Month: October 2007

* George W. is da man: Not our man, their man.

After all, the Saudi’s made him.

They made his father, they made Bill Cheney, his cronies and his predecessors. From Peanut Khadr to Willie Clitman, and from Ronald Regan to Henry Kissinger, all were, all are on the take. All of them received millions upon millions for dubious libraries, mausoleums or business ventures.

* In America and elsewhere money talks. These recycled petro-dollars can’t be missed. Which one is it: getting real chummy with the oil mob or selling the family silver?

* In the Arab pocket:

Bush renews Saudi Arabia as anti-terror ally despite concerns

By P. Parameswaran WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President George W. Bush on Friday renewed Saudi Arabia as a key anti-terrorism ally despite concerns over its track record and fears it is exporting extremist ideology.

I hereby certify that Saudi Arabia is cooperating with efforts to combat international terrorism and that the proposed assistance will help facilitate that effort,” the president said in a memorandum to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to free up aid from Washington to Riyadh.

A little more than a month ago, the US Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, Stuart Levey, charged that Saudi Arabia had failed to prosecute the bankrollers of terrorist groups.

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Australia discovers Fat Anglos and Solid Muslims

A professor of nutrition thinks that culture is more important than health:

When is a fat child not really fat, after all?

THE obesity epidemic among Australian children has been grossly overstated, according to a study that reveals the problem is concentrated among poorer families and some ethnic groups…

The study showed more than 17 per cent of children from a Middle Eastern background were obese, 8 per cent of Aboriginal children and 7 per cent of those from a southern European background.

This compared with 5.7 per cent of Anglo-Australian children…

Dr O’Dea said it was important to work in culturally sensitive ways with communities to determine the best way to reduce the risk of diabetes.

“We want to avoid stigmatising already socially marginalised groups,” she said.

She described as “a disaster” plans by federal Labor to weigh and measure every child starting school. She said in some cultures fatness was not seen as a problem, and initiatives might need to focus on increasing physical activity rather than weight loss.

In other cultures, it was unrealistic to expect girls to engage in high-level physical activity.

“Fatness is here to stay,” she said.

I think the good doctor means that girls find it hard to run in a burqa – which turns fat into a problem best left alone.

* ‘Cultural sensitivity’ is the express way to dhimmitude.

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Smokers irrational, like animals, says Malaysian cleric 

* From the ‘Jihad-is-better-for-you’– department: 

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Smokers are like animals that do not think rationally, a Malaysian hardline Islamist cleric said at the weekend.

Islam discourages the faithful from smoking, just as it bars them from alcohol, said Nik Aziz Nik Mat, spiritual leader of the Parti Islam se-Malaysia, which seeks to turn the country into an Islamic state that punishes thieves by lopping off their hands.

Smokers did not use their brains because they continued to let themselves be addicted to the habit, despite knowing it was bad for their health, the Star newspaper quoted Nik Aziz as saying.

“People who do not want to think are like animals,” Nik Aziz told the launch of an anti-smoking campaign in Kota Baru, the capital of Malaysia’s northeastern state of Kelantan, which is his party’s last remaining bastion.

Nik Aziz, himself a non-smoker, has earlier said smokers would not be included among his party’s candidates at Malaysia’s next general elections, widely expected to be called as soon as early next year.

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‘Muslim Live 8’ raises money for Darfur

By Lucie Godeau

Thousands of British Muslims gathered at Wembley Arena for a charity peace concert dubbed “Muslim Live 8” to raise money for victims of Sudan’s long-running Darfur conflict.

The concert, starring top Islamic singer Sami Yusuf, was backed by the British Government, which is spearheading efforts to press the Sudanese Government to stop violence in the western province.

The event at London’s Wembley Arena, called A Concert for Peace in Darfur, also aimed to promote efforts to unite the community amid widespread suspicion of Islam in Britain.

“An injustice anywhere is an attack on justice everywhere and so we will continue working together with all of you to bring this suffering to an end,” said Prime Minister Gordon Brown in a pre-recorded video message.

“I want to thank all of you … from the artists and musicians who are performing here today, to religious leaders from all communities who have been leading prayers and campaigns for the people of Darfur.”

Mr Brown added: “The fact that so many of you are here tonight shows how deeply people from communities all over Britain care about the people of Darfur and their plight.”

All profits from the event will go to Islamic Relief to help fund its work in Darfur.

* It was not clear whether the funds raised were meant for the black Darfurians or for the Janjaweed to rid themselves of the black Darfurians…

* For the sixth night in a row, Muslims in Amsterdam are torching cars, following the death of a Muslim who burst into a police station and stabbed two officers: Violence flares again in Amsterdam.

Immigrant “youths” riot when police actually defend themselves

Disturbances broke out for a sixth successive night in an immigrant quarter of Amsterdam when four cars were set on fire, police said.

The unrest started after police shot dead a man of Moroccan origin last weekend who had stabbed and injured two officers.

The fires brought the total number of burnt cars to 11, a police spokesman said.

The 22-year-old Moroccan had been undergoing treatment for psychiatric problems and had in the past been questioned over contacts with Islamic militants linked to the murderer of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh.

The Netherlands is home to about one million Muslims out of a population of 16 million. Most live in the big cities.

* Some reports of the torchings say that the majority of the rioters are 12-15 years old. Of course, nobody wants to investigate who’s orchestrating this.

* Get this, the city mayor visited the idiot’s family, but NOT the officers who were attacked.

Terrorism works:

* the local authorities fear riots in the big local Islamic community.

* Thus they go to the ‘youths’, to the mosques and the imams to explain to them what happened.

Local burgomaster [chairman of the city council] Ahmed Marcouch is even sending his condolences to the parent of the terrorist. He is even planning to visit the terrorist family today, although their is no report of a visit to the wounded police officers. Friends of the terrorist can even come to a special room at the city office, were sandwiches, coffee and tea are served to them.

