Networks put gun ruling in their crosshairs

From: Douglas C. Mills, Executive Vice President, The Media Research Center

The recent Supreme Court ruling striking down a ban on handgun ownership in Washington, D.C., touched off a maelstrom of negative media reports about how the ruling would lead to more gun violence.

Really?

The 32-year ban on handguns in our Nation's Capital was one of the strictest, yet the District has been widely labeled "the murder capital of the country". Why didn't the media analyze that?

For the full Culture and Media Institute report:

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Just after the ruling, The N.Y. Times used a misleading statistic to bolster their argument.

"Thirty-thousand Americans are killed by guns every year -- on the job, walking to school, at the shopping mall. The Supreme Court on Thursday all but ensured that even more Americans will die senselessly with its wrongheaded and dangerous ruling striking down key parts of the District of Columbia's gun-control law."

The Times failed to mention that nearly half of the 30,000 deaths are suicides. The paper also didn't look at how many of those homicides were the result of self-defense.

Instead, the Times, like its liberal network counterparts, lamented that the "far-right" court got it wrong, setting the stage for more violence and death.

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Gathering of Mustangs & Legends - Flag Jump

(Compiler's note: Should my American flag offend you, please call 1-800 Leave-the-USA)

Great video!

Bush administration streamlines security clearance process

The Bush administration has issued a new executive order that could streamline the onerous and often lengthy background checks performed on federal employees and contractors who need special security clearance to access classified information.

The order, issued on June 30, requires federal agencies to establish "consistent standards" for all individuals who require access to classified national security information or who are applying for a sensitive government position.

"The aligned system shall employ updated and consistent standards and methods, enable innovations with enterprise information technology capabilities and end-to-end automation to the extent practicable, and ensure that relevant information maintained by agencies can be ...

Report provides roadmap for first Homeland Security transition

Identifying and filling critical positions, training new executives and working aggressively to get the next presidential team on board are critical steps for a smooth transition at the Homeland Security Department, according to a new report by the National Academy of Public Administration.

The 118-page report, requested by DHS and the House and Senate Homeland Security Appropriations subcommittees, found that while it has made a solid start in planning for the presidential transition, the department and other key players in homeland security have to do more.

"The panel has provided a roadmap for DHS, and made recommendations to Congress, the presidential candidates, and key federal agencies, to reduce America's vulnerability during the election and presidential transition year," said NAPA President Jennifer Dorn. "I have no doubt that our country is up to the job." ...

Does Patriotism Matter?

By Thomas Sowell

The Fourth of July is a patriotic holiday but patriotism has long been viewed with suspicion or disdain by many of the intelligentsia. As far back as 1793, prominent British writer William Godwin called patriotism "high-sounding nonsense."

Internationalism has long been a competitor with patriotism, especially among the intelligentsia. H.G. Wells advocated replacing the idea of duty to one's country with "the idea of cosmopolitan duty."

Perhaps nowhere was patriotism so downplayed or deplored than among intellectuals in the Western democracies in the two decades after the horrors of the First World War, fought under various nations' banners of patriotism.

In France, after the First World War, the teachers' unions launched a systematic purge of textbooks, in order to promote internationalism and pacifism.

Books that depicted the courage and self-sacrifice of soldiers who had defended France against the German invaders were called "bellicose" books to be banished from the schools.

Textbook publishers caved in to the power of the teachers' unions, rather than lose a large market for their books. History books were sharply revised to conform to internationalism and pacifism.

The once epic story of the French soldiers' heroic defense against the German invaders at Verdun, despite the massive casualties suffered by the French, was now transformed into a story of horrible suffering by all soldiers at Verdun-- French and German alike.

In short, soldiers once depicted as national heroes were now depicted as victims-- and just like victims in other nations' armies.

Children were bombarded with stories on the horrors of war. In some schools, children whose fathers had been killed during the war were asked to speak to the class and many of these children-- as well as some of their classmates and teachers-- broke down in tears.

In Britain, Winston Churchill warned that a country "cannot avoid war by dilating upon its horrors." In France, Marshal Philippe Petain, the victor at Verdun, warned in 1934 that teachers were trying to "raise our sons in ignorance of or in contempt of the fatherland."

But they were voices drowned out by the pacifist and internationalist rhetoric of the 1920s and 1930s.

Did it matter? Does patriotism matter?

France, where pacifism and internationalism were strongest, became a classic example of how much it can matter.

During the First World War, France fought on against the German invaders for four long years, despite having more of its soldiers killed than all the American soldiers killed in all the wars in the history of the United States, put together.

But during the Second World War, France collapsed after just six weeks of fighting and surrendered to Nazi Germany. At the bitter moment of defeat the head of the French teachers' union was told, "You are partially responsible for the defeat."

Charles de Gaulle, Francois Mauriac, and other Frenchmen blamed a lack of national will or general moral decay, for the sudden and humiliating collapse of France in 1940.

At the outset of the invasion, both German and French generals assessed French military forces as more likely to gain victory, and virtually no one expected France to collapse like a house of cards -- except Adolf Hitler, who had studied French society instead of French military forces.

Did patriotism matter? It mattered more than superior French tanks and planes.

Most Americans today are unaware of how much our schools have followed in the footsteps of the French schools of the 1920s and 1930s, or how much our intellectuals have become citizens of the world instead of American patriots.

Our media are busy verbally transforming American combat troops from heroes into victims, just as the French intelligentsia did-- with the added twist of calling this "supporting the troops."

Will that matter? Time will tell.

