Hamas Terrorists Ambush Passenger Car Near Hevron, 4 Israeli Jews Massacred and Dead

Hamas has reared its ugly head after a very long respite and the timing couldn't be more blatant and obvious - this attack, this display of Hamas cowardice, in which 4 Israeli citizens were murdered while in their car, was simply done to derail the peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. One of the victims was a pregnant woman.

Let's look at the shocking and disgusting details of this ambush, from Israel News:

Palestinian terrorists murdered four Jewish civilians in a shooting attack at the Bani Naim junction just south of Hevron Tuesday evening. Emergency service paramedics could do nothing to save the victims whose bodies were riddled with bullets. The terrorists reportedly made sure their victims were dead by shooting them from close range after the initial fusillade.

The victims are a husband and wife, parents of ten, and two passengers. Their names were cleared for publication Tuesday night by local police:
Yitzhak and Talia Ames, parents of six
Kochava Even Chaim
Avishai Shindler
The four were all citizens of Beit Haggai.A Zaka volunteer who arrived on the scene broke down in tears when he neared the car and discovered that one of the victims was his wife. The IDF is combing the area, searching for the terrorists.

Hamas took "credit" for the terror attack.

IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi arrived on the scene of the attack along with Head of Central Command Major General Avi Mizrahi and Judea and Samaria Commander Brig.-Gen. Nitzan Alon. The three performed an evaluation of the situation.

Okay, as some of you may know, there is NOTHING, short of an attack on American soil like 9/11, that sets me off like these Hamas and Hezbollah terror attacks. Nothing.

So, I tell you what - if I was in charge in Israel, I would make this announcement tonight:

"The leaders of Hamas chose today to kill four of our Israeli brothers and sisters in an effort to stop our peace talks with the Palestinian Authority and the United States. I'm here tonight to speak directly to those Hamas leaders, located in Gaza and Syria. You will get what you wish. Israel has suspended our participation in the peace summit this week and with the blessings of both America and the PA, we will commence a retalitory campaign against you, Hamas, for this cowardly act. Commencing immediately, every Hamas commander of military operations in the field will be targeted and killed. At the same time, the entire senior leadership of Hamas has been targeted by assassination squads which will begin action promptly. Once all Hamas leadership has been killed or driven far from the Middle East and most of the middle commanders are dead, Israel will return to the scheduled peace talks. Good night and good hunting to the IDF and Mossad. "

Yep, that's how I'd handle it. Hamas needs a semi-annual reminder why they wish they'd never been born, please let it happen again now.

To the families of the Israeli victims today, I can only offer up my prayers and sincere condolences.

Four Jews Murdered in Arab Terror Attack Near Hevron


Palestinian terrorists murdered four Jewish civilians in a shooting attack at the Bani Naim junction just south of Hevron Tuesday evening. Emergency service paramedics could do nothing to save the victims whose bodies were riddled with bullets. The terrorists reportedly made sure their victims were dead by shooting them from close range after the initial fusillade.

The victims are a husband and wife, parents of ten, and two passengers. Their names were cleared for publication Tuesday night by local police:


Yitzhak and Talia Ames, parents of six
Kochava Even Chaim
Avishai Shindler
The four were all citizens of Beit Haggai.

A Zaka volunteer who arrived on the scene broke down in tears when he neared the car and discovered that one of the victims was his wife. The IDF is combing the area, searching for the terrorists.


One of the victims had a license for a gun that was suspended shortly before the attack. Itamar Ben-Gvir and Baruch Marzel said at the scene that serious soul-searching must be done "in order to find out how it is that Jews are deprived of the basic right to defend themselves."

Hamas took "credit" for the terror attack.


IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi arrived on the scene of the attack along with Head of Central Command Major General Avi Mizrahi and Judea and Samaria Commander Brig.-Gen. Nitzan Alon. The three performed an evaluation of the situation.

Ashkenazi said: "There is no doubt that this is a very difficult event. First, we express our condolences to the victims' families and to Beit Hagai. We are working in several directions since the event occurred and will continue to act until we capture the terrorists. IDF along with other security agencies continue to operate until we capture the murderers who were responsible for this incident. "

The terror attack is typical of Arab "resistance" attacks that intentionally target civilian victims. A survey carried out by a PA organization in early August found that among the Arab public in the Palestinian Authority, over 55% view violence as either essential or desirable, nearly 31% see it as either acceptable or tolerable, and only 13.7% say it is unacceptable.

The attack was probably timed to coincide with and affect the direct talks between Israel and the PA in Washington, D.C., that are to begin Thursday. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said upon landing in Washington that the talks would proceed as planned, despite the murders.


The scene of the attack.


Bullets smashed through the windshield.

Pakistani Military Unleashes Fighter Jets and Attack Helicopters, 8 Taliban Killed

I hope that Barack Hussein Obama and General Petraeus see this article and learn something - if the Pakistani military is willing to take the chance on some civilian casualties coming from an air offensive against the Taliban, then the U.S. and NATO outta be willing to do the same in Afghanistan. End of discussion.

From the report at DAWN, the Pakistanis unleashed air strikes by fighter jets and attack helicopters today and they hit many Taliban targets while running up a kill count of 8 Taliban. Good for them!

I'm not sure where this Teerah Valley is in Pakistan but typically, the Pakistani military has used this air power to soften a plot of geography and then send in artillery and then finally proceed with ground troops to clean out the area - let's hope that is in the plans here.

In the meantime, you paying attention, Barry?

Military jets kill eight militants in Khyber Agency


PESHAWAR: A Pakistani official says government airstrikes have killed eight suspected insurgents in the Khyber tribal region bordering Afghanistan.

Local official Ameerzada Khan says fighter jets and helicopter gunships pounded suspected insurgent hideouts in Nare Baba and Sheen Drand villages in Teerah Valley on Tuesday and killed eight militants.

Two intelligence officials also confirmed the airstrikes but said 30 insurgents were killed. The two officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

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America's Failing Public School System

A good article is found here at Family Security Matters that dives into the failure of America's public education system and it pulls no punches as it lays much of the reason for that failure at the feet of the teachers' unions. The article really does a good job of outlining how so many vocations in our Land contribute to the growth of our economy and our country as a whole, yet when the education system fails, it creates a domino effect of failings.

I don't make any bones about my disdain for teachers' unions. I make no bones about my disgust with public sector unions, in general. In fact, it is my opinion that all public sector unions should be banned. I see no rationale in individuals needing any sort of bargaining power when they are paid by John Q. Public.

We have seen New Jersey's Governor Christie take on the behemoth in the state ...namely the teachers' unions. We have seen the dirty tactics of these people who, not only are paid BY US, but to whom we entrust our children for 6 to 8 hours each and every day. But we have to remember, teachers' unions are run by union bosses. And just like the union bosses of the UAW who threw all rationality and caution to the wind in putting the screws to the auto makers in contract negotiations, we see the bosses of the teachers' unions continue to push for more and more from the people in this country for more and more tax monies - and all the time condoning the failure of turning out a decent product - an educated young person.

Don't kid yourself, America...those images you have of the corrupt UAW or Teamster leaders who meet in dark, smoke-filled rooms are present in the teachers' unions. These are people who lead from greed and hate.

Here's the article.

Our Failing Public Schools


There is an old adage which says that man exists in a continuum. He goes from bondage to faith, from faith to hope, from hope to courage, from courage to freedom, from freedom to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to dependency, and from dependency back to bondage.

The original author of the adage is not known, but it matters little who said it. What matters is whether or not it is an immutable truth and whether or not American “exceptionalism” might allow us to bypass the ugliest stop on that continuum. I’ve struggled with that question since the day I first heard the adage and I still don’t have a clear answer.

However, if we draw a large circle on a blackboard or a flip chart and we write the words bondage, faith, hope, courage, freedom, abundance, complacency, and dependency at intervals along the perimeter, we can demonstrate a major difference between liberals and conservatives and between Republicans and Democrats. Conservatives and Republicans operate in the bondage-faith-hope-courage-freedom-abundance segment of the circle, at which point we learn why God created liberals and Democrats. It is they who control the abundance-complacency-dependency-bondage segment of the circle.

Conservatives and Republicans are builders of freedom and the human condition; liberals and Democrats are destroyers.

We can also place ourselves anywhere in the abundance-complacency-dependency segment of the circle and try to figure out how we can avoid passing through the bondage portion of the continuum, going directly to hope, courage, etc. That is by far the most interesting exercise because when we analyze why any nation, or any group of people, would allow themselves to be taken down the road from freedom and abundance to dependency and bondage, we always arrive at the same answer. So who or what is it that stands in the way of ever-positive growth?

Is it engineers? No, engineers are innovators, designers, and builders. They spend every waking moment thinking of ways to make life simpler, easier, and safer for everyone.

Is it scientists? No, scientists spend their lives probing into the darkest recesses of the unknown, concerning themselves not only with known unknowns, but with unknown unknowns, as well. Some of their discoveries are used for potentially evil purposes, such as nuclear weapons, but the vast majority of their discoveries have a positive impact on humanity.