Europe has lost its collective mind…

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* They are most definitely here to conquer. Wherever islam goes, that is the MO.

Rabi’a ibn ‘Amir(radiyallahu ‘anhu) went to the leader of the Persians. The leader asked him, “Why are you coming to our lands? If you are coming for money then we will pay everyone of you a salary so leave us alone.” But Rabi’a said, “That is not why we are here. We are sent to free the creation from being slaves of one another to being slaves of Allah the Creator of the creation and from the oppression of religion to the justice of Islam and we want to deliver people from the narrowness of this world to the vastness of this world and the Afterlife…

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Hirsi Ali attacks Dutch government

* You better start fighting when you’re up against the wall. Ayaan has nothing to lose but everything to gain. The cowardly multiculti/diversity wimps in the Dutch government who are selling out the birthright of the native Dutch must be brought to shame.

Terrorism works:

The Dutch government is showing critics that they had better keep quiet by refusing to pay for her security in the US, says former MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali in an interview with Danish paper Jyllands Posten, reports the Volkskrant.

In her first interview since the Netherland said it would no longer pay for round-the-clock protection while she is abroad, Hirsi Ali says the decision was not based on money but on principles.

‘It costs less to let me be protected by a US security company than a Dutch one,’ the former MP is quoted as saying.

‘I think the government wants to sent a message out to others in the Netherlands, that they should keep quiet. They apparently want to reassure Muslims by saying ‘look, we are on your side. Hirsi Ali is a baddie, we are the goodies’,’ Hirsi Ali said.

Justice minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin stopped paying for Hirsi Ali’s security on October 1, shortly after she was awarded a green card for permanent residence in the US. She is now raising the money privately.

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* It seems the Dutch are unwilling to stand up for the principles that assure freedom and liberty for citizens of a democratic country.

They will loose what they value most by appeasing forces that are anti-democratic and believe in the suppression of the human spirit and the oppression of individual rights to exercise liberty and freedom as a unique person.

Fitzgerald: The inadequacy of the Secretary of State

* Abd el Condi under a picture of departed AIDS-ridden terrorist chief Arafart. Something to look out for, when you’re secretary of state.

* Hugh Fitzgerald explains once again how the wakademically misguided secretary of state disappoints by her continued display of ignorance and utter incomprehension of the Islamo-fascist doctrine:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice does not understand Islam. She’s not able to learn beyond what she learned long ago. She seems intelligent by comparison with her boss.

However, the nuclear-arms expert, David Kay, who had many dealings with her, described her as the “worst national security adviser” in the history of the country. And given that among the rivals for that crown are Brzezinski and Scowcroft, that is saying something.

* Condi must have been one of those students whose singular ability is that they are very good at taking tests.

Here. Read it all.

That awful Risotto

* Quotes:

“We in America understand the benevolence that lies at the heart of Islam’

“… disrespect for the Holy Koran is not now, nor has it ever been, nor will it ever be, tolerated by the United States.”

Oh really? There are two problems with this statement and they are exceedingly, and profoundly, at odds with the Constitution for the United States that the Secretary has sworn an oath to defend:

1. The use of the adjective “Holy” by a member of the president’s cabinet in a statement issued in the course of executing their official duty is a direct affront to the phrase, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” that is enshrined in Amendment I to the Constitution. No government official has the authority to even suggest to the citizens of the United States what is “holy” or not “holy”. Doing so is an assault on personal liberty itself. The individual, and only the individual, is endowed with the right to decide what is, and what is not “holy”. Members of all branches of government need to reflect deeply on this point and to ensure that such language is never used in an official capacity. The citizens do not suggest it, they demand it, as it is their right to demand it.

2. “Disrespect” for the Koran has never been tolerated in the United States? Which United States are we talking about here, Madam Secretary? For it cannot be the United States of America with its 1st constitutional amendment stating, “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech …”. I remind Madam Secretary that any citizen of the United States possesses the right to burn the Koran, defecate on the Koran, flush the Koran, roll up and smoke the Koran, or the Bible, or the Bagavad Gita, or the Zendavesta, or the Mahabharata, or the Torah, etc., as an expression of free speech.

Houston, we’ve got a problem. You see, in fact, “disrespect” for the Koran is now tolerated, has always been tolerated, and will always be tolerated in the United States, at least it will be for as long as there are patriots alive who are willing to defend the rights granted to them by the Founding Fathers. I suggest that the members of the president’s cabinet have a refresher course on the Constitution. Perhaps a one-day seminar would do the trick. I’m available and my hourly rates are reasonable. You know how to reach me.

Dr. Mack has more

An essay by Takuan Seiyo

Last year, there were 639 rapes in Switzerland. 309 of the 489 identified perpetrators, i.e. over 63%, were foreigners.

198 homicides were committed in Switzerland in 2006 (3). Of the 226 identified perpetrators, 51% were foreigners. There were 9272 assaults with bodily damage and 8568 identified assailants. Almost 50% of the assailants were Swiss residents of foreign extraction. (4)

All these and statistics on kidnappings, theft, burglary etc —- all the specialty of foreigners– may be gleaned in the 2006 Statistical Report on Crime, issued by the Swiss Federal Police.

The term “Foreigners” includes the foreign-born as well as the Swiss-born children of such foreigners. Switzerland does not grant birthright citizenship. In this, and in its tough naturalization requirements, Switzerland remains, in some ways, the last remaining outpost of sanity in the Western world.

SVP has a deep bench of articulate, patriotic, and passionate leaders. The most charismatic of them, Christoph Blocher, is Switzerland’s most famous and controversial politician as well as serving as the country’s current Minister of Justice. He is an outspoken opponent of Switzerland’s multiculti policies and anti-“racism” laws, and is therefore a lightning rod for all the haters on the left.

