THIS DAY April 12
Posted by Rebecca on April 13, 2009
April 12, 2009: Gaza, Judea and Samaria (Palistine). Northern Irish republican leader Gerry Adams met with Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza.Israel’s Foreign Ministry had recommended that Adams, president of the Sinn Fein republican party, not be permitted to enter Gaza since he planned to meet with Hamas. He was permitted to enter Gaza on Wednesday after Quartet Mideast envoy Tony Blair intervened, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Blair reportedly told Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak that Adams had experience as a mediator, and could pass messages and act as a go-between for Israel and Hamas.
Adams met Haniyeh Thursday in a meeting that was not announced beforehand.
He was quoted by the British Guardian newspaper after the meeting as saying: “This is a total denial of the rights of the people of Palestine. This is an open-air prison. People can’t travel out of here, they can’t travel in.”
Adams met with Palestinian social activists, business people and Hamas and Fatah officials, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Adams also visited Sderot before crossing into Gaza. Israeli officials refused to meet with Adams since he met with Hamas. Adams was scheduled to meet with Fatah officials in Ramallah on Friday.
April 12, 2009: Gaza, Judea and Samaria (Palistine). Hamas terrorists in Kalkilya built a large supply of bombs and stored them in a local mosque without raising suspicion from local Palestinian Authority armed forces who represent the rival Fatah faction. However, the terrorists were out of luck on Wednesday, Passover eve, when a simple electric shortage gave away their plans.
The shortage caused a small fire in the mosque, bringing PA forces to the building, where they found bombs ready for use and large cannisters of bomb-making materials. The mosque was closed down, and PA sappers removed the explosives.
The bombs were then turned over to the IDF, which sent experts to detonate the weapons in a controlled explosion.
A captain in the PA forces told Israeli journalists that the mosque had been used to both produce and store the bombs. “It was a huge weapons lab,” he said.
April 12, 2009: Iskandariyah, Iraq. A woman grieves for her nephew, Omar al-Jenabi, who was killed in a suicide bombing, as the family gathers outside a hospital in Iskandariyah, 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, A suicide bomber walked into a crowd of U.S.-allied Sunni paramilitaries waiting in line for their salaries in Iraq on Saturday and detonated his explosives belt, Iraqi police said. The 11 a.m. explosion took place outside the military headquarters in the town of Jbala, about 35 miles (50 kilometers) south of Baghdad
Bodies of Sahwa members fill the Iskandiriyah morgue south of Baghdad. A suicide bomber has struck the headquarters of a US-allied Sunni militia south of Baghdad, killing nine people and extending a recent rise in deadly bombings across Iraq.
Fadil Abbas is seen at a hospital in Iskandariyah, after being wounded in a suicide bombing SaturdayApril 12, 2009:: Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi policemen stand guard outside a Christian church a day ahead of Easter Sunday in the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad.
April 12, 2009:Amsterdam, Holland A Dutch TV jury has found Osama bin Laden not guilty of the September 11 attacks. In the conclusion Wednesday night to the show Devil’s Advocate on Dutch public broadcaster Nederland 2, the jury of two men and three women, along with the studio audience, ruled that there was no proof bin Laden was the mastermind behind the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in 2001….
The show features star defence attorney Gerard Spong standing up for some of the world’s worst criminals. In the latest show, Spong was able to convince the jury that bin Laden’s connection to September 11 was a product of “Western propaganda”.
The jury also ruled there was insufficient evidence to prove bin Laden was the real head of terrorist network Al Qaeda. The jury did rule, however, that bin Laden is a “terrorist who has misused Islam”…. 
Here is more about Spong
The Dutch Muslim Council has called Wilders a “racist, fascist and authoritarian” and a threat to Dutch society. Several Dutch Muslim and leftist organizations and individuals have lodged more than 40 complaints against Wilders for incitement to racial hatred.
The case against Wilders has been brought pro bono on behalf of Dutch Muslim and leftist organizations by one Gerard Spong, a flamboyantly gay criminal legal eagle has offered to defend their cases free of charge. Spong was a friend of the late Pim Fortuyn.
