Wunderkind Obama & John Howard

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Two things before we go any further: Who of you ever heard of Obama till about 6 months ago? This colorful social raiser (only in America!) is now the darling of the left, the nutroots & the moonbats combined.

For the blacks he is not black enough, they prefer Hillary Clinton. The whites don’t trust him. He’s got some wealthy sponsors, (who are they? Follow the money!) but my guess is that we won’t hear or see much of him after the 2008 election is over.

Just now he admitted that he is an apostate of Islam, what you make of that?

AP Admits Obama is an Islamic Apostate

Charles from LGF asks the question:

…a rather uncomfortable question for a man who wants to be the commander in chief of the United States. The penalty under well-established shari’a law for apostasy—leaving Islam—is death. How would the world’s 249 gazillion Muslims react to having an American president who is also a Muslim apostate?

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Obama has already declared that he wants the troops out of Iraq. Let them have their civil war which they so richly deserve! I have no argument with that: I have always maintained that the mission is, in fact accomplished, that the mission was already accomplished with the invasion of Iraq, and after Saddam was captured we should have pulled out. Whose idea was it to get involved in ‘nation-building?’

Absolute folly, that the US should be ‘nationbuilding’- for Arabs! But now the goalposts have been changed and the ‘Iraqi people’-, no, make that the ‘Muslim World’- (thank God the world is not Muslim!) would see a premature pullout as a defeat for the US.

So now it comes:

The Howard-Obama slug-fest
By Andrew Bolt – Monday, February 12, 07

Young Senator Barack Obama, running for the Democrat presidential nomination, demands US combat troops be pulled out of Iraq by March next year.

He wouldn’t have expected to be soon brawling over his plan with a mild-manner senior citizen from the other side of the world.

John Howard on Barack Obama:

I think that will just encourage those who want to completely destabilize and destroy Iraq, and create chaos and a victory for the terrorists to hang on and hope for an Obama victory.. If I were running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying as many times as possible for a victory not only for Obama but also for the Democrats.

Australian troops in Iraq
Barack Obama on John Howard:

I would also note that we have close to 140,000 troops in Iraq, and my understanding is Mr Howard has deployed 1400, so if he is … to fight the good fight in Iraq, I would suggest that he calls up another 20,000 Australians and sends them to Iraq.
(Andrew Bolts opinion: Ouch. I call that a draw so far. Although on substance I’d say it will be worse for us if Obama is wrong than it will if Howard is)

*Two things wrong here: Obama is mouthing off before he even gets his feet on a soapbox. He snaps and admonishes at a senior ally, the most devoted loyal ally the US has, before he even gets a chance to meet the ‘interns’ and to chew on those juicy steaks in the white house.

Australia with a population of 20 million people has 1400 troops in Iraq.

That makes 00.7 % –

America has 300 million people and sends 140.000 troops, which makes 00.46%-

Keep things in perspective, Mr. Wunderkind. Do you know where Australia is on the map?

Iran negotiator: Nuclear program ‘no threat to Israel’

From Comical News Networks (CNN)

Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani addresses the Security Conference in Munich on Sunday.

February 11, 2007

• Iran’s nuclear program no threat to Israel, says country’s top negotiator
• Ali Larijani says Tehran has no aggressive intentions toward any nation.
• Iran prepared to settle outstanding issues with IAEA, he says
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MUNICH, Germany (AP) — Iran’s nuclear program is not a threat to Israel and the country is prepared to settle all outstanding issues with the International Atomic Energy Agency within three weeks, its top nuclear negotiator said Sunday.

Ali Larijani, speaking at a forum that gathered the world’s top security officials, said Iran doesn’t have aggressive intentions toward any nation.

“That Iran is willing to threaten Israel is wrong,” Larijani said. “We pose no threat and if we are conducting nuclear research and development we are no threat to Israel. We have no intention of aggression against any country.”

In Israel, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev dismissed Larijani’s comments, saying Iran’s government was trying to convince the international community to believe that their intentions are benign. “The fact is that they have failed in this attempt and there is a wall-to-wall consensus that the Iranian nuclear program is indeed military and aggressive and a threat to world peace.”

Iran insists it will not give up uranium enrichment, saying it is pursuing the technology only to generate energy. The United States and some of its allies fear the Islamic republic is more interested in enrichment’s other application — creating the fissile core of nuclear warheads.

The IAEA, led by Mohamed ElBaradei, has said it has found no evidence that Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. But the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency has suspended some aid to Iran and criticized the country for concealing certain nuclear activities and failing to answer questions about its program.

(If you have a guy named ‘Mohammed’ watch over you, rest assured he will not find any evidence of nuclear activity even after Israel is nuked)


“I have written to Mr. ElBaradei to say we are ready to within three weeks to have the modality to solve all the outstanding issues with you,” Larijani said at the forum.

