Report on Arrakis: 6/28/09 - 7/5/09

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Han Chinese protesters seek Muslim Uighur targets

The crowd were carrying an improvised arsenal of meat cleavers, metal rods and spades seized from building sites, rocks and wooden clubs, and the most extreme shouted "kill them" and "exterminate the Uighurs."

Things are getting out of control in China , Civil unrest is never dealt with Kindly And the people always loose , But Maybe the Hans will come out on top in this one !

URUMQI, China (Reuters) - Han Chinese armed with iron bars and machetes roamed Urumqi city on Tuesday looking to wreak revenge on Uighurs for bloody ethnic clashes two days earlier which killed 156 and wounded more than 1,000.

Outnumbered riot police used tear gas to try to disperse the thousands of angry protesters who flooded the capital of the northwestern region of Xinjiang.

In a sign of government anxiety about the unrest, the city's Communist Party boss Li Zhi took to the streets to plead with protesters to return home, and overnight "traffic restrictions" -- originally announced as a curfew -- came into effect to halt the violence, in which many people were injured.
But riot police stood warily by as crowds vented their anger by throwing rocks at a mosque and smashing restaurants and shops owned by Uighurs, a Turkic people who are largely Muslim and share linguistic and cultural bonds with Central Asia.

"They attacked us. Now it's our turn to attack them," a Han man in the crowd told Reuters. He refused to give his name.

The crowd were carrying an improvised arsenal of meat cleavers, metal rods and spades seized from building sites, rocks and wooden clubs, and the most extreme shouted "kill them" and "exterminate the Uighurs."

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Ahmadinejad says Iran election was world's "freest"

when I first read this I thought it was a joke , then I read it again , I have now concluded that this is a joke !
Iran's elections the freest in the world ?
Sure , Free of actual Legitimate votes !

TEHRAN (reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday the disputed presidential election was the world's "freest" vote, while opposition leaders criticized the "security state" imposed after the polls.

The hardline president, in his first speech since the official confirmation of his re-election in the June 12 vote, said the election marked a new start for the country, and the government was entering a "new era."

"The presidential election was the freest election around the globe ... The new government is entering a new era, internationally and domestically," Ahmadinejad said.

"The election was a new start for the Islamic Republic."

Yeah a new era and a new start for the Islamic republic ! A new era of Oppression , a new start of clamping down on the freewill of the people of Iran !

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Al Gore likens fight against climate change to war against Nazis

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War II.” He added: “We have everything we need except political will but political will is a renewable resource.”...I'm like totally serial.

Al Gore then went on to complain that the public has yet to buy into the man made global warming scam.

Instead of focusing our energy on some manbearpig climate change scam, we should be focused on defeating the real Nazis of our time. Regimes like Iran, North Korea, al Qaida, the taliban, al Shabaab, Hizbollah, Hamas, Syria and China are just some of the real fascists of our time.Times Online

DC comic superheros to team up with muslim superheros

DC comic book superheros, Superman, Batman, and the Flash are to team up with muslim superheros the 99. So far it has not be announced what they'll battle against. Could be zionists, evil neo-cons, or negative muslim stereotypes. Your guess is as good as mine.

The 99 are a group of muslims who acquired superhuman abilities after coming in contact with mystical gems. IMO the funniest character is Batina The Hidden, who has powers of invisibility and camouflage, she is the only female character who wears a burqa. Fitting that the character who is invisible wears a burqa. The 99

H/T: Solomon

Islamists advertising on our site

The other day while I was checking this site I noticed a google ad from "Why islam" (see above). The Islamic Circle of North America started the "Why islam" ad campaign in order to "break stereotypes of muslims... [and] to give the right picture of Islam. It is not about terrorism. It is about peace,''

I don't know whether I should laugh because I have islamists advertising on my site or whether I should cry because I have islamists advertising on my site. I'm leaning towards the latter.

If you really want to learn what jihad is about then check out our "Why islam" campaign which actually gives you a real picture of what islam and jihad is about.

Under the fold you can check out a couple of quranic passages that call muslims to jihad (holy war).
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YUSUFALI: Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks; At length, when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly (on them): thereafter (is the time for) either generosity or ransom: Until the war lays down its burdens. Thus (are ye commanded): but if it had been Allah's Will, He could certainly have exacted retribution from them (Himself); but (He lets you fight) in order to test you, some with others. But those who are slain in the Way of Allah,- He will never let their deeds be lost.

