It has just been brought to my attention that, er, certain things are being done by, er, certain "authorities", about, er, certain things said in the previous post, and that certain, er, companies are fully cooperating with said authorites. As you can see, I have taken down that post. If you read that post then you are probably as shocked as I am that we, er, were able to get, er, well, you know what I'm talking about.

If you didn't read the post than that will teach you for not checking the Jawa Report every two minutes! And you call yourself a loyal fan?

What was this mysterious post about? I know nothing. Besides, doesn't all the mystery kind of add to the ambience around here?

But, seriously, I'm pretty freaking flabbergasted that my little investigation that I started and e-mailed a few "authorities" about before putting up the post is being taken seriously. Very seriously.

Comment thread on this post will be closed because some of you blabbermouths can't be trusted! More later (fingers crossed, knock on wood, etc.)

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According to Fox News suspected terrorist and former University of South Florida professor, Sami Al-Arian, has been found innocent of supporting terrorists (more specifically on 8 of the 17 charges against him).

Jury acquits Al-Arian on key charge (Orlando Sentinel):

TAMPA -- A former Florida professor was acquitted on a key charge today that he helped lead a Palestinian terrorist group that has carried out suicide bombings against Israel.

In one of the biggest courtroom tests yet of the Patriot Act's expanded search and surveillance powers, the jury acquitted Sami Al-Arian on eight of the 17 counts against him. The jury deadlocked on the others.

Al-Arian, a former University of South Florida computer engineering professor, wept after the verdicts and his attorney, Linda Moreno hugged him. He will go back to jail until prosecutors decide whether retry him on the deadlocked charges.

There is still a lot more to come in the case of Sami Al-Arian but I wouldn't call this a set back in the war on terror.

Chad Evans, the anti-terror guru, is also covering this story.

Michelle Malkin provides a complete breakdown.

The St. Petersburg Times has a long article which also details the life of Sami Al-Arian.

Related:
Sami Al-Arian's Lawyers Playing the Race Card

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1 Not a setback? Are you kidding? This will have terrible consequences.

Posted by: Ariya at December 06, 2005 05:41 PM (+sjRV)

2 This calls for a Star Chamber.

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at December 06, 2005 05:49 PM (8e/V4)

3 Yes, from the surface it might seem like a setback however, Sami Al-Arian is in prison in Florida tonight facing nine other charges. I can't honestly say that's a setback.

Posted by: Chris Short at December 06, 2005 05:57 PM (0OCQY)

4 Those 9 other charges aren't quite as serious as funneling $ to IJ or whomever.

Posted by: Ariya at December 06, 2005 08:34 PM (+sjRV)

5 Dagnabbit Rusty! I'm pretty faithful to Jawa. Pretty darn faithful and I so missed the infamous post in question now gone. Poof! And, I can't even comment up there. This really stinks. I miss everything.

Posted by: thirdee at December 06, 2005 09:35 PM (HxrNJ)

6 From reading what the local paper has to say about it, the St PetersburgTimes the government was able to produce only a weak case. When only 2 or 3 jurors are voting guilty on only some of the charges it would seem doubtful of an attempt to retry him on the charges they did deadlock on. http://www.sptimes.com/2005/12/06/Tampabay/Not_guilty__but_not_o.shtml

Posted by: john Ryan at December 06, 2005 11:04 PM (ads7K)

7 I am not sure if that hot link will work, but the article is in the google news section covering the trial

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8 I was there for the One Brief Shining Moment the post was up.But...I'm a jawa fan Great job Team Jawa!!!!!! Remember, there is no "A" in "Team Jawa". Intelligence: [pause] Yes, there is.

Posted by: Brad at December 06, 2005 11:14 PM (6mUkl)

9 Either hang the muslim dip shit or deport him.

Posted by: greyrooster at December 07, 2005 04:24 AM (OvTKg)

10 Stick a tracking device somewhere in him and turn him loose and track him until he hooks up with a terrorist cell, then BAMMO!