Write us a letter when yer ready, will ya? You can use postage stamps like these:

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Read it all, I won’t bother to comment on these swine who want to ‘wipe Israel off the map’…

* But before you are making another donation to Islamo-infested ‘human rights’ organizations like Irene Khan’s amnesia intentional or you join a demo against the old US of A think twice, perhaps you should focus on this:

The mind boggles: Marines are dying & the US-administration just diddles along…

Iranian bombs have killed 170 Iraq coalition troops: US

by Dave Clark
BAGHDAD (AFP) – Sophisticated Iranian-built bombs smuggled into Iraq have killed at least 170 US and allied soldiers since June 2004 and wounded 620 more, senior US defence officials have said.


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(This handout photo released by the US military shows an 81mm mortar round believed to be from Iran and found in Baghdad in January 2007. Sophisticated Iranian-built bombs smuggled into Iraq have killed at least 170 US and allied soldiers since June 2004 and wounded 620 more, senior US defence officials have said.(AFP/US Military)

The allegation, made Sunday at a background briefing in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, comes as Washington steps up its criticism of Iran and will feed a fierce debate over relations with the Islamic republic.

“Iran is involved in supplying explosively formed projectiles or EFPs and other material to Iraqi extremist groups,” a senior official from the US-led multinational coalition told journalists.

Three coalition officials met reporters to point the finger at the Al-Qods Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, part of Tehran’s elite forces accused of links with foreign militants.

“The Qods Force arms extremists and insurgents to carry out terrorist attacks and guerrilla warfare,” he said. “The Qods Force provides advice, training and weapons to proxy forces in Iraq.”

The men spoke on condition of anonymity for their security and cameras and recording devices were barred from the briefing, where an array of mortar shells and booby traps were laid out for inspection.

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Taliban prepare for spring offensive in Afghan south
By Saeed Ali Achakzai Sun Feb 11,

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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Taliban fighters are continuing to reinforce a key southern town against an expected NATO offensive more than a week after taking it over, ending a controversial four month truce.

More than 1,500 villagers have fled the town of Musa Qala, in the Taliban heartland and the major opium province in the world’s largest supplier, in fear of renewed fighting.

“More than 300 fighters are in Musa Qala,” senior Taliban commander Mulla Hayatullah Khan told Reuters from an secret base.

“They have been alerted and military supplies are being provided from other areas.”

Residents say the Taliban are reinforcing their troops with heavy weapons, but NATO says there is no evidence of force build-dup.

The Taliban regularly over-run major centers, but rarely hold them for more than a day or two. This is one of the longest times a key center has been held.

Here’s the link:

Power to the Bloggers!

Something we haven’t seen before: the view from behind the “paramedics” who paraded with bodies for hours, staging and arranging them for an obviously very eager world media.
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Remember ‘Green helmet man’ and the recycled bodies, the ambulance that never got hit by a rocket and the smoke over Beirut?

* Exposed thanks to Little Green Footballs

Why was this picture left in the editor’s kill file until now?

Because it really wrecks the suspension of disbelief that actors need to convince the audience.

It’s like seeing the scaffolds and lights and fake landscapes behind the scenes at a theater, in the middle of a performance.

The Qana photographs are some of the most gut-wrenching, heart-breaking images you could ever imagine. And that’s why it’s important to recognize that there are people with souls so dead and intentions so evil that they will cynically use these photographs to manipulate your feelings.

But imagine if pictures like the one above had the same 24/7 coverage as all those pictures with a weeping rescuer running alone down a dusty road. Context, anyone?

Ahh, lest we forget:

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AP and the 67 news stories from ‘Jamil Hussein’ who couldn’t be found to this very day?

Swiss Embassy in Teheran under Siege & attacked

Because infidels are infidels, what’s the difference?

The Swiss Embassy in Tehran was besieged by a large number of aggravated demonstrators- the protest was directed at the US, whose interests are represented by the Swiss.

Iran: Sturm auf Schweizer Botschaft

Die Schweizer Botschaft in Teheran wurde heute von einer Masse wütender Demonstranten belagert. Der Protest richtete sich gegen die USA, deren Interessen die Schweiz im Iran vertritt.

Lets cook our own personal Islam, shall we?

From the Go-back-to sleep-department
and ‘Corriere della Sera’

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Queen Rania of Jordan can’t see a war between Islam and the West, but rather ‘differences between extremists and moderates in all religions’.

The Swiss paper ‘20 Minutes‘ reported in the interview that she also said Islam doesn’t make the veil obligatory. Islam ‘doesn’t demand to dress one way or another,- to wear the veil is a free and personal decision…’

*Are you listening, Muslim women?

Are you making free and personal decisions already?


Königin Rania, Papst Benedikt XVI

Die jordanische Köngin Rania hat in der italienischen Zeitung “Corriere della Sierra” erklärt, dass sie keinen Krieg zwischen Muslimen und Nicht-Muslimen sehe sondern eine Auseinandersetzung zwischen Extremisten und Moderaten in allen Religionen. Wie die schweizerische “20 Minuten” berichtet, erklärte sie in dem Interview zudem, der Islam schreibe nicht das Tragen eines Schleiers vor. Der Islam verlange nicht, “sich in der einen oder anderen Weise zu kleiden.”

