December 07, 2004

Don't Vote Rusty

In my ongoing effort to practice humility, I urge you not to vote for My Pet Jawa for Best New Blog of 2004. Am I the only one out there who thinks that I don't deserve such an honor? Wait--don't answer that!! What I meant was am I the only blogger who thinks that their own blog is less worthy of an award than other blogs in the same category in which they were nominated?

I see that since I un-endorsed myself that I've dropped from fourth place to like seventh place. I will not rest until I am in last place!! So vote, er, for any one but Jawa. Like Laurence Simon I realize that this blog is full of crap.

The competition is getting pretty ugly out there.

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The Kurdish Victims of the Army of Ansar al Sunnah

I had seen this translation of the Army of Ansar al-Sunnah's Banner's of Truth propaganda and recruiting video. Heck, I've seen the video! But the Commissar reminded me of it again with this post. There is just something about using Ansar propaganda for a link drop that I can appreciate.

Anyway, if you haven't been following the latest on what Ansar al Sunnah is putting on their website see this earlier post. From the above Ansar al Sunnah propaganda video: Our tears that we shed now are tears for Iraq; while we watch the enemy preparing all the power they can muster to hit an innocent unarmed people that is powerless

Oh yeah? Who are the main victims of Ansar al Sunnah terrorism? The Kurdish people. Ask the Kurds who it is that is 'hitting the innocent unarmed people' of Iraq and they will point the finger at the terrorists who fight the Coalition. Via Hyscience I found Kurdo's blog on Kurdistan which I highly recommend. Ever wondered what Kurdistan looks like? Kurdo has posted a number of photos here for the world to see. He also has images of slaughtered Kurds in Mosul here.

There can be only one solution to the Army of Ansar al Sunnah in Mosul--return that city to the Kurds. I trust the PUK and KDP militias infinitely more than I do the Arab police forces of the city. Unlike other religous and ethnic groups in the country, the Kurds have a proven track record of fighting terrorists and showing them no mercy.

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Oh how the mighty have fallen.....

....curse you NZ Bear!! I went from 33 to 83 in a matter of two weeks? Ouch.

I have always been taught that you either humble yourself or you will be humbled. I have been humbled.

To be honest, I never understood how I rocketed to the top so quickly. Last month, for a time, the TTLB Ecosystem was showing that 100+ new unique links to the Jawa were being added each day. I knew there was an error. Still, I enjoyed the lie while it lasted.

I now know what it is like to be Milli and/or Vanilli. Trust me, it sucks. Oh the fame is great. And there's the chicks, don't forget the chicks. Ok, so there's no chicks. But how about all the begs for link plugs? When your three slots away from Mortal Human status you get a ton of requests. It's almost like spam.

So, the Jawa Report returns to earth. Yes, we're still in the top 100 out of tens of thousands of active blogs, but it just doesn't feel the same.

And my dream of mounting Wonkette? Not gonna happen in this lifetime. At least, not as long as adolescent males find a redhead's allusions to anal sex titilating.

Question: Now that Rusty has been brought down to earth and is forced into keeping it real---should we go back to the My Pet Jawa name??? What about Jawa Pundit??? Any suggestions???

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Bachelor Blogging

I just dropped my wife and three kids off at the airport. I'm bacheloring it until finals are over. I haven't decided yet whether this means more or less blogging. On the one hand I come home to an empty house so I have nothing better to do than blog. On the other hand I come home to an empty house so I can go to the movies, out to dinner, fishing, play basketball, or whatever.

It's quite a dilema.

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Do The Math

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(Simuntaneously launched by Bravo Romeo Delta from Demosophia, The Jawa Sun, & Anticipatory Retaliation)

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December 06, 2004

Army of Ansar al-Sunnah Website Update

This is an archive page. For the latest news on The Army of Ansar al-Sunnah and other terrorist groups in Iraq please go to the MAIN PAGE HERE.

UPDATE 5/10: Army of Ansar al-Sunna website releases images of Japanese hostage Akihiko Saito. Images, story, and link to website.
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The photos that apper here were all taken from the Army of Ansar al-Sunnah's website. CNN reports that al-Sunnah has been up to a lot lately. The photos that follow the article are propaganda by the Army of Ansar al-Sunnah showing that these men had relationship with the 'Zionist Crusader Forces'. Thus, the murder of a truck driver becomes an execution of a collaborator:

The attacks, focused in Baghdad and several cities to the north, appeared to be aimed at scaring off those who cooperate with the American military -- whether police, national guardsmen, or ordinary people just looking for a paycheck.

