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What the west needs to know about Islam: violence against non-Muslims is an integral part -- Tom O'Halloran

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Through an examination of the Koran, other Islamic texts and the example of the prophet Muhammad, this documentary argues, through a sober and methodical presentation, that violence against non-Muslims is and has always been an integral aspect of Islam.

Features interviews with noted experts on Islam including Robert Spencer, Serge Trifkovic, Bar Ye’or, Abdullah Al-Araby, and former PLO terrorist Walid Shoebat.

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Through an examination of the Koran, other Islamic texts and the example of the prophet Muhammad, this documentary argues, through a sober and methodical presentation, that violence against non-Muslims is and has always been an integral aspect of Islam.

Features interviews with noted experts on Islam including Robert Spencer, Serge Trifkovic, Bar Ye’or, Abdullah Al-Araby, and former PLO terrorist Walid Shoebat.



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Unripened RAW. An intelligence blog which stopped with Part 1. The 'agent' now claims to keep truth alive and to be living in safety.


OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND HOW IT RAINED ONE NIGHT
TUESDAY, MAY 29, 2012

The new Innings
Have had a lot of events forcing me to stay away from this blog and publish the truth, in fact, I had to even bring down my first post due to certain difficulties. Thank you all of you for visiting this place and keeping the truth alive.

I promise to deliver the further parts of this "three funerals and a wedding" in the next few months, now that I am living in safety and there is no further threat to my near and dear ones. I do hope that fellow Indians will stand be me.

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POSTED BY EX INDIAN INTELLIGENCE

Playing with a nation’s choices
Part 1 : Three funerals and a wedding


Prologue

I was part of various analysis teams of Indian intelligence agencies during the 80’s and 90’s and now live a anonymous life in a distant land. What I am going to propagate over a 3 part series in the next few days might seem very farfetched and even fantastic to most people and many conspiracy theorists might gleefully accept it as vindication for whatever they have been screaming from rooftops for quite some time now. My attempt though is neither to please any one nor to prove someone else wrong or right; it is just to come out with the truth as we perceived it. Most of the theory that I am going to put forward in part 1 is the work of us 5 people in 1991 while analyzing all the intelligence inputs over the years in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister Mr. Rajiv Gandhi. We in the intelligence parlays termed it as “the Rajiv brief”. Most conclusions that we had come up with were unanimous and unequivocal. I must hasten to add that many parts of this so called “the Rajiv brief” were also part of an earlier analysis done in the mid 80’s by another team investigating the conspiracy angle to Mrs Indira Gandhi’s death. Theoretic overlapping in terms of evidences, intelligence briefings and logical conclusions between these two analysis reports might be common, but there are also significant points of divergence in both of these reports and since I have been privy to both I would suggest that the number of points of convergence between both sets of analysis far outnumber the differences. Sometime in the middle of 1992 we were suddenly asked to debunk the whole theory and change our line of thinking by powers that be, and we had to let go of a “very strong” case that we were building then. Of the core group of 5 analysts who were working on that case, 3 are no more (all died of normal causes) and 2 of us are still living anonymously without being in touch with each other. This is my attempt (after almost 2 decades) to complete “the Rajiv brief” and take it to its logical conclusion with the benefit of hindsight. I must warn though, that this is at the end of the day, just a theory based on intelligence inputs and field analysis built on a very plausible premise. It is an attempt to fill in the blanks between the “if’s” and “buts” of history with the luxury of retrospective intelligence.

The Theory: Five people four scenarios and three events

Mrs Sonia Gandhi is today the most powerful person in India and probably one of the most powerful women on earth. Elections 2009 have only reinforced her power. How did she end up becoming the most powerful person in India? This is the story of that ascendancy. Five people, four scenarios and three events stood between Mrs Sonia Gandhi and her destiny. Over the next few pages I am going to explain those scenarios through the eyes of a former intelligence analyst.

Scenario 1: The Rajiv-Sonia marriage

At the outset there is nothing more than just another love story to Mr Rajiv Gandhi’s romance with Miss Antonia Albina Maino in the mid 1960’s. Any suggestion that there were characters in the Cambridge university campus that not only hooked them up but also nurtured the famous romance is too farfetched. But having said that, let us consider some of the London tabloid reports of that time which variously suggested Rajiv was “constantly influenced” by a couple of students of European origin (I would not take names and let researchers do some hard work) and that at least one of those students was later absorbed by the Vatican’s intelligence wing. It would also be farfetched to speculate on Indian intelligence requesting the help of MI5 to analyze the Rajiv-Sonia romance, at least am not aware of any such report ever being filed. All these rumours and theories have done their rounds in the intelligence quarters of Delhi, especially during 1991-1992, but then we are rushing ahead of time so we shall deal with that later. I would now present as to what intelligence agencies actually did, which was very little, and let people draw their own conclusion.

Background

Post World War 1, Turin was a hub of political activity. Communism was at its peak in Europe and many left leaning socialist organizations were dabbling with the Marxist ideology and as a counter balance to that the fascist forces were emerging as an attractive alternative to many Catholics of Italy, and Turin was no exception. The small village of Orbassano near Turin mainly composed of orthodox Roman Catholic families and they all dreaded the arrival of communists on their shores and decided to join hands with the fascists lead by Mussolini. Paolo Maino was one of them. Indian intelligence gathering techniques are never given their due credit, but we have done some first rate jobs which have never been acknowledged and Mrs Sonia Gandhi’s background check was one of them. It was found that after the end of Second World War when many fascists were purged, Paolo Maino was protected by the church and no less than the Vatican itself intervened in his case and all papers pertaining to him were there by transferred to the Vatican! It was furthermore established that one of the more mysterious uncles of Paolo Maino worked for the super secret intelligence organization of the Vatican, the Opus Dei. Paolo was a construction contractor and had little savings; he could not entirely afford the educational and other expenses of his children. This mysterious uncle; who was working for the Opus Dei and whose name had been deleted from all the intelligence files; sponsored Antonio Albina Maino’s education in Cambridge in the 1960’s.

During her stay in Cambridge Miss Antonio took an “unusually high degree” of interest in the activities of groups concerning students of Indian Diaspora much before she met Rajiv. In fact, their first meeting took place in the presence of other Indian origin students and not in a Greek cafe as widely reported later. But throughout all of this she continued her association with the church and its activities and was in constant touch with “certain sections of the Vatican” which were previously also associated with the fascists. [Sic: Opus Dei founder Jose Maria Escriva was close to Fascists and an admirer of Hitler. NSR]

When Indian intelligence officials later questioned one of Miss Antonio’s close associates during her stay in the Cambridge, he described her relationship with the Vatican as akin to “umbilical cord”. All of these titbits were filed by many field officers of various intelligence agencies over a period of years but most analysts in the intelligence parlays of India termed them as “innocent” at worst and “needs evaluation” at best. Of course one can always concede that the analysts of that era lack the luxury of retrospective analysis as we do have now, there was definitely some lax attitude shown by these analysts in trying to decipher these events. Thus one day in 1968, after 3 odd years of courtship Mr. Rajiv Gandhi and Miss Antonio Maino; the daughter of former Fascist soldier, Paolo Maino; were married in Delhi. Miss Maino then became Mrs Sonia Gandhi for all intentions and purposes and the stepping stone to her destiny was covered with roses.

Scenario 2: Event 1, June 23rd 1980

The first player in the political theatre to have been eliminated and also the most important first link to the series of events that led to the present dispensation in the corridors of Delhi. Circumstantial evidence in the June 23rd 1980 Sanjay Gandhi air crash near Safdarjung airport points to foul play but let’s not get sucked into those futile arguments that have been raging ever since. Just suffice it to say that the single-member enquiry commission headed by Mr M L Jain which was formed to study the circumstances that lead to the plane crash has never submitted any report what so ever to the government in 3 decades. Now isn’t that fishy?

Background

Anybody who is aware of the 70’s brand of politics in India would know that Sanjay was the most important political centre, around whom most of the power was concentrated and dispensed with. Many even believed that Sanjay wielded more power than Indira Gandhi herself. It thus became pertinent for most intelligence agencies concerned with India’s affairs to have a thick case file about Sanjay Gandhi and his activities. There were some widely debunked theories of the junior Gandhi leaning towards CIA and Mrs Gandhi not being in agreement with his ideas, I do not know the origin or the veracities of these hypotheses so I would not make any comment either to encourage or discourage them. The 1960’s and 70’s Delhi was a hub of international espionage (like any other capital of any other country) because most intelligence agencies (including CIA & KGB) of that era depended on HUMINT or human intelligence officers to gather intelligence rather than satellites and drones of today. Every other day there would be speculation in the media circles of a certain politician or a certain bureaucrat working in tandem with a certain foreign intelligence agency; I would be lying if I claimed that all these speculations were wrong, in fact there were quite a few surprises in the “official” list that the Indian intelligence agencies maintained, but that is a completely different subject altogether. Coming back to Sanjay Gandhi and the interest that he generated in foreign as well as Indian intelligence circles, one thing is clear, he never worked or had any relationship with any of the foreign intelligence agencies and that much I can vouch for, but the same cannot be said about his continuous indulgence and interference with the local intelligence agencies. He always used and had his men in various wings of Indian intelligence agencies. Amidst all of this originated the “Russian hypothesis”.

There is no agreement as to when the real “Russian hypothesis” came into being, some argue that just prior to emergency in 1975 the Soviets sponsored this study because they had prior intelligence that emergency would be imposed on India, while still others argue that its origin was sometime during the Morarji Desai regime. I for one tend to agree with the former because it is a known fact that Soviets were consulted by Mrs Gandhi about emergency. Another reason to support the 1975 theory is that a secret meeting of the dreaded VKR had taken place in Delhi in the summer of 1975 (VKR = Voennaya Kontra Razvedka) and it had baffled many Indian intelligence officials as to why VKR (Russian counter intelligence wing) would meet in India. After the imposition of emergency and the awareness about Mrs Gandhi’s soviet consultation, intelligence circles widely accepted the theory of VKR meeting in Delhi as a part of that Indo-Soviet collaboration on emergency until the emergence of the “Russian hypothesis” and the eventual demise of Mr. Sanjay Gandhi.

KGB had strong presence in Delhi and across India in the 70’s and many left-leaning analysts openly and covertly co-operated with KGB and other Russian intelligence agencies. One such “analyst” was part of the team that had produced the “Russian hypothesis” and he later (in 1979) leaked parts of that document to Indian intelligence and that is how the jigsaw puzzle was cracked. In the hypothesis it was concluded that Mr Sanjay Gandhi was west leaning and a capitalist and would eventually side with the CIA, although there was no universal agreement about these conclusions amongst the team that had produced the “Russian hypothesis” most of them did agree to some extent of those conclusions. It was our belief that the Soviets had decided not to take any action, mainly because of the fact that it was unlikely of KGB and even more unlikely in the case of VKR to remain quiet for more than a few months after having reached a conclusion.

This is when Opus Dei comes into picture. It is a well known fact that Opus Dei and parts of Russian intelligence had always collaborated on certain matters. Exactly how or when did Opus Dei come into the possession of “Russian hypothesis” is merely in the realm of speculation but what is incontrovertible is that the Vatican intelligence did have enormous influence on Josef Stavinoha, the man who was heading VKR at that time and thus KGB in active collaboration with Opus Dei decided to act on the “Russian hypothesis” sometime in March 1980. As a direct result of that, June 23rd 1980 happened as an accident.

Continuum

After the sudden demise of Mr Sanjay Gandhi, there was the question of two other people, the very political wife Mrs Maneka Gandhi and son Mr Varun Gandhi which had to be dealt with by the Gandhi family. While there is no denying the fact that Mrs Indira Gandhi and her daughter in law Mrs Maneka Gandhi had a less than cordial relationship (which was more accentuated after the arrival of Rajiv’s family, as per some household sources of the family) and usually had typical “saas-bahu” war of turfs, but what is also irrefutable is the fact that Mr Varun Gandhi was Mrs Gandhi’s favourite grandson and she simply doted on him. What exactly transpired and who facilitated the events are all debates of speculation for the tabloid media, but one thing is certain, both the widowed mother and son were completely sidelined and almost ceased to exist as far as the Gandhi family is concerned after ceremoniously being thrown out of the Prime Minister’s residence.

Scenario 3: 1984, the assassination of Mrs Indira Gandhi

It was one of those events in the young life of a nation that can be termed as a defining moment in history. At the outset it was a clear case of Khalistani fundamentalists avenging operation blue-star, but there were many characters at the periphery and many events preceding it which raised many an eyebrow in the intelligence communities of the world. This was also that one colossal event that catapulted the young Mr Rajiv Gandhi, a novice in politics, to the highest seat of power in South Asia and Mrs Sonia Gandhi was now the next in the line of succession by the virtue of being his wife.

Background

It is a historically well known fact that the Khalistan movement was nurtured by ISI and certain elements in Pakistan. Also well recorded are the initial reactions of some western countries like Canada who almost directly hobnobbed with the Sikh separatist leaders only to abandon them when the movement became increasingly violent. Tacit support of US and British intelligence agencies to the Khalistan intelligentsia was also much speculated upon those days. But what was a lesser known fact in the media and a matter of puzzling debates in the intelligence circles was the interest shown by the Vatican in the Khalistan movement. In 1980-81 Vatican had an open channel of discussions with certain groups of the so called “intellectuals” who were known sympathisers of the Sikh separatist movements. This interest and interactions continued well into the early 80’s and were explained as the “right of Vatican to have an interest in other religious organizations”. At the height of Khalistan movement just after operation Blue Star, many reliable Indian intelligence sources had given “definitive” information about Opus Dei funding parts of operations of Sikh separatists outside India!

After operation Blue Star there were many intelligence inputs about the threat to Mrs Gandhi’s life including some specific inputs about people in the core inner circle of Mrs Gandhi’s security system being vulnerable. Yet no action was taken, why? The assassination of Mrs Indira Gandhi was a massive intelligence failure to say the least and yet no major enquiry was ordered to decipher the conspiracy theory, why? Sections of KGB and other Russian intelligence agencies had given a specific timeframe regarding “action” and yet their advice went unheeded, why? Soviet sources, in informal briefings had warned about certain western intelligence agencies being in cahoots with Sikh separatists and yet those warnings were disregarded, why?

