Iraqi insurgents target Prince Harry, militia commander tells daily - Yahoo! News

Iraqi insurgents target Prince Harry, militia commander tells daily - Yahoo! News:

"Insurgents in
Iraq will seek to kidnap Prince Harry when the army sends him there, a commander of Iraq's biggest Shiite Muslim militia, the Mahdi Army, said in remarks published Saturday.

'One of our aims is to capture Harry, we have people inside the British bases to inform us on when he will arrive,' Abu Mujtaba, a commander in the southern city of Basra, told The Guardian.

'We have a special unit that would work to track him down, with informants inside the bases,' according to the commander of the militia led by radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, quoted by the newspaper."

The terrorists should read some history - Britain has a long history of using doubles to dupe enemies - I'll bet they're using this to find some of those operatives. Of course if terrorists were allowed to read whatever they wanted, they might have a change of heart . . . thus they're kept ignorant & angry.

A Cease-fire in our "war" with Europe?

American Thinker: A Cease-fire in the Transatlantic War?:

"Today's Saracens are on the threshold of acquiring nukes and missiles. Both Iranian and Wahhabi Islamists are true reactionaries, who seriously intend to turn the clock back to the 7th century --- in women's rights, democracy, free speech, tolerance, sexual freedoms, you name it. They don't like Europe any more than their forebears did in the 12th century. But they believe that Europe has grown lazy, corrupt and timid --- and therefore presents an easy target."
". . . the great blind spot of European thinking is failing to understand the rise of effective defenses against nuclear-armed missiles. Once we have workable defenses, there is no need for the frightening prospect of MAD any more."

There was a successful Aegis test overnight in the Pacific - 2 missiles coming from different directions were taken out by a single ship @ sea. The Muslim extremists can't afford to have a lot of missiles turn into debris fields while the West gathers it's nerve and decides to kill them.

"Western Europe exploited the Atlantic alliance to build a social welfare state that never even paid for its own defense --- the first duty of any society. The US therefore shielded Europe from attack, and in return Europe developed a hostile-dependent complex about Uncle Sam. Today's irrational anti-Americanism reflects the desperation of a continent hooked on the welfare state"

One wonders what they're learning in European history classes.

"Iran is now thought to be able to produce its first nuclear weapons in four years, with large-scale production perhaps a few years later. At any time, the government of Pakistan may be overthrown by Al Qaeda-style extremists, who have tried three times to assassinate General Musharraf. If they succeed, they would control their own nuclear arsenal. That would present us with both a Shiite and a Sunni Bomb within fifteen minutes flight of any Western capital. Other radicalized nations would find it easier to follow suit."

WMD have been found in Iraq, but you didn't need to know

The Spectator.co.uk:

"It’s a fair bet that you have never heard of a guy called Dave Gaubatz. It’s also a fair bet that you think the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has found absolutely nothing, nada, zilch; and that therefore there never were any WMD programmes in Saddam’s Iraq to justify the war ostensibly waged to protect the world from Saddam’s use of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.

Dave Gaubatz, however, says that you could not be more wrong. Saddam’s WMD did exist. He should know, because he found the sites where he is certain they were stored. And the reason you don’t know about this is that the American administration failed to act on his information, ‘lost’ his classified reports and is now doing everything it can to prevent disclosure of the terrible fact that, through its own incompetence, it allowed Saddam’s WMD to end up in the hands of the very terrorist states against whom it is so controversially at war."

It seems that to some people, the US government is always wrong, and always acts out of negative motives - even in stories supporting our actions.

Comments on Barack Obama

American Thinker Blog: Obama not ready for prime time?:

"Barack Obama apparently believes that the mass murder of 32 students and professors at Virginia Tech is on a par with the violence represented by outsourcing of American jobs. I kid you not. He actually made this comparison in his latest attempt at instant profundity on the meaning of it all. I don't think even Lou Dobbs would sink this low on the 'tragedy' of outsourcing.

To begin, Senator Obama seems utterly unaware that while some American jobs might be lost to outsourcing, many more are being created. The unemployment rate is 4.4% at the moment. For college grads, the jobless rate is 1.8%. Jobs are lost and jobs are gained. A record number of Americans are working. But 32 dead people in Blacksburg will not find a new life. Even under a President Obama.

The Senator also thinks that there is a kind of violence for the children in 'ignored communities' whose voices are not heard (define for me ignored communities, Senator), and there is verbal violence in Don Imus's 'nappy haired hos' comment. I suspect that the families of the 32 dead would have welcomed such verbal violence instead of the real violence that their loved ones were hit with. Insults or murder -- is that a choice of evils the Senator thinks are really comparable?

Senator Obama is demonstrating that he may not be ready for prime time. If you have nothing helpful or intelligent to say, sometimes it is better not to say anything."

I don't think this guy likes Barack Obama - how about you?

Dick Durbin, Barack Obama Tie Violence to Talk Radio

Dick Durbin, Barack Obama Tie Violence to Talk Radio: "the problem with what happened at Virginia Tech is this is not about America! This is not about common Americans or Americans in general. This is about a lone nutcase who slaughtered other people -- and any politician who would dare, as Obama has done, to go out and paint his fellow countrymen with such a stupid view doesn't deserve to lead us."

Pointing fingers @ Talk Radio

Dick Durbin, Barack Obama Tie Violence to Talk Radio:

"How could a guy like this get a gun? Well, now we know how: Nobody fingered the guy as a potential danger to the community! That's why."

The people on campus had the best view of Cho, but they didn't think he was dangerous enough to take further measures like getting him committed, or going (themselves) to another school after their one attempt in Dec 2005. He hid his feelings well enough to avoid further attention from the authorities.

"the problem with what happened at Virginia Tech is this is not about America! This is not about common Americans or Americans in general. This is about a lone nutcase who slaughtered other people -- and any politician who would dare, as Obama has done, to go out and paint his fellow countrymen with such a stupid view doesn't deserve to lead us."

Politicians need to get air-time to succeed. Commenting on current events is one way to get it. Sometimes they reveal more than they intended about themselves . . .

First Check The Facts before reporting the Worst ...

The Jawa Report: Down the Memory Hole...:

"the Virginia Tech shooting rampage, while tragic, was not 'the worst mass murder in U.S. history.' It wasn't the 'second worst mass murder in U.S. history,' or even the third, or the fourth.

The 9/11 attacks (2,998 deaths), the Oklahoma City bombing (168 deaths), the HappyLand arson (87 deaths) and the Bath, Michigan bombing (45 deaths) all claimed more victims than the Virginia Tech shootings (32 deaths).

But, as Vinnie noted yesterday, those events don't fit neatly into the anti-gun political agenda, so they need to go down the memory hole,"

nuf said