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• Libya Live Blog - May 04. Here .(Al-Jazeera).

• Updated !Earthquakes in the last 24 hours in the world seismic activity in Japan  today  4.7 and 5.4! More info here.

• Japan - Latest official Situation Update No. 102.
  On 04.05.2011 at 03:31 GMT+2
  
  The Japanese government has confirmed that traces of radioactive material have been found in the seabed near the stricken facility. Operator of the plant, TEPCO. says it has detected up to 1-hundred-90 becquerels of radioactive Iodine and 1,300 becquerels of Cesium. These levels are 1-hundred to 1-thousand times normal levels. The samples were taken from the seabed last Friday.Source : Here .

• Japan  : For the most accurate info on the nuclear disaster go to : Paul Langley's Nuclear History Blog

• Live Blog on Qsama Bin Laden  Here (Al -Jazeera).

• Bin Laden’s daughter confirms her father shot dead by US Special Forces in Pakistan.(Al-Arabia).The US Special Forces only took two bodies with them in the military chopper; one is said to be Bin Laden’s and the other his son’s.Senior Pakistani security officials said Osama bin Laden’s daughter had confirmed her father was captured alive and shot dead by the US Special Forces during the first few minutes of the operation carried out at the huge compound in Bilal Town, Abbottabad. Besides recovering four bullet-riddled bodies from the compound, Pakistani security agencies also arrested two women and six children, aged between 2 and 12 years, after American forces flew toward Afghanistan. Some reports suggest 16 people, including women and children, were arrested from the house, most of them Arab nationals.A Pakistani security source told Al Arabiya that Bin Laden family members had been transported to Rawalpindi, which is near Islamabad. He added, “They are now under treatment in the military hospital of Rawalpindi, where they have been transported in an helicopter.” A source told Al Arabiya that Bin Laden’s had been injured either in her leg or her shoulder.He added that the members of the household were children and Bin Laden’s wife, in addition to a Yemeni woman. He added that the woman might be the personal doctor of the family. Bin Laden was known to be afflicted with renal failure. Sources speculated that US Forces could not arrest these family members because there weren’t enough places for them in the helicopter, after they lost another chopper during the operation.About the slain woman: officials said she could either be Bin Laden’s wife or a close family member since she offered to sacrifice her life for him. “As per our information, she shielded Bin Laden during the operation and was killed by American commandos,” an official said.The US Special Forces only took two bodies with them in the military chopper; one is said to be Bin Laden’s and the other his son’s. By the time Pakistani security agencies and soldiers arrived at the spot, the US commandos were flying over the mountains in the Pakistani tribal belt, well on their way to Afghanistan. The daughter has reportedly told her Pakistani investigators that the US forces captured her father alive but shot him dead in front of family members. According to sources, Bin Laden was staying on the ground floor of the house and was dragged on the floor to the helicopter after being shot dead by US commandos. There were conflicting reports about the second person the US forces took along with them. Some Pakistani officials say it was one of Bin Laden’s sons injured by the US commandos and thrown onto a separate military chopper; others say he was killed in the operation and it was only his dead body that they took along. The officials say not all children rescued from the house belonged to the al-Qaeda leader. All were being kept at a safe place. The US has not been given access to the detained women and children, the officials claimed. About the second woman, many officials feel she could be a close relative of Osama or his servant. Similarly, according to information Pakistani officials collected from detained persons, Osama was neither armed nor did inmates at the compound fire at the US choppers or commandos.“Not a single bullet was fired from the compound at the US forces and their choppers. Their chopper developed some technical fault and crashed and the wreckage was left on the spot,” a well-informed official explained. Meanwhile, Pakistani security forces maintained a cordon around the compound and its surrounding areas and did not allow the media access to the area until the remaining wreckage of the US military chopper was removed. Some media were given access to the spot but no one was allowed to enter the compound.Security officials said they did not recover any arms and explosives during their detailed search of the compound on Monday and Tuesday. Also, they said, it was a simple house comprising 13 rooms, six on the ground floor and the remaining on the first and second floors. “There was no bunker or tunnel inside the house and that’s why I don’t understand why the world’s most wanted man would have decided to live here,” a senior official said.According to a neighbor, the dwellers of the compound never mixed with anyone. “It was a very reserved family and never attended any wedding or funeral ceremony in the area,” said Qari Mastana Khan of Bilal Town. “But they were kindhearted and would provide clean drinking water and food to poor neighbors. During the holy month of Ramadan, they invited us for Iftar dinner at their house and served us delicious food. Arshad Khan had three kids and his brother Tariq four,” Khan added. Another interesting aspect, which the residents shared about the house and its inmates, was the strict behavior of the family, who in the last six years, had never allowed women of the neighborhood to enter their house or permitted their own ladies to visit neighbors. Also, children playing in the streets and nearby fields were never allowed into the compound, not even when their balls inadvertently went across. “Usually, when their ball falls past the wall of a house, the children just go there and pick it up but they were never allowed into this particular house. Whenever their ball fell there and the children went to retrieve it, whoever opened the door gave them money to buy a new ball instead of allowing them to enter and search for their ball,” said an elder of the area, Mohammad Fayaz. He said all these details made him suspicious but were not enough to make him believe the world’s most wanted man was hiding in his neighborhood.Hmmm....So what happened to the second body?Or is he alive and held captive in Afghanistan?This is the second source that mentions Afghanistan as the destination?Read the full story here.