A part of the answer to those questions can be explained as plain incompetence as usual. May be one can also argue that we now have the power of hindsight which we lacked then. But definitely there is a part of the answer to that question which is more complex and only takes my theory forward to its logical conclusion. It is not as if we did nothing, security experts and Intelligence aficionados gave at least 2 formal specific presentations to Mrs Gandhi on 2 different occasions about the need to re-haul the entire security apparatus around her. But on both these occasions apart from Mrs Gandhi’s nonchalance we met with the biggest resistance from one particular member of her core team. He was a very powerful member of what was then known to the media as “kitchen cabinet” and had also been described as a “power broker of the highest degree” by many media houses and visiting dignitaries.

There was no reason to suspect any mal-intentions in him, as he was also known to be very close to Mr Rajiv Gandhi (unlike some members of the “kitchen cabinet” who had a turf war with the junior Gandhi). Post assassination there was a bit of a stir in the media about the same gentleman followed by hush-hush events. We in the intelligence were also surprised to know about his strong linkages with certain Western intelligence agencies. Nothing really happened after that for quite some time and Mr Rajiv Gandhi only restored the same gentleman back in his team with full honours and the whole episode was laid to rest. But the biggest revelation to the intelligence wings came a little later (and was not accorded much importance at that time). Unlike media perceptions that the said gentleman belonged to the Rajiv Gandhi coterie and to the “kitchen cabinet”, he actually owed both his positions and his re-instatement into the inner circles of power after the assassination of Mrs Gandhi to a certain Mrs Sonia Gandhi! [Sic: Brajesh Mishra? NSR]

Scenario 4: 1991, the assassination of Mr Rajiv Gandhi

When Mr Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in Sriperumbudur on 21st May 1991, it did come as a shock to the intelligence community in India but it would be false to suggest that we had absolutely no clue about it. Tamil Tigers animosity towards Mr Rajiv Gandhi was by no means a universally accepted fact in the intelligence circles and yet there were “elements” in the establishment who had assessed the risk factors from time to time. Many analysts had pointed out way back in 1985 (when Rajiv first tried to establish channels to tigers) the unpredictable nature of the leadership of LTTE and their perceived closeness to “certain” European and Western intelligence agencies. Mr Rajiv Gandhi was more influenced by a section of foreign policy analysts and he paid little heed to whatever little reservations the Indian intelligence agencies had vis-à-vis Tamil Tigers.

I must confess that intelligence community in India did not really cover themselves in glory in this whole episode, because it might come as a surprise to most readers to know that we had threat perception for Mr Rajiv Gandhi from many other quarters like Sikh separatists, Islamic (Pakistani funded) militant groups, Chinese sponsored mercenaries and even rogue KGB agents, but had very few inputs and analysis about Tamil Tigers! That was a grave error to say the least. Due to myriad intelligence inputs and even more complex analysis the enquiry following the assassination was mired in many ideas and was muddled in too many complexities.

Background

The Rajiv Gandhi era was defined by two major geo-political changes in India and South Asia; Pakistan’s involvement with separatist groups in Kashmir and the birth of Islamic terrorism in the valley
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India’s direct mediation in Sri Lanka vis-à-vis Tamil issue

Both these geo-political affairs in South Asia had linkages to Western intelligence agencies at some point or other. It is a well known fact that CIA did help Kashmiri terror outfits in the initial years ostensibly to decrease Soviet influence in the region and also because US intelligence establishments were day dreaming about controlling all forms of Islamic extremist organisations from Afghanistan and Central Asia to the Middle-East and Western Africa. The results of those ill-fated forays have been disastrous as we have seen today, but that is a different story for some other time. Lesser known fact is the support to LTTE by many European intelligence agencies including MI5 & NIS (Norwegian Intelligence Service).

Thus, although Mr Rajiv Gandhi considered Mr Vellupali Prabhakaran as a personal friend, the LTTE leader was more under the influence of many other intelligence organisations than India which should have been his natural ally. If the Western intelligence agencies wanted to eliminate Mr Rajiv Gandhi (for whatever myriad reasons) they had 2 very plausible ways to achieve their hit; Islamic Terror outfits in Kashmir and LTTE; apart from many other difficult options. LTTE having assassinated Mr Rajiv Gandhi unilaterally can be ruled out for all practical purposes as it was too much under the influence and control of many agencies and also it would have needed a thorough assurance that its own organization would not be eliminated following the assassination. Mr Prabhakaran, whatever else he was, was a practical man with very sensible ideas to survive for a long term struggle for Tamil Elam. He would have realized at the very outset that eliminating Mr Rajiv Gandhi could become an existential threat to LTTE itself. He had the precedence of the Khalistan movement being crushed following Mrs Indira Gandhi’s assassination and the might of IPKF, which had almost managed to destroy about 80% of LTTE.

Mr Prabhakaran apart from being Tamil was also a catholic and there is a theory that the Vatican had helped LTTE in the initial phases to establish a “catholic” land in the Northern parts of Sri Lanka independent of the “Buddhist” Sinhalese regime. I have many intelligence inputs to confirm these linkages between the Vatican and the LTTE. Norway which had always played a role in the Sri Lankan peace process had a commanding influence over LTTE, especially over the northern faction of LTTE comprising Prabhakaran and co. Norwegian intelligence or NIS had not only given financial assistance but also had provided military training and logistical support to many northern LTTE command groups. I must state here that the western part of LTTE led by Karuna and co was less under the influence of these organisations and was more open to collaboration with India. There was also an unconfirmed report that Karuna was against the whole plot to assassinate Mr Rajiv Gandhi and had even tried in vain to contact Indian intelligence agencies about the impending attack. NIS and other Scandinavian intelligence agencies in the 80’s and early 90’s were also heavily under the influence of Opus Dei and other intelligence establishments of the Vatican.

There were many reasons for this, primary being the fact Norway’s borders with Soviet Russia and the Opus Dei’s final plans to liberate the orthodox Russian church from the communists. Finally, we have very strong intelligence inputs about NIS having given the final order of a “hit” on Mr Rajiv Gandhi and also the requisite assurance of “no-attack” from India on LTTE in any eventuality. Thus Prabhakaran decided to assassinate Mr Rajiv Gandhi despite internal opposition and many apprehensions. What is even more curious was the timing of attack (which was also a pre-condition by the Norwegian controllers of LTTE as per many intercepts of Russian intelligence revealed to India much later).

It was as if someone wanted to influence the ensuing general elections in India by assassinating a tall leader (they had the precedent of 1985 elections following Mrs Gandhi’s killing). But, they only partly succeeded in that as congress could not get a majority on its own which was partially due to the fact that a part of those elections were held before the event and partially due to the changed political scenario of India in the beginning of the 90’s.

The Analysis

After the assassination many intelligence teams were working on many number of theories and officially SIT (special investigation team) was formed to fast track the whole process and at least theoretically all these intelligence teams were supposed to be working under the aegis of the SIT. We were a group of 5 analysts working on the conspiracy angle (there were other groups of people also working on many conspiracy theories) leading up to the assassination. This is when we first stumbled upon the theory of the Vatican’s interest in India’s 1st family (the Gandhi family), which was earlier researched by a team previously working on the killing of senior Mrs Gandhi.

Layer by layer we were gathering all the previous inputs and seemingly farfetched hypothesises put forward by many people in the past. Most of the inputs that I have talked about till now throughout this paper (part 1) were discovered and analysed during those 6 months when we worked together in that team. Mr P. V. Narasimha Rao was the Prime Minister of India then and he had made it a point to get all the reports on the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case delivered to him directly (with no intermediaries) at regular intervals. I remember it correctly, when we had sent our detailed analysis report with all the relevant intelligence inputs to the PMO on a Thursday afternoon. The report contained all the various theories that we had suggested but we had not reached any conclusions.

The first time it’s a chance, the second time it’s a coincidence and the third time it’s a pattern. I guess it was just a matter of time before we would reach the conclusion that the sole beneficiary of all these scenarios and events was the one and only Mrs Sonia Gandhi, the widow of Mr Rajiv Gandhi. How 3 events (assassination & “unnatural” deaths of the three Gandhis) and the 4 scenarios involving 5 people who were either eliminated or completely sidelined leading to the final destiny of Mrs Sonia Gandhi is really a fascinating story. On Monday morning our team was dismantled, we were asked to work on another theory of CIA’s involvement with the LTTE and about understanding the financial structuring of the Tamil Tigers and we were told in no uncertain terms to abandon our “farfetched” theories and to work on more “realistic” aspects that would provide more tangible results.

After that we never mentioned about “the Rajiv brief” or about what had happened in those 6 months. But I have been keeping track of events since then. One important loophole about the theory as explained till now would be the reluctance of Mrs Sonia Gandhi to accept the position of power after the 1991 elections. I would like to deal with the post Rajiv era in part 2 when I will hopefully explain all of those issues. I have formulated my own set of theories and have reached my own conclusions, but they will be elaborated upon in the next 2 parts of this treatise.
... To be continued.

40 COMMENTS:


nishkamyaJuly 29, 2011 at 6:29 PM
So when are you going to continue this?

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DPtoshniwal1July 30, 2011 at 2:18 AM
Dear fellow citizens,visit it, see logically what is truth,& why media is not keeping us in light regarding all these events.

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tnjjp77August 1, 2011 at 2:51 AM
as a member of the CBI/SIT which investigated RG case i am still wondering what is the actual truth and who was behind the assassination.i had a strong suspicion during the course of investigation that it was a tailored to suit some vested interests.i am eagerly awaiting the remaining parts.

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DPtoshniwal1August 1, 2011 at 3:26 AM
kind atten: tnijp77; kindly let the people know the truth.

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nishkamyaAugust 1, 2011 at 6:29 PM
Why has this gentleman not written more - worrisome

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tnjjp77August 12, 2011 at 3:31 AM
search for chadraswamy and rajiv assassination,and search for KP kumaran padmanathan of ltte ,you will know what went wrong.during the investigation only the small prays were caught and big shots like vaiko,subbulakshmi jagadeesan son of maragathm chandrasekar were let off.all the leads which would led to important break through were not pursued.The master killar sivarasan was allowed to commit suicide deliberately. wp16642/1999 madras high court will throw more light.

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DruvAugust 17, 2011 at 7:58 PM
Nice Article, keep up the good work. Cant wait for your next article

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chintaaAugust 17, 2011 at 11:37 PM
Are you alive ?

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A Soul In ExileAugust 18, 2011 at 8:31 PM
I am 100% sure he has been murdered.

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VenkyAugust 18, 2011 at 9:09 PM
Those interested in knowing more about Antonio Maino (aka Sonia Gandi) should also see http://janataparty.org/sonia.html

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ram111111August 23, 2011 at 1:55 AM
Author of this nice article would have gone to the place where madhava rao scindia, rajesh pilot and jijendra prasad senior leaders who opposed the queen ace were shown the door to this place. Did any one see the photograph of rajesh pilot car accident in delhi-jaipur road
All the sons of above noble souls of senior congress leaders who were close friends of rajiv gandhi have now been rewarded with ministrial post to wash the sins of catholic lady as ordered by confession box.Same way priyanka gandhis husband robert vodura who disowned his parents and brothers/sister and filed case in delhi court had to see finally that his father was dead in a hotel under mysterious circumstances, Brother fernando vadura committed sucide and his sister michelle
vadura died in car accident at delhi-jaipur road.only vaduras mother an irish or italian lady is living in europe out of fear after seeing every members of her family is packed off. so imagine the power of vatigan.

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rodentAugust 31, 2011 at 10:41 AM
Sir, where are the other parts?

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rajeevAugust 31, 2011 at 4:22 PM
If you are alive, please post remaining part.

Thanks

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Piyush KulshreshthaAugust 31, 2011 at 10:24 PM
Its been 2 years. Now either the author is dead, or the author has decided to remain silent. What is unfortunate is that his other partner has never bothered to write anything. What is also unfortunate is that nobody in RAW has a similar RAW nerve.

I just wish that the Author had posted the entire story in One Single Shot.

I am sure he knew the sensitivity of saying what he's said. And the profession he was in, I am sure he knew that his life was under threat. In that situation, it was only logical that whatever he wanted to say was posted in one shot.

Anyway, we'll never know this truth. Already I see that security establishment is getting filled with Christians at the top.

Air Force has NAK Browne as its chief and Navy also got a Christian Vice Chief just recently.

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rodentSeptember 1, 2011 at 2:11 AM
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rodentSeptember 1, 2011 at 2:19 AM
hmmm! so much for religion, all religious motives are filled with bullshit whether it be christian, muslim, hindu or whichever.
Religion is the most powerful control in the hands of the powerful, the control the hands of the weak.

Anyways, I agree with the comment above this. And if this bugger was really a Ex Intel Agent, he would have been intelligent enough to know the consequences of this publication and so would also know that if he had one shot, he might as well spill it all out in one go. It is confusing. May be he just got senile and didn't really have the foresight to envisage the dangers that might have already played out during his attempt to post the rest, hence the incomplete post.

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Col NR KurupSeptember 1, 2011 at 4:05 AM
We should read this along with Dr.Swamy's views on Ms Sonia Gandhi and entire episode. In fact he answer as to how Ms Sonia Gandhi could not become PM.

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vipinSeptember 1, 2011 at 10:30 AM
This theory makes a lot of sense and if its true then GOD help our nation.Its like entire political history of our nation was/is manipulated by aforesaid intelligence agency.If you think about it Mrs.G got into prominence immediately after Mr.PVR was NoT PM of india.

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vipinSeptember 1, 2011 at 10:31 AM
I hope the author is alive....

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Vijay DharSeptember 1, 2011 at 10:16 PM
We have suspected it for long time, how the key players were being eliminated and cannot be sheer coincidence.
This article only vindicate our stand of the dubious role holding on to Black money in swiss bank.
In olden times they were called as Poison girls(vish Kanya)

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jainrishabhSeptember 2, 2011 at 9:52 AM
I bet the author is alive. Check he removed the comment by rodent and the blogspot now says "This post has been removed by the author." So now i detect some foul play.....

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nishkamyaSeptember 3, 2011 at 7:14 PM
^^^ There could be other people controlling this

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pradeepSeptember 12, 2011 at 2:22 AM
The first comment on the post is on 29th july 2011.

But the write-up was posted 2 years back.

Smells more fishy.

It is strange that no one commented(or noticed) this article in 2 years ????