A foreign resident may acquire Swiss citizenship only upon the approval of a local community that has the rights to interview him as to his “Swissness” and to put his proposed citizenship up for a vote. The prospective applicant must have lived in Switzerland legally and crime-free for 12 years, and have paid his taxes. This prudent procedure has become a demolition target for the bien pensant elite in the Swiss federal government. They wish to replace the centuries-old Swiss confederate rights with federal power wielded along the “enlightened,” multicultural precepts of the European Union.

Micheline Calmy-Rey, president of Switzerland under a rotation system, has called SVP’s campaign “disgusting,” “dangerous” and not corresponding to “Switzerland’s multicultural openness to the world.” Swiss Interior Minister, Pascal Couchepin, has likened Christoph Blocher to Mussolini. These politicians are not coincidentally from Switzerland’s French-speaking region, where the country’s liberal center of gravity lies.

We know only one word

jihad. jihad, jihad, jihad.

AND NO-ONE LISTENS

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Yvan Perrin, vice-president of the SVP, wrote an appeal to voters in July ’07, entitled (in translation) “The Left and its allies bear the responsibility for the criminality of foreigners.” In it, Mr. Perrin stated that in the past Switzerland was one of the safest countries in the world. This was a great economic and quality of life advantage. Mass immigration has brought with it criminality and insecurity. The statistics he cites confirm “that which everybody witnesses every day in media reports”: foreigners in Switzerland commit four times as many criminal acts as the Swiss do.

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Switzerland for the Swiss

Andrew Bolt:

Switzerland says no to a borderless world:

A SELF-MADE billionaire, who compares himself to a legendary hero impaled while repelling unwanted invaders, led his right-wing party to victory in Swiss elections yesterday after a campaign marred by rows over racism…

(Christopher) Blocher made his name fighting proposals by successive Swiss governments that were put to the country under its referendum system for major national decisions.

He said no to everything, campaigning successfully against UN membership in 1986, abolition of the Swiss Army in 1989, sending Swiss troops on armed peacekeeping missions in 1994 and European Union membership in 2001. But he could not block a second vote on UN membership, which was carried in 2002….

The main talking point of the election – a poster showing three white sheep booting a black sheep off a Swiss flag – was withdrawn (by Blocher’s party) before polling day. The SVP maintains it was illustrating its policy of ejecting foreign criminals but political rivals said it was clearly racist.

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*  Turkish “Islamophobia expert” says  Switzerland must become more Islamic

Another Muhammedan agit-prop doing his Islamic duty to make Europe Islamic. For this “expert” — and for the Swiss government — the responsibility for it lies solely with non-Muslims.

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Australia: Muslim Serial Rapist gets only 9 years

* From the ‘Clueless-like-a-cow-in-the-field’ department:

County Court Judge Jeanette Morrish said yesterday Avci had waged a “cowardly, aggressive and violent campaign” on vulnerable women but believed his prospects of rehabilitation were good because of his youth and his return to the Muslim faith.

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* Ol’catmeat sheik Hilali will straighten him out, no doubt…

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Kate Jones

A MAN has been jailed for at least nine years for raping four women and attacking two others.

Sedat Avci, 21, of Broadmeadows, terrorised women in the northern suburbs between April and August 2005.

Most victims were walking alone in the evening and were subjected to terrifying sex attacks.

Avci had pleaded guilty to seven counts of rape.

County Court Judge Jeanette Morrish said yesterday Avci had waged a “cowardly, aggressive and violent campaign” on vulnerable women but believed his prospects of rehabilitation were good because of his youth and his return to the Muslim faith.

She sentenced Avci to 16 years in jail, with a minimum of nine. The maximum term for rape is 25 years.

Crime Victims Support Association president Noel McNamara slammed the jail term and said he planned to write to the acting Director of Public Prosecutions, Jeremy Rapke.

“That’s 1.5 years each for six women who have got life sentences — it’s a terrible disgrace,” Mr McNamara said. “It’s a great insult to the victims and the community.”

Mr Rapke will review the case.

Avci was just 19 when he violently assaulted women in Coburg, Coolaroo, Brunswick and Hawthorn.

One victim was about to drive off when Avci asked to use her mobile phone. He then forced his way into her car and repeatedly raped her.

In a victim impact statement read in court, the woman said her life had been turned upside down.

“I will have to work every day of my life to make sure this doesn’t define who I am,” she said.

A victim who was raped twice while walking her dogs said the memory of the attack haunted her.

Avci also pleaded guilty to a count of aggravated burglary and another charge of robbery after attacking a pregnant woman in front of her children, aged three and four.

The serial rapist was arrested in August 2005 after police matched his fingerprints to those on a newspaper at the scene of an attack.

A psychiatric report revealed Avci did not have a mental impairment at the time of the attacks, but was using amphetamines.

Avci threatened most of his victims with a knife and in one case told a woman who tried to escape he would shoot her if she tried again.

In a letter of apology to his victims, Avci said he had “no good excuse” for what he had done.

“To say sorry is not enough to heal the heartache and pain I have caused to your lives and your families’ lives,” he said.

* The rape of infidel women is ‘war-booty’ in Islam

* Thanks to Shiva we have the relevant sura’s right here:
Qur’an 33:51

“You may have whomever you desire; there is no blame.”

Qur’an 33:51
“You may put off whom you please, and you may take to you whomever you desire. You may defer any of them you please, and you may have whomever you desire; there is no blame on you if you invite one who you had set aside. It is no sin.”

Europe’s fear of Muslims increases

Gosh.

By Shelley Emling in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Ehsan Jami sees himself as the legendary Dutch boy who used his finger to plug a leaking dike.
Jami, a Dutch politician, is trying to prevent a flood of what he views as intolerant Muslim immigrants threatening to overrun the Netherlands and all of Europe.

He’s not alone. In France, Germany and across Western Europe, a vigorous public debate is under way over preservation of national identities, the assimilation of minorities and tolerance of different cultures.

