OSAMA BIN LADEN ON THE MOVE?

From the Asia Times (hat tip to Weasel Zippers):

ISLAMABAD - After a prolonged lull, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has launched a series of covert operations in the rugged Hindu Kush mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan following strong tip-offs that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been criss-crossing the area in the past few weeks for high-profile meetings in militant redoubts.

[...]

Officials are said to be "stunned" by the visibility of Bin Laden's movements, and their frequency, in a matter of a few weeks in the outlawed terrain of Pakistan and Afghanistan, the most unprecedented reports about him since he evaded the US in the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan in 2001.

The development has fueled speculation in intelligence circles that al-Qaeda could be planning another major attack along the lines of the September 11, 2001, assault on New York and Washington, and the July 2007 foiled bomb attack in London.

However, extensive investigations by Asia Times Online, including exchanges within al-Qaeda's camps, point in another direction: given the nature of Bin Laden's meetings, this appears to be the beginning of a new era for a broader struggle in which al-Qaeda, through its Laskhar al-Zil (Shadow Army), will try to capitalize on the Arab revolts and the Palestinian struggle and also revitalize and redefine its role in Afghanistan....

More at the above link.

We shouldn't be surprised. See these two stories: Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links and 'Al-Qaeda snatched missiles' in Libya.

Yesterday, Obama stated that the mission in Libya is succeeding. What is his definition of success? The reactivation of Osama bin Laden's worldwide jihad?

AMAZING BIGFOOT VIDEO!?

HERE'S THE NEWEST VIDEO - FROM THE CAROLINAS...




HERE'S AN EARLIER SIGHTING IN ASHEVILLE... APRIL 24, 2010



HERE'S A CLOSE-UP:



BOTTOM-LINE: OBAMA'S SPENDING HAS BEEN TRULY SASQUATCHIAN.

“If we cut emissions today, global temperatures are not likely to drop for about a thousand years”: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS HOT AIR BY A DAY

HOT AIR TODAY.

TAB YESTERDAY.

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ISRAEL TO ABBAS: "CHOOSE PEACE WITH US OR PEACE WITH HAMAS; YOU CANNOT HAVE BOTH"

Israel will not deal with the Western-backed Palestinian Authority if it brings Hamas into the government, a senior Israeli official said Saturday night, a few hours after PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas met in Ramallah with a senior Hamas delegation for conciliation talks.

"Abbas has to choose whether he wants peace with Israel or peace with Hamas," the official said. "He can't have both. ..."

C'EST VRAI!

IN UNRELATED NEWS: Hamas military wing says it won't guarantee Abbas' safety in Gaza

Senior members of Hamas' military wing told aides of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that it would not guarantee the Fatah leader's safety if he visited the Gaza Strip, Haaretz has learned.

PA officials interpreted these statements as a threat to Abbas. As of last night, an Abbas trip to Gaza for reconciliation talks with Hamas has been dropped from the agenda.

DESPITE THE FACT THAT ABBAS IS SAFER IN ISRAEL THAN IN GAZA, HE WOULD WOULD RATHER FELLATE HAMAS THAN MAKE A DEAL WITH ISRAEL.

WHY? TWO REASONS:

(1) FOLLOW THE MONEY: FATAH WANTS A PIECE OF HAMAS'S HUGE EXTORTION RACKET.

AND MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, GAZA IS MERELY AN EXTORTION RACKET THE ISLAMO-FASCISTS RUN TO EXTORT MONEY FROM THE UN, THE EU AND THE USA.

NOT UNLIKE THAT RUN BY KIM JUNG IL IN THE KOREAN PENINSULA.

AND (2), ABBAS DOESN'T FEAR ISRAEL AS MUCH AS HE FEARS HAMAS AND IRAN AND HIZBALLAH AND THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.

ESPECIALLY WITH OBAMA IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

THERE WILL BE NO PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST UNTIL THE ISLAMO-FASCISTS IN TEHRAN ARE ERADICATED.

AND THAT WON'T HAPPEN WITH OBAMA IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

OBAMA SEEMS TO BE FINISHING THE JOB JIMMY CARTER STARTED:

CARTER LET KHOMEINI BACK INTO IRAN AND FORCED THE SHAH OUT - TURNING IRAN FROM A FRIEND OF THE WEST AND THE USA AND EGYPT AND ISRAEL INTO AN ENEMY OF THE WEST AND THE USA AND EGYPT AND ISRAEL.

