American college professors go to Tehran for Occupy Wall Street conference

Besides the obvious why question, one has to shake the head and wonder what were they thinking.  Treating the Iranian regime as a friend is beyond folly, and endorsing their embracing of the occupy movement is bordering on sedition.  I also thought there was a travel ban on Americans going to Iran.  Has anybody asked about that aspect?

From Jihad Watch April 21 by Robert Spencer

American professors attend Occupy Wall Street Conference in Tehran

Leftist dupes displayed by their Islamic supremacist handlers in the belly of the beast. Useful Idiots were seldom this idiotic, if not actually useful. In 2012 it is not news that U.S. academics are traitors who consort freely with the enemies of their country. They're just window dressing for the mullahs, who must have been laughing up their sleeves at their earnest professorial naivete.

Corruption of the Academy Alert: "US Professors Attend an Occupy Wall Street Conference in Tehran," from MEMRI, February 22 (posted at MEMRI more recently):

Following are excerpts from a report on the Tehran University Occupy Wall Street Conference, which aired on Press TV and was posted on the Internet on February 22, 2012:

Reporter: The Occupy Wall Street Movement Conference in Tehran – university professors and scholars from around the world discuss various aspects of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

[…]

Experts also told us about the impact of the movement and its future.

Alex Vitae, professor at Brooklyn College: Well, we know it's had some impact both locally and nationally, but the impact has still been limited. I think many people are waiting to see what effect it may have on this year's national elections, and whether or not this will have momentum that could have more far-reaching implications.

Heather Gautney, professor at Fordham University: The "Occupy" movement is entering more into social institutions, and trying to pressure politicians or pressure leadership within those institutions to try to put money back into them and to support public programs. So I think that is one important aspect. The other is that we have elections coming up in November, and I think that the movement is going to be incredibly active in pressuring politicians to start addressing issues of social inequality.

[…]

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"...his (Obama) administration appears to have tacitly approved what the Post calls "an angry mob of police officers and soldiers" returning Maldives to Islamist rule."

The Maldives are now in the hands of Islamists, thanks in no small part to Obama.  Which side is he on again?

From Breitbart April 20

OUSTED MALDIVES PRESIDENT CLAIMS OBAMA APPROVED ISLAMIST COUP

The Washington Post reports that Mohamed Nasheed, the former president of Maldives, claims the United States has given legitimacy to the Islamist coup which deposed him.

Mohamed Nasheed won the presidency in Maldives’s first multiparty elections in 2008, after a lifetime advocating democracy and human rights and several long stints in jail.

Less than three years later, he was forced to resign by an angry mob of police officers and soldiers, in what he says was a coup engineered by his autocratic predecessor.

“We have to have an election,” he said in an interview while visiting the Indian capital, New Delhi. “In the absence of that, Islamic radicals are gaining strength in the Maldives.”

Nasheed, whose multiple instances of torture and imprisonment prevented him from witnessing the birth of his daughters, removed various Islamic prohibitions that created legal inequality for Maldives citizens.

He noted that he also restored diplomatic relations with Israel that had been suspended for three decades under Gayoom, advocated closer ties with the United States and Maldives’s giant neighbor India, introduced benefits for single mothers and tried to protect women forced by Islamic radicals to wear burqas and veils.

But when he announced his resignation in a nationally televised statement Feb. 7 — after police and soldiers had, he said, basically taken him hostage — both the United States and India moved swiftly to recognize his successor, former vice president Mohammed Waheed Hassan, without taking the trouble to find out what had really happened, he says.

“We did so much to make the Maldives more liberal,” he said. “To suddenly see the United States, so quickly — they could have held onto their horses for a few minutes and just asked me — so quickly to have recognized the status quo, that was very sad and shocking.” [emphasis added]

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10,000 kilos of explosives found in Afghanistan, jihadists arrested

More love for those seen as "not Muslim enough" in Afghanistan.

From the Guardian April 21

Afghan forces arrest five men with 10,000kg explosives

Afghan security forces have detained five insurgents with 10,000kg (22,046lb) of explosives, an intelligence agency spokesman says.

