Holy Schneike! My Blogfather, the Commissar, is blogging live from the Citigroup Center---which was listed as a specific target in the latest terrorist alerts. This guy has one giant set of cajones!

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UPDATE 9/13: Another Turkish hostage, Durmus Kumdereli, murdered today. The post, pics, and video can be found here.

Update: I have the video linked. Scroll down.

Via Jeff Quinton I learn the sad news that my running count of murdered hostages since 9/11 is up by one. I'll update the list as soon as I learn his name. Let us never forget the victims of the Religion of Peas.

I've checked the website where Zarquawi's group usually posts their videos, but no pics are there. I'm assuming that they have opened up a new sub-domain extension for the video. I'll post it when I find it.

Update: I just saw the video. It's posted at Ogrish (no link on purpose--it's a snuff site). Can somebody tell me why we haven't carpet bombed Falujah again?

Update 2: Right on Red asks why Murat Yuce was shot rather than beheaded and wonders if it is because he was a Muslim. Possibly. Many fatwas have been cited in the mainstream press that condemn the beheadings. What is usually not reported is that if you read the fatwas carefully, the condemnation is often not about killing infidels per se, but about defiling the bodies.

Since this is all PR for the jihadis, they have a vested interest in not pissing off their audience.

Update 3: I found the video on a site that looks like they deserve some traffic. You can see it by clicking here or going to the Liberty Unites article (although the page says you must register to view video, if you click on the link under the pic and to the right it will take you directly there).

Update 4: I have also posted a shortened version of the video here.

No, I do not encourage wathcing this kind of thing for titilations sake. Why watch it? See this post.

Update 4: Sober reminder from Kevin Aylward that "They're still another Turkish hostage being held by the group."

Lest we forget, his name was Murat Yuce. His name was Murat Yuce.

I've been trying to keep the hostages executed count accurate, but may be off. E-mail me if I'm missing anyone. The list only includes hostages murdered, not total victims of terrorism.

1) Murat Yuce (Aug. 1)

2)Raja Azad (July 2

3) Sajad Naeem (July 2

4) Georgi Lazov (July 13) (rant)

5) Ivaylo Kepov (presumed dead) (probably July 14)

6) Keith M. Maupin (June 2

7) Kim Sun-il (June 22)

Paul Johnson (June 1

9) Hussein Ali Alyan (June 12)

10) Nick Berg (May 12)

11) Fabrizio Quattrocchi (April 16)

12) Martin Burnham (June 7, 2002)

13) Daniel Pearl (Feb. 2, 2002)

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My patented John Kerry's Secret Plan to End the War in Iraq® is getting some serious attention (and I'll forgive the copyright violations). People at the WaPo must be reading this blog. Captain Ed and Glenn Reynolds both notice the similiarites, too.

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Where else?

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My heroes, the creators of South Park, are at it again, but this time it's the War on Terror. You can check out the trailor for Team America:World Police here.

Drudge reports that the White House is not happy:

I really do not think terrorism is funny, and I would suggest PARAMOUNT give respect to those fighting and sacrificing to keep America safe," a senior Bush adviser told the DRUDGE REPORT this weekend...

"This is just unconscionable. Not funny. And I believe it makes fun of everyone in law enforcement... and in the armed services who work tirelessly to keep us safe from harm."

Also, if you can't laugh at the War on Terror, what can you laugh at? The reason I started this blog was because of a SP episode called "Osama bin Laden has farty pants," which is Stone and Parker's tribute to WWII propaganda cartoons. Comedy can be an essential tool in the War on Terror inasmuch as it makes fun of our enemies.

Listen to this clip of Osama wooing the love of his life--a camel! Does that sound like anti-war Bush bashing? They may bash Bush, on occasion, but not over the war.

The trailor only lists one Republican who, it claims, will be mad over the film: George W. Bush.

