So we should all be happy about this today -- although I suspect some on the Left aren't.

A senior al-Qaeda commander was killed this week in Pakistan, according to Western officials and an Islamic radical Web site, marking a rare success in the flagging U.S. and Pakistani campaign to hunt down members of the network.

Abu Laith al-Libi, the nom de guerre of a Libyan fighter who had served alongside al-Qaeda and the Taliban since the late 1980s, had become an influential field commander in recent years, overseeing many operations against U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, officials said. The U.S. military blamed him for organizing a suicide attack that killed 23 people outside Bagram air base during a visit by Vice President Cheney in February last year.

The Western officials declined to give details of how Libi died. But there is evidence he was targeted in a missile strike that killed 12 people early Tuesday in a remote village in northwestern Pakistan.

Yeah, that's right. This is the guy who tried to get to Dick Cheney last year. Folks at Kos, DU, HuffPo and other "progressive" sites were upset that the assassination attempt was thwarted. So ask your favorite liberal how they feel about this success in the Crusade Against Islamist Terrorism, mentioning the attempt to kill the Vice president. You'll quickly find out if that if they are with us or with the terrorists.

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According to terrorism experts, authorities need to be on the lookout for cases of "Sudden Jihad Syndrome" among home-grown terror cells.

Sympathy for al Qaeda has produced "sudden jihad syndrome" in domestic terror cells unaffiliated with foreign terrorists and people seeking to carry out attacks in the U.S., a law-enforcement intelligence analysis says.

The Dec. 6 report by the Texas Public Safety Department's Bureau of Information Analysis warns officials not to dismiss individual or homegrown terror cells as "wannabes," saying they pose a credible threat to homeland security.

"Oftentimes, these attackers are dismissed as suffering from mental health issues, but their own words and writings reveal an affiliation with Islamic supremacy or an affinity for Islamic extremism," said the report, which was distributed to federal, state and local law enforcement in Texas. "As a result, law enforcement should not be too quick to judge their attacks as having no nexus to terrorism."

It said they might act with the intention of eventually joining al Qaeda or the jihad movement overseas.

In other words, the writings of Islamists may be sufficient to push some susceptible individuals to act upon the ideology of Islamic radicalism expressed by terrorist groups. Having pulled an ideological justification from extremist sources, their actions should not be seen as isolated, but are instead a part of the global jihad being waged by the likes of bin Laden. In other words, look for more cases of homegrown terrorism linked by ideology, not direct command-an-control, to radical groups abroad.

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Is this Osama's New Year's greeting to the world?

Terror leader Osama bin Laden will release a new Internet message that focuses on Iraq and an al-Qaida linked insurgent group, a terrorism monitoring group said Thursday.

The SITE intelligence group said the al-Qaida leader will discuss Iraq and the group the Islamic State of Iraq, a longtime foe of the Iraqi government and U.S. forces.

SITE, which provides counter-terrorism information to government and private groups, said the announcement of the impending message was posted to Islamic militant Web sites earlier in the day.

The posting said the message — titled `The way to contain conspiracies" — would last 56 minutes. It did not say when it would be released, but such ads usually precede the actual message by one to three days.

An interesting length, that 56 minutes -- perhaps to allow for commercial breaks on network television, given the ongoing strike by the Writer's Guild of America?

But more seriously, the fact that Osama is releasing a new video in time for the new year, and in the wake of the Bhutto assassination, leaves me wondering if this is not the signal of more terrorist action to come. And coming on the even of the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, I wonder what bombshells it will have intended to influence the US electoral process.

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Gotta love this video brought to you by the Religion of Blow the Infidels to Pieces!

A children's sing-along DVD for would-be suicide bombers is being investigated by police after being found on sale in one of Britain's terrorist hotbeds.

The disturbing disc of music videos - part of an Egyptian-made series - shows a young girl singing about following in the footsteps of her suicide bomber mother.
A group of self-proclaimed orphans also turn against the West over the plight of the Palestinian people.

The shocking DVD was purchased in Bradford, West Yorks, and full details of the Leeds-based UK distributors are contained on the back of the cover.

The West Yorkshire Police specialist counter terrorism unit are investigating the contents - which contain three tracks sung by children in Arabic with English subtitles.

There is just something fundamentally sick within a faith that so regularly produces crap like this. It has even ceased being shocking – especially after it has been determined that the bomb that marred Benazir Bhutto’s homecoming was actually strapped to an infant. Therefore, I can’t even profess to be surprised by the evil contained in the tape.

H/T Malkin

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The Brits beg to differ -- and note they are extending their reach.

Investigators examining the bungled terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow six months ago believe the plotters had a link to Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, which would make the attacks the first that the group has been involved in outside of the Middle East, according to senior officials from three countries who have been briefed on the inquiry.

The evidence pointing to the involvement of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia includes phone numbers of members of the Iraqi group found on the plottersÂ’ cellphones recovered in Britain, a senior American intelligence official said.

Now i realize that the Left in this country considers these terrorists to be the equivalent of our founding fathers. It might, however, come as a shock to such idiots that George Washington never targeted enemy civilians. And while folks like John Paul Jones did harry British shipping within sight of the British Isles, such efforts were conducted within the rules of warfare commonly accepted during that era -- and would generally be deemed acceptable under today's more legalistic system.

Maybe we need a couple of bombings in this country to wake the Left up to the fact that we are at war for the survival of civilization, not for the partisan advantage of the Democrats.

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Would you have complained about the treatment of the Nazis at Nuremberg?

Nearly 100 foreign enemy combatants to be tried at Guantanamo Bay will have more rights than Nazi war criminals who faced the Nuremberg tribunal, a Senate panel was told yesterday.

