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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happy Birthday


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Gone to the Big Gam Locker in the Sky

Armilda Jane Owen aka Pamela Britton aka Loralee Brown in "My Favorite Martian" aka Paula Gibson in original "D.O.A."

Betty Compson aka Mae in "The Docks of New York" 1928

Maria Alba aka Dolores in "West of the Pecos"

Nina Quartero aka Lilli Vanessi in original Broadway production of "Kiss Me Kate"

Simone Renant aka Lola in "That Man from Rio"



Living Gams


Ursula Andress aka Honey Ryder in "Dr. No" (74)





Glenn Close aka Alex Forrest in "Fatal Attraction" (63)




Patti Hansen, super model (54)




Simmone Jade Mackinnon aka Allie Reese in "Baywatch" (37)




Vida Guerra, Playboy July 2006 (36)



Rachel Blanchard aka Sally on "Flight of the Conchords" (34)





Tanushree Dutta aka Simran "Sim" Chopra in "Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets" (Bollywood) (31)




Yolanthe Cabau van Kasbergen aka Yolanthe aka Dutch tv babe "Try before You Die" (25)

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 03/19/2010 3:54 Comments || Top||

#2  I gotta ask...

What the heck is a 'Gam Locker' anyway?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/19/2010 15:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Something to do with gambits and chess me thinks Crazy. Wee little midieval pieces on a board or something.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/19/2010 15:42 Comments || Top||

#4  And here I thought it was the next thing up from a foot locker ....
Posted by: lotp || 03/19/2010 23:02 Comments || Top||

#5  The foot bone's connected to the leg bone,
And here I thought it was the next thing up from a foot locker ....


The leg bone's connected to the thigh bone,
The thigh bone's connected to the hip bone,
The hip bone's connected to the eyebrow bone..

Or something like that. Eventually biology becomes entirely too much like geography, and I get lost. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife on the other computer || 03/19/2010 23:27 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Marine wife and mother, widowed at age 23
I just need to share some sad news with all of my blog friends.

Sad isn't even the word to describe it, but honestly at this point I can't find the words to describe it. Angry, empty, crushed, confused, shocked, alone, unglued, hateful, depressed, beaten down... none of these words can do justice to my feelings.

I am being forced to do something that no 23 year old woman should ever have to do. I am being forced to do something that no one should ever have to do, not at this early in life, especially. I am being forced to lay the love of my life, my saving grace, my entire world to rest.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 03/19/2010 11:40 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  sadly too many young wives and mothers have done the same .. RIP
Posted by: chris || 03/19/2010 13:15 Comments || Top||

#2  One of my grandson's (Timmy's) aunts was 7 months pregnant when her husband was killed in Iraq. It happens. It's sad, but it's part of military life, especially in a time of war. There are a dozen names on that black granite monument in DC that were MY friends in life.

Freedom is never free, and this is one of its major costs.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 03/19/2010 13:36 Comments || Top||

#3  American Legion & VFW. I've buried 4 kids I knew during this war, my son's friends and one kid I knew from mentoring him in Young Marines.

War sucks, even when its a cause worth fighting for.
Posted by: OldSpook || 03/19/2010 15:45 Comments || Top||

#4  I bet 95% of the country does not know anyone who was killed in these wars, and 80% don't even know anyone who served. Our modern military is a very isolated community, I think.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/19/2010 18:24 Comments || Top||

#5  I live in the stick and know 2 that have gotten killed , what does that matter?
Posted by: chris || 03/19/2010 21:34 Comments || Top||

#6  #5 I live in the stick and know 2 that have gotten killed , what does that matter?
Posted by: chris


it might be a matter of understanding this wonderful ladies' feelings, her precious children's feelings, and the impact on the entire connected family and community this brave man will never serve. It's called: "STFU and grieve for what's lost and honor the goal they died for"

Chris, I think you need to cut back on the quick curt remark (never thought I'd be the one to say this...) and show some feeling
Posted by: Frank G || 03/19/2010 21:56 Comments || Top||

#7  I am 69 years old. I served with 1/7 USMC 1stMARDIV Alpha Company in Quang Ngai. I do Santa Claus for Toys for Tots with the 3rd Marines. Just like the poster I wear a Globe and Anchor big wide belt on my Red Suit and I go up to the Warehouse where the families of Marines go to refurbish toys and volunteer their time to get donated toys in sparkling condition for giving as gifts to new children.
We load tractor trailer loads of toys we collect at Supermarket drop off sites. And on Christmas Eve I have a "route" that starts at about 5:30 and ends about 10:00 PM ( I cant do the whole world but I can do several hundred children that nite). The young mothers have little new babies or maybe a toddler. The families are conscious of how hard the young wives have it when the men are deployed.I see a lot of good families. The men are the best kind. At the Partys at Christmas time for the Marines I invite the Hooters Girls to go with me. They sell raffle tickets and get to meet the men ( the single men ).

You forget there is any world which is not the one we have among ourselves. You forget the America which doesnt give a shit. The America we arent a part of...we are the real ones who keep the flag for all the rest who just La-di-da. OURS are the best men, the best America has to offer. The best we can... keep our word.. heart and soul...no matter what.

Even if Sgt. Hambull is out in the back seat with Beverley and I have to have him draw the winning ticket ( in his Dress Blues) in five minutes. One of you girls go out there and get him in here. And make sure Beverley comes in looking presentable.
Posted by: Semper Fi Santa || 03/19/2010 22:38 Comments || Top||

#8  May her memories, and the memories of those who love those who serve, bring some comfort as you mourn. And know that there are those in the civilian world who are properly thankful and strive to be worthy of the sacrifice made on our behalf.
Posted by: trailing wife on the other computer || 03/19/2010 23:45 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
What we do in Afghanistan.
Video deleted, too wide for our Rantburg format. Go to the link. AoS.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 03/19/2010 11:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


A Major Offensive in Kandahar Underway
[Quqnoos] A top US commander in Afghanistan says an operation has been launched to drive the Taliban out of Kandahar city

The commander of foreign troops in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, says operations have begun to secure key roads and districts surrounding the city of Kandahar, a Taliban spiritual stronghold.

