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from NY to Israel Sultan Reveals
The Stories Behind the News

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Friday Afternoon Roundup - Going Soft on Terror


Posted: 22 May 2009 03:47 PM PDT




This week has been dominated by Obama's attempt to take it easy on
Islamic terrorists, clashing with the desire of Congressional Democrats to
avoid being implicated as soft on terrorism. The Gitmo defeat was all the
more shocking, because as far as the press was concerned Obama was
never supposed to lose. Nor was anyone supposed to point out that he had
no real plan and that his proposals were completely unfocused and lacking
in elementary details.

Naturally Obama's response was to deliver a high profile speech, long on
the sort of vague rhetoric Hollywood has been featuring for a while now in
movies and TV shows about terrorism, that amounts to a call for letting the
same old criminal justice system handle it.

Of course Obama has only two crisis modes
A.) Give a speech that's full of high minded rhetoric and has no practical
proposals to offer.

B.) Go on an international trip.

It's particularly embarrassing when former Vice President Cheney's numbers
are actually going up in response to his challenges to Obama's terrorism
policies. This after the left had spent 8 years caricaturing Cheney as a
monster.

But Cheney is the only high profile Republican politician actually challenging
Obama. Most of the heavy lifting until has been done by voices in the
blogsphere and talk radio. The media has meanwhile been giving a lot of
airtime to liberal Republicans to come out and endorse Obama's policies.

Giving Cheney airtime was meant to backfire on the Republican party,
instead it backfired on the media and their Savior in Chief.

Obama has to know that he can't win over most Americans with a debate
over Gitmo. Going soft on terrorism appeals to only a limited demographic,
even within the Democratic party.

And Cheney will hopefully point the way for GOP Presidential hopefuls to
begin speaking out a more loudly. Because Obama is weak on terrorism. And that
weakness can be successfully exploited.

The average American expects results from the White House, but this is not a
results oriented administration... at least not results that will benefit
Americans.

Obama
has stated,

"Seeking to defuse one of Republican's most potent arguments, the president
added: "Let me begin by disposing of one argument as plainly as I can:
we are not going to release anyone if it would endanger our national security,
nor will we release detainees within the United States who endanger the American people."

But of course Obama began with a lie. In fact released terrorists from Gitmo
routinely return to practicing terrorism.

An unreleased Pentagon report concludes that about one in seven of the 534
prisoners already transferred abroad from the detention center in
Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are engaged in terrorism or militant activity,
according to administration officials.

The Pentagon promised in January that the latest report would be released
soon, but Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said this week that the
findings were still “under review.”

Two administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said the
report was being held up by Defense Department employees fearful of
upsetting the White House, at a time when even Congressional Democrats
have begun to show misgivings over Mr. Obama’s plan to close Guantánamo.

Naturally. But what it all comes down to, is that releasing terrorists from
Guantanamo Bay, means releasing dangerous terrorists into the wild,

The Pentagon said on Tuesday that 61 former detainees from its military
prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appear to have returned to
terrorism since their release from custody.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said 18 former detainees are confirmed
as "returning to the fight" and 43 are suspected of having done in a report
issued late in December by the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Morrell declined to provide details such as the identity of the former detainees,
why and where they were released or what actions they have taken
since leaving U.S. custody.

"This is acts of terrorism. It could be Iraq, Afghanistan, it could be acts of
terrorism around the world," he told reporters.

Or it could be acts of terrorism right here in the US. Gitmo has served as a
training course for many of the detainees, giving them constant access
to Americans and to American culture. That will serve them well in any
future operations.

Naturally the press is
trying to spin this by claiming that the Gitmo terrorists
are returning to terrorism, because of how "badly" they were treated in Gitmo.
Which is a lot like claiming that a released pedophile only began molesting kids
because of his time in prison.

And then there's the Ex-Gitmo jolly fella, who instead of taking a job writing
editorials for the New York Times, became Yemen's Al Queda Terror Chief
-The emergence of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader
of Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in
carrying out the executive order President Obama signed Thursday
that the detention center be shut down within a year.

