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North Korea says South Korea will pay "an expensive price" for firing at a North Korean patrol boat on Tuesday.

The official Rodong Sinmun newspaper published a commentary Thursday saying the clash in the Yellow Sea was not an accident, but instead was a "premeditated act of aggression" by the South. The commentary said the incident was meant to escalate tensions and dampen a positive atmosphere between the two countries.

South Korea's military has been on high alert for possible retaliatory moves after the North Korean boat was set ablaze Tuesday. The South said it fired warning shots after the North Korean patrol crossed its maritime border in the Yellow Sea.

Seoul sent two additional warships to guard the maritime border Wednesday.

At a meeting of the UN Security Council in New York, the United States has accused Iran of violating a United Nations arms embargo imposed on it by secretly sending weapons to Syria in a cargo ship seized by Israel. Britain also expressed "very serious concern" at suggestions that Iran was caught illegally exporting weapons but saying it was waiting for more information about the ship's origin, destination, cargo and seizure. US deputy ambassador Alejandro Wolff and British deputy ambassador Philip Parham raised Israel's seizure of the cargo vessel ‘Francop’ last week in the Mediterranean during a closed-door council debate on implementation of the 2006 ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Wolff reportedly told the council that the concealed arms shipment, "clearly manifested from Iran to Syria" in violation of the UN arms embargo, provides "unambiguous evidence of the destabilizing proliferation of arms in the region." The United States also called on Syria and Iran to end their "material support" for Hezbollah and other terror groups in Lebanon, which violated the 2006 ceasefire resolution.

UN Security Council Resolution 1747 of March 2007 states “that Iran shall not supply, sell or transfer directly or indirectly from its territory or by its nationals or using its flag vessels or aircraft any arms or related materiel, and that all States shall prohibit the procurement of such items from Iran by their nationals, or using their flag vessels or aircraft, and whether or not originating in the territory of Iran.”


-World Jewish Congress

Gold exploded to $1,119 an ounce today, as the dollar plunged to a new 15-month low.

China Confidential analysts continue to predict $1,400 as the next milestone for gold--and $2,000 an ounce before the end of next year.

Gold is up 26% year-to-date. In 2008, the price increase was only 5.5%.

As Turkey turns away from the West, even, paradoxically, as Ankara seeks EU membership (with Obama's blessing), many Americans want to know: Who lost Turkey?

The answer is: Bush and Obama.

Acting in the name of democracy promotion, the Bush administration foolishly blocked Turkey's staunchly secular military from ousting the country's crypto-Islamist government. Obama went further. He personally endorsed the Islamizing trend and encouraged Turkey's embrace of nuclear-arming, islamist Iran, at the cost of scrapping Turkey's traditional, strategic alliance with Israel.

Israel will supply an upgraded air defense system to India.

Israel signed the $1.1 billion contract Monday during a visit to Israel by the head of India's army, Gen. Deepak Kapoor, Reuters reported.

The state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. has promised to deliver the Barak-8 tactical air defense system to India by 2017.

Israel is India's largest defense supplier.

The case for a China collapse--here.

The Monitor reports:

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sought to bolster the Islamic Republic's regional standing at an economic summit for Muslim leaders in Turkey on Monday, by declaring that a "new era is starting" after the "definite defeat" of capitalism.

Analysts say that Iran has had a legitimacy deficit since a disputed presidential election and weeks of violent street battles in June, and is now trying recover lost diplomatic ground.

"They've had a real crisis, of both confidence and appearance in regional fora," says Anoush Ehteshami, a professor of international relations at the University of Durham in England. "And I think Turkey provides a very neat way forward for them, given that in many Arab circles, Ahmadinejad is not very welcome."

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EXTRA! AHMADINEJAD ADVISES OBAMA TO DUMP ISRAEL

Islamonazi Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejected Barack Obama's offer of renewed ties between Washington and Tehran Monday night by making it conditional on the United States abandoning support for Israel.

