Al Qaeda ripping off freedom lovers -- savages nonetheless, no matter they hide and steal and mimic the call of freedom lovers.

"Fire Wars – Forest Jihad in America" Algemeiner, June 15, 2013 (thanks to Ken)

American focus on the NSA “leaks” diverts attention from real existential threats and economic devastation that for now affects  mostly the West.

The fire raging in Colorado Springs forced William (Bill) Scott and his wife Linda to evacuate their home. Last we spoke, Bill didn’t know if they’ll have a home to return to.

As of Saturday afternoon, June 15, the apparent arson that set Colorado’s Black Forest on fire last Tuesday killed at least two people and destroyed and damaged more than 388 homes. The fire that burned 15,500 acres led to the evacuation of 38,000 people. The six-hour delay of federal air tankers to help extinguish the fast spreading fire didn’t help. All the while, local law enforcement and firefighters have been collecting whatever evidence they can find to identify the arsonist(s).

Bill Scott,  a senior fellow at ACD, warned about such a scenario last July, speaking at the ACD/EWI Economic Threats briefing on Capital Hill. An expert on aerial firefighting, he presented a sobering analysis of the devastating Waldo Canyon Fire, pointing out that the striking rise Western U.S. wildfires may be caused by elements other than nature.

He noted that in spring 2012, al-Qaeda’s English-language online magazine, Inspire, published an article called “It Is of Your Freedom to Ignite a Firebomb,” which featured instructions on how to build an incendiary bomb to light forests on fire.

A few months later, Russia’s security (FSB) chief, Aleksandr Bortnikov warned, ”al-Qaeda was complicit in recent forest fires in Europe” as part of the terrorists’ “strategy of a thousand cuts.”

Bortnikov spoke of “extremist sites [that] contained detailed instructions of waging the ‘forest jihad’ and stressed that such a method had proved itself effective as it inflicted both physical and moral damage, needed little training or investment and it was extremely hard for police to find and apprehend the arsonists.”

Since then, more fatwas advocating that “Fire is cheap, easy and effective tool for economic warfare” have been issued. They’ve included detailed instructions for constructing remote-controlled “ember bombs, and how to set fires without leaving a trace.”

Fire wars are not limited to Europe and the U.S. Palestinan jihadists have been setting fire to Israel’s modest forests for many years. However, political correctness seems to override Israeli and Russian warnings of that jihadist modus operandi. How many Tzarnaevs are hiding in Colorado’s woods?

While many of the fires that have scorched millions of acres and destroyed thousands of homes in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and other states have been identified as arson, none have been publicly attributed to criminal or terrorist groups, despite the presence of Mexican gangs and large number of other illegals in our Western states

Bill Scott’s “Fire Wars” presentation on YouTube led several Colorado legislators to propose a bill to allow the formation of Colorado’s Firefighting Air Corps. “In military terms, Colorado is a target-rich environment – an arsonist’s dream-come-true, and the U.S. Forest Service’s worst nightmare,” Scott said while giving a riveting testimony before the state Senate a few months ago. He went on to say that “Colorado wildfires took six lives, destroyed 647 homes and consumed $48 million in fire suppression costs.  And we are one match or lightning strike away from a disaster that will make 2012 look like a GOOD year.

“Consider this scenario: A hot day with humidity levels below 10 percent. High winds, blowing into a dead-end valley, toward a picture-perfect town on the shore of a large mountain lake. Also watching the weather, an Islamic jihadist decides, ‘Today’s the day.’ He takes off in a rented Cessna 172 and flies across the mouth of that valley, pitching lighted road flares from the airplane. In a matter of minutes, a wall of fire with flames topping 200 feet roars up that valley, trapping hundreds of tourists and citizens.

“The local U.S. Forest Service district ranger issues a top-priority emergency call for fire-fighting air tankers, noting that lives and property are in imminent danger. A harried federal dispatcher responds with this chilling truth: ‘We’re out of air resources. We’re fighting fires all over the nation, and all federal assets are committed. You folks are on your own.’

“Within hours, the small Colorado town burns to the ground and hundreds of trapped people die horrific deaths. After-action reviews conclude that the deadly fire was ignited by an al Qaeda terrorist – who was never caught – and all fatalities were attributable to ‘insufficient firefighting resources.’ If large air tankers had been deployed in a timely manner, a protective corridor through the conflagration could have been created, providing an escape route.

“Some will scoff and dismiss that scenario as mere fiction, noting that Colorado has never suffered such a disastrous fire. True, but we’re in a new era, facing a perfect storm of unprecedented elements: Drought; tinder-dry beetle-kill trees blanketing millions of acres; a real-and-present terrorist threat; and a cash-strapped, dysfunctional federal land-management agency that has less than a dozen large air tankers to serve the entire nation.”

Indeed, a state firefighting airforce would make Colorado independent of the cash-strapped, dysfunctional federal land-management agency, reducing the response time from six hours to 20 minutes. Colorado’s Senate Bill 245 was reluctantly approved last April by the Democratic majority; however, it refused to allocate the funds necessary to buy the air tankers. It was signed into law last week by Colorado’s Governor John Hickenlooper.

Ironically, Bill and his wife had to evacuate exactly one week after the unfunded bill was signed into law, and the worst fire in Colorado history was raging, endangering the state’s citizens, its forests and economy.

In California alone, during the first two weeks of June, wild land fires have already surpassed the total cost of the last two years of firefighting in rural areas.

Most U.S. state economies seem to be rebounding this year. However, recovery from anticipated natural disasters could easily deplete their treasuries.  There is little that can be done to prevent hurricane destruction. However, states, as well as the federal government, could and should more to do to minimize the effects of man-made forest fires.

Like hand in glove -- the more things change, the more they stay the same. The Nazis were, after all, the The National Socialist German Workers Party.

