US-led coalition forces mistakenly killed five Afghan police in a clash in a southern province, the government said Friday. There was no immediate comment from the coalition. The police were manning a checkpoint in Gereshk district in Helmand province when the clash broke out around 7:00 p.m. (1430GMT) on Thursday, said Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary. "Coalition forces mistakenly opened fire on police," Bashary said. "Unfortunately five policemen were killed."
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uh huh... a checkpoint or shakedown site? Wearing uniforms?
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ISAF Contrary to media reporting, there was no ISAF involvement in the incident in Gereshk, Helmand Province that reportedly killed 5 Afghan National Policemen.
We have closely reviewed various reports and the positions of ISAF forces. All indications are that no ISAF forces were involved in this unfortunate incident, said Col. Tom Collins, ISAF spokesperson.
FORWARD OPERATING BASE DIABLO, Afghanistan (AP) - The top NATO general in Afghanistan said Friday the alliance's latest offensive is the first of a "rolling series" of operations against Taliban insurgents, some of whom have been fleeing western forces in the south. U.S. Gen. Dan McNeill, commander of the 36,000-strong NATO-led force in Afghanistan, said western troops were exchanging fire with Taliban fighters "in a number of areas" in southern Afghanistan but that many militants were fleeing the 5,500 NATO and Afghan soldiers participating in Operation Achilles.
"We're working hard to get a beat on them, where they're going, because we're not going to let up," McNeill said during a one-hour visit to this isolated U.S. outpost in the northwest corner of Kandahar province. "I expect we'll have a rolling series of exercises just like this one, operations that run through the spring and summer. I expect for us to continue attacking these insurgents."
Hardest part of the operation will be to get the Talibunnies to stand still long enough so that we can kill them.
About 47,000 western forces are deployed in Afghanistan. NATO leads 36,000 troops, and the U.S.-led coalition maintains a 11,000-strong force engaged in independent operations throughout the country. Canada has about 2,500 troops operating in Kandahar province as part of the NATO force.
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I suppose Mullah boy will announce the great Taliban victory next week.
By the way, as Khalid Sheik Mohammed is back in the news, people should be reminded that although he was born and raised on the Arabian Peninsula, he is of Balochi descent. I find it hard to believe that Arabs - who believe that their god has given them authority over the entire world - would have handed over the control over al-Qaeda operations that KSM claims. I think he confessed to most major terror operations, in an attempt to shield Arab perpetrators from justice. Military justice authorities should not close terror cases, based on his testimony.
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No Snark, this looks like a perfect time to wait a week or so, then blast the shit out of Pakistan.
Run the baddies to what they think is a safe haven, then wipe them all out once and for all.
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A bomb blast destroyed two houses near Somalia's violent capital, killing seven people, including four children, police said Friday. The seven were watching television when the explosion occurred. "It was awful," said Mohamed Ali Roble, a relative of the family who had fled the growing violence in Mogadishu last month to stay with relatives in Afgoye, a town 30 kilometers to the east. "They were all lying in a pool of blood."
Police say the explosion was caused by a bomb but are still investigating. Police official Aden Obile Ahmed added one woman lost a leg in addition to the seven dead.
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Two alleged underground operatives were killed in an encounter with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Ranigram village under Ataikula Police Station yesterday.
No, we don't know where that is.
The dead were identified as Nazrul Islam, 38, son of Azahar Ali of Sreepur village and Ansar Ali, 36, son of Abed Ali of Ranigram village of the upazila. Both belonged to the outlawed Sarbahara Party.
That's an old communist independence party, so you know this isn't going to go well for Nazrul and Ansar.
Acting on a tip-off, ...
... that from Mahmoud the Weasel ...
... a team of Rab-12, Pabna, raided Mathura Battala at Ranigram at about 3:00pm where some members of the underground outfit were holding a meeting.
"I call this meeting of the Sarbahara Party to order!"
"I call the RAB coming 'round the corner!"
Sensing the presence of the Rab men, the outlaws opened fire, forcing the law enforcers to retaliate.
"Eat hot lead you coppers!"
Rab sources said Nazrul and Ansar received bullets during the "shootout" and died on the spot, ...
... each receiving one behind each ear ...
... while their accomplices managed to flee.
Almost as if they were never there.
Police said the two outlaws were wanted in 12 systems cases including seven for murder.
So their mothers are indifferent to their deaths.
Rab recovered two shutter guns and two bullets from the scene.
Two shutter guns! They must have sold some big-shot's Hummer to afford the second one!
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Well, they formed several battalions of the RAB. I believe a Shutter Gun is part of the TO&E.
On Wednesday, the law enforcers arrested two JMB men--Aftab Hossain and Abdus Salam--in the same upazila. The officer-in-charge (OC) of Bagmara Police Station said the arrestees are listed JMB cadres. They were associates of Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai and involved in so-called operations against outlaws in the upazila in 2004, he added.