The men – three Pakistani citizens and two Afghans – were said to be planning to use the explosives in multiple attacks in crowded areas. They were detained in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

"If this amount of explosives had been used, it could have caused large-scale bloodshed," said Nazari, a spokesman for the National Directorate of Security, who uses one name.

The best place for American soldiers to buy drugs; the Afghan military

We need to leave Afghanistan now.  There is nothing there we can do except create more addicts to heroin.

From FOXNews April 20 by Catherine Herridge


Afghan military recruits found dealing drugs to US soldiers, Army documents show

Afghan forces are being trained by the U.S. military to take over the mission by 2014, but new documents obtained by Judicial Watch through a request under the Freedom of Information Act show that some of the Afghan recruits stand accused of dealing drugs to U.S. soldiers.

“It's really troubling that our troops are being placed in this situation where they're under enough pressure as it is,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton told Fox News. “But evidently our allies there are acting as drug pushers in some ways.”

Fitton and his investigators found that between January 2010 and December 2011, the Army investigated 56 soldiers in Afghanistan for the possession, use or distribution of opiates. Heroin was cited 26 times.

A December 2011 report from Army Criminal Investigation Command shows that at one forward operation base the drugs hash, pot and heroin were purchased "from various Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police personnel."

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Saudi Arabia: Mufti upholds marriage to ten year old girls

"The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with 'Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)." -- Bukhari 7.62.88 (thanks to Jihad Watch)


Upholding the behavior of Muhammad as correct for all time is standard procedure if you are a true Muslim.  Muhammad commsumated his marriage to Aisha when she was 9.  Now it is agreed that 1400 years ago, things were different, but today the practice is still institutionalized by Islam and both pre-pubescent and menstruating girls are married off well below the accepted age of 18.  It is no surprise that Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al al-Sheikh says girls are ready for marriage at age 10, but it should raise the hackles of feminists and Western apologists for Islam.  I say should, but their record on standing for the rights and freedoms of those in Muslim countries who cannot fight for themselves is abysmal st best, murderous at worst.


From The World Observer April 22

Saudi mufti okays marriage for 10 year old girls Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti okayed marriage for girls starting at age 10 and criticized those who want to raise the legal marriageable age, according to news reports. Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al al-Sheikh said a girl becomes ready for marriage at 10 or 12 according to Islam and stressed that Islamic law is not by any means oppressive to women, the London-based al-Hayat reported Wednesday.  "Those who call for raising the age of marriage to 25 are absolutely mistaken," al-Sheikh said in a lecture he gave at the faculty housing mosque of Imam Mohamed bin Saud Islamic University in Riyadh. "Our mothers and grandmothers got married when they were barely 12. Good upbringing makes a girl ready to perform all marital duties at that age." Al-Sheikh's statements came in response to a question from a female attendee about marrying minor girls without their consent. The Saudi National Human Rights Association (NHRA) has criticized the prevalence of the marriage of minors in the kingdom and considered it a violation of childhood. The association has sought to work with authorities to curb the practice and protect children's rights.  NHRA stressed that underage marriages are also a breach of several United Nations treaties including the Child Rights Treaty, which Saudi signed in 1996 and the Treaty for the Rights of Women that the kingdom joined in 2000. Last year a similar fatwa, or religious ruling, by Salafi preacher Sheikh Mohamed al-Maghrawi allowing girls as young as nine to marry was condemned by Morocco’s Supreme Scientific Council. The council said it lacked religious validity because it was based on only one case—the marriage of Prophet Mohamed (pbuh) to Aisha bint Abu-Bakr.

The next step in the downfall of France

First, Muslims need to reach about 5% of the population in order to start effectively agitating for more "rights."  Then after getting those rights they begin to push for further concessions in society at large, culminating in their takeover of the local political system in order to institute sharia law.  French Muslims now account for about 10% of the population, thus this next step of ousting Sarkozy and voting for those politicians friendly to the multicultural and tolerant aspects of the French immigrant society.  Paristan is closer than you think, and one day Notre Dame will be the sight of minarets and the muzzein calling the faithful to Friday prayer.

From The Washington Times April 19 by Karine G. Barzegar

‘Fed up’ French Muslims mobilize to unseat Sarkozy

PARIS — France’s Muslim community is mobilizing voters to reject President Nicolas Sarkozy in Sunday’s election to punish the conservative leader for his anti-immigrant and anti-Islam rhetoric.

