The Vicious Babushka

Tricksy Zionist Assassins Used Irish Passports for Dubai "Hit Job"

 

Members of a hit squad who killed a top Hamas military commander used Irish passports to enter and leave Dubai, it's been claimed.

The suspected Israeli hit team, including at least one woman, entered the United Arab Emirates using Irish documents, police authorities said.

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh (50), held responsible by Israel for the abduction and murder of two Israeli soldiers in 1989, died in mysterious circumstances on January 20 in a Dubai hotel room.

A Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman told the Herald today: "We are aware of the media reports and we are in contact with authorities locally to try and determine the truth of the reports."

Al-Mabhouh was said to have been shocked with an electric weapon held to his legs and then suffocated or poisoned.

Iran and Hamas have blamed Israel for the killing, but Israeli news media claimed al-Mabhouh had many enemies and could have been killed by other Arab factions.

Up to seven people were said to have been involved in al-Mabhouh's killing, four of whom used Irish passports to enter Dubai and who later fled to a "European country" after the killing, according to policesources in Dubai.

Read more at Irish Herald. 

Because Canadian passports would have been too lame.

Man Burns Down Tattoo Parlor After They Refuse to Give Him a Threatening Obama Tattoo

A Pacific Grove man is facing several years in prison after authorities say he threw a Molotov cocktail at a tattoo parlor after employees refused to draw on his chest an offensive image of President Barack Obama.

Monterey County prosecutors say Nathan Augustine of Pacific Grove pleaded no contest to arson Wednesday in connection with the July incident at Creative Visions tattoo parlor in Monterey.

Deputy District Attorney Douglas Matheson says the 36-year-old Augustine also pleaded no contest to a similar incident days later at a restaurant.

After being turned down by employees at the parlor for a tattoo of a swastika and an image of Obama overlaid with crosshairs, Matheson says Augustine later returned and threw the device.

Matheson says Augustine will be sentenced to seven years in prison for both attacks. Sentencing is scheduled for March 12.

Mercury News.

I found an illustration to go with this but on second thought decided not to use it.

The Real Palestinian Beauty Queen: The One Who Kills The Most Jews

EPIC FAIL: In-Flight Phylacteries Cause Plane Panic

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A US Airways passenger plane was diverted to Philadelphia on Thursday after a religious item worn by a Jewish passenger was mistaken as a bomb, Philadelphia police said.

A passenger was alarmed by the phylacteries, religious items which observant Jews strap around their arms and heads as part of morning prayers, on the flight from New York's La Guardia airport heading to Louisville.

"Someone on the plane construed it as some kind of device," said officer Christine O'Brien, a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia police department.

No one was arrested or charged, O'Brien said.

The plane landed without incident and the passengers and crew were taken off the plane, a spokesman for US Airways said.

Phylacteries, called tefillin in Hebrew, are two small black boxes with black straps attached to them. Observant Jewish men are required to place one box on their head and tie the other one on their arm each weekday morning.

Thursday's incident was the latest of several false alarms on U.S. flights since the December 25 incident in which a Nigerian man attempted to detonate a bomb in his underpants from materials he smuggled onto the plane just as his flight was about to land in Detroit, authorities said.

Read more at Reuters

UK Royal Pledges $100K to Rebuild Mumbai Chabad

 

 British Prince Michael of Kent, visited the destroyed Chabad Center of Mumbai Wednesday, accompanied by Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz of the Mumbai Relief Fund.

Queen Elizabeth's first cousin, Prince Michael of Kent, visited the destroyed Chabad Center of Mumbai at Nariman House Wednesday.

The prince was escorted by Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz of the Mumbai Relief Fund, on a tour of the Chabad center that was attacked by terrorists last year.

The prince noticed the photos of the Rebbe and the Holtzbergs, and he inquired about Shluchim and their work. Later, he lit a candle in memory of the murdered Shluchim, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg.

The prince also pledged a donation of $100,000 in rebuilding part of the Nariman House.

"I along with other donors from London pledge a donation of $100,000 in restoring part of Chabad House including the kitchen. We will continue to offer every kind of help," Prince Michael said.