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at December 07, 2005 10:01 AM (0yYS2)

11 He was denied US citizenship in 1996. Why? Hmm...

Posted by: huh@huh.com at December 07, 2005 01:29 PM (FGT5K)

12 Arian made a false statement on his application for citizenship and was denied. I also know he voted in 1994 without being a citizen. I assume the false statement was that he hadn't voted.

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UPDATE: 12/08--The Jawa Report has learned that Ronald Shulz has been murdered. See this post for update.

The Jawa Report has obtained a copy of the original video. Images from it are posted below and to the right. Unlike other hostage videos, the video edits out the terrorist sitting next to American hostage Ronald Schulz. This is very different than any other IAI produced hostage video I have seen. The image right is of Ronald Schuz's passport as seen in video. Schulz can be seen in the video speaking to one of his captors, but his voice cannot be heard.

Scroll to bottom of post for images. The video is rather large. UPDATE: Long-time Jawa collaborater and terror hunter Infovlad now has the video up here. See Dec. 7th post.

A smaller version of the video can be downloaded from Ogrish. UPDATE: The YNC also has the video here. Another update: Noted terror expert Laura Mansfield also with video--Hyscience also hosting video

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Howard Dean seems to have two problems these days. First off, he wants the spotlight. You can tell just by watching him for five minutes that he can't stand it when someone else gets attention. But that only compounds his second problem which is the fact that he doesn't have anything original to say. Because of this, Dean has decided to steal the Murtha-ism that we can't win in Iraq.

In a most unoriginal speech, he goes on to compare Iraq to Vietnam and insinuate that the Iraqi people are too helpless to take care of themselves. He then concludes with the most original "We cannot have our troops being targets there."

Taken along with his antics during the last Presidential primaries and his shenanigans since, this has made me see Dean in a whole new light... more...

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UPDATE: 12/08--The Jawa Report has learned that Ronald Schulz has been murdered. See this post for update.

UPDATE III: The Jawa Report has obtained a copy of the original video. Images from it are posted below and to the right. Unlike other hostage videos, the video edits out the terrorist sitting next to American hostage Ronald Schulz. This is very different than any other IAI produced hostage video I have seen. The image right is of Ronald Schuz's passport as seen in video. Schulz can be seen in the video speaking to one of his captors, but his voice cannot be heard.

Scroll to bottom of post for images. The video is rather large, but if you would like to host it I will send it to you. A smaller version of the video can be downloaded from Ogrish. Update: The YNC also has video up. Another update: Noted terror expert Laura Mansfield also with video-Hyscience also hosting video more...

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Hey, don’t take this Michael’s word for it. How about Michael Reagan son of the late great President Ronald Reagan who seems to know what country he lives in? Seriously Howie Dean, Howie gets all miffed when he googles himself and you are polluting my search. Go away boy you bother me. So while Mr. Dean is just the kind of energy the Democratic party needs to fisk it’s problems, the traitor thing kind of hurts. Don’t you think? If traitor Dean put that energy to exposing the enemy what good he could do! I admit I was kind of entertained by the “OH YEAH” stuff, heck I like good comedy. But I fail to find the humor in Mr. Traitor’s latest comments.

Dean Via WOIA:

What we see today is very much like what was going in Watergate," Dean said. "It turns out there is a lot of good evidence that President Bush did not tell the truth when he was asking Congress for the power to go to war. The President said last week that Congress saw the same intelligence that he did in making the decision to go to war, and that is flat out wrong.

The highly respectable Michael Reagan Via Newsmax:

Howard Dean should be arrested and hung for treason or put in a hole until the end of the Iraq war!"

Others: Captain Ed, Rightwingnews and Dr. Sanity to name just a few.

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Well, you can tell that an election year is coming up. The Democrats are trying to indict Tom Delay for anything that they can possibly scrape up. Democratic mouthpieces are coming out of the woodwork to talk about how corrupt this administration is and attempting to tie them to every wrongdoer being indicted, investigated, charged or on trial. They've even trying to use the 9/11 comission in their desperate grab for power. It seems to me that when the original 9/11 report came out, they went to great lengths not to blame anyone for that horrible act of terrorism. Yes, Clinton could have done things differently. So could most Presidents before him. Of course that doesn't keep the Democrats from taking that report and attempting to point fingers.

