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Will James Jones and Hillary Clinton butt heads over Middle East policy?

What will be Barack Obama's policy towards the Middle East? During the campaign, this was a question that flummoxed partisans of both the Israeli and Palestinian causes. There was enough conflicting evidence of his intentions to lead everyone to believe that they would have a friend in the White House. More

Captured terrorist's account of Mumbai massacre reveals plan was to kill 5,000

This is the most complete story and photos on the Mumbai Massacre.

The only terrorist captured alive after the Mumbai massacre has given police the first full account of the extraordinary events that led to it – revealing he was ordered to ‘kill until the last breath’.

Azam Amir Kasab, 21, from Pakistan, said the attacks were meticulously planned six months ago and were intended to kill 5,000 people.

He revealed that the ten terrorists, who were highly trained in marine assault and crept into the city by boat, had planned to blow up the Taj Mahal Palace hotel after first executing British and American tourists and then taking hostages. More

Mumbai: Doctors Shocked At Hostages Torture

Doctors working in a hospital where all the bodies, including that of the terrorists, were taken said they had not seen anything like this in their lives.

"Of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks."

"Bombay has a long history of terror. I have seen bodies of riot victims, gang war and previous terror attacks like bomb blasts. But this was entirely different. It was shocking and disturbing," a doctor said. More

Outgoing J'lem Mayor: Olmert is Dividing Jerusalem

Speaking with the Israeli business site "Globes" just days before Mayor Lupolianski is to leave office, the smiling, easy-going hareidi-religious public official had harsh words for his predecessor – though spiced with compliments.

“When we talk about keeping the city unified,” Lupolianski said, “it must be clear that this cannot be done in a city that has such wide gaps [between the Jewish and Arab sectors]. But the government is, de facto, dividing the city.” More

Bush calls Olmert foolish on Golan give-away

When US President George W. Bush met with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week he urged Olmert to reconsider his ill-conceived rush to surrender the Golan Heights to Syria.

The sources told Ha'aretz that Bush pointedly asked Olmert, "Why do you want to give [Syrian President Bashar] Assad the Golan for nothing?" More

Terrorists at Chabad House 'deliberately targeted' Jews

The captured terrorist, Azam Amir Kasab told police his group was sent with a specific mission to target Israelis to avenge the Palestinians. That is why they targeted Nariman House (Chabad Center), the Times of India reports. Kasab said his comrades stayed there posing as Malaysian students.

Israeli media reported that some of the victims were found wrapped in prayer shawls, in accordance with Jewish burial tradition. The reports speculated that one of the hostages had wrapped the bodies before he was killed.

According to unconfirmed reports attributed to Indian security sources, most of the hostages were found bound and gagged by the commandos, and had been shot long before Indian forces landed on the roof from a helicopter on Thursday night. More

Interview with Bennie Begin

Begin recently buried the proverbial hatchet with Netanyahu and announced he will be running in the upcoming Likud primary. Since his announcement, several other big names - among them former Likud minister and defunct Center party founder Dan Meridor, former police chief Assaf Hefetz, former chief of General Staff Moshe (Bogie) Ya'alon and even basketball champ Tal Brody - have followed suit. This, coupled with polls pointing to a Netanyahu victory in the February 10 elections, has opponents on high alert. More

MUSIC THREAD ..... HOPE EVEN AFTER THE JEWISH MURDERS IN MUMBAI

I know Friday night open threads are generally a break from the tsunami of evil crashing in on the West but there was no way -- not tonight, not this week, not when confronted by the Demonic face of evil.  Site: Atlas Shrugs

Sixth body of murdered Israeli hostage found at Chabad Center in Mumbai

Israeli defense minister said in a Channel 1 TV interview that some of the bodies bore signs that they had been bound hand and foot and the two Israeli women had been killed hours before the men. More

Two more bodies found.

FOX NEWS GOES OVER TO THE DARKSIDE

Watch their numbers slide. FOX never really understood why they were number one. Back as far as 2005, I lamented the dhimmitude here and  here and here. We all lost a chunk of our innocence when after the Saudis purchased 6% of the FOX News. The fix was in. FOX threw in with the Saudis and we could not help but notice the increasing Saudi influence at FOX News ever since the French riots of 2005 when after one phone call, FOX newscasters stopped calling the Muslim rioters Muslims. More