And here i thought that Al-Qeada was defunct, I mean, Obama said so!
From the Telegraph:
Al-Qaeda commander behind Algeria gas plant attack ‘killed in Mali’
The al-Qaeda commander who masterminded an attack on a gas plant in Algeria has been killed, it was claimed on Saturday night.
A Chad military spokesman said Mokhtar Belmokhtar, one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, died on Saturday in an assault on an Islamist rebel base in northern Mali.
Belmokhtar was at the centre of an international manhunt after at least 37 foreign hostages, including six Britons, were killed in a siege at the In Amenas gas complex in eastern Algeria last January.
In a statement read out on Chadian national television, Gen Zacharia Gobongue, the armed forces spokesman, said: “On Saturday, March 2, at noon, Chadian armed forces operating in northern Mali completely destroyed a terrorist base. The toll included several dead terrorists, including their leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar.”
The French military, which is leading the offensive in northern Mali assisted by several African nations, said it could not confirm the report.
Belmokhtar, 40, who headed a militant brigade called Witnesses in Blood, became one of the world’s most wanted men after the gas complex, operated by BP together with Norway’s Statoil and Sonatrach, Algeria’s state energy company, was attacked by gunmen on Jan 16.
Belmokhtar’s death, if confirmed, would be a major blow to Islamist rebels in northern Mali who have been pushed into their mountain strongholds by French and African forces. The Algerian-born Belmokhtar, linked to a string of kidnappings in North Africa in the past decade, had been dubbed “the uncatchable” by the French.
He is said to have become attracted to Islamism as a teenage schoolboy, travelling to Afghanistan at the end of the war against the Soviets in the early 1990s.
This launched him on a two-decade career of Islamic militancy, initially as a member of Algeria’s Islamic Armed Group (GIA) in the country’s civil war. He then became a joint founder of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), which extended its attacks against security forces into countries along the southern fringe of the Sahara. He lost his left eye while handling explosives in the 1990s fighting Algerian government troops as head of the Shahada Katibat [Martyrs Battallion] in the Sahara.
The GSPC later took up the franchise of al-Qaeda’s North Africa wing, under the name al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Belmokhtar headed one of two AQIM battalions in Algeria’s southern desert bordering Mali.
Belmokhtar was sentenced by an Algerian court to life imprisonment in absentia in connection with the killing of 10 Algerian customs agents in 2007.
His reputation as a “gangster-jihadist” involved in arms and cigarette smuggling earned him the nickname “Mister Malboro” among locals in the Sahara.
One less LGF account.
Can we say “Vive la France!”?
We need some more 300 bowlers out there.
Macker wrote:
Certainement!
http://www.bluestatedigital.com/
@ darkwords:
I wonder if those donations have been audited to see if they were all legal?
It’s business as usual in DC. No Republican machine is targeting the left in the next election. The Democrats have groups of people out organizing to win today and tomorrow.
Parents tell me that “Bel-” is Algerian-Arabic for “The People Of -”. So this kook was calling himself “The Chosen One of the Chosen People”.
His people chose… poorly.
darkwords wrote:
One Party takes pride in having no principles while the other Party runs from their principles. There is no ‘Republican machine’ worthy of the name. The GOPee is afraid to fight the D’Rats for fear of being call bad names by the state controlled lame stream obamamedia. There is little to look forward to thanks to a gutless GOPee leadership that’s afraid of its own shadow.
After Romney was called a felon & a killer of a woman
the Repulicans should have gone to Defcon 1.
It should have ben total war, but it wasn’t.
Did anyone else see the shootout goal that Patrick Kane just scored?
Yowza!
I have Islam fatigue, BO fatigue, dysfunctional govt fatigue…somethings gotta give
@ darkwords:
That was a rhetorical question, right?
@ Da_Beerfreak:
And the Dems aren’t slowing down a bit in their bid to create a one-party state:
Good thing we’re not broke or anything…
@ lobo91:
Well than God the Muslim Brotherhood won’t suffer because of
the Sequester.
Obama has his priorities straight & has the best interest of
the American people as his goal./
Re: His reputation as a “gangster-jihadist” involved in arms and cigarette smuggling earned him the nickname “Mister Malboro” among locals in the Sahara.
this should be well noted… we have had local “shop keepers” around here busted for raising money for jihadists… bootlegs smokes are popular, but so are drugs (yes pot too) gambling (yes the football pool) and and prostitution (don’t pet that goat)… chances are if you do something not quite legal the muzz gets paid.
Yes that means the 5 dollar CD of the movie you just bought.
lobo91 wrote:
well not so fast… the Government of the United States as it is, is Barack, Harry & Nancy. If you are not supporting you are undermining so there is truth to that.
RIX wrote:
He is a radical muslim. There I said it. The sooner you and everyone else dose the sooner this madness stops.