Ahmadinejad told a press conference in Istanbul that Obama had failed to deliver his promise of change in U.S. foreign policy and said he had to choose between Israel and relations with Iran.

Israeli intelligence is winning its clandestine war with Iran. Click here for the story.

Have the generals gone crazy? Click here to read the IBD editorial.

What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Muslims or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War.

-Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor, defending his covert backing for Islamist warlords in Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion of that country. Interview of Zbigniew Brzezinski Le Nouvel Observateur (France), Jan 15-21, 1998

It is not in America's interest to perpetuate Amercan-Iranian hostility. Any eventual reconciliation should be based on the recognition of a mutual strategic interest in stabilizing what currently is a very volatile regional environment for Iran. Admit tedly, any such reconciliation must be pursued by both sides and is not a favor granted by one to the other. A strong, even religiously motivated but not fanatically anti-Western Iran is in the U.S. interest, and ultimately even the Iranian political elite may recognize that reality. In the meantime, American long-range interests in Eurasia would be better served by abandoning existing U.S. objections to closer Turkish-Iranian economic cooperation...

-Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard (1997)

Zbigniew Brzezinski sees U.S. President Barack Obama as "our Muslim," according to Washington insiders familiar with Brzezinski's thinking.

Sources say the Polish-born political scientist, who, as National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, engineered the anti-Soviet, covert U.S. intervention in Afghanistan on the side of Islamist warlords and drug dealers, believes the United States is locked in a Great Game-like competition with Russia for control of "Eurasia," and Islam is the key to victory. Hence, the need for outreach to and elevation of "the Muslim world," in Brzezinski's view, and abandonment of Israel, whose existence, Brzezinski claims, has been a source of instability in the Middle East and a wedge dividing Washington from the region's Muslim populations.

U.S. intelligence agencies, as reported earlier, monitored Major Nidal Hasan as he attempted to contact Al Qaeda. But no action against the Muslim fanatic was taken. Click here for the latest report.

Arnaud de Borchgrave:

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is the proverbial canary in the mine. Gunning down 12 soldiers and one civilian, and wounding 31 was not a random act of violence by an army psychiatrist who was slated to deploy to Afghanistan, an evil war in his mind, where American infidels are killing good Muslims. As the Virginia-born major told a female neighbor in his apartment complex, "I'm going to do good work for God." Hasan wanted, in his mind, to die a martyr, killing American soldiers who had been killing Muslim soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan, or would soon be doing so.

There are tens of thousands of Hasans all over the Western world -- from Brussels to Berlin and from Burgos, Spain, to Birmingham, U.K. For them, Sept. 11, 2001, was a conspiracy cooked up by the CIA and Mossad, Israel's external intelligence service. Even though al-Qaida's Osama bin Laden and his No. 2 Ajman Al-Zawahiri have both taken credit for Sept. 11, countless millions are convinced they had nothing to do with the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.

In 2001, prior to Sept. 11, Hasan attended Dar Al Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Va., where his principal preacher was a U.S.-born Yemeni scholar name of Anwar al-Awlaki who praised the virtues of jihad, or holy war. He is one of 13 million Muslims -- or 1 percent of the world's total -- who espouse extremist beliefs about the United States and its NATO allies. Led by the United States, the West's Christian nations, as Muslim fundamentalists read the world chess board, are on a crusade to throttle the Muslim world.

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U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan, who slaughtered his fellow soldiers at Food Hood, tried to contact Al Qaeda months ago ... and intelligence officers were aware of the attempts. Click here for the deeply disturbing report.

Appeasement fans the flames of aggression....

Islamist Iran is charging three innocent Americans with espionage, as reported here.

The Obama White House was pressured--by a woman from Texas--into lowering the flag in memory of the Fort Hood shooting victims. Click here for the shocking expose.

Click here for the story, which Islamist-sympathizing, U.S. media are forced to cover and the Telegraph broke--here.

