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Some good news. Via The Jerusalem Post
“Britain extradited Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to the United States on Friday to face terrorism charges after the one-eyed radical preacher finally failed in his eight-year battle to avoid deportation.
The Egyptian-born Abu Hamza is accused by Washington of supporting al-Qaida, aiding a kidnapping in Yemen and plotting to open a training camp for militants in the United States.”
“He was taken from a high-security prison in central England in a convoy guarded by large numbers of police to a US airbase where he was handed over to US officials and put on a plane to the United States.”
Read more here
The BBC says he will be held in NY.
“He is expected to be held at the Metropolitan Correction Centre in New York in an area reserved for high-profile prisoners.
A pre-trial hearing is likely to take place within about three weeks. The actual trial, which should take place in a public courtroom, could take between one and three years.
A US District Court hearing has been scheduled for Mr Ahmad and Mr Ahsan in Connecticut later, according to officials.
Read more here
Wandering Views 
These radical Muslims seem to have a lot of eye problems. Mullah Omar had an eye put out. There’s the blind sheik. Then there’s this guy.
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A curious thing that has nothing to do with the story. They mention “a US air base” in England. I didn’t know the US still had an air base in England. When I was in the AF, the Canadians let us use part of the airfield at Goose Bay. But it wasn’t OUR air base. We had a contingent at Prestwick Scotland, but it wasn’t ours. We had a presence in Lages, Azores, and Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, but they weren’t our bases.
The base at Thule, Greenland was ours.
It may just be sloppy journalism. Rhine Main at Frankfort, Germany, may have been ours at the time. Surely not now.
If so, we need to give them back to their owners.
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On another topic, Axelrod and Obama are claiming that Romney lied during the debate on the subjects of his tax plan, pre-existing conditions on his healthcare plan, and the $716 billion transfer from MediCare to ObamaCare.
Yuval Levin in a NRO article yesterday takes this allegation apart. First he argues that the liberals have constructed a fictional conservative world view and when confronted with an actual argument that contradicts their imagined conservative worldview, they claim the actual argumen is a pack of lies. This is exactly what Axelrod and Obama are doing.
Levin then shows in convincing detail that Romney was telling the truth on the three so called “lies.” The attempt to call Romney a liar is a vicious, untruthful smear.
The key paragraph is:
This is, first and foremost, an instance of something that a lot of conservatives in Washington have run across when debating liberals: Because they basically control the mainstream media, and because they have created for themselves a fictional conservative worldview (evident in many an Aaron Sorkin project and Barack Obama speech) rather than confront the actual conservative worldview, liberals are often caught off guard when faced with an actual argument for positions they disagree with. What we’ve seen in the wake of the debate is that some on the Left are so wedded to their imaginary right-wingers that when their actual opponents advance positions or make arguments that are different from those imaginary ones they will call those actual opponents fakes and liars. They believed their own caricature of Mitt Romney, and his unwillingness to play into it strikes them as dishonest. Or put another way: Confronted with evidence of their own dishonesty about who Romney is and what he stands for, they call the evidence a lie.
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Good news, AJ. May justice prevail.
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This article is interesting.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/349242/Rupert-Everett-receives-death-threats-over-gay-parenting-comments
It shows what is actually taboo in the modern Western world.
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Chas
yes — the AFB is up Cambridge way
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Ricky, thanks for that link. That children need a father and mother is rather evident. The gay militant objection to this truth is a shame, however politically correct.
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Sails, We dropped the ball years ago when we started letting single people adopt.
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Ricky, the truth is that we live in a decadent period, though I haven’t given up hope that we along with the grace of God might turn things round.
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Romney didn’t agree with the lies they have been telling about him so he must be lying. Of course. Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show had some pretty funny stuff on the debate. They were almost fair, until Jon Stewart tried the “Romney Lied” excuse after making fun of all the other excuses.
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