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Protests in Herat and Mazar-e Sharif (Afghanistan)against Iran executions.



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• ElBaradei compares Muslim Brotherhood to Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem."I mean, to ask a dictator to implement democratic measure after 30 years in power is an oxymoron," he said. "So they need to let go of [President Hosni] Mubarak. They need to side with the people. They need to go for, you know, transition, smooth transition, through a government of national salvation. This is only way out."ElBaradei brushed aside the concerns of the administration and many on Capitol Hill that an opening for the banned Muslim Brotherhood to take greater power in the country could result in an Islamist state. One of the Brotherhood's former members, Ayman al-Zawahri, is al-Qaeda's No. 2."This is total bogus that the Muslim Brotherhood are religiously conservative," he said. "They are no way extremists. They are no way using violence. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people. They will not be more than maybe 20 percent of the Egyptian people. "You have to include them like, you know, new evangelical, you know, groups in the U.S., like the orthodox Jews in Jerusalem," ElBaradei said.He said the Islamists were "not at all" behind the uprising. He advocated that Mubarak leave immediately and that the army be negotiated with on a national unity government.Hmmmm....Thats like comparing the KKK to the American Civil Rights Movement.Read the full story here.

• Egypt riots are an intelligence chief's nightmare.Western intelligence in general and Israeli intelligence in particular did not foresee the scope of change in Egypt, which may require a reorganization of the IDF.While in other countries many are watching with satisfaction at what looks to be possibly the imminent toppling of a regime that denied its citizens their basic rights, the Israeli point of view is completely different.The collapse of the old regime in Cairo, if it takes place, will have a massive effect, mainly negative, on Israel's position in the region. In the long run, it could put the peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan in danger, the largest strategic assets after the support of the United States. The changes could even lead to changes in the IDF and cast a dark cloud over the economy. Western intelligence in general and Israeli intelligence in particular did not foresee the scope of change in Egypt (the eventual descriptor "revolution" will apparently have to wait a little longer). Likewise, almost all of the media analysis and academic experts got it wrong. In the possible scenarios that Israeli intelligence envisioned, they admittedly posited 2011 as a year of possible regime change – with a lot question marks – in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, but a popular uprising like this was completely unexpected. If the Mubarak regime is toppled, the quiet coordination of security between Israel and Egypt will quickly be negatively affected. It will affect relations between Cairo's relationship with the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, it will harm the international forces stationed in Sinai. It will mean the refusal of Egypt to continue to allow the movement of Israeli ships carrying missiles through the Suez canal, which was permitted for the last two years, according to reports in the foreign press, in order to combat weapons smuggling from Sudan to Gaza. In the long run, Egypt's already-cold peace treaty with Israel will get even colder. From the perspective of the IDF, the events are going to demand a complete reorganization. For the last 20 years, the IDF has not included a serious threat from Egypt in its operational plan.In the last several decades, peace with Cairo has allowed the gradual thinning out of forces, the lowering of maximum age for reserve duty and the diversion of massive amounts of resources to social and economic projects.If the Egyptian regime falls in the end, a possibility that seemed unbelievable only two or three days ago, the riots could easily spill over to Jordan and threaten the Hashemite regime. On Israel's two long peaceful borders there will then prevail a completely different reality.Read the full story here.

