Thursday - November 20, 2008

Joe Biden, Genius And Savant

“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

DOT ONE: Remember how, 6 or 8 months ago, we were told that Iran wouldn’t have enough centrifuges to make enough enriched uranium to build a bomb with for at least the better part of a decade?


DOT TWO: Remember how, a few months before that, we were told that Iran really didn’t have nuclear weapons ambitions because they had stopped work on bomb design several years ago?


DOT THREE: Remember the news, a couple years before that, about the Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan, the guy who developed that country’s functional nukes, who had given the plans to every rogue islamic nation he could get in touch with? Then how Musharraf pardoned him, and how now he denies the whole thing and claims he was a scapegoat? Even though Libya, in the wake of 9/11, gave up it’s nuclear ambitions and turned the plans over to the US?


DOT FOUR: Remember how Iran has been playing games with the UN for ages, whining and crying and threatening, and how they spit on any and all sanctions against them a lie about their intentions and activities? That this has been going on so long it’s their standard behavior pattern, just like their buddies over there in North Korea?


DOT FIVE: Remember how far more sophisticated nuke plans turned up later, and even the nay-sayers at the UN couldn’t be sure if these had been distributed?


DOT SIX: Remember how Iran has made the news many times this year for testing more and more of their long range missiles? Ok, some of the pictures were “enhanced” a bit via faux-tography, but the missile tests were conducted, and they seemed to work.


DOT SEVEN:

Iran said to have enough nuclear fuel for one weapon

Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a single atom bomb, according to nuclear experts analyzing the latest report from global atomic inspectors.

The figures detailing Iran’s progress were contained in a routine update on Wednesday from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which has been conducting inspections of the country’s main nuclear plant at Natanz. The report concluded that as of early this month, Iran had made 630 kilograms, or about 1,390 pounds, of low-enriched uranium.

Several experts said that was enough for a bomb, but they cautioned that the milestone was mostly symbolic, because Iran would have to take additional steps. Not only would it have to breach its international agreements and kick out the inspectors, but it would also have to further purify the fuel and put it into a warhead design — a technical advance that Western experts are unsure Iran has yet achieved.

“They clearly have enough material for a bomb,” said Richard Garwin, a top nuclear physicist who helped invent the hydrogen bomb and has advised Washington for decades. “They know how to do the enrichment. Whether they know how to design a bomb, well, that’s another matter.”

For most of a decade the “intelligence” people in the West have continued to go out of their way to underestimate Iran as much as they could, and to tie a blindfold on themselves on a daily basis. Wouldn’t want to upset the sheeple you know. Or have to be pro-active or anything like that.


Got your pencils ready? Good.

   Wednesday - November 19, 2008

It must be an Enemy Thang, you wouldn’t understand

Obama and Condi now have something in common

Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites.

The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is “the direct opposite of honorable black Americans” like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.

In al-Qaida’s first response to Obama’s victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect — along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — “house negroes.”

Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term “abeed al-beit”, which literally translates as “house slaves.” But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as “house negroes.”

The turbaned tumblefuck then spent the rest of the 11 minute video ranting on about the usual crap, full of veiled threats and anti-American hatred. Big whup.

Welcome to the big boys club Barry.

   Sunday - November 16, 2008

Iraqis accused of murdering British troops get thousands of pounds in legal aid .

Thought this whole thing rather Moonbat like although maybe not bizarre given today’s legal system.
Bet the Brit taxpayer really happy to fund this. yeah right. 
gotta go, running behind. Hope I can post more later.

Reinforces the thought, First we kill all the lawyers.

By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent, and Ben Leach
Last Updated: 10:42PM GMT 15/11/2008

Two Iraqis accused of murdering British prisoners of war have been granted thousands of pounds in legal aid to fight being handed over to the Iraqi authorities to face trial.

Faisal Al-Saadoon and Khalaf Mufdhi are accused of killing Staff Sergeant Simon Cullingworth and Sapper Luke Allsopp in cold blood during the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003.

The British government wants to hand the two Iraqis over to the Iraqi government for trial. But their British lawyer has launched a High Court legal challenge saying such a trial would breach his clients’ human rights.

If he succeeds, the men, who are currently in British custody in Iraq, could be brought to the UK to face trial. Senior British Government officials are concerned that the two men will claim political asylum if they are tried in the UK.

The challenge, to be heard this week, has angered the dead British soldiers’ relatives and opposition politicians.

Patrick Mercer, the Tory MP for Newark and a former infantry commander, said: “ It seems totally wrong to me that these men are being given legal aid. Would we have given legal aid to Nazis who committed war crimes in the Second World War – of course not – this is arrant nonsense.

“What the hell is the point of fighting a war to try and establish democracy in a tyranny and then show a complete lack of trust in the new regime by failing to deliver alleged killers for trial? If these men do not stand trial in Iraq it would make a mockery of the blood spilt by British troops in fighting this war.”

The murder of SSgt Cullingworth, 36, and Spr Luke Allsopp, 24, both members of 33 Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) provoked a storm of outrage in the UK, with Tony Blair claiming that the two men had been executed by the Iraqi Army.

The soldiers were travelling as part of a convoy which was ambushed by Fedayeen militiamen on the outskirts of the town of Al Zubayr in southern Iraq on March 23, 2003.

While half the convoy escaped, SSgt Cullingworth, who was married with two sons, and Spr Allsopp, were taken to a local Ba’ath party headquarters and then to an Iraqi intelligence base, where they were shot dead.

Photographs taken of the soldiers at the compound as they lay dying, surrounded by a baying mob of Iraqis, were later shown on the Arabic TV channel al-Jazeera. The soldiers’ graves were discovered a month later and their bodies were exhumed.

