May 09, 2008
"Mystery" in Iowa: Another Phony Mass ICE Show Raid Seems to Be in the Works
Just before her tax-funded vacay to South America, looks like The ICE Princess has a big "Look at Me on FOX News" ICE show raid of illegal aliens in the works somewhere in Iowa.
You know the drill--millions of dollars spent to "round up" Hispanic illegal alien workers (never Muslim ones in these raids) for the cameras and newspapers, the aliens are then released into the Great American Abyss within a few days, and The ICE Princess, a/k/a Immigration and Customs Enforcement chieftess Julie L. Myers gets to go on FOX News and tell America how she means bid'ness (when she doesn't) . . . all in a bid to convince Americans that we need to give illegal aliens amnesty and U.S. citizenship.
A newspaper in Waterloo, Iowa, reports that ICE has rented out a giant coliseum, the National Cattle Congress (NCC), and has brought in power generators, trailers, and other equipment. Illegal aliens and immigration experts believe that ICE is about to do one of its giant, phony show-raids and use the NCC as a staging ground for aliens. And, based on what I've read, I think their assessment is right:
The presence of immigration officials at National Cattle Congress has stoked fears of an impending raid and caused some in the Hispanic community to avoid workplaces and public areas.Four days after The Courier first reported the installation of trailers, generators and ventilation equipment on the grounds, the presence of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement remains a mystery. Tim Counts, an ICE spokesman in the Twin Cities, refused comment on Tuesday. He said he didn't know when, or if, the agency would explain its activities. [DS: Oh, they'll explain them, as soon as Julie Myers decides it's time to go on FOX News. This phony and attention whore won't give that up.]
NCC officials said they were told the grounds were rented for a training exercise [DS: Riiiight.]. . . .
Neither NCC nor the federal government would confirm whether federal officials are using the NCC grounds as part of the national exercise. In response to an inquiry by The Courier, U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley's office requested a briefing on the use of the NCC grounds, but was told ICE officials would neither confirm nor deny anything. Similarly, U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley's office was unable to obtain additional information. [DS: If only Grassley has less ethics and traded his vote on Myers the way Senator Cornyn did to help his buddies at Pilgrims Pride, she'd tell him which Iowa biz she's show-raiding.]
Mark Grey, an immigration expert and University of Northern Iowa professor, said the grounds at NCC appear to have a capacity similar to that the Iowa National Guard armory in Fort Dodge. That is where authorities held suspects after a 2006 raid of a Swift meat processing plant in Marshalltown.
Methinks he's on the money.
But in that instance, he said, authorities kept their plans secret."I ask myself, 'What are they planning, and why are they being so bloody obvious about it?'" he said.
Um, so The ICE Princess can pose on FOX News, again, and her boyfriend, Michael "Serpenthead" Chertoff, can make yet another big push for amnesty. That's why.
Stay tuned, as I will be watching and following this story. And I'll write about the recent Pilgrims Pride fiasco and what Myers' many demoralized agents told me about that farce.
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What is George Bush Doing in Lebanon? ZILCH to Stop Hezbollahstan
This morning, former Bush campaign spokesman, John Truscott, went on a major Detroit radio station to flack and shill for Hezbollah agent and federally convicted insurance fraud perpetrator Ali Jawad, whom the John McCain campaign wisely and swiftly dumped as soon as they learned of his identity.
And it made me wonder on which parallel planet they were living. While this Hezbollah agent and Bush operative together told the pandering, ignorant radio host that Lebanon is controlled by many peoples of many religions who are living together in peace, Lebanon was actually being taken over by Hezbollah through blood, guns, and violence.
Yesterday, Hezbollah captured Beirut. And George Bush did nothing. They will soon have control of the whole country, and Bush will do nothing. In many ways, Bush is to blame for this fiasco, as is Israel.
By invading Iraq and handing it over to Shi'ites, Bush completed the mission that neither Khomeini, nor Ahmadinejad never could. By removing Saddam Hussein and the entire Sunni government structure from Iraq and giving it to Shi'ites who won't hire Sunnis for any government and law enforcement positions, Bush ignited a Shi'ite revival--an extremist revival throughout not just the Middle East, but throughout the world. He created a contiguous, non-stop crescent-shaped Shi'ite region, ruled by Iran and its partner Syria--two terrorist states. And he did nothing to buffer or hinder it.
In one of its darkest days, when Israel wantonly pulled out of South Lebanon in 2000--in just an hour--it started the Shi'ite revival and began the handover of Lebanon, once a Christian Phoenician country, over to Hezbollah. Shi'ite moderates and others who helped Israel keep the peace in South Lebanon feared for their lives. Many left, many others were murdered, and still others were persecuted or had to move away from the South. It taught those peaceful forces of moderation and western influence a lesson: Don't trust Israel, at least not the Israel of Ehud Barak, and since, Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert. They threw the good Lebanese to the wolves of Nasrallah and Iran and Syria.
When Bush pressured Lebanon for more free elections, just as he did in Gazastan, he got the mirror image of the resulting HAMASastan . . . Hezbollahstan. More Hezbollah Members of the Lebanese Parliament were elected where before there was just one, and Hezbollah literally married its alliance with the Shi'ite Amal militia, headed by Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri. Berri's immediate family is married into Hezbollah. As a result of Bush-Rice engineered elections, Hezbollah gained control of most of the major government ministries, several seats in Parliament, and essentially the slow, complete emasculation of the Fouad Siniora Lebanese government that we now see essentially toppled this week, with the loss of Beirut.
So, now, will George Bush enter Lebanon to end the Shi'ite Hezbollah/Iran Revolution he started? With only 7.5 months left of his administration, not a chance. He blew his capital in Iraq, starting up the revolution that he now can neither stop or even put partially back into the bottle. For all the claimed "Texas swagger," wimpitude and dhimmitude to the Shia Revival is all he shows the scared Cedars Revolution democrats in Lebanon who want to be free of Hezbollah.
While meeting with Assad of Syria and pressuring Israel to give in to terrorists and give them half the state, Bush and Condi Clueless missed the opportunity of a lifetime to finally free Lebanon of Iran and Syria by annihilating Hezbollah. He'd have enjoyed the support in such an effort from Lebanese Christians all over America--the largest and most patriotic group of Arabs in the U.S.--and from his Sunni, Gulf State oil buddies the Saudis and their neighbors, all of whom badly fear and want to put down this Shia rebellion and swath of takeover that now spans the Mid-East.
So, now, Beirut has fallen. And it's long been only a matter of time until the entire Lebanon becomes Hezbollahstan.
But instead of fixing the problem he helped create and expand geometrically, Bush is coasting to retirement and high-paid speeches. And Lebanon is burning.
But this Hezbollah takeover, as I said, is not confined to the Mid-East. I see it on the streets of the Detroit area, where Shi'ite Hezbollah agents like Ali Jawad are neither embarrassed of their criminal records, nor do they shy away from their open support of Hezbollah--a group that willingly killed 300 U.S. Marines and embassy staff and blew up the Jewish Community Center and Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires.
And such is their power that a spineless radio talk show host sees no problem in that. Nor does he see a problem in Jawad's claim that Hezbollah didn't commit the Beirut bombings of Americans. That's a settled question.
But the Shi'ite Revolution that Bush jump-started and which has reached its latest pinnacle, this week, with the takeover of Beirut, has unsettled all established fact.
And it will be a problem for America in the near future that we created and now ignore.
But we will soon learn that was a huge mistake.
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Weekend Box Office: Three New Releases, Three Headaches
I don't recommend any of the new releases at movie theaters, this weekend. All of them gave me a headache. I did not screen "Redbelt."
* "Speed Racer": This non-animated feature taken from the Japanimation series of the same name was more concerned with sets, costumes, and CGI backdrops than its substandard, boring, predictable story. Every second was manic dayglo and brightness everywhere. I was considering putting on my sunglasses in the dark theater. And it stars Susan Sarandon as Mom Racer. That's annoying in and of itself.
Since there were many little kids at the theater and it's being promoted as a kids' film, I had to wonder why this movie contains the F-word, the S-word, and a little kid--Spritle Racer--giving the one-finger salute. Also hard to jibe that a movie aimed at little kids features bad guys putting a guy's arm into a tank of hungry Piranhas to be eaten and a scene in which a man's finger is eaten by them.
The story: Speed Racer, played by Emile Hirsch, grows up after watching his brother racer, Rex Racer, crash and burn and die. Or did he? Speed becomes a great racer and is offered a big endorsement deal by the evil Royallton Corp (always those evil big businesses). Will he take it? Will he win the cross-continent road rally? And who is the mysterious, masked racer helping him out?
More importantly, do we care? In my case, for the entire 2 hour, 10 minute movie, the answer was a big, fat, "NO."
* "What Happens in Vegas": What Happens in Vegas should stay off the movie screen, if this is any indication. This movie was stupid, formulaic, tasteless, and a waste of time. Plus, it features four of the most annoying actors in Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz. It was supposed to be a comedy, but the jokes--for the most part--weren't funny.
Diaz plays a woman just dumped by her fiancee and Kutcher a juvenile, immature man just fired by his wealthy father. Both of them fly to Vegas from New York and meet each other on a fluke. They get drunk, get married, and win $3,000,000 at the slot machine, just as they were planning their divorce. Then, they are sentenced by Judge Dennis Miller (yeah, that's believable) to live together as a married couple for six months before he divides the winnings. While scheming against each other, they predictably fall in love. Schocking. The end.
A cheesy chick-flick not worth your time.
* "Then She Found Me": This movie was directed by and stars Helen Hunt. But Hunt is so anorexically thin and gaunt, you keep thinking she just arrived from Auschwitz and can't pay attention to the horrid story. While wishing she ate more than half a bean for dinner--and in her case, the camera simply didn't add those ten pounds--you try to pay attention to the bizarre, way-too-quirky plot about a stereotypical Jewish woman whose biological clock is ticking and badly wants to have kids. She marries, then is quickly left by the immature Matthew Broderick. She meets and falls for an English man, but finds out she's pregnant with the ex's kid. She is adopted, and learns that her birth mother is the weird talk show host, Bette Midler. But wait, it gets worse. Her gynecologist is played by . . . Salman Rushdie? Hmmm . . . now, we're getting close to the reason for the fatwah. (Just joking, no e-mails please--of course, I abhor the Muslim death-sentence fatwa against Rushdie.)
