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No comment at all.
I knew you would appreciate the update.
HEY CRABBIE!
Well AMEN, AMEN, AMEN!
Now get some rest.
Thank you Jesus.
Amen.
When will the kids wake up and quit the games?
Canada now admitting the threat is real, is going to surprise a lot of the residents, they have been of the mind that it was our problem.
Does that mean that the liberals who have moved there will be moving back?
Your Armenian news link is interesting. It has an article that the PKK has kidnapped a town leader also.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1454057/posts
"U.S. shuts consulate in chaotic Mexican border city"
Reuters ^ | 7-30-05
Posted on 07/30/2005 10:45:01 PM PDT by kingattax
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (Reuters) - The United States is closing temporarily its consulate in this lawless Mexican border city after rival drug gangs clashed with bazookas, hand grenades and heavy machine-gun fire.
"A violent battle involving unusually advanced weaponry took place between armed criminal factions last night in Nuevo Laredo," U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza said on Friday.
He said he was ordering the consulate in Nuevo Laredo closed for all of next week and would only reopen it if the security situation improved.
Garza called on Mexico to swiftly bring the situation under control.
Mexico reacted angrily to Garza's words, saying both countries shared a responsibility to fight drug crime."
http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/kouri/2005/07/cops-battle-21st-century-crime-gangs.html
Jim Kouri is Vice President of the
National Association of Chiefs of Police
Sunday, July 31, 2005
"Cops Battle 21st Century Crime Gangs"
by Jim Kouri, CPP
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE - PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT - MEXICO
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_2100.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1454029/posts
"Suspended talker gets support
CAIR now demanding Graham be fired"
World Net Daily ^
Posted on 07/30/2005 8:30:40 PM PDT by RUSHLUVER
Thanks to MamaDearest for pointing to this article:
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16101965-1242,00.html
"Tough talk from outlaw group"
By Marnie O'Neill and Ellen Connolly
July 31, 2005
From:
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A RADICAL Islamic group banned in the Middle East last night urged Sydney Muslims to fight against Australian occupation of Islamic nations.
It also warned that ASIO's new anti-terrorism laws could "indirectly incite someone to do an act of violence".
About 300 people -- including women and children -- crammed into the Auburn Town Hall to hear charismatic brothers Soadad and Wassim Doureihi speak on behalf of the outlawed Hizb ut-Tahrir group.
"Muslims must seek to reverse all Western occupation of Islamic land and reject all ideas, actions and practices other than Islam," Soadad Doureihi said.
"As Muslims, we must do everything in our power to fight against Australian occupation in Muslim land."
Mr Doureihi said ASIO's new anti-terrorism laws had resulted in the unjust persecution ofAustralia's Islamic community."
INTELLIGENCE.org.il - Special Information Bulletin - INTELLIGENCE AND TERRORISM INFORMATION CENTER at the Center for Special Studies (C.S.S.): "Radical Islamic activity in Uzbekistan: the latest events in Andijan and their connection with the Islamic Liberation Party" (May 16, 2005) (http://www.intelligence.org.il/sp/5_05/img/u_1.jpg )
"littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=15870_Hizb_ut-Tahrir_Teams_Up_With_Newsweek&only" (May 16, 2005)
INTERNET-HAGANAH.US - Haganah Reading Room: "HIZB UT-TAHRIR" - Part II (December 10, 2004)
INTERNET-HAGANAH.US - Haganah Reading Room: "HIZB UT-TAHRIR" - Part I (May 14, 2003)
KHILAFAH.com.pk: "COMMUNIQUE FROM HIZB UT-TAHRIR: 'And wage Jihad against those who fight you' [Al-Baqarah 2:190] ANNIHILATE THE FOURTH CRUSADE" (March 20, 2003)
"www.hizbut-tahrir.or.id"
"www.hizb-ut-tahrir.org"
"www.hizb-ut-tahrir.info"
"www.hizb-ut-tahrir.info/arabic/index.php/main/index"
GLOBAL SECURITY.org - Military: "HIZB UT-TAHRIR AL-ISLAMI (ISLAMIC PARTY OF LIBERATION)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20050731-121141-2959r.htm
"ITALIAN RAIDS AIM TO AVERT TERROR HITS"
July 31, 2005
From combined dispatches
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "ROME -- Italian police searched 15 sites yesterday with rising concern that Muslim terror cells were poised to strike Italy -- and attack again in Britain.
