Dinah Lord

Sweet dreams...

My friend Charlotte (may God rest her soul) introduced me to Roy Orbison's "Black and White Night" several years ago when I was down visiting the farm.  She put it on the dvd, started pouring the wine and we did our usual dance our a&& off routine right there in her living room until something like 4 in the morning.  I think we must have watched it nineteen times over the course of that weekend.  Good memories, good times.

This is a long way of telling you that blogging will be light to non existent at DL this coming week.  Charlotte's hubby, The Squire, is visiting.  See you sometime next week.

P.S.  Can you identify all the rockers in the vid?

Oh my God. Noor's dead.

I just went over to ROA to crosspost my last post and got the awful news.

I am just sick.
 God bless you, Noor.  May your death not be in vain --->

'Westernized Woman 'allegedly' hit by Dad's car dies.'

I am crushed.

Update 8:12 pm MST - Back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth, I was a nurse and I took care of patients who had suffered spinal injuries like Noor had.  I knew she was in bad shape and it  pains me to know that she is gone.

Welcome FReepers:  Based on the responses I've gotten to my earlier cryptic post at FR, I realize that some people may need to get up to speed on Noor.

Phoenix:  "Strict father" runs down "Westernized" daughter.

Honor Kill Heartbreak:  Noor Almaleki remains in critical condition.  Dear Old Dad is still on the lam.

Noor Almaleki:  Still in critical condition and still no sign of Dear Old Dad.

Noor Almaleki:  The family speaks out.  "Different cultures, different values."

Noor Almaleki:  Her story is still fading from the media.  Dad's still loose.

Good News:  Noor's father now in custody.

Update:  Noor Almaleki's dad made it all the way to London.

Noor Almaleki's dad extradited to Arizona and booked on 2 counts of aggravated assault.

How about upgrading them to 1 count of murder, 1 count of aggravated assault instead?

Aw Crap. Clinic apologizes for telling Muslim doctor she can't wear headscarf.

<---Sitting all smug in her schmatta. (Tell me, do her hands look dirty to you?)

Talk about a gross injustice. 

It's gross because that Doctor's hijab is like wearing a disgusting, "dirty stuffed animal on your head"  (a big thank you to R.N. Christopher for that).

It's an injustice because if I went into that very same clinic (CareNow in the Dallas Ft Worth area - FYI) seeking employment  and demanding to wear a Yankees baseball hat they would tell me I couldn't wear it on the job. 

And that's bull. 

If she can wear her dirty schmatta then by all rights I should be able to wear a Yankees baseball cap. 

Fat chance.

Mark my words, the next thing you know she'll be refusing to use liquid hand sanitizer or wash her hands properly.  Then she'll be refusing to administer to male patients.

And those grievance gangsters at CAIR will be with her every step of the way. 

Speaking of CAIR, have I told them lately to bite me?

Leeds rally speech 10-31-09

Courtesy of the English Defence League.

The after action report on the London demo is also up at their site. Here's a snippet:

Although involving only a fraction of the numbers that turned out in Leeds, perhaps 60 members, EDL’s presence in London nevertheless contributed to a remarkable success, as Anjem Choudary cancelled his obscene pro-Sharia march and instead beat a craven retreat back to his home in Walthamstow. This was not just due to the EDL, as hundreds of anti-Islamist demonstrators from a wide array of different groups peacefully congregated in Piccadilly Circus and the surrounding area, sending a clear message that Choudary and his followers are not welcome in London. In what was a fantastic atmosphere, members of different anti-Islamist groups, a number of unaffiliated demonstrators, and sympathetic members of the public—including people from all across the racial and religious spectrum—were all able to meet each other, exchange ideas, and send a united message about the importance of standing up for British liberties in the face of Islamic extremism.

An unfortunate incident occurred when the Neo Nazi shi& disturbers tried to disrupt the rally and attacked members of the EDL.  One of the Neo-skinheads was fleeing the scene and ran directly into traffic.  He was hit by a vehicle and seriously injured.  Read the rest here.

