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Posted on 08/01/2006 9:51:52 PM PDT by nwctwx
Smiling...
THANKS backhoe.
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NW, ping to post no. 1737
I really hate to be superstitious but my gut feeling tells me to stay home. I'm really not sure what to do. Everyone at work is totally clueless about the 22nd. I didn't mention it to anyone here. Bad enough I freaked out my husband and kids about it over the weekend. They all think I need a time out. I try to tell them that there's a place called the threat matrix where I find out all the latest information and they really need to take it seriously. LOL.
I updated our other spot on yahoo with the link for FreeDominion.
~sigh~
I hear you.
This isn't the world I expected for my children.
But fret not...our security is top notch ;-)
Case in point:
Terrorists: Please Ring the Call Button
August 21, 2006 10:37 AM
Rhonda Schwartz Reports:
Delta Airline shuttle passengers on a flight out of Washington, D.C., this morning were asked to turn themselves in if they had violated new security measures.
"Would anyone who has improperly brought a liquid or beverage on board kindly ring the call button and identify yourself," a flight attendant announced.
No one did, according to passengers on the flight.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/08/terrorists_plea.html
We have to keep on going - or they win.
That said, I'm a firm believer in 'gut feel'. There could be reasons other than 8/22-12th-imam-coming, terror threats that your gut is telling you to stay home.
If it's a strong feeling, then stay home.
If you do go in, as always - be careful and be prepared.
Terrific, thank you.
Thanks Vel. I'll probably go in but take precautions. It really makes me angry that we have to live like this in our own country.
OFF TOPIC...
Let's chat.
AllMyJihad, is this for you --- you, the little mahdi in the ill-fitting overcoat.
Hey, Ayatollah, how's your headache?
I missed my Sunday nap yesterday, but today, with 3 cups of coffee I feel greaaat!
Anyway, let's lighten it up here.
Time out for a video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOwPxBj9yD4
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676188/posts?page=1731#1731
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http://off-topic.internet-haganah.com/archives/000550.html
August 21, 2006
Diplomats: Iran Refuses U.N. Inspectors
ABC News:
Iran has turned away U.N. inspectors wanting to examine its underground nuclear site in an apparent violation of the Nonproliferation Treaty, diplomats and U.N. officials said Monday.
Posted on 21 August 2006 @ 19:58 GMT
OFF TOPIC...
AllMyJihad aka The Mahdi in the ill-fitting overcoat here's a bit of poetry for you.
(I just love the internet, don't you?)
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http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22207#c0227
#227 Killer Tomato 8/21/2006 02:33PM PDT
Ahmadinejad is short and a lout
Listen to him bluster, listen to him spout
When he gets all steamed up hear him shout
Let's tip him over and pound him out
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687595/posts
"11 charged in British airline bomb plot"
AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/21/06 | Jennifer Quinn - ap
Posted on 08/21/2006 2:55:50 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=514
Iraqi Forces Capture Key Insurgent Leaders, Rescue Kidnap Victims
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21, 2006 – Iraqi forces captured two key insurgent leaders in Baghdad yesterday and rescued five kidnap victims in separate operations Aug. 18 and 19 in different areas of Iraq, U.S. military officials reported.
Iraqi army forces conducted simultaneous, precision raids on three objectives in southern Baghdad yesterday, capturing two key insurgent leaders as part of Operation Together Forward.
As coalition advisers supported, Iraqi forces captured these two insurgents without incident at a residence in the Rasheed district. Both men exercise control over all death squad activity in the Dora, Sahha and Abu D’Shair districts in Baghdad, officials said. One of these individuals also allegedly controls a Baghdad “husainiyah,” or Shiite religious center, where he tortures and kills Iraqi citizens.
Four other suspicious individuals also were detained during this operation.
Elsewhere, soldiers from 5th Battalion, 6th Iraqi Army Division, rescued a kidnapped woman from a house in Karkh at about 4 p.m. Aug. 19.
A woman who claimed she had been kidnapped entered the Iraqi soldiers’ office and led them to a house nearby, where she said another kidnapped woman was inside. The soldiers raided the house and found the other woman and two kidnappers.
Soldiers arrested the kidnappers, and the women were released unharmed.
In another operation, Iraqi army soldiers conducted a raid and rescued a kidnap victim after receiving a tip from a concerned Iraqi citizen that led them to a location in Baghdad’s Adhamiyah neighborhood Aug. 18.
The Iraqi citizen led soldiers from 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, to a house where the victims and a weapons cache were located.
Inside the building they seized two rocket-propelled-grenade launchers, 20 RPG rounds, nine RPG propellant charges, an AK-47, two sniper rifles and 12 hand grenades. Two suspected terrorists were detained in connection with the kidnapping.
