<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260</id><updated>2012-01-08T22:33:31.508-08:00</updated><category term='DECEIVER OBAMA'/><category term='OBAMA'/><category term='IRAN 7/12'/><category term='MEK'/><category term='OSAMA BIN LADEN'/><category term='MEXICO'/><category term='OBAMA THE BETRAYER'/><category term='SHEBAB'/><category term='HOLDER'/><category term='obama tyranny'/><category term='DECEIVER OBAMA PROTECTS OUR ENEMIES'/><category term='ISLAMIC DUALISM'/><category term='SABOTAGE OF ISRAEL'/><category term='IMMIGRATION BY-PASS'/><category term='ILLEGALS'/><category term='BARE NAKED ISLAM'/><category term='Terrorists in White House'/><category term='NATIONAL WEALTH OF IRAN PLUNDERED BY REGIME'/><category term='Al Qaeda in Iran'/><category term='TERRORISTS. OBAMA'/><category term='coup d&apos;etat in USA'/><category term='OSLO TERROR'/><category term='TERRORISTS'/><category term='HOMELAND SECURITY JIHAD'/><category term='BIRTH CERTIFICATE FRAUD UNRAVELLING'/><category term='white house backs Isalmists in Egypt'/><title type='text'>Terror News</title><subtitle type='html'>SEARCHES &amp; FIRST HAND REPORTS</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>597</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-5514958025569985436</id><published>2012-01-08T22:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-08T22:33:31.517-08:00</updated><title type='text'>IRAN  REGIME INTERNAL TERRORISTS AS WELL AS INTERNATIONAL</title><content type='html'>With only two months before Islamic Iran's scheduled elections take place,&amp;nbsp;severe conflict among rival groups has caused cracks which leak information otherwise kept under wraps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of these shows that just in one north-eastern, holy city, Mashhad, local authorities secretly executed some 550 people last year, including one Nigerian and quite a few Afghan nationals. That is in addition to the "official" ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's more than one death a day in one city! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Previous annual statistics, based mostly in the capital city of Tehran showed one execution every EIGHT hours during 2011&amp;nbsp;but clearly understated the much higher real figure if the "secret" executions were to be&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;factored in. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember there are more than 100 "unofficial" prisons in major Iranian cities run by different factions of the "law enforcement" groups which do not bother to report to the National Director of Prisons. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each formal group, such as the IRGC (Revolutionary Guard) or Bassiji (Suppression Forces) or "Lebass Shakhsi" (Plain Clothes Enforcers) or paramilitary Special Forces has its own powerful men who act as their own legal system with power to accuse, arrest, condemn and put to death anyone they wish - outside the "formal " system of "injustice".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Add to this the theocratic courts when a local Mullah UNofficially wields the same power of life and death in smaller towns or villages, even though "officially" he must formally request a confirmation of a death sentence from the Central Supreme Court in Tehran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Knowing no local official can easily check or ensure this took place, they mete out death with impunity. The execution often taking the form of death under torture, which requires no Central confirmation and is written off as accidental or a suicide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To hide the evidence of torture, some bodies are returned to the family&amp;nbsp;by authorities inside a block of concrete! Any bruising, swelling, wounding, eventually found on the body would be attributed to chiselling/chipping the corpse out of the concrete. Specially internal wounds from gang rape by others or with foreign objects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile the sabre rattling by Iran and threat of closing down the Hormoz Straits to Oil tankers is part of the internal strife arising from newly appointed Generals in various paramilitary Guard and Special Forces seeking to retain power in a war environment where they can blame the ills of the country and the people on "the war"! And if need be they will&lt;br /&gt;cancel elections under the saem pretext.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SOUND AND FEEL FAMILIAR? Obama is increasingly creating pretext after pretext to incite crisis by illegally acting contrary to our Constitution and creating a situation where he can declare martial law and suspend the 2012 national elections!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WARNING! There is also increasing talk in many circles that IF he senses he will not be re-elected in November 2012, Obama will DECLARE WAR ON IRAN! Psychological threat apart, that if you do not want America embroiled in another war (to suit his ambition to remain in the Oval Office), then re-elect him - or else - it serves as an inducement and reaason for him to become a wartime president and expect the nationa to rally around him when he cancels elections.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His corrupt Chicago politics mentality knows no bounds and cares nothing about America other than as a trough at which he can feast high on the hog for free, no matter what it costs our nation. In short the only job he cares about is his own! The only future that concerns him if his own. America for him and Michelle, as his mentor Reverend Wright repeatedly said: is "Not God Bless America, but God Damn America"! You cannot listen to this preacher for 20-years and pretend you care about America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At no time has Iran's President Ahmadi-Nejad paid even lip service to the Islamic regime's Theocratic Constitution nor has Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and they both have increasingly hostile competition from a splintering theocracy of Mullahs vying for riches and power and more secular paramilitary, interested more in money than religion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These set of conflicts have summoned Ahmadi-Nejad three times before Iran's parliament, which he has evaded. And three Kermanshah businessmen, charged with corruption on a national level will have to see how much pull they can muster and vie with other insiders of the Supreme Leader's coterie and of his son Mojtaba, who have also stolen several hundred BILLION dollars through falsified Letters of Credit in a horribly smelly set of circumstances with Bank Saderaat and those close to Ali Khamenei AND the Revolutionary Guard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a tangled web they weave! As they try to avoid getting stabbed in the back by allies they can no longer trust and/or are hoist with their own petard. Their credibility with the populace is down to nothing and they can no longer pretend they received 87% of the vote like last time - not even half of that. Nor even the more realistic 37% from before they would be happy to receive today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They face a boycott from the populace and even potentially one or two million of them in protest in the streets as their safety and well being is endangered by the bellicose actions of the Mullahs, who threaten the well being of the industrial West and ever more rapidly a major attack on Iran by a highly disgruntled West where though the West may suffer enormous financial harm, the Mullahs will face the shock and awe of a magnitude ultiple times higher than Iraq, where the peripheral deaths could exceed 100,000 Iranians and deaths will very rapidly rise in increments of many tens of thousands. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With smart guided bombs coming at them the Iranian regime leadership will be decimated or annihilated so they should think carefully - as should Obama in the USA - before either of them unleash their own destructive plans and a boomerang backwash that could slap them in the face like a wet fish. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world is on the brink of unforeseen consequences, so take care.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-5514958025569985436?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/5514958025569985436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=5514958025569985436' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/5514958025569985436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/5514958025569985436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2012/01/iran-regime-internal-terrorists-as-well.html' title='IRAN  REGIME INTERNAL TERRORISTS AS WELL AS INTERNATIONAL'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-9179137043671968178</id><published>2011-12-23T21:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-23T21:10:20.697-08:00</updated><title type='text'>BREAKING NEWS LEAK - PLUS XMAS WEEKEND READING</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;BREAKING LEAK - BREAKING LEAK&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Islamic regime of Iran has&amp;nbsp;set into escalated &amp;nbsp;motion&amp;nbsp;a project to acquire/coerce then infiltrate some &lt;strong&gt;200,000&lt;/strong&gt; people within family groups and use religious persecution as their excuse as their entry into the West - partly Europe as a stepping stone then the USA and as much as possible directly into the USA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The&amp;nbsp;central members of the family units will be existing or still in training Intelligence agents of the Ministry of Information and&amp;nbsp;Bassiji/Ghods special forces, who will become head of households for Bahai, Christian and Zoroastrian Iranians.&amp;nbsp; And similarly for Lebanese, Hezbollah, Syrian, Jordanian and Palestinian&amp;nbsp;families of Christian or other minority faiths.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reportedly, this strategy emanated from Obama's planned and already BUDGETED plan to bring in around 100,000 Palestinians, mostly from Jordan, Gaza and the West Bank&amp;nbsp;(with nearly a BILLION dollar budget for travel, lodging and a monthly stipend while they live here as REFUGEES.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To achieve this, the Obama Administration and our State department has increasingly&amp;nbsp;softened regulations to allow Iranians and other Middle East nationals to come to the USA under a variety of guises, provide little or no permananet record like finger prints and photographing on arrival as was the case till fairly recently. And issuing them multiple entry visas in case they needed to go back and forth!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With this newly opened gate through our border, wide enough to drive a truck through, Islamic Iran barely hesitated to infiltrate hundreds and hundred of their agents UNHINDERED into our universities, where they overtly activate for the Islamic regime and Islamic ideals. Vehemently protected by Obama and Eric Holder as "Moslems" and therefore virtual "untouchable by existing laws" in this Administration. Except for the occasional exception that proves the rule of a highly publicised&amp;nbsp;trial to make them look as "unbiased' as possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Islamic Iran is spending fortunes on hiring Immigration lawyers for the infiltrators and lobbying in Persian and local Press/Media. Each infiltration adds a trained agent - and often a suicider Palestinian -&amp;nbsp;into our midst, on call for when needed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The agent and applicant training includes learning details and tenets of the chosen religion to handle Immigration interviews as the applicants may be pretending or not know enough about the religion for which they are claiming to be in danger. Even if they are actually followers of that religion. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With Obama in charge and in reality doing exactly the same in a narrower plahing field, with tax payer money, Hillary Clinton is his accessory and General Petraeus in no position to prevent the influx of a much larger stream of Islamists&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WAKE UP AMERICA before you are devoured and digested in the Obama political entrails.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Iran Using Israeli Spyware&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;company in Denmark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (where palestinian/islamic influence is embedded ) has been redistributing Israeli Internet-monitoring software to Iran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Gavriel Queenann &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cyberwarfare&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WikicommonsInternet-monitoring software produced in Israel is being used by the Islamic Republic of Iran, Bloomberg reported on Friday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the report, software distributor RanTek in Denmark has been stripping away packaging and labels from products produced by the Israeli company Allot and then re-selling the software to Iran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israeli officials say their they were unaware domestically produced systems for tracking Internet traffic were being used by Iran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sales violate a strict Israeli ban that prohibits “trading with the enemy,” including any shipments that reach Iran, Syria and Lebanon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“This covers everything,” Gavriel Bar of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor told Bloomberg. “Imports, exports, direct, indirect. An Israeli company is not allowed to trade with Iran in any way.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allot officials say they didn't know their software was being redistributed to Iran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We do not authorize any sales to Iran,” a spokesman for Allot told Bloomberg, adding that if its products were shipped to Iran by RanTek it would constitute a “breach of contract.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The spokesman said it is challenging to track where its products go after they’ve been sold - noting they sometimes appear on eBay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Technology experts, however, say scanning the Internet for systems running technologies like those produced by Allot is rapidly becoming an industry standard. Western companies have uncovered numerous cases where their software was redistributed to countries that used it to track and spy on dissidents – including Iran, Bahrain, Syria and Tunisia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remote shut-downs for such systems have also started to come into vogue as a means of combating software piracy and use of deep-packet inspection (DPI) and email snooping systems by oppressive regimes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allot executives say the software that reached Iran was best suited for managing a company’s internal Internet traffic and lacked the capacity for wide-scale Internet surveillance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But industry observers say the widespread abuse of such software in violating human rights by dictatorial regimes is well-known. Any such software should be designed with safe-guards in place, they say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I cannot conceive a way that DPI could be exported to Iran without a concern,” Ben Wagner, of the European University Institute in Italy, told Bloomberg.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Security analysts say the honor system Israeli software companies are on isn't working and a system of export licensing with tighter restrictions - like the one that exists for weapons sales - may be necessary to fix the problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ARMY - ZARDARI MUST RESIGN NOT BE OVERTHROWN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's powerful army is fed up with unpopular President Asif Ali Zardari and wants him out of office, but through legal means and without a repeat of the coups that are a hallmark of the country's 64 years of independence, military sources said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tensions are rising between Pakistan's civilian leaders and its generals over a memo that accused the army of plotting a coup after the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Who isn't fed up with Zardari? It's not just the opposition and the man on the street but people within the government too," said one military source who asked not to be named.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"But there has to be a proper way. No action is being planned by the army. Even if we tried, it would be very unpopular and not just with the government and the opposition but most Pakistanis too."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Pakistani military spokesman declined comment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;General Ashfaq Kayani has pledged to keep the military out of Pakistani politics since taking over as army chief in 2007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any coup -- Pakistan has had three since independence in 1947 -- could further tarnish the military's public image which has already taken a battering after the bin Laden operation, widely seen in Pakistan as a violation of sovereignty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the army remains the arbiter of power and analysts say it has plenty of ways to pressure Zardari to step down, especially if a link is established between him and the memo, which sought the Pentagon's help in averting a feared coup.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Businessman Mansoor Ijaz, writing in a column in the Financial Times on October 10, said a senior Pakistani diplomat had asked that a memo be delivered to the Pentagon with a plea for U.S. help to stave off a military coup in the days after the raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in May.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ijaz later identified the diplomat as Pakistan's ambassador to Washington, Husain Haqqani, who denied involvement but resigned over the controversy. No evidence has emerged that the military was plotting a coup and the Pentagon at the time dismissed the memo as not credible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friction between Pakistan's civilian government and military have bedeviled the nuclear-armed South Asian country for almost its entire existence, with the military ruling for more than half its 64-year history after a series of coups.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the past the army has asked Pakistani civilian leaders to resign and influenced judicial proceedings against them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Haqqani's resignation was seen by many analysts as further weakening the civilian government, which is already beset by allegations of corruption and incompetence in the face of many challenges, including a weak economy and a Taliban insurgency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MEMOGATE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zardari returned to Pakistan this week from medical treatment in Dubai that raised speculation he would resign under pressure from the military over what has been dubbed "memogate."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although his position is largely ceremonial, he wields considerable influence as leader of the ruling party and his forced departure would be a humiliation for the civilian leadership and could throw the country into turmoil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the military sources suggested that no direct action would be needed against the government because it had already made so many mistakes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"If the government is digging its own grave, we are not going to look for spades," the source said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The military has reasserted itself after a November 26 NATO cross-border air attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and the memo has also given it political ammunition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a statement submitted to the Supreme Court, which is looking into a petition demanding an inquiry into who may have been behind the memo, Kayani said it was a serious matter which required an investigation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We want anyone involved, be they in government or elsewhere, to be punished. But it is not for us to do anything. If the army moves to do anything it would have national as well as international repercussions," said another military source.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"So that is not likely. Anything that has to be done has to be done by the Supreme Court."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Officials from Zardari's ruling party have played down friction with the military and say they don't fear a coup.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But they fear that some judges in the increasingly aggressive Supreme Court dislike Zardari and could move against him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I am not bothered about the army. I think they are acting very sensibly and would not derail the system at the moment," a senior ruling party leader told Reuters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The worry probably would be what the Supreme Court does. They look in a mood to manipulate things."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The government's anxiety over memogate was highlighted in comments made by Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Thursday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Let me make clear to you today that there are intrigues, conspiracies afoot to pack up the elected government," he said in a speech at the National Art Gallery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IRANIAN SHIA INFLUENCE SHOWING IN IRAQ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority rejected a call for all-party talks on Wednesday, ignoring U.S. pressure for dialogue to resolve a sectarian crisis that has erupted since American forces left the country this week. With fears mounting that the nation of 30 million might one day fragment in chaos in the absence of the U.S. troops who toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned Saddam's fellow Sunnis they faced exclusion from power if they walked out on his ruling coalition. ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SYRIA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian forces killed 111 people ahead of the start of a mission to monitor President Bashar al-Assad's implementation of an Arab League peace plan, activists said on Wednesday, and France branded the killings an "unprecedented massacre." Rami Abdulrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 111 civilians and activists were killed on Tuesday when Assad's forces surrounded them in the foothills of the northern Jabal al-Zawiyah region in Idlib province and unleashed two hours of bombardment and heavy gunfire. ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NewsCore: "The U.S. State Department offered a $10 million reward Thursday for information that helps authorities find Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil, better known as Yasin al Suri, an Iran-based senior financier of Al Qaeda. Suri, operating under an agreement between Al Qaeda and the Iranian government since 2005, allegedly moves money and recruits through Iran and on to Pakistan and Afghanistan, the department said in its announcement. He is an important fundraiser for the terrorist network and has collected money from donors throughout the Persian Gulf region, the department said." http://t.uani.com/sudOFb &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TOP STORIES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AP: "A federal judge has signed a default judgment finding Iran, the Taliban and al-Qaida liable in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Judge George Daniels in Manhattan signed the judgment Thursday, a week after hearing testimony in the 10-year-old case. The signed ruling, which he promised last week, came in a $100 billion lawsuit brought by family members of victims of the attacks. He directed a magistrate judge to preside over remaining issues, including fixing compensatory and punitive damages. Daniels signed findings of fact saying the plaintiffs had established that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were caused by the support the defendants provided to al-Qaida. The findings also said Iran continues to provide material support and resources to al-Qaida by providing a safe haven for al-Qaida leadership and rank-and-file al-Qaida members." http://t.uani.com/ujBnz3 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NYT: "Iran put neighbors on notice Thursday that it was about to conduct vast naval exercises in the Arabian Sea, including war games near the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for international oil traffic. The exercises, to start Saturday and last 10 days, are Iran's first since May 2010 and were described by the official news media as the largest the country ever planned. The scale of the maneuvers appeared intended to demonstrate Iran's military capabilities as it faces increased isolation over its suspect nuclear energy program. The exercises are bound to put Iranian warships close to vessels of the United States Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain, which patrols some of the same waters, including the Strait of Hormuz." http://t.uani.com/u1Lbtu &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nuclear Program &amp;amp; Sanctions &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bloomberg: "The clandestine arrangement worked smoothly for years. The Israeli company shipped its Internet- monitoring equipment to a distributor in Denmark. Once there, workers stripped away the packaging and removed the labels. Then they sent it to a man named 'Hossein' in Iran, an amiable technology distributor known to them only by his first name and impeccable English, say his partners in Israel and Denmark. Israeli trade, customs and defense officials say their departments didn't know that the systems for peering into Internet traffic, sold under the brand name NetEnforcer, had gone to a country whose leaders have called for the destruction of the Jewish state. Israel's ban on trade with its enemy failed, even though a paper trail on the deals was available in Denmark. The transactions illustrate how ineffective governments have been in blocking a global trade in new, intrusive surveillance technologies that authoritarian regimes can use as weapons for repression." http://t.uani.com/ukXDTY &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WSJ: "Alibaba.com Ltd.'s trade website was inaccessible Thursday to people in Iran, according to a person familiar with the matter, just one day after the Chinese government publicly complained that Chinese buyers of Iran's iron ore had problems doing business there. It is unclear what caused the site outage or even whether the incidents are related, but it marks the latest business hiccup between two countries that have long shared a close diplomatic relationship, as the Iranian government comes under mounting international pressure over its alleged nuclear efforts. On Wednesday, China's Ministry of Commerce published a report saying that Chinese companies have had difficulty conducting business in Iran, and that iron-ore importers have been victims of fraud and 'shoddy business practices.' A ministry spokesman referred questions to China's Foreign Ministry, which didn't respond for comment." http://t.uani.com/sy90bh &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reuters: "China has bought enough spot crude from the Middle East, Africa and Russia in January to replace lost Iranian oil supply, trade sources said on Friday, putting it in a strong position as it tussles with the Islamic Republic over payment terms for 2012 contracts. China will load an additional 12.43 million barrels of crude from Iraq, Russia and West Africa in January, more than covering 285,000 barrels per day (bpd) supply cut from Iran, according to trade sources and shipping data. Sinopec Corp, the country's top refiner, cut its crude shipments from Iran for January as the two haggle over terms for next year's supplies. A long-term decline in exports to the world's second-largest oil consumer would be a major blow for Iran, as China is the largest customer for its crude sales, which are under increasing threat from growing U.S. and EU sanctions." http://t.uani.com/vZ8sJ3 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bloomberg: "Europe's threat to ban cargoes from Iran over the nation's nuclear ambitions is helping push Middle East oil-tanker hiring to a record on concern shipments from the region will be disrupted, consultant FACTS Global Energy said. The CHART OF THE DAY shows how oil tankers booked to load 2 million-barrel cargoes of Gulf crude climbed to 140 in December, the most since at least January 2005, according to data from London-based shipbroker Galbraith's Ltd. European Union foreign ministers will meet Jan. 30 to discuss possible sanctions to pressure Iran to abandon a suspected nuclear weapons program." http://t.uani.com/txYTgR &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foreign Affairs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WT: "Iraq's vice president says that Iran is 'definitely' behind Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's move to jail him on terror charges, saying it is 'not a coincidence' that his arrest warrant was announced the day after the last U.S. troops left Iraq. 'Definitely Iran was involved,' Tariq al-Hashemi told The Washington Times in an exclusive interview, speaking by phone late Wednesday from a Kurdish town in northern Iraq. 'My dear friend, they have ... staff now in the government and in the parliament. They are representing Iran.' Mr. al-Hashemi said he has been a consistent critic of the 'intervention of Iran in every respect of my country.'" http://t.uani.com/vyaknU&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Opinion &amp;amp; Analysis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dennis Ross in WSJ: "President Barack Obama, like President George W. Bush before him, has stated that it would be unacceptable for Iran to have nuclear weapons. Recently, Mr. Obama has taken this a step further by declaring that he is determined to prevent the Iranians from acquiring the bomb. Does that mean that the use of force against the Iranian nuclear program is inevitable? No, nor should it be. I don't say this because I believe we can live with a nuclear-armed Iran; I do not. An Iran with nuclear weapons would confront the world with many dangers, including the very real danger that it will trigger a nuclear war in the Middle East. Consider that once Iran has nuclear weapons, nearly all of its neighbors will seek them as well to counter Iranian power and coercion. Israel, given Iranian declarations that it should be wiped off the map, will feel it has no margin for error and cannot afford to strike second in the event of a war. But Israel won't be the only country operating on a hair trigger. Each country, lacking the ability to absorb a nuclear strike, will adopt a launch-on-warning posture in a region that has many local triggers for conflict and enormous potential for miscalculation. Containment does not address that risk. Even the offer of a nuclear umbrella, with its implicit promise to obliterate the Iranians after a strike, can provide small comfort for any country in the Middle East, particularly Israel. I do not doubt that the Iranians are making progress on their nuclear program. According to the most recent International Atomic Energy Agency report, released last month, the Iranians have accumulated roughly 4,900 kilograms of low enriched uranium (LEU), enough for three to four bombs if enriched further. They have 6,200 centrifuges operating at Natanz, with a production rate of about 125 kilograms a month, and have now installed 174 centrifuges in two tandem cascades and 64 in a third in their facility near Qom. And, while the bulk of their LEU is enriched to 3.5%, the Iranians are now enriching some of their material to nearly 20%-a move that would shorten the time they would need to create weapons-grade highly enriched uranium (HEU)." http://t.uani.com/vDEOe7&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-9179137043671968178?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/9179137043671968178/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=9179137043671968178' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/9179137043671968178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/9179137043671968178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/12/breaking-news-leak-plus-xmas-weekend.html' title='BREAKING NEWS LEAK - PLUS XMAS WEEKEND READING'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-5197603031020121942</id><published>2011-12-08T19:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-08T19:43:12.932-08:00</updated><title type='text'>CRITICISM OF ISLAM SOON TO BE CRIME IN THE USA</title><content type='html'>Criticism of Islam Could Soon be a Crime in America&lt;br /&gt;by:&amp;nbsp; Clare M. Lopez &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When President Obama delivered his much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world at Cairo University in June 2009, the &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;free world trembled&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; while the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) gushed with praise and begged  for a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The OIC is the largest head of state organization in the world after the United Nations (UN) itself and comprises &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;56 Muslim countries plus the Palestinians&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It claims  to be the “collective voice of the Muslim world,” i.e., the ummah, and speaks on its behalf in effect as the seat of the next Islamic Caliphate. In 1990, the OIC membership adopted the “Cairo Declaration ,” which officially exempted all Muslim countries from compliance with the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights and replaced it with Islamic law (shariah). One of the fundamental laws of Islam deals with “slander ,” which is defined in shariah as saying “anything concerning a person [a Muslim] that he would dislike.” At the OIC’s Third Extraordinary Session, held in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in December 2005, the organization adopted a “Ten-Year Programme of Action  to Meet the Challenges Facing the Muslim Ummah in the 21st Century.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A key agenda  item of that meeting was “the need to counter Islamophobia” by seeking to have the UN “…adopt an international resolution to counter Islamophobia, and call upon all States to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;enact laws to counter it,&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; including deterrent punishments.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The word&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt; “Islamophobia” is a completely invented word&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, coined by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), a Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) front group. OIC adoption of the term reflects the close operational relationship between the OIC and the Ikhwan.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Six years later, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is due to host OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in Washington, DC in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;"&gt;mid-December 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to discuss &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;how the United States can implement the OIC agenda to criminalize criticism of Islam.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cloaked in the sanctimonious language of “Resolution 16/18 ,” that was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council in April 2011, the WDC three-day experts meeting is billed as a working session to discuss legal mechanisms to combat religious discrimination (but the only religion the Human Rights Council has ever mentioned in any previous resolution is Islam). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The UN Human Rights Council, which includes such 'bastions of human rights' as &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;China, Cuba, Libya, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, introduced Resolution 16/18 to the UN General Assembly (UNGA), where it was passed in March 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Resolution was presented to the UNGA by &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Pakistan&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (where women get the death penalty for being raped and “blasphemy” against Islam is punished by death). Ostensibly about “combating intolerance, negative stereotyping and…incitement to violence against persons based on religion or belief,” the only partnership mentioned in the text is the one with the OIC. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;The U.S., whose official envoy to the OIC, Rashad Hussain, helped write Obama’s Cairo speech, actively collaborated in the drafting of Resolution 16/18.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, the OIC’s Ihsanoglu will come to Washington, DC, the capital of one of the only countries in the world with a Constitution that guarantees freedom of speech and a judicial system that consistently defends it, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;with a publicized agenda to criminalize criticism of Islam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His agenda, and, apparently that of his host, the U.S. Department of State, seek to bring the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;U.S. into full compliance with Islamic law on slander, as noted above.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Events in the nation’s capital seemed timed to ensure Ihsanoglu a warm welcome. The Center for American Progress (CAP), a think tank aligned with the Democratic Party and Obama White House, published “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America”  in August 2011. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Disturbingly specific in naming individuals associated with speaking truth about the doctrinal foundations of Islamic terrorism, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;the report is a blatant assault on the First Amendment and free speech in America—at least as far as &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Islam is concerned.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Justice Department soon got on board the “Islamophobia” bandwagon. In the wake of the cancellation of a number of scheduled official training sessions at national security agencies by deeply knowledgeable scholars of Islamic doctrine, law, and scriptures, such as Stephen Coughlin, Steven Emerson, William Gawthrop, John Guandolo, and Robert Spencer, Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole  confirmed at an 11 October 2011 press conference that the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;Obama administration was pulling back for review all training materials used for the law enforcement and national security communities in order to eliminate all references to Islam that &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Muslim Brotherhood&lt;/span&gt; groups have found offensive.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No doubt much encouraged by national capitulation at such a level, Salam Al-Marayati, the president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), an Islamic organization that shares the jihadist agenda and ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, wrote an op-ed  piece that was published in the Los Angeles Times on 19 October 2011. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In his piece, Al-Marayati &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;openly threatened the FBI&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; with “collapse of a critical partnership with the Muslim American community.” Later that same day, the Justice Department convened a meeting with Muslim shariah advocates at George Washington University in WDC, chaired by its civil rights division chief, Tom Perez. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dwight C. Holton , the U.S. Attorney in Oregon who was also present, announced that, after speaking with Attorney General Eric Holder, he wanted “to be perfectly clear about this: training materials that portray Islam as a religion of violence or with a tendency towards violence are wrong, they are offensive, and they are contrary to everything that this president, (Obama),&amp;nbsp; this attorney general and Department of Justice stands for. They will not be tolerated.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;"&gt;A phobia is an irrational fear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. It is not irrational to give warning of an ideology resolutely committed to eradication of free belief, expression, speech, and even thought. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is suicidal for a free society willingly to collaborate with those, like the Muslim Brotherhood and the OIC, which are determined to destroy Western civilization from within—and have told us so, repeatedly, consistently, and publicly. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Further, collaboration in such an anti-freedom campaign represents abrogation of the professional oath of office of every federal official who has sworn to “support and defend the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Constitution&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Silencing those who would warn of impending catastrophe only ensures victory to the enemy and loss of our most rare and precious inheritance: the American love of liberty. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When President Obama delivered his much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world at Cairo University in June 2009, the free world trembled while the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) gushed with praise and begged for a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The OIC is the largest head of state organization in the world after the United Nations (UN) itself and comprises 56 Muslim countries plus the Palestinians. It claims  to be the “collective voice of the Muslim world,” i.e., the ummah, and speaks on its behalf in effect as the seat of the next Islamic Caliphate. In 1990, the OIC membership adopted the “Cairo Declaration ,” which officially exempted all Muslim countries from compliance with the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights and replaced it with Islamic law (shariah). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;fundamental laws of Islam deals with “&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;slander&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; ,” which is defined in shariah as saying &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;“anything concerning a person [a Muslim] that he would dislike.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the OIC’s Third Extraordinary Session, held in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in December 2005, the organization adopted a “Ten-Year Programme of Action  to Meet the Challenges Facing the Muslim Ummah in the 21st Century.” A key agenda  item of that meeting was “the need to counter Islamophobia” by seeking to have the UN “…adopt an international resolution to counter Islamophobia, and call upon all States to enact laws to counter it, including deterrent punishments.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The word “Islamophobia” is a completely invented word, coined by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), a Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) front group. OIC adoption of the term reflects the close operational relationship between the OIC and the Ikhwan.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Six years later, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is due to host OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in Washington, DC in mid-December 2011 to discuss how the United States can implement the OIC agenda to criminalize criticism of Islam. Cloaked in the sanctimonious language of “Resolution 16/18 ,” that was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council in April 2011, the WDC three-day experts meeting is billed as a working session to discuss legal mechanisms to combat religious discrimination (but the only religion the Human Rights Council has ever mentioned in any previous resolution is Islam). The UN Human Rights Council, which includes such bastions of human rights as China, Cuba, Libya, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, introduced Resolution 16/18 to the UN General Assembly (UNGA), where it was passed in March 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Resolution was presented to the UNGA by Pakistan (where women get the death penalty for being raped and “blasphemy” against Islam is punished by death). Ostensibly about “combating intolerance, negative stereotyping and…incitement to violence against persons based on religion or belief,” the only partnership mentioned in the text is the one with the OIC. The U.S., whose official envoy to the OIC, Rashad Hussain, helped write Obama’s Cairo speech, actively collaborated in the drafting of Resolution 16/18. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, the OIC’s Ihsanoglu will come to Washington, DC, the capital of one of the only countries in the world with a Constitution that guarantees freedom of speech and a judicial system that consistently defends it, with a publicized agenda to criminalize criticism of Islam. His agenda, and, apparently that of his host, the U.S. Department of State, seek to bring the U.S. into full compliance with Islamic law on slander, as noted above. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Events in the nation’s capital seemed timed to ensure Ihsanoglu a warm welcome. The Center for American Progress (CAP), a think tank aligned with the Democratic Party and Obama White House, published “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America”  in August 2011. Disturbingly specific in naming individuals associated with speaking truth about the doctrinal foundations of Islamic terrorism, the report is a blatant assault on the First Amendment and free speech in America—at least as far as Islam is concerned. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Justice Department soon got on board the “Islamophobia” bandwagon. In the wake of the cancellation of a number of scheduled official training sessions at national security agencies by deeply knowledgeable scholars of Islamic doctrine, law, and scriptures, such as Stephen Coughlin, Steven Emerson, William Gawthrop, John Guandolo, and Robert Spencer, Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole  confirmed at an 11 October 2011 press conference that the Obama administration was pulling back for review all training materials used for the law enforcement and national security communities in order to eliminate all references to Islam that Muslim Brotherhood groups have found offensive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No doubt much encouraged by national capitulation at such a level, Salam Al-Marayati, the president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), an Islamic organization that shares the jihadist agenda and ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, wrote an op-ed  piece that was published in the Los Angeles Times on 19 October 2011. In his piece, Al-Marayati openly threatened the FBI with “collapse of a critical partnership with the Muslim American community.” Later that same day, the Justice Department convened a meeting with Muslim shariah advocates at George Washington University in WDC, chaired by its civil rights division chief, Tom Perez. Dwight C. Holton , the U.S. Attorney in Oregon who was also present, announced that, after speaking with Attorney General Eric Holder, he wanted “to be perfectly clear about this: training materials that portray Islam as a religion of violence or with a tendency towards violence are wrong, they are offensive, and they are contrary to everything that this president, this attorney general and Department of Justice stands for. They will not be tolerated.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A phobia is an irrational fear. It is not irrational to give warning of an ideology resolutely committed to eradication of free belief, expression, speech, and even thought. It is suicidal for a free society willingly to collaborate with those, like the Muslim Brotherhood and the OIC, which are determined to destroy Western civilization from within—and have told us so, repeatedly, consistently, and publicly. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Further, collaboration in such an anti-freedom campaign represents abrogation of the professional oath of office of every federal official who has sworn to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;"&gt;Silencing those who would warn of impending catastrophe only ensures victory to the enemy and loss of our most rare and precious inheritance: the American love of liberty.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alan note: and a matter Obama is assiduously pursuing and imposing on America as it conforms to his&amp;nbsp; personal plans to destroy America as we&amp;nbsp;have known it and turn it into just another ruined vassal of the Islamic Caliphate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clare M. Lopez, a senior fellow at the Clarion Fund, is a strategic policy and intelligence expert with a focus on Middle East, national defense, and counterterrorism issues.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-5197603031020121942?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/5197603031020121942/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=5197603031020121942' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/5197603031020121942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/5197603031020121942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/12/criticism-of-islam-soon-to-be-crime-in.html' title='CRITICISM OF ISLAM SOON TO BE CRIME IN THE USA'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-8210948492667787434</id><published>2011-12-03T18:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-03T18:54:52.499-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SABOTAGE OF ISRAEL'/><title type='text'>OBAMA SABOTAGES ISRAEL WITH PANETTA'S HELP</title><content type='html'>Ambassador Bolton, would you PLEASE address the naivety of such views? Sure wish you were on that stage with Newt &amp;amp; Co....as a Nation, we NEED to hear your concise, poignant counter argument to the ever increasingly weak position the current adiministration has placed both the U.S. &amp;amp; Israel in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps it's time to blitz the airways - with both Greta AND Wolf...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Best,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peter&lt;br /&gt;(Contributor of thtis article)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Panetta: Israel must bow to nuclear Iran, Islamized ME, paramount US security &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;(Alan note:&amp;nbsp; Panetta, as a long time proponent of the U.S. Communist party and tool of his Marxist-Islamic boss Obama, who absolutely desires&amp;nbsp; the total destruction of Israel but&amp;nbsp; with typical Islamic "taghiya" (permitted lies to protect or promote Islam) pretends he likes Israel while doing everything he can to disable this enemy to his buddies in Iran, America UNDER Obama is set to weaken and destroy Israel).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;DEBKAfile Special Report December 3, 2011, 2:25 PM (GMT+02:00) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Defense Secretary Leon Panetta with US President&lt;br /&gt;US President Barack Obama declared in ringing tones Wednesday, Nov. 30, "We don't compromise when it comes to Israel's security. No ally surpasses Israel in importance to the US." Three days later, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in a lecture to the Brookings Institute was crystal-clear about what America expects Israel to deliver in return.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He cited "Israeli estimates" to argue against an Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear facilities because "it would set back (the program) by one to two years at best." He urged Israel to take risks and get to "the damn negotiating table" with the Palestinians, and "mend fences with countries like Turkey, Egypt and Jordan, which share an interest in regional stability"- in view of Israel's "growing isolation in a volatile region."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The content and tone of the defense secretary's lecture were clearly designed to rebut Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak's comments Thursday, Dec. 1, that as a sovereign state, Israel is bound to determine its own security needs and the ultimate responsibility for its national security rests with the government in Jerusalem and the Israeli Defense Forces – no one else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Panetta's lecture was long on generalizations and contradictions and short on facts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The "Israeli estimates" he cited referred to the most outspoken opponents of the Netanyahu-Barak government, namely the former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, the ex-chief of staff Gaby Ashkenazi, former military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin, as well as Kadima leader Tzipi Livni.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;debkafile: Their political agenda would tend to overrule their true views on the merits of an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear sites. It also runs contrary to the assessment of every responsible, knowledgeable Israeli intelligence and military expert, who all believe an attack could delay Iran's nuclear armament by three or four years at the least.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet Panetta chose the contrary, minority view to support his arguments against an Israeli attack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He also contradicted himself on at least one point:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the one hand, the defense secretary told the Washington forum that, "No greater threat exists to the security and prosperity of the Middle East than a nuclear-armed Iran," adding that Obama has not ruled out using military force to stop Iran from going nuclear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand, Panetta warned "the consequences (of an Israeli attack) could be that we have an escalation that …would not only involve many lives… but trigger Iranian retaliation against US forces, and ultimately spark a backlash in Iran that would bolster its rulers."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The facts contradict this assertion: An opinion poll secretly conducted at the universities of Tehran, Shiraz and Isfahan in early November showed that 72 percent of those canvassed were certain the population of Iran's cities would rise up against the Islamic regime the moment the US or Israel attacked its nuclear program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As to the secretary's argument that it would also be hard for attackers to reach Iran's nuclear installations because some of them (the centrifuge plant transferred to Fordo, near Qom) have already been moved underground, he failed to answer two key questions:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Why was Israel held back from carrying out a military operation when those installations were still on the surface and vulnerable?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. By continuing to hold back Israel back, is he saying that Iran should be allowed to go all the way to manufacturing a nuclear bomb without military interference? Is the US defense secretary advising Israel to learn to live with a nuclear-armed Iran, even though its menace is constantly expanding?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Panetta did not supply an answer to either question. But he was a lot clearer on Iran's threat to American security when he said: "…any disruption of the free flow of commerce through the Persian Gulf is a very grave threat to all of us" and a redline for the US."&lt;br /&gt;Was he saying that a nuclear-armed Iran was not a red line for America?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The defense secretary then offered the opinion that "sanctions and diplomatic pressure were working" to isolate Iran. debkafile's Middle East sources emphasize that he would not find a single informed politician, general, intelligence official or economist in the region who agreed with him. Just the reverse: the region's leaders and international financial community report that the Islamic Republic has overcome sanctions with remarkable success and they have not slowed down its nuclear progress by a second.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The US would safeguard Israel's security, said Panetta, but "Israel has a responsibility to pursue shared goals (with the US) – to build regional support for Israeli and United States' security objectives."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He was referring to the US offer of a security shield in return for Israel's pursuit of "shared goals." The only trouble with that offer is that when it was put before Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Emirates, Turkey, Egypt and Jordan, they agreed to pursue only certain "shared goals" – but not those affecting their national security, especially on the Iranian question, which they preferred to address by developing their own independent nuclear options. Therefore, the US shield on offer would be very limited.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His assumption that if Israel could persuade the Palestinians to sit down for peace talks and if it reached out to Turkey, Jordan and Egypt, relations would instantly improve, is just as fallacious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps Panetta has not heard that Mahmoud Abbas stands by his year-long refusal to face Israel across any "damned tables" and only this week tried to manipulate the Middle East Quartet into forcing Israel to accept an indirect track.&lt;br /&gt;Neither does he address the anti-Israel posture adopted by the rulers of Egypt, Turkey and Jordan to persuade their people of their affinity with the Islamist forces rising in the region, like the ultra-orthodox Salafis of Egypt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neither Israel, nor any of the mainstream Arab governments accept the Obama-Panetta proposition that time will magically temper the extremism of the Islamist regimes. They have before them the example of a former Democratic president, Jimmy Carter, who made the same argument 32 years ago for the West to dump the shah and welcome Khomeini's ayatollah regime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is time for Jerusalem to state clearly to the Obama administration that there is no way to reconcile Israel's essential security needs with the rejection of a military operation to cripple Iran's nuclear program; or to promote the rise of Islamist forces in the Arab capitals neighboring on the Jewish state and at the same time hold Israel to account for not reaching out to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel must put its cards on the table, after Panetta put his, by saying: "I understand the view that this is not the time to pursue peace, and that the Arab awakening further imperils the dream of a safe and secure, Jewish and democratic Israel. But I disagree with that view."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-8210948492667787434?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/8210948492667787434/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=8210948492667787434' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/8210948492667787434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/8210948492667787434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/12/obama-sabotages-israel-with-panettas.html' title='OBAMA SABOTAGES ISRAEL WITH PANETTA&apos;S HELP'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-6547773897912809527</id><published>2011-11-11T21:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-11T21:52:48.191-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Terrorists in White House'/><title type='text'>WHITE HOUSE: MOSLEM  BROTHEHOOD'S USA BASE</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;This kind of anger is growing/spreading in America and in some European countries and the more ObaHussein adds Executive Order layers to protect them, the worse it is getting for everyone.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;OMG&lt;/span&gt;! &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;O&lt;/span&gt;bama &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;M&lt;/span&gt;ust &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;G&lt;/span&gt;o!