Was the shooter programmed to kill by an Islamist imam?

The truth should set us free.

The UN-sponsored nuclear deal appears to be dead, which is no surprise.

What is shocking is the Obama administration's willingness to involve Turkey's pro-Iran, crypto-Islamist government.

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In the meantime, the Obama administration is giving Iran ... more time ... as reported here. Notice the dumbbell diplomat's comments.

China Confidential predicted that Obama would give Iran a full year to achieve its atomic aims. Tragically, for the United States, Israel, Europe, civilized nations everywhere, the prediction was accurate.

AFP reports:

With cheap labour, investment incentives and unrestricted exports, one Chinese textile group has turned to Egypt as an ideal location to produce its ready-made garments, beating stiff competition at home.

The Chinese-owned Nile Textile Group has set up shop in the Port Said free zone, overlooking the north entrance of the Suez Canal, and developed an industrial estate now hiring 600 workers, 20 percent of which are Chinese and the rest Egyptian.

Cheap raw materials and favourable export conditions have given the company easy access to foreign markets.

It's a bargain for the Nile Textile Group, which imports 60 percent of its basic products tax free and then sends them outside Egypt, mainly to the United States.

Most of their cut-price clothes are now labelled "Made in Egypt" rather than "Made in China".

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Pakistan's once-vibrant film industry is in collapse, a victim of Islamization and DVD piracy. Click here for the story.

Good news. Russia may support new sanctions on nuclear-arming Iran, as reported here.

The brave, remarkably composed female soldier was shot in the back by a traitorous, Islamist terrorist. In a real sense, the entire armed forces is being stabbed in the back, daily, by the Obama administration and its lackeys and flunkeys in the U.S. Congress and the mass media. The mass shooting wasn't a "tragedy." A train wreck is a tragedy. An airplane crash is a tragedy. An Islamist terror attack is an Islamist terror attack.

Atlas Shrugs has the Obama transition team's Homeland Security brochure that lists Major Nidal Hasan as an advisory panel member. Click here for the coverage.

More fruits of appeasement....

Following Obama's visit to Turkey as part of his outreach to the so-called Muslim world, the country's crypto-Islamist government is trading a traditional alliance with Israel for ties to Islamist Iran and its secular but rapidly Islamizing Arab ally, Syria. This has not stopped Obama from pushing Turkey's bid for EU membership, even though the United States has no legitimate basis for interfering in internal EU affairs.

China Confidential analysts assert the Obama administration has warned Turkey's military, historically, the guardian of the country's secular system, against even thinking about making any moves to oust the enemy within.

Regarding the anti-Israel tilt, Ilan Berman reports:

In mid-October, the Turkish government formally announced that it had canceled Anatolian Eagle, a major joint exercise with Israel's air force as well as U.S. and NATO forces, in protest over Israel's Gaza offensive last winter. The news was as dramatic as it was disheartening. Just a decade ago, the strategic bonds between Jerusalem and Ankara were strong and vibrant, encompassing military and political cooperation and animated by a shared perception of post-Cold War regional threats. That partnership, in turn, was nurtured by a West eager to secure a pro-Western pivot in the historically inhospitable Middle East. And Anatolian Eagle, a cooperative air force drill designed to enhance training and interoperability between the Israeli and Turkish militaries, was a large part of the strategic partnership formally codified between the two countries in 1996.

Today, however, that warmth is just a distant memory. Since taking power in fall 2002, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) slowly but surely has steered its country away from partnership with Israel.

Part of the reason has been political. The strategic entente with Israel was the brainchild of the AKP's chief political rival, Turkey's fiercely secular military and defense establishment. Predictably, therefore, it has become a political football in the tug-of-war for domestic primacy between the Islamist AKP and its nationalist detractors.

But the significance of Turkey's anti-Israeli turn is more than merely local. Rather, the widening rift between Jerusalem and Ankara is a troubling manifestation of Turkey's eastward drift. That is because the country that once ranked as the West's most dependable partner in the Muslim world has increasingly drifted into alignment with some of the Middle East's most troublesome regimes.

