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July 2012

AMAGANSETT BEACH JUNE 1942…OPERATION PASTORIUS

http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/socialeffectsofwar/p/pastorius.htm

With the American entry into World War II in late 1941, German authorities began planning to land agents in the United States to collect intelligence and carry out attacks against industrial targets. Organization of these activities was delegated to the Abwehr, Germany’s intelligence agency, which was headed by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris. Direct control of the American operations was given to William Kappe, a long-time Nazi who had lived in the United States for twelve years. Canaris named the American effort Operation Pastorius after Francis Pastorius who led the first German settlement in North America.

Dasch was to lead Ernst Burger, Heinrich Heinck, and Richard Quirin in attacking the hydroelectric plants at Niagara Falls, a cryolite plant in Philadelphia, canal locks on the Ohio River, as well as Aluminum Company of America factories in New York, Illinois, and Tennessee. Kerling’s team of Hermann Neubauer, Herbert Haupt, and Werner Thiel were designated to strike the water system in New York City, a railroad station in Newark, Horseshoe Bend near Altoona, PA, as well as canal locks at St. Louis and Cincinnati. The teams planned to rendezvous at Cincinnati on July 4, 1942.
Arriving first, Dasch’s team landed on the night of June 13. Coming ashore on a beach near Amagansett, NY, they wore German uniforms to avoid being shot as spies if captured during the landing. Reaching the beach, Dasch’s men began burying their explosives and other supplies.

Placed before a seven-member commission, the Germans were accused of:

* Violating the law of war
* Violating Article 81 of the Articles of War, defining the offense of corresponding with or giving intelligence to the enemy
* Violating Article 82 of the Articles of War, defining the offense of spying
* Conspiracy to commit the offenses alleged in the first three charges

Though their lawyers, including Lauson Stone and Kenneth Royall, attempted to have the case moved to a civilian court, their efforts were in vain. The trial moved forward in the Department of Justice Building in Washington that July. All eight were found guilty and sentenced to death. For their assistance in foiling the plot, Dasch and Burger had their sentences commuted by Roosevelt and were given 30 years and life in prison respectively. In 1948, President Harry Truman showed both men clemency and had them deported to the American Zone of occupied Germany. The remaining six were electrocuted at the District Jail in Washington on August 8, 1942.

EUROPEAN COMMISSION CHIEF BARROSO….THE PEACE PROCESS MUST NOT BECOME “AN ORPHAN OF THE ARAB SPRING”

http://news.yahoo.com/west-bank-eus-barroso-urges-peace-talks-104702983.html European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso called on Sunday for a return to Israeli-Palestinian talks, warning the peace process must not become “an orphan of the Arab Spring.” Barroso was speaking after talks with Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad on the first day of a trip which includes stops in the West Bank and […]

THE WEEK IN JIHAD

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

Islam’s Latest Contributions to Peace
“Mohammed is God’s apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless
to the unbelievers but merciful to one another” Quran 48:29

2012.07.07 (Kushen, Nigeria) – Muslim terrorists attack two Christian villages and massacre two dozen innocents.
2012.07.07 (Chora, Afghanistan) – Three children are among six civilians blown to bits by Sunni hardliners.
2012.07.07 (Gereshk, Afghanistan) – A child is dismantled by a Taliban bomb.
2012.07.07 (Ramadi, Iraq) – A suicide bomber detonates in the house of a family member, killing ten relatives, most of whom were women.
2012.07.06 (Anbar, Iraq) – An entire family of four, including two children, bleed to death following a suicide attack on their home.
2012.07.05 (Mosul, Iraq) – A Shahid suicide bomber detonates inside a barber shop, sending at least five others to Allah.

DEROY MURDOCK: REMEMBER THE MEXICAN VICTIMS OF FAST AND FURIOUS

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/304835/remember-fast-and-furious-s-mexican-victims-deroy-murdock The American people finally have heard of Brian Terry. He is the best-known victim of Fast and Furious, an Obama-administration conventional-weapons-proliferation program. Between November 2009 and January 2011, Team Obama arranged for licensed firearms dealers to sell guns to straw buyers, who transferred them to known violent criminals in Mexico. Two of these firearms, […]

MARK STEYN: AMERICAN TWILIGHT

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/304888/american-twilight-mark-steyn This weekend, I am thousands of miles from home in a remote and isolated part of the world with erratic communications and lack of basic services. No, not Washington, D.C. Things aren’t that primitive, thank God. I’m in a rude Highland croft way up a far Scottish brae, enjoying the simple life by choice, […]

HOMELAND SECURITY CITES SHARP RISE IN CYBER ATTACKS

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2012/07/05/homeland-security-cites-sharp-rise-in-cyber-attacks/ The companies that control critical infrastructure in the United States are reporting higher numbers of attacks on their systems over the past three years, according to a report issued by the Department of Homeland Security. The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) says the number of reported attacks is up and attackers […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD: THE ECONOMICS OF PLANNED GLOBAL FAILURE

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Debt is the surest and shortest path to a global economy. Punishing all actors in local economies but those who are “too big to fail” empowers “too big to fail” systems and “too big to fail” economies. Encouraging debt and the eventual assumption of debt passed on and commodified by increasingly larger political and […]

R.I.P. FREE SPEECH ABOUT ISLAM: ADAM TURNER

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/rip_free_speech_about_islam.html The right of Westerners to speak freely regarding Islam-related topics — radical Islam or Islamism, Islamist terrorism, and Islamist terror funding — is in jeopardy. Islamists and their sympathizers try to silence any and all questions possibly critical of Islam with a vicious, multi-pronged assault until a critic is silenced, punished, or made an […]

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OBAMA IS CAUGHT WITHHOLDING A PURPLE HEART FROM A SOLDIER KILLED BY A JIHADI IN LITTLE ROCK

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