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;INTERNET COMMENT&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;"Its time to rip the face off people like Perry and Daniels and Christie who are sell-outs to these wife-beating, polygamous, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, pro-Sharia bastards who have infiltrated our political system with their elixir of modern American politics - PETRODOLLARS!!!&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;We KNOW we have a Muslim in the White House. Now we KNOW they have infiltrated the OTHER Party - Heads they win, tails we loose.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;ALL Republicans candidates for office should be FORCED to sign an Anti-Sharia Promise and Commitment."&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stated Aims of the Brotherhood:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WRjqXUfrXvA/Tr4GOs93hZI/AAAAAAAADtc/djULxyPBIAk/s1600/islamlftsm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640px" nda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WRjqXUfrXvA/Tr4GOs93hZI/AAAAAAAADtc/djULxyPBIAk/s640/islamlftsm.jpg" width="472px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2011/02/09/major-media-miss-muslim-brotherhoods-stated-goal-has-long-been-seize-us"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2011/02/09/major-media-miss-muslim-brotherhoods-stated-goal-has-long-been-seize-us&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Moslem Brotherhood in the White House&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/2011/08/muslim-brotherhood-in-the-white-house-obama-appointees-grow-and-prosper-in-americas-political-correctness/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/2011/08/muslim-brotherhood-in-the-white-house-obama-appointees-grow-and-prosper-in-americas-political-correctness/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;﻿ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--YsA7MBoD3Q/Tr4GACmc6vI/AAAAAAAADtU/fjJDZvRZwNE/s1600/Rashad_Hussain_27.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" nda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--YsA7MBoD3Q/Tr4GACmc6vI/AAAAAAAADtU/fjJDZvRZwNE/s1600/Rashad_Hussain_27.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rashad Hussein&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;➥ One is Rashad Hussain of Indian origin who is the American Ambassador to the 52 nation organization of Islamic countries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;➥ Dalia Mogahed who writes his speech who comes from the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;﻿﻿ &lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--Lmgosd8KPw/Tr32augonUI/AAAAAAAADtM/bir4-36K8Xs/s1600/Muslim-brotherhood-logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="142px" nda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--Lmgosd8KPw/Tr32augonUI/AAAAAAAADtM/bir4-36K8Xs/s200/Muslim-brotherhood-logo.jpg" width="200px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ikhwan (brothers)&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Al-Momeneen (true believers)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;﻿﻿ ﻿ &lt;br /&gt;Frontpage Interview’s guest today is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Paul Sperry&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, a Hoover Institution media fellow and author of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;Infiltration and Muslim Mafia. &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The latter, co-authored with &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;P. David Gaubatz&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;exposes the radical Muslim Brotherhood and its fronts in the United States. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Brotherhood Code!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Allah is our objective, the prophet is our leader, the Koran is our law, Jihad is our way, dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Jihad is our way” explicitly endorses the reinstatement of a worldwide Islamic regime.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;=========================================================&lt;br /&gt;FP: Paul Sperry, welcome to Frontpage Interview. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sperry: Always a pleasure, Jamie. Quick congratulations on another commendable work, Showdown With Evil. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FP: Thank you Paul. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would like to talk to you today about how the Muslim Brotherhood penetrates the Republican Party and especially the latest disturbing evidence you have on Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan in this context. As you know, David Horowitz called out both Khan and Norquist on this issue in his speech at CPAC on Feb. 12, 2011. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, let’s begin with your knowledge of the Muslim Brotherhood’s penetration of the United States in general and what you know about it its front groups on our soil. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sperry: Thanks Jamie. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you know, the Brotherhood is a worldwide jihadist movement based in Cairo. It’s the parent of Hamas and al-Qaida and the source of most of the jihadist ideology and related terror throughout the world today. After 9/11, FBI agents discovered the founding archives of its U.S. operations during a raid of a terrorist suspect’s home in Annandale, Va. The secret papers revealed that the Brotherhood, which was set up in America with millions in Saudi cash, has a plan to “destroy” America and other Western nations “from within,” and is using its agents and front groups in the U.S. to carry out that strategy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The secret papers also revealed that virtually every major Muslim group in America is a front for the radical Brotherhood, and they’ve raised millions of dollars for Hamas and al-Qaida right here inside America. They also control most of the major mosques, including the 9/11 mosque just outside Washington that found housing for some of the hijackers and helped prepare them for their martyrdom operation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FP: What’s been done about them? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sperry: Until recent years, their leaders operated with virtual impunity. But 9/11 broke the PC handcuffs on investigators. Several major U.S. Brotherhood figures — including Abdurahman Alamoudi, Shukri Abu Baker, Mohammad El-Mezain, Anwar Awlaki, Sami al-Arian — are now either behind bars or dead. Major front groups have been blacklisted as unindicted co-conspirators. And a key front, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), which we expose in our book, has been banned by the FBI from outreach functions and stripped by the IRS of its nonprofit status following our investigation. But the handcuffs haven’t come off completely. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FP: How haven¹t the handcuffs come off completely? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sperry: The Islamic Society of North America is the leading edge of the Brotherhood movement here, yet it remains a formal outreach partner of the government even though ISNA was implicated in a criminal scheme to funnel over $12 million to Hamas terrorists. Its president, in fact, just spoke at a Justice Department conference on “post-9/11 discrimination.” Mohamed Magid also prayed with Obama in the White House. It’s not just Obama though. I’ve seen the matrix with all the names of the leaders in the U.S. Brotherhood’s Shurah Council. They include people Bush prayed with after 9/11. The enemy has been inside the wire for quite some time. It’s just making deeper inroads now. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FP: Ok let’s get to Suhail Khan and Grover Norquist. What information do you have on them? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sperry: Let me start with some background regarding Norquist. Though he’s known as the Beltway’s top antitax lobbyist, he’s also a paid lobbyist for enemies of the United States. Prior to 9/11, he was bankrolled by the General Masul of the U.S. Brotherhood — the same Alamoudi I mentioned earlier — who also happened to be al-Qaida’s top bagman in America. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FP: Evidence? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sperry: A July 14, 2005, U.S. Treasury Department press release stated: “According to information available to the U.S. government, the September 2003 arrest of Alamoudi was a severe blow to al-Qaida, as Alamoudi had a close relationship with al-Qaida and had raised money for al-Qaida in the United States.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition, I asked an FBI official who worked the Alamoudi case to elaborate on the information cited in the Treasury statement. He told me (as I reported in Muslim Mafia) that at the time of Alamoudi’s arrest, U.S. intelligence had intercepted al-Qaida chatter out of Saudi Arabia lamenting that “one of our main financiers has been taken out.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have no evidence Norquist knew Alamoudi was laundering Saudi cash for al-Qaida at the time he was taking his own cash from him. But he knew Alamoudi was, at a minimum, making statements in support of terrorists. Now his financier and silent partner is sitting behind bars as a convicted terrorist. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FP: What kind of money changed hands? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sperry: As I reported in my first book, “Infiltration,” Norquist’s old lobbying firm, Janus-Merritt, was a registered agent for Alamoudi, and received some $40,000 from that dubious client. (Norquist and his Muslim partner at the firm also represented the Pakistani government on military aid.) In addition, Alamoudi gave Norquist at least $20,000 in seed money to start up an outwardly Republican front for the Brotherhood called the Islamic Free Market Institute, which was run by Alamoudi’s deputy and later appeared on a JTTF threat matrix. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FP: And that’s when Khan enters the picture? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sperry: Right. Alamoudi sponsored Khan — Khan being the eldest son of one of the founding fathers of the Brotherhood in America. Norquist got Khan into the Bush White House as the gatekeeper for Muslims, whereupon he got al-Arian and other senior Brotherhood figures past security. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FP: What were they trying to do? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sperry: The top of their agenda was convincing the president to eliminate the Justice Department’s use of undisclosed evidence in deportation cases against Arabs suspected of terrorism. On the eve of 9/11, Norquist personally went to the Hill and lobbied to, in his words, “get rid of the secret evidence laws which have been used to discriminate against Muslims and Arabs in this country.” After 9/11, he and his Islamic Institute lobbied against the Patriot Act. He didn’t miss a beat trying to deny law enforcement the tools they need to crack down on Muslim terrorists, even after they slaughtered 3,000 Americans and attacked the Pentagon. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FP: Where’s Khan now? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sperry: Thanks to Norquist’s sponsorship, Khan has also been able to infiltrate other Republican circles, including the American Conservative Union. Meanwhile, he’s teamed up with Imam Mohamed Magid, Obama’s Muslim outreach partner, to do interfaith outreach with evangelical Christian leaders in the South. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FP: How is that possible? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sperry: What Norquist does, and this is truly sinister business, is dress up Brotherhood agents who underwrite him as patriotic conservatives in order to give them political cover and gain the trust of the GOP establishment. Then with the backing of duped party leaders secured, he promotes these neo-Islamists to positions of power inside government. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His latest project is Imad “David” Ramadan. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FP: Tell us about him. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sperry: Well, he’s running for the Virginia state legislature with breathless boosterism from Norquist, which is your first red flag. Last year, Ramadan signed an open letter to Republicans in support of the Ground Zero mosque. He signed it with Khan and Norquist’s wife, who happens to be a Palestinian Muslim. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are other red flags. Ramadan, who’s a Lebanese immigrant, is a shadowy figure with suspicious holes in his resume. He says he’s involved in various “consulting” businesses in the Middle East. He also processes U.S. visas and green cards for Muslim immigrants. But the source of his sudden wealth is largely unknown for someone who declared bankruptcy. He’s given large sums of cash to GOP officials, to shore up their support, as well as to his own campaign. Based on who’s been donating to his campaign, Ramadan would represent the interests of Islamists should he win the Northern Virginia seat he’s running for. Of particular note from the long list of his Muslim contributors is a $5,000 political donation he received from something called the Virginia Muslim PAC. Its president is Mukit Hossain. Turns out Hossain also runs a charitable front for the Muslim Brotherhood in Herndon, Va., called FAITH. A few years ago, Wachovia bank closed FAITH’s accounts due to suspicious activity related to possible money-laundering. A year earlier, the so-called charity received a $150,000 donation from Brotherhood leader and Saudi bagman M. Yacub Mirza, whose home and offices were raided by the feds after 9/11. Hossain keeps his FAITH office in the same raided building. Hossain’s benefactor was close to Alamoudi before Alamoudi landed in the slammer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FP: The evidence? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sperry: According to a federal affidavit (unsealed Oct 2003) for a search warrant of Mirza’s Herndon, Va., residence and offices, Mirza is president of SAAR Foundation, a suspected charitable front for al-Qaida founded by Saudi billionaire Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al-Rajhi (S.A.A.R.), one of the original Golden Chain sponsors of bin Laden. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to page 53 of the affidavit, written by special agent David C. Kane: “I believe that one source of funds flowing through (Mirza’s offices) is from the wealthy Al-Rajhi family in Saudi Arabia.” He cites one transaction of $3,388,000, along with others in the millions. The affidavit says Mirza has “signatory authority” over the bank accounts. SAAR had an active account with Wachovia before closing it within weeks of the 9/11 attacks. Some checks also were drawn on a bank account in the name of Al-Rajhi Banking and Investment Corp., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now let’s tie it all together: Hossain serves on the board of a nearby mosque run by imam Magid, the ISNA chief working with Khan and Obama. This Ramadan donor is also active in the Muslim American Society, which prosecutors say is a key node in the Muslim Brotherhood’s network here. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another Muslim listed as a donor to Ramadan’s campaign is Norquist protege Ali Tulbah, who replaced Khan at the White House when Khan landed a high-level spot at the Transportation Department. Tulbah’s father helps run a Brotherhood mosque in Houston. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FP: So Ramadan is part of the same Islamist influence operation run out of Grover’s office? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sperry: You got it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FP: How dangerous is Grover Norquist? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sperry: Very dangerous. Here you have a “conservative” who built the Trojan Horse that the enemy is using to infiltrate, sabotage and destroy the U.S. from within. Norquist is helping the U.S. Brotherhood accomplish the “Grand Jihad” spelled out in its founding archives. In fact, he’s helping pull them through the gates. I think it’s fairly plain now that he knows he’s undermining U.S. security, and that he’s doing so in a time of war. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FP: So why is he still accepted in conservative circles? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sperry: Some Republican leaders are starting to speak out publicly against him, lawmakers like Coburn and Wolf (although Wolf endorsed his protégé Ramadan after Ramadan gave him $4,700 in campaign cash). But others still see him as just a small-government libertarian who wants to widen the GOP tent. Make no mistake: Norquist is not some random deficit hawk eyeing the bloated defense budget for cuts. Nor is he some innocuous misguided Ron Paul dove. He’s something far different, far more pernicious. He’s virulently anti-military, anti-borders, anti-security. He’s a saboteur aiding and abetting groups hostile to U.S. interests. And now that he’s married to a Muslim, I doubt money is the only motivating factor behind his decidedly anti-American behavior. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If by now Republicans can’t smell a rat — a Pied Piper of rats, no less — they have failed miserably in their constitutional duty to “defend the constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic.” If the Republican Party can’t stop an Islamist Fifth Column within its own ranks, my word, we’re all doomed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FP: What’s the status of CAIR’s “trespassing” suit against your co-author and his son, Chris, who snuck behind enemy lines as a CAIR intern and walked out with boxes of incriminating evidence that CAIR ordered him to shred? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sperry: The most extraordinary thing about that complaint — and so far only Politico.com has picked up on this angle — is that CAIR never defends itself against the book’s claims, never alleges libel. It stipulates everything in “Muslim Mafia” to be true — which is why in its complaint, it seeks to confiscate all copies of “Muslim Mafia” in an attempt to censor the book. Of course, it cannot dispute its own internal documents, which are so damning that federal prosecutors have seized them, several boxes full, as part of a grand jury investigation of CAIR. Still, it’s highly newsworthy given the seriousness of the charges in the book. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CAIR has hit several potholes in filing its case. First it filed under a false name and had to refile. Then it ran out of money and had to replace its outside lawyers with a CAIR legal staffer who has a glaring personal conflict, given her role in overseeing the destruction of evidence Chris tried to preserve while working inside CAIR’s offices. Then CAIR failed to produce for the court a confidentiality agreement it claims Chris signed. Even so, the Clinton-appointed judge, who has ruled in favor of Gitmo detainees, has let the case go forward, and the defense is looking forward to deposing CAIR leaders. It will be the first time Nihad Awad, for one, will have to explain, under oath, why he attended a secret meeting with Hamas leaders in Philly just months before forming CAIR. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What’s more, CAIR’s executive director will have to explain why CAIR, if it’s not Hamas, would appear on a Hamas meeting agenda. The smoking-gun exhibit is reproduced in the appendix of “Muslim Mafia.” It’s a 1994 meeting agenda listing CAIR among member “organizations” of the U.S. “Palestine Committee” of Hamas. CAIR was put in charge of “coordination” among the Hamas front groups. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This document — in addition to others, including ones unearthed from CAIR’s own files – speaks materially to CAIR being founded by Hamas, controlled by Hamas, and carrying out Hamas’ agenda inside the United States. So stay tuned for the deposition transcripts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FP: Paul Sperry, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;URL to article: &lt;a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/08/the-muslim-brotherhood-penetrates-the-republican-party/"&gt;http://frontpagemag.com/2011/11/08/the-muslim-brotherhood-penetrates-the-republican-party/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-6547773897912809527?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/6547773897912809527/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=6547773897912809527' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/6547773897912809527'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/6547773897912809527'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/11/white-house-moslem-brothehoods-usa-base.html' title='WHITE HOUSE: MOSLEM  BROTHEHOOD&apos;S USA BASE'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WRjqXUfrXvA/Tr4GOs93hZI/AAAAAAAADtc/djULxyPBIAk/s72-c/islamlftsm.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-7031201936206822996</id><published>2011-11-07T19:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-07T19:17:05.168-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='OSAMA BIN LADEN'/><title type='text'>THE REAL OSAMA BIN LADEN STORY</title><content type='html'>Obama's attempt to take credit for the Bin Laden mission is pure nonsense (to be polite)! He made NONE of the final decisions, tried for months to delay or block the mission and was on the golf course when the mission was approved by Leon Panetta and HIllary Clinton when the SEALS indicated they were ready to go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With a top level instruction to DISREGARD any effor tot abort the mission EVEN by the&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;President! In the &amp;nbsp;photo, you can see Obama is still in&amp;nbsp;his &amp;nbsp;Polo shirt golf outfit!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hE5YB1zhtvI/TrieZgw865I/AAAAAAAADsM/RpsABlcXAnM/s1600/golfer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640px" ida="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hE5YB1zhtvI/TrieZgw865I/AAAAAAAADsM/RpsABlcXAnM/s640/golfer.jpg" width="462px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;OBAMA DRAGGED IN FROM THE GOLF&amp;nbsp;COURSE AND SEATED IN A CORNER - NOT A COMMANDING OPERATIONAL POSITION!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check&amp;nbsp; out facts!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Forget whatever you think you know about the night Osama bin Laden was killed. According to a former Navy SEAL who claims to have the inside track, the mangled tales told of that historic night have only now been corrected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“It became obvious in the weeks evolving after the mission that the story that was getting put out there was not only untrue, but it was a really ugly farce of what did happen,” said Chuck Pfarrer, author of Seal Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden&lt;br /&gt;Read more: &lt;a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/07/correcting-the-fairy-tale-a-seals-account-of-how-osama-bin-laden-really-died/#ixzz1d4xymhwx"&gt;http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/07/correcting-the-fairy-tale-a-seals-account-of-how-osama-bin-laden-really-died/#ixzz1d4xymhwx&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;President Obama stepped up to a podium in the East Room of the White House that night to announce bin Laden’s death. That rapid announcement, explained Pfarrer, posed a major threat to U.S. national security.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“There was a choice that night,” Pfarrer told TheDC. “There was a choice to keep the mission secret.” America, Pfarrer explained, could have left things alone for “weeks or months … even though there was evidence left on the ground there … and use the intelligence and finish off al-Qaida.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Obama’s announcement, he said, “rendered moot all of the intelligence that was gathered from the nexus of al-Qaida. The computer drives, the hard drives, the videocasettes, the CDs, the thumb drives, everything. Before that could even be looked through, the political decision was made to take credit for the operation.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more: &lt;a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/07/correcting-the-fairy-tale-a-seals-account-of-how-osama-bin-laden-really-died/#ixzz1d4ygc5bp"&gt;http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/07/correcting-the-fairy-tale-a-seals-account-of-how-osama-bin-laden-really-died/#ixzz1d4ygc5bp&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;Pfarrer also suggests some of the emerging claims were simply self-aggrandizing “fairy tales.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The story they tried to tell — it’s preposterous. And the CIA tried to jump in. About mid-June the CIA tried to jump into the car and drive the victory lap. There’s this whole stuff about the CIA guy joining the operation, the gallant interpreter — he couldn’t even fast rope!” exclaimed Pfarrer, referring to a technique for descending from an airborne helicopter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“There’s this fairy tale about him walking out of the compound during the operation to tell crowds of Pakistanis to go home and everything’s OK.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more: &lt;a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/07/correcting-the-fairy-tale-a-seals-account-of-how-osama-bin-laden-really-died/#ixzz1d4zAdS9N"&gt;http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/07/correcting-the-fairy-tale-a-seals-account-of-how-osama-bin-laden-really-died/#ixzz1d4zAdS9N&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-7031201936206822996?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/7031201936206822996/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=7031201936206822996' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/7031201936206822996'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/7031201936206822996'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/11/real-osama-bin-laden-story.html' title='THE REAL OSAMA BIN LADEN STORY'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hE5YB1zhtvI/TrieZgw865I/AAAAAAAADsM/RpsABlcXAnM/s72-c/golfer.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-8194465649053444320</id><published>2011-11-05T13:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-11-05T14:51:36.778-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='white house backs Isalmists in Egypt'/><title type='text'>SURPRISE? SURPRISE?  WHITE HOUSE BACKS MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD</title><content type='html'>Egyptians attend a rally against the military ruling council in Cairo's Tahrir Square on October 28, 2011, calling for a rapid transition from military to civilian rule in Egypt following the February ouster of president Hosni Mubarak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;WASHINGTON - The United States would be "satisfied" if fair parliamentary elections in Egypt produced a Muslim Brotherhood victory, President Barack Obama's pointman for democratic transitions in the Middle East said Friday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;With three senior Moslem Brotherhood leaders running White House policy what do you expect?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I think the answer is yes, I think we will be satisfied, if it is a free and fair election," the newly appointed special co-ordinator for Middle East transitions, William Taylor, said when asked about what the U.S. reaction would be if the Islamist party comes out ahead in elections starting this month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"What we need to do is judge people and parties and movements on what they do, not what they're called," Taylor told a forum at the Atlantic Council, a Washington think-tank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In June Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington had been in "limited contacts" with the Muslim Brotherhood as part of an effort to adjust to Egypt's political upheaval.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the talks drew ire from some Republican U.S. lawmakers who expressed concern that the Brotherhood would seek to establish Muslim Shariah law in Egypt and North Africa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The region has seen unprecedented change this year in the "Arab spring" movement, notably in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia where longstanding dictatorships were toppled, in large part by people's revolutions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"These revolutions, this movement toward democracy has the ability to repudiate the terrorist narrative," Taylor said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Cairo was plunged into turmoil this week when the military-controlled transitional government announced plans to take greater control of the formation of a new Egyptian constitution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I do see it as a problem," Taylor, who visited Cairo last week and met with several military leaders, warned about a possible renewed military power grab in Egypt, adding that such a move would "lead to a bad place — authoritarian again."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Egypt's powerful Muslim Brotherhood and other smaller Islamist parties threatened to bring a million protesters into the streets in opposition of the plan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taylor said that while he did not meet Muslim Brotherhood officials in Cairo, "I would have," given the opportunity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"As long as parties, entities do not espouse or conduct violence, we'll talk to them."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"&gt;Alan Note: what does this Dhimmi pawn Taylor call Sharia law incited/induced violence against individuals? Nothing? Freedom? Religious Dictatorship? Or it's OK because Obama and his Moslem&amp;nbsp; Brotherhood cronies in the White House say so? Get real Taylor! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"&gt;Take a look at the "supremely violent" teachings/tenets&amp;nbsp;of Islam's Sharia which insist on death and dismemberment for failure to obey them! Is that better than the military? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"&gt;Go find a brain somewhere, you've forsaken yours.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zC1O_WZoKpw" width="640"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taylor made broad comparisons between the Brotherhood and the Islamist Ennahda party in Tunisia that took the largest number of seats in that country's recent election and is now forming a coalition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"This is something that we are used to, and should not be afraid of. We should deal with them," he said of Islamist parties that come to power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more: &lt;a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/hints+would+object+Brotherhood+Egypt/5659473/story.html#ixzz1crXANTaA"&gt;http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/hints+would+object+Brotherhood+Egypt/5659473/story.html#ixzz1crXANTaA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-8194465649053444320?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/8194465649053444320/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=8194465649053444320' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/8194465649053444320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/8194465649053444320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/11/surprise-surprise-white-house-backs.html' title='SURPRISE? SURPRISE?  WHITE HOUSE BACKS MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/zC1O_WZoKpw/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-1280383590452567054</id><published>2011-10-27T18:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-27T18:26:49.224-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='HOMELAND SECURITY JIHAD'/><title type='text'>HOMELAND IN-SECURITY SECRET CLEARANCE FOR  MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD</title><content type='html'>For more details:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/10/must-see-video-dhs-hearings-big-sis-gives-secret-clearance-to-muslim-brotherhood-big-sis-gives-secre.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;CLICK HERE atlasshrugs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;As you read this and view the video, please remember the following KEY factor of &lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;who&lt;/span&gt; the Moslem Brotherhood&amp;nbsp; - cleared and working &lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;DIRECTLY&lt;/span&gt; out of the White House and Homeland Security - in an advisory group capacity &lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;really is and represents&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD CREDO: "Allah is our objective; the &lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;Quran&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is our constitution, the Prophet is our leader; &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Jihad is our way&lt;/span&gt;; and &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;death for the sake of Allah &lt;/span&gt;is the highest of our aspirations." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;(Apparently, according to oft publicized Islamic tenets,&amp;nbsp;not just their own deaths but the death of non-MOSLEMS who refuse to convert to Islam! Or pay special "jaziyah" tax to be allowed to live! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Nor can they follow our American nor any other Constitution except the Koran!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Pam Geller&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Homeland &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;Insecurity&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in the hot seat: Big Sis, Janet Napolitano, with the most most disturbing hairdo/color I haingve ever seen, admits that she has been giving &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;secret level clearance&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;Muslim Brotherhood-tied operatives&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; here in the US at the US Immigration and Enforcement hearings. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is jawdropping testimony. Looking like a character in a John Waters film, Janet Napolitano is either clueless, complicit or downright lying to cover for her Muslim Brotherhood appointments. Napolitano denies being aware of a Muslim Brotherhood-tied operative whom she swore in. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas does a spectacular job on pressing Napolitano's knowledge of the story that was posted yesterday concerning &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Mohamed Elibiary&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the Homeland Security Adviser who allegedly leaked intel and shopped classified Info to media. I warned of Elibiary's appointment back in 2010. He asked if she was aware and she said she was not aware. Gohmert further pressed Napolitano of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;her knowledge of Elibiary's support of the Ayatollah Khomeini. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again she feigned concern and professed ignorance. This is the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;head of Homeland Security claiming ignorance of the most dangerous threat to the homeland, the global jihad and Islamic imperialism and expansion.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of her answers indicate that she is being led by her not inconsequential nose &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;by those who seek "to eliminate and destroy Western civilization from within."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gohmert asked her if it concerned her at all and ...... she didn't answer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zCmdDP4Wn74" width="640"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-1280383590452567054?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/1280383590452567054/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=1280383590452567054' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/1280383590452567054'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/1280383590452567054'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/10/homeland-in-security-secret-clearance.html' title='HOMELAND IN-SECURITY SECRET CLEARANCE FOR  MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/zCmdDP4Wn74/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-5461680206775864878</id><published>2011-10-26T14:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-26T14:22:02.708-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='OBAMA THE BETRAYER'/><title type='text'>OBAMA THE BETRAYER - INCLUDING OF AMERICA!</title><content type='html'>By Diana West&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Timing is everything. Qaddafi was not killed in retaliation for his attacks on American servicemen in Berlin in 1986, or the downing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie in 1989. He was not killed for his central role in the USSR's terror networks going back to the 1960s and 1970s. He was killed after coming over to our side of George Bush's "war on terror" in the final phase of a civil war in Libya in which his regime fought al Qaeda affiliates. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Horrific as it sounds, Qaddafi was killed because we and our NATO allies joined the other side &lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-- the al Qaeda affiliates.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lawrence Auster elaborates on why the event rankles:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E7rY28o1dno/Tqh0VbFY-wI/AAAAAAAADr0/9XGz3W1Pr8E/s1600/ghaddafi+Oba.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480px" ida="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E7rY28o1dno/Tqh0VbFY-wI/AAAAAAAADr0/9XGz3W1Pr8E/s640/ghaddafi+Oba.bmp" width="640px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Kaddafi &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;never&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; violated his agreements with us and &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;never&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; became a threat to us or our allies. He spoke in the warmest terms of the United States and of Obama. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;BUT he limited the Moslem Brotherhood and al-Qaeda activity in Libya and stunted their rise to Sharia based power.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet the instant that people whom &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;we chose to call democrats&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;(in reality extreme Islamic jihadists)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; rose up in rebellion against him, our ideology and what we (mis)-perceived as our political self-interest &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;(actually Obama's)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; required that we side against him, we attacked his country, bombed his military and his government, bombed his residence, drove him from power, and now we have killed him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will not become a moral relativist and make the despicable statement, which some commentators on the anti-war right have made, that the U.S. is as immoral as the Soviet Union. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nevertheless, there is now &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;significant and terrible overlap&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; between the behavior of the U.S.S.R and the behavior of the (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Obama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) United States. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;We are no longer a moral state&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;we are not a state under the rule of law. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;We are, as Solzhenitsyn said of the Soviet Union,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;an ideological state, a state that will do anything, violate any agreement, betray any ally or friend, tell any lie, cover up any truth, in order to advance its ideology and its power that is associated with that ideology&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In betraying and killing a foreign leader with whom we had made peace, we have taken on terrible karma. I tremble to think of how that karma will manifest itself against us in the years to come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: magenta;"&gt;(A comparison of Obama's actions creating another Khomeini type regime in Libya&amp;nbsp;and the similar bloodshed and suppression in the future has been examined in Persian language sites and time permitting, will appear here soon in both English and Farsi).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-5461680206775864878?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/5461680206775864878/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=5461680206775864878' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/5461680206775864878'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/5461680206775864878'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/10/obama-betrayer-including-of-america.html' title='OBAMA THE BETRAYER - INCLUDING OF AMERICA!'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E7rY28o1dno/Tqh0VbFY-wI/AAAAAAAADr0/9XGz3W1Pr8E/s72-c/ghaddafi+Oba.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-789632822694653917</id><published>2011-10-22T16:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-22T17:01:01.682-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DECEIVER OBAMA PROTECTS OUR ENEMIES'/><title type='text'>OBAMA DECREES VIRTUAL IMMUNITY  FOR ISLAMISTS !</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/6/islam-content-spurs-fbi-review-of-anti-terror-trai/"&gt;http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/6/islam-content-spurs-fbi-review-of-anti-terror-trai/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Islam content spurs FBI review of anti-terror training&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Shaun Waterman&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told a congressional hearing on Thursday that the bureau is conducting a review of training programs after disclosure of materials that equated devout Muslims with a greater propensity for violent extremism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Mueller said that one part of the training program disclosed in a press account was "inappropriate and offensive," [that would be the true part of the training in the first paragraph, don't you see. Muslim Brotherhood can't let that get out.---Dorrie] but that the session was a "one-off" and not likely to be repeated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We have undertaken a review from top to bottom of our counterterrorism training," Mr. Mueller said. "I think these are isolated incidents, and in the course of that review, we've had outreach to academicians and others to assist us in reviewing the materials and assuring that that offensive content does not appear."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The comments came in response to questions from Rep. Janice D. Schakowsky, Illinois Democrat, during a hearing before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, about leaked training materials from an FBI training session at its institute in Quantico, Va., in March.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The exchange prompted charges that Mr. Mueller was knuckling under to political correctness aimed at muzzling critics of Islam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The materials, Mrs. Schakowsky said, stated of Muslims that "the more religious they get, the more violent they are. And I understand that there's been training [sessions] where the Prophet Muhammad has actually been called a cult leader and [where] the Islamic practice of giving to charity [has been described as] no more than, quote, 'a funding mechanism for combat.'"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The FBI materials were first reported and posted online by Wired Magazine's Danger Room blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"In this particular instance," said Mr. Mueller, "reports of what had been in that training came up from the students [does one wonder if those were Muslim students?], and we took action to assure that that inappropriate, offensive content was not provided to others."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He added that there had been "other instances [of training] that may include what would be perceived as offensive content."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The exchange highlights a long-running dispute, both about the counterterrorism training provided by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, but more deeply about the nature of the threat posed by the ideology of Islamic terrorism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Mueller "is saying that this correlation [between piety and violence] is offensive because Islamic supremacist groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) tell him that it offends them," said Robert Spencer, a writer on Islam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Spencer is one of those whose training presentations for law enforcement - including for the FBI - have been criticized as anti-Muslim. CAIR describes itself as a civil rights organization and denies any link to terrorism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;"Mueller and the FBI have departed from a pursuit of the truth and are following a politically correct agenda that makes us all less safe,"&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Mr. Spencer told the Times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;John Guandolo, a former FBI agent and another counterterrorism trainer, called it "outrageous" that "almost the only people our leaders in national security and law enforcement are looking to for guidance about Islam" are representatives of groups like CAIR, which he said is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, a global political network that promotes Islamic law and a political view of Islam as not just a personal faith, but a code for the whole of society.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The FBI director's job is not to be the politically correct police, but to look at facts and evidence," Mr. Guandolo said. "The fact is, the major threat does not come from terrorist attacks. It comes from the Muslim Brotherhood."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-administration-pulls-references-islam-terror-training-materials-044605689.html"&gt;http://news.yahoo.com/obama-administration-pulls-references-islam-terror-training-materials-044605689.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;Obama administration pulls references to Islam from terror training materials, official says&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Daily Caller&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole confirmed on Wednesday that the Obama administration was pulling back all training materials used for the law enforcement and national security communities, in order to eliminate all references to Islam that some Muslim groups have claimed are offensive.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I recently directed all components of the Department of Justice to re-evaluate their training efforts in a range of areas, from community outreach to national security," Cole told a panel at the George Washington University law school.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The move comes after complaints from advocacy organizations including the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and others &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;identified as Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the 2004 Holy Land Foundation terror fundraising trial.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a Wednesday Los Angeles Times op-ed, Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) president Salam al-Marayati threatened the FBI with a total cutoff of cooperation between American Muslims and law enforcement if the agency failed to revise its law enforcement training materials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maintaining the training materials in their current state "will undermine the relationship between law enforcement and the Muslim American community," al-Marayati wrote.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;Multiple online sources detail MPAC's close alignment with CAIR.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In his op-ed, Al-Marayati demanded that the Justice Department and the FBI "issue a clear and unequivocal &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;apology&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to the Muslim American community" and "establish a thorough and transparent vetting process in selecting its trainers and materials." &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[Man, these people really do think they're hot stuff, don't they?--Dorrie]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Specifically, al-Marayati called for a new "interagency task force" to review the training materials" --- a task force including representatives of the Islamist organizations the FBI is tasked with monitoring.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt; [I know this is an old and tired saying, but it really is the fox demanding the right to be in the hen house, isn't it?]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;Some believe the Obama administration's Justice Department will go even further.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The Attorney General has announced what sounds like reprogramming if they find people who have actually received training" that Islamist groups find objectionable, Center for Security Policy president Frank Gaffney told The Daily Caller. Gaffney is co-author of a report, published by the Center, titled Sharia: The Threat to America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dwight C. Holton, the U.S. Attorney in Oregon said he had spoken with Holder directly about the issue of the terror training materials. Holton is the federal prosecutor who announced the arrest of so-called "Christmas tree bomber" Mohamed Osman Mohamud in 2010. That announcement made no mention of Mohamud's Muslim faith.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I want to be perfectly clear about this: training materials that portray Islam as a religion of violence or with a tendency towards violence are wrong, they are offensive, and they are contrary to everything that this president, this attorney general and Department of Justice stands for," Holton said Wednesday. "They will not be tolerated."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Such training materials "pose a significant threat to national security, because they play into the false narrative propagated by terrorists that the United States is at war with Islam," he added. &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;(No! They are at war with the USA and we need to defend ourselves)!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a Sept. 12 letter to White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan in September, Democratic Senate Homeland Security committee chair Joe Lieberman and ranking Republican member Susan Collins called for "meaningful standards" to govern counterterrorism training materials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Proper training about violent Islamist extremism is absolutely essential for our law enforcement personnel in order to empower them to identify and understand this grave threat, and then protect the American people from it," the senators wrote. "Part of this training must be an understanding of the clear and profound difference between Islamist extremism, which is a totalitarian political ideology that is at war with us, and Islam, which is a religion practiced by more than a billion people around the world, including millions of law-abiding and loyal Americans."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FBI analyst William Gawthrup is one of several experts on Islam whose training materials arouse the ire of the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated groups. At the beginning of a videotaped presentation showing one of his training modules, Gawthrup makes exactly the same distinction demanded by Sen. Lieberman. The video was published online in June.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Understand that what we are going to be doing is (&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CORRECTLY!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt; looking at Islam as an &lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;ideology, not as a religion&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt;,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Gawthrup says in the video."What's the difference? Religion is man's relationship to his deity. In the United States, we protect it under the first amendment. We're going to set it aside. We are not going to discuss religion. We are going to discuss Islam as an ideology: "man's relationship to other men.We're going to be discussing that component of Islam that is nonreligious.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;That component comprises about 83 percent of the ideology. Islam is only about 17 percent religious&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The other 83 percent discusses the relationship [of Muslims] with the non-Islamic world."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now the Obama administration is establishing an advisory panel to vet terror-training materials for law enforcement and the intelligence community "that is comprised of people from the same organizations that are cited as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation terror fund-raising trial," according to Gaffney.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reviewing these decisions at a forum about Sharia on Thursday, former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy said the effort to include such groups as reviewers of training materials &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;would have a "paralyzing" effect on law enforcement. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(EXACTLY WHAT MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD ACTIVISTS OPERATING OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE AND MOSLEM PUPPET OBAMA WANT)&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"What you're doing is empowering the worst elements of the American Islamic community, which are the leadership elements linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, and you're selling out the rank and file of American Muslims," McCarthy said. [Not to mention the American non-Muslims.]&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-789632822694653917?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/789632822694653917/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=789632822694653917' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/789632822694653917'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/789632822694653917'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/10/obama-decrees-virtual-immunity-for.html' title='OBAMA DECREES VIRTUAL IMMUNITY  FOR ISLAMISTS !'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-476280752884911563</id><published>2011-10-08T13:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-08T13:21:12.331-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TERRORISTS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='OBAMA'/><title type='text'>OBAMA - RADICAL MOSLEM &amp; TERRORIST SUPPORTER</title><content type='html'>How Obama Got Around Congress Withholding $200 M In Aid To The 'Palestinians'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Rob Miller&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A story in the UK Independent says that the US Congress showed its displeasure with the 'Palestinians' going unilaterally to the UN by withholding $200 million in aid that was supposed to be disbursed to Mahmoud Abbas' little fiefdom by the end of this fiscal year, which ended October 1st.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being part of the British press and sharing their well known attitude towards Israel, the article is sympathetic to Abbas, referring to him as being 'punished' and inferring that the US Congress is under the thumb of those Evil Zionists, rather than being upset with the 'Palestinians' for allying with Hamas or for abrogating their agreements under two treaties the US is signatory to, the Road Map and The Oslo Accords.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, there are indications that this was a set up and if my source is correct, both the Obama Administration and the 'Palestinians' were privy to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of my notorious Little Birdies works directly in the 'Palestinian Authority' and we've been correspondents for some time, sort of frenemies, if you get my meaning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My source had a good laugh at Congresses' action. According to this person, the Obama Administration was aware for some time that the final $200 million might be withheld by Congress and informed the 'Palestinians' in advance. The Obama Administration promised the 'Palestinians' that they would do their best to head this off, but when they couldn't, an arrangement was made with the Saudis to make up the missing $200 million in advance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That rang a bell...and showed me that as usual, my source was almost certainly correct.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A scant ten days ago, the Saudis gifted Mahmoud Abbas and the 'Palestinians' with the exact sum the US Congress was withholding from them...$200 million.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My source didn't speculate, but knowing how these things work it's almost guaranteed that the Saudis either received the money from the Obama Administration directly to give to the 'Palestinians' or more likely, that the Saudis supplied the cash in exchange for an American quid pro quo somewhere else down the line.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Obama is going to see to it that the 'Palestinians' receive their jizya no matter what..and a little thing like Congress certainly isn't going to stop him if he can help it.&lt;br /&gt;Rob Miller writes for Joshuapundit. His work has appeared in The Jerusalem Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The San Francisco Chronicle, Andrew Breitbart's Big Peace and other publications.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For Comments&amp;nbsp; go to: &lt;a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/10/how_obama_got_around_congress_withholding_200_m_in_aid_to_the_palestinians.html"&gt;how_obama_got_around_congress &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;READ MORE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-476280752884911563?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/476280752884911563/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=476280752884911563' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/476280752884911563'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/476280752884911563'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/10/obama-radical-moslem-terrorist.html' title='OBAMA - RADICAL MOSLEM &amp; TERRORIST SUPPORTER'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-3520384365543483257</id><published>2011-09-25T19:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-25T19:24:37.319-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SHEBAB'/><title type='text'>COMPASSIONATE ISLAM IN ACTION - SOMALIA</title><content type='html'>SOMALIA'S Al-Qaeda linked rebels said today they have begun moving more than 12,000 starving families back into famine zones they had fled, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;areas where the UN have warned they will die without help.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;Draconian aid restrictions imposed by the extremist Shebab&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; are blamed for turning harsh drought across the Horn of Africa into famine &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;in the areas they control,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; with 750,000 people at risk of death in coming months, the United Nations warns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The mujahedeen fighters, in their bid to help people displaced by drought, started working on plans to send them back home &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;where they will be assisted&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;God willing,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; said Sheik Mahad Abu-Safiya, a senior Shebab official.