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Iraqi slipper thrower shot by US Military.

They thought it was a grenade.

The wounded slipper thrower
and his mama-->

From al-Guardian 

American troops have shot and wounded an Iraqi man who hurled a slipper at a military convoy in the former insurgent stronghold of Falluja. A joint patrol of US and Iraqi troops is believed to have mistaken the flying shoe for a grenade.

A statement from the US military said that during a patrol on Wednesday an "object" was thrown at the troops, who then fired "in self-defence, wounding the attacker".

US troops gave the man, Ahmed al-Jumaili, first aid before he was taken to hospital by Iraqi police. He was in a stable condition after being treated for a chest wound and two bullet grazes.

The incident came just a day after the release from prison of Muntazer al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at George Bush.

Jumaili, a 30-year-old mechanic, said he threw his leather slipper in a knee-jerk reaction. "When I saw Americans patrolling the streets of Falluja I lost my temper, I don't want to see them in Falluja," he told the Associated Press news agency. "Troops have withdrawn from cities, so why they still patrolling here in Falluja?"

Because of a-holes like you, Ahmed. 

(Does being sorry to hear that this idiot Ahmed lived to tell the tale make me a bad person?) 

Guess who's getting a Missile Defense system?

Apparently, President Obama has no problem leaving our allies, Poland and the Czech Republic, defenseless and in the lurch but he's cool with this so-called 'moderate' Islamic country defending themselves.

Turkey to buy missile defence system. 

Turkey's military on Friday said it was planning to spend close to US$1 billion (S$1.44 billion) for its first long-range missile defence system.

The Turkish announcement came a day after US President Barack Obama cancelled a long-planned missile shield for Eastern Europe, replacing a Bush-era project that was opposed by Russia with a plan he contended would better defend against Iranian missiles.

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey's move was aimed at strengthening the country's defence, rejecting media speculation that the system is meant specifically to protect the country from Iranian missiles.

'Turkey's purchase of Patriot (missiles) has nothing to do with Iran or directly with any other country,' Mr Davutoglu told CNN-Turk television in an interview on Friday. 'There should absolutely be no connection between Patriots and Iran.'

Unh-huh.  Right.  The Strategy Page has some additional info about the systems being purchased.  Funny how the Russians aren't getting all exercised about these missiles, isn't it??? 

Perhaps because they are too busy testing ways to smuggle them into Iran...

Or perhaps because they're too busy playing all coy about their sale (currently 'frozen') of the S-300 defense system to the Iranians.  If Russia's freeze thaws on these missiles all bets are off.  Israeli MP says S-300 missiles may force airstrike on Iran.

Or perhaps they are just too darn too busy playing our President for the inexperienced fool he apparently is.   For his part, President Obama has sent his all his little aides out with their talking points about 'cost concerns'. 

Make me barf.

Pvt. William Long's father speaks...

and it will break your heart.



And still not a single damn word from President Obama.

Today at the Little Rock Army Recruiting Center - one man's report

Thanks to FReeper HotLead61 for his report.

A report from (Recruiting Office) Ground Zero

Today I had settled it in my mind that I was going to stop by the Army Recruiting station that was the scene of yesterday's terrorist attack. I did so on my way home from work, which put me getting there at 5:00pm.

There was a FOX16 news van there, and a reporter narrating the scene with the front door of the Recruiting Office in the background. That didn't impress me.

What DID impress me were the four solemn-faced U.S. Army soldiers that I saw walking from the building out to their car(s). Bravely dressed in fatigues and topped with black berets, I was very proud, yet at the same time humbled, as I slowly walked up to them.

Those men saw me coming toward them and my gaze met theirs. I could see the firm resolve in their grim faces, fresh from giving honor to their fallen comrades.

Usually one not at a loss for words, suddenly I couldn't think of much to say. I did speak up and was able to tell them how sorry I (and everyone I knew) was about what had happened there yesterday, and that we were behind them 100 percent.

I thanked them for serving our country, shook their hands firmly, and walked away. I knew I had done what I had to do today. For all of you that would have liked to be there as well, I was thinking of you too.

We are truly a blessed nation. Let's make sure it stays that way.

Amen, HotLead61. 

Feel the need to do something yourself?

The address of the Recruiting Office is:

US Army Recruiting
9112 Rodney Parham Road, Suite 133
Little Rock, AR 72205

Phone Number is (501) 660-4117.

More on the Arkansas Jihadi... and our Commander In Chief remains MIA

He was already under investigation by the FBI.

