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Seriously, you can't make this shit up. Al Jazeera will show clips of infidels getting beheaded by 'resistance forces' but won't run ads from PETA calling into question the handling of sheep imported from Australia because those images are just too cruel.

WND:

Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based Arab television network famous for airing images of beheadings and mutilated bodies, rejected a 30-second commercial from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals showing abuse of Australian sheep.

The sheep, raised for wool, are later shipped alive to the Middle East for slaughter. The footage shows lambs partially skinned alive during a procedure called "mulesing." Sheep are repeatedly kicked as they are loaded onto what PETA calls "death ships." Other sheep are are shown being dragged and kicked in the head as their throats are slit while other sheep watch.

Others on the ironicalness of it all: QandO, Myopic Zeal, Say Anything

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It's times like these when you wish all the horror stories about Camp X-Ray down at Guantanamo were true. At the very least let'l get a female guard to do the cavity search when he arrives. AP:

Pakistan said Monday it handed over a senior al-Qaida suspect to the United States even though he had been the country's most wanted man for allegedly masterminding two bloody attempts to blow up President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.

Some Pakistani officials have described Abu Farraj al-Libbi as al-Qaida's latest No. 3 man, after Osama bin Laden and Egyptian surgeon Ayman al-Zawahri. However, he did not appear on the FBI list of the world's most-wanted terrorists, and his exact role in al-Qaida remains murky....

Because of the grave nature of the attacks, al-Libbi had been widely expected to stand trial in Pakistan. But last week Musharraf told CNN his government would turn the Libyan over to the United States. In a newspaper interview published Monday, he confirmed the handover had taken place.

"Yes, we turned Abu Farraj al-Libbi over to the United States recently, and we don't want people like him in our country," he was quoted as saying by al-Ittihad, a newspaper in the United Arab Emirates.

Musharraf's spokesman, Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan, verified the comments, which were made during an official visit to the UAE.

A Pakistani intelligence official said al-Libbi was whisked out of Pakistan with U.S. officials on a plane "a few days ago." The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the clandestine nature of his job, said he did not know where al-Libbi was taken.

Earlier report on Abu Farraj al-Libbi here.

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You won't see this tonight on TV. DOD:

Tips from local residents helped Iraqi security forces rescue a kidnapping victim, seize weapons and uncover a weapons cache June 5, Multinational Force Iraq officials in Baghdad reported today.
Iraqi police from the Shaab Police Station responded to a tip and launched a raid on a local residence, where they found a kidnapping victim unharmed inside, officials said.

Four suspects were taken into custody for questioning, officials said.

In other anti-insurgent activity, an Iraqi citizen who witnessed two sacks of ammunition and weapons being dropped in a field turned the contents over to soldiers at Camp Justice.

Officials said the citizen saw a white Toyota pickup truck drop the sacks and investigated the contents. Inside the bags were 37 Iraqi hand grenades, 101 Bulgarian grenade fuses, two Spanish artillery fuses, two French 130 mm artillery proximity fuses and one heavy machine gun, officials said.

The resident transported the cache to Camp Justice and turned it over to soldiers at the gate, officials said.

Also in Iraq, soldiers with the 1st Brigade, 3rd Iraqi Army Division, acted on a tip from a civilian and uncovered a weapons cache consisting of 20 122mm rockets.

No injuries or damages were reported during the incidents.

The Iraqi government announced Monday it detained nearly 900 suspected militants and set up more than 800 checkpoints in a two-week sweep that appears to have somewhat blunted attacks in the capital. ...

The latest figures released from Operation Lightning, which began May 22 in Baghdad, included at least 887 arrests and the establishment around Baghdad of 608 mobile and 194 permanent checkpoints. Also, 38 weapon stores were raided.

The operation is the biggest Iraqi-led offensive since Saddam's ouster two years ago. Before it began, authorities controlled only eight of Baghdad's 23 entrances. Now all are under government control.

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When is the US government going to get serious with these fascists? It's important to note that these men were arrested for practicing their faith, which is prohibited in the Kingdom. more...

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1 See? No comments. Nobody's shocked. Where's AI on this?

Posted by: Oyster at June 02, 2005 01:36 PM (fl6E1)

2 On other news: Finns arrest Satanists for practising their religion on Christian burial ground. I'm shocked! They weren't allowed to show off their religion by prancing around the area Christians consider their own. Don't say it's not the same thing, it is to Muslims, who now show-off minority religions are only trouble

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at June 02, 2005 01:49 PM (lGolT)

3 Darn, 'know', not now...

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at June 02, 2005 01:50 PM (lGolT)

4 So Christianity is a minority show off religion?? Also a law here not to be in a graveyard after dark (although it never stopped me & my sugar). Keeps down teenage pregnancy. Go back to the gulag thread.

Posted by: Howie at June 02, 2005 02:59 PM (D3+20)

5 Christianity in the Middle East is as much a minority show-off religion as Satanism is in Christian world.

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at June 02, 2005 03:08 PM (lGolT)

6 I now find myself sorry I encouraged you to express your opinion. Most of old testament written in Iraq (during jewish bondage there). And just where do you think the city of Nazareth is?? Not in Saudi Arabia but definately in the middle east.

Posted by: Howie at June 02, 2005 03:17 PM (D3+20)

7 Howie: You've created a Frankenstein, old boy.

Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at June 02, 2005 03:29 PM (x+5JB)

8 YBP: Yes and a hard headed one at that. We had a little argument on the Gulag thread as well. Can't say I'm not hard headed, But at least I don't pretend to understand Finland better than the Finns.

Posted by: Howie at June 02, 2005 03:48 PM (D3+20)

9 It is a minority religion and always has been in the Middle East area, even the Romans could convert Arabs to Christianity, and Jews have always been a minority everywhere, except perhaps in some areas in Israel, where the Palestinian populations weren't the majority since biblical time.

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at June 02, 2005 03:50 PM (lGolT)

10 It is a minority religion and always has been in the Middle East area, even the Romans couldn't convert Arabs to Christianity, and Jews have always been a minority everywhere, except perhaps in some areas in Israel, where the Palestinian populations weren't the majority since biblical time.

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at June 02, 2005 03:50 PM (lGolT)

11 Fine, I'll stop expressing opinions, see ya

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at June 02, 2005 03:51 PM (lGolT)

12 So what? The very essence of liberty is that individuals and minorities be allowed to practice their faith.

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at June 02, 2005 04:06 PM (JQjhA)

13 Finn: Now you know how I felt when you started dogging America. I think you should express your opinion but should you upset me I'll call you on it every time. I was so pissed I was shaking. There is a lot wrong with this country but I love it with all my heart. That is why in 2000 years we'll still be here and be far ahead of Europe. We'll go on making mistakes an learing from them. Well go on picking up the good parts of other cultures. Here everyone has worth and value to the nation as a whole.

Posted by: Howie at June 02, 2005 04:09 PM (D3+20)

14 Darn... guess I'll keep stubbornly commenting if the verybigblogboss has taken an interrest. Because when you have minority religions yuo don't approve because they are just heretic versions of something in your own religion, (active Satanists in Christianity, active Christians in Islam) you are allowed stop them from messing around in places the majority thinks are too sacred for the heretic minority to ridicule with their presence.

