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Report cites Frank's proposal to cut military 25% President-elect Barack Obama raised questions during an election campaign stop in Colorado Springs when he asserted the U.S. needs a "civilian national security force" that would be as powerful, strong and well-funded as the Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force, but few of those questions have been answered. But now one report is proposing a possible solution for part of the equation: From where would the money for such an organization come? Democrats in Congress now are floating the idea of cutting U.S. military spending by 25 percent, or $150 billion a...

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". As a result of the media maligning the character of the rape victim, New Black Panther Party (NBPP) National Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz rallied his organization, local leaders and residents to take a stand against the injustice surrounding this heated case, and organized a press conference, demonstration and town hall meeting on May 1. As an attorney, he held concerns about the effective prosecution of the case and announced his decision to conduct a private investigation. “The history of Duke University is rooted in racism. Racism existed long before we (NBPP) got here. The two defendants must be brought...

DURHAM - A Durham police detective investigating the Duke University lacrosse case arrested an alibi witness Wednesday on a 2 1/2-year-old misdemeanor warrant. Taxi driver Moezeldin Elmostafa said Investigator R.D. Clayton and another officer asked whether he had anything new to tell them about the rape case before driving him to the Durham County jail. He said no and was held for five hours, until a friend posted his bail on a shoplifting charge. Ernest Conner, a Greenville lawyer who represents defendant Reade Seligmann, said the cabbie's arrest amounted to intimidation. "It appears to me they are trying to pressure...

Duke University police barred members of the New Black Panthers from the school's campus this morning. About 40 members of the group came to protest against white lacrosse players charged with raping a black escort service dancer at a team party. Though university officials had said they would be permitted to protest on the private school's grounds, police refused to let them enter the West Campus on Duke University Drive. Officers said students were already overstressed by exams and the protest might further unsettle them. The Panthers, dressed in fatigues, combat boots and flak jackets -- some sporting knives on...

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DURHAM - The national chairman of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense says his group intends to march at Duke University on Monday to "deal directly" with lacrosse players about charges of rape of an escort service dancer at a team party. Duke's campus police are coordinating with the Durham Police Department to prepare for the black-separatist group, which has a reputation for coming to its protests armed. Malik Zulu Shabazz, a Washington lawyer who is the leader of the New Panthers, said he will be in Durham to rally with local black leaders and monitor progress of the...

Note to Editors: Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead sent the following email message this evening to the university’s students, faculty and staff, as well as to the parents of undergraduates As you may know, we learned from reports in the news media last evening that an organization known as the New Black Panther Party had announced that it plans to hold a demonstration at the Chapel Drive entrance to West Campus on Monday morning, May 1. These reports indicated the group intended to enter the campus and that they may be carrying guns. Guns are not permitted on Duke’s...

DURHAM) -- A well-known black nationalist organization arrived in Durham this week to provide security for the woman who says she was raped by members of the Duke University lacrosse team. The New Black Panthers say they came to the city to protect the woman from alleged death threats they say are being made against her. The group is also distributing recruitment brochures with information about a rally they plan to hold Monday near the Duke University The brochure asks, "Had enough of disrespect and racism from Duke University?" and contains photos of Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, the two...

[snip] "We are conducting an independent investigation, and we intend to enter the campus and interview lacrosse players," Shabazz said Thursday. "We seek to ensure an adequate, strong and vigorous prosecution." Duke is a private institution, and its campus is private property. Shabazz said he has not sought permission to enter but that his group has "received no word that we are not welcome." John Burness, Duke's vice president for public affairs and community relations, said Thursday that the university will allow a controlled march on campus, as long as the New Black Panthers follow specific rules. "As an institution...

DURHAM -- An official with the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense said the black nationalist organization is providing security for the woman who has accused Duke lacrosse players of raping her. And the organization is distributing recruitment brochures with information about a rally planned near the Duke campus for Monday. The brochures ask, "Had enough of disrespect and racism from Duke University?" The materials contain photographs of Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, the two white lacrosse players indicted and charged with raping a black exotic dancer at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. the night of March 13-14. "We'll do...

The New Black Panther Party is coming to New Orleans on Friday to represent the black "masses" who have been "displaced, murdered and abandoned" by a negligent government at war with its people, the group said in a press release. The leader of the New Black Panther Party, attorney Malik Zulu Shabazz, said his group will launch a "weekend of mobilization that will give rise to a never-before-seen stage in the Afrikan Liberation Movement." The press release describes the event as a self-help program for black people in the city where "the plot to destroy the Black civilization has continued...

