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Pakistani doctor who helped get Bin Laden was denied asylum in U.S., report reveals

Via Fox News:

The jailed doctor who helped the U.S. track down Usama bin Laden was convicted by a tribal court on bogus charges, according to a classified Pakistani government report.

Portions of the voluminous 357-page Abbottobad Commission Report, which has yet to be made public and were obtained exclusively by Fox News, acknowledge Dr. Shakil Afridi’s conviction last year by a government-sponsored Jirga has undermined Pakistan’s credibility. The report calls for Afridi to be given a new trial.

The report also claims Afridi joined the CIA search for Bin Laden five years ago, while he was staying in the U.S. with a cousin. According to the report, Afridi applied for asylum after a terrorist group, Lashkar-e-Islam, stepped up its operations in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt.

Afridi was reportedly kidnapped by the group in 2008 and released after his family paid a $10,000 ransom. After helping the CIA pinpoint the terror mastermind just prior to the 2011 raid in which Navy SEALs killed Bin laden, Afridi was arrested and convicted by the tribal court of colluding with Lashkar-e-Islam.

The State Department declined to comment on the report's claims that Afridi had applied for asylum while staying in the U.S.

The commission report acknowledges Afridi was subjected to harsh treatment in prison, and moved several times to various undisclosed locations by Pakistan’s spy agency. His Pakistani handlers also note his incarceration for a year without judicial process was unfair, according to the report.

In a telephone interview with Fox News last year, Afridi recounted his ordeal in prison.

(continue reading at Fox News)

 

Hero doctor who helped US get Osama Bin Laden now on hunger strike in Pakistani prison

Via The Right Scoop

I wish we were doing more to get this man out of prison in Pakistan. If anyone deserves asylum, it’s Dr. Shakil Afridi:

DAILY MAIL – The brave Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA to capture Osama Bin Laden is still rotting inside jail two year’s after the terrorist’s death.

Dr Shakil Afridi was sentenced to 33 years in prison in June last year after a Pakistani court found him guilty of treason for conspiring against Pakistan.

Denied access to his family and legal team, Dr Afridi is now on hunger strike – he stopped eating days after an April 25 court date.
Dr Afridi’s next court hearing, originally scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed again to a date in June, according to Fox News.

Dr Afridi’s next court hearing, originally scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed again to a date in June, according to Fox News.

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The physician said he has been subjected to torture and harsh questioning since his arrest days after Bin Laden’s death in May 2011 as he tried to flee Pakistan.

And he also claimed that he did not know that the information he provided to the CIA had led to the assassination of the reclusive Al Qaeda leader.

Afridi’s brother Jamil told Fox News year that Shakil Afridi had suffered torture while in custody ahead of his sentencing and previously appealed for U.S. Embassy help to fight his legal case.

In an interview with Fox News from his Pakistan jail cell in September Dr Afridi says he has been told: ‘You helped our enemies.

‘They said “The Americans are our worst enemies, worse than the Indians.”‘

Dr Afridi said he tried to defend the U.S. as allies and supporters of Pakistan.

He told Fox news: ‘I tried to argue that America was Pakistan’s biggest supporter – billions and billions of dollars in aid, social and military assistance – but all they said was, “These are our worst enemies. You helped our enemies.”‘

Dr Afridi also warned that any cooperation by Pakistan is just a front for the country to collect billions of dollars in aid from the U.S.

“It is now indisputable that militancy in Pakistan is supported by the ISI… Pakistan’s fight against militancy is bogus. It’s just to extract money from America.’

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Saudi Arabia warns US Tsarnaev and three Pakistanis are potential jihadis

The Saudi embassy in Washington, D.C. today denied its government warned the U.S. about accused Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

However, according to the Daily Mail:

According to a highly placed source who spoke to MailOnline, the Saudis sent a written warning about Tsarnaev to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2012. That was long before pressure-cooker blasts killed three and injured hundreds.

The official told MailOnline about a written warning from the Saudi government to the Department of Homeland Security, and said he had direct knowledge of that document.

The Saudis' warning, the official told MailOnline, was separate from the multiple red flags raised by Russian intelligence in 2011, and was based on human intelligence developed independently in Yemen.

Citing security concerns, the Saudi government also allegedly denied an entry visa to the elder Tsarnaev brother in December 2011, when he hoped to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, the source said. Tsarnaev's plans to visit Saudi Arabia have not been previously disclosed.