IN TWO SHORT YEARS, OBAMA HAS TURNED LEBANON INTO AN ALLY OF IRAN, AND IS TURNING EGYPT AND JORDAN AND BAHRAIN INTO ALLIES OR IRAN, TOO. EVEN LIBYA.

OBAMA MIGHT AS WELL BE WORKING FOR IRAN AND GLOBAL JIHAD.

ALLEGEDLY UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR SLAMMING TERRORISTS

Melanie Phillips tells on Big Peace how some trumped up news arose that she was under investigation for her commentary on the jihadist savages who murdered the Fogel family, but it seems this was all phony news, for what reason I have no idea:

Next thing I knew was that the Guardian ran a story saying I was being investigated by the UK Press Complaints Commission, which had received two complaints about my remarks – and I had also been reported to the Bedfordshire police for racism.

This came as something of a surprise. If I was indeed being investigated, no-one had seen fit to tell me about it. Indeed, at time of writing I still have not heard whether either of these bodies is investigating these complaints at all. Stranger still was the involvement of the Bedfordshire police. I do not live in Bedfordshire, an area north of London. I have never had anything to do with the place. What could my remarks about the Itamar massacre possibly have to do with Bedfordshire?

A clue lay in the involvement in the Guardian story of a prominent British Muslim activist named Inayat Bunglawala. It was he who had reported me to the Bedfordshire police – and he lives in Bedfordshire.

It would appear that having taken exception to my blog, Bunglawala went to his local police force to complain about my views and expected them to take action against me as a result.

His complaint was that I had made a ‘generalised racist outburst against Arabs as a whole’. But this was ridiculous. I was obviously referring specifically to the perpetrators of the Itamar massacre and to the Palestinian Authority which incites such deeds Bunglawala claimed that if anyone had referred to the ‘moral depravity of the Jews’ and described them as being ‘savages’ they would face prosecution for racist hate speech.

Clearly, the Guardian wrote all this without even confirming that an investigation was really underway. This paper, of course, is one of the most vile apologists for Islamofascism, and we can't be too surprised they'd do this. But we shouldn't be surprised if Phillips were taken to court for her commentary either. This is Britain today, after all, and there's no telling if they'll abolish their libel tourism laws either, despite what was reported earlier.

A disgusting man indeed, this Bungalawa is, if he's going to try and suppress free speech about the causes for terrorism, which include his so-called religion. These type of people, along with the vicious media in the UK today, are just what'll bring it down.

SPRING!

In honor of spring (hat tip to Leslie), even though we're going through a last blast of winter here in the D.C. area this weekend, and never mind the final words on the videotape:


I have a yellow tiger kitty, so I admit that this video touched my heart in a special way.

A break from politics helps us to regain perspective.

"Iraq's Maliki Says Bahrain May Ignite Sectarian War"... AND THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS HIM BY 3 DAYS

• MALIKI IN THE NYTIMES TODAY.

• TAB 3 DAYS AGO.

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IMMELT'S SUPPORT FOR OBAMA REWARDED

MORE PROOF THAT OBAMA IS A BREZHNEV SOCIALIST.

THE RULES DON'T APPLY TO "PARTY MEMBERS."

Update:

JOINED AT THE HIP TO OBAMA, G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether.

UPDATE: Jeffrey Immelt: Looter, or Producer?

Posted at 12:21 pm by Glenn Reynolds

Yeah, we scooped him. WE SCOOPED HOT AIR, TOO:

Obama’s favorite CEO gets GE out from paying any US taxes

Mar 25, 2011 10:55 AM by Ed Morrissey

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Coincidences.

WE SCOOP ALL THE BIGGIES!

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MORE PROOF THE AGW HOCKEY STICK WAS FAKED

• MORE PROOF THE AGW ALARMISTS FABRICATED THE WHOLE DAMN THING - AND COMMITTED FRAUD.

• ALSO THIS: AGW ALARMIST ADMITS ALL CO2 REDUCTIONS REGIMENS ARE POINTLESS:

If we cut emissions today, global temperatures are not likely to drop for about a thousand years.

