'Now I’m Living the Dream'

Meet Khalid Kelly, one seriously disturbed human being.

An Irish jihadist living in Pakistan’s Swat valley says he is preparing to wage war against British and allied troops in Afghanistan.

Khalid Kelly, a former altar boy from the Liberties area of Dublin who used to be known as Terry, told The Sunday Times he is undergoing weapons training in Pakistan’s mountainous tribal region in order to fight jihad against the enemies of Islam. His dream is to face a British soldier in combat, although he would “settle” for an American, he said.

“I’m already on the path to jihad. I’ve already picked up a gun and done target practice to make myself familiar with weapons. The other day I learnt how to use an M-16 [rifle] in five hours,” he said. “Next week, inshallah, I could be in Afghanistan fighting a British soldier.”

Asked how he would feel about his own three-year-old son becoming a suicide bomber he replied: “I hope he goes to jannah [heaven] before marriageable age.” His son, named Osama after Kelly’s role model, lives in Britain with his Pakistani mother and two younger brothers. His father reckons Osama will be efficient with weapons by the age of ten.

Kelly says he learnt map-reading in the Scottish mountains, terrain similar to Afghanistan, although he admits he is currently out of shape. He justifies his intentions because of the West’s actions against Muslims.

“Why is it such a big deal that I want to do this? Have I not got the right to do the same thing as a guy going into an army recruitment centre?” he said. “As long as we have no security, you will have no security. We’ll kill and bomb you as you have killed and bombed our lands.”

Ireland is also a legitimate target, according to Kelly. “Ireland has a US embassy so it is open to attack,” he stated.

Kelly, 42, is an unconventional jihadist. Having grown up a staunch Catholic and trained as a nurse, he moved to Saudi Arabia in 1996 to work at the King Faisal hospital on a tax-free salary. In 2000 he was introduced to radical Islam by an Afghan when he was serving time in the Al-Ha’ir prison in Riyadh for bootlegging.

“I was living a cushy Western lifestyle, in a three-storey house with a swimming pool. I was your average Western racist,” he said of his time before conversion. “Now I’m living the dream, but the price of paradise does not come cheap. I am getting up at 5am to pray. I travel a lot and I’m experiencing hardship.”

Here's hoping he gets to live out his dream in serious pain.

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It will be interesting to see how long it takes for the State Department and the Progressives in Congress to buy into this drivel.

Gaza's New Rulers Seek to Win Over the West
Having gained control of the Gaza Strip, Hamas is now trying to polish its image. Seen by many as Islamist terrorists, the group wants to win over the West with law and order.

The Hotel al-Deira is considered the best in Gaza City. Each of its 22 multi-story suites comes equipped with high-quality wood furnishings and costly wall hangings. A night at the al-Deira runs from €65 to €100, making it unaffordable for most Palestinians. "Foreign guests are our bread and butter," says Samir Sukeik, the manager. But put off by street fighting and a wave of kidnappings, it's precisely those guests who have stayed away in recent months.

But business at the hotel has recently picked up again. Since Hamas seized power in the Gaza Strip three weeks ago, "the situation has become much safer," Sukeik says. A few days ago one of his guests, a Turkish woman, was harassed on the beach by young Palestinian men. "The police intervened within seconds," the manager says enthusiastically.

Hamas is clearly taking steps to restore order to the Gaza Strip -- and broadcasting its efforts to the public in Gaza, Israel and the West. After facing worldwide criticism for their brutal power grab in the region, the Islamists are now intent on demonstrating that they speak more than just the language of violence. Indeed, they have little choice in the matter. Economic recovery is unlikely as long as Western aid money pours into the Fatah-ruled West Bank, where Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has established a relatively moderate emergency government.

Yes!!! It's all the fault of the West! And the Joooos!

Meanwhile, Fatah no longer plays a role in Gaza City. Two weeks ago, Hasim Abu Shanab was given the job of Fatah spokesman. The party's position is tough: moderate Palestinians say Fatah abandoned the coastal strip without much of a fight. Islamists, on the other hand, accuse the party of plotting to overthrow Hamas together with the Americans and Israelis.

When he led a demonstration against the new rulers through the streets of Gaza City without being harassed by authorities, even Shanab had to admit Hamas seemed kinder and gentler. But he insists the organization's seeming change of heart is an illusion intended to divert attention from its true goals. Hamas, Shanab says, all but abandoned the idea of an independent Palestinian state when they split the Palestinian territories in two. That, in the end, is all that really counts.