The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected of involvement in a deadly
bombing of the United States Embassy in Yemen's capital, Sana, in
September. He was released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 and passed through
a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists before resurfacing with
Al Qaeda in Yemen.

His status was announced in an Internet statement by the militant group
and was confirmed by an American counterterrorism official.

So when Obama claims, "we are not going to release anyone if it would
endanger our national security", he's lying through his shiny teeth and he
knows it. Releasing terrorists means endangering our national security.
Meanwhile two Democratic Congressmen, McGovern and Delahunt, with
well known terrorist sympathies,
are calling for Gitmo folks to come over here and join us.

Two lawmakers of President Barack Obama's Democratic Party appealed
Thursday to let Uighurs locked up at Guantanamo Bay move to the United
States, saying they were victims of injustice.

US authorities four years ago cleared 17 imprisoned Uighurs -- members
of a largely Muslim group in northwestern China who the State Department
says face worsening persecution by Beijing.

But they are stuck at Guantanamo Bay due to fears that Beijing would torture
them if they return. The United States has asked Germany, home
to a large Uighur community, to take them in.

"We cannot expect the world to miraculously resolve this problem of our
own making," Congressman Jim McGovern said.

"It is not enough, quite frankly, to ask that they be placed in Germany or
in some other European country. I believe that we have an obligation
to resettle at least some of the Uighurs here in the United States."

He and other lawmakers were addressing a world assembly of Uighurs,
including dissident leader Rebiya Kadeer, who were meeting at the US Capitol
in a bid to showcase their international support.

"Despite all of our words and our resolutions, we have let you down and we
have put America's judicial system and our moral standing in the
world at risk," said Bill Delahunt, like McGovern a Democratic congressman
from Massachusetts.

"The Uighur people are not enemies of America. In fact, I know you admire
our fundamental ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," he said....

Naturally. Maybe they can run for President too. Why not?

Meanwhile Netanyahu is revealing some of Obama's demands. One
of them demanded

that the UN flag fly over the Kotel, or the Western Wall,
which is the holiest site in Judaism.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed at the Mercaz HaRav
yeshiva in Jerusalem Thursday night that the Israeli flag will continue
to fly over the Western Wall (Kotel).

The first prime minister in years to appear at the venerable yeshiva on
Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day), he ignored U.S. President Barack
Obama’s apparent trial balloon that he wants to see the United Nations
flag fly over the Old City holy sites.

Jordan’s King Abdullah II said the president put forward the proposal
during his visit to the White House last month.

Prime Minister Netanyahu declared, "The flag that flies over the Kotel
is the Israeli flag...

Our holy places, the Temple Mount -- will remain under Israeli sovereignty
forever.”

In his short but enthusiastic speech at the yeshiva, where an Arab terrorist
slaughtered eight young students slightly more than a year ago, Prime
Minister Netanyahu repeated his “Undivided Jerusalem” message.

The packed study hall of the yeshiva interrupted Prime Minister Netanyahu’s
short speech several times with applause. The first clap of hands was
in response to the statement that Israel’s capital “never will be divided again.”
Jerusalem Day marks the day in the Six Day War upon which the Israel Defense
Forces liberated the eastern neighborhoods of Jerusalem from Jordanian rule.

It's a good beginning for Netanyahu in defying Obama.

In the blogsphere roundup, NeoCon Express looks at the consequences of
Obama's election and the impact on Israel's ability to maintain its air force
The Obama administration has imposed obstacles on Israeli efforts to procure
U.S.-origin fighter-jets. Over the last few months, the administration has
rejected a series of Israeli requests regarding modifications of the F-35.
They included Israeli electronic warfare systems and acquisition of U.S. software
codes that would allow Israel to repair the aircraft's central computer. The U.S.
refusal meant that the Israel Air Force would be forced to send the F-35 to the
United States for any repairs, a process that could take months.