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* Enlightened progressives already have the cure for this fear, mysteriously named ‘Islamophobia’: More Islamic immigration!

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Italy: Muslim radicalism ‘on the rise’ survey finds

Paris, 15 Oct. (AKI) – Half of Italians believe that Islamic extremism is growing in their country, and over 50 percent believe it is a mounting worldwide threat. These are the findings of a survey carried out in Italy last month by the French satellite rolling news channel France24.

France24 surveyed 950 Italians from 20-23 September. A total 53 percent believed that Muslims have many more areas that unite them such as religion than those dividing them, such as nationalism.

Immigration is an area that splits Italians: one-third believe immigrants represent a threat, while 30 percent say they are a resource. Among this latter group, half view immigrants as an economic resource, while the other half consider immigrants to be a positive force for cultural interchange.

Almost three-quarters (74 percent) believe illegal immigration is a threat and 54 percent fear the growth of immigrant ghettos in Italian cities.

Most Italians believe that immigrants do not wish to integrate , while fewer than one-third blame Italian society for a lack of integration.

More than three-fifths (63 percent) think the immigration policies of the current Italian centre-left government led by Romano Prodi are inadequate

1,001 inventions mark Islam’s role in science

New English Review

This is a jolly little puff piece which is not typical of the Scotsman, however the comments are worthy of note.
The account of Khalid’s discovery (of coffee, or coffee eating goats) is just one of a glittering treasury of untold tales from a golden age of discovery and innovation, which took place in the Islamic world between the seventh and 17th centuries.

It is this hidden history that a new exhibition aims to unveil. Entitled 1,001 Inventions, the exhibition opens at Glasgow Science Centre later this month and charts the innovations of exceptional scholars, and ordinary people, from the Islamic world who discovered and developed many items that are taken for granted today. The exhibits are divided into seven zones: home, hospital, market, school, town, universe and world.
Professor Salim Al-Hassani, chairman of the Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation, creators of 1,001 Inventions, said there is a widespread misconception that science and technology withered during the “Dark Ages”.
“The 1,001 Inventions exhibition aims, through a process of education and learning, to challenge this myth and celebrate the fact that Muslim civilisation was flourishing and contributed to the advancement of our society today,” he said.

Religion of Inventions

The comments:-

* Didn’t they also invent the process where they convince their uneducated children to blow themselves up so as to kill and main innocent people?

* Any news of any inventions made in the last 300 years?

* We write with Roman letters but use Arabic numerals so the influence extends to something as basic as 1,2,3″ And they pinched the idea from India.

* Most of this stuff attributed to Muslim scientists is just a rehash of stuff they got from the Greeks.

* Eratosthenes who died in 194BC not only knew the earth was spherical but measured its circumference-which puts him 13 centuries ahead of al-Idrisi.

* Al-Battani popularised trigonometry did he? Obviously he then knew the work of Pythagoras , a Greek who died around 500 BC.

* Number theory was greatly advanced by the ‘discovery’ of the number zero. A concept which the Muslims stole from the Hindus when they dropped in to ravage and rob India.

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* This is a nice try at a puff piece but you’ll have to do better than this.

So we owe the muslim’s for civilization?

Let’s see: stealing, reprinting and renaming, acquiring without permission and claiming invention, etc. A wonderful culture… current behavior bombs for children and woman, beheading girls for going to school, yes a peaceful, loving culture, interested in human advancement. May history return them to where they came from…MRD

* Muslims are particularly zealous in their steady exaggeration of supposedly Muslim inventions and advancements. The Hindu “zero” which was transmitted to the Islamic world, just as paper-making (see Dard Hunter) came to Damascus from China, has long been claimed for the Arabs and Islam. Similarly, the most famous Arabic-using mathematician, the polymath Al-Khwarizmi, is put forth as some kind of representative for Islam, when his own history suggests a lone and unorthodox wolf, in the tradition of al-Rhazi.

My own thought it that once one has thrown out all those who, though they are known by their Arabic names, were in fact Christians or Jews, and once one has determined that the Muslim figures who remain were only one or two or at most three generations away from their non-Muslim ancestors, one begins to suspect that “Islamic” science disappeared because the non-Muslims ceased to be an important part of the population, had been sufficiently reduced in numbers or otherwise marginalized so that the spirit of Islam — a spirit most inimical to free and skeptical inquiry about everything, including what Newton and other scientists in Christendom saw as the laws of Nature that could be determined, for God himself had set the clockwork mechanism in motion, and Man could determine the laws according to which that mechanism functioned, while in Islam, Allah obeys no laws, but is whimsical, does just what he likes, and submissive man must be a slave to Allah, and question nothing, wonder quizzically about nothing, investigate nothing, for Allah knows best. People raised to believe that kind of thing, existing in societies where everyone believes or must pretend to believe that kind of thing, may manage to engage in that bastard-child of science called weapons technology, but that is acceptable because those weapons will help Islam to overcome the Infidels What is inadmissible is for Muslims to study the nature of DNA, or subatomic particles. Some born into Islam may do so — but in so doing, they are showing that they are not true Believers.

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* Even if one were to concede Islam’s “past glory days and contributions” to Western civilization, how do they in the same breath explain the failure of so many Islamic states today? How can it be that the West benefit so much from Islam and yet simultaneously Islam not benefit from itself? Blaming colonialism only highlights Islam’s inability and impotence to deal with adversity (something all Muslims would be loathe to admit of their “perfect” religion).

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What happened to BLiar?

“There is a tendency even now, even in some of our own circles, to believe that they are as they are because we have provoked them and if we left them alone they would leave us alone.

Tony Blair: Iran extremism like rise of 1930s fascism

“I fear this is mistaken. They have no intention of leaving us alone.

“They have made their choice and leave us with only one to make – to be forced into retreat or to exhibit even greater determination and belief in standing up for our values than they do in standing up for their’s.”

