Al Qaida - Coming Soon!

I tend to believe al qaida more than I do the president.  Not that our president doesn't tell the truth on occasion, but that al qaida doesn't lie.  They don't need to.  That is not to say they will be able to actually carry out an attack, but they certainly will try.  Maybe it's the Obama administration who is working with al qaida to create the chaos that would allow Obama to win again (oh wait, thats what liberals said about Bush and terrorists, and no sane person believed that silliness).

They will try and they must warn - part of their code of honor - before they strike.

 

 

 

Online graphic warns of al-Qaida return to NYC

 

Associated Press – 19 hrs ago

 

NEW YORK (AP) — A mock movie poster warns al-Qaida wants to return to New York City, but authorities say there's no evidence of an actual threat.

Investigators learned about the online amateur graphic on Monday. The graphic shows the Manhattan skyline at sunset with "Al Qaeda" in bold type followed by "Coming Soon Again in New York."

Al-Qaida has been blamed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which destroyed the World Trade Center and killed thousands of people.

New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne says an overseas, Arab-language Internet site posted the graphic on its "artwork and design" page. He says the NYPD has been monitoring the site.

FBI spokesman J. Peter Donald says the agency takes all threats seriously and "there is no specific or credible threat to New York."










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Rape in New York: The Women's Fault

WHY? 

Why is it the women must change to 'prevent' being raped.  And why is a guy going after 'just' women wearing revealing clothing?  Since rape is not a crime of sex or lust, it wouldn't matter, unless the males perpetrating the crime believe in their twisted and sick perverted minds that women who dress in shorts are somehow asking to be raped.

We know that Western Civilization does not promote this belief.  When they find the perpetrator, he should be castrated, and then tossed into general population at Rikers - just at the time the guards get pnemonia.





NYPD Warns Women About Skirts in Brooklyn Sex Attack Probe



By John Noel
Friday, Sep 30, 2011
NBC New York



Women in a Brooklyn neighborhood on edge over a spate of sex attacks are being told by police that wearing skirts and dresses might not be a good idea.

The surprising message from the NYPD is not being taken well.

"I think that women should be able to wear whatever they want," said Theresa Troupson, a Park Slope resident. "I don't think that they should be held responsible in any way for the actions of criminals."

Lauren, who did not want her last name used, told the the Wall Street Journal that she was walking down the street in shorts and a t-shirt after leaving the gym on Monday when she was stopped by an officer who also stopped two other women in dresses.

Lauren said the officer asked them if they knew what was happening in the area, and asked them if they knew what the suspect looked for.

"He pointed at my outfit and said, 'Don't you think your shorts are a little short?'" she told the Journal. "He pointed at their dresses and said they were showing a lot of skin."

The officer also told them that "you're exactly the kind of girl this guy is targeting," according to Lauren.

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said the officers "are simply pointing out that as part of the pattern involving one or more men that the assailant(s) have targeted women wearing skirts."

A group called Safe Slope says the NYPD effort is "completely inappropriate."

"There have been reports that the women attacked were all wearing skirts," said Jessica Silk, a Safe Slope founder. "Unfortunately this might be a common link between the women that were attacked but the message shouldn't be that you shouldn't wear a skirt. The message should be that, 'Here are ways that you can protect yourself.'"





 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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New York: Population: Dwindling

You CANNOT tax people on taxes on top of taxed products and still believe in any delusional state of mind that they will stay around very long.  When they leave, you must necessrily raise more taxes to compensate for their having left (and reducing your revenue).

The answer - cut and slash.  Don't tax.




1 in 3 Young New Yorkers Want to Leave State

Those under 30 say it's too expensive


By John Johnson, Newser Staff
May 13, 2011 4:24 PM CDT



(Newser) – This can't bode well for New York state: A new poll shows that more than a third of residents under 30 want to move away within five years, notes DNAinfo. The big reasons: Jobs, taxes, and the cost of living. The percentage of wannabe bag-packers drops from 36% to 24% for those living specifically in New York City, notes the Gothamist blog. A hefty 77% of the 941 poll respondents of all ages consider the state expensive for an average family.

