"I would like to see some close scrutiny of who this fellow accepted because his numbers are off the radar screen, even in comparison to the generally questionable record of the IRB. Obviously no one was monitoring his performance because he was there for 10 years,"
The Canadian government is urged to review all Immigration and refugee cases handled by Khaled Mouammar from 1995-2005. During that time Mr. Mouammar accepted all the cases from the Middle East.
Canada's doors wide open to terrorists.National PostThe government is being urged to re-examine all refugee cases heard by Khaled Mouammar, the current president of the Canadian Arab Federation, following the revelation that his acceptance rates were nearly twice the national average during a decade-long stint on the Immigration and Refugee Board.
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Mr. Mouammar, an outspoken supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah, recorded an acceptance rate of 100% when it came to refugees from North Africa and the Middle East during his time with the IRB between 1995 and 2005, according to statistics obtained by the National Post. Although cases from the Middle East represented only a tiny fraction of his overall caseload, the 68-year-old orthodox Christian, who was born in Palestine, also accepted each claim he heard against Israel during the period, while the rest of the IRB accepted just 10% of Israel claims.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Ottawa urged to review immigration board cases
China warns of more unrest in Xinjiang
A Chinese official warned that the security situation in Xinjiang, a Chinese province home to 8 million muslims, would be "more severe" this year. AFPBEIJING (AFP) — A top official warned Friday the security situation in China's restive region of Xinjiang would be "more severe" this year, sparking further concern of unrest ahead of sensitive anniversaries.
The vast desert area of Xinjiang in China's remote northwest is home to more than eight million Uighurs, Muslims who have complained for decades of political and religious repression.[...]
"The (security) situation will be more severe, the task more arduous, and the struggle more fierce in the region this year," said Nur Bekri, chairman of the Xinjiang regional government, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
Mexico condemns US 'corruption'
When all else fails , Blame the U.S. !
Yeah it is our fault your police are corrupt !
it is our fault that your country has been raped , pillaged , and run into the ground by everyone that has ever been in charge !
I guess it is our fault also that You can not stop the Cartels from killing whoever they want !
All Because there are pot smokers in the States ?
Mexico's problems run way deeper than that !!!
I guess if Pres. Calderon feels that way then , Maybe he won't mind us closing the border and not letting Anyone Across Legally or Otherwise !AlJazeera
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The Mexican president has blamed US "corruption" for hampering his nation's efforts to combat violent drug cartels.
Felipe Calderon also told the AFP news agency that the main cause of Mexico's drug gang problems was "having the world's biggest consumer [of drugs] next to us".
"Drug trafficking in the United States is fuelled by the phenomenon of corruption on the part of the American authorities," he said on Wednesday.
The Mexican president launched a massive assault on drug cartels after entering office in late 2006 but the cartels have responded with campaigns of violence and intimidation that left 6,000 dead in 2008 alone and around 1,000 in 2009 so far.
Calderon acknowledged some Mexican officials had helped the cartels but said the US should ask itself how many of its own officials were implicated.
"It is not an exclusively Mexican problem, it is a common problem between Mexico and the United States," he said.
"I want to know how many American officials have been prosecuted for this [corruption]."
Friday, March 6, 2009
Shoe thrown at Ahmadinejad
Here's a shoe-thrower I can respect. Do you think the Mullahcracy will build a statue in honor of this guy or call him a hero? GuardianWhen the Iraqi journalist, Muntazar al-Zaidi, hurled his shoes at the then-US president, George Bush, in December, Iranian officials declared him a hero and hailed his gesture as a mark of Islamic courage.
They were presumably less impressed this week when Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was similarly targeted during a visit to the north-western city of Urumiye.
Ahmadinejad found the shoe on the other foot as he waved to the crowd from an open-top car on his way to give a speech at a local stadium.
An Iranian website, Urumiye News, reported that a shoe was hurled at the president as his convoy drove through a central square. Security guards waded into the crowds but failed to find the culprit.[...]
Ahmadinejad has been on the receiving end of flying footwear before. A shoe was thrown at him during a students' demonstration at Tehran's Amir Kabir university in December 2006.
Exiled Somali governement to implement shariah law
"Moderate" Islamist President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed will implement shariah law. Apparently implelmenting shariah law is moderate. There's nothing moderate about stoning women to death for adultery, lashing people for drinking alcohol, killing those who leave islam, there is nothing moderate in that. XinhuanetMOGADISHU, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The Somali government, led by the moderate Islamist President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, has announced this week it would implement the Islamic Sharia law in the country after influential clerics and two major insurgent groups demanded it, but analysts said this may not be enough to appease the opposition Islamist groups bent on unseating the government.
Early in February, a group of prominent clerics met in the capital Mogadishu and issued several recommendations for the government including, among other things, the imposition of the Islamic Sharia law in Somalia and the withdrawal of African Union peacekeepers from the Horn of Africa country torn apart by nearly two decades of civil strife.
"We have not only issued these recommendations for the government but also met the President and asked him to implement Allah's Laws in the country which he accepted," Sheikh Ahmed Abdi Disow, deputy chairman of Somalia's Union of Islamic Scholars, told Xinhua.
The implementation of the Islamic Sharia law is one of the core demands of the armed Islamist groups in Somalia including even the current President's Islamic Courts Union which briefly ruled much of southern and central Somalia in the latter half of 2006 before the movement was driven by allied Ethiopian troops and former Somali government led by Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed.
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China turns down NATO's plea for help
According to the AP, a Chinese diplomat said that at this time China would be unable to assist NATO in Afghanistan. A few days ago a senior US official revealed that the alliance might ask for China's assistance in Afghanistan. The assistance would be of logistical support. There has been no formal request to China from NATO. So this story was leaked to gauge China's interest.
Is NATO that desperate now? Going to Russia, Iran, and now China to seek support for the Afghan mission. Aren't all those countries our enemies? Iran definitely is, in Russia's eye we are still their enemy and China seeks to supplant the US as the global superpower.
Of course the reason NATO is going to it's enemies is because most European members refuse to pony up any troops for the fight. Then there's Pakistan, our suppose ally, but that's a whole different story.
Polygamy breeds strange bedfellows
"As a Muslim woman from Pakistan, I have seen the negative effects of polygamy. Women are always shortchanged when polygamy is allowed to flourish,"
A Christian and Muslim group converged on Canadian Parliament yesterday to make sure that polygamy is not decriminalized in Canada. During the gay marriage debate, opponents argued that legalized gay marriage would lead to the decriminalization/legalization of polygamy. Proponents said that was preposterous.
