of anonymity. "As the guard of the church opened the door, the bomb exploded. No one was wounded in the blast," he said. He added that "the door of the church was slightly damaged". The attack on the church comes amid the uproar over remarks made by Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday, implicitly criticising links between Islam and violence.
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#1  it waz a ummah-bomb that uproared and combusted spontaniously. boom!
Posted by: RD || 09/18/2006 5:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Links between Islam and violence? ...No, never happen.
Posted by: Sgt. D.T. || 09/18/2006 17:11 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Hybrid UAV Engine Brings Silent Death
First Abu Grab, now this: UAVs and chili... Is there no end to our depravity?
Noting that silent UAVs are more useful than noisy one, an Israeli firm has developed a hybrid motor for small (under a hundred pounds) and medium size (up to half a ton) UAVs. The gasoline powered portion of the engine can spin the propeller, while also charging the batteries. When over an area where the enemy might hear the UAV, the operator can switch to battery power. Especially at night, loud motors on UAVs often spoil the element of surprise, by letting the enemy below know that there's a UAV watching. Until now, the only battery powered UAVs were the micro (under ten pound) variety. The larger UAVs fly high enough (over 20,000 feet), and have powerful enough sensors to see clearly what's down there, to avoid this problem. But the smaller UAVs cannot carry those high powered sensors, and have to fly lower to get a good view. Alas, at a few thousand feet up, that internal combustion engine can be heard clearly down below.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/18/2006 10:27 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is _so_ cool.

Perfect for those Hizbo "Victory Rally's".
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/18/2006 10:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Silent Zionist Wings of Death
Posted by: gromgoru || 09/18/2006 14:25 Comments || Top||


Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka fighting ends lull, boat reported sunk
Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels exchanged gunfire and skirmished at sea on Sunday, bringing to an end a four-day lull in fighting around the besieged Jaffna peninsula. Residents reported brief exchanges of gunfire south of Jaffna near a vital road artery as well as a volley of artillery fire from both sides. A military spokesman said Sri Lankan naval vessels and "Sea Tigers" from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) also clashed at sea and that one rebel boat had been sunk.

In a statement, the national security media center said a large vessel carrying weapons and ammunition had been sunk 100 miles off Kalmunai. It said the unflagged vessel had opened fire on a Sri Lankan navy ship when ordered to halt and was subsequently sunk by navy and air force fire. "Large quantities of weapons and ammunition including artillery guns had submerged with the vessel," the statement said, without saying how this may have been confirmed.

A response from the LTTE was not immediately available. Norwegian mediators are trying to fix a date for direct talks between the government and LTTE rebels after both sides announced last week they were ready to resume talks after a gap of five months. But both have also set conditions, with the government demanding a written guarantee that rebel attacks would cease, and the Tigers insisting on an end to army offensives. The government and rebels accuse each other of trying to restart a two-decade civil war that has killed more than 65,000 people since 1983. The LTTE pulled out of peace talks in April and a new bout of fighting erupted in late July, killing hundreds of troops, rebels and civilians in the worst violence since a 2002 ceasefire.
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Terror Networks
The search for Adnan El Shukrijumah
Posted by: ed || 09/18/2006 20:54 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A few little corkers from the article:

In 1995, the Shukrijumah family relocated to Miramar, Fla., where Gulshair became the spiritual leader of the radical Masjid al Hijah Mosque and imam of the [BRIC] Boca Raton Islamic Center. Adnan became friends there with such wannabe terrorists: as Jose Padilla, who planned to detonate a radiological bomb in midtown Manhattan; Imran Mandhai, who was convicted of attempting to blow up nuclear power plants in southern Florida; Moessa Shuyeb Jokham, who was arrested for plotting to blow up Jewish community centers and businesses; and a group of other home-grown terrorists.

We need to shit that BRIC. More importantly, keep your eye on Gulshair, Adnan's father.

In May, 2001, he headed off to Trinidad, where his father Gulshair had worked as an official for the Saudi Arabian government.

In what capacity was Gulshair serving Saudi Arabia? This needs some strong follow-up.

From Trinidad, he trekked to Tobago and Guyana. He managed to amass passports from Guyana, Trinidad, Saudi Arabia, Canada and the United States and began to adopt a number of aliases, including Abu Arifi, Jafar al-Tayyar, Jaafar at-Yayyar, Ja'far al-Tayar, and Mohammed Sher Mohammed Khan (the name that appeared on his official FBI file). Adnan also found time, according to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, to take part in the 9/11 attacks as a"fixer," that is, a behind-the-scenes operative who helped with the plans for hijacking the aircraft.