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The families, estimated to number at least 50,000 people, were "taken back to their homes with packages to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;feed them for three months&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;", he added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Witnesses said the packages included rice, maize and cooking oil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, the Shebab have refused most international assistance, and blocked people fleeing drought and famine in Bay and Bakool regions from travelling in search of aid to Mogadishu, where relief efforts are centered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Crowded trucks began moving people late on Wednesday from camps in and around the Shebab-held town of Baidoa back to their original villages, up to 50 kilometres southwest of the town, officials and witnesses said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The process has started and we have moved the first of the 12,000 displaced families to their original locations", Mohamed Walid, another Shebab official, told reporters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Most of the displaced people were moved from a big camp at Baidoa airport, they were taken on long trucks," said witness Osmail Mohamed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shebab fighters last month pulled out of positions in the war-torn capital Mogadishu where they were battling the weak Western-backed government but still control swathes of south and central Somalia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The United Nations has declared six regions in south Somalia famine zones, the majority in Shebab-controlled areas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drought, high food prices and fighting in Somalia has increased the number of those in need of humanitarian assistance across the Horn of Africa to 13.3 million, according to the United Nations.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-3520384365543483257?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/3520384365543483257/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=3520384365543483257' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/3520384365543483257'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/3520384365543483257'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/09/compassionate-islam-in-action-somalia.html' title='COMPASSIONATE ISLAM IN ACTION - SOMALIA'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-8364089023308237768</id><published>2011-09-18T13:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-18T13:52:06.167-07:00</updated><title type='text'>MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD  IN TERRORIST WHITE HOUSE</title><content type='html'>Michelle Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Eileen F. Toplansky&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;With the news that "[i]nfiltration of the federal government by members of the radical Muslim Brotherhood is worse than some have warned," it should come as no surprise that while Obama has been courting Muslim Brotherhood operatives, his wife has also gotten into the act.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the toolkit site, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"[t]he Let's Move! initiative, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;started by First Lady Michelle Obama&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, has an ambitious national goal of addressing the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation, so that children born today reach a healthy adulthood. Let's Move! engages every sector impacting the health of children and provides schools, families, and communities with simple tools to help kids be more active, eat better, and get healthy."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;"[f]aith-based and neighborhood organizations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; have a unique and critical role to play in ending childhood obesity and addressing related issues of hunger. &lt;strong&gt;Your organizations are trusted leaders in your community&lt;/strong&gt;, which makes you well-positioned to take action. Children learn many lessons about healthy living and well-being in faith- and community-based settings that set the foundation for their lifestyles as adults.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's Move Faith and Communities is designed to help faith-based and neighborhood organizations transform neighborhoods, engage communities, and promote healthy choices."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consequently, towards the end of July 2011, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;IRUSA or Islamic Relief USA&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, "a faith-based disaster relief and development organization, celebrated the inauguration of its Summer Food Service Program ... at the An Nur School in Lanham, Maryland." The White House announced that IRUSA "ha[d] a collaborative partnership with the USDA's Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and that IRUSA ha[d] pledged to host 50 sites as part of a Michelle Obama initiative."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So while an &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;FBI&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; "agent confirmed that at &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;least three operatives&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; of the Egypt-based Brotherhood -- whose credo is 'Jihad is our way and death in the cause of Allah is our dream' -- have &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;penetrated the Obama administration&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;," the First Lady is now dealing with an organization that boasts of such people as Yaser Haddara who is a member of the IRUSA board since 2006 and its chairman until May 2011. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the IRUSA's own site, "Dr. Haddara was one of the developers and lead trainers for the Student Leadership Training Program that was jointly sponsored by the Muslim American Society and the Muslim Association of Canada. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Haddara has been actively involved in several community organizations including the Islamic Society at Stanford University, the Muslim Community Association of the Bay Area, the Islamic Society of North America (Western Region), the Muslim American Society, and the Muslim Association of Canada."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the main front organizations of the Muslim Brotherhood, the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Islamic Society of North America's "leadership does not accept Islamic practices that fall outside the version of Islam propagated by Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore, in addition to terrorism, ... the Muslim Brotherhood [spreads] political Islam, which weds religion, politics,&amp;nbsp;SOCIETAL RULES, SHARIA LAW&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;AND&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; MILITARY ASPECTS) into a potent force that clashes with pluralistic democracies."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the 2007 report entitled Extremism and the Islamic Society of North America, "ISNA is clearly connected to Islamic radicals and terrorist organizations, but it is not simply guilty by association -- its own ideology is marked by extreme social, political, and religious views."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hence, "ISNA's ideology is its leaders' views of Islam within the context of religion and politics, where they believe in Islamic supremacy" as exemplified in the following statement: "[i]n considering the earth as an arena for Islam, Allah has promised its inheritance to His righteous people, and He has promised that Islam Will prevail over other religions."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So how does one reconcile this with IRUSA's CEO Abed Ayoub who claims that "IRUSA's mission is to alleviate suffering, hunger, illiteracy, and disease regardless of color, race, gender, or creed"?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also troubling is the point that "[a]ccording to the most influential Islamic authorities, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;zakat (alms in Arabic) can be given only to Muslims&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;So how does this figure in Michelle Obama's outreach program?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Moreover, in January of 2011, Daniel Pipes described how &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;"Islamic 'charities' squander money."&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; He explained how the Islamic Society of North America's Canada branch had engaged in "gross mismanagement" whereby less than one-quarter of monies collected went to the Muslim recipients. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pipes further explained that "ISNA's management refused to give the auditor all the necessary documents" and thus it was not possible to follow "the trail of funds transferred from ISNA to other organizations[.]" Pipes ends his article by stating that "Islamic 'charities' already have a notorious reputation because of their ties to terrorism; this case shows that they must be watched for more venal problems as well."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Further nefarious associations go to the Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW). IRW has had directors who are linked to the U.K. and European Muslim Brotherhood. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One director was a former minister of religious affairs in the Sudan and also held numerous positions associated with the global Muslim Brotherhood. In 2006 the Israeli government announced "the arrest of an IRW worker for activities related to supporting Hamas." Moreover, "Islamic Relief was one of the founding members of the Union of Good." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Steven Merley of the Hudson Institute, "[t]he Union of Good is a coalition of Islamic charities that provides financial support to both the Hamas 'social' infrastructure, as well as its terrorist activities.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt; It is headed by global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and most of the trustees and member organizations are associated with the global Muslim Brotherhood. The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Union of Good&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was banned by Israel in 2002 and was recently &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;designated a terrorist entity by the United States[.]"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As far back as 2004, Daniel Pipes described the Muslim American Society (MAS) and explained "how it seeks to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;replace the Constitution with the Koran&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;." Though the MAS "goes about its work quietly; it is none the less dangerous -- and perhaps more so -- for that."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In August 2010, the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Muslim Brotherhood-associated "Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations" (CCMO&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) brought Muslim leaders to attend a special workshop presented by the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;White House and U.S. government agencies (including Homeland Security&lt;/span&gt;) to "&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;provide the groups &lt;u&gt;'funding&lt;/u&gt;, &lt;u&gt;government&lt;/u&gt; assistance and &lt;u&gt;resources&lt;/u&gt;."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to a post by Christine Brim at Andrew Breitbart's Big Peace, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;"the workshop [would] apparently provide special access for these Muslim Brotherhood organizations: the organizers pledge[d] to provide 'direct access' and 'cut through red tape.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;' &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And after the workshop an Iftar dinner (breaking the fast of Ramadan) commenced. The event was announced by the ISNA, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism finance trial." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notwithstanding the concern about the Muslim Brotherhood connections, Meghan Clyne, editor of National Affairs at the Weekly Standard, asserts that while "[m]uch of what the [Michelle Obama] toolkit recommends is innocuous -- encouraging churches to host kids' intramural sports leagues, for instance. ... several sections illustrate the Obamas' strange understanding of the role of religious communities in America and suggest how, under this president, faith-based offices at the White House and in the agencies have changed their mission and purview." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For Clyne "[m]ost worrisome, ... are the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;administration's efforts to have congregations place themselves in the service of government as recruiters for the welfare state" ...&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and "[t]his approach is a marked departure from the original purpose of the White House faith-based initiative. Launched at the outset of President George W. Bush's first term, the initiative was largely intended to allow religious entities to compete on an equal footing with secular ones for grants to deliver social services. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When it came to treating addicts, rehabilitating prisoners, mentoring children, sheltering the homeless, and, yes, feeding the hungry, the Bush administration argued that faith-based organizations often had better records of efficiency and compassion than government programs. But rather than reducing the public's dependence on government-run programs by empowering faith-based organizations, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;[the Obama] White House seems to view churches, synagogues, and so on as tools to increase reliance on programs designed in Washington&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;"They're turning this on its head&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;," said Rev. Richard Land, who handles public policy for the Southern Baptist Convention. The wisdom of the original faith-based initiative -- about which he was initially skeptical, Land explains -- was "to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;have people who live in a zip code making the decisions&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; about what are the best ways to alleviate the problem in that zip code," rather than being pushed to follow some &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;federal initiative&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Under the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Obama&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; administration, Land said, "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;the White House says what your priorities should be&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It appears that political strategists in the White House are mindful of the demographics which "serve the President's electoral interests" in this faith-based program. Moreover, is it ever a good "idea for churches to provide platforms for politicians -- or First Ladies" no matter which political party? And, most troubling, "increased dependence on government [ultimately] services the interests of the party that represents big government," leading us farther down the road to less independence and decision-making.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So here's the mix: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;greater government interference coupled with possible Muslim Brotherhood influence even though the Muslim Brotherhood "is one of the most dangerous Islamic groups in the world today." Is this a recipe for disaster?&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eileen can be reached at &lt;a href="mailto:middlemarch18@gmail.com"&gt;middlemarch18@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-8364089023308237768?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/8364089023308237768/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=8364089023308237768' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/8364089023308237768'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/8364089023308237768'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/09/moslem-brotherhood-in-terorist-white.html' title='MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD  IN TERRORIST WHITE HOUSE'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-4642674702781135019</id><published>2011-09-05T18:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-09-05T18:13:37.150-07:00</updated><title type='text'>NUCLEAR IRAN AND ISRAEL</title><content type='html'>By LOUIS RENÉ BERES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The expected effects of an Iranian nuclear attack. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the dead land This is cactus land.... T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For a variety of reasons, neither Israel nor the US has exercised its lawful right of anticipatory self-defense against Iran. As a result, Iran’s entry into the Nuclear Club is effectively a fait accompli. In Israel, remaining self-defense options will necessarily be limited to inherently fallible programs and expanded active defense. Unlike a no-longer-viable preemptive option, these programs would come into play only &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;after &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;an Iranian nuclear force has been deployed, or after an Iranian nuclear attack. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is also a vital antecedent question. Should Washington and Jerusalem expect a newly-nuclear Tehran to be fully rational? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What could happen to Israel if certain Iranian leaders with nuclear weapons value certain presumed &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;religious&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; obligations more highly than their own state’s survival? (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;Like Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi and his Hojatieh&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) Ironically, and notwithstanding growing hopes for democracy, a regime change in Tehran could yield a heightened likelihood of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;irrationality&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There can be no assurances that any post-Ahmadinejad regime would be “better.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;IRRATIONALITY is not the same as madness&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Even an irrational Iranian leadership could retain a distinct hierarchy of preferences. This would likely be less dangerous than facing a genuinely mad adversary, or one that is entirely unpredictable. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In any event, as it is not up to Israel to decide which type of adversary it would prefer, Jerusalem needs to plan carefully for all three contingencies. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whether rational, irrational or mad, any Iranian leadership that slouches toward major conflict with the “Zionist entity” could, perhaps in less than three years, unleash regional nuclear war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This could be deliberate or inadvertent, as a “bolt from the blue,” or as a fully unintended result of an inexorable religious commitment to Jihad against “unbelievers,” let alone for much more mundane reasons such as miscalculation, accident or coup d’état.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Like the very serious, potentially mass destruction/biological&amp;nbsp;weaponry obtained by Al Qaeda in Libya).&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thirty-one years ago, I published the first of 10 books that contained authoritative descriptions of the consequences of nuclear war – any nuclear war. These descriptions were drawn largely from a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;still-valid 1975&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;report&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; by the National Academy of Sciences, and included the following outcomes: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;large temperature changes; &lt;br /&gt;contamination of food and water; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;disease epidemics in crops, domesticated animals and humans due to ionizing radiation; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;shortening of growing seasons; &lt;br /&gt;irreversible injury to aquatic species; &lt;br /&gt;widespread and long-term cancers due to inhalation of plutonium particles; &lt;br /&gt;radiation-induced abnormalities in persons in utero at the time of detonations; &lt;br /&gt;a vast growth in the number of skin cancers, and increasing genetic disease. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Overwhelming health problems would afflict the survivors. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These difficulties would extend beyond prompt burn injuries. Retinal burns would even occur in people far from the actual explosions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tens of thousands would be crushed by collapsing buildings, or torn to shreds by flying glass. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Others would fall victim to raging firestorms. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fallout injuries would include whole-body radiation; superficial radiation burns produced by soft radiation; and injuries produced by deposits of radioactive substances in the body. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After an Iranian nuclear attack – even a “small” one – those few medical facilities that might still exist in Israel would be taxed beyond capacity. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Water supplies would become unusable. Housing and shelter could be unavailable for millions. Transportation would revert to rudimentary levels. Food shortages would be critical and long-term. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Virtually everyone would be deprived of the most basic means of livelihood. Emergency police and fire services would be decimated. All systems dependent on electrical power could stop. Severe trauma would occasion widespread disorientation and psychiatric disorders. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Normal human society would cease. Unrestrained murder and banditry could soon augment plague and epidemics. Many survivors would suffer serious degenerative diseases. They would also expect impaired vision and sterility. An increased incidence of leukemia and cancers of the lung, stomach, breast, ovary and cervix would be unavoidable. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israelis who survive would still have to deal with mushrooming insect hordes spreading from the radiation-damaged areas. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tens or even hundreds of thousands of rotting corpses would pose the largest health threat. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Insects are generally more resistant to radiation than humans. This fact, coupled with uncontrolled waste and untreated sewage, would generate tens of trillions of flies and mosquitoes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These insects would make it impossible to control typhus, malaria, dengue fever and encephalitis. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Reciprocally, all these effects would be unleashed upon Iran. An immediate massive Israeli retaliation would be certain. In Iran, the eagerly expected joys of “martyrdom” would fade in a flash.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IN ITS newest report, released in June 2011, the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) “remains concerned about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed nuclear-related activities involving military-related organizations.” Now, when effective preemption or “anticipatory selfdefense” by Israel or the US is likely no longer practicable, and when any sustained nuclear deterrence would be unstable and unpredictable, Jerusalem may need to place most of its survival bets on ballistic missile defense (the Arrow and the shorterrange Iron Dome). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These gambles cannot be permitted to fail – an imperative that may require IDF planners to begin disclosing specific features of Israel’s nuclear posture, including limited information about secure nuclear bases, counter-city targeting, and cumulative penetration capability. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If, for any reason, these efforts to reduce “deliberate ambiguity” do not succeed, there would be no lilacs to breed out of the now “dead land.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rather, before anything fully human could be born, a pitifully sorrowful gravedigger would have to wield the forceps.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-4642674702781135019?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/4642674702781135019/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=4642674702781135019' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/4642674702781135019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/4642674702781135019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/09/nuclear-iran-and-israel.html' title='NUCLEAR IRAN AND ISRAEL'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-4279410551048933154</id><published>2011-08-30T23:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-30T23:35:19.793-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BARE NAKED ISLAM'/><title type='text'>YOU DECIDE, WHO IS WRONG, WHO IS RIGHT</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Courtesy Bare Naked Islam &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/about/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"&gt;click here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o&gt;&lt;/o&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Canadian Hindu Advocacy’s director Ron Banerjee says, “In its entire history, Islamic civilization has invented and contributed less to human advancement than a pack of donkeys.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;IS IT ISLAMOPHOBIA WHEN THEY REALLY &lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;ARE&lt;/span&gt; TRYING TO KILL YOU?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Banerjee says he wants to “fight the Islamization of our society” and, lately, of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). He’s demanding that Valley Park Middle School in Flemingdon Park stop giving space to Muslim students in the cafeteria after lunch on Fridays.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sphCkOX6YtI/Tl3Hfw4IMzI/AAAAAAAADlk/nvxBwO78bgY/s1600/school.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="302px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sphCkOX6YtI/Tl3Hfw4IMzI/AAAAAAAADlk/nvxBwO78bgY/s400/school.bmp" width="400px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And judging by the writer’s, HAROON SIDDIQUI spin on this story, (below) muslims and lefties don’t like it one bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YbV_RvyeB1k/Tl3Hz2aQSTI/AAAAAAAADlo/RAHj_l_exRw/s1600/tdsb.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="364px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YbV_RvyeB1k/Tl3Hz2aQSTI/AAAAAAAADlo/RAHj_l_exRw/s640/tdsb.bmp" width="640px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Star:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He does not live in the area but claims to have “received many complaints from terrified Hindu students and parents (who) felt that the TDSB was so thoroughly infected with Islamist sympathies that they would suffer consequences for speaking up.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GlNGEJNqNX4/Tl3OwD_wRrI/AAAAAAAADlw/-qlPwEBWpoI/s1600/school3.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="291px" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GlNGEJNqNX4/Tl3OwD_wRrI/AAAAAAAADlw/-qlPwEBWpoI/s400/school3.bmp" width="400px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Frankly, I don’t believe what he says,” principal Nick Stefanoff says. “I’ve not had a single complaint from any non-Muslim parents. We have dozens of Hindu students and we have a great relationship with them and their parents. When the Indian cricket team played Sri Lanka in the World Cup final (in April in Mumbai), Hindu and Muslim kids came to the school at 4 a.m. to watch it together. They had a great time.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He says that several of Banerjee’s assertions are wrong — that other kids are denied access to the cafeteria (the prayer is held after lunch when the place is vacant); that prayer is interfering with classes (all classes start on time); and that “secular education” is compromised (class content is decidedly not affected).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I think he just makes it all up,” says Stefanoff. “He never asked me a thing. Why doesn’t he come and talk to me?” Banerjee has speculated that the praying students may be subject to “inflammatory preaching” against Hindus. There’s no such evidence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KG-LznFNXEY/Tl3PcFzRtII/AAAAAAAADl0/WhzB0RvL1Ns/s1600/school5.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="267px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KG-LznFNXEY/Tl3PcFzRtII/AAAAAAAADl0/WhzB0RvL1Ns/s400/school5.bmp" width="400px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet he plans to picket the school just when the Muslims begin praying in the new school year. “Let’s see how much praying they can do with our loudspeakers. . . . If our loudness disrupts their prayers, so be it.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Banerjee’s views echo those of extremist Hindus in India, a minority there. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, he thinks India’s ruling secular Congress Party, “which depends heavily on Muslim votes,” is “a curse” on that country. Congress led India’s struggle against British colonial rule and has been elected more times than any other party since 1947.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--P3dgqiNa1Q/Tl3QDfT9Y3I/AAAAAAAADl4/ynwiA9aDCWc/s1600/school4.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266px" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--P3dgqiNa1Q/Tl3QDfT9Y3I/AAAAAAAADl4/ynwiA9aDCWc/s400/school4.bmp" width="400px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joining Banerjee’s crusade are the fundamentalist Christian Heritage Party, the Jewish Defence League (JDL) and the Canadian Muslim Congress. The latter is notorious in the Muslim community for attacking fellow-Muslims and being the darling of Islamophobes and right-wing media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8D3P7LNJCiI/Tl3KXURPa4I/AAAAAAAADls/rLw3Uzykw2I/s1600/school6.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="425px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8D3P7LNJCiI/Tl3KXURPa4I/AAAAAAAADls/rLw3Uzykw2I/s640/school6.bmp" width="640px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Boys pray in front. Girls pray in the back. Menstruating girls banished to Siberia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In January, when the Jewish Defence Legue made common cause with a racist (Oh, please, Islam is not a race, it’s a death cult) British group, the English Defence League, Banerjee was at their Toronto rally, which was opposed by the Canadian (Uber Leftie) Jewish Congress. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bernie Farber, then CEO, said: “When extremists come together, we all too often get a combustible reaction. . . . Using the tactics of hooligans, whether from the right or the left, is appalling.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Banerjee is also in bed with a handful of Canadians who are fans of Dutch anti-Muslim politician Geert Wilders. When they held a rally for him in Toronto last year, Banerjee spoke in glowing terms about Wilders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lR99xgbEmUE/Tl3RzzkqMfI/AAAAAAAADmA/ubJvBrKp9kY/s1600/wanta+you+dead.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="323px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lR99xgbEmUE/Tl3RzzkqMfI/AAAAAAAADmA/ubJvBrKp9kY/s400/wanta+you+dead.bmp" width="400px" xaa="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Banerjee describes his group as the voice of “real Hindus.” Other times he claims it to be “the leading” voice for Canadian Hindus. This annoys the large and well-respected Canadian Hindu organizations, whom he keeps attacking:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Canadian Hindu temples and groups have proven themselves unable or unwilling to protect Hindu lives, rights or property. The Canadian Hindu Advocacy was formed to address this, and our national advocacy shall continue to provide real leadership to our oppressed community, which is by far the most victimized in Canada.”&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-4279410551048933154?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/4279410551048933154/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=4279410551048933154' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/4279410551048933154'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/4279410551048933154'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/08/you-decide-who-is-wrong-who-is-right.html' title='YOU DECIDE, WHO IS WRONG, WHO IS RIGHT'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sphCkOX6YtI/Tl3Hfw4IMzI/AAAAAAAADlk/nvxBwO78bgY/s72-c/school.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-6200533927606286448</id><published>2011-08-27T14:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-27T14:06:17.785-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ISLAMIC DUALISM'/><title type='text'>ISLAM AND THE WEST'S GOLDEN RULE</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/islam-is-not-part-of-our-civilization/"&gt;http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/islam-is-not-part-of-our-civilization/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thursday, August 25, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Islam Is Not Part of Our Civilization &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;Obama said THIS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; at the latest White House &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Iftar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; dinner:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;"Like so many faiths, Islam has always been part of our American family, and Muslim Americans have long contributed to the strength and character of our country, in all walks of life".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;These words have no basis in fact&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Islam is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;not part of our civilization&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; because &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;its foundational principles are opposite to ours&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Our civilization is built on the foundation of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;critical thought&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (how we think) and the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Golden Rule&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;ethics&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;"&gt;Islam is built on &lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;submission&lt;/span&gt; (authoritative thought) and &lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;ethical dualism&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s compare the principles, of these different thought systems, starting with authoritative thought and critical thought. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Critical thought (also: analytic thought, scientific thought) is the necessary reasoning or intellectual basis for our culture of democracy. Critical thought is objective--&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;no matter who&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; does the work, they get the same results. It is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;fact-based, uses cause and effect, and is intellectual, not emotional&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Critical thought’s &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;tie&lt;/span&gt; into morals is that you don’t lie or cheat about &lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;data&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;Let’s look at some authoritative reasoning. Authoritative reasoning is based on expert opinion and asserts it truth by power. &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;It is so, because the Establishment says it is so.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Meccan &lt;/span&gt;Koran, the &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;early&lt;/span&gt; Koran,&lt;/strong&gt; has &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;one new idea&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;—Mohammed is the prophet of Allah. (The ideas found in the Koran &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;are derivative&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.) The proof of Mohammed’s prophecy is repetition of “Mohammed is the prophet” &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;and what happens if you don’t accept that.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;reasoning is circular&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;—Mohammed is the prophet of Allah, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;because Allah says&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; so. (Actually, the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;archangel of Allah&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; says so.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;How do we know what Allah says? &lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Mohammed&lt;/span&gt; tells us what Allah says.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;There is an apt Persian saying that when they asked a fox "who is your witness?" he replied "my bushy tail"!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Koran of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;Medina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;later Koran&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) contains &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;one new idea&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;—&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;if you don’t believe that Mohammed is the prophet of Allah, then you &lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;can be murdered in jihad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. If you are not persuaded, then you can be eliminated. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;Now that is authoritative reasoning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More on authoritative reasoning can be found in the Sharia. The Sharia says that &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;apostasy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;leaving Islam&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) is a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;capital offense&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;And what entails apostasy?&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• To be sarcastic about Allah or any verse in the Koran&lt;br /&gt;• To deny the consensus of the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Islamic scholars&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• To &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;deny that Islam is to be the world’s &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;ONLY &lt;/span&gt;religion&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;•&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; To be sarcastic about Sharia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And people say that Islam just needs to be reformed. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;Good luck on dealing the authoritative rules of thought and reform.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;not that you are wrong&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, you are &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: large;"&gt;dead&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; wrong. Want more examples of authoritative thought? Try Salman Rushdie, the author of the Satanic Verses, a novel. Islam’s reaction to the novel was a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;death&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; fatwa. When the Mohammed cartoons were published, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;people died in riots&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So far in America what happens if you differ with Establishment thought about Islam, you are called names, such as bigot or hater, and insulted as a punishment. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, the Obama Establishment &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;keeps flirting with the expanded versions of hate speech being criminalized&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hate speech is speech that the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;Establishment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;the Obama administration&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) doesn’t like.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Critical thought does not deal with punishment, just cause and effect along with Aristotelian logic. If you lose an argument under the rules of critical thought, you have had a learning experience, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;not a life threatening experience. Nor do insults and threats play a part in critical thought.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now to ethics, the Golden Rule is that we should treat &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;ALL &lt;/span&gt;others as we would be treated&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is an &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;unitary&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; ethic, one rule for all peoples. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;Islam does not see it that way&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Islam has one set of ethics for the Muslim and another set for the Kafir. The Hadith and the Koran are very clear that a Muslim is a brother to all other Muslims. A Muslim is a brother to any Muslim before &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;he is the brother to any member of his Kafir blood family.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at Mohammed’s ethics. Mohammed is the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;divine human prototype&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the perfect man, as it says in 91 Koranic verses. How did Mohammed treat his neighbor? In Medina he gave neighboring tribes the chance to become to submit to Islam. If they did not, he attacked them. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;Submit or die--no Golden Rule.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mohammed repeatedly said that Muslims (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;like Obama&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;should lie to Kafirs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; if it &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;would advance Islam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;—pure ethical &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;dualism&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Here we have the hadith:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Bukhari 5,59,369 Mohammed asked, “Who will kill Ka’b, the enemy of Allah and Mohammed?”&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Bin Maslama rose and responded, “O Mohammed! Would it please you if I killed him?”&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Mohammed answered, “Yes.”&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Bin Maslama then said, “Give me permission to deceive him with lies so that my plot will succeed.”&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Mohammed replied, “You may speak falsely to him.”…&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Constitution’s Bill of Rights is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;an expansion on the Golden Rule&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. We eliminated slavery based on the Golden Rule. Do we live up to the Golden Rule on every occasion? No, but that does not diminish its guidance, because we can use the Golden Rule to criticize those that fail to meet it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To sum it all up: our civilization is based on the principles of the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Golden Rule&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and critical thought. Islam is based on &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;dualistic ethics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;authoritative&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; thought. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;no compromise&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; between the opposites of the Golden Rule and dualistic ethics. There is no half-way between authoritative thought and critical thought. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;Islam’s&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;principle of submission means that only active resistance can let us survive.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have a 1400 year history of the interaction between Islam and Kafir nations. The data matches the theory. Centuries after Islam enters the culture the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;host culture&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;annihilated&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;--see Turkey. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no compatibility between Islam and us. Islam is not now, nor can it ever be, a part of our civilization. It is the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;final goal of Islam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;"&gt;annihilate all Kafir civilizations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Its first stage of --we are just like you, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;only different&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;— should be seen for what it is. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Is that exactly what Obama is doing to us, on behalf of his Moslem Brotherhood buddies, around the globe and inside America with his destructive activities?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;No amount of preaching by apologists can change Islam’s OPENLY DECLARED political doctrine and history.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bill Warner, Director, Center for the Study of Political Islam&lt;br /&gt;Permalink &lt;a href="http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/islam-is-not-part-of-our-civilization/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/islam-is-not-part-of-our-civilization/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-6200533927606286448?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/6200533927606286448/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=6200533927606286448' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/6200533927606286448'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/6200533927606286448'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/08/islam-and-wests-golden-rule.html' title='ISLAM AND THE WEST&apos;S GOLDEN RULE'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-4463835457635617662</id><published>2011-08-24T15:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-24T15:29:02.604-07:00</updated><title type='text'>UANI - EYE ON IRAN 8/24</title><content type='html'>AP: "Iran has allowed a top U.N. atomic inspector access to a site where it is developing advanced centrifuges that can be used to make nuclear fuel and to arm warheads, diplomats told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The diplomats said that Deputy Director General Herman Nackaerts of the International Atomic Energy Agency also was allowed to tour Iran's heavy water production plant for the first time. Heavy water reactors - like the research unit being built by Iran - produce plutonium which, along with enriched uranium, can be used for the fissile core of nuclear warheads. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A senior diplomat familiar with the visit described the Iranian move as significant in demonstrating openness after years of stonewalling IAEA requests for greater access to restricted nuclear activities. Iran is under four sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions because it refuses to suspend both enrichment and its heavy water reactor program. Therefore any sign that it is ready to open a larger window is likely to blunt U.S.-led efforts to increase pressure on the Islamic Republic for defying the Security Council... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before Nackaerts' five-day visit, which ended Saturday, the IAEA was forced to rely on satellite imagery in concluding that the heavy water production plant was in operation. One of the diplomats said Nackaerts was able to confirm this on his visit." http://t.uani.com/qEarlb &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reuters: "North Korea has intensified its cooperation with Iran this year and supplied it with a computer program that could help the Islamic Republic build nuclear weapons, a German newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing western intelligence sources. The Sueddeutsche Zeitung said North Korea had in the spring delivered software, originally developed in the United States, that could simulate neutron flows. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Such calculations, linked to identifying a chain reaction, are vital in the construction of reactors and also in the development of nuclear explosives. With the help of the program, Iran could gain important knowledge of how to construct nuclear weapons, reported the newspaper which quoted no individual source. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If confirmed, it could add to Western suspicions about Iran's disputed nuclear activities and its links with North Korea, a secretive Asian state whose pursuit of nuclear weapons worries the world. A confidential U.N. report earlier this year said North Korea and Iran appeared to have been regularly exchanging ballistic missile technology in violation of U.N. sanctions." http://t.uani.com/qLsiR7 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LAT: "The European Union announced sanctions Wednesday against Iran's elite Al-Quds security force, saying it was providing Syria with materiel and other support to help Syrian President Bashar Assad crush that country's popular uprising. The sanctions represent the most direct international accusation that Iran is helping Syria to quell a 5-month campaign of opposition protests. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was no immediate public response from Iranian authorities to the sanctions, who have remained among Assad's strongest allies. The sanctions, published Wednesday in the EU's Official Journal, accuse Iran's Al-Quds force of 'providing equipment and support to help the Syria regime suppress revolts in Syria.' &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The EU sanctions will freeze assets and ban travel by certain individuals and entities. British newspapers previously have quoted unidentified Western diplomats as accusing Iran of providing riot-control and surveillance gear to Syria to help Assad's regime against dissidents." &lt;a href="http://t.uani.com/p16JH7"&gt;http://t.uani.com/p16JH7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nuclear Program &amp;amp; Sanctions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reuters: "A senior United Nations official visited all of Iran's main atomic sites last week, an Iranian news agency reported, as the Islamic Republic looks to restart talks with world powers about its nuclear program. Herman Nackaerts, the head of the 'safeguards' department of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), spent five days in Iran on a rare visit that coincided with a new push by Russia to re-start diplomatic talks. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The trip also happened as Iran started to move some of its uranium centrifuges to an underground bunker that would be less exposed to any strike by Israel or the United States... 'During this trip, the delegation visited Bushehr nuclear plant, enrichment facilities in Natanz and Fordow, nuclear sites in Isfahan ... and also the Arak heavy water reactor,' the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Iran's ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, as saying. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nackaerts, whose department is responsible for ensuring that nuclear material is not used for weapons, met Iran's nuclear chief Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani. 'There were talks on how to expand cooperations with the Agency and how to answer some of the Agency's questions,' Soltanieh said." http://t.uani.com/r50kwH &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Domestic Politics&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JPost: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;"Iran's suicide rate has climbed 17% in two years, with 10 Iranians on average taking their lives every day, a government official announced Wednesday. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahmad Shaja'i, the country's chief of forensic medicine, told the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) that suicides increased nearly 5% since last year, with 952 Iranians taking their lives during the first quarter of the Iranian year, which began in March, compared with 870 the same time last year. More than 70% of the suicides were men. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mehrdad Khonsari, a former Iranian diplomat, told The Media Line that suicide rates in Iran have always been higher than in the West, but that the aggravated economic and social conditions may have contributed to the new peak, mainly among the country's youth. 'Iranians don't live a normal life,' Khonsari told The Media Line. 'There are barriers to interaction between youth, forced marriages, and many young couples must live with their parents because they can't afford housing.'" http://t.uani.com/q3xnhw&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bloomberg: "Iran expects to find four new gas fields before the end of March 2012 following exploration now being carried out, the state-run Mehr news agency said, citing National Iranian Oil Co.'s director for exploration, Mahmoud Mohaddes. Iran recently discovered the Menar natural gas field located east of the southern port town of Assaluyeh, according to the Mehr report. The field holds 17.470 trillion cubic feet or 495 billion cubic meters of gas and some three fourth of it is recoverable, the report said." http://t.uani.com/oOaIiZ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Opinion &amp;amp; Analysis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michael Doran in FP: "The United States must therefore dispense entirely with grand strategies that seek to foster a conciliatory image of the United States and to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict. Instead, it should focus on the key challenge posed by the Arab uprisings: managing intra-Muslim conflict. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This requires returning to the question that Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah first posed to Obama: What is the strategy of the United States toward Iran? At stake in Syria today is nothing less than the future of the Iranian regional security system. It should not escape notice that the Saudis, though hostile to the populist wave in general, have now aligned themselves against Assad. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As much as they fear revolution, the Saudis fear the Islamic Republic of Iran even more, and they see the Syrian crisis as an opportunity to deal a severe blow to it. The United States should adopt a similar view. The contest on the ground in Syria, obviously, has profoundly local causes. Nevertheless, the regional struggle between Iran and its rivals will play a significant role in shaping it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After Assad falls, a proxy war will erupt, with outside powers seeking to cultivate Syrian clients. Iran and Hezbollah will use the covert and brutal methods that they have honed in Lebanon and Iraq. They will preserve what they can from the remnants of Assad's security services, while simultaneously arming and training new proxies. They will kill off and intimidate those Syrians who get in their way. The United States has a vital interest in thwarting Iran. To do so effectively, however, it must develop a serious and sustained regional containment strategy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The process of writing the new strategy begins, like before, in Riyadh and Ankara. This time, however, Obama should reverse his attitude toward the preferences of King Abdullah and Prime Minister Erdogan. The Syrian crisis offers a new opportunity to reach a strategic accommodation with the Saudis. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the same time, it should also force Washington to re-evaluate the Turks' no-problems policy. To date, this policy has worked to the net benefit of Iran and Syria and to the detriment of the United States. There is no reason to believe that it will produce a different result in the future." http://t.uani.com/oF5Jfg &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ramin Jahanbegloo in CSM: "When future generations look back, they will remember 2011 as the year of the end of dictators in the Middle East and the Maghreb. Libya's Muammar Qaddafi appears to have now joined the Middle East parade of despots rejected by an uprising. Practically nine months after Tunisia's President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was ousted after 23 years of authoritarian rule and the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was thrown out of power by a few weeks of protests in Tahrir Square, Qaddafi is at the end of his reign after 42 years of dictatorship... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So far, the remaining authoritarian regimes in the region such as Iran and Syria have sought to insulate themselves from an Egypt-like scenario. They continue to practice a high degree of violence against their opposition, believing they can hold onto power as long as they succeed in terrorizing their citizens... It remains to be seen whether Mr. Assad and Iran's Revolutionary Guards can manage to continue terrorizing their fellow citizens extensively enough to win a chance of dying in their own bed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leaving aside wishful thinking, what is certain is that the Syrian and Iranian regimes, even though they have lost their moral and political legitimacy, are doubling their efforts to crush and fragment civic actors precisely in order not to end up like Egypt or, now, Libya. In doing so, they have created enormous obstacles to the nonviolent transition in these countries. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nonetheless, ending the reign of terror in Syria and Iran is not totally blocked if the formerly cowed citizenry takes up their own collective responsibility, as they did in Libya, to end human rights abuses. However painful it might be to admit, the time is long past for "dictator containment" by an international community that seeks to guide leadership succession and create a space for moderate autocrats." http://t.uani.com/qOpDzH &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-4463835457635617662?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/4463835457635617662/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=4463835457635617662' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/4463835457635617662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/4463835457635617662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/08/uani-eye-on-iran-824.html' title='UANI - EYE ON IRAN 8/24'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-728141668415743293</id><published>2011-08-20T00:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-20T01:33:46.026-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Al Qaeda in Iran'/><title type='text'>AL QAEDA IN IRAN &amp; DENIAL BY WITNESS OSAMA WAS SHOT IN RAID!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TnqZr3jBQfs/Tk9bW6Zj-yI/AAAAAAAADks/us50MlEVo_Y/s1600/welcometotheclub.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640px" qaa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TnqZr3jBQfs/Tk9bW6Zj-yI/AAAAAAAADks/us50MlEVo_Y/s640/welcometotheclub.jpg" width="512px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By THOMAS JOSCELYN &lt;br /&gt;In a stunning development on Thursday, the U.S. Treasury Department accused the Iranian government of sponsoring al Qaeda. Treasury designated six al Qaeda terrorists and reported that they are working for a network headquartered in Iran. This al Qaeda network is “headed by Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil, a prominent Iran-based al Qaeda facilitator, operating under an agreement between al Qaeda and the Iranian government.