Iraqi jihadists continue to labor to create a Sharia state. From AP:
Cairo, Aug. 10. (AP): An audio tape purportedly by the spiritual leader of an al-Qaeda-linked group warned that militants intended to kill Iraq's prime minister and all members of the police and national army."We will not allow you to destroy our hopes in this blessed holy war, and we will not let you steal our bright tomorrow, which is now appearing on the horizon," the speaker on the tape tells the Iraqi police and soldiers.
The roughly 40-minute tape appeared yesterday on an Islamic website known as a clearinghouse for statements by the Iraqi insurgency group, Tawhid and Jihad. The site identifies the speaker as Sheik Abu Anas al-Shami.
The voice could not be immediately verified as that of al-Shami, but the cleric did issue a similar pro-militant tape on the same Web site on July 28.
http://www.secularislam.org/discussion37/Default.htm
Discussion forum.
"We will not allow you to destroy our hopes in this blessed holy war, and we will not let you steal our bright tomorrow, which is now appearing on the horizon," -scum
OT, but I have been thinking on this recently and am wondering: Is the reason the Left is so hot to NOT have this be a terrorist war against us, that they are worried their agenda ('hopes in this blessed holy war') for the US is in danger?
http://www.insightmag.com/news/2004/07/19/Commentary/Why-We.Are.Not.French-701825.shtml
Perhaps these religious relics ought to first thank America for ridding them of the one that robbed them of their dreams of Sharia law for the last 20+ years...
If I had one wish, it would be for the Islamists to WAKE UP AND LOOK at the pitiful state of their existence now as they continue to worship their Moon god!
Hint hint...somebody’s god is either fake or out to a very long lunch....
"We will not allow you to destroy our hopes in this blessed holy war, and we will not let you steal our bright tomorrow, which is now appearing on the horizon," the speaker on the tape tells the Iraqi police and soldiers.
Isn't it amazing how bombing a country back to the stone age, and imposing a Sharia law (tha would make Count Dracul appear Politicaly Correct) can be viewed as a "bright tomorrow"
Ideally, one would like to see the various factions in Iraq at each others' throats. It is maddening that, having disarmed Iraq (and one hopes that, with all the weapons and munitions stored in huge dumps all over the country, that the American soldiers are systematically destroying as much of it as they can), the United States insists on remaining to bring "democracy" to Iraq. This folly was never adequately examined. "Democracy" is something, of course, that the better representatives of the Arab and Muslim world, including the woman whose pillow talk apparently helps to educate Paul Wolfowitz (so wrongly described as "hard-headed" and "tough" when he is, in fact, an idealist, a naive weapons-system analyst who knows little about Islam, and is content to believe those remarkably sympathetic representatives of that world who, while quick to tell the truth about, for example, the full horror of Saudi Arabia, or of Saddam Hussein, or to bewail Arab hysteria and mythmaking (the "dream palace" business of Ajami, now down to a science), stop short at the little matter of Islam. That is the third-rail for them; they will not, they can not (and that includes Wolfowitz's special friend) identify the underlying problem as Islam, both for the Infidel world (which is the world that Wolfowitz should care about) and for the Arab and Islamic world. He apparently is one of the prime movers of this moronic "Light Unto the Muslim Nations Project." This reflects the narrowness of his education (in the empyrean heights which he inhabits, there is no time to study Islam, to really study it -- prepared memos will have to do the trick) and, in now appears, the influence of a great and good female friend.
If American soldiers were not now in Iraq -- were they to be pulled out -- they could be used far more easily, and to far greater practical and symbolic effect in opposing the forces of Jihad, in the southern and western Sudan, where no more than 5,000 American troops, with air power, could rescue what would be obviously grateful blacks, both Christian and nominally Muslim, establish a permanent base (no need for dreams about Iraq, or about staying in Saudi Arabia, that awful country). And the money saved -- oh, so far about $140 billion has been spent on Iraq, with only the initial amount for toppling Saddam Hussein and seizing his armory has been worth it -- could go, for example, to an energy program designed not, as Kerry proposes, for "energy independence" (a meaningless idea, since it would merely shift around buyers and sellers, with the Arab Muslim states still receiving the vast unearned income they do receive, which must be diminished if the Jihad, an immutable doctrine, is to be constrained through returning those countries to their pre-1973 financial situation, so that the wherewithal to fund madrasas and mosques, to bribe diplomats, politicains, journalists, and academics, would be taken away.
