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The plot never got further than a small cadre of screwballs. Though MacGuire dropped lots of big names, Butler had contact with only three conspirators–MacGuire, Clark, and the other American Legion official who’d tagged along on the first couple visits.
GITMO’s 17 Uighurs – a dissident Chinese religious group – sent to Palau.
John Colin Campbell Jordan (19 June 1923 – 9 April 2009) was a leading figure in postwar Neo-Nazism in Britain. In the far-right nationalist circles of the 1960s, Jordan represented the most explicitly ‘Nazi’ inclination in his open use of the styles and symbols of the Third Reich.
Deaf People and World War II is an NTID project collecting videos, books, articles, links, etc., about the experiences of deaf Europeans, Asians, and North Americans during the war.
Yoo suggested in no uncertain terms that Bush administration officials sought to legalize torture and that he and his boss, Jay Bybee, fixed the law around the Bush administration’s policy. [And that's why they call it fascism.]
Geodesic domes (abandonded) build on ruins of fascist architecture in Berlin. ???
A Butterfly Bomb, or (Sprengbombe Dickwandig 2 kg or SD2) was a German 2 kilogram anti-personnel bomblet used by the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War. [GET YOUR BRIT ON.]
“We had showed him respect, and we had done this nice thing for him,” Soufan told Ghosh. “So he started talking to us instead of giving us lectures.”
The Raw Story » Cookies, not torture, convinced al Qaeda suspect to talk, FBI interrogator says
“This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins”. Chirac is said to have been stupefied and disturbed by Bush’s invocation of Biblical prophesy to justify the war in Iraq and “wondered how someone could be so superficial and fanatical in their beliefs”
Bewildered, Jacque Chirac did not react immediately. | MetaFilter
They had commissioned the Special Forces interpreter, an Iraqi from Texas, to paint a legend across their Bradley’s armor, in giant red Arabic script. “What’s it mean?” asked Humphrey. “Jesus killed Mohammed,” one of the men told him.
Jesus killed Mohammed: The crusade for a Christian military—By Jeff Sharlet (Harper’s Magazine)
Responding to the report, White House Press Secretary Gibbs said, “If I wanted to read a write-up of how Manchester United fared last night in the Champions League Cup, I’d might open up a British newspaper. If I was looking for something that bordered on truthful news, I’m not entirely sure it’d be the first pack of clips I’d pick up.”
The Bronx and Morocco this week, and elsewhere, all over, on an ongoing basis – and why is it that fanatical Muslims so relish attacking Jews? Is it really all about Israel?
Anti-Semitism in the Islamic world has often been attributed to the baneful influence of Christianity. Many analysts assert that the Islamic designation of Jews (as well as Christians) as ‘People of the Book’ indicates a higher level of respect for them than was manifested by Christians who derided Jews as bestial ‘Christ-killers.’ Journalist Lawrence Wright writes in this vein in The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11: “Until the end of World War II [...] Jews lived safely – although submissively – under Muslim rule for 1,200 years, enjoying full religious freedom; but in the 1930s, Nazi propaganda on Arabic-language shortwave radio, coupled with slanders by Christian missionaries in the region, infected the area with this ancient Western prejudice [anti-Semitism]. After the war, Cairo became a sanctuary for Nazis, who advised the military and the government. The rise of the Islamist movement coincided with the decline of fascism, but they overlapped in Egypt, and the germ passed into a new carrier.”
This is a common view, but in reality there is a strong native strain of anti-Semitism in Islam, which is rooted in the Qur’an. The Muslim holy book contains a great deal of material that forms the foundation for a hatred of Jews that exists independently of the Christian variety. It is also, in many ways, more virulent and harder to eradicate. The Qur’an portrays the Jews as the craftiest, most persistent, and most implacable enemies of the Muslims – and there is no Muslim equivalent of the Second Vatican Council to mitigate against destructive interpretations. The Qur’anic material on the Jews remains the prism through which far too many Muslims see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – and Jews in general – to this day.
[Article continues at link. See also more about the Bronx bombing, the Morocco bombing, fascist / Muslim collaboration in WW2 [1][2][3], fascist / Muslim collaboration today, antisemitism in the Qur’an, and antisemitism in the Bible. Religion brings people together – to hate each other. – Trevor Blake]
when such expenses as lifetime care for tens of thousands of severely wounded American soldiers are factored in, the true cost for the war in Iraq to American taxpayers will be close to three trillion dollars. [The USA was broken for GWB's daddy issues.]
The former U.S. attorney general and the FBI director cannot be subjected to a lawsuit by a Pakistani man claiming abuse while imprisoned in New York after the September 11, 2001
Top U.S. officials can’t be sued for post-9/11 abuse | Reuters
“In the days surrounding the invasion of Iraq, cover sheets…began adorning top-secret intelligence briefings produced by Donald Rumsfeld’s Pentagon. The sheets juxtaposed war images with inspirational Bible quotes and were delivered by Rumsfeld himself to the White House, where they were read by the man who, after September 11, referred to America’s war on terror as a ‘crusade.’”
Recalling a visit to the Auschwitz death camp, Pope Benedict XVI wound up an often politically charged trip to Israel and the West Bank on Friday with an appeal for peace and a plea to never forget or deny the Holocaust, “that appalling chapter in history.” But, as he has since he arrived from Jordan on Monday on his first trip to the Holy Land as pope, he avoided evoking his German nationality and his personal history in Nazi Germany, though some Israelis had demanded that he touch upon those matters. Rather, he laid blame for the Holocaust on “a godless regime.”
[Article continues at link. If by "godless" Pope Benedict means "hand-in-glove collaboration with and support from the Roman Catholic Church," then yes. The Church administered nearly 6,000 victims of slave labor during World War II. Hitler considered himself a Catholic until the day he died, and the Church never excommunicated him. The Vatican has yet to release files suspected to confirm Pope Piux XII knew of and ignored the Holocaust and instead say that by doing nothing, he was helping them. The Holy See sought and was granted a Reichskonkordat with Nazi Germany, granting it special privileges and offering unwavering support in return. When Nazi Germany established the puppet nation The Independent State of Croatia, they entrusted the business of ethnic cleaning to the Roman Catholic clergy. Soldiers of the Third Reich had the phrase GOTT MIT UNS on their belt buckles: God is with US. The race laws of Nazi Germany were based on the Bible according to Adolf Hitler. The Roman Catholic Church from the top down supported Hitler's Germany. Why, then, would Pope Benedict describe Nazi Germany as godless? Is it his shame over having been a Hitler Youth and anti-aircraft gunner, when the genuinely godless were resisting fascism? Is it an uncomfortable feeling about the fact that while the Roman Catholic Church was getting special privileges from Nazi Germany, atheist groups were outlawed? Pope Benedict certainly wasn't speaking the truth when he called Nazi Germany godless. But Pope Benedict isn't really one for making good moral choices. On the subject of Catholic clergy pedophilia rings, Pope Benedict believes the solution to the problem is... move the offender to a new parish and condemn the victim to silence. Me? I advocate the withering away of Christianity under the twin suns of reason and scorn. - Trevor Blake]
blamed the Holocaust on “a godless regime.” [That must be why the soldier's uniforms read GOD IS WITH US. And why AH was never excommunicated. Because they were all atheists.]
Norris England would politely decline the ‘Mosleyite’ appellation inasmuch that he prefers not to be tied down by labels and takes his inspiration from wherever he finds it.
