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I saw the movie 300 again recently and it crossed my mind. I know the libs hate the movie and so do the Islamo-nuts all over. So go see it again or for the first time, and think about then and today. (Better yet...buy the CD.) We too stand at the gates...the hordes are comming. 300 On DVDhttp://www.300ondvd.com/index2.html

Berlin police say they have foiled a German woman's plans to travel abroad to become a suicide bomber. She is one of three women who media reports say are being investigated after announcing plans on the internet to carry out missions in Iraq. Berlin police said the woman may have been planning to take along her child, who has since been taken into care. Berlin police told the BBC they had discovered that a 40-year-old woman was "planning via an internet forum to commit suicide, kill or injure other people abroad". "She herself is a convert to Islam and was...

Funeral Services have been finalized for a Tri-State soldier killed in Iraq. Forty two year old Sergeant Gregory Rogers of Deer Park died last Sunday after an improvised explosive device destroyed the Humvee he was riding in. Rogers served 22 years in the military including serving in the first Gulf War. Roger's body is scheduled to return tonight around 11:30 p.m and travel from CVG to Deer Park. A visitation will be held tomorrow night from six until nine o'clock at the Deer Park High School. A graveside service will be held a Rose Hill cemetery with full military honors.

SAN DIEGO — Prosecutors are seeking the extradition of a woman in Florida accused of poisoning her husband — a Marine sergeant — and then using his life insurance to pay for breast enhancement and a libertine lifestyle. Cynthia Sommer, 32, moved to Florida from San Diego in 2002 with a new boyfriend, an ex-Marine, just weeks after an autopsy performed by a military pathologist found that her husband had died of a heart attack. Further toxicology tests determined that Sgt. Todd Sommer, 23, had died of acute arsenic poisoning. The tests were ordered by the military and confirmed by...

HORRIFYING revelations of forced abortions and compulsory sterilisation in China embarrassed the Beijing government last week just as President Hu Jintao took the international stage. They have described brutal coercion that started last March when the local authorities panicked over the number of “unplanned births”. Women told how they were held down as doctors jammed needles into them to induce abortions in the seventh or eighth month of pregnancy. One victim, Li Juan, 23, told Time that she was in the ninth month of pregnancy when a group of men pinned her down on a bed in a local clinic...

At least nine British soldiers have been murdered in Iraq by terrorists working for the radical Islamic regime in neighbouring Iran, it was reported last night. US and British military intelligence officers told Time magazine that the three British troops killed in Amarah last month were among the victims of the undeclared war between Iran and the West. "One suspects this would have to have a higher degree of approval [in Teheran]," a senior American officer told the weekly. A British officer expressed astonishment at the reluctance to confront Iranian interference in Iraq. "It's as though we are sleepwalking," he...

A statewide recount of the presidential vote appears inevitable after a pair of third-party candidates said they have collected enough money to pay for it. The recount would be conducted after the election results are certified in early December. Libertarian Michael Badnarik and the Green Party's David Cobb said on Monday they raised more than $150,000 in four days, mostly in small contributions. Ohio law requires payment of $10 per precinct for a recount, or $113,600 statewide. Badnarik and Cobb said they aren't trying to overturn President Bush's 136,000-vote victory in Ohio, but just want to ensure that all votes...

I’m not sure if I know any of the Marines or soldiers fighting now in Fallujah, but I have a pretty good idea of who they are, and what they’re made of. They’re mostly young, and mostly tough. Some are scared, and some are itching for the fight, but most just want to get the job done as quickly and cleanly as possible. They come from small towns and big cities. They finished high school or dropped out. They’re planning to go to college when they get out of the service, or they have a job waiting for them back...

The United Nations has called for an investigation into a series of alleged abuses in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. Human rights official Louise Arbour said those responsible for any violations should be brought to justice. Controversy over the Fallujah offensive was fuelled by video footage showing a US Marine shooting dead a wounded and unarmed Iraqi. The pictures showed some marines entering the mosque on Saturday. The marine, who has since been taken off battlefield duty, is seen standing above a figure slumped against a wall aiming his rifle at the man's body. "He's f****** faking he's dead," the...

Paul Lowe, right, with cousin Barry, left, and brother Craig. Paul was killed two days ago. Picture: Tim Ockenden/ PA THE killers of the British hostage Kenneth Bigley last night claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on the Black Watch in Iraq in which three soldiers died. The followers of the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said they carried out the bombing on Thursday, according to a statement on an Islamic website. Iraq’s most wanted group made the chilling claim as a bitter political row broke out at home over the regiment’s re-deployment in support of American troops. On...

