After reading this at A Jacksonian I know our government doesn't function much, if at all.

Via A JacksonianFor quite some time I have been pointing out the problem of Transnational Terrorism, organized crime and the unaccountable shipment of goods and money via various routes legal, illegal and gray. And today, a serious dot in the black comes to light and a major h/t to Instapundit for the link to the Washington Times article on three men indicted with threatening America. And with that the first *real* break into crossing between the various realms comes to the forefront! Let me give you some of the meat of the article:

Three arrested in arms plot to kill Americans
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
June 9, 2007

A suspected international arms dealer was arrested yesterday in Spain and charged with conspiracy to sell millions of dollars in weapons to a State Department-designated foreign terrorist organization in Colombia to kill Americans.

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Karen P. Tandy said Syrian national Monzer Al Kassar....

He did this all this time and lived? CIA Central Inert Agency.

Hat Tip: Larwyn.

Update: Also see See-Dubya at Junk Yard Blog.

I'm seriously fired up about this. This is awesome. This is Big News.

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The TSA blog explains the avantage of aggressive defense (emphasis added):

For more than a year, there has been a tightly coordinated effort led by the FBI that also involved law enforcement, the intelligence community, DHS components including TSA and CBP, as well as international partners. Within TSA, the office of Law Enforcement/Federal Air Marshal Service, Intelligence and Security Operations were actively involved. This coordinated effort shows once again that the best way to stop terrorist attacks is to break them up before they become operational.

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UPDATE: Its those damn Christian fascists again!

According to sources, the suspects have been identified as: Russell Defreitas, Abdul Nur, Kareem Ibrihim and Abdul Kadir.

A plot to touch off a massive explosion at New York's Kennedy airport by blowing up a jet fuel pipeline has been thwarted:

NEW YORK -- According to NewsChannel4's Jonathan Dienst, sources said federal investigators have made arrests in an alleged terror plot on Kennedy Airport.

Four people have been charged. One is in custody in New York. Three suspects are thought to be overseas.

Sources said one suspect is thought to be a former parliament or government official in Guyana.

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Don't you just love those beef jerky commercials? You know the ones ... the messin' with Sasquatch commercials.

Now is your chance to e-mail the Taliban. Mess with them a little. I'm. Not. Kidding.

Here are a few e-mails I found at a Taliban website. One is for the Taliban webmaster, and two of the others appear to be the e-mail for a couple of dudes named as "the official spokesmen for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan". The last one I'm not sure about.

alemarah1@yahoo.com
zabihullahmujahid@yahoo.com
alfarhad2005@yahoo.com
gran@inbox.com

Please forward any e-mail you get from them to me. Thanks.

PS--Just in case you want to call the Taliban, they were kind enough to leave the phone numbers for their "spokesmen". The 88216 prefix indicates that it's a satelite phone.

(011 from US, then) 8821621515539 --- ask for Ahmadi, which is what Qari Mohammad Yousuf's friends call him. He seems to speak English. Again, I'm not joking.
(011 from US, then) 8821621360585 --- calls himself "mujahid", so I'd just ask for soon-to-be-dead asshole

If someone answers, er, then I'd suggest e-mailing me pronto fast. I'd call myself, but I seem to be out of minutes this close to the end of the month.

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AllahP's post on who would get the nuke if a nuke were set off here is an interesting one (and hopefully the US government has been thinking about this prior to now).

I felt that the comment preceding mine was truly fatwa worthy and genuine leftist-defined thoughtcrime - which is why it was so interesting:

In the event of a nuclear terrorist strike on the United States, both Mecca AND Medina MUST suffer a nuclear strike in retaliation. It is the ONLY response that makes sense. Not only would it be necessary to nuke those cities, but it would ONLY be a sufficient response if the “dirtiest” nuclear device in the U.S. inventory were utilized in the strike. By “dirty” nuke, I mean a device that would make their two “holiest” sites completely uninhabitable (certain poison to human life) for the next 10,000 years. The nuclear contamination MUST be THAT severe.

Okay. Now. WHY?

Because it is the ONLY way to STOP the violence. The total, complete, and eternal destruction of their “holiest” sites would END Islam, once and for all. Islam is a system of “works”. The fanatic element responsible for the violence is trying to perform “works” (on Allah’s behalf) that will secure a guarantee of eternal reward (in paradise). One of their required works is that “at least once in their life” they must make a pilgrimage to their holy sites. If they can not make their pilgrimage, they can not complete the “works” required to secure their “salvation”. By their own stupid rules, outlined their “holy” books, if Mecca and Medina were unapproachable, then ALL muslims all doomed to eternal damnation.

So what effect would this have? Simple. It would completely destroy all incentive…to do ANYTHING. There would no longer be ANY point in being a Muslim, because there would be no possibility of ever being able to do the “works” required by Allah to secure eternal reward. Within a generation, Islam would disappear from the face of the earth.

Game over. (Game, set, match, actually).

CyberCipher on May 8, 2007 at 11:48 PM

Maybe it'll burn itself out.

I'll tell you what, though. If so much as a firecracker goes off in this country somewhere in the name of Islam in the future, I might be somewhere in CyberCipher's neighborhood again. And it does not give me pleasure to say that.

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1 Better to OUTLAW ISLAM  in the west. Deport the buggers back to their original countries. Their immigration to the west was an experiment that didn't work.

Posted by: greyrooster at May 08, 2007 11:27 PM (l9HRC)

2

Please let me live long enough to see the glorious day of Mecca being turned into a redioactive glass parking lot. If that day was to ever come, are we then allowed to remove ourselves from the Geneva Convention nonsense. Napalm, and flame-throwers are too cool to have sitting on the sidelines.

Posted by: Rome at May 09, 2007 01:26 AM (/GrlO)

3 We take 3 years to build up the nerve to return fire on mosque that are firing on us. We have lost the will and any return fire upon a attack would be out of the question. We have become pussies.

Posted by: Randman at May 09, 2007 02:30 AM (Sal3J)

4 I would say we immediately take Pakistan and Iran.  Those two countries are where the vast majority of the global terrorism is eminating from.  Iran got their Islamic Republic and if they are going to continue to behave in an irresponsible manner, the world is going to take it away from them.  In Pakistan you now have islamists actively calling for the overthrow of a nuclear armed government.  The religion itself isn't the problem so much as the practice of it by certain groups.  That religion as practiced by the more radical factions is incompatible with modern culture.  It isn't sustainable.  They are killing each other faster than anyone else is killing them.

