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calendar   Tuesday - December 18, 2007

7 for 7

via Gateway Pundit

Media Quagmire Continues… 7 Bogus Slaughter Stories in 7 Weeks!

The mainstream media remains perfect-- 7 bogus reports in 7 weeks.

Another exaggerated slaughter story made the news this weekend just like the bogus al-Kawwaz family slaughter made headlines last month.

On November 29, 2007, the Western media reported that 11 close family members of Jordanian-based Baathist reporter Dia al-Kawwaz, who runs the online anti-Iraq newspaper Shabeqat Akhbar al-Iraq, were slaughtered in Baghdad. This made headlines around the world. Two days later, the “dead family members” of Dia Al-Kawwaz appeared on Iraqi television smiling and waving to the cameras. Not one Western media organization showed this photo or film of the waving family members. (Andrew Bolt’s blog with the Australian Herald Sun posted this photo from Barutha News earlier today.)

There was another gruesome report from Diyala Province in Iraq this weekend.
Reportedly, Al-Qaeda and local villagers suffered dozens of casualties in a massive attack.

Up to 51 Iraqis were reportedly killed during an Al-Qaeda attack including three women!
The Herald Sun reported this news by Agence France-Presse:

AT least 39 people were killed in fierce clashes today between suspected al-Qaeda fighters and Sunni Arab villagers in the Iraqi province of Diyala, north-east of Baghdad, police said.

Baquba police Colonel Khairallah Ibrahim said two Sunni villages were attacked by al-Qaeda militants.

“Fierce fighting broke out between the villagers and al-Qaeda fighters in which 17 villagers and 22 al-Qaeda militants have been killed,” he said.

Col Ibrahim said three women were among the villagers killed.

“Most of those killed from the villages were members of the anti-Qaeda front formed recently in the area,” said another police officer, Lieutenant Colonel Ibrahim al-Obeidi.


The Times of India, among others, also carried this Diyala slaughter story.
Iran Press TV reported that 51 were dead in the Diyala fighting.
RTTNews reported that 51 were killed in the Al-Qaeda attacks.

But, guess what?…
This was just another bogus report.
It wasn’t a mass slaughter after all.
The MNF-Iraq forces investigated this Diyala attack thoroughly and wrote me with their findings later today:

The Provincial Joint Coordination Center (PJCC) in Diyala reported an attack on the villages of Sufeit and Nye near Khalis by al-Qaeda on Dec 16. Two civilians were killed and three civilians were injured as a result of this attack.

** Two civilians were killed- Not 39 and not 51 like the media reported.

It was just another bogus exaggerated report of mass violence from Iraq.

Add this bogus report with the other 6 that were found out to be false and you have 7 bogus slaughter reports from Iraq in 7 weeks since October 29, 2007.

The MSM keeps it perfect.

But we’re supposed to trust them and their scores of fact-checkers to give us the “real” story, right?  Right.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 12/18/2007 at 11:00 AM   
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calendar   Friday - December 14, 2007

SO, DOES THIS MEAN WAR THEN?

SO, DOES THIS MEAN WAR THEN?

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Australia claims it captured Damascus firstBy Nick Squires In Sydney
Last Updated: 9:18am GMT 14/12/2007

It is nearly 90 years old, but T E Lawrence’s claim that he and his Arab guerrillas were the first to enter Damascus has rankled Australian national pride ever since.

A new exhibition, about to open at the national war museum in Canberra, endeavours to put the record straight and make clear that Lawrence, a tireless self-promoter, stole Australia’s glory in order to give the Arabs a propaganda boost.

The Australian War Memorial exhibition aims to show that it was the legendary Australian Light Horse, and not Lawrence and his Arabs, who captured Damascus in October 1918.

Tim Fischer, a former deputy prime minister and a keen historian, said Lawrence’s failure to acknowledge the key role played by the slouch-hat wearing troopers of the Light Horse was an omission repeated by subsequent British historians.

“It has been a frequent phenomenon for various Brits to write Australia out,” Mr Fischer, a Vietnam War veteran, said.

He claimed the Imperial War Museum also ignored the 47,000 Australians killed fighting on the Western Front in World War 1.

“So nothing is new. It is my hope that the Australian War Memorial will provide some balance in its new exhibition.”

T E Lawrence: boosted Arabs

The exhibition highlights the overlooked role of Australian troops and their commander Henry Chauvel, who played a crucial role in the defeat of Turkish Ottoman forces in Palestine and Syria.

Called ‘Lawrence of Arabia and the Light Horse’, it includes a Lee Enfield rifle presented by Lawrence to King George V, now on loan from the Queen.

In his war memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence ignored the role of the Australian Light Horse in securing Damascus, instead claiming the victory for his Arab forces.

