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Posted on 03/01/2007 8:28:33 PM PST by nwctwx
Glenn Beck suggests an incinerator for these people. I couldn't agree more!
Snip: Qaradawi, considered to be a supporter of suicide bombings, is being sued in a Boston court for libel against Muslims. And the Islamic Society of Boston has not only sued an "Islamic cleric, a Christian political science professor and the Jewish daughter of Holocaust survivors," says The David Project, a Jewish group that educates and trains students and the Jewish community about Israel that is a defendant in the lawsuit, along with The Boston Herald, Investigative Project head Steve Emerson and Fox 25 News. They have also twice subpoenaed the Anti-Defamation League, which declined comment.
Leeds University cancels anti-semitism event
Snip: Dr. Annette Seidel Arpaci and Morten Hunke, two of the event's organizers, issued a statement claiming the event, which they said was "well publicized for several weeks," was cancelled simply because of pressure from Muslim students.
Three Little Pigs nixed in bow to Muslims
Snip: A school in England attempting to be politically correct toward Muslims ended up offending them even more when it changed the name of its rendition of "The Three Little Pigs."
The Honley Church of England Junior School in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, decided that since pigs are offensive to Muslims, it should rework the classic tale and call it "The Three Little Puppies" instead, according to the Daily Mail of London.
Islamic leaders, however, condemned the move as misguided and said decisions like this were turning Muslims into "misfits" in society.
Snip: If you need proof, said Beck, take a crash course on how Islam's Sharia law begins. Do a little homework on how things started in the Sudan:
" 'Oh, well, it is just a little Sharia law -- we will just let them have this little power'," Beck said, describing the reaction of 'good' Muslims to the new order. Beck added: "And, before you know it, they are butchering people all over."
The political correctness of not saying or doing anything when slandered, or while watching extremists organize violent reactions, has enveloped London's culture. Even London police allowed two men at last year's cartoon protest, dressed in lifelike suicide-bomber gear, to go unchallenged, for fear of offending the Muslim community.
If this attitude is happening in London, will it head soon to America's shores?
More law suits...thanks for those links MamaDearest.
How incredibly sad and heart-breaking Jet Jaguar.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/03/perspectives_sudden_jihad_synd.php
"Perspectives: 'Sudden Jihad Syndrome' - A reason to carry firearms for self-defense"
Larry Pratt - Guest Columnist OneNewsNow.comMarch 8, 2007
No new updates, yet.
RECAP:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&tab=wn&scoring=d&q=%22Waynesboro+High+School%22&btnG=Search+News
http://www.newsleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070315/NEWS01/703150336/1002
"Search for man shuts down school"
By David Royer/staff
droyer@newsleader.com
WAYNESBORO —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A few minutes later, she encountered the man, who appeared to be carrying a lunch container, near the cafeteria.
When the custodian asked the man what he was doing in the school, "He gave her a very lame excuse for being there," Walker said. He declined to say what the excuse was.
The custodian escorted the man out of the building, then called police."
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "He is described as a dark-skinned man with a thick foreign accent, about 5 feet, 3 inches in height, 140 to 150 pounds, with salt-and-pepper hair and mustache. He was last seen wearing a blue jacket with blue jeans and brown shoes.
Walker said police are alerting federal authorities out of caution, though they are unclear on the man's motives.
"Not that we are suspecting terrorism at this stage, but I think it's prudent to involve those folks," Walker said."
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http://www.mexiconews.com.mx/miami/23799.html
"Grisly killings spread to Tabasco state"
"A human head was found Thursday outside the state security office in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco"
Wire services
El Universal
Viernes 16 de marzo de 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A human head was found Thursday outside the state security office in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco.
A state police official who said he wasn´t authorized to give his name told The Associated Press by telephone that the head was found in a plastic bag early Thursday by employees of the office in Villahermosa, the state capital.
Officials are trying to determine the victim´s identity, as well as why he was killed and by whom.
In the past year, beheadings have become common among rival drug cartels, and the heads are often left outside security offices, sometimes with messages warning police to leave local drug lords alone.
Tabasco appears to be increasingly targeted by traffickers, who police suspect opened fire on the car of Tabasco state police director Francisco Fernández, injuring him and killing his driver last week.
Fernández, a retired general, had worked as a military attache in Mexico´s embassies in Panama and Washington, and also led the anti-drug units in the northern states of Chihuahua, Durango and Sinaloa.
TWO COPS MURDERED
Two municipal police officers were killed and two others wounded in an attack that took place just outside the northern industrial city of Monterrey, authorities said Thursday.
The Nuevo León attorney general´s office said the police officers were attacked Wednesday night by gunmen armed with assault rifles.
One officer died on the spot and another succumbed in a nearby medical clinic.
The incident reportedly occurred around 11 p.m. as the four officers were sitting in two parked patrol cars.
