Gone…Another casualty of war.A Palestinian militant poses in the office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the late Yasser Arafat inside Abbas’ personal office after it was taken over by Hamas in fighting in Gaza City, early Friday, June 15, 2007.
Durham Prosecuting Attorney Mike Nifong Is Disbarred!Former Duke lacrosse players Collin Fiinerty, left, and Reade Seligmann, right, sit in court with Seligmann’s mom Kathy during a break in Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong’s North Carolina State Bar trial in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, June 14, 2007.
Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani suffered a horrible death in Qom, Tehran and London all at the same time.
From the rooftop of the world…Jimmy Carter is urging the US administration to hold talks with the Maoist terrorist group of Nepal- the Moaist insurgency is responsible for the deaths of thousands of citizens since 2000.Former US President Jimmy Carter greets the media during his news conference in Kathmandu, before leaving to return home, at the end of his four-day visit to the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal, on Saturday, June 16, 2007.
Tom Delay talked more today about the editorial he wrote this week at Town Hall titled “The Attorney General scandal Is Not About Gonzales”.
Hamas has said it is making “serious and practical steps” to secure the release of kidnapped journalist Alan Johnston.-ITV reporting.
Hamas is celebrating in Gaza- Fatah reacts in the West Bank.Palestinian Hamas supporters carry a portrait of sacked Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya(C) as they attend a celebration rally in Gaza City.
It was payback time in Gaza this week.Leading Fatah militant Samih al-Madhoun had previously pledged to kill all members of the Islamist movement Hamas.
Clark Mountain Musings sees signs.
National Center for Public Policy Research, a communications and research foundation supportive of a strong national defense and dedicated to providing free market solutions to today’s public policy problems, cofronted senior Caterpillar officials over their decision to join the United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP).
This is what Hillary Clinton had to say on redistributing oil profits back in February:(35 seconds)Hillary told the DNC Winter meeting in February: “I want to take those profits, and I want to put them into a strategic energy fund.” After bashing the oil companies on their evil profits, this week Hillary sold her stock in BP Amoco , Exxon Mobil, FOX News and Walmart:Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton liquidated the contents of their blind trust upon learning it contained investments of $5 million to $25 million that could pose conflicts of interest or prove to be embarrassing to her presidential campaign…The blind trust held stock in pharmaceutical companies, including $250,000-$500,000 in Biogen Idec and Johnson & Johnson and $100,000-$250,000 in Amgen, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline.
The Aussie Muslim man raped the mother of 13 twice after he discovered she was reading a Bible.Convicted rapist Abdul Reda al Shawany.
— MASSIVE HEARTACHE –Bush praises Teddy Kennedy…
Three more Iranian diplomats were arrested today in Iraq.US soldiers on Friday reportedly arrested three Iranian diplomats north of Baghdad.
The message at Friday prayers must have hit home…After prayers today in Tehran, the hardliners hit the streets and torched the US and UK flags (notice the banner in the background) ISNA.The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Regime Ayatollah Khamenei in Iran blamed the US and Zionists for the bomb blasts in Samara this week.Fars News reported:Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in a message to condole Muslims on the terrorist attacks on the shrines of the Shiite Muslims’ 10th and 11th Imams in Samara, Iraq stressed that the devilish plot had been mainly devised by the intelligence services of occupiers and Zionists.
A pro-Syrian Lebanese news anchor for NBN TV, Sawsan Safa Darwish, chuckled at the assassination of Walid Eido during live coverage of the blast that killed the anti-Syrian Lebanese official, his son, two star soccer players and 6 others in Beirut.NBN-TV is owned by Nabih Berri, the pro-Syrian speaker of the Lebanese parliament.Pure Evil.Sawsan Safa Darwish laughs at the assassination of Walid Eido on the air in Lebanon.YouTube Video (CNN) on this disgusting human being- HERE.NBN-TV says it was an unintentional mistake!** The video (not in English) was posted on YouTube HERE.A pro-Syrian NBN presenter Sawsan Safa Darwish was caught on tape unaware that her microphone was still on asking why it took so long to assassinate Lebanese MP Walid Ido.