Germany recently passed legislation to label goods coming from the territories of Israel in Judea and Samaria/the West Bank on the initiative of their left-wing parties. One interesting aspect of this is that the same identical legislation was pushed by Germany's main nazi party last year. Once again we see the ideological convergence of the modern far left and the old far left nazis becoming mainstream policy in Europe: (thanks to Golem)

German neo-Nazis submit anti-Israel legislation The Jerusalem Post, June 15, 2013

Neo-Nazi and Green parties want to label settlement products, professor calls the move "political warfare and demonization."

The Reichstag building seen from the west. Inscription translates to "For/To the German People" Photo: Wikimedia Commons

MADRID – An initiative by Germany’s neo-Nazi NPD party last year in a state parliament to demarcate Israeli products came to light this month and closely resembles the recent Green Party bill that would label Israeli products from settlements.

The revelation last week that an anti-Israel bill from the mainstream left-liberal Green Party in the Federal Bundestag mirrors, in key provisions, the language of a far-right party stirred criticism from Israeli and German experts on modern anti-Semitism.

Related:

• German report: Berlin a hub of Hezbollah activity
• Germany adopts anti-Semitism action resolution

“This alliance between the Greens and the far Right to promote blatant double standards is a huge stain on Germany’s moral standing,” Prof. Gerald Steinberg, head the Jerusalem–based group NGO Monitor, told The Jerusalem Post on Friday.

“Duplicitous product labeling is the thin wedge of the BDS [Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment] movement, and central to the Durban strategy of political warfare and demonization that targets Israel,” Steinberg, a political scientist at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, added.

Michael Schroeren, spokesman for the Green Party in the Bundestag, wrote the Post by email last week that he “finds it absurd” that one could conclude that the “Greens were inspired by the neo-Nazis to come to their position” on labeling products from the West Bank. The Greens flatly deny they are advocating a boycott of Israeli goods and stress the need to make possible with the label system an “informed purchasing decision” for consumers in Germany and the wider EU.

Udo Pastörs, head of the NPD in the eastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, introduced a bill last November to label Israeli products. He has termed Germany a “Jew Republic,” and called the American-Jewish economist Alan Greenspan, former head of the US Federal Reserve, a “crooked nose.”

The NPD motion calls for “Palestinian and Israeli products” to be labeled and for a “clear designation of origin” to be implemented.

Five months later, the Green Party introduced a federal bill to label “imports of products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank to Europe and Germany.”

Henryk M. Broder, one of Europe’s top experts on contemporary anti-Semitism, wrote last week in a column titled “Two Souls, One Thought” in the Swiss weekly Die Weltwoche that the Green and Nazi parliamentary initiatives to label products are “at their core identical.”

Both initiatives use the historical model of the German Nazi regime boycotts of Jewish businesses starting on April 1, 1933, and invoking the mass slogan: “Germans defend yourselves. Do not buy from Jews!” Broder wrote.

Dr. Efraim Zuroff, head of the Simon Wiesenthal’s Jerusalem office, told the Post on Thursday, “The fact that a mainstream German party initiates such a measure is a sad reflection of the distorted view of Middle East politics so common in recent years in the political discourse regarding Israel in certain circles of the Federal Republic. In that respect we see an unfortunate growing erosion of the traditional German support for the Jewish state which is part of a dangerous tendency in elements of German society and certain intellectual circles to extricate Germany from its moral obligations in the wake of the Holocaust.”

Zuroff, the world’s leading hunter of Nazi war criminals, added, “The initiative by the Green Party to have all products produced in the disputed territories is clearly short-sighted and counterproductive and will not help bring Israelis and Palestinians any closer to real and lasting peace.”

He said the Green deputy Kerstin Müller, who helped engineer the initiative targeting Israeli settlement products, is incapable of running her party’s Heinrich Böll Foundation in Tel Aviv. She is slated to take over as director in late 2013.

“Obviously, a person who played a leading role in this initiative is uniquely unsuitable to represent the Böll Foundation in Israel, but perhaps they have an opening available in Ramallah,” Zuroff said.

Marc Berthold, the outgoing director of the Böll Foundation in Tel Aviv, declined to be interviewed by the Post. Müller refused to answer Post queries.

Steinberg urged Israel’s government to examine Müller’s fitness to run the foundation.

“The Böll Foundation – which exploits German taxpayer funds to impose its interests and ideology on Israeli democracy – repeatedly violates civil society norms. It is up to the Israeli political system, including the Knesset and actual civil society groups that do not represent external interests, to decide how best to respond to this anti-democratic manipulation,” Steinberg said.

Israel’s embassy in Berlin accused the Greens of singling out the Jewish state for disparate treatment.

Ralf Fücks, head of the Berlin-based Böll Foundation, defended Müller as experienced and capable of running the Green Party office in Tel Aviv. He declined to respond to a Post query about the similarities between the neo-Nazi and Green Party initiatives covering Israeli settlement products.

BRUTAL BEHEADING OF BOY AND EXECUTION OF WOMAN BY SYRIAN REBELS (thanks to Golem)

I swear these crimes are getting worse and worse every day and there are still some supporters on this forum who claim that there are moderates amongst barbaric savages..even some claim I'm delusional my question is am I delusional for hating these people or are the people who support and do these things delusional? SHAME ON OBAMA shame on european leaders.

Here's a first. I am holding the first Atlas Auction ever!

This SION poster we are auctioning off will be signed by Robert Spencer and me (the only one of its kind). This is the SION flag, and it will be the waving it proudly (along with the American flag) at our demo with Tommy Robinson and the EDL on Armed Forces Day, June 29th, in the UK. Help us fund this trip, our ad campaigns and demo initiatives.

The above poster is not signed, because the cynic that I am doesn't want anyone to download and copy, but the winner will receive a signed poster. Thanks to Big Fur Hat for this fabu idea.

BID BIG AND BID OFTEN -- THE AUCTION ENDS FRIDAY NIGHT.

Place your bids in the comment section -- largest bid takes the prize.