“[French] Muslims can’t stand it anymore. They are fed up with these debates about national identity, halal meat, the veil or fundamentalism all over the place,” said Francoise Lorcerie, a sociologist with the Institute of Studies on the Arab and Muslim World near Marseille.

“The terms [Islam, immigration and fundamentalism] are being used interchangeably, without care, with people being targeted, denigrated and used for [votes].”

The debates and rhetoric aren’t new and have been at the heart of French political campaigns for the past decade.

Muslims - especially those living in the “banlieues,” France’s poor immigrant suburbs - sometimes have been courted by candidates with promises of jobs and better living conditions, but they mostly have been stigmatized as threats to the French identity, analysts say.

The rhetoric escalated last month after Mohammed Merah, a French-born Muslim who claimed to be inspired by al Qaeda, killed seven people in a shooting spree.

Mr. Sarkozy, of the conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP)party, called for tightening immigration because there are “too many foreigners” in France.

Marine Le Pen, the presidential candidate of the far-right National Front party, talked about “green fascism” (a reference to the color of Islam) and wondered “how many Mohammed Merahs are arriving on boats and planes each day, filling France with immigrants.”

In the banlieues

The speeches infuriated French Muslims and reignited the debate over origins and identity. As Europe’s largest Islamic community, French Muslims account for as much as 10 percent of the country’s 65 million people.

“Merah was born in France. He did not come by boat or plane, but everyone talks about his origins, despite his being French,” saidMohamed Mechmache, president of AC Le Feu, a community association working to improve conditions in the banlieues. “The French Republic has not been fair: She has forgotten some of her children.”

Mr. Mechmache says what residents of the banlieues really need are education and jobs, not a fight over Islam: The youth unemployment rate is above 45 percent in some of the neighborhoods.

Poverty causes jihad, and if more money is thrown at the problem then radicalism will wither and die.  Nothing is said about the texts and tenets of Islam, the Qur'an and how it is used regularly to justify jihad and the subjugation of women and non-Muslims, no mention of mosques preaching hatred of the infidel and the takeover of non-Muslim societies through sharia law and no journalists or media pundits are asking what actions are being taken by the Muslim communities to identify and root out jihadists and Islamists in their midst.  With this level of willful blindness Islam has conquered a great nation through the subtle use of internal mechanisms.  America is next.

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More from Norway killer Breivik

Wikipedia was my influence, says Breivik.  That and other revelations bring a new light into the mind of this man.  I wonder when those who support Islamic hegemony and have blamed anti-jihadists for Breivik's rampage will apologize for assigning blame where it didn't belong.

We'll wait...

From the Telegraph April 20 by Daniel Fisher

Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik trial: day two live

15.27 That's the end of our live coverage today. All the latest news and updates from the trial can be seen on our Norway page.

15.03 Court has adjourned for the day. Breivik is handcuffed and on his way back to prison. David Blair reports:

All in all, that was an effective cross-examination, drawing out the contradictions, distortions and downright lies in the world of Breivik. But the judge was extremely generous - perhaps overly so - in allowing him 65 minutes to regale the world with his views earlier today. That made it all the more important for the prosecutor to redress the balance.

15.00 Sky News reporter Trygve Sorvaag says the hearing is due to finish for the day.

14.36 David Blair sums up the afternoon's developments:

In a few hours of polite but lethal questioning, the prosecutor has exposed Breivik's world of lies and fantasy. He faked a degree from an American university, did his best to avoid taxes and lied about his chances of being elected to the city council with the Progress Party. The one success in his life was a business selling fake diplomas, which he admitted was "morally despicable". This is not the combative stuff of an Old Bailey demolition, but it is no less effective.

14.23 The court has just broken for a 15-minute break. Breivik has just been describing why he left the Progress Party, a populist right-wing party, to pursue his one-man resistance to immigration.

"My proposals were slaughtered, so to speak," he said. "They sold out on so many principles in order to get into power, that I thought they had thrown out the baby with the bathwater."