• We were Osama's neighbours.Neighbours talk about men they knew at Osama's mansion.(Al-Jazeera).For hours, the local Abbottabad police kept us a fair distance away from the house that Osama bin Laden was killed in.Every time we tried to set up our camera to film the imposing three-storey white house from a distance, angry officers rushed over to stop us.Then, in the early afternoon - on whose orders we'll never know - the police allowed the media to get close to the sprawling compound.Correspondents and camera operators rushed to the tall green gates to start filming – jostling each other for the best position.Behind them, a stream of neighbours that turned into a flood of curious onlookers; most more interested in the crowd of journalists than in the house the world's most wanted fugitive is believed to have lived for around five years.During the height of the frenzy, a moment of macabre humour, when a bin Laden look-alike came to the area.Wearing a long scraggly beard and the white headgear, so synonymous with the al-Qaeda leader, the imposter was greeted with cheers and jeers. Some of the crowd even started chanting "We are all Osama!" then broke into peals of laughter.But the circuslike atmosphere couldn't overshadow the picture that is starting to form of what life was like behind those walls.Police told us behind the imposing four metre high walls, barbed wire and security cameras, a large vegetable garden, cows, chicken and stores of food - clear signs the compound was relatively self-sufficient for those who lived inside.Neighbours say the only people they ever really had contact with were two brothers: Pashtun's, they said, from Peshawar.When asked about the high walls, they said it was because their wives observed purdah. It should be noted that it's not uncommon to see this sort of construction in Pakistan's tribal areas. Khourshid Bibi, an elderly woman who lives down the road from the compound, told us one of those men was called Nadeem."I didn't really know him too well. We would only ever say hello to each other. Just like you would with anyone you recognise, but we didn’t have any kind of relationship with him. I once saw him with a child, who was 7 or 8, they were Pathan’s speaking pushto."She said the man she knew as Nadeem rarely interacted with anyone but did attend funerals and gave charity to the poor. She, however, added she found the compound he lived in strange."The house was so secure, just like when you shut something in a box and it doesn’t ever come out. We rarely ever saw anything or anyone."According to reports, 'Nadeem' could very likely have been bin Laden's courier, the man trusted to take his video and audio messages to the outside world. US officials described him as a Pakistani brought up in Kuwait.Mohammed Qasim told us his father was arrested after the early morning operation carried about by US Navy seals in which an unarmed Osama bin Laden was shot twice and killed."At around midnight, my family heard helicopters," he said. "We didn't leave the house because there was so much bombing and firing outside ... It was only after whoever those men were had left that the Pakistani army showed up. An army official called my father out of our house and ever since then we haven't seen or heard from him."Local police confirmed that Mohammed Qasim's father was taken into custody but wouldn't say why or when he would be back.Qasim says he doesn't know why his father was taken, saying the family had nothing to do with their closest neighbours, one now revealed to have been the world's most wanted fugitive.As well as bin Laden, five other people - including bin Laden's son Khalid - died in the 40-minute operation carried out by US forces.A number of others, including women and children, are reported to have survived the raid and are under Pakistani custody in nearby Islamabad.The house itself remains under close guard, but there are some suggestions it could be pulled down so that it doesn't become a shrine for al-Qaeda sympathisers. Read the full story here.

• Breaking : Image of Osama Bin Laden's youngest wife released.Here.

• White House Insider: Obama Hesitated – Panetta Issued Order to Kill Osama Bin Laden.(Socyberty)."What Valerie Jarrett, and the president, did not know is that Leon Panetta had already initiated a program that reported to him –and only him, involving a covert on the ground attack against the compound."

