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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed support Thursday for an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon as the first phase in ending the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. It was the most concrete signal yet that the U.S. may be willing to compromise on the stalemate over how to end the fighting. Moving closer to the position that France and other European countries are taking, Rice predicted that a U.N. Security Council resolution would be approved within days that would include a cease-fire and describe principles for a lasting peace. Last week, the State Department notified Congress it wanted to add $10...

NO UN OUTRAGE OVER ISRAELI CIVILIAN DEATHS? israel_palestine_cartoon.gif Hizbollah's shell game again. They hide behind civilians. Israel warns the civilians to leave, then bombs. The civilians - who did not leave - unfortunately die. There have been several reports that Hizbollah is deliberately using civilians as human shields. That they have even kept civilians from leaving. So naturally, the UN erupts with outrage against Hizbollah. Oh, wait. It was against Israel. Of course. No concern that Hizbollah has killed Israeli civilians. Or that Hizbollah deliberately targets civilians. Or that Israel even accepts unneccessary deaths of its soldiers in its care...

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hezbollah politicians, while expressing reservations, have joined their critics in the government in agreeing to a peace package that includes strengthening an international force in south Lebanon and disarming the guerrillas, the government said. The agreement — reached after a heated six-hour Cabinet meeting — was the first time that Hezbollah has signed onto a proposal for ending the crisis that includes the deploying of international forces. The package falls short of American and Israeli demands in that it calls for an immediate cease-fire before working out details of a force and includes other conditions. But European...

Vocabulary of Untruth Words take on new meanings as Israel fights to survive. A “ceasefire” Hezbollah gives back kidnapped Israelis stops launching missiles; “Civilians” in Lebanon have munitions in their basements and wish to draw fire; in Israel they are in bunkers to avoid it. Israel uses precision weapons to avoid hitting them; Hezbollah sends random missiles into Israel. “Collateral damage” refers mostly to casualties among Hezbollah’s human shields; never used to describe civilian deaths inside Israel. “Cycle of Violence” Caused by those who are attacked, but are not supposed to win. “Deliberate” the accuracy of Israeli bombs hitting their...

U.S. asks Israel to consider talks on land By UPI Staff United Press International July 27, 2006 JERUSALEM (UPI) -- U.S. officials have advised Israel to consider a deal that would give the Shaba Farms area, occupied by Israel since 1967, to Lebanon. The issue was broached by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a meeting Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The Post said the Israeli government pushed the idea aside after bitter fighting and Israeli loses Wednesday at Bint Jbail, the Hezbollah capital in Lebanon. When asked about the possibility of...

The House wimped out in a resolution condemning the leaking of confidential tracking of terrorist through their financial records . House Resolution 895 said The house of Reps wimped out on condemning and revealing the act of treason by the NY Times and (LA Times)publising confidential tracking of terrorist finances through SWIFT. As a palliative act, they passed a limp HR 895, which says: "Supporting intelligence and law enforcement programs to track terrorists and terrorist finances conducted consistent with Federal law and with appropriate Congressional consultation and specifically condemning the disclosure and publication of classified information that impairs the international...

"Under a provision inserted at the eleventh hour by Senator Arlen Specter, the Senate bill forbids the federal government from building a fence without first consulting with the Mexican government. In fact, state and local governments are also forbidden by this bill to take any border control actions without first consulting with their Mexican counterparts. In other words, if the city of San Diego wants to put up any sort of barriers, it would have to consult with the municipal authorities in Tijuana before doing so. The laws already on the books allow any illegal alien to be arrested and...

<p>It didn’t take long to start pooh-poohing the significance of eliminating Zarqawi. MSNBC/al-Reuters headline: ‘Zarqawi more myth than Man.’ And of course, the hate-America crowd hinted the ‘timing’ was peculiar (Bush needed a boost in the polls). Zarqawi was a very important man in the terror network and welcomed by the radical Shiite regime in Tehran. he was more than a leader of one faction in a religious war; he promoted religious conflict as a tactic to destabilize Iraq and drive out the Coalition. He and his Iranian backers/masters promoted all kinds of internal Iraqi conflict: Kurds against Arabs, Turkamen against Kurds, anything that worked. The terror masters put aside their differences and made a war plan in which Sunni and Shia, Syrian and Saudi, Iranian and Iraqi cooperated against their common satanic enemy, the United States. Another important fact emerged from the accounts of the attack on Zarqawi: we killed two women in the same house. because they were his key intelligence officers in the jihadist terror organizations, despite endless citations from the Koran demanding their subservience. Theywere important components of the terror headquarters. And second, when our soldiers enter terrorists’ quarters and kill women in the ensuing firefight, it is highly probable the women may be terrorists also. Zarqawi played on a global scale. Reports from Canada recount contacts between the ‘home-grown’ terrorists arrested by the Mounties and Zarqawi: ‘Mississauga News,’ June 7: ‘The arrest of 17 suspects...is said to be the latest stage in dismantling a terrorist network that’s linked to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi...’).and seem linked to FBI arrests in Atlanta and others in Sarajevo, England, and Denmark. The public announcement a few months ago that Zarqawi was no longer the head of al Qaeda in Iraq, that henceforth the Iraqi Sunni ‘community’ would run the terror war there stated Zarqawi would devote his efforts to the international jihad.</p>