Skipworthy.
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May 08, 2008
More Than Skin-Deep: Jon Voight Shows Up His Daughter Yet Again
Unlike his estranged daughter who openly cheered cries for Palestinian terrorism, Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight truly gets it.
Last year, I wrote about Voight's on-target interview with Radar Magazine about Iraq, the War on Terror, and jihad. Voight gets it.
And he's demonstrating that again, by visiting the poor, working-class residents of Sderot, Israel, who've repeatedly been hit with deadly rockets from Islamic terrorists in Gaza.
Most of these people from Sderot or their parents or grandparents are from Arab countries, from which they fled after much persecution. They are poor people who cannot afford to move from harm's way:
Oscar winner Jon Voight is coming to Israel next week for his first solidarity visit to salute the Jewish state in honor of its 60th birthday. . . .Voight will welcome Chabad's Children of Chernobyl's (CCOC) 80th rescue mission airlifting children from irradiated regions in Ukraine, Belarus and Western Russia to Israel; visit Sderot, which has endured 7,000 Hamas missiles and numerous casualties; comfort terror victims; and, go to Yad Vashem [DS: The Holocaust Museum].
"I'm coming to salute, encourage and strengthen the people of Israel on this joyous 60th birthday," said Voight. "This week is about highlighting Israel as a moral beacon. At a time when its enemies threaten nuclear destruction, Israel heals.
"Israel is a haven from nuclear horrors for thousands of Chernobyl survivors who suffer the consequences of the worst environmental disaster in history. I personally want to welcome the youngsters aboard Chabad's Children of Chernobyl's 80th Rescue Mission--it is a great honor to help save a child's life."
Giving back to society has long been a priority for Voight, having volunteered with and contributed to numerous charities and causes at home and abroad. His deep humanitarian values direct him to Sderot and to Chabad's Terror Victims Project (CTVP).
"I want to meet the people of Sderot," said Voight. "I want to tell them: 'Every day you have rockets falling on your city. We care about you. We have not forgotten you!' And I want to underscore Israel's magnificent contributions to mankind."
Unlike Skankelina Jolie Voight, father knows best yet again. Attention, Muslim, anti-Israel boycotters: Add him to your list. He's on my list of people to support.
Thanks to reader, "There is No Santa Claus," for the tip.
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Your Day in Illegal Alien Rape of Minors News
While The ICE Princess, Julie L. Myers (useless, racist chief of Immigration and Customs Enforcement), is planning her luxe tax-funded vacation to South America and warehousing her kid with the nanny, Guadalupe Gutierrez-Juarez is a new father.
The illegal alien raped a ten-year-old American girl who just had his kid. I guess those phony workplace arrests of illegal aliens aren't really working, are they? Well, they are working in the sense that somebody gets to go on TV and pretend she's doing her job, then gets a tax-funded vacay to Argentina:
Sources close to the Fremont County Sheriff's Office have confirmed the shock of a 10-year-old giving birth to a baby girl Saturday at Madison Memorial Hospital.
The girl was allegedly raped by 37-year-old Guadalupe Gutierrez-Juarez, who is an illegal immigrant currently in the Fremont County Jail on rape charges.Gutierrez-Juarez was arrested April 29th after a pregnant child came into a medical facility for treatment.
He is being held on $250,000 bond, but he will not be released if the amount is met because he is an illegal immigrant.
Gutierrez-Juarez will appear in court for his preliminary hearing on May 13th.
Heckuva Job, ICE Princess.
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What Do The Gitmo Truthers Say About Abdallah Al-Ajmi?
I actually don't need to ask what all the Gitmo Truthers--the liberals who say we should shut down Guantanamo Bay and that the men there are just innocent people, not terrorists--will say about Abdallah Salih Al-Ajmi.
They'll probably say--in their usual know-it-all, anti-America tone--that we "drove him to do it," that he was an "innocent man, whose hatred for America was bred by imprisonment at Gitmo," or some such other BS. They're so predictable.
Al-Ajmi was freed from Guantanmo Bay after being brought there in 2002 from Afghanistan and relesed 3.5 years later. On Wednesday, the U.S. military said he took part in a suicide car bombing in Iraq. Funny how this guy picked up in Afghanistan ended up in Iraq--even though he's from Kuwait and that's where we dumped him--huh? The military says that Al-Ajmi took part in one of three homicide bombings in the last month, which targeted Iraqi security forces in Mosul. At least he didn't kill any Americans . . . as far as we know.
And we knew he wanted to kill Americans. He said so. A U.S. military document shows that, in August 2004, Al-Ajmi said that
he now is a jihadist, an enemy combatant, and that he will kill as many Americans as he possibly can.
Since these same Gitmo Truthers are always telling us how honest and sincere the kind Gitmo Muslim are, why didn't we take Al-Ajmi at his word?
Al-Ajmi is one of at least 36 released Gitmo detainees have taken part in terrorist attacks on Americans. Just how many of these future killers of Americans are we going to continue to release before we finally admit they must stay at Gitmo ad infinitum to save lives.
Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, a Pentagon spokesman, told AP:
There is an implied future risk to U.S. and allied interests with every detainee who is released or transferred from Guantanamo.
No kidding. When will the Pentagon listen to its own spokesman's advice?
And when will their lack of alleged minor suffering be less of a priority than American lives?
We are fighting the war of our lives as if we were playing house.
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Looking for Cheaper Gas?: Ways to Save on Saudi Soda
With gas here in Detroit now an average of over $4 per gallon, Chrysler made a brilliant move, guaranteeing gas at $2.99 per gallon for 2-3 years to new car buyers.
But for those who can't afford a new car, or aren't inclined to take up the Chrysler deal, here are a few places to check the cheapest gas in your area, the best fuel economy on cars, and other ways to save--courtesy of a Wall Street Journal graphic--on the poisonous Saudi Soda, which is holding America hostage:
- Cheapest Gas in Your Area:
* From Your Cellphone - Cheap Gas
- Fuel Cost Calculation
The bottom line is that George W. Bush, who constantly whined about America's addiction to oil in his State of the Union addresses, never did anything about it. He had almost 7.5 years to put together a "Manhattan Project" on alternative fuels.
And, instead, during that time, instead of doing that, he held hands with Saudi King Abdullah and kept the rest of the Saudi Soda purveyors at the top of their game. After all, his main priority now--and always--was never ending America's dependence on OPEC oil. And now, it is primarily on getting Daddy's friends to donate to his Presidential library like they did to Poppy's and Slick Willie's.
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Here's a humorous take, sent to me by my friend, Boston Herald Business columnist Darren Garnick, "The Working Stiff's Asinine Gas Saving Tips."
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ACTION ALERT: When the Guy Running for State Rep. Funded Hezbollah, Took Money From Iran, Helped Enable Medicaid Fraud
Many people have asked me about Paul Welday, a Republican primary candidate for the Michigan House of Representatives from the Detroit suburbs of Farmington and Farmington Hills. They know I own the websites PaulWelday.com, .net, and .org.
Knowing his disturbing record, I bought those domain names for the day when Paul Welday ultimately fulfilled his dark dream to run for public office. Now, sadly, that day has arrived.
I have known Paul Welday for over two decades, and he is a political hack who is in the back pocket of Islamists in CAIR (HAMAS front-group, Council on American-Islamic Relations) and an Iranian terrorist group. He's a well-paid lobbyist for a number of organizations that don't have America's best interests at heart (and he's played the other side, trying to get Jewish lobbying money, too).
* Paul Welday & Muslim Alien Medicaid Fraud/Islamic Anchor Babies
Welday's brother, Doug Welday, is the Chief Financial Officer of Oakwood Hospital, the hospital raided in 2002 by the FBI for knowingly engaging in Medicare fraud, helping Muslim aliens deliver their children here courtesy of U.S. taxpayers. Surprise!--Welday's the lobbyist for Oakwood.
That Medicaid fraud continues to this day, and thanks to Paul's brother (and Paul's lobbying), you continue to pay for this, and these Muslim aliens get American birth certificates and citizenship for their children, which they can sell on the open market. Doug Welday has performed well in conducting Oakwood's "finances" because he continues to perpetrate Medicaid fraud for pregnant Islamic alien women at his hospital and to cheat you, the American taxpayers. Millions and possibly billions of dollars involved.
Oakwood Hospital was never prosecuted for this continuing crime, of which Welday's brother is well aware (in a court, he'd be called a "co-conspirator"). And, sources say, that has something to do with the fact that Paul Welday sat on the Republican selection committee that helped recommend to President Bush candidates for U.S. Attorney and the Federal Bench (Welday raised over $100,000 for Bush). A man Welday helped recommend, U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy III, is the only man who can prosecute Oakwood Hospital. And--shocker!--so far Murphy has declined to do so. Yesterday, Murphy had his U.S. Senate Confirmation hearings for the Federal Judge nomination Bush gave him.
You know how political hacks operate: You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. In Welday's case, it's kept his brother in the cushy life and out of prison and lined Welday's pockets with hefty Oakwood "lobbying" fees.
* How Paul Welday Got Millions in Tax $$$ for Hezbollah
Welday has a long past of pan-Islamism. In 2000, I asked him why he got his then-boss, pan-Islamist Congressman Joe Knollenberg--for whom Welday was Chief of Staff--to introduce a bill seeking $268 million for "South Lebanon" a/k/a Hezbollah. He told me, and The Detroit News, that he was doing it at the behest of the openly pro-HAMAS/pro-Hezbollah Jim Zogby of the Arab American Institute.
