The Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act, H.R. 3590, also known as Obama Care, has a provision that requires all purchases from corporations over $600.00 to require a 1099 form to be issued by the purchaser, delivered to the seller, and provided to the government. On the most basic level, that’s three forms for every $600.00 transaction with a corporation. Here’s what Neil deMause, writing at CNN Money, said:

“The massive expansion of requirements for businesses to file 1099 tax forms that was hidden in the 2,409-page health reform bill took many by surprise when it came to light last month. But it’s just one piece of a years-long legislative stealth campaign to create ways for the federal government to track down unreported income. The result: A blizzard of new tax forms that the Internal Revenue Service will begin rolling out next year.

Starting in 2012, that changes. All business payments or purchases that exceed $600 in a calendar year will need to be accompanied by a 1099 filing. That means obtaining the taxpayer ID number of the individual or corporation you’re making the payment to, even if it’s a giant retailer like Staples or Best Buy, at the time of the transaction, or else facing IRS penalties.”

Tom Henschke, president of the Pennsylvania-based SMC Business Councils explains the extent of this new burden upon small businesses: “Just with business travel it would include hotels, rental cars. Phone service: 1099. Computer service: 1099. Whoever does your postage meter: 1099. You do a little advertising, Yellow Pages: 1099. Your landlord: 1099. You might as well just keep them in your pocket and hand them out as you go around every day.”

Boy this is great! Good work congress. Good work Mr. President. Just what the economy needs is more burdensome unprofitable paperwork to stimulate it. Of course the one business that will profit from this is government. It will need to grow and that is how government judges its profitability, it’s success, by its size and growth rate.

But it gets worse. Here’s the Reetzality: I predict this is the first step in installing a value added tax. The Obama governmetn wants to get the folks used to reporting transactions whether they be profitable or not, just report the transaction to the government thank you very much. Don’t worry, right? Apparently, generally accepted accounting principles aren’t sufficiently penetrable by Obama’s government to maximize its taking power. Why would the government care, if it’s only taxing profits? Why would the government care what a company purchases if the company isn’t making a taxable profit? One would think the government would not care. Are they going to advise us on our purchases? I think not. Are they going to regulate our purchases? Probably. In fact this provision does begin to regulate our purchases by cloaking purchases with government forms and bureaucracy.

But here’s the big concern: This Obama government is taking the first step to impose the value added tax. They are getting the folks used to viewing each and every transaction over $600.00 as a potentially taxable event by requiring a tax form, a 1099, to be submitted to the Internal Revenue Service. And then, when the time is right, when our government has imputed what it views as the adequate amount of desperation into our economy, when they have the right quantity of folks on the dole thanks to the government’s attack on our economy, it will suggest, “hey, why not impose a sort of value added tax to help pay for the folks our policies have unemployed? I mean, we’ve already got folks filing 1099’s when they make purchases? Let’s have them throw a little cabbage in the envelope when they send it in.”

Of course, they won’t call it a value added tax. That is too unmarketable a title. Maybe they’ll call it the “Deferred Internal Revenue Enhancer.” DIRE for short. Also of course, don’t bet on the $600.00 threshold holding firm.

This is what I’m predicting. This is what I’m betting on. This is why such a ridiculously burdensome provision is in Obama Care. Folks, get smart on the stealth attack on our country from within, because it’s coming on strong. This is more evidence of this fact.

That’s my Reetzality for the day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz

Is there anything our President likes about America other than leisurely destroying it? I’m searching for an answer, trying to find something that our President not only says he likes, but something he acts like he likes. Let’s run a list. Here goes.

Free Enterprise: No way does our President likes free enterprise. He says he does but his actions betray his words. He bailed out the banks, the auto industry, AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He wants hyper control over our financial system. He is drooling over the possibility of shutting down the oil industry. He is in favor of the redistribution of wealth. He actually believes the Constitution is flawed because it does not address “redistributive justice,” his words. He is in favor of Cap and Trade which will be a monumental shroud on free enterprise, and freedom itself in that Cap and Trades’ tendrils will reach right down to a persons domicile. Nope, our President is not an advocate of free enterprise.

Border Control and Security: Our President does not want our borders controlled. He says he does but refuses to act until we get “comprehensive” immigration policy. Unfortunately, “comprehensive,” to him, means amnesty for thirteen million illegal aliens and probably a lot more. He still hasn’t made good on his promise to Arizona to send 1200 National Guardsmen to the border, actually breaking his promise of doing so within two weeks after the meeting with the Arizona Governor. Let’s face it folks, our President does not even view the very land we occupy as worthy of protection. As to National Security, he nixed the missile defense system in Eastern Europe. He has done nothing to keep Iran non-nuclear. He’s cutting defense spending. He wants to treat foreign terrorists as common criminals, trying them in criminal courts rather than military tribunals. He won’t even use the phrase “Islamic Extremist.” You know those guys who are willing to die to destroy us.

Self Reliance: Our President does not respect self-reliance. Redistributive Justice does not co-exist with self-reliance. His health care bill does not co-exist with self-reliance. He believes it is the government’s job and duty to provide and not the individual’s responsibility. He believes it’s government’s fault if you don’t own a house, have a job, have health care, can’t afford education, don’t have insurance, not the individual’s fault.

American Exceptionalism: Our President does not believe we are exceptional. Actually, we’re just human, but we’ve been blessed with a nation that was founded on freedom and liberty which allowed us to actualize and be exceptional. But does our President praise this truth? No. He apologizes to the world for our behavior. He ignores our principles and wants us to be more like other nations, that Mr. President, in case you haven’t watched the news of late, are failing. He does not like the idea of a nation with our principles dominating the world, or even leading it for that matter. And that says a lot about the man because if you don’t like us leading with our principles, then you don’t understand the magnificence of our principles.

Environment: The Gulf Oil Spill reveals that our President doesn’t care too much about the environment. He views the Gulf Oil Spill as an opportunity to impose his priorities of more regulation, less freedom (pass Cap and Trade) and less free enterprise rather than a dire call to action to save the environment. He views the Gulf Oil Spill as a “fat pitch” to further attack free enterprise, all the while, actually thwarting the efforts to thwart the environmental impact of the spill. He took two weeks to respond to Louisiana’s request to build barrier islands. He turned down offers of help to deal with the oil spill from thirteen nations. Under his rule, the coast guard moth balled skimmers in order to make sure they met government regulations, further delaying remedial measures to save the environment. His only non-urban activity is golf and that’s not saying much. Cap and Trade won’t fix the environment. China and India aren’t signing on and even if they did, Cap and Trade only imposes more government. Scientifically, there is no evidence that it will do anything for the environment.

State’s Rights: He is suing Arizona for exercising their state’s rights. He does not like State’s rights, the very right that is set forth to create a sort of governmental competition. The very right that allows state’s to innovate in their policies in an attempt to improve life. He doesn’t agree with a state’s right to ban abortion.

Free Speech: He doesn’t like it. He attacks free expression regularly, even going so far as to say that free expression gets in the way of progress. He appointed Justice Kagen who is no fan of the First Amendment, who believes that there should be a redistribution of free expression which means government control. He is in favor of the Fairness Doctrine which in classic Ayn Randian style, has nothing to do with fairness but rather equality of points of view which means, government control of speech. He is in favor of net neutrality, meaning more government control, less free speech.

The Right to Bear Arms: He does not believe in the Second Amendment. His votes in the Illinois Legislature prove this.

What’s left? Does it even matter? By having contempt for the principles stated above, does one even need to go further? It’s akin to saying, “I like Nuclear Reactors, I’m just not fond of the nuclear reaction that goes on inside.” You cannot love America and what it stands for if you don’t stand for the American Principles. And our President does not stand for the American Principles. It’s as plain as day. He says it. He acts upon his words. He has contempt for those who disagree. We have enough information to finalize the diagnosis.

Folks, his rhetoric sounded good during the campaign. But now, at this critical time, it is imperative to realize and act upon the truth that it was just rhetoric, nothing more. He doesn’t like our country and if you don’t join him in his effort to destroy that which made us great, he doesn’t like you. And folks, here’s the kicker: He not only doesn’t like America, what he really doesn’t like is our freedom to save it. Freedom is his nemesis. Freedom is the stalking horse that threatens his skewed un-American vision. Freedom is what he really despises.

On a psychological note, a note based upon my observations and education, if a child is raised by an abusive parent, it is likely that the child will be grow up to be an abusive parent as well. This is particularly true with sexual abuse. It is called the Cycle of Sexual Abuse. Here’s the reach. Our President views his history, whether it is the cultural African American history or his history personally, as abusive and unfair. Is there a possibility that he is metaphorically the abused child playing his role in the cycle of abuse? To him, America wasn’t that good to him. (Rather amazing, he became President) He had a broken home. He was raised by a cacophony of anti-American mentors. He was bounced around from place to place, home to home. And now he’s an adult, repeating the anti-American mantra through his words, but more so through his actions. Is this the case? It sure seems like it, but I’m just asking.

So, going back to the premise of this piece, what is it that our President likes about this country? I come up with not a single fundamental American thing. I am not saying that he isn’t enjoying the fruits of our Nation’s labor. He is, but the fruits, the opulence he enjoys is not an American Principle. All dictators live opulent lives by the way. Opulence has nothing to do with American Principles. Opulence is a by-product but not a fundamental of Americanism. So please don’t argue that he loves America because he appreciates the opulence it has bestowed upon him. To love America is to love its principles. And he does not. And that is the dire dilemma that faces us today.

That’s my Reetzality for the Day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz

I’m no genius, but President Obama’s speech was shallow rhetoric, self aggrandizing bunk, and replete with the indicia of an incapable leader. It came across as a joke, but under the circumstances, it’s not funny. Let’s go through the rhetoric and analyze. Don’t get depressed. The first step in solving a problem is admitting you have a problem. We have a problem, it’s Obama. He’s helping us admit it. Here’s my analysis:

First comment of concern by our President and analysis:

Obama: “That is why just after the rig sank, I assembled a team of our nation’s best scientists and engineers to tackle this challenge – a team led by Dr. Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and our nation’s Secretary of Energy.”

Reetzality: No you did not assemble a team just after the rig sank. And I don’t care about Nobel prizes. I care about results. After all, our President got one of those Nobel Prizes.

Second comment of concern by our Presidetn and analysis:

Obama: “First, the cleanup. From the very beginning of this crisis, the federal government has been in charge of the largest environmental cleanup effort in our nation’s history – an effort led by Admiral Thad Allen, who has almost forty years of experience responding to disasters.”

Reetzality: Thad Allen was appointed on May 1, 2010, ten days after the oil spill. Today he stated that he reports to the Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, not to the president. The federal government has not been in charge of the largest environmental clean up since the very beginning, in fact, it is possible they are not in charge of it now.

Obama: “Tomorrow, I will meet with the chairman of BP and inform him that he is to set aside whatever resources are required to compensate the workers and business owners who have been harmed as a result of his company’s recklessness. And this fund will not be controlled by BP. In order to ensure that all legitimate claims are paid out in a fair and timely manner, the account must and will be administered by an independent, third party.”

Reetzality: Tomorrow? Eight weeks later he’s meeting with the chairman of BP? This is being Johnny on the spot to fix the problem? Not in my book. And where is authority to order a corporation to “set aside” funds? What about due process? What about liability? I know, it looks and most likely is BP’s fault, but we don’t know for sure yet. To announce that he’s ordering them to “set aside” without stating the mechanism which is going to do this reveals his ignorance of the constitution or his reliance on his perceived stupidity of Americans. But he gets right past those tedious constitutional issues and goes right into management, an independent third party, of the fund that we, nor he, has any clue how he’s going to order to be set aside.

Obama: “The oil spill represents just the latest blow to a place that has already suffered multiple economic disasters and decades of environmental degradation that has led to disappearing wetlands and habitats. And the region still hasn’t recovered from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.”

Reetzality: There’s the blame Bush game. There’s the, “The Gulf is trashed but it’s not my fault entirely. Bush has to take some blame because he screwed up Katrina and Rita.”

Obama: “Already, I have issued a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling. I know this creates difficulty for the people who work on these rigs, but for the sake of their safety, and for the sake of the entire region, we need to know the facts before we allow deepwater drilling to continue.”

Reetzality: Why six months? Why not a decade? Why not two months? Creates difficulty? Six months was an arbitrary time limit plucked out of the air. It has no basis in any analysis as to how long it would actually take. If you were in a meeting and somebody said, “six months,” you’d ask, “why six months? What’s your basis for needing six months?” For God’s sake, he’s the federal government, does it really take six months to “know the facts?” Maybe it does for the federal government. Me personally, I’d get you the facts in a week for a million dollars with a $200,000.00 operating budget, and I’m nothing special. I do agree that the loss of a job is a difficulty, maybe even a financial crisis for a family person supporting his or her family.

Obama: “. . . the Minerals Management Service. Over the last decade, this agency has become emblematic of a failed philosophy that views all regulation with hostility – a philosophy that says corporations should be allowed to play by their own rules and police themselves. At this agency, industry insiders were put in charge of industry oversight. Oil companies showered regulators with gifts and favors, and were essentially allowed to conduct their own safety inspections and write their own regulations.”

Reetzality: “Over the last decade . . . “ More of the blame game. As to industry insiders, our man, President Obama hired Elizabeth Birnbaum who formerly worked for BP. She resigned, effective May 31st, 2010. Yes, maybe insiders were put in charge, but our President hired the insiders.

Obama: “After all, oil is a finite resource. We consume more than 20% of the world’s oil, but have less than 2% of the world’s oil reserves. And that’s part of the reason oil companies are drilling a mile beneath the surface of the ocean – because we’re running out of places to drill on land and in shallow water.”

Reetzality: That’s not true. Regardless of the percentages, we have oil. How about drilling in ANWAR where we would have plugged the hole already. How about the East and West coast? How about the Dakotas? We’re running out of places to drill because the government is preventing us from drilling.

Obama: “Countries like China are investing in clean energy jobs and industries that should be here in America.”