14.14 Inga Engh is drawing out example after example of Breivik'stendency to bend the truth to hide his failures. Now she's undermining his claim, made in his manifesto, to have been nominated for membership through the Progress Party for a position in the Oslo City Council. Breivik concedes that he wasn't 23 on the list, as he wrote in his manifesto, but actually 37. Previously she made him comment on his claim - made on his CV - to have a business degree from an American University.

13.40 Prosecutor Engh has switched tack, asking Breivik if he is religious. Richard Orange reports that he appeared "momentarily confused", telling the court that alhough a Lutheran, a member of the Church of Norway, he is drawn to Catholicism. He said:

I have not been a religious person, but there is a proverb saying there are no atheists in the trenches.

Breivik has also been questioned regarding his business career. He admitted that his first two companies were "failures", and his fake diploma business a "morally despicable project". But he nonetheless insisted he had been a business success:

Not many Norwegians are capable of earning their first million by 24. It's extremely difficult to reach such levels at an early age.

He claims the diploma business made him 4m Norwegian Kronor (£436,000), before he wrapped it up in 2006.

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Iranian Ayatollah calls gays lower than dogs and pigs

But....didn't Ahmadinejad say there are no homosexuals in Iran?  So why the fear and vitriol against a non-existent group of people?  There must be more closets in Iran than originally thought.

From the Guardian April 18 by Saeed Kamali Dehghan

Homosexuals are inferior to dogs and pigs, says Iranian cleric

An influential Iranian cleric who is entitled to issue juristic rulings according to the Sharia law, has condemned western lawmakers involved in the decriminalisation of homosexuality, saying those politicians are lower than animals.

Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi-Amoli, an Islamic scholar based in Iran's holy city of Qom, said in a speech among his followers that homosexuals are inferior to dogs and pigs, according to the news website Khabaronline.

"If a society commits a new sin, it will face a new punishment," he said while interpreting Qur'anic verses about prophet Lot whose tribe Isalmic scholars say was punished by God for sodomy. "Problems like Aids did not exist before."

Citing the Qur'an, Javadi-Amoli said politicians who pass laws in favour of homosexuals are lower than animals. "Even animals ... dogs and pigs don't engage in this disgusting act [homosexuality] but yet they [western politicians] pass laws in favour of them in their parliaments."

Homosexuality is punishable by death according to fatwas issued by almost all Iranian clerics. Until recently, Lavat (sodomy for men) was punishable by death for all individuals involved in consensual sexual intercourse.

But under new amendments approved recently in the Iranian parliament the person who played an active role will be flogged 100 times if the sex was consensual and he was not married, but the one who played a passive role will still be put to death regardless of his marriage status.

Despite the horrific punishment for homosexuals in Iran, the gay community in the country is alive underground and has won some recognition by coming out in defiance of the regime.

In September 2011, a group of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Iranians launched a campaign on Facebook, highlighting the discrimination against sexual minorities in Iran where homosexuals are put to death.

Muslims rape teen girls during Eid, said the girls "liked it"

They were just following the path of Muhammad, the "al insan al kamil" or perfect man, who's behavior is to be emulated for all time by all Muslims.

It's in the Qur'an;

4-3; And if you fear that you will not deal justly with the orphan girls, then marry those that please you of [other] women, two or three or four. But if you fear that you will not be just, then [marry only] one or those your right hand possesses. That is more suitable that you may not incline [to injustice].


4-15; Those who commit unlawful sexual intercourse of your women - bring against them four [witnesses] from among you. And if they testify, confine the guilty women to houses until death takes them or Allah ordains for them [another] way.


4-34; Men are in charge of women by [right of] what Allah has given one over the other and what they spend [for maintenance] from their wealth. So righteous women are devoutly obedient, guarding in [the husband's] absence what Allah would have them guard. But those [wives] from whom you fear arrogance - [first] advise them; [then if they persist], forsake them in bed; and [finally], strike them.


From the Daily Mail April 20 by Katherine Faulkner

Muslim gang jailed for kidnapping and raping two girls as part of their Eid celebrations

A group of Muslim men who abducted and raped two teenage girls as part of their Eid celebrations laughed in court yesterday as they were jailed for a total of 38 years.

The girls, aged 15 and 16, were lured miles from their home to a dingy hostel.

