I am disappointed that the American government hasn’t been more supportive to the friends and families of these missing contractors.

See Vicki No-Veil’s post at the Jawa Report, dated March 29, and this web site. A Minnesota businessman, a friend of Paul Reuben, has been fundraising to raise the ransom, and is on his way to Iraq to secure their release. May God be with him and may He protect all those who are under threat or in chains.

See Part I of this interview with Justin from Right on the Right here. This is Part II.

Cao just recorded a new phoneblog, you can click here or on the player below to listen.

Cao just recorded a new phoneblog, you can click here or on the player below to listen.

Justin at Right on the Right talks about his Conservative Road Warrior Tour for next year. Click on this link which will take you to his map and his paypal link if you want to kick a few bucks toward this initiative to spread conservative grassroots thought across the country.

It will include Wild Bill from Passionate America and Matt Hurley from Weapons of Mass Discussion

The return to the Reagan Revolution

Why aren’t conservatives holding to all the ideals of conservatism?

Part II of this interview with Justin, here.

Download this podcast here.

11:45 m.

The Next War? Keith Timmerman, Frontpage Magazine, March 30, 2007

As much as Blair tries to make it sound like the UN and the EU are going to take a hard line against Iran, Iran could really give a rip.

Don’t Confuse Terrorism with Islam, says EU

I didn’t talk about this, but this was just relayed to me by Brendan, and look at how disgusting this is. This is an example of the kind of ‘hardline’ that the EU has against the terrorists.

The European Union has drawn up guidelines advising government spokesmen to refrain from linking Islam and terrorism in their statements.

Brussels officials have confirmed the existence of a classified handbook which offers “non-offensive” phrases to use when announcing anti-terrorist operations or dealing with terrorist attacks.

Banned terms are said to include “jihad”, “Islamic” or “fundamentalist”.

The word “jihad” is to be avoided altogether, according to some sources, because for Muslims the word can mean a personal struggle to live a moral life.

Yeah, right. Don’t dare use the words that the terrorists themselves use…

UK Independence Party MEP Gerard Batten claimed that the EU was in denial over the true roots of terrorism.

“This type of newspeak shows that the EU refuses to face reality,” he said. “The major world terrorist threat is one posed by ideology and that ideology is inspired by fundamentalist jihadi Islam.”

You’re damned straight.

You can find Brendan at his blog at The Voice of the Pacific.

Crawford Peace House in trouble

Listen to the 1st part of this 2/part phoneblogz here, first.

Cao just recorded a new phoneblog, you can click here or on the player below to listen.

Response was very good to the Gathering of Eagles

The Faith of the American Soldier

indiscriminateness of thought

Evan Sayet’s blog

Cao just recorded a new phoneblog, you can click here or on the player below to listen.

The Voice of the Pacific

British Sailors kidnapped by Iran

David Hicks Found Guilty; Faces up to Seven Years for Supporting Terrorism

Manchester Manual:
PRISONS AND DETENTION CENTERS

IF AN INDICTMENT IS ISSUED AND THE TRIAL BEGINS, THE BROTHER HAS TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE FOLLOWING:

1. At the beginning of the trial, once more the brothers must insist on proving that torture was inflicted on them by State Security [investigators] before the judge.
2. Complain [to the court] of mistreatment while in prison.

Gitmo Cookbook

Bear to the Right

The Troops Need You, America!

Part II of this phoneblogz

Army Rangers clear an insurgent hideout in Ramadi and find some valuable documents.

Reuters, Nizam Ahmed.

DHAKA, March 30 (Reuters) - Bangladesh on Friday hanged six Islamist militants convicted of a wave of deadly countrywide bombings in 2005, as the army-backed government moved to stamp out extremist violence.

Asia News:

Dhaka (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Six Islamic militants convicted of killing two judges during a wave of bomb attacks in 2005 were hanged at dawn this morning in Bangladesh. Among those put to death, the leaders of two infamous extremist groups: Shaikh Abdur Rahman of Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), and Siddiqul Islam Bangla Bhai, guide and leader of the outlawed group Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB). Both groups are held responsible for bloody campaign to introduce Islamic law in the country.

“They were hanged in four different jails and their dead bodies were handed over to their families”, said Inspector General of Prisons Brigadier Zakir Hassan. In May 2006, were found guilty of attacks which led to the deaths of two judges in November 2005. The accused were also charged with a bomb campaign across the country on August 17th 2005 which left at least 30 people dead, along with 4 kamikaze; JMB claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh is held responsible for similar attacks on the country’s judicial system. The Islamic group wants sharia in Bangladesh.

That’s what all the Islamofascists want. What’s that supposed to be. A surprise?