Q: You stated that President Obama was “overruled” by military/intelligence officials regarding the decision to send in military specialists into the Osama Bin Laden compound. Was that accurate?

A: I was told – in these exact terms, “we overruled him.” (Obama) I have since followed up and received further details on exactly what that meant, as well as the specifics of how Leon Panetta worked around the president’s “persistent hesitation to act.” There appears NOT to have been an outright overruling of any specific position by President Obama, simply because there was no specific position from the president to do so. President Obama was, in this case, as in all others, working as an absentee president.

I was correct in stating there had been a push to invade the compound for several weeks if not months, primarily led by Leon Panetta, Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, David Petraeus, and Jim Clapper. The primary opposition to this plan originated from Valerie Jarrett, and it was her opposition that was enough to create uncertainty within President Obama. Obama would meet with various components of the pro-invasion faction, almost always with Jarrett present, and then often fail to indicate his position. This situation continued for some time, though the division between Jarrett/Obama and the rest intensified more recently, most notably from Hillary Clinton. She was livid over the president’s failure to act, and her office began a campaign of anonymous leaks to the media indicating such. As for Jarrett, her concern rested on two primary fronts. One, that the military action could fail and harm the president’s already weakened standing with both the American public and the world. Second, that the attack would be viewed as an act of aggression against Muslims, and further destabilize conditions in the Middle East.

I have been told by more than one source that Leon Panetta was directing the operation with both his own CIA operatives, as well as direct contacts with military – both entities were reporting to Panetta only at this point, and not the President of the United States. There was not going to be another delay as had happened 24 hour earlier. The operation was at this time effectively unknown to President Barack Obama or Valerie Jarrett and it remained that way until AFTER it had already been initiated. President Obama was literally pulled from a golf outing and escorted back to the White House to be informed of the mission. Upon his arrival there was a briefing held which included Bill Daley, John Brennan, and a high ranking member of the military. When Obama emerged from the briefing, he was described as looking “very confused and uncertain.”

The president was then placed in the situation room where several of the players in this event had already been watching the operation unfold. Another interesting tidbit regarding this is that the Vice President was already “up to speed” on the operation. A source indicated they believe Hillary Clinton had personally made certain the Vice President was made aware of that day’s events before the president was. The now famous photo released shows the particulars of that of that room and its occupants. What that photo does not communicate directly is that the military personnel present in that room during the operation unfolding, deferred to either Hillary Clinton or Robert Gates. The president’s role was minimal, including their acknowledging of his presence in the room.

In my initial communication to you of these events I described what unfolded as a temporary Coup initiated by high ranking intelligence and military officials. I stand by that term. These figures worked around the uncertainty of President Obama and the repeated resistance of Valerie Jarrett. If they had not been willing to do so, I am certain Osama Bin Laden would still be alive today. There will be no punishment to those who acted outside the authority of the president’s office. The president cannot afford to admit such a fact. What will be most interesting from here is to now see what becomes of Valerie Jarrett. One source indicated she is threatening resignation. I find that unlikely given my strong belief she needs the protection afforded her by the Oval Office and its immense powers to delay and eventually terminate investigations back in Chicago, but we shall see.Hmmmm....conclusion"Caliph Pres Obama did not want him killed"?Read the full story here.

• Bin Laden's Young Wife Identified.(TheDailyBeast). By the time Osama bin Laden was killed, he was down to only one of his five wives: Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah, the youngest and his rumored favorite. By the time he moved into his Pakistan mansion, Bin Laden had divorced one of his wives and three others had moved to Syria, according to ABC News, but Amal had remained with him. She had been given to him as a gift when she was still a teenager, and eventually had three children with bin Laden—a daughter and two sons, who lived with them in the compound.On the night of the raid, Amal was in the bedroom with Bin Laden, and apparently reacted with fury to the Navy SEALs who had come to kill her husband. "She rushed one of the U.S. assaulters and was shot in the leg, but not killed," White House spokesman Jay Carney said.Read the full story here.

