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Russian Priest Murdered by Islamists in Church

Hat tip, ROP.

VOM- Fr. Daniil Sysoyev, a Russian Orthodox priest well known for his missionary activities among Muslims, occultists and others, was shot an killed in the St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Moscow on Thursday evening.  The killer reportedly entered the church, asked for the priest by name, and then opened fire at close range with a pistol. Sysoyev was hit in the head and chest and died later in hospital.  He was 35 years old and the father of three.

There seems to be little doubt that religious motives are behind the killing.  Syosyev had reportedly been receiving a number of death threats because of his teachings and missionary activities.

Please remember Fr. Daniil’s wife and children during this time of grief. You can post prayers on their behalf on the Persecuted Church Prayer Wall.

Keep KSM out of NY

I saw this over at Curtains.

Today, while watching the news a very good organization, thebravest.com, was mentioned where you may go and sign a letter to the potus to keep Khalid Sheikh Muhammed - the 9/11 mastermind - OUT of our criminal court system.

The letter may be found here.

Hasan tried to Contact Al Qaeda

This story keeps getting worse. Every day more evidence pours in of Hasan's radicalism, and how nothing was done about it.

Hot Air U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.

It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army that one of its officers was seeking to connect with suspected al Qaeda figures, the officials said.

One senior lawmaker said the CIA had, so far, refused to brief the intelligence committees on what, if any, knowledge they had about Hasan’s efforts.

US Intelligence Agencies have a lot of explaining to do. They didn't drop the ball, they saw it and refused to acknowledge it even existed.

Atlas has some interesting info on Hasan's business card, and the fact that the White House had to be pressured into lowering the flag to half mast. Outrageous.

When Muslims Commit Violence

While the reports of Hasan's radicalism keep pouring in, the media just can't bury it's head deep enough to find anything. So what does it mean when Hasan says that non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats?

Nothing. 

A consensus seems to have formed here at The Atlantic that the Ft. Hood massacre means not very much at all. Megan McArdle writes that "there is absolutely no political lesson to be learned from this." James Fallows says: "The shootings never mean anything. Forty years later, what did the Charles Whitman massacre 'mean'? A decade later, do we 'know' anything about Columbine?"  And the Atlantic Wire has already investigated the motivation for the shooting, and released its preliminary findings. Of Nidal Malik Hasan, the Wire states: "A 39-year-old Army psychiatrist, he appears to have not been motivated by his Muslim religion, his Palestinian heritage (he is American by nationality), or any related political causes."

It seems, though, that when an American military officer who is a practicing Muslim allegedly shoots forty of his fellow soldiers who are about to deploy to the two wars the United States is currently fighting in Muslim countries, some broader meaning might, over time, be discerned, especially if the officer did, in fact, yell "Allahu Akbar" while murdering his fellow soldiers, as some soldiers say he did. This is the second time this year American soldiers on American soil have been gunned down by a Muslim who was reportedly unhappy with America's wars in the Middle East (the first took place in Arkansas, to modest levels of notice). And, of course, this would not be the first instance of an American Muslim soldier killing fellow soldiers over his disagreements with American foreign policy; in 2003, Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar killed two officers and wounded fourteen others when he rolled a grenade into a tent in a homicidal protest against American policy.

Read on.

Veteran on Dr Phil: ‘Need to Take a Giant Step Back From All the Psychobabble’

Turns out Dr Phil was totally wrong.

Hasan was part of Obama's Transition Team

Un... Friggin'...Believable!

JW-The gunman who killed 12 people today at Ft. Hood appears, based on current media reports, to be Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan who was listed as a participant in a Homeland Security Policy Institute's presidential transition task force last year.

The task force was not officially affiliated with the White House. It was a project of the Homeland Security Policy Institute, an independent thinktank housed at George Washington University, aimed at drafting policy recommendations for the incoming Obama administration.

According to the task force's May 2009 report [pdf], a "Nidal Hasan" from the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine was a task force event participant. Other participants included Senate and House staffers, Department of Homeland Security officials, Defense Department officials, and reporters for Politico, the Washington Post, and the London Times....

Ft Hood: A Horrific Outburst of Violent Jihad

OK, that's not exactly what the President said, the word jihad will probably be avoided by the WH and the press entirely. What we will get is the usual vicimization of the cold blooded killer. The media wil search and search for a motive. Was he picked on for being Muslim? Did he have a troubled personal life? Was he against the war? Was it mental illness?

