July 29, 2010 by Tim McDowell.

Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 05:21 PM

By: Jim Meyers

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the controversial top cop in Maricopa County, Ariz., tells Newsmax he will jail any protesters who attempt to block his jail on Thursday when provisions of his state’s tough new immigration law take effect.

Arpaio also says it’s “great” if undocumented aliens react to the new law and his strict anti-illegal immigration agenda by moving back to Mexico or to the “sanctuary state” of California, and challenges President Barack Obama to invite him to the White House for a “wine summit” to discuss illegal immigration.

Arpaio, whose county includes most of the Phoenix metropolitan area, promotes himself as “America’s toughest sheriff.” He has limited county inmates to two meals a day, banned “sexually explicit material” in prison, reinstituted chain gangs, and set up a “tent city” as an extension of the Maricopa County Jail.

On Wednesday a judge blocked the most controversial sections of Arizona’s new law and put them on hold. The law will still take effect on Thursday, but without some of the provisions that angered opponents — including sections that required officers to check a person’s immigration status while enforcing other laws.

Nevertheless there are reports that opponents of the new law plan to block Arpaio’s jail on Thursday in an act of civil disobedience.

“There’s a rumor that they’re going to block our jails down the street,” Arpaio says in an exclusive Newsmax interview.

“You know what? They’re not going to block our jails. They’re going into the jail if they block our jail. I’m not going to succumb to these demonstrators keeping law enforcement from booking people in our jail. So we may have to take some action.”

Arpaio also vows to conduct a “crime suppression operation” on Thursday.

“This morning we raided another business and arrested five more illegal aliens with false identification. On Thursday we’re going to do our 17th crime suppression operation and go out with our volunteer posse and deputy sheriffs and catch criminals. We’ve done 16. Just by chance about two-thirds [of those arrested] happen to be here illegally.

“People say, why are you doing it on the day that the law may be put in effect? Well, should I wait? We’ve been enforcing the other state immigration laws and we’re still the only ones doing it. We’re going to continue doing our job.”

Arpaio was asked about concerns that the federal government will refuse to cooperate with a handoff of illegal aliens to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency after they are apprehended in Arizona.

“There’s been some rumbles that maybe ICE will not take the illegal aliens off the hands of law enforcement,” he responds.

“So we may have a little problem, but not that big, because most of the time we arrest illegal aliens we have them on another charge and we book them into our jail.

“After people do their time and we have them deported, if [ICE doesn’t] accept many of those people who are going to be deported, the only alternative is that they may be released on the street.

“So let’s see what the federal government does. I know they’re not happy with this new law. They’re not happy with me, because I had 100 deputies trained by Homeland Security, trained to work on the streets and function as federal officers, but they took that away when the new administration took office.”

There have been media reports that with the law taking effect, many Hispanics are moving out of Phoenix this weekend — as evidenced by a recent increase in yard sales to dispose of items before they move. Arpaio calls that “hype” and said “they have garage sales every week. Go into any Hispanic neighborhood and they’re having garage sales.

“But a lot of them are moving out. I’d like to take a little credit for that, because they’re accusing me of breaking up families, they’re accusing me because people don’t want to go to church, they don’t want to go to school because they worry about the sheriff coming in and arresting people that are here illegally.

“Consequently many people have moved out. Of course they don’t all go to Mexico. They go to the sanctuary state called California and other states where they don’t care about illegal immigration. But many of them are moving out, moving back to their home country. That’s great. Now let [them] get the proper paperwork and come into this country legally.”

The sheriff of neighboring Pinal County has invited President Obama to come to Arizona for a first-hand look at the illegal immigration problem.

“Why would he go to Pinal County?” Arpaio says.

“We’re bigger than all counties put together. We’ve locked up 40,000 people. Why doesn’t he come to Maricopa County to talk to the sheriff that he himself doesn’t like?”

Arpaio also scoffs at the notion that Obama should come to the Mexican border to observe the situation there.

“What is this, symbolic? He knows where the border is. Of course I spent 14 years at the border as the head of federal drug enforcement [in Arizona]. No one’s invited me, including Republicans, U.S. senators. No one has asked me my opinion as to what I would do if I was president.