Let the Iraqis fight. Let the "Somali solution" -- just look at the mess of Somalia today -- be the answer, as long as Iraq cannot threaten, and spend money and time on the main matters: educating a sufficient number of Infidels as to the problem of Islam, diminishing the revenues -- not merely acquiring "energy independence" -- of all Arab and Muslim states, to the extent possible (even having to spend time scrambling to work for a living will, in the case of Saudis as of PLO members, instead of Infidel-subsidized murder and mayhem, would be useful), reestablishing an alliance with Europe not by succumbing to the EU promotion of appeasement, but by appealing over the heads of the Pattens, Solanas, Prodis, Chiracs, Villepins, in order to create, among the European publics sick and worried about the Muslim migrants already in the their midst, a force that, without stooping to the Le Pens and the British National Front, can help their countries come to their senses, and not only stop in-migration of the bearers of a hostile, murderously hostile at times, ideology, but also to reverse the demographic invasion.
The Iraqi venture, initially, was correct. It is now a gross misallocation of men, materiel, money, and attention. Let us get out, coute que coute, not in order to appease, but in order to clevely deploy, and employ, those men, that materiel, that money, that attention, in far more effective (and far cheaper) ways of constraining (not defeating, for it has no end) the Jihad that will always exist, and whose victims are all non-Muslims everywhere, and that began in its potent present form, with the arrival of the OPEC bonanza, and the almost simultaneous fatal admission of millions of Muslims (it was Giscard d'Estaing who permitted the "reunion" of Arab Muslim families, much to his later chagrin, and it is worth noting that just before he died this past year, it was
Giscard d'Estaing who opposed so implacably the admission of Turkey to the EU for, he said, the EU would be destroyed if it admitted a "Muslim state." No doubt he, like hundreds of millions of other European Infidels, wishes they had understood Islam before so blithely admitting so many into their countries. But it is not too late to learn.
The only thing "bright about "their tommorow" is the flash of explosions.
Once again Hugh....Brilliant piece.
Should think Allawi is used to Death threats also the rhetoric of his countrymen.One could almost dispair making a democracy out of this rabble with their mindset in seventh century. There will be NO bright and shining future for Iraq unless these bloody idiots use their brains and think -something they're brainwashed not to do by wonderful Islam. A bit O T but have you seen the Jihad parrot reciting Koran on North Eastern Intelligience Site??We may as well have a laugh,eh!
Hugh:
What a brilliant post. Your interesting little tidbit about Wolfowitz just floored me. Check it out people:
http://israpundit.com/archives/007923.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/01/wolf01.xml
Revealed: the special relationship behind America's Middle East policy
(Filed: 01/08/2004)
Paul Wolfowitz, the US deputy defence secretary who was a driving force behind the invasion of Iraq , is depicted as a fiercely pro-Zionist hardliner. Philip Sherwell reveals his unlikely confidante is a high-powered Arab divorcee with whom he is said to be closely involved
Political foes of Paul Wolfowitz like to portray him as a leading light in Washington's so-called 'Zionist conspiracy', part of a small cabal of Jewish neo-conservatives driving a blindly pro-Israel policy in the Middle East.
Paul Wolfowitz: surprising friend and confidante
The US deputy secretary of defence was one of the original architects of the war to overthrow Saddam Hussein and remains an enthusiastic advocate of spreading democracy in the Middle East, despite the setbacks in Iraq. For his detractors, it is evidence that he is pursuing an agenda hostile to Arab regimes, particularly ones as virulently opposed to Israel as Saddam's.
Critics have also latched on to the fact that his sister, Laura, a biologist, lives in Israel as proof for their theory. Indeed she does; she even has an Israeli husband. But although she rarely talks about politics, the reality is that she is a moderate rather than a hawkish settler or enthusiastic backer of Ariel Sharon, Israel's hardline prime minister.
In fact, there is a woman from whom Mr Wolfowitz does draw support and backing for his views, but she comes from a very different - and unexpected - background. The Telegraph can reveal that his closest companion and most valued confidantes is a middle-aged Arab feminist whose own strongly held views on instilling democracy in her native Middle East have helped bolster his resolve.
Shaha Ali Riza is a senior World Bank official who was born in Tunis, grew up in Saudi Arabia and holds an international relations masters degree from St Anthony's College, Oxford. Close acquaintances of the couple have told The Telegraph that she is romantically linked with Mr Wolfowitz, 61, a fellow divorcee with whom she has been friends for several years.
Even by the discreet standards of Washington's powerful inner circle, it is a remarkably closely guarded secret. They rarely go out as a couple openly or demonstrate affection publicly, according to friends who are aware of the relationship. They attend low-key Washington social events and visit friends' homes together and Ms Riza also sometimes goes to official functions and dinners with him, but is not identified as his partner, an acquaintance said. 'Most people would never guess there was a relationship, even if they saw them together,' he said.