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DPtoshniwal1September 12, 2011 at 9:50 PM
gumnam hai koi;

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Rocky SaggooSeptember 16, 2011 at 1:24 AM
Sonia has got him kidnapped.

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mickeyDecember 17, 2011 at 2:16 PM
yes the author is alive and if you people read it carefully he was an employee in 80's 90's, if mentioned correct by him doesn't make him old enough, in a country where retirement age for spooks is 60 yrs he just choose to live with family somewhere far. Now for great 'honest' nature of cops and bureaucrats, Indians are known all over the world. I live outside India too and trust me I am sick of telling locals that India is not like that. NIS was active but we (Indians)could not afford to offend Norway because they supported us in Kashmir issue during the early 60's as they were UN security council member, and then of course, Vatican had vested interest in India. Indians have 'human resource' meaning our mind, which is valued by the world, yet we cant scratch our own balls. We send fwd mails to friends, that India this and that, yet when it comes an important issue our 1.17 billion people pee their pants. Lot of you like to read and watch movies, would like to think the author is dead, but remember his entire service he has not talked about work, and could not have for 15 yrs after leaving (these are terms of service) then also he had the balls to tell us after so long, keeping in mind of his obligation to the country. And i see some convinced skeptics here who like to think he is dead and why first comment 2 yrs late??.....my dear readers remember we know about this after the email was circulated..can any one ansr me who had this mail 2 yrs ago??
One thing 'hats off' to the writer who has tried to tell 750 million Indians under the age of 40 to wake the fuck up.
"Its never what it looks like, and way bigger than what it seems"
Jai Hind

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KBFebruary 3, 2013 at 10:03 AM
Good one Mickey. Instead of appreciating his efforts, many went to wrong questions.
Please wake the F up India.
Jai Hind.

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DPtoshniwal1December 17, 2011 at 10:42 PM
oh ,though too late, yet someone has come forward to say that the author is alive,great, hope other visitors of this blog will take a note of it, move ahead with the facts mentioned their in the blog.

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mickeyDecember 19, 2011 at 6:50 PM
Mr. DP....its never too late, but you know our people would be like " arre jaane do yaar panga pad jayega". would like to sit with you one day and talk. other readers read it but no one wants to say anything

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mzsadeDecember 22, 2011 at 10:26 PM
You should take up writing pot-boilers and those two dime novels, clearly you have the talent for it.

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mickeyDecember 25, 2011 at 3:49 PM
noted, thanks for observing my talent Einstein

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ChakruJanuary 10, 2012 at 10:36 AM
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ChakruJanuary 10, 2012 at 10:37 AM
I think its about time the author should post the other two parts!! Whoever you are please do not be afraid as the people of this country need to know the truth.

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Kunal DharamsiNovember 27, 2012 at 9:45 AM
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Kunal DharamsiNovember 27, 2012 at 9:50 AM
I tested this above.

If you delete your own comment it will appear as "This comment has been removed by the author."

So the blogger has been inactive since a long time and he hasn't removed any comments whatsoever.

Why is the blog date TUESDAY, MAY 29, '2012' ?

Taking this site down would have been a more sensible choice than killing the author. I think he's alive. God bless you sir.

I hope we see the next 2 parts.



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सौरभ भारती (Shaurabh Bharti)November 27, 2012 at 12:05 PM
at least we totally believe in that Sonia was plugged into Rajiv's life and planted into India's political scenario.

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Anil GuptaDecember 24, 2012 at 4:43 AM
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SudhirMarch 8, 2013 at 3:16 AM
As thrilling as this sounds, talks about the perilous position the country is holding on to.
Mr Author: Could you please do a service by continuing the rest of the posts in one shot and let the rest of us know more about our country?
Thanks for your effort!

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JunkieFunkieMarch 25, 2013 at 1:29 AM
good one. Waiting for the remaining ones..

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Vasanth RajApril 17, 2013 at 4:12 AM
But Vellupillai Prabhakaran was a hindu, not a Christian as the author claims, anyone who is interested in Rajiv's assaniation should read about the killing of Swedish Prime minister Olaf Palme.

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"ANTI-AMERICAN" PAKISTAN NO LONGER SAFE NOR NON-SUNNI OR NON-ISLAMIST MUSLIMS, ISLAM DOES NOT PROTECT ITS OWN LEAVE ALONE THE HINDUS AND CHRISTIANS IN PAKISTAN, IN CONTRAST INDIA THAT IS HINDUSTHAN IS MUCH SAFER FOR NON-SUNNI MUSLIMS AND ALL MUSLIMS AT LARGE PROVING THE GENEROSITY OF SECULAR HINDUS, OBJECTIVELY SPEAKING THERE IS NO ROOM TO BASH HINDUS LOOKING AT THE GENERAL ETHOS OF ALL MUSLIMS, WAKE UP WASHINGTON & MOSCOW !!!!

Courtesy:
THE PIONEER
NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013
ISLAMISTS PREPARE FOR GRAND HOME-COMING

By  G Parthasarathy

People of Pakistan are heading towards a rule by a fractious coalition. But, unlike in the past where moderate parties like the MQM and the ANP held the balance, extremist groups are expected to play a greater role

Pakistan is being torn apart by sectarian and communal violence, in which hundreds of Shias have perished and the Christian and Hindu minorities terrorised by extremist Sunni groups, ranging from the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan. The port city of Karachi, always a hotbed of violence, saw new dimensions to sectarian and ethnic violence, as the Pakistani Taliban took control of Pashtun dominated areas in the city, from the moderate Awami National Party. The arrival of the Taliban in Karachi has produced continued blood-letting between Taliban-oriented Pashtuns and Muhajirs, pledging loyalty to Altaf Hussain’s Muttahida Quami Movement.

In Punjab, the extremist Sunni Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, which enjoys the patronage of Rana Sanaullah, a senior leader of Mr Nawaz Sharif’s PML(N), has mercilessly targeted Shias, Ahmedis and Barelvis. Its arrested cadres reportedly enjoy benign judicial protection from no less than Supreme Court’s Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, said to be a cousin of Rana Sanaullah. The situation is even more tense in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, where the TTP is targeting candidates of the secular Awami National Party, whose leader Asfandyar Wali Khan has been unable to campaign even in his hometown Charsadda, near Peshawar. In Balochistan, the Pakistani Army continues its brutal operations against the Balochi tribal resistance, with reports emerging of bodies of Balochi militants being mutilated by the Army.

Pakistanis now appear to have become inured to such violence. Candidates are busy electioneering. The election process has been complicated by constitutional provisions introduced by General Zia ul-Haq. All candidates are required to have “adequate knowledge of Islamic teachings and practices and obligatory duties prescribed by Islam”. The Constitution also requires rejection of those “opposed to the ideology of Pakistan”. It requires candidates to be “sagacious, righteous, non-profligate, honest and Ameen”. These provisions have led to returning officers initially rejecting the candidature of former Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and General Pervez Musharraf, who now faces court proceedings. Pakistan is paying a high price for its Sharia’h laws, designed to promote Salafi extremism. The ‘blasphemy law’ in the country, also enacted during the rule of General Zia, results in religious minorities being intimidated, arbitrarily arrested and subjected to threats of death penalties.

A recent public opinion poll in Pakistan gave a clear indication of the mood of the youth, which is going to play an important role in the forthcoming elections. 94 per cent of the youth thought the country was going in a wrong direction. Society at large is becoming more religiously conservative. 64 per cent of the male youth and 75 per cent of women are religiously conservative. There is little optimism about prospects of employment for the youth. Islamic Tanzims are drawing more and more disenchanted youth. The survey revealed that, while only 29 per cent of young Pakistanis support democracy, 32 per cent favour military rule, while 38 per cent favour the imposition of Sharia’h laws. Such attitudes are significantly prevalent in the Pashtun-dominated Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, in Punjab and also in the tribal areas that border Afghanistan.

With the exception of President Asif Ali Zardari’s Pakistan Peoples Party, Asfandyar Wali Khan’s ANP and Mr Altaf Hussain’s MQM, virtually all other parties are resorting to anti-American sloganeering. India, though, finds little mention in election rhetoric. There are virtually no references to Kashmir. Mr Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehriq-e- Insaf acknowledges that armed jihadi groups in the country include “Kashmiri militants”.

Despite spiralling inflation, endemic power shortages, rising unemployment and falling growth rates, economic issues find very little mention in public debate. The economic manifesto of President Zardari’s PPP sounds like a booklet of India’s populist National Advisory Council. The manifesto focuses scant attention on measures to enhance savings and investment and accelerate economic growth. It dwells predominantly on “people’s schemes” that target the youth and others, apart from “direct subsidies” for “working masses” and other sections of society. The PML(N) manifesto, however, is akin to what Indian business chambers advocate. It substantially endorses the recommendations of the Pakistan Business Council, pledging to revive privatisation, restore the confidence of investors and advocates measures to deal with short-term and long-term economic issues.

The focus of attention in the forthcoming election will be on the populous Punjab Province, which accounts for 182 of the 342 parliamentary seats. Northern and Central Punjab, from which the bulk of the Pakistani Army is recruited and which is the home of terrorist groups like the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba, have for long been the stronghold of Mr Nawaz Sharif’s PML(N). On the other hand, Southern Punjab, which is Seraiki-dominated and not Punjabi speaking, is a region where rich, landowning Pirs like former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani are influential, has been a PPP stronghold. Uncertainty on how these two parts of Punjab will vote has arisen primarily because Mr Imran Kha’s party could well rally the disaffected youth and split the votes of the PPP and the PML(N). The trump card for the PPP remains its promise to create a separate province for the disaffected Seraiki speaking population in Southern Punjab. It can also expect support from Shias worried by the ties of Mr  Sharif’s party with armed, extremist Sunni groups.

The widespread expectation is that the ruling PPP will lose a number of seats because of the anti-incumbency sentiments resulting from declining growth rates, spiralling inflation, prolonged power cuts and charges of corruption. The PML(N) could well emerge as the largest single party in Parliament. But, Mr Imran Khan, backed by the military, could eat into votes that were assured for Mr Nawaz Sharif in the past. He has evidently impressed the youth and the women, and has spoken out against the rich and privileged. His economic manifesto speaks of reviving the agricultural sector.

Pakistan appears to be heading towards rule by a fractious coalition. But, unlike in the past where moderate parties like the MQM and the ANP held the balance, Islamist parties are expected to play a greater role in the months ahead. Significantly, Army Chief General Kayani recently averred: “Pakistan was created in the name of Islam and Islam can never be taken out of Pakistan”.

It is evident that neither the Army nor the political establishment has the will or inclination to take on radical Islamic groups like the TTP, the JeM and the LeT. This is not good news for India or Afghanistan, and will be viewed with concern in capitals like Washington and Moscow.

HINDU RENAISSANCE FOR ALL ROUND DEVELOPMENT OF KERALA TO BE GUIDED BY MODI WHO HAS A PROVEN PLURALISTIC TRACK RECORD

HINDU RENAISSANCE SPREADING VERY FAST
IN KERALA (INDIA) WITH LEAPS AND BOUNDS

Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri Narendra Modi’s speech at Sivagiri Mutt, Kerala not only reenergized and reinvigorated the suppressed feelings of Hindu Samaj  in Kerala but also touched the deepest nerve in Hindu psyche.

 His emphasis on patriotism, nationalism, spirituality  and  service to downtrodden in Bharat  unleashed a sense of pride, confidence and respectability.

Narendra Modi has captured the imagination of young Kerala.  It appears that soon Kerala will be motivated or “MODI-fied” by his patriotism and sincerity of purpose.

Here is the emotionally charged Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TjyAGjmqR4&feature=youtu.be

IT IS UNFORTUNATE AND POLITICALLY INCORRECT TO LINK THE RELIGION OF ISLAM WITH THE ISLAMISTS' JIHADI TERRORISM ALL AROUND THE GLOBE, AND EASIER TO SAY THEY ARE ALL JUST GARDEN VARIETY CRIMINAL ACTS, IT IS UNJUST TOWARDS THE PEACEFUL EVERY DAY WORKING CLASS MUSLIMS WHO HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. YET THEY DON'T SPEAK UP AGAINST IT FOR FEAR FROM THEIR OWN. THE WORLD KNOWS WHAT IS GOING ON BUT IS LOST ON GROUNDS OF LEGAL TECHNICALITY FOR RECOGNIZING "THEM" AS ENEMIES OF THE COUNTRY WHERE THEY COMMIT SUCH ACTS OF TERRORISM. WHOSE ENEMIES ARE THEY, OF INNOCENT VICTIMS ONLY???

Al Qaeda's boy commandos: Children as young as FIVE show off their horrifying arsenal of weapons at terror training camp
Youngsters filmed using pistols, AK-47 assault rifles and machine guns
Many are orphans of Al Qaeda's 'martyrs' who have died in terror attacks
Drilled by Turkistan Islamic Party, which trains insurgents to fight alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan
Group behind hundreds of ­terror atrocities worldwide in past 20 years
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 16:18 GMT, 22 April 2013 | UPDATED: 02:50 GMT, 23 April 2013
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They are barely bigger than the assault rifles they grasp clumsily in their hands.
Yet these children are being trained to become the next generation of terrorists from the age of just five.
Sitting in long lines as if on a school outing, they struggle to lift deadly AK-47s as they are made to fire off a flurry of rounds, their tiny bodies getting knocked back by the recoil.
Others grapple with pistols as they are brainwashed into waging Jihad on the West and becoming suicide bombers.
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Made to kill: Children as young as five fire assault rifles at a terror training camp in north Waziristan

No start in life: Many of the children are orphans of al Qaeda's 'martyrs' and are now following the same deadly route as their fathers

Brainwashed: The children struggle to hold pistols as they clumsily fire them into the distance
The terrifying footage was taken from an Al Qaeda terror camp in north Waziristan, near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Many of the children are orphans of the terrorist organisation's 'martyrs' following the same deadly route as their fathers.

More...
The lost Briton of Guantanamo: He's been cleared - but had a devastating secret about MI6 and the Iraq invasion which means he can never be freed
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It was initially posted on an underground al Qaeda website and is believed to have been issued by the Turkistan Islamic Party, which trains insurgents to fight alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan.

