I have been directed toward an excellent article at The American Thinker, a portion of which is to be found below:

The Timeline

630 Two years before Muhammad's death of a fever, he launches the Tabuk Crusades, in which he led 30,000 jihadists against the Byzantine Christians. He had heard a report that a huge army had amassed to attack Arabia, but the report turned out to be a false rumor. The Byzantine army never materialized. He turned around and went home, but not before extracting 'agreements' from northern tribes. They could enjoy the 'privilege' of living under Islamic 'protection' (read: not be attacked by Islam), if they paid a tax (jizya).

This tax sets the stage for Muhammad's and the later Caliphs' policies. If the attacked city or region did not want to convert to Islam, then they paid a jizya tax. If they converted, then they paid a zakat tax. Either way, money flowed back to the Islamic treasury in Arabia or to the local Muslim governor.

632—634 Under the Caliphate of Abu Bakr the Muslim Crusaders reconquer and sometimes conquer for the first time the polytheists of Arabia. These Arab polytheists had to convert to Islam or die. They did not have the choice of remaining in their faith and paying a tax. Islam does not allow for religious freedom.

633 The Muslim Crusaders, led by Khalid al—Walid, a superior but bloodthirsty military commander, whom Muhammad nicknamed the Sword of Allah for his ferocity in battle (Tabari, 8:158 / 1616—17), conquer the city of Ullays along the Euphrates River (in today's Iraq). Khalid captures and beheads so many that a nearby canal, into which the blood flowed, was called Blood Canal (Tabari 11:24 / 2034—35).

So, when some one tells you that the Christian Crusades were an Imperialistic action against Islam, you can tell them it was merely a defensive action for survival against a truly barbaric enemy. Would that we had the same philosophy now!

Insurgents, militants, Malay separatists, Islamic terrorists, bandits, drug addicts, rogue politicians and criminals are all names that, amongst still others, have been given at various times to the perpetrators of violence in Thailand's southernmost provinces. The violence in the South has most often been generically described as being committed by ''insurgent groups'', with a general sentiment that they are ethno-nationalist, separatist ones and that there is a dash of Islamic fundamentalism involved....

Source: Global Guerrillas

But, of course, Islam is "The Religion of Peace."

Modern day Gog and Magog

Similarities between Ezekiel's prophecies, today's Mideast reality uncanny

Ines Ehrlich
Published: 12.10.06, 21:46

Current world events are beginning to increasingly resemble the 2,500 year old bible prophecy made by Ezekiel in chapters 38-39. Ezekiel foresaw the rise of Russia (or Turkey, depending on the interpretation) in a coalition with Iran and other Middle Eastern countries (Sudan, Ethiopia and Libya).


The coalition is foretold to attack Israel from the north in a bid to destroy it during the earth's "last days," commonly known as the "war of Gog and Magog."


Throughout history it was thought that the prophecy had been put on hold, until perhaps today when it seems frighteningly more feasible.


In Joel C. Rosenberg's book "The Ezekiel Option," the author points to Ezekiel's prophecies in chapters 36-37, which have largely come true.


Rosenberg then asks the obvious question: If prophecies such as "the rebirth of the State of Israel, the return of the Jews to the Holy Land after centuries in exile, the re-blossoming of desolate desert land to produce abundant food, fruit and foliage, and the creation of an exceedingly great army" materialized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, then why shouldn't the next prophecies come true in our lifetime?


Let's try and place the biblical names and locations into today's reality, and see the parallel unfolding of events:


Gog is commonly believed to represent a person's name rather than a place, a tyrannical leader who may hatch an evil plan – in today's reality this "honor" could be most suited to the President of Iran, Ahmadinejad, or perhaps Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon .


Magog, according to some scholars, refers to Russia and the republics of the former Soviet Union, or perhaps Turkey. Others will argue that the exact location has not been fully ascertained and that the word Magog may simply be a generalization for an enemy of Israel, leaving the location open.


