Expect more bloodshed, says defiant Islamic cleric Bakri

"THE radical cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed defied the Government’s clampdown on extremism yesterday by warning on a new website that the July 7 bombings “are not the first and will not be the last”.

As Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, declared that hardline preachers such as Bakri Mohammed, Abu Qatada and Yusuf al-Qaradawi could be deported or excluded from Britain, the site blamed the Government, the British people and moderate Muslims for the atrocities. "

Radical Islamists at Scots universities

"We are an intellectual and political movement and we work in Glasgow, Dundee and Edinburgh. Universities should be a forum for debate and we are trying to overturn the NUS ban which we believe is completely unjustified. This is thought policing in its worst from," he said.
However, the organisation's website states its aims as establishing a world Islamic state governed by sharia law. The organisation's ultimate objective is "to lead the Ummah (the Muslim world) into a struggle with Kufr (the non-Muslim world), its systems and its thoughts so that Islam encapsulates the world".

LGF and its readers are pretty sharp

Claudia Rosett and George Russel-UNSCAM- only the small fry have taken the fall so far

"The secretive Volcker inquiry into the more than $110 billion United Nations Oil-for-Food (search) scandal plans to issue a third interim report later this month — to tie up “loose ends” from the previous two reports, as a committee spokesman recently put it.

Having spent more than $30 million over the past year, the U.N.-authorized Independent Inquiry Committee has so far confirmed reports previously documented in the press that the man appointed by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan (search) to run Oil-for-Food, his longtime colleague Benon Sevan, engaged in a conflict of interest in soliciting lucrative oil allocations from Saddam Hussein’s regime.

Beyond that, however, the investigation headed by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker (search) has offered up little more than the censure of a few third-tier U.N. officials, while allowing Annan to claim, without apparent basis in fact, “exoneration” from a conflict of interest involving his son Kojo, who received money from a major Oil-for-Food contractor, Cotecna Inspection S.A. (search)."

ECO5- financial data

Terrorist apologists.........

"Ever on the lookout for damning causes, the root-causers never go for the most obvious of these. This is the cause, indeed, which shows, by its absence, why most critics of the Iraq war or of anything else don't murder people when they are angry. It is the fanatical, fundamentalist belief system which teaches hatred and justifies these acts of murder. That cause somehow gets a free pass from the hunters-out of causes.

There are apologists among us, and they have to be fought intellectually and politically. They do not help to strengthen the democratic culture and institutions whose benefits we all share. Because we believe in and value these, we have to contend with what such people say. But contend with is precisely it. We have to challenge their excuses without let-up."

Press conference Thursday..........

Via a commenter at smalldeadanimals.com





Secret tunnel across border found

05:53 PM PDT on Wednesday, July 20, 2005

KING5.com

"LYNDEN, Wash. – Two federal sources have confirmed that a massive secret tunnel connecting the U.S. with Canada has been discovered in the Whatcom County town of Lynden, Wash.
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It is believed that it is used to transport drugs, but it could also be related to Homeland Security issues.

Some arrests have been made.

A press conference is scheduled for Thursday morning."


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In the line of duty-many people use that road in cottage country

Ehrenfeld- Business as usual in the U.K

"The UK’s new political will to fight Islamist terrorism should not be judged by the additional counter-terror laws they declared, but by their implementation."

Information Commissioner John Reid should have had his term extended for a year

"As a former Liberal cabinet minister, former opposition backbencher and former lobbyist for a powerful national association, John Reid thought he knew what he was getting into when he was named Canada's Information Commissioner, seven years ago.

He was wrong, Reid now admits.

He had no inkling that senior bureaucrats reached top-level decisions verbally to avoid leaving a paper trail. He never expected to fight an all-out court battle for access to something as innocuous as the Prime Minister's daily schedule.

Most of all, he did not realize how hard it was for ordinary Canadians to get scraps of ostensibly public information, gathered on their behalf with their tax dollars."
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So they voted to extend his term by one year and what happens?

"Points to consider:
* On June 15, 2005, the House of Commons voted 277 to 2, to concur in a report of its Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics that, "The appointment of John Reid, the Information Commissioner of Canada be extended by an additional term of one year, effective July 1, 2005. This recommendation would not preclude Parliament from further extending the appointment after the one year extension." Martin choose to ignore Parliament and provided only a three month extension for Reid.
* All ministers present (33) voted for the motion to extend Mr. Reid's term not by three months, but for a year. The ministers voting to extend Reid's term by a year included Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan, Reg Alcock, Mauril Belanger, Carolyn Bennett, Ethel Blondin-Andrew, Claudette Bradshaw, Scott Brison, Aileen Carroll, Raymond Chan, Joe Comuzzi (since left cabinet), Irwin Cotler, Stephane Dion, Ujjal Dosanjh, Ken Dryden, John Efford, David Emerson, Joe Fontana, Liza Frulla, John Godfrey, Ralph Goodale, Bill Graham, Albina Guarnieri, Jean Lapierre, John McCallum, Joe McGuire, Andy Mitchell, Stephen Owen, Pierre Pettigrew, Geoff Regan, Lucienne Robillard, Belinda Stronach, Tony Valeri and Joe Volpe
* This is just the latest example of Martin ignoring the will of Parliament
* Three months means that Reid may not be around to oversee the planned overhaul of the Access to Information Act. Nor will he be able to pursue this case.