It is a sign of the sensitivity surrounding the relationship that the few friends willing even to acknowledge it last week did not want to be named. 'Shaha Riza runs around with Wolfowitz a lot. I gather that she is his current girlfriend but they are very careful about this,' said one.
Ms Riza was on holiday last week on a ranch in Wyoming and did not respond to messages left for her. Mr Wolfowitz did not return a call placed with his office at the Pentagon.
It would amaze the detractors who depict Mr Wolfowitz as part of a narrow-minded Jewish lobby that one of the most important people in his life is, in fact, an Arab woman whose job is to promote gender equality in the Middle East and North Africa. It will doubtless also surprise many of his supporters.
Ms Riza's childhood in Saudi Arabia did much to shape her commitment to democracy, equal rights and civil liberties in the Arab world as she experienced at first hand the kingdom's oppressive regime, particularly for women. She has long pursued those beliefs in adult life and joined the World Bank in 1997 as the senior gender co-ordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, a role that involves extensive travel in the region.
She previously worked for the Iraq Foundation, set up by expatriates in 1991 to push for democracy and human rights in that country after the first Gulf war, and then established the Middle East programme at the National Endowment for Democracy, a federal agency created under Ronald Reagan in 1983 with the ambitious goal of promoting American political values internationally.
So Mr Wolfowitz and Ms Riza are not just close personally, they have also both long espoused the same deeply held conviction that democracy should be spread across the Arab world. With his ear, she is one of most influential Arabs in Washington.
'Paul and some others always had Saddam Hussein in their sights, but she helped reinforce that resolve,' said a friend who moves in similar conservative circles. 'That was greatly helped by the fact that she is an Arab woman who is an expert on the process of democracy.
'Paul Wolfowitz is always being accused of being part of a bunch of Jews pushing Zionist interests with the likes of Richard Perle [a former senior Pentagon adviser] and Doug Feith [the Pentagon number three]. So when an Arab woman says something similar, her views have tremendous authority.
'This agenda is being pushed by a group in which Shaha has a crucial role. She has views she holds strongly, but she is a modest, polite person.
'Paul's sister in Israel is always quoted as evidence that he's part of some Zionist conspiracy. But she's actually quite Left-wing and he has more in common with Shaha than with her.'
As with Ms Riza, Mr Wolfowitz's political creed also began to take shape in his childhood. His father, Jacob, an eminent mathematician, emigrated from Poland to America as a boy in 1920 but lost several relatives in the Holocaust. The young Paul was taught from an early age that appeasement does not work.
He met Clare Selgin, later to become a renowned scholar on Indonesian anthropology, when they were students at Cornell in the early 1960s. They married in 1968, have three children and quietly divorced in 2002. Mr Wolfowitz is intensely private and makes a point of never discussing his personal life in interviews.
Ms Riza is also divorced and has a 17-year-old son, who lives with her in Wesley Heights in an elegant street of townhouses popular with foreign diplomats who are based in nearby embassies. Her former husband, Bulent Ali Riza, a Turkish Cypriot who heads the Turkish programme at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), said that he was aware that she discusses her views on the Middle East with Mr Wolfowitz. 'She talks to Paul,' he said, 'though I think she now has some reservations about the democratisation process in Iraq.'
Mr and Ms Riza both studied for their international relations postgraduate degrees at St Anthony's in the early 1980s before moving to America. They later split up but both made their mark in the influential Washington world of international thinktanks and institutes.
She was moving in the same conservative academic circles as Mr Wolfowitz, who was dean and professor of international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies for seven years before he joined President Bush's administration in 2001. Friends say that they have been seeing each other for several years, but do not know when they started dating.
Asked about their relationship, Mr Perle, a close political and intellectual soulmate of Mr Wolfowitz, said: 'You should ask her and Mr Wolfowitz about that. Any relationship they may have is a personal and private matter. I don't know the extent or nature of it.'
Mr Wolfowitz was, of course, already beating the drums for regime change in Iraq and was one of the signatories with Mr Perle on the 1998 letter to President Clinton calling for Saddam to be ousted. After al-Qa'eda's attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, he immediately pushed Mr Bush towards challenging states that sponsor terrorism rather than just pursuing the terror network's leader, Osama bin Laden.
For him, the war on terror brought with it the chance to pursue regime change and democracy across the Islamic world. In these views, he found common ground with Ms Riza, who had often expressed her frustration at the widely held view in the West that Arab states would never embrace democracy.
'She felt that the US supported democracy all over the world except in Arab countries,' said a friend. 'She believed that was wrong and that democracy can and must be promoted in the Arab world, even if it upsets feudal rulers and dictators.'