• Bin Laden versus Yassin.Op-ed: Hypocritical world that slammed killing of Hamas’ Yassin now lauds bin Laden hit.(Ynet). The flurry of international reactions to the killing of Osama bin Laden by the American army provides Israel with a great opportunity to demonstrate the double standards applied against it by so many in the Western world and elsewhere. All one has to do is compare the reactions of major institutions and leaders with those after the death of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. This leader of the Hamas terrorist organization was killed by Israel in 2004. He was directly responsible for many lethal attacks on Israeli civilians including suicide bombings.On Monday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told reporters that "the death of Osama bin Laden, announced by President (Barack) Obama last night, is a watershed moment in our common global fight against terrorism." Yet after the killing of Sheikh Yassin, then-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said "I do condemn the targeted assassination of Sheikh Yassin and the others who died with him. Such actions are not only contrary to international law, but they do not do anything to help the search for a peaceful solution.” The now-defunct UN Commission on Human Rights condemned “the tragic death of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in contravention of the Hague Convention IV of 1907.” At the Security Council, the US had to use its veto power to prevent condemnation of Israel. After the bin Laden killing, the leaders of the European Council and European Commission stated that his death made the world a safer place and showed that terrorist attacks do not remain unpunished. Following the Yassin killing, then-EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana said, "This type of action does not contribute at all to create the conditions of peace. This is very, very bad news for the peace process. The policy of the European Union has been consistently condemnation of extra-judicial killing".President Abdullah Gul of Turkey declared that the killing of bin Laden was a message for terrorist organizations all around the world. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had called the killing of Yassin “a terrorist act” and said that “the assassination was not humane.” This comparison gets even more meaningful when seen in the context of the definition of anti-Semitism as regularly used in the European Union. It was prepared by one of the EU agencies. It gives examples of the ways in which anti-Semitism manifests itself with regard to the State of Israel, including the following: “Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.” Israel could considerably improve its public diplomacy by using the comparison of the two killings and other comparisons of events which occur with great frequency to stress such double standards. This is one of the many ways that Israel can fend off at least part of the unjust criticism against it. Read the full discrimination story here.

• UN human rights chief Navi Pillay wants more details of Bin Laden's execution style killing. (Expatia).UN human rights chief Navi Pillay is keeping an eye on details of the US military operation that killed Osama bin Laden as they emerge from Washington, her office indicated on Wednesday.Pillay underlined in a statement earlier that Al-Qaeda's leader had assumed responsibility for planned acts, including mass murder, that amounted to crimes against humanity."I note that the United States has clearly stated that their intention was to arrest bin Laden if they could, I fully understand that this was always likely to have been difficult," she added."This was a complex operation and it would have been helpful if we knew the precise facts surrounding his killing," the High Commissioner for Human Rights said. All counterterrorism operations had to respect international law, she added.A spokesman for her office noted that since the remarks had been prepared more details had emerged from the United States on the killing of bin Laden by US commandos during a raid on his hideout in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad.Pillay said: "If he was captured and brought before a court I have no doubt he would have been charged with the most serious crimes, including the mass murder of civilians on 9/11, which were planned and systematic and amounted to crimes against humanity."A UN source said no request had been made to the United States so far.The United States revealed late Monday that Bin Laden was unarmed when US commandos shot him dead, although there was strong resistance during a firefight in the compound.But officials did not clearly explain why he was shot dead and not captured given that he was unarmed, fuelling speculation that the elite Navy SEAL team had been ordered on a kill mission.Hmmmm....Who ordered his execution?Was it Panetta or Obama?Read the full story here.

• US furious with Hamas over condemnation.Hillary "Don't worry we'll keep payrolling your terrorist activities".(Ynet).The US State Department on Tuesday described Hamas' condemnation of the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as "outrageous."After the Al-Qaeda chief was killed by US forces, the head of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniyeh, said: "We condemn any killing of a holy warrior or of a Muslim and Arab person and we ask God to bestow his mercy upon him." Haniyeh said Hamas regards bin Laden's death as "as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood."State Department Spokesman Mark Toner said Tuesday Haniyeh's comments were outrageous and omitted the fact that bin Laden was a criminal and a terrorist.US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed the unity deal with Netanyahu and Palestinian premier Salam Fayyad on Tuesday. Clinton stressed that US aid to the Palestinian Authority will continue.Hmmmm....How else will they have enough funds to attack Israel and the US?Read the full story here.

