Dual Taliban & Al Qaeda Leader Calls 21 Afghan Tribal Leaders To Summit Then Kidnaps Them All

Well, here we are again at the latest installment of the Taliban and Al Qaeda's book - "How NOT To Win Friends and Allies With the Afghan People"...as a Taliban/al Qaeda leader has apparently lured 21 tribal leaders in Afghanistan to a "meeting" at a mosque in Kunar province and then ended up kidnapping every last one of them. Surprise, surprise! You mean the Taliban and al Qaeda aren't to be trusted? Imagine that.

The whole reason for the kidnappings is to extort the resignation of relatives of the tribal leaders from the Afghan army and other military/security positions. I guess if the tribal leaders' brothers and/or sons don't resign, the leaders won't be released or should I say....killed?

From the report at The Long War Journal:

A dangerous, dual-hatted Taliban and al Qaeda commander has kidnapped 21 Afghan tribal leaders in the eastern province of Kunar.

Qari Zia Rahman, a regional commander who leads forces on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistani border, summoned the tribal leaders to a meeting in the district of Marawara eight days ago, then kidnapped them.

"The Taliban first called them for a meeting at a mosque and after a discussion, the Taliban took all the elders away to an unknown place," a local Afghan official in Kunar told AFP.

Qari Zai claimed the kidnapping in a text message sent to an AFP reporter, and demanded local Afghans end their cooperation with the Afghan government and security forces.

"The reason behind this act is that some relatives, sons and close family members of these men, work in the Afghan army, Afghan police and some with NATO", Qari Zia text read.

"Unless these people do not resign their jobs with the army, police and NATO, we will not release the hostages."

The district of Marawara, which directly borders Pakistan, is a known haven for al Qaeda and the Taliban. The US and Afghan forces targeted Qari Zai in three raids in the district during the summer of 2010. On June 29, the US launched a battalion-sized operation. More than 150 Taliban fighters were reported killed in the operation. On July 20, US and Afghan forces launched another battalion-sized operation in Marawara to flush out Qari Zia. And on Aug. 2, combined forces conducted a raid, again in Marawara, that targeted the al Qaeda leader.

This obviously isn't the first time that al Qaeda and/or the Taliban have shit on the people of Afghanistan but let's face the facts - up until now, the Afghan people really haven't revolted in any way or taken up arms. In Pakistan, the villagers have occasionally formed lashkars or awakenings against the Taliban but in Afghanistan, we simply haven't seen it.

So, I don't hold out any hope here that the Afghan people in this area are going to rise up over this but perhaps all of these acts of terror and deceit by the Taliban/al Qaeda will finally reach a point with the Afghans where they will stop taking it up the ass.

Al Qaeda leader kidnaps 21 Afghan tribal leaders in Kunar


A dangerous, dual-hatted Taliban and al Qaeda commander has kidnapped 21 Afghan tribal leaders in the eastern province of Kunar.

Qari Zia Rahman, a regional commander who leads forces on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistani border, summoned the tribal leaders to a meeting in the district of Marawara eight days ago, then kidnapped them.

"The Taliban first called them for a meeting at a mosque and after a discussion, the Taliban took all the elders away to an unknown place," a local Afghan official in Kunar told AFP.

Qari Zai claimed the kidnapping in a text message sent to an AFP reporter, and demanded local Afghans end their cooperation with the Afghan government and security forces.

"The reason behind this act is that some relatives, sons and close family members of these men, work in the Afghan army, Afghan police and some with NATO", Qari Zia text read.

"Unless these people do not resign their jobs with the army, police and NATO, we will not release the hostages."

The district of Marawara, which directly borders Pakistan, is a known haven for al Qaeda and the Taliban. The US and Afghan forces targeted Qari Zai in three raids in the district during the summer of 2010. On June 29, the US launched a battalion-sized operation. More than 150 Taliban fighters were reported killed in the operation. On July 20, US and Afghan forces launched another battalion-sized operation in Marawara to flush out Qari Zia. And on Aug. 2, combined forces conducted a raid, again in Marawara, that targeted the al Qaeda leader.

Qari Zia is the Taliban's top regional commander as well as a senior member of al Qaeda. He operates in Kunar and neighboring Nuristan province in Afghanistan, and he also operates across the border in Pakistan's tribal agency of Bajaur. In early 2010, the Pakistani government claimed they killed Qari Zia in an airstrike, but he later spoke to the media and mocked Pakistan's interior minister for wrongly reporting his death.

Qari Zia is closely allied with Faqir Mohammed as well as with Osama bin Laden. Qari Zia's fighters are from the Caucasus, Uzbekistan,Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and various Arab nations. He commands a brigade in al Qaeda's paramilitary Shadow Army, or the Lashkar al Zil, US intelligence officials have told The Long War Journal.

The terrorist commander has established training camps for female suicide bombers in both Pakistan and in Kunar in Afghanistan.

A female suicide bomber struck for the first time in Afghanistan in Kunar province on June 21, 2010. Two US soldiers were killed and two Afghan children were wounded in the attack. Qari Zia claimed credit for the bombing.

The next female suicide attack took place on Dec. 24, 2010, in Pakistan's tribal agency of Bajaur. The suicide bomber killed 42 Pakistani civilians in an attack at a World Food Program ration distribution point.

Kunar province is a known sanctuary for al Qaeda and allied terror groups. The presence of al Qaeda cells has been detected in the districts of Pech, Shaikal Shate, Sarkani, Dangam, Asmar, Asadabad, Shigal, and Marawana; or eight of Kunar's 15 districts, according to an investigation by The Long War Journal.

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It's Baaaaackkkkkk....Stuxnet Worm Returns To Wreak Havoc On Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Facility

Those poor Iranians...their nuclear program just seems to be having all of the bad luck lately as once again, the Stuxnet worm that ravaged the system a couple of months ago has resurfaced in the systems and at the very last minute, operations had to be shut down by Russians overseeing the project.

Look at this from the DEBKA article:

Iran's atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi said on Jan. 29 that the Bushehr nuclear power plant would be connected to the national grid on April 9. He "forgot" about Tehran's promise to fully activate its first nuclear reactor Tuesday, Jan. 25. debkafile's intelligence and Moscow sources reveal that on that day, Iran's hand on the switch was held back at the last minute by Sergei Kiriyenko, chief of Rosatom (the Russian national nuclear energy commission which oversaw the reactor's construction. He came hurrying over to warn Tehran that Stuxnet was back and switching the reactor on could trigger a calamitous nuclear explosion that could cost a million Iranian leaves and devastate neighboring populations. He complained to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Iranian nuclear and engineering staff were ignoring the presence of the malworm and must be stopped.

I'm guessing that the Iranian people can't be too thrilled with the fact that their leaders seem to be oblivious to the dangers that were almost unheeded by the start up of the Bushehr facility a few days ago - I mean seriously, how would you feel if your very life was dependent on the watchful eye of a Russian scientist?

Now, I'm not saying that I want some disaster to befall the people of Iran but it would be nice if the political regime in that country were to pay the ultimate price for their obsession with moving this project forward at breakneck speed. Which makes me a bit dismayed by the cautious catch by the Russian supervisors. LOL.

One has to wonder at this time if this nuclear facility will actually ever be 100% safe to start up. I'm assuming that on the day the big switch if finally pulled, there probably isn't going to be a room full of mullahs there for the ribbon cutting ceremony.

Stuxnet returns to Bushehr reactor. Russia warns of nuclear explosion


Iran's atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi said on Jan. 29 that the Bushehr nuclear power plant would be connected to the national grid on April 9. He "forgot" about Tehran's promise to fully activate its first nuclear reactor Tuesday, Jan. 25. debkafile's intelligence and Moscow sources reveal that on that day, Iran's hand on the switch was held back at the last minute by Sergei Kiriyenko, chief of Rosatom (the Russian national nuclear energy commission which oversaw the reactor's construction. He came hurrying over to warn Tehran that Stuxnet was back and switching the reactor on could trigger a calamitous nuclear explosion that could cost a million Iranian leaves and devastate neighboring populations. He complained to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Iranian nuclear and engineering staff were ignoring the presence of the malworm and must be stopped.