YUSUFALI: Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya [Ed. tax] with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.

YUSUFALI: Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know. Whatever ye shall spend in the cause of Allah, shall be repaid unto you, and ye shall not be treated unjustly.

YUSUFALI: Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): "I am with you: give firmness to the Believers: I will instil terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them."

Indian Cyber Crime Investigation Cell requests site to take down mohammed cartoons

Musing Minds received an email from the Mumbai Cyber Crime Investigation Cell requesting the site author to take down "insulting" cartoons of the islamic prophet mohammed. Visit the site to read the email.

Al Shabaab gives Somali government 5 days to surrender

It's a good thing we're sending the terrorist infested Somali government 40 tons of weapons. Bloomberg

July 6 (Bloomberg) -- The leader of Somalia’s Islamist al- Shabaab movement gave the government five days to surrender and hand over its weapons or face prosecution by Shariah courts.

The rebel group, which the U.S. accuses of having ties to al-Qaeda, is fighting to oust Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed who came to power in January and has called for peace talks between the countries Islamist factions.

“I call on the apostate government soldiers who are in the frontline of battle to surrender to the Islamists and to hand over all their weapons,” Sheikh Muktar Abu-Subeyr, the highest ranking officer of al-Shabaab, said in an audio recording distributed to reporters in the capital, Mogadishu, yesterday.

Released Gitmo detainee leading taliban in Helmand province

Mullah Zakir, aka Abdul Qayum Zakir, also known as Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, was a senior fighter for the taliban in the 90s and surrendered to US forces in 2001. He was transferred to Gitmo in 2006, transferred to Afghan custody in 2007 and released in 2008.

Some of the factors that favored his release were: he did not know who Osama bin Laden was, he never attended any jihadi training camps, he was conscripted into the taliban in 95 and rejoined in 98 to get medical attention, and the Casio watches, similar to ones used by al Qaida in previous bombins, found on Zakir "belonged to someone else".

I used the same line on my parents when they found my cigarettes back when I went to high school. "They're not mine, they're my friend's. He didn't have any pockets so I held on to them for him."

Hopefully this time around the Marines will give Zakir a one was ticket to hell. New York Post

KABUL, Afghanistan -- As Marine Corps forces roll into southern Afghanistan, they face an enemy familiar to US officials -- Mullah Zakir, a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who now leads a reconstituted Taliban.[...]

Zakir wasted little time rekindling his relationship with the Taliban, especially its inner shura, or leadership council, based in Pakistan. According to some accounts, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar appointed Zakir as a senior military commander in mid-2008. He quickly developed a reputation as a charismatic leader.[...]

Early this year, he began to reorganize the Taliban. He helped create an "accountability commission" to monitor and evaluate the performance of key Taliban leaders and track spending.[...]

They called it Operation Nasrat ("victory") and pledged to use "ambushes, offensives, explosions, martyrdom-seeking attacks, and surprise attacks." The Taliban also warned that they would attack "military units of the invading forces, diplomatic centers, mobile convoys and high-ranking officials" of the Afghan government.

As Marines move through Helmand, they will be on the lookout for Zakir and his support network. But like many senior Taliban leaders, Zakir spends a lot of time in Pakistani cities like Quetta and Karachi, frightened he'll be killed in an attack.

Read the whole article.

At least 12 taliban terrorist scum killed in Predator Drone attack

"Our initial reports from agents in the field say at least 12 to 14 Taliban have died in today's [Tuesday's] American missile attack," BBC

At least 12 militants have died in missiles fired by a suspected US drone in north-west Pakistan, intelligence officials and residents said.

The attack targeted a stronghold of Pakistan's Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud in South Waziristan, near the Afghan border.

The missiles flattened a compound in the Makeen area, officials said.

Monday, July 6, 2009

Vote leaves Mexico reforms in opposition's hands

leaving millions to cross the U.S. border illegally in search of work ?

Mexico has had a problem with jobs And just plain old corruption of Politics for the past 30 years or so ! And we have had the Immigration problem for the same amount of time !

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A worse-than-expected congressional election defeat for Mexico's ruling conservatives has left President Felipe Calderon's economic reform agenda firmly in the hands of the opposition.