It's almost as big as him: A boy tries to get to grips with an AK-47, one of the world's deadliest assault rifles

The future of terrorism: They are brainwashed into waging Jihad on the West and becoming suicide bombers
It is believed the armed group is responsible for hundreds of acts of ­terrorism worldwide in the past 20 years.
The Pakistani Taliban is one of many loosely allied extremist groups that operate in Pakistan's tribal region.
It wants to impose the same kind of hardline interpretation of Islamic law as the Afghan Taliban that ruled Afghanistan until the 2001 U.S.-led invasion ousted the hardline regime for sheltering al Qaeda's leaders.

Gunning for it: The footage is believed to have been issued by the Turkistan Islamic Party, which trains insurgents to fight alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan

Mass murderers: The group training these children is believed to be responsible for more than 200 acts of ­terrorism worldwide in the past 20 years
The militant hideouts along the Afghan-Pakistan border have long been a source of tension for Kabul, Islamabad and the international coalition.
Pakistan wants NATO and Afghan forces to crack down on Pakistani militants launching attacks from hideouts on the Afghan side of the border.
Meanwhile, American military commanders have been pressuring Islamabad to launch military strikes on terrorists in North Waziristan.
VIDEO Children as young as FIVE appear to shoot AK-47 assault rifles
Little commandos in Afghanistan


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Most of non-muslims any where in the world have come to realize the truth behind Islam except Canada and USA. Once the youth in Canada & USA will understand the truth about Islam, such
atrocities will continue and innocent people will die which is very very unfortunate. Wake up America!


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How long before the State Department is issuing these wannabe killers student visas?
Al Qaeda's boy commandos: Children as young as FIVE show off their horrifying arsenal of weapons at terror training camp Daily Mail, April 13, 2013, hat tip Suzanne
Youngsters filmed using pistols, AK-47 assault rifles and machine guns
Many are orphans of Al Qaeda's 'martyrs' who have died in terror attacks
Drilled by Turkistan Islamic Party, which trains insurgents to fight alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan
Group behind hundreds of ­terror atrocities worldwide in past 20 years
They are barely bigger than the assault rifles they grasp clumsily in their hands.
Yet these children are being trained to become the next generation of terrorists from the age of just five.
Sitting in long lines as if on a school outing, they struggle to lift deadly AK-47s as they are made to fire off a flurry of rounds, their tiny bodies getting knocked back by the recoil.
Others grapple with pistols asthey are brainwashed into waging Jihad on the West and becoming suicide bombers.
 Made to kill: Children as young as five fire assault rifles at a terror training camp in north Waziristan

 No start in life: Many of the children are orphans of al Qaeda's 'martyrs' and are now following the same deadly route as their fathers
Brainwashed: The children struggle to hold pistols as they clumsily fire them into the distance
The terrifying footage was taken from an Al Qaeda terror camp in north Waziristan, near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Many of the children are orphans of the terrorist organisation's 'martyrs' following the same deadly route as their fathers.
It was initially posted on an underground al Qaeda website and is believed to have been issued by the Turkistan Islamic Party, which trains insurgents to fight alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan.
 It's almost as big as him: A boy tries to get to grips with an AK-47, one of the world's deadliest assault rifles

 The future of terrorism: They are brainwashed into waging Jihad on the West and becoming suicide bombers
It is believed the armed group is responsible for hundreds of acts of ­terrorism worldwide in the past 20 years.
The Pakistani Taliban is one of many loosely allied extremist groups that operate in Pakistan's tribal region.
t wants to impose the same kind of hardline interpretation of Islamic law as the Afghan Taliban that ruled Afghanistan until the 2001 U.S.-led invasion ousted the hardline regime for sheltering al Qaeda's leaders.
 Gunning for it: The footage is believed to have been issued by the Turkistan Islamic Party, which trains insurgents to fight alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan

 Mass murderers: The group training these children is believed to be responsible for more than 200 acts of­terrorism worldwide in the past 20 years
The militant hideouts along the Afghan-Pakistan border have long been a source of tension for Kabul, Islamabad and the international coalition.
Pakistan wants NATO and Afghan forces to crack down on Pakistani militants launching attacks from hideouts on the Afghan side of the border.
Meanwhile, American military commanders have been pressuring Islamabad to launch military strikes on terrorists in North Waziristan.
 
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Boston Jihad Bomber Eyed in Jewish Triple Murder on September 12, 2011



Earlier I posted that the Boston Jihad Bomber's "only American friend" had his throat slit. I said, "I think this case should be reopened in light of the Boston jihad. Throat slitting is a jihad speciality"
What I didn't know was that all three vicitms were Jewish. We know that under Islam, slaughtering Jews is the most desired of all kufar murder."I killed my Jew!"
Islamic Jew hatred - it's in the quran.
Slain Boston Bomb Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev Eyed in Jewish Triple Murder The Forward, April 23, 2013, thanks to Nik Best Friend Killed Along With Brandeis Grad and Devout Jew Police in a Boston suburb are investigating whether slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was involved in the unsolved murders of his close friend and two other men, one of whom was aBrandeis University graduate and the other a devout Jew.
Tsarnaev, who was killed in a shootout with police, was a close friend of Brendan Mess, who was found murdered in an apartment in Waltham, Mass. on Sept. 12, 2011, along with Erik Weissman and Raphael Teken.
Weissman was a devoted member of his synagogue, according to WCVB in Boston and Teken had majored in history at predominantly Jewish Brandeis.



 
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Niagara Falls Train Jihad: Moderate Muslims Yesterday, Jihadists Today


The two jihadists behind the plot to bomb a VIA passenger train over Niagara Falls were Chiheb ESSEGHAIER and Raed JASER.
Highly educated, with access to the best engineering and science intel. What is equally disturbing is that there are many Muslims on his team at the research institute in Canada. What did they know and when did they know it?
Royal Canadian Mounted Police press release
Ottawa, April 22, 2013– Today, the RCMP arrested two individuals and charged them with conspiring to carry out a terrorist attack against a VIA passenger train. The accused have been charged under sections 248, 235 (1), 83.2, 83.18, 83.21 of the Criminal Code of Canada. As a result of extensive collaborative efforts, the RCMP was able to disrupt the threat early. While the RCMP believed that these individuals had the capacity and intent to carry out these criminal acts, there was no imminent threat to the general public, rail employees, train passengers or infrastructure.
The two accused, Chiheb ESSEGHAIER and Raed JASER, who live in the Montreal and Toronto area were conspiring to carry out a terrorist attack against a VIA passenger train. Charges include conspiring to carry out an attack against, and conspiring to murder persons unknown for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a terrorist group.



Chiheb ESSEGHAIER Linkedin page - the flag of jihad as an avatar (thanks to Chai)

Check wordpress blog below: many Muslims on his team at the research institute in Canada.
http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/chiheb-esseghaier/46/604/314
http://zouroblab.wordpress.com/members/phd-students/chiheb-esseghaier/
Biography
Born in Tunis, Tunisia. I got Engineer degree in Industrial Biology from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie (INSAT) , Tunis in 2007. After that, I continue master studies at the same institute in Industrial Biotechnology field and i got the MSc degree in 2008. Then, i moved to Sherbrooke University to work on research project on SPR biosensor and gallium arsenide semi-conductor biofunctionnalization. In November 2010, I joined BBBL lab in Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) to start PhD program in developing optical and electrochemical biosensors.
Project

On progress.
Publications
G. A. R. Y. Suifan, C. Esseghaier, A. Ng, M. Zourob, Washeless and highly sensitive assay for prostate specific antigen cancer detection, Analyst, 2012. in press.
C. Esseghaier, A. Ng, M. Zourob, A novel sensitive layer for rapid HIV-1 protease detection using magnetic bead mediation, Biosensor and Bioelectronics, 2012. in press.
M.G. Silva, S. Helali, C. Esseghaier, C.E. Suarez, A. Oliva, A. Abdelghani, An impedance spectroscopy method for the detection and evaluation of Babesia bovis antibodies in cattle, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Volume 135, Issue 1, 10 December 2008, Pages 206-213.
C. Esseghaier, Y. Bergaoui, H. ben Fredj, A. Tlili, S. Helali, S. Ameur, A. Abdelghani, Impedance spectroscopy on immobilized streptavidin horseradish peroxidase layer for biosensing, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Volume 134, Issue 1, 28 August 2008, Pages 112-116.
H. Ben Fredj, S. Helali, C. Esseghaier, L. Vonna, L. Vidal, A. Abdelghani, Labeled magnetic nanoparticles assembly on polypyrrole film for biosensor applications, Talanta,Volume 75, Issue 3, 15 May 2008, Pages 740-747.
C. Esseghaier, S. Helali, H. Ben Fredj, A. Tlili, A. Abdelghani, Polypyrrole-neutravidin layer for impedimetric biosensor, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Volume 131, Issue 2,14 May 2008, Pages 584-589.
Conferences and Proceedings
C. Esseghaier, C. Tlili, A. Ng, M. Zourob, “Novel and Rapid Assay for HIV Diagnosis and Drug screening”, TechConnect World, Summit and innovation showcase 2012, 18-21 June, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
C. Esseghaier, A. Ng, M. Zourob, “Novel, rapid and label-free assay format for proteases detection and drug screening”, Photonics North 2012, June 6-8, Montreal, Qc, Canada. (oral presentation).
C. Esseghaier, A. Ng, M. Zourob, “Novel, rapid and label-free assay format for proteases detection and drugs screening using various transducers”, 22th World Congress on Biosensors 2012, Mai 15-18, Cancun, Mexico.
C. Esseghaier, W.M. Hassen. D. A.B. Blair, M. DeRosa, A. Jimenez, J. Beauvais, E. Frost, J.J. Dubowski, “Monitoring aptamer-thrombin interaction on the surface of gold: towards III-V semiconductor-based surface plasmon resonance biosensor”, 14th Canadian Semiconductor Technology Conference, Hamilton, Ontario, August 10-14, 2009.
Contact Information

Work phone number: 514-228-6866
Email: esseghaier@emt.inrs.ca
Conferences :

- 14th Canadian Semiconductor Technology Conference, Hamilton 2009.
- 22th World Congress on Biosensors, Cancun 2012.
- Photonics North Conference, Montreal 2012.
- TechConnect World Conference, Santa Clara 2012
Experience

phD student

INRS

November 2010 – Present (2 years 6 months)Quebec, Canada Surface functionnalization and charcaterizations.

Monitoring bio-chemical interactions through application of optical and electrochemical transducers.

Development of lab-on-a-chip device for biosensing purposes.


Graduate researcher

Université de Sherbrooke

August 2008 – September 2009 (1 year 2 months)Quebec, CanadaDetection of influenza A virus using surface plasmon resonance (SPR) technique.

Bio-chemical modification of Gallium arsenide substrates for bio-sensing purposes.
Researcher

IPEST, Tunis

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Canadian Muslims Plot to Bomb Passenger Train over the Niagara River and send it flying


The 2:30 p.m. background briefing, attended by several prominent Muslim community leaders, was to be followed by a news conference near Toronto’s Pearson airport. In recent years, police have made a point of briefing community leaders before announcing terror arrests.
The arrests come at a time of heightened public concern over terrorism following the bombings in Boston as well as recent revelations over the involvement of radicalized Canadian youths in overseas terrorist groups (more at The Natinal Post here)
Muslim leader and law enforcement? What is wrong with this picture? Why isn't law enforcement imposing jihad sensitivity training upon these "Muslim leaders"? Why aren't these Muslim leaders calling for the removal of jihadic doctrine from Islam? Why aren't these Muslim leaders condemning the Islamic texts and teachings that command jihad? What were these Muslims doing there -- enforcing sharia language of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police?

These jihadists had intended to blow up the train over Niagara Falls and send it crashing down into the Falls. The evil and savagery of jihadists is unimaginable. The objective was to drop the train into the Niagara River as it crossed from Canada to USA over the bridge.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police press release
Ottawa, April 22, 2013– Today, the RCMP arrested two individuals and charged them with conspiring to carry out a terrorist attack against a VIA passenger train. The accused have been charged under sections 248, 235 (1), 83.2, 83.18, 83.21 of the Criminal Code of Canada. As a result of extensive collaborative efforts, the RCMP was able to disrupt the threat early. While the RCMP believed that these individuals had the capacity and intent to carry out these criminal acts, there was no imminent threat to the general public, rail employees, train passengers or infrastructure.
The two accused, Chiheb ESSEGHAIER and Raed JASER, who live in the Montreal and Toronto area were conspiring to carry out a terrorist attack against a VIA passenger train. Charges include conspiring to carry out an attack against, and conspiring to murder persons unknown for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a terrorist group.
 
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Syria: Metropolitans Boulos Yazigi and Mor Youhanna Ibrahim Kidnapped Outside Aleppo, Driver Murdered


I have warned since the jihadists began agitating in Syria that there will be a genocide of Christians and Alawites of unimaginable proportions should Assad lose control.
Two Metropolitans were kidnapped, their driver murdered in Syria. A Metroplitan is the head of an ecclesiastical province, ranking between archbishop and patriarch. Obama is backing and arming the jihadists in Syria. Once again, Obama backs the Islamic supremacist horse -- every time. He is consistent in this.
Metropolitans Boulos Yazigi and Mor Youhanna Ibrahim Kidnapped Outside Aleppo by OCP on April 23, 2013 (thanks to Maksim)

Metropolitan Paul (Yazigi) of Aleppo

Metropolitan Mor Yohanna Ibrahim
Armed men have kidnapped the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Aleppo and Iskanderun, Metropolitan Boulos Yazigi and the Syriac Orthodox Metropolitan of Aleppo, Metropolitan Youhanna Ibrahm near the city of Aleppo. An-Nahar has learned that the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, which recieved news of the kidnapping of the two metropolitans this evening, will not issue any statement before tomorrow, pending their receiving complete and precise information about the kidnapping.
According to details relayed to an-Nahar by specific sources, Metropolitan Yazigi was on the Turkish side of his archdiocese, which extends from Aleppo to Antakya and Metropolitan Ibrahim and gone to accompany him. Along the road on their return to Aleppo, an armed group stopped them before they could arrive to the city, killing Ibrahim’s driver and kidnapping the two metropolitans. The Orthodox metropolitan’s office relates that the two metropolitans were not injured. Metropolitan Boulos Yaziji is the brother of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East John X Yazigi.
 
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Major Jihad Terror Plot to Attack New York-Toronto Railroad Thwarted in Canada: "It was meant to be spectacular and there would have been a lot of carnage."


