Hamas teaching children to hate America and hate Jews with this despicable Mickey Mouse "double" they call Farfour.

In this hate show for kids, Farfour has been spewing Islamic terrorist propaganda to Palestinian children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip every Friday for several weeks now. He's been preaching to them about how Muslim children must join their terroristic activities and fight against the United States and Israel.

Ah! The building blocks for the next generation of child suicide bombers.

Mickey Mouse 'Twin' Killed On Hamas TV

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip, June 29 -- A Mickey Mouse look-alike who preached Islamic domination on a Hamas-affiliated children's television program was beaten to death in the show's final episode Friday.

In the final skit, the character Farfour was killed by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour's land. At one point, the mouse called the Israeli a "terrorist."

"Farfour was martyred while defending his land," said Sara, the teen presenter. He was killed "by the killers of children," she added.

"Tomorrow's Pioneers," a weekly show featuring a giant black-and-white rodent with a high-pitched voice, had attracted worldwide attention because the character urged Palestinian children to fight Israel. It was broadcast on Hamas-affiliated Al Aqsa TV.

Station officials said Friday that Farfour was slain and the show taken off the air to make room for new programs. Station manager Mohammed Bilal said he did not know what would be shown instead.

Israeli officials have denounced the program as incendiary and outrageous. The program was also opposed by the state-run Palestinian Broadcasting Corp., which is controlled by Fatah, Hamas's rival.

In the show Farfour tells the kids, "We will return the Islamic community to its former greatness and liberate Jerusalem, God willing, liberate Iraq, God willing, and liberate all the countries of the Muslims invaded by murderers!"

The Palestinian authority tried to stop the airing of this evil filth but lost out in the end.

Nato troops in Afghanistan save the life of a six year old boy by defusing a bomb strapped to his body at a military checkpoint. He was sent by the Taliban to blow himself up on a suicide mission. HE WAS 6 YEARS OLD!

The Religion of Peace...

Just makes you warm all over doesn't it? I bet his mother was proud as hell.

Nato accuses Taliban of using children in suicide missions

Children as young as six are being used by the Taliban in increasingly desperate suicide missions, coalition forces in Afghanistan claimed yesterday.

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), to which Britain contributes 5,000 troops in southern Afghanistan, revealed that soldiers defused an explosive vest which had been placed on a six-year-old who had been told to attack Afghan army forces in the east of the country.

The boy was spotted after appearing confused at a checkpoint. The vest was defused and no one was hurt.

The claim came only hours after the second report this week that civilians had been killed in Nato military operations...

"They placed explosives on a six-year-old boy and told him to walk up to the Afghan police or army and push the button," said Captain Michael Cormier, the company commander who intercepted the child, in a statement. "Fortunately, the boy did not understand and asked patrolling officers why he had this vest on."

Lieutenant Colonel David Accetta, ISAF eastern regional command spokesman, told the Guardian: "In the past we have not seen the Taliban sink that low, to use children as suicide bombers. The personnel secured the vest to make sure the child was safe."

Lt Col Accetta said the procedure for dealing with an armed minor had so far been untested in Afghanistan.

"It would have been difficult to know what to do considering it was a six-year-old boy and he was presumably going to push the button himself or someone was going to detonate it for him remotely," Lt Col Accetta said.

I hope they didn't send him home. His parents would probably accuse him of being an infidel, and kill him. It's obvious they view little children the same as they do donkeys.

See the latest tactic in Muslim warfare... "The Donkey Bomb."

As expected...

From CNN: Despite promises, few in House make earmark requests public.

Despite the new Democratic congressional leadership's promise of "openness and transparency" in the budget process, a CNN survey of the House found it nearly impossible to get information on lawmakers' pet projects.

Staffers for only 31 of the 435 members of the House contacted by CNN between Wednesday and Friday of last week supplied a list of their earmark requests for fiscal year 2008, which begins on October 1, or pointed callers to Web sites where those earmark requests were posted.

Of the remainder, 68 declined to provide CNN with a list, and 329 either didn't respond to requests or said they would get back to us, and didn't.

Surprise Surprise!

Read more here

John Edwards shared his new strategy for dealing with terrorism. It is not to fight the terrorist... but to feed them and loan them money.

We should feed them so they will feel better and stronger and give them money to buy newer, better quality weapons to kill us with. Sure sounds like a winner to me.

Yeah... The new and improved Peace Corps by Senator Edwards.

War is Heck

Senator Edwards is outlining a new national security strategy that includes the creation of a 10,000-person civilian peace corps to stem the tide of terrorism in weak and unstable countries. ...

The plan Mr. Edwards presented yesterday — which he dubbed "A Strategy to Shut Down Terrorists and Stop Terrorism Before It Starts" — calls for a 10,000-person "Marshall Corps" to deal with issues ranging from worldwide poverty and economic development to clean drinking water and micro-lending. He said investing in those areas would shore up weak nations and help ensure that terrorism does not take root there. That, he said, would allow the country to stop potential terrorists before they even join the ranks.

