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The virtual Islamic jihad

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, April 28, 2008 1:16:07 AM
"In March 2006, the DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Exterieure), the French equivalent of the CIA, tracked down a forum where jihadists recruited hackers to destroy "infidels'" Web sites and government sites. The jihadists recommended: "If you can't slash their throats, then at least destroy their sites." And on May 15, 2006 the Metz, France police arrested a young man who, under the alias Yanis, had attacked 1,161 sites including 710 linked to the Muhammad cartoons controversy."



Europe facing radicalization over the Web
By OLIVIER GUITTA
 
A few months ago Bernard Squarcini the head of the DST (Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire), the French equivalent of the FBI, told the French daily Libération regarding Islamic radicalization: "An ideological transformation can be done in three months on the Web. An individual can at night auto-radicalize himself via the Web and get in touch with leaders of terrorist organizations." This assessment shows how dire the situation is in Europe when it comes to al-Qaida's use of the Web. Continued...
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Islamist terrorist are seeking nuclear materials

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, April 27, 2008 5:39:18 AM
"Are there some people out there who still entertain their hopes of forever deterring terrorist attacks on the American soil? Does anyone still believe that terrorists are not going to use Weapons of Mass Destruction - nuclear, chemical, biological - against the U.S. population when an opportunity comes?" - Boris Tiraspolsky 
No return to a status quo
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The world's leading anti-democratic force

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, April 26, 2008 1:19:30 AM

"Muslims can modernize their religion, but that requires major changes: Out go waging jihad to impose Muslim rule, second-class citizenship for non-Muslims and death sentences for blasphemy or apostasy. In come individual freedoms, civil rights, political participation, popular sovereignty, equality before the law and representative elections."


Daniel Pipes.
Director of the Middle East Forum and the Taube/Diller
Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University
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Islam and democracy can coexist
By Daniel Pipes

There's an impression that Muslims suffer disproportionately from the rule of dictators, tyrants, unelected presidents, kings, emirs and various other strongmen - and it's accurate. A careful analysis by Frederic L. Pryor of Swarthmore College in the Middle East Quarterly (Are Muslim Countries Less Democratic?) concludes, "In all but the poorest countries, Islam is associated with fewer political rights." Continued...
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Ignoring the totalitarian ideology of Islamism

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, April 26, 2008 1:17:18 AM

"...pattern of U.S. concessions to global Islamism bears the clear and unambiguous message of the U.S. government's "surrender" to the global forces of Islamism. In effect, the current U.S. administration is telling Islamists that America is already tired of fighting, and that Islamists can go about their efforts to control the world as long as they do it peacefully."



Who is America Fighting - Jihadists or Extremists?
By Jeffrey Imm

Now we officially know the answer - the U.S. Government states that America is definitely not fighting "jihadists", based on new guidelines directing federal agencies not to even use the term "jihadist". So who is America fighting? Defense Secretary Robert Gates tells us: "the enemy is extremism". Continued...
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The meaningless war with words

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Friday, April 25, 2008 2:39:14 AM
Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky: Here is a passage from another recent bureaucratic attempt of the U.S. Government to combat Terrorism ideologically: "Language is critical in the war on terror, says another [U.S. Government] doc-ument, an internal "official use only" memorandum circulating through Washington entitled "Words that Work and Words that Don't: A War guide for Counterterrorism Communication."

I am positive that the problem is not in the "language" the U.S. Government uses, or more precisely bans to use. And never has been! The problem is a lack of appropriate U.S. Ideological Instruments - anti-terrorist Education, anti-terrorist PR, that is in fact the Instrument of anti-terrorist propaganda, and anti-terrorist "useful Arts" (Read more...). This very problem creates a confusion in what "ideological struggle" is and turns the latter in the meaningless "war with words" replacing necessary war with "wrong ideologies" and "ideology of no ideology". 



'Jihadist' booted from government lexicon
By MATTHEW LEE 
 
Don't call them jihadists any more. And don't call al-Qaida a movement. The Bush administration has launched a new front in the war on terrorism, this time targeting language. Continued...
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War on Terror - bureaucratic view

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Thursday, April 24, 2008 1:25:36 AM
Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky: I usually make my comments after a quote. This time it is an exception. Mr. Juan Zarate, deputy national security advisor for combating terrorism said: "We know the War on Terror -- with its embedded struggle against a violent extremist ideology -- is a generational calling that requires the entire U.S. government and the international community to act." This is a common position of the current Administration. It is a typical view that contradicts both a general theory of modern warfare and goes against the nature of the War on Terror that requires first and foremost an unprecedented ideological and economic cooperation of the U.S. Government with the American people who are currently totally armless in "struggle against a violent extremist ideology". (Read more...) Without this ideological and economic unity of the Government and the People of the United States there is no victory in battle with Terror, and all wonderful words about winning the War on Terror by Mr. Juan Zarate turn into another bureaucratic "hot air".
 


Juan Zarate, deputy national security advisor for combating terrorism

Winning the War on Terror:
Marking Success and Confronting Challenges

On April 23, 2008, Juan Zarate, deputy national security advisor for combating terrorism, addressed The Washington Institute's Special Policy Forum. The following is the text of his prepared remarks. 

