May 23, 2006: #1

Afghanistan says Taliban leaders in Pakistan May 21, 06

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan's foreign minister claimed Sunday that Taliban leaders are living in Pakistan and coordinating terror strikes against Afghanistan from there - the latest barb between the neighbours who are both U.S. allies in the war on terror.

Pakistan denies all.


Update on the Insurgency in Southern Thailand By Zachary Abuza, May 11, 2006, counterterrorismblog.org
http://counterterrorismblog.org/mt/pings.cgi/2715

[....] The number and efficacy of bombings has decreased because of the blocking of unregistered prepaid cell phones. .... Insurgents have stepped up theft of cell phones and can use Malaysian SIM cards near the border. They have also been experimenting with other triggering mechanisms, such as infrared and other command-detonation systems.

There have been three beheadings in 2006, bringing the total to 24. There is little reason to share the government’s optimism. Drive by assassinations are up, as are arson attacks- especially on cell phone towers (in apparent retaliation of the government’s blockage of pre-paid cell phones). Their raids are increasingly bold and employing larger numbers of militants. They have also taken on a more ominous sectarian tone. [....]

Our Friends the Saudis littlegreenfootballs.com, May 20, 06

Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Freedom House, has a piece for the Washington Post on the hatred and Islamic supremacism that fills Saudi Arabian schoolbooks—and the lies told by Saudi shills to cover it up: This is a Saudi textbook. (After the intolerance was removed.)

[.... background and details from a Saudi dissident ]

Note the line about 12th-grade students being taught their duty is to wage jihad against the infidel.

These are the Saudi students now flooding back into American colleges, as the attacks of September 11 grow ever more distant.

Pacification Program

Social Security for illegals OK'd -- Senate blocks effort to limit benefits for those who become legal residents -- ""Social Security was not intended for people who entered our country illegally," Ensign" May 18, 2006, WorldNetDaily.com

The U.S. Senate today rejected an effort to limit Social Security benefits for illegal aliens who become permanent residents under an immigration reform bill being debated.

As it stands, the bill the Senate is considering would give millions of illegals a path to U.S. citizenship if they pay fines, back taxes and meet other requirements. [....]

There are several related articles on the website.


First, they lower property values .......

Ruining property values and creating fear in the neighbourhood -- The " likely damage to property values violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees "respect for private and family life" and the home, and bars "interference by a public authority."


A must-read article -- how to fight a modern war -- "rights"

THE HAGUE -- Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been threatened repeatedly with "execution" by Islamist extremists. She lives in an apartment with bulletproof windows, and is driven to work at the Dutch Parliament by armed guards, who vary the route to outfox would-be hit men.

But an unexpected menace emerged closer to home: her own neighbors. They have fought to evict her, complaining that the presence of a well-known terrorist target in their luxury apartment tower in this Dutch city has upset their family lives and reduced the value of their property.

[....] Jan Schoonenboom, the head of a government-sponsored research project on Islam. He says he regrets the eviction campaign but says she's partly to blame for stirring Muslim anger. In April, his think tank, the Scientific Council for Government Policy, issued a report that found no fundamental clash between Islamic and Western values and condemned a "climate of confrontation and stereotypical thinking." The Council, which helps set Dutch policy, urged Holland and other European countries to reach out to Islamist groups abroad that have been involved in terrorism, such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

Do you get it? Don't stir up these easily dissed lads; they obviously have no self-control so ...

Is it a stereotype if it is true ... after what happened following the publication of the cartoons and considering what has happened throughout the world with Islamist terrorism? When do the Muslim terrorists start reaching out to those who do not, at the slightest displeasure, initiate hatred, fires, car bombings, embassy bombings and all the rest. When do they start practising tolerance ... or is it only supposed to come from infidels?

[.....] "I think it is very dangerous to give in to intimidation, because it sends a signal: If you threaten enough, we will do as you please," says Mr. Rose.

Search and note the irony: "84-year-old doctor reflected on her predicament and on his own flight from the Nazis during World War II."

Islamist Threats To Dutch Politician Bring Chill at Home -- Ms. Hirsi Ali Quits Parliament, Plans to Resettle in U.S. After Losing Safe House A Debate Over Extremism Andrew Higgins and Jay Solomon in Washington contributed, May 17, 2006



Furor follows revocation of Dutch citizenship -- Hirsi Ali -- How could they?



Photos of "Two Saudi men [who] were arrested Friday after they boarded a school bus and rode to Wharton High School in New Tampa."

Reconnaissance? Oh ... they are "students"......... Would you pick up these guys if you were driving a bus full of students? Do they look like high school students? ... "One of the guys was wearing shorts with a black trench coat." ..... in Florida's heat?

How many "students" are in Canada, telling three different stories about why they were going to a high school, lying about where they are from, overdressed in a trench coat in the heat. What can be hidden under a trench coat or a burka? Think Beslan.