For your viewing entertainment... I mentioned that my friend Bryan Preston of Junkyard Blog and I attended the New Black Panther Party's protest of the Danish embassy in Washington, D.C., over the weekend. Bryan has put together a mini-movie highlighting the unintentionally comical wit and wisdom of NBPP leader Malik Zulu Shabazz. It's called "Takbir!" Which is a call to arms...or at least fists. In any case, the angry clown Shabazz spent a lot of time exhorting his very small legion of followers with the phrase and threatening the peaceful counterprotesters. Unfortunately, we can't afford to dismiss the likes of...

To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor Contact: New Black Panther Party, 202-397-4577 or 267-259-6420 News Advisory: WHAT: Press Conference and Rally at the Denmark Embassy WHERE: Denmark Embassy, 3200 Whitehaven St., NW, Washington, D.C. (off of Massachusetts Ave, 2 Blocks From the Islamic Center) WHEN: Saturday, Feb. 18, 1 to 4 p.m. (meet in front in front of Islamic Center at 12 noon. Press Conference will begin at 1 p.m. and Rally which will follow, will be held after Salaatul Zuhr) WHO: Speakers Include: Attorney Malik Zulu Shabazz, Imam Akbar Bilal, Imam Abdul Alim Musa, Imam Mohammed Asi, Hodari Abdul Ali,...

Honor Roll: BillF, BufordP, Calvin*, Christopher Lincoln, cindy-true-supporter, Dave*, Ed Hudgins, GeorgeTheOther, Iraqikurd, Jimmy Valentine’s brother, Josh*, JoyJoyfromNJ, Kevin*, kristinn, Marylander, Mellora*, Ryan*, Tolerance Sucks Rocks, Tom the Redhunter, Trey*The D.C. Chapter of Free Republic and friends took a stand for freedom in the face of Islamofascism outside the Danish embassy in Washington, D.C. yesterday.We were there to counter a protest of the Mohammed cartoons by the New Black Panther Party and other assorted extemist Muslims.We started gathering in front of the embassy, located on Whitehaven St., NW, at noon, an hour before the radical Muslims were scheduled to arrive...

Muslim Rally at the Denmark Embassy - WHAT: Press Conference and Rally at the Denmark Embassy WHERE: Denmark Embassy, 3200 Whitehaven St., NW, Washington, D.C. (off of Massachusetts Ave, 2 Blocks From the Islamic Center) WHEN: Saturday, Feb. 18, 1 to 4 p.m. (meet in front in front of Islamic Center at 12 noon. Press Conference will begin at 1 p.m. and Rally which will follow, will be held after Salaatul Zuhr) WHO: Speakers Include: Attorney Malik Zulu Shabazz, Imam Akbar Bilal, Imam Abdul Alim Musa, Imam Mohammed Asi, Hodari Abdul Ali, and other community and Muslim leaders who will...

MALIK ZULU SHABAZZ Shabazz * Racist and anti-Semite * Leader of New Black Panther Party * “The only solution any time there is a funeral in the black community, is a funeral in the police community.” * “Kill every goddamn Zionist in Israel! Goddamn little babies, goddamn old ladies! Blow up Zionist supermarkets!” * “America should be glad that every black man is not on a killing spree for all the suffering they [white Americans] have done.” * “If any racist, straw-chewin’ tobacco-chewin’ racist redneck lays their hand on any black man or woman in this county, crush that devil...

Divine Allah sat on a red plastic chair inside a one-room efficiency apartment in Trenton, trying to explain the need for black militarism in one of New Jersey's poorest cities. In a little more than a month since opening a Trenton office, Allah, the party's national youth leader, has met with street gangs, held food drives and traveled to the storm-torn Gulf Coast and clashed with police over alleged harassment. Like its predecessor, the New Black Panthers are no new adversary to law enforcement. The original Oakland-formed Black Panther Party, which died out in the 1970s, rose to fame in...

NEW YORK - Saddened and disheartened by their possible involvement in the "Millions More Movement", the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is urging prominent African-American leaders to reconsider their support for the march and its anti-Semitic organizers, Minister Louis Farrakhan and Malik Zulu Shabazz. Organizers scheduled a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to discuss plans for the October 14-16 march, which will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 1995 Million Man March on Washington. In a letter to more than 30 prominent Black leaders listed as supporting the march, including Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton, Dr....