Police in both nations quizzed suspects in connection with the failed July 21 attempt to bomb three London subway trains and a bus.
Citing security sources, the Sunday Times of London said a cell with access to explosives had planned a "third wave" of attacks in Britain."
You're welcome Donna.
Note: The following post is an exact quote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1454071/posts
Iran resumes 'ultra-sensitive' nuclear activities
AFP via Babelfish translation | July 31, 2005
Posted on 07/31/2005 12:04:40 AM PDT by HAL9000
Iran will inform the IAEA of the ultra-sensitive renewal of activity
TEHERAN - Iran will inform this Sunday or Monday the U.N. Agency fighting against the nuclear proliferation of the resumption of certain ultra-sensitive activities and is on the point of removing the seals posed on some of its installations, announced Sunday the Foreign Affairs.
"We will give today or tomorrow our letter in Vienna", where seat the International Atomic Energy Agency, declared in front of the press the spokesman of the Foreign Affairs Hamid Reza Assefi.
Inspectors of the IAEA "are already in Teheran, it only acts to lead them to Ispahan", with the factory of uranium conversion whose Iran intends to take again the activities suspended in November to allow negotiations with Europe, has it says.
The seals posed on the installations by the IAEA "will be removed in the presence of the inspectors and the activities will begin again", it added.
Such a recovery exposes the Islamic Republic to the Security Council of UNO.
PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org
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http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/news/050729d.asp
persecution
"Christian Women on Trial for ‘Evangelizing’ Muslim Children"
By Lucille Talusan
CBN News Asia Correspondent
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "CBN.com – INDRAMAYA, Indonesia - Muslim extremists in Indonesia have demanded that three Christian women be put to death for allegedly evangelizing Muslim children.
The women are on trial now. They say they were holding an authorized program for Christian students in public schools and were not targeting Muslim kids.
The three Christian housewives have been in jail for more than two months now. The case has caused concern for Christians and stirred the passions of militant Muslims."
Note: The following text is an exact quote:
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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s05070115.htm
ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126 USA
Visit our web site at: www.assistnews.net -- E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com
Saturday, July 30, 2005
VIOLENCE, ARSON AND RELIGIOUS BELIEVERS IN RUSSIA
By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
OSLO, NORWAY (ANS) -- Police in the traditionally Buddhist Russian republic of Tuva, bordering north-west Mongolia, seem to be indifferent to, and have not responded to, violent attacks on Protestants, according to an article by Geraldine Fagan of Forum 18 News Service.
Pastor Aleksandr Degtyarev of Gospel Light Baptist Church, told Forum 18 News Service that "for them it is minor -- they have too many murders to solve."
According to Fagan, in an article obtained by ASSIST News Service (ANS), the republic's crime rate is amongst the highest in Russia, with two-and-a-half times more murders than the national average. Physical attacks against religious believers are uncommon elsewhere in Russia, but there has in recent years been an apparent increase in cases of arson attacks on places of worship reported by Orthodox, Lutheran, Baptist, Pentecostal, Adventist, Jewish and Muslim communities.
In some cases, Fagan says, police investigations have resulted in prosecution, but in others police either fail to investigate or refuse to acknowledge that arson has taken place. The director of the Moscow-based Baptist Association for Spiritual Renewal, Valentin Vasilizhenko, suggested to Forum 18 that arsonists might prefer to attack places of worship, because the repercussions against them would be far less serious than if they attacked a bank or a business.
Speaking in the capital Kyzyl on 1 July, Vitali Voinov, translator of the Bible into Tuvan, said that Pastor Aleksandr Degtyarev of his Gospel Light Baptist Church always reported the occasional but serious incidents, but police officers were indifferent: "For them it is minor -- they have too many murders to solve."
According to an April 2005 Tuvan government report, the republic's crime rate is amongst the highest in the Russian Federation, with two-and-a-half times more murders than the national average.
Vitali Voinov told Forum 18 that most of the attacks on Protestants occurred between 1997 and 2003, when Gospel Light and the similarly Kyzyl-based River of Life Pentecostal Church screened the Jesus Film at locations throughout Tuva.
Fagan says that while some residents attended and welcomed the showings, reports sent to Voinov by local pastors relate how others beat up and threatened to kill church members. Such was the case in Barlyk (western Tuva) in 2003, when villagers also interrupted the film and dispersed those present, accusing them of "betraying Buddha and the nation" by following "the Russian religion." In the same year, Baptist Raisa Kechil-Ool was wounded by a man with a knife at her church in nearby Ak-Dovurak.
