DEBKAfile reports that the al Qaeda bombing at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Amman last Wednesday specifically targeted a secret intelligence meeting. The attack wiped out the entire group of senior Palestinian, Jordanian and Saudi intelligence officers. With the arrest of the unsuccessful fourth bomber, Sajid Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, Jordanian investigators have a possible lead to identifying who leaked the time and place of the secret meeting.

Agreed, DEBKAfile sometimes comes across as a little loosey-goosey in its assertions. In my opinion, that doesn't seem to be the case with the latest report.

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In the 1930s two great pioneers of modern political sociology published an extensive "ethnographic study" of a small town in Austria. What Paul Lazarsfeld and Marie Jahoda found, in Marienthal: The Sociography of an Unemployed Community would not reasure those ready to stick their heads back in the sand now that the riots in Paris are "over." (h/t: Roger Simon) The combination of unemployment and "the dole" created a social vacuum into which National Socialism was about to arrive as a savior, so this little book about small-town Austria constitutes what amounts to an early warning that could have prevented a holocaust, had anyone been prepared to read the signs.

But what is really frightening now is that National Socialism had to be largely invented before it could (as Jerrold Post puts it) "fit into German society like a key in a lock." Islamism, which has one parent in common with National Socialism, and is therefore a "half-sibling," has been gestating now for generations. The key doesn't need to be invented. It's ready and waiting. And unless Europe can figure out some way to both get their economic engine running productively, and integrate/assimilate this brooding population, then these riots are merely the prelude to a coming storm.

(Cross-posted by Demosophist to Demosophia)

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Via WND we learn the latest from the religion of peace.

They came in buses to the small village of Sangla Hill in the Nankana district of Punjab in India.

Some 2,000 organized Muslims first vandalized three churches, a nuns' convent, two Catholic schools, the houses of a Protestant pastor and a Catholic priest, a girls' hostel and some Christian homes, according to Asia News.

Then they burned them to the ground, while about 450 Christian families fled yesterday. They have not returned.

The Justice and Peace Commission accuses the police of "criminal negligence" because they did not intervene.

Lawrence John Saldanha, archbishop of Lahore Archdiocese and chairman of the National Commission for Justice and Peace, said "the attack seems to have been planned and organized as the attackers were brought to the site in buses and instigated to commit violence and arson. It gave our people a lot of fear and anxiety but we hope the government will do something."

The violence began 10 a.m. Saturday and was apparently motivated by the latest blasphemy case. On Friday, a Christian, Yousaf Masih, allegedly burned some copies of the Koran and disappeared. One of his brothers, Salim Masih was arrested the day before. The Commission of Justice and Peace in Lahore ruled that the blasphemy accusations were false and stemmed from the accusers having a financial dispute with the families they accused.

Just a little note to the liberal apologists, ACLU, etc. Don't straddle the fence. Choose your sides, because this war is only about to get worse. I pray for you all to get on the side of good. This is a spiritual war for sure. The extremists of Islam will do their evil, and you can either keep trying your multi-culturism, politically correct crap, or not. It doesn't matter to the raged murderers of Islam either way. You can keep feeding the aligators, but don't think that means they will eat you last.

Remember on 9/11 when we all realized that Muslims were at war with us? Do we need to go through that again to realize they're still at war with us?

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Zarqawi's old neighbor saying that these attacks were "something that not even a Jew would do", and the Hashemite dynasty is ready to make hash out of him. Right now, Zarqawi is furiously spinning his latest massacre, trying to explain to a shocked and grieving Jordan why it was necessary and why they should still support him. Sounds like Al-Qaeda has jumped the Zarq in Jordan.

A similar miscalculation has occurred in America. Fourteen moderate, squishy Republicans decided they were more interested in the psychological health of the Alaskan caribou than they were about the ability of poor Americans to heat their homes and drive to work. So they scuttled plans to finally tap a little of that sweet, sweet crude in ANWR. Hope those caribou vote for you, fellas. Tell'em to bring a photo ID.

Meanwhile down in Southern California, a strange thing happened. There's this blogger and radio host who has been extremely accomodating of lapses in party discipline by House and Senate Republicans. He's a nice guy (and according to people who know him, not just on the air) and a clever writer and he is, even when you disagree with him, always worth paying attention to--but he takes a lot of criticism because he cuts so much slack to 'moderate' Republicans. We're all Republicans here, we can't afford to alienate the moderates, he says repeatedly; and he's right to a point--it is when the moderates feel comfortable alienating the conservative majority that they deserve criticism and political pressure. But softly, softly, advises our California friend.

Imagine my surprise when I go over to his blog, and see a list of the defectors' names, with a sweaty, chanting, bare-chested Hugh Hewitt painting voodoo signs around them, a dagger in his teeth and a fatwa-writin' pen in hand:

...a defeat on this issue has to lead to retribution. If the party isn't dedicated to being a majority party organized around the core issue of national security seriousness, it won't last as a majority anyway. Exiling the weak-kneed on a national security issue is exactly the sort of action that will underscore the seriousness of the party on these issues.

So would be the stripping of some committee and subcommittee chairs from a couple of unreliable-on-national-security Members.

OOH-RAH! I hope he doesn't see this entry of the Therapist's or he might crank the outrage level up from "masked French youth" to "Private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket".

I like the new Hugh. So before he pins my hand to my keyboard with a throwing star, I'm going to duck down into the extended entry and point out the one thing that slightly moderates my own fury about this situation:
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(Amman, Jordan) Here's some strong language from an Arab leader.