But the finding of a Justice Department official study into polygamy conclude that criminalization of polygamy severs no purpose. Currently there is a trail in B.C., against a leader of a fundamentalist Mormon colony, that will test Justice's findings.
Institute for Family Values and Muslim Canadian Congress are right to fear that polygamy may be decriminalized in Canada. National PostThe two organizations shared a stage with the Canadian Family Action Coalition yesterday to express their concern that judges at various levels will overturn the section of the Criminal Code that makes polygamy illegal. Brian Rushfeldt, CFAC's executive director, urged the government to use the notwithstanding clause of the Charter to override the courts, if necessary.
Dr. McVety presented a poll that suggests 85% of Canadians oppose legalization of polygamy but this is, of course, a battle in which public opinion is irrelevant. All proponents have to do is convince a few judges that their Charter rights are being infringed and the floodgates could open.
Ms. Hassan said she knows that polygamy already exists on a small scale in the Muslim community in Toronto but that situation would likely change dramatically if immigrants were allowed to bring in three or four spouses legally.
Hillary to consult Mullahcracy on Afghanistan
Isn't this like consulting the wolf on the chicken hen? Un-freaking-believable, while we're consulting the Mullahcracy on Afghanistan lets consult Saudi Arabia on religious freedom, the ISI on the taliban, and Venezuela on the economy. (Thanks to GM) ReutersBRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Washington might consider consulting Iran over Afghanistan but accused Tehran of interference in the Middle East.
Speaking to reporters en route to Brussels, Clinton said Iran posed a serious threat because of its nuclear plans and alleged funding of "terrorism," but that Washington was looking for areas where it could engage with Tehran, including on Afghanistan, if such talks were useful.
"Where it is appropriate and useful for the United States and others to see whether Iran can be constructive, that will be considered," Clinton said, when asked directly whether the United States could consult Iran over Afghanistan.
China's military forces to be trained for informationized warfare
China continues it's rapid modernization of it's military. BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) - China will transform its military training based on mechanized warfare to that based on informationized warfare, according to a government work report delivered by Premier Wen Jiabao at a parliament session Thursday.
"In the coming year, we need to make our army more revolutionary, modern and standardized," reads the report delivered at the Second Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC), or the parliament.
China "will effectively transform our military training based on mechanized warfare to military training for warfare under conditions of greater IT application", the report says.
China will continue to enhance the army's ability to respond to multiple security threats and accomplish a diverse array of military tasks.
Wen also said China will modernize weapons, equipment and logistics support across the board this year. "We will improve defense-related research, the weapons and equipment production system," he said.
Countdown to NASA search for Earth-like planets
Hopefully this one does not fail like the last one did !
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LONDON, England (CNN) -- The U.S. space agency NASA will launch its first ever mission Friday to find Earth-like planets in our region of the Milky Way.
Scientists will be holding their breath as the Kepler spacecraft -- mounted with the biggest telescope ever to be launched into space -- lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
"Everything about the mission is optimized to find Earth-size planets with the potential for life, to help us answer the question -- are Earths bountiful or is our planet unique?," said the man leading the mission, Bill Borucki, science principal investigator for the mission at NASA's Ames Research Center.
Scientists will be hoping for more success than last week when NASA's $273 million dollar Orbiting Carbon Observatory failed to reach orbit and plunged into the ocean within minutes of its launch.
The Kepler spacecraft has just two three-minute windows of opportunity to blast off on Friday, from 10.49pm to 10.52pm EST, or slightly later at 11.13 to 11.16pm EST.
If the launch goes to plan, Kepler will spend the next three and a half years monitoring more than 100,000 stars in a single patch of star-rich sky in "our region of the Milky Way galaxy," near the Cygnus and Lyra constellations.
Its activities will be restricted to the "habitable zone," where scientists think there's the best chance of finding life.
Pakistan says knows kidnappers of U.N. official
Good news , another deadline has passed and John solecki , is still alive ! I thought for sure that they would "Off" the guy by now !
glad to be wrong ! Hopefully Pakistan can move in to rescue the guy , And kill the terrorists that hold him !
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MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities have identified the kidnappers of an American working for the U.N. refugee agency but want to avoid any hasty action that may endanger him, the country's foreign minister said.
John Solecki, 49, head of the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Baluchistan province, was kidnapped in the provincial capital of Quetta on February 2 by gunmen who ambushed his car and shot dead his driver.
"The people who kidnapped him have been identified and where he was kept was also identified," Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told reporters in the city of Multan city late on Thursday.
He did not elaborate on the identity of the kidnappers but said security forces had surrounded the area where Solecki was being kept.
The deadline passed on Thursday and there has been no word from the kidnappers.
It was not the first deadline Solecki's captors had given.
Mexican soldiers arrested for alleged drug ties
And this is not a surprise ! the Mexican Military has been Known for it's corruption , you Just can not trust anyone in the military , police , or the Government !!!!
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A dozen Mexican soldiers were arrested on suspicion of working with the violent Gulf Cartel, the Mexican army said on Thursday, a blow to President Felipe Calderon's military-backed campaign against drug gangs.
The troops are accused of collaborating with four municipal policemen in the central state of Aguascalientes who provided protection for Gulf cartel capos, the army said in a statement.
The arrests come as Calderon sent thousands more troops to the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez in an attempt to curb spiraling drug violence that killed more than 6,000 people last year.
Calderon deployed the army to fight organized crime since taking office in 2006 partly because soldiers have traditionally been seen as less corrupt than police.
But several recent high-profile arrests -- including a presidential guardsmen who allegedly received $100,000 a month to track Calderon for drug traffickers -- reveal infiltration in the highest levels of Mexico's security forces.
The Gulf cartel is fighting a turf war for control of smuggling routes with its main rival the Sinaloa federation, led by Mexico's most wanted man Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman.
The Gulf cartel's feared hitmen known as the Zetas, infamous for torturing and beheading their enemies, were founded by a group of military deserters.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
why islam?
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SHAKIR: This is because they acted adversely to Allah and His Messenger; and whoever acts adversely to Allah and His Messenger-- then surely Allah is severe in requiting (evil).