Voters tired of a recession and crime wave handed victory at Sunday's mid-term vote to the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which has flourished in opposition since it was ousted in 2000 from seven decades of one-party rule.

Calderon's National Action Party, or PAN, moved Mexico into a new era of democracy with the victory over the PRI nine years ago but it has failed to create the jobs it promised, leaving millions to cross the U.S. border illegally in search of work.

Mexicans have praised Calderon's war on drug gangs, but are worried by a surge in brutal cartel murders and kidnappings, and Calderon's defeat now risks leaving him a lame duck.

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Iraq insurgents proud to be on U.S. terror list

Martyrdom is a Point of Pride also !

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraq-based Shi'ite insurgent group rejoiced at the U.S. government's decision to designate it a foreign terror organization, calling it a point of pride, a U.S. militant monitor said Monday. Just days after Kata'ib Hizballah was designated a foreign terror group by U.S. President Barack Obama's administration, the group posted a triumphant message on a Shi'ite jihadist forum praising the move, according to SITE Intelligence.

"It is an invitation to pride that the children of Hezbollah Brigade be put on the list that frightens the occupation, chases them and plants terror in their hearts," SITE described the message as saying.

"Classifying us on the American terror list means that we are still marching on the right path," it said.

The designation for the group, which the United States believes is linked to Lebanon's Hezbollah, means the Iraq-based militant group's assets will be frozen and Americans will be prohibited from providing it with any resources.

Washington blames the group for numerous bomb and other attacks in Iraq, including a November 2008 rocket attack that killed two United Nations workers.

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Somali pirates smuggling al Qaida terrorists into Somalia

Al Shabaab is using Somali pirates in order to ferry in al Qaida terrorists into Somalia. But of course the Somali pirates are just volunteers who are protecting the environmental integrity of the coast of Somalia. Nothing to do with jihad and islam. Telegraph

The Taliban-style Shabab group , which has already siezed control of much of the lawless nation, has enlisted the pirates' services to smuggle in al-Qaeda fighters from across the Middle East, according to Somali government ministers. They claim that up to 1,000 have arrived in recent months, swelling the ranks of the Shabab in its bid to topple the fragile US-backed administration in Mogadishu.

The warning was issued by Somali's first deputy prime minister, Professor Abdulrahman Adan Ibrahim, during a visit to London last week. He is lobbying for Britain and other Western countries to give more financial help to stamp out the piracy problem along the country's vast 2,000 mile coastline.

"The Shabab are requesting the pirates to bring people in for them," Prof Ibrahim told The Sunday Telegraph. "Somalia's borders with neighbouring countries are now tightly policed, so the only corridor for them is via the sea. The pirates smuggle them, and if anybody stops them, they just say they are passing fishermen."

China says 140 dead in Xinjiang unrest

As I said " muslims are just not Happy " The riots in China have grown worse with 140 dead now since last night , China will definitely clamp down on this area , they have already cut the internet , And have made a few Hundred arrests with more to be expected.

URUMQI, China (Reuters) - At least 140 people have been killed in
rioting in the capital of China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, with
the government blaming exiled Muslim separatists for the area's worst
case of ethnic unrest in years.

Hundreds of rioters have been arrested, the official Xinhua news agency
reported, after rock-throwing Uighurs took to the streets of the
regional capital on Sunday, some burning and smashing vehicles and
confronting ranks of anti-riot police.

Urumqi residents were unable to access the Internet on Monday, several said.
"The city is basically under martial law," Yang Jin, a dried fruit
merchant, said by telephone.

Theunrest underscores the volatile ethnic tensions that have accompanied
China's growing economic and political stake in its western frontiers.

Asenior official swiftly delivered the government claim that the unrest
was the work of extremist forces abroad, signaling a security crackdown
in the strategic region near Pakistan and central Asia.

LiZhi, the Communist Party boss of Urumqi told a news conference that the
death toll from the rioting had risen to 140, the semi-official China
News Agency said. Xinhua said 816 people were injured and hospitalized.

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MI6 chief's cover blown through facebook

The British just can't seem to keep secrets. Telegraph

Sir John is due to take up his post as chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, in charge of Britain's spying operations abroad, in November.

But his wife's posting on the social networking site have exposed potentially compromising details about where they live and work, their friends and where they go on holiday.[...]