“New Yorkers are feeling the financial squeeze on the home front," writes Lee M. Miringoff of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. “Right now, many young people do not see their future in New York state. Unchecked, this threatens to drain the state of the next generation."

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Gert Wilders - New York is the Line in the Sand

Dutch anti-Islam MP addresses NY mosque rally


Sunday, 12 Sep, 2010

NEW YORK: Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders told thousands of people protesting against plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero on Saturday that it was time to take a stand.


“This is where we have draw the line,” Wilders said before some 2,000 people fiercely opposing a Muslim organization’s plans to build an Islamic cultural center close to the site where the World Trade Center once stood.

“America, New York, and Sharia are incompatible. New York stands for freedom,” he told the crowd.

“That is why we are here today to draw a line today on this sacred spot. We are here in the spirit of America’s founding fathers, we are here in the spirit today in the spirit of freedom.”

“We must never give a free hand to those who want to subjugate us,” Wilders added.

“Draw this line so that New York... will never become New Mecca.”The firebrand Dutch politician, who calls Islam fascist and wants to stop Muslim immigration and the building of new mosques, walked out of talks earlier this month to form a rightist coalition government in The Netherlands.

He has been under 24-hour protection since 2004, after receiving death threats for his radical beliefs.

Wilders appeared at the New York rally as the city marked the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks in which the World Trade Center was destroyed by Al-Qaeda militants riding hijacked planes.

He was joined at the protest by former US ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, as well as ultra-conservative radio chat show host Mike Gallagher.

Earlier a rally in support of the mosque project drew about 1,500 people. A tight police presence kept the two groups apart, though tensions were high with fierce arguments breaking out on the sidewalks. – AFP

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Strange Things Happen In This World: of Mosques and Mice

(I cannot link this story due to the fact it is from a paid service, although it can be located at the NY Post)


• 5 Sep 2010

• New York Post
• By ISABEL VINCENT and MELISSA KLEIN




LET’S MECCA DEAL


The mosque money trail has taken another strange turn. The original owners of 45-47 Park Place mysteriously walked away from an $18 million cash offer for their damaged Ground Zero building in 2007, only to accept $4.8 million 18 months later from mosque developer Sharif El-Gamal. El-Gamal also happened to give the building owner’s son a job. The original owners of the Ground Zero mosque site mysteriously spurned dozens of higher bids before selling the prime downtown real estate at a bargain-basement price.

The Pomerantz family, which had owned the building since the late 1960s and fielded offers after the patriarch died in 2006, rejected at least one bid that was nearly four times what prospective mosque builder Sharif ElGamal eventually paid, The Post has learned.

El-Gamal did offer what could be viewed as a sweetener to his $4.8 million bid in July 2009 — a job as a property manager for a son of the family, Sethian Pomerantz.

New York developer Kevin Glodek was livid when he found out the building sold for a fraction of what he offered in 2007 — $18 million cash — and wondered whether money changed hands under the table, according to sources close to the deal.

Glodek and his partners wanted to build a 60-story condo tower with retail space on the Park Place site, had inked a purchase agreement and even had keys to the existing building, according to sources and documents obtained by The Post.

But Kukiko Mitani — whose late husband, Stephen Pomerantz, owned the property — and her brother-in-law, Melvin Pomerantz, a trustee to the estate, went silent at the end of 2007 and Glodek’s deal disappeared, sources said.

Glodek, who owns the ChefsDiet food delivery service and several Manhattan properties, declined to comment.

The property is now at the heart of one of the most divisive issues in the country — whether it should be the location of a $100 million mosque and community center. The location two blocks from Ground Zero has been called insensitive, and questions have been raised about whether extremists will help fund the project. Recent polls show that 70 percent of New Yorkers want it moved.