Email a terrorist
Drop a line to al Shabaab almujaahid.shabab@hotmail.com
Or sign 'em up to some ghey porn mailing lists
'Israel seriously considering military action against Iran'
Sure, if I was in their position I would be too. Tensions between Israel and Iran are heating up after IRRG boasted of their ability to destroy Israel's nuclear facilities. While the Obama administration hopes that diplomacy can change the Mullahacracy's mind, they are determined to acquire nukes. Once Iran acquires nukes, and if Ahmadinejad is still in power, the Mullahacracy will use them.
In this diplomatic game, Iran has the advantage. The Western world is pinned, do nothing and Iran will acquire nukes, attack Iran and the entire Middle East could possibly erupt in war. A third possibility is a peaceful coup inside Iran, but I don't know how likely that will be.Jerusalem PostWASHINGTON - Israel is seriously considering taking unilateral military action to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, according to a report by top US political figures and experts released Wednesday.
The report also says Israel's time frame for action is growing shorter, not only because of Iranian advances, but because Teheran might soon acquire upgraded air defenses and disperse its nuclear program to additional locations.
The report, "Preventing a Cascade of Instability," was put out by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP). It also argues that international sanctions against Iran need to be intensified urgently for the engagement the Obama administration is planning with Teheran to be effective.[...]
he bipartisan group also recommended increasing security guarantees and the supply of missile defenses and other protective measures to allies in the Middle East, both to reassure them of America's commitment to them and to dampen the perceived effectiveness, and hence appeal, of nuclear weapons for Iran.
Kyrgyz U-turn on US base mooted
Kyrgystan President Bakiyev said that he is open for negotiating a deal with the US regarding use of their airbase. What this means is that if the US wants to continue to use Kyrgyzstan as a supply route to Afghanistan it better pony up more than Russia's $2.1 billion aid to Kyrgyzstan. BBCKyrgyzstan's president has told the BBC "the doors are not closed" concerning talks over the US airbase which is due to close.
The Manas base is critical to US and Nato operations in Afghanistan.
Kurmanbek Bakiyev said negotiations with Washington would have to take a different format, and cover new conditions of use.
His latest remarks, the first since announcing the closure last month, have yet to draw an American response.
President Bakiyev said the old agreement on the use of the base was no longer valid but Kyrgyzstan was open to negotiation.
US diplomat to Afghanistan says Pakistan is a bigger problem to world security than Afghanistan
It has certainly made radical Islam a part of its political life, and it now seems to be a deeply ingrained element of its political culture.
Slowly people in political power are waking up to the threat of Pakistan. Will the top officials wake up to the threat before it's too late? GuardianThe top US diplomat in Kabul warned yesterday that Pakistan posed a bigger security challenge to America and the world than Afghanistan, as Islamabad grappled with the latest terrorist attack on its soil and the escalating Taliban insurgency on its north-western border.
Christopher Dell, who currently runs the US embassy in Kabul, was speaking in the aftermath of the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore and the news that Pakistani Taliban groups had formed a common front to attack Nato troops in Afghanistan, in what is widely expected to be a bloody and possibly decisive summer this year.
"From where I sit [Pakistan] sure looks like it's going to be a bigger problem," Dell said in an interview in the heavily fortified US embassy in Kabul. "It is certainly one of those nuclear armed countries the instability of which is a bigger problem for the globe.
"Pakistan is a bigger place, has a larger population, its nuclear-armed. It has certainly made radical Islam a part of its political life, and it now seems to be a deeply ingrained element of its political culture. It makes things there very hard."
Taliban blow up music & dvd shops
No joy in islam alert. AFPPESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) — Taliban militants blew up 16 shops selling music and DVDs in northwest Pakistan overnight, police said Thursday.
How compassionate of the taliban.
"An improvised explosive device planted in a market selling music and DVDs in Takhtbhai town blew up 16 shops overnight," local police official Fazal Mabood told AFP, blaming Taliban insurgents.
There were no casualties in the attack in the town, northwest of Peshawar, because the market was closed at the time of explosion, he added.
Sudan leader defies arrest order on war crimes charges
Sounds like the start of something in the Sudan , Now that they have Issued an arrest warrant for Bashir , ( Because of his Human Rights Violations) He shows how in control he is by kicking out Humanitarian Groups !
Many thousands of people will die due to this , the humanitarian aid is all that keeps these people Alive !int, Herald Tribune
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PARIS: One day after judges at the International Criminal Court ordered his arrest for atrocities committed in Darfur, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan offered a fiery and defiant response on Thursday, telling a crowd of thousands in his own country that "we are not succumbing, we are not bending" to outside pressure.
Jabbing the air with a walking stick and flanked by aides and bodyguards, Bashir called the court's decision a conspiracy designed to recolonize his country.
"Sudan is raising its voice. It rejects the hegemony, the colonialists," he declared. Referring to the International Criminal Court and the United Nations Security Council, he said: "We are ready to face you," according to live television broadcasts from Khartoum which showed him, clad in a light blue suit, addressing a huge crowd from a podium.
His appearance at the rally in Khartoum, the capital, followed quickly after Sudanese officials retaliated against the court's decision on Wednesday, ordering Western aid groups that provide for millions of people to shut down their operations and leave.
After months of deliberation, the judges charged Bashir with war crimes and crimes against humanity for playing an "essential role" in the murder, rape, torture, pillage and displacement of large numbers of civilians in Darfur. But the judges did not charge him with genocide, as the prosecutor had requested.
The Sudanese government has long vowed to resist the court, and it summoned several humanitarian organizations to a meeting almost immediately after the warrant was announced, according to aid officials. As many as 10 groups received letters ordering them to leave or curb their work, according to people briefed on the meeting.
The British charity Oxfam said that the government had revoked its license to operate, a decision the group said could affect more than 600,000 people. The Dutch section of Doctors Without Borders, which provides health care in one of the world's biggest camps for displaced people, in South Darfur, was ordered to leave the country.
"It happened right after the announcement," said one aid official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of negotiations to persuade the government to back down. "The connection was clear."
The warrant is the first in which the court, which opened in 2002 in The Hague, has sought the arrest of a sitting head of state. Other war-crimes courts have issued warrants for sitting presidents, including Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia and Charles Taylor of Liberia.
Hague court issues warrant for Sudan's Bashir
Who will go in and arrest Bashir? ReutersTHE HAGUE (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes in Darfur, a decision that could spark more regional turmoil.
Maybe we should do nothing and hope that the genocide just goes away.The warrant is the first issued against a sitting head of state by the Hague-based ICC, which stopped short of including a count of genocide over a conflict that United Nations officials say has killed as many as 300,000 people since 2003.