Lady Sawers posted photographs of the family's holidays and gave details of the location of the family's flat in London and the whereabouts of their three children and of Sir John's parents.

On June 16, the day Sir John's MI6 appointment was announced, she posted 19 pictures of the couple on holiday with their friends in the West Country earlier that month.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Riots in China’s Muslim minority region

Though this has not grown into a major deal yet , It will , Muslims in China (And many other places around the World ) Are just not happy ! Fighting over Violence , and a lack of Jobs , makes for an angry mob . This is what started the French riots A while back . It is just The calm before the Storm !

the Hindu.com
BEIJING: Riots broke out in the capital city of China’s Muslim-majority Xinjiang autonomous region on Sunday with hundreds of protesters attacking passers-by and torching vehicles.

Xinjiang is home to 8 million Uighur Muslims, a minority group in China, and the region has seen intermittent tensions between Uighurs and China’s majority Han ethnic group. Sunday’s violence in the capital city of Urumqi follows racial violence between Uighurs and Han Chinese that took place in southern China last week and left two Uighurs dead and 118 others injured.

China’s State-run Xinhua agency reported that “an unknown number gathered on Sunday afternoon in Urumqi” and began “attacking passers-by and setting fire to vehicles.” Official reports did not mention the cause behind the violence. Xinhua reported that soon after clashes broke out, “police rushed to the site to maintain order.”

A local journalist, who asked not to be identified, told The Hindu that hundreds of Uighurs had on Sunday gathered to protest last weeks violence between Uighurs and Han Chinese.

A video of Sunday’s protest filmed by an Urumqi resident, a copy of which is with The Hindu, shows a crowd of several hundred gathering in a city street, blocking traffic and raising slogans.
ABC Update-Three dead in China riots

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Earn our trust or go, Afghan villagers tell Marines

That is fine that these people don't trust us ! We definitely do not trust the Tribal leaders of Afghanistan , some of these are the people who talk nice to your face and then tell the Taliban where you are at !
May things smooth over and they get a little of what they want , so that we may help eradicate the Taliban and move on , They just need to realize that if they help us we can go away sooner !

SORKHDOZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The mullah's message was blunt. We don't trust you and if you don't earn our trust, our first meeting will be our last.

With that, he stood abruptly and walked out of his first "shura," or council meeting, with U.S. Marines.

U.S. forces who have moved deep into formerly Taliban-controlled territory in southern Afghanistan this week say they are here to stay and will not leave until they have improved the lives of ordinary people.

But locals -- used to seeing NATO troops come through to fight but fail to follow through on promises of development -- may not be won over easily.
The elders listened, clicking their prayer beads. Then Mullah Zainuddin, the village's religious leader, listed their demands.

They want the provincial authorities to allocate more water for their irrigation system. They want a health clinic, and they want a school. Produce these things or leave us alone, he said.

"I do not trust you. There have been international forces that have come through the village and promised schools, promised clinics. When you are already (delivering) that, then I will trust you," he said.

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Saturday, July 4, 2009

Hedrix plays national anthem

Terrorists on the run

This is what we want to hear ! The Taliban is on the run ,The Pakistani military will push the Taliban towards the Afghan Border , The U.S. and Coalition forces will push them from southern Afghanistan towards the North When they come together it Will be a Major Smackdown !

Staff Report Daily Times

RAWALPINDI: The army and tribesmen killed 13 more Taliban – including commander Naeemullah – in clashes in various areas of Swat and Dir on Friday, said security forces in the latest update of the offensive as reports indicated that the Taliban are now on the run – with troops consolidating their positions in Malakand division.

The ISPR said that troops also arrested 24 Taliban and seized a huge cache of arms. “Security forces conducted a search operation near Shah Dheri area, [where] ... 10 Taliban were killed and 20 injured,” said the ISPR, adding that two Taliban were killed during search operations in Gokdara and Tandodag areas, where forces claimed finding a huge quantity of ordnance – two SMGs with 650 rounds, one round of RPG-7, several mortars and one improvised explosive device (IED).

They also seized three rifles with 75 rounds, two pistols with 30 rounds, one communication set and 30 mobile phone SIMs in Kabal and Akun Kalle. The forces also conducted a search operation in Zara Khella and confiscated 16 rifles with 134 rounds, two IEDs, two pistols with 10 rounds, safety fuses and detonators. Forces destroyed the house of a Taliban and seized two IEDs, misfired rounds of mortars, 10 litres of acid and one rifle.