Reetzality: You’ve got to be kidding. Our President has just called us, implicit in the above comment, retarded. Does anybody recall the air pollution concerns of the last Olympics? Does anybody, I mean anybody, believe that China, China for Heaven’s sake, is going green? They’re not. Shame on you Mr. President.

Obama: “This is not some distant vision for America. The transition away from fossil fuels will take some time, but over the last year and a half, we have already taken unprecedented action to jumpstart the clean energy industry. As we speak, old factories are reopening to produce wind turbines, people are going back to work installing energy-efficient windows, and small businesses are making solar panels. Consumers are buying more efficient cars and trucks, and families are making their homes more energy-efficient. Scientists and researchers are discovering clean energy technologies that will someday lead to entire new industries.”

Reetzality: This is classic liberal argument number one! Change the subject. The issue is the oil spill and plugging the hole and what does our President do? He changes the subject and speaks of Green. Not now Mr. President, you have a leak to plug. Go Green in your nearing retirement. See Al Gore.

Obama: “When I was a candidate for this office, I laid out a set of principles that would move our country towards energy independence. Last year, the House of Representatives acted on these principles by passing a strong and comprehensive energy and climate bill – a bill that finally makes clean energy the profitable kind of energy for America’s businesses.”

Reetzality: What are those “principles that would move our country towards energy independence?” This is classic, “let no crisis go to waste” speak. Bad President, bad.

Obama: “The one answer I will not settle for is the idea that this challenge is too big and too difficult to meet. You see, the same thing was said about our ability to produce enough planes and tanks in World War II. The same thing was said about our ability to harness the science and technology to land a man safely on the surface of the moon.”

Reetzality: First, the challenge is too big for you Mr. President. After all, how did you fare in that lemonade stand? Oops, you never ran a lemonade stand, or anything bigger. And the nerve of you to invoke World War II and the man on the moon. Those were real American challenges and if the truth be told, which I always do, (I’m not smart enough to lie) your rhetoric tonight would have us speaking German or, in the case of a man on the moon, have us still attempting. To the extent you are correct in your reaching analogy, you don’t have the hutzpah to be the guy in charge.

O.K. Now for the Reetzality recap. The president has lied about his efforts, his priority, and his diligence in dealing with the Gulf Oil spill. He has used the Gulf Oil Spill to leverage his bigger agenda, government growth and control. He is not equipped to deal with this crisis. He has absolutely no experience or history that would avail him of the ammunition to deal with this problem. He is flailing. Certainly, his words sound good but the merits of them, the meaning of his words, are troubling for their vacancy of significance. Even more problematic, he has yet to formulate a plan. He has delivered nothing more than shallow rhetoric that works just fine in the south side of Chicago and evidently in a presidential campaign, but when push comes to shove, doesn’t plug the hole.

Folks, I do not fault our President for who he is. He is a product of an enabled rearing where he was indulged. He was indulged as a youth. He was indulged with his admittance into the Universities he attended. He was indulged with his position as a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago. He was indulged with his state legislative seat. He was indulged with his senate position. He was ultimately indulged with the Presidency. We, as a people, indulged him. We were serenaded by the tempo of his words and now he is President, with no experience in dealing with crisis, accountability or consequence, and our Gulf Coast is suffering as we will all suffer.

This is the revelation. This is the time, the moment, when our leader has revealed himself as a non-leader. This is the moment when the truth is revealed that our President is nothing more than a simple tele-prompter reader with no ability to deal with crisis. This is the time when we realize that our President is incapable, lacking the most important quality we need in a President, the ability to problem solve. He is vacant of the skills and strengths are country needs and demands.

And that’s my Reetzality for the Day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz

Obama is still playing the metaphorical role of the parent who spoils, enables, and ultimately ruins his children. The metaphor is this; the parent is the President, the children are Americans. On Saturday, Obama urged reluctant lawmakers Saturday to quickly approve nearly $50 billion in emergency aid to state and local governments, saying the money is needed to avoid “massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters” and to support the still-fragile economic recovery. Rahm Emanuel said,”While some people say you have to spend and some people say you have to cut, the president wants to talk about both cuts and investing,” There’s some of the old audacity, characterizing “spending” as “investing.” (Government spending has a negative multiplier effect which means the economy shrinks by more than a dollar when the government spends a dollar.)

The federal government needs to stop borrowing money, mostly from China, and start existing within its means. The Federal Government has a monumental cash flow problem meaning the money coming in is less than the money going out. Yet, the current administration could care less. The stimulus did not stop a free fall. It protected government workers who make substantially more than the private sector.

As reported in the USA TODAY by Dennis Cauchon on March 8th, 2010, “Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds. Accountants, nurses, chemists, surveyors, cooks, clerks and janitors are among the wide range of jobs that get paid more on average in the federal government than in the private sector. Overall, federal workers earned an average salary of $67,691 in 2008 for occupations that exist both in government and the private sector, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The average pay for the same mix of jobs in the private sector was $60,046 in 2008, the most recent data available. These salary figures do not include the value of health, pension and other benefits, which averaged $40,785 per federal employee in 2008 vs. $9,882 per private worker, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.”

Here’s some Reetzality: According to the USA TODAY analysis, the over-all cost, what “public servants” earn, of a public sector job including benefits is $38,548.00 more than an equivalent private sector job. Well not entirely equivalent. Public sector employees don’t work as hard, aren’t as accountable, and don’t get fired as easily as private sector workers. Glenn Beck is encouraging us to read the Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek which is an influential exposition of classical liberalism. I looked up the word Serf for the literal definition. It is, according to Webster’s, “1. A person in a condition of feudal servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord’s land and transferred with it from one owner to another. 2. A slave.” Sadly, I think we’re nearing the end of this particular road. We are required to render. Our burden to render is passed from one political class to another. Do we really own our land? Just stop paying the king, I mean the government and see how long you can call home, home. And the kings’ men, I mean the public sector employees, are getting compensated more than the private sector. They are receiving more wealth than the folks actually producing the wealth. And isn’t being forced to pay near fifty percent of a person’s productivity in taxes, whether state, federal, local, property, sales, fuel, personal property, license fees, etc., effectively a partial violation of the Thirteenth Amendment? Doesn’t that make a person half a slave? Well maybe not. We don’t have to work. We can go Surfing. Maybe it’s only share cropper status government is imposing.

Back to serious. The private sector is still collapsing under the present weight of government and the fear of the future increased weight of government and Obama wants to bail out government. Hey President, how about cutting government. How about doing what any private sector enterprise would do when faced with a budget crisis, across the board cuts in wages? Or if your minions in your teachers unions, police and fire fighter unions and the AEIU don’t like it, lay some of them off. Trust me Mr. President, we in the private sector will survive. Further more, these are state entities you are bailing out. Why not allow the States to resolve their own problems? Why continue to enable a failing and likely soon to actually fail top heavy government bloated system that continues to usurp the people’s liberties, principles, perseverance, ingenuity, and optimism? Here’s why. Obama is a bad President, behaving just like a bad parent. He is the parent who keeps saying, “This is the last warning! This is the last time. If you ______________ (fill in the blank with any adolescent transgression) one more time, I will ______________ (fill in the blank with any punishment).” Then, when the bad parent’s child once again commits a transgression, he again enables the child by not imposing consequences. Consider this: Wage cuts in government are almost historically non-existent. Thus, now when we need them, when our future depends on a smaller government (or learning Chinese), government workers will have no part of it. Government workers will behave just like a spoiled child who is facing the imposition of a rarely, if ever, imposed consequence. They will throw a tantrum. And the parent, our President, will come to their aid, blame others, probably George Bush, and do anything he can to commandeer the wet teet into their mouths, further damaging the future.

In fact, this is exactly what he is doing right now. He said so yesterday. I am not making a prognosis here. I am making a diagnosis. Sticking with the parenthood comparison, my experience is that when a parent spoils, enables, and comprehensively fails to raise a child of much merit, eventually, notwithstanding the contempt for the child’s behavior, the parent is held to be responsible. The parent is the bad guy. The children are the ones who suffer. Obama is the parent. Americans are the children. Maybe Obama needs to read some Dr. Spock. It seems like he’s reading Dr. Seuss.

That’s my Reetzality for the day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz

Now this is what I’ve been trying to say! Dorothy Rabinowitz, writing for the Wall Street Journal writes a fantastic piece. Read on with an open mind.

THE ALIEN IN THE WHITEHOUSE

The distance between the president and the people is beginning to be revealed.

By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ

The deepening notes of disenchantment with Barack Obama now issuing from commentators across the political spectrum were predictable. So, too, were the charges from some of the president’s earliest enthusiasts about his failure to reflect a powerful sense of urgency about the oil spill.

There should have been nothing puzzling about his response to anyone who has paid even modest critical attention to Mr. Obama’s pronouncements. For it was clear from the first that this president—single-minded, ever-visible, confident in his program for a reformed America saved from darkness by his arrival—was wanting in certain qualities citizens have until now taken for granted in their presidents. Namely, a tone and presence that said: This is the Americans’ leader, a man of them, for them, the nation’s voice and champion. Mr. Obama wasn’t lacking in concern about the oil spill. What he lacked was that voice—and for good reason.

Those qualities to be expected in a president were never about rhetoric; Mr. Obama had proved himself a dab hand at that on the campaign trail. They were a matter of identification with the nation and to all that binds its people together in pride and allegiance. These are feelings held deep in American hearts, unvoiced mostly, but unmistakably there and not only on the Fourth of July.

A great part of America now understands that this president’s sense of identification lies elsewhere, and is in profound ways unlike theirs. He is hard put to sound convincingly like the leader of the nation, because he is, at heart and by instinct, the voice mainly of his ideological class. He is the alien in the White House, a matter having nothing to do with delusions about his birthplace cherished by the demented fringe.

One of his first reforms was to rid the White House of the bust of Winston Churchill—a gift from Tony Blair—by packing it back off to 10 Downing Street. A cloudlet of mystery has surrounded the subject ever since, but the central fact stands clear. The new administration had apparently found no place in our national house of many rooms for the British leader who lives on so vividly in the American mind. Churchill, face of our shared wartime struggle, dauntless rallier of his nation who continues, so remarkably, to speak to ours. For a president to whom such associations are alien, ridding the White House of Churchill would, of course, have raised no second thoughts.

Far greater strangeness has since flowed steadily from Washington. The president’s appointees, transmitters of policy, go forth with singular passion week after week, delivering the latest inversion of reality. Their work is not easy, focused as it is on a current prime preoccupation of this White House—that is, finding ways to avoid any public mention of the indisputable Islamist identity of the enemy at war with us. No small trick that, but their efforts go forward in public spectacles matchless in their absurdity—unnerving in what they confirm about our current guardians of law and national security.

Consider the hapless Eric Holder, America’s attorney general, confronting the question put to him by Rep. Lamar Smith (R., Texas) of the House Judicary Committee on May 13.

Did Mr. Holder think that in the last three terrorist attempts on this soil, one of them successful (Maj. Nidal Hasan’s murder of 13 soldiers at Fort Hood, preceded by his shout of “Allahu Akbar!”), that radical Islam might have played any role at all? Mr. Holder seemed puzzled by the question. “People have different reasons” he finally answered—a response he repeated three times. He didn’t want “to say anything negative about any religion.”

And who can forget the exhortations on jihad by John Brennan, Mr. Obama’s chief adviser on counterterrorism? Mr. Brennan has in the past charged that Americans lack sensitivity to the Muslim world, and that we have particularly failed to credit its peace-loving disposition. In a May 26 speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Mr. Brennan held forth fervently, if not quite comprehensibly, on who our enemy was not: “Our enemy is not terrorism because terrorism is just a tactic. Our enemy is not terror because terror is a state of mind, and as Americans we refuse to live in fear.”

He went on to announce, sternly, that we do not refer to our enemies as Islamists or jihadists because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam. How then might we be permitted to describe our enemies? One hint comes from another of Mr. Brennan’s pronouncements in that speech: That “violent extremists are victims of political, economic and social forces.”

Yes, that would work. Consider the news bulletins we could have read: “Police have arrested Faisal Shahzad, victim of political, economic and social forces living in Connecticut, for efforts to set off a car bomb explosion in Times Square.” Plotters in Afghanistan and Yemen, preparing for their next attempt at mass murder in America, could only have listened in wonderment. They must have marvelled in particular on learning that this was the chief counterterrorism adviser to the president of the United States.

Long after Mr. Obama leaves office, it will be this parade of explicators, laboring mightily to sell each new piece of official reality revisionism—Janet Napolitano and her immortal “man-caused disasters” among them—that will stand most memorably as the face of this administration.

It is a White House that has focused consistently on the sensitivities of the world community—as it is euphemistically known—a body of which the president of the United States frequently appears to view himself as a representative at large.

It is what has caused this president and his counterterrorist brain trust to deem it acceptable to insult Americans with nonsensical evasions concerning the enemy we face. It is this focus that caused Mr. Holder to insist on holding the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in lower Manhattan, despite the rage this decision induced in New Yorkers, and later to insist if not there, then elsewhere in New York. This was all to be a dazzling exhibition for that world community—proof of Mr. Obama’s moral reclamation program and that America had been delivered from the darkness of the Bush years.

It was why this administration tapped officials like Michael Posner, assistant secretary of state for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. Among his better known contributions to political discourse was a 2005 address in which he compared the treatment of Muslim-Americans in the United States after 9/11 with the plight of the Japanese-Americans interned in camps after Pearl Harbor. During a human-rights conference held in China this May, Mr. Posner cited the new Arizona immigration law by way of assuring the Chinese, those exemplary guardians of freedom, that the United States too had its problems with discrimination.

So there we were: America and China, in the same boat on human rights, two buddies struggling for reform. For this view of reality, which brought withering criticism in Congress and calls for his resignation, Mr. Posner has been roundly embraced in the State Department as a superbly effective representative.

It is no surprise that Mr. Posner—like numerous of his kind—has found a natural home in this administration. His is a sensibility and political disposition with which Mr. Obama is at home. The beliefs and attitudes that this president has internalized are to be found everywhere—in the salons of the left the world over—and, above all, in the academic establishment, stuffed with tenured radicals and their political progeny. The places where it is held as revealed truth that the United States is now, and has been throughout its history, the chief engine of injustice and oppression in the world.

