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Since we already have proof that Hezbollah is operating on our southern border, maybe the situation should become more than just a “concern”, and we should actually do something to seal the border with Mexico. Which is more important, Democrats, the Hispanic vote, or the lives of Americans in border states and the infiltration of Islamic terrorists into the country? Never mind. Politics and votes always come before human life with a Democrat.

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton voiced her concerns on Wednesday over intelligence reports that Latin American drug cartels are closely linked with Hezbollah and Iran, many within the U.S. law enforcement community were grateful that Obama Administration officials were finally acknowledging what cops already knew.

Acknowledging it and doing something about it are two entirely different things. Progressives rarely do the first, and almost never bother with the second.

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This makes me about as mad as I ever get over news. Obama is cutting troops pay, and just recently announced he’ll be cutting healthcare for our military and vets, but the animals at Guantanamo are getting a new, larger soccer field, a walking trail, and new exercise equipment. We wouldn’t want the terrorists to get bored, or out of shape. The same people that have killed our troops are getting a “pay raise”, while our troops get cuts. We need to give Obama a giant pay cut…right out of office.

Some prisoners at Guantanamo Bay will soon have a new, larger soccer field to help keep them occupied…

The U.S. military has nearly completed a new recreation yard in Camp 6, the camp where more than 80 percent of the 171 prisoners are held. Besides a soccer field, it will have a walking trail and exercise equipment. Screened fences block the view of the nearby Caribbean Sea.

That’s $750,000 down the Muslim Terrorist toilet. Our President is out of touch with reality, and pure evil. Is it any wonder God’s blessing has seemingly been lifted from this once great country?

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What really worries me about these threats from Iran, as well as reports of a weakened China, more threats from Russia, and a “nuclear energy” deal between Russia and Saudi Arabia, is that history seems to be repeating itself. I don’t mean to say that very specific things are happening as they did in the past, but that the world tends to handle crisis the same way, and in cycles whereby they never learn from previous mistakes. Global economic crises tend to lead to global war. Like it or not, war creates a lot of jobs for some and can shore up the economy, again, for some. I hope that’s not where we’re headed, but it would sure fit the scenario outlined in Ezekiel, and the similarities are far beyond what one might consider just coincidental.

Underscoring its desire to keep U.S. aircraft carriers from the Persian Gulf, a senior Iranian military commander today announced his possible plan to ambush the American fleet.

Chalk this one up to more bluster, or part of a mounting back and forth rhetoric headed nowhere good, either way – Tehran plans to rely on its subs.

Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army’s Self-Sufficiency Jihad, Rear Admiral Farhad Amiri told Fars that Iran has the finest electic diesel submarines in the world, and that while the U.S. has focused on Tehran’s “astonishing surface capabilities,” it has forgotten about the underwater threat.

Amiri said he plans to slip his fleet of subs onto the Persian Gulf floor and “fire missiles and torpedoes simultaneously.”

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This is Barrack Obama’s idea of fighting a war. First you fight and detain the enemy that is killing our soldiers, then you negotiate with that same enemy and let the prisoners go. Whatever happened to not negotiating with terrorists? We HAVE to unseat this dictator in chief in 2012.

Washington Post opinion writer Marc A. Theissen has published a list of the Taliban leaders President Obama is reportedly planning to release from Guantanamo Bay detention center — and their rap sheets just might (or not) shock you.

The Obama administration is allegedly considering the release of these senior Taliban leaders as part of a deal to bring the militant Islamist group to engage in peace talks. According to Theissen, if Obama does in fact proceed with the release, he will do “tremendous harm” to U.S. national security “and to his prospects for reelection this fall.”

It only took a week for Iran to start interfering in Iraq. But, at least Obama will be able to say he fulfilled at least one of his campaign promises. This can only end badly.

Iran stands ready to expand its military and security ties with Iraq, its armed forces chief of staff said Sunday, a week after the exit of US forces from the neighbouring Arab country.

General Hassan Firouzabadi hailed the “forced departure” of the US and allied forces that he said “was due to the resistance and determination of the Iraqi people and government,” the state Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

The statements were made in messages Firouzabadi sent to his Iraqi counterpart, Lieutenant General Babaker Zebari, and to Iraq’s acting defence minister, Saadun al-Dulaimi, IRNA said.

The departure of the US troops “was due to the resistance and determination of the Iraqi people and government,” he said.

“I hope the humiliating failure of the United States after nine years of occupying Iraq will serve as a lesson for them to never think of attacking another country,” he said.

I pray that four years of this weak President are all we have to endure.

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The remains of U.S. soldiers were disposed of by cremation and dumping the remains in a landfill. It’s hard to believe our government, or our military commanders, could be that insensitive and callous, especially when you consider that Osama Bin Laden got a well planned, Muslim burial at sea. I doubt any of his body parts were tossed in a landfill. Someone in our government has a seriously screwed up sense of loyalty and duty to country, not to mention a malfunctioning moral compass. Perhaps the same person who admits his own disdain for Israel’s Prime Minister, and handles her enemies with kid gloves. You have to admit, a pattern emerged from the first days and weeks of his term in office. He bowed before Muslim leaders, tried to befriend the completely insane President of Iran, and then sent our troops into a third and fourth war, and sanctioned, at some level of his administration, dumping the remains of casualties from those wars in a landfill.

An Air Force official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that families had granted the military authorization to deal with any residual remains, but acknowledged they had not been made aware those remains would end up in a landfill.

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“I’m deeply troubled by the reports about what’s happened at the mortuary at the Dover Air Force Base. And I’m sure you would agree with me, this is outrageous that remains of our soldiers would be put in a landfill,” said Senator Kelly Ayotte.

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Iran’s supreme leader has warned Israel and the United States that Tehran would respond with “a strong slap and iron first” if either launched a military strike aimed at crippling the country’s nuclear programme.

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was speaking two days after the United Nations atomic agency released a report that for the first time said Iran was conducting experiments whose sole purpose was the development of nuclear arms.

“The enemies, particularly the United States and its pawns and the Zionist regime, should know that the Iranian nation does not seek to invade any country or nation,” he said, addressing officers at a military academy in Tehran.