Meanwhile, a lashkar in Dir killed commander Naeemullah in a clash. In Bajaur Agency, three Taliban were killed in shelling by security forces, according to a private TV channel. Also, five suspected Taliban were killed in PAF airstrikes in North Waziristan, reported another private TV channel.

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Happy Independence Day!

North Korea defies U.S. with new missile launches

It is so nice of North Korea to honor our day of independence by firing off Seven missiles ! Maybe they will top it off with a grand finale of a Nuclear test ? That would make it real exciting !

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles on Saturday, South Korea's defense ministry said, in an act of defiance toward the United States that further stoked regional tensions already high due to its nuclear test in May.

South Korea's Yonhap news agency said the missiles test-fired were "Scud-type," marking an escalation of recent saber-rattling by the reclusive North, which has fired several non-ballistic, short-range missile since the May 25 nuclear test.

North Korea is barred by United Nations resolutions from firing ballistic missile such as the Scud. A South Korean Defense Ministry official said more launches could come soon.

It was the biggest barrage of ballistic missiles the North has fired since it launched seven missiles in 2006 around the U.S. July 4 Independence Day holiday, including its longest-range Taepodong-2.

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Friday, July 3, 2009

India operating 40 secret ‘Gitmos’

But does anybody care ?
Will any of those in the U.S. and the rest of the World , Stand up and speak out with the same Appalled attitude they had when they spoke out against the Real Gitmo ? I think not , It is not something America has anything to do with so it will be O.K..

Daily Times
NEW DELHI: The United States may have been forced to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre but India runs 40 such “illegal” secret chambers across the country, one of India’s leading magazine revealed in its forthcoming issue.

An early copy of The Week obtained by Daily Times reveals the horror of the torture chambers, where suspects were subjected to extreme interrogation techniques for years. “I could never again dream of doing the things I did when I was in charge,” said Maloy Krishna Dhar, former joint director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), while admitting to the existence of such centres. Top police officers also told the journal that these chambers were their “assets”. “They are our own little Guantanamos,” they said.

Quoting KS Subramanian, former director general of police, who has also served in the IB, it said these sites existed and were being used to detain and interrogate suspected terrorists and have been operating for a long time. Dhar admitted that these centres fanned militancy in Indian Punjab and IHK. The magazine’s investigating team has identified 15 such centres – three each in Mumbai, New Delhi, Gujarat and Indian-held Kashmir (IHK), two in Kolkata and one in Assam. But officials claim the number could be around 40.

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Torture: An officer who had worked in one of the detention centres admitted extreme physical and mental torture, based loosely on the Guantanamo model, was used to extract information from detainees. It included an assault on the senses and sleep deprivation, keeping the prisoners naked, and forcibly administering drugs through the rectum. “In extreme cases we use pethidine injections. It makes a person crazy.” The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) questioned Saeed Khan (name changed), one of the accused in the Malegaon blasts of September 2006, held at the Aarey Colony facility in Goregaon, the biggest of the three detention centres in Mumbai. He was served food at irregular intervals (leading to temporary disorientation) and was denied sleep.

Russia to allow US arms transit to Afghanistan

Nice of Russia to let us transport our weapons to Afghanistan through Russia now .
You would think a lot of the countries that have issues with Muslim Extremists just like we do , would be on our side , And if not for the sake of being an ally , but defeating the Nastiness that is Militant Islam !

daily times
MOSCOW: Russia will allow the United States to ship weapons across its territory to Afghanistan, a top Kremlin aide said on Friday in a gesture aimed at bolstering US military operations and improving strained ties between Washington and Moscow. The deal is expected to be signed during US President Barack Obama’s visit to Moscow next week, Kremlin Foreign Policy Adviser Sergei Prikhodko said. Russia has been allowing the US to ship non-lethal supplies across its territory for operations in Afghanistan and Kremlin officials had suggested further cooperation was likely. ap

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Obama and N. Korea! (Featuring Lil KimJong)

Sweden: Visit by spiritual leader of al-Shabaab

Xasaan Xuseen, the spiritual leader of al Shabaab, is scheduled to speak at the Bellevue Mosque in Sweden. Is this part of al Shabaab's recruitment of Somalis from the US, Candada, Britain and Scandinavia? Islam in Europe

The invitation of a man identified as the spiritual leader of al-Shabab by the Bellevue Mosque is disturbing many of Gothenburg's Swedish-Somalis. He brainwashes youth, says Yoonis Hassan.

