Saudi Arabia: Doctor halts wedding of 5-year-old girl

Riyadh, 30 Dec. (AKI) - A doctor in Saudi Arabia was able to stop the wedding of a five and 11 year-old whose family wanted to marry them to protect financial assets. "Thanks to the law that compels spouses to carry out blood analyses before marriage, we were able to stop a wedding with underage girls, among them a five year-old," said Hani Harsani, the doctor in charge of laboratory analysis in an interview with Saudi daily al-Watan.

"Two sisters came to us accompanied by their parents to undergo pre-marital blood analyses. The first one was five, and the other 11 years-old. When we asked the mother why they wanted to do the tests, she told us that she wanted to marry the girls to cousins to preserve the family's property rights."

During the interview, Harsani remembers an episode when a 10-year-old orphan was brought to do pre-marital blood tests by her brother, who wanted to marry the sister to a 40-year-old friend who already had two other wives.

"We cannot technically impede a marriage with a girl of this age. However, we can delay the process (by refusing to carry out the tests)," said Harsani.

A law that prohibits child marriage will never happen in SA. The clerics will say that it is un-islamic and that Old Mo married Ayisha when she was only six.

Child maid trafficking spreads from Africa to US

IRVINE, Calif. – Late at night, the neighbors saw a little girl at the kitchen sink of the house next door.
They watched through their window as the child rinsed plates under the open faucet. She wasn't much taller than the counter and the soapy water swallowed her slender arms. To put the dishes away, she climbed on a chair.
But she was not the daughter of the couple next door doing chores. She was their maid.
Shyima was 10 when a wealthy Egyptian couple brought her from a poor village in northern Egypt to work in their California home. She awoke before dawn and often worked past midnight to iron their clothes, mop the marble floors and dust the family's crystal. She earned $45 a month working up to 20 hours a day. She had no breaks during the day and no days off.
The trafficking of children for domestic labor in the U.S. is an extension of an illegal but common practice in Africa. Families in remote villages send their daughters to work in cities for extra money and the opportunity to escape a dead-end life. Some girls work for free on the understanding that they will at least be better fed in the home of their employer.
The custom has led to the spread of trafficking, as well-to-do Africans accustomed to employing children immigrate to the U.S. Around one-third of the estimated 10,000 forced laborers in the United States are servants trapped behind the curtains of suburban homes, according to a study by the National Human Rights Center at the University of California at Berkeley and Free the Slaves, a nonprofit group. No one can say how many are children, especially since their work can so easily be masked as chores.
Once behind the walls of gated communities like this one, these children never go to school. Unbeknownst to their neighbors, they live as modern-day slaves, just like Shyima, whose story is pieced together through court records, police transcripts and interviews.
"I'd look down and see her at 10, 11 — even 12 — at night," said Shyima's neighbor at the time, Tina Font. "She'd be doing the dishes. We didn't put two and two together."

Read it all:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081228/ap_on_re_af/the_slave_next_door

Here are some of the Headlines from Jihad Watch

Hamas threatens to "hunt down" Livni and Barak "inside the Knesset compound"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024116.php#comments

Hizballah Top Dog predicts divine victory for Hamas
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024112.php#comments

"Popular" Saudi cleric issues fatwa inciting Muslims to "avenge" themselves upon Israel
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024111.php#comments

Thousands of Muslims protest against Al-Qaeda "hijacking" their religion -- no, wait...
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024110.php#comments

