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U.S. Seeks to Question Bin Laden’s Widows
Thomas E. Donilon, the White House national security adviser, wants Pakistan to grant access to the three women. Above, Pakistanis protested Bin Laden’s killing.
THEN WHY DIDN'T THEY TAKE HER WITH THEM INSTEAD OF LEAVING HERE!?!?
SOUNDS LIKE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION BLEW IT ON THIS, TOO.
Bin Laden Given Religious Funeral Prior to Sea BurialI WISH!
Published May 02, 2011
Osama bin Laden was given a religious funeral prior to his burial at sea, senior military officials told Fox News.
Religious rites were conducted on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier at about 1:10 a.m. Monday in the Persian Gulf.
In accordance with Islamic practice, bin Laden was washed and wrapped In a white sheet before buried at sea at 2 a.m. local time, senior U.S. military and intelligence officials said.
Then, "In accordance with common US Navy SEAL practice, the Team pissed on him, stuck a pulled pork sandwich in his mouth and a kosher hot dog up his ass, and pushed the Mother Fucker overboard with the other garbage," a senior SEAL officer said.
The radical Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir organized a demonstration yesterday in Amsterdam to support the protesters in Syria. In an unusual move, the organizers separated male and female demonstrators, in accordance with strict Islamic law.
If there were any doubt that the Salafist groups were involved in the “Arab Spring” uprisings, yesterday’s event would remove them. Hizb ut-Tahrir’s support for the Syrian protesters indicates a substantial Salafist presence among the regime’s opponents.
Our Dutch correspondent Bolleke has compiled a report on what happened yesterday in Amsterdam.
In response to the report, Frank van Dalen, member of the city council of Amsterdam for the VVD, said:Read the rest here:
"That could be so. But if these people were to do the same as what they did in our free country now in Syria and quite a few other countries, the result would not be this column, but a bullet in their heads.
It is an effrontery to preach what they preached, and to measure up the West as they did and at the same time taunting our freedom, our values of equal rights, as they did.
The ribbons of the garlands of commemoration day fluttered gaily in the wind in the face of this bizarre demonstration."
"Navy Military Funerals, (pp. 34-35)" a protocol developed by the Navy, describes in explicit detail what transpires during a Muslim sea burial:The body must have been washed and wrapped "as required for the bodies of Muslims," which refers to ceremonial cleanings that must be done by another Muslim. Those who have gathered to pray at the burial -- ostensibly crewmembers since family is not allowed at sea burials -- must face Mecca.
But the most shocking details Green has uncovered concern the formal funeral prayers which must be uttered -- as specified by the Navy -- during the segment of the burial ceremony in which supplication for the Muslim decedent is made. The requisite prayer includes the following statements:"O Allah, forgive him, have mercy on him, pardon him, grant him security, provide him a nice place and spacious lodgings, wash him (off from his sins) with water, snow and ice, purify him from his sins as a white garment is cleansed from dirt, replace his present abode with a better one, replace his present family with a better one, replace his present partner with a better one, make him enter paradise and save him from the trials of grave [sic] and the punishment of hell."
I HOPE JUDICIAL WATCH SUES THE D.O.D. AND GETS WHATEVER WAS SAID OVER OSAMA'S CORPSE REVEALED.There is more than ample reason that the Navy Military Funerals protocol was indeed followed -- a logical inference, which at any rate should be confirmed or denied by release of the reported video footage of Bin Laden's "ceremonial burial" -- because as Anneke Green notes:According to the Pentagon, "prepared religious remarks" were read at bin Laden's funeral, but when asked whether his burial was performed according to Navy Military Funeral protocol, they had "no additional operational details or comments to make." Mr. Brennan, however, in his Monday briefing on the bin Laden operation, reassured reporters that, "Burial at sea takes place on a regular basis. The U.S. military has the ability to ensure that that burial is done in a manner that is, again, consistent with Islamic law, as well as consistent with what the requirements are for a burial at sea. And so that burial was done appropriately."
