9/11 WTC bombing Terrorist suspect who was released without being charged, has been rearrested. Faisal Mostafa was under guise owning a Charity Worker Orphanage

UPDATE: Faisal Mostafa, of Stockport, Greater Manchester, who was acquitted in 2002 of being part of an al-Qaeda bomb plot, was arrested on Wednesday night in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, an officer said.

Captain Shafiul Alam, of the elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), told The Times that Dr Mostafa, 45, who has a chemistry degree and a PhD in metals corrosion, was detained along with his “agent”, a Bangladeshi citizen. “They are charged with illegally keeping arms, explosive and ammunition, and with militancy and terrorism.”

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A British charity worker twice cleared of terror charges in this country is being hunted in Bangladesh after explosives were seized at an orphanage he founded.
Security forces there claimed last night that the orphanage set up by Dr Faisal Mostafa, from Stockport, was in fact an arms factory and terrorist training camp.
Mostafa ran Green Crescent, a charity that provided humanitarian aid to families in Bangladesh and Pakistan.

The Charity Commission, which awarded it charity status in 2004, last night launched an inquiry. Its chief executive, Andrew Hind, said: ‘The matter is of serious concern to us.’Mostafa, who has a PhD in chemistry from Manchester Polytechnic, was known to security forces in Britain, having been cleared of conspiracy to cause explosions with intent to endanger life at Birmingham Crown Court in 2002.

Six years earlier, he had been cleared at Manchester Crown Court of involvement in a bomb plot campaign.In July last year he was caught at Manchester Airport trying to board a plane to Bangladesh with a pistol and bullet parts in his luggage.The father-of-three was given a suspended sentence. On Monday Bangladeshi security forces raided the orphanage Mostafa set up and the attached Muslim school on the remote island of Bhola in South Bangladesh.

In July last year he was caught at Manchester Airport trying to board a plane to Bangladesh with a pistol and bullet parts in his luggage.

The father-of-three was given a suspended sentence. On Monday Bangladeshi security forces raided the orphanage Mostafa set up and the attached Muslim school on the remote island of Bhola in South Bangladesh.

Lieutenant Colonel Munir Haque, from the Rapid Action Battalion, said: ‘We found small arms about nine or 10 in total plus equipment to make small arms, about 3,000 rounds of ammunition, two walkie-talkies, two remote control devices and four sets of army uniforms.

From a delighted AP:

Iowa Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage, making state first in heartland to do so

By Amy Lorentzen

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s Supreme Court legalized gay marriage Friday in a unanimous and emphatic decision that makes Iowa the third state – and first in the nation’s heartland – to allow same-sex couples to wed.

Iowa joins only Massachusetts and Connecticut in permitting same-sex marriage. For six months last year, California’s high court allowed gay marriage before voters banned it in November.

The Iowa justices upheld a lower-court ruling that rejected a state law restricting marriage to a union between a man and woman.

The county attorney who defended the law said he would not seek a rehearing. The only recourse for opponents appeared to be a constitutional amendment, which could take years to ratify.

“We are firmly convinced the exclusion of gay and lesbian people from the institution of civil marriage does not substantially further any important governmental objective,” the Supreme Court wrote.

Iowa lawmakers have “excluded a historically disfavored class of persons from a supremely important civil institution without a constitutionally sufficient justification.”

To issue any other decision, the justices said, “would be an abdication of our constitutional duty.”

The Iowa attorney general’s office said gay and lesbian couples can seek marriage licenses starting April 24, once the ruling is considered final.

Des Moines attorney Dennis Johnson, who represented gay and lesbian couples, said “this is a great day for civil rights in Iowa.”

At a news conference announcing the decision, he thanked the plaintiffs and said, “Go get married, live happily ever after, live the American dream.”

Plaintiff Kate Varnum, 34, introduced her partner, Trish Varnum, as “my fiance.”

“I never thought I’d be able to say that,” she said, fighting back tears.

Jason Morgan, 38, said he and his partner, Chuck Swaggerty, adopted two sons, confronted the death of Swaggerty’s mother and endured a four-year legal battle as plaintiffs.

“If being together though all of that isn’t love and commitment or isn’t family or marriage, then I don’t know what is,” Morgan said. “We are very happy with the decision today and very proud to live in Iowa.”

In its ruling, the Supreme Court upheld an August 2007 decision by a judge who found that a state law limiting marriage to a man and a woman violates the constitutional rights of equal protection.

