Dorrie's Picks, 3/11/09

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090310/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_guantanamo_sept11_trial
9/11 suspects: “We are terrorists to the bone.”
The self-professed mastermind and four other men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks declared they are "terrorists to the bone" in a statement that mocked the U.S. failure to prevent the killings and predicted America will fall like "the towers on the blessed 9/11 day." . . .

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130358
Violent Intruders Attack Brooklyn Synagogues
For the second time in less than a week, a packed Brooklyn, New York, synagogue has been the target of threats of violence by intruders.

On Monday, according to Yeshiva World News, an Arab man in his mid-30s entered Boro Park's 'Sephardish Shul' and began making proclamations of jihad. Members of a Jewish volunteer security organization, the Shomrim, apprehended the threatening individual. They held him until police officers arrived at the scene, arresting the suspect. Detectives spoke with the "Middle Eastern man" at a station house near the synagogue. . . .

We all heard about the minister who was shot this past weekend, right? Did anyone hear about this?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090310/pl_afp/usintelligencepoliticscongresswithdraw_20090310205533
Embattled top US intel pick Freeman withdraws: official
A veteran US diplomat and vocal Israel critic, Charles Freeman, has withdrawn from contention for a top US intelligence post, US intelligence director Dennis Blair announced Tuesday.

Freeman "has requested that his selection to be Chairman of the National Intelligence Council not proceed. Director Blair accepted Ambassador Freeman?s decision with regret," Blair's office said in a statement. . . .

One small step for all of us.

http://in.reuters.com/article/email/idINIndia-38433020090310
Taliban say Obama's call on moderates "illogical"
"This does not require any response or reaction for this is illogical," Qari Mohammad Yousuf, a purported spokesman for the insurgent group, told Reuters when asked if its top leader Mullah Mohammad Omar would make any comment about Obama's proposal.

"The Taliban are united, have one leader, one aim, one policy...I do not know why they are talking about moderate Taliban and what it means?"

"If it means those who are not fighting and are sitting in their homes, then talking to them is meaningless. This really is surprising the Taliban." . . .

And let us not forget what Prime Minister Erdogan said: http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/2595.htm
PM Erdogan: The Term “Moderate Islam” Is Ugly And Offensive; There Is No Moderate Islam; Islam Is Islam
Speaking at Kanal D TV’s Arena program, PM Erdogan commented on the term “moderate Islam”, often used in the West to describe AKP and said, ‘These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025185.php
UK Muslim demonstrators: British government is "terrorist"

And the reason they wouldn’t let Geert Wilders in the country? Because they were afraid of Muslim riots. THAT certainly seems to have worked well for them, huh?