A few weeks ago, a disturbing story broke that Morgan Freeman was maintaining a 10-year relationship with his step-granddaughter with whom he had a questionable sexual encounter when she was young. Yes, they are not related through blood, but Freeman is 72 and E'Dena Hines is now 27, which means she would have been 17 when they first... um... got together. Once Freeman's wife found out about their secret affair she filed for divorce, and now the Enquirer is claiming that once proceedings go through, he and Hines are set to wed.
"Morgan has led her to believe that he wants to marry her," says a family insider. Another source says, "Becoming Mrs. Morgan Freeman has been E'Dena's goal."
Morgan Freeman, Roman Polanski, and Woody Allen are all Hollywood elitists, standing above mere mortals, but if this were Joe six-pack he would be behind bars.
Lets face it, before this came to light he had about as much chance of becoming president as I do. Now he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell. He sounds more like a driveling liberal from California then a Republican Congressman from Texas. His Libertarian views bode well with the liberal bastion of insanity know as the ACLU.
A terrorist is a terrorist, but what makes them particularly more disgusting, more reprehensible... is when they are Americans.Once these Jihadists attack the United States they forfeit any rights they had as Americans.
Using Barney's logic we should have sent them a post card requesting they come in for questioning.
Ron Paul, the Texas congressman who is seeking theGOPpresidential nomination, on Friday criticized the Obama administration's action in killing Anwar Awlaki, the American-born cleric who advocated jihad against the United States.
Paul was the strongest critic on the Republican side in condemning the attack, which was praised by other candidates including Texas Gov.Rick Perry. Former New Mexico Gov.Gary Johnson, a libertarian like Paul, also questioned the tactic of killing a U.S. citizen without due process.
Awlaki, a prominent voice inYemen'sAl Qaedaaffiliate, and Samir Khan, an editor of a jihadist magazine, were killed in an air attack in Yemen by what U.S. and Yemeni officials say was an operation that involvedU.S. militaryand intelligence assets. The attack is part of a campaign against Islamic terrorists that included the killing of Al Qaeda chiefOsama bin Ladenin May inPakistan.
After a campaign stop at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, Paul told reporters that Americans need to think about such actions because Awlaki was born in the United States and was entitled to the same rights as all U.S. citizens.
"No, I don't think that's a good way to deal with our problems," Paul said in a videotape of the questioning by reporters. Awlaki "was never tried or charged for any crimes. No one knows if he killed anybody. We know he might have been associated with the 'underwear bomber.' But if the American people accept this blindly and casually that we now have an accepted practice of the president assassinating people who he thinks are bad guys. I think it's sad."
Paul went on to compare the situation toTimothy McVeigh,convicted of blowing up a truck bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. The attack killed 168 people and injured more than 800 people.
"I think, what would people have said about Timothy McVeigh? We didn't assassinate him, who certainly had done it," Paul said. McVeigh "was put through the courts then executed. … To start assassinating American citizens without charges, we should think very seriously about this."
Paul argued that the killing of Awlaki was different from the attack on Bin Laden because Bin Laden was involved in the9/11attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.
"I voted for authority to go after those individuals responsible for 9/11," Paul said. "Nobody ever suggested that he [Awlaki] was participant in 9/11."
Paul has been running behind the leaders in the GOP race for the presidential nod, but has been as high as third or fourth in many national polls, running at around 10%. Johnson has been far back in the pack, running in the very low single digits.
In an interview withFox News, Johnson made the same points as Paul, warning that killing an American citizen without due process set a dangerous precedent despite the need for the United States to remain vigilant against terrorism.
Paul and Johnson represent the neo-isolationist wing of the GOP, but other parts of the Republican Party have advocated a foreign policy based on a more robust U.S. role abroad. Perry, the leader in most polls for the GOP nomination though his star has faded in recent days, praised the attack.
