... extremist material on his computer that included videos of beheadings and footage of the bombing of the Australian embassy...

Extremist? Beheadings & bombings, heck, this stuff taken straight from the Islamic scripture, and that's not extreme, that's mainstream. Heck, this is what they worship.

MO KORANS MO HADITHS MO SIRATS MO SHARIA MO BIG BOMBINGS MO MO MO MO

Could be that the Aussies are willfully violating the good Mr. Mulahalilovic's right to religious freedom?

Or, if not, then has John Howard wisely, and finally, ruled that Islam is not a religion, but is a fake religion.

Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at April 10, 2006 3:49 PM

Dear Robert and friends,

You ought to be paying more attention to the Arab links to the illegal immigration protests. It is an odd alliance of racist, anti-semitic Chicanoists, Islamists, and Communists. This is an open threat to our democracy.

http://thomistic.blogspot.com

Some of the connections are out in the open, but there are many murky "organizers" whose identity is not revealed. I've gone to some web sites and drawn some connections, like to Workers' World and to Troops Out Now, and earlier, into some Chicanoist sites with ties to Communist organizations. CAIR is calling for active involvement in these protests.

Posted by: Dumb Ox at April 10, 2006 4:18 PM

videos of beheadings and footage of the bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta.

IOW, Islamoporn.

Posted by: Yojimbo at April 10, 2006 4:26 PM

Dumb Ox,

It seems there are always nuts at any protest, pushing unrelated agendas. I saw a lot of Iraq war protests back when I lived in SF. What I found was a lot of people who were against the war were NOT interested in all the other causes that latched on, which are all favorites of the career protest people, like Mumia Abu-Jamal, Free Palestine, and many other dubious things. This turned a lot of reasonable people off, who stopped being part of the anti-war protests because they did not want to lend their support to unrelated issues Although the presence of these nutjobs is concerning, I do not believe most of the people involved in the protests about immigration share their views about other issues.

Posted by: Quijybo at April 10, 2006 4:27 PM

Dumb Ox-- check out aztlan.net for more disturbing Chicano nationalist/Islamist sympathies: Everything from whether the riots in France could happen here to the usual griping about Israel.

Many common threads, though: Both are fighting for self-proclaimed, secessionist "nations" (Aztlan, Palestine), making claims to land they think should be theirs, and seeking a scapegoat to avoid addressing their community's internal problems.

Posted by: Shinoliite at April 10, 2006 4:31 PM

As for the Mulahalilovic's "library," I pity the law enforcement personnel who will be tasked with sifting through all of that.

That said, I hope they actually do take the time and hire people with the foreign language skills necessary to get the information from this stash of multimedia.

Posted by: Shinoliite at April 10, 2006 4:44 PM

New story about 9-11, I despise Islam more and more every day. The only thing Islam brings to the world is death and destruction:

Moussaoui Judge Warns Againt Prejudicial Testimony
Monday, April 10, 2006

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The grandfather of the youngest victim of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, testifying at Zacarias Moussaoui's sentencing trial Monday, described watching on television as the plane carrying his son and granddaughter hit the World Trade Center.

C. Lee Hanson said that his son, Peter, was calling from the phone. "As we were talking he said, very softly, 'Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God!' " The 73-year-old Hanson was describing the moment before he watched the plane become the second to hit the Twin Towers on that fateful day.

A few minutes before, Hanson said, Peter had told him he thought the hijackers were going to crash the plane into a building, and his son told him, "Don't worry Dad, if it happens, it will be quick."

Sue and Peter Hanson were on their way from Boston to Los Angeles to visit the grandparents and take their then 2-1/2-year-old girl, Christine, to Disneyland.

The grandfather said that medical examiners asked him in the days after the attacks to retrieve DNA samples from the family home to identify remains. The grandfather said it was "probably one of the worst things I ever did in my life. I was picking hair out of hair brushes, putting toothbrushes into bags."

