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June 13, 2005

Islamic jihadist tries to blow up Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi

Jihad in India update from The Pioneer, "IGI intact; hats off to alert cop," with thanks to Fanabba:

An alert head constable of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) saved the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport on Sunday night from being blown apart after he intercepted and checked a truck carrying 10.5 kg of white explosive substance suspected to be sodium azide or potassium chlorate. He also seized highly potent 69 detonators of "8 strength", which are used for triggering high-intensity blasts and 15 metres of cordex wire.

Explosive experts, who examined the substance, said that the explosive could be converted into a highly lethal combination by mixing it with diesel. The same combination was used with telling effect in 1997 when Abdul Karim Tunda, the commander of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) had caused 27 blasts.

Intelligence sources maintained that the consignment seized from the premises of IGI airport was part of the conspiracy to bomb the airport after the twin blasts in Satyam and Liberty cinema halls.

The driver of truck No HR-55-B-1208, Noor Kamal, has been arrested for carrying explosive materials into the highly protected area under Sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Explosive Substances Act.

Sources at the IGI airport said Noor Kamal, a resident of Ramgarh town in Alwar district in Rajasthan, was being interrogated by joint teams of intelligence agencies. Though he tried to mislead the interrogators by claiming that he was going to the hill on the north side of the runway No 10-28.

His preliminary interrogation has revealed that he was handed over the consignment by a local conduit of LeT. It appears that Noor Kamal was trained to make bombs by mixing the explosive substance with diesel and then attach it with the cordex wire and detonator to trigger blasts.

Posted by Robert at June 13, 2005 5:47 PM
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Explosive experts, who examined the substance, said that the explosive could be converted into a highly lethal combination by mixing it with diesel. The same combination was used with telling effect in 1997 when Abdul Karim Tunda, the commander of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) had caused 27 blasts.

YOU THINK THEY LEARNED THAT FROM TIMMY????

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GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURAGE TO STAY THE COURSE TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM AMEN

Posted by: Catherine [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 13, 2005 6:20 PM

Frinds, Folks n Jihadwatchers!

Pay heed to the Kashmir crisis and how it develops.

Why?

Because it's an interesting test case of how a functioning, secular, pluralistic democracy attempts to deal with jihadist terror and how successful (or not) each strategy tried is.

Someday I fear, every western democracy will have sizeable moslem minorities (like India does), will face inbcreasingly strident and unreasonable moslem demands (like India does), will clumsily fight jihadistic proxy-war within its borders while attempting to protect chesrished values like freedom and civil rights (like India is currently doing).

If Israel represents one extreme -an almost-open war situation between a genuine democracy and jihadist madmen - India represents a transition phase towards that extreme and most of the west represent a nascent phase tending towards the transition....

Posted by: voletti [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 13, 2005 6:42 PM

Must have been American foreign policy that made them choose the Indira Gandhi airport. Or poverty. Or the "desecration" of the Qur'an. Or the Israeli decision to surrender for now only in part, and not completely. Or the attack on Pakistani Shi'a by Pakistani Sunnis. Or the refusal of the Thai government to roll over and play dead for the Muslims in south Thailand. Or the banning of the hijab in Paris. Or the refusal of the Dutch government to shut up Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Or the elections that were held in Iraq.

Anything, nothing. It hardly matters. What matters are the beliefs of Muslims themselves, the prism through which they apprehend the univese, and in which Believer and Infidel are forever at odds, and the former must always be firm in the determination to carry the battle to the latter, and to killl, convert, or force him into a state of permanent humiliation and degradation.

Posted by: Hugh [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 13, 2005 8:03 PM


http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8775555
Fourteen killed, 100 injured in Kashmir explosion

Indian Kashmir's ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) and separatist politicians, including hardline leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani condemned the attack. Geelani called for a one-day strike on Tuesday in protest over the killings.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said earlier he was very hopeful about resolving the dispute with India over Kashmir, although he gave no time frame.
More than 45,000 people have been killed in Kashmir since the revolt against Indian rule began in 1989


GONE TO HAVE TO THINK A LITTER HARDER THEN A STRIKE??

THEY ARE PICKING OFF YOUR YOUR PEOPLE 45,000 THAT IS WAR TIME TO KICK ASS!!!!

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Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURAGE TO STAY THE COURSE TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM OPEN THE WORLDS EYES TO THEIR THREAT GIVE THE WORLD COURAGE TO STAND AND FIGHT LET NOT THE WORLD BE DECEVIED BY THEM AMEN


PS
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8778694
Rice says does not know if N.Korea's Kim is sane
Mon Jun 13, 2005 08:44 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday she did not know whether North Korean leader Kim Jong-il was sane, a remark that could anger Pyongyang's unpredictable ruler.
Asked if she thought Kim was sane during an interview with MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews," Rice replied: "I don't know. I've never met the man." The interview was taped on Monday and was to be broadcast on Tuesday.


