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With the FBI elevating Yaser Said to its most wanted list, it has also labeled the murder of Sarah and Amina an “honor killing.”

The girls’ great-aunt, Gail Gartrell, says the girls’ Egyptian-born father killed them both because he felt they disgraced the family by dating non-Muslims and acting too Western, and she called the girls’ murders an honor killing from the start.

But the FBI held off on calling it an honor killing until just recently, when it made Yaser Abdel Said the “featured fugitive” on its Web site.

“That’s what I’ve been trying to tell everybody all along,” Gartrell told FOXNews.com. “I would say that’s a victory.”

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Many Muslim’s both in response to posts on this site as well as others, have objected to labeling the deaths as honor killing because of the negative light in which it sheds on the Islamic faith of which Yaser Said was a follower.

“As far as we’re concerned, until the motive is proven in a court of law, this is [just] a homicide,” Mustafaa Carroll, the executive director of the Council of American-Islamic Relations in Dallas, told FOXNews.com.

He said he worries that terms like “honor killing” may stigmatize the Islamic community. “We (Muslims) don’t have the market on jealous husbands … or domestic violence,” Carroll said.

“People have their own cultural nuances and norms from before they got their religion,” he said. “This is not Islamic culture.”

Despite Carrol’s objections to the labeling of the crime, the killing of females by male family members is most predominant within Muslim countries.

Dr. Phyllis Chesler, author of several books, including “The Death of Feminism: What’s Next in the Struggle for Women’s Freedom,” said that the case fits the description of an honor killing.

“The premeditation, the family collaboration, and the particular rules (set for the girls) make this consistent with an honor killing — not just domestic violence,” she said.

She said she hoped that calling the case an “honor killing” might indicate a shift in attitude at the FBI.

“I think this may suggest that law enforcement is beginning to realize that they may have to treat these incidents differently if they are to either prevent or prosecute,” Chesler told FOXNews.com.

Yaser Said is a cold-blooded murderer and his daughters’ cry from the grave for justice.  Is it an honor killing?  It appears to meet the criteria and those who continue to hide him and justify his actions are culpable as well.

Hat tip to Conservative Sahm at ConservativeBabes for this tidbit

From Hillary Clinton Forum

http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discuss…ead.php?t=34745

Tonight we talked to someone who works in the federal courts here in Chicago.

The buzz in those corridors is that federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has been leading a team of FBI investigators in 10 states working on a RICO case.

Today, it was announced that ACORN is being investigated in 10 states.

That’s one Hell of a coincidence.

We asked why Fitzgerald would be involved in this, because he’s the prosecutor on the Tony Rezko case and we aren’t aware of ACORN being investigated in Illinois.

We were told that ACORN was investigated in Illinois years ago, and it was a Fitzgerald case then. This means ACORN’s activities today, involving a conspiracy to commit multi-state voter fraud on SoetorObama’s behalf, are an extension of that previous ACORN case.

Our source in federal courts said, “Any crime that involves more than two people and is carried out across state lines qualifies as a corrupt organization. The fact that those “Goodwill” donations were made in Texas and received at Obama headquarters in Chicago or Washington means it qualifies for RICO.”

The “Goodwill donations” referred to above are the $228 million in undocumented, unverified campaign contributions the SoetorObama camp has received — which the McCain campaigned filed a complaint to the FEC on this past Monday.

We’ve also heard that the Clinton campaign filed complaints to the FBI and other federal agencies over SoetorObama’s fraud in the Iowa, Texas and other caucuses: voter intimidation, registration fraud, and other illegal activities.

The last thing we were told tonight in regards to all of this was that “the meme here is a tying together of all these various threads. That’s what you will see in the last weeks of the campaign: all things being tied together”.