The usual suspects were unavailable for comment.

Did You Hear The One About ...

This will most likely be dismissed by the Koslings as propaganda dictated by Karl Rove for the sole purpose of moving the weekend newscycle away from Scooter Libby.

The Telegraph, a British newspaper, is defying intrepid prime minister Gordon Brown's plea not to use language that would suggest a link between terrorism and Muslims/Islam.

45 Muslim doctors planned US terror raids
A group of 45 Muslim doctors threatened to use car bombs and rocket grenades in terrorist attacks in the United States during discussions on an extremist internet chat site.
Police found details of the discussions on a site run by one of a three-strong "cyber-terrorist" gang.

They were discovered at the home of Younis Tsouli, 23, Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London heard.

One message read: "We are 45 doctors and we are determined to undertake jihad and take the battle inside America.

"The first target which will be penetrated by nine brothers is the naval base which gives shelter to the ship Kennedy." This is thought to have been a reference to the USS John F Kennedy, which is often at Mayport Naval Base in Jacksonville, Florida.

The message discussed targets at the base, adding: "These are clubs for naked women which are opposite the First and Third units."

Ahh, yes! The naked women excuse to become a murderous psychopath. If they'd only adhere to the teachings of the Ayatollah Khomeini.

It also referred to using six Chevrolet GT vehicles and three fishing boats and blowing up petrol tanks with rocket propelled grenades.

Investigators have found no link between the Tsouli chat room and the group of doctors and medics currently in custody over attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow.

However, sources said it was "definitely spooky" that the use of doctors for terrorist purposes was being discussed in jihadi terrorist circles up to three years ago.

Part of the inquiry into the London and Glasgow incidents will focus on whether al-Qa'eda has recruited doctors or other medical professionals because they are less likely to attract suspicion and can move easily around the western world.

The three "cyber terrorists" - a British national and two who had been given the right to live in Britain - are facing lengthy jail sentences after admitting using the internet to spread al-Qa'eda propaganda inciting Muslims to a violent holy war and to murder non-believers.

They had close links with al-Qa'eda in Iraq and believed they had to fight jihad against a global conspiracy by kuffars, or non-believers, to wipe out Islam.

Where in hell have have these dunderheads been? There is no al-Qa'eda in Iraq. And this veiled reference to the International Bushchimphitler-Pajamashadeen-Joooish Conspiracy, wazzup with continued use of that old canard?

The three are the first defendants in Britain to be convicted of inciting terrorist murder on the internet. They waged cyber-jihad on websites run from their bedrooms.

That should give the Truthers a good start on the development of Kosling Conspiracy Theory No.___.

Tsouli promoted the ideology of Osama bin Laden via email and radical websites. He said in one message he was "very happy" about the July 7 bombings in London in 2005.

100:1 Tsouli goes into prison a jihad prince but comes out an Islamic queen.

Tsouli, along with Tariq Daour, a biochemistry student, and Waseem Mughal, a law student, were intelligent, computer-literate men who promoted violent propaganda.

They created chat forums to direct willing fighters to Iraq and discuss murderous bomb attacks around the world. Films of hostages and beheadings were found by police.

Daour, 21, of Bayswater, west London, who was born in the United Arab Emirates, yesterday admitted inciting another person to commit an act of terrorism wholly or partly outside Britain. Moroccan-born Tsouli, 23, of Shepherd's Bush, west London, and British-born Mughal, 24, of Chatham, Kent, admitted the same charge on Monday.

They are due to be sentenced today. They also admitted conspiring together and with others to defraud banks, credit card companies and charge card companies. Daour had instructions for making explosives and poisons, the court was told. Police found instructions on causing an explosion with "rocket propellant'' and constructing a car bomb.

In one on-line conversation, Daour, asked what he would do with £1 million, replied: "Sponsor terrorist attacks, become the new Osama."

The three men outwardly appeared to be leading normal lives, studying and living with their parents. Tsouli had come to the UK with his family from Morocco in 2001.

Mughal had a degree in biochemistry from Leicester University and was studying for his masters.

Daour, who was granted British citizenship in May 2005, had applied to start a law degree.

The world has more than enough lawyers. He shan't be missed.

Read it all.

Although Brown's don't call terrorists Muslims is an edict issued to his cabinet ministers, it was also an indirect plea to the media -- don't want to offend anybody, you see.

During his July 3 broadcast, Mark Levin, after careful analysis of the intrepid prime minister's plea, announced the proper way to identify terrorists. It begins at about 26 minutes into the show, after Mark issues a challenge to Bill and Hillary Rodham to back up their words with deeds.