OH MY??

"We don't want to be reduced to a circus animal doing an act, being told to jump through various hoops or whatever at the behest of the North Koreans," he said.

AND THIS APLYS TO THE MULSUMS TOOO!!!!

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=842912
Bomb Blast Derails Moscow-Bound Train

MOSCOW Jun 12, 2005 — A bomb apparently wired to railroad tracks derailed a passenger train traveling from Chechnya to Moscow on Sunday, injuring at least 15 people on a Russian national holiday

MULSUMS

Officials did not name any suspects and no group claimed responsibility. But Chechen separatist rebels frequently stage attacks on Russian holidays

YEP MULSUMS!!

WHY WOULD WE LET ElBaradei STAY??

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=15828
Mauritania has proof Algerian group led attack

By Agence France Presse (AFP)

Saturday, June 11, 2005
NOUAKCHOTT: The Mauritanian Army claims to have absolute proof that a radical Islamic group from neighboring Algeria was linked to a raid on a military post that killed 15 soldiers last weekend. At a news conference, military spokesman Colonel Alioune Ould Mohammad produced the Algerian registration document for a truck left at the scene on Wednesday.


MORE MULSUMS ATTACK PEOPLE????

http://www.debka.com/
UN nuclear watchdog IAEA board unanimously re-appointed Mohamed ElBaradei for fifth term as agency head. US which previously sought his ouster joined vote

Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Gillerman unanimously elected vice president of UN General Assembly opening Sep. 30.

Posted by: Catherine [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 13, 2005 9:39 PM

Who cares? The media will be swamped with Michael Jackson "news" for the next month....perhaps if the terrorists were singers or actors the public would be interested.
sarcasticly yours,
kevin

Posted by: kevin [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 13, 2005 10:12 PM

My feelings exactly Kevin. Sarcasm helps me too. Me and a friend were at a bar this afternoon having a few cocktails and the TV was on when the BIG, I MEAN REALLY BIG news came out. We could not help but laugh at them falling over themselves today over the MJ verdict. You would think the sun had exploded. That is how excited they were.

Posted by: reset [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 13, 2005 10:55 PM

Posted by: Giaour at June 13, 2005 02:13 PM


NO IT IS YOU READ IT AN WEEP!!!!!!!

YOU HAVE BECOME BORING!!!!

http://www.zum.de/psm/rta/doa28.php
Reichstagsakten 1888/89, 7. Lp., Vol. 121, Attachment 41: Collection of Documents pertaining the Uprising in East Africa, No. 28: Directive to the Imperial ambassador in London
Friedrichsruh, October 28th 1888
It is to be desired that our agreement with England on fighting the slave trade and the import of weapons to East Africa will have the shape of an international agreement. Such a document would establish limits for the expansion of the continued expansion of the Muslim and slave trading movement, by the moral impression by the accord of the two European powers so far engaged there, and also, more propably, will lead to the cooperation of the other European states engaged. I propose the exchange of notifications between us and Britain, in which we take upon ourselves the obligation, under the condition (p.412) on an equal participation of Britain for the same purpose, to fight the anti-Christian and anti-civilizatoric movement which has emerged over the last years on the African continent, and to recognize the prohibition of the export of slaves and the import of arms and ammunition as the most effective means, as it is only the possession of superior arms ans ammunitions which enables the Arab and Muslim minority to undertake slave hunts and wars necessary to obtain slaves, and to keep up the superiority of their race in Africa's interior.
The slave trade and the initiative Britain has taken to combat it, have been origin and incentive to the union of all elements interested in the matter, and which have made it possible to use Muslim fanaticism in the interest of this over one thousand years old tradition of African slave trade and to call on them for war. The effects of this movement, large and small, can be seen in the positions of the Mahdi, of Tippu Tip and in the rising number of murders of Europeans in Africa's interior. To transfer christianity and European civilization to Africa by armed force is not feasible because of the width of the country and of the climate. The indigenous population would be susceptible to the European efforts if it was not suppressed by the force of arms, the higher intelligence and the
cohesion of the Arab Muslims. We could outmatch the latter only, if we strike at the source of their superiority, superior armament and the realisation of their profits, by the suppression of the import of arms and the export of slaves.
Therefore I regard it a task no Christian nation should exclude itself from, to interrupt as far as possible the import of weapons and ammunition to Africa's interior and the export of slaves. This task shall be mainly taken care of by the two powers most interested in the Sultanate of Zanzibar, Germany and Britain; but to its complete solution it is recommended, to, soon, gain the cooperation of the neighbouring Portuguese government and of His Majesty the King of Belgium for the Congo Free State. It is also recommended to kindly ask the French government for their cooperation, in order to prevent arms import into the Congo area and in order to end the abuse of the French flag in East Africa by Arab dhows.
Your Excellency will request Lord Salisbury to confirm his approval with these opinions by a note to Sir Edward Malet, in order to cause the British navy to join in a concerted blockade of the Zanzibar coast, and, like us, but operating separately, to ask the previously mentioned governments to decree respective instructions.
signed von Bismarck
Your Excellency the Imperial Ambassador
Count von Hatzfeldt