The Religion of Pedophilia.

Saudi father weds daughter 10, to octogenarian.

112 year old Somali man weds 17 year old girl.

Heh.

<---  Bill Clinton gets laid in Pristina.  (Well, his statue did.)

From AOL.news

Thousands of ethnic Albanians braved low temperatures and a cold wind in Kosovo's capital Pristina to welcome former President Bill Clinton on Sunday as he attended the unveiling of an 11-foot (3.5-meter) statue of himself on a key boulevard that also bears his name.

Clinton is celebrated as a hero by Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority for launching NATO's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999 that stopped the brutal Serb forces' crackdown on independence-seeking ethnic Albanians.

(and they throw shoes at George W. Bush)

HR Keith Ellison D - MN: The Appeaser's Way.

He's a Muslim, he's a Democrat and it shows.

Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison, who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has lobbied against a troop escalation, joining a group of 23 Democrats in introducing a resolution this month that would prohibit any troop increase in Afghanistan.

"To me, escalating troop levels is like trying to use water to put out a grease fire," Ellison said. "I think increasing troop levels will simply increase the level of violence that we already see. I think that what we really need to do is put investment into agriculture training and the rule of law."

(what planet does he live on?)

Six passengers overcome on British Airways NJ-London flight.

Nothing to see here, sheeple.  Move along now.

PASSENGERS were quarantined on a British Airways jet at Heathrow Airport yesterday after six people collapsed during a flight from America.

Fire fighters in anti-contamination suits checked Flight BA184 from Newark for radiation and toxic fumes. After being given the all-clear, the Boeing 777 was boarded by medics who treated the six people – out of 216 passengers and crew – who were affected.

The alert was the biggest at Heathrow since anti-terror measures were put in place and involved 11 fire engines, paramedics and police.

A London Ambulance Service spokesman said: “Six patients were taken to a health centre in the grounds of the airport. “We assessed them and nobody needed hospital treatment.”

The cause of the fainting spells is still under investigation, the spokesman added.

Gitmo: Reading this almost makes me change my mind about closing it.

Almost.

Guantanamo detainees want to stay, say officials.

Since 2005 an Arab American cultural adviser, who for security reasons is identified only by the name of Zak, has been employed at Guantánamo to liaise with detainees.

He said that some detainees would rather stay put than go on trial in the US, where they would probably receive a life sentence or could wait years for a death sentence to be carried out.

"They know there will not be the same privileges as here," he said. "Given the choice of being sentenced forever in Guantánamo or moved to supermax, it is 'no, can I stay in Gitmo?'. Here they can be outside, they can smell the sea."

Update:  South Carolina eyed for Gitmo detainee trial run?

The Navy brig in Charleston, S.C., is "very much in play" as an option to transfer Guantanamo Bay detainees for military commission hearings in the U.S., multiple sources tell Fox News.  Some sources describe the Naval Consolidated Brig -- which has housed at least two enemy combatants since 9/11 -- as a leading option being considered by the task force reviewing the Guantanamo issue.

...

Sources familiar with the review tell Fox News that Undersecretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs Phil Carter was present during a site tour of the Navy brig, conducted in the late-September to early-October timeframe.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who supports closing the facility at Guantanamo Bay, said any plan must be thorough.  "Right now, I am not going to agree to have anybody sent from Gitmo for trial anywhere until we have a comprehensive plan," Graham told Fox News.

If military commission hearings go ahead in the U.S., sources tell Fox News that one scenario is that a "handful" of detainees who are already in the military courts at Guantanamo could be brought stateside as a "trial run" to test the system.

It is believed that a site near the Navy brig, possibly a National Guard site, would need to be refurbished as a venue for the military commissions.

Death watch: Lockerbie bomber's health 'has not deteriorated' since his release.

Update:  5:41 pm MST - The Daily Mail is reporting that the Lockerbie Bomber has been discharged from the hospital.  (P.S. Now they tell us.  US:  We would have extradited Lockerbie Bomber rather than see him set free.)