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Treasury Department press release quoted Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David S. Cohen as saying: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran is the leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world today. By exposing Iran’s secret deal with al Qaeda allowing it to funnel funds and operatives through its territory, we are illuminating yet another aspect of Iran’s unmatched support for terrorism. Today’s action also seeks to disrupt this key network and deny al Qaeda’s senior leadership much-needed support.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not the first time the Treasury Department has designated al Qaeda operatives operating in Iran. In January 2009, treasury designated four al Qaeda terrorists, including one of Osama bin Laden’s sons, who were living in Iran. Thursday’s designation, however, explicitly accuses the Iranian government of having an “agreement” with al Qaeda that allows terrorists to use Iranian soil to move money and recruits into Afghanistan and Pakistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil is described as “an Iran-based senior al Qaeda facilitator currently living and operating in Iran under an agreement between al Qaeda and the Iranian government.” Treasury explains. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iranian authorities maintain a relationship with Khalil and have permitted him to operate within Iran’s borders since 2005. Khalil moves money and recruits from across the Middle East into Iran, then on to Pakistan for the benefit of al Qaeda senior leaders, including Atiyah Abd al Rahman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6y_oNsrE5s4/Tk9bFe08haI/AAAAAAAADko/-TN-j0hHMkU/s1600/Atiyah_Abd_al-Rahman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" qaa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6y_oNsrE5s4/Tk9bFe08haI/AAAAAAAADko/-TN-j0hHMkU/s1600/Atiyah_Abd_al-Rahman.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Atiyah Abd al Rahman was also designated by treasury. Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported that Rahman was al Qaeda's “operations chief” and was working with bin Laden to assemble a terrorist cell capable of hitting America on the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. According to the Journal, the intelligence tying Rahman to the plot was found in communications recovered during the May 2 U.S. raid on bin Laden's safe house in Abbottabad, Pakistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rahman is one of al Qaeda’s most senior operatives. After the Taliban’s Afghanistan fell in late 2001, he moved to Iran along with numerous other al Qaeda terrorists. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice page notes that Rahman was al Qaeda's “emissary in Iran as appointed by Osama bin Ladin.” Treasury’s designation reiterates that Rahman was appointed by bin Laden as an al Qaeda emissary to Iran. Rahman, the State Department reported, “recruits and facilitates talks with other Islamic groups to operate under” al Qaeda and “is also a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and Ansar al Sunna.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rahman was a longtime confidante of bin Laden. He “joined Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan as a teenager in the 1980s,” the State Department reported. “Since then, he has gained considerable stature in al Qaeda as an explosives expert and Islamic scholar.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rahman “became acquainted with [Abu Musab al Zarqawi],” the deceased leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, in the western city of Herat in the late 1990s. He then retreated with Osama bin Laden to the Tora Bora Mountains in late 2001 before moving on to Iran. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The U.S. government has repeatedly recognized the relationship between Iran and al Qaeda – even though it is widely assumed the two are incapable of collusion. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, the 9/11 Commission found that the “relationship between al Qaeda and Iran demonstrated that Sunni-Shia divisions did not necessarily pose an insurmountable barrier to cooperation in terrorist operations.” The Commission found that Iran and its chief terrorist proxy, Hezbollah, trained al Qaeda operatives as they plotted the 1998 embassy bombings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And in more recent years, according to the Treasury Department, there has been no barrier to cooperating on operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. The six terrorists designated on Thursday have moved funds and jihadists to each of these countries, using Iranian soil as a transit hub. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Treasury Department says that these activities are part of a formerly “secret deal” between Iran and al Qaeda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reality is that there is plenty of publicly-available evidence showing that Iran and al Qaeda have been cooperating since the early 1990s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fDmLm68Snoc/Tk9cmI-LfZI/AAAAAAAADkw/d0j4JQje6Yk/s1600/osama+paper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640px" qaa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fDmLm68Snoc/Tk9cmI-LfZI/AAAAAAAADkw/d0j4JQje6Yk/s640/osama+paper.jpg" width="640px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thomas Joscelyn is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"&gt;THEN THERE IS THE QUESTION OF THE WHOLE OBAMA-OSAMA SAGA BEING REAL.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;VIDEO - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;Mr Bashir, his home is in front of Osma's house and who watched whole operation from the roof of his house and he said that out of THREE only one helicopter landed and after 10-20 minutes when tried to lift up it crashed and two other helicopters run away and he rushed to house and he saw dead bodies of 10 or more people and within 20 mins Pak army came. he said&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;that I am 100% sure that they did not take Osama if he was there because of the crash of helicopter.......&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;what you think?????&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;THEY DID APPARENTLY GET HIS SON.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E-ovSm6zd5U/TdYaqGNBPmI/AAAAAAAADXs/9GIx_8o8TRw/s1600/Osama-Bin-Laden-son-dead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="478px" qaa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E-ovSm6zd5U/TdYaqGNBPmI/AAAAAAAADXs/9GIx_8o8TRw/s640/Osama-Bin-Laden-son-dead.jpg" width="640px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;EYEWITNESS VIDEO&amp;nbsp; BELOW CASTS DOUBT ON OSAMA HIMSELF EVEN BEING THERE OR CAPTURED OR KILLED IN THE RAID.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/h0vo-L3VACs" width="640"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-728141668415743293?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/728141668415743293/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=728141668415743293' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/728141668415743293'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/728141668415743293'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/08/al-qaeda-in-iran-denial-by-witness.html' title='AL QAEDA IN IRAN &amp; DENIAL BY WITNESS OSAMA WAS SHOT IN RAID!'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TnqZr3jBQfs/Tk9bW6Zj-yI/AAAAAAAADks/us50MlEVo_Y/s72-c/welcometotheclub.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-9191246550009698846</id><published>2011-08-12T21:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-12T21:41:06.716-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obama tyranny'/><title type='text'>OBA-THE-THUG IN CHIEF TAKING REVENGE ON STANDARD &amp; POORS</title><content type='html'>CHAOS COMING UNDER MARXIST-ISLAMIST TYRANNY - A FORETASTE OF OBAMA DICTATORSHIP. Instead of freedom he plants fear to get his way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="510" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yHrzSLgu-Lk" width="640"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-9191246550009698846?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/9191246550009698846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=9191246550009698846' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/9191246550009698846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/9191246550009698846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/08/oba-thug-in-chief-taking-revenge-on.html' title='OBA-THE-THUG IN CHIEF TAKING REVENGE ON STANDARD &amp; POORS'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/yHrzSLgu-Lk/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-781860295188631931</id><published>2011-08-09T18:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-09T18:46:06.772-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MEK'/><title type='text'>IRAN CONSOLIDATING NUCLEAR RESEARCH SITES</title><content type='html'>By DOUGLAS BIRCH, Associated Press&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WASHINGTON (AP) — An Iranian opposition group said Friday that Tehran's leaders have consolidated several scattered nuclear research efforts in a single new defense agency geared to streamline weapons development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The People's Mujahedeen, or MEK, told The Associated Press that Iran's defense ministry established the new agency in March to merge various nuclear-related programs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The State Department had no immediate comment on the report. Some of MEK's past claims about Iran's nuclear program have been confirmed, while others have not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An MEK spokesman said the Organization for New Defense Research is led by Mohssein Fakhrizadeh, a physicist long suspected of running Iran's secret nuclear projects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The U.N. Security Council placed Fakhrizadeh under an asset freeze and travel ban after Iran refused to make him available to International Atomic Energy Agency investigators.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran has repeatedly said it is interested only in the peaceful uses of nuclear technology. The United States and many other countries believe Iran is laying the groundwork for building a bomb, though it is not clear if it has committed itself to doing so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MEK spokesman Alireza Jafarzadeh said Iran's clear goal is to join the club of nuclear weapons states. "This is a very advanced, sophisticated nuclear weapons program with all the necessary elements to build a nuclear weapon," Jafarzadeh said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jafarzadeh said Iran has merged its secret nuclear programs because it believes it can continue to deny international inspectors access to sensitive sites and scientists like Fakhrizadeh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"They have learned how to dodge the international community, how to obtain what they need using front companies," Jafarzadeh said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The MEK, which is dedicated to the overthrow of the regime in Tehran, is currently lobbying the Obama administration to be removed from the State Department's list of terrorist organizations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The group committed a series of bombings and assassinations in Iran in the 1970s and early 1980s, and fought on the side of Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war. But MEK says it has renounced violence, and that its extensive network of sympathizers inside Iran produces valuable intelligence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The group has built bipartisan support among many members of Congress and former senior U.S. government officials, although it is regarded with skepticism by other current and former diplomats and academic specialists. Some analysts suspect MEK has ties to Western intelligence services, but the group has denied this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jafarzadeh said the headquarters of Iran's new nuclear organization, known by its Farsi acronym SPND, is located adjacent to the Malik Ashtar University of Technology in northeast Tehran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow; color: red;"&gt;Alan note: Obama's fervent support of the Mullah regime in Iran will prevent him throwing support behind the MEK, avowed enemies of the Mullahs. Also the nuclear scientist "student" recently assassinated was from this university. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;As enemies of my enemies, the MEK are my "sort of friends" - for now. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Which I have openly told Alireza Jafarzadeh, a perfectly charming person but whose MEK Marxist-Islamist philosophies differ 180 degrees from my mindsets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Despite this, they provide by far the best information and intelligence on Iran's nuclear efforts and are estimated to have around 100,000 "invisible" supporters inside Iran.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Somewhat unfairly - and the myth has been embedded into the Iranian psyche by brainwashing Mullah efforts, they are still accused of waging war against "Iran" on Iraq's side and killling Iranians. In truth they were fighting the Mullah &lt;u&gt;regime&lt;/u&gt;, not the Iranian populace, though many of the poorly trained Iran conscript fighters died at MEK hands in the battles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;The Islamic regime first arrested then mass-murdered/eradicated &amp;nbsp;30,000 of the MEK&amp;nbsp; in prisons on Khomeini's direct orders, so in fairness they have a well founded&amp;nbsp;grudge against the Mullahs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Sadly, the MEK has been infiltrated and split from the original purely AntiMullah group -&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;confusingly to include a rival second pro-Mullah faction!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;The SPND's six sections include a directorate as well as research labs for physics, metallurgy, chemistry, explosives and nuclear safety, he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The MEK spokesman said Iran's nuclear organization evades sanctions and buys advanced technology — including devices that measure a person's exposure to radiation and the triggers for nuclear weapons — through a variety of front companies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-781860295188631931?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/781860295188631931/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=781860295188631931' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/781860295188631931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/781860295188631931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/08/iran-consolidating-nuclear-research.html' title='IRAN CONSOLIDATING NUCLEAR RESEARCH SITES'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-5981249436636459788</id><published>2011-08-04T23:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-04T23:59:56.237-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='BIRTH CERTIFICATE FRAUD UNRAVELLING'/><title type='text'>DOCUMENT EXPERTS ACCOMPANYING ORLY TAITZ TO HAWAII</title><content type='html'>By Jerome R. Corsi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Computer scanning expert Doug Vogt and typesetting expert Paul Irey say they will accompany attorney Orly Taitz when she presents to the Hawaii Department of Health a subpoena that should allow her to examine Barack Obama's original 1961 typewritten birth certificate. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vogt and Irey both told WND they are making travel plans to join Taitz in Honolulu when she goes to the state agency at 10 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 8, to present the subpoena in person. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We will plan to hold a press conference late in the day of Aug. 8," Vogt said, "and if the document we see varies from the birth certificate documents the White House released, we plan to file criminal charges in Hawaii immediately." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get the New York Times best-seller "Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama Is Not Eligible to be President," by Jerome Corsi. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vogt shared with WND a copy of a letter he has written to Hawaii Attorney General David Louie, putting Louie on notice regarding the reasons he believes the birth certificate released by the White House is fraudulent. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WND previously reported on Vogt's decision to file a 22-page criminal complaint with the FBI. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Irey says it won't take long to evaluate the original birth record, if it exists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Over the years of my career, I've seen everything that can be put on paper," he said. "Now that I'm thoroughly familiar with what the White House released, I will be able to tell you within a few minutes, if what the Hawaii DOH has matches what the White House has released, or not. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I will expect to see the same differences in typeface that are on the White House version, otherwise I will know immediately that what the Hawaii DOH is showing us is a forgery." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vogt and Irey plan to bring a laptop computer and a portable scanner to the Hawaii DOH for the inspection. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We will scan the document to compare it to the White House electronic version and the Xerox copies they handed out in the press room," he said. "We will immediately make our scan available to the public over the Internet, so the American public can see for themselves." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Irey told WND he expects the Hawaii DOH at the last minute will do everything possible to prevent Taitz from getting access to the 1961 original Obama birth certificate, if it exists. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Quite frankly, I doubt the Hawaii DOH has anything to show us," Irey said skeptically, "and if we do see a document, my guess is that it will have been forged for the purpose of showing us something." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vogt and Irey repeatedly have told WND that if the Hawaii DOH had an original 1961 Obama birth certificate, the most credible thing to have done on April 27 would have been to release that document to the public for professional forensic examination by qualified independent professionals. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As displayed on her website, the July 5 subpoena granted Taitz by the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii allows her to examine the original 1961 Obama birth certificate on Aug. 8 at 10 a.m.: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taitz's subpoena was served upon Loretta Fuddy, director of the Hawaii Department of Health. Hawaii Deputy Attorney General Jill Nagamine is representing Fuddy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because Fuddy neglected to file opposition to the court-issued subpoena within the 14 days specified, the Hawaii DOH appears to have little recourse but to comply with the subpoena by producing the Obama original birth certificate for Taitz's examination. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taitz is planning to travel to the state agency, despite receiving no answer from Fuddy as to whether or not she intends to comply with the subpoena. Taitz put the question to Fuddy in a July 27 letter. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On July 15, Florence Stone, an interested citizen residing in Oregon, was told that Nagamine was on leave and that Fuddy had left the islands. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On April 27, the White House released hard copies and a PDF electronic file of the Obama birth certificate, a document numerous experts, including several in Adobe software, have charged to be a forgery. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Handed out at the White House press conference were paper copies of the Obama birth certificate that lacked the green security paper background seen in the PDF electronic version. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The White House claims to have a certified copy of the birth certificate that contains an embossed seal from the Hawaii Department of Health, a feature that is questionably present in the PDF file and not apparent in the paper copies the White House handed to reporters. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NBC reporter Savannah Guthrie was the only person at the April 27 White House press conference allowed to see the certified copy of the Obama document, feel the seal and take a picture of the document. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To date, the Hawaii Department of Health has kept whatever record of Obama's birth that exists in its files in the agency's vault. The department refuses to grant any requests to show the original document to the public or to allow independent forensic examiners to authenticate it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without access to the original document, dozens of traditionally trained court-authorized forensic document examiners approached by WND have refused to render an opinion. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vogt, who describes himself as an expert in documents, typesetting, imaging, scanners and document imaging programs, has owned Archive Index Systems, a company specializing in the international marketing of scanner equipment and technology, since 1993. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WND previously reported, and later expanded on the report, that Irey has identified different sized and different shaped letters within the Obama birth certificate. Irey believes the letters used to compose the document came from more than one typewriter, which he considers "irrefutable proof" the Obama birth certificate released by the White House is a forgery. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Irey, a typesetting and typeface expert with 50 years of experience in the business, founded Bergan Graphics in Fort Lee, N.J., in 1967. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taitz said the state's "privacy" regulations should be ignored, as Obama already has released what the White House purported to be a copy of the document to the public.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The subpoena comes in a case she has developed in Washington, D.C., seeking the original application for Obama's Social Security number, a document that could provide significant information about the president's early life that relates to his eligibility. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;U.S. District Court Chief Judge Royce Lamberth rejected a defense concern over procedure in the dispute. Taitz said the judge's ruling moved the case into the discovery phase, in which she can issue subpoenas to those holding documentation she is seeking. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WND previously has reported on the issue that Obama holds a Connecticut-based Social Security number despite allegedly being born in Hawaii, starting his work career in the Aloha State and never having lived in Connecticut. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first three digits of a Social Security number indicate the state of the applicant's mailing address. Obama's number begins with 042, which falls within Connecticut's range of 040 through 049. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The national news media have been virtually silent on this potentially criminal fact. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indeed, when Fox News finally attempted to explain it, the news network broadcast false information and then scrubbed the report from its website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When WND asked the White House about the issue, then–Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dodged the question.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taitz' case, against Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue, explains that because of the numerous questions surrounding Obama's eligibility, his birth certificate and his other records, a Freedom of Information Act request was submitted. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to a report in The Post &amp;amp; Email, the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii had issued a subpoena that was served on the director of the Hawaii Department of Health. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The demand to Fuddy requires the "original 1961 typewritten birth certificate #10641 for Barack Obama … issued 08.08.1961, signed by Dr. David Sinclair, Stanley Ann Dunham Obama and registrar Lee, stored in the Health Department of the State of HI from 08081961 until now." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As WND has reported, there long have been concerns about the Social Security number. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"There is obviously a case of fraud going on here," says Ohio licensed private investigator Susan Daniels. "In 15 years of having a private investigator's license in Ohio, I've never seen the Social Security Administration make a mistake of issuing a Connecticut Social Security number to a person who lived in Hawaii. There is no family connection that would appear to explain the anomaly." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does the Social Security Administration ever re-issue Social Security numbers? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Never," Daniels told Corsi. "It's against the law for a person to have a re-issued or second Social Security Number issued." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daniels said she is "staking my reputation on a conclusion that Obama's use of this Social Security Number is fraudulent." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A person who wants to hide their true identity often picks up the Social Security Number of a deceased person, thinking that nobody would ever look into it," Daniels added. "I think it was sometime in the 1980s that Obama decided to hide who he really is." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is no indication in the limited background documentation released by the Obama 2008 presidential campaign or by the White House to establish that Obama ever lived in Connecticut. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nor is there any suggestion in Obama's autobiography, "Dreams from My Father," that he ever had a Connecticut address. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, nothing can be found in the public record that indicates Obama visited Connecticut during his high-school years. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An affidavit filed by Colorado private investigator John N. Sampson specifies that as a result of his formal training as an immigration officer and his 27-year career in professional law enforcement, "it is my knowledge and belief that Social Security Numbers can only be applied for in the state in which the applicant habitually resides and has their official residence." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daniels told WND she believes Obama had a different Social Security Number when he worked as a teenager in Hawaii prior to 1977. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I doubt this is President Obama's originally issued Social Security number," she told WND. "Obama has a work history in Hawaii before he left the islands to attend college at Occidental College in California, so he must have originally been issued a Social Security number in Hawaii." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The published record available about Obama indicates his first job as a teenager in Hawaii was at a Baskin-Robbins in the Makiki neighborhood on Oahu. USA Today reported the ice-cream shop still was in operation one year after Obama's inauguration. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In April, some 11 months after WND began publicizing Obama's Connecticut-based SSN, Bill O'Reilly of the Fox News Channel briefly addressed the issue while reading his viewer mail on the air. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the news anchor falsely asserted the president's father lived in Connecticut. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In his viewer email segment April 13, O'Reilly was asked: "What about Obama having a Connecticut Social Security Number? He never lived there." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"His father lived in Connecticut for several years," O'Reilly claimed, adding that "babies sometimes get numbers based on addresses provided by their parents." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, there is no evidence Barack Obama Sr. ever lived in Connecticut. He left Hawaii in 1962 to study at Harvard in Massachusetts and then returned to his home country of Kenya. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When WND publicized O'Reilly's error, the information vanished from the Fox News Channel's website and BillOReilly.com. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The BirtherReport.com website, responding to complaints by Fox podcast customers that O'Reilly's Social Security claim, broadcast on Fox, had gone missing from the audio archive, trumpeted the headline: "Busted: Fox News scrubbed Bill O'Reilly's 4/13 mailbag segment on Obama's Social Security Number reserved for Connecticut applicants." The site added, "Not only did Fox News scrub the podcast, they also left out the viewer -email about Obama's Social Security number at O'Reilly's website. I report, you decide!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The birth certificate please! Subpoena to be delivered &lt;a href="http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=327373#ixzz1U81xbqV1"&gt;http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=327373#ixzz1U81xbqV1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-5981249436636459788?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/5981249436636459788/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=5981249436636459788' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/5981249436636459788'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/5981249436636459788'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/08/document-experts-accompanying-orly.html' title='DOCUMENT EXPERTS ACCOMPANYING ORLY TAITZ TO HAWAII'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-1752419559735631087</id><published>2011-07-26T22:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-26T22:09:17.535-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='OSLO TERROR'/><title type='text'>OSLO BOMBER, NORWEGIAN SHOOTER</title><content type='html'>Oslo Bombing. Norway Shooter.&lt;br /&gt;Mark S. McGrew&lt;br /&gt;July 27, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aef-Tb4DAvc/Ti-W8DdBKsI/AAAAAAAADf4/ak4JVPkRbLw/s1600/bloody+victim.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="384px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aef-Tb4DAvc/Ti-W8DdBKsI/AAAAAAAADf4/ak4JVPkRbLw/s400/bloody+victim.jpg" t$="true" width="400px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have read over 60 articles and seen countless videos about the Oslo shooter, from BBC, CNN, European news, American news and everything in between.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the in depth research I have done from these various news organizations, if I were to believe the reporting, I would have to say, that I am fully qualified to say, that I do not have the faintest clue as to what happened and why.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shooter is a blonde haired, blue eyed, right wing Christian fundamentalist Freemason farm boy. He is evil and he is a terrorist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The wild guesses coming from major news and the bloggers is that this was a Mossad operation, a NATO operation, a Norwegian Intelligence false flag, Zionists, Neo-Nazi, the work of Islamic terrorists, Muslims, jihad, the police had prior knowledge, the military had prior knowledge, Libyan refugees, Muammar Gaddafi’s agents, the Knights Templar have been revived from the year 1312, and my personal favorite as noted on Press.tv, the shooter is a “fascist”. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Fascist is a unity of corrupt government with corrupt business. The only person or group I have not seen blamed for this is Snow White and the seven dwarfs and the real perpetrators.&lt;br /&gt;The major media has told us that he is a Christian “fundamentalist”. That only describes about 80% of any Christian nation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;(Alan note: in fact his violent actions are as far removed from and contrary to true followers of Christianity of any form or denomination as it's possible to be, so this label "fundementalist Christian" is an attempt to divert attention from Islamic terrorism that is rampant in Europe and try to establish a false equivalency. How many "Christian " violent events can you count in the last few years? How many&amp;nbsp;hundreds of &amp;nbsp;events by Islamic&amp;nbsp;activists in the last years? You do the math.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mind boggling ignorance and intentionally false reporting of the media is in full stride.&lt;br /&gt;Major news tells us the tragedy of the "youths", "Youngsters", "teenagers", "children", "innocent children" and not a word about the adults at the camp or the group photos before the shooting showing late teenagers and adults.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And not one word about the actual victims of multiculturalism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Norwegian people, along with the entire population of Europe, America and Australia are existing in a living Hell of multiculturalism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about them? Who, besides Anders Breivik, has yet spoken up for them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The King and Queen of Norway are fast to offer their comfort to grieving family members, after years of inviting the dregs of humanity to ravage their citizens. If the King had the conscience a bit above that of a lizard, and the Queen had a bit more compassion above that of a rabid dog, they would both be leading angry demonstrations to oust the current political leaders who have fostered the evil of multiculturalism upon Norway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Norway experiences, according to Norwegian police statistics, over 400 rapes a year of girls under the age of 15, a more than daily occurrence. There's our teenager victims! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estimates of rape statistics are that 85 to 100% of Norwegian rapes are committed by foreigners. A wild guess is that those foreigners are not coming off the Princess Cruise Lines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is estimated that only 5% to 50% of women raped do actually report the crime. There are many reasons for that, such as shame or other psychological feelings. But the main reason is that a rape victim is portrayed as, “Well, you asked for it. You brought it on.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even I will agree with that. When a woman walks around half naked flaunting her sex to a bunch of drunken animals, what else is the next logical step?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, I will not use it as a reason to persecute her. No person, whether a Human Being or a two legged animal has a right to brutalize another.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All violent crimes in Norway are off the charts. And the brutality of the violence is staggering. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Young girls having their faces slashed by a foreigner, just for fun and for the fact that they can get away with it, protected by the multiculturalists in political power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have read that one school a week is set on fire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;France has 750 “No Go Zones”. To make it sound kinder and gentler, they call them Sensitive Urban Zones. Won’t that make someone feel warm and fuzzy as his daughter is raped and slashed to ribbons by medieval animals?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;England and Germany also have danger zones, where “foreigners” ruthlessly attack the indigenous whites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go to www.Google.com and type in: France no go zones or Muslim crime statistics, Muslim rape statistics, etc. You will see that there is indeed, a media free war in progress all across the white cultural areas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before you criticize Anders Breivik, spend 30 minutes of your miserable life and see what he saw.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The foreigners exist on government handouts and crime, in Norway, just as in America and other countries. America experiences 2,500 murders each year from illegal aliens and another 2,500 killed by drunk driving illegal aliens foreigners.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The American citizen taxpayers lose close to $1 trillion a year from benefits and services, including medical care and incarceration and crime of illegal aliens. Getting rid of illegal aliens will solve the "budget crisis" in one fell swoop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am sure the numbers are the same in every country inundated with foreigners.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anybody who does not understand that multiculturalism is an enemy foreign invasion is a blinking idiot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As in American, the Norwegian nightmare onslaught of foreign invaders has been instigated and welcomed and protected by those in political power, with the knowing assistance of major media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The "camp" where these "youngsters" were meeting, was a training camp for future politicians of the same party as in power now. A breeding ground, to continue the cultural and physical massacre of Norway's defenseless citizens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These "children" were being groomed to facilitate the entry of, and to assist and protect the foreign invaders who so casually murder and rape countless peaceful innocent Norwegian citizens every single day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why should men or women of any country be afraid to go out after dark? Do they believe in boogey men?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They do if they want to survive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any man in America or Norway or any place practicing multiculturalism, is a criminal, if he lets his wife or daughter go out alone in the day time, and especially brain dead if he lets them go out alone at night.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The guilty party is not some unseen terrorist group or some high flying intelligence agency. 50% of the fault is on the politicians who support this nation destroying enemy action of multiculturalism and 50% is on the major media covering up these crimes against humanity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IF...........IF........someday, the people of civilized countries stop the bloodthirsty insanity of multiculturalism, Anders Breivik, could and should become a National hero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IF, he is not "suicided", while in the custody of authorities, a future political ruling class, that understands that multiculturalism is a treasonous act, may well pardon him and build a statue of him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bolsheviks, Jihadists, Jews, Nazis, Muslims, false flag, rogue intelligence agents, CIA, NATO, mysterious secret societies dug up from the ancient graves are responsible??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bullshivitzky!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Norway's political leaders set the stage, armed the killer and pulled the trigger and major media diligently went to work to cover it up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anders Breivik sent the only message that treasonous politicians and their trainees can ever understand: A bullet in the head.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of the media personalities, protecting the politicians with their smoke screen diatribes deserve the same. It is the politicians and their major media protectors who brought this murderous plague to Norway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anders Breivik deserves a medal and a post of prominence in Norway’s government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pretend for a moment, you invite someone to your home, who you believe is a friend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You tell him you need to go to the store and do some food shopping for the cookout tonight and ask him to watch over your home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you return, you find that he has invited all manner of people over from the hospital for the criminally insane. They have destroyed your furniture, defecated in every room, raped your 14 year old daughter and you demand they leave immediately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your friend pulls a gun on you and says, "No! Leave them alone. They are my friends!" And he ties you up and tosses you in a closet with your mouth duct taped.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shortly, you hear gunshots and commotion. The closet opens and a SWAT team member pulls the tape off, unties your hands and tells you it is safe to come out again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Would you demand that the SWAT team be arrested and put in jail for 21 years? Would you call them evil terrorists? Would the nightly news call the SWAT team right wing Christian fundamentalist thugs?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Salute Anders Breivik and pray that there are indeed more like him, able, ready and willing to act in defense of their nations. If not, our culture and heritage will surely be destroyed and buried in the garbage dump of politically correct history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Call me callous and hateful. I don’t care. For perpetrating the rape and murder of thousands of white people, it is the politicians and major media who are callous and hateful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Call me a white racist. I don’t care. It doesn’t even faze me. Truth is truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most everything in our modern World was created and distributed by white culture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blacks, Orientals, Indians, Japanese, Chinese, Lebanese, Nigerians, Mexicans, Brazilians, good people from all cultures have moved to white cultures and let the system allow them to create the millions of items used in every day life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s not about race. It’s about “culture”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The white culture is responsible for modern technology that creates more food being grown, better medicines, longer, healthier, more productive lives for all cultures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All people, of all races, of all nationalities, have something positive and productive to offer humanity if allowed and encouraged to develop their ideas. THAT is what white culture brought to the Earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Point the finger at the ones who are to blame: The treasonous politicians, the bankers and their media empires pumped up with our taxes. Never trust American or European major media. Over and over, they prove themselves liars, pushing an agenda that 80% of the people are against.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anders Breivik wiped out a small number of traitors and a large portion of a future treasonous bunch whose only goal is to destroy modern civilization and force the good, decent and honest people to live in brutal and savage conditions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His only crimes were: 1. Getting caught so early in this new game with new rules. 2. Not killing &lt;br /&gt;enough of these traitorous bastards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This action may be another “shot heard ‘round the World”. A European revolution may in fact and deed, be in the beginning stage and this was just the first salvo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Politicians may be very wise to whisper very softly, when conducting their traitorous behavior. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Assassins may be anywhere, planning, plotting, waiting, for the inconvenient moment.&lt;br /&gt;Snipers may lie in wait on quiet roads. The housekeeping staff may poison the master’s food. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trusted aids, bodyguards, may, as in Afghanistan recently, with President Karzai’s brother, turn on their leaders. Patriotic “right wing Christian fundamentalists” may use false identification to get employment at government offices and news agencies. Mechanics may tinker with the brakes. Gardeners may mistakenly mix the wrong chemicals and inadvertently leave them in sensitive areas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Newscasters may be butchered, as the dozens in Mexico have been sliced and diced in the past &lt;br /&gt;five years. Dismemberment is something that newscasters around the World understand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I doubt seriously that any traitorous politician’s family would be targeted, but, a wife walking with her husband may become collateral damage. Their children may become ostracized, as the parents of the children’s friends may prefer to be prudent and cautious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In guerilla style combat, dangers lurk where least expected. And if this is the dawn of a revolt against treason, the competition will not fight by the traitor’s rules.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Treason is a profitable business. Great fortunes have been made through treasonous activities. But also, many necks have been stretched and many heads have dropped into the basket of the &lt;br /&gt;People. It truly is a quite murderous business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;History is full of examples of what happens to the ruling classes once the “ignorant, unwashed masses” figure out they have been played for suckers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can only hope, uselessly probably, that the politicians will begin to play fair. But, the politicians are too stupid to realize that the World has no more patience with their thefts and murders. They will only push harder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The picture with this article is of Jennifer Lemon, raped by 4 foreigners in Sweden. Her rapist was freed and went on to break into an 84 year old white women’s home and rape her with impunity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mark S. McGrew can be contacted at &lt;a href="mailto:McGrewMX@aol.com"&gt;McGrewMX@aol.com&lt;/a&gt; . More of his articles can be found at &lt;a href="http://www.marksmcgrew.com/"&gt;http://www.marksmcgrew.com/&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;If republishing this article, please include this link to Russia’s Pravda Online News: &lt;a href="http://english.pravda.ru/"&gt;http://english.pravda.ru/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-1752419559735631087?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/1752419559735631087/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=1752419559735631087' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/1752419559735631087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/1752419559735631087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/07/oslo-bomber-norwegian-shooter.html' title='OSLO BOMBER, NORWEGIAN SHOOTER'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aef-Tb4DAvc/Ti-W8DdBKsI/AAAAAAAADf4/ak4JVPkRbLw/s72-c/bloody+victim.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-4342895271134898033</id><published>2011-07-24T18:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-24T18:12:30.587-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coup d&apos;etat in USA'/><title type='text'>THE COUP D'ETAT ON JANUARY 21</title><content type='html'>AND WHY DOES CONGRESS STAND BY AND DO NOTHING?&lt;br /&gt;by Gary Stevens&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution which specifically permits the issuing of executive orders.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Jul. 23, 2011) — No battle was fought. No guns were fired. No bullets or bombs were involved. In the smooth movement of a pen over a previously-prepared document, the overthrow of the United States of America took place. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The coup d’etat, still in its progressive movement of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;deconstructing America&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, was achieved without Congressional debate. No voice of argument. Less than 24 hours into office, the putative President of the United States, Barry Soetero (aka Barack Obama), signed Executive Order #13489.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Filed on January 23, 2009 at 8:45 a.m., the occupant of the Oval office sealed his records containing past names, student status, foreign travels, passport information, Selective Service registration and all educational transcripts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The historical footprint of Barry Soetero (his last legal name since adoption) was wiped away in the swoosh signature of a pen on a document prepared by Attorney Robert Bauer. No fanfare. No major media paid attention. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the first time in the Republic’s history an unknown, undocumented, and non-vetted candidate took the highest office of the land. Through the cheers, the tears, and the exuberance of those who voted for this unknown mystery, many failed to note what really happened.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The HUGE fact that a previous document (the Constitution) required that the office of President and Vice President be eligible as to age, country of residence and a “natural born Citizen” was disregarded in the election of 2008. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The distinction of “natural born” in Article II, Section 1 was deliberately articulated by the founders for these two offices. Why? So that no foreign loyalties could hamper or compromise the Republic. We as a nation have been compromised. All the awareness of terrorism in our day from without is but a distraction of the real threat we have within the White House. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A person would have to be blind and not know Braille to see the fabric of complicity among the ranks in government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why has there NOT been discovery allowed in every court case filed regarding Barry’s real ID?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is the FBI NOT investigating the now-proven fraudulent birth certificate? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is Congress NOT interested in the fraudulent use of Barry’s Social Security number? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is the only person who peeked into the passport records of Barry shot dead? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is it okay to have seventy (70) known documented National Socialist members in Congress? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why is the majority of Barry’s administration all linked to Soros or the SEIU or communist organizations? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is there even a hint maybe something is amiss with the incompetence of the impostor?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The GREATEST INSANITY of all!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Congress is negotiating the economic future of America with an illegal president.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ALARMING INSANITY: the liar-in-chief commands our military.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ASTOUNDING INSANITY: the Director of Homeland Security has a boss that is “THE” breach of all security.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ASTRONOMICAL INSANITY: he is still in office with no disclosure of who he really is !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The coup d’etat from January 21, 2009 continues.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-4342895271134898033?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/4342895271134898033/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=4342895271134898033' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/4342895271134898033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/4342895271134898033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/07/coup-detat-on-january-21.html' title='THE COUP D&apos;ETAT ON JANUARY 21'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-1024794010733707929</id><published>2011-07-19T22:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-19T22:39:08.143-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DECEIVER OBAMA'/><title type='text'>36 LIES OF OBAMA!</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="21" width="604"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.foxnews.com/i/redes/ticker.embed.swf"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.foxnews.com/i/redes/ticker.embed.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="604" height="21"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Charlie P Brannan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama held a press conference last Friday, July 15 which turned out to be a purely partisan effort to increase taxes and increase the American debt. His speech and the answers he gave to cherry picked questions from the press was fundamentally dishonest: in all I counted three dozen lies, deceptions and misleading statements.　&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 1. "make sure that the United States does not default on our obligations, and that the full faith and credit of the United States is preserved."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is zero risk of a default to the creditors of US debt. The federal government takes in about $170 billion each month in revenues, but pays less than $29 billion each month in interest on the debt. The Bipartisan Policy Center has laid out a plan where the Treasury could pay: all debt interest, all Social Security obligations, all Medicare and Medicaid obligations, all Defense contractor bills, all Veterans payments, all active duty troops; and still have almost $7 billion left over every month for other items.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama is using pure political scare tactics to deceive uneducated voters into supporting his position. There is no risk to "the full faith and credit of the United States" unless Treasury chooses to default. Not raising the debt limit will cause a limited government shutdown, not a default, as Obama insinuates.　&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 2. "I think we should not even be this close to a deadline on this issue; this should have been taken care of earlier."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Obama administration created the present crisis with the introduction of his 2012 budget on Feb. 14, 2011. Obama's budget had a $1.1 Trillion deficit and was defeated by a vote of 97 to 0 in the United States Senate. Obama's own failure to submit a budget which could gain even a single vote directly caused the entire crisis. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 3. "These are obligations that the United States has taken on in the past. Congress has run up the credit card, and we now have an obligation to pay our bills."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is plenty of government revenue to cover the obligations the US government has taken on in the past. The entire issue is the obligations the US government will take on in the future. Republicans in Congress want to reduce those obligations -- they want to stop running up the credit card -- and Obama is saying "No, continue to spend."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 4. "We could end up with a situation, for example, where interest rates rise for everybody all throughout the country, effectively a tax increase on everybody."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama is painting a fundamentally dishonest scenario. His strategy to continue debt spending will saddle future generations of Americans with more and more debt which will eventually result in higher taxes in the future. He is advocating increased borrowing which in reality is "a tax increase on everybody."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People globally invest in US debt because the United States of America is by far the strongest most vibrant and innovative economy on earth. The world economy is suffering and the result is demand for US debt, not a reluctance to lend. As long as Treasury chooses not to default on the US debt there will be little or no rise in interest rate. If anything, refusing to raise the limit debt would demonstrate to the world that we as a nation are finally serious about managing government spending and from a long term macroeconomic perspective the USA will be a much stronger nation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 5. "businesses that are trying to make payroll, all of them could end up being impacted as a consequence of a default."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama is arguing that a default will cause increased interest rates, which will have "adverse consequences." Putting aside the fact that failing to increase the debt limit will not result in a default unless Obama chooses to default, even a default and the increased interest rates will have little if any effect on most "businesses that are trying to make payroll." Unlike the US government, the vast majority of businesses do not borrow money to pay their employees. Even if interest rates did rise, payroll payments for most businesses would stay the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lie 6. "We have a chance to stabilize America's finances for a decade, for 15 years, or 20 years, if we're willing to seize the moment."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At present the national debt amounts to US$14.12 Trillion: 100% of the US GDP. Deficit spending in 2011 will exceed $1.48 Trillion; over ten years spending at that rate would amount to $14.8 Trillion, doubling the US debt. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama's budget proposal would reduce deficit spending to $1.1 Trillion per year through a combination of spending cuts and tax increases. Fourteen years at this rate would still double our national debt with $15.4 Trillion of new deficit spending.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Either scenario will put the USA in the same scenario Greece is in today. Obama is lying when he insinuates he has made an effort to stabilize America's financial future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lie 7. "let's still try to at least get a down payment on deficit reduction."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The notion of getting "a down payment on deficit reduction" is a lie. What is a "down payment"? It is an initial payment which by definition must be followed by more payments. If Obama wants to get a "down payment on deficit reduction" then he must plan for follow on payments. Normally, when you make a down payment, if you are unable to make the follow on payments you lose your down payment! Obama's attempt to change a single reduction into a "down payment" is a lie. Language only a lawyer could twist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 8. (continued from Lie 7) "And that we can actually accomplish without huge changes in revenue or significant changes in entitlements,"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Except that according to his own deficit commission (Bowles-Simpson) significant changes in both revenue and entitlements are required in order to reduce the deficit. Obama's insinuation that continued deficit reduction because a down payment implies future payments) can happen without "significant changes in entitlements" is another deception: his own experts are telling him otherwise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 9. (continued from Deception 8) "but we could still send a signal that we are serious about this problem."