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at June 02, 2005 04:12 PM (lGolT)

15 Am I going to be the next one all rightist team up against now that greg is gone? I got a summer job and a lot of drinking, fishing, swimming and traveling to do, so I can't be as active as he was. Pick Improbulus.

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at June 02, 2005 04:17 PM (lGolT)

16 You were actually so angry you were shaking? Lovely... I was getting a bit annoyed in the comment-gulag myself.

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at June 02, 2005 04:23 PM (lGolT)

17 Sorry Finn I'm out of time. I'm not picking on you I was really upset.

Posted by: Howie at June 02, 2005 04:25 PM (D3+20)

18 Howie, make sure you notice how easy it was to make you calm down by making me look like a victim of censorship. (Fine, I'll stop expressing opinions, see ya)((not that it was an attempt to do so but anyway)) Even if it would be a crime against one of your collective souls main principles you shouldn't change moods that fast and easy.

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at June 02, 2005 04:27 PM (lGolT)

19 That's because I believe in free speech. I was not calmed down.

Posted by: Howie at June 02, 2005 04:47 PM (D3+20)

20 Why not Finn thats what makes people interesting! Veeeeeeeeeery boring we would all be if our moods didnt change you should know that I thought you were 2 different people at one point because of your mood swings or maybe that was just your alter ego, A Finn ( the sober one) ;0)

Posted by: sparky at June 02, 2005 04:48 PM (F1nba)

21 Finn, you are so completely clueless regarding the history of the Christian faith that I'm completely aghast.

Posted by: SPQR at June 02, 2005 09:36 PM (xauGB)

22 SPQR: Fin just likes hanging out with the grownups. He's in over his head and doesn't even know it. Comments like "show-off minority religions", caring more about a "few arabs" than a whole population of Russians, a sense of happiness when the twin towers came down, all show an adolscent, pre-programmed mindset. And then has the nerve to smugly criticize Howie on his reaction to all that BS. When he grows up and gets out into the real world and gets smacked around a bit, he may realize what kind of nonsense he's been touting here. Maybe.

Posted by: Oyster at June 02, 2005 10:07 PM (YudAC)

23 I don't have a pre-programmed mindset and I'm just criticizing howies sudden loss of rage after the victimization. Speaking of pre-programmed mindsets, you all seem to have ones, since you always comment the same way, your comments are always on the same side of the issue and it's not fun stuff to read unless it is pointed at you as an insult. Predictable people are no fun at all. Plus Rusty seems like the only adult, some others are more like know-it-all students, perhaps at adult age, but just picking opinions and blindly sticking with them until their community at the study place changes it's mind. Sparky is always a good read though.

Posted by: A fatwad Finn at June 03, 2005 01:16 AM (cWMi4)

24 Finn: Has it occurred to you that we "comment the same way" and are here because we feel the same way about situations? It's not pre-programmed and on occasion some of those who seem to be on the "other side" of you have actually agreed with you. If we were pre-programmed this would simply not occur. Howie did not victimize you. You dissent on so many issues with mischaracterizations and incorrect history and get called on it. That is not being victimized. In that case you have essentially made victims of most of us. So much time is wasted here correcting you every time you change the course of the subject matter with more nonsense or level insults at our opinions. I stand by my characterization of you and your remarks noted above. If you're going to let a history of what happened between your country and some Russians, long before you were born, justify your remarks about not caring about them I feel sorry for you. If you felt a sense of happiness about 3,000 innocent people dying at the hands of some madmen, I feel sorry for you. If you feel it's necessary to point out that you feel some religions, namely Christianity, are "show-off" simply by virtue of their numbers in a given area, I feel sorry for you. You've displayed an intolerance here for far more things than anyone else here and nearly all of it is insulting toward us and our country without ever having lived here or known any of us. You've taken the general anti-American stance and adopted it as your own. Nothing original there. Just exactly HOW am I to feel about you? Other than you are a "minority show-off here", I find many of your comments repugnant. I'm supposed to sit back and take it? Uh ... that would be a No. Everyone is entitled to their opinions. Right or wrong. Last time I checked, we were still free to be so. But that freedom or liberty is no guaranty that we won't be offended. And that goes both ways. Personally, I feel you clarified your stance here long ago. What's the purpose of re-affirming it over and over? If we're "no fun at all" unless you can use our viewpoints as an insult, it tells me much. I have never just "picked" a viewpoint and blindly stuck with it. My viewpoints are the result of many years of facing adversity and agreement, hard times and good times, and most of all - 50 years of life experience. I have raised children, owned businesses and thwarted various and sundry catastrophies in my life and come out okay ,and I don't take kindly to someone with a summer job telling me they know what's wrong with me. And to Rusty, I apologize if I've gone overboard here. I just had to get that off my chest. I will not address Finn again in the future.

Posted by: Oyster at June 03, 2005 08:45 AM (YudAC)

25 Gee thanks guys....I'm so flattered by your support really. I'm goint to be pretty buried the next few days so I may not be out here much. I do have one thing I want to say today. I got home in time to catch the end of the News Hour on PBS. They were running in interview with the former editor of the Washington Post. Right after that they play photos of fallen soldiers who have died recently. There were 15 on there last night. In particular there were three in a row from the fine state of Mississippi. Other states as well but MS took it particularly hard on the chin and I just wanted to thank them for these fine young men's sacrafice for our country.

Posted by: Howie at June 03, 2005 09:30 AM (D3+20)

26 Oyster, my comments are usually just attempts to stir things up or simply say "No it isn't", because I have no real opinions on any of this, since it doesn't concern me and there's no point in making comments like "good for you, I don't care, see ya". If you take them personally instead of just thinking "What an immature idiot spamming with dumb ideas", I'm glad not everyone thought that yet. Ok ok you're all old people, I try not to imply otherwise. Good for you, I don't care, see ya.

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While the troops have gone home, Syrian intelligence officers remain to direct Hizballah agents to do their dirty work. NY Times:

An outspoken journalist known for his writings against Syria's presence in Lebanon was killed in a car bombing in Beirut today, raising tensions in Lebanon just four days after elections for a new Parliament began.

The bomb was placed in a vehicle outside the home of the journalist, Samir Kassir, in the predominantly Christian district of Ashrafiya. Mr. Kassir's body lay slumped on one side after the blast as fire crews arrived on the scene, witnesses said. The blast shattered windows in the nearby area.

Mr. Kassir, a columnist at the Lebanese daily An Nahar, was known for his opposition to Syria's role in Lebanon. He blamed Syria for the assassination on Feb. 14 of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and railed about that country's need to pull out of Lebanon. He also led a call for the resignation of Lebanon's pro-Syrian security chiefs.

Popular demonstrations and international pressure after the killing of Mr. Hariri finally ended Syria's nearly 30-year occupation, but questions remain about whether security agents are still in the country.

