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Saturday, November 20, 2010
RubinReports: United States is home to Iran-sponsored pro-Nazi site!
More about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Jewish past here.Via Love of the Land: Here are the facts. There is a discussion group site entitled IranNazi that has an Iranian internet URL. It is written in Persian and seems to have begun on August 24. All the material on the site is pro-Nazi and features pictures of Adolph Hitler, the swastika, and goose-stepping German soldiers. There is an English-language part as well....."The site is registered to this place under the IRNIC, Iran's domain manager and an arm of the government. It is owned by a company in Isfahan. There is also evidence, however, that the site goes through a server in Arizona. The Phoenix hosting company is called Atjeu.com. This doesn't prove, however, that the site is not sponsored by the Iranian government. It does go out on the state-controlled server and is allowed to claim government sponsorship." More here.
RACHEL EHRENFELD'S GOT SOME GOOD ADVICE FOR NETANYAHU
He needs to stop appeasing Obama. He also needs to bear in mind that the Land of Israel is not his to give away:
Netanyahu seems to ignore some basic lessons of history.Another thing: both Israel's government and other countries around the world who believe in common sense need to stop recognizing "palestinians" as even a nation/race to begin with. Or, specifically, they need to cease recognizing Fatah as a legitimate entity. And, they need to bear in mind that "palestinian" Muslims are no different in any way from other Muslims.
The Israeli government is the guardian of the land of Israel, a land to which the Jews have a historic and natural right predating the existence of the current state, modern nations, and international bodies. This right, known since the end of the 13th century BC, was expressed in the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the Mandate of the League of Nations in 1920, and the UN resolution of 1947.
Thus, the land of Israel is not Netanyhu‘s to give. Nor was it former Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s to give when he offered Yasser Arafat 92% of the West Bank, all of Gaza, and sovereignty over East Jerusalem and half of Jerusalem’s Old City at Camp David in 2000. The PA’s responded with the second Intefada, killing more than 1100 Israelis, and injuring over 6000. Nor was it Sharon’s to give in 2005 when he carried out a unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, ripping more than 9,000 of his citizens out of their homes during Disengagement, This Disengagement led to a barrage of thousands of Kassam rockets fired from Gaza into Israel, killing and maiming thousands of civilian Israelis, devastating daily life, destroying any sense of security for more than 200,000 residents of the western Negev. Nor was it former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s to give, when in 2008 he offered Mahmoud Abbas to internationalize Jerusalem, and territory equivalent to 100% of the West Bank, with a naïve condition that this “will not be used as an opening position in future negotiations. But no matter what conditions were attached to the Israeli concessions, all were considered by the Palestinians and their allies as further Israeli concessions.
In bartering away Jewish territory, the Prime Minister undermines the Jewish history, identity, religion, and security with which the land is inextricably intertwined.
IRAN SMUGGLING HEROIN INTO NIGERIA
Nigerian officials say they have seized heroin worth nearly $10m (£6.25m), concealed in engine parts shipped from Iran.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said agents made the seizure at Apapa seaport in Lagos.
The haul comes just days after Nigeria reported Tehran to the UN Security Council over an illegal arms shipment from Iran that was intercepted.
THE WEAPONS AND DRUGS SHIPMENTS ARE THE OFFICIAL ACTS OF THE IRANIAN ISLAMO-THUG REGIME, PROVING ONCE AGAIN THAT THIS CURRENT REGIME RUNNING IRAN IS PURE EVIL.
ALLOWING THEM TO REMAIN IN POWER IS A HORRIBLE MISTAKE; THE SOONER IRAN IS ATTACKED AND DESTROYED THE BETTER.
THE GREAT PERSIAN PEOPLE WILL RISE UP IN THE ASHES OF A WESTERN LED ATTACK AND ERADICATE THEIR ISLAMO-THUGS OPPRESSORS AND REESTABLISH THEIR NATION AS A TRUE DEMOCRACY FREE OF ISLAM-FASCISM.
Tommy Robinson and George Galloway on Talk Sport
This is mind-blowing! Tommy Robinson, leader of the English Defence League, greets slimeball Hamas supporter, George Galloway:
"Shalom, George!"
