Obama administration continues policy of extra-judicial assasination of suspects

Wall Street Journal

Airborne U.S. Special Operations forces attacked a car in southern Somalia on Monday and killed one of east Africa’s most wanted al Qaeda militants, a U.S. official said.

The commandos, among the most elite and secretive of all U.S. military forces, had spent days tracking Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, who is suspected of building the truck bomb that killed 15 people at a Kenyan hotel in 2002, as well as involvement in a simultaneous, botched missile launch at an Israeli airliner, the official said.

The strike represented an unusually high-profile assault by the covert American forces, whose activities are highly classified and whose operations — whether successes or failures — rarely take place in public view.

A Somali government official said Mr. Nabhan was in a car with other insurgents from the al Shabab rebel group when they were hit in Barawe District, some 150 miles south of the capital, Mogadishu. The troops took the body, along with two other men wounded in the attack, into custody. A U.S. official said they were confident the body was that of Mr. Nabhan.

A witness, Dahir Ahmed, said the helicopters took off from a warship flying a French flag, but that account couldn’t be confirmed. French military spokesman Christophe Prazuck denied the attack was a French operation. “They are not French helicopters,” he said.

Somalia’s United Nations-backed government, with support from African Union peacekeepers, holds only a few blocks of Mogadishu, and its military doesn’t have helicopters or other modern equipment.

The U.S. strongly backs Somalia’s beleaguered regime, led by President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, who has positioned himself as a moderate capable of uniting the country’s factions. Since coming to power in January, the regime has been besieged by the al Shabab militia, a loose coalition of Islamist militants and other extremists seeking to topple the government and impose a strict form of Islam in Somalia. The U.S. has designated al Shabab a terrorist organization.

The conflict in Somalia is characterized by shifting alliances. The president, Mr. Ahmed, was once a member of a radical Islamist government that held power briefly in 2006; al Shabab was that government’s armed wing.

Mogadishu sees near-daily battles between government and insurgent forces. Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed. Western security agencies say the failed Horn of Africa state has become a safe haven for militants, including foreign jihadists, who use it to plot attacks in the region and beyond.

Mr. Nabhan, who has long been on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Most Wanted list, is believed to have fled to Somalia after the 2002 bombing of a Israeli-owned Kenyan beach hotel.

In May last year, U.S. warplanes killed the then-leader of al Shabab, Afghan-trained Aden Hashi Ayro, in an attack on the central town of Dusamareb.

—Yochi J. Dreazen contributed to this article.Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page A11

Is Glenn Beck really that dumb?

… Or are Beck’s puppet-masters deliberately making a mockery of his audience?

There must have been someone in Beck’s marketing agency who could have told him that the quote used to sell this book is actually an insult to all the “non-thinking” people who watch his show and would-be readers of his book.

Beck’s antics are so comical, so over-the-top, that I have to wonder if his New World Order bosses are saying “We know you’re too stupid to comprehend this sentence.”  They love rubbing our noses in their power.

Or maybe Beck is surrounded by yes-men and idiots.  Either way, something is terribly wrong here.

So Glenn says what people who don’t think think?

And this coopted right-wing “9-12 project” smacks of all the “post-9/11 everything changed” dogma.

Never forget: Thermate residue was found under WTC 1, 2, and 7

Read more about Thermite/Thermate’s use by the US Military for controlled demolition

Never forget: Rumsfeld said “shot down the plane over Pennsylvania”

Never forget: No plane hit this building

More about the controlled demolition of wtc7…

Never forget: Bush said he saw the first plane crash on TV

This video shows Bush admiting that he watched the 1st plane hit the 1st tower live BEFORE going into the Florida classroom, where the official story says he first learned of the attacks.

Rep. Wilson is Right – Government Will Provide Obamacare to Illegals

Kurt Nimmo
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Last night, in the middle of Obama’s corporate media prime-time address on health care, South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson accused Obama of lying about illegals and health care. Wilson made his accusation after Obama pointed at the Republican side of the aisle and criticized them for opposing the government plan during his speech to a joint session of Congress.

Democrats have called for disciplinary action against Wilson, even though he quickly backed down, apologized for his outburst, and went so far as to scrape and grovel before White House Chief of Staff and political enforcer Rahm Emanuel.

For Democrats, this was not enough. “There’ll be time enough to consider whether or not we ought to make it clear that that action is unacceptable in the House of Representatives,” said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.

“It’s time for us to talk about health care, not Mr. Wilson,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Indeed, it is time to talk about the government’s plan to take over health care, as Pelosi suggests.

Early last month, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee defeated an amendment which would have excluded illegal aliens from Obama’s totalitarian health care bill. The Democrat-dominated committee voted 23-18 to defeat the measure introduced by Rep. Dean Heller (R-NV), which would have required the use of the existing Income and Eligibility Verification System and the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements System before care is dispensed.

In other words, there would be no way to verify the citizenship of those seeking care under Obama’s government plan.

CNN reported last month the Congressional Research Service, the nonpartisan policy research arm of Congress, found that without a citizenship verification system illegal aliens would receive subsidies. Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, told CNN the report “undermines the claims of the president and others that illegal immigrants would not be covered under the House version of the bill.”

“Democrats can keep claiming all they want that illegal immigrants will not be covered in this bill. But their actions speak louder than their words. Democrats have rejected opportunities to close the gaping loopholes in this health care bill that will allow illegal immigrants to participate,” House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lamar Smith said after the CRS report was released. “If President Obama is committed to ensuring that illegal immigrants do not benefit from the bill – as he says he is – why not include the same verification mechanisms in this bill as already exist for other federal benefits programs?”

In addition, undocumented immigrants who live in the United States for a certain period of time during the year would be classified as residents and would meet the substantial presence test required under HR 3200 to have health insurance, according to the report.

Pelosi said Wilson’s outburst during Obama’s speech shows the “bankruptcy” of Republicans’ ideas on health care, the Washington Post reports.

In fact, it shows how the Democrats in league with the corporate media are attempting to ram Obama’s totalitarian health care plan down the throat of the American people and stifle opposition.

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It’s also worth noting that, according to Raw Story, congressman Joe Wilson got $240,000 from the health industry http://rawstory.com/08/news/20…..y-darling/

Damned if you do… damned if you don’t

Never Forget: FEMA arrived the night before

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Tom Kennedy, a spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) “National Urban Search and Rescue Team” during an interview on national TV with CBS News anchor Dan Rather, Mr. Kennedy let slip a frightening truth: FEMA sent the Urban Search and Rescue Team to New York City the night before the attacks occurred!

Mr. Kennedy tells Dan Rather, “We’re currently one of the first teams that was deployed to support the City of New York in this disaster. We arrived on late Monday night (note: Monday was September 10) and went right into action on Tuesday morning”