Monday, May 09, 2011
Egyptian Christians Appeal to World
Former Senior Intelligence Officer Confirms China Confidential Reporting on Hezbollah Plans to Attack America from Mexico
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Iran FM Plans Egypt Visit
How the War Against Radical Islam Could Have Been Won
Pakistan's Perfidy Triggers Bill to End Aid
WASHINGTON: Pakistan, exposed before the world for secretively or unwittingly hosting Osama bin Laden, is now squarely in the crosshairs of some American lawmakers and officials even as the broader US administration is struggling to stave off confrontation with its belligerent one-time ally.
Anger is running deep in Washington at what is being seen as Pakistan's perfidy of milking US aid while nurturing terrorists. On Wednesday, one lawmaker announced that he is introducing legislation that will prohibit any foreign aid from being sent to Pakistan "until it can demonstrate that it had no knowledge of Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts."
Continue reading here.On Second Thought, Should Bin Laden Have Been Captured, Intensively Interrogated, Executed and then Buried or Burned?
Forbidden questions that no liberal reporter will ever dare ask the Anointed One....
Given that the war against Al Qaeda and Islamist terror is far from over, and that it appears (a) that AQ chief Osama Bin Laden was operationally active and in charge of the organization until his death, and (b) that there was no firefight in his Pakistani compound, contrary to the U.S. Government's first account of the raid that ended his miserable life, and that he could have been taken alive ... wouldn't it have made more sense, in retrospect, for the Navy SEALs to have done just that so that the CIA could have intensively interrogated him at a secret overseas location in order to extract everything of importance that he knew ... e.g. subjected the mass murderer to such enhanced interrogation techniques as waterboarding, drugs, disorienting noise and sleep depravation for as long as necessary... before killing him (shooting him to death or hanging him) and dumping (or burning) his filthy body? Shouldn't President Obama have approved an alternative plan in advance of the raid in the event the monster could have been captured alive?US Government Questioned 'Soetoro's Citizenship'
US Muslim Convert Pleads Guilty to Terror Plot
Muslim Maniacs Attack US Planes
MUSLIM YELLS ALLAHU AKBAR
AS HE TRIES TO DOWN PLANE
Related: Islamic-Garbed Imams Suing Airline
This reporter recently flew to Charlotte, NC. Had he had the misfortune of being forced to fly with Muslim clerics in full Islamic garb he would surely have stayed wide awake in order to be fully prepared to prevent the seemingly fanatic Muslims from bringing down the airplane.
After years of living and working in the Middle East, this reporter refuses to accept the notion that there are "moderate" observant Muslims, let alone moderate Muslim clerics. Organized Islam and Islamism (radical Islam) are for all practical purposes the same thing.Was Diana Murdered?
Understanding Islam
COLUMBIA J-SCHOOL HONORS TERROR TV
Ominous Signs from Egypt
PAKISTAN PRIME MINISTER REJECTS CRITICISM OVER OBL, THREATENS 'FULL FORCE RESPONSE' IF US ACTS AGAIN
LEADER OF ATOMIC-ARMED STATE DEFIANT,'PAKISTAN HAD TO KNOW'
PERFIDY: LEFTWING 'LOBBYIST' FOR ISRAEL UNDERMINES JEWISH STATE'S NEGOTIATING POSITION ON ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE DAY, BEFORE PM'S VISIT TO AMERICA
ISRAEL AT 63
$7-a-Gallon Gas After 2012?
Persecution of Christians Continues in Pakistan
Taiwan Deploys Anti-Ship Missiles
Hamas' Useful Idiots of Appeasement
Sunday, May 08, 2011
China Confidential Repeatedly Questioned State of Rail Security
Copts Occupy Cairo Square
Pakistan and China
Israel Remembers Fallen Troops
Now is Not the Time to Leave Afghanistan
Taliban Launch Spring Offensive
MUSLIM MOBS BURN CHURCHES IN EGYPT
Tunisian Islamists Poised to Take Power
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Click here for the news and here for the archived article.
THREE INCIDENTS IN ONE DAY
AL JAZEERA, AN ARM OF QATAR GOVERNMENT,
This J-School graduate says: Shame on you, Columbia!
Elie Abel, A.M. Rosenthal, and Walter Cronkite must be rolling in their graves.
Which propaganda machine will Columbia honor next? How about Global Times? That would be a good way to curry favor with rising China while addressing a perceived need for more "balanced" North-South coverage.
Read and weep ... and recall that this defiant dirtbag heads a nuclear-armed country organized only around Islam and Islam only--it's the country's organizing principle, Pakistan's reason for existing in the first place--and that this backward hellhole has sucked over $20 billion from U.S. taxpayers since 9/11.
