Conservative Donnybrook

Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi, a former detainee of the United States military who was once housed at our facility at Guantanamo Bay, was released to the custody of Kuwaiti authorities on November 3, 2005. He, along with four other codefendants, was tried in Kuwait:

The defendants pleaded innocent when the trial opened in March. Their lawyers argued there was no evidence to convict them and that Kuwaiti courts had no jurisdiction to try them because they had not done anything illegal in Kuwait.

Defence attorneys also said testimonies provided by the US could not be used in a Kuwaiti court because they did not have the signatures of the detainees or interrogators.

The Kuwaiti court found all five of the men innocent as charged and they were released.

On April 26, 2008, three suicide bombers detonated themselves in Mosul, Iraq killing nine innocents and injuring 31 others. Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi was one of the terrorists in the attack.

Meanwhile, Amnesty International is calling for the closure of Guantanamo Bay and the repatriation of the detainees there. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 enemy combatants are currently held at Gitmo. I don’t relish the idea of 500 radical terrorists making their ways to Mosul and Baghdad and Kirkuk. The potential death toll in killed bystanders is just too high.

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No I’m not talking about Iraq.  Since the morning of Saturday April 19 (yesterday), thirty two people have been shot, six of whom have passed on.  This has been the most violent weekend the City of Chicago has seen in some time.  The Chicago Police attribute most if not all of this violence to gang warfare.  In a pressure cooker that was already ready to explode after the shootings at Northern Illinois University, this violence will only go to further fan the flames of increased gun control in Illinois.

As recently as last week Chicago public school students as well as gun control advocates decended on Springfield to plead with state lawmakers to pass stricter gun laws.  With Democrats in control of the executive and legislative branches here I have no doubt that their crys will be heard.  This is the kind of knee-jerk, some might say reactionary, answer that all liberals have come up with in the face of gun violence.  Limit the ability of individuals to purchase firearms legally.  They ignore one huge problem with their proposed solution, it will have no effect on the violence.  I find it hard to believe that the gang members who have been terrorizing the Southwest Side of Chicago went to a gun shop, presented a vailed FOID card (firearm owners identification card), waited the designated waiting period, and purchased their gun.  Instead, I would think they bought in on the street sans a serial number.  Enacting stricter gun laws will have no effect on the bad guys getting guns.  Bad guys will find bad ways to get guns.

If anything the state should permit concealed weapon permits to be issued in Illinois.  Citizens could then legally possess weapons and the bad guys will never know what hit them.

Incidentaly, since yesterday morning Chicago has been by far more deadly than Iraq.

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Can we assume that other eminently high-minded persons will soon be submitting GOP applications?

Playwright David Mamet explains why he is no longer a “brain-dead liberal.”

Martin Amis jettisons his liberal naivete and looks unflinchingly at Islamic terror.

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Chaldean Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho was found dead outside the city of Mosul, Iraq yesterday.  May he rest in peace. 

He was kidnapped after leaving Mass on February 29, 2008 by Islamic terrorists.  He was targeted specifically because he was a Catholic.  The “religion of peace” strikes again…. 

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Palestinian terrorists raided a Jerusalem seminary today and killed at least 7.  Earlier, an Israeli soldier was killed in the line of duty by terrorists from Gaza.  The same terrorists then attacked an approaching rescue crew.

Peace, for now, seems to have slipped away.  Palestinian terrorists and warmongers have more than likely succeeded in drawing the wrath of the IDF.  The only question that remains is will the IDF show restraint or will they finally seek to decimate the Palestinian terror machine?

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Evidence has surfaced that Comrade Hugo Chavez actively supports FARC terrorists in Colombia.  The recent raid on FARC camps in Ecuador produced a laptop containing evidence of communications and a transfer by Chavez of $300 million to FARC terrorists.  As one would expect, the Comrade of Venezuela denies his involvement. 

The people of Venezuela should rise up and throw down this murderous tyrant.  Failure to do so in a timely manner should result in Venezuela being listed near the top of State sponsors of terrorism. 

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