Re: Convert or Die

via The Fourth Rail

NATO led forces kill 200 Taliban in Operation Medusa

I guess the Canadians Forces have responded in a timely and appropriate manner.

A Sunday question

How are this ship
and this
related?

See here for the answer.

Meanwhile, we continue to soldier on, in ways that damn us if we do, and damn us if we don't.

Since it's a lose-lose proposition, because our political and cultural foes will spin to the dark side regardless of how things like this progress... we should just do what the system prescribes:

Let 'em have their day in court.

An Army investigator has recommended that four soldiers accused of murder in a raid in Iraq should face the death penalty if convicted, according to a report obtained Saturday by The Associated Press.

Lt. Col. James P. Daniel Jr. concluded that the slayings were premeditated and warranted the death sentence based on evidence he heard at an August hearing. The case will now be forwarded to Army officials, who will decide whether Daniel's recommendation should be followed.

The soldiers, all from the Fort Campbell, Ky.-based 101st Airborne Division's 187th Infantry Regiment, are accused of killing three Iraqi men taken from a house May 9 on a marshy island outside Samarra, about 60 miles north of Baghdad.

And if the death penalty is the outcome, that's the outcome. The Feds haven't been feeding the execution monster much. And the military even less. There are nine guys on death row at Leavenworth currently and the last US military execution took place in April 1961. We've got guys on death row who've been there a long time. If these guys are convicted, and get moved to the head of the line... *that* will get tied up in the courts over the appearance of politics.

Whether this is a Pantano moment, a Manyulet or a Welshofer moment, let them settle it in court.

The enemy speaks: Convert or die

Nice to have an idea where the enemy wants to go. As set out here, the "Future Jihad in America" video from is "a sample of what is on the mind of Salafi Jihadists for the United States and the West." Or as Whalid Phares puts it:

The video tape issued by al Qaeda’s “as-sahhab” production, in which Ayman Zawahiri introduces Jihadist Adam Gahdan to the world as a senior speaker to the American people on behalf of the movement, should be taken seriously.

In short, the “Azzam” video reconfirms clearly, in an English language that academic translators won’t be able to distort, that al Qaeda’s movement worldwide and in the United States is seeking total annihilation or conversion of the enemy: American and other democracies.

More at Jihad Watch here and here.