From ABC News Online:

Jordan's King Abdullah has vowed to track down the militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, after officials announced they hold Zarqawi's group "Al Qaeda in Iraq" responsible for the blasts in Amman that killed 57 people.

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Veterans arrested for "trespassing" in a veterans cemetery?

Protesters led by a veterans post tried to remove a flag display placed by peace activists at a veterans cemetery, and five were charged with criminal trespass.

The display remained intact Friday, Veterans Day, despite a threat by at least one of the protesters to return later to finish yanking up the flags.

The display of 2,000 white flags, meant to remember U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, was set up at Veterans Memorial Park cemetery Oct. 30 under a permit issued to Waterville Area Bridges for Peace and Justice.

Members of the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post complained, saying they wanted the flags removed before Veterans Day. The permit allows the flags to remain in place until the first snowfall.

On Thursday, about 10 people went to the cemetery and, under the glare of television camera lights, some began removing the flags as eight peace group members and sympathizers gathered nearby. Police moved in quickly to make the arrests.

Wayne Elkins, the VFW commander who led the protesters and was among those detained, said he had no problem with the peace group, as long as it stays out of the cemetery.

"They desecrated our veterans' grounds. If they want to protest, let them protest. We don't mind. But to desecrate hallowed ground is wrong," he said.

Waterville Maine must now be reasoned part of the "euro-zone". Too bad the vets weren't waiting for the "activists" as I'm sure they could have shown those clymers a more appropriate place to stick the white flags.

UPDATE: It appears that it was a memorial park as opposed to a cemetery according to the Ithaca Times....

Outraged veterans are calling for the removal of 2,000 white flags that members of a local peace group planted to commemorate America's war dead in Iraq. Calling the flags and signs in Veterans Memorial Park "a disgrace" and "illegal," veteran Wayne H. Elkins asked the city to revoke the group's permit.

Elkins, who served for a year in Vietnam and is station commander of Waterville's Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1285, said he had heard rumors that if the city didn't order Waterville Area Bridges for Peace and Justice to remove the flags before Veterans Day on Friday, veterans might take on the task themselves.

Nonetheless the disgraceful motives of WABFPJ remain the same. It's an oft used attempt by "activists" to promote their pacifist propaganda by exploiting our brave guys and the ultimate sacrifice they made. Does anyone think for one minute that these valiant men who lost their lives to protect us all would appreciate these puny minded zit farmers sticking white flags in a place specifically designated for their honor.

The VFW guys know what their fallen comrades would think and so do we. Put your damned white flags up, in your front yard, in the town square for all anyone cares but keep them the hell away from those venerable patches of ground we have chosen to remember the self sacrifice, courage and heroism of the best this great country has to offer.

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First as always lately let me thank our guest posters for another great week.

Thanks to Demosophist.
Vinnie.
Mike Pechar.
See-Dubya who also posts here.
Chris Short.
Traderrob.
The Dread Pundit Bluto.
Chad Evans.
Drew.
Richard.
Jane from Armies of Liberation.

Second Pixi Misa says that mu.nu will be moving to new servers over the weekend. Expect to see some flakey stuff but also expect that next week this thing will run like striped ass mule. Over the weekend you should be able to read The Jawa Report and other mu.nu blogs but temporary flakeyness or lack of comment boxes just means Pixi Misa is working on it. Please be patient itÂ’s hard to keep all these blips running around in order. If a computer works right it is normally because somebody was just too stubborn to let the damn thing win. So below I present a boat load of links from this week. Yes the best of the best except for a few things that got by me. This post is open to all track backs The Jawa Report did one two Fridays ago and got a good response. IÂ’ll do that every other week till Rusty gets back to us. Speaking of Rusty, he did post today so donÂ’t miss that.

Congratulations to The Politburo Diktat who celebrates one million hits and two years on the blogosphere.
One year blogiversary for Reverse Vampire.
Spy vs. Spy

Opinionjournal:Know the truth about cover--that it is the Achilles' heel of the clandestine service--and you will begin to appreciate how deeply dysfunctional the operations directorate has been for years. Only a profoundly unserious Counter-Proliferation Division would have sent Mr. Wilson on an eight-day walkabout in Niger to uncover the truth about uranium sales to Saddam Hussein and then allowed him to give an oral report.

It takes a special kind of stupidity to believe that you are right when everyone else on the planet says youÂ’re wrong:

Also after last weeks tornadoes several Evansville TV and Radio stations combined forces with our PBS station's call center and raised 1,250,000 bucks for tornado relief. The fundraiser benefited the Evansville Red Cross and Salvation Army. In fact the phone lines were backed up so bad that they may open them again this weekend See WTVW for more info. We are down to about 300 homes without power and donÂ’t worry Midwesterners TKOB so while we welcome all help we realize that the south has it much worse.

Due to the shortage of boobie posts this week click below.

This has been a Sandcrawler PSA.

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Karl Malone is my hero. He and I both agree that what is needed now are more bodies on the ground and not more money. Everything Karl Malone says in this article is 100% backed up by my experiences volunteering in the Katrina devestation zone. Sports by Brooks (hat tip: FARK):

"I wasn't going to just write a check, and I didn't want to go to New Orleans where all the celebrities were going (to grandstand). I wanted to go where no one was, and that's why we went to Pascagoula.