He said the only remains that were ever found was a bone of his son, a few inches long.

The testimony came as a federal judge warned prosecutors against relying too heavily on emotional eyewitness accounts from Sept. 11 families to influence the jury in Moussaoui's trial.

The word of caution by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema came after complaints from the defense lawyers that a stream of victim-impact testimony last week would be overly prejudicial to the jury that must decide if Moussaoui is to be executed.

On Monday, prosecutors told the judge they would display fewer family photos and would try to keep testimony from each witness under 30 minutes.

Brinkema acknowledged that there is no way to avoid emotional testimony in this case, but reminded them that overly prejudicial testimony can be grounds for overturning a death sentence on appeal.

"You may pay a price for that down the road," she told prosecutors.

Despite her admonition, the testimony remained deeply affecting. Jurors heard a 911 tape from a trapped victim on the 83rd floor of the South Tower, who told the dispatcher "I'm going to die, aren't I? Please God, its so hot, I'm burning up."

The first witness was John Creamer, an assistant principal from Massachusetts, who described the impact of his wife Tara's death on the couple's two children.

Creamer said he sought advice from a child psychologist on informing his then 4-year-old son about his mother's death.

"How do you tell child their mom is dead and she isn't coming back?" Creamer said, fighting back tears.

Moussaoui was watching the witnesses closely throughout the morning. When court recessed, he said in a loud voice "Burn in the USA."

Prosecutors have said that about 45 such witnesses will testify — compared, they noted — with the nearly 3,000 people who died that day.

The jury already has heard about a half-dozen painful accounts of the human toll exacted in the airborne attacks. They included a New York City firefighter whose friend and mentor was killed when he was struck by the body of a person who jumped from one of World Trade Center towers to avoid being burned alive and the suicide note of a woman who lost her husband when his plane crashed into the towers.

Moussaoui is the only person charged in this country in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks. The jury deciding his sentencing fate has already declared him eligible for the death penalty by determining that his actions caused at least one death on Sept. 11.

Even though he was in jail in Minnesota at the time of the attacks, the jury ruled that lies told by Moussaoui to federal agents a month before the attacks kept them from identifying and stopping some of the hijackers.

Now they must decide whether Moussaoui deserves execution or life in prison.

Defense lawyers hope the jury will spare Moussaoui's life because of his limited role in the attacks, evidence of mental illness and because they say his execution would only fuel his dream of martyrdom.

Posted by: Abby at April 10, 2006 5:48 PM

OT: Mexican Constitution's Solution to US Immigration Policy

Mexico's Glass House

For example, according to an official translation published by the Organization of American States, the Mexican constitution includes the following restrictions:

• Pursuant to Article 33, "Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country." This ban applies, among other things, to participation in demonstrations and the expression of opinions in public about domestic politics like those much in evidence in Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere in recent days.

• Equal employment rights are denied to immigrants, even legal ones. Article 32: "Mexicans shall have priority over foreigners under equality of circumstances for all classes of concessions and for all employment, positions, or commissions of the Government in which the status of citizenship is not indispensable."

• Jobs for which Mexican citizenship is considered "indispensable" include, pursuant to Article 32, bans on foreigners, immigrants, and even naturalized citizens of Mexico serving as military officers, Mexican-flagged ship and airline crew, and chiefs of seaports and airports.

• Article 55 denies immigrants the right to become federal lawmakers. A Mexican congressman or senator must be "a Mexican citizen by birth." Article 91 further stipulates that immigrants may never aspire to become cabinet officers as they are required to be Mexican by birth. Article 95 says the same about Supreme Court justices.

• In accordance with Article 130, immigrants — even legal ones — may not become members of the clergy, either.

• Foreigners, to say nothing of illegal immigrants, are denied fundamental property rights. For example, Article 27 states, "Only Mexicans by birth or naturalization and Mexican companies have the right to acquire ownership of lands, waters, and their appurtenances, or to obtain concessions for the exploitation of mines or of waters."