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Obama Doubles Down on his Support for the Mosque at Ground Zero

Obama doubled down on his support for a mosque and community center planned for a site two blocks north of ground zero in lower Manhattan – and denied reports that he tried to back away from backing the controversial project.


“I didn’t walk it back it all,” he said. “I was very specific with my team… The core value and principle that every American is treated the same doesn’t change… At [a White House Ramadan celebration], I had Muslim Americans who had been in uniform fighting in Iraq… How can you say to them that their religious faith is less worthy of respect?... That’s something that I feel very strongly about.”















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New York: Mosque or Not

Ground Zero Imam Says U.S. Worse than al-Qaeda


by Jason Mattera
08/23/2010
humanevents.com



New audio has surfaced of the imam behind the controversial mosque near Ground Zero allegedly telling an audience overseas that the United States has been far more deadly than al-Qaeda. "We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al-Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non Muslims," Feisal Abdul Rauf said at a 2005 lecture sponsored by the University of South Australia. After discussing the U.S.-led sanctions against Iraq under Saddam Hussein, Rauf went on to argue that America is to blame for its testy relationship with Islamic countries.

"What complicates the discussion, intra-Islamically, is the fact that the West has not been cognizant and has not addressed the issues of its own contribution to much injustice in the Arab and Muslim world." The audio was uncovered by blogger Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs.


The YOUTUBE link.



 
 
 
 
 
 
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Mosques in New York

On the mosque being built two blocks from Ground Zero ... the wife of the Imam who is spearheading the Caordoba effort had this to say:


"We are deeply concerned, because this is like a metastasized antisemitism," said Daisy Khan, who is spearheading the project with her husband, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. "It's beyond Islamophobia. It's hate of Muslims."


Ms. Khan, appearing on ABC News's "This Week" on Sunday, vowed to push ahead with plans to build a 15-story complex two blocks from the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in lower Manhattan, saying there was "too much at stake."

August 22, 2010, WSJ
 
Indeed, there is TOO much at stake to allow this to happen.  It isn't hate Ms Khan, it is a realization that toleration is not always the answer.  As John Stewart said, why are they building mosques - because there are Muslims in the neighborhood and it is beginning to bother people - the end result of so much toleration is not more toleration, is not greater openness, it is the end of freedom as we know it.
 
And that Ms Khan, 80% of Americans won't sit down for.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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He did it

The attempted murderer admitted he was responsible.  He then immediately claimed he acted alone, had no help.

Lone wolf, one-off, a tea-bagger or angry person at Obamacare.  Yes, these are the stallar minds of the feckless fools.  Bloomberg is a fool.  Shumer is an ass, and Napolitano is lucky she somehow stumbled onto a job that lets her actually talk. 

We are not safer today.  We are far from safe.

Why would this guy admit to help?  So that we immediately begin searching for his accomplices, to interrupt their plans?  No.  He is trying to give them time to a) escape, or b) carry out the plan B.

Shumer is still looking for the wolf and Napolitano is one-offing herself, while Bloomberg is looking for teabags everywhere but in the teapot.







NY bomb suspect said to admit plot, Pakistan training


Tue, May 4 2010
By Michelle Nichols
Reuters
NEW YORK
11:38pm BST


NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Pakistani-American admitted trying to detonate a bomb in New York's busy Times Square and receiving bomb-making training in a known Taliban and al Qaeda stronghold in Pakistan, U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday.

Prosecutors charged Faisal Shahzad, 30, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, with five counts, including attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and trying to kill and maim people within the United States.

"If successful it could have resulted in a lethal terrorist attack, causing death and destruction in the heart of New York City, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said of the bomb plot.

Shahzad was arrested late on Monday after he was taken off an Emirates plane that was about to depart for Dubai. Hours later, several of his relatives were arrested in Pakistan, security sources said.

Prosecutors have not said when Shahzad will appear before a judge in Manhattan federal court. He faces a life sentence if he is convicted.

