Saturday, January 16, 2010
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Are US Rail Passengers Sitting Ducks for Terrorists?
Click here to read what the U.S. government has to say about passenger (and freight) rail security.
How many stations have serious security systems and procedures, including properly trained guards and metal and explosives detectors?
How many passenger rail lines are protected by armed security guards?
How often are tracks inspected--to prevent a Nevsky Express-type terrorist attack?
This reporter suspects the answers would shock and terrify the nation.
Where have all the billions of dollars for security actually gone?
Who will protect rail, commuter rail, and subway passengers when and if Al Qaeda war criminals are put on trial--in civilian courtrooms--in New York City and Washington, DC?
How about U.S. bus terminals? Anyone protecting those places? Does anyone care?NY Times Spins Iran Sanctions Story for Obama
Click here to read the Times piece, which would be a joke if the subject wasn't so damned serious. Notice the misleading headline. Read the article to learn that the six powers have only agreed to "consider" new sanctions on Iran, because of its nuclear program, and that China has effectively guaranteed that Iran can continue to defy the so-called international community.
Contrary to what the Times would have you believe, Iran has benefitted enormously from Obama's perfidious policy of appeasement. His entire foreign policy is an utter failure--a manmade disaster, to use one of his own terms, on the way to becoming a catastrophe.A Columnist's Plea: Kill PC Before it Kills Us
One of the strongest supporters of Islamic terrorism is our mainstream media. That’s because its political correctness means that the mainstream media doesn’t give the public the truth about the threat of radical Islam (or whatever you want to call it – Islamic extremism, Islamic terrorism, hijacked Islam, jihadism, etc.). In other words, if we don’t kill political correctness, it will kill us by making us unaware of the ongoing war fought by radical Islam against the U.S. and the West. If you can’t even identify your enemy and be honest in describing your enemy, you are a dead duck. President Obama and his administration are among the foremost practitioners of political correctness, and that’s one of many reasons the Obama administration is a threat to the survival of America. The infection of political correctness is as widespread as it is dangerous, but this column will focus on political correctness in the mainstream media.
Read the whole piece here.France Close to Banning Barbaric Muslim Veil
Vive la France!
In sharp contrast with the Islamist-appeasing Obama administration, the still secular and democratic French government is moving closer to banning the menacing and barbaric full veil worn by hopelessly backward and enslaved and oppressed Muslim women. Click herefor the story.
The news makes this reporter want to stand and sing "La Marseillaise." 
Green Tea Has Cancer-Fighting Properties
Egyptian Paper: Mossad Boss is Israeli 'Superman'
Mossad chief Meir Dagan is "Israel's Superman," according to an article in Egypt's Al-Ahram.
The newspaper credits the head of Israel's legendary and feared foreign intelligence service with delivering stunning blows to Iran's atomic arms program. Read all about it here.IDF Sets Up Field Hospital in Haiti
Islamist Terror Groups Building Bases in the Balkans
Israeli and other intelligence agencies believe Islamist terrorist organizations have intensified efforts to recruit members and establish cells in the Balkans.
The terrorists are aided by Islamist front groups and by Saudi charities and firms that have continuously transferred funds to Bosnian and Albanian Muslims, including the Wahhabi terrorists described in this news report.
China Confidential readers should not be surprised by the assertions. Click here to read a piece we published last February.