Islam is going to self destruct anyway or adapt to a practice that can get along with other people.

Posted by: crosspatch at May 09, 2007 02:30 AM (y2kMG)

5 On the Mecca and Medina thing....I know enough about Islam and it's mechanics to know that it would only be a matter of days before one or more creative Mullahs would issue an edict declaring that in some previously misinterpreted passage the Koran actually predicted this. That book is so full madness I would just nod my head and say, "hmmm" if I were told that a "truther" had found a time machine and traveled back in time to dictate it. I love when somebody gives me that "the Bible is full of errors and contradictions too" line. Get out the books and lets read, shall we.....
Sorry, got off on a tangent there. The thing I'm getting at is that Islam was designed or evolved into(your pick) the religion equivalent of the cockroach. It ain't gonna die that easily even.

Posted by: TBinSTL at May 09, 2007 03:35 AM (MSiPb)

6 "In the event of a nuclear terrorist strike on the United States, both
Mecca AND Medina MUST suffer a nuclear strike in retaliation. It is the
ONLY response that makes sense."

The problem here is what do you say to more than a million Muslim Americans here in the US, some of whom are serving in our armed forces? Mecca and Medina are the holy sites for my Muslim neighbors, as well as the fanatics. Having gone to school with a few Muslim friends, I wouldn't want to look them in the eye and tell them I supported that. I'm sorry, but something like that is just off the radar in terms of what can be justified. Sure, it may be something you think about doing when you see another jihadi strap a bomb to himself and march into a crowded place, but in the final analysis, it's only an idle thought.

Does that mean we shouldn't nuke in retaliation? Hell no. Turn it into a glass parking lot if we have to, but we need to remember what makes us the good guys and not reduce ourselves to the thugs we're fighting.

Posted by: David Marcoe at May 09, 2007 04:48 AM (dJ/b4)

7 Actually, annual detonations that preceed or occur on the pilgrimage each year, would also be advisable.  If you really want to go that far.  The fact is, if you do destroy the Holy Cities you do wreak havoc on thier prophecies, and I believe that would break Islam's back.  Yes, the hardcore loonies would still fight, and the leftists would join in, so it wouldn't be over yet, but if we have been nuked, it is just flat time to clean house on a global scale.                        
                                 USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at May 09, 2007 04:52 AM (2OHpj)

8 "Muslim friends"  I'm not sure what that means ... I used to think I knew what that meant, but I'm not sure anymore ...
                                 
                              USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at May 09, 2007 04:54 AM (2OHpj)

9 "what do you say to more than a million Muslim Americans"  Drop the Adjective!          USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at May 09, 2007 04:55 AM (2OHpj)

10 Complete and utter bullshit. No way this or any other administration would ever have the balls to openly declare nuclear war on Islam as a whole (not just extremists) in the event of a dirty-bomb detonation here in the states. Bullshit.

Posted by: Jack's Smirking Revenge at May 09, 2007 05:15 AM (ou0cx)

11 While I would love nothing more than to see Mecca turned to glass and made uninhabitable for centuries, I cannot see our government having the intestinal fortitude to wage any attack on a religious site. I think we'd strike every inch of non-sacred soil before we'd hit Mecca or Madina. Those cities will always remain safe-havens for Islamists. We'd even allow every non-Islamic Holy site to be destroyed by these Islamic vermin, and still we'd avoid similar retaliatory strikes.

And as another poster stated, the Mullahs would just manipulate a Qur'an passage making the destruction of Mecca appear to be Allah's plan. Muslims would still pray to their meteorite, and they would simply find an alternative pilgrimage site.

Posted by: DJM at May 09, 2007 05:34 AM (qEUo5)

12 Bombing Mecca would likely have the reverse effect. But I believe the real problem, the real danger is that the US has a huge nuclear arsenal and the current Islamic world dos not know what it could do or believes we would never resort to using nuclear weapons. This is a big mistake.
A most dangerous situation occurs when a country has the means to destroy another, but becomes a victim of a gross miscalculation.
Prior to being in that situation we need to impress on our terrorist enemies that a nuclear bomb is more powerful then an RPG, and that we will use them. Unfortunately the only way to do that is to drop one somewhere that will demonstrate our resolve. Perhaps that "lawless tribal region" on the Pakistan border would be a good spot. Many people today forget that during the above ground nuclear testing days we detonated 35 bombs a year and it didn't even cause Global Warming.

Posted by: NortonPete at May 09, 2007 06:45 AM (fVuwW)

13 I agree the option of nuking Mecca, Medina must be kept open. But, in the mean time, another useful strategy is based on the realization that if it weren't for the oil revenue the barbarity of Islamism would've been geographically contained. It's Islamism's oil revenue that finances global terrorism. To win the global war on terror control of oil must be taken away from Islam.

Posted by: Garduneh Mehr at May 09, 2007 07:35 AM (j97MF)

14 In the event of a nuclear terrorist strike on the United States, both
Mecca AND Medina MUST suffer a nuclear strike in retaliation.

Sounds good to me.  If we get nuked, then all bets are off.  I don't give a crap what my "muslim friends" think.  Fuck em.  We're way past that if our cities get nuked.  Waaaay past that.

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at May 09, 2007 07:37 AM (8e/V4)

15 I agree with "On the Mecca and Medina thing....I know enough about Islam and it's
mechanics to know that it would only be a matter of days before one or
more creative Mullahs would issue an edict declaring that in some
previously misinterpreted passage the Koran actually predicted this."

It's a bit scary that someone who follows this closely enough to post in blogs and who says stuff like " By their own stupid rules," (the "preceding post" in the original jawa report) could think this would do anything but drive them to a more organized and focused fury. Their (meaning the folks subjugating their wills to the radical mullahs) rules -are- "stupid" -because- they don't make sense. Thinking you'll foist them on something of their own design when you know that "design" is irrational and fluid is... well, stupid.

Posted by: bk425 at May 09, 2007 08:57 AM (MCGyY)

16 I say we nuke em now. Then, if it turns out we were wrong, I'll take the blame.

Posted by: dick at May 09, 2007 09:01 AM (iBXa9)

17 Negative on Mecca and Medina. Crime against Humanity, just like nuking Jerusalem.

Riadh, Damascus and Tehran. And we give Jordan, Pakistan and Turkey some real hard looks.

