Thread: Iraq/Dinar News. 09/05 to 01/14/07

hey TIFF....down here in louisiana instead of saying come to daddy we say""COME TO POPPA"....lol.same meaning of course....lol...GO DINARS....Pat

Originally Posted by bigopie

hey TIFF....down here in louisiana instead of saying come to daddy we say""COME TO POPPA"....lol.same meaning of course....lol...GO DINARS....Pat

Either way...got my blood going and heart pumpin'...excellent feeling!

Cajun music is great...mustn't forget the island music..reggae! yea-mon! 'salright-mon! Be-happy!

Getting the butterfly-flutters in the ole belly again! Hopefully the boys in the cabinet can 'play nice' this Thursday and agree and get their country going!

Originally Posted by tiffany

Hey choochie...you may want to rethink exchanging at the border with the past couple days events...I live close by too...Not too far from the Peace Bridge, thought I may do as you were thinking...but now I'm thinking that I'm going to stay 'local' at the banks here in NY. Your call, girl! I just don't want to see you on FoxNews! (But then I could put a face to your name!)

What were the past couple days events?
K *curious*

I think "the events of the last couple of days" refers to the terrorist plot uncovered in Canada.

I was honored to be down in Cajun country a few years ago.
What a feeling! Love the music..love the food...love the way people talk!


Caroline

thanks caroline...we gajuns call it " joire de vie"...which translates into joy of life...we love to dance....eat...and be merry as they say....we are always looking for a good time...no matter where it is....lol....glad u enjoyed your visit down here.....hoping to meet all u wonderful people when we have our DINAR PARTY.....GO DINARS....Pat

Hi Karin!

I copied this from my homepage... http://www.adelphia.net/news/read.ph...&cps=0&lang=en

Not sure if it would have any bearing on what we're waiting for, but rather scary for me none-the-less living so close!
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Canada Plot Allegedly Involved PM Attack
Tuesday, June 6, 2006 7:50 PM EDT
The Associated Press
By BETH DUFF-BROWN


BRAMPTON, Ontario (AP) — Some of the 17 Muslim men accused of plotting terror bombings in Canada also planned to storm Parliament, take hostages and behead the prime minister and other leaders, according to accusations revealed Tuesday by the lawyer for one of the suspects.
Authorities further allege that the suspect, Steven Vikash Chand, plotted to take over media outlets, including Canadian Broadcasting Corp., his attorney said after a brief hearing at the Ontario Court of Justice.
Specifics of the charges against the other suspects were not released, but Chand's lawyer, Gary Batasar, asked that the allegations against his client be read in court. He told The Associated Press later that others face similar accusations, but did not say who or how many.


An eight-page document prepared by the prosecution summarzing the charges against all the suspects was not read in open court or distributed to the media, making it difficult to assess how sophisticated the alleged plot was or its progress.


But the purported plot to take political leaders hostage and behead them if Muslim prisoners were not freed and Canada did not pull its 2,300 troops out of Afghanistan added a chilling dimension to a case that has led U.S. authorities to toughen security along the border and unsettled Canada's large Muslim community.


Other defense attorneys declined to discuss the detailed charges. Batasar told AP that other suspects were facing similar allegations.
"It's just generally speaking that the allegations are against my client as well as the other parties," he said. "That's what all the parties are facing."
"The only reason I'm coming out and saying this is that my client is innocent of the charges; he protests his innocence and that's not being heard," Batasar added.


Police say they expect more arrests, and intelligence officers are probing whether 12 adults and five juveniles arrested over the weekend had any ties to Islamic terror cells in the United States and five nations in Europe and Asia.


Chand, a 25-year-old restaurant worker from Toronto, was one of 15 suspects who made brief court appearances Tuesday. They were held behind a glass enclosure, brought in as groups of four or five, chained together in ankle shackles and handcuffs.


Chand, bearded with shoulder-length hair, blew a kiss to supporters as he was led away as formal bail hearings for him and the 14 others were postponed until at least Monday.


"There's an allegation apparently that my client personally indicated that he wanted to behead the prime minister of Canada," said Batasar. "It's a very serious allegation. My client has said nothing about that."
Speaking outside the courthouse, Batasar said the charges were based on fear-mongering government officials.
"It appears to me that whether you're in Ottawa or Toronto or Crawford, Texas, or Washington, D.C., what is wanting to be instilled in the public is fear," he said.


He also suggested that Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who expressed happiness at the arrests, should "keep out of the case."
In Ottawa, Harper appeared to take the alleged beheading threat in stride. "I can live with these threats as long as they're not from my caucus," he joked.


The Ontario Court of Justice in Brampton, a small city just west of Toronto, had said earlier that the suspects faced charges that included participating in a terrorist group, importing weapons and planning a bombing. The specific details were made public Tuesday.