Please listen to the full interview! NFSE!!
Pat Condell: Human Rights Travesty
Pat Condell's no-nonsense commentaries are not broadcast on the mainstream media.
Can you imagine how the world would change if all the major news networks in the West would broadcast Pat Condell's political commentaries?
Friday, November 19, 2010
Soldiers Ward off Taliban with Bayonets.
For the soldiers stationed at Crossing Point One in the badlands of Afghanistan it was like something out of Zulu.Hardcore Taliban fighters launched wave after wave of suicidal onslaughts as they tried to get into the isolated British base in northern Nad'e Ali.The combat was so fierce that soldiers were ordered to fix bayonets as the insurgents pushed to within just 30 metres of the tiny compound's mud walls. More here
Cracks in the Iranian Military.
According to a former Iranian member of the military, speaking in Paris, recently, many military officers are not loyal to the Ahmadinejad regime.
However, the army is not the same as the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which controls most of the country and owns many of the major state energy and telecoms companies.
The Thin End of the Wedge: Europe.
The EU will allow the muslims to annex Bosnia, so that will create an islamic block in south east Europe. There will only be Macedonia and Greece between them and Turkey.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
RICHARD LINDZEN DESTROYS CLIMATE ALARMISM
MIT'S LINDZEN IS THE WORLD'S FOREMOST CLIMATE SCIENTIST.
HERE'S A SNIPPET OF HIS TESTIMONY BEFORE CONGRESS:
LINDZEN PROVIDED CONGRESS WITH LOTS OF CHARTS - FOR THOSE SO INCLINED, USE THE LINK.
HERE'S A SNIPPET OF HIS TESTIMONY BEFORE CONGRESS:
... we should stop accepting the term, ‘skeptic.’OUCH. THAT'S GONNA LEAVE A BIGGER MARK ON AL GORE THAN A TSA GUARD SQUEEZING HIS NUTS!
Skepticism implies doubts about a plausible proposition.
Current global warming alarm hardly represents a plausible proposition.
Twenty years of repetition and escalation of claims does not make it more plausible.
Quite the contrary, the failure to improve the case over 20 years makes the case even less plausible as does the evidence from climategate and other instances of overt cheating.
LINDZEN PROVIDED CONGRESS WITH LOTS OF CHARTS - FOR THOSE SO INCLINED, USE THE LINK.
QUESTION: WILL GEORGE CLOONEY GET HIS JUNK JIGGLED? WILL JULIA ROBERTS LET SOME TSA GUARD SQUEEZE HER TITS? WILL AL GORE GET HIS CHAKRA RUBBED?
I DON'T THINK SO.
GETTING YOUR GENITALS AND BREASTS SQUEEZED BY THE FEDS IS STRICTLY FOR THE MASSES.
GETTING YOUR GENITALS AND BREASTS SQUEEZED BY THE FEDS IS STRICTLY FOR THE MASSES.
"REMOTE DETONATON": THE SIMPLE SOLUTION TO TSA SECURITY SEARCHES
JUST TRYING TO THINK OUT-OF-THE-BOX:
INSTEAD OF JIGGLING PASSENGERS JUNK - OR EXPOSING THEM TO RADIATION TO MAKE X-RAY RATED-X PORN, WHY NOT JUST HAVE EVERY PASSENGER GO INTO A BOMB-PROOF ROOM - ALONE OR WITH THE PEOPLE THEY'RE TRAVELING WITH - AND THEN EXPOSE THEM TO A MIX OF CELLULAR SIGNALS AND INFRA-RED WHICH WOULD DETONATE ANY BOMB?
IF IT'S POSSIBLE, THEN IT WOULD BE A SIMPLE SOLUTION BECAUSE NO TERRORIST WOULD WANT A PREMATURE EJACU-SPLOSION BEFORE GETTING ON BOARD THE AIRLINER.
IF IT'S NOT YET POSSIBLE, THEN MAYBE DARPA CAN MAKE IT SO.
