U.S.: Why Economic Growth Is Galloping

But it's all doom and gloom from MSM.

The economy is proving as unstoppable as the 11-0 Indianapolis Colts. Consumers have kept spending even in the wake of sharply higher energy prices and after their confidence was pummeled by this summer's hurricanes. And despite initial worries over demand generated by the storms and oil hikes, businesses continue to invest in new equipment and add to their payrolls.

The economy's resilience is especially evident in the latest update on growth from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The BEA's second look at third-quarter gross domestic product showed that the economy grew by a robust 4.3% annual rate, even with the business shutdowns caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. And real GDP in the fourth quarter appears to be increasing at a healthy pace of greater than 3%. For all of 2005, real GDP is on track to expand by 3.7%.

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Saudi Arabia - Plan to rescue Islam

Now this is funny.

"Leaders of more than 50 Islamic countries at a summit in Mecca called by Saudi Arabia's ruler, King Abdullah, adopted an ambitious plan to combat extremism and poverty throughout the Muslim world yesterday.

The summit was prompted by an admission that Muslim societies had fallen into a deep malaise. "The Islamic nation is in a crisis," the leaders said in a final statement. "We need decisive action to fight deviant ideas because they are the justification of terrorism. There is a need to confront deviant ideology wherever it appears, including in school curriculums. Islam is the religion of diversity and tolerance."

Er, then why can't you bring a Bible into Saudi Arabia? Why can't women drive in Saudi Arabia? Why do Muslims persecute other faiths? Why does Islam preach hate against the Jews and call for Israel to be wiped off the map? Why are Muslims to intolerant of the West? Why do Muslims committ all these so called "honour" crimes. Why is Islam the religion of persecution? Take a look at Germany's new Berlin wall. Why is there jihad in the Netherlands?

These are but a few examples.

Islam's intolerance of the West and persecution of all other religions goes on around the world around the clock.

And they have a war plan. Do we? No. Most in the West won't even acknowledge that we are at war with Islam.

Open your eyes people. Why do we tolerate their intolerance? We don't ban Islam and the Koran but they ban Christianity and the Bible. When you go to Muslim countries you are suppose to observe thier customs. But when they come to a western country we are suppose to change to their customs. The Islamization of Britain is a perfect example.

Why is the world so silent on Islam's persecution of women? Why isn't there world wide condemnation of so called "honour" killings?

Wake up people, wake up.

Why is it you can criticize every other religion but when you criticize Islam they call you a racist? Because they are Islamic apologists. They are condoning all the things I have just laid out.
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Israel kills senior Palestinian Terrorist

And two other terrorists.

"JERUSALEM (CNN) -- An Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza killed three members of the Palestinian militant group al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, including a senior militant, according to Israeli security sources.

Israeli security sources said the three militants killed in the Jabalya attack were involved in attempted suicide attacks, rocket attacks, and planting explosives.

Iyad Hassin Sa'ud Najar, 30, was identified as a "senior terrorist" in the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of the Palestinian political party Fatah, Israeli security sources said."

And the UN just held a ceremony to honour these terrorists.
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Iraq - Democrat's Double Speak

Now it's Pelosi's turn.

"Pelosi last week endorsed a plan by Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) to withdraw all U.S. troops in Iraq within six months, putting her at odds with most other Democratic leaders and leading foreign policy experts in her party."

But now she says...

"Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly said that while Pelosi estimates more than half of House Democrats favor a speedy withdrawal, she will lobby members in today's meeting against adopting this as a caucus position."

Got that? Publicly Pelosi calls for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq but she will lobby for the exact opposite!

Just the other day it was her hero that wanted it both ways.

And their leader, Hillary, is at it.

They're also doing the same thing with Iraq's WMD's.

Here's more on what the Democrats said about Iraq's WMDs.

Here's a timeline of who said what when with some video links.

Now, can anyone honestly take these people seriously?
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UN Honours Palestinian Terrorists

I kid you not! Here's the video.

"This clip captures the opening moments of UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. This footage was omitted from the UN webcast which only begins at the conclusion of this episode. What you will see: Paul Badji ( Senegal), Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, addressing himself to others on the podium such as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, President of the UN Security Council Andrey Denisov, President of the UN General Assembly Jan Eliasson, and a host of representatives from UN member states, makes a statement which includes: "I invite everyone present to rise and observe a minute of silence in memory of all those who have given their lives for the cause of the Palestinian people and the return of peace between Israel and Palestine." They all rose. "

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UN Joins Iran Calling for Israel to be Wiped Off Map

First, Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, called for Israel to be wiped off the map.

Now he says "that the Jewish state was a "tumour" and should be moved to Europe.

The UN seems to agree having just hosted the "International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People" complete with map without member state Israel on it.

"This map was prominently displayed by the UN on November 29, 2005 at a public gathering at UN Headquarters, in the presence of all top three UN officials, the Secretary General, and the Presidents of the UN Security Council and the General Assembly. It purports to be a "map of Palestine." Israel, a UN member state for 56 years, is not on the map. Even the UN General Assembly partition lines of November 29, 1947 marking a Jewish and Arab state, which pre-date this 1948 map, do not appear."

Just another reason for Annan to go and for us to stop funding the UN.
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Iraq - Signs of Political Success

This coming from the Washington Post no less.

Snippets.

Instead of retail politics, candidates rely largely on less direct means of contacting voters: Most major parties now have interactive Internet sites that provide information about platforms. Several parties employ cell phone text-messaging technology that allows them to send messages to hundreds of potential supporters at once. Funding comes from dues and donations paid by members.

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"Everyone here is excited. The mood and busyness are so much better than before when we just waited to see what would happen," said B.B. Abdul Qadir, an Iraqi Islamic Party official who said his party's goal was to win 60 seats in the 275-seat parliament. "Now we can't wait for the voting to start."

And there's success in Afghanistan as well.
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America - Media Bias

News Busters has some great examples. Just start scrolling.

Not content with just bias, they fake stories as well.

That's the lying liberal media for you.
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Afghanistan - bin Laden Loses in Poll

Read how ABC twists and turns while trying to spin all this good news from Afghanistan into bad news. You can't make this stuff up.

You have to dig through ABC's spin to get to the good news.

Yet despite these and other deprivations, 77 percent of Afghans say their country is headed in the right direction — compared with 30 percent in the vastly better-off United States. Ninety-one percent prefer the current Afghan government to the Taliban regime, and 87 percent call the U.S.-led overthrow of the Taliban good for their country. Osama bin Laden, for his part, is as unpopular as the Taliban; nine in 10 view him unfavorably.

Progress fuels these views: Despite the country's continued problems, 85 percent of Afghans say living conditions there are better now than they were under the Taliban. Eighty percent cite improved freedom to express political views. And 75 percent say their security from crime and violence has improved as well. After decades of oppression and war, many Afghans see a better life.

91% prefer the current government to the Taliban. So much for the left's claim of a puppet US government.

87% say America did the right thing in overthrowing the Taliban.

And 90% of Afghans don't like bin Laden.

Meanwhile the Afghans have freedom of expression and improved security.

Sounds like success to me.

Soon, Iraq will enjoy the same success, despite the lying liberal media.
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Israeli aircraft fires missile into Gaza Strip

No, they fired into a group of Palestinian terrorists.

"Palestinian witnesses said the missile was fired toward a group of militants who were training with rocket-propelled grenade launchers in an open area near the southern town of Khan Younis. There were no immediate reports of casualties."