@ brookly red:
And that is the problem. Most on the left actually believe that.
The government of the United States is the Constitution, not whatever individuals happen to hold office at a given moment.
lobo91 wrote:
It gets even better.
US pledges $450m to back Egypt’s faltering economy
lobo91 wrote:
as far as I am concerned the “officials” in office became illegitimate when they disregarded their oath to uphold the Constitution.
I am a Yankee from New York City and I can see this. Where are the Southern statesmen I was so assured did exist?
@ Da_Beerfreak:
I like the way they characterize all this money as “loans,” as if the Egyptians are ever going to repay any of it.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
note the opposition leaders did not attend by choice.
lobo91 wrote:
fuck the dems didn’t even pave the electric bill for their convention
@ brookly red:
If Obama has a Muslim prayer room in the White House , it
wouldn’t matter. His backers & the MSM would just like him more.
They would see him as expanding his oppressed status.
I don’t know that BHO is an actual Muslim, but he was in Jakarta.
What is clear is that is where his sympathies are
Meanwhile, the left’s takeover of the Supreme Court is nearly complete:
RIX wrote:
indeed. I don’t know that the girl next door is a Girl Scout… but I do know she is selling the cookies.
lobo91 wrote:
I don’t recognize their authority, I do recognize the authority of Congress. For now.
Not a bad analogy.
RIX wrote:
Dude. if it has 4 legs and a tail and barks it is a freakin dog.
@ lobo91:
Too bad the Liberals don’t believe in history, if they did someone might remember what the SCOUS Dred Scott decision did to the Country.
It long past time to revoke the “Consent of the governed” from this illegitimate regime.
@ lobo91:
Those two are a couple of boorish cretins.
I don’t believe that either Kagan orv Sotomayor are committed
to the rule of law, but to their snooty agenda.
Kagan should have recused herself from the ObamaCare case,
since she had shilled for it.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
I do not consent. Where do I sign?
@ Da_Beerfreak:
They’re desperate to keep Section 5 of the VRA in place, because it guarantees that all those gerrymandered black majority districts can never be changed.
Just another piece of the fraud puzzle.
RIX wrote:
you must wake up now…
But if it has flippers it’s a seal.
@ RIX:
That’s how they got the jobs.
@ brookly red:
I do know who these people are. The majority of the voters either
ignore it or approve.
lobo91 wrote:
“Wise Latina” was a heads up.
lobo91 wrote:
funny, I dabble in real estate and in NY they are all freaking out because the demographics are changing. … Harlem,Bed Stuy, and Bushwick, long icons of the Black community are being “gentrified” …
Odd they are trying to take Texas… we are buying Harlem. The Sword cuts both ways.
@ RIX:
So were Obama’s comments about how he was going to look for “empathy” when picking judicial nominees, rather than commitment to the rule of law.
Too bad nobody in the Senate was listening.
RIX wrote:
well I think that was a response to Dominican aka dumb in a can.
@ brookly red:
Not really. You’re talking about white liberals pushing out blacks.
Won’t make any real difference electorally.
brookly red wrote:
We’re both in very Blue States so we’re basically SOL.
It will be the job of the Red States to reform DC Town.
@ 15 lobo91: Isn’t there a head start program in LA that wants that Egyptian aid money? Total disconnect at the elite level.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
“We had to destroy the village in order to save it”
//
lobo91 wrote:
Maybe, the new inhabitants are very much (European & Asian) immigrants who can’t vote. So much for Gerry Mandering.
and btw Gerry is a not so flattering term for German so I call Raaaaacist on the Dems.
@ 22 brookly red:
The south is an actual place, North, East, and West are just directions. (plagiarized from some Southern Twitter belle this AM)
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
It is the job of every American, if you are not up for the task, I understand.
This guy isn the post American President.
He lacks allegiance to our founding documents or his
country.
darkwords wrote:
Damn Skippy so what you gonna do?
@ brookly red:
Imagine if Alito had described himself as a “Wise Caucasion” prior to
his cofirmation hearings>
the Progressives would have gone seriously bat shit.
@ 52 brookly red: The grassroots plan.
1. Advocate to the mayor to fight pollution instead of global warming.
2. Advocate to the school board that all schools need armed protection. Now. Get the request on record
3. Chide the local GoP into realizing they are out of date.
4. Ask for civility in the city.
5. Document the leftist underpinnings of the social justice movement.
6. Start talking in the local libertarian group about how small government can defeat large government corruption.
Libs love Blacks in the abstract, in the real world not so much.
Later Gators.