The sources said the State Department has been delaying Israeli requests for
pre-export licenses required for an examination of the new generation F-15. The
sources said the administration has not approved the new F-15 for the
Foreign Military sales program.

They said this could prevent Israel from using U.S. military aid to purchase
the aircraft from Boeing. "This is a legal issue," a source said. "The F-15SE
might not qualify for FMS."


in Israel Maggie's Notebook has part of a
speech by the widow of Andrei Sakharov, which serves as a reminder
of what real human rights activism means.


…They say people are coming together -- but in reality, they are growing apart.
And that isn’t because an economic depression suddenly burst forth, and
swine flu to boot. [It] began on September 11, 2001. At first, anger and horror
was provoked by the terrorists who knocked down the Twin Towers of the
World Trade Center and by their accomplices in London, Madrid and other
cities, and by the shahids, suicide bombers who blew themselves up at public
spaces like discotheques and wedding parties, whose families were rewarded
$25,000 each by Saddam Hussein.

Later, Bush was blamed for everything, and as always, the Jews -- that is, Israel…
So it is about Israel and the Jews that I will speak... At one time, the Nobel Peace
Prize was the highest moral award of our civilization. But after December
1994, when Yasser Arafat became one of the three new laureates, its ethical
value was undermined. I haven’t always greeted each selection of the Nobel
Committee of the Norwegian Storting with joy, but that one shocked
me. And to this day, I cannot understand and accept the fact that Andrei
Sakharov and Yasir Arafat, now posthumously, share membership in the club
of Nobel laureates.


In many of Sakharov’s publications… [he] wrote and spoke about
Israel. I have a collection of citations of his writing on this topic. If it were
published in Norway, then many Norwegians would be surprised at how
sharply their contemporary view of Israel differs from the view of
Sakharov. Here are several citations from Sakharov: …

“All wars that Israel has waged have been just, forced upon it
by the irresponsibility of Arab leaders.” “With all the money that has
been invested in the problem of Palestinians, it would have been
possible long ago to resettle them and provide them with good lives
in Arab countries.”

But of course the organized human rights activists who draw six figure
salaries for waging lawfare on behalf of detained Al Queda terrorists, have no
interest in what she has to say.

Gates of Vienna has a look at Kosovo and the succeeding

Islamic invasion of Europe

from the renowned Fjordman

Palestine and Kosovo must be seen in the context of the third invasion of
Islam into Europe. The first invasion in the 8th century had taken Europe
by assault from the southwest, colonized the Iberian Peninsula and
attempted to take over Gallic France until it was arrested by Charles
Martel in 732. The Spanish reconquista which took centuries to
reclaim that land, was not completed before the end of the 15th century,
at the very same time that the second invasion of the Ottomans, this
time from the south-east, swept through the Balkans and eventually
made headway to the gates of Vienna. But that invasion, too, was finally
repulsed. The retrieval of the lands once ruled by Islam (Andalusia,
Palestine, the Balkans and Kashmir) is a matter of the highest priority
from the Islamic point of view.

Attacking India or the European Union by Islam outright is too risky.
Therefore attention is centered on the easier targets of Palestine and the
Balkans, with Andalusia, Sicily and Kashmir in the second stage. For
the rest of Europe a new tactic of soft invasion, by immigration and
demographic explosion, has already yielded impressive results: within
one generation, 30 million Muslims have taken a foothold in Europe.

And the invasion has only begun. Everything happening in Europe now
is only the beachhead. Israel provides a good show of what the next phase
will look like, something
we're seeing only glimpses of in France now.

Avid Editor
looks at coming terrorist attacks, particularly those aimed at
Jewish
centers
Jihad Watch parses Obama's terrorism speech

Lemon Lime Moon has a limerick on Islamic terrorism to close
off the weekend



He was promised young girls from the east
--"72" said they at the least!
He was martyred one day
by his enemies they say
ending up with just one horrid beast.













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