Month: May 2008

Nelly Avila Moreno, known as “Karina”, is rumored to have taken part in the murder of Alvaro Uribe’s father, a wealthy rancher who was killed in 1983.Today, the one-eyed FARC leader urged her comrades to put down their weapons and join Colombian society:(In Spanish- 45 seconds)Over 1,100 FARC members have surrendered in the past year and joined a government-sponsored program that provides housing, job training and other benefits.This violent FARC Leader is accused of cutting off a man’s penis and testicles, among other things.Aljazeera reported:Colombia’s best-known female rebel commander has said the Farc has been “decimated” by government attacks and a growing number of desertions.

Miracle of Miracles…Yesterday it was pointed out…Although an entire car interior– including seats, doors, dash and windows– were completely blown apart and melted away down to the springs and metal frames…Miraculously, the Holy Koran was only lightly singed during a bomb blast.An Iraqi youth picks-up a partially burnt Koran from a burnt vehicle destroyed during the overnight fighting in the impoverished Shiite Muslim district of Sadr City in Baghdad.

Pro-American Colombian President Alvaro Uribe lands another big FARC fish.The Colombian government blames Moreno for the 1983 death of the father of President Alvaro Uribe, who took office in 2002 with a vow to crush the rebels- CNN.FARC rebel commander Nelly Avila Moreno (L), also known as “Karina”, is escorted by a police officer in Medellin May 18, 2008.

12 people were killed in anti-immigrant attacks this weekend.Policemen take aim during clashes believed to be linked to recent anti-foreigner violence in Zandsfontein informal settlement outside Johannesburg, May 18, 2008.

IT’S A MIRACLE!The entire car interior– including seats, doors, dash and windows– were completely blown apart and melted away down to the springs and metal frames but…Miraculously, the Holy Koran was only lightly singed during the blast.An Iraqi youth picks-up a partially burnt Koran from a burnt vehicle destroyed during the overnight fighting in the impoverished Shiite Muslim district of Sadr City in Baghdad.

In January, Afghan student-writer Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh was sentenced to death for insulting Islam.The 23 year-old student and writer downloaded an anti-Islamic report from the internet in 2007 relating to the role of women in Islamic societies and handed copies out to his friends.For this, an Afghan court sentenced him to death for the crime of blasphemy!But, after the international uproar against the death sentence, Afghan officials agreed to give Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh a hearing in court to appeal the charges against him.Today Bloggasm reported that young Afghan journalist, Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, was back in court.Reuters reported this:An Afghan journalist sentenced to death on blasphemy charge pleaded not guilty in an appeal hearing on Sunday.Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, 23, a reporter with the Jahan-e Now daily was sentenced in January after having been arrested three months ago in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.In an open court appeal hearing in Kabul, Kambakhsh who is also a university student in Mazar-i-Sharif, rejected accusations from some of his classmates and teachers, that he had insulted Islam and the Koran and had distributed an article which said Prophet Mohammad had ignored the rights of women.”As a Muslim …, I never allow myself to do such a thing.

Obama Reaches Out to the Gun-Toting Bible-Thumpers…Obama opens a new strategy to reach rural white voters after his G*d D*mn Rev.

Put down the food.Even fitness magazines are starting to make up silly crap about Obama.Men’s Fitness lists Obama as one of the nation’s “Top 25 Fittest Guys.”Yeah, right!Hat Tip BobFOX Embed and LGF Quick Links reported:According to Men’s Fitness magazine (out May 19th), Barack Obama is not just the fittest politician in the race for the presidency – he’s one of the nation’s 25 fittest guys.So you don’t have to wait till next week – here’s the magazine’s reasoning:“It takes a certain stamina to endure months of 16-hour days in pursuit of the land’s highest office.

The international organization that elected Libya the chair and Cuba the vice-chair of their racism conference is sending an investigator to the US to conduct a probe on racism this month.The UN will investigate the US on racism charges this month.

Extreme Centre has posted his offensive cartoons.A Dutch cartoonist was arrested this week for publishing cartoons that insulted Islam.AKI reported:A Dutch cartoonist was arrested and later released earlier this week on suspicion of publishing work that could be considered insulting or discriminatory to Muslims, Amsterdam police revealed on Friday.

You may have missed this during Barack Obama’s speech today on Iraq…The jihadists are tracking their attacks in Iraq:Al-Qaeda in Iraq attacks are down some 94% in the last year.What terrific news!The Talisman Gate reports that the Jihadists are admitting defeat in Iraq and that attacks are down 94% in the last year:A prolific jihadist sympathizer has posted an ‘explosive’ study on one of the main jihadist websites in which he laments the dire situation that the mujaheddin find themselves in Iraq by citing the steep drop in the number of insurgent operations conducted by the various jihadist groups, most notably Al-Qaeda’s 94 percent decline in operational ability over the last 12 months when only a year and half ago Al-Qaeda accounted for 60 percent of all jihadist activity!The author, writing under the pseudonym ‘Dir’a limen wehhed’ [‘A Shield for the Monotheist’], posted his ‘Brief Study on the Consequences of the Division [Among] the [Jihadist] Groups on the Cause of Jihad in Iraq’ on May 12 and it is being displayed by the administration of the Al-Ekhlaas website—one of Al-Qaeda’s chief media outlets—among its more prominent recent posts.

Baron Bodissey has an extensive report on the conference.

After the explosion authorities discovered that she was a he.The bomber in the burqa was a dude.The AP reported:A suicide bomber wearing a burqa killed 15 people and wounded 22 when he blew himself up Thursday in a crowded market in western Afghanistan, a provincial official said.

Another cyclone is forming in Burma and the country is still suffering from the previous one that struck on May 2-3.Burma4U posted video (Here) today from one of the remote villages in Burma showing the horrible death and destruction.You can tell from the video (Warning on content) that whole communities were killed from the cyclone.It should be noted that without the video produced by the bloggers and democracy activists in Burma much of this carnage would be hidden from the world.

Doug Ross isn’t moping about yesterday’s GOP Congressional loss.Instead he put together a tip sheet for Republicans:Terrific!Someone will have to enlighten me on the flat tax argument…