PARIS INTIFADA - DAY 10: ISLAMOTHUGS STRIKE RIGHT IN THE CENTER OF PARIS

THE TENTH NIGHT.

The French islamothugs have attacked right in the HEART OF PARIS ----

From Agence France-Presse - and a translation by NO PASARAN:

Even in the heart of Paris, four cars were targeted Saturday evening by nothing less than a flame thrower at Rue Dupuis, in the 3rd arrondissement, close to Place de la République, noted one journalist of the AFP.

Maybe this will provoke the French into doing what's necessary...

UPDATE: AP/YAHOO: 28 cars torched inside the heart of Paris!

DISMANTLING THE DEMOCRAT/NYTIMES "al LIBI LIE"

Democrats (led by Senator Levin) aligned with the NYTIMES are leaking what they claim is a smoking gun proving that the Bush Administration started the Iraq War on false premises. The GIST is that "Bush et al and the neocon cabal" were told in February 2002 by the DIA that an al Qaeda captive's intel should not be trusted, and that "Bush et al and the neocon cabal" used it anyhow.

NYTIMES: - "A high Qaeda official in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members to use biological and chemical weapons, according to newly declassified portions of a Defense Intelligence Agency document."

This is a CROCK OF BULL.

(1) NO SINGLE SOURCE WAS "THE FOUNDATION" FOR THE CHARGE THAT IRAQ TRAINED AL QAEDA MEMBERS TO USE BIO/CHEM WEAPONS.

IT IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT TRAINING MANUALS WERE FOUND IN AFGHANISTAN WHICH SHOWED THAT AL QAEDA WAS DEVELOPING BIO/CHEM WMD CAPABILITIES. SADDAM HAD EXPERTISE WHICH AL QAEDA - OR ANOTHER JIHADOTERRORIST GROUP - WOULD HAVE USED GIVEN THE CHANCE. BUSH WAS NOT GONNA GIVE THEM THAT CHANCE; BUSH SAID MANY MANY TIMES THAT SADDAM WAS NOT TRUSTWORTHY, AND THAT IN A POST-9/11 WORLD WE SHOULDN'T TAKE THAT CHANCE. HE IS RIGHT.

(2) THE ASSERTIONS BY AL LIBI WERE NOT THE SOLE BASIS FOR ISSUING UNSCR#1441, OR FOR ATTACKING SADDAM.

CONGRESSIONAL RESOLUTION #141 - AUTHORIZING BUSH TO MAKE WAR AGAINST SADDAM WAS A VERITABLE LAUNDRY LIST OF REASONS -

It was NOT limited to a Saddam/Al Qaeda/WMD operational nexus. Look for yourself. Do any of the following aspects of Joint Resolution #141 depend on al LIBI?! If you are intellectually HONEST you MUST conclude they DO NOT!
Summary od reasons in Joint RES. #141

(a) Iraq's noncompliance with the conditions of the 1991 cease fire
(b) Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and programs to develop such weapons, posed a "threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region"
(c) Iraq's "brutal repression of its civilian population"
(d) Iraq's "capability and willingness to use weapons of mass destruction against other nations and its own people"
(e) Iraq's hostility towards the United States as demonstrated by the 1993 assassination attempt of George Bush Sr, and firing on coalition aircraft enforcing the no-fly zones following the 1991 Gulf War
(f) Iraq's connection to terrorist groups, including Al Qaeda
(g) Fear that Iraq would provide weapons of mass destruction to terrorists for use against the United States

Even though we haven't found any stockpiles, ands even if Saddam never trained al Qaeda in WMD, these reasons still hold water. THEY ARE ALL STILL TRUE. Note that (g) is the FEAR that this COULD happen, NOT the certainty that IT HAD ALREADY HAPPENED.

(3)THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WAS CAREFUL TO STATE - MANY TIMES - THAT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE THAT SADDAM AND AL QAEDA HAD AN OPERATIONAL RELATIONSHIP.

(4) FOREIGN INTEL SERVICES HAVE THEIR OWN SOURCES, AND NOT ONE QUESTIONED THE ASSERTION THAT SADDAM WAS POSSIBLY SHARING WMD KNOWLEDGE.

(5) al LIBI DID NOT RECANT HIS CLAIMS UNTIL 2004. THOUGH SOME REPEAT SOME ANALYSTS MAY HAVE DOUBTED HIM EARLIER, NOT ALL DID. BUSH BELIEVED - AS I DO NOW - THAT ONE MUST ERR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION - WHICH MEANS, IN THIS CASE, ONE MUST ASSUME THE WORST, AND HOPE FOR THE BEST.

(6) THE DIA CRITIQUE WAS - IN HINDSIGHT - CORRECT. HINDISGHT ALWAYS IS. As is almost always the case when it comes to INTERPRETING intel, there were PROBABLY others who felt al Libi could be believed. Advice doesn't come in boxes labeled "good" and "bad" - and interpretations of intel don't come in boxes labeled "right" and "wrong."

It's up to the POLICY-MAKERS to choose among varying analyses and differing advice. BUSH CHOSE. In 2003. There was a national referendum on this choice (and his ability to choose) - it's called the election of 2004.

In my mind this post-war debate about the build up to war (what the Lweft sometimes calls "the RUSH to war") is a STUPID MEANINGLESS DEBATE. It's less interesting than debating the true causes of the Civil War or whether FDR knew in advance about Pearl Harbor. THE ONLY REASON THIS DEBATE IS GOING ON IS BECAUSE THE DEM AND THE MSM HAVE "BDS" AND CAN'T GET OVER IT! Their partisan and they want to hurt Bush and the GOP.

To the anti-Bushie Left - which OWNS the Democat Party and still dominates the MSM - the Iraq War is as ILLEGITIMATE as the Bush ELECTION IN 2000! And they are so angry they just can't seem to find the strength to MOVE ON! Pity, they are missing the greatest assertive advance of democracy since Reagan's - which culminated with the Fall of The Berlin Wall in 1989.

What Bush has wrought in Afghanistan and Iraq - and in Libya and Lebanon, and somewhat in Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar, (and soon in Syria) - is the FALL OF THE ISLAMOFASCIST WALL. And before this revolution is over it will have liberated as many people as were liberated by the collapse of the USSR.

And I believe that soon after the collapse of The Wall of Islamofascism, will come the fall of the multiculturalism, here and in Europe. Thank God.

More HERE.

IS AN IRANIAN UPRISING BREWING? ARE THE USA AND THE UK BEHIND IT?

BBC:

Ethnic unrest has broken out in Iran's Arabic-speaking province of Khuzestan, according to Iranian media.One newspaper reported that around 200 protesters gathered in the city of Ahvaz to shout anti-government slogans. Iranian news agency Mehr said protesters in traditional Arabic dress threw bottles and rocks at police before ringleaders were arrested. Iran blamed bomb blasts last month and in June across the region, which borders on Iraq, on UK agents.

I hope it's TRUE that the Brits are behind this - AND that we're helping them on this front - and perhaps even have some Special Forces on the ground inside Iran who are targeting or softening up the targets...

