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Nat Hentoff in the Washington Times today:

Earlier this month, after Attorney General John Ashcroft testified before the House Judiciary Committee that he needs more power to wage war on terrorism, Judge [Andrew Napolitano, FOX News's judicial analyst] commented that, "essentially, what [Ashcroft] asked for yesterday was legislation which would allow the attorney general, on the basis of suspicion — not evidence — to incarcerate people, Americans or non-Americans, for an indefinite period of time if they support terrorism."

Then, presenting a hypothetical situation, Judge Napolitano said that if Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy supported the IRA, "a terrorist organization, under this new legislation if enacted, John Ashcroft could incarcerate Ted Kennedy without a trial, without a lawyer, for as long as he wanted to."

Egad! But what's the downside?

There was an article by Annie Jacobsen printed at Women's Wall Street.com about the odd and very unsettling behavior of a group of young Arab men aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Detroit to Los Angeles. It turns out, fortunately, that her impressions were mistaken. The men were in fact musicians en route to a gig at a California casino.

Clinton W. Taylor at National Review Online fills in some of the blanks -- and adds one chilling detail. [emphasis added]

"Oh, do you mean Arab music?" inquired Angie, who answered Sycuan's phone. Yes, they had had an Arab act perform on July 1, an artist named Nour Mehana. Terry, Angie's supervisor at Sycuan, confirmed that he was there and that there was probably a backup band brought in, since there's no house band at Sycuan. In fractions of a second, Mr. Google found a website for Sycuan's event promoters, Anthem Artists, whose archive confirms Nour Mehana performed at Sycuan on 7/01/04.

And then I noticed something that was truly terrifying, something linking Nour Mehana to a figure of such repulsive evil that I felt a rush of prickly fear not unlike Jacobsen's: Just one week later, the same company that arranged Mehana's performance, also booked Carrot Top!

The Boston Herald:

Police say a man wearing a jacket that said ''FBI Anti-Terrorism'' showed up at the [Rochester, N.H.] airport last Wednesday and began asking about airport entrances and security. He took off when Skyhaven employees chased him away from hangars and called police.

Police said airport personnel were immediately suspicious of the man, who was wearing flip-flops and could not produce proper identification.

I wonder what it was that tipped them off?

Via Best of the Web

I usually work on this blog in the evening. I start after the early-evening news and begin checking out websites and linkdumps looking for something -- anything! to write about. To my consternation (and probably yours, too), I usually find something.

One thing I can't do is pay attention to anything on the TV while I read or write. It's not a matter of dividing my concentration. I'm just totally oblivious to it. So I'll usually leave it tuned to one of the sports channels. I don't even care what's being shown. It's just a bit of noise and color off in the background and if I get stuck on what I'm working on I can check out the game for a few minutes.

Last night TSN was playing a tape-delayed Champion's League quarter-final soccer match between AC Milan and Inter Milan. I'd heard radio reports during the day of some kind of trouble in the tournament but I didn't connect the two until I became dimly aware that the commentators were talking about something other than soccer. I stuck my head out from behind the monitor just in time to see AC Milan's goalkeeper get clonked with a burning flare.

As the BBC's report indicates, this is somewhat of an ongoing problem:

"This sort of thing happens quite often in Italy," Italian football expert James Richardson told BBC Five Live.

"It is not really that extraordinary to see stuff thrown onto the pitch in Italian games.

"A few years ago Inter fans actually tried to launch a burning moped from the same area of the San Siro as last night's trouble.

"This isn't an isolated incident. The hard-core support are very adept at getting flares and offensive banners into stadiums.

All I could think watching it was: Jesus. Terrorism. If you can't stop goons bringing in an apparently-unlimited supply of fireworks and highway or railroad flares, how are you going to stop someone packing a few pounds of Semtex? And if you really wanted to kill a lot of people -- not just from the initial blast(s), but by possibly collapsing part of the stadium structure, and also all those trampled in the ensuing panic -- then a soccer match, or any other big athletic venue, would be your target of choice.

