Author: sheikyermami

Pretty Angelina Jolie, left wing moonbat and daughter of Hollywood ‘Midnight Cowboy’ actor John Voight (who has his heart in the right place) is refusing to allow Fox news in on her press coverage.

Daniel Pearl

Charles from LGF:

(ANAHEIM, CA, 6/15/07) – On Thursday, June 21, Los Angeles’ diverse communities are invited to come together for an exclusive screening of Paramount Vantage’s A MIGHTY HEART, immediately followed by a panel discussion “Building Unity and Understanding in Today’s World.” The event is co-sponsored by Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Progressive Christians Uniting (PCU) and Paramount Vantage.

A MIGHTY HEART, a film based on Wall Street Journal writer Daniel Pearl and the book of the same name by his wife Mariane Pearl, arrives in theaters June 22 and stars Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Archie Panjabi, Irrfan Kahn, and Will Patton. Michael Winterbottom, best known for his socially-conscious films, “Welcome to Sarajevo” and “The Road to Guantanamo” directs.

The evening celebrates Daniel Pearl’s strong commitment to global truth and understanding and the principles in which he lived his life.

WHAT: A MIGHTY HEART screening, followed by panel discussion “Building Unity and Understanding in Today’s World.”

PANELISTS: A MIGHTY HEART Producer Dede Gardner, Co-producer with Brad Pitt/Plan B Entertainment, Hussam Ayloush, Executive Director of CAIR – Greater Los Angeles Area (CAIR-LA), Rabbi Haim Beliak, Founder of Jews on First, The Rev. Peter Laarman, Executive Director of Progressive Christians Uniting (PCU)

MODERATOR: Diane Winston, Knight Chair in Media and Religion – USC

WHERE: Sherry Lansing Theater, Paramount Studios, 5555 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles. Entrance at main gates; Photo ID required.

WHEN: Thursday, June 21, from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Film starts promptly at 7 p.m. and the panel discussion will immediately follow.

RSVP: Free admission for you and a guest. Limited seating. RSVP mandatory at […].

CONTACT: Munira Syeda, CAIR-LA Communications Coordinator, […]

SUPPORTERS: Interfaith Communities United for Justice & Peace (ICUJP), Pax Christi Los Angeles, and Cafe Intifada. If you would like to endorse the event, please contact Munira Syeda, CAIR-LA Communications Coordinator, at […].

Mariane Pearl

* What are so many moonbats doing in a place like this?

Some of the comments:

Hollywood =

Commiepropagandamachinewood.

Islam at its best…murder then ask for understanding…

I mean no disrespect to Danny Pearl or his family – but what the hell was a Jew doing in Pakistan, alone, looking for terrorists?

The Daniel Pearl Foundation has been formed by Danny’s family and friends to continue Danny’s mission and to address the root causes of this tragedy

HONORARY BOARD
Christiane Amanpour
President William J. Clinton
Abdul Sattar Edhi
Danny Gill
John Hennessy
Ted Koppel
Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan
Sari Nusseibeh
Mariane Pearl
Itzhak Perlman
Harold Schulweiss
Craig Sherman
Paul Steiger
Elie Wiesel

A real moonbat orgy…

Who is playing Kalid Shiek Mohammed, Rosie O’Donnell?

Do you think they’ll ever figure out the “root cause” is actually Islam?

Religion of Peace Strikes Again All Over the World

Link to LGF

Simultaneous bus bombs in the Philippines:

MANILA, Philippines – Bombs went off on buses just a few minutes apart in the southern Philippines on Friday, killing eight people and wounding at least 14 others, police said.

All of the fatalities were on a bus that had just left the terminal in Bansalan, in Davao del Sur province, said Chief Superintendent Andres G. Caro II, the regional police director.

The second bomb went off at roughly the same time on a bus that had just released its passengers after arriving in Cotabato, police spokesman Wally Casuyo said. The explosives were under a seat behind the driver and caused only a small fire that was quickly extinguished without injury, he said.

A suicide car bomber in Afghanistan (and Associated Press stringer Rahim Faiez snidely intimates that a US soldier may have deliberately fired on a crowd afterward):

KABUL, Afghanistan – A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of American contract workers and military personnel in the Afghan capital on Saturday, killing at least four civilians, officials said. A U.S. soldier opened fire afterward, killing one civilian and sparking an angry protest.