It seems that the one thing they want to harp on most is the lack of a unified communication system for all police, fire, emergency and other first responders. The 9/11 comission had recommended this as a suggestion in their report. Now Democrats are saying that this "Republican stranglehold" on Congress is preventing anyone from doing anything to implement it. A number of Democratic congressmen are attempting to place the blame solely at the feet of the Republicans for this not happening yet. Now, I can't seem to find a straight story on the whole thing, but it looks to me as if Congress has been attempting to free up some spectrum for this for some time. There is currently a law that requires TV broadcasters to give up analog spectrum in favor of digital by December 31, 2006. Unfortunately, there was also a huge loophole left in that law. TV broadcasters only have to give up the spectrum in areas where 85% of the TV sets are digital capable. By those standards, it could take quite some time to clear that spectrum. Senator McCain (a Republican of all things) and Conrad Burns (another Republican) are attempting to change this by setting a hard date of January 1, 2009 for release of the disputed spectrum. This bill was amended in comittee (by another Republican!) to set the deadline at 2008 instead of 2009. It has currently been introduced to the Senate, but I can't find the status of it from there.

Now, there were a number of Democrats on TV last night at a press conference taking every possible shot at their Republican counterparts, and of course the emergency spectrum was something they harped on quite a bit. I don't seem to recall, however, any of them mentioning McCain's actions. But hey, maybe they just forgot. No, that couldn't be, because they actually did mention one part of McCain's bill. They mentioned the fact that the original estimate for getting the needed spectrum was $15 Billion, but the Republicans were only willing to spend $500 million on it. Their conclusion, of course, was that the Republicans wanted to put a cheap price tag on the safety of American citizens. Of course the actual truth of the matter is that passing McCain's bill will only cost a small fraction of what they started out wanting to spend. I can only see saving $14.5 million as a Good Thing.

The yammering went on for quite a while after that, but to be honest I lost interest in listening to how Evil Bush and his Republican Cronies are responsible for all the woes in our society. One of the reporters at that press conference must have gotten a little tired of it as well. He asked them why, if these issues were so important, the Democrats hadn't done anything about them. That was when the whole "Republican stranglehold" was mentioned.

So I just want to make sure that I have this straight. A conservative judge on the Supreme Court is such a horrendous threat to our American way of life that the Democrats are willing to stop the entire government from moving forward by filibuster simply to prevent him from being appointed. But when it comes to potentially saving the lives of thousands, or even millions of Americans, you are completly powerless? Something about that doesn't sound right. I'm pretty sure that any Senator or Congressman can introduce a bill. And I'm pretty sure that there are enough Democrats still in both houses that it would at least stand some reasonable chance of getting through. So take a good, hard look at yourself and give us a real answer. If this issue is as important as you say it is, are you REALLY doing everything you can to make sure it is taken care of?

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See-Dubya: WHOA! What have you been feeding this child?
Mrs. See-Dubya: The usual. Is this a bad one?
See-Dubya: It's small, but it's, like, super-concentrated.
Mrs. See-Dubya: Ew.
See-Dubya Jr.: Blee!
See-Dubya: It's like, weaponized. It's highly enriched.
Mrs. See-Dubya: Maybe we should call in the arms guy, Bara...
See-Dubya Jr. Blee?
Mrs. See-Dubya: Not the Swedish guy, the...
See-Dubya: El-Baradei?
Mrs. See-Dubya: Him. But then he'd probably just look in the diaper and be like, "Uhh...Nope. Can't find anything!"

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Moonbats, moonbats, eat em up yum!

I swear, I voted for him, before I voted against him.

Yeah, I know, I should be beaten for sending he/she/it the traffic, but I'll redeem myself by reminding you to vote for Wuzzadem Merri Musings.

Aw Hell, vote for anyone but that bleatasticfucktard.

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(Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) Kings and presidents of the 57 nations comprising the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) will meet for an emergency summit meeting tomorrow in the city of Mecca. Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz called the meeting to discuss the Muslim world's pressing issues and predicaments. According to OIC officials, the meeting's emphasis will be "reforming, restructuring, and redefining the OIC charter and its mission."