Those evil Zionists: Israeli hospital treats Gazans

Hospital patients in bomb shelter, courtesy Hamas

ASHKELON, Israel -- The largest hospital on Israel's southern coast has gone underground.
Wary of a missile strike against it from the nearby Gaza Strip, Ashkelon's Barzilai Hospital has moved its most essential departments into an underground bomb shelter.
The threat is a real one: In February a rocket from Gaza landed adjacent to the hospital's helicopter pad and in May a rocket crashed into a busy shopping mall in the city, injuring 14 people.
The hospital in this city of 120,000 people about 17 kilometers (11 miles) north of the Gaza border has sent half its patients home to get them out of harm's way. Those remaining are jammed in rooms previously used for storage.
[...]
In Barzilai's underground children's ward, sick Gazans lay alongside sick Israelis as a clown hopped around trying to coax smiles. Lobel said that his facility had close ties with Gaza's Shifa hospital, and accepted many of its patients who need treatment the Gazan hospital cannot provide. He said it wasn't uncommon to have a colleague in Gaza call him for assistance even as rockets rained down on Ashkelon.
"It might seem completely absurd," Lobel said. "But we have the privilege to be doctors. Our medical ethics do not distinguish between patients. We treat whoever needs to be treated."
A Gaza woman, whose two-month-old granddaughter was being treated for an unidentified ailment, wept when asked how she was coping. She said she was fortunate her granddaughter was getting the best medical treatment but was worried about her daughter and other grandchildren in Gaza City. She said some of their neighbors were among the more than 280 people killed in the Israeli airstrikes.
"I am very sad and hurt," she said, in Arabic. "We want peace, not war."
She refused to identify herself or have her picture taken, for fear of retribution if her presence in Israel was discovered in Gaza....

This poor woman is afraid to tell her name because muslims will probably kill her. Nice people those muslims.

Ban Ki-Moon, call your office: Egyptians open fire on Palestinians

Egyptian border guards have opened fire on Palestinians who breached the border to escape Israel's assault on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
An Egyptian security official said there were at least five breaches along the nine-mile border and hundreds of Palestinian residents were pouring in.
At least 300 Egyptian border guards have been rushed to the area to reseal the border, the official added on condition on anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the press.
A resident of the Gaza Strip side of the border, Fida Kishta, said that Egyptian border guards opened fire to drive back the Palestinians.
Residents have also commandeered a bulldozer to open new breaches.
Palestinians reported several people were wounded by the gunfire....

Where are the cries of masacre? Muslims killing muslims? That is nothing new.

Palestinian photo-victimology

Palestinian children and a man wounded in Israeli missile strikes are seen in the emergency area at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008. Israeli warplanes demolished dozens of Hamas security compounds across Gaza on Saturday in unprecedented waves of simultaneous air strikes. Gaza medics said at least 145 people were killed and more than 310 wounded in the single deadliest day in Gaza fighting in recent memory. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

"Palestinian children and a man wounded..." What an odd locution! Why not just say, "Wounded Palestinians" or "wounded children lay next to wounded man" or some such? Are the children wounded at all? They look unhappy, but show no visible signs of injury. Did AP photographer Khalil Hamra or his Palestinian contacts place unhurt children next to this apparently wounded man in order to tug at the West's heartstrings?
Certainly when it comes to faking grievance issues and manipulating the mainstream media, the "Palestinians" are old hands.

These people are master manipulators of the press. And Khalil Hamra is one of the best palastinian photographers doing this kind of stuff. I see no injuries or blood on anyone in this picture.

Iran's "Combatant Clergy Society" signing up volunteers to fight jihad against Israel

Combatant Clergy? But...but...don't they have to study Islam to become clerics? And wouldn't they get the picture, in all that study, that Islam is a Religion of Peace™? Why is it that, all around the world, so many Islamic clerics seem to be Misunderstanders of Islam, and think that jihad has something to do with warfare?