(Original post follows.)

It's a miracle, I tell you.  A miracle!  (/sarc)

The alive and kicking Lockerbie Bomber, happy and smiling, ensconced in the bosom of his family.  --- >

From the Telegraph:

Megrahi, who is suffering terminal prostate cancer, was sent home to Libya to die after medical experts concluded in a report on July 30 he had just three months left to live. The time span was crucial because only prisoners with three months or less to survive are eligible for release on compassionate grounds.

Within three weeks of the medical examination by Professor Karol Sikora, one of Britain's leading cancer specialists, Megrahi was put on a plane and sent home to Tripoli to die.

But three months on from Prof Sikora's diagnosis, Megrahi is well enough to "walk and talk" and shows no sign of deterioration, according to a senior source involved in his release.

The source told The Sunday Telegraph: "His condition has not deteriorated in three months. He is pretty much in the same way as he was when this all started. He is just as he was. There is nothing that leads anyone to believe he is in any different condition to when he left Scotland."

Megrahi is still in the Tripoli Medical Centre where Scottish and UK authorities keep tabs on him via a weekly telephone call.  He has not moved back into his home where the authorities have installed video conference equipment to use in monitoring him.  (unh-huh.  Like that's going to happen.)

(Do you think maybe the real reason he's alive and kicking because the docs got big bucks from Libya?)

Prof Sikora, who is the medical director of CancerPartnersUK in London, was one of three doctors who visited Megrahi in jail on July 28.

He was paid a one-day consultancy fee by the Libyan government to draw up a report delivered two days later. In an interview in September not long after Megrahi's release, Prof Sikora said he was initially "pessimistic" that the experts could say he would survive any less than a year.  But Prof Sikora admitted that the Libyans had encouraged him to conclude that Megrahi had just three months to live following his examination.

"The figure of three months was suggested as being helpful [by the Libyans]," he said. "To start with I said it was impossible to do that but, when I looked at it, it looked as though it could be done – you could actually say that."

While one of the doctors in the team was apparently 'more vague' about putting a limit on Megrahi's life expectancy, a third doctor, Professor Ibrahim Sharif, a Libyan oncologist from the Tripoli Medical Centre, agreed Megrahi had 'about three months'.

< ---  The Helpful Professor.

Professor Sikora sounds like the perfect candidate to pass medical judgment on this case.  He's just been caught misstating his credentials for 5 years:

The cancer specialist is no stranger to media headlines. This year, he was formally disowned by Imperial College after it was revealed that his online C.V (published on his own website) stated that he was “Professor of Cancer Medicine and honorary Consultant Oncologist at Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London”. As it turned out, that wasn’t quite true.

Imagine that.

Speaking of Moonbat Arsonists: Harvard law grad torches 9/11 chapel - turns self in.

He claimed to be acting on a drunken dare.  At 8am in the morning?  Must have been some night.

9/11 Memorial Chapel before being torched.  --->

From the NY Post:

A Harvard law grad surrendered to cops yesterday after allegedly setting fire to an East Side chapel that houses remains of 9/11 victims as part of a drunken dare, sources said.

Brian Schroeder, 26, originally from Texas, walked into the 13th Precinct station house at about 7 p.m. in connection with the blaze at Memorial Park, on East 30th Street.

Charges were pending, police said.

None of the remains, which are destined for a memorial at the World Trade Center, were damaged but "mementos and candles left by family members in honor of 9/11 victims were destroyed or possibly stolen," Mayor Bloomberg said earlier yesterday.

Police sources told The Post they believe Schroeder was acting on a drunken dare, but have no other motive for the offensive oddball act of arson.

"How does someone walk into a place that's supposed to be secure and just light a fire?" asked FDNY Deputy Chief Jimmy Riches, who lost his son and fellow firefighter, Jimmy, in the Twin Towers. "It's beyond me."