International reaction to Wednesday's ICC decision was mixed. The United States welcomed the ICC's decision but China urged the U.N. Security Council on Thursday to heed calls from African and Arab countries and suspend the case against Bashir.
20 die in prison clash in northern Mexico
Mexico is a big mess ! How the hell did prisoners get rifles ? chinaview
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MEXICO CITY, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Gang fighting in a prison in Ciudad Juarez of the northern Chihuahua state killed 20 and injured six on Wednesday, the prison's director Oscar Hermosillo said.
Spokesman from Chihuahua's government Victor Valencia de los Santos said that 18 prisoners died inside the prison and the other two died after they were sent to hospital.
Valencia said the clash between rival gangs began from early morning on Wednesday and was controlled within two hours.
The General Justice Prosecutor from the State's office (PGJE) said the clash was between the gangs known as "Los Mexicles" and "Artistas and Asesinios (AA)", who fighting for the control in the prison.
Both gangs have had clashes for drug and weapons deals inside the prison.
Rifles, knives and iron pins were used in the fighting. Some prisoners were thrown by their rivals from the second floor.
Some 200 soldiers from the Mexican Army, 100 federal policemen and 150 state and municipal officers controlled the prison with assistance of military helicopters.
Ciudad Juarez is one of the most violent cities in the country. It borders with El Paso, Texas of the U.S., and is on one of the main routes of drug trafficking to the U.S.
Islamic Jihad leader rules out Gaza ceasefire
Oh , that Israel ! Goin and killing some bad guy's again ! Now who are they going to get to design those ESTES, I mean Qassam rockets ? no wonder they are pissed ! Oh well like they were gonna have peace anyway !!! chinaview
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GAZA, March 5 (Xinhua) -- An Islamic Jihad leader Thursday ruled out imminent ceasefire with Israel following the killing of three militants in two airstrikes this morning and last night.
"The escalation against the Palestinian fighters makes any talk on lull a sort of vanity," said Khader Habib, an Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza.
Last night, Israeli airplanes targeted an Islamic Jihad commander who is said to be a rocket expert, killing him and wounding a second escort.
On Thursday morning, two militants were also killed while firing mortars into Israel in central Gaza Strip.
The new tension took place after Egypt failed to renew ceasefire between Israel and the armed Palestinian groups led by Hamas which controls the Gaza Strip.
Habib warned of a new wave of attacks of the Palestinian militants in the coming days, condemning "the state of silence" by Arab countries.
The eruption of violence came one day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the region and urged Israel to ease the blockade on the Gaza Strip for reconstruction following a 22-day large-scale offensive that killed more than 1,300 Palestinians in December and January.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Bionic eye gives blind man sight
Cybernetic organisms are walking amongst us undetected. BBCA man who lost his sight 30 years ago says he can now see flashes of light after being fitted with a bionic eye.
Ron, 73, had the experimental surgery seven months ago at London's Moorfield's eye hospital.
He says he can now follow white lines on the road, and even sort socks, using the bionic eye, known as Argus II.
It uses a camera and video processor mounted on sunglasses to send captured images wirelessly to a tiny receiver on the outside of the eye.
al Qaida recruiting illegal immigrants in Europe
From AKIAlgiers, 4 March (AKI) - Al-Qaeda was seeking to recruit illegal immigrants in Europe for potential suicide attacks in Italy, Spain and France, an Algerian daily has claimed. A report in the daily Ennahar on Tuesday said Al-Qaeda had begun trying to recruit illegal immigrants in Europe, because it had not been able to find new recruits in Arab countries following elections in the United States and Israel.
"Two men, a Pakistani and a Bosnian offered me a proposal. They asked me to collaborate with Al-Qaeda in exchange for money," said Ahmad al-Shalafi, an Algerian immigrant who spoke to the daily by telephone after being approached by alleged Al-Qaeda officials.
"I would have had to recruit people from the local Islamic and African communities to carry out a suicide attack," he said.
Shalafi is an illegal Algerian immigrant who lives in Spain and works as a security official at a nightclub using fake documents and presenting himself as a Moroccan immigrant. He said he migrated illegally to Spain in 2001 after crossing the Strait of Gibraltar in a makeshift boat.
Evidence mounts of Syrian nuclear cover-up
Do you think that the facility that the IAF bombed last year was the only one Syria has? Iran has several nuclear facilities strewn across the country deep underground. I would think that the Syrians would've learned from Iraq's mistakes or take example from their ally the Mullahacracy. ReutersVIENNA (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday that U.N. inspectors had found growing evidence of covert nuclear activity in Syria, and European allies said a lack of Syrian transparency demanded utmost scrutiny.
The U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, is looking into U.S. intelligence reports that Syria had almost built a North Korean-designed, nuclear reactor meant to yield bomb-grade plutonium before Israel bombed it in 2007.
Last month, the IAEA said inspectors had found enough traces of uranium in soil samples taken in a trip to the bombed site granted by Syria last June to constitute a "significant" find, and satellite pictures taken before the Israeli bombing revealed a building resembling a reactor.
But the IAEA report said Syria, citing national security reasons, had ignored many agency requests for further on-the-ground access and documentation to back up its assertion that Israel's target was a purely conventional military building.
"This report contributes to the growing evidence of clandestine nuclear activities in Syria," Gregory Schulte, U.S. ambassador to the IAEA, said during a debate by its 35-nation Board of Governors in Vienna.
Pakistan is the Somalia of South Asia
"The writ of the Pakistani government does not run beyond Islamabad,"
Is this an indication of how little control the Pakisatni government has or how much control terrorists have gained in Somalia? Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: Congress saw the terror attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore as irrefutable evidence Pakistan lapsing into a failed state and
warned that unless the trends were arrested, the neighbouring country could fast become the Somalia of south Asia.
Condemning the attack, the party on Tuesday said the international community should take note of the development. "It is now for everyone to see how to dismantle the terror structure in Pakistan," party spokesman Manish Tiwari said at a media briefing.
Geert Wilders leads Dutch polls
Thanks to Britain refusing entry to Geert Wilders because he would 'harm social harmony', his party is now leading the polls in the Netherlands. Let's hope the Dutch are going to the polls soon. TelegraphMr Wilders has benefited from the publicity provided by Dutch and international headlines that followed a decision last month to ban him from showing his anti-Muslim film, Fitna, in the House of Lords.