TEHRAN (Reuters) - A group of Iranian hard-line clerics is signing up volunteers to fight in the Gaza Strip in response to Israel's air strikes that have killed at least 300 Palestinians, a news agency reported on Monday.
"From Monday the Combatant Clergy Society has activated its website www.rohaniatmobarez.com for a week to register volunteers to fight against the Zionist regime (Israel) in either the military, financial or propaganda fields," the semi-official Fars news agency said.
Israel patrols the coastal waters around Gaza and has declared areas around the enclave a "closed military zone."
The hard-line Iranian group, which is headed by some leading clergy, says it has no affiliation with the government and was formed shortly after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution....
Fars said the hard-line group provided volunteers with a registration document called "Registration form for dispatching volunteers to Gaza." It said more than 1,100 people so far had registered for military service against Israel.
Khamenei said on Sunday that whoever was killed in the fight to defend Palestinians was "considered a martyr."
Iran will send its first ship carrying aid to the Gaza Strip on Monday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said.
"Iran has dispatched its first plane load of aid, including medicine, to Gaza on Sunday. The second cargo is on the verge of being dispatched," Qashqavi told reporters on Monday. "The first aircraft arrived in Egypt last night."...

Saudi top dog to Bush: Get the Israelis to stop

The Saudis have told Bush to jump. Will Bush say, "How high?"

"Bush, Saudi King talk amid Israel-Gaza bloodshed," from AFP, December 27 (thanks to Michael):

CRAWFORD, Texas (AFP) — Saudi King Abdullah told US President George W. Bush by telephone on Saturday that major countries must take action to halt Israel's attacks on Gaza, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported....
But SPA reported that King Abdullah had discussed "the Israeli aggression against Gaza" and the "implications of continuing Israel's policies of blockade, occupation and torture against the Palestinian people all over the Occupied Territories."
The king also called for "the major countries to shoulder their responsibilities to stop this Israeli attack and save the lives of the innocent and remaining infrastructure in the Palestinian territories."
Abdullah made the call after a meeting in Riyadh with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas.

UN top dog calls on Israel to stop

Ban Ki-Moon with Saudi King Abdullah: Yes, master

Ban Ki-Moon, tool of the largest voting bloc in the UN, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, does his masters' bidding. "UN chief calls for immediate halt of violence in Gaza, southern Israel," from Xinhua, December 27

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- U.N. Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon on Saturday called for an immediate halt to the violence in Gaza and southern Israel, condemning excessive use of force leading to civilian casualties and ongoing rocket attacks by militants.
In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Ban said that he is "deeply alarmed" by the heavy violence and bloodshed in Gaza, and the continuation of violence in southern Israel, and called for "an immediate halt to all violence."
While recognizing Israel's security concerns regarding the continued firing of rockets from Gaza [No, he doesn't -- RS], the UN chief firmly reiterated Israel's obligation to uphold international humanitarian and human rights law, and condemned excessive use of force leading to the killing and injuring of civilians.

Here again we see that the UN remains completely indifferent to the daily rocket barrages that Israeli civilians have had to endure, but any self-defense action by Israel is immediately deemed "excessive."

"He condemns the ongoing rocket attacks by Palestinian militants and is deeply distressed that repeated calls on Hamas for these attacks to end have gone unheeded," the statement added.
He is "distressed," but doesn't seem to think anyone should do anything about it.
"The secretary-general reiterates his previous calls for humanitarian supplies to be allowed into Gaza to aid the distressed civilian population," the statement said. "He is making immediate contact with regional and international leaders, including Quartet principals, in an effort to bring a swift end to the violence."...

Hamas won't let wounded leave Gaza

Propaganda tools of the Animalstinians and Hamas.

"Hamas 'bars injured leaving Gaza,'" from the BBC, December 28 (thanks to UsorThem):
Egypt says the Hamas militant group, which controls Gaza, is preventing hundreds of wounded Palestinians from leaving for treatment in Egypt.
Cairo says dozens of empty ambulances are at the Rafah crossing - the only one to Gaza which avoids Israel.
Hamas said it was drawing up lists of the injured but that it was difficult getting them to the border because of the ongoing Israeli air strikes.
Egypt has summoned Israel's ambassador to demand an end to the bombardment.
Hamas officials say 271 Palestinians have been killed and 600 wounded since Israel began its aerial assault on the Gaza Strip on Saturday, but none of the injured have yet left via Rafah....