Bedroom Slipper Journalism................

"CBC will not take any real-time journalism from areas of conflict, stating that it is propaganda. Recently, the $270-million slush fund, known as Telefilm, the money behind documentaries and movies, children’s programming and drama, has made it very clear: footage shot in real-time, in particular, the scratchy old grainy stuff--will no longer be on your screens. The reason? ‘We can write it and reproduce it much better in studios and on computers.’

This is tremendously frightening.

Proposals written and passed off as the truth, with no input from the people who actually participated or the people involved--this is now becoming the norm. Truth be damned. In particular in the documentary industry. CBC coined the term "docu-drama" to explain away any questions about the truth, or lack thereof.

Four hundred dead naturally--450 with terrorism involved, is the explanation from CBC’s expert. The western world is just not getting it. We don’t understand. It makes no sense. Yet it is happening around the world. Suicide bombings. Carnage. Mostly explained away by ‘experts’ who have never been there."

Taking security matters very ,very seriously-not

"An attack upon the United States coming from Canada and carried out by Canadian citizens would make the money lost from the ban of Canadian beef in the United States look like chump change. Never again would Canadians or Canadian goods be able to enter the United States as easily as they do now. The impact on Canada would be so much greater than a couple of subway stations being blown up.

Perhaps the terrorist bombings in London will be a wakeup call, not only for Canadians but for the Liberal government who has yet to comprehend the dangers that terrorism poses to this country. But no one should hold their breath."


To summarize the security situation- Canada does about $700 billion in trade with the USA.To bring the security staffing levels to 1993 levels would require an additional $250 million/year for manpower ,or less than .1% of the annual trade volume.If they don't think it's necessary and the attackers come from Canada, a lot of jobs will be lost as the border tightens up tremendously. So the flurry of talk on security is mainly talk and positioning in order to lay the blame on the security agencies who have been undermanned for years.Choices were made in the past not to provide adequate manpower and somebody will have to live with the choices they made. However having 700 fewer CSIS agents and 2200 fewer RCMP officers doesn't make Canadians safer no matter how much the spin doctors try to work their charm .Can they hire 3000 experienced investigators before another attack, that's the question.

They take this matter very ,very seriously- so very ,very seriously that Canada may run out of paper for all the reports on these very, very serious

matters.Instead of paint ball guns, we could give these reports to the troops and they could use them as ammo against terrorists.When it comes to security, if BS was a weapon , Canadians would be the best protected people in the world.

The gun registry is working like a charm..........

Crooks don't register guns and terrorists don't register explosives.But hey, watch out for those nasty farmers and duck hunters?

Lorrie Goldstein.......................

Salim Mansur........

"But there are Muslims who, at great risks to themselves, unapologetically condemn the culture of violence Muslims have bred for extremists among them to exploit.

They work alone, or in small groups of like-minded Muslims, despite being maligned and ostracized by fellow Muslims, to dissect and expose Muslim extremism to the world at large while striving against immense difficulties to keep faith in the ideals of Islam.

Their effort, irrespective of any effect in advancing Muslim reformation, remains real, while "moderate" Muslims being nowhere to be found confirm their existence is a myth until proven otherwise. "

"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves"

"What would the suicide bomber, under orders to blow himself up in the London Underground, do if he noted a friend, a relative, a sibling in the same subway car? Is there any question? The suicide bomber would follow orders from his special god and press the button of death.
This is an extraordinary scenario and we can no longer behave as a society of sheep doing nothing when, as in the words of Byron, "The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold."
"The essence of liberty," said de Jouvenel, "lies in our will not being subject to other human wills: in our will ruling alone over our actions, only being checked when it injures the basic, indispensable requirements of life in society."
The essence of liberty is under attack in Britain today. Who's next?"

What Africa needs......................

"What Africa needs, foreign aid cannot deliver, and that's elimination of dictators and socialist regimes, establishment of political and economic freedom, rule of law and respect for individual rights. Until that happens, despite billions of dollars of foreign aid, Africa will remain a basket case. "

Too many dictators, too many offshore accounts, too little getting to those that really need assistance

Appeasement doesn't work................

"The suggestions that the Government and even the voters must share some of the blame angered Mr Blair and overshadowed talks at No 10 between representatives of the Muslim community and leaders of the main parties.

After what were described as "robust and frank" discussions, Muslim leaders agreed to set up a task force to confront radical clerics who were preaching extremism."

Once more into the breach-PR above substance?- the government better make sure our soldiers are well equipped and not with just elastic bands for the

SEA KINGS.

The government reduced military spending by $20 billion over the last number of years and are only putting back $13 billion over the next 5 years with the bulk of that in years 4 & 5.Mere words aren't going to stop terrorists.