I love when they say that it is unrelated to the Boston jihad bombings. It is the same thing. The same playbook. Same motive. Same goal. Same ideology.
Will we now have to suffer the draconian measures on the rails that the the lunkheads in Washington force us to endure on the airlines. These still have millions of Americans taking their shoes off because of Richard Reid in 2001. Operation fetal position ain't gonna win this war, no way no how.
Terror plot to attack New York-Toronto railroad thwarted in Canada RT April 22, 2013

A Via Rail train waits to leave the station at Union Station in Toronto. (Reuters / Mark Blinch)
Authorities have reportedly prevented an al-Qaeda-supported terrorist attack that aimed to disrupt a major North American transportation route.
Canadian law enforcement confirmed Monday afternoon that authorities thwarted an alleged terror plot in Canada that targeted Via Rail passenger train that runs between Toronto, Ontario and New York City in the United States.
According to CTV, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) apprehended and charged two men earlier that day thought to be responsible for hatching what is being called a homegrown terror plot.
The suspects now in custody have been named as Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser, residents of Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario, respectively.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation adds that the suspects were under investigation for over a year before brought into custody, and assistance was provided by entities on both sides of the border including the United States’ FBI and Department of Homeland Security Department.
The suspects, say investigators, were spotted routinely monitoring train activity in the Toronto area.
Robert Fife, chief of CTV’s Ottawa news bureau, reports that both suspects were arrested early Monday and “will face criminal charges.”
“I am told that the two people who have been arrested, they are linked somehow to al-Qaeda,” Fife says.
A federal policing operations official for the RCMP confirmed during a Monday afternoon press conference that the plot was supported by al-Qaeda, although authorities have yet to detail the extent of that collaboration.
Details on the suspects are scant as preliminary reports come in, but Fife describes them as being older, adding, “it does not appear to be a case of radicalization of youth.”
Major terrorist attack on Canada averted Sun News, April 22, 2013
TORONTO - A potential bomb plot on a passenger train over the Niagara River has been averted, a police source told QMI Agency.
Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser of Montreal and Toronto were arrested, according to sources.
One police source said there were several scenarios being looked at during the year the suspects were tracked, including the train plot.
One of the plots uncovered by the RCMP and other agencies was a planned bombing of a passenger train on the bridge that connects Canada and the United States at Niagara Falls, Ont., a police source told QMI Agency.
"The plan was to take out a train with passengers on board and the crossing trestle," said a source. "It was meant to be spectacular and there would have been a lot of carnage."
The source was not clear of the planned date.
"It didn't happen," said the source. "It was stopped."
The source said he believes five people will be arrested and the investigation continues.
"There is an Ontario component and a Quebec component."
As for who was behind the terror plot, the source did not confirm al-Qaida, as some are reporting.
"I can tell you it's the big boys," he said. "I can tell you it's heavy stuff."
U.S. officials said the alleged plot was not linked with last week's Boston Marathon bombings.
The arrests follow not only the Boston bombings but revelations that Canadians took part in an attack by militants on a gas plant in Algeria in
January.
It also recalls the arrests in 2006 of the so-called Toronto-18, accused of planning to plant bombs at various Canadian targets.
UPDATE: Spencer has this:
Muslim arrested in Canada train jihad plot a PhD candidate; Linkedin page features jihad flag


A PhD student? But...but...we're always told that Muslims who misunderstand Islam enough to think it exhorts to violence are all poor and uneducated!
Chiheb Esseghaier is a "Graduate researcher at Université de Sherbrooke." His Linkedin page is here.
"RCMP says it foiled plot to attack Via Rail passenger train," from The Canadian Press, April 22:
TORONTO — RCMP say the two suspects arrested in an alleged terror attack against a Via Rail passenger train had “direction and guidance” from al-Qaida elements in Iran.The suspects were not Canadian citizens.
The suspects — identified as Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser — were arrested this morning in Montreal and Toronto.
 
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'Major terrorist attack' thwarted in Canada: NYC one of the targets


This just over the wires. Multiple arrests. US targets including NYC. Developing story:
Canada to announce arrests after thwarting 'major terrorist attack' -- CBC (Reuters) - Canadian police and intelligence agencies will announce multiple arrests on Monday after an operation to thwart a "major terrorist attack," the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported, citing unidentified "highly placed" sources.
The operation was coordinated with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, CBC said.
Canada's national police agency was expected to hold a news conference later on Monday to give details of the alleged plot.
Law enforcement officials said the suspects have no connection to the two brothers accused of bombings at the Boston Marathon last week, CBC said.
(Reporting by Alastair Sharp and Cameron French; Editing by Janet Guttsman and Doina Chiacu)

U.S. officials said the alleged plot was not linked with last week's Boston Marathon bombings. CBC said the operations was conducted with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.The arrests follow not only the Boston bombings but revelations that Canadians took part in an attack by militants on a gas plant in Algeria in January.
It also recalls the arrests in 2006 of a group of more than a dozen Toronto-area muslims accused of planning to plant bombs at various Canadian targets.



 
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Setting Off A Nail Bomb Isn't Basim Usmani's Favorite Boston Marathon Activity


I get a lot of abuse and vilification in this work, but this is a particularly vile example. This is an interview I did with a Muslim musician and writer named Basim Usmani, who wanted to talk to me about pop music from the 80s. The interview part is all right, but his prefatory paragraphs are among the most vicious I've ever seen. And if you think my headline above is outrageous, it's patterned exactly after Usmani's headline:
"‘Killing an Arab’ Isn't Pamela Geller's Favorite Song by the Cure," by Basim Usmani, Vice.com, April 21, 2013
An interview with Pamela Geller would seem like it would be pretty straightforward. Not too many people know who she is, but amongst those who do, she is either dismissed for being dim, or found generally repulsive for her vociferous opposition to what she claims is the rapid Islamization of America. For “lone wolf” white gunmen, like Andrew Brevik, the Norwegian citizen who opened fire on a multi-cultural summer camp, she’s viewed as the kind of American white vigilante that D.W. Griffith might have imagined.
Notice how Usmani frames the struggle for freedom against Sharia oppression solely in racial terms. In Egypt, protesters have been taking to the streets to fight against the Islamization of that country. Huge numbers of people there don't want to see Sharia in Egypt. Does Basim Usmani think they're all "dim" or "repulsive" racist "Islamophobes"? And while getting Anders Breivik's name wrong, he makes the far more serious (and ideologically motivated) error of thinking I was some kind of heroine to him. This shows the power of enemedia propaganda. Usmani has heard me associated with Breivik so often, he probably doesn't realize that Breivik actually mentioned me only once, and that in connection with a news story I had posted here at Atlas. He also referenced CNN, the NY Times, and other news outlets, not to mention Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Charles Darwin, Thomas Jefferson, and a host of other people. Usmani wouldn't dream of holding them responsible for this madman's murders.
Her blog, Atlas Shrugs, is predictable. The bulk of my correspondence with Pamela happened before the Boston Marathon Bombings, but even after a national tragedy, her opinions remained stagnant. She stops shy of calling President Obama an Al Qaeda member. In a recent polemic, Geller described Obama’s handling of the Boston Marathon bombing, writing that the United States government is an “Islamic supremacist regime that promotes jihad around the world.”
There's another thing Usmani says I don't do: call Obama an Al Qaeda bomber. First "Killing Arabs" wasn't my favorite song, and now this. I never mentioned that Cure song, he did. It seems as if Usmani had an idea of what I was like in his mind, and when I didn't turn out to be that way, he did his best to make me fit his narrative anyway. And I actually wrote that the Saudi regime, not the U.S. government, was an “Islamic supremacist regime that promotes jihad around the world.” Did Vice.com lay off all its fact-checkers?
She has currently crowd-sourced $20,000 of her $50,000 goal for her next anti-Sharia poster campaign on indiegogo. It's the follow-up to her controversial anti-Sharia campaign that placed large posters and advertisements on the sides of city busses and inside subways in New York, San Francisco, and Chicago.
She’s perpetually on the road, giving talks, and promoting her book, Freedom or Submission: On the dangers of Islamic Extremism & American Complacency. She sells a product wrapped in our fears; her business is instilling a victim-complex into White America by drumming up paranoia about “Islamic Supremacy” and "creeping Sharia." She remains an abundant source of real fear for brown folk living in New York, who still haven’t gotten over the prospect of being hurtled into oncoming-trains.
Usmani is referring to a madwoman who pushed a Hindu onto the path of a train because, she said, she was angry at Muslims over 9/11. Leftists and Islamic supremacists tried to blame me for this, although there was absolutely no evidence that this woman ever heard of me or my work. Nor do Usmani or those who blamed me earlier ever mention the Muslim who pushed an Infidel onto the tracks the week before the madwoman committed her crime. It is much more likely that she was influenced by him than by me.
Most recently the hashtag #indienono has been tweeted to protest her“Anti-Sharia” campaign. Her posters are being likened to hate-speech. Her advertisements on buses came under fire by both the Mayor of San Francisco and the same SF Transit company that agreed to run them in the first place.
I’ve long suspected there would be some grand-reveal -- that she’s really some kind of Jerry Lawler-style Performance artist, just cashing in on being incendiary. What I found was very surprising.
After doing time at the New York Daily News and New York Observer, Gellar [sic] spent a portion of the 90s living as a wealthy housewife in Long Island. Which may be three most incredulous [he means "incredible"; get a dictionary, Usmani -- Atlas] things about her. She found her calling nearly nine years after 9/11, when her campaign against the Park 51 Islamic Community Center rebranded it permanently as the Ground Zero Mosque. She has been hoisted up to the top of the post-9/11 alarmist human pyramid of talking heads, “Christian Rights Activists,”and disenfranchised whites living around Europe and the United States.
It was at Ground Zero, slated to take the place of a building that was extensively damaged in the 9/11 attacks, and so was part of Ground Zero. It was a mosque, as that is still all that is happening in the Burlington Coat Factory building: Muslim prayers. And we defeated it. And it's bitterly ironic for him to be talking after the Boston jihad bombings about my stirring up "fear" and "alarmism."
And here again is more proof of Usmani's non-existent research skills. I did not find my calling nine years after 9/11. That may be when Usmani became aware of me, but I have been blogging/writing and activating, every day, day in and day out, since February 2005, after spending three years studying the jihadic doctrine.
She wrote about my band, the Kominas, in 2009 with the headline “Sharia Law in the USA - Everybody dance now, no wait.”
Her editorial remarks were scant. They amounted to single-line captions between pictures. I remember one reading, “lock up your kids.”
I figured I’d try to get in contact with her between her speaking gigs to talk about music because she’s commented on it in the past and about the “rapid Islamification” these United States, because fighting that seems to be her calling in life. The following exchange took place email during the past 10 days.
VICE: You've blogged about loving the Cure, what's your favorite album and why? They're one of my favorite bands. How'd you get into them?
Pamela Geller: My Cure fave is "Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me." I was very into punk rock. I loved the return of bare bones rock 'n' roll --crazy for the Ramones, Broooce, Patti Smith, et al so it was natural that would lead me to the second British invasion of the Smiths, the Cure, the Clash.
The Smiths was always on - the soundtrack of my angst. And I loved Elvis Costello. All of it - his attempts at country and classical. Just brilliant.
Is your favorite Cure song “Killing an Arab”?
I think my favorite is “Friday I’m in love”.
Do you think the public is too mean to Robert Smith for gaining so much weight?
I think the public is vicious (and shallow). I mean, really. It's not like we loved him for his beauty and his bod. We loved his pain. His weight is a manifestation of the pain. But he enjoys himself despite of himself.
The Cure or Depeche Mode? I always thought Depeche Mode were wusses.
You can't even use Depeche and the Cure in the same sentence. Depeche was like cheap candy -- new wave light.
For me, the best album the Cure ever put out was the "live" album, mostly due to that moment in the beginning of "Edge of the deep green sea", where you’re capsized into an ocean of guitar feedback. Have you ever seen them live?
I never saw them live :(
What Smiths song do you think sums up your personality?
Some girls are bigger than others
Bauhaus or Joy Division. From your music taste it seems like they'd fit right in.
I don't shut them off but they are not on my play list
What's your favorite Elvis Costello song, I know its hard to say, but what's a song that has never stopped speaking to you?
Hmmmm, “The Other End of the Telescope.” Honorable mentions: “High Infidelity,” and “Shipbuilding.”
Say I'm new to Elvis Costello, what album should I start with? I know he's done country-classical music.
Start with his first album My Aim is True It's bloody fantastic.
Any newer rappers that you like?
No
You recently posted about how indiegogo stood behind your right to fund-raise when you were accused of promoting racial-hatred. Can you explain Indiegogo’s position, regarding their support for you?
I published their email. It said they allow anyone to fundraise. I appreciate their non-political stance in this age when everything is politicized.
Critics of yours allege that the spike in attacks on Muslim and Sikh Americans in 2012 was related to public figures such as yourself equating Muslims to savages. What would you say to them?
I would say that they were perpetrating an outrageous libel designed to discredit my work for freedom. I have never advocated any kind of violence. Sikhs stood with us at our rally at Ground Zero on 9/11/2011. The ad did not equate Muslims with savages, as you probably know. It equated the jihadis who kill innocent civilians in Israel, and those who celebrate those killings, with savages. Muslims who reject that savagery should be standing with me.
Do you think the large Muslim communities in cities like New York, Chicago, SF, Houston or Boston can be a force behind savagery, ie the Islamization of the USA?
Some people there are, some aren't. Certainly there are mosque leaders in those cities with ties to Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups.
Your most recent book is about the Islamization of the USA, what are some examples of the Islamization of America that pop out at you?
The Justice Department forcing the Berkeley School District to pay $75,000 to Safoorah Khan because she demanded three weeks vacation during her first year of teaching to go on the hajj [pilgrimage to Mecca]. The $25,000 that the DOJ forced Essex County, NJ to pay to Yvette Beshier for denying her request to wear a hijab on the job, which they did for safety reasons. The general fear in the mainstream media to say or do anything remotely critical of jihad or Islamic supremacism.
Can a secular state or country be home to a Muslim community without the threat of Islamization looming?
That has never before happened in history.
Do you think critics of the NYPD's surveillance of Muslim communities are ungrateful?
Ungrateful for what? Bloomberg, who is a great friend of the Muslim community, strongly defended the legality of this program. An investigation found it had broken no laws. So what was overly invasive about it?
Besides 9/11, is there a personal anecdote to share that led to you embarking on advocating against Sharia in the USA?
I always took my freedom for granted. It never occurred to me that it could be taken away. When I realized that, I knew I had to fight for it, because no one else was going to do it for me.
Don’t you think the Muslim world's hatred of Obama should quell fears that he may be a secret-Muslim?
No. He has aided the advance of Islamic supremacism and Sharia all across North Africa. I don't know or care what his religion is. The problem him is his pro-Sharia foreign policy.
Do you support Obama's use of drones and is he doing enough to protect America?
I am in favor of any lawful resistance to the jihad. Obama has done nothing to protect America against Islamization. He had Osama and Awlaki killed but aids those who advance their goal (Sharia over the West) by different, non-violent means.
Could you maybe review, if only in a few words per track, some of my band's songs?