This little f&ck has had his fingers in a lot of important pies. He needs to get burned.

After days of interrogation, coupled with severe sleep deprivation, Mohammed told U.S. officials that bin Laden was planning to create a "nuclear hell storm" in America. Unlike other attacks, the terrorist chief said, the chain of command for the nuclear attack answered directly to bin Laden, al-Zawahiri, and a mysterious scientist called "Dr. X." Mohammed later admitted that "Dr. X" was Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani father of the Islamic bomb and the godfather of modern nuclear proliferation. He further confessed that the field commander for this operation was a naturalized American citizen whom he also referred to as Mohammed Sher Mohammed Khan and "Jafer al Tayyar" ("Jafer the Pilot"). Both names are aliases of Adnan el Shukrijumah.

If all of this can be verified and Shukrijumah somehow manages to carry out even a failed nuclear terrorist attack on America, we need to make Pakistan glow in the dark. Extract Khan and their nuclear weapons first, if that is of importance, but make the place into India's high capacity overflow parking lot. As usual, Saudi Arabia plays a part in this treachery, too. If there is a successful terrorist nuclear attack against America, we need to appropriate all Saudi oil facilities (per .com's plan) plus hold Mecca and Medina hostage under threat of demolition if further attacks occur.

To this day, I still advocate the taking control of Islam's holy shrines as a deterrent measure and lever to force reformation of their religion. No reform, no haj. Any biological attacks gets the shrines dusted with the same agent. Any radiological attacks result in a dusting with the same isotope. Any chemical attacks get the places gassed, too. The first ensuing nuclear terrorist attack gets Medina glassed over and the next one shifts Mecca into carpark mode.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/18/2006 22:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Not to sound like a big wimp here, but I find all this Adnan El Shukrijumah stuff incredibly unsettling. I realize there's been very little mention of all this in MSM and that it's based on quite a bit of speculation. Nonetheless I don't put it past AQ and OBL.

The truth is that for as terrible as 9/11 was for the entire country, it was little more than the bad bruise on the body that is the USA. We not only survived it but we have continued to thrive since then. And despite all their puffery and saber-rattling, this fact is not lost on the AQ leadership.

Which brings me to my point that they want to see us in real pain. They want to see us brought to our knees and kept there for some time. They want us to stumble hard. As OBL has said himself, they want "4 million" American deaths to even the score. It's not a stretch to suggest that in the eyes of AQ, the only possible way to achieve that goal in a realistic timeframe is via a simultaneous nuclear attack on a handful of major US metro areas, at the least.

I feel like I sound alarmist and paranoid right now, to the extend of sounding like a conspiracy theorist. So if anyone can talk some sense into me, not only would I be sincerely appreciative, but I would sleep a lot better at night.
Posted by: eltoroverde || 09/18/2006 23:49 Comments || Top||


Fractured Fairytale: Practice Makes Terror ( The "false alarms" may be dry runs)
TWELVE PASSENGERS ON Northwest Airlines Flight 42, which departed Amsterdam for Mumbai on August 23, quickly aroused the crew's suspicions. Eyewitnesses reported that the 12 passengers, who were of South Asian descent, attempted to use mobile phones and pass them back and forth as the flight took off. Compounding that suspicious behavior, some of the men began walking in the aisles before the plane's seatbelt signs were off. The flight was escorted back to Dutch airspace by F-16 fighters and the passengers were arrested, but Dutch prosecutors announced the next day that "they found no evidence of a terrorist threat."
Arrest them and send them to their respective home countries as terror suspects. Put them all on an international "no fly" list. These doucebags knew what they were doing.

This dramatic incident comes amid what has generally been described as a rash of false alarms following the August 10 revelation of a foiled transatlantic air terror plot. Since then, at least 20 public incidents involving airline security have been reported in the United States and Europe. Recent events include a September 1 AirTran flight to San Francisco being diverted after a passenger was seen sniffing a substance in a bag, an August 29 US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Houston being diverted after a "threatening note" prompted a bomb scare, and an August 25 US Airways jet being diverted after a disruptive passenger pushed a flight attendant. The commonly accepted explanation for this spike in incidents is that airline crews and passengers are on a hair trigger. But there may also be casings and dry runs occurring, and it's difficult for an open society to guard against these exercises.
Let an air marshal put a dent in a skull.