Maj. Sheldon Smith, a U.S. spokesman for troops training Afghan police and army soldiers, said American contract workers and military personnel were in the convoy. A spokesman at the U.S. base at Bagram said workers with DynCorp, who are helping train Afghan police, were attacked. Smith said the coalition “never intentionally endangers the lives of innocent Afghan civilians” but that the Taliban routinely and intentionally uses explosive devices in heavily populated areas. …

The Amerian soldier in a Humvee “mistakenly” opened fire on the crowd after the suicide attack, killing one civilian and wounding three, said Zalmai Khan, deputy Kabul police chief.

Afterward, a crowd of 50 to 100 people gathered, with some chanting “Death to America” and jabbing their arms at police.

And four more murders in the jihad in “restive” south Thailand.

NARATHIWAT, Thailand, June 16, 2007 (AFP) – Insurgents killed four people in separate shootings in Thailand’s restive Muslim-majority south, police said Saturday.

A Muslim man was gunned down at his home on Saturday in Narathiwat, one of three insurgency-hit provinces bordering Malaysia, police said.

Another Muslim man was killed in a drive-by shooting late Friday in Narathiwat, while a 33-year-old Buddhist was shot dead by rebels at a tea house in neighboring Pattani late Friday.

Also in Pattani, a 20-year-old Muslim man was killed in a drive by shooting Friday evening, police said.

The latest shootings come after Islamic rebels ambushed and shot dead seven soldiers Friday in one of the deadliest attacks this year on security forces in the south. More than 2,200 people have been killed and thousands more wounded in separatist violence that erupted in the south in January 2004.

Hamas gunmen at the desk of “Palestinian President” Mahmoud Abbas inside Abbas’ personal office after it was taken over by Hamas in fighting in Gaza City, Friday, June 15, 2007. (Photo: AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Tammy Bruce:

Just this past April, Condi and the geniuses in Congress thought it would be a grand idea to send $60 million dollars to terrorist group Fatah so the “president” of the so-called Palestinians could improve his security structure. That’s now got to be the joke of the year. How long did it take Hamas to destroy Fatah and take over the entire Gaza Strip? 48 hours? I noted my disgust at this insane act by Congress back in April, with the post, Congress Funds Terrorists But Not Our Own Troops.

So, the geniuses in Washington decided that pouring $60 mil down the terror hole would make some sort of a difference. Well, it will now. Hamas will be able to kill more Jews than ever before. This is also another glaring indication of the absolute failure of any reliable international intelligence we have on anything going on in the Middle East. We approved and sent this money just two months prior to the complete route of Arafat’s terrorist Fatah group by Iran’s terrorist Hamas group. We had no clue, 8 weeks prior, that such a violent and complete takeover was being planned and would be implemented.

We can pretty much guess that millions in cash went into the pockets of various Fatah “officials” (including top terrorist Abbas) and the rest, a cash and weapons treasure-trove, is now securely in the hands of one of the world’s most vicious terrorist death squads.

Great effing work Condi and Georgie! Great effing work.

Today, LGF also notes the weapons windfall for Hamas in their takeover of that strip if land so generously given to them by Israel. A strip of land used, since day one, for nothing more than terrorist operations not only against Israel, but against all of humanity.

Now, in their masks displaying automatic weapons and RPGs, these snakes sit next to Israel and await their next orders from Iran. Which will be funded and implemented with American tax dollars.

And what is the Bush Admin response to the complete collapse of the Abbas/Fatah “government”? Throw more American tax dollars at it.

* This from a Montreal Muslim who killed his ex-Muslim brother. But make no mistake, the nutroots will not take it on board, you will merely get remarks like ‘he was mentally unstable’ – or ‘ there are radical, fundamentalist Christians also’- and of course the all time howler ‘all religions are equally bad’…

He killed his brother for leaving Islam. Najib Bellari Update: a translation of this French article by Jihad Watch reader Marc:

Bellari now wants a lawyer

David Santerre

Le Journal de Montréal

As the trial is leading towards closure, Najib Bellari, who is defending himself without a lawyer from accusations of killing his brother El-Medhi because, among other reasons, his brother had chosen to leave Islam, has unexpectedly requested a lawyer.

He made this request after hearing the plea from the Crown prosecutor Me. Éliane Perreault, who literally shattered to pieces his version of the crime, in which he acted in self-defense. This led to an adjournment of the proceedings presided over by Judge Marc David.

