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Israeli Jets Strike Militant Base in Lebanon
JERUSALEM — Israeli jets attacked a Palestinian militant group’s training base in southern Lebanon early Wednesday, hours after an Israeli border town was hit by rocket fire, the military said.
The base located south of Beirut is operated by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a small group that has been waging a decades long fight against the Jewish state.
“This is in response to the firing of projectile rockets last night toward Israeli communities,” the military said.
It said it views such attacks with “extreme severity” and holds Lebanon responsible.
There was no immediate word on casualties or damage in the strike, launched after three rockets landed in a residential area of Kiryat Shemona. The army said the rockets damaged some property but caused no injuries.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Both Hezbollah guerrillas and Palestinian militants operate in nearby southern Lebanon.
The raid came a month after Israeli jets attacked a command post of the Hezbollah guerrilla group in south Lebanon, responding to Hezbollah rocket and mortar attacks that wounded 11 Israeli soldiers and damaged a house in a border community.
Israel withdrew from an occupied enclave in southern Lebanon in 2000. While fighting in the area has dropped since then, the border remains tense and Hezbollah frequently targets Israeli troops in the disputed Chebaa Farms area.
Lebanon and Syria say Chebaa Farms is Lebanese territory, but U.N. cartographers who surveyed the border after the Israeli withdrawal said it belongs to that part of Syria which Israel has occupied since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Israel says it will discuss control of the area only in future peace talks with Syria.
Both Hezbollah guerrillas and Palestinian militants operate in nearby southern Lebanon.
Rest of article HERE at FOX News
And another article on this at Arutz….Air Force Strikes Terror Target in S. Lebanon

Behind some of the most deadly attacks against U.S. troops is one man: a 35-year-old Afghan who calls himself ‘Commander Ismail’

WASHINGTON – Four years after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, Taliban and al Qaeda fighters are showing renewed strength, using suicide bombs and rocket-propelled grenades. They are even training the next generation.
Since June 2005, 54 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan, by far the most lethal period since the U.S. invaded.
Behind some of the most deadly attacks is one man, a 35-year-old Afghan who calls himself “Commander Ismail.”
In his first interviews with Western media, Ismail brags about killing three Navy Seals this summer, then downing a Chinook helicopter that came to rescue them, killing another 16 Americans.
Commander Ismail says ousted Taliban leader Mullah Omar is alive and well and that the Mujahaddin are fighting under his command and control.
NBC News interviewed Ismail in August and again this month.
Ismail boasts that in June, he deliberately laid a trap for American forces.
Ismail: We certainly know that when the American army comes under pressure and they get hit, they will try to help their friends. It is the law of the battlefield.
A tape obtained by NBC News showed what appears to be some of the battle, and the terrorists’ unsuccessful attempt to coax a Navy Seal to surrender. When the U.S. military sent in a rescue team, Ismail’s men were waiting with a rocket-propelled grenade, downing the helicopter, and then spreading out recovered weapons and hi-tech equipment. Later, they displayed captured communications equipment and weapons.

For the rest of the article go HERE
Hey Commander Ismail ! This is our troops reply to you!

