In response to a gruesome series of Islamic-Palestinian synagogue bombings in Europe, police officers guarded Europe’s synagogues and Jewish Centers. Now, synagogues all over New York City, tend to have barricades or some kind of police presence outside. We are now all Israelis: Not just the Jews, but the world’s civilians.
And thus, four African-American converts to Islam, all of whom converted to Islam in prison, have been arrested by the FBI just as they attempted to bomb two Riverdale synagogues, (the Riverdale Jewish Center and the Riverdale Temple), in the Bronx and a New York National Guard air base in Newburgh, New York where they lived and attended a mosque.
Why do I begin by clearly stating the race and religion of the terrorists? Because the liberal mainstream media refuses to do so, or buries such facts on its back pages.

h/t Frank

The first of a four part series by Michael Totten;

During my last trip to Baghdad I tried to figure out if the worst in Iraq is over or if the dramatic reduction in violence is just a long lull. Half the Iraqis and half the Americans I spoke to were optimistic. The other half think Iraq is probably doomed. I have no idea who’s right, and neither does anyone else. This is the first in a four-part series where I’ll present both cases and let you decide what to think for yourself. We’ll start with the good news.

Former CIA director Porter J. Goss

Since leaving my post as CIA director almost three years ago, I have remained largely silent on the public stage. I am speaking out now because I feel our government has crossed the red line between properly protecting our national security and trying to gain partisan political advantage. We can’t have a secret intelligence service if we keep giving away all the secrets. Americans have to decide now.

Foxnews – Mystery Shrouds Kidnap of Pro-Jihadist Canadian Activist by Pakistani Extremists

Rees dismisses the idea that Qahaar [Giesebrecht] is working with the Taliban and that the kidnapping is a hoax intended to raise money. The videos confirm that Qahaar is in real trouble, he says.”

Kate at SDA;

Who cares?

h/t Vern
More here = She didn’t simply stop being a Baptist and start being a Muslim. She became a nutter, or more precisely, she became even more of a nutter than she already was.”

[al-Nafisi],,, “received his doctorate from Churchill College in Cambridge. He has been a visiting professor at Exeter University in England.”

Steve Schippert blogs for Threats Watch and The Tank. Via email – “The one to watch in Pakistan is Nawaz Sharif – his ‘Long March” protests engineered were not about democracy and judges but rather the specific judges that would remove the ban on him (and later, on his brother) from holding elected office. That he is a useful idiot for the AQ-Taliban – and a bridge, of sorts, to keep Pak politcal power seat warm for their own man. Well, well, well… Look what just happened in Pakistan.“

Pakistan’s main opposition party on Tuesday received a major boost to its fast growing popularity after two of its key leaders returned to mainstream politics following the end of a battle in the Supreme Court.
The Pakistani Supreme Court suspended an earlier ruling that had disqualified Nawaz Sharif, the former prime minister, and his younger brother Shehbaz Sharif, from contesting elections to the federal and the provincial parliaments.
The verdict opened the way for the younger Mr Sharif to return as chief minister of the populous Punjab province, just over a month after he was forced to quit and direct federal rule was imposed on the province.
The disqualification had prompted Mr Nawaz Sharif, former prime minister and leader of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), to lead a successful political campaign culminating with big street protests in Lahore, capital of the Punjab.
“I am thankful to the Almighty God for this restoration through a great people revolution,” the younger Mr Sharif said after the Supreme Court announced its verdict.
Under intense pressure from the Sharif brothers, Mr Zardari earlier restored Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhary as chief justice of the Supreme Court more than two years after he was sacked by former president Pervez Musharraf.

Steve explains –

“Unclear still whether Nawaz has been fully made eligible for office. Digging for better native Pakistani coverage via painfully slow connection & limited time.
Make no mistake, Sharif is no “champion of democratic rights.” He, like every other party leadership in Pakistan, is hopelessly corrupt. Those who favor him simply prefer his corruption to that of others. He was banned for this corruption, as tried in courts. But of course, his accusations – true, generally – come and came from others in a game of pots calling kettles black.
So what’s the difference among them? Nawaz Sharif has never and likely will never criticize the Taliban and bin Laden’s al-Qaeda. There are reasons for this.
Also, Sharif is in favor of ending all cooperation with the US and NATO regarding fighting AQ/Taliban. He sees America as a Pakistani enemy.
He will soon be Pakistan’s President. Game changer. Don’t listen to Financial Times drivel about “Champion of Democracy” and Western investors longing for him. Whether they do or do not, whomever they are, his ascention will signal Pakistan one step closer to falling to those we are fighting.