Kiriyenko told the Iranian president that the Russian engineers employed at the reactor notified Moscow that Stuxnet was again attacking the Bushehr systems after apparently taking a rest from its first onslaught last June. There was no telling which systems had been infected, because a key feature of the virus is that the systems' screens show they are working normally when in fact they have been fatally disarmed. Activating the reactor in these circumstances could cause an explosion far more powerful than the disaster at the Russian reactor at Chernobyl, Ukraine in April 1986, which released 400 times more radioactive material than the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
The impression the Rosatom chief had gained from his staff at Bushehr was that the Iranian teams had been ordered to activate the reactor at any price to prove that the Islamic Republic had beaten Stuxnet. This concern overrode security. The consequences of ignoring this fearful hazard, said Kiriyenko, were unthinkable and would destroy the revolutionary Islamic regime in Tehran in their wake.
Kirienko began worrying when he heard the Iranian nuclear commission's spokesman Hamid Khadem-Qaemi claim on Jan. 17 that Bushehr had not been affected by Stuxnet.
Our Iranian sources report that, after seeing the Russian official off, Ahmadinejad ordered the reactor to stay shut down.

This week, Salehi, who is also Iran's foreign minister, hinted at the cause of the delay when he said: "The reactor has started its operation and the next step is to reach critical phase which will happen by the end of Bahman (February 20) in presence of Russians. We have said before that due to some tests, we may have to face delays but these delays are around a week or two." He added, "We aim at launching Bushehr nuclear reactor safely not to merely launch it."

In Jerusalem, Maj-Gen. Aviv Kohavi, the new head of IDF military intelligence - MI, who appeared before the Knesset Security and Foreign Affairs Committee for his first briefing on Jan. 25 said Bushehr could be quickly converted from producing electricity for civilian use to a military reactor and incorporated into Iran's weapons program.

The next day, Jan. 26, Moscow took the unusual step of demanding a NATO investigation into last year's computer attack on the Russian-built nuclear reactor in Iran.

Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, said: T"his virus, which is very toxic, very dangerous, could have very serious implications," he said, describing the virus's impact as being like "explosive mines".

"These 'mines' could lead to a new Chernobyl," he said.

Honor Killing Trial In America: Why Was the Death Penalty Taken Off the Table?

America's courts are not Sharia courts. Yet. But we are starting to see a trend it seems where American courts are being influenced by the fact that some of the participants are Muslims and the results are changed because of that.

In this article at Family Security Matters regarding a trial for an honor killing in Arizona, we see how the relevant sentence of death was taken off the table simply because the accused was a Muslim. From that article:

October 20th, 2009 Noor’s own Father, Faleh Hassan Almaleki ran her down with his Jeep Cherokee. Noor fought for her life until Monday November 2, 2009, when she succumbed and died from her injuries. Noor was only 20 years old. Her father didn’t just run over her; at the time he ran Noor down, she was walking in a parking lot with her fiancé’s mother, Amal Edan Khalaf. The 43-year-old woman was seriously injured.

Family members told police that the father was upset that his daughter failed to live by traditional Muslim values, and prosecutors have also said Almaleki has admitted killing his daughter because she disgraced the family by not following traditional Iraqi or Muslim values.

Even though Arizona has the death penalty, the decision not to seek the death penalty was taken after Almaleki's attorney, Billy Little, a public defender, asked the judge to take special precautions to ensure that the County and Attorney's Office wouldn't wrongly seek the death penalty because…Almaleki is a Muslim.

Further, Little requested that the office make public the process it uses to determine whether to seek capital punishment. "An open process provides some level of assurance that there is no appearance that a Christian is seeking to execute a Muslim for racial, political, religious or cultural beliefs," Little wrote, referring to County Attorney Andrew Thomas' Christian faith.

Laura Reckart, a county prosecutor, responded that Little's concern about the "supposed bias" of the office's death penalty review process was "without legitimate factual or legal basis." She wrote that the state can seek the death penalty for any person convicted of first-degree murder if it can prove the existence of at least one aggravating factor, not because of religion.

I'm not sure if I have seen anything like this before - where prosecutors and defense attorneys engage in this kind of side bar activity about sentencing and charges simply because of the "religious" affiliation of an accused. What it shows is just how effective the islamist coalitions in America have been in setting America up for the taboo label of "islamophobe."

Look at the final statement from the Country Attorney's office and tell me this isn't bullshit:

"The defendant is charged with first degree murder and, if convicted, will spend the rest of his life in prison. As is in all first degree murder cases, the decision on whether to seek the death penalty is made on a case by case basis. Cultural considerations played no part in the decision not to seek the death penalty."

Why would there even be the mention in that last sentence? It doesn't take some sort of intuitive genius to realize that the "cultural considerations" were what this decision was ALL about.

Where Is The Honor?


Whenever I discuss or lecture on “women in Islam” or more specifically “honor killings” the apologists always say “honor killings is a culture thing, it’s not Islamic.” My personal favorite is when I hear “that doesn’t happen in America.”

Right now, we have two “honor killing” trials that are taking place in the U.S. for honor killings that “don’t happen here”.

In Buffalo, NY we have the case of Muzzammil "Mo" Hassan who allegedly murdered his wife Aasiya Hassan. According to WBEN of Buffalo, NY,

Aasiya Hassan was stabbed more than 40 times as the couple's 4- and 6-year-old children and the suspect's teenage son from a previous marriage waited in a minivan outside for her to complete the errand on their way to dinner, Bonanno said.

"Then (Hassan) took those knives and he sawed Aasiya's head off," using so much force that the floor tiles underneath were damaged, the prosecutor said.

The other case is one that I wrote about previously, when I wrote the story of Noor Almaleki last year I contacted a few of her friends and co-workers to find out about Noor the person. I wanted to paint a real picture and get an understanding of the individual that lost her life in what was known in Arizona and throughout the U.S. as an “Honor killing”.

Opening statements began in the Maricopa County Court room in Arizona last Monday and now that the case has finally gone to trial with her father as the defendant against murder, it is time for a follow up. Let’s first revisit the facts of the case according to last year’s article.

October 20th, 2009 Noor’s own Father, Faleh Hassan Almaleki ran her down with his Jeep Cherokee. Noor fought for her life until Monday November 2, 2009, when she succumbed and died from her injuries. Noor was only 20 years old. Her father didn’t just run over her; at the time he ran Noor down, she was walking in a parking lot with her fiancé’s mother, Amal Edan Khalaf. The 43-year-old woman was seriously injured.

Some friends of Noor said that her father had taken her to Iraq and told her they were visiting relatives. Once there, he married her off and left her to fend for herself. Noor then had to find enough money to make her way back to America and, once here, she moved in with the fiancé she loved. A friend, Nicole Furugia, said she had gone with Noor to look into getting a restraining order against her father, "She was very determined on getting it, she was scared."

Family members told police that the father was upset that his daughter failed to live by traditional Muslim values, and prosecutors have also said Almaleki has admitted killing his daughter because she disgraced the family by not following traditional Iraqi or Muslim values.

Faleh Hassan Almaleki was charged with first-degree murder, aggravated assault and two counts of leaving the scene of a serious accident. Police said Almaleki fled the country after the attack, driving to Mexico and later taking a plane to London. He was detained by British authorities and extradited back to the United States.

Last year at the preliminary hearing speaking before a Maricopa County judge, county prosecutor Stephanie Low said Almaleki has admitted purposefully running down his daughter. Low indicated that Mr. Almaleki does not deny that his actions were intended to harm and even kill Noor:

“By his own admission, this was an intentional act and the reason was that his daughter had brought shame on him and his family,” Low said. “This was an attempt at an honor killing.”

Even though Arizona has the death penalty, the decision not to seek the death penalty was taken after Almaleki's attorney, Billy Little, a public defender, asked the judge to take special precautions to ensure that the County and Attorney's Office wouldn't wrongly seek the death penalty because…Almaleki is a Muslim.

Further, Little requested that the office make public the process it uses to determine whether to seek capital punishment. "An open process provides some level of assurance that there is no appearance that a Christian is seeking to execute a Muslim for racial, political, religious or cultural beliefs," Little wrote, referring to County Attorney Andrew Thomas' Christian faith.

Laura Reckart, a county prosecutor, responded that Little's concern about the "supposed bias" of the office's death penalty review process was "without legitimate factual or legal basis." She wrote that the state can seek the death penalty for any person convicted of first-degree murder if it can prove the existence of at least one aggravating factor, not because of religion.