Mr Blair, who represents the Quartet of the US, Europe, Russia and the United Nations on the Middle East, was speaking at the 62nd annual Alfred E Smith Memorial Foundation dinner at the Waldorf Astoria hotel.

Mr Blair went on: “I said straight after the attack of September 2001 that this was not an attack on America but on all of us. That Britain’s duty was to be shoulder to shoulder with you in confronting it. I meant it then and I mean it now.”

He added: “America and Europe should not be divided, we should stand up together.

“The values we share are as vital and true and, above all, needed today as they have been at any time in the last 100 years.”

Mr Blair received three standing ovations during the evening.

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* Hmm. should we be impressed?

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Muslims launch dialogue meetings with UK political leaders

“The purpose of the discussions is to encourage the young Muslims to engage in dialogue with the politicians,” Muslim News editor Ahmed Versi said.

Initial discussions focused on Britain’s controversial anti-terrorism laws, its impact on the Muslim communities, police stop and search powers, radicalization and the increase in holding suspects in detention without any charge.

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Achmed the dead terrorist

Islam is a Religion of Peace and we kill you to prove it!

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Religion of Mass Murder Strikes in Pakistan

The death toll in today’s Islamic terror attack in Pakistan: 123.

KARACHI, Oct 19 (Reuters) – A suspected suicide bomber killed at least 123 people on Friday in an attack on former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto as she was driven through Karachi to greet supporters on her return from eight years in exile.

Pakistan plans “all-out war on militants”

“Pakistan plans all-out war on militants,” by Syed Saleem Shahzad for Asia Times:

An all-out battle for control of Pakistan’s restive North and South Waziristan is about to commence between the Pakistani military and the Taliban and al-Qaeda adherents who have made these tribal areas their own.

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Friday Night Zappa

I’m the Slime Campaign Song for 2008 Elections and Beyond!

Religion of Peace hits bombs Philippine Shopping Mall (again)

By OLIVER TEVES
Associated Press Writer

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MANILA, Philippines — A powerful explosion ripped through three floors of a shopping mall in the heart of Manila’s financial district Friday, killing eight people, injuring scores and sending police and troops on the highest state of alert.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said “circumstances indicate it is highly probable that it was caused by an explosive device.” The same mall was targeted by a bombing in 2000.

National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales said authorities were looking into a possible terrorist attack, but “there is no conclusive evidence yet.”

Mario Em, a taxi driver, said he had just dropped two women off at the mall when the blast hurled the passengers against his vehicle, killing them instantly.

At least eight people were killed and more than 70 were injured, said metropolitan Manila police chief Geary Barias.

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Britain’s enormous problem

Britain’s Conservative Muslim Forum has issued a report on UK “security,” and if you hadn’t been following the news from the UK, you might not believe what it says: Muslim Tories: ‘Iran has right to nuclear arms’.

* With thanks to LGF

A body set up by David Cameron to advise the Conservatives on Muslim issues has criticised the Government’s relationship with Israel and concluded that Iran has “legitimate” reasons for wanting nuclear weapons.

The Conservative Muslim Forum also wants the compulsory history curriculum in schools changed to give “full recognition to the massive contribution that Islam has made to the development of Western civilisation”.

* Islam’s contribution to humanity, in sum: Slavery, death, torture, murder, misogyny, intolerance, bigotry, hypocrisy, persecution of homosexuals, of religious minorities, of women; child rape, massive conquest through warfare; deceit, genocide…

* The roll call of Muslim heroes is a roll call of mass murderers: Muhammad, Saladin, Arafat, bin Laden, Zawahiri, Zarqawi, etc.

* If the vote was available to Muslim lands, Osama bin Laden would be elected president in every single Muslim nation on earth.

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It also argues that preachers who advocate a rejection of democracy and its institutions should not be denied entry into Britain.

The report says: “Regardless of whether one finds Israel a congenial country or not, on any objective assessment of the type of unqualified support given to Israel by the current government it is not conducive to British national interests as this could damage Britain’s relationships with 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide, including those in Britain.”

It concludes that passage with: “In all our dealings with Israel, we must remember the plight of the displaced Palestinians.”

The group calls on the party to be more sympathetic towards Iran. It says: “Given Iran’s position in the Middle East, facing a nuclear-armed Israel, Iran appears to have legitimate reasons for seeking nuclear weapons for defensive purposes.”

The full report is here (PDF), and it’s even worse than the Telegraph’s summary. Clearly, support for extremism reaches the highest levels of the UK Muslim community; this group is chaired by Lord Mohamed Sheikh, given a peerage in 2005 by Michael Howard.

More commentary at British blog ConservativeHome’s ToryDiary: Tory Muslims’ report defends Iran’s nuclear ambitions and offers comfort to extremists.

* Yep. Finally the sun is setting on the British empire. And the (crescent) moon is rising…

Update: at least 45 dead and hundreds injured.

Latest news: at least 65 dead and hundreds injured.

Two explosions went off near a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

CNN:

Greg Palkot is reporting from Karachi that the mood is getting very ugly. Anti-American riots are a real possibility, since Bhutto has been closely linked with the US…

“I can see body parts strewn all over the road,” said CNN’s Dan Rivers, at the scene. “There are dead bodies everywhere. … It is a large-scale attack, by the looks of things…

Update: Make that 70 dead and hundreds injured

Sky News update: More than 100 people have been killed

Nutroots blame Bush (of course)

We have it on good authority that Bush also wiped out the dinosaurs.
Muslims were really peaceful until Bush made them feel yucky…

* Blitzer’s dumb line of the day:

“We have no way of confirming that, but it has all the hallmarks of some sort of terrorist attack,” River’s told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

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Shiva has lots of pictures on the Illustrated PIG 

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Pakistan plans all-out war on militants

By Syed Saleem Shahzad

An all-out battle for control of Pakistan’s restive North and South Waziristan is about to commence between the Pakistani military and the Taliban and al-Qaeda adherents who have made these tribal areas their own.