In fact it was the Australians, under the command of Chauvel, the capable commander of the Desert Mounted Corps, who first swept into Damascus, entering the city at 5 a.m. on October 1, 1918.

But within a couple of hours they pushed through the town to chase fleeing Turkish forces along the Aleppo road, clearing the way for the Arab army to enter Damascus later the same day.

Lawrence made a grand entry in a Rolls Royce.

“What Lawrence was trying to do was make the best case he could for Arab self-determination,” said exhibition curator Mal Booth.

“I think he inflates the Arab claims in Damascus. Essentially it was Chauvel who took the town as the overall commander.”

The misconception was reinforced in David Lean’s epic 1962 film, starring Peter O’Toole as Lawrence, which depicted a triumphant Arab entry into Damascus.

Lawrence, who later joined the RAF, changed his name to Shaw and died in a motorcycle accident in 1935, wrote Seven Pillars with the aim of bolstering the role played by his irregulars in order to strengthen the cause of Arab self-determination.

But in 1927 he admitted to a biographer that the Damascus chapter of Seven Pillars was full of half truths, said Mr Booth.

“Lawrence didn’t actually tell lies. If anything, he underestimated his own role in order to praise others. He wanted to beat up the Arab cause.”


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Posted by Drew458   United Kingdom  on 12/14/2007 at 12:49 PM   
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calendar   Thursday - November 15, 2007

Sick bastards

via LGF, original article posted at Brietbart

A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

The 19-year-old woman—whose six armed attackers have been sentenced to jail terms—was initially ordered to undergo 90 lashes for “being in the car of an unrelated male at the time of the rape,” the Arab News reported.

But in a new verdict issued after Saudi Arabia’s Higher Judicial Council ordered a retrial, the court in the eastern town of Al-Qatif more than doubled the number of lashes to 200.

A court source told the English-language Arab News that the judges had decided to punish the woman further for “her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media.”

Saudi Arabia enforces a strict Islamic doctrine known as Wahhabism and forbids unrelated men and women from associating with each other, bans women from driving and forces them to cover head-to-toe in public.

Last year, the court sentenced six Saudi men to between one and five years in jail for the rape as well as ordering lashes for the victim, a member of the minority Shiite community.

But the woman’s lawyer Abdul Rahman al-Lahem appealed, arguing that the punishments were too lenient in a country where the offence can carry the death penalty.

In the new verdict issued on Wednesday, the Al-Qatif court also toughened the sentences against the six men to between two and nine years in prison.

The case has angered members of Saudi Arabia’s Shiite community. The convicted men are Sunni Muslims, the dominant community in the oil-rich Gulf state.

Lahem, also a human rights activist, told AFP on Wednesday that the court had banned him from handling the rape case and withdrew his licence to practise law because he challenged the verdict.

He said he has also been summoned by the ministry of justice to appear before a disciplinary committee in December.

Lahem said the move might be due to his criticism of some judicial institutions, and “contradicts King Abdullah’s quest to introduce reform, especially in the justice system.”

King Abdullah last month approved a new body of laws regulating the judicial system in Saudi Arabia, which rules on the basis of sharia, or Islamic law.

What a sick and twisted outlook on life. This is a religion? Ha! This is a justice system? Like hell. What a disgusting farce.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 11/15/2007 at 05:46 PM   
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calendar   Saturday - October 27, 2007

News Release You Won’t See

Here’s another bit of news you probably haven’t heard about from the MSM:

Unfortunately, most Americans do not consider Iraqis as people. We see them as terrorists or victims, not as everyday people with the same values as our friends, neighbors and relatives. Yet, most Iraqis are decent human beings with the same concerns, dreams, and compassion as most Americans. They want peace and are concerned about their fellow man.

Is it no wonder that we feel differently about the people of Iraq, when the American media only reports sensational news? If it doesn’t bleed or explode, you just aren’t going to see it on the evening news. I received a press release from Baghdad today, which I know the mainstream media will not pass on to you all. Here is an example of Iraqi charity and gratitude which touched my soul. Imagine how incredibly generous these soldiers are. They have little to support their own families. It’s not enough that they are fighting daily to bring peace to their country. They are actually reaching out to help unfortunate Americans.

Richard S. Lowry is author of Marines in the Garden of Eden and The Gulf War Chronicles.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20071026-01
October 26, 2007

Iraqi Army at Besmaya Installation Support San Diego Fire Victims
By U.S. Army Sgt 1st Class Charlene Sipperly
Multi-National Security Transition Command – Iraq Public Affairs

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Members of the Iraqi Army in Besmaya collected a donation for the San Diego, Calif., fire victims Thursday night at the Besmaya Range Complex in a moving ceremony to support Besmaya’s San Diego residents.