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China Confidential analysts add that Obama is actually pleased with the tilt, influenced by advisers who want to relegate Israel to ghetto-like, second-class (dhimmi) status in the Muslim-dominated region. Seeing Israel as a mistake that should never have been allowed to happen in the first place, the Obama team believes the Jewish State should not have a foreign policy, should probably not even belong to the United Nations.

A somewhat protected (perhaps), barely tolerated, mini-state, hemmed into its pre-1967, "Auschwitz lines," in the words of the late (dovish) Israeli foreign minister, Abba Eban, is Obama's vision--for starters. In fact, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Samantha Power, and other Israel-hating Obama advisers aim to transform Israel into a city-state--greater Tel Aviv minus the Galilee and the Negev. The final solution to the Middle East conflict, in their twisted view, is a weakened, autonomous Israel, no longer truly sovereign, stripped of its presumed nuclear arsenal, slated for withering away and dying and/or annihilation.

And American Jews, to their great discredit and shame, voted overwhelmingly for Obama....

Perfidy!


EDITOR'S NOTE: Brzezinski and Power are obsessed with Israel. The aging Cold Warrior has called on Obama to shoot down Israeli aircraft if they attack Iran's nuclear installations. Power has proposed using U.S. troops to force Israel into withdrawing from lands captured during the (defensive) Six-Day War of June 1967.

Ralph Peters:

On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting, "Allahu akbar!" ("God is great!") committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam.

What cowards we are. Political correctness killed those patriotic Americans at Fort Hood as surely as the Islamist gunman did. And the media treat it like a case of nondenominational shoplifting.

This was a terrorist act. When an extremist plans and executes a murderous plot against our unarmed soldiers to protest our efforts to counter Islamist fanatics, it's an act of terror. Period.

When the terrorist posts anti-American hate speech on the Web; apparently praises suicide bombers and uses his own name; loudly criticizes US policies; argues (as a psychiatrist, no less) with his military patients over the worth of their sacrifices; refuses, in the name of Islam, to be photographed with female colleagues; lists his nationality as "Palestinian" in a Muslim spouse-matching program and parades around central Texas in a fundamentalist playsuit -- well, it only seems fair to call this terrorist an "Islamist terrorist."

But the president won't. Despite his promise to get to all the facts. Because there's no such thing as "Islamist terrorism" in ObamaWorld.

And the Army won't. Because its senior leaders are so sick with political correctness that pandering to America haters is safer than calling terrorism "terrorism."

And the media won't. Because they have more interest in the shooter than in our troops -- despite their crocodile tears.

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David Rushton nails it:

On July 4th 2002 a Muslim taxi driver in Los Angeles shot to death two people at the El Al terminal in LAX and three more were wounded. For weeks thereafter Psychologists and Psychiatrists wondered why this apparently peaceful man had killed these people. But the answer was very clearly pinned to his front door that morning. A note on the door said simply “Read the Koran.”

A few years earlier a Muslim soldier Hassan Akbar in Kuwait hurled a grenade into a tent full of American Soldiers. Two officers were killed and 14 injured. Everybody wondered what prompted him to do it. Simple, he had been reading the Koran and he believed those soldiers were his enemies.

Read his entire essay here.

Another setback for Obama's appeasement policy. Click here for the news.

Towing the White House line, The Washington Post has weighed in with an editorial aimed at whitewashing the Islamist attack on Fort Hood. Click here to read the perfidious piece, which follows yesterday's article about attacks by "antiwar radicals." The term, used in the article's headline, is the paper's codeword for Muslim extremists.

China Confidential has learned that MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews plans to parrot and praise the editorial on his Sunday morning program on NBC.

IBD:

War On Terror: The Fort Hood terrorist is being portrayed as an "anomaly," an "aberration," a "lone wolf." Sadly, he's just one of many examples of jihadist traitors in the ranks of the military.

