January 31, 2006
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UPDATE: I'm registering Independent tomorrow. You're welcome to join me.
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The foreign ministers from China, Russia, the United States, France and Britain as well as Germany and the European Union, said after a dinner in London that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) must decide to bring Iran's case before the Council when the agency meets on Thursday in Vienna.Not, of course, that anything's going to happen right away:A senior U.S. official said the statement meant Russia and China were now on board with the United States and the European powers that there must be strong action taken by the IAEA in Vienna to discourage Tehran from pursuing atomic research which could enable the country to build a nuclear bomb.
"This is the most powerful message we could have hoped for," said a senior U.S. official, who said the discussions over dinner had been animated.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the ministers shared serious concerns about Iran's nuclear programs and agreed that an extensive period of "confidence-building" was required from Iran.The question is, how will Ahmanidejad and the mullahs react? And will the UN be any better at enforcing its edicts than it was with Saddam Hussein?The Council could ultimately impose sanctions against Iran but there are many steps before this could happen.
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January 30, 2006
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Zombietime's Mohammed image archive.
While the debate rages, an important point has been overlooked: despite the Islamic prohibition against depicting Mohammed under any circumstances, hundreds of paintings, drawings and other images of Mohammed have been created over the centuries, with nary a word of complaint from the Muslim world. The recent cartoons in Jyllands-Posten are nothing new; it's just that no other images of Mohammed have ever been so widely publicized.
Note the images purchased off the street in Iran.
In 1999.
Man, wait 'til the Islamofascists see this. It'll be boycott city, baby!
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* What made Hamas a threat was the fact that they provided "social services," suggesting that if their capacity to do the same is subsidized by the EU, etc., they'll just get more radical and more threatening. I mean, if bears do you-know-what in the woods.
* Zawahiri is only pretending to be a lapdog of the Western Left. Every ounce of his understanding of Marxist Theory is secondhand, through Qutb... so he's basically a Dentist with a Hammer. But, of course, no one really gives a hoot because he's such a charming thug.
* No one really knows how the Iran Dilemma will be resolved, which suggests that everything is actually just fine. I'd worry if it appeared MSM weren't typically clueless.
* Alito kicks ass.
I'll nuance these themes later, and apologize for the fact that I'm so seldom present (in comparison to the Blogging Buddha).
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I'll let Cartman express my feelings to the moonbats.
Cartman: Yes! Yesss!! Oh, let me taste your tears, Libs! Mm, your tears are so yummy and sweet.
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Caption this photo of Ham Ass Hamas "political leader" Khaleed Said Salaam Shaheed Abdul ibn Fahd Derka Derka Mohammed Jihad Smith giving a speech to someone somewhere:
IMPORTANT NOTE: Entries containing the words "death," "to," or "Israel" will be automatically disqualified. C'mon peeps, there has to some challenge to this.
Fatwas will be issued when Mr. Venom submits an entry complaining that no fatwas have been issued.
Or Monday evening, before the new episode of 24, of course.
Fatwas issued! Man, this gets harder every week. These Islamotards are great for caption contests, eh wot?
Double fatwa with cheese, super-sized with a diet Coke:
"And then we're going to Syria, and we're going to Lebanon, and we're going to Yemen. Yeeeeaaaaarrrrrrgggghhhh!" - Steven L.
Fatwas:
"We need one more couple for the Virginia Reel!" - J Rob
"OH MY GOD!!!...Its Godzillaaaaa!!!!!.....WUN!!! WUN!!! Wun For youre lives!!!" - Thanos35
"Arafat! Pull my finger!" - Leovinius
Honorable mention fatwa for Star Wars reference:
"That's not a moon, it's a space station!" - Lawhawk
Gratuitous honorable mention so he doesn't fling poo at his owners:
"I am number one!
Number two is on my other hand." - Spacemonkey
And speaking of fatwas, how about another posting of the Danish caricatures of Mohammed under the fold!
Go ahead, suckers, boycott me!! more...
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Scroll through for updates or check the MAIN PAGE here or our pages dedicated exclusively to Jill Carroll for the latest news on Jill Carroll and other hostages in Iraq.
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Disturbing news that al Jazeera has released yet another Jill Carroll video. This time, the massogonistic terrorists force Ms. Carroll to cover her head. Sickening.
UPDATE: While we continue to search for the unedited video, you can see the al Jazeera broadcast here (see right side of screen). As further evidence of al Jazeera's objectively pro-terrorist stance, anti-Americanism, and lies, earlier reports by the station itself that no audio were shown are not true. Al Jazeera does let this bit of audio slip by in the background:
their own government [inaudible] Iraq...let these people go home to their familiesUndoubtedly a reference to the female Iraqi prisoners.
