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Radio Talk Star Michael Savage Banned from the United Kingdom
Shock San Francisco-based conservative talk radio host Michael Savage has been banned from the United Kingdom.Sixteen people banned from entering the UK were “named and shamed” by the Home Office today.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she decided to make public the names of 16 people banned since October so others could better understand what sort of behaviour Britain was not prepared to tolerate.
The list includes hate preachers, anti-gay protesters and a far- right US talk show host.
“I think it’s important that people understand the sorts of values and sorts of standards that we have here, the fact that it’s a privilege to come and the sort of things that mean you won’t be welcome in this country,” Ms Smith told GMTV.
“Coming to this country is a privilege. If you can’t live by the rules that we live by, the standards and the values that we live by, we should exclude you from this country and, what’s more, now we will make public those people that we have excluded.
“We are publishing the names of 16 of those that we have excluded since October. We are telling people who they are and why it is we don’t want them in this country.”
She said the number of people excluded from Britain had risen from an average of two a month to five a month since October.
The list of the 16 “least wanted” includes radio talk show host Michael Savage, real name Michael Weiner.
“This is someone who has fallen into the category of fomenting hatred, of such extreme views and expressing them in such a way that it is actually likely to cause inter-community tension or even violence if that person were allowed into the country,” Ms Smith told BBC Breakfast.
This is why over the top and an overreaction by the Gordon Brown government. But, hey it is their country and sets an example to the world as to the tolerance of the British – which they aren’t very, apparently.
Savage laughed the ban off today.“When I woke up and saw this this morning … my first thought was, damn, there goes the summer trip where I planned to have my dental work done,” the “Savage Nation” host joked. “My second thought was, darn … there goes my visit to the restaurants of England for their great cuisine.”
Yet, later Savage said he was contemplating legal action against Britain’s top homeland security offical Jacqui Smith.
What a stupid decision to include America’s third rated radio talk show host on an undesirable list with neo-Nazis, skinheads and Islamic terrorists.
And, what if Savage calls for a boycott of travel to Britain? How much will that cost the Brown government?
In the meantime, Savage’s ratings no doubt will increase, with the concomitant advertising dollars.
Michael Savage banned all the way to the bank.
Michael Savage – banned from the United Kingdom
Oh and if anyone cares you can contact Ms Jacqui Smith here:Concerned individuals may contact Britain’s Home Office Secretary Jacqui Smith by e-mail, call 011 44 20 7035 4848 or fax 011 44 20 7035 4745.
Stay tuned……
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Sharia Law OK for Britain Says Top Judge
Lord Chancellor and Justice Minister Jack Straw and Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips of Worth Matavers in London July 4, 2007
Sharia Law may be used to resolve disputes among Muslims in England says the most senior judge, Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips.Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips said that Islamic legal principles could be employed to deal with family and marital arguments and to regulate finance.
He declared: ‘It is possible in this country for those who are entering into a contractual agreement to agree that the agreement shall be governed by a law other than English law.’
In his speech in an East London mosque Lord Phillips signalled approval of sharia principles as a means of settling disputes so long as no punishments that conflict with the established law are involved, and as long as divorces are made to comply with the civil law.
But his remarks – which give the green light from the highest judicial office to the informal sharia courts already operated by numerous mosques – provoked a storm of criticism.
The British system of law has always been perverted with religion – look at Henry the VIII and the Church of England as a prime example.
Now, Americans have reinforced why there is a “wall of separation” between church and state written into the first amendment to the United States Constitution.
Let this be a warning to the United States Supreme Court who has some members who wish to use international law in deciding cases.
Technorati Tags: Sharia Law, Islam, England
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Mixed Signals from Britain on Iraq War – Is the Alliance Over?
President Bush, right, and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown participate in a joint press availability at Camp David, Md., Monday, July 30, 2007.
Mixed signals on the Iraq War are coming from Britain and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
And, Britain insists that they will remove their troops from Iraq irrespective of the United States.
Gordon Brown has paved the way for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq by telling George Bush he would not delay their exit in order to show unity with the United States.
After four hours of one-to-one talks with the US President at his Camp David retreat, Mr Brown told a joint press conference he would make a Commons statement in October on the future of the 5,500 British troops in the Basra region.
