News From the Long War, Thread 3

Various | 3/19/07 | Knitting a Conundrum and Others

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Thread 3



Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, our nation has fought a global war against violent extremists who use terrorism as their weapon of choice, and who seek to destroy our free way of life. Our enemies seek weapons of mass destruction and, if they are successful, will likely attempt to use them in their conflict with free people everywhere. Currently, the struggle is centered in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we will need to be prepared and arranged to successfully defend our nation and its interests around the globe for years to come. DOD

Our enemies include all the Muslims who dream of knocking Western Civilization off its perch atop humanity’s dung heap. Islam is fractured into any number of sects, tribes and ethnic groups, but the dream of destroying us cuts across all the fault lines. Islamic terrorists are merely the tip of a very large spear.

J. Peter Mulhern, the American Thinker, September 18

The determination behind that fight is real, the hatred is real, and the excuses for doing this are very real in the minds of those who have decided to walk that path. We can respond in two ways: Try to ignore or negotiate with people who do not want to negotiate in good faith, because what they want is our destruction, or to stand up against the darkness of those who see all of us, our way of life, our culture and our aspirations as something worth eliminating.

Either: "And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Or: "With vigilance, determination, courage, we will defeat the enemies of freedom, and we will leave behind a more peaceful world for our children and our grandchildren." GW Bush.

Here's where I will post news and info about the Long War. Let me know if you're interested.

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[WorkerbeeCitizen]

"Hizbullah hasn’t conducted attacks in America out of concern that it would provoke too strong a response and disrupt the organization’s fund-raising in the US, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation assessments.

hmmmm - I've thought quite a bit about this - but with a twist. Why haven't the crime gangs not routed out this competition? I mean, It's tough stealing money. Our police organizations know most every scam they can run so any competition for new scams has to hurt business and there are only so many vice scams.

That aside, the crime lords (ours) must know they will be out of business if Islam takes over, they are after all, infidels.

This also got me to thinking about our liberal socialists. It seems everything they do guarantees Islam will prevail. The libs have to know an Islamic US is of no use to them so why not fight them.

It would be to the best interests of both the criminal element and the socialist Liberals to not allow Islam to flurish. I just don't get it.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

OK the front you Texans got is almost upon me here. I'm in Melbourne, Fl.

Got more line on the boat and I'm about to button up.

Quietly pray in the corner.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Palestinian organization claims to have murdered BBC reporter

Published: 04.15.07, 16:13 / Israel News

A Palestinian organization identified with al-Qaeda has reported that they executed BBC reporter in the Gaza Strip, Alan Johnston. The reports have not been approved by Palestinian authorities or by the BBC.

Johnston was kidnapped a month ago by Gunmen in Gaza and has not been heard from since. (Ynet)

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3388194,00.html

[La Enchiladita]

Do you live on a houseboat?

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Not house boat, Sloop

[Knitting A Conundrum]

You and one of my cousins. (I don’t know if it’s technically a sloop or what, but he lives in it.) Last I heard, he was in Sarajevo, working for the WHO, but he normally liked to live in Spain or perhaps southern France.

Neat guy. Wish he was in my part of the world.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Living on a sailboat is wonderful. The freedom I enjoy is unimaginable in today's world of regulations on top of regulations. I do maintain a 9 to 5 but it's different. When the weekends come around (or vacations), I fall off the face of the earth. There is a lot to be said for the ability to disappear from the system for a few days.

This is in preparation for retirement. If I'd have known 30yrs ago what it was like, I'd have move aboard then.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

Windy windy and rainy here - no sailing today though.

[Bahbah]

Group cleared over Iran murders.

Iran’s Supreme Court has acquitted a group of men charged over a series of gruesome killings in 2002, according to lawyers for the victims’ families.

The vigilantes were not guilty because their victims were involved in un-Islamic activities, the court found. The killers said they believed Islam let them spill the blood of anyone engaged in illicit activities if they issued two warnings to the victims.

The serial killings took place in 2002 in the south-eastern city of Kerman. The case raises serious questions about vigilantes in Iran taking justice into their own hands and undermining the rule of law. Up to 18 people were killed in just one year, but only five of the murders were tried in court.

According to their confessions, the killers put some of their victims in pits and stoned them to death. Others were suffocated. One man was even buried alive while others had their bodies dumped in the desert to be eaten by wild animals.