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Economic faze of terrorist warfare

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Thursday, April 24, 2008 1:23:08 AM

"...any weak spot in production of basic material necessities by the National Economy could be taken advantage of with a price manipulation at a time of peace, and a potential threat of using lack of basic material necessities as Economic Weaponry against nations and states at a time of war." - Boris Tiraspolsky 
Terrorist Economic Weaponry



The Soaring Price of Oil and Terrorism
By Victor Comras

A few days ago, when oil was just $115.00 per barrel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that the price of oil was still “unrealistically low,” and that “Oil … needs to discover its real value." And, within a few days the market seemed to comply driving the price up to $120.00 per barrel! The effects of this spiraling oil price on the US and world economy has been staggering, and the impact will continue to be intensified as the price of oil works its way through the international economic system. Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups could never had imagined that events they set off at the turn of the millennium could ever have caused such oil dislocation and demand around the world. Continued...
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Pure terrorist propaganda

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 1:18:59 AM

"To try and describe USA vs. Al-Arian as a doc-umentary is to attempt to change the definition of the word. It is pure propaganda, made only to show a family of Palestinian extremists in a good light."


Terrorist Cries and Lies 
By Joe Kaufman

The movie USA vs. Al-Arian, about the trial of Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian, has been released to the public via the internet. Its producers refer to it as a “doc-umentary.” That is just as much of a fable as the way the terrorist’s family has been portrayed in the film. Continued...
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The U.S. and Israel must learn now

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 1:17:12 AM
"When Israel's ideology will collapse, and after we take Jerusalem, Israel's ideology will collapse altogether, and then we will proceed with out own ideology, if Allah wills, and we will throw them out of all of Palestine."


No good guys in 'Palestine'
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Why does the U.S. government continue to promote the creation of an independent state of Palestine, which has never existed in the history of the world, which is born of terrorist violence and which is pledged to the destruction of Israel? Continued...
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Iran must not acquire nuclear weapons

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:12:39 AM
"I said a year and a half ago that the year is 1938 and Iran is Germany and it is racing to acquire nuclear weapons. Well, if that is the case, then we’re in 1939 now."


Benjamin Netanyahu

In the midst of two great transformations in the world
by Benjamin Netanyahu

Right now we’re in the midst of two great transformations in the world. The first one, I believe, is positive. The second one is negative. Continued...
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God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, April 21, 2008 1:10:38 AM
Pope Benedict XVI began the final day of his American journey by blessing the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and pleading with God to bring "peace to our violent world."



Pope's Prayer At Ground Zero

O God of love, compassion, and healing,
look on us, people of many different faiths and traditions,
who gather today at this site,
the scene of incredible violence and pain. 

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Abridging the freedom of speech

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, April 20, 2008 2:35:30 AM
"...critics of Islam sometimes push the envelope of good taste. Other times they cross it, thus damaging their own cause. Governments, however, should keep to the sidelines and let the marketplace of ideas play itself out to the greatest extent possible."


Critics of Islam Face the Speech Police
By R. John Matthies
  
Ravaged by cancer, journalist Oriana Fallaci summoned her remaining strength in 2005 and 2006 to battle a cancer ravaging the West: censorship. Sadly, she did not live long enough to defend herself against the charges of "defaming Islam" that had been leveled against her by an Italian court. Continued...
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Major strategic blow on American power

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, April 19, 2008 10:48:16 PM

The 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing was a suicide bombing against the United States Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon on April 18, 1983 that killed over 60 people.



Remembering the Beirut Embassy Bombing:
April 18, 1983

Twenty-five years ago today a late model GMC truck packed with explosives slammed into the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and crashing through the lobby door. In his memoir See No Evil former CIA operative Robert Baer, who devoted much of this career to identifying the perpetrators of the bombing, “Even by Beirut standards, it was an enormous blast…” Continued...
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Let's not declare allegiance with the enemies

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, April 19, 2008 1:17:58 AM
"Good Americans can and should have a free and lively debate about how best to protect our country and expand freedom around the world. But good people – good Americans – don't characterize the U.S. as "a murderous empire that has killed 1 million civilians in Iraq alone." That's what bad people do."



Off the deep end
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Ideological Warrior of the Nation - Joseph Farah
 
Sometimes I wonder if America can continue to govern itself as a free nation endowed with certain unalienable rights by its Creator. Too many Americans, including some with great minds, have lost their bearings – lots all perspective on right and wrong, good and evil. Continued...
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Severe credibility problem

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Friday, April 18, 2008 1:32:09 AM

"Islamic countries passed this [U.N] resolution to protect religion from hatred and intolerance, then they and their motion have a severe credibility problem. "



The United Nations: Islam’s Gestapo 
By Stephen Brown

Nepotism, corruption, anti-Semitism and now censorship.
 
While the United Nations has disgraced itself over the years with sporadic eruptions of the first three negatives, it added another one last March 28 when its Human Rights Council passed a disturbing resolution that directs the body’s expert on free speech to report on “individuals and news media for negative comments on Islam.” In effect, the UN will now become the Islamic world’s censorship watchdog, snooping out undefined acts of Islamophobia around the globe. Continued...
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