They also have targeted Kurdish militiamen and Shiite worshippers in a possible bid to foment sectarian and ethnic unrest....

Sunday's bloodshed began when gunmen opened fire at the bus as it dropped off Iraqis employed by coalition forces at a weapons dump in Tikrit, 80 miles (129 kilometers) north of Baghdad, said Capt. Bill Coppernoll, spokesman for the Tikrit-based U.S. 1st Infantry Division. Coppernoll said 17 people died and 13 wounded in the attack.

Survivors said about seven guerrillas were involved, emptying their clips into the bus before fleeing. The bodies of the victims were brought to a morgue too small to hold them all; some were left in the street.

About an hour later, a suicide car bomber drove into an Iraqi National Guard checkpoint in Beiji, 75 miles (121 kilometers) to the north, detonating his explosives-packed vehicle, Coppernoll said. Gunmen then opened fire on the position. Three guardsmen, including a company commander, were killed and 18 wounded, Coppernoll said.

The extremist Ansar al-Sunnah Army, one of Iraq's most feared terror groups, claimed responsibility for the Tikrit attack. The statement, which appeared on the group's Web site, claimed 20 people were slain.

"We tell all those who work with the crusaders: 'This is your fate sooner or later. We're setting up ambushes for you. Repent ... to save your lives,"' said the statement, which couldn't be verified.

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Here is another image from their fatwa page. As you can clearly see, while all Zionist collaboraters get the death warrant issued, none for Rusty Shackleford. What does a guy have to do to get a fatwa issued against him!!! Let me know if you want the URL (I got it from Internet Hagganah), but it changes fast becaue they use free servers. Doesn't using a free server sound awful, I dunno, Jewish? Hey, if you can think of a faster way to get a fatwa than calling these guys Jews let me in on the secret!! more...

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Why Chomsky is Responsible for Terrorism

I have long argued that the Left shares the same worldview as Islamofascist terrorists. They both see the same root cause to every problem in the world. The enemy, America/Zionists, are at the root of all that is evil in the world. The only substantive difference between Noam Comsky and Usama bin Laden is the remedy prescribed; both identify the same problem. Chomsky, to his credit, wants to cure the cancer that is America. Bin Laden wishes to cut the cancer out before it further infects the world.

Here is a bit of reader love-mail, a little evidence that the Western Left nurtures the cause of the terrorism through intellectual support. There is a reason why terrorist websites quote Chomsky at length:

hav u ever thought WHY the so-called terrorists act the way they do...
See, there are root causes to terrorism. What is the root cause?
because the so-called "developed" countries hav made their lives a misery n exploited them evry way they can.
The root cause is Western Imperialism. In Usama bin Laden's last message he claimed the same thing. Muslims would not have to fight the infidels if the Zionist-Imperialists would all just go home and stop exploiting Muslim lands for their own profit.
they are only fightin bak n because evrythings out of the west's countrol, they cant take it.
So, Islamic terrorism is a just reaction. It is a defensive war. The mujahadin are, indeed, freedom fighters. Further, whenever a terrorist blows up a Westerner it is the Westerner's fault for exploiting the terrorist's country. Terrorists are the victims, not the purps.
Its time for some1 intelligent to take cntrol of the situation and try n make the world a better place. I cant believ how thick the ppl who voted for bush again r. Their the 1s who'v been brainwashed
No, I'm afraid it was your college professors who have you brainwashed. Thinking that America is the caus of so much misery in the world inevitably leads you down the road to supporting the enemies of America. While it does not necessarily lead you to supporting terrorism as a means to an ends, it does lead you to the support of the ends.

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(Shock) Dropping Paper 'Peace Birds' on Terrorists Fail to Bring Peace

You just can't make this shit up. Remember, imagine whirled peas. Malaysian Star:

A massive airdrop of paper birds to promote peace failed to halt violence in Thailand's restive south, with a spate of new attacks targeting soldiers and local officials erupting on Monday.

The bombings, shootings and arson attacks came hours after Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said the airdrop Sunday of nearly 100 million Japanese-style origami cranes over the predominantly Muslim region had achieved an "enormous, positive psychological effect'' toward peace....

Encouraged by the government, Thais across the country -- Cabinet ministers, office workers, schoolchildren and even convicts-- folded more than 130 million birds to promote peace in the south. Approximately 30 million will be delivered by land.

