The US State Department reacted to news that Abu Bakar Bashir (Ba'asyir), the mastermind of the Bali nightclub bombing, was to receive a maximum sentence of 2.5 years (that's 30 months, or 900 days, or roughly 4.5 days for each of the 202 murdered victims). The phrases used by the State Department to describe the sentence: disappointed, not commensurate, disturbed, cause for concern.

As always, the US State Department is at the forefront of condemning jihadi mass murderers in the strongest possible terms. Bashir was heard to exclaim at the news of the disturbing sentence:

I'm being oppressed by people from abroad and at home. They consider Islamic law to be a shackle and are slaves to immoral behavior. Allah, open their hearts or destroy them!"

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Al Qaeda has a new internet based magazine, one that is sure to give Martha Stewart's Living a run for its money. Guardian:

A new online magazine purportedly posted by al-Qaida's affiliate in Iraq has launched an effort to recruit Muslims to rid Iraq of infidels and apostates [eg]...Americans and their Iraqi partners.

The colorful, well-designed magazine is named Zurwat al-Sanam, Arabic for ``The Tip of the Camel's Hump'' - a reference among Islamic militants to ``the epitome of belief and virtuous activity.''

Washington-based counterterrorism expert Evan Kohlmann told The Associated Press the magazine aims at ``conveying the sense that the organization is professional, capable and really understands what they're doing.''

It was designed as ``an attempt to refute the idea that al-Zarqawi and these people are desperate. ... It shows that these people have time on their hands and don't have to worry about mobility.''

SITE adds this about the internet porno-mag for the death-cultist camel-humping jihadis:

“This is a loud cry,” it explains, “written by young writers to keep Allah’s words, which we share with our sword-carrying brothers, about what Allah gave us about wisdom and guidance in the Qur’an, the Sunnah, and understanding the Sahaba and their followers [so we may] pledge to people [entrance] to the Garden of Eden.”

Repeating the importance of the sword in the religion of Islam, the authors go on to state that “our call is to make the word of Allah the highest, and the Sharia will rule the East and West of the Earth, to wipe out unbelievers wherever they are and in any form.”

Dear Imam Achmed,

Is it harem for Brad Pitt to divorce Jennifer Annistons (sic)?

Signed,
Pop-shahid in Yemen

Dear Pop-shahid in Yemen,

It is harem as long as Brad says I divorce thee three times, but it is not recommended.

I would also recommend that you spend less time worrying about the infidels in Zionist controlled Hollywood and come to Iraq to cut the heads off the Zionist-Crusader forces. If you can get Brad Pitt to come then Allah assures he will have 72 virgins--each more beautiful than that whore Jennifer Aniston--in paradise.

Allahu-akhbar,
Imam Achmed

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Let's send these guys. If they die in the process, no big.

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Novinite:

In his speech on the 28th anniversary of the establishment of the Libyan Jamahiriyah (popular republic), Qaddafi described the United States, Britain and Italy as dictatorships, which should learn “genuine democracy” in Libya.

Hat tip: Chad Evans

UPDATE: Jeff at Beautiful Attrocities notes some of Qaddafi's other brilliant statements.

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....have been greatly exaggerated! The Blogger Death Pool is up. Apparently I will die playing with my own lightsaber. Can I just say in my defense, it is a big lightsaber. Not Gannon big, but big.

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It doesn't have Brad Pitt, but it does have a lot of homo-erotic subtexts. An interview with Jeff Gannon.

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The anonymous Freeway Blogger celebrates the liberation of Iraq and Afghanistan, it's spill-over affects into Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Palestine, and the complete paradigm shift uderway in the entire Middle East by mocking the 1,500 brave soldiers who died in that effort.

Examples of his signs:

...more evidence the real objection to the war in Iraq is that the Left thinks all war is bad. more...

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1 This is why I don't visit the leftosphere. The effects of the blinding rage on my blood pressure can't be good for my health. Thanks for doing the dirty work so that I don't have to sully my browser with their vomitous (sorry!) bilge.