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Commentary


Don't forget that the attack comes when Israel is living in peace, and with out walls around their cities. I think that someone will have to guarantee their peace before that happens, and I don't think that the current United Nations will guarantee anything but the annihilation of Israel, and sadly, our current administration seems to be turning against Israel.
I think the upcoming war with Iran, Syria, and others will lead to the "global community" stepping in to "guarantee peace," and disarming Israel in the process, making the miracle of God stepping in to save Israel all that more effective when Gog and Magog make their move.

The Great Islamic Jihad is certain that Western Civilization is about to come to an end.

Islamic Fascism looks forward to the rule of the new Caliphate, in which the whole world will swear submission to Allah and bow five times a day towards Mecca. It aims to kill or enslave every person who will not accept its twisted vision of Islam. With the help of its allies among the world’s dictators and within our own media, it is confident that it will achieve its goal.

But even as this beast tears at our throats, a new defensive force is being born, a determination to preserve all that is good and right and true within the Western world. Even as we are abandoned by our leaders, by the sophists in our academies, and by the propagandists of our major media, ordinary people are connecting with one another, and are ready to stand up and defeat those who would destroy us.

Read the rest at The Gates of Vienna, where this Global Jihad will be broken as well.

That question raises the stakes even more.

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by Sean Osborne
Associate Director, Senior Analyst, Military Affairs
sosborne@homelandsecurityus.com


Over the course of the past week there are enough reports and credible rumors circulating just below the surface to make the following assessment and forecast of near-term possibilities or probabilities:

1.) The now offically acknowledged nuclear test conducted by North Korea a week ago yesterday was actually a test of the first-stage of a two stage hydrogen bomb. The sub-kiloton blast is assessed to have been a complete success.

2.) The much-rumored upcoming test is expected or anticipated in US military cirlces to be a test of both stages of a hydrogen warhead. The consensus is that North Korea plans to test its hydrogen bomb as soon as possible, possibly sometime this week.

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More here. Oh great, the story id on this article is 666...




Hydrogen Bombs on missiles that can reach Alaska or the West Coast are no laughing matter. I believe should the dog-eating, pot-bellied, Elvis-impersonating Dictator of North Korea explode an H-Bomb, we should take him, and his regime out. Period. End of Paragraph.
Should we be so under the control of Leftists that we cannot mount the proper response, it will be time for people everywhere to practically prepare for the detonation of an H-Bomb in or over a Western City (I include South Korea and Japan in this category), or a detonation over the Continental United States designed to deliver an Electro-Magnetic Pulse, or EMP.What would your life be without electricity, automobiles, computers?
How would you heat or cool your home, get to work, or the food get to the supermarket, no music, TV, internet? Would you be prepared?
Not just from the North Koreans...the Pakistanis, Iranians, or someone else could receive a warhead for cash. They've already done it with missiles and other munitions.

Take a look at this video and...

Tell me these people value Free Speech.
Tell me these people have anything positive to add to Western Civilization.
Tell me these people will defend America from Enemies, Foreign and Domestic.

This is one of the reasons Public Education should be replaced with a Free Market System of Education.

The video:


Hat Tip goes to The Eyrie.
Dude, I'm more than annoyed at these snot-nosed kids. Useful idiots, indeed.
I can guarantee you that these kids have not one part per million of the honor, dignity, or courage of the what their peers in the military possess in their pinky finger.

Scenes like this are another part of the joy of having been born in the Appalachian Mountains. The turning of the seasons is a wonder to behold.

BBC NEWS

Pakistan 'role in Mumbai attacks'

Pakistan's intelligence agency was behind the train blasts in Mumbai in July that killed 186 people, Indian police say.
The attacks were planned by the ISI and carried out by the Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba, based in Pakistan, Mumbai's police chief said.

AN Roy said the Students' Islamic Movement of India had also assisted.