While meant as a morale-boosting measure for victims of violence, Sunday's origami airdrop resembled a festive treasure hunt with prizes offered for some specially marked birds. People who collected large quantities could trade them in for items ranging from cartons of milk to bicycles.

Especially coveted was one bird folded and signed by Thaksin, which offered a scholarship if found by a child, or a job for an adult.

Thaksin said Sunday the paper bird airdrop showed residents of the three southern provinces that they are part of Thai society, and that their countrymen care for them.

Hours after Thaksin spoke, the owner of a tea shop in Pattani was slain by gunmen, grenades were thrown at the homes of two policemen in the same province, and arsonists set fire to a state school in Yala and a teacher's house in Narathiwat.

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US Consulate Attacked in Saudi Arabia (UPDATED)

The US Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was attacked today. No reports of American casualties. New York Times:

group of attackers stormed the American Consulate in the Saudi Arabian city of Jidda today, using explosives at the gates to breach the outer wall and enter the compound, the Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement. Three of the attackers were killed and two were wounded and detained when they battled with Saudi security forces, the ministry said.

Four Saudi guards were also killed and 18 members of the consulate's local staff were taken hostage, Reuters quoted security officials as saying.

The Saudis have been doing a pretty good job of fighting terrorists since the second Khobar incident. They now understand that they are targets as well. Ironically (or something like irony) , they continue to be the number one funders of the religious extremism which will eventually lead to the downfall of the House of Saud.

UPDATE: Chad at In the Bullpen notes:

According to Monsoor Ijaz on Fox News, the terrorists who stormed the U.S. consulate office are connected to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Tawhid wal Jihad movement. According to Ijaz, there were rumors indicating similar targets in Algeria and Morocco which failed. The terrorists were hoping to gain access to the consulate and take American hostages.
Preston at the Buffet has this:
Robert Spencer has a little more on the Saudi reaction, including this AP article which refers to the islamofascists as merely a "stray bunch". Is that because the attackers weren't government-approved islamofascists?
Hat tip: James Joyner

Others: Captain Ed, Chad (and here), Pirate's Cove, Jimmy "Six Meat" Buffet, John Little, Jane, Beth, MUSC Tiger, Poliblog,

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December 05, 2004

The Iraq War as Present Value

by Demosophist

Richard Posner, on the brand-spanking-new Becker-Posner blog, manages to say in a few succinct words what I've been attempting to say in a far less economical way for over a year. One implication of the exposte anti-war argument concerning Iraq is that the Administration knew the probability of Saddam having WMD was zero, but chose to invade anyway for some unambiguously self-serving reason. That's essentially what all the "Bush lied" talk was about. The other, less well articulated, implication is that there was no estimate made of the probability, because it didn't matter. We would have attacked whether the probability of a future WMD attack from Saddam was 1 or 0, or anything in between. The former implication, that we knew the probability was zero and acted as though it were closer to 1 really has little merit. Had we known with certainty that there was no threat, then there'd have been no debate at all about the evidence. If it had been faked, the fakery would have been undetectable, because the deception would have been coldly premeditated. There would have been no bungling attempt at a poorly constructed "yellow-cake" document from Niger. more...

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December 04, 2004

The Fourth Commandment of Blogging

Remember the blog sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou blog, and do all thy blogging. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord of the Blogosphere. In it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy blog-son, nor thy blog-daughter, thy blog-servant, nor thy blog-hos, nor thy cats (for lame-o cat-blogging), nor thy guest-blogger that is within thy URL. For in six days the Lord made the blogosphere and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day. Wherefore the Lord blessed the blog sabbath day, and hallowed it. (with apologies to Deity)

Turn the computer off. Make some human contact (with real live people). Visit your family. Call your mom. Do something productive. Give other people a day off by not buying anything. Give yourself the day off by not blogging. Remember, blogs were made for man and not man for blogs.

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Ansar al-Sunnah Terrorist Arrested In Allawi Assassination Plot

This article claims that the four men arrested in Germany are suspected members of what they call Ansar al-Islam. This would be strange since that terrorist organization seems to have been destroyed during the initial invasion. It has since been supplanted by The Army of Ansar al-Sunnah, which is not directly led by Abu Mussab Zarqawi, but soes cooperate with his Al Qaeda linked terrorist organization. The Army of Ansar al-Sunnah has been responsible for the beheading murders of dozens of foreign civilians. That group operates in the areas bordering the Kurdish homeland of Northern Iraq and is responsible for murdering up to 90 Iraqis in Mosul over the past three weeks. Just today there are reports that al-Sunnah was involved in a plot to assassinate the governor of Iraq's Dohuk province. Since Ansar al-Sunnah may be composed of remnants of Ansar al-Islam and operates in the same general vicinity, it is easy to get the two groups mixed up.