Roy Hallums, a hostage liberated by U.S. troops, related that when his terrorist captors wanted him to cry on his video, they first beat him. They said they wanted his tears to look 'believable'.
We pray for Jill Carroll's immediate release and for divine retribution to visit her captors. Hopefully in the form of the unpleasent end of an M16.
Jill Carroll, the kidnapped US journalist, has appeared in a new video on Aljazeera, weeping and appealing for the release of women Iraqi prisoners.More information and background about the Jill Carroll hostage situation can be found here.The video, aired by Aljazeera on Monday, shows Carroll wearing a veil and weeping.
The video had no sound, but Aljazeera said she appealed for the release of women Iraqi prisoners. [Ed note: this is a deliberate falsehood on al Jazeera's part. Al Jazeera edited out most of Jill Carroll's pleas, but not a bit asking for the release of female prisoners]Carroll is visibly crying in the video and wears a veil as she speaks to the camera. The footage has a time signature with the date 28 January.
Aljazeera's newscaster said in the video Carroll appeals to the US military and the Iraqi Interior Ministry to release all women in their prisons and that this "would help in winning her release".
UPDATE: Come to think of it, this is VERY good news. Jill Carroll's captors had given the U.S. a 72 hour deadline to release female prisoners in Iraq. That deadline expired 8 days before this film was time stamped. While it is still possible that her life is being threatened, the fact that they've let at least two deadlines pass without (apparently) harming her is a sign that perhaps their threats are idle.
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Via Is Full of Crap this from JPOST:
A Danish newspaper on Monday issued an apology to the world's Muslims for publishing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked a furor in the Islamic world.Meanwhile the cyber jihad continues with numerous websites that have defended Danish freedom of expression suffering under Denial of Service Attacks.The drawings "were not in violation of Danish law but have undoubtedly offended many Muslims, which we would like to apologize for," the Jyllands-Posten's editor-in-chief Carsten Juste said in a statement posted on the paper's Web site.
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In The Bullpen reprints this from an MSM source:
Some 270 Arab and foreign fighters have been detained in Iraq's restive al-Anbar province in a 'defensive campaign' launched by the local population towards the al-Qaeda network, tribal leaders say. A source close to tribal chiefs told Adnkronos International (AKI) that "the Iraqi security forces, with the help of the local population, have managed to arrest terrorists and Iraqis who provided them refuge."I'd also recommend James Joyner's new TCS piece as further evidence AQ is far from winning the war.Most of them were Syrian, Saudi and Jordanian nationals. They have been transferred to Baghdad to be interrogated to discover how they reached the region and who is financing their terrorist activites" the source told AKI.
"The group of (Jordanian militant and al-Qaeda pointman) Abu Musab al-Zarqawi did not expect a similar campaign which has dealt them a serious blow," he continued, adding that "it won't be the last given that the population is determined to expel those who kill civilians in the name of resistance".
Regarding the nature of the tribal militias, the source explained that "all the operations are carried out under the auspices of the defence minister Saadun al-Dulaimi and coordinated with volunteers in the area."
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In the new video aired by the Arab world's number one pro-terrorist satellite television station, Zawahiri taunts the President for missing him in an air strike in Pakistan saying, "Bush, do you know where I am? I am among the Muslim masses."
The Muslims masses, for their part, deny knowing where Zawahiri is. Because, as we are reminded nearly every day by the MSM, it is only a small minority of extremists in the Islamic world that support terrorism. Therefore, by definition, the Muslim masses can't know where Zawahiri is hiding, can they?
Word on the street from the Muslim masses regarding Zawahiri's funny head mark vary. Some claim it is a birth mark, however such marks are common among those wishing to seem incredibly pious in the Muslim world. Such marks come about when the pious one genuflects often during prayer, touching the forehead to the ground five times daily.
A source particularly close to Ayman al-Zawahiri, though, tells us that the mark is, "really a bullseye...kind of the equivalent of the tattoo in the small of a chick's back...if you, er, get my drift."
No, we at the Jawa Report do not get your drift. What is it, exactly, that you are implying?
Zawahiri continued from his hiding place somewhere in the caves along the borders of Pakistan-Afghanistan, "Butcher of Washington, you are not only defeated and a liar, but also a failure. You are a curse on your own nation."
One wonders if that forehead thingy isn't some kind of mark of the beast symbol? Like, maybe Zawahiri is really Gorbachev? You've never seen the two in the same room have you?
The man with the mystery forehead mark also says in the video, "My second message is to the American people, who are drowning in illusions." No word yet on the more realistic illusion of creating a global Caliphate from a cave in Waziristan.