"The destruction caused by terrorists is immense. I am saddened to see all this. I feel deep sorrow for what happened here," he said, adding he was touched on hearing about the how the nanny Sandra saved baby Moshe.

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"Al Qaeda Lady" Demands Jews be Banned from Jury in Terror Trial

Jury selection in the "Lady Al Qaeda" trial got off to a bizarre start Wednesday with the accused terrorist telling jurors she was "boycotting" - and demanding Jews be excluded from the panel.

"If they have a Zionist or Israeli background...they are all mad at me," said Aafia Siddiqui, a U.S.-trained neuroscientist charged with attempted murder.

"I have a feeling everyone here is them - subject to genetic testing....They should be excluded if you want to be fair," she told Manhattan Federal Judge Richard Berman.

Prospective jurors weren't present for that outburst, but they were in the courtroom to hear her say, "I'm boycotting the trial...there are too many injustices."

At another point, Siddiqui repeatedly refused to talk to her own lawyers, saying she didn't trust them.

"I don't trust you either," she told Berman.

She even tried to toss a handwritten note to prosecutors requesting time each day to pray. Berman said time would be set aside.

Siddiqui, 37, is accused of picking up an M-4 Army rifle and firing two rounds at a team of Americans who tried to question her in Afghanistan on July 18, 2008.

Prosecutors argue she screamed, "Allah Akbar" and vowed to kill Americans before she was wrestled to the ground. She allegedly had two pounds of poisonous sodium cyanide and hundreds of pages of notes and documents on how to build chemical and biological weapons.

Read more at NY Daily News:

Turkey Demands Israeli Apology for Complaining about Turkish Anti-Semitic Film (WTF?)

JERUSALEM – Turkey rejected an Israeli attempt Wednesday to make amends for humiliating its ambassador, and threatened to bring its envoy home if Israel didn't deliver an apology by the evening.

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon issued a statement criticizing his own undiplomatic behavior, which included forcing Turkish Ambassador Ahmet Oguz Celikkol to sit on a lower seat and not shaking his hand. But the statement fell short of an apology and failed to defuse a diplomatic feud that has further strained ties between the once-close allies.

"They have been given time until tonight, they either fix it or our ambassador will head for Turkey on the first flight tomorrow" for consultations, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said. "After that, we will make an evaluation."

Ayalon set off the diplomatic firestorm when he summoned Celikkol late Monday, ostensibly to complain about a Turkish TV drama that has been perceived as anti-Semitic. The show, "The Valley of the Wolves," depicts Israeli security forces as kidnapping children and shooting old men.

Ayalon invited Israeli TV crews to watch the meeting, and pointedly explained to the cameramen how he was snubbing the ambassador by placing him on a lower chair and refusing to shake his hand.

Celikkol later said he hadn't known what Ayalon was saying to the cameramen.

Read more at Associated Press.

My head hurts.

More Sick Grotesque Kids' Entertainment from Hamas

 

Hamas' terrorist TV channel -- which routinely indoctrinates kids by portraying Israelis as ghouls -- is launching a new cartoon series that depicts another enemy, the Palestinian Authority police.

A pilot episode shows a toadyish Palestinian officer watching as a Jewish character machine-guns a group of West Bank children to death and drinks their blood.

"You killed our children before my eyes," the officer says meekly. "I will respond with even more peace."

The grotesque six-minute pilot was a big hit when tested on Gaza Strip viewers this month by Hamas' video mouthpiece, Al Aqsa TV, and will be expanded next month, officials in Gaza City said.

 Al Aqsa TV is notorious for propaganda-filled kids' shows, such as a 2007 broadcast that showed Farfur, a Mickey Mouse-like character, vowing, "We will annihilate the Jews! I will commit martyrdom!"

In the final episode, an actor playing an Israeli agent tried to buy Farfur's land, and, when the mouse refused "to sell our lands to terrorists," he was beaten to death.

But the new Hamas series expands the hate-filled message by making monsters out of both the Israelis and the Palestinian security force, even though they have often clashed violently in the West Bank.