"We took six million dollars of equipment and most of the guys from my company (Malone Properties). But when we got there, they (federal officials) told us that because we wanted to work for free, we had to go home. That we needed a government ID number or a contract to haul out debris.

"I said to them, 'bullsh--', we took 30 pieces of equipment and traveled nine hours and we're going to clean up some lots before we leave. So I told them 'I'm getting on my truck, now try to get me off.' I had my security guys there and they tried to stop us but they couldn't - and we cleared 115 houses.

"Then they started to help us ... we had 46 trucks trying to keep up with us. I can't describe the scene. People were fighting over a pile of garbage."

After the experience, Malone now has a clear view of the quickest way to rebuild the storm-ravaged area: "The government has it all wrong. They need to stop trying to patch every house. It's time to start over. And people need to stop sending money. Send equipment and operators to move the debris out so they can rebuild."

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Jihad Unspun, an English language website devoted to supporting terrorism, is shutting down. The Canadian based website was notorious for its overt support of terrorists actively engaged in fighting against fellow Canadian citizens.

The website claims it is shutting down because of a "decline in credible third party information sources and a lack of translation resources."

However, sources close to The Jawa Report claim that Jihad Unspun and its publisher, Khadija Abdul Qahaarbeen, have been under criminal investigation by Canadian authorities for some time. In addition to calling for armed resistance against Canadian troops in Afghanistan the website routinely publishes content which could be construed as 'hate speech' under Canadian law.

In April the U.S. State Department posted on its Web site an article entitled, A Trio of Disinformers: Islam Memo, Muhammad Abu Nasr, and Jihad Unspun." After noting that the Web site was owned by a Canadian woman who converted to Islam the article commented, "'Jihad Unspun' has a track record of spreading very unreliable allegations." (UPI)

The website has published many inflammatory articles in the past. For instance, Jihad Unspun published an article claiming that a U.S. soldier murdered a little girl on a bet.

GOOD RIDDANCE.

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Interesting and thorough Veteran's Day piece by Anne Morse up over at the Weekly Standard on the phenomenon of people pretending to be war heroes. She notes that they almost always are given away by the magnitude of their lies; they're rarely content just to have been involved in a firefight or seeing a little action, but typically fabricate an improbably romanticized history as a Ranger or SEAL or death-dealing CIA operative (e.g., ahem, a CIA gunrunner behind the lines in Cambodia).

She finishes up talking about the execrable Jimmy Massey, the Marine Sergeant who spread slanderous lies about the awful things our servicemen had done to Iraqi civilians. It's good to keep wailing on Massey, but Morse forgot someone important. Someone the Left wants you to forget. Do y'all remember Micah Wright?

Micah Wright pretended to be a Ranger in Panama and built pretty much his whole career around that big fat stinkin' lie. And apparently he was one of those "you can't have an opinion if you haven't served, man!" types, who parlayed his attitude into a book deal and a lot of anti-war publicity. I first heard about this amazing, bald-faced lying liar over a year ago on what was then a pretty new blog--a fresh faced, take-on-all-comers tyro named Ace of Spades. Now little ol' Ace is all grown up and has his own radio show and everything--but you'll want to check out these cute snapshots from when he was just knee-high to a bloghopper and hadn't yet mastered singular pronouns.

And then you'll really want to skip over to Michele of ASV for her gleefully thorough dismantling of every last scrap of this wretched fake's dignity.

The unmasking of Micah Wright, who was emerging unquestioned into the mainstream as an anti-war voice, remains an unsung triumph of the blogosphere. If you are browsing on Veteran's Day, check out those links and give thanks that bloggers are out there relentlessly fact-checking the MSM's take on the war--and thereby honoring our fighting men.

UPDATE: While Michelle and Jim Treacher deserve credit for fact-checking Wright, keeping the pressure on him, and goading him into demonstrable lies, Washington Post reporter Richard Leiby is the one who got suspicious and filed FOIA requests for Wright's service record--and published an expose on May 2, 2004.

Another good account, by a victim of Wright's self-righteousness-ray, is here. Kevin Parrotts' summary of the event includes this important point about why remembering Wright's deception is important:

As a matter of fact, I think Micah Wright will end up getting more work and making more money off his lies than before they were discovered.

And that's the second reason I almost didn't write this. I have the feeling Micah Wright already knows what I just stated, and is eating up every minute of what's been going on. Micah wins.

Oh, sure, his new book of remixed WWII posters has been cancelled (for now), but no one I've read on the Net seems to have picked up on the hidden message in this sentence from the Seven Stories website:

The author's introduction will be removed from any future printings of YOU BACK THE ATTACK.
and again, from the Washington Post article which exposed him:

It also will remove from future printings of the first book his detailed and wholly fictional account of parachuting into Panama under fire during Operation Just Cause.
Instead of leaving in the lie, and providing some extra editorial commentary to place the incident in proper context, they're going to make it disappear. Just like it never happened at all.

And as for the "cancellation", I'll bet you'll see If You're Not A Terrorist...Then Stop Asking Questions! in print before the end of the year. They're going to wait for things to cool off a bit - then the presses will roll, Amazon will relist, and the Ranger scandal will never be mentioned again. Like it never happened at all.

DC comics will delay publication of his Vigilante series for a few months, because in a few months all of this will have blown over and no one will remember it. There are a lot of people working behind the scenes in different ways to make sure no one remembers it, I'm guessing.

Everyone loves and rewards a liar, it seems. Jayson Blair got a book contract; Stephen Glass got a book contract and ended up being played by Young Darth Vader on the silver screen. What will Micah get?