THE TRANSATLANTIC AIR PLOT that was disrupted in early August provides the latest evidence of how terrorists probe airline defenses. Intelligence sources report that at least one of the plotters took several flights between Britain and the United States with only one plausible purpose: probing weaknesses in airline security.
Grrrrrrrrr.

But even before that plot became public knowledge, there was good reason to suspect that terrorists trying to probe airline security were among the millions of people who board planes each day. Annie Jacobsen has tirelessly reported about the distressing state of airline security in both a series of articles for WomensWallStreet.com and the book Terror in the Skies: Why 9/11 Could Happen Again. Although she is not without her critics, Jacobsen impressed me as a careful and thorough journalist with an array of knowledgeable sources.

In the course of Jacobsen's investigations, a large number of airline industry personnel and Federal Air Marshals approached her with concerns about suspicious in-flight behavior by Middle Eastern men. She has catalogued many such incidents, but is often unable to report on them because of her sources' concern that they will get in trouble for speaking to the press. (Both airline personnel and Federal Air Marshals are required to enter agreements prohibiting them from doing so.) But the incidents her sources have allowed her to report on provide reason for concern.

One such incident occurred on United Airlines Flight 925, which left London for Washington, D.C. on June 13, 2004. Jacobsen recounts that nine Middle Eastern men arrived late, just minutes before the aircraft doors were set to close. Although the nine men had "arrived independently on separate itineraries from various Middle Eastern countries," after the plane took off it became obvious that at least some of them knew each other. And their behavior was unusual enough to make the crew and captain suspicious:

Once the flight was in the air, a flight attendant in the coach class cabin noticed a bag in the aisle. She asked that the owner of the bag identify him or herself at once. No one came forward to claim the bag. One of the late-arriving Middle Eastern men was seated nearby. The flight attendant asked the man pointedly if the bag was his. He replied "no" in English. Later, this same man approached the flight attendant and said that the bag in the aisle was his bag and that he wanted it back. . . . During the flight, several of the men walked to the mid-section of the plane and stood in a group by the aircraft door. The lead flight attendant notified the Captain. The Air Marshals on board had already been made aware. About the same time, two of the Middle Eastern men, seated in the far rear of the plane, started taking photographs of the aircraft interior. The flight attendants now began closely monitoring what the men were doing. One of the men carried a hand-held mirror as he walked around the plane. According to one flight attendant, the man "was holding [the mirror] and moving it around so he could see what was going on behind him. What he was doing was very suspicious."
I guess we will have to wait and let one of these islamo-cockroaches drop another plane into a building before we do something.

Eventually the captain radioed Heathrow airport to ask for the men's names to be re-checked against the no-fly list. He learned that in fact two of the men were on that list.
Yet despite the captain's request to have law enforcement on the scene when the plane touched down in Washington, there was reportedly only "one United Airlines supervisor with a clipboard" on hand. All nine suspects were able to walk away without being questioned about their odd behavior.
Somebody should be fired. Everyone of them should be frog-walking from DC to Tehran.

There have been other incidents of concern. For example, a congressional report entitled "In Plane Sight" about the Federal Air Marshals service documents one instance of a passenger who appeared to be Middle Eastern bumping into a pair of Federal Air Marshals and touching both of them on the chest with an open hand: seemingly an attempt to determine where Federal Air Marshals keep their weapons.
Heck. You grab a Ranger in Texas where I grew up and you would lose your manhood. This ought to set the claxons off. Are we that stupid? (Don't answer that)

ALTHOUGH THERE WAS AMPLE REASON before the transatlantic plot to believe that flights were being cased, none of these incidents were remembered as casings. Likewise, the various incidents that have occurred since then may well be remembered as a rash of false alarms.

But some of these alarms may not have been false. In any dry run or casing, terrorists will engage in aberrant behavior similar to that displayed by the passengers aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 42 (or United Airlines Flight 925, for that matter). If terrorists engaged in a dry run or casing have a modicum of foresight, they'll have reasonable explanations for their travel and their behavior. They may in fact not even have to do that much: by August 25, the New York Times declared that the 12 Northwest Airlines Flight 42 passengers were "possibly unaware of international flight rules and security concerns." This seems overly assuming. Is it likely that a dozen international passengers were unaware that they shouldn't use cell phones after takeoff and walk in the aisles with the seatbelt sign still on?