In a separate event, Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers rescued three kidnap victims after receiving a tip from an Iraqi citizen southeast of Baghdad Aug. 18.
Soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, were approached by a young man who informed an interpreter that there were kidnap victims inside a nearby house.
The soldiers moved to the house, where they found three victims tied up, blindfolded and lying on the floor with a kidnapper watching over them. Soldiers entered the house and rescued the victims and detained the kidnapper.
(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=596&sid=887477
"Police Hunt for Brazen Robbers"
Aug 21st - 10:03am
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "WASHINGTON -- Police are looking for four suspects involved in a violent and brazen robbery in Georgetown during broad daylight.
The robbery took place on Sunday as crowds of weekend shoppers made their way through the area's upscale stores."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "The suspects are described as dark-complexioned black men, possibly in their mid-30's. One was wearing a dark colored sweatshirt and an orange turtleneck.
The other was lugging a wheeled suitcase and duffle bag.
This is the fourth jewlry store robbery in the area since May, but police are not linking the crimes at this time.
Police are hoping the large crowd of shoppers will provide further help in catching the suspects. Anyone with any information on the robbery or the suspects is asked to call police at 202-727-9099.
A reward of up to $10,000 is being offered for information leading to the suspects' arrests and convictions."
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MASSIVE FINES AND JAIL PROPOSED IN UZBEKISTAN FOR SHARING BELIEFS
Uzbekistan intends to impose massive fines and jail people - and the leaders of their religious communities - for sharing their beliefs outside places of worship.
Uzbekistan is located in Central Asia, north of Afghanistan (www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/print/uz.html).
According to Forum 18 News Service, the proposals were made at an Aug. 4 meeting of religious leaders, called by the state Religious Affairs Committee in the country’s capital, Tashkent.
Those attending the meeting were representatives of state-registered religious organizations,
including the Spiritual Administration of Muslims in Uzbekistan, the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Central Asia, the Catholic Church in Tashkent, the Jewish community, the Baptist Union and the Full Gospel Church, a Pentecostal church. All unregistered religious activity is - against
international human rights standards - illegal in Uzbekistan.
According to Forum 18, the state Religious Affairs Committee told the religious leaders that they and their clergy must stop their members and those who regularly attend places of worship from sharing their beliefs with anyone outside their churches.
If anyone does share their beliefs outside church, it was proposed that they would be fined between 200 and 600 times the minimum monthly salary, Forum 18 reported the news service was told. One estimate from within Uzbekistan (detailed accurate economic information is closely guarded by the state) is that the minimum monthly salary is about 12 Uzbek Soms ($10 U.S.)
Those individuals persisting in sharing their beliefs outside a place of worship after being fined, would, along with the leader of their religious community, Forum 18 was told that the Religious Affairs Committee proposed, be jailed for between three and eight years.
Leaders of religious communities are fearful of openly attacking the proposals, Forum 18 was told, because of the danger of reprisals against their communities by the authorities. There is currently a crackdown on religious believers of many faiths taking place in Uzbekistan
(see F18News www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=807, www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=814, www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=816).
Forum 18 said that despite repeated attempts by the news service to question the Religious Affairs Committee about the proposals, it has refused to discuss them. Shoazim Minovarov, who used to be Chairman of the Committee, has been given promoted and is now Religious Affairs Adviser to Uzbek President Islam Karimov.
The proposals to fine and jail people for the sharing of beliefs outside places of worship is in direct opposition to Article 18 of both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Forum 18 reported. Uzbekistan is committed to that through its U.N. membership - and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - which the country ratified in 1995.
Forum 18 reported that both these binding international human rights standards state - in Article 18 - that, “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.”
Forum 18 commented, “It is further evidence of Tashkent's commitment to breaking human rights commitments it has freely acceded to, including its commitments as a member of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe” (OSCE).
The news service added, “These proposals are but the latest in a series of worsening changes to Uzbekistan's legal system, which directly contravene international human rights standards. The previously existing religious censorship rules have recently been considerably tightened with a new set of amendments, aimed at the production, storage, import and distribution of all forms of religious literature (see F18News www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=805).
There were also massively increased fines for unregistered religious activity introduced
at the end of 2005 (see F18News www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=720).
This is not the first time in the past two months, Forum 18 reported, that religious believers have been threatened with long jail sentences for peaceful legitimate religious activity.
Protestant Pastor Dmitry Shestakov had to go into hiding (see F18News www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=803) and then flee the country (see F18News www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=807), after apparently being charged with high treason and “inciting ethnic, racial or religious hatred.”