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A Dog Named Muhammad

Swedish artist Lars Vilks, whose drawings of Mohammed as a “roundabout dog” have provoked the most recent round of Islamic seething and threatening, has acquired a dog for protection.

And named it Mohammed.

This makes Lars Vilks, single-handedly, more courageous than the entire Western mainstream media.

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Qaradawi calls on Muslim Brotherhood to Embrace Jihad in Case of U.S. Attack on Iran

By Douglas Farah

Yousef Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the international Muslim Brotherhood, is reprising his role as mediator between the Sunni and Shi’ite groups. This time he is calling on all Muslims to defend Iran in case of a U.S. attack.

Qaradawi’s interview with Islamonline Radio last week highlights the sheikh’s role-and the role of the Muslim Brotherhood-in trying to bring about unity of the Muslim umma, regardless of one’s affiliation.

“It is obligatory on all Muslims to resist any possible attack the US might launch against Iran,” Qaradawi said. “Iran is a Muslim country which all Muslims should defend while the US is an enemy of Islam that has already declared war on Islam under the disguise of war on terrorism and provides Israel with unlimited support.”

In the past, the Ikhwan collaborated closely with the regime of Ayatollah Khommeini, according to the accounts of Yousef Nada and other Brotherhood leaders. There was a falling out, but the Brotherhood has consistently maintained that the Sunni-Shi’ite differences are “minor” issues that should not interfere with the larger strategy of restoring the caliphate.

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Ummah: Delivery Drivers Wanted

* Free suicide wests for widows and orphans (thanks to Shem)

* The right answer would be “bring it on motherf*kcers..”

* An America that doesn’t dictate terms of surrender to this vermin, a superpower that instead enters into ‘negotiations’- , treating scum as equals, has no moral compass. America has lost it.

* Madrid peace-train flashback

“Peace” Train Going Off Track

By P. David Hornik
FrontPageMagazine.com

Condoleezza Rice is here again this week, this time shuttling from Jerusalem to Ramallah to Cairo in her obsessive chase after a chimera of formal peace between a tired democracy whose paramount yearning is that its sons should no longer have to be soldiers, and Muslims who regard this Jewish democracy’s existence as an affront to their deepest values and even to God Allah.

The Jerusalem Post, which regularly pronounces itself in favor of a “two-state solution,” noted in an editorial Tuesday that “While Palestinian leaders have repeatedly claimed to recognize Israel’s right to exist, they have never uttered the words ‘Jewish state.’”

In other words, since 1992 Israel, heavily urged on by the United States, has been pursuing a purported peace process with leaders—whether the openly brutal Yasser Arafat or the sedate, nicely dressed Mahmoud Abbas—who cannot bring themselves to utter that phrase.

A decade and a half ago, the pronouncement of “right to exist” without “Jewish state” was enough for Israel to set up, finance, and arm a Palestinian entity on land impinging on its population centers. Since then that entity has murdered over 1500 Israelis, mostly civilians, in terror attacks while injuring and traumatizing many thousands more—including, at this moment, the ongoing battery and traumatization of the Gaza-bordering town of Sderot with its twenty thousand residents.

Some Israelis, though, would still be willing to attribute great significance to the pronouncement of “Jewish state” by an almost-powerless leader without first requiring a transformation of Palestinian society from values of Jew-hatred and Israel-negation to values of peace and pluralism. As the Post puts it:

If, however, Abbas is willing to formally recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, and to abandon the demand for the demographic influx [of “refugees”] that would negate it, the path to substantive progress would be opened.

But even with all this dangling before him, Abbas still doesn’t take the bait. During Rice’s press conference with him in Ramallah on Monday, Rice “urged Israel and the Palestinians to agree on how and when to start formal peace talks.” Abbas, though, “responded by saying Israel would have to make concessions in order to do so.”

In other words—first concessions, then peace talks.

As for the concessions Abbas demanded—without yet having said “Jewish state”—they reportedly include

the withdrawal of Israel Defense Forces to the lines of September 28, 2000, before the second intifada erupted, the evacuation of settlements, the reopening of Palestinian institutions in East Jerusalem and the release of all Palestinian prisoners. He added that Israel must allow 13 militants it exiled in 2002 to return to the West Bank.

No report anywhere says that Rice finally started to wonder if this man really wants peace or is worth such obsessive supplication by a superpower and leader of the Free World.

Those “13 militants,” for example, were among the most senior of the terrorists who holed themselves up for weeks in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in 2002, during which they used the Bible as toilet paper among other desecrations. The 13 incurred the rather light punishment of being deported abroad—but now Abbas wants them back in the Palestinian Authority as a condition for beginning the “peace talks.”

Rice, though, instead of having any known misgivings about this whole endeavor, shuttled off to Cairo where Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit gave her more of the same, “warning the summit may be postponed unless a substantive agreement can be reached beforehand.”

Gheit also accused Israel—that disliked entity—of “trying to undermine U.S. efforts to achieve a real peace agreement between the two sides” and said in a statement that “Without addressing these attempts, then we have to seriously think of postponing the conference to another appropriate time.”

As the conference approaches, the Arab atmosphere of bullying and threats is intensifying. Ahmed Qurei—a former PA prime minister and currently head of the Palestinian negotiating team—didn’t mince words just last Thursday when he said, “If the talks fail, we can expect a third and much more severe intifada.”

Out of respect for the horrendous toll in blood brought on by previous Israeli-Palestinian “peace” events at the White House in September 1993 and at Camp David in summer 2000, Rice should take his words seriously and end the Annapolis preparations before another disaster ensues.

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A Prescription for War & Genocide — Stop the Annapolis Conference Now!!!

