|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Threat Matrix HTML designed by: Ian Livingston
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This thread has been locked, it will not receive new replies. |
| Locked on 07/11/2005 8:20:21 PM PDT by Admin Moderator, reason: |
Posted on 06/02/2005 9:27:09 PM PDT by nwctwx
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Threat Matrix HTML designed by: Ian Livingston
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
You're so right Calpernia and that's a fact.
Note: The following post is an exact quote:
===
===
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416894/posts
The Woman Who Went To the Front of the Mosque
The Washington Post ^ | June 5, 2005 | By Teresa Wiltz, Washington Post Staff Writer
Posted on 06/05/2005 7:49:26 AM PDT by aculeus
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. It was two days after she appeared on "Nightline" talking about her fight to change her mosque that the death threats began. The first call came on her cell phone. The caller left a message, in Urdu: "If you want to stay alive, keep your mouth shut." Otherwise, he said, he would "slaughter" her, halal style, saying a prayer as he slid a knife across her throat. If she didn't shut up, he'd slaughter her mother and her father, too. Think before you speak, he said. I know where you live. I know where your parents live.
Then he called her parents' home 10 minutes later. Just to reinforce the message.
It's not a message that Asra Nomani, Muslim, unwed mother, former Wall Street Journal reporter, author and left-leaning feminist, is planning to heed (although she did contact the FBI and her local police).
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Note: The following post is an exact quote:
===
===
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1416890/posts
Iraq Police Nab al-Qaida-Linked Militant
Associated Press via Yahoo! News ^ | 2005 Jun 5
Posted on 06/05/2005 7:40:55 AM PDT by Wiz
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi police have arrested a key aide to the leader of the Mosul branch of the al-Qaida in Iraq terrorist group, the government said Sunday.
Mutlaq Mahmoud Mutlaq Abdullah, also known as Abu Raad, was arrested Saturday. He is considered a key facilitator and financier for a militant identified by the alias Abu Talha, the purported head of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terror cell in the northern city.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Good post! I share your views about TM.
Have a great day, Davey, and see ya later.
O.K. Glad you are not bringing the cereal! ;)
He he. Your husband has the right idea. I am not surprised since he is YOUR other half! Great minds think think alike and all that.
There is a lot of good information you posted there!
Recall the allegations of Saddam moving his stuff (with help from the Russians if I recall correctly) to Syria prior to the war...
I still interpret the confusing message as telling someone to hurry up and get going.....finish up the project, whatever....
Very interesting! Your interpretation has more depth to it. I just saw the deporting bricks as moving some kind of weapon out of its current position.
It seems when I read Jill's stuff everytime they refer to scientists they are referring to some type of wmd.
Cool idea. Be here, or be nowhere. Catch you guys later.
This is from Davey's last URL in #287 above.
One has to ask, is he British or American or just another of the White Jihadi's, from Chechen area.
I brought it over, as it should not be missed by those who
want to know these things.
Good work, from Davey.
Bomber was 'white terrorist'
Source : Moneyplans.net Archives
The suicide bomber responsible for the death of
three Black Watch soldiers last week is thought to
be a white Europe-based al Qaida terrorist.
A video of the attack - which left eight Black
Watch soldiers injured and a civilian Iraqi
interpreter dead - has been aired on an
extremists' website.
It apparently shows images of insurgents
stamping on victims' body parts left at the scene.
A senior military source in Iraq said: "The bomber
was Caucasian. That means he could be from
anywhere between Bosnia to Birmingham. We
don't know any more because there wasn't much
left of him.
"But it confirms our fears that the Black Watch
are now up against foreign terrorists."
Last Thursday's attack happened as troops
crossed into the dangerous territory east of the
River Euphrates for the first time.
The 850-strong Black Watch battle group was
deployed to Iraq to relieve US forces preparing
for the assault on the rebel stronghold of Fallujah.
They are tasked with cutting off the "rat runs"
from the city, preventing insurgents escaping and
supplies getting in.
smiling...
What can I say?
