Oldest Son Of Hamas Founder Seeking Asylum In California

By ELLIOT SPAGAT

Mosab Hassan Yousef (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Mosab Hassan Yousef says he will be killed if he is deported from the United States to the West Bank. The oldest son of one of Hamas’ founders, he was an Israeli spy for a decade, and he abandoned Islam for Christianity, further marking him a traitor.

He is scheduled to plead his case Wednesday to an immigration judge in San Diego, four months after publishing memoirs that say he was one of the Shin Bet security agency’s best assets and was dubbed The Green Prince, a reference to his Hamas pedigree and the Islamists’ signature green color.

Yousef’s case seems straightforward: Helping Israel find and kill members of the militant group would make him a marked man back home. Nearly two dozen members of Congress wrote Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano this week that Yousef would be in “grave danger” in the Middle East. Former CIA Director James Woolsey says his deportation would discourage other potential spies.   (Read more.)

B.S. Report–How are we supposed to lure formerly bad people to our side if we turn around and serve them up to their terrorist homelands to be tortured to death?  I’m not saying this guy Yousef is a good man–but I am saying that he is a valuable asset.

Keeping our country safe is not a lily-white business–there are inherent trade-offs.   Often, those trade-offs involve committing a lesser harm so as to prevent the occurrence of a greater harm.

Stick To The Peanuts: FDA Says Airline Food A Recipe For Disaster

From CBS New York  (Pics added by B.S. Report)

By Kirstin Cole

"Here ya go! And we threw in some rat feces at no extra charge!"

New York–Many Americans fear for their safety while flying, scared of the possibility of something going wrong with the plane’s maintenance.

It turns out, however, the biggest safety issue you face while flying could be the food served by the airlines.

More than half a billion meals are made by some of the largest airline food kitchens in the United States. A recent analysis by some of Food and Drug Administration inspection records found that food preparation in some of these kitchens is a recipe for disaster.

Violations include roaches, mice, unsanitary conditions and no place for employees to wash their hands.

“Volume always leads to problems,” said Brian Buckley of the Institute of Culinary Education. “Obviously there’s not a lot of accountability.”  (Read more.)

Mmmmmm, yummy!

Al Gore Speaks In San Diego; Takes No Questions

From 10News.com  (San Diego)  (Pics added by B.S. Report)

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Convention Center was packed with more than 11,000 human resource professionals as former Vice President Al Gore made a rare public appearance Monday.  Little has been seen of Gore in the past several weeks since confirmed reports of a split with his wife, Tipper, and after allegations surfaced that a 54-year-old masseuse in Oregon reported Gore made unwanted sexual advances toward her in 2006 and accused him of being “a crazed sex poodle.”

While 10News cameras were ushered out of the Convention Center by members of Gore’s camp prior to his speech, some in attendance spoke about the former vice president’s appearance at the annual convention for the Society of Human Resources Management.  (Read more.)

Video: Economic Views Clash On CNBC

Quote Of The Day: Frederic Bastiat

See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to the other persons to whom it doesn’t belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish that law without delay … No legal plunder; this is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony and logic.

–Frederic Bastiat

Audio Of Kagan: It’s Fine If The Law Bans Books Because Government Won’t Really Enforce It

Wow, That Car Really Flies…No, It Really Flies!

From the UK Telegraph

By Tom Chivers

Terrafugia Transition taking off

The Terrafugia Transition, a light aircraft that can convert into a road-legal automobile, is to go into production after being given a special weight exemption by the US Federal Air Authority.

The Transition was designed as a “light sport” aircraft, the smallest kind of private aeroplane under FAA classification, with a maximum weight of 1,320lb. But the manufacturers found it impossible to fit the safety features – airbags, crumple zones and roll cage, for instance – that are required for road vehicles into that weight.

Uniquely, however, the FAA has granted the Transition an exemption – allowing it to be classified as a light sport aircraft despite being 120lb over the limit.

Light sport aircraft licences require just 20 hours’ flying time, making them much easier to obtain than full private licences.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–Remember the first flying boat?

Feds Arrest Suspected Russian Spies Living In The U.S.

From The New York Times  (Pics added by B.S. Report)

By Scott Shane and Charlie Savage

WASHINGTON — They had lived for more than a decade in American cities and suburbs from Seattle to New York, where they seemed to be ordinary couples working ordinary jobs, chatting to the neighbors about schools and apologizing for noisy teenagers.

But on Monday, federal prosecutors accused 11 people of being part of a Russian espionage ring, living under false names and deep cover in a patient scheme to penetrate what one coded message called American “policy making circles.”

An F.B.I. investigation that began at least seven years ago culminated with the arrest on Sunday of 10 people in Yonkers, Boston and northern Virginia. The documents detailed what the authorities called the “Illegals Program,” an ambitious, long-term effort by the S.V.R., the successor to the Soviet K.G.B., to plant Russian spies in the United States to gather information and recruit more agents.  (Read more.)

Reporting was contributed by Benjamin Weiser, Nate Schweber, Kenneth Chang, Andy Newman and Colin Moynihan from New York; Mark Mazzetti and Yeganeh June Torbati from Washington; and Abby Goodnough from Boston.

Bad Idea: 3 Dead After Man Tries To Exterminate Rats By Using His Car’s Exhaust Fumes

From APP.com  (New Jersey)  (Pics added by B.S. Report)

By Diana Fasanella

"Humans are so stupid--someday we'll be running the entire planet!"

Three Ukrainian residents died from carbon monoxide poisoning after the head of the family tried to exterminate rats in the basement of his home with the help of exhaust fumes from his car.

A 71-year-old man, his wife, 77, and their granddaughter were found dead in the basement of their Dnepropetrovsk home after the man attached a hose to the exhaust pipe of his Zaporozhets and put the other end of the hose into a basement window, Pravda reports.

After the man started the engine, he went upstairs. Some time later, he decided to return to the basement to see if any rats had perished. Because of the high concentration of exhaust fumes, he lost consciousness.

When he did not return, his wife went downstairs to check on her husband. She also fainted. The same thing happened with their 29-year-old granddaughter.

Another granddaughter found the bodies of her relatives about two hours later. Authorities said she is lucky to be alive.

It was unclear if any rats died.

Chinese saying: Cats better at catching rats than old men

"I'm telling you I had nothing to do with it--the idiot hooked up the exhaust hose from his car!"

Muslim Police Arrest Models For Indecency At Rare Mixed-Sex Fashion Show In Sudan

(Pics added by B.S. Report)

Sudanese fashion model (Photo: AFP)

(Reuters) – Sudanese police briefly detained more than 20 models, make-up artists and designers after a rare mixed-sex fashion show in Khartoum, participants said Saturday.

Amateur models taking part in the “Sudanese Next Top Model Fashion Show” told Reuters they were rounded up late Thursday by Sudan’s public order police, a body known for its crackdowns on indecent dress and drinking in the Muslim north.

Police were not available to comment on Thursday’s arrests outside a club in the capital’s Khartoum 2 district.

All of the detainees were released Friday but at least six were told to report to the police Sunday to face unspecified charges, said one participant.  (Read more.)

You'd be so arrested...probably get the death penalty.