They want to destroy Israel and kill all Jews. That’s the truth. Got a solution Katie? We’d all love to hear your perky plan.
Michelle Malkin
Vent–July 18, 2006
On Katie Couric saying “We heard from many people that the news is just too depressing… I believe we can be a little more solution-oriented.”
[“Don’t be surprised if Katie’s “solutions” are socialistic, involved the loss of personal freedoms, and masquerade as “news”. Malkin introduces Couric to a cluebat.–Joe]
The murderous attack that took place this morning was not a terror attack. It was an act of war by the state of Lebanon against the state of Israel within its sovereign territory.
The government of Lebanon, of which Hezbollah is a part, is trying to undermine regional stability. Lebanon is responsible and Lebanon will bear the consequences of its actions.
Ehud Olmert
Prime Minister of Israel
July 12, 2006
Chicago Tribune
I want to make clear that the event this morning is not a terror act, but an act of a sovereign state that attacked Israel without reason. The government of Lebanon, of which Hezbollah is a part, is trying to shake the stability of the region.
Ehud Olmert
Prime Minister of Israel
July 12, 2006
New York Times
[Regardless of which quote is more accurate (the Times Online of the UK agrees with The Chicago Tribune) the spirit is the same. This is war.–Joe]
There’s the good news that this animal was killed:
MOSCOW — Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, responsible for modern Russia’s worst terrorist attacks, was killed Monday when a dynamite-laden truck exploded in his convoy, Russian officials said.
Federal Security Service head Nikolai Patrushev told President Vladimir Putin that Basayev had been killed overnight in a special operation conducted by Russian forces in Ingushetia, the area of southern Russia that borders Chechnya. Patrushev’s meeting with Putin was shown on Russian state television.
Basayev, 41, was behind some of Russia’s worst terror attacks, including the seizure of a Moscow theater in 2002 in which dozens of hostages and militants died, the 2004 school hostage taking in Beslan that killed 331, and the seizure of about 1,000 hostages at a hospital in Budyonnovsk that killed about 100.
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The Interfax news agency quoted Ingush Deputy Prime Minister Bashir Aushev as saying that Basayev’s body had been identified “through some of the fragments, including his head.”
Then the part that is most interesting to me is this line buried deep in the article:
Basayev was the most notorious of the Chechen warlords, eluding Russian forces for years despite Kremlin vows to hunt him down and an offer of $10 million and plastic surgery to anyone providing information leading to his death.
Do you notice anything a little different from what we are doing when we put a reward on a terrorist’s head? The Russians don’t waste time with the things like Club Gitmo. It’s, “If we find him we are going to kill him.”
I just hope they follow up on my suggestion for dealing with this type of vermin. It was the Russian school children incident that inspired me to come up with that disposal method so I think it would entirely appropriate for them to implement it with the fragments of this scumbag.
Today, Israel is really terrorising our people … Israel and America, which talked too much about this terrorism in past are the worst, severest and ugliest examples of terrorism.
Khaled Mashal
The exiled supreme leader of Hamas
UK Times: Uncompromising message from exiled Hamas leader
July 10, 2006
[I’m sure Mashal can back up this claim with hours of video tape of Americans and Israelis doing more severe and ugly things than the beheadings of civilians, bombings of civilian aircraft in-flight, the torture and killings of school children, and violent, brutal, aircraft hijackings for the destruction of skyscrapers filled with innocent civilians.–Joe]
I been wondering if the U.S. quietly slipped the leash off of Israel and said, “KILL!”. They sure have been aggressive in the last few days. Here is the latest story:
Israeli warplanes struck the Palestinian Interior Ministry early Friday, setting it ablaze as Arab leaders tried to forge a deal that would halt the Israeli offensive and free a 19-year-old soldier held by gunmen allied with the ruling Islamic Hamas.
The bombing was one of more than a dozen across the Gaza Strip after midnight, though Israel called off a planned ground invasion of northern Gaza on Thursday in order to give diplomacy another chance.