Note they were "Palestinian witnesses".
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Britain - Iraq war protester Sheehan to visit UK

The Sheehan roadshow comes to town.

I wonder if the British media will report that Sheehan was an anti-war protester long before her son was killed?

And I wonder if they will report that her son had re-enlisted and was on his second tour of duty when he was killed?

Or that her entire family have distanced themselves from her media antics.

Or that President Bush has already met with Sheehan and she praised the President after the meeting.

In short Sheehan is using the death of her son for her own political agenda. And the lying liberal media are happy to give her a mouthpiece without giving you all the facts.

I'll post more later.
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America - Mentally unstable man shot dead by air marshals

Blares the headline from al Guardian. Just one problem, there's no facts to back that up.

It's still too early to know all the facts about the incident but that doesn't stop al Guardian from jumping the gun.

"An investigation was under way last night into the fatal shooting of a mentally unstable passenger by federal air marshals at Miami airport. Officials said the passenger, a 44-year-old American man, Rigoberto Alpizar, had claimed he had a bomb in his hand luggage and was asked to leave the plane, an American Airlines flight to Orlando, while it was still at the gate."

The Guardian's "evidence"?

"An eyewitness told a local television station that the man's wife had warned he was mentally ill. "He was frantic, his arms flailing in the air," the passenger, Mary Gardner, said. Ms Gardner said the man had run down the aisle from the back of the plane, followed by a woman shouting "My husband! My husband!" She also heard the woman say her husband was bipolar and had not taken his medication."

So, an unnamed eyewitness says they heard the man's wife made these statements. Did the Air Marshalls hear them? Even if they did, how would they know if she was part of the plot or not? How would they know if there were others involved or not?

Maybe it will turn out the man was mentally unstable but at the moment the Guardian doens't have any facts to make that claim.
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Iran blamed over Tehran air crash

But the BBC blames America. While almost everyone else is putting the blame on Iran, including Iranian media and victims relatives, the BBC blames America.

"The authorities in Iran are facing bitter criticism over Tuesday's crash of an ageing military transport plane that killed about 110 people.

Reports say the plane had experienced technical problems all morning, causing the take-off to be delayed for hours.

Iranian media also say the pilot had asked twice to return to Mehrabad airport to make an emergency landing, but was refused because it was busy."

More

"Iran's media has been scathing about the lack of adequate safety checks said to be a widespread issue in Iran.

The wife of a photographer who was killed in the crash, Mohammad Karbalai, told the conservative Hamshahri newspaper that she had spoken to him shortly before the plane took off.

"The plane should have taken off at seven in the morning. My husband called me from the plane at eight to say there were technical problems. I was very worried," she said.

"I called him back at 10 o'clock, and the plane was still on the ground. He said the pilot was refusing to take off because of technical problems."

Still more.

"The BBC's correspondent in Tehran, Frances Harrison, says some unconfirmed reports claim the pilot himself was unhappy about the condition of the plane and the same plane nearly crashed in the desert a week ago.

Its engines had to be switched on and off five times before it could take off on its final flight, she says."

And after all of that the BBC blame America.

Officials blame the high frequency of crashes on a lack of aviation spare parts due to US sanctions.

"Officials"? Would those be Iranian or BBC officials?

Let's see now, the pilot doesn't want to fly the plane that almost crashed a week ago but is ordered to do so anyway. The plane's takeoff is delayed for 3 hours due to technical difficulties. The pilot is denied an emergency landing twice and eventually crahses. But it's still America's fault.

Just add this to the Case Against the BBC.
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Britain - 5 Muslim 7/21 Terrorists In Court

Wonder why the BBC are not reporting on this?

Five men accused of plotting to murder passengers on London's transport network in the July 21 failed suicide attacks are appearing in court via videolink.

The men, who are being held in Belmarsh Prison, south-east London, are due before the Old Bailey.

In the case of four of the five, it is their first court appearance since they appeared before Belmarsh Magistrates in August.

Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27, of Stoke Newington, north London; Ramzi Mohamed, 23, of North Kensington, west London; Yassin Omar, 24, of New Southgate, north London, and Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 32, of Finsbury Park, north London, last appeared on August 8.

Five men? Don't you mean five Muslim men?
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Britain - BBC Whitewashes Kyoto - Again

More BBC bias by omission.

Here's what the BBC tells you.

"Canada's prime minister has urged the US to "listen to its conscience" and take further steps to reduce emissions linked to global warming."

And here's what they don't tell you.

"One surprise in the figures is that Canada's emission record is far worse than even the United States, where the Bush administration has refused to ratify Kyoto.

Mr. Bramley said the United States is "actually ahead of Canada in just about every area" of environmental policies used to curb emissions. And he said the record of individual states "is far ahead of any province in Canada".

Now, why do you suppose the BBC dont' want you to know about that?
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America - The Madness of the Democratic Party

You know the Democrats are in trouble when the Canadians turn on them.

For democracy to flourish there is a need for a duality of opinion. The beauty of our democratic system has always been balance. The leadership of today’s Democratic Party, however, has become so obsessed with their blind hatred of President Bush, and addiction to lost power, that they have embraced our nation’s enemies and turned their backs on the American solider. At the same time, they defend the imagined rights of those who wish to destroy our nation’s security.

The Machiavellian madness that has overcome Democrats like Howard Dean, John Kerry, Barbara Boxer, and Nancy Pelosi is not grounded in a natural-born hatred of the United States but in a well conceived plan to end Republican control of government. In short, they are putting politics ahead of our nation’s security. The recent string of incendiary statements by Democratic political leaders are a calculated strategy to benefit other Democrats who will be able to, falsely, present themselves as moderates to the critical "undecided" voters who, in today’s political climate, are essential to victory.

And who might be able to falsely present themselves as moderates? Why, Hillary, of course.
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America - Military Recruiting Bans Seem Doomed

That's the LA Times headline. "Doomed"? No doubting whose side their on.
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Birtain - Galloway Says He Supports All Terrorists

And he calls for riots in the streets of Britain.

'I can only support the Chairman of Islam Channel in his call for Engagement of the Muslim Community in British Society, but this engagement must be one based on a position of strength and not weakness.

We must let the Government know that if anymore of our cities, Damascus, Iran or anywhere alse is attacked, we will not only protest in Parliament but we will Riot on the streets of Britain.

Every single Terrorism legislation has been aimed at the Muslim community and I tell you this Mr Blair, you can criminalise who you want, but I will carry on supporting the Intifadha in palestine, the Intifadha in Iraq and all the other Intifadhas.'

Why isn't this man in jail?

And here is a first hand account of lunatic ravings at the meeting.

To my utter horror -- and I should have written this report two days ago but my physical and emotional shock have rendered me nearly inert -- it was a seven-hour call to Jihad by a succession of ranting and shouting rabble-rousers.

The eminent barrister Michael Mansfield QC, wearing black and white keffiyah scarf, shouted into the mike about the heinous crimes of the Western coalition countries. The crowd chanted and thundered its appreciation.

The terrifying demagogue George Galloway ascended the podium and exhorted the crowd to stand up for the redemption of the oppressed Muslim world or else the nation had better get ready for ‘rioting in every street in Britain.’.

