Fox News Team Severely Beaten, Hospitalized In Cairo

FOX News Channel’s foreign correspondent Greg Palkot and producer Olaf Wiig have suffered severe injuries in Cairo while covering the unrest in the Egypt capital. Palkot was badly beaten and Wiig has a possible broken jaw. Both have been hospitalized.  Read more.

ABC News Reporter Threatened With Beheading

ABC News correspondent Brian Hartman carjacked and threatened with being beheaded in the latest of an growing number of attacks on foreign journalists covering the uprising in Egypt.  Read more.

Oysters Disappearing Worldwide: Study

Most of the remaining wild oysters in the world, or about 75 percent, can be found in five locations in North America, said the study published in BioScience, the journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.  Read more.

Muslim Brotherhood Wants End to Egypt-Israeli Peace Deal

Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood movement has unveiled its plans to scrap a peace treaty with Israel if it comes to power, a deputy leader said in an interview with NHK TV.  Read more.

Muslim Brotherhood Declares Jihad on America; America Declares Muslim Brotherhood is Moderate

MB Leader Muhammad Badi’a

By Barry Rubin -“The best thing I can do for you to understand the Muslim Brotherhood is to ask you to read what I wrote last October 7. In that article I asked whether the United States would notice that the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, through its leader, declared Jihad on America. At the end of the article I noted that an Egyptian friend said I was the only one who noticed outside of the country.

Here’s the key quote:

The United States is ‘experiencing the beginning of its end and is heading towards its demise….Resistance is the only solution…. The United States cannot impose an agreement upon the Palestinians, despite all the means and power at its disposal. [Today] it is withdrawing from Iraq, defeated and wounded, and it is also on the verge of withdrawing from Afghanistan. [All] its warplanes, missiles and modern military technology were defeated by the will of the peoples, as long as [these peoples] insisted on resistance – and the wars of Lebanon and Gaza, which were not so long ago, [are proof of this].’

And here’s what the previous supreme guide, Mahdi Akef, said:

“Question: Regarding resistance and jihad…do you consider Osama Bin Laden a terrorist or an Islamic Mujahid [a holy warrior, literally someone who wages jihad]?

“Akef: Certainly, a mujahid, and I have no doubt in his sincerity in resisting the occupation, drawing closer to God Almighty.”

What I never imagined is that 3.5 months later people would be claiming — in contradiction to every Muslim Brotherhood speech and writing (in Arabic) — that the Muslim Brotherhood is some harmless nonviolent reform group.

Australia’s Cyclone Yasi Devastation is ‘Apocalyptic’

Trees are down, cars have been swept away, roofs have been torn off and the sand on the beach is gone. “Nothing’s been spared. The devastation is phenomenal, like nothing I’ve ever experienced,” the veteran of at least five cyclones told the ABC.  Read more.