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HOW SHINING LIGHT ON THE TRUTH HURTS...
 Friday, May 12, 2006 Muslims fear 'United 93' backlash CAIR cites verbally abusive couple who had just seen film Posted: May 12, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
The Council on American-Islamic Relations said a middle-aged couple in Scottsdale, Ariz., who had just seen the movie approached three young Muslim women wearing head scarves Apr. 29, reported the California Aggie, the campus newspaper at the University of California, Davis. The young women, at the Desert Ridge Marketplace, said the couple asked them if they were Muslim. The couple, indicating they had just seen the film, hurled abuse, the women said.
"Take off your f-----g burqas and get the f--- out of this country. We don't want you in this country. Go home," the couple allegedly said. One of the women happened to be Bushra Khan, office manager for CAIR's Arizona chapter, who sent a message out to all 31 of the group's offices nationwide. Khan told the campus paper she's concerned "United 93" -- which some critics say comes too soon after 9-11 -- is prompting the kind of anti-Muslim anger seen immediately after the attacks on New York City and Washington. "People's emotions are getting flared again," Khan said. "The couple's verbal abuse had obviously been prompted by their associating all Muslims with those who took part in the 9-11 terror attacks." The spokeswoman for CAIR's Sacramento Valley office, Dina El-Nakhal, says the incident in Arizona has affected Muslim communities nationwide. "It certainly got us concerned," El-Nakhal told the UC Davis paper. "People feel a sense of fear. You feel like you are being painted by a general brush." The images in the film of terrorists as devout Muslims misrepresents the majority of Islam's followers, she said. However, CAIR itself, and some of its leaders, have known ties to terrorism. The group is a spin-off of the Islamic Association for Palestine, identified by two former FBI counterterrorism chiefs as a "front group" for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Several CAIR leaders have been convicted on terror-related charges. CAIR's leaders also have provided evidence the group has aims beyond civil-rights advocacy. As WorldNetDaily reported, CAIR's chairman of the board, Omar Ahmad, was cited by a California newspaper in 1998 declaring the Quran should be America's highest authority. He also was reported to have said Islam is not in America to be equal to any other religion but to be dominant. CAIR's chief spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper, indicated in a 1993 interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune that he wants to see the United States become a Muslim country. "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," Hooper told the paper. "But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education."
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Why not illiminate risk all together and pass a law saying they can never leave there home. Life has risk. We cannot make it perfect. But we can surely legislate away all of our freedoms and do it all in the name of some group of people. Why do people crave so much now for the government to protect them. A little old fasioned common sense would go a long ways.
Next there will be a law that children can't play outdoors to protect them from preditors. These children do not get the social acceptance they once had. They do not get to hear stories, have someone fix there bike, or just have a neighbor listen to them and give them another point of view. This is because adults are way to afraid to even talk to them. There was an article about this not long ago. In order to protect a few then we are punishing the them all. So sad. If I had grown up in a world like that then it would have missed a lot.
It's incredible how many sex registrants there are in the United States.
Makes one wonder how many unreported sex offenders there are.
I agree, that today's world is different than the one we grew up in.
Thanks Smartass for the post.
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2006/20060512_5106.html
Coalition, Iraqi Forces Kill Terrorists; Weapons Discovered
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 12, 2006 – Coalition and Iraqi forces killed three insurgents in two separate incidents, and the Iraqi National Police discovered a large weapons cache in Baghdad between May 10 and yesterday.
Coalition forces killed one insurgent and wounded another as they were attempting to plant aroadside bomb east of Hawija in Iraq's Kirkuk province yesterday.
During a nighttime aerial reconnaissance mission, helicopters from the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, discovered two insurgents digging near a road in an effort to place a bomb. The aircrews shot both insurgents.
A ground team of soldiers from 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 4th Iraqi Army Division, and 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, moved into the area and confirmed that one insurgent was dead. The second was wounded but was not found at the site. The ground team also discovered AK-47 assault rifles, hand grenades and several ammunition magazines. The bomb was made up of artillery rounds and was destroyed in a controlled blast.
Iraqi police also killed two terrorists in Tal Afar yesterday when the two men attacked a police patrol. Task Force Band of Brothers soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, arrived to assist the police and searched the building the terrorists were using. The soldiers uncovered a false wall that led to a tunnel system and another hidden door that opened into a room used as clandestine sleeping quarters.
The "Ready First" soldiers discovered a variety of weapons and munitions scattered throughout the tunnel and underground room. A Katusha rocket, rifle grenades, mortar rounds, homemade bombs and mortar tubes were seized. An explosive ordnance disposal team conducted a controlled detonation of the weapons and munitions, destroying the house and tunnel system to prevent terrorists from using them again. Three police officers were wounded in the initial attack and were taken to the Tal Afar hospital.
On May 10, elements of the 6th Brigade, 2nd Iraqi National Police Division, and 3rd Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment, seized a large cache of explosives in a New Baghdad residence.
The search turned up land mines, blocks of C4 explosives, detonation cord, 107 fuses, rocket-propelled grenades, a grenade launcher, mortars, pounds of mortar propellant, shape charges, blasting caps, explosive-formed projectile materials, gas masks, two-way radios, mortar launching tubes, maps of Baghdad and Iraq, and insurgent literature. Explosive ordnance disposal personnel removed and destroyed the explosives from the house.
No shots were fired during the operation, and no injuries were reported. Three men were detained in connection with the cache. A woman was detained and later released to a local leader under house arrest.
