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Posted on 05/01/2008 3:06:29 PM PDT by nwctwx

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281 posted on 05/08/2008 7:52:07 AM PDT by Godzilla (I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message.)
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ADDING to Oorang's post no. 267:

Link Set Updated...

JIHAD WATCH.org (ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE): "MUSLIM 911 OPERATOR FIRE -- FACES FELONY CHARGES FOR ILLEGALLY SEARCHING STATE DATABASES, INCLUDING TERROR WATCH LIST" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The fired employee, Nadire P. Zenelaj, 32, of Rochester insists she did nothing wrong and is being singled out because she is Muslim. "I feel they targeted me because of my religion," said Zenelaj, who worked at the 911 center for nearly six years.") (May 8, 2008)

13WHAM.com: "911 DISPATCHER ARRESTED FOR ACCESSING WEB SITES WITH TERRORIST INFO" -Reported by Jane Flasch (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Zenelaj faces 232 felony counts of computer trespass and one count of official misconduct. She was fired in December.") (Last update May 8, 2008, 5:37 am)

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282 posted on 05/08/2008 2:00:58 PM PDT by Cindy
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Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49815

Coalition Forces in Iraq Kill Nine Enemy Fighters, Detain 13 Suspects

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, May 8, 2008 – Coalition forces in Iraq today killed nine enemy fighters and detained 13 suspects during a series of operations across the country that targeted al-Qaida and its foreign-terrorist network, military officials said.
— In Baghdad, coalition detained a wanted man who allegedly is part of al-Qaida operations north of the city. Another suspect also was detained.

— Sixty miles west of Baghdad, coalition forces captured a wanted man linked to the movement of terrorists into Iraq.

— Coalition forces detained 10 more suspected terrorists during operations in northwestern Iraq.

— Coalition forces used Hellfire missiles to kill nine insurgents in New Baghdad.

— Another insurgent was killed in Kadhamiyah when the roadside bomb he was emplacing detonated.

In yesterday’s operations:

—In Adhamiyah, local “Sons of Iraq” citizen security group members found explosives that had been picked up accidentally by a sanitation truck. The Iraqis found two 81 mm projectiles, a 120 mm mortar, a projectile booster and detonation cord.

— In eastern Rashid, Iraqi police and U.S. soldiers seized munitions found in an abandoned mosque. Seized items included homemade explosives, a rocket-propelled grenade with launcher, a smoke grenade, and an Iraqi army uniform.

— In western Rashid, U.S. soldiers found three 107 mm rockets, five rocket-propelled grenades, a 60 mm mortar and 200 rounds of machine-gun ammunition. Later in the same area, U.S. soldiers found eight 155 mm projectiles and five 60 mm mortar rounds.

— Coalition forces detained more than 20 suspected insurgents during an operation in the Khatoon district of Baqouba.

— U.S. soldiers operating in New Baghdad detained a suspected criminal linked to a recently thwarted attack using a bomb designed to pierce armor.

— During a raid in Baghdad’s Rashid district, U.S. soldiers seized an AK-47 rifle, knives and a satchel containing 15,000 U.S. dollars and more than 2 million Iraqi dinars.

— U.S. soldiers detained a suspected al-Qaida terrorist in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Jamiyah.

— Northwest of Baghdad, U.S. soldiers detained a criminal leader during an operation in the Taji Qada district.

— In Adhamiyah, a coalition-launched Hellfire missile killed two terrorists who had attacked a detachment of Iraqi police.

— West of Baghdad, U.S. soldiers discovered three mortar rounds, four grenades, a land mine and numerous blasting caps.

— In Kadhamiyah, Iraqi soldiers found 53 blocks of plastic explosives, two 107 mm rockets, an 82 mm mortar round, several rocket rails, six grenades and some maps of Baghdad. Material suitable for making roadside bombs was also found, including seven 10-inch copper plates, three four-inch copper plates, two lengths of detonation cord, 12 spools of wire, 10 grenade fuses, four blasting caps, two supplement charges and a detonator.

— In Sadr City, U.S. soldiers in an M1A2 Abrams tank fired two high-explosive rounds and killed two insurgents, while in another action, a group of U.S. soldiers killed one insurgent.

