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VIDEO:
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“F-16 Dropped 1000 Pound Bomb On Taliban Position In Afghanistan
JDAM 1000lbs Bomb Dropped On Taliban Hide Out In Musa q’leh, Afghanistan.”
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These people bankrupted The Western Standard.
On the one hand, I can’t afford to fight them,
OTOH, what is life worth, without FReedom?
“They” are taking our freedom away, day by day, law by law
In spite of which, have a great night, my FRiend.
:-)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2030230/posts?page=48#48
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“[Today’s decision] will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed. “
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Adiós, Guantánamo
The Wall Street Journal ^ | June 12, 2008 | JAMES TARANTO
Posted on June 12, 2008 4:16:23 PM PDT by vietvet67
“The Nation will live to regret what the Court had done today,” Justice Antonin Scalia writes at the end of his dissent in Boumediene v. Bush, the case in which a bare majority of the Supreme Court, for the first time ever, extended rights under the U.S. constitution to enemy combatants who have never set foot on U.S. soil.
It’s worth noting that the nation has lived to regret things the court has done in earlier wars. In Schenck v. U.S. (1919), the court upheld the conviction of a Socialist Party leader for distributing an anticonscription flier during World War I—material that would unquestionably be protected by the First Amendment under Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969). In Korematsu v. U.S. (1944), the court held that the government had the authority to ban Japanese-Americans from certain areas of California, simply on the ground that their ethnic heritage rendered their loyalty suspect. Korematsu has never been overturned, but there is no doubt that it would be in the vanishingly unlikely event that the question ever came up again.
This war was different. Almost immediately after the 9/11 attacks, we began hearing dire warnings about threats to civil liberties. Five members of the high court seem to have internalized these warnings. As Justice Anthony Kennedy put it in his majority opinion today, “The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.” Kennedy and his colleagues seemed determined to err on the side of an expansive interpretation of constitutional rights.
And err they did. As Justice Scalia writes:
[Today’s decision] will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed. That consequence would be tolerable if necessary to preserve a time-honored legal principle vital to our constitutional Republic. But it is this Court’s blatant abandonment of such a principle that...
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Thanks for the links, Cindy.
I hope you are enjoying the summer.
Well, it snowed almost all morning 1 day this week and about 10 minutes 1 night a couple of weeks ago.
I am looking forward to summer.
How are you?
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Lawyer for Bin Laden Driver Wants Charges Dismissed
Associated Press ^ | June 12, 2008
Posted on June 12, 2008 5:23:42 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Osama bin Laden’s former driver may not go on trial this summer at Guantanamo after all. The military lawyer for Salim Hamdan says the Supreme Court ruling on the rights of Guantanamo prisoners is likely to at least delay the Yemeni’s war crimes trial.
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brian Mizer told The Associated Press he will file a motion to dismiss the war crimes charges against Hamdan based on the court’s finding that Guantanamo prisoners have constitutional rights.
The defense lawyer said Wednesday he will argue that Hamdan was denied his constitutional right to a speedy trial.
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All is well and we’ve settled back into life again since our return from Moscow. Dad’s stable and continues his chemo. We’re enjoying our time together. I spent the last week in Indianapolis in the midst of the storms and returned to the 95 degree summer heat in the south this afternoon. This evening was beautiful and we had dinner with friends at a home built in the 1800’s. I loved the history and the gardens.
Amazing that you had snow. Is that typical?
That sounds absolutely beautiful and I’m so glad your Dad’s condition is stable. May it continue to be this way for a long time to come.
No, the snow this year has not been typical.
Absolutely no global warming here, but thank God we don’t live in a tornado/hurricane area.
A Dead Burqa Man Terrorist:
Note: Photo included.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4122226.ece
From Times Online
June 12, 2008
PHOTO CAPTION: “Picture: Burqa-shrouded suicide bomber shot by Afghan police in Helmand
“British soldiers beside the body of a dead Afghan suicide bomber who wore a burqa”
Alexander Monro
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The suicide bomb belt lies beside the body of the man shot in Lashkar Gar in Southern Helmand today.
Among the trail of clothes around him is the women’s burqa with which he had disguised himself as he set out, explosives strapped to his chest, towards the police compound that was his target.
“He was shot in the forehead after he ignored warning shots and was killed on the spot,” said Hussain Andiwal, provincial police chief. “When we took off his burqa we found he was a man with a suicide vest tied around his body.””
