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Did you hear the one about funny Guy and the Dyke of Earle

Vancouver, Canada is proudly hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics in days coming, and the world's attention is tightly focussed on all things Vancouver-- except for one thing that is far more important than games Olympic: After the Olympics, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal (BCHRT) is bringing to its court a comedian named Guy Earle on charges of hate speech. Yes, dear reader, a comedian got fed-up with two drunken lesbian hecklers tossing drinks in his face, and he berated them. Here in Vancouver, such is hate. It can cost a man $40,000.00 in penalties outright, costs in attending the trial, and a lost career afterward. That's the serious game played in this place: bagging people for "hate-crimes." This is the same court infamous for attacking Mark Steyn and McLeans Magazine. In March they go after comedian Guy Earle. Who will be next? There's no seeming end to it. This kind of madness seeps. It gets into everything. Steyn; Wilders; and now we see the seeping and unstoppable Dkye of Earle. But this game has to stop.

For more:

http://nodhimmitude.blogspot.com/2010/02/does-dyke-of-earl-have-mole-in-hole.html

Much adoo over this???

Remember this?

Telander probably should have watched the commercial first.

Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock

Newsmax:

Ahmadinejad Orders Uranium Enrichment in New Challenge to Obama
Sunday, 07 Feb 2010 08:34 AM

Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered his country's atomic agency on Sunday to begin the production of higher enriched uranium, a move that's likely to deepen international skepticism about the country's real intentions on the crucial issue of enriched uranium.

Ahmadinejad's latest pronouncement on the issue of enriched uranium coincided with a call Sunday by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates for the international community to rally together to pressure Iran into abandoning its nuclear program.

Speaking to reporters during a weeklong European tour, Gates said that "if the international community will stand together and bring pressure" on Iran, "I believe there is still time for sanctions to work."

He declined to be specific about the type of sanctions he had in mind, but explained that the focus should be on putting pressure on the government in Tehran and not hurting the people.

In comments broadcast on state television, Ahmadinejad said: "God willing, 20 percent enrichment will start" to meet Iran's needs. He did not give a date for the start of the enrichment process.

He was speaking at a meeting attended by the head of Iran's atomic energy agency, Ali Akbar Salehi.

Turning to Salehi, Ahmadinejad said: "Mr. Salehi, begin production of 20 percent" enriched uranium.

Producing enriched uranium is the international community's core concern over Iran's disputed nuclear program since it can be used to make nuclear weapons. Iran says its program is for peaceful purposes.

Iran and the West have been discussing a U.N. plan under which Iran would export its low-enriched uranium for enrichment abroad. The plan, which comes from the International Atomic Energy Agency, was first drawn up in early October in a meeting in Geneva between Iran and the six world powers. It was refined later that month in Vienna talks among Iran, the U.S., Russia and France.

The Vienna talks came up with a draft proposal that would take 70 percent of Iran's low-enriched uranium to reduce its stockpile of material that could be enriched to a higher level, and possibly be used to make nuclear weapons. That uranium would be returned about a year later as refined fuel rods, which can power reactors but cannot be readily turned into weapons-grade material.

In what was interpreted to be a possible shift of policy on a major issue, Ahmadinejad said last week he was ready to export his country's low-enriched uranium for higher enrichment abroad, saying Iran had "no problem" with the plan. Sunday's comments, however, appeared to justify the skepticism with which his Tuesday's comments were met by world leaders.

Salehi, the head of the Iranian atomic energy agency, later appeared to play down the significance of Ahmadinejad's comments. He told the official IRNA news agency the president was giving a "preparedness order" so Iran would be ready to enrich its uranium if the exchange with the West fails to take place.

He said the higher enrichment would be carried out in facilities in the central Iranian town of Natanz.

Ahmadinejad on Sunday made no mention of his own announcement on the issue last week, saying only that Iran remained ready to have "interaction" with the West over providing fuel to Iran "without condition."

But a foreign ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, said Sunday that 20 percent uranium enrichment for use by Tehran's research reactor was within the country's right as a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA. The uranium enrichment will be carried out under IAEA supervision, he said.

The enrichment, he added, would not affect Iran's readiness to swap its low enriched uranium for higher enriched one. He did not elaborate, but Iran has in the past said it would only embark on high uranium enrichment if the West refuses to provide the fuel to Iran.

On Sunday, Ahmadinejad said Iran has acquired laser technology for enrichment of uranium, but added, "For now, we do not intend to use it." He did not say why.

Iran is currently enriching uranium up to 4.5 percent for its under-construction nuclear power plant, using centrifuge machines. Its first nuclear power plant, built with Russia's help, will be operational later this year.

Iran's ambivalence over the enrichment issue comes at a time when the United States and its Western allies have been pushing for a fourth round of U.N. sanctions to be slapped on Iran over its disputed nuclear program. But with Russia, and especially China, skeptical of any new U.N. penalties, they have to tread carefully to maintain six power unity on how to deal with the Islamic Republic.

International concerns include Iran's refusal to heed U.N. Security Council demands that it freeze its enrichment program; fears that it may be hiding more nuclear facilities after its belated revelations that it was building a secret fortified enrichment plant, and its stonewalling of an IAEA probe of alleged programs geared to developing nuclear arms.

Breaking: ‘Huge’ explosion reported at Conn. power plant

No cause known yet.

MSNBC:

‘Huge’ explosion reported at Conn. power plant
At least two people killed, emergency officials say
BREAKING NEWS
msnbc.com news services
updated 1:17 p.m. ET, Sun., Feb. 7, 2010

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. - At least two people were killed in a large explosion at a gas power plant on Sunday, officials report.

CNN, citing police officials, reported at least two people were dead and the death toll was expected to rise.

Black smoke was seen billowing from the Kleen Energy Systems plant along the banks of the Connecticut River.

Neighbors of the plant said as many as 100 employees may have been working there when the explosion took place, the Hartford Courant reported.

Middletown police told NBC News that the explosion was 'huge' and there were multiple injuries and fatalities. The fire department said they were dispatching crews to the scene.

Plant general manger Gordon Holk confirmed injuries to WVIT-TV, but would not speculate on the number of casualties. He said the plant is a 620 megawatt gas-fired power plant.

The explosion at about 11:30 a.m. could be heard from up to 10 miles away, and some mistook it for an earthquake.

A local resident, Bernadette Nyland, told WTNH TV she was in her yard when the explosion occurred.