The Polk County attorney’s office claimed that Judge Robert Hanson’s ruling violated the separation of powers and said the issue should be left to the Legislature. …

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/s.....Y_MARRIAGE

Really, I’m surprised the Obama Administration hasn’t legalized this nationwide by federal dictate yet.

From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:

Doyle proposes loosening rules of W-2 program

By Steve Schultze

Gov. Jim Doyle wants an overhaul of the state’s landmark W-2 program – a proposal that’s provoking sharply different reactions.

Advocates for the poor see the changes Doyle included in his 2009-’11 budget as a long-overdue loosening of stringent rules that discouraged clients, while others said the revisions would gut the welfare reform program that was supposed to be only a temporary way station for down-on-their-luck families.

The governor’s plan would loosen the time limit on benefits in the Wisconsin Works program; grant mothers of newborns up to 24 weeks of paid leave; and ease penalties for program infractions. Doyle would also allow participants to spend more time in school while collecting benefits.

“It really seems we’re going backwards,” said state Rep. Robin Vos (R-Caledonia).

Doyle’s plan could return the program to more of what welfare was like before the launch of W-2, Vos said. The looser rules could encourage “a considerable number of people to stay on the dole” for extended periods, he said.

But W-2 client advocates heralded the changes, saying the program enacted under Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson often treated clients unfairly and forced them out of the program before they received the job training they needed.

State Rep. Tamara Grigsby (D-Milwaukee) welcomed the changes but said they didn’t go far enough.

“They are a positive first step in what is, in my opinion, a fundamentally flawed program,” said Grigsby, chairwoman of the Assembly Committee on Children and Families. The revisions are especially important as the recession deepens and likely boosts caseloads, she said.

The changes are aimed at reducing administrative time spent monitoring rule compliance and increasing the effectiveness of training for W-2 clients, said Erika Monroe-Kane, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Children and Families.

The revisions should increase flexibility in the program, but also impose key accountability measures, Monroe-Kane said. For example, even though the governor is seeking to do away with benefit cuts for missing work or training appointments, he’s also creating a new rule that allows participants to be kicked out of the program.

The program pays participants up to $673 a month and also provides child-care aid. …

http://www.jsonline.com/news/w.....67232.html

So “Wisconsin Works” goes back to “Wisconsin sits on its fat butt and gets paid to do so.”

Not to mention to reproduce as much as possible:

Six months of benefits for mothers of newborns without training or work requirements, double the current paid pregnancy leave in the program. Monroe-Kane said the newborn caretaker benefit expansion was important for family stability during “a very sensitive period.” Vos said it was overly generous, far greater than what most private employers allow. The governor also is proposing to waive work requirements for W-2 women with problem pregnancies during the three months before a baby is born.

So if you have a baby while on welfare you get six months of free cash without having to do anything, and of course more money because you’ve now got a child to support.

Ka-ching!

However, that being said, I am counting the minutes until we hear the first “Ban the Guns!” trash coming out from those who will use this horrible event to further their stupid cause.

We know it’s coming. Its just about how fast.

As we all know, “Never waste a good crisis” Their words not ours.

So very sad. For the innocent and even for the guy who for what ever reason “lost it”. He’s been a working stiff until layoffs came, so who knows why he did it. I can’t say.

But we law abiding stable people who don’t use our guns to kill others out of frustration will have one more hurdle to clear in keeping our arms due to this.

Watch! It’s just a matter of time.

At least 12 people, gunman dead in New York shootings
A lone gunman killed at least 12 people and himself Friday in an immigration

The gunman carried identification that said he was 42 and from upstate New York, the official said…
The shootings began about 10:30 a.m. ET at the American Civic Association, which helps immigrants and refugees, a law enforcement source said.
More than a dozen people were wounded, and 20 to 40 people may have been taken hostage, the source said…
The American Civic Association helps immigrants and refugees with a number of issues, including personal counseling, resettlement, citizenship and reunification, and provides interpreters and translators, according to the United Way of Broome County, which is affiliated with the association…

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/.....index.html

I don’t condone killing, I really don’t. But there are people who are sick to death of this nation’s immigrant problem, and it will be interesting to learn what the shooter was angry about.

Because my friends, I can’t say that I blame that anger.

From WRAL:

Superintendent: ‘Will of voters has been ignored’

RALEIGH, N.C. — Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson sued the State Board of Education and Gov. Beverly Perdue on Friday, challenging the constitutionality of state government actions that she claims have taken away much of her power.

The suit, which she had hinted at for several weeks, is an attempt to regain Atkinson’s authority as chief administrative officer of North Carolina’s public schools.

