The Flying Imam’s Want Access to Security Manuals for Lawsuit

There was a hearing yesterday in the Flying Imams lawsuit. The discovery process started in April is now underway in earnest. This hearing was on motions to compel to answer to discovery, which is what a party in a lawsuit brings when the other party is not supplying the information requested in discovery.

……An encouraging development is that the media was present at the hearing. Bob McNaney from Channel 5, Jim Walsh of the Star-Tribune, and David Hanners of the St. Paul Pioneer-Press were present.

Omar Mohammedi, attorney for the imams, and President of the Board of Directors for the New York Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, went first. His motion was for the judge, Arthur Boylan, to compel US Airways to divulge its training manuals, and information on its security procedures, so that they could show that the security procedures were not followed down to the last jot and tittle when the imams were removed from US Airways Flight 300 on November 20, 2006.

……When I realized what Mohammedi was asking for, I was briefly dazed, as I heard the sound in my mind’s ear of a thousand bloggers screaming something to the effect of “Ok, let me get this straight. A group of imams led by a fundraiser for a Muslim charity (the Holy Land Foundation) which was shut down by the Treasury Department for its connections to Hamas, is asking a judge to compel an airline to divulge its security procedures. And everyone’s OK with that?!?”

This reveals yet another purpose of the Flying Imams attack, to extract information regarding airline security in a way that’s much faster and cheaper than traditional espionage or a series of probing attacks.

……Omar Mohammedi was clearly not interested in answering questions about CAIR’s involvement in the lawsuit. He mentioned that CAIR is a client of his law firm, and thus communications between him, the imams, and CAIR are protected under attorney-client privilege, but he was much more interested in changing the subject. His final remark to the three of us was “As far as we’re concerned, this a racial profiling case,” as if to say that CAIR’s involvement wasn’t really relevant to the proceedings.

http://www.crosswordbebop.com/?p=1539

The little Islamo-miscreants want to get ahold of airline sensitve security information.
Forcing the TSA to hand over security information is a lot easier than spying for it.
It’ll make their next attempt at a terrorist attack a lot easier, to boot.

Let’s hope the court tells these assclowns to take a flying leap.

Terrorist Shoots Wrong Target

Oooooops!!!

Jul. 17 - A gunman has shot and wounded six concert musicians in the Jordanian capital Amman before committing suicide.

The shooting took place after a performance by the Amman symphony orchestra with a Lebanese choir at the Roman ampitheatre after the attacker apparently mistook the Lebanese musicians for Israelis.

http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=87117&videoChannel=1

It’s a bitch when muslim zealots don’t double check their intended victims first, and end up killing their own.

Well, at least he took himself out.

U.S. Envoy to Meet With Iranian Nuke Negotiator (UPDATE)

They’re going to do what?!?

…..a top U.S. diplomat will join colleagues from other world powers at a weekend meeting with Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator in a break with past Bush administration policy.

……William Burns, America’s third-highest ranking diplomat, will for first time attend talks with the Iranian envoy in Switzerland aimed at persuading Iran to halt activities that could lead to the development of atomic weapons.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5imG-Gmyrfld190llCL7AdcThgngAD91UKMC00

The Bush administration shouldn’t even give the Iranian crapweazels the time of day. I don’t know what they expect to accomplish with this, other than granting Amahdinejad attention he doesn’t deserve.

If Burns has any balls, he’ll tell Iran these terms of “negotiation”; stop producing weapons grade nuclear material, or our B2’s will reduce their facilities to a little glowing stain in the desert sand.

But I won’t hold my breath.

And just to prove my point:

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday vowed that Iran would not yield in the crisis over its nuclear drive as world powers awaited a response from Tehran to a proposal aiming to end the standoff.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080723105224.tisqv4n4&show_article=1

Say it ain’t so.

AP Photographer Stands by as Taliban Executes Two Women

From The Jawa Report:

AP photographer Rahmatullah Naikzad was a witness to a Taliban murder. The two women were alleged to have been prostitutes who served Western clientèle.

Two unidentified Afghan Women chat with each other a few minutes before they were executed by Taliban in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, on late Saturday, July 12, 2008.
(AP Photo/Rahmatullah Naikzad)

Local people watch two Afghan women shot and killed by Taliban in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, on Sunday, July 13, 2008.
(AP Photo/Rahmatullah Naikzad)

……Rahmatullah Naikzad also took a snuff video of the two women being murdered.

We would remind the AP that the act of the Taliban inviting a reporter to the murder means they wanted this news out there. The AP was clearly being used as a propaganda outlet for the Taliban.

Does this make him an accomplice or only a witness to the crime? When you know a crime is about to be committed, do you not have a moral and ethical obligation to try to prevent that crime? Even if you’re a journalist? Even if all you do is try to call the authorities, in this case someone in the Afghani government or NATO?

A quick Yahoo News photo search of Rahmatullah Naikzad seems to indicate that he’s very friendly with the Taliban. Many of the pictures show Taliban fighters posing for the AP photographer.