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Here's video of BBC reporter Alan Johnston outfitted with a suicide belt.



Also at LGF, Hot Air.

Where it's not: People's Revolutionary Republic of Koslamistan, PuffHo, MyDD . . . .

A Challenge That Will Go Unanswered

They may start killing each other in the streets over this one.

If Pakistan is so angry, give back our aid
Pakistanis have every right to voice their anger at the award of a knighthood to Salman Rushdie.

Equally, the rest of us have every right to express our anger at the deeply offensive response of Mohammed Ijaz ul-Haq, Pakistan's religious affairs minister who invoked the world's 1.5 billion Muslims and said: "If someone commits suicide bombing to protect the honour of the Prophet Mohammed, his act is justified."

C'mon, dude, be a leader, offer yourself as an example.

He later "clarified" his words, but we all know exactly what he was up to. And what of the Labour peer Lord Ahmed, who responds by saying Rushdie has "blood on his hands".

1000 to 1 he won't lead by becoming a splodeydope, either.

Some people like Rushdie's novels, others don't. Some say he's smug, others say he's delightful.

Yes, he has cost this country a lot in protecting him and through him, a core value of freedom of speech. But unless there is a strange and violent back-story we didn't know, Sir Salman hasn't the smallest drop of blood on his hands.

If Pakistan is so offended, however, there is a dignified way to deal with the problem.

Last year, Tony Blair went to Lahore to praise its "enlightened moderation" and to announce a rise in our aid budget to Pakistan from £236 million to £480 million.

If this is tainted money, it can presumably be returned.

They'll Surely Be 'Angered'

Here's something that's sure to get the mullah's and acolyte's knickers in a knot. All of the whining, protests and fatwa or two that have come about since Salman Rushdie was knighted five days ago, has had a chilling effect: Rushdie's book, The Satanic Verses, published in 1988, has experienced a growth in sales.

Home secretary defends Rushdie knighthood
John Reid today insisted Britain stood by the knighthood awarded to Salman Rushdie and would not apologise for the honour, despite anger in some Muslim countries.

The issue was "sensitive", the home secretary said following a speech in New York, but the protection of people's right to express their opinions in literature, argument and politics was "of overriding value to our society".

The British high commissioner in Islamabad, Robert Brinkley, has expressed concern to Pakistan's government over remarks supposedly made by the minister for religious affairs, Mohammed Ejaz ul-Haq, which appeared to justify suicide bombings as a response to the knighthood.

A Foreign Office spokeswoman said Mr Brinkley had expressed "deep concern about what the minister of religious affairs is reported to have said".

Iran has also stepped up protests over the a knighthood for Rushdie, whose 1988 novel The Satanic Verses prompted a fatwa calling for his assassination.

Iran's state radio reported today that 221 of the country's 290 MPs signed a statement condemning Rushdie's knighthood.

Yesterday Iran's foreign ministry summoned the British ambassador to complain about the award.

An Iranian foreign ministry official, Ebrahim Rahimpour, told the ambassador, Geoffrey Adams, that the decision to award the honour to the author was a "provocative act" that had angered Muslims, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.

Speaking in New York, Mr Reid noted that some Christians were angered by film The Life of Brian, and some Jewish people were upset when Mel Gibson made films, but that this had to be tolerated.

"We have a set of values that accords people honours for their contribution to literature even if we don't agree with their point of view," he said. "That's our way and that's what we stand by."

He added: "We have very strong laws about promoting racial intolerance.

It sure would be nice if these PC nitwits would get it through their heads that Islam, like any other relgion (or anti-religion), is not a race.

It isn't a free-for-all. We've thought very carefully about it.

"But we have a right to express opinions, and a tolerance of other people's point of view, and we don't apologise for that."

Rushdie went into hiding for a decade after Iran's late spiritual leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa in 1989 calling for the author's assassination. The Iranian government distanced itself from the fatwa in 1998, declaring that it would not support the edict, but could not rescind it. He received the knighthood for services to literature in the Queen's birthday honours list published on Saturday.

Ahh, Khomeini, the spiritual leader. Here's a classic example of Khomeini's spiritual leadership.

The row over the honour has done no harm to sales of The Satanic Verses, nearly 20 years after it was first published in 1988.

The book was today ranked 12th in UK book sales by Amazon. It is the only book in the top rankings not published very recently.

On the US version of Amazon the book ranked 73rd.

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