"That process has already begun, and it will ramp up in the weeks and months ahead and it will of course have a significant time period to it as well," the AFP quoted Gen McChrystal as saying.

Operation Kandahar was said as the next step of Operation Moshtarak in the neighbouring Helmand province, which targeted Taliban's strongholds in Marjah and Nad Ali districts.

Helmand's offensive, the first push of a 12-18 month military plan, was described as a successful push to drive the Taliban militants out of key areas in the two restive districts.

The US military commanders have predicted 2010 a bloody year for foreign troops based in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  I feel very sorry for our soldiers.
They are having to fight with their hands tied by politics.
Yet they are supposed to fight and win.
Didn't we learn this lesson in Vietnam and Korea?
We should be fighting WWII style.
The fighting would be over in a few months, if we did that.
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 03/19/2010 9:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Who was it, Black Bart(?) who linked to music for articles like this? The perfect song for this article is "On the road again".
Posted by: Old Patriot || 03/19/2010 13:38 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Sudan signs deal with second Darfur rebel group
[Al Arabiya Latest] Sudan's government and a Darfur rebel group, the Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM), signed Thursday a framework peace accord, as talks with a larger Justice and Equality Movement appeared to falter.

The agreement for a ceasefire and talks was signed in Doha by Ghazi Salahuddin, an adviser to Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir, and LJM leader El-Tijani El-Sissi, weeks after Khartoum signed a similar accord with Darfur's powerful insurgent Justice and Equality Movement (JEM).

JEM dismissed Thursday's deal, saying the LJM, an umbrella group of small splinter factions, had no military force on the ground, but senior JEM official al-Tahir al-Feki told Reuters his movement would not immediately act on its threat to walk out of Doha in protest at the deal.

"This is an important step which will give momentum to peace efforts in Darfur," said Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Taha, who attended the signing of Qatari-sponsored agreement.

"We reiterate the commitment of the government of Sudan to press ahead with talks following this framework agreement."

The deal with the alliance of splinter rebel factions, which was formed last month, came after a deadline set for the completion of peace talks between Khartoum and the larger rebel group JEM passed without agreement on Monday.

The target was set by a framework accord inked last month and hailed by the international community as a major step towards bringing peace to Darfur, but the talks have since run into difficulty.

Sudanese authorities re-arrested 15 JEM members on Wednesday after having released them following the wavering truce.

One key rebel group -- the Sudan Liberation Army faction of Abdelwahid Nur -- has so far refused to have any negotiations with the government and earlier this month engaged in fierce clashes with the army in the fertile Jebel Marra plateau in the heart of Darfur.

Since ethnic minority rebels first rose up against the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum in 2003, the Darfur conflict has claimed some 300,000 lives and left 2.7 million people homeless, according to U.N. figures.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Africa North
Algerian court convicts Mauritanian terrorist
[Maghrebia] An Algiers court on Tuesday sentenced a Mauritanian citizen to three years in prison for "belonging to an armed terrorist group", APS reported on Wednesday (March 17th). Mohamed Ould Moulay Esaid reportedly left Mauritania for Mali in 2007, where he was recruited by a terrorist group active in the Algeria-Mali border region. After he and 25 other terrorists were intercepted by Algerian troops in the southern region of Ouargla, he fled to Batna and joined the "Death Brigade", AFP reported. According to a judicial source, the Mauritanian and a "significant" number of other terrorists later clashed with Algerian soldiers in neighbouring Tebessa.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Arabia
Saudi-CIA web site shut down by US military as security risk
The Saudi-CIA Web site was set up several years ago as a "honey pot," an online forum covertly monitored by intelligence agencies to identify attackers and gain information, according to three of the former officials. The site was a boon to Saudi intelligence operatives, who were able to round up some extremists before they could strike, the former officials said.

At the time, however, dozens of Saudi jihadists were entering Iraq each month to carry out attacks. U.S. military officials grew concerned that the site "was being used to pass operational information" among extremists, one former official said. The threat was so serious, former officials said, that Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, requested that the site be shut down.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 03/19/2010 12:08 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Houthis free 178 captive soldiers, civilians
[Al Arabiya Latest] Yemen's Houthi rebels freed 178 government soldiers and civilians on Wednesday, a day after Sanaa accused them of dragging their feet over implementation of a truce deal to end a northern war, Al Arabiya reported.

A top Yemeni security body said on Tuesday that the northern rebels were not fully complying with a deal struck in February to end a conflict that has raged on and off since 2004 and drew in neighboring oil exporter Saudi Arabia last year.

The prisoners were handed over in the northern province of Saada that was the scene of most of the fighting, and they would be transported to Sanaa on Thursday, Al Arabiya quoted officials in a mediation committee as saying.

Sanaa, struggling to stabilize a fractious country, came under heavy pressure to end the northern war to focus on fighting al-Qaeda after the group's Yemen-based arm claimed responsibility for a failed December attack on a U.S.-bound plane.

Western governments and neighboring Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, fear al-Qaeda is exploiting instability on many fronts in Yemen to recruit and train militants for attacks in the region and beyond.

Analysts say the truce agreement between the government and rebels, who belong to the minority Zaydi sect, was unlikely to last as it does not address the insurgents' complaints of discrimination by Sanaa.

A rebel spokesman denied on Tuesday that the insurgents were using delay tactics and promised to free captive Yemeni soldiers within 48 hours, Al Arabiya reported at the time. Al Arabiya said those freed on Wednesday included foot soldiers, officers and civilians.

Sanaa is also trying to contain violence in its south, where clashes between separatist protesters, often armed, and government security forces have left a trail of dead and wounded on both sides.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Both sides know that a truce is just a temporary tactic (just like in the days of Muhammad). The only permanent end to the violence will be victory by one side over the other.
Posted by: American Delight || 03/19/2010 17:34 Comments || Top||


Yemen ups oil security for fear of Qaeda attack
[Al Arabiya Latest] Yemen has beefed up security around oil and maritime installations for fear of retaliation by al-Qaeda after several strikes against the jihadist network, the interior ministry said on Wednesday.

"Yemeni authorities have increased security measures around oil and maritime installations, in addition to securing the routes of oil tankers," the ministry website said.