Put it on a bumper sticker.
After Mass Killings Hamas Offers Amnesty to Fatah in Gaza197 Fatah members fled to Egypt- many by boat- to escape the wrath of Hamas.Executions continue in Gaza and the West Bank.The execution of Fatah member Samih Al-Madhoun was shown on television.
As Kamangir pointed out- Today (June 14, 2007) at a protest in Tehran-(Mehr)Another shot from today outside the British Embassy.(ISNA)And earlier…
Geraldo Rivera: “Suddenly, because wedge issues like gay marriage and abortion lost steam with the Extreme Right they have now seized on this (border security) as a way to appeal to energize the base.”Rasmussen reported yesterday: Just 20% of American voters want Congress to try and pass the immigration reform bill that failed in the Senate last week.Sixty-nine percent (69%) of voters would favor an approach that focuses “exclusively on securing the border and reducing illegal immigration.” This is the legislation Geraldo is supporting.Does this mean then that 69% of Americans are on the Extreme Right?Bob McCarty says the Walmart is now adopting the US approach to border security.
Republican House members are struggling this week for earmark transparency.
Remember that old Fatah Headquarters building?
The Anchoress talks saints.While…The Missionaries of Charity tell Hillary to drop it.Via HotAir
Far Out!The busted officer works for the United Nations’ Poppy Elimination Program.Via EYE on the UN:An international adviser with the Poppy Elimination Programme in Kandahar, Afghanistan and consultant with the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) pleaded innocent against possessing 0.6 grammes of hashish for personal use before a court on Tuesday.
Officials are giving the former bread basket of Africa six months of survival.Inflation currently rests at 3,174%.
The moderate Iranian Ayatollah Boroujerdi was sentenced to death this week on trumped up charges by the regime.
There was a mass turnout at the funeral today of Anti-Syrian politician Walid Eido.** Protesters chanted slogans against Syrian Leader Bashar al-Assad!The Anti-Syrian Assassination List…Rafik Hariri -February 14, 2005Samir Kassir -June 2, 2005George Hawi -June 21, 2005May Chidiac (attempted assassination) -September 25, 2005Gebran Ghassan Tueni -December 12, 2005Pierre Amin Gemayel -November 21, 2006 Walid Eido -June 13, 2007Walid Jumblatt Responds to the Walid Eido Assassination on CNN, via Ya Libnan:The BBC also has video from the blast scene HERE.A woman cries as mourners pass with the coffin of assassinated legislator Walid Eido in Beirut, June 14, 2007.
The President of the UN Human Rights Council proposes that condemnation of Israel remain permanently on the agenda.
Arafatistan becomes Hamasistan…Fatah collapses in Gaza.YNET reports:One of the strategic results of the Hamas victory in Gaza is the formation of two divided Palestinian zones, each with a different reality and leadership.
The church is urging Catholics to quit donating to the Leftist group.Cardinal Renato Raffaelle Martino, president of the pontiff’s council for justice and peace and papal envoy for migrants and refugees, claps to the music at the culture palace in Abidjan May 17, 2007.
Adam Kokesh wore his uniform when “Operation First Casualty” hit the streets of Washington DC in protest of the Iraq War.Today this group of antiwar marines suffered its first casualty.Adam Kokesh lost his battle with superiors.HERE’s the video from the nutty protest in the streets of Washington DC.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Amliki writes today in the Opinion Journal:”Our Common Struggle”It is perhaps true that only people who are denied the gift of liberty can truly appreciate its full meaning and bounty.
So much for the coalition government.At least 80 people are dead in two days of fighting.Senior Hamas and Fatah officials say a ceasefire has been reached(?)Palestinians gather around a truck taken by Hamas militants from the headquarters of the security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas after blowing them up in the southern Gaza strip June 13, 2007.
It looks like Syria got another one in Lebanon!They planted the bomb next to a children’s park!Rafik Hariri -February 14, 2005Samir Kassir -June 2, 2005George Hawi -June 21, 2005May Chidiac (attempted assassination) -September 25, 2005Gebran Ghassan Tueni -December 12, 2005Pierre Amin Gemayel -November 21, 2006 Walid Eido -June 13, 2007** Charles Malik was there!