RIX wrote:
well there is a poetic justice here…
I don’t worry I make 2 camps. Those who fear the Lord and those who don’t. Not my place to judge, not my job to fix. Here it comes.
seems to me American Indians could use a bit of a windfall, like their cousins in the Amazon basin…there are people that for one reason or another are hurting…peaceful folks trying to preserve their lifestyle and their heritage…but they mean nothing…we give money to dysfunctional third world countries that hate us…we are dangerously becoming a major player in hate, murder and mayhem, creating more and worse problems than we hope to solve…these Muslim creeps create their own problems and we pay them for it…if I were a fed tax payer I’d be furious, livid, pissed, and above all, feel betrayed…the US does not help to spread freedom anymore…we pay graft, both parties
brookly red wrote:
No. I don’t think you do understand. Only the States working together will have the needed power to force reform on the Fools in DC Town. Picture something similar to to the Barons (States) forcing King James (DC Town) to accept the Magna Carta (the US Constitution) to see what I’m talking about when I say it’s going to take the States acting together to make things change. We the people can only work on this through our own States, it’s the only way we can combine our power for change.
darkwords wrote:
whatever, that was good 20 years ago. They put the blood of innocents on the alter. There is no political solution and there never was.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
we tried that once before
RIX wrote:
It doesn’t matter where in the World his Old Lady popped him out, he is not and never will be an American, he doesn’t have the spirit of America in his heart.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Exactly
RIX wrote:
She recused herself from some other case (I forget which) in order to pre-emptively “prove” she knew when to recuse herself and insulate herself from criticism for not doing so on Obamacare.
Just wait until she declares same-sex marriage the law of the land on “equal protection” grounds this Spring, as the White House wants her to do.
@ 60 brookly red:
You change a minds. Unless passion is involved minds are hard to change.
In the modern world it requires more creativity. An info block has to be set in stone, one that people checkmark themselves. Tweet Sweet.
brookly red wrote:
Then it’s time to ‘rinse and repeat’…
And yet they contnue to carry his water…
lobo91 wrote:
well if it was in an e-mail she has a mighty good hand to play…
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Destroying parts of the Bill of Rights will only hasten the arrival of the day the SHTF.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
darkwords wrote:
you just weird me out.
darkwords wrote:
You can’t reason a person out of a position they did not reason themselves into in the first place.
@ brookly red:
That’s a good point of view.
brookly red wrote:
How it’s really going to work. Want to bet that the same or greater number of votes come from those districts in the future?
@ Da_Beerfreak: one problem is that a “smear” is a negative sort of passion but people are attracted to it like flies.
To get an opposite effect it takes a lot of small continuous efforts over a long period of time. Like posting to this blog over the years is a positive contribution. As is reading it. And I would say all the CJ bashing that goes on has at least a beacon effect that helps other people notice what is wrong there. However there is still a tremendous amount of information noise out there.
The GoP needs to pursue information privacy laws if it wishes to derail the O-Express. And that will mean high sticking Google etc.
Er, that was King John that was forced to sign the Magna Carta. The first King James was much later.
Forward!
@ lobo91: 2,997 are operated by Monkeys
@ darkwords:
Therein lies the fundamental difference between the Right and the Left. The Right obeys the Law and plays by the Rules. The Left, not so much.
@ darkwords:
That includes the one run by Abberdingerjohng (wife’s word) himself!
Mike C. wrote:
Damn keyboard…
Dats my story and I’m
stucksticking to it.For the Folks that are worried about running out of things to worry about here’s a new worry…
Mars May Get Hit By a Comet in 2014
That will leave a mark…
lobo91 wrote:
that is probably the most important issue of our time… If we start having nuclear terrorism nothing really else matters.
So do we blow them up now or after the destroy Tel Aviv, Paris & Los Angles?
@ brookly red:
Well, considering who’s running our government today, I’d say it’ll be after.
And not even certainly then.
He is culturally the “other”.
Iceweasel accused of believing that & I do.
@ lobo91:
@ brookly red:
And the Administration wants them to get the weapons they seek.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
It was an immigration case, I agree, she was just trying ti insulate
herself from criticism On ObamaCare.
That is the Big Casino.
Global Warming! Billions of Martians will die!
@ RIX:
So do I.
Actually, it goes beyond that. Not only does Obama not identify with America culturally, he despises it, much like many Europeans (which is ironic, considering that he hates them, too).
RIX wrote:
Sotomayor was a garden variety diversity/affirmative action appointment; she could be trusted to be reliably prog on most issues, but her appointment was primarily to reassure the Senate that Obama’s picks, while lefty, would be within acceptable parameters. Her function, in other words, was to pave the way for Kagen, who clearly was appointed for the purpose of lobbying heavily for Obamacare and the radical gay-rights movement.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Would be too bad if the landing site with the flag got taken out before the Mars Rover could get over there and take a picture. Sheila Jackson-Lee would be devastated.
That sounds about right. But, both bad appointments imo.
Elections have cosequences.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Yup.