• HT:BigPeace.Underground Uprising in Egypt.The Egypt uprising orchestrated by......... We know that the Muslim Brotherhood supports the uprising in Egypt. The Obama administration does as well. Based on the release of a secret document, it’s been learned that the United States government supported the April 6 Youth Movement – a group that played a key role in the uprising – in the form of a summit in Washington, D.C. That summit took place from December 3-5, 2008. We also know that Bill Ayers and Bernandine Dohrn were in Cairo a little more than one year later, engaging in protests while attempting to show solidarity with Hamas by entering Gaza with Egyptian protesters.According to Dohrn, both she and Ayers were detained at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. They, along with Code Pink, weren’t permitted to assemble the mass of people they had hoped would join them in their march into Gaza but were able to round up a few with begrudging approval from the Mubarak administration. Waiting for them with open arms was former Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.Barack Obama and Bill Ayers had a significant relationship in the 1990’s, despite the president’s claim to the contrary. Sharing a business address for three years and working with millions of dollars together necessarily debunks the claim that Ayers was little more than “a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” We also know that Ayers is an avowed Marxist.Another group Ayers and Dohrn support is the Free Gaza Movement. They – along with Code Pink founder Jodie Evans – were instrumental in organizing it. That group is credited with launching the flotilla in the spring of 2010 designed to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza.The Obama campaign and its subsequent administration, has targeted America’s youth in the cause of futhering the change it seeks. Ayers has consistently done that as well; he’s a professor who founded the Small Schools Workshop. In Egypt, according to that secret document, it’s the April 6 Youth Movement – with the endorsement of the Obama administration – that is instrumental in this attempt to take down the existing government.When contrasted with the Iranian uprising of 2009 – a revolt that sought to take down a theocratic Islamic regime and deserved strong United States solidarity – Obama was far less supportive. In recent years, relations between Iran and Turkey have become stronger as the Turkish government becomes more Islamist.Conveniently or coincidentally, the actions – and now words courtesy of the once secret document – of the Obama administration, coupled with the actions and words of Bill Ayers indicate a desire on the part of both to usher in a new Islamic caliphate in the Middle East, assuming they’re not ignorant of the Brotherhood’s goal.What more evidence is needed to demonstrate that Islamism and Marxism are not strange bedfellows? They’re hand-in-glove bedfellows.Hmmmm......"They don't trust me because of my middle name"?Read the full story here.

• Turkey, US agree to act together in Egyptian upheaval.With continuing unrest in Egypt, United States President Barack Obama called Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan early Sunday to discuss ways of working together to prevent the entire Middle East from falling into deep instability.“[Turkey and the U.S.] have agreed on the necessity of meeting the legitimate and democratic rights of the people in the region [of the Middle East],” read a statement issued by the Office of the Prime Minister Sunday.According to the statement, Obama and Erdoğan urged leaders of regional countries not to use force against their people. “These incidents should not bring about deep and ingrained instability. [Turkey and the U.S.] have shared concerns that instability could cause detrimental consequences in the region,” it said.The statement said Obama made the call because he valued how Erdoğan, the winner of successive elections in successfully democratic Turkey, was evaluating the developments. The statement said the two leaders agreed to stay in close contact in order to properly evaluate developments.The second important intersection between the two countries was that neither side desired to see already fragile stability being hurt by further upheavals. Turkish and U.S. cooperation in limiting the spread of the negative affects of regional upheavals is expected to bring the two allies closer in the near future, especially following Clinton’s forthcoming visit to Ankara.Hmmmmm.....Obama calls the worst human rights violator to protect the democratic rights?Or is it to gang up on Israel?Read the full story here.

• HT:IsraelMatzav.Messiah's times: Obama seeking advice on Egypt from bipartisan panel, including (gulp!) former Bush NSC official.I think this is a first. President Obama has invited a bipartisan panel of experts, which was among the few groups to warn of the coming crisis in Egypt, to advise him on how to handle what's going on in Egypt. The panel includes (gulp!) former Bush administration National Security Council official Elliott Abrams. Several foreign policy scholars and former officials have been urging the U.S. administration for months to prepare for the end of the Hosni Mubarak era and the instability that would accompany it.Now that the administration has found itself scrambling the past few days to, first, try to avert a bloodbath in Egypt and more broadly, figure out what to do amid a hugely complicated power transition there with much at stake for the U.S., it's worth noting the people who have been pleading for policy attention on this issue long in advance. Chief among them, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Michele Dunne, a former NSC and State Department Policy Planning official, and the Brookings Institution's Robert Kagan, who co-chair a bipartisan working group on Egypt.Hmmmm....He can't part the Red Sea after all?Read the full story here.

• Mubarak wants talks with opposition.Meanwhile, protesters camped out in Tahrir Square vow to stay until Mubarak is ousted, despite promises for economic, political reform, and El Al flight from Cairo brings dozens of Israelis home. 'We witnessed revolution live,' says one.Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ordered his government to begin talks with the opposition parties backing the uprising against him, Al-Arabiya reported Monday.Mubarak told incoming Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq to lead the state towards democracy through dialogue and to return faith to the economy."We must progress in general, quickly and effectively, towards political, legal, and parliamentary reform through dialogue with all parties that aspire to operate in the democratic arena," he was reported as saying. Mubarak also ordered the government to reduce inflation and earmark funds for "support of the underclass".Meanwhile an El Al flight carrying dozens of Israeli tourists from Cairo landed in Ben Gurion International Airport Monday morning, having fled the uprising in Egypt.Read the full story here.