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It's Veteran's Day.

Memorial Day is when we honor those that died to give us our freedom.

Veteran's Day is the day when you have your chance to say thanks, alive and in person, to those who will soon be memorialized.

I'm not naive, I know many of you do that every chance you get.

I served but never fought, and in some ways that disappoints me. But then I look back at my experience in the Navy and I realize that no matter what, my time in the Navy will guide me well for the rest of my life.

So I say thanks to all of those who went in before me, whose cumulative wisdom helped me become the man I am today.

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1 Thank you for your service, Vinnie.

Posted by: Russ at November 11, 2005 03:12 AM (utsLN)

2 Right back atcha, Russ.

Posted by: Vinnie at November 11, 2005 03:20 AM (Kr6/f)

3 It's also Memorial Day in my country for honoring locals who fought in British service during World War II. I think though that it's fitting to offer thanks to veterans everywhere, regardless of nationality that have done their part to preserve freedom in the world. A special thanks must be given to veterans of the United States Armed Forces though, who now continue the vast majority of the work alone. So thank you brave men and women. In doing your part to make your country safer, you've helped (and still are helping)to make mine safer as well.

Posted by: Graeme at November 11, 2005 06:23 AM (ZKZ0y)

4 My hubby is a veteran as well. He got a bigger kiss than usual this morning. And to all you guys and gals - A heartfelt thanx.

Posted by: Oyster at November 11, 2005 06:34 AM (YudAC)

5 Thanks to Vinnie and all vets. I gotta remember to make a few calls today.

Posted by: Howie at November 11, 2005 06:50 AM (FC8Wr)

6 Thank you, vets, and God bless you.

Posted by: jesusland joe at November 11, 2005 07:33 AM (rUyw4)

7 Its the day in 1918 when WW I officialy ended the day we remember those who have died in war to make our nation free lets not forget their sacrifice

Posted by: sandpiper at November 11, 2005 09:18 AM (8W+Ht)

8 Thank you veterans. The nation owes you its gratitude.

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at November 11, 2005 10:12 AM (8e/V4)

9 My wife said she'd make me a cake, but I think I'd rather go to the range to celebrate by shooting some Osama and Che targets.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 11, 2005 12:08 PM (0yYS2)

10 Personally believed Vets Day and Election Day should be merged. They would go well together - Vets - the right to vote - freedom. Makes it kinda difficult to forget one without the other. And an Official Day off - to remember and to vote. Lots of people claim to want Election Day off (possible increase in turnout). Libs would never go for it once they realize the potential downside for them - all those vets and their friends and families remembering - and voting

Posted by: hondo at November 11, 2005 01:49 PM (Jvmry)

11 Excellent idea hondo.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 11, 2005 01:52 PM (0yYS2)

12 Thanks to all of you!

Posted by: Maureen at November 11, 2005 06:02 PM (ny5O/)

13 Nicely put Vinnie. I served but never fought in combat. But I was ready. I think they were all lucky. No telling how ugly it would have been had they messed with us. I was born in February but yesterday was my birthday. Thanks for all the rides you guys gave me. I never thought I would miss the Khaki green and battleship gray. Or the wing, and San Diego will always be "The Place". FU Saddam, I was ready for you 10/14/94, then you pussed out. I lost 3 days of sleep and 4 days in Fallon. And I will dance on your grave after you are gone.

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And so it begins. What many of us thought of as a purely American media tendency to portray police or soldiers as villains while exalting criminals and terrorists is a French sport, as well.

From NEWS.com.au:

TF1, the television channel, showed a young Arab on the outskirts of Lyons objecting politely about the insulting manner of an officer who had demanded his identity papers.
"You want me to take you to a transformer?" the officer sneers back, referring to the electricity station where two teenagers were electrocuted while fleeing an identity check.

The incident sparked the riots.[merde de boeuf - Bluto]

"We don't give a shit if your estate calms down," said the officer, using the disrespectful "tu" rather than "vous".

"In fact, the more it gets f...ed up the happier we are."

A little further on we get some insight into why a cop in France might be a wee bit on edge:

"Casser les keufs" - beating up cops - is what they like doing best, say the young wreckers.

"We torch a car and when the keufs turn up, the fun starts," a teenager said with typical bravado at a northeast Paris estate.

Also posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto, where the French are mocked openly, sometimes in their own language.

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...The Chinless Wonder!

Analysis: Syria's Leader Remains an Enigma

Had it not been for the premature death of the eldest son of the Assad clan, Bashar al-Assad might well be enjoying the quiet life of a private medical practice in Damascus, or London, or perhaps Paris, as he speaks both English and French.

"When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England." [er...Syria, - ed.]

But when his brother was killed in an automobile accident in 1994, his father, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad called him home from studies in London and began grooming him for a political life. Six years later, Hafez died and Bashar al-Assad was Syria's new president.

At the recent annual conference of the Middle East Institute in Washington, journalist and political analyst Hisham Melhem of al-Arabiya TV said that was one of the few mistakes by the wily Hafez al-Assad.

"One day, lad, all this will be yours."

"What, the curtains?"

"No, not the curtains, lad, all that you can see stretched out over the valleys and the hills! That'll be your kingdom, lad."