Posted by: Preston Taylor Holmes at March 03, 2005 12:55 PM (WsZ4F)

2 Hello Dr. Shackleford, Looks like the LLL media elite got together in the backroom and decided to allow a slight, grudging change of tone by admitting there are some positive aspects about the uses of the US Military, and perhaps, that a new wind is blowing in the Middle East. However, read the Guardian article, and be reassured that they haven't changed their true nature. A Force for Good, by Robert Kaplan/NYT http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/opinion/03kaplan.html&OP=20bcd540/eqQ26We8Q5C)YwQ5CQ5CbTeTaaKeaUeaUeQ5CBQ3EQ3FQ3EQ5CQ3FeaU0rBCrQ3F7RbQ2B NYT "The global war on terrorism has made the military far more effective at performing humanitarian deeds." and also You're going to love this one. Only the Guardian would make an attempt to credit Osama bin Laden with starting a democratic revolution in the Middle East. The Guardian announces Osama started the The Cedar Revolution: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1429001,00.html The Guardian: "Has Osama bin Laden started a democratic revolution in the Middle East? One of very few universally valid laws of history is the law of unintended consequences. The effects of what men and women do are rarely those they intend, and sometimes they are the exact opposite. If that happens here, it would be hard to imagine a nicer illustration of the law." They apparently really believe that the world is quite that stupid

Posted by: Ariana at March 03, 2005 01:26 PM (Z+LC9)

3 A-freaking-amazing.

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at March 03, 2005 01:51 PM (JQjhA)

4 The usial antiamerican bunch of low life scum why dont they go live in cuba im sure that castro would love these no good scum

Posted by: sandpiper at March 03, 2005 01:53 PM (kxat+)

5 Maybe, just maybe, if terrorists would only butcher liberals maybe then they would want to fight back.

Posted by: Lovetobuggertheleft at March 03, 2005 02:11 PM (yBHNA)

6 No, if terrorists would only butcher liberals there would be no need to fight back

Posted by: joey at March 03, 2005 02:51 PM (+7Usq)

7 Cowardly is saying you care about human rights and ending oppression while you watch innocent people being brutalized by tyrants and remain silent. You care more about seeing Bush and your country fail than freeing oppressed people and making the world a safer place. Try evading AAA fire and SAMs or being held as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton for about seven years or so before you talk about bombing being cowardly. Step away from the Kool-Aid kids and get a fricking clue! Oh yeah Free Tibet! But everyplace else oh well, we are to blame. More Kool-Aid please!

Posted by: bags75 at March 04, 2005 08:37 AM (G1JLb)

8 I prefer Tang

Posted by: Night Weasel at March 04, 2005 09:58 AM (tkj+t)

9 Right wing Cowards, sit back here in the States, while the rest of us fight your war. If your for the War join up you sniffling COWARDS

Posted by: Been their at March 29, 2005 12:47 AM (EEqmd)

10 119 dath row inmates now free nationwide because they were found out to be innocenct and the crisis is growing please checkout www.innocenceproject.org thank you for your time

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Our allies in the Global War on Terror have finally convicted Abu Bakar Bashir (Ba'asyir), the mastermind of the Bali nightclub bombing, to a lengthy sentence. What does the mass murder of 202 infidels get you in Indonesia? 30 months.

That's 2.5 years.

That's 900 days.

That's 4.5 days per victim.

And who does the New York Times blame for the light sentence? Who else but G.W. Bush. more...

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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, has been indicted by Jordan. Let's hope he dies a painful death at the hands of a US Marine long before he ever sees a court room. more...

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Un-freaking-believable.Par for the course. File under: what they tell us in English vs. what they are saying in Arabic. more...

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"It's strange for me to say it," says Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, who would never be mistaken for a Bush backer, "but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq."--LA Times. The strangest part is not that a Druze politician would say this, but that the LA Times would report it! (ht: No Pasaran)

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I've been puking since last night. Think the director's cut of The Exorcist. One of my colleagues called the morgue, but I'm not dead yet. In fact, I'm much better. Needless to say, I cancelled classes and there was a great mourning among the students. Weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth.

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The Revolution continues as the Lebanese opposition demands Syria withdraw troops immediately. Notice how this AP article, though, gives credit where credit is due: to Egypt and Saudi Arabia. I'm sure George Bush had nothing to do with this: more...

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This is the second time The Jawa Report has been used in a lecture on a university campus (as far as I know). Only 4,549,278 more times and I will have caught up to Chomsky!!

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The Army of Ansar al-Sunna has claimed responsibility for the murder of two Turkish drivers in Northern Iraq. more...