Iraqi Army Col. Abbass, the commander of the complex, presented a gift of $1,000 to U.S. Army Col. Darel Maxfield, Besmaya Range Complex officer in charge, Multi-National Security Transition Command Iraq, to send to the fire victims in California.

The money was collected from Iraqi officers and enlisted soldiers in Besmaya. In a speech given during the presentation, Col. Abbass stated that he and the Iraqi soldiers were connected with the American people in many ways, and they will not forget the help that the American government has given the Iraqi people. Abbass was honored to participate by sending a simple fund of $1,000 to the American people in San Diego, to lower the suffering felt by the tragedy.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 10/27/2007 at 10:04 PM   
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calendar   Wednesday - July 11, 2007

Taking Tehran by September

A friend sent me an email this morning that I found very interesting.  He has put together some various news stories that lead him to believe we will attack Iran before the end of the summer.

Here Bush asks Congress to wait till September before debating an Iraqi pullback.

WASHINGTON: Fearful of a Republican rebellion over Iraq that his own aides believe could force him to change course, President George W. Bush said Tuesday that the United States would be able to pull back troops “in a while,” but called on Congress to wait until September to debate the future military presence there.

And here we have a possible 3rd carrier headed to the gulf (best time to attack is when “swapping” carriers as all three are on station).

MANAMA (Reuters) - A U.S. aircraft carrier is heading to the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet area of operations, which includes the Gulf, but the Pentagon said on Tuesday there had been no decision to increase naval power in the region.

U.S. defence officials said the deployment of the USS Enterprise was a routine measure to replace one of two U.S. Navy carriers now in the Fifth Fleet area.

And here we have Israeli intelligence stating that time is just about out for a strike on Iran.

Predicting that sanctions will ultimately fail to stop Teheran’s nuclear program, Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, former head of Military Intelligence’s Research Division, told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that time to launch an effective military strike against Iran’s nuclear installations was running out.

And perhaps (just perhaps) we’ll use a summer terrorist attack as the justification to attack Iran.

WASHINGTON - U.S. counterterror officials are warning of an increased risk of an attack this summer, given al-Qaida’s apparent interest in summertime strikes and increased al-Qaida training in the Afghan-Pakistani border region.

On Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told the editorial board of The Chicago Tribune that he had a “gut feeling” about a new period of increased risk.

What say you?


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 07/11/2007 at 07:58 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - May 17, 2007

Fair And Balanced?

How honest is the media? Let’s see. Below are the reports from six different international news sources ... but first let’s look at the actual events as they occurred ...

1 - In Gaza, rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah start a civil war in a struggle for power and and hundreds of Palestinians are killed or wounded and civilians are caught in the crossfire.

2 - Hamas starts losing the battles and looks around for something to distract Fatah and everyone else to give them time to regroup.

3 - Hamas begins firing rockets into Israel, killing innocent Israeli civilians in an attempt to drag Israel into the Palestinian infighting and thereby unite the warring factions against a “common enemy”.

4 - Israel tolerates the incoming rockets for 24 hours then begins firing back with air attacks at rocket sites purely in self defense.

Now, go read these stories and come back here and let us know how many honest reporters there are out there. Or do the headlines alone answer your question?


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 05/17/2007 at 02:43 PM   
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calendar   Sunday - March 25, 2007

The Patton Doctrine


cool smile  General George S. Patton’s Solution For Iraq cool smile

(-- Thanks to DixieKraut for digging this one up --)


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 03/25/2007 at 04:00 PM   
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Three Hundred

Nobody ever said the Iranians had an ounce of common sense. They’re going to keep blustering, boasting and bloviating across the world stage until somebody smacks the living shiite out of them. It is times like these that we really need people like Maggie Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in charge. Are George Bush and Tony Blair up to the challenge?

What do you think we and our Brit friends ought to do if Ahmawhackjob and his Mad mullah benefactors actually try and execute these British soldiers who were not in Iranian waters when they were captured? Perhaps another F-117 raid like the one that turned Muammar Khadafi into a quaking little girl over night? How about a single nuke on Teheran? Just as a warning shot across the bow, so to speak? Perhaps in this version of the Persian Wars we need to use 300 B-52’s instead of 300 Spartans. Submission is not an option. What say you?

Iran To Try Britons For Espionage
(TIMES-UK) - March 25, 2007

imageimageFifteen British sailors and marines arrested by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards off the coast of Iraq may be charged with spying. A website run by associates of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, reported last night that the Britons would be put before a court and indicted.

