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FoxNews reported:U.S. counterterrorism officials stressed that there was no reason for Americans to believe plotters or others connected with the terror scenario were in the country. Still, the FBI has so far assigned an estimated 200 investigators to track down potential links. Why keep 200 investigators running down leads if there is no connection? Here is why:Two other U.S. counterterrorism officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation, said the British suspects placed calls to several cities in the United States before their arrests. At least some of the calls were placed to people in...

I just recieved this in an e-mail from Editor Mark Alexander. It's worth the read.... To ensure we Americans never offend anyone -- particularly fanatics intent on killing us -- law enforcement and security screeners are not allowed to "profile" people in public places or security checkpoints. However, they will continue to perform random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, Secret Service agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year-old congressmen with metal hips and even Medal of Honor recipients. But targeting Middle Eastern male Islamists between the ages 17 and 40 constitutes...

by Mark Finkelstein August 11, 2006 - 21:47 It doesn't take much to offend liberals' exquisite sensitivities. The latest? Referring to Islamofascists as . . . Islamofascists. Chris Matthews got the ball rolling on this evening's Hardball. But Charlie Rangel upped the ante to the max, managing to impugn Christians and Jews in the bargain. Fortunately, GOP Congressman Dan Lungren had the guts to call Rangel on it. Matthews got things started by challenging Lungren: "Would you include Hezbollah in that group [of Islamofascists]? Would you include Hamas, they are they enemies of Israel. Are they also enemies of ours?...

US president George Bush has said the alleged plot to blow up transatlantic flights is a "stark reminder" the US is "at war with Islamic fascists". Bush said that although the US was safer than before the September 11 attacks, it would be a mistake to believe there was no longer a threat. Speaking on a visit to Green Bay in Wisconsin on Thursday, Bush said the foiled plane plot was "..a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation".

BRITISH police claim to have found a "martyrdom video" in which one of the 24 British Muslims arrested over an alleged plot to destroy up to a dozen passenger aircraft sets out his reasons for joining the planned suicide attack. British officials said the damning evidence had been found in the home of one of the suspects, who include a 23-year-old biochemistry student and a Heathrow security guard with an all-areas access pass. The guard was in his airport uniform when he was arrested and led away in handcuffs. The suspects are mostly of Pakistani origin but two are white...

Israel’s war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Scotland Yard’s magnificent “catch” on the planned bombing of six trans-Atlantic flights, reminds us that the West is NOT fighting a “war on terror.” Terror is a tactic in the war radical Islamic fundamentalists are waging against democratic societies, and our war is against terrorists and the states that harbor and support them.Israel’s battle proves that terrorists need the attributes provided by states in order to maximize the damage they can pose. Hezbollah has thousands of long and medium range missiles, which they are shooting at Israel from Lebanese soil. Hezbollah has (actually...

Their loathing for the "decadence" of Western society prevents the terrorists from knowing their enemy HAD THE FIRST of what could have been a “wave” of attacks on long-haul flights from this country not been averted, it would have been a hideous tragedy for thousands of victims and their family members. It would have sent a shiver through millions more and caused costly but probably short-lived economic disruption. A second or third set of assaults would have been far more serious. Had the suicide-murderers pulled off the same deadly trick a few days or weeks later, when security services were...

US, French diplomats working on new formula that would lead to ceasefire in North; new proposal may be submitted to UN by Friday; sources say agreement based on French military deployment on northern border. Senior Israeli official: Revised UN Resolution will stop short of requiring peacekeepers to disarm Hizbullah Getting close to ceasefire? While the IDF is preparing to expand military operations, a French-American proposal for a cease-fire is being formulated Thursday evening and may be presented to the United Nations Security Council by Friday. According to various reports, the agreement is based on the deployment of French troops on...

Please call the number below to thank President Bush and to give your input on the need for the US to continue its high level of support in this latest Israeli vs. Terrorist war in the Middle East. This comment line puts you in touch with a real, live, person to whom you can express your support for Israel and ask the President to "hang tough" to prevent a cease fire that would render the efforts of Israel in vain. PLEASE CALL PRESIDENT BUSH AT THE WHITE HOUSE AT 1-202-456-1111 AND PROVIDE YOUR THOUGHTS. PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERYONE YOU...

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - The tomb of Bosnia's wartime president and top Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic was blown up in an explosion early on Friday in Sarajevo's Old Town, the police said. "The tomb of Bosnia's first president, Alija Izetbegovic, was damaged by an explosive device," a duty officer said. He said the explosion occurred around 3:05 a.m. (2:05 a.m. British time). Nobody was injured and surrounding buildings were only slightly damaged. State and regional prosecutors were notified and an investigation is under way, officer Jerko Budimir said. The police cordoned off the Muslim cemetery where Bosnian army soldiers killed during...

