"OFFENSIVE" UNION JACK BADGE ORDERED REMOVED FROM COPS UNIFORMS

Well it seems that it DOES offend some UNNAMED MET officials who have now banned armed cops at Heathrow Airport from wearing the tiny Union Jack flag badge on their clothing. These Union flag badges have been worn to show support for British military troops. Approximately 70% of these armed cops have served in the Forces and/or have children or other family members currently serving in Afghanistan.

Now who might you imagine would find the British flag as "offensive"? Who might be whining and complaining about it ?? -- Should we suspect muslims and their muslim wannabee sympathizers?

Clearly muslims have made an issue - worldwide - of crosses - or any object bearing any form of a cross (including National flags) as being offensive to them and clearly many dhimmis are tripping over each other to pander to these muslims -- here are just a few instances:

In today news! --A Labour minister has sparked controversy by claiming that an alternative symbol is needed for the Red Cross because of the logo's supposed links to the Crusades. Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant wants to replace it with a red "crystal".

JAIL bosses have sparked fury by banning a cross from their new chapel in case it offends Muslims....But while the room features heated spas for Muslims to wash their feet, there is only a portable Christian altar which can be wheeled in and out when necessary.

Turkish lawyer files complaint with Union of European Football Associations stating that the Inter Milan's team shirts consists of a big red cross on a white background. This has apparently reminded the Turks of an emblem of the order of the Templars, which is therefore deemed offensive to Muslims. The cross is the emblem of Milan

Hospital bans traditional Easter Hot Cross Buns = offensive to non=Christians ie: muslims.

Cross banned from chapel after being in the chapel for over 60 years --at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, USA - offends muslims.

Cross of St George is also used by Barcelona football team from Spain - on their badge - similar to the Inter-Milan incident it was deemed racist and offensive to muslims. Many muslim nations are altering the Barcelona shirts so it will not look like a cross.

Prison officials in Britain are concerned that tie pins worn by officers featuring the St. George's Cross – the symbol on England's flag – could offend Muslims who might associate it with the Crusades of the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries. "

These are just a few of the assaults made by muslims against the any representation of the Christian cross and/or National flags with cross symbols. A brief search of the web will find MANY more as well as affirm that no other ethnic, religious or otherwise groups voice any objection to or appear offended by the cross symbol.

Clearly muslims are methodically working towards incremental eradication of any form of the Christian cross from public view on their way to the Islamisation of Europe. With the help of pandering, multicultural worshipping, politically correct dhimmis - including these Heathrow (and other) officials - British police and politicians -one can predict - in Great Britain - muslims could very well succeed.

ARMED cops patrolling Heathrow Airport have been banned from wearing tiny Union Jack badges in support of British troops.

Top brass claimed the tie-pin badges - which cost £1 with proceeds going to the Help for Heroes charity - were OFFENSIVE.

But one officer asked: "How can the Union Jack be offensive? Pride
About 100 officers in the Metropolitan force's SO18 Aviation branch, which patrols Heathrow, bought the inch-square badges.

Seventy per cent of them served in the Forces and many have children fighting in Afghanistan.
Another cop said: "We're wearing the badges with pride. Most importantly, they are to show support for our soldiers at war.

"Nobody has put out orders to remove rainbow symbols that gay and lesbian officers wear. Why discriminate against us?"

A statement from the Met said: "The dress code states only approved corporate badging may be used."

"This ruling is even more absurd coming this weekend on the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

"We must be the only country ashamed to display our national flag."

The EU is full of dhimmi's and will roll over and play dead for the fucking muslims. They are the true invaders. We need to bring back the Crusades and take back our pride and dignity.

Fitzgerald: On dogs and statues in Islam

A recent story in the Reading Evening Mail describes a 71-year-old blind Englishman and cancer sufferer who was asked to get off a bus because of the hysterical reaction to his seeing-eye dog by some Muslims on the bus:

A driver told a blind cancer sufferer to get off his bus when a woman and her children became hysterical at the sight of his guide dog. George Herridge, 71, told how the mum flew into a rage and shouted at him in a foreign language. A passenger explained she wanted him to get off the bus during the incident on May 20.