— In New Baghdad, a coalition aerial weapons team fired a Hellfire missile and killed two men who were planting a roadside bomb.

— Sons of Iraq killed four insurgents and found a large weapons cache in Salahuddin province. The cache yielded several suicide vests, 800 pounds of explosives and other material suitable for making roadside bombs.

— In Baghdad’s Adhamiyah sector, Iraqi security forces detained three insurgents. The detainees are linked to murders and displacement of Iraqi citizens.

— U.S. special operations troops killed two enemy fighters on a rooftop during security operations in the Sadr City area of Baghdad.

In May 6 operations:

— Sons of Iraq killed three enemy fighters in northwestern Baghdad and a coalition-fired missile killed an insurgent following a rocket attack in Sadr City that injured seven Iraqi civilians.

— In Baghdad’s Rashid district, U.S. soldiers found three mortar rounds, four rocket-propelled grenades and two boxes of ammunition.

(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)


283 posted on 05/08/2008 2:09:41 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19190&Itemid=21

APO AE 09342

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080508-09
May 8, 2008

ISF, MND-B soldiers seize weapons, munitions during precision operations
Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces, Sons of Iraq (Abna al-Iraq) and Multi-National Division – Baghdad soldiers seized caches and recovered weapons across Baghdad May 7.

At approximately 9:20 a.m., SOI members in Adhamiyah discovered a possible improvised explosive device that had been inadvertently picked up by a sanitation truck. The SOI found two 81 mm projectiles, a 120 mm Hera Mark I mortar, a projectile booster and detonation cord.

At approximately 10:45 a.m., Iraqi National Police, along with soldiers from the Company D, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, seized munitions found in an abandoned mosque while conducting a patrol in east Rashid. MND-B soldiers secured the area as the Iraqi Police obtained permission to enter the mosque. The Iraqi Police entered the abandoned mosque and seized two containers of home-made explosive, a rocket-propelled grenade with launcher and a smoke grenade, along with an Iraqi Army uniform.

At approximately 6:50 a.m., soldiers with Company C, 4th Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, discovered a weapons cache containing three 107 mm rockets, five RPGs, a 60 mm mortar and 200 rounds of PKC light machine gun ammunition during a combat patrol in west Rashid.

At approximately 4 p.m., soldiers with Co. B, 4th Bn., 64th Armored Regt., discovered a weapons cache consisting of eight 155 mm projectiles and five 60 mm mortar rounds while on patrol in west Rashid.

“Along with our Iraqi Security Forces partners, we are taking these dangerous weapons off the streets,” said Col. Allen Batschelet, chief of staff, MND-B and the 4th Inf. Div. “Reducing the number of weapons available to criminal elements contributes directly to the safety of Iraqi citizens.”

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284 posted on 05/08/2008 2:22:28 PM PDT by Cindy
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Thursday VIDEOS:

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/192650.php

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/192640.php


285 posted on 05/08/2008 2:29:09 PM PDT by Cindy
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bttt


286 posted on 05/08/2008 2:42:29 PM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.)
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BIG DITTO and thanks Unrepentant VN Vet.


287 posted on 05/08/2008 2:44:00 PM PDT by Cindy
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No endorsement — just interesting. -Cindy

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk8CWTCiAU8

“Afghanistan: Warlord of Kayan - 40 min documentary”

VIDEO DESCRIPTION - Quote:

Added: May 08, 2008 (Less info)
Oct 1989

SNIPPET: “This is the Story of Sayed Jaffar, a former member of a hippie motorcycle gang in Allentown, Pennsylvannia who used to work in McDonalds and play the drums in a heavy metal band. At present he is a provincial governor and chief of a 12,000 man private army in Afghanistan. Jaffar, a John Belushi look-a-like and the son of an Ismaeli leader, returned to Afghanistan to become a key power broker between the Soviets, the Afghan Government and the Mujahideen. He is currently a commander in the Northern Alliance fighting the Taliban.”


288 posted on 05/08/2008 3:02:25 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hezbollah
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hizballah
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hizbullah
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/site/html/search.asp?isSearch=yes&isT8=yes&searchText=T104&pid=167&sid=13&preview=
http://www.memritv.org/subject/en/89.htm

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http://www.infolive.tv

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Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3541099,00.html

Fighting rocks Beirut as 5 die, Hizbullah defiant
Published: 05.08.08, 21:40 / Israel News

Fierce clashes raged in Beirut on Thursday after the Iranian-backed group Hizbullah said the US-supported Lebanese government had declared war by targeting its communications network.

