DUC IN ALTUM

Since this blog was offline all day yesterday, here’s the one post I wanted to make but couldn’t. Until now.

JERUSALEM - A Palestinian laborer driving a construction vehicle rammed into packed buses, tossed cars into the air and rolled over pedestrians in a deadly rampage Wednesday that killed three people and wounded dozens in Jerusalem.

The attacker’s unusual weapon — a yellow Caterpillar front loader transformed into a deadly assault vehicle — threatened both Israelis’ sense of security and Palestinians’ fragile status in the city.

Hundreds of panicked people were sent running for cover before the attacker was shot dead by security forces. Three Palestinian militant groups claimed responsibility for the onslaught, the first major attack in Jerusalem in four months.

However, Israeli police said the assailant, a 30-year-old Palestinian from Arab east Jerusalem, apparently acted alone. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the man was working on a railway project in Jerusalem.

That was the CBS News censored version. If you are a Youtube registered user, you can access many other versions where you see the actual end of the terrorist.

Below, a roundup of the incident from CNN.

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A 27-year-old man originally charged with obstructing justice in the murder of his teenaged sister, has now been charged with first degree murder.

Peel Regional Police said Friday that Waqas Parvez is to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice today to face the new charges

The murder of Aqsa Parvez, 16, gained international attention after high school classmates claimed that the girl had clashed with her devout Muslim family about her refusal to wear traditional clothes. The strained relations drove Aqsa out of her home and to another Muslim family, who described her as a “typical” teenager who yearned for acceptance while straddling the Muslim and Western cultures. They disputed the claim that the friction was over a hijab, and said the girl was repairing her relationship with her family in the days leading up to her death.

On the morning of Dec. 10, 2007, her brother picked her up at a bus stop and took her home, where police say she was strangled to death before 8 a.m. Police say a man called 911 and said he had killed his daughter.

Muhammad Parvez, 57, was arrested that day and later charged with second-degree murder. The charge was later upgraded to first degree, which suggests premeditation and planning.

How does honor fit into all this? I doesn’t.

And if I can speculate for a moment: Aqsa’s friends all know with way the wind blows now. They don’t need anyone to tell them is this was hijab related or not. They know.

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Claiming that the Canadian government is acting more like a police state than a democracy, The World Tamil Movement announced Thursday that it will appeal Ottawa’s decision to add it to a list of terrorist groups.

“They feel they’ve been tried, convicted and charged without even knowing they were charged,” said the WTM’s lawyer, Marlys Edwardh, at a press conference in downtown Toronto. “This is not the conduct of a democracy where people are entitled to meet a challenge in a courtroom … it’s much more for them like the actions of a police state.”

None can ignore the law.  Your organisation breaks the law.  Your “freedom fighters” are terrorists, which make you terrorist supporters.

You can claim anything you want.  You can accuse the nicest country in the world of being a police state (now that one’s funny, ain’t it?!).

None can ignore the law.  Collecting money for a terrorist organisation is against the law.

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Afghan officials had said 500 Taliban fighters seized the area earlier this week. The governor of Kandahar province said Thursday that hundreds of insurgents had been killed or injured in the coalition campaign to drive them out.

Canadian officials doubt that estimate.

They have maintained that the strength of the insurgency had been greatly exaggerated, and suggested Thursday that no more than 150 Taliban fighters had been in the area.

“Those that chose to stay and fight were defeated,” Thompson said.

“The reality of the situation in Kandahar province is this: Taliban insurgents can cause temporary disruptions and intimidate the local population, but they cannot hold ground.”

“Every time we meet them on the field of battle, insurgents either flee or are destroyed.”

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 ^{Ismail Sameem/Reuters}

^{Afghan army soldiers patrol in the southern city of Kandahar, June 18, 2008}

 Since the Associate Press (AP) is considering charging money for all their words used by bloggers, I will attempt to circonvent this issue in a humorous fashion…

Taliban…Afghanistan…the.

There you go, I think I gave you the basics of this fascinating story develloping in A’stan days after there was a big prison breakout.

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*sigh*

I have a few thoughts on that subject, but I’ll stick to what’s being said in the news medias.