Several attackers fled the scene of the shootings in a gray Chrysler Stratus with tinted windows, according to eyewitnesses.
A few hours after the shootings, police began pursuing a GMC Yukon SUV that, after a chase, crashed into a truck on the highway to Laredo. Authorities arrested three people.
They were carrying AK-47 assault rifles equipped with laser sights and were sporting bulletproof vests.
It is not yet known whether the trio who were arrested participated in the deadly attack on the policemen.
The incident occurred a few hours after a group of gunmen armed with assault rifles killed four people and wounded four others inside a jewelry store in downtown Monterrey.
One of the dead in that incident turned out to have been a high-ranking police officer involved in drug enforcement, Monterrey Public Safety Secretary Amado Medina said.
Medina said initial reports suggested robbery was the motive, but police later confirmed that three of the victims were being pursued by a group of gunmen armed with AR-15 and AK-47 assault rifles."
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_3028.html
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
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This information is current as of today, Sun Mar 18 2007 03:10:59 GMT-0700.
Mexico
September 15, 2006
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Mexico
January 18, 2007
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3377806,00.html
"Crucifix, statue of Jesus stolen from church in Jaffa
Scaffolds helped thieves break into Saint Peter’s Church; police say perpetrators are metal thieves or religious fanatics"
Buki Naeh
Published: 03.18.07, 11:07 / Israel News
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A crucifix and a statue of Jesus were stolen from Saint Peter’s Church in Jaffa in the early hours of Friday morning.
The church, which was built by Franciscan monks at the end of the 19th century on the ruins of a Crusader fortress, is run by the Vatican Embassy in Israel. Napoleon is said to have stayed at the site during his visit to Jaffa in 1799."
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Police estimate that the perpetrators may have been metal thieves or religious fanatics who wanted to cause a provocation."
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Last Updated: Sunday, 18 March 2007, 09:35 GMT
"Zimbabwe stops activists leaving"
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20070317-114439-2186r.htm
"Chinese military superpower?"
By John J. Tkacik Jr.
March 18, 2007
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KevinMcCullough/2007/03/18/why_real_men_confuse_and_anger_liberals
"Why real men confuse and anger Liberals"
By Kevin McCullough
Sunday, March 18, 2007
COLUMN SNIPPET: "Real men, the kind that understand their roles of protection and provision in this life, to their families, and for our world, confuse liberals. They also make them really mad.
They don't intend to, it's just a side product that can't be helped.
When a real man speaks with plainness and honesty it sends shivers down the spines of those who oppose him, and in a sense reveals their weakness and inadequacies. It exposes the fact that girly men are better at studying their naval than slaying dragons. Naturally when one then encounters a dragon slayer, a girly man finds it difficult even uncomfortable to deal with.
Since the modern feminists began marching in the 1960s - and everything became feminized - real men have dwindled in number. But every now and then they pop back up rearing the ugly head of truth, confidence, and unrepentant strength."
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html
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Worldwide Caution
October 11, 2006
Thanks to Dog
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802668/posts?page=9#9
for pinging me to the link in post no. 4:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802668/posts?page=4#4
http://www.cashill.com/terrorism/missing_third_act_KSM.htm
"The Missing Third Act of
Khalid Sheikh Muhammad
And the missing second shoe bomber"
by Jack Cashill
Posted: March 16, 2007
Cashill Newsletter Exclusive
© Jack Cashill
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Suicide car bombers have used chlorine against Iraqis in Anbar province five times since Jan. 28, military officials said."
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Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=32499
Scores of Iraqi Civilians Injured in Terrorist Chlorine Gas Attack
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 18, 2007 – About 350 Iraqi civilians and six coalition force members were treated for chlorine gas exposure after suicide bombers detonated chlorine- laden dump trucks in three separate incidents March 16, military officials reported.
The first suicide truck bomb containing chlorine gas detonated at a checkpoint northeast of Ramadi, injuring one coalition service member and an Iraqi civilian.
The second explosion occurred south of Fallujah near the town of Amiriyah. The Amiriyah police department reported that two policemen were killed in the blast and estimated that as many as 100 local citizens showed signs of chlorine exposure. Coalition forces confirmed that the Amiriyah citizens exposed to the chlorine were treated locally for symptoms ranging from minor skin and lung irritation to vomiting, military officials reported.
A third explosion occurred south of Fallujah in the Albu Issa region when a suicide bomber detonated a dump truck containing a 200-gallon chlorine tank rigged with explosives. Coalition forces responded to the attack and found about 250 local civilians suffering from symptoms related to chlorine exposure. Of those affected by the attack, four adults and seven children were evacuated to coalition medical facilities for further treatment, officials said.
Suicide car bombers have used chlorine against Iraqis in Anbar province five times since Jan. 28, military officials said.