The Bush administration, under mounting domestic pressure to produce an exit strategy from Iraq, has been nervous that a full British withdrawal would add to the criticism. But Mr Brown made clear – and President Bush accepted – that Britain would go its own way, even if that gave the impression the two countries were diverging.
Yet, there was this coming from the White House.
President Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown forged a unified stand on Iraq Monday, aiming to head off talk of a splintering partnership in the face of an unpopular war.
“There’s no doubt in my mind he understands the stakes of the struggle,” Bush said of Brown after two days of talks at the tranquil presidential retreat in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains.
The visit was closely watched for any sign of daylight between the president and prime minister after four years of unwavering support by Tony Blair, Brown’s predecessor. Blair was saddled with the nickname “poodle” by critics at home he felt he was too compliant with Bush’s policies, particularly in Iraq.
Brown told Bush that he shares the U.S. view of gradually turning over security of Iraq to its own people, based on signs of clear progress and advice from military leaders.
“We have duties to discharge and responsibilities to keep in support of the democratically elected government,” Brown said of Britain’s commitment to Iraq.
Still, as the U.S. has built up troops, Britain has been pulling them out.
Let the British wankers leave with their tails between their legs.
Iran bitch slapped them earlier this year and they took it with a stupid smile.
Has the UK – America alliance been broken?
No, but it is headed towards a re-evaluation. America can NO longer count on the Brits.
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How to Prevent Glasgow Airport-Like Attacks – BOLLARDS
An example of the use of bollards at the United States Capitol
Glasgow-like attacks are preventable
MEASURES IN PLACE OR ARE PLANNED AT AREA AIRPORTS
Could a bomb-laden car ram into a crowded U.S. airport terminal like the attempted recent terror attack in Glasgow, Scotland?
Security analysts say “yes” in most U.S. airports, including all three major Bay Area airports. On the other hand, the same security measure that helped thwart the Glasgow attack can and in most cases will be put into place on this side of the Atlantic.
“We still have time; we don’t have to wait until this comes to us,” said Texas-based security consultant Issy Boim, who helped develop El Al Israel Airlines’ legendary security regime. “We need to think in a different way and actually find the right solution. In this type of business, even if it’s not popular and the threat exists, you cannot ignore the threat.”
The way to stop flaming explosive-laden cars from slamming into a crowded terminal, as the driver of an SUV attempted to do June 30 in Glasgow, is to put up sturdy posts called bollards.
Bollards already protect a variety of iconic buildings such as San Francisco’s iconic Transamerica Pyramid and government office buildings. They’re already partly in use at San Francisco International Airport, and officials are planning to install them at Oakland International Airport and in new and remodeled terminals at Mineta San Jose International Airport as well.
The often decoratively embellished posts reportedly kept attackers from ramming the crowded Glasgow terminal, and their usefulness is well-known in security circles.
At Glasgow last week:
An off duty policeman sprays water at a burning bomber (Dr. Khalid Ahmed) who tried to ignite explosives at Glasgow Airport – note the bollards.
Flap says install them. Assume the worst……..it certainly saved the folks in Glasgow.
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UK Terror Watch: Dr Bilal Abdullah Charged in Glasgow Car Bombings
Dr. Bilal Abdulla arrested at the Glasgow Airport bombing
Dr. Bilal Talal Abdul Samad Abdulla, an Iraqi from Baghdad who arrived in the UK in April 2006. Dr. Bilal Abdulla has been transferred to Paddington Green high-security prison in London as the investigation continues
Man charged with London and Glasgow bomb plots
Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdullah tonight became the first person to be charged over the London and Glasgow car bomb attacks.
Abdullah, who was arrested after a flaming Jeep was driven into the doors of the arrivals hall of Glasgow Airport on Saturday, will appear before magistrates in Westminster, central London, tomorrow.
He was charged tonight with conspiring to cause explosions, Scotland Yard said.
Abdullah, 27, was working as a doctor at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, Scotland, before his arrest.
He was transferred to London’s Paddington Green police station for questioning before being charged tonight on advice from the Crown Prosecution Service.
Two trainee doctors, aged 25 and 28, arrested at the same hospital, are among a total of seven people to have been arrested in the UK over the plot.
Send him away for a life term.