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The "down payment" Obama talks about in Lie 7 is a $2 Trillion reduction in deficit spending over ten years. He is proposal will still double the national debt in less than 15 years putting us where Greece is today. In no way could this single reduction demonstrate that the US government is serious about this problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 10. "And I think it's important for everybody to understand that all of us believe that we need to get to a point where eventually we can balance the budget."　&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nobody who has the audacity to submit a budget with $1.1 Trillion in deficit spending can be trusted when they say they "eventually" want to balance the budget.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 11. "We don't need a constitutional amendment to do that; what we need to do is to do our jobs."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama submitted the 2012 budget on Feb. 14, 2011 with a $1.1 Trillion deficit, $3.73 Trillion in spending and revenues of $2.63 Trillion. George W Bush's 2008 budget had a $240 Billion deficit on $2.8 Trillion in spending. Spending increases account for 75% of the increase in Obama's 2012 deficit. Clearly Obama finds it impossible to do his job.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 12. "And we have to do it the same way a family would do it. A family, if they get over-extended and their credit card is too high, they don't just stop paying their bills. What they do is they say, how do we start cutting our monthly costs? We keep on making payments, but we start cutting out the things that aren't necessary."　&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, Mr. President, those drastic measures you just outlined are exactly what families do. They keep making payments, but they don't "start cutting our monthly costs", they don't "start cutting out the things that are necessary", they immediately curtail spending so they won't have to continue borrowing money because they have used up their entire credit limit. What world do you live in?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 13. (continued from Deception 12) "And we do it in a way that maintains our credit rating. We do it in a way that's responsible"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another Obama deception. He is implying that Republicans want to damage the USA credit rating. As we demonstrated in Deception 1, there is no danger to the USA credit rating if Congress refuses to increase the debt limit: the Treasury will be forced to make tough choices to pay what he is able and a limited government shutdown will ensue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 14. "I think that American consumers and American businesses would benefit from a continuation of that tax cut next year."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama is advocating the increase of taxes for "the rich" and in the same speech advocating extending subsidies to the unemployed. What happened to a "balanced approach"? How does he plan to pay for these subsidies if not with deficit spending? This statement reveals Obama's hypocritical ethos. He knows that tax cuts for the rich create jobs for the middle class. He knows that extended welfare subsidies foster sloth. But Obama is not about doing what is best for America, Obama is all about taking from the rich and giving to the poor and using federal dollars to bribe his constituents to make sure he is elected again in 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lie 15. "... we can, as I said before, fix this thing probably for a decade or more"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama restates Lie 6. in a different light, implying that Congress will not have to increase the debt limit again "for a decade or more." People who didn't listen carefully will think 'Obama's plan will solve this debt limit problem for ten years!'. In reality the present proposed $2.4 Trillion debt limit increase will only last until 2013, conveniently after the 2012 election. Its all politics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lie 16. "I think this notion that things got ugly is just not true."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When the President of the United States verbally threatens a member of Congress saying "Eric, don't call my bluff. I'm going to the American people on this," and then schedule a press conference specifically "to take it to the American people", that is ugly, by definition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 17. "Bowles-Simpson ... was originally bipartisan legislation that some of the Republican supporters of decided to vote against when I said I supported it"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notwithstanding what Obama may or may not have said, in reality Obama never supported the Bowles-Simpson budget, in whole or in part. Obama's 2012 Budget with a $1.1 Trillion deficit included none of the spending reductions from Bowles-Simpson commission. Here Obama is trying to deceive the American public into believing he supported Bowles-Simpson when his actions tell otherwise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lie 18. "a lot of the components of Bowles-Simpson we are willing to embrace -- for example, the domestic spending cuts that they recommend we've basically taken."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama's 2012 Budget proposal with a $1.1 Trillion deficit is evidence of this lie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lie 19. "... you have 80 percent of the American people who support a balanced approach. Eighty percent of the American people support an approach that includes revenues and includes cuts."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From a July 7-10 Gallup poll. 69% of the people support spending cuts together with new taxes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only/Mostly with spending cuts: 20%&lt;br /&gt;Mostly with spending cuts: 30%&lt;br /&gt;Equal with spending cuts and taxes: 32%&lt;br /&gt;Mostly with tax increases: 7%&lt;br /&gt;Only with tax increases: 4%&lt;br /&gt;Undecided: 7%&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The more subtle part of this deception is what Obama fails to mention regarding the same Gallup poll. The American public by a margin of nearly 2:1 do not want to increase the debt limit. Perhaps this is because most Americans don't believe Congress will lower the deficit enough to make a difference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 20. "It turns out that our problem is we cut taxes without paying for them over the last decade"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama implies that the deficits we have now have been going on for the last ten years, insinuating it is an ongoing problem from the Bush administration. The reality is that deficit spending in Obama's first three years in office is more than double the entire deficit spending of the George W Bush administration. Deficits for the last ten years:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2011 $1,500 Billion&lt;br /&gt;2010 $1,300 Billion&lt;br /&gt;2009 $1,400 Billion &lt;br /&gt;2008 $240 Billion&lt;br /&gt;2007 $161 Billion&lt;br /&gt;2006 $248 Billion&lt;br /&gt;2005 $319 Billion&lt;br /&gt;2004 $412 Billion&lt;br /&gt;2003 $374 Billion&lt;br /&gt;2002 $159 Billion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;US budget deficits ballooned when Obama took office. Increased spending accounts for 3/4 of the new deficit spending; reduced tax revenue accounts for 1/4. More fundamentally instead of restoring investor confidence Obama's deficit spending, a key component in Obama's failed economic policy, has resulted in a double dip recession and stagnant growth with no end in sight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 21. "what's required is that we roll back those tax cuts ... clean up our tax code ... cut programs that we don't need, and we invest in those things that are going to help us grow. And every commission that's been out there has said the same thing and basically taken the same approach, within the margin of error."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bowles-Simpson, a commission which Obama organized outlined far more reaching cuts in entitlements (above and beyond cutting "programs that we don't need") which Obama ignores, again deceiving the American public.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lie 22. "And they don't require "job-killing tax cuts.""&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Study upon study have shown that in the short term tax cuts increase jobs for the middle class. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 23. "They require us to make some modest adjustments to get our house in order, and we should do it now."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bipartisan Bowles-Simpson commission organized by Obama suggested much more drastic measures are required to resolve the present government budget woes. Not "some modest". Obama ignores his own research and deceives America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 24. "let's at least avert Armageddon."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another typical liberal Obama lie / scare tactic. As explained in Deception 1 there is zero risk of Armageddon or default in debt payments by the US government unless Obama chooses to default. There will be a government shutdown, but a default will only occur if Obama intentionally decides to default.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 25. "I'd like to solve that second problem."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maybe he would like to quit smoking as well but he won't. Obama was given the opportunity to solve the second problem when he submitted his budget to Congress. He ignored almost all of the recommendations from his own deficit commission. Even with increased tax revenues the deficit in his budget remained at $1.1 Trillion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 26. "... a balanced approach that includes some revenue is the right thing to do. The majority of Republican voters say that approach is the right thing to do."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama ignores the polling data he is citing. Only 11% of Republicans support a debt increase; 60% are against. Obama is deceiving the public when he implies that Republicans support his "balanced approach" to increase the debt limit. In fact Americans as a whole are against increasing the debt limit by nearly a 2 to 1 margin. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is support for a balanced approach to reducing the deficit, but twice before during the Regan and Bush Sr. administrations Democrats offered conservatives the same deal except that the spending cuts never came. Obama says he is willing to accept $3 Trillion in cuts for $1 Trillion in taxes, but is he willing to accept $8.25 Trillion in cuts for $2.75 Trillion in new taxes? This is where Congress should call Obama's bluff. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 27. "The question is going to be whether at any given moment we're willing to set politics aside, at least briefly, in order to get something done."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama misleadingly implies that he is above the fray while the other side is playing politics. In reality both sides are playing politics. In fact his entire press conference is just another example of his playing politics by "going to the American people on this." Except that it is not 2008 any longer. People already realize that when it comes to playing politics Obama is just as guilty as the next politician.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 28. "I've got an infrastructure bank bill that would start putting construction workers back to work rebuilding our roads and bridges."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This statement belies Obama's ability to compromise. Just how does he expect to pay for these infrastructure bills if not with more deficit spending? This statement summarizes the distrust conservatives have for everything Obama says and does.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 29. "I've got three trade deals ... being held up because some folks don't want to provide trade adjustment assistance to people ... displaced as a consequence of trade."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again, how does Obama plan to pay for this trade adjustment assistance if not with deficit spending? Another example of Obama's bad faith in the ongoing negotiations. In this press conference he admitted that as soon as the debt limit is increased he will find at least three new ways to increase spending. This is why Republicans are reluctant to increase tax revenue: because they know the more they feed the beast the more Obama will think of new ways to spend money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lie 30. "I'm going to keep on trying"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This implies that Obama started trying. Deception 2 established clearly that Obama has not been trying. If anything he has been trying to cause this crisis to win political points with his constituents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 31. "American people are going to say ... if a party or a politician is constantly taking the position 'my way or the highway,' constantly being locked into ideologically rigid positions, that we're going to remember at the polls."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Classic Obama obfuscation. Is he genuinely trying to tell the voting public to throw him out in 2012? Obama began saying my way or the highway on January 24, 2009 when he reminded the Republicans after four days in office: "I won." Last week he stormed out of a meeting with Rep. Eric Cantor in the middle of negotiations when he didn't get his way. His entire press conference was his attempt to go "to the American people on this."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 32. "... what the American people are paying attention to is who seems to be trying to get something done, and who seems to be just posturing and trying to score political points. And I think it's going to be in the interests of everybody who wants to continue to serve in this town to make sure that they are on the right side of that impression."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama is again using deception by raising an issue to imply that he above "just posturing and trying to score political points." Except the entire press conference is nothing more than political posturing by Obama! He is doing exactly what he is criticizing others of doing! A case of projection. Obama has no plan and has not submitted any revised budget since February 14. To Obama it is not important whether he is on the right side as long as he is "on the right side of that impression."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 33. "I said the American people do not want to see a bunch of posturing; they don't want to hear a bunch of sound bites. What they want is for us to solve problems, and we all have to remember that. That's why we were sent here."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This statement by itself is nothing more than a sound bite. Until July Obama did almost nothing personally to try and resolve the debt limit problem. Republicans have said over and over again: "He has no plan!" But he has a silver tongue and the skill to effortlessly shift blame on to others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 34. "... we know how we can create a package that solves the deficits and debt for a significant period of time."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Lie 6 and Lie 15 Obama previously talked about stabilizing finances for "a decade, for 15 years, or 20 years." Now Obama mentions "a significant period of time." Nothing Obama has discussed with any Republican went offered a resolution which would raise the debt limit and lower spending beyond 2014. His definition of "a significant period of time" in context with language implying a solution lasting over a decade is patently dishonest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lie 35. "... if you are a progressive, you should be concerned about debt and deficit ... because if the only thing we're talking about over the next year, two years, five years, is debt and deficits, then it's very hard to start talking about how do we make investments in community colleges ... how do we actually rebuild $2 trillion worth of crumbling infrastructure."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This statement exemplifies the chasm between Obama and conservatives. The Tea Party does not want to increase the debt limit because they do not trust the government to control spending. Deception 14, Deception 28 and Deception 29 all mentioned new spending initiatives Obama has with plans ready to launch. And yet he has no revised budget plan? Everything he has said about cutting the deficit and controlling spending is a lie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deception 36. "It would be very helpful for us to be able to say to the American people, our fiscal house is in order. And so now the question is what should we be doing to win the future and make ourselves more competitive and create more jobs, and what aspects of what government is doing are a waste and we should eliminate."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which is a great sound bite and a wonderful note to end the bully pulpit press conference on except that Obama just finished saying he has plans to spend over a trillion dollars to finance Deception 14, Deception 28 and Deception 29. Moreover Obama made plans for more deficit spending while the fiscal house was not in order. Obama has no plan specifically outlining how to put the fiscal house in order. Pure (misleading smoke and mirror) politics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These deceptions, lies and misleading statements define why Obama cannot be trusted to tell the truth. They also define why Congress must vote against raising the debt limit.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-1024794010733707929?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/1024794010733707929/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=1024794010733707929' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/1024794010733707929'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/1024794010733707929'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/07/36-lies-of-obama.html' title='36 LIES OF OBAMA!'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-967259672257089073</id><published>2011-07-17T20:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-17T21:21:55.864-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='NATIONAL WEALTH OF IRAN PLUNDERED BY REGIME'/><title type='text'>140 MAJOR ISLAMIC IRAN EMBEZZLERS OF NATIONAL WEALTH EXPOSED</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;What is fascinating here - apart from the horrendous amounts these thieves have stolen from the Iranian people, is the location of where they have tried to hide or store it. Sometimes in the countries where they acquired it or which were involved in the corrupt trading that earned them huge pay-offs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;In the case of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his family, it covers his cut of the oil revenues he skims off the top for being the plunderer in chief.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;For those with knowledge of the persons and their dealings, these locations speak volumes and point to specific, identifiable &amp;nbsp;deals. But that is the task of individual intelligence agencies, not this site.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;=====================================================&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;========================================&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;CNN iReport:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Newest Top 1000 List For ISLAMIC IRAN Officials' Bank Accounts &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;(140 LISTED BELOW - &lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;names shown bilingually&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt; - reads like a Who's Who of senior Islamic regime players - mostly para-military IRGC,&amp;nbsp; Bassiji suppression/oppression &amp;nbsp;forces etc., rather than clerics - beyond a couple of very senior ones). &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;خبرگزاری "ثی. ان.ان" اسامی یکصدو چهل نفر از غارتگران اموال ما را با محل حسابهای بانکی آنان منتشر ساخته است!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;ینگه دنیائیها در این برهه از زمان با انتشار این فهرست که هنوزکامل هم نیست، چه منظوردارند!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;...............................................................................................................................&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Swiss Numbered and OGDA accounts and identified assets as evaluated by the WH/OP, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;March 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (C$-Canadian dollar, A$-Australian dollar)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;مجتبی خامنه ای&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Mojtaba Khamenei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - (Supreme Ruler's Middle son and his brutal Chief Enforcer and Suppressor of the populace) (England £ 1.14 billion (2 accounts frozen since 2009), Germany 2.12 billion Euros (4 accounts), Qatar $400 million, S. Africa 950 million Euros (2 accounts), UBS/Micheloud &amp;amp; Cie/Credit Suisse 12 accounts adding to 3.85 billion Euros, Liechtenstein $ 2.8 billion, S. Africa $620 million, Shanghai $4.1 billion, UAE: $ 700 million, Malaysia A$670 millions)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;علی‌ خامنه‌ای&amp;nbsp; Ali Khamenei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Supreme Ruler&lt;/strong&gt; (Switzerland (Micheloud &amp;amp; Cie/UBS/Credit Suisse, 18 accounts adding to 8.4 billion Euros, Liechtenstein $9.7 billion, Cayman Islands $6.8 billion , Shanghai $3.2 billion, Liechtenstein $2.9 billion, Belize $2.5 billion, Russia $1.1 billion, Malaysia $450 million, Trinidad &amp;amp; Tobago $400 million , S. Africa 2.1 billion Euros, India $630 million, UAE $560 million, Syria $210 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;مسعود خامنه ای&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Massoud Khamenei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (another Supreme Leader son) (UBS/ Micheloud &amp;amp; Cie/Credit Suisse 2.7 billion Euros, S. Africa $980 million, Syria $45 million, UAE $120 million, Malaysia 540 million Euros, Venezuela $1.2 billion, India 320 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;مصطفی خامنه‌ای&amp;nbsp; Mostafa Khamenei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (another Supreme Ruler son) (Credit Suisse $690 million, Hong Kong £360 million, Russia $80 million, Syria $12 million, Canada C$110 million, Panama $992 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;نازیه خامنه‌ای &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Naziyheh Khamenei&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (Turkey $52 million, India 120 million Euros, Germany 102 million Euros, United Kingdom £ 280 million, UBS $421 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;بدریه خامنه ای&amp;nbsp; Badrieh Khamenei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UAE £142 million, Syria $13 million, Spain 120 million Euros, Panama $329 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;حسن خامنه ای Hassan Khamenei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UAE $60 million, Canada C$200 million, Turkey 37 million Euros, Shanghai $ 344 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;هادی خامنه ای Hadi Khamenei&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Liechtenstein $290 million, S. Africa £121 million, Malaysia 93.2 million Euros, UBS/Scobag Privatbank/HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) 890 million Euros, Turkey 84 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;عزیز خوشوقت Aziz Khoshvakht&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Germany 52 million Euros, Austria C$ 101 million, S. Korea $21.9 million, Turkey $4.1 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;غلامعلی حدادعادل GholamAli Haddad-Adel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Canada C$ 220 million, Virgin Islands $365 million, Panama110 million Euros, Hong Kong $ 252 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;حسين شاهمرادي Hossein ShahMoradi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Turkey 12 million Euros, Canada C$ 22 million, Panama $ 62 million, UAE $3.1 million, Pakistan $ 4.5 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;غلامرضا جلالی Gholamreza Jalali&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Turkey 2.1 million Euros, Belarus $ 12 million, UAE $ 7.6 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;علیرضا فیاض Alireza Fayaz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (India 35 million Euros, Malaysia $12.5 million, UAE 26 million Euros, Turkey 15.9 million Euros, Venezuela $34 million, Italy 14 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;غلامرضا فیاض Gholamreza Fayaz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Malta 40 million Euros, Panama $24 million, Malaysia $67 million, UAE $41 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;فاطمه فیاض Fatemeh Fayaz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (India $23 million, Spain 11 million Euros, Malaysia A$ 12 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;حسین قاسمی&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt; Hossein Ghassemi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UAE 3.9 million Euros, Turkey $ 5.42 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;حسین موسوی اردبیلی&amp;nbsp;Hossein Mousavi Ardabili&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Switzerland 229 million Euros, Cayman Islands $290 million, Kuwait $23 million, UAE $109 million, Malaysia $41 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;م&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;حسن خرازی Mohssein Kharrazi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Malaysia A$100 million, UAE78 million Euros, Turkey $12 million, Cayman Islands 253.7 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;محمد باقر خرازی Mohammad Bagher Kharrazi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Lebanon $120 million, $98 million, £40.9 million (S. Africa), Netherlands Antilles 150 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;جواد آزاده Javad Azadeh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UAE $12 million, Lebanon 2.6 million Euros, Malaysia $ 3.1 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;حسن عباسی معروف به دکتر عباسی نام اصلی یدالله قزوینی Hassan Abbassi, a.k.a. Dr. Abbassi, real nameYadollah Ghazvini&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Pakistan $3.2 million, Albania 1.2 million Euros, Italy 10.9 million Euros, Hong Kong $85 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;نورعلی شوشتری NourAli Shushtari&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UAE $23 million, Turkey $12.1 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;تیمسار پاسدار حسین ساجدی General Hossein Sajedi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Turkey 3.2 million Euros, Italy 5.1 million Euros, Malaysia 94 million Euros, Shanghai $45 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;علی فضلی Ali Fazeli&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UAE 2.4 million Euros, Thailand $ 5.1 million, Panama $5.5 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;محمدجعفر اسدی Mohammad Jafar Assadi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Turkey 8.9 million Euros, Spain 21 million Euros, Lebanon $3.7 million, Hong Kong A$13.2 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;حسین طائب Hassan Ta'eb&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Italy 2.4 million Euros, UAE $16 million, Shanghai $172 million, Virgin Island £44 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتيپ پاسدار عبدالمحمد رئوفي نژاد IRGC&amp;nbsp;Brigadier General Abdol Mohammad Ra'oufi-Nejad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;(India 4.7 million Euros, Qatar $23 million, Turkey $ 19.1 million, Shanghai $58 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;غلامحسین رمضانی Gholam-Hossein Ramazani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Shanghai A$ 45 million, Panama $69 million, Syria $ 6.6 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;نبی الله حیدری Nabi'ollah Heydari&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Austria 3.1 million Euros, UAE 10 million Euros, Qatar $ 11.5 million, Thailand $4.9 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;یحیی رحیم صفوی Yahya Rahim Safavi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Cayman Islands $ 290 million, Shanghai 170 million Euros, Turkey $12 million, UAE 34 million, Albania $ 7.9 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;حسین شریعتمداری Hossein Shariatmadari&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Belgium 320 million Euros, S. Africa $ 240 million, Malaysia $166 million, Russia 145 million Euros, Panama $89 million, Liechtenstein: $ 1.31 billion, UAE $238 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;علیرضا پناهیان Alireza Panahian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UAE $ 7.2 million, Qatar 10 million Euros, Malaysia A$ 39 million, India $56 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;صادق محصولی Sadegh Mahssouli&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Turkey $32 million, Russia 49.2 million Euros, Belgium 12 million Euros, UAE $17 million , Malaysia $ 3.7 million, Shanghai 78 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;حمید رسایی Hami Rassai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (La Roche &amp;amp;Co Banquiers/UBS/HSBC Suisse $121 million, Hungary 4.3 million euro, England (Jersey Island) £5.2 million, UAE $12 million, Belgium 23 million Euros, Venezuela $89 million, Malaysia $ 8.2 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;حاج منصور ارضی Haj Mansour Arzi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UAE 3 accounts 18.3 million Euros, Malaysia: $ 5.2 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;حسن شایانفر Hassan Shayanfar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UAE $11.6 million, Pakistan $1.2 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ محمد حسین صفار هرندی Brigadier Mohammad Hossein&amp;nbsp; Safaar-Harandi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Austria, Spain, UAE $39 million, Turkey 65 million Euros, Brazil $121.9 million, Malaysia A$34 million, Hong Kong 100 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;محیدین فاضل هرندی Mohyedin Fazel Harandi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Oman $48 million, Saudi Arabia $ 44 million, Malta 12 million Euros, Austria 8 million Euros&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;غلامحسین الهام&amp;nbsp;"عصابه‌دست Gholamhossein Elham a.k.a. "the cautious"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UBS/Habib Bank AG Zurich/P&amp;amp;P Private Bank 4 accounts adding to 155 million Euros, Turkey $14 million, Qatar $ 19 million, UAE$ 28 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;حسین یکتا&amp;nbsp; Hossein Yekta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Malaysia A$ 2 million, UAE $ 6.7 million, Syria $4 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ مصطفی آجرلو Brigadier&amp;nbsp; Mostafa&amp;nbsp; Ajarlou&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Spain 1.2 million Euros, UAE $18 million, South Africa 3.5 million Euros, Malaysia $12 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;احمد علم الهدی Ahmad Alam Alhadi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Tajikistan $ 0.6 million , Turkey $52 million, Pakistan $7.4 million, UAE $88 million, Hong Kong $65 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;علی فلاحیان Ali Falahian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UBS/Credit Suisse/Raiffeisenbank 6 accounts adding to 212 million Euros,, Austria 11 million Euros, Syria $ 20 million, Malaysia A$19 million, UAE $41 million, Turkey $42 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرهنگ عبدالرسول رضایی Colonel Abdolrassoul Rezaii&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Turkey $3.1 million, UAE $ 5.2 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سعید حدادیان&amp;nbsp; Saeed Haddadian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Germany 4.2 million Euros, Spain 3.1 million Euros, UAE $28 million, Turkey $27.8 million, Hong Kong $24 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;حسین روشن Hossein Roshan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Turkey $ 7.1 million, UAE: $ 5.1 million, Belarus $3.9 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;احمد جنتی Ahmad Janati&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Belgium 490 million Euros, UAE $ 270 million, Canada C$ 101 million, Malaysia $310, S. Africa $123, UBS/Credit Suisse/ Hottinger &amp;amp; Cie/Mercantil Bank 1.4 billion Euros) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;علی‌ جنتی Ali Janati&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Barbados $240 million, Switzerland 19 accounts adding to 890 million Euros, UAE $41 million, Germany 57 million Euros, Hong Kong A$ 400 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;حسین معادی‌خواه Hossein Moadi-khah&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Austria 41 million Euros, UAE $10.2 million, Kuwait $14.4 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;علی اکبر ولايتي Ali Akbar Velayati&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Germany 249 million Euros, UBS/Credit Suisse/Freie Gemeinschaftsbank Genossenschaft/CMB Banque Privée (Suisse) 21 accounts adding to 1.3 billion dollars, Austria 7.9 million, Malaysia A$ 112) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;مسعود میرکاظمی Masoud MirKazemi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UAE $2.2 million, Germany 43 million, Turkey $4.3 million, Hong Kong 56 million Euros, Malaysia 48 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;حبیب‌الله اسگرلدی مثلمان Habibollah Asgaroladi Mosalman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Malaysia $144 million, China/Hong Kong A$480 million, Belarus 50 million Euros, Austria 200 million Euros, Panama $87 million, Switzerland 24 accounts 3.2 billion Euros, Qatar $144 million, UAE 355 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;فاطمه اسگرلدی مثلمان Faatemeh Asgaroladi Mosalman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Qatar $49 million, Turkey $15 million, Hong Kong A$ 210 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;اسسدلله اسگرلدی مثلمان Assadollah Asgaroladi Mosalman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UBS/DZ PRIVATBANK/La Roche &amp;amp; Co 1.1 billion Euros, Turkey $85 million, UAE 120 million Euros, China A$210 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;حسن خجسته باقرزاده&amp;nbsp; Hassan Hojasteh Bagherzadeh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Italy 14 million Euros, Turkey 3.2 million Euros, Malta $ 4.2 million, India $ 9.8 million, Singapore A$ 4 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;عبدالحسين سلطانی طباطبايي&amp;nbsp; Abdol-Hossein Soltani Tabataba'i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Canada C$24 million, Switzerland 5 accounts adding to 138 million Euros, UAE $ 11 million, Turkey $16 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;هدی طباطبائی Haadi Tabataba'i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Singapore A$ 3.8 million, Malaysia 23 million Euros, Turkey $3.4 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;صادق طباطبائی&amp;nbsp; Sadegh Tabataba'i &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Germany&lt;/span&gt; 22 million Euros, France 9 million Euros, Italy 43 million Euros, UBS/ La Roche &amp;amp; Co Banquiers&lt;br /&gt;$ 76.3 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;مرتضی طباطبائی&amp;nbsp; Morteza Tabataba'i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Germany 3.5 million, Austria 12 million Euros, UAE $5.1 million, Japan 424 million yens)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;فاطمه طباطبائی Fatemeh Tabataba'i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Germany 21 million Euros, UBS/ P&amp;amp;P Private Bank 45 million Euros, Syria: $ 6.1 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ محمد کوثری Brigadier Mohammad Kosari&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Syria $1.1 million, Russia $20 million, UAE $ 28 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;حمید بهبهانی&amp;nbsp; Hamid Behbahani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (China 55 million Euros, Hong Kong £40 million, Malaysia $ 52.1 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرلشگر رحیم صفوی&amp;nbsp; Maj.Gen. Rahim Safavi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Russia 45 million Euros, Turkey 5.2 million Euros, UAE $21 million, Hong Kong $104 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;عزت الله ضرغامی&amp;nbsp; Ezatollah Zarghami&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Italy 25 million Euros, Venezuela $80 million, Russia $65.3 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;مصباح یزدی محمدتقی&amp;nbsp; Mossabah Yazdi Mohammadtaghi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UBS £1.1 billion, Canada C$ 420 million, Credit Suisse 1.6 billion Euros, UAE $340 million, Hong Kong $320 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;مجتبی‌ مصباح یزدی Mojtaba Mesbah Yazdi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UBS $730 million, Canada $ 230 million, Venezuela $193 million, Panama $12 million, UAE £192 million, Turkey $50 million, England Jersey Island £110 million, S. Africa $80 million, Spain 61 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;علی‌ مصباح یزدی Ali Mesbah Yazdi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (England £72 million, Bahamas $620 million, Canada $110 million, Turkey 21 million, Germany 120 million Euros, Switzerland 320 million Euros) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ اسماعیل احمدی مقدم&amp;nbsp; Brigadier Ismail Ahmadi Moghadam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Turkey $2.3 million, UAE $24 million, Thailand A$ 55 million, UBS/HSBC/ Privatbank IHAG 11 accounts adding to 240 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;تیمسر قاسم کارگر&amp;nbsp;Gen Ghasem Kargar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (India 4.2 million euros, Shanghai $103 million, Cyprus 25 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;فاطمه سلطانی طباطبائی Fatemeh Soltanni Tabataba'i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Germany 128 million Euros, France 42 million Euros, Turkey $22 million, Cayman Islands $ 81 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ یدالله جوانی Brigadier Yadollah Javani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Russia $11 million, China 120 million Euros, Turkey $39 million, Nigeria 80 million Euros, Malaysia A$ 55 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;هاشم هاشم زاده هریسی Hashem Hashemzadeh Herris&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UAE $4.1 million Euros, Malaysia $12 million, Brazil $9 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;مرتضی آقاتهرانی Morteza AghaTehrani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Canada C$ 12 million, Malaysia A$ 34 million, Bermuda $65 million )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;محمد محمدي‌نيك ري‌شهری Mohammad Mohammadi-nik ReyShahri (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;UAE $380 million, Germany 52 million Euros, Australia A$ 45 million, Switzerland 6 accounts adding to 1.3 billion Euros, Turkey $29 million, Austria 49 million Euros, Italy 44 million Euros, Hong Kong $400 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرهنگ یدالله مرادی Col. Yadollah Moradi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UAE $ 4.1 million, Turkey 2.3 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ عدالت فلاح زاده Brigadier Edalat Fallahzadeh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Singapore $2.9 million, Malaysia 14 million Euros, UAE 3.1 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ حسین همدانی Brigadier Hossein Hamadani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (China 50 million Euros, UAE $21 million, Spain 4.2 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ محمد باقر ذوالقدر Brigadier Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Canada C$ 3.2 million, Russia 11 million Euros, China $ 60 million, UAE 11 million Euros, Turkey 3.2 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرهنگ حسین گودرزی&amp;nbsp; Col. Hossein Goodarzi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;nbsp;(India 1.2 million Euros, Australia A$ 11 million, Turkey 1.2 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;مجتبی هاشمي ثمره Mojtaba Hashemi Samareh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (St. Vincent &amp;amp; The Grenadines $88 million, Credit Suisse 90 million Euros, Spain 78 million Euros, Venezuela $50 million, Turkey $ 17.9 million, UAE $124.6 million, Malaysia 60.8 million Euros, UAE $5 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;عبدالحمید هاشمی ثمره Abdol-Hamid Hashemi Samareh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Singapore $51.1 million, Turkey 13.1 million, Venezuela $24 million, UAE 4.1 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;مهدی هاشمی ثمره&amp;nbsp; Mehdi Hashemi Samareh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Liechtenstein$55 million, Turkey $6.8 million, Kuwait $45 million, UAE $5.2 million, Panama $31 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;هاشمی ثمره&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;معصومه Masoumeh Hashemi Samareh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Credit Suisse 23 million Euros, Jersey Island £10 million, Hong Kong $41 million) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;علی مبشری&amp;nbsp; Ali Mobasheri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UAE $4 million, Austria 9.2 million Euros, $ 22.7 million Malaysia, $47 million, Hong Kong A$120 million, Turkey 7 million Euros, South Africa £55.3 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ هدایت الله لطفیان Brigadier Hedayatollah Lotfian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Malaysia 21 million Euros, Shanghai $78 million, Jersey £ 4.2 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;محمد هاشمیان Mohammad Hashemian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Italy 4.1 million Euros, Austria 11 million Euros, Turkey 3.2 million Euros, Panama $88 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;علی‌ اکبر هاشمی‌ بهرمانی Ali Akbar Hashemi Bahremani &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;(Germany 240 million Euros, UBS/ Arab Bank (Switzerland)/ Credit Suisse Group AG 6.9 billion euro + $1.5 billion, Canada C$ 220 million, Turkey $108 million, UAE $400 million, Malaysia 90 million Euros, Liechtenstein $4.4 billion)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;یاسر هاشمی‌ بهرمنی&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt; Yasser Hashemi Bahremani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Switzerland 450 million Euros, England £180 million, Germany 25 million Euros, Austria 11.2 million Euros, Canada C$ 43 million, Panama $800 million, Belgium 121.9 million Euros, Hong Kong $200, UAE 14 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;محسن هاشمی‌ بهرمنی&amp;nbsp;Mohsen Hashemi Bahermani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (England £105 million, Liechtenstein 200 million Euros, Australia A$ 400, UAE $38 million, Turkey $34 million, Belgium 71.9 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;محمد هاشمی‌ بهرمنی&amp;nbsp;Mohammad Hashemi Bahermani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Cayman Islands $290 million ,Switzerland $290 million, Turkey 45 million Euros, Germany 201 million Euros, UAE 59 million Euros, Liechtenstein 200 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;علی‌ هاشمی‌ بهرمنی&amp;nbsp;Ali Hashemi Bahermani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Kuwait $ 2.3 million, UAE $24.2 million, Belgium 11 million Euros, Liechtenstein 560 million Euros, Switzerland $420 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;فاضل لاريجاني Fazel Larijani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Canada C$ 50 million, UBS/ Credit Suisse 840 million Euros, Austria 120 million Euros, S. Africa $240 million, Malaysia A$ 49 million, UAE $120 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;علي لاريجاني Ali Larejani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Canada C$ 120 million, UBS/ Credit Suisse 1.4 billion Euros, Malaysia A$ 320 million, Liechtenstein 400 million Euros, Trukey 54 million Euros USA $44 million, Germany, Hong Kong A$200 million, UAE $34 million),&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;صادق لاریجانی&amp;nbsp;Sadegh Larijani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UBS/Credit Suisse/ Hottinger &amp;amp; Cie/LB (Swiss) Privatbank 750 million Euros, Liechtenstein $450, Malaysia 120 million Euros, Hong Kong A$300)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;تیمسار عبدالله عراقی‌ General Abdolah Araghi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Spain 48 million Euros, Shanghai 120 million Euros, Lebanon $61 million, UAE $125.1 million, Lebanon $69 million, Malaysia $91 million, Venezuela $155 million, Switzerland 3 accounts adding to 230 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;اسفندیار رحیم مشایی Esfandiar Rahim Mashaii&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (USA $ 12 million, Canada C$ 48 million, Hong Kong 140 million Euros, UAE, Credit Suisse/ Liechtenstein 310 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;علی اکبر جمشیدی Ali Akbar Jamshidi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Credit Suisse/UBS/HSBC(Suisse) 150 million Euros, Panama$34.8 million, Germany 4.2 million Euros, Turkey 11 million Euros, UAE $62 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;محسن رفیقدوست&amp;nbsp; Mohssein Rafighdoust&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Canada C$ 120 million, Italy 65 million Euros, Spain 110 million Euros, Germany 210 million Euros, Hong Kong $200 million, Qatar 48 million Euros, Credit Suisse $560 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;مرتضی‌ رفیقدوست&amp;nbsp;Morteza Rafighdoust&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Germany 134 million Euros, Aruba $220 million, UBS/Credit Suisse/ Hottinger &amp;amp; Cie C$844 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;حمید حسینی‌ Hamid Hosseini&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Spain 88 million Euros, Malaysia $34, Barbados C$ 49 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;محمد حسینی&amp;nbsp;Mohammad Hosseini&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Cayman Islands $45 million, UAE $15.2 million, Jersey Island (England) £29 million, Turkey $5.2 million, Malta 5.2 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;محمود حسینی&amp;nbsp;Mahmood Hosseini&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Kuwait $3.89 million, Turkey $11 million, Malaysia A$25 million, Jersey £11.3 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سردار حسن فیروزآبادی Gen Hassan Firoozabadi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Credit Suisse/UBS/ Hottinger &amp;amp; Cie 5 accounts adding to 1.7 billion Euros, China 4 accounts adding to $ 634 million, Belarus 200 million Euros, UAE 50 million Euros, Syria $40 million) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرلشگر غلامعلی رشید Maj. Gen. Gholamali Rashid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Belarus $34 million, Russia 56 million Euros, Union Bank of Switzerland/ Adler &amp;amp; Co. Privatbank AG/Credit Suisse 130 million Euros, Hong Kong $ 55 million, UAE $11.5)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ محمد رضا نقدی&amp;nbsp; Brigadier Mohammad Reza Naghdi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Lebanon $4 million, Nigeria 56 million Euros, UAE $92 million, South Africa £48 million, Qatar $12 million. Spain 18 million Euros, Malaysia 144 million, Hong Kong 150 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ جلیل بابازاده Brigadier Jalil Babazadeh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Turkey 2.6 million Euros, Romania 3.1 million Euros, Albania 1.9 million Euros, Cyprus 12 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ ابراهیم جباری Brigadier Ebrahim Jabbari&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Belarus 7.1 million Euros, Turkey 2.1 million Euros, Qatar $ 54 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ محمد باقر قالیباف Brigadier Mohammad Bagher&amp;nbsp; Ghalibaf&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UAE $145 million, Turkey 24.2 million Euros, Tajikistan $1.1 million , Spain 19.2 million Euros, UBS/ Arab Bank (Switzerland) Ltd/ BankMed (Suisse) 12 accounts adding to 255 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;مصطفی محمد نجار Mostafa Mohammad Najar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UAE $40 million, India 18.3 million Euros, Belgium 3.2 million Euros, Hong Kong A$ 90 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;کامران دانشجو Kaamran Daneshjoo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Switzerland 140 million Euros, Venezuela $14 million, Malaysia $47 million, Japan $38 million, Austria 81 million Euros, S. Africa $7.9 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;خسرو دانشجو&amp;nbsp;Khosrow Daneshjou&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Liechtenstein 50 million Euros, Check Republic 11 million Euros, Malta 4.2 million Euros, Turkey $12.4 million&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;فرهاد دانشجو Farhad Daneshjou&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Belize $59 million, Spain 11 million Euros, Malaysia A$ 4.9 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ احمد وحیدی Brigadier Ahmad Vahidi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Germany 112 million Euros (frozen), Turkey $75 million, Russia 55 million Euros, China 127 million Euros, Venezuela $130 million, $34 million, India 11 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ محمد حجازی Brigadier Mohammad Hejazi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Italy 6.2 million Euros, England £ 5.2 million (Jersey), Malaysia 45 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ مسعود زریبافان Brigadier Massoud Zaribafaan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Canada C$ 3.3 million, Thailand A$ 24 million, Qatar 5.9 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;محمد رضا رحیمی Mohammad Reza Rahimi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UAE 132 million Euros, China $400 million, Russia $88 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ فرزاد اسماعیلی Brigadier Farzad Isma'eli&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (China 50 million Euros, Belarus $34 million, Turkey 3.2 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;علی محمدی Ali Mohammadi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (South Africa £54 million, Canada C$82 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;محمد محمدی&amp;nbsp;Mohammad Mohammadi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Malaysia $36 million, UAE $ 13 million, Kuwait $21 million, Turkey 8.1 million Euros, Shanghai 65 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;عباس کدخدایی&amp;nbsp;Abbas Kadkhodayee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UAE $ 30 million, Italy 4 million Euros, Kuwait $0.3 million, Hong Kong $54 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ علی اکبر پور جمشیدیان&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; Brigadier Ali Akbar Pour-Jamshidian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;nbsp;(Cyprus 4.4 million Euros, China $ 75 million, Turkey 1.4 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;محسن رضایی Mohssein Rezaii&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Union Bank of Switzerland/Credit Suisse/ Caja de Ahorros de Galicia 11 accounts 1.45 billion Euros, Germany 45 million Euros, Italy 11 million Euros, Austria 24 million Euros, UAE $205 million, Canada C$45 million, South Africa £490 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;ناصر سرمدی Nasser Sarmadi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Qatar 32 million Euros, UAE $11 million, Malaysia $21 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;تیمسار وحید هقانین&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;General Vahid Haghanian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Turkey 7.2 million Euros, Canada C$32 million, Costa Rica $120 million, Venezuela 540 million Euros, S. Africa $230 million, Hong Kong $500 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ فتح الله جعفری Brigadier Fattollah Jaffari&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (China 67 million, Malaysia $24 million, Spain 11 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;علی سعیدی Ali Saeedi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Turkey 1.1 million, UAE $75 million, Hong Kong $92.9 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ علی اکبر پور Brigadier Ali Akbarpour&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Canada CS23 million, China $54 million, Spain 11 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;م.ه. پناهی پور&amp;nbsp;M.H. Panahi Pour&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Turkey $ 2 million, Malaysia A$ 14 million, Qatar $34 million, India 7.1 million Euros, UAE $ 14.6 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;مجتبی ذوالنور Mojatab ZolNour&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Nigeria $11 million, Cyprus 14.9 million Euros, Russia $14 million, India $ 7.9 million, Turkey 4.4 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;حسین سیب سرخی Hossein Seeb-Sorkhi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UAE 3.1 millón euros, Pakistán 0.9 million euros, Turkey 1.3 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ پاسدار احمدرضا رادان IRGC Brigadier Ahmad Reza Raadaan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Cayman Islands $205 million, Turkey 17 million Euros, UAE $50, Belarus 200 million Euros, Venezuela $45 million, South Africa $140 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;روح الله بهمنی Rouhollah Bahmani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (UAE 6.2 million euros, Lebanon 1.2 million euros, Albania 1.2 million euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;تیمسار علی‌ جباری&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Gen Ali Jabari&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Malaysia $75 million, Shanghái $120 million, Portugal 9.1 million euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ پاسدار حمزه قربانی IRGC Brigadier&amp;nbsp; Hamzeh Ghorbani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Turkey 2.3 million Euros, Cyprus 3.1 million Euros, Greece 2.9 million Euros, Kuwait $5.2 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;عباس آخوندی&amp;nbsp;Abbas Akhondi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Lebanon $2.9 million, UAE, $9.8 million, Turkey 5.2 million, Malaysia A$38 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ محمود چهار باغی&amp;nbsp;Brigadier&amp;nbsp; Mahmoud Chahar-Baghi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Shanghai $50 million, Hong Kong $ 29 million, Russia 12 million Euros)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ محمد علی نصرتی Brigadier Mohammad Ali Nosrati&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Turkey 3.1 million Euros, Portugal 2.1 million Euros, UAE $9.2 million, Hong Kong $52 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;مسعود حجاریان کاشانی&amp;nbsp;Masoud Hajarian Kashani&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Qatar $ 7.3 million, Austria 65 million Euros, Turkey 13 million Euros, Shanghai $120.5 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;سرتیپ عزیز محمدی Brigadier Aziz Mohammadi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Holland 3.2 million Euros, South Korea $12 million, Malaysia $35 million)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;===========================================================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See also &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;"$200 Billion Of Iran's Currency Reserves Go Missing On Ahmadinejad's Watch"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; : &lt;a href="http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-624163"&gt;http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-624163&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-967259672257089073?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/967259672257089073/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=967259672257089073' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/967259672257089073'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/967259672257089073'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/07/140-major-islamic-iran-embezzlers-of.html' title='140 MAJOR ISLAMIC IRAN EMBEZZLERS OF NATIONAL WEALTH EXPOSED'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-7486197359588681838</id><published>2011-07-17T01:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-17T01:02:59.700-07:00</updated><title type='text'>CHARLATAN OBAMA AND THE SEAL TEAM 6 HE WANTED TO IMPRISON!</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;This is what the Navy Seal team looked like when they went in to get Bin Laden.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A couple of things to notice:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;50 caliber sniper on the right.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Knee, knuckle and forearm protection.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Various plastic/wire ties.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Absolute identity denial to protect their families.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Free choice of footwear.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fourth from the right has three artillery simulators and CS gas grenades on his belly. He's the ' shock and awe ' guy.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Group Photo of Seal Team Six, . . . . . . . And you can imagine the look on Bin Laden's face when these guys came through the door?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sv6J34BQxuU/TiKR0POsKrI/AAAAAAAADfg/YVdcTrZDOrw/s1600/seal+team+6.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="478px" m$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sv6J34BQxuU/TiKR0POsKrI/AAAAAAAADfg/YVdcTrZDOrw/s640/seal+team+6.bmp" width="640px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Let's be clear on this: &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;OBAMA did NOT kill Bin Laden&lt;/span&gt;. An American sailor, who Obama, &lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;just a few weeks ago, was debating on whether or not to PAY, did. &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;In fact, if you remember a little less than two years ago, his administration actually &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;charged and attempted to court-martial 3 Navy Seals from Seal Team Six&lt;/span&gt;, when a terrorist suspect they captured, complained they had punched him during the take down and bloodied his nose. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;His administration further commented how brutal they were&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/u&gt;. The left was calli&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;ng them Nazi ' s and Baby Killers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Now all of a sudden, the very brave men &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;they vilified&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt; are now heroes &lt;u&gt;&lt;em&gt;when they make his administration look good in the eyes of the public&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;Obama just happened to be the one in office when the CIA finally found the b......&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt; And our sailors took him out. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Essentially, Obama only gave an answer. Yes or No, to him being taken out. &lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;This is NOT an Obama victory&lt;/span&gt;, but an AMERICAN victory!! Forward on IF YOU AGREE!!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Ed Schreiber&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Col. USMC (Ret.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;"Semper Fi" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow; font-size: x-large;"&gt;CHARLATAN OBAMA'S OWN WORDS TRAP HIM:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;2008&lt;/span&gt;: "Navy Seal Team 6 is Cheney's private assassination team." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;2011&lt;/span&gt;: "I put together Seal Team 6 to take out Bin Laden." !!!!!!!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;2008&lt;/span&gt;: "Bin Laden is innocent until proven guilty, and must be captured alive and given a fair trial." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;2011&lt;/span&gt;: "I authorized Seal Team 6 to kill Bin Laden." !!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;2008&lt;/span&gt;: " Guantanamo is entirely unnecessary, and the detainees should not be interrogated." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: yellow;"&gt;2011&lt;/span&gt;: "Vital intelligence was obtained from Guantanamo detainees that led to our locating Bin Laden." !!!!!!!!!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;atom="http://terrornewsbriefs.blospot.com/"&gt;&lt;/atom&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3395816859984121260-7486197359588681838?l=terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/feeds/7486197359588681838/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3395816859984121260&amp;postID=7486197359588681838' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/7486197359588681838'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3395816859984121260/posts/default/7486197359588681838'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/07/charlatan-obama-and-seal-team-6-he.html' title='CHARLATAN OBAMA AND THE SEAL TEAM 6 HE WANTED TO IMPRISON!'