I wasn't going to post on this today, as I didn't have much to offer about the horrors in London except my sincerest hopes that the pigs who did it are caught as soon as possible. If some of them suffer fatal injuries while "resisting" arrest, so much the better.

I decided to look at Mark Steyn's website to see if he'd had anything to say. There was a note saying that he would be on Hugh Hewitt's radio show in the afternoon (transcript here) and that he would have a new column out at midnight in the Telegraph.

Immediately below that, though, was a link to a piece he'd written for the Spectator, dated for Saturday of this week, but obviously written a couple of days ago. As always, the man's prescience is eerie:

It feels like summer. Summer 2001, that is. Then, as now, Africa was in the news. There was a big UN conference on �racism� in Durban the week before 11 September. Remember that? They demanded America pay reparations � for the Rwandan genocide. And Robert Mugabe was cheered to the rafters when he called on the United States and the United Kingdom to �apologise unreservedly for their crimes against humanity�.

...

at Ground Zero and in Hyde Park, we�ve taken four years to come back to where we were on 10 September 2001.

Here's the link to it. (Registration required; or you could try this login / password combo from Bug Me Not: lagd3@cam.ac.uk / password )

Now go get the bastards who did this.

hey now woo look at that did she nearly run you down
at the end of the drive the lawmen arrive
you make me feel alive, alive, alive

duran duran

On the accidental killing by British police of Jean Charles de Menezes:

British opposition politicians largely have supported the actions of the government, but Brazil's foreign minister, Celso Amorim, said he was "shocked and perplexed" by the killing and demanded an explanation of the killing after speaking to his British counterpart, Jack Straw, by telephone and meeting a Foreign Office minister in London. "Here was a peaceful, innocent person who was killed," Amorim told reporters, adding, "Even in the fight against terrorism we should also be cautious to avoid the loss of innocent life."

Indeed. But methinks the Brazilians aren't exactly unacquainted with police brutality:

In S�o Paulo, throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, Human Rights Watch/Americas documented a steady increase in the rate of civilians killed by on-duty military police officers. During this period, Rio de Janeiro state authorities did not release figures on the number of civilians killed by police, thus rendering a precise numerical comparison impossible. However, other indicators suggested that S�o Paulo police were killing civilians at a rate substantially higher than their Rio de Janeiro counterparts. Indeed, by 1992-the record year for military police killings in S�o Paulo-the number of civilians that these police killed reached 1,470, one-third of the total number of homicides in the state of S�o Paulo that year. By way of comparison with another notoriously violent city, the S�o Paulo figure represents more than sixty-one times the number of civilians -- twenty-four - that the New York City police killed in 1992, and more than fifteen times the number of police killings per capita when compared with New York.

'arry 'utton ('e could be a Cockney, Guv'nor!) weighs in from Venezuela:

If the police fired eight rounds into my head as I was boarding a train I would be disappointed, but not particularly surprised. For I live in Caracas, and the Venezuelan police, like many Latin American police forces, operate British-style death squads.

A couple of weeks ago they massacred three young men in a car, in what bore all the hallmarks of a UK-style extra-judicial execution. Which is scandalous, but nothing unusual. Normally, no one would mind; but this time their victims turned out to be university students, instead of ordinary riff-raff, so it ended up being a real pain in the arse for the authorities.

crusades and creeds descend like fiery flakes of snow
bad mouth on a prayer day, hope no one's listening
roots down in the wet clay, branches glistening

jethro tull

James Doyle at normblog enters the Left's hall of mirrors and comes through unillusioned:

. . . the view seems to be that if one is provoked into doing something awful, the primary responsibility lies with the provoker. Blair is responsible for the bombings, they say, because if he hadn't gone along with the Iraq war the bombings wouldn't have happened. But no one will deny that if the bombers hadn't blown people up in London, there would not have been the appalling recent increase in attacks on mosques. So the same reasoning determines that the primary responsibility for the increase in attacks lies not with the Islamophobic thugs who carry them out, but with the bombers; a proposition Blair's critics are unlikely to concede. Many of them are presumably inclined to hold him responsible for the mosque attacks as well. But then if we are supposed to go back three stages along the chain of provocation, Blair cannot have been responsible for the bombings after all: that honour must belong to whoever provoked him: Saddam Hussein, perhaps? With such critics, one gets the sense not just that Blair (and Bush) are as a matter of fact responsible for nearly everything bad that happens in this arena, which is already implausible enough, but that these leaders have a special metaphysical status: only they can be responsible. Everyone else is just a pawn in their game. Thus the claim that Blair is directly or primarily responsible for the bombings rests on a paranoid fantasy.

If you thought of the Democratic Underground as a bunch of inbred idiots yakking up ever-more-absurd conspiracy theories about how it was George Bush and the Mossad who plotted to destroy the World Trade Center, you would be wrong.

They also do experiments.

I've been accused of being a cheerleader for Israel in the recent hostilities. I confess, this is largely true. I somehow can't summon up the required "nuance" to find the moral equivalence between a democratic nation and a gang of criminals.

That doesn't mean that I can't fiercely criticize the Zionists. Watch this:

Israelis -- at least, the native-born -- have a problem with the "rr" phoneme when speaking English. So, to use a topical example, "terror" becomes "tawwo," lending a slightly Elmer-fuddish quality to the conversation.

Apart from that, I support Israel's campaign to eliminate the tawwoists.

That is all. Cawwy on.

I was required to use that title; it's in the Blogger's Code (467.6 subsection iii [b], which states, in part, "Never pass up the obvious boobie joke.").

Yahoo/AFP:

One Israeli woman has received an unexpected boost from her breast implants during the Lebanon war -- the silicone embeds saved her life during a Hezbollah rocket attack, a doctor said.

"This is an extraordinary case, but it's a fact that the silicone implants prevented her from a more serious and deeper wound," Jacky Govrin, of the hospital in Nahariya that treated the woman, told army radio Tuesday.

"The young woman went through surgery two years ago to have a larger chest," he said. "During the war she was wounded in the chest by shrapnel" that got stuck in the implants instead of penetrating further.

The woman did not emerge from her ordeal completely unscathed, however.

"The shrapnel was removed but the implant had to be replaced," Govrin said.

So you see I had no choice in the matter.

Yes, how gravely he had underestimated it. How very gravely he had underestimated life. His own he had hated, and had wished away; but see how long it was taking to absent itself - and with what helpless grief was he watching it go, imperturbable in its beauty and its power.

Even as his flesh fried and his blood boiled, there was life, kissing its fingertips. Then it echoed out, and ended.

The Observer reprints a Martin Amis piece that originally appeared in The New Yorker last April. All speculation, of course; but that is the fiction writer's task, to propose a coherent internal psychology.

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CNN:

A computer simulation of the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, posted on the Web site YouTube by Purdue University researchers, shows how hijacked planes crashed through the twin towers, stripping fireproofing materials from the steel columns and eventually leading to their collapse.

The 3-D animation, part of a Purdue study that took 2½ half years to complete, could help engineers design safer buildings, researchers said.

"When the developers of the World Trade Center first designed the complex, they did take into account of an accidental plane crash," said Christoph Hoffman, one of the study's lead researchers. "The only thing they didn't anticipate is the fire. If the crash impacts the water line, then a fire can burn for a long time."

I don't think this is the entire animation, but it shows the initial moments of the jets hitting, primarily from a viewpoint inside the towers. It's about five minutes long. There aren't any sound effects, but there is some narration.

Speaking of criminals, O.J. Simpson's (ghostwritten) fantasy memoir, If I Did It was leaked a few days ago (by O.J.? I wouldn't doubt it.) to the celebrity gossip site, TMZ.com, apparently in violation of a court order granting rights to the manuscript to the father of the murdered Ron Goldman.