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Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
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Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
AFTAB HUSEIN
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
AFZAL HUSEIN
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
BANGLA BHAI
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
CHANCHAL
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
EMAJ UDIN
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
SIDIQUL ISLAM
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
ZAHIDUL HAQ
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
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Ondiep, a working class neighbourhood in the Dutch town of Utrecht, is in turmoil. After the death last Sunday of Rinie Mulder, a 54-year old indigenous Dutchman who was shot by a police officer, non-immigrant citizens went on a rampage, burning cars, looting shops and arsoning a community centre in inverted Paris style riots. According to our sources the police officer who killed Mulder is a woman of Moroccan origin.
The Ondiep residents have been complaining for months about harassment and intimidation by immigrant youths of Moroccan origin. The Dutch mainstream media do not go into much detail about what is going on. Most of them do not mention the ethnicity of the victim and the police officer, though the riots clearly have an ethnic nature.
Apparently Mulder intervened when Muslim youths harassed a pregnant native Dutch woman. He was able to grab the knife of one of the youths. When the police arrived Mulder was shot because he had raised the knife. Witnesses say Mulder was indicating to the police that he had called for them.
Locals claim the police has failed to protect them for years. They say the authorities are afraid of the immigrants and tolerate their criminal behaviour. After the death of Mulder the indigenous Dutch decided they had had enough and started riots which went on for two continuous nights. The police made 130 arrests: 60 of them are Ondiep residents. According to the mainstream media the others are mainly football hooligans from other parts of the country. Annie Brouwer-Korf, the Socialist mayor of Utrecht, has ordered Ondiep to be sealed off from the rest of town to keep non-residents out. She expressed some sympathy for the frustrated Ondiep residents. I understand that residents are sometimes upset about the nuisance around their own house and neighbourhood. That does you no good whatsoever.
The riots are no surprise. As I wrote last January:
The Netherlands are bracing themselves for more [Parisian style] incidents this year. An official report published last week states that the Government has seriously underestimated tensions between various ethnic and cultural groups of youths.
The report says that the Dutch authorities fail to grasp the gravity of the problem. If nothing is done the country will soon witness situations similar to the French riots of 2005 and 2006 which led to the police abandoning immigrant suburbs to gangs of Muslim youths. The result of the French ambivalence is that the same gangs have now taken over effective control of more than 750 French urban neighborhoods.
Ondiep is one of the Dutch urban neighbourhoods which seem to have been abandoned by the authorities. It is hardly a surprise that the natives are beginning to fight back. The same thing happened recently in Britain.
Unable to shake off allegations of connections to Egyptian Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) has done the Massachusetts equivalent of calling in the Marines: it has summoned the trial lawyers.
Qaradawi, considered to be a supporter of suicide bombings, is being sued in a Boston court for libel against Muslims.
Qaradawi, considered to be a supporter of suicide bombings, is being sued in a Boston court for libel against Muslims. And the Islamic Society of Boston has not only sued an "Islamic cleric, a Christian political science professor and the Jewish daughter of Holocaust survivors," says The David Project, a Jewish group that educates and trains students and the Jewish community about Israel that is a defendant in the lawsuit, along with The Boston Herald, Investigative Project head Steve Emerson and Fox 25 News. They have also twice subpoenaed the Anti-Defamation League, which declined comment.
Photocopies of Islamic Society of Boston IRS tax returns from 1998, 1999, and 2000 which list Qaradawi as a trustee are included as evidence in the statements of several of the defendants being sued for libel. At the same time, notarized 1993 documents from the City of Cambridge also list Qaradawi as a trustee. Lawyers on behalf of the Muslim Public Affairs Council in late February filed "friends of the court" briefs for the Islamic Society of Boston, accusing the defendants of seeking to "demonize and vilify" US Muslims. The American Jewish Congress was one step ahead, having filed a "friend of the court" brief for the David Project and other defendants last October.
At the same time Georgetown University scholar John Esposito filed his own affidavit which sought to distance the Islamic society of Boston from radical Islamic groups, saying that the defendants "misleadingly attempt to suggest a link" between the ISB and Wahhabism. Suggesting he sought to set the record straight on the Islamic Society of Boston, Esposito goes on to say that he intends to correct the "gross mis-characterizations" cited by the defendants "...as their apparent excuse for attacking the ISB [Islamic Society of Boston] and its leadership." However, Emerson, who in his written statement to the court worried that Boston might be looking the other way when it came to Islamic extremists, was the subject of much of Esposito's negative comments.
Emerson wrote in his affidavit that he was concerned that "Boston public officials" were worried "they may be subsidizing the significant expansion of a particularly extremist and minority sect of Islam."
The ISB, meanwhile, accused the David Project of being the "hidden hand" behind another lawsuit Boston resident James Policastro brought against the ISB, alleging that the David Project used Policastro to "keep the role of the David Project hidden from the public."
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Learned Elders of Islam
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This is going to be rich. The outcome of this trial, if I understand it correctly, will be somewhat of a watershed in American Islamic affairs.
Qaradawi is widely perceived as a moderate ("lightly beat your wife") Muslim. He proclaims that shaheed's DO NOT commit suicide (haram), when they detonate bomb vests in public places. As one of Islam's most respected scholars, the American and global Muslim community's support, or lack thereof, for this revolting specimen of Islamic totalitarianism will be exceptionally telling.
... the David Project used Policastro to "keep the role of the David Project hidden from the public."