Spong, told Dutch television that “Wilders cannot be compared to Fortuyn because Wilders incites hatred against Muslims, which Fortuyn who had sex with Moroccan boys in dark rooms, did not do.
When Wilders says that half the Koran has to be ripped to pieces and burned, he is inciting hatred.” According to Spong the Dutch public prosecutor is a coward who is afraid to prosecute Wilders because the latter will claim that it is a political prosecution.
What is interesting here is he is gay, yet he is defending those that would not blink at decapitating all the “tulips” in Holland
Today’s Islamic Trivia Special
The 4th Crusade occupies & plunders Constantinople
NO BURQA,S HERE
Today’s khutbah (Islamic sermon)
Al -Baraqah 2.65 
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And well ye knew those amongst you who transgressed in the matter of the Sabbath; We said to them: “Be ye apes, despised and rejected.”
On This Day Since 9/11
April 12, 2002: India, Kashmir. -Four separate Fedayeen attacks across the region leave ten innocents dead and at least seventeen others injured.
April 12, 2004: Israel, Jerusalem. – Six people, including two Chinese nationals, are killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber at a bus stop in an attack that leaves one-hundred and four others injured.
April 12, 2004: Chechnya, Ishkhoi-Yurt. – At least seven policemen were killed in a terrorist attack by Jihad fighters on their vehicles.
April 12, 2005: Dagestan, Makhachkala.- A policeman is killed and two others injured as Islamic militants plant a bomb on a road leading to the airport.
April 12, 2005: Philippines, Tagaya. – An ambush by MILF terrorists leave four people dead.
April 12, 2005: India, Shopian. -The Mujahideen shoot a woman to death in front of her house.
April 12, 2005: Iraq, Mosul. – Fedayeen suicide bomber murders five civilians on a city street.
April 12, 2005: Iraq, Tal Afar. – A suicide car bomber manages to kill five Iraqis and injure eight. Most of the victims were children.
April 12, 2006: Kabardino-Balk. Nalchik . – Terrorists fire a grenade into an anti-Terrorism headquarters, killing a guard.
April 12, 2006: India, Tral. – A Mujahideen ambush against a vehicle leaves one dead.
April 12, 2006: Iraq, Kirkuk. – Terrorists attack a gas company executive and his wife, killing the woman.
April 12, 2006: Iraq, Baghdad. – Six separate Jihad attacks leave fifteen dead around the country, including truck drivers and oil workers.
April 12, 2006: Iraq, Khalis. -Two car bombs targeting vegetable markets leave four dead in Khalis and Tal Afar.
April 12, 2006: Iraq, Howaydir. – Radical Sunnis detonate a car bomb outside a Shiite mosque, blowing nearly two dozen people into bits. Another fifty are injured.
April 12, 2006: Judea and Samaria (Palistine), Jericho. -An Arab man is tortured and killed by the al-Aqsa Brigade for selling property to a Jew.
April 12, 2007: Iraq, Baghdad. – Jihadis bomb a bridge, killing ten Iraqi commuters.
April 12, 2007: Iraq, Kirkuk.- Holy warriors bomb a minibus, killing six passengers.
April 12, 2007: Pakistan, Chardiwar. – Sunni gunmen raid a Shia village, killing five civilians.
April 12, 2007: Iraq, Baghdad.. – A Fedayeen suicide bomber detonates in a parliament building, killing eight fellow Iraqis.
April 12, 2007: Somalia, Mogadishu – Two civilians are killed from stray bullets as Islamic militias ambush government troops.
April 12, 2007: Philippines, Indanan. - Abu Sayyaf gunmen kill two Filipino soldiers.
April 12, 2007: Pakistan, Miranshah. – One civilian is killed when militants fire a rocket into a house.
April 12, 2007: Somalia, Mogadishu. – Islamic militias shoot rockets and mortars into populated areas in a running battle against the government.
