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***update…watch Ahmadinejad’s bizarro show***
Headline covering Iran’s man of peace and his speech to the U.N. tonight: Iran Tells U.N. Nuclear Program Peaceful
Ahmadinejad gets soft and fuzzy with NBC’s Brian Williams:
“Why is the U.S. government so against our people?” Ahmadinejad, speaking through a translator, asked in the interview with NBC News. “They speak of war so [...]

I’m thinking of moving Down Under. Why? Because I love the vigorous, unapologetic response by Aussie government officials and Aussie Catholic clergy to Muslim Pope Rage compared to the silence or limpness of just about every other Western nation’s response. Including ours. Bush’s sparse, appeasing remarks–emphasizing the sincerity of the Pope’s regret instead of the [...]

They forever go together. What a classic combination…

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(Thanks to Jim Hoft)
In Indonesia on Thursday–despite grave doubts raised over the fairness of the trial.
Catholic World News sums up:
The lawyers for three Catholics on Indonesia’s death row will take their case before the International Criminal Court in Geneva, the AsiaNews service reports.
Fabianus Tibo, Dominggus da Silva and Marinus Riwa were condemned [...]

Something’s up.
Update: State of emergency called.

***update: was it a mistake after all?***
Make sure you check your kids’ homework folders very carefully. Geez:
School officials apologized after an X-rated font was used on a third-grade spelling packet handed out to parents. The font showed male and female stick figures in provocative poses to form the letters of the alphabet.
Officials with the Monroe-Woodbury [...]

The festivities begin at 11am. I’m lowering my expectations, actually. Ahmadinejad has chickened out:
There won’t be a confrontation on the General Assembly lunch menu today because the Iranian president has decided to skip it - passing up his best shot at ambushing President Bush with an impromptu debate.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has challenged Bush to a debate, [...]

There’s a new study saying the same old thing about our failure to stop the spread of jihad in the US prison system:
U.S. prisons are becoming major breeding grounds for Islamic terrorists, but state and local authorities are too cash-strapped to prevent or track recruiting, a new report concludes.
The report, to be released Tuesday, found [...]

***9/18 7:21 pm Eastern update: Bumping to the top…originally posted September 17, 2006 11:53 AM
Pentagon says tonight that Bilal Hussein had strong insurgent ties:
The Pentagon said on Monday that an Iraqi photographer working for The Associated Press and held by the U.S. military since April was considered a security threat with “strong ties to known [...]

…is that when we watch them insult the Pope with stupid, violent animated cartoons like this (hat tip: Gerald A.):

…we don’t go burning down their mosques and shooting their imams and incinerating their children and slicing their throats and repeatedly smacking the world over the head with a “Christianity Is Peace” placard dripping in blood.
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Now, [...]

The Jawa Report points to exiled jihadist, Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed.

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After you’re done watching that, watch Dan Riehl’s take. Read the latest death threats from members of The Religion of Fill-in-the-blank here and here and here:
The Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization of Sunni Arab extremist groups that includes al-Qaeda in Iraq, issued a statement on a Web forum vowing to [...]

Sister Leonella: Murdered by jihadists
There’s a new Associated Press report on the murder of Sister Leonella that confirms the bloody obvious:
An elderly nun who was gunned down at the hospital where she worked in Somalia’s capital was “specifically targeted before being executed by gunmen lying in wait,” a hospital official said Monday.
Willy Huber, regional director [...]

Have you forgotten? Five years ago today, someone–still unknown–sent letters laced with anthrax to the NYPost and NBC News. Two more letters, postmarked October 9, 2001, were sent to Sens. Tom Daschle and Pat Leahy with even more refined (”weaponized”) anthrax:

The CDC mapped the mail flow of anthrax letters, which included several more inferred from [...]

Via Wuzzadem, check out the Islamic Rage-ometer:

Catholic columnist Matt Abbott writes:
A third priest may now have become a victim of the violence and lawlessness in Baghdad. Father Basil Salem Yaldo was last seen leaving a church building in the Dora area of Baghdad. He is the personal secretary to the Catholic Patriarch for Iraq. At the time of his disappearance, a [...]