Oh, no, of course not. Iran has completely pure intentions and would never “wipe Israel off the map”! Why are dictators so unaware of how moronic their statements sound to the rest of the educated world?

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Isn’t that Arab Spring just great? If Michelle and Barrack weren’t so busy worrying about our fat (while eating hamburgers at every eating establishment they pass on the campaign trail), maybe they could worry a bit about women’s rights in the ever increasing number of Shariah compliant countries.

The transitional government leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil set out a vision for the post-Gadhafi future with an Islamist tint, saying that Islamic Sharia law would be the “basic source” of legislation in the country and that existing laws that contradict the teachings of Islam would be nullified.

But, I thought the Arab Spring was about liberation and democracy?? I’m being sarcastic here.

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Wow. We really won some friends and influenced people in Afghanistan. I’m not saying the war wasn’t justified after 9/11, but it’s a good lesson in not trusting Islamists. No matter what you do for them, they’ll still chant “death to America” and follow through on that sentiment when the chips are down.

Afghanistan would support Pakistan in case of military conflict between Pakistan and the United States, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in an interview to a private Pakistani TV channel broadcast on Saturday.

The remarks were in sharp contrast to recent tension between the two neighbors over cross-border raids, and Afghan accusations that Pakistan was involved in killing the chief Afghan peace envoy, former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani, by a suicide bomber on September 20.

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Our President praised the, so called, “Arab Spring” as if it were a revolution of freedom and liberty for the Muslim people in the Middle East and beyond. Either he thinks Shariah Law and Islamic enslavement are a good idea, or he’s woefully misinformed 99% of the time. Perhaps both.

I wasn’t a big fan of George Bush’s economic policies, but at least he new what democracy was, and would have tried to spread true democracy, rather than encourage the takeover of Islamic governments by terrorist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood. If you’ve bought into the media’s spin regarding the MB, a little research should quickly change your mind. They are linked to several Islamic terrorist groups, most notably Al Qaeda. No wonder the current administration won’t even utter the words “War on Terror”, or Islam and terrorism in the same sentence. We’re entering scary times, folks.

Tunisians are electing a 217-seat assembly that will draft a constitution and appoint an interim government.

Former President Zinedine el-Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown nine months ago after mass demonstrations.

Islamist party Ennahda is expected to win the most votes, though it is not clear if it will gain a majority.

Mr Ben Ali fled Tunisia on 14 January amid the first of several mass uprisings across the Arab world.

Don’t believe the spin the MSM is peddling. The Islamist groups predicted to win a sizable influence in the government of Tunisia are NOT “moderates”. Hence the label “Islamists”.

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More info on the increasing power of Islamists as a result of “Arab Spring”.

Glenn Beck was right again. The Socialists, Communists, and Anarchists that make up the OWSies have a great deal in common with the Islamists and Islam’s controlling Shariah Law. It makes sense that they’ll begin to unite under the same banner. Leftists always side with the “freedom fighter”. It’s sort of a “their enemy is my friend” kind of thing.

CAIR Holds Islamic Prayers at Occupy Wall Street

“many of the demands of Occupy Wall Street parallel those of the New York Muslim community.”

And the demands and goals of Islamic terrorists, I might add. Why do you think they slammed planes into buildings in NEW YORK? They would love to collapse the U.S. economic system (a stated goal of the owsies), and Osama Bin Laden said as much many times in his sermons and dictates to his terrorist minions.

Maybe if the White House lies enough, they can at least pretend they established their desired, socialist utopia under Obama. If our terrorism units don’t understand Islam, they’re fighting the War on Terror blind, and with their hands tied behind their backs. Islam is what feeds the Islamic terrorist’s blood lust. Just read the Koran, and it’s obvious. If you’re more ambitious than the current blissfully ignorant administration (or don’t want to hide the truth), read the Haddith as well, or peruse the Islamists’ “terrorist porn” websites. Why do you think the terrorists yell Allah hu Akbar just before they slaughter innocent civilians? Because they are doing it for Allah in the name of Islam, and they aren’t afraid to admit it!

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The Taliban was created by Iran to be the militant faction that would head the Islamic Caliphate in Afghanistan, yet our Secretary of State is currently in Afghanistan urging Karsai to continue the “reconciliation process” with these terrorists. Why did we fight this war? Apparently, it was so that our government could help Iran make a new Caliphate possible. Karsai is understandably frustrated by this U.S. policy, considering the recent assassinations within his administration. Americans should be equally as angry at a policy of appeasement and reconciliation with the very terrorists that have killed or maimed hundreds of our troops.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Afghanistan to encourage President Hamid Karzai to continue efforts to reconcile with the Taliban.

Mr Karzai has expressed frustration at the process after the assassinations of several key Afghan leaders.

US officials say Mrs Clinton also wants to convince Afghans that Washington is committed to a long-term relationship with their country.

The US is planning to withdraw troops and hand over security to the Afghans.

“She wants to signal US support for a secure and stable Afghanistan,” a US official told journalists travelling with Mrs Clinton.

Her visit to Afghanistan was not announced until she arrived in Kabul late on Wednesday.

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“She wants to emphasise that the United States remains committed to Afghan reconciliation and will support President Karzai in his efforts, recognising the difficulties that process has undergone since the assassination of [Burhanuddin] Rabbani,” the official added.

Burhanuddin Rabbani was a former Afghan president tasked with trying to reconcile the Taliban with Mr Karzai’s US-backed government. He was killed last month by a suicide bomber posing as a Taliban envoy.

Just maybe, when the person appointed to make this reconciliation work gets assassinated by the people he’s trying to make peace with, it might be advisable to RETHINK YOUR POLICY.

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Is it any wonder Iran is attempting terrorist attacks on U.S. soil? Obama is releasing Iranians from custody with, I’m sure, even more contempt for the U.S., and ready to do their worst. The man will never understand that kissing up to terrorists doesn’t make them change their ways, it makes them aware of just how weak and unwilling to fight the war on terror you are. Oh, but let’s protest the workers on Wall Street instead of the weakling making the policies from the White House. Maybe the occupiers are counting on their mounds of refuse to repel any terrorist attacks on New York.