Good for Bangladesh for putting them to death. I’d like to see more of that from all other countries, rather than offer these idiots asylum and citizenship. Hellloooo, Britain, WAKE UP!

The Photo Shah shop in Kandahar specializes in gaudily retouched portraits … Despite a religious ban on the reproduction of the human image, many Taliban had their photographs taken, often with close friends. (Credit: The New Yorker)

But don’t let the mascara fool you….in November of 2006, The Independent ran a piece by Kim Sengupta in Ghazni, Afghanistan, entitled Disembowelled, then torn apart: The price of daring to teach girls, recounting in agonizing detail the horrible disembowelling and dismemberment of a teacher who dared to teach girls in school.

The gunmen came at night to drag Mohammed Halim away from his home, in front of his crying children and his wife begging for mercy.

The 46-year-old schoolteacher tried to reassure his family that he would return safely. But his life was over, he was part-disembowelled and then torn apart with his arms and legs tied to motorbikes, the remains put on display as a warning to others against defying Taliban orders to stop educating girls.

Naturally, you don’t hear much of an outcry at all from the human rights groups about the terrorists committing these kind of atrocities. They are particularly vicious now, having now borrowed the techniques of Al Qaeda suicide bombers of Iraq.

“The tactics of the Pakistan Taliban are developing similarities to the violence orchestrated in Iraq by insurgents and al Qaeda linked Sunni terrorists,” said terrorism analyst MJ Gohel. “Afghanistan is becoming another killing field for the global jihad movement.”

And we expect it to get worse. With the recent suicide bombing attack on Cheney when he visited Kabul, and other incidents, it’s pretty obvious now that the Taliban wants the Americans and the Coalition forces (Christians) out of Afghanistan. Far be it from me to point that out, though.

Before the Taliban were made up of mostly ethnic Pashtuns from southern Afghanistan. Now, experts say, fighting units are made up of a mix of Afghans, Pakistanis, Arabs, Chechens and Uzbeks.

“They are not Afghan. They’re not Pakistani,” according to a senior Afghan official. “They are transnational terrorists, and they are serious radicals.”

Pakistan hotly denies supporting the Taliban, pointing out that it has seen heavy losses. Pakistan has nearly 80,000 troops along the Afghan border.

Experts agree that it may be possible that the Taliban are going it alone thanks to drug money.

So this article points to the fact that the Taliban is profiting from Opium poppies in Afghanistan, and that the Taliban forces are from outside of Afghanistan, just like the terrorists we’re fighting in Iraq. People should get a clue about that.

New tactics for British troops in Afghanistan

KABUL: In the most violent part of Afghanistan British marines are now changing their tactics in the fight against the Taliban.

Based in Helmand Province, Britain’s new military tactic involves fast and mobile armoured convoys and patrols designed to enter the Taliban’s backyard provoking them into fighting.

British forces then hope to defeat the Taliban with their heavier firepower.

The idea is to get away from fixed bases that attract Taliban attacks.

The Afghanistan national police are also involved in the fight to remove the Taliban despite often being accused of corruption and being without the necessary equipment.

It is believed around a quarter of the local population support the Taliban, with poverty often driving people into their hands.

This is an improvement over sitting back with your hands tied behind your back, afraid to engage the enemy and forbidden to travel outside your military base after dark. But with a quarter of the population supporting the Taliban now, it would seem that some other techniques are necessary in order to maintain support for the Americans fighting the terrorists there. If the terrorists get their way, the support for them will grow, as the population complains that the Americans are worst today than the Soviets ever were.

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Because of President Bush’s referral to Iraq the Model, the AP is in an uproar, and like pavlov’s dogs, have a drooling response: they take a swipe at our two most favorite Baghdad bloggers. Read it at Michelle Malkin’s. Here is the money quote:

Blogs are Web sites that tend to be narrow in focus and directed at a niche audience. Most operate without editors and give instant reaction to the news. Their freewheeling, open nature makes them popular but also ripe for unverified statements.

What the AP is actually objecting to is the fact that voices of Iraqis are rising above the hysteria that the MSM itself propagates about how evil the Bush administration is. The Fadhil brothers’ blog is not ‘narrow in focus’ - unless you consider going to two Iraqis to read their ‘take’ on what’s really happening in Iraq unfiltered - because we have soldiers there is “narrow”. Michelle points out that these two brothers are reporting ‘on the ground’, which is a major threat to the MSM. Well, of course it is. As people are filtering through the dinosaur media’s reports, it’s obvious that quite a bit of the time they’re not in the least bit concerned about accuracy, but more concerned about spreading the DNC’s talking points and demonizing the Bush administration. Got to keep that jackboot control over the information, what an outrage it must be for them to realize that the Fadhil brothers at Iraq the Model, their readers, and the President himself can see through it.