The judicial review of the men’s case has been launched by the firm Public Immunity Lawyers who have been funded through legal aid.

Phil Shiner, of Public Immunity Lawyers, believes that Mr Saadoon, 56, and Mr Mufdhi, 58, would not get a fair trial in Iraq and could face the death penalty if found guilty. He also believes they would be tortured and abused by other inmates.

Mr Shiner told The Sunday Telegraph that the Iraqi Higher Tribunal, where they would be tried, was a “politicised court” established by the US-led coalition to try senior members of the former Ba’athist regime, and had already ordered the execution of several regime members including Saddam Hussein.

Mr Shiner, who confirmed that the judicial review was being funded by legal aid, will claim that to try the alleged killers in Iraq would be a breach of their human rights under the Article 3 of the European Convention of Human Rights.

He said: “The IHT have a track record of sentencing people to death and we, the UK, have a policy of not handing over people to a jurisdiction if there is a risk of the death penalty being applied.”

The Sunday Telegraph understands, however, that senior officials in the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Justice have been given assurances at the “highest level” that the two accused will receive a fair trial and treatment, whatever the outcome of the case.

It is also understood that one of the families of the British dead have written to the Iraqi court and asked for clemency in the event that the former Iraqi soldiers are found guilty. 

(proves there’s ALWAYS one out there, doesn’t it?)

Margaret Cullingworth, 83, the mother of Simon Cullingworth, who lives in Ruthin, North Wales, said: “They should be tried and brought to justice in their own country. It was a horrible crime. We could have accepted it if they had been killed in battle but they were prisoners and were murdered.

“We do have confidence in the UK authorities and believe they will do the right thing. Simon’s widow has been left to bring up the children on her own and she has found it very hard – we all have.”

A spokesman for the MoD said: “The Secretary of State for Defence and the Foreign Secretary have received assurances from the Iraqi Government that Mr Al-Saadoon and Mr Mufdhi will be treated humanely when they are transferred to Iraqi custody. The assurances have been considered and found credible, and they have agreed that the two suspects can be transferred to the Iraqi authorities, provided that the UK courts finds this lawful.

http://tinyurl.com/6kpvts

   Thursday - November 13, 2008

How bizarre is this?  The taliban is asking human rights groups for help. Yes. That taliban.

The very least human of life forms, is seeking help from human rights groups AND the UN, AND the UN agrees ..  AND ... So does the EU.
Surprised?

Some world huh.

Apparently Afghanistan has now resumed the execution of prisoners.  The UN and the EU don’t like that and so keeping up their long standing tradition of sticking their noses into the legal affairs and customs of other people, they are protesting.  Silly dirt bags.

Afghanistan executed nine rapists, kidnappers, murders and militants in the last week and has support from the people weary of rising crime.

Taliban calls on human rights groups to stop executions
Afghanistan’s Taliban have called on human rights groups to stop the Afghan government executing prisoners.

By Ben Farmer
Last Updated: 7:51PM GMT 13 Nov 2008

A website statement said to come from the organisation’s leadership council called the recent execution of nine death row prisoners, including convicted insurgents, “barbaric” and raised concerns about fair trials.

Mr Karzai’s decision to sign the execution orders after a 13-month moratorium has been criticised by the United Nations and European Union who have also questioned the standards of the Afghan judicial system.

The Taliban, who became internationally notorious for public executions during their regime, accused Karzai’s government of corruption and said: “We strongly request the UN, the EU, the Red Cross and human rights groups to earnestly prevent this barbaric act.”

It also warned the government against more executions, saying the officials responsible would be punished.

Afghans fearful of rising crime have welcomed the recent execution of men convicted of child molesting, kidnap, murder and insurgent attacks.

The Taliban regime brutally punished criminals after they swept to power in the mid 1990s pledging to bring justice and peace to a country blighted by lawlessness and feuding warlords.

Thieves had hands or feet amputated, while murderers were regularly shot dead in front of packed football stadiums.

The Taliban, now fighting to overthrow Mr Karzai’s government, have executed dozens of captured soldiers and civilians since they were ousted in 2001.

http://tinyurl.com/6zrzfv

A side note on crime over there.  Three Afghan schoolgirls suffered serious burns when attackers sprayed acid in their faces as they walked to school. The brave and manly attackers ripped off the girls’ headscarves before the attack.  Those wearing the full length burkas were left alone.
And the UN and EU are worried about what? 

   Sunday - November 09, 2008

Secret enclaves of al-Qaeda extremists based in London, planning mass-casualty attacks in Britain

Just the thing I wanna see very first thing on a sleepy Sunday morning.. 

Oh btw ... can NOT deport many of these sub humans due to civil and human rights issues.  I’d no idea insects or vermin had civil rights, but I guess so.

Report identifies UK terrorist enclaves
Secret enclaves of al-Qaeda extremists based in London, Birmingham and Luton are planning mass-casualty attacks in Britain, according to a leaked Government intelligence report.

By Sean Rayment, Security Correspondent
Last Updated: 6:48AM GMT 09 Nov 2008

The document, which was drawn up by the intelligence branch of the Ministry of Defence, MI5 and Special Branch, states that “some thousands” of extremists are active in the UK. They are predominantly UK-born and aged between 18 and 30, and many are believed to have been trained in overseas terrorist camps.

Under the heading “International Terrorism”, the report, which is marked “restricted” states: “For the foreseeable future the UK will continue to be a high-priority target for international terrorists aligned with al-Qaeda. It will face a threat from British nationals, including Muslim converts, and UK-based foreign terrorists, as well as terrorists planning attacks from abroad.”