However, the debate stopped there. On February 16th, Reckart filed a motion indicating prosecutors would not seek the death penalty. Mike Scerbo, a spokesman for the County Attorney's Office, issued the following statement on February 19th:

"The defendant is charged with first degree murder and, if convicted, will spend the rest of his life in prison. As is in all first degree murder cases, the decision on whether to seek the death penalty is made on a case by case basis. Cultural considerations played no part in the decision not to seek the death penalty."

So now a year and a half later Faleh Hassan Almaleki is on trial for the murder of his own daughter.

The defense now is claiming that the whole thing was an accident, according to the AZ Central website,

Public defender Elizabeth Mullins told jurors and others gathered before Judge Roland Steinle a starkly different story: Almaleki loved his daughter and cautioned her to avoid "rebellious teenage behavior." But Noor didn't listen. She left home.

Oct. 20, 2009, marked the first time Almaleki had seen his daughter in months. He planned to leave the DES office to avoid a confrontation and then spotted Khalaf again as he drove out of the parking lot.

His daughter straggled behind, playing on her cellphone.

That's when he decided to spit on Khalaf, Mullins said.

Khalaf stepped in front of Almaleki's Jeep and he swerved, trying to avoid her, Mullins continued. He couldn't. He hit Khalaf, a tree and a curb.

He looked back and realized he'd also hit Noor, Mullins said. His daughter appeared gravely injured. Almaleki panicked. He called family members, who told him to drive away. "Frantic and desperate, Faleh does what they said," Mullins said.

I have a special attachment to this case and wanted once again to give the reader some insight to the real person, not have Noor appear as just a statistic or a photo of some young woman who was killed.

I tracked down a friend of Noor from her High School days and we spoke by telephone. For her security, and since the trial is currently ongoing, I will not divulge this friend’s name. I asked,

“Tell me about Noor, when did you meet”?

Friend: “Noora, that’s what we called her, the "a" being the letter of her last name- it was easier for us to remember. We met in Dysart High School in El Mirage, Arizona in our sophomore year.”

GA: “Did you know she was from Iraq, did she tell people where she was from or discuss it?”

Friend: “I knew she wasn’t white or Hispanic, but it was after we had become friends that I found out where she was from. She didn’t talk about it.”

GA: “How did she dress and act, could you look at her and know she was Muslim, did she dress differently?”

Friend: “She dressed like an American; she was like any other teenage American high school student. A typical American, she never wore a head scarf or anything like that.”

GA: “Did she talk to you about her family or any problems she was having with her father?”

Friend: “I found out through someone else when her father took her back to Iraq and sold her, married her off. I couldn’t believe her father would do that. We were all like when is Noora coming back home?”

GA: “What other type of things or hobbies was Noor into besides wanting to be a model?”

Friend: “She took art classes and we did pottery, you know, a ceramics class. She liked to just hang out like we all did in high school. She used to come by and visit me at work after school and we would hang out and just talk.”

GA: “Now that the case has gone to trial her father is changing his story and saying that it was an accident, he says he was trying to spit out the window at Amal Khalaf and hit them accidentally.”

Friend: “I think that’s a bunch of bull, I got a text when it happened, Noora’s dad ran her over and I thought it was an accident and it was no, Noora’s dad ran her over and it was on purpose, that just blew my mind, I was like are you serious? They held a vigil for her and a bunch of people from high school were there and I couldn’t go and it broke my heart. It was a whole mess when it first happened everyone that knew her was going crazy because they couldn’t figure out what happened. But I don’t doubt for a second that he did it on purpose.”

GA: “If you had to describe Noor to someone that had never met her, what would you say?”

Friend: “I’d say that she was a beautiful person inside and out, she had a sense of humor, she definitely knew how to make you laugh. She just seemed like she was happy all the time, I never really saw her upset. She was quick to say a kind word, she was so sweet. She was friends with everybody; she didn’t judge or discriminate against anybody. She was just a really sweet person, I don’t think she had a mean streak on her, I can’t even imagine her trying to hurt a fly. She was definitely somebody that you’d just like to talk to that you’d like to see in the hallway and say hey how ya doin. She was just a really good person overall. She definitely did not deserve this at all, it breaks my heart that somebody so sweet and innocent had to have this happen to her. Its, their frightening and it’s pretty ridiculous, you know, I don’t understand the culture and to me it’s just outrageous.”

Noor’s little brother Ali has a Facebook page where I found a picture that he had done for a school project.

What he has written there is a lot different from what he stated while Noor was fighting for her life. Going back to an exclusive interview by channel 5 KPHO,

Peter-Ali Almaleki told CBS 5 News in an exclusive interview Saturday that for years his father and sister have been at odds.

He said much of the conflict stems from his sister choosing to not follow in the family's Muslim traditions.

And for a traditional Muslim family, he said that disrespect was the ultimate insult to his father.

“Different cultures, different values,” he said. “One thing to one culture does not make sense to another culture.”

“It's hurt my mom more than anybody,” he said.

Really? I think that his sister Noor might have a different opinion.

Here are just a few examples of “honor killings” from right here in the U.S. from an article I wrote early last year,

In the Atlanta suburb of Jonesboro in July, 2008, a Pakistani immigrant strangled his 25-year-old daughter with a bungee cord because she was determined to end her arranged marriage and had gotten involved with a new man.

In upstate New York a few weeks earlier, Waheed Allah Mohammad, an immigrant from Afghanistan, was charged with attempted murder after repeatedly stabbing his 19-year-old sister. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported that Mohammad was "infuriated because his younger sister was going to clubs, wearing immodest clothing, and planning to leave her family for a new life in New York City" – she was a "bad Muslim girl," he told sheriff's investigators.

On New Year's Day, 2008 in Irving, Texas, the bullet-riddled bodies of the Said sisters – Sarah, 17, and Amina, 18 - were found in an abandoned taxi. Police issued an arrest warrant for their father, an Egyptian immigrant, Yaser Abdel Said, who had reportedly threatened to kill them upon learning that they had boyfriends. According to the Dallas Morning News, Yaser Said was given to "gun-waving rants about how Western culture was corrupting the chastity of his daughters."

Yaser Said was never captured, but the Said sisters’ 911 call they placed as they were dying was. The audio can be heard here.

When will we hear from the “women’s rights” organizations? How can any human rights group, especially a woman’s group not speak out against this? I have asked before, where is the National Organization of Women (N.O.W.)? Should they not be out there every day screaming and using this very trial to publicize these atrocities that are occurring to women on a daily basis worldwide?

When will we as a people speak up? How many more “Noor’s” have to die before we as a country speak up loud and clear and say “No more!”

How prevalent are honor killings? Go to the Stop Honor Killings website and look for yourself. They have 100 pages of killings with an average of 10 per page that only dates back to 2003.

As I have explained before,

“The United Nations estimates that as many as 5,000 women are murdered in such honor killings each year for offenses like immodesty or refusing an arranged marriage.”

I have no doubt that Faleh Hassan Almaleki will be found guilty and spend the rest of his miserable life in jail, but, we have no right to let Noor Almaleki’s death be in vain.

Go to the website mentioned above and get involved. Educate yourself and speak out about it to anyone who will listen.

These so called “honor killings” are on the rise and they are anything but honorable. The only way to use the word “honor” would be to honor these girls and women and make sure it doesn’t continue.

This article is dedicated to and in memory of each and every woman (and man) who has died in a killing of “honor”. May they all rest in peace.

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Anti-America, Anti-Israel Puppet of Iran and Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed ElBaradei, Tells Mubarak To Leave 'Today'

I'd like to take you folks back a few years to a time when the United Nation's IAEA group was supposedly in charge of monitoring the nuclear ambitions of Iran. We saw that atomic watchdog group do some inspections in Iran and hold some investigations and their reports were all consistent - that Iran was totally harmless to the world - that there really wasn't any potentially dangerous nuclear development going on in the Land of the Mullahs. The head of that IAEA task force was Egypt's Mohamed ElBaradei. And I'd like to point out to you that Mohamed ElBaradei lied to every nation of the world in his reports. Not only did he cover up the nuclear ambitions of Iran, but he assisted them in further development. When his lies and deceit and corruption were finally unveiled and the evidence of his complicity so overwhelming, ElBaradei simply resigned from the IAEA. He left. He went back to Egypt.