"But I would argue that one of his biggest mistakes, if you will, was to bequeath the realm, so to speak, to his son, a 35-year old inexperienced young man," he said. "Now, Bashar's era shows, I would argue, the pitfalls of political inheritance in the Arab world. And it's very hard, five years after he began his rule, to point out to a single domestic, regional or international decision that this regime made that was wise or farsighted. And I'm not being harsh on him."

"You fell out of the tall tower, you creep!"

"I was saved at the last minute."

But speaking at the Middle East Institute, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh warned against any rush to judgment of Syria, saying the United States has an agenda in the region.

"I'm exceedingly skeptical, and I have been all along, of the point of view of what happened to Hariri," said Mr. Hersh. "The American point of view is that it was Syria with the aid of some people in Lebanon. Despite all the back and forth about how the American press corps was totally manipulated, to its embarrassment, about WMD, I would still argue, we're still being totally manipulated by this administration about Syria and Lebanese involvement."

"Oh, fair one, behold, I am your humble servant Sir Launcelot Seymour. I have come to take...Oh, I'm terribly sorry!"

"You got my note!"

"Uh, well, I got a note."

"You've come to rescue me! I knew someone would! I knew that somewhere out there, there must be someone who..."

All this time, there's been something nagging in the back of my brain about Bashar the Chinless Wonder Assad.

Just tonight it hit me. He reminds me of the fruity prince from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Heh. First time I've ever been able to fisk something using movie quotes, but then, O Chinless One makes it all too easy.

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Next month, representatives from 192 signatories to the Geneva Conventions are scheduled to meet to discuss adding a new emblem to represent the Red Cross and Red Crescent organizations. The new emblem is called the "Red Crystal."

Red Cross - Red Crescent - Red Crystal

If adopted, it's believed the new emblem would also clear the way for Israel's membership. However, despite the good intentions of the Swiss, I'm convinced that Israel's membership won't occur easily and without controversy.

All that said, my thinking is that the new emblem looks more like a red square or a red diamond, not a red crystal.

[Update 11/11/05]

Interestingly, the geniuses in Geneva might want to consider the fact that the 'Red Crystal' is already being used as a firing range target. Sporting the 'Red Crystal' emblem in the confusion of battle could be a problem.

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Rusty wrote about this case the other day, but there's a new writeup here. This is the one where a tenured prof e-mailed a grad student blogger's faculty advisers to tell them he was pro life and get him in trouble.

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Hat tip: Stop The ACLU

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union and 12 other national non-profit organizations today said they have successfully challenged Office of Personnel Management's Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) requirements that all participating charities check their employees and expenditures against several government watch lists for "terrorist activities" and that organizations certify that they do not contribute funds to organizations on those lists.

Well, now that is something to be excited about for the ACLU. Now they can knowingly accept money from terrorists. Furthermore, they can now contribute funds to people on terrorist watch lists.

This is a major victory for non-profit organizations that refused to be subjected to vague government requirements forcing us to become law enforcement officers for the federal government," said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero. "We feel vindicated. List checking is not and has not been required by law."

Romero was referring to the Office of Personnel Management's final regulation posted in the Federal Register earlier this week, saying that it is dropping list-checking requirements. The regulation states: "Under the final rule, effective for 2006 and subsequent campaigns, OPM does not mandate that applicants check the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List or the Terrorist Exclusion List (TEL)."

What a load of crap. Someone please explain what the CFC are thinking here. The ACLU refused this money at first, and refused to obey by the rules of the CFC. They later found a loop hole, by saying, "hey, notice the word "knowingly"? We could just not check the list, and then we could say we didn't know." Clever, eh? So they continued to get the money. Other organizations that tried to give the ACLU money and abide by the rules of the CFC were downright refused by the ACLU.

In October of 2004, the ACLU turned down $1.15 million in funding from two of it's most generous and loyal contributors, the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, saying new anti-terrorism restrictions demanded by the institutions make it unable to accept their funds.

"The Ford Foundation now bars recipients of its funds from engaging in any activity that "promotes violence, terrorism, bigotry, or the destruction of any state."

The Rockefeller Foundation's provisions state that recipients of its funds may not "directly or indirectly engage in, promote, or support other organizations or individuals who engage in or promote terrorist activity."

Well, no worries now! Its victory for the ACLU, as they put it. Its victory for those who want to harm America, thats what it is.

In 2003, the CFC generated more than $248 million from approximately 1,345,000 federal employees, according to the ACLU. The funds went to more than 10,000 participating non-profits that support our country's health and education systems, the arts and the environment, childrens' services and religious life. CFC contributions earmarked for the ACLU typically totaled about $500,000 per year; as a result of the policy, the organization lost more than $1 million in contributions.

Money, money, money, money!!!! Thats what the ACLU's talking about! I wonder what kind of religious life the ACLU are seeking to protect with this money. Most decent organizations wouldn't mind making sure their money didn't go to America's enemies, but for some strange reason the ACLU found this requirement burdensome. Oh, thats right, they are not decent.

"Watch list requirements and other misguided policies of today remind us of the now- discredited anti-Communist list checking of the early 1950's," said Romero. "It is no more justified now than it was then."

When was the anti-Communist list discredited? Oh, it was discredited by the ACLU's rewritten history. It was discredited because the ACLU say so.

Here's what the CFC letter said.

"I certify that as of (date), the organization in this application does not knowingly employ individuals or contribute funds to organizations found on the following terrorist related lists promulgated by the U.S. Government, the United Nations, or the European Union. Presently these lists include the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control Specially Designated Nationals List, the Department of Justice's Terrorist Exclusion List, and the list annexed to Executive Order 13224. Should any change of circumstances occur during the year OPM will be notified within 15 days of such change."