From Islam In Action:

The suspect, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, reportedly had been under investigation by an FBI joint terrorism task force after he traveled to Yemen and was arrested there for using a Somali passport. The probe was in its early stages and based on Muhammad's trip to Yemen, according to ABC News.

While there, Muhammad — a U.S. citizen from Memphis who is a convert to Islam and was previously known as Carlos Bledsoe — studied jihad with an Islamic scholar, Jihadwatch.org reported.

And this is the report from Jihad Watch.

A well-placed source has told me that Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, who shot one soldier and wounded another at an Arkansas military recruiting station yesterday, went to Yemen hoping to study with a jihadist imam, Yahya Hajoori. I haven't yet been able to find out know if he actually studied directly with Hajoori, or with one of his students.

Remember that in August 2008, six Americans were arrested in Yemen. They attended a mosque in Germantown, Pennsylvania that sponsored "students" to go to Yemen to study with the jihadist Sheikh Muqbil -- and after he passed away, with Yahya Hajoori. This was the mosque attended by Howard Cain, the bank robber and killer of Police Officer Stephen Liczbinski.

Also according to Jihad Watch:  He was a former business major at Tennessee State.

And I'm still waiting for Obama to condemn the attack on the Army recruiting station.  He had the perfect opportunity when he announced the new Secretary of the Army.  But said nothing.  There's been nothing from the DOJ or the Pentagon either according to Michelle Malkin.

No surprise here as NPR continues to aid and abet the terrorists by refusing to mention the suspects name or religion in their report. (also according to Michelle.  I refuse to link to them)

Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska HAS issued this statement.

"The stories of two very different lives with similar fates crossed through the media's hands yesterday - both equally important but one lacked the proper attention. The death of 67-year old George Tiller was unacceptable, but equally disgusting was another death that police believe was politically and religiously motivated as well.

William Long died yesterday. The 23-year old Army Recruiter was gunned down by a fanatic; another fellow soldier was wounded in the ambush. The soldiers had just completed their basic training and were talking to potential recruits, just as my son, Track, once did.

Whatever titles we give these murderers, both deserve our attention. Violence like that is no way to solve a political dispute nor a religious one. And the fanatics on all sides do great disservice when they confuse dissention with rage and death."

Um. About that Army recruiting shooting? Muslim convert held.

Update:  6/2 7:47 am MST  

FNC is reporting that the perp  Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad has pleaded NOT GUILTY at his arraignment.

(This after he 'allegedly confessed'.  Must have got lawyered up.  America is very, very good to him.)

Update from Jihad Watch (h/t Keefe at Table 9):  

I have learned from a well-placed source that Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, who killed one soldier and wounded another at a a Little Rock military recruiting center today, and who faces charges of terrorism as well as first-degree murder, has recently returned from Yemen, where he studied jihad with an Islamic scholar there.

Apparently the Islamic scholar under whom this American convert to Islam studied was yet another misunderstander of Islam's true, peaceful teachings.

More on this as it develops.

He was a prison convert who had "political and religious motives for the attack."  The question is:  Will AG Holder order increased security for Military recruiting offices? 

Oh, and I'm still waiting for Obama to condemn this heinous act.

From the Arkansas Democrat Gazette:

Police say a man with “political and religious motives” confessed to fatally shooting a new soldier and wounding another Monday in a targeted attack on a military recruiting center. The shootings were not believed to be part of a broader scheme.

William Long, 23, of Conway, died in the attack on the Army-Navy Career Center in a west Little Rock shopping center, and Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, of Jacksonville, was wounded and in stable condition, Police Chief Stuart Thomas said.

Police arrested Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23 of Little Rock, along a crosstown interstate moments later. Thomas said Muhammad, previously known as Carlos Bledsoe, would be charged with capital murder, plus 16 counts of committing a terroristic act.

A police report said Muhammad admitted that he “observed two uniformed U.S. soldiers standing in front of the recruiting office ... then drove in front of the army recruiting office and shot the victims.” It did not quote Muhammad directly.

“He saw them standing there and drove up and shot them,” Lt. Terry Hastings said in an interview said. “That’s what he said.”

Thomas said that, based on an interview officers conducted with Muhammad, the suspect “probably had political and religious motives for the attack” on the recruiting center about 1.5 miles from his apartment.

“Mr. Muhammad, previously known as Mr. Bledsoe, did convert to Islam sometime previously in his life. At this point it appears that he specifically targeted military personnel, but there doesn’t appear to be a wider conspiracy or, at this point in time, any indication that he’s a part of a larger group or a conspiracy to go further,” the chief said. “At this point, we believe that it’s associated with his disagreement over the military operations.”

Melvin Bledsoe of Memphis, Tenn., the accused shooter’s father, hung up on a reporter who called about his son’s arrest Monday night.