Is it doctors and nurses? No, medical practitioners spend their lives curing disease, easing pain and suffering, and preserving human life.

Is it lawyers, judges, policemen, fire fighters, and the military? No. While they may not produce anything of a tangible nature, as the referees and traffic cops of our society they play a vital role in protecting the best of us from the worst of us and in protecting us all from harm.

Is it farmers and ranchers? No, farmers, ranchers, and food processors spend every waking hour growing and processing the foods that are needed to support human life.

Is it blue collar workers? No, it is blue collar workers who take the things that scientists and engineers discover and turn that knowledge into practical applications. Blue collar workers are the hand tools of human progress.

With but one exception, no matter where we look in civilized society we find people who are either builders or maintainers of civil society. That exception is the field of public education. No matter which societal problem we place under the microscope, the search for a solution… or the absence thereof… always takes us back to what it is that our people know and understand. It all comes back to the public schools, teachers unions, colleges and universities.

When people cannot properly read, write, and speak the English language, they are unable to take full advantage of the freedoms that are available to them. When people are inadequately schooled in mathematics and the sciences, they are unable to participate in the advancement of science and technology and it will be difficult for them to find a niche in a highly technological world. When people fail to understand the lessons of history, they are unable to make the political judgments necessary to avoid the mistakes of the past. When people have inadequate knowledge of politics and the workings of government, they are unable to make the political decisions necessary to advance the cause of freedom. And when people have an inadequate grasp of basic economics they are unable to properly assess the impact of taxes, savings, profits, and investments.

In all of these areas of physical and intellectual endeavor, our public education system is by far our greatest failing.

In an August 11, 2010 article for Townhall.com, titled “The Left’s Special-Interest Human Shields,” columnist Michelle Malkin gives us a clue as to why our public education system is the greatest failure among all our public institutions. Clearly, what has always been an important, necessary, and highly respected profession, has been transformed into just another cesspool of leftist union activism, just another mindless, lemming-like subsidiary of the Democratic Party.

Malkin’s attitude toward schoolteachers is not unlike that of most Americans. She says, “I have nothing against public-school teachers. My mother was one. My children are taught by some of the best in the nation. And over the years, I’ve reported on valiant battles between rank-and-file educators in government schools and their fat, bloated union leaders, who’ve transformed their professional organizations into wholly owned Democratic subsidiaries. My opposition to the so-called “Edujobs” bill stems not from meanness but from compassion for millions of dues-paying school employees being used as special-interest human shields.”

Looking into the faces of the teachers at your local public elementary school or high school… the “micro” view of public education… is not the same as taking a “macro” view of the teaching profession. Malkin quotes the DC-based Labor Union Report as saying that, in 2009, the National Education Association (NEA) “raked in a whopping $355,334,165 in ‘dues and agency fees’ from (mostly) teachers around the country.” And although the NEA spent close to $11 million more than it took in, it did not short-change the political parasites who rely on it for their sustenance. The NEA still found it possible to pour $50 million into “political activities and lobbying” for exclusively left-wing and partisan Democratic causes and candidates.

So, if excellence in education is not the first priority of the teachers union, what do they see as their top priority? The NEA’s retiring top lawyer, Bob Chanin, spoke to delegates at the NEA annual meeting in July. He made no bones about what is the union’s top priority. He said:


“Despite what some among us would like to believe, it is not because of our creative ideas. It is not because of the merit of our positions. It is not because we care about children, and it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child. NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power. And we have power because there are more than 3.2 million people who are willing to pay us hundreds of millions of dollars in dues each year, because they believe that we are the unions that can most effectively represent them, the unions that can protect their rights and advance their interests as education employees. . . .


“This is not to say that the concern of NEA and its affiliates with closing achievement gaps, reducing dropout rates, improving teacher quality and the like are unimportant or inappropriate. To the contrary. These are the goals that guide the work we do. But they need not and must not be achieved at the expense of due process, employee rights, and collective bargaining. That simply is too high a price to pay.”

Talk about upside-down priorities. As Barack Obama’s personal hero, Saul Alinsky, has said, teacher organizers must commit to a “singleness of purpose.” Not serving the needs of parents and children, but serving the “ability to build a (political) power base.” That they have done.
The Democratic Party is comprised of (in order of importance) teachers unions (NEA and AFT), trial lawyers, public employee unions, blue collar unions (AFL-CIO), radical environmentalists, minorities (blacks and Hispanics), service employee unions (SEIU), organized street agitators (ACORN), radical feminists, gays, lesbians, and the gender-confused community.

Yet, in spite of the fact that public school teachers are now ranked as the most politically powerful special interest in the nation, and in spite of the fact that we as a nation spend more on public education per pupil than any other industrialized nation, we find that among high school students in the 30 richest nations, U.S. students rank 17th in their knowledge of the sciences and 24th in their knowledge of mathematics. Clearly, our public education system is failing to prepare our children to compete in a highly technological world. It is our weakest link. It is the anchor on our Ship of State.

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(Hat Tip: Radio Jihad)

The IEDs of Afghanistan

The past few days, we have lost 14 U.S. troops to IEDs in the Afghanistan War and if you review the cause of death of NATO troops in the entire war, the percentage due to IEDs is absolutely incredible. Now, this isn't new to us since we saw a similar deadliness in the Iraq War but I wanted to try and find more info on just what is going on in Afghanistan and why the death toll seems to be increasing.

I found this article from a few weeks ago at The Guardian which deals with soldiers from the British army that I think brings to light a good deal about how the Taliban are using IEDs and how the technology and tactics keeps evolving to keep inflicting the harm on our troops - I recommend you read the entire article.

Here are a few excerpts:

The last five years have seen a sharp increase in the use of IEDs (improvised explosive devices) in Afghanistan. According to figures leaked last month, the number of IEDs increased from 308 in 2004 to 7,155 last year; a total of 16,000 were planted in those five years, killing at least 7,000 Afghan civilians. These devices have also caused the vast majority of all British and American deaths during the conflict, and are seriously hampering Nato's operations in the country. Of the IEDs recorded in last month's figures, 8,582 were found and cleared, but 7,553 exploded. The threat is so high that every patrol must be led by a soldier sweeping with a metal detector. However, the insurgents have started cutting down on the metal they use in the devices, making them harder to detect and more likely to have their desired effect.

The bombs are generally low-tech: simple, easy to make and deadly. The insurgents use whatever is to hand. The most common IEDs use what is called a "pressure plate": an explosive, often farming fertiliser, is housed in a yellow cooking oil container; the trigger is two strips of metal that are then attached to electrical wires and batteries. When the two pieces of metal are pressed together – by a soldier's foot or vehicle wheel – an electrical circuit is formed, causing the bomb to explode.

When he says "targeting specific people", Woody means himself. He knows bomb disposal experts are a prime target for the Taliban; the bomb-makers are constantly devising new methods to catch them out. The second IED of the day, for example, has a normal pressure-plate mechanism – but hidden under a stone nearby is also a pressure release trigger, working in completely the opposite way. If Woody had lifted the stone to clear it while working on the IED, the release of pressure would have detonated the bomb.

Now, I've got some of my own ideas on why we are seeing such a spike in IED attacks in the War in Afghanistan...unproven as they are, I think they make sense. First, with the influx of al Qaeda elements coming to Afghanistan and Pakistan from the Iraqi theater, along came some of the expertise on planting roadside bombs that the terror group had tested in the Iraq War. Second, when the U.S. and NATO decided to ground much of the aircraft in Afghanistan, due to the concern over civilian casualties and the changes in ROE, we lost a lot of surveillance and strikes against IED emplacers by the likes of AH-64's - how many videos did you see from the Iraq War of Apache crews watching al Qaeda IED emplacers and the subsequent attacks on them....and how many of these same vids have you seen from Afghanistan? And finally, the sheer size of the War in Afghanistan, geographically, gives the Taliban a huge edge - our troops are much more spread out and monitoring roadways is next to impossible.

One other thing I want to mention here - and that is the level of intelligence captured from the civilian population. As the Iraq War started turning our way, we saw many of the Iraqi tribes side with the American troops and the intel they brought us concerning IED crews, suspicious activity and the location of the al Qaeda commanders who generally do the IED training, was invaluable. We haven't seen nearly this cooperation from the Afghan civilians. Yet.

Afghanistan: 'Don't get too close - if he goes up you'll go with him'


Guardsman James Stephenson is just 20 years old, but when the soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the Coldstream Guards leave their base in the Babaji area of Helmand, he leads the patrol. Stephenson's nickname is "Steveo", but on duty in Afghanistan, everyone calls him "Vallon Man". The Vallon is the metal detector used to sweep for bombs – and being a Vallon Man is one of the army's most dangerous jobs.

