Included in the lottery are all four countries the U.S considers state sponsors of terror -- Iran, Sudan, Cuba, and Syria -- and 13 of the 14 nations that are coming under special monitoring from the Transportation Security Administration as founts of terrorism. Pakistan is excluded because, like China, it sends over tens of thousands of immigrants each year and doesn't need to be in the lottery.
Among the winners for 2010 are:
Nigeria: 6,006
Iran: 2,773
Algeria: 1,957
Sudan: 1,084
Afghanistan: 345
Cuba: 298
Somalia: 229
Lebanon: 181
Libya: 152
Iraq: 142
Saudi Arabia: 104
Syria: 98
Yemen: 72
bttt
Those stats are truly frightening.
You have got to be sh***in me?!
Federal officials arrested two associates of an Afghan immigrant who was charged last fall with conspiring to carry out bombings in the U.S., part of what authorities have called an al Qaeda cell.
Adis Medunjanin and Zarein Ahmedzay, both of New York City, are being held, pending charges, as part of "an ongoing investigation" by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York City.
The men were expected to appear before a federal judge in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn later Friday, a spokesman said. The two men have ties to Najibullah Zazi, an airport-shuttle driver from Aurora, Colo., who was arrested and indicted in September on charges of planning to make explosives from hair products and household cleaners for use in bombs in the U.S.
Anti-American sentiment grows in Pakistan
Anything that has a US imprint in Pakistan is surely in for trouble these days, or at least has been for some time.
US Navy officials in Bahrain have played down fears about a potential terrorist attack against its warships operating in the Middle East. An increasing number of jihadist threats have been posted on various websites in the last few weeks, according to a Washington-based monitoring group.
Internet posts indicate threat to Navy in Persian Gulf
Snips: One post on the jihadi forum Al-Falluja calls for information such as the “name of the particular naval unit to be targeted, its exact location, the number of troops on board the warship and their ranks, familial status, where their families live, the type of weapons the warship carries … and the number of nuclear bombs onboard,” reads a report compiled by the Washington, D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute.
“The postings that have come out recently are from al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which has been in the news recently, and it is from some of their leaders and some of the main people and ... head moderators,” he said. “[The message] definitely carries more weight.”
Why Christian, Muslim clashes are different this time
The attack that killed six Christians as they left a Jan. 7 Christmas mass, and the ensuing clashes between Christian protesters and Egypt's mainly Muslim security forces, may signal a turn for the worse.
Obama's pro-terror Security Plan
Snips: Nine years later, under a new “terror friendly” Obama regime, we find average American citizens having to risk life and limb to thwart terror attacks on US planes, under an administration that is more concerned with anti-Obama resisters than well-known Islamic terrorists.
Treating American soldiers and Tea Party goers like “enemies of the state” while affording known enemies of the state common criminal benefits of the doubt, is no accident. .......
So, we are left to ponder what the real purpose of a pro-terror security plan is really all about – what purpose it serves – who benefits from a spineless US security policy which lets terrorists roam free while keeping a close eye on domestic resisters of the Obama regime?.....
But one thing is certain – Obama’s policy decisions will get more American citizens killed and when they do, Obama won’t be able to blame that on the Bush administration. .....
Killing freedom and cartoonists
Snip:...... Political violence is aimed at promoting a cause – in this case, special consideration for Islam. If a country cannot stop the violence directly, then the public will demand that it stop the violence indirectly, by thwarting the cause the violence serves. The rise of Geert Wilders’s party in the Netherlands, the referendum to ban minarets in Switzerland, the proposed ban on burkas in France – these are all desperate measures to declare that Islam is not the first religion of Europe. “This is a war,” the mainstream French weekly L’Express editorialised in the wake of the attempt on Mr Westergaard’s life. “To flee this conflict would be to buy tranquillity today at an exorbitant price in blood tomorrow.” It concluded: “Banning every kind of full-body cover [the burka] in our public spaces is a necessity.” This is not the non-sequitur it appears to be.
Kraft and CBC to bring Hockeyville to Little Mosque (on the Prairie)
Kraft Canada has partnered with CBC to integrate its Hockeyville program into an upcoming episode of Little Mosque on the Prairie.The Jan. 18 episode of Little Mosque will see Mercy, its fictitious Saskatchewan town, lobbying to win the Hockeyville competition.
Obama administration - no GITMO detainees released on our watch returned to terrorism???????
llinois GOP Senate hopeful Rep. Mark Steven Kirk on Thursday said "All the major leaders" of the Taliban opposition in Southern Afghanistan are former Guantanamo prisoners who have been released.
The Obama White House, asked to reply, made the point that the detainees released on their watch--about 42 in the past year--are not the detainees who have gone back into the terrorism business.
Sun-Times Political Writer Abdon Pallasch's report on Kirk speaking in Chicago Thursday here
Ummm, k if you say so Obama. However, why aren't you sending anymore GITMO detainees to Yemen as you did in the past?!?!?!