And now, today, we are seeing clear evidence of what this man has been up to since he left the IAEA.

From the report today at The Telegraph:

"I have been authorised - mandated - by the people who organised these demonstrations and many other parties to agree on a national unity government," he told CNN.

"I hope that I should be in touch soon with the army and we need to work together. The army is part of Egypt."

The United States is "losing credibility by the day" in calling for democracy in Egypt while continuing to support President Hosni Mubarak, leading dissident Mohamed ElBaradei said Sunday.

"You are losing credibility by the day. On one hand you're talking about democracy, rule of law and human rights, and on the other hand you're lending still your support to a dictator that continues to oppress his people," ElBaradei told US network CBS from Cairo.

As you can see, ElBaradei has positioned himself as the default new leader of Egypt - and he has the backing of the most sinister force in Egypt...the Muslim Brotherhood.

I implore you folks to see the absolute mirror image of what is going on in the Middle East and come to the conclusion that all of this is NOT coincidence - you see, there are four nations that border the state of Israel - they are: Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Egypt. Up until just a few weeks ago, the only nation that represented an organized threat to Israel was Syria. Now, in a matter of weeks we see a coup underway in Lebanon that will leave the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in control so Lebanon is lost and now we see, AT THE EXACT SAME TIME, a force in Egypt taking slow control that will also represent an organized governmental threat to Israel. That leaves Jordan. Ahem. Anyone notice some protests breaking out in Jordan in the past few days? Anyone willing to take my bet that Jordan sees full scale riots within the next 30 days? Anyone have the balls to refute my claim that Jordan falls in the next six months?

Mohamed ElBaradei is an islamic terrorist who dresses in fancy Italian suits. He is an enemy of America. He is an enemy of Israel. His rise to power in Egypt will mean war. Bet on it.

Egypt crisis: ElBaradei tells Mubarak to leave 'today'


"I have been authorised - mandated - by the people who organised these demonstrations and many other parties to agree on a national unity government," he told CNN.

"I hope that I should be in touch soon with the army and we need to work together. The army is part of Egypt."

The United States is "losing credibility by the day" in calling for democracy in Egypt while continuing to support President Hosni Mubarak, leading dissident Mohamed ElBaradei said Sunday.

"You are losing credibility by the day. On one hand you're talking about democracy, rule of law and human rights, and on the other hand you're lending still your support to a dictator that continues to oppress his people," ElBaradei told US network CBS from Cairo.

Fighter jets swooped low over Cairo in what appeared to be an attempt by the military to show its control of a city beset by looting, armed robbery and anti-government protests.

Minutes before the start of a 4 p.m. curfew, at least two jets appeared and made multiple passes over downtown, including a central square where thousands of protesters were calling for the departure of President Hosni Mubarak.

Police could be seen returning to some streets nearly two days after virtually disappearing, creating a security vacuum only partially filled by the presence of army troops backed by tanks at key sites around this city of 18 million people.

After days of escalating chaos, gangs of armed men attacked at least four jails across Egypt before dawn, helping to free hundreds of Muslim militants and thousands of other inmates. Gangs of young men with guns and large sticks smashed cars and robbed people in Cairo.

Banks were closed on orders from Egypt's Central Bank, and the stock market was shut on what is normally the first day of the trading week. Markets across the Middle East dropped on fears about the instability's damage to Egypt's economy, and the region's.

An unprecedented Internet cutoff remained in place after the country's four primary Internet providers stopped moving data in and out of the country in an apparent move by authorities to disrupt the organization of demonstrations blaming Mubarak's regime for poverty, unemployment, widespread corruption and police brutality.

The official death toll from five days of growing crisis stood at 74, with thousands injured.

The U.S. Embassy in Cairo told its citizens in Egypt to consider leaving the country as soon as possible, and said it had authorized the voluntary departure of dependents and non-emergency employees, a display of Washington's escalating concern about the stability of its closest Arab ally.

Private tour groups and corporations began trying to evacuate their clients and expatriate employees. But dozens of flights were canceled and delayed and crowds filled Cairo International Airport, desperate and unable to leave.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. expects that the protests in Egypt will lead to free and fair elections as part of an "orderly" transition to "real democracy."

"I want the Egyptian people to have a chance to chart a new future," she said. "It's not a question of who retains power ... It's how are we going to respond to the legitimate needs and grievances expressed by the Egyptian people."

Israel's prime minister told his Cabinet that he was "anxiously following" the crisis, saying in his first public comments on the situation that Israel's three-decade-old peace agreement with Egypt must be preserved.

After a night of violence in many cities across Egypt, the army sent hundreds more troops and armored vehicles onto the streets starting Sunday morning. Truckloads of hundreds of police poured back into Cairo neighborhoods Sunday afternoon and took up positions on the streets.

In some spots, they were jeered by residents who chanted anti-police slogans and demanded that they only be allowed to deploy jointly with the military.

State television showed Defense Minister Hussein Tantawi in green fatigues on a central Cairo street, speaking with soldiers and civilian onlookers.

Then, as the curfew loomed, the jets roared over the Nile and toward Tahrir Square in the heart of Cairo, where thousands of protesters have gathered each day to demand the end of the administration.

The jets made several passes over the square, dropping lower every time and setting off alarms in parked cars.

Some protesters clapped and waved to them while others jeered.

"This is terrorism, they are trying to scare the people with the planes and the tanks. They are trying to make people afraid and leave the square," said Gamal Ahmed, a 40-year-old air-conditioning technician.

Lines of army tanks jammed a road leading into Tahrir, and a military helicopter hovered overhead. Soldiers working with civilian protester volunteers checked IDs and bags of people arriving to join the marches.

Mubarak, 82, perpetuated the overriding role of military men in Egyptian politics by naming his intelligence chief, former army general Omar Suleiman, to the new role of vice president on Saturday. Ahmed Shafiq, the outgoing civil aviation minister and Mubarak fellow former air force officer, was named prime minister.

State TV Sunday showed images of Mubarak during what it said was a visit to the country's military command center. The president looked somber and fatigued in his first public appearance since he addressed the nation late Friday to promise reform and annouce the dismissal of his Cabinet.

The brief footage appeared designed to project an image of normalcy.

Egyptian security officials said that overnight armed men fired at guards in gun battles that lasted hours at the four prisons including one northwest of Cairo that held hundreds of militants. The prisoners escaped after starting fires and clashing with guards.

Those who fled included 34 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest and best organized opposition group. The Muslim Brotherhood's lawyer, Abdel-Monaem Abdel-Maqsoud, told The Associated Press the 34 were among scores rounded up by authorities ahead of the large anti-government demonstrations on Friday. The escapees included at least seven senior members of the group.

The security officials said several inmates were killed and wounded, but gave no specific figures. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share the information with the media.

The officials told The Associated Press that army troops were hunting for the escaped prisoners, in some cases with the help of the police. State television also showed footage of what it said was dozens of prisoners recaptured by the army troops, squatting on dirt while soldiers kept watch over them.

In the southern city of Assiut, officials said riot police stormed the city's main prison to quell a prison riot, using tear gas and batons against inmates. An Associated Press reporter saw army tanks were deployed outside the prison, on bridges straddling the Nile and at the police headquarters.

Thousands of Alexandrians met to pray in downtown Alexandria, a Mediterranean port city that is a stronghold of the Muslim Brotherhood. After prayers, the crowd marched towards the city's old mosque to pray for the souls of those who died in the protests.

Egyptian mobile networks were back up after days of cutoffs but with text-messaging widely disrupted. Blackberry Messenger and mobile Internet services were operating sporadically.

The pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera said that Egyptian authorities ordered the closure of its Cairo news hub overseeing coverage of the country's massive street protests, denouncing the move as an attempt to "stifle and repress" open reporting.

The Qatar-based network has given nearly round-the-clock coverage to the unprecedented uprising against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and had faced criticism by some government supporters and other Arab leaders as a forum to inspire more unrest.

Video: The Man Comes Around

The Man Comes Around

Johnny Cash

And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder: One of the four beasts saying: "Come and see." And I saw. And behold, a white horse.
There's a man goin' 'round takin' names. An' he decides who to free and who to blame. Everybody won't be treated all the same. There'll be a golden ladder reaching down. When the man comes around.