Through a Freedom of Information Act request, CNSNews.com has just reported that during fiscal years 2009 and 2010, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehended and released “at least 28 Iranian nationals inside the United States.” As is all-too common with the federal government’s practice of ‘catch and release,’ they all became fugitives when they failed to show for their immigration court hearings.

Obama’s Homeland Security Department not only released the two dozen Iranians caught under their watch, but also two who had been detained while George Bush was president.

Twenty-one of the Iranian fugitives were originally caught in the border states of Texas, Arizona and California.

How many object lessons do we need before we get serious about sealing our borders??

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Why does this not surprise me? Surrender Monkeys?

France is set to pull out nearly 200 troops from Afghanistan in a few hours, kickstarting withdrawals announced three months ago by Paris….

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If our leaders, especially our President, don’t wake up to the threat posed by Iran, we’ll be experiencing first hand what Israelis deal with every day.

FBI and DEA agents have disrupted a plot to commit a “significant terrorist act in the United States” tied to Iran, federal officials told ABC News today.

The officials said the plot included the assassination of the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, Adel Al-Jubeir, with a bomb and subsequent bomb attacks on the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, D.C.

Bombings of the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Buenos Aires, Argentina, were also discussed, according to the U.S. officials.

The stunning allegations come against a backdrop of longstanding tensions between Iran and the United States and Saudi Arabia. In the last year, Saudi Arabia has attempted to build an anti-Iran alliance to push back against perceived aggression by Iran in the region.

It doesn’t get any more real than that.

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Some Arab Spring our fearless leader likes to brag about. Only in Islam would afternoon prayers consist of 20 mosques telling their sheeple to burn down a Coptic Christian church, burn down Christian’s houses and loot them, and then kill Christians, too. This is what happens when Islamists take over a country. They’ve been doing it for over 1400 years, and in their minds the crusades never ended. To add insult to injury, our government has been meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood and promises to keep open communications with them. Why don’t they meet with Al Qaeda while their at it. The Muslim Brotherhood created Al Qaeda, so they might as well. I wonder how Israel feels about that move. Probably, much like they’ve joined the rest of us under Obama’s bus.

While our troops are dying to protect Muslims in Afghanistan from their own club of murdering maniacs, our President does nothing about the extermination of Christians going on in Egypt. I take that back, he does do something. He praises their move toward democracy. The “democracy” that MB leaders don’t believe in. It’s Shariah law in action folks. It could be anyone of us in the future. When will America learn that what happens over there can happen here. It’s not like they aren’t working toward the same result here, and around the world.

Lord help the Christians in Iraq, Egypt, Afghanistan, and wherever the next Islamic revolution breaks out.

Michael Ramzy, a villager in Elmarenab, said the attack started shortly after Muslims held their afternoon prayers.

“Imams in more than 20 mosques called for crowds to gather and destroy the church and demolish the houses of the Copts and loot their properties,” Ramzy told local media.

The Mar Gerges burning is the third church in Egypt in seven months to be burned down by a mob.

Sounds like Arab HELL to me.

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So, is anyone out there still buying the Left’s delusion that the “Arab Spring” is a wonderful thing? Look closer and you’ll see that it’s more of an Arab Winter for the non-extremist Jew haters. While Hollywood wanabees, and Lefty bloggers celebrate the new “democracy” and “freedom” in Egypt, Egypt’s leaders are making them look like useful idiots by saying things like, “democracy is a retarded idea”. Make no mistake, Shariah law and Islamic fundamentalism are alive and well in Egypt, and they are the fuel that feeds the protests in that country.

If any Christians out there are buying into the Utopic lie the administration is selling, perhaps influential Egyptian Shaykh Safwat Hegazy will clear things up for you. At the heart of the Egyptian uprising is this:

“Jerusalem belongs to us, and the whole world belongs to us.” He states the Islamic caliphate will return, and that “every land upon which Islam has set foot will return to us.” He makes poignant references to Qurayza and Khaybar, which are clear threats against the Jews, and also states, “we will kill anyone who has polluted the al-Aqsa Mosque.”

The new Egyptian leaders, all members of the Muslim Brotherhood, are not the good guys we’re being told they are. Obviously, in true Hitler-like fashion, they want to kill all of the Jews. That’s nothing Iran hasn’t said 100 times. It’s important to realize, however, that the Arabs are engaged in a global movement, not a strictly regional one. If you can muster no sympathy for the Jews, Christians, and Muslims living in Israel, perhaps it will mean more when the target moves closer to home. I know I’m preaching to the choir in many cases, here. But, there are a growing number of people in America who get no news that the government doesn’t want you to hear. It’s those people these quotes and facts are intended to reach. Hegazy will likely be a key player in Egypt’s future. Before you buy into the media spin, watch this 2009 video of Hegazy’s vision for the world. His views haven’t changed a bit, and he is not leading a peaceful democracy movement in the Middle East. His own words prove this. If you’re asking why we should care? Once again, because, it’s a global movement, not a state, or regional one.

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A very dark period is dawning on this world. It’s nothing new for Christians to be murdered for their faith, especially in Islamic countries, but when do you remember a time when it was national news and no one cared. Iran openly admits they are going to behead a man for being Christian, yet the MSM pretends they are ignorant of the tragedy, while the rest of the civilized world sits by and waits. Some effort is being made on his behalf, sure, but nothing like you would see if it were a Muslim in the United States sentenced to death for being Muslim. I fear, just like Hitler’s campaign of mass murder, mankind will recognize the pure evil, and barbarism of Islam’s fascist leaders far too late to save the many lives that will be lost to this kind of insanity.

While on the subject of Iran, does it bother anyone that Iran is also announcing the deployment of its navy to U.S. waters in response to our presence in waters close to Iran? Granted, their navy looks like toy boats compared to the full force of the United States Navy. However, it’s a giant step toward collaborating with Venezuela or Cuba to use an EMP, Dirty bomb, or, God forbid, a nuke on American soil. Obama is exactly the kind of President rouge dictators dream of. He’s far too busy bowing to Islamic leaders, and giving pep talks to the Muslim world to protect this country. I certainly hope Americans vote smart in the next election.