Pakistan rejected the allegations and said India had given no evidence of Pakistani involvement in the attacks.

"We have solved the 11 July bombings case. The whole attack was planned by Pakistan's ISI and carried out by Lashkar-e-Toiba and their operatives in India," Mumbai (Bombay) police commissioner AN Roy told a news conference.

BBC

Commentary
I can believe that, for Pakistan is the source of the Deobandi (their version of Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi), the tens of thousands of madrassas (which feed fighters into the 3d Great Jihad), and the al-Qaeda friendly Waziristan (break-away province that is the presumed location of Usama bin-Laden, if he's still alive), all located in Pakistan. I hope our guys are tracking the whereabouts of the Pakistani nukes. We are dancing on razor blades, barefooted.

Northeast Intelligence Network



Iraq : Baghdad 'Green Zone': WMD Strike Imminent?
Posted by Sean Osborne on 2006/9/27 10:57:11 ( )
-by Sean Osborne, Military Affairs Specialist
sean@homelandsecurityus.com

27 September 2006: According to an advisory I recieved this morning from retired AFOSI agent Paul 'Dave' Gaubatz:

"Iraqi citizens have reported our U.S. Troops & Coalition Forces will be the intended target of a major chemical/biological attack in the "Green Zone" 10 - 14 days from the November, 2006 U.S. Elections."

With the US election occuring on November 7, the stated 'window' of this of this WMD strike coincides precisely with the day following the end of Ramadan 2006 (24 October 2006) and the four subsequent days thereafter (25-28 October 2006).

Dave also stated.....read the rest.
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Sheik Abu Saqer, leader of Gaza's Jihadia Salafiya Islamic outreach movement, which seeks to make secular Muslims more religious, called the pope a "puppet" for "that Crusader George Bush."

The Gaza imam said the only Christian-Muslim dialogue that is acceptable is one in which "all religions agree to convert to Islam."

"The call for so-called dialogue by this little racist pope is a Trojan horse with the main goal of reaching a new system in which the ideals [of Christianity] are a new ideology that will rule relations between nations and people. The dialogue he wants is dangerous," said Abu Saqer, speaking to WND from the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis.

"The pope is the spiritual and religious wing of the Crusader ideology," Abu Saqer said. "He is totally coordinated with Bush.


Read the rest.
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Ahhh, the great and powerful Bush! You know, for an idiot and a moron, he sure is beating the Dhimmicrats and Terrorcrats awfully badly.

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Ramadan 2006. Burn, Rinse, Repeat.
by Dymphna


Well, it’s time for the month of Ramadan. A long period in Islam where one fasts, prays, and sets fire to things. Stones are saved for throwing at human beings alighting from trains.

Paul Belien is reporting on the lack of reporting by the mainstream press. Both events — the riots and the gaze avoidance by the elites of the criminal behavior of their immigrants — are a recipe for the perfect storm of dhimmitude in Europe. And, of course, what better place to start Ramadan in the EU than in its capitol, Brussels? How fitting is that?

Read more about the under-reported rioting in in Europe.
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One last thing...a jihadi strategist...

SURI: nizam, la Tanzim (system, not organization)
Here's a quick critique of jihadi strategist Abu Musab al-Suri's "The Call of Global Islamic Resistance" (widely circulated in Arabic, but there is not an english language translation available on the Web for me to link to). A good starting point for exploring this work is Andrew Black's (writing for Jamestown) comparison of al-Suri's work with that of William Lind in The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation. Andrew claims that al-Suri's work provides organizational improvements in fourth generation warfare (which are akin to what I am working on here on global guerrillas).

I disagree. Here's why. Al-Suri's slogan for his treatise -- "system, not organization" -- encapsulates his desire for extreme decentralized at the expense of organizational hierarchy. The objective of this desired decentralization is, obviously, to imbue the Salafi-jihad with vast improvements in survivability and innovation. While the objective is correct, al-Suri's call for decentralization doesn't work in practice within real-world conflicts and organizational structures.