/><author><name>Alan Peters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15518570634735418114</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_c3WtQv44wGc/R3awtGupxMI/AAAAAAAAALM/WAgxmYM_6ZY/S220/My+looks.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sv6J34BQxuU/TiKR0POsKrI/AAAAAAAADfg/YVdcTrZDOrw/s72-c/seal+team+6.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3395816859984121260.post-2208751545482116340</id><published>2011-07-15T12:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-15T12:03:53.825-07:00</updated><title type='text'>CRA TERROR NEWSBRIEF</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mAri8t19wSw/TiCIsoCGuiI/AAAAAAAADfY/pOTMt0634xY/s1600/assassin+hanged.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="410px" m$="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mAri8t19wSw/TiCIsoCGuiI/AAAAAAAADfY/pOTMt0634xY/s640/assassin+hanged.bmp" width="640px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;ASSASSIN OF PRESIDENT KARZAI'S HALF-BROTHER PUBLICLY HANGED&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday, July 13, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Threats and terrorist-related activities HEADINGS - SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TERROR INCIDENTS 3 Mumbai Bombings Minutes Apart Kill 21, Wound 141; 2 Americans Abducted by Muslims in Southern Philippines; Fear of Islamic Militant Attacks in Nigeria Spreads to Lagos; Kentucky Muslim Woman Made Christians Drink Each Other's Blood before Murdering Them; and Syrian Government Thugs Break into US Embassy in Damascus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WAR NEWS Taliban Takes Credit For Chasing Canadians Away&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THREATS Disarmed by Shariah; Arkansas Jihad; This is The Century of a Worldwide Islamic Awakening; US Airports Still Have Security Vulnerabilities; and Iran Duplicates Chinese Wonder Weapon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PIRACY Pirate Games&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BORDER DISORDER Catastrophe And The Cartel Wars; and 'Gunwalker' Deepens: Agent Zapata Killed By Gun From...Texas? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama Threatens Gun Owners in Border States&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MIDDLE EAST Arabic Dreams of Turkish Ways; Morocco's Constitutional Referendum for Dummies; and Muslim Brotherhood Challenges Jordan's King&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CYBER ACTIVITY al-Qaeda Plotting Internet Jihad; and Jihadi Sites Focusing on CIA sites in Somalia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TERROR MODUS OPERANDI Dry Run? Muslim Goes Jihad, Causes Flight Diversion on Plane to Germany, Kicking and Spitting at Passengers; More Somalis from MN and OH leave to fight with Al-Shabaab (al-Qaeda); HizbAllah Sets Up Shop in Mexico; al-Qaeda's Egyptian Ideologues Planning Caliphate's Return to Egypt; and Haqqani Network&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;STEALTH JIHAD Radical Islam in Germany: The Convert as Missionary; and Women under Sharia Law: The Dilemma of 'The Wife Beating Protocol'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TERRORIST CONNECTIONS Yes We Khan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PROPAGANDA CAIR Spokesman Turns Blind Eye to 'War on Islam' Rhetoric; and Illinois: Muslim Leader Calls for Sharia to the Chants of 'Allah Akbar'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Responses and counter-terror measures are noted in:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WAR NEWS Afghan War News - July 13, 2011; and Afghan-led Security Force Detains Insurgents&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BORDER DISORDER Obama Threatens Gun Owners in Border States &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HOMELAND SECURITY Report Shows Gaping Holes in Intelligence on Overseas Terrorists; A Nuclear Security Fund - Policy Innovation Memorandum No. 6; Feds Review Policies Affecting Terrorist Travel; and Minorities 'Alienated by Airport Security'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TERRORISM RESPONSE Norway Police Charge 3 Muslims over Bomb Plot&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TERROR ON TRIAL Assassin Who Killed President Karzai's Brother Hanged in Public Square; Federal Government Isn't Touching Arkansas Terrorism Case; and US Federal Prosecutors Want Brotherhood Terrorist's Jail Term Reduced&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;POLICE AND CRIME ISSUES Thousands Back Tulsa Officer Ordered to Muslim Worship&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Threats and terrorist-related activities are reported in:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TERROR INCIDENTS 3 Mumbai Bombings Minutes Apart Kill 21, Wound 141; 2 Americans Abducted by Muslims in Southern Philippines; Fear of Islamic Militant Attacks in Nigeria Spreads to Lagos; Kentucky Muslim Woman Made Christians Drink Each Other's Blood before Murdering Them; and Syrian Government Thugs Break into US Embassy in Damascus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WAR NEWS Taliban Takes Credit for Chasing Canadians Away&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THREATS Disarmed by Shariah; Arkansas Jihad; This is The Century of a Worldwide Islamic Awakening; US Airports Still Have Security Vulnerabilities; and Iran Duplicates Chinese Wonder Weapon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PIRACY Pirate Games&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BORDER DISORDER Catastrophe and the Cartel Wars; and 'Gunwalker' Deepens: Agent Zapata Killed By Gun from...Texas? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama Threatens Gun Owners in Border States&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MIDDLE EAST Arabic Dreams of Turkish Ways; Morocco's Constitutional Referendum for Dummies; and Muslim Brotherhood Challenges Jordan's King&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CYBER ACTIVITY al-Qaeda Plotting Internet Jihad; and Jihadi Sites Focusing on CIA sites in Somalia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TERROR MODUS OPERANDI Dry Run? Muslim Goes Jihad, Causes Flight Diversion on Plane to Germany, Kicking and Spitting at Passengers; More Somalis from MN and OH leave to fight with Al-Shabaab (al-Qaeda); HizbAllah Sets Up Shop in Mexico; al-Qaeda's Egyptian Ideologues Planning Caliphate's Return to Egypt; and Haqqani Network&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;STEALTH JIHAD Radical Islam in Germany: The Convert as Missionary; and Women under Sharia Law: The Dilemma of 'The Wife Beating Protocol'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TERRORIST CONNECTIONS Yes We Khan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PROPAGANDA CAIR Spokesman Turns Blind Eye to 'War on Islam' Rhetoric; and Illinois: Muslim Leader Calls for Sharia to the Chants of 'Allah Akbar'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Responses and counter-terror measures are noted in:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WAR NEWS Afghan War News - July 13, 2011; and Afghan-led Security Force Detains Insurgents&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BORDER DISORDER Obama Threatens Gun Owners in Border States &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HOMELAND SECURITY Report Shows Gaping Holes in Intelligence on Overseas Terrorists; A Nuclear Security Fund - Policy Innovation Memorandum No. 6; Feds Review Policies Affecting Terrorist Travel; and Minorities 'Alienated by Airport Security'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TERRORISM RESPONSE Norway Police Charge 3 Muslims over Bomb Plot&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TERROR ON TRIAL Assassin Who Killed President Karzai's Brother Hanged in Public Square; Federal Government Isn't Touching Arkansas Terrorism Case; and US Federal Prosecutors Want Brotherhood Terrorist's Jail Term Reduced&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;POLICE AND CRIME ISSUES Thousands Back Tulsa Officer Ordered to Muslim Worship&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ASSASSIN WHO KILLED &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PRESIDENT KARZAI’S BROTHER HANGED IN PUBLIC SQUARE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Presented by CRA, Inc.,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A PRE-EMINENT PROVIDER OF NATIONAL HOMELAND SECURITY THREAT, RESEARCH,&lt;br /&gt;ANALYSIS, TRAINING AND EXERCISES. 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Muslim Goes Jihad, Causes Flight Diversion on Plane to Germany, Kicking and Spitting at Passengers &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More Somalis from MN and OH leave to fight with Al-Shabaab (al-Qaeda) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HizbAllah Sets Up Shop in Mexico &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;al-Qaeda's Egyptian Ideologues Planning Caliphate's Return to Egypt &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Haqqani Network &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;STEALTH JIHAD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Radical Islam in Germany: The Convert as Missionary &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Women under Sharia Law: The Dilemma of 'The Wife Beating Protocol' &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TERRORIST CONNECTIONS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes We Khan &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PROPAGANDA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CAIR Spokesman Turns Blind Eye to 'War on Islam' Rhetoric &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Illinois: Muslim Leader Calls for Sharia to the Chants of 'Allah Akbar' &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FAIR USE NOTICE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fair Use Notice &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TO ENSURE DELIVERY TO YOUR EMAIL BOX&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To Ensure Delivery To Your Email Box &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TO BE ADDED OR REMOVED FROM THIS EMAIL LIST&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To Be Added or Removed From This Email List &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TERROR INCIDENTS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 Mumbai Bombings Minutes Apart Kill 21, Wound 141 (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 13, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Rajesh Shah and Muneeza Naqvi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MUMBAI, India -- Three coordinated bombings tore through the heart of India's busy financial capital during rush hour Wednesday, killing 21 people and wounding 141 in the worst terror attack in the country since the 2008 Mumbai siege.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bloody bodies were strewn in the dirt of Mumbai's crowded neighborhoods and markets. Doors were ripped off storefronts, motorcycles were charred and a bus stop was shredded. After the blasts in three separate neighborhoods, police set up checkpoints and were put on high alert.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bombings came just months after peace talks resumed between India and Pakistan, which New Delhi has blamed for past attacks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condemned the blasts and appealed to the people of Mumbai 'to remain calm and show a united face.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was no immediate claim of responsibility, and Indian officials refused to speculate on who might be behind the blasts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indian officials have accused Pakistan's powerful spy agency of helping coordinate and fund earlier attacks, including the Mumbai siege, which killed 166 people over three days. Peace talks between the countries were suspended after the siege and resumed only recently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pakistan's government expressed distress about the loss of lives and injuries soon after Wednesday's blasts were reported.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;U.S. President Barack Obama also condemned the 'outrageous attacks.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'The American people will stand with the Indian people in times of trial, and we will offer support to India's efforts to bring the perpetrators of these terrible crimes to justice,' he said in a statement. 'I have no doubt that India will overcome these deplorable terrorist attacks.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she will go ahead with her plans to visit India next week despite the bombings. Standing with India 'is more important than ever,' she said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bombings began with an explosion that ripped through the famed Jhaveri Bazaar jewelry market at 6:54 p.m. A minute later, a blast hit the busy business district of Opera House, several miles (kilometers) away in southern Mumbai. At 7:05 p.m., the third bomb exploded in the crowded neighborhood of Dadar in central Mumbai, according to police.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because of the close timing of the blasts, 'we infer that this was a coordinated attack by terrorists,' Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lifeless body lay on a cart. Survivors carried the wounded to taxis. One man was dragged out of the area on a red board used as a stretcher. Bleeding victims crowded into the back of a cargo truck to be taken to a hospital, where wards were filled with the wounded, slathered in white burn cream.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At Jhaveri Bazaar, a witness described two motorcycles exploding in flames and saw at least six bodies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'People were shouting 'Help me, help me,'' the man told Headlines Today television.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People hugged and wept. Crowds gathered in the blast areas as police questioned witnesses, and investigators wearing gloves sifted through the debris for clues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The government said the blasts killed 21 people and wounded 141 others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'India is not going to cow down,' Cabinet minister Farooq Abdullah said. 'Let those perpetrators of this terror remember, we will find them and Inshallah (God willing) we will give them the justice that India believes in.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A U.S. official said there were no immediate claims of responsibility, or firm indication of which terrorist group might be behind the attack. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss matters of intelligence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The blasts marked the first major attack on Mumbai since 10 militants laid siege to the city for 60 hours in November 2008. That attack targeted two luxury hotels, a Jewish center and a busy train station.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C. Uday Bhaskar, a defense analyst, said the bombings showed that Mumbai remained vulnerable despite precautions taken after the 2008 attack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'The local police still does not have either the capability or the capacity to pre-empt such attacks, and this is going to be a constant challenge,' he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some media incorrectly reported Wednesday's blasts happened on the birthday of Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Kasab, who was sentenced to death in Mumbai, was born on Sept. 13.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The city has been on edge since the 2008 attack. In December, authorities deployed extra police on city streets after receiving intelligence that a Pakistan-based militant group was planning an attack over New Year's weekend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In March 2010, Mumbai police said they prevented a major terrorist strike after they arrested two Indian men, who, police said, were preparing to hit several targets in the city. In September, police issued a terror alert for the city during a popular Hindu festival.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last month, India and Pakistan held their first formal talks on the disputed region of Kashmir since the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Both nuclear-armed nations claim Kashmir in its entirety, and have fought two of their three wars over the region since they gained independence from Britain in 1947.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 Americans Abducted by Muslims in Southern Philippines (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 12, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MANILA, Philippines — More than a dozen armed men abducted a naturalized American, her teenage son and Filipino nephew before dawn Tuesday from a southern Philippine island near a stronghold of al-Qaida-linked militants, officials said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suspicion fell on the notorious Abu Sayyaf, which has been blamed for ransom kidnappings, beheadings and bombings in the last two decades, or a Muslim rebel commander whose group has been linked to previous abductions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 400-plus Abu Sayyaf militants, who are fighting for an Islamist state in the predominantly Christian nation, are holding three other kidnap victims, including a child, as part of desparate efforts to raise funds, according to the Philippine army.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The assailants seized Gerfa Yeatts Lunsmann, her 14-year-old son and 19-year-old Filipino nephew from a house in Zamboanga city's Tictabon island village, then fled with their captives in two motorized boats, said police Senior Superintendent Edwin de Ocampo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No contact or ransom demand has been made by the abductors, and their identities remain unconfirmed, de Ocampo said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It happened near Basilan Island, the birthplace and stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf militants, about 550 miles (880 kilometers) south of Manila.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The largest Muslim separatist group, Moro Islamic Liberation Front, is present in the area but it has been negotiating with the government and a cease-fire has largely held for several years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, the military said a separatist Moro commander identified as Waning Abdulsalam may have been responsible. Rebel spokesman Von Al Haq said his group would investigate but that it has no such report and will not tolerate criminal activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Police earlier said the woman was a Filipino married to a German and the family lives in the U.S. state of Virginia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But army Col. Buenaventura Pascual, commander of an anti-terrorist task force in Zamboanga, said his men on Tictabon Island saw the U.S. passports of Lunsmann and her son, showing they were American citizens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lunsmann, 50, was originally from Basilan and her previous name was Jerpa Usman, police and military officials said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pascual said the woman's husband is apparently an American citizen of German ancestry. He did not accompany his wife and son, who arrived in the Philippines two weeks ago to visit relatives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Calls and text messages to the U.S. Embassy were unanswered Tuesday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'We have deployed troops to track down the victims,' Pascual said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said the local crisis committee was convened and that police and the military were trying to rescue the victims and capture the culprits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Military spokesman Lt. Col. Randolph Cabangbang said intelligence reports showed the victims may have been brought to Basilan's Tuburuan township.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/AS-Philippines-Abduction/2 011/07/12/id/403288 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fear of Islamic Militant Attacks in Nigeria Spreads to Lagos (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 12, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Scott Stearns&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lagos - The fear of attacks by Islamic militants in Nigeria is spreading south to the commercial capital, Lagos, where city buses are being checked for bombs. A group that says it is fighting for a separate Islamic state is thought responsible for a series of attacks across the north.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bomb attacks and ambushes in the northern city of Maiduguri have indefinitely closed the university there and led to an exodus of civilians, some of whom are newly unemployed motorbike taxi drivers after all motorbikes were banned in Maiduguri because Islamic militants were using them to throw bombs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Islamic sect Boko Haram recognizes neither Nigeria's constitution nor the federal government and says it is fighting for a separate nation in the north, ruled by Islamic law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The group bombed national police headquarters in Abuja and a church just outside the capital, which is now under a limited curfew with all bars and movie theaters closed by 10 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fear of Boko Haram attacks is now spreading south to Lagos, following a text message purportedly sent by the group warning people not to take government buses because they are a target.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The managing director of LAGBUS, Yemi Odubela, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the firm is aware of the threat and is asking passengers to remain vigilant and cooperate with spot checks of their bags.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the Eko roundabout bus stop on Victoria Island, this passenger says her bags were checked when she boarded the LAGBUS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'They have been checking us before we entered at Leventis,' she said. 'They checked us to see if anybody is carrying any equipment inside their bags. So they checked us before we entered. Men check men. Women check women.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;STEARNS: 'Did that make you feel safer then?'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BUS PASSENGER: 'Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We are afraid. We are afraid. Everybody is afraid to enter, you see that blue color [bus] and this red color [bus]. We are afraid. They check under all the seats before we entered. So maybe there is something they hide under the seats. There is nothing under [the seats].'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This man, getting off the #55 LAGBUS, says he does not believe the Boko Haram threat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'They have been operating,' he said. 'Even when they have been bombing, have they been giving warnings? No. They have not been giving warnings. They do it. So I want to believe that people are just trying to use that to cause confusion.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With heavy rains in Lagos, this woman says her car will not make it through the flooding, so she has to take the bus, despite the threat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'I have no choice,' she said. 'Because of the rain, I have no other transport means to get to this place.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This passenger says Boko Haram will find it far harder to operate in the south.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'We will continue to take the bus because there is security in Lagos,' said the passenger.'I don't believe they will come to this place. I just call it a threat. They can't come down to the south. We will check them here. LAGBUS is even better because at LAGBUS you queue. So you can check anybody who enters that LAGBUS. So if it just an ordinary bus like this one that everybody jumps inside it is a different thing.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Goodluck Jonathan has offered to open talks with the group, but Boko Haram leaders have so far refused, saying they cannot meet with security forces that are trying to destroy them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/west/Fear-of-Islamic -Militant-Attacks-in-Nigeria-Spreads-to-Lagos-125406593.html &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kentucky Muslim Woman Made Christians Drink Each Other's Blood before Murdering Them (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 12, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kentucky: Bosnian Muslima Faces Extradition for War Crimes Against Serb Christians, Made Serbs Drink Blood of Serbs she Murdered, Carved Crosses and 'SS' onto Foreheads&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More debunking of the Bosnian lie that our soldiers went to war for. Died for. Unfathomable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is yet another 'poor innocent victimized Bosnian Muslim,' Azra Basic, who murdered Christian Serbs, collected their blood and made other Christians drink the blood. She worked in three different death camps, where she 'murdered and tortured Christians' because of their religion. According to eyewitness testimony, she forced Christians to drink gasoline, then set their hands and faces on fire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She carved crosses and 'SS' onto the foreheads and backs of Christian Serbs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She is fighting extradition. What say you? Will the US allow her to stay to cover up one of Clinton's most egregious mistakes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bosnian Muslim woman made Serbs drink blood of Serbs she killed July 11, 2011, Serbianna (hat tip Rod)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Azra Basic has been described as a 'Croatian woman' and a 'Lovely’ Ky. woman' but she slayed Serbs, collected their blood and made other Serb prisoners she was yet to kill drink the blood she so carefully collected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;American media considers Bosnian Muslims 'heroes' and the American President Clinton bombed Serbs so Bosnian Muslims like Basic can drain Serbian blood and make other Serbs that America bombed drink it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, the accusations against her are just the tip of the iceberg of Bosnian Muslim atrocities but the description of this Muslim terrorizer goes just like any other description of a Muslim that goes around killing infidels:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'She’s a pretty nice person. If I was standing here right now and … she drove by, she would throw her hand up and if the window was down, she would speak and say ‘hi’ by my name.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'She’s a lovely person, very diligent in her work,' another said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[...] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;US accuses Serbs of 'genociding' Bosnian Muslims like Basic and are persecuting the Serbian General Ratko Mladic for Srebrenica although many of the Bosnian Muslims that are listed as massacred in Srebrenica are living in the US.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Investigators have found that numerous Bosnian Muslim names that are listed at the Srebrenica memorial as allegedly murdered by Mladic’s forces are actually living in the US, especially in Minnesota.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Developing…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Azra Basic fighting extradition in Lexington federal court to face alleged war crimes in Bosnia &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LEXINGTON, Ky. — An attorney for a Croatian woman accused of committing war crimes in Bosnia told a federal judge Friday in Lexington that she should be allowed to stay in the U.S. instead of facing charges in Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Azra Basic is accused of torturing prisoners after the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. U.S. officials want the 52-year-old woman extradited to Bosnia to face charges of murder and torture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But a long list of international issues stand in the way of extradition, including the absence of a treaty between Bosnia and the U.S., and whether the statute of limitations has expired on the alleged crimes, her attorney, Patrick Nash, argued Wednesday. Basic (pronounced bah'-sich) is also a naturalized U.S. citizen, and Nash said that complicates things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to court documents, Basic is charged with fatally stabbing a prisoner in the neck in 1992 during the conflict in Eastern Europe, along with other atrocities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She appeared in court Wednesday in a grey jumpsuit with handcuffs on her wrists and shackles around her ankles. Basic spoke only privately to Nash during the hearing and waved to a couple as she was leaving after the proceedings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many people who know Basic say she was friendly and lived a peaceful life in Kentucky. The woman known locally as 'Issabella' in Stanton took jobs in a nursing home and also worked at a food factory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'I'd say she's probably terrified of being sent back,' said Edith Fultz, who lives in Cynthiana and met Basic through her sister-in-law. Fultz and her husband have been visiting Basic in jail weekly and said they believe Basic was trying to survive in the middle of a bloody war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'A lot of people kill people in a war because they have to,' Fultz said outside the courtroom Wednesday. 'She did not commit the things they are saying.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More than 100,000 people were killed in the ethnic war that followed Yugoslavia's collapse, most of them Muslim Bosnians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fultz said Basic came here as a refugee and was not hiding out in Kentucky.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'She told us if she was trying to hide, she wouldn't have come here,' Fultz said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Weir said he would rule on the arguments at a later date. Basic's extradition hearing is set for Aug. 22.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Azra Basic has been described as a 'Croatian woman' and a 'Lovely’ Ky. woman' but she slayed Serbs, collected their blood and made other Serb prisoners she was yet to kill drink the blood she so carefully collected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;American media considers Bosnian Muslims 'heroes' and the American President Clinton bombed Serbs so Bosnian Muslims like Basic can drain Serbian blood and make other Serbs that America bombed drink it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, the accusations against her are just the tip of the iceberg of Bosnian Muslim atrocities but the description of this Muslim terrorizer goes just like any other description of a Muslim that goes around killing infidels:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'She’s a pretty nice person. If I was standing here right now and … she drove by, she would throw her hand up and if the window was down, she would speak and say ‘hi’ by my name.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'She’s a lovely person, very diligent in her work,' another said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Azra Basic was born Azra Alesevic on June 22, 1959 in Rijeka, Croatia, so that is why this Bosnian Muslim is called a 'Croatian'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She married another Muslim, Nedzad Basic in 1994 in Bosnia. She holds Croatian and US citizenship.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She lived in Rochester, NY but moved in 2006 elsewhere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;US accuses Serbs of 'genociding' Bosnian Muslims like Basic and are persecuting the Serbian General Ratko Mladic for Srebrenica although many of the Bosnian Muslims that are listed as massacred in Srebrenica are living in the US.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Investigators have found that numerous Bosnian Muslim names that are listed at the Srebrenica memorial as allegedly murdered by Mladic’s forces are actually living in the US, especially in Minnesota.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Developing…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Link in German:http://medforth.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/bosnische-muslimin-zwang-serbische-gefangene-das-blut-von-getoteten-serben-zu-trinken/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earlier link to her arrest in Kentucky: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42145729/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/lovely-ky-woman-accused-horrific-war-crimes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/07/kentuck y-bosnian-muslima-faces-extradition-for-war-crimes-against-serb-christia ns-made-serbs-drink-b.html &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Syrian Government Thugs Break into US Embassy in Damascus (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 11, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DAMASCUS, Syria - Angry pro-government protesters attacked the US Embassy and the American ambassador's home in Damascus Monday, causing some damage but no injuries before US Marine guards intervened.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A State Department spokesperson in Washington said a television station heavily influenced by Syrian authorities encouraged the violence and that Syrian authorities were slow to respond with extra security measures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A US official told FOX News in Jerusalem a battering ram was used to breach the embassy grounds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once inside the compound, witnesses told Al Jazeera the attackers smashed windows, raised a Syrian flag and wrote anti-American graffiti referring to US Ambassador Robert Ford as a 'dog.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, they were unable to enter the embassy building itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was not known if Ford was in either the embassy or residence at the time of the morning assaults.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He and the French ambassador, Erik Chevallier angered government loyalists last week when they visited the flashpoint city of Hama, scene of some of the largest protests against the rule of President Bashar al Assad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A similar attack was staged Monday afternoon at the French embassy in Damascus. Three staff were injured there, AFP reported, and the ambassador's car was destroyed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Security guards there fired into the air and used tear gas to drive back the crowds, Al Jazeera reported.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The State Department spokesman said no staff at either the US embassy or ambassador's home was injured and no one had been in imminent danger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because Syrian security forces were late to respond, US Marines intervened to push back the crowd on the embassy grounds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Washington responded by calling Syria's senior diplomat there to lodge a complaint.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'We strongly condemn the Syrian government's refusal to protect our embassy and demand compensation for damages,' the State Department spokesman said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Protesters threw rocks and eggs at the US embassy on Saturday, Ford said in a statement published on Facebook on Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'How ironic that the Syrian government lets an anti-US demonstration proceed freely while their security thugs beat down olive branch-carrying peaceful protesters elsewhere,' Ford said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the statement, Ford reiterated his support for protesters in Hama. 'Hama and the Syrian crisis is not about the US at all. This is a crisis the Syrian people are in the process of solving. It is a crisis about dignity, human rights, and the rule of law,' he added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WAR NEWS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afghan War News - July 13, 2011 (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 13, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;War in Afghanistan News reports provided by ISAF Joint Command. Operations are reported in the following provinces: Logar, Balkkh, Baghlan, Helmand, Kandahar, Zabul, Wardak, Paktiya, Khost and Paktika.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A combined Afghan and coalition security force killed numerous insurgents during a security operation in Azrah district, Logar province, yesterday. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Afghan-led force was searching for a Taliban leader when a group of insurgents, armed with a machine gun and AK-47 rifles, opened fire. The security team returned fire, killing the insurgents. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The security force confiscated one rocket-propelled grenade launcher with several rounds, roadside bomb materials and several grenades following the engagement. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While attempting to exit the area, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the force observed several armed insurgents attempting an ambush. The security force fired in response and requested support from an air weapons team. The air weapons team engaged the attackers as they moved into a rock crevasse, killing them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The target of the operation was a Taliban leader responsible for directing roadside bomb attacks, and commanding sub-leaders and fighters in Hisarak district. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tailor the way you get your War in Afghanistan News&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other International Security Assistance Force Joint (ISAF) Command Operational News throughout Afghanistan: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Related Articles:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Half-Brother of Afghan President Karzai Assassinated&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joint Terminal Attack Controllers: Reach out and touch someone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taliban Close School, Afghan Officials Re-Open Same School &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Balkh Province&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Sholgarah district, Balkh province, a combined Afghan and coalition security force detained numerous suspected insurgents while searching for a Taliban leader, yesterday. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The leader is the Taliban-appointed governing official for operations in Balkh province. He is involved in planning and executing attacks against Afghan National Security Forces. Additionally, he organizes funding and delegates authority to Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, taking his orders from the Quetta Shura in Pakistan. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Baghlan Province&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Pul-e Khumri district, Baghlan province, an Afghan-led security force detained two suspected insurgents during a security operation targeting an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan facilitator, yesterday. The facilitator is directly involved in attack planning and movement of fighters in Takhar province. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Helmand Province&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province, an Afghan-led security force conducted a security operation targeting a Taliban leader resulting in the detention of several suspected insurgents, yesterday. The Taliban leader is responsible for planning and commanding operations against Afghan and coalition forces, and coordinating the procurement and distribution of weapons to fighters between various Taliban attack cells. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tailor the way you get your War in Afghanistan News&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kandahar Province&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Panjwa’i district, Kandahar province, a combined security force detained several individuals with suspected ties to the Taliban during a security operation, yesterday. The security force also confiscated and destroyed roadside bomb making materials. The target of the operation was a Taliban leader responsible for roadside bomb attacks and distribution of roadside bomb making materials in eastern Panjwa’i. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zabul Province&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During a security operation in Shajoy district, Zabul province, an Afghan-led security force detained one suspected insurgent, yesterday. The security force was searching for a Taliban facilitator responsible for distributing money and information among Taliban leaders in the Qalat and Tarnek wa Jaldak districts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wardak Province&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During a security operation in Sayyidabad district, Wardak province, an Afghan-led security force killed numerous insurgents and detained several suspected insurgents with ties to the Taliban, yesterday. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While attempting to clear a building, the force encountered several armed insurgents. The force made numerous attempts to apprehend the individuals peacefully. The individuals remained non-compliant and repeatedly displayed hostile intent toward the security force. The force fired in defense, killing several insurgents armed with grenades and AK-47 rifles. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tailor the way you get your War in Afghanistan News&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paktiya Province&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Zurmat district, Paktiya province, an Afghan-led security force detained a Taliban leader and two suspected insurgents during a security operation, yesterday. The leader is believed to have commanded a group of insurgents responsible for an improvised explosive device attack July 5 that resulted in the deaths of three ISAF service members. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Khost Province&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Musa Khel district, Khost province, a combined security force detained numerous individuals with suspected ties to the Haqqani Network, yesterday. The security force detained the individuals while searching for a Haqqani facilitator responsible for high-profile attacks in the area. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Paktika Province&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, in Mata Khan district, Paktika province, a combined security force detained one suspected insurgent while searching for a Taliban facilitator yesterday. The facilitator provides safe haven and finances to senior level Taliban leaders in the district.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While bringing you the latest news on the War On Terror we are supporting a Marine in his quest to help his brothers in arms. Read how and Where it all began: A Senior Marine NCO that Refused Orders War On Terror News is supporting MGySgt White and his fundraising efforts for the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://tinyurl.com/5r4vd7z &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afghan-led Security Force Detains Insurgents (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 13, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From an International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Release &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan-led combined security force detained a Haqqani network leader and one suspected insurgent in the Terayzai district of Afghanistan's Khost province yesterday, military officials reported. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The leader was responsible for the distribution of weapons and supplies throughout the district, and also emplaced roadside bombs in the area. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other Afghanistan news yesterday: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- An Afghan-led combined force detained multiple suspects during a security operation targeting an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader in the Burkah district of Baghlan province. The leader was recently appointed head governing official for insurgent operations in the district. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- A combined Afghan and coalition force detained one suspected insurgent while searching for a Taliban facilitator in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province. The facilitator is a smuggler, responsible for transporting weapons collected from Pakistan between Afghanistan's Spin Boldak and Nahr-e Siraj districts. Additionally, he supports associates responsible for the movement of weapons from Kandahar City to Nahr-e Siraj. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- An Afghan-led security force detained two suspected insurgents during a clearance operation in the Zharay district, of Kandahar province. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-- An Afghan-led force detained two suspects during a search for a Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin leader in the Alingar district of Laghman province. The security force was searching for the leader after receiving several reports he was planning an attack against Afghan and coalition forces. Additionally, the leader is responsible for previous attacks against the Afghan army. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taliban Takes Credit For Chasing Canadians Away (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 12, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canada recently withdrew its combat forces from Afghanistan. The Taliban promptly took credit for that, claiming that the casualties the Taliban inflicted on Canadian troops forced Canada to leave. This claim is nothing new, the Taliban have been predicting such a withdrawal for over five years, and have been inflicting a disproportionate number of casualties on the Canadians. The Taliban said they were deliberately targeting the Canadians in the belief that anti-war political groups back home could be strengthened, and Canadian troops withdrawn, if enough casualties were inflicted. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During nine years of operations in Afghanistan, 157 Canadian troops died (87 percent because of the Taliban.) For most of that time, Canada suffered, proportionately, twice as many dead in Afghanistan as the United States. During this period, the U.S. had ten times as many troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. also has ten times the population of Canada, so the 3,000 Canadians are making the same scale of effort, but suffering more losses in the process. But most of those losses were not from 'fighting the Taliban,' but from mines in the road. Back in early 2007, 81 percent of Canadian deaths were from IEDs (roadside bombs). But that declined as Canadian troops received more bomb resistant armored vehicles. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the Taliban couldn't cope with Canadian troops in head-to-head combat, they devoted much of their roadside bombing effort against the Canadians. But in the last year, the Taliban were only able to kill four Canadian troops. Still, the constant Taliban propaganda about how killing even a few Canadian troops would eventually force the Canadians to withdraw, is believed by most Afghans. Canada decided to withdraw all their troops from Afghanistan back in 2008, and more American troops have moved in to replace them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20110712.aspx &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THREATS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Disarmed by Shariah (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 12, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Adm. James A. Lyons &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, the mind-numbing disease of political correctness has so infected the American military leadership that it is a threat in itself. The political correctness mentality was the principal reason why Fort Hood's alleged murderer, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was not cashiered out of the Army after a shocking June 2007 PowerPoint presentation he gave as part of his psychiatric residency program. In that presentation, he reportedly warned his Army colleagues and supervisor at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center of 'adverse events' that would occur if the Army did not accept the precepts of Islamic Shariah law and grant Muslims serving in the Army conscientious objector status.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He went on to describe what he meant by adverse events, citing previous cases of Muslims murdering their fellow soldiers, spying against the United States, deserting their units and refusing to deploy. None of his fellow doctors or his supervisor reported his remarks, most likely out of fear of being labeled a bigot or racist, which in today's military could end one's career.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now it seems the Army has embraced Maj. Hasan's position in an incredible decision made last month by the secretary of the Army to grant conscientious objector status to Pfc. Naser Abdo. He is a 21-year-old soldier, a member of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky., who refused to deploy to Afghanistan, claiming that Shariah law prevented him from killing other Muslims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact that Shariah law is totally incompatible with the U.S. Constitution and has no legal basis in the United States was somehow overlooked in the Army's decision process. Shariah is a totalitarian legal-military-political system that is designed to control every aspect of an individual's life and is antithetical to our concept of freedom and democracy. By its dictates, Shariah is seditious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By acceding to the dictates of Shariah, the Army has tacitly endorsed an absurd position that in effect sanctions Muslim service members to kill non-Muslims but forbids them to kill Muslims. Further, it is an unbelievable basis on which to classify them as conscientious objectors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Pfc. Abdo enlisted, he stated he initially believed that he could be a soldier and a Muslim at the same time. What changed his vision? He stated that his understanding of Islam 'changed' as he went through training ahead of a planned deployment to Afghanistan. He worried whether going to war was the right thing to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This would indicate that someone in the Army training process for an overseas deployment in the 2009-10 time frame was indoctrinating Pfc. Abdo and other Muslim soldiers. Could it have been one of the Muslim chaplains personally selected by Abdurahman Alamoudi, who currently is serving a 23-year sentence in a federal prison? He was convicted of terrorism-related charges and was proved to be a senior al Qaeda financier as well as a strong supporter of the terrorists groups Hezbollah and Hamas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a result of his close connections in the Clinton White House, Alamoudi had the lead role in establishing the Muslim chaplain program. He nominated and approved which Muslim chaplains could serve in the U.S. military. The chaplains have never been vetted. This, together with a review of how Muslim military personnel currently are being indoctrinated, needs to be examined on an expedited basis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who helped the Army come to this inconceivable position on classifying Pfc. Abdo as a conscientious objector? My guess would be the Army received 'guidance' from its Muslim 'outreach partners,' who it believes are operating in America's best interest. This would be classic stealth jihad at its finest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By granting conscientious objector status to Pfc. Abdo, the Army is tacitly accepting a key tenet of the Islamic doctrine of jihad, as embraced by al Qaeda and other terrorists groups, which states that any incursion by non-Muslims into the Islamic lands makes it the duty for all Muslims to fight the 'occupiers.' This view is shared by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who has challenged American efforts in Afghanistan as 'unwelcome outsiders,' in effect, occupiers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The U.S. military is the finest in the world. It represents the best of America. We have many Muslims serving honorably in the U.S. military and their service should not be tainted by Pfc. Abdo's conscientious objector designation. His discharge from the Army is currently on hold because he has been charged with possession of child pornography. That should not be surprising: Shariah sanctions marriage of girls 9 years old and younger, in effect, legalized pedophilia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Retired Navy Adm. James A. Lyons was commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and senior U.S. military representative to the United Nations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: The Washington Times &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arkansas Jihad (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 12, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, is escorted from the Little Rock police headquarters Monday, June 1, 2009 in Little Rock, Ark. Muhammad is the suspect in the killing of a soldier in a targeted attack on a military recruiting center, police said. Another soldier was also wounded in the attack.. (AP Photo/Brian Chilson)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An admitted jihadist who killed an American soldier on U.S. soil will be tried next week in Arkansas on a state charge of capital murder - not terrorism. This is odd, considering that the Obama administration recently went out of its way to bring a Somali-born jihadist into U.S. federal court to face terrorism charges for what he may have done overseas. Perhaps the White House thinks that if it turns a blind eye toward domestic Islamic terrorism, it won't really exist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad is a textbook case of homegrown terrorism. He was born Carlos Bledsoe in Memphis, Tenn., and converted to Islam at age 20. He was active in radical circles, traveled to the Middle East and married a Yemeni woman. In 2008, he was arrested in Yemen for a visa violation and was found to have counterfeit Somali identification documents. He was held in jail and interviewed by FBI agents but was allowed to return to the United States in 2009. He was interviewed once by the bureau upon his return but reportedly was not placed under surveillance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On June 1, 2009, Mr. Muhammad allegedly opened fire on an Army recruiting station in Little Rock, Ark., killing Pvt. William Long and wounding Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, who were outside taking a break. Mr. Muhammad was picked up by police later that day; in his vehicle they found an SKS assault rifle, a scope, a laser sight, a silencer, two pistols and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. He said he was angry at the U.S. treatment of Muslims and involvement in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He wanted to kill as many service members as he could.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Little Rock shooting did not get the attention given to higher-profile jihadist incidents such as the Fort Hood massacre in November 2009 or the botched Christmas Day 2009 underwear bombing attempt. In all three cases, the bureaucracy ignored clear warning signs of potential terrorist activity. In all three cases, there was a known link to Yemen and American-born al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki. Like Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, Mr. Muhammad is a homegrown jihadist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Justice Department's lack of interest in the Arkansas shooting case is consistent with the administration's attempts to delink radical Islam from terrorism. This also was the case with the Fort Hood shooting, where the administration doggedly ignored all aspects of Maj. Hasan's jihadist motives for the attack and initially refused to classify it as terrorism. This was a neat trick considering Maj. Hasan yelled the jihadist war cry 'Allahu akbar!' before opening fire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's not as though the administration is afraid of bringing terrorists to federal courts. Mr. Obama ordered the Justice Department to do an end run around Congress to charge accused Somali terrorist Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame with federal crimes and grant him full due-process rights even though he is not an American citizen and had not conducted an attack inside the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Obama seems desperate to have foreign jihadists face federal judges and equally driven to deny that jihadism has sprouted on American soil. Perhaps Mr. Obama believes that the president on whose watch Osama bin Laden was killed cannot be called soft on terrorism, but the case of Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad may prove otherwise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: The Washington Times &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is The Century of a Worldwide Islamic Awakening (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 13, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Reza Kahlili&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, addressing participants in Tehran’s 28th International Holy Quran Contests, said on Tuesday that the revolutions and popular uprisings sweeping the Middle East and North Africa show that God definitely fulfills His promises. He further emphasized that the regional nations’ uprisings are a 'clear indication of the fact that Allah’s promises mentioned in the Holy Quran are definitely materialized.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Khamenei then declared the Holy Quran as 'the most important means and factor of unity, honor and dignity, and power for the Islamic Ummah (community), adding that lack of belief in Quranic concepts and divine promises 'has practically prevented unity, honor and dignity, power and mightiness of the Islamic Ummah.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then on Wednesday, July 6th, the Iranian Supreme Leader’s Advisor for Military Affairs, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, the ex-chief commander of the Guards, stated that the Muslim states’ main share in control over the world’s vital energy corridors has provided Islamic nations with an excellent chance to control the world economy. He reminded the Islamic nations that their rich energy resources are their source of power, giving Muslims the capability to control the world economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Safavi further elaborated that '[a]bout 80 percent of the world trade is done through sea voyage and cargo fleets and these fleets of cargo ships will pass through the world’s strategic straits. Meantime, Islamic countries are located on both sides of these strategic bottlenecks, which we call ‘compulsory passages.’ Thus it can be said that Muslim states can come into control of the world economy.' He added that the same case is true even with military issues such as in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, when the U.S. dispatched over 200,000 troops through the very same vital and strategic waterways.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Safavi went on to say that the U.S. claims to have the world’s number-one army, while the main part of its forces, military strategy, and power lies with its Navy; and because of that, it is vulnerable to Muslim nations, given the Islamic states’ control over strategic waterways. He then pointed to the recent popular uprisings in the region, and stressed that the 21st century will witness the emergence of a new power under the name of the 'Muslim World.