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Antonio Martinez, aka. Muhammad Hussain, busted for trying to bomb Maryland military recruitment centre

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From The Ottawa Citizen

Arrest made in plot to blow up Baltimore-area military recruiting center

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BALTIMORE – A 21-year-old Baltimore man has been arrested for attempting to blow up a military recruitment center in Catonsville, Md., with a fake bomb supplied by federal agents.

Federal authorities say Antonio Martinez, also known as Muhammad Hussain, attempted to detonate what he thought to be a vehicle bomb Wednesday morning at the Armed Forces Career Center.

Court records paint Martinez as obsessed with jihad and intent on punishing the military. He praised Nidal Hassan, the U.S. Army major who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, and discussed obtaining weapons and shooting up military installations, records show.

In November, he was observed on a public computer viewing videos of Osama bin Laden and an Iraqi martyrdom. He discussed in public postings on his Facebook page how the “reign of oppression is about 2 cease.”

It was through the social networking site that he communicated at times with an FBI informant, saying he wanted to go to Pakistan or Afghanistan and join the ranks of the “mujahideen.”

He told the confidential source that if the military continued to kill Muslims, “they would need to expand their operation by killing U.S. Army personnel where they live,” records show. They discussed attacking military installations and the possibility of using gas or propane tanks. Continue Reading →

Why Bolton was right. Wikileaks IS an attack on the USA: Wikileaks reveals potential terrorist targets

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Wikileaks reveals potential terrorist targets

Published: 6 Dec 10 12:33 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20101206-31623.html
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Wikileaks released another sensitive US diplomatic cable over the weekend, this time detailing overseas sites Washington considers vital to global security and threatened by terrorism – among them several German assets.

    The controversial whistleblower site published the cable late on Sunday, listing potential targets that experts told British daily The Times were a “gift for terrorist organisations.”

    The list of “critical infrastructure and key resources located abroad” detailed hundreds of pipelines, important data cables, and businesses belonging to international industrial and pharmaceutical giants. If destroyed, these sites could damage US interests, the diplomatic communique said.

    In Germany such sites included the BASF headquarters in Ludwigshafen, which was described as the “world’s largest integrated chemical complex,” and Hamburg’s port.

    Other crucial sites include the northwestern coastal city of Norden and the North Sea island of Sylt, where two important underwater data and communication cables connecting North America and Europe reach land.

    The list was the result of a February 2009 order from Washington for officials to compile a list of international assets critical for the United States. Continue Reading →

    Robert Spencer speaks at rally to support the Copts.

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    This is a very important issue. Robert Spencer is an expert on sharia law, and his speech here deals with a number of very important issues. Pay close attention. H/T my man FOOMF

    expected imminent release of classified State Department cables will put “countless” lives at risk,

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    Sunday, November 28, 2010

    Israel WikiWatch

    Posted by JoeSettler at 11/28/2010 02:37:00 PM

    A Joint Jameel/JoeSettler headline post being updated over the next 12-24 hours.

    This post will be updated as new Israel related Wikileaks updates (and related events) appear.

    Wikileaks has announced they will begin posting documents today consisting of communications from the US to its embassies regarding its allies. For the past week, the US has been trying to do damage control. The US claims that the release of this information will “place at risk on-going cooperation between countries”.

    Latest leaks and rumors on top.

    5:15 PM Germany’s Der-Spiegel reports that the WikiLeaks contain information that the USA has an agent operating inside Germany’s government, from the liberal FDP party. (source)

    5:06 PM Israel on “high alert” — “Another Israeli official added that the American Embassy in Tel Aviv had been calling Israelis named in the documents in order to warn them in advance. The list includes officials in the Foreign Ministry, as well as aides to prime ministers, this official said.” (JPost)

    4:49 PM Speculations abound that the WikiLeaks will reveal that Israeli officials have been providing classified information to the USA in exchange for money (rotter.net)

    4:42 PM The JPost reports the USA’s spin control:

    The Obama administration on Sunday told whistle-blower WikiLeaks that its expected imminent release of classified State Department cables will put “countless” lives at risk, threaten global counter-terrorism operations and jeopardize US relations with its allies. [Jameel: by telling us what the State Department really thinks of Israel? We’ve been writing it on the muqata blog for years…]

    In a highly unusual step reflecting the administration’s grave concerns about the ramifications of the move, the State Department released a letter from its top lawyer to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his attorney telling them that publication of the documents would be illegal and demanding that they stop it.