http://www.zum.de/psm/rta/doa21.php
Reichstagsakten 1888/89, 7. Lp., Vol. 121, Attachment 41: Collection of Documents pertaining the Uprising in East Africa, No.21: Report from the Imperial ambassador in London
London, August 1st 1888
Cardinal Lavagerie, who arrived here from Algiers in order to advocate measures against slavery, yesterday held his first, much frequented lecture in Prince's Hall.
The Cardinal described his 30 years experience in the service of the cause of the liberation of slaves; during these years, 11 of his missionaries have been murdered in Africa's interior, more than 50 died from the exertion coming with their task. Still, the conditions in that part of the world have continuously deteriorated, and even in the high (p.408) plateaus of Central Africa where nature provides best for the population, slave traders have caused destruction. These slave traders would penetrate into the interior from Morocco, Tunis, Zanzibar and Egypt, at certain times and with considerable power, and would not be resisted by the demoralized inhabitants.
Cardinal Lavagerie suggested an international conference and proposed that the slave trade would have to be ended by force, and by encouraging the inhabitants to resist.
On the same occasion, Lord Granville reminded of the attempts made at the Congresses of Vienna and Verona to terminate the slave trade and expressed the belief that still today the various nations could agree on concerted actions.
This latter view has been accepted by the assembly in form of a resolution.
signed Hatzfeldt
His Excellency Prince von Bismarck

http://www.zum.de/psm/rta/doa8a.php
Reichstagsakten 1888/89, 7. Lp., Vol. 121, Attachment 41: Collection of Documents pertaining the Uprising in East Africa, Report from the Imperial consul general on Zanzibar
No.8, attachment no. 1, Report from District Chief of Lindi
Lindi, August 16th 1888
The Arab segment of the population of Lindi lives on the slave trade. All soldiers and Sultan's men are accomplices and receive their share in the robbery.
The main slave traders are :
Mahamadi Ngunga
Bachofa Hamed
Abid bin Zef
Halaal bin Zef
Salim bin Abdallah
Seliman, the Sultan's prison guard
Rashid de Pappa
and the Kadi Omani bin Jemali
The latter is given a large percentage for remaining silent.
British warships hardly ever have confiscated a slave dhow here and do not visit the port. Almost all the dhows sail under the French flag which they obtain from the consulate in Madagscar, as they have their ships measured there.
I remark simultanously that it is difficult to undertake anything here against slave trade, which is also profitable to the indigenous along the coast, without having a sufficient force at my disposal.
the district chief
Freiherr von Eberstein

YOU SEE WE HAVE BEEN DOWN THIS ROAD BEFORE BUT THE STAKES ARE MUCH HIGHER THEN MY SPELLING OR THEY HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST??
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT NUKES IN THE HANDS OF MONSTERS WHO WANT CONTROL OF THE WORLD ??

IF YOUR FEELINGS GET HURT GET OVER IT GROW UP AS THEY SAY??
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God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength, Wisdom, Sight, and Courage to stay the course to Destroy ALL islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Amen


Posted by: Catherine [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2005 12:02 AM

Just keep that Islamic tolerance going.
Micheal Jackson would be a good muslim,molesting all those kids without fear.
When are we going to wipe these scum out.

Posted by: D.T. [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2005 12:43 AM

Catherine's posts inform us of an interesting episode from history which most Westerners are not taught in their schools & universities which have swallowed anti-Western propaganda as a pathological mantra: Western powers, chiefly Britain (and now I learn from Catherine's post Prussia in alliance with Britain) waged wars against Muslims in Africa to try to stop them from continuing to practice slavery (Winston Churchill as a young man fought in some of those campaigns in Africa in the late 19th century).

Not only is the modern West the only civilization that dismantled its own slaveholding apparatus -- we also helped to limit some of its ravages on the Third World. But then the 20th century came, and with it, the West embarked upon a pathological course of self-hatred and uncritical adoration of Third World "victims" of the West, and now we find that pathology infesting our social and political organizations to such an extent we turn a blind eye to the continuation of slavery and other barbaric practices throughout the Muslim world.

Posted by: metaxy [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2005 12:44 AM

US must be with India like European Union. We have to be friends of fighters against jihad.

