Terrorist to Speak at NJ University

So nice to see a taxpayer supported university not far from me is welcoming an unrepentant terrorist with open arms.

Special guest, Bill Ayers, speaks about the interaction between education and activism. Talk will by followed by book sale/signing and discussion.

If you're in the neighborhood:

Thursday, March 24th 2011, 8:15 pm - 10:30 pm
Location: University Hall, Room: 1030
Sponsored By: Students for a Democratic Society

I wonder if Governor Christie is aware we've got terrorists speaking at our public universities?

North Jersey tea partiers have sent out an action alert.

BRING A PRO-LIBERTY SIGN!!! Homemade signs are GREAT, store-made signs -- for example at FedEx Office, formerly known as Kinko's -- are GREAT. (I will be bringing my 2' x 2' sign.) You can search the internet for suggested sign slogans. For example, Google the term "tea party slogans" and that will bring up several websites that have dozens -- hundreds -- of suggestions each.

* Bring a camera, and especially if you are able, bring a digital recording device. This will help us document the event, and also, these devices serve as great deterrents to any thugs who might wish to infringe upon our unalienable moral right to speak freely.

* If you have any pro-liberty literature that you would like to pass out to any open-minded folks on campus passing near us, definitely feel free to exercise your free-speech rights in this manner!

* Although free speech includes angry speech, please DO NOT disrupt Ayers’ talk in any way that prevents peaceful discourse (for example, joining in a multi-person chant which drowns out whomever is speaking in room 1030). Even communists have free-speech rights – and we stand for the rights of all individuals, yes, even the creepy, hate-filled, anti-liberty, small ‘c’ communist ones.

* We are a PEACEFUL organization. We do not expect this Tea Party Protest to be anything but peaceful. Please conduct yourself accordingly at all times. Should any unfortunate situations arise, please do your best to defuse the situation peacefully (which often means simply walking away, and sometimes means simply calling the police, who no doubt will be present on campus this Thursday evening, and thankfully so).

I look forward to seeing YOU at Montclair State on this Thursday evening, March 24th!

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Incompetence Doesn't Begin To Describe It

This report put together by a television station in Atlanta about how terrorists are indeed crossing out southern border should give everybody pause, no matter what Janet Nincompoop and her clown car full of Homeland InSecurity folks tell us.


In the meantime, Eric Holder and his socialist pals at the DoJ want to keep dragging Arizona through the courts to curry political favor from the Hispanic community. Here is a hint 'ya idjits, terrorists don't check voter registration cards prior to becoming part of the Red Spray Brigade.

Peru Frees Radical Marxist From Prison

I have to figure her next stop is a featured blogger spot at the Huffington Post or Media Matters, or perhaps as a chief fundraiser for the DNC.

New York radical Lori Berenson was sprung from a Peruvian prison yesterday after serving 15 years for aiding revolutionaries.

A judge in Lima said she had "completed re-education, rehabilitation and re-socialization" and demonstrated "positive behavior."

"I'm just amazed that it happened," her jubilant mother, NYU Professor Rhoda Berenson, told The Post.

"She knew and we knew that she deserved it. We're just happy they followed their own laws and did what was required."

She spoke to her daughter after getting the news via text message from someone in the courtroom.

"It's been very hectic since we got the news," Rhoda said at the family's East Side home.

"We have been trying to get her out from behind bars for 14½ years, so its been a lot of 'try this, try that.' "

Berenson's father Mark, a college professor in New Jersey, was overjoyed.

"I let out a shout that I think my daughter heard in Peru," he said.

He and his wife have been working tirelessly toward getting Berenson out of jail.

"There are lots and lots of people around the world who have helped us and who have been working so hard for Lori to be released," her mom said.

One of the conditions for Lori's parole is that she remain in Peru until 2015, the year her 20-year sentence is up.

She is expected to be freed before the end of the week and will work as a translator at the nonprofit Office of the Americas.

The 40-year-old left-wing activist was represented at her parole hearing by her lawyer husband, Anibal Apari Sanchez, a former member of the insurgent Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, or MRTA.

So nice to see she'll be spending time with the far-left Office of the Americas. Nothing like staying close to your roots.

The Office of the Americas is a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering the cause of international justice and peace through broad based educational programs. Founded in 1983 in Los Angeles, the Office of the Americas is a recognized source of documentation and analysis of current international events with a focus on the foreign policy of the United States.

