September 07, 2005
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UPDATE: This post to be updated throughout the day.
Update 13:19: Members of his extended family have now confirmed to me, personally, that Roy has been freed. They are elated. Family members are en route to a reunion with Roy as we speak. Thank you for your prayers and thanks to the Coalition Forces for rescuing Roy.
Many of Roy's family and friends, though, know only as much as they are being told in the media. If you have any tips about information that we are not covering, please e-mail me at mypetjawat-at-gmail-dot-com (remove 'at' and 'dot' and replace).
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Roy Hallums was abducted on Nov. 1st along with several other foreign contractors. The U.S. state department refused to comment on whether there was an American hostage in Iraq. On Nov. 30th, The Jawa Report reported that an American hostage was being held in Iraq. On Dec. 2nd, Roy's daughter Carrie and his ex-wife Susan contacted The Jawa Report confirming that Roy was taken hostage in Iraq and clarifying his name.
Since that time we have run dozens of stories on Roy and the other forgotten hostages in Iraq. We have also tried to raise funds for the Free Roy Foundation. I have personally been in contact with the Hallums family since our initial story ran. In the last few months I have feared that Roy was dead, but every so often I would get an e-mail from Susan reminding me to keep Roy in my prayers. Her faith, and the faith of Roy's daughters and grandchildren, never waivered.
I have not heard from Susan or Carrie yet, but I expect some word in the near future. While I am not an official spokesperson for the Hallums family, I am sure that Susan and Carrie would express their many thanks for your prayers and support throughout these trying months.
Thank you Jawa Report readers and friends. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
--Rusty Shackleford
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Cnn: Is reporting that Roy Hallums has been rescued. Details later. This really is good news.
Developing.
Roy Hallums, the U.S. contractor who was kidnapped in November, is rescued in Iraq, ex-wife says. Details soon.
Hat Tip: Filthy.
Also here on FOXNEWS
"I can confirm he's been released," Susan Hallums, 53, told The Associated Press by telephone. "Considering what he's been through, I understand he's in good condition."UPDATE from Rusty: Today is one of the happiest days of my life. I'm literally crying.
Update 11:56: NYTimes, hat tip Lawhawk. It looks like Roy was freed thanks to a tip from a detainee. Guantanamo? Probably not, but Abu Ghraib is a distinct possibility:
Coalition forces acting on a tip from an Iraqi detainee Wednesday rescued American hostage Roy Hallums from an isolated farm house south of Baghdad, a military statement said. An Iraqi also was rescued....This contradicts earlier reports that Roy Hallums was being held near Fallujah, but makes much more sense.Hallums was held in a farmhouse 15 miles south of Baghdad, the statement said, adding that rescuers were tipped to his whereabouts by an unidentified Iraqi detainee.
''I want to thank all of those who were involved in my rescue -- to those who continuously tracked my captors and location, and to those who physically brought me freedom today,'' Hallums said in the military statement.
''To all of you, I will be forever grateful. Both of us are in good health and look forward to returning to our respective families. Thank you to all who kept me and my family in their thoughts and prayers.''
Related:
-The Free Roy Website, run by Roy's daughter Carrie
-Jawa Report Breaks Roy Hallums Story, Hallums family begins correspondence
-Terrorist release Roy Hallums hostage video.
-The Damned of the West Part I: Interview with the family of Roy Hallums
-The Damned of the West Part II: Interview with the family of Roy Hallums
-The Damned of the West Part III: Interview with the family of Roy Hallums
UPDATE II: More from CNN. more...
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Congrats to Mark on the new grandbaby.
See this cool post on Califonia conservative.
Yes I've seen that happen before. But see Sean if yer boat is not so full of reporters you can open that sucker up and the water will drain out the plug hole and then you stick the plug in there no bailing required. River rat experience teaches many things.
Malcontent goes off on Author Marc Siegel
Author Marc Siegel was on "The Daily Show" last night, flogging his book False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear. I have not yet read the book, but his interview with Jon Stewart was troubling, to say the least.
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Not only did The Popular Resistance Committee assassinate the former head of PA security and cousin of Yasser, Moussa Arafat, they also have taken his son hostage.