The pilot cartoon, called "A Special Mission," is built around Bahlul, a boot-licking police officer in the US-backed Palestinian Authority.

Read more at NY Post. 

Doofus of the Day: Airline Passenger Screams "I Want to Kill Jews!"

MIAMI - An airline passenger in Miami proclaimed ``I want to kill all the Jews'' before police forced him off a Detroit-bound plane, authorities said Thursday.

Mansor Mohammad Asad, 43, of Toledo, Ohio, was arrested Wednesday night, according to a Miami-Dade Police Department statement. Asad was charged with threats against a public servant, disorderly conduct and resisting an officer without violence.

FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela said there were no indications the disturbance was related to terrorism. The bureau was initially brought in to look into the incident but is no longer involved in the investigation. She said the FBI is treating the disruption as a matter for local authorities.

The disturbance forced a taxiing Northwest Airlines flight to turn around at Miami International Airport, according to a news release. Witnesses told investigators who boarded the plane that Asad was loud, disruptive and claimed to be Palestinian.

Read more at NWFDailyNews.com

Why is it that whenever there is a disruption like this, the first thing the FBI says is "it's not terrorism"? How do they know enough to proclaim that it's "not terrorism"?
 

Chabad Mumbai Receives Threat to Murder Jews, Again

Chabad House in Mumbai receives threat letter

Representatives of Hasidic Jewish movement, who are still rebuilding structure attacked by terrorists in November 2008, get letter threatening another strike. Picture of Hitler included along with letter. Chabad House says they 'will not panic.' Israeli Embassy in India: We will take necessary steps

More than a year after the joint terror attack in Mumbai that targeted the city's Chabad House, fears again are raised for another attack. Ynet learned that the Mumbai Chabad House, which has been under construction since the attack that claimed the lives  of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, has received a letter threatening another attack.

The letter, which was included along with a picture of Adolph Hitler, was written by hand: "Israel is dogs. We will strike again – heil, Hitler."

The Chabad House management tried to play down the terror threat after they received instructions from security officials not to publish the threat. A Chabad representative confirmed the letter's content to Ynet and noted that his colleagues notified the Indian authorities as well as security sources in Israel. The letter itself was handed over to Israeli representatives in India.

"The embassy is aware of the incident and is taken the necessary steps," the embassy reported in response.

"As of now, we are trying to clarify the identity of the sender," said the source. "According to what we understood from the security officials, letters like this reach every now and then all kinds of embassies. This still hasn't happened to us, but there is a first time for everything. We will not panic because of this – on the contrary. For us, this is just an incentive to continue working to re-open the Chabad House."

Read more at YNet.
  

Doofus of the Day: Udi Aloni, Jealous of Neturei Karta's Media Success

I find it appropriate that the Israeli public be notified of the emerging movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel  (BDS), which has been growing at a breathtaking pace.

Following bewildered reports published by Yedioth Ahronoth journalist Sever Plocker, who noticed that BDS has moved from the circles of the radical western Left to the circles of the bourgeois centre, I can add that this is now true for Israel-loving Jews as well.

Obviously, this shift is taking place against the backdrop of Israel’s war on Gaza, waged one year ago, the publication of the Goldstone Report, and the local strain of apartheid policy nurtured by Israel, which differs from the old South African one in some aspects.

This policy has local makings and signature. It is not only an Israeli High Court of Justice ruling to evacuate Palestinian living in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah from their homes, applying a “right of return for Jews only” rule, while Palestinians, on the other hand, are being denied this right.

Read the rest of this nauseating drivel at YNet.

It should be noted that Udi Aloni is the son of Shulamit Aloni, Israel's oldest and ugliest Stalin groupie.

Our suggestion for Udi, if he wants more attention from his Jew-hating friends, he should grow payes, put on white socks and a Shtreimel and spend Shabbos in Gaza with Neturei Karta.

EPIC FAIL: Man Jumps Security Line at Newark, Pandemonium Ensues

Pandemonium at Newark Airport. (Note to self: do not fly out of Newark)

NEWARK, N.J. – Authorities were searching for a man who walked through a screening checkpoint exit into the secure side of a terminal Sunday night at Newark Liberty International Airport, and flights were grounded and passengers being re-screened, an air safety official said.