That page disappeared following the filing of new papers charging contempt of court. But this being the Internet age and all, mirrors are popping up like mushrooms. You can download (Warning: PDF) a copy here. (Scroll down to the bottom-third of the page, where the download is indicated by a flashing red arrow.)

Or you might just want to read this excerpt at TMZ (the page has now reappeared). Warning: Language.

The Telegraph:

The Sunday Telegraph revealed last September that the Libyan government had paid for the medical evidence which helped Megrahi, 57, to be released. The Libyans had encouraged doctors to say he had only three months to live.

The life expectancy of Megrahi was crucial because, under Scottish rules, prisoners can be freed on compassionate grounds only if they are considered to have this amount of time, or less, to live.

Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish Justice Secretary, ruled last August that Megrahi should be freed. Megrahi's release came after Libyan leaders warned that lucrative oil and trade deals with Britain would be cancelled if the bomber died in jail

Gee. Color me surprised.

Big Hollywood ran a piece today about Zachary “Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee” Chesser, the Islamist thug who lately has made veiled threats against South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. His website RevolutionMuslim.com is now down, but he continues to blog at RevolutionMuslim.blogspot.com. I wandered on over there. He seems quite the monomaniacal bore. I left a test comment, but it was held for moderator's approval. Judging by the volume of approved comments (1 on the front page), he's probably not getting a lot of attaboys. (Maybe a few from Mohammad Atta.)

Has the creepy Julian Assange put Canadian or other troops in danger by printing secret US documents on WikiLeaks? Probably to some extent though I doubt they're paying it much mind. The Taliban are clearly unable to take on NATO forces in the field, save for the occasional IED strike or lucky bullet. More direct actions, like yesterday's futile attack on Kandahar airfield are, I am certain, welcome. Kind of breaks up the boredom; best of all, we don't have to go out looking for them. Nevertheless, our soldiers certainly know that the Taliban intend to try to kill, and so remain vigilant.

Are there legal repercussions for the reptile? Probably not from Canadian authorities at least. It'd be a pretty tough argument that a Canadian court's jurisdiction covered American classified documents; so it'd fall to the Americans to prosecute. With the likes of Obama and his useless AG Holder in power, that seems unlikely. Indeed, Assange recently said that "friends" (I use scare quotes because I doubt he has any real friends, just people who think along the same lines as him. What's scary is that there are probably several of them in the "White House.") in the administration have warned him from travelling to the US lest some rogue DA tries to indict him.

But there's another player, one with real skin in the game: The Afghans. And they might argue that Assange, who through laziness or stupidity or actual malice neglected to redact the names of civilians and government officials from the files, is directly complicit in war crimes. Indeed, the revenge might have already begun:

After WikiLeaks published a trove of U.S. intelligence documents-some of which listed the names and villages of Afghans who had been secretly cooperating with the American military-it didn’t take long for the Taliban to react. A spokesman for the group quickly threatened to “punish” any Afghan listed as having “collaborated” with the U.S. and the Kabul authorities against the growing Taliban insurgency. In recent days, the Taliban has demonstrated how seriously those threats should be considered. Late last week, just four days after the documents were published, death threats began arriving at the homes of key tribal elders in southern Afghanistan. And over the weekend one tribal elder, Khalifa Abdullah, who the Taliban believed had been in close contact with the Americans, was taken from his home in Monar village, in Kandahar province’s embattled Arghandab district, and executed by insurgent gunmen.

The violence may just be beginning. According to Agha Lali, the deputy head of Kandahar’s provincial council, threatening letters have been delivered to 70 elders in Panjwaii district. While it is unknown whether any of the men were indeed named in the WikiLeaks documents, it’s clear the Taliban believes they have been cooperating with Western forces and the Afghan government. One short handwritten note, shown to NEWSWEEK, said: “We have made a decision for your death. You have five days to leave Afghan soil. If you don’t, you don’t have the right to complain.” The screed, written on the letterhead of Mullah Mohammed Omar’s defunct Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, bore the signature of Abdul Rauf Khadim, a senior Taliban official and former inmate at the American lockup in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who had been released into-and subsequently escaped from-Kabul’s custody last year.