• HT:BigPeace.Muslim Brotherhood Deception: They Say Different Things in English and Arabic.One message for the English speakers; another message for the Arabic speakers. In English, the MB is all about “Freedom” (and it’s no more threatening than little Aisha there in her white hijab); In Arabic, it’s the MB logo of crossed swords .There’s a word under those crossed swords, here from a larger graphic of the same MB logo.There you have it: the velvet glove with the word “Freedom”; the steel fist with the words “Make Ready” with its well-known Quranic reference. Actually, not steel fist – steel swords, crossed. The Muslim Brotherhood.It is not “freedom” that they intend to bring to Egypt – or to anywhere else.But just wait for the CIA, the State Department, the Administration, the mainstream media, and so many others to tell you the Muslim Brotherhood is all about little Aisha and freedom, and if you question them, you’re an Islamophobe (Shariah definition of “Islamophobe”: Blasphemer or Insulter of Islam, punishable by death in an Islamic state).Read the full story here.

• Mubarak: Order must be restored.Despite opposition leader ElBaradei's demand that he 'leave Egypt today,' president refuses to cede power, calls on vice president and new PM to implement additional reforms. Government extends curfew; police to help army contain protests.Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told incoming Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq on Sunday that the government's first priority should be to restore order on the streets, an Egyptian news agency reported.Mubarak met with Shafiq and incoming Vice President Omar Suleiman, and called on the government to implement additional political reforms.Meanwhile, the government extended the curfew, which will now begin at 3 pm instead of 4 pm starting Monday. The curfew will end at the same time of 8 am the next day, state television reported.Egyptian television, which is consistently ignoring the protests, showed Mubarak and Suleiman at the Egyptian army's headquarters. Additional footage showed Defense Minister Mohamed Hussein Tantawi visiting soldiers positioned near the Egyptian television station just a day after the publication of false reports saying he was fired.Hmmmm....As i said on day one of the protests "This is not going to go as easy as in Tunesia!Read the full story here.

• Assad says better off than Mubarak.Syrian president claims Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt suffering for connection with US, Israel, discusses need for reform and says peace process isn't dead: 'You don't have any other option. If you want to talk about a 'dead peace process,' this means everybody should prepare for the next war'.WASHINGTON - Bashar Assad is looking south and feeling, he claims, unconcerned: In an interview with the Wall Street Journal Monday, the Syrian President said that his situation was better than that of the rulers of Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen, three Arab countries which have witnessed a civil uprising in the last few weeks. Assad also found an explanation for his claim: The three countries have strong ties to the US, while his country doesn't.Assad told the US newspaper that in contrast to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whose country is on the verge of a revolution, he has more time to prepare for reforms because of his anti-US stance. According to Assad, his conflict with Israel leaves him in a better position with his citizens. Due to the wave of attempted revolutions, Assad said that the Middle East is standing before a "new era" and that Arab rulers will have to do more to adapt themselves to their citizens' political and economic aspirations.Assad told the wall Street Journal that the Arab nations need time to construct institutions and improve education before opening up participation in the political system. According to Assad, the growing demands for swift political reform could harm Arab societies if they are unprepared for those reforms.Read the full story here.

• Beware Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood!As Washington reviews its policy toward Cairo this weekend, officials should think hard about fostering a Mubarak-led transition rather than one led by protesters. Plus, full coverage of the uprising in Egypt.Difficult as it may be, let's try for an honest and realistic discussion of Egypt. Of course, the Obama administration, most Americans, most Egyptians, and I myself would prefer a democratic government in Cairo instead of President Mubarak's corrupt and repressive establishment. That's not the issue. The real issue is this: If Mubarak tumbles and if Washington uses its influence—and yes, it does have influence at approximately $3 billion in annual total aid—to push him out, what kind of government will follow his? Will it be even less democratic and more repressive? And what will be the implications for U.S. security in the region?So, let's stop prancing around and proclaiming our devotion to peace, "universal rights" and people power. Instead, let's step back and look hard at what we know and don't know about this popular explosion in the bosom of one of America's most vital allies—and what the United States can and can't do about it.Read the full story here.