Both arrived in the United States about six months ago and have student visas that require them to be enrolled at the English Language Institute

This is an account of some foreign students in Canada from one who experienced this ... pre-Sept. 11, 2001:

Outside, between classes, I wondered where a group of students were from, a group who congregated by themselves before or after every class and, unusually for a group of male students, never spoke once to another student nor were they ever seen to speak with any female students milling around. Many of the students from abroad will talk to anyone who seems friendly; some are so lonely. It made me question their origin. I asked an Egyptian student where they were from. First, he told me, Iraq; then, months later, Pakistan. Why would he give two different responses. The language was not recognizably Urdu they were speaking, at least, from my minimal listening experience.

On Saturday nights in a computer room, one regularly spent an hour talking over his computer [VOIP? Skype?], very disruptive to the serious, working students there on a week-end. He barked and barked, and barked orders some more rapidly and at high volume, until another male, seeing me look up, told me the barker was talking with his wife who was in the US, reportedly. If he were simply talking to his wife, he had me fooled. It sounded more as if "she" were receiving orders.......This was before 9/11. Naturally, I have wondered since .......

Unfortunately, universities in Canada are so anxious for the dollars (Is it for maintenance or expansion?) that they do not want to delve into what they are helping to bring about, with their wonderful programs to attract foreign students who bring the $$$. It is time to question this, to be very concerned about security. I suspect that the universities do not even want to consider to what they may be contributing.




Germans negative on Islam, poll shows -- "A total of 56 per cent said they believed “a clash of civilizations” had already begun" McDonough Heritage Group, May 20, 06

In the United States a similar poll was conducted by CBS News whose results were announced on April 12, 2006 with the headline “Poll: Sinking Perceptions Of Islam“. According to the CBS poll 45% of Americans hold an unfavorable view of Islam in April 2006 vs. 33% in February 2002 and only 19% have a favorable view of Islam in 2006 vs. 30% in 2002.

Manual For Poisons and Chemical Gases Published on Hamas Website THIS INFORMATION WAS EXPOSED AND COMMUNICATED BY THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES

Jerusalem-----January 2..........A manual published on the official Hamas Website, titled: "The Mujahadeen Poisons Handbook," has been discovered, which is a manual for preparing poisonous materials to use in a terrorist attack. [....]

Fatah operative Walid Mahamud Hasham el-Ara, has been indicted in an Israeli military court in Gaza for using the Internet to collect information on how to produce biological weapons.

See IDF Website article about the indictment [ http://www.idf.il/ ]

The 23-page manual, written by Abdel-Aziz in 1996, details for Islamic terrorists how to prepare various homemade poisons, chemical poisons, poisonous gases and other deadly materials for use in terrorist attacks against Israelis, Westerners, and anyone else who stands in the way of an Islamic Jihad. [....]

The West should provide aid to these guys? Why? The Palestinians voted their government in; now, let them live with it.



Letters from a mujahid ....From the letters: a detailed Qur'anic justification for killing in Allah's name JihadWatch.org, May 12, 06

Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, the Tarheel jihadist has written six letters to the Daily Tar Heel, student newspaper of the University of North Carolina (thanks to Joseph), where he tried to kill students for Allah by running them over in an SUV.

[.... his justification:] Allah demands of believers to retaliate violently against persons responsible for attacking them or their fellow Believers around the world. ([Qur'an] 2:178-179, 5:45, 8:72, 9:38, 9:71, 42:39-42, 49:10).

There is more, along with comments.

Infidel33: "He'll be harder to dismiss as a crackpot than missoui was. CAIR may have to have him rubbed out, lest the infidels finally start to pay attention........"

Beagle: "Islam's apologists have done a masterful propaganda and historical revisionist job on education. Their victimization specialists know us better than we know ourselves. Whenever a jihadist writes something to the public, they carefully select the buzzwords and terms which are sure to paralyze or pacify the uneducated but communicate a completely different message to the ummah."


Indeed




The Muslim Brotherhood "Project" By Patrick Poole, FrontPageMagazine.com , May 11, 2006

One might be led to think that if international law enforcement authorities and Western intelligence agencies had discovered a twenty-year old document revealing a top-secret plan developed by the oldest Islamist organization with one of the most extensive terror networks in the world to launch a program of cultural invasion and eventual conquest of the West that virtually mirrors the tactics used by Islamists for more than two decades, that such news would scream from headlines published on the front pages and above the fold of the New York Times, Washington Post, London Times, Le Monde, Bild, and La Repubblica.

If that's what you might think, you would be wrong.

In fact, such a document was recovered in a raid by Swiss authorities in November 2001, two months after the horror of 9/11. Since that time information about this document, known in counterterrorism circles as The Project , and discussion regarding its content has been limited to the top-secret world of Western intelligence communities.

I Don't Care! -- Scroll to: WHAT'S ALL OF THE FUSS?

The lady who wrote this letter is Pam Foster of Pamela Foster and
Associates in Atlanta. She's been in business since 1980 doing
Interior design and home planning. She recently wrote the following
Letter to a family member serving in Iraq [....]

"Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not Started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001? [....]

Worth reading and drawing people's attention to ........