The ‘slaughter in Palestine and Iraq’ being only part of the equation, Chechnya, Bosnia and Kashmir were also mentioned all day by every speaker including a crazed, chador-clad Yvonne Ridley, who at any moment I expected to self-immolate, such was her fury at the Zionists, the Americans and her fellow Britons. To my utter disbelief, she condemned the British police force as some form of fascist brigade in ‘jackboot Britain.’

To all of these exhortations came cries of ‘Alllahu Akhbar’ from the enormous, simmering crowd of what looked to me like the angriest gathering of young men and women with whom I have ever had the misfortune to be seated in my lifetime.

Yep, that about sums up the moonbat left anti-war pro-terrorist brigade. These are dangerous people who must be stopped.

And we must stop the Islamization of Britain.
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America - Fisking Barbra Streisand

By her most recent object of hate.

Stick to movies Babs, that way people can choose not to listen to you.
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Israeli Suicide Bomber Kills Five at Mall

Yep, you read that right. Oh, the story is about Palestinian terrorists, but that's the AP headline.

Note the story is two days old and still the incorrect headline is there.

Here's a screen shot before they correct it. At this rate they probably won't correct it.
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Al-Jazeera Spreads bin Laden's Propaganda

Earlier today I posted about a purported new bin Laden tape aired on al Jazeera in which it was calimed he was still alive. I questioned that and asked why wasn't bin Laden himself on the tape then.

Now we find out al Jazeera aired an earlier tape and not a new tape.

Just so you know who's side al Jazeera is on.
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Britain - Country grapples with gruesome 'honour' crimes

We've got to find a new name for these gruesome crimes.

LONDON (Reuters) - Rukhsana Naz was 19 when her mother pinned her to the floor of their family house and her brother strangled her with a length of plastic cable.

Sahjda Bibi, 21, was preparing to celebrate her wedding when her cousin stabbed her 22 times with a kitchen knife. The father of 16-year-old Heshu Yones slit her throat because he disapproved of her Western habits and non-Muslim boyfriend.

There should be outrage over this and where is the women's movement in all of this? Instead al Reuters tries to whitewash these horrid Muslim crimes.

But a series of gruesome killings has forced Britons to recognise that such crimes, although still rare, are committed here too, often within the country's large ethnic Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani communities.

Still rare?!? Al Reuters first words in the paragraph are "but a series of gruesome killings".

Then there is this:

Girls and young women have been killed, abducted, physically abused and held prisoner in their own homes. Police believe scores have been taken out of the country, often to the Indian subcontinent, and have disappeared.

Girls, plural, young women, again plural and "scores" doesn't sound like rare to me. But wait there's more.

Nazir Afzal, director of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in west London where there is a large south Asian community, says there have been at least a dozen honour killings in the country in the past year.

"And murder is just the tip of the iceberg," he said. "There are other crimes, like rape, abduction and physical violence, which we would consider steps on the stairway to murder."

A dozen murders in the last year and that' just the "Tip of the iceberg".

Still more.

Reunite, a charity which campaigns to stop child abduction, estimates that around 1,000 British Asian girls are forced into marriage each year. Between a third and a half are minors.

And that's just an estimate.

Then they try and downplay the Muslim aspect of all these horrid crimes.

The CPS stresses honour crime is not just a Muslim issue.

"I'm aware of crimes being committed in Eastern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Brazil, Spain, France, Italy, and also within those communities in this country," Afzal said.

The location is not the overriding issue here - Islam is. Look at the next sentence.

"That said, the bulk of these crimes involve the South Asian community and in particular the Muslim community."

So, why try and downplay it then? Afraid of offending Muslims as usual.

Now, having tried to downplay the magnitude and source of the problem, al Reuters goes on to set the blame. Guess who's fault all this is? Ours! Read this:

"I've certainly seen more cases of honour crime since July 7," said Afzal. "When communities perceive themselves to be under threat they tend to turn in on themselves, regardless of whether that perception has any basis in fact.

"They try to restore and reinforce their own social norms. They put pressure on their own members to conform, and if they don't conform there is sometimes some kind of retribution."

Specialists on violence against women also say social cultural changes, partly spread by globalisation and mass media, have left men from southern Asia feeling threatened and women are bearing the brunt of their fear.

The first thing that jumped out at me and almost lost my tea on the screen was this: "They try to restore and reinforce their own social norms". So, murder, rape, kidnapping, beatings and forced marriages are "their own social norms".

And get this, Muslims who are committing all these horrible crimes in the name of their religion in a western democracy, feel threatened after their Muslim brothers committ a terrorist attack and blow up over 50 innocent Britons. They then begin enforcing their "own social norms" on their women. That doesn't sound like they are afraid to me that sounds like they feel emboldened by their Muslim brothers terrorist attack and feel free to openly practice their "own social norms".

So, what's the govenment going to do to reign in Islam in Britain. Not much.

The government is also considering changing the law to make forced marriage a criminal offence.

Note they are "considering" changing the law. Shouldn't it already be a crime?

And get this:

Ultimately though, campaigners say that what is needed to bring an end to honour crimes is a change of attitude among more conservative elements within some of the country's communities.

Yeah, like that's going to work. No what is needed is for the world to stand up to Muslims and force them to change their barbaric religion. And Britain needs to stop appeasing Muslims and stop the Islamization of Britain. Before it's too late.
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bin Laden is alive and fighting

So says his right hand man Zawahri.

Maybe yes and maybe no. How come it's Zawahri on the tape and not bin Laden himself? And when was the last time we saw or heard bin Laden?
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Iran - US Caused Tehran Plane Crash

An Iranian military plane with 94 people on board has crashed into a 10-storey apartment building in a built-up suburb of the capital Tehran.

According to the BBC it's America's fault.

I kid you not.

Officials blame the high frequency of crashes on a lack of aviation spare parts due to US sanctions.

Would those be Iranian or BBC officials?

And yet Iran has no problem buying missles from Russia.

So, tell me again, why did the US begin sanctions against Iran in 1984?

The US measures were designed to achieve two complementary objectives: to impair the military potential of Iran, particularly regarding the development of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, and to reduce resources available to the Iranian government to fund terrorist activities.

Iran's decision to fly planes without spare parts is their decision - a dumb one - but their decision.

al Reuters, and seemingly the Iranians, no friend of America, see it differently.

Iran has a poor airline safety record following a string of air disasters in the past 30 years although most have involved Russian-made aircraft.

U.S. sanctions have prevented Iran from buying new aircraft or spares from the West, forcing it to supplement its fleet of Boeing and Airbus planes with aircraft from former Soviet Union countries.

Hmmm. Since most of the Russian aircraft seemed to crash do the Iranians feel US planes are safer?

And if the Iranians were able to buy Soviet planes, and presumedly spare parts for them, why did the Soviet planes keep crashing?

Is it more likely that the Iranians don't have good pilots?

via Biased BBC.
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Britain - Bomb Scare at the BBC?

This story doesn't make sense.

BBC radio stations taken off air

BBC Radios 2, 3 and 4 went off air briefly on Monday afternoon after suffering "major technical problems".

The break in transmission was caused by a staff evacuation at BBC Broadcasting House in London which led to the networks being taken off the air.

Broadcaster Eddie Mair returned to deliver the PM news programme on Radio 4 just after 1715 GMT.

He thanked listeners for the flurry of concerned e-mails. "Someone tripped over a plug somewhere," he joked.

First note the headline: "BBC radio stations taken off air".

Does that mean the BBC deliberately took them off the air for some reason?