CIA Suppressed Iran Nuclear Intelligence, Ex-Agent Says

A former undercover CIA operative claimed in a federal court filing Friday that the agency quashed intelligence indicating that Iran had halted its pursuit of a nuclear weapon capability, the Washington Post reported (see GSN, June 30).

The former agent, who is prohibited from releasing his name, contends that the CIA ignored evidence that Iran had suspended its military nuclear program until the agency reversed its conclusions in helping to formulate a U.S. intelligence assessment last year...

Saudis Schmooze Their Way To Safety

So far this year, Saudi Arabia has arrested 701 terrorist suspects. About 180 were released, but the rest are still being investigated. Many had been recruited overseas by al Qaeda, and provided with money to get into Saudi Arabia during the annual Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca, which every Moslem is encouraged to do at least once). ...

The Curious China Connection

A recent analysis of web sites pushing malware (software that helps hackers steal data) revealed that half of them are connected with just ten ISPs (Internet Service Providers), and six of those ISPs are in China. This came as no surprise, as China has become the favorite hideout for Internet criminals.

There's just one catch. The Chinese Internet is highly policed by a special force of 30,000 secret police technicians. On the Chinese Internet, you don't do something the government does not want, at least not for long. ...

The Islamic Bewilderness

Al Qaeda has had a bad year, having been crushed in Iraq and having a hard time doing much damage anywhere else. But on the Internet , the Sunni terrorist organization is expanding its activities. ...

Son Of Spooky A Shorty

SOCOMs gunships (the AC-130) are wearing out because of heavy use in combat. In 5-10 years, all of them will have to be retired, or heavily rebuilt. So the air force portion of SOCOM (AFSOC, Air Force Special Operations Command) is going to try converting new light (two engine) transports to "light gunships. ...

Congress Blinds The FBI (Reid-Pelosi aid terrorists)

The U.S. Congress has refused to give the FBI $11 million to expand the use of data mining in counter-terrorism efforts. American politicians are generally hostile to government use of data mining, a technique widely used, for decades, in business (marketing), law enforcement (catching criminals) and the military (finding the enemy). This last use has become much more sophisticated since the U.S. Department of Defense began pouring billions of dollars a year into finding ways to defeat IEDs (improvised explosive devices, usually roadside bombs). The effort to lower IED casualties has opened up all sorts of opportunities for technological innovation. No one harasses researchers for using data mining, or makes fun of building supercomputers with graphics processors (often the same ones found in video game consoles, making super-fast computers cheap enough to be used in a combat zone to make life saving predictions), when it saves troops from getting killed.

The data mining was initially used to figure out who the bomb making crews were, and where they operated from. Then, using math techniques first developed during World War II, the intel geeks began creating predictions about where IEDs were most likely to show up next. These predictive models get better as the quality of the information going into them improves. As more terrorists are captured and interrogated, and their computers and data is translated, the predictions become more accurate.

Using more primitive computers, Germany employed data mining successfully in the 1970s, to find leftist, middle class terrorists who were operating with assistance from the East German secret police. The terrorists thought they were well concealed, but data mining can do wonders with the slightest pieces of information.

The FBI has been unable to make this point to Congress, mainly because some key legislators are ideologically opposed to data mining, and refuse to acknowledge the widespread success of the technique in civilians and military sectors.

Getting Sensible On Energy

If the price of gasoline is around $4 a gallon, Americans have no one to blame but themselves. For decades, we have demonized the people and businesses who supply our energy. Energy fuels our economy and prosperity, but bad public policies have made it increasingly more difficult to develop our own vast resources. Americans are in danger of falling irreversibly into a dysfunctional culture and fading into the dust of history.

We sit on our own undeveloped energy supplies and complain about the high price of gasoline and imported oil. ...

... The United States has enough oil and gas resources to meet our energy needs for hundreds of years. Nothing but our own ignorance stands in the way of developing them.

Turkish police detain 2 retired commanders over alleged anti-government plot

Turkish police detained 24 people including two retired military commanders Tuesday during raids against an alleged network of extreme nationalists accused of plotting to topple the government, according to media reports. Dozens of people have previously been detained during the yearlong probe into the alleged group whose members have been accused of provoking an armed rebellion against the government. ...

Terror suspect video 'a mistake'

An aircraft suicide bomb plot suspect has told jurors that a video threatening martyrdom that he helped to make had been a "silly" mistake. ...

Wave of attacks threaten Iraqi judges

BAGHDAD - Five Iraqi judges escaped assassination Monday in a series of small bomb attacks that police believe may be part of a Shiite extremist campaign to force them to free jailed militants or reduce their sentences. ...

Qaeda targets U.S. oil interests in N.Africa: report

Al Qaeda's growing north Africa network plans to attack U.S. interests seeking control of the region's energy riches, ...

The Border Fence Folly

In this political season, immigration is the issue that everyone’s taking pains not to discuss. The presidential candidates are merely paying the same lip service to border security. Congress has all but abandoned comprehensive immigration reform, and the Bush administration continues to pile all their immigration-policy eggs in the border-security basket. ...

... Most experts say that physical fencing would not drastically decrease the number of illegal immigrants entering the country. The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that as much as 40-50 percent of the U.S.'s unauthorized migrant population entered the country through legal ports of entry, either with nonimmigrant visas that subsequently expired (known as "overstayers") or by using a Border Crossing Card that allows for short visits to the border region. ...

Nuclear Terror: Federal/Local Coordination Still a Challenge

Despite progress, continuing gaps in nuclear terror readiness on local level seen.