Mr Wolfowitz hoped that the invasion of Iraq that he did so much to engineer with his boss, Donald Rumsfeld, would not just topple a brutal dictator, but also set off a democracy 'domino effect' across the Middle East.
For many of the neo-conservative cheerleaders of democracy, the next target is the autocratic Saudi state. Mr Wolfowitz has already said that another goal of the Iraq war was to allow US troops to pull out of the kingdom to alternative bases. Ms Riza will doubtless have offered him her views on how to deal with her childhood home.
Monday, July 5, 2004
KATMANDU, Nepal -- Female rice farmers are plowing their fields at night in the nude to please the rain god during a dry spell in southwestern Nepal, a news report said Sunday.
A 35-year-old farmer, Ambika Tharu, said she and other women were daring to bare all for the rain god because of a delay in the annual monsoon season and the need for precipitation for their rice crops.
"My mother-in-law said the God would be pleased and make rainfall if women till the land naked," Tharu told the Himalayan Times newspaper.
The delay of the monsoon rains, which usually begin in the first week of June in Nepal, have prevented farmers from planting rice.
Weather forecasters in the capital Katmandu Ñ 310 miles northeast of Baijapur village, where the naked farmers are appealing for rain Ñ said the situation is expected to improve in the next few days.
URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/archive/2004/07/05/nakedplow.DTL
And now they wish they had only gone topless? WOW WITH ALL THAT RAIN NEXT DROUGHT I WILL TRY THAT!!!
Thursday, July 29, 2004
SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. -- Two men who were arrested for walking through a Wal-Mart while wearing women's thong underwear blamed the stunt on a "triple-dog dare," authorities said.
The men, ages 35 and 36, bought two pair of underwear at the store Tuesday, went into a bathroom and came out wearing only the thongs and T-shirts, police said.
Witnesses said the men walked through the store and out to their car.
Police caught the men in the parking lot, and reviewed a surveillance tape before arresting them for public indecency and disorderly conduct.
When asked why they were wearing thong underwear, one of the men said a friend "triple-dog dared" them. They will not be prosecuted, authorities said.
URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/archive/2004/07/29/thongmen.DTL
Yes we have brave men who will do anything!!!
Buy American!!!
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2004/08/09/2003198070
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_10-8-2004_pg4_6
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/23/BU182254.DTL
Yes thank Jimmy Carter they do make our life’s full of problems even after they leave office??
August 10, 2004
Tx van full of illegal in the drink killing 9 from Honduras?
Thought Scott Peterson sold his wares in Honduras? and what did he sell? Could it have been mulsums who killed his wife because he would not sell to them we know he was a scum bag but??
www.KerryOnIraq.com
some one did their home work good job!!!
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/8/9/172001.shtml
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
China Rapidly Modernizes for War With U.S.
Alexandr Nemets
Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2004
During the last several months, there have been numerous hints in the Chinese and Taiwanese media indicating that war is more likely than believed here in the West.
Some strategists suggest that the 2008 Olympics scheduled for Beijing constitute a key benchmark, after which a war may be possible. However, it is clear that both nations are preparing for a conflict in the near term, and that 2008 may not be as pivotal as some experts believe.
In fact, China’s media have been repeating the mantra in their news reports that the People’s Liberation Army is preparing to gain a victory in this “internal military conflict in a high-tech environment.”
Chinese war planners have studied carefully the recent U.S.-Iraq War, a war that demonstrated to PLA
Thought I'd start with the Fun Hugh Great as Always!!
Mentat nothing wrong with have-ing hope but when the road does not work it is time for some off road-ing!!
Part of the American Tribe
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and All who Fight with her give them Strength,Wisdom and Courage to stay the course to Victory Amen
PS
This does not every mean the plans do not change with the flow of info!!!
Remember the course is Victory no matter the road or how many turns in that road!!!
Read Gen.Tommy Franks new book It was not all wolf. Marbark said they had cem.s so did Jordans king told the Gen. and the terrorist working from there have conecte in the USA!
We do need to keep our guys there and also take back Africa not send more troops to Iraq!
The problem is the downforces over the last 15 years!
Clintons dependency on the reserve and not the atcive We are raising the goals this takes time just to get their shots? to go into theater?
There are people who are looking at the whole picture just because you do not see it does not mean it is not happaning te fear the dem's will take charge is my worst fear!!
They are trying to tell us the sky is not blue because of the sunglasses they wear?
Part of the American Tribe
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and All who Fight with her give them Wisdom,Strength and Courage to stay the course to Victory Amen
I think he meant to say "sun setting on the horizon".
It's going down, not getting started.