A man was seen walking down an exit lane at Terminal C about 5:30 p.m., said Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Ann Davis, and screening was halted in the Continental terminal while authorities looked at surveillance tapes to identify the man.

Passengers were then evacuated from the secure side of the terminal and moved to the open side to go through screening again to ensure that every passenger boarding a plane tonight out of the terminal was fully screened, Davis said in a statement. The security line was emptied, and passengers were waiting in check-in areas.

No announcements had been made over the airport's public-address system as of 9:45 p.m. Security officers were instructing passengers, who were expressing frustration over the situation.

Alison Day, 47, of York, England, was supposed to leave for Manchester, England, at 7:30 Sunday night. She was traveling with a party of seven including an 18-month-old and 5-year-old.

"I'm not angry that this is happening, but I'm angry that there was a lack of organization," she said.

She said her party, headed home after a Caribbean cruise, was escorted out of Continental's lounge but given no further instructions.

Continental spokeswoman Susannah Thurston said it's an airport security issue not involving the Houston-based airline.

A spokesman said the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is assisting with the possible security breach, and Davis had no update late Sunday night on the man who walked through the exit.

Read more at Associated Press.

The unsub who jumped the security line is probably the only one who boarded his flight on time.

Asshats of the Year: Neturei Karta Attention Queens

Ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionist Jewish men demonstrate with Palestinian and International activists during a protest calling for the end of the blockade on Gaza in Beit Hanoun, near the Erez Crossing between Gaza Strip and Israel, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009. Hundreds of demonstrators rallied on opposite sides of a border crossing between Israel and Gaza on Thursday to protest the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the seaside territory. Israel and Egypt imposed a strict blockade on Gaza after the Islamic militant group Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007. AP Photo. 

The Neturei Karta Attention Queens have won Babushka's Doofus of the Day award more times than anyone else in 2009.

Now, please ignore them and they will go away.

Muslim Travelers Complain About Airport Profiling

The attempted bombing of the Northwest airliner is raising a lot questions about effective security, including who should get singled out for screening, and if Muslim-Americans and others are being unnecessarily targeted.

Some Muslim-Americans claim they are being profiled on the basis of their religion and that profiling is actually getting in the way of catching the bad guys.

A spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration said she could not talk about profiling passengers. Sources say the agency is frankly scared of talking about it.

"Well let me tell you, profiling is alive and well. Anyone that says they're not profiling passengers is lying," says ABC7's aviation consultant Ron Wilson.

As for the folks getting profiled, ABC7 spoke with a number of frequent flyers who say they get extra attention every time they fly.

"I see it as just a very unfair discriminatory practice," says Mahin Ibrahim, who works in online advertising at Google.

"I wish it was only patting me down. They first they search my clothes and everything I have and in many cases they actually take me aside and interrogate me," says Azzam Abdo, who makes semi conductors.

"They do a strip search and they search your luggage before the TSA will let you go," says Mahmood Khan, an I.T. consultant, formerly with Hewlett Packard.

Read more at ABCNews.com

ABC News makes it sound as though only Muslims are being singled out for extra security screening. They don't mention all the elderly, disabled travelers in wheelchairs, with diabetic supplies and CPAP machines.

When was the last time an airliner was blown up by a disabled, elderly diabetic? Do Muslim travelers really expect to breeze through the line ahead of the diabetics?

TSA Rescinds No Bathroom Rule

Passengers are once again free to walk about the cabin.

 In-flight security rules have been eased after a two-day clampdown, airline officials familiar with the matter said Monday.

At the captain's discretion, passengers can once again have blankets and other items on their laps or move about the cabin during the tail end of flight. In-flight entertainment restrictions have also been lifted.

The airline officials spoke on condition of anonymity because federal safety officials had not publicly announced the changes.

Read more at MSNBC.

Just remember: the Amsterdam to Detroit bomber did not leave his seat.

The Amsterdam to Detroit bomber did not have stuff on his lap.