Iraq the Model is terrific, as compared to the MSM’s disappointing coverage of the war in Iraq and Iraq war-related news items…the brothers respond to the AP’s attack here…by pointing out in a very even handed manner that unlike stringers inventing stories from anonymous sources from hotel balconies, the Fadhil brothers actually LIVE in Iraq and are Iraqis who tell it all honestly - the good, the bad, the ugly - and can recall what it was like under Saddam Hussein. None of that is information the MSM would want told, right, Eason?

Who better to go to for information on what’s happening in Iraq than Iraqis themselves?

What’s sad is the MSM’s objection to Iraqis receiving a voice, and their objection to our President taking notice of that voice. Being that they are talking about all the good that is happening in Iraq, and the good is never something that the MSM shares with us, I think it’s great that it’s getting out. Unfortunately, the MSM in their haughty snootiness think they should be the only ones telling stories…even if they’re false, and depending on the lies of known terrorists.

This goes back to leftists’ virulent antagonism toward anyone who disagrees with their point of view.

Station Manager Rafed Mahmood of Diyala’s Independent Radion and Television Network calls for a united Iraq.

“…[G]ood and evil, right and wrong, concepts irrelevant in nature except from the human viewpoint, become real and pressing features of the whole cosmos as viewed morally because morals arise only in man” , the evolutionist, George Gaylord Simpson (Thomas C. Mayberry, 1967, p. 346, emp. added).

At Apologetics press, it’s pointed out that morality in man is just one more proof that God exists. Environmentalists would give rights

..to every animal, bug, and virus particle, but the Bible clearly informs us that man was given dominion over all of God’s creation (Genesis 1:26). Man—unlike animals—was made in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26-27). Our moral system is based on a holy and immutable God (Isaiah 6:3; Malachi 3:6). Every example God has set forth, every command He has given, and everything He approves is good. Morals left in the hands of man would bring chaos, destruction, and death.

The liberal moral equivalence game assumes that there is no right or wrong and championing all that is failed does not lead us to a better society. The reason that social programs don’t work is thta they championing the victim; the loser; and assign him no personal responsibility for his future or behavior. In fact, social programs completely dissolve that responsibility. This has nothing to do with racism, but everything to do with the idea that still in America today you can benefit from your own hard work and efforts. This simple concept is something that the modern liberal can’t bear to bring himself to admit; that indiscriminateness champions that which is wrong, which historically failed, and lifestyles which cause stds, more illiterate children, and dependency on government rather than individual responsibility.

It is a fact that morality exists not in animals, but in man.

Predators kill for survival; we go to war to preserve freedom, which, in the animal world, is a foreign concept. Most of us strive to do what is right; to honor our father and mother, not take the Lord’s name in vain, not to covet our neighbors’ wife or things, and animals, in contrast, strive to survive the next day. In some cases they mate for life; but that shouldn’t be confused with the idea of monogamy. Man is capable of cleaving to himself more than one woman (and out of wedlock); yet the Bible teaches we are to put away the temptations of the flesh, and wait until the ‘right person’ comes along, for the creation and protection of children in the institution of marriage between a man and a woman.

It makes perfect sense.

Moral behaviors are signals of a healthy society. The immoral behaviors that liberals would push on us get rid of those, and have poor/bad social consquences.

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The Free Jack Idema Blogburst

It’s now been eight very long weeks since anyone heard from illegally-imprisoned US Special Forces soldier Jack Idema. While we continue the anxious wait for any developments, this past week has brought two pieces of good news in the case.

First, there was the news that a US Judge, Emmet G. Sullivan, had taken an interest in Jack, and, in particular, the involvement of the FBI and US State Department in Idema’s arrest and torture:

While this Court is keenly aware of case law suggesting that it does not have jurisdiction over a habeas petition stemming from a foreign conviction and sentence, petitioners’ claim does more than simply challenge a foreign conviction. Petitioners allege that United States officials ordered their arrest, ordered their torture, stole exculpatory evidence during their trial and appeal, exerted undue influence over Afghan judges, and either directly or indirectly ordered judges who found petitioners innocent not to release petitioners from prison.
[…]
The Court cannot simply ignore petitioners’ alleged facts and find that it lacks jurisdiction without any response to these troubling facts by respondents.

Judge Sullivan goes on to demand a response by April 10th.

What is particularly encouraging about this motion is Sullivan’s refusal to simply dismiss Jack’s plight as a matter internal to the Afghan justice system. Although this is something the Free Jack Campaign have always stressed, this is the first time anyone on the ‘outside’ has recognised that Idema’s arrest, torture, trial and illegal-imprisonment happened with the direct involvement of the US Government.