Through its public education campaign, the Office of the Americas works to reach constituencies of students, religious and human rights organizations and all others concerned about issues of international justice and peace. Our goal is to end the long-standing international culture of militarism.

Here are their current campaigns.

Help civilian victims of the US occupation of IraqWe work to facilitate community actions that directly benefit injured Iraqi children and their families.

Witness Against Torture: Shut Down Guantanamo action
Watch this 6 minute video by Danny Burns about the witness in Washington, DC on that took place on April 18th.

The have a rather interesting recommended reading list.

I'm sure she'll be properly rehabbed reading Hugo Chavez books. Their website, naturally, links to all sorts of radical left groups, including Code Pink and ANSWER.

Man Who Should Have Been Dead Months Ago Celebrates His Birthday

By my estimation this piece of garbage should have been dead back in November. Those idiots in Scotland really look pretty stupid now, don't they?

The Lockerbie bomber celebrated his 58th birthday on Thursday at a Libyan mansion, defying the imminent death Scottish officials predicted when they compassionately freed him from prison nearly eight months ago.

The thought of Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi partying with family and friends - reportedly thanking God for his survival - left his victims' loved ones sick to their stomachs.

"It's absolutely despicable. It's horrific because my daughter had only 20 birthdays," said Susan Cohen of Cape May, N.J.

Cohen's daughter, Theodora, a student at Syracuse University, was among 270 killed Dec. 21, 1988, when Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland.

"I actually had my birthday on the 27th [of March], and this is a pretty awful late birthday present," said Cohen, 72.

Megrahi, the only terrorist convicted of the bombing, was sentenced to life in prison in 2001 for assisting in the mass-murder bombing.

Diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer while doing time, Megrahi was released in August by Scottish authorities, who were assured by doctors that he had less than three months to live.

An ex-Libyan intelligence officer, Megrahi was given a hero's welcome home, where he's been embraced by Libyan President Moammar Khadafy and has apparently been on the mend.

"Since returning to the love of family and friends, he has made a remarkable recovery," a diplomatic source told the (London) Daily Mail.

They're starting to become a little concerned about damaged reputations in Scotland now. Gee, I wonder why?

THE NIGERIAN TALIBAN

It's not just McDonald's which is a global brand, it seems like the Taliban is the next universal franchise for the enthusiastic terrorist. It is reported that a group of Nigerian Islamist militants is barricaded inside a district in the city of Maiduguri, after two days of violence in the country's north. A BBC reporter in the city says the Islamists, known locally as the "Taliban", are shooting at anyone approaching their stronghold. I think we can safely assume these may not be the mythical "moderate" Taliban discussed yesterday, don't you?

Holder: Terrorists Won't Be Set Free

Sure they won't. Except for the terrorists that he deems may not be terrorists.

Make sure you read the fine print on anything this administration has to say.

Attorney General Eric Holder says the United States will not release anyone considered a terrorist into the country.

Holder was testifying Thursday at a Senate hearing. He faced questions from lawmakers about his plans for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center by January 2010.

The attorney general has told Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., that anyone believed to be a terrorist would not be set free. But he also said some of the Guantanamo Bay detainees will be released, indicating the Obama administration believes some of those held there are not terrorists.

Maybe they can go live with William Ayers.

Ayers: Obama Election 'A Strike Against White Supremacy'

It's not quite clear what Barack Obama's terrorist pal has against Robert Byrd, but one thing is certain: The New York Times can't get enough of this crackpot.

First there was his impeccably timed September 11, 2001 column where he said he didn't regret being a terrorist. Then the Times so graciously gave him op-ed space again this past December where he played the victim for being called a terrorist.

Now he'll be getting the full NY Times Magazine treatment this Sunday.

Who said crime doesn't pay?

Sarah Palin once accused Barack Obama of “palling around with terrorists,” a catchphrase intended to highlight Obama’s connection to former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers.

Now that the campaign rhetoric has subsided, Ayers has an idea for a new show starring his Alaskan nemesis.

“I did send her a note after the election,” he says of Palin in the upcoming issue of the New York Times magazine. “I suggested that we have a talk show together called ‘Pallin’ Around With Sarah and Bill.’ I haven’t heard back.”

Ayers assiduously avoided interviews and press attention during the presidential race, but he insists the Obama campaign never told him to keep quiet.