The Amsterdam to Detroit bomber was stopped by another passenger who did get up from his seat and jump across several rows to put out the fire with his bare hands.

Maybe they don't want a repeat of this incident:

Woman sits in urine-soaked airplane seat.

As volumes increase over the holiday season, the crazy airline stories start rolling in. Just yesterday, a woman flying from West Palm Beach to Boston reported that she took her seat in and AirTran flight, only to find that it was soaked in urine. By the time she realized the gravity of her problem, it had soaked all the way through her clothes. So she had to go to the bathroom, remove her wet clothing and wrap herself in a blanket for the duration of the flight. At least they let her sit in a different seat.

Just eww.

Al-Qaeda Video Warned of Attack on U.S. Before Detroit Plane Bombing

 

A VIDEO threatening revenge for a US attack on an al-Qaeda terrorist camp in Yemen was posted four days before a former British student's botched attempt to blow up an American airliner.

Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has been transferred to prison and is due in court in Detroit today after his failed bid to destroy Northwest Airlines Flight 253, carrying 278 passengers and 11 crew, 20 minutes before landing in Detroit on Christmas Day.

As security was stepped up across airports and flights to and from the US, a second Nigerian man was taken into custody aboard a plane in Detroit yesterday. Police said the incident took place aboard the same Northwest service that was attacked on Christmas Day.

The man had raised concerns because he spent an unusually long time in the plane's toilet, but it later turned out he had a "legitimate illness", Department of Homeland Security officials said.

Abdulmutallab is said to have told US investigators he had been acting on instructions from al-Qaeda. Citing US officials, the Wall Street Journal said the Nigerian claimed al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen had given him the device and told him how to detonate it.

However, there is no firm evidence of a link between al-Qaeda and the Nigerian student, who studied mechanical engineering at University College London between 2005 and 2008.

The video warning was posted in Yemen, where he reportedly began his journey and where he has reportedly claimed to have been trained at an al-Qaeda camp.

In the al-Qaeda video, dated 21 December, a man identified as Mohammed al-Kalwi delivered a eulogy for militants killed in a Yemeni air strike on a militant training camp four days earlier. He said: "We are carrying a bomb to hit the enemies of God. O soldiers, you should learn that we do not want to fight you, nor do we have an issue with you. We only have an issue with America and its agents, and beware of standing in the ranks of America."

Read more at Scotsman.com.

EPIC FAIL: TSA Screws Up Again

WASHINGTON – Some airlines were telling passengers on Saturday that new government security regulations prohibit them from leaving their seats beginning an hour before landing

The regulations are a response to a suspected terrorism incident on Christmas Day.

Air Canada said in a statement that new rules imposed by the Transportation Security Administration limit on-board activities by passengers and crew in U.S. airspace. The airline said that during the final hour of flight passengers must remain seated. They won't be allowed access to carryon baggage or to have any items on their laps.

Flight attendants on some domestic flights are informing passengers of similar rules. Passengers on a flight from New York to Tampa Saturday morning were also told they must remain in their seats and couldn't have items in their laps, including laptops and pillows.

The TSA issued a security directive for U.S.-bound flights from overseas, according to a transportation security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly.

The official said passengers traveling internationally could see increased security screening at gates and when they check their bags, as well as additional measures on flights such as stowing carryons and personal items before the plane lands.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a statement Saturday that passengers flying to the U.S. from overseas may notice extra security, but she said the measures "are designed to be unpredictable, so passengers should not expect to see the same thing everywhere."

A Nigerian passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam allegedly attempted to start a fire as the plane prepared to land in Detroit on Friday, according to authorities. The incident has sparked a major international terrorism investigation.

Read more at Associated Press.

The terrorist was subdued by a Dutch tourist who jumped over several rows of seats in order to take him down. Meanwhile the guy who set his pants on fire didn't leave his eat.

So the freaking geniuses at TSA will now prevent passengers from leaving their seats. It makes sense: no liquids, no bathroom breaks.

This will mean more hardships for disabled passengers with diabetes meds and CPAP machines. Seriously, this guy's own father reported him to State Department as a terror suspect.