The Fire Department was able to quickly extinguish the 9 a.m. fire inside the tent, which is operated by the Medical Examiner's Office.

It is not clear how Schroeder, a Duke University grad who had moved to New York recently to accept a position with a law firm, was able to get into the compound, but authorities got a report of a break-in about an hour before the fire.

"I just heard about this and it's hard to grasp. Clearly my prayers are with [Brian]," said a relative of the suspect. "With all my experiences with [him], he didn't have any radical agenda. Nothing but a good person."

No radical agenda?  Then I suppose this is a different Brian Schroeder then.

Harvard Law School has created a task force to recommend methods of ameliorating the effects of on-campus military recruitment on the school’s gay and lesbian population, leaders of a student group said yesterday.
...
The committee is currently comprised of six students, though Paik said that the group is soliciting input from faculty as well. The members include first-year students Alexis I. Caloza ’04, Brian A. Schroeder, and Rosen; second-year student Elizabeth I. Tossell; and third-year students Paik and Peter C. Renn.

Update:  Looks like Brian also championed the rights of illegals as an editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.  But no, he doesn't have a radical agenda or anything.  (Thanks to John who left this delectable tidbit in the comments section)

Florida: Anti-Islam display torched.

Christopher over at Islam in Action has this report:

<---  The mannequin before the incident.

Less than one week ago, Pastor Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center put up an anti-Islam display outside his Church. The display contained a mannequin of Christian man being hung by a Muslim. During the night some coward lit the Christian man on fire and left the Muslim man untouched. Was the arsonist a Muslim or a leftist? My bet is on the leftist.

My money is on some idiot moonbat, too.

Video at the link.

Noor Almaleki's Dad: Extradited to Arizona and booked on 2 counts of aggravated assault.

Update:  November 1, 2009 - I am crushed.  Noor is dead.

<---  Dear old dad's mug shot.

From AzCentral.com:

The Iraqi father accused of running over his daughter and another woman is back in Arizona.

Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, of Glendale, was booked Saturday into the Fourth Avenue Jail on two charges of aggravated assault, according to a Peoria police spokesman.

Almaleki led investigators through Mexico and eventually London before U.S. Marshals caught up with him earlier this week.

As far as Noor goes - she still needs our prayers.

Noor Almaleki remains hospitalised in serious condition after undergoing spinal surgery. The friend, Amal Khalaf, is in serious but stable condition, according to family members.

Chaos in Leeds city centre. Anti-fascists storm English Defence League protestors

Update:  November 1, 2009:  Video of the Leeds demo and London demo after action report can be found here.

I'm happy to report that Islam-o-blowhard Anjem Choudary and his group Islam4UK had a terrible weekend, not only did their website get pwned they had to back down from cancel their Saturday protest calling for Sharia Law in the UK due to "security concerns".

"...fears of brutal reprisals forced British-born Choudary into a last minute U-turn.

The leader of hardline group Islam4UK said: “We were going to face the very real prospect of conflict and confrontation and rioting in Central London.   “I don’t care if people are hostile or not but if people are planning on fighting with us and issuing threats to kill and murder us, I had to make a responsible decision.” The climbdown by Choudary – who also heads radical Islamic sect Al Muhajiroun – was hailed a victory for common sense by moderates."

Meanwhile back in Leeds, the English Defence League's continued series of protests went on as planned.  The Anti Fascists - well, they acted like the Fascists they really are and stormed the protest like they always do.  Chaos ensued. 

  <---City Centre, Leeds.  Why look - it's the Socialists workers leading the Anti-Fascist charge.

From the Daily Mail:

Hundreds of anti-fascism protesters gathered in a city centre today to demonstrate against a planned protest by a far right-wing group. Minor scuffles broke out between police and protesters as around 400 Unite Against Fascism activists descended on Leeds to challenge a march by the English Defence League.  The English Defence League was protesting about a number of other marches organised by British Islamic extremists. 