Detainees in the war on terror will have the presumption of innocence and an automatic appeal, the latter not even afforded to U.S. citizens, said Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann, legal adviser to the Convening Authority for the Office of Military Commissions.

"No such presumption existed," said Gen. Hartmann in reference to Nuremberg while speaking to the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on terrorism, technology and homeland security. "There were no rules of evidence, and virtually any evidence was freely admitted.

"That was painfully apparent to those who were found guilty and received the death penalty — they were hung within hours and days of the completion of the sentence announcement," he said.

Why give IslamoNazis any greater rights than the perpetrators of the Holocaust and other war criminals during the Second World War? And if you are willing to give them greater rights, why are you more sympathetic to our enemies during this war than you were to the last set of Jew-hating extremists to wage war against America and the civilized world? Is it simply that you sympathize with their goals – or that you hate America?

And then there is this little tidbit that needs to be burned into the brain of every judge in America.

Steven A. Engel, Justice Department deputy assistant attorney general, said that extending the peacetime notion of habeas corpus to military prisoners would be "unprecedented."

"In the nearly 800 years of the writ's existence, no English or American court has ever granted habeas relief to alien enemy soldiers captured and detained during wartime," Mr. Engel said.

In other words, the current policies of the Bush Administration are fully in accord with the Anglo-American legal tradition out of which habeas corpus grows. Those who seek to change that policy need to make a compelling affirmative case in favor of their position – and they cannot.

Oh, and as a reminder, those Japanese officials and officers tried following WWII were not even treated so well as the Nazis – in part because of their nation’s unprovoked sneak attack upon America. Have you forgotten 9/11?

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Looks like the big legacy-builder in Annapolis will be a failure just as surely as every prior peace conference has been. Why? Because the Terrorstinian Anarchy has declared its official negotiating policy to be intransigence.

The PA legislature has passed the first reading of a law forbidding any concessions in, or even negotiations regarding, Jerusalem.
Ahmed Bahar, a leading Hamas member and the Deputy Speaker of the Palestinian Authority parliament, announced Thursday that the body had passed a first reading of a "Jerusalem bill." The legislation, proposed by Hamas parliament member Ahmed Abu Hilbiya, absolutely bans giving up any part of Jerusalem.

The bill states that Jerusalem, according to its "borders recognized during the period of the Islamic Khalifate," is "Palestinian, Arab, Islamic land." It further avers that all of Jerusalem, "including its archaeological sites and the sites that are holy to Islam and Christianity, are waqf (dedicated in sanctity) for Palestinian, Arab and Islamic generations." This would appear to include not only the Temple Mount, but also the Western Wall, the Jewish Quarter, and the City of David.

The new PA bill also states that it is forbidden to discuss, cede, or negotiate over any part of Jerusalem, or hold a referendum on this matter - and that if such negotiations or votes are held, they are null and void in advance. Anyone who violates the above provisions on behalf of the PA will be considered guilty of treason, the bill states, and will be liable to the relevant punishments.

When will the Israeli government and the leaders of the civilized world learn that negotiation with the Terrorstinians and their fellow Islamists is a fruitless endeavor. When will they recognize that there can be no compromise with those whose position is the destruction of the Jews. They don’t want a settlement – they want it all.

The time has come for Israel to write a similar provision into its laws. After all – the Israeli claim is based upon a longer history – and the Terrorstinians are merely the seed of those who have repeatedly defiled the Jewish and Christian holy places by their presence.

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Another suicide attempt by a detainee. Unsuccessful. Unfortunately.

A Guantanamo Bay prisoner slashed his throat with a sharpened fingernail last month, spilling a lot of blood but surviving, a U.S. military commander said Tuesday.

Guards administered first-aid and took the prisoner to the prison clinic, said Navy Cmdr. Andrew Haynes, the deputy commander in charge of the guard force.

"There was an impressive effusion of blood," Haynes told reporters visiting the base. He would not disclose the man's name or nationality. A medical officer, who could not be identified under military rules for journalists, said the prisoner received several stitches and spent a week under psychiatric observation.

There have been four suicides since the U.S. opened the military prison at Guantanamo in January 2002 for men suspected of involvement in terrorism or links to al-Qaida and the Taliban.

I know we have to treat these guys humanely. I know we have to give them medical care. And I know the fact that we do both is part of what separates the United States from our enemy.

But I still can't help but feel that the only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.

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Another reminder of the enemy we fight at home and abroad.

Three suspected al Qaeda militants, including two sisters, beheaded their uncle and his wife, forcing the couple's children to watch, Iraqi police said on Friday.

The militants considered that school guard Youssef al-Hayali was an infidel because he did not pray and wore western-style trousers, they told police interrogators after being arrested in Diyala province northwest of Baghdad.

The three cousins executed Hayali and his wife Zeinab Kamel at the all-boys school in Jalawlah in Diyala province, village police chief Captain Ahmed Khalifa said.

Kill mom and dad in front of the kids.

Because they don't pray enough.

And don't wear native clothes.

And yet the Left in this country seems to think that Republicans and conservative Christians are the greatest threat to freedom in the world.

Maybe they need to get a clue.

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As indicated above, I'm going to be a contrarian on yesterday's decision to allow the six "flying imams" to continue their suit against US Airways. While so many of my fellow conservatives think the judge should have dismissed the suit, I think it should -- indeed must -- continue to a decision by a jury.

Six Muslim imams arrested on a U.S. Airways jet in Minneapolis last November after a passenger raised suspicions about their pre-flight prayers and boarding activities won an early victory Tuesday in their federal lawsuit against the airline and the Metropolitan Airports Commission.