The last five years have seen a sharp increase in the use of IEDs (improvised explosive devices) in Afghanistan. According to figures leaked last month, the number of IEDs increased from 308 in 2004 to 7,155 last year; a total of 16,000 were planted in those five years, killing at least 7,000 Afghan civilians. These devices have also caused the vast majority of all British and American deaths during the conflict, and are seriously hampering Nato's operations in the country. Of the IEDs recorded in last month's figures, 8,582 were found and cleared, but 7,553 exploded. The threat is so high that every patrol must be led by a soldier sweeping with a metal detector. However, the insurgents have started cutting down on the metal they use in the devices, making them harder to detect and more likely to have their desired effect.

In February, Stephenson's friend Lance Corporal Darren Hicks, from the same battalion, stepped on an IED and was killed while patrolling as a Vallon Man. Five of the battalion's soldiers have died during this tour and a further six have lost their legs – all victims of IEDs. Stephenson admits to feeling terrified each time he leaves the gates of the patrol base.

The patrol is on the move. An Afghan interpreter with the Coldstreams monitors the Taliban's radio transmissions and relays what they say to the company commander – everyone can hear. The soldiers pause at a farm compound and, over the radio, the insurgents say they have laid IEDs to the south of the patrol and prepared an ambush to the west. Stephenson looks nervous. With a pistol in one hand and a metal detector in the other, he steps out of the compound to face whatever is waiting.

His instinct must be to move quickly, but Stephenson can go only at walking pace, otherwise he risks missing the metal signal for a bomb. Everyone must follow him – at a distance. A shouted warning from the sergeant major leaves no room for doubt: "Don't get too close to Vallon Man – if he goes up you'll go with him."

The patrol reaches a stream and clambers down into the water. Any hope that the steep banks can offer protection is quickly dispelled by the shrill noise of incoming fire. Soldiers dive for cover, but it's over in moments. The Coldstreams call them "shoot and scoots". Outgunned by Nato's superior firepower, the Taliban have changed tactics. Now they are fighting the war with IEDs and hit-and-run attacks. During their three-day patrol, the Coldstreams are ambushed around 20 times.

Moving off, I look at Vallon Man just ahead of me. Standing bolt upright he sets off again – out front and alone.

Once an IED is found, the task of dealing with it is handed over to a bomb disposal expert like Staff Sergeant Gareth Wood. It takes eight to 10 years to train a bomb disposal specialist to the standard required to work in Helmand – longer than a doctor or a barrister – and among candidates there's only a 14% pass rate. The work in Afghanistan is considered so dangerous and stressful that bomb disposal operators will be asked to do only one six-month deployment to the region. Their first tour will also be their last.

"Woody" finished the final part of his advanced training in 2008. In September of that year, Warrant Officer Gary O'Donnell became the first British bomb disposal operator to be killed in Afghanistan. For Woody, the news was a stark reality check: "The first killed was a real shock, because up to then we had always beaten the bomb. No one had been killed [by an IED] since the 80s."

A further three bomb disposal specialists have since died, along with five Royal Engineers searchers. Usually, when soldiers call in an IED find, the exact location is unclear, and there may be other IEDs in the immediate area. A Royal Engineer search team goes in first, to identify and confirm the location of the IED, and to find a safe path for the bomb disposal specialist to reach it. Sergeant Kevin O'Dwyer heads the search team: "It's not been a good tour for us – terrible. The losses among the counter-IED force are phenomenal." O'Dwyer's best friend was one of those killed. He helped carry the coffin at his funeral.

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Bronx Trial of Islamic Terrorists Proves Islam's Terror Recruitment At Prisons

In case you haven't heard about it, there's a terrorism trial going on in the Bronx that has three islamic Americans on trial for terror plotting that included bombing synagogues in New York City and firing missiles at aircraft.

There's a lot of detail to this case but we're talking about a prison connection to the recruitment of home grown islamic terrorists here in America and thus, take a look at this one powerful paragraph from the story at IPT:

The proverbial elephant in the room is the prison connection. All four of the defendants, James Cromitie, Onta Williams, David Williams, and Laguerre Payen, were former inmates. Even more importantly, all three imams at the Mosque in Newburgh, which the defendants attended after being released from prison, had a connection with the prison system.

Now, this article is written by a guy that has been in the correctional field for many, many years so he knows JUST what he is talking about - in fact, he's written a book about how American prisons are the perfect recruitment field for radical terrorists. But what I find interesting in this case is that direct connection to the mosque and to the imams that were connected to the prison.

The fact of the matter is this - in America, if you wish to find the most effective way of sniffing out islamic terrorism cells, you simply need to monitor and infiltrate the mosques in this country. Now, I'll get a lot of hate mail over that but there are countless instances of terrorists coming together in mosques - hell, we have mosques in America that have been proven to be damn recruiting centers (think the Somali mosque in Minneapolis).

So, at what point in time are we going to get serious and start looking at separation of muslim prisoners from each other? When are we going to either restrict imams from visiting or working in prisons or monitoring their private talks with prisoners? Are we doing anything to get wire taps on these prison-attending imams?

Go ahead and call my ideas radical but one of these days we're gonna end up with huge human carnage on the streets of an American city and the perpetrators of that are going to be traced back to a prison where imams sat down and conspired with prisoners soon to be released. You can bank on that.

Bronx Trial Shows how Prisons Breed Terrorists


The trial of the four suspects accused of plotting to bomb synagogues in the Bronx and shoot down aircraft with missiles continues in New York this week. Already the defense has decided that its strategy will be to focus on the government's use of a confidential informant. Defense attorneys claim that the defendants were enticed to commit the acts of terrorism.

To be sure, a close examination of all the facts in this case is necessary to understand exactly what happened, whether it was entrapment or a predisposed willingness on the part of the four defendants to commit such a heinous act in the name of Allah.

The proverbial elephant in the room is the prison connection. All four of the defendants, James Cromitie, Onta Williams, David Williams, and Laguerre Payen, were former inmates. Even more importantly, all three imams at the Mosque in Newburgh, which the defendants attended after being released from prison, had a connection with the prison system.

I spent 26 years in law enforcement, retiring as Deputy Inspector General of New York's Department of Correctional Services Criminal Intelligence Unit. In my career, I witnessed this process of radicalization first-hand. Sometimes it was monitored; sometimes a recruitment cell was infiltrated. I was a part of a special investigation called Operation Hades that probed the radical Islamic recruitment movement from both inside and outside prison walls. It was a startling revelation to see how the process works.

It was through that work that I can attest to the following information.

Imams Salahuddin Muhammad, Hamin Rashada, and Melody Rashada all worked for the Department of Correctional Services. All had been hired by Warith Deen Umar, the former head of Ministerial Services for the New York State Prison System. Umar himself is an avowed Wahabbi Salafist who has made disparaging remarks against Israel and Jews at an Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention in 2009. He also stated in a Wall Street Journal interview in 2003 that "The U.S. risks further terrorism attacks because it oppresses Muslims around the world."

"Without justice, there will be warfare, and it can come to this country, too," he said. The natural candidates to help press such an attack, in his view, are African-Americans who embraced Islam in prison."[1] In other words, prisons were a prime place to recruit homegrown terrorists.

The Wahhabi Salafist sect of Islam adheres to a strict interpretation of the Koran and seeks to restore the Caliphate functioning under Sharia law. It views Jews and other groups of non-believers as infidels and enemies of Islam. It has been the dominant Islamic theology in the prison Muslim community for decades, receiving funds from Saudi Arabia for literature and training for the chaplains. The sect was so dominant that Shia Muslim inmates in New York State filed a class action lawsuit against the prison administrators claiming religious persecution, threats and overt acts of intimidation by other Muslim inmates at the behest of the civil service chaplains who were Wahhabi Salafists.

With such guidance, is it any wonder that one of the defendants, the alleged ringleader James Cromitie, was recorded making anti-Semitic remarks and stating that he wanted to destroy the Jews, seeing them as enemies of Islam? Where and when were these seeds of hatred planted?

Several years ago, authorities recorded conversations of prison convicts who attended Imam Salahuddin's congregation making inflammatory statements against Israel and the Jewish people. One inmate, a convert of Imam Muhammad, went so far as to claim that both the governor of New York and the President of the United States were "Zionist Puppets."[2] Another was recorded calling the Jews, "pigs and dogs." [3] And where was the prison chaplain when all this was occurring?

Immediately following the arrest of the four suspects in May 2009, the New York Times reported the following about Imam Salahuddin Muhammad:

"'Mr. Muhammad said his years working with Muslims in prison has turned up little actual evidence that many or any become radicalized behind bars; 'I don't hear any of that wild stuff,' he said, 'and if I did hear it, I would stomp it out. It's totally un-Islamic.'"

What Imam Salahuddin failed to mention is that over the course of his time as chaplain in the Fishkill State Prison he had several inmate clerks who worked for him in the chaplains' office with known ties to radical Islamic organizations. One was a Palestinian member of Hamas and the other was a Yemeni inmate with ties to the Lackawanna Six,[4] a homegrown terrorist cell that attended al-Qaida training camps in the Middle East. The chaplain also failed to state that he allowed the inmates to use the phone in his office to call overseas to various countries in the Middle East and North Africa.[5]

In one of the calls, the inmate was heard cheering about a suicide bombing that had occurred in Israel.