Testifying in his own defense Monday, Bellari said he had no choice but to kill his brother, who paid him a visit while on the job at Basha, the restaurant where he was working as a dishwasher, on Sainte-Catherine street in Montreal. Bellari said his brother told him: “‘Najib, come with me, I have to talk to you.’ I shouted at him: ‘Get out of here!,'” the 36-year-old defendant said.

A knife

When his brother insisted, Najib said, he took a chef’s knife and pointed it toward his brother.

“But he moved back and held a chair over his head, as if he was going to hit me. I protected myself and struck him with the knife,” he reported.

“I was in a state of self-defense. I had no choice but to kill my brother. I was working peacefully and he came to provoke me. It’s destiny,” he added.

There was not a shadow of a self-defense in Me. Perreault’s version.

“His brother was not the assailant. He was moving back. He did not advance towards him. All the witnesses said that Mr. Bellari (the victim) did not have a chair in his hands when he was stabbed,” she said.

She also had to address the concerns of the judge, who suggested on several occasions during the court proceedings that perhaps the accused did not have all his mental capacities at the time. According to the Crown’s attorney Me. Perreault, Bellari gave the clearest of explanations to address this concern at the time of his testimony.

“All those who are not Muslims are Satan,” affirmed the accused.

“The last time I saw him, I had asked: ‘Do you believe in God? (Allah). Are you a Muslim?’ He answered no, he did not believe any more. This is very serious,” he explained.

A Hamas militant is seen inside of an X-ray machine in front of journalists in the passport processing area of the terminal at the Rafah Border Crossing which is now controlled by Hamas militants, near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, June 15, 2007. On its first day of full rule in Gaza, the Islamic militant party Hamas on Friday granted amnesty to Fatah leaders, signaling that it seeks conciliation with the defeated forces of moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. (AP Photo/Hatem Omar, MaanImages)

The Birth of Hamastan

Looting, revenge deaths persist in Gaza

By DIAA HADID, Associated Press Writer

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – On Hamas’ first day of full rule in Gaza, crowds looted strongholds of the rival Fatah on Friday — stripping the home of one of the party’s strongmen down to the flower pots — and militants sent a man plunging to his death from a rooftop.

AP Photo: A Palestinian militant from Hamas stands over pictures of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Arafart
But the violence, which came despite a Hamas offer of amnesty for Fatah, was sporadic. Gaza’s streets, deserted in the past week of fighting, were crowded with cars, pedestrians and triumphant fighters with the Islamic militant group.

At Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ captured seaside office in Gaza City, a gunman sat down at the Fatah leader’s desk, picked up the phone and pretended to be calling Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. “Hello, Rice?” the gunman said. “Here we are in Abu Mazen’s office. Say hello to Abu Mazen for me.” Other gunmen rifled through Abbas’ belongings in a bedroom behind the office, lifting up a mattress and searching through drawers.

Safe in Ramallah, Abbas appointed his own prime minister on Friday after the Hamas prime minister ignored the president’s announcement that he had been fired. Hamas’ military takeover of Gaza, after five days of battle, formalized the separation between Gaza and the West Bank, which lie on either side of Israel.

The moderate government Abbas plans to appoint will have no say in Gaza, but stands a stronger chance than the Hamas-Fatah coalition it replaces of restoring foreign aid to the West Bank. He drew support — either explicitly or tacitly — from the European Union, the U.N., Egypt and Jordan.

A resident of a Hamas-dominated neighborhood, identifying himself only as Yousef for fear of reprisal by his neighbors, said Gazans would always back the winner, regardless of ideology.

“Today everybody is with Hamas because Hamas won the battle. If Fatah had won the battle they’d be with Fatah. We are a hungry people, we are with whoever gives us a bag of flour and a food coupon,” said Yousef, 30. “Me, I’m with God and a bag of flour.”

Palestinians in the West Bank viewed the Hamas takeover of Gaza with a mixture of fear and hope — realizing that it could bring needed foreign aid while dealing a major blow to dreams of Palestinian statehood

Ahmed al-Aziz, a 53-year-old merchant in Ramallah, said the fenced-in Gazans have little to lose. “Everybody here is worried about his interests or his business. In Gaza, people are poor. They don’t have work,” he said.

* Hmm, wonder why that is, any idea?