Referring to them as “insurgents”, the site concluded: “If it is proven that they deliberately entered Iranian territory, they will be charged with espionage. If that is proven, they can expect a very serious penalty since according to Iranian law, espionage is one of the most serious offences.”

The warning followed claims by Iranian officials that the British navy personnel had been taken to Tehran, the capital, to explain their “aggressive action” in entering Iranian waters. British officials insist the servicemen were in Iraqi waters when they were held.

The penalty for espionage in Iran is death. However, similar accusations of spying were made when eight British servicemen were detained in the same area in 2004. They were paraded blindfolded on television but did not appear in court and were freed after three nights in detention.

Iranian student groups called yesterday for the 15 detainees to be held until US forces released five Revolutionary Guards captured in Iraq earlier this year. Al-Sharq al-Awsat, a Saudi-owned newspaper based in London, quoted an Iranian military source as saying that the aim was to trade the Royal Marines and sailors for these Guards.

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Meanwhile, Iran just keeps digging themselves deeper and deeper into this hole. Now they’re really in deep trouble - the United Nations has issued a strongly worded letter to the Mad Mullahs and threatened to stop Iran from selling any more guns to Shiite insurgents in Iraq (that are being used to kill US soldiers).

U.N. Backs Broader Sanctions On Tehran
UNITED NATIONS (WASHINGTON POST) - Saturday, March 24, 2007; 10:36 PM

The U.N. Security Council unanimously voted Saturday to impose additional sanctions against Iran for its refusal to stop enriching uranium - a move intended to show Tehran that defiance will leave it increasingly isolated.

Iran immediately rejected the sanctions and said it had no intention of suspending its enrichment program, prompting the United States to warn of even tougher penalties.

“The world must know - and it does - that even the harshest political and economic sanctions or other threats are far too weak to coerce the Iranian nation to retreat from their legal and legitimate demands,” Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told the Security Council after the vote. “Suspension is neither an option nor a solution.”

The moderately tougher sanctions include banning Iranian arms exports, and freezing the assets of 28 people and organizations involved in Iran’s nuclear and missile programs. About a third of those are linked to the Revolutionary Guard, an elite military corps.

The new sanctions - already a compromise between the stronger measures favored by the United States and the Europeans and the softer approach advocated by Russian and China - are considered modest. The ban on exports is among the harshest measures, but many of Iran’s arms sales may not be affected because they are illicitly sent to militant groups like Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Shiite militias in Iraq.

Still, world powers hoped that approving the resolution quickly and unanimously would signal that Iran will face stricter sanctions each time it ignores a Security Council deadline to suspend uranium enrichment.

The new resolution asks countries to restrict travel by the individuals subject to sanctions as well as arms sales to Iran and new financial assistance or loans to the Iranian government.

It asks the International Atomic Energy Agency to report back in 60 days on whether Iran has suspended enrichment and warns Iran could face further measures if it does not. But it also says all sanctions will be suspended if Iran halts enrichment and makes clear that Tehran can still accept a package of economic incentives and political rewards offered last year if it complies with the council’s demands.

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 03/25/2007 at 09:17 AM   
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calendar   Tuesday - March 13, 2007

Moving Out

Fact #1: Companies move their corporate offices offshore to places like Bermuda every day to escape US taxes and allow them to compete with international companies who pay no US tax; Fact#2: Halliburton is moving where their clients are, not offshore to Bermuda so taxes are probably not their main reason for moving if they could just move to Bermuda which is much closer; Fact #3: Democrats have mercilessly harassed Halliburton from the day they found out Dick Cheney used to work there; Fact #4: What we really need to do is convince the bloviating Blotards in Congress to pack up and move themselves offshore - and slam the door behind them when they leave.

The Donks are at it again, pitching a hissy fit because their favorite whipping boy is packing up and moving out. Who will they harass now? No wonder they’re upset. The fact is that only about 10% of government revenue comes from corporate taxes, according to GAO figures. Nearly 80% comes from individual income taxes so unless the Halliburton employees decide to renounce their citizenship the tax revenue reduction will be negligible if even noticed at all in the giant $2 trillion bucket of money the government collects each year.

So what we have here is a tempest in a teapot, manufactured in whole by a political party that is totally bankrupt of ideas, divided and angry at everyone who refuses to accept them as overlords and masters. That would be Democrats. Of course they won’t stop Halliburton from moving out and they shouldn’t even try but their insane base expects them to bash anything associated with Bush/Cheney and so they scream, rant and yell at the EEEEVIL company and make all kinds of threats. Ain’t it sad to watch these alleged grownups behave like this ... ?