It seems to be a case of selected amnesia had stricken the chaplain. One needs only to look at the amount of money from inmate funds that were sent to the mosque in Newburgh over the years to see a well-established connection. Inmates from the chaplains' prison congregations have also sent thousands of dollars to pseudo Islamic charities, such as the defunct Holy Land Foundation and others which provided material support to terrorist organizations.

Radical Islamic recruitment in the prison system is a reality. Years of sowing among a captive audience is beginning to bear fruit.

It was not a coincidence that the authorities focused on this particular congregation in New York.

In An Effort To Improve Relations With the West, Iranian Newspaper Calls France's First Lady a "Prostitute"

LMAOOOOO! I tell ya, the Iranians are a piece of work, aren't they? France's First Lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, and a French actress who both signed a petition protesting the stoning of the Iranian woman, were called "prostitutes" by the Iranian government controlled newspaper, Kayhan.

So, let me just bounce this scenario off you ...let's say the Israelis called a little meeting of some of the Western powers and said they had a plan to take out the Iranian nuclear facilities by military means but that they need a couple of countries to aid them in the effort ...now, I'm going to assume that America's Barack Hussein Obama would probably pass because it might detract from him suing more states back home but I ask you....with President Sarkozy in that room, with the headlines of this newspaper article burned into his memory where his wife was called a paid whore by the monkey mullahs in Tehran...you think Sarkozy might just sign up with the Israelis?

Here's the article from The Telegraph.

Iran calls Carla Bruni a 'prostitute’


Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy, the wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, was attacked after she signed a petition calling for the release of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who is accused of cheating on her husband and then helping to kill him.

Kayhan, an Iranian newspaper, which is under control of the government, called Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy and Isabelle Adjani, the French actress who is campaigning for Ashtina’s release, “prostitutes” in an editorial, while Iranian state television accused the former supermodel of “immorality”.

In an open letter to Miss Ashtiani last week, Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy wrote: “Why shed your blood and deprive your children of their mother? Because you have lived, because you have loved, because you’re a woman, and because you’re an Iranian? Everything within me refuses to accept this”.

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Obama's Fictitious "Moderate Muslim Majority" Spin

There's nothing I love more than a hard-hitting article that takes on some of the myths that always seem to spew from the mouth of Barack Hussein Obama. Never in my life have I seen the American people subjected to such "spin" from a U.S. President as we have been under the Obama administration - and these snake oil pitches have run the course from economics to foreign policy to the so-called religion of Islam and it's cousin, islamic terror.

This article at Family Security Matters does hit hard at Obama's myth regarding the "moderate muslim majority." Here's an excerpt from it:

President Obama’s “story”goes like this: adherents of Islam are comprised of two groups, "radical Muslims" and "moderate Muslims.” The "radical Muslims" believe in the use of violence, because they are “against freedom.” Fortunately, "radical Muslims" represent a very small minority, while the “vast majority” of Islam’s one billion Believers are "moderate Muslims.” According to President Obama, "moderate Muslims" and Americans have “shared values and common aspirations.” Obama also preaches that “moderate Muslims” wish to join America’s fight against “radical Muslims.” The President assures America that its human and material sacrifices in Iraq and Afghanistan will succeed due to the partnership with "moderate Muslims" in those countries. Meanwhile at home, "moderate Muslims" should make Americans feel safer, as “moderates” will report “radicals” to local authorities.

In fact, there are no such groups as “radical Muslims” or “moderate Muslims.” These designations do not exist in the Islamic world. These terms were invented in recent times only because Islamic goals and values are not understood or shared by the West. From the very inception of Islam, the Christian West has had difficulty understanding Islam as a different religious phenomenon than Christianity. When Muslims conquered the Iberian Peninsula in the 8th century, Christians referred to Muslims arriving from North Africa as “Moors.” Over the centuries, Spaniards continued to refer to Muslims as Moors, even if they were from India or Indonesia. In the rest of Europe, Muslims were referred to as “Turks,” after the group of central Asian nomadic invaders who converted to Islam and governed the Islamic Empire in the Middle Ages. In Asia minor, Christians referred to Muslims as “Tartars,” an ethnic name. When Europeans finally understood that Islam was not an ethnic group, they mistakenly perceived it in terms of a Western religious group.

I don't have to remind my readers just how much of a fallacy this idea of "moderate" muslim truly is - let's face it, it's a made up term by Western political leaders to try and keep the masses of non-islamists from total panic. It's our way of trying to rationalize the horror of islamic terror. As a peaceful and tolerant people, Americans have to believe that those islamists who conduct jihad just HAVE to be a minority - a small group of mad men. Well, the problem is that most of us don't really understand jihad, we don't understand the nature of the demanded conquest by Islam and the literal intolerance of infidels in the islamic ideology.

Everyone is always asking...."How come the moderate muslims never denounce these terrorist acts?" Well, the reason is simple - all muslims understand jihad. And as some embrace the tactics of jihad, all of the others understand its importance and necessity and at the same time, those that appear "moderate" to us have simply not reached a point in their life where they feel the call to jihad.

As for the inaccuracy of labeling certain Islamic governments as more "moderate", we've seen that Obama isn't the only President to have gotten it all wrong. From the article:

The answer is that this was only a “story,” a yarn composed by politicians due to their lack of understanding. This misunderstanding has been the basis of US foreign policy failures for years. Jimmy Carter was guilty of it when he withdrew support from America’s ally, The Shah of Iran, believing Western secular democracy would break out in Iran. Its the very same misunderstanding that led President Bush to believe that once the Taliban and later Saddam Hussein were toppled, that “moderate Muslims” in those countries would establish Western democracies. Yet the “story” continues with President Obama, that a “vast majority” of Muslims are “moderate Muslims,” and are America’s allies. Absent any evidence, this “story” should be relegated to Saturday morning cartoons where such imagination is not fatal.

I had a discussion recently with someone about Iraq - I've followed the Iraq War for some time and the discussion was about what will eventually happen. I have some theories as to how the Iranians will gain influence there and how the terror groups of al Qaeda and Hezbollah will infiltrate that country without the presence of the U.S. military there, but the crux of my depiction of Iraq's future was that of a country that will swear no allegiance to America. Even though that country was liberated by us, they will eventually turn on us - that isn't just one country's act of spite or abandonment of an ally, it's simply the fact that a muslim country will ALWAYS side with the ideology of islam - it would be like a true American patriot turning his back on freedom. It just won't happen.

Obama's Fictitious "Moderate Muslim Majority"


Webster’s Dictionary defines the word “story” as ‘an imaginary account of real people and events’ and ‘a yarn’. President Barack Obama has long dispensed the following fiction to Americans: the Muslim world is divided between “radicals” and “moderates.” Unfortunately, this narrative is at the forefront of US foreign policy, and its lack of basis in reality is leading to the failure of US efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, while raising a false sense of security at home.

President Obama’s “story”goes like this: adherents of Islam are comprised of two groups, "radical Muslims" and "moderate Muslims.” The "radical Muslims" believe in the use of violence, because they are “against freedom.” Fortunately, "radical Muslims" represent a very small minority, while the “vast majority” of Islam’s one billion Believers are "moderate Muslims.” According to President Obama, "moderate Muslims" and Americans have “shared values and common aspirations.” Obama also preaches that “moderate Muslims” wish to join America’s fight against “radical Muslims.” The President assures America that its human and material sacrifices in Iraq and Afghanistan will succeed due to the partnership with "moderate Muslims" in those countries. Meanwhile at home, "moderate Muslims" should make Americans feel safer, as “moderates” will report “radicals” to local authorities.

Television news provides daily graphic depictions of "radical Muslims." However, if they really exist, where are the "moderate Muslims" that President Obama speaks of so often? Americans are left to imagine what "moderate Muslims" look like, where they might be located, and whether they have organizations with websites they can visit. And, if there are "radical Muslims" and "moderate Muslims,” mustn’t there also be "liberal Muslims? Why doesn’t CNN cover those “liberal Muslim” pro-Israel street demonstrations?

In fact, there are no such groups as “radical Muslims” or “moderate Muslims.” These designations do not exist in the Islamic world. These terms were invented in recent times only because Islamic goals and values are not understood or shared by the West. From the very inception of Islam, the Christian West has had difficulty understanding Islam as a different religious phenomenon than Christianity. When Muslims conquered the Iberian Peninsula in the 8th century, Christians referred to Muslims arriving from North Africa as “Moors.” Over the centuries, Spaniards continued to refer to Muslims as Moors, even if they were from India or Indonesia. In the rest of Europe, Muslims were referred to as “Turks,” after the group of central Asian nomadic invaders who converted to Islam and governed the Islamic Empire in the Middle Ages. In Asia minor, Christians referred to Muslims as “Tartars,” an ethnic name. When Europeans finally understood that Islam was not an ethnic group, they mistakenly perceived it in terms of a Western religious group. In the early 1900's, Europeans began referring to Islam as “Muhammadism,” and Muslims as “Muhammadans,” incorrectly assuming the Prophet Muhammad had the same role in Islam that Jesus did in Christianity. To this day, misunderstandings continue: Westerners describe the mosque as a “Muslim church,” equate the Muslim Friday to the Christian Sunday, refer to the Koran as the “Muslim Bible,” and believe sheiks to be “Muslim priests.”