Policastro is responsible for exposing a sweetheart deal whereby the ISB purchased from Boston land whose worth is disputed at either about half a million or some two million dollars.
The original completion date for the mosque was November 2004. The project has faced so many delays since then that mosque officials are reluctant to set a new completion date. With each month of delay, construction costs have risen, swelling the budget for the project from an original estimate of $22 million to around $24.5 million, and putting the new mosque's first day of prayers further from reach ...
Under the 2000 deal, the Islamic Society of Boston bought the Roxbury land, valued at $401,187, for $175,000. The remainder was to be paid in kind: the Islamic Society was to maintain a playground and park by the Roxbury parcel for 10 years, offer lectures on Islam at Roxbury Community College next door, help develop an Islamic library there, and assist the college foundation in fund-raising.
Perhaps the real question that needs to be asked is why, with in excess of some 20 million dollars worth of construction funding, did the ISB see it as so important to avoid paying even the full 2 million market price for the land involved? Hint: Jizya, the usual Muslim sense of entitlement.
Further scrutiny is being centered upon the ISB due to its founder, one Abdurahman Alamoudi, as having directed funding to al Quaeda at an earlier date.
Concern is mounting over the connections between a Boston Islamic group and a high-profile Muslim activist, Abdurahman Alamoudi, after a recent statement by the federal government that Mr. Alamoudi had a "close relationship" with Al Qaeda and that he raised money for Al Qaeda in America.
Alamoudi - who is serving a 23-year sentence in federal prison after having pleaded guilty in 2004 to participating in a Libyan plot to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah - is also a founder of the Islamic Society of Boston. The society is now embroiled in a bitter legal dispute over the society's efforts to build a mosque with the aid of public subsidies.
As it stands, the BRA (Boston Redevelopment Agency), has been a recipient of much unwanted attention for potential conflicts of interest in this case.
Plans for the mosque began in the 1980s. In 1989, a BRA employee, Mohammed Ali-Salaam, disclosed to the state ethics committee that he was also affiliated with the ISB; the committee accepted his involvement in the project. He remained at the BRA (he's now a deputy director) even when, according to the ISB's own newsletter, he became involved with ISB fundraising efforts. City documents indicate that he went on a ten-day trip to Dubai and Abu Dhabi in December 1999 as a city representative for the purpose of explaining Boston's land "disposition procedures" to potential donors. The BRA told The Boston Globe that Ali-Salaam "was not given permission to raise funds for the project while there." (The BRA declined to comment for this article, and declined a request for Ali-Salaam to be interviewed.) Two months later, an ISB newsletter noted that Ali-Salaam "worked hard during Ramadan to solicit funds from overseas." Ali-Salaam's role continued to be murky: A December 2000 letter signed by him and two other ISB members to the college announcing a $10,000 donation by the Muslim group--and requesting that the gift be kept anonymous--was written on BRA letterhead.
Most conspicuous of all is the slew of lawsuits filed by the ISB and their subsequent changes of position as these cases have been variously consolidated or revised.
The ISB fought back. Last year, it filed a series of libel lawsuits (which have since been consolidated into one suit) against those media outlets and 14 other organizations and private citizens, including investigative journalist Steve Emerson, for defaming the group. Libel cases against the media are tough to win in the United States, and the defendants have viewed this suit as, more than anything else, a tactic to scare off questioning. All defendants filed motions to dismiss. In its filing, the Herald said that intimidating the media when it reports on controversial topics "threatens to chill the entire news gathering and reporting process." The ISB, however, considers the media's reports to be defamation and the Herald and Fox to be part of "a concerted, well-coordinated effort to intimidate ... members of the Boston area Muslim community [and] to deprive them of their basic rights of free association and the free exercise of their religion as guaranteed by the Constitution." According to Jeff Robbins, who is representing two of the defendants, lawyers for the non-media defendants based their filings on a statute that exists in Massachusetts and more than a dozen other states prohibiting frivolous lawsuits intended to quiet petitioning to government bodies--a First Amendment right--on issues of public interest.
In March 2006, the ISB showed signs of backing down--sort of. Addressing area religious groups and lawyers for the defense, the organization offered to put litigation on hold and mediate privately with defendants. But the same day, the group filed new court documents that ISB lawyer Howard Cooper said contained evidence against the suit's targets. "My client's offer of dialogue is genuine, but so is their determination to hold the defendants accountable for their campaign of intolerance and hatred," Cooper told the Associated Press at the time.
Please be sure to take note of how Muslims, members of the worlds most intolerant religion, constantly seek to paint their opponents as intolerant. This sort of political misdirection should be setting off all sorts of alarms in any thinking persons head.
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Boston: Islamic group sues scholar for libeling Muslimes
It seems to me that one of our strengths is that we already have a great number of concerned citizens (US), who are aware of this menace posed by Muslims.
Another natural strength we all have is no American appreciates a small sub-culture pushing their way in and then demanding that they be treated any differently than we are.
Enough of us have kept track of the dhimmi status they ultimately demand, the intimidation tactics, the bullying of individuals who stand up to them.