The former head of general security in Gaza, Moussa Arafat, was killed before dawn Wednesday when gunmen stormed his home here, dragged him outside and shot him in the street. The incident threatened to aggravate tensions among Palestinian factions and security services struggling for power in the Gaza Strip following Israel's evacuation of its 21 Jewish settlements here.In response, there have been calls for the resignation of the Interior Minister, Naser Yousef, to resign. Xinhua:A militant faction known as the Popular Resistance Committees comprising disaffected members of various Palestinian parties asserted responsibility for the assassination of Arafat, who was a cousin of the late Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat. The group also claimed to have kidnapped his son, Manhal, a major in the Palestinian military intelligence service, from the three-story family home shortly after 5 a.m....
Arafat held the rank of minister and served as Abbas' military affairs adviser at the time of his murder, carried out in the street only a half-mile from the presidential compound.
"The way this was carried out underlines a very strong message, even if that message may not have been intended," said Ziad Abu Amr, an independent member of the Palestinian Legislative Council who often serves as a mediator between the various Palestinian factions. "It points out the chronic failure of the Palestinian Authority to establish law and order in Gaza and the price it is now paying for past decisions not to do so." ...
We are saying that we can take responsibility," Shaath told reporters here. "We will take all the steps necessary, and I don't think there is any doubt in anyone's mind. This is not political resistance to the occupation. This is a crime by any definition - no justifications, no pretext."
Moussa Arafat, 65, was a senior member of the important Fatah Revolutionary Council. The committee guides the secular nationalist movement that is the largest faction in Palestinian politics and whose members fill out the ranks of the Palestinian Authority....
The statement read over the phone described Moussa Arafat as a "collaborator," a term used to describe Palestinians who assist Israeli intelligence services. "He was one of the heads of the corruption and his poison spread among the Palestinian people," said a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, who identified himself as Abu Abeer. "We're going to deal with his son according to the results of the investigation we are conducting."
A Palestinian intelligence officer Wednesday held interior minister Naser Yousef responsible for the assassination of former security chief Musa Arafat and urged him to resign.The one common theme running throughout press reports about the assassination and kidnapping, is that Moussa Arafat was wildly unpopular, especially among the militant youth movements in Palestine. He was at the center of accusations of corruption in the Palestinian Authority. The fact that his name was Arafat, connected his variouis high-ranking positions to the nepotism of the first-family of Palestine.Palestinian intelligence chief in the West Bank city of Nablus, Maher al-Fares, told a press conference that he wondered the Palestinian security forces didn't react quickly to the early morning attack on Musa's home in Gaza City which is just few metersaway from the preventive security headquarters.
He called on the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to find and punish those behind the assassination.
But notice that the specific charge that led to his assassination was collaboration. Thus, his execution was justified on Islamic grounds. Collaboration with the infidels is the most common reason given when terrorists murder hostages.
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In the case of Maureen Dowd today, I'm not even sure it's fair to call this an opinion piece. Speculation piece might be closer the target. Wild, drug induced, toxic fantasies would probably be just about on target. Of course Maureen, like every other looney liberal out there, is trying to find someone to blame for her perfect nanny state of New Orleans falling apart so horribly. After all, it couldn't have been the existing liberal social policy that caused the widespread violence and theft. The lack of law enforcement before all of this began surely couldn't have contributed to the rapes and murders that went on during the disaster. And lack of planning and action by the people who were actually in charge, the state and local government, wouldn't have had ANYTHING to do with the number of dead.
No, in Maureen's world, the fault lies with Dick Cheney. It's because he went on vacation and bought a house. Or maybe it's because he was late showing up. It's kind of hard to tell what exactly Maureen is trying to get at with her first paragraph. more...
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Like many web users, I admire their anti-corporate approach and their pledges not to be evil. But now, some people are beginning to question if this terribly successful company might not be the new Microsoft. (For those of you you not au fait with these matters, there is a certain online consituency who view "Micro$oft" as the root of many of the world's evils)....Did I say antichrist? I meant, incarnation of Christ. Come on Google, don't be mad......A site that does not have any Goodle ads on it is MyPetJawa.mu.nu. Referring to Revelation 13:16, it suggests that Google is the antichrist.