Carnegie Mellon University student Sen. Edward Ryan had two questions for Malik Zulu Shabazz, national chairman of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. "First, do you hate me as a white person?" "I have been taught to respect all people," Shabazz replied. "But I have certain presumptions from what I know, and when I look at you, I do think you are a racist." Ryan then asked if Shabazz could put aside the color of his skin and shake his hand -- a request which Shabazz initially rejected. "I cannot put aside the color of my skin," he said....

An appearance by Malik Shabazz at Carnegie Mellon University last week has infuriated Jewish students, who say he not only devoted a university lecture to attacking them, but broke university rules and asked that Jewish students identify themselves as Jews before a hostile audience. A columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, who managed to stay at the appearance when other journalists were forced to leave, wrote: "Shabazz travels with a retinue of young men and women in jackboots, arm patches and berets. One wandered about with a nightstick. Another snapped photos of white people in the audience.... Try to imagine Farrakhan...

REV. PETERSON TO HOST BOB DORNAN SHOW TOMORROW (6-9 AM PST / 9-12 Noon EST on TRN) Los Angeles- Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President of BOND (Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny) will host the popular Bob Dornan Radio Show on TRN (Talk Radio Network). The show airs on TRN from 6-9 AM PST / 9-12 Noon EST (1-4 PM in Los Angeles by tape). Rev. Peterson will have as his special guest in the second hour the controversial leader of the New Black Panther Party, Malik Shabazz (a disciple of Louis Farrakhan) who yesterday held a press ...

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Did anyone else catch Fox coverage this morning of the ridiculous and irrelevant meeting held by the New Black Panthers? Their leader stood at the podium saying "blaming Bin Laden is not the problem" and he held up a picture of Bush and said, "we blame Bush". What the he** are they thinking? Can anyone help me understand what these folks are trying to do? If you're not for us, you're against us, and these people were sounding downright unAmerican.

'The Passion': Where's the black Jesus? Posted: February 25, 2004 12:00 p.m. Eastern By Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com This past week I was reminded and enlightened. I was fortunate enough to see an advance screening of Mel Gibson's much-discussed film, "The Passion of the Christ," which details the final 12 hours of Jesus' life. Superbly constructed, the movie reminded me through brilliant illustration of the agony and pain that Christ went through for us, so that we could be saved from sin. Though I am a minister of some 14 years and have read the gospels many...

A handful of the remaining members from the original Black Panther Party—in an effort to preserve their legacy—have retained a trademark lawyer to stop the use of their name by the New Black Panther Party. Bobby Seale, David Hilliard, Elaine Brown and Huey P. Newton’s widow, Fredrika, claim that the New Black Panther Party tarnishes their controversial legacy. They condemn the new group as a racist and anti-semetic nuisance. “They have hijacked our name and are hijacking our history,'' Seale told reporters. “We have to claim it back.” The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization, includes the New...

<p>WASHINGTON — The kidnappings and killings by Yasser Arafat's thugs at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was, for many, the first encounter with terrorism. Since then, it has become a fact of life with countless news items about the hijacking of aircraft and cruise ships, taking and executing hostages, arson, shooting and bombing at will — all over the world.</p>

I am probably going to catch high holy hell for writing this article. But I have to. I have to because nobody is saying this publicly, although a lot of people are thinking it. First of all, every media outlet in the world has been falling all over themselves praising Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose. Theoretically, this sniper pair was caught only after vociferous digging, and many man hours of diligent police work, with the help of honest citizens willing to tell the police about any suspicion about anything they may have had. Bull puckey. Law enforcement really...

Sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad sympathized with the Sept. 11 terrorists, is "a strong believer in the Muslims" and attended - and worked for - Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's so-called Million Man March, new reports revealed today. Here are excerpts from an interview Paula Zahn conducted today on CNN with Felix Strozier, who opened a martial arts school with Muhammad: ZAHN: Before I talk with Mr. Strozier, I just wanted to share with you some of the reporting in the Seattle Times this morning, where several federal sources said that John Allen Muhammad and his stepson may have...

A former Fort Lewis solider and a teenager described as his stepson were arrested early today near Middletown in Frederick County, Md., in connection with the sniper shootings that have taken 10 lives in the Washington, D.C., area. John Allen Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17, were taken into custody at a rest stop on Interstate 70 about 50 miles northwest of the nation’s capital, an FBI source said. The arrests came after a day in which federal agents tore up the yard at the Tacoma house where Muhammad had stayed earlier this year. Agents also searched a high...