"Firm orders have been given to security bodies and the coast guard to up their alert levels in order to counter any possible terror attack by al-Qaeda elements," it added.

Retaliation attacks
It said that attacks could take place "in retaliation to the qualitative and severe strikes that targeted terror hideouts in several provinces."

Security forces in the southern provinces of Abyan, Aden, Hadramut and Shabwa, as well as Hudayda and Taez further north, were ordered to "double coastal surveillance to spot suspicious boats that could be used by terrorist elements in revenge attacks," it said.

Al-Qaeda has in the past targeted oil facilities in Yemen, which produces less than 300,000 barrels of oil a day, more than half of which is exported.

The impoverished country also has a gas terminal in Balhaf, in the south.

Yemen said it killed three members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- the local branch of the global network, in Sunday air strikes on suspected hideouts in Moudia, in Abyan.

It said the AQAP chief in Abyan, Jamil Nasser Abdullah al-Ambari, 25, who figured on a list of 152 wanted militants, was killed in the attacks.

The air force targeted a suspected al-Qaeda training camp in the same area on Monday, the defense ministry said.

A brief statement said the raids were carried out in Moudia, but did not specify whether anyone was killed or wounded in the latest strike.

"Targeting terrorist cells"
On Wednesday, the ministry elaborated that the Sunday air strike "targeted a terrorist cell in the village of Jizat al-Qinan, in Moudia, which was plotting terrorist attacks."

It said that the "severe strikes" against AQAP were forcing militants to flee to "remote areas" claiming that the authorities have succeeded in "isolating the elements of al-Qaeda in Abyan, Shabwa and Maarib, and other provinces."

"These elements are not able to leave their hideouts or appear in public," it claimed.

Yemen has intensified operations against the local al-Qaeda branch since December, when air strikes killed 34 suspected members of AQAP on Dec. 17 in an attack on an alleged training camp in Abyan.

The same number of militants were allegedly killed in another strike on Dec. 24 which targeted a meeting of AQAP militants in Shabwa.

AQAP claimed responsibility for a failed attempt to blow up a US airliner on Christmas Day.

Top U.S. general David Petraeus said last month that al-Qaeda is becoming less of a threat across much of the Middle East and south Asia with the clear exception of Yemen.

"Saudi Arabia and the other peninsula countries have continued to make gains with the obvious exception of Yemen," Petraeus, the head of U.S. Central Command, told NBC television's "Meet the Press" program.

The United States has reportedly supplied Yemen with intelligence and other support in its operations against the jihadists.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


Britain
Jury considers verdict in Blackburn terror trial
A jury was today considering its verdict in the case of three Blackburn men accused of preparing for acts of terrorism.

Nigel Ilyas Iqbal, 23, his brother Christopher Abbas Iqbal, 24, both of Percival Street, and Morris Muhammed Ali-Ahmad, 26, of Whalley Range, have been on trial for a month at Manchester Crown Court. The prosecution has told the trial that the three men had become 'intoxicated by the evil of terrorism'.

Video footage was played to the jury showing two of the men dressed in camouflage crawling across woodland in Corporation Park, Blackburn. This shows they had started to train themselves to join or carry out jihad, the prosecution said.

But the men have told the court that the footage were 'just a bit of fun' fuelled by a love of action movies. They have denied any involvement in preparing acts of terrorism.
Posted by: ryuge || 03/19/2010 07:24 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
Defense says NY synagogue-bomb plot was feds' idea
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 03/19/2010 16:02 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Full Story:

Mike, we don't reproduce AP articles here, especially since they issued copyright infringement threats. That's why this was posted as a link only.
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 03/19/2010 19:32 Comments || Top||

#2  HMMMM, HMMM, shade of "JOHN DOE #2" ala OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING + MCVEIGH.

The 'BAMA CRIMSON TIDE t'waint enough - now its the BRONX + NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARD.

FORT DRUM.

* MEMRI.ORG > AL QAEDA IN THE ARABIAN PENISULA SAYS THEY HAVE MANY MORE MARTYRDOM-SEEKERS, FUTURE ATTACKS WILL BE MODELED ON ABDULMUTULLAB, NIDAL HASAN [US Army Major = FORT HOOD SHooter].

BY AMERICANS, AGAINST AMERICANS...BY US SOLDIERS, AGAINST US SOLDIERS....@ETC.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/19/2010 21:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Nobama planned it
Posted by: chris || 03/19/2010 21:32 Comments || Top||

#4  hey every thing got blamed on Bush why not him?
Posted by: chris || 03/19/2010 21:32 Comments || Top||

#5  oops.. my bad.
I should have known better.

to Mgmt: --> sorry

won't happen again
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 03/19/2010 23:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Apology accepted, Mike H. dear. We know you're one of the good guys.
Posted by: trailing wife on the other computer || 03/19/2010 23:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Jihad Jane pleads not guilty to terror plot
[Dawn] The Philadelphia-area woman who authorities say dubbed herself "Jihad Jane" online pleaded not guilty on Thursday in federal court to a four-count indictment charging her in an overseas terrorist plot.
She was arrested in October 2009 in Philadelphia while returning to the United States.

LaRose spent most of her life in Texas, where she dropped out of high school, married at 16 and again at 24, and racked up a few minor arrests, records show.

After a second divorce, she followed a boyfriend to Pennsylvania in about 2004 and began caring for his father while he worked long hours, sometimes on the road. In federal court to a four-count indictment charging her in an overseas terrorist plot.

Colleen LaRose, 46, of Pennsburg, appeared in court wearing a green jumpsuit and corn rows in her blond hair. A May 3 trial date was set.

She was accused of conspiring with jihadist fighters and pledging to commit murder in the name of a Muslim holy war. Authorities say she wanted to kill a Swedish artist who had offended Muslims.

Authorities say she grew acquainted online with violent co-conspirators from around the world. They say she posted a YouTube video in 2008 saying she was "desperate to do something" to ease the suffering of Muslims.2005, she swallowed a handful of pills in a failed suicide attempt, telling police she was upset over the death of her father -- but did not want to die.

As she moved through her 40s without a job or any outside hobbies, her boyfriend said, she started spending more time online.