"They were doing the firing of the engines this morning and so something went wrong and it blew up and flames came shooting up almost as tall as that stack," she told the station.

Middletown, a college town, is 23 miles south of the city of Hartford.

Teach your children well

From De Dagelijkse Standaard (NL) this delightful item: In the upcoming local elections (March 3) a party calling itself Islam Democrats will compete for city council seats in The Hague. Heading the list of candidates (NL) for ID The Hague is one Dilaver Delikaya.

This character of course has his own social network page. On Hyves as it happens. On his page he has placed some pictures of family life in the Delikaya household. Particularly striking is the picture of ‘Muhamed Gangsta’, reproduced on the right. But there are other, equally quaint pictures here and here.

How old are these little ones? Seven, eight maybe? And how did they come up with the idea of striking these particular poses for the camera of Mr. Delikaya? And what is the message that Delikaya is trying to convey with these pictures?

Why should we allow a character like Mr. Delikaya to foul the political scene in The Hague with his presence? And lastly: Why isn't Mrs. Els Lucas pressing charges for 'incitement to hatred and violence'?

Questions... question...

[UPDATE001] Unfortunately, the pictures were already removed by the time I saw the DDS item. Links to the pictures are from a mirror provided by DDS. MSM reporting by the Algemeen Dagblad here (NL).

[UPDATE002] More on this on the NewsReal.

(cross posted from Klein Verzet)

Texas: Muslim who spoke at pro-Khomeini conference and threatened columnist anointed as "the country's leading Muslim deradicalization expert"

From Jihad Watch:

Does Mohamed Elibiary, who is called in this ridiculous puff piece "the country's leading Muslim deradicalization expert," need to deradicalize himself? After all, he was one of the speakers at a December 2004 conference in Dallas entitled "A Tribute to the Great Islamic Visionary," Ayatollah Khomeini. When Rod Dreher of the Dallas Morning News called him on this, he threatened Dreher, telling him: "Expect someone to put a banana in your exhaust pipe."

I have met Mohamed Elibiary. He is a slick fellow. You can read here his dancing and obfuscation about deception in Islam and other matters, in a long exchange we had here at Jihad Watch. Read it carefully, noting the questions I ask him and the answers he gives to them, and ask yourself whether he really is or ought to be thought of as "the country's leading Muslim deradicalization expert" -- not that there is any more suitable candidate out there.

"Many Muslims quietly working to head off radicalism," by Eileen Flynn for the Austin American-Statesman, February 6 (thanks to Ed):

In 2008, a New York woman feared her brother, a troubled young Muslim man living in New York, might be getting involved in a violent radical group in Pakistan. So she called a cleric in Houston for advice. The cleric in turn called Mohamed Elibiary, head of the Plano-based nonprofit Freedom and Justice Foundation.

Elibiary, who has quietly emerged as the country's leading Muslim deradicalization expert, devised an intervention that played on the young man's familial duties and got him to return to the United States where counselors and mentors steered him away from militant extremism.

Click on the title to read the whole thing.

Geert Wilders Trial Postponed, Perhaps, For Nearly a Year

Are the Dutch authorities attempting to deprive Wilders of any positive bounce he might get, electorally, by postponing his trial?

Pamela has the story.

Taliban Uses 12 Year Old Boys To Place IED's Because They Know We Won't Shoot 12 Year Old Boys

Once again, they are taking advantage of our decency to kill us. We won't fire on Mosques. We won't limit free speech. We won't shoot 12 year old boys.

But Jihadists will do all these things.

From Jawa:

Afghanistan: Not Only Do The Taliban Sexually Assault Young Boys, They Also Use Them For Placing IED'S

Apparently these children didn't please the sexually perverted Taliban:

Via UK's Major Paul Smyth's Helmand Blog

Boys as young as 12 are being used by the Taliban to plant bombs designed to kill and maim British troops in Afghanistan.

Army commanders say insurgents are forcing children to lay improvised explosive devices (IEDs) because they know they will not be shot by British snipers.[...]

A senior Army source said: ‘The Taliban know that if they get caught in the sights of our snipers, they don’t last long, so they have resorted to hiding behind compound walls and directing children to plant bombs for them.

‘Lots of home-made IEDs detonate before they have even been laid, but the Taliban don’t seem to care whether a child gets killed or maimed. Some boys are as young as 12.’

Liberal Columnist Richard Cohen Goes Off On Obama

From the Astute Bloggers:

From this column by Richard Cohen in the Washington Post:

[T]he paramount civil liberty is a sense of security and this, sad to say, has eroded under Barack Obama. Repeatedly, the administration has shown poor judgment.

Cohen even praises George W. Bush, albeit in a backhanded fashion:

No doubt George Bush soiled America's image abroad with what looked liked vigilante justice and Dick Cheney's hearty endorsement of ugly interrogation measures. But more is at stake here than America's image abroad -- namely the security and peace of mind of Americans in America. Bush stands condemned by the facts for Sept. 11 -- his watch, his responsibility -- and in all likelihood he bent over backward to ensure that nothing like those attacks would happen again.

The entire essay by Cohen is an indictment of the BHO administration and reads much like Krauthammer's work. An interesting turn because Cohen and Krauthammer typically express antithetical ideas.

UPDATE -

Meanwhile, Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor says he's tired of Republicans criticizing Obama over issues of National Security:

WASHINGTON – An exasperated White House newly committed to preaching partisan peace slammed Republicans for playing politics on national security and making ignorant allegations about the investigation into the Christmas airliner plot.

Deputy national security adviser John Brennan complained Sunday that politicians, many of them Republicans, were unfairly criticizing the administration for partisan purposes and second-guessing the case with a "500-mile screwdriver" that reaches from Washington to the scene of the abortive attack in Detroit.

"Quite frankly, I'm tiring of politicians using national security issues such as terrorism as a political football," Brennan said. "They are going out there. They're unknowing of the facts. And they're making charges and allegations that are not anchored in reality."