He and his Al Qaeda cohorts will wish they would have chosen self-detonation rather than cell phone remote detonation after their Muslim friends get a hold of them in a British prison.
Didn’t they want to martyr themselves?
The CPS said Abdullah was being charged under 1883 Explosive Substances Act.
The charge, which covers a period from January 1 to July 1 this year, alleges that he “unlawfully and maliciously conspired with others to cause explosions of a nature likely to endanger life or cause serious injury to property in the United Kingdom”.
It carries a maximum sentence of life.
Abdullah wont last that long……
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UK Terror Watch: What’s in A Name?
Cox & Forkum: What’s in a Name
From the Daily Express: Brown: Don’t say terrorists are Muslims
Gordon Brown has banned ministers from using the word “Muslim†in connection with the terrorism crisis.The Prime Minister has also instructed his team – including new Home Secretary Jacqui Smith – that the phrase “war on terror†is to be dropped.
The shake-up is part of a fresh attempt to improve community relations and avoid offending Muslims, adopting a more “consensual” tone than existed under Tony Blair. …
Mr Brown’s spokesman acknowledged yesterday that ministers had been given specific guidelines to avoid inflammatory language. “There is clearly a need to strike a consensual tone in relation to all communities across the UK,” the spokesman said. “It is important that the country remains united.”
Right…..cover up the fact that the perps were not Islamic extremists. And, of course blame Tony Blair and President Bush.
How stupid and politically correct can these MORONS be?
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UK Terror Watch: 45 Muslim Doctors Planned USA Terror
Cyber-terrorists: Tariq Daour, Younis Tsouli and Waseem Mughal
45 Muslim doctors planned US terror raids
A group of 45 Muslim doctors threatened to use car bombs and rocket grenades in terrorist attacks in the United States during discussions on an extremist internet chat site.
Police found details of the discussions on a site run by one of a three-strong “cyber-terrorist” gang.
They were discovered at the home of Younis Tsouli, 23, Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London heard.
One message read: “We are 45 doctors and we are determined to undertake jihad and take the battle inside America.
“The first target which will be penetrated by nine brothers is the naval base which gives shelter to the ship Kennedy.” This is thought to have been a reference to the USS John F Kennedy, which is often at Mayport Naval Base in Jacksonville, Florida.The message discussed targets at the base, adding: “These are clubs for naked women which are opposite the First and Third units.”
It also referred to using six Chevrolet GT vehicles and three fishing boats and blowing up petrol tanks with rocket propelled grenades.
Investigators have found no link between the Tsouli chat room and the group of doctors and medics currently in custody over attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow.
Interesting that these Islamic cyber-terrorists are internet talking about doctors commiting violent Jihad just as the London/Glasgow doctors attempt car bombing a London nightclub and a Scottish Airport.
Send these Islamofascists to prison and start BETTER controlling immigration including student visas.
Is there any doubt that Western security has broken down? Or perhaps the West is being to politically correct in dealing with countries that foster/sanction or excuse state sponsored terror on non-Muslim countries?
The UK was lucky this past weekend.
The next time the UK and America might NOT be so fortunate.
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UK Terror Watch: Well, That Didn’t Work Out So Great
Dr. Kahlid Ahmed has been identified as the driver of the Glasgow Car Bomb
Iowa Hawk: Well, That Didn’t Work Out So Great
Iowahawk Guest Commentary
By Kahlid Ahmed, MD
Board Certified Gastroenterologist and former Jihad Associate, al Qaeda UKEver have “one of those days?” Sure, all of us go through the occasional rough patch, but I swear there are times when I think Allah must really have it in for me. I mean, I know the “Big Guy” is supposed to have a sense of humor, but do I always have to be the punchline?
Take for example this last week. A few mates and I had been planning a big martyrdom weekend for quite a while; it’s something we first began discussing a few years ago in medical school back in Amman. We were sitting around the dorm eating pizza, cramming for a big anatomy final, when Ali said “you know, after graduation, we should get together for something really big.” We talked about a fishing trip to Canada or something, but most of the guys thought that sounded pretty boring. Abdul suggested a golf weekend in Cancun, but the all-inclusives there can get pretty pricey in-season. Hassan (who’s really into motorcycles) suggested renting Harleys and going to Sturgis for the Biker Rally, but we heard that crowd can get pretty rowdy.
