July 17, 2005
Caption the above image. Winners announced on Monday. No, really. Winners WILL be announced on Monday. Who do you think I am, Rusty?
(image gratuitously stolen from And Rightly So!)
**Note: 10 page conspiracy theses totally off topic written by greg will be allowed on this post, they just won't be considered for the contest**
***Note2: If the winning entry has a blog, that blog will get linky love from all 6 blogs that I post on.***
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July 16, 2005
"U might have hacked good site ..but i dont think u could do all what u
wanna to do with anay site ..i give u a challenge .....try hack this site if u could ...the bellow is a forum made by me
..but i make an open challege to u christians to do this ..ehheheheehe"
He left us these.
http://www.ekuverin.net/
from ali ghanim ali abdulla
saeed@hotmail.com
Wow. After looking over the site it’s clear that if this guy created it he is making an effort to sound like a moron here. It’s very slick, very innocent looking. The are several areas including an “Islamic corner”. Also it has a separate area for women that you must email the site master to get access too. Hmmm. I wonder what other areas might be there that don’t show on the front page. Hmm. Where’s all the Arabic text. Hmmmm.. I’m not sure what this site is but someone was calling our attention to it for whatever reason. Well I guess it does not matter I’ve got everything including the IP address where the post was sent from.
Be aware of traps, gentlemen and good hunting Pajamahadeen.
While I was too dense to link to the page this does link to the Jawa archive for August 2004. Then search for 08/22 I will also post most of the entry below the break.
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July 15, 2005
What an apt name. Over and over again, Jane Novak invades the nation of Yemen, not by force of arms, but with the power of 21st century instant communication.
Somewhere, Joan of Arc is smiling. So is the blog grandfather.
Despite what you've been told, the government of Yemen is no ally of the United States.
For whatever reason, the Yemeni government's duplicity has, aside from Jane's tireless efforts, so far managed to escape scrutiny by the world at large. It has to stop.
"Hey, bonehead, that's nice, how do we get to annoy the terrorist?"
Read this post from Jane.
Look for a comment by "Amin Al-Sharaabi." Call him names. Give him the verbal finger.
And as I well know, Jawa readers love to email terrorists.As an added bonus, he put his email in the comment.
UpDaTe: greg, I said what I meant and I meant what I said.
uPdAtE II: I'm going with Dean on this one, if you have a blog, link and t/b to Jane's post. Let's give this a Technorati boost. And an ecosystem boost as well. The Yemeni government needs to be shown for the Islamotards that they are.
ETAdpu III: Apparently, the goat molesting little Islamotard wanna be jihadi's email is a dead one. Mine got returned. But keep those comments on Jane's post a-flowing.
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1994Elnasher's schooling has put him at the forefront of study in the fields of biological catalysts and enzyme immobilization.
Graduated from Cairo University with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry degree,1998
Received Masters in Science in Organic Chemistry from Cairo University,1999-2000
Studied chemical engineering at North Carolina State University,2000-present
University of Leeds, UK, Postgraduate.
To refresh everyone's memory, enzymes are protein substances that act as triggers for various biological processes. So, Elnasher's expertise appears to be associated with seemingly mundane applications like improving water treatment facilities or manufacturing processes that rely on enzymatic actions.
With regard to my previously-stated bother, if Elnasher, as a terrorist, wanted to apply this expert knowledge, he could, but only in a convoluted manner. I believe that a biological threat could only exist if Elnasher was working out of his house or in a garage creating something nefarious. His line of study and work does not lend itself to anything other than access to chemicals and biologicals for easy theft. To put anything together, he'd need a lab - and time.
One other thing - Elnasher has some sort of link with the University of Graz in Austria which is associated with his biochemical work.
All in all, I'm somewhat comforted by the fact that there have been no reports of a laboratory being found in the investigation by the British authorities. Without one - somewhere - I don't see Elnasher's biochemical expertise being a threat right now. Of course, don't trust me. I'm just a guy with a computer.
Companion post at Interested-Participant.
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IM FINNA DO IT YES I CAN IM THE MAN MY NAME IS BASSAM
A ONE MAN BAND I CAME FROM SAND AFFILIATED WITH THE TALIBAN
Oh, a side note. The person that wrote the above worked for the Transportation Safety Administration.
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Paraphrased quote from a caller on Mr Humpries show on 7/14/05.
“There are fifty new mosques in the state of Florida alone in the last 10 years. They preach hate there to the Pakistanis to hate us as Americans and I know because I’m an ex-Muslim”Link to Mr. Humphries' site.
Look down a bit and click the Phone call from Cyruss link.
