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Let’s give Iran, a certified state sponsor of terrorism, billions in cash. What could go wrong? The Obama State Department is convinced that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad and his regime’s cronies are financing terrorism. How come? Well, because they conduct business in cash. In fact, in its most recent annual report on state sponsors of terrorism, State frets “that 60 percent of all business transactions [in Syria] are conducted in cash and that nearly 80 percent of all Syrians do not use formal banking services.” This has created a “vast black market,” the components of which are exploited by “some...

Mexican drug cartels are smuggling foreigners from countries with terrorist links into a small Texas rural town near El Paso and they’re using remote farm roads—rather than interstates—to elude the Border Patrol and other law enforcement barriers, according to Judicial Watch sources on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border. The foreigners are classified as Special Interest Aliens (SIA) and they are being transported to stash areas in Acala, a rural crossroads located around 54 miles from El Paso on a state road – Highway 20. Once in the U.S., the SIAs wait for pick-up in the area’s sand hills just...

Muslims Pretend to Be Nice People

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2005 – Iraqi soldiers and U.S. Marines have found numerous weapons caches - 17 of which were "substantial in size" -- during the four days of Operation Steel Curtain in Iraq's Anbar province, military officials reported today. Weapons, munitions and bomb-making material for the construction of roadside and car bombs have been some of the more commonly found items at the cache sites, officials said. One cache discovered in central Husaybah today consisted of large amounts of medical supplies and rocket-propelled grenades and launchers. Also, on the southern outskirts of the Iraqi-Syrian border town today, Marines discovered...

Hamas holds competition to select movement's anthem By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent   Hamas announced Thursday a competition for composing an official anthem for the movement. The deadline for submission of entries is in December.   Activists say the anthem will be sung at the movement's rallies and will compete with the famous Palestinian anthem "Biladi Biladi", identified with the PLO. Since its founding, Hamas has made use of many songs, but none of them has been adopted as an official anthem. "In recognition of the role of an anthem in expressing principles, hopes and ideas, and the manner...

CAIRO: Syria has made no final decision about restricting Palestinian militant groups operating on its soil, President Bashar Assad said in comments published Saturday. Assad's remarks, made in an interview with Newsweek magazine, are in sharp contrast with the comments of US Secretary of State Colin Powell after their meeting in Damascus on May 3. Powell told reporters the following day that Syria had indicated it had closed the offices of some of the radical Palestinian groups in Damascus. ``They did closures. I expect them to do more,'' Powell said. US officials accompanying him named the groups as Hamas, Islamic...