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'God willing, we should name the current century as the century of Islamic Awakening,' Safavi underscored, adding that not only Egypt, Yemen, and Bahrain, but also a number of other nations in the Middle East and North Africa will eventually succeed in regaining power and controlling their fate in the next few years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, in demanding the removal of U.S. forces from the region, said: 'In one way or another they should be removed.' Then he added that '[t]he regional nations showed that they want Islamic populism and seek the rule of the Holy Quran. Therefore, there has remained no more room or option left for the U.S., Britain and Zionists in the Islamic region.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back in March, I reported on the statements of the commander of the Basij organization, Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Naghdi, in which he claimed that all Middle East gas and oil will soon be cut off to infidels, elaborating that '[s]eventy percent of the world’s fossil fuel reserve is under the feet of the soldiers of the Supreme Leadership and soon oil and gas fields belonging to Muslims, which is now in the hands of America, will fall into the hands of the people. That will be the time when all those overlords will have sanctions put on them.' He added: 'The enemy is heavily dependent on this energy and the events in the region have them quite agitated. This, of course, provides us with a hopeful future.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is clear that the Iranian leaders are looking at the recent events in the Middle East with an eye to controlling the outcome to be one of anti-West sentiment, and that it will be played out to unite Muslims against Americans and Israelis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the radicals ruling Iran engaging us on several fronts: Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Libya and others; with Iran continuing to incite the populace in the region to overthrow U.S.-backed governments; with their progress on the missile delivery front; and with their pursuit of the nuclear bomb; it is time for President Obama and his administration to realize that the Iranian leaders are a grave danger to our national security and also to global stability. A nuclear-armed Iran must not be allowed! Nuclear bombs in the hands of jihadists should be a red line for the free world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We must realize that unless and until we understand the ideology of the radicals ruling Iran, we will continue to miscalculate our approach, but this time, humanity will pay dearly if we fail to understand the threat.Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym for an ex-CIA spy who requires anonymity for safety reasons. He is the author of A Time to Betray, a book about his double-life as a CIA agent in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, published by Threshold Editions, Simon &amp;amp; Schuster, April 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://www.aina.org/news/20110713105218.htm &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;US Airports Still Have Security Vulnerabilities (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 13, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Eileen Sullivan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WASHINGTON — It has been almost 10 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, and U.S. airports still are not as secure as they need to be. More than 14,000 people have found their way into sensitive areas, and about 6,000 travelers have made it past government screeners without proper scrutiny, according to a congressman who is leading an inquiry into the deficiencies. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since November 2001, more than 25,000 security breaches have occurred at U.S. airports, despite the extra security measures put in place over the past 9 ½ years, said Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz, citing government statistics. That is an average of slightly more than five security breaches a year at each of the 457 commercial airports, and 'these are just the ones we know about,' said Chaffetz, who is overseeing a congressional hearing Wednesday on security shortcomings. 'I think it's a stunningly high number.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Transportation Security Administration said these numbers represent 'a tiny fraction of 1 percent' of the more than 5.5 billion people that have been screened across the country since 9/11. 'These events were reported, investigated and remedied,' agency spokesman Greg Soule said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 25,000 figure is misleading because a security breach is broadly defined to include instances when a checked bag was misplaced after it had gone through security screening to a person who was caught in the act of breaching security and immediately apprehended, Soule said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Criticism of screening policies &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The congressional interest comes amid the busy midyear travel season and growing criticism of some of the TSA's screening policies, like security pat-downs for children and travelers in their 90s. The TSA has defended its policies, citing terrorists' persistent interest in attacking commercial aviation. For instance, early this month, counterterror officials saw intelligence about some terrorists' renewed interest in surgically implanting bombs in humans to evade airport security like full-body imaging machines. The TSA and FBI are even testing this theory on pigs' carcasses to see how viable the threat is, said a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security matters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the 2001 attacks, the airport screening work force has been entirely revamped and billions of dollars have been spent on technology that has been deployed across the country. But despite all the enhancements, travelers have made it past security when they should not have. Most recently, a cellphone-sized stun gun was found aboard a plane operated by JetBlue Airways Corp. Officials do not believe the stun gun was intended for use in some type of attack, but the FBI is investigating how and why it was on the airplane. Earlier this month, a Nigerian American was accused of breaching three layers of airport security while getting on a cross-country flight with an expired boarding pass.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chaffetz also worries that airports have issued more than 900,000 special credentials to workers for access to secure and restricted areas in airports, including 16,000 secure badges to Washington Dulles International Airport in Northern Virginia alone, he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The government has long been aware and concerned about the 'insider threat' in which someone who wishes to do harm has access to secure areas such as those in airports. Terrorists have used such insiders to access overseas targets and collect sensitive information to aid terror operations, including hotel bombings in Indonesia in 2009 when a florist working in one of the hotels helped facilitate the attacks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: The Associated Press &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran Duplicates Chinese Wonder Weapon (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 11, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iran announced that it had developed an anti-ship missile, with a range of 300 kilometers. The new missile, called the Khalij Fars, is said to be developed from the earlier Fateh 110. But this is where this announcement gets strange. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Fateh 110 is a copy of the Chinese DF-11A ballistic missile, which had a range of 400 kilometers. The Fateh 110 is a 8.86 meter (27.5 foot), 3.5 ton rocket with a half ton warhead. Range is about 250 kilometers. The Fateh 110 is a solid fuel missile developed to replace the liquid fueled SCUD ballistic missiles Iran had been using since the 1980s. SCUD was developed from the German World War II era V-2. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What all this implies is that Iran is claiming to have developed a ballistic missile that can hit moving ships at sea. China is also claimed to have developed this technology (the DF-21D). But neither country has demonstrated their anti-ship ballistic missiles actually working. Moreover, Iran regularly announces wondrous new weapons, developed entirely in Iran. Very few of these weapons are ever seen in service. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htweap/articles/20110711.aspx &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PIRACY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pirate Games (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 12, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Somali pirate gangs have adapted to the growing fleet of warships and maritime patrol aircraft arrayed against them. One of the new tricks is getting into the databases of shipping companies and their Internet based communications. This information is bought from criminal operatives in London and the Persian Gulf, and provides precise information where the most lucrative and vulnerable ships will be. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Much of the money obtained from ransoms is used to buy goods and services from Persian Gulf merchants and other 'specialists.' This includes assistance in negotiating with the shipping and insurance companies, as well as other services. This includes intelligence. The Persian Gulf is rife with corruption, and this makes it easier to buy needed information. That's harder to do in London (the center of the maritime insurance industry, and where much information on where the most valuable ships is found). British police have detected some efforts to obtain information for pirates, and believe these efforts are becoming more intense. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the pirates obtained more information on the best targets, they equipped their mother ships with GPS, radar and satellite phones. Thus the mother ships can be directed to interception courses with targets, so the speed boats towed, or carried, by the mother ships can attack the ships at night, and capture them. The pirate intelligence effort also seeks to find out what kind of security the target ships have. Ships with armed security teams on board are avoided, which is why more ships are carrying that kind of protection. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The pirates also seek information on shipping company security developments in general, in order to stay one jump ahead. This includes equipping pirate boarding parties with explosives and welding equipment to give them a chance of breaking into safe rooms that many ships equip themselves with. If the crew can get to the fortified safe room, after shutting down or disabling the engines and calling for help, the pirates usually leave the ship before a warship shows up. But if the pirates can break into the safe room, they have hostages that will keep the warships away. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htintel/articles/20110712.aspx &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BORDER DISORDER&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Catastrophe And The Cartel Wars (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 11, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The UN is once again weighing in on Mexico’s Cartel War. Though the government puts the figure at around 35,000 dead, several non-governmental organization claims that close to 40,000 people have died since the Cartel War began in December 2006. UN humans rights officials are focusing on the number of migrants that have been slain by the cartels. The migrants (most of them from Central American countries) have been murdered and kidnapped by the drug cartels. However, the UN is also alleging that Mexican military and police forces have also committed human rights violations during the course of the war. The key allegation is the use of torture by police in order to extract confessions from criminal suspects. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 9, 2011: Twenty people were slain in a gun battle in the city of Monterrey. It began when cartel gunmen entered a bar in the city and started firing on the patrons. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 8, 2011: Mexican prosecutors convicted four men in the murders of 15 young people who were attending a birthday party in Ciudad Juarez in January 2010. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federal police engaged in a series of firefights with cartel gunmen in Michoacan state (western Mexico). The main battle took place in the town of Apatzingan, where four cartel gunmen died in the battle and three police were wounded. The four gunmen belonged to the Knights Templar (Los Caballeros Templarios) faction of La Familia cartel. The recent increase in violence in Michoacan caused the government to send in another 1,800 police over the weekend, along with four helicopters. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 7, 2011: The US recession has resulted in a significant drop in illegal immigration from Mexico. Just how significant is unclear, though some analysts estimate the 2011 figure will be very low. One academic analyst reported that 2011 may witness a slight outward migration of illegals (ie, they are returning to Mexico). Everyone agrees that accurate numbers are tough since illegal aliens are, well, illegal. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 4, 2011: Mexican federal police arrested a senior commander in Los Zetas drug cartel. Jesus Enrique Rejon Aguilar is currently the third-ranking commander in Los Zetas. He is also regarded as one of the founders of the organization. Rejon at one time served in a Mexican Army airborne special forces unit. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 3, 2011: The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidate won the governor’s race in Mexico state (south central Mexico). The PRI candidate won 62 percent of the vote. The Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD, left-wing party) finished second and the National Action Party (PAN, center right) candidate finished third. Mexican political analysts are arguing that the victory could signal a PRI comeback in the 2012 presidential election. Until 2000, when the PAN candidate won, the PRI had held the Mexican presidency for 71 years. During that period the PRI became synonymous with institutionalized corruption. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 30, 2011: The American government reported that more and more Mexican heroin is showing up in the US. Gangs with ties to Mexican cartels are selling Mexican heroin in mid-western states (there was a major bust recently in Ohio), mid-Atlantic states, and Georgia. For several years Mexican-produced heroin has been showing up in Texas and California. US drug enforcement agencies estimate that Mexico produces around seven percent of the world’s heroin, and most of that is sold in the US. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 28, 2011: Mexico’s President announced that his administration had done the right thing in launching the Cartel War. Because of that decision, 21 of the top 37 drug lords in Mexico have been taken into custody. The president is under intense criticism for the violence afflicting the country, though much of the violence comes from drug gangs fighting each other for control of territory. President Calderon has advocated a systemic approach to modernizing Mexico. Fighting political and judicial corruption is a key plank in his modernization policy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 25, 2011: Mexican Army soldiers discovered several graves on a ranch in Nuevo Leon state (a state bordering Texas). Investigator have so far found the remains of 11 murdered people. The investigators said several of the bodies were burned in barrels before being tossed in the graves. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Officials in Guerrero state (western Mexico) reported that five people were murdered in the city of Acapulco in what the police believe are drug gang related violence. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 24, 2011: The government said that it will send some 3000 additional Mexican Army soldiers to Tamaulipas state to aid in operations against corrupt local police. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 22, 2011: Mexican federal police arrested a senior commander (Jose de Jesus Mendez, also known as El Chango) in the main faction of La Familia drug cartel. The arrest took place in Aguascalientes state and prosecutors claimed that the arrest of Mendez severely damaged cartel leadership. Mendez is regarded as a master planner. He also orchestrated violent attacks that mimicked Los Zetas operations. In fact, some of Mendez’ attacks were incorrectly attributed to Los Zetas. La Familia has two major factions, the faction Mendez belongs to and the so-called Knights Templar faction. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 21, 2011: Mexican police have launched a coordinated nation-wide operation against every day crime. The operation began in mid-June. All 31 states were involved in the operation (codenamed CONAGO 1), as well as the Federal District where Mexico City is located. 22,000 police were involved. Government officials said the operation was directed at street theft and car thefts. These are crimes that affect many Mexican people. The people often argue that the police are corrupt and do not care about crimes. Police reported that in the first days of the operation over 3,300 criminal suspects were arrested and 1,122 stolen cars were recovered. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/mexico/articles/20110711.aspx &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Gunwalker' Deepens: Agent Zapata Killed By Gun From...Texas? (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 12, 2011 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Bob Owens &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On February 15, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agents Jaime Zapata and Victor Avila were returning to Mexico City, where they were assigned after a meeting, when they were ambushed by members of the Zetas cartel on a highway near San Luis Potosi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agent Avila was lucky. While seriously wounded in the attack he managed to survive, and is on the long road to recovery back in the United States. Agent Zapata died as a result of the ambush, and it was determined that he was killed with a weapon smuggled across the U.S. border.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A week after the ambush Julian Zapata Espinoza, aka 'El Piolin,' was captured and confessed [1] to the shooting, saying that the Zetas mistook the ICE Chevrolet Suburban for a vehicle driven by a rival cartel. Curiously, that confession does not match the facts [2] as related by Agent Avila, which indicated the cartel knew exactly who they were attacking. It seems unlikely that the cartel gunners could have missed seeing the U.S. government diplomatic plates as they overtook the vehicle from behind and rammed it off the side of the road.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regardless of the other details of the ambush, what is known is that these two agents were shot at point-blank range by a gunman armed with a weapon that had been purchased in a gun store in the United States. Agent Zapata’s death is commonly accepted as the second U.S. fatality related to 'Operation Fast and Furious.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But that isn’t entirely true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The weapon used to shoot these agents was not sold in the Phoenix, Arizona, area that was the hub of Operation 'Fast and Furious,' also known as Gunwalker, which allowed gunrunners to acquire the gun that was used to murder Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December. Instead, one of the weapons used to shoot these two ICE agents came from Lancaster, Texas [3], a suburb of Dallas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brothers Otilio and Ranferi Osorio and their neighbor Kevin Morrison were arrested in Texas after Zapata’s death, but only after ATF and DEA agents had organized a transfer [4] of some 40 weapons in November. It was one of those rifles that was traced back to Agent Zapata’s murder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Senator Charles Grassley noted that these three men had actually been stopped by local police after the transfers took place, but they were not arrested — presumably on orders from the Department of Justice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The men were trailed as part of a multi-agency operation similar to Fast and Furious, that to date has not been named, in the Dallas Field Operations area [5], which encompasses southwest Texas, north Texas, and Oklahoma.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is in addition to considerable circumstantial evidence [6] that the Houston Field Operations area [5], which is made up of central and southeastern Texas, may have been responsible for shipping a large percentage of the recovered guns linked to Mexican cartels in central and southern Mexico. How large is the alleged Houston operation? It could possibly dwarf the Arizona operation now so infamously known as the source of the weapons recovered at Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s murder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On March 3, Senator Grassley sent a letter to Kenneth Melson, the acting director of the ATF, 'concerned that the ATF may have employed the same risky strategy of encouraging weapons trafficking that was employed elsewhere by the ATF, beyond the Phoenix Field Office and its Operation ‘Fast and Furious.’'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Melson and the ATF never answered, prompting a follow-up letter on March 28, in which he revealed that the Department of Justice knew Otilio and Ranferi Osorio and Kevin Morrison were straw purchasers of cartel weapons as early as August 7, 2010, 193 days before Agents Avila and Zapata were murdered with a 'walked' Texas gun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition to the allegations of 'Fast and Furious' type operations in both Texas Field Operations areas and the Fast and Furious operation itself in Arizona, there are sources reporting to Mike Vanderboegh and David Codrea that another operation, codenamed 'Castaway,' may have run as many as a thousand guns to MS-13 in Honduras from the Tampa Field Operations area, and that field agents are itching to testify [7].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Fast and Furious' in Arizona, 'Castaway' in Florida, unnamed operations in both the Dallas and Houston Field Operations areas — how many operations like 'Fast and Furious' were run concurrently by the ATF, FBI, DOJ, IRS, DEA, and DHS?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are the confirmed operation in Arizona and the three suspected operations in Texas and Florida just the tip of a wider conspiracy run across the entire southern border?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just how many individual operations are there in what appears to be a multi-jurisduction, multi-state Gunwalker scandal, which perverted the largely successful Gunrunner program launched in cooperation with Mexico under the previous administration?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What was the ultimate goal of these projects? Was it a cynical and criminal enterprise to manufacture cartel-linked murders in order to generate domestic support for harsh gun control measures — like that issued by fiat [8] by the Obama administration yesterday?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Mexican authorities, Gunwalker is allegedly responsible for contributing to hundreds of murders. As Congress digs to expose the roots of the scandal, the Obama Justice Department digs in, exuding the tell-tale signs of a cover-up: firing whistleblowers, manufacturing scapegoats, and manipulating witnesses [9].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By any objective measure, how is Gunwalker not a bigger scandal than Watergate or Iran-Contra?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately for the Obama administration and the appointed officials that appear to be at the heart of this scandal, discovery seems to be outpacing the ability of the government to cover up their actions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Article printed from Pajamas Media: http://pajamasmedia.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;URL to article: URLs in this post: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[1] captured and confessed: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/02/24/ice-agent-jamie-zapatas-alleged-killer-confesses-mexican-army-error/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[2] match the facts: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41621249/ns/world_news-americas/t/drug-gang-shot-us-agents-mexican-governor-says/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[3] Lancaster, Texas: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361684/Gun-used-kill-immigration-agent-Jaime-Zapata-traced-to-U-S.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[4] organized a transfer: http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/04/lancaster-trio-pleads-not-guil.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[5] Dallas Field Operations area: http://www.nibin.gov/contact/field-operations-map.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[6] considerable circumstantial evidence: http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/07/texas-guns-mexican-murders-an-interactive-map-of-gun-purchases-and-cartel-killings/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[7] itching to testify: http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2011/07/sipsey-street-exclusive-more.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[8] issued by fiat: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/8189-obama-uses-executive-order-to-pass-border-states-gun-restrictions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[9] manipulating witnesses: http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/12/grassley-issa-slam-holder-again-are-you-skewing-witnesses-with-access-to-fast-and-furious-background-information/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/%e2%80%98gunwalker%e2%80%99-d eepens-agent-zapata-killed-by-gun-from-%e2%80%a6-texas/ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama Threatens Gun Owners in Border States (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 13, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Jim Kouri&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the midst of a growing scandal in Obama administration -- especially within the Justice Department and the office of Attorney General Eric Holder -- regarding an Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives operation that turned into a fiasco, President Barack Obama is threatening to violate U.S. citizen's Fourth Amendment rights to own firearms for self-defense and sport.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama is expected to issue an executive order making it more difficult for citizens living in states such as Texas, Arizona and New Mexico to legally buy firearms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) on Monday criticized the Obama administration’s decision to impose these new reporting requirements for gun sales in states along the U.S.-Mexico Border.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Today’s announcement follows months of controversy over the ATF’s Fast and Furious program that allowed guns to be trafficked into Mexico without any way of preventing the guns from being used for illegal activity. One of the guns was used in the shooting death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. It is the height of hypocrisy for the Obama administration to restrict the gun rights of border state citizens, when the administration itself knowingly and intentionally allowed guns to be trafficked into Mexico,' said Rep. Smith. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Limiting the second amendment rights of law abiding citizens is not going to solve the problem of guns being trafficked into Mexico. An additional reporting requirement won’t stop drug cartels from getting weapons. This rule unfairly punishes citizens in Border States who have the right to purchase firearms to protect themselves and their families from dangerous drug traffickers and human smugglers,' the lawmaker added. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A recent report by the Government Accountability Office revealed that only 44% of the Southwest border is under operational control of the U.S. Border Patrol. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Forty-four percent is a failing grade. If the Obama administration is serious about preventing guns from being trafficked to Mexico, they simply need to secure the Southwest border, not restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens,' stated Chairman Smith.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder denied knowledge of Operation Fast &amp;amp; Furious, according to law enforcement sources, the rationale for the operation that went awry was that Attorney General Holder and his staff at the Justice Department wanted to show proof of his, and other Obama administration officials', statements that the majority of firearms used by Mexican drug cartels originated in the United States and are smuggled into that drug war-torn country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition, investigation into this and other actions by President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary for Homeland Security Janet Napolitano show that they knowingly distort figures to hide from federal lawmakers, state political leaders, and the American people the rampant corruption in this nation’s immigration court system as well, according to Beltway watchdog group Judicial Watch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://www.examiner.com/public-safety-in-national/obama-threat ens-gun-owners-border-states-1 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MIDDLE EAST&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arabic Dreams of Turkish Ways (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 11, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Ozge Sayginer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Turkey’s foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu visited Benghazi last week, where the Libyan opposition is getting stronger every day. Davutoglu was welcomed, as any other AKP official in a Muslim country, and the crowd cheered for him holding interesting posters with the words, 'Thank you Erdogan, Turkey and Islam' written on them. Davutoglu was pleased.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not surprising given the new, stronger identity of the AKP party in the region. The AKP is becoming the protector of the 'Muslim and the fallen' more than ever following the Arab Spring. Turkey looks more Muslim, and appears much closer to Islamic governments. The good news is, the AKP does represent a middle ground based on democratic rule, secularism and economic power. Almost every other Middle Eastern dream is already alive in Turkey. And they welcome the AKP for bringing back Islam while keeping the modern Turkish identity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This may look appealing to other Muslims of the world; however, can everyone adopt a Turkish way of governing? Let’s say it would require a couple of decades and Ataturk-like leaders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Turkey has strategic importance that many other Middle Eastern nations do not have. This is where Turkish economic power is rooted and Erdogan has been using this as an advantage in his geopolitics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Since the 1920s, Turkey has 'tasted' Western lifestyle and ideologies; though the AKP brings back the Islamic roots of the nation, it can only go so far in changing citizens’ life styles, at least in a democratic setting. Other Islamic nations, which still hold very conservative ideologies of Islam, may not welcome this much needed modernization. They will need well-educated leaders who are dedicated and brave enough to bring strict rules for modernization. There is no room for opportunists with radical Islamic agendas. We certainly don’t need another Iran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) Each of the struggling Middle Eastern nations have their own unique problems that will require unique solutions. Just like Turkey’s PKK politics, Libya, Yemen and Palestine need to identify who is who and who is working for what agenda in their own systems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In their new term, the AKP identified its biggest roles as democratizing Turkey, bringing peace to the southeast, and representing a role model to other Muslim nations. So far, democratizing Turkey has led to further arrests of members of the military and very valuable journalists. The PKK just kidnapped and killed more than 9 soldiers in Tunceli and Diyarbakir. However, the party does succeed in its aspiration to be a role model for others. I think Turkish fire may look appealing to the people of Benghazi, but once it gets closer they might find it also burns. I would like to believe in the honesty of the AKP’s goals after the new election, but first they need to give up their phobia of military coups and writers with a mind of their own. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2011/07/11/arabic-dreams-turkish-ways/ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Morocco's Constitutional Referendum for Dummies (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 13, 2011 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You may have noticed that Morocco held a constitutional referendum on Friday, July 1, on the new constitution drafted by a royal appointed commission, and on the final text of which the King had the final cut â€' he reportedly tightened the provisions on freedom of religion (freedom of conscience, allowing for apostasy and conversion from Islam, was thus skipped) and deleted a provision forbidding ministers to have commercial activities. The probably most lasting innovation of this constitution, the recognition of tamazight, the Berber language, was also subject to last-minute modification, with provisions on the possibility of regions to recognise tamazight as a parallel official language scrapped in favour of a general but vaguer and more progressive status as official language across the whole country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The February 20 protest movement had contested the constitutional revision process, which came as a reaction to its calls for a democratic political system: the royal commission set up on March 10 was led by a monarchist (and formerly socialist) stalwart, professor Abdeltif Menouni. The fifteen or so other members of that commission, while worthy academics, were all in the same mould, royalist moderates unlikely to rock the boat. No independent leftist or islamist personality was appointed to the commission, and only two of its members, renowned political scientist Mohamed Tozy and head of left-of-centre human rights NGO OMDH Amina Bouaiyache, had a reputation as independents â€' a reputation badly damaged now by their participationâ€¦&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As though this wasnâ€™t enough, the Palace set up a political follow-up committee headed by royal advisor (and formerly constitutional law professor) Mohamed Moatassime, in order â€' officially â€' to act as a communication channel between the Menouni commission and the political parties and â€' unofficially â€' to keep a close eye on what the commission might be up to, especially in the sensitive fields touching on royal prerogative and the place of Islam. The leader of islamist PJD, Abdelilah Benkirane, together with PJD hotheaded lawyer Mustapha Ramid (known to sympathise to some extent with the Februrary 20 movement) thus weighed in heavily against any recognition of freedom of conscience (as opposed to freedom of religion) in meetings with Moatassime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the commission heard representatives of political parties, trade unions, NGOs and even bloggers, individuals and political groupings (islamist Al adl wal ihsan and leftist Nahj addimoqrati, PSU, PADS and CNI, leftist trade-union CDT, militant human rights NGO AMDH) close to the February 20 movement refused to appear before it. They rightly insisted that the only democratic way of revising Moroccoâ€™s constitution was to hold elections to a constituent assembly, like the Tunisians plan to do on October 23.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Menouni commission worked behind closed doors: none of its working sessions was held in public, no drafts or discussion papers were made public, neither do we know whether the commission was unanimous, what articles caused most internal debate or â€' more importantly â€' what provisions of its final draft were discarded or modified by the King (we know through the press that provisions on freedom of conscience and prohibiting conflict of interest with ministers were scrapped on the Kingâ€™s say-so). Nothing has been said about whether the inner workings of the commission would be archived and eventually made public â€' the average Moroccan voter had to accept or reject the proposed constitution without any information on the debates that surrounded its drafting&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After more than three months of internal and secretive debates, the commission adopted a draft (unanimously or not, we do not know yet) that was submitted to the King. Parliamentary parties and trade-unions (trade-unions hold seats in Moroccoâ€™s upper chamber of Parliament, the House of councillors) were given 24 hours to comment, and final cuts were made ultimately by the King, who went on air on Friday June 17 to present the draft constitution and resolutely ask for a Â«yesÂ» vote, thus ironically stepping outside of his Â«umpireÂ» role as set out in article 42 of the new constitution. Saying he would personally vote Â«yesÂ» and calling on his subjects to do so as well, he concluded his speech by the following Quranic verse (see an English translation of this speech here):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;â€œSay: â€˜This is my way: I do invite unto Allah,- on evidence clear as the seeing with oneâ€™s eyes,- I and whoever follows meâ€™.â€ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Word of God is Truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A not altogether unreasonable reading of that verse would be that those who do not vote Â«yesÂ» would be refusing the path and word of Godâ€¦&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The referendum campaign started in style: while the official campaign was legally due to start only on Tuesday June 21, the Â«yesÂ» campaign took over the waves of public radio and TV channels as soon as the King finished his speech on June 17. Allegedly spontaneous demonstrations of support for the new constitution took place almost simultaneously, with videos showing that demonstrators asked to get their payment in advance. Unlike other countries, where the Â«yesÂ» and Â«noÂ» campaigns would get an equal airing on public airwaves, the campaigning airtime in Morocco is divided among recognised parties and trade-unions â€' as the overwhelming majority of them support the draft constitution, about 95% of the airwaves were pro-Â»yesÂ».&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Protest marches on the 18th, 25th and 30th were marred by the now well-known use of Moubarak-style beltaji (or beltagui as Egyptians would say, referring to government-controlled thugs), often armed and always aggressive. Omar Radi, journalist and February 20 militant, had already been threatened to death by beltajis in Rabat in May. This time round, well-known human rights militants Samira Kinani and Abdelhamid Amine have been particularly targeted, with Amine reporting several death threats. On June 30 in Rabat, the last day of the referendum campaign, February 20 protesters were beaten up by beltajis, who pursued their victims right to the hospital.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The instrumentalisation of Islam has seldom been so blatant in Moroccan politics: Moroccoâ€™s most influential sufi order, the Tariqa Boutchichiya Kadiriya, led by Si Hamza el Kadiri Boutchichi, has usually steered clear of partisan politics (but it hasnâ€™t refused the favours bestowed upon it by the Palace, which appointed Si Hamzaâ€™s son Ahmed as governor of Berkane a few years ago). This time, it lent itself to a staged pro-constitution march in Casablanca on June 19, as a way for the regime to counter-balance the presence of its bÃªte noire â€' Al adl wal ihsan, probably Moroccoâ€™s most popular Islamist movement â€' among the ranks of the February 20-movement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More was to come though: Moroccoâ€™s ministry of Habous and Islamic affairs drafted the khotba to be read in all Moroccoâ€™s mosques on Friday June 24, which unashamedly called on the believers to vote Â«yesÂ» (pro-February 20 website mamfakinch.com was able to publish the text of that khotba), and some imams were caught on tape doing just that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those who thought that the days of vote-rigging â€' as epitomised by Hassan IIâ€™s longest serving interior minister Driss Basri â€' were to be sorely disappointed. Having the official campaign heavily skewed towards the Â«yesÂ» wasnâ€™t sufficient: with opponents to the proposed reform opting for a boycott (a boycott is the default option for opposition parties in Moroccoâ€™s constitutional referendums, and very seldom have opposition parties called for a Â«noÂ»), the participation rate, and not the no-vote, was to be the main indicator of success.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To make sure the participation rate would be acceptable, no shortcuts were shunned. Astonishingly enough for a country with positive demographics, the number of registered voters actually fell by one million and a half between the 2007 parliamentary elections and this referendum â€' and this, despite of military and security personnel being allowed to vote (they are barred to vote in elections). Furthermore, in flagrant violation of the electoral code, the authorities decided to allow Moroccans residing abroad to vote even if they werenâ€™t registered at the embassy or consulate at their country of residence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The irregularities have been many, right up to the counting of votes, as documented by independent Moroccan election observers. While some witnessed having been handed more than one voting card, other voters witnessed voting stations where Â«noÂ» ballots were missing or where there was no voting booth. Many have reported sloppy voter identification procedures â€' IDs and/or voting cards not checked. Generally speaking, most independent observers have noticed a sizeable difference between the relatively high participation rate and the low numbers of voters actually present at voting stations â€' the only reports of a high turnout were those in public media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The official referendum results are well within the range of results previously reported under Moroccoâ€™s long history of rigged elections â€' under the infamous former interior minister Driss Basri (who served from 1974 to 1999), the range was between 96% and 99,96% â€' and a lower participation rate than this yearâ€™s 73,5% had been registered in 1995. Conventional wisdom has it that voters in a referendum do not take a stand on the question being asked but rather on the person whoâ€™s asking it. This holds especially true in Morocco, where referenda are invariably seen as a ritual of allegiance towards the King â€' official media for example ritually report participation rates in the disputed Sahara region as a sign of Â«renewed allegianceÂ» by Sahrawis to the Alawi throne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By and large, this referendum has been in the same mould as the previous sham referenda held under Hassan II. Continuity trumped change yet again, most strikingly in the area of public propaganda, while the use of Egyptian-style Â«baltajiyaÂ» â€' here attacking a leftist meeting in Casablanca on July 6 â€' is a novelty the country could have done without.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Protests have continued since the referendum, which will not have solved the problems facing Morocco â€' the Sahara question (the provisions on regionalisation in the new Constitution are astonishingly timid), corruption, lack of civil liberties, inept judiciary and stark social inequalities. No wonder that protests continued, on July 3 and July 10 â€' as Montassir Sakhi, one of the leaders of the movement said after the referendum, Â«the referendum is a non-eventÂ». The King might have gotten his referendum and his Constitution, but politics as usual it certainly isnâ€™t â€' not any longer, thanks to the February 20 movement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://www.kabobfest.com/2011/07/moroccos-constitutional-refer endum-for-dummies.html &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Muslim Brotherhood Challenges Jordan's King (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 13, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by David E. Miller&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upcoming demonstrations may usher in new, harsher phase of protests; Brotherhood may increase rhetoric on regime overthrow, says journalist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As it prepares for a large-scale demonstration on July 15, Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood has stepped up its criticism of King Abdullah II’s monarchy, going so far as to risk breaking the law by questioning its legitimacy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Any authority that does not rely on the people does not represent it nor does it express its interests,' declared the Islamic Action Front (IAF), the Brotherhood's political wing, in a press statement issued Tuesday. Since March, the Brotherhood has vociferously criticized the government's snail-pace political reforms, organizing weekly demonstrations throughout the kingdom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friday's demonstration may be different, experts say. Organizers plan an open-ended sit-in in Amman's Gamal Abd Al-Nasser Square, where a previous demonstration organized by a youth coalition on March 25 was violently dispersed by government security forces and pro-monarchy thugs. One man was killed and dozens injured as pro-monarchists hurled stones at opposition demonstrators.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'An open ended sit-in would mean a scenario similar to Tahrir Square in Cairo,' Assaf David, a Jordan expert at Jerusalem's Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, told The Media Line. 'The regime's big fear is that more and more people will join the demonstration and things will get out of hand.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abdullah, a key US ally in the region, has failed to snuff out protests and other political activity that has surfaced this year and grown bigger and increasingly critical of his rule in recent weeks. He has promised reforms and has re-shuffled his cabinet twice, most recently last week, but protesters have been encouraged by their Arab Spring peers across the region and by revelations of corruption in the government. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like mass protests elsewhere in the Middle East this year, young, mostly secular figures mobilized through social media have been leading the way. But the Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was formed in 1942, is the kingdom's largest and most organized opposition group and its decision to up the stakes poses a bigger threat to the king. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fahed Khitan, a political columnist with the independent Jordanian daily Al-Arab Al-Yawm, said the crowd's size scared the government less than its chants. 'It‘s not unlikely that the demonstrators will raise the famous banner of Arab revolutions: 'The people want the regime to fall',' he wrote on Tuesday, adding that such calls would lead Jordan to a disastrous civil war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Brotherhood's growing assertiveness was made clear in an interview given by Zaki Bani Arshid, a senior member, to the Qatari daily Al-Shourouq on Sunday. Bani Arshid told the newspaper that his movement was leading the popular mobilization against the government of Jordanian Prime Minster Maaruouf Al-Bakhit. The Brotherhood has refused to participate in the national dialogue initiated by the king in March to appease the opposition movement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'The majority of Jordanian society is religious and believes that those who raise the banner of Islam should be trusted,' Bani Arshid told Al-Shourouq.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Brotherhood is quite popular on the Jordanian street, said Fatima Al-Smadi, a journalism professor at Zarka University and columnist for Al-Arab Al-Yawm. She said the group's power was recently boosted by an American announcement that the administration would engage Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the Jordanian movement’s parent organization. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An expected rise in gasoline prices would also push the average Jordanian away from the government and towards the opposition, she added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'The Muslim Brotherhood is the best organized opposition group, and the most capable of mobilizing the street,' Al-Smadi told The Media Line. 'The government's reaction to Friday's demonstration will determine whether the situation will escalate further.' &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Al-Smadi said it was all but inevitable that the government and Brotherhood are headed for conflict in the coming days. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'They demand a just election law, which hasn't materialized so far,' she said. 'Over the past few months the Brotherhood has gauged the government and come to realize that it wasn't serious about reforms.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On July 2, Al-Bakhit reshuffled his cabinet, replacing nine ministers, including the minister of interior, in the wake of a corruption scandal. But the prime minister kept his job and in the weekly demonstration the following Friday, protesters clearly said that wasn’t enough. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David of the Truman Institute said Friday's demonstrators may call for the resignation of Bakhit's government and even the dissolution of parliament, but would likely not call for the king to step down. Criticism of the King and the royal family is illegal in Jordan. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Al-Smadi said calls to topple the regime were already heard, albeit limitedly, during demonstrations in southern Jordan last Friday. She said the Muslim Brotherhood is capable of fanning the flames or extinguishing them at will.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'It depends on the Islamists,' she said. 'They can raise the rhetoric to that level.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CYBER ACTIVITY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;al-Qaeda Plotting Internet Jihad (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 13, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;London - Al Qaeda is plotting a jihad on the internet against Britain and the West, and has launched teams to target key computer systems, officials said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Terrorists have even tried to invade Facebook in their 'campaign of electronic warfare', The Sun reported.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Google Earth and Street View applications are being used by the terrorists to plan out atrocities, it said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Security officials in Britain say cyber terrorism will become an ever growing threat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A 123-page counter-terror report said a special unit - called the Tariq bin Ziyad Brigades for Electronic Jihad - attacked computers last year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Since the death of Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda has called not only for acts of lone or individual terrorism but also for cyber jihad,' it said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Experts now say there are thousands of terrorist-related websites, and a 'few dozen are highly influential' and frequented by terrorists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Use of social network sites and video sharing is now commonplace. There have been a number of attempts by terrorist and extremist groups to invade Facebook,' it said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-26938.html &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jihadi Sites Focusing on CIA sites in Somalia (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 13, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nestled in a back corner of Mogadishu's Aden Adde International Airport is a sprawling walled compound run by the Central Intelligence Agency. Set on the coast of the Indian Ocean, the facility looks like a small gated community, with more than a dozen buildings behind large protective walls and secured by guard towers at each of its four corners. Adjacent to the compound are eight large metal hangars, and the CIA has its own aircraft at the airport. The site, which airport officials and Somali intelligence sources say was completed four months ago, is guarded by Somali soldiers, but the Americans control access. At the facility, the CIA runs a counterterrorism training program for Somali intelligence agents and operatives aimed at building an indigenous strike force capable of snatch operations and targeted â€œcombatâ€ operations against members of Al Shabab, an Islamic militant group with close ties to Al Qaeda. As part of its expanding counterterrorism program in Somalia, the CIA also uses a secret prison buried in the basement of Somaliaâ€™s National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters, where prisoners suspected of being Shabab members or of having links to the group are held. Some of the prisoners have been snatched off the streets of Kenya and rendered by plane to Mogadishu. While the underground prison is officially run by the Somali NSA, US intelligence personnel pay the salaries of intelligence agents and also directly interrogate prisoners. The existence of both facilities and the CIA role was uncovered by The Nation during an extensive on-the-ground investigation in Mogadishu. Among the sources who provided information for this story are senior Somali intelligence officials; senior members of Somaliaâ€™s Transitional Federal Government (TFG); former prisoners held at the underground prison; and several well-connected Somali analysts and militia leaders, some of whom have worked with US agents, including those from the CIA. A US official, who confirmed the existence of both sites, told The Nation, â€œIt makes complete sense to have a strong counterterrorism partnershipâ€ with the Somali government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The CIA presence in Mogadishu is part of Washingtonâ€™s intensifying counterterrorism focus on Somalia, which includes targeted strikes by US Special Operations forces, drone attacks and expanded surveillance operations. The US agents â€œare here full time,â€ a senior Somali intelligence official told me. At times, he said, there are as many as thirty of them in Mogadishu, but he stressed that those working with the Somali NSA do not conduct operations; rather, they advise and train Somali agents. â€œIn this environment, itâ€™s very tricky. They want to help us, but the situation is not allowing them to do [it] however they want. They are not in control of the politics, they are not in control of the security,â€ he adds. â€œThey are not controlling the environment like Afghanistan and Iraq. In Somalia, the situation is fluid, the situation is changing, personalities changing.â€&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to well-connected Somali sources, the CIA is reluctant to deal directly with Somali political leaders, who are regarded by US officials as corrupt and untrustworthy. Instead, the United States has Somali intelligence agents on its payroll. Somali sources with knowledge of the program described the agents as lining up to receive $200 monthly cash payments from Americans. â€œThey support us in a big way financially,â€ says the senior Somali intelligence official. â€œThey are the largest [funder] by far.â€&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to former detainees, the underground prison, which is staffed by Somali guards, consists of a long corridor lined with filthy small cells infested with bedbugs and mosquitoes. One said that when he arrived in February, he saw two white men wearing military boots, combat trousers, gray tucked-in shirts and black sunglasses. The former prisoners described the cells as windowless and the air thick, moist and disgusting. Prisoners, they said, are not allowed outside. Many have developed rashes and scratch themselves incessantly. Some have been detained for a year or more. According to one former prisoner, inmates who had been there for long periods would pace around constantly, while others leaned against walls rocking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Somali who was arrested in Mogadishu and taken to the prison told The Nation that he was held in a windowless underground cell. Among the prisoners he met during his time there was a man who held a Western passport (he declined to identify the manâ€™s nationality). Some of the prisoners told him they were picked up in Nairobi and rendered on small aircraft to Mogadishu, where they were handed over to Somali intelligence agents. Once in custody, according to the senior Somali intelligence official and former prisoners, some detainees are freely interrogated by US and French agents. â€œOur goal is to please our partners, so we get more [out] of them, like any relationship,â€ said the Somali intelligence official in describing the policy of allowing foreign agents, including from the CIA, to interrogate prisoners. The Americans, according to the Somali official, operate unilaterally in the country, while the French agents are embedded within the African Union force known as AMISOM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Among the men believed to be held in the secret underground prison is Ahmed Abdullahi Hassan, a 25- or 26-year-old Kenyan citizen who disappeared from the congested Somali slum of Eastleigh in Nairobi around July 2009. After he went missing, Hassanâ€™s family retained Mbugua Mureithi, a well-known Kenyan human rights lawyer, who filed a habeas petition on his behalf. The Kenyan government responded that Hassan was not being held in Kenya and said it had no knowledge of his whereabouts. His fate remained a mystery until this spring, when another man who had been held in the Mogadishu prison contacted Clara Gutteridge, a veteran human rights investigator with the British legal organization Reprieve, and told her he had met Hassan in the prison. Hassan, he said, had told him how Kenyan police had knocked down his door, snatched him and taken him to a secret location in Nairobi. The next night, Hassan had said, he was rendered to Mogadishu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to the former fellow prisoner, Hassan told him that his captors took him to Wilson Airport: â€œâ€˜They put a bag on my head, GuantÃ¡namo style. They tied my hands behind my back and put me on a plane. In the early hours we landed in Mogadishu. The way I realized I was in Mogadishu was because of the smell of the seaâ€'the runway is just next to the seashore. The plane lands and touches the sea. They took me to this prison, where I have been up to now. I have been here for one year, seven months. I have been interrogated so many times. Interrogated by Somali men and white men. Every day. New faces show up. They have nothing on me. I have never seen a lawyer, never seen an outsider. Only other prisoners, interrogators, guards. Here there is no court or tribunal.â€™â€&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After meeting the man who had spoken with Hassan in the underground prison, Gutteridge began working with Hassanâ€™s Kenyan lawyers to determine his whereabouts. She says he has never been charged or brought before a court. â€œHassanâ€™s abduction from Nairobi and rendition to a secret prison in Somalia bears all the hallmarks of a classic US rendition operation,â€ she says. The US official interviewed for this article denied the CIA had rendered Hassan but said, â€œThe United States provided information which helped get Hassanâ€'a dangerous terroristâ€'off the street.â€ Human Rights Watch and Reprieve have documented that Kenyan security and intelligence forces have facilitated scores of renditions for the US and other governments, including eighty-five people rendered to Somalia in 2007 alone. Gutteridge says the director of the Mogadishu prison told one of her sources that Hassan had been targeted in Nairobi because of intelligence suggesting he was the â€œright-hand manâ€ of Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, at the time a leader of Al Qaeda in East Africa. Nabhan, a Kenyan citizen of Yemeni descent, was among the top suspects sought for questioning by US authorities over his alleged role in the coordinated 2002 attacks on a tourist hotel and an Israeli aircraft in Mombasa, Kenya, and possible links to the 1998 US Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An intelligence report leaked by the Kenyan Anti-Terrorist Police Unit in October 2010 alleged that Hassan, a â€œformer personal assistant to Nabhanâ€¦was injured while fighting near the presidential palace in Mogadishu in 2009.