Phyrfight Intel

This stuff is making me crazy.

From AlertNet:

Malaysia bans possession of Prophet cartoons
10 Feb 2006 01:55:05 GMT
Source: Reuters
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Malaysia has slapped a blanket ban on circulating or even possessing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad after it closed a local newspaper for printing the same caricatures that have enraged the Islamic world.

In a short statement confirming its order to shut down the Sarawak Tribune, the government of the mainly-Muslim nation said it had issued the ban to ensure racial harmony.

From VOA

Annan Slams Cartoon Publishers, Condemns Violence
By Peter Heinlein
United Nations
10 February 2006

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has criticized newspapers that have published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

Secretary-General Annan says he cannot understand why any newspaper would publish offensive cartoons of the prophet. “It is insensitive, it is offensive, it is provocative, and they should see what has happened around the world.”

From Netscape:

By NOOR KHAN QALAT, Afghanistan (AP) – Police killed four people Wednesday as Afghans enraged over drawings of the Prophet Muhammad marched on a U.S. military base in a volatile southern province, directing their anger not against Europe but America.

The U.S. base was targeted because the United States “is the leader of Europe and the leading infidel in the world,” said Sher Mohammed, a 40-year-old farmer who suffered a gunshot wound while taking part in the demonstration in the city of Qalat.

“They are all the enemy of Islam. They are occupiers in our country and must be driven out,” Mohammed said.

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Michelle Malkin: SUPPORT DENMARK: WHY THE FORBIDDEN CARTOONS MATTER

“Things came to a head over the past week. In Gaza City, Palestinian gunmen took over an EU office to protest the cartoons:

Masked gunmen today took over an office used by the European Union to protest the publication of cartoons deemed insulting to Islam. About five gunmen stormed the building, closing the office down, while 10 other armed men stood watch outside. One of the militants said they were protesting the drawings, one of which depicted Islam’s Prophet Muhammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb.

Danish flags are being burned. Danish workers have reportedly been beaten. The country now faces an international boycott from Muslim nations.

While the intrepid newspaper has not apologized for printing the cartoons, it has issued a statement acknowledging that the cartoons “offended many Muslims, which we would like to apologize for.” Paul Belien at The Brussels Journal singles out the courage of Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who has refused to capitulate to the bullies:”

From the WSJ Opinion Journal:

“During her August protest, she gave a speech to an outfit called Veterans for Peace. According to a transcript on the group’s Web site, she said that if the President agreed to meet with her:

I’m gonna say, “And you tell me, what the noble cause is that my son died for.” And if he even starts to say freedom and democracy I’m gonna say, bullshit. You tell me the truth. You tell me that my son died for oil. You tell me that my son died to make your friends rich. You tell me my son died to spread the cancer of Pax Americana, imperialism in the Middle East. You tell me that, you don’t tell me my son died for freedom and democracy.

Cuz, we’re not freer. You’re taking away our freedoms. The Iraqi people aren’t freer, they’re much worse off than before you meddled in their country.

You get America out of Iraq, you get Israel out of Palestine.

In September, after Hurricane Katrina had brought her 15 minutes of fame to an end, Sheehan wrote on the Huffington Post website: “George Bush needs to . . . pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans and Iraq.”

All these comments were easily available on the Internet, yet they were seldom mentioned in the news coverage of Mrs. Sheehan’s protest. They didn’t fit the script–a script in which Mrs. Sheehan was playing the role of an ordinary American whose personal tragedy had turned her against the war.”

This from Joel Stein of the LA Times, the fourth most read paper in the nation.

“I DON’T SUPPORT our troops.”

“…being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken — and they’re wussy by definition. It’s as if the one lesson they took away from Vietnam wasn’t to avoid foreign conflicts with no pressing national interest but to remember to throw a parade afterward.

Blindly lending support to our soldiers, I fear, will keep them overseas longer by giving soft acquiescence to the hawks who sent them there”

From the WSJ

“…the tour to Caracas belongs in the “you-can’t-make-it-up” category: A bitterly outspoken American citizen who has made a career of lambasting her president, she travels abroad to celebrate with a dictator who has thrown his own critics out of work and even put them in prison, stripped the press of its freedom, destroyed property rights and militarized the government. His political supporters are known to be armed and dangerous and many Venezuelans in poor neighborhoods have reported that they are afraid to disent from the Chavez agenda. Venezuela’s arms build-up is frightening his neighbors and threatening regional stability. ”

The greatest thing about the Internet is that anyone with a computer can voice his opinions. The worst thing about the Internet is that anyone with a computer can voice his opinions.

The link below is a classic example. But before you link out to read it, which you should only do if you have half an hour to waste, I have these comments:

1. I always knew that Reagan and Khomeini were in cahoots. How else could a great President like Carter lose the election?

2. And on the 1981 raid on the Iraqi reactor at Osirak.

Of course they had to use navigation devices hidden in trucks to find the reactor. How else would those poorly trained Israeli pilots be able to find a huge containment building amongst all those grains of sand? I’ve heard that from the air, Nuclear Power Plants look like ants.

I don’t doubt the CIA provided intel for the raid, but you know why I’m absolutely positive the operation wasn’t under their command and control? They didn’t bomb the Chinese embassy by mistake.