Together they form a dangerous Fifth Column, and the Pentagon — thanks to institutionalized political correctness — is doing next to nothing to root them out .

Instead, brass are actively recruiting Muslim soldiers — whose ranks have swelled to more than 15,000 — and catering to their faith by erecting mosques even at Marine headquarters in Quantico, Va. More, they're hiring Muslim chaplains endorsed by radical Islamic front groups, who convert and radicalize soldiers.

In the wake of the worst domestic military-base massacre in U.S. history, this is an outrage to say the least. And the PC blinders explain how Fort Hood commanders could have failed so horrifically in protecting their force from the internal threat there.

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China Confidential has learned that MSNBC producers, anchors, and executives are mobilizing to spin the Fort Hood massacre story so as to bury, or, at least, seriously downplay the Muslim angle. The left-leaning, Islamist-sympathizing cable network aims to emphasize alleged stress factors that may have triggered U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan's mass shooting of his fellow soldiers. Reporters, writers, and on-camera personalities have been instructed to avoid using jihad, Islamist, and other "sensitive" terms, according to well placed industry insiders.

Early Warning....

Counter-terrorism and intelligence experts are concerned that the captured Muslim fanatic, U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who attacked his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, could become a rallying point for Muslim terrorists around the world. His survival, trial, and imprisonment could lead to hostage taking and other terrorist acts aimed at winning his freedom.

Israel’s high security wall in the so-called West Bank has been breached by Palestinian protesters.

China Confidential Middle East experts say the protesters were encouraged by the Obama administration's outreach to "the Muslim world" and obsessive pressure on Israel to withdraw from the disputed lands that Israel captured in the defensive, SIx-Day War of June 1967. [Analysts say the protesters were also emboldened by the slaughter of U.S. soldiers on U.S. soil by a Muslim fanatic, U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who identified as a Palestinian.]

Using a hydraulic car jack, masked Palestinian youths toppled one of the huge pre-cast panels, scaling the six-meter high barricade.

Israeli border guards countered the protest with tear gas and a smelly spray. Most protesters scattered when security forces tried to close the hole in the wall.

The barrier, which Israel began building at the height of the Palestinian uprising that began in 2000, has effectively ended suicide bombing attacks on the beleaguered Jewish State--the only democracy in a region dominated by Islamizing barbarians.

The Muslim major's Palestinian cousins on the so-called West Bank--i.e. the disputed territories west of the Jordan River that Israel liberated from Jordanian rule in the defensive, Six-Day war of June 1967--are defending the mass-murdering monster. Click here for the story, which supports China Confidential reporting--here.

A national disgrace....

The Obama administration's phony stimulus--welfare for bloated state bureaucracies, bailouts for greedy, globalizing Wall Street banks--has failed miserably, along with every Obama domestic and foreign policy and program.

Click here for the story.

Obama is a one-termer, another Carter--or worse.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan was an Obama transition team Homeland Security adviser. Click here for the mind-blowing story.

David Horowitz blogs:

A Muslim fanatic with an Internet site praising Islamic suicide bombers as defenders of their comrades is a Major in the U.S. Army with access to military intelligence and lethal weaponry. And it’s not as though the army didn’t know that he was a Muslim fanatic and supporter of the Islamic jihad against the West. He was under investigation for six months because of his anti-American, jihadist rantings. He did not want to be deployed. He wanted to be discharged.

But despite his identification with America’s enemies, the army kept him in its officer corps. How in God’s name was this possible? But it was. And so, after calling America the “aggressor” in Afghanistan and Iraq this Muslim jihadist traitor army officer picks up his semi-automatic weapons and heads for the center at Ft. Hood where soldiers are being deployed to fight the jihadists in Afghanistan to conduct his massacre. Yet this morning the Fox News Channel chiron says “Investigators search for a motive in the Ft. Hood killings.” Is everybody out of their mind?