If Israel were to draw some of the fighters from Iraq and Afghanistan into Gaza for extermination it wouldn’t hurt my feelings any. Show us how it is done. Just let us know if we are going to be downwind of any hazardous dust.
I have to wonder why Russia is somewhat supportive of Iran. Iran backed terrorists just killed four Russian diplomats claiming it was because of the Russian involvement in Chechnya. Diplomats! Not just some low life engineers (like me) or soldiers, but diplomats–the official representatives of the Russian government. And with Iran helping with the conventional bomb building in Iraq what do you think will happen if Iran can produce nukes? And if nukes for Iraq isn’t worrisome enough for them what makes Russia think that Iranian nukes won’t be showing up in Chechnya and Russia?
Now Iran is saying the offer by Russia, the U.S., China, France, and Germany will be responded to in late August. The deadline given to Iran to accept or reject the offer was June 29. That’s two months to closer to having a nuclear bomb.
They are stalling for time. Time is something they must not be allowed to have. Perhaps Russia is getting a clue about that.
It’s already against the law to commit violent acts against innocent civilians. More laws and/or treaties won’t help. Allowing civilians to defend themselves is the only effective way for civilians to be protected. Just the opposite of what the U.N. bigots are trying to accomplish:
Amnesty International, Oxfam International and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) are pushing for a treaty to “protect civilians from armed violence.”
Those three groups — which have formed a coalition called the Control Arms Campaign — say their goal is to reduce arms proliferation and misuse — “and to convince governments to introduce global principles to regulate the transfers of weapons.” They are urging the United Nations to impose a “binding arms trade treaty.”
These guys want guns to remain in the hands of the governments. And governments were the biggest perpetrators of violence against innocents in the last century and I expect they will be in this century too. The right to keep and bear arms is an inalienable right. It can only be infringed, not granted or denied.
Alan Gottlieb, of course, gets in right (in the same article):
Had it not been for America, all of Europe might be speaking German. Were America not the ‘great arsenal of democracy’ that President Franklin D. Roosevelt described in 1940, the world would be a far different place, and the sanctimonious bureaucrats at the U.N. might instead be working in labor camps.
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We have done much for the U.N., and in return, the organization has hosted despots, tyrants and dictators whose record of human rights abuses, aggression and genocide speaks for itself.
Fortunately the two 500 pound bombs didn’t reduce him to his molecular components:
In fact he lived for a few minutes after the bombs blew the house into rubble. In his last minutes he had the opportunity to see the faces those who he should have worshiped–those who brought the fist of god down upon his head:
The house, and all inside it, was wiped out. However, Jordanian sources last night said Zarqawi did not die instantly. Though mortally wounded, he was alive when Iraqi and US troops arrived on the scene. His brutal reign ended 10 minutes after the bombs fell. Ten others died with him, among them a chief aide and two women.
There is video showing the bombs being dropped but the video I really want to see publicized is that of his remains being excreted from the ass of a pig.
The danger is the trust between the community and the police may be broken. The community feels very vulnerable.
Muhammad Abdul Bari
Muslim Council of Britain leader
Terror raid could ‘damage trust’
BBC News–June 6, 2006
[And I thought that trust was broken July 7, 2005 when Muslim extremists blew up trains in The Tube and a bus. Trust, but verify. That’s my advice.–Joe]
There is a jar of red rain water in India that some are speculating may contain alien life:
As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis’s laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens. In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples—water taken from the mysterious blood-colored showers that fell sporadically across Louis’s home state of Kerala in the summer of 2001—contain microbes from outer space.
Specifically, Louis has isolated strange, thick-walled, red-tinted cell-like structures about 10 microns in size. Stranger still, dozens of his experiments suggest that the particles may lack DNA yet still reproduce plentifully, even in water superheated to nearly 600˚F. (The known upper limit for life in water is about 250˚F.) So how to explain them? Louis speculates that the particles could be extraterrestrial bacteria adapted to the harsh conditions of space and that the microbes hitched a ride on a comet or meteorite that later broke apart in the upper atmosphere and mixed with rain clouds above India. If his theory proves correct, the cells would be the first confirmed evidence of alien life and, as such, could yield tantalizing new clues to the origins of life on Earth.