Although those questions should be asked, they shouldn't surplant the apparent case for jihad. If it's true that Hasan, a "devout Muslim", wrote this on his blog acompanied with a link to an article supporting suicide bombing, then the motive is clear. The ruthless murder of 12 was a premeditated act of Islamic terror, and it should be reported as such.

Atlas- Hasan was reportedly happy about the Muslim solider who shot and killed a soldier and wounded another at a Little Rock Military recruiting station. Hasan said Muslims should rise up against the aggressors. Maybe we should have more of these.....strapping bombs on and going into Times Square".

ksl reports that Hasan shouted "Allah Akbar" as he opened fire. A rally cry for Islamic terrorists.

In the meantime, let's pray for the families of Ft Hood.

Beltway Sniper sentenced to Death

What the article doesn't mention is that the DC Snipers killings were an act of jihad.

WaPo-The mastermind of the 2002 Washington, DC-area sniper attacks will die by lethal injection next month, Virginia officials said Tuesday.

John Allen Muhammad declined to choose between lethal injection and electrocution, so under state law the method defaults to lethal injection, Virginia Department of Corrections spokesman Larry Traylor said.

Muhammad is scheduled to be executed Nov. 10 for the October 2002 slaying of Dean Harold Meyers at a Manassas gas station during a string of shootings.

The three-week killing spree in October 2002 left 10 dead in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Muhammad and his teenage accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, were also suspected of shootings in several other states, including a killing in Louisiana and another in Alabama. Malvo is serving a life sentence in prison.

Daniel Pipes has more background.

 

Lockerbie Bomber not Sick?

The people who released him certainly are.

JUSTICE secretary Kenny MacAskill was last night under pressure to reveal more details of the medical evidence that led to the release of the Lockerbie bomber, after it emerged that only one doctor was willing to say Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi had less than three months to live.

Labour and Conservative politicians have demanded the Scottish Government publish details of the doctor's expertise and qualifications, amid suggestions he or she may not have been a prostate cancer expert.

The parties have also raised questions over whether the doctor was employed by the Libyan government or Megrahi's legal team, which could have influenced the judgment.

 

The evidence provided by the doctor is crucial as compassionate release under Scots law requires that a prisoner has less than three months to live.

Doubts about Megrahi's life expectancy have already been raised by American relatives of the 270 victims of the bomb that blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie on 21 December, 1988. But last night the Scottish Government said it would not publish details of the individual who gave the crucial advice.

Compassion for the families of the 270 innocent people who were mudered is still pending.

 

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Last night a spokesman for the Conservatives said that the Scottish Government must now identify the doctor.

He said: "This is no ordinary case of patient confidentiality. This is the background to a very important decision so the normal rules do not apply here.

"At the very least, we must know the qualifications of this doctor, whose opinion was clearly crucial, the only one to say that Megrahi had a life expectancy of less than three months

 

"It appears from the report that he was not a specialist. We also need to know if he works for the NHS or was employed by the Libyans or Megrahi." Read the whole article.

 

What makes this story even more gruesome is it seems to confirm reports that al-Megrahi's release may be tied to an oil deal with the Libyan government. 

Lockerbie: An Oil for Terrorism Deal?

It sure looks that way.

Was it an oil deal? Convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi flew home from a Scottish prison on Thursday, freed by the Scottish government on compassionate grounds because doctors say Megrahi's cancer will kill him within three months. But was that the real reason? Could Britain have traded Megrahi in return for lucrative deals with the energy-rich North African nation?

British officials strongly deny any such arrangement with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. But on Friday, Libya watchers and oil analysts said they believed that the decision to free the only person convicted in the 1988 Pan Am Airlines bombing was connected to British investment interests. "It [Megrahi's release] was a matter of when, not if," says Molly Tarhuni, manager of the international security program at the London-based think tank Chatham House. "It's a very strong possibility" that a deal was struck, she says. "There are benefits to Britain having done it. This was the last in a long chain of deals."

Yes, some twenty odd years later justice comes crashing down and a mass murderer is welcomed as a returning hero.

Hat tip, PaleoCon Command Center for the cartoon.

JW sums it up succinctly.

Another demonstration of the urgent need for energy independence -- as much as possible, as soon as possible. Imagine the moral compromises and foreign policy blunders that would not be up for discussion without the economic blackmail made possible by the current global demand for oil and gas.

Moreover, citizens of the US and other Western nations have to let our leaders know that our lives are in no uncertain terms to be part of any deal with terrorists. Our safety is not a bargaining chip. We have to let our outrage be known to the powers that be or we are certain face even greater dangers only to have them forgiven...no, rewarded! By those who have sworn to protect us.