“We’ve gotten pretty good at the poetry of strategy,” Paul McHale Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas' Security Affairs , US Department of Defense told the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Thursday at a hearing entitled Nuclear Terrorism: Providing Medical Care and Meeting Basic Needs in the Aftermath – the Federal Response. Click here to see full testimony. ...

Glenn Beck: The Last Patriot

Brad Thor, author of The Last Patriot, was on the show months ago and Glenn told him that he should consider not publishing the book. With extremists rioting over cartoons they don't like--Glenn believes Brad is legitimately in danger because of this book. What's his book about? How is he dealing with death threats? Read the transcript here including the Glenn Beck quote "You'll think 'Brad Thor is a dead man.'" ...

The enemy within

(Compiler's note: The Ottawa Citizen story below highlights the grave threat of infiltration of our defense and intelligence communities by Islamists working in league with terrorists abroad.

The article references the Muslim Brotherhood Project, the long-term plan created by the Muslim Brotherhood to subvert the West from within.)

But these things must be asked whenever a possible radical or extremist Islamist breach of security is hinted at, and here's why: Islamic extremists and subversives place great emphasis on infiltrating social, political, economic and security apparatuses of target nations, like Canada, with a view to manipulating and undoing their infrastructure. ...

SNIFFER DOGS OFFEND MUSLIMS

UK -- A report for the Transport Department has raised the prospect that the animals should only touch passengers’ luggage because it is considered “more acceptable”.

In the Muslim faith, dogs are deemed to be spiritually “unclean”. But banning them from touching passengers would severely restrict their ability to do their job. ...

Saudi king urges consumers to get used to high oil prices

... "These countries must reduce their taxes on fuel.. if they want to contribute to easing the burden on ordinary consumers," he said. ...

FCS Spinouts Will Go First to Infantry Units

News about technologies for the soldier on the ground.

New Future Combat Systems technologies will go first to Army Infantry Brigade Combat Teams (IBCTs) instead of Heavy Brigade Combat Teams (HBCTs) as planned, said an Army source familiar with the program.

In the past week, Army leaders also approved the acceleration of these so-called spinout technologies, aiming to deploy them with soldiers by October 2010, about two years earlier than once planned. The Army is now working with Congress to reprogram at least tens of millions of dollars, the official said. ...

MEXICAN DRUG WAR 'ALARMING' U.S. OFFICIALS

t appears the problems on the southern border are getting severe enough to register on the government radar screen.

MEXICO CITY - Virtually every day now there are disturbing headlines here about the assassination of yet another Mexican official, gangland-style shootouts in broad daylight, the gruesome discoveries of kidnapped and tortured murder victims - many of them beheaded -and police chiefs quitting their jobs and fleeing the country in terror. ...

Abu Sayyaf spent force, Yano claims

Good news from Manila in the GWOT.

Muslim rebels in the Philippines have scattered and become leaderless after strikes using US intelligence tips, the Philippines' military chief said Thursday.

About a dozen leaders of the Abu Sayyaf, a group blamed for the country's worst terrorist attacks, were killed or arrested in the past seven years after Manila allowed US Special Forces troops to be deployed in southern Mindanao. ...

Glenn Beck: The Last Patriot

... THOR: I didn't back off on any of it. The book is exactly what you saw. There's a -- and again this is a thriller. The Last Patriot is a thriller, but there's a lot of little secrets that Islam doesn't want out there that I've incorporated into this book, but I did do what you said and at the end I have an author's note and I do say, hey, these are the true things that the book is based upon and this is where I took artistic license.

GLENN: Okay. This is -- I tell you, Brad, and I don't mean to fall all over you here on this but this is -- I read your book and I don't think I've ever read a book with the Internet, with the laptop by my side because -- I mean, I do that a lot with some books because so riddled with ADD. But your book -- for instance, the memorial that you talk about, the thing that used to be sitting in Washington D.C., the capital. ...

Alert: Tell Congress: Terrorists Are Not US Citizens

Do you believe foreign terrorists should be treated as American citizens? Should they have the same rights as American citizens?

Well, according to five justices of the United States Supreme Court, the answer is an emphatic YES!

Recently, in Boumediene v. Bush, five justices ruled that suspected terrorists captured in foreign lands -- potential bombers and assassins who've never set foot on United States soil -- have to be tried in an American civilian court WITH ALL THE RIGHTS GUARANTEED TO UNITED STATES CITIZENS UNDER OUR CONSTITUTION!

The outrageous ruling -- a deliberate crippling of our nation's ability to fight the War on Terror -- has snatched away congressional and presidential powers guaranteed by the United States Constitution.

Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily.com articulated just what has happened when he wrote:

"So, it's official! This court believes a majority of five judges in black robes decides the law of the land, not the Congress of the United States with the consent of the president."

"I'm simply astonished that no other journalist -- no other pundit -- has observed the coup d'etat that this decision represents in the American political system.

"To make it clear, the Congress, anticipating just this kind of meddling in national security matters by the court, wrote legislation prohibiting it, as the Constitution permits it to do. The court ignored that restriction, meddled in national security matters that were not its business and verbally spanked the Congress, explaining, in most condescending fashion, that the 'political branches' actually had no say in 'what the law is.'" [Emphasis added]

Ann Coulter was even more blunt when she wrote:

"But now, even aliens get special constitutional privileges merely for being caught on a battlefield trying to kill Americans."