U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery's opinion and order rejected almost all of the defendants' arguments for dismissal. She said the question of whether airport officers had probable cause to arrest the men must be determined by the objective facts they had available at the time.

Over the past year, the case has triggered a firestorm of debate about security concerns vs. religious rights. The imams have argued that they were removed because of religious and ethnic bias. The airline says they were ejected solely because of security concerns raised by passengers and crew members.

Now let me explain why I think this is a good outcome. In time, this case is going to go before a group of twelve men and women who will have to determine whether or not the actions of the six were suspicious or not. And that decision will be based upon how those actions are COLLECTIVELY viewed, not how they are viewed in isolation from one another. So while no one of these actions can be seen as particularly damning, I fail to see how a jury can conclude that all of them taken together are anything other than suspicious and grounds for further investigation.

My only concern is that the judge may have indicated a bias in how she framed her decision.

It was that suit that Judge Montgomery allowed to proceed. In her 41-page decision, she said the imams "adequately stated a claim" that airport police may have "seized plaintiffs in violation of their Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures."

But we have to wonder if the judge would have so readily given the imams' suit the green light had she been a passenger or crew member on that plane.

Reports indicate that the men made anti-American statements, chanted "Allah, Allah, Allah" and used prayer rugs at the gate before the flight. On board, witnesses say the men left their assigned seats and placed themselves at strategic places within the cabin — two in the front, two in the middle, two in the rear. They also asked for seat-belt extensions, though a flight attendant didn't think they needed them, and refused pilot requests to submit to additional screening.

Montgomery, however, said it is "dubious" that a reasonable person would conclude from these facts that the imams were about to interfere with the crew or aircraft.

I'll agree that the imams have provided enough of a case to let their suit advance. However, her injection of her opinion (assuming, of course, that this one word excerpt accurate reflects its original context) regarding the conclusion drawn by airline and airport professionals at the time does strike me as troubling. If I were a lawyer in this case, I'd be filing a motion for a new judge, given the fact that the current one seems to have made up her mind about the proper outcome of the case.

But in the end, I still support this case going to court. Our court system should be open to those who believe they have a legitimate claim to bring, and judges should be reluctant to dismiss cases were there is a plausible argument presented by the plaintiff.

Besides -- imagine the fun that can be had deposing these guys, and requiring them to produce material on discovery.

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They don't like being labeled an "unindicted co-conspirator" in a terrorism case.

And they have a Congressman in their pocket to fight for them.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is seeking help from House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. to pressure the Justice Department to change the group's status as a co-conspirator in a terrorism case.

CAIR officials recently met with Mr. Conyers, Michigan Democrat, and then wrote a letter asking him to lobby the new attorney general on behalf of the group, and to hold hearings.

CAIR is among several hundred Muslim groups listed as unindicted co-conspirators in a recent federal terrorism trial in Dallas into activities by the Holy Land Foundation Inc., a group linked to funding the Palestinian Hamas terrorist group. The trial recently ended in a mistrial and prosecutors have said they plan to re-try the case.

Despite its uncertain outcome, the trial has produced a large amount of information and evidence identifying U.S. and foreign groups sympathetic to or direct supporters of international Islamist terrorists.

A 1991 internal memorandum from the radical Muslim Brotherhood identified 29 front groups, including the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), that are part of a covert program by the Brotherhood in the United States to subvert American society.

I actually have to agree with the terrorist-huggers at CAIR. Identifying them as unindicted co-conspirators is wrong. I urge the Attorney General to take immediate action to indict CAIR and its top officials for their work on behalf of global terrorism -- and treason, because that is what their efforts amount to.

UPDATE: The guys at PowerLine note a potential problem here.

Is there anyone who thinks that bringing political pressure to bear on the United States Attorney's Office to influence its handling of the Holy Land Foundation case might be...improper?

Yeah -- wasn't one of the complaints of the Democrats that politics and the interests of politicians shouldn't be involved in decisions related to prosecutions and charges brought by the Justice Department. By the standards we heard during the last weeks of the Gonzales era at the Justice Department, isn't this effort not only improper, but a betrayal of the very nature of how that department is supposed to operate?

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One more sign that the situation in Iraq is improving, and that we are winning. The deadly campaign of roadside bombs engaged in by the terrorist insurgents has fallen off shortly, indicating that the Surge has crippled the enemy and forced Iran to back off its support of the terrorists killing Americans and Iraqis.

n American military official on Thursday reported a sharp decrease in the number of roadside bombs and other homemade explosive devices in Iraq. The official, Maj. Gen. James E. Simmons, said Iran, which American officials contend is the source of the deadliest of those weapons, appeared to be abiding by a reported commitment to halt their flow into Iraq.

General Simmons said 1,560 improvised explosive devices directed at international forces or Iraqis across the country were identified in October, down after a steady monthly decline from 3,239 in March. Half of the bombs recorded for October were found before they detonated and were cleared, but the other half exploded.

“We have found weapons that we believe are associated with Iran in some of the caches that we have picked up,” said General Simmons, deputy commanding general of the Multinational Corps-Iraq. “But most of these weapons appear to have been in Iraq for months, so we have not seen any recent evidence that weapons continue to come across the border into Iraq.”

He added, “We believe that the initiatives and the commitments that the Iranians have made appear to be holding up.”

The article goes on to note that a combined effort by US and Iraqi forces have caused most of the IEDs used to be moved out of areas where they were prevalent, and into other parts of the country, but that the number of such bombs is down sharply. And while the number of new devices brought in from Iran is down due in part to the agreement cited in the article, they are also down due to interdiction on the Iraqi side of the border.