Here are some of the pictures accompanying the Daily Mail article.  If you look carefully at these pictures you can see the English Defence League group protesting peacefully and singing English songs. Granted, there were those Anti Fascists who protested peacefully, but it also looks like the sporadic outbursts of violence were pretty much instigated by the Anti-Fascist group.  This has been the pattern during all of this fall's EDL protests.

Push 'em back.  Push 'em back.  Way back.  --->

<--  More of the so-called Anti Fascists.

The English Defence League on the march.  --->

<---  Singing songs of England.

Islam will not dominate.  --->

Muslims call for justice at funeral for Islamic leader, Luqman Abdullah Ameen

Aloha snackbar:

<---  Brothas in arms at the Imam's funeral.

Upset yet content with God’s will, Muslims called for justice Saturday at the funeral of an Islamic leader who was killed by FBI agents in a shootout last week.More than 1,000 packed the Muslim Center in Detroit in a spillover crowd that was at times teary-eyed over the fatal shooting of Luqman Ameen Abdullah, a Muslim leader, or imam, who led another Detroit mosque. One speaker called him a martyr.

Muslims from metro Detroit, Virginia, New York, Philadelphia, and Atlanta attended the hour-long ceremony followed by a burial at Knollwood Memorial Park in Canton. At the burial, speakers urged the crowd not to seek revenge on the police or the informants they used in the case, saying that any punishment would come in the afterlife.  “We are looking for justice,” Imam Mohammad Elahi, head of the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights, told the crowd Saturday at the funeral. “We hope for a fair and just investigation in this case…because the closest road to Allah is justice.

...

The crowd was primarily African -American, but included Muslims with roots in Asian countries, Iran, the Balkans, and the Arab world. In keeping with Islamic custom, the service was simple and featured a short funeral prayer known as janazah.

...

The funeral started inside the center’s prayer room about 10 a.m. with short talks by Muslim leaders — Sunni and Shi’ite — about Abdullah and what Islam teaches. In the front of the room, Abdullah’s body was laid inside a simple, white casket, per Islamic tradition. Wrapped around the casket was a black cloth with Islamic verses.

Some in the crowd wore traditional Muslim dress: white robes, worn just above the ankle and full beards with no mustaches, per Islamic custom. Like Abdullah was known for, some in the crowd also wore turbans.

Sistahs in the back.  --->

As the mourners entered, they took off their shoes and sat on the carpet inside the prayer room: men in the front, women in the back. Some eyes welled up as the crowd heard stories about Abdullah, who was praised as a man who always remembered Allah, God, and helped needy people in the west side Detroit neighborhood around the mosque, Masjid Al-Haqq, that he led.

...

“Imam Luqman had faith and constantly strived to righteous deeds (ed.note:  HAH!),” Abdur-Rashid said. “Imam Luqman had the consciousness, taqwa,…I never heard him discuss any subject whatsoever, even sports, without talking about Allah.”  He called Abdullah a martyr, saying that “those who disbelieve among the people of the book, and among the polytheists, will be in hellfire, to dwell in there forever. They are the worst of creatures.”

Abdur-Rashid also asked God to help the Muslims in Palestine, Chechnya, and the U.S.

Right on cue.  Here come the grievance mongers. 

Miss J over at You Heard it Here brings us the official party line from CAIR - of course, they are calling for an 'independent investigation' of the raid in their latest communique.  And the useful idiot chorus is lending their voice to the calls for an inquiry.  Even the AP is getting into the act with their reporting.  (Dinah want's to know where the hell PETA is about Freddy the Hero dog killed in the shootout.)

As I wrote Friday, no one should assume government wrongdoing or impropriety — nor has anyone I’ve talked to in Detroit. Still, there is growing skepticism about what happened during the Wednesday raid, and how the government uses informants to infiltrate Muslim groups. The account now widely held in the community is that Abdullah was shot repeatedly by agents, after he shot an unleashed police dog, despite official reports that Abdullah fired on agents. Because Abdullah was both African American and Muslim, his death has racial and religious overtones, especially among a people who have faced excessive police force throughout their history.