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=32500
Suspected Terrorists Captured, Killed in Iraq; Weapons Caches Found
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 18, 2007 – Coalition forces nabbed numerous suspected terrorists and uncovered several weapons caches in operations in Iraq over the past few days, military officials reported.
Coalition forces captured 12 suspected terrorists during separate raids today targeting the al Qaeda in Iraq network and associated makeshift bomb cells.
During an operation in Ramadi, five suspected terrorists were captured, all with alleged ties to car bomb and rocket attacks against coalition forces. Coalition forces also captured two suspects in Baghdad for their reported involvement in procuring bomb-making material.
Two other suspects were detained in Mosul with alleged ties to foreign fighter facilitation and makeshift bomb operations. In Habbaniyah, coalition forces captured three suspects with alleged ties with the al Qaeda in Iraq network.
“Coalition forces will continue systematic operations to kill or capture al Qaeda and associated terrorists,” said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, a Multinational Forces Iraq spokesman. “Terrorists captured will be prosecuted for their crimes under the Iraqi justice system.”
Coalition forces also detained 18 suspected terrorists yesterday during raids targeting al Qaeda in Iraq and foreign fighter facilitators. During a raid southeast of Balad, coalition forces detained suspects and found makeshift bomb-making components, machine guns, sniper rifles, grenades and rocket propelled grenade launchers. In Fallujah, coalition forces detained six suspected terrorists during an operation targeting a foreign fighter facilitation cell.
Elsewhere yesterday, 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Iraqi Army Division discovered a large weapons cache hidden in Mosul containing nearly a ton of explosives, projectile rounds, rocket-propelled grenades, other grenades and rockets, and makeshift bomb materials. This was the seventh cache uncovered over the past several weeks in Ninewa province, military officials reported.
Additionally, 2nd Iraqi Army units captured 25 insurgents and killed more than 16, all tied to makeshift bomb emplacement or attacks against Iraqi security forces or coalition troops.
Also, Iraqi police from the 8th Brigade, 2nd National Police Division and paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team conducted a humanitarian medical assistance operation in Sadr City yesterday as part of operations to bring security and stability to the former Mahdi Army stronghold.
Iraqi and coalition medical providers treated 453 people, including 153 women and 122 children, during the first large-scale humanitarian aid operation conducted in Sadr City since Iraqi and coalition forces moved into the area in early March.
“Medical operations are just one way that we can make an immediate positive impact in areas in which we operate. This is just the beginning of a long-term program to improve the quality of life for residents of Sadr City," said Maj. Kyle Simpson, Brigade Civil Affairs Officer for the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division.
Since Iraqi and coalition forces entered Sadr City as part of the Baghdad security plan, violence has dropped off 75 percent and the overall security situation has dramatically improved since December, when surge troops began arriving, military officials said.
Also, Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers killed two insurgents who were preparing to plant a makeshift bomb on a road east of Mirad as Suki on March 16.
Soldiers from Troop B, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment observed two men loosening the road's surface with gasoline. When they dispatched two M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicles to investigate the activity, the insurgents fled the scene in a vehicle.
The insurgents later returned to the site to finish digging the hole. The 2nd Battalion troopers then engaged and killed with machine guns on the Bradleys.
No U.S. soldiers were killed or wounded during the engagement.
In Al Hillah, insurgents attacked coalition forces, and Iraqi civilians with mortars, killing one Iraqi and wounding 13 others on March 15. Iraqi police and a military transition team from 425th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division reacted quickly to the attack and conducted a cordon and search that detained five insurgents connected to the mortar attack, officials said.
The incident is being further investigated and the detainees are being held for questioning.
Also on March 15, Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers medically evacuated two Iraqi women from a mortar impact site north of Dayrat ar Rih. After responding to reports of mortar fire, soldiers from Troop B, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment discovered two women who were severely wounded in the attack. The women were taken to 28th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, where they were treated for their wounds.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
From the Taliban-lies-AGAIN files...
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=32501
U.S. Refutes Taliban Claim of Shooting Down Helicopter in Afghanistan
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 18, 2007 – U.S. military officials refuted a Taliban claim that they shot down a U.S. helicopter in Afghanistan’s Nuristan province on March 16.
The claim is being made on an extremist Web site. U.S. forces have no reports of a downed aircraft and all coalition forces aircraft are accounted for, officials said.
Also in Afghanistan, a United Nations mine-clearing worker was wounded by extremist small-arms fire during an ambush in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province yesterday, U.S. military officials reported.
In the same incident, Afghan and coalition forces were also ambushed with rocket-propelled grenade, machine gun and small-arms fire as they were traveling in the opposite direction as the UN vehicle.
After Afghan and coalition forces repelled the attack, they provided aid to the injured worker. No Afghan or coalition forces were injured or killed in the attack, officials said.
(Compiled from Combined Joint Task Force 82 news releases.)
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