Specific agenda items to be considered include:

- Adoption of a 10-year plan to restructure the Islamic nation,

- Approve a name change for the OIC to "Organization of Islamic Countries,"

- Discuss and implement proposals to address Islamophobia,

- Implement a strengthened Islamic academy of jurists to issue unified fatwas,

- Discuss and implement reduced obstacles to trade and business among Muslim countries,

- Discuss proposals for the empowerment of women, and

- Discuss a proposal for OIC member countries to collectively design and build a passenger plane. Late-night joke writers take note.

Notably, the leaders of all 57 member states of the OIC have been invited to the meeting with the exception of non-Muslim leaders. Non-Muslims are not allowed in Mecca (Makkah). According to OIC spokesman Atta Mannan, "Reports in the local media that they would monitor the proceedings on closed circuit television in Jeddah are not true," he said. "We can't expect the heads of state to sit in Jeddah while the summit is taking place in Makkah," he said. "They will, however, be represented by high-level delegations."

OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu stated that the body wants to have a significant role in resolutions adopted by the UN. He also stated that the OIC should have a seat on the UN Security Council. The summit is planned to end on Thursday.

Companion post at Interested-Participant.

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The Weblog Awards are fully functional, so vote for me! (Armies of Liberation)

Please? Why? Because I've recently been called a mass murder. And you never know, it could be true....

Also I'd like to second Vinnie on the Cotillion and note that Vince Aut Morire *is* an acceptable alternative to me.

But whatever you do, Vote for Jawa!!!.

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Left these out of my earlier post. My bad.

The Cotillion, for Best Group Blog (all female, all group, trust me, vote for them, they love you long time. They should consider changing the name to Hot Lesbo Star Wars Chicks though. Oh wait, that's taken)

And, defeating my own purpose, I'll be throwing a vote (when my 24 hours are up) to fellow Jawa Interested Participant.

Come to think of it, isn't it time we nominated the good Mr. Pechar for a munu blog?

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Heh. I told Rusty I'd do this last night, but then I crashed on the couch and didn't get back up.

Fatwas will be issued Monday afternoon, which, now that we're almost in winter and back on standard time, is now evening.

***Fatwas issued...will the following people please remove their heads and come to the front of the class***

Winner: hondo, for ""Just how many of these soda cans do we need to continue funding our glorious insurgency?"

"Just shut up n' keep looking! Ali will be here soon with the shopping cart.""

Honorable mention:

Graeme for ""Hey Ahmed, to sit next to that trash you must be soooooooooooo gellin'!"

"I'm gellin' like a rape room felon. You want the melon? Or it might be squash.....It's hard to tell with all these flies around."" (if he would have just worked in the word smellin' - Vinnie)

Mad Man for ""I shouldn't have blown up our cleaning lady.""

Thanks all for a blessedly short one this week! Heh!

Don't forget to VOTE!

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1 "Just how many of these soda cans do we need to continue funding our glorious insurgency?" "Just shut up n' keep looking! Ali will be here soon with the shopping cart."

Posted by: hondo at December 04, 2005 10:42 AM (3aakz)

2 "Hey Ahmed, to sit next to that trash you must be soooooooooooo gellin'!" "I'm gellin' like a rape room felon. You want the melon? Or it might be squash.....It's hard to tell with all these flies around."

Posted by: Graeme at December 04, 2005 11:14 AM (MzETg)

3 Ack, Ackmed! I saw infidel MacGyver make a rocketlauncher from drainpipe and soda can such as this, pass me another rubber band, Allah Ackbar!

Posted by: dave at December 04, 2005 11:45 AM (CcXvt)

4 When is Cindy Sheeman coming to get all her unsold books, cause I'm getting sick of waiting?

Posted by: thirdee at December 04, 2005 01:18 PM (H/s/E)

5 "Freegans" with Food Not Bombs dumpster dive in Iraq to help eliminate hunger by recycling excess food. "It's a weird Robin Hood kinda thing", says one freegan. "The U.S. builds bombs, and we dumpster dive. So it all evens out in the end."