[THE BRITS HAVE BEEN COMPLAINING MORE AND MORE OF LATE ABOUT THE IRANIANS - CHARGING THAT THEY'RE AIDING THE "SUNNI INSURGENTS" WITH BOMBS AND BOMB TECHNOLOGY. STAY TUNED... THIUS MIGHT BE ANOTHER LEVER WE USE AGAINST THE MULLAHS...

WILL SENATORS DURBIN, WYDEN, LEVIN AND ROCKEFELLER BE INDICTED FOR LEAKING A TOP SECRET AND HARMING OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE?

Apparently, these three LIBERAL DEMOCRAT Senators leaked info about a top secret CIA satellite. The CIA referred it to the DOJ for investigation. WELL: WHAT'S THE STATUS OF THE INVESTIGATION!?

It seems to me that this might be a much bigger leak with much worse potential harm to our national security than "leaking" the well-known fact that Mrs. Wilson worked at the CIA.

Stories HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE.

KRUGMAN AND FRANCE MEET EU-ROTA DURING THE RIOTS

CLICK HERE AND SEE KRUGMAN AND THE FRENCH SOCIAL MODEL HE LOVES IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT! (It links to a brilliantly sarcastic photo-accompaniment to the infamous Krugman column in which he praised the pantalons off France. )

ENDING THE PARIS INTIFADA: IS THERE A GOOD THIRD WAY TO END THE MAYHEM?

The Paris Intifada spreads. Some in France are calling for more dialog (Leftists and "moderate Msulims"), as if that would stop the islamothugs from spreading their mayhem.

Others - like me - have called for a stepped up MILITARY response; we think that the French police have been patient enough. (They should treat the banlieus the way the US Marines treated Fallujah and the IDF treated Jenin.)

Yesterday, Sarkozy - a pale shadow of Rudy, but France's best version nevertheless - threatened the islamothugs with "stiff jail sentences." This threat seems UTTERLY STUPID to me. Besides mosques, prisons are the jihadoterrorists best recruiting grounds!

But perhaps there is a THIRD WAY:

France and the EU can offer a bounty to the residents of the banlieus: in return for them renouncing their French citizenship and A ONE-WAT TICKET back to their nation of origin, France could pay each 10,000 euros. They'd have to agree NEVER TO RETURN TO THE EU.

This would be a bloodless, non-violent, non-cronfrontational way to get them out and keep them out. (It's not unlike how the Israelis got the settlers out of Gaza.)

In spite of the fact that there are 5 million Muslims in France - many of whom (but NOT ALL of whom) live in the banlieues, this wouldn't be as costly as it seems at first. WHY?! Well, this sub-group has, by some measures, a 25% unemployment rate (50% among young men!) and since France has very generous unemployment insurance... KEEPING these people in France ALSO HAS ITS COSTS!

Look at it this way: instead of payng these islamothugs "once a month" to reside in these slums and stay in France - (as France now does, in effect), France could pay them a LUMP SUM to get out and stay out.

There'd be other BIG SAVINGS: reduced property losses, and fewer casualites. And the emptied banlieues could be privatized as condos - (generating some more income for the government, and off-setting some of the costs of getting the islamothugs to leave).

ARE YOU LISTENING CHIRAC!? Villepin?! Sarkozy!?

UPDATE/ADDENDUM: The reason I thought of this approach is because France CAN'T deport most of these islamothugs because they're "citoyens." This is a novel way to "deport" this islamomalcontents/misfits/subversives; it's a sort of "VOLUNTARY EXILE." I have a feeling that with a check for 10,000 euros many Muslim nations might take these reverse-immigrants - and some of them might make some good of themselves... well a few. Maybe. ALSO: Other EU nations could use the same method. Denmark, the UK, Holland, Italy, Spain, Sweden - all the EU countries with large maladjusted Msulimpopulations... It's really NOT a horrible idea; after all, I'm only suggesting that they offer money to these malcontents so they can go HOME - or go back to their ancestral home.

PARIS INTIFADA - DAY 9 CONTINUED...

Items of note HERE and HERE and HERE.

IMHO: The French must treat these "islamothugs" in the banlieues the way the Marines treated the islamothugs in Fallujah and the IDF treated them in Jenin: brutally and with the full force and fury of their military. Any message short of that KEEPS sending the wrong signal and will only encourage the initfada to spread throughout Europe and to grow into a full-fledged INSURGENCY!

MAR DEL PLATA RIOTERS LOVE TYRNANNICAL TROIKA

The uninvited Castro and long-dead Che are the heros of the RIOTERS in mar del Plata. Along with Leftist "strongman" HUGO CHAVEZ. (More on rioting HERE and HERE)

FITTING: those who oppose trade and foreign investment (the very things which lifted Red China out of poverty and starvation, for example) LOVE 2 murderous tyrannical Leftists - and one aspiring one! Castro and Che bequeathed nothing but suffering: When Castro took over Cuba it was the richest nation in the Caribbean - now it is the second poorest - only Haiti is worse. That's no surprise: tyranny reaps poverty; propserity is the by-product of liberty!

These anti-trade/anti-American rioters HATE BUSH. That's fitting too: he's the democratically elected leader of a FORMER COLONY COMPRISED OF IMMIGRANTS WHICH - BECAUSE OF LIBERTY AND TRADE - IS THE RICHEST NATION ON EARTH! We stand for everything they hate. And all the other former colonies that have become free AND RICH: Canada; Australia; India; China - they ALL became richer with the INCREASE OF LIBERTY AND TRADE. Despite "the legacy of colonialism."

The former colonies which are less free are less rich: from Rhodesia/Zimbabwe to Cuba, to Vietnam, and so on. The former satelites/colonies of the USSR are perfect examples, too: their standards of living - LOW UNDER LEFTIST REGIMES - went up as they became more open, more free, and traded more.

And "standard of living" for the masses is what Leftism (Marxism, socialism; Maoism; Stalinism etc) was supposedly ALL ABOUT. Yet time after time after time Leftism has FAILED TO DELIVER THE GOODS. This doesn't stop Leftists from hawking their SNAKE OIL! As they're doing in Mar del Plata.

And when the Leftists parade - RIOT, I should say - with posters of CHE - and when they chant anti-trade tirades, the Leftists PROVE they have it EXACTLY BACKWARDS. They in fact support policies which make things worse, and they oppose policies which make things better. YUP: The Left has it EXACTLY BACKWARDS. They always do!

KOFI POSTPONES TEHRAN TRIP!

Our outcry worked! BBC: "UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has postponed a scheduled trip to Iran, after the Iranian president called for Israel to be "wiped off the map". It was "not an appropriate time" for the UN chief to visit Iran, said Mr Annan's spokesman, Stephane Dujarric. "

Moral clarity is a necessary precondition for maintaining the resolve necessary to win WW4. Kofi's postponement (albeit under duress!) sends the right message: genocidal-mania will not be tolerated. Though it would have been MUCH better if he had CANCELED.

THE BEST THING: The USA should demand that the UNSCR issue a general ultimatum: "Member states must stop support for terror or be kicked out of the UN!"

"EURABIAN CIVIL WAR" OR "INSURGENCY" OR INTIFADA?

NO PASARAN links to a few articles which cpontend that France is at the front of the EURABIAN CIVIL WAR.

I dunno. For there to be a war there has to be TWO SIDES FIGHTING, and as of yet I haven't seen the Euros really fight back. Until the French go into these banlieues like the IDF went into Jenin and the US MARINES went into Fallujah this is a one-way fight!