Posted by: mojo at May 09, 2007 09:35 AM (g1cNf)

18 I agree with the Paki-Afghan border solution, along with M&M, ground burst of 50 megaton each. Add Tehran, Riyadh, Sanaa, Damascus, and any place we think that OBL may be hiding, to the mix with the neutron bomb. (free housing for millions)

Posted by: memphis761 at May 09, 2007 09:36 AM (YHZAl)

19 This is stupid on so many levels? If Rome gets nuked, will there be no Catholics? If Salt Lake City gets nuked, will there be no Mormons?
 
 

Posted by: BohicaTwentyTwo at May 09, 2007 09:37 AM (oC8nQ)

20 dick ,
 
I'm cool with that and TBinSTL is correct. A lot of people here are showing a profound misunderstanding of Islam by suggesting that the Mullahs would just find another holy site. Islam is incredibly ridged regarding certain aspects of Islam. Without Mecca and Medina Islam is toast. Destroying Mecca and Medina to Islam is the equivalent to proving that Jesus Christ never existed to Christianity. None of Islam’s holy site means anything without the existence of Mecca and Medina, that’s how important Mecca and Medina are to Islam. Eliminate Mecca and Medina and Islam collapses like a house of cards.
 
 
 
 
 
 
http://www.mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=16834

Posted by: doriangrey at May 09, 2007 09:46 AM (XvkRd)

21 BohicaTwentyTwo,
 
 
This is stupid on so many levels? If Rome gets nuked, will there be no Catholics? If Salt Lake City gets nuked, will there be no Mormons?    
 
 

Neither Rome nor Salt Lake City hold even remotely hold the same significance to Catholics or Mormons that Mecca and Medina holds to Muslims. Proving that Jesus Christ never existed would hold a similar significance to Catholics or Mormons. The existence of Mecca and Medina is the foundation of Islam, just as the existence of Jesus Christ is the foundation of Christianity. Without that foundation all the rest of Islam falls apart. If you can’t pray towards Mecca or make your pilgrimage nothing you do will ever appease Allah, nothing period and there are no substitutions. No renaming of other holy site no secondary sites no backup plans nothing. The twelfth Imam can’t return, Islam cannot subjugate the entire world without the twelfth Imam, the consequences just continue to fall like dominos.  Mecca and Medina are Islam’s Achilles heal.

 
 
 
 
http://www.mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=16834

Posted by: doriangrey at May 09, 2007 10:01 AM (XvkRd)

22 mojo,
 
Negative on Mecca and Medina. Crime against Humanity, just like nuking Jerusalem.
 
Sorry but that thinking ceases to have any value or merit after a nuke or dirty bomb goes off in America. Mecca and Medina not only become fair targets in the aftermath of such an attack they become the mandatory targets.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
http://www.mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=16834

Posted by: doriangrey at May 09, 2007 10:06 AM (XvkRd)

23 Rome destroyed a number of religions by killing the priests, stealing or destroying any idols, and destroying the temples. That struck those religions in the two weak points, removing the holy artifacts and locations that could not be replaced without those who knew the "secrets", the dead priests.

On one hand, Islam has the weakness of idolitors as they worship both a rock and a location, on the other, they do not have a priesthood based on "secrets". It could go either way. I suspect that it would not destroy the religion.

Neither Catholics nor Mormons worship the locations you mention. Destruction of those two locations would only strengthen the adherence of the believers to the faith. Bad analogy.

Posted by: Phillep at May 09, 2007 10:09 AM (UN15o)

24 remember in 1941 nobody supported the wholesale destruction that by 1944 was just another enemy city destroyed. someday it might be very acceptable to give mecca and medina the dresden or hiroshima treatment

Posted by: jimmytheclaw at May 09, 2007 10:24 AM (SeEaA)

25  WAIT..people..some sanity..there is NO reason to resort to NUKES!
Those need to be saved for shaking at China, Russia et al.Three or Four Moabs would do exactly the same job, with no U.N. b.s. afterwards.Yes, I realize that if a city got nuked all bets would be off,
but we would still have to look at political reality:if We nuke, whats to stop China from Nuking Taiwan or Russia from Nuking various parts of Chechnya (and other Asian republics)?In other words, once we signal a precedent about nukes, there is no putting that particular genie away.
 If you doubt the destructive capability of the Mother of all Bombs,
feel to read the defense industries assessment. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/moab.htm 

Posted by: RITA at May 09, 2007 10:47 AM (QAIDW)

26 Who to nuke? That's actually an easier question to answer than you think. These are the signs you want to look for: (1) any city where there is no law but Sharia law (2) the city has a theocratic government that forces citizens to wear clothes of a particular type and dictates male facial hair hygiene (3) within the city, burned out hulks of churches, cathedrals and temples dominate the landscape but the mosques are all nice and shiny (4) any city where headcutters roam the streets and kidnap people at random (5) any place where they still stone adulterers or drop brick walls on homosexuals (6) any city that fires rockets on a daily basis into a neighboring, non-antagonistic country without provocation (7) any city where primetime TV is filled with hateful, bigoted propaganda against Jews and Christians ( any city where religions other than Islam are not allowed to be encouraged or preached in public (9) any city where violent jihad against the west is encouraged in the local mosque (maybe just take out the mosque) (10) and finally, any city where women are treated like property and children are encouraged to kill in the name of their god. I think that pretty much covers it. Feel free to add to the list if you think I've left something off. Peace out.

Posted by: DrTheopolis at May 09, 2007 10:59 AM (9ZqGe)

27 RITA,
 
Sorry but the MOAB just doesnt cut the mustard. Big ass bomb, yes. Big enough bomb, not even close. The light glowing from Mecca and Medina needs to be seen from the planets circling Orion.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
http://www.mp3.com.au/artist.asp?id=16834

Posted by: doriangrey at May 09, 2007 11:04 AM (XvkRd)

28

BohicaTwentyTwo, 
I have a ton of respect for your comments.

"If Salt Lake City gets nuked, will there be no Mormons?"  

No offense if I argue with you. There are different psychologies at work here. 

If Mecca CAN BE NUKED, it means either there is no Allah, Allah is NOT God, OR that Allah is not with those who claim Islam.  Otherwise, Mecca, and Medina should be spared by the will of Allah, and he should sweep our nukes away into the sky by waving his celestial hand.