The history of international conferences and congresses –with or without the “peace” label– is not one to inspire confidence. Think of the conferences of Berlin [circa 1878], Versailles [circa 1918-1920], and Munich [1938]. They only laid the groundwork for future wars and massacres, the Second World War in the case of the Munich Conference. Today US secretary of state, Condoleeza Rice, arrived in Israel to pressure the basically unfit, incompetent, corrupt olmert government of Israel to make more concessions to the Arabs. She does this in the name of setting up a “palestinian state” for a fictitious people known as “palestinians” in the international media and diplomatic circles, claiming that such a state would bring peace with Israel in its wake. Yet, there never was a “palestinian” people in all history. Those now called palestinians are in fact Arabs and call themselves Arabs. The charter of the PLO states in Article I that the “Palestinian Arab people is part of the Arab nation and Palestine is part of the great Arab fatherland.” So they consider themselves Arabs first of all. Only Judeophobes pretend that they are a separate people.

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The War Against The Jews

from Melanie Phillips Diary

The venomous animosity displayed by the UN towards Israel has been amply documented (if generally ignored). Now John Dugard, the UN human rights envoy for the Palestinian Territories, has vented a stream of this poison. BBC Online reports him saying that he will urge the world body to withdraw from the Quartet of Middle East mediators unless it addresses Palestinian human rights, since the US, EU, UN and Russia were failing to protect the Palestinians.

‘Every time I visit, the situation seems to have worsened,’ he said in a BBC interview. This time, I was very struck by the sense of hopelessness among the Palestinian people.’ Mr Dugard attributed this to ‘the crushing effect of human rights violations’, and in particular Israeli restrictions on Palestinians’ freedom of movement.

Yes, the Palestinians’ situation has worsened. This is principally the result of two things. a) The regime of terror instituted by the Hamas administration for which the Palestinians so unwisely voted and which is progressively making their lives a misery; and b) the restrictions imposed by the Israelis to counter the rockets which the Palestinians are lobbing at Israeli towns from Gaza, and the human bomb attacks they are ceaselessly attempting to perpetrate against Israelis. Strangely, Dugard makes no mention of either.

He said that although Israel did have a threat to its security, ‘its response is very disproportionate’.

* This is the kind of f*kcwit reasoning one has to deal with these days.

Read it all…

* The Maldives’ reliance on one major industry has undoubtedly accelerated its recognition of the threat jihadists pose to its existence. Larger countries with more diversified economies should also note the measures this Muslim-majority country has taken to protect itself: Are the Maldivians a bunch of Islamophobes? “Maldives cracks down on Islamic extremism,” by Amal Jayasinghe for Agence France-Presse:

MALE (AFP) – The Maldives unveiled tough measures to combat Islamic extremism and protect its vital luxury tourism industry after an unprecedented bombing wounded British, Japanese and Chinese holiday makers.

A Maldivian woman (right), wearing clothing covering her from head to toe, waits for her car in Male. The Maldives unveiled tough measures to combat Islamic extremism and protect its vital luxury tourism industry after an unprecedented bombing wounded British, Japanese and Chinese holiday makers.(AFP/Lakruwan Wanniarachchi)

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An order from President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom said fundamentalists should not be allowed to conduct religious services and that foreign clerics should not be able to enter the country without special permission.

* Do they know something we refuse to acknowledge?

The decree, which also outlaws head-to-toe covering for women, comes in the wake of a bombing on September 29 which wounded two Britons, two Japanese and eight Chinese tourists visiting a park in the island capital of Male.

The bombing has unsettled the Maldives, a nation of 330,000 Sunni Muslims who have been practising a liberal form of the religion and built South Asia’s most successful economy with the region’s most exotic and upmarket destination.

But the opposition Adhaalath Party said banning the full covering and the full veil for women could not stop “terrorism.”

* That’s right. As long as they read the Koran…

“The government is going to fight terrorism by banning the beard and the burka,” Adhaalath party leader Abdul Majeed Abdul Baari told AFP. “We are asking the government to study the causes of terrorism and extremism.

“Economic conditions also form part of the problem, but the main issue is the ideological differences and we need to address them.”

Under the tough new measures, the government will also not recognise educational qualifications obtained from madrassas, or Islamic seminaries.

Maldivian authorities are holding more than 50 people suspected of links to a radical Islamic sect in connection with September’s bombing.

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Sometimes a burka comes in handy 

That amazingly versatile Islamic garment, the burqa, is not only handy for oppressing women—it’s also the perfect multi-culturally immune disguise for robbing banks: Burka Bandit Hits Hiddenite Bank.

HIDDENITE, N.C. — Police are investigating an unusual robbery in Hiddenite. Someone dressed in a burgundy burka walked into the People’s Bank at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, showed the teller a handgun and demanded money.

The robber then took off down N.C. 90 in a burgundy sport utility vehicle.

Authorities are looking into whether this bank robbery can be connected to one in Morganton. An androgynously dressed person held up a bank there last week.

Officers aren’t sure whether they’re looking for a man or a woman in either case.

Must watch: America’s most outspoken talk show host speaks Truth to Power

Don’t you wish cloning was legal? We need a million more Becks!

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Libya’s Terrorist Regime Rewarded With Seat in UN Security Council

Muammar al-Gaddafi, officially the “Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya”, is not the only socialist autocrat to be invited onto the powerful security council, whose five permanent members include China.

NEW YORK: Libya, once a pariah of the West, took a giant stride back to global respectability when it was elected along with four other countries today to a two-year term on the UN Security Council.

The US, which had used its influence to foil previous Libyan attempts in 1995 and 2000 to win a coveted seat on the powerful council, took no similar action this year, diplomats from other countries said.

Libya, Vietnam and the West African state of Burkina Faso easily obtained a two-thirds majority after being endorsed by regional groupings to stand unopposed for the three non-permanent seats available for African and Asian nations.