Mr Herridge, from Tern Close, Tilehurst, said: “Her child was kicking and screaming and someone off the bus told me her child was frightened of my dog. The driver said, ‘Look mate, can’t you get off? I stood my ground. I had not done anything, my dog had not done anything and I was getting off the bus for no one.”

And a day after the latest bus incident a lady began screaming “I don’t like dirty dogs” at Mr Herridge at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.

A week earlier he faced further animosity from a couple at Asda in The Meadway, he said.
He is unsure what has provoked outbursts but said he thinks some have come from Asian people and that it may be due to religious or cultural differences.

Drivers have been re-instructed to convey the blind and the bus company has sought advice from the Royal National Institute for the Blind and hopes to speak with Muslim leaders. As part of a Muslim Council of Britain project, Mufti Zubair Butt, Shar’ia advisor to Muslim Spiritual Care Provision in the NHS, admitted Muslims “require some education” on guide dogs.”

Readers of Jihad Watch are familiar with many similar cases. For example, there are those Somali cab drivers in Minneapolis who refused to pick up blind passengers with seeing-eye dogs.

One needs to know exactly what is going on in all of these cases. Continue reading "Fitzgerald:

On dogs and statues in Islam"

"Shoe-bomber" Richard Reid on hunger strike in US prison

"He filed a lawsuit two years ago claiming that he was being held subject to strict 'special administrative measures' that prevented him from attending group prayers as required by his religion, pursuing a correspondence course in his religion or subscribing to religious magazines." Now why would anyone want to prevent convicted jihadis from "group prayers" or from reading "religious magazines"?

The British shoe bomber convicted of trying to blow up a transatlantic flight is being force-fed in America’s toughest jail after going on hunger strike, court papers disclose.

Richard Reid has been refusing food for several weeks in an apparent protest against prison restrictions that he says prevent him from following his Sunni Muslim faith.

The Muslim convert from South London is being held at the Administrative Maximum prison in Florence, Colorado, the only “supermax” jail in America.

The 490-capacity fortress, known as the Alcatraz of the Rockies, also houses Zacarias Moussaoui, a conspirator in the September 11, 2001 attacks, and Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing. Two domestic terrorists, Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, and Terry Nichols, the Oklahoma City bombing conspirator, are also being held there.

Reid, 35, is serving 110 years for attempting to bring down a ParisMiami American Airlines flight carrying 197 passengers in December 2001 with explosives hidden in his shoe.

He filed a lawsuit two years ago claiming that he was being held subject to strict “special administrative measures” that prevented him from attending group prayers as required by his religion, pursuing a correspondence course in his religion or subscribing to religious magazines.
He also complained that he was barred from reading newspapers or watching TV news, and denied phone contact with anyone except his lawyer, the British Consulate and his immediate family.

The US Government revealed on Tuesday in a previously undisclosed court filing dated April 14 that Reid had been refusing food since March.

The filing said that Reid had refused 58 meals by April 9. A government lawyer said that he was still on hunger strike. Prison officials decided on April 7 that “medical intervention was necessary” after Reid went on hunger strike.

What is the problem? Let him starve to death. I would cut off his water too. That will speed up the process.

Palestinian family tortures, murders 15-year-old son for "collaboration" with Israel

In the first incident of its kind, a Palestinian family has killed its 15-year-old son in the West Bank after accusing him of "collaboration" with Israel.

The boy's body was discovered near Kalkilya on Wednesday.

The Palestinian Authority security forces announced that they have arrested a number of the boy's family members in connection with the killing.

The victim was identified as Raed Wael Sawalha.

PA security sources said the suspects confessed to the killing, claiming that they decided to kill Masalha because of his alleged connections with the Israeli authorities....

A preliminary investigation launched by PA security forces revealed that Sawalha had been brutally tortured before he was hanged to death....

Gen. Adnan Damiri, spokesman for the PA security forces in the West Bank, said the perpetrators were all members of the boy's family, including the father, uncle and cousin....

This sounds like an honor killing to me.

Aging dhimmi ex-President: No Mideast peace without Hamas

They want to destroy Israel and celebrate murderers of Jewish civilians as heroes. But Carter is unconcerned! He knows they sincerely want peace! "Carter: No Mideast peace without Hamas," from the Jerusalem Post, June 11 (thanks to Sr. Soph):

Former President Jimmy Carter Thursday reiterated that there can be no peace between Israel and the Palestinians without involving Hamas.