Three Iraqi men were arrested Friday just hours before Allawi met German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. The suspects are believed to belong to the Ansar-al-Islam terror group, which has attacked U.S. and allied forces in Iraq since last year's U.S.-led invasion.

U.S. authorities have linked the group to al-Qaida. German authorities have said Ansar al-Islam has about 100 supporters in the country.

Prosecutors did not release the three suspects' names. One of them, the suspected head of an Ansar-al-Islam cell in the southern German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, has been under investigation by Stuttgart authorities since October 2003, Der Spiegel reported.

Others: Chad Evans (and here), James Joyner

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The Gathering Storm of Islamism in Europe

Chad at In the Bullpen offers this reflection on the impact of large-scale immigration of Muslims to Europe.

I would only add that if Europeans don't a) start having more children or b) begin severely restricting immigration an even larger danger looms: Europe will become part of the Islamic Umma. Islam will have succeeded where Hitler failed, to control the European continent and oppress all who oppose it's fascism. All this, plus an advanced industrial economy and nuclear weapons!!!

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Kelsey And Hayley Byrne Tribute

While the MSM sees fit to eulogize a man who murdered his own children, Digger has decided to pay the victims tribute. A touching post dedicated to innocent lives lost.

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December 03, 2004

Iraqi Police Officer Beheaded Near Green Zone

An Iraqi Police officer has been beheaded near the Green Zone in Baghdad. His name was Imad Jabouri. I found this buried in an article on the escalating violence in Iraq. It should be noted that violence seems to be turning away from US military targets, to Iraqi police. A trend we have been seeing for some time:

Police officials disclosed Thursday that Imad Jabouri, a lieutenant colonel in the Iraqi traffic police, was grabbed a day earlier from in front of his home in the Sabaa Bour neighborhood in northern Baghdad by several armed men as he left for work.

The men beheaded Jabouri, who directed traffic at a busy intersection in front of the Green Zone, and fled with his police badge and pistol, according to a police official who declined to be named for security reasons.

"Those men cut off his head, and this is the way they kill the people who they think are spies and agents," said the official, who said Jabouri's absence from work Wednesday prompted inquiries into his whereabouts.

"I'm afraid they will use this badge in their next operations."

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Osama bin Laden Still has Farty Pants

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Via Strategy Page via OTB

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Islam Taught Me How to Take a Shit (and blow up shit, how to hate Jews, oh and death to American troops--Allahu Akbar!)

LA Weekly article, via LGF, about a Southern Cal boy who becomes a Muslim:

"Islam is a way of life. The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, taught us everything up to how to go to the bathroom. Even when you go to the bathroom, how to go in, how to go out, how to sit, how to wash, how to take a shower. [He taught us] how to eat, how to start your food, how to treat your wife, how to treat your children, how to wake up in the morning, how to put your slippers on, how to put clothes on, how to take clothes off, what to eat, what not to eat....

When I pressed him further on how he felt about listening to a Syrian imam implicitly call for the defeat of American troops in the middle of Manhattan, Randall answered, slightly frostily, that "In America we have this thing called the First Amendment."

And no doubt the sheik is well aware of it. Listening to him I had the sense that certain Muslims have studied liberal Western society the way a military general assesses an enemy position — probing for strengths and weaknesses, deciding where and how and at what cost penetration can be achieved.

On the subject of Islam and politics, Vincent seems to be in serious denial. The phrase "Islamic terrorism" is an oxymoron, he once told me, and from my conversation with his Torrance buddy Joshua, I gather Vincent’s Muslim friends had already given him their own version of Fahrenheit 9/11 — with Jews, rather than Saudis, as the principal actors — long before Michael Moore came up with his own. But should one expect anything else, given the world he moves in? Two weeks after 9/11, Sheik Muhammad Gemeaha, then the imam of the mosque on 96th Street [ed note, the Mosque where he attends], abruptly moved back to Cairo, where he promptly told the Arab media that Muslim children were being poisoned by Jewish doctors in American hospitals, and that Zionists had masterminded the attacks on the World Trade Center and on the Pentagon.