The report states that the threat from the Islamist extremist community in the UK is “diverse and widely distributed” but adds that the numbers of terrorist in Britain is “difficult to judge”.

The document does state, however, that the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, which is based in MI5’s headquarters at Thames House in London, estimates that there are “some thousands of extremists in the UK committed to supporting Jihadi activities, either in the UK or abroad”.

A year ago Jonathan Evans, the director general of MI5, said in a speech that his organisation had identified that there were at least 2,000 individuals who posed a threat to national security and public safety.

Since 2001, over 1,200 terrorist suspect have been arrested, over 140 have been charged and more than 45 have been convicted of terrorism offences, according to Home Office figures. It is also estimated that there are some 200 terrorist networks functioning in Britain today who are involved in at least 30 plots.

But this latest security assessment appears to suggest that the number of individuals who now pose a threat to the UK is even higher.

The report continues: “The majority of extremists are British nationals of south Asian, mainly Pakistani origin but there are also extremists from north and east Africa, Iraq and the Middle East, and a number of converts. The overwhelming majority of extremists are male, typically in the 18-30 age range.

“The main extremist concentrations are in London, Birmingham, with significant extremist networks in the South East, notably Luton. Extremist networks are principally engaged in spreading their extremist message, training, fund raising and procuring non-lethal military equipment to support the Jihads in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, and sending recruits to the conflicts.

“UK-based extremists, either under the direction of al-Qaeda, or inspired by al-Qaeda’s ideology of global Jihad, have also engaged in attack planning in the UK.”

Although the document specifically names London, Birmingham and south east England as areas of extremist activity, MI5 believe that the threat posed by Islamist extremists comes from across the UK. In an attempt to deal with the growing number of terrorists, MI5 now has nine regional offices and has almost doubled its staff numbers from 1,800 in 2001 to 3,500 today.

There are around 1.5 million Muslims in Britain, a million of whom live in London. There are 150,000 Muslims in Birmingham and a further 27,000 in Luton. There are also an estimated 10,000 Afro-Caribbean Muslims or white converts.

Some of the terrorists involved in the plot to bring down airliners using liquid bombs came from London, where a bomb factory had been established.

Birmingham, one of the centres of Islamic radicalisation in Britain, was where a plot was formed to kidnap and behead a British soldier.

The plot was lead by Parviz Khan, an unemployed charity worker who formed a terrorist cell in the city. The extremists planned to video the execution and release the film on the internet.

Luton has a growing Muslim population and has been a hot-bed of radical activity. The extremist group al-Muhajiroun has also been very active in the town. The 7/7 bombers assembled in Luton, before travelling to London to carry out their attacks.

The document also reveals that many of the terror networks operating in the UK include extremists who have been trained in terrorist camps overseas and have “some ability to construct improvised explosive devices, incorporating home-made explosives”.

It adds: “The availability of training/guidance and the necessary components to build improvised explosive devices (IED), allied with extremists’ known targeting preferences, mean that IED attacks against crowded places, intended to cause mass casualties, are the most likely form of attack in the UK.”

It is also made clear in the report that al-Qaeda cells are planning further attacks in UK with the so-called Government Security Zone (GSZ), an area which covers the Houses of Parliament, Whitehall, Buckingham and St James’ Palaces, as a possible target. The threat level in the GSZ is described in the report as “severe”.

Security officials are convinced that UK-based al-Qaeda cells will attempt to carry out another “spectacular” inside the UK with major transport termini, such as airports and train stations, being the most likely targets.

Patrick Mercer, the Tory MP for Newark, said al-Qaeda now had support in large parts of the country, especially around Luton which was the spot where the 7/7 terrorists assembled before travelling to London to mount the Tube bombings.

He added: “We know that subversion and support for al-Qaeda is taking place in campuses and prisons all over the UK. The fact that we have not been attacked for over two years should not be taken by anyone as evidence that the threat has gone away, in fact it is just the contrary.”

http://tinyurl.com/5tbfy6

   Tuesday - October 28, 2008

Islamists stone to death Somali woman for adultery.

Gee, maybe if the west gives them some money for health and safety and education and medicine and ... oh yeah.  West already has. Many times over the many years.
OK.. maybe if the west gives even more. And keeps on giving.  Right. I didn’t think so either.
It will NEVER, EVER make a bit of difference.

Islamists stone to death Somali woman for adultery

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 2:15 PM on 28th October 2008

Somali Islamists have stoned to death a woman accused of adultery in the first such public killing by the militants for about two years, witnesses said.

The 23-year-old woman was placed in a hole up to her neck for the execution late on Monday in front of hundreds of people in a square of the southern port of Kismayu, which the Islamist insurgents captured in August.

Stones were hurled at her head, and she was brought out of the hole three times to see if she had died.

When a relative and others surged forward, guards opened fire, killing a child, the witnesses said.

‘A woman in green veil and black mask was brought in a car as we waited to watch the merciless act of stoning,’ one local resident, Abdullahi Aden, told Reuters.

‘We were told she submitted herself to be punished, yet we could see her screaming as she was forcefully bound, legs and hands. A relative of hers ran towards her, but the Islamists opened fire and killed a child.’

The Islamists last carried out public executions when they ruled Mogadishu and most of south Somalia for half of 2006.

Allied Ethiopian and Somali government forces toppled them at the end of that year, but they have waged an Iraq-style guerrilla campaign since then, gradually taking territory back.

As when they ruled Mogadishu in 2006, the Islamists now controlling the Kismayu area are again providing much-needed security, but also imposing fundamentalist practices such as banning entertainment seen as anti-Islamic.

Relatives of the woman executed in Kismayu, whom they named as Asha Ibrahim Dhuhulow, were furious.