“They apparently didn’t want to call me, and I certainly wouldn’t have initiated it,” he says.

According to Ayers, Obama’s election was “a strike against white supremacy.” But, he says, his victory doesn’t change the fact that “40 percent of black kids under 5 live in poverty.”

I guess that trillion-dollar war on poverty didn't quite work out.

Murtha: Hey, Send the Club Gitmo Monsters to My District

The idiots keep voting for the guy, so I'm all for it.

Rep. Jack Murtha, D-Pa., says he'd be willing to house prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in his congressional district if President Obama makes good on a plan to close the U.S. prison there.

As one of his first acts in office, the president circulated a draft Wednesday that would shut down Guantanamo Bay within a year.

Murtha only has a minimum security prison in his district. But he says he'd have no reservations about holding detainees there in a maximum security prison.

"Sure, I'd take 'em," said Murtha, an outspoken critic of the Iraq war. "They're no more dangerous in my district than in Guantanamo."

Except, of course, for the fact that now makes his district a target for terrorists. Outside of that, what could go wrong?

Murtha added that there was "no reason not to put 'em in prisons in the United States and handle them the way they would handle any other prisoners."

But that idea disturbs House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.

"Most communities around America don't want dangerous terrorists imported into their neighborhoods," Boehner said in a statement.

"The key question is where do you put these terrorists?" Boehner asked.

How about keeping them where they are?

Hot Air links. Thanks!

An Idiot Who's No Longer Useful: Hezbollah Terror Gang Rejects Meeting With Carter

Idiot no longer useful

What does it say when even the Iranian-backed terror gang won't even meet with you?

A couple of weeks ago Zimbabwe wouldn't let him in, and now the Hezbos tell him tot ake a hike.

Officials from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have refused to meet with former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, who is in Lebanon, Carter's spokesman Rick Jafculca said Wednesday.

Carter requested the meeting with the Iran-backed movement - which is recognized as a terrorist group by the United States - as part of a two-day visit to Lebanon to assess whether his Atlanta-based Carter Center will monitor parliamentary elections, which are scheduled to take place by May 2009.

Jafculca confirmed a meeting had been requested with Hezbollah, but added that the group "were not able to meet" Carter.

They're probably holding out for some face time with Obama, who plans to reach out to Muslims.

Ayers Plays the Victim, Fabricates Recent Events

Typical cowardly nonsense from the unrepentant terrorist.

On the campaign trail, McCain immediately got on message. I became a prop, a cartoon character created to be pummelled.

When Alaska Governor Sarah Palin got hold of it, the attack went viral. At a now-famous Oct. 4 rally, she said Obama was "pallin' around with terrorists." (I pictured us sharing a milkshake with two straws.)

The crowd began chanting, "Kill him! Kill him!" It was downhill from there.

Of course, as we all know, that was a fabrication by a reporter from Scranton and there was never any evidence anyone shouted that at a rally. But hey, when you're playing the victim, why deal with the facts?

My voicemail filled up with hate messages. They were mostly from men, all venting and breathing heavily. A few threats: "Watch out!" and "You deserve to be shot." And I got some emails like this one from satan@hell.com: "I'm coming to get you and when I do, I'll waterboard you."

The police lieutenant who came to copy down those threats deadpanned that he hoped the guy who was going to shoot me got there before the guy who was going to waterboard me, since it would be most foul to be tortured and then shot.

The good news was that every time McCain or Palin mentioned my name, they lost a point or two in the polls. The cartoon invented to hurt Obama poked holes in the rapidly sinking McCain-Palin ship.

If they "lost a point or two" every time they mentioned Ayers, how did they manage to lose by only five points?

I find it rather implausible this guy got an email from satan@hell.com, considering there isn't an email service provider called hell.com. You would think the editors of this Canadian paper would fact check this nonsense.

Will Obama Be Blurbing the New Ayers/Dohrn Book?

Considering Barack Obama offered such glowing praise for a book by terrorist William Ayers back in 1997, I wonder if he'll eagerly review the next book by political activist Ayers and his charming wife Bernardine Dohrn?

White supremacy and its troubling endurance in American life is debated in these personal essays by two veteran political activists. Arguing that white supremacy has been the dominant political system in the United States since its earliest days—and that it is still very much with us—the discussion points to unexamined bigotry in the criminal justice system, election processes, war policy, and education. The book draws upon the authors' own confrontations with authorities during the Vietnam era, reasserts their belief that racism and war are interwoven issues, and offers personal stories about their lives today as parents, teachers, and reformers.

Parents, teachers and reformers? What about their roles as terrorists? I guess that won't be mentioned.

Curious how their pal Obama is close to being elected President despite dominant white supremacy run amok in the United States.

Talk about being stuck with a 1960s mindset.

Pre-order now and this diatribe can be yours for only $13.57.

H/T Neocon Latina.

William Ayers, Model Citizen Who Just Happens to Like Cop Killers

Looks like unrepentant terrorist William Ayers also has pals at the Wall Street Journal.

I can just see the reaction from the left: "See, see! Someone working for Rupert Murdoch is friends with Ayers, so why is everyone giving him grief?"

This year the Democrats chose Barack Obama as their leader, a man who was born in 1961 and who largely missed our cultural civil war. In response, Republican campaign masterminds have sought to plunge him back into it in the most desperate and grotesque manner yet.

For days on end, the Republican presidential campaign has put nearly all of its remaining political capital on emphasizing Mr. Obama's time on various foundation boards with Bill Ayers, a former member of the Weathermen, which planted bombs and issued preposterous statements in the Vietnam era. Some on the right seem to believe Mr. Ayers is Mr. Obama's puppet-master, while others are content merely to insist that the association proves Mr. Obama to be soft on terrorism. Maybe he's soft on anarchy and repudiation, too.

I can personally attest to the idiocy of it all because I am a friend of Mr. Ayers. In fact, I met him in the same way Mr. Obama says he did: 10 years ago, Mr. Ayers was a guy in my neighborhood in Chicago who knew something about fundraising. I knew nothing about it, I needed to learn, and a friend referred me to Bill.

Bill's got lots of friends, and that's because he is today a dedicated servant of those less fortunate than himself; because he is unfailingly generous to people who ask for his help; and because he is kind and affable and even humble. Moral qualities which, by the way, were celebrated boisterously on day one of the GOP convention in September.

A dedicated servant of the little people, who just happens to dig a cop-killer.

Ayers' office door is decorated with pictures of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Che Guevara and Malcolm X. It is also home to pictures of children, bills of rights for students and parents, and a rainbow-hued greeting card advising "How to Be Really Alive." A place of prominence is give to a New Yorker cartoon of a man interviewing for a job. The interviewer says, "I'm trying to find a way to balance your strengths against your felonies."

The way these people talk about Ayers you'd think he's the Mr. Rogers of Hyde Park.

Tom Hayden: Hey, I Forgive McCain for Killing People in Vietnam, So Lay Off Ayers Already

I guess this is some kind of moral equivalence in Tom Hayden's fevered mind. Buried deep in an otherwise reasonably fair account of Barack Obama's relationship with unrepentant terrorist William Ayers is this incredibly lame rationalization (H/T Lauren).

Tom Hayden, an anti-war activist who met Ayers in the 1960s and later was elected to the California Legislature, says Ayers' past should be forgiven.

"I have met and like John McCain, but he bombed, and presumably killed, many people in a war I opposed," Hayden says. "If I can set all that aside, I would hope that Americans will accept" that Ayers has changed, too.

Such arrogance. Because Hayden opposed the war, anything McCain did in prosecution of that effort is wrong, while Ayers was merely joining him in protest. So let's all just forget about it and get back to that hopey changy thing, OK?

Of course, Hayden was more than just an "activist" back in the 1960s. He helped organize the mayhem during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.

The figure most closely associated with the Chicago protests is Tom Hayden, now point man for Progressives for Obama. Students for a Democratic Society activist Gerry Long recalled to David Horowitz that Hayden noted the benefits of firebombing Chicago police cruisers. “I heard Tom Hayden speak, in chillingly cavalier tones, about street actions which would run the risk of getting people killed,” Todd Gitlin remembered in The Sixties. In a conversation with me, Mike Klonsky, SDS’s national secretary during the convention riots, described how Hayden plotted to scatter nails over a nearby highway. And Bill Ayers writes in his memoir, Fugitive Days, of Hayden’s altered persona when addressing closed audiences of radicals...

The behind-closed-doors Hayden occasionally ventured into public view. In Chicago, he called on activists to “avenge” the injuries of co-organizer Rennie Davis, who had suffered a concussion battling the police. Hayden exhorted the throngs: “Make sure that if blood is going to flow, it will flow all over this city.” Hayden wasn’t alone among future Chicago Eight defendants in his violent rhetoric. “If a pig comes up to us and starts swinging a billy club,” Black Panther Bobby Seale counseled, “and you check around and you got your piece, you got to down that pig in defense of yourself! We’re going to barbecue us some pork!”

Yup, just some community activists and what a shock, one is buddies with Obama while the other is not the point man of Progressives for Obama.

I guess Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn aren't the only "former" terrorists Obama knows.

How many others are out there?

Curious today how Team Obama is trying to intimidate the folks behind this ad.



Might we now find out more about Barack and Bill's relationship?

Supreme Court Rules Terrorists Now Have Constitutional Rights

Naturally, this cockamamie ruling is portrayed as a defeat for George W. Bush rather than a defeat of common sense and logic.

Terrorist sympathizers must be kvelling over this. Maybe they should see if they're allowed to vote this November.

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.

The justices handed the Bush administration its third setback at the high court since 2004 over its treatment of prisoners who are being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The vote was 5-4, with the court's liberal justices in the majority.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, said, "The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times."

It was not immediately clear whether this ruling, unlike the first two, would lead to prompt hearings for the detainees, some who have been held more than 6 years. Roughly 270 men remain at the island prison, classified as enemy combatants and held on suspicion of terrorism or links to al-Qaida and the Taliban.

The administration opened the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to hold enemy combatants, people suspected of ties to al-Qaida or the Taliban.

The Guantanamo prison has been harshly criticized at home and abroad for the detentions themselves and the aggressive interrogations that were conducted there.

The court said not only that the detainees have rights under the Constitution, but that the system the administration has put in place to classify them as enemy combatants and review those decisions is inadequate.

If you don't think elections matter, just imagine who the radical Barack Obama would put on the Supreme Court.

In dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts criticized his colleagues for striking down what he called "the most generous set of procedural protections ever afforded aliens detained by this country as enemy combatants."

Memo to the GOP: You just had an issue gift-wrapped with a nice bow on top: Start using it against the Democrats today.

Ruling against America were Justices Steven Kennedy, John Paul Stevens, Stephen Breyer, David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Those in favor of protecting America from the Islamofascist animals were Chief Justice John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

Update: The Great One checks in.

It has been the objective of the left-wing bar to fight aspects of this war in our courtrooms, where it knew it would have a decent chance at victory. So complete is the Court's disregard for the Constitution and even its own precedent now that anything is possible. And what was once considered inconceivable is now compelled by the Constitution, or so five justices have ruled. I fear for my country. I really do. And AP, among others, reports this story as a defeat for "the Bush administration." Really? I see it as a defeat for the nation.

More from SCOTUSBlog.

Michelle Malkin: "What’s that sound? The thunder of left-wing lawyers and Gitmo detainees jumping up and down for joy at the Supreme Court’s ruling this morning. Brace yourselves."

More also at Volokh Conspiracy, Ace of Spades HQ.

SLA Terrorist Back Behind Bars

Oops.

We noted our displeasure about this woman being released Friday.

Well, not so fast, she going back to jail due to a an administrative error.

Oh well.

California authorities re-arrested Sara Jane Olson at noon today, just days after the former member of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army had been paroled from a California women's prison after serving about six years for her role in a plot to kill Los Angeles police officers by blowing up their patrol cars.

Shawn Chapman Holley, the attorney for the woman who changed her name from Kathleen Soliah, said her client called her Friday night and told her that prison officials had detained her at Los Angeles International Airport when she was about to board a plane for Minnesota and that she had then been taken to her mother's home in Palmdale.

Holley said that on Saturday morning, she called an official of the Corrections Department and was told that there might have been "a computation error" regarding the amount of time Olson was supposed to serve. Officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation had no immediate comment but said they would hold a press conference later today.

Holley said Olson's husband and an official from the Corrections Department told her that her client was being taken to a prison in Frontera. She said she was outraged by the action and asserted that her client had been illegally arrested and is now being "illegally imprisoned."

Earlier in the day, Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the agency, said that when she left her office Friday, she had been informed that department officials had cleared an out-of-state parole transfer for Olson "and she was going to be traveling to Minnesota."

Olson had lived in Minnesota for a number of years before being arrested on charges related to the 1975 plot to plant pipe bombs beneath police cars in retaliation for a shootout with Los Angeles police that left six SLA members dead.

Holley said she had told Olson goodbye Friday at the home of a Southern California friend. "She met with her parole agent earlier in the day," Holley said. "He told her she was free to go to Minnesota and told her to tell her Minnesota parole agent to call her Los Angeles parole agent on Monday as a formality."

But about 11:15 Friday night, Holley said, she received a call from Olson, who told her that law enforcement officials at LAX "were telling her her travel pass was rescinded and they would escort her back to her mother's home in Palmdale."

After midnight, Holley said, she got another call from Olson, telling her that she had been taken to her mother's home in a law enforcement convoy and that although she was not under arrest, law enforcement officials had stationed a car in front of the house and told her she would be followed if she left.

Looks like she'll be back chilling behind bars until next March.

Too bad it's not for life.

I guess this means she won't be attending the Democrat Convention this summer.

Patricia Hearst Shaw was unavailable for comment.

Muslim Terrorists Complain Prison is 'Too White'

Aw, the poor things. Imagine the horrors of being subjected to some abuse, just because you planned mass murder with a dirty bomb.

What's more pathetic is the authorities acquiesced and accommodated them.

Just ridiculous.

Two of Britain's most dangerous terrorists have been moved to different prisons after complaining their fellow inmates were "too white".

Dhiren Barot and Omar Khyam asked to be transferred from high-security Frankland prison near Durham.

Barot masterminded a radioactive bomb plot involving limousines packed with nails and explosives and Khyam plotted to blow up Bluewater shopping centre in Kent.

Imagine the hysteria if some white prisoners complained about being around too many Muslims? Why they'd be in sensitivity training until the end of their term, if they weren't killed in jail first.

They said they were at risk from other inmates - who are predominantly white - and claimed the environment was "dangerous" to ethnic minority prisoners. It is thought they had received death threats and attacks.

Although their requests were initially turned down, Barot, who is serving a minium of 30 years, has since been moved to Belmarsh in south-east London.

Khyam has also been moved to Full Sutton near York.

But news of the transfers has sparked outrage, with the Prison Service being accused of caving into prisoners' demands.

Barot's solicitor Miss Mudassar Arani, asked if his client could be removed from Frankland prison after a fellow inmate threw boiling water and oil over him last July.

The 35-year-old suffered serious burns and spent a week in hospital.

Prisoner Gary Moody was charged with wounding and assault but the case was dropped when Barot refused to press charges.

Update on Georgia terrorists trial

You must read this article of how the local law enforcement in Georgia handled the investigation and more specifically the interrogation of the 2 suspected Muslim terrorists currently on trial.

Seated in front of a computer, he refused to open a file in his Hotmail account, saying it would betray Sadequee, whom he'd met at the mosque near his house in Midtown. "I cannot really help against a Muslim," Ahmed said.

For anybody who says it isn't about the religion let this bounce around your little brain for awhile.

But a few days later, Ahmed drove to a library in Dawsonville and, not knowing he was under surveillance, sent an e-mail to Sadequee in Bangladesh. Ahmed wrote that he'd "slipped" in the interrogations "due to my own shortcomings in faith." But he said he'd regained his confidence through prayer. Everything would be all right.

The defense attorney is asking the judge to toss out 11 hours of interviews the FBI has on these two because the only reason the defendants would talk is because they thought they would not be arrested, even though on the tapes they talk about what type of attacks they wanted to carry out. So the attorney's basic argument is, sure they admitted to carrying out some attacks but you can't hold that against them, as if talking to an FBI agent is comparable to entering the confessional booth at church. More on this circular logic here.

Okay, I wasn't really running, I was just walking fast

That is a portion of a Bill Cosby routine of an exchange between a 5 year old child and his parents when he is caught running in the house.

Agents say Tech student accused of terrorist ties lied

Duhhh, no Shiite!

When Ahmed, then a 21-year-old Georgia Tech mechanical engineering student, was asked why he had visited Pakistan in the summer of 2005, Ahmed said it was to study the Koran. Instead, Ahmed would tell agents days later, he went there to get military training, "maybe at a terrorist training camp," FBI Special Agent Mark D. Richards testified.

The Koran is the terrorist field training manual so he was probably doing both.