So as we see yet another indication of progress, how can the Democrats continue to insist upon claiming that we have been defeated in Iraq and that we must surrender as quickly as possible? Indeed, why have they adopted the treasonous strategy of cutting off cash for the troops in order to advance their political strategy of defeat for America in Iraq to bring about victory for the Democrats in 2008?

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You know, folks who would kill school kids because they were a convenient target of opportunity.

FIFTY-NINE schoolchildren were confirmed dead today as a result of a suicide attack in northern Afghanistan that left another 96 injured.

The schoolchildren had been lined up to greet a group of politicians visiting a sugar factory in the northern province of Baghlan on Tuesday when a suicide bomber detonated explosives.

In total, at least 75 people were killed, including several members of parliament.

Fifty-nine schoolchildren aged eight to 18 and five teachers were among those killed in the attack, education ministry spokesman Zahoor Afghan said. The attack was the deadliest in the country since the US-led invasion in 2001 removed the Taliban regime from power.

Mr Afghan said: "The education minister has ordered that no children should ever again be used in these sort of events."

Actions like this one are intended to instill terror, and to make the people think twice about the ability of the government to protect them. Indeed, their purpose is less about killing a particular target than it is in making every person wonder if they are safe, and to sap th will of the people in general -- the true targets of such bombings. Indeed, these are exercises in propaganda through acts of barbarism. The choice, however, is clear -- stand firm in the face of terror, or surrender to those who murder children in order to achieve political victory.

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After all, we know whose side they are on.

Zombie has more pictures from this recent anti-war rally in the people's Republic of San Francisco. Makes me glad that my parents got me out of that town when I was a year old.

H/T RWN

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After all, this is how they led off a story on the latest coalition military action in Afghanistan.

Children die in Afghanistan raid

Two children died as U.S.-led coalition forces stormed a compound in Afghanistan where a suspected Taliban militant had holed himself up with his young family, a military spokesman said Thursday.

Afghan forces, backed by coalition troops raided the compound in eastern Nangarhar province after receiving "credible intelligence" about militants in the area, said Maj. Chris Belcher, Combined Joint Task Forces-82 spokesman.

Belcher said troops were engaged in a firefight with the militant, after which the two children were found dead. Another child and a wounded adult female were also found, he said.

Yep, there go the Americans, murdering innocent children like the war criminals they are.

It takes until the fourth paragraph to get to this minor bit of information.

"While resisting multiple requests to surrender, the militant barricaded himself in a room. Unbeknownst to Afghan forces, his family was barricaded in the room with him," he said.

"It is regrettable when innocent lives are put at risk by militant forces. Our sincerest condolences go out to the families of the deceased and wounded."

It seems that the reason that the kids are dead is that Daddy used them as human shields. After all, the option of surrender was offered, and he could have easily ensured the safety of his family by sending them out. Instead, he chose to keep them close at hand, ensuring that they would be subject to the maximum amount of harm.

And leave it to our “neutral, objective” press to report the story in a manner most likely to inflame world opinion against the Americans. Is it any wonder that so many of us find the “mainstream” press to be beyond belief?

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Found in this magnificent quote from Mark Steyn.

"If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging that you were on to it. Fantasy is a by-product of security: it's the difference between hanging upside down in your dominatrix's bondage parlor after work on Friday and enduring the real thing for years on end in Saddam's prisons."

Exactly.

And similarly, if the Bush Administration were truly the fascist regime the anti-war crowd keeps claiming it is, those making the claim would have long since been imprisoned or executed for the audacity of their claims.

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Dare I state that I don't care that he was detained, searched and inconvenienced? It happens to average Americans every day.

BRITAIN'S first Muslim minister said he was "deeply disappointed" yesterday after being detained at a US airport where his hand luggage was tested for traces of explosive materials.

Shahid Malik, the MP for Dewsbury and an international development minister, was returning to Heathrow after meetings and talks on tackling terrorism, when he was stopped at Dulles Airport near Washington yesterday morning.

He was searched and detained by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - the department whose representatives he had been meeting on his visit.

You, sir, at least fit the profile of a terrorist. We regularly see nuns and Medal of Honor winners searched at random as a condition of air travel. Why should you be treated any different? And if, as you claim, all of those getting the special search that day were Muslims, it appears that someone may have been awake to the fact that Muslims are the folks who have been committing the bulk of terrorist activity over the last 20 years or so.

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A new site dealing with the threat of Islamic terrorism has opened -- Kafir Canada.

If the first major post (second overall) is any indication, the site will become an important one in the fight against those who would do violence against us in the name of the Muslim faith, as well as those who object to efforts to combat Islamic terrorism. Provided, of course, the Canadian government doesn't try to shut it down for speaking the truth.

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Too bad – I might have considered breaking my pledge not to vote for John McCain if he had.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain told workers of small weapons factory that he not only wants to catch Osama Bin Laden if elected, but said he "will shoot him with your products".

"I will follow Osama Bin Laden to the gates of hell and I will shoot him with your products," McCain said.

You know, I like the image of an American president personally dispatching the archfiend of al-Qaeda to Hell with an American-made weapon. Heck, IÂ’d vote for Hillary if she would make that commitment. Especially if she promised to do it live on national television.

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Hence his call for the disparate factions in Iraq to unite.

Osama bin Laden called for Iraqi insurgents to unite and avoid divisive "extremism," speaking in an audiotape aired Monday and apparently intended to win over Sunnis opposed to al-Qaida's branch in Iraq.

