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Iran "Attack" Plans Revealed

The saber rattles a little louder. The UN Security Council's deadline ran out yesterday and Iran hasn't blinked. Iran is clearly not going to back down through diplomatic channels. After watching what Kim Jong Il did, basicly forcing the Clinton administration to bribe North Korea with two light-water reactors paid for by their hated enemies, South Korea, it must be hard for Ahmadinejad to take the West seriously.

US contingency plans for air strikes on Iran extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country's military infrastructure, the BBC has learned.

It is understood that any such attack - if ordered - would target Iranian air bases, naval bases, missile facilities and command-and-control centres.

The US insists it is not planning to attack, and is trying to persuade Tehran to stop uranium enrichment.

The UN has urged Iran to stop the programme or face economic sanctions.

But diplomatic sources have told the BBC that as a fallback plan, senior officials at Central Command in Florida have already selected their target sets inside Iran.

That list includes Iran's uranium enrichment plant at Natanz.  Facilities at Isfahan, Arak and Bushehr are also on the target list, the sources say.

2 Chicago Men Arrested for Conspiring Terror

Hat tip, Jihad Watch

In the new tradition of John Walker Lindh, where American citizens turn against their own countrymen in order to please Allah. To travel overseas and bring up arms against the troops. It's time we reintroduce the concept of treason.

Two Chicago-area cousins are facing charges that accuse them of conspiring to commit terrorist acts against Americans overseas, including U-S military forces serving in Iraq.

Authorities say 27-year-old Zubair Ahmed of North Chicago and 26-year-old Khaleel Ahmed of Chicago were arrested today. A grand jury in Cleveland returned an indictment charging them and three others who had already been facing terrorism charges.According to the indictment, the conspiracy included finding fresh recruits to wage "violent jihad" against Americans and locating sites for training them in the use of firearms, explosives and hand-to-hand combat.The two cousins are both American citizens. The indictment alleges that they traveled to Cleveland in 2004 to meet with a trainer and discuss possible training in the use of weapons.

Townhall has more...

The indictment claims that, between June 2004 and February 2006, the cousins and the other three men _ Mohammad Zaki Amawi, 27, and Marwan Othman El-Hindi, 42, both formerly of Toledo, and Wassim I. Mazloum, 22, formerly of Sylvania, Ohio _ conspired to "kill or maim persons in locations outside of the United States, to including U.S. armed forces personnel serving in Iraq."

The conspiracy included finding fresh recruits to commit terrorism and seeking out sites for training in firearms, hand-to-hand combat and the use of explosives, the charges say. The men are accused of agreeing to raise funds for "jihad training" and downloading Internet information on improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.

A figure described in the indictment only as the Trainer _ a U.S. citizen with a military background _ met with the cousins in July 2004 and discussed sniper tactics, counter-surveillance techniques and the use of heavy machine guns.

(...) The five men face a maximum penalty of life in prison if convicted of conspiring to kill Americans overseas, according to federal prosecutors.

Leftist Terrorism

The nexus of the far left and Islamofascist interests has been noted many times, but the MSM has largely ignored or downplayed  terrorism in general. There are advantages to ignoring small-time terrorists, one of the primary goals of many of these groups is to gain attention to their cause, and overplaying the effect of terror could encourage other fringe groups to follow suit.

But a media blackout of many of these terroroist acts, and more impotantly, their goals, suggests that major news outlets can't be trusted for this kind of information. Many on the left are more concerned with anti-Communists than with the actual threat of Communism. This has been the modus operandi of the left since the Mc Carthy era, and this same mentality has transferred to radical Islam.

The left seems to say, "sure,  we're against terrorism and sharia law, but we're more concerned with Republicans".

Strategypage: While most of the terrorism committed these days is carried out by Islamic radicals, they have found allies in existing radical leftist groups.

For example, in  Okinawa, a group calling itself the "Revolutionary Army" set off three pipe bombs in the last week. The same group claimed responsibility for similar attacks in 2002. Leftist radicals have been around for over a century. The most successful were the anarchists, a 19th century movement that killed several heads of state, and hundreds of other officials, before being wiped out by the more bloody minded communists before World War II.