So much for "Don't be evil."
Paranthetically I do have Google ads. I just love the irony in this site making money from ads from MAS, CAIR, and various Muslim Singles groups.
So, maybe it's me that's evil? After all, I didn't spend 6 years in evil graduate school just to be called Mr. Rusty Shackleford.
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September 06, 2005
It is better quality than most spoof e-mails I receive, and the grammar is flawless. Only a close reading of the punctuation reveals it's a fraud. After searching out the IP addresses, I discovered the mail originated from a Singaporean web provider and the spoof site is hosted in Beijing.
I forwarded the mail off to stop-spoofing@amazon.com and I would encourage anyone else who receives this email to do the same. I lack the time to come up with sufficiently harsh invective to convey my contempt for these parasites. They are worse than looters, I believe, since they are effectively stealing from the Red Cross as well as from the owners of the credit card numbers they will steal. They prey on the generosity of good people, and they deserve no better than a looter would receive if he were caught stealing from the Red Cross.
PLEASE NOTE: This spoof e-mail did not actually come from Amazon.com–it was mocked up by criminals in Asia to appear as if it came from Amazon. Amazon is another victim in this matter, as their reputation and relationships with their customers are damaged by it.
{Cross-posted at Patterico's Pontifications}
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An area used as an operations center in Damman was put under siege by Saudi Security Forces.
"Sporadic gunfire is continuing around the buildings where the members of the deviant group are holed up," one security source said, adding that there were 10 suspects inside.The U.S. Consulate in the adjacent city of Dhahran was closed due to security concerns related to the shootout."The security forces have reinforced their positions and are bringing in bulldozers and additional heavy equipment."
"We're in no rush to storm the building as we’re hoping to capture them alive and obtain information about wanted terrorists," he said.
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There were unconfirmed reports that terrorists had killed one of their own colleagues when he tried to surrender to security officers.
The reports also indicated that the terrorists might have run away from Madinah after their commander Saleh Al-Oufi was gunned down by security forces last month.
In an updated report from Reuters, Saudi Security forces stormed the terrorist stronghold and "cleared and secured" the area. A source estimated that at least six terrorists were killed and ten were wounded. Four policemen also died.
I think it's great that the Saudis are going after the al-Qaeda terrorists in the kingdom. However, they'll never win because they're fighting an enemy that continues to be resupplied with recruits from the Wahabi mosques and schools within the country. So, they're destined to fight forever unless the schools are reformed or dismantled which, of course, won't happen since Saudi Arabia is officially a Wahabi Nation.
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Today's featured fatwas:
*12 More Days Until the Annual Talk Like a Pirate Day
*Help Child Victims of Katrina Get Back to School
*Bush Elevating Roberts Nomination a Wise Move
*U.S. Submarine Hits Turkish Ship
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Osiel Hipolito's wife and unborn baby were also hurt. The baby was delivered later that same day. What do you say to a child who's birthday falls on the same day that her father was murdered?
AP:
A Navy sailor on leave from the war in Iraq was killed in a suspected gang shooting that also wounded his brother, pregnant wife, and the couple's unborn baby.This NBC news report calls the baby, born hours later alive and well, a fetus. I'm shocked that a report could intentionally dehumanize this child in the headline and then report the same child is alive and well in the body of the article.Osiel Hipolito, 20, was shopping at a strip mall near Compton with his wife and brother when he was assaulted by two men believed to be gang members, Sheriff's Deputy Scott Gage said.
"He goes to defend himself and one of the gang members draws a gun and begins shooting at the group," Gage said.
Hipolito was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
The baby, a girl, was delivered prematurely with a leg wound. Hipolito's wife and brother were in stable condition, Gage said.
As in, "My father and this thing called a fetus--you know, this appendage attached to my mother which eventually became me, but wasn't really me until three hours later--were shot by gang members. My father died, but I survived. And by I, I mean the fetus which would become me, but wasn't me until several hours later. And by survived, I mean, well, er, I don't know, because how can something that is not legally alive survive anything?"
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Donate today. When you do (and I do say when and not if) donate, please do not mention The Jawa Report.