I think - as in Iraq (which has also AVOIDED a true civil war) - what we're seeing is merely an intifada - or perhaps, to use a Euro-word: INSURGENCY. Though I like the word intifada more - because it is Arabic, it has more relevancy.

YES, IMHO: there are TWO MAJOR FRONTS IN WW4 RIGHT NOW:
(1) "The Sunni Intifada"; and (2) "The Eurabian Intifada".
You heard it here first.

(PS: there are other currently low-level intifadas in WW4, in: Afghanistan; Southern Thailand; the Philippines; Kashmir; Israel; Chechnya; and Bosnia - to name JUST A FEW!)

WILSON'S NATIONAL PRESS CLUB APPEARANCE: MORE LIES

I saw this pseudo-presser, and have been looking for a transcript ever since. Wilson LIED AND LIED AND LIED AND LIED! Well... SOMEONE ELSE TAPED IT AND HAS A REVIEW WITH EXCERPTS: ERROR THEORY (hat tip POWERLINE):

Wilson is guilty of treason, over and over again retailing malicious disinformation about the nation's war effort, and the main organs of the mainstream media keep proving themselves eager to abet. ...

Wilson lies have long since been exposed, first by then CIA director George Tenet, the week after Wilson's original op-ed:

He [Joseph Wilson] reported back to us that one of the former Nigerian officials he met stated that he was unaware of any contract being signed between Niger and rogue states for the sale of uranium during his tenure in office. The same former official also said that in June 1999 a businessman approached him and insisted that the former official meet with an Iraqi delegation to discuss "expanding commercial relations" between Iraq and Niger.

The former official interpreted the overture as an attempt to discuss uranium sales.

Wilson's lies about having debunked the President's sixteen words were also painstakingly documented in the Senate Intelligence Committee report on pre-war intelligence assessments. How did the room-full of reporters react to being the vehicle for the repetition of known lies? They laughed and applauded.

The shameful low point for the Press Club was the "question and answer" session. No questions from the attendees were allowed. Press Club President Rick Dunham spoon fed Wilson a series of friendly questions, hand picked to lead Wilson into additional segments of his prepared screed. The curtain dropped entirely when Wilson let slip that he already knew the second question. Here is the revealing moment, transcribed from my tape of the speech:

Joe Wilson: ... Now with respect to the second question? Was Rove resign? [Sic.] Was that there?

Rick Dunham [sotto voce]: That's coming up.

JW [sotto voce]: Oh, that's coming up. [Then in full voice, realizing everyone has heard]: I read the question.... I read it over his shoulder.

RD: That's... right-heh… Should Karl Rove resign and...
[Interrupted by audience laughter. JW and RD also laugh, but without pausing as they hurry past the naked moment.]

This is a news organization? EVERY question was a leading puffball. "Have you been threatened?" "Should Bush be impeached?" Remember how they made a front page scandal out of American soldiers working out who would answer what type of question from the President? I'm sure they will be really outraged that an accuser telling known lies got to pick which questions he would be asked. Oh wait a minute. They were there. And they tittered and applauded and welcomed every false gesture.

It's hard to say what the low point for Wilson was, but it is worth exposing his newest disinformation about the forged documents. See Stephen Hayes’ recent Weekly Standard article for the sequence of lies that Wilson pedaled to several reporters in the Spring of '03, claiming to have discovered in Niger that the intelligence about Iraqi attempts to buy uranium ore had been based on forged documents. There were indeed some forged documents, which may have been concocted by the French to try to undermine the U.S./British case against Saddam Hussein, but these did not come into U.S. possession until October 2002. Wilson's trip to Niger was in February 2002. (Some claim the forgeries were concocted by the Italians, but either way, they played no role in Wilson's trip.)

Every assertion by ERROR THEORY is linked/footnoted. He even has a link to a statement by former DCI Tenet which DEBUNKS WILSON! RTWT.

LA HAINE

LA HAINE is a 1995 movie. POWERFUL. Rent it if you want to get a sense of the feelings in the French Arab "ghettoes." BTW: LA HAINE means THE HATE." AND KEEP IN MIND: The film was made BEFORE Jihadoterrorism became an international force mobilizing the discontented and disconnected Muslim youths of Paris.

THE WILSON-JIHADOTERRORIST CONNECTION

Joe Wilson's office was in the offices of a convicted financial backer of Hamas, and al Qaeda. There's MORE: RTWT. NOW. [The connection is Alamoudi.]

DID THE BUSH TAX CUTS INCREASE OR DECREASE FEDERAL REVENUE?

REVENUE WAS UP IN 2004, AND WAY WAY UP IN 2005. FACTS HERE.

KATRINA AND THE PARIS INTIFADA

POWERLINE linked to a editorial in the NYSUN:

Back in the 1990s, the French sneered at America for the Los Angeles riots. As the Chicago Sun-Times reported in 1992: "the consensus of French pundits is that something on the scale of the Los Angeles riots could not happen here, mainly because France is a more humane, less racist place with a much stronger commitment to social welfare programs." President Mitterrand, the Washington Post reported in 1992, blamed the riots on the "conservative society" that Presidents Reagan and Bush had created and said France is different because it "is the country where the level of social protection is the highest in the world." How the times have changed. Muslims in Paris's suburbs are out shooting at police and firefighters, burning cars and buildings, and throwing rocks at commuter trains.

I think we DON'T have to go bac as far as the 1992 LA riots to expose Euroleftie hypocxrist, anti-Americanism, and utter inanity: they said basically the same things about Bush and Katrina - because it took 4 days for the state, local an federal authorities to get meaningful aid into the worst hit areas, becasue of the scenes of underclass people suffering at the Superdome, and because of the looting in New Orleans. Here are a few reminders:

MSNBC: The French daily Liberation described the scenes of devastation as a cruel spectacle for President Bush, “the champion of security.” Criticizing the disorder in the evacuation of hospitals, the editorial called Hurricane Katrina a “natural disaster with political implications.” Terror mastermind Osama bin Laden “must be dying of laughter,” it said. Astonishment at ‘anarchy and chaos’ -- In Italy, several newspapers said mounting criticism of Bush’s handling of the relief effort was damaging his credibility. And Germany’s Die Tageszeitung said the world was “seeing scenes otherwise only known in African capitals. The forces of order are absent. Anarchy and chaos reign. Supermarkets are plundered, helicopters shot at.” Some said perceived U.S. indifference to global warming was coming home to roost.“What’s absent is a debate over the climate, over Kyoto, over the human-caused warming of the earth,” said an editorial in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, a Munich-based daily. “But the oil shortage caused by the disaster will hurt Bush more than gaps in climate policy will.”

DER SPIEGEL: After Hurricane Katrina bashed America's Gulf States and left New Orleans a sunken wasteland, [German Environmental Minister Jürgen] Trittin wrote an editorial lashing out at US President George W. Bush for "closing his eyes" to the dangers of global warming. The polemic began with the line, "Recently in the theaters, now in real life," and went on to compare the scenes of Hurricane Katrina to Roland Emmerich's Hollywood blockbuster "The Day after Tomorrow."

