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I'm a Vince Flynn addict. David Baldacci has a really good one out now called "The Camel Club"........all about conspiracy theories, terrorists, etc. Right up the TM alley.
No, I didn't hear about it.
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/31/BAG0CFGN331.DTL
OAKLAND
"Man killed in home by stray bullet
Slug from outside tore through wall, hitting him in head"
Tanya Schevitz, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, October 31, 2005
I thought the same thing AD. Why go to the trouble and expense of reinforcing a massive bridge like the Verrazano if there is no threat.
This came to me via an email, I went to the site and the print is too small for me to read, so one of you will want to sign up for the emails that it says they offer, it is one that I would join the email alerts.
granny........
http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029391629&a=KArticle&aid=1130673021601
From: personalisation@e-media.fco.gov.uk
[mailto:personalisation@e-media.fco.gov.uk]
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 13:05
To: emailalerts@e-media.fco.gov.uk
Subject: FCO Website Update: IRAN: JACK STRAW PARLIAMENTARY
STATEMENT
This email is to advise you that an article matching one of your
interests has been published on the FCO website:
IRAN: JACK STRAW PARLIAMENTARY STATEMENT
Following the Iranian President's recent public comments about
Israel, the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, placed a written
statement before Parliament on Monday 31 October. The
statement read: 'On 26 October, President Mahmud Ahmadinejad
of Iran addressed a conference in Tehran on 'A World Without
Zionism'. In his speech, he is reported to have called for 'Israel
to be wiped from the map', and said that 'the Islamic world will
not let its historic enemy live in its heartland'... As the Prime
Minister said, these sentiments are completely unacceptable. I
welcome the clear condemnation by the UN Security Council on
28 October and the statement by the UN Secretary-General, Kofi
Annan, expressing his dismay. They have spoken for the world.'
Click here to view the article
Kind regards,
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Some how, people need to face the fact that we are no safer in our homes in America, then we would be in Iraq.
I heard the man's mother on the radio, she said they were watching a movie, she had stepped out of the room, then heard the shot.
I do not think that she had realized at the time that he was dead, she kept saying that she asked him "did you hear that?".
How very sad.
Jim Dallas is on his regular KDWN afternoon show, attempting to get people to wake up, they are not doing so.
9 out of 10 calls, are preaching the anti platform.
Never heard of the scoring technique - that's a good idea that everyone should know about, IMHO.
Thank you so much for pointing out that you can listen to KOA on the computer.
KOA is the only station in town that covered a protest I helped organize against the RMN & Denver Post back during the 2000 election (They lied in their election guides, and omitted candidates). KOA's early morning news crew is the tops in my book.
From: grassroots@amchacjc.org [mailto:grassroots@amchacjc.org]
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 12:26
To: grassroots@amchacjc.org
Subject: Protest threats against Israel by Iran's Pres. NOV. 1 5:30PM
www.amchacjc.org
A busload of High School students, alarmed by Iranian President
Ahmadinejad’s repeated, public threats a week ago to annihilate Israel, will
demonstrate at the Iranian mission to the United Nations tomorrow,
Tuesday, November 1st, at 5:30PM. The mission is at 622 Third Avenue, at
40th Street, in Manhattan.
The students are from the Frisch Yeshiva High School. They stated: “We
have learned that Hitler wasn’t taken seriously when he declared for years
that he’d wipe out the Jews. In so many cases since then, from Rwanda to
Darfur, threats of extermination weren’t heeded – until they occurred.”
Along with the Frisch students, scores of other students and Jewish activists
will be demonstrating.
Iran today actively arms and supports terrorists murdering American troops
and civilians in Iraq. Iran apparently will soon possess not only nuclear
weapons but the rockets to launch them as far as Europe.
“Now is the time for the world to wake up to the threat of Iran. Now is the
time for the world to condemn Iran and stop mass murder before it’s too
late,” stated Rabbi Avi Weiss, President of AMCHA.
The protest is being sponsored by AMCHA: Coalition for Jewish Concerns and
is being led by Rabbis Avi Weiss, Etan Mintz, and Josh Wald.