One of the major issues in the West Bank settlements emerges

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From Earl Cox, a Christian Zionist and MIssionary:

For many, the settlement issue essentially boils down to: Should we obey G-d, or should we obey man? Who is our higher authority?
Again, a difficult conflict has arisen in Israel - this time, with regard to the government's order to freeze construction of new housing
units in the so-called Jewish "settlements" in Judea and Samaria.
For many, the issue essentially boils down to: Should we obey G-d, or should we obey man? Who is our higher authority?
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu recently reversed his position on construction of new homes in the settlements. He had stood strongly
against US and international pressure on the issue since taking office; but suddenly and surprisingly ordered a construction freeze.
However, it should not be overlooked that the ordered freeze is both temporary and incomplete. It is to be in effect for only 10 months, and does not include 3,000 housing units already under construction in Judea and Samaria. Nor does it include east Jerusalem.
Israeli soldiers have been instructed by their government to enforce the freeze. However, many soldiers are defying those orders.

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Boredom Is Deadly

And scientific research proves it!

Excerpt from the article:

Boredom could be shaving years off your life, scientists have found.

Researchers say that people who complain of boredom are more likely to die young, and that those who experienced 'high levels' of tedium are more than two-and-a-half times as likely to die from heart disease or stroke than those satisfied with their lot.

Keep this study in mind the next time BHO or any other politician takes the microphone. Protect yourself by not listening.

Vancouver 2010 Olympics and Canadian Beaver: Non-Islamic and Hugely Olympian

Some Canadian guys are so non-Islamic that I like being here. That would be because the women are mostly non-Islamic too. They all have some pretty good local traits that I take a liking to. Like sports. Indoor, outdoor, in the change-room at the sporting goods store where...

Whoops.

So, given that the Olympics are here in days, here's to Canadian sporting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y09YOkVmGg0

The Muslim Threat Against Canadian

No, I'm not, really. I thought once about trying it, but the thought of it did put me off as it got closer to my lips. I kind of shuddered at the thought. I don't like the smell of it. Holding it in my hand is kind of yucky too, to be perfectly honest. Don't understand the attraction at all. In fact, it grosses me out entirely. Who would want that stuff in his mouth!? Good Greece. But things are different in Canada. I don't say anything. Seems lots of guys here like it. They indulge often, even in public, which gets to me. Yeah, I'm not one to talk, being in counselling for a Coke habit. I'm not perfect.

I do though feel a need to stand up for the rights of men who do things I wouldn't do myself. I know what Muslims would do to such men, and I object. Thus, I stand with men I wouldn't really like to be around. When I see them in public washrooms, I get nervous. But I have to stand with them there too if it's a matter of standing against Islam. Life is tough.

I wine, I know. But let's keep in mind that we have to do this together for the sake of all of us.

Satchmo!

What a Wonderful World

Cornel West Says Obama Reminds Him Of Saul Alinsky

"He has a sterling Democratic rhetoric at best, that reminds you of Saul Alinsky and the others at time. . ."

So says Cornel West, Obama Supporter and member of the Democratic Socialsts of America. In 2008 he served on Obama's National Black Advisory Council.

He also says he can be a masterful, Machiavellian politician like Bill Clinton or a great transformative leader like Abraham Lincoln.

Weasel Zippers:

Pastorius cutting in: Now, think about it, if any of us compare Obama to Saul Alinsky we're called extremists, nutjobs, right-wing whackos, and even, inexplicably, racists.

But, it's ok if one of his Leftist buddies says it, I guess.

Webb Pierce

I Ain't Never

Hank Williams

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

Hank Snow

I'm Movin' On

Carl Perkins

Dave Edmunds Brian Setzer

Honey Don't

Asleep At The Wheel

Hot Rod Lincoln

Pious Devout Muslim Chaplain who Smuggled Boxcutters Into Prison ... is a Convicted Murderer

From Atlas Shrugs:

Once again, you have Muslim leaders (ie imams, scholars, chaplains) who preach and actively promote jihad. The New York Post updated the story of the Muslim chaplain who smuggled box-cutter blades into jail (perhaps in preparation of the 911 trials.)

It seems this pious religious chaplain is a convicted murderer. The reporters, yet again, bring up a Rabbi who made a party in prison. WTF? First off, what does that have to do with this story. Secondly, is Vlau and Mangan morally equivocating between murder and mitzvah? This is really sick.

It minimizes the terror of the crime of 911 type box cutters being brought into a radicalized environment and it is blatantly anti-Jewish. Clearly, these dhimmi journalists are following the Muslim Brotherhood directive made by the Society Of Professional Journalists.

Muslim chaplain 'smuggled' box-cutter blades into jail

By REUVEN BLAU and DAN MANGAN

A city Department of Correction Muslim chaplain who served 14 years in prison for murder and robbery was arrested today for carrying three utility blades and a pair of scissors into a lower Manhattan jail, authorities said.

The chaplain, Zulqarnain Abdu-Shahid, had the utility blades and scissors in his duffel bag when he arrived at the Manhattan Detention Complex in the morning, according to the city Department of Investigation.

Environmental Nazis

Washington Rebel:
All quotes from LewRockwell.com

Today we face an ideology every bit as pitiless and messianic as Marxism. And like socialism a hundred years ago, it holds the moral high ground. Not as the brotherhood of man, since we live in post-Christian times, but as the brotherhood of bugs. Like socialism, environmentalism combines an atheistic religion with virulent statism. But it ups the ante. Marxism at least professed a concern with human beings; environmentalism harks back to a godless, manless, and mindless Garden of Eden.

The invasive tampering with human nature which the totalitarian regimes have tried to implement during the 20th century can be laid at the feet of Jean Jacques Rousseau, the father of modern environmentalism. Environmentalism is an anti-human, anti-science and anti-technology religion. It worships an undefined entity called The Environment which has some of the characteristics of the Christian Heaven, but without humans.

During the Reign of Terror, Rousseauians constituted what Isabel Paterson called "humanitarians with the guillotine." We face something worse: plantitarians with the pistol.

The Malthusians of the environment see their gods in nature where man is nothing more than another hairy biped that will evolve into something else at some point. This New Age-California philosophy is the hatred of man and the Western religious traditions that places man at the center of creation. Christians are guilty of the sin of capitalism and this crime must be avenged by destroying everything that the achievers of this world have accomplished, at least since the Industrial Revolution.

Ron James, an English Green leader, says the proper level of economic development is that "between the fall of Rome and the rise of Charlemagne." "The only way to live in harmony with Nature is by living at a subsistence level," as the animals do.

Environmentalist hold a Manichean world view when war is a natural order of things, a war between light and darkness, between good and evil, between body and soul and they look upon the universe as a vast battlefield where man is a vermin who needs to be controlled or eliminated by the authority of an earthly monarch. The state!