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at December 04, 2005 01:26 PM (8e/V4)

6 Well you guys just shot to hell any chance that I'm gonna make a witty comment. Oh what the hell. "They can take our lives, but they can never take... OUR GARBAAAAAGE!!!"

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at December 04, 2005 01:46 PM (0yYS2)

7 hahaha! good one, IM.

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at December 04, 2005 01:48 PM (8e/V4)

8 Agent Smith's writers wade through the comic material for his latest stand-up show.

Posted by: Jester at December 04, 2005 01:51 PM (wBDaS)

9 Good point Jester - It may be a team effort - his material is shotgunned but some of it is quite good and there does appear to be a slightly different texture to it on occasion.

Posted by: hondo at December 04, 2005 02:33 PM (3aakz)

10 Muchos quesos Carlos.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at December 04, 2005 02:59 PM (0yYS2)

11 Cindy Sheeman's ghostwriting team decides suicide is not the answer after last week's book signing flop.

Posted by: thirdee at December 04, 2005 03:05 PM (H/s/E)

12 Contrary to popular belief, Al Queda did NOT recently purchase Waste Management. Stock analysts believe that these rumors were started by Waste Management customers who believe that even a group of towelheads could run a better trash pick-up company.

Posted by: Steve Sharon at December 04, 2005 03:54 PM (Xkt0+)

13 "I shouldn't have blown up our cleaning lady."

Posted by: Mad Man at December 04, 2005 05:17 PM (K6g1B)

14 "Ahmed, just where did we hide that IE........kaboom!!!!!!!Oh, shittttttt, Ahmed, the infidels were right, and I don't even like raisins!!!!!!!!

Posted by: jesusland joe at December 04, 2005 07:38 PM (rUyw4)

15 Agent Jones says, "Don't Mess with Texas".

Posted by: Agent Smith at December 05, 2005 05:36 AM (qLtuI)

16 "See, Mohammed. I told you that was a garbage truck we blew up. Not a specialized Humvee, you moron. Now we have to hide in alleys full of this stuff. Wait a minute ... is that a cumin cake?"

Posted by: Oyster at December 05, 2005 07:08 AM (YudAC)

17 Who is Greg?

Posted by: Agent Smith at December 06, 2005 06:12 AM (VX7Tm)

18 jo mama

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Looking at pictures from carnivale (a.k.a. The Saddam Show in Baghdad), I noticed a few things. First, the odd similarities between "President" Hussein and Don Flamenco from Mike Tyson's Punch Out. Compare Don with the picture in this post and judge for yourself:

See? Anyway, that was an unimportant point, as I have NES flashbacks constantly. Beyond that, I came to a startling conclusion. We MUST save Saddam Hussein. We cannot let him die. His DNA is too important to piss away, especially since his sons met a far nobler end (well, as noble as perishing in a shootout with a teenage boy in your company can be).

But why must Saddam live?
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Finally a calendar that says "I'm Christian" and "I love to lust after nude women" all in one. Move over Hooker Headers, here comes the erotic bible calendar! I'm thinking that Professor Chaos might finally be won over to Jebus with this one.

You can see some of the calendar here. (NSFW or Church or Synagogue and definitely NSFM [not safe for mosque]) Unfortunately for you pervs, the calendar is sold out.

Perhaps the most disturbing thing about this--besides the fact that's it's a fundraiser for a Christian youth group--is the fact that there is a disclaimer on the site that reveals that some of the models were under 18. So, is this German 'Christian' organization peddling child-porn for Jesus?

I guess that simply being nude doesn't meet the legal requirement for child pornography, but it is kind of creepy. I mean, exactly what do these people think guys are going to be doing while looking at these hot young chicks in erotic poses? Contemplating the mysteries of the Trinity?

Apparently the kids who were over 16 but under 18 had permission from their parents to pose nude for the calendar. Yeah, I'll let my little Grettle pose nude, I mean, as long as it's for Christ. This is equally disturbing. more...

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A French civilian has been taken hostage in Iraq. His name is Bernard Planche. He is reported to be a civil engineer helping to rebuild Iraq. This would be the fourth French hostage taken in Iraq since the beginning of the war.

