Geert Wilders update from the Telegraph, with thanks to Vulcan: Mr Wilders, 42, spent eight months sleeping in a cell in a high-security prison after receiving death threats from Islamist groups before emerging for his No bus tour across the Netherlands. For security reasons, his stops are unannounced. In opposing the constitution, Mr Wilders finds […]
Archives for May 2005
Indonesian Police Deployed to Protect Churches/Christians
An update on this story, from AFX via Forbes, “Indonesian market bombing sparks fears of new sectarian clashes” TENTENA, Indonesia – Security forces were deployed at churches on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island today after yesterday’s bomb attack on a Christian town killed 20 people and threatened to re-ignite a violent conflict with Muslims. About 3,000 troops […]
Iraqi forces’ security net draws Zarqawi retaliation
Our Iraq update comes from the Lebanese Daily Star. Thousands of Iraqi forces on Sunday threw a security net over Baghdad to snare insurgents, who quickly struck back with a string of car bombings said to have been masterminded by Al-Qaeda’s Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Operation Lightning came a day after two of Iraq’s most influential […]
They “would turn right around and try to slit our throats, slit our children’s throats”
Straight talk and refreshing honesty from General Myers. “Myers Defends Treatment of Guantanamo Prisoners,” from AP, with thanks to DC Watson: WASHINGTON (May 29) – The Pentagon’s top general on Sunday defended the treatment of prisoners at the U.S. Navy prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and said the U.S. believes al-Qaida leader Abu Musab […]
Crisis in Europe: French Reject EU Constitution
Hope for Europe? “French Reject EU Constitution, Gov’t Says,” from AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: PARIS — French voters rejected the European Union’s first constitution Sunday, early government results showed _ a stinging repudiation of the ambitious, decades-long effort to further unite the continent. With about 83 percent of the votes counted, the […]
French voting no
Word just in from Nidra Poller on France’s vote on the EU charter: 55% NON 45% OUI Let’s hope it continues this way.
Financial Jihad Against the Infidels
Lt. Col. Jonathan D. Halevi writes in IMRA, “What Drives Saudi Arabia to Persist in Terrorist Financing?” The U.S. offensive against terrorism has succeeded in reducing the extent of global terrorism. However, under the surface, the financial channels that are the arteries of radical Islamic movements from Hamas to the Chechens continue to operate. U.S. […]
Houser: French Muslims battle internal, external strife
Mark Houser continues his series in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, with thanks to KAOSKTRL. PARIS — Waiting for his train in a metro station named for the battle of Stalingrad, Moun R’Quibe spoke with pride of the men he considers heroes fighting in another bloody conflict — Iraq. R’Quibe, 20, born in France of Moroccan […]
Many Iraqis See Sectarian Roots in New Killings
An unsurprising assessment from the New Duranty Times. BAGHDAD – No one knows who tortured and killed Hassan al-Nuaimi, a Sunni Arab cleric whose body was found in an empty lot here last week, with a hole drilled in his head and both eyes missing. But the various theories have a distinctly sectarian tinge. The […]
Review May Shift Terror Policies
A long-overdue reassessment. “U.S. Is Expected to Look Beyond Al Qaeda,” from the Washington Post, . The Bush administration has launched a high-level internal review of its efforts to battle international terrorism, aimed at moving away from a policy that has stressed efforts to capture and kill al Qaeda leaders since Sept. 11, 2001, and […]