Iranian cleric says US, Israel behind mosque blast (When do the lies stop?)

Tehran’s Substitute Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said clues of the involvement of the US and Israel in Thursday's bombing of a mosque in Zahedan were discernable. Talking to a large congregation gathered at Tehran University campus for Friday prayers, the Ayatollah condemned the blast at a mosque in the city of Zahedan in southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan Thursday evening, which killed 25 and injured 125 others.

According to IRNA, he said the powerful Islamic establishment in Iran will surely identify the elements behind the terrorist act and punish them.

I guess it is a good thing he's a SUBSTITUTE for Friday prayers, huh? Then one wonders why the Palestinian - Israel conflict never gets settled. It would be good if all the countries in the Middle East were on the same page. ISRAEL EXISTS !!! This is such childish nonsense already ! The Palestinian people await the day Iran STOPS lying !


Blood is seen on the ceiling inside a mosque after a bomb explosion in Zahedan, 1076 km (668 miles) south east of Tehran, May 28, 2009. An explosion at a prominent Shi'ite Muslim mosque in the southeast Iranian city of Zahedan on Thursday killed 30 people and wounded 60, the semi-official news agency ILNA reported. REUTERS/IRNA

Pakistan: Iran partially closes border crossing (click here)
By ABDUL SATTAR – 1 day ago
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Iran has partially closed a border crossing into Pakistan following a deadly mosque bombing in southeastern Iran, two Pakistani officials near the border said Monday. The foreign minister said the frontier was open.
Qamar Masood, a senior official in Baluchistan province on the Pakistan side of the border, said the crossing at Taftan had been closed for trading but that foot traffic was still being allowed.
Shahbaz Ahmed, an official with the Pakistani border security force at Taftan, told AP the border had been closed for the past three days and that no vehicles had crossed during that period.
"Officially we have not been given any intimation or reason, but I think that blast in Zahedan could be the reason," Masood told The Associated Press, referring to the mosque attack.
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said in a statement that Pakistan's border with Iran "was never closed" and that five Iranian trucks carrying aid for refugees from a military offensive in Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley region had crossed over on Monday.
Officials could not immediately explain the different accounts.
Calls to Iranian officials were not immediately returned on Monday....

Dozens from Pakistan school rescued after Taliban ambush

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari

Posted on Tue, Jun. 2, 2009 (click title to entry - thank you)
By Ashraf Khan and Nahal Toosi
Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Taliban extremists ambushed a convoy of vehicles carrying at least 400 students, staff, and relatives from a boys' school yesterday, taking dozens - possibly hundreds - captive in northwestern Pakistan, officials said.
The army said today that its troops had rescued 79 of the captives, with at least one person still missing.
The brazen abduction was part of a string of extremist actions in Pakistan's tribal belt that the army believes is partly aimed at distracting the military from its offensive against the Taliban in the Swat Valley. The extremists were said to have rockets, grenades, and automatic weapons.
Details were still emerging early today about what exactly happened in North Waziristan. Originally, as many as 500 people were believed to have been abducted, but about 200 students were later found to be safe. Army Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said a group of 80 had been held in North Waziristan's Goryam area....

There is no reason to close any General Motors plants. Build the High Speed Magnetic Rail the country needs.

The assembly workers at the GM plants already know how to build mass produced vehicles. They could easily be tooled up to produce anything the country needs. Why build new plants, why train new employees, when everything the country needs is right there in front of us?

So, besides running sting operations, what is Mueller's FBI up to?

This should be interesting, especially since the TARP funds were 'given away' by Bush/Paulson without any records as to where the monies were going. Mueller might want to start with the earliest fraud of the Bush White House and the free give away of the first $87 billion US to Iraq.


FBI Director Robert Mueller in the East Room of the White House, May 29, 2009.
REUTERS/Larry Downing

By Grant McCool and Martha Graybow
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The FBI is working with other U.S. agencies to prevent wrongdoing related to government bailout money and the economic stimulus package, in what could be the "next wave" of financial fraud cases, Director Robert Mueller said on Tuesday.
Mueller said in a speech to the Economic Club of New York that the FBI, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the inspector general of the Troubled Asset Relief Program were working to track where federal money is going.
"With billions of dollars at stake -- from the purchase of troubled assets to improvements in infrastructure, healthcare, energy and education -- even a small percentage of fraud would result in substantial taxpayer losses," Mueller said....