In the audiotape broadcast on Al-Jazeera television, bin Laden said insurgents should admit "mistakes" and that he even advises himself not to be extreme in his leadership.

So, will the cut-and-run-and-surrender crowd that has been crowing that the war is lost finally admit that it is not?

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It looks like the Holy Land Foundation case will need to be retried in Dallas, given yesterday's bizarre happenings when the verdict was read.

A deadlocked federal jury here did not convict any leaders of a Muslim charity who were charged with supporting Middle Eastern terrorists, and the judge today declared a mistrial in what has been widely viewed as the governmentÂ’s flagship terror-financing case.

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The case involved a total of 197 counts, including providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, years of investigation and preparation, almost two months of testimony and more than 1,000 exhibits, including documents, wiretaps, transcripts and videotapes dug up in a backyard in Virginia.

After 19 days of deliberations, the jury acquitted one of the five individual defendants on all but one charge, on which it deadlocked. A majority of the jurors also appeared ready to acquit two other defendants of most charges, and could not reach a verdict on charges against the two principal organizers and the foundation itself, which had been the largest Muslim charity in the United States until the government froze its assets in late 2001.

It seems pretty clear that this case will be tried again. Here's hoping that it is better presented to the jury with a clearer narrative that will bring about a conviction. After all, money is fungible -- therefore any money given to a terrorist organization has the effect of paying for terrorism, even if it is earmarked for "charitable" purposes.

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You know, if they really think that those who use it to go after terrorists are violating the Constitution and international law.

Beginning in 1995, the Clinton administration turned up the speed with a full-fledged program to use rendition to disrupt terrorist plotting abroad. According to former director of central intelligence George J. Tenet, about 70 renditions were carried out before Sept. 11, 2001, most of them during the Clinton years.

I'll take serious the Democrat complaints about rendition when they demand that Bill Clinton be turned over to an international court for prosecution.

Let's start pressing senior democrats on this point -- including the current front-runner for the Democrat nomination.

Heck, let's start asking how the Democrats can consider selecting a nominee known to be, by their standards, an international criminal and human rights violator.

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Explaining once again why "Palestine" can never be permitted to exist as a state -- and why the world needs to accept that the only viable solution to protect Israel is to remove the Terrorstinians from Gaza and the West Bank and resettle them around the Arab world.

Palestinian gunmen planned to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert when he came to the West Bank in August to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a security chief told Israel's Cabinet on Sunday, a meeting participant said.

Shin Bet security police director Yuval Diskin said gunmen loyal to Abbas' Fatah movement planned to attack Olmert's convoy as it entered the West Bank town of Jericho on Aug. 6. Israel notified Palestinian authorities and they arrested an unspecified number of Fatah militants, the participant said.

It was not clear why Israel, whose military operates freely in the West Bank, left it up to Palestinian security sources to apprehend would-be assassins if they thought Olmert's life was in danger — or why they allowed the trip to proceed.

Although the men admitted they planned the attack, the Palestinian Authority released them last week, the meeting participant said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose details of closed-door meetings.

This catch and release strategy for terrorists does not work -- and proves that none of the Terrorstinian leadership is serious about real peace.

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Most Americans are unfamiliar with "Azzam the American", a US citizen from California who is now an active member of al Qaeda and who serves as the terrorist group's spokesman. Well, thanks to the efforts of Senator Ron Wyden, this traitor who is in the highest echelons of the enemy we fight may not be wiretapped like any other terrorist leader due to his citizenship. The New York Times applauds this extension of protection to our enemies in time of war.

There were bright spots in the week. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon managed to attach an amendment requiring a warrant to eavesdrop on American citizens abroad. That merely requires the government to show why it believes the American is in league with terrorists, but Mr. Bush threatened to veto the bill over that issue.

No doubt these same people think the deaths of American soldiers in enemy hands because of warrant requirements is hunky-dory, too.

Analysis of th rest of the editorial from Jammie Wearing Fool, Riehl World View, The Van Der Galiën Gazette

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But the judge is out of town, so we have to wait until Monday to see if the case against these supporters of terrorism was proven beyond a reasonable doubt to the jury.

In an unusual twist in the closely watched and long-running trial of a Muslim charity accused of financing Palestinian terrorists, jurors reached a verdict on Thursday, but their decision was sealed until Monday because the presiding judge was out of town.

Paul D. Stickney, a magistrate judge who accepted the verdict from the jury forewoman about 3:15 p.m., said that he did not have the authority to read it and that it would remain sealed until the return of Chief Judge A. Joe Fish.

Judge Fish is at a conference in West Palm Beach, Fla., his office said in an e-mail message.

The jury spent 19 days considering 197 counts against the Holy Land Foundation, which at one time was the largest Muslim charity in the United States, and five of its organizers and supporters. The case is widely seen as a test of the governmentÂ’s tactics in trying to cut off what it says is American financial support for terrorist groups.

Here's hoping for a guilty verdict Monday morning, sending the clear message that funding terrorists will not be tolerated, whether directly or indirectly.

Next up -- indict the unindicted co-conspirators in this case, including CAIR.

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The best indictment of the Democrats and their obstructionist tactics on wiretapping for national security purposes during time of war that I have ever seen.

H/T Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, DANEgerus, Gateway Pundit, Riehl World View and Right on the Left Coast.

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After all, being the relative of an accused criminal – even a terrorist – does not make you part of a protected class.

The 12-year-old sister of a Fort Dix terror suspect alleges she was attacked at a township school in an apparent hate crime, an Islamic group said Monday.