But the rub is [as far as i know] we do not have an easy place to go where we can just plug into an organized system where we can all do a little service, either contact other folks for service work, donate $$$, raise $$$, tend to a anti-Sharia Law blog (existing one perhaps), enemy research on Mohameds, legal foot work, contact folks who are being persecuted by CAIR etc??
Brace yourself, are you aware that last month 2007 Saudi Arabia gave CAIR $$$ 50 million for LITIGATION JIHAD?
And now CAIR has begun executing the same plan here as they've successfully done in Europe inorder to subvert and undermine the spirit of our Nation and Laws too for their ends.
From what I gather CAIR uses an established pattern.., it starts out by seeking special consideration for their constituency, setting up their own "cultural sensitive" systems and own inhouse dispute resolution organs in whatever designated country they land in. Muslimes always remind everyone that they are mainstream but inspite of that they remind me of a cult like Jim Jones or the Rajneesh nutroots, for sure they all give me the same kind '0 creeps.
Then come the Muslime [head banging] prayer rooms, special unique handling on transportation, separate toilet, separate bathing facilities, beaches, seating arrangements in public places, Burkas for women, No face pics for ID, holidays, schools, honor killing, clitoridectomys, civil laws, criminal laws etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
It's empirical, and on the record, they've pulled this shit in every country they've squatted in, here in the West or elsewhere.
I'm afraid that CAIR and the Ummah will relentlessly seek the POWER to change America's system of government in-order to suit their Laws and their Koranic vision in toto, ie Sharia Law, separate Muslime communities, special elevated status above the rest of us; we Kifurs the non-Muslimes.
You don't have to be a genius to recognize that with this extra infusion $$$ from Saudia Arabia CAIR will begin to probe and intimidate [litigate] American Citizens, Corporations and American institutions.
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Brace yourself, are you aware that last month 2007 Saudi Arabia gave CAIR $$$ 50 million for LITIGATION JIHAD?
All too aware, RD. CAIR must be outlawed in the United States. Solid connections have already been established between numerous CAIR executive directors and their material support for terrorist organizations, after they had been declared as terrorist entities.
CAIR recently dropped their libel case against Anti-CAIR, led by Andrew Whithead, just as it was facing a legal requirement to answer discovery documents containing some 327 requests for information, requests that would have revealed CAIR's extensive ties to international terrorist organizations.
Confronted by this standard and totally expectable legal filing, CAIR modified and then subsequently DROPPED their lawsuit against Anti-CAIR. In legal circles, such an action is tantamount to either an admission of guilt or, at least, tacit admission that such disclosures would not be in their own best interests.
CAIR initially filed suit in a Virginia Circuit Court on March 31, 2004, claiming six of Whitehead's statements were false, that Whitehead made them "with knowledge of their falsity," and that the statements were actionable because "they impute the commission of a criminal offense." CAIR further claimed injury to its "standing and reputation throughout the United States and elsewhere," and sought $1 million in compensatory damages, $350,000 in punitive damages, plus legal fees and interest. It did so despite Whitehead's telling a reporter "I haven't got any [money]."
The original five statements as quoted in CAIR's complaint were:
"Let their [sic] be no doubt that CAIR is a terrorist supporting front organization that is partially funded by terrorists, and that CAIR wishes nothing more than the implementation of Sharia law in America."
CAIR is an "organization founded by Hamas supporters which seeks to overthrow Constitutional government in the United States and replace it with an Islamist theocracy using our own Constitution as protection."
"ACAIR reminds our readers that CAIR was started by Hamas members and is supported by terrorist supporting individuals, groups and countries."
"Why oppose CAIR? CAIR has proven links to, and was founded by, Islamic terrorists. CAIR is not in the United States to promote the civil rights of Muslims. CAIR is here to make radical Islam the dominant religion in the United States and convert our country into an Islamic theocracy along the lines of Iran. In addition, CAIR has managed, through the adroit manipulation of the popular media, to present itself as the emoderate' face of Islam in the United States. CAIR succeeded to the point that the majority of its members are not aware that CAIR actively supports terrorists and terrorist supporting groups and nations. In addition, CAIR receives direct funding from Islamic terrorists supporting countries."
"CAIR is a fundamentalist organization dedicated to the overthrow of the United States Constitution and the installation of an Islamic theocracy in America."
That CAIR first legally opposed and then REFUSED to concommitantly refute the charges made by Anti-CAIR is emblematic of the judicial assault being waged by American Muslims against the excersizing of free speech when it pursues any criticism of Islam's intentions for this country.
Need I remind any Rantburg readers about how the "Flying Imams" case is being defended by Omar Mohammedi, president of the New York chapter of CAIR?
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I am very surprised. USA is full of non-Muslim smart people. Yet no one has tried to throw the ball in the court of ISB and CAIR. Followers of Islam in many countries is intolerant to other religions and their religious practices then they deserve the same intolerance and restrictions in this country. No freedom is allowed to any religion, organization, or people who preaches violence and intolerance.
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Perhaps a start would be for anti-CAIR to publish its documents related to discovery. Then, anyone sued by CAIR could dust them off, write in the court, and submit them.
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The danger they face in the Litigation Jihad is "discovery".
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I have got to say that this article and the comments above are the very reason I love Rantburg!! There are people with varied knowledge that amplify what is in the news so it carries more meaning. Thanks everyone!!!!
