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Hamza: We must bleed enemies of Allah Staff and agencies Thursday January 12, 2006 The Muslim cleric Abu Hamza urges his followers to "bleed the enemies of Allah" in a video played to jurors today at his trial on race hate charges. The jurors at the Old Bailey heard the voice of the 47-year-old defendant for the first time on the second day of his trial when the tape of a lecture he gave in east London in the late 90s was played. In the tape he says democracy is failing and describes how the White House will be run...

The German government has a list of at least 437 flights suspected of being operated by the CIA in German airspace, according to a German magazine. The weekly Der Spiegel said two planes alone accounted for 137 and 146 uses of airspace or landings in 2002 and 2003. "Such planes could be used to transfer presumed terrorists and place them in secret locations," Der Spiegel said. The issue is likely to be raised when US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits Germany on Monday. Ms Rice said earlier this week she would provide an answer to a EU letter expressing...

Saudi Arabia Accused of 'Hate Literature' Distribution in U.S. Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005 Posted: 12:41:52PM EST The Saudi Arabian government is distributing hate literature, pamphlets, and materials across the United States in an effort to cause division and hostility between American Muslims and Christians and Jews, according to the director of a religious freedom organization Freedom House Center for Religious Freedom told the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month that the Saudi Embassy in Washington offers instructions on how to “build a wall of resentment” between Muslims and infidels, reported Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom, according...

Judging The President Judging the President has become America’s favorite sport – if the chatter on the Net and in the Media is any gauge. Some of his “friends” ( Don’t get me started ! ) leave much to be desired . A few of those same friends have created considerable dismay. But what about his ENEMIES ? Joseph Conrad once remarked : “ You shall judge a man by his foes, as well as by his friends.” Others have said pretty much the same thing: “ If you want to judge someone accurately, look at his enemies .” Who...

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend Version November 09, 2005, 8:10 a.m. Patriotism Is Not All That Question time. Let us now sing the qualified praises of questioning patriotism. Last Sunday, Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes fame appeared on Chris Wallace’s must-watch show, Fox News Sunday. Having the CBS liberal lion appear on the upstart Fox — particularly after Fox had so much fun with the 60 Minutes "Memogate" story — made it the journalistic equivalent of an exciting crossover episode. You know, like when Happy Days was continued on Mork & Mindy. The fact that Chris...

Missouri lawmaker wants umps to pay state tax JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A state lawmaker and St. Louis baseball fan says umpires should pay -- literally -- for what he sees as bad calls made during the playoff series in which the Cardinals lost to the Houston Astros. Rep. Jeff Roorda, D-Barnhart, wants to expand the state athlete and entertainer tax to also cover officials such as umpires and referees. The tax is charged to out-of-state residents who earn money in Missouri while performing in such events as baseball games and concerts. Revenues are supposed to go to the arts,...

Ostensibly the reasons were because some staff members of various Senators were unprepared, and need to devote their attention to the Harriet Miers hearings. But the hearing has not yet been rescheduled. Here and here are two recent articles I have written on Saudi Arabia that underscore the need for these hearings, and for passage of the Act.

KAREN POMER: THE WOMAN BEHIND CINDY SHEEHAN Longtime publicist and organizer for far left groups Spokesman for anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan Spearheaded smear campaign against Arnold Schwarzenegger When distraught mother turned anti-war left standard bearer Cindy Sheehan bowed out of a September 2005 speaking engagement at the University of Maryland after a mere 10 minutes, she turned to her spokeswoman, Karen Pomer, to appease her activist fan base. "She's exhausted and she's not feeling well," Pomer dutifully explained, "but she intends to meet her obligations." The professional-sounding formulation of Pomer's rapid response was not accidental. A committed activist in her...

Well, at least we know where to find these guys.... From Chicago Indymedia.The Activist Student Union (ASU) of DePaul University is calling for all people concerned with defending Ward Churchill's views and with defending academic freedom, to rally at DePaul. Churchill was invited by DePaul's Cultural Center and the ASU to speak because of his political views and his history of standing up and fighting for human rights and dignity. Were it not for right-wing attacks that have included threatening letters to the staff at the Cultural Center and a letter from the Governor of Colorado urging DePaul to cancel...

In the Atlantic Monthly a few years back, Robert D. Kaplan went to Liberia, Sierra Leone, and other failed jurisdictions of West Africa and concluded that many of the "citizens" of these "states," roaming the streets raping and killing, belonged to a phenomenon called "re-primitivized man." Anyone watching TV in recent days will have seen plenty of "re-primitivized man," not in Liberia or Somalia, but in Louisiana. Cops smashing the Wal-Mart DVD cabinet so they can get their share of the booty along with the rest of the looters, gangs firing on a children's hospital and on rescue helicopters, hurricane...

