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[FrontPage Magazine] The Saudi-Iranian Showdown - by Stephen Brown | FrontPage Magazine: The radical Shiite movement in Nigeria was founded after the Iranian Revolution in 1979 and has as its goal the establishment of a Shiite Islamic state in Africa’s most populous nation. Since the Sunnis oppose this, wanting to impose their version of an Islamic state, there have been assassinations of leaders on both sides as well as riots and battles.

[New Articles on frontpagemag.com] FrontPage Magazine - Taliban Ready For Talks: Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the Taliban cannot be defeated by arms alone and that “all parties, including the Afghan government, believe that the ultimate resolution lies in political talks”¦” A British brigadier general .Saudi Arabia fears rival Iran's growing influence in Afghanistan, demonstrated by its weapons sales to the Taliban.

[OneRiot Hot Topics] OneRiot.com - Saudi Arabia Fights Irans Push to Politicize the Hajj: The Saudi-Iranian Showdown - by Stephen Brown. The strain in Saudi-Iranian relations over the hajj is just the latest manifestation of the Sunni-Shiite conflict across the Islamic world.

[Docudharma - Front Page] Docudharma:: Afternoon Edition: If France can prosecute Chirac

[FrontPage Magazine] Liberal Idiocy on Fort Hood - by David Horowitz | FrontPage Magazine: Eldridge Cleaver (one of your old compatriots, David, from your Ramparts days), once made some soliloquy (more or less) along the lines that he could continue to be a rapist and have his sins atoned for by the war against innocent peasants in South Vietnam. This is perhaps the capstone of the incoherence of reductive Liberal philosophy: Someone a world away, in both cultural and real terms, can somehow atone for their sins, even without their permission -- or even so much as a polite note asking their permission.

[New Articles on frontpagemag.com] FrontPage Magazine - The Fifth Generation Warfare: On Jerusalem Day, 5 October 2007, Al-Manar TV broadcasted Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's cantankerous speech giving religious, moral, and political justification in support of “the armed Palestinian resistance” and calling for financial support to the Palestinian terrorist organizations. Nasrallah “gave Khomeini's fatwa [45] .

[Baghdad Bureau] Election: What the Papers Say - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: Al-Sabah al-Jadeed (The New Morning) runs a Reuters news agency story headlined “The Provincial Council Elections Move Away From Sectarianism and Closer to the Country”. Beneath it the paper runs its own story headlined: “Preliminary results: al-Maliki, Allawi and the tribes.”

[The Terror Finance Blog] The Terror Finance Blog: Financial Jihad = Shari'a Finance = The ...: On Jerusalem Day, 5 October 2007, Al-Manar TV broadcasted Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's cantankerous speech giving religious, moral, and political justification in support of “the armed Palestinian resistance” and calling for financial support to the Palestinian terrorist organizations. Nasrallah “gave Khomeini's fatwa [45] .

[Opinionator] Any Basis for Bases in Iraq? - The Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com: Defence secretary Robert Gates called the proposed agreement “an approach to normalising the relationship between the United States and Iraq”. Within this statement is perhaps the greatest danger for Iraq - that the US military presence in the country becomes an unchallenged normality, permanently delegitimising a national government and fanning the flames of conflict in a region that has been burning for far too long.

[Jihad Watch] "The termination of Stephen Coughlin on the Joint Staff is an act ...: Meanwhile, the incoherence and the squandering of men, money, and materiel, the sheer stupidity about doctrine, the timidity about learning too much that in turn might require taking steps that people don't know how to articulate or explain (because they are ignorant, and mentally lazy, and have been for decades), the rigidity (not wishing to figure out how a situation -- for example Iraq -- can be made to work to our advantage if we only are willing to ruthlessly exploit the Camp of Islam's pre-existing divisions, rather than attempt naive and sentimental feelgood missions based on the assumption that "democracy" is transplantable, that the very word "freedom" means the same thing to "ordinary [Muslim] moms and dads" in the Middle East as it does, say, to those who attend caucuses in Iowa or New Hampshire or in any other of the remaining forty-eight, and that surely "prosperity" and "freedom" will somehow -- the "how" of that "somehow" is never stated, never explained -- lessen the threat that comes from the doctrine of Jihad, and from Muslims all over the world, some ruling the states of Iran and Saudi Arabia, some breeding rapidly in the historic heart of the West, and some simply content to say and do very little, but in the end they will go along, as they must, for so it is written, in Qur'an, and Hadith, and Sira.

[The Swamp] The Swamp: Iraq war dead now 4000, no longer front page news: And you own writings for this blog have devoted more time and energy to two politicians (Obama and Clinton) who have never shared in the sacrifices to defend our nation than it has toward addressing the concerns of our troops on the front lines. Keep this up, and Obama and the complicit press will have managed to have "wasted" the lives of those 4,000+ brave young men and women whom we owe our freedoms.

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