SEPTEMBER 10, 2003 COMMENTARY By Howard Gleckman
The Neatest Thing about That $87 Billion (click here)
Bush and congressional leaders plan to treat the Iraq spending as if it were off-budget, pretending they're not creating red ink
Time to follow Alice for another quick trip down Washington's rabbit hole. Just take a look at what's about to happen with President Bush's request for $87 billion to continue U.S. military operations and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bush will get the money from Congress, all right. But that's where things will begin to get strange. The President and congressional leaders are going to try to make $87 billion in federal spending disappear. How? By treating it as if it were off-budget spending. Here's how: For fiscal year 2004, which begins on Oct. 1, Bush has insisted that Congress hold discretionary spending -- that is, all expenses except for programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and interest on the debt -- to $784.7 billion, and not a penny more. From now until Thanksgiving, the White House and Congress will do battle over every cent....

Swine flu proving to be an atypical flu virus. Co-morbidities include obesity.

The H1N1 virus is stated to have four components of previous virus. One avian, one human and two swine. I believe the obesity 'link' is connected with the dominant characteristic found in pigs. FAT. Combine that with a human strain and an avian strain and one has a nasty virus with higher virulency.

Swine flu more active than seasonal flu (click title to entry - thank you)
Erin Allday, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 2, 2009

...Public health officials in California had said it was only a matter of time before someone in the state died from swine flu. For the most part, the flu - a strain of influenza A type H1N1 - has been relatively mild, with few hospitalizations.
But cases of all types of flu should have all but disappeared by now, public health officials said. Instead, officials at the CDC say there's been a slight increase in flu activity in recent weeks.
"This virus is circulating much later than the annual flu viruses," said Dr. Anne Schuchat, interim deputy director for the CDC's science and public health program, in a press conference last week. "We're really not seeing much of any other seasonal flu viruses anymore. But we are continuing to see this strain circulate."
The CDC and state public health agencies regularly keep track of the number of patients with flu-like illnesses seeking medical treatment. Typically the number of patients increases during the flu season in the winter months, then declines sharply in May and nearly disappears over the summer....

We’re Officially Nervous About Swine Flu Again (click here)
5/28/09 at 12:34 PM
...“Many, many people share the same underlying causes that my husband had, and if he’s at risk, many people are at risk,” said Bonnie Wiener, the widow of Mitchell Wiener, 55, the first New Yorker to die of swine flu, on May 17.
She disputed the city’s assertion that underlying conditions were a factor in his death. “He was overweight and he was taking medicine for high blood pressure,” she said. “How many people 50 and above don’t?”...

Morning Rounds: Flu and Fat, Gifting Docs, Hamburg Gets To Work (click here)
by April Fulton
Good Morning.
One more reason to lose weight: NPR's Richard Knox reports that obese people may be at a higher risk for a complicated case of the swine flu, or H1N1 virus, according to the CDC. A survey of people hospitalized in California recently indicates that obesity may be as a much of a risk factor as heart disease, pregnancy and diabetes, the Washington Post reports.
Also, CDC's Anne Schuchat told NPR's Melissa Block on All Things Considered last night, there are likely 20 times more swine flu cases than are being reported in the U.S. Many are mild, she said.
Still, there is at least one likely new U.S. death today, which would bring the U.S. total to seven. Reuters says a 44-year-old Missouri man diagnosed with H1N1 died in a hospital Tuesday, although officials are still investigating whether the virus was the cause of his death.

The death of George Tiller was advocated and irritated by The Murdock Empire News Corp. along with hate monger Randall Terry.

Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann were incredible last night. They reported on a News Network that used George Tiller as an icon to the Religious Right. News Corp, Bill O'Reilly and Glen Beck were as responsible for the man's death as the man that pulled the trigger in a Kansas Church, Scott Roeder.



In addition to the line of conspirators at the title of this entry, there is the matter of Randall Terry, the founder of the organization Scott Roeder, the suspected murder was a member. Randall Terry is the hard line bigot that defamed and rejected his own children because their mother was African American. He withdrew from the 'center stage' of the media some time ago to conduct his mission at "Operation Rescue."

Terry willingly defamed and maligned his own children in order to prove his dedication to the Religious Right. His daughter became pregnant without the benefit of marriage and this son is Gay. He helped conduct the Terri Schiavo Campaign by the Religous Right. One of Jeb Bush's buddies.

...Lindsey Roeder said that the early years of the marriage were good and that Scott Roeder worked in an envelope factory. She said he moved out of their home after he became involved with the Freemen movement, an antigovernment group that discouraged the paying of taxes. The Roeders have one son, now 22. "When he moved out in 1994, I thought he was over the edge with that stuff," his ex-wife said. "He started falling apart."...(click title to entry - thank you)

So there you have it. The Relgious Right advocated hate of a 'particular' physician and now he is dead. The FOX news Channel and extremists like O'Reilly and Beck (He appeared on a news segment with O'Reilly advocating same.) need to be prosecuted. Randall Terry is 'in it' for the money.