• HT:AstuteBloggers.A few Middle East predictions for 2011.Hmmm.....Most of the predictions i agree with,only it wont take till 2012 before Obama turns on Israel.Read the full story here.

• More than 102 dead and thousands of prisoners on the loose in Egypt as 30,000 stranded Britons struggle to leave the country.Around 30,000 British tourists were stranded in Egypt today as army planes buzzed low over Cairo on the sixth day of uprisings.At least 102 people have been killed, more than 2,000 are injured and there were calls for a multi-party democracy to emerge as President Hosni Mubarack's grip on power loosens.Gangs of armed men attacked at least four jails across Egypt before dawn today, helping to free hundreds of Muslim militants and thousands of other inmates as police vanished from the streets of Cairo and other cities.Helicopters were hovering over Cairo and trucks appeared in a central square where protesters were gathered.It was the latest show of military might on Sunday in an apparent effort to send protesters back to their homes before a 4pm curfew.The warplanes flew over the city several times. At least a dozen troop trucks and extra tanks drove towards the square as more protesters gathered in defiance of the curfew.'The planes are out there to scare the people. It's time for the curfew and no one is going home," a 45-year-old engineer who was protesting in the main Tahrir square said.'It's clear to me that the army is here to protect Mubarak.'Amr Moussa, the head of the Arab League, said on Sunday he wanted to see a multi-party democracy emerge in Egypt but could not say how soon that might happen.Read the full story here.

• Davos panel sees huge Iranian response to attack.DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — A diverse panel of decision-makers and experts from the United States, Europe and the Middle East found common ground on just one thing when it comes to dealing with the Iranian nuclear program Friday: A military strike could well spark a devastating counterattack.In the debate at the World Economic Forum, former top U.S. diplomat Richard Haass said there were no good options should diplomacy fail, but stood apart from the others in advocating force as a viable option. He sparred repeatedly with Saudi Arabia's Prince Turki al-Faisal, who urged the United States to instead pressure Israel to quit its own reported nuclear weapons as a way of coaxing Iran to drop its suspected weapons program as well.Haass replied that there was no time for this because of the speed of Iran's program — and rejected the assertion by Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan that the program might be civilian, as Tehran has repeatedly claimed."The Iranians see diplomacy as a tactic to buy time," Haass countered. "I don't think it's going to work." Although he advocates tougher sanctions as a tactic, Haass said he feared an ultimate choice between two bad options: accepting a nuclear-armed Iran — or using military force to set back the Iranian program however possible, despite the risk of only partial success."I do believe that force is a serious option," he said, arguing that a nuclear Iran would place this region on a knife's edge. It would take the most dangerous, unstable part of the world and place it on steroids. This has tremendous consequences which we should not underestimate."Al-Faisal, who served as an ambassador to the U.S. and is an ex-intelligence service director, responded to a question about whether a push for democracy across the Middle East might be more worrisome than a nuclear-armed Iran."I don't know — in Saudi Arabia we have neither nuclear weapons nor democracy," he said.The panelists were aghast at the prospect of a stricken Iran, bent on revenge.Khalid Al Bu-Ainnain, a former top Gulf military official, said Iran would "attack Israelis and U.S. forces in the Gulf" and the Gulf states might be drawn in as well.Turki, a former Saudi intelligence chief who is a brother of Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, said that "Iran will strike back wherever it can, throughout the globe. My country and other countries — all countries — will be in the firing line. Iran has assets all over the world that it can use."Haass said that he took part in past U.S. deliberations on what to do about North Korea's nuclear program, and that force was discussed then also. With North Korea and Pakistan now both possessing nuclear weapons, his conclusion is that the world has been too lax: "If there were (ever) a mix of terrorism and nuclear materials, that dangerous mixture is more likely to come from Pakistan in our lifetime than anywhere else.""A nightmare scenario," sighed Turki, emphatically agreeing with his American co-panelist at last.Hmmmmm......It should have been dealt with years ago.Read the full story here.