Next they say they suffered "major technical problems".

But the next sentence says the "break in transmission was caused by a staff evacuation".

Well which was it, a major technical problem or a staff evacuation?

And why were the staff evacuated? Was there a bomb scare?

As much as I loathe the BBC I don't want to see anyone hurt.

I still like the headline though: "BBC radio stations taken off air". If only.
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Germany - The New Berlin Wall

Read this and see if it doesn't remind you of Britain.

There is a new wall rising in the city of Berlin. To cross this wall you have to go to the city's central and northern districts - to Kreuzberg, Neukölln and Wedding - and you will find yourself in a world unknown to the majority of Berliners. Until recently, most Berliners held to the illusion that living together with some 300,000 Muslim immigrants and children of immigrants was basically working. Take Neukölln. The district is proud of the fact that it houses citizens of 165 nations. Some 40 percent of these, by far the largest group, are Turks and Kurds; the second-largest group consists of Arabs. Racially motivated attacks occur regularly in Brandenburg, the former East German state that surrounds Berlin, where foreigners are few (about 2 percent). But such attacks hardly ever happen in Neukölln. As Stefanie Vogelsang, a councilwoman from Neukölln, put it to me, residents talk about "our Turks" in an unmistakably friendly way, although they are less friendly when it comes to Arabs, who arrived decades after the Turks and often illegally.

But tolerance of Muslim immigrants began to change in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001. Parallel to the declarations of "unconditional solidarity" with Americans by the German majority, rallies of another sort were taking place in Neukölln and Kreuzberg. Bottle rockets were set off from building courtyards: a poor man's fireworks, sporadic, sparse and joyful; two rockets here, three rockets there. Still, altogether, hundreds of rockets were shooting skyward in celebration of the attack, just as most Berliners were searching for words to express their horror. For many German residents in Neukölln and Kreuzberg, Vogelsang recalled not long ago, that was the first time they stopped to wonder who their neighbors really were.

When a broader German public began concerning itself with the parallel Muslim world arising in its midst, it was primarily thanks to three female authors, three rebellious Muslim musketeers: Ates, who in addition to practicing law is the author of "The Great Journey Into the Fire"; Necla Kelek ("The Foreign Bride"); and Serap Cileli ("We're Your Daughters, Not Your Honor"). About the same age, all three grew up in Germany; they speak German better than many Germans and are educated and successful. But they each had to risk much for their freedom; two of them narrowly escaped Hatun Surucu's fate. Necla Kelek was threatened by her father with a hatchet when she refused to greet him in a respectful manner when he came home. Seyran Ates was lucky to survive a shooting attack on the women's shelter that she founded in Kreuzberg. And Serap Cileli, when she was 13 years old, tried to kill herself to escape her first forced marriage; later she was taken to Turkey and married against her will, then she returned to Germany with two children from this marriage and took refuge in a women's shelter to escape her father's violence. Taking off from their own experiences, the three women describe the grim lives and sadness of Muslim women in that model Western democracy known as Germany.

Substitute Britain for Germany and it works just as well.

What happens in Muslim dominated countries is even worse.

And Iran is set to be the new terror in the Middle East.

While the danger gathers, peaceniks and Islamic appolgists around the world are in denial. Flower power won't work this time. These people mean to enslave you or kill you.
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Iraq - Spreading Democracy in the Middle East

Check out this picture.
















Now read the caption.

Jordanians paste electoral posters on a bridge of former Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi reading, 'strong goverment, safe people, grown country ', referring to his electoral list for the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections, in Amman, Jordan, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2005.

And as Tigerhawk notes, Iraqis in Syria will vote in next weeks elections as well.

Now you see why Iran is becoming more militant.
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Iraq - More Good News

Here's more good news from Iraq that MSM don't want you to know about. Just keep scrolling.
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Islam - Religion of Persecution?

Remember how many people want you to believe Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance? Then why are Bibles confiscated in Saudi Arabia and Christians persecuted?

How do they explain the persecution of Christians in Iran?

Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying, "I will stop Christianity in this country."

And he's vowed to wipe the Jews off the face of the map.

And in Indonesia they want to kill Christians.

Three Indonesian women sentenced to prison for the "Christianization" of Muslim children have lost their appeal, and observers of the courtroom drama blame Muslim extremists who threatened to kill the judges if they didn't hand down a guilty verdict.

Then there's all these crimes against other religions by Muslims.

Not to mention all the so called "honor" killings and forced marriages.

Religion of Peace? Religion of Persecution more like.
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Iran - The Middle East's New Terror

And according to IAEA chairman Muhammad ElBaradei, this one will have nukes in a few months.

IAEA chairman Muhammad ElBaradei on Monday confirmed Israel's assessment that Iran is only a few months away from creating an atomic bomb.

Note that's not Britain or American intelligence saying that, it's ElBaradei who's no friend of either.

And Iran's militant Islamic president, who called for a fellow member of the UN, Israel, to be wiped off the map, is quickly purging all levels of govenment and universities.

See here, here, and here.

And bonnie Prince Charlie's "tolerant" religion in Iran is busy eradicating Christianity.

An Iranian source told the Compass Direct, the new Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has openly declared his opposition to house church movement and Christianity during a meeting with the nation's 30 provincial governors.

Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying, "I will stop Christianity in this country."

While the world dithers about what to do about Iran, it might all ready be too late.
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Netherlands - Dutch Jihad

Remember it's a religion of peace.

I like this part:

Lawyers for the men say they are religious youths, innocent of wrongdoing.

Now read this:

Two defendants face additional charges related to a clash with police in which one of them threw a hand grenade that injured three officers.

And this:

Prosecutors allege the men attended cult-like meetings at Bouyeri's home under the guidance of a Syrian spiritual leader who fled the country shortly before Van Gogh's murder. Evidence against them includes copies of the letter left on Van Gogh's body, handbooks on ritual Islamic murders, suicide testaments and tapped telephone conversations about slaying non-believers like sacrificial lambs.

Un huh.
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UPDATE

More here.

Dressed in a long, rose-colored robe with a black headscarf, Chabi refused to speak in court, but the statement she had given to police earlier was read out by the presiding judge.

"A throat must be cut from the front, but not entirely so there is maximum suffering. Fouad said this while a film was shown on which people were beheaded," her statement said.

"He showed knives and films about slaughtering and showed us how to take a knife out of its scabbard and said he and Bouyeri stole sheep from a farm to practice slaughtering."

The judge said Chabi told police that El Fatmi had said they should drive a car carrying explosives into a shopping center to die as martyrs and then quoted verses from the Koran.

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Germany Charges Three Terror Suspects

Check out their nationalities.

BERLIN (AP) - Prosecutors said Tuesday they had charged three men with being members of al-Qaida, or of supporting the organization, including one who they said tried to buy nuclear material and had contact with Osama bin Laden.

Ibrahim Mohamed K., a 30-year-old Syrian national who lived in Mainz, and Yasser Abu S., a 32-year-old Palestinian who lived in Bonn, were arrested in January. They were charged on Dec. 1 with membership in a foreign terrorist organization, federal prosecutors said.

Yasser's 28-year-old brother, Ismail Abu S., who lived in Marburg and was arrested in May, was charged with the lesser count of supporting a foreign terrorist organization.

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America - Hillary Clinton heckled - Video

Here are some students heckling Hillary because she supports President Bush's troop stance on Iraq. Priceless!
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America - Another anti-war protest fizzles

This is happening more and more. And that's a good thing.