Amcha-CJC
3700 Henry Hudson
Pkwy, Riverdale NY
10463
Phone: (718)
884-8499
Fax: (718) 884-9866
Email:
amchacjc@amchacjc.org
St. Peters role prompts death threats by Islam for actor Omar Shariff
SNIP:The Italian news agency Adnkronos International said that a message on a web forum used in the past by al-Qaida had a link to a site carrying the threat. "Omar Sharif has stated that he has embraced the crusader idolatry," it said. "He is a crusader who is offending Islam and Muslims and receiving applause from the Italian people. I give you this advice, brothers, you must kill him."
Destruction of deadly nerve agent halted by caustic wastewater spill in Indiana
SNIP:The western Indiana facility destroys the Cold War-era chemical weapon VX using a mixture of heated sodium hydroxide and water. A droplet is enough to kill a healthy human.
Warning terrorists may hit Manilla cemetaries
SNIP:NCRPO chief Director Vidal Querol told a press conference that, as usual, the terrorists will choose populous targets—and these are 10 cemeteries where hundreds of thousands will converge during the All Saints Day holidays.
The vilest of animals in Allah's sight are disbelievers
SNIP:We should employ the same tactics of legal recourse that we have been attacked by and level the playing field. Take back our rights and allow all who disagree to leave our fine nation so they have the religious freedom they desire.
Paris debates state funding of mosques
SNIP:Mr Sarkozy has repeatedly argued that breaking the French taboo to provide public money for mosques and imams would be the best way of bringing the Muslim community into the mainstream, out of the garages and basements it is often forced to use as unofficial prayer rooms. "To separate French Islam from foreign influences," he said last month, "let us give it the means to be independent."
Islamic radicals are already thought to control 20 mosques in the country, according to Frances domestic intelligence service, which also says militants are increasingly congregating in secret prayer-rooms, out of sight of the authorities.
Islamic Jihad - the Conclusive Case
SNIP:The conquerors ofrom the great Islamic empires of the past were motivated by the same ideology that motivates jihad terrorists today.
Truth on Trial - Western Civilization and Islam
SNIP:The Culture War is a very hot war: no prisoners are taken, no mercy is shown. And there are now penalties for trying to tell the truth about the danger of jihad or about the barbaric and pathological nature of militant Islam today. Indeed, if you try to discuss the Islamic religious and gender apartheid and its dangerous proliferation into Europe and North America (i.e. there have been honor killings in Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago, Jersey City, Toronto, as well as all over Europe and in the Muslim world), this is what will happen to you:...
Hammer time against Islamosupremacy
17 ill in France after eating contaminated meat
SNIP:The contaminated meat was traced back to frozen patties sold under the brands Chantegril and Marque Repere in the Leclerc chain of supermarkets. The head of the group, Michel-Edouard Leclerc, told RTL radio that the product was being recalled and as many shoppers as possible were being contacted, but warned that "we're going to need several days" because many people were away on school vacation.
"We continue to check other lots, but nothing has been found elsewhere," he said. The contamination appeared to have come from a beef slaughter and preparation company called Soviba which supplies the supermarkets, he said.
2 African men use U of Geneva computers to send Islamic hate messages
SNIP:The two - a 27-year-old Moroccan and a 41-year-old Algerian, both staying illegally in Switzerland - were fingered by German-language newspaper Weltwoche which reported the activity to the uni's authorities. The powers that be alerted the cops, who swooped on the pair.
Terrorists turning to e-mail to coordinate attacks
SNIP: Jeffrey Pool, a research consultant with Washington-based think-tank Jamestown Foundation, told The New Paper that militants have been exploiting "single-use free e-mail accounts through Hotmail or Yahoo."
"In such a scenario, they will not actually send an electronic message. Instead, they will compose a message and then save it as a draft," Pool said. "The intended recipient is given the login information through another e-mail account (or another medium entirely). He then logs in and views the saved message draft."
A group of people can have the same e-mail ID and password so that they can log on and read messages without sending any.
Even after switching to Dish Network, I kept my big dish just so I could get KOA. A really good station.
http://www.israpundit.com/archives/2005/10/irans_terrorist.php
IRAN’S TERRORIST PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD DECLARES JIHAD AGAINST ISRAEL
IRAN’S TERRORIST PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD DECLARES JIHAD AGAINST ISRAEL
by Jerry Gordon, a former U.S. military intelligence officer, writer, activist who resides in Connecticut.
