Sheik Mohammed Saleh al-Dohan, head of one of the Sunni groups rising up against al Qaeda, had this to say after an AQI bomber killed 12 at a checkpoint Monday: "We consider our fighting against al-Qaida to be a popular revolution against the devil," said Sheik Mohammed Saleh al-Dohan, head of one of the groups in southern Ramadi, a city in Anbar province where the movement was born.Al-Dohan blamed al-Qaida, which espouses a radical version of Sunni Islam, for bringing destruction to Iraq: "They made enemies between Sunnis, Shiites and Christians who lived in peace for centuries." Bin Laden and his fighters "are the traitors who betrayed the Muslim nation and brought shame to Islam in all the world," he said. Osama ...

As kooky as Pat Robertson is, he made a good point yesterday: the primary threat to America has shifted from a social issue, i.e. abortion, to a national security issue, i.e. "the blood lust of Islamo-fascism." I tend to agree. However, that doesn't mean Rudy gets the Rascals endorsement. In the wake of the Robertson endorsement, Rudy Guiliani sat down with Bryon York from NRO and tried to further qualm the fears of social conservatives: All of my friends, all of the people I’ve associated with, all the people I respect, the vast majority of them would fall into the category of conservative thinkers, conservative lawyers, and strict constructionist judges. It's actually Rudy's "friends" that concern social conservatives. Are the two gay guys that ...

I've often wondered why it never occurs to the Dems that they "sound" just like our enemies. From NRO: Terrorists Prefer Hillary And they’d rather see Rudy dead than president. By Deroy Murdock Senator Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is gaining fans, even on the West Bank. “I hope Hillary is elected in order to have the occasion to carry out all the promises she is giving regarding Iraq,” said Ala Senakreh, West Bank chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a Palestinian terror group. “I hope also she will maintain her husband’s policies regarding Palestine and even develop that policy. President Clinton wanted to give the Palestinians 98 percent of the West Bank territories. I hope Hillary will move a step forward and will give the Palestinians all their rights. She has the chance to save the American nation and the Americans’ life.” Senakreh and other top Islamo-fascists want Hillary in the Oval Office. These mass murders also have “gone negative.” They want GOP contender Rudy Giuliani dead. “We see Hillary and other candidates are competing on who will withdraw from Iraq and who is guilty of supporting the Iraqi invasion,” said Abu Jihad, an Al Aqsa leader in Nablus. “This is a moment of glory for the revolutionary movements in the Arab world in general and for the Iraqi resistance movement specifically.” Al Aqsa’s man in the northern West Bank, Nasser Abu Aziz, considered it “very good” that there are “voices like Hillary and others who are now attacking the Iraq invasion.” Islamic Jihad’s Abu Ayman felt “emboldened” by Clinton’s demands that America retreat from Iraq. He said: “It is clear that it is the resistance operations of the mujahideen that have brought about these calls for withdrawal.” “All Americans must vote Democrat,” insisted Jihad Jaara, an exiled Al Aqsa agent who commanded 2002’s siege of Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity. Since 1995, these terrorists’ organizations have killed an estimated 162 and wounded 368 others in Israel. Aaron Klein, an Orthodox Jew who is WorldNetDaily.com’s Jerusalem bureau chief, interviewed some three dozen leading Muslim fanatics, including those quoted here. His new book, Schmoozing with Terrorists, details these chilling encounters with violent Islamic extremists in Israel’s Palestinian territories. Klein boldly goes where few journalists have gone before. For one typical interview, he traverses an Israeli border checkpoint, takes a local Palestinian taxi to central Jenin, then waits for a white Ford Escort without license plates to whisk him to an apartment complex at the end of an alley. He then meets Islamic Jihad’s Abu Ahmed. After several minutes, Klein asks: “So, if after today’s meeting, you saw me in a café in Jerusalem that you were sent to attack, you’d still try to blow it up?” “I will not hesitate to blow you up,” Ahmed responds. “Meanwhile, and before I drive you to Hell in an operation, enjoy your tea and our hospitality.” Why do these hardened butchers have a soft spot for Hillary Clinton? Perhaps because the New York Democrat is soft on terrorism.

David Horowitz is rocking the campus: October 22-26, 2007, the nation will be rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever – Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university and college campuses. The purpose of this protest is as simple as it is crucial: to confront the two Big Lies of the political left: that George Bush created the war on terror and that Global Warming is a greater danger to Americans than the terrorist threat. Nothing could be more politically incorrect than to point this out. But nothing could be more important for American students to hear. In the face of the greatest danger Americans have ever confronted, the academic ...

In extolling the virtues of his country last month, the dwarfish leader of Iran failed to mention that they flog Christians for being . . . Christians. Christian couple flogged for attending “secret sermon” in Iran Sun. 14 Oct 2007 Iran Focus London, Oct. 14 - A Christian couple were flogged in Iran for participating in an “underground Church”, an Iranian Christian group said in a report on its website earlier this week. The unnamed couple were arrested on September 21, 2005, the report said, adding that a Revolutionary Court reviewed their case in July 2007. Even though the couple had decided to marry seven years ago, the country’s marriage laws ...