Though her boyfriend, Kurt Gorman, did not consider her religious, and she apparently never joined a mosque, LaRose had by 2008 declared herself "desperate" to help suffering Muslims in the YouTube video.

"In my view, she sort of slipped sideways into Islam.... There may have been some seduction into it, by one or more people," said Temple University psychologist Frank Farley.

LaRose and Gorman shared an apartment with his father in Pennsburg, a quaint if isolated town an hour northwest of Philadelphia. Just days after the father died last August, she stole Gorman's passport and fled to Europe without telling him, making good on her online pledge to try to kill in the name of Allah, according to the indictment.

From June 2008 through her Aug. 23, 2009, departure, the woman who also called herself "Fatima Rose" went online to recruit male fighters for the cause, recruit women with Western passports to marry them, and raise money for the holy war, the indictment charged.

She had also agreed to marry one of her overseas contacts, a man from South Asia who said he could deal bombs and explosives, according to e-mails recovered by authorities.

He also told her in a March 2009 e-mail to go to Sweden to find the artist, Lars Vilks.

"I will make this my goal till I achieve it or die trying," she wrote back, adding that her blonde American looks would help her blend in.

Vilks questioned the sophistication of the plotters, seven of whom were rounded up in Ireland last week, just before LaRose's indictment was unsealed. Still, he said he was glad LaRose never got to him.

Although she had written the Swedish embassy in March 2009 to ask how to obtain residency, and joined his online artists group in September, there is no evidence from court documents that she ever made it to Sweden.

Instead, she was arrested returning to Philadelphia on Oct. 15.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  D *** NG IT, WHATZ A GIRL TO DO - She can't find herself a PROPER MILTERR KILLER to love, abuse her in righteous anti-US indignation; nor can cook PENN STATE FAST FOOD.

NUTHIN TO DO SAVE WIPE OUT THE 'BAMA "CRIMSON TIDE"....

Oh wait.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/19/2010 1:31 Comments || Top||

#2  TOPIX > EXPERTS: DOMESTIC US MILITANTS HARDER TO PROFILE.

and

SAME > EXCLUSIVE: FORMER SOMALI FIGHTER WARNS OF GROWING RADICALISM IN CANADA ["Young and Angry Muslim Canadians = AQ's dream]???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/19/2010 1:34 Comments || Top||

#3  What does she think she was doing collecting for the March of Dimes???
Posted by: James Carville || 03/19/2010 10:43 Comments || Top||

#4  What does she think she was doing collecting for the March of Dimes???

Some people go Goth, she was playing at being a romantic terrorist, perhaps. Only once you say the Shahada it's for real as far as Islam is concerned, and some of the people she was playing with were not playing. Which makes her guilty as sin of the things of which she stands accused.
Posted by: trailing wife on the other computer || 03/19/2010 11:45 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
US suspect in Mumbai siege, Danish plot pleads guilty
[Dawn] The charming Pakistani-American man accused of scouting out the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege and plotting to kill a Danish cartoonist pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in a Chicago court.

David Coleman Headley, 49, admitted to using a friend's immigration company as a cover for surveillance activities in India and Denmark on behalf of two different Pakistan-based terrorist groups.

The Washington-born son of a former Pakistani diplomat and American woman, Headley reportedly befriended Bollywood stars and even dated an actress during his lengthy surveillance trips.

In a plot that reads like a movie thriller, Headley spent two years casing out Mumbai, including taking boat tours around the city's harbor to scope out landing sites for the attackers who killed 166 people, including six Americans.

Charging documents also indicated Headley was so eager to kill a Danish cartoonist who sparked outrage with cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed that he began working seriously on that plot two months before the bloody 60-hour Mumbai siege which began on November 26, 2008.

India and Washington blamed the deadly rampage on Pakistan's banned militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). The attacks stalled a fragile four-year peace process between the two nuclear-armed south Asian rivals.

Headley -- who said he began working with LeT in 2002 -- also had Bollywood and one of India's most sacred Hindu temples in his sights as he began plotting a second India attack during a March 2009 surveillance trip.

Prosecutors said the potential targets also included the National Defense College, Chabad Houses in "several cities" in India Prosecutors and Shiv Sena, a political party in India with roots in Hindu nationalism.

Headley told prosecutors after his October arrest that he changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006 so he could "present himself in India as an American who was neither Muslim nor Pakistani," charging documents said.

Indian media have reported that Headley befriended Bollywood stars and developed a reputation as a fitness fanatic while staying in an expatriate enclave in south Mumbai near the US consulate during five lengthy surveillance trips.

He reportedly lived a more devout Muslim life in Chicago with his wife and children and prosecutors said he attending LeT terror training camps in Pakistan in 2002 and 2003.

Headley began working with an Al-Qaeda-linked group in Pakistan called Harakat-ul-Jihad-Islami on the Danish plot after LeT became distracted with the final planning for the Mumbai attack, charging documents said.

He was arrested at Chicago's O'Hare airport in October as he was on his way to deliver 13 surveillance videos he obtained after pretending to be interested in buying ads in Jyllands-Posten, Denmark's highest circulation daily.

Headley was later charged in the Mumbai attacks, as was his old friend from military school in Pakistan, Tahawwur Hussain Rana.

Rana, who owns the Chicago-based First World Immigration Services that Headley allegedly used as a cover, insists he is a pacifist who was "duped" by his friend. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  TOPIX/PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > TERROR CLOUDING REGION. US, UK, RUSSIAN SPY CHIEFS FLOCK TO INDIA [West-South Asia];

and

TOPIX/TIMES OF INDJUH > [Maoist Politburo Member] KISHANJI THREATENS COUNTER-ATTACK, i.e.
VIOLENT COUNTER-REVOLUTION. Also calls for 48-Hout gener strike in 7 major Cities-Regions.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/19/2010 1:44 Comments || Top||

#2  NEWS KERALA > HEADLEY ATTENDED FIVE TERROR TRAINING CAMPS IN PAKISTAN, + HEADLEY CASE POINTS TO THREATS FROM HOME-GROWN TERRORISTS [ + International].