His comments came shortly before he met with the group's Syrian-based leader, Khaled Mashaal. Carter met with Mashaal twice under the Bush administration, angering some in the US government who said he was legitimizing a group the US considers a terrorist organization....

Speaking to reporters after meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad, Carter said Hamas and its more moderate Fatah rivals must reconcile so they can negotiate effectively with Israel.

"I don't believe there is a possibility to have any peace between the Palestinians and Israel unless Hamas is involved directly in harmony with Fatah," he said....

Another anti-semite that was in the whitehouse. Obama is even worst. He actually is a muslim.

America's first Muslim President?

In "America's first Muslim president? Obama aligns with the policies of Shariah-adherents" in the Washington Times, June 9, Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy echoes a point I made in March 2007: that Barack Obama, whether or not he is actually a Muslim himself, can be America's first Muslim President the way Bill Clinton was our first black President: it's all about empathy, doncha know. Gaffney says:

During his White House years, William Jefferson Clinton -- someone Judge Sonia Sotomayor might call a "white male" -- was dubbed "America's first black president" by a black admirer. Applying the standard of identity politics and pandering to a special interest that earned Mr. Clinton that distinction, Barack Hussein Obama would have to be considered America's first Muslim president.

This is not to say, necessarily, that Mr. Obama actually is a Muslim any more than Mr. Clinton actually is black. After his five months in office, and most especially after his just-concluded visit to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, however, a stunning conclusion seems increasingly plausible: The man now happy to have his Islamic-rooted middle name featured prominently has engaged in the most consequential bait-and-switch since Adolf Hitler duped Neville Chamberlain over Czechoslovakia at Munich....

Read it all: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/09/americas-first-muslim-president/

Egypt: Muslims angered, take revenge over recovery of abducted Coptic teenage girl following forced "conversion"

Cairo (AINA) -- In another incident of abduction and forced Islamization of Coptic minor girls, 16-year old Nermeen Mitry was abducted by a Muslim man to coerce her into converting to Islam. She was successfully recovered on the same day by her family, who did their own investigation and search to locate her.

Nermeen was abducted from El-Mahalla by Muslim Hossam Hamouda in conspiracy with his aunt Leila Attia; she was hidden away by a third person called Nasser Abu Deif from Assuit in Upper Egypt, at the home of one of his female relatives called Rasha Soliman in Zagazig.

The success of recovering the Coptic girl led to anger, revenge and assaults from the disappointed village Muslims against her family. Nearly 150 Muslims, armed with swords and clubs, physically assaulted five family members of the abducted Coptic teenager, as they drove back to their village after being forced into reconciliation with the abductor's family by State Security, compromising their right to pursue the case any further. "With every blow on us, they chanted 'There is only one Allah' while the Police stood there watching the assault, until we could take no more and three of us were hospitalized," said Nermeen's uncle Sameh Mitry in an aired interview with Coptic News on 6/7/2009. "They dragged us out of the car saying "Get out you followers of the Dog's religion!' They were consumed with anger ever since we got our girl back."

The police rounded up 11 Copts including the assaulted family and 14 Muslims. "The police let the real attackers go free and were just arresting people randomly," said Sameh. "We were released after 3 days except for two Copts whom the State Security held as pawns -- just in case we made any trouble they would be detained for a long time," said Sameh.

Nermeen Mitry, 16, from Toma village near El-Mahalla town, was on her way to sit for an exam on May 21, 2009, when she was lured by a Muslim female friend to go home with her where she offered her spiked tea. She regained conscious hours later to find herself facing a bearded Muslim man trying to convert her to Islam, in a far away town and another governorate in Egypt, which she later knew to be Zagazig. The traumatized girl recounted the events to Osama Eid, correspondent of the Free-Copts Organization.

"The man was very confident and told me that I would be the fourth Coptic girl to 'know the true Allah' and convert to Islam through him. He also said that a member of my family was converted 15 years ago by him. I told him I am engaged to be married when I come of age, and would never convert to Islam as this would be a catastrophe for me. He did his best to make me change my mind, and then left me alone for a while."