Love the rockabilly groove on "No one is gonna honor kill my baby" but as for the lyirics, really?
Yes it’s clearly satirical.
Satirical? About gender apartheid, creed apartheid, honor killings, persecution of religious minorities, mass murder? I wouldn't be so sure that many didn't take you literally—especially in Pakistan. There is a jihad punk movement (MEMRI etc) that spreads violent jihad.
Perhaps I was a bit too tongue-in-cheek in that 4-year-old post but I think you are doing your music and your talent a disservice. It's like joking about the ovens. Something’s just ain't funny.
What about the other tracks I sent you, like “Doomsday,” or "Tahrir Square Dance"?
It's catchy. Amateurish but that gives it an edge. "Tahrir Square Dance" was danceable. I liked it, second to “Honor Baby.”
What are the chances we could do a sit-down interview in New York somewhere? One good thing about having a sizable Muslim community in NY is the availability of delicious lamb, goat, and beef dishes.
As for sit-downs, my time is too crunchy. I conduct all interviews this way (I gave you more time than most everyone). Between the blog, my columns, the activism, social media, ads, creative, talks, travel, my life and family, I have no time. I barely sleep. Maybe when things cool off a bit.
Until then.
It bears noting that Basim repeatedly sent me his "music" to review. It's terrible, wannabe trash. At first I did not respond, so as not to have to lie, but he just kept on -- wanting my opinion so badly. It stunk. I was more than polite in my reponse. The fact that he plays this garbage in Pakistan -- songs about honor killings -- is particularly rich.
 
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Obama Will Not Charge Boston Jihad Bombers as Enemy Combatants


If not them, then who? Obama is treating this as a crime. Law enforcement? I expect Obama would charge Nazi war crimes as a law enforcement matter as well.
This is war, and Obama's furious fantasist denial of reality is deadly, and the American people are in the crosshairs.
White House: Tsarnaev won't be treated as enemy combatant NBCNews.com
The government will not treat suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dhokhar Tsarnaev as an enemy combatant, White House press secretary Jay Carney said ...
UPDATE: GOP hawks push for enemy combatant status for Boston bombing ... Washington Post (note "hawks" -- anyone who believes in self-defense is a "hawk").
UPDATE: Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Has Been Charged (NPR)
"Dzhokar Tsarnaev charged with conspiring to use weapon of mass destruction against persons and property in U.S. resulting in death," the U.S. attorney's offfice for the district of Massachusetts confirmed on its Twitter page. Tsarnaev, 19, was not charged as an "enemy combatant" but will be prosecuted in civilian courts"
 
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Tamerlan? What's in a name?


According to Andy Bostom, plenty:
“Tamerlan(e)” Tsarnaev and Killing From Koranic Piety
However, in the end, there was even a more basic, profound warning sign of the Tsarnaev family’s dangerous Weltanschauung—the very name Anzor and Zubeidat Tsarnaev chose for their eldest son: Tamerlan(e).
The cover art for my recent book “Sharia Versus Freedom—The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism,”reproduces a miniature painting from a sixteenth century manuscript of the Zafarnama by Sharaf al-Din Ali-Yazdi. The image was housed in the British Library and originally published/produced in Shiraz, Iran, 1552. It depicts soldiers filing before the Islamized Mongol conqueror Amir Timur-i-lang, or “Tamerlane,” holding heads of their decapitated enemies which they used to build a tower shaped like the minaret of a mosque, in Baghdad (1401).
The upper inscription embedded within the painting reads,
How fate and destiny have cast awe in the minds of the “Tavaajis”! [king’s messengers, and herein, more generally, “traitors”]
In an orderly and numerical fashion,
They made minarets with the heads of the wretched “Tavaajis”
As a lesson to the inhabitants of the world.
While the lower embedded inscription states,
So that no subordinate would dare to challenge superiors and no fox acts like a lion, and threatens the kings; Under the temptation of the demon pride
Yazdi’s Zafarnamaremains the best-known example of early Persian historiography of Tamerlane. John Woods 1988 review of this genre of “Timurid”biographical writings emphasizes the rapid, widespread praise Yazdi’s manuscript achieved, its source as an inspiration for artistic renditions of the themes described, and its subsequent translation into both French and English, which disseminated the contents well beyond Persian-speaking Muslim lands:
Immediately after its composition, the work was widely acclaimed as a model of elegance and style for historical writing in Iran, Central Asia, and India, and its themes frequently provided inspiration for the art of manuscript illumination in those regions. Its translation into French and English in the early eighteenth/ twelfth century, moreover, guaranteed its reputation as the most important source of information about Timur outside the persophone Islamic world.
A French translation of Yazdi’s Zafarnama by de la Croix was published in Paris in 1722, and this version was translated into English by J. Darby the next year. Darby’s 1723 translationcharacterizes the events surrounding Tamerlane’s summer 1401 capture of Baghdad—seized from the officers of sultan Ahmed Jelair, the latter having fled (once again), seeking refuge under the Mamelukes —as follows:
As there had been several Tartar soldiers slain in the general assault, each soldier was ordered to bring one head of the men of Baghdad; which they accordingly did, and spared neither old men of fourscore, nor children of eight years of age. No quarter was given either to rich or poor; no one could count them up…Towers were made of these heads, to serve as an example to posterity. Some learned men found means to cast themselves at the feet of the emperor, who granted them pardon and quarter, and even gave them vests and horses, with convoy to conduct them to what place of security they desired: all the rest of the inhabitants were exterminated. Afterwards Timur gave orders that there should not remain one single house in the city unrazed; but that the mosques, colleges, and hospitals should be spared. Accordingly they ruined the markets, caravanserais, hermitages, cells, monasteries, palaces, and other edifices. Thus says the Alcoran [Qur’an], “The houses of the impious are overthrown by the order of God.” [perhaps referring to Qur’an 59:2]. After the Tigris was grown red with the blood of the inhabitants of Baghdad, and the air began to be infected by the dead bodies, Timur decamped from that city…
Darby’s translation also includesthe following note which refers to the Arabic writer Ahmad ibn Arabshah’s harshly critical contemporary biography of Timur, “Marvels of Destiny in the History of Timur” (Ajaibul-Maqdur fi akhbari Timur):
Arabshah says two [i.e., decapitated heads per soldier were to be presented to Timur, or his officers]; and that there were 90,000 inhabitants of Baghdad slain in cold blood. They flung away the bodies, and made trophies of the heads piled together. There were one hundred and twenty towers made of the heads for trophies.
Three modern summary historical accounts of Tamerlane’s 1401 ravages in Baghdad by E.G. Browne, Rene Grousset, and Jean Aubin, are quite uniform with regard to the salient details. Browne’s summary, first published in 1920, maintains
Timur next turned his attention to Baghdad, the capital of the recalcitrant Sultan Ahmad Jalair [Ahmed Jelair], and, having taken it, made on June 20, 1401, a great massacre, in revenge for the many notable officers of his army who had perished in the siege. Each soldier was ordered to bring a head [Browne includes a note here, that states“According to Ibn Arabshah the number of Timur’s soldiers on this occasion was 20,000, and each was ordered to bring two heads.”], and in the words of Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi, “the market of retribution became so brisk that the broker of death sold at one price the old man of eighty and the child of eight, while the oven of wrath was so enkindled that it consumed in like manner the corporeal vestiture of the wealthy plutocrat and the wretched pauper.” Having left Baghdad a smoking charnel house, Timur again turned his attention to the unfortunate Georgians…
Grousset’s assessment, originally published in 1939, described the ravages of Timur’s army once Baghdad had fallen, thusly:
The defenders had fought with the energy of despair, and Tamerlane’s vengeance was merciless. Whereas seven years before he had treated Baghdad with some moderation, he now ordered a general massacre. Each soldier had to bring the head of an inhabitant, says Sharif ad-Din [Ali Yazdi]; two heads says Ibn Arabshah. Amid all the carnage, the literary-minded Tamerlane spared certain men of letters and even offered them coats of honor. Apart from these men, the entire population was slaughtered, and all buildings except mosques demolished. Ibn Arabshah estimates the number of victims at 90,000. July heat under the sky of Iraq soon bred epidemics from the heaped corpses and forced the victor to withdraw.
Jean Aubin’s 1962 analysis notesthat the Baghdad siege lasted nearly forty days, adding that the Zafarnama insists, “…in hopes of seeing the city surrender and conserve it intact, Tamerlane delayed several times the attack requested by his officers.” Ravaged by starvation, groups of soldiers and residents fled the city, “…by jumping from the summit of the ramparts.” When Tamerlane’s forces launched their final assault, escape from Baghdad was prevented by archers who were arranged on both riverbanks of the Tigris. Consistent with the earlier accounts of Browne and Grousset, Aubin summarizes the fate of Baghdad’s hapless population, as follows:
The entire population remaining in Baghdad, including children, was methodically massacred. Every soldier had to present one head to the officer where the officers kept an accounting. Piles of severed heads were built up in different places in the city. The number of victims varies according to the source; it was on the order of several tens of thousands. The rare survivors—approximately one person out of a hundred, according to the Zafar-nama—were sold into slavery. The only ones spared were theologians, sheiks, and dervishes who managed to reach Tamerlane’s pavilion. They were given food and clothes, and sent to a safe place.
Tamerlanewas born at Kash (Shahr-i-Sebz, the “Green City”) in Transoxiana (some 50 miles south of Samarkand, in modern Uzbekistan), on April 8 (or 11), 1336 A.D.. Amir Turghay, his father, was chief of the Gurgan or Chagtai branch of the Barlas Turks. By age 34 (1369/70), Timur had killed his major rival (Mir Husain), becoming the pre-eminent ruler of Transoxiana. He spent the next six to seven years consolidating his power in Transoxiana before launching the aggressive conquests of Persia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and then attacking Hindustan (India) under the tottering Delhi Sultanate.
Groussetcontrasts Jenghiz Khan’s “straightforward planning” and “clean sweeps”with the “higgledy-piggledy” order of Timur’s expeditions, and the often incomplete nature of the latter’s conquests:
Tamerlane’s [Timur’s] conquering activities were carried on from the Volga to Damascus, from Smyrna to the Ganges and the Yulduz, and his expeditions into these regions followed no geographical order. He sped from Tashkent to Shiraz, from Tabriz to Khodzhent, as enemy aggression dictated; a campaign in Russia occurred between two in Persia, an expedition into Central Asia between two raids into the Caucasus…[Timur] at the end of every successful campaign left the country without making any dispositions for its control except Khwarizm and Persia, and even there not until the very end. It is true that he slaughtered all his enemies as thoroughly and conscientiously as the great Mongol, and the pyramids of human heads left behind him as a warning example tell their own tale. Yet the survivors forgot the lesson given them and soon resumed secret or overt attempts at rebellion, so that it was all to do again. It appears too, that these blood soaked pyramids diverted [Timur] from the essential objective. Baghdad, Brussa (Bursa), Sarai, Kara Shahr, and Delhi were all sacked by him, but he did not overcome the Ottoman Empire, the Golden Horde, the khanate of Mogholistan, or the Indian Sultanate; and even the Jelairs of Iraq Arabi rose up again as soon as he had passed. Thus he had to conquer Khwarizm three times, the Ili six or seven times (without ever managing to hold it for longer than the duration of the campaign), eastern Persia twice, western Persia at least three times, in addition to waging two campaigns in Russia…[Timur’s] campaigns “always had to be fought again,” and fight them again he did.
Timur’s campaigns are infamous for their extensive massacres and emblematic “pyramids of heads.” Brown cites “only a few” prominent examples, in addition to the graphic cover art illustration, resulting from the 1401 Baghdad carnage:
As specimens of those acts mention may be made of his massacre of the people of Sistan 1383-4, when he caused some two thousand prisoners to be built up into a wall; his cold-blooded slaughter of a hundred thousand captive Indians near Dihli [Delhi] (December, 1398); his burying alive of four thousand Armenians in 1400-1, and the twenty towers of skulls erected by him at Aleppo and Damascus in the same year; and his massacre of 70,000 of the inhabitants of Isfahan in (November, 1387)…
Timur defeatedhis major Muslim rivals, the Ottomans, under Bayezid, July 20, 1402, destroying the Ottoman army (at Cubuk), and holding the sultan captive. Bayezid died a few months later (March 9, 1403, at Aksehir), “..broken by disaster and humiliation.” With the Ottoman army’s decimation, the conquestof Western Anatolia (and beyond), as Grousset has noted, “was no more than a route march for Tamerlane. ”Bursa, the Ottoman capital, was plundered, and Tamerlane’s surrogates continued their devastating advance further to Nicaea (Iznik).
Ibn Arabshah and Sharif ad-Din describe the conquerors behaving like a horde of savages, and that lovely city was set on fire. Tamerlane’s grandson Abu Bakr galloped as far as Nicaea (Iznik),“slaying and looting everywhere,” as Sharif ad-Din tells with relish.
Christian Smyrna (later Izmir)—which had defied repeated Ottoman attempts at conquest—was besiegedby Tamerlane himself, after its governor, Brother Guillaume de Munte of the Knights of Rhodes refused to convert to Islam. Following a two-week siege, which began in early December, 1402, the city was overwhelmed, and a general massacre ensued. According to Ibn Arabshah,
…[H]e slew the grown men and cast in bonds the women and children and from the corpses of the slain built mosques and from the skulls raised towers; then he despoiled that fort of its wealth and robbed it of its treasure and emptied it and desolated and plundered it and utterly drained its silver and gold and made the wings of glad news fly with these exploits, which news according to his presumption he sent through the world with propitious augury and swift flight.
A rather gruesome variant on the primary use of decapitated heads for skull towers occurred during the capture and destruction of Smyrna, as recorded by the Zafarnama.
A few escaped slaughter by casting themselves into the sea, and swimming to the vessels; while others were drowned. After our soldiers had put the inhabitants of Smyrna to the sword, they razed the houses, as well of the city as of the cattle, casting their arms and movable goods into the sea. There were from certain parts of Europe great ships named Caraca, with two masts, and some with more, which brought over soldiers and arms to succor the inhabitants. When they came near the palace and beheld the town and castle in ruins, they were struck with fear and anchored. Timur ordered that some of the Christians heads should be thrown into these ships, which the slingers of wild-fire accordingly did. The mariners seeing their companions heads, returned in fear and frustrated of their hopes.
Grousset maintainedTimur was indeed a pious Muslim (who may well have belonged to the Naqshbandi Sufi order, according to Manz), while emphasizing the important Islamic motivation for Timur’s jihad campaigns:
It is the Qur’an to which he continually appeals, the imams and [Sufi] dervishes who prophesy his success. [emphasis added] His wars were to influence the character of the jihad, the Holy War, even when—as was almost always the case— he was fighting Muslims. He had only to accuse these Muslims of lukewarmness, whether the Jagataites of the Ili and Uiguria, whose conversion was so recent, or the Sultans of Delhi who…refrained from massacring their millions of Hindu subjects.
Beatrice Manz concurswith Grousset’s assessment about the centrality of Islamic jihadism in motiviating Tamerlane’s conquests, although she also stresses his dual role as “restorer” of the Turco-Mongolian world order. Tamerlane patronized Muslim scholars, constructed Islamic religious buildings, and waged jihad campaigns for dissemination of the Muslim creed to establish his bona fides as a promoter of Islam. The Zafarnama, Manz observes, invokes promulgation of the Sharia, specifically, as a primary animating factor for many of Tamerlane’s campaigns:
Timur undertook many of his campaigns in the interest of religious order, and we fund that almost all mentions of Sharia in [Nizan al-Dim] Shami’s Zafarnameh occur as justification for Timur’s conquests. His campaigns against the kings of Georgia, the Shi’ite sayyids of Amul in Mazandaran [a province in northern Iran], and the non-Muslim populations on his route to India were all ostensibly taken for the preservation of Sharia; and Shami even invoked the sanctions of religion in explaining Timur’s campaigns against the Ottomans. Before beginning his campaigns in the Middle East. Timur took care to get the blessing of Muslim men of religion.
The Turki chronicle Malfuzat-i-Timuri, another putative autobiographical memoir of Timur, translated into Persian by Abu Talib Husaini, illustrates these driving Islamic sentiments, complete with a Koranic quotation:
About this time there arose in my heart the desire to lead an expedition against the infidels, and to become a ghazi; for it had reached my ears that the slayer of infidels is a ghazi, and if he is slain he becomes a martyr. It was on this account that I formed this resolution, but I was undetermined in my mind whether I should direct my expedition against the infidels of China or against the infidels and polytheists of India. In this matter I sought an omen from the Qur’an, and the verse I opened upon [Q66:9] was this, “O Prophet, make war upon infidels and unbelievers, and treat them with severity.” My great officers told me that the inhabitants of Hindustan were infidels and unbelievers. In obedience to the order of Almighty Allah I ordered an expedition against them.
Timur’s jihad campaigns against non-Muslims — whether Christians in Asia Minor and Georgia, or Hindus in India — seemed to intensify in brutality. Brown highlightsone particular episode which supports this contention, wherein Timur clearly distinguished between his vanquished Muslim and non-Muslim foes. After rampaging through (Christian) Georgia, where he “devastated the country, destroyed the churches, and slew great numbers of inhabitants,”in the winter of 1399-1400, Timur, in August 1400,
…began his march into Asia Minor by way of Avnik, Erzeroum, Erzinjan, and Sivas. The latter place offered a stubborn resistance, and when it finally capitulated Timur caused all the Armenian and Christian soldiers to be buried alive; but the Muhammadans he spared.
 