* SAME > ANTONY: PAKISTAN "NOT TOUGH ENOUGH" IN DEALING WITH TERROR/MILITANTS CAMPS OPERATING FRM ITS OWN SOIL.

* SAME > INDIA WAITING ON HEADLEY'S STATEMENT.

*** cough *** cough ***... methinks USA, INDJUH [etal] MAY NOT WANT TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH?
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/19/2010 2:04 Comments || Top||

#3  According to this article:

According to documents publicly revealed yesterday, Headley’s terror contact with the Pakistani group allegedly wanted him to behead newspaper employee hostages and throw their heads from the office windows to create ‘the biggest possible’ response from Danish authorities.
Posted by: ryuge || 03/19/2010 7:34 Comments || Top||

#4  this guy needs a nickname

how about

Holy War Headley

or

KafirKiller Coleman
Posted by: lord garth || 03/19/2010 15:03 Comments || Top||


Suspected TTP member arrested in Karachi
[Dawn] Suspected member of Tehreek-e-Taliban, Ismail Mehsud has been arrested from Sohrab Goth area of Karachi.

Security forces told DawnNews that Ismail Mehsud has been nabbed by intelligence agency after a report that he had been preparing to carry out terror attacks within the city.

Security Agency claim to have recovered arms and ammunitions in his possession.

The suspect has been shifted to unidentified locations for further investigation.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Obama Diverts Bunker Buster Delivery Away From Israel
Officials said the U.S. military was ordered to divert a shipment of smart bunker-buster bombs from Israel to a military base in Diego Garcia. They said the shipment of 387 smart munitions had been slated to join pre-positioned U.S. military equipment in Israel Air Force bases.
"This was a political decision," an official said.

In 2008, the United States approved an Israeli request for bunker-busters capable of destroying underground facilities, including Iranian nuclear weapons sites. Officials said delivery of the weapons was held up by the administration of President Barack Obama.

Since taking office, Obama has refused to approve any major Israeli requests for U.S. weapons platforms or advanced systems. Officials said this included proposed Israeli procurement of AH-64D Apache attack helicopters, refueling systems, advanced munitions and data on a stealth variant of the F-15E.

"All signs indicate that this will continue in 2010," a congressional source familiar with the Israeli military requests said. "This is really an embargo, but nobody talks about it publicly."

Under the plan, the U.S. military was to have stored 195 BLU-110 and 192 BLU-117 munitions in unspecified air force bases in Israel. The U.S. military uses four Israeli bases for the storage of about $400 million worth of pre-positioned equipment meant for use by either Washington or Jerusalem in any regional war.

In January 2010, the administration agreed to an Israeli request to double the amount of U.S. military stockpiles to $800 million. Officials said the bunker-busters as well as Patriot missile interceptors were included in the agreement.

The decision to divert the BLU munitions was taken amid the crisis between Israel and the United States over planned construction of Jewish homes in Jerusalem. The administration, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has warned that Washington could reduce military aid to Israel because of its construction policy.

In 2007, after its war in Lebanon, Israel requested 2,000 BLU-109 live bombs from the United States. The 2,000-pound bomb, produced by Boeing and coupled with a laser guidance kit, was designed to penetrate concrete bunkers and other underground hardened sites.

Israeli ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, was quoted as saying that his country faced its biggest crisis with the United States since 1975. A pro-Israel lobbyist said Oren was referring to the current U.S. embargo, which echoed a decision taken 35 years ago by then-President Gerald Ford after Israel's refusal to withdraw from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Oren has since denied the remark.
Posted by: Bob Gleanter3083 || 03/19/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He's gonna do this sort of #### to the West all through the movie, isn't he?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/19/2010 0:06 Comments || Top||

#2  I imagine then the Isrealis will have to develop their own version of the bunker buster. And it will be just as effective, plus no Bamawafflestrings will be attached, either.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 03/19/2010 0:19 Comments || Top||

#3  US Jews really need to dump their pathological attachment to the Democratic Party.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/19/2010 0:24 Comments || Top||

#4  'Caching' for the Indian run against Pakistan?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/19/2010 0:28 Comments || Top||

#5  I think Bambi and his ilk were just waiting for an excuse to lambaste Israel. They got it when Biden was humiliated. Now all the anti-zionist parts of the modern dhimocratic party can come out into the open.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/19/2010 0:42 Comments || Top||

#6  He's gonna do this sort of #### to the West all through the movie, isn't he?

Not to sound alarmist, but I think there's something wrong with him. Go back and look at the exchange between him and Brett last night on Fox News. Mixing up Hawaii and Haiti??? Seriously? He's blamed other gaffs (57 states, 10K dead in a tornado) on campaign exhaustion, but I'm beginning to think something else is going on. Really.
Posted by: Gomez Threter7450 || 03/19/2010 1:14 Comments || Top||

#7  TOPIX > VARIOUS > HEZBOLLAH: ISRAELI ATTACK ON IRAN COULD IGNITE MOIDDLE EAST

and

SAME > MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: EGYPT "READY TO EXPLODE".
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/19/2010 1:16 Comments || Top||

#8  So The One has denied the Israelis bunker busters.
I hear that the Israelis have other weapons that can take out bunkers.
It would be very interesting if the Israelis used them.
Posted by: Chaiper Tojo4065 || 03/19/2010 1:47 Comments || Top||

#9  Mark Levin is right.

Obama is like the six year old with the building blocks - throwing tantrums and throwing them against the wall.

Posted by: newc || 03/19/2010 2:05 Comments || Top||

#10  Fail to see how this a snub to Israel, more like spreading possible responsibility when/if the Iranian strikes occur. Now the Israelis can say "It wasn't us, the US didn't give us the proper munitions, see???"