When Nermeen did not return home, the Mitry family went to the police. Unable to get the police to register the case as an abduction, the family subsequently went to State Security and reported the incident, but were delayed there for hours with no progress.

"Meanwhile, one of the abductor's family members contacted Nermeen's cousin Romany and told him he knew her whereabouts, and offered to accompany him to bring her back," Sameh told Coptic News. "I am sure the abductor's family knew that we would have implicated them and they were afraid. We freed the girl ourselves; State Security did nothing to help."

On their way back with Nermeen, they were contacted by the police and were told to bring the girl to State Security Directorate. Reflecting the diminished Coptic trust in all government institutions especially State Security, "we never went there, instead we took the girl straight to a Monastery to be safe there," Sameh told Coptic News. "We know quite well what Security would have done as has happened in many cases before. If she went there, they would have changed everything, closed the case and she would have gone to the other side."

"Ever since Nermeen returned the village Muslims joining the abductor's family started a terror campaign against us and all Copts in the village in general. They harassed and taunted us by saying 'we will get your girls one by one'" said Sameh. "They burnt down Nermeen's father recycled cartons warehouse. They set it on fire at dawn and went to the mosque to pray after locking its door. We contacted the Police and implicated a few people. They were released by State Security within 4 days."...

The systematic Islamization of Coptic girls has been going on for more than 30 years, Coptic Pope Shenouda protested during a conference held in Alexandria on December 17th, 1976 that "there is pressure being practiced to convert Coptic girls to embrace Islam and marry them under terror to Muslim husbands" and demanded that the abducted girls be brought back to their families.

Isn't islam a wonderful thing? I just love how muslims cannot just fuck their own women, they now have to take any woman that they want and just convert them and marry them. How is it that they are able to convert these girls. What do they consider a conversion? A good fucking by a muslim animal?

Passengers on Air France jet crash killing 228 had jihadi-terror links

Two passengers with names linked to Islamic terrorism were on board the Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 on board, it has emerged.

French secret servicemen established the connection while working through the list of those who boarded the doomed Airbus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 31.

Agents are now trying to establish dates of birth for the two dead passengers, and family connections.

There is a possibility that the name similarities are simply a "macabre coincidence," the source added, but the revelation is still being "taken very seriously."

Flight AF447 crashed in mid-Atlantic en route to Paris during a violent storm.

While it is certain that there were computer malfunctions, terrorism has not been ruled out.

Soon after news of the fatal crash broke, agents working for the DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure), were dispatched to Brazil.

It was there that they established that two names on the passenger list are also on highly classified documents listing the names of radical Muslims considered a threat to the French Republic.

A source working for the French security services told Paris weekly L’Express that the link was "highly significant."France has received numerous threats from Islamic terrorist groups in recent months, especially since French troops were sent to fight in Afghanistan.

Security chiefs have been particularly worried about airborne homicide attacks similar to Sept. 11.

Pilots from another aircraft saw a bright white light in the direction of this plane, and then it disappeared. The plane was found in two different areas of the ocean. This was taken down by jihadis. No question about it.

Saudi Sheikh: Attacking infidel tourists is legitimate

Based on "religious grounds": "Al-Qaeda E-Journal: Attacks on Tourists in Islamic Countries Are Legitimate," from MEMRI, June 9:

In an article published in the ninth issue of the e-journal Sada Al-Malahim, the mouthpiece of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Sheikh Abu 'Omar Al-Farouq endorses attacks on foreign tourists in Islamic countries on religious grounds.

Obama shows his shoes out of contempt for Israel?

Israeli TV newscasters Tuesday night interpreted a photo taken Monday in the Oval Office of President Obama talking on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an "insult" to Israel.

They saw the incident as somewhat akin to an incident last year, when the Iraqi reporter threw a shoe at President Bush in Baghdad.

It is considered an insult in the Arab world to show the sole of your shoe to someone. It is not a Jewish custom necessarily, but Israel feels enough a part of the Middle East after 60 years to be insulted too.

Was there a subliminal message intended from the White House to Netanyahu in Jerusalem, who is publicly resisting attempts by Mr. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to force Israel to stop any kind of settlement activity in occupied territories once and forever?...

This man is clearly a muslim.