‘The stoning was totally irreligious and illogical,’ said her sister, who asked not to be named. ‘Islam does not execute a woman for adultery unless four witnesses and the man with whom she committed sex are brought forward publicly.’

Islamist leaders at the execution said the woman had breached Islamic law. They promised to punish the guard who had shot the child in the melee around the execution.

‘We apologise for killing the child. And we promise we shall bring the one who opened fire before the courts and deal with him accordingly,’ one unnamed Islamist leader told the crowd.’

http://tinyurl.com/5uxm9r

   Thursday - October 23, 2008

the REAL William Ayers

I bought up the subject of what’s going to happen after we take over the government. We, we become responsible, then, for administrating, you know, 250 million people.

And there was no answers. No one had given any thought to economics; how are you going to clothe and feed these people. The only thing that I could get, was that they expected that the Cubans and the North Vietnamese and Chinese and the Russians would all want to occupy different portions of the United States.

They also believed that their immediate responsibility would be to protect against what they called the counter-revolution. And they felt that this counter-revolution could best be guarded against by creating and establishing re-education centers in the southwest, where we would take all the people who needed to be re-educated into the new way of thinking and teach them… how things were going to be.

I asked, well, what’s going to happen to those people that we can’t re-educate; that are die-hard capitalists. And the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further, they estimated that they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these re-education centers. And when I say eliminate, I mean kill. 25 million people.

I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees from Columbia and other well known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people.

And they were dead serious.”

—Larry Grathwohl, former member of the Weather Underground

I found this at Pal2Pal, she found it at Confederate Yankee, he found it at Zombietime. It’s at The Jawa Report too, as does Little Green Footballs. Make it even more viral. Confederate Yankee has the video. Right now it’s still up on YouTube:

Information on the Weather Underground has been easily available for 20 to 30 years. And lest you think that this group dissolved in the 60s or 70s, they were still active in 1981, when they robbed a Brinks armored car at the Nanuet Mall in Nanuet NY (not 5 miles from where I was living at the time), killing and wounding several guards and several policemen a short time later. Susan L. Rosenberg was part of that gang and part of this robbery and these murders. She was also part of Ayers team that bombed the Capital in 1983. So was Linda Sue Evans. Both were sent to jail for their crimes, and they would still be there today, but Bill Clinton pardoned these terrorists at the end of his term as President.

Is that why the Weather Underground thing isn’t getting any press attention? Is it old news that doesn’t matter, because Clinton pardoned some of them and because Ayers got off on a technicality? THESE PEOPLE ARE MURDERERS. This isn’t some cutesy-poo “let’s play rebels while we’re in college” bullshit.

But it gets no traction in the media. Fuck no, it gets anti-traction: today the news is that over 3000 college professors, including fellow commies Rashid Khalidi from Columbia, and former University of Colorado Ward Churchill, have signed a petition to Leave Britney Alone!! protest what they say is the “demonization of Professor William Ayers,” asserting that his violent actions as the co-founder of the Weather Underground were just “history.” JUST HISTORY. College professors. Just history: without meaning or context or any possible relevancy to today. No more important than knowing whether it was King John or King William who signed the Magna Carta. These are the people who are teaching your children, at great cost to your bank account:

It seems that the character assassination and slander of Bill Ayers and other people who have known Obama is not about to let up. While an important concern is the dishonesty of this campaign and the slanderous McCarthyism they are using to attack Obama, we also feel an obligation to support our friend and colleague Bill Ayers. Many, many educators have reached out, asking what they could do, seeking a way to weigh in against fear and intimidation. Many of us have been talking and we agree that this one gesture, a joint statement signed by hundreds of hard-working educators, would be a great first step. Such a statement may be distributed through press releases or ads in the future.

ZombieTime has excerpts of Prairie Fire, the Weather Underground manifesto. It is a chilling document. Go and read it. And lest you think that, gosh, this happened 40 years ago when Obama was only 8 so it doesn’t matter, (even though the last of it happened only 27 years ago when Obama was 20) the contents of Prarie Fire are said to be in Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements, and Communiqus of the Weather Underground 1970 - 1974, a book published in 2006, dedicated to RFK’s assassin Sirhan Sirhan and still for sale at Amazon today. Damned if I’m going to buy a copy just to prove that though. Just two years ago Ayers still believed in his cause enough to republish his manifesto in a new book.

William “guilty as hell, free as a bird” Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist; a communist riveted to the idea of the violent overthrow of America and the forced re-education of her people. Obama’s friend, coworker, and babysitter: a bomb throwing anarchist bent on the violent overthrow of this nation, willing to execute 10% of the population if necessary to force his views down everyone’s throats. This is the guy who baby sat Obama’s children, who introduced him to the political world from his own living room, who shared an office with him for 3 years, who served on several committees with Obama the Community Organizer, who even got Obama to do an endorsement blurb for his kiddie book. He IS NOT simply “some guy from the neighborhood”.

Does this make Obama a communist anarchist terrorist too? No, but it doesn’t matter. As commenter Will Collier put it, while troll stomping over at Confederate Yankee:

God Bless you Will Collier ... you’ve hit the nail directly on the head. Not one citizen with an active braincell and half a lick of common sense should vote for Obama. Not one.

   Monday - October 20, 2008

Woman aid worker gunned down by Taliban motorbike killers in Kabul for ‘spreading Christianity.

One of the comments posted at the Daily Mail on this story has this to say.

The poster does have a valid point.  Surely the poor woman must have known how dangerous was her position.  Maybe she felt safe and so gave no thought to it.  I have to feel sorry for her and her family, even if I think she just didn’t belong there.  Well, thinking about it I guess help has to come from somewhere.  But I wonder just how much actual good it all does.  That place has been a stone age culture since forever.  And why do some Christians think they are duty bound to convert anyone else if those others are perfectly content with what they already have and believe in?  I don’t know if they’re brave or foolhardy. Maybe a bit of both?  Still, it is damn sad.