• Article 11 guarantees federal protection against "undesirable aliens resident in the country." What is more, private individuals are authorized to make citizen's arrests. Article 16 states, "In cases of flagrante delicto, any person may arrest the offender and his accomplices, turning them over without delay to the nearest authorities." In other words, Mexico grants its citizens the right to arrest illegal aliens and hand them over to police for prosecution. Imagine the Minutemen exercising such a right!

• The Mexican constitution states that foreigners — not just illegal immigrants — may be expelled for any reason and without due process. According to Article 33, "the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action."

That's from LGF

Posted by: Borg at April 10, 2006 5:49 PM

From the original article:

Mr Mulahalilovic's barrister, Phillip Boulten SC, told magistrate Allan Moore the prosecution case was a weak one. [...]

Mr Boulten offered a $1million surety for his client's bail but Mr Moore refused.

I would agree that the case was weak on material evidence (just the acid, no weapons) but strong on ideological evidence (that library). I think it's a telling decision to have refused bail.

It's still important, however, to distinguish the more overt and current jihadist material from the historical and mainstream Islamic material. Make the connections, yes, but accept that the bulk of Muslims feel no need or desire to engage in violent jihad.

Also, on the "racist" issue, I'm convinced there is a strong element of this in the religion of Islam. This Mulahalilovic probably does have Arab blood in him. So too most Iranians and Pakistanis. There was a lot of raping and harem building during the Islamic conquests. The spreading of Arab cultural "memes" went hand in hand with the spreading of Arab biological genes. Enough for there to be a strong racist element in the mix.

We should not be apologetic about this "Islamophobia" even if it contains a healthy awareness that a certain gene pool is trying to dominate all others.

Posted by: Arizona at April 10, 2006 6:30 PM

ABC News Anchor Elizabeth Vargas wears white on broadcast to show solidarity with illegal immigrant demonstrations. The demonstrators wore white as a sign of unity.

Posted by: Borg at April 10, 2006 6:46 PM

Perhaps not the right thread, but certainly interesting...

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Inside ‘Islam’s political insurgency’ in Europe
In the war of ideas, Hizb ut-Tahrir stakes its ground, courts controversy

By Daniel Strieff
Reporter
MSNBC
Updated: 12:05 p.m. ET April 10, 2006

LONDON — Merely a radical Islamic political party or a “conveyor belt for terrorists”?

That is the question British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government hopes to answer when it decides whether to join Germany, Russia and many Muslim-majority states in formally banning the activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation) for allegedly inciting violence.

Hizb ut-Tahrir says it is a nonviolent political party, but critics assert it is deeply divisive and potentially dangerous -- especially in Europe -- because it is openly anti-democratic, calls for a new world order based on uniting the world's 1.2 billion Muslims in a new state and shares a worldview, if not methodology, with some violent groups.

“Hizb ut-Tahrir is very dangerous for the long-term in Western countries because it pushes forward an ideology that doesn’t believe in these countries’ constitution, in the system, in the laws, but says there is only one answer: a new Islamic state,” said Zeyno Baran of the Washington-based Nixon Center and the author of "Hizb ut-Tahrir: Islam's Political Insurgency."

Hizb ut-Tahrir wants all Muslims united in a single state led by a caliph, or a successor to the prophet of God.

Despite a changing power base and structure, the caliphate as an institution represented a united political leadership that governed the affairs of Muslims for around 1,400 years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk dismantled the last caliphate, in Ottoman Turkey, in 1924.

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush has often cast the fight against radical Islam as a wider struggle between the West and those who want to establish "a totalitarian Islamic empire reaching from Spain to Indonesia."

Blair singles out Hizb ut-Tahrir
Less than a month after July 7, 2005, when four British Muslims detonated suicide bombs on three London subway trains and one bus, killing 52 people and wounding hundreds of others, Blair singled out plans to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir as part of his anti-terrorism plan.