Mubarak betting Netanyahu will fold, accept jihadist Palestinian state

And so a new base for the jihad against Israel will very likely be established.

"Mubarak: Netanyahu will agree to two-states," by Roee Nahmias for Ynet News, June 10 (thanks to Dan):

Does Cairo already know what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will say at his anticipated policy speech at Bar Ilan next week? Egyptian President Mubarak hinted as much in comments made after a telephone conversation with Netanyahu.

"Israel will agree to the two-state solution," Mubarak said in an interview with Egyptian media on Wednesday, "I spoke with Netanyahu and told him there was no other option. Ultimately the solution will be one of two states – the State of Israel alongside an Arab state."

Mubarak said that Netanyahu did not counter his assertion.

Palestinian Authority officials in Ramllah also sounded optimistic on Wednesday following the meeting between US special envoy, George Mitchell, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas....

Israel needs to just kill every arab in its territories.

Palestinians to get $55 million more in jizya from U.S.

(IsraelNN.com) The United States has agreed to provide the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) with an additional $55 million in funding, according an AP report. The latest pledge would bring the total the agency has received from the U.S. in 2009 to $154.5 million....

Georgia Tech jihadist guilty; father says: “He’s not guilty of any crimes in the eyes of Allah. He’s guilty of U.S. laws.”

The guilty verdict on the terrorism conspiracy charge against his son was expected, Syed Riaz Ahmed said Wednesday.

But Ahmed said his son, Syed Haris Ahmed, never harmed anyone and only expressed thoughts that he never acted upon.

“You think something and you’re guilty,” Syed Riaz Ahmed said, standing outside a federal courtroom shortly after hearing his son pronounced guilty. “He’s not guilty of any crimes in the eyes of Allah. He’s guilty of U.S. laws.”

Syed Haris Ahmed was misled into his extremist thoughts by propagandist Web sites, his father said, adding that he believed his son never would have followed though on any plans to engage in terrorism.

Ahmed, a 24-year-old former Georgia Tech student, was convicted of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. During his trial last week, prosecutors introduced into evidence e-mails and Internet chats during which Ahmed said he wanted to engage in violent jihad.

In the summer of 2005, Ahmed went to Pakistan to join a terrorist training camp, but changed his mind and returned to Atlanta, re-enrolling at Georgia Tech. Federal prosecutors said that after Ahmed returned, he regretted not joining the camp and considered returning to Pakistan to follow through with his plans....

Cue the obligatory claim of victim status:

After the hearing, Ahmed’s 27-year-old sister, Mariam Ahmed, said her younger brother cooperated with the FBI during interrogations leading up to his arrest. The agents, she said, promised not to arrest her brother if he cooperated.

“They broke broke every single promise,” said Mariam Ahmed, who lives in Karachi, Pakistan.
Ahmed’s sister said she hopes Duffey will show some leniency on her brother because of the harsh conditions he has already endured at the penitentiary. “To me, he’s already suffered enough,” she said.

During his time at the penitientiary, her brother has memorized the Quran and strengthened his faith, she said.

Ahmed was convicted of conspiring to provide material support to terrorism in the United States and overseas.

Federal prosecutors said Ahmed and Sadequee went to Washington in 2005 and took videos of area landmarks that wound up on the computers of two men later convicted of terorrism charges in Great Britain. Prosecutors said Ahmed and Sadequee took the videos to earn the respect of terrorists overseas by showing how close they could get to potential targets of attack.

Prosecutors also said Ahmed recruited other men to go with him to join a terrorist training facility in Pakistan in the summer of 2005....

Ahmed waived his right to a jury trial so he could give his closing argument. During his allotted 45 minutes, he recited from the Quran in Arabic and told Duffey that using U.S. laws to defend himself would put him in rebellion against God.

This guy is a fucking terrorist, kill him. Now he has memorized the terrorist training manual and will be converting criminals in prison to the death cult of Old Mo.

Somali suicide bomber given decent burial in Minnesota

Here is the story of the suicide bomber from Minnesota that the state department brought back on our dime. Why?

You gotta be kidding! This guy, 27 years old, blows himself to bits and takes along 29 other people (I bet there were women and kids among those killed) and our FBI scoops up the body parts and brings them to Minnesota for a funeral. I wonder what that cost the US taxpayer? Have we gone completely around the bend?

