Nigeria Busts Iranian Terror Cell
February 21, 2013 17:20 by Pesach Benson
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Today’s Top Stories
1. Nigerian security forces busted an Iranian-backed terror cell targeting Israelis and Americans. The Times of Nigeria had the most detailed coverage.
He confessed that his Iranian sponsors requested that he identifies and gathers intelligence on public places and prominent hotels frequented by Americans and Israelis to facilitate attacks.
He was also to provide specific details of targets including organizations like USAID, Max, Zim International Shipping Company, AA Consulting, Peace Corps and the Jewish Cultural centre [Chabad] in Lagos.
2. Egypt Floods Smuggling Tunnels With Sewage. Imagine the stink if Israel did it? Nah Imagine the Palestinian outrage if Hamas’ forgiving response was applied to the Jewish state:
After the sewage flooding, several Hamas officials instead emphasized Egypt’s right to protect its borders as it chose.
3. NY Daily News reporter Dan Friedman says he was unwitting source of false rumors that Chuck Hagel spoke to a group called “Friends of Hamas.”
In the process, I became part of an inadvertent demonstration of how quickly partisan agendas and the Internet can transform an obvious joke into a Washington talking point used by senators and presidential wannabes . . .
I am, it seems, the creator of the Friends of Hamas myth. Doing my job, I erred in counting on confidentiality and the understanding that my example was farcical — and by assuming no one would print an unchecked rumor.
Fabricating “Friends of Hamas” is something Friedman has to own. Passing the buck back to the source who (purposely? inadvertently?) leaked the fabrication is a bit of a stretch. I liked how James Taranto explained why:
Friedman commits a category error in assuming that his source is obliged to keep his question confidential. The ethical rules governing confidentiality of sources are rules of journalistic ethics, which is to say that they govern the behavior of journalists, not sources.
Israel and the Palestinians
• Boorish bigotry and the suppression of free speech reared its head in Britain. First, the Jewish Chronicle reports that an Israeli diplomat was forced out of a speaking engagement at Essex University. Pro-Palestinian students were so disruptive, security officers evacuated the deputy ambassador.
And then George Galloway stormed out of a debate (watch the video) when he discovered that the student he was up against is an Israeli citizen. The New Statesman describes the walkout’s fallout:
Aslan-Levy later said that it was “pure racism” to refuse to talk to someone based on their nationality. Galloway spent much of yesterday evening defending his decision on Twitter, responding to accusations of xenophobia and racisim.
The Daily Mail, among others, picked up on the Respect MP’s oafish exit.
• Heh: The Jerusalem Post reports that Fatah’s going bonkers over reports that Israel’s indirectly discussing November’s cease fire with Hamas.
Muheissen said that only the PLO was authorized to conduct such negotiations in its capacity as the “sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.”
Funny that they only feels threatened now that Israel may actually be engaging Hamas. Where was when Fatah when Big Media was saying Hamas is legitimate, moderate, and cannot be ignored?
- Syrian rebels say they’re shelling Hezbollah in Lebanon.
- Iran installs advanced enrichment equipment at nuke site
- Did Syria shoot down an Israeli drone?
TIRDAD GHARIB
6:32 pm
Feb 21, 2013
MY DEAR FELLOW AMERICANS MY DEAR FELLOWS.. IRANS REGIME CAN NEVER BE TRUSTED WE MUST STOP IRANS REGIME TO OBTAIN NUKES ISRAEL IS AMERICAS BEST ALLY ON TERRORISM -
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shane comeback
11:19 pm
Feb 21, 2013
Very true my friend.
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Rocky Lee
7:28 pm
Feb 21, 2013
barry soetoro AKA Obama is so clearly not just a globalist but a closet Muslim that Israel must be ready to act alone. The US will be at war in Korea before a year passes and will not have resources to help Israel. How do you like the “change” now?
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Asher Garber
5:39 pm
Feb 23, 2013
Thank you, Rocky, for providing proof to my assertions down below. You aren’t really a fan of Israel because of a historical understanding. You are only here to bash our President. Which you’re allowed to do, I guess, but the hyperbolic whaa-whaa you bring only makes this website look foolish.
Think twice, HR. This attitude will only scar you.