But let's look at all the D's and lefties the film will piss off (again, according to the trailor and in order):

Alec Baldwin
Sean Penn
Tim Robbins
George Clooney (who I suspect is in on the joke)
Liv Tyler
Susan Sarandon
Martin Sheen
Janeane Garofalo
Michael Moore
John Kerry
Kim Jong Il

The film appears to be a play on the new Thunderbirds movie, set for release this week---only Trey and Matt stick with the original puppet format.

From the trailor, the following things can be seen which will definitely cheer up the Bush people. First, there is a quick blurb of a puppet (Kerry or Edwards?) getting what appears to be a botox injection. Second, there is a Michael Moore puppet. What is in his hand? A hot dog. Third, several shots are of places/people in France getting blown up.

From an article about some clips that were shown at this years Comic-Con we also learn that, " the opening of the film in which France is obliterated by Team America" got a loud applause.

Now, does that sound like an anti-war movie to you?

Drudge, to his credit, saves this for last:

Parker and Stone save most of the mocking for left-wing pundits and Michael Moore.

As for me, I'm going to buy my ticket early and make sure the theater has stadium seating and THX sound!

This site has a cool poem marking the occasion!

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Wow, I didn't even know there was such a thing as an Iraqi Commando! Via SMH:

"Iraqi commando forces carried out a military operation on the kidnappers of Vlad Damaa and released him half an hour ago," the source said in Beirut, declining to give any more details.

Damaa was seized at gunpoint on Friday from a construction concern he runs with a brother that sells prefabricated buildings to US forces in Iraq, his family said.

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...but don't worry (al Reuters) officials declared:

This was not a terrorist attack, it was not a bomb

The pedestrian district was teeming with thousands of tourists enjoying a sunny afternoon in the area

The British Foreign Office confirmed that three of the Britons were men and two women

Oh, and also file this under 'definitely not terrorism' because, according to Reuters:

...the blast occurred near a casino and may have been a robbery attempt as an armored security vehicle was parked by the Israeli-owned Royal Casino.

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Remember my thoughts on Kerry's speech and my nihilism toward's the whole DNC?

There is nothing to make fun of. Nothing worthwhile is being said. It's worse than that, there is nothing un-worthwhile being said either. The convention is not happening to me. It is not there and no one is writing about it. I feel nothing.

Combine that with the Newsweek Poll, which will be released tomorrow, showing J Freakin K with a measly four-point bump and I think the obvious conclusion is that the American people just didn't give a rat's ass. The speech didn't matter, Michael Moore didn't matter, Ben Damon or Matt Affleck or whatever gettin it on with JK's daughter didn't matter....even that hottie Sarah Bender didn't matter.

Like I've been saying to everybody: The convention didn't happen.

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I can't believe the official organ (emphasis on 'organ') of the House of Saud publishes blog-friend Jane's op-ed. Go read it and then read her blog. What is especially interesting are these two paragraphs that I can't believe got past the censors. Perhaps there is some hope in the Kingdom, after all:

Republicans see the greatest challenge elsewhere. Vice President Cheney articulates their vision that “the enemy America faces today is every bit as intent on defeating us as were the Axis powers were in World War II or as the Soviet Union in the Cold War.” This view holds that the goal of the jihad is not to change US foreign policy but to destroy the US itself in a quest to establish a global caliphate. The 3/11 massacre in Spain they see as part of a larger effort to reclaim Al-Andalus. Republicans believe Al-Qaeda terrorists understand better than Democrats the historic stakes in Iraq and the major blow that would be dealt to their ideology by a self-governing Iraq.

Republicans, contrary to the prevailing international view, are not comprised of a cabal of neocons, Evangelicals, Zionists, oil barons and warmongers. Rather a portion of BushÂ’s base consists of ex-Democrat voters, prior liberals and other middle Americans disgusted with the Democrats reaction to the challenges America faces from radical Islamists.

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Commissar's response to terrorists? F**k You!

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