Jewicidal asshattery.

"Terrorist Earns Hebrew U. Doctorate, Refuses to Shake Hands by Maayana Miskin Terrorist Earns Hebrew U. PhD, Refuses Handshake" Arutz Sheva, June 18, 2013

A terrorist who served two prison terms for involvement in terrorism, including a plot to carry out a suicide bombing, has been awarded his doctorate in chemistry from Hebrew University, Maariv reports. 

The terrorist is an Israeli citizen and a resident of eastern Jerusalem. 

During the graduation ceremony in Hebrew University’s Har Hatzofim campus he refused to shake hands with Hebrew University President Professor Menachem Ben-Sasson. His name was read aloud at the ceremony and he was applauded by the crowd. 

He began working on his doctorate prior to his second terror conviction, several years after serving time in prison for membership in a terrorist organization. He did his research in the Hebrew University laboratories. 

At the same time, he was in close touch with local terrorist groups and assisted them in plotting a suicide bombing attack in Jerusalem. He assisted in finding a young Arab man to carry out the planned attack. 

The bombing was planned in August 2002, shortly after a terrorist bombed a Hebrew University cafeteria, murdering nine students and staff members. 

Look how the machine has grown. Look at this coalition of destroyers. Once they were on the margins of society, where they belong. But now, because of the Obama administration and media sanction, they have risen to a power like that of the SS and SA in prewar Nazi Germany. I urge freedom lovers (Atlas readers) to support Kolbe Academy in standing strong against this neo-fascism. Nathan Lean is a goon, and we will not be bullied or intimidated by thugs and goons. We know where that leads.

Aslan Media chief Nathan Lean threatens California Catholic school to drop Robert Spencer from conference -- or else Robert Spencer at Jihadwatch

Photo: Lance Cpl Greg Buckley, murdered by our Afghan "allies"

The Obama Administration announced that it will meet with the Taliban in Doha for “peace talks.” The Taliban continue to orchestrate insider attacks, killing our soldiers. They continue to poison girls’ schools across Afghanistan, kidnap Red Cross workers, enforce the most brutal and extreme ideology on the face of the earth (the Sharia), and call for the defeat of American and coalition forces.

These jihadists behead Afghan children, slaughter Afghans who dare to attend a party where dancing takes place, and mean to run Mullah Omar for President, despite the fact that there is still a $10-million-dollar reward on his head. Omar sheltered Osama bin Laden prior to the 9/11 attacks; he had a hand in the 9/11 attacks; and he has directed the Taliban’s ongoing war against U.S.-led NATO forces. On what basis could a peace conference move forward? It is, in fact, a surrender.

The number of green-on-blue attacks has skyrocketed, now accounting for over fifteen percent of coalition deaths. Our troops are being sacrificed to the politically correct refusal to state the truth about Islam. These are senseless murders that are only possible because the Obama administration refuses to acknowledge the motive and ideology of jihadic doctrine. How are our soldiers supposed to distinguish the jihadists from people on our side? 

Obama loves these savages. The Taliban are on the vanguard of the tsunami of Islamic supremacist movements that Obama empowered, armed and supported. Their resurrection, after Bush decimated them, is due to Obama’s support and sanction. And now he is about to hand them final victory.

But, but but the enemedia said he's a moderate!  Except he's not -- read Atlas here and here.

New Iranian president's son killed himself "over father's extremism" Tom Gross, Mideast Dispatch

* Al-Sharq al-Awsat: "I hate your government, your lies, your corruption, your religion," wrote the future president's son to his father in his suicide note

* Tom Gross: Like many leading members of other extreme anti-Western organizations such as Hamas and al-Qaeda, Rouhani also has a Western education: he has a Ph.D. in law from Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland

* Rouhani has been involved in the Islamic revolution since its murderous beginning. He accompanied the Ayatollah Khomeini back from Paris to Tehran and since then has held a number of key security positions in a regime which has killed and tortured hundreds of thousands of people. Rouhani has called for the execution of pro-democracy student protesters whom he said should be crushed "mercilessly and monumentally"

* His most notable position was Chairman of the Supreme National Security Council during which time the Council helped mastermind the 1994 bombing of the Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people (including many elderly Holocaust survivors)

* Intelligence sources say that Rouhani easily outwitted and out-negotiated the European troika of nuclear negotiators from Germany, France and Britain, from 2003-5 when he was Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, and later often boasted in Farsi of deceiving his "naive" European negotiating partners

* Rouhani made clear during a little-known address to the Iranian parliament in 2004 that he viewed Pakistan as a role model for his country's effort to build a nuclear arsenal in the face of world opposition

NEW IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S SON KILLED HIMSELF "OVER FATHER'S EXTREMISM"

By Tom Gross

The leading London-based pan-Arab newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat reports today that 
Iranian President-Elect Hassan Rouhani's eldest son took his own life in 1992, 
in protest at his father's involvement with Iran's murderous Islamic regime and 
his father's close ties to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

"I hate your government, your lies, your corruption, your religion, your double 
acts and your hypocrisy," wrote the future president's son in his suicide note, 
according to the Saudi-owned paper. "I am ashamed to live in such an environment 
where I'm forced to lie to my friends each day, telling them that my father 
isn't part of all of this. Telling them my father loves this nation, whereas I 
believe this to be not true. It makes me sick seeing you, my father, kiss the 
hand of Khamenei."

The official Iranian press, which is controlled by Khamenei, has admitted that 
Rouhani's eldest son committed suicide in 1992 but the regime's media denied it 
was a political act.

Rouhani has said in the past that his son committed "a great sin" by killing 
himself, but he still made sure his son was buried in a prime plot in the temple 
of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini.
 