He's the boss.
http://www.wral.com/news/4571016/detail.html
"Clinton Man Charged With Illegal Bank Withdrawals"
AP
POSTED: 3:16 pm EDT June 5, 2005
CLINTON, N.C. --
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "According to court documents, Odeh, also known as Ali Abdel Latif Mbarak and Ali A. M. Thatata, made 463 withdrawals from July 13, 2000, to June 28, 2004. The smallest transaction was $9,000, the highest was $9,900.
Over the nearly four years, Odeh withdrew a total of $4,288,071."
SUNDAY BRIEFING (Short):
Well, I haven't had a briefing in a real long time so let's get to it.
OPINION: For all you jihad-terrorist web masters; change careers
and get on with your life. Do something positive and productive
with your internet skills.
FACT: Al_Libbi, Mullah Mahdi, Abu Raad are all in custody. That's
nice. (THANK YOU LORD. Amen.)
===
===
ON THE NET...
http://www.inspiringthots.net/index.htm
Here is the peaceful path:
http://www.inspiringthots.net/movie/peaceful-walk.php
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1417066/posts
"Daily Terrorist Round-Up 6/5/05"
Posted on 06/05/2005 2:45:43 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter
WMD?
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/soc.culture.cuba/browse_thread/thread/a7e97f92e938d741/a6a9e9d390263246?hl=en#a6a9e9d390263246
Topic in soc.culture.cuba
Cuba's New
Cholera
Vaccine Ready
for Final
Testing
NY Transfer News
Jun 5, 2:14 pm show
[NYTr] Cuba's New Cholera Vaccine Ready for Final
Testing
http://olm.blythe-systems.com/
pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-200 50530/017...
AFP via CaribbeanNetNews - May 30, 2005
http://www.caribbeannetnews.co
m/2005/05/30/vaccine.shtml
Cuba develops new cholera vaccine
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuban scientists have developed a
new cholera
vaccine and are ready to do "field testing" in Africa
before it is
marketed worldwide, officials said.
The vaccine is derived from a live strain of a genetically
modified
bacillus that transmits cholera. It was successfully tested
on 100
healthy subjects at Cuba's prestigious Instituto Finlay,
said its vice
president Francisco Dominguez.
"The research showed the antigen is safe and highly
effective,"
Dominguez said.
The next step will be to test whether immunization with
the new
vaccine maintains its efficacy in countries that have high
incidences
of cholera, and where people have secondary conditions
from
malnutrition to malaria or AIDS, Dominguez told
reporters.
Cuba has held talks with Mozambique, Equatorial Guinea
and South
Africa on possible testing there.
Cholera, which had been all but wiped out in Latin
America, staged a
deadly comeback in the 1990s, claiming thousands of
lives.
The Instituto Finlay has been behind a number of new
vaccine
developments.
It developed the only effective vaccine against type B
meningitis,
which Cuba markets in several countries around the
world.
Copyright © 2003-2005 Caribbean Net News All Rights
Reserved
-
This is only a small part of the article and photos, under
"T", i noticed that they have all the tanker flags listed.
My thought here is that we often see flags in the banners and backdrops of the jihad sites.
granny
http://fotw.fivestarflags.com/islam.html
Origin of the Crescent and Star: a Babylonian
symbol?
As far as I'm aware the crescent and star combination has a heritage
directly linked to the Babylonian cult of Inana (who if I'm not mistaken
was usually depicted as crowned with the crescent and star
combination) - and with the numerous other equivalent female fertility
cults of near eastern antiquity (e.g., the cult of Isis). Its subsequent
adoption as an Islamic symbol is similar to the Christian appropriation
of pagan symbolism elsewhere (e.g., the various European "Black
Madonnas"), and is testament to the persistence of ancient systems of
belief into late antiquity and early modern times.
George Cruickshank, 11 April 2001
The Astronomical Impossibility
The thing that always gets me about the crescent and star is that the
way it is usually depicted is astronomically impossible, in that the star
is in front of the disc of the moon.
James Dignan 23 July 1996
I believe that this is, sometimes oversimplified, an image of the planet
Venus coming from behind the dark side of the moon. Of course, the
star cannot be visible though the dark part of the moon's disc, at least
until we (or someone else :-) make some big towns up there.