Halliburton’s Dubai Move Sparks US Political Ire
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Mon Mar 12, 5:44 PM ET

imageimageHalliburton’s decision to move its base from Texas to Dubai sparked a political firestorm Monday as Senator Hillary Clinton and other top Democrats expressed outrage at the oil services giant. Halliburton, headed by Dick Cheney from 1995 to 2000 before he became vice president, said Sunday it was relocating to the United Arab Emirates to capitalize on the Gulf region’s booming energy market.

“Does this mean they are going to quit paying taxes in America?” asked Clinton, a US presidential candidate. “They get a lot of government contracts, is this going to affect the investigations that are going on? Because we have a lot of evidence of misuse of government contracts and how they have cheated the American soldier and cheated the American taxpayer,” Clinton, speaking in New York, said of Halliburton.

The firm and its former KBR subsidiary, which is being spun off, have endured several contracting controversies and investigations since Halliburton was awarded a no-bid 2.4 billion dollar contract to supply the US military on the eve of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

KBR agreed last year to pay the US government eight million dollars to settle fraud claims related to an Army supply contract. Halliburton’s Nigerian operations have also come under US government scrutiny in recent years. “It’s an example of corporate greed at its worst,” said Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“At the same time they’ll be avoiding US taxes, I’m sure they won’t stop insisting on taking their profits in cold hard US cash,” Leahy charged. Halliburton spokeswoman Melissa Norcross said, however, that Halliburton would still remain incorporated in the United States and that there would be no layoffs as a result of its move.

“As such, we anticipate absolutely no tax benefits from this decision,” Norcross said. Halliburton’s chief executive, Dave Lesar, will move his office from Houston, Texas, to Dubai, but Norcross said other top officers would remain situated in Houston.

Halliburton said it was relocating to Dubai for business reasons and that Lesar would oversee a ramped-up effort to win regional oil services contracts and related business.

Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan said he would seek a congressional review of Halliburton’s announcement. “I want to know, is Halliburton trying to run away from bad publicity on their contracts? Or are they trying to set up a corporate presence in Dubai so that they can avoid the restrictions that currently exist on doing business with prohibited countries like Iran?” Dorgan questioned.

Karen Lightfoot, a spokeswoman for Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman, said the lawmaker might seek a hearing in the House of Representatives. “This is a surprising development. I want to understand the ramifications for the US taxpayer and national security,” Waxman, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said.

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 03/13/2007 at 08:06 AM   
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calendar   Monday - February 12, 2007

What About Iran?

Iran is working as fast and hard as they can to develop nuclear weapons. The Mad Mullahs are promoting violence in the region by sponsoring Hezbollah in Lebanon. They’re also sending in explosives and insurgents to help keep Iraq unstable and kill US troops. Not surprisingly, Democrats here at home say we should leave Iran alone.

Instead of conducting covert operations inside Iran to destabilize the government and assist a growing, dissatisfied populace and perhaps quietly taking out Iran’s nuclear plants, we’re hamstrung by partisan politicans in the Democratic Party. So nothing will get done and the Mad Mullahs in Iran will continue to cause trouble.

Why? Because it is more important for Democrats to harass the Bush administration and eventually regain the White House than it is to protect America’s interests overseas and the American people here at home. What’s really sick about all of this is that when Iran eventually develops a nuclear weapon, and uses it, the Donks will blame Bush for not having done anything to stop them.

You don’t have to be Nostradamus to see where this is going ...

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Ed Stein - The Rocky Mountain News

US Accuses Iran Over Iraq Bombs
(BBC) - Sunday, 11 February 2007, 20:26 GMT

imageimageThe US military has accused the “highest levels” of Iran’s government of supplying increasingly sophisticated roadside bombs to Iraqi insurgents. Senior defence officials told reporters in Baghdad that the bombs were being used to deadly effect, killing more than 170 US troops since June 2004.

The weapons known as “explosively formed penetrators” (EFPs) are capable of destroying an Abrams tank. US claims the bombs were smuggled from Iran cannot be independently verified.

The US officials, speaking off camera on condition of anonymity, said EFPs had also injured more than 620 US personnel since June 2004. They said US intelligence analysts believed the bombs were manufactured in Iran and secretly sent to Iraqi Shia militants on the orders of senior officials in Tehran.

“We assess that these activities are coming from the senior levels of the Iranian government,” one official said. He pointed the finger at Iran’s elite al-Quds brigade, a unit of the Revolutionary Guards, saying that a senior commander from the brigade had been one of five Iranians seized by US forces in a raid in the Iraqi town of Irbil in January.

The defence official said that when the men were captured they had been tying to flush documents down a toilet and that one of them had been contaminated with explosives residue. They had also reportedly shaved their heads to alter their appearance - bags of their hair were found during the raid.