Americans Are Rising To Occasion INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 8/10/2006 Public Opinion: Most Americans may not think of the war on terror as World War III, but a solid majority takes the threat of militant Islamism very seriously, suspects that Iran is behind much of it and concludes that the U.S. must stop that country from getting nukes "at any cost." These are among the results of the latest IBD/TIPP Poll, which probed how seriously Americans view the spread of Islamofascism and whether they recognize a need to confront it sooner rather than later. Many commentators refer to the global...

This time, the maniacs came very close to scoring a kill. This time, by all grim accounts yesterday unfolding, they almost pulled off what many terrorism experts believe was intended to be the next "big one" - the next 9/11. It is no alarmist exaggeration to say that thousands of trans-Atlantic air passengers owe their lives to the vigilance of the British anti-terror authorities who thwarted a plan to blow a skyful of U.S.-bound jetliners out of the clouds. It is world war we are staring down the maw of here in these awful times. Deranged jihadists have struck in...

The Arab Muslim sick love affair with bloody graphic photos of dead kidsWhat's the sexiest object in Arab Muslim culture? Don't get me wrong, of course sex is all over the place in their world, beneath the veil, in fact research in cyberspace has found that most explicit thirst hardcore porn, for most kinky & twisted sex come from loggers out of Arab Muslim countries, I am referring sexiest, besides the sex issue, be surprised it's the unfortunate photos smeared in blood of killed or injured Arab kids. When you see the Jihadi ritual of "Palestinian" Arabs dipping their fingers...

The Left has no answer to London plot By Mike Gallaghertownhall.com Friday, August 11, 2006 I had a really weird reaction to the news that British authorities thwarted a massive terror attack on scores of American and British passenger airliners this week. Naturally, I felt a wave of appreciation and pride for the intelligence gathering personnel who managed to head off this latest evil scheme. I was enormously relieved that countless men, women and children were spared a terrible death by the maniacal Islamic extremists hellbent on slaughtering the innocent. But I immediately wondered what Cindy Sheehan and Ned...

As the Israeli people waited Thursday for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to implement his cabinet's decision to widen the ground offensive in Lebanon, Britain found itself under siege. British security officials announced that the entire country was on a red alert for a terror attack. The night before, British security forces foiled a terrorist conspiracy to explode some 20 US-bound passenger jets. As London's deputy police commissioner Paul Stephenson told reporters, "This was intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale." By Thursday morning security forces had arrested some 21 suspects. All are British citizens. All are Muslims. It...

Suspects watched since last year Alleged plot involved liquid explosives in drink containers, soap bottles Joseph Brean National Post Friday, August 11, 2006 24 suspects arrested by British police in connection with alleged plot to set off "multiple explosions on multiple planes." 10 flights were reported to be the sites of explosions to occur in waves as planes headed to cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. 3,500 passengers is about what 10 fully loaded airliners would hold. As one official put it, the plot involved "mass murder on an unimaginable scale." CREDIT: Kagan Mcleod, National...

In light of yesterday's thwarted attacks, we thought his sermon is worthy of note this morning. He "preached:" We have ruled the world before, and by Allah, the day will come when we will rule the entire world again. The day will come when we will rule America. The day will come when we will rule Britain and the entire world -- except for the Jews. The Jews will not enjoy a life of tranquility under our rule, because they are treacherous by nature, as they have been throughout history. The day will come when everything will be relieved of...

A Muslim group criticized President Bush for saying that America is "at war with Islamic fascists" after U.K. authorities arrested 24 British citizens of Pakistani origin in an attempt to bomb numerous flights to the U.S. Thursday. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the president's "hot button" terminology puts the name of Islam and the Muslim community at risk. Bush called the attempted terrorist attack "a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation." Nihad Awad, executive director of...

Peace activist murdered by PalestinianAngelo Frammartino, a 24 year-old student from Italy who arrived in Israel as a human rights organization activist, was stabbed to death Thursday by an Arab knifeman. "He believed in what he did and was always ready to help others," a friend described him. The website of Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera reported that Frammartino was working for the setting up of a children's supper camp for Palestinians in Jerusalem's Old City, and was supposed to return to Italy on Friday. The youth was stabbed in the back while walking with four friends in the Sultan...

The uniqueness of the Holocaust was not the Nazi's determination to kill the Jews of Germany and even of neighboring Poland. Other genocides, such as those by the Cambodians and the Turks, sought to rid particular areas of so called undesirables by killing them. The utter uniqueness of the Holocaust was the Nazi plan to "ingather" all the Jews of the world to the death camp and end the Jewish "race" forever. It almost succeeded. The Nazis ingathered tens of thousands of Jews (including babies, women, the elderly) from far flung corners of the world--from the Island of Rhodes from...