Fagan writes: "While the inhabitants of Kara-Khaak, 20km [12 miles] north of Kyzyl, threatened and drove away church members after a local Buddhist lama told them that the high mortality and illness in their settlement were due to the spread of Christianity there, Voinov told Forum 18 that violence was not usually led by Buddhist leaders. Buddhist believers responding to a 2003 sociological survey by Novosibirsk-based academics Boris Myshlyavtsev and Zhanna Yusha partly put their resentment of Christianity down to the allegedly Christian practice of destroying ovaa (shaman cairns). A female Protestant preacher, however, told them that the only such incident occurred when a woman who organised the construction of an ovaa destroyed it following her conversion to Christianity."
Speaking to Forum 18 at Kyzyl's Tsechenling Buddhist temple on 1 July, former kamby-lama (head Buddhist of Tuva) Norbu-Sambuu Mart-Ool declined to comment on Protestant activity in Tuva, other than to say that Buddhists did have problems with mostly Tuvan Protestants.
Fagan says Tuva's main religious affairs official Kambaa Biche-Ool assured Forum 18 the same day that the republic's 17 Protestant organizations function freely unless they violate their own charters and/or the Russian Constitution, in which case the local authorities file suit for their liquidation. Tuva's largest Christian church disbanded under pressure from the authorities (see F18News 18 July 2005 www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=609), who also closed down the republic's only Christian children's home (see F18News 25 July 2005 www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=615).
However, says Fagan, the Tuvan government website expresses similar views to opponents of Protestant mission in the republic. Its religion section states that "after the start of the changes and development of democracy in the early 1990s, religious Protestant organizations reputed to be constructive [sic] sects penetrated Tuva, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, evangelical Pentecostal Christians and Baptists, the worldwide Unification Church and other communities. Approximately 900 indigenous Tuvans -- or 0.43 per cent of the population -- have entered these so-called newly formed trends of religious confessions due to a lack of knowledge about their own traditional beliefs."
Fagan says that Elder preacher Buyan Khomushku of the Kyzyl-based Good News (formerly Sun Bok Ym) Charismatic Church -- which has affiliate communities in ten locations in Tuva -- told Forum 18 on 1 July that church members might be challenged verbally about why they were not preaching Buddhism, but had not encountered physical violence. Nor had Pastor Dmitri Ryabov of the similarly Kyzyl-based Glorification Pentecostal Church.
Fagan reports that while physical attacks against religious believers are uncommon in other parts of Russia, in recent years there has been an apparent increase in cases of arson on places of worship reported by Orthodox, Lutheran, Baptist, Pentecostal, Adventist, Jewish and Muslim communities.
Forum 18 has been able to find reports of only a couple of such incidents in each of 2001 and 2002, but 14 in 2003, nine in 2004 (see eg. F18News 11 February 2004 www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=251 and 22 September 2004 www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=417), and five so far in 2005, as well as undocumented references to more. Forum 18 is not aware of any arson attacks on Catholic churches.
Fagan writes: "In some cases, such as the arson attacks on an Orthodox church in Kamchatka region in August 2004 and a synagogue on the outskirts of Moscow in May 2005, police investigations have resulted in prosecution. In others, however, police either fail to investigate -- such as, as a resident of Chendek village (southern Altai Republic) told Forum 18 on 25 June, in the case of an Orthodox chapel burnt down shortly after construction -- or else refuse to acknowledge that arson has taken place. Orthodox priests in both Arkhangelsk and Tver regions have complained that police played down presumed Satanist attacks on their churches in February 2004 and January 2005 respectively. In the former, the fire brigade also reportedly maintained that the fire was the result of carelessness, even though the parish priest had previously found defaced icons and mutilated cats left nearby."
Sometimes arson victims -- such as an unregistered Baptist church in Arkhangelsk -- additionally complain that the fire brigade arrives late or unprepared. This may not be unusual, however, as Forum 18 has heard of a private individual's emergency call for an ambulance being refused in Moscow region, Fagan says.
In other cases, she writes, such as the arson attacks on a Baptist church in Blagoveshchensk (Amur region) in December 2004 and a Pentecostal church in Yaroslavl region in April 2005, police do confirm arson and open an investigation.
