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To start off this new thread, it has been brought to my attention that FReeper, Dengar1, has spotted "suspicious" and unusual muslim activity in his suburban Chicago neighborhood and reports that this activity is happening in another nearby community as well.Suspicious Activity amongst the Islamic Community in Chicago (Since OBL Dead)
Dengar1 has been a FReeper in good standing for over ten years, so when he says something, you can probably take it to the bank.
In the wake of what is claimed to be the death of osama bin laden, the likelihood of more terrorism around the world has inceased dramatically, The indications I have been seeing and hearing about are that the muslim groups, big and small, have increased their focus on the United States even more dramatically.
There have been general threats issued and that was to be expected. But if the unsettled chatter on the jihad boards is any indication, there is widespread shock and a lot of disbelief in the "official" story obama and members of his administration have released to the public, especially when the "facts" have changed substantially since obama's self-serving speech on Sunday night.
obama is using this as a political tool for his own ends as was very noticable in the stump speech he gave as a "formal announcement," and his subsequent plans to go to Ground Zero and hype himself even more, which I believe is an absolute disgrace from an American point of view.
His Sunday night announcement was delayed nearly an hour to give a flash mob of mostly local college students time to gather in front of the White House and was then broadcast worldwide. It was NOT a spontaneous demonstration of celebration. It was a cynical political ploy orchestrated by the administration and most of those who gathered there were young children on 9/11.
Nevertheless, political or not, these images went out over the airwaves, and while the occasion is indeed worth celebrating, there should have been a period of fact gathering and time for some somber and SOBER reflection before presenting the entire world with a set of unverified and erroneous "facts" coupled with what appeared to be a celebration of bin laden's death when in reality, it was a celebration of obama. The muslims worldwide do not know or care about the difference.
So WHY did he do it the way he did?
As is his wont, he has taken all he credit unto himself, patting himself on the back as if he had planned and executed this operation with no input or help from anybody....for US. THAT is what WE heard. Yet the story was not anything like his big announcment complete with flowery and altogether sickening prose, (which is reminiscent of any muslim pronouncement,) and in fact, is still changing as it becomes clear that most of the people in that compound were women and young children. There were no guards and no human shields as was initially claimed.
There was no major firefight, and indeed, we are now being told that no shots were fired at arriving Americans at all. bin laden's twelve year old daughter states that her father was already captured when he was shot. Whether that is true or not, the muslims will believe it.
WE have no proof that bin laden was even there and the "proof" they claim to have, they won't release for fear of offending muslim "sensibilities"? After broadcasting obama's speech worldwide? After the images of a "euphoric celebration" was broadcast at the same time? After not worrying about offending muslim "sensibilities" as long as obama was being covered on international television?
May I remind this POS that sits at the helm of OUR ship of state that the muslims did not give one good damn about OUR sensibilities when they filmed and released Daniel Pearl's beheading? Or Nick Berg's beheading. Or the bodies of American contractors being mutilated and burned and hung from a bridge in Iraq. And so many other atrocities too numerous to mention.
I WANT that image. I don't care how gruesome they say it is. And if they DON'T release it, the muslims who believe bin laden is dead will STILL seek vengeance, and those who DON'T believe it will feel even more passion to strike because the koran ORDERS them to if their heroes are lied about. Furthermore, obama KNOWS this full well, and the story he told on Sunday night was deliberately DESIGNED to enflame the muslims even more than it was designed to give US any satisfaction whatsoever. It was designed to advance the notion that bin laden AND his faithful wife died as martyred heroes... and that was a flat out lie. The entire premise for obama's speech Sunday night was for muslim ears and eyes, NOT ours. THAT is the muslim way...and obama KNOWS the muslim way.
So Dengar1's experience will be played out in many place across this country, not just in the suburbs of Chicago. If ANYONE on Free Republic has any similar experiene, or if you see somethingthat bothers you enough to set off your gut alarm, do not hesitate to call the FBI and your Local and State Police. Do NOT confuse yourself by second guessing yourself. Just DO it. If you are wrong, there is no harm done, but if you are RIGHT, you might wll save lives. PLEASE BE VIGILANT. I cannot possibly overstate the imminent danger this POS has put us in with the speech he broacast to the world on Sunday night. And now he goes to TARGET Ground Zero.
Can you imagine the impact on muslim "sensibilities" at seeing George Bush CELEBRATING bin laden's death at Ground zero? Do you think obama invited him because he feels so magnanimus towards Bush? OR Giuliani? Bush had the good sense to decline. I don't know if Giuliani will allow himself to be used in this way.
