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Posted on 12/01/2007 8:47:13 PM PST by nwctwx
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INDEED.
I suppose we could ‘test’ them . . .
have a waiting room in the embassies before receiving their visas . . .
with walls of big screens and constantly changing videos of such scenes . . .
with various . . . body monitors . . .
those obvioiusly about to ‘lose it’ could be readily denied visas on the grounds that their rape potential was too high.
only slight /s
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=48356
Coalition Forces Detain Dozens of Terrorists in Iraq Operations
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2007 – Coalition forces captured two wanted individuals and seven additional suspects during an operation today to disrupt al Qaeda networks in Iraq’s capital city.
The wanted individuals reportedly are al Qaeda leaders in the Karkh area and are believed to have been involved in planning a future car-bombing attack in the city. The two wanted individuals allegedly are close associates of several other senior leaders involved in the network’s car-bombing operations. In addition to the wanted individuals, the ground force detained seven suspects without incident.
Recent successful coalition forces operations have left the Karkh terrorist network in a severely degraded state, officials said. Over the last month, coalition forces have captured four other wanted individuals tied to the Karkh network who reportedly were involved in attacks against coalition forces and trying to re-establish the city’s car-bombing operations.
“We’re continuing to go after the terrorists who threaten Baghdad’s security,” said Navy Cmdr. Scott Rye, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman. “We want to make sure that terrorist cells cannot recover from their degraded state and carry out their brutal attacks.”
In other operations this week:
— Iraqi special operations soldiers and U.S. Special Forces soldiers conducted a raid near Balad to capture a known terror cell leader reported to have conducted indirect-fire attacks against Logistics Support Area Anaconda. The cell also is suspected to have been involved in attacks against Iraqi security forces, coalition forces and Iraqi civilians in the area. Reporting indicates this cell was directly responsible for emplacing an improvised explosive device that killed three U.S. Air Force airmen near LSA Anaconda in November. During the operation, the al Qaeda leader was killed, and eight suspected terrorists were captured. Several 82 mm mortar rounds, assault rifles and loaded magazines, hand grenades, and body armor were found and destroyed during the operation.
— In a separate operation, Iraqi security forces, advised by U.S. Special Forces soldiers, detained 47 suspects for questioning during a cordon-and-search operation of Aswad village. Iraqi forces conducted the operation to disrupt terrorist cells, safe houses and weapons-storage areas in the vicinity. All detainees were placed in the custody of Khalis Iraqi police. Two improvised explosive devices were discovered and destroyed on site.
— Coalition forces captured a suspected “special groups” criminal element leader, killed two armed men in self-defense, wounded two others and detained five suspects during operations in the Hayy area, southeast of Baghdad. During the operation, ground forces came under assault by small-arms fire and engaged the armed men, killing two and wounding two others. The targeted individual and four others were detained. “Each capture of one of these criminals brings us one step closer to a secure future for Iraq,” said Army Capt. Vic Beck, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman.
— Coalition forces detained two suspected criminals during operations early Dec. 5 in the Kut area, southeast of Baghdad. The operations targeted an individual who reportedly received specialized weapons and tactical training, including in sniper rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, the construction of IEDs, and operational security. He also was suspected of being involved in training “special group” criminal element members on weapons and operational tactics. The individual reportedly is an associate of several other senior criminals involved in attacks on coalition forces. While in the target area, ground forces came under assault by small-arms fire. Two suspects were detained.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=48358
Coalition, Afghan Forces Defeat Taliban in Two Operations
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2007 – Afghan and coalition soldiers foiled a Taliban ambush in the Kariz-e Sadeqin area of Afghanistan’s Farah province Dec. 5, military officials reported.
The combined force was conducting a reconnaissance mission for a weapons cache when two squad-size elements of insurgents ambushed them with small arms, rockets and indirect fire. Afghan forces returned fire with small arms and mortars, which allowed them to outmaneuver the insurgent forces and engage them with close-air support.
“The government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan’s efforts to increase security in this region will positively affect the establishment of conditions necessary to facilitate future reconstruction and development,” said Army Maj. Chris Belcher, a Combined Joint Task Force 82 spokesman. “The insurgents tried to successfully ambush the (Afghan) patrol. But the results speak for themselves — another failure for the Taliban.”
