1 Rumor has it that Mr. Bin Laden cross-dresses to evade capture in Waziristan.

2 Thank you ever so much for that, Collin. Does the phrase "like a frightened turtle" give you an idea of the involuntary physical reaction your post provoked?

3 Collin, I'll take good news wherever I can get it. Let's hope he at least matches his purse to his shoes.

4 I believe that Charles Johnson has linked to a story about a video being made of the helo shoot-down that includes video of the insurgents shooting a survivor. That is why the Iraqi insurgents are outside the protections of the Geneva Convention - their own war crimes.

5 Whoever shot that crash survivor must be punished.

6 Check this everyone, There is a really nasty cycle of violence raging over there in Iraq. The violence is wrecking that society and laying waste to the population. There is one chap on this site who is a decorated Marine Officer, a talented Mechanical Engineer, a sharp entrepreneur and more. He has some ideas he may want to share.

7 Collin, is that a bicycle or a motorcycle, and how is it wrecking that society.

8 Hi Carlos, You're right, my error. It should be called a "violence interlock".

9 violence is coming from one side only. Guess which one. hint: they shot down a helicopter yesterday. The other side is just playing d.

10 Dear Carlos, That helicopter downing and the cold-blooded execution was revolting, I agree. Their retaliation excuse enraged me. Why were they inclined to do what they did?

11 then they helped a survivor to his feet to better execute him. cycle schmycle

12 Hi Carlos, What they did was despicable, we and everyone else on Jawa would agree to the core. Did they say why they did it?

13 Yeah, they said that if democracy succeeds, they're toast.

14 Hi Carlos, You and I both agree those killers must be punished. Their propagandists claim it was some kind of retaliation - for what?

15 "Why were they inclined to do what they did?" It's called Islam, Collin. And yes, they should be brought to trial and punished.

16 According to CNN, some asshats that call themselves the Islamic Army of Iraq claimed responsibility and said it was in retaliation for Fallujah....Guess it sounds more palatable than "because we're homicidal degenerates and we don't like you very much"..

17 Every rightwing blog should line up to defend former clinton appointees.

18 Why, did they figure out what 'is' means?

19 Off topic, but related to terrorism. Read to the end. A powerful story for all you WWII history buffs... Sixty years ago, the United States military invaded Okinawa on April 1, 1945, the last bastion of the Japanese maritime empire that stood in the way of an assault on the mainland. Operation Iceberg was perhaps the largest combined land-sea operation since Xerxes swept into Greece, involving more troops than at Normandy Beach — 1,600 ships, 183,000 infantry aand 12,000 aircraft. More than 110,000 skilled Japanese troops, commanded by the brilliant Gen. Ushijima and buttressed by another 100,000 coerced Okinawan irregulars, were ready for them. Despite the most terrible naval barrage in history, and an ominous unopposed initial landing, almost everything imaginable then went wrong. The ravaged island was not to be declared secure until a little more than a month before the final Japanese surrender. In just these few weeks before the end of the war, 12,520 Americans were killed — well over twice as many as were lost at the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and in Afghanistan and Iraq combined. In all, more than 33,000 more American s were wounded and missing. Perhaps another 200,000 Japanese soldiers, Okinawan auxiliaries and civilians died in the inferno. Luminaries were not exempt. The commander of the operation, Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner — the highestt-ranking American officer to die in the Pacific — perished. So did the celebrrated war correspondent Ernie Pyle. The notorious Isamu Cho, who had sought to overthrow the Japanese civilian government in 1931, committed suicide along with Gen. Ushijimi. Some of the most gripping American war writing — E.B. Sleddge's "With the Old Breed" and William Manchester's "Goodbye, Darkness" — grew out of this hell at Okinawa. Almost every controversy of the present war has an antecedent at Okinawa. Faulty intelligence? The War Department insisted there were no more than 60,000 enemy troops on the island — not three timees that number who had bored into the coral with sophisticated reinforced concrete bunkers. Suicide bombers were vastly underestimated. No one ever imagined that there were 10,000 Japanese bombers and fighters committed to the campaign — and perhaps as many as 4,000 kamikazes slated for suicide attacks. The result was the greatest losses in the history of the American Navy — 36 ships sunk, 368 hit, 5,000 sailors killed. Anger arose almmost immediately: Why no accurate intelligence; why no armored aircraft carrier decks; why no suitable fighter screens; why the need to post off the island as sitting ducks — why the need to invade at all? Why, why, why? Meanwhile, the Americans hit the Shuri Line, using head-on charges into fixed defenses — the Marine way of bullet, flame and bayonet. Thousands fell — including my namesake Victor Hanson of the 6th Marine Division — during the last hours of the last day of the successful effort to take Sugar Loaf Hill. We of quieter times lament the dropping of two atomic bombs. But those who lived though the nightmare of Okinawa — far more killed than on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined — were thankful that Okinawa was not to be soon repeated on a scale 20 times worse on the Japanese mainland. Most Americans of that late summer 1945 did not censure their politicians for the use of such horrific bombs to stop the carnage of the Pacific War. More often they were perplexed that we went ahead with Okinawa when the weapons to prevent such a traditional bloodbath were on the immediate horizon. Are there any lessons from the nightmare of Okinawa for the present age? For all the horror, stupidity — and sheer courage — of the campaign, American firepower, training, adaptability and bravery prove eventually a match for zealots and suicide bombers, whether on Okinawa or in Fallujah. For all the talk of the softness and decadence of modern Western man — whether the hot-rodders and soda jerks of the late 1930s or our own Jasons and Jeremys with rings in their ears and peroxide hair — the free American soldier proves far more lethal than those who blow themselves up. Operational mistakes and intelligence gaffes are the stuff of all wars — whether the failure to count accurately the enemy on Sugar Loaf Hill or in the Sunni Triangle. Yet victory, then and now, goes to those who in their calm determination press on and thus make the fewest errors rather than none at all. Despite heartbreak at our present losses, nothing in the three years of this present conflict, from its first day on Sept. 11 to the present terrorism in Iraq, compares with the carnage of those few weeks on Okinawa — for all its melancholy, still a hallowed Americann victory. Perhaps we wonder now whether a presently divided American people can still overcome fascism, suicide bombers and beheaders to foster freedom in an autocratic landscape. In answer, we should look back 60 years ago to what we went through in Okinawa and the subsequent humane society and decent democracy that followed in Japan and sigh, "Yes, we can and will again."

20 i wana say that what happen in all the world wheather in muslim or forwegin countires it is elly bad it is not just bad ,it is awful,but we canot say that all of that is related to ISLAM islam is not an identical for terrorism there something that madeand say that muslim did it but for your knoweldge as soon as he did it ,he is not muslim any more terrorism is aresult of the environment which all of the pepole live in it ,violence,cheating and so on,plz whem you write about terrorism see all side and try to meet some muslim pepole in chat and so on so will u see them as aterrorist? thanks