Western governments would be reluctant to extradite (if there are even treaties in place) to countries like Afghanistan (and a good thing too, considering their laws re: blasphemy, etc.), but a strong case could be made at, say, The Hague that Assange bears responsibility for aiding illegal combatants.

Wait, what's this? The ABC (the Australian, not the American TV channel) blog Hungry Beast dug up an old web page that Assange put his thoughts, philosophy, and, um, poetry on:

I've always found women caught in a thunderstorm appealing … I found myself loving a girl who was a coffee addict. I would make a watery paste of finely ground coffee and surreptitiously smear this around my neck and shoulders before seducing her so she would associate my body with her dopaminergic cravings.

What bollocks. I'll lead the hit team myself.

Via Ace of Spades

David Akin:

And the difficult issues about Abdulhaleem's guilt are completely ignored. At one point, Cate asks Shareef if he bought the fertilizer for the bombs (the court found he did, in fact, buy enough fertilizer to make a bomb three times as powerful as the one used in the Oklahoma City bombing) but, as Shareef’s about to answer, he is interrupted and the play moves on without ever coming back to that point.

The play also has no reference to one of the most damning indictments of the motives of the real Abdulhaleem: He suggested to his co-conspirators that not only could they spread terror by blowing up the Toronto Stock Exchange but that they could make a lot of money doing it by shorting the stock market. Morever, he suggested to his co-conspirators that they could be more terrorful, if you will, if they blew up something like the Square One shopping mall in Mississauga, Ont.

By the end of the piece, Shareef has gone to trial and is convicted. He tries to have the conviction set aside by claiming "entrapment" by CSIS and the RCMP. A judge - just a monotone, disembodied voice in the play - rejects the argument.

The play closes with Shareef and Cate ‘embracing’ by placing both their hands together on each side of the plexiglass window that separates them. Cate leaves. A single spotlight leaves Shareef frozen and wondering if his cats will be ok.

Oooh, a nice touch! You just know he's one of those sensitive cat people (not unlike the playwright, I'm guessing).

Our "professional" critics will of course see it differently; but had I a vote in the matter, this would surely qualify for "Worst of the Fringe."

Here's hoping she gets it in.

Genius!

Edmonton Journal:

Omar Khadr's legal team hopes "to shame" a U.S. military judge during the Canadian-born terrorism suspect's prosecution, his Edmonton defence lawyer says.

"It's our intention and our hope during this trial to shame this judge -- which may be impossible," Dennis Edney said Monday from Cuba. "We hope we can shame the jury so they can really get a true picture of what Omar stands for."

It calls to mind the old legal adage: "If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the facts are against you, argue the law. If both the law and the facts are against you, attack the judge and jury with the powerful weapons of sarcasm and condescension."

That's sure to produce results!

To be sure, I didn't have much use for Mr. Edney previously. In fact, I would frequently (and loudly) deride him as "that lying Scottish twatwaffle."

But now I take it all (well, some of it) back. That lying Scottish twatwaffle is worth every penny he's extorted from the Canadian taxpayer. Cancel the candlelight vigils for Omar, 'cause he's not coming "home" soon.

Genius!

Toronto Star:

A third terrorism suspect- one who moonwalked across a Montreal stage during an audition for Canadian Idol - was detained early Thursday, the Star has learned.

Khuram Sher was arrested as part of an RCMP national security investigation, as police continue to investigate a possible cell allegedly plotting to attack targets at home.

Sher told judges on the popular reality show in 2008 that he hailed from Pakistan and was a fan of "hockey, music and acting."