And then, would reporters find someone other than Omar Jamal to speak for the Somalis. Jamal was found guilty in 2003 of immigration fraud and ordered deported. Hat tip: Blulitespecial.

Family and friends did not wish to talk about the circumstances of his death.

Community activist Omar Jamal is one of the few who will.

“Honestly I look at him seriously as a victim and not as a criminal, I think of him as a young victim,” says Jamal.

A victim? The killer was a victim? He was 27 years old, not 17. Jamal, that doesn’t make him a ”kid!” If the killer is the victim, what does that make the 29 people he murdered? Aren’t they the real victims?

Nobody made this 27-year-old American citizen go to Somalia. This is just infuriating. Stop all Muslim immigration to the US or we will be seeing more decent burials for American suicide bombers.

See the story and especially the video of the funeral here.

Here is our original report on this evil, cold-blooded Muslim killer, Ahmed. More on Jamal here.

The US must bring home the Somali terrorist’s body!

So says Omar Jamal, the one and only member of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center*of Minneapolis. Give me a break!

This is a followup to my previous post, here, about the news that one of the Somali youths who left the US voluntarily to join al Shabaab, a radical Islamist terrorist group trying to overthrow the Somali government, has been found dead in Somalia. There are conflicting stories. Jamal says he died from artillery fire, others say he was shot in the head by his buddies, al Shabaab. But, no matter, Somalis in Minnesota headed by Omar ‘Jesse Jackson’ Jamal are “frustrated” and insisting the US investigate and bring home the body for burial.

From the Star-Tribune:

Omar Jamal, executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in Minneapolis, said his group is looking into the death of the 17-year-old and asking federal officials for help in getting his body returned for burial. He said the teen was killed in artillery fire.

Bihi said his sister received many visitors offering condolences on Saturday. He added that family members were planning to hold a strategy session Sunday because they’re frustrated by the lack of progress with the investigation.

“We don’t want to sit down and wait for answers. We want to take action.”

Think about the nerve of this—demanding action and wanting US taxpayers to pay for returning the body to the US. Incidentally, this would be the second Somali terrorist we returned for burial in Minnesota. Here is a post on the first, and note that Omar Jamal is involved there too!
And, check out this last line. Guess the assimilation to America is working out real well—NOT!
Burhan Hassan, 17, was an infant when his family fled Somalia.

* Jamal’s one man advocacy group was in the news just yesterday, here, calling police in Minneapolis racist. I wonder who taught Jamal his grievance politics?

This barbarian runs off to Somalia to wage jihad and we have to worry about his body? Let the family go back to Somalia and bring back his body.

'Hamas risking Operation Cast Lead II'

Under the cover of morning fog, some 10 gunmen staged a failed assault at the Karni cargo crossing into Gaza on Monday, in which horses laden with explosives were used, a security source told The Jerusalem Post.

At least four terrorists and a number of their horses were killed in the ensuing exchange of fire with the IDF. No soldiers were wounded.

"A very big terrorist attack was thwarted," the security source told the Post.

"These terrorists were armed with a huge quantity of explosives. They launched a combined attack, using mortars, and attempted to approach the border fence with booby-trapped horses to harm our soldiers, before firing on our force," he added.

The Gazan cell belonged to the Janud Ansar Allah (Soldiers Loyal to Allah) organization, a small group that is linked to Iran and Hizbullah, the security source added.

Members of the cell, some of whom had suicide-bomb belts strapped around their bodies, led the horses off of trucks and began placing bombs along the fence.

They were identified by members of Golani Brigade's 13th Battalion, who were on patrol. The terrorists proceeded to open fire on the infantrymen, and mortar fire from deep within the Gaza Strip was also directed at them.

The soldiers returned fire and called for backup. At first, tanks were dispatched to the scene, and fired at the terrorists. Air force helicopter gunships then joined the battle.

Lt.-Col. Avinoam Stolevitch, commander of the 13th Battalion, told Army Radio that future assaults of this sort would put Hamas at risk of a second Operation Cast Lead.

"We are slowly beginning to understand the magnitude of [the threat from the Gaza Strip]," he said.