• HT:SultanKnish.Obama Loses the Middle East.It's no coincidence that major revolutions against Western backed governments have occurred under weak American presidents. The Iranian revolution against the Shah happened on Jimmy Carter's watch. The current violence in Tunisia and Egypt is taking place under Obama. And the timing is quite interesting. Revolts which coincided with a new opposition congress almost suggest that they were scheduled for a time when Obama would be at his politically weakest. Additionally the 2010 defeats would have indicated to the Iranian regime that they might only have a 2 year window in which to act before Obama is replaced by an unknown, but probably more conservative politician. A "Now or Never" moment. The Iranian Revolution might never have happened under Reagan. But Carter's weakness, left wing politics and contempt for the very notion of defending American interests made it possible. Similarly despite attempts by some Bush advisers to take credit for Tunisia and Egypt, it is unlikely that they would have taken place on Bush's watch. Not because the Bush administration was so omnipotent, but because it had regional credibility. The general perception was that the Bush Administration was on alert and supportive of allies. That is not at all the regional perception of the Obama Administration which doesn't seem to know what an ally is.Obama's mistreatment of the UK, Israel and Honduras, the alienation of Karzai and continuing humiliation at the hands of China and Russia through diplomatic insults, showed weakness and stupidity. The Iranian takeover of the region is premised on that incompetence. Lebanon was a test. The next step was Tunisia. Then Egypt.We are being maneuvered into a tighter and tighter corner, with fewer and fewer allies left. The Middle East is being lost. And it's happening on Obama's watch.Hmmmm.....Under Obama's nap?Read the full story here.

• HT:MediaBistro.Nero partying while egypt burns?While the Middle East falls to pieces Obama go's to party!POTUS Parties at Atlantic Media’s Douglass Home.TIPS FROM THE POOL…INTO THE DEEP END. In this case, pretty deep. There are several details not to miss in a White House Pool Report from this evening:

1. President Obama attended a going away party tonight for top aide David Axelrod at the Dupont Circle neighborhood home of Altantic Media V.P. and former Obama White House spokeswoman Linda Douglass.
2. The Pool Report is written by NJ reporter Rebecca Kaplan, who has the odd and awkward responsibility of reporting about a spokeswoman from her own parent company.
3. This is not the first occasion for Obama to visit Douglass’s home. POTUS attended a $1 million fundraiser for the DNC at Douglass’s home last fall. The dinner was organized by her husband, John Phillips.
4. Someone attempted (and apparently failed) to drive through the motorcade.Hmmm....Can you even start to imagine what would have happened if Pres Bush would have done this?To Obama the presidency is just a great party out to destroy America.Read the full story here.

• If Brotherhood takes over, IDF will face formidable enemy.Analysis: This year is turning into critical one for Israeli isolation in the Mideast. Turkey is gone and Egypt appears to be on way.The collapse of Hosni Mubarak’s regime in Egypt is not yet about Israel but soon will be, depending on his successor.If the Muslim Brotherhood grabs the reins in the massive Arab country, Israel will face an enemy with one of the largest and strongest militaries around, built on some of the most advanced American-made platforms.The appointment of Intelligence Minister Omar Suleiman as the vice president in Egypt is a reassuring sign for Israel.Suleiman has played a key role in Israeli- Egyptian relations over the years and is considered in charge of the “Israeli Dossier” His office has been responsible for coordinating efforts to stop smuggling via tunnels under the Philadelphi Corridor with Gaza and he is considered something of a moderate in comparison to outgoing Defense Minister Mohamed Tantawi.In a cable published recently by WikiLeaks, Suleiman told the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2009 that Egypt was stopping Iranian money from making its way through the country to Hamas in the Gaza Strip.A new regime in Egypt could change all of that, and the transfer of Iranian funds to Hamas would be the least of Israel’s concerns.The question, though, is what happens the “day after” Mubarak? Who will succeed him and what role will the Muslim Brotherhood play? Israel’s concerns though are not isolated to Egypt. One former senior Mossad official said on Saturday that Israel needed to be more concerned with a potential revolution in Jordan.“In Egypt, Israel has Sinai as a major buffer zone,” the official said. “This is not the case in Jordan, where there is a massive Palestinian population that could directly threaten Israel through the West Bank.”This year is turning into a critical one for Israel, which is finding itself increasingly isolated within the Middle East. Turkey is gone and Egypt appears to be on the way.Hmmmm.....Zechariah 12:3."And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces although all nations of the earth are gathered against it."Read the full story here.