Read the rest...
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Okay, another last thing....(which was actually the first thing I saw)
The only other place I could find the rioting in Europe was at Al Fin's. He provides a link to the Brussels Journal.

27 September 2006
Tis Ramadan, and the Non-Natives are Restless . . . .
For the third night in a row, Ramadan rioting has been the favoured activity of muslim immigrants in the capital of Europe, Brussels. The youths can apparently not imagine a more appropriate means of celebrating the holy month of Ramadan.
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What do I think of all this? Still processing...

Click here to find out more.

Morning Updates

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Attacks on Yemen oil plants kill 5
By DONNA ABU-NASR, Associated Press Writer




Suicide bombers tried to strike two oil facilities in Yemen with explosives-packed cars, but authorities foiled the attacks and four bombers and a security guard were killed, the government said Friday.

The attempts came ahead of this week's presidential elections, in which President Ali Abdullah Saleh faces a serious challenge for the first time since he became head of state in 1978.

They also came days after al-Qaida's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, issued a videotaped threat of attacks on the Persian Gulf and on facilities he blamed for stealing Muslim oil.

Friday's attacks happened 35 minutes apart, targeting a Yemeni oil refinery in the northeast province of Mareb and a Canadian-Yemeni oil storage facility at the Dubba Port in Haramut province — scene of a 2002 attack on the French tanker Limburg, an Interior Ministry statement said.

The statement said an investigation was under way to determine the identity of the "terrorist elements" behind the attacks.

Fourteen of 23 al-Qaida prisoners who escaped from jail in February remain still at large. The escape raised questions about Yemen's reliability in the fight against terrorism.

The Interior Ministry said the attacks would not stop Yemen from "continuing its persistent efforts to fight terrorism and the terrorist elements of darkness that are trying to undermine the security and stability of the country and its interests."

Yemen is the ancestral homeland of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and was the scene of the 2000 bombing of the destroyer USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors.

In the first attack, two suicide bombers drove "at great speed" toward the Dubba Port at 5:15 a.m. in an attempt to blow up storage tanks containing a "huge amount" of oil, the ministry said.

The driver of the first car was wearing a uniform similar to those worn by staff at the facility, and the second driver was dressed in a military uniform, the statement said.

It said guards at the port "managed to blow up the rigged cars before they reached their targets."

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Source

Security Watch Tower coverage

US embassy: Assad allows attack, offer "protection" and aim at confusion
By Walid Phares
According to well informed Syrian sources, today's Terrorist attack against the US embassy in Damascus is one of the "Machiavellian" Assad operations. Let's remind ourselves that the Syrian regime's senior strategists and intelligence officers were trained by the sophisticated "intox" schools of the former Soviet's KGB. One of the main tactics of this old school, refined by Hafez Assad during his rule of Syria is based on the following concept: If the equation is to your disadvantage, create a new problem, offer to solve it, obtain recognition; and by that you'd change the equation.
The strategic objective of the Assad regime today is to deter Washington from further pressures against Syria, in the form of the Hariri investigation, the US pressure through the Security Council to deploy forces along the borders with Lebanon and the American ongoing support to the anti-Syrian Government in Beirut. Tehran-Damascus-Hezbollah axis is in dire need to "contain" Washington's pressures and gain time, as much possible of time. Why would they need time? Because they have to rearm Hezbollah, crumble the Lebanese Government, and face off with UN pressures on the nuclear. Syria has the marching orders to disorient the United States, and hence it adopted a twin approach:
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To take the analogy a bit further, could China offer to "help" us with Iran?

This post is for artpatten2004 to argue 9/11/2001 Conspiracy theories with me in the comments. Come out, Come Out, Where ever you are!!!