?x017D;eljko Heimer 24 July 1996
Terminology for different orientations of crescents
This is an old thread on the different types of crescents. I found just
recently in Smith (1975) this explanation on the pages of Mauritania:
"Heraldry recognizes different kinds of crescents, depending
upon the direction in which the horns face. The decrescent or
moon on the wane has horns to the sinister; the increscent's
waxing moon faces to the dexter. 'Crescent' refers to one of
the Mauritanian type with its horns upwards; the opposite is
called a crescent reversed. These distinctions are never used
in vexillology and even in heraldry are largely theoretical."
So that is what Whitney Smith says. I quite agree that it would not be
much sense to use special terminology for different crescents - it is
much easier to say where the horns are pointing. The upper division
woudn't give the description of Pakistani (pointing up toward fly) or
Johor (Malaysia, pointing down toward fly), anyway. However this is
the confirmation of my 'decrescent' term, that I couldn't find in any
dictionary that I have.
?x017D;eljko Heimer 10 August 1996
Legends arising from geographic crescents
The crescent and star in Islam comes from the Arabs (although the
Turks also claim it) and their geography. The "Fertile Crescent"
includes modern day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt. If you
look at a map, these countries form a crescent shape the opposite of
the Turkish Flag's crescent. The star comes from Cyprus, the Island
near Syria and Lebanon. Some also say that pagan Turks brought the
symbol into the Ummayed Empire when they were conscripted as
soldiers.
Moustafa, 11 April 2001
Growing up in Lebanon the banner was regarded as a political symbol
of the Islamic geography under the Ottoman state. Starting at the top
in Europe and looping around the Mediterranean through North
Africa/Western Arabia, then crossing to Andalusia (Spain). The Star in
the middle is a representation of the islands that were under Ottoman
influence. I believe that the number of islands changed over the era of
the Ottoman state and so did the number of stars. The star and
crescent banner around the Muslim countries is a leftover and a
remake of the mother state, the Ottoman Empire. The Egyptian royal
government had a similar flag with three stars.
Mouhamad Naboulsi, 21 December 2002
I feel this story to be post facto and rather stretched. What are the
islands mentioned in the story anyway? Cyprus would be one,
certainly, but all others seem of minor importance. Possibly Crete
might be included, but after that all the islands in Eastern
Mediterranean are "just islets" in comparison. And once Ottomans
reached the Aegean Sea the stars would have to be very densely
semée on the flag for the theory to hold. Unless some other details
are forthcoming, I would discard this as a "serious" story, but and I
would include it as "flag legend".
?x017D;eljko Heimer, 22 December 2002
The Crescent and Star used by King Richard I
It seems that in the 12th century the arms of the crescent were open
to the top. King Richard I of England adopted the star and crescent as
a royal badge, from the Emperor's standard of Governor Isaac
Comnenus, after capturing Cyprus. Back in England, 'a crescent of
gold on a shield of azure, with a blazing star of eight points, or rays of
silver, between the horns', was granted to Portsmouth as the heraldic
crest of the newly incorporated Royal borough. The English Admiralty
took it as their emblem until the 16th century, when perhaps as a
result of the fall of Constantinople, it was replaced by another emblem
of Richard I, the Anchor of Hope. Rear-Admiral R.M. Blomfield writing
in about 1900 pointed out in 'Origin and History of Admiralty Badges',
that "Had the old badge been retained, the Admiralty and Ottoman
flags would now be identical." The star and crescent is still on the
arms of Portsmouth and between 1936 and 1939 appeared on the Blue
Ensign of the Portsmouth Yacht Club.
David Prothero, 22 December 2002
A Decorative Design
I've never understood this problem. It's a decorative design, not a
scientific depiction of an astronomical event. You never see the stars
aligning themselves in eleven straight, staggered horizontal lines,
either, but no one faults the arrangement of stars in the stars and
stripes on that account.
Joe McMillan, 7 July 2003
Ian, thanks for bringing this thread forward and for the posts you subsequently brought to us. It's really truly good to see you spending some time with us! Don't be shy, keep up the great work!
Qu'ran retaliation?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