The sister of Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, one of six men accused of plotting an attack on the Burlington County military installation, says she was choked and punched at Carusi Middle School in an incident last month, according to the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

The assailant allegedly said, "There's a terrorist on the loose," and told the girl, "Your brother will never come back," according to Afsheen Shamsi, a CAIR-NJ spokeswoman.

"It does seem that she was targeted because of the alleged plot that her brother had engaged in," said Shamsi. "It's really sad and terrible."

The civil-liberties group has scheduled a news conference today at its Princeton headquarters to demand that the FBI and state Office of Bias Crimes investigate the alleged attack and find and prosecute the assailant.

Now there is clearly an assault here, and it needs to be dealt with as such. But the attack seems to be based upon her brother’s involvement with the plot to kill American servicemen – not upon this girl’s race, ethnicity or religion, unless one wishes to argue that being a terrorist is part and parcel of being either an Arab or a Muslim. As such, there is no way to call this a hate crime.

More disturbing to me, however, is the fact that it has taken over three weeks for this to be reported to the authorities.

By the way, it is my hope that the attacker is correct in one of his comments – I hope that the terrorist scumbag never sees another day of freedom.

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Absolutely tragic -- but at least this terrorist scumbag didn't do greater damage to even more innocents.

A mother who tried to stop her son from carrying out a suicide bomb attack triggered an explosion in the family's home in southern Afghanistan that killed the would-be bomber, his mother and three siblings, police said Monday.

The would-be bomber had been studying at a madrassa, or religious school, in Pakistan, and when he returned to his home in Uruzgan province over the weekend announced that he planned to carry out a suicide attack, Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary said.

Surviving family members told police that the suicide vest exploded during a struggle between the mother and her son, said Juma Gul Himat, Uruzgan's police chief. The man's brother and two sisters were also killed.

Family members said the would-be bomber gave his family $3,600 before telling them he intended to carry out the attack, Himat said.

And another such bomber who lost his nerve accidentally detonated his vest while taking it off before turning himself into the police, resulting in only his own death. I'm curious -- does he still get his virgins?

Also, this information needs to be proclaimed worldwide -- after investigation of allegations against US troops in Afghanistan made recently, the following has been determined.

There was no desecration of the Quran or any religious symbol by U.S. forces.

Now, if the Muslim world would become more interested in the desecration of their faith by terrorists, the outrage over this non-incident could be directed to better ends.

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The US Constitution does not apply to those outside the US. And it certainly does not apply to enemies who are actively fighting our men and women in uniform. But a warped view of the Bill of Rights seems to have cost some soldiers their lives earlier this year.

In the early hours of May 12, seven U.S. soldiers - including Spc. Jimenez - were on lookout near a patrol base in the al Qaeda-controlled area of Iraq called the "Triangle of Death."

Sometime before dawn, heavily armed al Qaeda gunmen quietly cut through the tangles of concertina wire surrounding the outpost of two Humvees and made a massive and coordinated surprise attack.

Four of the soldiers were killed on the spot and three others were taken hostage.
A search to rescue the men was quickly launched. But it soon ground to a halt as lawyers - obeying strict U.S. laws about surveillance - cobbled together the legal grounds for wiretapping the suspected kidnappers.

Starting at 10 a.m. on May 15, according to a timeline provided to Congress by the director of national intelligence, lawyers for the National Security Agency met and determined that special approval from the attorney general would be required first.

For an excruciating nine hours and 38 minutes, searchers in Iraq waited as U.S. lawyers discussed legal issues and hammered out the "probable cause" necessary for the attorney general to grant such "emergency" permission.

Finally, approval was granted and, at 7:38 that night, surveillance began.
"The intelligence community was forced to abandon our soldiers because of the law," a senior congressional staffer with access to the classified case told The Post.

"How many lawyers does it take to rescue our soldiers?" he asked. "It should be zero."

Excuse me – the enemy on the field of battle does not have a right to the protection of the Constitution. He does not have a right to have a warrant issued before we intercept his phone calls, no matter where the hub is. And our soldiers do have a right to expect that the full range of American resources will be deployed to rescue them – and that does not include a battalion of attorneys to muck up the process and prevent prompt action.

Any new FISA legislation needs to make this clear. And if it does not, the President should veto it, and follow the precedents set by FDR to engage in intelligence gathering without warrants.

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We may be on the verge of defeating one of our major foes in Iraq -- the local al-Qaeda affiliate.

The U.S. military believes it has dealt devastating and perhaps irreversible blows to al-Qaeda in Iraq in recent months, leading some generals to advocate a declaration of victory over the group, which the Bush administration has long described as the most lethal U.S. adversary in Iraq.

But as the White House and its military commanders plan the next phase of the war, other officials have cautioned against taking what they see as a premature step that could create strategic and political difficulties for the United States. Such a declaration could fuel criticism that the Iraq conflict has become a civil war in which U.S. combat forces should not be involved. At the same time, the intelligence community, and some in the military itself, worry about underestimating an enemy that has shown great resilience in the past.

I'd rather not see a premature declaration of victory -- after all, there are other foes to be defeated in Iraq. But it is good to know that one of the worst is in the process of being crushed -- and it provides some hope that the rest are in similarly dire straights.

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Supporters of Islamist terrorism – and enemies of America.

Who Hates Americans? We Do.

                       Your typical American is:

                 Ã˜ A racist. A sexist. A homophobe.

                 Ã˜ An Islamo-phobe.

                 Ã˜ Is willing to invade other countries for oil and pleasure.

                 Ã˜ Is easily manipulated by Rush Limbaugh and Jews.

                 Ã˜ Is the cause of global warming.