French TV stations were among the MOST vicious in their attacks on the USA: The ultimate in intellectual journalism. Jean-Marie Colombani, editorial director of the newspaper of record Le Monde, in the company of his distinguished colleague Alain Frachon, informed in real time by their man in New Orleans, broadcasting on the elegantissimo radio station appropriately named France Culture. The program is called “Rumeurs du Monde.” (Got it? Le Monde the newspaper, le monde the world!) It’s the cat’s pajamas. And the subject of a recent episode was, you guessed it, Katrina or, more exactly, the failure of the United States Government to predict, react, succor, and repair the damage caused to the hapless victims of Katrina. Listen in as themes that had been crudely developed in the mass media are now suavely treated in the stratosphere of France Culture:

They are so knowing! Seen from here, my dear friend, it is all too obvious. We would have known what was coming, and what to do about it. But Bush, my goodness, what a failure. No wonder his ratings crashed. Hmm, yes, crashed, truly crashed. Hmm yes, no wonder.

Well, last time I checked NO CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE HAS EVER HIT PARIS OR FRANCE (DESTROYING AN AREA THE SIZE OF THE UK), AND YET THEY'VE HAD MORE THAN A WEEK OF EXTREMELY SERIOUS RIOTING! And in the past NINE (9) days, the French have yet to make a single move to thwart the riots, and they grow in severity and breadth everday.

The French hypocrites and appeasers - the "more enlightened" and chic Euro appeaserati are getting EXACTLY what appeasers and hypocrites ALWAYS get: a severe dose of REALITY. Maybe it will wake them up, and turn them away from appeasement? (Well... I can dream, can't I??)

PARIS INTIFADA DAY 9 - SPREADING THROUGHOUT FRANCE

NOVINITE: "The violence that wracked Paris suburbs over the past week spread to new areas outside the capital for the first time."

FOXNEWS: "... reports of unrest also surfaced north of Paris in the Normandy region and to the east in Burgundy, according to France-Info radio. ... A bus depot was set on fire to the west of Paris in the town of Trappes, incinerating 27 buses, authorities said."

BBC: "Thursday night's incidents occurred in several towns to the north-east and west of the capital, including Aulnay-sous-Bois. ... Elsewhere in France: Cars torched in the eastern city of Dijon. Sporadic trouble reported in areas close to Rouen and Marseilles."

FACT: In every case - in all the locations, the rioters are mostly Muslim. Yet somehow - according to the CW and the MSM - the problem is poverty or unassimilation - BUT: (1) there are many more non-Mulsim UNEMPLOYED than Muslim unemployed and the non-Mulsims ARE NOT RIOTING, and (2) the PARENTS of these unassimilated Muslim YOUTHS never rioted like this. I argue the parent's generation didn't riot like this because they were poor and unassimilated BEFORE THE ERA OF JIHADOTERRORISM.

The ideology of hate is the key to these riots. That and the fact that years of appeasement of Muslim thug regimes (like Assad and Arafat and Kaddafy and Saddam and the Ayatollah - who lived in Paris before returning to Iran) and local Muslim thugs by the French authorities (so-called) have only made the problem worse - and the perps more bold. IT ALWAYS DOES.

BREAKING NEWS: THREE CHARGED WITH TERROR IN ENGLAND

BBC: "Three men have been charged with terrorist activities, including conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause an explosion. Waseem Mughal, of Kent, and Younis Tsouli, of Shepherds Bush, London, both 22, were also charged with possessing articles for terrorist purposes. Tariq al-Daour, 19, of Paddington, London, was charged with fundraising offences under the Terrorism Act. They will appear at Bow Street magistrates court on Friday."

Er um. those names sound Muslim. Ya think!? BBC: Among his charges Mr Mughal is accused of having in the bedroom of his Chatham bedroom a DVD entitled "Martyrdom Operations Vest...for a purpose connected with the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism". He was also accused of having two pieces of paper in his bedroom - one with the words "in Arabic Welcome to Jihad" and the other "Hospital = attack".

Attacking a hospital. What sick bastards. Some ROP.

WHO DO THE CIA LEAKS SERVE?

When you're trying to find out "whodunnit" it's often effective to ask: "cui bono?" - which means "WHO BENEFITS?" The recent CIA leaks (the Plame Referral, referred to the DOJ by SOMEONE at the CIA even though there was evidently NO underlying CRIME, and the current BLACK PRISON leak, for example) all hurt Bush and all benefitted the anti-Bushies. Hmmm... And they all HAVE TO emanate from the CIA. Hmmm... Just saying... BTW: so was former #2 at the CIA, Adm. Bobby Inman:

"I was utterly appalled during the 2004 election cycle at the number of clearly politically motivated leaks from intelligence organizations — mostly if not all from CIA — that appeared to me to be the most crass thing I had ever seen to influence the outcome of an election. I never saw it quite as harsh as it was. And clearing books to be published anonymously — there was no precedent for it. I started getting telephone calls from CIA retirees when Bush appointed Negroponte, talking about how vindictive the administration was in trying to punish CIA, and I was again sort of dismayed by the effort to play politics including with information that was classified. What is the impact on younger workers who see the higher-ups engaged in this kind of leaking?

I think that this should be investigated. HEY: Maybe the NYTIMES can assign someone to find out if the CIA is attempting to undermine the president? YEAH, SURE! The NYTIME would only do that if the president was a Leftie! More HERE.

THE REAL CABAL: WILSON-PLAME AND THE ANTI-BUSH CIA

Last week, Powell's former chief of staff, WILKERSON - (an "anti-Bushie" who was VERY VOCALLY OPPOSED TO THE BOLTON NOMINATION) - wrote an OP-ED in the LATIMES in which accused the POPULARLY ELECTED president and vice president of being part of a secret cabal -- as if making policy should not be done by elected POLICY MAKERS, but by UNELECTED CAREER BUREAUCRATS unbeholden to the people.

Now a few brave people are beginning to write about what might be THE REAL CABAL - a real secret attempt to undermine the policies of the ELECTED leaders of our nation by UNELECTED BUREAUCRATS IN THE CIA:

Zell Miller, and Victoria Toensing in the WSJ (subscription only) are sugesting that the CIA's Plame might have orchestrated Wilson's trip (and his subsequent attempts to undermine part of the Bush Administration's case for war) and that this was ACTUALLY the "status quoist" CIA's attempt to undermine the bold policies of the popularly elected leaders of our nation - a sort of coup d'etat. More HERE. And more here, too.

PARIS INTIFADA - CAUSES AND REMEDIES; or why France desperately needs a French version of Rudy Giuliani

Here are TWO great posts you gotta check out:

EUROTA: "The riots in Paris are exposing the very soft underbelly of Europe. Economic malaise, government failure, and an emasculated response to violence have all played a part in the rampages and destruction of property."

and CUANAS: The Paris Intifada: A Cycle of Violence -- The comments section over at Little Green Footballs is just smokin' with good one and two-liners about the Paris Intifada - [and CUANAS HAS CULLED A FEW GEMS!]

These two posts led me to a EUREKA moment: what France needs is a RUDY - someone to come down hard on the thugs and set HIGH STANDARDS for public behavior; to be intolerant of intolerable behavior.

As I posted before: the root cause of this latest display of "social unrest" is NOT racism and discrimination and the "just grievances" of a wronged group of people, (as the MSM would have you believe).