And Congressman John Shadegg said this:

"It is outrageous that the Supreme Court of the United States has endangered innocent American lives so Guantanamo Bay detainees can experience the rights and freedoms of the society they seek to destroy."

That's why Shadegg, on June 17th, introduced the Boumediene Jurisdiction Correction Act (H.R. 6274) which would give military courts exclusive jurisdiction over detained foreign enemy combatants being held at Guantanamo Bay.

We need to support Congressman Shadegg's vital legislation to reverse this disastrous decision.

Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President George W. Bush and each and every one of the Republican leaders of the House and Senate.

Let them know that you are shocked both at the action of the High Court and the silence of most Republicans in the face of this outrageous ruling. Only 16 Members of Congress have co-sponsored Shadegg's bill.

Tell them the courts must stop their unconstitutional usurpation of power. Judges have been "making law" rather than fulfilling their constitutional duty to "interpret the law" for far too long. Tell them you expect them to fulfill their constitutional duty of oversight. Tell them they can start by supporting Representative John Shadegg's bill mandating that terrorists be tried in military courts.

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America Is Fighting A "War On Terror" And Liberals Are Fighting a "War On Bush!"

Of course the liberal media just loved the ruling. They see Justice Kennedy's opinion as an occasion for high-blown rhetoric about "freedom and justice."

After all, why let something as trivial as the Constitution stand in the way of bashing President Bush?

A New York Times editorial titled: "Justice 5, Brutality 4" proclaimed that "President Bush has denied the protections of justice, democracy and plain human decency to the hundreds of men that he decided to label 'unlawful enemy combatants' and throw into never-ending detention."

Page One of The Washington Post crowed: "The Supreme Court rules Bush can't trash American values."

The Post's Eugene Johnson wrote: "the high court made clear that the Decider [Bush] has no authority to trash the fundamental principles of American jurisprudence."

The Associated Press headline read: "Court says detainees have rights, bucking Bush"

A CNN print story read: "Watch how the 5-4 ruling is a major blow for the Bush administration."

These liberals have got nothing but George Bush on the brain!

So much so, that their obsession blinds them from recognizing what is right for the United States of America. You can almost hear them whispering to themselves: 'Who cares if we destroy the country and the American way of life... just so long as we get Bush!'

Our troops overseas are fighting a war against radical Islamic terrorists and liberals in the press are fighting a war against the Commander-in-Chief.

To the politically correct media, the real story was the systematic abuse of what one left-wing blogger called "innocent foreigners."

Reality check folks, the inmates at Gitmo are NOT "innocent foreigners"... THEY ARE TERRORISTS WHO -- FOR THE MOST PART -- ONLY WANT TO KILL AMERICANS!

We can't allow this kind of distortion to go unanswered.

The High Court's ruling must be reversed right here and right now. Congress must pass Congressman Shadegg's bill immediately!

Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President George W. Bush and each and every one of the Republican leaders of the House and Senate.

Let them know that you are shocked both at the action of the High Court and the silence of most Republicans in the face of this outrageous ruling. Only 16 Members of Congress have co-sponsored Shadegg's bill.

Tell them the courts must stop their unconstitutional usurpation of power. Judges have been "making law" rather than fulfilling their constitutional duty to "interpret the law" for far too long. Tell them you expect them to fulfill their constitutional duty of oversight. Tell them they can start by supporting Representative John Shadegg's bill mandating that terrorists be tried in military courts.

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Does All This Sound Familiar? It Should.

In a 2006 ruling (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld), the High Court shook its finger at the Bush administration, saying the executive branch had no authority to set up military tribunals to hear cases of accused terrorists captured in foreign countries.

However, Justice Stevens, speaking for the majority in that case, wrote: "Nothing prevents the president from returning to Congress to seek the authority [i.e., trial by a military tribunal] he believes necessary."

And that is just what President Bush did! Congress passed the Military Commissions Act, which became law in 2006.

Or so everyone thought. That was then and this is now!

As Justice Scalia wrote in his dissent in the Boumediene case: It seems like the five justices "were just kidding."

In effect, in the most recent case, the majority said to Congress and the President:

"Okay. Last time, we lied. It's unconstitutional to do what we SAID you could do. Fooled you! Fooled you!"

But this no joke!

Our nation is at war with radicals who wish to destroy us. But the liberal media and other Leftists just don't seem to care.

Aren't these the same liberals who scream "stare decisis" at the top of their lungs and claim that left-wing decisions they like SIMPLY CAN'T be overturned without inviting some kind of major catastrophe (like a plague or famine)!

However, back to the point; the decision also does something else:

It empowers the cruelest, most hate-driven enemy Americans have ever encountered -- monsters who use their own women, children and even mentally handicapped people as unwitting suicide bombers.

Yet five Supreme Court justices have just ruled that these monsters have the right to be tried under more lenient laws than our own troops, live in more comfortable accommodations, and receive the support and admiration of the Public Defender's Office and the American Civil Liberties Union.

Somewhere in a cave in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden is laughing at America -- a nation too weak-willed to defend its own culture and too confused to understand its own Constitution.

Meanwhile, in obedience to the Prophet -- Osama's followers fight on.

This is ludicrous. But, we can do something about this dangerous decision by forcing Congress to act, and act now.

Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President George W. Bush and each and every one of the Republican leaders of the House and Senate.

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Tell them the courts must stop their unconstitutional usurpation of power. Judges have been "making law" rather than fulfilling their constitutional duty to "interpret the law" for far too long. Tell them you expect them to fulfill their constitutional duty of oversight. Tell them they can start by supporting Representative John Shadegg's bill mandating that terrorists be tried in military courts.