Yoonis Hassan works as a supervisor at the Gothenburg tram. He is one of several Swedish-Somalis of varying ages who gathered in central Gothenburg to commemorate Somalian independence. Some of them regularly visit the mosque in Bellevue.

The youth in the room speak carefully about Xasaan Xuseen, who was invited to speak in a conference starting at the mosque today (Thursday). The older people have more to say: Yoonis Hassan says that he's calling Somalis home to wage war. People are concerned about this this, especially parents.

Most of those GP spoke with wanted to remain anonymous. Everybody is basically convinced that Xasaan Xuseen came to Gothenburg for two reasons: to collect money for al-Shabaab and recruit youth for the group's activities.

"He has supporters in Sweden," says Yoonis Hassan.

Canadian Arab Federation exec: "F**k Canada Day"

A 22 year old executive of the Canadian Arab Federation resigned from the position after he posted "F**k Canada Day" on his facebook page.

F**k Canada Day? F**k islam!

You don't like Canada? Well no one is forcing you to stay in Canada. Why don't you go to the middle east, where you can practice your religion that was founded by a homosexual, camel urine drinking pervert. The Toronto Sun

The tirade on Omar Shaban's profile stirred up a firestorm of controversy and put CAF leaders in damage-control mode as they were quick to condemn the posting on the social networking site.

Just after 8:30 last night, Shaban, 23, resigned his post as the CAF's executive vice-president for Western Canada, CAF national president Khaled Mouammar confirmed.

"There was a big outcry from our member organizations and it was felt that he had to correct that," Mouammar said. "He decided that the best thing for him to do was to resign."[...]

Shaban didn't return requests from the Sun for interviews and to verify that the comments on his personal Facebook status update were indeed his writings. But his Facebook page spoke volumes.

"It's finally Canada Day ... Couldn't be more ashamed to be Canadian," he wrote, apparently in reference to Canada's treatment of the native population.

The president of the Canadian Arab Federation, Khaled Mouammar, also has his share of bad PR for hanging the flags of Hamas and Hizbullah in his office, and for calling the Canadian Immigration Minister a whore for his support of Israel.

U.S. drone strike kills 10 in Pakistan

A good way to start off the Fourth of July weekend ! this is my most favorite holiday , the fourth of July is a day marked by Everyday Americans putting their foot down , declaring our Independence , and beating the Crap out of those that would Oppress us ! The reason why so many come here , and so many hate us !

WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A U.S. drone aircraft fired missiles on Friday into Pakistan's South Waziristan region, killing 10 militants, officials said, ahead of an expected Pakistani military offensive in the area.
Three missiles were fired at militant hideouts in an area near the Afghan border controlled by Pakistani Taliban leader and al Qaeda ally Baitullah Mehsud, killing 10 militants and wounding seven, two intelligence agency officials said.

"The missiles hit an office of Mufti Noor Wali, who was once in charge of training militants for suicide attacks," one of the officials said.

It was not known if Wali was among the dead, or if any foreign militants had been killed, they said.

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North Korea may carry out another nuclear test

North Korea is raising the stakes. ITN

North Korea may be about to carry out another nuclear test, the British ambassador in Pyongyang has said.

North Korea carried out a nuclear test in May - a move that experts said put it closer to having a working nuclear bomb.

"We cannot rule out that a further nuclear test will take place," said Peter Hughes, the British ambassador to North Korea.

"Yesterday, two short-range missiles were launched and you'll have seen reports that there may be a launch of an ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) in the coming days or weeks," he said.

Zelaya accused of drug ties

This is the guy who Obama wants returned to power. Yahoo! News

BOGOTA – The regime that ousted Manuel Zelaya in Honduras claimed Tuesday that the deposed president allowed tons of cocaine to be flown into the Central American country on its way to the United States.

"Every night, three or four Venezuelan-registered planes land without the permission of appropriate authorities and bring thousands of pounds ... and packages of money that are the fruit of drug trafficking," its foreign minister, Enrique Ortez, told CNN en Espanol.