To that end, parliament in March approved a terrorism bill that made it a criminal offense to "encourage" or "glorify" terrorism.

A Home Office spokesman declined to elaborate on Blair's statements. Hizb ut-Tahrir's legal status remains in limbo.

Regardless, Hizb ut-Tahrir insists it is a political party, albeit one without offices nor a base of operations.

"We do not have a military wing, we have never had a military wing, we do not plan to ever have a military wing," Jamal Harwood, a spokesman for the group in Britain, said during an interview in London's gleaming Canary Wharf area, one of the financial and media hubs of the city.

Although founded in Jerusalem half a century ago as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, experts say London has become the group's ideological and logistical center.

The Nixon Center's Baran believes Hizb ut-Tahrir is dangerous because it contends Islam and the West are inherently at odds. She has called the group "radical Sunni Islamism's ideological vanguard" and a "conveyor belt for terrorists."

“Hizb ut-Tahrir is a threat because once someone is so ideologically certain that the caliphate is the answer and that Muslims must be united, that Western laws are not legitimate, that the United States is holding down Muslims everywhere and must be destroyed, you become a person who is very confused internally," Baran said. "That kind of person may easily jump onto the next step and say, ‘I don’t want to wait 50 years, I want it now,’ and then resort to violence.”

The caliphate as an idea resonates deeply with many Muslims, analysts say.

No doubt as an attempt to tap into that sentiment, the online "newscast" that al-Qaida launched in September is called "The Voice of the Caliphate."

But actual support for the re-establishment of a pan-Islamic state is difficult to ascertain.

As for Hizb ut-Tahrir, Sher Khan, of the moderate Muslim Council of Britain, said the notion that most Muslims in the West support its goals and methods is "ludicrous."

"They just shout louder than anyone else," he said. “It’s very detrimental to the Muslim community, the manner in which they call for these things.”

Yet a recent BBC poll found that 40 percent of British Muslims want Islamic law implemented in parts of the country.

The Nixon Center's Baran said Hizb ut-Tahrir's secrecy makes its size difficult to gauge, but that its membership likely ranges in the hundreds in Western countries such as Denmark and up to tens of thousands in Muslim states such as Uzbekistan.

She said the group's presence in the United States is small but growing, particularly on college campuses.

Alienation in the West?
Analysts say groups like Hizb ut-Tahrir prey upon alienation among second-generation Muslims and converts in the West.

“It gives a positive dimension to their exclusion. What they wanted to become, well-to-do Westerners, they cannot achieve, so they feel they have negative value,” said Olivier Roy, a renowned French scholar of political Islam.

Not so, said Mohammed Akmal, 28, who has been a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir since 1994.

Akmal, who described himself as a businessman, joined the group along with other students while he was in college in London after being impressed by the group's "intellectually appealing" message of a greater role for Islam in governance.

“There was nothing within that (college) environment that made us alien to the world in which we lived,” he said.

Instead, his generation was deeply affected by a number of recent events, including the first Gulf War and the fate of Bosnian Muslims in the Balkan Wars.

“There was an element of feeling that the Muslim world was in crisis,” he said. “Hizb ut-Tahrir had quite a coherent answer to how the Muslim world should tackle these problems.”

Hizb ut-Tahrir has been criticized because it does not participate in the political processes in the countries in which it operates and, analysts like Baran argue, it advocates noninvolvement for Muslims in the West.

Hizb ut-Tahrir defends its focus on geopolitics, saying Islamic tradition dictates that all Muslims remain involved in their communities.

“It would be hypocritical for us to call for a caliphate in the Muslim world, where our main problem is … and then engage in politics in this country,” Harwood said.

‘They are totally cut off from reality’
For Roy, that is precisely the problem.