Agents also asked Ahmed why he and Sadequee traveled to Canada in March 2005. To visit relatives, including his and Sadequee's, Ahmed told the agents. But Richards testified that Ahmed and Sadequee met in Toronto with "known terrorist extremists," some of whom are either convicted or under investigation.

Once again, probably another true statement. One thing we have learned is that there are strong family ties within the terrorist network.

Ahmed's lawyer, Jack Martin, contends Ahmed's statements, which will continue to be played in court over the next few days, should be suppressed. Martin says that Ahmed's statements were "involuntary" because agents coerced Ahmed into talking on the false promise he would not be arrested if he cooperated.

This kind of circular logic will probably work in our courts, but to anybody with a lick of common sense we are left to wonder. What sort of argument is it to say I am going to talk to you about a criminal act but I am only doing because I won't get arrested. Thank goodness Georgia prosecutors didn't use this line of reasoning when questioning the recent possible serial killer who killed a young lady here.

Oh yeah, and the Huckster wants to close Gitmo so that we can go through this dog and pony show for every detainee there who winds his way through the legal system.

BBC Goes Paintballing With Terrorists

Such a cozy relationship the Beeb has with these fellows.

The BBC funded a paintballing trip for men later accused of Islamic terrorism and failed to pass on information about the 21/7 bombers to police, a court was told yesterday.

Mohammed Hamid, who is charged with overseeing a two-year radicalisation programme to prepare London-based Muslim youths for jihad, was described as a “cockney comic” by a BBC producer.

The BBC paid for Mr Hamid and fellow defendants Muhammad al-Figari and Mousa Brown to go on a paintballing trip at the Delta Force centre in Tonbridge, Kent, in February 2005. The men, accused of terrorism training, were filmed for a BBC programme called Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic, screened in June 2005.

The BBC paid Mr Hamid, an Islamic preacher who denies recruiting and grooming the men behind the failed July 2005 attack, a £300 fee to take part in the programme, Woolwich Crown Court was told.

It was alleged that Mr Hamid told a BBC reporter that he would use the corporation’s money to pay a fine imposed by magistrates for a public order offence.

Nasreen Suleaman, a researcher on the programme, told the court that Mr Hamid, 50, contacted her after the July 2005 attack and told her of his association with the bombers. But she said that she felt no obligation to contact the police with this information. Ms Suleaman said that she informed senior BBC managers but was not told to contact the police.

Ms Suleaman told the court that Mr Hamid was keen to appear in the programme. She said: “He was so up for it. We took the decision that paintballing would be a fun way of introducing him.

“There are many, many British Muslims that I know who for the past 15 or 20 years have been going paintballing. It’s a harmless enough activity. I don’t think there is any suggestion, or ever has been, that it’s a terrorist training activity.”

Really? Seems some people have heard of this before.

When Muhammed Aatique pleaded guilty on Sep. 23, 2003 to being part of northern Virginia jihad network, he acknowledged that the paintball games played by him and his fellow jihadists were "conducted as sort of a military training." Another member of the network, Nabil Gharbieh, told the court how Muslims regarded paintball as a form of jihad.

These admissions come to mind on learning that the Tampa branch of the Muslim American Society is hosting a paintball game today in Ocala, Florida.

The BBC and terrorists. Perfect together.

Note paintballing is quite popular among the Muslim youth, at least here in the United States.

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Red Cross 'Training' Terrorists in Geneva

The mind boggles at this one, from Judith Apter Klinghoffer.

Tonight BBC America featured a truly bizarre report by Katya Adler. There they were, Palestinian militants from Gaza wearing ski masks practicing first aid in an immaculate Geneva office. It was part of an ongoing IRCR program to give terrorists a chance to relax, excuse me learn about the Geneva Convention.

It's difficult to fathom how stupid this is.

Katya Adler asked the trainees whether they will follow the laws they were taught. It will depend on our commanders they answered.

Adler asked a commander whether he will stop lobbing missiles at Israeli civilians now that he knows international law considers it illegal. No, he answered.

Katty Kay asked why they came to Geneva? Katya failed to answer. Hard to believe that it never occured to either that the "gunmen" may enjoy the paid vacation. I wonder about the "all armed factions." It is doubtful that Gaza and Hamas gunmen could share a classroom but then maybe they will do anything for a Swiss vacation.