In other news from Afghanistan, Afghan and coalition soldiers pushed back Taliban insurgents from Now Zad area of Helmand province Dec. 5. The combined force was conducting a reconnaissance patrol in Now Zad when Taliban insurgents attempted to ambush the patrol from established fighting positions. The enemy fired on the Afghan forces using small arms, rockets and mortars. The forces immediately returned small-arms and machine-gun fire, putting the enemy on the defensive.
The enemy moved to secondary positions in an attempt to flank friendly forces as the battle escalated. Afghan forces identified the new enemy fighting positions and engaged with small arms, machine guns and precision air strikes. The insurgents attempted to hide among the civilian population by moving into homes.
“The enemy attempted to take advantage of the historic Afghan hospitality by using civilian homes as fighting positions,” the Afghan commander said. “Fortunately, the residents recognized the Taliban were abusing their hospitality and wanted no part of it.”
The Afghan civilians prevented the enemy fighters from using the compounds and their inhabitants as human shields. The enemy fighters retreated and the Afghan forces continued to clear the village to ensure no insurgents remained.
“The (Afghan forces) and the citizens of Now Zad both demonstrated their resolve to eliminate the Taliban menace in northern Helmand province,” Belcher said. “Continued collaboration like we saw today is the key to bringing peace and stability to this country.”
(Compiled from Combined Joint Task Force 82 news releases.)
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“U.S., Russia still at odds about Iran”
By Matthew Lee
December 8, 2007
BRUSSELS
UPDATE:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019069.php
(CROYDON GUARDIAN.co.uk)
December 8, 2007
“U.K. children’s nursery cleaner facing jihad terror extradition”
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018706.php
(TIMES ONLINE.co.uk)
Previously...
November 7, 2007
“Two arrested in dawn raids on suspicion of recruiting for jihad as part of Europe-wide swoop”
UPDATE:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019070.php
(AGENCE-FRANCE PRESSE;NEW YORK SUN)
December 8, 2007
“U.K.’s ‘Lyrical Terrorist’ gets suspended sentence”
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http://www.nysun.com/article/67711
‘Terrorist’ Poet Gets Convicted
By KIM MURPHY
Los Angeles Times
December 7, 2007
LONDON —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Ms. Malik was convicted over her terrorism manuals, not her poetry. But it is her verses that have captivated and horrified the public and sparked the row over when radical statements cross the line into inciting terrorism.
“It’s not as messy or as hard as some may think,” she wrote in her poem “How to Behead.” “It’s all about the flow of the wrist. Sharpen the knife to its maximum. And before you begin to cut the flesh, tilt the fool’s head to its left. Saw the knife back and forth. No doubt that the punk will twitch and scream. But ignore the donkey’s ass. And continue to slice back and forth. You’ll feel the knife hit the wind and food pipe. But Don’t Stop. Continue with all your might.””
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018721.php
(DAILYMAIL.co.uk)
November 8, 2007
“UK: “Lyrical Terrorist’ convicted under new terrorism laws”
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018427.php
(TIMES ONLINE.co.uk)
October 11, 2007
“Ramadan is the cruelest month...”
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“Youths who torched woman on French bus jailed”
11 hours ago
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “AIX EN PROVENCE, France (AFP) — A French court on Friday jailed five teenagers for up to nine years, for seriously burning a young woman in a bus they had set alight in the port city of Marseille last year.
The court in Aix, near Marseille, sentenced a young man who had thrown a flaming handkerchief into the bus on October 28, 2006 to nine years in prison.
The woman’s life had been in danger after she suffered burns to 62 percent of her body.
Two defendants were jailed for seven years and two others got five years of which two and one respectively were suspended. A sixth youth was acquitted.
One of their lawyers, Thierry Ospital, said he found the sentences “fair”.
“The jury took into account the neighbourhood, the personality of the accused and the role each of them played,” he added.”
