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Touch Lily with Your comfort and understanding, O God, for she has been witness to the brutality of man. Her soul has been shaken ... nothing but Your loving arms can surround her with any sense of security, for evil has come calling. Eyes were not meant to see such death and destruction ... it has been an abomination since Cain slew Abel ... the ungodly against the righteous. It continues to this day, O God, and we recoil in horror.
Stir our hearts, O Lord, to continue in prayer for our defenders, who witness brutality in a far off land, that we be spared such scenes in our own communities. Stir our hearts, O Lord, to continually seek divine protection for our President, for he is a target, too. Stir our hearts, O Lord, to pray that the Holy Spirit descends mightily upon all those who are grieved, for our freedom is written in the blood of patriots and martyrs.
We seek shelter in You, Merciful Father, and pray that this storm will pass and that we might once again know peace upon the land. Yet, whatever the circumstance, Your Word is unshakable ... "Be not deceived, God is not mocked, that whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Galatians 6:7. Greatly are You to be praised, O Lord, now and forevermore, Amen ...
Jihad site watchers may find this article of interest:
U.S. tries to penetrate Qaeda 'cyber sanctuaries'
http://www.iht.com/articles/540326.html
I was in AZ...so, I dont know. You have a thread?
Brooklyn Imam Convicted In 'Cesspool Of Fraud'
POSTED: 7:05 pm EDT September 23, 2004
NEW YORK -- The former director of a basement Brooklyn mosque that prosecutors described as a "cesspool of fraud" has been convicted of defrauding the U.S. government by processing hundreds of bogus applications for religious workers.
Muhammad Khalil, 63, was convicted late Wednesday of conspiring to submit hundreds of false applications on behalf of illegal aliens under the federal Religious Worker Program and to obtain Social Security cards in false names. He could face more than five years in prison at sentencing Jan. 18, prosecutors said Thursday in a release.
In closing arguments, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Burns told a jury that Khalil was motivated by greed to create a "massive, modern and sophisticated scheme to defraud the immigration authorities and the Social Security Administration."
"The defendant's unbridled greed generated hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars off the backs of aliens desperate to stay in this country any way they could," Burns said.
He said the Dar Ehya Essunnah mosque looked nothing like what would be expected for what Khalil maintained was a congregation of as many as 400 families.
It was, he said, "figuratively and literally a cesspool of fraud." He said the mosque, in the basement of a variety and greeting card store, had a dirty stove and bathroom and mattresses where people slept.
"The government doesn't deny there may be a prayer room in one of the photographs and there may be a podium with some religious materials on top of it, jammed up against the bed," Burns said. "Whether or not he runs a legitimate mosque is really not the point. The point is that he used that mosque to commit a massive amount of fraud."
Defense lawyer Roger Stavis insisted in his closing that Khalil operated a legitimate mosque and that prosecutors relied on a "rogues gallery of witnesses" to discredit him.
"These people are lying," he said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward O'Callaghan called Khalil "a document fraud king" who for nearly 10 years had taken advantage of the Religious Worker Program, formerly administered by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
He said Khalil, a U.S. citizen, charged each of his victims $5,000 in cash "so he could get rich and live his version of the American dream."
Since 1993, he had sponsored more than 200 applications for people seeking immigrant and non-immigrant work visas through the program. In 2001 alone, he sponsored about 130 Religious Worker applications.
The mosque closed after Khalil's arrest in February 2003.
http://www.wnbc.com/news/3756726/detail.html
ping
I agree......sounds like something's in the wind. I am known as a true pragmatist among those who know me. I never buy into "tin foil" and seldom get rattled over things. (I don't have "prophetic dreams" either.)
That said, for the past two days my hair follicles have been on "pucker alert".
Dunno why. With Mr. RR out of country (again), maybe I'm just horny. LOL!
...........apologies in advance for that comment.........
Thanks so much for these summaries. Been busy campaigning here in SoDak.........GO THUNE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your posts really help me catch up with things.
It is appreciated.
Bump! Checking my 'school' list to see if Princeton is on the 'watchlist'
Yep it is:
Duke University
Harvard University & MIT
Michigan State University
Oberlin College
Ohio State University
Princeton University
Rutgers University
Tufts University
University of California System
University of Florida
University of Illinois
University of Maryland
University of Massachusetts
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of North Carolina
University of Pennsylvania
Virginia Commonwealth University
Wayne State University
Yale University
These schools contribute to the Palestinian Conference:
http://www.palestineconference.com/resources/resources.html
I knew Rutgers would be there before I even scrolled down the list.
It is imperative we get Z now!!!
Her soul has been shaken ... nothing but Your loving arms can surround her with any sense of security, for evil has come calling. Eyes were not meant to see such death and destruction
~Amen
I've been so innudated in 2 days here, been on for 4 hrs, when I get off, maybe within an hr or so I can track that thread down
Mexico Probes Two Men for Terror Links
Mexico Investigating Two Men Deported From Central America for Possible Terrorism Links
The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY Sept. 23, 2004 — Mexico is investigating two men who were expelled from Central America and whose use of false passports led officials to suspect possible terrorism links, officials said.
Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha said officials wanted to determine the reason the two were in the region and whether they were trying to travel to the United States.
"We still have absolutely nothing proved in this particular case," Macedo said. "We will do everything necessary to make perfectly clear the reason for the presence of these persons."
On Monday, Costa Rican officials said they had deported to El Salvadore two men who tried to enter the country using well-crafted European documents. Officials discovered Jordanian passports identifying the two as Ismail Mohamad Nassar and Fawas Ne Meh Mousa.
On Tuesday, Salvadoran officials said the men had been placed on a flight to Jordan that was also scheduled to stop in Mexico and Europe.
An official at Mexico's National Migration Institute, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Thursday that the men had not been detained during their layover in Mexico.
On Monday, Costa Rica's immigration director said officials couldn't confirm the two were terrorists. "But neither can we discount the possibility that they have some link to that type of group," Marco Badilla said.
Officials have long worried that terrorists would tap into illegal migrant and drug smuggling routes into the United States, although there has been no evidence of that.
Still, recent events have raised concerns. A group has posted Internet threats against El Salvador for its continued military support in Iraq, and Honduran officials said in July that a suspected al-Qaida figure, Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, had been spotted there earlier in the year.
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040923_1883.html
Ddd...another one bites the dust!
Make it one for the neighborhood!!!
maybe I'm just horny. LOL
Hey between you and my post today about in the buff well...
Sometime ago, I posted about my sister who returned from a conference in Dallas. Afterwards she was terribly ill with a multitude of symptoms, mostly gastro-intestinal. This continued for about six weeks. After MRIs, Ct scans, blood work, and every other diagnostic known to medicine, it was determined that she had picked up some kind of parasite while in Dallas. The tell-tale symptom......burning pain in the soles of her feet! Weird, huh? On treatment for it now and doing much better.....also lost about 40 lbs.
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