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Thanks grom for the "follow the money" tip on Saudi Arabia. Bit by bit, the Islmofacists are trying to weedle their way into the legal system to garner special treatment and set themselves apart as a protected class, so that any criticism can be shuffled away as "bigotry" no matter what. Other group have successfully done this and they're just being copycats. It's true that if a group can redefine a "schema" for the general population regarding their group, they can attain a status which allows them certain entitlements and protections. Essentially, they're scanning the enemy target (us).
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Also, as the Islamofacists try to copycat other social groups, it is critical to understand that it is no doubt fine and dandy with Qaradawi to be sued and fine and dandy with the ISB to sue him because it all goes to serve the "greater purpose." What is ridiculous about this is DUH there's a connection--he was on their board of trustees.
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Perhaps a start would be for anti-CAIR to publish its documents related to discovery. Then, anyone sued by CAIR could dust them off, write in the court, and submit them.
The danger they face in the Litigation Jihad is "discovery".
I think the ISB is in for a rude awakening: truth isn't libel, and, as others here have indicated, discovery is a bitch.
I do believe Im sensing a pattern here. There is much that needs to be discovered about Islam. A strong light needs to be shone upon their dark motives and bad intentions. As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis so wisely noted: "Sunlight is the best disinfectant. And there is much about Islam in need of decontamination. Unfettered and permitted to run its course uninhibited, Islam may well force the West to simply sterilize it as a last resort.
* "Let their [sic] be no doubt that CAIR is a terrorist supporting front organization that is partially funded by terrorists, and that CAIR wishes nothing more than the implementation of Sharia law in America."
* CAIR is an "organization founded by Hamas supporters which seeks to overthrow Constitutional government in the United States and replace it with an Islamist theocracy using our own Constitution as protection."
* "ACAIR reminds our readers that CAIR was started by Hamas members and is supported by terrorist supporting individuals, groups and countries."
* "Why oppose CAIR? CAIR has proven links to, and was founded by, Islamic terrorists. CAIR is not in the United States to promote the civil rights of Muslims. CAIR is here to make radical Islam the dominant religion in the United States and convert our country into an Islamic theocracy along the lines of Iran. In addition, CAIR has managed, through the adroit manipulation of the popular media, to present itself as the emoderate' face of Islam in the United States. CAIR succeeded to the point that the majority of its members are not aware that CAIR actively supports terrorists and terrorist supporting groups and nations. In addition, CAIR receives direct funding from Islamic terrorists supporting countries."
* "CAIR is a fundamentalist organization dedicated to the overthrow of the United States Constitution and the installation of an Islamic theocracy in America."
Examined in the light of Andrew Whiteheads accusations (shown above), CAIRs eventual withdrawal of all charges against Anti-CAIR constitutes a frank admission that:
* CAIR is a terrorist supporting front organization that is partially funded by terrorists, and that CAIR wishes nothing more than the implementation of Sharia law in America."
* CAIRs founders are terrorist supporters who wrap themselves in constitutional protections while simultaneously seeking to overthrow that same document in favor of installing theocratic Sharia law.
* CAIR continues to be supported by terrorist individuals, groups and countries.
* CAIR intentionally manipulates the media to create an image of moderation which deceives its own domestic supporters while CAIR continues to receive funding from and contribute funding to Islamic terrorists and countries that sponsor terrorism.
* CAIR intends nothing less than to subvert Americas constitutional democracy for the purpose of installing theocratic totalitarianism in the form of sharia law.How much more clear can this get? CAIR has even admitted to having terrorist ties!
CAIR Admits Officials Have Ties to Islamist Terrorism
In a stunning revelation, Corey Saylor, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) government affairs director, on 2 March admitted that convicted Islamic terrorists were CAIR officials when they committed terrorist acts against the United States.
In an article carried by Delcotimes.com, Saylor is responding to questions about Ghassan Elashi and Ismail Royer and their ties to the leader of Hamas and activities in support of overseas terrorist organizations. While Saylor first said that Elashi and Royer were not working on behalf the group, he was later quoted:
"Some people try to hold us responsible for the actions of people that are associated with our organization. Thats absolutely ludicrous you dont hold all of Enron responsible for what Ken Lay did."
For those North Americans that ever had any questions about CAIRs ties to Elashi and Royer, and, by association, tied directly to Islamist terrorists, those questions have been answered by CAIRs own spokesman.
Saylor seems to have forgotten that Enron folded like a cheap tent when the criminal activities of its leadership were exposed
If the Justice Department refuses to begin proceedings designed to outlaw and legally estop all further activities by this seditionist group of thugs, then we will know that our government is betraying us into the hands of our enemies.
Suspected separatist rebels exploded a bomb in a crowded market in India's restive northeast on Friday, wounding six people and destroying three shops, police said.
Police suspect the United Liberation Front of Asom, or ULFA, as being responsible for the attack in Gauhati, the capital of Assam state, said S. N. Singh, a senior police officer. The insurgents tied the explosives to a motorcycle in a busy market in the heart of Gauhati, Singh said. Friday's attack came as the ULFA observed "Army Day" commemorating the launch of its military wing in 1980.