The former financial analyst, who had worked in neighbouring Connecticut, was accused of driving a crude homemade bomb of gasoline, propane gas, fireworks and fertilizer into a teeming Times Square on a warm Saturday evening.

The bomb was in a sports utility vehicle that prosecutors said Shahzad bought three weeks ago in Connecticut for $1,300 cash after it was advertised online. The Nissan Pathfinder was found in Times Square with a licence plate from another car.

[And he has been working to get this money he spent ona  plane ticket to the Emirates?  he is working to pay the $1300 for the vehicle, and whatever large sum for the other equipment?  That is a lot of money for someone in foreclosure.]

Street vendors selling T-shirts and handbags alerted police to the smoking and sparking vehicle that had been parked awkwardly with the engine running and hazard lights on near a Broadway theatre where Disney's "The Lion King" is performed.

"We believe that this suspected terrorist fashioned a bomb from rudimentary ingredients, placed it in a rusty SUV and drove it into Times Square with the intent to kill as many innocent tourists and theatregoers as possible," Holder said.

If the bomb had exploded in Midtown Manhattan's "crossroads of the world," many people would have died, experts said.

The case was an underlying negative factor in the stock market as Wall Street suffered its worst day in three months, largely on concerns over Greece and Europe's debt crisis.

A complaint filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday said that Shahzad admitted "that he had attempted to detonate a bomb in Times Square" and "that he had recently received bomb-making training in Waziristan, Pakistan."

[So - bomb makers just naturally help anyone who walks in and says help me make a bomb please.  Hmmm.]

"HARD TO PULL OFF ALONE"

Shahzad travelled to the United States from Pakistan on February 3 and told immigration officials that he had been visiting his parents in Pakistan for the past five months and that his wife remained in Pakistan, the complaint said.

[He then goes home and within two months has a plot to murder scores if not hundreds of Americans.  And he thought of this while he was .... alone for two months without his wife?  Where did he meet his wife?  Was she ever in the US, where were his children born?  If they lived here, when did he take them to Pakistan ... and please don't say in February because that says it all ...]

Until June 2009, he had worked for about three years as a junior financial analyst for the Affinion Group, a marketing and consulting business, in Norwalk, Connecticut, the company said.

Shahzad told authorities he acted alone in the failed bombing but investigators are sceptical because of the time he spent in Pakistan, a U.S. law enforcement source said. Sources also said he has two children with his wife.

"Based on our collective experience it's hard to really believe that this is something someone would do on their own. It seems hard to pull off alone. There's a lot we don't know yet," a law enforcement source told Reuters.

While U.S. prosecutors said Shahzad admitted training in Waziristan in northwest Pakistan, an intelligence official in Pakistan said Shahzad received militant training in the nearby town of Kohat. The area around Kohat is a stronghold of Tariq Afridi, the main Pakistani Taliban commander in the region.

The Taliban in Pakistan claimed responsibility for the plot though several officials voiced scepticism about the claim.

A security official in Karachi said they had "picked up a few family members" related to Shahzad in connection with the failed bombing.

Holder said Shahzad provided investigators with useful information but declined to discuss specifics.

New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said it was the 11th thwarted attack on New York City since hijacked airliners destroyed the World Trade Centre's twin towers on September 11, 2001 killing more than 2,600 people.

An Afghan immigrant who admitted to receiving al Qaeda training in Pakistan, Najibullah Zazi, pleaded guilty to plotting a suicide bombing campaign on Manhattan's subway system last September.

President Barack Obama said the investigation would seek to determine whether Shahzad had any connection with foreign extremist groups.

If links were found between the failed bombing and Pakistan's Taliban, Pakistan could come under renewed U.S. pressure to open risky new fronts against Islamic militants.

Authorities have searched Shahzad's home in Bridgeport, Connecticut and were investigating whether Emirates airline made a mistake in letting him aboard its aircraft.