"America, you lost. I won," Moussaoui said, clapping his hands as he was led out of the courtroom after the verdict was read. The Verdict [John Podhoretz] extract http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTQwYmRmZDg2MGIyNDE2OTRkNjgwMDdhZmJiNzQ1M2M Zacarias Moussaoui is the only person to be charged with crimes related to September 11. He pled guilty to involvement in the plot. We have been told that if the FBI had authorized a search of Moussaoui's computer, seized a month before the attacks, we would have been able to prevent the attacks. Having judged that he was a participant in the September 11 planning, jurors nonetheless ruled that Moussaoui was...

WorldNet Daily reports that the Muslim groups are "In solidarity with immigration activists around the country” and that the Muslim Public Affairs Council said: “American Muslim organizations are calling for a comprehensive immigration reform that includes provisions for a pathway to lawful permanent residence for the undocumented currently in the United States, a temporary worker program that matches willing workers with willing employers, and a reduction in the current backlogs in family-based immigration to the United States."

As President Bush and his allies in the Senate push forward for amnesty for the 11-12 million illegal aliens already in the United States and for a guest-worker program that would bring in millions more "temporary" workers, they are withholding an important report that indicts the agency that would be processing the massive influx of aliens we would expect under the proposed programs. An investigation by the (GAO) has found that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), the agency within the Department of Homeland Security in charge of adjudicating immigration benefits such as citizenship and permanent residency, is rife...

Field Poll #2191 released April 12, 2006 reveals the views of Democrats and Republican voters in California diverge widely on many aspects of the proposed immigration legislation, as do the opinions of Latino voters. Support for proposals vary. Nine different proposals were tested in the survey. Six receive majority support, albeit at differing levels, one proposal divides voters almost evenly, while two are rejected by solid majorities. The proposal garnering the most support is one which was being debated by the U.S. Senate before it recessed last week. It calls for “allow(ing) undocumented workers who have lived in the U....

The political implications of Jill Carroll's release from terrorists . . . is there more here than meets the eye?

"While politicians debate the fate of some 12 million people residing in the U.S. illegally, the Mexica Movement, one of the organizers of the mass protest in Los Angeles this week, has already decided it is the "non-indigenous," white, English-speaking U.S. citizens of European descent who have to leave what they call "our continent."

WorldNetDaily.com While Many Americans are watching the chaos unfold following 12 nights of mayhem by largely Muslim immigrants in the streets of France, a leader of the separatist Aztlan movement in the U.S. says it's only a matter of time before worse unrest hits the streets of America. "Can a similar insurrection occur in the USA?" asks Ernesto Cienfuegos of La Voz de Aztlan. Yes, he concludes. "Today, here in Los Angeles, we are already seeing ominous signs of an impending social explosion that will make the French rebellion by Muslim and immigrant youths seem 'tame' by comparison," he writes....

The ultimate source of information identifying Leakgate accuser Valerie Plame as a CIA employee my turn out to be the CIA itself, the New York Times reported Tuesday. Notes obtained by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald identify then-CIA Director George Tenet as the person who gave up Plame's secret to the White House, with the Times reporting that Tenet tipped Vice President Dick Cheney to her identity. However the notes - taken by Cheney's chief of staff Lewis Libby - "contain no suggestion that either Mr. Cheney or Mr. Libby knew at the time of Ms. Wilson's undercover status or that...

Sen. John Ensign, Nevada Republican, had called for another 1,000 agents, and Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, called for 5,760 more beds in order to meet the goals set by last year's bill, with both increases being paid for by reducing grants to state and local governments. "Anybody who comes into the United States of America across our southern border today and is from a country other than Mexico, 95 percent chance they will continue their journey to wherever they want to go," Mr. McCain said. "We don't have enough detention facilities. We don't have enough beds." But Sen. Charles...

Senate votes against tightening security on our borders

Jeffrey from TX surfs internet to find terrorist groups and notify proper authorities when seditious or threatening action is being promoted.