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And click here for a moronic report on the Muslim major's motive--which is hiding in plain sight and obvious to everyone except the useful idiots in the Islamist-appeasing Obama administration and mainstream media.

Dateline USA....

The initial investigation at Fort Hood shows that Major Nidal Malik Hasan used only one gun during the attack, a 5.7-caliber semiautomatic pistol.

Semiautomatic, for those who don't understand the term (including most media pundits) simply means the gun can be fired repeatedly by pulling the trigger for each shot. Semiautomatic does not mean fully automatic--as in a machine gun.

That an Army physician--not a commando--could shoot so many soldiers with a handgun before being stopped, at a major Army base, is inexcusable. The attack highlights the nation's shocking vulnerability to terrorist attacks. If not for a diminutive, Texas policewoman, Sergeant Kimberly Munley, who managed to shoot Hasan four times and was herself hit by a bullet, the Muslim monster would have claimed even more victims.

More than eight years after 9/11, and one year after the election of the first Muslim-born (according to Islamic law) President of the United States, the Islamist fifth column is larger than before the Muslim mega-attacks. Islamist operatives have infiltrated government agencies, the military, prisons, colleges and school systems, you name it. Subversion is the order of the day. Airports, shipping terminals, borders are still wide open. So-called soft targets are totally defenseless. Military commanders who address the media sound more like middle school principals and social workers than warriors.

In short, there is more media and official concern for avoiding anything that could possibly offend the growing Muslim population and its supporters and sympathizers than for securing and protecting the country against Islamist assaults.

EXTRA: Media likely to conflate Florida office building shooting with Fort Hood massacre. An apparently non-political mass shooting in Orlando--click here for the story--will no doubt be manipulated by Obama and his adoring mass media lackeys, flunkeys, and stooges, all of whom are eager to downplay the Islamist threat.

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The Obama administration is destroying the dollar--deliberately, some say. A major restructuring is underway, over which, the American people have no real influence.

Gold could hit the next milestone--$1,400 an ounce--before the end of this year.

China Confidential analysts predict the precious metal will rise to $2,000 an ounce before the end of 2010.

Golnaz Esfandiari reports for RFE/RL:

Members of the Green movement opposed to Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad voiced a clear demand to U.S. President Barack Obama this week.

Thousands protesting in Tehran streets on the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover on November 4 called on Obama to choose sides with either the Iranian government, or their struggle against that government, which they don't consider legitimate.

Opposition members believe that Ahmadinejad was reelected as the result of massive vote-rigging in the June 12 presidential vote.

"Obama, Obama -- either with us, or with them!" chanted opposition members as they returned to the streets to protest. (Watch video)

Amir, a Tehran-based journalist and supporter of the opposition, tells RFE/RL the chant is a reaction to what he describes as the United States' "overinclination" to strike a deal with the Iranian government over the ongoing nuclear crisis, while disregarding the opposition movement.

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Former French investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere said that Japan is among Al-Qaeda's prime targets for attack, while promoting a book about his 25 years fighting terrorism.

Bruguiere, now retired at 65, also describes Pakistan as the "cauldron" of terrorism and blames ex-president Pervez Musharraf for failing to address the threat of extremists during his seven years in power.

"Japan has become a prime target for Al-Qaeda," Bruguiere told journalists late Thursday at an event for the release of his book "Ce que je n'ai pas pu dire" (What I Couldn't Reveal).

Japan's geographical position and, in particular, its large Pakistani community make the country vulnerable to an attack, he said.

The retired judge said he had alerted Japan of the threat as he had done for the United States before the September 11, 2001 attacks.


-AFP

As per yesterday's predictions, America's islamist-appeasing Commander-in-Chief is moving to downplay the jihad connection to the Fort Hood massacre. Washington sources say he is also likely to again praise "peaceful" Islam's nonexistent (pre-9/11) role in shaping the United States.