In a horrifying weekend-long ordeal, they were plied with alcohol and repeatedly raped by two men, Shamrez Rashid and Amar Hussain, before being offered to a number of others who also ‘used them for sex’.

The 16-year old was forced to have sex six times with four different men.
The younger victim was raped by one man and then sexually assaulted by another.

One defendant, Rashid, 20, was said to have claimed the girls had enjoyed the sex, which he said had taken place as they celebrated the Muslim festival of Eid.

‘It was Eid,’ he said. ‘We treated them as our guests. OK, so they gave us [sex] but we were buying them food and drink.

‘They could have anything they wanted. They enjoyed it.’

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Back to square one in Sudan

The honeymoon is over.  With the separation between North and South Sudan one year ago, the tension and enmity from the North to the South has never ceased.  It has only become stronger and more focused since the break-up, and like all jilted lovers the North sees the South as the one to blame for the break-up.  Not to mention the lost oil revenues and a border splitting the area in half.

Bashir in the North is a wanted criminal with an arrest warrant against him, yet he continues to spread Islam and sharia with impunity.  His declared war against the South is but another attempt to quell non-Muslims through intimidation and bullying.  The problem is, it has worked in the past and will probably work again now.  The fragile peace we have seen the last year is about to explode in a fury of jihad aggression.

From YaLibnan April 19

Sudan President Declares War On South Sudan

Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, Thursday declared war on South Sudan, vowing to topple its government.

The move comes after Sudan’s parliament passed a resolution branding South Sudan’s ruling party an enemy that “must be fought until it is defeated.”

Sudan and South Sudan are embroiled in the worst clashes along their poorly defined border since the secession of the South last summer. The United Nations Security Council is considering sanctions on both countries in an attempt to end the violence, and demanded South Sudanese forces withdraw from their occupation of the 60,000-barrels-a-day oil field Heglig oil field. Both countries continue to ignore calls to end the fighting.

On a visit Thursday to the oil-rich, restive border state of South Kordofan, Bashir rallied his troops, which are now engaged on three fronts with South Sudan.
“Heglig isn’t the end, it is the beginning, and we shall go all the way to [South Sudanese capital] Juba,” Bashir told a rally.

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As Israel remembers the Holocaust, Iran insults Israel by publishing anti-semitic cartoons

Interestingly enough, I find the cartoons both insulting and in poor taste but do not feel as if I must now go out and kill in the name of Abraham and Moses.  We are told that Iran is not a threat to anyone, and that when they said the Jews must be eliminated, well that was our mistake; we took it out of context.  What Iran really means is that it is Zionism that needs to be wished into the cornfield, not Jews or Israel.  I feel so much better now, don't you?

Oh, and remember that Iran's nuclear program is for civilian power generation only.  Question; where is the infrastructure for that power grid?  Where are the transmission lines into cities, where are the distribution stations and local sub-stations, where are the miles of high-voltage lines that should be snaking across the desert by now?

Just askin...

From The Times of Israel April 18 by Sam Ser
Iranian cartoons mock Holocaust

While Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, Iran is playing Holocaust-denying cartoons on public television, Channel 2 News reported on Wednesday night.

The cartoons show Jews fabricating stories about the Nazis’ atrocities and 6 million Jewish deaths, and then exploiting the Holocaust to enrich themselves and displace the Arabs from Palestine.

Go to the link to see the cartoons. 

Norway mass murderer Anders Breivic speaks

He lays it all out and pulls no punches.  It can be argued as to whether he is truly insane, the bottom line in understanding his motive is his lengthy explanation as to who was his inspiration for the killings.

Hint; it's not Spencer, or Geller, or any of the so-called anti-Muslim hate mongers (myself included.)

From Canada.com April 17 by Nina larson

Anders Behring Breivik: Was inspired by al-Qaida, would do killing spree again (with video)

OSLO — The gunman behind the Norway massacres said he was inspired by al-Qaida as he took the stand Tuesday at his trial, after a judge who called for him to face the death penalty was dismissed.

Rightwing extremist Anders Behring Breivik said his attacks last year were aimed at defending "ethnic Norwegians" from rising multiculturalism, and that he "would have done it again."

Insisting "universal human rights" gave him the mandate to carry out his acts, he described himself as a "militant nationalist" and, using the pronoun 'we' to suggest he was part of a larger group, added: "We have drawn from al-Qaida and militant Islamists."