The actual root causes are the EXACT OPPOSITE: (1) THE INDULGENCE OF BAD BEHAVIOR BY THE LEFT (over decades); and (2) a generation POISONED BY A HATE-FILLED IDEOLOGY: ISLAMOFASCISM.

When NYC was being savaged by rampant crime and by OVER-INDULGED THUGS RAMPAGING IN THE STREETS WITH NO FEAR OF REPRISALS for more on the CROWN HEIGHTS RIOTS click HERE and HERE) - and the subtle bigotry of low expections - Rudy Giuliani RESCUED the city: he demanded EVERYONE obey the law, or get arrested. IT WORKED.

PARIS NEEDS A RUDY! THE FRENCH NEED A RUDY! If the French have anyone who can be their Rudy, I think it is Sarkozy. If he can't completely tackle the problem now, maybe he can when he's elected president in 2007? I hope so!

[ASIDE: In 2002, the mayor of Paris - Bertrand Delanoe - was stabbed by a homophobic French-Algerian Muslim: "Berkane, a computer technician who lives with his parents in a suburb north of Paris, later told police that he "didn't like politicians and particularly didn't like homosexuals." This man was later ruled UNFIT FOR TRIAL.

In my opinion, it is NO COINCIDENCE that this "Muslim mad-man" lived in one of the neighborhoods where the rioting is now occuring. His madness was informed by his hate-filled ideology, and it was permitted to express itself VIOLENTLY AND WITHOUT CRIMINAL PROSECUTION by the "PERMISSIVE Left" YES: Even this event sent the wrong signal, a signal of weakness - like Clinton's "premature withdrawal" under fire from Somalia.]

UPDATE: WINDS OF WAR AGREES: "Instead of discouraging certain destructive behaviours, Britain would excuse them and subsidise them (unsurprisingly, those destructive behaviours aren’t conducive to holding a job). In France, a similar policy has been adopted by government after government. Veering from complete indifference to a patronising and deeply damaging paternalism, often in the same week, the result is scores, probably hundreds, of cités. "

There's more THERE. And SOME agreement from CAPT'S QUARTERS: "The French still dither when they should act instead, sending the message even more clearly that they will not act in their own defense."

"RUDY RUDY RUDY!" Or should I say: "IL NOUS FAUT UN RUDY!" Or how about this: HEY, Chirac, Villepin, Sarko! Here's Rudy's website! Give him a call AT ONCE! I'm sure he can help!

UPDATE #2: SPENCER/JIHAD WATCH agrees with the diagnosis - of the BOTH, the MSM's FAULTY DIAGNOSIS, and the ACTUAL ROOTS OF THE PARIS INTIFADA.

UPDATE #3: DALRYMPLE AGREES. CALLED I LAXISME IN 2002 - FRENCH FOR APPEASEMENT.

ZELL MILLER ON PLAMEGATE

RTWT. IT'S ANOTHER REASON WHY I'M A ZELL MILLER DEMOCRAT.

(Here's the other reason: text; video.)

KOFI TO VISIT IRAN

Kofi is about to go see the genocidal maniac who is the presdient of Iran - over Israel's quite understandable objections.

The last time Kofi made such a high-profile visit to a islamofascist tyranny it was 1998 and the tyrant was Saddam. Kofi came back saying of Saddam, "he is a man I can do business with." Little did we know then that Anna meant "BU$INE$$" LITERALLY. To the tune of BILLIONS STOLEN!

Do we really want him to go to Iran!?

HEY: When we said that "Kofi MUST go!" we meant that he should be FIRED, not go on high-profile diplomatic efforts to our avowed enemies, because Kofi has PROVEN HE CANNOT BE TRUSTED.

BOLTON... ARE YOU LISTENING!? More HERE.

PARIS INTIFADA - DAY 8

Things ain't getting better - which means that they're geting worse!

It AMAZES me that they haven't yet instituted a curfew or called out their equivalent of the National Guard. Maybe they don't have what it takes too put down the intifada - and maybe THAT'S EXACTLY WHY IT WAS STARTED! YEAH: ON PURPOSE:

French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday that the riots in several Paris suburbs over the previous night were "not spontaneous" but rather "well organized."

More HERE ("In escalating unrest, shots were fired at police and firefighters, while gangs besieged a police station, set fire to a car showroom and threw petrol bombs.") and HERE ("as eight days of riots ... spread to 20 towns." ) and HERE ("Protestors set fire to 315 cars in the Paris area overnight...") and HERE ("Gangs take Police Station!").

[BY THE WAY: yes, I'm the guy who coined the phrase "Paris Intifada."]

PARIS INTIFADA - DAY 7

AP/YAHOO/(hat tip CUANAS):

In a seventh consecutive night of skirmishes, young people threw rocks at police Wednesday in six suburbs in the Seine-Saint-Denis region north of Paris — about a 40-minute drive from the Eiffel Tower. ... The violence, concentrated in neighborhoods with large African and Muslim populations, has highlighted the difficulties many European nations face with immigrant communities feeling marginalized and restive, cut off from the continent's prosperity and, for some extremists, its values, too. Muslim leaders at Clichy-sous-Bois' mosque, meanwhile, prayed for peace and asked parents to keep teenagers off the streets ... The violence cast doubt on the success of France's model of seeking to integrate its large immigrant community — its Muslim population, at an estimated 5 million, is Western Europe's largest ...

UPDATE:
BBC: "Rioting youths opened fire on police and set dozens of vehicles ablaze in a seventh night of violence in Paris. In escalating scenes of unrest, four shots were fired while gangs besieged a police station, set fire to a car showroom and threw petrol bombs. "

When will it stop? How will it stop? Scroll down. AND STAY TUNED...

PARIS INTIFADA - ROOT CAUSES

Readers of this blog know I have followed the "Paris Intifada" since DAY ONE; we are now in Day 6. I have read many reports about the rioting and most of the reports form the MSM make me sick.

I just saw a CNN report by Jim Bitterman about the week of rioting in Paris. It really typifies the approach of the MSM to this story and their "conventional wisdom."

Here's basically what he reported - (I found at CNN in a written version of his "TV package"):

Clichy, northeast of Paris, is crowded and impoverished and with a large Muslim population. Local officials claim the suburb is one of the poorest in France. About 60 percent of the residents of Clichy are immigrants who face discrimination and unemployment that runs to 25 percent -- more than twice the national average. Those who work in the community say young people are frustrated and angry. "There are no factories. There are no jobs for anyone. There are no job centers," said Mark Nadaud, a volunteer youth counselor. "And when you go to look for a job and you say you are from here and they don't want take you."

SO... what we are supposed to believe is that PARIS has so so so SO much DISCRIMINATION against these Muslims that they MUST riot - to express themselves. Hmmmmm.

And yet, there's NO RIOTING elsewhere in France. Hmmm... even though there's high unemployment all over France. Hmmm...

And Paris is a SOCIALIST stronghold - it's mayor a gay Socialist. Hmmm...

And in the parts of France where the right-wing is strongest, where Jean Le Pen and his National Front Party get majorities - there is NO RIOTING AT ALL. Hmmm...