3 Italian Women Raped & Stoned, Kapverdic Islands

Update. Found the link in English:

2 Italians stoned to death on Cape Verde
By FRANCES D’EMILIO, Associated Press Writer 44 minutes ago
ROME – Three Italian women were brutally attacked while vacationing on a resort island off the coast of West Africa, dragged into the woods, pelted with stones and left for dead at the bottom of a hole, the sole survivor said Saturday.

The bodies of two of the women were found half-buried near a beach Friday in the Cape Verde islands, police officer Vladmir Silva said.

Preliminary autopsy results found the victims, aged 28 and 33, died as a result of head injuries from blunt and sharp objects, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported. Cape Verde police said official autopsy results were expected to be released Sunday.

Police chief Oscar Tavares said three local men had been arrested and would soon appear in court, Lusa reported.

The women were part of a surfing group that arrived in the islands last Sunday for a weeklong vacation, said Italy’s honorary consul in Cape Verde, Luigi Zirpoli. The survivor — whom Italian news reports identified as a 17-year-old named Agnese — suffered fractures and needed 18 stitches in her head, Zirpoli said.

Speaking with Italy’s Sky TG24 TV from a hospital Saturday, Agnese recounted how she and the two other women had been invited to dinner by one of their attackers — a man who apparently had had a relationship with one of the victims.

She said the attackers sprayed the women with something and immobilized them before taking them to the woods where a hole had been dug in the ground. Speaking in a stunned voice, she said they were pelted with stones and she blacked out. When she awoke, she climbed out of the hole and walked down a road until she found help.

“I don’t know how I managed to recover after he threw a stone at my head,” she told Sky.

The story of the attack has shocked Italians, many of whom consider the archipelago a paradise for beachgoers and windsurfers.

The Italian Foreign Ministry said the two women had been “barbarously murdered” and dispatched a diplomat from its embassy in Senegal “to ensure that those responsible for this tragic aggression are brought swiftly to justice.”

Italian Premier Romano Prodi said he was “stunned” and “aghast” by the killings, the Italian news agency Apcom reported.

Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony, is located about 500 miles to the west of Senegal’s capital, Dakar, in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Associated Press Writer Joana Mateus in Lisbon, Portugal, contributed to this report.

From Spiegel online: In German

Here’s the link:

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Drei italienische Frauen sind auf einer der Kapverdischen
Inseln vor der Küste Westafrikas brutal angegriffen worden. Nur eine der drei Frauen überlebten die Attacke, die beiden andern wurden zu Tode gesteinigt.

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Die drei Frauen hatten auf der Atlantikinsel Urlaub gemacht. Sie wurden in einen Wald verschleppt und in einem Loch im Waldboden zurückgelassen, weil man sie offenbar für tot hielt. Die einzige Überlebende, eine 17-Jährige, konnte schließlich Hilfe holen. Ihre beiden Begleiterinnen, 28 und 33 Jahre alt, seien zu Tode gesteinigt worden.

Eine vorläufige Autopsie ergab, dass die Opfer an vielfachen Kopfverletzungen von stumpfen und spitzen Gegenständen gestorben sind, berichtet die portugiesische Nachrichtenagentur Lusa. In Italien hat das Verbrechen Entsetzen ausgelöst. Viele Italiener schätzen die Kapverdischen Inseln als Urlaubsparadies.

A brief/short translation of the basic facts:

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The 3 women were on holidays and had dinner with some native men who took them to a forest where they were raped. After that they were stoned and left for dead in a hole in the ground. One of the women survived the ordeal and 3 men have been arrested.

The Struggle of Orhan Pamuk and Turkey’s Intellectuals

Turkey calls Islamic Jihad ‘Nationalism’-DEADLY NATIONALISM

From Spiegel Online

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The culture war in Turkey against critical authors and journalists is intensifying, as murderous nationalists agitate against dissidents. Many liberals are under threat, including Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk, who has now left the country. By Annette Grossbongardt in Istanbul more…

The re-Islamization of ‘secular’ Turkey is well on the way. Tayyib Erdogan, the present prime minister,  is a convicted jihadist who did jail-time and his wife wears the veil. He has the hide to call Europe a ‘Christian Club’…

Here’s the link…

Life Insurance for Pali-Suicide Bombers

ARAB BANK PAYS OUT BLOOD MONEY

By Christoph Schult, Britta Sandberg and Ansgar Mertin

From Spiegel Online

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By Christoph Schult, Britta Sandberg and Ansgar Mertin
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An important bank in the Arab world offers accounts paying a type of life insurance to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. But now it could soon face a lawsuit from American lawyers representing the victims.