British troops in Afghanistan serve

The good guys helping the muslims celebrate Christmas in Afganistan. Good hunting guys, may many, many muslims get to meet allah this holiday season.

Hamas's Meshaal urges new intifada against Israel

DAMASCUS (AFP) – Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal called on Saturday for Palestinians to wage a new intifada against Israel, including a return to suicide missions.
In an interview on Al-Jazeera television, Meshaal said: "We called for a military intifada against the enemy. Resistance will continue through suicide missions."
Hamas has not carried out a suicide attack on Israel since January 2005.
The first intifada, or uprising, broke out in 1988, and was followed by the 1993 Oslo peace accords, which led to a certain degree of Palestinian autonomy with the creation of the Palestinian Authority.
A second intifada broke out in 2000 and eventually ran out of steam three years later.
Meshaal said Hamas had accepted "all the peaceful options, but without results."
He said that for there to be any talks with the people of Gaza, "the blockade must be lifted and the crossings (from Israel) opened ... notably that in Rafah," which leads to Egypt.
Meshaal was referring to a blockade imposed on Gaza after Hamas seized control of the overcrowded, impoverished strip in from forces loyal to moderate Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in June 2007. Israel, the United States and other world powers consider Hamas to be a terrorist group.
Meshaal said he was open to reconciliation with Abbas, but demanded that the Palestinian president cease peace negotiations with Israel.
"Neither rockets nor suicide operations are absure, but negotiations are," he said.
Israel hammered Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 225 people in retaliation for rocket fire, in one of the bloodiest days of the decades-long Middle East conflict.

The Gaza Air Strikes: Why Israel Attacked

A future jihadi walks through the rubble of a Hamas building. Hopefully many muslims were under that rubble. They had to hit Gaza now before our muslim president Obama is sworn in.

Israel's strike on Gaza had been expected for days, but it was still a surprise when it finally came. Taking advantage of good weather, which is forecast to last at least three days, Israeli planes bombed some 40 Palestinian police stations, posts and other targets early Saturday morning, killing more than 150 people including a number of senior Hamas military leaders. The first strikes came in a coordinated three-minute blitz.
Israeli officials say the strikes were necessary to force an end to the rocket attacks from Gaza, which is ruled by the radical Islamist group Hamas after it split from the Palestinian Authority run by President Mahmoud Abbas out of the West Bank. Palestinian militants in Gaza have long launched Kassam and other rockets at Israeli towns across the border, and in the past six weeks the number of attacks has increased dramatically. After the attack, Israeli officials said the number of Palestinian rocket attacks could now spike to 200 a day. Hamas announced that it had sent a rocket toward Askelon; one man in the Israeli town of Netivot, east of the Gaza strip, was killed. Israel also expects Hamas to launch suicide attacks against Israel. A Hamas leader promised as much Saturday.
But Israel is prepared to ratchet up the pressure still further in the hope that it will force a workable ceasefire. Saturday's attack was authorized two days previously, and though no Israeli ground troops have crossed into Gaza so far, that remains an option according to Israeli officials. Dozens of Israeli air force planes remain in the skies above Gaza. "If they retaliate they will feel it stronger and the number [of casualties] on the Gaza side will rise", a senior Israeli military source told TIME.

Read it all:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1868829,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

Two Palestinian girls killed in Kassam misfire

They even kill their own. But you have to remember that they are considered martyrs by the animalstinians.

Two Palestinian girls were killed Friday when a rocket fired by Palestinian terrorists landed short of its Israeli target.
According to witnesses, the girls were immediately killed after sustaining a direct hit. Gaza Health Ministry official Dr. Moiaya Hassanain identified the two victims as 5-year-old Hanin Abu Khoussa and her 12-year-old cousin, Sabah Abu Khoussa. Three other young people were wounded, Hassanain said.
Hamas announced then that it planned to investigate the incident, which occurred in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya.

