Terrorism in Tajikistan

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) is up to trouble again.

“A suspected terrorist set off a grenade, killing himself and an officer and heavily injuring two policemen in the Tajik northern city of Isfar, a source at the Tajik Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass on Friday.” (from ITAR-ITASS news agency)

Also- “Republic law enforcement agencies are concerned about the growing activity of religious extremists and terrorists in the northern areas,” Tajik Interior Minister Khumdin Sharipov told a press conference. He said over 40 members of the Hizb-ut-Tahrir Party and more than 20 members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan have been arrested in the country’s north since the beginning of this year. The minister accused them of two explosions in the center of Dushanbe last year and an armed attack on a Tajik border post this June.”

It is about that time of year. I wonder (I do not know for sure) if the growing activity in connected to what is going on in Lebanon and the recent visit of Mahmud Ahmadinejad? I don’t think there is a conspiracy, but the current violence in the Middle East could be angering the IMU and giving them an excuse to cause trouble.

It is interesting to note that the grenade attack occured on the same day that Abdullo Uldoshev, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan was in India attending a meeting with the Indian delegation about ways to counter terrorism.

Iran ready to expand nuclear activities. Will that expand to war?

“Iran’s top nuclear negotiator said Sunday that Iran will expand, not suspend uranium enrichment activities, in defiance of a U.N. Security Council resolution. Ali Larijani called the U.N. Security Council resolution issued last week “illegal” and said Iran won’t respect the deadline. “We reject this resolution,” he told reporters.”

I really don’t think this has anything to do with peacefully giving the Iranian people nuclear power for peaceful purposes. The leadership of Iran want war. They want to destroy Israel. Ahmadinejad has openly said this. Since his election, he has met with Hezbollah leaders, sponsored a Holocaust deniers conference, and now is openly defying the UN. He has a close friendship with Castro’s friend, the anti-Western Hugo Chavez. I hope the media and the world will stop being naive and take the Iranian leadership seriously. What is next? An Iranian attack on neighbors like Hitler’s invasion of Poland? Is that what it will take for the media and other leftists to understand the threat Iran is?

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Victor Davis Hanson and New Vocabulary

I have really been enjoying Mr.Hanson’s columns for the National Review.
Here is another great article about the Israeli/Hezbollah conflict.

My favorite quotes,”“Peacekeepers” keep no peace, but always side with the less Western of the belligerents.”
“Innocent” often refers to Lebanese who aid the stockpiling of rockets or live next to those who do. It rarely refers to Israelis under attack”.

Good Article

Great article on the situation in the Middle East. Victori Davis Hanson compares the world of the 1930s pre WWII to the world today.

Using the Dead Children

Today as I was surfing blogs I found the EU Referendum. (eureferendum.blogspot.com)

The post I read showed how the media is using a picture of a poor dead girl as propaganda. The pictures were staged. I would not suggest any mother to look at the pictures. I am still a bit shaken.

I quote, “These photographers are obviously willing to participate in propaganda,” Limbaugh is cited as saying. “They know exactly what’s being done, all these photos, bringing the bodies out of the rubble, posing them for the cameras, it’s all staged. Every bit of it is staged and the still photographers know it.”

The sad thing is that I did not care if the girl was Lebonese or Israeli. I thought only of my own daughter who is of a similar age. Why would Hezbollah put their children at risk just to make Israel look bad?

Israeli Victims

“They kill us, but it barely makes headlines overseas.”

Click here to read an article on how Israelis are coping with the war with Lebanon.

Asymmetric Warfare and Qana

“If the inferior power is in an aggressive position, however, and/or turns to tactics prohibited by the laws of war (jus in bello), its success depends on the superior power’s refraining from like tactics. For example, the Law of land warfare prohibits the use of a flag of truce or clearly-marked medical vehicles as cover for an attack or ambush, but an asymmetric combatant using this prohibited tactic depends on the superior power’s obedience to the corresponding law. Similarly, laws of warfare prohibit combatants from using civilian settlements, populations or facilities as military bases, but when an inferior power uses this tactic, it depends on the premise that the superior power will respect the law that they are violating, and will not attack that civilian target, or if they do the propaganda advantage will outweigh the material loss.” (wikipedia, “Asymmetric Warfare”)

Protest Violence in Australia

A protest in Australia turned ugly. “Prime Minister John Howard was mobbed and police clashed with Hezbollah supporters and other anti-Israel protesters after he spoke about the Middle East conflict in the west coast Australian city of Perth on Saturday.

Howard’s car was damaged by demonstrators as he left a meeting. Around 200 protesters waving Lebanese and Palestinian flags and shouting ‘we want peace’ punched, kicked and threw projectiles at the vehicle as police struggled to keep order.

Police wrestled protesters to the ground and there was at least one arrest.”

From Monsters and Critics News.com (http://news.monstersandcritics.com)

The article states that hezbollah is legal in Australia but the military wing is not. Is the political faction any better? Assaulting the Prime Minister because you disagree with his views is pretty violent and militant to me. It just shows that these people do not deserve respect.

I wonder what would happen if Hezbollah and pro-Arab activists attacked the US president’s car? Would they still be alive? Oh, wait, yes they would be. They probably would have the ACLU protect their First Amendment Rights. Their victimhood as being an oppressed people would be given primary focus in the media. An example is the statement from the protester in Australia, “There are mothers watching their children die,’ el-Khatib told Australia’s AAP news agency. ‘Hezbollah is protecting Lebanon, they are freedom fighters not terrorists.’

Jewish mothers watch their sons die too. When will they receive some sympathy? Aren’t they victims too? I don’t think any pro-Israeli protesters attack president’s cars either. If anti-Israeli activists want to protest that is their right. If they want any respect, then they can learn to protest without violence and using women and children as pawns.

Muslims for Hezbollah

Here is an article from News Max about how the Arabs are now supporting Hezbollah rather than their initial condemnation of the Shiite group. Protests against Israel are being organized all over the Muslim world complete with Hitleresque “anti-Zionist” rhetoric.

I don’t understand how the media would condemn a white neo-Nazi’s anti-Semitic remarks and propaganda, but say nothing when a brown skinned Muslim shouts out the same remarks.

Like this one from Egypt, “ “The Zionist-American plan aims as dismantling resistance and redrawing the map under the banner of a new Middle East where the supreme hegemony is for Israeli entity only,” Mohammed Habib, deputy leader of Egypt’s main opposition Muslim Brotherhood, told The Associated Press. “All sects (of Islam) are in need for unity to deter the enemy.”

I don’t believe that is the case. Israel just wants peace. The only way to achieve this is to rid the world of Islamic Nazis. Hezbollah is not for peace. They are for the destruction of a nation and people. That is the only way there will be peace in the Middle East. Terrorism must be defeated. Zionists do not seek to control the earth, they just want their homeland back.

Why does the Arabian media brainwash the Muslim world to be anti-American and anti-Semitic? I was in Malaysia in 1998 after Clinton bombed Iraq. I was nervous to be in the Muslim nation at that time. The headlines were “Clinton killed Muslim Children”. No one cared about Saddam Hussein or what his government stood for. They only saw America send bombs to Muslims. They saw it as an attack on their religion.

I knew it would only be a short time until the Muslim world would unite against Israel on silly charges and ideas. If they would support Israel, their Muslim lives would be free from totalitarianism and terror.

Anti-Semitic Attack in Seattle

“I’m mad at Israel” said the shooter, a Muslim American.

Here is the article from the Seattle Times: Click here