I reiterate. IF YOU SEE SOMETHING...ANYTHING, MAKE THE CALL! AMERICAN LIVES MAY DEPEND ON IT!
It ain’t just me, cyn. But FWIW, you are most welcome.
Back to business:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2718080/posts
President to Renew Muslim Outreach (New Obama Speech to Ummah This Month)
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Tuesday, May 10, 2011 | Jay Solomon and Carol E. Lee
Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 11:16:43 PM by kristinn
President Barack Obama is preparing a fresh outreach to the Muslim world in coming days, senior U.S. officials say, one that will ask those in the Middle East and beyond to reject Islamic militancy in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death and embrace a new era of relations with the U.S.
Mr. Obama is preparing to deliver that message in a wide-ranging speech, perhaps as early as next week, these officials say. The president intends to argue that bin Laden’s death, paired with popular uprisings sweeping North Africa and the Middle East, signal that the time has come to an end when al Qaeda could claim to speak for Muslim aspirations.
“It’s an interesting coincidence of timing—that he is killed at the same time that you have a model emerging in the region of change that is completely the opposite of bin Laden’s model,” Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser at the White House, said in an interview.
Since January, popular uprisings have overthrown the longtime dictators of Tunisia and Egypt. They have shaken rulers in Libya, Bahrain, Syria, Yemen and Jordan, marking the greatest wave of political change the world has seen since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
SNIP
Mr. Rhodes said timing of the speech remains in flux but Mr. Obama could deliver it before leaving on a five-day trip to Europe on May 23. The White House is already telegraphing the message of the coming speech to the Islamic world by placing American diplomats on Arab television and radio, according to U.S. officials.
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Here comes the third and final declaration. This makes it formal, guys.
Since when does anything Mulahs and such echo down the echo chamber matter....or that they need a reason. They "object" to everything. At least they do recognize the world is at war with their kind...initiated by Islamic believers I might add.
Like they're going to listen to him...hahahahahaha! You cannot remake Islamic societies thru democracy, especially any idea coming from Obama..... Sharia Law trumps everything...and that ain't going to change.
Placemark.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2718108/posts
Rooting for Khamenei
Foreign Policy ^ | Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 12:46 PM | Geneive Abdo
Posted on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 1:48:34 AM by RightCenter
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s decision last month to dismiss Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi. The ensuing power struggle between Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has left the Iranian president deeply weakened and revealed many useful lessons about the closed and convoluted political workings of the Islamic Republic. On the surface, the battle appeared to be over when Ahmadinejad backed down. But there are deeper issues at stake which remain far from resolved. When Khamenei gave the president an ultimatum to reinstate the minister or resign, the supreme leader was not only preserving his own power — the supreme leader has final say over government affairs — but that of the entire clerical establishment.
C, he doesn’t want to remake THEIR society. He wants to remake OURS.
The Brits have pandered to the muzzies, now they’re paying for it!
...as Ron White would say...
...is it time to put on the dang helmet yet?...
I would advise a titanium neckbrace myself.
Israel’s New Neighbor Egypt: Radical Nationalist President; Islamist-Dominated Parliament .
Right Side News ^ | 5/11/2011 | Barry Rubin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2718281/posts
Amr Moussa, probably Egypt’s next president, has given a comprehensive picture of his views, a foretaste of the likely policies of someone about to become the Arab world’s most powerful person. One thing he said is particularly important and shocking. Read on.
Moussa, former Egyptian foreign minister (1991-2001) and head of the Arab League until his resignation takes effect on May 15, is a figure from the Egyptian establishment and the old regime. But which aspect of the old regime: that of the centrist Husni Mubarak, the moderate Anwar al-Sadat, or the radical Arab nationalist Gamal Abd al Nasser?
Moussa is the last Nasserist. He knows that the next president must also be a populist to survive. So he will bash Israel, the United States, and the Egyptian upper class. The hope is that he will be pragmatic enough to restrict his demagoguery to rhetoric.
It might seem ironic that a revolution against the old regime ends up electing as president a figure from the old regime. Yet Moussa perfectly combines experience and name recognition with radicalism. A recent Pew poll shows him with an 89 percent positive rating. Moussa’s prospects look so good because the Islamists aren’t running a presidential candidate. Moderate democrats, restricted to a small urban middle class constituency, can choose among four candidates running against each other, thus further splitting that vote.