 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The Lone Wolf is Trained in Pakistan

Security slip let suspect on plane, near takeoff




By EILEEN SULLIVAN and MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writers
Tue May 4, 7:59 pm ET



.WASHINGTON – The no-fly list failed to keep the Times Square suspect off the plane. Faisal Shahzad had boarded a jetliner bound for the United Arab Emirates Monday night before federal authorities pulled him back.

The night's events, gradually coming to light, underscored the flaws in the nation's aviation security system, which despite its technologies, lists and information sharing, often comes down to someone making a right call.

As federal agents closed in, Faisal Shahzad was aboard Emirates Flight 202. He reserved a ticket on the way to John F. Kennedy International Airport, paid cash on arrival and walked through security without being stopped. By the time Customs and Border Protection officials spotted Shahzad's name on the passenger list and recognized him as the bombing suspect they were looking for, he was in his seat and the plane was preparing to leave the gate.

But it didn't. At the last minute, the pilot was notified, the jetliner's door was opened and Shahzad was taken into custody.

After authorities pulled Shahzad off the plane,  the admitted he was behind the crude Times Square car bomb, officials said. He also claimed to have been trained at a terror camp in Pakistan's lawless tribal region of Waziristan, according to court documents. That raised increased concern that the bombing was an international terror plot.



Shahzad, a Pakistani-born U.S. citizen, was charged Tuesday with terrorism and attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in Saturday evening's failed Times Square bombing. According to a federal complaint, he confessed to buying an SUV, rigging it with a homemade bomb and driving it into the busy area where he tried to detonate it.

The Obama administration played down the fact that Shahzad, a U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, had made it aboard the plane. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wouldn't talk about it, other than to say Customs officials prevented the plane from taking off. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the security system has fallback procedures in place for times like this, and they worked.



And Attorney General Eric Holder said he "was never in any fear that we were in danger of losing him."

There seems to be a serious problem with the security and justice portion of our intelligence programs.  The plane was ready to take off, doors closed ... and Holder says we were not in danger of losing him ....   Napolitano and her inane comments - he is a one-off.  Shumer and his - lone wolf.


But it seemed clear the airline either never saw or ignored key information that would kept Shahzad off the plane, a fact that dampened what was otherwise hailed as a fast, successful law enforcement operation.

The no-fly list is supposed to mean just that. And Shahzad's name was added to the list early Monday afternoon as a result of breaking developments in the investigation, according to a law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

But when Emirates sold the ticket, it was working off an outdated list. Airline officials would have had to check a Web forum where updates are sent if it were to flag him. Because they didn't, law enforcement officials were not aware of his travel plans until they received the passenger list 30 minutes before takeoff, the official said.

By that time, passengers are usually on board.

Gibbs blamed the airline but emphasized a more positive bottom line: U.S. authorities did get Shahzad on the no-fly list and he never took off.

"There's a series of built-in redundancies, this being one of them," Gibbs said. "If there's a mistake by a carrier, it can be double-checked."

I suppose - when it has taken off.  Like the underwear bomber, perhaps when it explodes on landing.  Failure after failure.  This administration has been very lucky.  It has not been due to intelligence.  It has ONLY been luck, and the thing about luck is ... it runs out.

The list is only as good as the nation's intelligence and the experts who analyze it. If a lead is not shared, or if an analyst is unable to connect one piece of information to another, a terrorist could slip onto an airplane because his name is not on the watch list.


Officials allege that's just what took place ahead of the attempted Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound jet. In the case of the Times Square suspect, the intelligence process worked: Shahzad's name was on the list, but the airlines didn't check it when he bought his ticket.

Shahzad went through normal airport security before he boarded the plane. He was unarmed and had no explosive material on him when he was arrested.

Emirates did not return repeated calls for comments. Earlier in the day, the company issued a general statement saying it was cooperating with investigators and takes every precaution to ensure its passengers' safety.

The reliance on airlines to check government lists has been a known problem for years. The government has long planned to take over the responsibility for matching passengers to watch lists, but the transition has taken longer than expected. The new program is still in the test phase for domestic airlines and is still months away from beginning with international carriers.