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Dems Skeptical Of Starting Row With Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) - Ferburary 12, 2007 01:28AM ET

imageimageSkeptical congressional Democrats said Sunday the Bush administration should move cautiously before accusing Iran of fomenting a campaign of violence against U.S. troops in Iraq.

The members of Congress spoke on the morning talk shows as the U.S. military said it believes orders came from the highest levels of the Iranian government to send components for sophisticated roadside bombs in Iraq.

The military told reporters in Baghdad that between June 2004 and last week, more than 170 Americans had been killed by the bombs, which the military calls “explosively formed projectiles.” Those weapons are capable of destroying an Abrams tank.

“Explosives seem to be flowing into Iraq from Iran, but does it stem from a deliberate government policy or rogue elements within the Iranian government?” asked Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Sen.John Kerry(D-MA) said that ultimately Iran wants a stable Iraq and that the United States needs to engage in diplomacy.

Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) said the administration could be laying the groundwork for an attack on Iran and that “I’m worried about that. That’s how we got into the mess in Iraq,” by relying on what Dodd called “doctored information.”

Senate Intelligence Committee member Ron Wyden (D-OR) said “the administration is engaged in a drumbeat with Iran that is much like the drumbeat that they did with Iraq. We’re going to insist on accountability.”

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 02/12/2007 at 02:01 AM   
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calendar   Sunday - January 07, 2007

Duke Nukem

The problem with all the bleeding heart liberals and anti-war activists here in the US is that they’re 10,000 miles away from the madness that is the Middle East. It’s one thing to prance around major cities in the US carrying signs and chanting crap. It’s an entirely different matter to live in the shadow of incoming rockets every day and listen to some asshat in Teheran say he is going to wipe you off the map.

The Israeli Air Force is composed of several hundred F-16I fighters while the Iranian Air Force consists of a few dozen F4’s, F5’s, F14’s and a handful of French Mirages - plus a slew of SAM-10 missiles (almost all of which are outdated and out of service for lack of parts).

Guess who wins?

My only worry is whether the Israelis should use tactical nukes. After due consideration, I have decided it is probably best that they do to make sure the bombs penetrate the hardened targets and stop this Iranian madness before it goes one step further. After all, the screams from the UN and other Arab countries will be just as loud if they use nukes or just throw rocks. They might as well go “whole hog” if they will pardon my metaphor.

As for the peaceniks in the US, let ‘em pound sand. Better yet, deport them to Israel and let them endure a few days of abuse from Hamas and Hezbollah - then let’s see how loudly they sing “Koombayah”.

I say to the Israelis, “Let’s roll!” What have they got to lose? If the pansy-ass Liberals in the US want to tie our military’s hands and help hand over the world to insane IslamoNazis then perhaps we need to keep encouraging our friends like Ethiopia and Israel to bring the hammer down for us.

It doesn’t matter how the job gets done, as long as it gets done. Peace is never an easy thing to achieve. It’s important to remember that you just have to break a few eggs to make an omelet. I’ll have mine over-easy.

Revealed: Israel Plans nuclear Strike On Iran
(TIMES - UK) - January 7, 2007

imageimageISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.

Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear “bunker-busters”, according to several Israeli military sources.

The attack would be the first with nuclear weapons since 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Israeli weapons would each have a force equivalent to one-fifteenth of the Hiroshima bomb.

Under the plans, conventional laser-guided bombs would open “tunnels” into the targets. “Mini-nukes” would then immediately be fired into a plant at Natanz, exploding deep underground to reduce the risk of radioactive fallout.

“As soon as the green light is given, it will be one mission, one strike and the Iranian nuclear project will be demolished,” said one of the sources.

The plans, disclosed to The Sunday Times last week, have been prompted in part by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad’s assessment that Iran is on the verge of producing enough enriched uranium to make nuclear weapons within two years.

Israeli military commanders believe conventional strikes may no longer be enough to annihilate increasingly well-defended enrichment facilities. Several have been built beneath at least 70ft of concrete and rock. However, the nuclear-tipped bunker-busters would be used only if a conventional attack was ruled out and if the United States declined to intervene, senior sources said.

imageimageIsraeli and American officials have met several times to consider military action. Military analysts said the disclosure of the plans could be intended to put pressure on Tehran to halt enrichment, cajole America into action or soften up world opinion in advance of an Israeli attack.

Some analysts warned that Iranian retaliation for such a strike could range from disruption of oil supplies to the West to terrorist attacks against Jewish targets around the world.

Israel has identified three prime targets south of Tehran which are believed to be involved in Iran’s nuclear programme:

• Natanz, where thousands of centrifuges are being installed for uranium enrichment

• A uranium conversion facility near Isfahan where, according to a statement by an Iranian vice-president last week, 250 tons of gas for the enrichment process have been stored in tunnels

• A heavy water reactor at Arak, which may in future produce enough plutonium for a bomb

Israeli officials believe that destroying all three sites would delay Iran’s nuclear programme indefinitely and prevent them from having to live in fear of a “second Holocaust”.