Security sources said the fighting killed at least five people and wounded 12. (Reuters)


289 posted on 05/08/2008 3:11:26 PM PDT by Cindy
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Thanks to FanFan for the ping to this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013312/posts

“Steyn the Infidel”
Ezra Levant.com ^ | May 7, 2008 | Ezra Levant
Posted on May 8, 2008 4:24:41 PM PDT by fanfan


290 posted on 05/08/2008 6:40:26 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013393/posts

“Recycling Terrorists”
IBD ^ | May 8, 2008
Posted on May 8, 2008 6:42:32 PM PDT by Kaslin


291 posted on 05/08/2008 6:47:24 PM PDT by Cindy
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REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE:

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/192625.php


292 posted on 05/08/2008 6:53:47 PM PDT by Cindy
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This letter writer wins today’s STUCK ON STUPID award.

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blog:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/29866_We_Got_Mail!

“We Got Mail!”
Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:17:45 pm PST


293 posted on 05/08/2008 6:56:17 PM PDT by Cindy
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Oh yes, speaking of email, I got a note from a guy whose brain is turned on the OFF position. One of the more interesting lines in the noted states, “You dirt bags give a whole new meaning to the term “LOW-life scum”!!!”

Let’s give this emailer a belated STUCK ON STUPID award.


294 posted on 05/08/2008 7:01:31 PM PDT by Cindy
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Well, we’re on a roll today...speaking of nuts and this one we all should be concerned about, in my opinion.

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http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ahmadinejad

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?blobcol=urlimage&blobheader=image%2Fjpeg&blobheadername1=Cache-Control&blobheadervalue1=max-age%3D420&blobkey=id&blobtable=JPImage&blobwhere=1209627040698&cachecontrol=5%3A0%3A0+*%2F*%2F*&ssbinary=true

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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1209627040670&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

May 8, 2008 18:38 | Updated May 8, 2008 19:36
“Ahmadinejad: Israel a ‘stinking corpse’”
By JPOST.COM STAFF

ATICLE SNIPPET: “”Today the reason for the Zionist regime’s existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation.”

Ahmadinejad further stated that Israel “has reached the end like a dead rat after being slapped by the Lebanese” - referring to the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006.”


295 posted on 05/08/2008 7:08:31 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2013280/posts?page=4#4

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2013280/posts

“It’s Islamic Jihad, Not Extremism, Uncle Sam”
Townhall ^ | May 8, 2008 | Diana West
Posted on May 8, 2008 3:29:46 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah


296 posted on 05/08/2008 7:14:54 PM PDT by Cindy
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Clearly. The anti-American, anti-new Iraq are getting their teeth kicked in from all quarters.


297 posted on 05/08/2008 7:16:44 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Duncan Hunter was our best choice...)
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Beirut gunbattles erupt as Hezbollah says government 'declares war'
09 May 2008

BEIRUT: Fierce gunbattles erupted in Beirut on Thursday after Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah charged that a Lebanese government crackdown on his group's activities was tantamount to a "declaration of war."

Excerpted

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/346484/1/.html

Beirut Airport Besieged, Hizbullah Heads to Declaring Civil Disobedience/b>

Tension went high between Hizbullah and Premier Fouad Saniora's government on Wednesday as the party besieged Beirut airport and headed to declaring civil disobedience after eight people were wounded in mushrooming rioting. Scores of Hizbullah trucks and bulldozers erected barricades along the airport road, besieging at least 300 passengers who had arrived aboard four jetliners.

Excerpted

http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/getstory?openform&F37D79BC55229CF0C22574420044380A


298 posted on 05/08/2008 7:44:45 PM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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Islamic group finds town's emergency drill offensive (Illinois)
Thursday, May 08, 2008

IRVING — A national Islamic advocacy group says an emergency preparedness drill targeting a simulated mosque in this small community wrongly typecast Islamic houses of worship as security threats.