Pray for Yousef Nadarkhani and make sure your churches and political leaders know about this tragic situation.

CSW is urgently calling for action on behalf of Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani who faces execution anytime from Thursday onwards after refusing to renounce his faith.

Pastor Nadarkhani is currently on trial in Rasht. He has appeared in court three times this week and each time has refused to renounce his faith when asked to do so by the court.

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Can we stop calling Pakistan an ally now? I think it’s pretty obvious they were helping Usama hide in their country, but they will track down and arrest our covert CIA agents, as well as any Pakistani who helped the CIA track the animal down. Weren’t we told on a regular basis that Pakistan was doing wonderful things to help us round up and bring the terrorists and Taliban to justice? I wonder more every day whose side the man in the White House is on. One thing is certain – he’ll say anything to get reelected, especially if it makes Muslim countries look good, and the United States look bad.

The Times said that at a closed briefing last week, members of the Senate Intelligence Committee asked Michael Morell, the deputy CIA director, to rate Pakistan’s cooperation with the United States on counterterrorism operations, on a scale of 1 to 10.

“Three,” Morell replied, according to officials familiar with the exchange, the newspaper said.

Now, suddenly, the Pakistani “help” in the war on terror is rated only a 3 out of 10. And, isn’t it interesting that the ISI could’t find Usama Bin Laden while he was living right next door to their headquarters, yet they can find a CIA safe-house immediately. This world is seriously screwed up.

Apparently President Obama is just ignorant of history and military tactics, or he really does side with the Muslim rioters who can’t wait to wipe Israel off the map. Why such a harsh accusation? Because everything he HAS done and everything he WANTS to do, bring the Arab world closer and closer to their stated goal of wiping out the Jewish state.

Case in point: Obama wants to create a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders. This would be like recreating Mexico to include the southern United States.

Many wars were fought in this world’s past, and it shapes the borders we live within today. Why should Israel give back the land they won; the very land that gave the Arabs a strategic advantage in the first place (the Golan Heights and West Bank) to attack them. The Arabs LOST that war, and every other war they’ve launched against the Jewish nation. Losing wars have consequences, especially when they are the result of an unprovoked attack by a bunch of barbaric murders that have historically slaughtered men women and children of other faiths throughout history.

Allow me to sum up. The Arabs attack Israel in 67, they get their butts handed to them, Israel gains the land that the Arabs used to launch their attack (like every other country that has been the victor in a war), and now that the Arabs are working together and with Russia to prepare for another attack, our Socialist, anti-Israel, pseudo Christian, pro Social Justice President wants Israel to give back the land that gave the Arabs their biggest advantage in previous attacks.

America, If we don’t vote this Godless man out of office in 2012, we’re in big trouble. It is our friendship with, and support of Israel that has made us a blessed nation for 200 years. It’s also the right thing to do.

By GIL HOFFMAN – The Jerusalem Post

Danon, Ben-Ari outraged by US president’s call for creation of Palestinian state on ’67 lines; Livni says plan in Israel’s interests.

Knesset members on the Right expressed outrage on Thursday night at US President Barack Obama’s call for the creation of a Palestinian state based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps in an exchange of territory for security.

They called upon Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to reject Obama’s plan when he meets with him on Friday in Washington.

“Barack Hussein Obama adopted the staged plan for Israel’s destruction of Yasser Arafat, and he is trying to force it on our prime minister,” said Likud MK Danny Danon. “All that was new in the speech was that he called for Israel to return to 1967 borders without solving the crisis. Netanyahu has only one option: To tell Obama forget about it.”

With the media’s fine job of releasing as much classified information as possible, and the Obama’s administration demonstrating their lack of experience by providing the enemy large data dumps from the mother load of intel gained in the Osama raid.

Couldn’t the man given our intelligence community even a day, or maybe a week, to find and act on all of that actionable intelligence? The White House gave our enemies a huge break by allowing them time to cover their tracks, and throw out the old Al Qaeda training manual. I fear our antisemitic liberal friends will soon find out what it’s like to be a Jew in Israel.

Though al Qaeda has primarily focused on large-scale coordinated attacks since the tragic events of Sept. 11, including the attempted downing of several commercial airliners, the terrorist organization and its allies are increasingly likely to attempt small-scale attacks in the U.S., senior Obama administration officials said Wednesday. These less intricate attacks—like the plot against New York’s subway system and the failed car bombing in Times Square—are harder to detect. The threat has increased with the rise of al Qaeda-affiliated groups in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, and with the higher number of American terrorists inspired by terrorist ideology. “The spike in homegrown violent extremist activity during the past year is indicative of a common cause that rallies independent extremists to want to attack the homeland,” said Michael Leiter, director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

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Haven’t the liberal elites been telling us since 9/11 that Islam is a peaceful religion? Haven’t they also insisted this isn’t a religious war? I don’t think the Islamists got the message. I can’t imagine a worse time to have a president in office who can’t even use the word war, especially in the same sentence with the word terror.

Sadly, I can’t imagine our weak president protecting Christians in the same way he’s coming to the rescue of the “rebels” (aka Jihadists who fought our soldiers in Iraq not that long ago) in Libya.

I knew the prophetic clock was ticking loudly, I just didn’t expect things to happen this fast. His time is not our time, that’s for certain.

I thought this paragraph from the article was particularly absurd, and somewhat amusing, if it weren’t so tragic.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the threats. However suspected Islamic militants who killed Bhatti in Islamabad left leaflets at the scene saying terror group al-Qaida and the Pakistani Taliban Movement in Punjab province would kill all those openly opposing the legislation.

The terrorists left leaflets, but it wasn’t immediately clear who was behind the threats. It must have been one of those radical Amish groups in the U.S. You know how the Amish are. They’re always blowing themselves up, and killing innocents in every country on the planet. For the kool aid drinkers, that last bit was sarcasm.

