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Posted on 06/02/2005 9:27:09 PM PDT by nwctwx
Watched Channel 9 tonight instead of Channel 4. They were sure to talk about Michael Jackson but no mention of the school food threats. Disgusting.
I was channel surfing when I heard the blurb so it may have been a Baltimore station this time around (my cable carrier provides some local Baltimore channels).
Just as schools are getting out... Perhaps he is a clever (or not so clever) teenager. ;-)
I picked it up at Barnes and Noble two weeks ago... got a gift card to there for graduation. I sat and read half of it in one day, and finished the rest within 3 more. It's a really good compilation of current events stuff, a lot of info we have covered here in the past yr plus, and some in-depth special investigating... The focus 'Wahhabi Corridor' near DC was especially interesting. It was another one of those reads where I thought to myself, "I wonder if he has seen the TM."
I often 'ruin' my books by underlinging, taking notes in the margins, and folding pages... this one was no exception. It's chock full of info, and quite well written.
MIRAMSHAH (North Waziristan), June 7: A military convoy survived a bomb explosion in the Mirali sub-division of the North Waziristan Agency on Tuesday, officials said. They said that an explosive device, planted on the roadside went off near Patasi bus stand when the convoy had passed the venue two minutes ago.
The convoy was on its way from Razmak sub-division of the North Waziristan Agency to Bannu. No casualty was reported.
ARREST: Eight people have been arrested at Ghulam Khan checkpoint in the North Waziristan Agency on Tuesday, an official said.
The border security forces disembarked six Pakistanis and two Afghan drivers from two cars at the checkpoint.
Sources said that the six persons, who crossed into Pakistan from Afghanistan’s Paktika province, had crossed the border without legal travel documents. They reportedly belonged to Karachi.
The arrested persons have been identified as Babar, Salman, Hassan Ara, Gul Nara, Sermina and Jafera, whereas the names of the two Afghans could not be ascertained.
The security forces have recovered documents and compact disks from their possession. After preliminary investigations the arrested persons were shifted to Miramshah jail.
I searched the Baltimore news sites and didn't find anything. Sorry a_d.
excerpts:
"The school lunch program is particularly vulnerable," said Carol Maczka, an administrator within the Agriculture Department's Food Safety Inspection Service.
She said her office has studied the vulnerability of three products: milk, spaghetti sauce and egg substitutes. Currently, officials are looking at how a popular lunchroom staple, chicken nuggets, may be susceptible to tampering.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/07/terror/main700113.shtml
Dr. Bill Wattenberg
Wish I could hear him is he on XM radio?
Good find Granny I expect a nuke in Europe any time now.
| Understanding Iraq's armed theater |
| By Steven Metz |
| Wednesday, June 08, 2005 |
Sun Tzu, the great Chinese philosopher of war, once wrote, "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." The absence of such knowledge invites trouble, often disaster. This certainly applies to the ongoing conflict in Iraq, where understanding the insurgents is both crucial and difficult. To some degree, the Iraq insurgency reflects its historic predecessors. The conflict is "armed theater," in which the antagonists are simultaneously locked in struggle with each other and sending messages to wider audiences, particularly the Iraqi people. Like all insurgencies, public support - or the lack of it - will determine the outcome. Moreover, it is likely to be a protracted performance. History suggests that once an insurgency reaches "critical mass," it takes a decade or more to be eradicated. And, like past insurgencies, the Iraq conflict is one in which the insurgents use horrific acts to intimidate the public, expose the shortcomings of the government, and goad the regime into overreactions that might turn the public against it. But the Iraq insurgency deviates from its forebears in vital ways. Its cultural context differs from 20th-century insurgencies, particularly the use of a radical ideology derived from religion. By contrast, 20th-century insurgencies were usually secular, based on economic class or sectarian differences, or other deep political cleavages. The intermingling of religious passion and political radicalism makes the Iraqi insurgency particularly dangerous and difficult to quell. The strategic context of the Iraq insurgency is also new. In the 20th century, the superpowers supported insurgency and counterinsurgency as a type of proxy conflict. The Iraq conflict, by contrast, is part of the world's first global insurgency - the web of individual conflicts spawned by Islamist extremism, most of them related in some way to Al-Qaeda, and the global war on terrorism. For the first time in