“But that’s O.K. I’m not concerned about that. I know what we are doing.

But to say the president should take a tour of the border — I think he knows. He watches television. He talks to [Homeland Security Secretary] Janet Napolitano. I think he knows where the Mexican-U.S. border is.

“So just to say let him come down, for the president [to get] in a Jeep along with a little show of all the politicians and going to the border, that’s not going to solve any problems.

“Now I do realize that he did invite the Cambridge police sergeant in Massachusetts who arrested the college professor, and racial profiling was thrown in there. So he invited both of them to the White House [for the so-called beer summit]. They had a little beer.

“So why doesn’t he invite me to the White House? I’m accused of racial profiling and I have all those years experience. Why doesn’t he invite me to the White House? We’ll have a little wine and throw a little basketball. I’m from Springfield [Mass., birthplace of basketball] so I think I’ll beat him. But I’m not holding my breath.”

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July 28, 2010 by Tim McDowell.

IBD Editorials

Leadership: A major poll just gave Congress a favorability rating of 11% — lowest in history. Never, it seems, have our representatives in Washington been so disconnected from the people they purport to serve.

The disconnect was most evident in separate comments made by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at a conference of the far-left group Netroots Nation last weekend in Las Vegas. Both weighed in on vital topics. Both revealed why they’re so out of touch with reality.

Pelosi told the audience she adamantly opposes raising the retirement age for Social Security and said the Depression-era program shouldn’t be cut to help reduce the deficit. “When you talk about reducing the deficit and Social Security, you’re talking about apples and oranges,” she said.

She has it exactly backward. The No. 1 problem facing this nation is the massive deficit we face over the next 75 years, due almost entirely to the expansion of Social Security and Medicare. The only way to address the deficit is to address entitlements.

Social Security and Medicare trustees estimated last year that the unfunded liability — that is, future expected deficits — of the two programs is $107 trillion, or 7 1/2 times the size of our entire economy. If not addressed immediately, these shortfalls will require a tripling of payroll taxes to 37% by 2054 from 12.4% today.

Governments as diverse as Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, France and Great Britain face similar scary arithmetic and are already lengthening the amount of time workers have to work to get a public pension. They’re making other cuts as well.

When the U.S. lags behind reform enacted even by the soft-socialist countries of Europe, it’s a sign of how radical and beholden to special interests our Democrat-controlled government has become. To assert, as Pelosi has, that we don’t need to alter Social Security in any way is the fiscal equivalent of joining the Flat Earth Society.

Meanwhile, the speaker had the chutzpah — or maybe it was twisted humor — to tell the Netroot folks that Democrats are “moving on all fronts to reduce the deficit.”

“Moving on all fronts”? Last we saw — and it’s hard to keep up — the U.S. this year is slated to have a deficit of $1.5 trillion, or 10% of GDP, and an additional $1.4 trillion, or 9.2% of GDP, next year. Anticipated deficits, all from Democratic policies, will add $10 trillion to $13 trillion to our national debt over the next decade.

Just Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office again warned that U.S. deficits are “unsustainable.” Apparently, the free-spending Democrats don’t think so.

In the recent debate over a $35 billion extension of jobless benefits, Republicans merely asked that the bill be paid for with cuts elsewhere — as the Democrats’ own pay-go rules, passed earlier this year, require. Democrats refused. Instead, the GOP was slandered as racist and accused of hating poor Americans.

Reid’s comments, made to the same Netroot group, were equally absurd — and no doubt offensive to voters.

After his party insisted during more than a year of debate over the health care overhaul that they did not want a single-payer public option, Reid gloated to the Netroot gathering: “We’re going to have a public option. It’s just a question of when.”

As with Pelosi’s comments, Reid’s fly in the face of what’s going on around the world. Europe, in particular, has been forced to face up to its debt problems, and countries there are actively attacking their governments’ involvement in health care.

Take Britain, the country most often cited as a model for Obama-Care. The government-run National Health Service is going through massive cuts, and “some of the most common operations — including hip replacements and cataract surgery — will be rationed” to save money, according to Britain’s Telegraph.

Meanwhile, the new conservative government is pushing the biggest reform of Britain’s health care system since its 1948 founding, with a plan to decentralize the bureaucracy to the local level.