Giving plants and animals the same equal rights as man by denying that man has a soul so that people like Paul Ehrlich might feel easier about eliminating the human presence from the earth. Ehrlich has been preaching the demise of the planet because of a belief of over population since the publication of his controversial book The Population Bomb in 1968. Restricting or regulating safe and effective herbicides that control weeds along with banning the use of nitrogen fertilizer which promotes plant growth have long been on the environmentalist list. Perhaps engineering a crisis is the only way that Erlich's predictions will be realized.

Loggers know that mankind's very existence depends on bending nature to our will, and that if we ever stop doing so, the jungle will reclaim our cities.

The raw natural resources that can be dug, mined, drilled, raised, plowed, or cut and the products that are made from working in the dirt (or water) are the only real sources of wealth and these activities have all been demonized, ostracized and politicized while any industrial activity is characterized as environmental exploitation.Yes, there has been abuses but the true stewards of the earth are the conservationist who work in the industries and have corrected past practices and are striving to improve upon their own livelihoods while environmentalist work feverishly to lock up or regulate any and all natural resources on the false claim that all of our resources are finite, supposedly for the public good. The private industries would like to stay in business and if there are shortages we would see prices adjusted by supply and demand and not by regulation or manipulation.

Genetically modified seed is vilified as some sort of monster that will kill any other plants that grows near them when in fact it is a specific herbicide resistant plant with the technology to feed billions.The environmentalist realized that natural resources are the engine of capitalism and they are stopping that engine by using politics to block the production of goods and services.
You do not need wealth to live at a subsistence level!

Environmentalist are infatuated with state sponsored mercantilism, this old form of crony corporatism where one group of people pay for the benefits of another group for the "public good". Coal has been the scapegoat of so-called clean air advocates for years, yet there is technology available to clean the emissions of this cheap resource. General Electric owns the cheer leading, global warming advocate NBC, who has given up any pretense of objective reporting by scaremongering the global warming hoax and promoting green solutions. General Electric also owes their creditors billions of dollars and they want to make electricity producing wind powered turbines paid for by the people who will be forbidden by regulations and price to use cheap coal fired energy. Hopefully this scheme will be less disruptive than Abraham Lincoln's mercantilist plan to have the South pay for the North's railroads.

Like today's environmentalists, who place every bug and weed above humans, the Nazis were ardent conservationists. They passed a host of laws to protect "nature and nature's animals," especially "endangered" plants and animals.

It is an amazing sight to behold and frightening to watch as the environmental movement marches green goose steps with the goose steps of the Nazis while they accuse any who oppose them to be fascist and then defamed as a Nazis. We know now that they were "health nuts, exercise freaks, ecologists, organic food zealots, animal righters, and alcohol and tobacco haters." The Nazis urged the German people to eat raw fruit and vegetables and whole grain bread. "They even hated wonder bread." German medical journals blamed cancer on red meat and preservatives. They were anti-pesticide and only organic fertilizer could be used.

The statist desire to control the food supply is as old as time and this modern version of environmentalism is correspondent with any previous tyrants and the outcome we face will be no different if this movement is not only resisted but defeated.

An estimated 16,000 people who were found guilty of high treason, mostly by
opposing the Nazis regime, were guillotined by the Nazis between 1938 and 1945.

Our very existence is based on our dominion over nature; it was created for that end, and it is to that end that it must be used – through a private-property, free-market order.

The most extreme environmentalist has a "Final Solution" for the planet and it certainly does not include you or me and maybe not even them. This is the essence of evil!

You'll kindly recall, please, that Uncle Barry and his crones say the Taliban should have a plate at the Afghan government Table.

Perhaps first he should talk to Meena.

from Stormbringer:

FREEDOM FIGHTERS OR TERRORISTS - YOU DECIDE

From a remarkable BBC Interview:

BOMBS AND BEATINGS: LIFE AMONGST THE TALIBAN
5 February 2010

In Pakistan an account of life with the Taliban has emerged from a 13-year-old girl called Meena, who says her own family tried to turn her into a suicide bomber.

My brother used to tell me that the place for a woman is either at home or in the grave. I was always restricted to home.

He said: "If you leave the house I'll cut off your head and put it on your chest."

My brother had been to the local school and beaten the girls and the teachers.

Taliban commanders used to come to our house. There was an underground bunker beside the house, with electricity.

It was concrete and very strong. Cars would drive on top but no-one would realize what was underneath. In that hideout they used to train suicide bombers.

Most were children of my age or younger than me. They were used for these activities because they were too young to know any better.

Going to 'Paradise'

I used to see these children getting on a vehicle to go for their missions. They used loud Islamic CDs to motivate them.

And I would think, "My God, more Muslims are going to be buried". Then the news would come that more Muslims were wiped out.

My brother used to prepare bombs and my sister-in-law did too. He told me that he would teach me this. I told him no. I would not even look at what they were doing.

My father and brother told me to carry out a suicide attack. They were pressuring me to do this.
They told me: "If you do it you will go to paradise long before us." I replied: "Why don't you tell me I will go to hell long before you?"

Every day they used to tell me this. Every day. I was very young when they started telling me this. I said to them: "What about all the people I will kill? They are all Muslims."

Bomber's Medicine

They started beating me when I refused. They beat me non-stop. They made my life hell. I never had a single moment of happiness. They did everything other than kill me.

They said: "The bomb will be connected with a button, or something like the remote control of a TV. We will give you this kind of remote, and you will go to the place.

"We will also give you a mobile, and we will ring that phone, and press the remote, and you will be blown up with this bomb."

They told me they would use such a large amount of explosives that no-one would even know if it was a man or a woman.

They told me that I had to do it.

There was a kind of medicine they used to give to the bombers that made them go around smiling, in a trance.

They said they would give me that medicine, and then I would go running to die - with a smile. I was so scared I decided to prepare my own tea, and my own food.

I was afraid they would mix that medicine with my food.

Sister's Story

They attached a bomb to my sister Nahida. They tied rectangular pieces to both her arms, and a black strip was wrapped around both her legs.

Then they connected the whole thing. She told my brother the bomb was heavy and she could not walk.

He said she would be comfortable once she was sitting down in the car.

They gave her medicine. But she was crying very loud for my mother. She kept going to her and hugging her. When my sister looked down at the bomb, she shivered.