His attempt to enter Britain, his detention and subsequent deportation, following an order by Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, have made the Dutch MP into a free speech martyr and celebrity in the Netherlands.
New opinion polling now puts Mr Wilders ahead of the Christian Democrats, who lead a coalition government.
Muslim mob attacks Christian worshipers killing one woman and injuring 28
The attack was provoked by some kind of argument between some of the Christians and muslims about a week ago. Police are refusing to take any action against the culprits. Pakistan Christian PostGujranwala, Pakistan: March 3, 2009. (SLMP reports for PCP) The Christian Mass services were in progressing with dedication of worshipers in a Presbyterian Church in remote town of Aroop in Gujranwala district of Punjab province of Pakistan when a Muslim mob attacked on Church with firearms. It was 8.00 PM of March 2, 2009, the silence of village like town of Mangowala Aroop was broken by bursts of guns and Christian worshipers were falling with bullet injuries on Church floor to protecting their Church pastor The news of attack on Church broke out in village Aroop and other nearby villages on which Christian rushed to Presbyterian Church where blood was all over Church floor and cries of injured Christians.
The injured were rushed for medical care but a Christian woman worshiper named Shakeela died on spot.
A Christian social activist called Sharing Life Ministry Pakistan SLMP with its headquarters in Lahore and a team was dispatched to help injured and on fact finding mission.
Pakistani vigilantes take on Taliban
It's about Damn time ! I Know it is not much , and most likely a lot of these "Citizen vigilantes " will probably end up dead when they do confront the Taliban !
But , the fact that they are willing to stand up to the Taliban in the first place ,is very encouraging !
Now the Taliban has more to think About , when they Slither the streets looking to Impose their Sharia induced beliefs upon people just trying to live their lives !
Things like a bullet to the back of their head !!!the Christian science Monitor
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Peshawar, Pakistan - In the town of Budaber, six miles from Peshawar's city center, Daud Khan makes sure his Kalashnikov is loaded before stepping into the dark street. As he walks out, seven young men join him, all armed.
Mr. Khan is a member of the nighttime civilian patrols that guard the streets and escort residents home. They usually work from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., the peak time for bomb attacks, a local says.
Do-it-yourself security teams are becoming a fixture in and around Peshawar, the capital of the North West Frontier Province, as residents grow wary of the Taliban's growing presence – and doubtful of the government's ability to protect them. Some officials have backed the vigilantes, even supplied them with weapons, raising concerns they may fall into the wrong hands.
But residents are more worried about security. "It's the only way we can stay safe," says Khan. "Our survival against the Taliban lies in our personal efforts to guard ourselves."
30,000 rifles for 'patriotic people'
The Budaber operation was established at the behest of a member of the Provincial Assembly, but broader government support for such initiatives became evident last month when the provincial chief minister issued a controversial order to distribute guns for civilians to protect themselves.
In a press statement, Ameer Haider Khan Hoti directed officials to distribute 30,000 rifles among "patriotic people" and "peace loving groups" to guard their villages and help the police tackle terrorism.
The statement said that the chief minister had ordered officials to "take proper guarantees from people" before issuing the "village defence rifles" that would be used "against miscreants and anti-state elements."
Such village militias have been credited with reducing violence in Iraq. A similar initiative is being considered in Afghanistan.
Peshawar city police spokesman Ijaz Abid says he fully supports the effort. "Since the police is repeatedly being targeted by militants, we are having major problems recruiting more people into the police force," he says.
"We need all the help we can get, and if civilians can do some part of our job, nothing like it," he continues.
8 taliban terrorist scum killed
From Xinhuanet KABUL, March 4 (Xinhua)-- Eight Taliban militants including their commander were killed in a joint operation of Afghan Security forces and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)in Afghanistan's southern restive Helmand province late Tuesday night, provincial administration spokesman said on Wednesday.
"A joint operation of Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police backed by ISAF claimed the lives of eight Taliban including their commander Mullah Janan in Mian Pushta village of Garmsir district," Daud Ahmadi told Xinhua.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Gates: Iran not close to a nuclear bomb
There seems to be a little confusion among the US military elites about Iran's capacity to build a nuclear bomb. Gates says that Iran is not close to building a bomb so the Obamessiah still has time charm the Muhallacracy into not building nukes. But Adm. Mike Mullen, head of the U.S. military Joint Chiefs of Staff said that Iran presently has enough uranium to build a bomb.
I'm on Mullen's side. Doesn't seem like there's a lot of time left before we see a nuclear armed Muhallacracy. ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran is not close to having a nuclear weapon, which gives the United States and others time to try to persuade Tehran to abandon its suspected atomic arms program, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Sunday.
"They're not close to a stockpile, they're not close to a weapon at this point, and so there is some time," Gates said on NBC television's "Meet The Press."
Gates' comments followed a televised interview with Adm. Mike Mullen, head of the U.S. military Joint Chiefs of Staff, who told CNN's "State of the Union" that he believed Iran has enough fissile material to make a nuclear bomb.
"We think they do, quite frankly," Mullen said.
Omar "Goat Humping" Bakri addresses conference at London primary school
Omar "Goat Humping" Bakri addressed a group of muslims at a London primary school via an internet link-up. "Goat Humping" Bakri for the establishment of an islamic state in Britain and also gave his followers advice on how to properly hold a goat during intercourse so it won't kick you in the groin. TelegraphDozens of Muslims attended the rally at Sudbury Primary School in Harrow, north London, to hear Bakri preach for 40 minutes over the telephone from his exiled home in Lebanon.
The 51-year-old has been living in the country since 2005, having been banned from returning to Britain after he fled his London home after the July 7 attacks.
Bakri told his followers: "The existence of the Islamic state is a necessity for justice to be established, a necessity for the people in order to keep away from personal desire and greed.
"I believe the way forward is Islam. It is time to go back to basics. I believe Islam is the future."
The conference was organised by Bakri's right-hand man Anjem Choudary. the former head of the extremist group Al Muhajiroun. A panel of three other speakers also spoke at the gathering to mark 85 years since the Islamic state Khilasah was abolished by Kemal Ataturk in 1924.
Director receives death threats over documentary about gay muslims
I don't understand why some muslims are so bent out of shape because of the upcoming documentary about gay muslims. After all the most famous muslim, muhammed, was teh gheyest of 'em all.