Nor does Reid, like Pelosi, get that Social Security is in a deep crisis. He called it “the most successful social program in the history of the world.” Successful? A program that socks future generations with trillions in higher taxes and lower standards of living? A program that’s already running in the red and whose unsustainable finances promise to push the U.S. to the verge of bankruptcy?

The arrogance of Reid’s and Pelosi’s remarks underscore the problems that the Democrats have with the electorate. They promised moderation and fiscal responsibility. Instead, we got a radical expansion of government power — with trillions of dollars in spending, thousands of pages of costly regulations, a government takeover of vast swaths of the private economy and deficits stretching into the future as far as our best forecasts can see.

The country has seen what arrogant, untrammeled rule looks like. And as the polls show, it doesn’t care for it at all.

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March 4, 2010 by Tim McDowell.

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January 13, 2010 by Tim McDowell.

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January 5, 2010 by Tim McDowell.

For years, Better Business Bureau has educated consumers about not giving out personal information over the telephone or to anyone who shows up at their front door.  With the U.S. Census process beginning, BBB advises people to be cooperative, but cautious, so as not to become a victim of fraud or identity theft.
 
The first phase of the 2010 U.S. Census is under way as workers have begun verifying the addresses of households across the country.  Eventually, more than 140,000 U.S. Census workers will count every person in the United States and will gather information about every person living at each address including name, age, gender, race and other relevant data.  “Most people are rightfully cautious and won’t give out personal information to unsolicited phone callers or visitors, however the Census is an exception to the rule,” said Steve Cox, BBB spokesperson. “Unfortunately, scammers know that the public is more willing to share personal data when taking part in the Census and they have an opportunity to ply their trade by posing as a government employee and soliciting sensitive financial information.”
 
The Census data will be used to allocate more than $300 billion in federal funds every year, as well as determine a State’s number of Congressional representatives. Households are actually required by law to respond to the Census Bureau’s request for information. During the U.S. Census, households will be contacted by mail, telephone or visited by a U.S. Census worker who will inquire about the number of people living in the house. Unfortunately, people may also be contacted by scammers who are impersonating Census workers in order to gain access to sensitive financial information such as Social Security, bank account or credit card numbers. Law enforcement in several states have issued warnings that scammers are already posing as Census Bureau employees and knocking on doors asking for donations and Social Security numbers.

The big question is - how do you tell the difference between a U.S. Census worker and a con artist? BBB offers the following advice:
 
• If a U.S. Census worker knocks on your door, they will have a badge, a handheld device, a Census Bureau canvas bag and a confidentiality notice. Ask to see their identification and their badge before answering their questions.  However, you should never invite anyone you don’t know into your home.

• Census workers are currently only knocking on doors to verify address information. Do not give your Social Security number, credit card or banking information to anyone, even if they claim they need it for the U.S. Census.  While the Census Bureau might ask for basic financial information, such as a salary range, it will not ask for Social Security, bank account or credit card numbers nor will employees solicit donations.

• Eventually, Census workers may contact you by telephone, mail or in person at home.  However, they will not contact you by e-mail, so be on the look out for e-mail scams impersonating the Census. Never click on a link or open any attachments in an e-mail that are supposedly from the U.S. Census Bureau.

For more advice on avoiding identity theft and fraud, visit www.bbb.org

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September 17, 2009 by Tim McDowell.

President Barack Obama on Thursday overhauled plans for a missile defense shield in eastern Europe, promising instead stronger, swifter defense systems to protect U.S. allies against any threat from Iran.

In a move that may ease tensions with Moscow but spur regional fears of resurgent Kremlin influence, Obama said he had approved recommendations from U.S. military leaders to shift focus to defending against Iran’s short and medium-term missile capabilities.

“This new approach will provide capabilities sooner, build on proven systems and offer greater defenses against the threat of missile attack,” Obama said in a brief statement on scrapping plans for ground-based interceptors in Poland and a related radar site in the Czech Republic.

Moscow said it would welcome the decision to drop the program, which had complicated U.S. efforts to enlist Russian support over Afghanistan, Iran and nuclear arms control.

