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And he’s looking for folks to join him at the Danish embassy in D.C.

The Counterterrorism Blog has posted the indictments of three Toledo-area men charged with planning attacks overseas to try to kill U.S. military personnel in Iraq.

Just received via e-mail and posted by Sen. Bill Frist on the VOLPAC blog:
News that a Middle-East based firm is seeking to purchase the operating rights to several U.S. ports - from New York to New Orleans - raise serious questions regarding the safety and security of our homeland.
Post 9/11 prudence warrants - [...]

A tipster e-mailed me last night:
I work as a corporate lawyer at a large law firm that has a speciality in Islamic finance. The real reason Dubai Ports World is undergoing the transaction is because of an Islamic finance vehicle called the sukuk. The sukuk is essentially a commerical paper type of Islamic [...]

This should be front-page news.
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More:
Douglas Farah at The Counterterrorism Blog reports: “With the recent hostage-takings by armed militants in the Niger Delta, the disruption of key oil supplies, and the simmering religious tensions in the north where 17 people have been killed and 30 Christian churches burned, Nigeria is again teetering on the edge of [...]

Great designs: Controversy, crap, and confusion.

The White House port sellout is making some very strange bedfellows. First, Hillary and me. And now, on FNC’s Big Story with John Gibson, NY Sen. Chuck Schumer embraces Halliburton over the UAE:

Download and watch the video (.wmv file)
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FOX News: House GOP Leaders Line Up Against UAE Port Deal
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Protect our ports: steam builds
Banned in the [...]

Another Swedish website shut down for publishing the Mohammed Cartoons.
Dhimmitude’s march continues.
Previous: Censored in Sweden
Related: Saudi paper “shut”

***At the suggestion of readers, I am opening up the comments section…have at it!…11:12pmEST comments closed…***
Good: Two GOP governors join rising bipartisan opposition to the White House’s secretive port sellout deal with the United Arab Emirates…
Two Republican governors on Monday questioned a Bush administration decision allowing an Arab-owned company to operate six major U. S. [...]

***At the suggestion of readers, I’m opening up the comments section here for folks who want to send L.H. a personal message…11:13pmEST comments closed…thanks…***
Danish reader L.H. sounds off about CBS News’s blame-the-victim smear attack on Denmark last night on 60 Minutes (video segment available at Expose the Left):
Dear Michelle:
I have just come across your site [...]

Austin Bay examines another declassified al Qaeda document.

I’m scheduled to appear on Neil Cavuto’s show on Fox News Channel at around 4pm EST today. Topic: The Muslim boycott of Danish goods and the Internet-spearheaded Buy Danish campaign.
The latest:
Danish businesses feel the pain of Muslim boycotts
Bahrain retaliates.
Boycotting Goods Not Islamic Say Arab Dons
Related:
Allah Conquers the United Nations
William Tucker at TAE online calls for [...]

Ankle Biting Pundits take apart Carter’s latest pro-Hamas op-ed.
More from Ed Morrissey and Betsy Newmark, who writes: “Every time this man opens his mouth, he convinces me of his feeble understanding of foreign policy and how the world really works.”

The New York Post follows up today on the Muslim hack attacks being waged on bloggers and websites that support Denmark and publication of the Mohammed cartoons:
Muslim computer-hacker gangs have launched a massive attack on Danish and Western Web sites as part of the mass protests across the Arab world over the publication of cartoons [...]

Don’t forget why today’s a holiday.
Doug Mataconis pays tribute to George Washington at Below the Beltway.
Lee Harris has a lovely essay at TCS Daily.
Matthew Spalding weighs in on the “indispensable man.”
The History Channel assembles scientists and experts to reconstruct what Washington looked like.

Johnny Weir, the American ice skater with a crush on the old Soviet empire, failed to medal at the Olympics.
On the bright side, it looks like he’s got a promising future as an Air America radio host…or Cindy Sheehan’s warm-up act.
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Matt at Blackfive points out that American ice skater Sasha Cohen supports the troops.

The Minnesota Democratic Party is up to no good. Power Line has the scoop here, here, and here.

A number of readers overseas have e-mailed that my blog is now inaccessible in the United Arab Emirates. B. writes:
All internet users in the UAE have to use the government owned ISP, Etisalat. All web traffic is routed throught their servers where it is filtered, and some pages banned. Most of the banned pages are [...]

Why did Russia shut down a newspaper for publishing this cartoon?

Robert Mayer at Publius Pundit has the story.
Jim Hoft has more.

Over the weekend, I noted coup rumors flying in Manila. This morning, there are reports of a bomb blast at the presidential palace of Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (whose office is downplaying the incident). Bloomberg has the latest:
Two groups claiming to comprise Philippine military officers said they were behind an explosion in the presidential compound [...]

Click for interactive Google map of Cartoon Jihad demonstrations, riots and deaths:

Via Lasting News (hat tip: John Little).
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Cartoon Jihad: The map

Your weekend Cartoon Jihad photo album (click on thumbnails for full-size images; via Yahoo! News):
Pakistan…

India…

Indonesia…

Philippines…

Malaysia…

Libya…

Nigeria…

Next?

Insane.
Unhinged.
Scott Johnson: “Deranged sophomoric hysteria.”
I’ll let Alan Simpson, interviewed on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, have the last words:
SIMPSON…Dick Cheney has become the hate symbol from the beginning. He was the hate symbol when he was with Halliburton. He was the hate symbol when he came in and the votes with South Africa [...]

My friend Bryan Preston of Junkyard Blog and I returned safely from the nutball Danish embassy protest convened by radical black Muslims in D.C. yesterday. We took video and photos and will have more soon. Meantime, here are reports from Conserva-puppies and The Red Hunter.
I asked protest organizer Malik Shabazz whether he supported the bounties [...]

Hope is fading in the Philippine village of Guinsaugon, which was buried by a mudslide this week. Some 1,800 people were killed.
A second landslide claimed another 5-10 lives yesterday.
The US military is mobilizing to provide relief. More on charitable efforts here.
Meantime, Philippine president Gloria Maccapal-Arroyo is in trouble amid a coup alert via PJI:
THE [...]

Committed “in the name of the prophet Mohammed:”
Nigerian Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad attacked Christians and burned churches on Saturday, killing at least 15 people in the deadliest confrontation yet in the whirlwind of Muslim anger over the drawings.
It was the first major protest to erupt over the issue in Africa’s most populous [...]

Flemming Rose, culture editor of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, has an excellent piece defending his decision to commission and publish the Mohammed Cartoons.
Childish. Irresponsible. Hate speech. A provocation just for the sake of provocation. A PR stunt. Critics of 12 cartoons of the prophet Muhammad I decided to publish in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten have [...]

Courtesy of clown WaPo reporter/columnist/comedian Dana Milbank:
“Half news, half shtick.”
Yeah.
That fits.

I’m headed down to Washington, D.C., this afternoon to cover the New Black Panther Party’s protest at the Danish embassy:
Speakers Include: Attorney Malik Zulu Shabazz, Imam Akbar Bilal, Imam Abdul Alim Musa, Imam Mohammed Asi, Hodari Abdul Ali, and other community and Muslim leaders who will speak in solidarity with the worldwide Muslim Ummah (Community) [...]

Here’s a follow-up on the fight to honor Col. Gregory “Pappy” Boyington of “Black Sheep Squadron” fame at the University of Washington. Renee Fricke, Director of the Annual Giving Programs at the University of Washington Foundation, e-mails:
Michelle,
You might be interested to know that we’ve set up the Lt. Col. Gregory “Pappy” Boyington Memorial Scholarship Fund [...]