Let's connect the dots on the recent Islamic terror busts in the UK and USA. The terror arrests made the other day in the UK and Wednesday in NY are linked to the Al-Muhajiroun. Al-Muhajiroun members move on up to al-Qaeda. According to Bill Warner, Al-Muhajiroun is the mouthpiece, the propaganda voice for Al Qaeda. And many Al-Muhajiroun members have become Al Qaeda operatives. And it was the motley remains of al Mujahiroun who protested in London today.
LTTE also known as The Tamil Tigers is linked to Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda is linked to LTTE aka Tamil Tigers. The guy who was arrested in Queens on Wednesday was the North American head of LTTE aka Tamil Tigers. Tamil moves in N orthAmerica cause concern -ISN News
Tamil Tigers rep arrested in NYC FOX News
NEW YORK -- The top U.S. representative of the Tamil Tigers, a rebel group designated as a foreign terrorist organization, orchestrated a covert campaign to finance its escalating conflict with military forces in Sri Lanka, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
Karunakaran Kandasamy, 50, was ordered held without bail in New York on charges of providing material support to terrorists. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison. Read it all.
The Justice Department's report on the bust is here. Mohammed Junaid Babar from Queens is one of those al qaeda members.
Read this for more on the Tamil Tigers.
Tamil moves in N America cause concern hat tip Bill Warner
Experts say Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers' recent attempts to buy weapons in New York either show the group's desperation or a possible precursor to international terrorist attacks.
Russian Mafia, Tamil Tigers and Al-Qaeda hat tip Bill Warner, WBPIBI
‘Another channel for al Qaeda to attack US, courtesy LTTE’
These are the facts. Two major terrorist recruiters and or supporters of terrorism lived virtually next door to each other for over 3 years on Cedarcroft Rd in Queens NY.
Mohammed Junaid Babar was a major recruiter for al-Muhajiroun and he evolved into an Al-Qaeda operative linked to numerous bomb plots in the USA and the UK. Babar was arrested In Queens in April of 2004 and charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization and was involved in fund raising for al-Muhajiroun.
Karunakaran Kandasamy the suspected head of the U.S. branch of Sri Lankan rebel group the Tamil Tigers aka LITE was arrested in Queens New York on Wednesday 4/25/2007 and charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. As the director of the U.S. branch of the Tamil Tigers, which is based in Queens, New York, Kandasamy oversaw the organization's activities, including its fund-raising, prosecutors said.
In its early days, experts say, the LTTE trained with the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the group may still come into contact with other terrorist organizations through the illegal arms trade.
Al-Qaeda follows LTTE text book on terror faithfully London, 12 February, (Asiantribune.com): Glen Jenvey a specialist on international terrorism has drawn the copycat terror tactics of Al Qaeda borrowed from the textbooks of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) – a banned terrorist organization by the international community.
In an analysis of the lead given by the LTTE for other terrorists organizations to follow, he has highlighted LTTE as the mastermind that sets the pattern for organization like Al Qaeda to pursue global terrorism.
He has drawn the pattern of terror tactics followed by Al Qaeda after the example was set by the LTTE.
Glen Jenvey focuses on the following acts of terror followed by Al Qaeda after the LTTE has set the examples.
There are distinct similarties is style.
Fact one: The LTTE invented the modern suicide bomber and deployed it into all their rank's against both political, military and civilian targets. You now see Islamic groups copy the LTTE with suicide attack's.
Fact two The LTTE attack shipping off the coast of Sri Lanka blowing ships or piracy. We then saw attacks on the USS Cole off Yemen and then you see piracy off the coast of Somalia a strong hold for Al-Qaeda followers.
Fact three The LTTE attacked the World Trade Centre in Sri Lanka you then see attack's by Al-Qaeda on the World Trade Centre in New York, America.
Fact four The LTTE has a women's section deployed into it's rank's. Al-Qaeda and Chechen terrorist's who took over the Russian theatre, use black widow women suicide bombers.