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ROUHANI, AN EXTREMIST WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION SINCE ITS 
MURDEROUS BEGINNING

Many western media are continuing to report that Rouhani is a "moderate" (for 
example: "Iran Moderate Wins Presidency by a Large Margin" www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/world/middleeast/iran-election.html 
and "Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani wins Iran's presidential vote" 
www.washingtonpost.com/world/iranians-await-presidential-election-results-following-extension-of-polling-hours/2013/06/15/3800c276-d593-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_story.html 
) and "centrist" (the BBC's term).
 
Here is what they are not telling you:

Rouhani has been involved in the Islamic revolution since its murderous 
beginning. In 1978 he moved to France to join Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of 
the Islamic revolution, who was living in exile in Paris.

He then helped found the Islamic regime in Tehran and for the last three decades 
has been intimately involved in its security apparatus (which has killed and 
tortured hundreds of thousands of people).

Among the security positions Rouhani has held:

* He was chairman of the Majles Defense Committee from 1985-1989

* He was deputy commander-in-chief during the Iran-Iraq War from 1988-1989

* He was supreme commander of civil defense from 1985-1990, and commander of the 
Khatam-ol-Anbiya Headquarters

* His most notable position was Chairman of the Supreme National Security 
Council (1989-2005), the period in which the Supreme National Security Council 
helped mastermind the 1994 bombing of the Jewish cultural center in Buenos 
Aires, killing 85 people (including many elderly Holocaust survivors), and of 
the Khobar Towers in 1996, killing 19 U.S. airmen

He is still Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's personal representative on the 
council, and informed sources say that Khamenei engineered his victory in last 
weekend's election as a ruse to fool the West, to help western powers lower 
their guard � as some western diplomats already appear to be doing.

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EDUCATED IN SCOTLAND

Like many leading members of other extreme anti-Western organizations such as 
Hamas and al-Qaeda, Rouhani also has received an extensive Western education in 
addition to his religious training.

He has a B.A. in law from Tehran University as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. in law 
from Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland.

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ROUHANI EASILY OUTWITTED THE NUCLEAR NEGOTIATORS FROM GERMANY, FRANCE AND 
BRITAIN

Intelligence sources say that Rouhani easily outwitted and out-negotiated the 
European troika of nuclear negotiators from Germany, France and Britain, from 
2003-5 when he was Iran's chief nuclear negotiator. Indeed Rouhani later boasted 
of doing so to colleagues in Farsi.

Rouhani has also admitted that he exploited diplomacy to advance his country's 
nuclear program. He made clear during a little-known address to the Iranian 
parliament in 2004 that he viewed Pakistan as a role model for his country's 
effort to master the nuclear fuel cycle in the face of world opposition.

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A READER WRITES�

In response to my dispatch on Sunday concerning Rouhani's election victory, a 
reader writes:

Just watching headlines in the major U.S. dailies, first I learned that only 
conservatives had been allowed to run in Iran's presidential election. Then I 
learned that a moderate was ahead. Finally, I've learned that a reformist has 
won. 

Things change so fast!

***

I attach three articles below. The first is from 2006 from my former colleague 
at The Sunday Telegraph, Phil Sherwell; and the second two are by Lee Smith and 
Michael Freund, both long-time subscribers to this email list.

-- Tom Gross

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ARTICLES

HOW WE DUPED THE WEST, BY IRAN'S NUCLEAR NEGOTIATOR

How we duped the West, by Iran's nuclear negotiator
By Philip Sherwell in Washington 
The Sunday Telegraph (London)
March 5, 2006  

The man who for two years led Iran's nuclear negotiations has laid out in 
unprecedented detail how the regime took advantage of talks with Britain, France 
and Germany to forge ahead with its secret atomic programme. 

In a speech to a closed meeting of leading Islamic clerics and academics, Hassan 
Rowhani, who headed talks with the so-called EU3 until last year, revealed how 
Teheran played for time and tried to dupe the West after its secret nuclear 
programme was uncovered by the Iranian opposition in 2002. 

He boasted that while talks were taking place in Teheran, Iran was able to 
complete the installation of equipment for conversion of yellowcake - a key 
stage in the nuclear fuel process - at its Isfahan plant but at the same time 
convince European diplomats that nothing was afoot. 

"From the outset, the Americans kept telling the Europeans, 'The Iranians are 
lying and deceiving you and they have not told you everything.' The Europeans 
used to respond, 'We trust them'," he said. 

Revelation of Mr Rowhani's remarks comes at an awkward moment for the Iranian 
government, ahead of a meeting tomorrow of the United Nations' atomic watchdog, 
which must make a fresh assessment of Iran's banned nuclear operations. 

The judgment of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is the final step 
before Iran's case is passed to the UN Security Council, where sanctions may be 
considered. 

In his address to the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution, Mr Rowhani appears 
to have been seeking to rebut criticism from hardliners that he gave too much 
ground in talks with the European troika. The contents of the speech were 
published in a regime journal that circulates among the ruling elite. 

He told his audience: "When we were negotiating with the Europeans in Teheran we 
were still installing some of the equipment at the Isfahan site. There was 
plenty of work to be done to complete the site and finish the work there. In 
reality, by creating a tame situation, we could finish Isfahan." 

America and its European allies believe that Iran is clandestinely developing an 
atomic bomb but Teheran insists it is merely seeking nuclear energy for peaceful 
purposes. Iran's negotiating team engaged in a last-ditch attempt last week to 
head off Security Council involvement. In January the regime removed IAEA seals 
on sensitive nuclear equipment and last month it resumed banned uranium 
enrichment. 

Iran is trying to win support from Russia, which opposes any UN sanctions, 
having unsuccessfully tried to persuade European leaders to give them more time. 
Against this backdrop, Mr Rowhani's surprisingly candid comments on Iran's 
record of obfuscation and delay are illuminating. 

He described the regime's quandary in September 2003 when the IAEA had demanded 
a "complete picture" of its nuclear activities. "The dilemma was if we offered a 
complete picture, the picture itself could lead us to the UN Security Council," 
he said. "And not providing a complete picture would also be a violation of the 
resolution and we could have been referred to the Security Council for not 
implementing the resolution." 