April 12, 2007: Iraq, Baghdad. 19 9 Sectarian violence claims the lives of nearly twenty people around the capital.
April 12, 2008: Iran, Shiraz. – The Sunni Jihadi Movement bombs a Shia prayer gathering, killing fourteen people.
April 12, 2008: Afghanistan, Maiwand. – Sunni extremists murder four anti-drug workers in a field.
April 12, 2008: Afghanistan, Helmand. – Four local cops are ambushed and killed by the Taliban.
April 12, 2008: Afghanistan, Nimroz. – Three Indian road workers and a local Afghan are killed by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
April 12, 2008: Pakistan, Kurram. – Eight people are killed in violence between rival religious groups
On This Day Before 9/11
April 12, 2001: Tajikistan, Muslims showed their Islam when they assassinated the Deputy Interior Minister, Habib Sanginov. He was one of the first Islamic opposition members to join the current government. –
April 12, 2001: Abu Sayyaf deployed a mortar shell and timer combination to kill a political rival in North Cotabato in the Philippines. –
April 12, 2001: The deputy head of the Chechnya administration, Shamalu Deniyev, was killed when a bomb exploded during an interview he was giving near Groznyy. The cameraman was also injured in the blast. –
April 12, 2001: Muslims weren’t the only ones terrorizing Hindu’s in India. Members of the Maoist Communist Center pulled 13 people from their homes and shot ten of them to death. The MCC, a vigilante group originally formed to protect peasants, was now extracting money for “protection.” April 12, 2000: In the Land of Pure Islam, Islam happens. Fifteen people were killed when grenades were tossed into a mosque in Mallow Wali. The sectarian terrorists also cut the telephone wires to the village to make certain medical help would be delayed. And to add insult to injury, after the grenades exploded, the militants sprayed the mosque goers with bullets. April 12, 1994: In Bosnia, ten French aid workers were imprisoned in Sarajevo. A Dutch military observer also disappeared and was presumed kidnapped. He had been trying to flee Muslim controlled territories and cross into a Serb-held area. -
April 12, 1994: An Iraqi opposition figure was assassinated in his Beirut home. He was a leading member of the London-based, Shiite Free Iraqi Council. Two Iraqi diplomats were charged with the assassination. Lebanon broke diplomatic ties with Iraq over the incident. Now that’s a hoot. Lebanese Muslims had been killing each other and murdering Christians and Jews by the tens of thousands for two decades in a brutal civil war funded by Iran and Syria, and Iraq gets the boot for this. April 12, 1992: Two Muslim men and a woman armed with hand grenades forced their way aboard an Ethiopian jetliner in Addis Ababa. The incident ended when the hijackers were arrested by Kenyan authorities.
April 12, 1988:Libyan dictator Muammar Kaddafi allegedly dispatched a Japanese terrorist, to set off powerful bombs on Wall Street
Yu Kikumura (菊村 憂 Kikumura Yū) is a member of the Japanese Red Army, an armed militant organization.
Police arrested Kikumura in Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam in 1986 when they found him carrying a bomb in his luggage. He was later deported to Japan but released on a technicality.
He was arrested on April 12, 1988 at a rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike by a state trooper who thought he was acting suspiciously. Kikumura was found carrying three 18-inch (46-cm) pipe bombs loaded with gunpowder. Prosecutors said Kikumura had planned to bomb a military recruitment office in the Veteran’s Administration building in lower Manhattan on April 14, the anniversary of the U.S. raid on Libya.
Kikumura was indicted on several counts of interstate transportation of explosive devices and passport violations. After a bench trial on stipulated facts, Kikumura was convicted on November 29, 1988.
He is currently serving a sentence of 262 months (slightly less than 22 years) at supermax prison ADX Florence in Florence, Colorado.
On February 19, 2007, Jiji press, a Japanese news agency, announced that Kikumura will have served his full term of sentence on April 18 and that he will be released a few months after this official release date.
April 12, 1986: Raji al-Najmah, Fatah’s senior official in Lebanon, was kidnapped in Khaldah. Fatah said that the PLO held Syria responsible for Al-Najmah’s safety. Well, at least they didn’t blame the Jews this time.
