In my opinion: By Gordon A Hunsaker

Understanding that General Petraeus is himself the object of an intense sustained information campaign and realizing that, as a matter of fact, every Coalition partner he speaks to has set as a primary objective the subversion of American standards of free speech through their direct legal subordination to Islamic law, when the General states that the exercise (of even unseemly) free speech by Americans in America should be subordinated to Islamic law of slander, lest Americans be killed, the standard he is speaking to is based on Islamic law – EVEN IF HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS.

The threats to kill should be understood to reflect the actual underlying hostility that not only drives al-Qaeda, the Taliban, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Muslims actually protesting – to include those who will be sanctioned when they kill, but the OIC Member States that facilitate such activities in furtherance of the 10-Year Plan. Such campaigns reflect the actual hostility of the OIC – an entity that is not at all friendly, tolerant or moderate. Is there any understanding that the General is putting in question the very rights he is there to protect and defend?

The subordination of US Free Speech rights to Islamic law under threat of lethal jihadi attacks should be understood to be a declaration of hostility by those making such demands against the rights we swore to protect and defend!

Is there any understanding that his comment, along with State’s – along with a successfully manipulated media orientation – is designed to set up a de facto standard that aligns, and is intended to align, American free speech with OIC slander standards – themselves directly based on Islamic law?

Because our position in Afghanistan is already compromised, with Karzai already shifting, is the General saying it becomes more difficult to defeat the enemy if the enemy gets mad at us?

Or is he acknowledging that those who profess to be our friends – aren’t?

As with the Cartoon crisis, there seems to be little understanding that we are experiencing yet another full-on information campaign designed to undermine our commitment to principle Western values, key human rights, and an enumerated Constitutional right.

This is hardly just about a small town/small church preacher.

Just ask, how is it that most Americans’ understanding of this issue is not because they heard about a minister’s plan to burn Qur’ans, but rather from the realization that the entire Muslim world is violently protesting that event all around the world, in an obviously concerted way.

Just how is it that those Afghanis who rocked General Petraeus because they protested – who generally live lives of disinterest in and are fully cut-off from news of the outside world – could coordinate, protest, and riot – just like other groups around the Muslim World at the same time on the same issue, concerning some small town rural American ministry that, just like the Cartoon crisis, makes clear they retain the right to kill if the Minister does not stand down.

Recast to account for the information operation aspects fully driving this event, at what point can General Petraeus’s actions – or those of the State Department – begin to reflect the enforcement (even if unknowingly) of a hostile Islamic slander standard directed against a United States Citizen inside the United States?

These OIC “slander campaigns” will ALWAYS be calibrated against issues like the Minister’s Qur’an burning or the Cartoons of Muhammad.

And they will always be about getting principals in the West to support Islamic standards, first de facto and then de jure, against their own interests.

To stop them, it is important to understand the actual nature of the assaults and to get ahead of them.

If U.S. free speech standards in this country shift on such issues due to intra-American sensitivities, themselves based on genuine Constitutional principles, that would be one thing.

But if they shift to bring U.S. free speech standards into alignment with OIC standards, BY OUR HAND no less (ala the stated Muslim Brotherhood strategy to get us to subvert ourselves) – that would be an entirely different matter altogether!

Pakistani Brigadier S. K. Malik, in his Quranic Concept of War, stated that the object of jihad is the destruction of our faith in, among other things, our leadership.

Phoenix New Times, By Monica Alonzo, Thursday, Aug 12 2010
Maria was drifting off to sleep on the bedroom floor. She could hear women getting raped in the next room. Only she didn’t hear screams — she heard the laughter of male guards.

The women had been drugged by their rapists, who had done the same to Maria as soon as she walked into the house. They forced her to swallow a red liquid and handed her some chalky, white pills. She drank the liquid and tucked the pills on the side of her mouth, but they were slowly dissolving.

The drugs were beginning to deaden her senses.

Maria had arrived at the modest three-bedroom house in west Phoenix several days earlier in the back of a white van. She was one of about a dozen other immigrants who had hired coyotes to smuggle them into the United States in May. They each paid the human smugglers about $1,800 to guide them safely through the treacherous Arizona desert.

Their guides betrayed them. They delivered them to other coyotes, who were more vicious than their counterparts. The kidnappers demanded another $1,700 apiece for Maria and the 12 others, including two young boys, they were holding.

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Phoenix New Times

El Universal (Mexico City) Sunday 8/15/10
So far this year, Mexican Customs has intercepted merely 150 firearms, compared to the thousands the Mexican military has seized in combat against organized crime groups. Jose Bravo Moises, a leading official in the Customs service, explains that it is because the operations of his agency discourage trafficking through ports of entry. He recognizes that arms can cross by other means such as through the ample unguarded areas along the border and by air and sea.