Yet the Left paints Le Pen and these areas as racist. Hmmm... Maybe PARIS and the SOCIALISTS are the REAL racists. It would seem so, if Bitterman's "Conventionally Wise" reportage is accurate. In other words, IF CNN's Bitterman and the converntional wisdom the "CW" - is correct, then predominantly socialist Paris is actually a major stronghold of racism and discrimination, and it's their racism and discrimination which have CAUSED the rioting. (The rioters themselves are blameless; their automatons who can't control their own behaivior!)

AND THEN THERE'S THIS ANGLE: how can UNEMPLOYMENT be the cause of rioting when France has very VERY high unemployment which cuts across regions and races and creeds, and also has VERY GENEROUS UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS!? These benefits mean that these unemployed Muslims are getting generous help from the state. The state they attack.

Perhaps all this "CW" IS REALLY "BS."

Perhaps the TRUE ROOT CAUSE of the rioting is NOT racism or discrimination or high unemployment. I suggest that the root cause is an ideology of hate. An ideology that PROMOTES war against infidels. YES: perhaps the cause of the riots is islamofascism.

It seems to me that if the enlightened Parisians oppose the notion that they are extremely racist -- and that it is that their racism which prevents these otherwise diligent and conscientious Muslims from gaining employment, and that it is this frustration at being unable to work a 40 hours week (and instead get GENEROUS unemployment insurance) which causes riots - that they should then consider my suggested explanation - that the true root cause is islamofascism. And they support Sarkozy's hard-line.

Either they do become more hawkish and less tolerant of islamo-intolerance, or in a decade or two there will be a muezzin atop the Eiffel Tower calling Parisians to prayer 5 times a day at the Mosque du Notre Dame.

The CW explanation of the causes of this rioting should be seen as an affront to ALL unemployed people and to all poor people. Poor people - and people looking for work - are at least as moral as anyone else. All criminals are not poor, and all poor people are not criminals. The worst criminality is not predetermined by economic class, and criminals are not the product of poverty. The worst criminals acts a product of the perp's own socipathy. And horrible ideologies produce similar behaviors.

The CW of the root causes of the Parisian rioting is as ridiculous as blaming a battered wife for the beating she gets at the hands of her abusive husband - who tells the cops that "she had it coming to her." Her failure to do right by him is not the root cause of the battery.

The Left is also like a battered wife - one who has yet to leave her abusive husband and seek help.

The first step is to recognize that the time for making excuses for the abuser MUST END!
Excusing the perps bad acts is another form of appeasement. And France is an arch appeaser. And look what it bought them: a week of rioting. Just like the abused wife who appeases her abusive husband appeasement doesn't work. So... HEY FRANCE! STOP THE ABUSE: CALL A COP!

[UPDATE: I posted this "essay" in the comments over at the INVALUABLE DR. SANITY. And lo and behold: she endorsed my "analysis!" The buttons on my vest are bursting.]

WHAT MIGHT TRIGGER OUR ATTACK AGAINST IRAN?

THIS MIGHT - (hat tip Barce-Pundit):

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have set up a network of secret smuggling routes to ferry men and equipment into Iraq for attacks on coalition troops, according to an exiled opposition group.

These actions are clearly an act of war, and deserve to be treated as such. They won't treated as such until the time is most ripe - from OUR POV. And the table ain't competely set, YET.

I predict we will neutralize Iran as a meddler in Iraq - and as a potential nuclear power - not later than January 2007. About a year after we will have neutralized the murderous Assad regime. And have Iran COMPLETELY isolated and surrounded.

A COMPENDIUM OF DEMS ON SADDAM'S WMDS

THE ANCHORESS had a list of several leading Democrats (Dhimmicrats) all asserting that Saddam HAD WMD's - INCLUDING a nuclear weapon program. One quote jumps out: Clinton annoucing that he was ordering our military to strike Saddam's nuclear weapons program. GO THERE; READ THEM ALL.

Now, of course the Democrats would have you believe that Saddam's WMD's were a figment of KKKarl Rove's evil imagination, a lie fabricated to do a horrible thing: RE-ELECT BUSH - and NOT to liberate Iraqis from genocidal tryant. And they say this as the LIBERATED Iraqi people move RAPIDLY toward democracy. Sheesh.

HERE'S A LEAK WHICH SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED

Dana Priest of the WASH POST wrties that the CIA has SECRET PRISONS in which we hold the world's most dangerous jihadoterrorists.

THEN WHY IN THE HECK IS SHE PUBLICIZING THEM?! AND WHO TOLD HER THIS TOIP SECRET INFO!? I demand an investigation! Do you think the CIA will refer this to the DOJ? OF COURSE NOT! BECAUSE THEY LEAKED IT TO HURT BUSH!

And the LEFT and the MSM they still dominate EAT IT UP! They LOVE it. WHY?! Because they like UNELECTED CIA bureaucrats more than they like our ELECTED DECISION-MAKERS. This is TYPICAL of Leftists: They fundamentally do not respect democracy. NEED MORE PROOF?! All this BS was brought up in the last election - you know... the one we had a YEAR AND HALF AGO! The Left lost that election, but they seem to want to run things their way anyhow. Sheesh. The want Bush to nominate liberals to the SCOTUS and to withdraZw from Iraq. DON'T THEY REALIZE THEY LOST!?!?!?!?!

It wouldn't be so bad - to have the SDemsa win the WH or a House of Congres... EXCEPT for the fact that they'd abandon the Iraqis they way they abandoned the South Vietnamese and the Contras. IOW: the Dems CANNOT and MUST NOT be trusted with power. Not wile their cvontrolled by the McGovernites.

IRAQ TODAY: why Plamegate is irrelevant BS

Joe Wilson is Plamegate's REAL LIAR. His pseudo-scandal is a meaningless sideshow hawked by the MSM to divert the public from the fact that GOOD THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN IRAQ!

IRAN'S NUKE PROGRAM: IRANIANS DIG IN

BBC: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has recalled a string of ambassadors from high-profile postings. Tehran's senior diplomats in the UK, France, Germany and at the United Nations in Geneva are being replaced. The ambassadors were closely involved in negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme under former President Mohammed Khatami. The move is likely to signal a tough new approach to the stalled nuclear issue, correspondents say.

This is as much a reaction to the UNSCR against Iran's principle ally Syria as anything. OUR NEXT MOVE: We need to table a motion against Iran at the UNSCR.

WHICH IS THE QUAGMIRE, KOSOVO OR IRAQ?

DAILY DEMARCHE:

The "Paper of Record", late last week, ran an editorial entitled "Kosovo, Still Messy After All These Years" lamenting the failure of the U.N. efforts there to produce a lasting peace with real results. What I love about this piece is that when the U.N. is involved and six years have passed and there is nothing to show for it the results are "messy." When George Bush frees Iraq, successful elections are held and a constitution is overwhelmingly approved (and underwhelmigly reported) in a fraction of that time, the result is a "quagmire." Just for giggles I searched for "quagmire+Iraq" on the times web site and got 271 hits. "Kosovo+quagmire" returned 42 hits, at least seven of which also contained the word Iraq. I stopped counting after that. Why beat a dead horse?