The grotesque dhimmitude in these apparent details -- so destructive of our nation's soul, in accord with the fundamental goal of Islamic supremacism -- defies speech, and demands a thorough public airing for all Americans, first and foremost those whose family members were slaughtered during the 9/11/2001 acts of jihad terrorism.
Thomas Lifson adds:
Since the Navy is likely to be reluctant to go into details, and Obama administration officials equally reticent about the specifics, a House investigation is called for into the funeral rites performed over and honors accorded America's worst enemy of the century.
The clashes - in the suburb of Imbaba - came after Muslims attacked a church to free a Christian woman, witnesses said.
They alleged she was being held against her will because she wanted to convert to Islam.
Soldiers and police, backed by tanks, fired guns and tear gas to separate the groups, according to reports.
Eyewitnesses said some 500 conservative Muslims - known as Salafists - gathered at the Coptic Saint Mena Church in the northwestern Cairo suburb demanding to take custody of the woman.
Deteriorating relations
Shouts were exchanged between church guards, people living near the church and the protesters, which developed into a fully-fledged confrontation during which the two sides exchanged gunfire, firebombs and stones.
"I just left one young man dead inside the church," one man, a Christian, was quoted as telling Reuters journalists.
A parish priest, Father Hermina, told the AFP news agency that the group had attempted to storm the church earlier in the day.
But one Muslim protester told the news agency that they had first been fired upon by the Copts.
"They started firing on us. We were peaceful," said the man, who gave his name as Mamduh. "We won't leave until they give up their weapons and the people who killed us are tried."
Relations between Egypt's Sunni Muslim majority and Coptic Christians - who account for about 10% of the population - have deteriorated in recent years.
THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING.
I THINK WHAT GOING TO GO DOWN IN EGYPT MAY VERY WELL BE ON PAR WITH THE WORST PURGES IN HISTORY, IF NOT... A HOLOCAUST.
Clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Egyptian capital Cairo left six people dead and about 50 others injured, the health ministry said.The two groups clashed in the northwestern district of Imbaba on Saturday after Muslims attacked the Coptic Saint Mena church to free a Christian woman they alleged was being held against her will because she wanted to convert to Islam.
A parish priest, Father Hermina, told AFP the dead were Copts who died when "thugs and (Muslim fundamentalist) Salafis fired at them" in the late afternoon attack.
The Gospel had been laid on a body wrapped in a sheet that was lying inside the church. The church floor was bloodstained as wounded Christians were brought into the church for treatment.
Outside the church, located in the poor working-class neighbourhood of Imbaba, military police parked several armoured cars to block off Muslim protesters from the church.
STAY TUNED...
GEE... I WONDER IF THE ARAB LEAGUE WILL GO TO THE UNSCR TO ASK FOR AN INTERVENTION TO PREVENT VIOLENCE TO EGYPT'S CHRISTIANS!?
UPDATE #2: BBC: (MORE VIDEO AT LINK):
More than 190 people detained after fatal clashes between Muslims and Christians in Cairo are to face military trials, Egypt's army says.
The ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces called the move a "deterrent" against further violence.
Earlier the prime minister postponed a visit to the Gulf in order to hold an emergency cabinet meeting.
At least 10 people have died and 186 wounded during the overnight clashes in Cairo's Imbaba district.
... This is not the first outbreak of communal violence since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in February following weeks of popular protests.
In March, 13 people died in similar clashes in another neighbourhood. Last month, demonstrators in the southern city of Qena cut all transport links with Cairo for a week in protest over the appointment of a Christian governor.
The clashes - coming as the military government leads a faltering transition to democracy - are a worrying development for Egypt, the BBC's Jonathan Head in Cairo says.
Salafist groups - who have made similar claims about women being held against their will before - have become more assertive in the post-Mubarak era, he adds.
Coptic Christians account for about 10% of Egypt's population, and have long complained of state discrimination against them.