Other 'primitive' religions have been broken by smacking thier 'god' in the face with a shovel. When faith is shallow, and based on 'acts', and rituals, it cannot survive major challenges to its core dogmas without changing.
Mormonism is a bit more modern, and handles earthly matters with more imagination. I believe it would be easier for Mormonism to survive radical challenges than for Islam. Unless of course, Islam manages to over-run and kill all the infidels BEFORE we break its heart.

I vote for shattering thier orthodoxy earlier rather than later.  If it gets to nukes on US soil, anyone who takes their side risks getting some also.  Yes, it is madness, and yet it is worse madness to simply allow this country to fail before such an evil, and go down without a fight!

USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at May 09, 2007 12:22 PM (2OHpj)

29 "WAIT..people..some sanity..there is NO reason to resort to NUKES!
Those need to be saved for shaking at China, Russia et al."   It is insane to keep bluffing for over sixty years and expect nobody to call you on it. China and Russia, and any other nuclear dictatorship needs tosee us take nukes into serious considertion. And if a big enough, and deserving enough target gets in front of us, we need to prove the point that any war against us is suicide.  We have been bluffing for so long, now all the little distators want a nuke of thier own because they think we won't stop them. SANITY requires the whole planet get a wake up call,and we prevent any more nuclear armed states. Sanity also requires that dogmas of hate fueled by belief in a God of hate, be broken, and shattered into dust. All death cults must perish!                                  
                           USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at May 09, 2007 12:35 PM (2OHpj)

30 The strategy of retaliation should be against the top ten Arab and Iranian cities.  Not Mecca or Medina.  Put them all in the same boat together.  That way all states who sponsor or tolerate terror will be held to account. But in order to deter it must be done first. After we are nuked I dunno. Ya gotta do something. Might as well go out in bright white flash.

Posted by: Howie at May 09, 2007 12:36 PM (YHZAl)

31 "There are different psychologies at work here" - you got that right M.W. Can y'all really be this astray? Nuke God's planet. Go right ahead, I'm sure you can find psycological justification. But do not think you ever get to use the Lord's name again, because He will have nothing to do with you (I'm starting to suspect that might already be the case for some of you here).

Posted by: tbone at May 09, 2007 12:46 PM (HGqHt)

32 There is a way to still be Muslim without the Hajj - Jihad. Dieing in Allah's cause is a free trip to heaven even if you messed up on all five pillars of Islam.

Plus, if a generation of Muslims is informed that an obligation on their faith and on their children in order to get into heaven is unavailable then they will be in favor of any crazy scheme to initiate the end of the world. The Hajj is not needed after Judgment Day.

Cue Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his 12th Imam plan with the nuking of Jerusalem and the Israel into the sea and the gnashing of teeth and the "Hey, hey - it hurts me!!!" 

Posted by: Saul at May 09, 2007 01:59 PM (hgX7d)

33 I am not saying it is not a potential deterrent threat since it would definitely have an impact on Islam's longterm viability but it would not make for a better situation and I think there are far better threats to Islam's longterm viability like... reality. I know it may seem that many Muslims are immune to reality but kids have a weaker immunity to facts and new ideas. All that indoctrination can fool some of the people some of the time but all kids turn into teenagers and some begin to question things they have been taught.

And even if immigration and deportation could get every Muslim out of the West (every immigrant since anyone of any race or ethnicity could fake being an infidel) there would still come a day when some fishing boat in international waters launched an unmanned submersible with a nuke close enough to a river  that leads inland to a minor city or launches a primitive cruise missile. The Islamic world is not completely in the stone-age just because many of their beliefs and economies are backwards. Ultimately there is a war of ideas going on with stakes that are just as high as the war on terror. The West can not afford to pull up stakes on that front any more than can it capitulate to terrorists.

It is time for the West to start actually fighting on the ideas front by translating literary works into Arabic (since it is barely being done now by Arabs) so that they have something to read besides Religion, "Protocols" and "Mein Kampf". We need to develop real-time English/Arabic and English/Farsi translation software both so that we can all see but also respond to pro jihadi discussions on the Internet. We need to make real demands that any nation that wants so much as a dollar in trade or a dime in aid purges antisemitic and anti-Western hatred from their education systems and end persecution of bloggers and the press. 

Posted by: Saul at May 09, 2007 02:37 PM (hgX7d)

34 Islam has already won in America. As soon as the government can start re educating the people to accept and submit to the new religion the better.
Nuke Mecca?
ROFLMAO America's leaders ain't got the guts to nuke much of anybody even should a nuke hit us first. No, The "damage to the enviroment and ecosystems beyond count will hasten global warming and doom us all" crowd will step in and put a stop to this.
Islam is the new wave of religion and will be pushed by our own leaders and it's way too late to even speak of nuking anybody.
Besides the holy cube will just be transported to heaven by Allah until the jews are all destroyed and Islam is the law of the land. This is what the Islamic leadership will say to tell their fpolks what happened.
Nuke Mecca LOL what a floggin' joke.

Posted by: Barry at May 09, 2007 03:16 PM (cl1Cf)

35 There is one candidate who would retaliate in kind.
I won't mention his name in this context but lets say he knows
what might need to be done.

My only litmus test for a president is would he retaliate in kind.

Posted by: NortonPete at May 09, 2007 04:42 PM (fVuwW)

36  No, they wouldn't see the bombing of the Holy cities as Allah abandoning them, they would see it as Allah chastening them for being too moderate.
I'm not kidding about this, I know of which I speak. I lived in Cairo and studied the Koran in school for a few years(it was part of the curiculum at my school). They had us read certain portions that were less controversial but I read the whole damn thing, in Arabic and though it has been 30 odd years now, I can tell you that  I knew then and still know today that we are dealing with a trully inspired work of mind control and unreality here.
 My comparison to cockroaches was one I came up with back then when I was a young teenager and it remains apt. The only thing that might be more directly comparable would be a shoggoth.
 The "nuke Mecca" idea is a conveinient mental dodge telling ourselves that if it gets "really bad" we can deal with it in a quick but dirty way at the last minute. Do I know the solution? I've got some ideas, but I'm not sure what will work considering our people's lack of endurance and willingness to face the reality of this threat.
 