Then my brother and my father started beating my mother, and they were shouting: "Why you are distracting the girl from her mission?"

I heard my sister saying: "Where is Meena? I want to see her." But I didn't have the strength. My heart couldn't take it.

My mother fainted when they put her in the car. My brother said my sister's attack was in Afghanistan.

I always think about my sister. She was healthy and a very nice girl. She was younger than me, but she was wiser. My mother used to tell me that I was an idiot, but she was very wise.

A 'Lucky Goat'

My brother was involved in the Khyber Bazaar bombing (in the frontier city of Peshawar in October 2009, in which more than 50 people were killed). It was discussed in the house.

When someone was sent somewhere they would talk about the target.

They would say: "We are sending this group there."

After the bombings they would celebrate. They would garland each other with flowers as people do when they come back from the Haj.

When (former Pakistani Prime Minister) Benazir Bhutto died my brother started calling everybody. They started firing, and saying "Benazir has died, Benazir has died". Everybody started firing - they celebrated until it was very late.

My brother visited a friend's house after many years and was given a goat and a motorbike which he brought home.

They used to get animals as gifts because there were so many Taliban to be fed. He asked me to take care of the goat but she ran out of the gate. I went after her.

Our house was on a ridge. There was a stream down below. She went down to the stream and I followed her. A plane came making a lot of noise, and vibrations. (This was an attack by a helicopter gunship.)

When I looked back up to my place all I could see was a lot of smoke rising. My house was turned into rubble.

I didn't have a clue about how many of my family members were dead or alive. Since that place was full of arms and explosives I could hear big bangs.

Then I started walking and by the evening prayers I had reached a local town.

People say I have a strong heart. I've had to be strong. What can I do? God won't even let me die.

If my brother gets hold of me, I will poison him and myself.

The Taliban slaughter other people's children. They turn women into widows. They should be made to suffer too.

I want these Taliban to be burned alive.

There is no independent confirmation of her account but police say they believe she is telling the truth, and her information could be valuable.


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A common theme of the liberals in our country and repeated by the Left in the other developed countries, is that the war in Afghanistan - like the war in Iraq - is an "unnecessary war".

If for no other reason, we are there to free the oppressed from the kind of savagery Meena described above.

There is a segment of the liberal Left who would decry our actions, who claim that it is the West who has driven the Taliban to become who they are.

These people call themselves 'Progressives'.

This one is starting to pop up on blogs. I've seen it in 3 or 4, I think.

So why should you good Infidels be deprived?

Dear Uncle Barry. Please take notes.

Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration

Has Iran Already Produced a Nuclear Warhead?

From Roger Simon:

... startling report from Europe today referenced by Michael Ledeen:

“Iran has developed a nuclear warhead, according to an article in the German newspaper “Sueddeutsche Zeitung”. A foreigner alleged to have helped Iran towards developing nuclear weapons is from the former Soviet Union…The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has already mentioned the employment of a foreigner in the nuclear programme.

Leno? Letterman? O'Brien? Pssh.

Carson RULED.

PSALM 2009

Obama is the shepherd I did not want.
He leadeth me beside the still factories.
He restoreth my faith in the Republican party.
He guideth me in the path of unemployment for his party's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the bread line,
I shall fear no hunger, for his bailouts are with me.
He has anointed my income with taxes,
My expenses runneth over.
Surely, poverty and hard living will follow me all the days of my life,
And I will live in a mortgaged home forever.
I am glad I am American,
I am glad that I am free.
But I wish I was a dog .....
And Obama was a tree.

No Burqas Aloud

ZZ Top

Tush

Global Warming Is Dead, Long Live Global Warming

The Globe and Mail essentially declares the Global Warming scam dead.

However, don't tell that to the Obama-appointed Democrats on the Security and Exchange Commission:

A politically divided Securities and Exchange Commission voted on Wednesday to make clear when companies must provide information to investors about the business risks associated with climate change.

The commission, in a 3 to 2 vote, decided to require that companies disclose in their public filings the impact of climate change on their businesses -- from new regulations or legislation they may face domestically or abroad to potential changes in economic trends or physical risks to a company.

Chairman Mary L. Schapiro and the two Democrats on the commission supported the new requirements, while the two Republicans vehemently opposed them.

"I can only conclude that the purpose of this release is to place the imprimatur of the commission on the agenda of the social and environmental policy lobby, an agenda that falls outside of our expertise and beyond our fundamental mission of investor protection," Republican commissioner Kathleen L. Casey said.

As per usual, when the Obama Administration can't get the people's backing on an idea, they simply enact legislation by fiat.

The Negotiated Two State Solution Update

From Syria, recent scene of publications by Defense Minister Tlas, such as "THE MATZAH OF ZION" we have:

Click here to see clip

It's nice to know your negotiating partners' rabid racism has subsided.

It lets you know how close peace really is.

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How to identify a childish, ignorant columnist: Jacob Weisberg at Slate

Down With the People
Blame the childish, ignorant American public--not politicians--for our political and economic crisis.

By Jacob Weisberg

In trying to explain why our political paralysis seems to have gotten so much worse over the past year, analysts have rounded up a plausible collection of reasons including: President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington, the blustering idiocracy of the cable-news stations, and the Senate filibuster, which has devolved into a super-majority threshold for any important legislation. These are all large factors, to be sure, but that list neglects what may be the biggest culprit in our current predicament: the childishness, ignorance, and growing incoherence of the public at large.

Anybody who says you can't have it both ways clearly hasn't been spending much time reading opinion polls lately. One year ago, 59 percent of the American public liked the stimulus plan, according to Gallup. A few months later, with the economy still deeply mired in recession, a majority of the same size said Obama was spending too much money on it. There's nothing wrong with changing your mind, of course, but opinion polls over the last year reflect something altogether more troubling: a country that simultaneously demands and rejects action on unemployment, deficits, health care, climate change, and a whole host of other major problems. Sixty percent of Americans want stricter regulations of financial institutions. But nearly the same proportion says we're suffering from too much regulation on business. That kind of illogic--or, if you prefer, susceptibility to rhetorical manipulation--is what locks the status quo in place.