“It really was in poor taste, probably as a result of a lack of cultural prowess on the part of the person who made that choice,” Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Chicago chapter, said Wednesday. Rehab said he has no reason to believe the exercise was meant to be malicious, but it still perpetuates a stereotype linking all Muslims to terrorism.

Officials from almost 30 government agencies participated in the drill last week in Irving, which is 7 miles northeast of Hillsboro in Montgomery County. According to the Hillsboro Journal-News, the May 1 exercise converted the Continuing Recovery Center into “Irving Mosque,” described as “the home-base for a radical, heavily armed group with suspected terrorist ties.”

The drill involved simulated explosions, hostages — including one hooked up to an explosive device — and nerve gas, causing both the Illinois Secretary of State bomb squad and the Montgomery County HazMat team to respond. Special forces from the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System also emerged from an armored car and stormed the “mosque,” the Journal-News reported. “Officials must be trained in dealing with hostage-taking and responding to chemical, biological or bomb attacks,” Rehab said in a news release his agency sent out Tuesday. “We are only questioning the wisdom of linking the American Muslim community and its institutions to such incidents.”

Rehab said Wednesday the Washington D.C.-based national CAIR headquarters alerted his office after learning about the drill. Montgomery County Undersheriff Rick Robbins reportedly was in charge of setting up the particulars of the exercise. Contacted Wednesday, Robbins asked to see a copy of CAIR’s release. He indicated the sheriff’s office plans to make a statement later this week.

Rehab said he left a message with Robbins on Wednesday afternoon so the two could discuss his concerns. “I want to give the benefit of the doubt to the person who made that decision to make (the drill scenario) a mosque. That person may not know any Muslims or not have enough interaction with the Muslim community,” Rehab said. “I don’t want people to malign this individual or demonize them. We don’t yet known what their intention was.”

Diana Holmes, coordinator of the Montgomery County Emergency Services and Disaster Agency, said Wednesday she had not heard of CAIR’s complaint. “Yes, this office sponsored the drill,” she said when a reporter called her Wednesday morning. “The scenario for the exercise came from the sheriff’s office.”

Rehab said he hopes the incident can encourage a discussion of cultural sensitivity issues. “It’s not just a question of calling them out,” he said. “It’s a matter of rectifying the situation and conveying our perspective.” CAIR has worked with law enforcement officials on similar issues in recent months. In April, CAIR’s chapter in Pennsylvania asked police training officials to provide a Muslim perspective in a mandatory police training class because of concerns the class may present stereotypical views of Islam and Muslims, according to the news release.

The implication that mosques are bad places because of the actions of a few can be very damaging, Rehab said. “The real issue facing our community right now is specifically the failure to distinguish between the domain of terrorism, which is very particular, very underground, very exclusive, and the domain of mainstream Islam, which is above ground, in the sunshine and a part of our society. The drill, he said, “plays into that. It’s again blurring those lines,” Rehab said.

http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/29956.asp

299 posted on 05/08/2008 7:50:09 PM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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Latest terror threats 'scare us': senior Mountie
Thursday, May 08, 2008

The RCMP is investigating seven suspected terrorist plots so disturbing they "keep me awake at night," the senior Mountie for national security disclosed yesterday.

Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell said the cases are "spread right across the country" and each is comparable in scale to Canada's biggest alleged jihadist conspiracy, which resulted in the arrests of 18 Toronto-area people in a suspected plot to bomb federal buildings in 2006. The seven cases are among an unprecedented 848 national security cases, most related to terrorism, currently under investigation, Assistant Commissioner McDonell told an Ottawa conference on critical infrastructure protection.

"What we're onto scares us," he said in a later interview, without elaborating. "What we're not onto really scares us."

Since Sept. 11, 2001, the RCMP's national security criminal investigation section's caseload has grown 780 per cent, with the $40-million-a-year section "borrowing people from here, there and everywhere, there's just that much work out there," he said. "It's a no-risk environment. Our people are running at the limit." His comments are the most detailed and candid yet from police on the threat confronting Canada.

"What we're facing is a violent Islamist born-again social movement," comprised mostly of young, second- or third-generation immigrants with a secular background, he told the Conference Board of Canada gathering of security, industry and government experts.

Excerpted

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=48d44414-7051-40aa-b861-b10716536661

300 posted on 05/08/2008 8:02:29 PM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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