September 28, 2004

Zarqawi Website Hacked Again

UPDATE 9:49 AM EDT: Website back up!! That didn't take long.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's website has been hacked again and My Pet Jawa may be partially to blame. I broke the original story that Zarqawi's original site was hacked by 'TeAmZ USA' on Aug. 22. Later, the website was restored to service before the webhost, a company operating out of Houston, took the website down permanently. However, Zarqawi's group kept a backup site on the same server which eventually became the group's main propaganda arm. That site, until this morning, was used to distribute beheading videos, recruitment messages, issue fatwas and other propaganda. Recently, the site has been used to distribute a taped message by British hostage Kenneth Bigley pleading for his life.

Today, Chad Evans of In the Bullpen discovered that Zarqawi's website had been hacked again by the same group who had taken the site down in August. An image of the message left by TeAmZ USA at Zarqawi's website can be found here, at Chad's original post, or in the extended entry below.

In my two earlier reports (here and here) on Zarqawi's website, My Pet Jawa offered to give out the URL for the Tawid and Jihad website to any entrepreneurial hacker who could take it down. In response to those posts, hundreds of anonymous e-mails were recieved asking for Zarqawi's web address. Some of the anonymous e-mailers claimed to want the address "for research purposes", some for their own benefit, and others simply put a "wink, wink" as their reason. For the most part, I responded by giving my readers Zarqawi's website URL.

Recently, though, I discontinued the practice of giving out his URL. My decision was based on two factors. First, the volume of requests. I could no longer respond to individual e-mails requesting Zarqawi's website address. Second, and more important, I received an e-mail message from a reader who was outraged by what he saw on the Zarqawi website. In fact, he was so outraged that he decided to give the webhost a call and complain.

Eventually, the company responded and said that they were aware of Zarqawi's website on their host and had had numerous complaints. But they reassured my reader with this cryptic message, that "people at the highest level had asked them to keep the website up." I, and my reader, took that to mean that intelligence services were using the website to track down Zarqawi's physical location, something a number of commenters and fellow bloggers (see trackbacks to my original post) warned me of.

In related news, a number of suspected Zarqawi hideouts have been bombed in the last few days, including one this morning. Pure speculation, but could Zarqawi be dead and that is the reason the site is down--no longer needed? The last time TeAmZ USA hacked Zarqawi's website it was back up within a few days. I suspect that if the site comes back online then that would be evidence that the intelligence community does not believe they got Zarqawi. If it stays off, that might be a sign that Zarqawi is dead. Zarqawi's death would be very good news. Unlike al Qaeda, which the Tawid and Jihad terrorist organization has links to, Zarqawi's group is run from the top. In fact, it is likely that Zarqawi personally beheaded Eugene Armstrong, Jack Hensley, and Nick Berg. Keep fingers crossed.

UPDATE: Since the website it back up, I take it that Zarqawi is still alive. Sad, sad news.

Also on the trail: Chad Evans of In the Bullpen, who broke the story; J-Dog Quinton the Backcountry Conservative Pimp; Mack Daddy Digger of Digger's Realm more...

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September 27, 2004

Danish Embassy Attacked

Protesters attack embassy of Denmark in Sweden. Don't say the terrorists didn't warn Denmark this was coming. Just last week this statement was issued:

"....we threaten the government of Denmark with the commencement of military strikes with utmost fatal ferocity if it does not declare a timetable for its withdrawal from Iraq. The government of Denmark should benefit from the Italian lesson, and the Russian lesson, and the British lesson, and the American lesson, because we will not show mercy to any Danish citizen who falls into our hands unless the Danish nation submit to our demands.”
HT: Charles Johnson

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Mount St. Helens Volcano May Erupt

This report is crossposted here.

News reports indicate that Mt. Saint Helens has started to erupt. I have been posting about this for days, not really believing it would happen. Well, I was wrong! My previous post has been updated daily and is located here. For your convenience, I have reposted it in the extended entry below. Thanks for Digger for notifying me. He's also on the case. UPDATES BELOW

Whoa!! Check out that pic above from Fox News. Awesome! And by awesome I mean I am truly awestruck by the pics, not Spicolli awesome. The pic below is from the Seattle Post Inetlligencer via M.H. King. It's from earlier and only shows the steam

Click here for live video provided by KGW-TV/DT Portland & KING-TV/DT Seattle. You'll have to sit through a commercial before the video starts, but give it a second (link also via M.H. King).

