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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Insurgents in Iraq detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle with two children in the back seat after US soldiers let it through a Baghdad checkpoint over the weekend, a senior US military official said Tuesday. The vehicle was stopped at the checkpoint but was allowed through when soldiers saw the children in the back, said Major General Michael Barbero of the Pentagon's Joint Staff. "Children in the back seat lowered suspicion. We let it move through. They parked the vehicle, and the adults ran out and detonated it with the children in the back," Barbero said. The general said...

WASHINGTON -- Suspected members of extremist groups have signed up as school-bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said yesterday in a cautionary bulletin to police. But an FBI spokesman said, "Parents and children have nothing to fear." The bulletin, parts of which were read to The Associated Press, did not say how often foreign extremists have sought to acquire licenses to drive school buses, or where.

Freedom of speech row as talk on Islamic extremists is banned By John Steele Last Updated: 1:28am GMT 15/03/2007 A leading university has been accused of "selling out" academic freedom of speech by scrapping a talk on links between the Nazis and Islamic anti-semitism after allegedly receiving emails from Muslims protesting about the event. Matthias Küntzel, a German author and political scientist who specialises in the threat of Islamic fundamentalism, was told yesterday by the University of Leeds that a talk scheduled for yesterday evening, and a two-day workshop, on Hitler's Legacy: Islamic Anti-semitism in the Middle East, had been...

SAN'A, Yemen - A hundred jailed Muslim extremists, including some who allegedly fought for al-Qaida in Iraq, were released by authorities, a Yemeni security official said. The official, speaking Saturday on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, said that some of the released completed serving their sentences, while some of the others were acquitted for lack of evidence. He said the release of the 100 prisoners had been carried out in stages, with the last set free in late February. The official added that 19 of the released fought under the command of...

Liberals around the world are trying to blame a rise in Islamic extremism on the War on Terror. This, in my opinion, rises from a fundamental lack of understanding of the threat we face but mainly, it rises from the election of 2000. In actuality, it is the Democrats and their Liberal/Socialist buddies around the world who are fueling this surge in Islamic extremism with their own hate. Muslim extremists sense a kindred spirit in and common cause with those who hate the President so much. They were already predisposed to believe the worst about the US and the Left,...

MUNICH, Germany - Serial numbers and other markings on bombs suggest that Iranians are linked to deadly explosives used by Iraqi militants, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday in some of the administration's first public assertions on evidence the military has collected. While the Bush administration and military officials have repeatedly said Iranians have been tied to terrorist bombings in Iraq, they have said little about evidence to bolster such claims, including any documents and other items collected in recent raids in Iraq. The assertions have been met with skepticism by some lawmakers still fuming over intelligence reports used by...

MANILA, Philippines - Philippine troops battled al-Qaida-linked Muslim extremists in the southern Philippines and officials were trying to determine Wednesday if a key leader was killed, the military said. Army soldiers fought 60 Abu Sayyaf members in mountainous Talipao town on Jolo island on Monday, military spokesman Lt. Col. Bartolome Bacarro said. Talipao is 590 miles south of Manila. The clash with the group headed by Abu Sulaiman, a senior Abu Sayyaf leader on a U.S. list of terrorists, also left two soldiers wounded. Bacarro said Sulaiman is believed to have been fatally shot. "All indications are it's Sulaiman," Bacarro...

Good Fundamentalism Bad Fundamentalism   At the age of semantics meaning a lot, it is evident that this term is reserved very selectively. I dare the MSM on fundamentalists such as: secularists, or anti-warriors.   1) "Anti War" warriors beat up ordinary innocent passers by in France (2003).   2) Radical secularists are on an all out war on religion in America, via ACLU and other.   3) Hatred towards practicing Christians in liberal Europe, the anti-Bush bashing manifesting in denigrating his Christianity is part of it.   4) A minority within a minority, radical gays in a secular minority...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11, 2006 -- Success in Iraq will help protect the United States in the long run, President Bush said here today. “This is really the calling of our time -- that is, to defeat these extremists and radicals, and Iraq is a component part, an important part, of laying the foundation for peace,” Bush said following a meeting with State Department officials about the way forward in Iraq. Bush, who received the Iraq Study Group report Dec. 6, said all advice is helpful when crafting a new way forward in Iraq. Tomorrow, Bush will participate in a...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27, 2006 -- It’s imperative that the United States, its allies and the Iraqi government stop Islamic extremists from achieving their goal of controlling Iraq and the surrounding region, a senior U.S. military officer said on CBS’s “60 Minutes” yesterday. “We have to stabilize Iraq and the broader regional dynamic in order to make the region less conducive to extremism, because if we don’t, the extremist values will become mainstream and we will have a much worse security situation develop in the future,” Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, commander of U.S. Central Command, told CBS reporter Lara...