Mr. Kuebler says Mr. Khadr, in those early months, gave a statement that not only reflected that, but also said he’d tossed the grenade after eyeing the serviceman treat another U.S. soldier for battlefield wounds.

But as time went on, his statements changed to reflect a new scenario that emerged after the authorities realized Mr. Khadr’s gunshot injuries showed he’d been shot in the back, and shrapnel injuries to his eyes showed it was unlikely he could see anything.

“So, we know Omar was giving false statements,” Mr. Kuebler said in an interview.

There’s a good chance Khadr is lying across the board. And why not? He was captured in Afghanistan, siding in an armed conflict next to taliban terrorists. If convicted, the 21 y/o kid faces life in prison.

What else?…

U.S. NAVAL BASE GUANTANAMO, Cuba - The Conservative government is resisting repatriating Omar Khadr back to Canada because it believes he would have “no other recourse” than to reconnect with his family - which it calls “terrorist sympathizers.”

The government also defends its position as being in Canada’s long-term security interest.

Gee, you think? From southern Ontario, was he? No terrorists there. Only moderate Hezbollah supporters and this guy…

When Jamal Akkal left the israeli jail where he spent five years for conspiracy of committing murder of canadian jews, he came back home…to Windsor Ontario. He was born in Palestine (which isn’t a country, so no nationality until he was accepted in Canada).

Nothing we could do to refuse his entry, he has no record here in Canada.

You want islamophobia? Gimme Jamal Akkal and I’ll gripe to you all you want!

The Quran tells the ummah to hate Jews.

There are fatwas that call for Jihad against the Jews.

Every year, there are murders by Muslims on kuffars (infidels) using the Quran as the principle motivation.

…and yet canadians think Omar Khadr should be brought back to Canada. Yeah, like he’s just the nice kid next door.

He’s not.

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Found this on GOC…

^{“Ok, boys. Pay attention. I’m only gonna do this once, inshallah…”}

Now, I don’t want to dwell on terrorists dying, but it’s more to show that fighting a desparate war with half-baked material will cause you to lose a few mujahideen to “accidents”.

Let’s just say:  DON’T PLAY WITH EXPLOSIVES.

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A Nato spokesman said this morning that as many as 1,100 detainees had escaped after the Taliban attacked Sarposa Prison in Kandahar using suicide bombers, a truck bomb and rockets, killing at least nine security guards.

“A massive operation is under way to find the escaped inmates,” said Afghanistan’s deputy justice minister Qasim Hashimzai. (…)

The attackers struck with a bomb concealed in a water tanker that blew apart the prison gates, allowing a suicide bomber to dash inside and destroy two mud walls crushing police officers and guards.

At the same time, Taliban fighters on motorbike fired rockets at the complex in what an Afghan minister described as the rebels’ “most sophisticated attack yet.”

Indeed.  The last time I heard of a big taliban operation, there were six or seven hundred of them who attacked an army base from the front.  A few dozens walked away from that one.

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John McCain, Prisoner of War: A First-Person Account.

(…) All through this period, the “gooks” were bombarding us with antiwar quotes from people in high places back in Washington. This was the most effective propaganda they had to use against us—speeches and statements by men who were generally respected in the United States.

They used Senator Fulbright a great deal, and Senator Brooke. Ted Kennedy was quoted again and again, as was Averell Harriman. Clark Clifford was another favorite, right after he had been Secretary of Defense under President Johnson. (…)

The text, mentioned on LGF, is 17 pages long. It’s an interesting view into North Vietnamese prison camps and the world in those days.

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Beirut - An explosion shook the area near an army post Saturday in north Lebanon, killing one soldier, as the army managed to foil a second attack in southern Lebanon, Lebanese security sources said.

But here’s the funny quote of the day:

The soldier’s death comes as Lebanon is recovering from sectarian clashes that ended in a political agreement between feuding factions and the election of the army commander Michel Suleiman as head of state.

…clashes ENDED in politcal agreement?  Are you sure it ended?  You know, suicide bombs…  Soldier dead…  No Jews around to be blamed…

I don’t know.  I’m just sayin…

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