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War, it seems, is okay, as long as a Democrat is in the White House. Where are all the moonbats with their “no war for oil” and “make love not war” signs? Perhaps they’re sitting this one out because they know the “rebels” we’re siding with were once in Iraq fighting our troops – siding with Saddam in that “unjust war”. Or, maybe they see the “rebels” worth defending because most of them have ties to Islamic militant groups. Code Pink must be ecstatic that what they started (in partnership with the Muslim Brotherhood) in Egypt, is spreading across the whole Middle East. Keep looking up, folks. Prophecy fulfillment is going to be moving faster than some might have thought, as we get closer to the tribulation.

The US, Britain and France pounded Libya with air strikes and Tomahawk missiles on Saturday, sparking a furious response from Moamer Kadhafi who said the Mediterranean had now become a “battlefield.”

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Isn’t it interesting that we’re still in Iraq, and Obama is stepping back from his 2011 withdrawal date for Afghanistan, yet we hear nothing from the anti-war crowd in the U.S. No one is camped outside Obama’s residence in protest of the war. There are no burnings of Obama in effigy. Not a peep. The sheeple on the left aren’t really anti-war, they’re just anti-republican….a movement with no real principals, values, or morals. Sheep.

The Obama administration has decided to walk away from what it once touted as key deadlines in the Afghanistan war in an effort to de-emphasize the president’s pledge that he would begin withdrawing U.S. forces in July 2011, administration and military officials said Tuesday.

The new policy will be on display next week during a NATO conference in Lisbon, Portugal, where the administration hopes to introduce a timeline that calls for the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan by 2014, according to three senior officials and others speaking anonymously as a matter of policy. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said Afghan troops could provide their security by then.

The Pentagon also has decided not to announce specific dates for handing security responsibility for several Afghan provinces to local officials and instead intends to work out a more vague definition of transition…

Suddenly Obama understands the stupidity of announcing to your enemy when you plan to leave. Things look a whole lot different when you’re the one in charge I guess. Too bad more Congress critters don’t understand this.

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It looks like we saved a bunch of Iraqis from the hell of living under Saddam Hussein so Muslim terrorists could declare open season on Christians. In a post on the internet the terrorist group responsible for this latest bombing of a Christian church, as well as previous attacks, has promised an all out war on minority Christians in Iraq. Most Christians have already had to flee their Iraqi homeland because America did little to protect them after major combat operations ended. Lets pray that policy changes, and our forces start protecting the Christian communities and churches in Iraq. Iraq may be an Islamic state, but Christians have historic ties to the land that go back long before Muhammad concocted his murderous religion.

A series of bomb blasts targeting Christians in Baghdad has killed at least three people and injured two dozen more, security sources have said.

At least 14 roadside bombs were detonated and a mortar round was fired in Christian districts across the Iraqi capital last night and early this morning.

An interior ministry source told Reuters that the attacks were a “continuation” of the massacre at Our Lady of Salvation church which killed dozens of worshippers last week.

According to one report, today’s bombings targeted the family of one of the victims of the massacre.

The Islamic State of Iraq – an al-Qaeda front group – claimed responsibility for the Baghdad church attack and warned in a message published on militant websites that more attacks would follow. “We will open upon them the doors of destruction and rivers of blood,” the statement said.

The latest bombings follow protests by Iraqi Christians in Sweden, Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, Germany and America who urged the Iraqi government to do more to protect the country’s minorities.

About 300 protesters at the “Black March” in London called on Britain to remember its historic debt to Iraq’s Aramaic-speaing Assyrian Christians, who fought alongside Britain in two world wars.

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Well, there’s a new angle. Obama thinks a mosque at ground zero will deal a blow to the Al Qaida terrorists. It doesn’t surprise me that the Kenyan would defend a victory mosque on hallowed ground, but it does sicken me. Muslims have a long history of converting Christian churches to Mosques after they conquer and slaughter the Christians who used said church, as well as erecting new mosques on ground conquered in battle. The Temple Mount is just one example of this practice.

I feel sorry for the families and loved ones of the victims of 9/11, and find it appalling that their wishes have been totally dismissed. After all, they suffered the greatest loss on 9/11. Sadly, that’s far too much to expect from a President who’s first speeches, after being elected, were made in an extended apology tour directed at our enemies in the war on terror.

An organization tied to the Obama administration and to philanthropist George Soros has strongly backed the planned Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero, slamming opponents as “intolerant” and acting against the U.S. Constitution.

The organization also claimed the Cordoba Initiative’s 13-story, $100-million mosque project will “deal a blow to the propaganda of al-Qaida and Islamist extremists.”

Recent polls show an overwhelming majority of the U.S. public opposes the mosque plans.

How interesting that George Soros is involved in yet another scandalous act by the Obama administration. At least Obama is consistent. He consistently ignores the will of the American people, putting his ideology ahead of everything.

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Wow! Even some Democrat Congress critters actually understand that announcing a time table for withdrawing our troops from Afghanistan is a bad idea. Apparently some of them are smart enough to know that the Taliban watches the news, too. I’m sure Achmed and his buddies did a happy dance around their internet feed when Obama announced in the same sentence, his plans to spend months positioning our troops in theater, only to turn around and spend months sending them home. He was even kind enough to give them an exact date for their departure. Even an illiterate, blood thirsty terrorist can figure out that hunkering down for a while might be a good move in that situation. Sadly, our hopey/changey Commander in Chief will probably be taken by surprise when we hand over the reigns to the Afghans on the way out the door, and the Taliban promptly comes out of hiding to kill anyone who fought along side the Americans for the last year. Democrats never learn, but I bet the people of Afghanistan have. Pray for our troops.

A mixed message delivered by President Obama about America’s plans in Afghanistan have drawn a mixed reaction from members of the military who shortly may be on the ground receiving and giving orders to fight the Taliban.

Obama’s address last night at the U.S. military academy at West Point outlined plans to place an additional 30,000 troops on the ground in Afghanistan, but he also announced a timetable for removing them.

He now must sell the idea to Congress, which holds the purse strings.