Westerners also incorrectly group Muslims politically, using Western terms such as “moderate,” “conservative,” and “radical.” So different are Western and Muslim world views, that identical words can have two different meanings. In the West, “freedom” is the right of individuals to participate in the formation, conduct, and lawful removal of governments from power - the basis of constitutionalism and parliamentary government. For the Islamic world, “freedom” means “independence”from foreign rule, which they equate with “tyranny.” In the West, the opposite of tyranny is “freedom.” In Islam, the opposite of tyranny is “justice.” For Muslim thinkers, “justice” is the ideal, and justice distinguishes good leaders from bad leaders. For the majority of Muslims, bad leaders are those who have Western values and are allied with the West. The rise to power of Islamist political parties everywhere free elections are held in the Middle East speaks volumes.

Because the West considers its development of “separation of church and state” and "secularism" as the highest evolution of humanity, those not sharing Western values are dismissed as “radical,” or essentially “nuts.” Though lacking a shred of evidence, President Obama insists there exists a “vast majority” of “moderate Muslims” who do share Western values. After all, part of the “story” is that "radical Muslims" are just a small group of former "moderate Muslims" who have been "radicalized," as one can become a "radical Muslim" only through brainwashing.

A more accurate description of political loyalties in the Islamic world is that the majority of Muslims are either active or passive supporters of the movement of Islamism. The movement for Islamic Revival or “Islamism,” is an indigenous, grass-roots movement championed by both poor and educated Muslims throughout the Muslim world. "Islam is the solution!" is the Islamist call to action against Westernization and secular governments in the Muslim world, which provide the masses with little hope or future. Islamists do not consider themselves to be revolutionaries, in the sense of revolution changing society in a new way. Rather, Islamists strive to rebuild internally by applying traditional principles to reestablish the past strength and glory of Islam. A return to success necessitates the purification of Islamic society from secular government systems, legislation, and institutions borrowed from or imposed by the West. For Islamists, political upheaval, if needed by the sword, is a necessary part of the purification of their society, hundreds of years in the making. Islamism advocates the implementation of Shari’ah (Islamic law) and the restoration of the Koran as the sole authority for government in Muslim countries. Meanwhile, Western military presence in Muslim countries constitutes an affront to Islamists. Islamists believe that dominance by unbelievers is blasphemous, as it can lead to abasement of faith, immorality, and violations of Holy Law. Islamists view Israel as the center of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy, whose purpose is to infiltrate Muslim countries, destroy Islamic values, and instill the germ of Westernization, with the ultimate goal of eradicating Islam. Despite wishful thinking in the West, Islamism is the only serious alternative to secular forms of government in the Middle East, and does represent the aspirations of the majority of Muslims across the Islamic world.

Discarding President Obama’s fictitious “story” of “moderate Muslims” and “radical Muslims,” the true reality emerges with regard to Iraq and Afghanistan: America has no real allies in these countries, and there is little or no support for secular, Western democracy. Following a US withdrawal, its only a matter of time before the US backed governments collapse and Islamist forces seize power, leaving the American public to ask “what happened to our allies, the moderate Muslim majority?” The answer is that this was only a “story,” a yarn composed by politicians due to their lack of understanding. This misunderstanding has been the basis of US foreign policy failures for years. Jimmy Carter was guilty of it when he withdrew support from America’s ally, The Shah of Iran, believing Western secular democracy would break out in Iran. Its the very same misunderstanding that led President Bush to believe that once the Taliban and later Saddam Hussein were toppled, that “moderate Muslims” in those countries would establish Western democracies. Yet the “story” continues with President Obama, that a “vast majority” of Muslims are “moderate Muslims,” and are America’s allies. Absent any evidence, this “story” should be relegated to Saturday morning cartoons where such imagination is not fatal.

Taliban Assassinate District Chief In Eastern Afghanistan

The Taliban pulled off an assassination of a district chief in the eastern Afghanistan city of Jalalabad this morning - an unusual twist to there normal terror attack in that they planted explosives on the district chief's car and detonated it as his vehicle approached the provincial governor's offices - this attack almost has an al Qaeda flavor to it.

There were five others injured in the blast. And this is just another example of the targeting of public officials in Afghanistan - a trend that started much earlier in Pakistan and saw some success in turning policy towards the Taliban's demands. Let's hope the Afghan's don't fall for the same sort.

The story is from DAWN.

Afghan district chief killed in Jalalabad bombing


KABUL: A bomb blast in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad Monday killed a district chief and injured up to five others, an official and the interior ministry said.

“The explosion targeted the vehicle of La'al Poor district chief Sayed Mohammad Pahlawan at 9:15am this morning,” said Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, spokesman for Nangahar province, of which Jalalabad is the capital.

“He was on his way to the office of the provincial governor,” he told AFP.

He said the explosives had been placed in Pahlawan's car and detonated by remote control, adding that the injured included three of his bodyguards.

The vehicle exploded just 15 metres from the Nangahar governor's office, he said.

Jalalabad is more than two hours drive east of Kabul, and has seen a recent escalation in violent incidents as Taliban-led insurgents spread their footprint in reaction to an increased presence of foreign forces.

The United States and Nato have almost 150,000 troops in Afghanistan battling to quell the insurgency, which is at its most intense in the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand.

The interior ministry condemned the killing of Pahlawan as an “un-Islamic and inhumane act by insurgents”.

It said that five other people had been injured in the blast.

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U.S. and Afghan Forces Capture Top Taliban Leader In Logar Province

Great, great news comes today from eastern Afghanistan as U.S. and Afghan forces captured the #1 leader of the Taliban in the Afghan province of Logar - Logar province butts up against Kabul just to the south.

From the story at The Long War Journal:

Afghan and Coalition forces have dealt another blow to the Taliban's top leadership network in Logar, capturing the group's military commander for the province during a recent raid.

A combined security force captured Zia Ul Haq, who was described as "a senior Taliban commander operating in Logar province and responsible for the facilitation of foreign fighters and suicide bombers into Kabul City," according to an International Security Assistance Force press release. ISAF often uses the term "foreign fighters" to describe al Qaeda operatives.

Haq was detained along with a Taliban sub-commander "responsible for planning and coordinating attacks" and a fighter during a raid in Pul-e 'Alam on Aug. 26.

Haq served as the overall military commander for Logar province, a US intelligence official who tracks the Taliban told The Long War Journal. He also is closely linked to the Kabul Attack Network, the group responsible for carrying out attacks in and around the Afghan capital.

This is just another example of the news, the good news of progress in Afghanistan, that I want to bring to my readers. You won't see this story on the CBS Evening News tonight - you won't hear it from Keith Olbermann at MSNBC later on. I want to point out another line from the article:

The Taliban's leadership in Logar has been "decimated," a senior US intelligence official told The Long War Journal.

Now, I ask you - have you ever heard that before? Of course not. You'll only hear about the casualty increases, you'll only hear about the history of futility in conducting a war in Afghanistan and you'll only hear of Taliban victories.

Top Taliban leader captured in Logar province


Afghan and Coalition forces have dealt another blow to the Taliban's top leadership network in Logar, capturing the group's military commander for the province during a recent raid.

A combined security force captured Zia Ul Haq, who was described as "a senior Taliban commander operating in Logar province and responsible for the facilitation of foreign fighters and suicide bombers into Kabul City," according to an International Security Assistance Force press release. ISAF often uses the term "foreign fighters" to describe al Qaeda operatives.

Haq was detained along with a Taliban sub-commander "responsible for planning and coordinating attacks" and a fighter during a raid in Pul-e 'Alam on Aug. 26.

Haq served as the overall military commander for Logar province, a US intelligence official who tracks the Taliban told The Long War Journal. He also is closely linked to the Kabul Attack Network, the group responsible for carrying out attacks in and around the Afghan capital.

ISAF has stepped up pressure on the Taliban in Logar since June. On Aug. 19, Afghan and Coalition forces killed Qari Muir, a senior Taliban commander who had previously served as the deputy shadow governor, the military commander, and the intelligence chief for the Taliban in Logar province. Haq replaced Ghulam Sakhi, the former military commander for Logar, who was killed during a raid on June 25.

The Taliban's leadership in Logar has been "decimated," a senior US intelligence official told The Long War Journal.