500x magnification
A few years ago I read a book in which the author(s) claimed to prove that intelligent alien life had an extremely small chance of existing. They went through all kinds of different conditions that were “essential” for intelligent life or life of any sort for that matter. A good friend of mine had recommended it to support his view that the Milky-way Galaxy and perhaps the entire universe was just waiting for humans to claim–no need to conquer it.
I eagerly read the book but was extremely annoyed. They made all these claims like “the temperature must be between X and Y degrees”, and the radiation level must be below such and such a level. Just because life as we know it requires these conditions doesn’t mean all life has to require similar conditions. In fact, why couldn’t life have evolved that required high levels of radiation? Why not life that used radiation as an energy source? Why not life that thrived in boiling water? In fact there is life that thrives in “boiling” water. There are certain organisms that live near geothermal vents on the ocean floor at temperatures above the normal 212 F temperature of boiling water. The water isn’t boiling because of the great pressure but the temperature isn’t killing them. And there are microbes, which evolved rather rapidly by the way, that eat stuff that is toxic to nearly all other life. So why not alien life that thrives in environments that are impossible all life forms we know of? No need to just “push the envelope” some in a direction or two. Life, given enough time, could have evolved that is completely outside our realm of experience.
Think of it this way–We are immersed in an environment with rather tight constraints on it. The temperature ranges from about -70F to about 120F. Water is present at least in small quantities nearly everywhere. Ionizing radiation is rare. Sunlight of a particular spectral content and intensity is common. How much experience do we have with conditions outside that realm? It would be difficult for a water based creature, such as a dolphin or whale, to imagine how life could function on dry land. They just don’t have the experience with it. Or as one wag put it, “We don’t know who discovered water but we know it wasn’t a fish.” The same with us and other, totally out of the box, environments.
This jar of red rain water may be enough to break a few boxes.
There is some concern that the bird flu has just made the evolutionary jump to transmit between human easily. It’s too early to say for certain but it looks like that concern is unfounded:
“This is not the first time, and we cannot conclusively discard or prove this to be human-to-human transmission,” Mehta said, echoing a statement made by the WHO.
On Tuesday, the WHO said limited human-to-human transmission of bird flu might have occurred in the family, but there was no scientific evidence that the virus had mutated to allow it to spread easily among people.
“What is reassuring is two of the human samples from Kubu Sembilang have shown no evidence of reassortment or significant mutations. The lineage of these viruses are very similar to H5N1 viruses from avian specimens from north Sumatra,” Mehta said.
It’s things like the bird flu that cause me to have near zero concerns about global over-population. The glass is half-full, right? I’m just naturally an optimist.
He just can’t make it much more clear:
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has previously said Israel should be wiped off the map, also told a cheering crowd of students in Indonesia’s capital that the Jewish state “cannot continue and one day will vanish.”
Students in the crowd held up posters saying “Iran in our Hearts,” and “Nuclear for Peace.”
Israel will vanish? As in a ball of fire? Ahhhh yes…that would be a peaceful use of nuclear power.
If I were in charge of the world my inclination would be to jam all the communication coming out of Iran and all the satellites looking in (except ours which would feed directly to Israel without us getting a glimpse), and not let anything larger than a cockroach exit. Then tell Israel they had a year and to please be careful of the wind direction if they happened to be creating any excess dust while they were cleaning house in preparation for the next inhabitants.
From Scripps Howard News Service:
The test scheduled for June 2 will be of a 700-ton conventional bomb. The research could aid in development of so-called bunker-buster weapons, including small-scale nuclear devices, according to the federal official overseeing the test, Doug Bruder, director of counter-weapons of mass destruction technology for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
As near as I can tell the maximum takeoff weight any 747 is about 910,000 pounds which is only 455 tons and that includes the weight of the plane and fuel. A semi truck is much smaller. The only remaining thing I can think of is a train and that is rather problematic for a number of reasons.