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Who Gave Them The Right?

Ann Coulter answers that question as follows:

"[T]he judiciary simply has no power over enemy combatants in wartime. Such power is committed to the executive as part of the commander in chief's power, and thus implicitly denied to the judiciary, just as is the power to declare war is unilaterally committed to Congress. As one law professor said to me, this is what happens when the swing justice is the dumb justice."

"Kennedy's ruling thus effectively overturned the congressional declaration of war -- the use of force resolution voted for by Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, 75 other senators as well as 296 congressmen. If there's no war, then there are no enemy combatants. This is the diabolical arrogance of Kennedy's opinion."

In other words, Congress gave the green light for the war, and the Commander-in-Chief was conducting it -- with great success in recent months, as even the New York Times has been forced to admit.

At that point -- after the Left in Congress had grown silent -- Justice Kennedy and four other justices stepped in and told the Congress and the President:

"Okay. You're on the verge of victory. But we don't like this war, and we're going to make it as hard as possible for our troops to win."

When the Court roared like a lion, elected officials on Capitol Hill cowered behind their desks, but John Shadegg immediately introduced legislation to pull the lion's teeth.

In a press release, Shadegg roared even louder:

"Suspected foreign terrorists captured abroad and detained outside U.S. borders do not possess the same constitutional rights as American citizens, plain and simple."

"We have seen individuals released from Guantanamo or prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan return to their terrorist networks and to the fields of battle. It is therefore even more shocking that, in a time of war, our nation's highest court would charge appointed federal civilian judges, who have absolutely no expertise in terrorism or national security, with the responsibility of determining a detainee's habeas corpus petition."

We couldn't say it any better than that!

The problem is this: Despite 9/11, five justices and liberal lawmakers think America is at war with President Bush, instead of Islamic terrorists.

In memory of the more than 3,000 Americans who died on September 11, 2001, and in honor of the brave men and women in uniform fighting radical extremists who wish to destroy us, let's reverse this dangerous decision!

Let's give Congressman Shadegg the grassroots support he needs to pass the Boumediene Jurisdiction Correction Act (H.R. 6274) without delay.

We have the power to make a difference on this one. Let's make our voices heard!

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Iraq fails to sign contracts with global oil majors

Iraq said on Monday it has failed to sign technical support agreements with global oil majors which were aimed at helping boost the war-torn country's oil production.

Iraq is negotiating with Shell, BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron and Total, and a consortium of other smaller oil companies, Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani said at press briefing. ...

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Video .... Iran threatening to cut off key Persian Gulf oil line ...

U.S. Advised Iraqi Ministry on Oil Deals

A group of American advisers led by a small State Department team played an integral part in drawing up contracts between the Iraqi government and five major Western oil companies to develop some of the largest fields in Iraq, American officials say. ...

Sharia-compliant mortgages are here - and they're not just for Muslims

(Compiler's note: Shari'a is the set of Islamic laws established by Muslim jurists, based on the Qur'an and deeds of the prophet Muhammad, as recorded beginning more than 1,200 years ago. Its end goal, for all time, is establishing a world ruled entirely by Islam and the harsh shari'a laws. These laws govern every aspect of daily life and prohibit individual, political, and religious freedoms.)

Imagine a mortgage lender who allows you to take all the increase in the price of your home when you sell, but is prepared to share any loss if the property has fallen in value. Such a deal may seem too good to be true in the current property market, but it is exactly what a handful of banks specialising in Islamic home loans are offering. ...

Gunmen assassinate head of Basra city intelligence in Iraq

Head of intelligence in Basra city was assassinated in Baghdad, said a security source Sunday. ...

Militants circle key Pakistani city

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Heavily armed Islamic militants have gathered on the outskirts of Peshawar, the strategic provincial capital in northwest Pakistan, and the Pakistani government has dramatically stepped up security around the city amid fears it could fall.

Taliban groups and other extremist warlords now threaten Peshawar from three sides. Should they take over Peshawar, the rest of the North West Frontier Province could follow, leaving Islamic extremists in control of a region that borders Afghanistan and sits astride one of the main supply routes to U.S. and coalition troops there. ...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards chief reportedly issues new warning to Israel

TEHRAN : The chief of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards has issued a new warning against Israel not to attack it, saying the Jewish state is well within range of its missiles, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

"This country (Israel) is completely within the range of the Islamic republic's missiles. Our missile power and capability are such that the Zionist regime -- despite all its abilities -- cannot confront it," General Mohammad Ali Jafari told the conservative daily Jam-e Jam.

"There is the possibility that by attacking Iranian nuclear sites the enemy wants to delay our nuclear activities, but any interruption would be very short since Iranian scientific ability is different from that of Syria and Iraq." ...

Al-Qaida thrives, grows as U.S. spins its wheels

WASHINGTON — Late last year, top Bush administration officials decided to take a step they had long resisted. They drafted a secret plan to authorize the Pentagon's Special Operations forces to launch missions into the snow-capped mountains of Pakistan to capture or kill top leaders of al-Qaida.

Intelligence reports for more than a year had been streaming in about Osama bin Laden's terror network rebuilding in the Pakistani tribal areas, a problem that had been exacerbated by years of missteps in Washington and the Pakistani capital, Islamabad; sharp policy disagreements; and turf battles between U.S. counterterrorism agencies.

