December 28, 2004
Damn You Glenn Reynolds!!!!
The Jawa Report got it's first Instalanche!! Maybe I should stay on vacation, like, forever? After begging Reynolds for a link for about 9 months I gave up on him. But he finally, of his own free will, links to this
old post on Johnny Ramone. Why does this piss me off? Well, after I hit number 33 in the Ecosystem (granted the Ecosystem was screwed up at the time) I made it my goal to be the first Mortal Human to never get an Instalanche. Now Reynolds has to drop a link and take away my last ounce of dignity.
Reynoooolds!! (screamed out loud, eyes to heaven, think "Khaaaan!!")
Anyway, still on vacation. Limited access to the internet. Chad is doing excellent work banging away at the keys while I'm gone. Thanks for keeping us all informed man.
Interested Participant, Cranky Neocon, Flea, Buckethead have also been busy keping it real--Old School style. Thanks.
Don't know where BRD and Demosophist are. Maybe holed up in an Idaho bunker or something waiting for the Y2k thing to finally hit five years late.
Ok, back to visiting with relatives. How can one be both bored and extremely busy at the same time??
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My condolences on the lanche. That darn Reynolds. I'm going to boycott his site in protest. Heh.
Posted by: Vonski at December 28, 2004 03:12 PM (AHaCg)
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at December 28, 2004 04:37 PM (1HHo7)
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(Not so it rhymes with "gleen"...)
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at December 28, 2004 04:38 PM (1HHo7)
Posted by: Leopold Stotch at December 28, 2004 04:48 PM (NqCYh)
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Hey! Look on the bright side. At least it was a post you wrote. Not a post by a guest blogger. (Of whom I have been a real slacker. Guest blogger that is.)
Posted by: The Maximum Leader at December 28, 2004 05:15 PM (jmfvP)
Posted by: Satan at December 28, 2004 05:23 PM (1Z4Aq)
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Hey Rusty, how long IS your vacation??? Seems you've been gone weeks!!! Hows'the weather?
Miss you.
Posted by: Laura at December 28, 2004 06:15 PM (ptOpl)
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I've blogged 819 days without ever getting a single Insta-lanche. Of course, I've never gotten higher than #550 or so in the Ecosystem, so my problems getting linked are a little more understandable.
Posted by: Nathan at December 28, 2004 07:44 PM (HIQoA)
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Do computers in Idaho not use binary? Maybe they should try selling their programs to MS for the next century. Always thinking ahead.
Posted by: Rod Stanton at December 28, 2004 08:14 PM (tHUgl)
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NOW you're concerned with your dignity?
Posted by: Christopher Cross at December 28, 2004 08:49 PM (ruAMg)
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Dude, that Instalaunch gave you some hits, but I think the
Roth Report may have done just as well ...
But I'm seriously, who's Glenn Reynolds?
Posted by: Leopold Stotch at December 28, 2004 09:01 PM (NqCYh)
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If you've got a grudge against Glenn Reynolds, may I humbly suggest joining the Alliance of Free Blogs?
http://gevkaffeegal.typepad.com/the_alliance/
I don't usually recruit, but I think you've got a legitimate beef here.
Posted by: Harvey at December 29, 2004 04:20 PM (tJfh1)
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Tsunami Death Toll Exceeds 55,000
The extent of the disastrous undersea earthquake off the west coast of Sumatra is becoming clearer.
Channel AsiaNews reports confirmed deaths at 27,174 in Indonesia, more than 17,640 in Sri Lanka, 8,523 in India, 4,000 in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 1,439 in Thailand, 65 in Malaysia, 90 in Myanmar, 55 in The Maldives, 100 in Somalia, 10 in Tanzania, 2 in Bangladesh for a total greater than 55,000.
Xinhua reports similar numbers.
Officials warn that the figures are expected to rise steeply.
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It is mind boggling. I can't believe this is empty of any message.
Posted by: Rachel Ann at December 28, 2004 01:57 PM (dD7yJ)
Posted by: Subrosa at December 28, 2004 03:26 PM (R3yfe)
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I cannot even imagine a disaster of this proportion. And critics are saying that someone shoulda seen it coming! How can the countries that aren't equipped with that kind of stuff tell when it's going to hit?
Do they know when the next earthquake will hit LA? They can always guess but do they ever really know?
I'm surprised so many of these places are tourist attractions. It was feared many westerners were missing or presumed dead.
Shit, if I had to flee to a warmer climate, I'd pick the Bahamas or Virgin Islands. I wouldn't go way the hell to Indonesia or Sri Lanka to sunbathe!
Posted by: Laura at December 28, 2004 06:17 PM (ptOpl)
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Dear friend
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> > My Cousin operates a caf'e at Kukup Beach (Panti) -
> > we have not heard from him sice the disaster
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> > This is an outside chance - or what damage has occured in Java ????
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> > his Caf'e is
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> > D. P. Caf'e
> > Panti Kukup
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> > Daryl & Parni
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> > If you have any news on the area at all on how bad
> > the disaster was here please email back if you are
> > iable to ..
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> > Than k you very much
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> > Wayne
Posted by: Wayne at December 31, 2004 08:37 PM (v+gaM)
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Its tragic how this had to happen. I feel bad for everyone who has suffered a loass
Posted by: courtney at January 06, 2005 08:47 AM (MDLvE)
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Beheading Video Shown at Rock Concert
(Urayasu, Japan) For more than ten minutes, a rock band named Klack
showed a video of the terrorist beheading of 24-year-old backpacker Shosei Koda at a concert Sunday. It's not clear how many people expressed outrage, however, the sponsoring Tokyo Broadcasting System angrily stated it had no foreknowledge of the stunt and voiced apologies to all who were offended.
If the members of the group Klack believes that a beheading video enhances their concerts, just how bad is their music. Obviously, they're shamelessly inconsiderate of the sensibilities of the public and the family and friends of Shosei Koda.
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Maybe if he'd shown stills from Nanking during the Japanese occupation the crowd would have been more sympathetic.
Today is cheap shot day.
Posted by: ccwbass at December 28, 2004 03:10 PM (22PZU)
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That's stooping to an all time low. The crowd shoulda booed and walked the hell out of there.
Posted by: Laura at December 28, 2004 06:14 PM (ptOpl)
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Showing this without warning is just wrong.
Posted by: Digger at December 29, 2004 05:39 AM (FYEx6)
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Incredibly disrespectful. And I agree, how bad could the music be to resort to a sick gimmick like that?
Posted by: Venom at December 29, 2004 08:45 AM (dbxVM)
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so much for the land of saving face. or maybe that was the point, at Shosei Koda's expense.
Posted by: tee bee at December 29, 2004 02:24 PM (q1JHF)
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"If Klack believes that a beheading video enhances their concerts, just how bad is their music"
As a matter of fact they were the WORST sounding band at that concert. Shows you how sick people will be just for some media attention.
If it wasn't for the 11 other AMAZING groups performing that night, I assure you my friends would have walked out.
- Kei -
Posted by: Keiri at January 01, 2005 03:57 PM (2Y4VZ)
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Then again it may have made the terrorists a lot of young Japanese enemies. A wake up call they have never seen before.
Posted by: greyrooster at January 01, 2005 06:41 PM (VsBCt)
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Wow. How could Klack do such a thing? I feel Shosei's own countrymen have betrayed him beyond a point where there is forgiveness. Exploiting a young man's death? ``Congratulations`` to them for helping Zarqawi spread his message of hate! HAHA. The members of Klack have committed a terrible crime against Shosei, and they spit on Shosei on on Shosei's family. If i could be in a room alone with a member of Klack for 30 seconds i would pay like 50 dollars just to pulverise him and beat him senseless. People like these are the reason there is so much suffering in the world. selling your soul for a dollar! Oh well, all i got to say is FUCK KLACK.
Posted by: Ipeey Freely at January 22, 2005 06:18 PM (nwY6E)
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Sunnis Withdraw from Iraq Election
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 27 -- The largest political party representing Iraq's Sunni Muslim minority announced Monday that it would drop out of the Jan. 30 election, dealing a fresh blow to the vote's credibility on the same day the top Shiite Muslim candidate survived a car bombing.
The withdrawal of the Iraqi Islamic Party, combined with the assassination attempton cleric Abdul Aziz Hakim, heightened concerns that the parliamentary election may produce a lopsided result, further alienating Sunni areas where the armed insurgency is growing.
I would imagine there was a very minor effect from the assassination attempt of a Shiite leader and an even bigger effect from
Osama Bin laden's audio tape calling for a boycott of elections. While the Sunnis and Al Qaeda terrorists have different goals, they are in fact cooperating and have been for well over a year inside of Iraq.
The Sunnis primary goal is to stop Democracy from entering Iraq because they are a minority and they also had all the power under Saddam Hussein. Al Qaeda's primary goal is to reunite Persia under Islamic rule which Democracy in Iraq would crush this dream of Bin Laden's. Both groups are willing to cooperate in order to keep Democracy out of Iraq.