But critics accused the White House of going soft on defense by dropping the project, which had raised hopes of huge contracts among U.S. defense giants.

Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate who lost to Obama in 2008, blasted the move as “seriously misguided” and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, once a leading hawk under the Bush administration, was scathing.

“It’s just unambiguously bad decision,” he said. “Russia and Iran are the big winners. I just think it’s a bad day for American national security.”

The Bush administration had proposed the system amid concerns Iran was trying to develop nuclear warheads it could mount on long-range missiles.

The shield was intended to defend against any long-range missile launches from “rogue” states such as Iran and North Korea. Russia saw it as a threat to its missile defenses and its overall security.

Outlining the new approach, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday the United States would deploy Aegis ships equipped with interceptors to defend European allies and U.S. forces against any threats.

Gates said land-based defense systems would be fielded in a second phase starting in about 2015.

“We have now the opportunity to deploy new sensors and interceptors in northern and southern Europe that near term can provide missile defense coverage against more immediate threats from Iran or others,” he said.

Shares of U.S. companies involved in missile defense, including Boeing Co, Lockheed Martin Corp, Northrop Grumman Corp and Raytheon Co, were little changed in early trade on the New York Stock Exchange.

The decision had been widely anticipated, with the contractors likely to benefit from the administration’s revised missile-defense plans.

EASTERN EUROPEAN FEARS

It was unclear, however, if the renewed promises of U.S. support would ease fears in Eastern Europe states, many of which had seen the large-scale missile plan as a symbol of U.S. commitment to the defense against any encroachment by its former Soviet rulers 20 years after the end of communist rule.

Obama informed the Czech and Polish governments of his decision just hours before the announcement, officials said.

Some European analysts said the U.S. move could help the traditionally pro-American region to build a more pragmatic relationship with both Washington and Moscow.

“I think we have to approach this decision with calm. The U.S. president has changed and so has U.S. foreign policy. I don’t think the enemy is just outside our gate,” said Iwona Jakubowska-Branicka of Warsaw University.

Pentagon officials said the decision to move away from the shield was based on intelligence indicating Iran is focused on developing short- and medium-range missiles rather than the long-range intercontinental missiles originally feared.

The decision comes as Obama administration seeks to “reset” battered ties with Russia so that the two former Cold War foes can cooperate on Iran, on fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan and on cutting their nuclear arsenals.

Washington has won permission to move trains carrying supplies for U.S. forces across Russia via Central Asia to Afghanistan, avoiding routes through Pakistan that had come under frequent attack from the Taliban.

Diplomats in Moscow say Russian hardliners could read the move as a sign of U.S. weakness and then press for further gains to shore up Russian power in the former Soviet bloc, where Russia already engaged in a brief war with Georgia last year and periodic clashes with Ukraine over gas supplies.

Ignoring U.S. assurances that the system was not targeted at Russia, President Dmitry Medvedev threatened last year to station missiles in a Russian enclave near Poland if the United States implemented the plan.

Democratic Senator Charles Schumer said Washington would now await Moscow’s response.

“The Russians should return the gesture. It is time for Russia to join our push to impose stricter sanctions on Iran in order to halt its nuclear weapons program,” he said in a statement.

A senior Iranian government source said the move could signal a move away from what he called ‘threats and confrontation’ over Iran’s nuclear program.

“There could be two reasons behind such a decision; either the U.S. has reached the conclusion that Iran is not a threat, or the Russians may have convinced the Americans that there is no need for such a defense shield.”

 http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/eu_eastern_europe_missile_defense/2009/09/17/261167.html?s=al&promo_code=8938-1

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September 15, 2009 by Tim McDowell.

A Belgian arms dealer who allegedly tried to smuggle fighter-jet engines and parts from the United States to Iran has been indicted, U.S. officials announced days after he was arrested in New York City after stepping off a flight from France. Jacques Monsieur, 56, was charged Aug. 27 by a federal grand jury with six counts of conspiracy, smuggling, money laundering, and violating weapons-trafficking laws and export controls related to a U.S. trade embargo on Iran.