Fatma Yunes Hassan Zak, 39, a resident of Gaza, is the mother of eight children and pregnant with her ninth…
This is so messed up…The soldiers were already cleared in the case.
** This commentary appears today at Pajamas Media.
It doesn’t look good for the party or Chairman Martinez right about now.
Terrorists re-bomb the remains of the Golden Mosque in Samarra.Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki imposes curfew.Revered cleric Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s top Shi’ite religious leader, calls for restraint.(Long live al-Sistani!)The famous Shiite Golden Mosque in Samarra: (Top left) In 2004 before Al Qaeda blew it up.
Sex, Lies and Videotape…Former Iranian President was caught on tape actually “touching” the opposite sex in public during his stop in Italy.The hardliners are outraged!The illicit act was caught on tape.YouTube Video HERE (4 minute mark)The video footage is causing quite a stir in Iran where hardliners are blasting him for his immoral actions.So, what is an Iranian cleric to do?…
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) sets Wolf Blitzer straight on the immigration bill.Jim DeMint says we need to do what we already said we were going to do last year- we need to secure the border.DeMint does not see the flawed legislation becoming law.(Yahoo video)Meanwhile…
Here are the remarks by Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S.
A group of Jewish counter protesters confronted the United for Peace and Justice Marxists in Washington DC this weekend.
Las Vegas madam claimed service was so discreet even Bill Clinton used them!Busted!This photo provided by the Las Vegas Police Department shows Rashena Rashel Kemp (left) and Rachael Alexander (right).
Protesters in Georgia were out in force last week demanding that Senator Chambliss quit yapping and start listening…(Chambliss was getting over 1,000 calls each day from upset constituents.)They weren’t shy about how they felt.They had valid questions.And, they came out in force to let Senator Chambliss know that they disapproved.Mike Menkus was at the Atlanta rally on Thursday and sent this report:I was at the Immigration Rally in Atlanta on June 7.
Hamas TV: We have taken over northern Gaza!
UPDATE: President Bush attended the dedication ceremonies today.President George W.
Banaz Mahmod, 20, was raped by her killers, strangled with a bootlace, stuffed into a suitcase, and buried in the garden.Her father and uncle were charged yesterday with murder.
Lame-duck or just lame?It may be time for Reid to start bussing Bush’s table.Here’s the vote breakdown.
Warning: If you have not seen this before- it is very moving.(5 minutes 23 seconds)This was so well done.Thanks to Cornhusker for the tip.
After all of his campaigning for open borders…Geraldo Rivera Shows His Colors.Reporter Geraldo Rivera greets the crowd at the 2007 National Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City on Sunday, June 10, 2007.
So much for that “most ethical and open Congress” nonsense.
Say Anything has the chart.
Radical anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr emerges from his meeting with Iraq’s most prominent cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 10, 2007.
“I’m not going to get into a name-calling match with the administration’s chief attack dog.
The pair’s vehicle was hit by either gunfire or a shell fired from within the camp- Aljazeera.Lebanese Red Cross employees wait to enter the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared in northern Lebanon, 05 June 2007.
The union between Radical Islamic Regimes and the Central-South American anti-US Leftists is now complete.The visit yesterday by Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua to Iran solidified relations between the anti-American leaders.The “Alliance for Justice” – Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Fidel Castro, Daniel Ortega.Kamangir has more on Ortega’s message to Tehran.Hugo Chavez in the backgroundFlags of the “World Resistance Front” nations are pictured.
A Hi-tech bomb similar to the ones used to kill US soldiers in Iraq was discovered in Kabul recently.The BBC reported:A hi-tech bomb, similar to the ones used by militants in Iraq, has been found in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
The women hope their example will make communities more open and allow women to become more involved in society.Mirvat Amin fires an AK-47 during weapons training at the Kirkuk Police Academy.
Finally, someone is pointing out the elephant in the quagmire.In an interview today on Face the Nation Senator Joe Lieberman suggested the US should launch military strikes against Iran if the government in Tehran does not stop supplying anti-American forces in Iraq.Well, it’s about time!