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Via Jeff Quinton this news that Mohammad Sohail, the man suspected of videotaping Daniel Pearl as he was murdered, was arrested today in Pakistan! May he rot in hell. Channel News Asia:

Pakistani police arrested a militant who was sentenced to death in his absence for a 2002 suicide bomb which killed 11 French engineers and who may be linked to the murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl, officials said.

Police said they suspect Islamic extremist Mohammad Sohail may have filmed the beheading of the Wall Street Journal correspondent, who was abducted in the volatile southern city of Karachi in early 2002.

A member of the Harkat Jihad-e-Islami militant group, he was detained after falling off a motorbike during a shootout with police in Karachi, city police officer Mohammad Fayyaz told AFP.

"He was arrested after he fell down from a motorcycle, while five other terrorists escaped after firing at police," Fayyaz said of the arrest.

Fayyaz said that during an initial interrogation Sohail had confessed to a role in the death of Pearl and a December 2003 suicide attack on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.

"He could be the cameraman who made the video of Pearl's slaying and we are interrogating him," the officer added.

"Dr. Pearl and his wife (Ruth) have made a decision to take this brutal hurt and make something constructive out of it," said Rabbi Herbert N. Schwartz, spiritual leader of Temple Beth El.

Schwartz said Pearl's talk will center on choosing hope over anger and peace over conflict. Pearl will encourage Jews to embrace their faith, all the while inviting dialogue among different religions and races.

"He ultimately takes a look at who his son is, why he died, and how did (Daniel's) Jewish life contribute to this wider vision of understanding in the world," Schwartz said.

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A new video showing Minas Ibrahim al-Yussufi (also al-Yousifi, Yusefi) the secretary general of Iraq's Christian Democratic Party and a man who has been held hostage for a month, has been delivered to AFP. On the video, al-Yussefi begs for the intervention of the Pope and to the King of Sweden.

"I appeal to (Sweden's) King Carl XVI Gustaf, Queen Silvia, Pope John Paul II, the international union of Christian parties and the Committee of Muslim Scholars... to work for my release and enable me to complete my national mission," he says.

Al-Yussefi also makes this heart-wrenching appeal, "I have been transferred to the execution unit of the Iraqi Vengeance Brigades, which certainly means my death and execution."

On a February 18th video Minas Ibrahim al-Yussufi made a similar appeal. He is to be beheaded unless his captors are paid $4 million dollars.

Al-Yousifi fled Northern Iraq in 1984 and emmigrated to Sweden. He returned to Iraq after the US led invasion to found a Christian politcal party. His wife and family remain in Sweden.

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Agenzia Giornalistica Italia reports that a low level Iraqi minister announced yesterday that the release of Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena was 'imminent'. The newspaper that Sgrena worked for, the Leftist Il Manifesto was cautiously optimistic on hearing the initial reports. Italian government officials, though, seem less optimistic and doubt the veracity of the report.

Il Manifesto made the cryptic claim that they believed, "Giuliana will arrive from nowhere just like she disappeared".

Yesterday a hunger strike was coordinated between the Catholic and Muslim communities in Italy in support of Giuliana Sgrena's plight. The protesters, so concerned about Sgrena focused much of their attention on calling for the US to end its attack against terrorists in Ramadi.

Developing....

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A Gallup poll leaked today by Editor & Publisher reveals that nearly one in four Americans support using nuclear weapons "to attack terrorist facilities”. Nearly two-thirds of Americans support the assassination of "known terrorists” and 39% agreed that torturing known terrorists was legitimate "if they know details about future terrorist attacks in the U.S.”

We at the Jawa Report have long speculated that the threatened use of nuclear weapons against Mecca could serve as a rational deterrent to Islamic jihadis using weapons of mass destruction against the US. Indeed, many Washington insiders suggest that the Administration has sent back-door messages to terrorist organizations that if they were to use a WMD within the borders of the US that a nuclear strike against Mecca would result. This, they argue, is the reason no WMD attack has happened since 9-11. more...

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From this site:

Your Jedi robe is a Camouflage color.

You have ever used the force to get yourself another beer so you didn't have to wait for a commercial.

You think the best use of your light saber is picking your teeth.

At least one wing of your X-Wing is primer colored.

There is a blaster rack in the back of your landspeeder.

Your father has ever said to you, "Shoot, son come on over t' the dark side...it'll be a hoot."

Come celebrate White Trash Wednesday with these other fine rednecks:

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