And Colin Powell doesn’t approve the way Republicans on the right treat with or view muslims.  Gee, can’t understand that either. They are rational, civilized people who belong to a religion of peace after all.  quick ... where’s the barf bag? 

A PS for BMEWS viewers least you think I can’t spell.  I refuse to spell muslim or islam with caps. I’m not certain anymore but I think I may have picked that up from Skipper, and so it will remain.

British woman aid worker gunned down by Taliban motorbike killers in Kabul for ‘spreading Christianity’

Last updated at 12:58 PM on 20th October 2008

A British woman working for a Christian charity helping disabled Afghans was shot dead by the Taliban in Kabul as she walked to work early this morning, officials said.

Gayle Williams worked for SERVE Afghanistan, which describes itself as a Christian charity. It confirmed the incident but would not give any details.

‘Our people carried out this attack in District 3 of Kabul this morning at 7am,’ the Taliban’s spokesman Zabiullah Mujahed said.

‘The reason that we killed her was because she was spreading Christianity.’

A government spokesman, Zemarai Bashary, said: ‘Two armed men sitting on a motorbike shot her dead. Some bullets hit her body and some hit her leg and when police got there she was dead.’

A witness said he had seen the woman walk along the same route to work in the upmarket western Kart-e-Char suburb for about two years.

A builder, who gave his name as Daulad, said he had heard seven shots and when he looked into the street he saw a woman lying on a footpath.

It is rare that foreign nationals are killed in the Afghan capital, although there have been several kidnappings.

There have been three assassinations in the southern city of Kandahar in recent weeks, also carried out by men on motorbikes.

The insurgent Taliban - in government between 1996 and 2001 - claimed responsibility for two of the killings involving the city’s most senior policewoman and a government official.

The third was of a top tribal elder shot dead with his son, a former bodyguard of President Hamid Karzai, as they left a mosque early in the morning.

An NGO security group said last week that attacks on aid workers by insurgents in Afghanistan were at the highest level in six years.

There had been 146 security incidents involving non-government organisations to September this year compared to 135 for the whole of 2007, the Afghanistan NGO Safety Office (ANSO) said in a quarterly report.

They included 28 killings, among them five international workers, and 72 abductions, the group said.

Among the victims were three Western women aid workers with the International 90 Rescue Committee who were gunned down with their driver about 30 miles outside of Kabul in August.

The women were a British and Canadian citizen, a Canadian national and a Trinidad and American national.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the murders, the worst involving the foreign aid community in years.

ANSO said in its report that it was reluctant to support the idea that NGOs were being directly targeted for their own activities rather than for being mistakenly associated with the international military forces in Afghanistan.

The watchdog urged aid groups to begin ‘strongly reinforcing their independence and moving away from political and military actors’ for their own protection.

http://tinyurl.com/5g26uq

   Tuesday - October 14, 2008

WITH APOLOGIES TO BMEWS. CLASS.  A MEA CULPA?  CARLA BRUNI AIDS TERRORIST.

Recently Drew and I agreed on the term class as applied to certain women.  Neither of us thought Paris Hilton exhibited much by her overall public behavior, though I tended to think perhaps she might be improving somewhat after being incarcerated.  Something she was never brought up to believe one of her monied class would experience. 

I then posted an eye candy photo of a woman who up till that time I thought exhibited class beyond all measure.  The First Lady of France, Carla Bruni. 
Fully clothed she had far more appeal and striking looks then many women half her age (40 something). 

I forgot she had been a million dollar model and so knew how to best present herself.  I now confess that blinded by her physical appearance, I was quite willing to conveniently forget just how far left her politics were are.  I came to believe she was one who did exhibit class as I understood the word.
Well, maybe I don’t understand what “class” really is.  I always just assumed I’d know it when I saw it and she seemed to embody the very meaning itself.

If real class in a person goes beyond the physical (and it does), then my idea of Bruni class has shown her to have hooves of clay.  Actually, that might not be fair to her as she never made a secret of her leftist politics and has spoken openly on the subject.  And that fact alone (being left) doesn’t mean she’s classless.
However, it’s what she’s managed to bring about in criminal matters, the total disregard of victims as she worked on the ever horny Sarko, president of France, to deny Italy the extradition of a member of The Red Brigade, that has me riled this morning.

She has NO CLASS whatever.  Simply a very good actress with the appearance of class.  I’m more disappointed in myself (typical male huh?) then in her.
She never denied her stripes and I never gazed beyond her light to see what what was behind.  So, here’s the story that has me all bothered today.

Carla Bruni uses influence to halt extradition of Red Brigades terrorist
Carla Bruni and her sister have persuaded Nicolas Sarkozy not to extradite a woman who faces life imprisonment for murder to her native Italy, sparking anger amongst her victims’ families.

By Henry Samuel in Paris
Last Updated: 6:01PM BST 13 Oct 2008

In a sign of her influence over her husband’s decision-making, the Italian-born First Lady - along with her sister - convinced the French president to drop a court order to deport exiled Red Brigades terrorist Marina Petrella to Rome.

Her personal intervention and the presidential u-turn sparked anger in Italy, which has been seeking Mrs Petrella’s extradition from France since she fled after being freed on bail in 1986.

A group representing victims of the Red Brigades said it would travel to Paris this weekend and protest against the decision in front of the Elysée palace.

Mrs Petrella was found guilty in absentia by an Italian court in 1992 of murder, kidnapping, attempted kidnapping and armed robbery.