Co-defendant Dara Fotouhi, 54, an Iranian national who lives in France and allegedly works with the government of Iran, is still at large, the Justice Department said in a statement. The case is the latest U.S. effort to counter what authorities describe as Tehran’s pursuit of banned weaponry. It comes as the United States and other countries renew efforts to pressure Iran to scale back its nuclear ambitions.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/02/AR2009090203859.html?hpid=sec-nation

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September 15, 2009 by Tim McDowell.

Iran increasingly is obtaining U.S. military equipment and technology through shipments to Malaysian middlemen that illegally circumvent trade restrictions, according to American officials and analysts.

The U.S. has charged, convicted or sentenced defendants in at least six cases involving Malaysia since August 2008. The shipments have included parts for bombers and items sent to firms linked to Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile program, according to court papers. More Malaysia shipments are under investigation, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aK4daf8MD.Bw

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September 11, 2009 by Tim McDowell.

Results of one of many Muslim invasions

Here is what Denmark is doing to correct the problem that crept up on them in
all of their goodness…..

A must read for Americans & Canadians, our politicians need a wake-up call.

By Susan MacAllen

In 1978-9 I was living and studying in Denmark .

But in 1978 - even in Copenhagen , one didn’t see Muslim immigrants. The Danish
population embraced visitors, celebrated the exotic, went out of its way to
protect each of its citizens. It was proud of its new brand of socialist
liberalism - one in development since the conservatives had lost power in 1929 -
a system where no worker had to struggle to survive, where one ultimately could
count upon the state as in, perhaps, no other western nation at the time.

The rest of Europe saw the Scandinavians as free-thinking, progressive and
infinitely generous in their welfare policies. Denmark boasted low crime rates,
devotion to the environment, a superior educational system and a history of
humanitarianism.

Denmark was also most generous in its immigration policies - it offered the best
welcome in Europe to the new immigrant: generous welfare payments from first
arrival plus additional perks in transportation, housing and education.. It was
determined to set a world example for inclusiveness and multiculturalism. How
could it have predicted that one day in 2005 a series of political cartoons in a
newspaper would spark violence that would leave dozens dead in the streets - all
because its commitment to multiculturalism would come back to bite?

By the 1990’s the growing urban Muslim population was obvious - and its
unwillingness to integrate into Danish society was obvious. Years of immigrants
had settled into Muslim-exclusive enclaves. As the Muslim leadership became more
vocal about what they considered the decadence of Denmark ’s liberal way of
life, the Danes - once so welcoming - began to feel slighted. Many Danes had
begun to see Islam as incompatible with their long-standing values: belief in
personal liberty and free speech, in equality for women, in tolerance for other
ethnic groups, and a deep pride in Danish heritage and history.

The New York Post in 2002 ran an article by Daniel Pipes and Lars Hedegaard, in
which they for ecasted accurately that the growing immigrant problem in Denmark
would explode. In the article they reported:

“Muslim immigrants constitute 5 percent of the population but consume upwards of
40 percent of the welfare spending.”

“Muslims are only 4 percent of Denmark’s 5.4 million people but make up a
majority of the country’s convi cted rapists, an especially combustible issue
given that practically all the female victims are non-Muslim. Similar, if
lesser, disproportions are found in other crimes.”

“Over time, as Muslim immigrants increase in numbers, they wish less to mix with
the indigenous population. A recent survey finds that only 5 percent of young
Muslim immigrants would readily marry a Dane.”

“Forced marriages - promising a newborn daughter in Denmark to a male cousin in
the home country, then compelling her to marry him, sometimes on pain of death -
are one problem”

“Muslim leaders openly declare their goal of introducing Islamic law once
Denmark ’s Muslim population grows large enough - a not-that-remote prospect If
present trends persist, one sociologist estimates, every third inhabitant of
Denmark in 40 years will be Muslim.”

It is easy to understand why a growing number of Danes would feel that Muslim
immigrants show little respect for Danish values and laws. An example is the
phenomenon common to other European countries and the U.S. : some Muslims in
Denmark who opted to leave the Muslim faith have been murdered in the name of
Islam, while others hide in fear for their lives. Jews are also threatened and
harassed openly by Muslim leaders in Denmark, a country where once Christian
citizens worked to smuggle out nearly all of their 7,000 Jews by night to
Sweden - before the Nazis could invade. I think of my Danish friend Elsa - who
as a teenager had dreaded cros sing the street to the bakery every morning under
the eyes of occupying Nazi soldiers - and I wonder what she would say today.

