Blatant Reality

I always seem to get very nervous when known terrorist organizations support a political campaign. Call me old fashioned but when that happens, it’s normally a hint that I probably shouldn’t support them. So how do you think I feel about Presidential hopeful Barack Obama when I heard that Hamas recently endorsed him.

“I hope Mr. Obama and the Democrats will change the political discourse. … I do believe [Obama] is like John Kennedy, a great man with a great principal. And he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community, but not with humiliation and arrogance,” Yousuf said, speaking from Gaza

 

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Together with presidential candidates John McCain and Hillary Clinton, Obama called Hamas a “terrorist organization” that should remain isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel. Obama told reporters he opposed Carter’s meeting with Hamas.But Yousuf chalked up Obama’s statements to political posturing.

 

“I understand American politics and this is the season for elections and everybody tries to sound like he’s a friend of the Israelis … so whatever [the] Israelis didn’t like they will take from all those candidates,” he said.

 

Yousuf said that in Hamas’ view, Obama has “a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community but not with humiliation and arrogance.”

Note the highlighted segments above. Obama believes Hamas is a terrorist organization yet they still support him! In today’s world, terrorists need to be afraid of our president. Obama is going to be like that one kid who talks all tough in the school yard but everyone just laughs at him because they know they can trounce all over him any time they want.

Do you really want that kind of leader? I don’t.

(Hat Tip Right Wing News)

Well it seems that there might have been some sectarian violence in Iran today. A Baha’i church in Iran was bombed, killing at least 9 people.

A bomb exploded in a mosque in the southern Iranian city Shiraz on Saturday, killing at least nine people and wounding more than 100, Iranian media reported.

 

Ambulances rushed to the scene of the blast in a crowded district of the city, state television said.

 

“At least nine people were killed and 105 injured in the blast,” the semi-official Fars news agency quoting a local hospital official as saying.

 

The death toll was expected to rise because some of the wounded were in critical condition, the official said.

No one has come forward to claim the bombing yet the article does seem to think that the United States or Britain might of had a hand it in.

Slow news day + me being really busy = me posting my favorite IMAO article of the day. Read it. My favorite is the question about global warming.

Whats the difference between a terrorist and a person who likes to detonate things in public areas? A terrorist’s aim is to hurt people. The Basque terrorist group ETA seems to have forgotten how this terrorism stuff works. Instead of calling in 30 minutes after an explosion to claim it, they called 30 minutes before it detonated in order to warn people away.

State radio said ETA had issued a warning stating the location of the bomb and the make, model and colour of the car.

 

Media reported the police station and surrounding area had been cleared and cordoned off before the explosion.

 

State television said the warning had been received about 30 minutes before the explosion and there had been scenes of panic as the area around the police station was crowded with people attending a Holy Week religious procession.

Another murderer, this time “Chemical Ali,” is schedule to be executed within 30 days for his genocidal crimes against the Kurds.

Iraq’s Presidential Council endorsed the death sentence for Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as “Chemical Ali” for his role in the gassing of thousands of Iraqi Kurds during a 1988 campaign of genocide.

 

Al-Majid, a cousin of former President Saddam Hussein, will be executed within 30 days, President Jalal Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan said today on the party’s Web site. Talabani, a Kurd, is joined on the council by vice presidents Adel Abdul al-Mahdi, a Shiite Muslim, and Tareq al-Hashemi, a Sunni Muslim.

 

In June, the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Court convicted al-Majid of genocide and crimes against humanity. The death penalty also was handed down for his co-defendants, former Defense Minister Sultan Hashem Ahmed and the former associate army chief, Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti, who were found guilty of the same charges.

In order to try to stop troops from tracking them through their cell phones, the Taliban operating in Afghanistan have started to blow up telecommunication towers. Here is a perfect example of why terrorist aren’t the brightest crayons in the box. Rather than just disposing of their cell phones, they destroy these towers, thus gaining the populace’s animosity towards them. This really is a lose-lose situation for them. They lose ways to coordinate their attacks and lose potential allies in the villages.

Oh well, if this plan is an example of what the “best minds” of the Taliban came up with, I don’t think they will be around much longer. Plus, the Taliban seems to have forgotten this little fact:

Communications experts say the U.S. military has the ability, using satellites and other means, to pick up cell phone signals without the phone company’s help. Cell phones periodically send signals to the network even when they are not making calls.

Darn, I think those satellites might just a be a little out of reach for the Taliban. Well, as long as the Chinese don’t give them any help.

The associates of the people who learned how to fly commercial planes into buildings have been reduced to this. Just another example of how awesome our military is.

Two Pakistani Atomic Energy Commission workers were kidnapped yesterday along the Afghan border. This abduction came right after the Pakistani Ambassador to Afghanistan was reported missing. Pakistan has announced that it is starting to search for these missing men.

Pakistan has launched a massive search for the nation’s missing envoy to Afghanistan and two nuclear experts, who were abducted along with six others from the restive tribal area near Afghan border, foreign office said on Tuesday.

 

“Efforts are being made at all levels to find the missing ambassador”, Foreign Office Spokesman Muhammad Sadiq said…

 

Two officials of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) along with six others were also kidnapped on Monday by unidentified gunmen from a troubled northwestern area near the Afghan border.

 

“The PAEC officials Ziaullah and Bisaat Khan were kidnapped yesterday by unidentified armed men in Sheikh Badin area adjacent to the Lakki Marwat and Dera Ismail Khan districts,” local police chief Akbar Nasir earlier said.

Connected? I don’t know. But it does seem a little too coincidental.

According to the Washington Post, military prosecutors are going to seek the death penalty for six terrorists accused of the September 11 attacks.

In a news conference, Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann, a Defense Department legal adviser, said the six, including alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, are charged with conspiracy, murder in violation of the law of war, attacking civilians and terrorism, among other offenses. He said a charge sheet details 169 overt acts alleged to have been committed by the defendants and uncharged co-conspirators in furtherance of the Sept. 11 plot…

 

Hartmann said Mohammed is accused of being “the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks,” which he allegedly proposed to bin Laden as early as 1996. According to the charges, he obtained the funding for the plot and oversaw the entire operation, including the training of the hijackers in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

 

the trials will be “as open as possible,” Hartmann said, and the accused will have the right to call their own witnesses, cross-examine prosecution witnesses and see the evidence presented against them.

 

“There will be no secret trials,” he said. “Every piece of evidence, every stitch of evidence, every whiff of evidence that goes to . . . the military tribunal will be reviewed by the accused, subject to confrontation, subject to cross- examination, subject to challenge. . . .”

I say if they are found guilty, they do deserve the death penalty. However, I have a feeling that my opinion won’t be the one heard in the coming months.

Today, Pakistan arrested two men in connection with the assassination of Bhutto last December.

Pakistani investigators arrested two men in connection with the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, the Interior Ministry said.

 

The men were arrested today in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where Bhutto was assassinated in a shooting and suicide bomb attack on Dec. 27, ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said in a telephone interview. An investigating team of police and intelligence officials is interrogating the suspects, he said.