The pits are humming in Tel Aviv. ZAHAL's military intelligence and war planning directorates are busily laying out options for dealing a blow
against Ahmadnejad's jihad quest to "wipe Israel off the map of the earth." Terrorist President Ahmadinejad means it. He said it not once
but twice last week in the closing days of Ramadan at the peak of Islamic jihadi fervor.
David Warren in his commentary in the Ottawa Citizen noted that Ahmadnejad called ” for Israel to be annihilated, and the “Zionists” (i.e.
Jews) exterminated, while several tens of thousands chanted anti-Semitic and anti-American slogans, waved toy pistols, and burned
Star-of-David flags.”
Warren concluded:
“It should be realized that President Ahmadinejad’s threats -- and his subsequent failure to retract them -- themselves constitute acts of
war. The Israelis, at the least, are in a moral and legal position to act in self-defence; and all decent men and women are under a moral
obligation to support them.”
Ahmadinejad formerly Tehran’s “populist” Mayor is the only elected - if you can call him that - leader of a major Islamic country who has a
terrorist track record. Remember his photograph as one of the leaders of the revolutionary guards back in 1979 who seized the U.S. Embassy
in Tehran and held personnel captive there for 444 days? He was also alleged to have participated in several covert actions including
directing an assassination of Iranian Kurdish leader Abdorrahman Qassemlou, who was shot dead by senior officers of the Revolutionary
Guards in a Vienna flat in July 1989.
Ahmadinejad was considered a key planner of the attack. He was reported to have been involved in planning an attempt on the life of author
Salman Rushdie.
Iran is dangerous because it possess the means of striking at not only Israel, Europe but even here in the Americas. Iran has CBW,
conventional high explosive or possibly nuclear warheads to send via those Shehab III missiles or suitcase size nuclear and CBW devices to
send into the Hezbolleh controlled Bekas Valley in Lebanon to be secreted in those tunnels in the mountains there. Iran has used Syria as a
conduit for these mortal threats to Isarel and the surrounding region. Syria itself is in a "flagrant delectus" position because of U.N. reports,
however doctored, indicating that Surian President Bashir Assad's brother and the late head of intelligence in Lebanon Brig. Gen Ghazi
Kenaan who was alleged to have committed suicide.- were directly involved in the bombing death of Lebanese ex- PM Tewfik Hariri and his
entourage in Beirut in February. Iran is reported to be sending Syria arms to be shipped to Hezbolleh and Palestinian Refugee camps in
Lebanon in preparation for a new “civil war.”
Iran is also reported by reliable Lebanese sources to send more than $600 million annually to its surrogate in Lebanon, Hezbollah. Hezbollah
cops another $600 million through control of international telephony, Internet monopolies in Lebanon and drug dealing.
Iran is a danger to itself, and the countries in the Gulf region . Witness those Chernobyl era Russian nuclear reactors for its bomb making
programs. One of them in Bam is located on an active fault line in the "ring of fire "earthquake zone. If an earthquake of say 7+ on the
logarithmic Richter scale hit Bam with a close by epicenter and caused destruction of the containment chamber, the radiation cloud emitted
from the wrecked facility would, according to experts, result in the deaths of tens of thousands downwind in the oil producing Gulf region.
While the U.N. security council funfers with voting sanctions against Iran's surrogate Syria and Secretary General Kofi Anan rushes off to
Tehran to “bear hug” Ahmadinejad and the IAEA and the E.U. "six" dither about their inability to cut a diplomatic deal to forestall Iran's
nuclear weapons program, Israel has only one choice-"en brera "in Ivrit. It must take out Ahmannejad's command and control structure, the
hooded Shia mullahs and some of the strategic plutonium enrichment production facilities and Shehab III missile assembly and launch
facilities.
This will be more complex than the "Raid on the Sun" in 1981 that took out Saddam Hussein's Osirak nuclear facility. A facility provided by
French President Chirac.
