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If you are an enemy of America seeking her destruction, you would add to your pursuit of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons the undermining of this nation from within. You would do this largely through deception, putting on a peaceful face while subtly plotting ways to bring America down. That tactic was on display last Friday in Washington as a crowd estimated at 3,000 Muslims gathered to pray. The organizer of the rally, Imam Abdul Malik of Brooklyn, N.Y., told Americans what we like to hear: "What we've done today, you couldn't do in any Muslim country. If you prayed...

Hackers have mounted an attack on the Large Hadron Collider, raising concerns about the security of the biggest experiment in the world.As the first particles were circulating in the machine near Geneva where the world wide web was born, a Greek group hacked into the facility, posting a warning about weaknesses in its infrastructure. Calling themselves the Greek Security Team, the interlopers mocked the IT used on the project, describing the technicians responsible for security as "a bunch of schoolkids."

I received the e-mail that follows from Ryan Fissel, and spoke to him a short while ago..... ..... Here is the text of his e-mail, which I am posting with his permission: ++++++++++++++++++ I am writing today because I noticed this morning the posts on various blogs about something that BSB (Buckeye State Blog — Ed.) and Plunderbund had been writing about concerning infiltration of a Republican gotv effort. I was mainly concerned because my name, my business partner’s name and other people have been dragged into this mess. I have spoken with Russell Hughlock at BSB and he assured...

The controversial Czech TV documentary “I, A Muslim,” in which a reporter used a hidden camera to record inside mosques, has been posted (with English subtitles) at Google Video by LGF reader “Abu Kafir:” I, a Muslim

As dozens of anti-war demonstrators heckled President Bush outside an Indian Wells resort last weekend, a plainclothes Riverside County sheriff's deputy and another man moved through the crowd, the deputy waving a protest sign as the two snapped digital photographs of the demonstrators. Riverside County Sheriff Bob Doyle said that the U.S. Secret Service asked that members of his department's intelligence unit monitor the protest. Any photos taken Saturday of the protesters were snapped "under the auspices of the Secret Service," Doyle said. But Eric Zahren, a spokesman for the Secret Service in Washington, D.C., said the agency did not...

Geostrategy Direct Subscribe @ http://www.geostrategy-direct.com/geostrategy-direct/cuttingedge.html Syria might have distanced itself from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, but Bashar Assad remains best buddies with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, one of the deadliest terrorist groups in the world and a leading subcontractor of Iran and Syria. The PFLP-GC is an arm of the Syrian military — the terrorist army. It has been training Hamas and a range of terrorists aligned with Syria. The organization still retains terrorist camps in Lebanon, particularly in the Bekaa Valley. Osama Matar knows a lot about PFLP-GC methods. He trained in a terrorist...

Right on CampusThroughout 2003 and into 2004, a surge of protests roiled American campuses. You probably think the kids were agitating against war in Iraq, right? Well, no. Students at UCLA, Michigan and many other schools were sponsoring bake sales to protest . . . affirmative action. For white students and faculty, a cookie cost (depending on the school) $1; blacks and Hispanics could buy one for a lot less. The principle, the protesters observed, was just that governing university admission practices: rewarding people differently based on race. Indignant school officials charged the bake-sale organizers with "creating a hostile climate" for minority students,...

As international attention remains occupied with the terror murder of Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh by an Islamic extremist, and the long-term implications of the spread of Islamic fundamentalism within Europe, Greece continues to be roiled by a debate over the proposed construction of the first state-recognized mosque in the vicinity of Athens in modern times. The Islamic Center in the Athenian suburb of Peania, more than 15 miles northeast of Athens near the new international airport, will be financed directly by the King Fahd Foundation of Saudi Arabia. According to the Arab News, an English-language Saudi daily, some 8.5...

WASHINGTON Oct. 3 — Pentagon officials said Thursday they worry that terrorists are trying to infiltrate the U.S. military and may have done so at the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Three workers at the prison, including two members of the military, have been arrested on suspicion of espionage at the high-security base. It is unclear whether the men were connected to or part of any terrorist plot, the commander in charge of homeland security said. "I'm hoping we're going to find these are unusual, these are few and far between, that this isn't some large cell," said Gen....

Al-Qa'ida Supporters Arrive in Diyala Province In a special report, the independent Al-Yawm Al-Aakher quoted sources in the Diyala Province as stating that they have been witnessing the emergence of an "unusual organization in the province identifying itself as 'Ansar Al-Qa'ida' [Supporters of Al-Qa'ida], and that their numbers have been increasing daily… Citizens in Ba'qouba described the developments in the province as harbinger of an armed military eruption in the near future if the American forces in the area fail to curtail the activities of such armed organizations…" [21] [21] Al-Yawm Al-Aakher, August 18, 2003. [Emphasis in Original].

“Some of the biggest losses we have taken are due to Iraqis committing serious violations of the law of armed conflict and the Geneva Conventions, by dressing as civilians and luring us into surrender situations and opening fire on our troops,” General Richard Myers, Chairman of US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters days into the invasion of Iraq. Since then similar claims have been repeated by US-led forces, particularly in the aftermath of two successful Iraqi human bomb attacks against military checkpoints. The latest came from Pentagon spokesman, General Stanley McChrystal on 5 April in a briefing to reporters....

The scientists could have been studying germ warfare Some of Britain's top laboratories were infiltrated by Iraqi scientists researching germ warfare in the run-up to the Gulf War, a scientist has claimed. Iraqi scientists - financed by generous grants from the Iraqi government - reportedly applied for and gained research posts in academic and medical institutions. Dr Joseph Selkon, a leading Oxford microbiologist, told BBC Radio 4's File on 4 that the infiltration was discovered after he became suspicious about one Iraqi research applicant. His suspicions sparked extra security checks, which revealed that leading microbiology laboratories had been targeted by...

"Politics is about winning the war. If you are not focused on winning, you're in the wrong place. Go look for something else to do -- become a preacher or a missionary. Do charity work. Write books. -- David Horowitz, 2002For David Horowitz, writing books is part of his contribution to the political war for the soul of America. He writes to let Americans know there is a war, who the enemy is, and why we conservatives must change our war strategies....(snip)Click here for the complete review.

Egyptian police arrested a man with explosives trying to infiltrate into Israel by the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Taba, an Egyptian source said Saturday. The would-be infiltrator was detained late Tuesday night, the official said on condition of anonymity, according to AFP. Egypt tightened security on its border with the Gaza Strip after Israeli soldiers shot and killed an Egyptian man trying to smuggle explosives across the border on Tuesday. Since the Palestinian uprising erupted almost 19 months ago, a number of infiltration attempts and shooting incidents have occurred along the Israeli Egyptian border.