FYI - 

One of Abdullah's sons, Mujahid Carswell, 30, was arrested Thursday in Windsor. A U.S. magistrate set bond Friday at $100,000, but had problems getting an electronic tether and was still in custody Saturday, said a sister, Bernita Regan. Carswell's attorney has said the charges against him are allusions based on guilt by association.

<---  ANOTHER humanitarian.

According to Carswell's wife:

"My husband's a good man who's just trying to raise his family," said Carswell's wife, who asked not to be named. She said she and Carswell divide their time between Windsor and Detroit. 

Carswell's wife wouldn't provide CBC News with her name and declined to appear on camera or have her voice recorded.

She said she has been married to Carswell for a couple of years and is due to give birth to their first child, a girl, in about two weeks. Carswell, she said, is an American citizen and an audio engineer who lives in Detroit.  The couple commutes between there and her home in Windsor, across the river from Detroit.

She said Carswell was in Windsor on Wednesday when he got a call around 6 p.m. that his father had been shot. After going to an internet café to find out more details, the couple realized that police were searching for Carswell. Carswell's wife said they couldn't find a lawyer for her husband and local police showed up to arrest him at about 12:30 p.m. Thursday.

She called the allegations against her husband and late father-in-law fabricated and outlandish. She said they are good people who have done charity work for years in Detroit, providing food and shelter for the homeless.

Free Tarek Mehanna!

Cue the violins!

Prepare yourself for the Islam-o-pity party.

The Mehanna media campaign is in full swing.

I found this post at Freedetainees.org where the claim is made that Tarek was not only blackmailed by the FBI, he was also set up by them for not becoming 'a tool to corroborate any FBI claims or accusations against members of the community that might arise'. 

Yes.  The noble Tarek 'refused to backstab his Muslim brothers and sisters' so the evil FBI moved in and trapped him.

Wah!  The injustice!  The inhumanity! 

You know - if you just stumbled upon freedetainees.org and had NOT read this you might just go along with their scenario wouldn't you?

It looks like plenty of people are doing just that.  There's a Free Tarek petition you can sign (1185 signatures at present).

There's Free Tarek on twitter, on youtube and on Facebook.

And don't forget FreeTarek.com (complete with barbed wire!) which is where you can see things like: Who is Tarek Mehanna? And "Tariq (sic) Mehanna:  Obama's latest target".

The FreeTarek.com site is where I also found the video below.  Entitled 'Tarek Mehanna's playful cat' - it is actually Tarek tormenting his cat with a laser pointer.  It sure cracks him up, that's for sure.  (To  me, it's borderline animal abuse.)

2 men linked to Luqman Abdullah Ameen arrested in Canada.

From Fox News:

<---  Khan, Philistine and Carswell. (Carswell was apprehended yesterday at the Canadian border.  He is presently being held there on immigration violations.)

The FBI says Mohammad Philistine and Yassir Ali Khan were taken into custody about 8 a.m. Saturday in the Windsor area, across the border from Detroit. Both have ties there.

They were the last of 11 men sought in a criminal complaint filed Wednesday in federal court in Detroit. The main charge is conspiracy to sell stolen goods

Wife tries to slit husband's throat because he made her eat pork...

That's right.  (And if your first thought was 'Muslim' then you thought right.  Bet you didn't think it happened on Staten Island, though.)

From The Last Crusade:

A soft-spoken and sedate Staten Island Muslim woman tried to slit her husband’s throat as he lay sleeping in the middle of the night.

Rabia Sarwar, 37, was enraged that her husband Sheikh Naseem, 41, asked her to eat pork and to wear non-Islamic attire, officials said.

“It’s time for you to die!” the Muslim woman screamed as she pounced on hubby and hacked at his neck with a butcher knife, sources said.

More at the link.

Have I told CAIR to bite me lately?