The second piece of good news this week comes from one of our US Military sources in Kabul:

Heard through the grapevine from a few friends in Kabul that Jack’s judge was fired, placed under arrest, and is being investigated by the Justice Commission for his conduct of Jack’s trial.

This, presumably, means Abdul Baset Bakhtyari, the ‘former’ Taliban Judge who stated, at Jack and his team’s first ‘trial’, that he intended to conduct the case according to the Taliban criminal code instead of post-liberation Afghan law. bakhtyari also refused to allow jack and his men to submit evidence in their own defence or cross-examine any of the witnesses giving evidence against them. bakhtyari also ejected the only competent interpreter from the court after half-a-day’s work, threatening to have him arrested if he returned for the afternoon session. in fact, the interpreter in question was lucky — when brent was appointed a female lawyer, one of bakhtyari’s taliban associates threatened her with death if she so much as set foot in the courtroom. if it is, indeed, true that bakhtyari is under investigation for these flagrant abuses of the afghan legal system, this can only be a good thing.

however. there are two issues that must not be ignored: one is whether bakhtyari is being set-up as a scapegoat so that the equally guilty parties in the us state department, the fbi and the karzai administration can dodge judge sullivan’s attention.

the second, and more pressing, matter is the whereabouts and wellbeing of the man at the center of this legal storm. just where is jack idema?

so what can we do? well, anyone reading this with their own blog can sign up for the weekly free jack idema blogburst by emailing cao or rottweiler puppy for details. i’d urge everyone to do this, as we’re still terribly short on takers. if you want to know more about the story, cao’s blog has a large section devoted to jack idema. there’s also a timeline here, and, of course, a huge amount of information is available over at superpatriots, without whose work none of us would have learned about jack’s story.

You should also contact the following people and make your feelings known,
especially to write letters of complaint about this despicable situation:

Secret US EMBASSY Fax: - 301-560-5729
(Local US Fax: Goes RIGHT TO Ambassador)
c/o US Ambassador Ronald Neuman
US Embassy- Afghanistan
6180 Kabul Place
Dulles, VA 20189-6180

US Consul Russell Brown - 011-93-70201908 (Fired)
US Consul Addie Harchik- 011-93-70201908
(denied them water and mail at Thanksgiving- Gone)
US Consul Edward Birsner- number yet unknown
US Embassy Translator Wahid - 011-93-70201902
US Embassy Asst Consul Bashir Momman- 011-93-70201923
US Consul (friend) Dawn Schrepel- 011-93-70201908 (Fired)

Ambassador Massoud Khalili
(wounded with Massoud)
(Great and Kind man)
Islamic State of Afghanistan
Embassy of Afghanistan
Ankara, Turkey

H.E. Said Tayeb JAWAD (Afghan Ambassador- powerful in US)
(Northern Alliance Good Guy Fired- New Pro Taliban Ambassador)
Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington
2341 Wyoming Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20008
Tel: (202) 483-6414
Fax: (202) 483-9523

Mr. Jahed Hamrah, Consul General (pro-Taliban)
CONSULATE GENERAL OF
AFGHANISTAN IN NEW YORK
360 Lexington Avenue,
11th Floor New York,
New, York, NY 10017
Tel.: (212) 972-2276 or 972-2277
Fax: (212) 972-9046

Chairman Peter Hoekstra
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
H-405, U.S. Capitol
Washington, DC 20515-6415;
Office: 202-225-4121 / Fax: 202-225-1991
Toll Free: (877) 858-9040

M. Cherif BASSIOUNI
Independent Expert of the Commission on Human Rights
On the Situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
UNOG-OHCHR
CH-1211 Geneva 10
Ph: +41(0)22 917 97 27 Fax: +41(0)22 917 90 18

Senator Steven Saland (Jack’s Rep and Neighbor)
9 Jonathan Lane
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603

Senator Elizabeth Dole (Jack’s Rep)
United States Senate
555 Dirksen Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Ph: 202-224.6342
Fax: 202-224.1100

Senator Richard Burr (Interested)
United States Senate
217 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3154 / Fax: 202-228-2981

Senator Bill Nelson (in the fight on Jack’s Side)
United States Senate
Hart Senate Office Building
Room 716
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-5274 / Fax: 202-228-2183
FL Fax 407-872-7165

Senator Dianne Feinstein (Bennett’s Representative)
United States Senate
Hart Office Building, Room 331
Washington, D.C. 20510
202-224-3841

Representative Mike McIntyre (Jack’s Representative)
United States Congress
2437 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-2731 / Fax 202-225-5773

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Reference Captain Bennett- CA citizen)
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-445-2841 / Fax: 916-445-4633

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