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The Arab world is all one big happy family again. OK, dysfunctional, but happy. No, well, unhappy and as twisted as usual. While visiting Kuwait today, Palestinian presidential front-runner, Mahmoud Abbas, apologized for his people’s support of Saddam’s invasion of the Gulf emirate in 1990. Isn’t that special? (remember Dana Carvey as the “Church Lady” on SNL?). This happened just after Kuwait’s sultans (or whatever they’re called) forgave the Palestinian people for supporting Saddam’s invasion. Kuwait’s leadership went so far as to say they didn’t even expect a public apology for Palestinian support of the 1990 war. Now, isn’t that...

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Editor's note: Readers may be interested in two related stories: "Invested in Terrorism" and "BBC: U.S. Damned if it does and damned if it doesn't". -ALJ Douglas Farah uncovered the story of al-Qaeda's involvement in West Africa's diamond smuggling while reporting on Africa for the Washington Post, which he described in Blood from Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror (New York: Broadway, 2004). Mr. Farah, now a consultant, freelance writer on terror finance and national security matters, and a senior fellow at the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, addressed the Middle East Forum in New York City on...

MoveOn.org admits its a FRONT, as if we didn't know...

GUWAHATI: At least 15 people were killed on Sunday, when militants exploded a powerful bomb during Independence Day celebrations in an eastern town in Assam, police said. The blast, blamed on the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), occurred at 9.30 am during the official celebrations at a parade ground at Dhemaji town. Most victims were reported to be students participating in the Independence Day parade in the district headquarter town. Inspector General of Police Khagen Sharma said the attack was suspected to be the handiwork of ULFA. Chaos and panic prevailed at the Dhemaji ground following the blast and...

WASHINGTON -- The Defense Intelligence Agency has concluded that a U.S.-funded arm of Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress has been used for years by Iranian intelligence to pass disinformation to the United States and to collect highly sensitive American secrets, according to intelligence sources. "Iranian intelligence has been manipulating the United States through Chalabi by furnishing through his Information Collection Program information to provoke the United States into getting rid of Saddam Hussein," said an intelligence source Friday who was briefed on the Defense Intelligence Agency's conclusions, which were based on a review of thousands of internal documents. The Information...

<p>Some Jews and conservative Christians are questioning a pro-family group's association with an Islamic organization.</p> <p>Rabbi Marc Gellman, a syndicated columnist who makes frequent TV appearances as half of "The God Squad," resigned last month from the advisory board to the Alliance for Marriage (AFM) because it includes a representative of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).</p>

Iraq faces ethnic conflict on new front after crisis talks fail By Harry de Quetteville in Baghdad (Filed: 03/01/2004) The north of Iraq was threatened by ethnic conflict yesterday as crisis talks between Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen in Kirkuk failed to prevent continuing bloodshed in the divided city. At least one man was killed after a demonstration by ethnic Arabs and Turkmen culminated in an exchange of gunfire with Kirkuk's mostly Kurdish police. The march followed a similar clash on Wednesday when five people died. Events of the past week threaten to open up trouble on a new front in...

Hezbollah's Front Businesses in America! Jahanshah Javid, portrait of a Hezbollahi in Disguise! Found this on the Iran Politics Club website - looks like a good report, you may want to check it out: http://hometown.aol.com/ahreemanxiii/page37.html

Phony 'Physicians' Group Ranking Airport Food Is a PETA Affiliate Animal-Rights Front Group Censured by the AMA Washington, DC - This week an animal rights group masquerading as a medical charity issued a report suggesting that airport restaurants serving meat and dairy foods are "unhealthy." The Center for Consumer Freedom called on the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) to stop misleading consumers and come clean about its animal-rights motive for attacking these animal-based menu items. PCRM has well-documented ties to the animal rights movement, including over $850,000 in financing from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). PCRM...

Kucinich headlines Muslim fund-raiserCAIR group tied to Hamas, Islamist goals Posted: November 30, 200311:50 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Dennis Kucinich WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich headlined a fund-raiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a group with ties to the Mideast terrorist organization Hamas and an agenda for an Islamic USA. CAIR announced its national fund-raising campaign had topped its goal of $1 million thanks in part to the standing-room-only banquet Saturday evening attended by more than 1,000 people, including Kucinich and Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va. "We would like to thank all those who helped us reach our fundraising...