Lieberman: U.S. May Be Attacked In 2009

... "Our enemies will test the new president early," Lieberman, I-Conn., told Face The Nation host Bob Schieffer. "Remember that the truck bombing of the World Trade Center happened in the first year of the Clinton administration. 9/11 happened in the first year of the Bush administration."...

ISLAM - A SHORT SYNOPSIS OF HOW IT WORKS

by John Larsen --- Islam is not a religion nor is it a cult. It is a complete system. rca

Islam has religious, legal, political, economic and military components. The religious component is a beard for all the other components.

Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called 'religious rights.'

When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to 'the reasonable' Muslim demands for their 'religious rights,' they also get the other components under the table. Here's how it works (percentages source CIA: The World Fact Book (2007)).

As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:

United States -- Muslim 1.0%
Australia -- Muslim 1.5%
Canada -- Muslim 1.9%
China -- Muslim 1%-2%
Italy -- Muslim 1.5%
Norway -- Muslim 1.8%

At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:

Denmark -- Muslim 2%
Germany -- Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom -- Muslim 2.7%
Spain -- Muslim 4%
Thailand -- Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.

They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves -- along with threats for failure to comply. ( United States ).

France -- Muslim 8%
Philippines -- Muslim 5%
Sweden -- Muslim 5%
Switzerland-- Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands -- Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad &Tobago -- Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions ( Paris -- car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats ( Amsterdam -- Mohammed cartoons).

Guyana -- Muslim 10%
India -- Muslim 13.4%
Israel -- Muslim 16%
Kenya -- Muslim 10%
Russia -- Muslim 10-15%

After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:

Ethiopia -- Muslim 32.8%

At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:

Bosnia -- Muslim 40%
Chad -- Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon -- Muslim 59.7%

From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:

Albania -- Muslim 70%
Malaysia -- Muslim 60.4%
Qatar -- Muslim 77.5%
Sudan -- Muslim 70%

After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:

Bangladesh -- Muslim 83%
Egypt -- Muslim 90%
Gaza -- Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia -- Muslim 86.1%
Iran -- Muslim 98%
Iraq -- Muslim 97%
Jordan -- Muslim 92%
Morocco -- Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan -- Muslim 97%
Palestine -- Muslim 99%
Syria -- Muslim 90%
Tajikistan -- Muslim 90%
Turkey -- Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates -- Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam' -- the Islamic House of Peace -- there's supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim:

Afghanistan -- Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia -- Muslim 100%
Somalia -- Muslim 100%
Yemen -- Muslim 99.9%

Of course, that's not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.

'Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel' -- Leon Uris, 'The Haj'

It is good to remember that in many, many countries, such as France , the Muslim populations are centered around ghettos based on their ethnicity. Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. Therefore, they exercise more power than their national average would indicate.

And we continue to cater and negotiate in a politically correct way so as not to 'offend' our Muslim 'brothers.'

Time to wake up!

Amid policy disputes, Qaeda grows in Pakistan

Drudgereport SOURCES: BUSH ANGER AT COMING NEW YORK TIMES STORY DETAILING HUNT FOR BIN LADEN... The newspaper planning to expose internal debate surrounding 'highly classified Pentagon order'; Special Operations forces hunt al-Qaida leader in mountains of Pakistan... DEVELOPING....

WASHINGTON: Late last year, top Bush administration officials decided to take a step they had long resisted. They drafted a secret plan to authorize the Pentagon's Special Operations forces to launch missions into the snow-capped mountains of Pakistan to capture or kill top leaders of Al Qaeda.

Intelligence reports for more than a year had been streaming in about Osama bin Laden's terror network rebuilding in the Pakistani tribal areas, a problem that had been exacerbated by years of missteps in Washington and the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, sharp policy disagreements, and turf battles between American counterterrorism agencies.

The new plan, outlined in a highly classified Pentagon order, was designed to eliminate some of those battles. And it was meant to pave an easier path into the tribal areas for American commandos, who for years have bristled at what they see as Washington's risk-averse attitude toward Special Operations missions inside Pakistan. They also argue that catching Bin Laden will come only by capturing some of his senior lieutenants alive.

But more than six months later, the Special Operations forces are still waiting for the green light. The plan has been held up in Washington by the very disagreements it was meant to eliminate. A senior Defense Department official said there was "mounting frustration" in the Pentagon at the continued delay. ...

... But more than four dozen interviews in Washington and Pakistan tell another story. American intelligence officials say that the Qaeda hunt in Pakistan, code-named Operation Cannonball by the CIA in 2006, was often undermined by bitter disagreements within the Bush administration and within the intelligence agency, including about whether American commandos should launch ground raids inside the tribal areas. ...

Obama campaign site: Free Islamic terrorist!

JAFFA, Israel – A blog posting on Sen. Barack Obama's official campaign site urges Americans to take action to secure the release of imprisoned terrorist fundraiser Sami Al-Arian, comparing the controversial former professor to Martin Luther King and
Malcolm X.

The posting is just a sampling of a large volume of racist, anti-Semitic and pro-Palestinian rhetoric published on the user-friendly MyObama community blog pages. The Obama campaign does not monitor all blog material, which is posted by registered users, but says it removes offending posts that are brought to the attention of the administrators.

In a blog post on Obama's site titled, "We are all Palestinians," user Ulf Erlingsson laments what he calls the "harsh" conditions of Al-Arian's imprisonment – explaining he "lives in segregation … is not allowed any visitors and is given only two phone calls a month."

The posting quotes Agha Saeed, chair of the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections, comparing Al-Arian to King and Malcom X, who "symbolized the struggle for human rights in the fifties and sixties. Dr. Sami Al-Arian has come to symbolize the current struggle for human rights."