There are many Baathists among the Sunni ranks and Sunni terrorists are responsible for hundreds of Iraqi deaths and a few Coallition deaths as well. Sunnis were held up in Fallujah until the Coallition cleared the city and they are actively supporting the terrorist's war by every means available.
Cross-posted at In the Bullpen
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I have to write a paper for a political science class and the topis is compare and contrast the religionist movements in the arab and muslim world. (teachers comments) when you wirte your papers think about the general themes such as goals and motivsations of these moevements, their success or failure, the threat they may or may not pose to the regimes of the countires in which they operate, to the region beyond. any help would be greatly appreciated
Posted by: Evan at March 20, 2005 03:52 PM (Kl/pL)
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I can not believe that in spite of all the dreadful happenings in Iraq not least because of the actions of the sunnis and their cooperation with Al-Qaeda and if I may say that scum bag Abu musabl Al-Zarqawi, yet the shias are expected to give up on their rights and invited the sunnis to government.
It gets worse, the shias have repeatedly invited them and now i've learned that they're even releasing some of the terrorists to please the sunnis. I think this is pathetic and disgusting because terrorists should be shown no mercy, especially the kind that are emerging in Iraq.
Long live Iraq and death to the terrorists whoever they may be!
Posted by: Mohammed at May 15, 2005 03:43 PM (hEQHM)
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NHSA: Teens Can't Handle SUVs
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Washington, DC, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- A U.S. traffic safety group says teenage drivers are often incapable of driving sport utility vehicles safely, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
The National Highway Safety Administration said that 49 people aged 15 to 20 died in SUV and pickup truck accidents in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia last year.
The group says SUVs have a higher center of gravity and are harder to control in an emergency, which makes inexperienced drivers more likely than others to end up as statistics.
I can think of another large demographic that cannot control SUVs too. I'll let me readers infer as to which I mean.
Cross-posted at In the Bullpen
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ok, what other age demographic do you mean Chad? Remember whom you are talking to when you answer!!! :-)
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 29, 2004 11:43 AM (D39Vm)
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Age doesn't play into the equation I was refering to. It doesn't matter what age this demographic is, they still can't drive an SUV. Come to think of it, they can't drive anything that's not a golf ball.
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UN Criticizes U.S. For Stinginess
After the Bush administration pledged $15 million in immediate relief aid for tsunami victims and directed the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to send a 21-member disaster-relief team to the region, the Norwegian-born UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland said the U.S. is stingy and should
raise taxes to give more.
Thanks for the suggestion, Mr. Egeland. In return I'd like to suggest you have your entire paycheck donated to relief efforts. It's also worth mentioning that if you're attempting to rekindle an American fondness for the UN, you are going at it all wrong. Let the American people decide what our taxes should be. The next time you want to weigh in on U.S. tax policy, with all due respect, put a sock in it.
[Update] From a commenter, those interested in relaying some pleasantries to Mr. Jan Egeland, his phone and fax numbers are displayed here.
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Maybe he can send some the oil-for-food money the UN has stashed away.
Posted by: dittybopper at December 28, 2004 09:26 AM (j2M1Q)
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Let's be reasonable here. Last fall when hurricanes devastated the southeast U.S. and took the lives of 50 some odd Americans, not to mention billions of dollars in damage to property, the international community spearheaded by the U.N. stepped right in and... er, nevermind.
Posted by: babs at December 28, 2004 09:37 AM (z17nq)
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http://kerryhaters.blogspot.com/
this guy posted Mr. Stingy's direct phone and fax number.
Posted by: stringy at December 28, 2004 10:07 AM (nTEvo)
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I'm must be one cold hearted biotch. If it were up to me, I wouldn't send a dime.
Posted by: Princess Kimberley at December 28, 2004 01:08 PM (EZVEU)
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He should go to the Anan clan and ask for a few $Million from their Oil-for-food money. Then go to M. Moore. Then AFTER he has their money the US should match 0.01:1, or one cent on the dollar.
Posted by: Rod Stanton at December 28, 2004 01:22 PM (tHUgl)
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Here's my problem with giving money to Indonesia... The area is what, 88% muslim? They are burning Christian homes and farms, while the muslim authorities look the other way. So if I were to give, chances of any help reaching Christians is slim. I'm not even religiuous, I just have an issue helping people who would just as soon cut off my head, to make a religious statement.
Posted by: Princess Kimberley at December 28, 2004 01:40 PM (EZVEU)
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That last comment made me feel sick. You don't think people deserve aid if they're Muslims? What should we do... give the money to all the Bhuddists and the Tamils but tell those closest to the quake to bugger off because 'you were born into the wrong religion'?
Don't you even realise that in Aceh province the Christians kill the Muslims too? How black and white do you think the world is???
Posted by: Martin at December 29, 2004 02:56 AM (ll2pj)
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Kimberly,
I don't know what rock you crawled from under but to not help an area of the world where 100,000 are presumed dead and many many thousands dead by a natural disaster irregardless of religion, race, or politics, you are no "Christian." Go back and hide under the rock, comments like yours make me ill.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 29, 2004 11:49 AM (D39Vm)
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I wonder how much aid for Indonesia is coming from other Muslim countries? Are they taking care of their own?
Anyone heard from the French. How much aid is coming from the Frog pond. Am I an uncaring bastard for asking?
Would Indonesia or Somalia help us in should things be turned around? Any dancing in the streets after 9/11. Should it matter?
KIMBERLY, I for one understand what you are saying. You are not a bad person for letting your feelings come out. Conquering 1st feelings is hard because most of the time 1st feelings are correct. Yes they do teach hatred toward us in their Islamic schools. They teach that we are evil and terrible things should happen to America. Many in their country hope and pray that what happened to them will happen to us. If it does they will say, see God is punishing America for being so evil.
However, we should take the high road and act better because we are better. As in Iraq. The job falls on those that can do the job. Just the way things are.
Posted by: greyrooster at January 01, 2005 07:13 PM (VsBCt)
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PS: I'm not a Christian. I just try to do what is right for me and mine. So I never do the Christian thing. I'm scared to death of them.
Posted by: greyrooster at January 01, 2005 07:21 PM (VsBCt)
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No No NO Martin. What PrincessKimberly said was she didn't think she ought to give money to help people who would like to kill her and her family.
I'm afraid I've got to agree with that sentiment.
Of course, not all the people who are affected by the Tsunami are murderous bastards, but here's a picture of a Sri Lanken proudly displaying his Bin Laden T-shirt.
http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=51896117&cdi=0
Should we withhold aid? No. Should we be forced to give aid via the UN? Absolutely NOT! The UN could dry up and blow away and the world would be a much better place.
Posted by: C.Ecker at January 02, 2005 12:17 PM (RTqoj)
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For all thoes who think we SHOULDENT send them aid, if it was you your opinion would be very different. And I think almost all of you are steriotypes. God get a life and a heart, even if your not Christian (and FYI I'm not either) we may be different counreys but we are also the same world. And even in this countrey, we all have different opinions, look at THIS web page if you need proof. People over there have thier own opinions to.
Posted by: Angie at January 05, 2005 05:13 PM (ayqzU)
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Princess Kimberley clearly stated she is not a Christian, and not even "religious." She is simply sharing her opinion, which is a valid one.
Posted by: Crazy Kid at January 06, 2005 02:47 PM (Wo3rD)
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we do so much for the UN and they never give us any thanks or efforts of trying to make th US an easier job. They have to give to recieve.
Posted by: kayla at March 30, 2005 01:57 AM (6krEN)
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In Case You Were Wondering If The War On Terror Was Effective
Consider that on September 11, 2001 Osama bin Laden organized an assault on the United States that led to the deaths of 3,000 people and the destruction of an American symbol of prosperity.
On December 27, 2004, Osama urges a "boycott" of Iraqi elections.
Osama bin Laden endorsed Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi as his deputy in Iraq and called for a boycott of next month's elections there.
Ouch. His pals on IndyMedia have been advocates of such hard-hitting calls to action for years now.
I predict that sometime in the next six months Osama will organize a protest where his loyal Mujhadeen will wear paper-mache heads of Tony Blair and George Bush. They will march, then in a symbolic gesture, drink Coors and induce vomiting to symbolically show their outrage at corporate excesses. Due to cultural misunderstandings, however, we will completely agree that Coors is piss-water. Sales of Sam Adams (Brewer-Patriot) will skyrocket.
(cross posted at Cranky Neocon)
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Anyone with an IQ above room temp (to quote a famous SoCal warrior G.S. Patton) can see that the war on terror is very effective. Of course that means no one in the MSM can see it. We have a long way to go, but we've covered a lot of ground already. Not one person in Americahas been hurt by a MuslimFascists in the last three years. *VERY SUCCESSFUL* No property destroyed by MuslimFascists in the same time period. Again *VERY SUCCESSFUL*
Rod Stanton
Cerritos
Posted by: Rod Stanton at December 28, 2004 10:21 AM (tHUgl)
Posted by: Jane at December 28, 2004 01:02 PM (ywZa8)
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Coors is NOT pisswater!!!