If everything rumored here is true, it looks like David Axelrod, Howard Dean, Donna Brazile, SoetorObama himself, and possibly even Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid were all involved, together, in massive RICO violations, and thus federal fraud, if the DNC and party leadership knew what the SoetorObama campaign and ACORN were up to and allowed it to proceed. Knowledge of federal crimes being committed makes all parties accessories to those crimes — and part of the conspiracy to defraud the public.

THAT would certainly be one Hell of a shock tomorrow morning.

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Please, please, let this be true!

When the USS Cole was bombed on October 12, 2000, President Bill Clinton vowed to hunt down and prosecute those responsible for the loss of 17 sailors in the harbor of Aden, Yemeni.

“Every terrorist must be made to live as an international fugitive with no place to settle or organize, no place to hide, no governments to hide behind and not even a safe place to sleep.”

Although there was very little left of the explosive laden suicide motorboat that rammed into the unsuspecting ship as it sat docked for a refueling, an FBI team was immediately dispatched to find the plotters of the attack.

Although unsure of how cooperative the Yemeni government would be with the investigation, FBI supervising agent Ali H. Soufan did not realize that level of obfuscation that would be directed toward the investigation by US Ambassador Barbara K. Bodine.

I have hesitated in the past to share my view of the conflict between Bodine and the FBI’s counterterrorism leader, John O’Neill. I feel compelled, however, to respond to Bodine’s recent comments, which slander the efforts of many dedicated counterterrorism agents and divert attention from the significant terrorist problem within Yemen, our “ally” in the “war on terror.”

Read entire story here.

In comments made recently after it was revealed that all of the terrorists that had been held in connection with the bombing had been released, Bodine has been quick to criticize the FBI’s handling of the investigation.

A recent Post report on Yemen allowing al-Qaeda operatives to go free offered insight into the challenges the FBI faced. Bodine was quoted in the article not urging the Yemeni government to rearrest the terrorists but, instead, denigrating the agents who investigated the attack. She faulted the FBI as being slow to trust Yemeni authorities and said agents were “dealing with a bureaucracy and a culture they didn’t understand. . . . We had one group working on a New York minute, and another on a 4,000-year-old history.”

In fact, our team included several Arab American agents who understood the culture and the region. Even so, such comments were irrelevant. The FBI left Yemen with the terrorists in jail.

After first arriving in Yemen, the FBI teamed faced not only personal danger, but denial by the government that terrorists were the cause of the explosion choosing rather to believe that there had been an accident aboard the ship.

Rather than supporting us, Bodine declared John O’Neill, a man greatly respected by his Yemeni counterparts, persona non grata.

Many American officials in Yemen, including members of Bodine’s team, shared our frustration. Even victims of the Cole were offended by her. I’ll never forget one sailor telling me that Bodine visited the ship soon after the attack and acted “as if we had just inconvenienced her country.”

Other missteps by the Ambassador’s office included State Department wanted posters offering a reward for information being mistranslated to carry a warning against anyone cooperating with the investigation. The FBI agents wondered if it was a “a mistake, or calculated interference.”

Despite the lack of cooperation from Bodine, FBI agents were eventually able to forge alliances with Yemeni officials, capture those responsible, and bring them to trial and conviction.

The recent release of those responsible for the attack on the Cole has caused a breach in the relationship between the US and Yemen, however a far greater breach occurred between the FBI and the US Ambassador whose first duty is to protect the sovereignty of US life on foreign soil.

Robert Mueller, the head of the FBI told a group in London that the West can defeat al-Qaeda in less than four years.

Read entire story here: FBI head predicts al-Qaeda defeat

Robert Mueller described how his organisation is working closely with British intelligence to confront ever-more-complex plots.

Mueller described the al Qaeda as a three level threat.

The top tier was the core of the organisation which had established new sanctuaries in Pakistan’s tribal areas

The middle tier was the most complex, consisting of small, self-directed groups like the London bombers of 7/7 who had some ties to al-Qaeda’s leadership.

The bottom tier, said Mr Mueller, was made up of homegrown extremists who met on the internet instead of in foreign training camps.