Haq's capture should yield valuable intelligence on the Taliban's network in Logar as well as the Kabul Attack Network. The Kabul Attack Network is led by Dawood (or Daud) and Taj Mir Jawad, military and intelligence officials told The Long War Journal. Dawood is the Taliban's shadow governor for Kabul, while Taj Mir Jawad is a top commander in the Haqqani Network. In the US military files recently released by Wikileaks, Taj Mir Jawad is identified as a top Haqqani Network leader.

Logar province is a known haven for al Qaeda and allied terror groups, including the Haqqani Network. The presence of al Qaeda cells has been detected in the district of Pul-e 'Alam; or one of Logar's five districts, according to an investigation by The Long War Journal. In May 2009, Afghan and Coalition forces targeted a Haqqani Network cell in Pul-e 'Alam that facilitated suicide bombers.

Over the past several years, the Taliban and the Haqqani Network have taken control of areas in Logar and neighboring Wardak province, and have used these safe havens to launch attacks into Kabul.

Holger Asks Why #35: Why Destroy It, Mr. Obama?

Holger Asks Why...

Why destroy it, Mr. Obama? Why destroy the America that has served so many, so well? Why destroy the world's greatest experiment in freedom and individual liberty?

I can remember a day in America, before your behemoth of a Federal government, this god that you worship, Mr. Obama, when Americans residing in a neighborhood watched out for and took care of their own - when our neighbor fell on hard times, we circled the wagons around him and his family - we brought food for them to eat, we mowed their lawn, we actively helped that family get on their feet again...we scoured the community for jobs for that family, we called in markers, and yes, we collected money to help them meet their bills. We didn't do that, Mr. Obama, because an IRS agent or the local police stuck the business end of a pistol up our nose and told us we HAD to do it through taxes, through robbery of our hard earned money. No, we did it because we cared, we loved our neighbor as ourselves - we did it because the Lord told us it was our responsibility.

And today in America, you have convinced a good share of Americans that we all are greedy and insensitive and racist and overall, horrible human beings, Mr. Obama. You, in your own self-loathing, and a victim of a childhood where you were raised to hate America and not adore it like us, have now instituted a campaign of division in this land - all to meet your own political and ideological aims.

So why destroy it, Mr. Obama? Believe it or not, sir, if you were to take six months off from your agenda...if you got your monster of a Federal government out of our face, you would be amazed at what would happen in this country, even at this low ebb. Trust me, Mr. Obama, left alone to our morals, our work ethic, our Faith and our burning desire to protect this Union of Freedom, you would see Americans going back to work. You would see neighbors reaching out to neighbors and healing the wounds. You would see Americans do what they do better than any other people in this world...bouncing back. Instead of tapping into the greatest spirit of a people known to Man, Mr. Obama, you have done your best to undermine it. Let's make a deal, Mr. President...give us six months without you or the Congress or the Judiciary sticking their noses in where you don't belong and I will prove to you how America not only gets back on its feet, but rises above all expectations and fills the people of the world again, with awe.

Don't destroy it, Mr. Obama. Get out of the way and let it happen, again.

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Obama and Holder Halt Trial of U.S.S. Cole Bombing Mastermind

In case anyone has forgotten, on October 12, 2000, an al Qaeda attack was perpetrated on the U.S. naval destroyer, the U.S.S. Cole as it was refueling at a port in Yemen - 17 American sailors were killed in that attack and 39 sailors were severely injured. That attack was plotted, spearheaded and conducted by the al Qaeda operation commander, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. After the attack, al-Nashiri was captured and at this moment in time, he is still sitting in a cell in Gitmo where he has been awaiting trial for his cowardly act of terrorism before a military tribunal. Many Cole victims families have been waiting for nearly 10 years for justice to be serve to this al Qaeda commander for the murder of their family members.

But hold the phone, folks. Your President and your Attorney General have decided to halt that military commissioned trial of the madman behind this historic terror attack. Let's look at some of the article on this from Family Security Matters:

It’s a sleepy Friday in late August, the president is on another vacation, Congress is out of town, no one is paying much attention. What better time for the Obama administration to pull the plug, once again, on military commissions? This time, it has halted the case of top al-Qaeda operative Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who was to be prosecuted by a military court for the Cole bombing. The Washington Post report is here, and Jen Rubin has thoughts at Contentions.

None of this is terribly surprising. Prosecuting the Cole case by military commission sticks in the Left’s craw because it shows the incoherence of the Obama/Holder position. They want to treat the war like a crime and endow our enemies with all the rights and advantages of civilian courts; yet, they went military in the Cole case, despite the fact that there is a pending Justice Department civilian indictment addressing that attack.

the 9/11 attacks and the ensuing war . . . except the Left doesn’t accept that it’s a war and the administration wants to prosecute the 9/11 plotters in civilian court. None of it makes any sense.

And that is the rub here. Barack Hussein Obama and his proxy terrorist appeaser, Eric Holder have been adamant that they must not condone the Iraq War as an actual war and so, ANY prisoner held in Gitmo, cannot be held or tried as a war criminal or a terrorist - they see these islamic terrorists as simple public criminals.

What this basically means is that the families of the victims of the U.S.S. Cole have waited 10 years to see justice for their fallen, to see vengeance served. And Barack Hussein Obama and Eric Holder have stolen that from them.

Now, let's be blunt here. Americans have a big decision to make in about 60 days - will they elect and re-elect members of the Democrat party to Congress or not. Will Americans go to the polls and with their votes for the Democrats agree that al Qaeda terrorists who attacked New York City, the Pentagon, those U.S. airliners, the U.S.S. Cole and the U.S. embassies in Africa are not enemies of America but just simple criminals? Will the American people decide to support Barack Hussein Obama and Eric Holder in their effort to eventually allow these al Qaeda terrorists to walk free from their cowardly acts against U.S. citizens and military personnel?

This decision by Holder was announced on Friday - where has the outrage been from our representatives in Washington, D.C.? I'm a blogger in middle America who is outraged by this and is standing up to say that this is a travesty of our government at the highest levels and at the same time, not a single GOP or Democrat Representative or Senator has had the balls to stand up or get on television and call this decision out for what it is - a slap in the face to our victims of islamic terror.

I want to see al-Nashiri taken from his cell in Gitmo and walked to a wall of that facility. I want him to be turned around and have him face 10 U.S. naval marksmen. I want him then to be asked if he wants to express his regret for his cowardly act. And then, after the proper amount of time for him to consider that 10 rounds are soon to be headed for his head and torso, I want his body riddled with justice. And in fact, I want an extra seven rounds pumped into his body so 17 of our heroes are avenged.

Administration Halts Trial Against USS Cole Bomber


It’s a sleepy Friday in late August, the president is on another vacation, Congress is out of town, no one is paying much attention. What better time for the Obama administration to pull the plug, once again, on military commissions? This time, it has halted the case of top al-Qaeda operative Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who was to be prosecuted by a military court for the Cole bombing. The Washington Post report is here, and Jen Rubin has thoughts at Contentions.

None of this is terribly surprising. Prosecuting the Cole case by military commission sticks in the Left’s craw because it shows the incoherence of the Obama/Holder position. They want to treat the war like a crime and endow our enemies with all the rights and advantages of civilian courts; yet, they went military in the Cole case, despite the fact that there is a pending Justice Department civilian indictment addressing that attack. There can be only one explanation for that: they are afraid the case against Nashiri is weak and might not hold up under (slightly) more exacting civilian court due process. That is, the Obama/Holder position is not principled — for all their “rule of law” malarkey, they are willing to go where they have the best chance to win. But there were no military commissions when the Cole was bombed, so what is the basis for trying it militarily? Answer: the 9/11 attacks and the ensuing war . . . except the Left doesn’t accept that it’s a war and the administration wants to prosecute the 9/11 plotters in civilian court. None of it makes any sense.

I have been saying for a while now: Keep your eye on the civilian prosecution against Ahmed Ghailani, one of the embassy bombers. That case is now pending in Manhattan federal court before Judge Lewis Kaplan, who has made significant rulings in favor of the government — declining to throw the case out on the grounds of “torture” and delay. As I said back in May:

It is . . . worth noting that Ghailani is not charged just with blowing up the embassies. The indictment against him alleges the overarching al-Qaeda conspiracy to murder Americans — going back to 1991. The same indictment, with a few tweaks to add the terrorist rampages that occurred after the embassy bombings, could easily be used to charge the 9/11 plotters, as well as other enemy combatants.

Despite all the outrage it stirred, Attorney General Holder has not abandoned his push for a civilian trial of [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other 9/11 plotters] in New York. Don’t be surprised if the Justice Department uses the Ghailani ruling to argue that the naysayers’ concerns about giving KSM a soapbox are overblown. Don’t be surprised if Justice tries to slide the 9/11 attacks right into the embassy-bombing indictment. That would land KSM squarely before Judge Kaplan.