Posted by: Jake at December 28, 2004 01:25 PM (+Gobr)
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Thanks for your comments guys. I am having a blast here. (Thank you Rusty!)
Jake, sorry to break the news.
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WHY WAS THE TARGETED ASSASSINATION OF IAIN HOOK A TOP BRITISH UN OFFICIAL BY THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE COVERED UP?
by Dr. Jack Shepard
WHY WAS THE TARGETED ASSASSINATION OF IAIN HOOK A TOP BRITISH UN OFFICIAL BY THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE COVERED UP BY PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR?
Dr. Jack Shepard asks,
“ Why was the Targeted Assassination of Iain Hook a top British UN official by the Israeli Defense Force covered up by prime Minister Tony Blair?”
Excerpts published in the Syria Times political section on June 30, 2003
by Dr. Jack Shepard.
Over six months ago Prime Minister Tony Blair; knew all the facts that an Israeli Army Sniper was ordered to trap and later in the day assassinate Iain Hook, a former paratrooper from Felixstowe who was employed by crown Agents and paid for by the British Department for International Development to head the UN project to reconstruct the Jenin Refugee Camp as a warning to the Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Well aware of the facts that many other UN staff members both International and Palestinian alike have been verbally abused, stripped, beaten, shot at and killed by Israeli soldiers; including attacks on UN ambulances, Medical Personnel, UNWRA schools, Health Clinics and Offices have been hit by bombs, rockets, tank shells and gunfire by Israel soldiers endangering the lives of UN staff, This was written in an open letter by the UN International Staff working in the Palestinian Occupied Territories called “OPT: UN Staff call for Justice”
“visit the UNWAR web site”–
www.reliefweb.int
especially pages:
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www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsfc7ca0eaf6c79faae852567af003c69...?
OpenDocument
2) www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/c7ca0eaf6c79faae852567af003c6...?
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3) www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/c7ca0eaf6c79faae852567af003c6...?
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www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/c7ca0eaf6c79faae852567af003c6...?
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5) www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/c7ca0eaf6c79faae852567af003c6...?
Prime Minister Tony Blair continues to cover-up these facts and even remains silent to his knowledge of Intelligence reports convening the planning and later the Assassination of a Fellow British UN Staffer who was trapped for hours in his UN Official Compound before he was shot in the back on Nov. 22, 2002. Because Mr. HookÂ’s Assassination was of profound importance, Mr. Blair covered-up Mr. HookÂ’s assassination because it might compromise his propaganda blitz for the urgency of war Iraq and MORE IMPORTANT weaken his position in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
At the time even the Head Rabbi of England said the policies of the Ariel Sharon Government in Israel toward UN staff and the Palestinian people made him feel uncomfortable being a Jew.
According to an article published in the Guardian; Wednesday May 7, 2003 written by Chris Mc Greal from Jerusalem ; No one believed the Israeli story that the sniper thought Iain was holding a gun, said one UN official close to the investigation. This soldier was a trained commando. He had a sights that magnified at least three times and he was only 20 meters (65ft) away. What really concerns us is the lack of an apology or remorse. The message that goes out to every Israeli soldier is that it is OK to kill the UN.
During my 7 month investigation into the murder of Iain Hook I was very fortunate to interview UN staff members that were actually living and working with Iain Hook up until his assassination and conducted several telephone interviews with Paul Mc Cann; the UNWRA spokesperson concerned with the Palestinian occupied territories.
I was told while some members of the UN staff were in Rome, Italy; Iain Hook one night after dinner at their hotel expressed to his UN staff members that he was very concerned for his and their safety after a very hostile man on a motorcycle drove up to him (Iain Hook), several weeks before his murder saying to him that; “We want you to send a message to that Fucking Nigger; Kofi Annan and you will know when we send it.”
This confirms that Iain HookÂ’s murder was no accident but a well planned assassination organized by the Israeli defense force to send a direct message to the UN. One must assume that this planned assassination included very high level officials in the present Israeli Government of Ariel Sharon because of the extent of the cover-up.
Until Iain HookÂ’s murderer; the Israeli commando sniper is bought to justice we will not know the extent of the collaboration of Mr. hookÂ’s assassination. Mr. HookÂ’s Assassination operation included a major Israeli incursion into the Jenin Refugee Camp, surrounding the Jenin UN Office Compound for almost 4 hours; WHY?; blocking of the entrance so Mr. Hook and his staff were literally trapped in their compound, when Paul Wolstenholme and Mr. hook tried to leave their UN Compound through the front entrance a very powerful compression grenade was used to block their exit literally throwing Paul Wolstenholme back several meters and most important after the shooting of Mr. hook, the British UN manger of the UN Office Compound, an emergency ambulance was prevented from reaching Iain Hook by the Israeli defense Force at the front entrance to the UN Compound.
These same UN staff members living and working with Iain hook in the Jenin described the events of Mr. HookÂ’s murder very clearly to me. From about 9.30 AM in the morning until his assassination approximately 13.30; 2 sharp shooters had taken control of 2 apartments on the top of 2 apartment buildings situated to the right and left of the entrance to the UNWRA compound and for hours laser beams could be seen in the dust; often on Iain HookÂ’s shoulders. WHY?
It was very obvious to Mr. HookÂ’s colleagues that the Israeli Army Commando after over 3 hours of watching Iain Hook 54, who was tall with ginger hair, that the sniper using a powerful aiming sight which gave him a very close look at his victim knew that he was assassinating Iain Hook, a British Subject who headed the Jenin reconstruction project.
The spokesperson concerning the Palestinian Occupied territories, when I asked him about the very powerful compression grenade used around 12.00 to block Iain Hook’s and Paul Wolstensolme’s exit from the front entrance of the Jenin UN Compound; he was very surprised that this very important event was not included in Chris Mc Greal’s May 7, 2003– article in the Guardian; “Why was an unarmed Briton shot in the back?”
The Israeli Defense Force used this very powerful compression grenade to literally trap Iain Hook in his UN compound until the Israeli Sniper a well trained Army Commando using his magnified sight shot Iain Hook in the back ( a tactic the Israeli Defense Force has often used in the last years to send a sign as a warning to others– like a signature of assassination ) as he was walking away from the sniper in the direction of the entrance to the UN office compound only a few meters from where Paul Wolstensolme was sitting.
Iain Hook was shot in the back, not by accident but as a warning to other UN staff. IainÂ’s assassin used one fast-high velocity hard point bullet that entered Iain HookÂ’s upper right shoulder and exited in two fragments either side of Iain HookÂ’s belly button to shoot him at approximately 13.30, November 22, 2002.
The Guardian newspaper article written by Chris mc Greal published on May 7, 2003
entitled, “Why was an unarmed Briton shot in the back?" stated that, the day after the Israeli Commando Sniper shot Mr. hook as he stood in the UN Compound in the Jenin Refugee last Nov. 22, 2002. Israel promised Mr. straw a full accounting of the killing. Now Israel says its inquiry has been put aside.
Today Mr. Hook’s colleagues accuse Israel of covering up “ a cold-blooded murder” and the Britain and the United Nations of complicity by quietly trying to bury the truth to avoid a Political Confrontation with Israel. These are the words of 64 United Nation Foreign Staff Members working in the Palestinian Territories used in their signed open letter which blamed the Israeli army for the “cold-blooded– murder” of Mr. Hook, these are not words that my investigation proved. My investigation only confirmed what 64 United Nations Foreign colleagues of Iain Hook said.
Much of the pressure for a full account of Mr. HookÂ’s death came from other UN Foreign staff members working in the occupied Palestinian territories. These brave 64 UN Foreign staff members working in the occupied Palestinian Territories signed an open Letter which blamed the Israeli Army for Mr. HookÂ’s death and called for an end to what it described as the Israeli military refusal to respect the most elementary standards of humanity.
The Guardian Newspaper article continued that the United Nations inquiry was carried out by a former member of the United States Naval Intelligence Branch; John Logan. John Logan was quoted by Chris Mc Greal in his Guardian Newspaper article that John Logan stated to him, that he cut short his investigation because he had been threatened; you can contact the archives of the Guardian Newspaper for a copy of Chris Mc Greal’s May 7, 2003 article; “Why was an unarmed Briton shot in the back?”
