From AP via The Guardian: BEIRUT, Lebanon – A bomb Tuesday killed a politician who was a harsh critic of Syria’s power in Lebanon, police said, the second slaying of an anti-Syrian figure this month. The explosion that killed former Communist Party chief George Hawi as he rode in his car came two days after […]
Archives for June 2005
‘Bloody good’ to be home, says Wood
An interesting update on the claims the Australian Mufti is making concerning Wood’s captors and his release. From the New Zealand Herald: CANBERRA – Douglas Wood, the 63-year-old Australian engineer rescued last week from kidnappers in Iraq, flew into Melbourne yesterday to a joyful reunion with his family but with questions still surrounding his release… […]
Illegal immigrants accessed nuclear weapons facility
“But Department of Energy report says nothing was compromised.” And we aren’t told where these illegal immigrants were from, or why they might have been wanting to use false documents to get into the site. No doubt these were not jihadists but just undocumented Irishmen on a prank, so this is a story about lax […]
Spain arrests more terror suspects
Madrid bombing jihad update from UPI, : MADRID — Spanish authorities arrested five more suspects connected with last year’s Madrid train bombing that killed 191 people, documents disclosed Monday show. One of the suspects was charged with belonging to a terror organization while the others were accused of merely collaborating with terrorists, El Mundo reported […]
Turkish Court: Life sentence for Islamic terrorist
Turkey says “Welcome back” to Metin Kaplan. From AP, : A court found an Islamic terrorist guilty of planning to crash an airplane into the mausoleum of Turkey’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and sentenced him to life in prison. The Istanbul court convicted Metin Kaplan of charges of attempting “to overturn the constitutional order”, a […]
North Carolina: Judges question use of Quran in taking oath
Judeo-Christian-Islamic values update from the Greensboro News & Record, with thanks to Anthony and Thunder Pig: GREENSBORO — All Syidah Mateen wanted was to give Muslim witnesses the chance to be sworn in on the Quran before testifying in Guilford County courtrooms. But an attempt by the Greensboro Islamic center to donate copies of the […]
Thailand: Muslim official arrested after running checkpoint in pickup
Maybe he was just on the way to fertilize his garden. Yeah, that’s it. Thai jihad update, from Bangkok’s The Nation, with thanks to Twostellas: Police arrested a local Muslim official in Narathiwat on Sunday night following a high-speed chase after the man ran a checkpoint. In the pickup, the officers discovered a large amount […]
Terms of Dhimmitude
“Terms of Internment: How to win friends and influence enemy combatants,” from Alan Bromley in Opinion Journal, with thanks to EPG: Well, I think we should not close Gitmo but write a new set of rules of procedure for the treatment of terrorists, those who often either hide behind civilians when being shot at or […]
She believes “in death and Allah”
Remember: one of the “hate speech” charges against Oriana Fallaci is that she said: “Islam is a pond….The pond does not love life: It loves death.” So where did this would-be suicide bomber get the idea that it was appropriate to express belief in “death and Allah”? Did she learn Islam from Fallaci? Or…is Fallaci […]
The jailer tossed a Qur’an on the bed! Case dismissed!
Qur’an abuse jihad alert: these lawyers are actually asking that their case be dismissed because of…Qur’an abuse. It was…tossed on a bed. This is outstandingly frivolous, and frivolous attempts to head off justice are nothing new for lawyers, but if this succeeds, we might as well turn out the lights in America. “Lawyers for 2 […]