In his last column in An Nahar on Friday, Mr. Kassir criticized what he said was the unwillingness of Syria's government to enact rapid change, noting that reform for the governing Baathist Party "does not mean accepting opposing views."

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Sad day in Iraq. Usually these guys do little damage to our aircraft. The location being in Western Iraq, expect an al Qaeda propaganda video within the next 24 hours. Xinhua:

Two US soldiers were killed when their helicopter was shot down north of Baghdad, according to the US military here Friday.

Two helicopters were under attack by small arms fire at 22:50(1850 GMT) while supporting coalition forces near Baquba, 56 km northeast of Baghdad, the military said in a statement.

One of two OH-58 Kiowa crashed by the fire, killing two US soldiers, while the second landed safely at a nearby base after sustaining damage, the statement added.

The US forces rushed to the scene and secured the site, said the statement, adding the incident was under investigation.

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You know the bad guys are in bad shape when the run out of 'volunteers' for suicide bombing missions. Where is PETA when they're really needed?

Terrorists tie bomb belt to dog in Iraq:

Insurgents in Iraq attached explosives to a dog and tried to blow up a military convoy near the northern oil centre of Kirkuk.

The canine bomb went off but the only casualty was the unfortunate animal, said police. The militants wrapped an explosive belt around the dog and detonated it as the convoy passed through Dakuk, 25 miles south of Kirkuk, said the town's police chief, Col Mohammed Barzaji.

"The dog was torn apart by the explosion which caused neither injury among the soldiers nor any damage."

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Failed foreign policy. Imperialism. No blood for oil. Zionist neocons. Blah-blah-blah. more...

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1 This is actually a negative development. With the new law, the only people that can run against the president need to be approved by the president. Therefore, he ensures his competition is weak. The opposition (Kafeya) attempted to boycott the vote, as it is much difficult to ammend a law once it is in place. They believe that the entire law needs to be rewritten to allow anyone the opportunity to run in the election. Thus, this vote for "democracy" was a sham to ensure Mubarak stays in power

Posted by: Nick at May 26, 2005 04:32 PM (osgBA)

2 "The opposition says the conditions on presidential candidates are so restrictive that the ruling party would not face a credible challenge. " This way we can both point to change and not change at all. Sure to be ho-hum happy for the wingers at home.

Posted by: actus at May 26, 2005 05:54 PM (Ygl+x)

3 Dude, what is your obsession with Kip Winger's fans? I'm guessing you're a big Hanson fanboy, right? Fag.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at May 26, 2005 08:59 PM (0yYS2)

4 Hosni Mubarak is Egypts Urho K. Kekkonen, he will rule until he gets so old he goes all mumbly and wierd. Also, after he goes, Egypt will most likely fall into depression for 5 years after which they get companies like Al-Nokiak or Masah-Yardsni to give them an economic booster followed by a fast growth in economy.

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The group formerly known as Tawhid and Jihad and which has known ties to Osama bin Laden appears to be in complete meltdown mode. An Islamst message board frequently used by Abu Musab al Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq claims that the terrorist mastermind has fled the country. The post was put up by frequent al Qaeda linked poster 'al-Khalidi'. Thanks to James Joyner who sends this UPI story along:

A militant Islamic Web site reported Wednesday Iraq al-Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was evacuated from Iraq after being injured.

Zarqawi`s group, al-Qaida Organization in Mesopotamia, said in a statement carried on the site Zarqawi was moved secretly to a neighboring country with the help of doctors from the Arab Peninsula and the Sudan.

The group did not identify the country to which Zarqawi was evacuated but said he is in a stable condition after a bullet pierced the right side of his chest causing breathing problems.

The group said in a message on the Web site Tuesday Zarqawi had been wounded. It asked for "prayers for our leader," and expressed pride at what they described as his heroic wounds. It did not say how or when the Jordanian-born Zarqawi was hurt.

Iraqi and US troops have arrested two top aides of Al-Qaeda's Iraq frontman, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and are hot on the heels of militants loyal to him in north-western Iraq, commanders said today, a day after the country's most wanted man was reported wounded.

Described as "one of the most wanted people" in northern Iraq, Mullah Kamel al-Assawadi was detained after he tried to bribe his way past an Iraqi checkpoint, the US military said.

One of Zarqawi's regional secretaries was also detained in the restive provincial capital of Baquba, north of Baghdad, a statement said.

"Assawadi was questioned by an Iraqi soldier at a checkpoint close to Balad," an insurgent stronghold near Baquba, the military said without giving a date for his arrest.

Described as one of Zarqawi's top lieutenants, Assawadi had on him various identity papers as well as dollars with which he tried to buy the soldier's silence.

"He tried to hide his identity but several detainees recognised him and he is currently held at a multi-national forces detention centre where he is being questioned," the statement added.

Assawadi allegedly financed and provided military training to an insurgent cell and helped prepare car bombs.

"He was linked to numerous Wahhabis (Saudi-inspired Sunni militants) operating north of Baghdad," said the statement, adding that Assawadi was based in the Sunni insurgent bastion of Samarra, a city north of Baghdad which was retaken from rebels in a massive US-backed assault last autumn.

The Iraqi Defence Ministry meanwhile announced that the Army and allied forces had "arrested Zarqawi's secretary for Diyala province, Agha Omar, on Tuesday in Baquba," without providing further details.

1754 thinks Zarqawi might have fled to Syria. Maybe, but it would be odd for one of Zarqawi's chief propagandists to mention the obvious--namely that Zarqawi is in Syria.

UPDATE: Do chiggers ever attack the anal cavity?

UPDATE II: Athena over at Terrorism Unveiled makes this excellent point, "Now, this would seem to be more of a disinformation ploy than the first allegation [that Zarqawi was wounded] in order to stop troops from trying to locate the (hopefully) immobile Zarqawi."

UPDATE III: Other jihadists denying the claim. Guardian:

Soon, the statement appeared on another militant site, where other posters quickly denounced it as untrue and unauthorized by the terror group.

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These two morons, who, surviving this attempt at stupidity, will certainly go on to larger and dumber things.

LONDON (AP) -- Two "Star Wars" fans were critically injured when they tried to replicate the light sabers used in the movie by filling glass fluorescent light tubes with fuel, police and a news report said Tuesday.

The pair, Mark Webb, 20, and an unidentified 17-year-old girl, were planning to make a video recording of a duel like those in the just-released blockbuster film "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith," Britain's Press Association news agency said.

They were injured when one of the makeshift sabers exploded Sunday evening in the woods in Hemel Hempstead, north of London.

Hertfordshire Police said a third person present when the explosion happened had been questioned. The department said the two who were injured were in critical condition at a burns unit in Chelmsford, Essex.

"At this stage we are unable to confirm the exact circumstances, but glass tubes and traces of accelerant (flammable substance) were found at the scene," police said.

If there was not heavy drinking involved, there is absolutly no excuse.