You can contact the Director General of the UNRWA, by visiting their web site at
www.reliefweb.int to get contact emails and telephone numbers to request a copy of the “OPT:UN Staff call for Justice” an open letter posted and signed by 64 UN Foreign Staff. Their open letter includes these statements, “ We strongly request that the Israeli Government will bring those responsible for Iain’s killing to justice. Only the most lawless societies allow gunman in uniform the impunity to kill aid workers without fear of punishment.” Their open letter continues, “ UN staff– international and Palestinian alike– have been verbally abused, stripped, beaten, shot and killed by Israeli soldiers. Tragically Iain Hook was not the first person working with the UN to die at the hands of the IDF this year. In March, Kamal Hamdan was shot and killed while traveling in a clearly marked UNRWA ambulance in the West Bank. In April, Huni Amer died in Israeli military custody in Jenin after, according to witnesses, receiving a brutal beating by the soldiers at the time of his arrest. From its silence, we presume the Israeli authorities have ignored UN requests for an investigation and report of these incidents, and have not seen fit to take any disciplinary action against the soldiers involved. To us, this seems to confirm a pattern of utter contempt on the part of the Israeli army for the lost lives of these men, the safety of UN staff or minimum standards imposed by international law which should protect UN staff and other humanitarian workers. The official military spokesperson’s statement on the initial investigation into Iain’s killing ...contradicts eyewitness accounts of our colleagues in Jenin and information relayed by Iain to the UNRWA Field Office just prior to his death. The most charitable characterization one can make of the Official Israeli Military Spokesperson’s statement is that it lacks any credibility... We strongly request that the Israeli Government will bring those responsible for Iain’s killing promptly to justice. Only the MOST LAWLESS SOCIETIES ALLOW GUNMEN IN UNIFORM THE IMPUNITY TO KILL AID WORKERS WITHOUT FEAR OF PUNISHMENT. In these tragic circumstances, rather than easily uttered regrets, we expect the Israeli Government take the necessary steps to stop the harassment, beating and killing of UN staff. As international staff members, we hope and expect to return alive to our own countries and families after our work here ( in the Palestinian Occupied Territories) is done.”
These words written and sign by 64 UN foreign staff and colleagues of Iain Hook in their open letter, “OPT: UN staff call for justice” are their words not mine. The UN staff working with Iain Hook at the time of his murder only confirm the facts of my investigation that the Murder of Iain Hook was not an accident but a well planned Targeted Assassination by the IDF to send a warning to Secretary General Kofi Annan.
A bellicose former General Sharon has always been a controversial figure, headstrong, volatile and very violent.
You Mr. Tony Blair as Prime Minister by continuing to cover-up the assassination of Iain Hook and not even making public the facts as the UN staff themselves say that, “ UN staff-International and Palestinian alike– have been verbally abused, stripped, beaten, shot at and killed by Israeli Soldiers” only help the Government of Ariel Sharon to continue it’s volatile and violent policies which are THE ROOT CAUSE THAT motivated the Terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center;–on Sept. 11 and continue to terrorize the world.
The War on Terrorism can only be won when we have the States of Israel and Palestinian living side by side in Peace, President BushÂ’s vision.
The simple truth is it is the policies of Ariel SharonÂ’s Government that condones that an Israeli Commando Sniper can even Target and Assassinate Iain Hook a UN British Aid Worker, without even a criticism from Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Policies of the Sharon Government that condones the killings and crushing of hundreds, soon thousands of innocent Palestinians men, women, and children has lead to such a feeling of injustice in the Muslim World that out of revenge for this injustice and hopeless caused Ariel SharonÂ’s very violent Policies toward Palestinians created the environment where terrorists began their call for their Holy War out of desperation.
The continuation of Ariel SharonÂ’s very violent out of control policies toward the Palestinian civilians impedes World Peace. The World will never have peace unless these policies of Ariel SharonÂ’s Government targeted assassinations of UN staff and Palestinians people and his indiscriminate murder of Palestinians civilians are exposed and immediately stopped.
Prime Minister Tony Blair continues to cover-up Ariel SharonÂ’s very violent policies ; and his lack of criticism of the policies of the Ariel Sharon Government, shows his complicity and has caused the world crisis we have today. This complicity makes peace in the Middle East impossible.
Being the history of Tony BlairÂ’s looking the other way concerning the unfair situation and suffering of the Palestinian People; only President George W. Bush is capable to bring peace to the World by his planned recognized of Palestine and Israel living side by side in Peace.
I Thank God; that President George W. Bush was reelected President of the United States. Now President Bush is capable implementing his greater Middle East Policy of Israel and Palestine living side by side in Peace.
President Bush can now demand that The Government of Ariel Sharon immediately change course because it is increasingly evident that the Present Policies of Ariel SharonÂ’s Government toward the Palestinian People are not supported by the majority of the Israeli citizens and the vast majority ( almost 100%) of the Countries in the World.
The present policies of Ariel Sharon Government have proved to be a vast failure and a very traumatic one which have drawn the world in to almost a Civil War because of his policies of injustice and unfairness in his treatment of the Palestinian people.
Ariel SharonÂ’s abuses of the Palestinian People and his refusal to discuss the creation of Palestine leaves President George W. Bush no choice but dictate and impose his solution to the Middle East Crisis cause by Ariel Sharon Policies.
The Arab disaffection with the unfair situation started in Palestine and now is spreading through out the world. The World Leaders and President George W. Bush can not wait any longer for the refusal of the Ariel Sharon Government to listen. The incoherence of the policies of the Sharon Government lack clearly defined objectives and is deeply disquieting to majority of Israeli citizens and world leaders.
It is now immediately necessary the systematic use of involuntary imposed pressure on the Ariel Sharon Government to immediate abandon his occupation of the Palestinian Territories and the immediate creation of Palestine, even with a period of 5 years for Palestine and Israel to work out all the details of border etc.
Once the State of Palestine is recognized by the United Nations and is even imposed on Israel and the Israeli Defense Force returns to Israel then and only then will the World be back on the road to Peace. The Policies of the Sharon Government will no longer hold the whole hostage.
Once Palestine is recognized the War on Terrorism will be well on itÂ’s way to being won through Peace because it is impossible to be won through continued violence. The recognition of Palestine will be accepted with such happiness throughout the world that peace will be possible in Iraq very quickly; and our American Coalition forces can very soon be returning home.
President George W. Bush greatest coup, the immediate recognition of Palestine will persuade the Arab World; that American is your friend and partner in Peace. After almost 60 years it has to be accepted that IsraeliÂ’s and Palestinians are incapable of talking let allow making Peace.
The recognition of Palestine by the Leaders of the World lead by President Bush has to be imposed on both the IsraeliÂ’s and Palestinians. This one act will establish strategic links between the leaders of the Arab world and American. Our American Government, our American People and our American Soldiers will never be held responsible for the policies of Ariel SharonÂ’s Government ever again. By President Bush leading the Leaders of the World in imposing the recognition of Palestine on Israel; President Bush will create a sound partnership between Israel and Palestine that they have not and will never be able to do by themselves as history has proven.
Complicity makes peace in the Middle East impossible. When UN staff call for justice and protection they are not being anti-Semitic; they just wish to have a Jewish Israeli Government that respects human life where peace is possible. Until the leaders of the world learn from these brave UN staffers who work in the Occupied Territories of Palestine that to criticize the policies of the Government of Ariel Sharon is not to be called anti-Semitic.
It is only to criticize Ariel Sharon because they know that unless Sharon changes his policies, we will never have world peace. There are many other Jewish leaders in Israel who want peace, who are praying for peace. Who would never cover-up or support the out of control Policies of Ariel SharonÂ’s Government which allows gunmen in uniform the impunity to kill United Nation aid workers like Iain Hook or allow Israeli soldiers to kill Palestinian United Nation Employees like Husni Amer who died in Israeli custody in Jenin after receiving a brutal beating by several Israeli soldiers at the time of his arrest.
The world leaders must learn from the brave UN staffers that criticizing the killing and assassinating of UN aid workers and hundreds of Palestinians is not anti-Semitic but to not criticize this criminal behavior is complicity.
Dr. Jack Shepard is a past American Service Officer and Middle East Specialist. Dr. Shepard has had articles published in both Military and Civilian Newspapers over the past 34 years.
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Posted by: Dr. Jack Shepard at December 29, 2004 10:23 AM (m0SRh)
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WHY WAS THE TARGETED ASSASSINATION OF IAIN HOOK A TOP BRITISH UN OFFICIAL BY THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE COVERED UP?
Well Dr. Jack, I have it on good authority (Jewish/Neocon Cabal Daily Newsletter) that we knocked off Hook because he was too close to the truth.
Nothing personal, just business.
Thanks for writing.
Posted by: Gordon at December 29, 2004 10:35 AM (dqTOU)
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Next time you wish to write a book do it. Maybe we'll buy it, maybe we won't. But please put it where it belongs. In a book store.
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About Time
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Colorado Springs - Colorado drivers have less than a week before they will start getting fined for using the left lane of highways for anything but passing.
Starting Jan. 1, troopers will stop warning drivers and start issuing $35 tickets, plus a $6.20 surcharge and three points on their license.
A six-month-old law says the left lane is to be used only for passing on any of Colorado's multilane highways where the speed limit is 65 mph or faster. Lawmakers passed the bill, hoping to prevent traffic congestion and cut down on road rage.