Al-Arian is also labeled an "internationally recognized political prisoner."

Obama's site readers are called upon to "take urgent action. Just 3 phone calls and 1 E-mail to make a difference." ...

Iran to ready thousands of graves for enemy soldiers

Iran is to dig 320,000 graves in border districts to allow for the burial of enemy soldiers in the event of any attack on its territory, a top commander said on Sunday. ... Bagherzadeh said Iran was keen to "reduce the suffering of the families of the fallen in any attack against our country... and prevent any repetition of the long and bitter experience of the Vietnam War." ...

Preparing the Battlefield

Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership. The covert activities involve support of the minority Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi groups and other dissident organizations. They also include gathering intelligence about Iran’s suspected nuclear-weapons program. ...

Pentagon’s Costly Revolving Door

The Pentagon has serious problems balancing its books, staying on budget for major projects and keeping track of its inventories. The General Accountability Office has identified $295 billion in cost overruns on Pentagon programs. A big part of the problem is former military leaders who move to lucrative private-sector jobs with defense contractors—more than 2,400 of them in 2006 alone.

Those former employeeshave the insider knowledge to manipulate the Pentagon’s inefficient contracting practices; and they continue to rake in millions of dollars in performance bonuses despite failing to stay on time or on budget and fulfill their contracts.

Who's Planning Our Next War?

... Yet, to start a third war in the Middle East against a nation three times as large as Iraq, and leave it to a new president to fight, would be a daylight hijacking of the congressional war power and a criminally irresponsible act. For Congress alone has the power to authorize war.

Yet Israel is even today pushing Bush into a pre-emptive war with a naked threat to attack Iran itself should Bush refuse the cup. ...

... Tuesday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Adm. Michael Mullins left for Israel. CBS News cited U.S. officials as conceding the trip comes "just as the Israelis are mounting a full court press to get the Bush administration to strike Iran's nuclear complex."

Vice President Cheney is said to favor U.S. strikes. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Mullins are said to be opposed....

... Is it not time the American people were consulted on the next war that is being planned for us?

Feds probe S.F.'s migrant-offender shield

San Francisco juvenile probation officials - citing the city's immigrant sanctuary status - are protecting Honduran youths caught dealing crack cocaine from possible federal deportation and have given some offenders a city-paid flight home with carte blanche to return.

The city's practices recently prompted a federal criminal investigation into whether San Francisco has been systematically circumventing U.S. immigration law, according to officials with knowledge of the matter.

City officials say they are trying to balance their obligations under federal and state law with local court orders and San Francisco's policies aimed at protecting the rights of the young immigrants, who they say are often victims of exploitation.

Federal authorities counter that drug kingpins are indeed exploiting the immigrants, but that the city's stance allows them to get away with "gaming the system." ...

Israel has a year to stop Iran bomb, warns ex-spy

A former head of Mossad has warned that Israel has 12 months in which to destroy Iran's nuclear programme or risk coming under nuclear attack itself. He also hinted that Israel might have to act sooner if Barack Obama wins the US presidential election. ...

David Harris in Ottawa Citizen on Khawaja trial. "The enemy within"

When the first trial under Canada's Terrorism Act opened in Ottawa, the other day, we posted on the remarkable ability of the defendant, Momin Khawaja, an IT contractor, to penetrate the resources of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to engage in communications and contact with terrorist 'colleagues' abroad in the UK and Thailand. The lurking fear is two fold. How far did Khawaja invade encrypted counter terrorism and intelligence data bases, including those shared with MI-5 in the U.K. and the FBI, here in the U.S.? Further, as in a John le Carre novels about Soviet-era mole hunter George Smiley, how many other Al Qaeda, Hamas and Hizbullah agents lurk inside the Canadian diplomatic, counter terrorism, and national security agencies? ...

"Jizya by Iraqi Christians paid for the Insurgency:" NY Times alleges

... This New York Times article introduces a topic to most Americans, that is little understood-jizya, the poll tax levied in brutal draconian fashion on kafirs or unbelievers in Arab Muslim lands, Iraq being one example. Jizya is like Mafia 'hush money' with a difference. In the case of the mob, if you paid the hush money you survived. In the case of Islamic Shari'a law, it didn't matter, you could still be killed, as attested to what happened to the Iraqi Chaldean Christians. U.S. military intelligence guesstimated that upwards of $2.0 million might have be paid in the form of jizya to al Qaeda insurgents and funded their attacks. Verifying that will be a daunting task. ...

Radical Sheik Turani 'scuppers' sukuk bond market for Shari'a compliant finance: 'too greedy'

Scupper is a nautical term for a drain. In 'Britspeak' it means to sink a vessel or proposition. Radical Sheik Muhammad Taqi Usmani, who heads the Bahrain-based Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions, basically 'scuppered' the burgeoning sukuk or Shari'a compliant bond market. He thought the 'boom' in sukuk bonds was 'too greed', didn't conform with Quranic standards, so he basically drained the market.

Note what this Financial Times report said: ...

"Saudi King Abdullah seeks stability by reaching out on religion:" wants to be the 'Vatican of Islam'

Nina Shea of the Hudson Institute ... had been instrumental in leading the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) effort on evaluation of the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) Islamic studies texts that has become, as Jim Lafferty of the Traditional Values Coalition remarked: 'a hot potato'. Shea was in the midst of another project directed at the Saudi Wahhabi hate texts. During the conversation she remarked about what the Saudi King Abdullah was up to holding a high profile gathering of Muslims scholars, both Sunni and Shia, in the holy city of Mecca. This Financial Times article about Abdullah's 'dialogue initiative with the major sects in Islam, as well as, outreach to Christians and Jews, presented an interesting tableau of what occurred last week: ...