More than 300 residents gathered in the area. A local Imam and civic leaders ensured the group demonstrating did not turn violent.
(Compiled from Multinational Division North and Multinational Division Baghdad news releases.)
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2006/20060512_5112.html
House Votes to Allow Military to Assist in Border Security
By Kathleen T. Rhem
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 12, 2006 – The U.S. House of Representatives voted yesterday to allow military forces to be used in border-security operations under certain circumstances.
In a 252-171 vote, House members agreed on an amendment to the Sonny Montgomery National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007. Representatives also voted yesterday to name the bill after Montgomery, a retired congressman and tireless veterans advocate. Montgomery died today at age 85.
The act gives authority to the Defense Department to assign military members to assist Homeland Security organizations in preventing the entry of terrorists, drug traffickers and illegal aliens into the United States and in inspecting cargo, vehicles and aircraft entering the United States to prevent weapons of mass destruction or other terrorist or drug trafficking items from entering the country.
The act specifies that such a move must be made at the request of the secretary of Homeland Security, who must certify that the action "is necessary to respond to a threat to national security posed by the entry into the United States of terrorists, drug traffickers, or illegal aliens."
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman stressed that the military already has been helping other government agencies in some border-security functions, namely surveillance with unmanned aerial vehicles. "I think it's important to understand that the United States military does provide some assistance to the states currently," he said.
Governors in some border states use National Guard servicemembers in border-security missions, as well.
Whitman said it's important to remember that governors have authority to mobilize their National Guard forces as they see fit as long as they pay for the mobilization from within state budgets.
The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 largely forbids the U.S. military from becoming involved in domestic law-enforcement actions. The Coast Guard and National Guard troops under the control of state governors are excluded from the act, however.
"This county has always had a certain level of discomfort & with military doing things that are law enforcement-type activities," a senior official said on background.
Critics of such military use point to the case of 18-year-old Ezequiel Hernandez, who was shot and killed by a U.S. Marine patrol near the Rio Grande River at Redford, Texas, in 1997. The Marines said Hernandez fired at them, and the corporal who pulled the trigger was not charged with a crime. But the case brought about widespread attention to and debate on the role the U.S. military plays in border enforcement. Similar issues have been raised about the military's role within the United States since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The federal government also can pay for governors to mobilize their National Guard forces in the case of national emergencies. This mechanism was used during recovery efforts for Hurricane Katrina. Activated Guard forces remained under their governors' operational control, but federal funds were used to pay for the operation.
In addition, National Guard forces can be federalized then used in the same manner as active-duty forces.
Press reports today state that Assistant Defense Secretary for Homeland Defense Paul McHale has asked defense leaders to devise options for use of military forces in border-enforcement activities. Defense officials today did not specifically confirm this, but said such a move would be consistent with contingency planning that goes on every day in the Pentagon.
"This is a building that develops options, & develops potential courses of action," the official said. "This is not a decision the Defense Department would make, though. Border security (and) policing is not the primary role or mission of the United States military."
Language in the bill refers to allowing military members to assist Homeland Security assets in preventing terrorists from entering the United States. Officials have long recognized that illegal trafficking in people and weapons through Latin America poses a threat to the United States.
Rumsfeld and his Central American counterparts discussed this issue at a conference in Miami in October. All in attendance agreed that porous borders to the south can contribute to international terrorism.
"Drug traffickers, smugglers, hostage takers, terrorists, violent gangs: These are threats that are serious," Rumsfeld said at the conference Oct. 12.
Whitman said today that the United States stresses to South and Central American neighbors the importance of border security. Ungoverned spaces and available funding for illicit activities certainly can have a relationship with terrorism, he said. "That's why we should be concerned," he said.
Whitman also said that today's meeting between Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Mexican National Defense Secretary Gen. Gerardo Ricardo Vega is "unrelated to any current speculation that I see in current press reporting."
"This has been on the schedule for quite some time," he said.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200605/NAT20060512a.html
"Al Qaeda Uses Web as 'Virtual Sanctuary,' Experts Say"
By Randy Hall
CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor
May 12, 2006
ON THE NET...
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20523_Pakistani_Ex-Chief_of_Staff-_Iran_Probably_Has_the_Bomb
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20523_Pakistani_Ex-Chief_of_Staff-_Iran_Probably_Has_the_Bomb#comments
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005189.htm
"IN DEFENSE OF THE NSA"
By Michelle Malkin · May 12, 2006 06:49 PM
Just type in a zip code:
FREE National Sex Offender database
http://www.criminalcheck.com/
Maybe this will help:
Internet Archive
WayBackMachine
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
You have to have a predators name to do a search on that site.
California and Arizona have "Megan's" Law that does a mass search by zip code, or city. Which in turn skinny down to a dot[s] on a map. Expand the dot and there's your person's name, address and record.
LOL, Sex Offender data bases have driven civil libertarians and the ACLU nuts. But, if your moving, or want to check your neighborhood, they're a great tool.
Just place your zip code in the box to the left and click search. CriminalCheck.com will search the National Sex Offender database for offenders registered in this zip code.
Actually, I don't care who is keeping up with sexual predators as long as someone is doing it. They are never cured, and when they're released from jail, the recidivism rate for child molesters is about 99.999999999%
They should be hanged, electrocuted, or locked in a federal prison for the remainder of their lives. That goes for females as well as males who prey on children.
Here's another:
Enter an address to view a map of registered sex offenders near you, or click to locate offenders by name.
http://www.familywatchdog.us/Default.asp
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