"When I learned to drive, they told me, 'The left lane is for passing. The right lane is for driving,"' State Patrol Trooper Sara Shipley said recently.
As I consider Colorado my second state and hopeful future destination, I can't believe they are finally doing something about this. Never before have I seen more people who go under the speed limit park in the left lane of traffic on an interstate. The right lane is usually the faster of two lanes, however due to rush-hour traffic, the right lane gets clogged when people are trying to exit the highway.
I was in the Denver area for about a month over the Summer when this law became active. People were protesting the law while outsiders were laughing as to why this was even an issue. I can confirm this is an issue and it's about damn time Colorado officers will start enforcing it.
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Colorado bad? Try an old Mississippi farmer in a 20 year old pickup truck.
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Terrorist Blows Himself Up Trying to Make a Bomb
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An insurgent accidentally has killed himself and four members of his family in Iraq's southern city of Karbala.
Police say a bomb he was making exploded inside his house.
Unfortunately a woman was hurt in the blast, however I'm hardly saddened by the terrorist killing himself trying to make a bomb. In fact, I'm rather pleased. A terrorist killing himself, and only himself, should be awarded 72 virgins and the state of martyrdom.
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Are you kidding? that's super!!! Wish more would do it. With all the weapons cache we've already found, how can they possibly have so much?
Lovw it!
Cindy
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What he said
Just to second the Cranky Neocon. Though I am still on a vacation blogging schedule too so it's not like I am making a constructive contribution...
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While The Jawa Is Away
Rusty's people called my people this afternoon. They were concerned that
Chad's writing was giving this site too much
respectability while the Ruster was on vacation.
"Can I my add own personal brand of bling-bling?" his PR man Jimmy Tusken asks me.
"Babe, the Cranky Neocon can do that," I reply.
So enjoy a few of my special touches around here. I'll be blogging until Rusty returns or he takes the keys away. Whichever comes first.
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Posted by: Christopher Cross at December 27, 2004 06:51 PM (rByoR)
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Hey all you need is a number on the side and they will be sand crawler races on tatoine and just imagine what its like in the pit stop?
Posted by: sandpiper at December 27, 2004 08:10 PM (Xg35l)
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Hey, it seems to me that you finally getting the hang of Rusty's work.
Stick around; you're doing allright.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 27, 2004 10:55 PM (D39Vm)
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Rusty was lucky to have you Chad. Everyone else he tried to also guest host (and I even said I would) all bailed on him; you're the only one that didn't and I give you a lot of credit for working so hard. If you need help - hollah!!
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 27, 2004 11:02 PM (D39Vm)
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Damn right! Cranky is just, well, cranky. Though I love the jawas.
Posted by: Chad at December 28, 2004 01:30 AM (UcCfR)
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You're doing fine, Chad! Screw em if they can't take a joke! I'm just a stone's throw away in the Metroplex...oh, by the way, did you hear that they are NOT going to say Metroplex anymore when they refer to the D/FW area? What the hell is THAT all about?
arrrgggh.
Posted by: Laura at December 28, 2004 09:47 AM (ptOpl)
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Thanks for the kind words. And yes, Chad is da bomb. I was just trying to offset his quality with a little, um, not-quality.
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Bin Laden Releases Tape to Boycott Iraq Elections
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CAIRO, Egypt - In an audiotape broadcast Monday by Al-Jazeera satellite television, a man purported to be Osama bin Laden endorsed Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi as his deputy in Iraq and called for a boycott of next month's elections there.
The voice on the tape described al-Zarqawi as the "emir," or prince, of al-Qaida in Iraq and said Muslims there should "listen to him."
The man speaking on the tape also referred to an October statement in which al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian, declared allegiance to bin Laden and changed his group's name to al-Qaida in Iraq. The speaker called that "a great step on the path of unifying all the mujahedeen in establishing the state of righteousness and ending the state of injustice."
The statements by Bin Laden show more and more his intentions on switching to a diplomat rather than a terrorist. While the key to the statement, as translated at least, is the following phrase:
a great step on the path of unifying all the mujahedeen in establishing the state of righteousness and ending the state of injustice
The state of righteousness is in fact an Islamic state, but more correctly termed as the return to the idea of Persia under Islamic rule. It would be a large area of the Middle East, actually all of it if it were true to historical standards, under one government. The government would be an Islamic rule, much like Iran is run under today.
While there have been many people who have tried to explain away Al Qaeda's long-term goals in the Middle East as nothing more than getting rid of infidels, the larger goal of Al Qaeda is in fact a reunification of the Middle East into one country. Of course that country would have to be under Islamic rule where women are stoned and beaten because they can be and where poverty will flourish because of the lack of a quality economic system in an Islamic government.
No Democracy in Iraq would make Bin Laden and his supporters happy. A Democracy puts too much power into the hands of the people. It also, in the eyes of Bin Laden, puts people on the same platform as Allah. Only an Islamic government would, somehow, make a difference between the people of a nation and Allah.
I still question why, using the above, the top leaders of a Islamic nation would not be equal with Allah, however 99.9 percent of Bin Laden's statements and actions have made no sense and contradict each other. Then again, that's the Religion of Peace for you run under the nutbags that too many seem to support.
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This is the second tape naming Al Zarqawi as the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq. And threatening Iraqi's - why? Does Osama or Abu want to be president of Iraq? Their country to do whatever they want in it? Do you think the Iraqi's will listen to this garbage from these killer terrorists? For their own sakes, I hope not.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 27, 2004 02:37 PM (D39Vm)
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WOW...I DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING FROM BIN
Posted by: MOWHAMHEAD at December 27, 2004 06:26 PM (kmZ4I)
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Funniest of the funny. Right wing conservatives performing leftist analysis on Al-Queda...
Posted by: dirtyangel at December 27, 2004 09:46 PM (9axDF)
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(Failed) Psyops for dummies, lesson 1.
One:
Bush breaks silence on bin Laden
December 31, 2004
The US President, George Bush, has taken the unusual step of responding to one of Osama bin Laden's taunting tape recordings, declaring that bin Laden's recent call for Iraqis to boycott the elections next month "make the stakes of this pretty clear to me".
"His vision of the world is where people don't participate in democracy," Mr Bush said of bin Laden. "His vision of the world is one in which there is no freedom of expression, freedom of religion and/or freedom of conscience. And that vision stands in stark contrast to the vision of, by far, the vast majority of Iraqis."
(This is for US domestic consumption exclusively)
Two:
Differences among Muslims be exploited: US study's recommendation
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 27: A new study of the Rand Corporation - a leading US think tank - advocates that Sunni, Shia and Arab, non-Arab divides should be exploited to promote the US policy objectives in the Muslim world.
The recently released Rand study - titled "US Strategy in the Muslim World After 9/11" - has been conducted on behalf of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Air and Space Operations, US Air Force.
One of the primary objective of the study was to "identify the key cleavages and fault lines among sectarian, ethnic, regional, and national lines and to assess how these cleavages generate challenges and opportunities for the United States."
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Alliance could cost bin Laden:
But for bin Laden, the alliance comes at a price: He is now tied to a man directing bomb attacks against IraqÂ’s majority Shiite Muslims as well as Americans.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6759167/
(I suppose this is not meant exclusively for US domestic purposes, but the dividing strategy will not work, in fact it will much sooner achieve the opposite.)
Obviously all tapes are either false or manipulated and serve US tactical purposes as should be already clear from the contence and timing always exactly serving one or other purpose of the Bush administration.
Reality is in all probability bin Laden died in december 2001 and "Zarqawi" most probably died somewhere in march 2003, maybe even earlier than that. The rest of the stories are as elusive as the WMD arsenals of former US sock puppet Saddam Hussein.
My advice would be not too overstretch this message-from-Goldstein bullshit as the last bit of pysops worth is slowly diminishing to zero with every new release.
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I like Oebermass's assumption that Bin Laden is dead. I've always intertained that thought. However, the (experts) ha! keep saying the tapes are real and up to date. Any info out there?
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A secret intelligence report has revealed that security chiefs believe al-Qaeda may target New Year celebrations across Britain, The Telegraph has learned.
The document, which has been distributed to every military base in Britain warns that "crowded places or events" are under "a severe threat" of attack from terrorist bombers. The report, which is marked "restricted", is understood to have been compiled by military intelligence specialists, MI5 and Special Branch officers.
Under the heading "International Terrorism", the report warns that military personnel and establishments within the Government Security Zone in central London, which includes Horse Guards in Whitehall, and Buckingham and St James's Palaces, face a "substantial" threat of attack. It says military bases across the country are also facing a similar threat.
The report, which is part of a monthly security update for the armed forces, adds that the threat "comes from al-Qaeda and associated terrorist groups". It continues: "Targeting against US and UK interests both at home and abroad remains a priority for al-Qaeda. Their attacks - including the Madrid train bombings in March - have been against soft targets with the aim of creating as many casualties as possible."