Supporters of democratic presidential candidate John Kerry during the US election party, in Geneva, Switzerland, early Wednesday Nov. 3, 2004. Every four years on the first Tuesday in November, the American International Club of Geneva, AIC, organizes an all night party for those who wish to have last minute coverage of the US Presidential Elections. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron) Copyright 2004 Associated Press. All right reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Senior officers with the Black Watch battle group sent north to replace American soldiers believe that the Government agreed to send them there without properly understanding the risks the troops face. They said the United States marines they were replacing had suffered more than 200 casualties, including nine dead, since July. "We expect every lunatic terrorist from miles around to descend on us like bees to honey," a high-ranking officer said in an e-mail home this week. Speaking at Basra before boarding an aircraft, 19-year-old Pte Manny Lynch, from Fife, admitted that he was nervous. "We have controlled the situation...

I as well as many other Americans have been frustrated with the ingratitude of many Arabs in Iraq and elsewhere who refuse to acknowledge the sacrifice of America and its young soldiers to bring freedom to their region. And while the majority of Arabs are in that category, there are many others who do appreciate the effort and the sacrifice. We may have to start with the brave few, but then if memory serves me…most good movements start with the courage of the few who are willing to stand up and go against the will of the mob. We need...

The issue of foreign hostages in Iraq was examined this week on the most heated discussion programme on the Middle East's most-watched television station, al-Jazeera. In the programme The Opposite Direction a fiercely anti-American political analyst, Talat Rumayh, faced off against an Iraqi politician, Karim Badr. Mr Rumayh claimed that the kidnappers were Iraqi resistance fighters and compared the number of their victims to the thousands of Iraqis, who had been killed. Karim Badr responded by saying all Iraq was disgraced by the beheadings. "We have to prove our humanity. I am addressing my brethren in Iraq: These are masked...

A Japanese man who stabbed to death eight school children in 2001 has been executed, domestic media have reported. Mamoru Takuma, 40, was executed by hanging, along with another convicted murderer who killed three gangsters. He killed seven girls and one boy, aged between six and eight, while another 13 students and two teachers were wounded. Takuma admitted the killings and is said to have shown little remorse, reportedly telling the court in June 2003 that he could have killed more children if he had attacked a kindergarten.

Take a look at how this front-page New York Times article describes the perpetrators of the siege in Beslan. Notice anything? The killers are called "guerrillas" and "fighters" and "armed captors" but not "terrorists." At one point the article grudgingly refers to these savage murderers as "people that Mr. Putin calls terrorists." In more than 1,750 words, the article includes not one reference to the religion of the Muslim perpetrators. Not one. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/04/international/europe/04russia.html?pagewanted=print&position=

Rwanda is to investigate France's alleged role in the mass killing of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994. The Rwandan government said it was setting up an "independent commission charged with assembling the evidence of France's involvement in the genocide". Rwanda has regularly accused the French of aiding and abetting the Hutu extremists who killed 800,000 people. Paris denies responsibility - although it has admitted supporting Rwanda's former Hutu-led government. The current Rwandan government, which took over after the genocide, argues that Paris knowingly armed the killers and provided an escape route after their defeat.

Spokesman for ruling SPD party calls on EU foreign ministers to stop financial payments to Palestinians if the power fight in the government gets any worse. Amidst corruption allegations and a leadership crisis, German politicians are calling for measures to be taken against the government of Yasser Arafat, including a freezing of European Union aid. Between 2000 and 2003, the EU has wired €10 million a month to the Palestinian Authority without proper controls, he said. Laschet, who is co-chair of the parliamentary committee responsible for oversight of the EU's Palestinian aid, also alleged that the Palestinians had been using...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — An Arab satellite TV network broadcast a videotape Sunday showing a blindfolded man in military fatigues and said he was a U.S. Marine taken hostage in Iraq. There was no immediate comment from the U.S. military, but the video showed a card identifying the man by a Pakistani name and as an "active duty" Marine. The man had a trimmed moustache and his eyes were covered with a white blindfold. The Al-Jazeera network said the group claimed it infiltrated a Marine outpost, lured the man outside and abducted him. The station said the group demanded the release...

“My daughter will have to marry down,” stated a sociologist at the colloquium, meaning that her daughter would have to "settle" for a husband with less education and a lower income. A black sociologist added that for years, women in her peer group have had to marry down if they wanted to marry at all.