Clinic to Muslim Doctor - It's Policy bars Headscarves.

The set-up:

A Muslim doctor interviewing for a job at a suburban Dallas medical clinic says officials there told her she couldn't wear her headscarf in the workplace.Dr. Hena Zaki of Plano, Texas, said Friday that she was shocked when CareNow officials told her that a no-hat policy extended to her hijab.

Dinah's rebuttal:

I was a nurse at a Catholic hospital back in the 70's.  The working nun/nurses did not wear the traditional habit then.  They don't wear them now.

These dirty habits/schmattas/hijabs that the 7th century throwbacks are caterwauling about as being their civil right are nothing but microbe traps - that’s why you don’t see nursing caps these days either.  

Circo Electric Bed in action.  (You should have seen the Stryker Frame.)  Note the nursing helmets .  -->

I loved my nursing cap - or helmet as I called it, and was proud to wear it.  But after it fell off into a pile of shi& as I bent under a Circo-Electric bed to clean up an involuntary bowel movement by a poor quadriplegic patient, well, even I had to admit that hospital officials might have a point about the sanitation issue.

CAIR's involvement:

The Council on American-Islamic Relations calls CareNow's policy ''a blatant violation'' of federal law.

Justice Roberts, if you are reading this - I beg of you to make a ruling once and for all.  (And please rule on the side of modernity and sanitation.)

Well, well, well. Does CAIR have links to the Detroit terror group just raided by the FBI?

It appears that they most certainly do.

It's juicy.  It's long.  It's meticulously sourced.  Here's a few tidbits to chew on.

From WND:

Already under increased scrutiny after revelations in a new book, the Council on American-Islamic Relations now is defending itself against documented links to a federal case that drew national attention this week when an indicted Detroit imam was killed in an FBI raid.

Internal documents from an undercover investigation by the authors of "Muslim Mafia" show CAIR helped finance the legal appeal of Muslim cop-killer Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, who is named in the Detroit criminal complaint as the spiritual leader of a radical group that calls for violent action to establish a sovereign Islamic state within the U.S.

The federal complaint also states one of the 11 indicted followers of the imam who was killed in an exchange of gunfire with the FBI Wednesday, Luqman Ameen Abdullah, attended a mosque "affiliated with CAIR" in Windsor, Ontario, just across the Canadian border from Detroit.

Why, CAIR even got a nice thank you note from the imam's wifey:

The letter of thanks addressed by the cop-killer's lawyer-wife to CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad, which indicated CAIR had made previous contributions, passed on "greetings" from the imprisoned imam.

Attorney Karima Al-Amin wrote:

As-salaamu alaikum:

On behalf of the Justice Fund, we extend appreciation to you and CAIR for the additional contribution of $9,000.00 to be used for legal expenses relative to Imam Jamil Al-Amin's case. The contribution particularly was needed to defray the cost of the recent habeas hearing held in Reidsville, Georgia. We certainly were delighted that you responded to our request in a timely manner.

As always, Imam Jamil sends his greetings and appreciation for the assistance.

Sincerely,
Karima Al-Amin
Attorney at Law

Read it all. (FYI - I'm still plowing through the criminal complaint. It is a doozy.)  Need one more reason to click on the link?

The FBI agent says that when Abdullah's mosque was evicted from its previous location in Detroit, a search turned up empty shell casings and large holes in the concrete wall of an indoor "shooting range."

Obama: No time for Afghanistan - not when there's wallpaper to pick out.

I always knew this guy was a slacker...now we have confirmation.  (h/t FReeper milwguy)

<--- Barack on a visit home to Chicago during 2006.  (The couple haven't lived together full time since 1996 - two years before Malia was born.)

