. The U.S. had issued a $5 million dollar reward for the terrorist bombmaker.
This is the same bombing that has outraged so many in Pakistan, because as everyone knows, there is no such thing as a Muslim terrorist in Pakistan. And all those people who just happened to have high ranking members of al Qaeda over to their houses for dinner were all innocent civilians.
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Who gets to collect the money on a claim like that? I know there is a clause in the military that prevents us from doing so.
Bet there are some happy Paki villagers just out of sight in the photo - dreaming about opening a Quicki-Mart in Cleveland. What a world we live in! Ya can't make this stuff up!
Posted by: hondo at January 18, 2006 03:20 PM (3aakz)
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Wait, so an Egyptian terrorist was amongst the dead of the village 'tea party' where there were 'no foreigners' and only 'civilian casualties' ?
Those Pakistani's really need to get their stories straight.
Posted by: dave at January 18, 2006 04:08 PM (CcXvt)
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With respec to Bayan Jabr's sister: "He said the government was trying to secure her release through legal means, but he said that if those failed, he would have to
resort to "tribal law." He did not specify what that would mean, but some tribal groups have staged retaliatory kidnappings."
NYT
The article also describes Iranian and Iraqi forces skirmishing in the Shatt al Arab waterway. One wonders how often have they been coming to blows.
Posted by: Lydia at January 18, 2006 04:17 PM (4w1UC)
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I'm sure that Al Masri wasn't a terrorist, but merely a misguided aspirin manufacturer of a very pious nature.
Posted by: Graeme at January 18, 2006 04:24 PM (wp49D)
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"misguided aspirin manufacturer of a very pious nature"
LMAO! Yep, I just bet he was in Pakistan to cure headaches. Or maybe cause them. Good riddance to the sorry bastard, I say.
Posted by: jesusland joe at January 18, 2006 04:43 PM (rUyw4)
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Graeme - can I - plagiarize that? That one is just toooo good!
Posted by: hondo at January 18, 2006 05:02 PM (3aakz)
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Y'all do know that he he was a Bush Created Terrorist, right?
And now he is one dead terrorist, a martyr in the liberal minds.
Posted by: William Teach at January 18, 2006 05:18 PM (TFSHk)
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It's also being reported that Khalid Habib and Abu Ubeida al Masri were killed in the strike as well. Pakistani intelligence agents released that information at the same time they released the info about Midhat Mursi al-Sayid 'Umar.
Khalid Habib, if anyone remembers, was the appointed Al-Qaeda chief in Afghanistan according to a few Al-Qaeda posts on terrorist websites.
Abu Ubeida al-Masri was an Al-Qaeda provincial commander in Afghanistan.
Looks like the strike that killed "innocents" wound up being much more than a missed opportunity.
Posted by: Mad Man at January 18, 2006 06:10 PM (K6g1B)
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When I saw the photo, I said to myself - the only thing missing is the Baby Milk Factory sign (in English no less).
Always watch how they try to spin it. Its sometimes key to judging how successful the mission actually was.
Posted by: hondo at January 18, 2006 06:18 PM (3aakz)
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Be my guest Hondo. There isn't any copyright.
Posted by: Graeme at January 18, 2006 06:46 PM (wp49D)
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But there ought to be, Graeme, as that is one of your best ones yet, and you already had some pretty good ones, my friend. Are you interested in that Karl Rove gig I offered you?
Posted by: jesusland joe at January 18, 2006 08:12 PM (rUyw4)
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Am I the only one who ever bothers to run googles on good news ? When I googled the name of the supposedly lately departed I find that he was reportedly captured in Pakistan last November . http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9909169/ This "capture" was reported by "two US officials" So what do you believe ??? That we captured him in Nov. ? Or zapped him in Jan. ? HABEAS CORPUS !!! This whole episode reeks between the unfired 155mm artillery round and now the death of a man captured 2 months ago it is well .... confusing.
Posted by: john Ryan at January 18, 2006 10:19 PM (TcoRJ)
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It could be worse John! We could be at war with Sikhs - where everybody has the same last name, a turban and a beard!
Posted by: hondo at January 18, 2006 11:21 PM (3aakz)
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The round wasn't unfired John, the photo on Michelle Malkin's blog shows rifling marks on the brass band, and instead of a lifting ring in the nose, it has a crushed fuse. It's probably from the India/Pakistan dispute over Kashmir, and it's a dud either because the fuse was bad, or some DAGB forgot to arm it.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at January 19, 2006 09:29 AM (0yYS2)
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the bad news?
it only took killing 18 women and children to do it.
pat yourselves on the back Amerikkka- job well done!
-puke-
Posted by: Jawa Sucks at January 19, 2006 10:10 AM (n3EHA)
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"pat yourself on the back Amerikka-job well done"
Thank you, puke boy, thank you very much!
And I hope you have your friend al-Zawahiri over to dinner soon. Another congratulation might be in store. Here's hoping, Mr. Puke!
Posted by: jesusland joe at January 19, 2006 10:31 AM (rUyw4)
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IM I thought that in your post in which you said that you were in artillery that the round was unfired ? I my memory may be mistaken, I was unable to find that post about your past service.
Posted by: john Ryan at January 19, 2006 11:07 AM (TcoRJ)
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Yeah I said that, but before I saw a larger resolution pic, in which the rifling marks and fuse were more clearly defined. In the low-res pic, it looked unfired, and the crushed fuse looked like a lifting ring.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at January 19, 2006 02:01 PM (0yYS2)
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