Wild Thing’s comment…….
OK I realize it is important to get the word out and I have complained before about how one sided the alphabet media is on the war and concerning our troops. I will say then that I am glad they say they turned over this video interview etc. to our Government and I hope it helps.
I guess it is just that when I see the name Lisa Myers connected to something I have instant feedback to the Clinton regime and Lisa Myers …….UGH and it is not pleasant to say the least.
The fact that NBC needs to mention once again how many soldiers we have lost in Afghanistan in 2005 to promote their article is a dig they do not need to use and yet they do. That was NOT a part of the interview and yet they just had to bring it up. If I was looking for subliminal things this one would not even be that hidden to find.
What I mean is this, here is the interview and leave it at that. That would still be giving us the news and letting us decide how we feel about it. But once again NBC has to slant it with a negative tone regarding our troops. By saying what they did in the article that were words NOT said by the terrorist they are promoting the terrorists and their efforts. Making them look victorious. If NBC spent as much time showing us what the troops are doing on the positive side and the tremendous efforts that have been made in Iraq and Afghanistan than I would lighten up a little on them. But alas my gavel comes down heavy on traitors in the media, in government or civilians that in any way promote the deaths of our troops when it is not necessary.
It is like, hey look listen to this terrorist because he with his other comrades has taken out a lot of American’s so he is stronger then we are ……………and as for me he can BITE ME! Our troops rock and this Commander Ismail is a mouth piece much like Howard Dean.
What I saw in this video and read in the article is this………………..
“we’re just freedom fighters attacking only those who attack us”; “we tried to get the Navy Seal to surrender to our tender mercies, but the stubborn galoot wouldn’t quit”; “here we are training our army of workers and peasants who want to give their all for Islam and Afghanistan”. Where was the message: “we’re a bunch of murdering thugs right out of the seventh century”? I missed that part. This is a “Taliban is back, with a vengeance” message, and it very much was US Military and Bush bashing.

I have just been speaking with Ms. Wild Thing and I’m sorry to report that she is feeling rather poorly. Judging from the symptoms, it must be something she ate. Hopefully, Wild Thing will back tomorrow, but in the meantime… I thought I would post a little poem in her honor…

I’m sending sunny-bright wishes
and of course, bear hugs and kisses
To cheer you up while you’re ill;

But the best part of this letter
is saying, “Hope you feel better!”
And, knowing before long, you will!
Ms. Thing, you best get well fast, cause if you don’t, I’m gonna have to bring you some medicine.

Don’t make me get on a plane….

Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights
Song of Hanukkah
….by Eva Grant
Come and sing a Hanukkah song.
Sing of heroes, brave and strong –
Maccabeus and his band,
Who rescued Israel’s ancient land.
Sing a song of candles burning,
Dreidel spinning, pancakes turning,
Hanukkah presents tucked away
To open on the holiday.

(IsraelNN.com) from Arutz…..
Jews Expelled From Gaza Light Menorah Made From Mortar Shells Fired at Them

Gush Katif refugees, many of whom are still dwelling in hotels awaiting permanent housing, lit a unique menorah tonight, one made of mortar shells fired by Arab terrorists into the heart of N’vei Dekalim, the largest community of Gush Katif.
That special menorah commemorates the miracle of Jewish survival throughout the ages, and reminds us of the symbolic role Gush Katif has played in the saga of Jewish history: a community standing victorious despite constant attempts by Arab terrorists to wipe it out.
5000 mortars rained down on Gush Katif, from the onset of the Oslo War in September 2000, to August 2005. Miraculously, they succeeded in causing only minor damage and minimal casualties. Not only did they fail to harm the community physically, they failed to impact the Jewish spirit burning in the hearts of its residents. They call the menorah of mortars the “al hanissim,” menorah of miracles.

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Theodore’s World blog would like to wish all of you a Merry Christmas. This post will stay at the top till December 26,2005
Here are a couple of Christmas songs I am personally playing for each of you. Yes it is me playing so if you hear any mistakes just giggle about it. haha

Click
on the Holly to hear White Christmas

 

 

Click
on the Holly to hear the Christmas Song

Wild Thing’s comment…………..