The Israeli government has warned repeatedly that it will never allow nuclear weapons to be made in Iran, whose president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has declared that “Israel must be wiped off the map”.

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 01/07/2007 at 12:59 PM   
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calendar   Friday - December 29, 2006

The Arafat Conspiracy

imageimageThe US State Department released documents last summer that confirmed Arafat ordered the hit on our ambassadors to Sudan in 1973. (Cleo Noel and George Moore were abducted from a party at the Saudi embassy and held hostage for the release of Sirhan Sirhan.

Nixon said no, and they were executed less than 2 days after their kidnapping) This has been denied by State for 33 years. The US and Israeli governments were aware of his order from the very instant that it was sent.

Why did the USA deal with Arafat, knowing he was a murderer? He was behind the Achille Lauro too, 12 years after that. But “He is a different man now than he was then”. That excuses murder?

This scumbag was feted at Camp David, allowed to speak (while ARMED!!) at the UN, given a Nobel Prize, and generally hailed in our press as some kind of hero. We gave Palestine BILLIONS over the years. To a criminal cartel posing as a government, run by a murderer. What The Fuck??

Well at least they can’t blame this on W. too much. President Bush “completely repudiated Arafat in a speech he gave on June 24, 2002”. Well, actually he said “Palestinian authorities are encouraging, not opposing, terrorism.” Not exactly the same as naming names ... though Arafat was THE authority then, and W continued to send the fuckers tons of money. Why waste diplomacy on thugs?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020624-3.html

So, we’ve been duped by our own government yet again. Thanks. I’d like a real explaination for this, but it would be hard to swallow. Fool me twice, shame on me.

I have no connection to the State Department at all, never have. But I’ve “known” he was behind this hit since it happened. We all have “known”. Why does the government have to lie? Two dozen b-52s in 1973 and there would not be a Mid East Situation today at all.

Blogs:

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/ (title: History Might Have Been Different)
http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archives/008523.shtml
http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/12/28/arafats-orchestration-of-1973-murders-acknowledged/
http://daledamos.blogspot.com/2006/06/terrorism-and-media-symbiosis.html
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/016333.php
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/014409.php
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/008796.php

Newspapers:

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53513
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150191582217&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21365
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/12/flurry_of_atten.html
http://www.shinesforall.com/archives/2006/12/declassified_st.html


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 12/29/2006 at 10:51 AM   
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calendar   Tuesday - December 26, 2006

Book Review

It isn’t often that the NY Times and I agree on anything. In fact, this may be a first. I finally got around to reading Lawrence Wright’s book “The Looming Tower: The Road to 9/11” (Amazon - $16.76, 480 pp. Knopf, ISBN 037541486X). My advice to all of you is simple: get this book, read it, read it again, think about it, read it again. You won’t be disappointed.

Wright presents the facts in a very readable history of the rise of modern radical Islam from Egyptian Sayyid Qutb’s impressions of America, which he toured in the 1940’s to the subsequent rise of his “disciple”, Ayman al-Zawahiri in Egypt and the formation of Islamic Jihad, the predecessor of Al-Qaeda.

The descriptions of Osama Bin Laden and his path to becoming a terrorist leader are an eye-opener, particularly the complicity of the Saudis in his rise. Wright contrasts that excellently with the story of John O’Neill at the FBI and his determined efforts to stop the terrorists only to die at the WTC in the attack of 9/11.

Wright did not come across to me as an apologist for Islam as the NY Times seems to believe (on this we disagree). I felt that this was an excellently researched book that everyone who would understand the enemies of modern civilization should read. In fact, it should be required reading for everyone involved in the War On Terror or those of us who stand to lose everything if the enemy wins this one.

imageimage“When Mohamed Atta and his four Saudi confederates commandeered a Boeing 767 and steered it into the north tower of the World Trade Center, they began a story that still consumes us nearly five years on, and one that seems, on bad days, to promise war without end.

But the events of Sept. 11, 2001, were in many ways less the start of a tale than the end of one, or at least the climax of one, begun many years before in many different precincts: in the middle-class suburbs of Cairo, in the mosques of Hamburg, in Jidda, in Islamabad, in the quiet university town of Greeley, Colo.

In its simplest terms, this is the story of how a small group of men, with a frightening mix of delusion and calculation, rose from a tormented civilization to mount a catastrophic assault on the world’s mightiest power, and how another group of men and women, convinced that such an attack was on the way, tried desperately to stop it.

