Iran Stirs Up More Trouble in Iraq With Dubious Media Report
On Thursday there was a bogus story from Iraq published by the Associated Press.
On Thursday there was a bogus story from Iraq published by the Associated Press.
TIME Magazine followed the AP in reporting the same bogus story on Ayatollah Sistani in Iraq.Here’s TIME’s report on the honorable Ayatollah Sistani today:The Return of Iraq’s AyatollahCrocker, who said he had been to Najaf only once before, visited amid speculation that Sistani is losing patience with the U.S.
UPDATE: Jonn Lilyea was there and took pictures.Rolling Thunder Roared Into Washington DC Today.The pro-veterans and MIA biker group gave President Bush a leather jacket and vest when they stopped by the White House during their annual ride to support veterans.
It’s not just US soldiers the regime is killing.Mahdi Army fighters gesture as they stand next to a burning Iraq armored police vehicle.
The FARC is in disarray…After the death of FARC leader Manual “Sureshot” Marulanda yesterday, FARC rebels have contacted the Colombian government and are ready to release hostages in exchange for freedom.
The Japanese fear the Islamophobic cartoons and DVD’s may start another round of cartoon riots.In a recent Japanese cartoon the villain vows to kill the main character while he reads pages of the Koran.The company received “feedback” from a few angry Muslims after the DVD was released.The Japanese company Shueisha decided it was best to suspend shipments of the offensive cartoon after the company thought things over.Anime News Network and LGF Quick Links reported:The Japanese publisher Shueisha and the anime production company A.P.P.P.
FARC leader “Sureshot” Marulanda is dead!He had led the FARC terror group for 40 years.It’s been a miserable year for the Marxist FARC terrorist organization:Three former commanders of Colombia’s FARC rebel force, (L-R) Manuel Marulanda (known as Sureshot), Raul Reyes and Ivan Rios, are seen in file photos dating from the years 2000 and 2001.
Ambassador Crocker: “Al-Qaeda in Iraq Is Close to Defeat” It looks like somebody owes America an apology.* * * * *Thank goodness for today’s news…
Hezbollah Has Successfully Expanded Operations Inside of Africa.W.
Barack Obama is freaking out the Brits.Foreign Secretary David Miliband raised questions over Obama’s Iran policy while visiting with Obama campaign officials this week.The Times Online reported:David Miliband has raised questions over Barack Obama’s policy on Iran, which officials in Washington and Europe fear threatens to undermine the tough stance adopted by the West towards Tehran over recent years.
To this day Code Pink protesters continue to target wounded US soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C..This Ain’t Hell has photos of the latest Code Pink rally on Friday night targeting the wounded soldiers.The good news is that the Freepers and Protest Warriors own all four corners at the front gate of Walter Reed Hospital now where the troops arrive since “Concrete Bob” discovered that the Code Pink crowd lost their permit.If you are interested there are pro-military protests every Friday Night for the wounded troops.
Ten years ago today Barack and Michelle Obama were honored guests at a dinner hosted by the anti-Israeli organization, the Arab American Action Network.Grand Old Partisan has the story.
Mother and daughter Manda Zand-Ervin & Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi are human rights activists.
Keith Olbermann- Dead Rush Limbaugh- Funny!Keith Olbermann- Dead Dick Cheney- Funny!Keith Olbermann- Bobby Kennedy (interpreted as Obama) Assassination- Outrage!The angry liberal MSNBC host didn’t think Hillary’s comments yesterday were very funny:”She actually said those words…
Here is an amazing chart that was posted at Power last night.It shows that 94% of world gas and oil reserves are controlled by state owned companies.And, that US companies are minor players in the global oil industry:Click to EnlargePower reported:With 94% of the world’s oil supply locked up by foreign governments, most of which are hostile to the United States, the relatively puny American oil companies do not have access to enough crude oil to significantly affect the market and help bring prices down.
Iraqi Press: Sistani DID NOT issue a fatwa declaring it OK to kill US Soldiers!Yesterday, the Associated Press released a shocking report about how moderate Ayatollah Ali Sistani was “quietly issuing religious edicts declaring that armed resistance against U.S.-led foreign troops was permissible.” This was completely out of character with the previous fatwas and religious edicts by the moderate and popular Iraqi Ayatollah.Today, Iraqi Nibras Kazimi at Talisman Gate, who has met Ayatollah Sistani before, countered the AP report.
The Media totally ignored the Petraeus hearings this week on progress in Iraq.Was this by accident?…
Barack Obama is sounding more and more like a Far Left loon.
People in his neighborhood described Nicky Reilly as a “big friendly giant” who was “obsessed” with computers.Bomber Nicky Reilly suffered cuts and burns to his face.
“We really in this last election, when I say we…the Democrats, I think pushed it as far as we can to the end of the fleet, didn’t say it, but we implied it.