ERGO THERE IS NO REASON TO CUT CO2 EMISSIONS.

IOW: AGW = TFBS.

VICTIM OF BOMBING WAS SCOTTISH BIBLE TRANSLATOR

The UK Telegraph (via The Jawa Report) tells that Mary Jean Gardner, the women murdered by the terrorist bombing on Wednesday, was a bible translator from Scotland:

Mary Jean Gardner, 55, was caught in the bomb blast at the central bus station in Jerusalem.

She was the only person to die in the attack which left up to 30 others wounded.

Miss Gardner, who was a well-regarded Bible translator, came to Israel at the beginning of the year to study Hebrew and took courses at Hebrew University.

She had come to Israel to hone her Hebrew skills before embarking on a translation of the Old Testament into Ife, one of the languages spoken in Togo, West Africa[...]

Mrs Ronning said students were taken from and to the Hebrew University by bus every day for their own security, but that Miss Gardner had a day off and had gone into town to meet an Irish friend who had just arrived in the city with a tour group. Miss Gardner was heading to a restaurant to meet her friend and happened to be passing the bus stop on foot when the bomb exploded.

Our condolences must go to her and her family.

MORE CORRUPT CRONYISM FROM OBAMA: GORELICK ON SHORT LIST FOR DFBI

THIS IS INSANE: SHE'S A CROOK.

TRUMP TO OBAMA: "SHOW ME THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE!"

THE DONALD THINKS THERE IS A BIRTH CERTIFICATE BUT THAT IT HAS SOMETHING ON IT THAT OBAMA WANTS TO KEEP A SECRET.

Liz Taylor 's Uncensored Soap Opera Bloopers

1981:

ASSAD BLINKS

• Thousands of Syrians chanted "freedom, revolution" in the centre of the city of Daraa on Thursday despite a pledge by President Bashar al-Assad to consider reforms to Syria's authoritarian political system.

• Syrian president offers reforms as death toll over 100:

The Syria government said on Thursday it may abolish an emergency law in place since 1963 following a week of deadly protests in the southern city of Daraa. Unofficial reports say some 100 people were killed in the riots.

"I am happy to announce to you the decisions made today by the Arab Baath party under the auspices of President Bashar al-Assad... which include... studying the possibility of lifting the emergency law and licensing political parties," the president's media adviser Buthaina Shaaban told a news conference.

Additionally, Al-Assad issued a decree on Thursday raising state employees' wages by 20 to 30 percent, state news agency SANA reported.

IT WOULD BE BETTER IF THEY OVERTHREW ASSAD AND INSTALLED A GOVERNMENT ORIENTED AWAY FROM IRAN AND THE SHIAS.

STAY TUNED...

UPDATE: SHOCKING VIDEO OF ASSAD'S THUG'S FIRING AT UNARMED SYRIANS.

TERROR ATTACKS MAKE ISRAELI HOSPITALS CRUCIAL

This article and video inside talk about why terrorist attacks make it important that all hospitals in Jerusalem be fully functioning to help aid victims of these barbaric acts.

UNBELIEVABLE NEW IMAGE OF THE CENTER OF THE MILKY WAY

CLICK TO EMBIGGEMMIT:






MORE HERE.

OBAMANOMICS STRIKES AGAIN: NEW HOUSING SALES CRASH

WASH POST/AP: U.S. new-home sales unexpectedly fall to lowest on record

Purchases of new U.S. homes unexpectedly declined in February to the slowest pace on record. March 23 (Bloomberg) -- Purchases of new U.S. homes unexpectedly declined in February to the slowest pace on record and prices dropped to the lowest level since December 2003, adding to evidence the industry is floundering.

WE TOLD YOU SO!

OBAMA'S POLICIES HAVE MADE A BAD SITUATION WORSE.

THE ONLY CURE IS A DRASTIC CHANGE IN COURSE.

EITHER THE GOP HOUSE TAKES CONTROL OR THE NATION - AND EVEN THE WORLD'S ECONOMY - WILL DOUBLE DIP,

AND THIS TIME (WITH MIDDLE EAST UNREST AND JAPAN'S ECONOMY SET TO DECLINE PERMANENTLY) THE STOCK MARKETS WON'T REBOUND SO FAST.