Witness describes Gaza attacks

The interview is with an english speaking female animalstinian. She even says that they did not expect Israel to retalliate so strongly. Hmmm? They keep firing rockets into Israel and they did not expect this? Also, keep an eye on the "victims" in the video, try to pick out how many you see with actual blood on them. I saw one. None of the "victims" actually look hurt.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7801291.stm

Over 200 reported dead in IAF assault on Gaza

It is about time that they stuck back at the animals launching rockets daily. Still the Israelis are sending in food and fuel. That is just plain stupid. These people are brainwashed from the time they are in kindergarden. They need to be exterminated, just like all muslims.

Now we hear that the IDF has ammassed troops near the border with Gaza. At the same time Perez is saying that Israel will not invade. What they need to do is go in and wipe the palastinians out, every man, woman and future shahid.

Of course "World Leaders" are calling for a halt to the violence. Why do the "World Leaders" say nothing when the arabs launch rockets and mortars into Israel? Hmmmm?

Hamas: We can't believe they actually did it

Their surprise is entirely warranted, with Olmert still in power. In any case, their victimology mill is already grinding into high gear. Watch for staged photos of civilians being hit, coming soon from all the wire services.
"Hamas source: IDF strike unexpected: Organization admits Air Force offensive in Gaza caught its people off guard since no one thought Israel would strike on Shabbat," by Ali Waked for Ynet News, December 27 (thanks to Ruth King):
A Hamas source in Gaza confirmed Saturday that the Israeli Air Force attack on the Gaza Strip, caught the organization completely off guard. Hamas, said the source, did not believe the IDF would launch a strike on Shabbat.
Earlier in the week, many Hamas operative went underground, fearing an Israeli assault, but despite the precautions taken by Hamas, many of its police stations across the Strip were operating as usual, again – believing an Israeli attack will not begin over the weekend.
Hamas spokesman Fauzi Barhum told the media that the organization learned on Friday that Israel was not going to launch any military operation in Gaza. Egypt had recommended Hamas cease all rocket fire immediately, in order to allow Israel to postpone its planned offensive in the Strip.
According to a Hamas source, the organization believed an Israeli offensive would mimic past ones and target Hamas training and other minor facilities, and not offices meant to provide services to the general population.
Among the offices hit were the Gaza passport bureau and the Preventive Security Headquarters.
Hamas further said that the message sent by Israel was one stipulating that that are no more line in the sand, and therefore the organization's would respond accordingly.
Earlier Saturday, Hamas interior minister confirmed that all Hamas infrastructure in the Strip was hit during the string of IAF strikes. The Palestinians further reported that one of the strikes was aimed at a Hamas cadet course readying for its graduation ceremony. According to the Palestinian police spokesman in Gaza, many of the cadets were killed, including Tawfiq Jabar, commander of the Gaza Police.Eyewitnesses reported black smoke towering over the Gaza Harbor, as well as over several building used by Hamas' armed forces in the city. The Palestinian television is broadcasting images of dead bodied across the city, and of the wounded being rushed to medical facilities.Official Palestinian reports estimate 150 people were killed in the strike and 300 injured.

It is about time they hit the arabs. So, does anyone think that the rockets will stop? Not me. The arabs will not stop until they push the Jews into the ocean. This is their stated goal. This was just a set back for them.

Redefining hard intelligence

I love this story. How do you get a muslim male that has multiple wives to sell out his people. Give him a woody of course. Viagra a new tool to fight insurgents.