Posted by: TBinSTL at May 09, 2007 05:04 PM (MSiPb)

37 Yeah us nuking Mecca or Medina will never happen. If a terrorist nuke goes off in the US, the consensus will be: 'we don't know who to bomb in retaliation, so we can't in good conscience bomb anybody right now.' And that would be regardless of which party is in the White House.
 
Nahh- we're screwed.

Posted by: Barry in CO at May 10, 2007 04:02 AM (kKjaJ)

38 The image of 1.5 billion(?) Moslems bowing 5 times daily towards a smoking, radioactive crater at a place once called Makkah does give one some satisfaction.

Posted by: Leslie White at May 10, 2007 09:20 PM (niERa)

39 Good LT, what was that you were saying about 'wild eyed nuttery'?

Posted by: tbone at May 11, 2007 11:20 AM (HGqHt)

40 I volunteer to personally nuke mecca.
I swear by all that is Christian and Holy that if I am given a nuke and allowed to parachute into the cesspool called mecca, that I will detonate it the instant I get close enough to destroy it.
They seem to love suicide bombers so lets see what they think of this one.

Posted by: MeccaNuker at May 24, 2007 03:39 AM (WIqMK)

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From the Daily Express:

Dozens of suspected Islamic fanatics have been weeded out after attempting to join MI5 and MI6.

They were identified by the vetting process applicants go through over six to eight months.

The success in exposing the moles has underlined the dangers faced by the security services as they seek to recruit more Muslims.

And how many of these mutts are applying to (or already working at) the FBI or the CIA?

Thanks to a tip from "Lucky."

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How we had the evidence on Izzadeen before he was arrested below.

UPDATE EXCLUSIVE: An Islamist forum connected with Omar Bakri Mohammed, and previously exposed here at The Jawa Report, has listed the names of the six terror suspects arrested today. Many of the names seemed mispelled, but here is how the forum listed them:

Abu Izzadeen from London
Abdul Haqq from London
Sulayman Keeler from London
Abu Muwaheed from London
Omar Zaheer from west London
Rajib Jhan (Khan) from Luton

All are followers of radical exiled clerica Omar Bakri Mohammed. The message also claimed those arrested were "victims of the British crusade", urged Muslims to pray for their release, and prayed that Allah would curse the kuffar (unbeliever).

Video of Abu Izzadeen here.
Video of Abu Muwaheed below.
Video of Sulayman Keeler here.

Another update: Is Abdul Haqq the Abdul Haqq Baker who is the head of the Brixton Mosque in South London where Richard Reid once attended?
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Abu Izzadeen, a regular target of the Jawa Report's ire, has been arrested---again. Five others were arrested with him.

Normally I'm happy whenever we take jihad supporters off the street. Today I don't think happy really describes how I'm feeling. More like ecstatic.

How come? Because I've been on a bit of a crusade against the followers of Omar Bakri Mohammed for some time now and it looks like it's finally bearing some fruit. Sure, Izadeen was arrested once before, but this time it seems more serious. This time the charge includes fund raising for terrorists.

Oh, and this time I saw some of the evidence being used against Izzadeen before he was arrested. How is this possible? Well I can reveal that one of the informers behind the case is a friend, Glen Jenvey. Glen met with authorities a few weeks ago and passed along the videos and other information to them.

BBC:

Six men have been arrested on suspicion of incitement offences by anti-terror officers from the Metropolitan Police.

They include Abu Izzadeen, also known as Omar Brooks, who made headlines when he heckled Home Secretary John Reid at an event last year.

Five arrests took place in London and the sixth in Luton, Bedfordshire.

Scotland Yard said the arrests related to allegations of inciting others to commit acts of terrorism abroad and fund-raising for terrorists.

The BBC understands that the arrests are connected to an alleged incident at a mosque in 2004. The men were taken to an unnamed police station in central London.

The BBC understands that among the six arrested is Rajib Khan, a 28-year-old man from Luton.

The other men arrested are a 24-year-old, 35-year-old and 21-year-old, all from parts of East London, and a 27-year-old from Southall in the west of the capital.

Since Rajib Khan was picked up in Luton, could he be a relative of Sadiq Khan?

Allahpundit has two Izadeen videos up. Both of them are from Glen Jenvey and one of them premiered right here on The Jawa Report.

Jenvey just has tons of videos and audios of Izzadeen and other followers of Bakri Mohammed doing all sorts of stuff: praising terrorists, urging the death penalty for gays, inciting Muslims to kill the police, and even urging Muslims to give money to al Qaeda.

He also tells me that one of the men arrested is shown in this video. His name is something like "Keyla". Update: His name is Sulayman Keeler.

To be honest, Glen has sent me so much evidence that Abu Izadeen and the other al Muhajiroun goons, such as Anjem Choudary, are in bed with al Qaeda that I haven't linked 1/10th of it. It seemed literally pointless to point out the obvious anymore.

A month ago, after Glen sent me a link, I told him, "The thing is, don't you think he's pretty much exposed by now? I'm guessing your intel and police would love to get their hands on him." And guess what? They did.

And since Glen has been kind enough to keep me "in the loop", I would be remiss in not mentioning the book War of the Web: Fighting the Online Jihad which recounts Glen's involvement in the arrest of Abu Hamza and others.

All of these videos were originally set to "private" on YouTube and sent to me, but Glen had to change that setting to "public" once we started posting them. There are 55 videos in all, but we've only posted a handful here to this date.

For instance, here is a video of one of Abu Izzadeen's friends [update: this is of Abu Muwaheed, arrested today] urging Muslims to give money to terrorists. In it, he says, "Teach your children from a young age to spend money for the sake of Allah. To give money to the mujahidin." Then he breaks into Arabic but one word is apparent: Osama bin Laden. In the context of the speech he is giving it is clear he is urging people to give money to al Qaeda.

Video of arrested terror suspect Muwaheed below. more...

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*Sticky for the day* Terrorist & jihadi websites hosted by San Francisco based Wordpress.com: more...

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Bumped, because I'm really busy today. Oh, and really pissed at Google.

The Russian arm of the worldwide al Qaeda jihad network has chosen Google as their propaganda enablers of choice. "The Nuruddin Media Islamic Network" appears to be a media front for the Islamic Jamaat of Dagestan Shariat---al Qaeda in the Russian Cuacuses, for all intents and purposes.