What I said about the 9/11 plotters can also be said about Nashiri: the pending embassy bombing indictment could easily be adjusted to add the Cole attack. If I were Attorney General Holder and President Obama, and I were hell-bent on giving the top al-Qaeda terrorists civilian trials, I would supersede the embassy bombing indictment to add the terrorists involved in both the 9/11 and Cole attacks to the case before Judge Kaplan . But . . . I would delay announcing that I was doing this until after the November elections because of the uproar it would cause and the hot seat on which it would put Democrats already beleaguered in their reelection bids.

But that’s just me. I’m sure the administration wouldn’t think of doing something like that, right?

Afghanistan's Karzai Complains About U.S. War Strategy, Offers No Suggestions

I don't know about you but if I hear Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai complain one more time about Afghan civilian casualties due to American military action in the War in Afghanistan, I'm going to scream. First off, Karzai decided to criticize the U.S. war strategy to some German flunkie the other day - here's part of that from the article at Breitbart:

President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday Washington's war strategy for Afghanistan needed a rethink, as a Taliban-led insurgency gathers pace and foreign forces casualties surge.
Karzai made the comments to the visiting Norbert Lammert, president of the German parliament, the Afghan president's office said in a statement.

"Speaking about Afghanistan and regional security (Karzai) said that the strategy of the war on terrorism must be reassessed," the statement said.

"The experience over the past eight years showed that fighting (Taliban) in Afghan villages has been ineffective and is not achieving anything but killing civilians."

Okay, Karzai, I'd like to ask you to tally up the civilian deaths caused by American military action over the last two years - give us a number, fool. The fact of the matter is he can't because there aren't more than 50 civilians killed accidentally by the U.S. military....but before I get criticized for 50 civilians deaths, let's ask President Karzai to give us the number of Afghan civilians killed during that same time period by the Taliban. Anyone else hear crickets? Well, Karzai, you know and I know that there have been over 10,000 Afghan civilians killed in the past two years - funny thing is that you, Mr. Karzai, NEVER complain about civilians killed by the Taliban but you get all bent out of shape by a single death attributed to the U.S. military.

Why is that? I'll tell you why it is...because it's okay for Afghan civilians to die during jihad actions but not okay to be killed by infidels. There. I said it.

Now, let's look at another reason the Afghan President drives me nuts. We just saw how he criticized the U.S. strategy yet he doesn't acknowledge that his buddy Barack Hussein Obama has basically grounded the air power in Afghanistan over the past year - there have been NO civilian casualties from bombing raids because our fixed wing aircraft simply haven't been in the air - so is Karzai saying that our boots on the ground are killing civilians? Give me one example.

And not only that but while Karzai criticizes us, he offers up no solutions, no suggestions whatsoever. From the article:

He also said that President Obama's plans to begin withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan next year had boosted Taliban spirits.

Oh, so NOW Karzai wants us to stay longer??! You know, if I didn't think it was so dangerous to allow Afghanistan to fall back into the hands of the Taliban, I'd suggest we just pull out of this war and see how Karzai feels as the Taliban encircle his palace in Kabul and start sharpening their sword blades to decapitate him. I wonder how critical he would be at that point.

I'd offer up to Mr. Karzai something else - if his ANA troops weren't such a band of incompetent, drug smoking, lackies... things would have progressed a helluva lot further at this point. One of the biggest U.S. and NATO challenges has been the ineffectiveness of Afghan troops and certainly the poor performance of Afghan police recruits. So, President Karzai, before you start throwing rocks inside of a palace full of glass windows, perhaps you better look in the mirror, chump.

Karzai wants change in Afghan war strategy


President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday Washington's war strategy for Afghanistan needed a rethink, as a Taliban-led insurgency gathers pace and foreign forces casualties surge.
Karzai made the comments to the visiting Norbert Lammert, president of the German parliament, the Afghan president's office said in a statement.

"Speaking about Afghanistan and regional security (Karzai) said that the strategy of the war on terrorism must be reassessed," the statement said.

"The experience over the past eight years showed that fighting (Taliban) in Afghan villages has been ineffective and is not achieving anything but killing civilians."

Rethinking counter-insurgency strategies in Afghanistan was the war-torn country's most pressing need, Karzai said.

"This has become a serious need in the current situation," he was quoted saying.

Earlier in the week, the Western-backed Karzai told American officials that Washington and its NATO allies must shift their military focus to insurgent hideouts on the Pakistani side of the border.

Speaking to US congressmen on Thursday Karzai said the US-led military campaign against Islamist insurgents in Afghanistan had not made progress, blaming the shortcomings on Washington's handling of post-Taliban Afghanistan.

"The lack of progress in the war on terror has two factors: one the terror sanctuaries have not been addressed and second because civilians were killed during this war," he said.

He also said that President Obama's plans to begin withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan next year had boosted Taliban spirits.

A US-led invasion ousted the Taliban in 2001.

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Haqqani Network Taliban Attack Two U.S. Bases In E. Afghanistan, Taliban Attack Wearing U.S. Military Uniforms

Two coordinated attacks came today at two FOB's in eastern Afghanistan - FOB Salerno and FOB Chapman as Haqqani Network jihadis, wearing U.S. military uniforms in at least one of the attacks, used mortars, RPG's and small arms to try and breach the bases. Both attacks were repelled although two jihadis did get in under the wire before being killed.

Here's some of the report from The Long War Journal:

Coalition and Afghan troops beat back a complex Haqqani Network assault on two bases in eastern Afghanistan today, killing more than 20 fighters and a senior commander during and after the attack. Two Haqqani Network fighters breached the perimeter of one of the bases before being killed.

The Haqqani Network "simultaneously launched" coordinated attacks on Forward Operating Base Salerno and Forward Operation Base Chapman in the early morning today, the International Security Assistance Force stated in a press release. An unknown number of fighters attacked the bases at 4 a.m. with mortars, rockets-propelled grenades, and small arms fire. The Haqqani Network fighters were wearing US military uniforms during the attack.

The combined Coalition and Afghan force killed 13 Haqqani Network fighters at FOB Salerno, four of whom were wearing suicide vests, and six more at FOB Chapman, ISAF stated. Five others were detained. Afghan police also discovered a car bomb, seven suicide vests, and two recoilless rifles that may have been intended for use in the attack.

Two of the Haqqani Network fighters were killed after breaching the perimeter at Salerno. "Coalition forces had the two insurgents under surveillance and when they cut the fence, a quick reaction force was dispatched to the location where they were killed immediately," ISAF stated.

ISAF air weapons teams later killed a Haqqani Network facilitator known as Mudasir and two other fighters as they fled the scene of the attack. Mudasir, who is also known as Qari Ishaq, was described by ISAF as "a Haqqani Network facilitator for improvised explosive devices and suicide bombers." He "had direct ties to Haqqani Network senior leadership based in Pakistan and was a teacher at a madrassa known to facilitate suicide bombers."

It's encouraging to see that NATO forces launched an air assault after the base attacks to take out some higher level Taliban here, especially Mudasir, who is a pretty good fish to finally take out.

And the disturbing issues here are the brazen style of these attacks - these are fairly large bases and although the threat doesn't seem too great in the aftermath...it shows just how confident the Haqqani Network remains.

US, Afghan troops beat back Haqqani Network assault on two bases in Khost


Coalition and Afghan troops beat back a complex Haqqani Network assault on two bases in eastern Afghanistan today, killing more than 20 fighters and a senior commander during and after the attack. Two Haqqani Network fighters breached the perimeter of one of the bases before being killed.

The Haqqani Network "simultaneously launched" coordinated attacks on Forward Operating Base Salerno and Forward Operation Base Chapman in the early morning today, the International Security Assistance Force stated in a press release. An unknown number of fighters attacked the bases at 4 a.m. with mortars, rockets-propelled grenades, and small arms fire. The Haqqani Network fighters were wearing US military uniforms during the attack.

The combined Coalition and Afghan force killed 13 Haqqani Network fighters at FOB Salerno, four of whom were wearing suicide vests, and six more at FOB Chapman, ISAF stated. Five others were detained. Afghan police also discovered a car bomb, seven suicide vests, and two recoilless rifles that may have been intended for use in the attack.

Two of the Haqqani Network fighters were killed after breaching the perimeter at Salerno. "Coalition forces had the two insurgents under surveillance and when they cut the fence, a quick reaction force was dispatched to the location where they were killed immediately," ISAF stated.

ISAF air weapons teams later killed a Haqqani Network facilitator known as Mudasir and two other fighters as they fled the scene of the attack. Mudasir, who is also known as Qari Ishaq, was described by ISAF as "a Haqqani Network facilitator for improvised explosive devices and suicide bombers." He "had direct ties to Haqqani Network senior leadership based in Pakistan and was a teacher at a madrassa known to facilitate suicide bombers."

Today's assault on FOBs Salerno and Chapman constitute the latest Taliban assault on major Coalition bases throughout Afghanistan since late spring.