Cross posted at Conservative Friends

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David sends along this WSJ editorial for Greg's reading enjoyment:

To venture into the Arab world, as I did recently over four weeks in Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan and Iraq, is to travel into Bush Country. I was to encounter people from practically all Arab lands, to listen in on a great debate about the possibility of freedom and liberty. I met Lebanese giddy with the Cedar Revolution that liberated their country from the Syrian prison that had seemed an unalterable curse. They were under no illusions about the change that had come their way. They knew that this new history was the gift of an American president who had put the Syrian rulers on notice. The speed with which Syria quit Lebanon was astonishing, a race to the border to forestall an American strike that the regime could not discount. I met Syrians in the know who admitted that the fear of American power, and the example of American forces flushing Saddam Hussein out of his spider hole, now drive Syrian policy. They hang on George Bush's words in Damascus, I was told: the rulers wondering if Iraq was a crystal ball in which they could glimpse their future.

The weight of American power, historically on the side of the dominant order, now drives this new quest among the Arabs. For decades, the intellectual classes in the Arab world bemoaned the indifference of American power to the cause of their liberty. Now a conservative American president had come bearing the gift of Wilsonian redemption...

The children of Islam, and of the Arabs in particular, had taken to the road, and to terror. There were many liberal, secular Arabs now clamoring for American intervention. The claims of sovereignty were no longer adequate; a malignant political culture had to be "rehabilitated and placed in receivership," a wise Jordanian observer conceded. Mr. Bush may not be given to excessive philosophical sophistication, but his break with "the soft bigotry of low expectations" in the Arab-Islamic world has found eager converts among Muslims and Arabs keen to repair their world, to wean it from a culture of scapegoating and self-pity. Pick up the Arabic papers today: They are curiously, and suddenly, readable. They describe the objective world; they give voice to recognition that the world has bypassed the Arabs. The doors have been thrown wide open, and the truth of that world laid bare. Grant Mr. Bush his due: The revolutionary message he brought forth was the simple belief that there was no Arab and Muslim "exceptionalism" to the appeal of liberty.....

As I made my way on this Arab journey, I picked up a meditation that Massimo d'Azeglio, a Piedmontese aristocrat who embraced that "springtime" in Europe, offered about his time, which speaks so directly to this Arab time: "The gift of liberty is like that of a horse, handsome, strong, and high-spirited. In some it arouses a wish to ride; in many others, on the contrary, it increases the desire to walk." It would be fair to say that there are many Arabs today keen to walk--frightened as they are by the prospect of the Islamists coming to power and curtailing personal liberties, snuffing out freedoms gained at such great effort and pain. But more Arabs, I hazard to guess, now have the wish to ride. It is a powerful temptation that George W. Bush has brought to their doorstep.

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...of Fight Club... (from the SITE Institute)

A past lecture authored by al-Qaeda’s research center, “The Center for Islamic Studies and Research”, also known as al-Neda, has been re-posted to the internet. The message directs Muslims not to "spread any information about the mujahideen which the enemy could benefit from." According to the Center, "It is well known that… America…is making a huge effort to collect information about the jihad and mujahideen from everywhere…the enemy has designated special organizations to analyze information, make links between the [pieces of information], and make conclusions out of [the information]." Thus, "Any Muslim who supports jihad and the mujahideen should not spread any information about the mujahideen…The most dangerous information is information which mentions the names of the mujahideen, times, places, numbers of mujahideen, amounts of supplies and weaponry, and ways of communication."

...is to not talk about Fight Club.

Sounds like the civilian population isn't exactly buying it:

He finishes by asking civilian Muslims to "Â…let the mujahideen manage the information war as they let them manage the military warÂ…"

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Anybody else find this odd?

Iran's Agriculture Jihad Ministry is determined to reduce the countryÂ’s heavy reliance on imported edible oil, said the official in charge of implementing the national oil seed production scheme.

What sort of crazy Iron Chef Iran is this? Does the loser get beheaded? Just asking...

2:00PM Update: This was just begging for some visuals...

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1 Don't you get it??? It's a stuggle for the inner edible oil.

Posted by: Carlos at May 17, 2005 08:44 AM (8e/V4)

2 or maybe it's an inner struggle for oil?

Posted by: Carlos at May 17, 2005 08:44 AM (8e/V4)

3 I knew oil was involved somehow...

Posted by: Matt Hurley at May 17, 2005 08:49 AM (vQcWL)

4 Allah hates the imported cooking oils... ?

Posted by: Hoodlumman at May 17, 2005 08:49 AM (1iJzK)

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The thing about the living-dead is this: you can shoot them but they just keep getting up and coming after your brain.

If Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was a zombie, it would also explain his decapitation fetish. It's so much easier to get to the most tender portions of the brain that way.

Nope. Never heard this one before. Thanks to Tim from Opinion Bug for e-mailing this while I was busy grading. ADNKI:

Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is "serious injured, possibly dead" according to Colonel Fouad Hani Hassan, commander of the fifth division of the Iraqi armed forces, cited by 'Elaph', a popular website in the Arab world. Al-Zarqawi, considered al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, is believed to have been injured in the major offensive US-led forces have been carrying out in the western Anbar province over the last few days. ...

While Operation Matador is not specifically aimed at catching al-Zarqawi, Brig. Gen. James Conway told a Pentagon news briefing on Tuesday that "it would be a welcome event to come across him or his body."

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1 This is, what, the fifth time that Zarqawi has died? He is the Kenny of terrorists. Anyway, hopefully he's gone for real this time.

Posted by: Kazmin at May 11, 2005 06:09 PM (hp7es)

2 Seriously, wake me when they get him.

Posted by: Carlos at May 11, 2005 06:56 PM (8e/V4)

3 Oh my G*d, they killed Zarqawi! You bastards!

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at May 11, 2005 07:17 PM (JQjhA)

4 Ding-Dong, The witch is dead!!!!

Posted by: THANOS35 at May 11, 2005 07:49 PM (mZYh2)

5 If true this will make the liberals very upset.

Posted by: Capitalist Infidel at May 11, 2005 09:47 PM (xkIHW)

6 Bin Laden and Al -Zarquawi are bitches. Let them keep killing all the "innocent civilians". So, when they are done, there's nobody left but the terrorists, then we can bomb the ass wipes back to Kingdom Come!

Posted by: DickHead at May 11, 2005 10:51 PM (Vc7PO)

7 When are you planning to leave Afganistan? If both bin Laden and al Zarqawi are dead/dying, there are no serious terrorist leaders alive to fear in there, except George Bush senior and junior, but they only terrorize armed Muslims in countries with oil, so there's no need to expect anything of them.

Posted by: A Finn at May 12, 2005 04:42 AM (cWMi4)

8 "Let them keep killing all the "innocent civilians". So, when they are done, there's nobody left but the terrorists, then we can bomb the ass wipes back to Kingdom Come! "-Dick Head An example of Zionazism stripped of its phony veneer. Dick Head expresses what each of you feel but are ashamed to admit. Your goal is total genocide. How is this different than the Nazis? You have a mental illness. Forget medication, get some psychoanalysis. Filthy Blood Lusters!