In April 2005, however, religious rights lawyer Anatoli Pchelintsev remarked to Forum 18 that such investigations "never result in anything." While he was aware of some 20 incidents of attempted arson on places of worship in 2004, he remarked, not one has led to prosecution. In Balashikha (Moscow region), where a Baptist church was targeted in May 2003 and February 2004, police officers concluded that the fire was caused by a short circuit, pointed out Pchelintsev, even though bottles of flammable liquid were later discovered at the site by church members.
Speaking to Forum 18 in March 2005, however, director of the Moscow-based Baptist Association for Spiritual Renewal estimated that the number of arson attacks on places of worship in Russia had fallen. Albeit sometimes slowly, the state authorities did normally respond to such incidents, maintained Valentin Vasilizhenko. He suggested that arsonists might prefer to attack places of worship because the repercussions against them would be far less serious than if they attacked a bank or a business.
For a personal commentary by an Old Believer about continuing denial of equality to Russia's religious minorities see F18News www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=570
For more background see Forum 18's Russia religious freedom survey at www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=509
A printer-friendly map of Russia is available at www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html?Parent=europe&Rootmap=russi
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** Michael Ireland is an international British freelance journalist. A former reporter with a London newspaper, Michael is the Chief Correspondent for ASSIST News Service of Garden Grove, CA. Michael immigrated to the United States in 1982 and became a US citizen in Sept., 1995. He is married with two children. Michael has also been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station.
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Note: The following video clips (and the links to transcripts) are on the current front page of MEMRITV.org
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http://www.memritv.org
MUST SEE SAUDI TV II Reactions to London Bombing
#783 - LA Psycohologyst Wafa Sultan Clashes with Algerian Islamist Ahmad bin Muhammad over Islamic Teachings and Terrorism
Al-Jazeera TV (Qatar) - 7/26/2005 - 00:07:43
#782 - Iranian President-Elect Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad: "Is There Art that Is More Beautiful, More Divine, and More Eternal than the Art of Martyrdom?"
Iran Ch.1 - 7/25/2004 - 00:01:20
#781 - Egyptian MP and President of Zamalek Football Club Murtada Mansour: US President a "Bully" and Secretary of State -"Conda-What?... Cola Bottle... Skinny-Legged Woman"
Dream2 TV (Egypt) - 7/26/2005 - 00:01:29
#780 - Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani on Iran's Space Activities
Iran Ch.2 - 7/23/2005 - 00:00:48
Note: Here is an index of just the July 2005 articles at MEMRI.org in the JIHAD AND TERRORISM STUDIES section:
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http://www.memri.org/jihad.html
Special Dispatch Series - No. 946 - Jihad and Terrorism Studies, July 29, 2005
Lebanese Mufti Dr. Muhammad Ali Al-Jozo: Support for Killing Americans; Suicide Attacks ‘100% Good’; 9/11, London Attacks by U.S. or Zionists – Not Bin Laden; I ‘Made Fun’ of U.S. Border Patrol
Special Dispatch Series - No. 945 - Jihad and Terrorism Studies, July 29, 2005
Iran's New President Glorifies Martyrdom
Special Dispatch Series - No. 944 - Jihad and Terrorism Studies, July 27, 2005
Egyptian Parliament Member Praises Killing Americans
Special Dispatch Series - No. 936 - Jihad and Terrorism Studies, July 19, 2005
Palestinian National Council Member Mamoun Tamimi on London Bombings: ‘Since This [Iraq] War is Ongoing, Those You Strike Have the Right to Strike Back At You – In Your Home, Your Country, Or Anywhere’
Special Dispatch Series - No. 935 - Jihad and Terrorism Studies, July 15, 2005
Saudi Columnist: Terrorists Mistreat Their Wives and Children
Special Report - No. 37 - Jihad and Terrorism Studies, July 12, 2005
Arab and Iranian Media Reactions to the London Bombing – Part II: ‘The Attacks Were Anticipated Due to British Leniency to Extremists Acting in Britain’- ‘Expel Extremism Today’
Special Dispatch Series - No. 932 - Jihad and Terrorism Studies, July 12, 2005
Director of London's Al-Maqreze Centre for Historical Studies Hani Sibai: There are No "Civilians" in Islamic Law; The Bombing is a Great Victory for Al-Qa'ida, Which ‘Rubbed the Noses of the World's 8 Most Powerful Countries in the Mud’
Special Report - No. 36 - Jihad and Terrorism Studies, July 8, 2005
Arab Media Reactions to the London Bombing: ‘A Chapter in World War III’
Special Dispatch Series - No. 931 - Jihad and Terrorism Studies, July 8, 2005
Debate in Bahraini Media on Glorification of Martyred Saudi Al-Qa'ida Leader
Special Dispatch Series - No. 930 - Jihad and Terrorism Studies, July 7, 2005
Osama Bin Laden's Brother Interviewed by Al-Arabiya TV
Special Dispatch Series - No. 929 - Jihad and Terrorism Studies, July 6, 2005
Al-Arabiya TV Report: Iranian Volunteer Suicide Bomber Organization of 40,000 ‘Time Bombs’ Recruited to Target Americans in Iraq and Israel
Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 231 - Jihad and Terrorism Studies, July 1, 2005
‘The Sheikh of the Slaughterers’: Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi and the Al-Qa'ida Connection
Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 230 - Jihad and Terrorism Studies, July 1, 2005
Disarming Hizbullah: The Public Debate in Lebanon
MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch Series - No. 946: "Lebanese Mufti Dr. Muhammad Ali Al-Jozo: Support for Killing Americans; Suicide Attacks '100% Good'; 9/11, London Attacks by U.S. or Zionists - Not Bin Laden; I 'Made Fun' of U.S. Border Patrol" (July 29, 2005) (Read More...)