INSTEAD OF JIGGLING PASSENGERS JUNK - OR EXPOSING THEM TO RADIATION TO MAKE X-RAY RATED-X PORN, WHY NOT JUST HAVE EVERY PASSENGER GO INTO A BOMB-PROOF ROOM - ALONE OR WITH THE PEOPLE THEY'RE TRAVELING WITH - AND THEN EXPOSE THEM TO A MIX OF CELLULAR SIGNALS AND INFRA-RED WHICH WOULD DETONATE ANY BOMB?
IF IT'S POSSIBLE, THEN IT WOULD BE A SIMPLE SOLUTION BECAUSE NO TERRORIST WOULD WANT A PREMATURE EJACU-SPLOSION BEFORE GETTING ON BOARD THE AIRLINER.
IF IT'S NOT YET POSSIBLE, THEN MAYBE DARPA CAN MAKE IT SO.
Bristol Palin vote-rigging perpetrated by HOMOSEXUAL PRANKSTERS, not by socially conservative Sarah Palin supporters
You'd think the Washington Post could bother to note this. They run a piece about supposed conservatives kicking over the playing field on Dancing With the Stars by exploiting a weakness in the online-voting software, voting hundreds of times apiece for Sarah Palin's daughter, but omit that the person behind this exploitation is not a Bristol Palin fan at all but is a PRANKSTER.
He is also a flaming faggot (not that there's anything wrong with that), coordinating with his flamer friends. HillBuzz blogger "kevindujan01" is fully aware of how the Post is using him as a weapon against conservatives and is just "fabulous" with it:
Both are accepting the WAPO line that the vote rigging is being perpetrated by Palin conservatives and are dismissing the whole foo-forah on the grounds that its just a popularity poll and "everybody does it." Indeed, these polls are actually set up to encourage multiple votes. That's part of how competition shows make their money, by taking commissions on the call-in votes. But over the years there have been a number of online-coordinated voting attacks aimed specifically at gaining a perverse result and these shenanigans are seriously annoying to the non-cynical viewers of these hugely popular shows.
Anyone remember Sanjaya Malakar, the effeminate semi-talent from American Idol 2007 who got alarmingly close to the final thanks in large part to a website called "Vote for the Worst"?
Lots of little girls apparently liked Sanjaya's puppy-dog manner and the way he fondled his luxurious locks, but it was outside groups--not actual fans of the show--that kept him in week after week. Undoubtedly the gays had a large role in that prank as well. Sanjaya is so overtly effeminate that he had to explain to People Magazine why everyone always thinks he is gay:
If the pranksters had actually gotten Sanjaya into the final it would have been a complete debasement of the competition. This seems to be what has actually happened with Bristol Palin. No one should underestimate how annoying this is to actual fans of the show. They are watching to see a real competition and just when they get to the ball, Lucy pulls it away. The Washington Post is trying to direct the fallout to conservatives when its own evidence points to homosexual pranksters. Fans of the show need to be told where the evidence actually points, so that they can direct their ire accordingly.
I'm a ballroom dancer. I've been doing it for 15 years and have always had a special talent for leading. Give me a girl who has never danced before and if she has above average natural ability I can have her smoothly following intermediate level steps by the end of one song. If she has serious natural talent, she'll be flying in two.
The first time Bristol Palin took the floor it was completely obvious that she was a BAD beginner. NO natural talent. After a couple weeks of preparation she clomped through her dance like she was trudging through a swamp. "Oh no," I said to myself, "this is going to get gamed: the pranksters are going to keep her in for the humiliation value." With Bristol intentionally dressing up like her mother, this had disaster written all over it.
Bristol has made progress. She's worked at it to the point where she's managed to reach an average level of dancing. She's kept her head and her spirits up and thankfully has managed to remain oblivious to her own shortcomings. Good for her. But her reaching the final above the wonderfully talented Brandy is a travesty. Brandy would have made it a final for the ages. Now we are going to see Bristol Palin get absolutely crushed by the beautiful and talented Jennifer Grey. Then comes the worst part: waiting to see whether the pranksters are able to deliver the final perversion and cram a crown of thorns onto the undeserving Bristol Palin's head.