But guess who supported the anti-war protesters as they protested against our wounded soldiers?

DNC Chair Howard Dean.

America - Confused Democrats

Just another reason why Democrats are not fit to lead our country.

Murtha vs. Murtha: Rep. Murtha on the prospects of an Iraqi civil war:

[T]here's a civil war going. We're caught in between a civil war right now. Our troops are the targets of the civil war. They're the only people that could have unified the various factions in Iraq. And they're unified against us. --ABC's This Week, 12/4/05

[W]hy should I believe what the CIA says about what's happening in Iraq, that there's going to be a civil war? First of all, al Qaeda was wrong. It was wrong on the nuclear stuff. It was wrong on everything they have said over there. So why should I believe that there's going to be a civil war? -- same show, a few moments later.

Do these people listen to themselves? Read the whole thing.

And compare what the Democrats are saying about Iraq now with what they were saying when they were in office.

Here's more on what the Democrats said about Iraq's WMDs.

Here's a timeline of who said what when with some video links.
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Britain - 3 arrested in anti-terror crackdown

Seems to be a lot of this lately.

Police have arrested three men as part of an ongoing probe into international terrorism.

The men, aged 34, 39, and 42, were arrested in Worcestershire on suspicion of "the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism".

The men, believed to be foreign nationals, are being questioned at London's high security Paddington Green police station over supporting terrorism overseas.

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Iraq - Saddam trial hears of horror

And this is just getting started.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Men and women were tortured for days and babies left to die in an interrogation facility which featured a meat grinder for human flesh, the first prosecution witness to face Saddam Hussein told the court on Monday.

More here.

Abdullah Mohammed Hussein was a soldier fighting in the mountains when Iraqi troops took the Kurdish village of Sedar and deported three-quarters of the inhabitants, including his mother, his wife and their seven children. They were taken to a concentration camp at Topzawa and from there some were taken to an execution ground near the archeological site of Hatra, south of Mosul. The remains of 192 people have been found, 123 women and children and 69 men, among them Abdullah's wife and three of their children. There is no trace of his mother and the other four children. They were victims of the genocidal Anfal campaign, which sought to exterminate the Kurds.

Between February and September 1988, 100,000 to 180,000 Kurds died or disappeared. The bombing of the Kurdish village of Halabja with chemical weapons including mustard gas, tabun, sarin and VX on March 16, 1988, which killed 3000 to 5000 civilians, was the most publicised of these atrocities because it occurred near the Iranian border and Iranian troops were able to penetrate with the assistance of Kurds, filming and photographing the victims.

Halabja was not an isolated case however. Saddam used chemical weapons at least 60 times against Kurdish villages during Anfal.

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America - Chomsky Tries to Re-write History

But gets caught out.
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Britain - Plumber faces five terror charges

That's the BBC headline for this article. Which, strickly speaking is accurate. But after reading the story, I can think of a more appropriate one.

A London man has been charged with five offences relating to alleged terrorist activities and firearms possession.

Kazi Nurur Rahman, 28, a plumber from Newham, east London, will appear at Bow Street Magistrates court later.

Mr Rahman was arrested by anti-terrorism detectives operating in Hertfordshire on 29 November.

He faces charge relating to his alleged possession of three Uzi sub-machine guns and 3,000 rounds ammunition with intent to endanger life.

Two of the charges are under the Terrorism Act 2000.

Shouldn't it read "Muslim faces five terror charges"? Perhaps he's not a Muslim. The BBC doesn't tell us.

I'll give them a little credit. At least the word terror is not in scare quotes as usual.
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Israel - BBC Pro-Palestinian Bias

Look at how the BBC downplay this Palestinian massacre.

First the headline:

Five die in Israel suicide blast

No, they didn't just die morons, they were murdered by Palestinian terrorists.

Next the story:

A Palestinian suicide bomber has killed five people and injured dozens in the Israeli coastal town of Netanya.

The bomber attacked the Sharon shopping centre, the scene of previous bombings, at about 1130 (0930 GMT), injuring some 40 people, several of them seriously.

He was a terrorist who murdered innocent people.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group claimed responsibility for the attack and released a video of the bomber.

They're not just a "group". They are a terrorist organization.

Heightened tensions in recent days have been marked by Israeli air strikes and Palestinian militant rocket attacks.

Notice which one the BBC put first when in fact the Israeli air strikes have been in retaliation for Palestinian terrorist attacks.

The Islamic Jihad group named the bomber as Lutfi Amin Abu Salem, from a village between the West Bank towns of Jenin and Tulkarm.

Sheesh.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas condemned the Netanya bombing as an act of "terrorism" and vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Which is exactly what it is but the BBC don't want to offend their Palestinian brothers.

And this takes the biscuit.

UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, speaking for the European Union, condemned the bombing as "cowardly" and urged the Palestinian Authority to do more to prevent such attacks in future.

Yeah, like that's gonna work.
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Britain - BBC Whitwashes Iran's Nuke Program

What's missing from this BBC report?

Israel's military chief says he doubts diplomatic efforts will prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

Lt-Gen Dan Halutz said Iran had managed to fend off international pressure "time after time".

Gen Halutz said there were military options available to block Iran's nuclear project, but that these were not being considered yet.

Some Western countries suspect Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons, but Tehran says its programme is peaceful.

It's not just "some Western countries" and neither is it just a suspicion. IAEA chairman Muhammad ElBaradei says Iran is just months away from having the bomb.

IAEA chairman Muhammad ElBaradei on Monday confirmed Israel's assessment that Iran is only a few months away from creating an atomic bomb.

If Teheran indeed resumed its uranium enrichment in other plants, as threatened, it will take it only "a few months" to produce a nuclear bomb, El-Baradei told The Independent.

As usual, the BBC leave out important information to slant the story their way.
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America - Wounded Soldier Needs Help

Michelle has the details.

Whoever sent the card is a pretty sick individual.

According to Kilmeade, who visited Walter Reed on Friday, a US Army soldier named Joshua Sparling received the death wish while recovering from a gunshot wound he received in Ramadi, Iraq. It's the only Christmas card he received. Fox & Friends is urging you to counter the hate by sending your thanks and good wishes to Sparling:

Joshua Sparling
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20307-5001

Send him a getwell card and a phone card if you can. Let's counter this sick hate card.
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America - Behavior unbecoming Americans

Editorial of the week.

We have become a country of horrible wussies, rationalizers and apologists. In case the first, it not only is unbecoming of a great republic but a threat to our very existence. In case the second, it shows a troubling acceptance of guileless relativism. To wit:

The New York Times editorialized Tuesday last on the U.S. military's "use of a ghastly weapon called white phosphorous" in the continuing battle against Iraqi terrorists.

White phosphorous primarily is used to illuminate battlefields to expose enemy positions. "It also rains balls of flaming chemicals, which cling to anything they touch and burn until their oxygen supply is cut off," The Times notes. "They can burn for hours inside a human body."

International convention banned its use against civilians following the Vietnam War. The Pentagon says it doesn't use white phosphorous against Iraqi civilians and there is no -- repeat, no -- verified case of it being used that way in Iraq, directly or in an ancillary fashion. (The Times attempts to make a weak case for the latter but swings and misses. Badly.)

Yet The Times calls that a "technicality" and opines that the use of white phosphorous nevertheless "further tarnished America's credibility on international treaties and the rules of warfare."