In the end, Welday and Knollenberg succeeded in getting $86 million. All of it went to Hezbollah, and Welday never conducted any oversight. Why would he? His boss received thousands of dollars from Hezbollah agent Nijad Fares (whose father was the Hezbollah-backed Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon) and from the Hezbollah-allied American Task Force For Lebanon, Fares' PAC.
* Paul Welday & His CAIR Buddies
In 2004, I went undercover to a CAIR-Michigan election event. It was open to the public, and I went to see who in Michigan would be appearing and what they would say to get extremist Muslims to vote for them. I was "outed" at the event, but not before most people--including Paul Welday--spoke. For the most part, I wasn't surprised by who appeared and what they said.
I wasn't even mildly surprised when I saw and heard Welday speak on behalf of the Bush re-election effort and told the CAIR crowd that they were the most democratic group of people he's ever seen. And when he morally equated Israelis victims of terrorist attacks with Yasser Arafat, I can't say I'm surprised that this two-faced well-paid lobbyist did so. He thought he was "among (Muslim) friends."
On that day, I decided to buy PaulWelday.com, .net, and .org, because I knew of Welday's dream--and America's nightmare--of his running for Congress, where he still ultimately wants to end up. And, on those site, I wrote up my little "experience" hearing the real Paul, or at least seeing yet another of his many faces. Here's a little taste:
Is President Bush really the anti-terror President?Then, why was his campaign honcho, Oakland County, Michigan Republican Chairman Paul Welday, praising a HAMAS front-group as having "shown the most commitment to democracy of any group I've ever known"?
And why did Welday (pfw@renaissancestrategies.us) equate Israeli efforts to eliminate terrorists with mass homicide bombings in pizza shops and coffee houses?
Welday isn't just anybody. He was one of the few Bush "Pioneers" in 2000, raising over $100,000 for the campaign. In the important swing State of Michigan, Welday, a lobbyist, regularly appears on Michigan television on behalf of Bush and the GOP.
On Sunday, Welday, appeared on behalf of President Bush (at the White House's and Congressman Joe Knollenberg's request) at the Michigan candidate forum held by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).
"Appeared" is a loose term. "Pandered" is more accurate. . . .
In his remarks, Welday, told the CAIR-Michigan audience:
This group - many of you - friends of mine - does a great job of showing the balance of the Muslim community as committed Americans . . . . You have shown the most commitment to democracy of any group I've ever known.Even more nauseating, Welday went on to equate efforts to fight terrorism with the terrorism attacks themselves. "We need to stop the [Israeli's] sending of missiles into the Gaza Strip. We need to stop the violence on both sides."
Israeli missiles in Gaza were directed specifically--and successfully--at HAMAS and other terrorist leaders. The latest was in response to Palestinian terrorists' murder of two young Ethiopian Israeli boys while they were playing outside.
Paul Welday apparently thinks those leaders deserve to live to continue masterminding their mass murders of women and children eating pizza, drinking coffee, and playing ball. In Welday's world, terrorists and their victims are morally equivalent. . . .
WELDAY'S HISTORY OF TERROR-PANDERING
Welday, who hopes to run for Congress, isn't new to the terror-pander industry. As chief of staff to Congressman Joe Knollenberg (R-Michigan), he sought $268 million in tax-funds for Hezbollah-controlled Southern Lebanon, at the request of Jim Zogby of the Arab-American Institute (who also heads up Arab-American Democrats and was a Gore campaign senior advisor). That's almost a million for every U.S. Marine Hezbollah murdered. Welday's boss, Knollenberg, was repaid for this effort, receiving big campaign dollars from Nijad Fares, son of Hezbollah-backed Lebanese Deputy Prime Minister Issam Fares.
* Paul Welday Paid Off by Iranian Terrorist Group That Held Americans Hostage
In September of last year (2007), Welday wrote a guest opinion column in the Detroit Free Press, asking for America to take Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK) off the State Department Terrorist List. According to the column, he is a paid lobbyist for MEK's American front group, Iran Policy Committee. But MEK was not only part of Khomeini's Iranian revolution, it took part in the 1979 seizure the U.S. embassy in Tehran and the 444-day kidnapping of U.S. hostages. And in 1991, MEK helped Saddam Hussein murder Shi'ites and Kurds who rebelled.
This is who is lining Paul Welday's pockets.
* How Paul Welday Spent Your Tax $$ . . . @ the Gym
I saw first-hand what kind of "public servant" Paul Welday will be. When he was on the taxpayer dole, as Chief of Staff for Congressman Knollenberg, we worked out at the same gym. I kept track of how I regularly saw him there, working out for hours during the business day on the almost $150,000 per year salary paid for by American taxpayers. Yup, you paid for him to work out. Predictably, when he left Knollenberg to make even more money as a lobbyist, he stopped spending the workday at the gym and got back to his old, corpulent self. Because he was no longer on your dime.
* WHAT YOU CAN DO TO STOP PAN-ISLAMIST PAUL WELDAY FROM GETTING ELECTED
Richard Lerner, a longtime Republican and a strong candidate, is running against Paul Welday in the Republican primary. Unlike Paul Welday, he has spent his life in the private sector as an economist and businessman. Also, unlike Welday, Mr. Lerner is endorsed by local and community leaders and residents, whereas Welday is endorsed by the same old, tired, career hacks, including the anti-Semitic, drunk Brooks Patterson, the "county executive" who has taxed and increased my county government spending geometrically.
I urge you to help him and to donate to his campaign.
Regardless of where you live, if you are a U.S. citizen, you can donate to Richard Lerner's campaign and can give up to $500, the Michigan campaign finance limit. Again, you do not need to be a Michigan resident to donate. This race has important implications for our entire nation.
And, of course, if you live or know anyone who lives in the Detroit suburbs of Farmington or Farmington Hills, Michigan, please tell them to vote for Richard Lerner in the August 5th Republican primary. And tell anyone who lives nearby to volunteer and help out in his campaign.
This is so very important.
We cannot afford for Paul Welday--enabler of Medicaid fraud and friend of CAIR, Hezbollah, and Iranian terrorist group MEK--to get elected to the Michigan Legislature . . . or any legislature.
NOT PAID FOR BY ANY CANDIDATE OR CANDIDATE COMMITTEE.
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Alieness v. Predatorette: Not As Good As Trump v. Rosie, But It'll Do
I enjoyed watching the cat-fight between Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell (yes, in my book, a cat-fight can also be between two men, like Trump and O'Donnell) and was sorry when it ended.
But this new cat-fight comes close enough. Two other "View"-hags (vapid, past their expiration date, participants on ABC's anti-male yenta-fest, "The View") are now fighting.
You'll recall that, earlier this walk, I wrote a column on Barbara Walters' latest outrageous behavior in outing 88-year-old former U.S. Senator Edward Brooke and telling the world in her new book, "Audition," that she had an affair with him while he was married.
Feuds I Wish Would Never End:
Baba Wawa v. Star Jones . . .
HAMAS v. Fatah . . .
Donald v. Rosie . . .
Walters discussed it on a taping of another hag-fest, "The Oprah Winfrey Show." She also dissed equally-annoying former View-hag Star Jones, saying that Jones got so fat, she had trouble waddling onto the set, and discussing Jones' insistence that no-one tell the truth about Jones' gastric bypass.
Now, Jones responds:
It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair and speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book. It speaks to her true character.
Longtime readers of this site know that I'm no fan of the haughty, race-baiting, idioytic Jones, who once praised Limerick Nelson, the man who killed an innocent Jewish man in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in a hate-crime, during an Al Sharpton-inspired riot. She also urged us to "understand" the Passover Massacre homicide bombing Islamic terrorists, the day after they attacked and murdered families celebrating Passover in 2002. By the way, Walters--who says she finds HAMAS homicide bombers "amusing"--and the rest of "The View" hags agreed with her.
Still, I can't stand Walters, either. And I'm not alone in my disdain for these two human barf-bags and the other uber-annoying women whose tushies and empty heads fill the still-empty seats on that stupid show.
A pox on all their houses.
Alieness v. Predatorette. Can't wait for the sequel.
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Happy 60th, ISRAEL!
Today is the 60th birthday of Israel.
It's not only a calendar milestone, but a fantastic achievement, considering the tiny state has for six decades fought off large armies from all of its neighbors and ceaseless terrorist attacks from within.
Despite not a single day of peace for the Jewish State, Israel survived because of a historic will of the Jewish people to survive, to be strong--despite a stereotype of the opposite--in the face of all enemies.
Today, Israel is not as strong as it once was. That's not because of its enemies, which have always been and will always be there, regardless of what phony, empty pieces of paper are signed. It is not as strong because of weak-minded "leaders," like Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni, and before them, Ariel Sharon, who forcibly removed Jews from their Israeli homes, Judenrein-style. And because of spineless, weak, unelected Jewish liberal "leaders" in America, who have pushed the country to this point.
Now, there is talk--as there has been for well over a decade, actually--of giving Syria the strategic Golan Heights, against the wish of not just the Jews who irrigated and developed the area, but the many Druze Arabs who did the same and who enjoy the freedom and safety of being Israelis. They are loyal Israelis, and they want to keep their homes in Israel, just as Jews--many of whom were persecuted and treated like trash in their former Arab Muslim country ancestral homes--do.
Despite being a tiny state, just smaller than the size of New Jersey, the Gross Domestic Product of Israel is greater than that of all of its Arab neighbors. Israel has provided America, and America's military, the greatest in technological advancements. The country has provided the world with amazing advances in healthcare and tremendous medical advancements and discoveries to cure cancers, diseases, and other medical maladies. You see none of this in the backward Greater Barbaria that surrounds it and which produces only "advancements" in levels of hatred and desire to eliminate the Jewish people.
But, despite the hateful neighbors surrounding it, terrorist interlopers within, and Neville Chamberlain-esque "leadership" disaster at the top, Israel has survived for 60 years, officially--though it has been the home of the Jewish people for thousands of years.