Mr Rowhani disclosed that on at least two occasions the IAEA obtained 
information on secret nuclear-related experiments from academic papers published 
by scientists involved in the work. 

The Iranians' biggest setback came when Libya secretly negotiated with America 
and Britain to close down its nuclear operations. Mr Rowhani said that Iran had 
bought much of its nuclear-related equipment from "the same dealer" - a 
reference to the network of A Q Khan, the rogue Pakistani atomic scientist. From 
information supplied by Libya, it became clear that Iran had bought P2 advanced 
centrifuges. 

In a separate development, the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran 
(NCRI) has obtained a copy of a confidential parliamentary report making clear 
that Iranian MPs were also kept in the dark on the nuclear programme, which was 
funded secretly, outside the normal budgetary process. 

Mohammad Mohaddessin, the NCRI's foreign affairs chief, told the Sunday 
Telegraph: "Rowhani's remarks show that the mullahs wanted to deceive the 
international community from the onset of negotiations with EU3 - and that the 
mullahs were fully aware that if they were transparent, the regime's nuclear 
file would be referred to the UN immediately."

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IRAN PICKS A NEW LEADER TO READ FROM THE SAME SCRIPT

He's no 'moderate': Iran picks a new leader to read from the same script
By Lee Smith
The Weekly Standard
June 17, 2013

It's not clear why much of the Western media continues to describe Iran's newly 
elected president as a "moderate." After all, Hassan Rouhani is a regime pillar: 
As an early follower of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah 
Khomeini, Rouhani joined him in exile in Paris, and over the last 34 years, the 
64-year-old Qom-educated cleric has held key positions in the regime's political 
echelons, and served in top military jobs during Iran's decade-long war with 
Iraq. As Iran's chief interlocutor with the West on the regime's nuclear 
portfolio, Rouhani boasted of deceiving his negotiating partners. Domestically, 
he has threatened to crush protestors "mercilessly and monumentally," and likely 
participated in the campaign of assassinations of the regime's Iranian enemies 
at home and abroad, especially in Europe. Currently, Rouhani serves as Supreme 
Leader Ali Khamenei's representative on the supreme national security council.

Aside from the fact that Iran's English-language television station Press TV 
calls him a moderate, what exactly, in the eyes of the West, makes him one? 
After all, former president Muhammad Khatami labeled his public diplomacy 
campaign a "dialogue of civilizations," which played right into Western ideas of 
tolerance and moderation. But Rouhani has nothing similar in his past.

"I think he gets that label because he has been Rafsanjani's factotum," says 
former CIA officer Reuel Marc Gerecht. Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, another 
regime pillar and former president of Iran, is typically referred to as a 
"pragmatist" in the Western press. "Compared to Khamenei's circle, these fellows 
seem moderate," says Gerecht. "Rouhani ran their little think tank around which 
foreign-policy types, the types that Westerners meet, gathered. Also, Rouhani 
was party to the only temporary 'freeze' in Iran's nuke program. Some folks � 
most notably the EU's Javier Solana � made a lot out of this. They should not 
have."

In reality, all Rouhani did was play the U.S. and EU off each other. "From the 
outset," Rouhani said in 2006, "the Americans kept telling the Europeans, 'The 
Iranians are lying and deceiving you and they have not told you everything.' The 
Europeans used to respond, 'We trust them.' � When we were negotiating with the 
Europeans in Tehran we were still installing some of the equipment at the 
Isfahan site. There was plenty of work to be done to complete the site and 
finish the work there. In reality, by creating a tame situation, we could finish 
Isfahan."

Accordingly, a number of analysts wonder if Rouhani's election is meant to serve 
the same purpose now in buying more time for the Iranian nuclear weapons 
program. With the regime putting a friendly, "moderate" face in front, the West 
is likely to double down on its efforts to reach the long sought after 
diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear issue.

As if on cue, the White House responded enthusiastically to Rouhani's victory 
and announced that it is prepared, again, to enter direct negotiations. "There's 
a great opportunity for Iran," said White House chief of staff Denis McDonough, 
"and the people of that storied country, to have the kind of future that they 
would, I think, justifiably want."

The presidential election didn't offer much insight into what the Iranian people 
want. With a reported turnout of 72 percent of the country's 50 million 
registered voters, informed sources in Iran charge that the regime exaggerated 
the actual turnout by a factor of 4 or 5. This election is almost certainly as 
fraudulent, if not more so, than the contested 2009 elections that brought the 
Green revolution to the streets. Up until last week, Tehran mayor Mohamed Baqer 
Qalibaf was leading in pre-election polling with 32.7 percent, Jalili was in 
second with 28.7 with Rouhani and the rest trailing. By Thursday, after the 
other reform candidate, Mohamed Reza Aref, dropped out, Rouhani had taken a 
commanding lead. In a poll conducted by the independent Virginia-based 
consultancy service IPOS, Rouhani was at 31.7 percent, with Qalibaf at 24.1 
percent and Jalili at 13.7 percent. Another poll conducted by a website 
affiliated with the government showed that Rouhani was leading with 43
percent. Even then the final tally far exceeded the expectations of the regime 
polling, with Rouhani winning with slightly more than 50 percent. It would 
appear that the regime ran up the number in order to avoid any chances of a 
run-off that might return protestors to the streets
again.

Nonetheless, there were some demonstrations Saturday in Tehran, with protestors 
demanding the government release all political prisoners and invoking the Green 
revolution's martyr Neda Agha Soltan � "the lady of Iran," they chanted, "your 
path is continuing� Don't be afraid, we are all together."