The hairs on your arm will stand up. At the terror in each sip and in each sup. For you partake of that last offered cup, Or disappear into the potter's ground. When the man comes around.

Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers. One hundred million angels singin'. Multitudes are marching to the big kettle drum. Voices callin', voices cryin'. Some are born an' some are dyin'. It's Alpha's and Omega's Kingdom come.

And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree. The virgins are all trimming their wicks. The whirlwind is in the thorn tree. It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

Till Armageddon, no Shalam, no Shalom. Then the father hen will call his chickens home. The wise men will bow down before the throne. And at his feet they'll cast their golden crown. When the man comes around.

Whoever is unjust, let him be unjust still. Whoever is righteous, let him be righteous still. Whoever is filthy, let him be filthy still. Listen to the words long written down, When the man comes around.

Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers. One hundred million angels singin'. Multitudes are marchin' to the big kettle drum. Voices callin', voices cryin'. Some are born an' some are dyin'. It's Alpha's and Omega's Kingdom come.

And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree. The virgins are all trimming their wicks. The whirlwind is in the thorn tree. It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

In measured hundredweight and penny pound. When the man comes around.

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts, And I looked and behold: a pale horse. And his name, that sat on him, was Death. And Hell followed with him.

The Hezbollah Coup In Lebanon

Another article is up that showcases the coup going on in Lebanon where one of the world's most violent and deadly islamic terrorist groups is poised to take over a country - let me repeat that, we have a islamic terror group which will not govern a complete nation of people in this world.

Yes, I'm talking about Lebanon and I'm talking about the coup there that will see that the Iranian and Syrian backed (and led) terror group, Hezbollah, will hold the power.

From the article at Family Security Matters:

“The collapse of the [Saad] Hariri government is a result of Hizballah threatening members of parliament to shift to their side so that they could form a government headed by Mikati,” says Tom Harb, Sec. Gen. of the International Lebanese Committee for the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1559. “This is a direct threat to both Lebanon’s Cedars Revolution and the majority will of the Lebanese based on two elections in 2005 and 2009. The new government should be rejected by the U.S. government, and Mikati should have his assets frozen because of his cooperation with a terrorist organization like Hizballah. It doesn't matter if he is a billionaire, so is Bin Laden.”

The installation of Mikati as prime minister should be disturbing to Western military leaders. It certainly is to some of the clearer thinking U.S. policy makers.

U.S. Congresswoman Sue Myrick (R, N.C.), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and founder of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus, sent a letter to Barack Obama, Tuesday, stating in part, "The situation in Lebanon, and the growing global power of Hizballah, should be a great cause of concern to Americans," adding, "We must not let Iran gain further influence in the Middle East." She appealed to the pres. to “show solidarity with the Lebanese People by rejecting any recognition of a Hizballah government.”

According to Harb, the installation of Mikati is not only a dark day for freedom and democracy in Lebanon, but it is a direct threat to U.S. national security as “Hizballah, which has already infiltrated the Lebanese army, will fully open the gates to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and Hizballah operatives and the IRGC will be granted even greater global access through Lebanese embassies worldwide and with terrorists being protected by diplomatic immunity.”

As you can see, the news is not bright for the U.S. and of course, even worse for Israel. I don't think I have to remind anyone that it was Hezbollah that murdered 241 American Marines, Navy and Army personnel back in 1983 when the bombed the Marines barracks in Beirut. So, we have 241 service members who have never been avenged, we have the U.S.'s closest ally in mortal jeopardy under this coup and we have America itself put in danger by all of this and yet we see ZERO action and ZERO outcry by the Obama administration.

At some point in time, America, you must wake up to the fact that we are lambs being led to slaughter by a President who cares more about fulfilling the "rights" of third world nations in this world than protecting his very own people.

Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Algeria and Iraq - we are seeing disastrous situations in every single one of those countries and we have a President of the United States of America concerned with suing on of his states over immigration laws, making sure that America's industry is penalized for not using solar shingles on their buildings and dictating what food Americans should be eating.

Yes, elections have consequences.

Terrorist Group Strengthened By Lebanon's New Prime Minister


Though soft-soaped in the media, the Lebanese parliament’s dubbing of pro-Hizballah billionaire Najib Mikati as Lebanon’s new prime minister has Lebanon’s pro-democracy movement aghast. It should be equally disturbing to anyone supporting freedom, democracy, and transparency in that country.

Let’s not forget, Hizballah – which former U.S. Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff said, “makes al Qaeda look like a minor league team” – is perhaps the most dangerous terrorist army (let’s not mince words here) on the planet. The group is heavily funded by Iran, and operationally supported by Iran and Syria. It has a capable military wing in Lebanon where it maintains huge stockpiles of military grade weapons – staged throughout the country which have never been adequately challenged (in violation of both United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1559 and 1701).

Hizballah has operational cells worldwide, including here in the U.S. It has a media / propaganda arm that is second to none. Its military wing is stronger – and frankly has more political leverage – than the Lebanese army and police (both of which have been heavily infiltrated by Hizballah). And if Hizballah doesn’t get what it wants from the so-called democratically elected government of Lebanon, the terrorist group and its allies have no qualms about attacking the Lebanese people as they did in May 2008. And they’ll attack with impunity.

Now with Mikati as prime minister, the terrorist group’s strengthening political leverage is essentially delivering that country’s military forces and intelligence services to the Iranians – not that Iran (with its billion-plus annual petrodollars funding Hizballah) didn’t already have a hand in Lebanese politics. But now Iran will have unfettered control of the Lebanese army and army policy.

How did we get to this?

“The collapse of the [Saad] Hariri government is a result of Hizballah threatening members of parliament to shift to their side so that they could form a government headed by Mikati,” says Tom Harb, Sec. Gen. of the International Lebanese Committee for the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1559. “This is a direct threat to both Lebanon’s Cedars Revolution and the majority will of the Lebanese based on two elections in 2005 and 2009. The new government should be rejected by the U.S. government, and Mikati should have his assets frozen because of his cooperation with a terrorist organization like Hizballah. It doesn't matter if he is a billionaire, so is Bin Laden.”

The installation of Mikati as prime minister should be disturbing to Western military leaders. It certainly is to some of the clearer thinking U.S. policy makers.

U.S. Congresswoman Sue Myrick (R, N.C.), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and founder of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus, sent a letter to Barack Obama, Tuesday, stating in part, "The situation in Lebanon, and the growing global power of Hizballah, should be a great cause of concern to Americans," adding, "We must not let Iran gain further influence in the Middle East." She appealed to the pres. to “show solidarity with the Lebanese People by rejecting any recognition of a Hizballah government.”

According to Harb, the installation of Mikati is not only a dark day for freedom and democracy in Lebanon, but it is a direct threat to U.S. national security as “Hizballah, which has already infiltrated the Lebanese army, will fully open the gates to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and Hizballah operatives and the IRGC will be granted even greater global access through Lebanese embassies worldwide and with terrorists being protected by diplomatic immunity.”

The Hardline Islamists In Pakistan Protest In Force - Keep the Anti-Islam Blasphemy Laws, Hang the U.S. Consulate Official

Supporters of the religious and political party Jamaat-e-Islami hold a banner that reads “Pakistani Demand to Hang Raymond Davis Immediately” while praying during a protest rally in Karachi January 30, 2011. – Reuters


The hardline islamists of Pakistan took to the streets today to protest any Pakistani government consideration of amendments to the anti-Islam blasphemy laws with over 40,000 of the blood thirsty minions marching the streets. And just for good measure, the same bunch decided to make a statement regarding the U.S. consulate official, Raymond Davis, who shot and killed two Pakistani thugs seeking to kidnap him, by displaying banners asking for the execution of Davis.

From the report at DAWN:

About 40,000 people rallied in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore on Sunday in the latest protest against proposed reforms of a controversial blasphemy law, police said.

Religious groups have held protests in several Pakistani cities since former Punjab governor Salman Taseer vowed to amend the law, that was recently used to sentence a Christian woman to death

Taseer’s stance enraged the country’s increasingly conservative religious base and he was assassinated on January 4 by his own security guard, who has said he killed the governor over his support for reform.

Under intense pressure from religious parties, Pakistan’s government has since said it had no intentions to amend the law.

Demonstrators from religious parties Jamaat-e-Islami, Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan and Jamaat-ud-Dawa held banners in support of Mumtaz Qadri – the police commando who shot dead Taseer.

