Muslims who just don’t understand the true meaning of ‘Jihad’

IHT – Authorities in France, Germany and the Netherlands on Friday detained at least 10 people suspected of helping to fund al-Qaida-linked militants with roots in Uzbekistan, officials said. [snip] The suspects’ nationalities were not given but officials said they were Turkic-speaking. French police suspect they collected funds for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, a militant group said by the United States to have close ties to al-Qaida. The senior official described the arrests as “preventative” because the funds thought to have been collected were not known to have been used to carry out terror attacks. [snip]

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan has been blamed for several attempted border incursions into Uzbekistan through Kyrgyzstan in 1999-2001 and bombings in both countries as well as Tajikistan — all ex-Soviet republics in predominantly Muslim Central Asia. Reputed supporters have been active in southern Kyrgyzstan recently. The movement, which had training camps in nearby Afghanistan and fought on the side of Taliban, is believed to have been set back during U.S.-led operations there. Many followers of the IMU fled to Pakistan’s tribal area near the Afghan border, where its leader Tahir Yuldash last year called in a video interview for supporters to launch suicide attacks. [snip]

At Least It’s A Prius

By AR – From the Sydney Morning Herald, Kevin07 Families Minister, Jenny Macklin has ” failed to placate desperate carers angry about the budget, then added insult to injury by parking in a disabled spot.”

But Macklin made amends by declaring, “At least it’s a Prius.” Well, not really.

Macklin, previously displayed her sympathetic attitude towards those people her department should be looking after when she opted to sleep on board a luxury cruiser rather than chance it in accomodation in Aurukun.

Picture of Courage

Daily Mail – They walked tall and stood proud. Each step they took was a landmark in their courage and determination. Each cheer they got from the crowd was a tribute to the sacrifices they made. With scarcely a falter, two Royal Marine commandos who lost limbs in Afghanistan overcame one of the toughest battles of their lives yesterday – by walking to receive their campaign medals. Mark Ormrod and Ben McBean made a supreme effort to master artificial limbs in time for the ceremony so they could collect their medals not just in person, but face to face with their commanding officers.

HIV-positive man jailed for 35 years for spitting at cop

When I read the above headline at the Australian news website Sydney Morning Herald, I was surprised at first, but in a few seconds concluded that it could not be a local story. No way the justice system in Australia would have the balls to hand out such a sentence. No way will our politicians have the balls to punish like this, no way the majority of us have the stomach for such a sentence. Too bad I was right.

SMH – An HIV-positive man convicted of spitting into the eye and open mouth of a Dallas police officer has been sentenced to 35 years in prison. Willie Campbell must serve at least half that time because jurors ruled the 42-year-old used his infected saliva as a deadly weapon.

Out here if the cop’s lucky enough not to be investigated, at best a good behavior bond [for the scumbag], directions to the nearest public hospital so he can take his rightful place suckling on the taxpayers teat and perhaps some angry looks at the cop for not being a proper punching bag like he’s paid to be.

More proof – Chavez a terrorist coddling leftist slimeball

FOX News – Venezuela offered substantial military help to Colombian rebels in their fight against the Colombian government, according to a report Thursday by the Washington Post, which cited internal rebel documents. [snip] Venezuela’s ties to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, came under further scrutiny Thursday when Interpol said it had concluded that the Colombian government hadn’t tampered with the seized computers.

Interpol’s report bolsters Colombia’s claims that the computers contain evidence of meddling by Venezuela in its neighbor’s war with FARC. [snip] The developments come on the heels of Chavez’s warning Wednesday that Colombia should not allow a U.S. military base on the border between the two countries, or else Venezuela would consider it an act of “aggression” that would revive a decades-old territorial conflict in the region known as La Guajira. [snip]

More than a dozen internal rebel messages detail several years of close cooperation between top Venezuelan and FARC officials, including rebel training facilities on Venezuelan soil and a meeting inside Venezuela’s equivalent of the Pentagon, according to the Associated Press, which reviewed text files provided by a senior Colombian official. [snip]