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White House in secret talks with Hezbollah, willing to “warm up to a direct relationship in the future.”

What’s next, a secret meeting with al Qaeda?

Via the Jerusalem Post

 

The US and Hezbollah are in secret indirect talks managed by London dealing with the fight against Al-Qaida, regional stability and other Lebanese political issues.

Senior British diplomatic sources, quoted in a report in Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai on Wednesday, said British diplomats are holding discussions with leaders of the Lebanese organization and transferring the information to the Americans.

The discussions “are aimed at keeping tabs on the changes in the region and the world, and prepare for the upcoming return of Iran to the international community,” according to diplomatic sources in Washington.

Because the US, unlike the UK, recognizes both the political and military wings of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and refuses to distinguish between them, US officials cannot legally meet with any member of the party. But according to the sources, the US is willing to hear the views of the party and “warm up to a direct relationship in the future.”

 

 

 

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List of major terrorist incidents and known terrorist groups in Indonesia

And yet the bed wetters in the Labor Party and the left media are wondering why we spy on Indonesia?

Here is a list of major terrorist attacks in Indonesia from May 1962 to November 2012

Here is a list of known Terrorist organisations in Indonesia.

Analysis: Bali attack plot shows Indonesia terror threat evolving

Any Australian Gov’t would be derelict in their duty to protect Australian’s had we NOT BEEN spying on Indonesia. 

 

 

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Once upon a time

by Jim McCrudden

Once upon a time there was a world where leaders adopted the line, “We don’t negotiate with terrorists.”

President Teddy Roosevelt, facing ransom demands for the release of a captured American citizen, Perdicaris, by a Moroccan, Raisuli, had a telegram released giving the US response, “Perdicaris alive, or Raisuli dead.”

Every pollie since has tried to come up with such a memorable line, but is driven back to the bland, ‘we don’t negotiate, blah blah’.

To some extent they did try not to but with the coming of Obama things changed – ordinary terrorists? No negotiating, Muslim terrorists? wellll!

This President, this minute, is negotiating with the Taliban in Afghanistan – the very terrorists that the US sacrificed men to fight and eradicate – to share power there with President Kharzi. And not only the US is fighting terrorist there; Australia has been there since 2001 fighting the Taliban under Operation Slipper.

What is it about Islam?

EXCLUSIVE:

by Allan Essery

What is it about Islam that has so many reluctant to say anything about it for fear of offending Muslims? Why do we have in Australia politically correct organisations supporting Islam by calling out as Islamophobes anyone who questions Islam.

Why is it Islamophobic to question their well-established link with world terrorism, their inability to integrate in any country that they have invaded en masse or the unwillingness of supposed Muslim "moderates" to take affirmative action against the radical element amongst them?

How about some truth from Mercedes-Benz?

Just announced (approx. 7:45am) on Radio 2GB by Alan Jones, a note from their sales staff saying that Mercedes-Benz Melbourne had cancelled their contract between them and 2GB two weeks before Alan Jones spoke at the Sydney University Liberal Club dinner. A tinny-weeny matter not mentioned by the Mercedes communications guru David McCarthy???

GC. Ed.

 

A bridge too far?

As James writes, some Muslims are turning against their radical brothers, particularly in Benghazi. A little reason prevails.

Spin collapses. Libyan citizens revolt.

The media’s initial portrayal of the murderous attacks in Libya as an excusable outgrowth of protest about a ‘movie’ nobody saw, is nothing more than a load of cringing handwringing apologies that was bought by nobody except spineless, easily frightened politicians prepared to grovel to Muslim “outrage”.

However the narrative is changing leaving lefty journos up the creek without a paddle. The US Congress was told on Wednesday that the attackers ‘may’ have had links to Al Qaeda. No? Fair dinkum? Even the insipid lickspittling Obama spinmeister, Carney, choking on his early words, characterised the incident as a “terrorist attack.”

Why the spin in the first place? Because it is a dramatic illustration of the failure of the Obama-led initiatives.

It’s three years since Obama’s Cairo speech when he tried to placate the Muslim worlds with weeping apologies and shameless promises the US would behave better in future.

And?? Diplomats are murdered in Benghazi. The ancient flag of Islamic conquest is raised over embassies. Iran defies the free world’s demand to cut out building a nuclear bomb designed to murder every Jew in Israel.

And the pansy media, groping for a scapegoat, blames the Libyan outrage and the Sydney riots on a 14-minute trailer for a film no one has ever seen. and calls for censorship. Always more censorship.
But suddenly things changed.

Released Terrorist Ahlam Tamimi: I Would Bomb Israelis Again and in the Same Manner

Meet scumbag Jordanian terrorist Ahlam Tamimi. She was serving 16 life sentences for her role in the August 9 2011 bombing of a Sbarro’s pizzeria in Jerusalem that killed 15 and wounded 130 innocent Israelis. Unfortunately she and 1,000 other convicted terrorists were released from prison in Israel as part of a prisoner exchange that freed Israeli solider Gilad Shalit.

Ahlam Tamimi said in an interview on October 19 that she would return to her terrorist ways in a heartbeat. She also considers the murders a tremendous success — one granted to her by “Allah.”

When asked if she would carry out such a large-scale attack again if given the chance, Tamimi replied:

“Of course. I do not regret what happened. Absolutely not. This is the path. I dedicated myself to Jihad for the sake of Allah, and Allah granted me success. You know how many casualties there were [in the 2001 attack on the Sbarro pizzeria]. This was made possible by Allah. Do you want me to denounce what I did? That’s out of the question. I would do it again today, and in the same manner.”

MEMRI provides the interview and translation:

 

Pity some Israeli commando didn’t put a bullet in her head.

Meanwhile, some good news to report...

September 11th, 2001… Reflections On Ten Years Gone By

Menzies House U.S. Politics Editor Amir Iljazi shares some brief thoughts on the ten year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

 
It was the fall of 2001, and I had just graduated from high school a few months prior and was only a few weeks into my first semester at College (Junior College to be exact). I was driving to campus, which was only a few miles away, and I had heard some chatter on the radio about how an airplane had crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers in New York City and there was speculation that a malfunction had caused the plane to hit the tower. However, it was only several minutes later that I arrived to class and heard from others that another plane had just hit the second tower. It was not more than twenty minutes later that we were all told that class was dismissed and I headed home. When I arrived, I turned on the TV and the Breaking News was interrupted for other Breaking News; this time the target was the nation’s capital as another hijacked airplane hit the Pentagon. Then eventually, I would also see the breaking news about United Flight 93 and the heroic actions that prevented another DC landmark from being attacked. I stayed fixated all day on the television flipping from each channel only to see the same thing; I still have the same day edition news flash St. Petersburg Times paper that was printed late afternoon.