CODEWORD for bin Laden: “under the black leaves”
Hearing focuses on ex-sailor’s calls
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Federal prosecutors on Wednesday played phone calls from a former Navy sailor accused of supporting terrorism by disclosing the location of ships, but the ex-sailor says a recent ruling against the Patriot Act made the calls illegal to intercept.
The phone calls were played in a court hearing to decide whether to admit the evidence in the case against Hassan Abu-Jihaad. Lawyers for Abu-Jihaad have argued that the calls and other evidence, such as e-mail searches, should be thrown out after a judge’s ruling in September that struck down portions of the Patriot Act.
In one phone call between the sailor and some friends, Abu-Jihaad is heard making what prosecutors said is a coded reference to Osama bin Laden, using the phrase “under the black leaves.” .....
http://www.elpasotimes.com/nationworld/ci_7580998
BUSTED!!.... ANOTHER BOGUS IRAQI SLAUGHTER STORY!!!
(Updated and Bumped)
LAY THIS BOGUS IRAQI SLAUGHTER STORY TO REST...
Reportedly, on Sunday 11 close family members of Jordanian-based Baathist reporter Dia al-Kawwaz, who runs the online anti-Iraq newspaper Shabeqat Akhbar al-Iraq, were slaughtered in Baghdad. The attack occurred in the Al-Shaab neighborhood shortly after 7 a.m. Shia militia men shot dead two of Kawwaz’s sisters, their husbands and their seven children, aged 5 to 10. They then exploded the house on their way out.
This story was carried by dozens of media outlets around the world.
Even Reporters Without Borders reported the shocking news:
Reporters Without Borders took the Baathist bait- hook, line, and sinker:
~snip~
About that horrible slaughter...
It didn’t happen!!
It was just a hoaxer that Reporters Without Borders failed to fact check.
** The Iraqi Interior Ministry emphatically said, “Kawwaz is lying.”
** The police in Baghdad have not confirmed the attack.
** Talisman Gate reported that Al-Iraqiyya TV has “categorically dismissed reports over the murder of Dhia al-Kawwaz’s family in Sha’ab City.” (Thanks, BG!)
** The Multi-National Force Iraq wrote me and reported that they had found no evidence to back up the fantastic story:
...more at link...
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/11/busted-another-bogus-iraqi-slaughter.html
Bin Laden = Black Leaves. Thanks Vel.
“under the black leaves”
Thank you Velveeta.
David Cameron: Army must halt Russia threat
Western forces, which could include British troops, must be sent into the Balkans to prevent Russia sparking a new European war, according to David Cameron.
Speaking in Washington, the Conservative leader will issue a stark warning that Russia's increasingly assertive foreign policy is jeopardising Britain's national security.
David Cameron: Army must halt Russia threat Growing concern: British diplomats privately share Mr Cameron's fears of a Balkan crisis
Mr Cameron fears a diplomatic and military crisis could arise over Kosovo, the province of Serbia which has effectively been a United Nations protectorate since Nato invaded to stop ethnic cleansing by Serb forces in 1999.
The ethnic Albanian government of Kosovo is threatening to declare independence from Serbia on Dec 10. Moscow is backing Serbian attempts to block the declaration, while the United States and the European Union are in favour.
"Let me make it clear: there could be a new crisis in the Balkans by Christmas," Mr Cameron will say in a speech to the Brookings Institution, a Washington think-tank.