Join Us For American Fascism Awareness Day

Place: Washington (Slaveholder) Monument

Date: November 31, 2007

Time: 12PM-2:00 PM

Speakers:

                                        Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, congressmen
                                        Adam Kokesh, Iraq War veteran
                                        Cindy Sheehan, Harry Karry, peace activists
                                        Michael Moore, Sean Penn, film-makers

Sponsors:

Peace and Social Justice Crusade, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Code Pink, Muslim Students Association, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Students for Justice in Palestine, Revolutionary Communist Party, International A.N.S.W.E.R., Moveon.org, DailyKos.com, Indy-Media.org, HuffingtonPost.com, Ivorypower.com

Shameful, disgusting – and reason enough for Ron Paul to be denounced by every other GOP candidate. I'd argue that appearing on this platform approaches -- if not crosses the line -- into treason.

And I'm curious -- will all the leftists and Jewish organizations who have been denouncing Ann Coulter for having the audacity to make a statement compatible with the Christian faith take note of and denounce the explicitly anti-Semitic statement -- which two of our members of Congress apparently endorse -- that "the Jews" are manipulating America?

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That isn't my assessment -- that is the assessment of the Washington Post. And while they insert a few weasel words to make it clear that they don't support the war or the policy, they do concede that those who claim violence and deaths are up are simply wrong.

The trend could change quickly and tragically, of course. Casualties have dropped in the past for a few weeks only to spike again. There are, however, plausible reasons for a decrease in violence. Sunni tribes in Anbar province that once fueled the insurgency have switched sides and declared war on al-Qaeda. The radical Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr ordered a cease-fire last month by his Mahdi Army. Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, the top day-to-day commander in Iraq, says al-Qaeda's sanctuaries have been reduced 60 to 70 percent by the surge.

This doesn't necessarily mean the war is being won. U.S. military commanders have said that no reduction in violence will be sustainable unless Iraqis reach political solutions -- and there has been little progress on that front. Nevertheless, it's looking more and more as though those in and outside of Congress who last month were assailing Gen. Petraeus's credibility and insisting that there was no letup in Iraq's bloodshed were -- to put it simply -- wrong.

Actually, what it indicates is that there are concrete US successes in Iraq, and that we can win if we maintain the will.

The question is, does America have the will to win. And more to the point, do the Democrats have the will to win if they are victorious in the 2008 elections.

H/T Don Surber, Captain's Quarters

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Via Liberty Papers, I read the following from Atlas Blogged.

Suppose the CIA wants to eavesdrop on Vladimir Putin. They donÂ’t need a warrant. They just listen in on his phone conversations and they are legally within bounds as far as US laws are concerned. Vladimir calls Kim Jong Ill, they listen in. Vladimir calls Osama bin Laden, they listen in. Everything is kosher so far. And then Vladimir calls me. The CIA does not have the legal authority to eavesdrop on my phone calls, but they do have the legal authority to eavesdrop on PutinÂ’s. Can they legally listen to that phone call Putin has with me? Keep in mind that domestic police can legally listen to RammageÂ’s call to me, despite having no legal authority to eavesdrop on my phone calls. The domestic police do not have to drop that call on account of my rights and run out and get another warrant, this one with my name on it, in order to listen in to the conversation with Rammage.

My argument on the matter is quite simple -- if the purpose is to listen to the party from abroad, then national intelligence agencies are well-within their bounds listening to calls made from abroad with parties in America. What's more, they are also well-within their bounds listening to calls from America to parties they are surveilling abroad. Only when the target of the surveillance is within America is a warrant needed -- and the warrants in such cases should be issued to the FBI, not the CIA or other intelligence agency.

Remember, the Constitution only applies in America, folks -- and not to our enemies abroad. Any incidental surveillance of calls to or from the US is permitted on the same basis that both sides of a call may be monitored under a search warrant.

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When terrorists attack from among civilians and US troops respond, whose fault is it when civilians die?

The American military said on Friday that it was vigorously investigating a Thursday evening airstrike on a stronghold of insurgent leaders northwest of Baghdad that also killed nine children and six women. The civilian toll is one of the highest to result from a single American military action since the beginning of the Iraq war.

Rear Adm. Greg Smith, an American military spokesman here, said the killings were “absolutely regrettable,” but blamed the enemy fighters for engaging American forces while using civilians as a shield.

“We do not target civilians,” the admiral said in an interview on Friday. “But when our forces are fired upon, as they are routinely, then they have no option but to return fire.”

By any definition, the US policy is absolutely correct. To argue otherwise is to legitimize hostage-taking and the use of human shields.

The terrorists could end most civilian casualties in Iraq by not using human shields and not targeting civilians with bombs. They choose not to do so because it would result in their military defeat -- and would deny their supporter in America fodder for false claims of war crimes with which to fight the propaganda war.

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Because after all, George Washington was known for intentionally targeting children with explosives hidden among toys.\

A bomb hidden in a cart of toys killed two children and wounded 17 others in a playground in northern Iraq on Friday, the first day of a national holiday to celebrate the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The attack came the day after U.S. forces killed nine children and six women in an air strike northwest of Baghdad targeting suspected al Qaeda leaders. The U.N. mission in Iraq urged U.S. forces to conduct a "vigorous" probe into the strike.

Police Colonel Abbas Mohammed said a would-be suicide bomber pushed the cart into a play area in the predominantly Shi'ite northern town of Tuz Khurmato. He said the bomber was wounded.

The town's mayor, Mohammed Rasheed, told Reuters two boys aged between 10 and 12 had died and another 17 people under the age of 18 had been wounded in the deadly attack.

Utterly despicable – and sadly typical of the civilized world fights.