Stolevitch added that he believed the terrorists had planned a "large explosion... to provide cover for a kidnapping."

He said his men did not pursue the surviving terrorists into Gaza, out of concern the attack was a trap aimed at kidnapping soldiers.

Stolevitch praised his men's alertness.

"Hamas did not carry out this attack but they certainly provide general coverage for these small groups," he said.

The source said it was too soon to know whether the cell had planned to kidnap soldiers.

"The area turned into a war zone," he said. "Southern Command forces are prepared for these types of attacks, and are aware of the dangers present in the morning fog. There is always the chance terrorists will try to use that for an attack."

Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Monday afternoon praised the army's "effectiveness" in foiling the attack, and said it was quite possible that the terrorists had planned a kidnapping, a claim made by Hamas television.

"The results speak for themselves, and prove the preparedness and the alertness of our forces along the Gaza border," Barak told a Labor faction meeting. "I hope that all future operations end with the same type of result."

Ismail Haniyeh, who heads Gaza's Hamas government, praised the attackers as "martyrs," and said the violence confirmed Israel's "aggressive intentions" toward the Palestinians.

Following the attack, Israel closed the Karni crossing, the main cargo terminal between Israel and Gaza, as well as the nearby Nahal Oz fuel depot.

But despite the attack, 30,000 vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease were transferred to Gaza via the northern Erez crossing. The IDF said that 125,000 vaccines had been supplied to the Strip in the past three months in three separate transfers, due to the importance of preventing an outbreak.

In addition, 140 truckloads of humanitarian aid was scheduled to be sent to Gaza via the southern Kerem Shalom crossing.

The animalstinians attack the Jews and claim to be victims of Israeli aggression? Who had the explosives? Who launched mortars? Who has kidnapped Jewish soldiers in the past? Israel needs to just expel every arab, including the ones living in Gaza, Judea, Sumaria, and the Golan Heights. They are not occupiers, they took that land in a defensive war.

U.S. Mid East expert: Americans stereotype Muslims

NEW YORK, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Stereotypes must be overcome before the U.S.-Muslim relations could be improved, a U.S. Middle East expert said in a recent interview.

In efforts to improve U.S.-Muslim relations, "there are a lot of stereotypes to overcome," said Isobel Coleman, director of the Women and Foreign Policy program of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations.

"If you ask an average American, what do they think if they talk about Muslims, you come up with a lot of negative references," she told Xinhua in the interview on Friday.

"They do think about suicide bombings, terrorism and all sorts of things," Coleman said. "And the Muslims also have to overcome the stereotypes of America," she added.

Commenting on the speech U.S. President Barack Obama made at Cairo University Thursday, Coleman said: "U.S.-Muslim relations are starting from a very low point, so the first step in building respect and trust (between the two sides) is just really trying to initiate dialogue."...

We think about suicide bombings, terrorism and oppression of women and non-muslims. Sometimes a sterotype is not wrong.

Hamas misuses humanitarian aid, converts ambulances into military vehicles

These ambulances came, according to the report, from "Arab states," but of course a huge amount of humanitarian aid to the Palestinians comes from the West. Will this lead Obama and the EU to reconsider humanitarian aid to the Palestinians? Obama will sooner become a Republican and endorse Rush Limbaugh. "Hamas converts 46 ambulances to military vehicles, misusing humanitarian aid."

PMW has documented the repeated use of foreign funding by both the PA and Hamas for terror and glorification of terror. The following is another case of well intended humanitarian assistance given to Palestinians that is appropriated for military or terror purposes:

"The [Palestinian] Health Ministry stated yesterday that Hamas militias had raided 46 ambulances, donated by Arab states during the recent aggression on the Gaza Strip, of the medical equipment that they contained... and used them as military vehicles to arrest civilians, after painting [the ambulances] black.The Ministry's director of public relations and information, Dr. Omar Nasr... said that the medical equipment removed from the ambulances was expensive.

He demanded that the Hamas militias declare, courageously and openly, what had become of the thousands of tons of medical equipment which had been brought into the Gaza Strip as assistance for the Palestinian people, and which had passed at its [Hamas's] orders to private warehouses and its own medical centers, and was later sold to the helpless citizen..." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 20, 2009]

Go figure, Hamas is not taking care of its people? No.