Nonetheless, a special legislative commission overseeing Customs revealed in a meeting with the agency’s head that they paid 100 pesos [$7.86] to bring a firearm from Guatemala into Mexico. “One came in and they didn’t check anything in that Customs office, a serious problem for the traffic of arms the country suffers, for the thousands of deaths and the violence that no one stops,” said Representative Hector Pedroza Jimenez.

The Customs official rejected that the traffic of arms takes place through the Customs inspection points or that there exists corruption in the agency because as soon as any irregularity is detected, it is investigated. “We haven’t detected direct collusion, but we are constantly looking,” he said.

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El Universal,com

German factory investigated for supposed sale of arms to Mexico
La Jornada (Mexico City) 8/15/10

Berlin – German authorities opened a proceeding against the Heckler & Kochel arms factory for the presumed offense of illegal exportation of arms in 2006 to Mexican states with violent internal conflicts, according to the weekly edition of Der Spiegel. The investigation, led by the government attorney’s office and German Customs, is to determine if the factory violated the prohibition, in force in the country, to sell arms in zones of conflict. According to information, in 2006 the factory received official permission to sell “different Mexican national police” thousands of G36 assault rifles, the customary German Army weapon. The authorization supposedly excluded the areas of conflict such as the states of Chiapas, Guerrero, Chihuahua and Jalisco. A year later, Heckler & Koch solicited another permit, this time to supply parts for those rifles “to clients with an established address” in those states. The investigation is in its initial stage.

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La Jornada (Mexico City)

GateHouse News Service by Myrna Fearer, Aug 14, 2010

Danvers —
Not logging out of Facebook may have led to the arrest of an alleged housebreaker.

On Aug. 9, at 4:38 a.m., Danvers Police Officer Stephen Baldassare arrested Douglas Wilgo, 19, of 18 Windsor Road, Beverly, near McDonald’s on High Street for disturbing the peace. He was also charged with disorderly conduct, breaking and entering at nighttime for a felony and malicious destruction of property over $250.

Police had been investigating a report of a suspicious motor vehicle at an Ash Street address, said Lt. Carole Germano. When the police arrived, they were able to get into a second floor apartment where there was evidence that someone had been there. They also discovered the person’s identity because he had logged onto his Facebook account with his name, which was still on the computer.

When Officer Baldassare went looking for him, he found Wilgo walking the resident’s dog on High Street, Germano said. When Baldassare approached Wilgo, he became belligerent. The officer placed Wilgo under arrest and the dog was taken back to the residence.

The Arizona Lawman’s News Exclusive Report August 16, 2010,
On Aug. 1, Reza Baruni, the father of Iran’s military UAV program, died in a mighty explosion that destroyed his closely secured villa, DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources reveal. He lived in the high-scale neighborhood secluded for high Iranian officials in the southern town of Ahwaz in oil-rich Khuzestan.

Very few people in the country outside the top leaders and air force knew about his job and so his death was not generally appreciated as fatally stalling Iran’s military drone program for many years.

The official version produced the old standby of an exploding gas canister as the cause of the blast. However, The Arizona Lawman’s News intelligence source report that bombs were planted in at least three corners of the building and expertly rigged to explode simultaneously and bring the ceilings crashing down on its occupants. The bomber must therefore have had access to the Baruni home.

The authorities tended to fix the blame on underground organizations representing the local Arab-speaking Ahwazis’ fight for self-rule against the repressive regime. Some suspect certain Gulf Arab emirates’ intelligence services commissioned the Baruni murder.

Hiding behind his public face as a retired army major, the dead man created Iran’s program for manufacturing military drones from scratch and trained a new generation of engineers and planners to take over. But despite his efforts and the hefty sums Iran invested in the industry, the product never really came up to the advanced standards achieved by a very few countries.

Five months ago, US Defense Security Robert Gates told the Senate Appropriations Committee. “Countries like Iran are developing their own UAVs and already have a UAV capability. That is a concern because it is one of these areas where, if they chose to – in Iraq, in Afghanistan – they could create difficulties for us.”

There is also a growing concern that drone technology could be sold to terrorist groups.
Gates was responding to a statement last February by the Iranian Air Force’s coordination deputy, Brigadier General Aziz Nasirzadeh, that Iran had successfully tested the prototype of its first domestically-built “stealth drone” calling it Sofeh Mahi (Manta Ray).”

He boasted that the drone, “due to its physical attributes and the material used in its body, cannot be detected by any radar.” But he also introduced a cautious note by explaining that the production process would not be rushed, as such complex systems need thorough analysis and exhaustive testing.

The Arizona Lawman’s News sources: Reza Baruni’s death will most likely put Iran’s ambitious project for developing sophisticated UAVs in mothballs in the foreseeable future.