You can send your words of support to: benedictxvi-at-vatican.va
(Note for you non-techies: Replace the “at” with the “@” sign, ok? It’s a spam prevention thing.)
I have no doubt the Internet cyberjihadists are trying to bring the Vatican website down, as they have done in the recent past to their enemies on the Internet–so send your [...]

Here she is. This is the body of Sister Leonella Sgorbati, the elderly Catholic nun shot in the back after Somalia jihadist Sheik Abubukar Hassan Malin stoked Pope Rage by declaring:
“Whoever offends our Prophet Mohammed should be killed on the spot by the nearest Muslim.”
These unappeasable animals mean what they say.
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Via Yahoo! News: Fellow Italian [...]

***scroll for updates…must-read for vital historical perspective: Andrew Bostom at The American Thinker on the Pope, the Byzantine Empire, jihad, and “dialogue”…***
Shot in the back three times. Fox News says four times in the back by two “armed gunmen” with pistols. The elderly victim worked at a hospital for mothers and children. Her bodyguard [...]

Yahoo News: Anglican church in Gaza firebombed
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New item via AINA: “According to the website Islam Memo, one Christian was killed in Baghdad after the Pope’s speech two days ago. The speech created a wave of anger throughout the Islamic world, including Iraq. A poster has been placed in many Baghdad mosques for the previously unknown [...]

***update: an “apology”…but of course it’s never enough…check out the latest news and photos here…***

My friend Lorenzo Vidino, counterterrorism expert and author of al Qaeda in Europe, sent the above photo and this note:
Attached is a picture of the Pope that is circulating in Qaeda-friendly chat rooms and websites. Lovely (and predictable) that they call [...]

Target of jihad
It all seems so familiar, doesn’t it (via Yahoo.com):

A Palestinian from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade attends a rally in Gaza to protest against remarks regarding Islam made by Pope Benedict XVI September 15, 2006. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA)

Pakistani Muslims chant slogans to condemn Pope Benedict XVI for making what they regard as ‘derogatory’ comments [...]

Deeply saddening news at the end of this 9/11 anniversary week. The outspoken lioness Oriana Fallaci has died of cancer:
Oriana Fallaci, one of Italy’s best-known writers and war correspondents who goaded the world’s great and issued a vitriolic assault on Islam after the September 11 attacks on the United States, died on Friday aged 77.
Fallaci [...]

Yes, I know. The House voted to approve a 700-mile fence at the southern border. Press release:
Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) today issued the following statement after passage of H.R. 6061, Secure Fence Act of 2006. The bill passed 283-138-1 with 131 Democrats voting against the measure.
“Every year, nearly one million illegal [...]

The issue of children–as young as 2–being kidnapped, sexually abused, and forced to serve as camel jockeys in Dubai has been brewing for years. Even after a ban was heralded by human rights groups last year, the sheiks looked the other way at the practice throughout the UAE. Now, families of kidnapped children have filed [...]

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There are new photos of a recovering Fidel Castro in his silk pajamas. He’s preparing for a gathering of fellow tyrants and dictators, which Kofi Annan is scheduled to address tomorrow.
Val at Babalu Blog reports:
I just received word that all activities for today’s Non-Aligned Movement in Cuba have been cancelled and rescheduled for tomorrow. [...]

Barbara Walters and her gang ain’t the only ones who speak for women. Thanks to the miracle of Internet technology (and the wizardry of Bryan Preston), my right-wing gal pal Mary Katharine Ham of Townhall and I talk back to Rosie O’Donnell over her equation of “radical Islam” with the threat of “radical Christianity in [...]

If you don’t know the story behind this photo, you should. Lee Kaplan explains the moonbat-terrorist connection at Front Page:
As a front group for Palestinian terrorists, the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) sends young people from all over the world to the training fields of the West Bank and Gaza to learn from terrorists and to [...]

If you haven’t paid attention to the New York Times’ attempt to smear analysts at conservative think tanks who have written in defense of Wal-Mart, all you need to know is on the Times’ corrections page today (hat tip- Brian Anderson of City Journal):
Editors’ Note
An article in Business Day on Friday reported that the Walton [...]

The poor Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club is still waiting for Air America to pay it back.
Details are buried at the bottom of the New York Sun’s story following up on liberal blog Think Progress’s claim that Air America will soon file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy:
Last year, Air America was involved in a scandal [...]