A recent press release by the group at the closely allied terror supporters of the Kavkaz Center (hosted in Sweden) states their purpose (this is their own poorly translated version):

Our primary task is liberation of the Muslim land from the Russian occupation and the construction of Shariah state. Our purposes and tasks, in contrast to the kafir's political programs, are clear and intelligible to any Muslim. Each, who thinks himself as Muslim and he desires the establishment of the Word of Allah on Dagestani land, desires to live according to the Shariah Law, free on the validity, established by Allah Almighty, joins our ranks....

Jihad (battle) on the way of Allah is responsibility of each Muslim in the case of seizing even span of the Muslim's land....

Also according to Islam it is possible to kill those, who resist the call of Muslims and prevent the introduction of the Laws of Allah, who helps the enemy: in a word whether, by the matter whether, by money or by weapon.

It appears that Jamaat Shariat, true to the al Qaeda franchise form, has formed a media production front, Nuruddin Media. Al Qaeda has a media production company called as Sahab and al Qaeda in Iraq (The Islamic State of Iraq), not to be outdone by corporate headquarters, has al Furqaan media. Print publications, on the other hand, are handled by the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF).

And, where has al Qaeda in Dagestan chosen to host their propaganda? On Google owned blogspot.com, of course!

http://www.nuruddin-info.blogspot.com/

Not satisfied with a single Google hosted propaganda outlet, the online jihadis at Nuruddin Media are using several blogspot addresses:

http://qoqaz-forever.blogspot.com/
http://qoqaz.blogspot.com/
http://kavkazvideo.blogspot.com/
http://nmedia4.blogspot.com/
http://nqoqaz.blogspot.com/
http://qoqaz-jihad.blogspot.com/
http://qoqaz-tv.blogspot.com/

They also appear to have about half a dozen Wordpress hosted websites as well. But my experience with the folks at Wordpress is that they take down these types of websites within a few days once notified. Google? Not so much. Even when we tell Google that a website is an al Qaeda front they normally reply with a form letter about how they do not "censor" content.

I imagine that had Google been around during WWII they would have thought it their civic duty to rebroadcast Tokyo Rose to the heartland of America.

And just to show how "edgy" and "ironic" the onlilne jihadis can be, the website is said to have been designed by "Irhab studio".

That's real funny. Irhab means "terrorism" in Arabic.

Oh, you're chance to e-mail the webmaster behind al Qaeda's front in Russia's Dagestan region:

busi_muslim@hotmail.com
nuruddinfo@gmail.com

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Wow, kicking al Jazeerah's virtual butt got us some "dead tree" coverage. Another enemy agitprop website down.

Greg Pierce at the Washington Times:

Online no more

Two weeks ago, this column reported that Texas blogger Rusty Shackleford (mypetjawa.mu.nu) was surprised to learn that Hassan A. El-Najjar, a faculty member of Dalton (Ga.) State College, was editor of the Al Jazeerah anti-war Web site (aljazeerah.info), which Mr. Shackleford said "openly supports terrorism, conspiracy theories, and is anti-Semitic."

Now, Mr. El-Najjar says he's calling it quits.

"I have concluded that it's not safe for me any more to continue editing Al-Jazeerah.info in this atmosphere of intimidation, which abridges freedom of speech and freedom of the press. ... I promise to resume publication as soon as conditions change to a more peaceful and tolerant discourse," Mr. El-Najjar wrote at his site.

He blamed the decision on critics who, he said, "have been orchestrating a campaign" against him.

"The campaign seems to have started by a person called Rusty Shackleford ... then echoed by other Web sites and media, several of which urged people to write letters to officials in the state of Georgia, particularly in the institution I work with," Mr. El-Najjar wrote.

Mr. Shackleford responded: "We humbly accept credit. ... So, good riddance. If it really is good riddance."

He decided to stop the publication for now hoping to resume it when conditions change in a later time.

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Dr. Hassan A. El-Najjar claims in a statement today to be quitting his post as editor-in-chief of his website, al Jazeerah.info. Why? Because of you, the Jawa Report readers. Al Jazeerah:

I have concluded that it's not safe for me any more to continue editing Al-Jazeerah.info in this atmosphere of intimidation, which abridges freedom of speech and freedom of the press. I believed that, as an American citizen, I have these sacred rights as a given. I acknowledge now that I was wrong.

Until I'm assured of these Constitutional freedoms and rights, I'll stop editing news reports and opinion editorials about US wars and the Israeli occupation of Palestine, hoping that the campaign against my employer stops.....

The campaign seems to have started by a person called Rusty Shackleford in http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/ , then echoed by other websites and media, several of which urged people to write letters to officials in the State of Georgia, particularly in the institution I work with.

Let's not get too excited, though. His website will still remain up, although he claims it will no longer discuss the war on terror. He also claims he will no longer be editor, but that readers will be free to post. Which may just be a way of disclaiming his readers' support for terror. You know, the it wasn't me that claimed 9/11 was an inside job, it was one of my readers defense. Which is a legitimate defense, if it wasn't for the fact that any comments published at al Jazeerah are still going to have to go through El-Najjar. In other words, he's not really stepping down as editor, only as a writer.

So, good riddance. If it really is good riddance.

Let me just say a few things in response to Dr. Hassan A. El-Najjar's claims he makes in the statement.

1) Al Jazeerah is not a 'peace' website, as he claims. Dr. El-Najjar's website openly supports terror organizations. For instance, Shaikh Ahamed Yassin, the founder of Hamas, is called a 'martyr' on it. Hamas is a specially designated terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.

2) He claims he is being censored. The Constitution may give him the right to spin all sorts of conspiracy theories (such as one in which he suggests that there is no Muslim on Muslim violence in Iraq, rather it is Coalition forces intentionally killing civilians to make Muslims look bad), but it also give me the right to speak out against him. That same First Amendment guarantees the right of petition, which is exactly what we are doing when we demand that Dalton State College fire this terror supporter.

Further, the First Amendment protects neither sedition nor support for the enemies of the United States. The latter is called treason. And sedition and treason is exactly what Dr. El-Najjar engages in every time he supports the Iraqi 'resistance'.

What may be the most ironic about his crying 'censorship' is that his website explicitly endorses groups such as Hamas which wish to impose Islamic law. Groups which would impose state sanctions on any who would dare criticize Mohammed or who would make it illegal for a Muslim to convert to Buddhism.

They suppport the First Amendment as long as it protects their incitements to violence, but wish to ditch its principles the moment they come to power.