The investigations by MI5 have disrupted Al Qaeda plots in England before. I only hope this investigation has done the same because they arrested 10 Al Qaeda suspects just last week. In September, the Leader of the Commons (Peter Hain) warned of an Al Qaeda plot to detonate a dirty bomb in Westminister. While these two may be entirely unrelated, it does give reason for pause.
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I'm a Londoner and from my experience 'secret intelligence report' leaks such as this are basically just the UK's covert equivalent of America's colour-coded threat alerts.
After the desired effect of a contained but real panic is achieved, i.e. within a few days time, it'll be revealed how flimsy the evidence that prompted this threat was (of course that latter piece of news isn't covered nearly as thoroughly by the media).
PS....
>they arrested 10 Al Qaeda suspects just last week
....did they??? I don't remember anything about that in domestic news
Posted by: Martin at December 27, 2004 11:48 AM (ll2pj)
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Coo! Blimey! I've lost me 'ead!
There really is no such thing as evil people, no bombs, I am a crazy britisher, stiff upper lip and all tha'!
Scuse me whilst I bury me 'ead in the sand.
I dont know much really, but since I'm British I'll speak with authority about EVERYTHING!
I'm so damned smart, then, arent I? Well, it is '
July 7th, 2005 and it looks like you (of course) were wrong. It just took longer than you thought, didnt it, then? And do you know why? Because the people in authority were doing a great job on arresting those arses and kept them from their dirty work! N, of course now you will say, Oh, look what a terrible job they did! But YOU didnt want them to arrest anybody, now, did ya then?
You dont know if you are coming or going because your whole outlook is the same as a little kid.
When are you going to grow up?
Tom
Posted by: Tom at July 07, 2005 10:25 AM (N5S5I)
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i think what these people do is horrific and disgusting and they dont think about innocent lives they are just selfish
Posted by: anonymous at July 07, 2005 12:04 PM (XfUdJ)
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that tom person is a bit of a cunt now, he is probly one of those american patriots
"im american and im a dumb ass fat geriatric fuck and i dont know what end is my arse and what end is my head cos shit seems to come outta both ends'
tom grow up you cunt the brits are a million times better than america
FASCIST COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!
and you ruined our language, go burn in your christianty hell with you NRA ass lovers
Posted by: tommy gun at July 07, 2005 01:20 PM (uOgL8)
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i think all ilegal immagrents should not be allowed in this country and should also be sent home!! i am only 13 and not at all racist in any way, but i have grown to know that al qaeda are in our country, living on our social, taking our tax, but still have plans to bomb us!! Its time tony blair stopped being such a sissy and own up to the probelems we have in this country! In my school we have illegal immagrents and they pretend not to able to speak english, but today, when a boy in my class was winding lul up (one of the imegrents) she said to him the worst swearwords on easrth, but yet said she didnt understand when it came to work!! i think the england and the u.k are fed up with being 3rd class citezens and foreigners in our own country.
amie x
Posted by: amie gazzard at July 07, 2005 01:55 PM (rr3CE)
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Amie:
Excuse by my english to me.I try write in your idiom for you.
I am latinoamerican and I live there. I think you realy are racist with only 13 year. Is not your fault. When the world is divided in very rich and extra poor, the last want to go rich`s country . Why very much countries are poor?. I question you. Why very much peoples dont have you same religion? I think you will say: it does not matter to me.I only want they to go at your countries.
Then you could come back to UK.
Posted by: saludos at July 08, 2005 07:27 AM (qEBes)
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Is it just me, or is the bombing of Britons provoking a stronger affective response than did the bombing of Spanish people?
Posted by: chirurgia estetica at August 03, 2005 09:51 AM (eqOC/)
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it is not correct to say that all muslims are terrorists yet all terrorists are muslim and it is the backin that they gain from their community which has led up to the events of all the terror attacks all over the world. all the ectremists should be shot or deported as they live in their petty minded world; ignorant of the suffering they cause.
Posted by: Rebeca at August 10, 2005 09:19 AM (bbeZf)
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rebeca wat you say is true but is it really worthy to shoot people. i am a muslim but i dont agree to any of the things which most of my religion says as its just so right winged. im geting dizzy niow what medicine is the best for that
Posted by: Mariam at August 10, 2005 09:22 AM (bbeZf)
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The head of IraqÂ’s leading Shia Muslim political party narrowed escaped assassination today when a suicide car bomber blew himself up outside his headquarters, killing 15 people and wounding dozens more.
The attempt on the life of Ayatollah Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, the head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (Sciri) came just five weeks before the countryÂ’s first post-war elections, which were today plunged into fresh chaos as the main Sunni political party said it would boycott the polls.
Question of the day. If you launch a martyrdom operation and actually miss your target yet still kill 15 innocent bystandards, do you get 72 virgins or do you get laughed at by your terrorist friends?
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one has to wonder, will we ever be able to have a major holiday again without threat alerts, warnings, and heightened tension? And, if not, at what point will we all become apathetic and the wornings become so routine that they barely evoke headlines? (We may be there now.)
Thoughts? Swing by my site.
-W
Posted by: George W at December 27, 2004 12:14 PM (PJ4Iq)
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Excellent question. Maybe those innocent bystanders get the 72 vigins (yeah right) but I'd like to think this suicide bomber ended up kissing Allah's ass right before Allah himself turned around and kicked him into an open pit and even though he didn't kill his intended target, I'd like to see the other terrorists laugh but more likely considered it a great action since so many others were killed. And you can bet they filmed this man saying goodbye to his family, getting in a car full of bombs, smiling away, the car exploding from a distance as they pass by.
There is so much they could do to stop this but that would mean no vehicles on the road except for military and police. Anyone else on the road is a terrorist - kill it.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 27, 2004 12:27 PM (D39Vm)
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You only need to kill one (1) to get the girls. This is why we need more boots ont the ground! Needed them 18 months ago. Gen Zinni and the rest of the Navy were right, Rummy was wrong. The car bomb was a success because of all the coverage it got in the MSM; which as an American is a shame.But the MSM has been antiAmerican for at least 45 years, whats new?
Rod Stanton
Cerritos
Posted by: Rod Stanton at December 27, 2004 12:31 PM (tHUgl)
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Chad,
the entire videotape of this suicide bombing is out on video but I have yet to find it.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 27, 2004 02:38 PM (D39Vm)
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Rod,
It's really not up to Rumsfeld. If the commanders on the ground, the Generals running the show and the Joint Chiefs think that we have enough troops, it goes no further than that. If the commanders on the ground and the generals on the ground and other places running the show said we needed more boots on the ground, it would then go to Runsfeld and he would make sure that the commanders got what they wanted. If they aren't asking, there is no way he's going to know either way. I've seen tons of interviews with those on the ground and every single one of them said, we have enough troops. If we don't have enough troops, sir, that info would get right up there to Rumsfeld and he'd waste no time in getting more troops to Iraq. The problem is with those on the ground.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 27, 2004 03:24 PM (D39Vm)
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I find the decision of the main Sunni political party to boycott the elections troubling but, I think that since they legally regisitered to run, their party should still be placed on the ballot. And, they should be made aware of same. That way they will be pressured to save face on election day by getting their people to the polls.
From what I understand "face" is extremely important in the Islamic world and this concept could be used as leverage.
Posted by: babs at December 27, 2004 03:32 PM (N0VNN)
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So now the members of the religion of peace are killing each other. Okay. May they have a successful day.
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Could a school find
something more useful to spend their time debating then banning?
Hat tip: The Roth Report
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Those aren't just rubber bands. They are weapons of class disruption.
Posted by: Mr. K at December 27, 2004 06:22 AM (5PZq6)
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oh damn (hi rusty) how'd i end up here ? was looking for hot star wars chick pundits.
Posted by: emigre at December 27, 2004 09:22 AM (a0g+2)
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Pretty soon they'll be banning pencils.
Posted by: Brian B at December 27, 2004 11:22 AM (CouWh)
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What's the matter? Teachers can't control their students anymore? There are a lot more important things in this world than a school debate over rubbing bands. How ludicrious.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 27, 2004 12:32 PM (D39Vm)
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Every once in awhile, it's nice to read "stupid news."
Good Job to you and Brian.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 27, 2004 02:41 PM (D39Vm)
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Two Al Qaeda Terrorists Arrested in Iraq
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. forces captured two senior figures in al-Qaida's branch in Iraq, the U.S. military said Saturday, and one of Turkey's richest businessmen was reported kidnapped, appearing in a video along with a weeping employee saying they were being held hostage.
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The U.S. Marines said Saturday they captured two men who led cells in Anbar province for Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Al-Qaida in Iraq network. The province is a center for the insurgency and home to the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah.
A Marines statement identified the men as Saleh Arugayan Kahlil and Bassim Mohammad Hazeem. Their cells kidnapped and executed 11 Iraqi National Guardsmen, carried out car bombings and other attacks in the Ramadi area and "smuggled foreign terrorists into the country," the Marines said.