Posted by: Franze [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2005 4:07 AM

Lmao violetti u are too optimistic about India's chances in dealing wit Islamic bastards. Successive Indian governments including the one of so-called Hindu "nationalist" govt of BJP have shown a spineless attitude towards terror and have always caved in to US & EU pressure. They extremley reluctant to take pre-emptive action. Indian army loses on average 2 soldiers every day and hey it's peace time. On Siachen one soldier soldier dies every 2 days. Last year they killed some Mumbai girl(a momed ofcourse) in Gujarat who'd plotted to kill the "infamous" Narendra Modi. All newspapers and newsmedia ran stories about how it was a setup and PC blah blah. They even collected 500,000 (US $10000) to compensate her family only to b redfaced when her name appeared under "martyrs" column in LeT's Urdu journal.

Posted by: Vikrant_Camberleykar [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2005 4:33 AM

Lmao violetti u are too optimistic about India's chances in dealing wit Islamic bastards. Successive Indian governments including the one of so-called Hindu "nationalist" govt of BJP have shown a spineless attitude towards terror and have always caved in to US & EU pressure. They extremley reluctant to take pre-emptive action. Indian army loses on average 2 soldiers every day and hey it's peace time. On Siachen one soldier soldier dies every 2 days. Last year they killed some Mumbai girl(a momed ofcourse) in Gujarat who'd plotted to kill the "infamous" Narendra Modi. All newspapers and newsmedia ran stories about how it was a setup and PC blah blah. They even collected 500,000 (US $10000) to compensate her family only to b redfaced when her name appeared under "martyrs" column in LeT's Urdu journal. India treats those unpatriotic terrorist whores with too much of a compassion. Which other country would allow a potlical oragnisation of terrorists (Hurriyat) to function officially and allow those guys to travel to Islamabad, nowonder they've gone to just have an evening tea wit general. Pakistan ofcourse runs, supports and supplies the one big jihad against infidel India. How else do u suppose Britons,Uzbeks,Kazaks even Americans land up in Kashmir or Pakistan is suggesting terrorists get guns and arms from Indian army ofcourse it's an India plot to malign Pak (spit) internationally. If Israel is one extreme India is other. It is evident that India is on defensive whilst terrorists are on offensive under the conver of peace. Indian govt has even spared them from the starvation and bitter cold they face when they try to sneak in from POK in to J&K by putting up a Bus service. Pakistan wont let pro-India Kashmiri leaders come to Pakistan but terroist leaders who've "denounced" voilence travel to Islamabad wit impunity.

Posted by: Vikrant_Camberleykar [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2005 4:42 AM

Lmao violetti u are too optimistic about India's chances in dealing wit Islamic bastards. Successive Indian governments including the one of so-called Hindu "nationalist" govt of BJP have shown a spineless attitude towards terror and have always caved in to US & EU pressure. They extremley reluctant to take pre-emptive action. Indian army loses on average 2 soldiers every day and hey it's peace time. On Siachen one soldier soldier dies every 2 days. Last year they killed some Mumbai girl(a momed ofcourse) in Gujarat who'd plotted to kill the "infamous" Narendra Modi. All newspapers and newsmedia ran stories about how it was a setup and PC blah blah. They even collected 500,000 (US $10000) to compensate her family only to b redfaced when her name appeared under "martyrs" column in LeT's Urdu journal. India treats those unpatriotic terrorist whores with too much of a compassion. Which other country would allow a potlical oragnisation of terrorists (Hurriyat) to function officially and allow those guys to travel to Islamabad, nowonder they've gone to just have an evening tea wit general. Pakistan ofcourse runs, supports and supplies the one big jihad against infidel India. How else do u suppose Britons,Uzbeks,Kazaks even Americans land up in Kashmir or Pakistan is suggesting terrorists get guns and arms from Indian army ofcourse it's an India plot to malign Pak (spit) internationally. If Israel is one extreme India is other. It is evident that India is on defensive whilst terrorists are on offensive under the conver of peace. Indian govt has even spared them from the starvation and bitter cold they face when they try to sneak in from POK in to J&K by putting up a Bus service. Pakistan wont let pro-India Kashmiri leaders come to Pakistan but terroist leaders who've "denounced" voilence travel to Islamabad wit impunity.

Posted by: Vikrant_Camberleykar [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2005 4:42 AM

Here is some more history for you Catherine:

During 1894-1923 the Ottoman Empire (Muslims) conducted a policy of Genocide of the Christian population living within its extensive territory. The Sultan, Abdul Hamid, first put forth an official governmental policy of genocide against the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire in 1894.

Systematic massacres took place in 1894-1896 when Abdul savagely killed 300,000 Armenians throughout the provinces. Massacres recurred, and in 1909 government troops killed, in the towns of Adana alone, over 20,000 Christian Armenians.