I love the little moral equivalency dig in this piece, though. After all, the air strike was targeted at terrorists, with unfortunate civilian casualties. On the other hand, this attack was intentionally directed against the children of Baghdad. Anyone with a moral compass would recognize that the two incidents are not even remotely comparable – which may explain why the al-Reuters report includes such a comparison

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And so are turning against al-Sadr's Mahdi Army --to the benefit of American troops and the new Iraqi Army.

In a number of Shiite neighborhoods across Baghdad, residents are beginning to turn away from the Mahdi Army, the Shiite militia they once saw as their only protector against Sunni militants. Now they resent it as a band of street thugs without ideology.

The hardening Shiite feeling in Baghdad opens an opportunity for the American military, which has long struggled against the Mahdi Army, as American commanders rely increasingly on tribes and local leaders in their prosecution of the war.

The sectarian landscape has shifted, with Sunni extremists largely defeated in many Shiite neighborhoods, and the war in those places has sunk into a criminality that is often blind to sect.

In interviews, 10 Shiites from four neighborhoods in eastern and western Baghdad described a pattern in which militia members, looking for new sources of income, turned on Shiites.

But don't say that the Surge is working -- it might upset the liberals, who are in denial about that every bit as much as the Turks are about the Armenian genocide.

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There are times when the security of the nation trumps the right to take the government to court. That is a long-standing legal doctrine -- one which, interestingly enough, the liberals would love to see overturned by the Supreme COourt despite their new-found love of stare decisis and insistence that the Roberts court leave in place the precedents that came before.

Thus they are displeased at the decision by the Supreme Court not to hear a case of a foreign national allegedly taken into custody by American intelligence officials in another country and taken to a third country for interrogation without ever setting foot in America.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday terminated a lawsuit from a man who claims he was abducted and tortured by the CIA, effectively endorsing Bush administration arguments that state secrets would be revealed if the case were allowed to proceed.

Khaled el-Masri, 44, alleged that he was kidnapped by CIA agents in Europe and held in an Afghan prison for four months in a case of mistaken identity.

The administration has not publicly acknowledged that el-Masri was detained, and lower courts dismissed his suit after the administration asserted that state secrets would be revealed if the lawsuit were not blocked. The justices rejected his appeal without comment.

As I mentioned, liberals are apoplectic over the decision to respect precedent, though at least one lefty commentator is glad that the Supreme Court didn't take the case.

The only silver lining to this, I suppose, is that given the current composition of the Supreme Court it might be all for the best to keep it out of their hands. For all we know, they could have ended up expanding the government's power just as easily as they could have decided to limit it. For now, maybe we're better off with the status quo.

Oh, one minor detail -- the state secrets privilege grows out of a case decided by a Supreme Court composed entirely of FDR and Truman appointees. One would have thought that the Democrats would like that pedigree. But I guess not, at least not while George W. Bush is able to use it.

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Now they are resorting to Barbie-porn to try to get their asinine message across. Too bad they cannot be troubled to provide a single fact on behalf of their position -- but then again, there are none.

Oh -- I've just committed a felony according to the video. After all, I'm attempting to discredit the Truther Cult.

I guess that not all dissent is patriotism in their eyes.

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Because it threatens national security.

Which is why the Democrats will be upset. They want to harm national security for their own political purposes.

The head of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission declined to investigate reports that phone companies turned over customer records to the National Security Agency, citing national security concerns, according to documents released on Friday.

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin turned down a congressional request for an investigation as a top intelligence official concluded it would "pose an unnecessary risk of damage to the national security," according to a letter National Intelligence Director Michael McConnell sent to Martin on Tuesday.

After all, we have already seen public disclosures of sensitive information in the press that have aided the terrorists. The NY Times and Washington Post are required reading for Osama's intelligence assets. Al-Qaeda doesn't need to penetrate and subvert our nation's intelligence agencies, because the US media already has.

But I will agree with Democrat Ed Markey on one point.

"I believe the agency could conduct its own examination of such reports in a way that safeguards national security," Markey said in a statement.

And he is right -- the FCC could do so. the problem is that Markey and his fellow Democrats, or their staffs, would be quick to leak the report to the media, again allowing al-Qaeda to receive aid and comfort from the opponents of the war.

But let's be real clear about one point. The US government today is doing the exact sorts of things that the Roosevelt Administration did in the 1940s to defeat the Nazi menace. The difference is that the press and the Democrats are no longer on the side of the United States.

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But please understand -- they don't support terrorism.

Egypt's government is paying for the legal representation of a college student who authorities say was found with pipe bombs near a Navy base, an attorney said Wednesday.

Attorney John Fitzgibbons told a judge he was in talks with the Egyptian embassy in Washington and likely will be hired to represent suspended University of South Florida student Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed.

Ahmed el-Qawassni, an official in Egypt's foreign ministry, said the government is closely monitoring the case and confirmed that an attorney is being hired for Mohamed, who was born in Kuwait to Egyptian parents.

"We are responsible for the sons of Egypt abroad with no exception," el-Qawassni said.

Mohamed, 24, and another USF student, Youssef Samir Megahed, 21, are charged with carrying explosive materials across state lines.

Mohamed also is charged with distributing information relating to explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction. Authorities allege he made an Internet video showing how to use remote-controlled toys to detonate terrorist bombs.

Yeah, he was arrested with explosives, left writings indicating his support for terrorism, and even posted a terrorist-advocating video on YouTube that included bomb-making instructions -- but he isn't a terrorist.

And since the Egyptian government is responsible for "the sons of Egypt" abroad, let's assess them for any damage done to US interests by Egyptian-born terrorists.

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