• HT:Imra.Obama's legacy of Hope and Change in the Mid East.By Michael Widlanski.President Barack Obama promised that his election meant not only "hope and change" for America but for the world, especially the Middle East. President Obama criticized America's past actions while touting his own Islamic connections—from his Arabic-sounding middle name to his youth in Indonesia.After two years in office, a look at the record shows Obama has kept his promise about "change," but not necessarily about "hope."

1. President Obama's first foreign trip was a journey to Turkey, where he saluted the extremist Islamist regime, and less than a year later, that regime has used the cover of "democracy" to impose its Islamist policies locally. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan leads a viciously anti-Semitic campaign against Israel, using a so-called "human rights flotilla" that was really a terror operation in support of the Hamas terror regime in Gaza."
2. Islam has always been a part of America's story," Obama declared in his Cairo speech, but less than two years later, it seems that it will be radical Islam that will remain a central part of Obama's personal story and his administration's legacy.We should remember that every time Obama and Hillary Clinton rushed to scold Mubarak for trying to hold on to power, while they were strangely silent when the ayatollahs used far more abusive power against a non-Islamic democratic protest.Obama-Clinton have also been very reticent about some of the mob behavior in Egypt, such as the looting of museums and stores. Why not urge a little restraint on the mobs, too?Both the Sunni Islamists of Egypt and the Shiite Islamists of Iran pray on the gullibility of Western diplomats and pundits who usually cannot connect the dots in Arabic or any other Semitic language. In Semitic languages, the dots serve as vowels, and when you cannot read the dots, you cannot connect them or read the situation.That is why Barack, Hillary and Jimmy see H-M-S and they read humus, and they take a big bite. Afterwards, when they discover they have hamas in their mouths: and they have bitten off more than they can chew.Too often Western leaders and journalists simply do not know the difference between hamas and humus.Like Muhammad Baradei and Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama has won a Nobel Peace Prize, but we should be asking ourselves how much is this award-winning performance going to cost us.Hmmmmm.....Barack Hussein Obama "The downfall of the American Empire"?Read the full story here.

• ElBaradei: Egyptian Revolt Inspired by Obama’s “Yes We Can” Motto…When thousands of angry protesters take to the streets of Egypt on Friday, one man many see as the country’s next potential leader will be among them.The Cairo-born former head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog, Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei on Thursday returned to the country, despite death threats, to be with “his people.” “There was an edict against me a couple of weeks ago basically saying that my life should be dispensable because I am defying the rulers,” ElBaradei told CNN on Tuesday.…After three terms as the IAEA’s director general, ElBaradei stepped down at the end of 2009. He was hoping to settle into a quiet retirement, but his return to Egypt during the week’s unrest suggests that he is not content to sit and watch from the sidelines.He said the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia that saw the expulsion of long-term President Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali in mid-January had spurred action in Egypt.“It sent a message everywhere to the Arab world that, to quote Barack Obama, ‘Yes, we can,’ you know, that it is doable.”Hmmmmm.....Obama and the global Caliphath?Anyone noticed?He's not going to church anymore.You can't fool all the people all of the time.Read the full story here.

• HT:AmericanPower.Picking Sides in Egypt? Choose Freedom — Resist the Red-Green Alliance of Anti-Israel Fanaticism. By now folks are anticipated the end of the Mubarak regime. Unfortunately, the political and ideological battles lines are not so neatly drawn. I personally hesitate to attack the Obama adminstration as alleging aiding the Islamists, as in the case of my good friend Reaganite Republican, "Obama Secretly Schemed with Egyptian Opposition for 'Regime Change' for Years!" The evidence there is based on a single WikiLeaks cable published at Telegrah UK and the significance depends on how we define "opposition." The Egyptian opposition movement is broad, and the Muslim Brotherhood has long been the most well organized and highly mobilized. So there's danger there. But as Pamela points out, the fight is for freedom. If anything, the administration has been way too restrained in its approach to the protests. And by standing on the side of dictatorship, Obama gives aid and comfort not just to Islamist extremists, but the world solidarity movement seeking to delegitimize and destroy Israel. So, if we have to choose, it's not a choice between the authoritarianism of Mubarak's nationalist regime and those of the Red-Green alliance for Islamist terrorism. The choice is freedom. And had the Obama administration been out in front on this, the peaceful elements --- like those helping the Israel tourists above --- could have gained the upper hand in the emergence of a new regime. It's not too late. But no matter what happens, we can see the battle lines ahead. Freedom and democracy on the one hand, and violent anti-American, anti-Israel totalitarianism on the other.Hmmmm.....The thing is is we all know where Obama's allegiance lays.Read the full story here.