• Bush declines Obama invite to Thursday’s Ground Zero event.(HotAir).No reason given, but I think we can guess.President Barack Obama plans to visit New York City on Thursday to mark the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.NBC News reported that Obama invited former President George W. Bush to attend the event but Bush does not plan to attend.NBC said Bush plans to mark the 10-year anniversary of 9/11 at ground zero in September.Only two possibilities. One: Bush recognizes that this is, more or less, an Obama campaign commercial and would rather not be part of it. Two: Bush doesn’t want to encroach on the singular role that Obama, as president, should rightly have in leading the ceremonies marking Bin Laden’s demise. Given how gracious Dubya has been in retirement, does anyone doubt that the second explanation is correct?Needless to say, it was also gracious of The One to invite him.Hmmm...."Then I pulled the Nr 9 iron and gave it to him right between the eyes"?Read the full story here.

• Netanyahu suspends east J'lem construction plan.(Ynet).PM orders discussion on massive east J'lem construction projects to be taken off planning committee's agenda - ahead of US trip. The Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday decided to postpone plans to build housing units in Jewish neighborhoods beyond Jerusalem's Green Line for the second time in less than a month, Ynet has learned.Discussion on the two projects for the construction of more than 900 housing units in east Jerusalem was taken off the District Planning and Construction Committee's agenda for Thursday. One project is a plan to build 930 homes at the neighborhood of Har Homa, and the other is slated to see the construction of dozens of units in Pisgat Ze'ev. Thursday's hearing was meant to address objections that were raised against the projects – one of the final stages before construction permits are issued. The postponement of the hearing delays the projects indefinitely. The Interior Ministry confirmed that the order to bump the discussion came from the Prime Minister's Office, which only three weeks ago rejected four major construction plans for the neighborhoods of Gilo, Har Homa, Pisgat Ze'ev and Ramot.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to visit the United States at the end of the month, prompting the assumption that the latest measure aims to avoid nembarrassment during the visit. The neighborhood of Har Homa was officially renamed Homat Shmuel in 1997 during Netanyahu's first term as prime minister, despite US objection. Since the Jewish neighborhood is located beyond the Green Line, every action that aims to expand it provokes an international outcry, as it upsets the status quo in the capital. "The plan (to build 930 units in Har Homa) gives preference to construction on east Jerusalem territories which have been taken over by Israel in 1967, and which stand at the heart of the political process," wrote the Ir Amim organization, which promotes Palestinian-Israeli coexistence in Jerusalem. "This kind of preferential treatment can cause severe harm to the political process." Hmmmm.......Pharao Obama has spoken?Netanyahu should say "Stop the funding of the terrorists or we will bconstruct all over Israel!Read the full story here.

• Bin Laden's 'will' apologises to his children.(Emirates247).In a four-page document dated December 14, 2001, claiming to be Osama bin Laden's last will and testament, the terrorist mastermind apologises to his children for neglecting them in favour of jihad.Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden did not want his children to join the terrorist organisation, the Kuwait-based Al Anbaa newspaper said citing his last will and testament.He prohibited his children from taking part in his terrorist organisation and from "going to the front", the newspaper said.According to the Arabic daily, the document is written on a computer and signed "Your Brother Abu Abdullah Osama Muhammad Bin Laden." The late Al Qaeda leader predicted he would be killed as a result of a "betrayal" and ordered his wives to not remarry.Various reports say bin Laden fathered between 12 and 26 children and married four women.Bin Laden, believed to be 54 years of age, was killed in Pakistan by US special forces.The document, which was first published in a Lebanese newspaper in 2001, has resurfaced this week following the insurgent's death at the hands of the Navy Seals six team on Sunday, reports Daily Mail.US intelligence sources remain sceptical on its authenticity however, despite it being cited in a recent Senate report, said the UK daily.In the will bin Laden compares himself to a seventh century caliph and suggests his children need to forge their own way in life rather than ride on the back of his name, said Daily.'As for you my children: Forgive me for not giving you except but a minimum amount of my time since I have begun my call for jihad,' bin Laden allegedly writes in the will.'And I advise you not to join in the work of Al Qaeda.' This is in direct contrast to what one of his children told the Guardian newspaper in 2009.Source.