In VincentÂ’s eyes, Islam can do no wrong because Islam is wonderful and his own discovery of it a "miracle."...

But if al-Yaqoubi [a visiting imam at his mosque] feels comfortable saying in front of 1,300 people in the heart of mainstream American Islam that American troops will be defeated wherever they go, then what might be said in Arabic in small, obscure mosques in Brooklyn, Queens and elsewhere with a translation murmured into a pale, friendly, naive American ear?

But perhaps there is no need to say anything. When I asked Vincent what he thought about al-YaqoubiÂ’s statement, he answered, with a touch of defiance, that he felt just fine about it. "I do wish the American troops would be defeated," he told me, adding, "IÂ’m a Muslim first, and I just live in this country." (If he could find a bumper sticker that read "AGAINST THE TROOPS," he said, heÂ’d put it on his cab.) And were he ever to find himself in the Middle East, letÂ’s say Iraq, would he fight against American soldiers? "If there was a jihad," he replied evenly, "I donÂ’t see how I could not join in."

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Reader Love Mail (UPDATED)

UPDATE: Added another message from a follower of the Religion of Peace, just keep scrolling

How is my plan to get a death threat issued against me going? I'd give it about a B-. The following reader comment is offered for your amusement. It doesn't threaten me directly, but since I am an infidel and apparently all infidels should be beheaded.

In the meantime I will fight my hardest to get a fatwa issued against me!! Join the campaign, spread the word, and test the tolerance of the followers of the Religion of Peace. I will not sleep as long as I can walk around without a bodyguard. This is my pledge to you.
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BISMILLAH

ALLAH HOUACKBAR. I LOVE YOU BIN LADEN AND SADDAM HUSSEIN.MY ALLAH
PROTECT YOU AND GIVE YOU LONG LIFE TO KILL THE ENNEMIES OF ISLAM. BUSH IS AN ASS. F**K YOU AMERICAN. GO TO HELL. BLOODY ASS F**K YOUR DIRTY ASS BUSH.WE MUST BEHEADED ALL KAFIR. I AM PROUD THAT I AM A MUSLIM AND SUNNIT AL JAMAAT.AMERICANS MUST SUFFER BCOZ THEY SATAN. ISLAM AL ACKBAR. YA ALLAH I LOVE YOU MY GOD.

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I Think what the terrorist's is doing is right and tells all the american politics to stop invading land that has never done anything to fucking iraq, and for those who disagree with me can get beheaded as well.

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Apparently Al Jazeera's a Jewish Plot

Tehran Times: "Al Jazeera Run by Zionists" (Hat tip: Jihad Watch)

Didn't you just know this, in your heart of hearts? One of a strange family of new conspiracy theories, all on the basic theme that the actions and rhetoric of the Jihadists are a deliberate plot to turn the world against Islam. On the bright side it at least hints at some sensitivity to the unflattering image that has accumulated, but unfortunately the whole conspiracy-theory thing is also seen as a signature of Islam, which will eventually have to be incorporated into a new conspiracy theory about conspiracy theories about Islam... which will strike most westerners as a sort of ominously threatening episode of I Love Lucy. Which, of course, brings us right back to the Joos.
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(Cross-posted by Demosophist to Demosophia and Anticipatory Retaliation)

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Arab TV: Jews Responsible for Fallujah Attack

It's always the J-O-Os. Oh and notice the support from the jihadis for our liberal media friends who want to move to the Great White North. Sermon broadcast on TV from Sudah, via MEMRI TV:

"Brothers, I got the following numbers from American sources: There are currently 1,000 Jewish soldiers in Fallujah. This is according to American sources. Among them are 37 rabbis. The rabbis raise the morale among the Jewish soldiers fighting in Fallujah. So America is fighting for Israel. It is not fighting for Iraq's oil, since it has been drilling it for some time.

"The Jews are fighting now. Even before we read the information about Jewish presence in Fallujah we thought that storming houses with boots from one house and moving from one house to another by explosions are actions we have already seen in Balata, Jenin, and Rafah. The Jews came to conduct urban warfare on behalf of America, and America is supporting them in exchange.

"What is America's interest in this mess? Many Americans, after their president won a second term, opened a small window toward Canada: The electronic escape window [sic] to Canada has become increasingly popular because they want to escape the land of freedom and democracy. If America wants to preserve the country it has established, it must listen to [Benjamin] Franklin's advice, [1] who warned them against the Jews. Now the Jews are leading them into these battles and this mess."

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