"We have proof of all of this. Neighboring governments have it. The DEA has it," he added.

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman Rusty Payne in Washington said he could neither confirm nor deny a DEA investigation.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Mineapolis Somalis indicted for ties to al Qaida

At least three Somalis from the Mineapolis area have been indicted by a grand jury on terror related charges. The Somalis were recruited by al Shabaab, a terrorist organization with close ties to al Qaida.

One of the indicted is a man, 21 year old Abdifatah Ise, who went to Somalia to wage jihad with al Shabaab. Abdifatah Ise returned to the US earlier this year after fighting for al Shabaab but was arrested at the Seattle airport.Fox News

A federal grand jury has indicted a group of Somali-Americans on terror-related charges after more than 20 young men from the Minneapolis area were recruited to join an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia, according to two law enforcement sources.

The indictments have yet to be unsealed, but an announcement is expected in the next few weeks. One law enforcement source told FOX News the grand jury already has handed up indictments against at least three people.

Among those charged is a man from Minneapolis who went to war-torn Somalia and then, about four months ago, relocated to Seattle, according to the two sources and a leader in the Minneapolis Somali community. The man was then arrested in a Seattle airport and transferred to a jail in Minneapolis, where he is currently being detained, according to the law enforcement sources.

The law enforcement sources said the man, described as in his 20s, has been charged with providing material support to a terrorist group, in this case al-Shabaab, which has been warring with the moderate Somali government since 2006.

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Al Shabaab beheads two young boys

Religion of peace my ass. Compass Direct

NAIROBI, Kenya, July 1 (Compass Direct News) – Islamic extremists have beheaded two young boys in Somalia because their Christian father refused to divulge information about a church leader, and the killers are searching Kenya’s refugee camps to do the same to the boys’ father.

Before taking his Somali family to a Kenyan refugee camp in April, 55-year-old Musa Mohammed Yusuf himself was the leader of an underground church in Yonday village, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Kismayo in Somalia. He had received instruction in the Christian faith from Salat Mberwa. [...]

At noon the next day, as his wife was making lunch for their children in Yonday, the al Shabaab militants showed up. Batula Ali Arbow, Yusuf’s wife, recalled that their youngest son, Innocent, told the group that their father had left the house the previous day.

The Islamic extremists ordered her to stop what she was doing and took hold of three of her sons – 11-year-old Abdi Rahaman Musa Yusuf, 12-year-old Hussein Musa Yusuf and Abdulahi Musa Yusuf, 7. Some neighbors came and pleaded with the militants not to harm the three boys. Their pleas landed on deaf ears.

“I watched my three boys dragged away helplessly as my youngest boy was crying,” Arbow said. “I knew they were going to be slaughtered. Just after some few minutes I heard a wailing cry from Abdulahi running towards the house. I could not hold my breath. I only woke up with all my clothes wet. I knew I had fainted due to the shock.”

New York Mayer says no to muslim holidays for NY schools

Good for Mayor Bloomberg. New York Daily News

After a three-year lobbying effort, the City Council overwhelmingly passed a resolution Tuesday calling for school to be closed on the two holiest Muslim holidays.

But Mayor Bloomberg said he would not make the change called for in the resolution, which is nonbinding.

“One of the problems you have with a diverse city,” he said, “is that if you close the schools for every single holiday, there won’t be any school.”

Napolitano says some 9/11 terrorists would still get through

Uh, that makes me feel safe. Telegraph

In an interview in London, Janet Napolitano said screening procedures have been improved since the attacks eight years ago, adding: "All but four of the attackers would have been picked up."

But she said: "You can't thermoseal entry to the US. We have to be ever vigilant."[...]

A spokesman said afterwards: "It should be pointed out that the Secretary was talking strictly about the changes in the travel rules since 9/11. Other estimates, when factoring in increased intelligence manpower, suggest the number of hijackers who would have been interrupted would have been even higher, but the point remains: we've come a long way since then, but we can never get complacent."

US says there are no signs North Korea is preparing long range missile launch

The North Korean ship, the Kang Nam, has reportedly turned back towards North Korea and now this report that the Norks aren't preparing a missile launch on Independence Day. Could all of the threats made by Kim Jong be a test to see how far he get away with Obama? Bloomberg

July 2 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. doesn’t see any indication North Korea is poised to test-launch a long-range ballistic missile capable of landing near the Hawaiian Islands, according to four government officials.