 

So which is it?  Did Saudi Arabia alert the United States as the high ranking official told the Daily Mail?  If so, why is the Washington Saudi embassy denying it now?   More:

The Saudis' warning to the U.S. government was also shared with the British government. 'It was very specific’ and warned that 'something was going to happen in a major U.S. city,' the Saudi official said during an extensive interview.

It 'did name Tamerlan specifically,' he added. The 'government-to-government' letter, which he said was sent to the Department of Homeland Security at the highest level, did not name Boston or suggest a date for his planned attack.

There is much, much more at the Daily Mail, video, images.  They conclude the article with this:

Tamerlan may have boasted about his plans online, the Saudi official said, offering an explanation for how Yemen-based sources first learned of him. Islamist militants have well-developed social networks that can enable news to migrate quickly across vast distances.

The Saudi government sometimes tracks such radicals by launching fake jihadi websites to attract extremists. The Ministry of Interior then tracks them electronically, often across the world, and shares information with governments it considers friendly, including the United States.

'The Saudi Arabian government is doing everything it can to wipe out these people and treat America as a true friend,' the official said.

The Saudi intelligence services have a long history of providing credible information to America and Great Britain about looming threats.

'This is the fourth time the Saudi Arabian government has given the U.S. specific intel' about a possible terror plot, the official said, citing prior warnings about Richard Reid, the so-called shoe bomber who repeatedly tried to light a fuse in his shoe to bring down American Airlines flight 63 bound for Miami in December 2001.

He also cited the 300-gram 'ink-cartridge bombs' planted on two cargo planes headed for the United States from Yemen in October 2010. Those explosives were intercepted in Dubai, and at an East Midlands airport in Great Britain.  (The Daily Mail UK)

Homeland Security really screwed this up.  They were quick to announce that this was a lone wolf, there were no others involved, no future attacks planned.  They were WRONG on all counts.  This is what happens when you put political cronies with absolutely NO experience or training in positions of importance to the safety of this nation.

Via Drudge:

 

'TERRORISTA #1' ARRESTED IN BOSTON...

PAPER: Saudi Arabia warned USA in writing about Tamerlan...

Rejected application for entry visa to visit Mecca...

Boston Manhunt 'Missed the Boat' as Police Skip Street...

Pakistan-Based Turkistan Islamic Party Releases Video Of Children In Terror Training Camp…

Via Weasel Zippers:

Jihadi child abuse.

Via LWJ:

The Turkistan Islamic Party, an al Qaeda affiliated terror group, released a video that shows young children firing weapons at a training camp in Pakistan.

The video was released by Islami Awazi, a propaganda arm of the Turkistan Islamic Party. A clip of the video was published on the LiveLeak video website.

In the video, the children, some who appear to be no older than six years old, are shown firing handguns, AK-47 assault rifles, and a PKM machine-gun from various positions. At one point, 13 children are seen on line, firing AK-47 while standing and laying down.

As the children are firing their weapons, the black flag of the Taliban and a light blue banner flown by the Turkistan Islamic Party are seen flying in the background.

The video is similar to others released by allied jihadist groups such as the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, the Islamic Jihad Group, and a jihadist alliance known as the Fedayeen-i-Islam. All of these groups are known to run camps in North and South Waziristan that are used to train children.

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Top Ten Most Dangerous Travel Destinations

Hint:  They are all dominated by Islamic law or socialism.

Via the Examiner:

The magazine Travel and Leisure just recently released its annual listing of the world's most dangerous countries. The chief intent of the article was to simply warn or advise travelers of the dangers that might exist in traveling to certain countries or areas within countries that pose a verifiable risk.

However, while the travel and lifestyle magazine largely focuses on the simple fact of how dangerous a particular nation is, as well as the specific dangers that exist, we thought it might be interesting to look at the "why's" of that danger which, more often than not, speak to the political themes at play.

View slideshow: Top Ten Most Dangerous Travel Destinations: Dominated by Islamic Law, Socialists

When we broke the countries down in order to analyze the connective similarities between each, we found several variables largely belonging in the same geopolitical category.

(read all the details of each country at the Examiner, hat tip Christians Under Attack)

The countries are:

 1. Pakistan

 2. The Sudan

 3. Georgia

 4. Lebanon

 5. North Korea

 6. Syria

 7. Yemen

 8. Uzbekistan

 9. Iran

10. Algeria

I notice Palestine isn't in the list, only because it isn't actually a state or country -- yet.