A French court approved her extradition in December and an order to send her back to Italy had been signed by the prime minister. But after “pugnacious” lobbying by Mr Sarkozy’s wife on behalf of her older sister, actress Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, the president changed his mind - citing humanitarian grounds.

“Mrs Petrella was in danger of dying. This hunger and thirst strike had to stop, which it did. There is a humanitarian clause, I used that clause,” Mr Sarkozy said during a financial press conference.

“I told him (Mr Sarkozy) about her, especially just after I saw her in jail.

I gave him some information that was perhaps a little bit important in his decision,” said Miss Bruni-Tedeschi.

“He focused his attention on a case that he hadn’t completely focused on before,” she said. Her sister Carla said she was “happy” about the decision.

The pair personally delivered the message to Mrs Petrella on Sunday at her secure prison hospital bed, where she is refusing to eat and is in “very poor” health.

“I have a message for you from my husband,” the First Lady reportedly told her. “You will not be going back to Italy.”

The Communist Red Brigade was accused of dozens of murders in the 1970s and 80s, including that of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978.

Mr Moro’s widow, Olga, expressed outrage: “All judicial accords and conventions have been violated” by a decision “no doubt taken because the Sarkozy household was scared of unpopularity,” she said.

Mrs Petrella had been living at liberty in France until she was arrested in August 2007 at Italy’s request soon after Mr Sarkozy’s election. He had promised to end France’s policy of granting repentant ex-Red Brigades members asylum– first initiated by Socialist president François Mitterrand in 1985.

Mr Sarkozy denied that his decision would anger his Italian counterparts. “I remained in contact with them. I don’t think there was a lack of understanding. There is never a lack of understanding when one takes a humanitarian decision,” he said.

But Isabella Bertolini, a member of Mr Berlusconi’s People of Freedom party disagreed: “To apply a humanitarian clause to a terrorist convicted of homicide, theft and kidnapping sounds like a bad joke,” she told newspaper La Republicca.

The First Lady’s sister told Italian daily Corriere della Sera that Mrs Petrella’s story had particular significance for the wealthy Bruni family, which had fled to France after receiving death threats from the Red Brigades.

“I arrived in France as a little girl exactly because my family was afraid of what was happening in Italy, also because of terrorism,” Miss Bruni Tedeschi said.

“We all had a sentiment of fear, even I who was so little, and I know what it means to be welcomed by a foreign country, feel protected by it, and I can imagine what it means to suddenly lose that welcoming, lose that protection.”

This is a rare foray into politics for Mr Sarkozy’s third wife, who unlike her husband has always espoused left-wing causes.

However, it is not the first time the President has involved a spouse in politics: last year he sent his second wife Cécilia on a successful mission to free Bulgarian nurses from jail in Libya. The pair divorced last October and a month later he met Carla Bruni, a top model and successful folk pop singer.

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   Saturday - October 11, 2008

Stop sharia law in Britain.  USA SHOULD ALSO TAKE SERIOUS NOTE.  PAT CONDELL VIDEO

Good Sat. afternoon to all who fall by here.

Here’s latest (far as I know) from Pat Condell.  He doesn’t need me to add anything.

   Monday - October 06, 2008

War in Afghanistan cannot be won, British commander Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith warns .

It’s June 5th and Ike finally says, We can’t win this war.
Of course the Germans hear that too and so ......

August 6, 2008
Sie haben Papiere? Sprechen Sie Deutsche?

War in Afghanistan cannot be won, British commander Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith warns
The war in Afghanistan cannot be won, Britain’s most senior military commander in the country has warned.

By Caroline Gammell
Last Updated: 11:53PM BST 05 Oct 2008

(just what these grunts wanna hear, right?  risking and often losing life and limb, they gotta wonder just what the hell they are doing this for if a high ranking officer says they can’t win.  and now we might not. because the enemy knows all they gotta do is wait us out.  good strategy brigadier. )

Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith said the British public should not expect “a decisive military victory” and that he believed groups of insurgents would still be at large after troops pulled out.

In June, he claimed that British forces had reached a “tipping point” against a weakened Taliban after their leadership was “decapitated”.

But on Sunday the army officer said it was time to lower expectations and focus on reducing the conflict to a level which could be managed by the Afghan army.

Brig Carleton-Smith, commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade - which has just completed its second tour of Afghanistan - said talking to the Taliban could be an important part of that process.

He insisted his forces had “taken the sting out” of the Taliban for 2008 as winter and the colder weather approaches, but warned that many of the fighters would return in May or June.

He said British forces had killed six important Taliban commanders and delivered a vast turbine to Kajaki dam to significantly bolster electricity supplies.

However, he told a Sunday newspaper: “We’re not going to win this war. It’s about reducing it to a manageable level of insurgency that’s not a strategic threat and can be managed by the Afghan army.

“We may well leave with there still being a low but steady ebb of rural insurgency… I don’t think we should expect that when we go, there won’t be roaming bands of armed men in this part of the world.

“That would be unrealistic.”

Brig Carleton-Smith, who took the unusual step last month of calling for 4,000 more troops, said the goal should be to find a non-violent resolution.

“We want to change the nature of the debate from one where disputes are settled through the barrel of a gun to one where it is done through negotiations,” he said.

“If the Taliban were prepared to sit on the other side of the table and talk about a political settlement, then that’s precisely the sort of progress that concludes insurgencies like this.”

“That shouldn’t make people uncomfortable.”

A Ministry of Defence spokesman defended the brigadier’s comments and said the aim was to provide a secure infrastructure for the Afghan National Police and Afghan National Army.

“We have always said there is no military solution in Afghanistan. Insurgencies are ultimately solved at the political level, not by military means alone,” the spokesman said.