I've never voted on one of these shows, but I will next week. The only way to counter the pranksters is for Bristol Palin fans to vote for the best performance which, excluding a miracle, will mean voting NOT for Bristol Palin. Otherwise they are playing into the hands of these cynical homosexuals whose great desire is to pervert a heterosexual competition. Listen to kevindujan01's cynical flaming:
Bristol can't even motivate herself to lose a few pounds for national television. It's ridiculous. She's out there waddling around with a 25 pound tummy. Sigh.
With the media primed to blame Sarah Palin supporters for a perverse result, the only way out for conservatives is to make sure the perverse result does not happen. Conservatives are not supposed to vote for semi-talented favorites in the first place. It is already an embarrassment to conservative principles that Palin fans helped her get this far. The only way to limit the damage is by voting at last for the better dancer.
On the subject of flamers, this is why Don't Ask Don't Tell should not be repealed. Under DADT, homosexuals can serve in the military but they are not allowed to flame. End DADT and they will be allowed to flame. Merely being openly, suggestively, struttingly, fabulously, wrist bendingly, hip-pointingly, gaydar-explodingly homosexual is exactly what will no longer be off limits.
Anyone who thinks that is not going to damage unit-cohesiveness and recruiting isn't thinking at all. The heterosexual young men who make up the vast majority of recruits will continue to be deprived of female company, but now they will have to put up with gay-as-I-wanna-be drama queens. Each squad, platoon, company and battalion will be prone to develop its own "boytown" as Kevin Dujan calls his gay circuit, pushing as far towards civilian gay norms as the military will allow, and the ending of DADT means precisely that they will allow it.
Read Goodby Good Men, about the take-over of the American Catholic church hierarchy by a cabal of homosexual church haters, for an idea of what can happen, and that was on the sly. Just wait until open homosexuality is allowed.
Cat fighting. In-your-face come ons directed to gay and straight alike. Subtle serious come-ons. Where is it going to end? Nobody's thinking about that. Once the DADT line falls, there is no plan to replace it with any other line.
The transgressive-for-transgressive's sake culture of Dujan et al., debasing a simple dance competition just because doing so is "hilarious," will be just as corrosive to the military. Thirty percent of the military (40% of the Marines) already think it will be corrosive, and that's before they have seen the homosexual behavior that would be released. Give them a tour of the coming Boytown (the Pentagon poll only asked if having "an openly gay person in a unit" would be a problem, it didn't ask about the development of an openly gay subculture) and the percentage of objectors will increase dramatically, but by then it will be too late. Long built-up traditions and institutions can't just be blown up and then restored.
The answer is to make the corrosive homosexual behavior--the "out" behavior—off limits from the beginning. That is just what DADT does. We may have arrived at it through a bumbling political process, but it is actually well targeted.
He is also a flaming faggot (not that there's anything wrong with that), coordinating with his flamer friends. HillBuzz blogger "kevindujan01" is fully aware of how the Post is using him as a weapon against conservatives and is just "fabulous" with it:
I also love that HB is now considered a leading conservative site.The new more fabulous face of conservatism, as deliberately misrepresented by WAPO's Lisa de Moraes.
Literally written by a gay dude, standing next to a gaysian, who is next to a stripper, who is chatting with a feisty Whitney-in-her-prime black woman while I keep trying to get the lame VJ Otho to play Twisted Sister or anything else kickass.
Hilarious.
Welcome to the new, more fabulous face of conservatism.
Ace and Allahpundit are getting rolled by the homosexual pranksters
Both are accepting the WAPO line that the vote rigging is being perpetrated by Palin conservatives and are dismissing the whole foo-forah on the grounds that its just a popularity poll and "everybody does it." Indeed, these polls are actually set up to encourage multiple votes. That's part of how competition shows make their money, by taking commissions on the call-in votes. But over the years there have been a number of online-coordinated voting attacks aimed specifically at gaining a perverse result and these shenanigans are seriously annoying to the non-cynical viewers of these hugely popular shows.
Anyone remember Sanjaya Malakar, the effeminate semi-talent from American Idol 2007 who got alarmingly close to the final thanks in large part to a website called "Vote for the Worst"?
