All Muslims Are Not Terrorists, But All Terrorists Are Muslims

[Car Prep 57]

So now they're down to using mentally handicapped bomb mules.

Can someone please point out which passage in the Koran sanctifies this?

[FailingEnterpriseAdmin]

Originally Posted by Car Prep 57

So now they're down to using mentally handicapped bomb mules.

Can someone please point out which passage in the Koran sanctifies this?

Oh no, not you, too.

[Robert]

Originally Posted by FailingEnterpriseAdmin

Oh no, not you, too.

Well, can you??

[Car Prep 57]

Originally Posted by FailingEnterpriseAdmin

Oh no, not you, too.

No offense ?????, but San Fransisco seems to have an airtight firewall against truth and common sense around it. By "you too", if you mean having the guts to call it like it is, guilty as charged. It isn't so much that Muslims in general are terrorists at heart, but there seems to be at least a widespread apathy among them when it comes to targeting innocent civilians in the name of Allah. If one nut bombs an abortion clinic, the entire pro life movement gets tarred with the same brush, despite VERY vocal condemnations from pro-life groups. Such public distancing is almost unheard of among Muslims when suicide bombers (and now, apparently, unwitting Down's Syndrome women) take out 100 shoppers at two Iraqi markets.

Eventually, ?????, an absence of condemnation begins to smell like silent complicity.

[Robert]

Woman killed, one critically hurt in Dimona suicide attack | Jerusalem Post

[Robert]

More from the religion of peace:


From Times OnlineFebruary 4, 2008

Suicide bombers strike in Israeli nuclear town
*First bomber injured accomplice
*Drugs raid officers killed bomber at scene



James Hider of The Times, in Dimona, and David Byers
Palestinian suicide bombers struck in Israel for the first time in a year today, attacking a crowded shopping parade in the desert city which hosts the country's secretive nuclear programme.

Ambulance workers said that the blast, which took place during rush hour in Dimona, killed one civilian and wounded 11, one seriously.

The Al-Asqa Martyrs Brigade, the militant group that claimed the attack, said the bombers were from Gaza, making it likely that they had managed to cross the territory's Rafah crossing into Egypt when Islamist Hamas militants blew it up last month.

From Egypt, it is believed that they are likely to have crossed into Israel through the country's difficult-to-police Sinai desert border.


Two bombers were believed to have been involved. However, The Times was told by witnesses at the scene that the first bomber detonated his device before his accomplice, wounding the second man before his explosives could detonate.

A passer-by rushed to help the injured accomplice, wrongly believing he was a civilian, but then noticed his explosives vest and scrambled away.

The second bomber was then shot four times in the head by senior police officers who happened to be in the area carrying out a drugs raid. One woman civilian has so far been confirmed as killed in the blast, along with both bombers.

As well as the first bombing on mainland Israel since January last year, the attack also marks the first such attack since Hamas blew up the Gaza border.

Israel has repeatedly warned that militants could make their way through Egypt and then into Israel through Sinai in order to commit attacks.

In a statement, the Al-Asqa Martyrs Brigade, which is loosely affiliated to the secular Fatah party that is involved in peace negotiations with Israel, said the "martyrdom operation in Dimona" had been carried out by Gaza bombers.

[Robert]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran launched a research rocket and unveiled its first major space center, state television reported Monday, the latest steps in a program many fear may be cover for further development of its military ballistic missiles.
State television showed live images of the event, with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issuing the launch order.

Iran has long declared a goal of developing a space program, but the same technology used to put satellites in space can also be used to deliver warheads. The country's space program, like its nuclear power program, has provoked unease abroad.

"It is just another troubling development," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said. "And, of course, the U.N. Security Council and other members of the international system have expressed their deep concern about Iran's continuing development of medium- and long-range ballistic missiles."

Iranian officials have said they are developing a Shahab-4 missile to launch a satellite. Iran's powerful ballistic missile, the Shahab-3, is believed to have a range of at least 800 miles, putting Israel and much of the Middle East in range. In November, Iran said it had manufactured a new missile, the Ashoura, with a range of 1,200 miles.