Obviously the ACLU had a problem exluding terrorists from its funds and employment. What a shame. It begs two major questions here. Why would the ACLU have a problem exluding its funds from terrorists? And what is the CFC thinking by dropping this?

I don't know about you, but I feel safer already. Thanks ACLU!

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Yes my pet name for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi but I’m not the only one who wants him dead now. Today there were massive demonstrations in Jordan calling for Mr Zaqueery to quote “Burn in Hell”. Now there is one group of chanting protesters I can agree with. Early in the year it was apparent after the bombings in Egypt that Al-Qaeda in Iraq’s methods caused political problems for them. Mr. Zaqueery must have a short memory for now he has bombed Jordan. Moslems even those who sympathize with the cause or the root cause can no longer deny the pure evil of the Al-Qaeda doctrine. Even Palestine whom Al-Qaeda claims to be helping finds itself today a victim of the terrorists who kill in a cowardly random fashion. Coupled with protests in Morocco last week it is now apparent that the war on terror will be won. Both our pressure and the pure evil of their tactics have put the writing on the wall. The harder they try the more people hate them including peoples all over the Middle East. The world is shrinking every day for Al-Qaeda soon they will be history.

Palestinians murdered by Al-Qaeda this week CNN:

Officials from other governments, however, were among the dead. Four Palestinians, including Maj. Gen. Bashir Nafeh, head of Palestinian military intelligence, died in the blast at the Grand Hyatt, said chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat. Also killed was Col. Abed Allun; Jihad Fattouh, the brother of the Palestinian parliament speaker; and Mosab Khoma, Erakat said. The four were on their way back from Cairo, Egypt, he said, adding his condemnation of the attacks.

Way to go moron yeah you Zaqueery you rat bastard son of a thousand dogs.

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He saved the Indonesians the trouble and as far as I know the 27 raisins donÂ’t count when you blow yourself up to avoid capture. Nope no raisins for you Mr Azahari Husin maybe if you had been Japanese and used Saki and a sword, looser!!!! Mr. Husin has been pursued relentlessly by Indonesian police and had been quite slippery barely escaping several times. Today his luck ran out.

CNN: The Australian-educated Azahari is accused of being a mastermind behind the deadly Bali bombings in 2002 and 2005Â… Â… Azahari Husin, a Malaysian in his late 40s, was believed to be the bomb expert for the Islamic terror network Jemaah Islamiyah, and to have written its bomb manual.

Dead manÂ’s profile on TKB but his business has been taken care of.

Filthy seems pleased.

When informed of the passing of Mr. Husin my Aussie cube mate said, “Cool!”

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1 Shouldn't that be 'Another one turns to dust'?

Posted by: CUS at November 10, 2005 12:18 PM (bbXZq)

2 Oh, I see his picture now, what a nerd! You're right, no raisins for him. Perhaps brimstone, but no raisins.

Posted by: thirdee at November 10, 2005 12:24 PM (ZK4ZU)

3 Somewhere in hell: "Dammit Abdul! I told you that wasn't the light switch! That's the last time I hire family."

Posted by: Graeme at November 10, 2005 12:50 PM (B1/IN)

4 "The Australian-educated Azahari..." It looks like multiculturalism is paying off quite nicely for the Australians. And the French. And the Belgians. And the Germans. And the Danes. And the Swedes. And... uh, let's see... ummm, oh yeah! The Americans!

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 10, 2005 01:11 PM (0yYS2)

5 I don't get it! 72 virgins? I mean .. what's the big deal 'bout virgins? No experience - over-rated .. we've all been 18 once - been there - done that - so what! nothing particularly special as I recall. and 72 of them? Now that's pure ego and stupidity! And you can only be a virgin once! What are we talking about here - 72 badda bings .. then what? Even at one badda a day that's a relatively short time in paradise! Hey Mo! Do the math! Now if it was a half dozen Dallas Cheerleaders and an eternity on a beach in Mexico with an endless supply of Coronas - maybe I would understand.

Posted by: hondo at November 10, 2005 02:36 PM (Jvmry)

6 It's raining men Hallelujah it's raining men, Amen It's raining men Hallelujah it's raining men, Amen

Posted by: dave at November 10, 2005 03:21 PM (CcXvt)

7 I guess they're into virgins because a girl who has never seen a naked man will be less likely to laugh.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 10, 2005 03:55 PM (0yYS2)

8 A nerd such as this guy would need to kill himself to find satisfaction, as his love has probably only been the bestial or inflatable kind....which reminds me of a joke I heard today... A guy walks into a sex shop and asks for a blow up doll. The shopkeeper asks him if he would like a Christian one or a muslim one. "What's the difference?" asks the guy. The shopkeeper replies "You will need to blow the christian one up but the muslim one blows itself up."

Posted by: Jester at November 10, 2005 04:54 PM (QKZX5)

9 HA!

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 10, 2005 05:48 PM (0yYS2)

10 This could also potentially be a bad thing. It's great that another one bites the dusts, but by this I mean that we knew who this guy was and pretty well had him contained from conducting/planning another attack as big as Bali. The way these terrorist cells and networks work is that there are anywhere from 2-5 terrorist "waiting in teh wings" to take over said dead guys job. It works the same way in Iraq and Afghanistan. The difference between Iraq/Afghanistan and Indonesia is that we have the intelligence assets to identify the next guy in Iraq/Afghanistan, the Indonesians are quite as quick about identifying the next would be Azahari. Again, cheers to another less than contributing human being ending his life, but there are more out there and we know less now of who they are...