If the terrorists have reasonable stories and don't possess weapons or the means to blow up a flight, their dry run or casing will likely be remembered as nothing more than a false alarm. Actions of this kind are fairly low-risk ventures for terrorists from which they derive two distinct advantages. One is that they can test the limits of our tolerance, determining what behavior will raise red flags and what will not. The second advantage is that, as an increasing number of law enforcement sources suspect, terrorists or their sympathizers may be trying to catch the Federal Air Marshals' attention in order to determine who the marshals are.

THE LIKELIHOOD THAT TERRORISTS can offer plausible excuses and walk away unscathed when caught in the midst of a casing or dry run points to an inherent point of vulnerability for open societies. Nor is the impact of this vulnerability limited to the informational benefits that terrorists can derive from these actions.

Beside the information that terrorists can gain, suspicious behavior that catches the attention of crews and air marshals may produce alert fatigue. When a number of "false alarms" occur on airplanes, it runs the risk that both airline personnel and the public will become desensitized to future threats. In Preventing Surprise Attacks, Richard Posner refers to this as the "boy crying wolf" cost of announcing terror threats, and warns that false alerts "increase the likelihood that true alarms will be ignored."

In the case of airline alerts, some of these may in fact be true alarms. The suspects may be abetting a terrorist plot--yet catching and punishing them is difficult, since they're only probing defenses, not trying to bring down the flight.

Successfully defending the home front requires us to balance a number of factors: national security, civil liberties, and the risk of tipping our hand regarding our defenses. Often there is no perfect way to strike this balance. But in the case of the recent airline "false alarms," very little thinking has gone into the fact that a problem does exist. It's time for us to recognize it.

I would suggest that if we choose the perportrator of a "false alarm" carefully...we make an example of them/him. However, if I were in charge there not be any gasoline flowing in Iran, and al Anbar-Syrian border area, the Iran-Iraq border area, and the Pak-Afghan border area would be a free fire zone from sunset to sunrise.

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is a senior consultant for the Gerard Group International. His first book, My Year Inside Radical Islam, will be published in February 2007 by Tarcher/Penguin. Kyle Dabruzzi provided research assistance for this article.
Posted by: anymouse || 09/18/2006 18:15 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Great article. My guess: it won't be an airplane; it will be a soft target. Until bombs go off in shopping malls (ala Israel) or we see children taken hostage in elementary schools (a ala Beslan) the American public are too complacent to demand that the government do what needs to be done. Once the aforementioned happens, and it will, we'll start doing what needs to be done. Unfortunately, innocent people will have to die first.
Posted by: reality check || 09/18/2006 19:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Has anyone gone back over pre 9/11 flight reports
to see if their were any dry runs by Satans pool boys?
Posted by: Elmineng Ulenter1860 || 09/18/2006 20:17 Comments || Top||

#3  As stated: "Arrest them and send them to their respective home countries as terror suspects. Put them all on an international "no fly" list. These doucebags knew what they were doing."
Posted by: Phineter Thraviger1073 || 09/18/2006 20:26 Comments || Top||

#4  9/11 hijackers did dry runs.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/sept11/2002/05/28/hijackers-test-runs.htm
Posted by: J.D. Lux || 09/18/2006 20:34 Comments || Top||

#5  I recall reading an account of such a trial run by actor James Woods. Pretty grim stuff.
Posted by: mrp || 09/18/2006 22:12 Comments || Top||

#6  The account, ahem, was reported by James Woods, of course :)
Posted by: mrp || 09/18/2006 22:13 Comments || Top||

#7  The "false alarms" may be were dry runs)

There - fixed that for ya'
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 09/18/2006 22:17 Comments || Top||

#8  Because I stupidly have confidence in the abilities of our government, it is impossible for me to believe that we have not begun to accumulate the travel patterns of every single person whose point of origin or destinations include terror sponsoring nations.

If people do not have any substantial reason to be traveling back and forth several times a year to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and so forth, they need to be flagged big time.

Furthermore, if an airline wants to be connected to America or even have its tickets sold though any of our agents or credit card systems, they had better be ready to surrender all records of passenger travel to or between countries of interest.

We need to assemble data bases that record the travel patterns of those who:

Fly directly to countries of interest.

Fly to international hubs where appropriate transfers can take place

Fly too often to any of the above

Have names of Arabic or terrorist nation origin

And so forth. I'm sure you get the idea.

And, oh yeah; FIRE THE IDIOTS WHO DO NOT TAKE AGGRESSIVE ACTION WHEN CONFRONTED WITH BLATANT CASING AND PROBING OPERATIONS.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/18/2006 23:32 Comments || Top||

#9  Imagine this... President Bush has announced that 8-10 attacks have been stopped because of procedures being used. We don't know what those procedures are (and I, for one, don't want to know).

