Friday, February 13, 2009

Solicitor general nominee says “enemy combatants” can be held without trial
Elena Kagan tells a senator she agrees with Attorney General Holder that the U.S. is at war and therefore may detain suspected terrorists indefinitely.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-solicitor-general11-2009feb11,0,7158432.story

Reporting from Washington -- Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan, President Obama's choice to represent his administration before the Supreme Court, told a key Republican senator Tuesday that she believed the government could hold suspected terrorists without trial as war prisoners. . . .

Just not in Gitmo, I guess.

Obama Administration Backs Bush Policy in Terror Case
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090210/pl_bloomberg/ak1gju7awwdu
The Obama administration is backing an anti-terrorism policy of President George W. Bush, urging a federal appeals court to throw out a lawsuit that accuses a Boeing Co. unit of helping the CIA fly suspects overseas to be tortured. . . .

Could it be that Obama is on America's security side?

Pakistan will be a stern test of Washington's "smart power"
President Obama is losing patience with the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/4583455/Pakistan-will-be-a-stern-test-of-Washingtons-smart-power.html

He’s been in office, what? 30 days? And he’s already impatient?

'Truth About Islam' topic of free dinner-lecture
http://www.wmich.edu/wmu/news/2009/02/028.html
Dr. Ustadh Usama Canon will discuss "Clarity in Times of Confusion: The Truth About Islam" during the 12th semiannual installment of a free dinner-lecture series sponsored by the Muslim Students Association of Western Michigan University. . . .

Oh, yeah, lots of "truth" gonna be really prominent from the MSA, an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood.

"Let them arrest me”: Dutch MP vows to defy Home Office ban and fly to Britain to show anti-Islam film
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1141622/Let-arrest-Dutch-MP-vows-defy-Home-Office-ban-fly-Britain-anti-Islam-film.html
Liberal Democrats supported the ban. Home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said: 'There is a line to be drawn even with freedom of speech, and that is where it is likely to incite violence or hatred. . . .

"Is that so? Or did this line just recently appear about the time Muslims began threatening people with death if they didn't shut up?

Other articles on this story:
Brits ban Wilders - by Mark Steyn
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmM1NTcwNGQzMzA3ZDE2MTZlZjUwYTNiMjE1ZTlhZGY=

Britain capitulates to terror
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/arts/3344161/britain-capitulates-to-terror.thtmlLord Ahmed on Banning Geert Wilders: "It would be unwise to have him in the UK because this man's presence would cause hatred" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7882953.stm

[Yup, we’ve only got room for one set of haters . . .]

Stubborn Saudia flight smoker to get 30 lashes [!!!]
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009020228210
A man who stubbornly smoked on a Saudi Arabian Airlines (SAA or Saudia) domestic flight was given a court verdict of 30 lashes here Sunday. . . .

Identifying Your Enemy is the Most Basic First Step in Defeating the Enemy
http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2009/02/identifying-your-enemy-is-most-basic.html

. . . Even some security agencies hamstring themselves by disallowing language that names their specific enemy language that implies an Islamic connection. This has got to stop. . . .

ISLAM VIVIDLY IN ACTION
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/02/islam-vividly-in-action.html
SEEING ALL THIS HORROR IN ONE PLACE BRINGS HOME WHAT ISLAMIC JUSTICE AND LAW REALLY MEANS. THE OCCASIONAL REPORT HERE AND THERE LOSES THE FULL WEIGHT OF THE ATROCITY BEING PERPETRATED IN THE NAME OF ISLAM ACROSS THE WORLD.

This blog has several videos of actual beheadings carried out by jihadists.

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