Then he [Mohammed] said, 'Where is the little one? Call the little one to me.' Hasan came running and jumped into his lap. Then he put his hand in his beard. Then the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, opened his mouth and put his tongue in his mouth. Then he said, O Allah, I love him, so love him and the one who loves him!'"
Daily StarCHANNEL 4 has come under fire from Islamic leaders over a television documentary showing how gay and lesbian Muslims suffer under their laws.
Its director has already had death threats because homosexuality is strictly forbidden by The Koran.
Now station chiefs are bracing themselves for a backlash. Its digital channel More 4 will show A Jihad For Love tonight.
It lifts the lid on the battle gay and lesbian Muslims face as they struggle with their faith and their sexuality.
The documentary not only shows gay Muslims daring to kiss, holding hands and talking about getting married, it also provides harrowing reports on the suffering they have faced under Islamic law.
8 MILF terrorists killed
First you had MILF, then the taliban repackaged their image and now call themselves CUM. Whats next? GILF? From GMA NewsAt least eight Muslim rebels were killed in clashes Monday in the southern Philippines, where troops are hunting down a wanted guerrilla leader blamed for the spate of attacks in the troubled region, officials said.
Officials said the fighting broke out in North Kabuntalan town near the province of Shariff Kabunsuan, where security forces are battling members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
“At least eight MILF rebels were reported killed in the battle," said Lt. Col. Jonathan Ponce, a spokesman for the Army’s 6th Infantry Division.
He said Italian planes SF-260 provided air support to ground troops fighting the rebels under Ameril Kato, one of three MILF commanders wanted by authorities for the series of deadly attacks last year in Mindanao.
Pakistan, Iran to cooperate on security
Just what we need, our so-called nuclear armed ally teaming up with a nuclear ambitious Iran. XinhuanetTEHRAN, March 1 (Xinhua) -- Iran and Pakistan on Sunday expressed their willingness to cooperate in security, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Iranian Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli and visiting Pakistani Interior Ministry's advisor Rehman Malik voiced the countries' keenness during their talks on ways to develop security cooperation to fight "organized crimes, human and drug trafficking and kidnapping," according to IRNA.
The two sides have agreed on holding meetings of their interior ministers on the basis of regular intervals said the reports.
Mexican soldiers fill Juárez streets
I will never go to Jaurez , I skirt around this entire Area ! Military patrols are going to become major targets for attacks .
All this will probably lead to an escalation of violence , Once the Mexican Military starts doing more the Cartels will start Killing more ! It's a matter of to little to late !!!EP Times
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JUÁREZ - Army vehicles carrying five or six masked soldiers travel in twos. In the Downtown tourist district, people are greeted by dozens of Mexican soldiers and federal police officers in SWAT gear. More soldiers are stationed on rooftops.
On Monday, the day after the Mexican government announced that 3,200 more soldiers had arrived, Juárez was visibly different from a month ago. But while the Army and police presence was obvious with more than 8,000 soldiers and law officers on the streets, their effectiveness remained in question.
"I hope things get better, but I think they are going to get worse," said Sergio Lozano Renteria, 37, a Juárez native. "I haven't seen the Army make a difference. Things are getting worse every day, and every day more and more people get killed."
So far in 2009, more than 300 homicides have been committed in Juárez, including nine last weekend. In 2008, about 1,600 people died violently. Decapitated bodies, executions and mid-day ambushes on busy streets became everyday occurrences.
Clinton takes on Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy
I have always wondered , What would happen if the Israelis and the Palestinians Were left to do all their talking on their own ? And why is it the United States Problem to take care of this ? You never see any other country step in to take over Talks !!! Now enter Hillary Clinton , She is there oh , 1 day !!! And she throws money at Palestine , 900 million dollars worth of tax payers money ! Part of which is going to Gaza ( To re-supply their depleted stockpile of weapons ) And she supports Palestinian Statehood !!! Now Israel is not happy with that ! So talks will be at a standstill ( As usual ) nothing will get done ! And there goes our money down the drain ! Thanks Secretary Clinton !!!!
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged on Tuesday to press for Palestinian statehood, putting Washington on a possible collision course with Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu, whom Clinton was to meet later in the day, has spoken of Palestinian self-government but has shied away from saying he would back a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict -- creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
Holding talks in Jerusalem after attending a donors' conference in Egypt for the Gaza Strip, Clinton reaffirmed the Obama administration's vision of Israeli-Palestinian peace.
"During the conference, I emphasized President Obama's and my commitment to working to achieve a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and our support for the Palestinian Authority," she said after meeting Israeli President Shimon Peres.
Netanyahu supports expansion of existing Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, a policy opposed by Washington and which Palestinians say could deny them a viable state.
In Egypt on Monday, she sought to show strong financial support for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and pledged $900 million in U.S. aid, with a third going to help people in Gaza but the bulk aimed at boosting the Western-backed leader.
Monday, March 2, 2009
U.S. navy hands 9 pirates to Somali authorities
I just hope there is Video !!!
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BOSASSO (Reuters) - U.S. forces handed over to authorities in northern Somalia Monday nine pirates they captured after capsizing their boats at sea, a local official said.
The handcuffed men, paraded before reporters in the enclave of Puntland, are expected to appear in court this week, said Mohamed Said, Puntland's deputy police commander.
"The U.S. Navy told us they captured nine pirates Friday and they handed them over to us this afternoon as you can see," he told reporters in the port of Bosasso.
"These pirates were captured as they were trying to hijack ships in the Gulf of Aden ... the U.S. navy capsized the pirates' boats." U.S. officials were not immediately available to comment.
Somali pirates, typically in small groups aboard speedboats, have won millions of dollars in ransom from shipowners after boarding and seizing cargo vessels. The surge in piracy has caused international alarm and warships from several countries have rushed to try to curb the hijacks.
Newly elected President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, a moderate Islamist, and his new government aim to bring peace to the chaotic Horn of Africa nation.
It has had no effective government since warlords ousted dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 then turned on each other.
Violence has killed more than 17,000 people since the start of 2007, uprooted 1 million, and caused a humanitarian crisis.
US nuclear relic found in bottle
Dude.... BBCA bottle discarded at a waste site in the US contains the oldest sample of bomb-grade plutonium made in a nuclear reactor, scientists say.
The sample dates to 1944 and is a relic from the infancy of the US nuclear weapons programme.
A team from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory used nuclear forensic techniques to date the sample and track down its origins.
Details appear in the latest edition of the journal Analytical Chemistry.