April 12, 1985: In Spain, a 20-pound bomb was placed in a restaurant catering to U.S. servicemen. It killed 18 Spaniards and wounded 82, 15 of whom were Americans. The three-story building outside Madrid collapsed.
The Islamic Iranian government was responsible for the attack and acknowledged their complicity by claiming credit under their Palestinian Islamic Jihad brand. An unknown Palestinian group called Wa’d (Arabic for promise, the most meaningless word in Islam), also vied for attention.
Spanish police identified the two Palestinians who were involved in the bombing. They had entered Spain carrying false passports a few days before the mass murder and had rented an apartment in the vicinity of Madrid.
Another Palestinian, this one carrying a forged Moroccan passport, was arrested in the Frankfurt Airport in February with 25 pounds of explosive charges. He told investigators that he was transferring the explosives to Madrid where they would be used to attack American interests.
April 12, 1984: Eighteen U.S. servicemen were killed and 83 people were injured in a bomb attack on a restaurant near a U.S. Air Force Base in Torrejon, Spain.
April 12, 1975 : Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war
PLO GUNMEN in a speeding car fired on a group of Phalangist leaders leaving Church in the Christian Beirut suburb of Ain Rumaneh, killing four people in what was probably an attempt on the life of Pierre Gemayel.
Hours later, Phalangists led by the Gemayels, killed 27 Palestinian civilians traveling on a bus in Ein Al-Rumaneh; citywide clashes erupted
April 12, 1973 : Sudan adopts constitution And in 1997 Khartoum regimes adopts “Islamic” constitution (Sharia law)
Omar al-Bashir
Al-Bashir imposed Sharia and a harsh new Criminal Act over northern Sudan in 1991, which were enforced by Muslim judges and a newly created Public Order Police.
On October 16, 1993, al-Bashir became even more powerful when he was appointed president of the country, after which time the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation was dissolved.
The executive and legislative powers of the council were subsequently given to al-Bashir, who virtually ruled the nation as a dictator from that point on. He was later “elected” president (with a five year term) in a showcase national election in 1996. In 1998, al-Bashir and the Presidential Committee put into effect a new constitution.
In 1999, al-Bashir and the Parliament made a law which allowed limited political “associations” in opposition to al-Bashir and his supporters to be formed, although these groups failed to gain any significant access to governmental power.
April 12, 1963: Birmingham police use dogs & cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators
JUST A THOUGHTApril 12, 1556: Portuguese Marranos who revert back to Judaism burned by order of Pope
Marranos (Spanish and Portuguese, literally “pigs” in the Spanish language, originally a derogatory term from the Arabic محرّم muharram meaning “ritually forbidden,” stemming from the prohibition against eating the flesh of the animal among both Jews and Muslims), were Sephardic Jews (Jews from the Iberian peninsula) who were forced to adopt the identity of Christians, either through coercion as a consequence of the persecution of Jews by the Spanish Inquisition and Portuguese Inquisition, or who, for form’s sake, became Roman Catholic converts.
Many Marranos maintained their ancestral traditions as crypto-Jews, by publicly professing Roman Catholicism but secretly adhering to Judaism.
In both Portuguese and Spanish, the term marrano also came to have the meaning of “swine” or “filthy” (it still means this in Spanish, and also “pork,” but in contemporary Spanish it has no association with Jews); and in Portuguese it is used as an opprobrious epithet for Jews because they do not eat pork.
Pope Paul III granted complete liberty “to all persons from Portugal and Algarve, even if belonging to the class of New Christians.” Three thousand Portuguese Jews and Conversos were living at Ancona in 1553. Two years later the fanatical Pope Paul IV issued orders to have all the Conversos thrown into the prisons of the Inquisition which he had instituted.
Sixty of them, who acknowledged the Catholic faith as penitents, were transported to the island of Malta; twenty-four, who adhered to Judaism, were publicly burned (May, 1556);