Sharif is reported to have received “massive” campaign donations from Bin Laden in previous runs at Pakistan’s PM’s office . More background here.
(Related – “Flash! Neanderthal “War On Terror” is now officially declared over. Flash! Neanderthal Taliban Mehsud promises to hit D.C.!”)

Because Greg Whats-his-name is the enemy;

“So we had in our custody a top commander of the Taliban, against which we have been at war for eight years and which, far from surrendering, has continued fighting and killing American troops throughout that time. But because Guantanamo Bay is purportedly a blight on our reputation in the international community (whatever that means), and because we have thus been under pressure from the Left to shut it down, we released the said top Taliban commander even as things were getting worse in Afghanistan. He, as anyone might have predicted, has gone straight back to the jihad. Now things have gotten so bad we’ve had to send more troops, and the guy we released is playing a key role fortifying enemy forces and helping them prepare roadside and suicide bombings against the increased forces we’re sending.
But not to worry. The administration is working hard to make arrangements to release most of the remaining 240+ detainees so the President can make good on his commitment to close Gitmo by the beginning of next year.”

Hey, but keep on keeping those eyes off the ball.

Update: SDA GETS RESULTS! The Canadian hosted site is down.
~$ ping www.shahamat.org
PING shahamat.org (74.126.5.246) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from amray.ca (74.126.5.246): icmp_seq=1 ttl=237 time=134 ms
Rusty Shackleford explains: Official Taliban websites are being hosted in Los Angeles, Houston and Winnipeg…

A reminder that providing business services, even free ones, to the Taliban violates the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). Each IEEPA violation of carries a fine of up to $250,000.
These businesses generally use automated web based forms and so are probably unaware that they are breaking federal law and U.N. Security Council Resolutions by dealing with the Taliban. Please contact them with the information provided below and let them know who it is they are giving an internet platform to.
Remember, the “Voice of Jihad” websites are the Taliban’s OFFICIAL websites and are OFFICIAL propaganda outlets for the Taliban’s OFFICIAL spokesmen, Qari Youssef Muhammad and Zabihullah Mujahid. The IEAP website is another OFFICIAL website which is under the direction of Abdul Wasay, (aka, Mullah Agha Jan Mu’Tasim) the former finance minister for the Taliban and current head of the “political commission”. Wasay/Mutasim is currently on the UN Security Council’s sanction list.
But even if it wasn’t against federal and international law to provide business services to the Taliban, it is highly immoral. We, the United States and Canada, are at war with the Taliban. Every day members of the Taliban attempt to kill NATO troops. Some days they succeed.

Alternate Pashtun “Voice of Jihad” URL: http://www.shahamat.org/
=74.126.5.246 = Amray Hosting (Winnipeg, Canada) = Internet 123
Southfield, Michigan
Amray: registration@amray.net
Amray Abuse: http://www.amrayhosting.com/mail/mform.php
Internet 123 abuse: rpd@123.net
Taliban e-mail: rayhamat@live.ca

Away from the “politics of fear”. Towards the politics of tortured vocabulary.

In my speech, although I did not use the word “terrorism,” I referred to “man-caused” disasters.

America is being run by crazy people.
…and their rogue teleprompters.

… President Obama thanked President Obama for inviting everyone over.

Related – the teleprompter gets angry!

And all I got was this lousy beheading video;

A top Taliban commander has issued a new threat to foreign aid workers, saying that under the insurgent group’s new “constitution” they will execute them as spies or hold them in exchange for the release of Taliban fighters.
In an exclusive telephone interview Friday night with CNN, Mohammed Ibrahim Hanafi said the Taliban intelligence wing was actively gathering information on foreign aid workers. “If we get someone, that is how we will deal with it under our new constitution,” he said.
He added that he was telling “Afghan brothers not to work with NGOs.”

Related: Now this is speaking their language.
Meanwhile… (link fixed)

…Recent “apocalyptic” intelligence on the situation in Pakistan has sent shockwaves through the upper echelons of the Obama administration and convinced Mr Riedel’s review team that radicals trained in Pakistan are the greatest threat to Western security.
One White House aide emerged from an intelligence briefing on Pakistan three days after Mr Obama’s inauguration to exclaim: “Holy s–t!”

Remember! Experience only matters if you’re Vice-President!
Wait. Why didn’t Joe warn him?
More on Pakistan from Richard Fernandez.

“Tooth fairy believers unite, you have nothing to lose but your wings.”