That's what it's come to fanfan. Freedom of speech seems to apply only to those who suppress ours (while they use the very words we are verbotten to use per official government decree). Their websites are filled with hatespeech, and world leaders and lawmakers are either oblivious or too frightened to challenge their loud and organized threats of litigation.
Silencing the opposition in the war on terror - sounds preposterous in the year 2008, but here we are and there it is, a war of words unspoken, and those who officially refuse to recognize the enemy (heaven forbid they would be profiled) are the same ones who allegedly are protecting us, but instead appear more concerned about not offending the groups who protest loudly and use the US court system in a way the writers' of our Constitution would never have in their wildest imaginations conceived.
Ditto here Cindy. It's next to impossible to stop full force, but putting the brakes on and enjoying the summer before the next global cooling begins (winter) is almost a necessity given the cool (if not downright cold) weather we've had thus far this spring.
It's a dangerous world out there and there are no givens as to how long it will be before a rogue nation or OTMs within the USA decide to detonate a nuke upon a neighboring state or the USA (due to lack of border security). The time we have left should be spent the best way possible for each of us, whatever choice that would be. God bless the FReepers who post here and Jim Robinson for allowing us to post here all these months/years.
Two Muslim supporters of "violent jihad" discussed setting up a secret Islamic state in a remote part of Scotland, a court heard yesterday.
Away from the prying eyes of the authorities, it would provide a safe haven for those who felt "oppressed", jurors were told.
It would also be run according to Sharia law and eventually be used as a base to "discreetly train" for attacks against non-believers.
US detector sniffs our biological, chemical threats
A new kind of mass spectrometer can sniff out biological, chemical and nuclear threats, all at virtually the same time, U.S. government researchers said on Thursday.
Their process, called Single-Particle Aerosol Mass Spectrometry, also detected illicit drugs and explosives without being reset in between tests, they said.
Democrat voter drive investigated for fraud
Louisiana's top election official has launched an investigation into a voter registration drive by the Washington-based Voting is Power organization, which is sponsored by the Muslim American Society and was hired by Democrats, after registrars were "flooded" with fake forms, including a couple for a gentleman named George W. Bush.
Secretary of State Jay Dardenne said this week he already has met with Voting Is Power, which has a stated goal of signing up millions of Muslims to vote in U.S. elections, and the discussions were cordial.
Thanks and I agree Mama Dearest.
http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/searchb10.asp?search=Jamiat-e-Ulema+Islam&searchtype=all&B1=Submit
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“Pakistani jihadist group declares jihad against U.S.”
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“JUI-F announces to wage Jihad against US”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “CHARSADDA: Strongly condemning US air strikes in Mohmand Agency, Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (F) on Thursday staged a protest demonstration and announced to wage Jihad against US.
Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (F) under the able leadership of District Ameer and Former Member NA Maulana Sabad Gohar Shah took out a peaceful rally here on Thursday.”
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http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200806/FOR20080612b.html
“Wanted Iranians End Visit to Saudi Arabia”
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
June 12, 2008
“(1st Add: Includes comments from the Simon Wiesenthal Centre.)”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “(CNSNews.com) - Two top Iranian politicians wanted by Argentina in connection with that country’s deadliest terror attack have ended a visit to Saudi Arabia, and their hosts made no attempt to detain them.
A Jewish human rights and advocacy group which had earlier urged the authorities to act, on Thursday decried what it saw as a lost opportunity to bring the suspects to justice.
One of the two, former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani, shared a platform with King Abdullah during a three-day gathering of Islamic figures in Mecca, and he also met twice with the Saudi monarch, most recently on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Rafsanjani flew out of the kingdom, after being seen off at the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah by senior officials, including Mecca regional governor Prince Khalid al-Faisal.
The other wanted Iranian is Mohsen Rezai, the former head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), who accompanied Rafsanjani and was photographed at his side during the visit.
Both men are the subjects of arrest warrants issued by an Argentine judge in late 2006 after a special prosecutor named them as suspects in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.
Eighty-five people were killed and hundreds injured in the Argentine-Israel Mutual Association (AMIA) attack, which the prosecutor said was carried out by Hezbollah at Iran’s behest. Iran denies the allegations.”
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Ahmadinejad: Iran Now At Nuclear Peak
In a speech in Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari province in central Iran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that President Bush’s time was past and that he “cannot hurt even one centimeter of Iranian soil.”