When WW1 broke out the The Ottoman Empire was ruled by the "Young Turk" dictatorship which allied itself with Germany. Turkish government decided to eliminate the whole of the Christian population of Greeks, Armenians, Syrians and Nestorians. The government slogan, "Turkey for the Turks", served to encourage Turkish Muslim civilians on a policy of ethnic cleansing.

The next step of the Armenian Genocide began on 24 April 1915 with the mass arrest, and ultimate murder, of religious, political and intellectual leaders in Constantinople and elsewhere in the empire.

Then, in every Armenian community, a carefully planned Genocide unfolded: Arrest of clergy and other prominent persons, disarmament of the population and Armenian soldiers serving in the Ottoman army, segregation and public execution of leaders and able-bodied men, and the deportation to the deserts of the remaining Armenian women, children and elderly.

Renowned historian Arnold Toynbee wrote that "the crime was concerted very systematically for there is evidence of identical procedure from over fifty places."

The Genocide started from the border districts and seacoasts, and worked inland to the most remote hamlets. Over 1.5 million Armenian Christians, including over 4,000 bishops and priests, were killed in this step of the Genocide.

The Greek Christians, particularly in the Black Sea area known as Pontus, who had been suffering from Turkish-Muslim persecutions and murders all the while, saw the Turks turn more fiercely on them as WW1 came to a close.

The Allied Powers, at a peace conference in Paris in 1919, rewarded Greece for her support by inviting Prime Minister Venizelos to occupy the city of Smyrna with its rich hinterlands, and they placed the province under Greek control.

This action greatly angered the Turks. The Greek occupation was a peaceful one but drew immediate fire from Turkish forces in the outlying areas. When the Greek army farmed out to protect its people, a full-fledged war broke out between Greece and Turkey (the Greco-Turkish war).

The Treaty of Sevres, signed in 1920 to end WW1 and which provided for an independent Armenia, was never ratified. The treaty's terms changed not long after the ink dried as England, France and Italy each began secretly bargaining with Mustafa Kemel (Ataturk) in order to gain the right to exploit oil fields in the Mozul (now Iraq).

Betrayed by the Allied Powers, the Greek military front, after 40 long months of war, collapsed and retreated as the Turks began again to occupy Asia Minor.

September 1922 signaled the end of the Greek and Armenian presence in the city of Smyrna. On 9 September 1922, the Turks entered Smyrna; and after systematically murdering the Armenians in their own homes, the forces of Ataturk turned on the Greeks whose numbers had swelled, with the addition of refugees who had fled their villages in Turkey's interior, to upwards of 400,000 men, women and children.

The conquering Turk- Muslims went from house to house, looting, pillaging, raping and murdering the population. Finally, when the wind had turned so that it was blowing toward the sea so that the small Turkish quarter at the rear of the city was not in danger, Turkish forces, led by their officers, poured kerosene on the buildings and homes of the Greek and Armenian sectors and set them afire. Thus, any remaining live inhabitants of the city were flushed out to be caught between a wall of fire and the sea. The pier of Smyrna became a scene of final desperation as the approaching flames forced many thousands to jump to their death or to be consumed by fire.

The native population of Asia Minor traces its Christian roots to the early days of Christianity. the Armenians, an ancient people, trace their origins back 2500 years. In 301 AD. the Armenian King Dftad declared Christianity as the kingdom's official religion, making Armenia the first Christian political state in the world. The migration of Greek tribes to Asia Minor began just before 2,000 BC and the Greeks built dozens of cities such as Smyrna, Phocaea, Pergamon, Ephesus and Byzantium (Constantinople). The native inhabitants of Asia Minor, among the first to accept the message of Christianity, were later to be persecuted and uprooted from their lands because of that same faith. Turkish-Muslim tribes plagued the region. Later another tribe, the Oyuz Turks who embraced Islam and ultimately produced the Ottoman Turks, conquered Persia, the Caliphate of Baghdad, and then the whole area presently occupied by Syria, Iraq and Palestine.

Under the Ottoman Empire the Christians suffered a steady decline. Forced conversions to Islam, the abduction of children to serve in the fanatical Janissary corps, persecutions and oppression reduced the Christian population. Oppression intensified, leading to Genocide. Christian clergy were a constant target of Turkish persecution, particularly once the 1894 policy of Armenian genocide had been declared by sultan Abdul Hamid.