Elsewhere, the Islamic Republic is showing what's in store for domestic 
opponents. In Iraq, the Iranian-affiliated militia Kataeb Hezbollah launched a 
rocket attack against Camp Liberty, where around 3000 members of the Mujahideen 
e-Khalq (MEK) have been living since they were moved from Camp Ashraf, with U.S. 
and UN assurances for their security. John Kerry issued a statement saying that 
"the United States strongly condemns today's brutal, senseless, and utterly 
unacceptable rocket attack on Camp Hurriya that killed and injured camp 
residents." Two were killed in the attack and dozens wounded.

Attacking Camp Liberty sends a message to everyone who is committed to 
overthrowing the regime, says Ali Safavi, the U.S. spokesman for the National 
Council of Resistance in Iran , an umbrella organization with the MEK as its 
largest member. "The MEK is leading the opposition calling for the overthrow of 
the regime," says Safavi, who believes that there's a connection between the 
elections and the attack on Liberty. "A month after the June 2009 elections, 
they attacked Camp Ashraf. In February 2011 there were huge demonstrations and 
in April Ashraf was again attacked, with 36 killed." With Saturday's attack, 
says Safavi, the regime is sending a message � "'Don't even think about 
overthrowing the regime.' Their language is rockets and bullets."

And the man the regime has chosen to read from that script, its newly elected 
front man, is no moderate.

IRAN'S NEW FANATIC-IN-CHIEF

Iran's new fanatic-in-chief
By Michael Freund
The Jerusalem Post
June 18, 2013

Eleven years ago, a middle-aged, up-and-coming Iranian cleric sat down for a 
rare interview with ABC News. Though largely unknown to the West at the time, 
the bespectacled mullah served as chairman of Iran's Supreme National Security 
Council and was a key adviser to the Iranian president.

Despite knowing that he was appearing before a Western audience, the turbaned 
official made little effort to hide his uncompromising and extremist views. When 
asked why then-US President George W. Bush had included Iran as part of the 
"axis of evil," for example, the partisan Persian did not hesitate to invoke an 
anti-Semitic canard, blaming the Jews for America's policy.

"After September 11," he said, "the hardliners, especially the Zionist lobby, 
became more active and, unfortunately, influenced Mr. Bush."

A few minutes later, perhaps concerned that he had not gotten his point across, 
he went out of his way to reiterate that, "What we really see in the 
decision-making is the influence of the Zionist lobby. They are very influential 
in the administration as well as with members of Congress."

The man who uttered those hateful words is none other than Hassan Rouhani, the 
new president-elect of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Yes, that Hassan Rouhani, 
the same one that much of the Western media is attempting to portray as a 
judicious and reasonable man.

"Moderate Wins Iran's Presidential Election," crowed National Public Radio. 
"Rouhani an Advocate of Peace," insisted The Australian.

But don't let the screaming headlines fool you. The assertion that Rouhani is a 
moderate is absolute hogwash, marinated in self-delusion and garnished with 
sheer ignorance. Sure, when compared with outgoing nutcase Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 
Rouhani is relatively restrained. But that's like saying Attila the Hun was a 
moderate when measured up against Genghis Khan.

In other words, it is a distinction without a difference.

Rouhani has spent more than two decades as part of Iran's national security 
apparatus, which has used violence and terror at home and abroad to preserve the 
rule of the ayatollahs. From 2003 to 2005, as Teheran's chief nuclear 
negotiator, his task was to dither, delay and dissemble in talks with the West 
while Iran's nuclear scientists advanced toward the atomic finish line. And for 
the past eight years, Rouhani was one of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's 
two personal representatives on Iran's Supreme National Security Council.

His record is one of slavish loyalty to the thuggish theocracy that was 
installed after the downfall of the Shah in 1979, and there is simply no reason 
whatsoever to think that this close confidante of Khamenei will suddenly become 
an Iranian F.W. De Klerk or Mikhail Gorbachev.

Indeed, if Rouhani's public statements are any indication, Iran's hostile stance 
appears certain to continue.

In the ABC interview that he gave in September 2002, Rouhani justified 
Palestinian suicide bombers, saying that, "Palestinians can use any means to 
kick out the occupier." He defended Hezbollah as "a legitimate political group," 
called Israel "a terrorist nation" and refused to condemn the March 2002 
Passover Massacre, when a Hamas suicide bomber blew himself up at a Passover 
Seder at the Park Hotel in Netanya, murdering 30 Israelis and wounding 140 
others.

More recently, in a meeting with the Turkish ambassador on January 11, 2012, 
Rouhani came to the defense of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, even as the latter 
was busy slaughtering his fellow citizens.

"Syria has constantly been on the frontline of fighting Zionism and this 
resistance line must not be weakened," Rouhani was quoted as saying by the 
Iranian and Syrian press. "Syria," he added, "has a particular position in the 
region and in the past 60 years has formed the resistance line against the 
Zionist regime."

And if you thought that the race for the presidency might serve to soften his 
views, think again. In an interview with Al-Sharq al-Awsat last week, Rouhani 
denounced what he called Israel's "inhuman policies and practices in Palestine 
and the Middle East."

To be sure, Rouhani has been making noises about reforming Iran's economy and 
loosening the regime's stifling grip on the Iranian people. But while his 
election to the presidency does constitute a change of faces, it hardly signals 
a change in policy.

The departure of Ahmadinejad from the scene is certainly welcome news, and few 
will miss his rancorous and vitriolic anti-Semitic and anti-Western tirades.

But the results of Iran's presidential balloting are hardly a reason to 
celebrate. Iran may have a relatively more moderate fanatic-in-chief in the form 
of Hassan Rouhani, but a fanatic he most assuredly is.

 

Civilization suicide: Where are the feminazis? Busy condemning my truth ads, of course. Check out Bab's asshattery.

"No review for hand-shake discrimination case" The Local, June 18, 2013 (thanks to After Seven)

The Swedish Justice Ombudsman will not look at a case in western Sweden where a man was paid damages for not being given an internship after he refused to shake a female boss's hand for religious reasons.