This and the episode with the NIE point out the need to clear some dead wood from our intelligence community. As a former member, I am appalled with the short sightedness of the report, particularly within the context of current KNOWN Iranian activities. But what boils me over are the POLICY recommendations. That is not the intelligence communities role, because once they do that, then they cease to look at intelligence data objectively and begin to filter it to fit their desired policy outcome. Policy is the purview if the President, not some intelligence wonk who lives his/her life in a high security building without windows. Grrrrr
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Switzerland Strips All Citizens of Gun Rights
Despite the vehement protests from many of Switzerland’s cantons (states), the lower chamber of the nation’s Federal Assembly voted to strip its citizens of gun rights, not by registering or confiscating firearms, but by outlawing the storing of ammunition in the homes of the citizens.
According to The Liberty Zone, the move was led by Switzerland’s small but vocal–and powerful–Socialist minority. And apparently it was a leading women’s magazine who aided the Socialists in the cause. Having failed at attempts to take the guns themselves from homes and store them in government facilities, the new law takes aim at ammo rather than the guns. The Swiss are still allowed to possess firearms; they simply will not be allowed to possess the ammunition to use them.
This is the backdoor method of disarming citizens, and it is very effective. The ban also applies to the male citizens who make up Switzerland’s time-honored citizens’ militia. Even they will be required to keep their ammo at approved government facilities.
The fact that a Leftist minority group was able to convince a majority of representatives in the Swiss Federal Assembly to approve the measure is considered a major victory for Socialism and the push to strip individual citizens of the right to keep and bear arms. In a stunning example of what Leftists can do when citizens are not paying attention, the Socialist ban on ammunition in the homes of the Swiss people should be a stark lesson for U.S. citizens who wish to preserve the right to keep and bear arms. Anti-gun groups do not have to register or confiscate firearms to win the battle.
Rather, the growing modus operandi of the gun control movement is to render a Constitutional right null, void, and useless by implementing legislation aimed at things such as ammunition rather than the actual guns themselves.
Within the U.S. the anti-gun movement does not even have to introduce legislation. A mere executive order by an Administration in the 1990s has been all it takes for a massive assault to ensue on gun shops, gun manufacturers, and other facets of the gun industry, to begin to gradually rob the citizens of their rights to keep and bear arms. This is presently being accomplished by a rogue arm of the Department of Justice–the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives–which has succeeded in shutting down 80% of the gun stores, and gun and ammo manufacturers, within the U.S.
The prevailing wisdom, similar to what we find in Switzerland, is to attack gun ownership by focusing on various facets of the gun and ammo industry rather than to directly attack the citizens’ guns. This effectively renders useless any supposed right to own, possess, and use a firearm without addressing the firearms themselves at all–a perfect example of disarming the citizens using the backdoor method. Switzerland has been the last bastion of real gun rights in Europe. Now even the Swiss have fallen to the sly and seductive ways of the Socialist anti-gun movement.
http://concealed.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/switzerland-strips-all-citizens-of-gun-rights/
Amen! The absence of manger scenes, all references to the word "Christmas" while merchandising "Wish" and other such meaningless drivel have made our Christmas what it should be, less commercial and less expensive. If things were as they should be, they'd Wish people were shopping in their stores. Lots of Santa Claus buyables for the gullibles, while we patronize small religious stores for the "reason for the season" items we can find nowhere else.
But it's okay for them to call Christians and Jews "pigs and monkeys" and not expect any reverberation?????
....the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives–..... has succeeded in shutting down 80% of the gun stores, and gun and ammo manufacturers, within the U.S.
Everyone who cherishes their freedom in this nation should be reading your post Oorang. It's THAT important to our basic freedoms in this land.