• Federal Judge allows California Imam with suspected links to Hezbollah back into US despite Homeland Security objections.(NorthEastIntelligence).Nabi Raza Mir (a.k.a. Nabi Raza Abidi) is the Imam of The Shia Association of the Bay Area (SABA) Mosque, an Islamic center located in the heart of the Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California. SABA’s leadership has been known to endorse the anti-American Khomeinist regime in Iran and the activities of the Lebanon-based international terrorist group Hezbollah.The Northern California mosque’s previous imam, a man named Rafic Labboun, is currently in US prison for credit card fraud that may be linked to fund-raising activities by Hezbollah for money raised in the United States for use abroad as a part of the terrorist group’s activities. Nabi Raza Mir, who has been Labboun’s replacement since 2002, but is not yet a US citizen, left the US temporarily with his family late December, 2010 allegedly to visit his sick mother, but was denied admittance back into the US for his return by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The United States Government did this ostensibly because of his open ties and support of the Khomeini regime in Iran. Nabi Raza Mir Rafic Labboun

So, does Nabi Raza Mir really pose a threat to national security?It is important to understand where this mullah comes from and the movement he and his relatives spouse from the SABA Islamic Center. Mir’s first permanent residence petition (an I-360 document in U.S. Immigration parlance) was filed by the Shia Association of the Bay Area in 2004 and was repeatedly denied up to as late as December 2006 under the Bush administration. A second I-360 petition to grant him permanent US residence was applied for by SABA back in June of 2007, one year before President Obama took office and was denied in November of that same year. An appeal was filed by SABA and after wending its way through the US courts for three years (Mir was still practicing as the imam and running his business in the Silicon Valley Mosque during this whole time) it was denied in 2011 under the new Obama Administration. If the Department of Justice (DOJ) under the Obama Administration also felt he was a security risk, there must have been more to this cleric than meets the eye. In fact, part of this denial was based on new anti-terrorism laws designed to keep individuals with potential terrorism links out of the United States.

Needless to say, Attorney General Eric Holder’s passion for wanting to get the Gitmo detainees released should suggest that if even he also wants Mir kept out of the country there must be a good reason for it. As mentioned, Mir comes from a remote village in India called Alipur that is a Khomeinist stronghold with strong allegiances to the Iranian regime. He has been staying there pending his legal appeals along with his wife, Gulshan Zahera, and their three younger sons who were also named as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the US government. Judge Jeremy Fogel handed down a stipulation agreed to by Mir’s lawyers and US Attorney Melissa S. Liebman just a few days ago that will allow the Khomeinist mullah and his family to come back to California.The original lawsuit seeking to allow Nabi Raza Mir back into the United States was filed by the Mosque with the help of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), according to the Mosque’s website. CAIR has been accused of being a Hamas front by members of Congress and is mainly Sunni Moslem inspired. Sunnis and Shiites, as two different sects of Islam do not normally agree, but have been cooperating together in this case because of their mutual animus toward Israel and against the United States.A recent video that appears on You Tube featured one of Mir’s close relatives in Alipur giving an inflammatory speech in support of the Ali Khameini regime in Iran and screaming “Kaybar, Kaybar, Ya Yahud!” an exhortation to exterminate the Jews referring to a historical passage in the Koran where Mohammed wiped out a Jewish community and beheaded its male population. The speaker in the video is Qayeem Abbas who is another imam in Alipur and a family relative of Mir’s. Another Toronto-based imam under the watch of Canadian intelligence and known Hezbollah sympathizer, Zaki Baqri, is also related to Mir. All these men are members of the so-called “Sadat” caste as recognized back in Alipur, which openly seeks to dominate and rule the world and sees it as their right to do so. Both mullahs carry the titles “Syed” (Arabic/Persian/Urdu for “master”) and “Maulana” (Arabic for “our lord”) as evidenced the Mosque’s newsletter. In this bizarre system, there are two classes of people: Masters and non-masters. So if these are the masters, what are they teaching the non-masters in their holy mosques to think and do?The You Tube video, shot in Alipur that is not in English, also ends with Mir’s relations calling for the destruction of America as the Great Satan and “Death to Israel” as the Lesser Satan. It should be noted there are no Jews living in Alipur where this demonstration took place, that the call to exterminate Jews is in following with the Khomeinist regime’s programming from Tehran. Religious leaders from the SABA Mosque have been reported to have made comments disparaging of Christians and Jews at times during sermons and invitations for religious speakers who are known to be virulently anti-Semitic are the norm. Some of these have included Abdul Malik Ali, an imam from Oakland who calls for genocide against Jews on US campuses such as UC Irvine, as well as Abdul Alim Musa, a former Oakland drug lord turned Shiite Imam who converted in prison and who has stated his goal is to instill a Khomeinist regime as found in Iran here in the United States.Nabi Raza Mir, while practicing as the imam at the SABA Mosque, before leaving for Alipur, also had expressed praise and regret at the passing of Mullah Sayyed Fallalah who was credited with ordering the bombing of the US marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, costing the lives of over 241 US military personnel in what many consider to be the major first terror attack assignment by Hezbollah. At political and religious events in the San Jose area, SABA Mosque leaders have been photographed frequently wearing the paraphernalia of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps or of the Basij, both the military wings and enforcers of the dictatorial regime in Iran. Average Americans do not understand the symbolism of Basij scarves or keffiyehs or may think they represent the Palestinian evolution. But many exiled Iranians do know their meaning as identifiers of the secret police back in Iran or Hezbollah.Dearborn, Michigan, is no longer the only most major center of Hezbollah activity in the United States; Nabi Raza Mir arrived back in the US on April 25th to be hosted at a special reception at the SABA Mosque on Thursday, April 28th as San Jose which now vows for that same distinction.Hmmmm......."The Religion Of Peace".Read the full story here.