The internship candidate himself had turned the case over to Sweden's Equality Ombudsman (Diskrimineringsombudsmannen - DO), but Trollhättan municipality managed to avoid a probe by paying him 30,000 kronor ($4,500).

The case has received widespread attention, however, with the municipality since receiving about 100 critical emails, reported the Ttela news site. The case was also reported to the Justice Ombudsman (Justitieombudsmannen - JO), but the agency has now decided not to review it.

The incident stemmed from an office visit by a man who had been offered an internship with the integration division at Trollhättan municipality.

When the man was set to meet a female supervisor at the office, he refused to shake her hand, explaining his religion forbade him from shaking hands with women unless he washed his hands directly afterwards.

A sixth adolescent convict, aged 15, was sent to a youth detention unit for a year with two months suspended. The seventh teen, also 15, was acquitted of the killing but convicted of hitting the rival team's goalkeeper.

Interestingly enough, Al Jazeera was actually quite clear that the offenders were Muslims. (thanks to Armaros)

"Six teens, dad jailed for Dutch linesman killing" Nz.sports.yahoo June 18, 2013

LELYSTAD, Netherlands (AFP) - A Dutch court on Monday jailed six teenage boys and a father for up to six years for brutally beating to death an amateur linesman in a case that shocked the football-mad nation.

"The seven suspects are guilty of beating the linesman's head and upper body," judge Anja van Holten said of the killing of Richard Nieuwenhuizen, 41, last December.

Nieuwenhuizen died following an attack by enraged youth players after officiating in a match near Amsterdam in which one of his sons was playing.

A total of seven young suspects, aged 15 to 17 at the time, and the 51-year-old adult were charged with manslaughter, public violence and brutality.

"The court decides that none of the suspects had the intention of killing the linesman," the judge said.

The only adult, also the father of one of the accused, Hasan D., was jailed for six years, while five teens were sent to youth detention units for the maximum of two years, six months suspended.

A sixth adolescent convict, aged 15, was sent to a youth detention unit for a year with two months suspended. The seventh teen, also 15, was acquitted of the killing but convicted of hitting the rival team's goalkeeper.

"We're happy with the high sentences, because the worst thing for me is that they never admitted what they did," his widow Xandra Nieuwenhuizen told journalists outside the court, arm in arm with her three sons.

"This verdict gives us some kind of closure," she said on the verge of tears.

"Enough of violence in football, enough of violence in Dutch football," said his son Mykel Nieuwenhuizen, 16, who witnessed the deadly assault on his father.

The eighth defendant was acquitted of the killing but ordered detained for 30 days, 17 of them suspended, because "he only hit the opposing side's goalkeeper," the court ruling said.

"The conclusion is that the violence the suspects committed is the reason for Nieuwenhuizen's death," the judge said after an expert had said the death could be blamed on a genetic anomaly.

Prosecution spokeswoman Susanne Terporten said she was "fairly satisfied" with the sentences.

"The fact that they never confessed is hard for the family, because it means that they will never know exactly what happened," she said.

"It looked like they were kicking a ball," the judge quoted a witness as saying as she read out the verdict.

More totalitarianism from Obama's favorite and "most trusted ally":

Turkey police reportedly raid homes, arrest suspected protesters CBS News,  June 18 2013

Men detained for standing on Taksim Square in a protest against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan are seen arrested inside a truck used by the Turkish police, June 18, 2013. / Getty

ANKARA, Turkey Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday he would increase police powers following a wave of anti-government protests.

The announcement came as police carried out raids across the country and detained dozens of people suspected of involvement in violence against officers.

The government has been criticized for the disproportionate use of force by the police in anti-government protests that swept Turkey for over two weeks. It was a brutal operation against peaceful environmental protesters in Istanbul park on May 31 that sparked nationwide demonstrations and dented Erdogan's international image.

Erdogan defended the police saying they had acted with restraint and within their "rights," adding: "We shall strengthen police ... so that it has increased powers of intervention."

Turkey's NTV television said the raids in Ankara and Istanbul were targeting left-wing groups.

Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency said at least 25 people were detained in Ankara and many others in Istanbul.

Turkish choreographer Erdem Gunduz (center) stands on Istanbul's Taksim Square, joined by others, following what had been a lone protest, June 18, 2013./ Getty

Earlier, police detained a dozen people who stood still at Istanbul's Taksim Square in a form of passive defiance against Erdogan's authority. The first such protest was carried out late Monday by performance artist Erdem Gunduz, who stood alone for hours in the square.

The square has been sealed off from mass protests since police cleared it over the weekend, but they have not sealed the square off from pedestrians.

Others copied Gunduz in Istanbul and other cities, and the act provoked widespread comment on social media.

Erdem's vigil was broken up by police early Tuesday after others joined him.

The wave of anti-government protest that has swept through Turkey starting May 31 has shaken the country's secular democracy.

Nigeria: Islamic jihadists murder eleven in attack on school (thanks to Jihadwatch)

"Vigilante groups armed with machetes and sticks have joined the effort to oust Islamist insurgents in the northeast, prompting concerns by some residents that this will lead to a breakdown in law and order." Law and order has already broken down. Vigilante groups are appearing because the Nigerian government has shown itself to be impotent against these bloodthirsty jihadists.

"11 killed during Islamist attack on school in Nigeria," from Reuters, June 17:

SEVEN students, two teachers and two insurgents were killed when suspected members of Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram attacked a school in the northeastern town of Damaturu, the military said.

Groups like Boko Haram and the al Qaeda-linked Ansaru have become the biggest risk to stability in Nigeria, Africa's top oil producer and second-largest economy.

Sunday's attack will raise fears that, as with past surges, a month-long offensive by government troops has merely pushed militants into hiding or across borders to Niger, Chad and Cameroon, where they can regroup and prepare new attacks.

"Two teachers and two insurgents were killed when Boko Haram terrorists attacked the Government Secondary School ... Also seven innocent students lost their lives," Eli Lazarus, military spokesman in Yobe state, said in a statement.