At the root of this kind of self-contradiction is our historical, nationally characterological ambivalence about government. We want Washington and the states to fix all of our problems now. At the same time, we want government to shrink, spend less, and reduce our taxes. We dislike government in the abstract: According to CNN, 67 percent of people favor balancing the budget even when the country is in a recession or a war, which is madness. But we love government in the particular: Even larger majorities oppose the kind of spending cuts that would reduce projected deficits, let alone eliminate them. Nearly half the public wants to cancel the Obama stimulus, and a strong majority doesn't want another round of it. But 80-plus percent of people want to extend unemployment benefits and to spend more money on roads and bridges. There's another term for that stuff: more stimulus spending.

The usual way to describe such inconsistent demands from voters is to say that the public is an angry, populist, tea-partying mood.

Sorry, but actually I think the opposite, and it's not driven by some idealistic peaen to the glory of the American public. It comes from a cynical exuberance about the value of survival.

The public is READY to make hard choices.
TO SURVIVE
THEY ARE COMING TO THE CONCLUSIONS
COMPELLED BY DEBT

THEIR DEBT

It is the politicians
that are in a sphincter writhing
scrotum tightening paroxysm of fear over
BRINGING THE DISCUSSION TO A HEAD
BECAUSE THEY LIVE IN FEAR
THEIR PERSONAL GRAVY TRAIN ENDS.

They live in fear that their little games of pitting fire breathing commies against grimacing shrieking racists will fall apart and they will remain nakedly exposed as having euchred their way into 8 terms of fun by making the other side into extremist freaks demonized beyond cooperation of any sort.

.

They live in fear of someone taking a good look at health insurance company donations with the understanding that no national wide open market will exist to ruin their fun by driving premiums down the way cell phone plans plummeted. Or sign ons by big Rx companies to insure reimportation of cheap drugs from Canada won't cost a Gulfstream IV for the staff that counts. On the way to ASPEN for a 'critical meeting'.

They live in fear that THEIR deals like Ben Nelson's Nebraska Buyout will become common knowledge.

Worst of all they live in fear in Washington, that if they look out the window they'll see the crowd outside the Louvre with placards giving directions to the Bastille .. when all the crowd with torches and pitchforks want is THIS:

They live in fear of a serious discussion based in reality, and devoid of the polemics which prevent serious solutions from being considered.

And the life of the republic and its 234 year old GRAVY TRAIN of expansion, and personal freedom is at stake.

They live in fear we will REALIZE IT.

AND ACT

AND READ THIS

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Pelosi Can't Quite Get Wit' Da' PC

I love the part where she says, "Whatever the name was in those days ..."

I'll try to help out here.

The name back then, since Pelosi isn't clear about it, was "Niggers". Good thing she couldn't remember it.

LOL

The Infidel World May Have Come Up With A Solution To The Threat Of An EMP Attack

The battery's dead: Scientists invent wafer-thin plastic that can store electricity

From the Daily Mail:

The battery, which has powered our lives for generations, may soon be consigned to the dustbin of history.

British scientists say they have created a plastic that can store and release electricity, revolutionising the way we use phones, drive cars - and even wear clothes.

It means the cases of mobiles and iPods could soon double up as their power source - leading to gadgets as thin as credit cards.

Researcher Natasha Shirshova with her team's invention

The technology could also lead to flexible computer screens that can be folded up and carried around like a piece of paper.

And it could even be used to create 'electric clothes' that charge up as a person moves around and which slowly release heat when the weather gets cold.

Dr Emile Greenhalgh, from Imperial College London's Department of Aeronautics, said the material is not really a battery, but a supercapacitor - similar to those found in typical electrical circuits.

His team's prototype - which is around five inches square and wafer-thin - takes five seconds to charge from a normal power supply and can light an LED for 20 minutes.

Dr Greenhalgh, who is working with car company Volvo on a three-year, £3million project to use the material in hybrid petrol-electric cars, said: 'We think the car of the future could be drawing power from its roof or even the door, thanks to our material.

'The applications for this material don't stop there - you might have a mobile that is as thin as a credit card because it no longer needs a bulky battery, or a laptop that can draw energy from its casing so it can run for longer.'

The material charges and discharges electricity quicker than a conventional battery, and does not use chemical processes - giving it a longer lifespan, he added.

The scientists plan to use it to replace the metal floor of a Volvo car's boot which holds the spare wheel.

This would mean Volvo could shrink the size of its hybrid battery - and cut down the weight of the car, making it more efficient.

Dr Greenhalgh said: 'No one has created a material like this - within ten years it could replace batteries.'

The new patented material from scientists at Imperial College could do away with the need for traditional batteries forever

Sadly, it will take us decades, at least, to replace the paradigm of conducting electricity through metal wires.

But, my thinking here is, if this plastic can store and release electricity, then it would seem it could eventually be used to conduct electricity. Perhaps it's conductivity powers would be slower.

From what I'm reading here in this article, movement may have to be added to the equation. The article says, the movement of a human body could charge the "supercapacitor". If it can charge through movement, then does not movement actually cause it to conduct electricity as well?

Perhaps extremely fast quivering of very thin strings of such a plastic could speed up it's conductive capacity.

Of course, I'm talking out of school here. So, I'm sure some of our readers can tell me if I am off base in my assumptions.

Rebuttal and debunking of the Scott Horton/Harper's claim of Murder

Last week I posted Scott Horton's entire story about three suicides at Gitmo, which he claimed were actually murders. I prefaced this with the statement that Horton, being Andrei Sahkarov and Yelena Bonner's lawyer certainly absolves him of any Ramsey Clark-ist blame america first - bigotry.

Here now is a rebuttal from an equally serious source, Rowan Scarborough who works with Bill Gertz.

Harper's Is Wrong on Gitmo Suicides

by Rowan Scarborough (more by this author)

Posted 01/29/2010 ET

Harper's Magazine has topped all previous left-wing conspiracy stories on the Guantanamo prison by weaving a preposterous tale of murder and torture in what it presents is one of the most extensive cover-up in military history.

To believe Harper's -- and activist lawyer Scott Horton, the article's author -- you have to accept that three terrorist detainees did not hang themselves on the night of June 9, 2006, as the military said, but were killed by their captors.

The coverup, Harper's charges, involved the guards in Camp Delta cell block Alpha, the prison's commanding officer, the admiral who ran the Gitmo task force, the Navy Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), and forensic pathologists for the U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

The trouble for Harper's is that when its wild speculation is compared with facts, the Jan. 18 story collapses. The overwhelming evidence, to both the Bush and Obama administrations, is that the three committed suicide in a coordinated jihadi pact ordered by the terrorists' leadership inside the prison. They left suicide notes in their pockets depicting themselves as martyrs. The NCIS found other writings to that effect.

