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Fatwa on polio drops because they turn kids “sexually impotent” Thousands of children below five years in Peshawar could not be administered polio drops, after a fatwa issued by anti-state cleric Maulana Fazal Ullah declared that these drops could turn the kids "sexually impotent". Ullah’s message warning the people against the polio drive was aired on illegally-run radio FM channels. The cleric is said to be holding tremendous influence in the area and people accede to his directions. He said that polio drops rendered the kids "sexually impotent", and also called upon the people to boycott the polio drops because...

Anyone who has been in a military situation or a business role knows that when a distraction presents itself, it's time to make progress on your own agenda. The MSM and Fox, true to their normal practices, are now wall to wall with the Va. Tech tragedy. The tragedy deserves top billing, but folks, there's a lot of other stuff going on out there!!! If we allow ourselves to be consumed for 72 hours with this tragedy, that allows the crazies 72 hours to make some major inroads on some of their plans to blow our butts out of our...

Crude at fresh 2-week high as Iran tensions mount Tehran says may charge 15 U.K. seamen with illegally entering Iranian waters By Myra P. Saefong & Ciara Linnane, MarketWatch Last Update: 10:13 AM ET Mar 26, 2007 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude-oil futures rose past $63 a barrel Monday to their highest level in more than two weeks, buoyed by mounting tensions between Iran and the U.K. over the arrest of 15 British navy personnel in the Persian Gulf by Iranian forces and Iran's claims that they had illegally entered its waters. Tehran said it's considering charging the sailors, who...

[Editor’s Note: Michelle Malkin is experiencing problems with her weblog after being the target of cyberattacks. While they last, Pajamas Media will host her posts here] The cyberjihad continues. Zone-H, which monitors Internet hackers, reports that “the Moroccan hacker known as Yanis was arrested” in Paris on Tuesday: Yanis is accused of having defaced several French important websites (university of Strasbourg and Toulouse, website of the city of Lyon etc..), but his activity as defacer is far more complex: Zone-h, the independent observatory of cyber-crime, have monitored nearly 3000 notifications of intrusions in the last month related to the Prophet...

(IsraelNN.com) The Iranian nuclear arms race has reached a point of no return, stated the head of Israeli intelligence, Gen. Ze’evi Farkash, at a meeting of the Knesset Committee for Foreign Affairs and Defense. He believes that the current diplomatic window that would prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear arms is soon to close, even within a few weeks. Gen. Farkash stated that diplomatic moves against a nuclear bomb in Iran were reaching a point of no return in terms of the Iranian nuclear arms race. Farkash added that the Iranians had improved their technique of preparing centrifuges to a very...

BESLAN, Russia (AP) - A shaken President Vladimir Putin made a rare and candid admission of Russian weakness Saturday in the face of an "all-out war" by terrorists after more than 340 people - nearly half of them children - were killed in a hostage-taking at a southern school. Putin went on national television to tell Russians they must mobilize against terrorism. He promised wide-ranging reforms to toughen security forces and purge corruption. "We showed weakness, and weak people are beaten," he said in a speech aimed at addressing the grief, shock and anger felt by many after a string...

How many of the mushrooming number of terrorism experts now on TV, or journalists pretending to compete with them in their instant expertise, have heard, let alone know about, what is going on in the Sahel? Or that there is actually something called Sahel that is important in the fight against Islamist terrorists? The answer is: depressingly few -- and that is good for us. Indeed, if more weres known, we would immediately hear the screams of human rights fundamentalists, from Amnesty International to Jimmy Carter, demanding a cut off of aid to less-than-Jeffersonian regimes in such exotic places as...

An urgent news from the jihad rule in Yemen, the Al-Asad messages coded... XXX and a XXX declared that they received messages from Al Qaeda Network in Yemen that points to the messages of the fighting Sheikh Osama bin Ladin who transmitted last week were coded messages with directions for the execution of three greatest operations during the holy month of Ramadan ... Allah is the greatest Allah is the greatest Allah is the greatest (( I swear by the great Allah who raised the sky without an intention that America and the west world will not dream of its...

The profilers — the "experts" — all told us that the Beltway Sniper was a white man, from 20-30 years of age, likely a racist, gun collector. Instead, the main suspect — excuse me, "person of interest" in custody, is 41-year-old black supremacist, John Allen Williams, aka John Allen Muhammad. Williams/Muhammad, a Gulf War veteran, earned the title of "expert" marksman while in the army. The other suspect, who was arrested with Williams/Muhammad, is 17-year-old John Lee Malvo, reportedly a Jamaican citizen, and may be Williams/Muhammad's son or stepson. Reportedly, the turning point in the investigation was the linking of...