The plan immediately drew concerns from both Democrats and Republicans. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said Obama’s “mixed signals” already have undermined the chances for success of any additional troop deployment.

Even members of the president’s own party were concerned.

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President Obama could have long ago put to rest the concerns that he’s not legally allowed to be president of the United States by showing an actual, certified copy of his birth certificate. The “copy” he posted on his website was not authentic. Now, two soldiers are adding themselves to the list of plaintiffs demanding to know if Barack Hussein Obama is constitutionally allowed to be President. For all Americans this is an issue of great importance, but for those who wear the uniform of the armed forces, the ramifications are even greater. The President of the United States is also their Commander-in-Chief. At least two soldiers want to know if the orders given by Obama are actually lawful orders. Read more here.

It looks highly Likely that Netanyahu will be the next Prime Minister of Israel, Evin though Livni’s Kadima party won one more seat in the elections. The right wing bloc won big overall, Labor is toast, and that means Netanyahu will be more likely to succeed at forming a unity government. This is the same way he won the last time he was Prime Minister. This is a good day for Israel, and bad news for Obama, who would have preferred to deal with the Labor party’s willingness to give away land to the Palis in exchange for more terrorism. It’s also a bad day for Hamas. Bibi becoming PM again is their worst nightmare. They know from past experience that when he says he will fight terrorism, he means it, and he isn’t going to hand them the West Bank and let them attack Israel from another side. He also won’t give the Golan up to Syria, as Livni supported doing. This would be especially dangerous, as Obama has lifted sanctions on Syria since taking office, and restored diplomatic relations with the terrorist supporting country. Israel definitely needs someone like Netanyahu with Liberals in America in power.

Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu declared victory in Tuesday’s parliamentary election as he addressed supporters in a speech early Wednesday, despite exit polls that predicted his party narrowly coming second to the ruling Kadima Party.

However, the exit polls also indicate that Likud is in a better position than Kadima to lead a coalition because of a strong showing by other nationalist parties.

“I’ve spoken to party leaders,” Netanyahu said, “and we have agreed to begin negotiations on forming a new government as soon as tomorrow.”

“Even if exit polls are accurate, there is no doubt regarding the only conclusion they point to: the Israeli people have said their word in a clear fashion, the nationalist bloc, led by Likud, won a clear victory,” Netanyahu added.

“The question is not what the polls say. The question is what the reality is. From this day on, the right wing bloc rises to an absolute majority in the Knesset,” the Likud chair went on to say.

“There is no doubt regarding our own movement’s meteoric rise. In the last Knesset we had only 12 seats, 10% of the Knesset. We have more than doubled our power and grown more than any other party,” Netanyahu continued.

“The rise of the right-wing camp and the Likud can only mean one thing, the people want change,” Netanyahu exclaimed. “The people want one path. Our path won and it will lead the people.”

Likud members, meanwhile, were quick to stress that Kadima’s apparent win did not mean it would necessarily be chosen to form the next coalition.

“I am certain that Netanyahu will be the next prime minister,” said Likud lawmaker Gilad Erdan. “Netanyahu has a clear advantage because the right wing parties have a larger bloc. The test is not which party gets the most votes, but which candidate has the best chance to form a coalition, and that person is Benjamin Netanyahu.”

Netanyahu, meanwhile, phoned Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman just after the exit polls were released, apparently to discuss the future of the next coalition.

Former minister Silvan Shalom, another member of Likud, said Kadima was “delusional” to declare such a quick win. A government led by Kadima Chairwoman Tzipi Livni was unrealistic, said Shalom, adding that Likud was the obvious choice for leading the next government.

Public Security Minister Avi Dichter (Kadima) responded to Shalom by saying: “Tzipi Livni is the leader of the State of Israel from today until the next Knesset elections.”

FYI: Livni has attempted to form a unity government once before and failed. With the polls showing strong support for the right wing bloc, she’ll have an even tougher time getting support now, even if she offers those parties the moon in return for switching sides. Anything is possible I suppose, but I’m praying Netanyahu can bring some sanity to Israel’s foreign policy, and thwart Obama’s plans for the region.

Worldnet Daily reports that a recent Military Times survey of active-duty service members found 6 of 10 U.S. soldiers polled said they were “pessimistic” or “uncertain” about Barack Obama serving as commander in chief of America’s armed forces. The troops cited Obama’s inexperience in leading soldiers, his plans for accelerated removal of troops from Iraq, and his pledge to overturn the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy regarding homosexual service members as reasons for their concern.

It’s tragic, really, that we’ve elected a man during a time when we’re fighting two wars and a war on terror, and our service men and women don’t trust him to lead them. It would be troubling for sure to know that the man who will need to lead you to victory was against the war you’re fighting, doesn’t think what you are doing is for a noble cause, and has repeatedly stated, as a United States Senator, that he thought the troops would fail in Iraq.

Here are a couple of the comments made by troops who took the survey. Doesn’t it kind of seem like these troops know more about the war, what’s needed to win, and what the consequences of Obama’s plan could be, if enacted, than The One does.

“Being that the Marine Corps can be sent anywhere in the world with the snap of his fingers,” said one lance corporal who asked not to be identified, “nobody has confidence in this guy as commander in chief.”

“How are you going to safely pull combat troops out of Iraq?” asked Air Force 1st Lt. Rachel Kleinpeter, an intelligence officer with the 100th Operations Support Squadron. “And if you’re pulling out combat troops, who are you leaving to help support what’s left? What happens if Iraq falls back into chaos? Are we going to be there in five years doing the same thing over again?”

If only one of these young men or women could have run for President.

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Yet another example of how the Bush Administration kept us safe from another Jihadist attack on the homeland.

A federal jury on Monday convicted five men of conspiracy to kill American soldiers at the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey last year, but acquitted them of attempted murder, according to the Associated Press.

The jury deliberated for six days before returning its verdict against three brothers — Shain, Eljvir and Dritan Duka — and two other defendants, Mohamad Shnewer and Serdar Tatar.

The men, all Muslim immigrants who lived in Philadelphia’s southern New Jersey suburbs, face a maximum of life in prison.