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Boston Jihad Bomber's Only American Friend had his throat slit


I think this case should be reopened in light of the Boston jihad. Throat slitting is a jihad speciality.
Daily Mail: Dead terror suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev's best friend had his 'throat slit' in an unsolved murder in 2011 as family members today told of how he was known to 'manipulate and use' his brother.
The older of the suspected marathon bombers was the black sheep of the family who 'used his younger brother' and had fallen out with an uncle he called on the eve of his death, relatives have said.
It has emerged the terror suspect's best friend died in a gruesome unsolved murder two years ago, just after Tamerlan said he had 'one single American friend'.

Murdered: Brendan Mess was killed in 2011 - his throat was slit at an apartment alongside two other men
 
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Saudi National Allegedly Connected to the Boston Jihadi Bombings


I believe there is an al qaeda connection to the Boston jihad bombing. In my piece at Breitbart last week, Saudi National Deportation: American People Must Demand the Full Story, I point to Alharbi's national security violations being tied to the Boston bombing. Today we have proof. What is Abdul Rahman Alharbi's role in the bombing? Why the rush to whisk this "terror threat" out of the country? Call your Congressmen and tell them to demand answers from the DoJ and the Obama administration. They don't serve the Saudis; they serve the American people.
We have seen the extraordinary lengths that the U.S. Government goes to, sacrificing our own people and our own national security concerns, to placate this Islamic supremacist regime that promotes jihad around the world. The bin Laden family was flown out of the country in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, although it could be argued that they weren’t culpable in any way. A Miami Herald exposé Wednesday shows how we kowtow to the Saudis. And the Saudis are not our friends. -- More skulduggery on the Saudi national. Here's the latest from The Blaze:
Background points:
A Saudi national originally identified as a “person of interest” in the Boston Marathon bombing was set to be deported under section 212 3B — “Security and related grounds” — “Terrorist activities” after the bombing
As the story gained traction, TheBlaze’s Chief Content Officer Joel Cheatwood received word that the government may not deport the Saudi national, originally identified as Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano refused to answer questions on the subject when confronted by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) on Capitol Hill.
An ICE official said a separate Saudi national is in custody, but is “in no way” connected to the bombings.
A congressional source, however, says that the file on Alharbi wascreated, that he was “linked” in some way to the Boston bombings (though it is unclear how), and that documents showing all this have been sent to Congress.
Key congressmen of the Committee on Homeland Security request a classified briefing with Napolitano
Fox News’ Todd Starnes reports that Alharbi was allegedly flagged on a terrorist watch list and granted a student visa without being properly vetted
New information provided to TheBlaze reveals Alharbi’s file was altered early Wednesday evening to disassociate him from the initial charges
Sources say the Saudi’s student visa specifically allows him to go to school in Findlay, Ohio, though he appears to have an apartment in Boston, Massachusetts
Sources tell us this will most likely now be kicked from the DHS to the DOJ and labeled an ongoing investigation that can no longer be discussed.
Beck proceeded to highlight the background of the Saudi national first identified as a “person of interest” in the Boston bombings, Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, noting that the the NTC issued an event file calling for his deportation using section 212, 3B which is proven terrorist activity.
“We are not sure who actually tagged him as a ’212 3B,’ but we know it is very difficult to charge someone with this — it has to be almost certain,” Beck explained. “It is the equivalent in civil society of charging someone with premeditated murder and seeking the death penalty — it is not thrown around lightly.”
Beck continued, noting that after Secretary of State John Kerry met with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud on Tuesday, the FBI began backtracking on the Saudi national from suspect, to person of interest, to witness, to victim, to nobody.
Then, on Wednesday, President Obama had a “chance” encounter with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud and Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir.
“Wednesday at 5:35 p.m. the file is altered,” Beck said. “This is unheard of, this is impossible in the timeline due to the severity of the charge….You don’t one day put a 212 3B charge against somebody with deportation, and then the next day take it off. It would require too much to do it.”
“There are only two people that could revoke the deportation order — the director of the NTC could do it after speaking with each department, the FBI, the ATC, etc. — which is impossible to do in such a short period of time, — or, somebody at the very highest levels of the State Department could do it. We don’t have any evidence to tell you which one did it,” Beck said.
Congressman Duncan is in possession of the original event file along with other members of the House Homeland Security Committee, and have sent a formal letter of request (which we have a copy of) to Napolitano for a classified briefing on the Saudi national and the deportation order.
If, as an ICE official said last week, there is actually a second Saudi in custody, who is it? Beck asked. “Why were there were no names, no pictures presented? The fact is, an event was created for one Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Harbi indicating he was to be deported for terrorism activity related to the Boston bombing. If this file was created with another Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Harbi in mind, don’t you think we should know about it?”
Beck proceeded with more exclusive information:
The Saudi’s student visa specifically allows him to go to school in Findley, Ohio. He has been in this country six months. He has an apartment in Boston, Massachusetts.
If this is a case of mistaken identity, then who is the person named in the file, with the same name, with the 3B charge? And If DHS was working with the person as a source to out the bombers, then why was there a 3B Charge?
Exclusive: Why wasn’t the Congressional Committee on Homeland Security notified? Why are they being cut out of all information? This is protocol.
We are working on the family connections, and there is more to come.
Sources tell us this will most likely now be kicked from the DHS to the DOJ and labeled an ongoing investigation that can no longer be discussed. This will be the reason Napalitano won’t answer the Homeland Security Committee’s request for a briefing. Like Benghazi they have heavy into a disinformation campaign floating a variety of scenarios to confuse the media — but that apparently doesn’t take much — to prevent the story from being pursued… They are also working very hard to discredit those on the scent.
It is still unclear why the government is stonewalling the media on information as to why the file initially labeled Alharbi as a threat, only to change that designation later in the week.
Is there a legitimate threat that’s being covered up? Did the government have actual concerns about Alharbi, but was too quick to connect him in this instance and is now trying to stave off embarrassment? Many questions remain.
“We demand answers from the Justice Department and this administration.”
UPDATE: Is Obama Covering Up Saudi Role In Boston Bombings?
 
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Australian Party senate candidate charged for terrorism comments


Blowing up women and children, waging war on the streets of Western nations, subverting Western law with sharia -- this is not a problem according to the prevailing [anti-]wisdom. The problem is offending believers in the ideology that commands the blowing up of women and children, waging war on the streets of Western nations and more moderate Muslim nations, subverting Western law with sharia ....
"Yet the Australian Defence Force is sending a message that intelligence officers cannot discuss Islam in any way, shape or form, unless they pass judgment that it is a nice, peaceful religion.
"How the hell are you supposed to have an objective view of Islam if you are not allowed to examine links between Islamic beliefs and terrorist activity?"
Muslim immigration from jihad countries must end. Immediately. What politician will carry the ball? This Australian candidate tried, and look where it got him. This is sharia in the West.
Terrorism comments got me charged: Gaynor Brisbane Times (thanks to Sheik)
Former Katter Australian Party senate candidate Bernard Gaynor claims he has been charged by the Australian Defence Force over comments he made about Muslim immigration and terrorism.
Mr Gaynor, an Army Reserve Intelligence Officer, has posted a series of blogs arguing Islam immigration should be limited and in the wake of the Boston bombings re-aired his views.
He said he was charged on Monday by the ADF for bringing the organisation into disrepute and responded by saying it was proof political correctness was hampering the ADF's ability to fight against Islamic violence.
"It is outrageous that the Australian Defence Force is charging me for discussing Islam," he said in a statement.
"In the last week, ASIO has confirmed hundreds of Muslim Australians are joining violent Islamic groups in Syria and a radical Australian Islamic cleric has been linked to the Boston bombers.
"Yet the Australian Defence Force is sending a message that intelligence officers cannot discuss Islam in any way, shape or form, unless they pass judgment that it is a nice, peaceful religion.
"How the hell are you supposed to have an objective view of Islam if you are not allowed to examine links between Islamic beliefs and terrorist activity?"
The ADF have been approached for comment.
His latest blog about limiting Muslim immigration is titled "ASIO concern highlights need for immigration debate" and was posted in the wake of the Boston bombings.
"As I've written a number of times before, Australians urgently need to debate the pros and cons of continued Islamic immigration," he wrote in the post.
"News that ASIO is concerned that hundreds of Muslim Australians have gone to Syria to fight with radical Islamist groups highlights that this debate must be had.

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/terrorism-comments-got-me-charged-gaynor-20130422-2i9rg.html#ixzz2RDEDzTN3

 
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Jihad Butchery: Hundreds killed as Muslim army turns Nigerian Town into Slaughterhouse


The ongoing jihad in Nigeria by the Muslim group Boko Haram (Western Education is Sinful) is escalating as Islamic supremacism spreads across the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
Muslim soldiers used locals as human shields while soldiers set residential quarters on fire. The streets of Baga were strewn with the corpses of dead humans and animals and about 2,000 private houses and several markets were burnt down in fighting, reported local officials when they returned to the town on Sunday.
The jihadists found refuge in a ....... mosque.
Obama sanctions this group as he has refused to designate Boko Haram a terrorist group despite their savagery and slaughter.
"Butchery in Nigeria: At least 185 killed as army battles Islamists" RT, April 22, 2013

A northeastern Nigerian town turned into a slaughterhouse as a battle between government troops and Islamist militants left at least 185 dead. Heavily-armed extremists used locals as human shields while soldiers set residential quarters on fire. The town of Baga, on the border with Chad, has been largely devastated in hours-long fully-fledged urban combat between regular troops and Islamist insurgents that started on Friday, local government official Lawan Kole told AP on Sunday.
The official body count confirms 185 citizens have been found dead. The real number of casualties is much greater, as citizens continue to collect corpses throughout the town and in the suburbs.

image from http://communityofnigeria.com
The streets of Baga were strewn with the corpses of dead humans and animals and about 2,000 private houses and several markets were burnt down in fighting, reported local officials when they returned to the town on Sunday.
Most bodies were burnt beyond recognition as fire raged through the town. According to Muslim tradition the bodies were buried the same day, AP reports.
This new stage of the conflict started on Friday after Islamic extremists of the ‘Congregation of the People of Tradition for Proselytism’, widely known as Boko Haram (‘Western education is sinful’ in the western African Hausa language), insurgency murdered an army officer. In return government troops blocked a mosque where they believed the militants found refuge, but very soon more militants armed with automatic weapons, heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades became engaged. Heavy gunfire and explosions of the battle sent civilians fleeing into the bushland around the town.
They only dared to return on Sunday, when government officials returned to the town, only to find their dwellings and businesses in ashes, vehicles burnt down and scores of corpses on the streets.
 