Whats the punishment for killing a Jew in Yemen?
A $250,000 fine. But I doubt the money will ever be collected Ynet NewsA Yemeni court has ruled that a Muslim on trial for killing a Yemeni Jew is mentally incompetent and ordered h to pay a fine for the fatal shooting.
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The slaying of Jewish teacher Moshe Yaish Nahari last December in Omran, north of the capital, San'a, raised fears of anti-Semitic attacks across the country.
Monday's ruling says the defendant – Abdel Aziz Yehia Hamoud al-Abdi, a retired pilot in the Yemeni air force – is "mentally unstable." It orders he pay a fine of 50.5 million riyals, or about $250,000.
Iran accuses US reporter of 'illegally' gathering information
First Iran detained US journalist, Roxana Saberi, on charges of buying alcohol, now they're saying she 'illegally' gathered news whatever that means. The mullahacracy's oldest shtick, holding US citizens hostage. AFPTEHRAN (AFP) — Iran said on Monday that a freelance US journalist with Iranian nationality who is reportedly being detained in the Islamic republic has been gathering news "illegally."
Foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi did not confirm or deny whether Roxana Saberi, 31, was being detained by the Iranian authorities, but said her activities were "illegal".
US-based National Public Radio and Fox News, citing Saberi's father, reported last week that the US-born journalist was arrested in late January on charges of buying alcohol, which is prohibited in the Islamic republic.
"Ever since her credentials were revoked by Ershad, her activities have been illegal," Ghashghavi said, referring to the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance, which provides press accreditation for foreign journalists and Iranian reporters working for foreign media in Iran.
"Since 2006 when her press accreditation was revoked, she should not have illegally sought to gather information and news in Iran."
Canadian PM: NATO can't defeat the Taliban
Well not the way NATO is fighting the way right now. Especially so when our so-called allies, Pakistan, surrenders and aids the taliban in the tribal areas. But there is always a military solution to every conflict.
NATO should step up the conventional war and information war against the terrorists. First, increase the air-strikes against the taliban in their safe havens inside Pakistan. Second, disseminate writings of people like Father Zakaria Botros detailing how islam is a false religion.
A stepped up conventional war against the terrorists should demoralize the enemy. Then the information war should eliminate the motivation to fight in the way of islam by proving that islam is false. Globe & MailWASHINGTON -- Canadian and other foreign armies can't defeat the Taliban, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in an interview broadcast yesterday.
The everlasting 'insurgency' is linked to islam. Defeat islam to win in Afghanistan.
"Frankly, we are not going to ever defeat the insurgency," Mr. Harper said, more than seven years after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan toppled the Taliban regime. Canadian troops have been fighting and dying in Afghanistan since 2002, but this is the first time the Prime Minister has explicitly said defeating the Islamic extremists can't be done.
Mr. Harper, in an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, said that despite sending thousands of soldiers to Afghanistan and suffering more than 100 troop deaths, the "success has been modest" and any gains made could be lost.
"We're not going to win this war just by staying," Mr. Harper said, and pointed to the long history of Afghan insurgencies successfully driving out foreign invaders - including the Soviet army in the 1980s and the British a century earlier.
"[From] my reading of Afghanistan history, it's probably had an insurgency forever, of some kind," Mr. Harper said.
Gates: Pakistan is 'most worrisome'
According to the US Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, Pakistan is 'most worrisome' because of the safe havens the taliban and al Qaida enjoy. As long as the terrorists operate out of Pakistan with practical impunity, then there is little hope in winning in Afghanistan.
The tribal areas of Pakistan have always been used as a springboard by mujahideen to launch attacks into Afghanistan. Surely the military commanders must have known this. But for some reason the government opted to rely on Pakistan to take care of that area. Everyone knows how that is turning out.
The tribal areas of Pakistan should be considered no mans land since Pakistan has no real jurisdiction over the lands. Then a massive bombing campaign should follow which should flatten the mountains there. Thats the only way to defeat the terrorists there. CNNWASHINGTON (CNN) -- The "most worrisome" part of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan has become the havens the Taliban and other insurgents have carved out in neighboring Pakistan, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.
Gates said the United States had a similar perch in Pakistan when U.S. and Pakistani officials supported Afghanistan's mujahedeen rebels against the Soviet Union in the 1980s -- "and let me tell you, it made a big difference."
"I think as long as they have a safe haven to operate there, it's going to be a problem for us in Afghanistan," he told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.
The Pentagon is in the process of sending an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan, the original front in the "war on terrorism" sparked by the September 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. They will be tasked primarily with clamping down on that border, a military official with specific knowledge of the deployment told CNN earlier this month.
12 terrorist scum killed in Predator strike
From GEOAt least 12 people were killed when two back-to-back missiles fired from suspected U.S. drones hit a house situated in Sararogha area here on Sunday.
The strike occurred in South Waziristan, the stronghold of Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, according to a foreign news agency
Marine One details leaked from P2P net
It sounds to me like there is a big security problem within the Government and it's contractors ! Maybe they Should wake the hell up and do something about it ?
How our Government , With all the advances in PC security , be so far behind the times is , Mind Numbing at best ! ZDNET
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A company that monitors P2P networks says it found details about the president’s helicopter, Marine One, on a computer in Tehran. Pittsburgh station WPXI reports.
Bob Boback, CEO of Tiversa, said, ”We found a file containing entire blueprints and avionics package for Marine One. … What appears to be a defense contractor in Bethesda, MD had a file sharing program on one of their systems that also contained highly sensitive blueprints for Marine One,” Boback said.
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, an adviser to Tiversa, added:
We found where this information came from. We know exactly what computer it came from. I’m sure that person is embarrassed and may even lose their job, but we know where it came from and we know where it went.
It’s no accident the information wound up in Iran, the company said. Countries like Iran, Pakistan, Yemen, Qatar and China are “actively searching for information that is disclosed in this fashion because it is a great source of intelligence,” Boback said.
Rep. Jason Altmire said he will ask Congress to investigate the risk to national security of this sort of exposure.
Cnet’s Charles Cooper interviewed the Tiversa’s Sam Hopkins (Cooper says he’s the CEO but the original report said Boback is CEO; the company website doesn’t list executives), who said someone at the company was running a Gnutella client - possible a buggy one.
Hopkins said it’s hardly an unusual occurence - although presumably the usual breaches aren’t so closely connected to the President.