Duane the Forester is pretty close to the volcano and he's liveblogging it. If you can't wait, he reports "At 40 miles away I didn't feel anything rumbling, sorry but this is one of those cases where MSM has an advantage. The ash is headed my way, however so if we get ashfall here I'll photoblog the event."

KGW-TV/DT Portland reports that there were three large bursts, than the eruuption tapered off. No lava in site. Ash and steam from the eruption have caused several flights to be cancelled out of Portland and Seattle.

UPDATE 4:30 EDT: Watching USGS press conference. Eruption at 12:03 PST--lasted 24 minutes, plume went to 10,000 ft. They report no lava flow. Some glacier melt being detected and elevated waterflow. No mudslides detected. The USGS guy says that there have been half a dozen of these types of eruptions since the last big one. The difference between this eruption and those other small eruptions is that the seismic activity was way larger this time. In fact, the seismic action (those are earthquakes folks) this time is GREATER than the big blow. However, experts still don't expect as large an eruption this time. Yeah, this is the inner geek coming out in me.

New favorite quote from Duane who is liveblogging this thing from ground zero: "John Kerry calls it the "wrong eruption at the wrong place at the wrong time"

One expert is now claiming that he is noticing mud flow coming down the mountain.

Mount St. Helens Live Webcam Here. Very Cool. (site down due to volume)

10/02 UPDATE: Some experts saying they expect another eruption shortly.

John Little is also covering this and has some good resources linked in this post which he has been updating. Rob at Say Anything also covering with some cool pics. Daily Recycler has some online news footage, but the link to the live feed above is to a Portland station live covering it and they have some excellent close-up footage. Crazy Gator also has some wicked cool pics. Brian B. is blogging from Eugene and says he might get some of the ash. James Joyner finds an updated story on my earlier report of the morons flocking to Mount St. Helens as tourists. more...

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Moving to gmail

Take note, new address is mypetjawa@gmail.com

Why the move? Check below.

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PS-it's not so much the personal e-mails, as the comments that get forwarded to my yahoo account. Feel free to e-mail me at the new address anytime.

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Wait a minute. There was an IRANIAN hostage?

"Iranian diplomat hostage released."

Irony is using a word for purposes other than its literal meaning in such a way that it perverts its literal use. An oxymoron is when a phrase contains two words used in compliment to one another when their inherent definitions makes them incompatible. This is neither an "irony" nor is it an "oxymoron", but it's something pretty darn close. How about calling it a "oxymirony"?

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Beheading Videos Replace Porn As Favorites In Baghdad

I wish it were a joke. I've been writing abou this for a few weeks now. I hate to put "porn" and "beheading" in the same post, but that is the actual headline of the story. MORE HERE. This is one sick culture.

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John Kerry = C3PO

Chad sent me this link. What can I say? I had to post on it. But, I have to admit, Kerry does sound an awful lot like 3PO

THREEPIO: We'll be destroyed for sure. This is madness!
We're doomed!
Secret mission? What plans? What are you talking about? I'm not getting in there!
Are you sure this things safe?
How did I get into this mess? I really don't know how.
No more adventures. I'm not going that way.
That malfunctioning little twerp. This is all his fault! He tricked me into going this way, but he'll do no better.
I'm only a droid and not very knowledgeable about such things. Not on this planet, anyways. As a matter of fact, I'm not even sure which planet I'm on.
I told him not to go, but he's faulty, malfunctioning; kept babbling on about his mission.[MORE]

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I'm a blog pimp, and your links are my whores!

No time for the morning breakfast roundup today. My students were pissed! Note to students: it might help if you, er, actually read the textbook.

So what is up in the blogosphere?