General Petraeus slammed the Obama withdrawal plan for Iraq and said the US can expect further troop cuts due to the great success of the Bush Surge.US General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, said Thursday he expects to recommend further cuts in US forces in Iraq before he relinquishes command in September because of improved security.
On April 8, 2008 two dozen Illinois members of “Vets For Freedom” a nonpartisan group of combat veterans dedicated to educating the American public on the importance of achieving success in Afghanistan and Iraq, went to Barack Obama’s Senate office.
Jewish voters in Miami, Florida today confronted Barack Obama on his very close friendship with Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO operative and professor at Colombia University.Barack Obama played down his close friendship with the former PLO operative: The Jewish voters were again doing the work of the media who refuse to ask Barack Obama about his many close associations with Jew-haters.This is what Obama told the Jewish voters about his association with Khalidi:”Let me respond to the question.
I Second The Anchoress…
WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!…Leading House Democrat Maxine Waters Calls For Nationalizing the Oil IndustryRep.
Freedom Run comes to St.
54 year-old Cindy McCain did a photo spread in Vogue with Michelle Obama.Yahoo is reporting:In the upcoming issue of Vogue, Cindy McCain stretches out in a sunny photo spread, sporting skinny jeans and red nail polish.
Barack Obama will try to break through to Jewish voters today with a talk in Miami.
From my little chickenhawk heart to yours…Here’s a special tribute to the war resisters living in Canada:Thanks to War Resisters Support Campaign for the video.First Up: Corey Corey Glass, 25, was told yesterday that he would be booted.U.S.
A 22 year-old suicide bomber was the only one injured when his bomb went off early at an Exeter family restaurant- The Giraffe.The restaurant was pretty full at the time of the attack.(Mail Online)The 22-year-old man was arrested at the scene.
Via Instapundit:This won’t help with Obama’s elitist image.Those gun-toting, Bible-thumpers probably won’t be able to relate to this much either…During a break from his busy campaign grind, Barack Obama was able to unwind with some light reading:The Post American WorldMaybe there was some truth to what Sunni Cleric Sheik Muhammad Abu Al-Qat was saying.Nahanni adds:I guess he is studying up on how to make his dreams, the dreams of his BFF Bill Ayres and the Democrats come true.
The Iranian regime announced that it will hold an international conference on the liquidation of Israel next week.Atlas Shrugs and Arutz Shiva reported:An Iranian university is holding an international conference on the liquidation of the Jewish state, according to Iran’s state run news service.”Iranian Justice Seeking University Students Movement and University Students Mobilization Basij will jointly sponsor International Conference on Israel’s End on May 26th, 2008,” the government-run IRNA News Agency reported.”The timing of the conference is adjusted to coincide with the sad 60th anniversary of Palestine’s occupation by the Zionists,” organizers told IRNA.The organizers said guests of the conference will include “intellectuals and university professors from Egypt, Venezuela, Morocco, Lebanon, Indonesia, the United States, Pakistan, Argentina, India, Iraq, Syria, Chile, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, France, Tunisia, and a number of other countries.” Gee…
Israel won a major battle against the biased Western media yesterday.A court backed activist Philippe Karsenty who called iconic Palestinian ‘martyrdom’ film a hoax.He was accused of libeling a French state-owned television channel.This was not just good news for Karsenty but for all of Israel.
America Challenged Democrats on Gas Prices and Democrats Responded….Democrats decided to sue OPEC.Surprisingly, the Democrat energy plan to sue OPEC did not bring down gas prices today.And, it won’t help with the developing supply crunch.Instead, oil hit another record above $135 a barrel over supply worries.(Sen.
AL-QAEDA DECIMATED IN IRAQ–This follows the news yesterday that global terror attacks are down 40% since 2001.Here’s some great news for America and bad news for the Bush-bashers…Al-Qaeda is at its weakest state since the US led invasion of Iraq 5 years ago.FOX News reported:The Al Qaeda terror group in Iraq appears to be at its weakest state since it gained an initial foothold in the aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion five years ago, the acting commander of U.S.
The passionate lesbians could not control their urges of hot burning love once they stripped down to their beach attire.After the lewd show they put on at the UAE beach, the horny girls found themselves in court for public grinding.ANSAmed and ROP reported:In the first lawsuit of its kind in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), two women were brought to court on charges of indecent behaviour at a public place, Gulf News daily reported explaining that a 30-year-old Lebanese visitor and a 36-year-old Bulgarian employee were spotted being intimate together on a public beach between Sharjah and Dubai.
UPDATE: The two suspects were released on Thursday morning.Prosecutor Gunilla Ohlin told The Associated Press that, “There was no reason to keep them under arrest anymore, but the suspicions against them remain.” -USA Today.Employees evacuate the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in southern Sweden today.
It’s all Bush’s fault.Terror attacks are down 40% since 2001.Andrew Bolt and The Canadian Press reported this recent study:A group of researchers from Simon Fraser University says global terrorism is on the decline, despite previous data and public perceptions that suggest otherwise.The university’s Human Security Report Project says fatalities from terrorist attacks around the world have, in fact, decreased by 40 per cent since 2001.