In 2001, Denmark elected the most conservative government in some 70 years - one
that had some decidedly non-generous ideas about liberal unfettered immigration.
Today Denmark has the strictest immigration policies in Europe ( Its effort to
protect itself has been met with accusations of “racism” by liberal media across
Europe - even as other governments struggle to right the s ocial problems
wrought by years of too-lax immigration.)

If you wish to become Danish, you must attend three years of language classes.
You must pass a test on Denmark’s history, culture, and a Danish language test.
You must live in Denmark for 7 years before applying for citizenship. You must
demonstrate an intent to work, and have a job waiting. If you wish to bring a
spouse into Denmark , you must both be over 24 years of age, and you won’t find
it so easy anymore to move your friends and family to Denmark with you

You will not be allowed to build a mosque in Copenhagen . Although your children
have a choice of some 30 Arabic culture and language schools in Denmark , they
will be strongly encouraged to assimilate to Danish society in ways that past
immigrants weren’t. < /P>

In 2006, the Danish minister for employment, Claus Hjort Frederiksen, spoke
publicly of the burden of Muslim immigrants on the Danish welfare system, and it
was horrifying: the government’s welfare committee had calculated that if
immigration from Third World countries were blocked, 75 percent of the cuts
needed to sustain the huge welfare system in coming decades would be
unnecessary. In other words, the welfare system as it existed was being
exploited by immigrants to the point of eventually bankrupting the government
“We are simply forced to adopt a new policy on immigration. The calculations of
the welfare committee are terrifying and show how unsuccessful the integration
of immigrants has been up to now,” he said.

A large thorn in the side of Denmark ’s imams is the Minister of Immigration and
Integration, Rikke Hvilshoj. She makes no bones about the new policy toward
immigration, “The number of foreigners coming to the country makes a
difference,” Hvilshøj says, “There is an inverse correlation between how many
come here and how well we can receive the foreigners that come.” And on Muslim
immigrants needing to demonstrate a willingness to blend in, “In my view,
Denmark should be a country with room for different cultures and religions. Some
values, however, are more important than others. We refuse to question
democracy, equal rights, and freed om of speech.”

Hvilshoj has paid a price for her show of backbone. Perhaps to test her resolve,
the leading radical imam in Denmark, Ahmed Abdel Rahman Abu Laban, demanded that
the government pay blood money to the family of a Muslim who was murdered in a
suburb of Copenhagen, stating that the family’s thirst for revenge could be
thwarted for money. When Hvilshoj dismissed his demand, he argued that in Muslim
culture the payment of retribution money was common, to which Hvilshoj replied
that what is done in a Muslim country is not necessarily what is done in
Denmark. The Muslim reply came soon after: her house was torched while she, her
husband and children slept. All managed to escape unharmed, but she and her
family were moved to a secret location and she and other ministers were assigned
bodyguards for the first time - in a country where such murderous violence was
once so scarce.

Her government has slid to the right, and her borders have tightened. Many
believe that what happens in the next decade will determine whether Denmark
survives as a bastion of good living, humane thinking and social responsibility,
or whether it becomes a nation at civil war with supporters of Sharia law.

And meanwhile, Americans clamor for stricter immigration policies, and demand an
end to state welfare programs that allow many immigrants to live on the public
dole. As we in America look at the enclaves of Muslims amongst us, and see those
who enter our shores too easily, dare live on our taxes, yet refuse to embrace
our culture, respect our traditions, participate in our legal system, obey our
laws, speak our language, appreciate our history . we would do well to look to
Denmark, and say a prayer for her future and for our own.

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September 8, 2009 by Tim McDowell.

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a vehicle outside the main gate of the military base at Kabul International Airport (OAKB/KBL) at approximately 0820 local time on 8 September 2009. The attack killed two Afghan civilians; six other Afghan civilians and four international soldiers were also injured. Operations at the airport were immediately suspended, but resumed within an hour of the attack. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack.

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