Posted by: Wild Bill at November 11, 2005 07:55 PM (9IXq3)

11 Bill, by your logic, we should leave them all alone and just watch them as they go about their business. When we kill one "mastermind", that means that a second stringer has to take his place. Then a third stringer, then a fourth, et cetera ad infinitum, until they run out of "masterminds". It looks already like they've used up their best and brightest, and I use the terms loosely, and are relying on idiots like Zaqueery, who has only managed to turn more muslims against him than to him. We are winning, and one of the ways we are doing so is by killing the enemy. Duh.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 12, 2005 09:20 PM (0yYS2)

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Max Boot has about the best analysis of the French riots, and their underlying causes, that I've seen. (h/t: Instapundit) It incorporates insights like those of Gabriel Gonzolez at Winds of Change without leaving the false impression that multiculturalism has been vindicated. But it isn't quite clear enough, for my taste, about why multiculturalism is bound to be a failed experiment.

The false account that is emerging is this: France has had a legacy of "assimilation" that derives from its history of colonialism, and in that view all assimilated peoples, of whatever race or religion, are "French." The argument is that this "assimilation paradigm" leaves no place for an independent ethnic identity, so its attempts to force everyone into a single category are bound to fail. Stating the problem this way leads to the conclusion that France simply hasn't been sufficiently multicultural. It's a convenient way of looking at the problem if one wants to avoid the obvious criticism that multiculturalism might be the problem, rather than the solution.

The flaw in this perspective is that it ought to be obvious to even the casual observer that the problem isn't that France has assimilated all of its colonial aspirants into the single "idea" of Gaulic Nationhood, but that it has utterly failed to do so. And the reason, as Boot points out, is also rather obvious: It's easier for an individual from an ethnic or religious minority to think of himself as American than French, because being American isn't a matter of ethnicity, while being French... is. The problem is one of identity.

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A terrorist supporter from Bolton, England wishes he could behead the President of the United States and mutilate the former first lady, Barbara Bush. Here is a comment he left on a post about terrorists beheading an Iraqi:

FUK U ALL AMERICAN FUKKKKK EVERY MUTHA FUKIN AMERICAN FUKK GEORGE BUSH I WISH I CUD BEHEAD HIS ASS N CUT HIS MUMZ NIPZ OFF BUSH U DIEEE MUTHA FUKA N BLAIR U BURN IN HELL 2 N EVRY1 HU SUPPORT IM DIE WIV EM DIEE ALL U COWARD WYT BAASTARDZZ DIEEE U ALL GON GOT BEHEADED U BASTARDZ!!!....

Y DA FUK IZZIT DAT SUMFIN HAPPNZ N AMERICA ALWAYZ CHT SHIT BUSH FINKZ HES IT N HES DA MAN WEL HE GON DIE LYK AN ANIMAL

He also wants you to know that hurricane Katrina is Allah's retribution for too much drinking and too many girls, er, dancing:

W8 N C NO WONDA AMERICA GETIN FLOODED OH N YALL TELIN US 2 BLEEV UR GOD JESUS?? GOD BLESS AMERICA?? WERS GOD WEN ITS GETIN FLOODED?? DATS CUMIN FROM GOD AS A PUNISHMENT N U FUKIN SHITBAGZ DESERV IT FUK YALL HU SPORT BUSH N BLAIR COZ U GON DIE WIV EM NOT CUMIN FROM NO TERRORISTS NOT CUMIN FROM NO MUSLIMZ NOT CUMIN FROM NO1 DATS CUMIN FROM GODD!! N DRINKIN DANCIN GIRLZ N ALL DAT SHIT U TOKIN BOUT?

ISLAM 4 LYF TIL DEF N DA END GOD IS WIV MUSLIMZ GOD IS WIV BIN LADEN -MEMBA DA FRASE( U CAN RUN BUT U CNT HYD?) WELL FINK TWICE BIN LADEN MDE DA IMPOSSIBLE REALITY N U WIL NEVA FIND IM COZ GOD IS WIV UZ!!

EVERY SINGLE MUTHA FUKA ON ERE U GOTA A PROBLEM DEN CUM FUK WID ME IF U GOT BALLZ!! YALL PUSSYZ SCARED OF BIN LADEN

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1 Is the site being flooded? It looks funky and loads really, really slow.

Posted by: A Finn at November 10, 2005 09:33 AM (lGolT)

2 Good Lord! I'd need to reactivate Bletchley Park to understand this illiterate moron. That email is like an eye chart from hell. Heck they can teach a pig to drink beer - can't they teach these asswipes to at least spell?

Posted by: Graeme at November 10, 2005 09:35 AM (B1/IN)

3 You know, he sounds alot like Ali-G. I wonder how he explains the earthquake that killed 60k Muslims and the Tsunami that killed what, 200k muslims. seems to me that God hates muslims.

Posted by: Filthy Allah at November 10, 2005 09:40 AM (5ceWd)

4 The pig wants to learn, since it'll be bacon like it's 10 siblings if it doesn't. The "asswipes" are proud of their old language and cultural heritage, so they don't want to learn tricks from the ones they consider pigs.

Posted by: A Finn at November 10, 2005 09:45 AM (lGolT)

5 No Finn, this is standard hip-hop. For some odd reason, young Muslims identify with hip-hop and gangsta culture. Very odd.

