40-year-old Stephan Liczbinski was a 12 year veteran of the Philadelphia police force who had just been promoted to Sergeant. His promising career was cut short Saturday morning when he was ambushed and murdered by two people wearing “Muslim garb” while responding to a bank robbery in progress:

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia police said a veteran police officer was shot and killed in the Port Richmond section of the city on Saturday.

Stephen Liczbinski, 40, a 12-year veteran who had just been promoted to sergeant, was shot by at least two men shortly before 11:30 a.m. Saturday, authorities said.

He was responding to a robbery at a Bank of America branch inside the ShopRite at Castor and Aramingo.

The men fled, and Liczbinski confronted them at Almond and Schiller streets about 15 minutes later. He was shot multiple times with a high-powered rifle, police said.

“It is my understanding that he was either in the car or had just gotten out of the car at the time he was struck,” Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said.

Liczbinski was taken to Temple University Hospital in critical condition, where he died on Saturday afternoon.

The men fled the area and were later spotted by a canine officer responding to the robbery and the report of an officer down. That officer shot and killed one of the men at D and Loudon, police said. The suspect died at the hospital, police said.

Authorities said Liczbinski was married with two sons and a daughter.

Our hearts go out to his family in this time of need. There have been several arrests made and it looks like the burqa was a disguise used by some garden variety degenerates:

Authorities have charged one suspect and are searching for a second in the fatal shooting of a police officer after a bank robbery in northeast Philadelphia.

Levon Warner, 38, was charged with murder, robbery, conspiracy and related offenses, Deputy Commissioner William Blackburn said at a news conference Sunday. A second man, Eric Floyd, 33, believed to have escaped from a halfway house in Berks County, is also wanted on a homicide charge.

A third suspect, Howard Cain, 33, was shot and killed Saturday by a canine officer who was responding to the robbery and the report of an officer down.

Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski was fatally shot with an assault rifle late Saturday morning while responding to a robbery at a Bank of America branch inside a ShopRite supermarket in Port Richmond, authorities said.

Police said the bank at Ontario Street and Aramingo Avenue was held up late Saturday morning. The suspects fled in a vehicle after the robbery, and Liczbinski confronted them a few blocks away at Almond and Schiller streets at about 11:30 a.m.

“The sergeant didn’t have a chance,” Blackburn said, adding that Liczbinski was shot at least five times.

Police recovered two vehicles, one of which contained a high-powered assault rifle with 25 live rounds. Police said the rifle was not a weapon that could have been possessed legally.

From the vehicles and an alley near one of the shooting scenes, they also found other weapons, two sets of Islamic clothing and $38,000.

Shortly after the robbery, Warner reported his van stolen, Blackburn said. But police later determined he was involved in the crime and that his vehicle had been used as a getaway car.

The illegal assault rifle and the “Islamic garb” will no doubt set off red flags for many, but the clothing was discarded after the fact so you can’t rule out the possibility that these people were non-Muslims who were playing upon the the fear of being called a bigot that pervades big northern cities. Burqas are a disguise that people are increasingly feeling unable to question, which means more criminals will be donning them to gain access to victims.

This report gives more details on the disguises worn by the robbers, as well as a description of Sgt. Liczbinski’s final minutes. Hard reading but worth your time.

Daniel Pipes has been talking about the security threat of the Burqa for a while. Read his piece and see how criminals, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, are using western multicultural sensibilities to their advantage, resulting in theft, murder and mayhem.

Especially interesting was the escape from England of terrorist Mustaf Jama who fled England after killing a cop. English social mores facilitated his escape when he donned a burqa and stole his sisters passport and was able to pass through English airport checkpoints unmolested, after the 7/7 bombings.

The ironic part of this respect we give the burqa is that it isn’t in the Koran. Don’t believe me, look it up yourself. Modest Muslim women covered their hair and wore cloaks. But there’s nothing in the Koran that tells women to go about Ninja style.

Here in America Burqa clad bandits have been on a tear, leading some people to think of banning the garment. Planck’s Constant has a good overview.

Gateway Pundit has more. Trench beat me to it by mere hours.

Update: At least one of the robbers is a Muslim but right now all three are thought to have attended the same mosque.  That Mosque is refusing to bury the man who was killed, because bank robbery is un-Islamic. A good sign but it’s a decision that even other Muslims think is political rather than sincere. This exchange is from the comments of Tariq Nelson’s blog:

#
Rasheed Moore, on May 8th, 2008 at 7:21 pm Said:

I think there is also some blame on the shoulders of the Muslim leadership in Philly for years a lot of those Masajid have been built on donations coming from brothers involved in illegal activity now when it’s politically expeidient they renounce them. I am not saying this is the case with the Germantown Masjid or the leadership there but in general the community has in the past looked the other way when it comes to crime.

LaterRasheed gets this response:

#
Salafi Burnout, on May 8th, 2008 at 9:53 pm Said:

@ Rasheed Moore

You are 100% correct and no one wants to say it. The ranks of the salafis in Philly are filled with thieves, rapists, and drug dealers, but they look the other way because the brother is “upon the manhaj”

Last year, three Muslims from the Germantown masjid robbed a Wal-Mart store of $300K

But these same brothers are up in arms when a brother’s pants are too long or beard is too short

It sounds like the Umma in Philadelphia is over run with radicals who tolerate crime until it becomes public. Maybe it’s time for those Muslims complaining on the Tariq Nelson site to take back their mosques from these criminal elements.