I hear the Russians have pretty advanced bunker busters and thermobaric bombs, and nuclear armed Chechan terrorists, who wants that?
Posted by: MoreScotch4Me || 03/19/2010 2:30 Comments || Top||

#11  Not to sound alarmist, but I think there's something wrong with him

Redirect alert. This is red meat for the Kos/MoveOnner crowd, but for the rest of the nation it serves as a foreign-policy distraction from Obama's domestic incompetence and failures.
Posted by: lex || 03/19/2010 5:01 Comments || Top||

#12  If this is indeed a political move it is a very stupid move. In the short term it will force Israel to use Nukes in the imminent attack on Iran due to shortage of bunker busters.
In the long term, it will lead to increased R&D and mastery of BBs technology and manufacturing by Israel's military industries which will hit the US below the belt in many ways.
If this is not political but a part of a long term strategy to weaken Israel and to deprive Israel of offensive capabilities it is even more stupid because it will eventually achieve the opposite effect by forcing israel to stop relying on the US as an ally who can be relied on at times of military trouble and striving to achieve improved self-sufficiency of Military abilities by more self reliance and seeking alliences with other powers like China.
What Bambi and Clinton don't understand is that the last thing they want to do now is to encourage the symptoms of our MASADA COMPLEX. If pushed too far, Israeli public opinion will eventually push our government into an all out nuclear decapitation strike on Iran (and possibly Siria) because of estimates that Israel will not be able to sustain the long term damages of a prolongd war onour/five fronts (Iran on the east, Syria and Lebanon/hizballa on the north and Egipt/Hamas in the south + the possibility of a third intifada by fifth colum Israeli Arabs within Israel).

When realizing that the non-return date for nuclearized Iran is only a few months in the future it seems we may indeed be living in interesting times for sure (as the old Chinse "blessing" goes).
Posted by: Elder of Zion || 03/19/2010 6:13 Comments || Top||

#13 
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/19/2010 6:16 Comments || Top||

#14  BP
YES WE DO !!!!!!!
Posted by: Elder of Zion || 03/19/2010 6:17 Comments || Top||

#15  Ditto Rabbi, you really have no idea just how much I miss W.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/19/2010 6:56 Comments || Top||

#16  Is it constitutional for the POTUS to also be the leading candidate for president of the Moslim Brotherhood ?
Posted by: Elder of Zion || 03/19/2010 7:13 Comments || Top||

#17  Clanger number 179


Only 24,900 hours till he goes, but how much will he take down with him ?

Posted by: Oscar || 03/19/2010 7:14 Comments || Top||

#18  When Louis Farrakhan has a friend in the Oval Office we should all be concerned.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/19/2010 7:15 Comments || Top||

#19  US Jews really need to dump their pathological attachment to the Democratic Party.

Why? American Jews are the drivers of Socialism and Communism in the US and have been for 100 years. They finally got a kindred spirit in the the Presidency. And Israeli Jews seem to like Obama immensely.
Israelis view Obama favorably, mixed on Netanyahu
But a Dialog survey of 499 people on Wednesday and Thursday showed that seven out of 10 Israelis share a favorable view. The poll had a margin of error of 4.3 percentage points.
Posted by: ed || 03/19/2010 8:01 Comments || Top||

#20  Make no mistake, the unlikely social coalition that brought Barry Soetora to power was no accident. Add accademia, radical, college age youth and man-hating, pro-abortion womyn to the mix and you've easily got the required 52%.

I was in Reston, VA yesterday. Amazing the number of Obama bumper stickers remaining. Big Gov't is ALIVE! You would never know there was a recession on driving from Leesburg to the beltway. Another world entirely!
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/19/2010 8:44 Comments || Top||

#21  The muslins are adamant; they will not settle for anything less than the disappearance of Israel. Bambi is a weak president and by showing favoritism towards the muslims, he emboldens them to get more aggressive towards Israel. Couple that with the community organizer in chief's huge ego and you have a dangerous situation. I don't see a good outcome to this movie. Instead of having peace, we and the mideast move closer to war.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/19/2010 9:32 Comments || Top||

#22  And Israeli Jews seem to like Obama immensely.


Ed, not from what I hear from people in Israel.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/19/2010 9:35 Comments || Top||

#23  John, the linked survey was released today. 70% Israeli support for Obama vs 45% in the US: Rasmussen
Overall, 45% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Fifty-five percent (55%) disapprove.

Maybe none of my/your friends voted Dem/Repub, but that isn't a predictor of who will win the next election.
Posted by: ed || 03/19/2010 10:11 Comments || Top||

#24  The latest I could find

49% Say Israel Should Stop Building Settlements as Part of Peace Deal... http://tinyurl.com/RR1216

75% say Palestinians must acknowledge Israel's right to exist as part of deal... http://tinyurl.com/RR1216 7:59 AM Mar 17th via web

Posted by: Willy || 03/19/2010 11:16 Comments || Top||

#25  Re: #19 - This link doesn't say anything about anybody's approval rating. I agree with you about American Jews but I would like to know where the statement about Israeli Jews came from.

They finally got a kindred spirit in the the Presidency. And Israeli Jews seem to like Obama immensely.
Israelis view Obama favorably, mixed on Netanyahu



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100319/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians
Posted by: Goober Goobelopolous || 03/19/2010 11:28 Comments || Top||

#26  Yahoo changed the link to a different story. The original story I quoted:
But a Dialog survey of 499 people on Wednesday and Thursday showed that seven out of 10 Israelis share a favorable view. The poll had a margin of error of 4.3 percentage points.
Posted by: ed || 03/19/2010 11:40 Comments || Top||

#27  From Forbes: Israelis view Obama favorably, mixed on Netanyahu
Posted by: ed || 03/19/2010 11:43 Comments || Top||

#28  US Jews really need to dump their pathological attachment to the Democratic Party.

It is pathological. Most Jewish people whom I know in the U.S. do vote Democratic. Voting demographics also confirm my limited anecdotal experiences.

It is like most African-Americans voting for Democrats or Obama because he is African-American and/or liberal. And yet it seems to me like both Jewish people and African Americans have done better by Republicans. Most of the liberal social programs seem to be designed so that people stuck are where they are. Where's the compassion in that? I have heard this concept called keeping people stuck on the "voter plantation."
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/19/2010 14:06 Comments || Top||

#29  The Left, the laughably mis-named 'socialists', have always used the method of divide and rule. They exploit the feelings of vulnerability that they can hijack or engender in anyone they can persuade is a member of a benighted, persecuted or vulnerable minority (or even persecuted majority, when feeling sufficiently audacious, vis Nazism). Social disharmony is what they foment in order to ghettoise and create mouldable mobs whose members soon find that the consequences of failing to lock step lead to accusations of betrayal. It's pernicious, bestial and effective, and Jewish people are no more immune than any others.
Posted by: Bulldog || 03/19/2010 15:14 Comments || Top||

#30  US Jews really need to dump their pathological attachment to the Democratic Party.