Christmas is a hard time to be away from home. Whether it’s on a ship at sea, an airbase in Saudi, a foxhole in Kuwait. A soldier’s memory is of home, a room glowing from the fireplace and candles aroma filling the air. The scent from the kitchen, warm from the oven and food in preparation making ones tummy even hungrier. But the memories are also of lost buddies that will never go home again and never see another Christmas. A loss that can never be explained unless you have been there and your life and his depend on each other. The wonderful songs of Christmas exchanged for the sounds of mortar rounds exploding in front and behind their positions. IED’s becoming as important to look for and be aware of as MRE’s are to survival.
The sacrifices the soldier makes not just weekly but every day so that we back home can be safe and secure. To stop radical dictators from meeting our shores, or terrorists feeling they can take us out in one of their deadly so called martyrdoms. The soldier, air men, sailor and all who serve knowing that they are making a difference in the world but still at this time of year the strong pull ….stronger then ever to be in the arms of a loved one, laughing with friends and family is almost too intense.
This time of year is the hardest of all and for the loved ones at home as well. Those that wish—- oh they wish so much to just touch the one they love. To hold each other close through the night and know when morning comes all will be well. Their hearts are filled with loneliness but also a hope that comes from deep within and sent with continued prayer that this will be the last Christmas away from each other. And next year, oh yes next year they will spend Christmas together.
As we celebrate Christmas and are so thankful for so many things. As we think of how our lives have been and think of how this coming year we will be better at this or that. Let us never forget those that make it possible for us to have a Christmas, to live in a free land and feel safe when we sleep at night. Let us never forget those that will never have another Christmas, those that gave their all.
Say a prayer for our Troops and thank them every chance you get. If you meet a Veteran walk right up to that person and thank them. Thank them with all your heart because they are all the reason we live in the greatest country in the world. Those in the Military serving now and our Veterans from every branch are the REAL reason we are free.
I sincerely wish the yuletide spirit of Christmas of love to abide in your heart, hearth and home throughout this festive season and throughout the year.

Wild Thing

A ‘Merry Christmas’ sign hangs over an intensive care ward at the Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2005.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. April Payne peeks into her stocking a day ahead of Christmas, at the Air Force Theater Hospital where she works in Balad, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2005.

Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld poses for photos with members of Combined Task Force Bayonet at Khandahar Air Base, Afghanistan, on Dec. 22, 2005. Rumsfeld is in Afghanistan to visit and thank the troops for their service.

And then of course Santa is there doing his part too.

Wild Thing’s comment……..
It is true that we sleep better knowing we are safer because of our troops. Thank you everyone that is in the Military that reads this Blog. Thank you Veterans and your families for giving me a wonderful Christmas. Safe and secure because of each one of you.

Wild Thing comment……….Well, well, well we all know who ole Helen Thomas is and a-hem how she just doesn’t like President Bush. He is not her type. I just don’t think she likes cowboy’s. But we know she likes the terrorists since she wants so badly for us to leave them alone. Why she even thinks we should have left Saddam alone. Now go figure!!! I guess she has a thang’ for mass graves and rapists and murderers.
Here Ladies and Gentlemen we have a little article that Helen has written all about her ‘feelings’. I would say columnist but then that would be using the term loosely. Ann Coulter is a columnist not the creature from the dark lagoon Helen Thomas. And psst Helen……it is not “who” it is whom, Helen, for whom. You call yourself a writer? yikes!
Just follow the link to the liars article to read what she had to say. Now Helen dear, NOT, you are very aware of the schools that have opened, the electricity that now exists, the water that is now running, the 30,000 businesses that now have opened and so much more since our Troops went into Iraq and got rid of Saddam in power and his two totally mad sons. Not to mention the elections, where they just voted for their own government……… tisk tisk, naughty you Helen.

If War Was Right, For Who?…Boston Channel
Poor Helen, poor bitter, lonely, hateful Helen. She’s one person who really needs her stocking stuffed. I bet it’s been years. Maybe that’s why she’s so mean.
I have an idea….Put her in the cell with Saddam. Tell him he has 71 more just like her waiting for him.