They are attitudes to be found everywhere, but never before in a president of the United States. Mr. Obama may not hold all, or the more extreme, of these views. But there can be no doubt by now of the influences that have shaped him. They account for his grand apology tour through the capitals of Europe and to the Muslim world, during which he decried America’s moral failures—her arrogance, insensitivity. They were the words of a man to whom reasons for American guilt came naturally. Americans were shocked by this behavior in their newly elected president. But he was telling them something from those lecterns in foreign lands—something about his distant relation to the country he was about to lead.

The truth about that distance is now sinking in, which is all to the good. A country governed by leaders too principled to speak the name of its mortal enemy needs every infusion of reality it can get.

Ms. Rabinowitz is a member of the Journal’s editorial board.

That’s my Reetzality for they day! Thanks for the read and thank you Ms. Rabinowitz.

Brett Reetz

June 4 (Bloomberg) – President Barack Obama is poised to increase the U.S. debt to a level that exceeds the value of the nation’s annual economic output, a step toward what Bill Gross called a “debt super cycle.” Bill Gross is the co-chief investment officer and manager of the world’s biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co. said yesterday the unemployment rate may rise to 10 percent within the next several months with job growth “anemic.” “Over the long term, interest rates on government debt will likely have to rise to attract investors,” said Hiroki Shimaru, a market economist in Tokyo at Nikko Cordial Securities Inc., a unit of Japan’s third-largest publicly traded bank. “That will be a big burden on the government and the people.” (U.S.’s $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP: Chart of Day, by Garfield Reynolds and Wes Goodman, Bloomberg)

“The market was assuming that the private sector was coming back, but obviously we’ve seen none of that,” Gross said in a radio interview on Bloomberg Surveillance with Tom Keene.
Geithner also singled out Europe as a region needing to push forward with financial regulation reform. “Further progress on financial repair is critical to global economic recovery,” he wrote. “This requires, particularly in parts of Europe, further efforts to restructure and recapitalize the banking system.” In the U.S., where personal savings is increasing and Congress is close to passing legislation overhauling financial rules, “we are meeting our responsibility,” Geithner told reporters in Washington June 2.

The savings rate in the U.S. climbed to 3.6 percent in April, the highest level since January, from 3.1 percent in March as incomes increased and purchases cooled, according to Commerce Department figures released May 29.

June 7 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. economy may be headed for a slowdown reminiscent of the one it suffered in 2002 as the sovereign-debt crisis in Europe, fading government support and persistently high Joblessness weigh on expansion in the second half of the year.
Economists have begun to lower their forecasts for the first time since the recovery began in the middle of 2009. Allen Sinai, chief global economist at Decision Economics, and Michael Moran chief economist at Daiwa Capital Markets America in New York, said they now see annualized growth of 2.25 percent to 2.5 percent in July-December, down from around 3 percent previously. “The risks to the recovery are growing,” the New York- based Sinai said. “We’ve raised the odds of a double-dip recession to one in four from one in 20.”
“Markets had excessively bought into the possibility of a V-shaped rebound driven by a self-sustaining private-sector recovery,” Mohamed El-Erian chief executive officer of Newport Beach, California-based Pacific Investment Management Co., manager of the world’s largest bond fund, said in an e-mail. That view “is starting to be visibly and increasingly challenged by the multiplying facts and realities on the ground.” The latest came on June 4, when the Labor Department reported that private-sector employers added 41,000 jobs to their payrolls in May, down from 218,000 in April and well below the 180,000 median forecast by 35 economists in a Bloomberg News survey. While the unemployment rate fell to 9.7 percent from 9.9 percent, it’s remained above 9 percent. (U.S. Rebound Seen Slowing Most Since 2002 on Europe Debt Woes by Rich Miller, Bloomberg)

O.K., ON TO REETZALITY. There’s the financial news of the day. The European Union is on the brink of failure, Greece has failed, Hungary is facing default, said Viktor Orban who then changed his tune when Hungary’s currency, the Forint fell 4.8% in two days, destroying his credibility. Portugal, Spain, England, Ireland and the United States are “coming on strong” in the race to fail. Things are not looking good folks no matter what President Obama says about the recent job growth which only included 41,000 private sector jobs which barely keeps up with population growth. (Either an amazing lie or an amazing ignorance on his part. New jobs are compared to increased population; thus true job growth requires an increase in the percentage of employed persons to the actual population to increase.) We are in trouble, big time.

Here’s why we are in trouble: Insane government policies of redistribution of wealth! Governments throughout the world have made endless commitments to take care of people and industries, addicting its masses to the government teet. In doing so, governments have thwarted individuals’ ability to take care of themselves. Governments have reared generations of dependents rather than independents. They have done so through liberal policies of government handouts to individuals, corporations and unions. They have taxed people, either directly or indirectly (see license fees, excessive regulation, hidden taxes, value added taxes, Obama care, etc.) and threaten to tax and regulate more (see EU meetings and listen to President Obama). They have taxed us to the point that we are now partial metaphorical slaves, handing over in some cases more than fifty percent of our productivity to government so they can redistribute it, take our earnings, our wealth, and giving it to somebody else. Now, the true private sector, the corporations not in bed with government, the traditional family, the small business, these entities are doing what they should be doing, and rightfully so; they are preparing for the worst part of the storm. Folks are saving more. Folks are not spending as much. Companies are not hiring. Folks will be leaving the equities market or hedging against the predicted and ominous free fall. The world economy is faultering. It is on the brink of disaster. Let me rephrase the last sentence. We are on the brink of accepting the reality that we are in a disaster. The disaster started a long time ago.

We will begin to see government pensions fail. As reported by David Cho, a Washington Post staff writer, October 11, 2009, “The financial crisis has blown a hole in the rosy forecasts of pension funds that cover teachers, police officers and other government employees, casting into doubt as never before whether these public systems will be able to keep their promises to future generations of retirees.” See also http://www.pensiontsunami.com/. The fact is, financially government pensions have already failed. They are broke because the governments that run them, federal, state and local, have not only taxed the private sector to pay for them, but then, in a way, double dipped and took, they call it borrowed, the pension reserves to again redistribute the wealth, the same actual wealth, a second time.

Government has anesthetized the private sector which is not the best metaphor because although the private sector is hunkering down, hibernating, it is doing so consciously as a defensive measure to governments’ reckless spend and tax policies.

Here’s more Reetzality, a prediction in part and also an observation. The private sector is going to decouple from the public sector. Decoupling is a financial term. Decoupling is a situation in which returns on two assets or asset classes that normally move together move separately. For example, oil and natural gas prices usually move together: when one goes up, so does the other, and vice versa. Likewise, stocks and corporate bonds usually behave the same way. Decoupling in both cases occurs when oil moves in one direction while natural gas moves in the opposite, or when stocks’ and corporate bonds’ returns diverge.

Unfortunately, but it’s the Reetzality for the day, the public and private sector are not asset classes in the literal sense. Therefore, I am opining on a more ominous decoupling. The private sector has lost all faith in the public sector. The true private sector, the portion that is not in bed with government, unlike Wall Street, the auto industry, unions, etc., is decoupling itself from the government. Folks are sheltering their productivity, not spending when the government attempts to get them to spend through faux stimulus plans, saving more, getting out of the market, working for cash, trading goods and services to avoid taxes and generally as stated previously, hunkering down for the worst of the storm. The private sector is decoupling.

Here’s the problem with that: As the governments’ reckless, disastrous and wrongful policies manifest in failure, as government workers (see Greece) protest the bankruptcy of their employers, the governments, governments will come for the private sectors money. Governments will hijack even more of the private sectors’ productivity. I’m not certain that the private sector will tolerate this ominous Reetzality. I am not suggesting that there will be an actual revolution. I am suggesting that the private sector will say that it has had enough and will civilly revolt through the vote, through increased frugality and through government avoidance policies. The private sector will say, “No thank you government, we’ve helped enough. Time for you to accept responsibility for yourself. Be sure to tell your people.”

And let me tell you this, the government will not like this one bit. The government will blame the private sector. The government will refuse to acknowledge the real crisis which is not financial, not health care, not energy, not private debt, not education, not hunger, not anything other than a single crisis that has a redundant history, a Government Crisis. (See Rome, Greece, U.S.S.R.) Until our “leaders” accept responsibility for their policies and turn to the dependents they’ve been spoiling for generations and tell their dependents that they can’t afford it anymore, times they are a changing, things won’t get better. And if they don’t? Well then my readers, history will repeat itself and we will have a comprehensive collapse of the world economy.

God save our Children.

That’s my Reetzality for the day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz

Note: Thank you Bloomberg for your resources. You are an honest news source indeed.

At center stage, a repeat performance, that never gets new, please welcome revelation and hypocrisy!

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli naval commandos stormed a flotilla of ships carrying aid and hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists to the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 10 passengers in a predawn raid that set off worldwide condemnation and a diplomatic crisis. Israel said its commandos were attacked by knives, clubs and live fire from two pistols wrested from soldiers after they rappelled from a helicopter to board one of the vessels. Dozens of activists and at least 10 Israeli soldiers were wounded in the bloody confrontation in international waters. Reaction was swift and harsh, with a massive protest breaking out in Turkey, Israel’s longtime Muslim ally, which unofficially supported the mission. Ankara announced it would recall its ambassador and call off military exercises with the Jewish state. The White House said in a written statement that the United States “deeply regrets” the loss of life and injuries and was working to understand the circumstances surrounding this “tragedy.”
That’s the news folks.

Now comes the revelation and hypocrisy. (For purposes of analysis only, I will use the premise that the Israeli’ action was unprovoked and flotilla of activists were peace mongers.) Watch the world condemnation that befalls on Israel. It is happening as I write. Turkey called off planned joint military exercises with Israel. The United Nations Security Council called an emergency session for later on Monday. France officials stated that they were “profoundly shocked.” European officials are calling for an inquiry. Syrian President Bashar al—Assad and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Monday that Israel’s attack on a flotilla of aid bound for Gaza threatens to ignite a war in the region. Assad and Hariri also “demanded the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Conference, the Security Council and the international community to act immediately” and put an end to Israel’s actions. When it comes to condemning Israel, get in line. Assuredly, this is a prediction, no later than tomorrow, President Obama will make a statement that either condemns Israel or mourns the loss of the ten lives, or does both. Why? Because bashing Israel is in. Israel is the last nation in the world to stand tough to Islam. I know, I know coexist, coexist, coexist. Except some things simply can’t coexist. Ever hear of the mongoose and the snake. In any event, back to the revelation and hypocrisy about to be on center stage.

The revelation, what will be revealed, is the invasive Evil that is vying for top theocrat (government and religion, combined in one leadership) in the world. The Evil has contempt for Israel because Israel is an impediment or road block to Evil’s plan. And Israel and it’s people are resistant enduring folks. (See Jesus Christ and Holocaust) But alas, Israel and it’s people have toughened up. They tend to do the right thing rather than the popular thing (in the world) and that at times may include what happened this morning with the flotilla. I am not endorsing it or condemning it. I, at this time, don’t know what happened. But unlike our President, I’m not yet mourning any deaths. I don’t know for sure if they were bad guys or good guys that got killed. I have read that a high-ranking naval official displayed a box confiscated from the boat containing switchblades, slingshots, metal balls and metal bats which does not comport with my idea of a peaceful protestor. I have also read that the “Freedom Flotilla” has strong ties to Hamas, a quasi terrorist organization. Still, let’s wait and see what the merits of the incident turn out to be.

What we don’t have to wait for is proof of Evil in the world and its insidious infiltration of our governess and a lot of people. The Evil will lash out in an comprehensive, yet uninformed, condemnation of Israel. Which is fine, if Israel did behave wrongfully. But where was the “lashing out” on other wrongful acts? Here’s a list of wrongful acts: Get ready it’s a long one. The numbers before each act are the date, dead and injured, followed by a description. On second thought, I will conclude and then allow you to scan the list, predominantly Islamic extremist in root motive.

But I digress. So the world is going to lash out against Israel. Let me ask this question, to get the right perspective so to speak. Where is the Security Council meeting when North Korea torpedoed a South Korean naval ship? Nowhere yet, it appears. The Secretary General Ban Ki-moon joined the United States in ratcheting up pressure on North Korea by recommending U.N. Security Council action for North Korea’s torpedo attack. North Korea vows retaliation if the U.N. Security Council makes a move. So let’s put this in perspective. Israel has an incident which we don’t know the details about yet. The world leaders lash out. All of the below occur in this calendar year alone, North Korea torpedoes a South Korean naval vessel, and the world employs patience and relative silence. Go figure.

Why? Because there is Evil in our midst, that’s why. All of the below are working for evil, thus they get a relative pass. Israel is working for the good, they don’t get a pass, they get condemned; very revealing and very hypocritical indeed. Typical of the dark side that has invaded our world. Time to face reality folks and start calling them as you see them.

That’s my Reetzality for the day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz

HERE’S THE LIST: HANG ON!