<p>November 25, 2003 -- THE Democratic Party is being replaced by a new group called "Americans Coming Together," which has been launched with two $10 million donations from financier George Soros and Peter B. Lewis, chairman of the Progressive Corporation. The new organization wants to raise $94 million to finance a massive campaign against Bush - all with soft money.</p>

<p>November 25, 2003 -- THE Democratic Party is being replaced by a new group called "Americans Coming Together," which has been launched with two $10 million donations from financier George Soros and Peter B. Lewis, chairman of the Progressive Corporation. The new organization wants to raise $94 million to finance a massive campaign against Bush - all with soft money. The Democratic Party, which is only allowed to raise hard money (donations limited to $2,000 per person) by the McCain-Feingold law is unable to amass the resources necessary for a national campaign, so it is ceding the main role to Americans Coming Together.</p>

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department announced Friday that it has revoked the tax-exempt status of three Muslim charities that the U.S. government has accused of diverting contributions to help bankroll terrorist activities. Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service said the action affects Benevolence International Foundation of Palos Hills, Ill., Global Relief Foundation of Bridgeview, Ill., and Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development of Richardson, Texas. The three charities have been designated previously by the government as suspected terrorist financiers under an executive order of President Bush, the department said. Once the government made that designation, it meant that...

Riyadh: a new front against US By John R Bradley in Jeddah 10 November 2003 America's fortunes in the Gulf were in free-fall once again yesterday after a suicide bombing in Riyadh that appeared to be aimed at undermining the Saudi monarchy - the key US ally in the Gulf. No one had claimed responsibility last night, but the shadow of the fugitive Saudi national Osama bin Laden hangs over this latest outrage. At least 11 Arab expatriates were killed and 120 others - many of them women and children - were injured in a massive car bomb attack on...

Last week, two Philadelphia universities became the home of a growing, disturbing alliance of radical Muslims and white anti-Semites. The Muslim Student Association, a Wahhabi Islamist front, invited Dr. Bill Baker to speak at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University on the similarities between Christianity and Islam. Baker had recently been fired from Rev. Robert Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral after California media revealed Baker was a founder of an anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi political group, the Populist Party. To make matters worse, UPenn paid Baker $5,000 for his insights. Thanks to FrontPage Magazine and some local activists, the invitation did not...

The leak of a CIA operative's name has also exposed the identity of a CIA front company, potentially expanding the damage caused by the original disclosure, Bush administration officials said yesterday. The company's identity, Brewster-Jennings & Associates, became public because it appeared in Federal Election Commission records on a form filled out in 1999 by Valerie Plame, the case officer at the center of the controversy, when she contributed $1,000 to Al Gore's presidential primary campaign. After the name of the company was broadcast yesterday, administration officials confirmed that it was a CIA front. They said the obscure and possibly...

October 02, 2003 How to Help Editor's Note: We've had a number of questions about how to send care packages to our troops and have added some links to our link section about that. Sally Vaci sent her care packages through Operation Military Pride. Operation Gratitude is another organization where you can help send care packages, either by donating money (tax deductible), getting items for the wish list, or writing letters. This holiday season, they plan on sending 2000 care packages to our troops throughout the world. In another vein, Chief Wiggles over in Iraq is doing a toy...

In Defense of the Constitution Anti-CAIR Press Release 025/03 September 24, 2003 -          CAIR’s Ismail Royer Strikes Again; Muslim Schools Front for Islamic Terror? CAIR’s Ismail Royer Strikes Again; Muslim Schools Front for Islamic Terror?        It was reported in the Washington Post recently that Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) has renewed his request for an investigation into two institutes that train Islamic chaplains for the armed forces.  This is in response to the recent arrest of Army Capt. James Yee, an Islamic chaplain attached to the detention facility located at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.        While ACAIR commends...

False Front By Joe Kaufman and Beila Rabinowitz FrontPageMagazine.com | September 15, 2003 Following the attacks on September 11, 2001, Islamic radicals could no longer look like Islamic radicals. They needed a way to refine their appearance. They needed to come across as a peaceful people. Essentially, they needed to disguise their reality. One of the ways they did this (and are currently doing so) was to attend and organize interfaith gatherings. Another way was to “condemn” the 9/11 attacks (whilst saying they were against us retaliating). Another was to become politically active, aligning themselves within an umbrella of various...