In addition, Forum 18 reported, Protestant Lepes Omarov - from the Karakalpakstan region - where all non-Orthodox and non-state-controlled Muslim activity is banned - has been threatened with up to three years jail for “breaking the law on religious organizations.” (see F18News www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=807)
In a further sign of an increased harshening of policy, yet another religious believer has been deported from Uzbekistan, Forum 18 reported.
A Baptist who is a Russian citizen, Ivan Bychkov, was deported on Aug.11 to Russia. The deportation was carried out by officials from the Visa and Registration Department of the Interior Ministry in the Mirzo-Ulugbek district of Tashkent.
Forum 18 reported that Bychkov was born and raised in Tashkent, where his family still lives. He led a youth group at the Bethany Baptist Church, which is part of the Council of Churches of Baptists whose members refuse on principle to register with the authorities in post-Soviet countries.
“Bychkov has not been given a reason for his deportation, but his only ‘crime’ was that of actively preaching the Gospel,” a Tashkent Protestant, who spoke to Forum 18 on condition of anonymity. His passport was stamped with the words, “Deported from Uzbekistan.”
The Mirzo-Ulugbek Visa and Registration Department did not answer the phone when Forum 18 made repeated attempts to contact them, the news service reported.
Deportation is an increasing form of attack by the authorities against religious believers. The victims so far have been Jehovah's Witnesses and Protestants holding citizenship from other countries, even if they are long-term residents (see F18News
www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=804, www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=775, and www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=774).
A Forum 18 correspondent was also detained and deported from Uzbekistan (see F18News www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=631).
At the same time, Forum 18 reported, Tashkent is continuing its crackdown on foreign non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) whose activity is thought by the authorities to be linked with human rights and religious activity.
Surat Ikramov, of the of the Human Rights Initiative Group of Uzbekistan, thinks that since Jan. 2006, at least 12 foreign NGO’s have been closed down, Forum 18 reported.
This appears to be part of increasing state attempts to isolate people in Ubekistan, Forum 18 commented, including religious believers, from the support of people in other countries (see F18News www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=665, www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=784 and 23 June 2006, www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=804).
For more background, see Forum 18's Uzbekistan religious freedom survey at
www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=777.
Thanks to fanfan for pointing to this thread/post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1687458/posts?page=29#29
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1687458/posts
"Bound man plunges to his death on Dallas interchange"
Star Telegram ^ | 8-21-06 | Bill Milller
Posted on 08/21/2006 10:00:06 AM PDT by Dysart
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/20/video-melanie-phillips-on-londonistan/
"Video: Melanie Phillips on “Londonistan”"
posted at 1:46 pm on August 20, 2006 by Allahpundit
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August 21, 2006
Israel, US foil Iran arms transfer
Ceasefire Update from the Jerusalem Post:
Israeli and American intelligence agencies alerted Turkish authorities last Friday that several Lebanon-bound Iranian planes, loaded with military hardware meant for the Hizbullah, were making their way through Turkish airspace, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
According to information obtained by the Post, the intelligence agencies were tracking several suspicious Iranian aircraft as they were taking off from an Iranian airfield.
Turkey was then warned about the planes and their cargo which were to fly over Turkish airspace. Shortly after Turkey was tipped off, Iranian officials ordered the planes to return to their point of departure, where, according to unconfirmed Turkish reports, the arms were removed from the Iranian planes.
But who tipped off the Iranian officials to call back the planes before they were intercepted?
After offloading the arms, the planes took off again and were forced to land in Turkey for inspection by the airport authorities. Turkish aviation officials told the Post that no weapons were found on the planes.
Since the war with Hizbullah erupted last month, and especially since the ceasefire, Turkey has intercepted several Iranian and Syrian Lebanon-bound ships in the Eastern Mediterranean sea, as well as two transit trucks from Syria, the Post has learned.
Meanwhile, the London-based Arab daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported on Monday that large amounts of rockets have been transferred from Iran to Syria en route to the Hizbullah in Lebanon.
According to the report, the Iranian Revolutionary Commands have set up a special body in Damascus whose aim is to supply all of Hizbullah's needs.
Posted at August 21, 2006 05:58 PM
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Breaking News
1,300 Egyptian police beef up Gaza-Egypt border
Published: 08.22.06, 00:57
Egypt has deployed 1,300 civilian police officers to beef up security – currently 750 Egyptian border guards - along the Gaza-Egypt border over fears Palestinian militants might attempt to breach the frontier, Egyptian officials said on Monday. Egypt fears the gunmen
could try to forcibly enter Egypt to assist stranded Palestinians in returning to the Gaza Strip.
The Egyptian sources said the militants at the border in Gaza were angry because the crossing -- expected to be open on Saturday and Sunday -- opened for only a single day. Last month Hamas gunmen blew a six-meter (20-foot) hole in the Gaza-Egypt border wall. (Reuters)
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