So this “demonstration”, as some are calling it, of a 700-ton bomb ammonium nitrate (Boomershoot uses AN as the main ingredient) and fuel oil bomb will be more “interesting” than just a big pile of AN detonating. And although there may be some fuel oil in it my guess is there will be aluminum powder as well as other stuff much more interesting that just fuel oil. This guy is openly calling it a tactical nuke instead of a conventional bomb. Tactical nuke? Sure, that makes sense. You can deliver those with artillery shells as well as cruise missiles and conventional air dropped bombs.
Iran is virtually begging for someone to attack. The Israelis claim Iran is only about a year away from having their own nuclear bomb. Others claim more time is needed, but regardless the Mideast is a very interesting place these days. Regardless, for us to claim there is too much sand and not enough glass in Iran before we take another hit will be a tough situation politically. But for us to wait might mean the near total destruction of Israel. And if we take a nuclear hit on north American soil my bet is that our retaliation will not be so “surgical” as dropping a few tactical nukes as we would prior to taking a hit. My guess is we would turn not only massive portions of Iran into glass but Medina and few other areas as well. Mecca would probably have a few bombers in permanent “orbit” around it for several years–just daring any Muslim extremist to set off a pipe bomb in some pizza joint on our turf.
Interesting times ahead…
Update: If you follow the links in Ry’s comments (and here) you will find the people I based my post on were totally clueless. Which means I was totally clueless when I made the post. Idiots. And they made me look like an idiot.
Zacarias Moussaoui has no regret and no remorse. I have no doubts. He should be executed and his extremist culture must be destroyed. Read his own words and decide for yourself.
From the AP (via South of Boston):
He mocked a Navy officer who wept as she described the death of two subordinates in the attack on the Pentagon.
“I think it was disgusting for a military person” to cry, Moussaoui said of Lt. Nancy McKeown. “She is military. She should expect people at war with her to want to kill her.”
Asked if he was happy to hear her sobbing, he said, “Make my day.”
He noted many relatives of victims wept on the witness stand, then walked past him in the courtroom and looked his way without crying. “I find it disgusting that people come here to share their grief over the death of some other person,” he said.
“I’m glad there was pain, and I wish there will be more pain,” Moussaoui said. “The children in Palestine and in Chechnya will have pain. I want you to share their pain.”
So, Spencer asked: “You have no regret, no remorse?”
“No regret, no remorse,” Moussaoui responded.
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In a lengthy explanation of why he hates Americans, Moussaoui said Islam requires Muslims to be the world’s superpower as he flipped through a copy of the Quran searching for verses to support his assertion. He said one verse requires Muslims “to fight against all who believe not in Allah.”
“We have an obligation to be the superpower. You have to be subdued,” Moussaoui said. “America is a superpower and you want to eradicate Islam.”
From Bangkok Post:
Zacarias Moussaoui said he wished the September 11 attacks had happened many more times over and expressed his willingness to kill Americans “any time, anywhere”, in testimony at his own death sentencing trial Thursday.
“I wish it had happened not only on the 11th, but the 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th,” Moussaoui said of the attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, according to television news broadcaster CNN.
From ABC News:
Asked if he wanted to see 9/11 happen again, Moussaoui said he wished it would happen “everyday.” Chuckling to himself, Moussaoui testified to prosecutors that Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh is “the greatest American.”
From BBC News:
“Suicide bombing would be a high calling?” prosecutor Robert Spencer asked him. “You would do it again tomorrow?”
“Today,” Moussaoui responded unhesitatingly.
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But he launched into a diatribe that put a quick halt to the tittering, beginning with a citation from the Koran which he said meant Islam had to become a superpower in place of America, and drifting into an answer about “the Jewish state of Palestine” that ended with a threat to “exterminate” American Jews.
He said he felt no regret when he saw 11 September victims testifying in the court, enunciating every syllable of his reply: “None what-so-ever.
“We did it for this. We want to inflict pain on your country.”
From The Independent:
We wanted you to have pain in your country,” he said during two-and-a-half hours of testimony. I just wish it would have happened on September 12, September 13, September 14 … there’s no remorse for justice.”