Lawyers and family members said they were being given too little information about the case, and charged that the suspects' rights were not being respected.


Rocco Galati, a lawyer for suspect Ahmad Mustafa Ghany, 21, told the judge that his client's constitutional rights had been violated because he was only able to interview him in the presence of an armed guard.
"The right to private counsel was afforded even at Nuremberg," Galati said.
Outside the court, Donald McLeod, a lawyer for Jahmaal James, 23, also complained of restricted access to his client, including only being allowed to speak to the accused through Plexiglas and not being allowed to have private discussions.


Arif Raza, who represents Saad Khalid, 19, said he had never been allowed to speak to his client and was not even allowed to slip him his business card so Khalid could attempt to call the lawyer from the Maplehurst Correctional Center outside of Toronto.


U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins praised Canadian authorities.
"We appreciate the swift and effective action taken by Canadian law enforcement officials," Wilkins said in Montreal. "They stepped in decisively and I think helped defuse a very dangerous situation. No country is immune to terrorism and we frankly applaud their swift, decisive, heroic efforts."


The U.S. Border Patrol, meanwhile, put agents on high alert along the 4,000-mile border and stepped up inspections of traffic from Canada.
Some American commentators and politicians have accused Canada of having a lax immigration policy and suggested building a fence along the border. But Harper told Parliament on Tuesday most Americans admire Canada for "our shared concern about the security of this continent."
The case has stunned many Canadians, who have not experienced such a major anti-terrorism case since security measures were intensified after the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States.


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It's breathtaking that this is going on in Canada," International Trade Minister David Emerson told the CBC. "To see the homegrown nature of it is shocking to me."
Police say there is no evidence the suspect group had ties to al-Qaida, but describe its members as sympathetic to al-Qaida's violent jihadist ideology.



Officials are concerned that many of the 17 suspects are about 20 years old and became radicalized in a short amount of time.


Officials announced the arrests Saturday, saying the sweep was ordered after the group acquired three tons of ammonium nitrate, which can be mixed with fuel oil to make a powerful explosive. One-third that amount was used in the deadly bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995.


The 12 adult suspects all are charged with one count of participating in a terrorist group.


Three of them — Fahim Ahmad, 21, Mohammed Dirie, 22, and Yasim Abdi Mohamed, 24 — also are charged with importing weapons and ammunition for the purpose of terrorist activity.


Nine face charges of receiving training from a terrorist group, while four are charged with providing training. Six are charged with intending to cause an explosion that could cause serious bodily harm or death.

Ok, thanks!
K

Copied this also!

Check the BOLD areas...

http://www.adelphia.net/news/read.ph...&cps=0&lang=en
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Iraq PM Promises to Free 2,500 Prisoners
Tuesday, June 6, 2006 9:05 PM EDT
The Associated Press
By KIM GAMEL

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Iraq's prime minister promised Tuesday to release 2,500 prisoners and to press ahead with a security plan aimed at ending sectarian violence as he sought to quell public anger over a series of brazen attacks.


His comments came a day after the abductions of 50 people in downtown Baghdad by gunmen wearing police uniforms and the shooting deaths of 21 Shiites north of the capital, including students pulled from their minivans.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki blamed a desire by insurgents to cripple the political process for the spike in violence since he took office just over two weeks ago.


They "have increased their bloody operations to derail and bring down the national unity government, but, God willing, they will lose," he told reporters.


Hours after he spoke, a parked car bomb exploded outside a Shiite funeral ceremony in southwestern Baghdad, killing at least four people and wounding 20. Gunmen also killed one student, wounded another and kidnapped three at Baghdad University's business school.
The U.S. military, meanwhile, reported an American soldier was killed in Baghdad on Monday when a bomb struck his convoy.


Underlining the toll of Iraq's bloodshed, the Health Ministry said that during the first five months of this year, Baghdad's main morgue had received 6,000 bodies, most of whom had died violently.


In an apparent effort to appease anger in the Sunni Arab minority over allegations of random detentions and mistreatment of prisoners, al-Maliki said 2,500 Iraqi detainees would be freed from U.S. and Iraqi-run jails to promote "reconciliation and national dialogue."


The first batch of about 500 detainees will be released Wednesday and others will follow after their cases are reviewed, he said.


But the Shiite prime minister stressed that the release plan excludes loyalists of ousted leader Saddam Hussein and his Sunni-dominated Baath Party as well as "terrorists whose hands are stained with the blood of the Iraqi people."


The Sunni Arab minority provides the backbone of the insurgency that has kept Iraq in chaos.


Al-Maliki, who announced a plan last month for restoring order in Baghdad and has pledged to take over security in the country from U.S. and other foreign troops within 18 months, acknowledged the deteriorating security situation in the capital and other areas.