January 1 105 100+ Lakki Marwat, Pakistan A suicide car bomber drove his explosive-laden
vehicle into a volleyball pitch as people gathered to watch a match.[1]

January 2 0 1 Aarhus, Denmark In an incident said to be terror-related, a Somali man
broke into Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard’s home threatening to
kill the man with an axe. Westergaard and his five year old
granddaughter escaped harm when they entered a panic room and
called for police, who shot the man. According to the Danish
intelligence agency PET, the Somali man is affiliated with al-Shaabab,
a radical Islamic militia currently in Somalia.[2]

January 2 5 6 Farah, Afghanistan A pick up truck carrying civilians in Farah Province,
Bakwan district hit a improvised explosive device laid by militants
resulting in the death of five civilians and injuring six others.[3]

January 2 2 14 Baghdad, Iraq Two car bombs detonated in southern Baghdad, killing
one civilian and wounding at least 14 others. In a separate incident,
an Iraqi soldier was gunned down by a sniper in a checkpoint in Sadr
City.[4]

January 3 3 0 Hangu, Pakistan A bomb attack hit the north-western Pakistani town
of Hangu, killing a former provincial minister and two other people.[5]

January 4 1 5 Kirkuk, Iraq A bomb exploded near an Iraqi police convoy in Kirkuk, an
ethnically diverse city, killing one policeman and injuring five people.[6]

January 4 2 3 Kirkuk, Iraq A second bomb targeting a municipal government official in
Kirkuk went off several hours after the first bombing, killing two more
policemen and injuring three people.[6]

January 5 0 12 Mosul, Iraq A car bomb exploded near an Iraqi Christian Church,
wounding a dozen people.[7]

January 6 4 11 Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Pakistan A suicide bomber targeted a
Pakistan army patrol in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, killing four
Pakistani soldiers and injuring eleven other soldiers. Pakistan officials
blamed the attack on the Pakistani Taliban.[8]

January 6 7 20 Makhachkala, Russia A suicide car bomber attempted to drive a vehicle
into a police depot but was stopped outside when a police vehicle
rammed into it.[9][10]

January 7 8 6 Hīt, Iraq Four explosions targeting a police commander in Hit, western
Iraq, killed eight people, including four family members of the police
commander, and wounding six people, including the police
commander.[11]

January 7 6 8 Srinagar, India Security forces stormed a hotel in Lal Chowk, killing two
Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists who seized the building after killing two
civilians and a policeman. One Central Reserve Police Force member
died in the operation.[12]

January 7 7 10 Naga Hamady, Egypt Churchgoers were sprayed with gunfire as they
left midnight Mass to welcome in the Coptic Christmas, killing at least
six Coptic Christians and a security official and injuring 10 others,
including two Muslim passers-by.[13]

January 7 9 28 Gardez, Afghanistan A suicide bomber detonated at a market, the
target appeared to be the commander of a private security firm
working for American forces who was killed in the blast.[14]

January 8 0 1 Randalstown, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom A PSNI officer was
wounded when a bomb exploded underneath his car in Randalstown,
County Antrim. A group calling itself Óglaigh na hÉireann and Real
Ulster Freedom Fighters claimed responsibility for the attack.[15]

January 8 3 7 Cabinda, Angola A bus full of Togo football players was sprayed with
machine gun fire as it crossed from Republic of Congo territory into
Angola. The government declared the incident “an act of terrorism,”
while rebels affiliated with the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave
of Cabinda – Military Position (FLEC-PM) claimed responsibility.[16]

January 9 0 0 Athens, Greece An explosive device detonated outside the parliament
building in Athens, Greece, resulting in minimal damage and no
injuries.[17]

January 11 0 5 Baghdad, Iraq A bomb attached to a vehicle in an Iraqi lawmaker’s
convoy detonated injuring three security guards assigned to protecting
the Independent Shite lawmaker and two civilians near-by. The
lawmaker was not in the convoy at that time.[18]

January 12 1 2 Tehran, Iran Tehran University professor, particle physics scientist
Massoud Ali-Mohammadi was killed in a remote control bomb explosion
in the Iranian capital and at least two people were lightly wounded in
the explosion. The Iranian government immediately blamed Israel and
the United States for the bombing. No organization has yet reliably
claimed responsibility[19][20]

January 12 1 5 Peshawar, Pakistan A rocket struck a two storey building in Peshawar
resulting in the building collapsing. Emergency services were able to
evacuate five people to hospital with various injuries but one person
was reported trapped in the building as is presumed dead from the
terrorist incident.[21]

January 12 0 0 Dagestan, Russia A bomb explosion on a pipeline left more than
200,000 people without gas for 48 hours. This blast reportedly
targeted the Mozdok-Kazimagomed pipeline and knocked out supplies
for the major town of Derbent, as well as other surrounding districts in
the area.[22]

January 13 7 6 Saqlawiyah, Iraq A suicide truck bomber killed five policemen, a civilian
and injured six civilians in a suicide attack in Anbar Province in the city
of Saqlawiyah including a child.[23]

January 13 1 11 Pattani Province, Thailand Mayo district chief Wirat Prasetto was
seriously injured along with ten other civilians when a bomb detonated
at a pier in Pattani province. The bombing is being blamed on Muslim
insurgents. One person was killed in the explosion.[24]

January 14 21 13 Dihrawud, Afghanistan A suicide bomber on foot detonated his suicide
vest outside a money exchange market resulting in the deaths of
twenty civilians and injuring at least thirteen others.[25]

January 14 0 0 Amman, Jordan A bomb explodes near a convoy of Israeli diplomats
traveling from Jordan to the West Bank. No one was hurt in the
explosion and the convoy proceeded on its way.[26]

January 17 0 0 Coggia, France bombings against two residences, the entry “sdate G.
Leclair FLNC piu che mai” is found on site.[27]

January 18 10 71 Kabul, Afghanistan At least five suicide bombers detonated their
suicide vests throughout Kabul killing three police officers and two
civilians. Seventy-one people were taken to hospital because of the
attack and rumors went throughout Kabul that Taliban gunmen were
roaming Kabul.[28]

January 18 0 6 Kurunegala, Sri Lanka Six people were injured in a bomb attack during
presidential election. The same day, two other people were killed in
riots.[29]

January 19 0 4 Yala Province, Thailand Three soldiers and a civilian were seriously wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a market. Muslim separatists are blamed for the incident in the southern insurgency hit provinces.[30]

January 21 0 1 Zamboanga City, Philippines Suspected Abu Sayyaf militants detonated a bomb near the house of a Basilan province mayor. One teenager was injured [31]

January 22 0 0 Colombo, Sri Lanka a bomb exploded against Tiran Alles, the most important allies of Sarath Fonseka, a part of his house and a car was destroyed [32]

January 23 4 0 Gomal, Pakistan A car bomb exploded against a Police Station in south Waziristan,[33]

January 25 41 110 Baghdad, Iraq Triple suicide car bombings detonate near hotels popular with western business and media. The attacks coincide with the execution of Chemical Ali. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility.[34]

January 26 0 0 Porto-Vecchio, France A bomb destroyed a house in Porto-Vecchio (Corsica). Nationalists are blamed.[35]

January 26 21 85 Baghdad, Iraq A suicide car bomber strikes at an Iraqi crime lab in the city.[36]

January 29 3 7 Saberio, Abkhazia Three people one of them a police officer were killed after a bomb blast in the villege of Saberio. Seven more people were injured in the blast.[37]

January 30 16 20 Khar, Pakistan A suicide bomber detonates at a checkpoint in Khar, the main town in the troubled Bajaur tribal region.[38]

January 31 7 0 Arauca, Colombia Several members of the FARC attacked a convoy, 4 policemen and 3 Colombian soldiers are killed.[39]

[edit] February
Date
Dead
Injured
Location and description

February 1 54 117 Baghdad, Iraq A female suicide bomber detonated among a group of pilgrims making their journey to Karbala as they walked through Baghdad.[40]

February 1 0 0 Mediterranean coastal plain, Israel The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), a Palestinian militant group in the Gaza Strip with close ties to Hamas, tried to carry out an attack on Israel by means of bombs placed in barrels and sent into the Mediterranean Sea from the Gaza coast.[41]

February 2 0 1 St. Petersburg, Russia A bomb explosion on railroad tracks in St. Petersburg injured one worker and is being considered a terrorist attack.[42]

February 3 10 70 Lower Dir, Pakistan A suicide bomber attacked a Pakistani Frontier Corps convoy. The US embassy said its military personnel had been training Pakistan’s Frontier Corps in counter-insurgency.[43]

February 3 20 50 Karbala, Iraq A suicide car bomber detonates in a crowd of pilgrims making their way to the Imam Hussein shrine in the city where Shia Muslims are to mark Arbaeen.[44]

February 4 3 17 Kandahar, Afghanistan A suicide car bomber detonates near the centre of the city, three people were killed and seventeen wounded in the blast.[45]

February 5 40 140 Karbala, Iraq Two suicide car bombers detonated on either side of a bridge across which pilgrims were making their way in and out of the city.[46]

February 5 33 170 Karachi, Pakistan A suicide bomber on a motorcycle strikes a bus carrying Shia pilgrims, killing 12 and injuring 50. A second bomb explodes at the hospital where some of the injured were taken, killing a further 13 people.[47]

February 5 3 30 Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan A motorcycle bomb explodes near a crowd of people watching a dog fight.[48]

February 6 0 0 Peshawar, Pakistan Taliban militants blew up a girls’ school, no one was hurt or killed in the attack.[49]

February 7 0 0 Peshawar, Pakistan Pakistani forces captured a stronghold of al Qaeda-backed militants near the Afghan border after days of clashes in which 60 militants were killed.[50]

February 9 3 1 Rawalpindi, Pakistan A senior Pakistani politician was attacked by militants in the city of Rawalpindi, in the Punjab province. The politician, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, survived this attack however 3 of his security guards were killed.[51]

February 10 1 0 Kfar Tapuach, West Bank A Palestinian Authority police officer stabbed to death a Druze Arab IDF soldier while he was sitting in a jeep stopped at a traffic light at the Tapuah junction.[52]

February 10 13 5 Khyber, Pakistan A suicide car bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a police vehicle travelling on a highway in the Khyber area.[53]

February 11 12 20 Bannu, Pakistan Two suicide bombers detonated at a police compound in north-western Pakistan.[54]

February 12 6 25 Najaf, Iraq Three blasts went off in quick succession on the road into the city, which was a major destination for Shia pilgrims. The bombings were apparently the latest in a series of attacks targeting Shia Muslims in the country.[55]

February 13 16 60 Pune, India A bomb exploded at the German Bakery in Pune, a famous and touristic eatery.[56]

February 13 0 7 Baghdad, Iraq A string of bombings targeted groups taking part in Iraq’s March election.[57]

February 14 0 4 Bujanovac, Serbia Bqerim Mustafa, a member of a multi-ethnic police unit in Bujanovac, southern Serbia, was seriously injured in an explosion. His wife, and two young women who were passing by, sustained minor wounds in the incident. All four are ethnic Albanians.[58][59]

February 15 0 2 Mogadishu, Somalia An al-Shabab suicide car bomber attempted to assassinate Somalia’s state minister for defence, Yusuf Mohamed Siyad when he drove his explosive-laden vehicle towards Mr Siyad’s car and detonated, injuring two of his security guards.[60]

February 16 2 25 Mosul, Iraq A suicide car bomber detonated in Nabi Younus, in Mosul.[61]

February 18 2 13 Austin, Texas, United States American Joseph Stack lit his house on fire and then flew a small plane into the IRS building after issuing an online manifesto against the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. government[62][63][64]

February 18 15 20+ Ramadi, Iraq A suicide car bomber detonated at a checkpoint near government offices and courts.[65]

February 18 41 60 Khyber, Pakistan Two suicide bombers detonated in twin attacks, the first detonated among pro-Taliban militants meeting in a compound by a crowded market selling hashish in the Tirah Valley area of Khyber, the second at a cattle market in the Darmela area of Khyber.[66]

February 19 0 0 Keady, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom A viable mortar bomb was abandoned near a police station in County Armagh. The bomb was removed for further investigation by an army bomb disposal team.[67]

February 19 0 0 Pakistan Two senior members of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Abdul Salam and Mullah Mir Mohammad, were seized in Pakistan.[68]

February 19 2 35 Nazran, Russia A series of blasts caused by explosive devices occurred at an abandoned house in Nazran. A large group of policemen at the time were reportedly trying to defuse these bombs.[69]

February 20 1 18 Kigali, Rwanda Three simultaneous grenade attacks on a train station, a restaurant and an office building killed one person and injured about 18 others.[70]

February 21 0 0 Egypt A makeshift bomb thrown at a Cairo synagogue caused a brief fire but no injuries.[71]

February 22 6 35 Mingora, Pakistan A suicide bomber detonates in an attack on a security forces convoy in a market area in the main town of Pakistan’s Swat valley.[72]

February 22 15 22 Nangarhar, Afghanistan A suicide bomber detonated near a small group of tribal elders and government workers as they were meeting.[73][74]

February 22 5 4 Anbar, Iraq A car bomb exploded near a police headquarters in Anbar. The bomb killed five policemen and injured four more.[75]

February 22 1 2 Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia An explosion, due to the effects of either a grenade or a mine has killed one child and injured two others.[76]

February 22 0 0 Newry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Police received a telephone warning about 17 minutes before a car bomb exploded outside Newry courthouse. The 115 kg of explosives damaged the courthouse and other buildings, including a 170-year-old church.[77]

February 23 7 14 Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan A bicycle bomb left near a bus station detonated. It has been reported that all those who were killed were civilians, officials say.[78]

February 24 4 6 Peshawar, Pakistan Taliban militants fired a rocket into a residential area of the city, Witnesses also claim that a two-storey house was destroyed in this attack.[79]

February 26 17 32 Kabul, Afghanistan A suicide bomber detonated in an area including a shopping centre, guest house and hotel in the Afghan capital, with gunfire heard after at least two blasts.[80]

February 27 4 10 Karak, Pakistan A suicide car bomber detonated at a police station in the northwestern Pakistani town of Karak.[81]

February 28 11 0 Nawzad, Afghanistan A road side bomb exploded next to a coach in Nawzad district. The blast killed eleven people. Taliban insurgents are being blamed for the attack.[82]

February 28 2 4 Baghdad, Iraq A car bomb exploded near to a convoy of a Sunni candidate for next week’s election in west Baghdad. The bomb blast killed two people and also injured four more.[83]

[edit] March
Date
Dead
Injured
Location and description

March 1 9 16 Kandahar, Afghanistan A suicide bomber detonated next to a NATO convoy in the city of Kandahar.[84]

March 1 0 1 Silwan, Jerusalem. An Israeli security guard was lightly injured in his leg when gunshots were fired at a jeep in which he was travelling near Beit Yehonatan in East Jerusalem village of Silwan.[85]

March 2 0 7 Miranshah, Pakistan Seven personnel were injured as a bomb blast hit a military convoy in Miranshah.[86]

March 3 33 55 Baquba, Iraq Two suicide car bombers detonated near government buildings. Later a third blast targeted the city’s main hospital.[87]