“They have no real political program to establish this caliphate. They have no timetable. They have no policy … (no) solutions,” said Roy, whose books include "Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Umma."

“They are totally cut off from reality. They are more interested in this sort of psychodrama than in real political action,” he said. "In a sense it is closer to a cult than a political party.”

Hizb ut-Tahrir argues that Western-style democracy is incompatible with Islam because it allows people to be governed by laws other than those revealed by God. The group says any caliphate would be a "representative" government in an Islamic context.

"Hizb ut-Tahrir calls upon [Muslims] to mobilize your forces and rally your ranks to help and support it in its work to establish the Khilafah state (caliphate), by which you will restore your glory, attain the good pleasure of your lord and destroy your enemies," a 2005 publication exhorted.

Hizb ut-Tahrir conceives that any Islamic state would harken back to Medina in the time of Muhammad and would be operated on shariah, a legal code derived from the Quran and Muhammad's teachings.

“We are calling for the caliphate based upon that which Prophet Muhammad gave us … with new ideas in areas of technology ... which Islam allows,” Harwood said.

Hizb ut-Tahrir also believes the establishment of the caliphate will ameliorate the divisions between Islamic sects, most notably between Sunnis and Shiites.

“The Islamic rules on leadership are very clear: they only accept one leadership for Muslims,” Harwood said.

Despite its protestations, controversy has dogged Hizb ut-Tahrir, including:

In 1996, Omar Bakri Muhammad, a Syrian-born Muslim cleric living in Britain, broke off from Hizb ut-Tahrir and formed a virulently anti-Semitic group, Al Muhajiroun. That group, which Bakri formally dissolved in 2004 but which allegedly still exists under a different name, became known in the United States after holding a conference called "The Magnificent 19" which praised the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It also claimed to have sent British Muslims to fight Western forces in Afghanistan after the U.S.-led invasion. Bakri, who is now believed to reside in Lebanon, has since been banned from Britain on grounds that his presence here was “not conductive to the public good.”
After the London bombings, a reporter for the Guardian newspaper was discovered to be a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir. The journalist, Dilpazier Aslam, who had covered stories relating to the attacks and authored an op-ed piece called "We rock the boat: today’s Muslims aren’t prepared to ignore injustice," was fired when he refused to quit Hizb ut-Tahrir.
In the 1990s, the National Union of Students banned Hizb ut-Tahrir from British college campuses over alleged anti-Semitism.
The anti-war British politician George Galloway said he was attacked by Hizb ut-Tahrir supporters while campaigning last year. Galloway said the supporters accused him of being a “false prophet” for encouraging Muslims to participate in Britain’s elections.
In October 2002, Hizb ut-Tahrir's spokesman in Denmark was convicted of distributing anti-Semitic propaganda and given a 60-day suspended sentence. Harwood defended the member and said the offending material, some of which praised suicide bombings, was taken out of context (the Danish court had rejected that argument.)
Members of Hizb ut-Tahrir have been charged with plotting coups in Egypt and Jordan.
Hizb ut-Tahrir is active in dozens of countries and maintains several official Web sites.

“Western countries need to offer Muslims better teaching in proper Islam and more opportunities so that they are not so easily influenced by this overly politicized version of Islam espoused by Hizb ut-Tahrir,” Baran said.

But Harwood said any ban in Britain was unlikely to impact the group's activities significantly.

“Those ideas continue to circulate throughout the Muslim world and also throughout the Muslim community in non-Muslim countries," he said. "So in that sense we don’t see that there will be any change.”

© 2006 MSNBC Interactive

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Islam, the cult of nightmare...
Peace,

Posted by: Dog of Temple at April 10, 2006 7:00 PM

Round them up, ship them out.

From Arizona above...

"I would agree that the case was weak on material evidence (just the acid, no weapons) but strong on ideological evidence (that library). I think it's a telling decision to have refused bail."

Anyone who has Islamoporn in their possesion should be charged with a criminal offence (then ship them out).