He said the key to confronting these threats lay in good human intelligence sources, wire-taps or eavesdropping, and international partnerships.

Mueller expressed the importance of the cooperation of British and other allies in the effort to wipe-out the terrorist organization.

He said the key to confronting these threats lay in good human intelligence sources, wire-taps or eavesdropping, and international partnerships.

The vast majority of the FBI’s terrorism cases, he said, originated from information developed by US partners overseas, particularly Britain.

Is Mueller’s positive prediction on eliminating the terrorist a ploy to shore-up the diminishing popularity of the War on Terror with the US’s closest ally? IIf not, then why is he not making the same statements to US audiences.

Those who mistrust Hillary Clinton because of her waffling on the war in Iraq and lack of any commitment to be strong against those who would strike the United States have good reason for their uncertainty.

On New Year’s Even in 1982, two bombs planted at One Police Plaza in New York exploded, causing the seriously maiming two NYC bomb squad officers. A total of four more bombs exploded that night and were later traced back to FALN, the terrorists organization whose purpose is to achieve an independent Puerto Rico through violent means.

The terrorist group was not an unknown enemy to the US, in 1975 a strategically timed bomb ripped through a Manhattan tavern killing six and injuring 6o. And the violence continued.

By 1996, the FBI had linked FALN to 146 bombings and a string of armed robberies — a reign of terror that resulted in nine deaths and hundreds of injured victims.

On Aug. 7, 1999, the one-year anniversary of the U.S. African embassy bombings that killed 257 people and injured 5,000, President Bill Clinton reaffirmed his commitment to the victims of terrorism, vowing that he “will not rest until justice is done.

But words ring hollow.

The Clintons’ Terror Pardons

Four days later, while Congress was on summer recess, the White House quietly issued a press release announcing that the president was granting clemency to 16 imprisoned members of FALN. What began as a simple paragraph on the AP wire exploded into a major controversy.

Mr. Clinton justified the clemencies by asserting that the sentences were disproportionate to the crimes. None of the petitioners, he stated, had been directly involved in crimes that caused bodily harm to anyone. “For me,” the president concluded, “the question, therefore, was whether their continuing incarceration served any meaningful purpose.”

Federal law enforcement agencies considered these individuals so dangerous, extraordinary security precautions were taken at their numerous trials. Courthouse elevators were restricted and no one, including the court officers, was permitted to carry a firearm in the courtroom.

Given all this, why would Bill Clinton, who had ignored the 3,226 clemency petitions that had piled up on his desk over the years, suddenly reach into the stack and pluck out these 16 meritless cases? (The New York Times ran a column with the headline, “Bill’s Little Gift.”)

Hillary Rodham Clinton was in the midst of her state-wide “listening tour” in anticipation of her run for the U.S. Senate in New York, a state which included 1.3 million Hispanics. Three members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus — Luis V. Gutierrez (D., Ill.), Jose E. Serrano, (D., N.Y.) and Nydia M. Velazquez, (D., N.Y.) — along with local Hispanic politicians and leftist human-rights advocates, had been agitating for years on behalf of the FALN cases directly to the White House and first lady.

Initial reports stated that Mrs. Clinton supported the clemencies, but when public reaction went negative she changed course, issuing a short statement three weeks after the clemencies were announced. The prisoners’ delay in refusing to renounce violence “speaks volumes,” she said.

The Clintons were caught in an awkward predicament of their own making. The president had ignored federal guidelines for commutation of sentences, including the most fundamental: The prisoners hadn’t actually asked for clemency.

How many currently incarcerated political fanatics are hoping that another Clinton presidency will bring about Get Out of Jail Free cards?  Considering past history, how much emphasis will HRC put on the apprehension and prosecution of those who would kill, destroy, and terrorize innocent Americans? What lobbyist or constituency will form her policy toward the war on terror that continues to brew both within and outside of the US and whose primary religion is one of hate and mayhem?