Updated:
Also while you are there check out the cool powerpoint presentation from Iraq on what our troops find there.
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Meanwhile, officials have continued to expand their search to include the possibility that there was a link between the four suicide bombers and al-Qaida.On a serious note, Pakistan is our ally in the war on terror. Not because they are a democracy, but because they are not. If the Afghanistan invasion taught the Pakistani state one thing it was that cooperation with the U.S. against al Qaeda is the safe route to survival. However, the vast majority of Pakistanis support the work of al Qaeda and Pakistan remains a state which claims to derive its legitimacy from Islam.A police official in Faisalabad, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters Friday that "security agencies have picked up four people. They were taken to an undisclosed location, but we were not involved in this operation."
More on the Pakistani connection here.
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For a sneak peak into the new design go here. We are in the process of cleaning it up and tweaking the new template so please e-mail me if you have any site suggestions.
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The insurgency cannot be overcome easily by either United States military forces or immature Iraqi security forces. Nor would the situation be eased even if, improbably, the United Nations, NATO, our European allies and Japan choose to become seriously involved.Notice how he throws in that phrase at the end, our true long-term interests? What, pray tell, are our true long-term interests in the Middle East?Our best strategy now is a prompt withdrawal plan consisting of clearly defined political, military and economic elements. Politically, the United States should declare its intention to remove its troops and urge the Iraqi government and its neighbors to recognize the common regional interest in allowing Iraq to evolve peacefully and without external intervention. The first Iraqi election under the permanent constitution, planned for Dec. 15, is an appropriate date for beginning the pullout.
Militarily, we should establish a timetable for reducing the scope of operations that has enough flexibility so as not to provide a tactical advantage to insurgents. We should also plan on continuing measures like no-flight zones, border surveillance, training for Iraqi security forces, intelligence collection and maintenance of a regional quick-reaction force.
Economically, we should define what amount of assistance we are prepared to extend to Iraq as long as it stays on a peaceful path. It would be best if this aid was but one facet of a broader set of economic initiatives to benefit Arab states that advance our interests.
Of course, these measures cannot guarantee a secure and democratic Iraq free of external domination. But they could be first steps of a strategy to pursue America's true long-term interests in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf.
What is our true long-term interest in the Middle East if not maintaining secular governments and the nation-state system?
The problem with Deutch is that he fundamentally misunderstands who we are fighting in Iraq. We are not fighting a nationalistic insurgency, we are fighting Islamist terrorists. This is not the same war that was fought against Saddam Hussein. This is a different war.
In the first war we fought Saddam Hussein's secular Baathist armies. In this second war we are fighting Islamists allied with al Qaeda. As one who regularly monitors jihadi activity, I can say with some amount of authority that the vast majority of casualties in Iraq come from Abus Musab al-Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq, The Army of Ansar al-Sunna, The Islamic Army in Iraq, and a few other related groups. None of these groups had any interest in maintaining the Arab Socialism of Hussein. All of them share the goal of ousting the U.S. and toppling the Iraqi government.
We won the first war, but will we win the second? That depends.
Terrorists, despite what many on both the Right and Left believe, are not motivated by hate. These are political movements with political goals. Islam, unlike Christianity, does not distinguish between the political and the secular. The political goals of the Islamists are therefore religously motivated--yet they are concrete political goals all the same. In the case of Islamic extremism, the political goals range from the short-term goal of removing US forces from ALL Muslim lands to the very-long-term goal of a unified world government based on Islamic law.
In our rhetoric we say things like, "If [insert fear, civil liberties, etc. here] changes then the terrorists have already won." No, the terrorists are not interested in outlawing pornography, suspending the writ of habeus corpus, or in changing the routes we drive to work--they are interested in specific policy goals none of which have anything to do with U.S. domestic politics (except in the very-very long-term).
Terrorism, as a tactic, is chosen because terrorists believe those tactics will work.
Goal: U.S. Marines out of Beirut.
Tactic: Suicide car-bombing.
Result: U.S. Marines out of Beirut.
Lesson learned: Terrorism works.
They also believe domestic terrorism can lead to specific policy changes.
Goal: Spain out of Iraq.
Tactic: Terrorism against Spanish civilians.
Result: Spain out of Iraq.
Lesson learned: Terrorism works.
The Islamist forces that we are fighting, though, use other tactics as well as terrorism. In Iraq, for instance, much of what these Islamofascist forces are doing are textbook guerilla tactics. I've watched dozens and dozens of al Qaeda and Islamic Army in Iraq videos of U.S. military vehicles being blown up by roadside bombs, mortar attacks on military positions by small paramilitary groups, and even the occasional shoulder fired anti-aircraft missile. Thus, the terrorists we are fighting use terrorism as a tactic, but also use the tactic of guerilla warfare.