And, G-d-willing, Israel will be around in another 60. Yom Huledet Sameach, Yisrael--Happy Birthday, Israel!
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Here is a video of Israel's national anthem, "HaTikvah"--"The Hope" with English translation of the lyrics, also posted below, and one of my favorite HaTikvah videos--of beautiful Israeli singer, Shiri Maimon, at an Israeli soccer game:
English lyrics from the Israel Science and Technology Page:
As long as deep in the heart,The soul of a Jew yearns,
And forward to the East
To Zion, an eye looks
Our hope will not be lost,
The hope of two thousand years,
To be a free nation in our land,
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.
(Listen to a moving version of HaTikvah sung by Jews just liberated from Bergen Belsen concentration camp in 1945.)
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Here are a couple of videos, outlining what Israel has done for the world, and what we'd be missing if there were no Israel. You've never seen--and you never will--of this kind of stuff coming out of any Arab or Muslim nation. The producer, Holly, writes:
The State of Israel has entered its sixth decade of wondrous achievements!People keep asking me: "why do you support Israel?"
This video is my answer.Israel is quite simply a modern marvel, and all of this without knowing a day free of war or terror and being the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth.
Oh, and don't forget, without Israel, Saddam Hussein would have had nuclear weapons.
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Read about how the IDF celebrated Israel Independence Day. Watch a video of the Israeli Air Force practicing for the Independence Day celebration.
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May 07, 2008
Hilarious: "Harold & Kumar" Do PC Absurdity
Every major city in America has what I call the "hometown pimp and ho rag." It's the free newspaper that's insufferably far left and which makes its money with hooker, er . . . "escort" classified ads and the like in the back.
Detroit's version is "The Metro Times." My friend, Corey Hall, is one of the bright (and very liberal) movie reviewers for the MT. Corey is very insightful, and I enjoy sitting next to him at movie screenings to hear his comments and asides about the movies we're reviewing, even if I disagree with his politics.
But Corey's politics are not this ridiculous. Check out the absurd political correctness--quite clearly not his and very likely his editors' (though I haven't asked him)--that changed his movie review and garnered a letter to the editor by an Indian in response. Again, for the record, I did not ask Corey about this and he hasn't mentioned it, but I happened to notice, and knowing him, I think this is what happened.
Corey Hall reviewed the horrid "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay." It stars Kal Penn as an American whose family comes from India. In his review, Corey apparently wrote, in the April 30th issue:
The best political argument here is that we've reached the point where a Korean and an Indian can star in movies just as stupid as any white guy . . . but in a perfect world they wouldn't have to.
But it appears that when PC copy editors got ahold of it, they changed the un-PC word "Indian." Here's how it ran:
The best political argument here is that we've reached the point where a Korean and a Native American can star in movies just as stupid as any white guy . . . but in a perfect world they wouldn't have to.
That drew this letter to the editor, from an American who family's heritage is from India--a letter truly best meant for the Metro Times' uber-PC editors:
Re: Cory Hall's review of the film Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (Metro Times, April 30) and his observation, "The best political argument here is that we've reached the point where a Korean and a Native American can star in movies just as stupid as any white guy . . . but in a perfect world they wouldn't have to."I'm not sure if this quote from the Harold and Kumar review was meant to be humor or not. Granted, the movie was dumb. But if you really want to present yourself as an "artsy" educated person or news source with discerning taste, you might try and learn the difference between Indian and Native American.
Indians are from a country in Asia called India; Native Americans are indigenous peoples from North or South American [sic]. My friends and I got quite a laugh out of your mitake. Maybe it comes from your Michigan public school education. I don't know.
What I do know is you might need to step up your game. I live in Boston and from time to time I visit your Web site; I mean I think it's good, but this is not making people from Michigan look any more educated than people outside Michigan already think you are.
Good luck. - Michael Jain, Boston, Mass
Like I said, Corey's a smart guy. He knows the difference between Indians from India and Indians referred to with the PC-term, "Native American." This is likely an editor's uber-PC-stylebook taking the place of good sense.
But the letter led the Metro Times to realize their hyper-PC screw-up. This week, in the May 7th issue, the review was re-run, using the hyphenated term, "Indian-American."
Oh, the hopelessness of the political correctness crowd.
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The "Global Entry" Program: $100 Formula for Terrorist Contraband Smuggling
I've written many times on this site about my opposition to "registered traveler" programs. They speed travelers who pay $100 and pass a background check through airport security without a second look. As I've always said--and the TSA finally admitted--this is a program ripe for terrorist exploitation. Any terrorist without a criminal background can qualify.
Now, there is a new version of "registered traveler" that Homeland Security is introducing at airports for those entering the country to speed through U.S. Customs. It's called "Global Entry," and it's even more dangerous, and it has the same loophole. It also costs just $100, and, oddly, Stephen Brill, the same gazillionaire who had much of the Registered Traveler contract, praises Global Entry. Interesting coincidence, no? Does he have the government contract to run Global Entry? Press coverage doesn't say, but it sounds like it.
If anyone wants to smuggle weapons or cash from terrorist groups inside or even valuables that can be sold and turned into cash, they can easily do it without the regular scrutiny of U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspectors at airport "ports of entry."
Sadly, though the TSA admitted the loophole in the Registered Traveler program and abandoned its expansion (it should have canceled the program in its entirety), the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing at DHS, and the identical program will now start for U.S. Citizens and legal permanent residents who pay the $100 and pass the basic background check:
Starting Monday, air travelers can sign up to speed through Customs checkpoints at select U.S. airports when they return from trips abroad.A government program called Global Entry will enable U.S. citizens and permanent residents to avoid the long lines that often greet them when they get off airplanes arriving from international destinations.
People who pass a background check and pay $100 to enroll will enter a separate Customs line at certain airports. They will swipe their passport at a kiosk instead of having it read by a Customs officer and electronically answer questions similar to those on a Customs declaration form. If no problems arise, they will be cleared through Customs.
The program will start operating June 10 at three airports — Washington Dulles, Houston Intercontinental and New York's Kennedy. Customs and Border Protection expects it will expand to 17 other major U.S. airports, program director John Wagner says. There is no timeline for expansion.
Tourism and travel groups hail the program, saying it will speed up Customs lines and could boost a similar program for domestic airline passengers. . . .
Global Entry could heighten interest in Registered Traveler, a program overseen by the Transportation Security Administration that creates a separate line at airport checkpoints for fee-paying passengers.
"The whole idea of voluntary credentialing gets helped the more you have programs like (Global Entry)," says Steven Brill, CEO of Verified Identity Pass, a New York company that manages Registered Traveler programs at 16 airports.
Wagner of Customs and Border Protection says Global Entry is aimed at people who take at least four international trips a year. Applicants will be barred if they have a criminal conviction, a penalty related to customs or immigration issues or are on a government watch list of people linked to terrorism, Wagner says.
Hmmm . . . If I were Bin Laden or Nasrallah of Hezbollah I'd be recruiting sympathetic U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents (a ton of 'em in Dearbornistan, etc.) with no criminal record to join the Global Entry program. They could smuggle all kinds of stuff into the states for "operations."
If you want to come into America, there should be long lines and there should be strict scrutiny of what you're brining in.
This new program is a giant national security black hole created by Michael "Serpenthead" Chertoff.
Heckuva Job, Mr. Burns Lookalike.
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Lackawanna Six Meets Dearbornistan: Al Qaeda Cell Member Gets Out After Short Stint, Moves to My Backyard
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Great news out of Buffalo. A member of the Lackawanna Six Al-Qaeda terror cell has just been released from federal prison after a veeery short stay there.
And he's moved to my backyard. Faysal Galab, 1/6th of the Lackawanna Six, has been moved to a halfway house in Detroit. GUH-REAT. Now, he can commune with his Al-Qaeda compatriots in Dearbornistan. Awesome. (Watch this 29 second video.)
Need more evidence we're not serious about fighting terrorism domestically? This is it in at least a couple of ways:
1) A guy pleads guilty in 2003, to being a member of an Al-Qaeda cell, to aiding Al-Qaeda, and receiving training in an Al-Qaeda training campin Afghanistan--and he's already out? Hello . . .? People spend more time in prison for drunk driving, and the feds are trying to send attorney Geoffrey Fieger to prison for at least 10 years for violating federal campaign finance limits. Galab will be completely released from federal custody in October, into the Great American Abyss. Wow, we're really serious about gettin' those evildoers, aren't we?
2) When this Al-Qaeda cell member gets out of prison, we send him to the most radical, most concentrated Muslim population center in America? Hello #2 . . .?
Galab was born in America, so--you know--we gotta treat him right, unlike treasonous others who weren't born in America, like the Rosenbergs. Oh, wait--they were born in America. They just picked the wrong time to betray America, a time when someone actually cared.
Welcome, Arab-American Faysal Galab. I'm sure you'll find many friends in Dearbornistan.
Since I know that Sunnis and Shi'ites work together when it comes to defeating us infidels, I think you'll find a few friends in Osama Siblani, Ali Jawad (both are Shi'ite), and Imad Hamad (Sunni).
Have fun. Clearly, the brainless feds aren't watching you. They're too busy watching their agents' mouths to make sure they don't utter "jihadist" and "Islamic terrorist," both of which you are. Time for you to gather your buddies and have an Al-Qaeda "Tupperware Party."
America . . . Desperate But Not Serious in the War on Terror.
Thanks to vigilant Buffalo reader "P," who sent this tip.
**** UPDATE: Investigator Bill Warner, who is an expert on the Islamic terrorism/used car connection and who got several Al-Qaeda websites shut down recently (FOX News reported on him), sends this Federal Bureau of Prisons link on Galab's new home, about an hour or so from Detroit and writes:
FAYSAL GALAB is at CCM DETROIT 4026 E. ARKONA RD MILAN, MI 48160, his parole ends 10/18/2008, just 5 months away !5 months on parole, for FAYSAL GALAB the ex-New York State car dealer and al-Qaeda supporter, what a joke.