Commenting on the mass killing by a devout Muslim Army major, Obama asked Americans not to "jump to conclusions" about the incident, saying that investigators are still gathering information.

"We don't know all the answers yet," Obama said, adding that he has ordered flags at the White House and other government buildings to be lowered to half-staff in memory of the victims.

China Confidential sources in East Jerusalem say many residents of the predominantly Arab section are expressing strong support for the Muslim U.S. Army major who mowed down his fellow soldiers at the huge Fort Hood, Texas base and processing center for troops bound for Afghanistan and Iraq.

The word on the so-called Arab street is that Major Nidal Malik Hasan should be admired because he stood up for fellow Muslims overseas, against U.S. "aggression," and that his anger, disappointment, and presumed sense of betrayal over U.S. President Barack Obama's failure to end the Afghan and Iraq conflicts is understandable, especially in light of Obama's own Muslim heritage.

In Hamas-ruled Gaza, sources say, the reaction is overwhelmingly in support of the shooter. He would clearly be given a hero's welcome there.

Atlas Shrugs has an up-to-the-minute wrap-up--here.

The soldiers in the processing area where the jihadist Army major struck were sitting ducks; if not for a security officer, there would be even more victims.

A disturbing portrait emerges ... of a Muslim extremist. Click here for the story.

The Los Angeles Times reports:

The Pakistani government has lost control of rogue military and intelligence officers who aid Al Qaeda and its allies and play a double game with the West, a renowned French judge asserts in an upcoming book.

For three decades, Jean-Louis Bruguiere was an investigative magistrate, a powerful role that combines the duties of prosecutor and judge and allowed him to cultivate high-level contacts from Algiers to Moscow. He stepped down from that post in 2007, and now serves as the European Union's envoy to Washington on issues related to the financing of terrorism.

His 481-page book, "What I Could Not Say," is to be published Monday in France.

An advance copy obtained by The Times bolsters the 66-year-old official's swashbuckling reputation with previously undisclosed witness testimony and intelligence documents from a trove of case files.

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A secret report says Islamist Iran can put nuclear bombs on missiles. Click here to read the story, an exclusive in the Guardian.

So as not to be outdone by The (pro-Islamist) Washington Post, ABC News is trying hard to justify the Muslim terror attack at a U.S. Army base. Click here for the network's incredibly offensive--downright disgusting--story.

Walid Phares' analysis is must reading:

The Fort Hood killings, perpetrated by Major Malik Nadal Hasan, a psychiatric by training, no matter what the judiciary reports will conclude is for now the largest single Terror act in America since 9/11. This quantitative finding will take into consideration dramatic change in the data released by authorities.

The shooting inside a US military installation that led to the killing of many personnel compels us to ponder. Over the past few years and months authorities have stopped attempts on similar attacks. The Fort Dix Jihadi plot, dismantled in 2006, aimed at performing a killing of military personnel inside the base. Other cells, dismantled in Georgia, New York and North Carolina also had plans for attacking military installations on US soil. But more importantly a number of lone wolves have also expressed intentions to attack military personnel.

This year, a person by the name Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, shot two US military at the Army-Navy Career Center in a shopping center in west Little Rock, killing one. In cyberspace Jihadi threats against US military in the homeland and against American cities has been ongoing. Information collected by authorities, including from suspects and indicted individuals has shown a pattern by the Jihadists (militants or propagandists) indicating their intentions to strike at military and security installations.

Such incident in Fort Hood, whatever is the personal motive, falls in the category of demonization of the US and its military. Meaning, whatever were the causes of the individual aggression, the latter was legitimized by the perception that America is the "enemy." Investigation will show quickly if the motives are strictly personal or ideological, or a hybrid set of motives. All depends on the early investigation made available to the public....

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Influenced by White House operatives, possibly, The Washington Post is working overtime to put an anti-war spin on the Muslim Army doctor's mass murder at Fort Hood. Click here for the odious Post piece.