Another reason Moussa’s election appears likely is his deft use of the anti-Israel card. So identified is Moussa with hostility to Israel that in 2001 a popular song entitled, “I Hate Israel (I love Amr Moussa)” zoomed to the top of the Egyptian hit parade. Indeed, Moussa is now emphasizing that much of the reason for his break with Mubarak was due to his desire to take a stronger policy against Israel.
Moussa’s basic argument in his Wall Street Journal interview is that Egypt has obtained nothing from peace with Israel and that Israel is completely at fault for the lack of an Israel-Palestinian peace agreement. Of course, Egypt received: the Sinai’s return; the reopening of its oilfields and the Suez Canal; and the opportunity for more trade, tourism, and a lower military budget. Failure to take advantage of the latter points was due to Egyptian decisions.
In addition, Egypt and Israel had what amounts to an alliance against revolutionary Islamism, particularly Hamas in the Gaza Strip. President Moussa will reverse this policy and see Hamas as an ally, albeit one that he won’t trust and might try to restrain.
Hamas is now starting to believe that by attacking Israel it will have the power to draw Egypt into a war with Israel. If that view is not countered decisively by the next Egyptian government, the result will be a return to the 1960s and a terrible major conflict. Unfortunately, the current U.S. government cannot be counted on to see and help eliminate that problem.
As the Wall Street Journal accurately notes: “U.S. and European officials said they don’t see the Egypt-Israel peace agreement in danger in the near term. They say Cairo won’t place in jeopardy billions of dollars in aid.”
We’ve seen this kind of economic determinism before and every time it is applied to Middle East states it fails. Examples:
—Yasir Arafat will make peace with Israel because he wants to get a state and huge compensation funding.
—Syria will moderate and turn toward the West and away from Iran in order to get trade and investment.
—Iran would much rather become wealthy than to pursue these silly ideas about spreading Islamist revolution.
Now, here’s what’s really shocking in the interview. To quote the Journal’s account, Moussa, “Described a political landscape in which the Muslim Brotherhood…is dominant. It is inevitable, he said, that parliamentary elections in September will usher in a legislature led by a bloc of Islamists, with the Brotherhood at the forefront.”
Think about that. Even Moussa, who is anti-Islamist, admits this, though Western governments and mass media haven’t figured it out yet. He’s running as an independent meaning with no political party behind him. Thus, Moussa must constantly compromise with the Islamist majority in parliament that will consist of the Muslim Brotherhood plus even more radical groups.
The alliance of the Muslim Brotherhood with even more radical “Salafi” groups—the kind of people who launched a terrorist war in Egypt during the 1990s and who support Usama bin Ladin—is another dangerous development. The Salafis are the ones attacking Christians; the Brotherhood-Salafi alliance has organized two demonstrations outside Israel’s embassy. In contrast, there are no riot police present and the demonstrators are allowed to approach closer to the embassy than before. It’s only a matter of time before there’s a nasty incident.
Now, just for fun, check out this MEMRI video on the pro-bin Ladin, anti-American demonstration at the al-Nur mosque in Cairo. They chant, “Death to America” and the Islamist chant calling for the slaughter of all Jews. There’s also a new one we’ll be hearing a lot of in the months to come, “Obama is the enemy of Allah!” There are, what, 2000 people in that one mosque?
Note how young the crowd is. See how they use their state-of-the-art smartphones to taken snapshots of bin Ladin’s face in the mosque’s place of honor! At least one of them is wearing the jacket of the English national football (soccer) team! Why they might even use Facebook!
The Financial Times reports a speech by Muslim Brotherhood leader Muhammad Badie that when Egypt’s parliament meets the Brotherhood, which will have the largest bloc, will propose the following program:
“An end to normalization [with Israel] which has given our enemy stability; an end to [Egyptian] efforts to secure from infiltrators the borders of the Zionists; the abolition of all [joint] economic interests such as the Qualified Industrial Zones agreement and the export of Egyptian gas to Israel.”
Note the key point there: “an end to efforts to secure from infiltrators the borders of the Zionists.” In other words, to turn Egypt into what the Gaza Strip was in the 1950s, Jordan was in the late 1960s, and Lebanon was in the 1970s: a springboard and safe haven for terrorists attacking Israel across the border. Such a policy can only end in full-scale war.
Isn’t it great that now Egypt is a democratic state where people feel free to voice their opinions? Of course, the problem is the nature of those opinions.