Exactly. And he wasn't even just a supporter. He was member. Membership has its privileges, apparently, since you barely get any jailtime for trying to bring down America.
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Great Minds . . . AND Dysfunctional Western Democracies Think Alike
Yes, our illegal alien problem--with 20 milion of them roaming the Great American Abyss--is huge. But, to make it even bigger, the immigration policies of our neighbors to the north in Canuckistan, are just as bad and actually worse.
We'll let almost anybody in. They'll just let anybody in. And this problem--with our porous northern border--is, de facto, our problem, since many of these individuals easily find their way into our country:
At ports of entry across Canada, new signs should be erected: "Give us your terrorists, your hardened criminals and your human rights violators."As the Auditor-General's report on the Canada Border Services Agency suggested yesterday, this country is becoming a haven for the world's hoodlums, in the same way that Ellis Island represented salvation for Europe's tired, poor and huddled masses.
The fault is not necessarily that of the Border Services Agency, which was set up in 2003 to co-ordinate front-line border management and enforcement activity. In fact, the agency is removing far more people from Canada than were being kicked out before it was created -- 12,636 in 2006-07, including 1,900 criminals, up from 8,683 in 2002-03.Sheila Fraser, the Auditor-General, agreed its performance has improved since her last audit five years ago, when it had no idea how many illegal immigrants were out there. Now it knows 63,000 individuals have enforceable removal orders against their names.
Unfortunately, it doesn't know where 41,000 of them are. That's like the population of Grand Prairie, Alta., just disappearing off government radar screens.
Ms. Fraser sought to reassure Canadians. "Many of them are failed refugee claimants, and I don't think we should jump to the conclusion that they represent a high risk to the public," she said.
She must be privy to more information than she is sharing with us -- all we know is that 41,000 people have skipped town because they don't want to help the authorities with their inquiries. Chances are, they won't be filing tax returns or raising money for their local Rotary Club any time soon.
The real villain in this story is an insanely generous immigration and refugee system. The legislation that governs the system is the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, which pretty much says it all. When someone arrives in Canada, the onus is on the Canadian government to prove why they should be denied entry, rather than on the individual to prove why they should be allowed in. . . .
Even more worrying is that once the temporary resident permit is issued, the agency has no idea whether the individual ever leaves. Canada does not monitor the exit of travellers from the country, so no one knows how many of these 639 ex-cons (and that's just one year) are still here.
Um, America doesn't monitor alien exits either, thanks to people like Spencer Abraham (who, for years, blocked funding of a computer tracking system to do so, at the behest of the pro-HAMAS/Hezbollah Arab American Institute's Jim Zogby), and, now, Julie L. Myers a/k/a "The ICE Princess," who heads Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and hasn't made it a priority (unlike her tax-funded South American vacation).
While the onus, in America is on the alien to prove his/her case, we're not too tough on the "proof" issue, and most are rubberstamped in.
Welcome to Canada. Welcome to America. Stupid is as stupid does.
Read the rest of this Canadian report. It will remind you of a certain other country with the initials U-S-A and a certain incompetentette with the last name of Myers, who will soon hang in Latin America on taxpayers' dime.
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May 06, 2008
How Not to Disprove Your Support for Hezbollah & Other Mistakes by Ali Jawad
I've been writing in major newspapers for over two decades. And in that time and the several years that I've maintained this site, I've never once been sued for defamation. That's because I check and double- and triple-check everything I wrote that I independently report. I'm an attorney, and I know what defamation is. I don't engage in it. And my credibility is important. If I don't have solid proof and reliable sources to back up my information, I don't run it.
Over the last 24 hours-plus, I've been inundated by inquiries from reporters and readers regarding my column on Ali Jawad, the Hezbollah agent and federally convicted insurance defrauder who was dumped by the John McCain campaign almost two weeks ago.
It's the usual M.O. from the extremist Islamic community, and I was prepared.
In 2003, when--in response to a New York Post column I wrote--the FBI revoked a planned national award to "former" Islamic terrorist Imad Hamad, a man who engaged in marriage fraud to stay in the U.S., Hamad and his friend Osama Silbani had a whining press conference. They threatened to sue me--even though they knew they had no grounds, nor plans to actually follow through on what was an empty threat.
Yesterday, Ali Jawad and his close friend, Osama Siblani, Editor and Publisher of the Arab American News held a press conference to claim that everything I've written about Jawad is "untrue" and "rumor and innuendo" and that he doesn't support Hezbollah. But Jawad would not specifically denounce or condemn Hezbollah at his press conference. And having Siblani--who repeatedly, openly praises Hezbollah in mainstream media sources--as the host of the event, doesn't exactly help Jawad's case. It just bolsters the very strong and iron-clad case I've made.
Here are some of Osama Siblani's comments on Hezbollah and HAMAS, which he's repeated on Detroit radio station WJR and on National Public Radio, as well as at multiple Hezbollah rallies at which he's been a featured speaker:
When asked if Hezbollah is a terrorist group, Siblani replies, "No, They are not terrorists. Absolutely not. No. They are freedom fighters."And what about Hamas? "Freedom fighters as well," Siblani said.
Moreover, Siblani attended a Dearborn meeting described in Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Seyassah as a meeting of American Hezbollah operatives.
That Siblani hosted and conducted the press conference for Ali Jawad, who is now, suddenly, trying to distance himself from Hezbollah--the group he previously praised--should tell you something.
At yesterday's press conference, neither Jawad nor Siblani would respond to any of the specific charges I've made about Jawad. That's because everything I've written about Jawad is absolutely solid, and he knows it. He can't refute it, so that's why he issued a general, false "It's not true" claim.
I didn't make up the 2002 Detroit News article, in which Jawad praised Hezbollah and said it wasn't a terrorist group. Funny now how he's trying to pretend he didn't say those things. Interesting that he didn't protest this quote attributed to him, when the story ran back in 2002. That's because he said it--that he supports Hezbollah--and he meant it.
And I didn't make up his federal conviction for insurance fraud and the fact that he and his company, Armada Oil Company had to pay over $250,000 in fines and restitution for it. That's not "rumor and innuendo," nor is it "untrue," as Jawad claimed at yesterday's dysfunctional, yet predictable whine-fest.
Also not a rumor is the fact that his co-convict in USA v. Makki et al, Michael Mustapha Makki, is from the Hezbollah Makki family, many of whose members were convicted of smuggling cigarettes for Hezbollah--the same cigarettes he is accused of selling in his gas stations. Makki went to prison for his part in Jawad's insurance fraud scheme. Why him and not Jawad? Draw your own conclusions.
Nor did I make up his two 2003 trips to Lebanon to meet up with his Hezbollah official buddies. I didn't make up the fact that in 2003, Jawad accompanied indicted Hezbollah financier and fugitive Talal Chahine to Lebanon and that they visited Hezbollah strongholds. He told that to the local papers. Was he lying then? I don't think so. But he is lying now by denying his previous descriptions of the trip.
Nor did I make up the fact that in another trip that year, Jawad traveled to Hezbollah strongholds to meet with key Hezbollah officials, accompanied by indicted Saddam Hussein spy Muthanna Al-Hanooti. That was published in a newsletter by Jawad's buddy, the FBI award revokee and "former" Islamic terrorist Imad Hamad, who orchestrated the trip with him. Did Hamad lie to his own newsletter? I don't think so.
And I didn't photoshop the photo of Jawad with his good buddy, Abed "Abboudi" Bazzi, brother of his other good friend, Hezbollah-backed Lebanese Member of Parliament Ali Bazzi. That's one of the people he's repeatedly met with in Lebanon. This is one of the Lebanese "government officials" he keeps talking about. Indeed.
Also not made up: Jawad's brother's marriage into the Safieddine family, closely related to both the current and heir apparent leaders of Hezbollah. Is he now denying this? No.
So why, after declining to comment, and accepting his fate from the McCain campaign, are Ali Jawad and his band of the usual suspect extremist Muslims who openly support Hezbollah and HAMAS suddenly whining?
Jawad knew for almost two weeks that he was dumped from--or in one of his latest, ever-changing versions of events, quit--serving on the Michigan Finance Committee for John McCain in connection with a Michigan fundraiser. Yet, he waited silently (and declined comment to the Detroit Free Press) for almost two weeks, planning this last-minute phony indignation ambush on John McCain, claiming that what I wrote--all of which he knows to be absolutely true--isn't.
If Jawad was so insulted by the McCain campaign, where was he for the last two weeks? And why did he "quit" on his own, as he claims? If I were unfairly or falsely accused of something, I certainly wouldn't admit it and "quit" (he was summarily cut from the campaign).
Because he knew then I caught him with his pants down (and with his yellow/green Hezbollah underwear showing) and this is just a tactic to hurt John McCain in Michigan. Sour lemons.
Despite his blowhard-fest yesterday,Jawad knows he is guilty as charged of everything I've written about him, just as he was guilty as charged--and pleaded to it--in a federal indictment for insurance fraud. Anybody else would have been ashamed of that. But not Jawad. He's trying to be the Tony Rezko of the McCain campaign. But it won't work. Jawad was cut loose. And John McCain isn't dumb enough to invite him back aboard to sink the ship . . . I hope.
One media report quotes CAIR-Michigan executive director Dawud Walid--another guy who won't condemn Hezbollah or HAMAS and says they aren't terrorist groups--as urging Jawad to sue me. (You know when an organization, CAIR, which the government has identified as an unindicted co-conspirator, attacks you, you're on the right side. CAIR's not in a position to distinguish between terrorists and non-terrorists.)
And Jawad was asked about, but declined to say, yesterday, whether he would file suit. I'm not worried because everything I wrote is true, and, again, he knows it, too. But he also knows, in the event he does file suit against me, I will countersue him for such a frivolous action, and I'll subpoena and discover the heck out of him. I've only written about the tip of his iceberg. He doesn't want to provide me with fodder for more and even more evidence on top of what I already have. Does he?