The officials, who are privy to information about North Korean launch preparations, said there are no signs of the work necessary to launch a long-range missile during the U.S. July 4 Independence Day celebration. The officials don’t rule out the firing of short- and medium-range missiles capable of reaching Japanese waters.

The officials don't need to rule anything out now, since the Norks launched two short range missiles earlier today.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

U.S. Marines launch assault in Afghan valley

Heads up Taliban , you might see the U.S Marines looking Down at you ! Maybe this will be the start of the big push to eradicate the Taliban ! Good luck Marines !

LOWER HELMAND RIVER VALLEY, AFGHANISTAN (Reuters) - U.S. Marines launched a helicopter assault early on Thursday in the lower Helmand river valley in southern Afghanistan, spokesman Capt. Bill Pelletier said.

A Reuters correspondent in the valley saw flares in the sky over the town of Nawa, south of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah.

Nearly 4,000 Marines and U.S. sailors are taking part in the assault, code-named Operation Khanjar (Strike of the Sword), along with about 650 Afghan troops and police, a Marines press statement said.

"What makes Operation Khanjar different from those that have occurred before is the massive size of the force introduced, the speed at which it will insert and the fact that where we go we will stay, and where we stay, we will hold ..." it quoted Brigadier General Larry Nicholson, commanding officer of the Marine Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan, as saying.

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China's Internet backdown lauded by firms, activists

"This was the result of combined pressure from domestic Internet users and an array of forces at home and abroad," said Wen Yunchao, an editor at the popular Chinese website Netease (www.netease.com).

Yeah it could not have to do with the fact that green dam is a stolen software And the company that made the original software Solid Oaks , Ordered a Cease and Desist to all PC manufacturers (Except Mac ) and filed a claim against green dam and China !
One thing china is not and that is Original ,They Consistently steal software and Ideas from the U.S and other countries , They have launched Attacks on many Computer systems including the u.s. defense systems and one that involved some nasty viruses in e mail Attachments to Solid oak the maker of Cybersitter , the net nanny that china "renamed" Green Dam !

Washington post /reuters
BEIJING - China's ambitions to strengthen control of the Internet with filtering software became a show of the limits of its power on Wednesday, as activists and industry groups welcomed AN abrupt delay of the contentious plan.

The surprise climbdown was reported late on Tuesday by Xinhua news agency, which said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology would "delay the mandatory installation of the controversial 'Green Dam-Youth Escort' filtering software on new computers.

Officials said the software was intended to stamp out Internet pornography, and computer companies had originally been told that from Wednesday they had to bundle "Green Dam" with any personal computers heading to stores for sale in the country.

But the order was assailed by opponents of censorship, industry groups and Washington officials as rash, politically intrusive, technically ineffective and commercially unfair. [ID:nN24196133]. PC companies have mostly avoided making firm public statements on the issue.

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Suspected North Korea arms ship changes course

Funny stuff , it makes you wonder why they are turning back ? Maybe they Figure they will not be able to unload their shipment of Illegal arms without being busted ? maybe they are just trying to draw attention away from something else ?
Either way I'm sure it is America's fault , and we are trying to start a nuclear war with the Norks !

SEOUL (Reuters) - A North Korean ship tracked by the U.S. Navy on suspicion of carrying a banned arms cargo may be returning home, a U.S. official said, as Washington cracks down on companies helping Pyongyang export missile systems.

North Korea will find it increasingly difficult to trade arms due to U.S. moves and U.N. sanctions to punish it for a May nuclear test, but those measure will not end the weapons exports the destitute state relies on for foreign currency, experts said.

"Of course, it raises the costs of doing the arms and weapons of mass destruction business, but it won't stop them from trying to circumvent the sanctions," said Daniel Pinkston with the International Crisis Group in Seoul.

The North Korean cargo ship Kang Nam was the first to be monitored by the U.S. Navy under a new system to track the North's arms shipments that were a part of the U.N. sanctions.

A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Tuesday the Kang Nam was heading back in the direction of North Korea after turning around within the last few days.

"We've no idea where it's going," the official said. "The U.S. didn't do anything to make it turn around."

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