Little Green Footballs - We Are Not Worthy

As per usual, Little Green Footballs has had many important stories the past few days. Too many to blatantly ripoff - er, I mean honor with links from IBA - so I'll just have to do a quick roundup.

In France, an undercover policeman got involved in a deadly scrap in which a mob of 100 anti-Semiti soccer fans were beating four fans of team Israel. The police man ended up shooting and killing one on the mob:


“A plain clothes officer from the transport police, Antoine Granomort, told Monsieur Hazout to stand behind him and then tried to keep the crowd away using his tear-gas canister.
Police prep for problems at Marseille v PSG ”The crowd hurled insults — dirty Jew, dirty n_____ — and monkey cries and raised Nazi salutes. Some shouted ‘Le Pen for president’,“ he said.
According to Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy: ”One of the attackers hit him on the head and another kicked him in the groin, and he fell to the ground. He got out his gun after stating he was a policeman — though in what exact circumstances I do not know.“
”(The officer) fired in legitimate self-defense in order to protect his physical person. He had come to the aid of a man in accordance with our rules of engagement, and he had no choice but to shoot," said Patrice Ribeiro of the Synergie police union.


Charles comments: "Europeans often look down their noses at the “violence and racism” of the United States, but if there’s an equivalent for this appallingly antisemitic, racist French behavior in the US, I haven’t seen it"


In other news, the UN Human Rights Commissioner says that Israel is worse than Hamas and Hizbollah, even though they purposefully hide and fire in crowds of civilians.

You gotta read her finely braided moral "logic."


Investors Business Daily on the airport Imam case:


Then there’s the case of Muhammed al-Qudhaieen and Hamdan al-Shalawi, two Arizona college students removed from an America West flight after twice trying to open the cockpit. The FBI suspected it was a dry run for the 9/11 hijackings, according to the 9/11 Commission Report. One of the students had traveled to Afghanistan. Another became a material witness in the 9/11 investigation.

. DefendEven so, the pair filed racial-profiling suits against America West, now part of US Airways. Defending them was none other than the leader of the six imams kicked off the US Airways flight this week.

Turns out the students attended the Tucson, Ariz., mosque of Sheikh Omar Shahin, a Jordan native. Shahin has been the protesters’ public face, even returning to the US Airways ticket counter at the Minneapolis airport to scold agents before the cameras.

In an Arizona Republic interview after 9/11, he acknowledged once supporting Osama bin Laden through his mosque in Tucson. FBI investigators believe bin Laden set up a base in Tucson.

Hani Hanjour, who piloted the plane that hit the Pentagon, attended the Tucson mosque along with bin Laden’s onetime personal secretary, according to the 9/11 Commission Report. Bin Laden’s ex-logistics chief was president of the mosque before Shahin took over.

“These people don’t continue to come back to Arizona because they like the sunshine or they like the state,” said FBI agent Kenneth Williams. “Something was established there, and it’s been there for a long time.” And Shahin appears to be in the middle of it.