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Heightened tensions as Iranian fighter jets and patrol boats shadow USS Abraham Lincoln while it sails down Strait of Hormuz

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Daily Mail:

  • Passage ended a Gulf mission that displayed Western naval power amid heightened tensions with Iran
  • Tehran has threatened to choke off vital oil shipping lanes

By Associated Press

Last updated at 12:56 PM on 15th February 2012

Iranian patrol boats and aircraft shadowed a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group as it travelled through the Strait of Hormuz yesterday.

The passage ended a Gulf mission that displayed Western naval power amid heightened tensions with Tehran, which has threatened to choke off vital oil shipping lanes.

Officers aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln said there were no incidents with Iranian forces and described the surveillance as routine measures by Tehran near the strategic strait, which is jointly controlled by Iran and Oman.

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Surveillance: Iranian patrol boats and aircraft shadow the USS Abraham Lincoln as it travels down the Strait of Hormuz yesterdaySurveillance: Iranian patrol boats and aircraft shadow the USS Abraham Lincoln as it travels down the Strait of Hormuz yesterday

 

End of mission: The passage displayed Western naval power amid heightened tensions with Tehran, which has threatened to choke off the vital oil shipping laneEnd of mission: The passage displayed Western naval power amid heightened tensions with Tehran, which has threatened to choke off the vital oil shipping lane

Although U.S. warships have passed through the strait for decades, the trip comes during an escalating showdown between Iran and the West over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

The last time an American carrier left the Gulf – the USS John C Stennis in late December – Iran’s army chief warned the U.S. it should never return.

The Abraham Lincoln was the centrepiece of a flotilla that entered the Gulf last month along with British and French warships in a display of Western unity against Iranian threats. There was no immediate comment by Iran about the Abraham Lincoln’s departure.

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US recognizes new government of Maldives

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Is there a totalitarian violent despot that Obama doesn’t like? Anywhere?

(AFP) – 3 days ago  

WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday recognized the new government of Maldives President Mohamed Waheed as legitimate and urged him to fulfill a pledge to form a national unity government.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland also said Robert Blake, the top US diplomat for south Asia, telephoned former president Mohamed Nasheed to tell him Washington backed a “peaceful resolution” of the crisis on the archipelago.

“We do,” Nuland told reporters when asked if Washington recognizes the new government as the legitimate government of the Maldives. She called Waheed the president and Nasheed the former president.

Blake, the assistant secretary of state for south Asian affairs, will travel Saturday to the Maldives to meet with both Waheed and Nasheed, who charges he was ousted in a coup, as well as civil society.

“He will be encouraging this national unity conversation,” she added.

“Blake spoke this morning to former president Nasheed, conveying assurances that the United States supports a peaceful resolution of this,” Nuland said.

Blake assured Nasheed who is facing arrest “that we are also expressing our views to the government that his security should be protected,” Nuland said.

Unrest has spread to the far corners of the nation of more than 1,000 islands, as Waheed struggles to maintain order.

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Muslim mother ‘beat daughter, 19, and locked her to a bed after she was seen speaking to a boy’

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By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 8:32 AM on 11th February 2012

Accused: Yusra Farhan was arrested for allegedly beating her daughterAccused: Yusra Farhan was arrested for allegedly beating her daughter

An Iraqi woman has been accused of beating her teenage daughter and padlocking her to a bed after she was seen speaking to a young man.

After Yusra Farhan was arrested in the Arizona hospital where her daughter was being treated for her injuries, she told police she wanted to punish the girl for violating her ‘culture’.

Farhan, 50, faces charges of aggravated assault, unlawful imprisonment and resisting arrest. She was being held in a Maricopa County jail. Police did not identify her daughter by name.

The incident started on Tuesday, when the daughter was spotted by her father talking to a 19-year-old man at a high school parking lot in Phoenix.

Police said her father became angry and took her home, striking her several times.

The mother arrived home later and admitted to hitting her daughter with her hands and a shoe, and tying her to the bed with a rope around her waist that was secured with a padlock, court records showed.

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Cab driver admits giving cash to militant linked to al Qaeda

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CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Chicago cab driver pleaded guilty on Monday to giving hundreds of dollars to a senior Pakistan-based al Qaeda operative implicated in militant plots in South Asia and Europe who was killed in a suspected U.S. drone strike in June.

Raja Lahrasib Khan, 58, a native of Pakistan who is a naturalized U.S. citizen, never posed any imminent domestic danger, authorities said at the time of his arrest in March 2010.

He remains in federal custody while awaiting sentencing, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Chicago. His plea agreement calls for a term of between five and eight years in prison, and he must provide cooperation to the government.

Khan admitted that he met with Ilyas Kashmiri, an alleged leader of both al Qaeda and one of its Pakistan-based affiliates, in Pakistan in the early to mid-2000s and again in 2008.

Khan gave Kashmiri about 20,000 Pakistani rupees or approximately $200 to $250 in 2008, and directed another person to give Kashmiri the equivalent of $300 in 2009, prosecutors said.

Khan, apprehended through a government sting in March 2010, intended the money to be used to support attacks against India, but also knew that Kashmiri was working with al Qaeda, prosecutors said.

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Woman’s jail photo initially has her face covered

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Published on July 29 2011 but still new to me.

From Gainesesville Fl.

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Staff writer
Published: Friday, July 29, 2011 at 5:45 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, July 29, 2011 at 5:45 p.m.

A woman arrested on a domestic battery charge was initially photographed for her Alachua County jail mug shot in clothing worn by some Muslim women that covered all of her face except her eyes. But she was later rephotographed to show her face in accordance with jail policies, officials said.

The woman, LaFleur Mauvette Mohamed, 38, did not want to discuss the matter when contacted by The Sun on Friday.

Mohamed was arrested Wednesday for reportedly wrestling her daughter over a cellphone. Her daughter reported to police that Mohamed slapped her, but Mohamed denied that, according to the arrest report.

Sheriff’s spokesman Art Forgey said the jail booking staffer who took the initial mug shot erred on the side of caution over concern about religious freedom and allowed Mohamed’s face to be covered.

“They didn’t want to step on anybody’s rights. Once a supervisor saw that, another photo was taken,” Forgey said. “There is a policy that everyone who comes into the jail is photographed and fingerprinted for identification purposes.”

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Washington Imam: US Muslims live under Nazi-style oppression

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This is classic. Muslims somehow successfully manage to play both the victim, and the ‘we are 1.7 billion strong and control all the worlds oil’ card simultaneously.

Now they claim to be the ‘New Jews’ but in America where mosques are growing like mushrooms.

From ABNA.IR

he oppression of Muslims in the United States has become similar to the mistreatment Jews experienced in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, said a US-based Imam.

 

Washington Imam: US Muslims live under Nazi-style oppression(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – The oppression of Muslims in the United States has become similar to the mistreatment Jews experienced in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, said a US-based Imam.

“This is the atmosphere we live in. These are the environmental circumstances that we encounter as we try to practice our daily Islam,” Abdul Alim Musa, the Imam of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington, DC, told in an interview conducted on Thursday local time on the US East Coast.

That has turned many Muslims into “government informers” and reinforced the “state of suspicion and paranoia” in which Muslims live, Musa added.

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Muslims hire hit men to kill witnesses in terror trials.

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When I first started researching Islam one of my first thoughts was that it was in many ways a lot like a giant organized crime ring with a kind of religious, post-hoc’ justification for the thuggish and illegal (at the time) actions of Mohamed and his gang as they killed and attacked caravans and so on.

This story seems to indicate it has not lost its roots.

Woman in full disguise sues Florida gas station for refusing her service

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It is very important how this is argued and handled. This is a classic case of a Muslim making the claim that she should be allowed to run willy nilly over everyone else’s rights so that she may do anything she wishes if she can link it to her superstition.

If I walk into a gas station with a pair of 45 Cal revolvers and they call the police, are they violating my rights as a person who once visited Texas and liked it? The analogy is flawless. This women, if indeed it is a woman, was denied service not for anything she believes, but because she was wearing a disguise. She can believe the ocean is pink lemon aid if she wants but she cannot be covered from head to toe and expect to receive full service from everyone, especially when wearing a disguise is, in most places, illegal.

Once again, the answer to this debate is not to create more soft totalitarianism by asking governments to regulate women’s clothing. It is to stop making exceptions for Muslims to break the laws we already have.

Remember. Every-time we ask government to regulate issues that government have no business being involved with, even though it seems like a great idea at the time, it always ends badly. Just like the ‘hate speech laws’ that everyone figured would prevent another holocaust against the Jews, and now clearly are being better utilized by Muslims working towards one at every level up to and perhaps especially at the U.N.

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LEFTARD US SUPREME COURT JUSTICE DISSES OWN CONSTITUTION ON EGYPTIAN TV

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In a just world, this woman would be thrown off the bench.

This is an excellent example that should be used to wake people the hell up and realize that elections have consequences. Allowing the Democrat party, as is, to win majorities in Congress, and take the White House, allows for Leftist jackasses like SC Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to be elected to the supreme court to torment American society, and rip apart and bastardize its constitution that she herself does not believe in.

MEMRI:
You should certainly be aided by all the constitution-writing that has gone one since the end of World War II. I would not look to the US constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012. I might look at the constitution of South Africa. That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, had an independent judiciary… It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done. Much more recent than the US constitution – Canada has a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It dates from 1982. You would almost certainly look at the European Convention on Human Rights. Yes, why not take advantage of what there is elsewhere in the world?

Unfreakingbelieveable.

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David Hadad charged with antisemitic hate crimes

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NYPD: Jewish Man Charged with Anti-Semitic Threats: MyFoxNY.com

MYFOX NEW YORK STAFF REPORT

MYFOXNY.COM – The NYPD Hate Crime Task Force on Monday arrested a man in connection with a series of anti-Semitic threats and vandalism in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Police charged David Haddad, 56, of Manhattan, with aggravated harassment as a hate crime. Sources told Fox 5’s Lisa Evers that Haddad is himself Jewish and is related to one victims and knows another.

The NYPD has connected Haddad to four incidents: threatening phone calls made to an 80-year-old woman in Brooklyn on December 11, 2011; anti-Semitic symbols and statements scrawled on five apartment doors and a threatening phone received in a building in Manhattan on January 10, 2012; a threatening phone call made to an 87-year-old woman in Manhattan on January 11; and a threatening voicemail message left for a 78-year-old woman in Brooklyn on January 1, authorities said.

Sources said he is also the prime suspect in a rash of Swastika incidents and a phone threat over the weekend in Midwood.

Read more: http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/nypd-jewish-man-charged-with-anti-semitic-threats-20120116-akd#ixzz1klMChekQ