March 4 5 1 Kandahar, Afghanistan Unidentified gunmen riding motorcycles attacked Pakistani construction workers. The workers were reportedly waiting for transport to take them to a road-building project, within the Kandahar province of Afghanistan.[88]

March 4 17 35 Baghdad, Iraq Three attacks occurred in Baghdad. The first incident involved a mortar attack on a crowded market. Two suicide bombers then detonated in different areas of the city. It is known that polling stations were the target in both of these suicide attacks. These attacks come as voting occurs on the first day of voting in Iraq’s parliamentary elections.[89]

March 4 1 2 Arlington County, Virginia, United States John Patrick Bedell opened fire on police at a security checkpoint in the Pentagon station in The Pentagon. The police returned fire, landing a critical headshot before more damage was dealt. John Patrick Bedell died on March 5. Besides John’s death, two police officers were injured from the incident.[90]

March 5 12 25 Hangu, Pakistan A suicide bomber detonated as he targeted a convoy of vehicles travelling from Tall in the Hangu district to the town of Parachinar in the Kurram region.[91]

March 5 0 16 Kigali, Rwanda Two near-simultaneous grenade explosions at a car-washing yard and at a bus station injured 16 people. Hutu militia was blamed.[92]

March 6 3 54 Najaf, Iraq A car bomb explosion struck near the Imam Ali shrine, popular with Shia pilgrims from Iraq and Iran.[93]

March 7 38 100+ Iraq Multiple bombings and mortar attacks occur across the country, as civilians turn out to vote in Iraq’s second parliamentary election since the invasion in 2003.[94]

March 8 13 60 Lahore, Pakistan A suicide car bomber detonated as he targeted a building housing an anti-terrorist wing of the federal investigative agency.[95]

March 8 12 0 Badghis, Afghanistan Two roadside bombs have detonated in the north-western Afghan province of Badghis, killing mostly civilians.[96]

March 10 6 7 Mansehra, Pakistan Unidentified gunmen attacked the office of a Western aid agency, which was located in the Mansehra district of Pakistan. All the victims are reported to be Pakistani nationals.[97]

March 11 5 3 Kabul, Afghanistan Four children were among five people who died after a bomb blast in Kabul. Three more children were also injured in the blast.[98]

March 11 5 20 Bara Qadeem, Pakistan A suicide bomber’s explosive vest went off prematurely when he fell, he was trying to target a security forces convoy on the outskirts of the city.[99]

March 12 57 100+ Lahore, Pakistan Two suicide bombers detonate in twin attacks hitting crowds in a residential and shopping district where several army and security agencies have facilities.[100]

March 13 13 37 Swat, Pakistan A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a rickshaw near to a security checkpoint. This bombing occurred close to Mingora, the main city within the Swat Valley.[101]

March 13 37 46 Kandahar, Afghanistan Four suicide bombers targeted the city of Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan. The bombers reportedly targeted near to a prison, a hotel, a mosque and at a city centre road junction.[102]

March 15 7 13 Falluja, Iraq A suicide car bomber detonated in Iraq’s western province of Anbbar in the city of Falluja. The bombing came as counting still continues in Iraq’s general election.[103]

March 16 8 11 Babil, Iraq Two bombs detonated along the main road in the town of Musayyab, within the Babil province. The two devices were magnetically attached to the underside of two minibuses that were carrying passengers. The bombs were reportedly detonated within five minutes of each other.[104]

March 16 6 8 Indian-administered Kashmir, India Suspected militants conducted two attacks on markets in Indian-administered Kashmir. The first attack occurred in Srinagar, whereas the second assault however took place within the northern town of Sopore.[105][106]

March 16 1 0 Dammarie-lès-Lys, France Ten ETA members shot dead a French gendarme, Jean Serge Nerin, 53 years old, in Dammarie-lès-Lys, near Paris. Spanish government confirmed the shooting took place after a patrol of the local police found several people robbing a garage of vehicles. One suspect was arrested on the spot and identified himself as a member of ETA. This is the first time that ETA, which had always targeted Spanish officials and policemen, kills a French national policeman.[107]

March 17 5 1 Peshawar, Pakistan Militants attacked a security checkpoint in north-west Pakistan, on the southern outskirts of the city of Peshawar.[108]

March 17 0 0 Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan Two suicide bombers failed to detonate their explosive-laden vests after they were shot dead by Afghan security forces, they were trying to target a charity office.[109]

March 18 1 0 Netiv Ha’asara area, Israel A Thai greenhouse worker was killed when a Kassam rocket fired by Gaza terrorists exploded in the moshav where he was working. An al-Qaida-inspired small Islamist faction called Ansar al-Sunna claimed responsibility for the attack.[110]

March 18 0 12 Bihar, India A bomb exploded on a mini bus in Bihar. The bomb blast injured twelve people and damaged the mini bus there were no deaths in the attack.[111]

March 19 4 7 Baghdad, Iraq A roadside bomb exploded at an in Baghdad. A gunman also killed an Iraqi soldier after he gunman broke into the soldier’s house. The attacks killed four and wounded seven more.[112]

March 20 0 0 Newry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Shots were fired at police officers investigating a suspicious object close to a railway line outside Newry.[113]

March 21 10 7 Helmand, Afghanistan A suicide bomber on a three-wheeled motorcycle targeted an Afghan army convoy whilst it was crossing over on a bridge.[114]

March 21 2 4 Khost, Afghanistan A roadside bomb exploded in Khost Province.[114]

March 21 3 14 Quetta, Pakistan Three people were killed, among them two policeman and another fourteen people were wounded after a bicycle bomb exploded in the city of Quetta.[115]

March 22 1 3 Quetta, Pakistan A bomb that was planted uder a rickshaw exploded. It is believed that a nearby Frontier Corp checkpost may have been the target for this bombing.[116]

March 24 6 30 Buenaventura, Colombia A car bomb detonated in the centre of the Columbia pacific port of Buenaventura, near the mayors office and the local public prosecutor’s building. No group has claimed responsibility for this attack although left-wing FARC rebels are suspected.[117]

March 26 52 65 Khalis, Iraq Two bomb blasts rip through the Iraqi town of Khalis, as the country awaits final parliamentary election results.[118]

March 26 2 3 Israel-Gaza border, Gaza Strip Two Israelis were killed and three were wounded when a team of soldiers from Golani’s Battalion entered Gaza after several men were seen placing explosive devices near the Israeli border fence. Then the soldiers were ambushed and attacked with mortar shells and gunfire from inside the Strip. Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.[119]

March 28 5 33 Qaim, Iraq Several roadside bombs exploded near the Anbar tribal leader’s house in Qaim. Five people were killed in these blasts and thirty three others were also injured.[120]

March 28 1 2 Athens, Greece A bomb exploded outside a public building in the Greek capital of Athens. It is known that left-wing militants are the most likely of suspects for this particular bombing.[121]

March 29 40 100+ Moscow, Russia Two female suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour.[122]

March 29 5 55 Karbala, Iraq A double car bombing hit the Iraqi city of Karbala. It is known that the bombs detonated outside a restaurant and a security checkpoint, which is also nearby to the Imam Hussein shrine.[123]

March 31 12 25 Kizlyar, Russia A suicide car bomber detonated outside the offices of the local interior ministry and the FSB intelligence agency. Another suicide bomber impersonating as a police officer then detonates 20 minutes later on the same street as a crowd gathered.[124]

March 31 16 51 Babaji, Herat, Afghanistan A bomb which had been strapped to a bicycle left in a crowded market detonated remotely, the blast caught farmers trying to sell their sheep and shoppers alike.[125] A landmine hit a vehicle killing 3 and wounding 6.[126]

March 31 6 15 Khyber, Pakistan Militants attacked a Pakistani Frontier Corps camp in the tribal region of Khyber in north-western Pakistan. It has been reported that dozens of militants assaulted the camp after a suicide car bomber blew a hole in one of its walls.[127][128]

March 31 3 3 Baghdad, Iraq A series of bombings and assassinations took place within the Iraqi capital.[129]

[edit] April
Date
Dead
Injured
Location and description

April 1 2 1 Dagestan, Russia Two militants were killed and one seriously injured when their explosive laden packed car detonated.[130]

April 1 0 3 Maputo, Mozambique Three people were injured after a motorbike bomb attack on a four storey house in Maputo.[131]

April 1 0 10 Ahmedabad, India An IED exploded in the city of Ahmedabad where ten people were injured in the blast and minutes later police found another IED metres away from the first blast, but it did not explode.[132]

April 1 0 1 Thangal, India A bomb exploded inside a Dinesh TV electronics in Thangal only one man was injured in the blast and the explosion did some damage to the shop.[133]

April 1 4 2 Zabul, Ghazni, Afghanistan A series of bomb explosions occurred within two Afghan cities and one province. While a blast in the south killed a NATO servicemen.[126]

April 1 1 7 Mosul, Baghdad, Iraq A series of bombings and assassinations took place within two large Iraqi cities.[129]

April 2 0 0 Kashmir, India Rail service in the Pulwama district was attacked by Separatist militants, using a bomb which destroyed nearly two feet of track, disrupting service.[134]

April 3 25 0 Baghdad, Iraq Iraqi gunmen in army uniforms attack a village in the south of Baghdad. The militants reportedly tied up the victims from nearby houses before shooting them dead. The gunmen apparently believed that the people who they had captured were Sunni militias opposing Al-Qaeda. Twenty-four of the twenty-five alleged attackers were arrested.[135]

April 4 0 0 Dagestan, Russia A locomotive and eight cars came off the tracks after two blasts struck a 39-carriage freight train in the Russian Republic of Dagestan.[136] The train was on its way from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to Moscow. No casualties were reported. The attack was carried out by the Caucasus Mujahideen.[137]

April 4 42 224 Baghdad, Iraq Three suicide car bombers hit in the centre of Iraq’s capital city, Baghdad. One explosion reportedly occurred near to the Iranian embassy whereas the other two explosions were detonated in the west-central Mansour district within the city. The Islamic State of Iraq claimed responsibility for the attacks. It has also been reported that at least one of these blasts struck near to the offices of a pro-Iranian politician, Ahmed Chalabi.[138][139]

April 4 0 0 Crossmaglen, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom A car bomb was found outside a police station in Crossmaglen. The car bomb was made safe by police and they found a number of containers filled with flammable liquid inside the car. Chief Inspector Cordner said that if the car bomb had exploded, anyone in the immediate area could have been killed or seriously injured.[140]

April 4 11 10 Orissa, India Maoist rebels carried out a landmine attack against a bus that was carrying Special Operation Group, in Govindapalli in Malkangiri district of Orissa, officials have said. Chief Minister, Naveen Patnaik, condemned the attack: “I strongly condemn the cowardly act of Maoists… it is savage and unlawful.”[141][142]

April 4 4 0 Ghazni Afghanistan Four people were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb.[143]

April 5 2 13 Ingushetia, Russia A suicide bomber detonated near a local police department in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia. A car bomb was reported to have caused a second blast as investigators were arriving at the scene.[144]

April 5 44 100+ Lower Dir, Pakistan A suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a political party rally, in north-western Pakistan.[145]

April 5 50 100 Peshawar, Pakistan Militants attacked the United States consulate, in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar. Several explosions were heard at the scene of this attack and a gun battle between militants and police followed shortly afterwards. No American casualties were reportedly sustained in this attack even though U.S officials claim however that the consulate was the intended target.[146]

April 5 1 0 During the last day of campaigning for the Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2010 assailants sprayed campaigners with bullets, killing one person.[147]

April 5 0 6 Baghlan province, Afghanistan Two attacks occurred within Baghlan. The first attack was an ambush and the kidnapping of four Afghan policement. In the second unknown gunmen opened fire on a provincial employee in Pol-i-Khomri city, the capital of Baghlan province.[143]

April 6 49 172 Baghdad, Mosul, Iraq A series of bomb explosions destroyed several buildings in three areas of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Some people were trapped under the rubble of the destroyed buildings and a nearby restaurant was also destroyed. These bombings reportedly occurred within mainly Shia areas of the city. In total, seven blasts occurred and that the vast majority of these explosions were caused by homemade bombs. It is believed that a car packed with explosives also caused one of these blasts.[148] Two more were killed in attacks in Mosul.[149]

April 6 0 2 Bangkok, Thailand During anti-government protests at the ruling party’s headquarters a bomb went off lightly injuring two police. Thai PM Abhisit Vejjajiva condemned the protestors saying they had broken the law, but that his government would continue its policy of tolerance to avoid violence. “We are working to ensure that the country returns to normal as soon as possible. We are confident we can use the law to resolve the problem.” [150]

April 6 75 7 Dantewada, Chattisgarh, India About 300 rebel naxals attacked a police convoy as it was returning from an operation in what was the biggest attack to date by Naxal fighters against security service personnel.[151]

April 7 0 4 Baghdad, Mosul, Iraq Three attacks occurred within two Iraqi cities.[149]

April 8 0 0 Mingora, Pakistan 25 shops in Mingora were damaged after a number of bomb exploded inside or next to the building. No one was killed or injured in the blasts .[152]

April 9 2 0 Ingushetia, Russia A female suicide bomber attacked police officers, killing the head of a district police department in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia.[153]

April 10 6 0 Mosul, Fallujah, Iraq Three bomb attacks occurred in two northern Iraqi cities. It is known that two bombings reportedly detonated within the city of Mosul whereas the third bombing took place in Fallujah.[154]

April 10 0 0 Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province,Thailand Three bomb were hidden at a high voltage electricity pole in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province only two of the bombs exploded. No one was injured in the bombings and little damage was done by the bombs.[155]

April 11 0 0 Nuevo Laredo, Mexico An explosive device was thrown at the U.S consulate in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The blast caused some damage to the consualte however no injuries were reported.[156]

April 11 3 4 Baghdad, Iraq Three school children were killed and four more injured after a bomb blast in north Baghdad.[157]

April 11 0 14 Ilam, Iran A bomb exploded outside a prison in Ilam no one was killed but seventeen people were injured in the blast.[158]