The Wikipedia article about Osama Bin Laden includes the following background information on the Al Qaeda-Balkans connection:A former U.S. State Department official in October 2001 described Bosnia and Herzegovina as a safe haven for terrorists, after it was revealed that militant elements of the former Sarajevo government were protecting extremists, some with ties to Osama bin Laden.[73] In 1997, Rzeczpospolita, one of the largest Polish daily newspapers, reported that intelligence services of the Nordic-Polish SFOR Brigade suspected that a center for training terrorists from Islamic countries was located in the Bocina Donja village near Maglaj in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1992, hundreds of volunteers joined an "all-mujahedeen unit" called El Moujahed in an abandoned hillside factory, a compound with a hospital and prayer hall. According to Middle East intelligence reports, bin Laden financed small convoys of recruits from the Arab world through his businesses in Sudan. Among them was Karim Said Atmani who was identified by authorities as the document forger for a group of Algerians accused of plotting the bombings in the USA.[74] He is a former roommate of Ahmed Ressam, the man arrested at the Canadian-U.S. border in mid-December 1999 with a car full of nitroglycerin and bomb-making materials.[75][76] He was convicted of colluding with Osama bin Laden by a French court.[77] A Bosnian government search of passport and residency records, conducted at the urging of the United States, revealed other former mujahideen who are linked to the same Algerian group or to other groups of suspected terrorists who have lived in this area 60 miles (97 km) north of Sarajevo, the capital, in the past few years. Khalil al-Deek, was arrested in Jordan in late December 1999 on suspicion of involvement in a plot to blow up tourist sites; a second man with Bosnian citizenship, Hamid Aich, lived in Canada at the same time as Atmani and worked for a charity associated with Osama Bin Laden. In its 26 June 1997 Report on the bombing of the Al Khobar building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the New York Times noted that those arrested confessed to serving with Bosnian Muslims forces. Further, the captured men also admitted to ties with Osama bin Laden. In 1999 it was revealed that Osama bin Laden and his Tunisian assistant Mehrez Aodouni were granted citizenship and Bosnian passports in 1993 by the Government in Sarajevo. This information was denied by the Bosnian government following the 9/11 attacks, but it was later found that Aodouni was arrested in Turkey and that at that time he possessed the Bosnian passport. Following this revelation, a new explanation was given that bin Laden "did not personally collect his Bosnian passport" and that officials at the Bosnian embassy in Vienna, which issued the passport, could not have known who bin Laden was at the time.[78][79][80] The Bosnian daily Oslobođenje published in 2001 that three men, believed linked to be linked to Osama Bin Laden, were arrested in Sarajevo in July 2001. The three, one of whom was identified as Imad El Misri, were Egyptian nationals. The paper said that two of the suspects were holding Bosnian passports.[78]
In 1998 it was reported that bin Laden was operating his Al Qaeda network out of Albania. The Charleston Gazette quoted Fatos Klosi, the head of the Albanian intelligence service, as saying a network run by Saudi exile Osama bin Laden sent units to fight in the Serbian province of Kosovo. Confirmation of these activities came from Claude Kader, a French national who said he was a member of bin Laden's Albanian network.
By 1998 four members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) were arrested in Albania, and extradited to Egypt at the urging of the CIA. It is believed that the 1998 bombing of US embassies in Africa occurred as retaliation for these arrests.[81]Al Qaeda Has Growing Support in Britain
Illegal Lao Logging Feeds Vietnam's Booming, Export-Driven, Wood Furniture Making Industry
Israeli Diplomats Attacked in Jordan
Al Qaeda and Hezbollah top the list of suspects responsible for an attack on an Israeli diplomatic convoy in Jordan. Click here for the story.
Nobody was hurt. But Israel is concerned that the terrorists (Reuters refers to them as "militants") may have had help from inside Jordan's security services. If that happened, it would be the second black mark on Jordanian intelligence in recent weeks, the first being the slaughter of CIA employees in Afghanistan by a Jordanian double agent who turned out to be a triple-agent suicide bomber working for the Taliban and/or Al Qaeda.
For a frightening but fascinating, first-rate report on how the CIA and Jordan's General Intelligence Department fell victim to an Al Qaeda "dangle" operation, click here.China Countering US Push for Sanctions on Iran
The U.S. is stepping on the sanctions accelerator; China, on the sanctions brake. Click here for the story.
China's lack of cooperation on Iran highlights the Obama administration's mishandling of U.S.-China relations. A year into his Presidency, Barack Obama has little to show for his amateurish approach to Beijing, as this analysis makes clear.
Sunday, 17 January 2010
Herb Denenberg's column on political correctness and the mainstream media is must reading. He writes:
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Green tea may reduce lung cancer risk, even for smokers, as reported here.
The Israel Defense Forces' field hospital in Haiti is now operational. The field hospital, which has 220 workers, including doctors and nurses, is located at a soccer field in Port-au-Prince, according to the IDF spokesperson. More about IDF search-and-rescue efforts in Haiti here.
U.S. intelligence officials say Al Qaeda is capable of attacking a wide range of targets in the West. The terrorist group's growing support in the UK is a major concern. Click here for the story.
Vietnam's export-driven, wood furniture manufacturing industry is growing rapidly, with large quantities of wood imported from neighboring Laos--where much, if not most, of the logging is illegal. Click here for an in-depth study.
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