Test your knowledge on Palestine: (click to enlarge)

( Dry Bones Blog, here, full page here, hat tip American Power)

The Rape and Murder of Pakistan's Christian Children

by Raymond Ibrahim, Special to IPT News

 

The West sighed in relief when Rimsha Masih, the 14-year-old Christian girl arrested in Pakistan on August 16 for allegedly burning pages of the Quran, was finally released. Yet the West remains clueless concerning the graphic abuses—including rape and murder—Christian children in Pakistan routinely suffer, simply for being Christian. Consider two stories alone, both of which occurred at the same time Rimsha's blasphemy ordeal was making headlines around the world.

On August 14, another Christian girl, 12-year-old Muqadas Kainat (which means "Holy Universe") was ambushed in a field near her home in Sahawil by five Muslim men who "gang raped and murdered" her. At the time, her father was at a hospital visiting her sick mother. He and other family members began a frantic search, until a tip led them to the field where his daughter's body lay. The postmortem revealed that she had been "gang raped and later strangled to death by five men." Police, as usual, did not arrest anyone. As a Salem News report puts it, "Complicating matters is the fact that several Christian girls in this remote area have been raped and forced to both marry into the Muslim community and abandon their own religion, human rights groups report…. there is a history in this part of Pakistan according to the Christian community, of local authorities failing to investigate cases of rape or other violence against Christians, often for fear of influential Muslims or militants."

Similarly, on August 20, an 11-year-old Christian boy, Samuel Yaqoob, went to the markets of Faisalabad to buy food for his family, never to return. According to Wilson Chowdhry, Chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association, "After extensive searching his body was found near a drain in the Christian colony, bearing marks of horrific torture, with the murder weapon nearby. His nose, lips and belly had been sliced off, and his family could hardly recognize him because the body was so badly burnt. Some 23 wounds by a sharp weapon have been identified in the autopsy. When sending his body for an autopsy, police raised the possibility of sodomy. Parts of Pakistani culture have a strong homosexual pederast culture, and Christian and other minority boys are especially susceptible to rape and abuse because of the powerlessness of their community and their despised status. In one case fairly recently, a Christian boy was kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed by a police officer, his body similarly being dumped in a drain."

These were just some of the stories concerning the sexual abuse and murder of Pakistan's Christian children that occurred last August—even as the world stood in awe at the Rimsha Masih blasphemy case. Here are 10 more examples, chosen at random from the many former documented cases:   (continue reading at the Investigative Project on Terrorism)

Pakistani Clerics Issue Fatwa Against Taliban After Teen Girl Is Shot in Head

Via Gateway Pundit, where you can watch the video:  Muslims across the Swat valley have been speaking about the attack on 14 year-old activist Malala Yousafzai, calling for the government to punish her attackers.  But I say don't get too excited about the headline, read between the lines of what they say. 

Remember that the Taliban put a hit out on this little girl, sent their special hit squad to shoot her,  for writing a blog advocating for peace and advocating that girls should be able to attend schools.  For this they shot her in the head. 

The BBC reports that she was flown from Pakistan on a plane from the United Arab Emirates, with a full medical team on board to keep an eye on her. She will be treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham at the specialist major trauma center. The Pakistani government is funding her care  (more)

Now to the Fatwa:

Several clerics issued a fatwa against the Taliban for the barbaric shooting.

Aljazeera reported:

Clerics on Friday declared the attempt on her life, made by Pakistani Taliban gunmen while the 14-year-old girl was on her way home from school in the Swat valley, to be “un-Islamic”.

The joint fatwa, or religious edict, was issued by at least 50 scholars associated with the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC), and appealed to worshippers to observe a “day of condemnation” on Friday.

“Islam holds the killing of one innocent person as killing the entirety of humanity,” Hamid Saeed Kazmi, a former religious affairs minister in Pakistan, told reporters.

[I say really?  What about September 11, 2001 and other terror attacks?]

“It also forbids the killing of a woman who has even denounced her religion.”

[I say really?  What about all the honor killings of women and girls because they choose to convert or live as Westerners?]

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said Yousafzai, who had risen to international prominence for decrying Taliban efforts to stop girls from attending school in northwest Pakistan, had been “leading a campaign against Islam”.

But the clerics of the SIC said that attacking innocent women and children “was not jihad”. They also said the attackers were “agents of Washington”, defaming Islam, undermining Pakistan and legitimising the branding of Muslims as “terrorists”.