Boko Haram, which roughly translates as "Western education is sinful", has attacked several schools in the past. It was not clear how two of the attackers were killed.

Vigilante groups armed with machetes and sticks have joined the effort to oust Islamist insurgents in the northeast, prompting concerns by some residents that this will lead to a breakdown in law and order.

The military has cautiously welcomed the support, while warning it must not lead to witch-hunts or the settling of scores.

Lazarus said three soldiers were critically wounded during a separate attack by Boko Haram targeting the military in Damaturu, and three insurgents had been arrested.

Nigerian forces say their offensive has enabled them to wrest back control of the country's remote northeast from Boko Haram. They say they have destroyed key bases and arrested more than 150 suspected insurgents in the states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa -- all covered by a state of emergency declared by President Goodluck Jonathan last month.

Some Nigerians saw the push as long overdue. But rights groups and aid agencies fear the longer it goes on, the more the region's vulnerable local population, which includes some of the poorest people on earth, will suffer.

The offensive has forced more than 6,000 refugees - mostly women, children and the elderly - to flee to neighbouring Niger, the U.N. refugee agency said last week.

Pastor in Tanzania Hacked Nearly to Death as the Nation Sees Rise in Radical Islamists
ICC Note: (via Religion of Peace.com)

Pastors in Tanzania, increasingly plagued by violent attacks on churches by radical Islamists, now face imminent danger for the carrying out of their pastoral duties. Earlier this month, Pastor Ngai of the Evangelical Assemblies of God Church was viciously hacked into critical condition by assailants armed with machetes. Just before the attack, a similar attempt was made on Pastor Nzumbi, leader of the Free Pentecostal Church of Tanzania in Geita.

06/17/2013 Tanzania (Charisma News) - The persecution of Christians in Tanzania continues. Two pastors have recently been attacked, and the police are doing little about it.

On the night of Sunday, June 2, a large group of radical Muslims attacked the home of pastor Robert Ngai in Geita town, northeastern Tanzania. The attackers broke into the home and attacked Pastor Ngai with machetes. The pastor received serious cuts on his hands and arms when he raised his arms to protect his head from the blows. Doctors at the local hospital said the injuries were beyond their ability to treat and urged that he be rushed to a hospital in a nearby, larger city for treatment.

Ngai is the pastor of the Evangelical Assemblies of God Church. At last word from Voice of the Martyr contacts, he was still in the intensive care unit. Geita town is less than 50 miles from Buseresere, the city where Pastor Mathayo Kachili was killed by radical Muslims in February. Kachili’s story, and that of his widow, Generosa, is featured in Voice of the Martyr's June newsletter.

Hmmmm, what part of the quran was this devout young man reading? Give the enemedia five minutes and they will figure out a way to blame it on the counter jihad movement.

Hamburg: Libyan Refugee Threatens People With Knives While Holding Koran and Shouting "Allahu Akbar!" (thanks to The Religion of Peace.com via Islam vs. Europe)

This is the text of a Hamburg police report.

Officers from police station 11 have provisionally arrested a 24-year-old from the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) on suspicion of threatening with a knife. The civil protection bureau in the state criminal office has taken over the investigation.

According to what has so far been discovered, the suspect entered a tent associated with the registered demonstration "Lampedusa refugees" in Steindamm, sat at a table and sang. After a short time he stepped in front of the tent and drew two knives. This led a 47-year-old man, who was standing in front of the tent, to feel threatened. The suspect then went to the subway station Hauptbahnhof-Süd and encountered a Hamburg Rail employee. The suspect circled the 30-year-old, holding a book in one hand and a knife in the other, and shouted "Allahu Akbar!". While doing this he continually moved the blade of the knife across the ground, as if he wanted to sharpen it. As the suspect again approached the 30-year-old in a threatening manner with the knife, the injured party fled in the direction of the central bus station and informed the police.

When the two police officers reached the scene, they encountered the suspect, who held two knives in his hands and several times shouted "Allahu Akbar!".

The officers arrested the 24-year-old on a provisional basis. Both knives (kitchen knives) were secured. During his arrest, a Koran fell out of the suspect's jacket pocket.

Source: Presseportal.de Via: PI

Some 300 African refugees currently living behind Hamburg's Bismarck monument reportedly received €500 from the Italian government to leave for Germany. Officials are unsure what to do next, as they have no shelter and no money.

Swathes of refugees turned up in Italy after war broke out in Libya and, according to a letter from Germany's Interior Ministry seen by Die Welt newspaper, thousands of them recently received €500 each from the Italian government to leave the country.

“Refugees were slipped the money under the advice that they would go to Germany,” the letter, addressed to refugee advisors, said. In Italy they were offered temporary accommodation, the EU funding for which has since dried up.

Around 300 of these refugees have set up home behind the Bismarck monument in Hamburg, where there is no shelter and, according to refugee rights activists Karawane, cold, wet weather has left lots of them ill.

“They have no legal right to accommodation or state support and it would be irresponsible to give them false hope,” Hamburg Social Affairs Minister Detlef Scheele, told Die Welt. “There is no alternative other than for them to go where they can work and have the legal right to reside, be it Italy or their home country” he added.

The city has offered its new residents free train tickets back to Italy, but to little success.

It seems, the newspaper said, that Italy gave many of the refugees – who despite coming from Libya are largely migrant workers from Togo, Nigeria and Ghana – a temporary pass allowing them to move freely within the Schengen zone.

This pass granted them three months stay somewhere in the Schengen areas of the EU, but many have already been in Germany longer and, according to the letter, those who have not do not appear to be making plans to leave.

Karawane are reportedly looking into whether charges can be filed against Hamburg city for bodily harm through neglect or failure to offer help.

Outside of the bureaucratic world, Hamburg's churches and charities have been gathering tents for them, as well as offering basic healthcare and advice sessions.