"I want to congratulate the United States military and intelligence communities – andPresident Obamafor sticking with the government's long-standing and aggressive anti-terror policies – for getting another key international terrorist," Perry said in a prepared statement.
Perry went on to call the death of Awlaki an "important victory in the war on terror."
[Updated at 10:01 a.m. Sept. 30:Former Massachusetts Gov.Mitt Romneyalso praised the Obama administration in a prepared statement.
"I commend the president, the members of the intelligence community, our service members, and our allies for their continued efforts to keep Americans safe," Romney stated.]
Ironically, the libertarian opposition to the attack was similar to the argument by theAmerican Civil Liberties Unionin its disapproval.
"The targeted killing program violates both U.S. and international law," ACLU deputy legal director Jameel Jaffer said in a prepared statement. "As we've seen today, this is a program under which American citizens far from any battlefield can be executed by their own government without judicial process, and on the basis of standards and evidence that are kept secret not just from the public but from the courts.
"The government's authority to use lethal force against its own citizens should be limited to circumstances in which the threat to life is concrete, specific and imminent. It is a mistake to invest the president – any president – with the unreviewable power to kill any American whom he deems to present a threat to the country," he stated.
Ron Paul criticizes Obama for U.S. role in killing of Awlaki
I guess there's nothing like waking up in the morning to the smell of coffee and turning on my MBP to discover another terrorist has been killed, and to my delight, a stick in the eye to the ACLU.
(you know... his civil rights are being violated)
Update
We won the daily double.
Samir (worm food) Khan
Wasthe co-editor of an English-language Al Qaeda web magazine called "Inspire." His magazine promoted attacks against U.S. targets, even running articles on how to put together explosives. One of his featured articles... "MAKE A BOMB IN THE KITCHEN OF YOUR MOM". Khan wrote that he had moved to Yemen and joined Al Qaeda's fighters, pledging to "wage jihad for the rest of our lives."
Instead of investing in Green companies we should invest in companies making drones. At least we would see some tangible results.
Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born radical Islamic preacher who rose to the highest level of al Qaeda's franchise in Yemen, has been killed.
Al-Awlaki, born in New Mexico, has been linked to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's (AQAP) attempted bombing of a U.S. passenger jet over Detroit on Christmas day, 2009, and was thought to be a leader of the group.
A U.S. government official confirms to CBS News senior security correspondent David Martin that al-Awlaki was killed. Yemen's Defense Ministry was first to tell CBS News of the strike, but given previous reports which turned out to be erroneous, the relatively rapid U.S. confirmation is crucial, and bolsters witness accounts that it was a U.S. drone strike that killed the al Qaeda figure.
U.S. officials considered al-Awlaki a most-wanted terror suspect, and added his name last year to the kill or capture list - making him a rare American addition to what is effectively a U.S. government hit-list.
Al-Awlaki's father, who still lives in the U.S., filed a lawsuit against the federal government, claiming his son's civil rights were violated by the U.S. call for his killing.
Dr Nasser al-Awlaki had described his son as an 'all-American boy'
'All-American boy' that's living in Yemen devising ways to kill Americans!
Awlaki's father Nasser Al-Awlaki asked the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights to challenge the government's placement of his son on a list of U.S. citizens who can be assassinated by U.S. forces and intelligence services for ties to terrorism.
A federal court dismissed Nasser al-Awlaki's suit on Dec. 7, 2010, on the grounds that he had no legal standing to challenge the targeting of his son.
A statement from Yemen's foreign press office said the al Qaeda suspect "was targeted and killed 8 KM (about 5 miles) from the town of Khashef in the Province of Jawf, 140KM (about 80 miles) east of the Capital Sana'a."
Al-Arabiya television network cited local tribal sources as saying suspected U.S. drone aircraft - which are known to operate in Yemen - fired two missiles Friday at a convoy of vehicles believed to be carrying al-Awlaki and his guards.