Of course there are two OBVIOUS reasons that the Left - and the MSM they still dominate - maintain that Iraq is the "real" quagmire: (1) it was done by a GOP president; and (2) we've been suffering casualties on the ground, every week - for 2.5 years. (Kosovo was part of Serbia, a nation we PREEMPTIVELY ATTACKED WHEN WE HAD A DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT; AND HE DID IT WITHOUT - REPEAT WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL! But the dem-left doesn't say a peep about Kosovo!)

One major reason is that we are suffering casualties in Iraq.

Blowhard jerkoff and former Dem-lib political operative CHRIS MATTHEWS tonight called these casualties HORRIFIC. I know that to each family each loss is horrific, but to the USA and to the future generations these losses are:

(A) NOT horrific - not by ANY historical measure or standard (we lost 20x more in IWO JIMA ALONE!) And we have liberated more people and more territory with fewer losses in Iraq than in ANY previous war in all of human history!); and

(B) OBL specifically stepped up attacks against the USA and our allies after Somalia (and with VIETNAM as the arch-template) because he believed that he and his islamofascist allies could win ANY war against the USA if it MERELEY inflicted casualties; OBL thought we'd cut and run as soon as the going got tough.

Therefore, winning in Iraq while sustaining casualties is DOUBLY important for the USA: (1) we begin liberating a vital region from tyranny and poverty (draining the proverbial swamp); and (2) we send the signal to our enemies that we WILL fight, and we WILL stick it out until we win, (which should make them think TWICE before instigating trouble against us); and (3) we put pressure on Libya - and Kaddafy caves, we put pressure on Syria and they exit Lebanon, and we pressure Assad EVEN more - and he might be about 2-3 months from going into exile!), and (4) we isolate and surround Iran surround Iran. And we get a field-tested battle-hardened military that's more ready to rumble than any other ion the entire world - and THAT's also a great deterrent!

So, the benefits of the Iraq War are HUGE!

Yup folks: THIS IS NO QUAGMIRE; IT'S A GREAT HISTORICAL TURNING POINT!

BOTOM-LINE: The political process in Iraq is going very well - by ANY historical standard.
It is CERTAIN to lead to eventually to a stable democratic republic of Iraq which will be a staunch ally of the USA.

The Dem-Left will never live down the shame that they opposed it.
(FDR and JFK mst be spinning in their graves!)

PARIS INTIFADA DAY 6

AP:

Violence erupted for a sixth night Tuesday in troubled suburbs northeast of Paris with French police firing rubber bullets and tear gas as they faced down gangs of youths in Aulnay-sous-Bois, witnesses reported. ... Tension had mounted throughout the day after angry young men torched cars, garbage bins and even a primary school in several days of rioting that highlighted the division between France's big cities and their poor satellites where disenchantment thrives. ... Suburbs that ring France's big cities, home to immigrant communities often from Muslim North Africa, suffer soaring unemployment and discrimination. Disenchantment and anger thrive in the tall cinderblock towers and long "bars" that make up the projects.

France has arrived at the crossroad - and it's right in Paris! They either push back the intifada or resign to becoming the 21st century version of Constantinople - now known as ISTANBUL.

The MOMENT OF TRUTH will come when the Muslims there step up their attacks and either shoot down a pasenger jet or crash one into the Eiffel Tower, or if they merely blow up several Metro trains one day (as they have in Madrid and London). Then the French will have to decide if they want to become more Anglo - and FIGHT BACK - or if they'd prefer to cower and appease the islamofascists - like Post-Atocha Spain did by electing the socialist Zapotero.

I have a feeling the most critical political contest for France's future will be the one leading up to the next presidential race - in 2007: the critical contest will be the primary battle between Villepin (and his anti-American foreign policies and his preference for appeasement of America's enemies), and Sarkozy (who has embraced Anglo-American economic and foreign policies).

If Sarkozy loses France loses, and Paris might very well become Paristanbul.

NOTE: right now, France is helping us squeeze Assad, but this might be all show - as was their support of UNSCR#1441. Crunchtime is fast approaching for Assad - and France. STAY TUNED!

UPDATE: via JIHAD WATCH: "... when moderate Muslim leader Dalil Boubakeur, head of the Paris mosque, tried to restore calm, his car was pelted with stones and he had to rush away."

THE CRUX OF THE WMD INTEL DEBATE, AND THE SENATE'S "SECRET SESSION" KERFUFFLE

The whole dang thing comes down to this:

There were some doubts as to what EXACLTY was the status of Saddam's WMD programs. Saddam liked that doubt - it was part of his defense posture meant to keep foes tentative about attacking him.

In the post-9/11 world - Bush was NOT gonna let Saddam have the benefit of the doubt any longer.

The Dems attacking Bush NOW for twisting the WMD intel THEN are using 20/20 HINDSIGHT to say that Bush was not making a mistake (when he argued that Saddam must have WMD's), but a PREMEDITATED EFFORT TO MISLEAD us into war.

Well, apart from the fact that hindsight is always 20/20, it seems IMPOSSIBLE to me that Bush could have misled the world's ENTIRE intel community, (ALL of whom thought Saddam had WMD), or that ANYTHING he said in the SOTU delivered in January 2003 could have misled any Congressman into authorizing the war since they authorized waging war on Saddam in OCTOBER 2002.

On top of that, the Brits have re-examined their intel and determined that the 16 words Bush related in the SOTU are still true; Brit intel MAINTAINS to this day that Saddam SOUGHT uranium in Africa.

In addition, the case for war was NOT limited to a nuclear program or even WMD's; there were a LITANY of reasosn Bush gave OVER AND OVER AND OVER again before Congress gave him authority to wage war on Saddam - and they are ALL listed in the Congressional Joint Res. #141. LOOK IT UP. He also listed them in his speech to the UNGA in September of 2002. Look that up too.

Therefore this whole kerfuffle in the Senate about WMD's and the case for war is STUPID.

ON TOP OF THAT, as Iraq becomes a viable democracy, and as that great accomplishment has a greater positive effect in the entire Middle East (IT ALREADY HAS!), Democrat carping about the war seems even STUPIDER.

The Dems should either ADMIT that if they were in pwer they'd appease every sadistic tyrant - and give them benefit of the doubt, (unless he was a member of the GOP! HEH!), or they should just MOVE ON!

PARIS INTIFADA - DAY 5

Fifth night of unrest in Paris suburb: Police fired tear gas canisters and rioters hurled Molotov cocktails as violence hit a poor Paris suburb for the fifth straight night in unrest that officials said on Tuesday had also spread to neighbouring towns.

IHT/VIA LGF:

"Sarkozy says that violence in French suburbs is a daily fact of life. Since the start of the year, 9,000 police cars have been stoned and, each night, 20 to 40 cars are torched, Sarkozy said in an interview last week with the newspaper Le Monde."

(The suburbs of Paris are like other cities' slums - only the Parisian slums are mostly Muslim. )

The UK GUARDIAN reports:

"... France's interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, yesterday defended his law-and-order tactics and pledged rapid police reinforcements after four nights of rioting in Paris. ... Sarkozy, citing statistics that show 30 police patrols are stoned and as many cars burned every night on France's low-income housing estates, is unrepentant. "There are some gangs and traffickers who are living off the underground economy, off drug trafficking, who seem to think these neighbourhoods are beyond the authorities' reach, " he said on television on Sunday. ... said the situation in some deprived neighbourhoods had been deteriorating "for 30 years" and had to be tackled firmly. More than 30 people were under arrest last night in the rundown northeastern district of Clichy-sous-Bois after some of the most violent clashes between riot police and mainly immigrant youths that the country has seen for some years.