…The Board of Education and state lawmakers have been chipping away at the authority of the superintendent’s position for years, and the last straw for Atkinson came in January, when Gov. Beverly Perdue said she wanted her choice for chairman of the board to become chief executive officer of the schools as well.

…Perdue said she wanted to consolidate power so that she and her appointees would become ultimately responsible for the state’s nearly 1.5 million-student system. She said Atkinson would remain an “ambassador” for the schools.

http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/4881269/

The odd thing is that both Perdue and Atkinson are Democrats. I guess not even allies will prevent a Democratic power grab. I can see the motto now “Bigger Government is Smaller Government.” Very Orwellian. And since when can we leave it up to the people to elect people to make decisions. Shouldn’t that all be up to the entrenched oligoarchy that has been controlling the state for over 100 years (there have been only three Republican Governors since 1877).

Not to mention that most of the food scares were shams and never definitively proved to be true. Besides the answer was/is so simple, WASH YOUR FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. Sheesh!

We are being soo duped.

Yes – if you look at the bible or simply stay secular – both books on armageddon, end of the world, WWII – all talk about this One World Domination arena. We are on the brink of One Global World – which either (religious or secular) way is the beginning of the end.

Personally I’d like to stop this train before we get to the socialist station – much less the OneGlobal World stop – who do we get to run the World:
Obama? The UN? Soros?

They are working right now to take over as much as the World as they can – We need to stop them now.

I can’t think of any place more likely to be Hell than SF!

Can you imagine, as a (straight) conservative with common sense, any place to live that would be more likely to fit that discription?

Yuk!

Obama’s $163,000 Tax Bomb
Families well below the president’s ‘no-tax’ threshold will get a six-figure bill.

The House and Senate are preparing to pass President Barack Obama’s radical budget blueprint, with only minor modifications, by using (abusing would be more accurate) the budget “reconciliation” process. This process circumvents the Senate’s normal rules requiring 60 votes to prevent a filibuster. Reconciliation was created by Congress in the mid-1970s to enforce deficit reduction, the opposite of what the president and his party are aiming for.
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And all this before dealing with the looming Medicare and Social Security cost explosion.
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We can get a rough idea of who is likely to pay them by distributing this $6.5 trillion of future taxes according to the most recent distribution of income-tax burdens. We know the top 1% or 5% of income-taxpayers pay vastly disproportionate shares of taxes, and much larger shares than their shares of income. But it also turns out that Mr. Obama’s massive additional debt implies a tax hike, if paid today, of well over $100,000 for people with incomes of $150,000, far below Mr. Obama’s tax-hike cut-off of $250,000. (With interest, the tax hike would rise to more than $162,000 in 10 years, and over $20,000 a year if paid annually the following 10 years). In other words, a middle-aged two-career couple in New York or California could get a future tax bill as big as their mortgage.
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These deficits are so large for a prosperous nation in peacetime — three times safe levels — that they would cause the debt burden to soar toward banana republic levels. That’s a recipe for a permanent drag on growth and serious pressure on the Federal Reserve to inflate, not the new era of rising prosperity that Mr. Obama and his advisers foresee.

http://online.wsj.com/article/.....84927.html

It’s a complicated article…..but there is a table that calculates the average hit per family at $163,000.

(Note that the author uses the same technique to predict the impact that I often advocate here…..look at what you pay annually today, and then multiply that sum by the new debt divided by the total annual income taxes paid today.)

Also note that this is JUST FOR THE NEW BUDGET. It doesn’t include any additional spending for Social Security or Medicare, and it accepts the CBO’s budget figures, which are certainly low. The numbers also assume continuing low interest rates.

The true number is probably 2 to 5 times as much as $163,000. I will be shocked if the average hit to an average family from Obama’s policies is less than $500,000 over the next 10 years. Yes, I mean that. It will force many into poverty.

And that doesn’t count what you have lost in your retirement accounts and home values. By the way, the loss in your retirement accounts is much worse than you think. Everything you had there was tax free until you withdraw it…..but you will never be able to replace it because of IRA contribution limits…..so to replace the true value will take highly taxed dollars. To replace a $100,000 IRA loss, you will probably have to earn $150,000 or more.

The Moron is going to bring you down to the level of his brothers living in South Chicago. He calls it “justice”.

Of course, his uber-wealthy puppet master won’t be touched, and the brothers living in South Chicago will get what you give.

Well, a big part of the Dem’s philosophy is that you always get exemptions for YOURself.

Witness: Geithner, Daschle, Seibulus, Obamy, Dodd, Reid, and on and on and on.

The law simply doesn’t apply to ME. Isn’t that what freedom is really all about?