history, terrorism gives insurgents the ability to strike directly at their enemies' external allies. Moreover, the organization and methods of the Iraq insurgency, while not unique, differ from those seen in the late 20th century. Multiple insurgencies coexist in time and space, each with differing objectives and tactics. One component is the jihadists, some of them foreign and some local, with direct ties to Al-Qaeda or, at least, sympathy with its worldview. The jihadists appear to want a Taliban-style Iraq that could serve as a bastion for the wider global Islamist insurgency. A second component consists of former Baathist officials seeking a return to power. With access to extensive funds, this group appears to sub-contract many of its operations to organized crime or "casual" insurgents motivated more by pay than by ideology. The third component is sometimes called "Sunni nationalist," but that phrase is a misnomer, because this group's members are less concerned with Iraq as a nation than with Sunni domination of post-Saddam Hussein Iraq and responding to what they see as personal injustices or abuses. This group appears to rely heavily on tribal structures, kinship, and other local affiliations. While successful 20th-century insurgencies developed some degree of hierarchy and a political wing, the Iraq insurgency remains a loose, amorphous network. The various components, and the subdivisions within them, do not appear to be centrally commanded. Some may cooperate; others do not. Finally, the insurgency as a whole remains nihilistic, focused on destroying the new Iraqi government and the emerging economic and political system rather than articulating a coherent alternative. In many ways, the Iraq insurgency is analogous to urban street gangs: each component shares behavioral and organizational similarities but pursues its own aggrandizement and undertakes autonomous operations within its "turf" rather than pursuing a master plan or strategy. The good news for those who desire stability and democracy in Iraq is that an amorphous, disorganized and nihilistic insurgency cannot "win" in the traditional sense of replacing the government and forming a new regime. The bad news is that an amorphous, disorganized and nihilistic insurgency can eventually evolve into a coherent, efficient and purposeful one. This would obviously pose a much more serious threat, but even an amorphous, disorganized and nihilistic insurgency can survive and block stability, democratization and prosperity for many years. To return to the analogy, urban street gangs cannot seize political power, but they can certainly keep their neighborhoods dangerous, backward and grim. There are, then, three paths for Iraq: evolution of a more serious insurgency; persistent violence at current levels; or resolution of the insurgency. At least three factors will determine which path that injured nation takes. One factor is the will of the new government. Insurgent movements that succeed do so because the government's will collapses. It is not clear at this point how much determination Iraq's emerging democratic leaders will have. A second factor is restraint on the part of the Shiite community. There are ominous indications that the relative forbearance of this group may end. If that happens, the insurgency will be superseded by a much more dangerous sectarian civil war. The third factor is the willingness of outside groups - both states and non-state groups - to prolong Iraq's misery by supporting the insurgency, whether overtly or by inaction. Until states such as Saudi Arabia, Syria and others vigorously dry up the inflows of people and money that sustain the insurgency, Iraq will never become stable, democratic and prosperous. Steven Metz is research professor and chairman of the Department of Regional Strategy and Planning at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. THE DAILY STAR publishes this commentary in collaboration with Project Syndicate (www.project-syndicate.org). |
| Source Link: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=15732 |
Hey Donna what is happening on the boards? I am confused when IH was hacked. I don't know which is the real board anymore or if there is one. I see EMO is back have you seen Traveler?
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Folks, when ever I see these types of warnings going out I always think of misdirection. Our enemies are scum, but they are crafty scum. They could lead us to believe the attack is coming from the right when it's actually coming from the left.
Hi missed you much:) True words...
When they show you there right hand better find out what the left hand is doing.
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Good read on CAIR... for those interested in the book Infiltration, I do believe this author borrowed 'heavily' from the pages of that book. And.. the cyanide claim for the first WTC attack is slightly incorrect, as far as I know. I believe it was an idea that Yousef never actually attempted.
