Is Obama more like JFK than Romney is like Ronald Reagan? Aren’t you glad the government is going to save us from recession and give us extra money? Does that yellow pantsuit make her look fat?
While our candidates argue about who said what when, and who can bring the most change, there is one thing that DOESN’T change, and that is the desire of jihadis to take the West down. Except for an occassional soundbite of tough talk, the candidates of both parties seem to have forgotten how important it is to pay attention to those who seek to kill us. From Spain, we have this news
MADRID, Spain (CNN) — Suspected Islamic extremists arrested last week in Barcelona were planning al Qaeda-style attacks in Spain, Germany, France, Britain and Portugal, according to an informant who “infiltrated” the group, Spain’s El Pais newspaper reports.
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The cell planned three attacks in Spain, one in Germany and others in France, Britain and Portugal, according to the informant, El Pais reported.
On Sunday, another El Pais story added that the “wave of attacks” was to have been carried out by the Barcelona group and other extremist Pakistani cells were to attack elsewhere in Europe.
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Al Qaeda was planning to take responsibility for the first attack in Barcelona through Baitullah Mehsud, a Taliban commander whom the Pakistani government blames for last month’s assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, El Pais reported.
“Only the leadership of the organization knows what requests the emir (Baitullah) will make after the first attack, but if they are not carried out, there will be a second attack in Spain, and a third,” a cell leader told the informant, El Pais reported. “And then in Germany, France, Portugal and the United Kingdom. There are many people prepared there.”
And, in case you’ve forgotten that these people can be deadly serious, remember this?
More than 300 suspected Islamic extremists have been arrested in Spain since the Madrid train bombings killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800 on March 11, 2004, Rubalcaba said.
Last October, more than a dozen Islamic extremists were convicted in Madrid for their roles in the train bombings.
The 2004 bombings came just three days before general elections, in which Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero won an upset victory.
The latest arrests in Barcelona come less than two months before the next general elections, to be held March 9, when Zapatero seeks re-election.
Elections, eh? Hmmm. Something about that word… ah, never mind, it’ll come to me. Anyway, how about Iran? Dare I suggest that all of the candidates have gone brain dead about Iran, now that they have a report that essentially says “Iranian nukes? Never mind..”. Not a threat, eh? Does this sound like an editorial in your local paper?
“But aren’t most of the sensitive centers of the Zionists, of the Americans, and of some European states that support Israel already situated within the arms’ reach of the Muslims? And aren’t the Zionists [vulnerable] and located within arms’ reach of the Muslims at the four corners of the earth? What human and legal basis can prevent an attack on these centers and people? Why must the savage, blood-letting Zionists and Americans be permitted to choose the field of battle as they wish? [Why are they permitted] to besiege the oppressed Palestinian brothers and sisters and their children, on the land that belongs to that helpless people, and to shoot at them night and day and to massacre them?
“America and its European and Zionist supporters must know that their support for Israel’s crimes will cost them very dearly. Once they discern that this support will cost them the property and lives of their citizens, they will doubtless reconsider their support for the savage Zionists… And didn’t the Imam [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini] teach that if every Muslim pours out one bucket of water, there will be a flood that will sweep away Israel, and destroy it?
That’s your friendly, misunderstood Iranian Muslim newspaper op-ed. Not a threat? Then, let me ask you, does THIS news make you nervous?
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran received the final shipment of uranium fuel from Russia on Monday for its first nuclear plant, state media reported, a key step toward the launch of the reactor’s operations expected later this year.
The 5-ton consignment of enriched uranium arrived at the light-water Bushehr nuclear power plant on Monday morning, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
“With the arrival of the final shipment, all 82 tons of initial fuel needed for the power plant together with peripheral equipment has been shipped from Russia to Iran,” IRNA reported
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The U.S. initially opposed Russian participation in the building of the Bushehr reactor and supplying it with fuel, but reversed its position about a year ago to obtain Moscow’s support for the first set of U.N. sanctions against Iran.
Washington was also influenced by Iran’s agreement to return spent nuclear fuel from the reactor back to Russia to ensure it doesn’t extract plutonium to make atomic bombs.
Russia began shipping nuclear fuel to Iran following a U.S. intelligence report released last month that concluded Tehran had stopped its nuclear weapons program in late 2003 and had not resumed it since. Iran maintains it never had a weapons program.
It also came after the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Iran had been truthful about its past uranium enrichment activities.
The United States and Russia have said the supply of nuclear fuel means Iran has no need to continue its own uranium enrichment program — a process that can provide fuel for a reactor or fissile material for a bomb.
There’s just something about reading those two articles, one beside the other, that just doesn’t seem to fit… but hey, the U.N. says they’re friendly, and none of the candidates seems to give a rip, so what the hey, let’s forget it. What are you going to buy with the free money the government is going to give you? And how many times are you going to pop it on your credit card before it actually comes in the mail? Just wonderin’.
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