September 2, 2004

Security Council Passes Resolution to Limit Syrian Role in Lebanon New York Times - The Security Council on Thursday night passed an American- and French-sponsored resolution pressing Lebanon to reject Syrian intervention in its politics and calling on all foreign forces to leave the country. 11:15:58 PM

Iran admits to be providing facilities to Al-Zarqawi to conduct his operations in Iraq. The Mad Mullahs are funding and controlling as much of the islamic fascist mayhem we are witnessing as they can. They have declared war, and are waging it. 10:27:22 PM

Sudan complains of ill treatment by UN Toronto Star - Sudan said today that the UN chief didn't give it enough credit for its efforts to restore calm in Darfur and get help to the region's people, and said it hoped the Security Council would take greater notice. 1:41:25 PM

The United States and France introduced a Security Council resolution  against the occupation, just not the occupation you know about... 10:31:03 AM

Andrew Sullivan asks: IS FRANCE JOINING THE WAR? Something important is happening in France. The Jihadist threat to murder two French journalists if Paris doesn't rescind its ban on head-scarves in public schools has proven one thing: these fanatics are not responding to Western excess or the war in Iraq. They are theocratic fascists using the old methods of terror and violence to get their way. You cannot appease them, although Paris is trying to get its Arab friends to help out. But the event may shift French opinion our way and reveal to them that they too are at risk and that appeasement cannot work. Here's today's editorial in Le Monde. It's revealing in its hopes and its fears: They say that every cloud has a silver lining. The kidnapping of the two French journalists Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot and the blackmailing of the French government by the kidnappers to force the government to repeal its new law against wearing the Islamic veil in school has two objectives. The first is to show that no Western country, no democracy -- even one that, like France, opposed the American intervention in Iraq -- is sheltered from the fanaticism of the soldiers of the "holy war" launched on September 11, 2001 by Al Qaida. The second is to show that France, despite or even because of its status as the largest Muslim state in Europe, has become a preferred target of this ideological war. . . . [But the terrorists have missed their mark.] Even if the current consensus in France remains fragile, even if ambiguities remain, even if the law against wearing the Islamic veil remains for many Muslims a strike at their religious liberty, we can do nothing but rejoice to see French Muslims on the front line of defense of the Republic. But for how long? And how solid will French Muslim support be if France really begins to fight back? 9:54:58 AM

Israpundit: "What a bloody week it's been. " I've noticed that the world media and our leaders are still in denial, calling the killers "activists", "militants" and "rebels", but not once have they mentioned Islamic terrorists, despite the following events, which are just a few examples of what's happened around the world in the past week: More than 350 peope, including 200 schoolchildren held hostage in Russia, 12 reported killed 8 people killed in Moscow bus bombing 12 Nepalese kitchen workers murdered in Iraq, one of whom was savagely beheaded (in accordance with the sacred Muslim practice of beheading) 16 killed and over 100 injured in Beersheva double bus bombing Two French journalists held hostage in Iraq Kidnapped Italian Journalist Murdered by Iraqi Militants Greek Orthodox Church Bombed in Cyprus Honour Killing in New Zealand Bangladesh: Jihadist group claims responsibility for blast Two Russian planes blow up simultaneously   9:04:32 AM