Most Muslims are not supporting John McCain, anyway. It's common knowledge they are vastly behind Barack Obama. This posturing by Siblani and Jawad and the usual extremist shakedown suspects that McCain will "lose" the Muslim vote over dumping a federally convicted insurance defrauder is not only phony, it's illuminating. It shows their community--or at least the ones who purport to speak for them--not only have no shame, but they openly support Hezbollah (as I've been saying all along) and demand that a Presidential candidate see their way on Hezbollah and look the other way on major federal convictions and insurance fraud.
Guys, thanks for informing us about your community. Nothing I didn't already know. But now the rest of Michigan and the McCain campaign knows.
And just so you know, there are plenty of Arabs and Muslims who've contacted me--who are very happy I enlightened the McCain campaign and got them to dump Jawad.
I received several letters such as this one, from a patriotic Lebanese Arab-American, who read about Jawad being dumped on the Lebanese site, Naharnet. This is the kind of Arab-American we need far more of, as much as we need far fewer Ali Jawads and Osama Siblanis:
I didn't know about your blog until today after I read a Lebanese news website (Naharnet.com) where you were mentioned. I am an American (Lebanese-American), who immigrated (legally) to the USA in 1987.I was pleasantly surprised to read your blog and noticed that your news about Lebanon are accurate; as well as names and their difficult spelling and pronunciation.
I hope the present US government and future ones keep supporting the pro-western government of Lebanon. That's the only way to stop the wave of Iranian extremism ad their allies.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks. I will. And whining by Ali Jawad and his friends won't stop me. They will only bring me more new readers, like you. Unlike Hezbollah-occupied Lebanon, this is a free country. . . for now.
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Reader Bob writes:
They play the martyr card with the best--they whine with their accent, "I love this country. I am an American citizen. This is outrageous how we are treated...." blah blah barf!!!
That's it in a nutshell.
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Religion of Multiple, Starving, Tortured Prisoner Wives & Kids in America
Since they claim to be against this kind of thing--but we know they truly aren't against it, they sanction it--where are CAIR, MPAC, ISNA, and the MAS on the case of Mansa Musa Muhummed. Why haven't they condemned him? And why haven't they condemned the flurry of phony motions filed by this San Diego-area Muslim, which delayed his trial for nine years?
If you think this is the only case of this going on in America, I have a cellar in Dearbornistan to rent you:
A man starved the 19 children under his roof, beat some of them and their mothers and made the youngsters and two of his three so-called wives virtual prisoners in their own home, a prosecutor told jurors Monday as the defendant's long-delayed trial got under way.
Mansa Musa Muhummed, who was arrested in 1999, faces eight counts of torture - each of which carries a potential life sentence - 11 counts of willful injury to a child, five counts of inflicting corporal injury on a spouse and two counts of false imprisonment.Marva Boddie, the woman who was legally married to Muhummed under state law - the other two were not - was arrested along with him nine years ago and pleaded guilty in 2000 to one count of willful injury to a child.
Her plea agreement calls for probation and a year in custody, but sentencing has been put off until after her husband's trial.
The case against Muhummed has taken years to come to trial, partly because of a flurry of motions filed by the 55-year-old defendant, who had been representing himself but recently was assigned a conflicts defense lawyer.
Muhummed allegedly kept two of his three so-called wives and 19 children – his and theirs – prisoner in their home, torturing seven of them, prosecutor Julie Baldwin told jurors in her opening statement.
"He would beat their feet ... to the point where they could hardly stand or walk," she said.
The defendant also beat his victims' palms with a sort of paddle and the backs of their hands until the children begged him to stop, all the while enjoying their suffering, Baldwin alleged. . . .
Baldwin told the jury that during the course of the trial, they will hear the cries and screams of children being beaten and begging for mercy, as taped by someone in the defendant's Aguanga home. . . .
When authorities went into the home in the 49000 block of Sweepstakes Lane on April 6, 1999 - they were alerted by someone who managed to escape and go for help - some of the children were underweight, undernourished and stunted because of lack of food, the prosecutor said.
A daughter of one of the defendant's "wives" was 19 years old when sheriff's investigators intervened and rescued the children, Baldwin said.
The young woman was 4-foot-1, had never menstruated and weighed 56 pounds, about the average weight of someone half her age, the prosecutor said.
All the time that the children were forced to steal food from their own home in order to survive, the defendant ate three square meals a day, she said.
"These children were stunted due to the fact that the defendant starved them over a period of years," Baldwin said. . . .
There were padlocks on doors, sliding doors and garage doors, and doors nailed shut, allowing no escape from the property, according to the sergeant, who said soiled diapers were found in one of the garages, neither of which had running water, toilet facilities or tubs. . . .
He convinced [Laura] Cowan that they could wed, under Islamic law, because her own husband was away [DS: in prison], she said. The moment she married the defendant, he forced her to close all her bank accounts and credit cards and assumed control of her finances and her life, she testified. . . .
Cowan said she argued with the defendant for years over the treatment of her son, Ahmed, and would not let him stay with her in her room.
He would force the boy to stand in a bucket in his urine-soaked and soiled clothes "from the morning to night" and sometimes punched him in the face, the woman testified.
The defendant also called her son evil and "possessed by Djinns," Cowan said, and kept food from the boy in order to punish him for his lack of intestinal control. . . .
"I was slapped all the time. He pulled my hair. He grabbed me by my throat," Cowan testified.
"Religion of Peace," baby. "Religion of Peace."
Coming soon: The United States of Sharia.
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Islamic Terrorist Who Kidnapped Jewish Teens Near Auschwitz is Kuwaiti Ambassador's Son; Will Get No Jailtime
Yesterday, I told you about how three Brazilian Jewish teens visiting the Auschwitz concentration camp were kidnapped and held hostage at their Warsaw, Poland hotel by a Kuwaiti Muslim named "Mohammed A." The 23-year-old Muslim kidnapper claimed he had a bomb.
Well, guess who Islamic terrorist "Mohammed A" is? He's Mohammed Al-Shaibani, son of Kuwaiti Ambassador to Poland Khalid Al-Shaibani.
Note that Kuwait would not condemn the kidnapping and terrorist threat. So much for the claim that the country only boycotts Israel, not Jews. I guess, technically, it's true. They don't boycott Jews--they just kidnap and threaten to blow them up just miles from where Jews were cooked in ovens. Touching.
The press and the Poles are belittling the incident and pawning it off on a claim that Al-Shaibani was drunk at the time. Sorry, not buying it. Just because he allegedly didn't live by the letter of Islamic law prohibiting consumption of alcohol doesn't mean a thing. This was planned and it was deliberate.
Incredibly, Polish authorities released this Islamic terrorist, Al-Shaibani, on bond. And they say he will receive a suspended sentence, meaning he will serve ZERO jail time. Sickening. Yeah, that'll be a real deterrent to future terrorism in Poland. And a real boon to future Jewish tourism there.
"March of the Living"--an annual Holocaust commemoration tour on which the teens were traveling--brings 10,000 Jews to Poland annually. This slap on the hand by Polish authorities sends a message to Jews--just like in the 1930s and '40s--that their lives are meaningless.
Why Poles would slap Jews in the face, yet again, despite their tourist dollars, is beyond me. But it tells us something: their centuries-long anti-Semitism isn't a thing of the past.
Every member of my immediate family--except me and my late father--has gone to Poland on "March of the Living." But you won't see me going there. I won't risk my life to travel to or give a penny to those who think a Muslim plot of kidnapping three Jews and threatening to blow them up is not worthy of any real justice. We already saw that in Poland in the '30s and '40s and the centuries prior.
I still have the same questions I had yesterday about this incident, and more of them:
* Who was Mohammed Al-Shaibani working with in this kidnapping plot?
* Since his father is the Kuwaiti Ambassador, he probably wasn't a hotel guest. Who told him where Jews were staying?
* What were the details of Al-Shaibani's plan to kidnap Jews?
* How much did the Kuwaiti government and his Kuwaiti Ambassador father know about the plot?
* There are many hotels in Warsaw. How did Al-Shaibani know at which hotel Jews were staying and the location of the Jewish teens' sixth floor room, where he ambushed and held them hostage?
Clearly, this was not a random, drunken incident. This was planned ahead of time.
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"Lunch in Tul Karem," Beverly Hills Style
Remember Daphna Ziman?
She's the airhead liberal Jewish rich woman who gave a ton of money to Rev. Eric Lee of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Southern California. Then, she was shocked--shocked!--when Rev. Lee, at a ceremony marking her large donation, attacked Jews in a vicious, anti-Semitic, racist, pro-Obama tirade. Some conservatives and Jews heralded her and felt bad for her. But not me.
Well, I called it then, and I've been borne out. This liberal idiotette went back for more. Ziman--without Lee taking back any of his anti-Semitic comments or expressing remorse (or even admitting he made the comments, so he's essentially calling her a liar)--had lunch with Rev. Lee and made nice-nice with him at Ziman's Beverly Hills mansion. Also there as the "peace broker" was Al Sharpton's rabbi. Need I say more? Word is that Goebbels was not available. Oh, to be rich and stupid. Tragically stupid.
Sadly, Esther Renzer, the International President of the group Stand With Us--which claims to be pro-Israel and philo-Semitic--put together this disgusting love-fest with an avowed anti-Semite and is bragging about it. Would love to see what kind of love-fest she'd have set up in 1938 instead of 2008. Keep that in mind the next time you hear anything from Stand With Us. The group apparently Stands With Enemies and Anti-Semites, not with You. Now we know who the "Us" is.
Yup, Ziman is a likely candidate for "Lunch at Tul-Karem":
At the end of it all, Daphna Ziman and the Rev. Eric Lee were joking about the good cry they had together, pledging to work together to help children, and hugging each other goodbye Thursday.The two, who clenched hands at one point during the conversation at Ziman's Beverly Hills home, had clearly gotten over the controversy that erupted around a speech Lee made at a banquet April 4.
"I believe that the incident that occurred was actually divine intervention," Ziman said as she sat at a round table with prominent members of the Jewish and African American communities.