……Once again the AP is aiding and abetting the enemy. This time with a group listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. and which several U.N. Security Council Resolutions forbid giving any assistance to.

……The key point here is the context in which the photos/videos are shown.

In the context of this blog it is clear that the photos are meant to show what horrible evil we are fighting. But when the the AP chooses to use value neutral terms to provide context for the photos they cross a line into a moral relativism which is more than just unpatriotic, it’s downright disgusting!

Instead of calling the Taliban what they are–primae faciea war criminals & illegal combatants–they simply label them militants. Worse, they allow the Taliban to choose the words to describe the horrible murders of two women calling it an execution.

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/193294.php

AP’s ‘reporters’ and ‘photographers’ certainly have a propensity for being in the right place at the right time when it comes to getting pictures.

Bilal Hussein, an AP reporter, was charged with aiding and abetting terrorists after being found in the possession of bomb-making materials, insurgent propaganda, and a surveillance photograph of a US military installation. But unfortunately, he was given amnesty by an Iraqi court, so he could pick up where he left off.
Links: http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/associated-press-terrorist-employee-finally-charged/
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/ap-reporter-who-embedded-with-terrorists-given-amnesty/

Phyllis Chesler at Pajamas Media writes this:

……The photo, taken on July 12th, 2008 could be an illustration for Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. Please recall that this novel, tailored to American tastes, still convincingly shows us how sadistic and twisted the Taliban are, how they routinely use orphaned Afghan boys for sex play, force women into prostitution, then kill them for it. Amnesty International has also documented these practices and American feminist groups have denounced them as well.

Many say that “Islam” has nothing to do with such behaviors. And yet–the Taliban view themselves as “holy warriors” and perhaps as Afghan (Saudi) Arabs. Thus far, the Taliban has not been publicly denounced as anti-Islam by leading Muslim clerics world-wide.

Funny, a few years ago, thousands of Egyptian men went on a “sexual wilding” rampage in Cairo right after they heard a Ramadan sermon in a mosque; they undressed and assaulted women who were both veiled and unveiled. And, in Algeria, after hearing their mullah denounce the impoverished women who were working for foreign companies in their city of Hassi Messoud, about three hundred men also went on a rampage–only they killed, gang-raped, mutilated, and buried women alive.

http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2008/07/14/in-afghanistan-women-are-all-prostitutes-americans-are-all-infidel-crusaders/

Muslim men sure do respect women.

Yoooooohoooooooo….National Organization for Women? Where the hell are you?

The American feminist groups, contrary to Ms. Chesler’s comment, haven’t been very vocal about human rights abuses toward women under Islamic rule, primarily due to their opposition to the war.
To protest against these types of atrocities goes against their hatred of George Bush, the military, and the war against Islamic terrorism.

Pakistan Refuses to Let Us Go After Bin Laden on Their Turf

That’s where he’s been hiding since he ran for his life at Tora Bora.

Pakistan’s top diplomat said Saturday there are no U.S. or other foreign military personnel on the hunt for Osama bin Laden in his nation, and none will be allowed in to search for the al-Qaida leader.
……Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said his nation’s new government has ruled out such military operations, covert or otherwise, to catch militants.
“Our government’s policy is that our troops, paramilitary forces and our regular forces are deployed in sufficient numbers. They are capable of taking action there. And any foreign intrusion would be counterproductive,” he said Saturday. “People will not accept it. Questions of sovereignty come in.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25654471/

The Pakistani government releases Islamofascist human garbage under the auspices of the “Waziristan Accord”, which stipulates that it will  “release prisoners held in military action and would not arrest them again”.  

Catching Bin Laden isn’t on high their “to do” list.

This sums up their approach to fighting the WOT:

Qureshi described Pakistan’s counterterrorism as a “grassroots” approach.
“Our strategy is that the military option alone is not enough,” he said. “This war has to be fought besides the armies, with the help of the people, by winning hearts and minds.”

Didja get that? This magna-cum-numbnuts thinks that he can ‘win the hearts and minds’ of zealots indoctrinated in a 7th century screed chock full of hate against women, Jews, and Christians. The Koran instructs them to wage war against ‘non-believers’ i.e. non-muslims, but Qureshi thinks that his ‘grassroots’ idea of diplomatic patty-cake will be the catalyst that turns them away from their ‘jihad’.

Yeah, right.

The truth is that Pakistan not only won’t but can’t elliminate terrorist organizations on their soil.
They won’t crack down because they are afraid of a constituency of muslim terrorists who can and would wreak havok across the country.

The Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) has Taliban moles on its payroll, and cells run back across the Afghan border after re-grouping, thanks to the Pakistan regime. Any resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan can be directly attributed to terrorist groups operating carte blanche in Pakistan; abetted by a large portion of the Pakistani government, Army, and ISI.

Add Pakistan to the ‘axis of evil’.