It could include the flight patterns of certain individuals. We know the airlines are computerized with a massive database of every flight any of us have taken.

Just hopin'
Posted by: Sherry || 09/18/2006 23:44 Comments || Top||

#10  The West should create special flights reserved for Muslims only, the others being for non-Muslims only.

This way, if a muslim terrorist blow an airplane, only Muslims are killed.
Posted by: leroidavid || 09/18/2006 23:54 Comments || Top||


Good Morning...
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 09/18/2006 02:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I saw her first!
Posted by: gorb || 09/18/2006 3:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Headly !
Posted by: wxjames || 09/18/2006 7:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Nice hat. Musn't allow the sun to touch those creamy white shoulders.....
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 09/18/2006 8:29 Comments || Top||

#4  The brains, the looks and the attitude.

Gentlemen, you are looking at the total package.

Posted by: Oldspook || 09/18/2006 9:37 Comments || Top||

#5  This is disgusting, I'll take two please
Posted by: Captain America || 09/18/2006 10:28 Comments || Top||

#6  So has Hedy Lamarr become the Official Sweetheart of Rantburg?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/18/2006 12:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Given what OS said, I think she is the ideal candidate as official sweetheart. Yes, the complete package. Mmmmmmmmmmm.
Posted by: remoteman || 09/18/2006 12:39 Comments || Top||

#8  "Any girl can be glamorous," Hedy Lamarr once said. "All she has to do is stand still and look stupid." The film star belied her own apothegm by hiding a brilliant, inventive mind beneath her photogenic exterior. In 1942, at the height of her Hollywood career, she patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was two decades ahead of its time.

Beauty and a taste for weapons systems, a perfect Rantburg role model. She had the first patent on frequency hopping com systems. More here

In the United States Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil, shunned by the Navy, no longer pursued their invention. But in 1957, the concept was taken up by engineers at the Sylvania Electronic Systems Division, in Buffalo, New York. Their arrangement, using, of course, electronics rather than piano rolls, ultimately became a basic tool for secure military communications. It was installed on ships sent to blockade Cuba in 1962, about three years after the Lamarr-Antheil patent had expired. Subsequent patents in frequency changing, which are generally unrelated to torpedo control, have referred to the Lamarr-Antheil patent as the basis of the field, and the concept lies behind the principal anti-jamming device used today, for example, in the U.S. government's Milstar defense communication satellite system.
Posted by: Steve || 09/18/2006 13:00 Comments || Top||

#9  Oh, gosh ... I hate to have to say this, but ...

Beautiful as she was, and much as I support women inventors, Lamarr and her buddy did NOT invent frequency hopping. They patented an ill-thought-through implementation of it, which no one else had patented because it wasn't workable.

Later development of electronics provided a mechanism that made frequency hopping practical for serious use, resulting in spread spectrum radio first for military and eventually for civilian applications.

Sorry guys. She's quite lovely and moved in wealthy and influential social circles as a result. But inventor? Not in the way she's being portrayed here.
Posted by: lotp || 09/18/2006 14:10 Comments || Top||

#10  I don't believe it. You're just jealous! She invented lotsa things. And she has a plan for Iraq! And bringing the country together! The evil Halliburton-clones just waited until her patent expired, and ...

Just a minute, lotp? Are you not of the female persuasion as well?
Posted by: Bobby || 09/18/2006 14:51 Comments || Top||

#11  Hubba hubba...
Posted by: mojo || 09/18/2006 14:52 Comments || Top||

#12  No offense, folks, but "Flyboys" is starting to aggravate the shit outta me...
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/18/2006 16:43 Comments || Top||

#13  I hope it's making Fred a lot of money. I can ignore it. I think of it as a member of the MSM.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 09/18/2006 16:53 Comments || Top||

#14  I'm trying to get it positioned right, so it's visible but part of the scenery. Can't think of anyplace else to put it.
Posted by: Fred || 09/18/2006 17:24 Comments || Top||

#15  Try the upper right hand corner, above the "most recent comments," maybe?
Posted by: Phil || 09/18/2006 17:42 Comments || Top||

#16  Are you not of the female persuasion as well?

I am. And I'd dearly love to be able to point to a dazzling female combination of appearance and real inventor smarts. Unfortunately this stunningly beautiful lady does quite fit the latter category.
Posted by: lotp || 09/18/2006 18:33 Comments || Top||



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