Lots of little girls apparently liked Sanjaya's puppy-dog manner and the way he fondled his luxurious locks, but it was outside groups--not actual fans of the show--that kept him in week after week. Undoubtedly the gays had a large role in that prank as well. Sanjaya is so overtly effeminate that he had to explain to People Magazine why everyone always thinks he is gay:
I got teased in school because people figured I must be gay because I understand women.Apparently he only has one wire crossed and just seems gay, which was plenty benough to make his prank-advancement irresistible to our aggressively transgressive homosexual activists.
If the pranksters had actually gotten Sanjaya into the final it would have been a complete debasement of the competition. This seems to be what has actually happened with Bristol Palin. No one should underestimate how annoying this is to actual fans of the show. They are watching to see a real competition and just when they get to the ball, Lucy pulls it away. The Washington Post is trying to direct the fallout to conservatives when its own evidence points to homosexual pranksters. Fans of the show need to be told where the evidence actually points, so that they can direct their ire accordingly.
How bad is Bristol?
I'm a ballroom dancer. I've been doing it for 15 years and have always had a special talent for leading. Give me a girl who has never danced before and if she has above average natural ability I can have her smoothly following intermediate level steps by the end of one song. If she has serious natural talent, she'll be flying in two.
The first time Bristol Palin took the floor it was completely obvious that she was a BAD beginner. NO natural talent. After a couple weeks of preparation she clomped through her dance like she was trudging through a swamp. "Oh no," I said to myself, "this is going to get gamed: the pranksters are going to keep her in for the humiliation value." With Bristol intentionally dressing up like her mother, this had disaster written all over it.
Bristol has made progress. She's worked at it to the point where she's managed to reach an average level of dancing. She's kept her head and her spirits up and thankfully has managed to remain oblivious to her own shortcomings. Good for her. But her reaching the final above the wonderfully talented Brandy is a travesty. Brandy would have made it a final for the ages. Now we are going to see Bristol Palin get absolutely crushed by the beautiful and talented Jennifer Grey. Then comes the worst part: waiting to see whether the pranksters are able to deliver the final perversion and cram a crown of thorns onto the undeserving Bristol Palin's head.
Help save the Palins by voting against Bristol
I've never voted on one of these shows, but I will next week. The only way to counter the pranksters is for Bristol Palin fans to vote for the best performance which, excluding a miracle, will mean voting NOT for Bristol Palin. Otherwise they are playing into the hands of these cynical homosexuals whose great desire is to pervert a heterosexual competition. Listen to kevindujan01's cynical flaming:
The judges want the woman claiming to be Jennifer Grey (but looks nothing like her) to win, with Scotch-on-the-Rocks as a close second (good thing the consolation prize isn’t a car).The guy's a total dirt-bag, justifying bad behavior with the most ludicrous snark. Jennifer Grey looks nothing like Jennifer Grey? Amazingly, she looks almost the same as she did when she played a 15 year old in Dirty Dancing, one of the great movies of all time. And "scotch on the rocks"? Brandy was a hundred times better in week one than Bristol Palin could EVER be.
Bristol can't even motivate herself to lose a few pounds for national television. It's ridiculous. She's out there waddling around with a 25 pound tummy. Sigh.
With the media primed to blame Sarah Palin supporters for a perverse result, the only way out for conservatives is to make sure the perverse result does not happen. Conservatives are not supposed to vote for semi-talented favorites in the first place. It is already an embarrassment to conservative principles that Palin fans helped her get this far. The only way to limit the damage is by voting at last for the better dancer.
Flamers and DADT
On the subject of flamers, this is why Don't Ask Don't Tell should not be repealed. Under DADT, homosexuals can serve in the military but they are not allowed to flame. End DADT and they will be allowed to flame. Merely being openly, suggestively, struttingly, fabulously, wrist bendingly, hip-pointingly, gaydar-explodingly homosexual is exactly what will no longer be off limits.
