If you were in New York City over the weekend and saw what was billed as a Muslim Day Parade, you would have possibly stumbled upon a scene better suited to the Middle East:
For a complete recount, visit NYC's own Urban Infidel
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A pretty incredible piece in The Washington Times about how China is secretly sending arms to Iraq & The Taliban militia in Afghanistan through Iran:
New intelligence reveals China is covertly supplying large quantities of small arms and weapons to insurgents in Iraq and the Taliban militia in Afghanistan, through Iran…
Some arms were sent by aircraft directly from Chinese factories to Afghanistan and included large-caliber sniper rifles, millions of rounds of ammunition, rocket-propelled grenades and components for roadside bombs, as well as other small arms.
The Washington Times reported June 5 that Chinese-made HN-5 anti-aircraft missiles were being used by the Taliban.
According to the officials, the Iranians, in buying the arms, asked Chinese state-run suppliers to expedite the transfers and to remove serial numbers to prevent tracing their origin. China, for its part, offered to transport the weapons in order to prevent the weapons from being interdicted.
The weapons were described as "late-model" arms that have not been seen in the field before and were not left over from Saddam Hussein's rule in Iraq.
U.S. Army specialists suspect the weapons were transferred within the past three months…
Is anyone surprised? After all, the Chinese are still Communists.
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Iran opposition group PMOI that supported the kidnappings of US diplomats in 1979 is suing the EU for €1 million in damages and to clear its name of being stuck on Brussels' terrorist register.
Lawyers for the PMOI on Wednesday filed the law suit at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, saying the EU is breaking its own laws by not following a verdict by the Court of First Instance last December, which annulled the EU's earlier decision to list the group. Any officially-designated "terrorist" organisations have their financial assets frozen and are forbidden from fundraising in Europe, writes EUObserver.
The PMOI started out in 1965 as a Marxist-Islamist anti-corruption movement in Iran but fled after suffering purges that saw over 150,000 members slaughtered by the post-cultural revolution Islamic regime. The Mujahidin organised cross-border raids against Iran from bases in Iraq in the 1990s but says it renounced the use of arms in 2001, with a 2003 US army report saying the Iraq PMOI wing no longer has any guns. In the past few years PMOI and its sister group, the NRCI, has positioned itself as the democratic opposition in Iran and attracted backers including retired US generals, members of the UK House of Lords, former EU judges and MEPs. The movement accuses the UK and France of putting it on the EU terrorist register in order to have cards to play in the Iran nuclear diplomacy game.
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Europol released its FIRST TERRORISM REPORT EVER this week, stating shocking news:
Terrorism is not a new phenomenon in the EU. Nevertheless, in the twenty-first century, the threat posed by terrorism to Member States is more serious than ever.
It's amazing..it took the EU almost 6 years since 9/11, 3 since the Madrid bombings and 2 since the London Tube attacks to come up with a paper on terorism.
It indicates that 498 attacks were carried out by Islamist, separatist, left-wing and anarchist terrorist groups in eleven Member States in 2006. A total of 706 individuals suspected of terrorism offences were arrested in 15 Member States in 2006. This report for the first time collates all statistical data on the terrorist attacks and plots in the EU as well as provides details on the where, whom and how of terrorist activities.
Yey! way to go! better later than never…
The small number of suspects arrested for dissemination of propaganda may indicate the lack of legal basis and difficulty in investigating these types of crimes. The number of acquittals may reflect legal challenges Member States face in terrorism trials such as a lack of capacity in both the investigation and prosecution stage to deal with the often huge amount of paper and electronic evidence, as well as the fact that thecross-border nature of the crime requires costly and time-consuming travel and cooperation.
Hot spots for home-grown or imported terrorists: France, Spain and UK. They "are most severely affected by terrorism
as concluded from the number of terrorist attacks and arrested suspects as well as the average penalties."
At the other end, terrorism-free (or at least so far) countries are: Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
Slovakia and Slovenia.
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Jerry Seinfeld was in Knoxville, Tennessee on Friday and made some funny remarks about suicide bombers:
"Is it all that sand and no beach that makes the people in the Middle East become suicide bombers? You walk and walk with your little umbrella "How much further is this? I can't take the heat anymore, I think I'll blow myself up!"
My favorite suicide bomber is the guy who accidentally blows himself up without injuring anyone else around him. You know, that Jihadi-Coyote type of guy…
There's nothing new about this strategy, you have to remember the Kamikaze-pilots in WW2. I always wondered about the Kamikaze-pilot program. Because if you've got a bunch of pilots in your squad shooting down enemy planes without getting shot down themselves, I think you ought to hold on to them. But Wang over here, who wrecked three sets of landing gears this week, and has got to left hands - well now, there is a special program for him.."You might want to check out our kamikaze-program.."
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