April 12 0 1 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom At 00:24 a car bomb exploded at the rear of the Palace Barracks in Holywood, County Down, just minutes after the devolved power-sharing administration resumed control over policing and justice after almost 40 years. One man was blasted off his feet and taken to hospital for shock.[159] The Real IRA claimed responsibility for the attack.[160]

April 12 0 4 Narathiwat, Thailand Four people were injured after a Bicycle bomb exploded in the city of Narathiwat.[161]

April 12 4 37 Mosul, Iraq A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives when he targeted a police partol.[162]

April 12 0 2 Birganj, Nepal A bomb exploded in the city of Birganj the blast injured two people, a police officer and civilian.[163]

April 12 0 3 Jos, Nigeria Three people was injured after a bomb exploded in Jos.[164]

April 12 0 1 New Delhi, India A bomb exploded inside the ground-floor of a three-storeyed building in New Delhi. The blast only injured one person .[165]

April 12 4 2 Faryab, Afghanistan An Afghan police vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in the Ghormach district within the Faryab province of the country.[166]

April 12 9 0 Western Bahr al-Ghazal, Sudan During the election nine members of the ruling party were killed allegedly by southern miltias. Agnes Lokudu, the head of the National Congress Party in southern Sudan, said “Three days ago at night some southern army soldiers came to the home of the president of the National Congress Party (NCP) in Raja, and killed him and eight other members of the NCP.” Adding that the killings in were motivated by anger that many people in the area had voted for the ruling NCP. The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement denied responsibility [167]

April 13 10 13 Isabela, Philippines Rebels from Abu Sayyaf were blamed for an attempted kidnapping in Isabela city in which 10 were killed and 13 injured, at least 3 of the dead were Marines and 5 were rebels. At least six people were killed in an first explosion near a sports field, while another explosion wounded 13 civlians near a Roman Catholic cathedral before a third bomb was detonated by soldiers. Lieutenant-General Ben Dolorfino said the attackers “were Abu Sayyaf members wearing army and police uniforms. Based on our initial assessments, these people were out to kidnap somebody and the explosions were part of the diversion, but our troops quickly responded to foil their plan.” Major General, Juancho Sabban, head of the marines, said “I think (the attack) is meant to create havoc…. Definitely it falls under terrorism.”[168][169][170]

April 13 0 0 Islamabad, Pakistan A bomb exploded in Islamabad no one was killed or injured in the blast.[171]

April 13 0 0 Newtownhamilton, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom A car bomb was found outisde a police station in Newtownhamilton. Continuity IRA claimed responsibly.[172]

April 13 5 13 Basra, Baghdad, Iraq A roadside bomb in Basra killed 2, while bombs at a liquor store and a the Al-Rasheed TV stations killed 3 and wounded 13.[173]

April 14 5 14 Baghdad, Mosul, Hawija, Iraq A series of attacks occurred within three Iraqi towns and cities. With most of these attacks taking place in the capital.[174]

April 14 0 0 Taytay, Rizal, Philippines A bomb exploded under a moving car in the town of Taytay the driver was unharmed in the blast and no else was killed and injured. The car dameged by the fire after the blast.[175]

April 14 0 20 near Warri, Niger Delta. Nigeria The NNPC-chartered oil vessel MV Spirit was hijacked by militants in the oil-producing region of the country with twetny crew members aboard. Two days later, government soldiers made inroads to release the crew and nine Filipinos and four Nigerians were released. Two Filipinos were also killed with five others injured in the ceasefire.[176]

April 15 9 170 Yangon, Myanmar Three explosions went off at a park in the former capital of Yangon, Myanmar’s commercial hub. These explosions happened as revellers gathered for a New Year water festival. Most of the pavilions on the U Htaungbo Road are run by companies said to be close to the governing authorities. Previous explosions were also blamed on dissident or ethnic rebels.[177][178]

April 15 13 14 Kandahar, Afghanistan A car bomb explode outside a hotel in Kandahar killing 6 and injuring six more people, while causing damage the hotel. Separately, in the south four German soldiers were amongst 7 killed with 5 injuries.[179]

April 15 1 2 Batman province, Turkey During clashes that erupted as a result of operations against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) 1 soldier was killed and 2 were wounded.[180]

April 16 10 35 Quetta, Pakistan A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a waiting room at the Civil Hospital where people had gathered following the fatal shooting of a Shia businessman.[181]

April 16 3 24 Kandahar, Afghanistan A suicide bomber targeted a security company based in a compound shared by foreign companies in the city of Kandahar.[182]

April 16 0 0 Llodio, Spain A small bomb exploded against an agency of the Spanish company Telefonica in Llodio (Basque Country). Groups linked to ETA are blamed.[183]

April 17 41 60 Kohat & Saddar, Pakistan Two suicide bombers attacked the Kacha Pukha camp near Kohat.[184]

April 17 0 15 Bangalore, India A bomb exploded outside a cricket stadium, just shortly before the game had commenced, in the Southern Indian city of Bangalore.[185][186]

April 17 2 0 Samsun, Turkey Unidentified gunmen targeted a patrol car in the Ladik district of Samsun. Huseyin Koc was killed instantly in the crossfire, while his colleague, Malik Soysal, succumbed to injuries at a hospital. The Governor of Samsun, Hasan Basri Guzeloglu, said initial findings indicate the attack was a “terrorist ambush.” Adding that an operation had been launched by security forces to find the perpetrators.[187]

April 18 12 27 Kohat, Pakistan A suicide car bomber drove his explosive-laden vehicle into the rear wall of a police station to avenge military operations against militants.[188][189]

April 19 0 1 Nazran, Ingushetia A bomb planted beneath the deputy interior minister of the province’s car exploded injuring his driver. ITAR-Tass Beslan Shadiyev, the minister, was not in the car at the time of the blast.[190]

April 19 23 50 Peshawar, Pakistan A suicide bomber detonated at a crowded market in the centre of the city near a police station.[191]

April 19 3 5 Kandahar, Afghanistan A bomb strapped to the back of a donkey exploded near to a police post, which was guarding the residence of a tribal chief within the local area. It has also been reported by the authorities that all those who had been killed in this bombing were children.[192]

April 19 0 1 Ajaccio, France A man was injured in a double bomb attack against his home in Corsica. The house was completely destroyed. The FLNC claimed responsibly[193]

April 19 1 0 Kandahar, Afghanistan The Taliban claimed responsibly for shooting dead Azizollah Yarmal the deputy mayor of the southern Afghan city of Kandaharas he was praying at a mosque when the gunman killed him.[194]

April 20 2 0 Dagestan, Russia Two policemen were killed after gunmen opened fire on their car in Dagestan.[195]

April 21 5 29 Ramadi, Mosul, Baquba, Baghdad, Iraq A series of attacks occurred across many Iraqi cities, which were all located within the north of the country.[196]

April 21 1 61 Pattani Province, Mueang Thailand Bombs exploded outside two police stations in Mueang and Pattani Province. The blasts killed a policeman and injured 61 police and civilians.[197]

April 22 5 0 Charsadda, Pakistan Unidentified gunmen opened fire on the car of Alamzeb Omarzai. a Pakistan People’s Party member of the provincial legislature, killing him along with his four bodyguards, who died of their wounds. The attack occurred in the Charsadda district within the former-North Western Frontier Province.[198]

April 22 0 3 Newtownhamilton, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom A car bomb exploded outside a police station, about a week after another was defused by the PSNI. The blast happened at around 11:25 pm (2225 GMT), The attack wounded three people slightly. A spokeswoman said “Police were made aware that a vehicle had been abandoned in the area after a telephone call was received by a Belfast hospital at around 10:30 pm (2130 GMT).”[199] The previous failed attack was claimed by the CIRA.[200]

April 22 3 72 Bangkok, Thailand A series of five explosions caused by the effects of grenades occurred within the Thai capital of Bangkok. The blasts follow rising tensions between security forces and anti-government protesters, in a long-running stand-off between the two forces.[201]

April 23 72 100+ Anbar, Baghdad, Iraq A wave of bomb attacks occurred across the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. Most of these attacks were near Shia mosques during prayers, it was affirmed that one bomb went off near the offices of a prominent Shia cleric. Another attack outside the capital involved a series of co-ordinated bombs being detonated in Khaldiya in Anbar province. Reports claimed the attacks were retaliation for the killings of three senior Al-Qaeda leaders by Iraqi security forces.[202]

April 23 11 16 Dattakhel, North Waziristan, Pakistan Taliban militants ambushed a military convoy of Pakistani soldiers, as it was carrying out a routine movement in the tribal region of North Waziristan. In a separate incident, within the same region, Taliban militants killed four people who they had accused of spying for the U.S.[203]

April 24 3 19 Baghdad, Iraq Three bombs explode in a pool hall in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad [204]

April 24 0 10 Peshawar, Pakistan A suicide bomber targeted a prison van in Pakistan’s troubled tribal region of North West Frontier Province.[205]

April 24 0 1 Bohin, Thailand One person was injured after a roadside bomb exploded on a Yala-Betong highway at Bohin It was aimed at killing the soldiers patrolling the road.[206]

April 25 1 6 Baghdad, Iraq One person was killed and six wounded after a car bomb exploded in Baghdad.[207]

April 25 0 11 Quetta, Pakistan Eleven people were injured after a bomb exploded outside a shop in Quetta.[208]

April 25 4 12 Zabul, Afghanistan A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-packed suicide vest near to a group of security guards in the southern province of Zabul, within the south of the country.[209]

April 25 5 20 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Five people were killed and 20 injured after a bomb exploded inside a cafe in Addis Ababa.[210]

April 25 3 0 Mogadishu, Somalia A roadside bomb exploded at a checkpoint in Mogadishu and killed three soldiers.[211]

April 26 2 1 Kandahar, Afghanistan Two bombs explode, a car bomb and a bike bomb in Kandahar trying to killed a police chief. However, the blasts killed two other people.[212]

April 26 0 2 Sanaa, Yemen A suicide bomber disguised as a schoolboy attempted to kill the British ambassador to Yemen, Tim Torlot, when he threw himself into the path of the convoy Tim was travelling in.[213]

April 26 1 5 Baghdad, Iraq A car bomb exploded at a military checkpoint in Baghdad killing one person and wounded five more people.[214]

April 26 1 2 Giresun Province, Turkey A landmine explosion occurred near to a military vehicle as it was crossing a bride, in the Giresun province within north-eastern Turkey.[215]

April 27 2 4 Kunduz, Afghanistan A rocket fired by militants, struck a house in the Dasht Archi district of the northern Kunduz province within the country.[216]

April 27 1 0 Quetta, Pakistan A female teacher was killed by the Balochistan Liberation Army in a drive-by shooting in the Balochi capital of Quetta. They claimed it was retaliation for the death of Balochi women.[217]

April 27 2 6 Kirkuk, Mosul, Iraq A series of attacks occurred across two Iraqi cities, targeting both university students and police officers.[218]

April 28 4 11 Peshawar, Pakistan A suicide car bomber targeted a checkpoint in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar.[219]

April 28 1 0 Kandahar, Afghanistan Unidentified gunmen shot prominent Afghan tribal leader Abdul Rahman in the head as he was walking home.[220]

April 28 5 10 Baghdad, Iraq Twin suicide bombings hit a police checkpoint within the Abu Dsheer district, in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad.[221]

April 28 12 0 Khost, Afghanistan A roadside bomb detonated near to a passenger van in the Khost province within south-east Afghanistan.[222]

April 28 0 1 Blace, Republic of Macedonia A large weapon cache believed to be intended for terrorist actions was discovered near the border with Serbia towards Kosovo, including uniforms with UÇK marks. One of the people who were guarding the cache was injured in shootout with the police.[223]

April 29 1 6 Kirkuk, Baghdad Two bomb attacks occurred within two Iraqi cities across the country.[224]

April 29 3 17 Dagestan, Russia A suicide bomber set off a car-bomb blast at a traffic police checkpoint within the southern Russian republic of Dagestan.[225]

April 29 8 20 Baghdad, Iraq A car bomb detonated near to a pair of liquor stores within the south-west of Iraq’s capital city in Baghdad.[226]

April 30 0 4 Nalchik, Russia A bomb exploded near a police car in Nalchik and the blast injured two policeman and two people..[227]

April 30 3 10 Garma, Iraq A roadside bomb detonated at a market in Garma.[228]

April 30 1 0 Mir Ali, North Waziristan, Pakistan A Pakistani human rights activist, Khalid Khawaja, who was kidnapped earlier in the year was found dead, presumably killed by militants who held him.[229]

[edit] May
Date
Dead
Injured
Location and description

May 1 0 6 Quetta, Pakistan Six policeman were injured after a bomb exploded as they were on patrol.[230]

May 1 2 10 Mingora, Swat, Pakistan Two suicide bombers targeted the entrance to a busy market, in the main town of Mingora in the Swat district. Security forces shot dead one before he could detonate his explosives.[231]

May 1 1 30 Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia A bomb exploded in the VIP lodge of a hippodrome during horse races within the city of Nalchik.[232]

May 1 6 19 Baghdad, Mosul, Mussayab, Iraq A series of bomb and gun attacks occurred within three large Iraqi cities across the country.[233]

May 1 4 7 Tunceli, Turkey Kurdish rebels attacked a Turkish military command post within the Tunceli district of eastern Turkey, security officials have reported.[234]

May 1 39 70+ Mogadishu, Somalia Two bomb blasts occurred within the main mosque in the Somali capital, which also hit crowds in the nearby Bakara market.[235]

May 1 0 0 New York City, New York, United States New York’s Times Square was evacuated after the discovery of a car bomb.[236]

May 2 1 80 Mosul, Iraq Two buses were bombed in the city of Mosul and the blasts killed one person and wounded 80 more people.[237]

May 2 7 14 Zurmat District, Afghanistan Seven people were killed and fourteen wounded after a powerful bomb exploded in the southern Zurmat District.[238]

May 2 2 11 Kismayo, Somalia A hand grenade explosion at a mosque took place in the al-Shabab controlled port city when worshippers were praying.[239]

May 2 1 1 Diyarbakir Province, Turkey Kurdish rebels attacked a Turkish military command post, in the Diyarbakir Province within the south-east of the country.[240]