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| Should Americans Care About CAIR? |
| Written by Barbara J. Stock |
| Wednesday, June 08, 2005 |
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The first attack on American soil by Islamic terrorists was the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. On 9/11, Islamic terrorists had hoped to kill 40,000 people. The 1993 attack was a dry run that did not give them the bang for their buck. Only six Americans lost their lives that day. It was a great disappointment to the terrorists. Cyanide was in the van that was blown up in the basement-parking garage of the WTC that day, but the extreme heat of the fire destroyed the poisonous gas before it killed anyone. It was a failed experiment. But the Islamics learned from their mistake. The Islamic cat was out of the bag and so it should surprise no one that in 1994, CAIR-the Committee on American/Islamic Relations-was born. It's called damage control. Islam needed it, badly. Bill Clinton was able to take some of the heat off of Islam for the 1993 attack on our soil by calling it a "crime" and not what it actually was-a bold Islamic terrorist attack on American soil. When one visits the CAIR website, it seems quite wonderful. CAIR only wants equality, justice, peace, and mutual understanding. Isn't that what all good people want? Two statements from its "Mission Statement" appear to be quite straight-forward: "CAIR condemns all acts of violence against civilians by any individual, group or state" and "CAIR advocates dialogue between faith communities both in America and worldwide." All is not as it seems, however. First, one must understand "Islamaspeak." In the first statement is the word, "civilian." What we Americans see as a civilian is not always what Islamics see as civilians. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi states that anyone who gets in the way of his great plan and holy jihad, civilian, or soldier, will be eliminated. Omar Bakri Mohammed, the spiritual leader of the British extremist sect al-Muhajiroun, stated that killing women and children in Britain would be justified because he believes British soldiers have murdered women and children in Iraq. Hashemi-Rafsanjani, a ruling cleric in Iran, stated that a Muslim country should drop a nuke on Israel, assuring his fellow terrorists that only Israel would be destroyed. It's obvious that Mr. Rafsanjani doesn't know much about nuclear weapons. Is Israel filled with civilians? Of course it is, but not if you are Muslim. All Jews in Israel are legitimate targets because they are "occupying" Muslim land. Islam seems to forget that Jews have lived there for 4000 years. In 1994, CAIR coordinated meetings for Bassam Alamoush, a Jordanian Islamic militant who told a Chicago audience that killing Jews was "a good deed." A Saudi cleric gave permission to bin Laden to use a nuclear bomb in an American city but only as a "measure of reciprocity." Has America dropped a nuke on an Islamic country and no one has reported it? Often in Islam, anything is justified because it says, "They did it first." A "civilian" is a legitimate target because he supports the evil government of his country. Americans re-elected George Bush, therefore, we are no longer "civilians." In all fairness, these men are all terrorists or radicals. CAIR implies that it doesn't support such men. So what do the members of CAIR have to say about justice, equality, religious freedom, and terrorists? Ghassan Elashi, founder of the Texas Chapter of CAIR, was convicted on 21 counts of laundering and funneling money to known terrorist groups. Then there is this outrageous statement from Omar Ahmad, co-founder of CAIR: "Those who stay in America should be open to society without melting, keeping mosques open so anyone can come and learn about Islam. If you choose to live here, you have a responsibility to deliver the message of Islam ... Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth." While professing religious tolerance and understanding around the world, Nihad Awad, CAIR's executive director, was outraged when he received word that Christian aid workers dared hand out literature about Christianity to the tsunami victims. He said, "Just when our nation's image in the Islamic world was improving as a result of the outpouring of American aid in the tsunami disaster area, we hear from those who would exploit the tragedy to advance their own extremist agenda..." Just to refresh your memory, one of the mission statements of CAIR is to promote justice and mutual understanding in America and around the world. In practice, CAIR will cram Islam down the throats of Christian Americans, using our freedoms and laws to protect it and Christians shall never, ever attempt to teach Christianity to any Muslim. That is an "extremist agenda." CAIR does not consider its plan to replace our Constitution with the Quran extreme, however. CAIR does not recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization even though Hamas is responsible for numerous attacks on Israeli civilians. Dancing on the head of a pin, CAIR reverts to the "legitimate resistance to Israeli occupation" excuse to overlook the bus bombings and the killing of children in an ice cream shop. There is that "who we see as a civilian is not who Islam sees as a civilian" loophole again. All can be justified in Islam. It's just a matter of what the definition of "civilian" is. What is CAIR's purpose? Perhaps this statement from CAIR spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper, gives us a clue: "I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future...But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education." While CAIR may not carry out attacks on America with bombs or missiles, its cause is quite obvious and its goal is very clear: the United States of Islam. Personally, I like my country the way it is right now-mostly Christian and free. There is hope that our government is waking up to the double-speak of CAIR. A conference in Spain to explore ways to deal with religious intolerance, is CAIR-free. Kamal Nawash, president of the Free Muslim Coalition, is on the government's list to represent America. Dr. Imam Khaleel Mohammed, a friend of Mr. Nawash, has this to say about CAIR: "...these organizations stand up and preach to the press how opposed they are to terrorism--and since, unlike Kamal Nawash, I do not have the necessity to be politically correct, I can mention bloody names, and I can call names--and I call names like CAIR and MAS. They stand up and preach hypocrisy..." Honesty is refreshing, isn't it? About the Writer: Barbara J. Stock is a registered nurse who enjoys writing about politics and current events. She has a website at http://www.republicanandproud.com/. Barbara J. receives e-mail at dickens502003@yahoo.com. |
| Source Link: http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=15000&catcode=13 |
Maher's comment borders on treason
I hope they put Maher in jail and throw away the key.
Thanks Oorang.
Peabody, north of the airport
I can't remember, but that sound right.
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