The French-Moroccan, a confessed member of al-Qa’ida, claimed to have enjoyed images shown in court this week of the Pentagon after it was attacked and said that reports of the deaths “make my day”.
It will make my day when I see the video of his remains being excreted from the ass of a pig.
The religion of Islam is one of tolerance, therefore, if he recants his Christian faith, he will not be executed.
Ansarullah Mawlazezadah
Trial judge in the case of Abdul Rahman an Afghani former medical aid worker and Christian convert from Islam.
March 24, 2006 LifeSite
Washington D.C. elected a convicted felon as Mayor but at least they waited until he was out of jail. Not so on the West Bank. And these aren’t just minor crimes:
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Imagine 54 U.S. congressmen holding office from behind bars, and you get an idea of the problem facing the Palestinian parliament when it meets today for its first session since the January landslide victory of the radical, anti-Israel group Hamas.
About 10 percent of the 132 newly elected Palestinian legislators are inmates of Israel’s civilian and military jails. Some of the legislators are being held in administrative detention without charges; others are serving time after conviction in Israeli courts.
How, if at all, these prisoner-politicians can participate in government and join debates on proposed legislation is a serious question.
“They won’t get any special privileges just because they were elected,” said Israeli Prison Service spokesman Ofer Lefler. At best, he said, they might be able to pass information to the outside world through monthly family visits or visits with lawyers, which can occur more frequently.
“In our jails they haven’t got cellphones — I hope. And they haven’t got permission to call,” Lefler said. “They are prisoners. That’s the whole story.”
While Palestinian legislators confined to the Gaza Strip under Israeli travel restrictions are expected to participate via closed-circuit video link with their colleagues meeting in Ramallah, no such provision exists for the 13 legislators in Israeli custody. (One legislator is in a Palestinian jail as well as under international supervision.)
Ten of the 14 are members of Hamas, whose effective majority drops from 74 to 64 seats while they are incarcerated. Three are members of Fatah, including the head of the party’s electoral list, Marwan Barghouti. Barghouti is serving five consecutive life sentences for his role in five attacks that killed civilians. Still, he is often mentioned by Palestinian and Israeli analysts — a la Nelson Mandela — as a possible future Palestinian leader.
One inmate, Ahmed Sadaat, of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is in a Palestinian jail in Jericho for his role in the 2002 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi.
This should speak volumes about their agenda, their political mandate, for their terms in office.
About 10 days ago I was telling someone about the extremist Muslim response to the cartoons of Muhammad. They weren’t particularly familiar with what was happening but said, “It will go away soon.” I agreed, but my point was it showed the tremendous gulf between the west and radical Islam. Later, at lunch with a friend, I repeated, “It will go away soon.” He disagreed, “The only way I see to get to the other side of this is over a pile of bodies–either theirs or ours.” I realized he could be right but wasn’t convinced. A week or so, I thought, that’s about the typical attention spam for this sort of thing. I had forgotten the length of the French riots (and here, here, here, and here) last fall. That was more like three weeks or a month. This is a bigger and more widespread event. Perhaps this will be the flame that will burn until all the fuel is exhausted. It was over lunch yesterday this same friend told me about the $1 million reward for killing the cartoonist and ended the conversation with, “I feel like I’m living on another planet, these people are a bunch of savages.” I couldn’t disagree.
In our frame of reference this insult is so trivial and their response is so extreme there will be no compromise, no truce, and no ceasefire. As communication and travel have improved we can no longer be isolated from each other on this planet. The publication of a few cartoons in minor newspaper in a small country in Western Europe ignited a violent, worldwide, response. The fuel supply for this flame, this clash of civilizations, has been building for over a thousand years and the flame may not be extinguished until the fuel is exhausted. I see only uncomfortable options; we destroy their civilization, they destroy ours, or we participate, as either victims or perpetrators, in the greatest genocide this world has ever known.
This is a unanimous decision by all imams of Islam that whoever insults the prophet deserves to be killed and whoever will take this insulting man to his end, will get this prize.
Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi
Peshawar, Pakistan
February 17, 2006
Cleric announcing rewards of $1 million dollars, one million rupees, 500,000 rupees, and a car for the killing of the cartoonist who drew the prophet.