Note: The following text snippet is an exact quote from infovlad.net:
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Aljazeera features a story of Yuko Tojo, the granddaughter of General Hideki Tojo.
Posted in General at 11:14 am by Vladimir
General’s heir fights for his memory
By Julian Ryall in Tokyo
Thursday 28 July 2005, 0:48 Makka Time, 21:48 GMT
The granddaughter of an infamous Japanese general, hanged at the end of the second world war, is calling for people to reassess their image of him.
Yuko Tojo, who works for a project recovering the remains of Japanese soldiers killed in action, recalls the general as a gentle man who stood up for Japan and protected the emperor Hirohito. This view is in stark contrast to the common image of a man demonised as the perpetrator of the Pearl Harbour attack.
Read the rest of this entry »
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iaifilms.net - up
Posted in General at 7:39 am by Vladimir
As you already know, iaifilms.net now get started on its work, as a substitute for former iaiiraq.net, shutdown on July 21st.
See also: Site report for iaifilms.net
The latest IAI movies:
http://www.iaifilms.net/26-7-2005.mpg
http://www.iaifilms.net/26-7-2005.rmvb
http://www.iaifilms.net/27-7-2005.mpg
http://www.iaifilms.net/27-7-2005.rmvb
http://www.iaifilms.net/28-7-2005.mpg
http://www.iaifilms.net/28-7-2005.rmvb
http://www.iaifilms.net/30-7-2005.mpg
http://www.iaifilms.net/30-7-2005.rmvb
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Jihadi Files Update - July 2005
Posted in General at 6:15 am by Vladimir
July 31
http://crusader.rulez.jp/files/0731200501.wmv
See also: Ansar al-Sunnah Announces the “Harvest” in al-Howeija, and Claims Responsibility for Several Bombing Operations on American Soldiers and Iraqi Forces in Baghdad and Samarra.
http://crusader.rulez.jp/files/0731200502.rm
http://crusader.rulez.jp/files/0731200503.rmvb
- IAI
July 30
http://dossier.infovlad.net/html/0730200501.html
July 29
http://crusader.rulez.jp/files/0729200501.rmvb
July 28
http://crusader.rulez.jp/files/0728200501.rm
- Audio clip. I bet it’s something important, though.
http://crusader.rulez.jp/files/0727200501.rmvb
http://crusader.rulez.jp/files/0728200503.wmv
http://trackingalqueda.blogspot.com
Thanks neosgirl for updating your blog.
I read it.
That one cartoon you couldn't view is 404 -- not found, but
the website itself is still up.
FYI.
NOTE: "...no one picked up the bag..."
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1454086/posts
"Smoke scare closes area of baggage claim - aerosol can of cooking spray"
Houston Chronicle ^ | July 31, 2005
Posted on 07/31/2005 1:15:41 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Houston Fire Department's Hazardous Materials team shut down a section of a baggage claim area at Bush Intercontinental Airport Saturday night because of smoking luggage left on a baggage carousel, officials said.
It turned out to be caused by an aerosol can of cooking spray.
Airport spokesman Roger Smith said late Saturday that the luggage was left behind on a baggage carousel used for Continental Flight 51, which originated in Newark, N.J., and arrived about 9 p.m.
When no one picked up the bag, it was "taken to one of those offices where they take unclaimed bags," Smith said."
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