Ahmadinejad added that this year was “the year of enemy plots” and promised that the Iranian nation “will not be silent until it destroys all signs of oppression in the world.”
He also said, “Iran has passed the difficult obstacles and is situated at the nuclear peak.”
Source: Farda, Iran, June 11, 2008
Posted at: 2008-06-11
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=50205
Forces in Iraq Kill Nine, Capture 24, Seize Weapons
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 13, 2008 – Coalition and Iraqi forces killed nine enemy fighters, captured more than 24 suspects, and seized weapons across Iraq in the past three days, military officials said.
In operations today:
— Coalition forces captured a suspected al-Qaida in Iraq terrorist near Lake Tharthar and three alleged foreign terrorist facilitators in Beiji, about 62 miles south of Mosul.
— Coalition troops detained two suspected terrorists in separate raids just north of Baghdad. Military officials said the operations degraded al-Qaida’s network in the northern belt around the Iraqi capital.
— Troops also captured a wanted man and an associate near Biaj, about 80 miles southwest of Mosul.
During operations yesterday:
— Coalition forces killed five gunmen and captured two suspected members of Iranian-backed “special groups” near Hillah, about 45 miles south of Baghdad. Troops acted in self-defense, military officials said.
— Coalition forces detained four suspected terrorists during two-day operations in Mosul that culminated yesterday. The raids targeted associates of al-Qaida in Iraq leaders in the northern city.
— Coalition troops detained three individuals, including a wanted man with suspected ties to an al-Qaida in Iraq bombing network that operates in the Tigris River valley.
— Troops also targeted associates of al-Qaida in Iraq leaders in the southern belt around the Iraqi capital, capturing three suspected terrorists west of Baghdad.
— Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers detained three suspected special groups members. Those captured are associated with attacks yesterday against Iraqi civilians and coalition forces in Baghdad’s Rashid district, military officials said.
— Coalition forces captured a special groups weapons smuggler in Kut, about 110 miles southeast of Baghdad. Troops also detained several others in the operation, military officials said.
— Iraqi security forces and Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers uncovered nearly 10 weapons caches throughout the Iraqi capital. The stockpiles comprised scores of munitions, assault rifles, grenades, homemade explosives and military equipment.
Al-Qaida fighters near the town of Ishaki in Salahuddin province attacked the homes of several members of a citizen security group known as “Sons of Iraq” On June 11. The citizens successfully defended their homes in the ensuing firefight, killing four enemy fighters. Three Sons of Iraq members suffered injuries, military officials said.
Elsewhere in Iraq that day, Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers seized several weapons in an operation in the New Baghdad security district of the Iraqi capital. Soldiers with 66th Armor Regiment, attached to the 10th Mountain Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team, seized assault rifles and pistols in the raid.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
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International Arms Dealer Extradited on Terrorism Offenses
NEW YORK- Michael J. Garcia, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michele M. Leonhart, the Acting Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), announced that international arms dealer Monzer Al Kassar, a/k/a Abu Munawar, a/k/a El Taous, arrived in New York today after being extradited from Spain on federal terrorism charges. Al Kassar was extradited to New York for his participation in a conspiracy to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (the FARC) — a designated foreign terrorist organization — to be used to kill Americans in Colombia. Al Kassar’s co-defendants, Tareq Mousa Al Ghazi and Luis Felipe Moreno Godoy, were both previously extradited to New York from Romania to face the same terrorism charges. According to the superseding Indictment filed in Manhattan federal court:
Since the early 1970s, Al Kassar has been a source of weapons and military equipment for armed factions engaged in violent conflicts around the world. Some of these factions have included known terrorist organizations, such as the Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF), the goals of which included attacking United States interests and United States nationals.
To carry out his weapons-trafficking business, Al Kassar developed an international network of criminal associates, including co-defendants Al Ghazi and Moreno Godoy, as well as front companies and bank accounts in various countries, including the United Kingdom, Spain, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania. Additionally, Al Kassar has engaged in money-laundering transactions in bank accounts throughout the world to disguise the illicit nature of his criminal proceeds.
