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Global War on Terror Watch: Three Ohio Men CONVICTED Of Terrorist Activity
Thanks to Diggers Realm for the photos Left to Right: Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, and Wassim Mazloum
While the MSM mourns the passing of Tim Russert, this NEWS story may have been missed (Via M/M).
A federal jury on Friday convicted three Toledo-area men of Middle Eastern descent of plotting attacks against U.S. troops overseas and other terror-related acts.
Mohammad Amawi, Marwan El-Hindi, and Wassim Mazloum, all of whom are Muslim, were convicted on all counts of conspiring to kill or injure people outside the United States and face sentences of life in prison.
Prosecutors said the men were learning to shoot guns and make explosives while raising money to fund their plans to wage a holy war against U.S. troops.
“Today’s verdicts should send a strong message to individuals who would use this country as a platform to plot attacks against U.S. military personnel in Iraq and elsewhere,†said Patrick Rowan, acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, in a written statement.
“This case also underscores the need for continued vigilance in identifying and dismantling extremist plots that develop in America’s heartland.â€
These terrorists were able to blend into the Toledo, Ohio Muslim community. Amawi and El-Hindi are U.S. citizens, and Mazloum came to the U.S. legally from Lebanon. El-Hindi was born in Jordan, and Amawi was born in the U.S. but also has Jordanian citizenship. Mazloum was a college student who helped his brother run a used car lot. Amawi once worked at a bakery. And El-Hindi was a married father of seven.
Photo of used auto lot operated by Wassim I. Mazloum and his brother
So, what story is getting more news play.
1. Tim Russert’s passing
2. Conviction of American Muslim Jihadis?
Answer: 2
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Global War on Terror Watch: Three Ohio Men Indicted on Terrorist Activity – UPDATED
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Barack Obama Playing Games with Town Hall Meetings
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill. shakes hands after speaking at the Oakleaf Village retirement community in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, June 13, 2008
Clearly, Barack Obama does not want to discuss the issues where John McCain MAY hold an advantage.
From Obama campaign manager David Plouffe in rejecting John McCain’s Town Hall Proposal:
“Barack Obama offered to meet John McCain at five joint appearances between now and Election Day—the three traditional debates plus a joint town hall on the economy in July and an in-depth debate on foreign policy in August. That package of five engagements would have been the most of any Presidential campaign in the modern era—offering a broad range of formats—and representing a historic commitment to openness and transparency.
“It’s disappointing that Senator McCain and his campaign decided to decline this proposal. Apparently they would rather contrive a political issue than foster a genuine discussion about the future of our country.
“Senator Obama believes that the American people deserve an open and accessible debate as they choose between real change and four more years of failed Bush policies, and he welcomed McCain’s invitation to offer voters ‘the rare opportunity of witnessing candidates for the highest office in the land discuss civilly and extensively the great issues at stake in the election.”
The American people get stiffed again.
Barack Obama can run but he cannot hide. Team McCain WILL facilitate that.
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Breaking: NBC Host of Meet The Press Tim Russert has Died
Tim Russert
Tim Russert, the NBC Host of Meet The Press and the Washington Bureau Chief of NBC News, has died. He was 58 years old.
Russert was vacationing with his family in Italy, he returned last night. Collapsed while recording a track at bureau in DC.
RIP
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Barack Obama Watch: Here Comes the Increase in Payroll Taxes
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., speaks to senior citizens, Friday, June 13, 2008, in Columbus, Ohio, as his wife Michelle Obama looks on
If anyone believes that Barack Obama as President and the Democrat controlled Congress would limit Social Security payroll taxes to increase for taxpayers ONLY making more than $250,000 a year then Flap has a New York bridge to sell you.
Democrat Barack Obama would apply the Social Security payroll tax to all annual incomes above $250,000, which he says would affect the wealthiest 3 percent of Americans.
The payroll tax is now applied to all income up to $102,000 a year, which covers the entire amount for most Americans. Under Obama’s plan, the tax would not apply to incomes between that amount and $250,000. But all annual income above the quarter-million-dollar amount would be taxed under his plan.
But……
1. There are insufficent number of “BALLERS” to exact the amount of money to make Social Security solvent.
2. Most of these taxpayers faced with increasing taxes would divert their income stream to non-earned income compensation which would NOT be subject to the increased taxation.
This is a prime example of the consistent Democrat age and social class pandering act.
Change?
Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose – The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less
Chuck Norris for AmericanSolutions.com
Go to AmericanSolutions.com and sign the petition:
We, therefore, the undersigned citizens of the United States, petition the U.S. Congress to act immediately to lower gasoline prices (and diesel and other fuel prices)* by authorizing the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries.
Over 700,000 have already signed the petition.
So, get over there and do it.
Flap knows you will be glad you did.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir June 13, 2008
When the United States Supreme Court begins to subvert the Constitution by making its own law it is time for the people to rise up and control the court.
The awarding “The Privilege of Habeas Corpus To Terrorists” may be the death knell for respect of the court. Justice Scalia in dissent:
America is at war with radical Islamists. The enemy began by killing Americans and American allies abroad: 241 at the Marine barracks in Lebanon, 19 at the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, 224 at our embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, and 17 on the USS Cole in Yemen. See National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, The 9/11 Commission Report, pp. 60–61, 70, 190 (2004). On September 11, 2001, the enemy brought the battle to American soil, killing 2,749 at the Twin Towers in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon in Washington, D. C., and 40 in Pennsylvania. See id., at 552, n. 9. It has threatened further attacks against our homeland; one need only walk about buttressed and barricaded Washington, or board a plane anywhere in the country, to know that the threat is a serious one. Our Armed Forces are now in the field against the enemy, in Afghanistan and Iraq. Last week, 13 of our countrymen in arms were killed.
The game of bait-and-switch that today’s opinion plays upon the Nation’s Commander in Chief will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.
There needs to be fundamental reform of the U.S. Supreme Court, with term limits and age limits. Lifetime tenure for all Federal judges should be changed by amending the Constitution. Why should the judiciary be immune from the “change” in the executive and legislative branch of government?
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Sen. Jim Battin, R-Palm Desert, said…., “The choices that these women were given, either pull out your teeth or don’t see your baby, is unconscionable.” The inmates, Battin said, face “a Hobson’s choice, I don’t even know how to express it.”
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McCain needs tp push for new drilling….
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Scalia said the nation is “at war with radical Islamists” and that the court’s decision “will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.”
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That’s the estimate off-shore reserves that the Democrats in Congress yesterday voted not to produce or even explore.
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Subject: Senator McCain and ANWR
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Is Romney eating his heart out?
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McConnell quoted the remarks to reporters in the Capitol on Tuesday, adding: “A gradual adjustment to $4 gas is not an energy plan for America.”
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Barack Obama’s half brother Malik said Thursday that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background.
In an interview with Army Radio he expressed a special salutation from the Obamas of Kenya.