Why would they think they can defeat us in Iraq using geurilla warfare?
Goal: Soviet military out of Afghanistan/imposition of Islamic law.
Tactic: Guerilla warfare.
Result: Soviet military out of Afghanistan/imposition of Islamic law.
Lesson learned: Geurilla warfare works against super-powers.
But Afghanistan was not the only place where this lesson was learned.
Goal: U.S. military out of Somalia.
Tactic: Guerilla warfare.
Result: U.S. military out of Somalia.
Lesson learned: Geurilla warfare works against super-powers.
So, what will happen if we pull-out of Iraq? Can our long-term national interests be met using this tactic?
Goal: U.S. military out of Iraq/imposition of Islamic law.
Tactic: Guerilla warfare.
Result: U.S. military out of Iraq/civil war possibly leading to Islamic law.
Lesson learned: Geurilla warfare works against super-powers.
If we truly wish to win the second war in Iraq, we cannot abandon her to our enemies. If we do then the lesson they will learn is that the U.S. can be beaten. And if the U.S. is beaten in Iraq, then the U.S. can be beaten elsewhere.
That is a lesson we cannot afford our enemies to learn.
Hat tip Dale Franks from QandO
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I found this little gem on ABCNEWS. Been looking for good news and this qualifies. It seems a young boy from Iraq was suffering from heart problems. What did our boys do? Well they helped out of course. I hope this little oneÂ’s recovery goes well and he gets to play and live a long and happy life. Contrast that with the 24 young people murdered by our enemy just to get at one US soldier. Come on you pigs they are kids. They want candy and they are smart enough to have learned that there is nothing to fear from an American GI unless you are his enemy. Unfortunately many learned to fear our enemy that day. Just keep it up, the contrast between us will be what wins the war for civilized people everywhere. Our enemy will be swept into the dust bin of history. Put there by the truth of what they really are, Murderers plain and simple.
“I am very grateful to everybody, to the American troops back in Iraq, to all Houstonians and I'm very grateful to the doctors who did the surgery," the father said nervously”Full story here.
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I think Witty Sex Kitten and Feisty Republican Whore might just have a future as Camp X-Ray interrogators/sex-workers.
Note to Professor Chaos: Your secret plan to join IRA sounding much better now....
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Oh, right. There is that.
So, if you think there might be some theraputic value in e-mailing this son-of-a-bitch and telling him just what you think of him, here you go.
UPDATE: Try this e-mail address, instead: m.elnashar@chem.leeds.ac.uk
7/7 terrorist Dr. Magdy Mahmoud Mostafa Elnashar's e-mail address: bmbmmme@leeds.ac.uk
UPDATE: *sigh* e-mail is dead. Which is odd since most universities don't kick you off their e-mail systems until long after you graduated. But Dave's quip in the comments section may explain why his e-mail is down. It is currently being looked at by British intelligence.
I wonder if he still has voice-mail? Those take a little longer to change. Here is his telephone number if you're a Brit and this is local:
+44(0) 113 3433162
Here is a cached version of his bio.
Also, have you ever wanted to read a peer reviewed scientific paper published by a terrorist? Well, here's your chance to read Novel Matrix for Biocatalyst Production. You mean to say that terrorists might be as ordinary as the guy next door? They go to work, come home, and are generally good neighbors until the day they blow people up? They don't roam the streets yelling death to America all day long? I don't believe it.
Another Update: It looks like the terrorist in question was on a fellowship sponsored by the European Union. These kinds of fellowships are routinely given out to anybody that applies and meets the general qualifications--including foreigners. In fact, if the fellowship that Elnashar received was anything like fellowships in the US, his status as an Egyptian national would only help him--after all, diversity before all other considerations!
So, all indications are that Elnashar was a good student who had received some amount of recognition at Leeds University. The only sign that he was a terrorist was that he enjoyed talking about his religion. Isn't that odd? A religious man becoming a terrorist?
Yet another update: Looks like Andrew Cochran knows how to do a Google search too.
Mike Pechar, a co-author here, makes this important point at his own blog:
It needs to be noted that Elnasher has been reported to be a chemistry student, a chemistry lecturer, a biochemistry researcher, and a chemistry professor. Right now, it's not really clear what he is, but it has something to do with chemistry.Indeed.What bothers me is the possibility that he is a biochemist. If so, and he's found to be a terrorist, there is the likelihood that he may have been working on biological weapons
Yet another update: Dread Pundit Bluto finds that the grant he recieved was worth about $60k.