Together, she said, "we are asking every religious leader in the country to demand that no racism will be spouted in any place of worship or public place." [DS: Nice moral equivalency. He shouts an anti-Semitic monologue at her while taking her gazillions. And this is the "agreement" they've come to?]
The controversy began when Ziman, a prominent Jewish philanthropist and supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, e-mailed eight friends about a banquet hosted by the historically black fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi. She was receiving an award for her work with foster children, many of whom were African American.
She told friends that Lee, the local president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a civil rights group, got up to speak and said that Jews have made money on blacks in the music business. She quoted him saying that "they are economically enslaving us."
Ziman's e-mail made its way to millions of in-boxes. She said she had become more sensitive to anti-Semitism since she heard the anti-Israel comments of the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. [DS: This over-botoxed Jewish airhead never heard anti-Semitism before Wright? Hilarious.]
Lee has said he never made the anti-Semitic statements Ziman attributed to him and apologized for any pain he may have caused. Ziman accepted his apology by e-mail and the two met for the first time Thursday.
The gathering at Ziman's Tudor-style home started at 11:30 a.m. with Ziman playing a song called "It Just Takes One," which she had composed for a movie. [DS: What--the "We Are the World" DVD had a scratch? This woman sounds like another wealthy airhead Clintonista botox victim--Denise Rich, who also "composes" songs.] When the singer's plaintive voice asked, "Why can't we rise above all the hate?" Ziman and Lee looked at each other. Lee had tears in his eyes. [DS: Awwwww.]
Ziman then invited everyone to eat together, and a rabbi who had marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said a blessing.
"Breaking bread together is very important to Jewish values," said Roz Rothstein, who had sent Ziman's e-mail to the 50,000-person mailing list of Stand With Us, an organization that seeks to educate the public about Israel. "If you break bread together, that is a new beginning." [DS: Thanks, "Rabbi" Rothstein, for the tip. But here's one for you: Jewish law is quite clear about defeating your enemies, not "breaking bread" with them.]
The meeting brought participants from throughout the country, including Rothstein; Charles Steele Jr., who is the national president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta; and Rabbi Marc Schneier of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding in New York. [DS: Schenier is Al "Zionist Interlopers" Sharpton's friend and "rabbi." 'Nuff said.] They took turns speaking soberly as they lunched on goat cheese souffle, omelets and fruit.
They talked about King's legacy of forgiveness. Lee invited Ziman to speak at his church to recruit African American mentors for her foster children. Ziman invited Lee to a banquet where she was receiving an award for promoting Adoption Day.
"We did not talk about the past because it doesn't matter," Lee said after the meeting. [DS: Uh, it DOES matter.]
"I believe we've arrived at this place because we are truly well-intentioned people and passionate about justice and passionate about humanity," Lee said. "If you take well-intentioned people, you can only have a well-intentioned outcome."
Ziman said she got over any need to feel right about what she heard April 4. "Eric has suffered a great deal," she said, as workers were laying out tables for a debate she was hosting later that night among the presidential candidates' representatives. "Hurting people is not one of the things I want to do."
Here's a reminder of what Ziman wrote in an e-mail that went all over the world:
After I spoke and thanked the fraternity and their members, Rev. Eric Lee, pres. and CEO of Southern Christian Leadership Conference of greater Los Angeles, was introduced as the key note speaker.He began his speech by thanking Jesus for Obama, who is going to be the leader of the world. He continued by referring to other leaders Like Dr. King, being that this was the moment of celebrating Dr. King's spirit on the anniversary of his death, and Malcolm X.
It was right after the mention of Malcolm X that he looked right at me and started talking about the African American children who are suffering because of the JEWS that have featured them as rapists and murderers. He spoke of a Jewish Rabbi, and then corrected himself to say "What other kind of Rabbis are there, but JEWS". He told how this Rabbi came to him to say that he would like to bring the AA community and the Jewish community together. " NO, NO, NO,!!!!" he shouted into the crowd, we are not going to come together. "The Jews have made money on us in the music business and we are the entertainers, and they are economically enslaving us."
He continued as to how now the salvation has come and the gates have open for African Americans to come together behind Barack Obama, because now is the time to show them.(meaning the Jews).
He continued to speak about ' White supremacy' vs the talents and visionaries in the core of African Americans. He demeaned being given freedom, by saying "To what?" to a country that kills women and children.
Suddenly, this airhead Ziman who was shocked--shocked!--that there is this strong anti-Semitism among Black Americans for whom she serves as sugar mama, is willing to just shove all this under the rug for some phony "We are the World/Can't We all Just Get Along?" moment? Incredible.
Glad she wasn't around in 1939, though judging from the amount of plastic surgery, I can't be certain of that fact. Either way, this is proof that, sometimes, excessive botox seeps into the brain and has a very negative effect.
Reader Blanche writes:
I'm sure glad they are ready & willing to continue to accept Daphna the fool's zillions of $$$.Reader Alexis writes:
This is a little weird. One word, maybe you heard it wrong. Whole sentences? Is she schizophrenic? Was she hallucinating that he said all these things, that now he says he never said? Too bad our Jewish millionaires are working to save anti-Semites' children...while our own are in danger for their lives from Islamists in Israel and all over Europe. I bet the lunch was good.
Like I said, Lunch in Tul Karem. She'd arrive early for "the meal."
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About That Immigration Problem: ICE Princess Protects Us From The Invasion of Alien . . . Dinosaur Eggs?!
Remember those 20 million plus illegal aliens roaming free in the great American abyss?
Well, somebody--somebody atop Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)--apparently forgot. She--Julie L. Myers, The ICE Princess--thinks the problem is solved. And now she's concentrating on the more important issue of that illegal invasion of Argentinian dinosaur egg fossils.
I agree that these dangerous fossils are driving down American wages, taking American jobs, and pose a dangerous terrorist and criminal threat to America. And as far as enforcing Customs laws goes, we all know that returning these ancient eggs to South America is far more important than, say, the Hawala money-laundering of millions to Islamic terrorists going on from Dearbornistan--an investigation that ICE Michigan/Ohio Special Agent in Charge Brian Moskowitz abandoned.
Oh, and they enable her an excuse to travel to South America very luxuriously on your dime. Nice work if you can get it . . . and are an expert in Blackface "originality":
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - A senior U.S. Homeland Security official is in Argentina to discuss money laundering, human trafficking - and dinosaur eggs.Julie L. Myers plans to hand over to Argentina's government a cache of more than 3,675 kilograms of fossils seized two years ago at a gem and mineral show in Tucson, Arizona.
American authorities say the fossils - including dinosaur eggs, shell fragments, petrified pine cones and fossilized crabs - were illegally removed from Argentina and offered for sale in the United States.
Experts believe the fossils date from an era between 180 million and 250 million years ago.
Details of a midweek, handover ceremony are still being worked out, with plans to fly the fossils to Argentina shortly.
Myers then plans to visit Uruguay and Brazil.
The egg fossils have been sitting around, collecting dust in the ICE evidence room for over two years. But, suddenly, they are an important cause for a press conference . . . and an "urgent," well-appointed trip to South America.
Myers could hand over the goods to the Argentinian Ambassador in Washington, instead of wasting your money. That's what she did when she visited her Islamist friends at the Saudi Embassy to give them coins an American diver legally found in disputed waters and which were from around the 13th Century, prior to the existence of Saudi Arabia. And she didn't travel to China when she returned fossil eggs to the Chi-Coms.
But giving up an opportunity for you to fund her wasteful, useless South American odyssey would be no fun for this real-life Veruca Salt riding her endless tax-funded golden ticket. Moreover, that would signal that she actually meant what she said when she told U.S. Senators her key qualification to head ICE was her commitment to "financial accountability."
And we can't have her actually telling the truth. Remember that "bronzer" she "thought" an agent was wearing?
Look for the Argentinians to give The ICE Princess a queen's supply of Diet Coke. And for you to be paying a huge tab for the Myers-Wood family vacation in South America. I can just hear "The Girl From Ipanema" muzak playing in the background, while she drinks a margarita.
Heckuva job, Julie.
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The Real Ali Jawad: Meet the Chutzpah-dik Hezbollah Agent John McCain Dumped, Who Now Wants an Apology
Over the last two days, Ali Jawad--an open supporter of Hezbollah and a federally convicted insurance defrauder--has been holding press conferences demanding that John McCain apologize to him and invite him back to his campaign. He claims that everything I wrote about him isn't true, but won't refute a single thing I've written because it's all true. I'm writing a longer response to his hilarious, sudden demands, which he waited on for two weeks and is doing now to embarrass and hurt John McCain. But for now, I'm reposting what I wrote last week about who Ali Jawad is. Note that I haven't retracted or changed a single word because it's all true, and you need to know about this chutzpah-dik man with no shame.
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EXCLUSIVE: Who is Ali Jawad?: McCain Campaign Dumps Key Hezbollah Agent, Convicted Insurance Defrauder; Feds, MI GOP Should Follow Suit
Over the past week, I spent far less time writing for this website than planned. Instead, I spent hours on the phone with John McCain staffers and key supporters in Michigan to right a mistake.
And, unlike the Barack Obama who clings to anti-Semites and terrorism supporters, John McCain did the right thing: He dumped Ali Jawad--an open Hezbollah supporter and key agent of the terrorist group in the Detroit area. Jawad is also a federal insurance fraud convict.
On Friday, I received this written confirmation that Jawad was cut:
From: Danny Diaz - CommunicationsDate: Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:14 PM
Subject: RNC Response
To: writedebbie@gmail.com
Ali Jawad is no longer participating in efforts - whether fundraising or otherwise - on behalf of McCain Victory 2008.
-Danny Diaz, RNC Spokesperson
Danny Diaz
Republican National Committee (RNC)
(Emphasis added.)