Anyhoo, Achmed finally says, “how about packing cars with explosives and killing hundreds of random infidels in a coordinated series of gigantic fireballs?” And we’re like, fuckin’ A! Not only would it be an awesome bonding experience (with plenty of Paradise poontang, LOL), we would be doing a valuable community service. Okay, so we high-fived and made a solemn promise that we’d target two years after graduation for the big weekend prank blowout.
I know how it usually goes with these kinds of fraternity things; what with starting up a medical practice, honor killing obligations, and starting a family, it’s easy to lose touch with the old school buddies. But this thing — our thing — was serious, you know? Thanks to email we were able to keep in touch and keep the plan going. As luck would have it, we all won Achmedinijad scholarships to do our residencies in England for the National Health Service. We got our families together most every weekend for backyard cookouts and self-flagellation and TV football matches. Afterwards me and the other guys would slip out to the garage for cigars, and to pack shrapnel.
So okay, the big weekend arrives, and the guys come over to my place bright and early, everybody’s jazzed about rolling up some kufr carnage. All the propane tanks and propellant and nail cannisters are ready to go. I look at Ali and say, “okay mate, back up your car to the garage and I’ll start loading it up.” He gets this dumbstruck look on his face and says, “my car? I thought Hassan was going to do the martyrdom.” And then Hassan does a massive spit-take with his tea, and he’s like, “whoa dude, I rigged the cell phones, I didn’t agree to blow up. I thought Mohammed was going to do the blowing up.” Then Mohammed’s like, “don’t look at me, pal, I thought I was just providing the spiritual guidance. Plus my car’s in the shop for transmission work.” From there it just descended into this big shouting match. Holy frickin’ prophet, two years of planning this prank and now everybody wants to pussy out on the actual martyrdom.
Long story short, we decided to draw straws. And guess who wins? Yep, yours truly, good old sucker Khalid, the same guy with a pile of charge card receipts for petrol and propane and hardware. The same guy who ended up having to host two thirds of the martyrdom planning parties at HIS house, because his good old college “pals” always have some convenient excuse about “kitchen remodeling” or “MI6 surveillance,” and never lift a finger to help clean up the empty bottles or paper plates or the C5 mess. Well, you know what they say: no good deed goes unpunished. Then the other short straw get pulled by Bilal, and I’m like, oh, great. Now I’ll be banging some celestial virgin with that wanker looking over my shoulder.
Thankfully Dr. you had a BAD DAY……
Dr. Bilal Abdulla arrested at the Glasgow Airport bombing
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UK Terror Watch: London Car Bombs Failed Because of Medical Syringe
A Mercedes car, which contained a suspected car bomb, is loaded onto a removals truck in Haymarket Street, near Piccadilly, in central London, last Friday.
U.K. Terror Plot — Why the Bombs Failed
The London bomb plot allegedly planned by a cell of doctors failed early last Friday morning because a medical syringe used as part of the firing mechanism caused a malfunction, ABC News has learned.
According to nonclassified documents reviewed by ABC News, and confirmed by multiple sources, both mobile telephones initiated firing mechanisms rigged inside a Mercedes E 300 parked several yards from the front door of Tiger Tiger nightclub failed despite multiple calls to the cell phones designed to remotely trigger the devices.
The first suspect car outside Tiger Tiger
The Mercedes in which the car bomb was found. Gas cylinders can be seen at the rear of the vehicle; in the back seat were petrol canisters and there were also nails in the car.
Scene outside Tiger Tiger in Haymarket where a car bomb was discovered
And the second car bomb also failed apparently due to the same malfunction. The second bomb was meant for the fleeing club members from the first bomb or rescue workers.
The same doctors who perpetrated these car bombs the next day (14 hours later) attempted to ram their SUV laden with the same fuel-air bombs into the Glasgow Airport.
The Brits were lucky and especially lucky were the patrons of the Tiger Tiger.
Thank God for that alert ambulance crew.
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UK Terror Watch: Al Qaeda – “Those Who Cure You Will Kill You”; Update: British Terror Level Lowered to Severe from Critical
‘Those who cure you will kill you’
An al-Qaeda leader in Iraq boasted before last week’s failed bombings in London and Glasgow that his group was planning to attack British targets and that “those who cure you will kill youâ€, The Times has learnt.