Now they are expressing fears for their safety if hardline Muslims do well in the election scheduled for September, our correspondent reports.
ANY NEW REGIME IN EGYPT IS LIKELY TO BE MORE TOLERANT OF "SALAFISM" AND THIS WILL MAKE EGYPT LESS TOLERANT.
THANKS OBAMA!
(YES: IMHO, MUBARAK WASN'T TOO HARSH ON THE SALAFISTS AND MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD; HE WAS TOO WEAK.
IF WE TRULY WANT GLOBAL PEACE AND UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD, THEN AS GERMANY ERASED NAZISM AFTER WW2, SO MUST ISLAMISM BE ERASED FROM THE ENTIRE GLOBE.)
The death toll from a sectarian clash over the alleged conversion of an Egyptian Christian woman to Islam rose to 12 on Sunday as the country's prime minister called an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss the violence.UPDATE #4 : TWO CHURCHES BURNED!
Witnesses said around 500 conservative Islamists known as Salafists massed outside the Saint Mina Church in the Cairo suburb of Imbaba on Saturday demanding that Christians hand over a woman they said had converted to Islam.
Following the emergency meeting, Egypt's government announced that it will step up security at religious sites and toughen laws that criminalize attacks on houses of worship.
Justice Minister Mohamed el-Guindy said the cabinet decided to activate laws dealing with terrorism, give police the resources they need to prevent inter-faith clashes and ensure those who vandalize houses of worship are severely punished.
Tafazal Mohammad was described as an "individual of interest" by MI5 in 2001 when he attended a training camp with the bombings' ringleader, Mohammed Sidique Khan.
Despite a host of links with the suicide attackers, Mohammad now promotes himself as a "professionally qualified youth and community worker" and has been paid thousands of pounds by organisations including the Metropolitan Police and Chester University.
His company, Muslim Youth Skills, charges up to £115 a head for its courses to "engage and empower hard-to-reach and marginalised groups".
The Bradford-based firm says its courses, many of which are led by Mohammad, are designed for police community support officers, social workers, advisers from the government-run Connexions service for teenagers and youth workers.
Mohammad's employment by the Metropolitan Police and other public bodies will now raise serious questions about how experts are vetted.
Gaddafi's air force have bombed oil tanks in Misrata, causing fires which spread to another 4 sites. The news was reported by the insurgents's spokesman, Ahemd Hassan, who claimed the target of attacks to have been Qasr Ahmed, close to Sirte (currently under siege). . .Others claim it was a rocket attack:
struck the fuel terminal of this rebel-controlled city early Saturday with ground-to-ground rockets, igniting a fire that threatened the city’s fuel supply.The main oil storage facility in Misurata burned on Saturday after a missile strike by pro-Qaddafi forces.
The barrage struck shortly after midnight, when rockets began landing and exploding in several areas of the terminal, officials there said.
At least one rocket hit a set of three mammoth tanks, which ruptured and burst into a fireball. The fire settled into a leaping blaze that towered overheard, visible for miles. Its glow illuminated the eastern section of the city throughout the night. Residents woke to a thick, drifting cloud of black smoke.
The attack on the terminal was another escalation against the besieged city, and the second pinpoint attack by Colonel Qaddafi’s forces in two nights.
Residents woke Friday to the news that Misurata’s port, its only lifeline to the outside world, had been peppered with antitank land mines.
TRIPOLI: Libyan government forces bombed large fuel storage tanks in the contested western city of Misrata, destroying the tanks and sparking a huge fire, rebels said Saturday.
The bombardment came as artillery rounds fired by forces loyal to Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi fell in Tunisia in an escalation of fighting near the border between Libyan soldiers and anti-Gadhafi rebels.
Misrata is the last remaining city in the west under rebel control. The port city has been under siege for more than two months and has witnessed some of the war’s fiercest fighting between loyalists and rebels.