There's a huge, visceral hatred and fear of evangelical Christians in the US Jewish population. Accounts for a lot of that Dem voting.

Or so some of my Jewish friends in uniform tell me.
Posted by: lotp || 03/19/2010 15:47 Comments || Top||

#31  Quite interesting lotp. Hate and fear driven voting. Where have we seen that before?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/19/2010 15:51 Comments || Top||

#32  There's a huge, visceral hatred and fear of evangelical Christians in the US Jewish population. Accounts for a lot of that Dem voting.

Or so some of my Jewish friends in uniform tell me.


And the stuff you hear from them about (well, to take an example) Sarah Palin (who is basically an example of a whole class of people to them) is the same stuff I've heard from Arabs about the ancestry of the Jews.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/19/2010 16:11 Comments || Top||

#33  I'm missing something here.

Evangelical Christians are among those who most vigorously support Israel. Evangelicals in Europe were in the vanguard of those who protected Jews from the Nazis. So would the professors at Rantburg U please explain why the Jews are afraid of Evangelicals?
Posted by: mom || 03/19/2010 17:04 Comments || Top||

#34  There are many reasons. One of the main ones is Christian eschatology. The ADL's contention is that Evangelicals do not love Israel for its own sake, but only for its role in the events surrounding the return of Christ.
Posted by: SR-71 || 03/19/2010 18:58 Comments || Top||

#35  There are many reasons. One of the main ones is Christian eschatology. The ADL's contention is that Evangelicals do not love Israel for its own sake, but only for its role in the events surrounding the return of Christ.
Posted by: SR-71 || 03/19/2010 18:58 Comments || Top||

#36  The reverting of Jews to the Republican Party has begun, but it will be a slow process, one revert at a time.
Unfortunately the Republics can't pick and choose.
So first up I give you.....drum-roll..
Howard Stern
Posted by: tipper || 03/19/2010 19:23 Comments || Top||

#37  mom - one reason for the fear and hatred of evangelicals has to do with conversions &/or conversion attempts.

A particularly visceral fear/hatred among secularized Jews who look down a bit on Israel, I've found, but not confined to them by any means.

As to why those in uniform might feel this way, well .... let's take an example from my own experience, one of many like it. Promotion ceremony for a new O-6. He has his pastor along to give the invocation. Pastor proceeds to call on God to renew our hearts and bring us all to Jesus - as part of the official ceremony, at which attendence is strongly urged for other members of the unit, most of them lower ranked than the promotee.

My Jewish colleague, active in her Conservative synagogue and a retired Navy Captain, has a stoic look on her face. I'm the only person there who calls the pastor out over his and the new O-6's imposition on the lower ranked people in that room, privately afterwards.

I got the smarmiest condescending response, to the effect that Jesus loved me too and was present with us right there. It was all I could do to stop myself from bashing him in the face with his floppy Bible.

My Jewish colleague is a very active Dem supporter. Can't imagine why. And don't get her started on Palin ..... it was during such a conversation that I found out just how deep her anger towards evangelicals runs.
Posted by: lotp || 03/19/2010 19:39 Comments || Top||

#38  then they better arrive late to NASCAR races or take a timeout for a beer run during pre-race prayers. IMHO Jews should look upon evangelicals and Christians as their best friends in this intolerant world. Perhaps they should do a shop and compare with the Obama WH and State Dept.? I have nothing but respect and admiration for what the Israelis have done in surviving and succeeding
Posted by: Frank G || 03/19/2010 19:50 Comments || Top||

#39  The irony here lotp, had the 06 been Jewish and a prayer of Mazel Tov (good fortune) been conducted, all the Christian attendees would have been expected to prayerfully Mazel Tov along with respect as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/19/2010 19:57 Comments || Top||

#40  by the way, Commentary says the Haaretz poll is bullshit:

"It turns out that when asked their opinion of Obama’s attitude towards Israel, Israelis were given three choices: Hostile, Fair, Friendly. Note that “fair” here is not a positive statement but a placeholder for “neutral.” And the numbers are: Hostile: 21%; Fair: 51%; Friendly: 18%. So the poll deceives by using the word “fair” instead of “neutral,” forcing the respondent to say something positive-sounding when he may not have meant to. And then Haaretz deceives by asserting that a “sweeping majority” of Israelis see Obama as “fair and friendly.” This is, of course, ridiculous: it would be just as accurate to point out that an even more sweeping majority see him as “fair and hostile.”"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/19/2010 19:59 Comments || Top||

#41  There's a line there Besoeker. On one side of the line is acknowledging your heritage. On the other side of the line is intentionally imposing on others 'because it's good for them'.

It's like pr0n - you know it when you see it. In the case I mentioned the Pastor could easily have either generally given thanks to God or apologized for the imposition. He smugly did neither.

General prayers and wishes of good fortune can be shared in by all with a good conscience. I wish people good fortune regularly without it being a religious act. Come to Jesus declarations at an official military function are another matter entirely.
Posted by: lotp || 03/19/2010 20:03 Comments || Top||

#42  Excellent point lotp, but I've been to a boatload of promotion ceremonies, military weddings and funerals and I've never felt any type of proselytization, not once. What I have felt is a reverence and respect for the creator which most soldiers in one way or another, come to quietly acknowledge. I am so weary of bigoted, religious exclusivity whether Jewish, Baptist, or Islamic. Totally sick of it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/19/2010 20:10 Comments || Top||

#43  not that...
Posted by: Frank G || 03/19/2010 21:58 Comments || Top||

#44  Let's count our blessings, in Europe, most Jews
actually support Jihadists and promote the boycotting of Israel...

In England, most Jews could call themselves Muslim and you could not see a single
difference except for the odd clothings.

In France, mostly thanks to leftist Jews, any disrespect for Islam call for a 6,000Euros fine
and they are largely responsible for the
muslim immigration flood...