-Bill at INDC on Iraqi WMD. Also, Mary Cahill says "We'll take the ni**ers and the chinks, but we don't want the Irish!"
-Remember all those innocent people that were oppressed at Guantanamo Bay? We let one go, he re-joined the Taliban, we iced him. Sounds like justice to me.
-Joyner documents liberal bias at the WaPo.
-Have I mentioned my bid to become a Google News source today? Well, Broder thinks I'm full of it and John Hawkins comes to my rescue.
-Simon on communism. Guess what? It still sucks!
-Commissar on Rather's replacement.
-Steve has the 4-11 on the Kerry bling-bling.
-Pull my finger.
-Today is Sam Adams' birthday!
-Gratuitious patio building.
-Stop the vote! Seriously. I just had 20% of my students miss this question: "Who is the Vice President of the United States?" Please don't vote!
-I resemble that remark!
-Forget the polls, it's the halloween masks that tell who will win.
-JFK and assault rifles. "I know about one model, the M-16...now, in Vietnam...." Malkin makes she's slightly more pleasant to think of blogging in her PJs than Steve. Slightly.
-Flea (Canadian) and John Donovan (not-Canadian) on great military figures in history and the 2004 election.
-The Llamas doing some investigative reporting to get to the bottom of Ham Sammich-gate.
-Saddam Hussein for President? No, King.
-Swifties being vindicated in mainstream press.
-Leather Penguin on Wonkette (I said....)
-Palis kidnap CNN reporter. Is it Stockholm Syndrome if you already believed the terrorists were the good guys?
-Yo momma! I just like the sound of that.
-More on Syria. Nice new design Chad!
-Olliver Willis will be jealous!
-No way, are you nuts!!?? Amen.

I'm pooped. Yeah, I really did read all of those posts. Seriously. Now, back to grading.

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Ayman al-Zawahri Caught

Ayman al-Zawahri caught say multiple news sources. Other sources deny that one of the four high-level al Qaeda suspects caught today was Ayman al-Zawahri. It was the "Army of Ansar al-Zawahri", a group which pledges it's support to al Qaeda's #2 man, which announced several days ago that they had beheaded Italian hostages Simona Pari and Simona Torretta. If true, excellent news. If not, at least we got four more bad guys. But I wll remind you that the war on terror does not end with capturing bad guys. We fight a fascist ideology which seeks global domination. Ideologies are far more difficult to fight than terrrorists.

Others: Allah, Jeff Goldstein

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Syria, at UN, Says Israel Behind U.S. War on Iraq

"The pitiless and merciless war that has been forced upon us by external Jewry will lay the entire Continent in ruins..." Adolph Hitler March 20, 1943.

Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara at the UN today:

Syria on Monday accused Israel of inciting the United States to invade Iraq to distract attention from its own actions in the region, where it retains its grip on the Palestinian territories won in a 1967 war.

Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara used his country's annual address to the U.N. General Assembly opening debate to deliver a fierce critique of Israeli policy, as the Jewish state accused Damascus of "directing terrorism" and threatened preemptive strikes against militants on its territory.

Shara accused Israel of refusing to comply with 40 Security Council resolutions and hundreds of General Assembly resolutions demanding that Israel withdraw from the Palestinian territories as a step toward a Middle East peace. Washington had used Baghdad's noncompliance with U.N. resolutions as one of its rationales for the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Instead, Shara said, Israel had built up a nuclear arsenal, expanded Jewish settlements on Palestinian lands, built a "racist segregation wall," which Israel says is intended to keep out suicide bombers, transformed its army into "armed gangs bent on systematic killings and war crimes" and shunned the peace process, "despite the hand extended in peace by the Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese."...

Syria had earlier accused Israel of terrorism after a Palestinian Hamas militant died in a car bombing on Sunday in Damascus.


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Holy Schneike, I'm #61!!!

Thank you referrers and readers for making My Pet Jawa one of th top sites in the blogosphere!

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Have I forgotten to add you to my blogroll?? I reciprocate, so e-mail me if I'm on yours but you're not on mine.

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Test Day Blogging

Gave tests to 160+ students in my intro. American class last week. I'm returning them today. This means that blogging will be light due to extensive moaning and bitching.