Victims of horrible torture, many Orthodox clergy were martyred for their faith. Among the first was Metropolitan Chrysostomos who was martyred, not just to kill a man but, to insult a sacred religion and an ancient and honorable people. Chrysostomos was enthroned as Metropolitan of Smyrna on 10 May 1910. Metropolitan Chrysostomos courageously opposed the anti Christian rage of the turks and sought to raise international pressure against the persecution of Turkish Christians. He wrote many letters to European leaders and to the western press in an effort to expose the genocide policies of the Turks. In 1922, in unprotected Smyrna, Chrysostomos said to those begging him to flee: "It is the tradition of the Greek Church and the duty of the priest to stay with his congregation."

On 9 September crowds were rushing into the cathedral for shelter when Chrysostomos, pale from fasting and lack of sleep, led his last prayer. The Divine Liturgy ended as Turkish police came to the church and led Chrysostomos away. The Turkish General Nouredin Pasha, known as the "butcher of Ionia", first spat on the Metropolitan and informed him that a tribunal in Angora (now Ankara) had already condemned him to death. A mob fell upon Chrysostomos and tore out his eyes. Bleeding profusely, he was dragged through the streets by his beard. He was beaten and kicked and parts of his body were cut off. All the while Chrysostomos, his face covered with blood, prayed: "Holy Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." Every now and then, when he had the strength, he would raise his hand and bless his persecutors; a Turk, realizing what the Metropolitan was doing, cut off his hand with a sword. Metropolitan Chrysostomos was then hacked to pieced by the angry mob.

Among the hundreds of Armenian clergy who were persecuted and murdered were Bishop Khosrov Behrigian and Very Reverend Father Mgrdich' Chghladian

Bishop Behrigian (1869-1915) was born in Zara and became the primate for the Diocese of Caesarea/Kayseri in 1915. He was arrested by Turkish police upon his return from Etchmiadzin where he had just been consecrated bishop. Informed of his fate, the bishop asked for a bullet to the head. Deliberately ignoring his request, the police tied him to a "yataghan" where sheep were butchered an then proceeded to hack his body apart while he was still alive.

Father Chghladian was born in Tatvan. In May 1915, as part of the campaign of mass arrests, deportations and murders, the priest was tortured and displayed in a procession, led by sheiks and dervishes while accompanied by drums, through the streets of Dikranagerd. Once the procession returned to the mosque, in the presence of government officials, the sheiks poured oil over the priest and burned him alive.

Four of the martyred bishops who were murdered between 1921-1922 are today elevated to sainthood in the Greek Orthodox Church: They are, in addition to Metropolitan Chrysostomos, Bishops Efthimios, Gregorios and Ambrosios.

Bishop Efthimios of Amasia was captured by the Turkish police and tortured daily for 41 days. In the last days of his life he chanted his own funeral memorial until finally dying in his cell on 29 May 1921. Three days later a written order for his execution arrived from Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk).

Metropolitan Gregorios of Kydonion remained with his church until the end, helping 20,000 of his 35,000 parishioners escape to Mytilene and other free parts of Greece. On 3 October 1922, the remaining 15,000 Orthodox Christians were executed; the Metropolitan was saved in order to be buried alive.

Metropolitan Ambrosios of Moshonesion, along with 12 priests and 6,000 Christians, were sent by the Turks on a forced deportation march to Central Asia Minor. All of them perished on the road, some slain by Turkish irregulars and civilians, the remainder left to die of starvation. Bishop Ambrosios died on 15 September 1922 when Turkish police nailed horseshoes to his feet and then cut his body into pieces.

"I have given orders to my Death Units to exterminate without mercy or pity, men, women, and children belonging to the Polish speaking race. It is only in this manner we can acquire the vital territory which we need. After all, who remembers the extermination of the Armenians?" - Adolf Hitler, 22 August 1939


Religion of Peace? Or as some on the left say, poor oppressed muslims?

Wake up world!

Posted by: Mullahmasher [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2005 5:27 AM

Here's another point of view I just received from a contact(a Jainist) in New Delhi who downplayed this incident: the truck broke down on its way to an excavation site near the airport and was parked at the side of the road. The driver was Moslem, hence the suspicion of terrorism.

How I'd like to know the real truth here!

"Broke down" or "intercepted" - very different connotations with each word. Was the driver trained in explosives (understandable if he was transporting a load of them) or was he trained to manufacture a specific type of bomb like ones previously used in terrorist bombings in India?

Interrogation by Indian police is notorious for their use of torture. How can we be sure it was not used in the "preliminary interrogation" of this driver? Is this driver a hapless victim of terrorist paranoia - or a scheming would-be bomber?

I wish I could find the true facts behind this story.

And why was my contact in India so non-chalant? Was he really unconcerned? Or did he feel that threats of bombings would hurt tourism and business ventures in India?

Perhaps more details will be forthcoming in the near future. This would be a good story to watch.

Posted by: Jen [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2005 11:06 AM

US must be with India like European Union. We have to be friends of fighters against jihad.