• Death of Bin Laden one more excuse for the Obama regime to increase the Big Brother police state?(CBS).Security Checkpoints Near Soft Targets May Soon Become The Norm.A Day May Come When You'll Be Patted Down Going Into Stores?Counter terrorism experts say a retaliation attack for Osama bin Laden’s death is inevitable. Terrorists are expected to aim for more vulnerable soft targets like shopping malls or museums.They are places jam-packed with people — pedestrian malls, shopping centers and stadiums.“Yeah, I feel safe. But of course in the back of my head I know that things can happen,” one person told CBS 2’s Hazel Sanchez.Counter terrorism expert Juval Aviv said terrorists seeking revenge for Osama bin Laden’s death will turn to attacks less dramatic than the destruction on Sept. 11 — focusing instead on soft targets like hotels, places of worship and mass transit hubs.“It’s easier and less complicated to carry out,” Aviv said. “What they’re going to achieve if they’re successful is to kill as many people as possible.”Security consultant David Boehm said the future could include security check points entering all soft targets — like your local department store. Boehm said even with a police presence, the areas are vulnerable.“The reason they’re called ‘soft’ is because it’s so easily accessible to anyone. There has to be security checks for the safety of all people,” Broehm said.Added security is a turn-off for some New Yorkers.“We are millions and millions of eyes and ears. We need to assist the police. We need to assist each other and keep each other safe,” Boehm said.It’s freedom, coming with an increasingly heavy price.Hmmmm.....I thought Al-Qaida was destroyed?Read the full story here.

• One day after Bin-Laden is killed, and the US purchases over $ 100 Million of Antrax vaccine from Muslim ceo.(Tundratabloids).TINSC gives the Tundra Tabloids the hat tip on the following story, that may or may not, be of any significance in the near future, but interesting nonetheless. According to a press release, Emergent BioSolutions INC. is going to sell to the US government over a 100 dollars worth of anthrax vaccines, just a day after the killing of Osama Bin-Laden.What makes this all the more interesting is that the CEO is one, Fuad El-Hibri, a Muslim born in Germany who spent part of his childhood in the ME and in the US, and who has established a $15 000 El-Hibri Peace Education Prize in his name, with the first recipient of the award being Syrian professor, Abdul Aziz Said.

Mr.Said happens to be someone who believes in the Al-Andalus myth, which is supposedly the prime example of the “Three Abrahamic Faiths” living in peace an harmony. He also believes (the highly anti-Semitic) the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic Conference would be excellent vehicles for helping Muslim-Western relations and helpful in dispute resolutions and conciliations. How painfully grotesque.Decide for yourself whether Fuad El-Hibri warrants a closer look, but you will have to admit the irony of a Muslim selling to the US government anthrax vaccines in case of a Muslim terrorist anthrax attack.This modification to the contract is valued at up to $101 million for the delivery and shipping of additional doses of BioThrax beginning 3Q 2011. Delivery of these doses will commence immediately following early completion of final delivery of the original 14.5 million doses of BioThrax under the contract prior to this modification. Emergent anticipates completing all deliveries of these additional 3.42 million doses of BioThrax during the remainder of 2011Hmmmm.....Why all the preparations lately?What's the Obama regime hiding?Read the full story here.