More on LGF

Update:

Your Passport or your life

Hamas militants sit as they pose in the passport processing area of the terminal at the Rafah Border Crossing which is now controlled by Hamas militants, near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, June 15, 2007. On its first day of full rule in Gaza, the Islamic militant Hamas on Friday granted amnesty to Fatah leaders, signaling that it seeks conciliation with the defeated forces of moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. (AP Photo/ Eyad Albaba)

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A real gem here, click: The doublespeak of Azzam Tamimi on MP3

The audio file of Azzam Tamimi’s rantings from the August 16, 2006

Malanie Phillips has written that the BBC “filters events through a prism of hatred – of Israel, of America and of western values. The BBC is simply the single greatest cultural weapon in the armoury of those who intend to bring the west down” (from “The War against the Jews (2)”).

WASHINGTON — The United States has alerted American women to be on guard against sexual offenses in Syria.

* It is a very common custom in Egypt and other Islamic countries that the soldiers of Islam grope and grab at infidel women. After all, they are ‘war booty’- and why not check the merchandise?

In Syria’s proud culture it used to be less common, but recently the worshipers of the profit Muhammad have taken it upon themselves to introduce the practice to the local kufars:

The U.S. embassy in Damascus has reported a spate of sexual attacks on foreigners in Damascus. In a June 6 warden message, the embassy said the attacks targeted foreign women, Middle East Newsline reported.
“Two incidents in the past week involved women walking alone, either in the early morning or early evening,” the embassy said. “Another incident occurred several months ago when two women were walking together in one of the tunnels crossing underneath the Autostrad near Damascus University.”

Though none of these cases went beyond the stage of grabbing or groping, they were understandably upsetting for the victims,” the embassy said.
The embassy stressed that Damascus, with a population of seven million, maintains a low crime rate. The warden message urged Americans not to walk alone and avoid deserted areas.

“Don’t assume because you are close to home that this type of incident cannot happen,” the message said. “In both recent cases, the victims were close to home, although alone at the time.”

Raped by the soldiers of Allah

Fatah: Israel to blame for Gaza civil war

Who else?

“Fatah blame Israel for the escalating security chaos in the Gaza Strip,” from Maan News Agency:

Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Fatah movement on Wednesday accused Israel of propelling the Palestinians into the current state of security chaos.
Spokesperson for the movement in the West Bank, Dr. Jamal Nazzal, told the Italian Radiotelevisione Italiana, known as RAI, “Israel paved the way for the growth of the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, by destroying the PA [Palestinian Authority] departments and security forces’ buildings between 2000 and the election to power of Hamas.”

Nazzal also accused Israel of “following a policy which allows Hamas to prevail and that will close the door for peace, the peace which both Hamas and Israel are scared of.”

False. Hamas is not “scared” of peace; they simply don’t want it. Last I checked, the Hamas Charter still calls for the destruction of Israel.

Hamas militants parade in the grounds of a building belonging to the pro-Fatah security forces loyal to president Mahmud Abbas after it was over run in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip on Friday after days of ferocious gunbattles, defying Abbas who sacked the government and declared a state of emergency(AFP/Said Khatib)
He urged the international community exert pressure on Israel to cease its “bloody” interference in Palestinian affairs.
If Nazzal is referring to the Israeli transfer of arms to Fatah, then maybe he is right. Israel should stop its “bloody” interference.

“Israel has turned the situation on its head, by ignoring arms-smuggling into Gaza, which is aimed to weaken the PA, and combating the idea of peace,” said Nazzal.
Israel has been prevented from stopping arms smuggling into Gaza. The Israelis were pressured into relinquishing the Philadelphi Route, which runs along the Gaza/Sinai border. Since then, dozens of tunnels have been dug in order to foster arms smuggling. Egypt has not helped the situation, turning a blind eye to the activity.

Here’s more:

Hamas: “The era of justice and Islamic rule have arrived”

Run for your life: Islamic ‘Justice’ is coming to get you:

“They aren’t engaged in retaliation for the real or perceived sins of Israel, the U.S. or the West; they are motivated by their very real belief in their supremacy and their right to rule.”

That Israeli withdrawal from Gaza is looking great now, isn’t it?