"This group is responsible for intimidating, attacking and murdering innocent Iraqi civilians, Iraqi police and security forces, and business and political leaders throughout the Unbar province," the statement said.
Great news concerning the capture of two Al Qaeda members directly ties to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group 'Al Qaeda in Iraq' (Tawhid wal Jihad). My only concern is that the matter was publicized which could effect any interrogation tactics that should be used to find the leadership of the group responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Iraqis and many non-Iraqis including the beheadings of Jack Hensley, Eugene Armstrong and Nicholas Berg among others.
Cross-posted at In the Bullpen
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There's one thing not in the story and has been hardly played on tv except for a bit here and there but approximately 15 US Marines have died there over the last week. Nine were ambushed at once and killed.
Very dangerous out there in that deadland. (it sort of goes off to the left like a bulge). I'm not sure catching anyone is going to give you the answers you seek about those beheadings because each one was done by a different group. Plus what we don't also know is bodies of many "westerners" have been found but they don't know who they are and just how many of them there really is. The Marines over there in the Anbar province are in great danger but they still do it and it's not easy to get help out there, although they did call in bomb coverage the other day. This occurances get mentioned but are moved on so fast, many never learn about these deaths.
There is a poem written somewhere here on one of the blogs who carried it from a National Guard who flies planes for refuling when all of a sudden he got a change in orders to bring back to the states 26 Marines and what he wrote how they were put on the plane; how they were protected in the plane, the ceremonial aspects of them taken off the plane and into family mortuary cars was amazing. Everyone should read it. Maybe it's not a poem; just a story of one man's experience and it takes your breath away.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 27, 2004 12:44 PM (D39Vm)
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Turkish Businessman Taken Hostage
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ANKARA, Turkey - One of Turkey's richest businessmen said he has been kidnapped in Iraq, appearing in a video aired Saturday alongside one of his weeping employees and saying they were being treated well by their captors.
Kahraman Sadikoglu, president of the Istanbul-based Tuzla Shipyard, and ship captain Ahmet Yurtdas had not been heard from since they left the southern Iraqi city of Basra by land on Dec. 16, according to their families.
The footage did not say who was holding the two men or mention demands.
Several newspapers said a ransom demand of $25 million had been made, but Foreign Ministry officials and family members of the hostages refused to confirm the reports.
"Today is Dec. 23. We were captured four or five days ago," Sadikoglu said on the videotape, broadcast on Turkish television. "We're fine and they will check us out, what we're doing here, and will hopefully release us. God is Great."
Sadikoglu said he was working for the United Nations and the Iraqi government on a project clearing harbors of sunken ships. "We don't have any problems with the Iraqi government, we're creating jobs and food for the Iraqis," he said. "If that is a crime too, then we will accept the punishment."
Hopefully Sadikoglu will be freed and if the reports indicating a ransom has been called for, his release is more probable. He was however working to better lives of Iraqis and pursue Democracy inside of Iraq therefore he is a target as designated by the two main terrorist groups in Iraq.
With a growing hostage trade, though it has quieted down significantly since the U.S. and Iraqi forces cleared Fallujah, Sadikoglu may end up in the hands of terrorists who could care less about money and only care about making a statement by beheading anyone helping Iraqis.
Cross-posted at In the Bullpen
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Chad, Do you know what area of Iraq these people were snatched from?
I saw a poll recently asking people what country do they think is really interfering in Iraq? I felt Syria and Iran but most votes went to Turkey. I'm trying to figure out why Turkey, especially since they helped us and the coalition forces come in and out of that area of Iraq at the beginning of the war, so how can Turkey be the most serious country interfering in this war????? doh..
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 27, 2004 01:26 PM (D39Vm)
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Posted by: Dr. Yoram Shimrony at May 12, 2005 03:51 PM (OEO61)
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Bloody nigerian fraudsters with their greedy little corrupt black hands.
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Suicide Bomber Not Iraqi National Guard Soldier
The suicide bomber who attacked the mess hall in Mosul, Iraq was
not a member of the Iraqi National Guard according to a top Iraqi General. Ansar al-Sunnah
released a video of the attack which I've been unable to locate at present. Two of their sites have been taken down and the exact placement of the video is not known.
The bomber is believed to have recieved help from moles working inside the base, entering the main gate wearing an Iraqi National Guard uniform with the help of a guard. He was able to enter the base with a police identification under the premise of fixing air conditioning units.
General Babaker B. Shawkat Zebari also commented upon Syria's role in feeding the terrorism within Iraq.
Zebari said foreign fighters are still entering Iraq from Syria.
"I don't know if the (Syrian) government is closing its eyes or the terrorists are finding their ways to cross," he said.
Zibari said six Arabs using forged Iraqi identity cards and carrying explosives were detained near the Syrian border on Thursday.
His comments came a day after Najaf's police commander, Ghaleb al-Jazaeri, said they detained an Iraqi who confessed to receiving training in a camp in Syria under the supervision of a Syrian military officer. The detainee is suspected in a bombing in Najaf this month that killed 54 people.
Ansar al-Sunnah, the terrorist group claiming responsibility for the Mosul attack, allegedly consists primarily of Iraqis however there has been a growing amount of evidence pointing to many foreigners joining the ranks of the group. Syria of course has housed, indoctrinated, armed and equiped terrorists heading into Iraq for months now with the government of Syria either looking the other direction or fueling the fire.
Update:
The video of the Ansar al-Sunnah suicide bombing in the U.S. mess hall in Mosul can be downloaded here, courtesy of Global Terror Alert.
Cross-posted at In the Bullpen
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Chad, you should be able to find it under "www.terroristmedia.com" but it's just a message spoken by someone with particularly good english. I didn't know which video you were specifically looking for but it should be on that site. It's not hard to navigate but they had to change their format due to so many people giving them a hard time.
I hope the soldiers in Mosul (said like Mo zul) send these asshats to their martyrdom read soon.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 26, 2004 11:23 AM (D39Vm)
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I am familiar with the site and it was not on there when I checked this morning.
Posted by: Chad at December 26, 2004 11:33 AM (F6dAB)
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Chad, I found it but Rusty has that site shut off for some reason; he uses it too. How do I send it to you?
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 26, 2004 11:42 AM (D39Vm)
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I posted the website on your blog.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 26, 2004 11:46 AM (D39Vm)
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Hey Chad, get with it. We caught two more biggies from the Al Qaeda camp. Was in my paper this a.m. Maybe we can interrogate these two bastards, and find out where Zarcoward and Osama are holed up????
Posted by: Laura at December 26, 2004 12:56 PM (ptOpl)
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The real problem here is we have too few grunts. Both in the war and at home. A lack of fighters makes any threats to either Syria or Iran a dumb, meaningless gesture. So we dont. They in turn continue to aid our attackers and in the process disrupt our drive to freedom for Iraq. We need to reactivate the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions now. Then send the 2nd and 3rd Divisions to the war; not necessarily Iraq or Afghanistan.
Posted by: Rod Stanton at December 26, 2004 03:37 PM (tHUgl)
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I would like a copy of the video !! ( Mosul base attack )
Posted by: josh wright at December 26, 2004 06:34 PM (effdX)
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Rod - good to see you again, Marine. You don't think the Iran is going to be part of the "conflct" someday soon in the future?
On the Syrian borner they have chicken wire up and soldiers placed here and there. It must be a very boring job for these guys but if someone wanted to pass through, they probably could do it fairly easy once they knew the schedule of those guard soldiers. Iran is more porous and that's a hard line to protect.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 26, 2004 06:36 PM (D39Vm)
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Yo put conflict in quotes yourself, heh
Posted by: dirtyangel at December 26, 2004 09:43 PM (9axDF)
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So I put the word "conflict" in quotes. So what? I do that to make a word stick out - for they are part of the conflict. Check a map.
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 27, 2004 12:51 PM (D39Vm)
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Josh, the video is linked but it's stupid and it doesnt show anything. You see the cowards covered in black and using a knife, click on certain parts of a map of the base in Mosul, then it switches to going by the street and seeing the hole in the roof of the mess tent. Nothing to see but plenty to do.
I think we should ban video camera's over there, too. Mosul has been locked down tight because after Falluja, there's Baghdad, then Mosul. Behind Mosul you end up in the mountainous region of Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan all blended into one.
Then you have the Anbar province where they are also doing a lot of damage. If you look at a map of Iraq, it's the bulbous area to the left of the country.
So as to the video there is nothing to see and the only thing worthwhile to see is the detailed map of the base in Mosul. Even embedded reporters did not film this, they waited.
Know what really bugs me, too. When the worst get to Germany, there are hundreds of reporters and their cameras there trying to get a glimpse of the wounded. Because of that, you'll have service men and women lining up along the side so you can't see who's coming out of the plane, to preserve their privacy and those of their families. Want to do something good - help out the famiy folks of those who died,, and those who were injured and help out the troops in Fort Lewis, WA where most of them came from; donate funds to build more strykers units; join the service and go over and help.