Between February 2006 and May 2007, Al Kassar agreed to sell to the FARC millions of dollars worth of weapons, including thousands of machine guns, millions of rounds of ammunition, rocket-propelled grenade launchers (RPGs), and surface-to-air missile systems (SAMs). During a series of recorded telephone calls, e-mails, and in-person meetings, Al Kassar agreed to sell the weapons to two confidential sources working with the DEA (the CSs), who represented that they were acquiring these weapons for the FARC, with the specific understanding that the weapons were to be used to attack United States helicopters in Colombia.
During their consensually-recorded meetings, Al Kassar provided the CSs with, among other things: (1) a schematic of the vessel to be used to transport the weapons; (2) specifications for the SAMs he agreed to sell to the FARC; and (3) bank accounts in Spain and Lebanon that were ultimately used to receive and conceal more than $400,000 sent from DEA undercover accounts that the CSs represented were FARC drug proceeds for the weapons deal. During his meetings with the CSs, Al Kassar reviewed Nicaraguan end-user certificates that he accepted despite knowing that the arms were destined for the FARC in Colombia. Al Kassar also promised to provide the FARC with ton-quantities of C-4 explosives, as well as expert trainers from Lebanon to teach the FARC how to effectively use C-4 and improvised explosive devices (commonly referred to as IEDs). In addition, Al Kassar offered to send a thousand men to fight with the FARC against United States military officers in Colombia.
The Indictment charges Al Kassar with four separate terrorism offenses:
Count One: Conspiracy to kill United States nationals, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2332(b);
Count Two: Conspiracy to kill United States officers or employees, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1114 and 1117;
Count Three: Conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2332g; and
Count Four: Conspiracy to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, in violation of Title 18,
United States Code, Section 2339B.
In addition, Al Kassar is charged in Count Five with money laundering, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1956.
The superseding Indictment seeks the forfeiture of an estate located in Marbella, Spain, and all funds contained in three separate bank accounts. The forfeitures represent the alleged proceeds obtained from the charged offenses.
Al Kassar is expected to appear later this afternoon in Magistrate court in Manhattan federal court.
If convicted of Counts One through Three, Al Kassar faces a maximum sentence of any term of years or life imprisonment, as well as a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years’ imprisonment on Count Three. As part of the extradition process, however, the United States has provided assurances to the government of Spain that it will not seek a life sentence for Al Kassar, but instead will ask for a prison term of years. If convicted of Count Four, Al Kassar faces a maximum sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment. Finally, if convicted of Count Five, Al Kassar faces a maximum sentence of 20 years’ imprisonment.
The international law enforcement operation that culminated with today’s extradition was the result of cooperation between the DEA, the Spanish National Police, and the Romanian Border Police.
Mr. Garcia praised the investigative efforts of the DEA, the Spanish National Police, and the Romanian Border Police. Mr. Garcia also thanked the United States Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs and the U.S. State Department.
“Monzer Al Kassar intended to provide millions of dollars worth of lethal weapons to a foreign terrorist organization to be used to kill Americans,” said U.S. Attorney Michael J. Garcia. “As a result of extraordinary cooperation with our international law enforcement partners, Al Kassar will now face justice for his crimes in a United States courtroom.”
“The arrest, extradition and pending criminal prosecution of Monzer Al Kassar before a U.S. Court of justice are a testament to DEA’s global alliances and unique investigative skills,” said DEA Acting Administrator Michele M. Leonhart. “Al Kassar’s days of arming and funding global terrorists are over. Spanish authorities are to be commended for their diligence and perseverance to ensure Al Kassar’s extradition to the United States.”
Assistant United States Attorneys Boyd M. Johnson III, Leslie C. Brown, and Brendan R. McGuire are in charge of the prosecutions.
The charges contained in the Indictment are merely accusations and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
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Well.
Just when I was all ready to count the Feds as a lost cause, some of ‘em go and do their d*** jobs.
Bravo Zulu
Go get some more.
Three Ohio men were convicted Friday of plotting to recruit and train terrorists to kill American soldiers in Iraq, a case put together with help from a former soldier who posed as a radical bent on violence.
Mohammad Amawi, 28, Marwan El-Hindi, 45, and Wassim Mazloum, 27, face maximum sentences of life in prison. Prosecutors said the men were learning to shoot guns and make explosives while raising money to fund their plans to wage a holy war against U.S. troops.
The federal jury in Toledo returned its verdict after three days of deliberations. U.S. District Judge James G. Carr did not set a sentencing date, said acting U.S. attorney Bill Edwards.
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