Rebels gave varying accounts of the Misrata bombardment but said the overnight attack, which hit fuel used for export as well as domestic consumption, came as a blow to their ability to withstand the siege.
“Four [fuel] tanks were totally destroyed and huge fire erupted which spread now to the other four. We cannot extinguish it because we do not have the right tools,” rebel spokesman Ahmad Hassan told Reuters.
“Now the city will face a major problem. Those were the only sources of fuel for the city. These tanks could have kept the city for three months with enough fuel,” he said by telephone.
WHILE OBAMA IS SASHAYING AROUND GLOATING AND TAKING CREDIT FOR KILLING OSAMA, GADDAFI IS KICKING ASS - AND ASSAD IS PUTTING DOWN HIS REBELLION.
THAT'S WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU TAKE YOUR EYE OFF THE BALL.
UNLESS THESE SETBACKS AREN'T BUGS, BUT FEATURES OF OBAMA'S MIDDLE EAST POLICY.
TAKE YOUR PICK: AS PANETTA SAID ABOUT PAKISTAN: OBAMA IS EITHER INCOMPETENCE OR INVOLVED.
A disgraced Conservative council candidate has made a public apology for calling girls in Thanet "sluts" on Facebook.Payam Tamiz, who is a candidate in Salmestone ward in Margate, was forced to resign from his party after postings he made on the social networking site.
Mr Tamiz said he now wanted to move on and put his "poor judgement" behind him."I understand my Facebook remarks were inappropriate and unacceptable and I unreservedly apologise for the offence I have caused."
The comments by the 21-year-old graduate, who is studying to be a solicitor, are highly offensive to women. One referred to women as sluts.
Mr Tamiz was also a member of the Facebook group called "Girls in Thanet...you are all slags, hoes, brasses and bheads."
His postings have now been deleted but it is understood party chiefs considered them highly insulting and inappropriate.
On his Facebook profile, he stated: "I can come across as blunt and rude but that's just me!"
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The agreement between Fatah and Hamas marks the end of a long period of cooperation and negotiation between Israelis and Palestinians.OBAMA'S DESIRE TO APPEASE THE ARABS BACKFIRED. OBAMA HAS INCREASED THE LIKELIHOOD OF WAR.
... As to the meaning of all this for the “peace process,” well…..there is no more “peace process.” Abbas has given up on it, just as he has given up on President Obama.
He recently commented to Newsweek that “It was Obama who suggested a full settlement freeze. I said OK, I accept. We both went up the tree. After that, he came down with a ladder and he removed the ladder and said to me, jump. Three times he did it.”
Abbas is turning instead to internal politics, and his message to us is “Go away and leave me alone. I am finished with peace negotiations for now.”
Russia's Ambassador to Beirut Alexander Zasypkin called for non-interference in Syria's internal affairs, stressing Russia's rejection of any resolutions that include sanctions against Syria because they will be counterproductive and hinder finding solutions.OBAMA IS OBLIGING THE RUSSIANS AND SCREWING THE SYRIANS AND MISSING A HUGE CHANCE TO DAMAGE IRAN'S HEGEMONY IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
The ambassador's remarks came in a statement on Saturday after meeting Lebanese care-taker Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ali al-Shami.
Zasypkin said his country stands against interference in the internal affairs of countries and supports internal dialogue that comes up with solutions to problems in the Arab countries.
Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked rebels vowed Saturday to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden and said his death would not hurt their fight to topple the country’s Western-backed government.
Analysts have said bin Laden’s death is unlikely to dampen the insurgency waged by Somalia’s Al-Shabaab militants, who are regrouping amid infighting among the country’s politicians after a recent government offensive.
After news broke of bin Laden’s death in Pakistan some Al-Shabaab combatants in the Somali capital Mogadishu wore white as a sign of grief, residents said.
“We shall redouble our jihad and we shall overpower our enemies. Osama is not the first martyr, may God rest his soul,” Al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage told reporters Saturday.
THESE SOMALI MUSLIM SCUMBUCKETS SHOULD HAVE BEEN WIPED OFF THE MAP YEARS AGO FOR THEIR ISLAMO-PIRACY.
INSTEAD, WE NOW HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEM ATTACKING US HERE OR OUR INTERESTS AND ALLIES OVERSEAS.
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR A DECADE OF APPEASING JIHADISTS AND HALF-ASSED HALF-MEASURES IN WAR.
FDR AND TRUMAN WOULD'VE NEVER COUNTER-ATTACKED AS WEAKLY AS BUSH DID AFTER 9/11.
CASE IN POINT: BUSH'S WEAK ACTIONS IN 2007:
REPEAT:Before Sunday, the last time an American president thought he had Osama bin Laden in his sights was the late summer of 2007.
But just as the half dozen B-2 Stealth bombers were halfway on the 3,000-mile flight to their target, commanders ordered them to return to their secret base in the Indian Ocean, because of doubts about the intelligence on Bin Laden and concerns about civilian casualties from the bombs.
Al Qaeda and Taliban commanders, terrorist volunteers and insurgent foot soldiers would be meeting in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan, a stream of intelligence reports showed. And there were hints that Bin Laden himself might travel from his hiding place in Pakistan to rally militants training for large-scale suicide attacks in Europe or the United States.
"We thought we had 'No. 1' on this side of the border," said a senior American military officer involved in planning the operation. "It was the best intelligence we'd had on him in a long time."
The military set into motion one of the largest strike missions of its kind, with long-range bombers, attack helicopters, artillery and commandos all ready to pummel the rugged mountain valley along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, according to military officers and former government officials.
An intriguing new hypothesis suggests some black holes could have formed before the formation of our universe.The work by Professor Bernard Carr from Queen Mary University in London and Professor Alan Coley from Canada's Dalhousie University, examines a cosmology in which the universe goes through cycles of birth and death.
According to their work published on the pre-press website arXiv.org, some black holes could be remnants of a previous universe that collapsed in a big crunch and was then reborn in the big bang - 13.7 billion years ago.
Called primordial black holes, they would be formed in the hyper dense conditions existing in the moments after the big bang. That makes them even more exotic than other black holes formed from the collapse of massive stars or at the centre of galaxies.
Carr and Coley say if the universe expands and contracts in cycles of big bangs and big crunches, some primordial black holes may survive.
HMMM...
IF BLACK HOLES CAN BE VIRTUALLY ETERNAL, THEN WHY NOT G-D?
If killing bin Laden is a crime, then so is awarding any medal for anything occurring during war-time.A Hamburg judge has filed a criminal complaint against Chancellor Angela Merkel for "endorsing a crime" after she stated she was "glad" that Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces. Meanwhile a new poll reveals that a majority of Germans do not see the terrorist's death as a reason to celebrate...
... “I am a law-abiding citizen and as a judge, sworn to justice and law,” the 54-year-old told the paper, adding that Merkel’s words were “tacky and undignified.”
In his two-page document, Uthmann, a judge for 21 years, cites section 140 of the German Criminal Code, which forbids the “rewarding and approving” of crimes. In this case, Merkel endorsed a “homicide,” Uthmann claimed. The violation is punishable by up to three years’ imprisonment or a fine.
To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States.FACT: bin Laden was part of the 9/11 attacks, ergo he was a legal target of the USA and by extension NATO.
Whereas, on September 11, 2001, acts of treacherous violence were committed against the United States and its citizens; and
Whereas, such acts render it both necessary and appropriate that the United States exercise its rights to self-defense and to protect United States citizens both at home and abroad; and
Whereas, in light of the threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by these grave acts of violence; and
Whereas, such acts continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States; and
Whereas, the President has authority under the Constitution to take action to deter and prevent acts of international terrorism against the United States: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This joint resolution may be cited as the `Authorization for Use of Military Force'.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES.
(a) IN GENERAL- That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.