We see all the bad stuff. On Christmas Day, I watched FOX and saw all the good stuff with tears pouring down my face. Rod, you know that the only people who will request more troops are the commanders on the ground and they feel they have enough, so until they say the word, more divisions probably won't be going over. I know a group going over after the first of the year to train Iraqi's as military men. It's a secret where they'll be doing just that but I do agree that more soldiers need to be sent over.
I hate war. I hate this war because you cannot tell the bad guys from the good guys. Wish they didn't look like civilians and wore uniforms and weren't such cowards that they had to cover their faces. I remember when CBFTW wrote about the MEN IN BLACK, a poster said I hope you find that store that's carrying those black hoods and blow it up.":-)
Cindy
The daughter of a Marine in Korea
The widow of a Green Berets, Special Forces specialized, secretized soldier from vietnam
A sister of a brother who was in the Air Force Reserve for 10 years
A sister of a late brother who was also in the Air Force during Vietnam
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 27, 2004 01:22 PM (D39Vm)
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I cant believe this is the sort of Bullshit our
soldiers are having to put up with..... getting blown
up just trying to get a descent meal! We need to keep up
the pressure on these Fucking Cowards,get the elections
held, and get the FUCK OUT of this ridiculous Country
Posted by: Mighty Whitey at December 27, 2004 05:53 PM (sXM84)
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Or level it altogether, since most of the civilians are gone anyway.
Posted by: Laura at December 28, 2004 06:22 PM (ptOpl)
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December 25, 2004
Merry Christmas...
...and may the Force be With you!!
PS-Still on vacation, but thank Allah I'm off the cruise!! My Christmas? Great. Best Christmas Present? My Pet Jawa in National Review Online. Thanks La Shawn!!!
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Mery Christmas.
Posted by: owoju at December 25, 2004 06:41 AM (hcfig)
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Yip, Merry Christmas DR RS.
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Posted by: SA at December 25, 2004 04:21 PM (627+m)
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Hope you're having a good time. Congrats on the "shout out"!
Posted by: Gordon at December 26, 2004 09:50 AM (dEFhD)
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December 24, 2004
Saudi Reporter: U.S. Steals Iraqi's Organs
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"Secret European military intelligence reports indicate the transformation of the American humanitarian mission in Iraq into a profitable trade in the American markets through the practice of American physicians extracting human organs from the dead and wounded, before they are put to death, for sale to medical centers in America. A secret team of American physicians follow the troops during their attacks on Iraqi armed men to ensure quick [medical] operations for extracting some organs and transferring them to private operations rooms before they are transferred to America for sale.
"The reports confirm the finding of tens of mutilated cadavers or cadavers missing parts. Some were found without a head. The American military command could not offer reasons to explain the bewilderment about the missing parts, suggesting that this may have been caused by the penetration of bullets to the [missing] parts. But these excuses cannot be medically accepted. The reports also confirmed that the burning of bodies was deliberate in order to conceal the crime of organ extraction. [The reports] further indicate that American medical teams have [made] active and suspicious moves in Iraq to recruit some Iraqis to guide them to dead and critically injured individuals to engage in the extraction of organs. These teams offer $40 for every usable kidney and $25 for an eye. The reports confirm the finding of mutilated bodies in Fallujah. The reports indicate that the cadavers are immunized inside special cars to prevent the spread of the plague until the bodies are buried by their relatives.
What nonsense. Has a head ever been able to or even wanted to be transplanted? This follows a report where a television show in Iran accused
Israel of stealing Palestinian children's eyes (via
Gamblog).
I fully understand the need for a nation to demonize the enemy and of course this is nothing new. It happens on both sides of a war. During the Cold War for instance similar theories were written to demonize the United States.
My only question is this. Can't those who are trying to demonize the United States be a bit more realistic than this?
Cross-posted at In the Bullpen
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Can they be more realistic? Of course not. Claims like this should make the world understand what a backward bunch of idiots they are. Just think, their own people are stupid enough to believe it. So what does that make their own people? A bit lower on the evolutionary scale. Heh!! I just discovered the missing link.
Posted by: greyrooster at December 24, 2004 10:04 AM (4Pc3X)
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We need to take down sites that broadcast such shit. Where we can not physically reach the transmitter, jam the signals. There is no international first ammendment, and there is a right to respond to an attack.
Posted by: Gene 6-Pack at December 24, 2004 12:03 PM (7XPVo)
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What American hospitals got these organs? Then who were the Americans at these hospitals that had them put in? Name names. Give some specifics! Looks to me like another Rathergate.
Rod Stanton'
Cerritos
Posted by: Rod Stanton at December 24, 2004 12:35 PM (tHUgl)
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Lots of real things that have happened in the world may seem ludicrous.
If I'd have gone up to you on Sep 10th 2001 and said.....
Posted by: Martin at December 24, 2004 05:25 PM (ll2pj)
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Easy, guys. If you're going to fight for men's rights to free speech you've got to respect all men's rights, not just the ones wearing your colors.
Mind you, the Dr. Mengala story being broadcast here is insanely stupid (who wants to Google for the shelf life of a fresh organ on ice?) and shouldn't be given credence, but still. Bomb the broadcast towers and jam the signals? You'll just make them think they're on the right track the way you're trying to suppress their speech.
Lies can only hurt you if you give people a reason to believe them.
Posted by: Michael at December 24, 2004 10:45 PM (qOCoy)
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We steal the organs we can use. Perhaps we make pastries out of the rest? Hmmm . . . where have I heard this sort of libel before. Why of course. The Saudi press.
And Michael, I do have to offer a bit of disagreement. Lies can hurt you, if other people believe them. If some 13 year old Palestinian kid straps on a bomb because he believes the lies, as well as the ones about the virgins and candy waiting on the other side.
We have to counter the lies with the truth. A lie that goes unanswered is often believed, and it can, indeed, kill us.
Posted by: The Colossus at December 25, 2004 10:12 AM (ouHVA)
Posted by: qpr jon at December 25, 2004 12:10 PM (CYzuz)
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Oh man, who is spreading this garbage? This cannot be true; who is spreading this kind of rumors? Being an organ donor is a wonderful thing. I was once one till I realize that someone with my disease could not be a donor. I cannot believe that anyone could humanly go around and steal organs for aay reason -that is not how it's done. These people are so behind medically and it takes a lot of know-how to match the person with the donor. How could this really be true?
I've been through this process myself so how could this backwards asshat have that kind of knowledge?
You know, maybe it's it not that all - maybe what they are doing is just mutilating bodies?? Making the excuse of organ donorship is a front to what they are doing out of mutilation? They just have the capability of this very sensitive and well prepared organ donorship, especilly those who know ins and outs of this surgery with the first being time.
do these people have that iced up lunchbox, a helicopter standing by? a donor ready for and prepared? I doubt it but why mutiliate them after the person it is dead like that? I know too much about tranplants to believe that this is really happening - it seems to me it's more of a mutilation thing but that is my own personal opinion.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 26, 2004 12:24 AM (D39Vm)
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This still boggles my mind... what are the Saudi's trying to hide by making up such stories?
The other day, the Saudi's beheaded their 31st drug trafficker. Once these guys are convicted, the next day they are beheaded. (not in the way Al Qaeda groups have done their hostages). How do they get away with this kind of punishment? And the other types of punishment in all those countries do and is accepted? All of it is so inhumane.
just curious.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at December 26, 2004 06:42 PM (D39Vm)
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
Every one of you said Saudi this, Saudi that, do you ask how do they get the information.
"Secret European military intelligence reports"
Think! Think!! Think!!!
Posted by: J. O. at December 28, 2004 09:44 AM (+x3cT)
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i think these saudi muslims(mutawas) are sick motherfuckers who could be so brutal in life. i had a tuff time there. i m gay and feminine. i think if one appears gay there, he has a high chance to get arrested. these mutawaas were folloing me when i was shopping in the malls. i was wearing a feminine top and a low waste jeans. first they thought i m a female and then they thoguht i m not. the followed me fast and i could sense it. i ran off to my hotel. checked out and took a flight back to my country India where i dont have to face all these stupid laws. one of the mutawas even winked his eyes to me and indirectly wanted to propose me for sex. see how funny, they arrest gays and yet want to shag with them. They are simply sick bastards who dont have principles in life...They should be mass killed.
Nikki
Posted by: Nikki at May 12, 2005 11:36 PM (cN2XJ)
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I am a mom of 2 girls with heart transplants. Such garbage like this Saudi reporter presents should have immediate front-page rebuttals, showing what idiocy this propaganda is. So many people await organs and many die waiting. These people don't need this kind of defamatory stuff out there, as it may persuade some to not become organ donors, thinking some hanky-panky goes on in the process.
If not for organ donors, 2 of my children wouldn't be here today.
Posted by: Susan at June 30, 2005 12:21 PM (Jlies)
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