ZAHAL has to use several approaches to breaking the Shia scimitar of Ahmadinejad, both innovative and conventional. The technological
developments since 1981 include Israel's spy in the sky providing satellite imagery and electronic eavesdropping capabilities on a real time
basis and the Israel version of those fabled E-bombs or high powered microwave (HPM) weapons that can wipe out the command and
control net of Iran's revolutionary guards and isolate the mullahs who all live in a protected zone in Tehran. Israel has sufficient HUMINT
capabilities to obtain a picture of what is inside the proposed jihad war plans and capabilities. Israel does have a defense of sorts the
unused, but partially tested Arrow anti-missile missiles. The IAF may have perfected possible aerial strategies that must cope with the
daunting problems of running an electronic warfare and aerial refueling gauntlet on missions much longer and more complex than the ones
that F-16s undertook to destroy the Osirak reactor in Iraq in 1981. The Israeli Navy also has those long range (13,00 mile operating radius)
diesel powered Dolphin Class German built missile boats equipped with both conventional and nuclear tipped weaponry.
We who live in North America can take no comfort by being distant from the crazed terror President and jihadi mullahs in Tehran. Remember
that the billionaire "mafioso" Ayatollah Rafsanjani in Tehran ordered Hezbolleh to kill more than 29 Israelis in 1992 and more than 86 mostly
Jews and over 300 wounded in Argentina in 1994 when they bombed first the Israeli embassy and two years later bombed AMIA,
www.worldhistory.com/wiki/A/AMIA-Bombing.htm the Jewish community headquarters building in Buenos Aires. Lest we forget the day prior
to the 1992 attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, a Panamanian commuter plane was blown up by another presumed Hezbolleh
operative and 21 passengers, 12 of them Jews were killed. All supported with hush money bribes like the $10 million deposited in a Swiss
bank account for Argentine ex-President Menem to fob off the investigations that took nearly a decade to resolve. Nor has much been done
to clean out the lawless Muslim triangle of terror" at the conjunction of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil where Hezbolleh, Hamas, Islamic Jihad
and PLO operatives and front businesses run rampant.
So, yes, the pits in Tel Aviv at ZAHAL are humming for good reason. They are trying to plan for the best solutions for breaking Iran's jihadi
scimitar and protecting Israel, World Jewry and as they did in 1981-the world. There's little time left and the clock is ticking.
Posted by Jerry Gordon at October 31, 2005 01:28 PM
(there are live links hidden in the article on site. granny...)
Thank you for the extra information. I appreciate it. I agree we must ALWAYS remain vigilant.
Nice little shaker, I'll have to check w/ my parents to see if they felt it.
http://www.jamestown.org/news_details.php?news_id=147
Can al-Qaeda Endure Beyond bin Laden?
10/31/2005 - By Michael Scheuer -- The question
of al-Qaeda’s longevity after the demise of its
figurehead is ultimately unanswerable until bin
Laden is actually gone. There are those who
believe bin Laden is dead—which would surely be
one of history’s best kept secrets—and argue
that al-Qaeda has proven its survivability. While
never saying never, it seems exceedingly likely
that bin Laden is alive, and on that presumption
the following analysis is based.
Man or Organization
Too often, al-Qaeda’s post-bin Laden future is
discussed solely on the basis of who will place
him. It is asked whether the successor will have
bin Laden’s intelligence, charisma, and jihadi
credentials. Or, can Zawahiri, Sayf al-Adl,
Zarqawi, one of bin Laden’s sons, or a
now-unknown mujahid fill the top position? Thus,
much of the analysis about a new al-Qaeda
leader’s impact focuses on personalities and their
respective strengths and weaknesses, and
frequently fails to examine the nature of the
organization bin Laden’s successor will inherit.
The al-Qaeda organization, as all know, was
formed in the last months of Moscow’s
occupation of Afghanistan, around mid-1988. Bin
Laden played the lead role in its formation, but
his colleagues—Wali Khan Amin Shah, Abu Hajir
al-Iraqi, Wael Julaidan, Muhammed Jamal
Khalifah, etc.—also played a part. What was the
group’s goal in establishing al-Qaeda? It was
meant to maintain the Islamist momentum
attendant to the Red Army’s defeat. It was also
intended to be an organization governed by
Islamist principles. Furthermore, it was meant to
be patterned on the Afghan Islamist insurgent
groups—those of Khalis, Hekmtayar, Sayyaf, and
Masood—which had defeated the Soviets. (It
always is worth noting that al-Qaeda is not
modeled on a terrorist group.) Finally, from its
inception, al-Qaeda has targeted the United
States.