Everybody uses (P2P). Everybody. We see classified information leaking all the time. When the Iraq war got started, we knew what U.S. troops were doing because G.I.’s who wanted to listen to music would install software on secure computers and it got compromised. … We see information flying out there to Iran, China, Syria, Qatar–you name it. There’s so much out there that sometimes we can’t keep up with it.
Bottom line: P2P is the biggest disaster for security “of all time.”
We’ve had people come into our data center and we’ve shown them things that are out there on P2P and they go away with their minds blown.
Pakistani kidnappers set deadline to kill American
If it were me I would have started offing everyone on these assholes list ! They are going to kill the guy either way ! It's like a fact of life when you are a westerner in a dipshit country like Pakistan , The pay must be really good to willingly risk your life for your job !
....No Douchebag , It will be your fault ! Don't worry though we have Plenty of Hellfire Missiles , waiting for people like you !
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - An unknown militant group holding an American working for the United Nations in Pakistan has said it will kill the hostage, John Solecki, in four days if its demands are not met.
The Baluchistan Liberation United Front (BLUF) gave the latest deadline in a letter delivered to a local news agency in Quetta late on Sunday.
Solecki, 49, the head of the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in southwestern Baluchistan province, was kidnapped in the provincial capital of Quetta on February 2 after gunmen ambushed his car and shot dead the driver.
"If our demands are not met then we will kill him, and state agencies will be responsible for it," the group said in the letter.
The group attached a list of 1,109 names of people it said were missing and being held by Pakistani security agencies, and demanded their release.
This is not the first deadline Solecki's captors have given.
The BLUF had earlier demanded U.N. intervention to secure the release of 141 women it said were held in Pakistani torture cells, provide information about more than 6,000 missing persons, and resolve the issue of Baluch independence under the Geneva Convention.
Baluchistan, the largest but poorest of Pakistan's four provinces, lies on the border with Afghanistan. Separatist militants have fought a low-scale insurgency there for decades.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
UN anti-blasphemy measures have sinister goals, observers say
If none of you have read Robert Spencer's "Stealth Jihad" it is well worth the time ! He writes of how the Islamic Council's are trying to impose there will upon the west through the Stealth Jihad ,(behind our backs ) Using the courts and whatever means necessary to Stop all "Bad" things said toward Islum ! to the point of trying to make sure that a 'Non-Muslim" never speaks about Islum , Because we are not capable of understanding it ? They are one step closer today with this U.N. Vote !
Hey Muslims ! Kiss my American Free speaking Ass !
P.S. Mohammed Was a Pedophile ! And he was a cross dressing Queen !canada.com
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Islamic countries Monday won United Nations backing for an anti-blasphemy measure Canada and other Western critics say risks being used to limit freedom of speech.
Combating Defamation of Religions passed 85–50 with 42 abstentions in a key UN General Assembly committee, and will enter into the international record after an expected rubber stamp by the plenary later in the year.
But while the draft’s sponsors say it and earlier similar measures are aimed at preventing violence against worshippers regardless of religion, religious tolerance advocates warn the resolutions are being accumulated for a more sinister goal.
“It provides international cover for domestic anti-blasphemy laws, and there are a number of people who are in prison today because they have been accused of committing blasphemy,” said Bennett Graham, international program director with the Becket Fund, a think tank aimed at promoting religious liberty.
“Those arrests are made legitimate by the UN body’s (effective) stamp of approval.”
Canada and other Western countries emphasize the distinction between granting an “idea” rights - and defending the right of people not to be discriminated against.
“Canada rejects the basic premise that religions have rights; human rights belong to human beings,” said Catherine Loubier, spokeswoman for Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon.
“The focus (here) should not be on protecting religions, but rather on protecting the rights of the adherents of religions, including of people belonging to religious minorities, or people who may choose to change their religion, or not to practice religion at all.”
Canada says governments have abused laws against defamation or contempt of religions to “prosecute and imprison journalists, bloggers, academics students and peaceful political dissidents.”
The Iranian parliament, for example, is currently weighing a draft amendment to its penal code that would impose capital punishment for apostasy.
But in an irony given Canada’s stance, an anti-blasphemy law remains in the Criminal Code. Experts point out it has not been used for a prosecution in more than 70 years.
Powerful Fusion Laser to Recreate Conditions Inside Exoplanets
Spooky stuff here ! if you thought the Hadron collider was scary , this sombitch is way spookier ! If successful this could potentially lead to some new weaponry ! the ability to create sustained nuclear fusion with a laser and a piece of iron (Found in most buildings ) I'm sure there is some obstacles to overcome , but the Potential is there to make the 'Ultimate" Weapon !!!!
P.S. this is just My Dr. Evil , Conspiracy theory !! but really you never Know !universe today
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We've all heard that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will collide particles together at previously unimaginable energies. In doing so, the LHC will recreate the conditions immediately after the Big Bang, thereby allowing us to catch a glimpse of what particles the Universe would have been filled with at this time. In a way, the LHC will be a particle time machine, allowing us to see the high energy conditions last seen immediately after the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago.
The NIF laser can deliver 500 trillion watts in a 20-nanosecond burst, which may not sound very long, but the energy delivered is immense. Raymond Jeanloz, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, will have the exciting task of using the laser, aiming it at a small iron sample (800 micrometres in diameter), allowing him to generate a moment where pressures exceed a billion times atmospheric pressure. That's 1000 times the pressure of the centre of the Earth.
On firing the laser, the heat will vaporize the iron, blasting a jet of gas so powerful, it will send a shock wave through the metal. The resulting compression is what will be observed and measured, revealing how the metal's crystalline structure and melting point change at these pressures. The results from these tests will hopefully shed some light on the formation of the hundreds of massive exoplanets discovered in the last two decades.
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is ready for action. The facility will perform fusion experiments, hopefully making a self-sustaining nuclear fusion reaction a reality using an incredibly powerful laser (firing at a hydrogen isotope fuel). Apart from the possibility of finding a way to kick-start a viable fusion energy source (other laboratories have tried, but only sustained fusion for an instant before fizzing out), the results from the laser tests will aid the management of the US nuclear weapon stockpile (since there have been no nuclear warhead tests in 15 years, data from the experiments may help the military deduce whether or not their bombs still work).
Fusion energy and nuclear bombs to one side, there is another use for the laser. It could be used to recreate the crushing pressures inside a massive exoplanet so we can glean a better understanding of what happens to matter at these crushing depths.
