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Well, I can't advise you what to do.
You're more informed than most people.
It's up to you and the other parents to decide
whether to go or not.
That is interesting though.
That brother-in-law was associated with Abu Sayyaf?
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,68214,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3
"Terror Forum Sows Seeds of Jihad"
Page 1 of 2 next »
By John Lasker | Also by this reporter
02:00 AM Jul. 19, 2005 PT
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A popular pro-jihadist, London-registered message board -- Tajdeed.org.uk -- is under scrutiny as the fallout from the London terror attack continues."
Chechnya's troubles spred to Dagestan.
The article will not copy, it should be read, even says that Russia's plans for this area, will force the United States from the area.
http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=1010&cid=4&sid=35
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1448182/posts
"Venezuela Condemns U.S. Push to Broadcast"
Associated Press via Yahoo! News ^ | 2005 Jul 21 | Christopher Toothaker
Posted on 07/22/2005 12:44:04 AM PDT by Wiz
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan leaders have condemned a U.S. decision to transmit broadcasts to this South American country to ensure its citizens receive "accurate news."
The U.S. House approved a measure this week authorizing the government "to initiate radio and television broadcasts that will provide a consistently accurate, objective, and comprehensive source of news to Venezuela." It must still be approved by the Senate.
President Hugo Chavez, frequent critic of Washington, has vowed to jam the signals."
No way am I going. Two of my children planned to go, but that's been scrapped. I think this tradition should have passed with JPII. We live in a different time. A massive gathering of young "crusaders" in the heart of Europe is just plain ridiculous at this time. Sorry if I offend anyone with my opinion. I don't want to bash the Pope or the Church in any way, but I have a bad feeling about this event.
I understand.
from the July 20, 2005 edition -
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0720/p09s01-cojh.html
Iran's mujahideen: a role?
By John Hughes
SALT LAKE CITY - Over the phone from Paris, in heavily accented
English, Maryam Rajavi says: "I hope one day we can meet in
Tehran." Then, in apology for her command of English, she says "we'll
continue this interview [through an interpreter] in Persian."
But in whatever language it is offered, her message is one of
frustration with a turn toward extremism in her Iranian homeland,
and hope that what she sees as the "appeasement" of Iran by Europe
and the US will now be replaced by more aggressive action.
Mrs. Rajavi heads the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI),
the political front for the militant People's Mujahedeen that, with
thousands of other Iranian exiles, yearns for the overthrow of the
mullahs' regime in Iran.
The recent election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a hard-liner,
is widely interpreted as a move by the mullahs to consolidate their
power. Mrs. Rajavi calls him a "terrorist" who, she says. was involved
in an attempt to assassinate Salman Rushdie and other enemies of
the Iranian regime. She dismisses the election as a sham,
manipulated by "vote-buying," and the issuing of "5 million fake
identity cards," and "$15 million to the Revolutionary Guards to
produce fake ballots." But she thinks the regime is on the defensive,
operating from an "emaciated base," and therefore vulnerable to a
newly aggressive policy by the West.
How does she see this developing? A propaganda offensive? A
program of broadcasting democratic values into Iran? Cross-border
incursions by the militant mujahideen? All these are possible, she
muses, but she dismisses "foreign military intervention," and
"Western appeasement" as options.
There is a third option, she says: Western support of the Iranian
people and the resistance movement - a "huge release of energy that
is locked up" - in support of democratic change in Iran.
The "locked up energy" to which she refers includes the 3,500 or so
mujahideen fighters being held in protective custody by US forces in
Iraq. Under Saddam Hussein they were permitted to use Iraq as a
base for guerilla operations against the Iranian regime. But with the
US invasion, they were neutralized and restricted. The US has long
listed the mujahideen as a terrorist organization for its support of the
takeover of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979, but its leaders argue
that times have changed, the terrorist label should be lifted, and the
mujahideen freed to operate against the current Iranian regime.
Specifically, Rajavi wants the US to lead the effort to bring Iran before
the UN Security Council for its "support of terrorism, its development
of nuclear weapons, and its abuse of human rights." This, she says,
would send a galvanizing signal to the opposition in Iran, energize
cells in Iran with which NCRI has contact, and bring closer the
prospect of Iranian regime change.
"Islamic fundamentalism and terror is on the rise," she says, "and its
epicenter is Tehran."