Fact five : Attack's on civilians in bus and trains in Sri Lanka where innocent passengers were killed, Al-Qaeda in London bombed public civilian transport in the 7/7 attack's on London transport.
UPDATE: More ties: Tigers sold Norwegian passports to al-Qaeda
TORONTO: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have stolen Norwegian passports and sold them to the al-Qaeda organisation to earn money, Norwegians Against Terrorism Organisation chief spokesman Falk Rovik said.
And from the Sunday Times: Possible links between LTTE and al-Qaeda;
For the second year running a prestigious international institute has highlighted possible links between the LTTE and al-Qaeda, the terrorist organisation allegedly responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the United States and other bombings.
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the London-based think tank has referred to links between the two organisations both of which are banned as terrorist organisations in several countries.
In its latest issue of the Military Balance 2007 which analyses important world developments and the military hardware of state and non-state actors, IISS however talks of possible commercial links between the LTTE and al-Qaeda and makes no reference to any military connections between them.
IISS was the first international think-tank to publicly announce LTTE’s acquisition of air power. Three years ago the IISS in its Military Balance reported that the LTTE had acquired light aircraft and helicopters.
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“It is possible that the LTTE is using its merchant ships to help transport weapons from al-Qaeda to its cells or support groups in other countries,” one analyst told The Sunday Times.
UPDATE: Keith in India (a country fighting the jihad) adds, "don't forget to mention that the LTTE terror group also murdered the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. India too has suffered from the scourge of these killers."
From her undying fans at the Associated Press:
Hillary’s southern twang is about as authentic as her fan-dom for the New York Yankees.
But who knew that “talking black” constituted speaking another language?
34 Comments » "And did anyone else notice her EXTREMELY condescending remark? When she mentioned lifting up the Oval Office rug and finding stuff underneath, she said, “Why is it we always have to clean up after others?”"
…”I’m taking a language development class right now and am currently in the chapter about Black English.”…
You mean ‘cracker talk’? That is what ebonics is.
They admonish each other not to ‘talk white’ but that is exactly what they do. Poor white trash English.
Cultural traits followed blacks out of the south into the urban ghettos. The way of talking, later known as ‘black english’, followed the dialects brought from parts of Britain from which white southerners came. Those speech patterns have since died out in Britain and among most southern whites, but they have persisted in poor black ghettos. Such dialect didn’t come from Africa.
Albion’s Seed - David Hackett Fischer
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language - David Crystal
Black Rednecks, White Liberals - Thomas Sowell
April 28, 2007
Eleanor Clift's current column in Newsweek is unremarkable, but I was struck by this line:
With an unpopular war, scandals consuming the White House and a two-party system paralyzed by partisanship, voters are looking for an outsider, somebody who’s not tainted by politics as usual.
That's the liberal line, of course: the White House is consumed by scandals. Certainly Newsweek, along with pretty much every other mainstream news outlet, has done its best to convey this impression. But what, exactly are they talking about? Are there actual scandals, or faux "scandals" that die like a mayfly when the day's news cycle is over?
The truth is that the Bush administration has been extraordinarily scandal-free. Not a single instance of corruption has been unearthed. Only one significant member of the executive branch, Scooter Libby, has been convicted of anything. Whether the jury's verdict was right or wrong, that case was an individual tragedy unrelated to any underlying wrongdoing by Libby or anyone else.
What other "scandals" are consuming the White House? Eight United States Attorneys, who are political appointees serving at the pleasure of the President, were replaced. So what? Was it a scandal when Bill Clinton replaced all 93? So far, not a single fact--I'm drawing here the subtle distinction between "fact" and "speculation" that so often escapes our liberal pundits--has emerged to render the replacement of those Justice Department employees scandalous in any respect.
Last week's "scandal" was Henry Waxman's rather bizarre hearing on the Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch cases. There was indeed a mini-scandal connected with Jessica Lynch. It was a media scandal. The Washington Post rushed into print the story of Lynch's supposed heroics, based on an anonymous report from a "U.S. official." (Note that the Post did not say the "official" was even in the military.) The Army itself never made any claims whatever about Lynch's "heroism," and reportedly tried to warn the Post off the story. But the Post's position is that any leak must be true, as long as it's anonymous.