Remember this: The Muslim Brotherhood doesn’t have to engage in terrorist violence within Egypt because it has allies ready to do so. This is just like Hamas’ use of smaller groups to attack Israel from the Gaza Strip and then disclaims responsibility, allowing its apologists to claim that now it’s really moderate.
While I doubt that the Islamists will have an outright majority they should come pretty close and thus have one by allying with various radical nationalists, leftists, and independents. That also means they’ll take a leading role in writing Egypt’s new constitution.
Moussa makes another important point in the interview. First, after many years in which Egypt was oriented inward, he will reassert a leading Egyptian role in the Arab world. That probably means conciliation with Syria and the recreation of a radical Arab bloc that includes Egypt for the first time in more than 30 years. The best thing that can be said is that neither Iraq nor the Saudis would participate, while the Jordanians would be very wary.
Egypt will no longer be a U.S. ally. The question is the degree to which it will be an enemy of the United States.
Finally, he knows that he will have to deliver economic benefits to the masses. But that probably means higher subsidies and more government jobs, policies that will do nothing to improve Egypt’s economy in a real way. The worse the economy gets, the greater the anti-Israel, anti-American demagoguery will be.
. We are able to predict this crisis more than six months ahead of time, yet Western countries, media, and experts have not yet seen what is certainly coming down the road toward us.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2718661/posts
Two Men Arrested in New York Terror Case
nytimes.com ^ | May 11, 2011 | AL BAKER and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2011 12:37:54 AM by Free ThinkerNY
Two men who the authorities said intended to carry out a terrorist attack in New York City were arrested late Wednesday, two law enforcement officials said.
Details were not immediately available, and the identities of the men were not released. A law enforcement source characterized the suspects as “homegrown,” and another said they were of North African descent.
The case was being prosecuted by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, and law enforcement officials said the men were expected to be charged under New York State’s terrorism law.
Major terrorism cases are generally investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and prosecuted by the United States attorney’s office in federal court. But in this case, a law enforcement official said, one official had told the F.B.I. it was not a terrorism case.
The New York Police Department, working with the F.B.I., is usually involved in such cases. They are not generally handled by the Police Department alone and are seldom prosecuted in state court. A terrorist act, according to state law, is one intended to intimidate or coerce civilians, influence government policy by intimidation or coercion, or affect government conduct by murder, assassination or kidnapping.
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Now you MIGHT ask yourself why NYPD doesn’t seem to trust the feds to prosecute this case... until you recall that had Ray Kelly NOT pulled the trigger on the LAST fed investigation and ACTED when he did, NYC would be minus a tunnel and a few synagogues...and the perps might never hve been caught.
We still have heroes..........
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2718722/posts
Queens man in terror bust (Muslim plotted to attack NYC synagogue, FBI declined to investigate)
NY Post ^ | 5/12/11 | New York Post
Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2011 7:13:21 AM by jimbo123
A Queens man in his 20s was busted last night in a terror plot targeting New York, The Post has learned.
One source said the man was trying to buy a handgun and talked about attacking a synagogue.
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From the article:
In an unusual move, Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance’s office decided to prosecute after the FBI declined to get involved.
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Do you suppose the feds would have declined if the plot had been aginst a ....mosque?
US-born Omar Hamami -- better known as Abu Mansoor al-Amriki
[excerpted]
Officials: Bin Laden eyed small cities as targets
“...bin Laden dispensed chilling advice to the leaders of al-Qaida groups from Yemen to London: Hit Los Angeles, not just New York, he wrote. Target trains as well as planes. If possible, strike on significant dates, such as the Fourth of July and the upcoming 10th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Above all, he urged, kill more Americans in a single attack, to drive them from the Arab world.
Don’t limit attacks to New York City, he said in his writings. Consider other areas such as Los Angeles or smaller cities. Spread out the targets.
“...that the smaller, scattered attacks since the 9/11 attacks had not been enough. He tells his disciples that only a body count of thousands, something on the scale of 9/11, would shift U.S. policy.
He also schemed about ways to sow political dissent in Washington and play political figures against one another, officials said.
More:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110512/ap_on_re_us/us_bin_laden
One comment posted after the article:
Dear Westboro Baptist Church:
We have a funeral for you to protest.
It’s somewhere in the middle of the northern Arabian Sea. We would be more than happy to help you pack, fly you there, and drop you off.
Sincerely,
America
Lol. But the point with all this is that ingenious attack pans proves nothing.