Posted by: greg at May 12, 2005 08:46 AM (/+dAV)

9 smelly mathafucker

Posted by: rody fabila at May 12, 2005 10:51 AM (K9SYG)

10 Dude, you've got to retake your blog.

Posted by: Leopold Stotch at May 12, 2005 11:05 AM (p8Vri)

11 Actually what I heard was taht Zarqawi was just doing some character research. I heard he has been cast as one of the major zombies in the new remake of Night of the Living dead.

Posted by: Butch at May 12, 2005 12:18 PM (Gqhi9)

12 FLASHBACK: 'Iraq was Invaded to Secure Israel,' says Senator Hollings, and 'Everybody Knows It.' “When a prominent American political figure speaks boldly about Jewish-Zionist power, that's news. So the recent remarks by South Carolina's senior Senator that Iraq was invaded "to secure Israel," and that "everybody" in Washington knows it, are indeed remarkable.” http://www.ihr.org/news/040716_hollings.shtml I remember this cartoon when I was a kid. It was about two dogs, a small smart one and a big stupid one. The smart small dog would bully the stupid big dog physically and intellectually, slapping him in the chops at will. This is the sort of power Israel holds over America. Do you feel that Israeli dick in your ass? You should. The Mossad and the CIA engineered 9-11 to manipulate you. In so doing they killed our Constitutional Republic. It is up to us to reestablish the Republic and seek justice for the betrayal of America. But Greg, our government would never attack its own people. Yes it would. In the following declassified document you can read about how our government had developed a plan to shoot down a plane full of Americans so they could blame the Cubans in order to justify an invasion. Kennedy rejected this plan, but he had much more character than Bush. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf

Posted by: greg at May 12, 2005 02:38 PM (/+dAV)

13 Rusty, frankly if I was you, I wouldn't want any one posting links to IHR in my blog. For that matter, the anti-semites don't wash the floor after they piddle on it.

Posted by: Robin Roberts at May 12, 2005 03:47 PM (xauGB)

14 Robin, No one is posting links to IHR on YOUR blog.

Posted by: greg at May 12, 2005 03:56 PM (/+dAV)

15 Anyone hear that Twilight Zone music?

Posted by: Oyster at May 12, 2005 05:28 PM (YudAC)

16 Oyster I may be wrong but i dont think the A Finn that is posting is the A finn we think he is.

Posted by: sparky at May 12, 2005 05:56 PM (F1nba)

17 greg and AFinn, do you guys smoke crack, perchance???...you should stop, a mind is a terrible thing to waste...that is if you have minds left...nuff said...oh one last thing...stop watching "Conspiracy Theory" so much, would ya???

Posted by: THANOS35 at May 12, 2005 08:26 PM (mZYh2)

18 I've always been the same Finn, at least I've never seen any other Finn-comments than those I've written myself.

Posted by: A Finn at May 13, 2005 04:04 AM (cWMi4)

19 No, I don't do drugs, but since 1-6 oz of pure alcohol per day in the form of lager or other dark beer prevents various cancers, wounds and digestion problems in the food processing system, keeps flus, coughs and blood clogs away, cleans the whole system, burns colesterole, prevents osteoporosis and creates a feeling of pleasance (most of this only in people who don't smoke), my alcohol consumption may have an effect on my writings and opinions.

Posted by: A Finn at May 13, 2005 04:15 AM (cWMi4)

20 What I would really really really like to know, is how is the cat hunting legalization process in Wisconsin doing? Also, the wholphins are a thing that demands some attention.

Posted by: A Finn at May 13, 2005 04:27 AM (cWMi4)

21 Never seen any movies titled "Conspiracy Theory", so I've probably never seen it unless they've shown it under the Finnish title as a "Lauantaiaction"-movie on MTV3.

Posted by: A Finn at May 13, 2005 04:46 AM (cWMi4)

22 Oh that movie... Julia Roberts looked annoying as usual, never watched the movie from start to the end, just some good action parts. Same kind of "what you think is true, is really true even if every ounce of reason in you says it's not true"-stuff Matrix was all about. Oh yeah: Gillette - the best way to get rid of unwanted Bush

Posted by: A Finn at May 13, 2005 04:55 AM (cWMi4)

23 >>*if I was you*, I wouldn't want any one posting links to IHR in my blog. > >No one is posting links to IHR on YOUR blog. Reading comprehension obviously isn't greg's forte. (Hmm...maybe I should rewrite the above with fewer polysyllabic words so he'll be sure to understand what I'm saying.) In other words, greg, you're not very good at getting the meaning of what you read.

Posted by: salfter at May 13, 2005 11:45 AM (+Epz5)

24 Safter's a retard.

Posted by: greg at May 13, 2005 01:55 PM (/+dAV)

25 That still puts him two standard deviation's above your IQ, greg.

Posted by: Robin Roberts at May 13, 2005 02:44 PM (xauGB)

26 Sorry finn just seems like sometimes your different people it must be me

Posted by: sparky at May 13, 2005 02:58 PM (F1nba)

27 Or that lager

Posted by: sparky at May 13, 2005 03:18 PM (F1nba)

28 Robin must be out of diesel fuel for her vibrator again. PLAUPTHUMP PLAUPTHUMP PLAUPTHUMP!

Posted by: greg at May 13, 2005 03:51 PM (/+dAV)

29 Robin, "deviation's"?

Posted by: greg at May 13, 2005 03:54 PM (/+dAV)

30 hmmmmmmm, A Finn comes back with smart ass remarks...."pure alcohol" would probally kill you, Finn...you know, moonhsine....would make you go blind as it eats youre brain away....so if you are drinking that, it explains youre madness....and greg???....are you 12 years old???....you gotta be in that area what with the lowbrow, middle school cracks of a sexual nature.....oh yea, youre just so fuckin funny, i just bust a rib....NOT...ill stick with George Carlin if i wanna laugh....nuff said

Posted by: THANOS35 at May 13, 2005 10:28 PM (mZYh2)

31 Pure alcohol as in an amount of pure alcohol included in the stuff one is drinking... It's impossible to make 100% pure alcohol that stays liquid.

Posted by: A Finn at May 14, 2005 04:56 AM (lGolT)

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Hooray for our side!

U.S. forces have killed 75 insurgents so far in a new offensive in Western Iraq near the Syrian border, the military announced Monday.

The offensive, being conducted with U.S. air support in a desert area of Anbar province north of the Euphrates River, was targeting a sanctuary for foreign insurgents and a smuggling route.

As part of the offensive, Marines on Sunday battled insurgents in Ubaydi, in northwestern Iraq, and other nearby areas. The Marines, supported by Cobra attack helicopters, came under mortar and small-arms fire, according to a reporter accompanying the units.

Col. Stephen Davis, commander of Marine Regimental Combat Team-2, which is responsible for western Anbar province, said one Marine was killed and at least seven were wounded in the fighting.

A number of fighters were wearing flak jackets, which Davis said was unusual for Iraqi insurgents and reflected the influence of foreign fighters.

The offensive reflects the view of senior U.S. commanders who are giving higher priority to combating foreign fighters and Iraqi jihadists in response to the recent upsurge in suicide attacks and other developments that indicate a more prominent role in the insurgency by these radical groups.