Posted by: Franze at June 14, 2005 04:07 AM

WE ARE WHERE YOU BEEN??

June 14, 2005
http://www.foehammer.net/2005/06/thoughts.html

VIDEO IN NYC OF CRAZY MULSUMS!!!

WHAT ABOUT THOSE LOOP HOLES??

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159503,00.html
Mall Bomb Plot Suspect Wants Statements Barred
Tuesday, June 14, 2005

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Somali immigrant accused of conspiring to help terrorists blow up a shopping mall is asking that his statements to investigators — including what he knew about a member of Al Qaeda (search) — be barred from his trial.
Attorney Mahir T. Sherif said Nuradin Abdi (search) was arrested without grounds and pressured to answer investigators' questions. On June 1, he asked a federal judge to bar the statements, which are sealed.
WHY ARE THEY SEALDED??

REMEMBER MIKIES BROTHER JERMAIN IS A MULSUM????

Agents told Abdi last November they were arresting him for violating immigration laws, but did not specify which laws and did not show him a warrant until three days later, Sherif said. Agents used his statements to build a case against him, Sherif said.
"It was a warrantless arrest to start with, and after keeping him for three days and questioning him for three days, they used his own statements to go get a warrant," Sherif said Monday.
HELLOW NOT AN AMERICAN AND ARRESTED ON ILLEGAL STATICE REMEMBER NO MATTER WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN AGAINST MONSTERS WHO WOULD RAPE YOUR CHILDERN OR CUT THEIR HEADS OFF!!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,122619,00.html
REMEMBER WHO THIS GUY IS??
Man Charged in Ohio Mall Blast Plot
Monday, June 14, 2004

WASHINGTON — Federal authorities have charged a Somali national with plotting to blow up a Columbus, Ohio, shopping mall and for supporting Al Qaeda.
Nuradin M. Abdi (search) has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly providing material support to Al Qaeda and other charges, according to court documents and Justice Department officials. He is accused of plotting to blow up the mall with Iyman Faris (search).
"The American heartland was targeted for death and destruction by an Al Qaeda cell, which allegedly included a Somali immigrant who will now face justice," Attorney General John Ashcroft said in announcing the unsealing of the grand jury's four-count indictment during a press conference Monday.
The charges against Abdi, who has been in custody since November on immigration-related violations, were handed up by the grand jury last Thursday.
According to court documents, while living in the United States, Abdi went on April 27, 1999, to get travel documents and falsely said that he intended to visit Germany and Saudi Arabia for the purpose of "Umrah" and to visit a relative. Actually, according to the government, he was going to Ethiopia to get military-style training in preparation for violent jihad.
AND OF COURSE THIS WAS HIS HANDLER??

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158771,00.html
Official: Al Qaeda Suspect in U.S.
Tuesday, June 07, 2005

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan (search) said Monday it handed over a senior Al Qaeda (search) suspect to the United States even though he had been the country's most wanted man for allegedly masterminding two bloody attempts to blow up President Gen. Pervez Musharraf (search).
Some Pakistani officials have described Abu Farraj al-Libbi

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/content_multi_image/content_multi_image_0006.xml
Who will be required to enroll in US-VISIT?
US-VISIT currently applies to all visitors (with limited exemptions) holding non-immigrant visas, regardless of country of origin.

SEAMS ISLAMIC TERORIST IN GETMO CRY A LOT??

DON’T LIKE WOMEN IN THEIR SPACE AND CRY A LOT??

DID YOU HEAR THAT LIB WOMEN THEY DON’T LIKE WOMEN TO HAVE JOBS OR BE IN THEIR SPACE WITHOUT BEING COVERED??

SO THESE BULLY TERRORIST CRY WHEN THEY ARE AROUND WOMEN?? ROTFL!! ROTFL!! NO WONDER WHY THE HATE THE USA BECAUSE WE LOVE OUR SHORT SKIRTS AND WOMEN!! MEN IN THE USA LOVE WOMEN IN THEIR SPACE!!! DON’T THINK THEY WOULD BE CRYING???

Ubls[YELLOW COWARD WHO RUNS AWAY] monsters cry when around women????ROTFL!!! GET THE BLOW UP DOLLS PUT THEM ALL OVER THE ME PROTECT THE WORLD!!! ROTFL!!!

SHORT SKIRTS FOREVER!!! ISLAMIC TERRORIST GIVES UP INFORMATION BECAUSE WOMAN IN HIS SPACE THEN BREAKS DOWN CRYING!!!!! ROTFL!!!