• Turkey, Texas hold friendship reception in Austin.A Turkish-Texan friendship reception was held over the weekend in the state capital of Austin, with the participation of high-level Turkish and Texan officials. The reception was sponsored jointly by the Houston-based Turquoise Council of Americans and Eurasians (TCAE), the Texas State Senate, the Texas State Council and the Austin Raindrop Turkish House.Texan senators as well as other high-level officials attended the reception. Chairman of the Turkish parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee and deputy from Eskişehir Murat Mercan, Malatya deputy Mehmet Şahin, Kırşehir deputy Abdullah Çalışkan and Çorum deputy Murat Yıldırım represented the Turkish Parliament at the reception. Before the reception, the Turkish delegation paid a courtesy call to Texas Governor Rick Perry at his office. The governor warmly welcomed the delegation and delivered a brief speech. Expressing pleasure to be receiving them in Texas, he said such visits contribute much to Turkish-American relations. Mercan also spoke during the visit and said Turkey and the US should further improve bilateral ties in the areas of economy, culture and politics. He also highlighted the role of civil society organizations in this process.The delegation later visited Texas Secretary of State Hope Andrade and Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell.The Turkish delegation was also warmly welcomed in the Texas Senate, whose members acknowledged the Turkish deputies with applause.Hmmmmm......No word if Texas approves of Turkey's Human rights violations?Sigh...What has become of America?Read the full story here.

• Outrageous teachings by new GZ mosque big.New Ground Zero Mosque Imam: Homosexuals Are Like Animals…The new imam at the Ground Zero mosque and cultural center believes people who are gay were probably abused as children and that people who leave Islam and preach a new religion should be jailed.Abdallah Adhami’s remarks on homosexuals, religious freedom and other topics have brought renewed criticism of the proposed community center and mosque near the World Trade Center site, which purports to be an inclusive organization.Adhami, in a lecture on the Web site of his nonprofit, Sakeenah, says being gay is a “painful trial” caused by past trauma.“An enormously overwhelming percentage of people struggle with homosexual feeling because of some form of violent emotional or sexual abuse at some point in their life,” he says. “A small, tiny percentage of people are born with a natural inclination that they cannot explain. You find this in the animal kingdom at some level as well.”He says gays must fight this “propensity.”“When a religious leader of his standing opens up his mouth and spews this kind of ignorance and hateful statements, it does put his greater judgment into question,” said Fred Sainz, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay-rights group.Adhami also notes that if a Muslim leaves the faith and “preaches their views, they’re jailed.”“The only thing you do not have the right to do is spread this conviction, lest you, quote unquote, ‘pollute’ others,” he said when asked to give his personal opinion about apostates.Jordan Sekulow, a lawyer at the Pat Robertson-founded American Center for Law and Justice in Washington, questioned why the mosque project, called Park51, would choose a leader who advocates retribution for those who leave the faith.Hmmmm...."Religion of peace and tolerance"?Read the full story here.

• HT:TundraTabloids.Egyptian freedom rally hijacked by Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers in Toronto.Read and see the full story here.

• HT:Persian2English.Death Crimes by Islamic Republic of Iran Spark Protests in Afghanistan.Around a thousand protesters took to the streets of three main Afghanistan cities on Saturday to protest against the alleged execution of Afghan citizens by Iran.The biggest rally was in western Herat, Afghanistan’s second city, where about a thousand people marched in the centre of town carrying banners with anti-Iran slogans, an AFP correspondent said.More than a hundred people gathered in the capital Kabul, while there was also a demonstration in Mazar-e-Sharif, the main city in the country’s north.The protesters, chanting death slogans to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, called for an end to the executions of Afghans as well as Iranians by Tehran.The protesters did nit give details on any specific executions they were protesting against.No Iranian sources or officials commented on the execution reports.“We demand the Iranian regime immediately stops the execution of Afghans and Iranian,” said 23-year-old Massoud, a resident of Herat.“If Afghan citizens commit a crime, they should be tried in Afghanistan,” Ahmad Shoaib, a protester in the city of Mazar-e- Sharif, told AFP.Several anti-Iranian demonstrations have taken place in Afghanistan recently after Iran blocked 1,600 fuel tankers from entering the country in early December, causing the fuel prices to soar.Afghan officials said at the time Tehran had expressed concern that the tankers were going to be used to supply NATO forces fighting a Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan.Read and see the full story here.

