EGYPT ARRESTS 4 HAMAS PLOTTERS

Reuters:

Egyptian security forces detained four people and have accused them of plotting to buy fuel for a pilotless aircraft for Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, security sources said on Saturday.

The sources said two of those detained were members of Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood. They said the two men had given 20,000 Egyptian pounds ($3,700) to two other Egyptians to buy fuel and a remote control device for a small aircraft.

The sources said the small aircraft was meant to be loaded with explosives for an attack. They did not say what the target would have been.

Egypt is doing the right thing here - albeit for their own national-interest: Hamas and the MB are a direct threat to Egypt; they would love to topple Mubarak and take-over; (Zawahiri is a leading MB leader who was once jailed for trying to overthrow Egypt's government).

Those who argue that Israel is instigating the regional unrest, and are too tough on Gazans and "West Bankers" - folks like Jimmy Carter - are in denial about the jihadist enemy and their hegemonic goals. Even a despot like Mubarak is more realistic than "doves" like Carter and Pelosi, and this incident proves that - of we want peace in the region - we need to be MUCH MORE harsh with Hamas, not less.

What Maliki did Basra repeated in Basra must be done in Gaza: Hamas must be eradicated for Gaza to become civilized and prosperous.

• HAMAS AND THEIR JIHADIST COMRADES ARE A REGIONAL THREAT, AND OVER TIME THEY'RE NOT GETTING WEAKER.
• THEY WILL USE UAV'S AND EVEN MISSILES WHEN THEY GET THEM - AND THIS WILL ESCALATE THE CONFLICT, NOT BRING IT "PARITY".
  
• NEITHER HUDNAS OR TRUCES OR OR "HUMANITARIAN" AID TO GAZA WILL AMELIORATE THIS THREAT:
  
• HAMAS MUST BE UTTERLY VANQUISHED FOR THE REGIONAL THREAT THEY REPRESENT TO BE ERASED.
• THE LONGER WE WAIT, THE STRONGER THEY BECOME AND THE MORE LIKELY A JIHADIST MEGA-ATTACK BECOMES - ONE WHICH MAY VERY WELL IGNITE A MAJOR WAR.
• BUT THIS MIGHT BE INEVITABLE AND NECESSARY:
  
• AFTER ALL: PEACE IS A BY-PRODUCT OF VICTORY, NOT APPEASEMENT.