The couple now spend more time together than at nearly any other point since their early years together. On many days, they see Malia and Sasha off to school, exercise together and do not begin their public schedules until 9 or even 10 o’clock. They recently finished redecorating the White House residence, the first lady requesting an outdoor rocking chair for her husband to read in, the president scrutinizing colors and patterns, said Desirée Rogers, the White House social secretary. The pair recently began playing tennis. (He wins, she admitted; for now, he added.) This summer, the first lady surprised her husband for his birthday by gathering his old basketball buddies for a weekend at Camp David.  (Birthday August 4th.  The McChrystal report was received at the White House on August 30.  Lots of basketball under the bridge since then!)

(As always - emphasis mine.)

I rest my case: 

The number of times Obama's met with the Joint Chiefs since taking office:  2

The number of times Obama's played golf:  24 

The number of times he's played basketball in public:  At least 5 (it's unknown how many games he's played privately.)

Update: Noor Almaleki's Dad made it all the way to London...

Update:  November 2, 2009 - I am crushed.  Noor is dead.

Update:  Sunday, November 1, 2009 - upthread.

...where he was denied entry.

Don't try and tell me Noor's father didn't know exactly what he was doing.  This was no stunned and temporarily insane man fleeing in panic.  This man had a plan to get out of the country and he followed it. 

From ABC15.com:

After the hit and run, Peoria Police Department Spokesperson Jay Davies said Almaleki drove his vehicle to Mexico and abandoned it in Nogales where officials there later located and seized it. 

Almaleki then made his way to Mexico City, where he reportedly boarded a plane to London. 
Upon his arrival in London, UK Port of Entry authorities denied him entry into the country, according to Davies. 

The UK contacted US authorities and Almaleki was placed on a plane back to the US and arrested Thursday afternoon upon his arrival in Atlanta.  He currently awaits extradition to Arizona.

Agencies involved included the US Marshalls Office, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the FBI, Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS), officials in the United Kingdom, and officials from the Nogales and Sonora, Mexico Police.

Heartbreak: 

"Noor Almaleki suffered life threatening injuries and remains unresponsive as of Thursday. Amal Khalaf suffered serious physical injuries and remains in serious, but stable condition."

Afghanistan: Fraud surrounds women voters.

Women (we think) lining up at their local polling place to cast their votes on August 20.     --->

From the AP:

One man cast 35 votes for female relatives. Others lugged in sacks full of voting cards they said were from women. And in a village of just 250 people, 200 women supposedly voted in three hours.

In Afghanistan's recent presidential election in August, one of the ripest areas for fraud was women's voting. And the same is likely to be true again in the Nov. 7 runoff between President Hamid Karzai and former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah.

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Yet the problems of fraud related to women's voting cannot be changed in a few weeks. There's widespread acceptance of proxy voting by male relatives. Many women are reluctant to vote given threats of violence and polling centers swarming with men. And those who do cast ballots are usually uneducated and therefore more easily manipulated.  (ed. note: To say nothing of the a$$-whupping they get if they don't obey.)

It's unclear how large an impact fraud involving women voters had on the results because Afghan election officials have not released the list of women's polling stations. But many observers have said that women's polling stations were more problematic than men's.

More at the link.

Heartbreak: Dog killed in Muslim terror raid to be memorialized.

His name was Freddy.

  <---   Freddy, the hero dog

The FBI will hold a memorial for the K-9 killed during a shootout in Dearborn and the dog's name will be added to a memorial wall.  

Freddy was a nearly 3-year-old Belgian Malinois who was killed Wednesday during a gun battle between agents and Luqman Ameen Abdullah, described as the radical leader of a Sunni Islam group.

"In the line of duty, Freddy gave his life for his team.  He will be missed by his FBI family," the FBI said in a statement. 

Freddy will be buried in Quantico, Va.

Anyone wishing to send a card to Freddy's handlers can address it to:

Freddy's Team,
c/o FBI,
477 Michigan Ave., 26th Floor,
Detroit, Mich., 48226.

Report on Arrakis 10.30.09

Here's what's happening over at Report on Arrakis this morning.

Sting says Obama "sent from God".

al Shabaab whips women for not wearing socks.

Canadian spy chief chastises media for portraying terrorists in a positive light.