The news of Jill Carroll about to be killed by her abductors if all Iraqi women in military custody are not freed is incredibly disturbing to me. But that does not mean I relieve her of the responsibility for her situation. She and many others like her who persist in maintaining their ignorance of the threat posed by the Islamic extremists will continue to pay a heavy price for their willful ignorance. These extremists literally say they have a religious duty to kill non-believers. Unless she has converted to Islam and advocates the world-wide replacement of democracy by the rule of sexist religious extremists her situation should not come as a surprise to anyone.
While I hope and wish for a successful rescue of Ms. Carroll I think the odds of this are very low. And certainly we should not release any prisoners, pay any ransom, or comply with any demands made by these criminals. To do so would only put others at risk of similar abduction and death. Her family and friends have my sympathy.
This should be interesting. Abu Hamza is a radical imam that had more than 2700 audio tapes and about 570 video tapes of himself extolling the “virtues” of Hitlers actions against the Jews, that it is the duty of his followers to fight for Allah and that fighting involved a religious obligation to murder Jews, kuffars (non-believers), and apostates. The British are putting him on trial:
The radical imam of the Finsbury Park Mosque, Abu Hamza al-Masri, went on trial at the Old Bailey yesterday accused of being a hate-filled bigot who encouraged his congregation to murder non-Muslims.
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David Perry, for the prosecution, told the court that Abu Hamza’s exhortation of murder and celebration of hatred were an affront to and an offence against Britain’s traditions of freedom of expression. His crimes were committed out of his mouth in the form of utterances that were “destructive and corrosive” of a free society.
Mr Perry said: “The plain, unambiguous meaning of these words — such as ‘every last Jew is going to be buried in Palestine’ — is obvious. He says jihad is obligatory, jihad involves the death of the kuffar, Jews are detestable, to be reviled and to be killed. This is what the defendant intended to be heard.
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The talks are not solely about violence, murder and holy war. The cleric’s speeches also contain diatribes about Britain’s licensing laws, the use of additives in food, adultery, the role of women and the evils of democracy.
Mr Perry said Abu Hamza sought to create “a blueprint for living” for his followers and impose his view of Islam on every aspect of their lives.
Central to that was his message that jihad, or holy war in the cause of Allah, was a religious obligation and that killing non-believers — especially Jews — was an essential component of jihad.
“The prosecution case is that Sheikh Abu Hamza was expressing hatred and contempt for kuffars, in particular Jews,” Mr Perry said.
“But what he had to say did not stop with hate-mongering. He was exhorting his listeners to kill and making it clear, as a religious leader, that that was a religious duty and not a matter of choice.”
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“He accused the Jews of being blasphemers, traitors and dirty. This, because of their blasphemy, and because of their filth, was why Hitler was sent into the world. He also tells his audience that the Jews control the West, by which he means western liberal democracies such as this country.
“He says the Jews control the West and must be removed from the earth.”
Here is an overview of a two of the tapes to be played at his trial:
Tape Two
A video entitled “Adherence to Islam in the western world”. believed to have been recorded in September 1999. Abu Hamza tells his listeners that Britain is “a kuffar country which is at war with Islam”. He says that killing kuffars is allowed in Islam and singles out people who sell alcohol as legitimate targets.Tape Seven
“How to Survive in the land of Kuffar”, recorded in September 1999; a lecture in Arabic aimed at youth and families. Abu Hamza criticises “corrupt scholars” and disbelievers who do not deserve anything except the sword, reiterates that jihad is compulsory. Attacks the UN and atheist nations that preserve the “Zionist existence”. He described Britain as “a land of war” that will only be peaceful when it surrenders to Allah.
Ahh… yes. This is the peace of Islam. The same peace that Hitler sought for the Jews of Europe.
I wonder if this trial will make any difference to those in Britain opposed to the war in Iraq. Will they realize this is why their soldiers are fighting in the Mid-East. It is to keep this sort of hate filled bigot and his murderous followers from realizing their ambitions.