Participants chanted slogans including “Free Mumtaz Qadri”, “We are ready to sacrifice our lives for the honour of Prophet Mohammad” and “Changes in blasphemy law not accepted.”

An AFP reporter saw activists carrying effigies of Pope Benedict XVI and Pakistani minorities affairs minister Shahbaz Bhatti shouting slogans “Allah-o-Akbar.”

Local government official Tariq Zaman put the overall number of protesters at 40,000.

I'm convinced that this is a snapshot of what is going on inside of Islam worldwide right now - there is an organized push by the hardline islamists of this world right now to push the envelope all of the way - we are seeing it with the protests in Egypt, we are seeing it in the butchering of Christians in the Middle East and Asia and we are seeing it with fall of Lebanon.

Folks, we are witnessing history at this moment. Some may say we are witnessing prophecy.

This could very well be the point in time where the "creep" of Islam across this planet goes into hyperspeed mode - this may be the time in our lives when we witness that the literal battle truly begins between Good and Evil.

Let's just not lose sight of the reason for these protests - a Christian Pakistani woman awaited a death sentence by stoning for supposedly blaspheming Islam and a Pakistani government official dared say that this was an unacceptable law in a country in the 21st century - for that he was murdered and his assassin glorified in the same vein as Mohammed himself.

This is about the final chapter when all those that refuse to bow down and submit to Islam will be killed. Or fight back.

Thousands rally in Lahore over blasphemy law


LAHORE: About 40,000 people rallied in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore on Sunday in the latest protest against proposed reforms of a controversial blasphemy law, police said.

Religious groups have held protests in several Pakistani cities since former Punjab governor Salman Taseer vowed to amend the law, that was recently used to sentence a Christian woman to death

Taseer’s stance enraged the country’s increasingly conservative religious base and he was assassinated on January 4 by his own security guard, who has said he killed the governor over his support for reform.

Under intense pressure from religious parties, Pakistan’s government has since said it had no intentions to amend the law.

Demonstrators from religious parties Jamaat-e-Islami, Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan and Jamaat-ud-Dawa held banners in support of Mumtaz Qadri – the police commando who shot dead Taseer.

Participants chanted slogans including “Free Mumtaz Qadri”, “We are ready to sacrifice our lives for the honour of Prophet Mohammad” and “Changes in blasphemy law not accepted.”

An AFP reporter saw activists carrying effigies of Pope Benedict XVI and Pakistani minorities affairs minister Shahbaz Bhatti shouting slogans “Allah-o-Akbar.”

Local government official Tariq Zaman put the overall number of protesters at 40,000.

Leaders of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz and Quaid-i-Azam group also addressed the rally.

Event organisers called the brothers of two Pakistani men shot dead by a US national in Lahore on Thursday to the stage and pledged their support for the victims’ families in pursuing a murder case.

The US man, named as Raymond Davis, is being held at a police station on double murder charges over the shooting of the two motorcyclists.

The US embassy had claimed diplomatic immunity on his behalf while Davis, who has been held at a Lahore police station since the incident, told a magistrate’s court Friday that he had fired in self-defence.

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Obama's SOTU Address: Where Was the Mention of Foreign Policy?

I joined a Blog Talk Radio broadcast last night and one of the things we discussed is the absolute failure of Obama's foreign policy as President - not entirely because his policies have failed so much as this guy simply DOESN'T HAVE A FOREIGN POLICY! And this article at Family Security Matters focuses in on how lacking the State of the Union address was in regards to the foreign spector as well as national defense. Some of you may remember President George W. Bush's SOTU when he laid the cards on the table regarding the "Axis of Evil." Well, Bush, at the time, was at least being up front with the American people...Barack Hussein Obama has opted for the ignorance tactic - let's not talk about the security of our nation and maybe we'll be okay.

In the lead up to the 2008 Presidential election, polls that were taken revealed Obama in good shape on almost all issues important to the American people except for one - national security. Well, Obama has proved the American people right - they had a reason to be concerned.

From the article:

The President’s State of the Union address topped the news on the foreign policy and national security front last week. It was most notable for how little it said about how Obama planned to exercise his responsibilities as commander-in-chief and leader of the free world. It was understandable that the address would focus on “jobs” since that rises as the number one issue of concern in every poll. That said, the skimpiness of the speech on foreign policy was shocking.

There was a short list of top issues that the President really needed to address in the State of the Union. Unfortunately, from defense to trade to Afghanistan to missile defense he gave them all short shrift. Iran did not even rate a mention.

I want to point out something mentioned in this article - the lack of even a mention about Iran. Let's do a quick recap regarding the current situation with Iran in this world:

• Iran continues to move ahead with the development of nuclear development and the obvious development of nuclear weapons
• Iran continues to provide weaponry to the Taliban in the War in Afghanistan
• Iran continues to meddle in the political and military situation in Iraq
• Iran continues to position itself as the chief enemy of Israel
• Iran continues its support of the terror groups, Hamas and Hezbollah, and recently has positioned itself to become the ultimate ruling body in the government of Lebanon (Israel's neighbor)
• Iran continues to work with Hugo Chavez to arm Venezuela with sophisticated weaponry, perhaps even nuclear
• Iran continues to form an alliance with North Korea

Okay, look at that list and ask yourself...."Doesn't that country's current activities at least warrant some acknowledgment of concern from our President?" We have a rogue nation operating in the world and setting the stage for some cataclysmic consequences and Barack Hussein Obama wanted to talk about solar shingles on some roofs in Michigan.

I won't even get into the fact that Obama didn't want to speak about the North Korean crisis, the Chinese buildup of military capabilities or the threats to our country from the South.

Whoever the Republican candidate is for the 2012 Presidential election, if he/she is smart, foreign policy will be rammed home with the American people - we had doubts about it when Obama ran the first time and he has done nothing but substantiate those doubts and turn it into a firm, rational fear.

State of the Union Address - What Was Left Unsaid?


The President’s State of the Union address topped the news on the foreign policy and national security front last week. It was most notable for how little it said about how Obama planned to exercise his responsibilities as commander-in-chief and leader of the free world. It was understandable that the address would focus on “jobs” since that rises as the number one issue of concern in every poll. That said, the skimpiness of the speech on foreign policy was shocking.

There was a short list of top issues that the President really needed to address in the State of the Union. Unfortunately, from defense to trade to Afghanistan to missile defense he gave them all short shrift. Iran did not even rate a mention.

Immigration did come up in the speech, but not in a way that gives us any hope that we can expect this administration to get serious about our broken borders and deeply flawed immigration system. Heritage homeland security expert Jena McNeill notes

“[i]nstead of using such an important speech to present talking points meant to placate the pro-amnesty lobby, he should have emphasized the need to avoid amnesty while securing the border and enforcing laws inside the United States. These actions—along with reforms in visa services, a pilot temporary worker program, and greater cooperation with Mexico on security concerns and free market reforms—can make real progress toward solving the problem.”

The only solid homeland security news came from the department charged with implanting it. Last week, the color-coded threat system, officially known as the Homeland Security Advisory System, was nixed by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. She should be applauded for getting rid of a system that has zero credibility and has done little to achieve its goal of informing the public about potential threats. Heritage had proposed abandoning this approach almost immediately after it was created. This viewpoint was shared by a taskforce organized by Napolitano in 2009 to examine whether the system should be abandoned. The taskforce concluded that the system

“has suffered from a lack of credibility and clarity leading to an erosion of public confidence such that is should be abandoned.”

Napolitano plans to replace the current system with something that is understandable, credible and actionable.

Meanwhile, overseas protests exploded across North Africa and the Middle East. Unfortunately, our White House which detests dealing with any crisis mostly played the role of a bystander. On the one hand, the US has to stand as a champion for freedom and encourage the expansion of liberty. On the other, the US must be wary about cheerleading popular protests that get hijacked by anti-democratic forces or Islamist extremists. Uncertain on how to advance both these goals, the administration has done mostly—nothing.

For the week the President gets a grade of “B” for “being there,” though it is hard to see what the White House did last week to exercise the mantle of American leadership.

Taliban Suicide Bomber Kills Deputy Governor of Kandahar Province

The Taliban stuck a pretty big feather in their cap today when one of their suicide bombers was able to ram his motorcycle full of explosives into the car carrying the deputy governor of Kandahar province - killing the deputy governor and wounding three bodyguards.