What a story it is. And what a riveting tale Lawrence Wright fashions in this marvelous book. “The Looming Tower” is not just a detailed, heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11, written with style and verve, and carried along by villains and heroes that only a crime novelist could dream up.

It’s an education, too — though you’d never know it — a thoughtful examination of the world that produced the men who brought us 9/11, and of their progeny who bedevil us today. The portrait of John O’Neill, the driven, demon-ridden F.B.I. agent who worked so frantically to stop Osama bin Laden, only to perish in the attack on the World Trade Center, is worth the price of the book alone. “The Looming Tower” is a thriller. And it’s a tragedy, too.

In the nearly five years since the attacks, we’ve heard oceans of commentary on the whys and how-comes and what-it-means and what’s nexts. Wright, a staff writer for The New Yorker — where portions of this book have appeared — has put his boots on the ground in the hard places, conducted the interviews and done the sleuthing. Others talked, he listened. And so he has unearthed an astonishing amount of detail about Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Mullah Muhammad Omar and all the rest of them. They come alive.”


-- NY TIMES Book Review


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 12/26/2006 at 12:01 PM   
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calendar   Wednesday - December 20, 2006

Nukes For Jesus

President Ahmawhackjob of Iran says that country now is a “nukular power” and is patiently waiting for the return of Jesus and some goat-herder named “Mahdi”. OK. I can live with that but first ....

(1) HUGE ammo stockpile? Check. (2) Plenty of bottled water? Check. (3) Cellar full of MRE’s and canned foods? Check. (4) Perimeter of apartment ringed with claymores and bouncing betties? Check. (5) All firearms cleaned, oiled and in perfect working order? Check. (6) Portable generator fueled up, tested and ready? Check. (7) All camping gear, including cookware, cleaned and stowed? Check.

OK. Now I’m ready. Let ‘er rip, Whackjob ....

imageimageAhmadineajd: Iran Now Nuclear Power
(YNET NEWS) - 12.20.06, 13:14

Iran is now a “nuclear power,” its President, Mahmoud Ahamdinejad, delcared Wednesday, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency . Ahmadinejad says Israel, US, Britain will vanish – ‘this is a divine promise;’ Iran demands UN Security Council condemn Israel’s nuclear development, place Israel’s facilities under inspection

During a speech delivered in the Western Iranian province of Javanroud, Ahmadinejad said: “ The Islamic Republic of Iran is now a nuclear power, thanks to the hard work of the Iranian people and authorities.”

The announcement of Iran as a “nuclear power” is bound to significantly escalate tensions between the West and Iran, and marks a dramatic stage in the Islamic Republic’s nuclear campaign. In recent days, the US military has begun to build up forces around the Gulf, in what is being seen as as a warning to Iran.

Ahmadinejad was also reported to have announced that “Iranian young scientists reached the zenith of science and technology and gained access to the nuclear fuel cycle without the help of big powers.”

The Iranian president began the speech by saying that “the powerful Iranian nation resists bullying powers and will defend its rights, including the right to pursue peaceful nuclear technology,” the IRNA said.




Jesus, Mahdi Both Coming, Says Iran’s Ahmadinejad
(WORLDNET DAILY) - December 19, 2006 11:52 a.m. Eastern

In a greeting to the world’s Christians for the coming new year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he expects both Jesus and the Shiite messianic figure, Imam Mahdi, to return and “wipe away oppression.”

“I wish all the Christians a very happy new year and I wish to ask them a question as well,” said Ahmadinejad, according to an Iranian Student News Agency report cited by YnetNews.com

“My one question from the Christians is: What would Jesus do if he were present in the world today? What would he do before some of the oppressive powers of the world who are in fact residing in Christian countries? Which powers would he revive and which of them would he destroy?” asked the Iranian leader. “If Jesus were present today, who would be facing him and who would be following him?”

Ahmadinejad then made a connection between Jesus and the Imam Mahdi, believed by Shiites to have disappeared as a child in A.D. 941. When the Mahdi returns, they contend, he will reign on earth for seven years before bringing about a final judgment and the end of the world.

“All I want to say is that the age of hardship, threat and spite will come to an end someday and, God willing, Jesus would return to the world along with the emergence of the descendant of the Islam’s holy prophet, Imam Mahdi, and wipe away every tinge of oppression, pain and agony from the face of the world,” Ahmadinejad said.

Ahmadinejad has been urging Iranians to prepare for the coming of the Mahdi by turning the country into a powerful and advanced Islamic society and by avoiding the corruption and excesses of the West.

He sees his main mission, as he recounted in a Nov. 16, 2005, speech in Tehran, as to “pave the path for the glorious reappearance of Imam Mahdi, may Allah hasten his reappearance.”


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