“We are not looking for a total military victory, it is much wider than that, improving the infrastructure to alllow the country to move forward without the need for a total defeat of the Taliban.

“We fully support President Karzai’s efforts to bring disaffected Afghans into society’s mainstream with his proviso that they renounce violence and accept Afghanistan’s constitution.”

Joining the debate about how long troops will stay in Afghanistan, Brig Carleton-Smith said he expected tactical military responsibility to be handed over to the Afghan government within five years.

Defence Secretary Des Browne has already warned it will take years to establish a stable democracy and told a think-tank in Washington in July that it would be a “longer haul” than Iraq.

Last week, the British ambassador to Kabul, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, was linked to disparaging remarks about the role of international troops in Afghanistan.

A French newspaper printed what it claimed was a leaked memo which quoted Sir Sherard as saying that foreign forces were “slowing down and complicating and eventual end to the crisis”.

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   Sunday - September 28, 2008

Iconic Afghan policewoman shot dead.  (form the other side of the world via Al Jazeera)

Well heck.  When will women simply learn their place and be happy raising multiple children and accepting slave status?  Is that too much to ask?
Jews too. And other infidels like Christians and in fact, everyone who isn’t a talibanee.  Cretins!

Story Credit: AlJazeera

A woman regarded as Afghanistan’s most prominent female police officer has been shot dead in the southern city of Kandahar, a government official has said.

Malalai Kakar, the head of the city’s department on crimes against women, was attacked by armed men on Sunday as she left her home, Zalmay Ayoobi, a Kandahar government spokesman, said.

“Today between 7am [0230 GMT] and 8am when she was [in her car] outside her house and going to her job, some gunmen attacked,” Ayoobi said.

“Malalai Kakar died in front of her house. Her son was wounded.”

Kandahar is a traditional stronghold of the Taliban, which is fighting an armed campaign against the Afghan government and US and Nato forces in the country.

Kakar, who was in her late 30s, was shot in the head, a doctor said.

“She died on the spot and her son, who was badly injured, is in a coma in the hospital,” he said without giving his name.

A spokesman for the Taliban said that the assassins were from his group.

“We killed Malalai Kakar,” Yousuf Ahmadi, spokesman told the AFP news agency, said.

“She was our target, and we successfully eliminated our target.”

Death threats

Kakar, a police captain and mother of six, led a 10-strong team of women police officers and had reportedly received numerous death threats in recent months.

She was well-respected in the police force for her bravery, one of her colleagues said on condition of anonymity.

Her work attracted attention from international media outlets interested in her work in Kandahar.

She was the first woman to enrol in the Kandahar police force after the 2001 removal of the Taliban and had been involved in investigating crimes against women and children, and conducting house searches.

The head of Kandahar province’s women’s affairs department was killed in a similar way two years ago.

Assailants shot dead a female police officer in June in the western province of Herat in what was believed to be the first assassination of a female police officer in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan’s police force was destroyed by the time the Taliban were removed and is being rebuilt with international assistance. It numbers about 80,000 people, including a few hundred women.

About 750 policemen have been killed in the past six months, mostly in Taliban-linked violence sweeping the country.

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Terror arrests linked to controversial Muslim book.  (here we go again?)

Well now this is a big surprise, is it not?

North London terror arrests linked to controversial Muslim book
Four people have been arrested in London over an alleged terror attack on the publisher of a controversial book on the prophet Muhammad.

By Andrew Alderson, Chief Reporter
Last Updated: 9:44AM BST 28 Sep 2008

The arrests are connected to a fire at a property in Islington, north London, which is used as the home and office of Martin Rynja, a publisher.

His company, Gibson Square, recently bought the rights to a novel which is considered by some to be more controversial than Salman Rushdie’s book, The Satanic Verses. The new book, about the prophet Muhammad and his child bride, is entitled The Jewel of Medina.

The blaze yesterday, which led to people being evacuated from the house, may have been started by a petrol bomb pushed through the letter box.

Initially, three men, aged 22, 30 and 40, were detained at around 2.25am yesterday after a fire broke out at a property in Lonsdale Square, Islington. Two were stopped by armed officers in Lonsdale Square, and the third was seized when a car was stopped by armed police near Angel underground station.

Random House US, the major publishing group, announced in May this year that it was dropping its plans to publish Sherry Jones’s debut novel following warnings that it could incite acts of violence from radical Muslims. The Jewel of the Medina was also pulled from bookshops in Serbia last month after pressure from an Islamic group.

Gibson Square, which has previously published other controversial books, bought the rights to Jones’s book after Random House pulled out. It paid what it described as a “compelling” advance to acquire The Jewel of Medina. The book will be published by Gibson Square next month [October] in Britain, Australia and New Zealand. In the US, the book will be published by Beaufort Books.

Speaking before yesterday’s attack, Mr Rynja said: “In an open society there has to be open access to literary works, regardless of fear. As an independent publishing company, we feel strongly that we should not be afraid of the consequences of debate.

“If a novel of quality and skill that casts light on a beautiful subject we know too little of in the West, but have a genuine interest in, cannot be published here, it would truly mean that the clock has been turned back to the dark ages. The Jewel of Medina has become an important barometer of our time.”

Mr Rynja added that as a small publisher, Gibson Square would be more capable of handling any controversy. “With a book that is controversial – and we’ve done a number – it is incredibly important that it is looked at from all sides. That is very difficult for a large publisher to do as they are looking at 200 titles a month so a controversial one is just one in the mix.”

He said that he hoped that once people read the novel in its entirety there would be a “healthy discussion” about its content. “[Jones has] done very careful and detailed research for the novel – she’s writing about this love story which even after 1,400 years we don’t know much about.” Mr Rynja was unavailable for comment yesterday.