Posted by: Ozi_bloke at April 10, 2006 8:42 PM

The name "Mulahalilovic" would most definitely indicate Balkan origins- more specificily Bosnia or Serbia & Montenegro(Sandzak). Many "Bosnjaks" have these long and improbable surnames; often consisting of a type of noble Ottoman or Islamic religious title(beg, hadzi) with an arab or turkish first name coupled with the common Serbo-Croatian "vic"(pronounced "vich") ending; ie. Izetbegovic, Hadzihasanbegovic etc. In this case we have -

"mullah" + "halil" + "vic" = repeat after me?

It is worth noting that all peoples of the former Yugoslavia have sizeable expatriate communities in Australia, and I'm interested in knowing whether today's Jihadi Down Under was born there or is a recent arrival displaced by the most recent rounds of fighting('91-'95 or even Kosovo).

Keep your eyes peeled for those muslim "vic" surnames. The "Bosnjak" people are the West's great hope for a palatable EU-model "Future Islam"; as well as the Caliphate's traditional(and highly-treasured) indigenous vanguard on The Jihad's western front, and they have already succeeded in laying the foundation for Europe's first Sharia State. We will most likely be seeing more of these types of "Muhalilovic" in the future- (with their funny ways of thanking the West for it's Benign Bosnian Intervention).

By the way - I'm wondering if a thorough search of his living quarters might turn up a well-read(dog-eared and underlined) copy of Stephen Schwartz's "THE TWO FACES OF ISLAM"?

Bosnia - Islam's Great White Hope

Posted by: hassan_salami at April 10, 2006 8:50 PM

It's always amazing how the Islamic terrorists turn their contempt for human rights on its head. In this case, the lawyer for Omar Baladjam (a co-defendant of Mulahalilovic) has pleaded with the Premier of New South Wales to do something about the "inhumane" conditions under which the terrorists are being kept. And what makes those conditions "inhumane"? According to the lawyer: "He's allowed one hour of sunlight a day and the conduct of the prison officers, constantly mocking (his religion) ... is an attempt to break this young man's spirit."

http://tinyurl.com/jbljm

So we're supposed to feel guilty about "breaking the terrorists' spirits?"

I couldn't make up stuff like this.

The disease is everywhere, I fear. I once asked a Canadian left-winger what would happen if Osama bin Laden were tried in a U.S. civilian courtroom and got himself acquitted by playing the "race card" or something, similar to how O.J. Simpson was acquitted. And as a result, Osama walks out of the courtroom a free man. His answer? That would be a good thing, a "victory for the rule of law."

The guy who said "It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game" never had to fight Islamic terrorism.

Posted by: Steven L. at April 10, 2006 8:58 PM

Steven L.-

Respect for disembodied abstractions over bloody reality will doom the p.c. true believers eventually.

May that day dawn soon.

Whatever the cost.

Posted by: profitsbeard at April 10, 2006 10:42 PM

Haha. Unfortunately for the cretin would-be terrorist, his case went before Sydney Magistrate Allan 'No Bail' Moore.

Amazing too, how these fools keep incriminating images, documents, etc on their hard drives.

I'll bet he couldnt bear to delete those images of the two Christian Indonesian girls being beheaded.

In Sydney right now we are having a war between rival gangs of Muslim morons - we have had about 22 driveby shootings this year, most in the southwest suburbs of Sydney - MuslimTown. Personally, I would love to see the politicians responsible for allowing these neanderthals to come here as 'refugees' brought up on criminal charges.

Posted by: Deecha at April 10, 2006 11:34 PM

"I think it is likely that Mirsad Mulahalilovic is not an Arab." -Robert
"The name "Mulahalilovic" would most definitely indicate Balkan origins- more specificily Bosnia or Serbia & Montenegro(Sandzak)... I'm interested in knowing whether today's Jihadi Down Under was born there or is a recent arrival displaced by the most recent rounds of fighting('91-'95 or even Kosovo)...Bosnia - Islam's Great White Hope"-hassan_salami

The smh website reports he is Bosnian-born, and arrived in Australia in 1996.