• Coon Rapids man accused of killing stepdaughter in Michigan for leaving home, not following Islam.(TwinCities).WARREN, Mich. — A Twin Cities man is accused of killing his 20-year-old stepdaughter in Michigan because she left home and wasn't following Islam, police said Tuesday. Rahim Alfetlawi, 45, of Coon Rapids, was being held without bond Tuesday in the Macomb County Jail after being charged with first-degree murder in the death of Jessica Mokdad on Saturday at her grandmother's home in the Detroit suburb of Warren. Alfetlawi was arraigned Monday, and a not guilty plea was entered on his behalf. He awaits a May 12 preliminary examination. Alfetlawi requested a court-appointed lawyer. A number listed for Alfetlawi in Coon Rapids wasn't in service. Warren Police Detective Lt. Michael Torey said Alfetlawi went to police in neighboring Center Line to report the shooting. Torey said Alfetlawi told police the gun discharged accidentally when he pulled it out, but police believe he intentionally shot Mokdad in the head. Torey said Mokdad had left her mother and stepfather to live with her father near Flint in Grand Blanc because she did not like their rules. "He's a strict Muslim, she was more Americanized," Torey said. Authorities say Alfetlawi told them he came to Michigan to find and confront Mokdad's father. Torey said Alfetlawi asked Mokdad about where her father was and an argument ensued.Hmmm......A 'misunderstander' of Islam?Read the full story here.

• Joan Rivers Drops F-Bomb on Red Carpet: ‘Stop Campaigning’ and ‘Take Care of the F****** Country’.(CNSNews) – Joan Rivers dropped the F-bomb on the red carpet at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night, saying that President Barack Obama and other politicians should “stop campaigning” and "[t]ake care of the f****** country."“No. I think President Obama should stop campaigning and take care of the country. I think it’s disgusting that everyone two years out is campaigning already. Take care of the f***ing country,” Rivers told CNSNews.com when asked if President Obama has lived up to her expectations.When asked what issues she thinks Obama has not addressed, Rivers said, “It’s not him. It’s all of them. It’s all of them. We’re bankrupting this country over three wars that we should--it’s just ridiculous and you know it and I know it. I don’t want to get into it. I’m an actor. I’m not a politician.”Hmmmm.......It's all of them?The Chicago Mob?Read the full story here.

• Erdogan's Turkey becoming 'silent' under his regime.'Worrying' decline in Turkey's press freedom, Freedom House says.(HurriyetDaily).The “significant” decline observed last year in press freedom in Turkey indicates the country is “moving in the wrong direction,” a senior Freedom House researcher said Monday.Turkey is still in the Partly Free category in the Washington-based advocacy group’s latest press freedom index, but dropped by three points last year.“Three points is considered a significant decline,” Karin Deutsch Karlekar, a senior researcher at Freedom House, who served as managing editor of its Freedom of the Press 2011 survey, told the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review in a telephone interview Tuesday.Released early this week, “Freedom of the Press 2011: A Global Survey of Media Independence,” found that a number of key countries – including Egypt, Hungary, Mexico, South Korea, Thailand, Ukraine and Turkey – experienced significant declines in press freedom last year. The result is a global landscape in which only one in six people live in countries with a press that is designated Free.“In 2010, we saw a lot of worrying trends [in Turkey] and there is already an increased use of laws against journalists, particularly the anti-terrorism laws,” Karlekar told the Daily News. “That led to increased self-censorship among Turkish journalists.”According to the study, the largest numerical change in the Western European region in 2010 was the decline in Turkey’s score, which fell from 51 to 54 as a result of heightened harassment of journalists under a number of laws, including articles 301 and 216 of the Turkish penal code and anti-terrorism legislation.“Like the previous year, Turkey was categorized in 2010 as Partly Free but it is moving in the wrong direction,” said Karlekar. “Some of the journalists detained last year are still in jail and have not yet been charged. That’s a continuing concern.”Hmmmm.....Welcome to Turkey...now 'Iranian style'?Read the full story here.

• Ex-wife seeks Dh45m for loveless marriage from man who married twelve times.(Emirates247).A woman is seeking Dh45 million in compensation from her Emirati ex-husband for enduring a loveless marriage, depriving her of conjugal rights and causing emotional agony.In a civil compensation case, heard at the Dubai Courts, the woman alleged that her ex-husband suffered from sexual dysfunction, reported 'Gulf News'.She married the accused in 2008 and spent about 15 months with him.She alleged her husband did not sleep with her in the first four months of their marriage. "When he did for the first time, he treated me inhumanly and inappropriately...I suffered mentally, emotionally and lost any hope to become a mother...He made me resign from my work...I lost my only income. I had to borrow money from family and friends," she told the court.She alleged the wealthy businessman, who was a former public figure, was a womaniser. He married more than 12 times, she added. Hmmmm......13 Is the lucky number?Read the full story here.