PALIN WEARS A STAR OF DAVID

The Atlantic's Garance Franke-Ruta writes about Sarah Palin wearing a Magen David necklace during her trip to Israel, but not in a very flattering tone. They say:

The Star of David or Magen David is a symbol associated with Jewish texts far back as the 11th century and has been used by European Jews to symbolize their faith since the 17th century. As Zionism developed as a European philosophy, the Star of David came to represent the movement and later became the defining symbol on the flag of the state of Israel. In contemporary urban America, wearing a Star of David on a chain generally marks the wearer as Jewish.

So what was the most decidedly not-Jewish Palin doing wearing one in Israel? Not appealing to American Jews -- that's for sure. Most American Jews, being Democrats, can't stand her. And one visit to Israel, a nation many American Jews have mixed feelings toward, anyway, isn't going to change that.

Rather, by wearing the Star of David, Palin was reaching out to American evangelical Christians -- and also being one herself.

According to David Brog, the (Jewish) executive director of Christians United for Israel, "it is increasingly common" for evangelical Christian supporters of Israel -- who follow a fairly common Israel-centric strain of American biblical interpretation -- to wear Stars of David as symbols of solidarity with the Jewish state.

"A lot of the folks in my organization, they wear Stars of David," he noted. "Mainly the women."

That's certainly amazing to learn, but did it ever occur to Franke-Ruta that even some Israelis could be flattered by the sight? And why shouldn't it make some residents with USA citizenship ponder voting for her if she runs for the Senate? Franke-Ruta doesn't seem to have considered that idea.

Incidentally, if we were to make a pop culture reference here, Palin's wearing a Star of David even though she's not of Jewish descent herself isn't new: those with long memories of the 1980s may recall that Mr. T wore a Star of David necklace with all that other jewelry in The A-Team, alongside a Christian cross, and despite the badass image he sported at the time, he's known to be a devoted Christian (side note: I've seen all 97 episodes of the A-Team, including the guest role by a young Tia Carrere).

GLENN BECK DISCUSSES ITAMAR BLOODBATH

A relative recommended I post this video of Beck's report on the horrifying murder. At the end, he astutely observes that "evil is growing rapidly."

As today's terrorist bombing shows, that is sadly correct.

Update: I received the following condemnation of the bombing in the email from B'nai Brith Canada:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TORONTO, March 23, 2011:

B'nai Brith Canada strongly condemns the terrorist bombing in the heart of the city of Jerusalem, Israel. As details emerge, the organization calls on the international community to echo this condemnation in the strongest of terms.

"The timing of the bombing clearly suggests that this was a thinly veiled attempt by Islamists to try to refocus the international community on Israel and away from the brutal attempts by Libya and Arab regimes to quell the struggle for democracy in the Middle East and Northern Africa," noted Frank Dimant, CEO of B'nai Brith Canada.

"While Israelis continue to face daily threats to their safety, this gruesome bombing is shocking as it comes after a lag of many years without any such attack in Jerusalem and just days after the slaughter in Itamar. Our deepest sympathies and ongoing support go out today to those families dealing most directly with the aftermath of this tragedy."

Our thanks in return should go to B'nai Brith for speaking out.

BREAKING: 25 injured, 4 seriously in J'lem bus explosion

25 injured, 4 seriously in J'lem bus explosion

MDA says none dead; Police estimate that package at exploded next to Egged bus 74 outside Binyanei Ha'uma in central Jerusalem; Netanyahu delaying departure to Moscow.

THEY WANT WAR. LET'S GIVE IT TO THEM.

LIZ TAYLOR RIP

Film Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79

She died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been hospitalized for about six weeks, publicist Sally Morrison said.

"All her children were with her," Morrison said.

GOOD BOOK HERE.

CHAVEZ BLAMES CAPITALISM FOR LIFELESSNESS OF MARS

Capitalism may be to blame for the lack of life on the planet Mars, Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday.

"I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet," Chavez said in speech to mark World Water Day.

Chavez, who also holds capitalism responsible for many of the world's problems, warned that water supplies on Earth were drying up.

OY.