CBS News' Khaled Wassef says Al-Awlaki was first reported dead following U.S. air strikes on southern Yemen in December 2009, and then again in November 2010. He was also the target of a U.S. drone attack that killed two al Qaeda operatives in southern Yemen on May 5, 2011.
Wassef reports that al-Awlaki last appeared in a video released online in August 2010.
Yemen has risen in recent years to the top of the threat list for U.S. security officials - with AQAP seen as the most active branch of the global terror network in planning attacks against the U.S. homeland.
Al-Awlaki was believed to be a prominent member of the group, taking some role in the planning of actual terror plots, in addition to his role as a religious adviser and powerful recruiting officer. His clear English, American roots, and powerful speaking skills are believed to have attracted many young Muslims from within the U.S. to the cause of jihad.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 19-year-old Nigerian who attempted to blow up the flight to Detroit in 2009, may have met al-Awlaki, and was trained at camps run by the cleric, when he traveled to Yemen just before his attack.
Al-Awlaki's voluminous online preaching, in both video and print form, is also thought to have inspired Ft. Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, and Time Square car bomber Faisal Shahzad.
His death will deal AQAP a serious blow, particularly, says CBS News terrorism analyst Juan Zarate, his work to draw young Muslims into the jihadi mindset.
"His role as a propagandist actually will be very difficult to fill," says Zarate.
Ben Venzke, who heads intelligence contracting group IntelCenter in the Washington area, says al-Awlaki's death will not, however, seriously diminish the threat posed by the al Qaeda franchise.
"AQAP remains one of the most dangerous al Qaeda regional arms both in its region and for the direct threat it poses to the U.S. following three recent failed attacks," said Venzke, who monitors jihadi propaganda for myriad U.S. government agencies. "AQAP leader Nasir al-Wuhayshi, who is responsible for expanding the group's focus to conduct attacks on U.S. soil, remains in charge of the group and further attempts to conduct attacks in the U.S. are expected."
This smiling dog turd is no longer among the living
Bush, two days after 911, gave Pakistan an ultimatum, either you're with us or against us.
Now after giving them billions, while we watch them burn our flag, there is indisputable, irrefutable proof they have been double dealing us all along and I'm not talking just about Bin Laden, who felt quite comfortable living 100 yards away from a Pakistani military base.
The article below is in response to this electrifying video.
Adm. Mike Mullen
Pakistan's PM Warns US to End 'Negative Messaging' on Militancy September 27, 2011
Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani is warning the United States it must end "negative messaging" by accusing Pakistan of supporting militant attacks in Afghanistan. He says such accusations will only strengthen anti-American feelings in his country.
In an interview with the Reuters news agency, Gilani said unilateral U.S. military action to hunt down Haqqani network militants inside Pakistan - similar to the raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in May - would be a violation of his country's sovereignty.
Gilani's statement came a day after the Pakistani military said it would not target the al-Qaida and Taliban-linked Haqqani network because it is already stretched too thin battling militants elsewhere in northwestern Pakistan.
Also Tuesday, hundreds of Pakistanis turned out for anti-American rallies across the country, and a suspected U.S. drone fired two missiles on a compound near Wana in the South Waziristan tribal region, killing at least three alleged militants.
On the final day of the U.N. General Assembly's annual session in New York Tuesday, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said few countries have been as brutally ravaged by terrorism as Pakistan. She told the gathering that 30,000 civilians, police and security forces have been killed since 2002. Khar said Islamabad is determined to eliminate terrorism from its soil, from the region and from the world, and she called for enhanced international cooperation to wipe it out.
Her remarks came as the White House urged the Pakistani government "to take action" to deal with the Haqqani network that Washington says conducts attacks against international forces from its base in Pakistan's lawless North Waziristan tribal region.
But in an online statement Tuesday, the Taliban said that it, not Pakistan, controls the Haqqani network. The group said there are no ties between the Haqqani network and Pakistan's spy agency, the ISI, and that Haqqani fighters do not seek refuge in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region, as Washington claims.