Also on Sunday, the military announced that U.S. forces have arrested the alleged mastermind of last month's assault on Abu Ghraib prison and the organizer of recent lethal car bombings in Baghdad, the Iraqi government and U.S. military said Sunday.

Amar Adnan Muhammad Hamzah Zubaydi, detained Thursday in an early morning raid on his home, was described as an associate of Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab Zarqawi, according to separate statements issued by the Iraqi government and U.S. military officials.

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1 Good news! Plus twenty-three in Afganistan. Plus lots more "detained."

Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at May 09, 2005 09:22 AM (x+5JB)

2 Your 'tuna' is 75% 'dolphin'.

Posted by: greg at May 09, 2005 09:39 AM (/+dAV)

3 This good news is bound to often some Lefty out there.

Posted by: Carlos at May 09, 2005 09:40 AM (8e/V4)

4 “Abu al-Faraj al-Libbi, the alleged al-Qaeda leader arrested in Pakistan last week, is not the terror network's N. 3, according to European secret service sources” http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.164365478&par=0 Told you.

Posted by: greg at May 09, 2005 10:15 AM (/+dAV)

5 It seems it was ANOTHER case of mistaken identity. 25% tuna and 75% dolphin.

Posted by: greg at May 09, 2005 10:21 AM (/+dAV)

6 Captured Al-Qaeda kingpin is case of ‘mistaken identity’ “THE capture of a supposed Al-Qaeda kingpin by Pakistani agents last week was hailed by President George W Bush as “a critical victory in the war on terror”. According to European intelligence experts, however, Abu Faraj al-Libbi was not the terrorists’ third in command, as claimed, but a middle-ranker derided by one source as “among the flotsam and jetsam” of the organisation.” http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1602568,00.html Why isn’t the American media reporting this update? Because they’re complicit in this war of lies. PRESSTITUTES!

Posted by: greg at May 09, 2005 10:41 AM (/+dAV)

7 Told you. greg, this unidentified eurowuss should identify himself, otherwise who gives a crap what he thinks (if he even exists). This seems to confirm that a cigar is usually just a cigar after all: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4513281.stm

Posted by: Carlos at May 09, 2005 10:44 AM (8e/V4)

8 3rd in command or 300th. The guys captured, and that's what counts.

Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at May 09, 2005 10:50 AM (x+5JB)

9 Carlos, Your citation is from last Wednesday. Get with the program

Posted by: greg at May 09, 2005 10:52 AM (/+dAV)

10 greg, your two sources contradict each other-- not that this ever matters if you're a Leftie/dissenter. Their only goal is to discredit the official version, not to be consistent (Instead they discredit themselves). Your first source claims they got some Paki dude with a similar name, but the wrong guy. Your second source claims something entirely different-- that the guy they caught just isn't that high in the AQ hierarchy-- a "middle-level leader." Which of the sources you offered is the more accurate? Both can't be true. But that doesn't matter, right? -- not if your purpose is only to discredit the official version. You continue to bleed credibility, my friend.

Posted by: Carlos at May 09, 2005 10:54 AM (8e/V4)

11 Carlos, The two citations do contradict one another. What's certain is that this guy wasn't the #3 man. I doubt he's even Al Qaeda.

Posted by: greg at May 09, 2005 10:59 AM (/+dAV)

12 greg: "The two citations do contradict one another." Then why did you cite them?

Posted by: Carlos at May 09, 2005 11:05 AM (8e/V4)

13 While they contradict each other on a point they agree that he's not #3.

Posted by: greg at May 09, 2005 11:10 AM (/+dAV)

14 Yeah, that's right Greg, he's not #3... anymore, dipshit.

Posted by: Editor at May 09, 2005 11:13 AM (adpJH)

15 While they contradict each other on a point they agree that he's not #3. greg, but for different reasons, which in the end just sounds like wishful thinking. Do you also wish he isn't #3?

Posted by: Carlos at May 09, 2005 11:15 AM (8e/V4)

16 Carlos, When Jawa Report first brought this to our attention I said then that I doubted the claim that he was #3 because I had never heard of him. Turns out I'm right. He ain't #3.

Posted by: greg at May 09, 2005 11:18 AM (/+dAV)

17 Turns out I'm right. He ain't #3. greg, This goes back to my assertion about the thinking of conspiracy theorists-- they reach a conclusion, and then look for anything that might confirm it, no matter how silly it might be. Here, you reached a conclusion, and then latched onto two contradictory sources to "confirm" it. The fact that you would base your conclusion on two entirely contradictory sources says something about the muddled thinking of conspiracy theorists.

Posted by: Carlos at May 09, 2005 11:30 AM (8e/V4)

18 Carlos, No. I based it originally, last week, on the fact that I'VE NEVER HEARD OF HIM BEFORE. If you still think he's #3 then you are the conspiracy theorist.

Posted by: greg at May 09, 2005 11:35 AM (/+dAV)

19 I'VE NEVER HEARD OF HIM BEFORE. Greg, for admitting this, you are even a bigger idiot than any of us could ever have imagined.

Posted by: Editor at May 09, 2005 11:36 AM (adpJH)

20 greg: "No. I based it originally, last week, on the fact that I'VE NEVER HEARD OF HIM BEFORE." Because "greg" hasn't heard of him before. hahaha! good one.

Posted by: Carlos at May 09, 2005 11:36 AM (8e/V4)

21 Carlos, You think you're eating tuna but you're chowing down on dolphin. ENJOY!

Posted by: greg at May 09, 2005 11:40 AM (/+dAV)

22 greg, I don't consider your way of thinking to be healthy skepticism. It's irrational cynicism.

Posted by: Carlos at May 09, 2005 11:44 AM (8e/V4)

23 The DU isn't happy... lol http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1455911

Posted by: Ariya at May 09, 2005 11:52 AM (IXXEm)

24 Carlos, I know you desire him to be the #3 man. It's just wishful thinking on your part. If only wishes were horses...

Posted by: greg at May 09, 2005 11:55 AM (/+dAV)

25 >>>"The DU isn't happy... lol" Ariya, nope, they aren't. They've chosen a side, and it ain't ours. Everything they see, hear, read is filtered through that reality.

Posted by: Carlos at May 09, 2005 12:00 PM (8e/V4)

26 greg, I read your stuff precisely because I don't want to base my stuff on wishful thinking. And on occassion I'm dissuaded of those wishful thoughts. But rarely, and here is a pretty good example of why not.

Posted by: Carlos at May 09, 2005 12:03 PM (8e/V4)

27 One of my predictions for 2005 was hot pursuit across the border into Syria. I'm sticking to it.

Posted by: Dave Schuler at May 09, 2005 12:14 PM (GGDE0)

28 Carlos, He ain't the #3 man. Now wake up and smell your underwear.

Posted by: greg at May 09, 2005 01:38 PM (/+dAV)

29 greg, you've given no reason to doubt the official version.