May 3 1 5 Khost, Afghanistan A suicide car bomber detonated in front of a NATO base in Khost province in south-eastern Afghanistan. It was the same base that suffered a suicide attack on December 31, 2009.[241]

May 3 5 14 Kirkuk, Shirqat, Baghdad, Mosul, Iraq A series of bombings and shootings took place across the country, within four Iraqi cities, towns and districts.[242]

May 4 2 16 Baghdad, Mosul, Iraq A series of shootings and bombings occurred within two large Iraqi cities across the country.[243]

May 5 0 0 Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom A bomb exploded outside a PSNI station in Lurgan. No one was harmed and the only damage was to a property opposite the station.[244]

May 5 4 10 Zaranj, Afghanistan Nine suicide bombers detonated in attacks on government buildings in the Afghan city of Zaranj.[245]

May 5 0 3 Yala, Thailand Three police officers were injured after a bomb exploded in the city of Yala.[246]

May 5 6 2 Mosul, Kirkuk, Baghdad, Iraq A series of shootings and a roadside bombing occurred within three large Iraqi cities across the country.[247]

May 6 1 11 Afghanistan A series of bomb explosions occurred within different areas, in the southern districts of the country.[248]

May 6 4 9 Baghdad, Kirkuk, Tuzkhurmato, Mosul, Iraq A series of targeted killings, grenade attacks and bombings occurred within four large Iraqi cities.[249]

May 7 0 0 Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom A bomb was found outside a election count station in Derry. Police did a controlled explosion inside a van where the bomb was placed. Reports say the van was hijacked before the bomb was planted. Dissident republicans were blamed for the attack .[250]

May 7 4 1 Mansehra, Pakistan Militants attacked a police checkpoint on the Karakoram highway, within the north-western Pakistani city of Mansehra.[251]

May 7 4 17 Rashad, Abu Ghraib, Tikrit A series of bombings and gun attacks occurred within two Iraqi towns, as well as one Iraqi district across the country.[252]

May 7 2 8 Derbent, Dagestan, Russia A bomb explosion occurred at a railway station within the major port city of Derbent, in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan.[253]

May 7 2 14 Adaba, Oromia Region, Ethiopia a bomb attack at a political meeting kill 2 and injured 14. Authorities blamed Oromo Liberation Front for this attack.[254]

May 7 2 1 Diyarbakir Province, Turkey Kurdish rebels clashed with Turkish security forces in the Diyarbakir province within the south-east of the country.[255]

May 8 2 10 Bangkok, Thailand Two policeman were killed and ten wounted after a shooting and a bomb attack in Bangkok.[256]

May 8 1 1 Tyrnyauz, North Caucasus, Russia Two bombs explode in the town of Tyrnyauz killing one person and injured a policeman.[257]

May 8 6 11 Mosul, Baghdad, Sulaiman Pek, Iraq A series of shootings, roadside bombings and planted bombings occurred within three large cities across the country.[258]

May 8 5 3 Logar Province, Wardak Province, Afghanistan Two roadside bombings, targeting Afghan civilians, occurred within two provinces of the country.[259]

May 8 2 0 Hakkari Province, Sirnak Province, Turkey Two separate bomb explosions killed two Turkish soldiers, whilst they were on patrol in the border districts of both the Hakkari and Sirnak provinces within the country.[260]

May 9 0 4 Dagestan, North Caucasus, Russia Two suicide bombers in a car attempted to target a military base in the city of Dagestan, but detonated when they were stopped by a policeman 100 meters away from the base.[261]

May 9 0 0 Tel Aviv, Israel A bomb exploded under a car which was planned to kill a man called Shoteh Hovel who was arrested two years ago for suspected corruption in Tel Aviv. The blast did not hurt the man and the car was damaged.[262]

May 9 5 5 Baghdad, Mosul, and Samarra, Iraq A roadside bombing, targeted shootings and discovered killings had taken place within three different cities across the country.[263]

May 10 114 400+ Iraq In a series of suicide bombings across the country, Two suicide car bombers drove into a fabrics factory as workers were ending there shift, as bystanders and emergency services rushed in to help the wounded, another mass-murdering suicide bomber detonates in the chaos. Two suicide bombers detonated at a crowded market in the small town of Suwayra. There were also further attacks involving shootings and car bombings.[264]

May 10 4 2 Helmand Province, Afghanistan An Afghan police vehicle struck a homemade bomb in the Gereshk district of Helmand province within the south of the country.[265]

May 11 5 14 Baghdad, Iraq Five policeman were killed and fourteen people wounded after a roadside bomb exploded in Baghdad.[266]

May 11 0 6 Falluja, Iraq A suicide car bomber detonated near a police checkpoint at the eastern entrance of Falluja.[267]

May 12 2 2 Peshawar, Pakistan A grenade attack, perpetrated by unknown attackers killed two children within the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar.[268]

May 12 4 23 Baghdad, Mosul, Iraq A bomb attack occurred inside a grocery store within the Iraqi capital of Baghdad meanwhile within the Iraqi city of Mosul, unidentified gunmen shot dead a civilian near to his home.[269]

May 12 7 20 Baghdad, Iraq A car bomb attack occurred outside a cafe within the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad. This attack reportedly took place in Sadr City, which is a mainly Shia district within the Iraqi capital.[270]

May 12 0 0 Buhleni, Swaziland Four police officers home‘s were attack after petrol bomb’s were thrown in the town of Buhleni. No one was killed or injured but the houses were damaged in the attack .[271]

May 12 0 0 Žač, Serbia Serbian refugees who returned to the village of Žač near Istok were fired at during the night.[272][273]

May 13 8 4 Dagestan, Russia An explosive device detonated near to a group of repair workers, as they were driving along in their vehicle. It has been reported that the repair workers had been dispatched to the area in order to fix a telephone mast that had been destroyed the previous day by unidentified militants.[274]

May 13 2 25 Mosul, Iraq A suicide car bomber targeted a joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol on the main road from Baghdad to Mosul. There were also a series of roadside bombings and a sticky bomb incident in various towns in Iraq.[275]

May 13 0 2 Athens, Greece A bomb exploded outside the main prison within the Greek capital city of Athens, following a telephone warning to an Athens newspaper. Radical left-wing Greek militant groups are suspected.[276]

May 13 0 3 Chitral, Pakistan Three people were injured after a car bomb exploded in the city of Chitral.[277]

May 13 3 2 Peshawar, Pakistan A roadside bomb exploded near to a police checkpoint, on the outskirts of the Pakistani city of Peshawar.[278]

May 14 0 1 Thessaloniki, Greece A bomb exploded inside court house in Thessaloniki. One person was injured in the blast and there was some damage to the building.[279]

May 14 25+ 100+ Tal Afar, Iraq Two suspected suicide bomb attacks occurred at the entrance to a football stadium within the city of Tal Afar, in the north of the country. The first explosion was reportedly set off by a suicide car bomber whereas the second blast was caused by a suicide attacker who had attacked the stadium on foot.[280]

May 14 1 2 Hyderabad, India Two man on motorcycle opened fire at a police in [[Hyderabad, India. One officer was killed and two others wounded in the shooting.[281]

May 14 0 15 Bangkok, Thailand. A bomb exploded at a rally in the Ratchaprasong area of Bangkok. The blast did not kill anyone but 15 people were injured in the blast [282]

May 14 0 0 Bangkok A car bomb was found next to the CentralPlaza Ramindra and was defused. There was two gas tanks that were found inside the car. No one was killed or injured in the attack [283]

May 16 0 0 Kandahar, Afghanistan A suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated his cache of explosives near the gate of an Afghan Border Police residence in Kandahar. Two other suicide bombers later tried to enter the compound but were killed by border policemen after a brief exchange of gunfire.[284][285]

May 17 35+ 40+ Dantewada, India 35 police officers were killed after rebels planted a bomb under the bus they were travailing in, 40 others were injured in the blast that occurred in the city of Dantewada.[286]

May 17 3 0 Kunar Province, Afghanistan A prominent Afghan peace cleric along with two members of his own family, were shot dead by militants in an ambush within the restive Kunar province, in the north of the country.[287]

May 18 18 52 Kabul, Afghanistan A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital.[288]

May 18 12 15 Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan A bike bomb exploded next to a police station in Dera Ismail Khan.[289]

May 18 0 0 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada A firebombing occurred around 3:30 a.m. in The Glebe neighbourhood at a Royal Bank of Canada branch. The anarchist[290] group responsible cited the sponsorship of the 2010 Winter Olympics as its motive and warned of further attacks against the upcoming G8 and G20 meetings. Police are confident of containing the threat and some officers called the attack “domestic terrorism”.[291]

May 18 0 1 Birganj, Nepal A woman was injured after a bomb exploded in the city of Birganj .[292]

May 19 0 6 Kabul, Afghanistan Taliban suicide bombers launched a brazen pre-dawn attack on one of NATO’s biggest military bases in Afghanistan, leaving at least seven guerrillas dead and six foreign troops wounded.[293]

May 19 0 0 Kingston, Jamaica A bomb was thrown at the Jamaica Labour Party building in Kingston. The bomb failed to explode no one was injured in the attempted bomb attack and the incident is now being investigated by police.[294]

May 19 2 18 Boumerdès, Algeria A roadside bomb exploded killing two soldiers and wounded 18 more in Boumerdès.[295]

May 19 6 10 Baghdad, Iraq A car bomb exploded in south Baghdad killing 6 people in the blast.[296]

May 20 3 8 Mosul, Iraq A suicide bomber targeted a police checkpoint in western Mosul, within the north of the country.[297]

May 21 2 0 Miranshah, Pakistan Taliban militants strapped explosives to two men accused of being U.S. spies and blew than up at a public execution in northwest Pakistan.[298]

May 21 1 0 Khost, Afghanistan A suicide truck bomb attack on an Afghan border police station killed an officer on Friday and three other suicide attackers were shot dead.[299] Taliban suicide fighters were engaged in a gun battle with Afghan police inside a base near the Pakistan border.[300]

May 21 6 5 Kandahar, Afghanistan Six US and NATO troops were killed after a car bomb exploded in the city of Kandahar.[301]

May 21 30 80 Khalis, Iraq A car bomb exploded at a market in Iraq’s northern Diyala province.[302]

May 22 0 5 Yala, Thailand A bomb exploded in Yala wounding five soldiers in the blast.[303]

May 22 0 3 Jaffa, Israel A bomb exploded inside a car wounding three people in the blast.[304]

May 22 0 7 Kandahar, Afghanistan NATO troops were wounded when Taliban militants fired rockets at Kandahar airfield in southern Afghanistan.[305]

May 22 3 1 Prokladnyi, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia Unidentified militants opened fire at a group of prison guards, in a drive-by attack on a road outside the city of Prokladnyi, in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria.[306]

May 22 0 0 Kathmandu, Nepal A bomb exploded outside the Constituent Assembly building and a second bomb was found but did not explode. No one was killed or injured in the blast and the builing had no damage in the attack.[307]

May 23 0 0 Chechnya, Russia Two terrorist militants are found disillusioned in a Woods near Serzhen-Yurt, in the Shali district of Chechnya. The militants refused to surrender and put up armed resistance, opening fire on law enforcement officers.[308]

May 23 1 4 Baghdad, Kirkuk, Iraq Two roadside bombings and two sticky bomb incidents occurred within Iraq’s capital city and an Iraqi town in the north of the country.[309]

May 23 6 0 Kapisa Province, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan A landmine blast targeted a group of civilians in the Kapisa Province whereas militants killed a police chief after they ambushed his car within the Ghazni Province of the country.[310]

May 24 10 8 Farah Province, Khost Province, Afghanistan A roadside bombing struck a civilian vehicle in the western Farah Province of the country. In a separate incident, Taliban militants had shot dead at least five residents in the south-eastern Khost Province in the country, after they were accused of spying for the Afghan government, as well as for foreign troops within the local area.[311]

May 24 3 7 Mosul, Ramadi, Iraq A series of bombings, roadside bombings and targeted killings occurred within the Iraqi city of Mosul, in northern Iraq and in the city of Ramadi, located within the west of the country.[312]

May 25 2 16 Quetta, Pakistan Two people were killed and sixteen wounded after a bomb exploded in the Pakistani city of Quetta.[313]

May 25 0 5 Baghdad, Iraq A roadside bombing targeted a police patrol within the north-eastern sectors of the Iraqi capital city in Baghdad.[314]

May 25 1 4 Diyarbakir Province, Turkey An improvised explosive device detonated near to an army barracks in the south-east of the country.[315]

May 26 4 0 Mosul, Kirkuk, Daquq, Iraq A series of shootings and targeted killings took place within three large Iraqi cities in the north of the country.[316]

May 26 7 42 Stavropol, Russia A bomb explosion occurred inside a cafeteria, in the center of the city of Stavropol within southern Russia.[317]

May 26 2 27 Yala, Thailand Two people were killed and 27 wounded after two bomb exploded in thee city of Yala.The frist bomb exploded outside a car showroom and the second blasts happened in the same area mints after the frist blast as police and rescue workers was in the area. [318]

May 27 0 0 Malgobek, Ingushetia, Russia This terrorist attack took place on May 27, near the cafe on the edge of town.No one injured.[319]

May 27 1 3 Farah Province, Afghanistan An Afghan police vehicle struck a roadside bomb within the Bala Boluk district, in the western Farah province of the country.[320]

May 27 3 29 Baghdad, Mosul, Iraq A series of roadside bombings, mortar attacks and targeted killings occurred within two large cities in the country, including the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad.[321]

May 27 1 3 Diyarbakir Province, Turkey PKK militants clashed with the Turkish security forces in the Diyarbakir Province within the south-east of the country.[322]

May 28 128+ 145+ India, Gyaneshwari Express train derailment – In a suspected Naxalite attack, an explosion derails an express sleeper train, which is then struck by a goods train, in West Bengal.[323]

May 28 4 0 Quetta, Pakistan Four policeman were killed after being shot dead by gunman on a motorcycle in the city of Quetta.[324]

May 28 98+ 125+ Lahore, Pakistan Unidentified militants launched simultaneous attacks against two mosques within the Pakistani city of Lahore.[325]

May 28 0 0 Kathmandu, Nepal A bomb exploded outside the Constituent Assembly building in Kathmandu. No one was killed or injured in the blast.[326]

May 29 5 6 Kabul, Afghanistan A police convoy was ambushed, as roadside bombs and gunmen opened fire in the city of Kabul. The attack killed five and wounded six.[327]

May 29 6 4 Hamam Al-Alil, Mosul, Taji A series of roadside bombings and targeted killings occured within three large cities and districts across the north of the country.[328]

May 29 0 0 Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Dissident republicans are being blamed after a mortar that was planted inside a car and exploded next to a police station in Derry. No one was killed or injured in the attack and the police station was damaged in the blast.[329]

May 29 5 6 Sirnak Province, Turkey PKK militants clashed on two separate occasions with the Turkish security forces and village guards in the Sirnak Province, which is located to the east of the country near to the Iraqi border.[330]

May 30 0 2 Amphoe Yaring, Thailand Two policeman were injured on petrol after a bomb exploded in the city of Yaring.[331]

May 30 2 4 Kurram, Pakistan Militants ambushed a vehicle in the tribal region of Kurram, which is located in a region of the country that is located near to the Afghan border, a paramilitary official in the area has said.[332]

May 30 7 2 Kunduz, Afghanistan A roadside bomb exploded next to a police patrol in the city of Kunduz.[333]

May 30 6 3 Şırnak Province, Siirt Province, Antakya, Turkey PKK rebels lauched a series of attacks against security forces and village guardsmen within three Turkish provinces.[334]

May 31 6 7 Iskenderun, Turkey PKK rebels launched a rocket attack against a naval base in the Mediterranean port city of Iskenderun, in southern Turkey.[335]

May 31 0 1 Santiago, Chile One person was injured after a bomb exploded next to a church in the city of Santiago.[336]

May 31 1 15 Baghdad, Iraq Three bombs exploded in the city of Baghdad. The blasts killed one person and wounded 15 more.[337]

Wow! See my point.