    The letter from State Department legal adviser Harold Koh was released as US diplomats around the world are scrambling to warn foreign governments about what might be in the secret documents that are believed to contain highly sensitive assessments about world leaders, their policies and America’s attempts to lobby them. [Jameel: The USA wants Tzippi Livni as Prime Minister? What a shock.]

    In the letter, Koh said the publication of some 250,000 secret diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks, which is expected on Sunday, will “place at risk the lives of countless innocent individuals,” ”place at risk on-going military operations,” and “place at risk on-going cooperation between countries.”

    “They were provided in violation of US law and without regard for the grave consequences of this action,” he said. Koh said WikiLeaks should not publish the documents, return them to the US government and destroy any copies it may have in its possession or in computer databases.

    4:24 PM Washington specifically warns Israel of “potentially embarrassing” leaks (Breitbart) Rotter.net reports that the US has pulled CIA spy operatives out of Israel so that Israel can’t retaliate and imprison “Pollards” for spying on Israel for the USA.

    U.S. engagement on Iran must be realistic: military chief

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    From Reuters. Please click here for the whole story.

    The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen addresses the media in Ankara September 4, 2010. REUTERS/Stringer

    The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen addresses the media in Ankara September 4, 2010.

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    WASHINGTON | Sat Nov 27, 2010 5:30pm EST

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States needs to be realistic about its efforts to engage Iran, whose leaders are lying about Tehran’s nuclear program and are on a path to building nuclear weapons, the top U.S. military officer said.

    Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in comments released on Friday that the U.S. military has been thinking about military options on Iran “for a significant period of time” but added that diplomacy remained the focus of U.S. efforts.

    “I still think it’s important we focus on the dialogue, we focus on the engagement, but also do it in a realistic way that looks at whether Iran is actually going to tell the truth, actually engage and actually do anything,” Mullen said in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS due to air on Sunday.

    On Arizona, and enforcing US laws.

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    Has the US gone mad? How is it that enforcing rational laws developed over millennium have become a rebellious act? And it is not just the US. Europe is activly attempting to destroy all borders and dumb itself down to the most savage and barbaric who can walk, swim, crawl or stow away onto that land mass.

    Shining A Light On Shariah Creep

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    Posted 11/10/2010 07:14 PM ET

    Islamofascism: The Council on American-Islamic Relations may wish it never sued to overturn an Oklahoma ban on Shariah law. Now the entire nation will get to see it and other Islamists’ true anti-American colors.

    CAIR is thumping its chest over persuading a Clinton-appointed federal judge to temporarily block Oklahoma from enacting a state constitutional amendment that prohibits state courts from considering Islamic law when deciding cases. Fully 70% of Oklahoma voters passed the landmark measure.

    But CAIR has ignited a legal firestorm that will likely rage all the way to the Supreme Court. Thanks to CAIR’s latest bit of lawfare, Americans will get to hear a long overdue debate not just about the constitutionality of such bans on Shariah law but about the constitutionality of Shariah law itself.

    This is not a debate CAIR wants to have, since it ultimately will have to defend the indefensible. It claims in a press release that Shariah law is “a dynamic legal framework” derived from Islamic scripture “and analytical reasoning.”

    In fact, there’s nothing reasoned about it. It’s a medieval legal code that administers cruel and unusual punishments such as stonings, amputations and honor killings. Think the Taliban.

    Shariah can be seen in action this week with Pakistan’s death sentence on a Christian woman for blasphemy. Between 1986 and 2009, at least 974 people have been charged for defiling the Quran or insulting the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.

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    ACLU gets one right? How can this be?

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    N.J. ACLU to sue NJ Transit for firing employee who burned Quran on 9/11 anniversary

    Published: Thursday, November 04, 2010, 9:45 PM     Updated: Friday, November 05, 2010, 3:25 PM

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    derek-fenton-koran-burner.JPGNY Daily NewsDerek Fenton, an 11-year NJ Transit employee, was fired after he attended a Sept. 11 rally protesting the proposed Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan. It was his day off and he did not identify himself as an NJ Transit employee. While there, Fenton burned three pages of the Quran.

    TRENTON — On the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, Derek Fenton stole headlines by burning pages from the Quran in Lower Manhattan to protest a planned Islamic community center there. Two days later, he lost his job at New Jersey Transit for breaching the agency’s code of ethics.

    Now the American Civil Liberties Union says Fenton should get his job back. The group will file a lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court saying Fenton was unconstitutionally fired for exercising his free speech rights.

    “If you allow governments to censor one kind of speech, you open the door to censorship of all kinds of speech,” said Deborah Jacobs, executive director of the ACLU in New Jersey. “Our individual right to free speech depends on everybody having it.”

    A spokeswoman for NJ Transit declined to comment today. When Fenton was fired, the agency released a statement saying it had “concluded that Mr. Fenton violated his trust as a state employee and therefore was dismissed.”

    Two months ago Fenton waded into a roiling international debate over free speech, religious freedom and Islam’s place in America. Terry Jones, a fringe pastor from Florida, had already announced plans to burn the Koran on Sept. 11. Fueled by round-the-clock media coverage, it quickly became one of the world’s most inflammatory topics. Gen. David Petraeus, the top American commander in Afghanistan, said the action could endanger U.S. soldiers, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates called Jones personally to ask him to cancel his plans.

    Jones eventually decided not to burn the Koran.
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    But on that day Fenton, 39, of Bloomindale, did just that while standing outside the proposed Islamic community center site — a lightning rod for controversy as opponents say locating it two blocks from Ground Zero is insensitive to 9/11 victims while supporters defend it on the basis of religious freedom.

    Fenton, wearing a khaki baseball cap and navy blue polo shirt, pulled pages from the Islamic holy book and set them on fire with a lighter. Surrounded by news cameras and a restless crowd, he was escorted away by New York police, but wasn’t arrested. Fenton was not working that day, nor did he identify himself as an NJ Transit employee, the lawsuit said.

    The ACLU said his actions constitute free speech.

    “Fenton has the right, protected under the First Amendment to the federal constitution, to engage as a citizen in expressive activity about matters of public interest, including matters related to the proposed construction of an Islamic community center near Ground Zero,” the lawsuit said. “When he burned pages of the Koran on September 11, 2010, as a protest against the center, Fenton was exercising that right.”

    Fenton, an 11-year employee, was an assistant consist coordinator, responsible for ensuring enough cars were available to put a train into service. He was removed from his job Sept. 13, according to the lawsuit, which seeks back pay and punitive damages. Frank Corrado, a lawyer working on the case, said attempts to get Fenton’s job back were unsuccessful.

    Fenton could not be reached for comment today. A number listed for him was disconnected and the ACLU said he would not be making public statements.

    Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for Gov. Chris Christie, said in September the governor supported NJ Transit’s decision to fire Fenton. He declined comment today.

    State Sen. Raymond Lesniak (D-Union) has opposed the firing, saying Fenton should have been assigned diversity training rather than losing his job.

    “They should have made this a learning moment rather than a confrontational moment,” Lesniak said. “I am as much opposed to what he did as anyone. But the remedy is not to ignore a person’s First Amendment rights.”

    The Council on American-Islamic Relations also said Fenton should have kept his job.

    “If he did not in any way associate himself with the employer while he carried out this act, we would not support his firing, even though obviously we would object strenuously to his actions,” spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said. “We’re strong supporters of the First Amendment.”

    Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, a legal expert, said free speech cases are complicated by employment issues.

    “You always have to ask the question of whether his expression affected his ability to perform his job,” he said. “I think in this case, the balance favors his freedom of expression. But it’s not a slam dunk.”

    Corrado said “this is the kind of case the First Amendement exists for.” He drew a comparison to flag burning, upheld as free speech by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1989 and 1990.