The warning was delivered to Canon Andrew White, a senior British cleric working in Baghdad, and could be highly significant as the eight Muslims arrested in the wake of the failed plot are all members of the medical profession.
Canon Andrew White
Canon White told The Times that he had passed the general warning, but not the specific words, to a senior official at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in mid-April. A Foreign Office spokesman said last night that it was forwarding the actual words to the Metropolitan Police.
The Times also learnt yesterday that one of the suspects, the Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdulla, had links to radical Islamic groups, and that several of the eight suspects have now been linked to known extremist radicals listed on MI5’s data base. Canon White, who runs Baghdad’s only Anglican parish, said that he met the al-Qaeda leader on the fringes of a meeting about religious reconciliation held in Amman, the Jordanian capital.
“He talked to me about how they were going to destroy British and Americans. He told me that the plans were already made and they would soon be destroying the British. He said the people who cure you would kill you.
Dr. Kahlid Ahmed has been identified as the driver of the Glasgow Car Bomb
Dr. Bilal Abdulla arrested at the Glasgow Airport bombing
Dr. Bilal Talal Abdul Samad Abdulla, an Iraqi from Baghdad who arrived in the UK in April 2006.Dr. Bilal Abdulla has been transferred to Paddington Green high-security prison in London as the investigation continues
Yet, the good Anglican cleric will NOT reveal with which Al Qaeda leader he was talking?
And, why not?Â
NHS terror plot: police investigate global email network used by ‘bombers’
Detectives investigating the NHS car bomb plot are today examining an international network of emails and phone records.
Police have seized computers from hospitals in Glasgow, Stoke-on-Trent and Liverpool. They are examining a theory that suspects planned the attacks in cyberspace while working at NHS hospitals.
The development was revealed as Scotland Yard sent a senior counter-terrorism investigator to Australia where one of the suspects is being held.
Today Australia invoked emergency anti-terrorism powers for the first time to extend the detention of Dr Mohammed Haneef, a 27-year-old Indian national who was arrested in Brisbane but who until last year worked in Liverpool.
Sources said there was evidence that Dr Haneef was in telephone contact with at least one of the would-be bombers. There was also evidence that a “guiding handî may still be at large outside Britain.
Dr Mohammed Haneef was arrested at Brisbane Airport as he tried to board a plane to Pakistan or was it Inida?
Dr Haneef was arrested shortly before he was due to board a flight to India with a one-way ticket. The manager of his apartment block in Brisbane, Steve Bosher, said he had left in such a hurry that his washing was still drying on the balcony – raising the possibility that he was tipped off about the failure of the car bomb plot by accomplices in Britain.
Ministers were today facing a security row after it emerged that at least four of the eight suspects being questioned had their details logged on MI5’s databases before the attacks took place, and one was on a Home Office warning index.
Whitehall officials denied any “cock-up” and said that the suspects had merely “crossed the radarî of the security service and were among thousands of peripheral contacts of extremists.
Well, Britain and the United States had better learn from their mistakes and naivety and understand that the Islamofascists will use any means at their disposal to destroy the West. How about as a first step to restrict travel from countries that are state sponsors of terrorism? Or requiring super-visas for limited amounts of time?
However, another problem for Britain is their failed NHS that relies on foreign doctors to provide universal, socialized and crappy medical care for their overtaxed citizens.
But, what about the United States? What precautions are the American Immigration and Customs Service using to ensure we are not granting access to foreign terrorists?
Update 1:55 PM
The UK has lowered its terror level to severe from critical.
Terror Threat Level Is Reduced
Britain’s terror threat level has been reduced from ‘critical’ to ‘severe’.
That means a terror attack is no longer imminent – but is still likely at any time.
“It still means the authorities believe it is highly likely that there will be an attack at any moment,” Sky’s crime correspondent Martin Brunt said.The threat level was raised by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith on Saturday evening following the failed terror attacks on London and Glasgow.
The decision to lower the threat level was made by the Joint Terrorism and Analysis Centre (JTAC), according to a statement by the Home Secretary.
She said: “There is no intelligence to suggest that an attack is expected imminently. However, the reduction of the threat level to severe does not mean the overall threat has gone away.
Stay tuned for breaking news.
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