Briton backs imam in 'uncovered meat' rowFrom Bernard Lagan in Sydney ONE of Britain's most senior Muslims has defended as "a great scholar" the Australian imam who likened scantily clad women to uncovered meat that draws predators. Abduljalil Sajid, a senior figure in the Muslim Council of Britain, offered support for Sheikh Taj Din al-Hilali's views, saying that "loose women like prostitutes" encouraged men to be immoral. Dr Sajid, visiting Australia, said that Sheikh al-Hilali was attacking immodesty and loose dress, or "standing in the streets, inviting men to do these bad acts". Although the Australian cleric did not use...

Australia Muslim cleric suspended Australia's top Muslim cleric has been barred from preaching for up to three months, after comparing immodestly dressed women to "uncovered meat". Sheikh Taj el-Din al-Hilali's comments, suggesting that women who did not wear a headscarf attracted sexual assault, have caused a storm of protest. Sydney's mosque association said the suspension would give the cleric time to consider the impact of his words. But Australian Premier John Howard said the action was insufficient. Many people - including some Muslim leaders - have called for the cleric to be dismissed from office. Sheikh Hilali sparked more controversy...

To be a good Muslim! Respond violently to anyone that says, writes, draws that Islam is violent... Lie on 9/11 or support "theories", but do you use it to threaten the west especially Europe (like the signs at the 'Cartoons Jihad) 'Europe! take some lessons from 9/11'. Turn eyes away from Islamo racist-Arab led genocide on the Millions in Sudan, even though the victims are Muslims too (though black, not Arab), since it's done by "our guys".Await a "Palestinian" or another Arab kid to die, if you are Hamas or Huzbullah, you "know what to do" so that happenes...

The Government is to ask university lecturers to spy on "Asian-looking" pupils and report Muslim students they suspect of involvement in Islamic extremism to police, it has been reported.The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) is drawing up specific plans to ask universities and colleges to inform on students to special branch, the Guardian reported today. The report says the Government has identified universities as "fertile recruiting grounds" for extremists. The newspaper said that it had obtained a copy of an 18-page document containing proposals which it said was to be sent to universities and colleges by the end of...

DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton told Iowa's Democratic Party faithful on Saturday that the actions of "an extreme sliver" of the Republican Party have backfired and "profoundly divided" the country. "We've got a big responsibility. Forget about 2008. Forget about the politics. Just go out and find somebody and look them dead in the eye and say 'You know, this is not right'...This is America," Clinton said. "We can do better and this year, it's a job that Democrats have to do alone." More than 3,500 Iowa Democrats paid $100 each to attend the fund-raising banquet...

Ramadan Rampage in Sweden Tonight there were power shortages all over Sweden’s second largest city, Gothenburg. (Muslim) “Youth gangs” took the opportunity, spreading the European tradition of “Ramadan Riots.” Within an hour most schools and commercial centers in the north eastern suburbs were vandalized. - It’s complete chaos in north eastern Gothenburg. “We’ve sent all available police units but there’s no way we can stop the vandalisation,” police spokesman Frank Karlsson tells gp.se. - Several youth gangs are wandering about smashing windows and breaking into schools, malls, banks and a retirement center. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22875_Ramadan_Riots_in_Sweden&only http://aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/story/0,2789,903010,00.html

<p>Muslims not trying to fit with society, says Amis MUSLIMS are not doing enough to engage with Britain’s otherwise thriving multicultural society, Martin Amis has said... . “It looks like a multicultural society that’s working apart from a few miserable bastards.”</p> <p>Amis condemns Muslim extremists as 'miserable bastards'</p>

Logging trucks are again rumbling through town after a nearly 15-year hiatus. The Forest Service has reopened - or has plans to reopen - numerous drainages south of Eagle Ranch to logging... There are currently two active sales south of Eagle, with another in the works, said Cary Green, the White River National Forest's timber management assistant for the Eagle area. The 60-acre Beecher Gulch salvage timber sale, on Hardscrabble Mountain, sold in 2005, and about 500,000 board feet of timber is currently being harvested... A typical 2,000-square foot, single-family home requires about 27,000 board feet of framing lumber, paneling...

Six of America's most committed animal-rights activists will soon find themselves entering cages instead of smashing them. Along with their organization, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, they were convicted on federal terrorism charges in March. Their campaign of fear and intimidation targeted employees, customers, and suppliers of a medical research laboratory that uses animals. Yesterday in Trenton, three were sentenced to six years in jail. The remaining three face sentencing this week and next. Like true terror masterminds, these six took protecting lab rats past the point of earnest debate and honest persuasion, choosing instead to orchestrate a destructive crusade. Was...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE BERMEL, Afghanistan (Army News Service, Sept. 14, 2006) – Spec. Jose Pantoja shows off the danger of his mission along the border region of eastern Afghanistan: a scar on his cheek from an enemy bullet. During one of the longest firefights his company has encountered – nearly four hours long – three others sustained gunshot wounds, and nearly everyone took minor wounds from rocket propelled grenade shrapnel. “One of our guys actually got shot in his helmet,” Pantoja said. “It knocked him down, but he got up and kept fighting.” Engaging in firefights is almost daily life...