Jihad funding ring in Maryland…with illegal alien help 
Michelle Malkin

Via Jihad Watch, here’s news of a bunch of FBI arrests in connection with a busted jihadi funding ring. Those ensnared include nine Pakistani illegal aliens, and one defendant charged with attempting to finance al Qaeda. National security-immigration enforcement nexus, anyone: ...

Below the fold

• Does Europe Oppose An American Withdrawal?

• More quick hits

Quick hits:

• Court Advances Military Trials For Gitmo
• Military Tribunals Finally Listening to Big Lizards' Advice

• War Weary Stryker Dubbed General Lee Comes Home For Reset

• Syrians acting strangely on an airplane…again
• Syrians detained on Panama-bound plane

• Supreme Court to Hear Voter ID Case

• Shamnesty Watch: S-CHIP loophole - New health care benefits for illegal aliens?

• Video: Tiny terrorist declares end of world order, dawn of new golden age
• All eyes on the U.N.; Bush challenges the farcical Human Rights Council;
  Cuban delegation walks out; Update: Soros-bots arrested;
  Update: Interview with a real Iranian human rights activist;
  Update: U.S. walks out on A-jad
• Bush To Address UN On Myanmar
• Video: Cubans walk out during Bush’s UN speech
• Bush's State Of The Global Union Speech

• Heather Mac Donald on the Jena 6
  Michelle Malkin: Heather Mac Donald, one of America’s most penetrating writers on race, culture, and crime, looks beyond the Jena Six theatrics and tells unvarnished truths: ...
• Patterico: More on the Jena 6

• San Francisco is at it again
  Michelle Malkin: KGO reports that San Francisco is dissing the military again:" New York said “yes,” but we said “no.” Why were the U.S. Marines denied permission to film a recruiting commercial on the streets of San Francisco? San Francisco is, once again, the center of a controversy over how city leaders treat the U.S. military. This time, it involves an elite group of Marines who wanted to film a recruitment commercial in San Francisco on the anniversary of 9/11. ..."
• Bruce Kesler: Marines Stabbed In Heart In San Francisco
• Another attack on the Blue Angels rebuffed

Does Europe Oppose An American Withdrawal?
Ed Morrissey

The think tank Atlantic Community asked leading European policy analysts whether an American withdrawal from Iraq would be the best policy going forward. To AC's surprise, they almost unanimously consider a withdrawal dangerous and a prelude to disaster:

While the American public and policy debate revolves largely around exit strategies and “redeployment,” there is apparent consensus among European policy analysts that American troops should remain in Iraq for the foreseeable future. In contrast to both European media opinion and the prevailing views of American liberals, our respondents supported sustained troop levels. Many consider the announcement of a timetable for withdrawal to be counter-productive and even outright dangerous, saying that lack of American involvement would drive Iraq into further chaos. ...

More quick hits:

• New Vent: Michelle interviews Iranian democracy activist Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi

• New Vent: Protesting Ahmadinejad at Columbia

• Hitler Jr. Addresses Columbia University

• Rope A Dope? Hardly

• Ill will for Ahmadinejad
  Betsy Pisik: NEW YORK — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday plunged into an openly hostile audience at Columbia University, defying Zionist groups, Iranian expatriates and anti-nuclear activists to defend his government's nuclear program and its antipathy toward Israel.

Contributed by Bill Faith on September 25, 2007 at 12:16 AM | Permalink

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