â€ The authenticity of the report cannot be independently confirmed, though Hassan did have a leg amputated below the knee, according to his former fellow prisoner in Mogadishu. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two months after Hassan was allegedly rendered to the secret Mogadishu prison, Nabhan, the man believed to be his Al Qaeda boss, was killed in the first known targeted killing operation in Somalia authorized by President Obama. On September 14, 2009, a team from the elite US counterterrorism force, the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), took off by helicopters from a US Navy ship off Somaliaâ€™s coast and penetrated Somali airspace. In broad daylight, in an operation code-named Celestial Balance, they gunned down Nabhanâ€™s convoy from the air. JSOC troops then landed and collected at least two of the bodies, including Nabhanâ€™s. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hassanâ€™s lawyers are preparing to file a habeas petition on his behalf in US courts. â€œHassanâ€™s case suggests that the US may be involved in a decentralized, out-sourced GuantÃ¡namo Bay in central Mogadishu,â€ his legal team asserted in a statement to The Nation. â€œMr. Hassan must be given the opportunity to challenge both his rendition and continued detention as a matter of urgency. The US must urgently confirm exactly what has been done to Mr. Hassan, why he is being held, and when he will be given a fair hearing.â€ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gutteridge, who has worked extensively tracking the disappearances of terror suspects in Kenya, was deported from Kenya on May 11. The order, signed by Immigration Minister Otieno Kagwang, said Gutteridgeâ€™s â€œpresence in Kenya is contrary to national interest. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The underground prison where Hassan is allegedly being held is housed in the same building once occupied by Somaliaâ€™s infamous National Security Service (NSS) during the military regime of Siad Barre, who ruled from 1969 to 1991. The former prisoner who met Hassan there said he saw an old NSS sign outside. During Barreâ€™s regime, the notorious basement prison and interrogation center, which sits behind the presidential palace in Mogadishu, was a staple of the stateâ€™s apparatus of repression. It was referred to as Godka, â€œThe Hole. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;â€œThe bunker is there, and thatâ€™s where the intelligence agency does interrogate people,â€ says Abdirahman â€œAynteâ€ Ali, a well-connected Somali analyst who has researched the Shabab and Somali security forces. â€œWhen CIA and other intelligence agenciesâ€'who actually are in Mogadishuâ€'want to interrogate those people, they usually just do that.â€ Somali officials â€œstart the interrogation, but then foreign intelligence agencies eventually do their own interrogation as well, the Americans and the French.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some prisoners, like Hassan, were allegedly rendered from Nairobi, while in other cases, according to Aynte, â€œthe US and other intelligence agencies have notified the Somali intelligence agency that some people, some suspects, people who have been in contact with the leadership of Al Shabab, are on their way to Mogadishu on a [commercial] plane, and to essentially be at the airport for those people. Catch them, interrogate them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the eighteen years since the infamous â€œBlack Hawk Downâ€ incident in Mogadishu, US policy on Somalia has been marked by neglect, miscalculation and failed attempts to use warlords to build indigenous counterterrorism capacity, many of which have backfired dramatically. At times, largely because of abuses committed by Somali militias the CIA has supported, US policy has strengthened the hand of the very groups it purports to oppose and inadvertently aided the rise of militant groups, including the Shabab. Many Somalis viewed the Islamic movement known as the Islamic Courts Union, which defeated the CIAâ€™s warlords in Mogadishu in 2006, as a stabilizing, albeit ruthless, force. The ICU was dismantled in a US-backed Ethiopian invasion in 2007. Over the years, a series of weak Somali administrations have been recognized by the United States and other powers as Somaliaâ€™s legitimate government. Ironically, its current president is a former leader of the ICU. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, Somali government forces control roughly thirty square miles of territory in Mogadishu thanks in large part to the US-funded and -armed 9,000-member AMISOM force. Much of the rest of the city is under the control of the Shabab or warlords. Outgunned, the Shabab has increasingly relied on the linchpins of asymmetric warfareâ€'suicide bombings, roadside bombs and targeted assassinations. The militant group has repeatedly shown that it can strike deep in the heart of its enemiesâ€™ territory. On June 9, in one of its most spectacular suicide attacks to date, the Shabab assassinated the Somali governmentâ€™s minister of interior affairs and national security, Abdishakur Sheikh Hassan Farah, who was attacked in his residence by his niece. The girl, whom the minister was putting through university, blew herself up and fatally wounded her uncle. He died hours later in the hospital. Farah was the fifth Somali minister killed by the Shabab in the past two years and the seventeenth official assassinated since 2006. Among the suicide bombers the Shabab has deployed were at least three US citizens of Somali descent; at least seven other Americans have died fighting alongside the Shabab, a fact that has not gone unnoticed in Washington or Mogadishu. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During his confirmation hearings in June to become the head of the US Special Operations Command, Vice Admiral William McRaven said, â€œFrom my standpoint as a former JSOC commander, I can tell you we were looking very hardâ€ at Somalia. McRaven said that in order to expand successful â€œkinetic strikesâ€ there, the United States will have to increase its use of drones as well as on-the-ground intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. â€œAny expansion of manpower is going to have to come with a commensurate expansion of the enablers,â€ McRaven declared. The expanding US counterterrorism program in Mogadishu appears to be part of that effort. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In an interview with The Nation in Mogadishu, Abdulkadir Moallin Noor, the minister of state for the presidency, confirmed that US agents â€œare working with our intelligenceâ€ and â€œgiving them training.â€ Regarding the US counterterrorism effort, Noor said bluntly, â€œWe need more; otherwise, the terrorists will take over the country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is unclear how much control, if any, Somaliaâ€™s internationally recognized president, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, has over this counterterrorism force or if he is even fully briefed on its operations. The CIA personnel and other US intelligence agents â€œdo not bother to be in touch with the political leadership of the country. And that says a lot about the intentions,â€ says Aynte. â€œEssentially, the CIA seems to be operating, doing the foreign policy of the United States. You should have had State Department people doing foreign policy, but the CIA seems to be doing it across the country.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the Somali officials interviewed for this story said the CIA is the lead US agency coordinating the Mogadishu counterterrorism program, they also indicated that US military intelligence agents are at times involved. When asked if they are from JSOC or the Defense Intelligence Agency, the senior Somali intelligence official responded, â€œWe donâ€™t know. They donâ€™t tell us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In April Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, a Somali man the United States alleged had links to the Shabab, was captured by JSOC forces in the Gulf of Aden. He was held incommunicado on a US Navy vessel for more than two months; in July he was transferred to New York and indicted on terrorism charges. Warsameâ€™s case ignited a legal debate over the Obama administrationâ€™s policies on capturing and detaining terror suspects, particularly in light of the widening counterterrorism campaigns in Somalia and Yemen. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On June 23 the United States reportedly carried out a drone strike against alleged Shabab members near Kismayo, 300 miles from the Somali capital. As with the Nabhan operation, a JSOC team swooped in on helicopters and reportedly snatched the bodies of those killed and wounded. The men were taken to an undisclosed location. On July 6 three more US strikes reportedly targeted Shabab training camps in the same area. Somali analysts warned that if the US bombings cause civilian deaths, as they have in the past, they could increase support for the Shabab. Asked in an interview with The Nation in Mogadishu if US drone strikes strengthen or weaken his government, President Sharif replied, â€œBoth at the same time. For our sovereignty, itâ€™s not good to attack a sovereign country. Thatâ€™s the negative part. The positive part is youâ€™re targeting individuals who are criminals. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A week after the June 23 strike, President Obamaâ€™s chief counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, described an emerging US strategy that would focus not on â€œdeploying large armies abroad but delivering targeted, surgical pressure to the groups that threaten us.â€ Brennan singled out the Shabab, saying, â€œFrom the territory it controls in Somalia, Al Shabab continues to call for strikes against the United States,â€ adding, â€œWe cannot and we will not let down our guard. We will continue to pummel Al Qaeda and its ilk. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the United States appears to be ratcheting up both its rhetoric and its drone strikes against the Shabab, it has thus far been able to strike only in rural areas outside Mogadishu. These operations have been isolated and infrequent, and Somali analysts say they have failed to disrupt the Shababâ€™s core leadership, particularly in Mogadishu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a series of interviews in Mogadishu, several of the countryâ€™s recognized leaders, including President Sharif, called on the US government to quickly and dramatically increase its assistance to the Somali military in the form of training, equipment and weapons. Moreover, they argue that without viable civilian institutions, Somalia will remain ripe for terrorist groups that can further destabilize not only Somalia but the region. â€œI believe that the US should help the Somalis to establish a government that protects civilians and its people,â€ Sharif said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the battle against the Shabab, the United States does not, in fact, appear to have cast its lot with the Somali government. The emerging US strategy on Somaliaâ€'borne out in stated policy, expanded covert presence and funding plansâ€'is two-pronged: On the one hand, the CIA is training, paying and at times directing Somali intelligence agents who are not firmly under the control of the Somali government, while JSOC conducts unilateral strikes without the prior knowledge of the government; on the other, the Pentagon is increasing its support for and arming of the counterterrorism operations of non-Somali African military forces. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A draft of a defense spending bill approved in late June by the Senate Armed Services Committee would authorize more than $75 million in US counterterrorism assistance aimed at fighting the Shabab and Al Qaeda in Somalia. The bill, however, did not authorize additional funding for Somaliaâ€™s military, as the countryâ€™s leaders have repeatedly asked. Instead, the aid package would dramatically increase US arming and financing of AMISOMâ€™s forces, particularly from Uganda and Burundi, as well as the militaries of Djibouti, Kenya and Ethiopia. The Somali military, the committee asserted, is unable to â€œexercise control of its territory. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That makes it all the more ironic that perhaps the greatest tactical victory won in recent years in Somalia was delivered not by AMISOM, the CIA or JSOC but by members of a Somali militia fighting as part of the governmentâ€™s chaotic local military. And it was a pure accident. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Late in the evening on June 7, a man whose South African passport identified him as Daniel Robinson was in the passenger seat of a Toyota SUV driving on the outskirts of Mogadishu when his driver, a Kenyan national, missed a turn and headed straight toward a checkpoint manned by Somali forces. A firefight broke out, and the two men inside the car were killed. The Somali forces promptly looted the laptops, cellphones, documents, weapons and $40,000 in cash they found in the car, according to the senior Somali intelligence official. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upon discovering that the men were foreigners, the Somali NSA launched an investigation and recovered the items that had been looted. â€œThere was a lot of English and Arabic stuff, papers,â€ recalls the Somali intelligence official, containing â€œvery tactical stuffâ€ that appeared to be linked to Al Qaeda, including â€œtwo senior people communicating.â€ The Somali agents â€œrealized it was an important manâ€ and informed the CIA in Mogadishu. The menâ€™s bodies were taken to the NSA. The Americans took DNA samples and fingerprints and flew them to Nairobi for processing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Within hours, the United States confirmed that Robinson was in fact Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a top leader of Al Qaeda in East Africa and its chief liaison with the Shabab. Fazul, a twenty-year veteran of Al Qaeda, had been indicted by the United States for his alleged role in the 1998 US Embassy bombings and was on the FBIâ€™s â€œMost Wanted Terroristsâ€ list. A JSOC attempt to kill him in a January 2007 airstrike resulted in the deaths of at least seventy nomads in rural Somalia, and he had been underground ever since. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Fazulâ€™s death â€œa significant blow to Al Qaeda, its extremist allies and its operations in East Africa. It is a just end for a terrorist who brought so much death and pain to so many innocents.â€ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At its facilities in Mogadishu, the CIA and its Somali NSA agents continue to pore over the materials recovered from Fazulâ€™s car, which served as a mobile headquarters. Some deleted and encrypted files were recovered and decoded by US agents. The senior Somali intelligence official said that the intelligence may prove more valuable on a tactical level than the cache found in Osama bin Ladenâ€™s house in Pakistan, especially in light of the increasing US focus on East Africa. The Americans, he said, were â€œunbelievably gratefulâ€; he hopes it means they will take Somaliaâ€™s forces more seriously and provide more support. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the United States continues to wage its campaign against the Shabab primarily by funding the AMISOM forces, which are not conducting their mission with anything resembling surgical precision. Instead, over the past several months the AMISOM forces in Mogadishu have waged a merciless campaign of indiscriminate shelling of Shabab areas, some of which are heavily populated by civilians. While AMISOM regularly puts out press releases boasting of gains against the Shabab and the retaking of territory, the reality paints a far more complicated picture. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Throughout the areas AMISOM has retaken is a honeycomb of underground tunnels once used by Shabab fighters to move from building to building. By some accounts, the tunnels stretch continuously for miles. Leftover food, blankets and ammo cartridges lay scattered near â€œpop-upâ€ positions once used by Shabab snipers and guarded by sandbagsâ€'all that remain of guerrilla warfare positions. Not only have the Shabab fighters been cleared from the aboveground areas; the civilians that once resided there have been cleared too. On several occasions in late June, AMISOM forces fired artillery from their airport base at the Bakaara market, where whole neighborhoods are totally abandoned. Houses lie in ruins and animals wander aimlessly, chewing trash. In some areas, bodies have been hastily buried in trenches with dirt barely masking the remains. On the side of the road in one former Shabab neighborhood, a decapitated corpse lay just meters from a new government checkpoint. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In late June the Pentagon approved plans to send $45 million worth of military equipment to Uganda and Burundi, the two major forces in the AMISOM operation. Among the new items are four small Raven surveillance drones, night-vision and communications equipment and other surveillance gear, all of which augur a more targeted campaign. Combined with the attempt to build an indigenous counterterrorism force at the Somali NSA, a new US counterterrorism strategy is emerging. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But according to the senior Somali intelligence official, who works directly with the US agents, the CIA-led program in Mogadishu has brought few tangible gains. â€œSo far what we have not seen is the results in terms of the capacity of the [Somali] agency,â€ says the official. He conceded that neither US nor Somali forces have been able to conduct a single successful targeted mission in the Shababâ€™s areas in the capital. In late 2010, according to the official, US-trained Somali agents conducted an operation in a Shabab area that failed terribly and resulted in several of them being killed. â€œThere was an attempt, but it was a haphazard one,â€ he recalls. They have not tried another targeted operation in Shabab-controlled territory since.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.thenation.com/article/161936/cias-secret-sites-somalia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;â€œWhoever relieves a Muslim of some distress in this world, Allah will relieve him of some distress on the Day of Resurrection.' &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://www.ansar1.info/showthread.php?p=124973#post124973 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HOMELAND SECURITY&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Report Shows Gaping Holes in Intelligence on Overseas Terrorists (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 12, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Catherine Herridge &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fox News has obtained a draft copy of a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that concludes, a decade after 9/11, gaping holes remain in databases of overseas terrorists as well as in passport security.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'The system truly is as strong only as its weakest link,' Maine Sen. Susan Collins, the senior Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, told Fox News after reviewing the report.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'We have spent literally billions of dollars to increase security, to make sure our watch lists are more complete, to verify documents, but in fact we have to rely to a certain extent on the systems used by other countries.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Airports Still Vulnerable to Terror?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Report: 25,000 breaches since 2001&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to a year-long investigation by the GAO that included travel to Kenya, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand, many countries have yet to address the chronic problem of fake documents, such as birth certificates, which are a gateway to a genuine passport. Passport security is described as weak with many countries using no security features, such as biometrics, to prevent fraud.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The GAO report, first obtained by Fox News, reads in part:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Some countries do not have their own database systems with terrorist screening information or access to other countries’ terrorist screening information to keep track of biographical and biometric information about individuals who are known or suspected terrorists. Even when countries have terrorist screening information, they may not have reciprocal relationships to share such information or other travel-related information such as airline passenger lists, with other countries, thereby limiting their ability to identify and prevent travel of known or suspected terrorists.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The GAO report also notes widespread corruption means a wink and a nod at some foreign airports will get a suspected terrorist through security.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pakistan was problematic for investigators. Even with Usama bin Laden's death at his compound near the capital Islamabad, the country remains the base for Al Qaeda's core leadership, including Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian doctor who replaced the Al Qaeda leader. Yet, Pakistan's ability to track known and suspected terrorists is substandard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'It is stunning, that Pakistan which is supposed to be our ally in the war against terrorism, does not even share fingerprint data within its own government,' Collins told Fox News. 'It doesn’t share it with other Pakistani law enforcement agencies. That’s a real problem.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While information sharing and passport security has improved in the U.S., the disparity overseas remains a serious problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Fraudulent travel documents are the same as weapons to terrorists; they can't carry out their plots without them,' Chad Sweet, co-founder of the Chertoff Group, told Fox News.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sweet, who is a former chief of staff for the Homeland Security Department and once worked for the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, says progress is being made overseas, but it has not kept pace with improvements to domestic security.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'On the defensive homeland game, we're probably at an A. If I give us a grade abroad, with our partners, again some of that is out of our control, we are probably closer to a C.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The GAO report will be officially released on Wednesday when the issue is taken up publicly by the Senate Homeland Security Committee. Sen. Joe Lieberman, who chairs the committee, called for an updated approach.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'As part of our efforts to keep terrorists from entering the United States, we provide security assistance to foreign countries where terrorists are likely to begin their travels. Unfortunately, GAO has found miscommunication and overlap on the part of U.S. agencies trying to help our foreign partners,' he said. 'I urge the administration to update what is now a five-year-old strategy for preventing terrorist travel so that we can work as effectively as possible to keep terrorists out of the country and away from innocent Americans.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Collins told Fox that the issue has taken on more importance because the threat from Al Qaeda’s affiliates in Somalia and Yemen is growing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Yemeni affiliate, which includes the American Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki among its leadership, was behind the last two major attempts on the U.S. using airplanes. It was also behind the recent threat intelligence that the group was trying to recruit a surgeon to surgically embed explosive devices in suicide bombers. The threat was not described, by U.S. officials, as imminent, but the intelligence was described as credible and another sign the Yemeni affiliate was thinking out of the box.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'What this latest intelligence tells us about surgically implanting explosives is that Al Qaeda and its affiliates will continue to explore all possibilities to defeat the security that we have in place now,' Collins explained. 'And that is why the gaps that the GAO found are so troubling because inevitably there is going to be yet another attempt and the terrorists eventually are going to get through. We've got to do everything we can to put in place barriers to terrorists traveling to this country.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;National Correspondent Catherine Herridge's book 'The Next Wave: On the Hunt for al Qaeda's American Recruits' was published by Crown in June. It draws on her reporting for Fox News into al-Awlaki and his new generation of recruits -- Al Qaeda 2.0. New evidence shows the cleric was an overlooked key player in the 9/11 attacks who double-crossed federal investigators.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/12/report-shows-gaping-h oles-in-intel-on-overseas-terrorists/#ixzz1S1Yp3LUs &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Nuclear Security Fund - Policy Innovation Memorandum No. 6 (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Emma L. Belcher &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nuclear terrorism could cause widespread death and destruction and potentially devastate the global economy. However, not all nations are convinced that acting to prevent nuclear terrorism should be a priority, and many lack the capacity to control nuclear materials within their borders. Nations, international organizations, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have taken a variety of measures to help build nuclear security capacity worldwide. But a lack of funding for important projects complicates progress. Though many private firms have said they are willing to partner with governments on security, practical partnerships are limited and the international community has not leveraged the private sector’s financial resources. In an era of shrinking government budgets, this is a missed opportunity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The United States should establish a nuclear security fund to which the private sector could contribute. Such a fund would allow the United States to better engage the private sector, which is integral to the material supply chain, and draw on expertise and funding from the full range of sources to address this public-private problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Mushrooming Problem&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups say they want nuclear weapons and will use them if they can. The most likely acquisition method is to buy or steal fissile material and fashion a crude Hiroshima-style device, provided they have some training in explosives and engineering. Alternatively, a group could use fissile material in a radiological dispersal device, or dirty bomb, which would cause panic, even if it did not cause significant destruction. This makes securing fissile material, and preventing its trafficking if it is stolen, vitally important. There are approximately 1,600 metric tons of highly enriched uranium (HEU) and 400 metric tons of plutonium in over 1,100 civilian and military locations worldwide—enough for many thousands of bombs. The security of these sources varies widely, as does the robustness of measures to prevent smuggling of stolen sources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though many nations are taking measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring fissile material, others lack the resources or prefer to fund other and—in their view—more pressing problems. This situation is most prevalent in eastern Europe and the Caucasus, where sources of fissile material are concentrated, and in sub-Saharan Africa, where public health and civil strife issues take priority over securing borders against smuggling. Terrorist groups could exploit these critical gaps, thus undermining global nuclear security efforts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some nations are attempting to plug these gaps by donating to bodies that fund nuclear security activities—the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Nuclear Security Fund and the UN Trust Fund for Global and Regional Disarmament. Nations also implement their own nuclear security programs. In the United States, these include the Cooperative Threat Reduction program and the Nuclear Smuggling Outreach Initiative (NSOI). But none of these initiatives has a formal mechanism to include the private sector as potential donors. Though government engagement with universities and advocacy groups is growing, and entrepreneurs such as Warren Buffet, Ted Turner, Sam Nunn, and the Nuclear Threat Initiative have donated funds for nuclear security, engagement with the industries that play an integral role in the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) material supply chain lags.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Public-Private Fund: Bang for the Buck&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The United States should establish a public-private sector fund to advance its nuclear security objectives. The fund would finance projects that reduce the likelihood of nuclear theft and improve measures to detect and prevent smuggling of stolen sources in vulnerable nations. Examples include: adding capacity for regular inspections of sites that house fissile material; providing better security for the transport of radioactive material; supplying detection equipment, such as dosimeters, for use at border crossings; establishing outposts to help border police cover remote areas between official border crossings; training border police in proper use of such equipment; and legal workshops to improve criminal codes’ ability to punish nuclear crimes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Private firms do not need to donate large amounts of money to have an impact. In some cases, relatively small contributions can sponsor important projects, such as legal review workshops. Lax penalties are all too common in the nations most vulnerable to nuclear crime. By increasing penalties, nations can affect smugglers’ risk-reward gamble and deter those who might be tempted to smuggle fissile material for profit. A few tens of thousands of dollars can sponsor review workshops to improve criminal codes. Similarly, small-scale projects that bring scientists and government officials to attend international forensics conferences can advance knowledge and build relationships at the transnational level—critically important given the transborder nature of smuggling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Projects of this type are often (and justifiably) overlooked by governments in favor of higher-priority projects, such as securing spent fuel, which tend to be exponentially more expensive and sensitive and thus remain in the realm of nations. Through a nuclear security fund, the private sector could make a big difference in funding smaller yet important projects that support the international community’s goal of preventing nuclear terrorism but that have not yet attracted government and international organization donors. Many of these projects have useful side benefits that could be attractive for business investment. For example, strengthening borders against fissile material smuggling helps detection of other forms of illicit activity, which benefits firms that operate in areas prone to organized crime. Anticorruption programs reduce the likelihood that officials not only turn a blind eye to fissile material smuggling but also to the smuggling of other goods, making operating environments more stable and reliable for business ventures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The State Department should lead the fund in partnership with the departments of Defense, Energy, and Treasury—to which businesses would contribute. A board consisting of representatives from the U.S. departments and private sector would govern the fund. In this way, the fund would serve as a focal point for identifying mutual interests and provide a means for private sector contribution, both financially and in-kind. To help coordinate activity and reduce duplication, an experts group—including representatives of other nations, international organizations such as the IAEA, and NGOs—could advise the board. U.S. agencies would submit their funding requirements for specific nuclear security projects that they have found difficult to fund through their regular budgets. They would provide an estimated budget, ranging from tens of thousands to millions of dollars. The proposals could be smaller parts of large projects that might have synergy with business interests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Businesses could contribute to the fund as part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) portfolios—through their foundations, just as they do in other areas—and receive tax incentives for participation. Their contributions could be financial donations or donations of their goods and services, such as technical instruments to detect smuggling and legal advice for prosecution of nuclear crime. There would be a list of projects to which businesses could chose to contribute, so they could tailor their donations, or they could simply make a general donation and let the administrators decide where their contribution is best spent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feasibility&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the past decade, the private sector has invested more in public goods such as environmental technologies and sustainable development. Firms have also donated their services, by paying select employees their regular salaries and assigning them to nonprofit organizations that advance their CSR goals. They do this not only because it is viewed as good CSR practice, but also because it can make good business sense. For example, incorporating environmentally sound practices can improve efficiency and the bottom line, and investing in local education and health care can improve stability in the communities in which firms conduct business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A similar argument applies to private sector investment in nuclear security. The private sector has an incentive to help nations secure nuclear materials and technology, as it benefits from a stable operating environment that could be devastated by a nuclear blast. The nuclear energy industry, in particular, has an interest in making sure that its livelihood does not contribute to nuclear terrorism. Moreover, private firms that operate in nations in which illicit activity takes place stand to benefit from projects that strengthen infrastructure, like border patrols to detect such activity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A successful public-private fund example exists in the Millennium Challenge Corporation (an independent U.S. foreign aid agency led by the State Department), which works to reduce global poverty in conjunction with the private sector. A similar framework could be used for a nuclear security fund—building on the tradition of Buffett, Turner, Nunn, and the NTI—to provide a systematic mechanism for more widespread private sector contribution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Author &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Emma L. Belcher wrote this memorandum while she was a Stanton nuclear security fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is currently a program officer at the MacArthur Foundation. The views expressed herein are solely her own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the MacArthur Foundation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://www.cfr.org/proliferation/nuclear-security-fund/p25388 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feds Review Policies Affecting Terrorist Travel (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 13, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Department of Homeland Security soon will complete its review of 1.6 million people who may have overstayed their visas in the United States, witnesses told members of a Senate committee during a hearing Wednesday. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'I'm expecting a report of the completion of this process' Thursday, DHS Coordinator for Counterterrorism Rand Beers told members of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Committee members expressed concern over the high number of backlogged records searches, noting that several of the 9/11 hijackers had overstayed their visas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Already, Beers said, DHS investigators have determined half of the suspected overstays have either left the country or have changed their status by submitting new paperwork. The remaining half is currently being run alongside other databases to identify potential threats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'The number of 1.6 million will be down to 0 in a week or so,' Assistant DHS Policy Secretary David Heyman assured the committee. Anyone who left the country in overstay status would not be allowed back into the country, Beers added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Committee members and witnesses spent much of the Senate hearing, entitled 'Preventing Terrorist Travel,' discussing strengths and weaknesses of different programs which allow foreign nationals into the country, including the visa, refugee and asylum processes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Security gaps drew attention in 2009, after a Nigerian man unsuccessfully tried to detonate a bomb in 2009 aboard a Detroit-bound airliner. It was the misspelling of attempted Christmas day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's name by U.S. Embassy officials which prevented the State Department from realizing that he had received a valid visa. The U.S. Embassy in Nigeria sent the cable with the misspelled name to intelligence officials after Abdulmutallab's father identified him as being involved with Yemeni-based terrorists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'That is so troubling to me,' said Sen. Susan Collins, R.-Maine, referring to the case. 'That he wasn't listed on the watch list.but also that his visa wasn't revoked.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But now, testified Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Janice Jacobs, you can misspell a name and the State Department database will display hits on the name and others that come close. The system, which Jacobs said uses 'fuzzy logic,' is useful when Arabic names are spelled differently when transliterated into English.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Committee members also expressed concern over two Iraqi men living in Bowling Green, Ky. who were granted refugee status in 2009. It was later discovered that fingerprints belonging to one of those men, Waad Alwan, were found in 2005 on an improvised explosive device (IED) in Iraq positioned to target American troops.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Waad Alwan and Kentucky resident Mohanad Hammadi were indicted in May on charges that they aided insurgents fighting American troops in Iraq. The men received refugee status through the U.S.'s Iraqi refugee program, created in 2007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DHS now is reviewing the 58,000 Iraqi refugees already in the U.S. who came in through the program, Heyman said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite the recent breaches, the witnesses, all federal officials, said that they are closing security gaps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More stringent screening policies for visa applicants have been put into place, Jacobs said, offering to provide senators details in a classified briefing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'We have revoked over 1,000 visas since 2009,' Jacobs said. And Heyman added that the TSA's secure flight program has stopped 25 people per month from boarding flights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://www.investigativeproject.org/3039/feds-review-policies-affecting-terrorist-travel &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Minorities 'Alienated by Airport Security' (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 13, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Gareth Rose&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over-zealous airport security threatens to exacerbate the terror threat by pushing those flirting with radical Islam over the edge, an MSP has warned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Humza Yousaf, who organised a meeting last night between members of ethnic minorities and police and Scottish Government figures, warned there was growing resentment over how Glasgow Airport's border control was operating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He has also launched a petition calling on Home Secretary Theresa May to review Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2006, which governs searches of people at UK borders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Yousaf, who is the Nationalist MSP for Glasgow, said: 'Everyone understands there's a security threat to Scotland, but any counter-terror expert will tell you that there is a tipping point caused by a sense of grievance towards an authority.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Instead of counter-terror, it's counter-productive, and leaving people with a sense of resentment. Now 999 out of 1,000 people will shrug their shoulders and carry on, but one person who may already be flirting with these ideas may be pushed over the edge.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Strathclyde Police are not understood to have received any complaints about security measures at the airport from members of ethnic communities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, Mr Yousaf believes some people are voting with their feet and choosing to make domestic journeys by land and departing on international flights from other airports, such as Manchester.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Glasgow Airport plans to organise a security open day for members of ethnic communities to try to allay concerns that they are being unfairly singled out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Yousaf said it was a growing concern for people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said: 'In 2008 and 2009 the situation seemed to get better, but in the last 12 months, during the election campaign in the south side of Glasgow, which has higher numbers of ethnic minorities, it came up a lot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'People as young as 18, right up to 70-year-olds have been affected. The complaints generally fall into three categories.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'One is the questions asked. What mosque do you pray at? How many times a day do you pray? Does your wife wear a headscarf?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Second is the nature of the stop itself. Sometimes it is so blatant that it is literally making ethnic minorities queue up in a different line. I've been stopped twice myself and it's humiliating.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'The third point that people raise is the frequency with which it happens. One person said he had been stopped seven times in three months. If you've been cleared once, why must you continue to go through this?'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Yousaf has also joined the likes of David Lammy MP in calling for a review of Section 7 of the Terrorism Act, and launched a petition to give to Mrs May.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Critics have said Schedule 7, like its predecessor Schedule 44, is too broad, draconian and over-used.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under its terms, people can be physically detained for up to nine hours while they and their belongings are searched. In some cases they are strip-searched, DNA samples are taken and they are fingerprinted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They may also be questioned on their social, political and religious views.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Police do not say how often the powers are used, for security reasons, but sources insist it is infrequent at Glasgow Airport. Justice secretary Kenny MacAskill, who attended last night's meeting, defended the way searches were conducted in Scotland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said: 'Scotland is not immune from terrorism, so it is vital that our airports are effectively policed to preserve public order and ensure that any threats to security are identified and addressed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'The police play a crucial role, having to balance a duty to tackle crime with the protection of individual civil liberties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'The powers they use are necessary to assist in their challenging role. Officers on the ground are best placed to make individual judgments as to when those powers should be used.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'I believe our forces make a proportionate and necessary use of the powers available to them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'It is also important that powers to stop and question travellers must be used consistently, sensitively and appropriately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'I am well aware of the sensitivities involved in the use of Schedule 7 powers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Where there are concerns and grievances we need to understand them and work together to try to address them.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A spokeswoman for Strathclyde Police added: 'Officers from Strathclyde Police, Acpos (the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland], representatives from the Scottish Government and members of the local community took part in a public meeting to address any concerns the public may have. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Schedule 7 is only one of many tools we use to ensure the wrong people do not gain access into the UK through our airports and ports.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, airport bosses insisted they were working with ethnic communities to try to allay any concerns they may have. A Glasgow Airport spokesman said: 'Schedule 7 checks are a police matter and we can, therefore, not comment. Glasgow Airport has worked and continues to work closely with various local ethnic minority groups and we will help facilitate an open day which will help highlight and explain the procedures involved in the security screening process.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/politics/Minorities-39alienated-by -airport-security39.6800483.jp &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TERRORISM RESPONSE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Norway Police Charge 3 Muslims over Bomb Plot (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 8, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OSLO - Norwegian security police are seeking charges against three men suspected of planning Scandinavian bomb attacks in an alleged plot with possible al Qaeda connections, state broadcaster NRK reported Friday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After their arrest last July the three told different stories -- one admitting a plot to blow up China's embassy in Norway, one saying his target was a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, and one professing his innocence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Norwegian Police Security Service had no immediate comment when contacted by Reuters Friday, and NRK did not say what charges the service proposed in a recommendation to Norway's prosecuting authority.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The presumed leader of the trio, Mikael Davud, an ethnic Uighur from China with Norwegian citizenship, 'had plans for a bomb that was supposed to be exploded at the Chinese embassy,' his attorney, Carl Rieber-Mohn, told NRK last September.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suspect Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, an Iraqi Kurd with Norwegian residency, confessed to planning a bomb attack against Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that published the Mohammad cartoons in 2005, the police have said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The third suspect, David Jakobsen, an Uzbek with Norwegian residency, has denied any illegal activity and was released from custody in October after the Norwegian Supreme Court rejected a security service appeal to keep him jailed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On announcing their arrest last year, security service chief Janne Kristiansen said: 'We believe this group has had links to people abroad who can be linked to al Qaeda, and to people who are involved in investigations in other countries, among others the United States and Britain.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a separate case, a Danish court Friday extended the detention of four men charged with plotting an act of terrorism against the paper that published the cartoons of the Prophet. The drawings, including one showing him with a bomb in his turban, caused widespread outrage among Muslims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE7671YR20110708 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TERROR ON TRIAL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Assassin Who Killed President Karzai's Brother Hanged in Public Square (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 13, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the brutal lynching and public display of the close confidante who shot dead Ahmed Wali Karzai - the half-brother of president Hamid Karzai.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A group of men in plain clothes hung the corpse against the wall in Kandahar for around 20 minutes before they carried it away. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahmed Wali Karzai was assassinated on Tuesday by the man who is said to have been from his own tribe and home town, whom he had travelled with and worked alongside for seven years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brutal: Sardar Mohammad, who shot dead Ahmad Wali Karzai, half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, hangs from a building in Kandahar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grief-stricken: Afghan President Hamid Karzai bows his head during the memorial service for his half brother Ahmad Wali Karzai&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Assassinated: Thousands of mourners attended the service along with Mr Karzai in the family's ancestral village of Karz&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Karzai was joined by thousands of mourners at the funeral of his half brother.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The president, tribal leaders, government officials and others attended first a morning prayer service in the provincial capital, Kandahar, before travelling to the family's ancestral home village of Karz for the funeral.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A sea of mourners surged toward the grave as a large wooden coffin, adorned with red flowers was brought forward.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Helicopters circled overhead as the coffin was lowered into the earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr Karzai - surrounded by a ring of security men - was on the fringe of the throng of mourners, tears streaming down his cheeks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The president approached the grave, climbed into it and had to be pulled out by his shoulders as his grief got the better of him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shock: Afghans cover the grave of Ahmad Wali Karzai with earth after he was shot dead by one of his own bodyguards&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Security concerns: Ahmed Wali Karzai was head of the provincial council in Kandahar - an area still heavily influenced by the Taliban&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Loss: Shah Wali Karzai, left, the younger brother of Ahmad Wali Karzai, arrives for the funeral&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shortly after the funeral in Karz, Mr Karzai held a press conference in the provincial capital.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said: 'My message for them (the Taliban) is that my countrymen, my brothers, should stop killing their own people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'It is easy to kill and everyone can do it, but the real man is the one who can save people's lives.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Taliban has claimed responsibility for Wali Karzai's killing, but Afghan officials have said it is unclear whether he was shot by insurgents or died as a result of an internal dispute.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement that insurgent fighters killed Wali Karzai because he cooperated with British, U.S. and Canadian forces in the south.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said: 'He was aligned with foreign occupiers,' before describing him as a 'puppet' of the West and claiming he was on the CIA payroll.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Killed: Ahmad Wali Karzai, right, was extremely influential in the south of Afghanistan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tributes: Bismillah Muhammadi, Afghan Interior Minister, and General Sher Muhammad Karimi - the country's army chief - were also at the funeral&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alert: Police check vehicles near the house of Ahmad Wali Karzai in Kandahar. The assassin shot him in the head and chest, before being gunned down by other bodyguards&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Attack: The body of the assassin is covered up. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the killing, saying Ahmad Wali Karzai was cooperating with the West&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vacuum: Mr Karzai gave a press conference after the funeral, in which he attacked the Taliban for killing their own people&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Walid Karzai had denied working for the CIA or having profited from the illegal seizure of government and private land - another Taliban claim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His death has left a dangerous power vacuum in the south as the Afghan government pursues peace talks with insurgents ahead of a U.S. troop withdrawal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The international military coalition has few friends of stature in the province and none with the influence of Mr Karzai's half brother - considered a master operator and the uncrowned 'king' of Kandahar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Without his sibling, the president will struggle to find an ally resourceful and ruthless enough to balance alliances with tribal and political leaders, drug runners and militias in a province where the Taliban still holds much influence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rustam Shah, former Pakistan ambassador to Afghanistan, said Wali Karzai's death exposed the fragility of the security infrastructure in the southern provinces, particularly Kandahar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He said: 'It will be a big blow to the government's image in the Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'The president will have to be very careful to move quickly to consolidate and maintain his power structure in Kandahar.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2014275/Hamid-Karzais-sh ock-buries-brother-24-hours-gunned-bodyguard.html#ixzz1S2NOeYBq &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Federal Government Isn't Touching Arkansas Terrorism Case (back)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;July 11, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Richard A. Serrano&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad of Memphis, Tenn., says his trial in a fatal Little Rock Army facility attack is being handled in Arkansas state court to get him the death penalty. His father alleges a government coverup.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, center, charged in the 2009 death of an Army recruiter, will be tried in Little Rock, Ark. (Danny Johnston / Associated Press / July 12, 2011)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reporting from Little Rock, Ark., and Memphis— &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad insists he is an Islamic radical, has confessed to killing an Army soldier and wounding another at a Little Rock recruiting station two years ago, and wants to be tried on terrorism charges in federal court.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But in an unusual twist, state prosecutors, with the blessing of the federal government, are treating him like a common American criminal and trying him in state court next week on capital murder charges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Either way, Muhammad could become the first person sentenced to death in the U.S. for an act of terrorism — even if that is not the charge — since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Muhammad, 24, born Carlos Bledsoe in Memphis, Tenn., has a profile that is now familiar in home-grown terrorism cases. He converted to Islam at age 20 at a Tennessee mosque, changed his name and traveled to the Middle East.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2008, he was arrested in Yemen for overstaying his visa and holding false Somali papers. His father said he became radicalized in a Yemeni jail after mixing with other prisoners there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Six months after Muhammad returned to the U.S., he allegedly drove his black Ford Sport Trac truck to the military recruiting station. Inside the vehicle were a rifle, scope, laser sight, silencer and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. He allegedly fired several rounds before fleeing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later, at a police roadblock eight miles away, Muhammad was captured with a semiautomatic handgun tucked in his waistband.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Police said he told them he was 'mad at the U.S. military because of what they had done to Muslims in the past.' He said his 'intent was to kill as many people in the Army as he could.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Melvin Bledsoe, who runs a Memphis tour bus company, said he learned of his son's incarceration in Yemen from a Tennessee FBI agent who interviewed Muhammad while he was in jail there. But that was the last Bledsoe heard from the FBI. And he believes that gets at the explanation behind the federal government's strange lack of interest in trying his son.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bledsoe charges that federal officials deferred to state prosecutors because they feared a federal trial would make them look bad — because they knew his son was a radicalized Muslim and yet did not watch him when he returned to the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'They should have done their job and this never would have happened,' Bledsoe said. 'I think that somebody in the federal government and the FBI should be charged with negligence. Negligent homicide.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bledsoe's son has a different explanation for why he is not being charged as a terrorist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Muhammad, who says he is affiliated with several terrorist organizations, has written jailhouse letters to Pulaski County Judge Herbert Wright demanding a federal trial. 'In my eyes it's a sham trial [in Little Rock] set up only to make sure I'm handed down a death sentence,' he wrote May 10.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ten days later, he wrote again: 'The facility where the shooting took place was a federal building. The army recruiters outside that federal building were federal employees. I was under federal investigation at the time of the shooting by the FBI. Why then is this a state case in state court, which the state seeks my execution? Injustice!'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To some outside legal experts, both father and son make valid points.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'That's unquestionably embarrassing for the FBI,' said Brian Gallini, a University of Arkansas criminal law professor. 'I can't come up with a comparable example of a mistake the feds would want to admit to.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But John Wesley Hall Jr., a longtime Little Rock criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor, said that 'just because the FBI didn't follow him doesn't mean it was their fault.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In similar terrorism-related cases since the Sept. 11 attacks, federal prosecutors have wasted no time in taking the lead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just recently, federal officials in