He sings an off-tune rendition of Avril Lavigne’s "Complicated" with - as the show’s website describes - some "nifty" dance moves.

"Have you ever thought of being a comedian?" asks one of the judges of the 26-year-old.

Another remarks: "The dance moves were good, the singing, bad."

How about a big chunk of it from the Great Satan hisself?

Reuters:

The Muslim center planned near the site of the World Trade Center attack could qualify for tax-free financing, a spokesman for City Comptroller John Liu said on Friday, and Liu is willing to consider approving the public subsidy.

The Democratic comptroller's spokesman, Scott Sieber, said Liu supported the project. The center has sparked an intense debate over U.S. religious freedoms and the sanctity of the Trade Center site, where nearly 3,000 perished in the September 11, 2001 attack.

"If it turns out to be financially feasible and if they can demonstrate an ability to pay off the bonds and comply with the laws concerning tax-exempt financing, we'd certainly consider it," Sieber told Reuters.

"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."

Not so fast there, Vladimir Ilyich. They just might be donating it gratis:

These are not just your garden-variety Muslim Brotherhood operatives. The CCMO officers include leading national and international figures in the Muslim Brotherhood, settled in the Washington DC suburbs to enjoy “direct access” to the Administration and Congress. CCMO is a major U.S. node in the loosely coordinated Muslim Brotherhood network. Just the fellows to give your tax dollars as stimulus money!

CCMO appears to have started as an umbrella organization in the late 1980s, when so many Muslim Brotherhood organizations were expanding. According to this 2005 article at Washington, DC’s Muslim Link Newspaper, CCMO was 18 years old in that year, making the start date around 1987.

Who are these CCMO officers? We could write a book on each of them; their personal biographies are the tale of the Muslim Brotherhood’s ongoing “Project” to bring Shariah Law to America

Coming in to pour oil on troubled waters, Obama's double-plus secret Imam likens America/al Qaeda's contentious relationship to a stormy marriage:

Ed Driscoll was so kind as to present a partial transcript:

In the aftermath of 9/11, when you try to bridge relationships between any two sides where there has been tensions reaching such a level, one of the things you have to do is to explain to each side why the other side feels angry. Whether it’s, you know, marital counseling between the husband and the wife, you have to explain to the husband, actions that he has done, which in the perception of the wife has offended her, and vice-versa. When there is pain on each side, you have to explain to each side what has caused the pain of the other. And part of my role has been to explain to the each side, you know, the position of the other, so that people can understand it. That is how you are able to bring about an understanding to change the reality. [Heavy sigh.] I have taken upon myself the role of bridge-builder. To be a bridge-builder, Joseph, you have to have a foot on each side of the divide if you are going to become a bridge.

When reached for comment everyone's favorite TV psychologist Dr. Phil sagely chuckled "Is this guy off his fuckin' gourd, or what?"

InsideToronto.com

A threat posted online against Coptic Orthodox churches in Toronto and members of the local Coptic community "doesn't worry us much," said the senior priest of the Scarborough parish.

"We are accepting whatever happens to us, because our faith is in God," said Fr. Marcos Marcos on Tuesday, Jan. 4.

But as Copts prepared to gather Thursday, Jan. 6, to celebrate their Christmas Eve, local Scarborough-Agincourt MP Jim Karygiannis was urging police forces wherever Coptic churches exist in Canada to "speak to the priests personally to alleviate their fears and if necessary to provide adequate protection."

A bomb attack in Egypt on New Year's Eve killed more than 20 Copts, worsening relations between that country's Christians and its Muslim majority.

Reports say an Al-Qaeda-linked website last month posted lists of Coptic churches in Canada and identified 100 Arab-Christian Canadians as Copts.

"On that website they show how to bomb people, how to make homemade bombs," said Karygiannis, who said the mood among Canada's Copts is tense.

This tears it, al-Qaeda. You so much as harm a hair on the head of our precious Sheila and I promise you I'll . . . I'll . . .