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Here is a post with open source information on ElNashar.I see this AM that Magdy el-Nashar has been caught in Egypt. It is believed he is the mastermind behind the london bombings. Way to go Egypt hand him over.
Hooray!!!!
UPDATE by Admiral Rusty Shackleford: It's too early to call him the mastermind, there is a Pakistani national still at large who has been described that way, but he certainly was a central actor in the scheme. It was in his apartment that the bomb-making equipment was found placing him squarely in the middle of the conspiracy. And since my readers are so much more well-informed than, say, the average anchorman on CNN and have known that Magdy Mahmoud Elnashar was a grad student at NC State since early yesterday, they might want to check out this post from William Teach and click through the links (hat tip, Basil). Are college towns the next logical targets for terrorists?
Here is what The Mirror has to say. Be sure to scroll through and find the shocking revelation that Nashar was a devout Muslim who apparently couldn't keep his yap shut about the Religion of Peace for more than five seconds:
A KEY suspect in the London bombings has been held for questioning near Cairo, Scotland Yard said today.More information on El-Nashar below.Egyptian security sources identified the man to be Magdy Mahmoud Elnashar (left), a bio-chemist thought to have links to a Leeds flat being searched by anti-terrorist officers.
The 33-year-old bio-chemist is believed to have handed the keys of a terror base in Leeds to the four killers.
He is also thought to have been close to Lyndsay Jermain, a 19-year-old Jamaican also known as Abdullah Shaheed Jamal, suspected of being the fourth member of the gang.
Updated again.
The explosive TATP has been found in Magdy el-Nashar's appartment.
"Explosives found in a house in Leeds are said to be similar to those used in al-Qaeda attacks and made from ingredients available in high-street chemists."
"One of the sources said that investigators found the TATP in the Leeds apartment rented by Magdy el-Nashar"
I had nothing to do with the explosion I just have bombs laying around all the time. Yeah right.
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The more I read about the Rove/Plame/Wilson affair the more confused I get. Well actually it's becoming like an aged and blended old tawny port. POwerline makes a pretty good case that no one violated a law forbidding the "outing" of a covert CIA agent because even Joe Wilson admits that his wife wasn't a covert agent at the time that she was supposedly outed. Yeah well that makes a lot of sense. We've been investigating a crime that has Judith Miller behind bars for nondisclosure of a confidential source, when according to the principal victim's husband there couldn't have been a crime. And that chocolate frog I'm looking at might just decide to hop out the window.... more...
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July 14, 2005
Not me! I'm doing the Lynndie!
Everyone's doing the Lynndie!
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WASHINGTON (AP) - People in several heavily Muslim countries have lost some of their enthusiasm for Osama bin Laden and for violent acts like suicide bombings, especially in countries where there have been recent terrorist acts, international polling found.Surveys conducted for the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press looked at attitudes of people living in Indonesia, Jordan Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan and Turkey, all countries with Muslim majorities, as part of an international survey of 17 countries done this spring.
In Lebanon, the number of people who think the use of suicide bombing and other forms of violence is justified in defense of Islam has dropped from 73 percent in the summer of 2002 to 39 percent now. A decrease in this number also was seen in Morocco, which fell from 40 percent a year ago to 13 percent now, and in Pakistan and Indonesia. In Jordan, the number of people who feel such violence is justified has grown slightly; the number in Turkey remains very low.
(stein hoist to Raven)
Well, whaddaya know. I finally agree with the Left on something. It's Bush-Blair's fault!!!!! Why, if we hadn't gone into Iraq and Afghanistan, this may not have happened!
Oh, woops, can't forget the Joooooooooooooooooozzzz:
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli helicopters carried out air raids against four targets in Gaza early Friday, retaliating for a Palestinian rocket attack that killed a young Israeli woman.
One Israeli woman is killed in a terrorist attack, and the IDF responds with 4 air strikes.
52 people die on 7/7 in a terrorist attack and it gets an investigation.
Yes, I realize that the 7/7 terrorists were homegrown, and it wouldn't do for the RAF to start strafing the local neighborhoods.
But it's past time to stop pussyfooting around. Time to stop negotiating with the Mad Mullahs. Time to stop urging Syria. And time to stop rewarding Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and any other Islamofascistpricktocracies.
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I guess I can now retire. I've finally made it.
If the other Air America listener heard the mention, could you drop me a line and let me know what was said. I'm hoping the word prick was somewhere in the sentence.
UPDATE: I can honestly say that getting a mention on Air America gets you just as many hits as a mention on CNN. NONE.
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