From the story at The Long War Journal:

A suicide bomber killed the deputy governor in the capital of Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar today.

The suicide bomber rammed a motorcycle laden with explosives into a car carrying Deputy Governor Abdul Latif as he drove in a convoy from his home to his office. Three bodyguards were also wounded in the attack.

The Taliban appear to have had good intelligence, as the suicide bomber picked Latif's car out of the convoy.

Today's suicide attack in Kandahar is the second in one of the country's major cities in two days. Yesterday a suicide bomber killed eight people, including three foreigners, in an attack at a grocery in the capital of Kabul.

The Taliban have not yet claimed the attack in Kandahar, however the Mullah Dadullah Mahaz, or the Mullah Dadullah Front, a radical subgroup closely linked to al Qaeda, is suspected of having carried out the attack.

Believe me, the Taliban will soon be announcing this victory from the rooftops for days and days as it is a high level assassination. And at the same time, this is the kind of attack that can send shockwaves across the country for other government officials and politicians. As in most of the tactics where al Qaeda has influence, the top targets are usually the police and security networks and then government officials.

One aspect of this attack is the further evidence that the Taliban are simply relentless. They sometimes seem to have no rhyme or reason to their attacks and what comes out of that is simply the effective result that the general public doesn't feel safe ANYWHERE or even at any time.

Taliban suicide bomber kills deputy governor of Kandahar


A suicide bomber killed the deputy governor in the capital of Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar today.

The suicide bomber rammed a motorcycle laden with explosives into a car carrying Deputy Governor Abdul Latif as he drove in a convoy from his home to his office. Three bodyguards were also wounded in the attack.

The Taliban appear to have had good intelligence, as the suicide bomber picked Latif's car out of the convoy.

Today's suicide attack in Kandahar is the second in one of the country's major cities in two days. Yesterday a suicide bomber killed eight people, including three foreigners, in an attack at a grocery in the capital of Kabul.

The Taliban have not yet claimed the attack in Kandahar, however the Mullah Dadullah Mahaz, or the Mullah Dadullah Front, a radical subgroup closely linked to al Qaeda, is suspected of having carried out the attack.

Mullah Dadullah Front is a wing of the Taliban in the south that has adopted al Qaeda's tactics and ideology, a US intelligence official told The Long War Journal in December 2010. The Mullah Dadullah Front is led by Mullah Adbul Qayoum Zakir, the former Guantanamo Bay detainee who has since been promoted as the Taliban's top military commander and co-leader of the Taliban's Quetta Shura. The Mullah Dadullah Front executed a suicide attack in Kandahar's border city of Spin Boldak on Jan. 8 that killed 17 people, including a senior police commander allied with General Abdul Raziq, an anti-Taliban warlord in Kandahar.

The Taliban, under a directive issued by Mullah Omar, have responded to the Coalition and Afghan offensive in the south with a campaign of violence and intimidation. Taliban fighters have been directed to "capture and kill any Afghan who is supporting and/or working for coalition forces" and the Afghan government, as well as "any Afghan women who are helping or providing information to coalition forces."

As part of the Taliban's counteroffensive in Kandahar, the terror group has targeted tribal leaders, politicians, and other elites for assassination. More than 20 Afghans, including the district chief for Arghandab and the deputy mayor of Kandahar City have been killed since the spring of 2010. The Taliban's counteroffensive is led by Mullah Muhammad Isa Akhund, the military commander for the province.

On Jan. 28, the Taliban claimed to have killed a "puppet traitor from Logar province working as a contractor for the Canadian invaders" in a shooting Kandahar city." The statement was released on Voice of Jihad, the Taliban's website. The Taliban refer to Afghans who work for the government or with NAT0 forces as "puppets."

Top leaders at the International Security Assistance Force and US politicians have described Kandahar as the strategic center of the country, and said the province is key to defeating the Taliban.

Coalition and Afghan special forces have heavily targeted the Taliban's top leadership in Kandahar and neighboring Helmand province. Scores of mid- and senior-level leaders in Kandahar have been killed or captured over the past several months, including a "key" financier for the Mullah Dadullah Front; an unnamed senior commander who operated in Panjwai and was based out of the Pakistani city of Chaman; and another senior commander who is linked to Iraq's Qods Force.

Numerous Taliban leaders operate from Chaman, which is across the border from Spin Boldak in Kandahar. Pakistan's military and intelligence services have allowed the Taliban to operate from Chaman and other locations, and they support Taliban operations in Afghanistan.

The special operations raids are carried out in support of ISAF and Afghan counterinsurgency efforts in Kandahar. Since the summer of 2010, ISAF and Afghan conventional forces have moved into the districts of Arghandab, Dand, Zhari, and Panjwai in an effort to deny the Taliban safe havens and relieve pressure on the city of Kandahar. Scores of new combat outposts now dot the region in an attempt to secure regions that have been under Taliban control for years.

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Egyptian Protests Yield 18 Dead, Holger Could Care LESS What Happens In Egypt As Long As Israel Remains Safe

Okay, the title of this blogpost I hope comes through loud and clear - Egypt means jackshit to me - this is a muslim country that's been fucked up for a long time and recently, we have seen one of the most horrendous attacks on Christians take place in Alexandria, Egypt, so 18 dead Egyptians stemming from protests against the Mubarak government means squat to me, personally.

I don't care if Mubarak runs Egypt or if the Shah of Iran comes back from the dead to do it - all I care about is that there is NOT another Islamic theocracy government in the Middle East. I was in a chat room the other night where a young American was very animated over the totalitarian regime of Mubarak - this young person happened to be an American Jew. I made the comment that you better be careful about what you wish for because you might get it...in other words, if this person wanted Mubarak removed from power so badly, that might just happened but who takes over? Does this American Jew REALLY want a Muslim Brotherhood influenced mullah regime to come out of the aftermath? Ask the world, ask the Iranian people how that government of theirs ruled by Islamic clerics has worked out.

At the present time, the Israelis and the Egyptians have a good working relationship - there is very little animosity between the two and they have held fast to their treaties and truces. That could chance in a Cairo minute with a change in government or leadership and if that happens, chances are good that relationship between Israel and Egypt will go to hell in a handbasket.

We have to understand something - there are strong forces in Egypt that could care less what happens to the people there or the young people there. They don't give a rat's ass about the economy. They are oblivious to civil rights. They seek to implement strict Sharia Law and most importantly, they want their hands on the military might of Egypt to wage war on Israel and in the long run, the United States.

So, like I said...I don't care what happens as long as Israel is safe. If it takes Mubarak to stay in power to ensure that, then I am 100% behind him.

Here's one of the latest reports on the situation from The Jerusalem Post.

Number of dead rises to 18, 13 in Suez, in Egypt protests


Military deployed on streets for first time since protests began; gov't officials and businessmen flee Egypt in private jets; Mubarak still silent on protests.

The number of people killed in the latest day of anti-government protests in Egypt rose to 18 on Friday, with 13 people killed in the port city of Suez, al-Jazeera reported.

Nearly 20 people were also reportedly injured in the protests in Suez, with over 900 people injured throughout the country.

Earlier, five people were confirmed dead in protests in Cairo.

As night fell, several government officials and businessmen fled Egypt in private jets, reported Reuters.

Meanwhile, Egyptian authorities were reportedly holding talks to establish a "transitional government," following the series of deadly protests against President Hosni Mubarak's regime.

Earlier Friday, Egyptian state television said Mubarak imposed a curfew on Cairo, Alexandria, and Suez after violent demonstrations there.

Egypt's military was also deployed on the streets of Cairo for the first time since the protests began four days ago.

Parts of the ruling party headquarters in Cairo were going up in flames apparently set by enraged protesters demanding Mubarak's ouster.

Friday's protests saw tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators pouring into the streets, stoning and confronting police who fired back with rubber bullets and tear gas in the most violent and chaotic scenes yet in the challenge to Mubarak's 30-year rule.

Groups of thousands of protesters, some chanting "out, out, out," gathered at different venues across Cairo, some marching toward major squares and across scenic Nile bridges. Security officials said there were protests in at least 11 of the country's 28 provinces.