Also elected for terms starting on January 1 were Croatia, which defeated the Czech Republic in a contested race for an East European seat, and Costa Rica, which beat off a challenge from the Dominican Republic for a Latin American place.

US deputy UN ambassador Alejandro Wolff declined to say how he had voted, telling reporters only: “We look forward to working with all new members that are elected.” But he added: “I noticed that there were (Pan Am 103) family members … in the room, and I know others were watching. Their presence was felt here today.”

Al Reuters

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UN Watch condemns election of Qaddafi’s Libya to UN Security Council 

Geneva Oct. 16 –  UN Watch condemned the election of Libya today to the UN Security Council. “Electing Colonel Muammar Qaddafi to maintain international peace and security is like naming Jack the Ripper to fight sexual harassment,” said Hillel C. Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based monitoring organization. “We’re also concerned with the election of Vietnam, a country that continues to deny its citizens fundamental political and religious liberties.”

Neuer expressed concern that “the West is silent as Libya is quickly acquiring a series of new and important UN posts — including its unanimous August election as head of the UN’s “Durban II” anti-racism process through 2009 – even as its record on human rights remains appalling.” The UN and African Union will meet in Libya at the end of the month for Darfur peace talks.

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LIBYA: NURSES; SOFIA CANCELS DEBT, TRANSFERS IT TO FUND
(ANSAmed) – – The Libyan debt with Bulgaria, amounting to USD41 million was cancelled by Sofia as a countermeasure for the liberation of the Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya, and will be transferred to the International Fund ‘Benghazi’ for the cure of Libyan children with AIDS, Sofiàs newspapers reported today. According to daily Dnevnik, the Bulgarian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Feim Chaushev, and the Ambassador of the EU Commission to Tripoli, Marc Pierini, president of the fund, signed yesterday in Sofia an agreement with which Bulgaria cancels the Libyan debt and transfers the sum to the fund. In July, the fund paid a total USD460 million to the families of the over 400 Libyan children infected with the HIV virus in a hospital in Benghazi. More than eight years ago, the Libyan authorities accused the five Bulgarian nurses and a doctor of Palestinian origin, then naturalised Bulgarian, of having intentionally caused the contagion of the children and for this reason sentenced them to death. After the payment of the compensations, the relatives of the small victims withdrew their request of enforcement of the death sentence and the nurses and the doctor were afterwards released, and on their return to Bulgaria they were granted pardon. According to daily ‘Sega’, during a meeting with Pierini, the nurses asked to be considered by the EU as victims, and therefore they asked for compensations, as it happened with the families of the Libyan children sick with AIDS.(ANSAmed).

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Discover Islam in 1 Minute 11 Seconds

Montreal imam faces deportation

Cleric from Tunisia concealed criminal conviction in France, refugee board says

TU THANH HA

MONTREAL — A controversial, outspoken Muslim imam in Montreal was arrested yesterday and faces deportation after his refugee status was revoked for failing to disclose a past criminal conviction.

Saïd Jaziri, a 40-year-old maverick cleric from Tunisia, triggered an uproar in recent days after his appearance on a television talk show where he spoke of homosexuality as a sin.

The show, set up as a supper gathering, also raised eyebrows because other guests had to retreat to the kitchen to sip their wine because Mr. Jaziri said alcohol couldn’t be served in his presence.

But what led to his detention was an incident from his past – a criminal conviction for assault in the southern French city of Nice in 1995.

Last summer, an adjudicator from the Immigration and Refugee Board rescinded Mr. Jaziri’s residency status because he had concealed his criminal record when he applied for refugee status in 1998.

Mr. Jaziri has made varying claims to play down the issue.

In an interview with The Globe and Mail in June of 2006, he acknowledged that he was convicted in France but described it as a scuffle with non-Muslim residents outside a mosque.

Two months later, he told The Canadian Press that he was the victim of RCMP manipulation and that his record had been cleared after he agreed to co-operate with French officials.

* Have you ever seen or heard of a Muslim who was not a victim of something?

According to a 1995 front-page newspaper account from Nice, Mr. Jaziri got an eight-month sentence for inciting fellow Muslims to beat up a less devout co-religionist – who was being blamed for the closure of their informal prayer room – in 1993 at a shelter for immigrants.

The newspaper article, reproduced in a recent book by journalist Fabrice de Pierrebourg on Montreal Muslim activists, also quoted Mr. Jaziri’s lawyer as saying that his client was willing to leave as soon as possible for Tunisia.

The imam of the Al Qods mosque in northeast Montreal, Mr. Jaziri has made headlines for campaigning in favour of faith-based sharia courts of law for Canadian Muslims.

He has also led demonstrations against the publication of caricatures of the prophet Mohammed, even as other leaders urged the community to stay clear of such events for fear of inflaming the situation.

* In other words: He is a terrorist sympathizing rat bag who should have never been allowed to enter Canada in the first place.

Update:

Outspoken Montreal imam ordered detained until deportation

A controversial rabid Muslim cleric hatemonger will remain in custody until his deportation next week after the Immigration and Refugee Board declared him a flight risk.

Imam Said Jaziri was ordered detained Wednesday following a nearly four-hour hearing in Montreal. He will be deported to his native Tunisia next Monday.

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Syrian official slips, acknowledges nuclear facility

One U.S. delegate told colleagues he could not believe his ears when the Syrian diplomat made his statement and that the resulting document was close to verbatim, and another source told FOX News the document reinforces what people heard [the Syrian representative] say in the actual debate.

Syria already has disowned the remarks, adding “such facilities do not exist in Syria.”

The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency, SANA, quoting an unnamed Foreign Ministry source, said the U.N. press release misquoted the diplomat and that Syria had made it clear that there are no such facilities in Syria.
Syrian President Bashar Assad said earlier this month that the target is an “unused military building.”

* It sure is now. Israel did its best to ensure that.

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UN blames interpreter’s error for report that Syria has a nuclear facility

Predictable…