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Saudi National Questioned in Boston was on Terror Watch List


The Obama administration has scrubbed counter-terrorism manuals and material of jihad and Islam. How many jihadists are in this country thanks to Obama's immigration policies?
Did Alharbi know the Boston bombers? Why the rush to return him to Saudi Arabia?
"Saudi National Questioned in Boston was on Terror Watch List" Todd Starnes, Fox News (thanks to Andrew Bostom)
The Saudi national who was initially detained and then ruled out as a suspect in the Boston Marathon terrorist attack had been flagged on a terror watch list and was granted a student visa without being properly vetted, sources have told me.
A source close to the investigation revealed that Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi had been deemed inadmissible under the section of the Immigration and Nationality Act which declares ineligible for a visa –any alien who is engaged in or is likely to engage after entry – in terrorist activity.
At least two additional sources have confirmed to me that Ali Alharbi is set to be deported as early as this week, contrary to statements made by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
The House Homeland Security Committee is now requesting a classified briefing with Napolitano to get to the bottom of the issue, according to an exclusive report from The Blaze.
Napolitano denied anyone was being deported in a heated exchange Thursday with Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) during a House hearing.
“I am unaware of anyone who is being deported for national security concerns at all related to Boston,” she said. “I don’t know where that rumor came from.”
The Homeland Security chief said the Saudi national was not “technically a person of interest or a suspect, that was a wash.”
But Duncan questioned the wisdom of deporting someone who was at the scene of a terrorist attack.
“Wouldn’t you agree with me that it is negligent for us, as an American administration, to deport someone who was reportedly at the scene of the bombing, and we are going to deport him, not to be able to question him anymore, is that not negligent,” Duncan asked.
Napolitano refused to answer the question.
“It is so full of misstatements and misapprehensions, that it is just not worthy of any answer,” she replied. “There has been so much reported on this that has been wrong. I can’t even begin to tell you, congressman.”
Last week Steven Emerson, of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, told Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity that Alharbi had been set to be deported “on national security grounds.”
“You don’t arrest their citizens – you deport them,” Emerson said regarding the Saudis.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement official told me that it was a case a “Saudi being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
The official, with knowledge of the case, said Alharbi’s status has changed – but as it now stands – he will be sent back home.
“They don’t like the negative press,” the official said of the Saudis. “The guess is he will probably be allowed to leave without a lot of hype in order to avoid political sensitivities with the Saudis.”
ICE sources told The Blaze that a separate Saudi national was in custody — and that individual was in no way affiliated with the Boston attacks.


 
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Pamela Geller, WND Column: Jihad is in America


DEFENDING THE WEST
Jihad is in America
Exclusive: Pamela Geller warns, 'This obfuscation and denial has to stop'
The surviving Boston jihadi has caught, and the mainstream media is now turning to the question of Why? The Washington Post ran a story headlined, “Search for why begins.” Chicago Tribune had “Boston Marathon bombing investigation turns to motive.” The Huffington Post ran as a headline the single word: “Why?”
Why, indeed? Why do the media cover up, obfuscate and mislead the American people about the gravest national security threat this nation faces? Why do the enemedia viciously attack anyone who is brave enough to suffer the libel, defamation and death threats that follow speaking out against jihad and Shariah? This is a sickness – a societal death wish and orgy of self-hatred. The furious rush to sanitize the motive is the sanction of the victim. The enemedia are disarming the American people, inevitably leading sheep to slaughter.
Worst of all was Elspeth Reeve of the Atlantic Wire, who ran a spiteful story titled, “The U.S. Anti-Muslim Crowd Is Quite Pleased with Itself.” As the wounds are still gaping and the baby’s body not yet cold, the ghouls on the left attack those of us who have been warning of this very thing.
This vicious tool should be thanking me and apologizing for the years of smears, defamation and libel that the enemedia have directed against me, my work and my colleagues. Instead, she aids and abets the most gruesome slaughterers ever on American soil.
And there is more enemedia willful blindness from Time: They talk about some of their obvious jihadi ties and then say that there is no evidence that Dzhokhar was motivated by religion – as if the brothers had different motives, and ignoring Dzhokhar’s statement that his “worldview” was “Islam.”
The media’s knee-jerk reaction is to go into full spin mode, not to take a step back and think, or to say to themselves, “Maybe we got this wrong.”
The jihadists told us why. What’s it going to take?
Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have deeply imbibed the jihad ideology that permeates Chechnya and the Muslim areas of the Russia Caucasus in general. And even the mainstream media can’t entirely ignore this: The New York Times reports: ”On Vkontakte, Russia’s most popular social media platform, the younger brother, Dzhokhar, describes his worldview as ‘Islam’ and … lists a verse from the Koran, ‘Do good, because Allah loves those who do good.’”
Apparently targeting, mutilating, and slaughtering women and children falls under the category of “doing good.”
Tamerlan Tsarnaev said: “I’m very religious.” His aunt revealed that he had recently became a devout Muslim, praying five times a day.
Read the rest.
UPDATE: Excellent piece of at Mental Recession: "The Media Owes Boston An Apology"
 
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HuffPo Tries to Strongarm Indiegogo into Dropping AFDI Fundraiser


Now more than ever, help us keep exposing the truth about jihad and Islamic supremacism. If there was ever a time when the American people needed the facts about jihad, it is now. CONTRIBUTE TO THIS CAMPAIGN HERE!
Nathan Lean is at it again, this time in the Puff Ho. Lapdog Lean is a real bottom feeder, a dull-witted and violent-minded enemy of freedom who has threatened Robert Spencer repeatedly, has been arrested for shouting obscenities at a city council meeting, has called on hackers to destroy Jihad Watch, and gets a platform in mainstream media outlets including the Los Angeles Times and New York Daily News to call for restrictions on our freedom of speech.
Now he is trying to intimidate Indiegogo into shutting down our AFDI fundraiser. The core element of his case is that our ad campaigns constitute "hate," and Indiegogo's guidelines prohibit their allowing fundraising for hate. So Lean is trying to convince them that fighting against Islamic Jew-hatred, gender apartheid, creed apartheid, and slavery is "hate." Considering that Lean is the Editor-In-Chief of Aslan Media, which is run by Reza Aslan, and that Aslan is a Board member of a front group for the Islamic Republic of Iran, it's easy to see why Lean would see opposition to jihad and Islamic supremacism as "hate."

Crowdfunding Hate: Indiegogo Profits From Anti-Muslim Campaign by Nathan Lean, Huffington Post, April 15
Indiegogo may sound like the name of a 1970s funk band, but it's actually one of the fastest growing crowd-funding sites on the Internet. Founded in 2002 by a former Wall Street analyst, the funding platform allows inspired individuals to grow projects or personal campaigns by pooling money from donors. If you desire, you can drop a few bucks to help a startup bakery. You could also help finance new stables at a therapeutic horse ranch or sponsor an orphanage in Haiti.
Everything is fair game, as long as you play by the rules. And the rules are clear: User terms stipulate that you can't promote hate.
Strange, then, that among those partaking in Indiegogo's services is the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), an organization classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. They are using the platform to raise money -- and lots of it -- to put out another batch of their now-infamous anti-Muslim metro and bus ads. Led by bloggers Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, AFDI has come under fire in recent months for waging a culture war in subway stops with ad campaigns that single out Muslims and the religion of Islam and conflate them with the actions of a fraction of extremists.
Spencer and I responded to that Big Lie in a piece we cowrote for the San Francisco Examiner: "Central to Nathan Lean’s claim that our American Freedom Defense Initiative ads spread 'hate' is his charge that the ads 'suggest collective guilt on the part of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims for acts of terrorism.' Yet nowhere do our ads suggest any such thing. Instead, they highlight real hatred and incitement to violence from influential Muslim leaders and spokesmen. Muslims and non-Muslims who abhor and oppose that hatred and incitement should be standing with us, not condemning us."
The latest placards, which to date have raised $22K of a $50K goal, urge the cessation of aid to "Islamic countries" and feature a fierce quotation sprawled across a Palestinian flag which reads, "It's Saturday, so massacre the Jews; on Sunday massacre the Christians." The obvious missing group -- the world's 1.5 billion Muslims -- is thought to be doing the massacring. "Our dead in the cause of Islam have taught us plenty," the description on the group's Indiegogo campaign page reads. "Over 20,000 jihad attacks around the world since 9/11, each with the imprimatur of a Muslim cleric, have taught us all we need to know."
Here again, nowehere does the ad say that "the world's 1.5 billion Muslims" are the ones who are "doing the massacring." Lean is just making that up.
It's that type of language that caused the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to rejectthe application of Geller and Spencer's group, Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA). It's also that type of language that the Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik digested in the summer of 2011 before he went on a shooting rampage and killed 77 youths. Breivik citedGeller and Spencer dozens of times as informing his views on Muslims and Islam. Recently, several organizations have canceled the duos speeches, including the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC), a Massachusetts Diocese and a New York synagogue.
Re the USPTO: they rejected SIOA's trademark because it found it "disparaging" to Muslims. We are appealing, arguing that no law-abiding Muslim could possibly be disparaged by a trademark that reflected our goal to "stop" the Muslim Brotherhood's civilization jihad, which is what we proved that "Islamization" means. More here. As for Breivik, he himself has explained that he was actually inspired by al-Qaeda. Lean and his accomplices routinely lie about who really inspired the mad monster, exploiting him to try to destroy all opposition to the jihad. How ironic that it is jihad that was his inspiration and teacher. And regarding the cancellations, Lean holds up prior occasions when he and his friends have succeeded in smearing and defaming us to the point that frightened venues drop us as if they were strikes against us, when actually they're only signs of his own fascism and opposition to the freedom of speech.
Erica Labovitz, Director of Strategic Programs at Indiegogo commented in an email exchange that, "The views reflected by the campaign owners are not necessarily those of Indiegogo." That may well be the case. But it does little to explain how a campaign that singles out the followers of an entire religious faith with incendiary associations and stereotypes does not violate the company's "no hate" policy. Would an antagonistic ad campaign directed at Jews or Catholics receive a pass too? What does Indiegogo classify as hate?
Unfortunately for Lean, they don't classify truth or freedom fighting as "hate." When this campaign of smears and intimidation began against Indiegogo, wrote to them asking them to stand firm and got back this note: "Thank you for your note. Indiegogo is an open platform that allows anyone, anywhere to raise money. We have checks in place to prevent fraud, and have language in our Terms of Service to protect contributions.We appreciate that you took the time to share this and will be in touch if we have any questions."
Several activists have reached out to Indiegogo with little success. In an essay at Salon, Chris Stedman, an interfaith leader, assistant chaplain at Harvard, and author of the memoir "Faitheist," urged the company to reconsider its support for provocative AFDI ads that pitted Muslims and gays against each other. Emails sent through the company's website were unanswered as were tweets to company execs. Geller and Spencer's followers, however, were more vulgar. Dozens of them bombarded Stedman with homophobic insults and slurs, while also leveling derogatory attacks at Muslims. The reaction underscored precisely the nasty consequences of AFDI's program to cleave society into warring factions.
Stedman is one of the leading "Chickens for Colonel Sanders," aka Gays for sharia. Breitbart slams 'em here, as do I here at The Thinker, and Spencer KO's Stedman here.
Lean ends up by claiming that we "should be afforded" the right to free speech -- all the while trying to shut us down and shut us up. But he does include contacts for Indiegogo. Use them to call, politely and calmly, for them to stand firm against this thuggery and intimidation, and to keep the AFDI fundraiser up:
Also troubling is that not only does Indiegogo offer its fundraising services to AFDI's minority-bashing crusaders, but it also gives them a discount. As a non-profit organization, AFDI is entitled to a 25 percent reduction in platform fees. Beyond that, Indiegogo is profiting from anti-Muslim hate. The company charges a 9 percent fee on funds raised. If the group reaches their goal, Indiegogo gives 5 percent back, leaving them with a profit of 4 percent. That may not sound like a lot, but it's a cool couple of grand to pocket from prejudicing a minority population. AFDI should be afforded their rights to free speech, but that doesn't mean that organizations like Indiegogo are obligated to host these campaigns. Enabling divisive and hurtful rhetoric against Muslims or any community is something that they can and should refuse to do. Indiegogo has an opportunity to be a force for good in the world, empowering those who desire to bring about positive change with the means to realizing their goals. The vilest of hate groups should not be among them -- even if there is a profit involved.
You can contact Indiegogo the following ways:
On Twitter: @Indiegogo
Slava Rubin, CEO | slava@indiegogo.com | Twitter: @gogoSlava
Danae Ringelmann, Founder | danae@indiegogo.com | Twitter: @gogoDanae
Erica Labovitz, Director of Strategic Programs | erica@indiegogo.com | Twitter: @gogoErica
 
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John Kerry compares Boston jihad victims with Marmara Flotilla Jihadists


It is monstrous that John Kerry would compare the jihadists on the warship flotilla to Boston jihad victims. And he says this in Istanbul, no less. This reflects Obama's pro-jihadist foreign policy. It is unspeakable. 

Kerry Compares Boston Victims, Marmara Terrorists INN (thanks to shy guy)
At Istanbul, Secretary of State makes jarring comparison between Boston Marathon terror victims, IHH terror activists killed by Israel. 4/22/2013

Speaking at Istanbul, Turkey, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made a jarring comparison between the victims of the Boston Marathon terror bombs and terror activists from the IHH group who were killed when they attacked IDF forces aboard the Mavi Marmara in 2010.

Kerry told his hosts in Turkey that he understands the pain of the families whose loved ones were killed aboard the Marmara – and added that he can understand their pain well, having just dealt with the families whose loved ones were slain in Boston.

Kerry said in his speech that he hopes the Israeli apology will lead to a thawing of Israel-Turkey relations.

Representatives of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu arrived in Turkey Sunday, for talks on the compensation Israel will pay Turkey for the deaths of the IHH terror activists. The apology was brokered by U.S. President Barack Obama, as part of a rapprochement between Israel and Turkey that may include security cooperation regarding the Iranian nuclear weapons threat.




 
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