Posted by: Carlos at May 09, 2005 01:56 PM (8e/V4)

30 Amusing that only Greg thinks his ignorance is evidence of anything.

Posted by: Robin Roberts at May 09, 2005 02:18 PM (xauGB)

31 Carlos, I believe the one and only point Greg is stating is that the guy caught was not the Number #3 man in Al Qaeda. Both sources Greg cited, both supported his claim. It makes no different if they contradict each other, as long as they don't do so on the point Greg is making. Off the subject, while everyone is talking about underwear on people heads, I do believe some people might like it, depending on whose underwear it was. I mean, Goldie Hawn or Farrah Fawcitt undies might not be to bad.

Posted by: Butch at May 09, 2005 02:19 PM (Gqhi9)

32 "the official version."-Carlos Not ready to smell your underwear yet, eh? Can't say that I blame you. What makes your version the official version?

Posted by: greg at May 09, 2005 02:23 PM (/+dAV)

33 ah, greg is just mad because the man isn't still out planning the murders of innocents. In short, he hasn't yet killed enough jews, he is small fish, we should throw him back and let him work his way up to a bigger terrorist.

Posted by: Defense Guy at May 09, 2005 02:48 PM (jPCiN)

34 Defense Guy, At least you're not holding on to the fantasy that this joker was the #3 man.

Posted by: greg at May 09, 2005 02:53 PM (/+dAV)

35 It makes no different if they contradict each other, as long as they don't do so on the point Greg is making. Butch, it makes all the difference. If the reasons both sources gave were consistent, then their claim could hold some weight. Given that they aren't consistent, the claims hold less weight. It comes off as just more flailing wildly in the dark. Much of the anti-Bush stuff is just that.

Posted by: Carlos at May 09, 2005 03:04 PM (8e/V4)

36 "Much of the anti-Bush stuff is just that."-Carlos Carlos, What the hell does this have to do with Bush? I've given you 2 credible sources that this isn't the #3 man. Even the source that Rusty quoted initially noted that this man was not on the FBI's most wanted list. You're just being IGNORant.

Posted by: greg at May 09, 2005 03:11 PM (/+dAV)

37 "Yet the backslapping in Washington and Islamabad has astonished European terrorism experts, who point out that the Libyan was neither on the FBI’s most wanted list, nor on that of the State Department “rewards for justice” programme. Another Libyan is on the FBI list — Anas al-Liby, who is wanted over the 1998 East African embassy bombings — and some believe the Americans may have initially confused the two. When The Sunday Times contacted a senior FBI counter-terrorism official for information about the importance of the detained man, he sent material on al-Liby, the wrong man. " http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1602568,00.html What a bunch of bumbling idiots. Enough said.

Posted by: greg at May 09, 2005 04:21 PM (/+dAV)

38 16 different brands of tuna chicken of the sea and big cahuna packed in oil packed in water dolphin friendly and dolphin slaughter.

Posted by: Howie at May 09, 2005 04:27 PM (D3+20)

39 Howie, Don't you know? Chicken of the sea is not tuna, but chicken. I have Jessica Simpson's word on it. And we all know that pop stars are the smartest people in the world. So she should know.

Posted by: Butch at May 09, 2005 04:42 PM (Gqhi9)

40 Yea she is a bright one. But mmmmm. I've been pretty busy just saw gregs post about tuna and dolphin. Just leavin my mark so Ya'll know I'm still out here.

Posted by: Howie at May 09, 2005 04:56 PM (D3+20)

41 I've given you 2 credible sources that this isn't the #3 man. greg, Amazing. How can both be credible when they directly contradict each other? They can't. One of them is INcredible. The only question is which. But you use BOTH to prove your case, when either one taken in isolation contradicts the other's logic.

Posted by: Carlos at May 09, 2005 05:13 PM (8e/V4)

42 Regarding "Abu Anas" al-Libbi; Read this report from the BBC on 19 March 2002. Does anybody know if his caprure was ever confirmed? And several sources, especially those in the ME are still saying Abu Farraj Al-Libbi is No. 3. That he wasn't high up the ladder until recently. Maybe he's just No. 3 in Pakistan and only places No. 100 on a world-wide scope. They're beating the hell out of him too in Pakistan. And he still hasn't talked.

Posted by: Oyster at May 09, 2005 05:56 PM (YudAC)

43 Greg, Carlos, get a room!

Posted by: cindy at May 09, 2005 09:37 PM (o9c3W)

44 Surely 50,000 innocents had to die in the massive carpet bombings to get these poor "minutemen". If only we had an independent Italian communist to tell us what really happens!

Posted by: RicardoVerde at May 09, 2005 10:44 PM (3DOby)

45 Cindy, my post was the last. I WIN!

Posted by: Carlos at May 10, 2005 01:30 AM (8e/V4)

46 What is really happening: Monkeys run/fly/drive around a desert looking for monkeys with turbans on their heads so the wrinkly little mighty-monkey lets them go home to their little monkey wives or bitches, perhaps some monkey babies or farm animals. Well, now that I've written that, I must say a good thing about Bush (earlier referred to as mighty-monkey). It really meant a lot to countries under Soviet rule after WW2 (not Finland, since we actually beat back the Ruskies and tried to invade 'em a year after that, getting the whole world against us) when Bush made it publicly clear that the West thinks they were not liberated, but occupied and put under Soviet oppression. The statement turned some of the tension between EU and you into tension between Russia and you, therefore effectively turning eastern Europeans less anti-american (still not Finland, since we just don't seem to care about things outside the 1000km radius from our borders).

Posted by: A Finn at May 10, 2005 04:23 AM (cWMi4)

47 Your first source claims they got some Paki dude with a similar name, but the wrong guy.-Carlos Your second source claims something entirely different-- that the guy they caught just isn't that high in the AQ hierarchy-- a "middle-level leader."-Carlos Carlos, The 2 sources don't contradict the point that "they got some Paki dude with a similar name". (See below). While the first source says it is simply a case of mistaken identity, the second source suggests that although he isn't the man they thought he was he still may be a lower level operative. It doesn't contradiict the first source it gives additional information. "Another Libyan is on the FBI list — Anas al-Liby, who is wanted over the 1998 East African embassy bombings — and some believe the Americans may have initially confused the two. When The Sunday Times contacted a senior FBI counter-terrorism official for information about the importance of the detained man, he sent material on al-Liby, the wrong man."

Posted by: greg at May 10, 2005 08:32 AM (/+dAV)

48 Carlos, I accept your unconditional surrender.

Posted by: greg at May 10, 2005 02:52 PM (/+dAV)

49 greg, my not responding to your posts can have several implications. Sometimes I don't respond if I agree and I consider the matter closed, or when there's nothing to respond to, or when your post is so weak it doesn't warrant a response and I consider the matter closed as well. In other words, not responding to your post could very well mean you have been measured and found wanting and not worth responding to-- NOT that I've surrendered. I'm not necessarily making a judgement about your last post, only that when I don't respond, it doesn't mean what you think it means.