Federal prosecutors said that the five men were planning to attack Fort Dix and the military personnel within it, and had taken concrete steps to train and arm themselves. During the men’s trial, prosecutors argued that evidence, including hundreds of secretly taped conversations between the defendants and F.B.I. informants, jihadist propaganda videos recovered from one suspect’s computer, and videotapes of an illegal purchase of several machine guns, showed they intended to carry out an armed assault on the base.

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They are living among us, and we can’t afford the Left’s denials that the War on Terror even exists.

No matter what you think of George Bush’s politics, you can’t argue that he isn’t a decent and kind human being. I can’t imagine Obama ever doing this without a full herd of press lackeys tagging along to cover it.

For much of the past seven years, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have waged a clandestine operation inside the White House. It has involved thousands of military personnel, private presidential letters and meetings that were kept off their public calendars or sometimes left the news media in the dark.

Their mission: to comfort the families of soldiers who died fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and to lift the spirits of those wounded in the service of their country.

On Monday, the president is set to make a more common public trip – with reporters in tow – to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, home to many of the wounded and a symbol of controversy earlier in his presidency over the quality of care the veterans were receiving.

GIVING SUPPORT: Vice President Dick Cheney, an avid fly-fisherman, practices his cast with wounded troops from Walter Reed Army Medical Center during one of the half-dozen barbecues he’s hosted at his Naval Observatory home. (White House photo)

But the size and scope of Mr. Bush’s and Mr. Cheney’s private endeavors to meet with wounded soliders and families of the fallen far exceed anything that has been witnessed publicly, according to interviews with more than a dozen officials familiar with the effort.

“People say, ‘Why would you do that?’” the president said in an Oval Office interview with The Washington Times on Friday. “And the answer is: This is my duty. The president is commander in chief, but the president is often comforter in chief, as well. It is my duty to be – to try to comfort as best as I humanly can a loved one who is in anguish.”

Mr. Bush, for instance, has sent personal letters to the families of every one of the more than 4,000 troops who have died in the two wars, an enormous personal effort that consumed hours of his time and escaped public notice. The task, along with meeting family members of troops killed in action, has been so wrenching – balancing the anger, grief and pride of families coping with the loss symbolized by a flag-draped coffin – that the president often leaned on his wife, Laura, for emotional support.

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Before anyone feels sorry for the terrorists locked up in Guantanamo Bay, or supports closing the facility and releasing the terrorists held there, they should read this and ask themselves if they really want these people running loose.

But the picture inside Guantanamo is often an ugly one. Some prisoners do all in their power to violate the guards.

“What they do is stuff that you and I would find despicable. They save up their bodily fluid, feces and so on, and then when the guard comes to deliver food, they get a feces cocktail thrown in their face.”

It’s something Zanetti says occurs almost daily, and weighs heavily on the guards, who are tasked with feeding and clothing the prisoners and tending to them when they are sick. Hospital staff get the worst exposure of all from the detainees, he said.

“You ensure that their life is as comfortable as possible while the detainees are trying to make the guards’ life as miserable as possible.”

Those daily doses of hatred are a stark reminder about some of the men locked up inside the camp, including Mohammed, who has claimed responsibility for decapitating Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002.

“We have more than our fair share of Hannibal Lecters around here,” Zanetti said.

Leave it to Carter to meet with a terrorist leader responsible for scores of Jewish deaths. It sickens me that he calls himself a Christian.

he Hamas terrorist organization has confirmed to WND plans are in the works for former President Jimmy Carter to meet the chief of Hamas on a trip this month to Syria.

Sources in the Gaza Strip office of Ismail Haniyeh, the deposed prime minister of the Hamas-led Palestinian government, confirmed Hamas is in talks with Carter’s representatives about setting up a meeting during his trip, scheduled for later this month.

The Hamas sources said no concrete date has been set but that Carter has expressed interest in meeting Hamas chieftain Khaled Meshaal, who resides in Syria.

In a statement to Fox News today, Carter’s press secretary, Deanna Congileo, did not deny the former president was slated to meet Meshaal.

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We’re seeing more and more arrests and indictments like this, and it makes me wonder how long it will be before we’re suffering the same attacks and suicide bombings the Israeli’s have been dealing with for years. Probably, not long. Somehow, I don’t think our government will exercise the same level of restraint we expect from Israel though.

A federal grand jury indicted two U.S. citizens on Wednesday on charges of plotting “violent jihad” and undergoing paramilitary training in northwest Georgia to prepare themselves for terrorist acts.

Syed Haris Ahmed, 21, born in Pakistan and a student at Georgia Tech, was arrested in March. Wednesday’s charges superseded an earlier indictment against him, adding three counts of material support of terrorism and a foreign terrorist organization.

FBI officials in April arrested Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, born in 1986 in Bangladesh. He was also added to the indictment.

Both men developed contacts with other supporters of jihad, traveling to Toronto, Canada, and made video clips of “potential terrorist targets” in Washington including the Capitol building, the indictment said.

“Ahmed, Sadequee and another person known to the Grand Jury engaged in physical and rudimentary paramilitary training including activities with paintball guns in northwestern Georgia,” said the indictment filed at Atlanta district court.

It said Ahmed traveled to Pakistan to get paramilitary and religious training with the aim of fighting in
Kashmir, while Sadequee went to Bangladesh in part to support jihad.

The case is one of several in which U.S. justice officials have prosecuted suspects whose alleged plots were in their very early stages.

Here are some of the headlines I’ve seen this morning concerning the war in the Middle East.

Blair in push for peace in Middle East
Big power diplomacy to stop the fighting in Lebanon ground into gear yesterday as Britain and other European states pushed hard for the deployment of an international intervention force on the Israeli-Lebanese border.

Arab world fed up with Hizbullah
With the exception of the Palestinians, the Arab world appears to be united in blaming Iran and Syria for the fighting in Lebanon. Until last week, Arab political analysts and government officials were reluctant to criticize Hizbullah in public. But now that Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and his top aides are in hiding, an anti-Hizbullah coalition is emerging not only in Lebanon, but in several other Arab countries as well.