More at the link: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25134_Iran_Aquits_Serial_Murderers_Who_Killed_in_the_Name_of_Islam&only

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Not surprising...

[Knitting A Conundrum]

21:39 102 people hurt in car accidents Sunday, two of them seriously injured (Army Radio)
21:38 IAEA: Middle East, including Iran, Israel, should be free of nukes (Reuters)
21:31 Several thousand young Jews honor Holocaust victims at Auschwitz (DPA)
20:48 PM at Yad Vashem: Our flag must be one of justice and freedom (Haaretz)
20:46 Dalia Itzik: Holocaust is stain not only on German history, but on all humanity (Ch. 10)
20:37 MK Bishara tells Al-Jazeera he`s reconsidering decision to resign (Haaretz)
20:09 U.S. soldier killed by small arms fire in south Baghdad (AP)
19:46 Knesset to form cmte. to challenge Shochat panel higher education reforms (Haaretz)
19:36 Welfare Min. Herzog seeks authority over welfare of Holocaust survivors (Army Radio)
19:13 Peres asks Poland to speed up return of property to Holocaust victims (Israel Radio)
18:58 Winograd panel: We will publicize war probe testimonies in about a month (Haaretz)

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Russia begins construction of first floating nuclear power plant
(21:46 , 04.15.07)
Iraqi cleric Sadr’s bloc to quit government
(21:44 , 04.15.07)
Russian riot police clash with opposition supporters in St. Petersburg
(21:19 , 04.15.07)
Algeria summons US envoy to protest about terror alert
(20:55 , 04.15.07)
Bishara considering ‘when and how to resign’
(20:40 , 04.15.07)
PM in Yad Vashem: Jews committed to uprooting racism and discrimination
(20:37 , 04.15.07)
Fatah operative killed by gunmen
(20:19 , 04.15.07)
Iraqi police: Bombs explode in Karradah, killing 8
(20:11 , 04.15.07)

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

They are bugs I tell ya - BUGS. I believe it hurt me somewhere deep inside when I fully understood the evil of those people - you know, kinda like a scar or something on my soul.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

BAGHDAD, April 15 (Reuters) - The political movement of fiery Iraqi Shi’ite cleric and militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr said on Sunday it would pull out from the government on Monday to press its demand for a timetable for a U.S. troop withdrawal.

Officials from the movement, which holds six ministries and a quarter of the parliamentary seats in Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s Shi’ite Alliance, said the formal announcement would be made on Monday at a news conference.

Tens of thousands of Iraqis answered a call by Sadr to rally in the holy Shi’ite city of Najaf last week to protest against the presence of some 140,000 U.S.-led forces in Iraq.

The move is unlikely to bring down the government, but it could create tensions in Maliki’s fractious Shi’ite-led government of national unity at a time when it is trying to heal deep sectarian divisions.

“We are going to declare our withdrawal from government because the prime minister does not want to make a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq,” said one official in Sadr’s movement who declined to be named.

U.S. President George W. Bush said last week that setting timetables for a troop withdrawal would undermine a U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown in Baghdad, which he said was beginning to show signs of progress in curbing sectarian violence.

Maliki has also said he sees no need to set a timetable. He said his government was working to build up Iraq’s security forces as quickly as possible so U.S.-led forces could leave.

The Sadrists ended a two-month boycott of parliament in January after pulling out in protest over the timetable issue and a meeting between Maliki and Bush. They returned after a deal was brokered.

A senior official in Sadr’s movement, Abdul-Mehdi al-Muteyri, said Sadr had also ordered the pullout, saying Maliki was hamstrung by political parties in his government pulling him in different directions.

“We don’t believe in partisan quotas. Under the direct orders of Moqtada al-Sadr we have decided we are going to leave the government in order to give the prime minister the best possible options so that he can run his government,” said Muteyri.

The U.S. military says Sadr is in hiding in Iran, but the cleric’s aides insist he is still in Iraq.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L15655805.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817806/posts

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

I thought Mookie was dead (not really). He is hiding in a hole somewhere being irrelevant. What an ego.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Be a slow sunday afternoon, it seems...everybody scattered...

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I wish he was less relevant...too many people still call him leader....

[Txsleuth]

No...Levin’s goal is to take down Bush’s presidency..and lose the war.

If he gets to say “I told you so”..that is the cherry on top.