Also Friday, Paresh Baruah, the ULFA commander in chief, said a sovereign and independent Assam was the only solution to the region's problems. "There can be no peace dialogue with the Indian government unless our core demand of sovereignty is included in the agenda," Baruah said in a message e-mailed to journalists in Gauhati.
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United Liberation Front of Asom
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A senior figure in Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's al-Mahdi army was killed Thursday morning by unidentified gunmen north of the southern Iraqi city of Basra, an eyewitness said.
"Unidentified gunmen driving a modern car opened fire against a person near his home in al-Ablah area, al-Maaqel district, killing him on the spot," an eyewitness told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
"The slain was a leading figure in al-Mahdi army in Basra," an eyewitness said.
There was no immediate comment from official authorities on the incident.
Approximately 350 Iraqi civilians and six Coalition Force members were treated for chlorine gas exposure after two suicide bombers detonated their dump trucks in separate areas south of Fallujah, and one Coalition Forces member and one Iraqi civilian were injured in a smaller attack northeast of Ramadi on the evening of March 16.
The first suicide truck bomb containing chlorine detonated at a check point northeast of Ramadi at 4:11 p.m., injuring one Coalition service member and one Iraqi civilian.
The second explosion occurred at 6:36 p.m., 17 km south of Fallujah near the town of Amiriyah. The Amiriyah Police Department reported that two policemen were killed in the blast and estimated that as many as 100 local citizens showed signs of chlorine exposure.
Coalition Forces confirmed that the Amiriyah citizens exposed to the chlorine were treated locally for symptoms ranging from minor skin and lung irritation to vomiting.
The third explosion occurred 37 minutes later at 7:13 p.m., 5 km south of Fallujah in the Albu Issa region when a suicide bomber detonated a dump truck containing a 200 gallon chlorine tank rigged with explosives.
Coalition Forces responded to the attack and found approximately 250 local civilians suffering from symptoms related to chlorine exposure. Of those affected by the attack, four adults and seven children were evacuated to Coalition medical facilities for further treatment.
Suicide car bombers have used chlorine against Iraqis in Al Anbar a total of five times since Jan. 28. This is the threat we face living in an industialized society. These aren't Saddam's WMD's but chlorine used for industrial purposes. There are lots of other toxic substances that could be used in similar attacks, such as pesticides.
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The sad part is that these are pure terror tactics, intended to explit people's ignorance/fear. But then again, that's the idea behind the exercise. They've given up on any kind of conventional win.
Militarily, unless they rupture a large tank (1300 + gallons) in an enclosed area, they are not going to get much kill for the effort. If they had put that much effort into making conventional explosives, they could have gotten better results. (higher bodycount)
The fact that they are resorting to this tells me some good things:
1. They feel the need to change tactics, because what went before did not seem to work.
2. They are running low on explosives (finaly!!).
3. The enemy truly does not understand us, or beleives their own propaganda.
4. They are having a hard time brewing up conventional explosives.
Using WMD's like this is not going to help their cause at all.
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I agree. It is only going to piss people and the international community off and drive the MSM away, or at least make them neutral in their reporting.
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Chlorine is the "easiest" chemical weapon to obtain, but it is pretty ineffective for all sorts of reasons. Ironically, one of these is that it is so harsh, that one whiff sends people running away to safety, whereas a more subtle agent they would inhale a lot more of before realizing it.
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I *seriously* doubt they're running low on explosives. More likely a 'use it or lose it' scenario with the surge bearing down. And as for world opinion, the world doesn't give a shit about iraq, except as an opportunity to indict the imperialist US.
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Option 5: they're terrorists, after all, and they're trying to strike terror into the hearts of Iraqi citizens. If they can get some press in the MSM, fine, that won't hurt either (never seems to hurt them, does it).
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Chuck one warehouse full of chlorine gas canisters was found by and Army rebuilding group. They all had Iraq Air Force emblems. The warehouse was mistakenly left unguarded. Big mistake. I've written about this before. The only use someone would have (industrial) this gas in Iraq is for water purification. Something I strongly doubt the Iraqi Air Force did.
To me at least this is clear proof of ready chemical weapons stockpiles pre-invasion. The Muslim terrorist must have been holding them back.
Still trying to find the book that referred to the finding.
#8
Sounds more like Saddam's old generals resorting to their old tricks of using gas on civs to maintain control.
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Saddam's old officers in Anbar are actually fighting al qaida. They are signing up with the security units of the "salvation council" or whatever it is called.
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It's certainly possible that these are being made from looted stocks held by the former military. We're four years in to the Liberation, and I would suggest that if these had been knocking around early they would have been used.
This is a new supply, probably related to the huge number of water purification projects we've undertaken in the country.
The military's press releases about their finds do not match the press reports. In Afghanistan it's clearly bragging by ISAF spokemen, but in Iraq I lean to another answer. Given the numbers of false reports by the media, it is very possible that some of the results they have reported, including deatils of chlorine finds, are bogus.
Chlorine is used in a number of manufacturing areas, not just water purification. I was in my first spill at a paper plant just outside Albany New York. It really is a common industrial chemical.
