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June 30, 2005

Ground zero reconstruction

Also today Michael L. Siegel has a discussion on the rebuilding in NY. Thanks Mike for sending the link. Osama may be interested. I'm trying to go quickly here as lunch is about over. Still more to come bit by bit.

Link to lawhawks post

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1 There were tons of great ideas about how to design the replacement towers and tribute to those who died. I think it's a great idea to have such a huge block that they are built on...which was insisted upon by the police and fire dept. to thwart car/bus bombs. My favorite design was the "fuck you" towers: One huge tower with a little tower on each side, classic middle finger architecture!

Posted by: osamabeenhiding at June 30, 2005 01:27 PM (huFN9)

2 Osama: I'm glad to see you were interested. I'm going to let my sphincster relax a bit and then YBP has sent two links.

Posted by: Howie at June 30, 2005 01:44 PM (D3+20)

3 been looking at a picture of the tower{a mockup} and the designer,David Childs....looks pretty good, very much like the look on the original towers with just a slightly triangular shape as it grows taller....much thicker base walls...3 feet of steel reinforced concrete and moved back 90 feet from the street to give more room from any blasts if terrorists should try and attack it...much more info on it in the Star Ledger here in NJ...looks good though, much better than that original ugly looking thing they wanted to build

Posted by: THANOS35 at June 30, 2005 02:32 PM (RhtGz)

4 Young men, that tower looks like one great big schlong. Whoever revels in it's revolting erection from the ground up is compensating for something.

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at July 01, 2005 05:34 AM (ScqM8)

5 That's not it at all, DSM. It's a bold, collective message, not a sense of inadequacy. A finger, not a "schlong". There's nothing sexual about it. Odd that you're the one who sees it that way.

Posted by: Oyster at July 01, 2005 06:10 AM (YudAC)

6 Oyster, young man, when someone spends so much to make a schlong that big, they are definitely compensating for something. If you want some big fake schlong to be a finger, OK. That schlongy Washington Monument is my giant middle finger flipping off those lying punks in the White House and those scumbags in Congress. There's enough finger left to flip off that whacko Rumsfeld in the Pentagon too.

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at July 01, 2005 08:14 AM (ScqM8)

7 The Washington Monument is an obelisk. Look it up, Freud.

Posted by: Oyster at July 01, 2005 09:27 AM (fl6E1)

8 OK young mussel without a pearl, At 17min, 16 sec into the film "Osama and Us", you may view your purple mountain majesty in the sweet land of liberty, of which I sang.

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at July 03, 2005 04:30 AM (ScqM8)

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June 16, 2005

Heroes

The heroes of Raven 42 all received medals for their heroic action in fighting off a contingent of Michael Moore's Minutemen as they attacked a civilian convoy in Western Iraq in March. You can read about their exploits here. The ~~seven~~ ten (thanks Barb) members of Raven 42 (three of whom were wounded), the MP unit guarding the convoy, who survived the initial attack by between 40-50 terrorists saved the convoy from sure extermination. If this is the same attack that was claimed by al Qaeda in March, the civilians and every one else would have been surely murdered. These soldiers killed 24 terrorists, wounded 6 more (two who later died), and captured one.

Way to go troops. America, f*ck yeah!

UPDATE: Citzcom reminds us that a woman of the 617th, noted above, was awarded a Silver Star for her valour. The first Silver Star given to a female soldier, ever.

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June 02, 2005

Zarqawi Dead (#273 in an ongoing series....)

Ok, it's been said before, but I'll say it again: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, the group formerly known as Tawhid and Jihad, former member of Ansar al-Islam, the man who personally beheaded innocent civilians, and mass murdering terrorist in Iraq is dead.

Let's hope this one is for real. If it is, it is a confirmation of earlier report we made last Friday of Zarqawi's demise. Infrequent Jawa contributor Editor (update: who tells me that he got the link from The Junkyard Blog) drops this link into the comments section:

The Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq - died on Friday and his body is in Fallujah's cemetary, an Iraqi Sunni sheikh, Ammar Abdel Rahim Nasir, has told the Saudi on-line newspaper Al-Medina. He claims that gunfights which broke out in Fallujah in the last few days involved militants trying to protect the insurgency leader's tomb from a group of American soldiers patrolling the area.
During a telephone conversation from the city of Fallujah with the Saudi newspaper, Nasir said al-Zarqawi was taken there after being injured in the city of Ramadi around three weeks ago, and may have been treated by two doctors who had worked with his aides in Baghdad. He said the two doctors had stopped a serious haemorrhage in al-Zarqawi's intestines, but that after his condition worsened last week, the militant died on Friday.
Nasir adds that in his will the insurgent leader left the order that no funeral should be held for him and the right to announce his death should be left to the al-Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden.
The Al-Medina newspaper reports that it also called the headmaster of a school in Fallujah, who preferred to remain anonymous, but confirmed that many people in the city were aware of the fact that al-Zarqawi had recently been taken to the city.
Sheikh Nasir's claims appear to correspond with reports several weeks ago that al-Zarqawi had been injured and taken to Ramadi hospital for emergency treatment, and with messages on the Internet talking of two Arab doctors accompanying him. Al-Zarqawi was reported to have been seen at the hospital on April 27. The hospital's director told an Iraq-based newspaper that US troops later surrounded and raided the entire building, searching for the Jordanian militant.