In an op-ed in yesterday's New York Times, Michael DeLong, who at the time was the deputy commander of United States Central Command, tells what really happened:
The initial reports from the field regarding Private Lynch stated that she had gone down fighting, had emptied her weapon and that her actions were heroic. Based on these reports, politicians from her home state, West Virginia, wanted the military to award her the Medal of Honor. Their request rose up the ladder until finally it reached me. But initial combat reports are often wrong. Time must always be taken to thoroughly investigate all claims. In the case of Private Lynch, additional time was needed, since she was suffering from combat shock and loss of memory; facts, therefore, had to be gathered from other sources. The military simply didn’t know at that point whether her actions merited a medal.
This is why, when the request landed on my desk, I told the politicians that we’d need to wait. I made it clear that no one would be awarded anything until all of the evidence was reviewed.
The politicians did not like this. They called repeatedly, through their Congressional liaison, and pressured us to recommend her for the medal, even before all the evidence had been analyzed. I would not relent and we had many heated discussions.
The politicians repeatedly said that a medal would be good for women in the military; I responded that the paramount issue was finding out what had really happened.
So, along with the Washington Post, the villains of the story are politicians from West Virginia. Let's see: every member of West Virginia's Congressional delegation but one is a Democrat, and the Democrats control West Virginia's legislature. So the targets of Waxman's investigation should have been the Washington Post and the Democratic Party, not the military, which never uttered a false word about Lynch.
The Tillman case is only slightly less silly. The commander on the ground made the foolish decision not to tell Tillman's brother Kevin, who was nearby when Pat was killed, that the cause was friendly fire. So the version originally released by those on the ground in Afghanistan was that Pat was killed in an encounter with the enemy. That was stupid. But an investigation was done, and when the matter worked its way up the chain of command, the original decision was reversed, and, only a month or so after Tillman's death, the correct story was released to the public. Far from being a case where senior generals or politicians tried to cover up the circumstances, as was falsely suggested by Kevin Tillman, the exact opposite happened: it was some combination of senior generals and politicians who learned the truth and quickly made it public.
These "scandals" obviously have no legs, but that isn't the point. Waxman has already moved on to a new one, issuing subpoenas to Condoleezza Rice and George Tenet to testify about Saddam's efforts to obtain uranium. And so it goes. Waxman hasn't even gotten to 2005 yet; he can keep this going through the rest of the Bush administration, and his committee is only one of many.
The purpose of these faux "investigations" of faux "scandals" is to further sully the image of President Bush, and to allow liberal reporters and pundits like Eleanor Clift to write that the White House is "consumed by scandals." The fact that there isn't a genuine scandal in the bunch goes unremarked.
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Did Obama Blow The Debate?
That's the question I pose at Heading Right, after the Washington Post reports that Hillary Clinton has focused on Barack Obama's less-than-muscular response to a hypothetical question about a terrorist attack on the US. What did Obama miss that Hillary, John Edwards, and Bill Richardson get right -- and is it the Kitty Dukakis question of this primary season?
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Mexifornia, 5 Years Later
In the 1970s, perhaps a few million illegals resided in the United States, and their unassimilated presence went largely unnoticed. Most Americans felt that the formidable powers of integration and popular culture would continue to incorporate any distinctive ethnic enclave, as they had so successfully done with the past generations that arrived en masse from Europe, Asia, and Latin America. But when more than 10 million fled Mexico in little over a decade—the great majority poor, without English, job skills, a high school education, and legality—entire apartheid communities in the American Southwest began springing up. During the heyday of multiculturalism and political correctness in the 1980s, the response of us, the hosts, to this novel challenge was not to insist upon the traditional assimilation of the newcomer but rather to accommodate the illegal alien with official Spanish-language documents, bilingual education, and ethnic boosterism in our media, politics, and education. These responses only encouraged more illegals to come, on the guarantee that their material life could be better and yet their culture unchanged in the United States. We now see the results. Los Angeles is today the second-largest Mexican city in the world; one out of every ten Mexican nationals resides in the United States, the vast majority illegally.