“Hamas Bringing Islamic Rule to Gaza Strip,” by Julie Stahl for CNSNews.com, with thanks to JW

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) – “The era of justice and Islamic rule have arrived” in Gaza, a spokesman for the Hamas militia was quoted as saying on Thursday.
Press reports said Hamas fighters — Islamic radicals — are winning their battle with the Fatah faction, which is loyal to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

[…]

The Washington-based Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs said that Hamas is determined to take over the Palestinian Liberation Organization, with the end goal of destroying Israel. And while that’s significant, JINSA said, there are lessons that go beyond the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Hamas, Hizballah, al Qaeda, the Taliban, Ansar al-Islam and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad are among the non-state organizations that seek to acquire territory as a means of spreading their broader agenda. They derive support from states such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria.

Here is more

Rocking the Casbah

Mohamed ElBaradei is either one of the most incompetent fools ever to work for the United Nations, or he’s knowingly enabling Iran to lie, cheat, and steal their way to nuclear weapons. Even as he warns that Iran is approaching the point of no return in their enrichment program, he continues to run interference for them: IAEA Head: Iran Attack ‘Act of Madness’.

The real madness is the apparent paralysis of the civilized world in the face of a genocidal, terror-supporting theocracy openly seeking the ultimate weapon.

Way to go, with profit Mo..!!!

VIENNA, Austria (AP) – The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Thursday an attack on Iran over its refusal to freeze programs that could make nuclear weapons would be “an act of madness,” an indirect warning to the United States and Israel. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei also said Iran could be running close to 3,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges by the end of next month—a number that IAEA officials have described as the point of no return in the start of a large-scale program. …

He also urged Iran to offer a “self-imposed moratorium” on enrichment, describing it as a “good confidence-building measure” that could launch negotiations on the standoff

But the chief Iranian envoy to the meeting asserted his country would never suspend enrichment—the key issue of Security Council concern. Iran has said its nuclear program is peaceful and aims to generate energy, not bombs. …

ElBaradei described use of force as “an act of madness … (that) would not resolve the issue.”

“The next few months will be crucial,” he said: “Iran is building a capacity, a knowledge” of enrichment that is irreversible, while not providing evidence sought by his agency “that this is a peaceful program.”

“Even if Iran wants to have a weapon they are three to eight years away,” ElBaradei said, citing unidentified intelligence sources for his estimate. But “the longer we delay, the less option we have to reach a peaceful solution.”

* So how do we peacefully wipe Israel off the map?

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Comments:

What did you expect? When the inmates are running the asylum, all rational acts will be branded as madness. Link

Recently the US has responded to the likes of Mohamed ElBaradei by eliminating John Bolton from the UN.

Thirteen schools are set ablaze in the south, Islamic extremists are blamed.

In the majority Islamic area, violence is concentrated against schools and teachers. As the situation worsens authorities fear attacks on tourists in the north.

Well, as long as they don’t blame the Jooozzz….

Bangkok (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Violence in Southern Thailand once again is targeting schools and teachers. Yesterday 13 schools were set on fire in Yala and Pattani provinces in a series of simultaneous attacks and later a bomb exploded in front of another school Narathiwat wounding a security guard.

There have been no claims of responsibility but authorities accuse Islamic rebels, who see the schools as representing the state and a way of integrating Muslim and Buddhist children.

In Narathiwat, on June 11 two Buddhist teachers were killed in front of their pupils; one of them had asked to be transferred, in fear of his life. Another teacher was killed during lunch break. Many schools remained closet for a week in protest while teachers appealed for greater protection. Many now carry guns for protection and a State course is teaching them how to shoot.

June 12 in Yala an Islamic religion teacher was killed. A day later 200 Islamic youth marched with their faces covered in protest in front of a Mosque urging the authorities to find the assassins.

According to official data, since 2004, over 200 schools have been burned and 77 teachers killed both Muslim and Buddhist. In the Southern provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, ex Muslim sultanates, the violence has increased in recent months and attacks have become daily occurrences. The army – present with over 30,000 ground troops – and the police are unable to control the situation and urge Buddhists to avoid specific areas. The rebels want independence from, Bangkok. Islamists and human rights groups accuse the security forces of summary executions and violence against the Muslim population. Yesterday in three separate attacks three Buddhists were killed and 8 soldiers injured. Since the unrest began over 2, 200 people have been killed.

Analysts forecast that sooner or later the rebels will target tourists in the North, in areas such as Phuket, Koh Samui or Bangkok. Tourism is an essential resource for the country. (PB)

Peaceful Buddhist monk relaxing with Muhammedan head-chopper

A done deal?