It's official. Seymour Hersh has lost his mind.

Hersh accuses Cheney of ordering hit on Bhutto and is claiming that General Stanley McChrystal headed the death squad.  Whee doggies.  (h/t FReeper RobinMasters)

Former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on the orders of the special death squad formed by former US vice-president Dick Cheney, which had already killed the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafique Al Hariri and the army chief of that country."

The squad was headed by General Stanley McChrystal, the newly-appointed commander of US army in Afghanistan. It was disclosed by reputed US journalist Seymour Hersh while talking to an Arab TV in an interview.

Hersh said former US vice-president Cheney was the chief of the Joint Special Operation Command and he clear the way for the US by exterminating opponents through the unit and the CIA. General Stanley was the in-charge of the unit.

UK editor sacked for Fake Torture pics

Flashback:  Piers Morgan:  Remains unrepentant to the end. 

Buh-bye liberal scum.  Putting soldiers in harm's way to advance your moonbat agenda - you didn't check the photos because you wanted the torture allegations to be true.  You should be ashamed to show your face. (has anybody vetted today's alleged leaked photos, I wonder?)

Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has been sacked after the newspaper conceded photos of British soldiers abusing an Iraqi were fake.

In a statement the Mirror said it had fallen victim to a "calculated and malicious hoax" and that it would be "inappropriate" for Morgan to continue.

The Queen's Lancashire Regiment (QLR) said the Mirror had endangered British troops by running the pictures. Roger Goodman, of the QLR, said the regiment now felt "vindicated". Mr Goodman added: "It is just a great pity it has taken so long... and that so much damage has been done in the meantime."

“ The Daily Mirror... apologises unreservedly for publishing the pictures and deeply regrets the reputational damage done to the QLR and the Army in Iraq ”

Mirror statement

At a news conference in Preston on Friday afternoon, the regiment demonstrated to reporters aspects of uniform and equipment which it said proved the photographs were fake.

The regiment's Brigadier Geoff Sheldon said the vehicle featured in the photographs had been located in a Territorial Army base in Lancashire and had never been in Iraq.

CIA torture pics already being leaked?

Well, that's what is being alleged.  (And just in time for the Messiah's address to the whole Muslim world.)

Daily Mail:  Obama's bid to suppress prisoner abuse pictures fails as images are leaked

Further images purportedly from the 2,000 include one of a naked man covered in excrement with a guard standing in front of him.

Others yet to be released are alleged to show guards threatening to sexually assault a detainee with a broomstick and hooded prisoners in transport planes with copies of Playboy magazine showing naked women open on their laps.

The president had previously committed to allowing them to be seen but changed his mind after senior generals said it could place U.S. troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan in greater danger.

The images were released in Australia yesterday where they were originally obtained by the television channel SBS in the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.

The release comes at an inopportune time for President Obama who is trying to build bridges with the Islamic world.

(Warning:  Pic of naked terrorist hanging upside down from his bunk bed at link.  Too bad they don't show the "naked man smeared in excrement standing in a corridor with a guard standing menacingly in front of him"  P.S.  If I was a guard and had to clean up after a terrorist who shit himself and then smeared it all over himself and his cell I wouldn't exactly be happy, either.)

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was NOT waterboarded 183 times...

More liberal lies.

Are you surprised?

From Fox News.

The New York Times reported last week that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, was waterboarded 183 times in one month by CIA interrogators. The "183 times" was widely circulated by news outlets throughout the world.

It was shocking. And it was highly misleading. The number is a vast inflation, according to information from a U.S. official and the testimony of the terrorists themselves.

A U.S. official with knowledge of the interrogation program told FOX News that the much-cited figure represents the number of times water was poured onto Mohammed's face -- not the number of times the CIA applied the simulated-drowning technique on the terror suspect.  According to a 2007 Red Cross report, he was subjected a total of "five sessions of ill-treatment."  

"The water was poured 183 times -- there were 183 pours," the official explained, adding that "each pour was a matter of seconds."

The Times and dozens of other outlets wrote that the CIA also waterboarded senior Al Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah 83 times, but Zubayda himself, a close associate of Usama bin Laden, told the Red Cross he was waterboarded no more than 10 times.

The confusion stems from language in the Justice Department legal memos that President Obama released on April 16. They contain the numbers, but they fail to explain exactly what they represent.

The memos, spanning from 2002-2005, were a legal review by the Bush administration that approved the use of waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation techniques." Obama banned the procedure on his second day in office, saying that waterboarding is torture.

Copies of the released memos and more at the link.