He offered condolences to the families of those killed Sunday when masked gunmen ordered passengers off two minivans carrying students north of Baghdad, separated Shiites from Sunni Arabs and then killed the Shiites.
But he made no mention of the bold daylight kidnappings Monday, in which gunmen in police uniforms raided a business district in central Baghdad, seizing 50 people, including travelers, merchants and vendors selling tea and sandwiches. Both Shiites and Sunnis work in the area.


Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abdul Azizi Mohammed Jassim, in charge of Defense Ministry operations, told reporters that two of the captives had been freed but would provide no other details.


The Shiite-dominated Interior Ministry, which oversees police, denied its forces were behind the kidnappings.


Suspicion fell on militias, which are believed to have infiltrated police forces and have killed hundreds in sectarian violence, personal vendettas and kidnappings for ransom.


The Iraqi Islamic Party, a major Sunni Arab political party, accused the Interior Ministry of trying to cover up police involvement in the latest abductions and appealed to religious and political leaders to intervene to end the violence.


Adnan al-Dulaimi, a prominent Sunni politician, called for the government and U.S.-led forces to step up action against such attacks.
"The killing operations have become a phenomena," al-Dulaimi said. "Fifty Iraqis have been abducted and the Iraqi officials have done nothing to stop those behind these terrorist acts."


He also urged the speedy appointment of interior and defense ministers — key security posts that al-Maliki has been unable to fill because of disagreement among Iraqi's fractured ethnic and religious parties.

The Bush administration also is eager for the security posts to be filled, hoping a broad-based government will drain support for the insurgency and restore order in Baghdad and elsewhere, enabling U.S.-led forces to go home.


The U.S. military said Monday that it had handed over responsibility for operating patrols in the volatile, Sunni-dominated Anbar province to an Iraqi army unit. It said the Iraqi army's 1st Division officially took control of a military base between Ramadi and Fallujah on Friday from U.S. Army's 1st Battalion, 110th Infantry Regiment.


Al-Maliki said his government was asking the U.S. military about two incidents that involved the killing of civilians — an alleged massacre of civilians by Marines in Haditha on Nov. 19 and the deaths of 13 people in the town of Ishaqi on March 15.


"We are still asking about these dossiers," he said. "We are still following it up and we are still waiting for the results of the investigations. We have a committee investigating these painful incidents. We condemned these practices, as they are against human rights."


U.S. authorities are investigating the deaths of two dozen people in Haditha after a bomb killed a Marine. The military has cleared U.S. troops of wrongdoing in Ishaqi, saying those deaths occurred during a battle with insurgents in the village.


The Iraqi government plans to set up its own committee to investigate the killings.

Interesting,

This will give everyone an idea why Iraq will settle down and again become a cultural meca of old. Amazing how little we really know about Iraq and the importance it represents in the region, so all we have to do is get rid of the insurgent leaders and we will see an amazing rebirth, so read this excellent history of Iraq which goes back thousands of years.

http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Pa...=ia&ID=IA27906

This is a report from Iraq that we never see, but good things do happen. Its just that media focus on the bad unfortunately.

The writer from Scripps Howard ends by saying that people who criticize journalists and news organizations should either apologize or just shut up. The great majority of journalists are indeed professional but there are exceptions - just as allegedly with our troops. I'd like to offer a rebuttal. Recently, I spoke with a young Army Special Forces soldier just home from his second (voluntary) tour in Iraq. He said that there was an embedded journalist with them during his second tour and asked me to not identify the newspaper but I will say that it is a large one and a familiar name. During his tour their unit:


Rebuilt a school and soccer field and gave the children clothing and school supplies. No pictures. No report.

Helped improve and expand a women's hospital. No pictures. No report.
Didn't respond when gunmen shot at them, taunted them and dared them to shoot back. The gunmen were in a school occupied by screaming children. No pictures. No report.

Captured a gunman who had just wounded one of the soldiers. During interrogation, the gunman spit in the interrogator's face and was slapped in response. The reporter snapped a picture of the incident and said he was writing a story.

When asked why there wasn't a report on the helpful things, he responded that Americans "don't want good news and are bored by it." He was tasked by his superiors to look for sensationalist things and to pay particular attention to acts by our soldiers.

The young soldier said that the troops are very wary of the embedded reporters and go out of their way to stay "on their good side," for obvious reasons.

The unit Commanding Officer told the journalist he was no longer welcome if all he would report were only bad things. The journalist angrily declared that he would destroy the unit in his next report to which the C.O. responded that he already had by his one and only story.

Good! Now I feel better! In my opinion, the troops deserve better than they presently receive from much of the mass media.

Roy Peterman president of Zanesville.
Originally published June 5, 2006