BTW, GW cannot be a mindless puppet and a maniacal demigod at the same time. Please choose one and stick with it.

http://www.unitedstatesgovernment.net/theraidoniraq.php

“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” —George Orwell on a BBC broadcast, April 4, 1942

Scary Homeland Securty/Privacy stuff from WSJ.com

“Google will “vigorously” oppose a Justice Department legal motion requiring it to disclose information about consumer Web searches.”

WSJ.com – Google to Buck U.S. on Data Request

France has not ruled out the use of nukes in retaliation to terrorist attacks or attacks from states.

I found an Internet source for Suicide Bombers – Heros of Islam below.

“The estimable Patrick Sookhdeo, who has done superlative work tracing the systematic denial of rights and persecution of Christians by Muslims in Pakistan, has written a superb piece underscoring what I have said many, many times: there are moderate Muslims, but Islam itself is not moderate: the teachings that the jihad terrorists use to justify their actions are embedded in the core of the religion. From The Spectator, with thanks to John Derbyshire:”

Jihad Watch: The myth of moderate Islam

More fun and games from the practitioners of the “Religion of Peace”.

“Hundreds of thousands of Afghan girls have returned to classrooms since the U.S. invasion that toppled the Taliban regime.”

nbc5i.com – News – Afghan Teacher Beheaded For Educating Girls

This was sent to me. Origin Unknown

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Dr Patrick Sookhdeo is Director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity.

The funeral of British suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer was held in absentia in his family’s ancestral village, near Lahore, Pakistan. Thousands of people attended, as they did again the following day when a qul ceremony was held for Tanweer. During qul, the Koran is recited to speed the deceased’s journey to paradise, though in Tanweer’s case this was hardly necessary. Being a shahid (martyr), he is deemed to have gone straight to paradise. The 22-year-old from Leeds, whose bomb at Aldgate station killed seven people, was hailed by the crowd as ‘a hero of Islam’.

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Below is an excerpt from an article about the Spielberg movie “Munich” on the website TheReligionofPeace.com

It’s a fascinating and well thought out piece about The War on Terror and the way Hollywood Elites view the war and the world.

“What is the point of killing a terrorist when another is there to take his place?” muse the characters in “Munich.” Maybe because there’ll be one terrorist instead of two, perhaps? Why not substitute the word ‘terrorist’ with ‘Nazi’ and see how that sounds? The logic is no different. Either we confront evil in the world or pretend that it will just go away if ignored or appeased.”

You can support Michael Yon’s work in Iraq.
http://michaelyon.blogspot.com/

From the AOPA:

“Perhaps. In the 9/11 Commission’s first “report card,” it gives the
government a “B-” for homeland airspace defense. The commission notes
that there is “no overarching plan to secure airspace outside the National
Capital region.” “That’s most ominous,” said Andy Cebula, AOPA senior
vice president of government and technical affairs, “because what ‘secures’
the National Capital region is the Washington, D.C., Air Defense
Identification Zone (ADIZ)! I’m not sure which is more distressing–that
the commission thinks the Washington, D.C., ADIZ works, or that they think
the model should be applied elsewhere.” This makes it all the more critical
that pilots tell the government that they don’t want the Washington, D.C.,
ADIZ to continue and that they definitely don’t want an ADIZ in their
airspace. In its original report, the 9/11 Commission said that NORAD–
the North American Aerospace Defense Command–focused only on threats
from outside the United States, even though terrorists might “use planes
as missiles.” The report card, issued Monday, adds that “no single agency
currently leads the interagency response to airspace violations.” “What
we have seen before with these kinds of reports is a knee-jerk reaction
to do something–anything–to prove that you’re doing something,” said
Cebula. “And the easiest thing for them to do would be to create more
ADIZs.” But ADIZs would be the wrong thing to do, according to AOPA.
The ill-conceived, poorly executed approach unfairly penalizes general
aviation, damages small businesses, increases transportation inefficiencies,
and adds additional non-safety-related burdens upon already over-tasked
air traffic controllers.”
See AOPA’s Member Action Center: Operation ADIZ

Ever wonder what it was like hunting for Saddam Hussein in Adwar, Iraq? Want to know the feeling of looking down a spider hole to see a dictator begging for surrender? Well, Kuma War, an online community dedicated to recreating real events in video game form, has given you the oppourtunity

Go Find Him Here

“This game actually makes me flash back and think about the war and the aftermath….But that’s not necessarily bad. Being that I will be going back to Iraq for a 3RD tour, I’ll say that it’s much better fighting from my PC behind a desk then actually slinging lead at each other.”

SGT from HHC 1/64 Armor,
3rd Infantry Division(M)

I watched an awsome show on CMT last night. A documenatry about a Guard Unit going to Iraq.

It’s called American Soldier.

This from, of all places, The Hollywood Reporter:
American Soldier
“It may be on CMT, they may be from the red state of Georgia and they may be overt about their patriotism, but “American Soldier” meets its greatest challenge — telling a moving, interesting, exciting story without a political agenda.”

So if us Red-State , under educated, sub-humans can show what’s going on in Iraq without a political agenda, then why can’t our “betters” in the mainstream media do the same thing? Maybe their “cause” is more important than the un-editorialized truth.

Bruce Willis comes out fighting for Iraq’s forgotten GI heroes – Sunday Times – Times Online

“I am baffled to understand why the things I saw happening in Iraq are not being reported,” he told MSNBC, the American news channel.

Willis plans to make a movie based on the writings of blogger Michael Yon.