3) While he may not openly discuss his antisemitic conspiracy theories in class, or try to recruit students for suicide-bombings between lectures, when Dr. El-Najjar encourages his students to visit his website (which I am told he does), he has crossed a line. Dalton State College cannot try to distance itself from the fact that they are paying the salary of a man who supports terrorism outside the classroom. He is now using his position as a professor to encourage that terrorism. The state of Georgia is then, de facto, supporting terror!

So, forcing him to stop publicly endorsing terrorism doesn't exactly seem all that draconian to me. Call me sentimental, but I recall a time when those who supported our enemies during a shooting war were put in prison.

Good work Team America, but more work remains. more...

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Is the U.S. military now on an offensive war footing against the cyber-jihadis and cyber-terrorists? Maybe, but Magic 8-ball says YES. As you know, I've been advocating--no more than just advocating, agitating--for precisely the offensive strategy since day one. And you know what? People read this blog.

What kind of people? Top men. Sorry, whenever I get excited I break into dialogue from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

In any event, those top men also read Internet Haganah. And Aaron's agitation far precedes our own. And the strategy, at least in theory, seems to go back at least to 2003.

There are few times when we at The Jawa Report get so stoked that we, literally, break into the robot dance. Okay, so it's just me who is that lame, but we are all excited about this news that our official Iranophobe "John Doe" dug up this morning.

I still am of the opinion that, organizationally, the decentralized nature of the cyber-jihad requires a decentralized fix---"cyber-privateering" as it were. But with the right leadership, the right values, the right equipment, the right operators, and the right sized set of cajones, the "cyber-scorched earth" approach could work.

Keep your fingers crossed and remember to smile when you call me Dr. William Tecumseh Sherman, partner. more...

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Evan Kohlmann of the Counterterrorism Blog and of Global Terror Alert's newest cybercast. Video below. It's worth the 16 minutes of your time if you want to get up to date on recent terrorist developments. Of special interest to Jawa Report readers will be found at @ the 6 minute mark, legal charges filed against a Missouri-based Islamic charity which was really a terror front, and the 8 minute mark, the arrest of a jihadi webmaster in Spain. more...

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Wow, it seems like Lieberman "gets it". Towards the end, he begins to talk about the role of the internet, mosques, and Islamic jail ministries as possible sources for radicalization. The video is of March 14th. If any one has more of the video, or related items, I'd like to see it.

Thanks to Louise for the tip.

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1 Excellent. I figured Joe for an allright guy back years ago, and was actually shocked he'd have anything to do with AL Gore. When that happened, he fell considerably in my estimation of him,  and I almost wrote him off as another of the loony left.  Over time it looks more like the looney left have hijacked the Democrat party, because the party used to uphold mainstream American values. Joe is an old school Democrat. I can actually like him              
                                           USA, all the way

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2 Looks like this is to be an ongoing thing. Must be driving some dems crazy. Have to do some more searching for more of this. The comments were "precious" especially the first one "fear, fear, fear". We had quite a thunderstorm today, hope they remembered to take off their tin foil hats.....not......

Posted by: allahakchew at March 26, 2007 10:34 PM (BrndJ)

3 The Jews keep up with this muslim shit.

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Al Qaeda supporting British Muslim cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed's life just seems to keep getting worse and worse. I mean, first he is forced to flee the U.K. when his followers began to be arrested for advocating the murder of those who would dare mock Muhammed in cartoon form. If that wasn't hard enough on poor old Bakri-the-goat-humper-Muhammed's financial situation, it looks like the funds he was raising from his British followers through his website--registered to a London address--have also dried up.

http://www.omarbakri.info/ is down.

Good work Team America!

And since Bakri is in Lebanon, we suggest he follow Aaron's advice.

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Now tell us something we don't know.

He's such an alleged mastermind of 9/11, we've been hearing about his alleged mastermindedness since, oh, 9/12 or thereabouts.

Even Hollywood went so far as to (gasp!) portray him as the mastermind behind 9/11 in the appropriately titled "The Path to 9/11."

Look, Mr. Pentagon Guys, the American public doesn't need a reason to hang Khalid the Sheep Humping Sheik Mohammed. Releasing this will feed the media monster for a day at best, before they go back to whining that they don't have access to these hearings.

Leak transcripts of the really good stuff coming from the guys off the radar.

Make them publish that. And if they don't, well, my email is vinceautmorire at gmail dot com.

Just sayin'.

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The article sucks, but the story is friggin' sweet:

WASHINGTON - A House Republican leadership group said Monday that Democrats should retract an offer to let the nation's largest Islamic civil liberties organization use a Capitol conference room for a seminar.

The House Republican Conference referred to the Council on American-Islamic Relations as "terrorist apologists" and called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) to cancel the forum scheduled for Tuesday.

h/t : LGF

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Javier Jordán & Fernando M. Mañas of the University of Granada have written an academic analysis of "External Signs of Radicalization and Jihadist Militancy", and posted a link at Jihad Monitor. It seems like pretty common-sensical stuff, but most of it falls into the category of "profiling", and therefore the politically correct amongst us will cry foul.

It should be noted that most of these "signs" would be better understood as "changes". For example, a young Muslim male who seemed assimilated but then suddenly began to change his appearance and behavior. Also, none of these "changes" would be a definitive indicator of impending jihad. Like all "profiling", they are simple shortcuts to help put likely suspects on the radar screen. A much more careful look at an individual would be needed before one could conclude that they were a threat.

You'll note that one of the signs is "it is frequent that they spend dozens of hours each week visiting and reading websites, forums and downloadable files (text, audio, and video) of an openly jihadist nature."

Here is a summary of the report's key findings.

Physical Appearances:

*Growing of the beard--at times shaving only the moustache
*Cutting the hair very close to the head
*Very short fingernails
*Traditional Islamic dress like turban, hat, or jelaba--wide pants
*Pants don't reach to feet, or pinning of the pants up.
*Refusing to wear shorts, even for sports
*Small callous on forehead (sign of devotion)
*Sudden weight loss

*MOST DANGEROUS: After a considerable length of "devoutness" in appearance, a sudden switch to Western style dress and look.