"You can see al-Qaida as the most successful militant group in the world," Breivik told the court during questioning on the second day of the trial.

Granted clearance earlier to address the court with a prepared text, Breivik described his killing of 77 people on July 22 last year as a "preventive" attack to avoid a European culture war with Muslims.

After describing Christians as "a persecuted minority," the 33-year-old asked the court to acquit him while making clear he had no remorse over the bomb attack in central Oslo and shooting spree on a nearby island.

Breivik said that spending his life in prison or dying for his people would be "the biggest honour."

Breivik had been granted 30 minutes to speak but ended up lecturing for 73 minutes, as chief judge Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen repeatedly urged him to wrap up quickly though the prosecution supported Breivik's wish to go on.

On July 22 last year, Breivik first killed eight people when he set off a bomb in a van parked outside buildings housing the offices of Labour Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, who was not present at the time.

He then travelled to Utoeya island where, dressed as a police officer, he spent more than an hour methodically shooting at hundreds of people attending a ruling Labour Party youth summer camp.

The shooting spree claimed 69 lives...

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Stupid is as stupid does; American soldiers caught posing pictures using dead jihadist body parts

You would think Abu Graib would have taught the lesson that you DO NOT take pictures of you in uniform abusing your enemy.  If you are going to do that, make sure there is no evidence to implicate you.  YouTube is not the place to post your battle victories.

Now, more apologies, more grovelling and more genuflecting towards the East.

We are doomed.

From the New York Times April 18 by Thom Shanker and Graham Bowley

In Afghanistan Photos, G.I.’s Posed With Body Parts

WASHINGTON — A new revelation of young American soldiers caught on camera while defiling insurgents’ remains in Afghanistanhas intensified questions within the military community about whether fundamental discipline is breaking down given the nature and length of the war.

The photographs, published by The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, show more than a dozen soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division’s Fourth Brigade Combat Team, along with some Afghan security forces, posing with the severed hands and legs of Taliban attackers in Zabul Province in 2010. They seemed likely to further bruise an American-Afghan relationship that has been battered by crisis after crisis over the past year, even as the two governments are in the midst of negotiations over a long-term strategic agreement.

The images also add to a troubling list of cases — including Marines videotaped urinating on Taliban bodies, the burning of Korans, and the massacre of villagers attributed to a lone Army sergeant — that have cast American soldiers in the harshest possible light before the Afghan public. Accordingly, combat veterans and military analysts are beginning to look inside the catchall phrase “stress on the force” to identify factors that could be contributing to the breaches.

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Are you worth $100?

Mohammad Ashan believes so, and has turned himself in to a police checkpoint in Afghanistan, the wanted poster in his hand having his picture and name on it.  He demanded the $100 reward, saying that since he turned himself in, he deserves the reward.  My mother would call that chutzpah, and she would be right.  I say pay him the hundred bucks and then, after his release, follow him to see where he goes and who he talks to.  This could be the best Franklin the US ever spent.

From The Washington Post April 17 by Kevin Sieff

Taliban commander turns self in... for reward on ‘Wanted’ poster

Poster; BOLO

Sometimes, capturing a Taliban commander requires vast resources and complex operations. Last week in eastern Afghanistan, it required neither.

Mohammad Ashan, a mid-level Taliban commander in Paktika province, strolled toward a police checkpoint in the district of Sar Howza with a wanted poster bearing his own face. He demanded the finder’s fee referenced on the poster: $100.

Afghan officials, perplexed by the man’s misguided motives, arrested him on the spot. Ashan is suspected of plotting at least two attacks on Afghan security forces. His misdeeds prompted officials to plaster the district with hundreds of so-called “Be on the Lookout” posters emblazoned with his name and likeness.

When U.S. troops went to confirm that Ashan had in fact come forward to claim the finder’s fee, they were initially incredulous.

“We asked him, ‘Is this you?’ Mohammad Ashan answered with an incredible amount of enthusiasm, ‘Yes, yes, that’s me! Can I get my award now?’” recalled SPC Matthew Baker.

A biometric scan confirmed that the man in Afghan custody was the insurgent they had been looking for.