Lockerbie bomber ‘to return to Libya’ after just seven years in prison

The Lockerbie bomber is at the centre of the first major row between the Government and the minority SNP administration in Scotland.

First Minister Alex Salmond said he had protested to Tony Blair over a deal that could lead to Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, who is serving a life term in a Scottish jail, being transferred back to Libya.

Mr Salmond told the Scottish Parliament a deal on “judicial co-operation” struck between Libya and Britain on May 29 – when Tony Blair was in Tripoli – could involve Megrahi as it covered areas like “law, extradition and prisoner transfer”.

But neither the Scottish Parliament nor the Scottish government were consulted beforehand, said Mr Salmond.

“I have today written to the Prime Minister expressing my concern that it was felt appropriate for the UK Government to sign such a memorandum on matters clearly devolved to Scotland without any opportunity for this government and this Parliament to contribute,” he said.

Many MSPs from other parties gave varying degrees of support to Mr Salmond, including former Labour First Minister Jack McConnell, who said it was “regrettable” if the Executive had not been consulted.

But Mr Salmond came under fire from Labour peer Lord Foulkes, a Labour member of the Scottish Parliament.

“I have spoken to Number 10 Downing Street because I did not believe the statement made in the Parliament chamber,” Lord Foulkes told the Scottish Press Association.

“I have been told that al Megrahi is specifically excluded from the agreement.

“It covers terror suspects – the kind of people I am concerned about as a member of the intelligence and security committee appointed by the Prime Minister.”

Senior SNP sources said the memorandum neither excluded nor included any individual by name.

Winds of Jihad covered this story here:

Lockerbie Families Protest Funds for Libya 

 Link

Relatives of victims of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, are demanding that Congress withhold State Department funding that would help normalize relations with Libya until Tripoli fully compensates the families of the 270 killed.

“I have seen a lot of people who have suffered through this,” said Siobhan Mulroy, an East Northport woman who lost her father, a brother, a sister-in-law, an aunt, an uncle and a cousin. “We want them to be held to the promises they made.”

Relatives of the lost – at least 10 victims lived on Long Island, scores more lived elsewhere in the New York area and 35 were Syracuse University students – say the U.S. government should halt plans to normalize relations with Libya until that country makes the last installment of a promised $10 million to the families of each of the bombing victims.

The Bush administration has requested $115.9 million to build an embassy in Tripoli and an additional $1.15 million in aid it says will help normalize relations with a Libyan nation that had been implicated in terrorist activity for decades before 2003, when it accepted responsibility for Lockerbie and renounced its efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction.

But by a unanimous vote last week, the House Appropriations Committee passed an amendment to block the funds until President George W. Bush certifies Tripoli is complying with its agreement to compensate the families.

The spending package is expected to come for a vote before the full House later this month.

Rep. Steve Israel (D-Huntington), a member of the committee whose Long Island district includes two relatives of bombing victims, said he pressed for the amendment because it appears Libya is shirking its responsibility.

He said the Libyans “have gotten what they wanted out of the deal, but these families have not gotten what they were promised.”

The bombing claimed the lives of 11 people on the ground and 259 passengers and crew, including 189 Americans. A Libyan intelligence officer was convicted in 2001 of murder in connection with the bombing.

In 2002, Libya agreed to settle claims from families by paying a total of $2.7 billion in three installments, as benchmarks were met in normalizing its relations with the rest of the world.

Forty percent of the money was to be released when UN sanctions against Libya ended, 40 percent when the United States ended trade sanctions, and the remaining 20 percent when the U.S. removed Libya from its list of nations that sponsor terrorism.

The first two installments were paid when sanctions were lifted in 2003 and 2004. But in February 2005, Libya withdrew $536 million from an escrow account that was to have been used to pay a final $2 million installment to each family, saying the United States had not removed Libya from its terror list.

The United States removed Libya from the list in May 2006. But Libya has yet to pay.

This year, the State Department sought $1.15 million from Congress to encourage Libya to eschew terrorism.

The State Department said the aid would help Libya retrain weapons scientists to work on civilian projects. The package also includes $200,000 to help U.S. companies capitalize on an economy long closed to Western investment, and $300,000 to promote democratic reforms.

But Kara Weipz, a spokeswoman for Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, said that to fail to require Libya to make full restitution would be an injustice.

“That’s not the punishment I would accept for the murder of my brother and 269 other victims,” she said.