White House press secretary Dana Perino said, "It's unfortunate they continue to do that (missile development) because it further isolates the country from the rest of the world."

Iran, which also unveiled its first domestically built satellite Monday, says it wants to put its own satellites into orbit to monitor natural disasters in the earthquake-prone nation and improve its telecommunications. Iranian officials also point to America's use of satellites to monitor Afghanistan and Iraq and say they need similar abilities for their security.

Despite concern over Iran's space program, it is not clear how far along it is, or whether the latest launch actually reached the internationally agreed-upon beginning of "space," set at 60 miles above the earth.

Analysts have expressed doubts about certain technological achievements announced by Iran in the past. The country launched its first domestically built rocket last February, which soared to the edge of space but did not reach orbit level.

On Monday, state-run television did not specify the altitude when announcing the launch. "With the launch, Iran has joined the world's top 11 countries possessing space technology to build satellites and launch rockets into space," it announced.

The lowest flying satellites, ham radio satellites, orbit between 100- 300 miles up, while communication, weather and global-positioning satellites fly between 250-12,000 miles up.

Before the launch, Ahmadinejad opened Iran's first major space center, which includes a space launch pad and underground control station.

"We need to have an active and influential presence in space," he said.

The official news agency IRNA reported that the new domestically built satellite—called Omid, or Hope—would be launched into orbit sometime in the next 12 months.

In 2005, the government said it had allocated $500 million for space projects in the next five years. That year, Iran launched its first commercial satellite into orbit from a Russian rocket in a joint project with Moscow, which appears to be the main partner in transferring space technology to Iran.

Iran hopes to launch four more satellites by 2010, the government has said.

[Robert]

Israel's Mossad spy agency estimates Iran will develop a nuclear weapon within three years and continue to provide rockets to regional armed groups, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Mossad director Meir Dagan, in an intelligence assessment presented to Israel's powerful foreign affairs and defence committee on Monday, said the Jewish state would face increased threats on all fronts, Maariv daily said.

Dagan's estimate of Iran's nuclear ambitions differs sharply from an assessment by the US intelligence community late last year that said Iran had mothballed its nuclear weapons programme in 2003.

That report compiled by 16 US intelligence agencies said the Islamic republic would not be able to attain a nuclear weapon until 2015.

Israel has questioned those findings, claiming that although Iran may have temporarily halted its nuclear drive five years ago it has since relaunched it while pressing ahead with a public uranium enrichment programme

[Robert]

Hamas claims credit for suicide attack - Yahoo! News

[Robert]

Religion Of Peace?

Al Qaeda seen planning attack on U.S.
By Sara A. Carter
February 6, 2008






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Senior al Qaeda leaders have diverted operatives from Iraq across the globe and are increasing preparations to strike the United States, senior intelligence officials told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday. They said the terrorists had plans to attack the White House as recently as 2006.



"Al Qaeda is improving the last key aspect of its ability to attack the U.S. — the identification, training and positioning of operatives for an attack in the homeland," said Michael McConnell, director of national intelligence, which oversees all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies.



Intelligence officials also said they used a controversial interrogation tactic known as "waterboarding," which some people regard as torture, only on three senior al Qaeda members early in the war on terror and that it has not been used in five years.



The officials added that al Qaeda is recruiting Westerners to terror camps in Pakistan.



"While increased security measures at home and abroad have caused al Qaeda to view the West, especially the U.S., as a harder target, we have seen an influx of new Western recruits into the tribal areas since mid-2006, " Mr. McConnell said.



Mr. McConnell revealed that al Qaeda had plans to specifically target the White House.



"It [al Qaeda] probably will continue to devote some effort towards honoring bin Laden's request in 2005 that al Qaeda attempt to strike the United States, affirmed publicly by current al Qaeda leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri in a November 2006 threat against the White House," he said.



White House officials would not comment on specific security threats to the president or the White House.