Yet, the foregoing are intentions to be
accomplished, they are not the basic reason for
al-Qaeda’s creation. The best phrase to describe
why al-Qaeda was created is “long-term
durability.” At the most fundamental level,
al-Qaeda’s founders wanted to build an
organization that would preserve and—here bin
Laden’s CEO talents came into
play—institutionalize the mechanisms built during
the 1980s to support the Afghan mujahideen and,
once institutionalized, use them to support
militant Islam worldwide. How to enumerate
these mechanisms is an open question, but it fair
to list five mechanisms that al-Qaeda’s founders
thought essential to the long-term durability of
their organization, regardless of who was serving
as its chief.
Funding
The Afghan jihad was expensive, and bin Laden
saw this reality first hand. Bin Laden, moreover,
was directly involved in the funding process,
serving early in the war as a channel through
which private and official Saudi monies went to
the mujahideen. (Bin Laden’s counterpart in
funding was Shaykh Abdullah Azzam, who
brought money from the non-Gulf Middle East
and the Muslim Brotherhood.)
By the Afghan war’s mid-point, moreover, bin
Laden and other Arab mujahideen began forming
all-Arab insurgent units. While it is likely that
Pakistani intelligence diverted some official U.S.
and Saudi funds to the groups, bin Laden has
explained that the Arabs did not want to be
tainted by U.S. support and so developed funding
sources and channels independent of those
supporting the Afghans.
Since the end of the Afghan war, al-Qaeda’s
funding capability has been solidified and
expanded on the basis that established it in the
1980s. Al-Qaeda’s worldwide growth and
multifaceted activities—attacking America,
supporting Islamic insurgencies, training fighters,
etc.—demanded reliable funding. The group’s
well-documented record of success suggests
funding is ample and that the channels carrying
the funds are hidden and not susceptible to
interdiction.
Procurement
Many wealthy Muslims were willing buy weapons
for the Afghans but were unwilling to work with
Riyadh or the U.S. government. Faced with this
reality, bin Laden and other Arabs crafted a
weapons-procurement system for the Afghan
mujahideen that, like the funding mechanism,
ran parallel to the U.S.-Saudi system. Bin Laden
and his colleagues ran this parallel mechanism
and used it to arm the Afghans and themselves.
Before al-Qaeda was formed, therefore, its
leaders were well-versed in clandestine
procurement and transportation of arms,
communications gear, and military
accoutrements.
Since 1988, bin Laden and his lieutenants have
improved their procurement system to
accommodate the al-Qaeda group‘s needs, as
well as to arm its allies. There is no evidence
that al-Qaeda and its allies have ever suffered
more than a temporary shortage of conventional
weapons. Al-Qaeda also has created a second,
separate procurement channel for acquiring
weapons of mass destruction (WMD), particularly
nuclear weapons. This system benefits from
al-Qaeda’s successful recruitment of scientists,
engineers, technicians, and hands-on
practitioners of building such weapons from, at
least, Pakistan’s WMD programs. The extent of
this second system’s success is not known, but if
the targeted application of money, time,
expertise, and leadership pressure can yield
success, it would be a mistake to assume that
WMD-acquisition is too difficult for a non-state
actor like al-Qaeda.
Manpower and Logistics
Bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and their colleagues
began their jihad careers building and managing
a network that supplied men for the Afghan war.
Bin Laden et al. brought non-Afghan Muslims
from across the Islamic world to Pakistan to
serve as fighters and as workers in hospitals,
arms dumps, refugee camps, clinics, and NGOs.
Their effort was successful and created a network
of travel routes, trusted facilitators, and way
stations where jihad-bound travelers could be
succored. By war’s end, this system had matured
to the extent that very few volunteers could not
reach the jihad.
At its founding, al-Qaeda faced the task of
turning this single-direction system—all roads led
to Afghanistan—into one that could continue
bringing men to South Asia for training, transport
trainees to camps in Yemen and Sudan, and
move trained fighters to combat theaters in
Tajikistan, Bosnia, and Chechnya. Al-Qaeda
obviously succeeded in a systemic expansion
which has accommodated ever larger numbers.