Anyone who thinks that is not going to damage unit-cohesiveness and recruiting isn't thinking at all. The heterosexual young men who make up the vast majority of recruits will continue to be deprived of female company, but now they will have to put up with gay-as-I-wanna-be drama queens. Each squad, platoon, company and battalion will be prone to develop its own "boytown" as Kevin Dujan calls his gay circuit, pushing as far towards civilian gay norms as the military will allow, and the ending of DADT means precisely that they will allow it.
Read Goodby Good Men, about the take-over of the American Catholic church hierarchy by a cabal of homosexual church haters, for an idea of what can happen, and that was on the sly. Just wait until open homosexuality is allowed.
Cat fighting. In-your-face come ons directed to gay and straight alike. Subtle serious come-ons. Where is it going to end? Nobody's thinking about that. Once the DADT line falls, there is no plan to replace it with any other line.
The transgressive-for-transgressive's sake culture of Dujan et al., debasing a simple dance competition just because doing so is "hilarious," will be just as corrosive to the military. Thirty percent of the military (40% of the Marines) already think it will be corrosive, and that's before they have seen the homosexual behavior that would be released. Give them a tour of the coming Boytown (the Pentagon poll only asked if having "an openly gay person in a unit" would be a problem, it didn't ask about the development of an openly gay subculture) and the percentage of objectors will increase dramatically, but by then it will be too late. Long built-up traditions and institutions can't just be blown up and then restored.
The answer is to make the corrosive homosexual behavior--the "out" behavior—off limits from the beginning. That is just what DADT does. We may have arrived at it through a bumbling political process, but it is actually well targeted.
BACON AMELIORATES EPILEPSY - IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN'T DO?
NYTIMES:
There is no crusade against unhealthful food in our house. Some might argue that unhealthful food is all we let Sam eat. His breakfast eggs are mixed with heavy cream and served with bacon. A typical lunch is full-fat Greek yogurt mixed with coconut oil. Dinner is hot dogs, bacon, macadamia nuts and cheese. We figure that in an average week, Sam consumes a quart and a third of heavy cream, nearly a stick and a half of butter, 13 teaspoons of coconut oil, 20 slices of bacon and 9 eggs. Sam’s diet is just shy of 90 percent fat. That is twice the fat content of a McDonald’s Happy Meal and about 25 percent more than the most fat-laden phase of the Atkins diet. It puts Sam at risk of developing if he doesn’t drink enough. It is constipating, so he has to take daily stool softeners. And it lacks so many essential nutrients that if Sam didn’t take a multivitamin and a -magnesium supplement every day, his growth would be stunted, his hair and teeth would fall out and his bones would become as brittle as an 80-year-old’s.
Evelyn, Sam’s twin sister Beatrice and I don’t eat this way. But Sam has , and the food he eats is controlling most of his (he used to have as many as 130 a day). The diet, which drastically reduces the amount of he takes in, tricks his body into a starvation state in which it burns fat, and not carbs, for fuel. Remarkably, and for reasons that are still unclear, this process — called ketosis — has an antiepileptic effect. He has been eating this way for almost two years.
WANNA BE HEALTHY? THEN EAT BACON. CHOCOLATE. COFFEE. AND DRINK BOOZE.
IOW: EVERYTHING THE NANNYSTATERS HAVE TOLD US ABOUT DIET - LIKE ALL THE CRAP THEY TELL US ABOUT AGW - IS WRONG.
3 Charged in Sharia Ponzi Scheme, Friends of Obama.
Muslims cheating muslims? Must be OK then!
More here.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE IN GHAILANI VERDICT
The Weekly Standard brings us the stupefying news that a jury in NYC has acquitted al Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Ghailani of 280 charges, convicting him of only one:
Even if Ghailani does serve a long prison term, it will not excuse the fact that he is guilty on his part in the murder of more than 200 people, and must be convicted of that as well. This is enough to raise the question of whether juries should even be used in major trials like these, if they could involve people unqualified for the job.
IMO, there should be a retrial of Ghailani to try and get him convicted properly on the charges he's guilty of besides the conspiracy to destroy government buildings, but there's no telling if it'll happen. What can be brought into discussion now, however, is whether the US judicial service should continue to rely on jury-bases systems when there's quite a few emperors out there who wear no clothes.