This from the newspaper that steadfastly uses the term "insurgents" for terrorists who strap bombs to their bellies, hit a button and mix their bastard innards with those of American soldiers and little Iraqi children.

There's lots more.
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Iraq - IRAQI AIR FORCE MARKS MAJOR MILESTONE

The first all Iraqi crew to fly solo.

BAGHDAD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Iraq – An all Iraqi aircrew flew their first solo mission aboard a C-130E from Ali Air Base to New Al Muthana Nov. 28.

The nine aircrew members are part the 23rd Iraqi Squadron, which have been receiving training at Ali AB. They performed an engine running on-load prior to returning to Ali AB.

“The flight marked a major milestone achievement by showing Iraq’s capability of providing its own military transport,” said Air Force Capt. Jerry Ruiz, Forward Operations executive officer at New Al Muthana.

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Iraq - Good News MSM Fail to Report

MSM are all too happy to report bad news from Iraq and ignore the good news.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2005 – Task Force Baghdad soldiers rescued two kidnapping victims during a routine vehicle search at a checkpoint in western Baghdad on Dec. 1, military officials in Iraq said today.

Soldiers from 1st Squadron, 71st Cavalry, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, found two Iraqi civilians bound and gagged in the trunk of a white sedan. The two individuals, employed by an American contractor, claimed they had been taken hostage and were to be murdered.

There's lots more just keep scrolling.
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America - Hillary the Hawk Exposes Hypocrisy

More Hillary hypocrisy.

This is why the Democrats are continually outed, they try and have it both ways.

And here she says she wasn't misled into the Iraq war.

Even her husband, Billy Boy, was behind Bush before he was against him.

Now you know why they keep losing elections.
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Iraq - Scott Ritter Changes His Tune

Tim Blair notes...

Senator Strom Thurmond in 1998: “Saddam Hussein had reason to fear Major Ritter’s expertise and perseverance.” According to this Scott Ritter interview, those fears were groundless:

By removing Saddam, we undid the glue that held Iraqi society together and the end result is the chaos and anarchy that we witness.

Quite a change, that, from Ritter’s opinion six years ago:

No matter how difficult stopping Saddam Hussein is today, it will become more and more difficult, and extract a higher and higher price, the longer he is left to rebuild his arsenal.

Ritter isn't the only one singing a different tune. All the leading Democrats from Clinton on down are doing it too.

Here's more on what the Democrats said about Iraq's WMDs.

Here's a timeline of who said what when with some video links.

As you can plainly see, it's the Democrats who are lying.
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America - Fisking Robert Fisk

A few days ago I fisked Robert Fisk. Today, it's Tim Blairs turn.

Fisk is a moron.

I like this part:

Let’s look at the recent performance of Fisk’s own newspaper: “The Independent posted its first year-on-year circulation drop since it launched a tabloid version in September 2003. Its headline circulation figure was down 2.47 per cent to 255,603.” Weekday circulation of the UK Daily Telegraph: 904,660.

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Iraq - Iraqis Want To Try Galloway

Sounds good to me.

"It is a truism that money can blind one to the truth… I know that George Galloway knows the truth, and that he is well aware of the [crimes] that Saddam perpetrated against his own people and against the neighboring countries. However, he turns a blind eye to them, because he wants to make the whole world turn a blind eye to them and to overlook the oil vouchers that he himself received from Saddam. I want to say in this article: George Galloway, leader of the Respect party - you defend your friend and benefactor Saddam and you will yet be tried just like your friend and benefactor Saddam. I assure you that the Iraqi people will never turn a blind eye to those who robbed them. You robbed from all of the Iraqis what amounts to approximately 20 million barrels of oil [that you received] in exchange for misleading public opinion concerning the crimes perpetrated by Saddam against his people.

"In this article, I call on the Iraqi government to open the file on the Oil-for-Food scandal and file criminal indictments with international courts against those who benefited [from the oil vouchers] and those who stretched out their hands and took those vouchers from Saddam.

"May the first [to be indicted] be George Galloway…"

Like I said, sounds good to me.

via Max
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America - The School that Terrorism Built

Frontpage has the story.

In July of 2003, the Islamic Academy of Florida (IAF), an elementary/secondary private school for Muslims based in the Temple Terrace suburb of Tampa Bay, was suspended from receiving taxpayer funded tuition vouchers. The voucher program is a statewide government initiative that was devised to help underprivileged students in underachieving schools get a better education. Up until that point, the school had received more than $350,000 in vouchers, the majority of which came from Florida PRIDE, an organization that funds scholarships. After further investigation, the school was cut off completely from the voucher program.

The reason the school was cut off from the money was simple. IAF was named, in a 50-count indictment, as having been a part of the “PIJ Enterprise.” PIJ is short for Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a 26-year-old terrorist organization connected to the Muslim Brotherhood that targets Israeli civilians and others with murder, using young Arabs as human bombs (martyrs). According to the indictment, IAF and other organizations were actively used as “the North American base of support for the PIJ and to raise funds and provide support for the PIJ and their operatives in the Middle East, in order to assist its engagement in, and promotion of, violent attacks designed to thwart the Middle East Peace Process.”

But as you'll see, the school is back.
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Iraq - The Crumbling Insurgency

Here's more proof we're winning in Iraq.

SAMARRA, Iraq -- After keeping their distance for months, Iraqis in this Sunni Arab city suddenly began cooperating with U.S. troops, leading them to insurgents and hidden weapons caches. The reason: anger over the assassination by insurgents of a local tribal chief.

"That's when they decided to make a stand," said Capt. Ryan Wylie of Lincoln, Neb., commander of Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 69th Armored Regiment. "They definitely had an idea of the terrorists and where they hang out."

U.S. commanders cite other reasons for a lull in violence in this city 60 miles north of Baghdad. They include construction of an 11-mile berm around the city to block gun runners and a greater reliance by the military on covert monitoring positions.

But almost everyone agrees that the biggest reason for the reduction in violence here was the public backlash against the insurgents after the Oct. 11 assassination of Sheik Hikmat Mumtaz al-Bazi, chief of one of the area's seven tribes.

And there are more signs the Sunnis are ditching the terrorists.

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Iraq is holding talks with Iraqi nationalist insurgents and the Sunnis they represent, Time magazine reported on Sunday.

Time quoted U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad as saying "We will intensify the engagement, interaction and discussion with them." He said reaching out to Sunnis regarding their "legitimate concerns" makes sense because of rifts between the nationalist and al Qaeda camps in the insurgency.

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America - Appeasing Muslims

LGF has the details.

They never learn.
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Iraq - Documenting Saddam's Terror

Lest we forget what this is all about.

Abdullah Mohammed Hussein was a soldier fighting in the mountains when Iraqi troops took the Kurdish village of Sedar and deported three-quarters of the inhabitants, including his mother, his wife and their seven children. They were taken to a concentration camp at Topzawa and from there some were taken to an execution ground near the archeological site of Hatra, south of Mosul. The remains of 192 people have been found, 123 women and children and 69 men, among them Abdullah's wife and three of their children. There is no trace of his mother and the other four children. They were victims of the genocidal Anfal campaign, which sought to exterminate the Kurds.

