Ha! “Bigots don’t deserve a break”? Look up the meaning and then try to defend the American government from such finger pointing…
Maybe he cannot deny it because that would add fuel to the fire? Who knows…
For Israel to defeat terror it needs a change of government – one which doesn’t turn round and bulldoze its own peace treaty like this one did…
Terrorism comes in many forms – the British government is happily spouting that they will not negotiate with terrorists in the case of hostage Kenneth Bigley (kidnapped at the same time as his subswquently beheaded American colleagues) yet they were last week sitting down and merrily chatting with the IRA about the future of Northern Ireland… Who are the terrorist, who are the liars, who are the bigots?

Flood

Bigot are not only those hate people base on race they but those that
porposly try to rewrite history to fit they worp view or to shift blame
from their past or future acts. Sharon government wasn’t elected to make peace, Ehud baraks government was elected to that. Today we “celebrate”
4 years to his achievment. You see flood you can fool some people some
of the time and some people all the time, but you can’t fool all people
all the time. No israeli majority will vote for a party that sees arafat and
his terrorist friends as peace partners.
The british claim they won’t negotiate with terrorist but gave the chechen
terror leader political asaylum, the russian are upset but see arafat as a
leader and so the hyppocrcy continu and the war on terror is lost because
of division and self intrest.

And you are able to substansiate that statement without resorting just to press releases written by US government officials, yes? Independant proof, Alexz33, that is what you are so short of…
If he was involved with financing terrorism groups then it would have been a whole lot easier to have got permission to detain him and – in the eyes of the law – more lawful too than most of those held in Guantánamo: but obviously the point that there was no real hard truth in that rumour is shown by the fact that he was deported instead.
Can I guess that you are another visitor from the western side of the Atlantic, Alexz33?

Flood

I think the link is from ABC, now if it was from CBS you could have a point :p
Anyway i think he was arrested in Israel and Bush (and the bad man in black suits around him )were in power at the time.

An Open Letter to Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)

Dear Yusuf Islam,

First, allow me to begin with an apology for the actions of the Bush administration and the Ministry of Homeland Security for so shamelessly exploiting you earlier this week.
blah blah blah Jews
blah blah blah Bush ….

Yusuf Islam is not only a terrorist supporter but been caught tranfering
money to hamas, an organization which even the “enligtent EU” considers
as a terrorist organization. a

http://catstevens.com/articles/00201/

Deported. Star’s Name on List of Banned Visitors
ABC News
July 13th, 2000

The former British music star, Cat Stevens (Bio) was denied entry into Israel and deported hours after arriving because he supports Hamas, a militant Islamist group, officials said today.

July 13 — The man who gained fame as pop star Cat Stevens was denied entry into Israel and deported hours after arriving because he supports Hamas, a militant Islamist group, officials said today. The former British music star, who has gone by the name Yusuf Islam (Bio) for more than 20 years, landed in Israel on a flight from Germany early on Wednesday. He was held at the airport for several hours and sent back to Germany, government spokesman Moshe Fogel said.

Islam, who now sings only for his mosque, had “transferred funds” to Hamas in the past, Fogel told Reuters.

“There was a problem with allowing him into the country because he is a Hamas supporter,” he said. “He didn’t seem like he was coming here for summer tourism. Any country has the right to prevent terror within its own borders.”

Fogel said Islam’s trip was intended to show support for the Palestinian cause while Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat were trying to hammer out a final peace deal at the U.S. presidential retreat at Camp David.

“He knew before he got on the plane that he didn’t have permission to come into the country,” Fogel said.

Israel has sought to cut financial support for Hamas, which opposes the Palestinian-Israeli peace process and has been held responsible for numerous guerrilla attacks in which scores of Israelis have been killed or wounded.

Al-Islam, who recorded hits including “Peace Train (Song)” and “Wild World (Song)” before converting to Islam in 1977, last visited Israel in 1988. The government claims that during that trip he delivered tens of thousand of dollars to Hamas.

Two years later, in 1990, he tried to enter again along with his 8-year-old son but was barred.

This time, the former singer arrived at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday and was detained by airport authorities when his name appeared on a list of people banned from Israel, the Israeli daily Maariv reported.

It quoted him as telling an Israeli entertainment show, “They locked me in a two-meter by two-meter cell without water or a bathroom, and then deported me. I don’t see any reason for this to happen in a time of peace.”

But airport authorities denied that the former singer was mistreated. They said he was kept in the departure lounge until the plane he arrived on returned to Germany.

The former singer, who was born Stephen Georgiou and took the stage name Cat Stevens, abandoned his music career in 1977 and changed his name again after orthodox Muslim teachers persuaded him that his lifestyle was forbidden by Islamic law. He later began teaching and actively spreading the word of his religion, founding a Muslim school in 1983. He made headlines when he supported the death sentence issued by Iran against author Salman Rushdie.

News of Islam’s deportation from Israel circulated quickly on Cat Stevens chat groups and fan Web sites today. “Oh, baby, it’s a Sad World,” one fan wrote. “Their [Israel’s] loss.”

Do you live close to the area whre ther bomb killed the terrorist?

TEHRAN: Iran showed off its range of ballistic missiles at an annual military parade on Tuesday, with the rockets draped in banners vowing to “crush America” and “wipe Israel off the map”.

A banner stating, “Israel must be wiped off the map” was draped on the side of a Shahab-2 missile, while a banner saying “We will crush America under our feet” was on the side of a trailer carrying the latest Shahab-3 missile.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_22-9-2004_pg4_15

More crazy russian stuff with translation available (top left botton))

http://www.testpilot.ru/type/seaplane_e.htm

Main
http://www.testpilot.ru/hard_e.htm

As said above the Iranians are not running the race with one horse. They have more then one facility and set up a decent defence. Besides that I doubt that Israel would accept the risk. The Iranians have warned so they will not sit and cry.

The AA defense is as big as a problem as penetratin the reseach bonkers
which 60-70 Meters deep. The risk to Israel is of course greater if they
don’t attack. Although nuclear deterance will prevent both countries from using it on each other it will give froups like the hizzbulah a nuclear umbrella
which would mean more daring terrorist attacks. 😮 😮

The Kfir C-2 registration 905, piloted for Captain Maurício Mata that shoot down an A-37 of the Peruana(FAP) Air Force with an air-air missile.