The Obama-run Pentagon and NCIS issued this statement:

"An article in Harper's Magazine on-line claiming that the suicides were actually homicides, and the NCIS knowingly participated in a coverup of those killings, is nonsense. NCIS categorically and unequivocally rejects these accusations. The Harper's article incorporates a great deal of supposition, intended to fill in where details are unknown to the author. It contains numerous factual errors."

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German dentist refuses to treat boy called Jihad

German dentist refuses to treat boy called Jihad

I absolutely agree with Wathcer's take on this story:

(Donaueschingen) A dentist in Germany, on finding out the name of her next patient was Cihad (the Turkish version of Jihad), refused to see him stating that she considered his name a declaration of war on non-Muslims and sent him away.

Well, unhappy at how they were treated by people they obviously hate, the family have stated they may press charges over discrimination over the alleged incident which happened on Tuesday.

Watcher writes:

While I agree that the dentist is wrong, I wonder if the family is seeking compensation in the form of free treatment in order to keep their mouths shut? Nothing wrong with that, but naming your child after a holy war while living amongst the people you class as the enemy surely demands a few questions to be asked about the family and why they live in the West.

Infidel Story Of The Day:

UK: Top British Academic Says Muslims Would Be More Tolerant of Others If They Started Drinking Wine...

From Weasel Zippers:

(Daily Star)- A TOP British academic reckons Muslims would be more tolerant if they started drinking wine.

Professor Roger Scruton controversially claims a glass or two would help them to be “gentle with others”. He insisted: “Muslims must learn again to drink and should be piously applying themselves to the task.” Dr Scruton even said “lunatic” preachers such as hook-handed Abu Hamza, 51, Anjem Choudary, 42, and Omar Bakri, 52, had got Islam wrong. Most Muslims shun alcohol because a passage in The Koran brands it “Satan’s handiwork”. But the professor, 65, said great Muslim scholars of history were “winos”. He told wine magazine Decanter: “It is one of the tragedies of our time that those great winos should have ceased to be the leading authorities on how the Holy Book is interpreted."

Copenhagen: School bans fathers from meeting to appease Muslim Misogyny

From Atlas Shrugs:

The Muslims are in now in control. When you have a school meeting to discuss bullying with parents and ban the fathers because Muslim women's husbands believe that women should not take part in something if other men are present, thenthe West is gone with nary a whimper. Who is bullying? The Muslim students. What sway or authority does a subjugated Muslim mother have over her son? I mean, really. She is a slave. Only the father has influence, and it stands to reason that based on Islamic teachings, he invariably approves of such bullying. It's what they do.

Armaros adds, The real story of course is buried between the lines. What is this bullying problem and how is it so bad that new rules needed to be applied in order to be able to bring in Muslim parents to PTA.
I don't really condemn the principal for doing what he did. He had no choice. He doesn't choose his students and has seen bullying get out of control. For this he needs to communicate with parents. That is his job. Alternatively he would have been required to speak the truth and tell it how it is. For that he would have lost his job, probably ended up in court and perhaps even ended up dead at the hands of the faithful.

So this is Sharia creep at its best. Our kids will beat your kids. We will not discipline them as they are performing Hijra and Jihad and if you want to speak to us, you need to convert your school to a mosque with segregated PTA, Halal food and other demands. Otherwise your kids will be beaten in school.
I wonder if this was the same Danish school district which advised Jewish parents to remove their kids for their safety.

Bullying of girls by Muslimas has been documented in Germany a few weeks ago, the excuse is that these infidel little whores wear no veil and are flaunting their blond hair.

Once Wilders is convicted, kids in European schools will be submitted to Sharia. No principal, teacher or educator will risk a career and the Muslims know this. They will impose upon kids a fear and respect of Islam as kids understand simple rules. The strong survive, the weak perish. So this will aid proslytization.
Only France has realized this and banned veils in schools. They saw what it can do to kids. More will wear it and more will join the strong "in crowd."

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Pride and Joy

A PSA from Grouchy Old Cripple

CLEAN YOUR BALLS!

Spoof video of Wilders’ murder causes uproar

Apparently, in Holland, it is not ok for Geert Wilders to tell the truth about Islam, but it is ok for a government-funded radio "Urban" radio station to post videos "spoofing" the idea of murdering Wilders.

From Tea and Politics:

The Freedom Party of Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders has reacted furiously to the trailer of an online movie spoofing a murder attempt on Mr Wilders.

The trailer is available on the website of publicly-funded radio station FunX, which targets a young urban audience. Freedom Party MP Martin Bosma has said his party will ask Media Minister Ronald Plasterk whether “an over-subsidised multi-culti radio station” should be receiving government money if it is putting out “suggestive” movies. A government spokesperson explained to reporters that there is no preventive censorship in the Netherlands. Only after a broadcaster commits an offence can legal action be taken, according to the spokesperson.

The Freedom Party points out that Mr Wilders is living under constant heavy police protection following a number of credible death threats. “It is disgusting to turn that into entertainment.”

Today's Obamoxymoron

JOBLESS RECOVERY

Falling flat

Feb 5th 2010 | WASHINGTON, DC
From Economist.com

More evidence that America is experiencing a jobless recovery

A WEEK ago, Americans were told that their economy had expanded for a second consecutive quarter, and rapidly at that: output grew at an annual rate of 5.7%. This week, they are reminded that a return to growth has yet to benefit the jobless. The economy lost 20,000 jobs in January, a decline driven by the loss of 75,000 jobs in the construction sector. Economists had forecast an increase in employment of around 15,000. The unemployment rate, based on household rather than establishment data, showed a slight improvement, dropping from 10% to 9.7%, but nearly 15m Americans remain unemployed. As Larry Summers put it in Davos last week, the American economy is experiencing "a statistical recovery and a human recession".

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An Excellent Article On Adam Gadahn

Read it at the New Yorker.

Friday Nooner!

Bond

Explosive

The Graveyard of Empires.

The Soviets couldn't hold it. Britain couldn't hold it.

We have the most powerful and well trained army history has ever seen. And we're losing our hold as well.

But to blame that on battlefield commanders is ludicrous. The War in Afghanistan has been misfought from very early on from the top down. Much of that is to be blamed on the risk averse politically correct society we have allowed ourselves to become.