I congratulate John McCain and his campaign because they proved that McCain truly is a maverick and independent of the Republican establishment who brought Mr. Jawad to his campaign. McCain's Michigan and national staff have shown courage in bucking what is a sad trend on the part of the Michigan Republican Party: going for pro-Hezbollah Shiite cash and support. Michigan GOPers took lots of money from Jawad.
Last week, several high-dollar Michigan Republican donors received an invitation to a May 6th $2,300 per head campaign fundraiser. Both John McCain and Mitt Romney are scheduled to attend. The donors noticed the name, "Ali Jawad," prominently listed on the Finance Committee and contacted me, knowing I had mentioned and written about him in the past.
Here are the specifics on Ali Jawad:
Ali Jawad and his company, Armada Oil, were convicted of insurance and mail fraud in federal court and ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution and fines. Michael Mustapha Makki, Jawad's co-defendant--also convicted--in the case, USA v. Makki et al, is a member of the Makki family, many members of which were convicted of cigarette smuggling for Hezbollah.
Several sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity confirm that Jawad sold cigarettes obtained from out of state and avoided paying the exorbitant Michigan cigarette tax he collected, pursuant to the scam. Although key members of law enforcement were aware of this, they were ordered by late, then-Dearborn Mayor Michael Guido not to pursue the matter and to call off their investigation. Mr. Jawad was a major donor to Guido, as was indicted Hezbollah financier and fugitive, Talal Chahine. In 2003, Jawad--originally from the Hezbollah stronghold of Nabatiya--and Chahine, together, accompanied Mayor Guido on a trip to Lebanon, for which they raised thousands of dollars. They visited the Hezbollah-controlled cities of Bint Jbeil and Qana.
Jawad is known as one of the most important agents of Hezbollah in the U.S. He is related (through his brother's marriage into the Safieddine family) to Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah and the man Iran has designated as Nasrallah's heir apparent, Hachem Safieddine (currently a member of the 7-member Hezbollah ruling council, the Shurah Al-Karar). The Jawad and Safieddine families have many business dealings together. Both Ali Jawad and the Safieddines own many gas stations throughout the Detroit area. Armada Oil--of which Jawad is CEO--also distributes gas to gas stations throughout the Detroit area.
Jawad isn't shy about his support for Hezbollah. He defended Ali and Mohamed "Mike" Boumelhem, when they were caught by U.S. Customs agents trying to smuggle weapons to Canada and ultimately to Hezbollah. And he told The Detroit News that the terrorist group, which murdered more Americans than any other besides Al-Qaeda, isn't a terrorist group:
Killing innocent people -- we reject that. Hezbollah does not fit this category. It has protected its people.
Translation: The hundreds of Americans and Jews Hezbollah murdered are not "innocent people." Hezbollah protects Shi'ite Muslims, and they're the only ones worth protecting.
In May 2003, Jawad again traveled to Lebanon--this time, with his close friend, FBI award revokee and "former" Islamic terrorist Imad Hamad, a man who engaged in marriage fraud. Also with them was Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a Ba'ath Party member recently indicted for being a Saddam Hussein spy. Hanooti was a key official of LIFE for Relief and Development, an Al-Qaeda and HAMAS charity raided by the FBI and the U.S. Army.
During that trip, they met with Nabih Berri, head of the Hezbollah-backed Shi'ite Amal militia, who also heads the Lebanese Parliament. Berry was Hezbollah's negotiator for the Hezbollah hijacking of TWA Flight 847 in 1985, during which Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem was trampled to death. Federal agents have long told me that they believe Hamad's annual trips to Lebanon with these malefactors--often including visits to Bashar Assad of Syria--are terror-related trips with money-laundering as a likely purpose.
The alleged purpose of the May 2003 trip was to introduce Berri and other Hezbollah members of the Lebanese parliament to Bachar Sbeiti Kachkouche, then a 3-year-old Lebanese Canadian "child prodigy," who lived in Windsor, Canada, just over the border from Detroit. Hamad and company were purportedly raising money for Kachkouche, allegedly so he could attend Roeper, an expensive Detroit-area private school, college, and ultimately medical school. When you think about it, this is a brilliant scheme. No-one is looking at donations allegedly for the schooling of a gifted and talented toddler, nor at the ultimate destination of the money. And the toddler then gets to traverse the international borders daily. Do you think they'd search this cute, smiling boy or the vehicle in which he was riding on a daily basis? Detroit FBI agents told me they notified Canadian authorities about this scheme.
Roeper School would not confirm whether Bachar Sbeiti is currently or has ever been a student, or whether he is or was ever a scholarship recipient from the school, which would negate the need for private fundraising. Alleged "scholarship" money for Sbeiti was being raised by LIFE for Relief and Development, which was raided by FBI agents in the Detroit-area and the U.S. Army in Iraq. LIFE is believed to fund Al-Qaeda and was openly funding HAMAS' Jordanian operation for several years. Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a top LIFE official was recently indicted as a Saddam spy, and the charity's founder was identified as an agent of the Muslim Brotherhood in America. Alleged "scholarship" money for Sbeiti was also being raised by Hamad's ADC (American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee). "Donors" were instructed to make checks payable directly to LIFE and ADC. An examination of the federal tax filings for both organizations indicates no outlays for Sbeiti's education or any indication of the ultimate use of monies raised in Sbeiti's name.
But, despite all this, Ali Jawad remains "untouchable," say concerned citizens.
That might have something to do with the tight relationship both Jawad and his friend, the "former" Islamic terrorist Hamad, have with key feds. The photo above shows Ali Jawad at a recent banquet held by Hamad and a Nabih Ayad, a lawyer for Islamic terrorists. Jawad is shown sitting at the head table next to Michael Rosen, a lawyer and policy advisor with the U.S. Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes of the U.S. Treasury Department. To Rosen's right, the man who is laughing is Michigan FBI Special Agent in Charge Andrew Arena. Previous to his Michigan assignment, Arena was in charge of Counterterrorism for the New York FBI and told the Christian Science Monitor that, in that capacity, his job was to set the public--and agents--straight, after a poll showed 50% of Americans had a negative view of Islam.
Also sitting at the table and shown in the next picture with Jawad and Hamad, are Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Julie L. Myers and Michigan/Ohio ICE Special Agent in Charge Brian Moskowitz. On the far right of the photo, next to Myers, is Abed "Aboudi" Bazzi, a close friend of Jawad. Bazzi is the brother of Ali Bazzi, a Hezbollah-allied Member of the Lebanese Parliament, who is from the Shi'ite Amal militia.
Oh, the company they keep.
Fortunately, John McCain is not also keeping company with Ali Jawad. Unlike these feds, he did the right thing. But several Michigan Republicans haven't.
The list of Michigan Republicans who've taken money from Ali Jawad includes Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, Gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos, Congresswoman Candice Miller, and Congressman Joe Knollenberg a/k/a "Hezbollah Joe" (who sent $86 million in US money back to Jawad's Hezbo buddies in South Lebanon, to return the favor), U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (who sponsored the $86 Mill Hezbo giveaway with Knollenberg), Michigan House Republican Campaign Committee, Michigan Supreme Court Justice Cliff Taylor, and former State Rep. and failed Supreme Court nominee Marc Shulman.
On the Democratic side, Jawad gave to reliable pan-Islamist Congressmen John Conyers, David Bonior, John Dingell, and Cynthia McKinney. But as you can see, he's given primarily to Michigan Republicans. And it's a trend Michigan Republican Chair Saul Anuzis shows no willingness to stop. After I pointed out that he tried to recruit pro-Hezbollah Shi'ite Nasser Beydoun to run in 2002 as a Republican for Michigan's U.S. Senate seat, I asked Anuzis whether he would decline in the future to "outreach" to Shi'ite Muslims who support Hezbollah. He would only answer that he would appeal to whomever will vote Republican. And campaign finance reports show he's not turning away this poisonous money, either.
Other than that, Jawad is a major donor to the Dearborn-based, Islamist-dominated Arab American Political Action Committee (AAPAC), run by Osama Siblani--who was identified in Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Seyassah as an agent of Hezbollah--and Abed Hammoud. Both have compared Israel to Nazis and openly praised "the Hezbollah martyrs" as "freedom fighters." Imad Hamad is also active with the group, as is Nael AbuNab, who was convicted of several felonies for selling cars with fraudulent speedometers. AAPAC's Secretary, Lola Elzein, was removed after I sent a demand letter to Siblani, noting Elzein's multiple, written, obscene, Holocaust-denial death, rape, and torture threats to me, my parents, and grandparents.
So, how did Jawad formerly come to be one of six members of John McCain's Michigan campaign finance committee in the first place? Neither the McCain campaign nor the RNC is saying. Federal campaign finance reports show he hasn't donated a penny to the McCain. Privately, though, some people listed on the invitation are saying Jawad "came over from the Romney campaign." This is interesting, since Jawad also hasn't donated a penny to Mitt Romney, either. Perhaps he was picked because he's a Muslim name.
Or perhaps he was tapped because he was a major donor to Michigan Attorney General Cox. Cox was McCain's Michigan campaign chairman, but resigned last summer, when it looked like McCain's campaign wasn't going to succeed. Now that McCain is the presumptive nominee, though, fair-weather friend Cox is back on board and has his name on the invitation. As a Jawad donee, Cox--who is running for Michigan Governor--played both sides of the war on terrorism.
After he appeared and spoke at a pro-Israel rally, during the 2006 war with Hezbollah, Cox then campaigned at the dinner of the extremist, openly pro-Hezbollah/HAMAS Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan dinner. And he visited the offices of Jawad's friend Imad Hamad--the openly pro-Hezbollah/HAMAS Michigan ADC--asking what he could do for them. That's not to mention that he lied about and refused to pursue millions of dollars in Medicaid fraud by pregnant foreign alien Muslims perpetrated by the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS).
Cox waited for the last of the Medicaid defrauders to leave the country before he filed a few toothless, token warrants for their arrest, sending out press releases and going on national TV to brag about it. When Cox was contacted by Michigan Republican legislators, upon ACCESS chief Ismael Ahmed's nomination to head the Michigan Department of Human