The Taliban statement also said attempts to link the Haqqani network's founder, Jalaluddin Haqqani, to the Pakistani government are designed to "give a bad name" to its prominent figures by tying them to foreign intelligence services.
He is warning us?
1. He's a lying son-of-of-bitch. or 2. He's not aware of what certain facets of his government are involved in. I suspect the former.
Further evidence:
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Cell phones link Pakistan to U.S. embassy attack (Terrorist called Pakistani intelligence)
The insurgents who attacked the U.S. Embassy in Kabul last week were killed but their cell phones left a trail.
The phones had been used to call Pakistani intelligence operatives before and during the assault. Calls were made to the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) the Pakistani intelligence agency. This evidence lies behind the charge made by Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that the Haqqani network is a "veritable arm" of Pakistani intelligence, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.
The attack on the U.S. Embassy and NATO's Afghan headquarters resulted in a 22-hour firefight - with American troops pinned down on roof tops.
The Taliban responds:
No rag head is capable of telling the truth, its part of their religion. What would you expect them to say? America is right, we have ties with the Pakistani government?
Taliban Says Haqqani Network Has No Ties To Pakistan
Jalaluddin Haqqani
September 27, 2011
The Taliban has rejected claims that it or any of its allies have ties to the Pakistani government.
The insurgent group said in a statement issued today that it has no bases in Pakistan.
The English-language statement in the name of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan -- the Taliban's name for itself -- was posted on its Voice of Jihad website.
The Taliban also rejected U.S. charges that the Haqqani network, one of its key allies, has ties to Pakistan's intelligence service. The statement said Haqqani network founder Jalaluddin Haqqani is a key member of the Taliban leadership. The top U.S. military officer, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, recently accused Pakistan's intelligence service of supporting the Haqqani network.
The United States has also blamed the Haqqani network over the September 13 attack on its embassy in Kabul, in which 14 people died.
On September 26, U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner called for action to be taken against militant safe havens.
"We are very clear in our position on this," Toner said. "We believe that these kind of safe havens are extremely troubling and, indeed, a matter of great concern and a dangerous development for both the United States and for Pakistan. So we want to see action taken against them." Toner also said the United States is considering placing the Haqqani network on its list of terror groups.
Let Charles put it to rest. As usual he is dead on with his commentary.
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On Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen’s testimony that the Haqqani network “acts as a veritable arm” of the ISI, which supported Haqqani’s June truck bombing of the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul and attack this month on the U.S. Embassy:
There’s sort of a complete shift in conceptual thinking here. We went into the war in Afghanistan with Pakistan as our ally against the terrorists — al-Qaeda and the Taliban. And under Musharraf — especially in the early years when we said to the Pakistanis, you either are going to be our ally (it was an ultimatum by the Bush Administration) or we’re going to bomb you back into the Stone Age — they were our allies.
Over the decade, those who were pro-American have been weakened within Pakistan. And now the paradox is that Afghanistan is our base for keeping an eye on and attacking our enemies in Pakistan, namely Haqqani and the other terrorists who are in the northwest frontier regions.
So, rather than thinking of Pakistan as an ally against Afghanistan, Afghanistan, for all of [its] instability and the hostility that America has to face there, is the base of operations from which we keep eye on the bad guys in the region. It’s an interesting and almost a paradoxical reason for continuing our presence in Afghanistan.
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On how to pressure Pakistan:
Well, there’s one other step that we can do, and it would be a parallel to the Pakistanis ostentatiously asking the Chinese to make a visit. I would … [involve] the Indians. I think we ought to be sending a high-level delegation to India to discuss regional issues. That will scare the Pakistanis. That’s the one enemy they worry about above all. Showing the beginning of a new kind of alliance between America and India, I think would probably make the Pakistanis think twice about opposing us, and [pursuing] a tight alliance with China.