Here’s a sort of semi-secret: setting up to kill tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or more people at a go is ridiculously easy. It requires no great genius to look for the weak points, or to pick out the over the counter tech to exploit them.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/05/12/police-68-killed-bombings-nw-pakistan/
Taliban’s ‘First Revenge’ for Bin Laden Killing Leaves 80 Dead in Pakistan
Published May 13, 2011
| FoxNews.com
Excerpt:
Twin explosions struck a paramilitary training center in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 80 people, in what the Pakistani Taliban described as its “first revenge” for the death of Usama bin Laden.
The group threatened bigger attacks to come, in a statement shortly after the explosions. The blasts targeted newly trained recruits about to be bussed home on leave in Pakistan’s Charsadda district, near the Afghan border.
A suicide bomber detonated at least one of the blasts at the main gate of the facility for the Frontier Constabulary, a poorly equipped but front-line force in Pakistan’s battle against Al Qaeda and allied Islamist groups close to the Afghan border. Like other branches of Pakistan security forces, it has received U.S. funding.
More than 100 people were wounded, and 66 of the dead were recruits.
“This was the first revenge for Usama’s martyrdom. Wait for bigger attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan,” Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location.
“Also, the Pakistani army has failed to protect its land,” Ehsan later told The Associated Press.
The scene of the blast was littered with shards of glass mixed with blood and human flesh. The explosions destroyed at least 10 vans the recruits were boarding to go home for a short break at the end of a recent training session.
Dr. Abdul Hameed Afridi of Lady Rieding Hospital in Peshawar said 117 people have been treated at the hospital, including 40 with critical wounds.
About 3 to 4 pounds of explosives were used in one explosion, said police officer Jahanzeb Khan. Ball bearings and nails were used in another, heightening the death toll, he said.
A vegetable vendor at the site said some recruits were seated in white minivans and others were loading luggage atop the vehicles.
“There was a big blast,” he said. “I saw smoke, blood and body pieces all around.”
The attack was a savage reminder of the toll militant groups are taking on Pakistan even as it faces international suspicion that elements within its security forces may have been harboring bin Laden, who was killed in a raid about three hours’ drive from Peshawar.
Soon after the blast, Pakistan’s senior military officer, General Khalid Shameem Wynne, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, canceled a scheduled visit to the United States.
A senior military official told AFP the visit had been canceled “in view of the prevailing environment” in reference to the fallout from the unilateral US commando raid that killed bin Laden on May 2.
“General Khalid Shameem Wynne contacted his counterpart in the US, Admiral Mike Mullen, and informed him about the cancellation of his visit to the US that was scheduled from May 22 to 27,” the official said on condition of anonymity.
Police official Nisar Khan said a suicide bomber, a man in his late teens or early 20s, set off one blast. The cause of the other explosion was not yet known, he said.
“The first blast occurred in the middle of the road, and after that there was a huge blast that was more powerful than the first,” said Abdul Wahid, a 25-year-old recruit whose legs were wounded in the blasts.
He said he was knocked to the ground by the force of the explosions.
“After falling, I just started crawling and dragging myself to a safer place ... along the wall of a roadside shop,” he said.
Ahmad Ali, a wounded paramilitary policeman, recalled the horror when the explosions turned a festive Friday morning into a bloodbath.
“I was sitting in a van waiting for my colleagues. We were in plain clothes and we were happy we were going to see our families,” he told AFP by telephone from Shabqadar hospital.
“I heard someone shouting ‘Allah Akbar’ and then I heard a huge blast. I was hit by something in my back shoulder. In the meantime I heard another blast and I jumped out of the van. I felt that I was injured and bleeding.”
The Pakistani Taliban last week threatened to attack security forces to avenge bin Laden’s killing.
The Sept. 11 mastermind and at least four others were killed by U.S. Navy SEALs who raided bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a garrison city. Bin Laden is believed to have lived in the large house for up to six years.
Pakistani officials have denied knowing he was there but have criticized the American raid ordered by President Obama as a violation of their country’s sovereignty.
Pakistani leaders have also repeatedly pointed out that tens of thousands of their own citizens have died in suicide and other attacks since Sept. 11, 2001, when Islamabad became an ally of the U.S. in taking on Islamist extremists.
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http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/world/2011/05/13/deadly-taliban-bombings-pakistan/#slide=1
Photos-(graphic)
They just love soft targets, don’t they? But there also now seems to be an internal war inside AQ, with cooperation between some subgroups being withdrawn. We’ll see what comes of it.