#13
My only question is: Where's all the MSM outrage about terrorists using gas warfare on civilian populations? These are WMDs, however ineffective they might be. The MSM howls about (unwarranted) Geneva Convention rights for captured terrorist maggots at Gitmo but is deafeningly silent about the Geneva Rights of Iraqi citizens.
The sooner that the Internet puts the MSM out of business, the better.
#14
If the chlorine is from water purification - maybe they should switch to the eu method using Oxygen.
Of course an Oxygen IED would just make a bigger boom.... very big.
(KUNA) -- Coalition Forces have detained 17 suspected terrorists during recent operations over the past three days while targeting al-Qaida in Iraq and foreign facilitation networks, the US army announced Friday.
It said in a statement that in a three-day operation that began Wednesday in Yusifiyah, Coalition Forces detained 12 suspects with alleged ties to al-Qaida and foreign fighter facilitation. Coalition Forces found several AK-47s, artillery and mortar rounds, and improvised explosive device-making material. One suspected terrorist was detained Thursday afternoon in Mosul with reported ties to al-Qaida, the army added.
A raid Friday morning in Baghdad resulted in the detention of four suspected terrorists with alleged ties to foreign fighter facilitation and anti-Coalition Forces activities. "Coalition Forces will continue to systematically target al-Qaida in Iraq and foreign terrorist facilitators regardless of where they may hide or operate," said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, MNF-I spokesperson.
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The mayor of Sadr City, a Shia militia stronghold in Baghdad, was wounded when gunmen opened fire on his car and a senior police officer was killed, Iraqi and US officials said yesterday. Sheikh Raheem al-Darruji has been a key figure in facilitating a recent US and Iraqi security crackdown in Sadr City, long a no-go area for US forces and a bastion of the Mehdi Army, a militia loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
An Iraqi police source said Darruji was driving in a private car with Colonel Mohammed Mutashar on Thursday afternoon in the Habibiya district of Sadr City when gunmen in another car opened fire, killing the policeman and wounding the mayor. The driver of the car was also killed, a US military spokesman said, confirming the attack. He said the mayor was treated at a US hospital and was in "good condition" on Friday. "He has been helpful to the coalition and the efforts to establish the joint security station inside of Sadr City," Lieutenant Colonel Scott Bleichwehl said of the mayor.
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Oh, my beating heart, please stop pumping piss!
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The bad boys are feeling the heat. And they don't like it.
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A rally organized by cleric Muqtada Al Sadrs political organization protested the increased presence of Iraqi and coalition security forces in Sadr City March 16. The non-violent rally was held at a public square not far from the newly established Joint Security Station. Approximately 2,000 attended the protest said Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, Public Affairs officer.
The U.S. Army said on Friday it was sending some 2,600 soldiers to Iraq earlier than planned, raising the number of extra U.S. troops being deployed in a new effort to stabilize the country to nearly 30,000. News of the latest deployment came as Democrats who now control Congress pushed legislation to end a war that is increasingly unpopular in the United States.
The combat aviation brigade from the U.S. Army's Third Infantry Division would deploy in early May, some 45 days sooner than previously envisaged, the Army said. The brigade is the third element to be announced in a package of support units being deployed to assist 21,500 extra combat troops ordered to Iraq under a plan unveiled by President George W. Bush in January. "The aviation brigade, which is really principally rotary helicopter support for the troops, is the final piece," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters.
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The MSM keeps pushing this "increasingly unpopular" meme, and it's beginning to piss me off. What's "increasingly unpopular" is the idea that we're not fighting to win this da$$$$ war. Most of the people I talk to, including many liberals, feel that the MSM is trying to recreate the fall of Saigon, so they can all win Pulitzer prizes. I wish that people would let the editors of these newspapers know exactly how they feel about such nonsense by cancelling their subscriptions. I think THAT would be a message the MSM would hear, loud and clear.
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IDF soldiers arrested nine Palestinian fugitives in the West Bank overnight Thursday. The detainees included four Hamas members, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
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A Palestinian Intelligence officer was shot and killed Friday morning in the village of Deir el-Balah, in the Gaza Strip. Israel Radio reported that armed Palestinians, whose identities were unknown, stopped the vehicle in which two Palestinian Intelligence officers were driving. The officers were shot after they were dragged out of the car by the Palestinian gunmen. The second officer was seriously wounded in the attack.
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Palestinian Intelligence officer killed in Gaza
Not much testimony to his own "Intelligence". Inshalla!
UNRWA, the largest UN agency with more than 25,000 employees, was established in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war to provide relief for upwards of 700,000 Palestinian refugees uprooted by the war.
Speaking to reporters, Abi Zaid called on the Palestinian National Authority to bring to justice those responsible for the attack. Ging was travelling from the Erez border crossing to Gaza City when the attack happened. Violence has escalated in the Gaza Strip since Hamas came to power one year ago and plunged the Palestinian territories into a power struggle pitting the Fatah-dominated security services against Hamas militants.
UNRWA, the largest UN agency with more than 25,000 employees, was established in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war to provide relief for upwards of 700,000 Palestinian refugees uprooted by the war.
This article starring:
Gaza Director John Ging
UNRWA's general commissioner Karen Abi Zaid
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Correct. Fred sometimes re-runs items so that we can have further discussion, or because he (we) think it's important enough to make sure people notice.
