Snip: Could it be that G.W. Bush and his coalition of infidels have created a virgin supply-demand imbalance by killing so many terrorists? An imbalance that is threatening to shut down the Virgin Redemption Center (VRC) in Islamic heaven?
Dual citizenship faces review in Canada
Snip: Statistics Canada says more than four million immigrants hold dual citizenship with Canada and at least one other country. There are no records for Canadian-born citizens who hold other citizenships.
"We need to be loyal to one country as far as your citizenship. Your heart can be where you were born, but I think the commitment to Canada has to be strong and I think dual citizenship weakens that," Ms. Sgro said.
Muslim camp seeking funding from counties
Snip: The organization building a Muslim youth camp on Coralville Lake is asking Linn and Johnson counties for a small amount of financial support and their endorsements to go after a larger state grant.
Bob Ballantyne, a member of the Muslim Youth Camps of America board of directors, asked the Johnson County Board of Supervisors at their informal work session this morning to sign a letter of support for a $250,000 Vision Iowa grant.
Nationwide illegal alien "leasing" conspiracy uncovered
Snip: The indictment alleges that more than 550 illegal aliens were brought into the United States by the defendants. According to the indictment, the alien workers obtained tourist visas to enter the United States and were employed illegally in the midwest and southeastern United States on farms, in dairies and in factories.
7 illegal alien gang members arrested in Aurora
Snip: All seven are Mexican nationals and documented members of the Latin Kings and Insane Deuces street gangs, the release said. All have past criminal records, including convictions for voluntary manslaughter, burglary, drunken driving and illegally possessing a firearm, according to the release.
Five are being held in ICE custody pending deportation, while two others will face possible criminal prosecution for re-entry after deportation, and an illegal alien possessing a firearm, the release said. They would then face deportation upon release.
Man pleads guilty to bomb making charge (for sale to Al Qaeda)
Snip: Ronald Allen Grecula, 70, of Bangor, Pa., pleaded guilty to attempting to provide support to a terrorist organization as part of an agreement with federal prosecutors. Grecula, who faces a sentence of five years in prison without parole, is to be sentenced Dec. 15.
Snip: “The intelligence director told me that [Armitage] said, ‘Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age’,” President Musharraf said. “
Careful what you call a suicide bomb
Snip: Iraqi insurgents are no longer using just volunteers as suicide car bombers but are instead kidnapping drivers, rigging their vehicles with explosives and blowing them up, the Interior Ministry said Thursday. In what appears to be a new tactic for the insurgency, the ministry said the kidnap victims do not know their cars have been loaded with explosives when they are released.
The ministry issued a statement saying that first “a motorist is kidnapped with his car. They then booby trap the car without the driver knowing. Then the kidnapped driver is released and threatened to take a certain road.”
Virtual fence planned for uS-Canada border
Snip: Sections of the 49th parallel in British Columbia and southwestern Ontario — areas deemed most vulnerable to drug smuggling and terrorist infiltrations along the U.S-Canada border — are the probable locations for a "virtual fence" of high-tech monitoring equipment. Homeland Security officials said Thursday the fence would seek to stop illegal crossings.
Detailing plans for an array of sensors, infrared cameras, watchtowers, and drones that will eventually stretch across America’s entire 8,890-kilometre border with Canada, U.S. authorities said their goal is to have the world’s longest undefended border under surveillance within three to six years.
7 illegal alien gang members arrested in Aurora
~Tis about 45 min from me, if they want to get rid of 1 + million illegals they need to move closer to where I live
News Briefs
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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has said his group today possesses more than 20,000 rockets, and that an increased U.N. peacekeeping force will not hurt the guerrillas' arsenal.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has told a huge rally in Beirut that he thanks God for what he called his group's "victory" in a 34-day war with Israel.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) The Palestinian prime minister of Hamas says he will not head a government that recognizes Israel.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) Hamas says there won't be a coalition government if it has to recognize Israel.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI will meet with representatives of Muslim countries on Monday.
WASHINGTON (AP) Pakistan's president says a peace treaty with tribes along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border is not meant to support the Taliban.
PALU, Indonesia (AP) Police say mobs burn cars, attack police posts in Indonesia following executions of Christian militants.