A New York jury delivered a stunning verdict Wednesday. Ahmed Ghailani, an al Qaeda terrorist who conspired to blow up American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, was acquitted of more than 280 charges, including one count of murder for each of the 224 people killed in the simultaneous attacks. The jury found Ghailani guilty of only one charge: conspiracy to destroy U.S. government buildings.So just what kind of jury was behind this idiotic verdict anyway? The same one that acquitted O.J. Simpson of murder in 1995, perhaps?
The Department of Justice, which moved Ghailani from Guantanamo to New York for the trial, says it is “pleased” with the outcome since Ghailani will face a minimum of 20 years in prison and possibly serve a life sentence.
It is difficult to square the DOJ’s rhetoric with the carnage that was unleashed in Africa more than a decade ago. The man who helped murder more than 200 civilians was acquitted of their murders even though he is obviously guilty.
Let’s review some of the evidence presented at Ghailani’s trial. According to CBS News, government prosecutors presented all of the following facts to the jury:
1. Ghailani and another al Qaeda operative “purchased the used refrigeration truck converted to a weapon of mass destruction in Tanzania.”
2. “Ghailani then obtained some of the oxygen and flammable acetylene gas tanks joined to the TNT to enhance the explosion.”
3. “Ghailani also stored electric detonators - one and a half inch, aluminum coated, PETN charged blasting caps -- in the armoire of his Dar es Salaam house. The FBI found one, along with clothing tainted with TNT residue.”
4. Ghailani gave the suicide bomber who blew himself up in Tanzania the cell phone he used in plotting the attack. The suicide bomber made calls from this phone both the night before, and the morning of, the attack.
5. The government produced “numerous witnesses” who “placed Ghailani in 1998 in the company of known al Qaeda operatives and embassy bombers, at [a] ‘safe house’ in coastal Mombasa, Kenya, at the house Ghailani shared in Dar es Salaam, and riding in utility vehicles the conspirators used to ferry supplies to their bomb making locations.”
CBS News explains that two of the men “seen with Ghailani” have already been convicted for their role in the embassy bombings and are “serving life sentences.”
6. “Ghailani fled Tanzania using a fake name and passport the day before the bombings” and “three senior al Qaeda leaders involved with the East Africa's cell were on Ghailani's flight to Karachi, Pakistan."
Even if Ghailani does serve a long prison term, it will not excuse the fact that he is guilty on his part in the murder of more than 200 people, and must be convicted of that as well. This is enough to raise the question of whether juries should even be used in major trials like these, if they could involve people unqualified for the job.
IMO, there should be a retrial of Ghailani to try and get him convicted properly on the charges he's guilty of besides the conspiracy to destroy government buildings, but there's no telling if it'll happen. What can be brought into discussion now, however, is whether the US judicial service should continue to rely on jury-bases systems when there's quite a few emperors out there who wear no clothes.
France Accuses Iranian Security of Committing "Unacceptable Acts of Violence" Against French Embassy Officials
From the BBC:
In the past, France has offered to help Iran with it's nuclear program. France has acted as a friend to Iran.
If Iranian Security attacks French Embassy diplomatic officials in this way, my guess is, Iran must have some evidence that France is colluding with Israel in monitoring Iran's nuke program.
Sounds like France has taken America's place as The Great Satan. It really says a lot about Obama's lack of resolve, when France becomes the enemy of the Mullahs.France has accused Iranian security services of committing "unacceptable acts of violence" on French diplomatic personnel in the Iranian capital.The entry to the French embassy residence in Tehran was blocked by unidentified officials on Sunday, said the French foreign ministry.
"[They] proceeded to arrest guests of the French ambassador and carried out unacceptable acts of violence against French diplomatic personnel," it said.
Iran has not commented on the claims.
Correspondents say the incident is the latest signal of ongoing tensions between France and Iran, partly strained by France's tough stand on Iran's nuclear program.
In the past, France has offered to help Iran with it's nuclear program. France has acted as a friend to Iran.
If Iranian Security attacks French Embassy diplomatic officials in this way, my guess is, Iran must have some evidence that France is colluding with Israel in monitoring Iran's nuke program.
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