Posted by: islamophobic pride at April 10, 2006 11:35 PM

Steven L, you might be interested in this, from oz abc wesite (Nov 9, 2005): "The Sydney man shot by police during counter-terrorism raids yesterday has been charged with a terrorism offence after a bedside hearing at Sydney's Liverpool Hospital.

The 28-year-old man has also been charged with attempting to murder two police officers.

West Hoxton man Omar Baladjam was shot in the neck as police tried to arrest him during the raids."

Posted by: islamophobic pride at April 10, 2006 11:56 PM

West Hoxton man Omar Baladjam was shot in the neck as police tried to arrest him during the raids."
Posted by: islamophobic pride at April 10, 2006 11:56 PM
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That police officer needs some gun range practice. The head makes a large target.

Posted by: Texican at April 11, 2006 12:07 AM

Typical ungrateful muslim, we give this Bosnian sanctuary in the best country in the World and how does he repay us ? By plotting to behead and/or blow us up ! Send them all back to their Islamic Sh*tholes !

Posted by: PAS at April 11, 2006 1:32 AM

This is slightly off-topic but nevertheless will be interesting to the bloggers here.

A Press Trust of India report dated 10th April says that Pakistan tampered with the 9/11 report. The full story is available at

http://www.samachar.com/showurl.htm?rurl=http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=65815&headline=‘Pakistan~tampered~with~9/11~report'

Posted by: cincinnatikid at April 11, 2006 2:21 AM

"That police officer needs some gun range practice. The head makes a large target."
Now, come on Texican, this target opened fire first. Could have put his aim out a few inches?

Posted by: islamophobic pride at April 11, 2006 2:35 AM

Guys, economics majors, financers, investors...i need your help.

?what would be the result of an economic down turn in the GCC on terrorists?

In other words, would the governments use more disgruntled people for jihad or would they instead redirect the jihad financing and mosque-building petrodollars to save the financial sector? (preferable one)

Please brainstorm!

Posted by: Tushar Saxena at April 11, 2006 3:51 AM

Economics majors, investors, financial consultants, need your help on this one.

What would be the result of an economic down turn in the GCC on terrorists (jihad)?

In other words, would the govts. be compelled to increase jihad-funding and channel off unhappy people to the active jihad OR will they be compelled to cut down jihad funding and mosque building petrodollars to be redirected to saving the dying financial sector?

Brainstorming please!

Posted by: Tushar Saxena at April 11, 2006 4:07 AM

From the Daily Telegraph, 11/04/2006:

Iran and the Bomb

During three years of painstaking negotiations with Iran, Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel peace laureate who heads the IAEA, went out of his way to play along with the charade that Iran's nuclear ambitions were entirely peaceful and designed to develop an indigenous nuclear power industry. This, after all, is a country with known oil reserves in excess of 90 billion barrels, more than enough to meet its energy needs well into the next century.

Mr ElBaradei was even prepared to accept at face value the Iranians' shame-faced admission that their failure to disclose the existence of their massive nuclear enrichment plant at Natanz was no more than a bureaucratic oversight.

When the inspectors were finally granted admission, they were dumb-founded to find themselves in a 250,000-acre complex containing two vast underground bomb-proof bunkers designed for enriching uranium to weapons grade.

My emphasis. Who appointed this guy?

Here's the conclusion:

But if the current round of diplomacy is to stand any chance of success, then the Iranians must be made to understand that their prevarication tactics at the UN can no longer be tolerated over an issue of such importance for international security.

For while Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, regards the concept of military action against Iran as "nuts", it would be even nuttier to allow Teheran to have an atom bomb.

Quite.