The German government secretly released a member of the terrorist group Hezbullah after he served a mere 19 years of a life sentence for murdering a US Navy diver. In spite of strong objections by American diplomats, Germany disregarded the Bush Administration’s pleas that the killer either be extradited to the US or remain behind bars in Germany.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The brothers of a U.S. Navy diver killed in a 1985 hijacking expressed outrage on Thursday that a Hizbollah hijacker had been released by Germany and demanded Lebanon turn him over to the United States for trial.
Mohammad Ali Hammadi was quietly released last week after serving nearly 19 years of a life sentence for his role in the hijacking of a TWA airliner and the murder of U.S. Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem in Beirut. He was immediately returned to Lebanon despite U.S. objections.
When Hammadi was freed, Washington vowed to recapture him and bring him to trial.
“At this point I think what I can assure anybody who’s listening, including Mr. Hamadi, is that we will track him down,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said, according to BBC. “We will find him and we will bring him to justice in the United States for what he’s done.”
The ruthless terrorist, who was convicted of killing Robert Dean Stethem in Beirut during the 1985 hijacking of a TWA flight and sentenced to life in prison, was quietly transported to Lebanon last week. Critics of this release accuse the German government of being disingenuous during the Justice Ministry news conference. To them it’s simple — serving 19 years in prison for a vicious murder is not life imprisonment.
TWA Flight 847, with 145 passengers and nine crew members, was flying from Athens to Rome on June 14, 1985 when it was hijacked by Hizbullah members to back demands for the release of hundreds of Lebanese from Israeli jails.
It began…………………….
June 1985 Friday morning, just under a half an hour into the flight two terrorist brandished their guns and grenades, TWA flight 847 a Boeing 727 would now be hijacked. TWA Flight 847 out of Athens to Rome is hijacked by Shiite Muslims who have been identified as members of Islamic Jihad, “Holy War”, a group of various fundamentalist, operating in Lebanon and other Middle East countries.
The flight included over 150 passengers and its crew. At least 100 of the passengers were Americans. Enroute, the pilot contacted Beirut tower. The pilot reports his situation, he further states, “He has pulled a hand-grenade pin and is ready to blow up the aircraft if he has to. We must, I repeat, we must land at Beirut. We must land at Beirut. No alternative.” Beirut, not wanting any involvement with the terrorist, attempts to prevent Flight 847 from landing. Beirut ordered airport crews to block the runways with trucks and buses.
However, pilot John Testrake informed Beirut tower, “They are beating up passengers. We must land in Beirut. He has pulled the pin of the grenade. We must land. He is ready to blow up the plane.” A terrorist responded over the radio, “We are suicide terrorists! If you don’t let us land, we will crash the plane into your control tower, or fly it to Baabda and crash into the Presidential Palace!”

Robert Stethem

More details HERE of what happened to Robert Stethem.
When the demands were not met, Stethem was singled out. The hijackers learned he was a member of the US military. They beat and tortured him. Then, they shot him and dumped his body on the tarmac at the Beirut airport.
Wild Thing comments……………
In 1995, the USS Stethem was named after the late Robert Stethem to recognize his heroism. But today, America must demonstrate that his death at the hands of Islamic terrorists means more than just a name on a ship.
The German goverment has not only paroled the convicted murder, Mohammed Hammadi, but they went back on their standing promise to turn him over to US custody. Bottom line, Germany now openly supports terrorism and countries that harbor terrorists. Lebanon continues to harbor people who have killed many Americans and Jews.
For more information on the terrorists please go to my Terrorists page at my website.
For more information about Israel and their fight against terrorists, please visit my page titled Israel at my website.

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within.”

“An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known, and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys,
heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor.”

“He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in hearts of men.”

“He rots the soul of a nation. He works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city. He infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A Murderer Is Less To Be Feared.”
Cicero, 43 B.C.

“A VERY BIG LIE” article……….
Below is the article in U.S. News & World Report………………11/28/05 by Michael Barone……………
It is said that a big lie can work if it is repeated often enough. For weeks, leading Democrats have been hammering away at the Big Lie that George W. Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Starting on Veterans Day, Bush, Dick Cheney, and others in the administration embarked on a “pushback,” arguing that Bush–and many leading Democrats, including some now part of the Big Lie campaign–accurately characterized the intelligence at the time.

(more…)

Senator Jay Rockefeller Gave Syria Advance Warning Of Iraq War Intentions! (FNS Transcript)
Some of the Transcript…………….

