The White House again called for Aung San Suu Kyi’s release by the Military and Communist aligned government of Myanmar (aka Burma) today. Aung San Suu Kyi has spent 11 years out of the past 18 in detention after winning the democratic leadership of Burma in free elections.
Since then then the Military has armed up with aid from China, postioned troops on the border, and arrested many dissidents. They also continue the war against the Karen rebels, pushing many refugees into Thailand.
Utilitarian Walls don’t have to be ugly, witness these murals on the T-Rail walls near Baghdad’s Abu Nawas Fish-market.
The Bristish foreign office is again appealing to a radical Cleric aligned with Al Qaida, and wanted in Jordan to gain the release of a BBC reporter held hostage by terrorists in Palestine. If they didn’t learn from their last dealing with the devil, Abu Qatada, then I question their sanity. Continue reading
In hearing today one of the “Fort Dix Six” terrorists was denied bail. He says he’s harmless, but the judge didn’t think so. Continue reading
If Ron Paul will meet with and support troothers, I want to know when is he meeting with Rosie? In the video below you see Presidential aspirant Ron Paul meeting with 9/11 truthers, and promising a bipartisan effort with Dennis Kucinich to investigate 9/11 once more… It could be a vast government conspiracy after all. Once done with this maybe Ron could move on to the grassy knoll, the Bermuda triangle, area 51, and other pressing mysteries of our times. Update: Since posting the vid below Ron Paul has been discussed on “The View” by High Priestess Rosie, and Michelle Malkin has an update. Continue reading
In Kabul the Afghans are very upset about the fighting between the Pakistani Army and the Afghan Army, and they demonstrated in front of Pakistan’s embassy there:
KABUL, Afghanistan – About 1,000 Afghans shouting “Death to Pakistan” demonstrated in front of Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul Wednesday, blaming the neighboring country for some of the bloodiest border clashes in years.
Many of the demonstrators were from the eastern province of Paktia, where the fighting between Afghan and Pakistani troops killed at least 13 Afghan border guards and civilians so far this week.
The demonstrators carried banners and shouted “Death to the ISI! Death to Musharraf,” a reference to Pakistan’s intelligence agency and President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
Afghan police wearing riot gear guarded the embassy in downtown Kabul. There were no reports of violence.
“We’ve run out of patience with Pakistan,” said Sultan Uddin, 50, from the Jaji district of Paktia. “We’re requesting President (Hamid) Karzai to give us weapons and remove the border police. We know how to deal with Pakistan.”
In tank, terrorists aligned with the Taliban in South Waziristan fired rockets into a marketplace, killing five civilians, Continue reading
Brian Ross at ABC reports on the video Mullah Dadullah made just 36 hours before his death regarding the training of terrorist cells in both the US and Britain. More at ABC News The Blotter:
Thirty-six hours before he was killed by U.S. forces, Taliban Commander Mullah Dadullah said he was training American and British citizens to carry out suicide missions in their home countries, according to a videotape interview to be broadcast on ABC News’ “World News” Monday.
“We will be executing attacks in Britain and the U.S. to demonstrate our sincerity,” he told an Afghan interviewer, “to destroy their cities as they have destroyed our cities.”
A senior U.S. official told the Blotter on ABCNews.com that recent intelligence reports confirmed Dadullah’s claim that U.S. citizens were being trained in Taliban and al Qaeda camps.
Mullah Dadullah is known for making extreme threats, most of them have a grain of truth but are usually exagerated. I would wager that trained cells do exist both UK and US, but they are probably few.
In a video broadcast on Al Arabiya television Hekmatyar, the butcher of Kabul, (responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of muslims from rockets during the attack on Rabbani’s government in Kabul) states that Osama Bin Laden still lives, he’s just keeping a low-profile.
The violence in Pakistan grows, and the opposition parties have now named the MQM shootings in the Karachi demonstrations “The May Massacre”. This, along with Musharaaf’s suspension of the chief justice, and his handling of the Jamia Hafsa affair is usurping the moderates from support of Musharaaf’s party. More demonstrations and “wheel jams” are happening across the country. ( In a wheel jam demonstrators will block an important road, crossroads or intersection for a day or more.)
The Empress of the North, a rustic paddle-wheel steamer that tours Alaska’s inland waterways and British Columbia ran aground overnight. Passengers were evacc’ed and it appears that the ship is now headed back to port under it’s own power.