Trained at Fort Bragg, Taliban trainer says the jihadis will "never be defeated"

LAHORE: The Pakistani intelligence agent who trained Taliban leader Mullah Omar to fight has warned that NATO forces will never overpower their enemies in Afghanistan and should talk to them rather than sacrifice more lives, said a Sunday Times report on Sunday.

“You can never win the war in Afghanistan,” said so-called ‘Colonel Imam’, who ran a training programme for the Afghan resistance to the Soviet Union’s occupation from 1979 to 1989, then helped to form the Taliban.

“I have worked with these people since the 1970s and I tell you they will never be defeated.

Anyone who has come here has got stuck. The more you kill, the more they will expand,” the report quotes Imam as saying.

Today western intelligence agencies believe Imam, whose real name is Amir Sultan Tarar, and was trained at Fort Bragg – the US army base where America’s special forces are stationed – is among a group of renegade officers from the Inter-Services Intelligence agency who continue to help the Taliban.

United Nations officials and Afghanistan’s intelligence service have reported sightings of him in the Afghan provinces of Helmand and Uruzgan. It is a charge he shrugs off, claiming that at 65 he has not worked for almost eight years. “My students are far ahead of me now. They are giving a lesson to the world. I am very proud of them,” he said.

According to Imam, Helmand is particularly difficult because of the character of the people.

“They couldn’t care less about loss of property or loss of life,” he said.

It is unlikely, claims the report, that anybody alive today knows the Afghans as well as Imam. All the key figures were trained in his camps, from the late Ahmad Shah Massoud to warlords such as Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, his ‘naughtiest’ student.

Imam was Pakistan’s consul-general in Herat when the Taliban captured the city in 1995 from Ismail Khan, the mujahedin commander, who claims the ISI agent oversaw the whole Taliban operation. From there he guided the Taliban as they took over the cities of Mazar-e-Sharif and Jalalabad and eventually captured Kabul.

When General Pervez Musharraf, then president of Pakistan, agreed to US pressure to cut ties to the Taliban, the colonel was outraged.

Recalled to Islamabad, he told Musharraf that he couldn’t “defeat these people, they are well trained, they have a lot of ammunition and the more you kill, the more supporters will come”.

He has offered to find the Americans a way out, “We can give them a face-saving solution but they must change their strategy”.

First, he says, they must spend billions on reconstruction. Then they must open talks with Omar rather than the so-called moderate Taliban with whom negotiations are under way.

“When are you people going to understand there are no number two Taliban?” he asked. “Those who break away from mainstream Taliban have no place in society. You may make deals in Dubai or Saudi Arabia, but when they come back to Afghanistan and people know they have compromised with the Americans, they are finished.

Omer’s whereabouts: He insisted the Taliban leader was not in Pakistan. “He’s in the hills of Uruzgan, his home province. If there’s a requirement he will listen to me, but why should I get him involved in a risky situation?” he asks.

Imam said he had watched with horror as fighting spread into Pakistan and had been shocked to see his fellow officers having to fight against their own countrymen in Swat.

Imam has one last warning, “I tell you when my nation rises up, it is not Afghanistan, not Iraq. There will be tremendous killing.

And why don't we learn from this?

Pakistan: Villagers enraged by mosque attack battle Taliban, kill 14

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Hundreds of Pakistani residents have taken up arms and are battling local Taliban militants in the wake of a deadly mosque attack last week.

It is the first major battle between the residents of northwest Pakistan and Taliban militants near the Afghanistan border.

The residents are outraged over a suicide attack on a local mosque during Friday prayers that killed at least 40 people and wounded some 80 others.

Starting on Saturday morning, some 400 villagers in the Upper Dir district formed a "lashkar" -- or militia -- to fight the Taliban, killing 14 of the militants as of Sunday evening, according to local administrator Atiq Ur Rehman. Four of the villagers have been injured in the battle, Rehman said.

The militia have burned a number of houses thought to be sheltering the militants, according to Upper Dir police chief Ijaz Kahn.

Both the residents and Taliban fighters are using heavy weapons, including rocket launchers and anti-aircraft weapons, Rehman said....

It is about time that these people stand up for themselves.