Of late, as the primary election season gets under way and America’s anger at Washington and government continues to manifest itself into positive change, (See Virginia, New Jersey, Massachusetts, polls, Spector, Lincoln, Obey, etc.) President Obama is again attacking Republicans in a feeble attempt to lend support to this threatened minions. President Obama is attacking Republicans for not cooperating with his agenda in the midst of one of America’s greatest crisis when “they caused it.” His words. Wow! Is he really saying this? Yes he is. Almost unbelievable. Here’s why:

The crisis he is referring to is a financial crisis with tendrils reaching into home ownership, employment, every aspect of the economy and most importantly, the survival of America. Obama says Republican’s caused it, not democrats, and not Washington. Republicans “caused it” according to Obama. He’s lying or he is ignorant, pick. Yes, George Bush spent way too much money and George Bush, while aware the dire financial woes on the horizon with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, did not succeed in fixing the problem. George Bush has some culpability. But was he alone? Absolutely not. Barney Frank and democrats defended Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and their insane endorsement of even more insane lending practices. Democrats went right along with Bush’s spending spree. It is not a Republican or Democratic problem, it is a problem with Washington. Apparently America understands this and Obama does not.

How can I say that Obama doesn’t understand this? Easy. Obama is Bush on Steroids. He is doing everything he and democrats criticized Bush for doing. Spending, he makes Bush look like a cheap pauper. Government control, invasion into our lives, the destruction of liberty, think Patriot Act which was condemned by democrats, Obama has pounded on the accelerator when it comes to growth of government and the attack on liberty.

Obama is spending our nation into Bankruptcy. Earlier this week, the Bank of England Governor, Mervyn King, irked US authorities by pointing out that even the world’s economic superpower has a major fiscal problem – “Even the United States, the world’s largest economy, has a very large fiscal deficit” were his words.

Obama has taken away our freedom to control our own health care while, and this is quite consistent with his un-American view, making us responsible for other’s health care.

War? He’s in the thick with little beyond rhetoric and his campaign promises to indicate he has an exit strategy.

He wants to monitor the internet. He is in favor of the fairness doctrine although he is pursing his free speech control administratively rather than legislatively, he still does not like free speech. He recently said that too much information and argument injures the “emancipation” and democracy. I still don’t know what “emancipation” information and argument are injuring.

He is pushing cap and trade under a different name, fleeing terms like carbon tax, regressive tax, global warming, even cap and trade. He is honing in on calling his agenda the American Energy Act.

Immigration? A closed for the season sign is apparently hanging in the office of the folks in the Administration that should be dealing with the immigration problem.

See my point? Obama is pointing fingers at the Republicans for a problem, a crisis, that is absolutely not owned exclusively by Republicans. And let’s talk about pointing fingers. Last week Obama pointed fingers at the Oil industry. Why? Amazingly, to accuse them of pointing fingers; rather gutsy for the greatest finger pointer in history to attack an entire industry for doing just that, pointing fingers. It is especially amazing when according to the Associated Press, the Obama Administration failed miserably in their inspection of the oil rig that exploded. What is that old trite saying? When you point your finger at me, there are three fingers pointing back at you? Perfectly appropros.

Obama’s latest attempt to point fingers is reveals further (not that we need any more revelation of the real Obama) the utter immaturity and incompetence of our President. Mr. President you don’t lead by blaming, you lead by being responsible. Responsibility is the foundation of leadership and you are not being responsible. Our President continues to further reveal an arrogant and ignorant condescension for the intelligence and mental proficiency of America. America sees and knows what Obama refuses to acknowledge, admit and accept any blame. America sees through Obama too. Thank God and I am being literal here.

The Crisis we are in is a Washington crisis now being lead in the most faulty direction by Obama. It is not any past politician’s problem, maybe fault, but not problem. It is Obama’s problem and he is failing to do a damn thing about it other than point fingers and accelerate the very behavior that got us into this mess. He is a governmentaholic and his solution, more government. And that is what is perpetuating the crisis, nothing else. So keep pointing your finger Mr. President, it doesn’t work for any positive purpose other than this: It further reveals your un-American fundamental beliefs, immature character, lack of principle, political agenda, and most horrifyingly, your contempt for the country that we love and cherish. Not that we need it Mr. President, but thanks for the reminder.

That’s my Reetzality for the Day.

Thanks for the Read.

Brett Reetz

Of late, as the primary election season gets under way and America’s anger at Washington and government continues to manifest itself into positive change, (See Virginia, New Jersey, Massachusetts, polls, Spector, Lincoln, Obey, etc.) President Obama is again attacking Republicans in a feeble attempt to lend support to this threatened minions. President Obama is attacking Republicans for not cooperating with his agenda in the midst of one of America’s greatest crisis when “they caused it.” His words. Wow! Is he really saying this? Yes he is. Almost unbelievable. Here’s why:

The crisis he is referring to is a financial crisis with tendrils reaching into home ownership, employment, every aspect of the economy and most importantly, the survival of America. Obama says Republican’s caused it, not democrats, and not Washington. Republicans “caused it” according to Obama. He’s lying or he is ignorant, pick. Yes, George Bush spent way too much money and George Bush, while aware the dire financial woes on the horizon with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, did not succeed in fixing the problem. George Bush has some culpability. But was he alone? Absolutely not. Barney Frank and democrats defended Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and their insane endorsement of even more insane lending practices. Democrats went right along with Bush’s spending spree. It is not a Republican or Democratic problem, it is a problem with Washington. Apparently America understands this and Obama does not.

How can I say that Obama doesn’t understand this? Easy. Obama is Bush on Steroids. He is doing everything he and democrats criticized Bush for doing. Spending, he makes Bush look like a cheap pauper. Government control, invasion into our lives, the destruction of liberty, think Patriot Act which was condemned by democrats, Obama has pounded on the accelerator when it comes to growth of government and the attack on liberty.

Obama is spending our nation into Bankruptcy. Earlier this week, the Bank of England Governor, Mervyn King, irked US authorities by pointing out that even the world’s economic superpower has a major fiscal problem – “Even the United States, the world’s largest economy, has a very large fiscal deficit” were his words.

Obama has taken away our freedom to control our own health care while, and this is quite consistent with his un-American view, making us responsible for other’s health care.

War? He’s in the thick with little beyond rhetoric and his campaign promises to indicate he has an exit strategy.

He wants to monitor the internet. He is in favor of the fairness doctrine although he is pursing his free speech control administratively rather than legislatively, he still does not like free speech. He recently said that too much information and argument injures the “emancipation” and democracy. I still don’t know what “emancipation” information and argument are injuring.

He is pushing cap and trade under a different name, fleeing terms like carbon tax, regressive tax, global warming, even cap and trade. He is honing in on calling his agenda the American Energy Act.

Immigration? A closed for the season sign is apparently hanging in the office of the folks in the Administration that should be dealing with the immigration problem.

See my point? Obama is pointing fingers at the Republicans for a problem, a crisis, that is absolutely not owned exclusively by Republicans. And let’s talk about pointing fingers. Last week Obama pointed fingers at the Oil industry. Why? Amazingly, to accuse them of pointing fingers; rather gutsy for the greatest finger pointer in history to attack an entire industry for doing just that, pointing fingers. It is especially amazing when according to the Associated Press, the Obama Administration failed miserably in their inspection of the oil rig that exploded. What is that old trite saying? When you point your finger at me, there are three fingers pointing back at you? Perfectly appropros.

Obama’s latest attempt to point fingers is reveals further (not that we need any more revelation of the real Obama) the utter immaturity and incompetence of our President. Mr. President you don’t lead by blaming, you lead by being responsible. Responsibility is the foundation of leadership and you are not being responsible. Our President continues to further reveal an arrogant and ignorant condescension for the intelligence and mental proficiency of America. America sees and knows what Obama refuses to acknowledge, admit and accept any blame. America sees through Obama too. Thank God and I am being literal here.

The Crisis we are in is a Washington crisis now being lead in the most faulty direction by Obama. It is not any past politician’s problem, maybe fault, but not problem. It is Obama’s problem and he is failing to do a damn thing about it other than point fingers and accelerate the very behavior that got us into this mess. He is a governmentaholic and his solution, more government. And that is what is perpetuating the crisis, nothing else. So keep pointing your finger Mr. President, it doesn’t work for any positive purpose other than this: It further reveals your un-American fundamental beliefs, immature character, lack of principle, political agenda, and most horrifyingly, your contempt for the country that we love and cherish. Not that we need it Mr. President, but thanks for the reminder.

That’s my Reetzality for the Day.

Thanks for the Read.

Brett Reetz

CO-EXIST! That is the bumper sticker of the inveterate liberal I see them all the time, usually on a Volvo, or some sort of quote “green” car. Co-exist. What does that mean? I’m not sure, but actually I’ve figured it out. It is an expression of demonic ludicrous that reveals the liberals penultimate desires. Wow, that’s a big sentence with a bunch of poly-syllabic words. On its face, the bumper sticker means “get along,” don’t be pious, other cultures are just as good as our American culture, but different, and how arrogant and condescending of us to demean these other cultures. That’s the intent of the bumper sticker and of course, the folks that sport those bumper stickers are so intellectual, so smart, so much more intellectual than us blue bloods.

Thus, I did what is necessary. I put myself in their shoes, the liberal apparent shoes, just to see if I was or wasn’t co-existing appropriately. Wow, am I naïve. Here’s what I discovered:

First, I have no friends that employ clitorectomies. None. Not one of my friends feel it is appropriate to excise a young girls clitoris in order to cause her to remain celibate and to not enjoy sex. Not a one. I am definitely not in a position to say that I am socializing with folks who endorsing clitorectomies. Shame on me, I am not co-existing.

Second, none of my friends have endorsed stoning a women to death for being raped. God, I am awful, I’m not co-existing. We need to embrace other cultures, we need to understand that they are not wrong, they are just different, and when a women gets raped in Saudi and then stoned for being a victim, we need to understand, we need to embrace, we need not to be so arrogantly righteous. Again, I am so bad, so arrogant, so not co-existing.

Third, It get’s worse! None of my friends discriminate against women. In fact a lot of my friends are women. I treat them no differently than I do my male friends. Yet, other cultures, the one we have to co-exist with, find women to be second class citizens, wear a mask, bow, don’t socialize with another male or we’ll stone you, just be deferential, after all, we have a penis and certainly that makes us better than you. I am so ashamed that I am not co-existing with folks who condemn women to second, even third, the children rank higher, class citizens.

Fourth, Oh shit, none of my friends are killing their new borns if they are female. Uh Oh. I can’t believe how arrogant I am not to be hanging with folks that employ infanticide when the wrong sex is born. Shame on me. I am not co-existing.

Fifth, I do not have a single friend who wants to pass his debt onto his children like they do in India. Again, shame on me. I am such a bad co-existor. How narrow of me? I need some friends who run up debt, live the good life, and pass it on to their children like in India. Well, if it’s any salvation, Obama’s imposing this reality upon us, so I guess I can say that I am involved. Still, I have no close friends who endorse this policy.

I could go on, but I’ve made my point. Co-exist? Get real Libs. The oxymoronic truth of the flagrantly ridiculous “co-exist” mantra reveals your abject stupidity. Don’t believe me, try to reconcile women’s rights with the cultures you inspire us to co-exist with, you’ll get stoned, to death my friends.

Here’s my ultimate point. The Co-Exist bumper sticker is an in your face, challenge me, revelation of the abject ignorance of the left. It’s impossible. It’s insane, It’s all illogical. All the tenants of evil if we have to cut the chase.
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So libs, keep putting those bumper stickers on your cars, keep revealing your inherent stupidity and evil for us to see. Here’s the kicker libs: We’ve seen through it. We know who you are and more importantly, we know what you are.

Come on knuckleheads. You want to co-exist with folks that will stone you for being who your are? The reality is that you don’t. The reality is that the bumper sticker simply reveals another trite illogical effort to destroy and demean what is good. Go for it libs. You are up against God. By the way, did you ever watch the exorcist? God won, he, she, it, always does. And here’s a final thought libs, even if you think you won, you always lose. Losing is consistent with your druthters.

That’s my Reetzality for the Day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz