Iranian Presidential Advisor: 'Resolution of the Holocaust Issue Will End in the Destruction of Israel'
1938 Alert from MEMRI: "Iranian Presidential Advisor Mohammad Ali Ramin: 'The Resolution of the Holocaust Issue Will End in the Destruction of Israel'":..excerpts from the Rooz article, in the original English: "'Throughout History, This Religious Group [i.e. the Jews] has Inflicted the Most Damage on the Human Race'" 'So the resolution of the Holocaust issue will end in the destruction of Israel.'... Comments (6)
A researcher for the Netherlands Ministry for Immigration and Integration has found that 40% of young Moroccan Muslims in the Netherlands reject Western values and democracy. And six to seven percent are prepared to use force to defend Islam. (Hat tip: Fjordman.) link: 43 comments
Tiptoeing around the issues like a thief in the night, the BBC reports that a youth and a man have been charged with conspiracy to commit mass murder: Pair charged after terror probe. link: 68 comments "The Drive-By Media are going to have to think of another codeword....anytime I hear them use the word "youth" in this context I immediately think Muslim."
Good article and the comment section shows some signs of hope: http://www.telegraph...
THE CAMP PENDLETON 8
***update: We've captured and posted the video of Hillary getting booed as she asks progressives to support the troops. Guess they won't be helping out the Camp Pendleton 8...LGF asks: What's wrong with Marine brass?***
My column this week calls attention to the Camp Pendleton 8--7 Marines and Navy corpsman being held in shackles with no charges against them as higher-ups investigate an alleged murder of an Iraqi man earlier this spring in Hamandiya. Excerpt:
Did you know there are seven young Marines and a Navy corpsman sitting in a military brig right now in leg and wrist shackles -- despite the fact that they've not been charged with any crime?
The men are in solitary confinement, locked in 8'x8' cells at San Diego's Camp Pendleton, as investigators probe an April 26 incident involving the 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment, 1st Marine Division. They are behind bars 23 hours a day; family members can only see them through inch-thick Plexiglas. Military blabbermouths have told the press that the service members are suspected of kidnapping and shooting a man in the Iraqi town of Hamdaniya. The Iraqi man's family reportedly came forward seeking payment for his death as media hysteria set in over the separate alleged atrocity in Haditha.
These men -- our men -- may be innocent. They may be guilty. Charges may or may not be filed this week. But this much is certain: The media leaks and the Murtha-fication of the case are already taking a heavy toll on the troops and their families. The headlines have already convicted them: "Iraqi's Slaying Planned By Marines, Official Says." "Marines Planned to Kill Iraqi Civilian, Then Planted Evidence."
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I have heard from several family members and friends with connections to the Camp Pendleton 8.
Erica is the wife of one of the men. She has set up a website to tell her husband's story here and she is asking for help:
Private First Class John J. Jodka is also being held. His father has a website here:
Christina at Blue Girl in a Red State is a close family friend of the Jodkas and a proud liberal outraged by her friends' plight. She is trying to get congressional representatives to pay attention. She wrote to tell me she is challenging liberal blogs to contribute to Jodka's defense fund. I wish her the best of luck. She is continuing to cover the story.
The wife of the Navy corpsman in custody has a website here:
The national media ignored a protest by supporters outside Camp Pendleton over the weekend. Not a peep heard yet from the American Civil Liberties Union. The website of the self-anointed crusaders for individual rights contains hundreds of articles on the rights of al Qaeda suspects and an indignant press release on the suicides of Guantanamo Bay detainees. But no mention of the Camp Pendleton Eight. For their part, human rights groups were too busy shedding tears for the Gitmo terrorist suicide squad and lionizing them as "heroes" in the words of William Goodman of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Editorial cartoonists have been preoccupied desecrating the Marine Corps logo and tarring troops as baby-killers.
A clarion voice stepped into the fray this week to push back against the global rush to judgment against our troops. Ilario Pantano, a Desert Storm vet-turned-Wall Street banker and new media entrepreneur-turned-commissioned Marine officer from Hell's Kitchen, launched his gripping book "Warlord: No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" this week, which recounts his harrowing ordeal as a Marine smeared and cleared.
Dan Riehl takes a close look at reporting on the alleged murder and says "Press Accounts Of Second Alleged Atrocity Don't Add Up."
Sounds familiar.
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Related:
Blackfive reports on the Hadji Girl hysteria:
Marine Tells Story of 'Hadji Girl'
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