• HT:RefugeeResettlementWatch.ORR! January 31st (today!) is the deadline for the annual report to be submitted to Congress.As of the close of business today, you are THREE YEARS BEHIND in reporting to Congress the full economic and social impact of the large numbers of refugees being resettled to the US.The Office of Refugee Resettlement is REQUIRED BY LAW to submit a report to Congress by January 31st of the year following the end of the fiscal year. The last report filed is 2007. So ORR now owes Congress and the public 2008, 2009 and 2010. Those are the worst years so far of the great recession and we can only conclude that ORR does not want to reveal to the public the dismal financial situation the refugees and the volags (federal contractors) are in!Readers, if you have never looked at an annual report, check out 2007 and see what an incredible trove of information these reports contain. Can you just imagine what the unemployment numbers are today or the welfare usage when over 50% of refugees in 2007 were on food stamps.For just a reminder of what the refugee/asylum program costs you, go here.Hmmmmm.....What exactly is the Obama administration hiding?Read the full story here.

• AZ Sheriff on Napolitano’s Security Speech: ‘This Shows You How Divorced From Reality the Secretary of Homeland Security Really Is’.The National Sheriffs’ Association on Wednesday named Arizona’s Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu “Sheriff of the Year.” On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano delivered the first State of Homeland Security address, in which she gave an upbeat account of the agency’s accomplishments, including its efforts on immigration and securing the U.S. border.Babeu, however, indicated that Napolitano’s speech was selective in what it emphasized and what it did not disclose.“2010 was a historic year when it comes to securing and managing our borders and enforcing our immigration laws,” Napolitano said. “There are now more resources on the southwest border in terms of personnel, technology, and infrastructure than ever before in American history. And we continue to see progress on every metric.”Babeu said Napolitano’s claim was “not surprising.” But he also said her remarks did not reflect conditions on the ground in Arizona where in the last two years the amount of illegal drugs entering the state that have been confiscated by local authorities has doubled, and the number of pursuits of criminal illegal aliens has tripled.“Why isn’t the secretary of homeland security speaking to these threats?” Babeu said in a telephone interview with CNSNews.com. “Why does she keep trying to convince us through argument that everything is just fine to the point that she’s trying to hypnotize us into believing this c--p.”But Babeu said the Obama administration’s strategy on border security is “unacceptable” and is not working.Babeu said the Obama administration has politicized the immigration issue and “have used it as a weapon to somehow brow beat good Americans and people who want to secure our nation’s border, and somehow try to turn this and make it a racial issue and that we’re being un-American because we’re against illegal immigration.”Hmmmm.....If you wanted to destroy America,would you do anything different?Read the full story here.

• Bedouin man shoots sister over Facebook pics.Police arrest 21-year-old from Rahat on suspicion he tried to murder his 18-year-old sister after she posted pictures of herself wearing revealing clothes, in company of men.Another case of "family honor" in the Bedouin sector – police arrested Sunday a 21-year-old resident of Rahat on suspicion that he tried to murder his 18-year-old sister.According to suspicions, he shot her because she uploaded pictures of herself on Facebook, supposedly harming her family's honor.The young woman was lightly to moderately injured, and was evacuated to the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba for further treatment. Following the incident, Rahat police, headed by Cmdr. Eyal Azoulay, launched an investigation and arrested the brother. During his interrogation, the brother said he found out his sister posted pictures onto the social network, in which she is posing with men and wearing revealing clothes. The suspect added that because his sister "violated the family's honor," he decided to take revenge and illegally got hold of a weapon.According to suspicions, an argument erupted between the two siblings, after which the brother shot his sister and fled the scene.Hmmmm......The religion of peace in it's "natural habitat"? Read the full story here.