JIHAD WATCH.org (NY POST.com): "ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FBI/CIA AGENT MARRIED TO STATE DEPT EMPLYEE WHO HELD SENSITIVE POSTS IN MIDDLE EAST EMBASSIES" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Nada Nadim Prouty Update: Not only is she an illegal immigrant who was hired by the CIA and the FBI. Not only was she then given access to Al-Qaeda detainees in Iraq. Not only is she now accused of passing information to Hizballah. Not only is her brother-in-law now on the lam after being indicted for funneling money from his restaurant chain to Hizballah. Not only did that restaurant chain sponsor the Arab American Institute conference that was addressed by (on video) Clinton, Obama, and Edwards, (and in person) Richardson, Kucinich, and Ron Paul. Not only all that, but also, she is married to a State Department wonk who has held key positions in Middle Eastern embassies.") (November 18, 2007)
JIHAD WATCH.org (NY DAILY NEWS.com): "BUSTED ILLEGAL ALIEN WAS GREAT SPY, SAY SOURCES" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "She was so good that some in the agency want to hire Prouty back one day, the source said. Officials again yesterday insisted Prouty is not suspected of espionage or of being a mole for the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah. "There is no indication at this point that she was engaged in espionage" for Hezbollah while at the CIA, said a senior U.S. official familiar with the case. In fact, the CIA fears she'll be assassinated for her U.S. spy work if she's ever deported to Beirut, two sources said. Other knowledgeable sources are convinced otherwise. Her brother-in-law is a fugitive Hezbollah fund-raiser who helped her lie to win U.S. citizenship seven years before she joined the FBI in 1999.") (November 17, 2007)
US DOJ.gov/opa - Press Release: Detroit: "FORMER EMPLOYEE OF CIA AND FBI PLEADS GUILTY TO CONSPIRACY, UNAUTHORIZED COMPUTER ACCESS AND NATURALIZATION FRAUD" (PRESS RELEASE SNIPPET: "Nada Nadim Prouty, a 37-year-old Lebanese national and resident of Vienna, Va., pleaded guilty today in the Eastern District of Michigan to charges of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship, which she later used to gain employment at the FBI and CIA; accessing a federal computer system to unlawfully query information about her relatives and the terrorist organization Hizballah; and conspiracy to defraud the United States.") (November 13, 2007)
TOTAL DITTO to your post and tag.
Well you know, pc tolerance.
Let’s remember to pray the informants (if they are still alive) and their families.
See post no. 393 for information.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933472/posts?posts?page=393#393
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071206/NEWS06/712060341
It never ceases to amaze me how network and cable news media interview Iraqis who are helping us and their own people without disguising their faces and voices. Common sense dictates the enemy is watching these broadcasts too and putting out fatwas on the interviewee and their families. IMHO it is equivalent to the media directly putting a hit on them.
OPINION:
Yes, between the media, democrats (generally speaking) and other anti-America/anti-Americans; the good guys are always fighting an uphill
battle.
Coast guard officers transported 193 illegal immigrants to shore Thursday after being spotted on a cargo ship off the island of Crete.
The Merchant Marine Ministry also said one man was found dead on the Silver Wave cargo ship, while seven people were arrested on smuggling charges. The ship had no flag. The immigrants, carrying no travel documents, said they were from Iraq and had sailed from Lebanon. One of the 193 migrants was hospitalized for observation.
Banned carge bound for Iran held in UAE
The United Arab Emirates has impounded the cargo of a vessel bound for Iran after discovering that "hazardous materials" aboard contravened UN sanctions placed on the Islamic republic to curtail its nuclear development programme.
In a further ratcheting up of the UAE's determination to curb misuse of its ports, an official there confirmed that the cargo, detained for testing last month, contained materials banned by UN Security Council resolutions 1737 and 1747, while the purchaser of the materials had also been barred by the same resolutions.
But he declined to identify the contents of the cargo or the Iranian company that had ordered the materials.
The California Department of Health announced Wednesday, December 5, that consumers should not drink Metromint Flavored Water because it may be contaminated with Bacillus cereus, which can cause vomiting and diarrhea.
Soma Beverage Co., LLC., in conjunction with the FDA, is recalling all bottles of Metromint flavored water (Peppermint, Spearmint, Orangemint and Lemonmint) with a "Best Before" date before 12/21/2008 and produced at the company's California plant because they may be contaminated with Bacillus cereus. The "Best Before" date is located on the shoulder of the water bottle.
So far there have been no illness reported in California, but there has been one incident in Illinois that is possibly linked to the contaminated product. The water was available in retail stores across the nation and online. The water bottles were distributed in clear plastic 16.9-ounce bottles with a black M marked on the front and the letters "KSA" located in a rectangle on the back of the bottle in the lower right-hand corner.
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