Forbes:

Masked gunmen grabbed a French engineer off the streets of Baghdad on Monday, the latest in a spate of kidnappings of Westerners that coincides with Saddam Hussein's trial and the run-up to parliamentary elections. ...

French officials had also warned Planche, who was abducted from outside his home in the Mansour district of the capital, French Foreign Ministry spokesman Jean-Baptiste Mattei said.

The kidnappers used three cars to surrounded Planche and take him away, police Capt. Qassim Hussein said. Planche is the head of mission for a group that works on U.S.-funded water projects.

Diplomats have said they are in close contact with Iraqi authorities to win the release of the hostages.

See The Jawa Report's hostage page for more.

Developing...

Planche was in Iraq to work on water sanitation projects, much like American hostage Jeffrey Ake. He worked for AACCESS a U.N. recognized NGO and which was funded by the U.S. Army. Your mujahidin at work........

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Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for today's murders of Israeli shoppers near a Netanya mall. While such acts of terror are nothing new from Palestinian terrorists, the image above and to the right shows just why this is a much larger problem. It is a photo of an Islamic Jihad rally in Gaza. The rally is both public and sanctioned by the Palestinian Authority.

The image below was taken at an Islamic Jihad press conference. Yes, you got that right, this was taken at a press conference held by various terrorist organizations and known by the Palestinian Authority.

Whatever happened to the Bush Doctrine of treating terrorists and the states that sponsor them alike? Clearly, the Palestinian Authority is much more closely linked to terrorist organizations than Iraq ever was.

Via Charles Johnson this JPOST article:

Four people were killed and 66 were wounded - three seriously - in an explosion that rocked the entrance to the Hasharon shopping mall on Herzl Street in Netanya at 11:25 a.m. Monday morning. Another person died on the operating table at Laniado Hospital in Netanya.

Police Insp.-Gen. Moshe Karadi told reporters that the bomber was "identified 15 meters in front of the mall by policemen and a security guard. Police managed to keep him away from the gate, and he blew himself up when police approached him to conduct a search of his bags."...

The Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the attack in a phone call to Palestinian journalists, identifying the bomber as Lutfi Amin Abu Salem, a resident of the northern West Bank village of Kafr Rai, located between the towns of Jenin and Tulkarm.

Check out Powerline with images from mall.

Others: ITB, Interested Participant,

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When US Representative Jack Murtha publicly characterized our troops as "broken, worn out" and "living hand-to-mouth," I decided to check the allegation out. Since Murtha was complaining mainly about military equipment, I reasoned that the symptoms would show up at major theater repair depots.

So I sought out the opinion of an NCO I know, who supervises mechanics at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. Early in his deployment, this soldier had mentioned trouble getting parts and snafus like the engines of some "up-armored" Humvees not being able to handle the extra weight of the armor.

The sergeant had not heard about Murtha's comments; outside news sources are few at Arifjan, and the soldiers there are too busy keeping things in good repair to spend time surfing the 'net.

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We have finally obtained portions of the unedited hostage video of four Western peace activists. The names of the four activists are American Thomas Fox--who is also a blogger, Canadians Harmeet Singh Sooden and James Loney, and British citizen Norman Kember. The Jawa Report was the first media outlet to reveal the names of the hostages.

You can watch the video here (hat tip: Shawn at Bareknucklepolitics, Ian at Political Teen, and Doubletap at Infovlad--all of whom e-mailed me)

Here is a transcript of the video, via Doubletap at Infovlad:

Thank you very much we are being treated well and we hope to be out of here soon.

Um We are being treated well we are both well all of us are well.

We are all being treated well we are sleeping ok um and um we would like to thank the people holding us for that and hopefully we will be home soon.

I ask Mr Blair to take British troops out of Iraq and leave the Iraqi people to come to their own decisions on their government.

As a representative of Christian Peace Maker Teams we feel that continued British and American occupation is not in the best interest of the Iraqi people.

We will be following this hostage crisis carefully.

Developing.......

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1 It's hard to pour out your emotions when you're trying to stay on script. I wonder how many millions this scam will net the terrorists and their liberal/socialist/fascist/communist allies?