 
 
 
 
 
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New York, New York - and the al-qaida agents.

On May 1, 2010, at approximately 6:30 p.m. in New York City, smoke and noises emanated from within a vehicle.  The police and anyone else, fled the scene and called in the bomb squad.

The police were responding to a situation and discovered a propane tank and a power source connected to what appeared to be a timer device in the backseat of vehicle in Times Square.

Anarchists apparently like to cause problems and have caused problems in the past - reasonably leading us to believe it could be anarchists - Emma Goldman is haunting New York.

However, this was a bigger device and included components not found in previous cases - not propane tanks within vehicles.  If it had gone off, it could have resulted in significant casualties, unlike previous incidents which occurred late at night. 

Very quickly, authorities in New York told the worried public that the explosive device discovered in the vehicle was constructed by amateurs - this is what Bloomberg told the public.   The vehicle had two five-gallon containers of gasoline, three propane tanks, two timing devices, electrical components and commercial-grade fireworks.  Amateur.  And of course, not very serious, even for anarchists.  Nor for shoe-bombers or underwear bombers.  

Amateur does not detail who nor how committed, rather that they have not done this sort of thing before - hence amateur.  They were committed and had it gone off, many people would not be alive today to hear Bloomberg make his comments. 

The incident bears similarities to the attacks in London in 2007, when two failed vehicle bombs were placed in central London, in an attempt to cause mass casualties.  Like the Times Square device, the London devices also contained propane tanks and cans of gasoline with an explosive charge. 

A cell perhaps, newly developed in the US, perhaps the same bombmaker, transplanted here.  Maybe we should check.

Someone purporting to represent the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the failed attack in a statement posted to the Internet, but the TTP are a highly professional organization and have a long history of building functional and effective improvised explosive devices. The person who constructed the Times Square device was not a professional - BUT this should not immediately cause anyone to dismiss the TTP.  The TTP could have promoted, provided the approval, ordered it to be done, and along the way, individuals took up the mantle and made the attempt. 

I tend to believe Islamic terrorists when they tell me something - can they lie, yes, but, there is a question as to whether the individual who is lying is actually a member of the group.  When the group does speak through an authorized voice, they will tell the truth more often than anyone in our government on any given day. 


It is more than likely that they will follow this one up with a more successful attack.  Why?  Just because they have to, if they are indeed part of the larger al -qaida movement. 


Pakistani Taliban Claims Responsibility, Reports Claim


Times Square Bomb Plot Revenge, Group Says

Updated: Sunday, 02 May 2010, 10:34 PM EDT


ADRIAN CARRASQUILLO


MYFOXNY.COM - New York City's police commissioner says there's no evidence of a Taliban link to a failed bomb found in an SUV parked in Times Square but said he couldn't rule them out.



On Sunday, Fox 5 reported on a Reuters story that the Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the bomb plot.



According to Fox News, in a 1 minute video allegedly released by the Pakistani Taliban, the group says the attack is revenge for the death of its leader Baitullah Mehsud and the recent killings of the top leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq.



Images of the slain militants are shown as an unidentified voice recites the message. English subtitles are at the bottom of the screen.



According to the AP, an unidentified speaker on the tape also says the attack comes in response to American "interference and terrorism in Muslim Countries, especially in Pakistan."



The claim could not be immediately confirmed andhe tape makes no specific reference to the attack nor does it mention that it was a car bomb or that it took place in New York City.



A text in gold letters on a black background at the start of the video congratulates Muslims for the "jaw-breaking blow to Satan's USA." As the speaker recites the message, images of the slain militants referred to flash across the screen. English subtitles are provided at the bottom of the screen.



The video was uncovered Sunday by SITE, which monitors militant websites and has been accurate with such militant claims in the past.



The Pakistani Taliban is one of Pakistan's largest and deadliest militant groups. It has strong links to al-Qaida and is based in the northwest close to the Afghan border. The group has carried out scores of bloody attacks inside Pakistan in recent years, mostly against Pakistani targets, but it has made no secret of its hatred toward the United States.