Behavioral Changes:

*Scrupulous attention to that which is permitted (halal) and that which is forbidden (harem)
--often accompanied by frequent inquiries to religious leaders on what is permitted
*Tensions with family over new-found religious purity
*Withdrawal and social polarization, especially from the non-believer (kafir)
*Increase use of religious rhetoric when speaking of political events
--often using Quranic quotes, and especially telling would be frequent quotes from the hadiths and sunna (sayings of the Prophet and stories of his life)
*Selective exposure to media
--especially visits to Islamist websites and forums
*Interest in early years of Islam
*Increasingly aggressive nature

In addition to these individual behaviors, the paper also recognizes that certain group behaviors might also indicate impending acts of terrorism. Read the rest. Thanks to Nancy for the tip.

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Two Islamic militant websties have called on Muslims to kill the driver of a Georgia registered vehicle displaying an offensive bumper sticker. On February 28 the "Black Lion" blog, a website run by two American Muslim who support violent jihad, posted the license plate number of a Gwinnett County, Georgia motorist displaying a bumper sticker which read, "Kill em all, let Allah sort em out.” A thinly veiled threat encouraging Muslims to find the driver and kill him was also posted.

Another Muslim offended, another death threat issued.

Jawa Report reader "Louise", who found the post, has contacted the Gwinnett County Chief of Police's office but says that they have not gotten back to her. Further, she reports that the person who took her call said, "what do you want me to do about it?" For starters, how about finding the person targetted for death and letting them know that their life may be in danger?!?! Then, how about contacting the FBI, just down the road in Atlanta, so they can open an
investigation!?!?

In the meantime, "The Black Lion" blog removed the death threat from their website.

However, another U.S. based militant Islamist website picked up the post and republished it. In a post celebrating the shooting down of an American helicopter in Iraq, a "Join the Caravan" author identified as "Mujahida3001" republishes the earlier threat made by "The Black Lion":

Another blogger who gets few hits per day has e-mailed me and told me of a truck he saw with a decal on it saying “Kill em all, let Allah sort em out.” He was kind enough to give me the license tag number, too. Georgia tag [tag number is shown in actual post] Gwinnett County

Just thought I’d share that with you.

This is baraa [enmity]. If he wants to repeat the quote of one of the crusader generals during the first crusades in Jerusalem, then no, I do not care about his safety. I care about his lack of it. He shouldn’t feel any security at all.

So, Muslims, do whatever you can get away with.

Take care and keep it militant. [emphasis mine]

A whois search shows that "Join the Caravan" is hosted by an American company, Wordpress. It is registered to an address in Glendale Heights, Illinois.

The "Black Lion" blog is hosted by a subdivision of the California based internet giant, Google. In the past, Google's blogspot division have refused to take down websites supporting murder and violent jihad on the grounds of "free speech".

In the most recent post at "The Black Lion", the author praises the work of the al Qaeda front group, The Islamic State of Iraq, for murdering 18 Iraqis on a recent video posted to the internet.* The murders were allegedly in retaliation for a well publicized propaganda piece by al Qaeda that accuses Shia Iraqi soldiers of raping a Sunni woman.

Congratulations to the mujahideen who captured and killed the hostages from the apostate security forces of Iraq, in exchange for the rape of our sister Sabrine. 18 killed for one rape. ALLAHU AKBAR!

1) We know he is in Georgia.
2) One of the two authors of the blog recently created a scene at "a Chinese embassy in North America" and was threatened with arrest, but it appears he was merely kicked out. The author says he went into the embassy and "punked" them by using one of their computers to access "Chinese servers" and then started shouting out Free Tibet slogans.

But the author is no follower of the nonviolent Dalai Lama, instead he praises violent resistance to the Communist government ("This is because I hate Communism and atheism even more than I detest liberal democracies")--including suicide bombing ("which I do not advocate for anyone who has access to better weapons and attack methods") as an example for Muslims to follow.

So, if you're a Georgia motorist with a bumper sticker which Muslims might find offensive, beware!**

UPDATE: Patrick from Clarity and Resolve found the Google cache of the original death threat on Black Lion. It's identical to the one posted at Join the Caravan. Patrick just notified me that their not identical. Google cache didn't catch it this time.

I've taken a few snapshots of the webpages, just in case they take the threats down and pretend it never happened.

UPDATE II: Dan Riehl did some Googling on "Mujahida3001". You won't be surprised what he found.

UPDATE 3/08/07: Both websites now seem to be down. Perhaps we pwned them? more...

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From ABC News:

March 7, 2007 — A former U.S. Navy sailor has been charged with allegedly passing military secrets about U.S. Navy movements through waters in the Middle East to al Qaeda-related Web sites during the spring of 2001, just months after the USS Cole was attacked in Yemen.

Hassan Abujihaad, formerly known as Paul R. Hall, allegedly passed information about U.S. Navy warship movements in the Straits of Hormuz in April 2001 while he was a member of the Navy. The information passed along contained details about vulnerabilites of U.S. vessels — including susceptibility to small boat attacks by terrorists.

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h/t : Glenn.

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I love Bedier's tap dancing on Saudi Arabia's shari'a practices.

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The Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens reports on the Secular Islam Summit:

Radicalism, at least of a kind, is certainly what this summit provides via Wafa Sultan. Dr. Sultan, a Syrian-born psychiatrist now living in the U.S., came to widespread public attention last year after she debated a Sunni cleric on al-Jazeera. "Only Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches," she observed. The televised clip, translated by Memri, has been downloaded on YouTube more than a million times.

Dr. Sultan, whose outspokenness has forced her and her family into hiding, is here to receive an award from the Center for Inquiry, the summit's organizer and lead funder. She accepts it by saying: "I don't believe there is any difference between radical Islam and regular Islam."

The view is shared by some, though by no means all, of the conferees. "Salafists cannot imagine Islam without the killing of apostates," says Dr. Hamid, who also now lives in hiding. "To them, the religion is a house of cards: Remove one element, and the whole structure collapses." Another conferee subscribes to the Salafist logic, though he dissents from the religion as a whole. "Truth is," he admits, "to be a Muslim democrat you have to be a bad Muslim."

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I wish you guys could've seen what a blogging MACHINE Jim Hoft was this weekend at the Secular Islam Summit. Shooting photos, capturing video and posting like a madman. He managed to do all this despite chronic connectivity issues with the hotel's network. In any event, Jim was really working it, and deserves a lot of credit for his work.

As an example, here's an interview Jim did with Nonie Darwish regarding her opinion of CAIR, and in this video she takes on the 9-11 "truthers."

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