Britain’s socialist health care system may be responsible for more than just long waiting periods and piss poor doctoring. Soon a dirty bomb might be detonated in London or another English city courtesy of NHS:

Nine items that could be used to build a dirty bomb are missing from British hospitals, fuelling fears that Al Qaeda terrorists are trying to steal material to build a radioactive device.

The revelation comes as a new US State Department intelligence report highlights fears over terror suspects working in the NHS and reveals Britain has launched an urgent operation to track down all radiological material used in its hospitals.

A State Department counter-terrorism official said there was high-level “concern” in Washington about the large number of foreign-born workers in European hospitals with access to materials that could be made into a dirty bomb.

He added: “There is little doubt that eventually a dirty bomb made from radiological materials stolen from a hospital would be exploded.”

The operation to track down the material was launched last year by the Environment Agency with assistance from MI5.

This story puts a more sinister spin on what I originally thought was a rather funny piece in the Daily Mail about British authorities catching Iraqi and Afghani illegal aliens fleeing the country. The story implies implies that the “failed asylum seekers” are unhappy with the English weather and the piss poor service provided by “free” health care (Democrats take note) but with materials that could be used to make a dirty bomb missing the flight from England of Muslim immigrants from two fronts in the War on Terror seems more like a warning sign to me:

Failed asylum seekers are sneaking out of Britain - because they are fed up with the poor health care and bad weather.

Scores have been caught trying to break past border controls in recent weeks, according to immigration staff.

The majority of those who have been found are from Afghanistan and Iraq, said Les Williams, a chief immigration officer for the UK Border Agency.

He said: “One thing we have noticed recently is people trying to leave the country.

“We cannot explain exactly why they are trying to go, but when some of these people were questioned they said they wanted to go to a warmer country as they are fed up with the English weather and fed up with their treatment on the NHS.”

If the NHS is overwhelmed now imagine what would happen when a dirty bomb goes off. Maybe some of these border jumpers are thinking Italy will be able to treat their radiation induced symptoms better, or they just want to get out of the blast zone. Soon.

Either way these are both stories to watch.

U.N. Watch gave voice to Regina Bublil Waldman, a woman who lived through the most disgusting treatment at the hands of the Libyan regime. A must hear story that unfortunately fell on deaf ears in the U.N and will likely be ignored by Jew haters in this country:

Via Mosquewatch. There are no words to describe this, just watch and remember that the United Nations and the “non-aligned” nations (communists) have praised Sudan. Praised them for this:

I’ll paraphrase one commenter on this Daily Mail story by saying the English authorities are all but ceding control of the streets to the angry mobs of unemployed hooligans their massive welfare state produces:

A St George’s Day parade through an inner-city area hit by race riots has been canceled following police advice.

Community groups had planned to stage the multi-cultural event in Bradford and 1,500 schoolchildren were due to take part.

Many of the youngsters had already made flags of St George to carry on the parade on April 23, which was designed to boost community cohesion.

But last week police and council chiefs told the organisers that the event could not go ahead as planned for ‘health and safety’ reasons. At a meeting, police demanded a shorter route which avoided two streets at the centre of the race riots in 2001.

As a result, organisers have decided to call off the event, which was due to attract more than 10,000 people.

Bradford City councillor Quasim Khan said: “We were told by the police at the meeting that the original route had not been risk assessed and if we wanted a march to go ahead on that date, St George’s Day, we would have to accept a smaller, different route.

“The police officers were getting quite animated, saying things like ‘look, this just isn’t going to happen’.” Police and council officials said they did not have sufficient warning of the event.

However, community leaders planning the parade said the event was blighted because of fears it could stoke up violence. They claimed a police inspector had actually begun the plans for the parade nine months ago.

The Rev Tony Tooby, chairman of governors at St Philips primary school, which was due to take part, said: “We wanted the route to include where some of the riots had taken place to educate our young people.

“The police and council just kept telling us that the reason for their objection was ‘health and safety’. They proposed another route which was ridiculously short. The march would have been over before it began.

“Unfortunately, there’s a fear that someone may have used it to cause violence.

“The day seems to have been taken away from us because of fears of thugs. “The council and police say something could go ahead on July 1, but it won’t be a St George’s Day celebration.’

The police are afraid that a parade that celebrates the cultural heritage of England will cause a race riot. If that doesn’t tell them they’re in trouble nothing will.

The parade was to be an inclusive event meant to heal the wounds caused by riots in 2001, riots which started when neo-Nazis and Muslims clashed. The police, in airing their fears of Muslim anger, are both equating St. George Day with White Nationalism and promoting the view of Muslims as unwilling and unable to assimilate into British culture.

There are Muslims who want this to be the case, who want to isolate British Muslims so as to recruit them into Islamist groups. The police have played right into their hands.

Gates of Vienna reacts. Gateway Pundit fleshes the story out with more links.