The investigation into the Times Square bomb plot is ongoing. Mayor Bloomberg called the improvised device "amateurish".



According to the New York Times, a 911 call on Sunday morning warned that the bomb plot was merely a diversion for a much bigger explosion that is set to happen at Times Square.



More information on these developments throughout Sunday. The FBI released the following statement:



The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York, along with the NYPD, has responded to Times Square in response to the vehicle and device. Bomb technicians, Evidence Response Team members, and investigators are on scene and a command post has been established. All of the resources of the New York FBI office are available to assist with this ongoing investigation. Numerous initial reports will be checked and authenticated and the appropriate leads will be set.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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New York Trial for Khalid Sheihk Mohammad

Interesting.

The very last paragraph/sentence in addition to Obama having already found the guy guilty, and sentenced to death.  Both are worth reading.

The last sentence - $75 million in security costs.  At Guantanamo there would be no unusual costs.  In the US there will be.  For each it would be between $50-70 million each for security + $5-8 million for court costs, plus appeals ($10-15 million) + $80k a year in prison ... MULTIPLY all of that by about 200 prisoners.





Obama: Professed 9/11 mastermind will be convicted


Nov 18, 2009
08:54 AM US/Eastern
By DEVLIN BARRETT
Associated Press Writer



WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama predicted that professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be convicted, as Attorney General Eric Holder defended putting him through the U.S. civilian legal system.

In one of a series of TV interviews during his trip to Asia, Obama said those offended by the legal privileges given to Muhammed by virtue of getting a civilian trial rather than a military tribunal won't find it "offensive at all when he's convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him."

Obama quickly added that he did not mean to suggest he was prejudging the outcome of Mohammed's trial. "I'm not going to be in that courtroom," he said. "That's the job of the prosecutors, the judge and the jury."

But he did say it!

In interviews broadcast on NBC and CNN Wednesday, the president also said that experienced prosecutors in the case who specialize in terrorism have offered assurances that "we'll convict this person with the evidence they've got, going through our system."

Obama said the American people should have no concern about the capability of civilian courts to try suspected terrorists. Attorney General Eric Holder last week announced the decision to bring Mohammed and four others detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to trial at a lower Manhattan courthouse.

Holder sought to explain U.S. prosecution strategy in remarks prepared for delivery later Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where lawmakers are likely to spar over his decision last week to send Mohammed and four alleged henchmen from a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to New York to face a civilian federal trial in New York.

Critics of Holder's decision—mostly Republicans—have argued the trial will give Mohammed a world stage to spout hateful rhetoric.

In his prepared remarks, Holder said such concerns are misplaced, because judges can control unruly defendants and any pronouncements by Mohammed would only make him look worse.

"I have every confidence the nation and the world will see him for the coward he is," Holder says in a written version of his remarks obtained by The Associated Press. "I'm not scared of what (Mohammed) will have to say at trial—and no one else needs to be either."

Holder says the public and the nation's intelligence secrets can be protected during a public trial in civilian court.

"We need not cower in the face of this enemy," Holder says. "Our institutions are strong, our infrastructure is sturdy, our resolve is firm, and our people are ready."

Holder announced Friday that five accused Sept. 11 conspirators currently held at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be transferred to federal court in Manhattan to face trial—just blocks from the site of the former World Trade Center.

Five other suspects, Holder said, will be sent to face justice before military commissions in the United States, though a location for those commissions has not yet been determined.

The actual transfer of the suspects to New York is still many weeks away. The transfers are a key step in Obama's pledge to close the detention center at Guantanamo, which currently houses some 215 detainees. The administration is not expected to meet its January deadline to shutter the facility.

The president echoed Holder's comments about the New York trial.

"I think this notion that we have to be fearful that these terrorists possess some special powers that prevent us from presenting evidence against them, locking them up and exacting swift justice, I think that has been a fundamental mistake," Obama said in an interview with CNN.

