WIKILEAKS DOCUMENT REVEALS DUBYA ADMINISTRATION APPROVED OF SPYING ON ISRAEL

While this may not be new - for all we know, the Clinton administration probably did the same - it's still very astonishing. Here's a rundown of what's been gleaned:

The WikiLeaks website last week leaked a secret State Department cable from October 31, 2008, directing United States officials to spy on Israel. The cable, dated only days before the 2008 American presidential elections, was signed by then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

The recently leaked cable reveals former U.S. President George W. Bush’s foreign policy czar instructing American diplomats in Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, as well as the Defense Intelligence Agency and the CIA, to conduct a massive espionage operation against the Jewish state. The sought-for information covered all aspects of Israel’s political system, society, communications infrastructures and the Israel Defense Forces.

Regarding the IDF, US diplomats and spies were instructed to gather intelligence on planned Israeli military operations against the American-backed Palestinian Authority, Syria and Lebanon.

American agents were also asked to probe the attitudes of Israeli military commanders and to gather information on “IDF units, equipment, maintenance levels, training, morale, and operational readiness[;] IDF tactics, techniques and procedures for conducting conventional and unconventional counterinsurgency and counterterrorist operations[; and] Israeli assessment of the impact of reserve duty in the territories on IDF readiness.”

As for political leaders, Rice instructed diplomats and spies to provide detailed information about government plans, potential ways Washington can influence politicians, how politicians decide to launch military strikes, the attitudes of Israeli leaders towards the U.S. and more.

Rice also sought information about various aspects of Israeli society. She instructed diplomats and spies to gather details on everything from “Information on and motivations for any increased Israeli population emigration from Israel” to detailed information on Israeli residents of Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights.

Regarding residents of the Golan, Samaria and Judea, collectively labeled by Rice as “settlers,” the cable requested information on “Divisions among various settlement groups[;] details on settlement-related budgets and subsidies[;] settlers’ relationships with the Israeli political and military establishment including their lobbying and settlement methods.”

Bush’s secretary of state expressed deep interest in all details related to Israel’s military and nonmilitary communications infrastructure. For instance, she directed American officials to gather information on “Current specifications, vulnerabilities, capabilities, and planned upgrades to national telecommunications infrastructure, networks, and technologies used by government and military authorities, intelligence and security services, and the public sector.”

Perhaps most interesting, Rice requested personal data on Israeli leaders, asking for “official and personal phone numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses of principal civilian and military leaders.”

Rice's secret orders also included espionage against the American-backed PA and its rival Hamas. The cable requested "biographical, financial and biometric information on key PA and Hamas leaders and representatives, to include the young guard inside Gaza, the West Bank and outside."

It is not presently known whether or how the information gathered on Rice's orders was put to use by the U.S. or if the espionage efforts against Israel put in place by the Bush administration are still in effect under President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Can there be any real difference then between Dubya's government and the senior Bush, or between Condi Rice and her predecessor James Baker? I don't think so. This is absolutely ludicrous. Caroline Glick writes more about this as well as the false charges that were leveled against 2 AIPAC officials:

Two documents reported on this week shed a troubling light on the US government's attitude toward Israel. The first is a 27-page FBI search warrant affidavit from 2004 targeting then senior AIPAC lobbyist Steve Rosen, published Wednesday in the Washington Times. The second is WikiLeaks leaked secret State Department cable from October 2008 signed by then secretary of state Condoleezza Rice directing US officials to spy on Israel. Both indicate that in certain quarters of the American government Israel is viewed as at best a banana republic and at worst an enemy of the US.

The text of the FBI affidavit directed against Rosen makes clear that the FBI had no particular reason to suspect that he was an Israeli agent or was harming US national security. Rosen's activities during his tenure as AIPAC's senior lobbyist as described in the affidavit -- meeting with government officials, journalists and Israeli diplomats -- were precisely the type of activities that lobbyists in Washington routinely engage in. Despite this the FBI followed Rosen for five years and indicted him and his AIPAC colleague Keith Weissman on felony charges under the all but forgotten 1917 Espionage Act. The FBI probe and subsequent trial harmed AIPAC's reputation, destroyed both men's careers, and did untold damage to the reputation of both the State of Israel and its American Jewish supporters. That it took five years for the Justice Department to drop these outrageous charges is a testament to the strength of the FBI's commitment to criminalizing American Jewish advocates of a strong US-Israel alliance.

And then there is Rice's secret cable. Just days before the 2008 presidential elections, the Secretary of State instructed US diplomats in Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia as well as the DIA and the CIA to conduct a massive espionage operation against Israel. The sought for information covered all aspects of Israel's political system, society, communications infrastructures and the IDF.

[...]

Taken side by side, the first striking aspect of the US's fabricated Israeli spy scandal on the one hand and its massive espionage operation against Israel on the other hand is the shocking hypocrisy of it all.

But hypocrisy isn't the real issue. The real issue exposed by the documents is that the US is carrying out a deeply hostile policy against Israel in the face of massive public support for Israel in the US. That is, whereas two thirds of Americans support Israel, a minority constituency in the US government treats Israel with scorn and hatred. And the question that arises from this is how is this minority able to get away with it? Part of the answer was exposed this week in the aftermath of Defense Minister Ehud Barak's move on Monday morning to break ranks with the Labor Party. To understand how the two issues are related it is important to understand the plight of Labor since the demise of the peace process with the PLO in 2000.

You can read the whole article, which tells how Tzipi Livni has replaced Barak as the American government's favorite politician, but for now, what can be said is that this does considerable damage to the reputation of some so-called conservatives, and tells why even the tea parties are going to have to campaign for better governmental policy.

Juniper in the Desert: “I Don’t Care About the Law”

Video stills of islamic threatener.

Juniper in the Desert: “I Don’t Care About the Law”

TURKEL COMMITTEE CLEARS ISRAEL IN FLOTILLA CASE

The Turkel committee, set up to investigate how Israel dealt with the Turkish flotilla fiends, has concluded that the IDF acted properly:

The four Israeli members and two international observers who composed the Turkel Commission to investigate the flotilla incident on May 31 unanimously agreed that Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip and its overland import restrictions, as well as its military actions in capturing the Mavi Marmara were in accordance with international law.

According to the concluding remarks of the committee members and international observers, "The naval blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip – in view of the security circumstances and Israel's efforts to comply with its humanitarian obligations – was legal pursuant to the rules of international law. The actions carried out by Israel on May 31, 2010, to enforce the naval blockade had the regrettable consequences of the loss of human life and physical injuries. Nonetheless, and despite the limited number of uses of force for which we could not reach a conclusion, the actions taken were found to be legal pursuant to the rules of international law."

Here's also a witness account by a soldier who was attacked, and a video report here.

If there's anyone who's not impressed with the findings, it's none other than Turkish premier Tayyip Erdogan:

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday dismissed the Turkel Committee's findings defending the actions of IDF troops in the interception of a Turkish-led protest flotilla to Gaza last year.

Erdogan told reporters in Ankara that the report had "no value or credibility."

Well gee, he's already brought his anti-Israel standings to the fore. This shouldn't surprise anyone.

Update: more on the case at the Turkel site (via IsraeliGirl).

ROLAND SHIRK: MUSLIM CAST MEMBER IN BATMAN BETRAYS THE SPIRIT OF THE MASKED MANHUNTER

Roland Shirk, a fairly new contributor to Jihad Watch, writes about DC's recent PC-capitulation in Batman Inc, and makes some good points about how this is a casualty of leftism:

Whenever a pop culture institution makes a concession to the cultural Left, it is invariably and shamelessly trumpeted in the media as a sign of "progress" toward "inclusiveness" and "tolerance." The creation of The 99, a team of Muslim superheroes embodying attributes of the 99 names of Allah, by Dutch comic publisher Endemol, was lauded by no less than the Times of London for "counter[ing] the effects of jihadist agitprop on Muslim minds." (If a comic book series could indeed cancel out the Qur'anic injunctions to oppress unbelievers, I would be lauding it myself--indeed, I'd happily be passing out copies in Arab neighborhoods.)

So it's acceptable to take seriously comic books, or plush animals on children's TV, as long as they are fostering multiculturalist goals. At such moments, there is no question that pop culture is important. But let someone on the other side agree, "Yes, pop culture matters--which is why I deplore this development," and he comes off as a kook. It's a tactic, and a fairly effective one.

I'm not one to lose much sleep over comic books, but I do find Nightrunner disquieting-- as I found the Christian imagery in the Spiderman movies uplifting. Most of the time, in American popular culture, religion is ignored, or used as backstory (for instance, when Mafia dons meet at the Feast of San Gennaro). When mass culture treats my religion as something important, real, and worthy of respect, I take it as an affirmation that I have a place in the mainstream. And that is why producers of comic books like Nightrunner are including Muslim characters, to foster the mainstreaming of Islam.

[...]

What's worse is that Nightrunner betrays the spirit of Batman. Bruce Wayne is a millionaire whose parents were murdered by bandits, who devotes his wealth to fighting crime and injustice--while keeping his identity utterly secret, averse as he is to public adulation. Could there be a figure more opposite to Muhammad?

Well said. The characterization of "Nightrunner" as an Islamist is a betrayal of the values and beliefs many superhero protagonists of yore stood for, Batman included. If Bilal Asselah, the real name of the alleged vigilante, were characterized as Christian, or even an apostate who tried to defend other apostates from Islam, this whole discussion wouldn't need to take place. Come to think of it, DC would've been getting a lot of praise from society concerned about Islamofascism, and even 9-11 Families for a Safe America would likely be very proud. Instead, they throw all that away for the sake of brainless PC-whitewashing while at the same time demonizing the French as the aggressors under the guise of moral equations.

IS COLD FUSION REAL AND COMING TO A POWER PLANT NEAR YOU? MAYBE...

WUWT:

Italian scientists Sergio Focardi and Andrea Rossi have a unit they claim takes in 400 watts of electricity and, with the assistance of nickel-hydrogen fusion, puts out 12 kilowatts of heat. Okay, that’s interesting and the power amplification doesn’t require some of the extremely careful calorimetry early experiments needed. The elements involved are affordable and if it works, things become interesting. (There are undisclosed “additives” to consider too.) The reactor is going commercial in the next few years, which may or may not mean it’s ready.

Several details have not been disclosed, but there will be a paper out on Monday.

RTWT!

MORE HERE:

According to a column at Physorg.com:

Italian scientists Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi of the University of Bologna announced that they developed a cold fusion device capable of producing 12,400 W of heat power with an input of just 400 W. Last Friday, the scientists held a private invitation press conference in Bologna, attended by about 50 people, where they demonstrated what they claim is a nickel-hydrogen fusion reactor.

Further, the scientists say that the reactor is well beyond the research phase; they plan to start shipping commercial devices within the next three months and start mass production by the end of 2011.

The Italian scientists, like Pons and Fleischmann, skipped the typical route of publishing their study and results in a peer-reviewed science journal, instead taking it directly to the press and public. This is a strong sign of pseudoscience, and smacks of a mistake, if not an outright hoax.

I HOPE IT'S NOT A HOAX. THIS WOULD PUT THE ARAB OIL MERCHANTS OUT OF BUSINESS.

YEAH BABY!

IS YEMEN HEADED THE WAY OF TUNISIA?

MAYBE.

I HOPE THESE SEEMINGLY POPULAR PRO-DEMOCRACY MOVEMENTS DON'T END UP LIKE IRAN'S DID - WITH AN AYATOLLAH IN CONTROL.

I FEEL THAT THEY ARE BEING FOMENTED BY IRAN IN ORDER TO PROMOTE WIDESPREAD UNREST WHICH WILL DISTRACT THE WEST FROM KEEPING THEM FROM GETTING NUKES.

STAY TUNED...

I THINK FOX SHOULD HIRE OLBERMANN AND PUT HIM ON WITH HANNITY

THIS MOVE WOULD BRING BACK THE LEFT VERSUS RIGHT ASPECT THAT HANNITY LOST WHEN THE WEAK ALAN COLMES SPLIT.

AND ALSO HAVE JUAN WILLIAMS AND TUCKER CARLSON.

2 0N 2 OR TAG TEAMS.

WHOA!?!?: OBAMA AND HAWAII'S AG ARE BLOCKING GOVERNOR ABERCROMBIE FROM RELEASING OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE

The new governor of Hawaii - left winger Neil Abercrombie, who went to the U of H with Barack Senior and Stanley Ann Dunham - PROMISED he would release Obama's birth certificate.

NOW HE'S SAYING SOMETHING ELSE (AN UPDATED LINK):

Hawaii governor makes Obama birth controversy worse

Posted by Sherman Frederick [EDITOR OF THE L-V R-J]
Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 at 07:20 AM

New Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie made national news when he promised he'd lay to rest once and for all the question of whether President Barack Obama was actually born in Hawaii.

He said he'd find the president's birth certificate documents and release them.

Then he said he was having trouble finding them.

Then he said he had them.

And now he says privacy laws prevent him from releasing them.

Nice job. Instead of helping clear up a faux controversy, this jackass of a governor made things worse.

MORE: THIS SHOULD MAKE THE FOLKS VERY VERY SUSPICIOUS (VIA IOTW):

HONOLULU – A privacy law that shields birth certificates has prompted Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie to abandon efforts to dispel claims that President Obama was born outside Hawaii, his office says.

State Attorney General David Louie told the governor that privacy laws bar him from disclosing an individual's birth documentation without the person's consent, Abercrombie spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz said Friday.

"There is nothing more that Gov. Abercrombie can do within the law to produce a document," said Dela Cruz.

... Abercrombie, who was a friend of Obama's parents and knew him as a child, launched an investigation last month into whether he can release more information about the president's Aug. 4, 1961 birth. The governor said at the time he was bothered by people who questioned Obama's birthplace for political reasons.

I DON'T QUESTION OBAMA'S BIRTHPLACE OR CITIZENSHIP; I QUESTION HIS PARENTAGE.

I THINK FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS IS OBAMA'S FATHER.

ONLY FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS CONNECT ALL THE DOTS.

I THINK OBAMA REFUSES TO RELEASE THE ACTUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE BECAUSE HE KNOWS IT WILL DISPROVE BARACK SENIOR WAS THE FATHER.

BOTTOM-LINE:

EITHER GOVERNOR ABERCROMBIE PUBLICLY ASKS PRESIDENT OBAMA TO RELEASE THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE, OR BOTH ARE TACITLY ADMITTING THERE IS A BIG BIG BIG PROBLEM THEY ARE COVERING UP.

BRRRRRR! COLDEST WINTER IN 30 YEARS TO LAST UNTIL APRIL

FOSTER'S:

The outlook for the rest of the winter isn't looking good for those already tired of the cold and snow.

AccuWeather.com Chief Long Range Forecaster Joe Bastardi predicts cold weather will continue to dominate at least through mid-February across much of the eastern two-thirds of the country. He also said "wintry events" could last into April, longer than last year's season.

Based on what is predicted for the rest of the season, Bastardi also says that this winter could end up being the coldest for the nation as a whole since the 1980s.

Bastardi also predicts more persistent colder-than-normal temperatures and a lack of brief warm spells typical to most winters. Temperatures since Dec. 1 have averaged below normal from Boston to Miami and as far west as Minneapolis.

IOW: AGW = TFBS.

NASRALLAH TO MAKE TV ADDRESS

MEOL:

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah will give a televised speech on Sunday to address a deepening political crisis in Lebanon, the powerful Shiite party said in a statement.

"Nasrallah will appear on Al-Manar TV at 8:30 pm (1830 GMT) Sunday to address the current situation and developments in Lebanon," read the brief statement, referring to the Hezbollah-run television channel.

The address comes on the eve of parliamentary talks with the president to appoint a new prime minister after Hezbollah toppled the unity government of Saudi-backed Saad Hariri this month.

HE'S GOING TO THROW DOWN THE GAUNTLET, SO THINGS WILL HEAT UP FER SURE.

STAY TUNED.

TUNISIAN STYLE SELF-IMMOLATIONS SPREADING THROUGHOUT ARAB WOLRD

A man has died after setting himself on fire in Saudi Arabia's south-western region of Jizan, officials have said.

Reports in the Saudi media say the man, who was in his 60s, set himself on fire using a petroleum product in the town of Samitah, and died later in hospital.

There have been several acts of self-immolation in the Arab world, mimicking the suicide of a man in Tunisia which provoked the anti-government uprising.

A Mauritanian man who set himself on fire also died in hospital on Saturday.

Yacoub Ould Dahoud, a 43-year-old businessman, was transferred to a clinic in Morocco with 90% burns after his act of self-immolation in protest at Mauritanian government on Monday in the capital, Nouakchott, his family said.

... There have since been a series of self-immolations in the Arab world.

On Tuesday, a 25-year-old unemployed Egyptian died after setting himself on fire in the port city of Alexandria, while three other people survived setting themselves on fire on the streets of the capital, Cairo.

Some acts of self-immolations have also been reported in Algeria.

IMHO: THESE ARE NOT SPONTANEOUS. I THINK IT HAS IRAN'S BACKING... THIS IS ALL PART OF GLOBAL JIHAD.

I PREDICTED EGYPT WOULD BE NEXT HERE.

STAY TUNED...

Lawyers Sympathetic to Zanu PF Will Investigate Tsvangirai Over Wikileaks Cables!!

The sickness is spreading: the lunatics are running the asylums!!

Harry's Place » Lawyers Sympathetic to Zanu PF Will Investigate Tsvangirai Over Wikileaks Cables: "THE secret panel appointed by Attorney General, Johannes Tomana to examine the possibility of criminal conduct by individuals named in the WikiLeaks cables is packed with lawyers connected to President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party, it can be revealed."

HOW COMCAST CAN MAKE MSNBC INTO A RATINGS POWERHOUSE

MSNBC is also known as MSDNC and MSLSD and MFNBC- and for good reasons. During prime-time, MSNBC broadcasts a solid line-up of hardcore leftist programs hosted by leftists. Because the USA is NOT mostly left-wing, this guarantees low ratings.

This can be changed - easily.

Here's a schedule I think COMCAST should switch to: Make prime-time all debate - and all FEMALE - with HOSTESSES who are BOTH right-wing and left-wing. My suggestions:

• 8-9PM: "SOFT POWER" - WITH RACHEL MADDOW, KIRSTEN POWERS & PEGGY NOONAN
  

• 9-10PM: "CAPITAL IDEAS" - WITH MICHELLE CARUSO-CABRERA AND CONSUELO MACK
  

• 10-11PM: "EXECUTIVE SUITE" - WITH MARIA SHRIVER AND CARLY FIORINA
  

Comcast will make changes, that's for sure...

MORE IDEAS FOR MSNBC HERE.

MORE PROOF THAT "PEAK OIL" IS TFBS

UK INDEPENDENT:

When BP first formed an alliance with Rosneft in 1998 to develop the Sakhalin fields in the Pacific Ocean, the UK oil giant estimated Russia's oil reserves at 56 billion barrels.

When BP agreed its share-swap with the Moscow-based energy group last weekend, the estimate was 75 billion barrels, and development of Rosneft's licences inside the Arctic Circle could increase production enormously.

Such advances undermine the pessimists' predictions that the world's oil will imminently run out.

In 1956, when the concept of "peak oil" – the point at which production starts falling – was formulated, US output was expected to fall from the late 1960s.

But new discoveries have constantly pushed that date back.

BP was estimating world oil reserves at 1 trillion barrels 20 years ago: now, despite record consumption, the estimate is 1.333 trillion.

... Russia is already the world's top oil and gas producer: its equivalent of 18 million barrels of oil a day now exceeds America's 17 million and is far ahead of Saudi Arabia's 11 million.

But while the extent of its reserves is constantly being revised upward, so too are those of many other countries.

In 1980, BP estimated Nigeria's reserves at 16.7 billion barrels; now it says they are 36.2 billion. During that time, estimates of Libya's reserves have been increased from 20 billion to 44 billion, Venezuela's from under 20 billion to almost 100 billion and Iraq's from 30 billion to 115 billion.

New discoveries are running at 15 billion to 20 billion barrels a year, meeting at least half the global consumption.

Drilling off the Falklands could provide a new supply and Cuba may have up to 20 billion barrels, while some estimates suggest America's outer continental shelf could provide the equivalent of 100 billion barrels of oil and gas.

Despite BP's disaster in the Gulf of Mexico last year, companies such as Shell are still drilling there to tap reserves 3km below sea level.

The Canadian oil sands are estimated to hold a trillion barrels too and US oil shales have as much.

Iraq, where Shell is developing the Majnoon field, will account for a fifth of global supply growth over the next 20 years, says BP, with capacity potentially reaching 12 million barrels a day by 2020.

THERE IS MORE OIL THAN EVER.

IT MAY EVEN BE A BY-PRODUCT ON INNER-EARTH GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND NEVER RUN OUT.

PEAK OIL IS BS - LIKE AGW.

UH-OH: IS ALGERIA DEVOLVING INTO ANOTHER TUNISIA?

BBC:

Algerian police have broken up an anti-government demonstration by about 300 people in the centre of the capital, Algiers, calling for greater freedoms.

Several protesters were injured and a number are reported to have been arrested. Seven police officers were also hurt, according to state media.

The leader of the opposition Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD) said those held included its parliamentary leader.

The protest followed rioting in several cities set off by rising food prices.

The government has noted the popular unrest in neighbouring Tunisia, which led to the ousting of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.

... Mr Sadi [RCD CHAIRMAN] said the authorities had "plunged the capital into a situation similar to the Battle of Algiers" in 1957, when the French colonial authorities brutally put down a revolt led by the National Liberation Front (FLN).

"A government which seeks to oppress its people is not a government," he told the privately-owned newspaper InfoSoir.

"It has to choose between changing peacefully and taking the country towards chaos," he added. "And this is what we want to avoid."

Many Algerians are feeling inspired by what happened in Tunisia, and they believe now it is their turn to press for change, the BBC's Chloe Arnold in Algiers reports.

SIMILAR RECENT EVENTS IN JORDAN.

I BET SOON IN CAIRO.

AS LEBANON TEETERS INTO CIVIL WAR.

I BETCHYA THEY ARE ALL FUNDED BY IRAN.

STAY TUNED...

"Depressing: Lebanese Druze leader sides with Hezbollah": THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOP HOT AIR AND MIKE TOTTEN BY A DAY

Today at Hot Air:

Michael Totten

Depressing: Lebanese Druze leader sides with Hezbollah in standoff

Lebanon’s Druze leader Walid Jumblatt now says he “supports” Hezbollah and the ghastly regime in Syria that murdered his father and his friend Rafik Hariri. Hezbollah’s fan boys should not kid themselves here. Jumblatt is under duress and is only saying what he must to ensure his own survival and that of his people.

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS YESTERDAY:

UH-OH: DRUZE LEADER JUMBLATT SIDES WITH HIZBALLAH AGINST HARIRI

AL JAZEERA:

Walid Jumblatt, a Druze leader from Lebanon's opposition camp, has announced his support behind Hezbollah in a move that could give the group and its allies a veto over who becomes the country's next prime minister.

Hezbollah, which has a parliamentary bloc as well as a powerful military wing, commands overwhelmingly support among Lebanon's Shia Muslim community.

Jumblatt said the aim of his decision on Friday was to preserve Lebanon's stability.

"I am announcing the right political stand ... by assuring the steadfastness of the group [Progressive Socialist Party] alongside Syria and the resistance [Hezbollah]," he said.

Jumblatt leads a bloc of 11 parliamentarians and his support is crucial to decide who forms the new government out of the two rivals: Hezbollah or Saad Hariri, the caretaker prime minister.

MORE HERE.

THIS IS A BAD DEVELOPMENT. AND IT COMES ON THE HEELS OF THE SAUDI WITHDRAWAL FROM ARBITRATIONS.

STAY TUNED...

REGULAR READERS KNOW WE DO THIS ALL THE TIME. SPREAD THE WOLRD.

NEW STUDY REVEALS KHALID SHEIK MOHAMMED MURDERED DANIEL PEARL

The Washington Post (via Hot Air Headlines) reports that a Georgetown U. study has discovered the murderer who's already in custody was the savage who murdered Pearl:

According to the new report, which was prepared by faculty members and students at Georgetown University, U.S. officials have concluded that vascular technology, or vein matching, shows that the hand of the unseen man who killed Pearl on video is that of Mohammed. The report also says Mohammed told the FBI that a senior al-Qaeda operative advised him to take control of Pearl from his original kidnappers.

The 31,000-word report, published in conjunction with the Center for Public Integrity at www.publicintegrity.org, is among the most complete and graphic accounts of Pearl's death. The 3 1/2-year investigation, called the Pearl Project, was led by Asra Q. Nomani, a former colleague of Pearl's at the Journal, and Barbara Feinman Todd, director of the journalism program at Georgetown.[...]

According to the report, Mohammed told FBI interrogators at Guantanamo Bay that he received a call from Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian and a senior figure in al-Qaeda.

Adel “says, ‘Listen, he’s been kidnapped. These people don’t know what to do with him. They want to know if we want him,’ ” Mohammed told the FBI, according to the report, which is based on hundreds of interviews as well as court records, FBI reports, and Pearl’s e-mails and personal notes. Adel “thought this was an opportunity. We can take advantage of it. He said he wanted to make sure it’s an Al Qaeda thing.”[...]

Mohammed slashed Pearl’s throat, killing him, but one of his accomplices failed to operate the video camera, which they had brought to capture the murder for propaganda purposes. Mohammed restaged the killing, this time decapitating Pearl, according to the report. He then dismembered Pearl’s body, and it was buried on the compound. Guards washed the bloody floor and then prayed, foreheads to the ground, on the same surface where their prisoner had just been killed, the report said.

For this, Mohammed must receive the death sentence. And afterwards, his shitty flesh should be cremated into hell. For now, everything must be done to ensure that Mohammed will not be released, and kept locked up tight.

Say NO to burkas in Australia

A mural artist down under has stood up for oppressed women, and defies leftist/Islamic bullying and threats (via Jihad Watch):

A SYDNEY artist whose anti-burka mural has infuriated left-wing and Islamic activists is vowing that the provocative artwork will stay in place despite death threats, abuse, a string of vandalism attacks, a violent weekend protest and a police request to remove it.

Newtown glass sculptor Sergio Redegalli has this week restored the mural painted outside his studio for more than the 40th time after dozens of graffiti and paint-bomb attacks by protesters who say it is racist and inflammatory.