More HERE. This MIGHT be the beginning of the 21st century's own version of Poitiers - the site of THE BATTLE OF TOURS - where in 1356 Charles Martel defeated the Muslim invaders. And, MAYBE SARKOZY IS THE NEW MARTEL?

EXCERPT FROM WIKIPEDIA ON THE BATTLE OF TOURS: "This battle stopped the northward advance of Islam from the Iberian peninsula, and is considered by most historians to be of macrohistorical importance, in that it may have halted the invasion of Europe by Muslims, and preserved Christianity as the controlling faith, during a period in which Islam was overrunning the remains of the old Roman and Persian Empires. "

UPDATE: Welcome BETSY'S PAGE readers and DISSECTING LEFTISM readers and AMERICAN THINKER readers!

UPDATE #2 - Sarkozy MIGHT tell the french this: "We're fighting them HERE because we didn't fight them over there!" Heh. But od course, he would have to say it in Frahnshe...

CLINTON CAUGHT TOUCHING ALITO'S CUTE YOUNG BLOND DAUGHTER?

This photograph of Alito's wife and children is uncanny and unnerving (it's an official White House photograph); they are posed in front of the official portrait of former Oval Office occupant and "adulterer and perjurer in chief BJ" Clinton.

Look at it and tell me if the place that Clinton's hand seems to be "resting" isn't UNBELIEVABLY APT!

PARIS INTIFADA CONTINUED (DAY FOUR)

BBC: Paris riots prompt extra security -- Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy in Clichy-sous-Bois France's Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has promised to step up security after violence flared for a fourth night in a Paris suburb. Six policemen were hurt and 11 people arrested in the latest clashes with youths in Clichy-sous-Bois, although it was calmer than on previous nights. Police said somebody not yet identified had fired tear gas into a mosque.

Of course, the rioters in Paris do not represent "true Islam." ALTERNATE ASSESSMENT: "The riots are just punishment for the fact that France sent troops to Iraq."

More HERE.

UNSC WILL PASS RESOLUTION AGAINST ASSAD REGIME

NYTIMES: Security Council diplomats worked out final details on Sunday on a tough resolution against Syria, an action that will forcefully step up international pressure on the country's embattled president, Bashar al-Assad, and deepen his government's struggle to ward off increasing isolation. ... Security Council members troubled by some provisions of the resolution have not disagreed about the need to send Syria a stern message about its responsibility to cooperate with the investigation. That includes Algeria, the council's lone Arab member. "There is a unanimous feeling within the Council that there must be greater cooperation from the Syrians," Richard A. Grenell, the spokesman for John R. Bolton, the United States ambassador, said Sunday. Mr. Grenell declined to be specific about the anticipated outcome of the Monday vote, but he said that nothing had occurred during the weekend to alter optimistic statements on Friday night from Mr. Bolton. Predicting that the measure already had the nine votes needed for passage, Mr. Bolton said, "I don't foresee a veto." ... Casting the American vote on Monday will be Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the leader of the American diplomatic campaign to isolate Syria. She is joining foreign ministers from the other Security Council states in the higher-level "ministerial" meeting of the panel that the resolution's sponsors requested to give it added force.

It WILL NOT be the toughest measure conceivable; it will be the toughest possible AT THIS POINT IN TIME, and it will enable us to tighten the noose. BRAVO CONDI! And.... stay tuned...

I SEE DEAD PEOPLE - AND THEY VOTE DEMOCRAT!

POLIPUNDIT'S INVALUABLE JAYSON JAVITZ (Hat tip: Polipundit commenter Oak Leaf): "... last year George W. Bush won a large majority of the ballots cast in Michigan outside of Wayne County (Detroit). Sen. Kerry-Heinz only won that state’s electoral votes by virtue of having been credited with a margin of 342,000 ballots in and around Detroit.Yeah, that’s true.But I can’t help but wonder how many of those ballots from Detroit and its burbs were submitted by ghosts, corpses, and multiple voters."

QUESTION: Could massive "IREREGULARITIES" like this effect the outcome of an election!? HINT: 380,000 - yup, that's right... 380EFFINTHOUSAND - names on the MASTER LIST in Detroit - a city controlled by the Democrats - had incorrect names and addresses, including people who have died or moved out of the city! MORE: Among findings by Dteroit News reporters investigating the charges, were ballots cast by people registered to vote at abandoned and long-demolished buildings; and a practice of hand-delivering ballots from senior citizens and disabled voters that were filled out in private meetings with Currie's paid election workers!

Today's Democrat Machine would make the Tammany Hall proud!

HAS THE PARIS INITFADA BEGUN?

BBC: Paris suburb hit by more rioting - Marchers walk past shell of car burnt out in riots Nine youths are being held by French police following a third night of unrest in a Paris suburb. A spokesman for the local authority in Clichy-sous-Bois said the youths had been throwing missiles and petrol bombs, and 15 cars were set on fire. Three hundred police officers in mobile units are on patrol in the town, which has a large immigrant population.
[More HERE.]

Every single country that has a border with a Muslim country and NEARLY every single non-Muslim community with a very large minority Muslim popuation has "a Muslim problem" -- from higher crime rates, to honor killings, to anti-Semitic attacks, to terrorism. But some would have us believe that the problem is NOT with "true Islam," but with those who are "hijacking Islam" - the islamofascists/jihadoterrorists. Well, if that was the case, then: (1) why aren't more practitioners of "true Islam" condemning the riots and bombings and beheadings; and (2) why are so many of the "hijackers of Islam" Imams and Mullahs - and otherwise the MOST seemingly learned Muslims, folks who ceaselessly quote the Koran??

MY POINT: just as we must ceaselessly attack - with any and all means necessary - the islamofascists and jihadoterrorists, we must also put pressure on Muslims who want to co-exist with the Free World and perhaps see their own nations become more free and more democratic. We must pressure them to condemn the islamofascists and to make their communities and nations more tolerant and democratic.

This is the challenge we face on the political front, and I think this will take MORE than just sending Karen Hughes to visit a few Muslim nations.

It means we should be putting as much pressure on Egypt and Saudi Arabia and Gaza and Pakistan as we do on SYRIA. Ultimately, our victory on the battlefields of WW4 will be won more quickly and with less casualties if we wage a successful war on the political front. I think we are doing this better now - with Condi and Bolton - than we were with Powell, but there is AMPLE room for improvement.

REMEMBER AMERICA: WE ARE THE REVOLUTION! The jihadists - and their Leftist appeasers here and in Europe - are the reactionaries. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

SYRIAN RATS JUMPING SHIP PROVE ASSAD REGIME IS NEARING END

NYTIMES: DAMASCUS, Syria, Oct. 29 - During a United Nations investigation into the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri that threatens the power of President Bashar al-Assad, a first cousin who is one of the most powerful businessmen in Syria has left the country. While it remains unclear why the president's cousin, Rami Makhluf, left - his allies say he is in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, working on the expansion of his business empire - many people with close connections to the ruling Baath Party say his departure underscores the investigation's threat to the Assad family's grip on power.

When Assad falls, Iran will be completely isolated and surrounded.