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I think I'm going to cry. Those of you unfamiliar with our struggles with Google News can start here. It's been six long months, but we're finally back in business! Thank you Google News. Now, about that make-up sex.........
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Why does it seem this way to me? Is it the media thatÂ’s giving me a false sense of knowledge? Is it that much worse in New Orleans compared to the devastation in Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi combined? WhatÂ’s the deal here? Would someone please attempt to enlighten me.
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) Nagin screwed up initially but the snow ball effect was really given momentum by Govenor Blanco.
I'm wondering how long it took her to get out of the fetal position from under her desk in Red Stick.
.S. and Afghan forces killed 25 suspected Taliban fighters and captured dozens more in operations in two southern provinces over two days, Afghan and U.S. officials said.Parenthetically, a number of the candidates murdered by the Taliban have been beheaded.On Monday, U.S. and Afghan forces killed 12 suspected militants and detained nine others in a raid in Zabol province, the U.S. military said. Soldiers were brought by helicopter into a remote area where militants were believed to be gathering before launching attacks. No casualties were reported among the Afghan and U.S. forces.
The operation in Zabol followed a raid in neighboring Kandahar province in which U.S. and Afghan forces killed 13 suspected Taliban fighters, and captured dozens more, in a remote area where a political candidate was kidnapped and executed last week, a provincial official said.
U.S. and Afghan troops dropped by parachute from American aircraft in the operation, which began Sunday, Kandahar Gov. Asadullah Khalid said by telephone from Kandahar city, the provincial capital. None of the coalition troops was injured.
The assault targeted insurgents suspected of killing Khan Mohammed, a candidate for Kandahar's provincial council in the country's Sept. 18 election who was abducted Friday, the governor added. A district commissioner and three policemen were killed along with Mohammed.
At least four other candidates have been killed in the weeks before the election for the lower house of Afghanistan's parliament and provincial councils. It is Afghanistan's first parliamentary election since U.S.-led forces toppled the Taliban's hard-line Islamic regime in late 2001.
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On Sep. 1 the military cleared the soldiers involved, essentially saying the news crew was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Even though this story is at least five days old, the Associated Press decided to release a 'news' story about it today. The piece essentially rejects the U.S. military version of events, and then recounts other stories from Iraq in which journalists were accidentally killed. Thus, the picture that is painted is one of the U.S. intentionally targetting journalists.
The Associated Press could save themselves a lot of time and money by just running al Jazeera stories and al Qaeda press releases verbatim.
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Rush Limbaugh
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Sept. 2: Seven terrorists killed in the al-Rashid district of Baghdad
Sept. 2: Two IED makers captured near Abu Ghraib on tips from locals.
Two NY Times stories that mention Abu Ghraib, both about abuse at the prison.
Sept. 2: 12 terrorists captured with weapons cache East of Al-Amiriyah.
Sept. 3: Ambush foiled near Ad Duluiyah, 8 terrorists captured.
Sept. 5: 11 terrorists killed in after mortar attack on U.S. base near Balad, six more captured.
Here: 24th paragraph down, no mention of terrorists captured, or of why house was bombed.
Sept. 5: 11 suspected terrorists detained in Mosul.
Two hits, neither about this story or any other U.S. success.
Remember when being neutral meant being non-partisan and not indifferent to whether or not the U.S. loses its wars? There is no such thing as a Republican or Democrat war. The nation is at war. U.S. troops are fighting. Either the MSM will help win it or help lose it. Unfortunately, it seems lthat the NY Times has chosen the latter course.
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First brought to my attention from Amawalk John at Conservative Friends, this has also been reported at WorldNet Daily and NRO's "The Corner."
Now, I realize that these are lefties we are talking about, but if her listeners have one shred of decency, they should call for her immediate firing. Her show seems to have no reedeming value and no purpose except to incite hatred and violence towards people who disagree with you. And yes, I know, the first thing I'll hear is "what about Rush?" Well, in all my time listening to Rush, I've never heard him say we should do anything illegal or incite violence against a party or an individual. Only that you were idiots. And it's not against the law to speak the truth.
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New Orleans Mayor, Ray Nagin: If the CIA slips me something and next week you don't see me, you'll all know what happened.
Via the curiously silent Ace of Spades HQ
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