Or sometimes we just forget we ran it already :-)
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The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem ordered the Arabs to leave Israel "temporarily" until the Arab governments could "destroy" the upstarts. Sixty years later, they're still in refugee camps. Most have relatives in the countries where they're being kept locked up in camps (and they ARE being kept locked up and outside of ordinary society). It's just another way to wage war against the very existence of Israel. In the meantime, the numbers have grown from 700,000 to 4.5 million - forced to live off the UNRWA and other aid, with no hopes, no future, and no opportunity. Isn't the "mercy" of Allan just wonderful?
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Yesterday news again
It will be tomorrow's news too. The only change will be (apologies to Jorge Luis Borges) the time, the place and one or two proper names.
A former defense volunteer and a boy were shot and wounded Saturday morning after they were hit by bullets fired by two unidentified gunmen in Pattani province, police said.
The fresh incident occurred when two gunmen travelling by motorcycle parked in front of a house in Panare district and fired four shots at the 61-year-old ex-defense volunteer who lives there, police said. One shot hit a young boy as well, they said, by accident. The man is still receiving treatment at hospital while the boy was discharged and returned home later.
National Security Council secretary-general Prakit Prachonpachanuk said the eight-hour overnight curfew could be widened to nearby areas. Militants who attacked and executed the occupants of a passenger van in the troubled southern province of Yala earlier this week are still in hiding along the Thai-Malaysian border, he said, following media reports that some assailants were taken into custody by the authorities.
Mr. Prakit told journalists before a special Cabinet meeting that the Fourth Army Region commander was empowered to widen the curfew in any southern areas he deemed unsafe for innocent civilians. "The curfew could be declared in areas where insurgent violence escalates," Mr. Prakit said. "For the sake of the safety of innocent civilians, the army will have to impose it with an aim to create peace. It is necessary."
Insurgents set fire at a school in Pattani province on Saturday, burning it to the ground. The arson attack at Ban Baloah school in Sai Buri district took place about half an hour after noon, police said.
It took about an hour for the fire to burn classrooms for kindergarten, grade 2 and grade 5 students. The school warehouse, desks and chairs, and bicycles of students were also destroyed. The school is only guarded by volunteers at night as villagers think insurgents would not dare to set it on fire during the day.
Insurgents opened fire at a ranger base in Songkhla province at midnight on Friday, injuring one ranger in a 10-minute firefight.
Police said about 10 insurgents, armed with war weapons, coming on five motorcycles attacked the camp in Saba Yoi at around ten minutes after midnight. They fought with the rangers for about 10 minutes before fleeing. Police rushed to the scene and chased the insurgents. One male teenager was held as a suspect.
Almost immediately, a group of villagers began to gather and pressured the police to release the suspect. Police photographed him and released him with arresting him, for fear that violence would get out of hand. But then, according to a news report, the father of the suspect, learning about his son's involvement in separatist movement, took off his own shoe and used it to slap the son's face.
#10
and of course, "hands-on" would be the best way to gain that design experience. Cantilever structures like that are not a simple thing. I'd need repeated..er... tests
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Mods - Cleanup on Aisle # idiot 11!
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Chuck, I think you should read Robert A. Baker's classic physics paper, A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown. I don't see any online, generally-available, non-pirated versions; you might find one.
Actually, I found one site that replaced the author's name. I won't link to it.
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Two deep breaths and everything will bust loose! I'd hate to have to calibrate the tolerances on that "enclosure".
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Where: The Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Wall, Washington D.C.
Why: To stand silent guard over our nation's memorials, in honor of our fallen, and in solidarity with our armed forces in harm's way today. Read our mission statement [linked to post title].
Godspeed, Eagles and stay safe.
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Can hardly wait for the videos. This morning the DC news stations had no coverage.
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So far today all I've seen on Fox are shots and interviews with the anti-war bunch. The same old blather, war is never justified, we are only creating more terrorists, blaX3.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
FORWARD OPERATING BASE DIABLO, Afghanistan (AP) - The top NATO general in Afghanistan said Friday the alliance's latest offensive is the first of a "rolling series" of operations against Taliban insurgents, some of whom have been fleeing western forces in the south. U.S. Gen. Dan McNeill, commander of the 36,000-strong NATO-led force in Afghanistan, said western troops were exchanging fire with Taliban fighters "in a number of areas" in southern Afghanistan but that many militants were fleeing the 5,500 NATO and Afghan soldiers participating in Operation Achilles.
Two alleged underground operatives were killed in an encounter with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Ranigram village under Ataikula Police Station yesterday. 
Police in separate drives arrested five more activists of outlawed 
Unable to shake off allegations of connections to Egyptian Muslim scholar 
The mayor of Sadr City, a Shia militia stronghold in Baghdad, was wounded when gunmen opened fire on his car and a senior police officer was killed, Iraqi and US officials said yesterday. Sheikh Raheem al-Darruji has been a key figure in facilitating a recent US and Iraqi security crackdown in Sadr City, long a no-go area for US forces and a bastion of the Mehdi Army, a militia loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
What: Gathering of Eagles 