The answer, she argues, isn't a foreign military invasion of Iran but a
"political, cultural, and ideological solution." This must come from the
emergence of a Muslim force comitted to democracy and "stopping
the nuclear clock."
Mujahideen operatives inside Iran are thought to have been
instrumental in producing intelligence about clandestine uranium
enrichment plants set up by the regime in its quest for nuclear
weapons. In the case of Iraq, the Bush administration was burned by
Iraqi exile groups purporting to have evidence of weapons of mass
destruction that turned out to be false.
So there has been understandable questioning about the quality of
intelligence offered by the Iranian exiles. Some experts in Washington
treat the Iranian mujahideen reports with skepticism, others argue
that the mujahideen have a good track record with earlier such
reports.
There are similar divisions in Washington about the political value of
NCRI. Some members of Congress are in favor of lifting the
organization's terrorist connotation, as are some right-wingers in the
Bush administration. Others are leery of the organization.
However, as Iran appears to harden its position on its right to develop
a nuclear enrichment program, and the US and its European allies
ponder alternative inducements or pressures that might cause Tehran
to desist, the role of Iranian exile organizations like NCRI is likely to
be a continuing topic of discussion.
• John Hughes, a former editor of the Monitor, served as assistant
secretary of State in the Reagan administration.
This is encouraging news. Do you think it will pass the Senate? Chavez is very unstable. He seems to be expecting a US invasion. If we invade, he has threatened to cut oil supply to the US. Personally, I think the time for announcing the 51st State of America is overdue.
"I
have a bad feeling about this event."<<<
God gives you the instinct to know, when he gives you the feeling that you should decide on this course of action,
then you should do just that.
It also goes with "Motherhood", we are intended to know things that our children do not.
For myself, I would not want my kids at a meeting such as this, not even today and with them in their 50's.....LOL
President Hugo Chavez, frequent critic of Washington, has vowed to jam the signals."
Jimmy Carter will join him.... he'll bring the peanut butter!
Thank you! I'm adopting you! :)
Somehow, I can visualize that.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1448191/posts
"Daily Terrorist Round-Up 7/22/05"
Posted on 07/22/2005 1:45:22 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter
I WILL BE UPDATING THIS LINK:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1448194/posts
"Police have shot suspected suicuide bomber at Stockwell (Breaking news from London)"
Sky News ^ | 22 July, 2005 | Sky News
Posted on 07/22/2005 2:39:11 AM PDT by Eurotwit
Just breaking now on Sky.
New York, LA and Washington officers in the USA I hope are watching to see how this done. Political correctness does not win the day when it comes to war on terrorism.
Thanks for the info Kelly.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,16014368,00.html
London bombs linked to al-Qaeda
From correspondents in London
22jul05
SAUDI Arabia's ambassador to London has linked the latest
wave of attacks in London to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda
extremist network, even if the British authorities have yet to
do so.
"The modus operandi, the sheer cowardice associated with
them and the attacks on innocent civilians - these are all part
and parcel of Al-Qaeda," Prince Turki al-Faisal told BBC radio.
Turki, a former head of Saudi foreign intelligence, and soon
to be Riyadh's ambassador to Washington, was speaking
after Thursday's apparent attempt to repeat the July 7
suicide bombings that killed 56 people and injured some
700.
He said it was a "true criticism" of London that it was too
easy for Islamist extremists to stay and preach messages of
hate without fear of arrest or deportation.
The British government - which has publicly linked the July 7
attacks to Al-Qaeda, but not yet Thursday's incidents -
should exercise more control over them and deport rogue
Muslim clerics, he said.
"Allowing them to go on using the hospitality and the
generosity of the British people to emanate from here such
calls for killing and such, I think is wrong," he said.
Asked if Iraq was a factor in the London attacks, Turki said
that "all areas of grievance" were used as means of
recruitment by violent extremist groups, and that "solving
the problems" would hit recruitment.
But he added: "It is not going to stop these terrorists.
Terrorism has been with humanity for much longer than
that."
Turki defended his oil-rich country's record in tackling
extremists, adding that it was doing everything it could and
working very closely with Britain.
But he added it was difficult to stop extremists entering
Saudi Arabia from Iraq because of its 900km joint border,
which was unmanned on the Iraqi side.
Good morning Cindy. Fox News reporting that Brittish police have shot a suspect and surrounded a mosque.
Is it clear yet whether this is one of yesterdays terrorists or was he attempting a new wave for this morning's rush hour?
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