In the latest incident last Sunday, a crowd of 50 activists hurled paint at the mural and then turned on police who had to call in reinforcements to restore order.

Seven men were arrested and charged with offences including resisting police, assaulting police and destroying or damaging property.

The charges will be heard in Newtown Local Court next month. Redegalli blames local left-wing groups, rather than Muslim activists, for the incident.

The sculptor, who is a well-known figure in inner-suburban Newtown, says he has since been visited by local police who asked him to take down the mural after learning of a threat to fire-bomb it.

He refuses to do so in the interests of free speech and public debate.

"I'm not going to let the bullies win," Redegalli told The Australian yesterday.

"I'm not doing it for pride (but because) I don't believe bullies have the right to stand over people and deny us our freedoms."

Redegalli painted the mural and slogan "Say no to burqas" on an exterior wall of his glassworks last September, after a local fashion designer received death threats over a plan to feature models wearing the traditional Islamic garment in a fashion parade.

The artist says his objective is to promote debate about the Islamic face veil, which he sees as a symbol of repression and violent extremism.

You know, he may be right, that this is more a problem with violent leftists than with Islamofascists. Maybe that's why his next mural should be "say NO to violent leftism".

APPALLING IGNORANCE

The word "surreal" doesn't even begin to describe what one Congressman from Georgia said.

According to Representative John Lewis (D-Ga.), the right to engage in the pursuit of happiness is in the United States Constitution and proves the constitutionality the individual mandate to buy health insurance (hat tip to The Pagan Temple) for the video below:



The Preamble of our Constitution reads as follows:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

The Fourteenth Amendment is HERE. Excerpt:

...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...

Apparently, Congressman John Lewis does not comprehend the document he took an oath to uphold.

Kangaroo courts in the heart of Europe!

 
On Tuesday, January 18th, 2011, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff faced the court in Vienna for a second time. Rather than the hoped-for verdict, the trial was adjourned until February 15th.What happened?

Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff is an Austrian journalist who is an expert on islam. She has lived and worked in islamic colonial countries, and is now being sued for quoting from the koran. 
In other words for, hate speech, or speaking the truth about islam!

Read the rest here.

TUNISIA IS FOLLOWING THE PATH OF IRAN: ISLAMISTS TAKING OVER

TELEGRAPH:

Tunisia's underground Islamic movement has emerged at the forefront of nationwide protests against its leadership and appears set to emerge as the strongest political force in elections.

... Tunisia's strong record of promoting women's rights and liberal stance on social issues such as the sale of alcohol is vulnerable as its political system is torn apart by the popular uprising.

Sana Bel Mkaddem, a Tunis resident, said she was fearful her rights would be eroded after elections. "We need to know what the parties represent. Most Tunisians are open-minded and view religion as a private issue but because of the past of this country, I'm worried that we could see the Islamisation that we've seen in other countries."

THE ISLAMISTS ARE TAKING OVER - JUST LIKE IRAN AFTER THE OVERTHROW OF THE SHAH.

STAY TUNED...

UH-OH: DRUZE LEADER JUMBLATT SIDES WITH HIZBALLAH AGINST HARIRI

AL JAZEERA:

Walid Jumblatt, a Druze leader from Lebanon's opposition camp, has announced his support behind Hezbollah in a move that could give the group and its allies a veto over who becomes the country's next prime minister.

Hezbollah, which has a parliamentary bloc as well as a powerful military wing, commands overwhelmingly support among Lebanon's Shia Muslim community.

Jumblatt said the aim of his decision on Friday was to preserve Lebanon's stability.

"I am announcing the right political stand ... by assuring the steadfastness of the group [Progressive Socialist Party] alongside Syria and the resistance [Hezbollah]," he said.

Jumblatt leads a bloc of 11 parliamentarians and his support is crucial to decide who forms the new government out of the two rivals: Hezbollah or Saad Hariri, the caretaker prime minister.

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