First of Folsom Prison Jihadis sentenced to 22 year in L.A. terror case

Levar Harvey Washington was sentenced to 22 years for his involvement in terror plots to hit military facilities, the Israeli consulate and synagogues in the Los Angeles area. Washington and an accomplice were involved in more than a dozen gas station holdups, in Los Angeles and Orange counties. Police investigation of one such holdup in Torrance led to his and the group's arrest. Washington is the first of the Folsom Prison Jihadis, converts to the extremist Muslim group Jam'iyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh (JIS), to stand trial in the Santa Ana , California federal court to be convicted. Note what this Los Angeles Times article says about how long it took for federal authorities to apprehend the 'cell'.

Federal authorities said JIS had been formed in 1997 and the cell in 2004. Law enforcement officials did not stumble upon the group until 2005, while investigating a Torrance gas station robbery. ...

Al-Arian Indicted for Refusal To Testify in Muslim Charities Cases: "a perury trap"

Al-Arian, a former University of South Florida computer science professor had been an active leader in the U.S. for Palestinian Islamic Jihad an officially designated foreign terrorist organization and had raised funds for it here in the US. He was originally sentenced on a guilty plea verdict in a long trial in the Tampa Federal District Court to 57 months and deportation, thereafter after serving his sentence. Al Arian had lost two U.S. Appeals court bids to remain silent on the new investigation that lead to his indictment on Wednesday by the Virginia Federal court.

Note this from the New York Sun report: ...

# "Islamic school on fraud charges:" this time Australia!!

A tip of the hat to "Beowulf" for this one. It's a doozie. And we thought that the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) in Virginia was a problem with its 'illegal operations'. Here's one of Australia's 'premier' Islamic schools, Australian Islamic College, located in Perth, Western Australia where the administrators engaged in fraud: billing for non-existing students to the regional and federal Australian governments in excess of $3 million A dollars. if that wasn't bad enough the fraudsters paid themselves salaries of over $200,000 each.

Note how they did this nifty trick to fool the kafirs down under from The Australian report. ...

Shahda comments on the Washington Post Al Qaeda media production article on As Sahab ("the clouds")

... The effect of shutting down the terrorist cyberspace is much more devastating on Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups than many experts believe. Taking away their most potent weapon for spreading propaganda, recruiting and training new terrorists online to conduct terrorist acts will have destructive effects on the terrorist groups that very few can imagine their significant magnitude. ...

"Virginia's Islamic Academy on Shaky Legal Ground:" You're telling us!

If the school was a separate corporation as State Department officials have repeatedly claimed, it would have to have an active corporate charter (which it doesn't appear to have since December 2004), and it would either have to file IRS Form 990s if it were operating as a tax exempt organization, or file tax returns if it were operating for-profit. That has not happened in either case according to our investigation. Rather, all evidence indicates that the Saudi Embassy is in full corporate control of the school, and it is operating entirely under its agency, which makes the school subject to the Foreign Missions Act and under the authority of the State Department. If it isn't part of the Saudi Embassy, it seems that the academy is operating illegally. This new evidence doesn't give much leeway to the State Department to shirk the matter. However, it is understandable why State Department officials are eager to take a pass on this diplomatic and public relations conundrum. But there is no indication that the controversy surrounding the Islamic Saudi Academy is going to subside anytime soon. ...

Scientists find 'law of war' that predicts attacks

Scientists believe they may have glimpsed a "law of war" that can be used to predict the likelihood of attacks in modern conflicts, from conventional battles to global terrorism. ... "We can use the power-law distribution to accurately predict the likelihood of different sized attacks occurring on any given day. This is useful for military planning and allocating resources to hospitals. ...

Zodiac copycat boasts pregnant soldier murder

... Police immediately confiscated the letter and asked the paper not to release its contents, telling executive editor Brian Tolley that news of the note would interfere with their investigation and unnecessarily frighten the public.

"Not printing the letter goes against nearly everything I, and this paper, stand for," wrote Tolley in an Observer article. "Our job is to gather and report information, not to keep it in the dark."

But yesterday, according to Tolley, the newspaper confirmed that the symbol on the letter was also found written in lipstick on a mirror at the crime scene. ...

Iran says Gulf oil route at risk if attacked

...TEHRAN (Reuters) - The Revolutionary Guards said Iran would impose controls on shipping in the vital Gulf oil route if Iran was attacked and warned regional states of reprisals if they took part, a newspaper reported on Saturday. ...

... Analysts say Iran may not match the firepower of U.S. forces but could still cause havoc in the region using unconventional tactics, such as deploying small craft to attack ships, or using allies in the area to strike at U.S. or Israeli interests.

"Regarding the main route for exiting energy, Iran will definitely act to impose control on the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz," Jafari said of the Gulf waterway through which about two-fifths of all globally traded oil passes. ...

Cheney aide Addington says he didn't write memos

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney's top adviser on Thursday refused to claim any responsibility for the adoption of harsh interrogation methods following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks during a combative exchange with congressional Democrats....

Navy challenges sonar restrictions

HONOLULU (AP) | The Navy is challenging Hawaii's authority to protect whales by restricting the use of sonar during training exercises, environmentalists and military representatives say...