42 immigrants were killed in immigrant attacks that have left over 6,000 immigrants homeless.They’re hacking up the immigrants in South Africa.Gangs weilding axes marched through the streets.
James Yee Claims He Was Tortured & Abused For Speaking Out Against Gitmo…Not because he was caught with a list of Gitmo detainees and interrogators in his belongings.
More Hope and Change…Perky Michelle Obama left military wives in Kentucky with this hopeful message this week:”We need to be more aware of the challenges these women are facing,” she said.
A Kenyan mob dragged 11 people from their homes and torched them.All of the suspected witches were over 80 years old.The BBC reported:Eleven people accused of being witches have been burned to death by a mob in the west of Kenya, police say.
Bummer– Today, Obama’s foreign policy expert admitted- “You Don’t Talk With Ahmadinejad” Governor Bill Richardson echoed the Bush Administration and Senator John McCain today in confessing that talking with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would be a horrible idea.Barack Obama says he would meet with any vicious, anti-American regime leader during his first year in office including Iranian President Ahmadinejad without preconditions.HotAir posted the video:Governor Richardson then explains that you would talk with some other “moderate” Jew-hating regime official to hold talks with…Like maybe Ayatollah Khamenei?Some liberals believe he’s not so bad and even that he’s not a flagrant anti-Semite.These people are dangerous.** Related…
Hezbollah gains veto power– Will keep their weapons.The democratically elected Lebanese majority government gave in to Hezbollah terrorists during negotiations in Qatar.The BBC reported:Rival Lebanese leaders have agreed on steps to end the political deadlock that has led to the country’s worst violence since the 1975-90 civil war.
The last good Democrat blasted Far Left Barack Obama on his strange foreign policy plans to meet, without preconditions, with the most vicious, anti-American regimes on the planet.The Wall Street Journal reported:Today, less than a decade later, the parties have completely switched positions.
Former Bolivian Congressman and political dissident Jose Brechner sends this video from Peru.Nazis rally against the Jews in a video produced by Aljazeera:(5 minutes 34 seconds)Once again, the Jews make an easy scapegoat- This time in Peru.In Peru, one political party teaches peasants that the imperialist Jews are behind the nation’s poverty.The neo-Nazi groups chant, “Down with Zionist Imperialism!” The peasants are taught that the Jews in Peru control the government but there are only 3,000 Jews in the country and maybe 3 who hold seats in the Peruvian government.
** Thanks to One Jerusalem for pointing this out today.Townhall is a very respected conservative news organization with plenty of talented writers.
A Sunni cleric says, “Allah will soon send an American Gorbachev to end the American Empire.” Gee…
Hillary Spanks Obama 65% to 35% in Kentucky!UPDATE: The traveling Hillary plant known as “Boxer Boy” for the bright red boxer gloves he wears is planted again behind Hillary in the Kentucky audience tonight!The traveling audience plant was spotted in (left to right) Pennsylvania, Indiana, and West Virginia and he made it to Kentucky tonight.
The New York Conservative Party is having a dinner in honor of WFB next Thursday May 29.
Huffington Post Spins Furiously For ObamessiahThe Huffington Post is hoping to explain away Barack Obama’s national security blunder on holding talks with any terror regime in the galaxy.In a weird twist…
More Hope and Change-The former Gitmo Chaplain accused of spying was just elected an Obama delegate.The AP and LGF Quick Links reported:A former Army chaplain at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who was cleared of spy accusations will be a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.Former Capt.
Antiwar Liberal Democrat Attacks Troops Visiting Capital HillThis was posted by DM at the Power Forum:A class of senior Army War College officers (all of whom are either Iraq or Afghanistan combat veterans with multiple deployments) were taking part on a tour of Congress.
Antiwar propaganda artist Michael Moore swiped patriot Michael Yon’s photo and pasted it on the top of his antimilitary, antiwar, anticapitalist, anti-Bush website:Michael Moore used Michael Yon’s award-winning photo in the header on his website:Obviously, the word got back to Yon…Michael Yon is aware of the infringement and wrote the antiwar Moore:Many readers have complained that Michael Moore, in the conduct of his latest crusade against whatever he is against this month, has illegally used one of my photos on the banner of his website.
Val Prieto is one Cuban-American who is not impressed with Obama’s trade priorities:Cartoonist Chip BokIn 2004, Mr.
Maybe– But he did take calls from Dodd, Kerry and Obama.
WARNING ON CONTENT– VERY DISTURBING PHOTOS–Andrew from Zimbabwe forwarded this story on the rioting this weekend in Johannesburg.SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAYResidents laugh as a foreigner burns in his own blanketsHalden Krog- The Times photographer The photos in this posting are from the South Africa riots this week.