There are "thousands committed to violence" today, he said, and America needs to use all of its tools to go after them. But he said millions more people are "sitting on the fence" about whether to join those ranks. "We have to offer them a hand to our side instead of a shove to the other side of that fence," he said.

Mr. Edwards proposed creating a Cabinet-level position to oversee the initiative, which he said would require international allies.
The president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Clifford May, said he was "skeptical" of Mr. Edwards's proposal.

"Humanitarian aid is a good thing. I approve of that. But it doesn't really have much to do with the causes of terrorism," Mr. May said. "Mohamed Atta, the lead terrorist on 9/11, was based in Germany, was well-educated. The causes of terrorism are several, but poverty is not one of them."

More here.

The scary part is... He doesn't get it!

And he wants to be President?

The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend?
More than likely with Iran, the Enemy of my Enemy is my Enemy.

The Blotter on ABCNews.com has apparently secured a report by a senior coalition official stating they have evidence that Iran has been shipping heavy weapons and explosives to the Taliban in Afghanistan in support of their fight with the U.S. and other coalition forces.

Ahmadinejad sleeping with the enemy... who'd a thunk?

Iran Caught Red-Handed Shipping Arms to Taliban

NATO officials say they have caught Iran red-handed, shipping heavy arms, C4 explosives and advanced roadside bombs to the Taliban for use against NATO forces, in what the officials say is a dramatic escalation of Iran's proxy war against the United States and Great Britain.

"It is inconceivable that it is anyone other than the Iranian government that's doing it," said former White House counterterrorism official Richard Clarke, an ABC News consultant.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stopped short earlier this week of blaming Iran, saying the U.S. did not have evidence "of the involvement of the Iranian government in support of the Taliban."

But an analysis by a senior coalition official, obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com, concludes there is clear evidence of Iran's involvement.

"This is part of a considered policy," says the analysis, "rather than the result of low-level corruption and weapons smuggling."

Iran and the Taliban had been fierce enemies when the Taliban was in power in Afghanistan, and their apparent collaboration came as a surprise to some in the intelligence community.

"I think their goal is to make it very clear that Iran has the capability to make life worse for the United States on a variety of fronts," said Seth Jones of the Rand Institute, "even if they have to do some business with a group that has historically been their enemy."

The coalition analysis says munitions recovered in two Iranian convoys, on April 11 and May 3, had "clear indications that they originated in Iran. Some were identical to Iranian supplied goods previously discovered in Iraq."

The April convoy was tracked from Iran into Helmand province and led a fierce firefight that destroyed one vehicle, according to the official analysis. A second vehicle was reportedly found to contain small arms ammunition, mortar rounds and more than 650 pounds of C4 demolition charges.

A second convoy of two vehicles was spotted on May 3 and led to the capture of five occupants and the seizure of RPG-7mm rockets and more than 1,000 pounds of C4, the analysis says.

Also among the munitions are components for the lethal EFPs, or explosive formed projectiles, the roadside bombs that U.S. officials say Iran has provided to Iraqi insurgents with deadly results.

"These clearly have the hallmarks of the Iranian Revolution Guards' Quds force," said Jones.

The coalition diplomatic message says the demolition charges "contained the same fake U.S. markings found on explosives recovered from insurgents operating in the Baghdad area."

"We believe these intercepted munitions are part of a much bigger flow of support from Iran to the Taliban," the message says.

The Taliban receives larger supplies of weapons through profits from opium dealing, officials say, but the Iranian presence could be significant.

"It means the insurgency in Afghanistan is likely to be prolonged," said Jones. "It would be a much more potent force."

I'm shocked and appalled.

UPDATE: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates: Iran sending weapons to Taliban

Google maps hits the streets with their new "Street View" feature that already has some up in arms, ranting about the privacy issue. Is Google invading your privacy with it's new street view maps? Some say yes!

Hitting the streets with Google

Google never ceases to amaze. When the ubiquitous search engine company launched Google maps a couple of years ago users played with the map's satellite feature and tweaked the platform to make everything from beer-finding maps to apartment hunters.

This week Google released Street View, which lets users 'drive through' American cities such as San Francisco and New York. This time though, the response from the internet community wasn't as overwhelmingly positive.

One Oakland, Ca. woman claims that Google and their car-mounted camera invaded her privacy.

Interviewed in the New York Times she said:

“The issue that I have ultimately is about where you draw the line between taking public photos and zooming in on people’s lives,”

“The next step might be seeing books on my shelf. If the government was doing this, people would be outraged.”

She might have a point. Wired magazine is currently running a contest that lets readers submit their favourite Google Street View images. Some of them are fairly banal but a few could raise the hackles of privacy advocates or lead to inadvertent consequences (e.g. workers caught doing something prohibited on a lunch break, a philanderer caught in a tryst, kids skipping school, etc.)

Google insists that it's doing everything it can to protect people's privacy and users can report 'inappropriate' images found on Street View but judging from the comments on this post on the popular blog Boing Boing, that may not be enough.

More about Google Street View at: Laudon Tech, BoingBoing, Wired