In other new, apropos of nothing really, here’s a shia twelver event. Kinda bizarre stuff, and kinda interesting.
http://www.junipersec.com/cyber.htm
You know the drill. Oh, and just for us here, here’s the musical version: http://www.junipersec.com/media/raveparty.wmv
More from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
HELMAND, May. 13 – Reports arriving from Lashkargah city say that an agent police opened fire on enemy personnel inside Nazam ‘Ama base located near the main prison at around dusk time yesterday, killing 8 invaders and 5 puppets besides wounded several others.
Reports add that the undercover policeman (Muhammad) was a resident of Zhiri district’s Nalgham area and had joined the police force to carry out this operation a while back after consulting Mujahideen leaders in the area, officials said, adding that the fate of the Mujahid is not known as to whether he managed to escape or was martyred.
It is worth mentioning that a month earlier, 9 American invaders were killed by a pilot (Ahmad Gul) in Kabul city and a similar act carried out a police officer in northern Faryab provincial capital (Maimana city) killed 2 ISAF invaders.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2719532/posts
The return of the DC snipers?
The Washington Times ^ | May 13, 2011 | James S. Robbins
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2011 4:05:18 PM by Abakumov
The younger generation of al Qaeda terrorists seems to have internalized the lessons of the DC snipers. In the Fall 2010 issue of Inspire, the English-language magazine published by al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), editor Yahya Ibrahim offers “Tips for our Brothers in the United States of America.” ...
“A random hit at a crowded restaurant in Washington DC at lunch hour for example might end up knocking out a few government employees. Targeting such employees is paramount and the location would also give the operation additional media attention.” According to Ibrahim the advantages of the “random shooting line of operations” include the fact that no-one else is involved (“This eliminates the chances of the Feds catching wind of what’s going to happen”); it demand the least preparation (“All what is needed is the weapon, the ammunition, and surveillance of the site”); and it can be done quickly (“Other operations may need more time to prepare”).
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Divine Intevention? G-d in the computer?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2719522/posts
Disappointment for visa lottery winners worldwide
AP ^ | May 13 2011 | MATTHEW LEE
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2011 3:45:47 PM by Berlin_Freeper
WASHINGTON (AP) — A computer glitch corrupted the State Department’s annual worldwide lottery for U.S. immigrant visas and the results will be scratched, the Obama administration said Friday, disappointing tens of thousands of would-be immigrants who were notified this year that they had won a chance to come and live legally in the United States.
Nearly 15 million people had entered the 2012 lottery hoping to win one of 50,000 U.S. immigrant visas available under a wild-card program for people who otherwise would have little hope of getting a coveted U.S. visa.
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Watching the demons in the White House? THIS is the ultimate in chutzpah, even for obama. This is not a prayer thread, but saying a few couldn’t hurt.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2719513/posts
Obama to lay out Mideast policy on Thursday (Post-Bin Laden ‘Kumbaya’ Alert!!)
Yahoo ^ | 5/13/11 | Matt Spetalnick - Reuters
Posted on Friday, May 13, 2011 3:34:53 PM by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will lay out a vision for his policy toward the Middle East on Thursday, using Osama bin Laden’s death as a chance to recast the U.S. response to political upheaval in the Arab world.
Obama, who has enjoyed a boost in his standing at home and abroad with the death of the al Qaeda chief, will give his much-anticipated “Arab spring” speech one day before White House talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The president is expected to re-commit to seeking an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal but seen as unlikely to present major new proposals, given the impending resignation of his envoy George Mitchell, who led two years of mostly fruitless mediation efforts.
The administration, looking to counter criticism it has struggled to keep pace with turmoil in the Arab world, has been crafting a new U.S. strategy for the region since shortly after popular uprisings erupted, toppling autocratic rulers in Egypt and Tunisia and engulfing Libya in near-civil war.
The killing of bin Laden in a U.S. raid on his Pakistan compound last week will give Obama a chance to make the case for Arabs to reject al Qaeda’s Islamist militancy and embrace democratic change ..
“The president believes very firmly that those who view al Qaeda and those who view terrorism as a means to achieving a better future are fast moving toward ... the dustbin of history,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said when asked how bin Laden’s death would figure in Obama’s policy address.
Pro-democracy movements spreading in the Arab world underscored the region’s repudiation of bin Laden’s message, Carney said.
He said that Obama’s speech, to be delivered at the State Department, would be a “sweeping” review of the U.S. response to political unrest in the Arab world.
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