[I say really?  It's all Washington's fault?]

Yousafzai remains in critical condition, with doctors fearful of potential brain damage after removing a bullet from her skull. She remains stable and sedated, said a statement at a military press briefing early on Friday afternoon.

Anti-Islam Filmmaker Donated Million Dollars To Obama Campaign

Breitbart has the story where they remind readers that Bill Maher also insulted Islam in a movie and in other rants, also gave a million dollars to Barack Obama.  Where's the outrage there?

Bill Maher made a comedy/documentary called "Religulous" that's most famous for mercilessly mocking Christianity. But what people forget is that the last twenty-minutes or so of the film make a damning case against Islam.

Bill Maher made a film that mocked Islam.

Oh, yes, he did.

Bill Maher also contributed $1 million to a pro-Obama super PAC. (read it all, hat tip AOW who has much move, plus videos)

 

Will Obama send his brown shirts after Bill Maher?  No way. 

What do the American voters think about Obama selectively trampling our freedom of speech?

"72% Put Freedom of Speech Ahead of Not Offending Other Cultures."

A Rasmussen poll of likely voters.

Only 15% consider it more important for the United States to make sure that nothing is done to offend other nations and cultures.

As Ann Althouse notes, the wording of the above poll question is misleading, the idea that the U.S.  could "make sure that nothing is done to offend other nations and cultures", is ridiculous, but does not skew the results.

Meanwile, the violence by offended Muslims spreads to Pakistan, where we send billions of dollars.

Stop the money.

 

Middle East - In Photos: Muslims Around The Globe Rage

Go look at these amazing images out of the Middle East and around the world.  Scroll all the way down, don't miss one image, especially the ones toward the end of the page.  Look at the faces of the Muslims.  Look closely at their actions, their signs, and feel the rage.  Then come back and leave your impression in the comment section.

My first impression was the pure hatred these people have, they are pure evil, and how that hatred goes directly from zero to "Kill Terry and Sam.  Slit their throats.  Spill their blood".  Also evil is how they use their children as props, how they train them from birth to hate and to see killing as a good thing.  Below is one image.  Don't just look at the child, look at the background.  The black flags of Islamic jihad, the flag of al-Qaeda:

A boy holds a toy gun during a protest about a film ridiculing Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh near Sidon, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. (Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS)

http://www.vosizneias.com/113609/2012/09/14/middle-east-in-photos-muslims-around-the-globe-rage-over-anti-islam-film ,  (hat tip Michael)

 

Just a reminder as to where these riots are taking place, here is an embeded map, which I believe automatically updates:

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View Muslim Protests in a larger map.

 

Jailed doc who helped nail Bin Laden speaks to Fox News

In an exclusive interview with Fox News, Shakil Afridi, the medical doctor who helped pinpoint bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound before last year’s raid by SEAL Team 6, described brutal torture at the hands of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, and said the agency is openly hostile to the U.S.

“They said ‘The Americans are our worst enemies, worse than the Indians,’” Afridi, who spoke from inside Peshawar Central Jail, said as he recalled the brutal interrogation and torture he suffered after he was initially detained.

“I tried to argue that America was Pakistan’s biggest supporter – billions and billions of dollars in aid, social and military assistance -- but all they said was, ‘These are our worst enemies. You helped our enemies.’”

The ISI, Afridi said, helps fund the Haqqani network, the North Waziristan-based militant group that was last week designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The agency also works against the U.S. by preventing the CIA from interrogating militants captured by Pakistan, who are routinely released to return to Afghanistan to continue attacks on NATO forces there.

“It is now indisputable that militancy in Pakistan is supported by the ISI […] Pakistan’s fight against militancy is bogus. It’s just to extract money from America,” Afridi said, referring to the $23 billion Pakistan has received largely in military aid since 9/11.

Afridi gave unprecedented insight into activity inside the infamous basement prison where he was initially held beneath the ISI’s headquarters at Apbara, in the capital Islamabad. He described how during his own interrogation, in which he was tortured with cigarette burns and electric shocks, ISI officers attacked him for assisting the U.S. Afridi helped pinpoint Bin Laden’s compound in the weeks before the May 2, 2011, raid in Abbottabad.  (continue reading at Fox News, hat tip R.J. Godlewski)

 

Related:

Senator threatens to cut off all Pakistani aid unless doctor is released to US, Fox News