Full text

Posted by: Yojimbo at April 11, 2006 4:22 AM

More on Australian jihadists here:

http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/001908.html

46-year old Abu Nacer Benbrika ... urged his followers to create "maximum damage". In secret recordings made by police surveillance, he had said in February 2005: "If we want to die for jihad we have to have maximum damage. Maximum damage. Damage their buildings, everything. Damage their lives to show them. In this we will have to be careful."

He's obviously fitted into Australian society nicely - brought none of his obsessions in with his luggage. Only too pleased to forget about all that, grab a cold tinny of beer, and head off down to see the footie.

He [Benbrika] has told authorities that his life would be in danger if returned to Algeria.

Know how to play the system, don't they?

Posted by: Yojimbo at April 11, 2006 4:29 AM

hassan_salami

Mula + halilo + vic

I'm going to hazard a guess that in Serbo-Croation "vic" = son. (-witz, -vitch, -vitz, etc., = son in Yiddish and Slavic languages) "Mula" is pretty suggestive of "mullah". The middle part, I leave to someone more learned than I.

As to recency of conversion or "reversion" (and any dog-eared copies of Stephen Schwartz), we could be looking at the decendent of 500 years of Muslim presence in the Balkans, and not a newly minted "Mo-bot".

Posted by: waterdragon52 at April 11, 2006 8:31 AM

This is slightly OT but not really, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12263326/
Truly sad, so very very sad. I guess it's just a huge coincidence that all these terrorists are muslim and we should not judge islam by the acts of a few (hundred thousand) voilent people.
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Ok, this is more OT, I was watching the History Channel last night and they were talking about the history of body armor. The part that really interested me was they were showing a captured video of an American medic in Iraq being shot, falling down, then scrambling behind a car and firing back (thank God for the armor). Here's the real interesting thing, the shooting was being filmed by the accomplice of the sniper and after the soldier got shot the man did not stop repeating "alluh akbar" (god is great) as if he was giving thanks for this man's death in the name of god. How thick skulled do you need to be to not recognize what this means?
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I think Bush and Rice need to be in one of those root beer adds chillin with some muslims and while they're drinking root beer the muslim is telling his friends to destroy their house. Then he tells Bush and Rice that they are misrepresenting his wishes, they agree and keep right on drinking their root beer. The last scene should have them in orange jump suits, drinking some root beer and exclaiming, "This is a misrepresentation of islam!"

Posted by: Erik at April 11, 2006 10:45 AM

Texican, Islamophobic Pride - I once read a story about a British lady who visited the US in the twenties and met a man who had known Wild Bill Hitchcock. "He must have been a marvellous shot," said the lady.

"No more than average, ma'am," drawled the old-timer.

"But then why does he have such a reputation?"

"Ah! Because he kep' shootin' straight even when others was shootin' at him."

Posted by: Paolo at April 11, 2006 1:33 PM

I would ask those at JW to be mindful of the bookshop at Auburn which was selling literature filled with words of hate directed at Western societies. Our bumbling federal Attorney-General said it was unclear if that sort of material offended any Australian law. For all I know they are still combing the Australian statutes in an effort to clarify the matter. If Mr Mulahalilovic's reading material was purchased at the Auburn bookshop it would appear that it's OK.

Those at JW might be interested to know that our federal government is running an ad campaign inviting citizens to report matters of suspicious behaviour. My concern is our federal government allowing people like Mr Mulahalilovic into our country.

Should I report Howard & Co to the authorities?

Posted by: Salad_In at April 11, 2006 7:29 PM

"That police officer needs some gun range practice. The head makes a large target."
Now, come on Texican, this target opened fire first. Could have put his aim out a few inches?
Posted by: islamophobic pride at April 11, 2006 02:35 AM
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When your aim is not sure use a sawed off shotgun.

The Texican.
Freedom, the only choice at any cost.

Posted by: Texican at April 11, 2006 11:29 PM