Recall, too, that Pakistan practically invented the Taliban, which harbored and aided Bin Laden before 9/11, and consider that the Taliban leader Mullah Omar, a monster just as evil as Bin Laden, and his most senior henchmen are hiding in and have also been protected by Pakistan.
Does the "J" in J Street stand for Jewish ... or Judas?
Meaning ... betrayal.
Click here for the sickening story. A carefully aimed and timed stab-in-the-back by a so-called supporter of Israel, whose public pronouncements effectively rationalize--in fact, they actually seem to justify (another J!) Muslim/Arab attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians and also, arguably, terrorism and violence aimed at Jews around the world.
Yes, the more this reporter--a lifelong American Jewish Zionist--once honored by the late Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin--thinks about the matter, J Street should be renamed B Street. B ... for betrayal. Or JT Street ... for Justify Terrorism.
EGYPTIAN CHRISTIANS DEMAND
HELP; WILL OBAMA SPEAK OUT?
Thousands of Coptic Christians protesting Egypt's latest round of deadly sectarian violence are calling for the removal of the country's top military ruler, and are vowing not to leave a sit-in outside the state television building in Cairo.
By late Sunday, demonstrators were demanding that Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi step down and that the arsonists who burned two Coptic churches be brought to justice.
Protesters also want to make it a crime to instigate religious violence. Earlier in the day, fighting broke out when Muslim youths attacked the protesters.
State media have reported that 12 people were killed and more than 220 wounded during two days of sectarian clashes that began late Saturday in the poverty-stricken Cairo slum of Imbaba. Medical sources said 65 of the injured were shot.
Witnesses say a group of about 500 conservative Salafist Muslims converged on a Coptic church in response to rumors that a Christian woman was being held there to prevent her from converting to Islam. Other reports said the crowd believed the woman had already converted and was being prevented from marrying a Muslim man.
MEAD'S MUST READ ANALYSIS:
As US-Pakistan tensions rise, the Pakistanis have looked to China as an alternative great power backer. The Pakistani argument to China is that Pakistan offers an offset to India that makes it harder for India to challenge Chinese influence in southeast Asia and elsewhere. Pakistan can also offer China friendly ports close to the vital oilfields of the Middle East and also a useful land route for trade and power projection.
This is not an unattractive proposition, and China is already in business with Pakistan, providing foreign aid and promoting growth in bilateral trade. The value of China’s aid to Pakistan is hard to estimate, but trade between the two countries is worth about $8.7 billion. (US military and economic aid to Pakistan last year totaled almost $4.5 billion and US-Pakistani trade was worth $1.6 billion.) Additionally, China provides material and financial assistance for Pakistan’s nuclear program; during a visit to Pakistan in December 2010, Wen Jiabao and Pakistani officials finalized plans for the construction of a one gigawatt nuclear reactor in Chashma, making it the third and largest reactor in Pakistan. China’s agreement to provide nuclear materials to Pakistan despite Pakistan’s nuclear program and poor record on proliferation was seen in Pakistan and elsewhere as a counter to the US-India agreement.
But for the Chinese, who have so far flirted with Pakistan but never come close to giving the Pakistanis the support they desperately crave, there are three very big catches. First, Pakistan looks as bent on self-destruction to China as it does to everyone else in the world; why put your money on a such a weak horse?
Second, if China becomes the partner of Pakistan’s dreams, it wrecks its relationship with India and drives India into America’s arms. A closer relationship with Pakistan might be necessary for China in the event that the US and India developed a tight alliance aimed against China, but China’s best strategy now is to prevent the US-India relationship from turning into an anti-China alliance. Flirting with Pakistan makes sense as a way to keep both Washington and Delhi on their toes, but anything more would be a costly mistake.
Click here to read the whole thing.
China Confidential analysts expect Islamists to win Tunisia's upcoming constituent assembly elections--scheduled for July 25 but likely to be postponed until the fall.
Should an Islamist party win the elections, analysts add, there is a good chance Tunisia's army will seize power.
But the Obama administration and the European Union are almost certain to condemn a military coup, even if it is the only way to prevent a clerical fascist takeover of Tunisia.
The administration is pro-Islamist--seeking the installation of "Islamist democracies," or Islamocracies, run by so-called moderate Islamists (a concept akin to moderate Nazis or moderate Communists).
The only Islamist groups that the administration regards as unfit to engage (Obama code for appeasing and attempting to align with) are Al Qaeda and its affiliates and offshoots and "irreconcilable" elements of the Taliban, which are are in the process of retaking Afghanistan (with Pakistan's support).
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