And what's the story on his new last name - is he a Muslim convert like attempted shoebomber Richard Reid? Muslim converts, like converts to any religion, can often be a hell of a lot more zealous (and annoying) than those born into a particular faith. And if this is the guy, and there is a Muslim motivation, will the authorities attempt to play it down, like they did with the guy who shot up the El Al counter at LAX on the 4th of July?

<p>Two men wanted for questioning in the deadly sniper attacks were arrested early today in western Maryland in a car with New Jersey license plates obtained in Camden on the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.</p> <p>The license plates were issued to John A. Muhammad, 42, with an address of 1400 Sheridan Street, a state Motor Vehicles Division agent said. A bomb scare of undetermined origin occurred just minutes later.</p>

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secret Service agents with their weapons drawn detained a man on Thursday on the White House grounds between the fence surrounding the complex and the north entrance to the president's residence. The man was handcuffed by the agents and led away, according to a Reuters eyewitness. Secret Service spokesman Brian Marr said, "An individual black male came over the fence on Pennsylvania Ave. and was taken into custody by Secret Service uniform division officers and is currently being interviewed by agents from the service." President Bush (news - web sites) was speaking in North Carolina at the...

Sniper-Related Warrants Issued In Alabama Authorities Search Suspected Terrorist Training Camp POSTED: 10:05 p.m. CDT October 23, 2002 UPDATED: 10:18 p.m. CDT October 23, 2002 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Search warrants related to the D.C.-area sniper case were served Wednesday in various parts of the country, including the state of Alabama. Sources told NBC13 that federal authorities from Montgomery were in the city of Marion in Perry County Wednesday night, armed with a warrant, and were searching property. The search warrants are reportedly for a terror camp called "Ground Zero," which is located in Marion. The camp was discovered earlier this...

Headline just about says it all. Bullet from Tacoma Stump MATCHES sniper bullet! prisoner6

Preparing for Jihad ? in AlabamaIslamic Militant Training Camp Allegedly Operating in AlabamaJuly 25 ? A training camp linked to Islamic militants has been operating in Alabama, and European law enforcement officials believe Muslim extremists were using it to prepare for a holy war. British authorities also thought that militants from overseas were training in the United States to take advantage of America's gun laws, sources told ABCNEWS. The looming question for law enforcement is whether there is a connection between the camp and the al Qaeda terror network. An investigation by Britain's Scotland Yard led to the discovery of...

Local Baltimore TV reporting that sniper was security guard for Farrakhan's Million Man March

SEATTLE (AP) -- Investigators are combing through the lives of two men named in connection with the Washington, D.C.-area sniper investigation, searching for clues to what may have motivated a killing spree. John Allen Muhammad, 42, one of the men, is a Muslim convert said to be sympathetic to the Sept. 11 hijackers, according to published reports. Muhammad, formerly a soldier at Fort Lewis, and John Lee Malvo, 17, a Jamaican citizen who attended school in Bellingham, may have been motivated by anti-American sentiments, The Seattle Times reported Thursday, quoting unidentified federal officials. The officials said both were known to...

TACOMA, Wash. – Two men wanted for questioning in the D.C.-area sniper case were arrested early this morning at a rest stop near I-70 in the vicinity of Myersville, Md., about 45 miles northwest of the nation's capital, according to news reports. John Allen Muhammad, 41, and stepson Lee Malvo, 17, were transported to Montgomery County, where the sniper task force is headquartered. A rifle was found in Muhammad's car, reported WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C. Neighbors who several years ago lived near Muhammad in Tacoma, Wash., described him last night as the head of a devout Muslim family who was...

newscourt.com - Authorities are investigating into possible ties between John Muhammad, John Lee Malvo and a training camp reportedly linked to Islamic terrorists in Marion, Alabama. European law enforcement officials believe Muslims were using the camp to prepare for a holy war, according to a July 25 2002, report by ABC NEWS. An investigation by Britain's Scotland Yard led to the discovery of "Camp Ground Zero," in Alabama. Bullet-riddled school buses and police cars with mannequin targets were scattered around the grounds. Inside a large warehouse were shot-up mannequins, in domestic settings, with blood-like stains on them. Ground Zero's operators...

<p>OAKLAND, Calif. — Veteran Black Panthers of the 1960s and '70s are roaring again, but their cry this time is not over racial disparities at large, but racism within the New Black Panther Party.</p> <p>Now a fixture on the speaker circuit, Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale is accusing the New Black Panthers of sullying the original group's reputation by showing up heavily armed at demonstrations and preaching violent, racist and extremist views on its Web site.</p>