American intel operations have scored some successes in Afghanistan by helping tribal leaders score some as well. What do you get for the tribal leader that has everything, including multiple wives? A bit of youth in a little blue pill apparently works wonders for friendship — and cooperation:

The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bore the creases of a man burdened with duties as tribal patriarch and husband to four younger women. His visitor, a CIA officer, saw an opportunity, and reached into his bag for a small gift.
Four blue pills. Viagra.
“Take one of these. You’ll love it,” the officer said. Compliments of Uncle Sam.
The enticement worked. The officer, who described the encounter, returned four days later to an enthusiastic reception. The grinning chief offered up a bonanza of information about Taliban movements and supply routes — followed by a request for more pills.
For U.S. intelligence officials, this is how some crucial battles in Afghanistan are fought and won. While the CIA has a long history of buying information with cash, the growing Taliban insurgency has prompted the use of novel incentives and creative bargaining to gain support in some of the country’s roughest neighborhoods, according to officials directly involved in such operations.

The success of this strategy makes some sense. People seem to think that we toss cash at people, but as Joby Warrick points out in this report, that can quickly compromise sources. People who get large sums of money tend to flash it, and it becomes clear who works with Americans and who terrorists will avoid like the plague in the future.
Intel operatives look for other, less obvious enticements, and few things would be more private in Muslim tribal life than bedroom performance. Many older tribal chiefs have multiple wives but may not have the physical ability to keep pace. Few items would make the kind of impression that Viagra does for men in that position, and it’s highly unlikely that they’d be chatting about it at the mosque. It’s practically designed for the mission.

3 Palestinians held for raping UN worker

Three Palestinian teens were under arrest Thursday for allegedly raping and robbing a 60-year old UNIFIL worker in her east Jerusalem home, police said.
The three suspects, including two minors, were arrested after the woman, who is from a Scandinavian country, filed a complaint with police, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said.
A fourth suspect remains at large.
The four Palestinians, who are residents of the West Bank and are not connected with the UN institution, are alleged to have carried out the December 4 attack and robbery at the woman's Beit Hanina home.
The two minors were remanded in custody by a Jerusalem court on Thursday for seven days, while the third suspect has been ordered held for eight days, police said.
The police plan to press charges against the suspects when they complete their investigation.

So, this white Infidel was over there helping the poor animalstinians and this is what she gets? Robbed and Raped. She is sixty years old. Was she dressed provacatively? Was she trying to convert muslims to Christianity? Probably not. All muslim men are animals. Two of them are minors. I wonder where they learned to hate Westerners? Israel needs to push all of the arabs out of Gaza, Judea and Sumaria. Let the muslim world take care of them.

Rockets Fired At Israel Ahead Of Aid Transfer

Just hours before a convoy of humanitarian aid was to be sent to the Gaza Strip, Gaza militants Friday fired a barrage of rockets at southern Israel, putting the transfer in jeopardy, media reports said.Five rockets and two mortar rounds were fired before dawn, but caused no casualties, an Israeli military spokesman said. Violence in and around Gaza has flared since a six-month ceasefire ended on December 19, and escalated dramatically Wednesday when nearly 60 rockets and mortars were fired into Israel.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni Thursday rejected a call for restraint from Egypt and vowed the Jewish state would strike back at the Hamas rulers of the besieged Palestinian enclave.Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a "last-minute" appeal directly to Gazans to get Hamas leaders to stop the rocket and mortar attacks."Don't let Hamas, which is acting against the values of Islam, put you in danger," he urged. "Stop them. Stop your enemies and ours. Tell them to stop firing on innocent civilians."Meanwhile, it was reported that Israel has begun transferring humanitarian aid into Gaza despite the mortar fire on Israel's southern communities. The army said the first of an expected 90 trucks have started to deliver medicine, fuel, cooking gas and other vital goods to coastal strip. The move comes ahead of an expected Israeli incursion into Gaza to stop rocket launchings from the coastal strip.Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak decided late Thursday to open the Kerem Shalom and Sufa crossings Friday to allow the transfer of humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip as part of its policy of avoiding a humanitarian crisis there.

What is wrong with the Israeli's? They are under fire from the very people that they are sending aid to. They are sending aid as the rockets and mortars are falling. Why? Just let these people starve and die. They are waging jihad against Israel and the West will not believe this.