The protesters have said they are emboldened by the uprising in Tunisia, another north African Arab nation. Egypt is Washington's closest Arab ally, but Mubarak may be losing US support. The Obama administration has publicly counseled Mubarak to introduce reforms and refrain from using violence against the protesters.

The United States said the situation in Egypt is of "deep concern" and called on Egyptian authorities to enact reforms and allow peaceful protests and open communication as anti-government street protests swell.

An Obama administration official said that the US will review its $1.5 billion in aid to Egypt based on events unfolding in the country.

The US also warned citizens to avoid non-essential travel to Egypt and urged Americans in the country to stay put.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the delicacy of the situation. Egypt has been a key US ally in the volatile region. US officials are now increasing calls on Mubarak to respond with restraint and reverse steps taken to cut off the protesters' ability to communicate.

Mubarak has not been seen publicly or heard from since the protests began Tuesday. While Mubarak may still have a chance to ride out this latest challenge, his choices are limited, and all are likely to lead to a loosening of his grip on power.

Mubarak has not said yet whether he will stand for another six-year term as president in elections this year. He has never appointed a deputy and is thought to be grooming his son Gamal to succeed him despite popular opposition. According to leaked US memos, hereditary succession also does not meet with the approval of the powerful military.

Mubarak and his government have shown no hint of concessions to the protesters who want political reform and a solution to rampant poverty, unemployment and rising food prices.

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Deja Vu?

The one difference this time is if the Muslim Brotherhood does take over Egypt, one of the first things they have announced they will do is to renege on the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, open up the border with Gaza and flood Gaza with military weapons (tanks, artillery, etc...).  I predict that the whole region will be at war by the end of the year, if not sooner.

Anchor Baby Legislation in House and Senate: States Move to Require Presidents Natural Born Status

Two U.S. senators are introducing legislation that will halt the enormous numbers of foreign mothers barely reaching U.S. soil before birthin’ their babies, packing up the birth certificate and scurrying back home to grab siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins to brave their new world of living illegally in the U.S. with the golden anchor baby.

Anchor Babies

Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and David Vitter (R-LA):

“For too long, our nation has seen an influx of illegal aliens entering our country at an escalating rate, and chain migration is a major contributor to this rapid increase – which is only compounded when the children of illegal aliens born in the U.S. are granted automatic citizenship,” Vitter said. “Closing this loophole will not prevent them from becoming citizens, but will ensure that they have to go through the same process as anyone else who wants to become an American citizen.”

Similar legislation failed in the 111th Congress. Rep. Steve King has introduced similar legislation in the House in the 112th Congress.

Another piece of legislation has been introduced into the Arizona State House of Representatives to require presidential candidates to prove their eligibility to run for the office of president in the U.S. The Arizona house already has 25 co-sponsors and needs only 31 votes to pass. In the Arizona Senate, only 16 votes are needed to become law.

The proposal, which also is being taken up in a number of other states, is highly specific and directly addresses the questions that have been raised by Barack Obama’s occupancy of the White House. 

It says: Within ten days after submittal of the names of the candidates, the national political party committee shall submit an affidavit of the presidential candidate in which the presidential candidate states the candidate’s citizenship and age and shall append to the affidavit documents that prove that the candidate is a natural born citizen, prove the candidate’s age and prove that the candidate meets the residency requirements for President of the United States as prescribed in article II, section 1, Constitution of the United States.

Here are some stats showing the impact of illegals in Los Angeles County, clearly aided by the birthing of "anchor babies."

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Small Victory For the Counter-Jihad In America...Brooklyn College Rescinds Appointment of Jihadi Appeasing Professor

This is fantastic! And this is also proof positive that when those of us who have simply had it with the appeasement and support of pro-jihadi figures in America can really make a difference by raising our voices against this wave of terrorist-appeasing activism.

In this story at Family Security Matters, a professor who was slated to join the staff at Brooklyn College's staff, has had hit appointment rescinded due to pressure put on the administration regarding this clown's blatant support of radical islamists in Gaza. From the article:

After that the New York State Assemblyman of the district adjoining the college protested in a letter to the college president and copied the Chancellor of the City University of New York (who had also received letters of protest from other influentials).

In reviewing Mr. Petersen-Overton’s writings and professional background, I was alarmed about the slanted nature of his works, as well as what can only be termed as his use of hateful invectives against the State of Israel….Moreover, Mr. Petersen-Overton’s course syllabus reads like a Who’s Who of Palestinian sympathizers and historical revisionists, with no equitable counterbalance….The responsibility of a true academic is to remain objective in imparting information and to allow students to draw their own conclusions. Instead, Mr. Petersen-Overton’s required and recommended reading selections intentionally stifle the passionate discourse of students who would challenge his political ideologies….I ask you, Dr. Gould, is Mr. Petersen-Overton, an overt supporter of terrorism, really the best candidate Brooklyn College could find to teach this course? Surely, you must concede that the answer is a resounding “no.” Indeed, Mr. Petersen-Overton would be better suited for a teaching position at the Islamic University of Gaza.

Here’s the follow-up article. The Assemblyman says, “I am absolutely thrilled that Brooklyn College made the right decision and removed Professor Petersen-Overton from his post.”

We have to remember that this college scene has always been the bastion for the far Left in America and it only holds true that the pro-muslim, pro-anti Israel coalition in this country will try to use the same avenue to gather more membership in their soft jihad. That is why this protest is so important.

I had a conversation with some friends one day in which I mentioned my own approach to the teetering financial situation at America's colleges and universities - my plan consisted of conservatives in America rewarding those institutions that supported a conservative agenda and balanced teaching staffs while boycotting the hard Left or highly Liberal institutions. Money talks. So, if you have a college or university that is hurting for funding and they just saw a 25% drop in upcoming enrollments due to a collection of half a dozen far Left professors...we just might see some gutting of the radicals at those institutions.

And in the end, we might just see parents starting to really help their children make the RIGHT decisions about where to start their life on their own.

Brooklyn College Rescinds Appointment of Pro-Palestinian Activist



I wrote on January 19 about the appointment at Brooklyn College, my alma mater, of a pro-Palestinian activist – just 1 ½ years into his own PhD studies -- to teach a graduate course on the Middle East. After that the New York State Assemblyman of the district adjoining the college protested in a letter to the college president and copied the Chancellor of the City University of New York (who had also received letters of protest from other influentials).

In reviewing Mr. Petersen-Overton’s writings and professional background, I was alarmed about the slanted nature of his works, as well as what can only be termed as his use of hateful invectives against the State of Israel….Moreover, Mr. Petersen-Overton’s course syllabus reads like a Who’s Who of Palestinian sympathizers and historical revisionists, with no equitable counterbalance….The responsibility of a true academic is to remain objective in imparting information and to allow students to draw their own conclusions. Instead, Mr. Petersen-Overton’s required and recommended reading selections intentionally stifle the passionate discourse of students who would challenge his political ideologies….I ask you, Dr. Gould, is Mr. Petersen-Overton, an overt supporter of terrorism, really the best candidate Brooklyn College could find to teach this course? Surely, you must concede that the answer is a resounding “no.” Indeed, Mr. Petersen-Overton would be better suited for a teaching position at the Islamic University of Gaza.

Here’s the follow-up article. The Assemblyman says, “I am absolutely thrilled that Brooklyn College made the right decision and removed Professor Petersen-Overton from his post.”

So am I. It should still be a serious concern to know more about the appointment, as I originally wrote,

It should be of interest what the vetting procedure is at Brooklyn College to select a pool of well-qualified candidates, the criteria by which Kristofer Petersen was selected to teach the Middle East, and how Petersen compared to other qualified candidates. Academic transparency should not be – nor viewed as – a challenge to academic freedom but rather as its necessary bulwark of credibility.

Here’s the straight forward TV coverage from WPIX-New York. Petersen says on TV, “I have very vocal views in favor of the Palestinian cause for self-determination.” The reporter says that Petersen hopes to rally support from other professors and that he plans to appeal. That would be an opportunity to further reveal the answers to how and why this pro-Palestinian activist was hired, and to reveal the CUNY professors who may believe Petersen is a qualified professor.

Update: A pro-Palestinian supporter of Kristofer Peterson shares Peterson's email to him: “I was not contacted by Brooklyn College administration at any time during their decision-making process. This politically motivated action undermines CUNY’s longstanding legacy as a stalwart defender of academic freedom.”