Befriend the locals. Careful where you bomb. No collateral damage. Treat them nice and they may give us the info we need.

Patton would be ashamed.

Now understand, I have no problem with reprimanding or cashiering battlefield commanders for failures when responsibility can clearly be shown. It took Lincoln four years until he found one that could fight and wasn't afraid to do what needed to be done to win.

But in Afghanistan no clear goals have ever really been established beyond Get Bin Laden.

So how can you hope tactics will win a war when the strategy has been fucked from the start?

And then compound that by taking your eye off the ball. We went into Iraq and Afghanistan became The Other War, In Other News.

And that gets laid squarely on Mr. Bush and Mr Obama. And, of course, the MSM who pounded it into our heads nightly.

How do you reckon that made the troop and his officers on the ground feel? Undersupplied, seemingly backwatered.

So before Obama and his crones start passing the buck, perhaps he should take a good hard look in the mirror at where the blame should really fall.

I understand he likes to look in the mirror often.

Washington Post h/t Christian Soldier:

U.S. commanders in Afghanistan face tougher discipline for battlefield failures

By Greg Jaffe
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 5, 2010

The U.S. military has reprimanded an unusually large number of commanders for battlefield failures in Afghanistan in recent weeks, reflecting a new push by the top brass to hold commanders responsible for major incidents in which troops are killed or wounded, said senior military officials.

The military does not release figures on disciplinary actions taken against field commanders. But officials familiar with recent investigations said letters of reprimand or other disciplinary action have been recommended for officers involved in three ambushes in which U.S. troops battled Taliban forces in remote villages in 2008 and 2009. Such administrative actions can scuttle chances for promotion and end a career if they are made part of an officer's permanent personnel file.

The investigations are a departure for the U.S. military, which until recently has been reluctant to second-guess commanders whose decisions might have played a role in the deaths of soldiers in enemy action. Disciplinary action has been more common in cases in which U.S. troops have injured or killed civilians.

In response to the recent reprimands, some military officials have argued that casualties are inevitable in war and that a culture of excessive investigations could make officers risk-averse.

"This is a war where the other side is trying, too," said one Army officer who commanded troops in Afghanistan and requested anonymity in order to speak freely.

As many as five battlefield commanders have received letters of reprimand in the past month or have been the subject of an investigation by a general who recommended disciplinary action. A sixth commander received a less-severe formal letter of admonishment. None of the investigations or letters of reprimand has been released publicly.

The reprimands come amid growing political pressure from lawmakers who have pushed the military to assign greater accountability for incidents in which large numbers of U.S. troops are killed or wounded. The Pentagon's top leaders -- Adm. Mike Mullen, the Joint Chiefs chairman, and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates -- also have been quicker to dismiss senior officers, fostering a change in the overall culture. In 2009 they relieved the top commander in Afghanistan for his stewardship of the war. "The issue of holding people accountable is something Admiral Mullen watches very, very carefully," said a senior military official.

The military's invigorated focus on accountability also seems driven by commanders' experience in war zones. Many of today's senior commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan are on their second or third combat tours and are more willing to judge their field subordinates. Meanwhile, the military is showing a greater willingness to study and learn from its mistakes, senior military officials said.

The change is particularly evident in the Army's response to ambushes on U.S. troops in the villages of Wanat and Kamdesh, both in eastern Afghanistan.

In the Wanat ambush, which left nine soldiers dead in 2008, a colonel from the local unit investigated the attack. He concluded that the troops fought bravely and committed no serious errors, despite reports from soldiers that they were left short of basic supplies, such as water and construction material, to build defenses.

Retired Col. David Brostrom, the father of the deceased platoon leader at Wanat, pressed the Pentagon for more than a year to launch a new probe into the attack, and also enlisted the support of several lawmakers, including Sen. James Webb (D-Va.). Last fall, Gen. David H. Petraeus, the head of U.S. Central Command, named a three-star Marine Corps general to launch a new investigation of the battle, which was completed last week. Petraeus was the commander in Iraq when the initial probe was conducted.

The second Wanat probe recommends that the company, battalion and brigade commanders who oversaw the battle face possible disciplinary action, said military officials. U.S. Central Command planned to release the findings of the new investigation last week but changed course after Mullen asked senior Army officials to review the 4,000-page probe to determine whether disciplinary action is needed against the chain of command.

"He wanted to slow things down and give the Army, as an institution, a chance to review the investigation in case there were any accountability issues. He felt very strongly about it," said Capt. John Kirby, a spokesman for Mullen.

The handling of the Wanat ambush appears to have set a precedent for how such investigations are conducted. In the attack last fall in Kamdesh, in which eight U.S. soldiers were killed, senior Army officials quickly dispatched a three-star general from outside Afghanistan to investigate the battle. This was done at the request of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, officials said.

On Wednesday, the families of the soldiers killed at Kamdesh received a call from an Army casualty assistance officer. The officer read from a prepared script informing them that the investigation was completed and that members of Congress would be briefed on its findings as early as Thursday.

The script praised the bravery of the troops at the Kamdesh outpost, which was briefly overrun by the enemy. It also suggested that commanders should have focused more attention on improving the base's defenses and on analyzing intelligence reports that the enemy was planning a large-scale assault.

The final investigation recommended that the squadron commander overseeing the outpost receive a letter of reprimand. The brigade commander was given a less-severe letter of admonishment, said military officials.

Both the squadron and brigade commanders overseeing the Kamdesh outpost had been pressing to close it for months after they determined that it made no sense to keep troops in the area. But plans to close the outpost were regularly delayed because of pressure from Afghan officials, who did not want to cede territory to the Taliban, and because of other missions deemed a higher priority.

Some family members of the deceased soldiers in the Kamdesh ambush said the officers who postponed shuttering the base, know as Combat Outpost Keating, should also be held accountable. "Combat Outpost Keating was predisposed to fail and it did," said John Petro, grandfather of Spec. Stephan Mace, who was killed at Kamdesh.

In the third incident that has resulted in a reprimand, four Marines were killed near the eastern Afghanistan village of Ganjgal when they were ambushed on their way to a meeting with local villagers. Senior Marine officials alleged that the Army battalion in the area was slow to provide artillery support to ward off the attack. After an investigation, the battalion executive officer, who was the senior officer on duty at the time, received a letter of reprimand, Army officials said.