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Rocky Lee
10:53 am
Feb 24, 2013
You make only yourself the fool. As for the President, he bashes himself with every move he makes to weaken both the US and Israel financially. I have risked my life for both countries. I doubt you can say the same. From Iraq we found the Iranians fabricating missiles from North Korean made equipment to North Korean design. I say again this President is purposely weakening the US so the US military can only fight a single campaign at a time. The one of his choice will be N. Korea and this will leave Israel at the mercy of Iran and Iraq, Shiite and Sunni separately from the south with Hezbollah waiting to strike from the north.
As for history I know more than you ever will. I made some of it
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R_not
7:37 pm
Feb 21, 2013
I don’t understand why there isn’t a groundswelling of Europe and the UK’s citizenry to counter the jihad movement just as there is in the USA with groups such as Act for America. WHY!?!?!? And I just can’t figure out why any religious leader would be a useful idiot for islam with these interfaith dialogs. It, to me, is just mindboggling. I guess the ‘feel good’ feeling they get when thinking that they can change something that is so obviously NOT changing – … well, here is where I am speechless. I just can’t figure it out.
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Irwin Weisberg`
8:00 pm
Feb 21, 2013
About Egypt flooding the smuggling tunnels with sewage, I can only say, “Ashes to ashes and dreck to dreck.”
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Joel Silbert
2:13 am
Feb 23, 2013
GIGO—-garbage in…garbage out!
First positive thing I have heard since the Arab Spring!
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emes
12:27 am
Feb 22, 2013
Galloway doesn’t even have respect for himself – he is confused with his own mantle of the “respect party” which conflicts whether to respect Jews and Israel, because you can’t separate the soul of a Jew from Israel, or be torn with confusion by going with his vile bias which means he talks out of both sides of his mouth, or with forked tongue as the case may be. So he should change the name of his party with an added “NO” as a prefix. – In all honesty, after that episode of himself emulating a paw-licking cat, on the lowest of low TV programme, can anyone regard this fool with courtesy let alone invite him to any erudite discussions. The man is a bloated nazi, more BNP than Respect.
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Jeffrey
1:55 pm
Feb 22, 2013
George Galloway supports an immediate Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank. A few years ago Fatah said that they would regard a unilateral Israeli withdrawal as an act of war. This is the same George Galloway who was arrested in Egypt after he tried to enter Gaza from the Egyptian side because he was too ignorant to know that the Egypt / Gaza border was closed. Does this man actually know anything about the Palestinians?
Incidentally, if he is a Palestinian citizen as stated, then why is he allowed to sit as a British MP? Surely a case of dual loyalties. However, as Palestine is not actually a state, how can anyone have citizenship. He has got me as confused as he is.
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Moll
1:34 am
Feb 23, 2013
RE: Dan Friedman, as author of rumor-mongering, it should be noted that he works for the largest myth-tical manufacturer in the 21st Century, the NYT. So, his starting a rumour, he now MUST assume responsibility for “the feathers he turned loose and now MUST collect”.
RE: Geo. Galloway’s behavior, he is a ‘has-been’. Just stand aside & observe his fall! The ancient prophets wrote that ‘how the gentile treated the jew is what will boomerang back on the gentile’s head’ (Obadiah 1:15). Watch it happen. Check-out his financial, emotional, mental stability.
RE: Egypt flooding the Rafah tunnels with sewage — states the obvious — terrorism & terrorists, stink.
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Asher Garber
5:35 pm
Feb 23, 2013
Sorry, HR, but if you’re going to rely on fools like Ben Shapiro to give you a balanced perspective of American politics and its stance with Israel (or anything, really) then you need to start heading in a different direction. The Not-So Breitbarters really aren’t anything more than hate mongers in their own right. When you cater to all things pro-Israel, you have to be aware that some of the info is coming from folks who support Israel only because the supporters actually don’t like Arabs (or Obama, or whatever their target).
As you know, journalism doesn’t equate truth. Agendas run amok in all directions. The quick and easy answer is to stay away from Ben Shapiro.
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batya dagan
11:37 pm
Feb 24, 2013
Who takes Galloway seriously? A clown with half a brain is here for entertainment not for real
politics.It is hard to laugh at his shticks but it is the best we can give this pathetic antisemite who runs a circus in his head and thinks that what he says has any value what so ever.
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