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Bigly/Italian Women Hostages Still Alive

Jordan's King King Abdullah claims that Italian hostages Simona Pari and Simona Torretta are alive. He also claims that Jordan is using all of its diplomatic and intelligence asssets to obtain the two aid worker's release. This would contradict claims made earlier by two groups who said that they have beheaded the two Italians.

Kenneth Bigley's brother also claims that he has recieved information that Bigley is alive. The Northeast Intelligence Network, which monitors Islamist bulletin boards, claims that new demands have been made for Bigley's life which suggest that he may indded be alive. Among these demands are calls for the release of radical Muslims being held in British jails, including Sheik Omar Mahmoud Abou Omar. The message said the Blair government has 48 hours to respond. In a move that shows the terrorists are becoming more and more effective in manipulating Western opinion, Bigley's brother also called on British Prime Minister Tony Blair to resign and said that if Kenneth Bigley were to die that Mr. Blair would "have blood on his hands."

In an interview, Jordan's King Abdullah called on the world's media elite to stop broadcasting terrorist propaganda--echoing the sentiments of Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week. more...

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Daniel Pearl Beheading Suspect Killed

Amjad Hussain Farooqi, a man under indictment for beheading Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002, has been killed by Pakistani "paramilitary police." Farooqi was also suspected of being involved in two assasination attempts against Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Daniel Pearl (graphic images, warning)was the first Western beheading victim by terrorists, and was killed long before the US invasion of Iraq.

A moment of editorializing: good riddance. Amjad Hussain Farooqi can rot in hell.

Also on the scene: James Joyner.

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September 25, 2004

Blog Sabath

I've decided to give up writing on Sunday for Blog Lent. Even Dr. Rusty Shackleford needs a day to spend with Mrs. Shackleford, Little Miss Shackleford (5), Jr. Shackleford (2), and RS v. 2.0 (3 months). Unless there is a blogging emergency, I will see you on Monday.

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Idiotic Reader Mail from Zeropa

I'm getting a lot of hateful conspiracy filled comments these days. But this one seemed so sincere, I thought I'd share it.


IP Address: 129.70.207.xx
Name: rodri
Email Address: xxx@xxx.com
URL:

Comments:

Clinton almost got impeached for being a human! In Bush's case it makes no sense to impeach him for that. Never before in the history of the US a president used his power for his own (or his friends) purposes like Bush.

Already we see the effects of Michael Moore coming out. It just gets better

Even if this means to kill thousands of innocent people. Everybody in Europe knew that the so-called weapons of mass destruction were pretended, the UN-inspectors didn't find any of them before the war.

Really? Then how come EVERY, and this means ALL, that's 100% for the dense out there, EVERY European intelligence service agreed that there were WMD in Iraq? Freaking moron. more...

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Updated Map of Bloggahland

My blog-tavarisch, the Commissar has a new map of "Bloggahland" . In related news, you can also play the six-degrees of blog seperation with this new thingy he found.

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Doing the War on Terror Differently

Goldstein photoshops what I've been saying for months!! Of course, it's just funnier the way Jeff G. does it. A segment of a post I wrote at my old blog:

The Delta Team option. Yeah, that Chuck Norris can really kick ass. Not the Walker Chuck Norris. The other one.

The A Team defense. Note: Stock up on super-secret knock-out pills for BA OW before executing.

The 007 plan. Going mano-i-mano with with the evil genius, Dr. bin Laden. Lot's of sex, but only the PG-13 kind.

more...

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Arab Reaction to Beheadings: 93% Support Murder of Infidels

Does this shock you? You will find the info buried in this article. Polls indicate that majorities in many Muslim nations support suicide bombings that target Americans and other Westerners. And these are all polls in so-called 'moderate' states.

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Good Will Hunting II: Zarqawi Season

Rumors about this group have been circulating for some time. Just three days ago, the military was close enough to nailing Zarqawi that they took out his top aide. Missed him by that much (Maxwell Smart voice)!! NY Post:

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has created a special commando task force to destroy the vicious terror network controlled by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — and twice has come very close to killing him, Pentagon officials said yesterday.

Others Blogging: Paul at Wizbang, Gordito the Cranky Neocon more...

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