In May, a small team attempted to breach security at Kandahar Airfield after launching a rocket attack on the base, and conducted a suicide assault at the main gate at Bagram Airbase in Parwan province. In June, the Taliban launched an assault against Jalalabad Airfield in Nangarhar province. The Taliban carried out a suicide assault against the Afghan National Civil Order Police headquarters in Kandahar City in July. Three US soldiers were killed in the attack, which included a suicide car bomber and a follow-on assault team. And in early August, the Taliban again conducted a complex attack at Kandahar Airfield. All of the attacks were successfully repelled by Coalition and Afghan forces.

Haqqani Network a main target of Coalition and Afghan forces

Over the past few months, Coalition and Afghan forces have been conducting special operations raids targeting the Haqqani Network and al Qaeda operatives and camps in Khost, Paktia, and Paktika on a near-daily basis. In the past several days, three Haqqani Network fighters were killed and a commander and several fighters were detained during raids in Paktia, Paktika, and Khost.

In mid-June, Afghan and Coalition forces killed "a large number" of Haqqani Network and foreign fighters during a major clash in the Jani Khel district in Paktia, and another 38 as they crossed the provincial border into Musa Khel in Khost. "Arabs, Uzbeks, Turks, and Chechens" were among those killed in the fight in Jani Khel in Paktia.

On Aug. 12, Afghan and Coalition forces killed more than 20 Haqqani Network fighters and detained several more during a raid in the district of Zadran in Paktia. ISAF described the district of Zadran as a "known Haqqani Network safe haven" which is "used to stage attacks into Kabul and the Khost-Gardez pass."

Al Qaeda maintains a strong presence in eastern Afghanistan, according to an investigation by The Long War Journal. In Khost, the presence of al Qaeda and allied groups' cells has been detected in the districts of Besmil, Khost, Mandozai, Nader Shahkot, Sabari, Shamul, Spera, and Terayzai; or eight of Khost's 12 districts.

Al Qaeda operates in conjunction with the Taliban, the Haqqani Network, and the Hizb-i-Islami Guldbuddin network throughout Afghanistan. Frequently, al Qaeda operatives serve as embedded military trainers for Taliban field units and impart tactics and bomb-making skills to these forces. In addition, al Qaeda often supports the Taliban by funding operations and providing weapons and other aid, according to classified military memos released by Wikileaks.

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Al Shabaab In Somalia Targets Lawmakers' Hotel, 30 People Massacred Including 4 Somali Lawmakers

In an attack eerily similar to the Mumbai attack in India, Somalia's al Qaeda franchise, al Shabaab, sent about 5 jihadists into a hotel the other day to kill as many people as possible but directly targeted the hotel due to it being a favorite for Somali lawmakers. The al Shabaab terrorists wore fake military uniforms to gain entry to the hotel.

From the story from the (gag) New York Times:

Somali insurgents disguised in government military uniforms stormed a Mogadishu hotel on Tuesday and killed at least 30 people, including 4 lawmakers, laying bare how vulnerable Somalia’s government is, even in an area it claims to control.

The insurgents methodically moved room to room, killing hotel guests who tried to bolt their doors shut, Somali officials said. When government forces finally cornered the insurgents, two blew themselves up with suicide vests.

The three-story hotel that was attacked, the Muna, was popular among Somali lawmakers because it was thought to be secure and was located less than a mile away from the presidential palace in a breezy seaside neighborhood. Witnesses said that a group of about three to five insurgents appeared at the gate at 10:30 a.m. wearing government military uniforms, and that as soon as the hotel guards opened the way for them, the gunmen opened fire.

They then rushed into the hotel corridors, shooting everyone in sight. Government forces arrived a few minutes later and battled the insurgents room by room, eventually pushing the gunmen to the upper floor. According to witnesses, several lawmakers tried to lock themselves in their rooms, but they were hunted down and shot at close range with assault rifles.

“They killed everyone they saw inside the hotel and then blew themselves up,” said Abdirahman Omar Osman, Somalia’s information minister. The government initially said six lawmakers had been killed, but later revised the number to four. The information minister called the attack “murder” and said it was “against Islamic religion,” especially during the holy month of Ramadan.

That last line kills me - with the Somali official whining because this attack took place during Ramadan - like al Qaeda and al Shabaab would give a shit. What the world doesn't understand is that al Qaeda reads the Qur'an and reads those verses that say it is the duty of each muslim to perform "jihad" - they don't pay attention to holidays, gender or age of those attacked nor how the jihad would be perceived - it's all about death and creating the dominance of islam.

Somalia is a perfect example of how chaos and death draw jihadis - one could argue that Somalia really holds no strategic significance for al Qaeda - it's a poor ass country, it's not exactly in a strategic position but yet, al Qaeda has been there for years and years killing. But that's what it is all about for them - killing and dominance.

At Least 30 Killed in Somalia Hotel Attack


NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali insurgents disguised in government military uniforms stormed a Mogadishu hotel on Tuesday and killed at least 30 people, including 4 lawmakers, laying bare how vulnerable Somalia’s government is, even in an area it claims to control.

The insurgents methodically moved room to room, killing hotel guests who tried to bolt their doors shut, Somali officials said. When government forces finally cornered the insurgents, two blew themselves up with suicide vests.

The attack shows that “operational momentum has shifted to the insurgents, who can go anywhere they want except where the African peacekeepers are deployed,” said J. Peter Pham, senior vice president at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy.

Several Somali politicians said that the government was so thoroughly under siege that it could work only from behind fortified, sandbagged positions, and that the shrinking government enclave in Mogadishu, the capital, could soon vanish altogether.

“The problem is the government is not working hard on security; it’s the same old thing,” said Asha A. Abdalla, a member of Parliament who was in Nairobi during the attack. Like many others in the 550-member Somali Parliament, Mrs. Asha often stays in Kenya because of the dangers in Somalia.

“But I don’t know what the A.U. is doing, either,” she said, referring to the more than 6,000 African Union troops in Mogadishu. “If they are not protecting M.P.’s, who are they protecting?”

The most powerful insurgents are the Shabab, a militant Islamist group that has stoned civilians to death and pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda. The Shabab seem to be constantly two steps ahead of Somalia’s transitional government, analysts say, even though the government receives tens of millions of dollars in security aid from the United States and other Western countries.

American officials have said the government, however weak and disorganized, is the best bulwark against a Shabab-ruled Somalia, though the Shabab already rule much of Somalia.

The battle now seems to be turning to Mogadishu, specifically the few neighborhoods that the government still marginally controls, like the areas around the presidential palace, seaport and airport. This year, Somali government officials promised to sweep the Shabab out of the capital and expand their zone.

But government forces have been plagued by defections and apathy, Somali commanders concede, and it seems that the Shabab are the ones on the offensive. The hotel raid followed intense shelling against government positions on Monday, which killed dozens of people and sent shells crashing into camps for internally displaced people.

“There’s been fierce fighting and the government is getting pushed back,” said Abdirizak Farah, a shopkeeper who fled his home at 4 a.m. Tuesday to seek shelter closer to government troops.

The three-story hotel that was attacked, the Muna, was popular among Somali lawmakers because it was thought to be secure and was located less than a mile away from the presidential palace in a breezy seaside neighborhood. Witnesses said that a group of about three to five insurgents appeared at the gate at 10:30 a.m. wearing government military uniforms, and that as soon as the hotel guards opened the way for them, the gunmen opened fire.

They then rushed into the hotel corridors, shooting everyone in sight. Government forces arrived a few minutes later and battled the insurgents room by room, eventually pushing the gunmen to the upper floor. According to witnesses, several lawmakers tried to lock themselves in their rooms, but they were hunted down and shot at close range with assault rifles.

“They killed everyone they saw inside the hotel and then blew themselves up,” said Abdirahman Omar Osman, Somalia’s information minister. The government initially said six lawmakers had been killed, but later revised the number to four. The information minister called the attack “murder” and said it was “against Islamic religion,” especially during the holy month of Ramadan.

Another Somali official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said the Shabab were “using all tactics.”

“They don’t care about Ramadan,” the official said. “They are criminals. They are terrorists.”

An 11-year-old shoeshine boy and a woman selling tea near the hotel were also killed, African Union officials said.

The hotel raid seemed to have been planned well in advance, and several residents living near the hotel said that Shabab fighters had been renting rooms for weeks in their neighborhood, leading them to expect a major attack.

A Shabab spokesman on Tuesday said that Shabab “special forces” were the ones who stormed the hotel. Earlier on Tuesday, the government claimed to have captured one of the attackers.

The last time the government was dealt such a deadly blow was in December, when the Shabab killed four government ministers in a suicide bombing at a medical school graduation in another hotel in the government zone.

Then in July, the Shabab claimed responsibility for killing dozens of World Cup fans in coordinated bombings in Uganda, saying it was revenge against Ugandan peacekeepers.

Analysts said that Tuesday’s raid on the hotel, though, was something different, with gunmen going toe-to-toe against government forces in an area teeming with government troops, which seemed to be a sign of increasingly brazen and confident insurgents.

Somalia has lurched from crisis to crisis since 1991, when the central government collapsed. Several Somali officials have conceded that if it were not for the African Union peacekeepers, the government would fall, most likely in hours.