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

What on Earth is the administration doing announcing plans to give $900 Million in aid to rebuild Hamas’ Gaza Strip while our own Defense Department’s Security Development Plan for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan “faces a shortfall of approximately $167.5 million, about 73 percent of its funding goal for fiscal year 2009,” according to a GAO report?
Did we not just witness the American president heading up a “Fiscal Responsibility Summit”? With fiscal responsibility in such high demand, one must forget entirely the nearly $1 trillion in irresponsibly distributed ‘stimulus’ already signed into commitment and the half-trillion dollar supplemental spending bill being presented this week. In a less than three week span, the two spending packages together would instantly represent a more than 10% increase in the national debt accrued over this nation’s entire history. Yet when it comes to Defense and National Security, seemingly the only budgets eyed for any significant spending cuts, critical operations and initiatives expect to be short changed and starved of funds.
The Department of Defense’s Security Development Plan for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, like the administration’s $900 million Gaza aid plan, is directed at the heart of a terrorist haven. But the DoD initiative is directed at curtailing and/or cutting off terrorists from narcotics funding and undermining their stranglehold on and, to the degree that it exists, popular support of the local populations there. An alternative.
The Administration’s Gaza reconstruction gift contains none of these counterterrorism dynamics. Not a one. There is but one ultimate distributor in Gaza: Hamas. The Obama administration can claim that “the aid would not go to Hamas but that it would be funneled through nongovernmental organizations,” but the fact of the matter remains that the Hamas terrorist organization that dominates Gaza stands to gain from every penny. It most certainly will not be hindered. That equation is nowhere in the calculus.

The Israeli taxi arrived at Sderot just before noon. Thousands of terrorist rockets have rained on Israeli towns within range of Hamas-ruled Gaza, as the world mostly ignored the thunder. Those who knew about the attacks seemed to dismiss the rockets as just a nuisance, like mosquitoes. Yet the rockets have grown more and more powerful, to the point where the largest these days carries about 60 times more explosives than a hand grenade.

Michael Yon, from Sderot.

From the mouths of babes…

Accused terrorist Omar Khadr identified Maher Arar as someone he recognized from an al-Qaida-run “safe” house in Afghanistan, an FBI agent testified in a Guantanamo Bay military commission Monday.
Robert Fuller, who interrogated the Canadian-born terror suspect in October 2002, said Khadr made the identification from a black-and-white photo of Arar provided by FBI in Massachusetts – a state where Arar, now an Ottawa resident, once lived.

G&M:

“He identified him by name,” Mr. Fuller testified. “He said he had never seen him in Canada.””

… receive the bad news.

(Translated)

When Fatah shows up to protest Hamas, you’re supposed to pray for an air strike, not pick a favourite;

The Hamas official said that his security forces had launched a massive “preemptive” campaign aimed at thwarting Fatah’s attempts to “spread anarchy and chaos.” He confirmed that many Fatah operatives had been shot in the legs over the past few days by Hamas “to make sure that they don’t help Israel.”

“… but the effect is the same”

Al Reuters;

Israeli warplanes bombed the Islamic University in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, a significant Hamas cultural symbol, in the latest of a series of aerial attacks in the coastal territory, the Islamist group said.
An Israeli army spokeswoman had no immediate comment on the strike. Witnesses said a series of explosions rocked the Gaza city campus. Israel has killed 298 Palestinians in an aerial offensive since Saturday in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

And that is all they offer – from Hamas’ lips to the world’s ears… Patrick Poole fills in the blanks;

Other reports have detailed how the IUG [Islamic University of Gaza] has also been used for weapons storage, launching rockets, and holding hostages. In February 2007, Palestinian security forces captured seven Iranian military trainers and confiscated 1,000 Qassam rockets located at the IUG. Another article reported that 2,000 AK-47s were also confiscated, as well as evidence that captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, abducted by Hamas in June 2006, had previously been held at the university.
A May 2007 International Herald Tribune article described IUG’s centrality in the Fatah-Hamas factional fighting in Gaza, with the university used to launch attacks against their rivals and for military training…

But the best part?

The labs were made possible by millions from a Saudi-financed charity in … Ohio.

More – GONE: Islamic University, home of “Gaza Scholars”

“Of course there’s the chance that both sides will simultaneously win and that the eventual result of the Afghan/Pakistani campaign will be a population of pill-dropping, break dancing, sunglass wearing, Oprah-watching Muslim fundamentalists, half working for Osama and the other half reporting to Langley.“