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In my own experience, the slow progress made in rural California since the 1950s of my youth—in which the county inspected our farm’s rural dwellings, eliminated the once-ubiquitous rural outhouse, shut down substandard housing, and fined violators in hopes of providing a uniform humane standard of residence for all rural residents—has been abandoned in just a few years of laissez-faire policy toward illegal aliens. My own neighborhood is reverting to conditions common about 1950, but with the insult of far higher tax rates added to the injury of nonexistent enforcement of once-comprehensive statutes. The government’s attitude at all levels is to punish the dutiful citizen’s misdemeanors while ignoring the alien’s felony, on the logic that the former will at least comply while the latter either cannot or will not.
Fairness about who is allowed into the United States is another issue that reflects class divides—especially when almost 70 percent of all immigrants, legal and illegal, arrive from Mexico alone. Asians, for example, are puzzled as to why their relatives wait years for official approval to enter the United States, while Mexican nationals come across the border illegally, counting on serial amnesties to obtain citizenship.
These class divisions cut both ways, and they help explain the anomaly of the Wall Street Journal op-ed page mandarins echoing the arguments of the elite Chicano studies professors. Both tend to ridicule the far less affluent Minutemen and English-only activists, in part because they do not experience firsthand the problems associated with illegal immigration but instead find millions of aliens grist for their own contrasting agendas. Indeed, every time an alien crosses the border legally, fluent in English and with a high school diploma, the La Raza industry and the corporate farm or construction company alike most likely lose a constituent.
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[T]his spring Americans witnessed millions of illegal aliens who not only were unapologetic about their illegal status but were demanding that their hosts accommodate their own political grievances, from providing driver’s licenses to full amnesty. The largest demonstrations—held on May Day, with thousands of protesters waving Mexican flags and bearing placards depicting the communist insurrectionist Che Guevara—only confirmed to most Americans that illegal immigration was out of control and beginning to become politicized along the lines of Latin American radicalism. I chronicled in Mexifornia the anomaly of angry protesters waving the flag of the country they vehemently did not wish to return to, but now the evening news beamed these images to millions. In short, the radical socialism of Latin America, seething in the angry millions who flocked to support Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, Bolivia’s Evo Morales, and Mexico’s Andrés López Obrador, had now seemingly been imported into our own largest cities.
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Andrew Bostom fills in the historical background for the recently reported survey of Muslims that found enormous support for shari’a law and the establishment of a caliphate: The Muslim Mainstream and the New Caliphate.
Polling data just released (April 24, 2007) in a rigorously conducted face-to-face University of Maryland/ WorldPublicOpinion.org interview survey of 4384 Muslims conducted between December 9, 2006 and February 15, 2007—1000 Moroccans, 1000 Egyptians, 1243 Pakistanis, and 1141 Indonesians—reveal that 65.2% of those interviewed (almost 2/3, hardly a “fringe minority”) desired this outcome (i.e., “To unify all Islamic countries into a single Islamic state or Caliphate”), including 49% of “moderate” Indonesian Muslims. The internal validity of these data about the present longing for a Caliphate is strongly suggested by a concordant result: 65.5% of this Muslim sample approved the proposition “To require a strict [emphasis added] application of Shari’a law in every Islamic country.”
Notwithstanding ahistorical drivel from Western Muslim “advocacy” groups such as the Muslim Association of Britain, which lionizes both the Caliphate and the concomitant institution of Shari’a as promulgators of “a peaceful and just society,” the findings from the University of Maryland/ WorldPublicOpinion.org poll are ominous.
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The angry left is ranting, gloating, and raving at Digg.com, about a ThinkProgress hit piece on a Fox News report that got some details wrong in the Ham of Hate story: Digg - Fox News Sinks To New Low, Reports Satirical Story As Actual News (video).