Biased Christmas Photo of the Day

 
Palestinian children play on the ruins of houses destroyed during the three-week offensive Israel launched last year, in Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Christmas Eve December 24, 2009. December 27 marks one year since the start of a three-week offensive Israel launched in Gaza during which more than 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed. Reuters.

They have been getting a lot of propaganda mileage out of the rubble. In a few days it will mark the anniversary of "Operation Cast Lead" which will mean a media orgy of pity.

Turnabout is Fair Play: Jews Sue Hamas in Belgian Court

May be indicted in Belgium

Israel - Though charedim in Eretz Yisroel constantly have to defend themselves for not serving in the IDF, this week some were actively involved in high-profile moves to combat Hamas terrorism.

A group of charedim living in Israel and who are part of a larger group of 15 Israelis with Belgian citizenship filed a suit in Brussels this week through Israel-based lawyers Mordechai Tzivin and Nechama Tzivin, accusing Hamas leaders of complicity in war crimes.

Belgian courts let citizens living anywhere in the world request criminal prosecutions for violations of their human rights.

“Our current legal efforts are intended to mark Hamas leaders in public opinion and among decision makers in Europe as the real war criminals. This is the only way for us to offset the ‘legal Intifiada’ being waged by pro-Palestinian groups in Europe. Issuing warrants against Hamas sends an important message – even if no actual arrests are made,” Mordechai Tzivin said in a conversation with VIN News in Israel on Thursday.

With a wide network of connections around the world, Tzivin has provided legal counsel in a number of enigmatic international cases, including the case of two young yeshiva students currently awaiting trial in Japan on charges of smuggling ecstasy into the country.

The motion calls for arrest warrants to be issued immediately against 10 Hamas military leaders and lawmakers, including Ismail Haniya, Khaled Meshaal, Mahmoud al-Zahar, Mohammad Daf and Ahmad Jabri, charging Hamas, during Operation Cast Lead in January, caused injuries, property damage and in one case a relative died as a result of Palestinian rocket attacks. The plaintiffs, who lived in and around Ashdod, asked not to be identified by name.

The group is making no effort to hide the fact that the case is a reaction to the flood of suits against Israeli military and government officials sweeping through Europe, including an arrest warrant against former foreign minister and opposition leader Tzipi Livni, which prevented her from traveling to London recently.

Read more at VIN News. 

Doofus of the Day: Zionists Shot My Laptop! (Don't Leave Luggage Unattended)

Zionists shot this laptop

American student trying to cross from Egypt to Israel loses laptop to security check. 'Was it my peeling Arabic stickers on the keyboard?" she wonders

What possessed Taba Border Crossing security personnel to shoot an American student's laptop? Lily Sussman, an American student living in Egypt arrived at the Taba Border Crossing in late November and asked to cross into Israel. To her amazement, the security officers stationed at the crossing determined her laptop a threat to be neutralized.

In a blog post titled "I’m sorry but we blew up your laptop (welcome to Israel)," she details the unnerving experience, which left three bullet holes in her laptop:

"I was sitting on the deck overlooking the Red Sea. Israeli security officers (most who looked around 18 years old) had completed around two hours of questioning and searching me. They asked me tons of questions… and quizzed me on Judaism, which I know nothing about.

"Then they asked me to wait," she writes. "Since they had asked for friends and families phone numbers I assumed they might be calling to verify my answers to questions or confirm I really had extended family in Tel Aviv. An announcement played over the sound system, interrupting my break in the sunshine. First in Hebrew, then Arabic, then in English. It was something along the lines of, 'do not to be alarmed by gunshots because the Israeli security needs to blow up suspicious passenger's luggage.”

"I went inside to check on my bag. I had left it unattended, where they instructed. It was still there so I went back outside. [Breathtaking stupidity-VB]

The laptop, added Sussman, contained all of her work, pictures and music files – "Years of work"; adding that in no stage of the event did any of the security officers ask her to access the computer or give them the passwords.

"Was it my peeling Arabic stickers on the keyboard? Or something else during the questioning which set them off?" she wondered.

Read more at YNet.

Hefetz hashood= luggage left unattended will be blown up.