Indeed, manpower never has been a problem for
al-Qaeda; it is now present in 75-plus countries,
has sizeable contingents in Afghanistan and Iraq,
and has combat trainers, logisticians, and
veteran fighters involved in most of the world’s
Islamist insurgencies. Al-Qaeda’s manpower and
logistical capabilities—like those for funding and
procurement—can be described as effective and
relatively immune from disruption.
Training and Personnel Services
Bin Laden’s 1988 operational priority was for
al-Qaeda to train Muslim militants from around
the world at the groups’ camps, and provide
far-flung Islamist insurgencies with a cadre to
train fighters locally and be a “stiffening agent”
for local forces. The al-Qaeda cadre added to
Taliban forces in 1996, for example, added skill
and professionalism to Mullah Omar’s campaign
against the Northern Alliance around Kabul. The
al-Qaeda cadre had the same impact on
Kashmiri insurgent forces in the late 1990s.
Today, al-Qaeda’s training capability in
Afghanistan is constrained, but the steady pace
of combat in the insurgencies in the Philippines,
Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere
suggests training remains an al-Qaeda priority
and is being executed outside Afghanistan.
As for any military organization, al-Qaeda’s
personnel services for combatants and their
families are vital both to maintain morale and
prevent disgruntled fighters or their families from
publicly denigrating the group or, worse,
providing information about it to the enemy.
After a decade of war with the United States, we
know little about how al-Qaeda’s personnel
services work. We do know, however, that no
individual has come forward in the media to
attack al-Qaeda for the treatment he or she
received from the group, nor have there been
intelligence leaks about an ill-treated al-Qaeda
fighter or family member providing information
that damaged group—data Western governments
surely would have leaked if it existed. On the
other hand, anecdotal accounts abound of
al-Qaeda providing health care and financial aid
to the families of fighters killed in battle or
absent on operations; doing everything possible
to provide special care such as prosthetic devices
for wounded fighters; and delivering monthly
stipends to families of imprisoned fighters. In
sum, al-Qaeda’s personnel services seem to help
maintain high morale and stubborn loyalty
toward the organization.
Propaganda
From al-Qaeda’s first day to the present, bin
Laden’s priority has been to incite and instigate
Muslims to support and participate in a defensive
jihad against the United States and its allies. He
and his lieutenants have spent large amounts of
money, time and imagination to build a
world-class media and propaganda apparatus.
Today, that apparatus is in full operation. Bin
Laden and Zawahiri appear on and dominate the
international media at times of their choosing. As
important, al-Qaeda’s multifaceted Internet
presence keeps its religious views, political and
ideological commentary, and news reports
constantly before its most important
constituency, the Muslim world’s
computer-literate middle- and upper-middle
classes.
Al-Qaeda also has used the Internet to
drastically reduce the need for would-be
mujahideen to travel to places like Afghanistan,
Yemen, or Sudan for training. By mounting
military and intelligence manuals on the Internet,
al-Qaeda has created a situation where training
can be conducted in virtually any country on
earth, thereby increasing the chance of evading
the eye of Western governments.
Conclusion
Al-Qaeda’s post-bin Laden effectiveness will, in
significant measure, depend on leadership
qualities of his successor. Realistically, there is
little reason to think a potential successor will
have the same credentials and talents that have
powered bin Laden’s leadership. Yet, his
successor may not need equivalent credentials
and talents. Al-Qaeda is now a well-established,
17-year-old firm; indeed, the parts of it that
developed from mechanisms that supported the
Afghans against the Soviets have been operating
for 25 years. In short, al-Qaeda is now what its
founders intended: a reliable, professional
organization that has demonstrated long-term
durability. Thus, bin Laden’s successor will
inherit a proven, well-functioning organization,
one that will give him time to grow on the job
without the need to spend most of his time
keeping the organization running.
Posted By: Jamestown
1983-2003 © The Jamestown Foundation
I love Mitch Rapp! Is Thor a character or the author?
Humor Break: Pesky Al Qeada Sqirrel Alert
Electrocuted Squirrel Starts Grass Fire in Mississippi, Electric Lineman Says
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1268018
;)
Gotta watch those squirrels, crafty little creatures. :-)
Interesting links Liberty Rocks.
Thanks
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