In addition to the 10 detainees named Friday, Holder is expected to send others to trials and commissions in the United States.

Another, larger group of detainees is expected to be released to other countries. Some, the president has said, are too dangerous to be released and cannot be put on trial, and those detainees will continue to be imprisoned.

The attorney general says his decisions between trials and commissions were based strictly on which venues he thought would bring the strongest prosecution.

Opponents of the plan, including Holder's predecessor Michael Mukasey, have accused him of adopting a "pre-9/11" approach to terrorism.

Holder emphatically denies that.

"We are at war, and we will use every instrument of national power—civilian, military, law enforcement, intelligence, diplomatic and others—to win," Holder says.

Separately, a member of the Judiciary Committee, Democrat Charles Schumer of New York, is urging the administration to reimburse the city for what he says could be $75 million in extra security costs related to the terror trials.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Useless and Shameless

John Conyers and Al Sharpton.

On Nov. 25, 2006, Sean Bell, 23, and his friends, Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield, were outside a club in Queens, hours before Sean Bell was to be married. The police insist Bell was drunk and in his drunken state, his behavior, when confronted by the police, behind the wheel of his Altima, in addition to the actions of his friend Joseph Guzman left them no choice, but to fire. They fired over 40 rounds, upwards of nearly 50 at the men.

The 3 New York City police detectives were found not guilty ... on all charges in the shooting death of a black man who died in a hail of 50 bullets on his wedding day.

Justice Arthur Cooperman, who delivered the verdict, said many of the prosecution's witnesses, including friends of the man, Sean Bell, and two wounded victims, were simply not believable.
"At times, the testimony of those witnesses just didn't make sense," he said.

His verdict prompted several supporters of Bell to storm out of the courtroom, and screams could be heard in the hallway moments later. The three detectives - Gescard Isnora, Michael Oliver and Marc Cooper - were escorted out of a side door. Outside, a crowd gathered behind police barricades, occasionally shouting, amid a large number of police officers.

The supporters of Bell - screamed NO JUSTICE. They demanded JUSTICE. Sharpton piped in - he was going to shut the city down UNTIL THERE WAS JUSTICE.

A simple question - what is justice? A judge heard the case and decided based upon the facts. Had he decided based upon race - would that have been justice? If the judge grabbed a rope and ordered the defendants to be hanged - would that be justice. What constitutes justice? Surely not an innocent verdict. Justice MUST be a guilty verdict when the defendants are the police and the person killed is black ... except the police officers ... two of them are black.

What is justice. Is justice punishment against authority whenever possible.

What about Sharpton - authority would like him to pay his fair share of taxes: The Associated Press indicate that Sharpton and his business entities owe nearly $1.5 million in overdue taxes and associated penalties.

Justice. Justice would be Sharpton paying his fair share of taxes.

Now John Conyers is on his way over to New York to hold hearings. Conyers had been in New York before the verdict, and had said that “We want to make sure that justice is served, and we send a message not just to law enforcement, but to young people that these types of tragedies have to end in this country.”

Justice.

Justice is Conyers wife carrying a gun and threatening people at Detroit City Hall. Calling people names, disrupting city procedure ... and doing it more than three times, disregarding rules.

Justice.

Justice for Tawana Brawley and the white police officers. Thank you Sharpton.

Justice.

Since 1993, right before Mayor Rudy Giuliani first sent the NYPD to take back the streets, Gotham’s murder rate has fallen a staggering 75 percent.

Do the math: That’s 16,736 New Yorkers presumably alive today who might have been murdered had crime remained at its Dinkins-era levels.

That's JUSTICE.

The police have done more to save lives than all the civil rights actions of the past 15 years. More lives saved, not taken nor lost - saved, by the police.

Conyers and Sharpton are two useless jokes. They suck off good people and instigate hate and division when none exists. The stoke the flames of racial hatred and division for profit. Useless and Shameless.