Diplomacy Gains Traction in Mideast Crisis
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Diplomatic efforts to end Israeli-Hezbollah fighting gained traction Monday, with Israeli officials saying they would agree to halt fighting if their two captured soldiers were returned and Islamic guerrillas withdrew from the border.

New York Jews rally in support of Israel
Thousands of American Jews clogged the streets leading to the United Nations building here in a massive show of support for Israel on Monday afternoon. The turnout was particularly impressive for a weekday and one of the hottest so far this summer.

Americans, Europeans Begin to Evacuate Lebanon Amid Mideast Conflict
Lebanon — Westerners fled by land, sea and air as Israel launched three waves of bombings on southern Beirut and on a Lebanese army base in the early hours Tuesday.

Congress Considers Resolutions Supporting Israel
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are preparing to vote this week on resolutions backing Israel and condemning Hezbollah, which last week kidnapped two Israeli soldiers, sparking violence across the Israel-Lebanon border.

Iran parliament speaker: No part of Israel safe
Iran’s parliament speaker warned Tuesday that no part of Israel is safe during Hizbullah’s battle with Lebanon – a statement made despite Iran’s claim that it is not aiding the guerrillas in their fight.

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Hezbollah Rockets Hit Nazareth
By Sher Zieve – Hezbollah rockets are reported to have struck upper Nazareth, Sunday night. Reports are that the attacks also hit 5 other close by towns.

Israel strikes back after Haifa attacked
BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — The Israeli military and Hezbollah traded deadly attacks for a fifth straight day on Sunday, with the Lebanon-based militants striking Haifa and other towns deeper inside Israel.

U.S. Evacuation Teams Arrive in Lebanon
U.S. security teams landed at the American embassy just outside Beirut on Sunday to plan the evacuation of some of the estimated 25,000 U.S. citizens living in war-torn Lebanon.
Witnesses said two helicopters flew in from over the Mediterranean and landed on the embassy grounds, located on a fortified hilltop in the north Beirut suburb of Aukar.
“The arrival of the teams is an important first step in facilitating the safe departure of Americans who want to leave Lebanon,” the embassy said in a statement.

Rockets hit Haifa, Tiberias, Safed, Karmiel, Acre
A barrage of rockets fired from Lebanon hit the Haifa region Monday afternoon.
A rocket hit a building in Haifa causing it to collapse. Two people were evacuated by medical personnel and others have been trapped beneath the rubble.
Two of the rockets landed before the city’s warning siren was sounded.
Rockets landed in Tiberias and adjacent Lake Kinneret beaches, Acre and Safed as well. In addition, rockets were fired for the first time on communities in the southern Golan Heights.

Hezbollah Appears in Control of Lebanon
Hezbollah and its backers, not the government, now appear in control of Lebanon’s fate.
After moderating their stance in recent years, the guerrillas surged back to the war front with a surprise attack on Israel and a sophisticated arsenal, leaving Lebanon’s politicians and army looking nearly powerless. The government seems paralyzed over how to deal with Hezbollah, whose Shiite Muslim fighters have had near autonomy in the south for more than a decade.

Syria vows to respond directly to any Israel strike
Syria has warned it would respond directly and by all means necessary to any Israeli attack on its territory, in its first official reaction to Israel’s offensive on neighbouring Lebanon.
The warning Sunday coincided with a similar threat by Damascus’s key ally Iran, and came amid rising fears that the Middle East is being dragged deeper into the spiralling conflict sparked by the capture of Israeli soldiers by militants linked to Hamas and Hezbollah.

Iran heaps praise on Hezbollah fight against ‘tumour’ Israel
TEHRAN (AFP) -Iran has rallied behind allies Hezbollah and Syria, praising the Lebanese Shiite militant movement’s battle against “infected tumour” Israel and warning the Jewish state against widening the conflict.

Ground troops enter southern Lebanon
A government spokesman said Monday afternoon that IDF ground forces have entered southern Lebanon to attack Hizbullah bases along the border in order to push the terrorist group out of rocket-firing range.
In addition, the IDF has denied Lebanese news reports that an Israeli F-16 jet was downed near Beirut. Virtually all Lebanese news agencies were showing unclear video footage of what was claimed to be the downed jet.

Things could escalate rapidly in the Middle East.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today an Israeli strike on Syria would be considered an attack on the whole Islamic world that would bring a “fierce response,” Haaretz reports.
“If the Zionist regime commits another stupid move and attacks Syria, this will be considered like attacking the whole Islamic world and this regime will receive a very fierce response,” Ahmadinejad was quoted by Iranian state television as saying in a telephone conversation with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Israel has blamed Syria and Iran for the Hezbollah rocket attacks on towns and cities in northern Israel. In recent weeks, Israel has buzzed the palace of Assad with fighter-bombers as a warning against hostile actions.
Ahmadinejad has called repeatedly for the destruction of Israel – or for moving the Jewish state to Europe. Iran is believed to be developing a nuclear weapons program and has long-range missiles capable of striking the Jewish state.
Hezbollah rockets today rained down on northern Israeli towns as the Jewish state’s warplanes carried out strategic strikes against the Hezbollah’s infrastructure and the Beirut International Airport. A total air and sea closure was imposed over Lebanon.
Hezbollah threatened to use longer range rockets against the major northern port city of Haifa, in which case military officials tell WND Israel would likely launch a major ground invasion inside Lebanon.
The fighting today was instigated by a well-orchestrated Hezbollah attack against Israel’s northern border yesterday in which two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped and three others were killed.

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And more problems from North Korea.

PUSAN, South Korea (Reuters) – North Korea stormed out of talks with South Korea on Thursday and Seoul froze food aid to its impoverished neighbor, as regional fissures over how to deal with Pyongyang’s missile tests widened.
Pyongyang also appeared to have stood up to its closest ally, Beijing, which has sent a “friendship delegation” to North Korea.
“So far they don’t seem to be interested in listening, much less doing anything,” U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill told reporters in Beijing. “I think the Chinese are as baffled as we are.”

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