WALLACE: …in October of 2002 in which you authorized the use of force, you went further than the president ever did. Let’s watch:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ROCKEFELLER: I do believe that Iraq poses an imminent threat, but I also believe that after September 11th that question is increasingly outdated.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WALLACE: Now, the president never said that Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat. As you saw, you did say that. If anyone hyped the intelligence, isn’t it Jay Rockefeller?
ROCKEFELLER: No. I mean, this question is asked a thousand times and I’ll be happy to answer it a thousand times. I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq, that that was a predetermined set course which had taken shape shortly after 9/11.
Now, the intelligence that they had and the intelligence that we had were probably different. We didn’t get the presidential daily briefs. We got only a finished product, a finished product, a consensual view of the intelligence community, which does not allow for agencies — like in the case of the aluminum tubes, the Department of Energy said these aren’t thick enough to handle nuclear power.
They left that out and went ahead with, “They have aluminum tubes and they’re going to develop nuclear power.”
WALLACE: Senator, you’re quite right. You didn’t get the presidential daily brief or the senior executive intelligence brief. You got the national intelligence estimate.

Wild Thing’s comment…………
Syria and Iraq both had a heads up in plenty of time to move any incriminating WMD right across the border into Syria. And don’t forget that Rockefeller is the person behind the Dem’s Intel Committee memo that Sean Hannity broke the story on a couple of years ago. That memo said that the Dem’s had one shot at using the Intel committee investigation against the Republicans/President Bush. The trigger for that shot was pulled 2 weeks ago when Harry Reid demanded the “closed session.”
These people are not stupid, they are anti-American. Their enemy is the US, always has been and always will be, the only difference between 1941 and now is that they are overt rather than covert with their goals. They are now able to be overt with their hatred because the people have been softened, through media, education, drugs, sexuality, etc. just as Marx promised they would be.
These types of actions will continue until someone gets tried, convicted and executed for treason. So, whether its a Senator (i.e., Rockfeller) or a reporter (i.e., like Judith Miller), if you have sold this country out, you should be held accountable and suffer the consequences.
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§ 953. Private correspondence with foreign governments
Release date: 2005-08-03
Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000953—-000-.html
The U.S. government’s secret memo detailing cooperationbetween Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.
by Stephen F. Hayes – The Weekly Standard – 11/24/2003, Volume 009, Issue 11
OSAMA BIN LADEN and Saddam Hussein had an operational relationship from the early 1990s to 2003 that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass destruction, logistical support for terrorist attacks, al Qaeda training camps and safe haven in Iraq, and Iraqi financial support for al Qaeda–perhaps even for Mohamed Atta–according to a top secret U.S. government memorandum obtained by THE WEEKLY STANDARD.
The memo, dated October 27, 2003, was sent from Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith to Senators Pat Roberts and Jay Rockefeller, the chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. …
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/378fmxyz.asp
Look at this!!!!
Al-Assad confers with US Senator
Syria-USA, Politics, 1/8/2002
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the Damascus al-Shaab palace on Monday received the US senator J. Rockefeller and members of the accompanying delegation.
The meeting was attended by the deputy premier and foreign minister Farouk al-Shara and the US ambassador in Damascus Theodore Qattouf.
Discussions dealt with results implied by the incidents of September 11, 2001 in the US at the regional and international levels.
The President stressed that fighting terrorism should be based on analyzing reasons behind it, noting that the already debated concept of terrorism is a terrorism which is too far from Islamic values.
He explained that Syria’s ancient history shows commitment of its peoples to divine religions. A matter which restores Syria’s stability.
Senator Rockefeller expressed happiness to meet with President Bashar al-Assad. He said he feels content after talking to President Bashar al-Assad not only about Syria but about the ME region as a whole.
Senator Rockefeller also stressed the need of deeper understanding of the Arab culture and civilization and of Muslims.
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020108/2002010817.html
It never ends!!!!