Between February and September 1988, 100,000 to 180,000 Kurds died or disappeared. The bombing of the Kurdish village of Halabja with chemical weapons including mustard gas, tabun, sarin and VX on March 16, 1988, which killed 3000 to 5000 civilians, was the most publicised of these atrocities because it occurred near the Iranian border and Iranian troops were able to penetrate with the assistance of Kurds, filming and photographing the victims.

Halabja was not an isolated case however. Saddam used chemical weapons at least 60 times against Kurdish villages during Anfal.

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Iran only months away from nukes

That's according to the IAEA.

IAEA chairman Muhammad ElBaradei on Monday confirmed Israel's assessment that Iran is only a few months away from creating an atomic bomb.

"If Teheran indeed resumes its uranium enrichment in other plants, as threatened, it will take it only several months to produce a bomb," ElBaradei told The Independent, according to Army Radio.

And remember, they want to wipe Israel off the map.
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America - Anti-war Ad Flops

As they say, priceless!

David All, communications Director U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Georgia, Vice-Chairman of the House Republican Conference, reports that MoveOn.org's anti-war ads in the Congressman's district have proved a flop. All writes:

So I wanted to follow-up with you to give you the results of MoveOn.org's efforts... Drumroll please....

Amount of cash MoveOn.org spent to hire actors for the commercial: $20,000

Amount of cash MoveOn.org spent to purchase the b-roll film of UK soldiers which they called US soldiers: 5,000 pounds (see here).

Amount MoveOn.org allegedly spent in Georgia's first district on a media buy: $480,000 (see here).

And the results...ZERO calls, emails, or letters resulting from the ad: PRICELESS

Has any political organization ever raised and spent as much as MoveOn with so little to show for it?

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Britain - Robert Fisk: Why It's Called "Fisking"

This BBC interview with Robert Fisk is a perfect example of why exposing the lies and bias in a media story is called "Fisking". So named after Robert Fisk because his lies and bias are so prominent in his "reporting".

Robert Fisk, one of the leading British war correspondents of his generation, is a controversial figure.

Which is why, along with the lying BBC, most Britons are woefully misinformed about Iraq and America.

I've never been on an assignment that is as dangerous as Iraq on a personal basis and we've reached a point in the Iraq story that our access to real sources - not the Americans and the British and the Iraqi government but real people - is so restricted that we can only just about do our jobs.

And yet bloggers seem to have no problem in accessing "real stories".

As for just about doing their jobs, in the very next paragraph, Fisk says they aren't doing their job at all!

The first thing they should do is say to their readers or viewers that they are confined to their hotels and don't leave and don't do any street reporting.

And Fisk doesn't think passing Iraq's new constitution was a big deal, even though it's the first in the Middle East outside of Israel.

Not really. Most Iraqis are just trying to survive. They have no electricity and very little money to pay for fuel. They are desperate to protect their families, womenfolk and children from being kidnapped for money.

No electricity Robert? That doesn't seem to jive with this.

USAID dedicated more than $500 million under its first infrastructure reconstruction contract, awarded in April 2003, to rebuild the electricity sector. Working together, USAID, the USACE and the MoE achieved the goal of exceeding the pre-conflict level of power capacity by October 2003.

Approximately $740 million under USAID's second infrastructure reconstruction contract is dedicated to the electricity sector. Activities funded under this contract include adding generating capacity, an extensive rehabilitation project, and the implementation of an operations and maintenance training program for workers in the electricity sector, including 239 Ministry of Electricity officials.

Or this.

And how do Iraqis power their TV's and all these satellite dishes? And what powers mobile phone towers for all these new mobile phones?

After the US-led invasion in 2003, the interim administration awarded three regional licences to set up Iraq's first mobile networks. Since then, and despite the violence, more than two million people have snapped up phones, making Iraq one of the world's fastest-growing mobile markets.

If there is little money to pay for fuel, why are
Iraqis importing so many cars?

According to the Global Insight study, basic light vehicle demand during 2005-2007 should stabilize at estimated 200,000 units, after an immediate post-war surge to 250,000-300,000 units.

Since the end of the Iraqi war, used car exports to Iraq have risen very sharply, trending towards the lowest priced cars available from the neighbouring regions of the UAE, Kuwait and Jordan. This rise in demand has tightened used car markets substantially in the Middle East region, with dealers in the UAE reporting a 20% rise in prices. Between May and September of this year, it is estimated that 100,000 used cars have been shipped to Iraq, with Kuwait alone reportedly shipping 18,000 used cars to Iraq during this same period.

It's not just cars either, Iraqis are importing all manner of goods.

Iranian Commerce Ministry estimates say trade with Iraq could reach $1 billion in the year to March 2006 in everything from fruit and vegetables to refrigerators and building materials. Goods worth $650 million were exported to Iraq in the first 10 months of 2005, official figures show.

Er, Robert, if Iraqis have no money, how are they buying all these TVs, cars, mobile phones, refrigerators and air conditioners? Where are they getting the fuel and electricity to run them all?

You see Robert this is why you have the dubious honour of having "Fisking" named after you. But he persists and so shall I.

They are frightened of the suicide bombers that sometimes seem to attack at the rate of five or six times a day.

Robert seems to forget that millions of Iraqis defied the terrorists and voted in the last two elections. In fact, more voted in the last one than the first and more are expected to vote in the next one.

Iraq is in a state of total anarchy from Mosul all the way down to Basra.

There are armed insurgents on the streets within half a mile of the Green Zone in Baghdad, where the US and UK embassies are. The whole American project in Iraq is effectively dead.

But Robert you just told us you couldn't leave your hotel and are unable to do "street reporting". So, how could you possibly know what is happening outside your hotel? Or, were you lying when you said you were confined to your hotel? Or, are you lying now? Which is it Robert?

If the whole Ameircan project in Iraq is dead, how do you account for two successful elections with a third less than two weeks away? How do you account for Iraq's first freely elected president and the ratification of the first constitution? Both firsts in the Middle East outside of Israel.

And how do you account for Iraq's booming economy?

When you are there you realise it but when you emerge from this bubble of anarchy and watch television in Britain or America you can be persuaded it's going fine.

If that's true Robert why do opinion polls show little support for the war in both countries? The answers is, the opposite of what Robert is saying is true. To put it another way, Robert is lying again.

I could go on and on but it just gets worse. See for yourself and you'll see why he deserves to be scorned and "Fisked".

If Fisk is one of Britain's leading war correspondents, I feel sorry for Britain.
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Pakistan - Nr. 3 in al Qaeda Killed

This is great news.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The operational commander of al-Qaida, possibly the No. 3 official in the terrorist organization, was killed early Thursday by a CIA missile attack on a safehouse in Pakistan, officials have told NBC News.

Pakistani sources said that Hamza Rabia was one of five men killed at a safehouse located in the village of Asorai, in western Pakistan, near the town of Mirali.

And they captured another big one.

WASHINGTON - A key figure in al-Qaida’s terror network in Europe is under arrest, U.S. counterterrorism officials tell NBC News.

Two U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, say that the alleged terrorist, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, also known as Abu Musab al-Suri, was recently arrested in Pakistan. Pakistani government officials say they are not aware of any such arrest.

Now, why do you suppose that neither of these stories is on the BBC website?
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Iran - Persecuting Christians

Saudi Arabia is not the only country doing it.

The Constitution of Iran declares the official religion as Islam, so all laws and regulations must be consistent with the official interpretation of the Shari'a (Islamic law). Religious freedom is totally restricted by the government.