Posted by: Carlos at May 11, 2005 01:10 AM (8e/V4)

50 Carlos, Upon closer inspection my two sources aren't contradictory at all. I was so busy with work yesterday that I agreed with you before double checking for myself. The first post claims that the Americans have confused the identity of the prisoner. The second post ALSO claims that the Americans have confused the identity of the prisoner but goes on to say that he may be a low level member of AQ. This is not a contradiction, it is additional analysis. If I tell you I'm 40 and then I tell you I'm 40 and was born in March, have I contradicted myself? No, I've simply given additional information. I urge you to take an honest look at the two posts.

Posted by: greg at May 11, 2005 08:33 AM (/+dAV)

51 Numbers always come out of one mouth and thats America's, who is struggling to save its pride and is sacrificing its sons and daughters and yes ofcourse they project the numbers when 10 Iraqis become shaheed they say 100,same happened during the Vietnam War, the U.S. military released body counts of enemy and friendly dead to the media which reported them same no investigation of the truth. Invariably, the military’s data—showing more enemy than friendly dead—was designed to give the illusion that the United States was winning the war.Similarly, in Iraq, the U.S. military cheerfully reports that attacks against U.S. soldiers have dropped by more than half since their peak in November of last year and that firefights between U.S. soldiers and Iraqi guerrillas in Iraqi towns have also diminished. But like the body counts in Vietnam, the American public is in illusion of winning the war against the resistance much larger. http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/10703534.htm

Posted by: Fahd at May 12, 2005 12:38 AM (HAykV)

52 calos,keep your save the whale crap to yourself

Posted by: U.SRobotics at May 23, 2005 09:09 AM (YlL+X)

53 carlos,keep your save the whale crap to yourself

Posted by: U.SRobotics at May 23, 2005 09:09 AM (YlL+X)

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Honestly, I don't know why the jihadis would be interested in blowing up an internet cafe in Kabul, Afghanistan. As we've reported here previously, internet cafes are fast becoming the method of choice for the online jihadis to upload their propaganda and snuff films.

Maybe this guy didn't get the meme about that? Or maybe he was just angry at the downloading speeds of porn and stockquotes in Afghanistan's capital?

The Guardian:

U.N. engineer from Myanmar was among three people killed when a suicide attacker walked into a Kabul Internet cafe and blew himself up, officials said Sunday, in the first fatal attack on a U.N. staffer in the capital since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

The bombing on Saturday followed a series of kidnap attempts on foreigners and the killing of a British development worker, deepening a sense of insecurity in the city just as a Taliban-led insurgency revives in the south...

The U.S. ambassador condemned the targeting of an Internet cafe as an attack on ``Afghans' desire to be part of the larger world.''

``The fact that this terrorist chose a place where Afghans and visitors visited to freely gather and exchange information is not surprising,'' Zalmay Khalilzad said. ``These tyrants fear truth.''

Officials said witnesses recalled a man entering the Park Internet Cafe in the upscale Shahr-e-Naw district on Saturday afternoon and going straight to the restroom. The explosion occurred just after he re-emerged....

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This is what happens when Christians get uppity in Muslim societies.

Fox:

Late Friday's explosion near the main square of picturesque Christian port city of Jounieh (search), 15 kilometers (10 miles) north of Beirut, killed a Sri Lankan woman, the state-run news agency and a leading TV station said. Police reported only two dozen injuries, half of them light from flying glass.

The blast shattered windows and started a shop fire. It also shook the nearby Maronite Catholic church at the entrance to the old souk, or market, and the office of Sawt al-Mahabba, a Christian religious radio station. The station had aired live broadcasts early Friday of a sit-in by relatives of Lebanese prisoners held in Syrian jails.

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No, you're supposed to put the TNT in the shoe before you throw it.

The Scotsman:

The prime suspect in an al Qaida-linked plot to strike Jordan with chemical weapons threw his shoes at military judges during a stormy hearing in Amman and told them terror mastermind Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi will “chop off” their heads....

Al-Jayousi disrupted WednesdayÂ’s proceedings in a rage over the killing of four alleged co-conspirators in a gunbattle with police a year ago, detailed by a forensic doctor in court....

An angry al-Jayousi took off his slippers and hurled it at the chief judge, Col. Fawaz Buqour. “Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi will chop off your heads and stuff it up your mouths, you God’s enemies,” he then growled, pointing his finger at the three-man tribunal.

It kind of reminds me of that Mojo Nixon song.

Zarqawi is everywhere
Zarqawi is everything
Zarqawi is everybody
Zarqawi is still the king

Hat tip: Internet Hagganah

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What can you say when the government of a country is running scared from a blogger? From a basement somewhere in a blue state, clad in pajamas, Jane Novak is bringing international attention to the ongoing ethnic cleansing of a small sect of Shias in Yemen.

Does she get a fatwa for her efforts? No, but she is being accused of being a freemason. Next, expect to be called a J-O-O. And from there you're only one step from the fatwa.

Oh, but the government of Yemen isn't going to get off with just the 'ethnic cleansing' rap. That would be too easy. Try this one on for size.

Are elements of the Yemeni government tied to al Qaeda and were those elements responsible for the U.S.S. Cole bombing?

1) The article below says the defecting Yemeni Ambassador says that al-qaeda within the yemeni security forces and govt were behind the Cole bombing in 2000

2) The 2003 Freedom House report Yemen says that [President of Yemn] Saleh refused to investigate the Cole bombing until the US threatened miliatary action.

3) The assasination of the Socialists leader in Yemen was tied to one person only, and intl orgs and Yemeni political groups say that this was orchastrated with people within the govt and the leadership of the Islah party together. The other suspects were released giving a green light to targeting other secularists.

3) If there are al-Qaeda within the govt and they are being held back from making jihad on the US, what is the next logical thing they would want to do? Make a jihad on the Shia of course.

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Via Sworn Enemy this WAPO article. Maybe he was being seen for depression?:

The U.S. military is examining reports that insurgent leader Abu Musab Zarqawi was present last week at a hospital in Anbar province and the possibility that he may be ill or wounded, officials said Wednesday.

U.S. officials gave no details as to why they believe Zarqawi may be sick or injured. But U.S. military authorities were quoted this month as saying that Zarqawi had left medical information about himself on a laptop computer that was seized Feb. 20 in his closest known call with American pursuers. When his car was pulled over at a checkpoint outside Ramadi, Zarqawi fled on foot, leaving behind the laptop, photos of himself and contacts, officials said.

It was not clear whether suspicions about his health were linked to the seizure of the computer or grew directly out of Zarqawi's reported presence last week at a hospital in Ramadi, the capital of restive Anbar province. Zarqawi's group asserted in a written statement posted at two mosques, one of them in Ramadi, that the Jordanian-born militant was at the hospital last Thursday during a raid by U.S. forces but that the Americans missed him.

A U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, Lt. Col. Steven Boylan, confirmed Wednesday that officials had "received a tip that there were terrorists in and around the hospital in Ramadi."

U.S. and Iraqi forces "did go to the hospital to act upon the information," Boylan said. He did not confirm that Zarqawi was the target of the raid. The forces left without detaining anyone but were reviewing information from the operation, Boylan said.

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