"I tell you that Bush and his gang are shedding your blood and wasting your money in frustrated adventures," says Zawahiri.
So, what is that annoying mark any way?
Hat tip to Tim from Opninion Bug.
Related from Counterterrorism Blog, who has extensive analysis.
More at Michelle Malkin, In The Bullpen, Protein Wisdom, Stop the ACLU and others....
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A large number of Danish papers´ web versions have crashed. Suspicions immediately center on the hacker attacks being because of the Mohammed-drawings in Jyllands-Posten. ..And Danish geeks respond in kind to the cyberterrorism coming from the Muslim world. Again, from Viking Observer:All the web media hit are hosted on the same servers at the internet company Metropol Online, owned by Berlingske (Danish publishing house). ..
Among the media hit is the homepage of Jyllands-Postens, www.jp.dk, which creates suspicions, that hackers are trying to hit the paper as part of the row over the papers´ Mohammed-drawings.
A Danish chain-mail that is circulating by email urges people to take part in a web-based attack on arab media. This happens in reaction to the hacker-attack on Danish papers´ websites over the weekend....Wait. They're attacking al Jazeera? Good on you. As I've argued countless times in the past, al Jazeera is part of the enemy propaganda machine and is therefore a legitimate target in the war-on-terror. It is high time the Western world employed these cyberterrorists to our own advantage. The model of the privateer comes to mind.he email starts out with the headline "Denmark under attack by moslem hackers" and contains an attached program, that starts a so-called denial-of-service attack on five arab media, among them Al-Jazeera, Arab News og Gulf News.
In the letter the recipient is urged to let the program run on his computer to bombard the arab media with data and thus block their homepages.
And for a great non-dhimmi Danish blogger, visit Enough!
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Second, why are the tiny minority of extremists calling for a boycott of Denmark? Could it be that Denmark currently chairs the U.N. Security Council and the Islamic Republic of Iran is about to receive that bodies censure?
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Patriotism brings Iraqi troops to the recruiting station. Often, I ask them: ‘Why did you join?’ The most common answer I get is, ‘It’s my duty.’ Many have lost family members to terrorists. The Iraqi rifleman makes about $300 equivalent a month, but a terrorist can make that in a night planting one roadside bomb. The guys who fight for money work for the other side. We have the patriots, and that’s why we have the popular support.Kewl.
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Meanwhile, the Left continues to compare the Christian Right with these fascists calling them the 'American Taliban'. Soooooo, when is Pat Robertson going to issue a fatwa against Kanye West?
AKI:
The Muslim worldÂ’s two main political bodies have said they are seeking a UN resolution, backed by possible sanctions, to protect religions, in the wake of the controversy caused by publication by a Danish newspaper of cartoons which many Muslims believe denigrate the prophet Muhammad. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, head of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, said in Cairo the OIC would "ask the UN General Assembly to pass a resolution banning attacks on religious beliefs." Ahmad Ben Helli, secretary general of the Arab League, confirmed contacts were under way for such a proposal to be made to the UN.The interesting question raised by all of this: is Islam inherently unable to support freedom of speech and have radical fascist Muslims found their greatest allies in the Western Left which is often game for passing 'hate speech' laws?
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The men were taken hostage earlier this month (See here, here, and here) when about 40 armed men attacked an oil industry service vessel named Liberty Service. A previously-unknown group called the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) claimed responsibility for the attack and the kidnappings.
A source said that 100 million Nigerian Naira ($771,000) was paid as ransom for the hostages release.
Companion post at Interested-Participant.
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January 29, 2006
It seems that in one or two cases, the wives of terrorist insurgents were taken in for questioning as possible accomplices and/or material witnesses. The ACLU is trying to conflate this into some sort of organized campaign to kidnap innocent Iraqi women, and has managed to plant a story in that other bastion of objectivity and patriotism, the LA Times:
WASHINGTON — U.S. forces in at least two cases have detained wives of suspected insurgents in Iraq in an attempt to pressure the men into surrendering, documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union confirm."I certainly had no idea what Mahmoud was doing with those batteries, wires, digital watches, and 155mm artillery shells. He's always loved to putter around in his workshop. And he said that the AK-47s and SAMs were for duck hunting.""This is not an acceptable tactic," ACLU lawyer Amrit Singh said Friday.
In one instance, members of a military task force seized a mother of three young children "in order to leverage" her husband's surrender, according to an account by a civilian Defense Intelligence Agency officer.
The ACLU's attempt to portray these women as innocent lambs being roughed up by the Coalition would be laughable, if the consequences of failure weren't so grave.
The only thing that the military has done wrong is to release these terrorists and terrorist enablers prematurely.
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