The communists were radical leftists, until they established the Soviet Union in 1923. After that, communism was noted chiefly for its highly effective police state methods, and support of terrorism by other groups. The Soviet Union was a major supplier of training, weapons and money to leftist terrorists. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, that support went away, but the leftist, and even Islamic, groups the Soviets had supported, did not. While there are few Soviet trained terrorists out there any more, there are still plenty of radical groups.

The Japanese ones support a number of causes, from the establishment of communist dictatorships, to the destruction of the United States, protectionism (no "economic globalism"), the status quo in general and  and so on. The groups operating in Okinawa want U.S. troops out of Japan. The United States is a convenient enemy for leftists, many of whom oppose free markets, democracy (and a lot more besides) and anything that will get a mention in the mass media.

Related: Athens: Rocket hits US Embassy

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GTB Blogburst

By Heidi Thiess of Euphoric Reality

The Border patrol Case: Who's pulling the strings?

Mexico.

That's who.

Yes, you read that right.  The latest information has uncovered the undue political pressure that Mexico put on our government, and how the White House easily caved.  They didn't even ask questions it seems.  Here's what happened:

After Aldrete-Davila was shot, he complained to someone who brought the "crime" to light (not his mommy, as Sutton has previously told us).  That person contacted the Mexican government, which is currently in overdrive trying to portray a situation wherein the poor downtrodden people of Mexico are being brutally shot by cruel, evil Americans at the border - when all they want is a better life for their families.  Wah.  The Mexican government, seeing a golden opportunity to bring some pressure to bear upon the big, mean U.S. Border Patrol, immediately mobilized their diplomats to exert pressure on the American Consulate in Mexico City.  The Consulate, in turn, contacted the State Department, who then informed the President.  With me so far? Read more... 

Cult leader Rael denied residence in Switzerland

A cult rejected by reason of pedophilia, the Swiss are really onto something.

Cult leader Rael, who shot to media prominence in 2002 by claiming to have cloned a human being, has been denied residence in Switzrland for fear of endangering public morals, authorities said.

Rael, a French citizen whose real name is Claude Maurice Marcel Vorilhon, had sought residence in the Canton Valais in the southwest of Switzerland, where he wished to carry out "commercial activities" in a local vintners.

The Valais authorities refused his application because many of his views are at odds with the Swiss constitution, notably his approach to children and sexuality.

Rael preaches a doctrine of "complete sexual liberty" and believes parents should show their children how to obtain sexual pleasure, "which by its nature can lead to sexual deviance with under-age children," the authorities said in a statement.

             Human cloning is also legally forbidden in Switzerland.

Rael, who claims to have some 50,000 followers around in the world, said in a brief statement he was considering an appeal at a European level.

 

CAIR Exposed

Hat tip, Jihad Watch

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Pilot and Passengers Stop Hijacker

A flight 93 redux, very nice. Hat tip to Atlas.

A fast-thinking pilot with passengers in cahoots fooled a hijacker by braking hard upon landing, then accelerating to knock the man down. When he fell, flight attendants threw boiling water in his face, and about 10 people pounced on him, Spanish officials said Friday.

The Air Mauritania Boeing 737 carrying 71 passengers and a crew of eight was hijacked by a lone gunman brandishing two pistols Thursday evening shortly after it took off from Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, for Gran Canaria, one of Spain's Canary Islands, with a planned stopover in Nouadhibou in northern Mauritania.

The hijacking alarmed Spanish officials because a trial of 29 people accused in the Madrid terrorist bombings of 2004 had begun the same day in Madrid. But the man's motives were not terrorism; he wanted the plane to fly to France so he could request political asylum, said Mohamed Ould Mohamed Cheikh, Mauritania's top police official. <----LOL, a Muslim hijacks a plane on the same day of the trial of the Madrid bombers, but it's not terrorism? What are the odds that our keystone al-Qaeda is going to get political asylum by hijacking a plane? Isn't it more likely that he was going to demand something in exchange for the plane and it's passengers? Like releasing the Madrid bombers maybe? Anyway, back to the story.