I have a joke that goes: First we got bilingual schools--where Spanish-speaking kids aren’t learning English, but English-speaking kids are reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish. Then there was the California school where students were made to dress, fast and pray like Muslims for three weeks. What's next for American public school children? Islamic prayer in Spanish? Well, I thought I was kidding. Now that Venezuelan presidential dictator Hugo Chavez is forging alliances within Iran, Iraq and Libya and is rumored to be supplying false documents to 300 or so al-Qaida terrorists, I’m not so sure. And when Ricky...

Iran received a military delegation from China, paving the way for cooperation in the defense field, citing Brigadier General Nasser Mohammadi-Far, the commander of the Iranian army's ground forces. The Chinese delegation is in Iran for talks on "developing military relations, deepening bilateral ties and paving the way for military cooperation," the state-run Iranian news agency said. The press office of China's Ministry of Defense in Beijing declined to comment on the delegation's visit. "Our mutual enemies possess advanced military technology, and undoubtedly they would rely on this technology in any possible future wars," said Mohammadi-Far. "Therefore, it seems necessary...

In their first meeting with President Bush over the Supreme Court vacancy, Democrats went so far Tuesday as to offer names for consideration while senators of both parties encouraged the president to look beyond the federal judiciary for candidates. "It would be good to have some diversity," said Senator Specter, ...who said a nominee from outside the federal courts could bring new points of view and broader experience to the court than someone promoted from the federal bench. The breakfast meeting marked a new phase in the politically charged effort to fill the first Supreme Court vacancy in more than...

NEW DELHI: In a season when Cold War secrets are tumbling out with astonishing regularity, a new book has just revealed details of a Beijing-Moscow deal on the eve of China's 1962 invasion of India. Co-written by China-born author Jung Chang - best known for ‘Wild Swan’ - and her husband, British historian Jon Halliday, ‘Mao: The Unknown Story’ (Jonathan Cape) is rated the “most authoritative” biography of the late Communist leader. It is an indictment of his domestic and foreign policies, one of the victims of which, the book says, was India. In the chapter “Maoism Goes Global (1959-64)”,...

Last Thursday, my son and I returned home after two weeks in Africa, having been blessedly isolated from television, newspapers, and Internet. No one could reach us on magical Eagle Island, in the Okavango Delta in Botswana, or in the burnt winter bush of Timbavati, on the western border of Kruger Park in South Africa, and we never turned on the TV in our hotel in Maputo, Mozambique. We flew from Hoodspruit to Johannesburg and then to London Heathrow, arriving at half past seven in the morning, took a shower, changed our clothes, and went into the lounge to await...

In a single day last week, in various media — the liberal International Herald Tribune and the Washington Post — the following information appeared. A Syrian smuggler of jihadists to Iraq, one Abu Ibrahim, was interviewed. He made the following revealing statements: (1) that the goal of the jihadists is the restoration of the ancient caliphate ("The Koran is a constitution, a law to govern the world") (2) that September 11 was "a great day" (3) that two weeks after the attack, a celebration was held in his rural Syrian community celebrating the mass murder, and thereafter continued twice-weekly (4)...

The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee challenged Congress Wednesday to help define legal rights of terrorism detainees at Guantanamo Bay, bemoaning a "crazy quilt" system. Pentagon and law-enforcement officials defended current practices at the U.S. military prison camp. "It may be that it's too hot to handle for Congress, may be that it's too complex to handle for Congress, or it may be that Congress wants to sit back as we customarily do," Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said as his panel took testimony on practices and policies at the U.S. military camp at an American Navy base in...

Freedom is not a "default" setting,or bundled software we are born with. It is not something one can download from the Net. In every generation,Americans have stepped forward to lay their lives on the line: sometimes for their own nation;sometimes for people in other nations. There have always been those who feel freedom is best achieved by hunkering down: by pulling our heads into a shell,so we cannot see or hear injustice;by pulling in our legs,so we will not be tempted to go to someone's aid. There was,perhaps,a time when such a course was possible: the time before airplanes,intercontinental missiles,and...

NEW DELHI: Visiting Pakistanis, fed for long on fables, rumours and stories about India, are making the most of the chance to confirm all they ever heard. Ranan Ghulam Qoadir, an agriculturist from Lahore here to watch the India-Pakistan cricket match on Sunday, had heard that Muslims simply "disappear" in India. But after clocking 24 hours in Delhi, he could not stop singing praises of India and Indians. "There is so much of a difference between what I had heard and what I saw. I have been treated like a VVIP here. The moment my Pakistani identity was revealed, their...

BELGRADE (AP)--Serbs overwhelmingly want their republic to join the European Union, according to a poll released Friday. The survey also found that the United States tops a list of countries Serbs consider "unfriendly." The poll, conducted last week among 1,500 adults by Marten Board International polling agency, showed that anti-U.S. sentiment endures here after the 1999 North Atlantic Treaty Organization bombing of Serbia over the Kosovo conflict. Although the armed forces of many E.U. members also took part in the air raids that halted Serbia's crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo, as many as 78% of those polled expressed...