I'll have a beer and a ham sandwich, that's what I'll do, 'cause I know how much you hate our freedoms.

MIRROR.CO.UK:

Al-Qaeda fanatics in Britain are being taught to avoid detection – by pretending to be gay.

A new terror training manual tells Islamic extremists to lie about their sexuality if a woman approaches them in case she is a “honeytrap” spy sent by security services.

The handbook, which was uncovered by a Sunday Mirror ­investigation, says: “Many hotels – especially in busy UK cities – have women hanging around the lobby areas in order to attract men.

“A young beautiful woman may come and talk to you. The first thing you do to protect yourself from such a ­situation is to make dua (prayers) to Allah for ­steadfastness.

“The second thing is to find an excuse to get away from her that is realistic and sensible, such as you having a girlfriend for the past few years and you are loyal to her or you are ­homosexual.”

A little bit light in the sandals then, eh, Mohomo?

(To spare readers the trouble of looking it up, the Arabic word in the title is "goats.")

The New Yorker:

Shortly after eleven o’clock on the night of May 1st, two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters lifted off from Jalalabad Air Field, in eastern Afghanistan, and embarked on a covert mission into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden. Inside the aircraft were twenty-three Navy SEALs from Team Six, which is officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or DEVGRU.

Probably the most comprehensive look at the raid on Abbottabad. And contrary to the spin the White House and others tried to put on it, the SEALs didn't seem terribly interested in taking him alive. Good call.

The Globe and Mail:

Omar Khadr, the first Canadian convicted of murder, spying, and terrorism and held at Guantanamo Bay, needs another first before he can go home to serve out his sentence in a Canadian prison.

Canada must first be certified as a fit place to send a convicted terrorist, a nation not likely to permit him to attack the United States, and one that has control of its prisons.

Huh! Canada is indeed a fit place to send a convicted terrorist. Oh, you didn't mean it that way?

Apart from that first condition, looks like they're stuck with him, then.

Bon voyage, you murderous Muppet! I understand that Leavenworth is very nice at this time of the year, all things considered.

Breitbart.com:

France's interior minister says a gunman suspected in a wave of killings has stopped talking to police, and that authorities have been monitoring him for years.

Claude Gueant was speaking Wednesday in the southern city of Toulouse, where a police raid is under way targeting the gunman. He is suspected in three shootings that killed three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers in recent days.

The man has thrown his handgun out a window but has other weapons on him, including an AK-47 assault rifle, and has used them in volleys with police surrounding the building in this southwestern city, Gueant said.

Time to let the paratroopers have a crack at him. They can always use the practice in Combat in Built-Up Areas; and as a bonus, they can drill the dickweed jihadi with enough lead that they'll have to use a crane to lift him out and bury him in a hazardous-waste site.

APTN:

On Good Friday in a mosque on the outskirts of Toronto, former Ojibway chief Terry Nelson sat on a chair holding eagle feathers while around him hundreds of Muslim faithful knelt on prayer rugs listening to an imam preach about the “genocide” committed against Indigenous peoples in North America.

Nelson sat next to former Dakota chiefs Dennis Pashe and Kenneth Whitecloud, who were there representing current Dakota Chiefs Frank Brown and Orville Smoke, who were attending funerals in their home communities. The three sat together near the front of a spacious room in a building that was once a horse riding school before it was purchased in 1999 and converted to house the Islamic Society of York Region. The 33 acre compound in Richmond Hill, Ont., has a swimming pool, a softball diamond and a children’s playground. It sits down the road from a golf course.

The three were there at the request of one of the mosque’s imams, Zafar Bangash, who invited Nelson following media reports the former chief of Roseau River First Nation was hoping to travel to Tehran. Nelson, Brown and Smoke met with officials in Ottawa’s Iranian embassy in early March to begin preparations for a possible trip to speak to the Iranian parliament.

You know what they say -- sewage always finds its own level.