If you’ve ever wondered why every single LGF post is buried at Digg, this thread will answer the question for you. Note that several of the Diggbats attack LGF for reporting the story, even though our post was completely accurate. Because Fox News quoted a parody site incorrectly, they now assume that the entire story is false—and it is not. This is how leftist fables and distortions are planted in the moonbat base.
The hatred is so strong in these people that they’re completely blind.
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If Guns Are Outlawed
Only Stephane Dion's campaign managers will have guns!
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Liberals.
In our cities.
With guns.
We did not make this up.
First, they came for the guns ?
George Jonas: an e-mail I received this week:
"Last Monday, April 16th, 4 a.m., near the hamlet of Craigmyle, Alberta, just southwest of Hanna, John Rew, age 50, was awakened to the sound of a SWAT smoke grenade smashing through his bedroom window," wrote my correspondent. "He was thrown face down on the floor and handcuffed instantly afterward, as a second smoke grenade exploded through his TV stand in the living room, burning a hole in the floor.
"The Drumheller RCMP, Calgary SWAT, and Red Deer SWAT had come for all his firearms, in particular his registered prohibited and restricted firearms, all legally registered to him.
"Although their search warrant did not include any residences, Rew agreed to lead them across the farmyard to his 80-year-old mother's house. Her basement contains Rew's storage facility. His mother, Betty, allowed them entry and was detained for her co-operative efforts. The masked, body-armoured, assault rifle equipped [police] got what they came for. Rew was hauled away, still in handcuffs. His alleged crime: allowing his F.A.C/P.A.L [gun permits] to expire. 2:30 that afternoon he was released, promising to appear in Drumhelller court 10 am May 25th 2007.
"The authorities shut down Rew's oilfield business for the day, turning his 20 employees away at the gate. His sister was not allowed entry to tend to their 80-year-old mother who had been devastated by the events of that morning. Ironically, the next day, April 17, our government announced an extension of the long gun registry amnesty for another year."
Note to readers: I haven't edited the e-mail forwarded to me, other than to correct typos and remove some judgmental words. Preliminary research indicates that Mr. Rew, who owns and operates an oil patch located on his farm, is an ordinary gun collector who -- at worst -- may not have complied with some paperwork. Did the gun police behave as thuggishly as it appears in the e-mail? I don't know. ...-
First, they came for the guns ?
George Jonas, National Post
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STUART BUCK: "The way that our country treats chronic pain sufferers who use too much pain medication seems insane to me. I can't find any evidence that Oxycontin, say, is anywhere near as dangerous as alcohol -- i.e., tens of thousands of fatalities every single year. But we don't make people get a prescription to buy a beer, let alone throw people in jail for 25 years for having a bottle of vodka in the house."
And read this on the Hurwitz case, by John Tierney.
BEE UPDATE: MICKEY KAUS posts a report from the field: "My mother says her garden is 'absolutely buzzing' with bees. So they haven't all disappeared."
Meanwhile, although the cellphone theory got a lot of attention, the finger of suspicion is now pointing at a fungus.
BUMBLING THE BEE SCARE: I like the photos.
ROGER SIMON on the real life and the phony life.
Cats Can Has Grammar [Image macro]
'Rabbit Ears' Find New Life in HDTV Age
Your ability to get broadband might be at risk
Two Food Stamp Follies: Oregon Governor's Publicity Stunt, and the Reporting on It
If we were to make a red-blue map of Canada...
What's the Greatest Car Chase in Movie History? (This is a poll.)
Earthquake Shakes Southern England
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It seems to be fair to say that there are 16,400 active freepers. Ca. 5% of those took part in this very thread. But I think that most of us other active freepers had a look at it. And we'll observe the development of this site: 
Gee, today, Henry "Nostrils" Waxman finally discovered that Pat Tillman was a victim of fratricide and Jessica Lynch never fired her weapon, two things that were already public record years ago. We needed to spend tax money for that dog and pony show?
/I predicted this before the last election, the Bonkeys have no intention of passing any meaningful legislation, only holding continuous lame hearings/fishing expeditions until the next election