WHERE ARE THE LIB WOMEN DEFENDING THE WOMEN IN THE MILTARY THE ISLAMIC TERRORIST DON’T WOMEN IN THE MILTIARY BECAUSE IT MAKES THEM CRY??
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159484,00.html

Musharraf: No Bin Laden Clues From Al-Libbi
Tuesday, June 14, 2005

CANBERRA, Australia — An alleged Al Qaeda (search) kingpin has not provided information to Pakistani interrogators that could lead them to Usama bin Laden, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf (search) said Tuesday.

WELL A LITTLE SUN SHINE AND WOMEN IN SHORT SKIRTS WILL MAKE HIM CRY AND GIVE IT UP????

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159498,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159464,00.html
Eight Killed After Quake Rocks Chile
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
WHAT ABOUT BEING IN HIGH PLACES?? MOUTIANS??

Interior Minister Jorge Correa said a boulder fell on a car near Chile's northern port city of Iquique, killing all five passengers — three adults and two children. The other victims were three elderly men killed in two different Andean villages. One of the victims was a disabled 80-year-old man killed when a wall collapsed at his home.
REMEMBER THE MULSUM SITTING WITH ubl WASN’T HE A CRIPPLE??

In the Bolivian capital of La Paz, many people took to the streets in panic.

ANOTHER SIGN FOR THEM THAT THEY DID THE WRONG THING GETTING RID OF THEIR PRESIDENT???

THEY CAN CHANGE THINGS IF THEY STAY BRAVE IN 180 DAYS PUT HIM BACK AS PRESIDENT!!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159487,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159271,00.html
HUH??
97 Dead in Two China Tragedies
http://www.gznet.edu.cn/WWW/scn/guangdong/e_gd.html

HUH??
IS THIS NOT WHERE THE ORGAN TERRORIST WENT??


HUH??
OF COURSE THEY LEFT OUT THE SARS PART??

http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501030505/guangdong.html
Posted Monday, April 28, 2003; 22:50 HKT
In the struggle to contain SARS, Ma Lin is the man with his finger in the dike.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158591,00.html

Rumsfeld Questions China Arms Buildup
Saturday, June 04, 2005

ME TOO???

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158873,00.html
Body Parts Fall From Airplane
Tuesday, June 07, 2005

FLORAL PARK, N.Y. — A man's leg and part of his torso dropped out of the wheel well of a jetliner near Kennedy Airport (search) and plunged into a suburban neighborhood Tuesday, coming to rest in a home's backyard, authorities said.
The flying body parts made for a ghastly discovery for Pam Hearne, who heard "a loud crash" and later was stunned to see a foot clad in an Adidas sneaker and a sock in the middle of her lawn, said Officer Thomas Blanchard. The leg and torso dented the shingled roof of her garage.
OH MY???

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159433,00.html
Cargo Plane Crashes Near Ft. Lauderdale
Monday, June 13, 2005
Pilot Charles Riggs, co-pilot Charles Wirt and passenger Hector Espinoza were in fair condition at Holy Cross Hospital (search). The two people injured on the ground were also hospitalized, including one in serious condition, McInerny said.
HUMM???

Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURAHE TO STAY THE COURSE TO STAY THE COURSE TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM OPEN THE WORLDS EYES TO THEIR THREAT GIVE THE WORLD COURAGE TO STAND AND FIGHT LET NOT THE WORLD BE DECEIVED BY THEM AMEN


PS
SHORT SKIRTS WORTH FIGHTING FOR!!

ROTF ISLAMIC TERRORIST CRYING BECAUSE A GIRL WAS IN HIS SPACE!! ROTFL!!!!!

Posted by: Catherine [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2005 2:00 PM

Wake up world!


Posted by: Mullahmasher at June 14, 2005 05:27 AM

Gold Star for you today!!

But you could have gone back even father 1700s and the 1600s remember the Marine Corps Hym from Triploi?????

and how the Parthon was lost??

It will be nice when the world stops being wossies and so PC!!!!!!

Fire ants must be killed hill by hill until they can do no more harm!!!!

Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURAGE TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM AMEN

PS
GIRLS WITH GUNS IN SHORT SKIRTS FOREVER MAKE ISLAMIC TERRORIST CRY!!!! ROTFL!!!

Posted by: Catherine [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2005 2:22 PM

Mullahmasher --

One point about your history of Turkey post I object to: Ataturk may have also been complicit in the slaughter of Armenians and Greeks, but it was not because of Islamic motivations on his part.

"[When Ataturk became President of Turkey in 1923] he abolished the Caliphate – the office of the head of the Muslim religion – as unfitting for a modern republic. He introduced a new alphabet, switching from an Arabic system to a Roman system. The legal system was completely reworked, giving full rights to all citizens and eliminating Islamic law. To modernize the culture, he forbade the wearing of the traditional Turkish hat, the fez, and did not allow women to cover their heads in Islamic fashion while in the Parliament building."

Posted by: metaxy [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2005 11:20 PM