Toronto Sun:

The United Nations is chastising Canada over its treatment of Omar Khadr.

In a recently released report, the United Nations Committee Against Torture urges Canada to immediately sign the transfer papers to bring the convicted terrorist and murderer back to his country of birth.

"The Committee urges the State party to promptly approve Omar Khadr's transfer application and to ensure that he receives appropriate redress for human rights violations that the Canadian Supreme Court has ruled he experienced," the committee wrote.

OK, frankly it seems a bit weird to me and I would have thought that green was more appropriate, being the color of Islam and all; but I'm willing to spring for one of these if that's what it takes.

I'm beginning to see why Omar was considered "Belle of the Ball" at Guantanamo Bay. Especially during "prayer sessions."

Yes, I've changed my mind on this, in large part because I've heard from highly-reliable sources that Khadr has converted to Judaism.

Hip hop hooray! Let's give the Zionist swine the homecoming he deserves!!!

". . . go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no'."

Jihad Watch:

In an article last December in the Huffington Post, Ahmed Rehab of Hamas-linked CAIR claimed that the "Radical Right," not Islamic jihadists, were the greatest threat to America today. His article was full of the predictable whining, victimhood posturing, and no hint whatsoever that any Muslims are waging jihad against the United States.

The thuggish Rehab has also spoken up in defense of the Islamic supremacist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir's right to hold its convention in Chicago (Hizb-ut-Tahrir is banned in many countries), while working to suppress the freedom of speech of anti-jihadists.

And so it should come as no surprise that the likes of Rahm Emanuel has appointed him to an advisory committee. "Ahmed Rehab appointed by Mayor Emanuel to Advisory Committee," from CAIR-Chicago, June 29.

Forget about this one, goils. He looks even queerer than the Jewish traitor Omar Khadr-stein's new boyfriend (aka the Queen of Cellblock D).

The Telegraph:

Richard Kammen, the lead counsel for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who was convicted in Yemen over the bombing of USS Cole but is also facing conspiracy charges at Guantánamo, said the government had seriously undermined Gen Martins's position as chief prosecutor. "The sub-context of this is, 'Who's in charge?' And to what extent does Gen Martins have any real authority in this case, other than to give speeches?" said Mr Kammen.

I don't think it matters that much. My prediction: Obama pardons every single Muslim jihadi (including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Fort Hood shooter and the Blind Sheikh). But he'd better hurry -- they'll all be dead from old age soon.

Toronto Sun:

RIYADH - Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Islamist movement’s most active branch, has released an English-language magazine advising would-be militants on how to torch parked cars and cause traffic accidents.

The magazine, released on militant websites, also warns France to pull back from Mali and lists 11 public figures in the West, including author Salman Rushdie, who it says are “wanted dead or alive for crimes against Islam”.

AQAP, based in the impoverished, lawless state of Yemen, has previously plotted to bring down international airliners and is seen by Western governments as a danger to oil-producing Gulf states and major crude shipment routes.

In a section entitled “open source jihad”, the magazine gives tips on how to set fire to parked cars, including advice such as “don’t get petrol on yourself”, and suggests spilling oil on road bends to cause crashes.

Good God, could these people possibly get more pathetic?

Let's just pray they don't ever hear about the old flaming bag of dog poop on the doorstep. That alone could destroy Western civilization, or at least the kuffar's new Hush Puppies.

Mark Steyn:

But, if I follow correctly, these UCLA profs are arguing that, when some guys go all Allahu Akbar on you and blow up your marathon, that just shows that you lazy complacent Americans need to work even harder at “assimilating” “immigrants.” After all, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan were raised in Cambridge, Mass., a notorious swamp of redneck bigotry where the two young Chechens no doubt felt “alienated” and “excluded” at being surrounded by NPR-listening liberals cooing, “Oh, your family’s from Chechnya? That’s the one next to Slovakia, right? Would you like to come round for a play date and help Jeremiah finish his diversity quilt?” Assimilation is hell.