According to an Iranian source obtained by the Compass Direct, the recent massive crackdown on Christian converts was coordinated by the representatives of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).

The Compass Direct reported that some Christian leaders were visited by MOIS after Tori’s killing and ware being warned, "The government knows what you are doing, and we will come for you soon."

An Iranian source told the Compass Direct, the new Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has openly declared his opposition to house church movement and Christianity during a meeting with the nation's 30 provincial governors.

Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying, "I will stop Christianity in this country."

Remember how we are told that it's Islamic militants that have hijacked the peaceful and tolerant religion of Islam? Are the people saying this, saying that Ahmadinejad is a militant? If so, are they ok with him getting nukes?
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Iraq - Hillary Clinton Say's Bush Didn't Lie

The Democrats just can't make up their minds.

But just months after the bombs started falling, Clinton (D-N.Y.) called a Daily News reporter to insist she had no second thoughts about her vote for war.

The war was worth it just to remove Saddam Hussein from power, she said.

Clinton emphatically told The News in her 2003 call, "I felt that it was appropriate under the circumstances, which really went back to 1998 under the Clinton administration's conclusion that the regime had to change, that the President [Bush] had authority to pursue that goal."

"Why was the intelligence consistent from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration?" Clinton added. "The intelligence was consistent for over a decade."

Hillary is saying the Democrats were not lied into a war because the intelligence was consistent from President Clinton through President Bush and Bush had the authority to remove Saddam.
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Blog Roll Addition: News Busters Dot Org

Great site. Just start scrolling.
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Iraq - WMD's Destroyed by Clinton?

Alan Colmes thinks so.

But Clinton's not buying it.

Clinton, who was interviewed Thursday, said he did not believe that Bush went to war in Iraq over oil or for imperialist reasons but out of a genuine belief that large quantities of weapons of mass destruction remained unaccounted for.

Noting that Bush had to be "reeling" in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001, Clinton said Bush's first priority was to keep al Qaeda and other terrorist networks from obtaining "chemical and biological weapons or small amounts of fissile material."

"That's why I supported the Iraq thing. There was a lot of stuff unaccounted for," Clinton said in reference to Iraq and the fact that U.N. weapons inspectors left the country in 1998.

Looks like Clinton believed Saddam was helping al Qaeda as well.

File these here.
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Iran - War Looming?

Iran is buying Russian anti-missile system and conducting military operations in the south. While Israel tests its own anti-missile system.
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China - UN: torture 'still widespread'

And they obstructed the investigation, so it could be a whole lot worse.
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Iraq - Huge Buried Weapons Cache Found

I mean huge.

WASHINGTON -- Iraqi and U.S. forces have removed more than 4,200 mortar rounds from a major weapons cache found Nov. 27 outside an abandoned military base near Kirkuk, Iraq, military officials reported.

[...]

The ammunition was buried under concrete blocks with dirt mounded on top. All ammunition removed so far has come from one mound located in a field full of similar mounds. The explosives ordnance disposal team at the site expects to find more rounds as the search expands throughout the field.

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America - Scandal Erupts at the L.A. Times

Frontpage has the story.

Heh, the lying liberal media fake stories all the time.
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America - Confidence in the War on Terror Way Up

Only the Democrats think the terrorists are winning. Natch.

Lots of good numbers there.
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Britain - Galloway and the missing £500,000

Harry's place has the details.

When is the government going to get off its ass and investigate Galloway?
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Britain - blogland Press Plagiarist of the Year Awards

And the winner is...

With 46% of the vote, Peter Wright, as Editor, takes the rap for the most outrageous and blatant piece of plagiarism of the year. Across two pages he cut 'n pasted the writings of "PC Copperfield" of the Policeman's blog. In the blogging Copper's own words, "The Mail on Sunday never even asked... bastards".

It's interesting to note how MSM deride bloggers and yet use them more and more.
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UK: Muslims "Force Out" Christian Doctor

Western Resistance has the details.

Just file it here.
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Iran - Universities being radicalized

First they purged the reformers and now the universities are being radicalized.

Tehran, Iran, Dec. 01 – A senior Iranian cleric has called for all university professors to undergo Islamic training by the clergy.

Western Resistance asks:

All right, let me just ask the obvious question: what happens if one of the professors forced to undergo Islamic "training" is not a Muslim?

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Belgium - A New Muslim Terror Front?

It's looking like it more and more.

And note this:

The ability of radical Islamic groups to recruit is "indicative of the failure of social integration policies," Ranstorp said. "It's a huge problem in Europe. A small group can unleash large social forces that may be difficult to contain."

Britain and France are proof of that.

You see the thing is they don't want to integrate.
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Britain - BBC/Guardian partnership

I've been saying it for almost two years and now Scott has some numbers to back it up.

Be sure and read The Case Against the BBC and The Case Against the Guardian.

The lying liberal media are a danger to us all.
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America - California homicides dwarf Iraq deaths

And that's just in that one state!

Recently released crime statistics show the homicide rate in California is 265 percent higher than the death rate suffered by U.S. and British military personnel in Iraq.

According to the report "Crime in California 2004," compiled by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, there were 2,394 reported homicides in the Golden State last year. That compares with 905 deaths of coalition forces in Iraq, chiefly Americans and Brits, during the same time period.

Perspective.
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America - From Around the World They Come to Fight

The Stars and Stripes reports on people from around the world coming to fight for America.

HEIDELBERG, Germany — They came from Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico and the Philippines. They came from Ghana, Micronesia, Albania and … Canada, Great Britain and Egypt?

Nearly 60 U.S. soldiers, stationed throughout U.S. Army Europe but originally from all parts of the globe, gathered Tuesday at Campbell Barracks to take the oath renouncing allegiance to “any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty” and become U.S. citizens.

“I think it’s the best country in the world. If we don’t like something, we can change it. Policies do change,” said Spc. Hatem Zaki, who was born in Egypt.

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“The desire and intent is to better your lives … that you see some hope and some opportunity …,” he said.

That was the case for Spc. Aliaksei Kavalevski, formerly of the Republic of Belarus.

“I’ve got something I never had: the First Amendment,” he said.

But there was also a former Canadian citizen — who said she became a U.S. citizen in part to become eligible to be an officer in the U.S. Army — and a soldier who hailed from Great Britain.

“I said, ‘What is it that’s bringing you in?” Sapko said he asked the former Brit. “He said, ‘I want to be a citizen of the greatest country on earth.’ ”

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America - The Unhinged Left

Michelle takes a look at the rabid unhinged left that inhabit America. There's plenty of them.

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Who are you calling angry, Ms. Garofalo? You want political road rage? Let's start with Al. Take your pick: Sharpton. Gore. Franken. Yearrghh!
Now, open your eyes:

It isn't out-of-control conservatives tossing Molotov cocktails at police officers in San Francisco, burning American soldiers in effigy, and smearing blood and feces on the walls and windows of military recruitment centers across the country to protest on behalf of peace.

It isn't rage-blinded conservative professors who embrace fragging (the murder of American soldiers by their fellow soldiers on the battlefield) as a legitimate anti-war tactic.

It isn't vengeful conservatives torching SUVs, condo developments, and research facilities, and targeting biotech and pharmaceutical company employees and their families to protest on behalf of the environment.

It wasn't mad conservatives sporting "F*** Bush" license plates, punching cardboard cutouts of the president, and vowing to secede after losing the 2004 presidential election...

Read the whole thing which has even more links.

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