Bill and Hillary Clinton, and The democratic Party, are attempting to censor a movie due out on ABC this coming Sunday and Monday Night that is a documentary-style mini-series depicting events, and compositing some, that led up to 9/11 from 1993 to 2001.
I don't remember The President, or The Republican Party attempting the same with Fahrenheit 9/11.

I have to thank them for their attempt. They have re-energized me to stop anyone in their part from being elected. I will print up flyers and fact sheets and distribute them around town, my primary target will be Heath Shuler's Campaign in my congressional district.
These events have served to remind me of how very dangerous it is to ever allow the democratic party to regain power while the far-left progressives are calling the shots.

I also think that this will destroy ANY HOPE of Hillary becoming President. This will haunt her the rest of her days, and Bill Clinton will come out looking worse than Jimmy Carter (and that is quite a feat!) and his 30-year Legacy Building Project.

I am planning on attending the Charles taylor/Tom Tancredo Townhall on Immigration tomorrow at Blue Ridge Community College. I have purchased extra batteries and a memory card so I can take pictures and video of the event, and any protestors who show up.

This means we have lost the will to fight this war with any seriousness.

Who I blame

The United States Supreme Court is numbr one on my list.

I would suggest you look to purchasing plenty of weapons, ammo, and learning survival skills.

I am so very mad at The United States Senate and The President for not doing anything about the border, an act I consider treasonous.

We have allowed unlawful enemy combatants to have rights guaranteed to citizens of a nation they are attempting to destroy. This is suicide.

My mood is very dark.

An article at Front Page Magazine has Robert Spencer's response to the mufsidun.
al-Amriki and his friends are all hiraba, anyhow.
Over at my main blog, i responded by quoting the general at Bastogne, by saying, "NUTS!!!"
At this time I will add, why should I seek to join a religion that worships a demon, has a pedophile as its number one prophet, and treats women like dirt?
Of course, that is to totally ignore its long and rich history of murder and mayhem for the last 1,400 years.

I leave you with this reminder of where I stand:

Should the US get out of The UN?

This is a topic of World War IV that is very dear to my heart... tracking hate. The funny thing is, most people involved in hating on whatever either don't see it as hate, or see it as not their fault, it is fault of the object of their hate. I call it The Merry-Go-Round of Logic. Okay, with out further ado...

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Hatewatch Briefing 2006-09-01 (July-Aug 2006)
by Hatewatch at September 1, 2006 10:13 PM

Welcome! This briefing will be looking hard at the dark places the mainstream media sometimes seem determined to look away from, to better understand our declared enemies on their own terms and without illusions. Our goal is to bring you some of the top jihadi rants, idiotarian seething, and old-school Jew-hatred from around the world, leaving you more informed, more aware, and pretty disgusted every month.

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Read the rest here.

If this story doesn't convince you that Islam is not a peaceful religion and should be destroyed, then you need to read these words by Samuel Adams, one of our Founding Fathers:

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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. -- Samuel Adams

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People, we are in a World War with Islamofascists as one of our primary opponents, who are willing to die to kill us, kidnap us to behead us on video, or, as a face-saving measure, force our conversion before the world to show us that the non-Muslim is not worthy of release, but the Muslim-convert will be released. I hope you realize that anyone who converts from Islam to another religion is under a sentence of death. These people are savages, and should be hunted down and killed as such...The West is acting under the advice of Chamberlein before World War II. I hope that if I were held as the jurnalists were, I would have refused to convert, and been able to witness of my faith in Christ.

I am terribly disappointed n the giddy girl-like behavior of the FOXNEWS Channel upon the circumstances of the release of these journalists. This is exactly why I consume most of my news from the internet, where I can get my news and learn what thinkers are thinking about it from multiple points of view, and then I can decide who is full of crap, and who is not.

Update8.06 am

Read this article on the New Useful Idiots, of which even FOX NEWS have joined.

19.52 hrs....The InstaPundit is thinking along the same line, with links to what others are thinkng.