The problem with Islam is . . . Islam. An excellent website called "The Religion of Peace" is tracking the attacks that have been carried out by Islamic terrorists since 9/11.  A piece in Frontpage magazine yesterday points out that much Islamic violence is carried out on fellow Muslims who are "not Muslim enough." The Qur’an forbids a Muslim to kill a fellow believer intentionally (4:92), but both sides justify these conflicts by appealing to the Islamic practice of takfir: the declaration that, because of some doctrinal deviation, some group of Muslims are not actually Muslims at all, and their blood can lawfully be shed. One ...

Is it time to declare victory over al Qaeda in Iraq? In war, it is important to remember that "the enemy gets a vote." Here is what Osama "voted" for regarding Iraq: The most important and serious issue today for the whole world is this Third World War, which the Crusader-Zionist coalition began against the Islamic nation. It is raging in the land of the two rivers. The world’s millstone and pillar is in Baghdad, the capital of the caliphate. . . . The whole world is watching this war and the two adversaries; the Islamic nation, on the one hand, and the United States and its allies on the other. It is either victory and glory or misery and humiliation. . . . I would like to tell you that the war is for you and for us to win. If we win it, it means your defeat and disgrace forever as the wind blows in this direction with God’s help. . . . This is a war of destiny between infidelity and Islam. Peter Wehner, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center points out that these are the stakes, as defined by bin Laden: That is why it is so significant that AQI has been absorbing such enormous blows. We’re making tremendous gains against AQI which means, in turn, we’re making great progress against al Qaeda central. This doesn’t mean AQI has been defeated, or that is doesn’t pose a threat, or that it can’t come back. Nor does it mean that all of al Qaeda’s hopes are tied up in Iraq. It can fail there but make gains elsewhere. Yet consider this scenario, which is now plausible: Osama bin Laden declared the United States — in the aftermath of the Vietnam retreat in the 1970s, the Beirut retreat in the 1980s, and the Somali retreat in the 1990s — to be a “weak horse” that could not absorb punishment without fleeing. We were viewed by jihadists as soft, cosseted, and with contempt. In the aftermath of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), bin Laden decided to make Iraq the central battleground in his jihadists campaign. And al Qaeda then finds out that America, after being bloodied in a war that is much more difficult and costly than we expected, stays in the fight. Events begin to shift. Rather than fleeing, the United States alters it military strategy, renews its commitment, and deals al Qaeda a “devastating and perhaps irreversible blow” in Iraq. Having been knocked back on our heels, the United States ends up smashing AQI in a test of wills. It’s important to stress we aren’t there yet.

Gen. Kevin Bergner stated today that we have captured the highest ranking Iranian officer in Iraq. Iran claimed he was a "trade delegation representative" on a business trip. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Captured Iranian Qods Force officer a regional commander in Iraq By Bill Roggio October 3, 2007 2:02 PM The September 20 capture of an Iranian Qods Force - Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps commander in the northern Kurdish province of Sulimaniyah created a stir inside both Iran and Iraq. The Iranians swiftly closed the northern border, claiming the man was an Iranian trade delegation representative named Agha Farhadi on a sanctioned business trip. Multinational forces Iraq later identified the Iranian as Mahmud Farhadi. Today, Major General Kevin Bergner, ...

Bartle Bull, foreign editor of Prospect magazine and editor of Middle East Monitor, has been an eyewitness to the transformation of Iraq. He writes in today's Opinionjournal.com that violence is declining and, he predicts, will continue to decline.  . . .  Violence continues in Iraq, but it is mostly local: revenge cycles, factionalism, crime, brutal neighborhood power plays. And it is declining. Iraqi civilian deaths in September, like U.S. military deaths, had halved since their highs earlier this year. By December they will be much lower. Meanwhile reconciliation, which will never be complete, is happening. We saw, with the huge ...

Omar at Iraq the Model says that al Qaeda's "War of Villages," i.e., raiding remote peaceful villages, burning down homes and slaughtering both man and beast is a "campaign of self-destruction." With every leader they kill, with every village they burn, al Qaeda destroys bodies, but they turn hearts and minds in favor of the Coalition and Iraqi reconciliation. For probably a year al-Qaeda was trying to build their so called Islamic State in Iraq and several times they declared parts of Baghdad or other provinces as the capital of that state. But now that they have been losing one base after another their objective changed from adding more towns and villages to the "state" to destroying the very same towns and villages! Obviously it's all about making headlines regardless of the means to do that! This change in plans began to take face with the battle between al-Qaeda and the joint forces on September 6-7 in Hor Rijab and then the massacre that followed in the same spot a week later and finally the attacks on other villages north, south and east of Baghdad in the last week or so. . . . In my opinion, al-Qaeda found itself forced to start this villages war. It wasn’t a choice as much as a last resort because villages are among the few fighting spaces that al-Qaeda can still utilize as large cities become increasingly difficult for them to operate in. They know that without engaging the enemy-that's us by the way-their existence and influence would end and I'm almost positive that they feel bitter about having to fight this way. In order to fight a "good" guerilla war one has to stay in fluid state, have no permanent bases or barracks, no distinguishable uniform and above all one should be able to always have civilians around so as to deter the enemy-that's again us-from attacking out of concern about collateral damages and casualties among innocent civilians. No one questions the fact that no army in the middle east, and I doubt there are any elsewhere, that can engage and defeat the US military power in open terrain, in other words in a case of two traditional armies fighting on traditional battlefield.