“This guy is the Taliban equivalent of the ‘Home Alone” burglars,” one U.S. official said.

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Three misunderstanders of Islam go on trial in NYC

"Three men were prepared to strap bombs to their bodies and walk into crowded New York subway cars that were filled with innocent people..."


From AFP/Google April 18 by Sebastian Smith


Trial opens for alleged New York bomb plotter
  NEW YORK — The high-profile trial began of a man accused of being part of a New York trio that was only "days" from launching suicide bombs in the city's crowded subway to take revenge for the US war in Afghanistan.

The trial in Brooklyn features New York immigrant Muslims who became radicalized in the feverish post-9/11 atmosphere and allegedly became homegrown terrorists with a plan to cause carnage in America's biggest city.

Federal prosecutor James Loonam opened by pointing across the courtroom at defendant Adis Medunjanin, 27, and calling him an Al-Qaeda "terrorist."

Loonam detailed how in September 2009 Medunjanin, along with two former New York high school friends, put final touches on a plan to bomb either the subway, Times Square, or another packed location.

"Three men were prepared to strap bombs to their bodies and walk into crowded New York subway cars that were filled with innocent people," Loonam said. "These men came so close, within days of carrying out this attack, before they were stopped."

Gesturing at Medunjanin, who wore a suit, the prosecutor said: "One of those Al-Qaeda terrorists is inside the courtroom right now."

Medunjanin, a Bosnian whose family fled to the United States during the war with Serbia in the 1990s, is charged with nine terrorism-related counts.

He is accused of traveling to Pakistan in 2008 in a failed attempt to join the Taliban to fight against US forces in Afghanistan, then entering the bomb plot on his return home, and finally trying to use his car to cause bloodshed in a desperate last act before his arrest.

He has pleaded not guilty. His lawyer, Robert Gottlieb, said Medunjanin was only a passionate Muslim who wanted to go to Afghanistan because he was outraged by the US drone bombing of civilians and abuses in US military prisons.

Thailand: Buddhist monks arm themselves against jihad

When you see Buddhists loading clips and locking them into an AK-47 you can bet they are not out hunting small animals.  This is a very sad statement on Islam and how it cares not one wit about others, and has but one goal; the conquest of the planet.  With Buddhist monks taking up arms, the next thing we should see are flying pigs.

From The Daily Beast April 16

Thailand’s Buddhists Take Up Arms Against Insurgency

A few hours’ drive from the white-sand beaches of Phuket—one of the world’s top tourist destinations—a deadly insurgency is terrorizing Thailand’s south. The separatist movement, made up of mostly ethnic-Malay Muslims, roils the region with daily threats of sectarian violence and has prompted many Buddhist villagers, and even some monks, to take up arms in self-defense. A series of coordinated bombings across two provinces on March 31 alone left 14 dead and hundreds injured.

The conflict has been gaining steam over the past eight years, even as the international community pays little attention. Since 2004, drive-by shootings, IED bombings, and point-blank assassinations have claimed some 5,000 lives in the country’s three restive southernmost provinces that border Malaysia, making the insurgency one of the world’s deadliest.

The insurgent groups rally around the belief that the provinces—where ethnic Malay Muslims are the majority—should be independent of Thailand, where more than 90 percent of the rest of the population is Buddhist. The insurgents’ preferred targets are Buddhists, especially those in the security forces or government, though they also kill fellow Muslims accused of not aligning with the separatist cause. They claim to have cells in 90 percent of southern villages; the boast, say security experts, is legitimate.

Even as a force of some 60,000 soldiers and police patrol the area, the insurgents have succeeded in spreading their network across the disputed territory, cultivating an atmosphere of perpetual insecurity for Buddhist communities living there. “First Muslim people came to our village and asked to buy our land,” says Suphorn Nison, a soft-spoken Buddhist in his mid-40s. “But they became less diplomatic when Buddhist people declined to leave.” The following month, Nison says, two men entered a convenience store operated by Nison’s father and executed him with two shots to his head. Nison claims the gunmen were Muslim and intended to send a stern message. Most Buddhists in his village left, but those who stayed, including Nison, formed a neighborhood-security force.

That was in 2006. Today such community-defense units are ubiquitous in Thailand’s south...

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