''We were afraid. We thought it was people from al-Qaida or the Algerian GSPC who were going to cut our throats,'' said Aicha Mint Sidi, a 45-year-old woman who was on the plane. The GSPC is a Muslim extremist group.

''I trembled during and after the hijacking. I thought the plane was going to blow up any minute, either in mid-air or on landing,'' said another passenger, Dahi Ould Ali, 52. Both spoke after returning to Nouakchott.

The hijacker has been identified as Mohamed Abderraman, a 32-year-old Mauritanian, said an official with the Spanish Interior Ministry office on Tenerife, another of the islands in the Atlantic archipelago. He spoke under ground rules barring publication of his name. Mauritania has said the hijacker was a Moroccan from the Western Sahara.

The hijacker ordered the pilot to fly to France, but the crew told him there was not enough fuel. And Morocco denied a request to land in the city of Djala in the Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara, so the pilot headed for Las Palmas in Gran Canaria, the original destination.

Along the way, speaking to the hijacker, the pilot realized the man did not speak French. So he used the plane's public address system to warn the passengers in French of the ploy he was going to try: brake hard upon landing, then speed up abruptly. The idea was to catch the hijacker off balance, and have crew members and men sitting in the front rows of the plane jump him, the Spanish official said.

The pilot also warned women and children to move to the back of the plane in preparation for the subterfuge, the official said.

It worked. The man was standing in the middle aisle when the pilot carried out his maneuver, and he fell to the floor, dropping one of his two 7 mm pistols. Flight attendants then threw boiling water from a coffee machine in his face and at his chest, and some 10 people jumped on the man and beat him, the Spanish official said.

Around 20 people were slightly injured when the plane braked suddenly, the official said.

The hijacker was arrested by Spanish police who boarded the plane after it landed at Gando airport, outside Las Palmas.

Air Mauritania identified the heroic pilot as Ahmedou Mohamed Lemine, a 20-year-veteran of the company.

Lemine truly is a hero, as are the passengers who helped him.

Dems Symbolicly Bash Troops

A nice little birthday present for Kim Jong Il. Coincidence sure, but there's no doubt that this is a victory for our enemies, albeit a symbolic one.

The Democratic-controlled House issued a symbolic rejection of President Bush's decision to deploy more troops to Iraq on Friday, opening an an epic confrontation between Congress and commander in chief over an unpopular war that has taken the lives of more than 3,100 U.S. troops.

The vote on the nonbinding measure was 246-182.

Weekend Open Trackback

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I took this picture about a week ago near Whitewater, CA.

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Girl Power vs The Taliban

Strategypage illustrates how "girl power" is helping to win over the Afghani's, and distance them from the Taliban. No doubt feminists are thrilled to hear of these advances, and will soon begin praising the War on Terror and it's benifits for women. OK...maybe not.

In Afghanistan, the Taliban's "war on schooling for girls" has been running into resistance from many tribes. There are a number of reasons why these otherwise religiously conservative, tradition-bound tribesmen have decided to resist the Taliban's efforts to curb education for girls.

 

Although in many traditional societies (not just Islamic ones, either) women  have second-class status, behind the scenes the story can be quite different. In Islam (as in Latin America, China, India, etc.), women are often important managers of family businesses and property. They are also frequently valued behind-the-scenes advisors to husbands and sons who are the tribal leaders.

 

Many tribesmen also view their daughters as valuable assets. A carefully arranged marriage can bring important political or economic connections. There can also be immediate monetary benefits in the form of "bride price." An educated daughter is thus inherently more "valuable" than an illiterate one.

 

Thus Taliban's efforts to block education for girls is seen as a direct blow against some tribal traditions. The Taliban has apparently begun to notice this, and in at least one instance has publicly has stated it will no longer target schools, and that it intends to open special schools for girls. This message, however, seems not to have reached some Taliban operatives, who continue to attack schools, and it certainly has not convinced many of the tribesmen who have been victims of these attacks.

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