Osama Bin Ladden's Compound

In case you wanted to find the compound on Google Earth here it is.  34º 10'09.18" N 73º.14' 33.45"E

From a distance you should see this

Then This

Next up the Jewel of the Nile...er I mean Anwar Al Awlaki

Al Awlaki is on the left if you cannot tell :)

Whatever you do - stay safe!

Yemen, Yemen What are You Doing?

One has to wonder about what has been going on with Yemen lately.  Ok, not lately, as if you go back to the USS Cole, about which nothing has been done, by ANY administration, Yemen has been a sore spot for the US for a long time.

I do not hate Yemen, I have friends from Yemen.  I believe some in Yemen have even lost their lives to fight Al Qaeda.  However, we know that Yemen is home to terrorist training grounds. We also know that Yemen is the source of at least two explosive devices and some more hoax devices that were destined for the US today.  What the bad guys have planned on a total scale so far -  who knows?  The explosive devices were destined for Jewish houses of worship in Chicago.  Right now it is unknown why those targets.

Jihadists are anti-semitic which does not make sense to anyone outside of the jihadists.  Judaism is not a threat to Islam in any way or fashion.  Some simpletons believe it is an Israel Palestine thing, but all you need to do is look around the world at what the jihadists are doing to see otherwise.

I am hoping that at least a large part of the threat has been caught, but we may not know for a few days.  I will post more when I know more and feel free to give your analogy in comments.

There is the Village Idiot and Then There are Villages of Idiots

Just a comment about the Bali Bombers -

They are dead - deservedly so. Terrorism and senseless murder is all it was.

Some of the villages where these guys are from are calling them martyrs. Martyrs for what - killing people? Being murderers. There was no known motive other than hate and death.

Knowing the attitude of some of those villages - there will be more idiocy coming.