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at December 05, 2005 10:52 AM (0yYS2)

2 See. It's true. The terrorists aren't evil and wicked and deserving of death. They just share a "different perspective".

Posted by: thirdee at December 05, 2005 11:02 AM (kBsuN)

3 Just more jihadist propaganda for the Western media to lap up.

Posted by: jesusland joe at December 05, 2005 11:12 AM (rUyw4)

4 I'm witholding judgement on this incident until the first deadline passes.

Posted by: MCPO Airdale at December 05, 2005 11:30 AM (WOQ34)

5 Anyone else think this whole thing is staged to get the kidnappers some publicity? "We are being treated well... yes... very well! Thanks to our kidnappers! Totally, man!" I bet they just want to show the world how "nice and innocent" the terrorists are... and how eeeeeeeevil Bush and Blair are for attacking them.

Posted by: Ariya at December 05, 2005 11:59 AM (+sjRV)

6 From Jihad Watch: CAIR protests kidnapping of collaborators Has CAIR ever protested against the kidnapping of anyone else in Iraq? If so, please send me the links here and I will post them as updates. But this protest of the kidnapping of the collaborators is the first one I personally can recall ever seeing from them. From "Frenchman target of latest Iraq kidnapping," from AFP, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm: Just a day earlier, one of the most prominent US Muslim organizations, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, became the latest group to demand the release of the four Western Christian peace activists kidnapped last week. The two Canadians, one Briton and an American, are linked to the US and Canada-based Christian Peacemaker Teams opposed to the continued presence of US-led foreign troops in Iraq. "Those who left the comfort of their homes to advocate for the rights of others that do not share their faith, ethnicity or language should be celebrated and honored by Muslims, not humiliated by being made captives or, God forbid, killed," said Parvez Ahmed, the organization's chairman. "This is a universal human ideal and a cherished principle of Islam." In other words, "They're on your side, you idiots. Let them go." So, I'm not just a voice crying in the wilderness.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at December 05, 2005 12:01 PM (0yYS2)

7 "Those who left the comfort of their homes to advocate for the rights of others that do not share their faith, ethnicity or language should be celebrated and honored by Muslims, not humiliated by being made captives or, God forbid, killed," Who wants to ask CAIR, seeing as that profile matches the U.S armed forces, if they want to condemn terrorism in Iraq now?

Posted by: dave at December 05, 2005 12:24 PM (CcXvt)

8 They're only trying to condemn the kidnapping of their dhimmi allies. Duh.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at December 05, 2005 12:25 PM (0yYS2)

9 I was trying for 'irony'

Posted by: dave at December 05, 2005 12:42 PM (CcXvt)

10 Treated well except for that held captive and threatened with death part.

Posted by: Howie at December 05, 2005 12:49 PM (D3+20)

11 They are not hostages - they are simply guests under alternative circumstances.

Posted by: hondo at December 05, 2005 01:08 PM (3aakz)

12 Ah hell they're probably having tea parties every evening.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at December 05, 2005 01:51 PM (0yYS2)

13 Tea parties, clean clothes and looks like they are having showers too. Dont seem too bad

Posted by: Patti at December 05, 2005 02:35 PM (2hEo4)

14 Lets do something about the video. I mean we cant get a better FTP site than that? Standard Windows Media Players cant access the video, even if you save target as. We are only allowed to update the Player so much. And btw, you get plenty military who access your site. Nice job GW!!!!!

Posted by: Capster at December 05, 2005 02:38 PM (JF5DO)

15 Greg the child molesting traitor will believe everything in the captives speech. Prood to him that America is bad.

Posted by: greyrooster at December 05, 2005 05:51 PM (9Dlss)

16 Scarry...The Canadians are eating and well dressed. The Brit and American are dressed up like prisoners...Hand-cuffs etc...I wonder what message they are sending....

Posted by: Bill at December 05, 2005 05:51 PM (snZLy)

17 Mr. Anderson, you disappoint me.

Posted by: Agent Smith at December 06, 2005 05:54 AM (VX7Tm)

18 Has there been anymore information about the CPT workers?

Posted by: Jill at December 07, 2005 08:53 AM (pbum3)

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