In view of the rabid anti-Sionist view of
all Israeli courts and the number of self hating Jews in Israel, one wonder how that
country managed to survive...
Posted by: Hotspur666 || 03/19/2010 22:32 Comments || Top||

#45  how can one legislate fines for respect or dis-respect?

Both must be earned.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/19/2010 22:58 Comments || Top||

#46  Evangelicals and Republicans are indeed strong friends of Israel, and I have dear friends in both groups. I've also been told to my face by people I thought were friends that I and my children will go straight to hell because we choose to continue worshipping the same way Jesus Christ did... and over the years a great many ignorant people have rung my doorbell to tell me the same thing.

Generally, once we discover the limits of their knowledge, I assign homework. I don't assign homework to former friends, though.
Posted by: trailing wife on the other computer || 03/19/2010 23:58 Comments || Top||

#47  Frankly, IMHO opinion Jews are Self-selecting themselves into an ever decreasing group and a situation is occuring whereby they have a "biased sample" or more simply put, are prejudiced as Hell and clannish. This has reached an observable point at which Jews are partially bringing some meaningful self inflicted prejudice upon themselves due in part but not wholly due to the prejudice they are putting out as well as voting Democrat. Let me explain...


As a half non "Jew" (ie: non-praticing Jewish father who was completely turned off by Judaism due to its bedding down with socialism and a Christian mother, I was baptised Christian) I have been treated with chilliness by every Jew I have tried to be friends with for more than, like, 3 months.

Once a superficial veneer of friendship was peeled away and philosophy or religion came into focus, the "speech" would be bestowed upon me directly informing me how I am not Jewish and will never be Jewish. Unless, unless, unless I renounce my faults and undergo a process similar to Charlotte on Sex and the City but much worse. On the surface, it sounded doable, assuming I wanted such a thing and had some friendly guidance, which was never forthcoming.

I thought this off-putting discovery was an anomaly at first. However, multiple instances of the same cold shoulder left me soured on the whole thing. Being treated condescendingly by folks from my grandmothers generation's club was was more painful than I had imagined. Also the discovery of several Jewish relatives from the past with Communist proclivities was also a major turn off.

Every one of my Jewish acquaintances in NY voted for Obama. Furthermore, many quite relish social entitlements, socialism, liberalism, Cuba, movies about ultra liberalism, you get the picture.

Congregations in any religion that are self-selecting to the exclusion of outsiders and like to be ass&**(s to outsiders are either:
a) prejudiced
b) want to see their ranks decline
c) clueless that people don't have time for this nowadays with hectic schedules and demands
d) all of the above

I'll stay Christian, anti-Obama, and keep right on pissing off the people who rightly, I might add, soured my parent's generation against Judaism enough that they felt forced to abandon the cause.

All that being said, Obama's mistreatment of Israel is quite obvious, but buyer's remorse should be more obvious to the casual observer of the Jewish community. I take the silence to a large degree as a refusal to admit wrong or total denial.


that are self serving, clannish, and overly exclusive go into decline. can be when they circle the wagons is why it is a declining religion.
Posted by: GirlThursday || 03/20/2010 0:27 Comments || Top||


Israeli fighter jets pound Gaza Strip
Israeli fighter jets have bombarded at least two sites in the Gaza Strip shortly after a Thai agricultural worker was killed when a rocket fired from the besieged coastal enclave struck the northern Negev.

The eyewitnesses said Israeli F-16 fighter jets targeted an open area north of the Gaza City. The warplanes also fired missiles at an open area in the central Gaza Strip.

One of the warplanes broke the sound barrier in the skies of northern and central Gaza Strip, causing panic through the crowd, especially women and children.

Staff members of multiple Palestinian organizations had to evacuate their buildings in fear of their lives following the airborne assaults. There were no reports of casualties in the incident.

A migrant worker in the northern Negev was killed when a rocket fired by Palestinian fighters from the Gaza Strip hit the greenhouse where he was working.

The rocket struck Moshav Netiv Ha'asara Thursday morning, killing the 30-year-old Thai worker.

This is the third rocket fired from Gaza in the past 24 hours. Five rockets have struck southern Israel in the past two days, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade -- the armed wing of the Fatah movement -- claimed responsibility for the Thursday rocket launch.

The resistance movement said the projectile was fired in response to new Israeli plans for the construction of more Jewish housing in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood in the predominantly Arab eastern sector of Jerusalem al-Quds, and the decision to renovate a synagogue in the Old City near the al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  can i borrow some butter from someone for my popcorn?
Posted by: chris || 03/19/2010 13:19 Comments || Top||


US sanctions Hamas bank, TV station in Gaza
[Al Arabiya Latest] The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on Thursday against two firms in Gaza -- Islamic National Bank and al-Aqsa Television -- for their ties to the ruling Hamas movement.

The Treasury said the sanctions prohibit Americans from transactions with the entities and seek to freeze any assets they may have under U.S. jurisdiction. The Treasury lists Hamas, which rules Gaza, as a "specially designated global terrorist" organization.

It said the sanctions were imposed against Islamic National Bank, opened by Hamas in April 2009, for providing financial services to Hamas members and employees, including members of its military wing.

The Treasury said the bank lacks a legal license from the Palestinian Monetary Authority and operates outside the legitimate financial system. In May 2009, the Treasury said Hamas' finance office in Gaza moved 1.1 million euros into the Islamic National Bank and used the funds to pay salaries of Hamas military wing members who held accounts at the bank.

The Treasury said al-Aqsa Television station is financed and controlled by Hamas and serves as a primary Hamas media outlet that airs programs "designed to recruit children to become Hamas armed fighters and suicide bombers upon reaching adulthood."

It said Hamas leadership raised initial capital for the station in 2006 and late last year allocated hundreds of thousands of dollars for its operating budget.

Hamas pioneered rocket strikes from Gaza on Israeli territory and backs armed struggle against Israel.

"Treasury will not distinguish between a business financed and controlled by a terrorist group, such as al-Aqsa Television, and the terrorist group itself," said Stuart Levey, the Treasury's undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, in a statement.
Posted by: Fred || 03/19/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas



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