Ms Jones, also speaking before yesterday’s attack, said that her novel had was not intended to be disrespectful to Islam. “I have deliberately and consciously written respectfully about Islam and Mohammed … I envisaged that my book would be a bridge-builder.”

Random House was told by security experts and academics that the novel, for which it paid a $100,000 (£55,000) advance, was potentially more incendiary than both The Satanic Verses and the Danish newspaper cartoons of Muhammad. Random House decided not to publish the title “for the safety of the author, employees of Random House Inc, booksellers and anyone else who would be involved in distribution and sale of the book”.

(SO .... MUS-SLIMES WIN AGAIN.  NICE TO KNOW THE BASTARDS CAN DICTATE WHAT BOOKS SHOULD BE PUBLISHED IN THE WEST.)

The publication of The Satanic Verses in 1988 saw attempts made on the lives of Rushdie’s Italian and Norwegian publishers, while the Japanese translator of the book was killed.

Police also searched four addresses around north-east London yesterday - two in Walthamstow, one in Ilford and one in Forest Gate.

The men, who were arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, were being questioned at a central London police station.

Later yesterday a fourth person, a woman, was arrested at a property in Ilford for allegedly obstructing the police, a spokesman for Scotland Yard said.

The police confirmed that there had been small fire inside the property in Lonsdale Square, which had to be put out. “At this early stage it is being linked with the arrests,” the spokesman added.

Residents in Lonsdale Square said armed police, assisted by fire-fighters, broke down the door to the targeted property at around 2.30 yesterday morning.

Francesca Liebowitz, 16, who lives nearby with her parents, said: “The police couldn’t get the door open so the fire brigade battered it down.

“There was smoke coming from around the door, but I don’t know whether that was because of the door being broken down. They evacuated people from the house. It’s a bit scary to have this happen on your doorstep.”

A neighbour and friend of Mr Rynja said the company normally published books on current affairs, and said the publisher had never expressed concerns that his work might endanger his safety. A green hoarding covered the doorway to the four-storey town house yesterday afternoon.

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   Thursday - September 25, 2008

al-Qaeda terrorist cell researched targets including military bases.  England on the front line.

“and the trial continues.”

Gosh I knew it was coming to this.

So, before a cockroach can be killed, it has to have a trial.  What killed?  eu law says roach has rights and even if guilty they can not be killed

Good examples here of sub-species. Do not be taken in.  They only sometimes appear human to better infiltrate and cause harm.
KNOW YOUR ENEMY!

Al-Qaeda terrorist cell ‘researched Tony Blair’s friends’
An al-Qaeda terrorist cell researched targets including military bases, the Defence Secretary and friends of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, a court has heard.

By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent
Last Updated: 4:36PM BST 25 Sep 2008

Habib Ahmed had allegedly looked for the address of Geoff Hoon, then Defence Secretary, and researched his constituency, using a computer at his home in Cheetham Hill, Manchester.

He had also looked at a web site which gave details of Sir Trevor Chinn, the chief executive of Lex Services, who was described in court as someone “close to Tony Blair who was then Prime Minister.”

Ahmed was said to have downloaded a document called “a study of assassination” and looked at grenades and how hydrogen peroxide and TATP could be used in homemade bombs along with chemical companies in Manchester.

“This is information that is entirely consistent with searching for suitable targets,” said Andrew Edis QC, prosecuting.

He said Habib had been called to Dubai two years later in December 2005 to help a senior al-Qaeda operator who had to divert to Britain when his mission was aborted after the assassination of his senior commander.

Rangzieb Ahmed was travelling from the tribal areas of Pakistan, through China, to South Africa when his mission was cancelled, Manchester Crown Court was told.

The court heard that Habib was sent back to Britain with a code book written in invisible ink given to him by Rangzieb, described as a senior member of al-Qaeda.

The men’s conversation in the hotel room in Dubai had been bugged but Mr Edis said: “It is clear that they were member of a terrorist organisation but precisely what that target was was not disclosed by the probe.”

The code book allegedly included phone numbers for Hamza Rabia, described as the number three in al-Qaeda and its director of operations who was killed a few days earlier.

Other numbers were said to have included Khalid Habib, described as al-Qaeda’s number six and a senior bomb-maker and Mamoun Darkazanli, a suspected terrorist financer allegedly connected with the Madrid train bombings.

“It is the prosecution case that Hamza Rabia was supposed to be the controller of the mission that Rangzieb Ahmed was on and he got killed and that was part of the problem and that is why there never was a mission,” Mr Edis said.

According to the prosecution, Habib had previously looked at information which included members of Scotland Yard’s anti-terrorism squad, including its then leader, Assistant Commissioner David Venesss, and a further search had looked at Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, then head of MI5.

A list supplied by the Defence Housing Executive gave the addresses and phone numbers of military bases around the country, and another gave details of RAF Mildenhall and Lakenheath, described in the document as “proudly serving American military communities in the UK” while another contained details of Whale Island in Portsmouth, a Royal Navy training college.

There were also details of the Russian Embassy in Kensington, West London and the Indian defence attache in London, both the object of Muslim anger after wars in Chechnya and Kashmir, the court heard.

“One of the reasons you might want to know where [the embassy] is is because you want to blow it up and you might want to know who these people are to kill them,” said Andrew Edis QC, prosecuting.

Rangzieb is accused of directing the activities of a terrorist organisation, possessing articles for terrorism and possessing a rucksack with traces of explosives.

Habib is accused of possessing information for terrorism and receiving terrorist training in Pakistan.

Haji is accused of arranging funding for terrorism.

They deny the charges and the trial continues.

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