Posted by: Macktastick Rusty Wicked at November 10, 2005 09:53 AM (JQjhA)

6 I hate all of you, just destroy everything so I can start over. You monkeys are wrecking my atmosphere, so bye bye, I'm making insects the new overlords of Earth once you clear the land with your fission weapons.

Posted by: GOD ALMIGHTY at November 10, 2005 09:57 AM (eFE81)

7 BANG! Ok, God is dead, where were we? Oh yeah, of course. Gangsta is the way for oppressed, hated people who have no money, no future and no reason to behave. So it suits isolated minorities great.

Posted by: A Finn at November 10, 2005 10:00 AM (eFE81)

8 Mastastick Rusty Wicked, You are experiencing some genre confusion--"rap" or "gangsta rap" is the protest medium, "hiphop" is exclusively for dancing. Try to keep it straight.

Posted by: matoko-chan at November 10, 2005 10:07 AM (cxYaY)

9 Filthy Allah has it right. Within the past year, the Almighty has killed Muslims over Americans, by earthquake and tsunami, by a ratio of 250 to 1.

Posted by: Mike at November 10, 2005 10:16 AM (6krEN)

10 "Gangsta is the way of the oppressed, hated people who have no money, no future and no reason to behave." i.e. as long as a person satisfies those criteria, itÂ’s okay for them to take their anger out on others and be not just a threat but a burden to society. ThereÂ’s no need for aspirations or determination to be better. After all, history shows that people from poor backgrounds never, ever succeed. Best just to stay angry and let the liberals tell you that itÂ’s okay to do so because they understand you.

Posted by: Graeme at November 10, 2005 10:28 AM (B1/IN)

11 Yeah, and if the poor somehow succeed, they get stomped down by money, a bunch of rich people who want his riches too and/or government, after their story has been used up in the media.

Posted by: A Finn at November 10, 2005 10:36 AM (eFE81)

12 I can't heads nor tails of the message at all. You have to understand - I have a day job which precludes me from learning the language of the "streets", as it were.

Posted by: Oyster at November 10, 2005 11:16 AM (fl6E1)

13 That should be "I can't [make] heads nor tails ..." My job also precludes me from learning English as well, apparently. ;-)

Posted by: Oyster at November 10, 2005 11:18 AM (fl6E1)

14 Well, this fits right in with what Bill Bennett was talking about this morning, "Gangsta' Islam"

Posted by: Oxen at November 10, 2005 11:31 AM (w9vWW)

15 Garsh, wuts "fuk" anyhuw? I dun't gut ull thu misspulled wurds and the uver use uf u's. Wut, thu mur you use u's, the mur "raisins" you gut in Hell...ur..I mean Huven?

Posted by: thirdee at November 10, 2005 12:29 PM (ZK4ZU)

16 What'll be really sad is if nazam04 is actually a white 30-something Brit with a cockney accent, who lives with his mum ,trying to be black AND Muslim AND gangsta.

Posted by: reverse_vampyr at November 10, 2005 12:57 PM (Ns5kk)

17 Don't forget the Earthquake in Iran, town of BAM I recall. Ironic eh? And God said "BAM" you are fucked. God does not like the Muslim. 250 to 1 Mike? The degenerate Muslim didn't have time to finish dancing after our last Hurricane and God slapped the piss out of him with that Paki Quake. You would think the IGNANT fuckers would get the message. Something bad happens to good people, Muslims whoop it up, God wails on em. Happens all the time but the idiots still think God is on their side of the pitch.

Posted by: Filthy Allah at November 10, 2005 01:07 PM (5ceWd)

18 Vampyr, that might not be funny if it weren't probably true.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 10, 2005 01:18 PM (0yYS2)

19 My sisters that are in Britain Email me in the same format. They are so used to abbrievating words for use in SMS messages on their cell phones that they continue to write me Email in the same verbage -- it might take less time to type, it sure takes much longer to read and make sense of. SMS messaging is used 100X times more in Europe than in the U.S and this is the language they've made for it.

Posted by: dave at November 10, 2005 01:41 PM (CcXvt)

20 The bugger won't reply to me but I am ready to rip his head off and piss on the stump. Here's a message from me though...get out of Britain you dog and crawl back to the third world.

Posted by: Jester at November 10, 2005 01:49 PM (QKZX5)

21 I would just like to see one of those fanatics try and attack bush with a big sword and see how many hole he gets shot full of

Posted by: sandpiper at November 10, 2005 02:22 PM (08Fdo)

22 "I would just like to see one of those fanatics try and attack bush with a big sword and see how many hole he gets shot full of" And that's just by the regular folks in Texas. I can see it now, Sword-Wielding Terrorist Shot Dead by Hairdresser and 14 Patrons, details at 11.

Posted by: Jeremy at November 10, 2005 03:00 PM (KuG4L)

23 Hmm...Jeremy, another one of those guys brought a sword to a gunfight. When will they ever learn?

Posted by: jesusland joe at November 10, 2005 03:27 PM (rUyw4)

24 Speaking of monkies... http://static.flickr.com/31/62228114_9b9d40a99f_o.jpg

Posted by: Princess Kimberley at November 11, 2005 03:15 PM (lc3qm)

25 I sent him an E-mail. You say he is in the UK. Pity. The tracker and snooter have nothing to do this week.

Posted by: greyrooster at November 14, 2005 08:47 PM (ZaAd/)

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