June 15, 2005

What, Me Guilty? Mounties Nab al Qaeda Cache

Ok, every once and awhile you have to ignore our usual Blame Canada attitude and give our neighbors in the Great White North some credit where credit is due.

First this from The Toronto Star (via James Joyner):

The RCMP and Canadian military believe they've discovered a vital cache of information on Al Qaeda that includes the whereabouts of wanted members and details of attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan.

The information is allegedly contained in a laptop, dozens of DVDs, audiocassettes and the pages of diaries, seized by the RCMP officers who met Zaynab Khadr at Pearson airport with a search warrant as she arrived back in Canada in February, court documents state.

Who is Zaynab Khadr? From The Toronto Free Press we learn that her family is good buddies with the bin Ladens. The bin Ladens throw the most fabulous dinner parties, dahling! Oh, and Osama just happened to show up at her wedding. How utterly inappropriate--he wasn't even dressed for the occasion:
Zaynab Khadr claims she didnÂ’t know that terrorist Osama bin Laden would attend her wedding in Pakistan....

"I mean we donÂ’t even write invitations for weddings," Khadr told the Toronto Star in a sympathetic interview shortly after her return to Canada. "We just say thereÂ’s a wedding and everybodyÂ’s invited and everybody passes it on."

And it was just a coincidence that she's been swapping Osama bin Laden MP3s for her iPod:
Now the 25-year-old says she didnÂ’t know clips of bin LadenÂ’s voice calling for the killing of Americans were on the laptop computer seized by the RCMP at Pearson airport when she returned to Canada last February.
Hey, who doesn't have the latest bin Laden podcast?

And check out what else is on her computer. I mean, is it possible that she somehow broke into my office and swapped out my C drive? Cause, it's like a freakish coincidence that we have all the same files on our computer:

Alleged to be among Khadr’s RCMP-confiscated possessions are downloaded clips of bin Laden’s voice and songs–one entitled "I Am a Terrorist". On the laptop is also a video clip of a 2003 attack on a compound used by Westerners in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and cassettes about insurgent attacks in Afghanistan. Canada, Khadr’s adopted country has troops stationed in Afghanistan.
Eeeerie.

Oh, and about all those innocent victims down there in Guantanomo. Yep, how could this not be an al Qaeda post without some sort of reference to Camp X-Ray?

When a chador-clad Khadr quietly slipped back into Toronto on February 17, 2005, she said she had returned to Canada to lobby for the rights of her two brothers, 18-year-old Omar, who is CanadaÂ’s only known detainee at Guatanamo Bay and her brother, Abdullah, whose whereabouts have been unknown since October, 2004.
So, we have a Canadian chick with ties to Osama bin Laden trying to help her terrorist brother get out of Guantanamo? Sounds innocent to me!

Oh, and it's not just her brother. It seems jihadism runs in the family:

Her father, the late Ahmed Said Khadr, officially identified as CanadaÂ’s highest-ranking member of Al Qaeda, was sprung from a Pakistani prison when former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien successfully intervened on his behalf through then Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto
Gotta love it when Canada intervenes on behalf of one of its fine outstanding citizens like that.

Oh, and just in case you want to e-mail Zaynab Khadr you can reach her at: zak79up@yahoo.ca

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1 Dudley Do-Right to the rescue!

Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at June 15, 2005 03:59 PM (x+5JB)

2 I'll bet a bowl of couscous that Canukistan's commie government lets her off.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at June 15, 2005 04:05 PM (0yYS2)

3 man, how many times has this happened to you?, just on your way home from an Al-Qaeda rummage sale, and just happen to get sprung at the airport? The quote that the stuff didn't belong to her, just happened to buy it all second hand and didn't know it's contents but decided to bring it anyway was funny.

Posted by: dave at June 15, 2005 05:05 PM (fsJ2z)

4 The NDP can pick up 10 seats by campaigning on the “Free Zaynab“ issue. I guess the joke will come 10 or so years down the road when the MUSLIM COUNCIL OF COMMUNITY ELDERS puts you to death for passing out free heroin or advocating gay marriage in BC. Sometimes I wonder what the left is thinking when they back these people. They make snake handlers in West Virginia look liberal.

Posted by: Brad at June 15, 2005 05:23 PM (3OPZt)

5 what she said is exactly what every day common criminals know to use on the cops when they are arrested.....It wasnt me , officer....or....i didnt know the gun/drugs was in the glove compartment/trunk/under the seat....how pitifull that she couldnt come up with something more inventive

Posted by: THANOS35 at June 15, 2005 08:20 PM (CagjM)

6 EU Constitution drafter Valéry Giscard d'Estaing says it was a mistake to let peasants actually read it before voting. "It is not possible for anyone to understand the full text" Giscard regrets constitution sent to French people 15.06.2005 - 09:49 CET | By Lisbeth Kirk It was a crucial mistake to send out the entire constitution to every French voter, the architect of the EU's first constitution Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has said in an interview. In an interview with the New York Times, his first since the French rejection of the constitution two weeks ago, the former French president apportions most of the blame to president Jacques Chirac for failure in the referendum campaign. One crucial mistake was to send out the entire three-part, 448-article document to every French voter, said Mr Giscard. Over the phone he had warned Mr Chirac already in March: "I said, 'Don't do it, don't do it'". "It is not possible for anyone to understand the full text". Mr Giscard d'Estaing also puts the blame on the present generation of political leaders. Neither Mr Chirac nor other European leaders had a strategy for ratifying the constitution, he said. "The present generation of leaders, whatever their strengths, never put Europe at the top of their agenda". Mr Giscard d'Estaing was appointed by EU leaders at the Laeken summit in December 2001 to head a 102-member convention and draft a European Constitution. Today Mr Giscard believes the constitution probably would have passed in France if the EU leaders had not left open the possibility of full EU membership for Turkey. This week the bloc's leaders will meet in Brussels to decide the fate of the constitution, or "my document", as Mr Giscard puts it. The ratification process should continue across Europe, the former president advises and predicts: "In the end, it will pass", he added. "There is no better solution". http://www.euobserver.com/?sid=9&aid=19331

Posted by: Zebrab5 at June 16, 2005 12:34 AM (DoxEP)

7 Speaking of Guantanomo, this in from country singer Charlie Daniels: The Straight Scoop from Charlie Daniels I've just returned from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Naval Air Station base where we did three shows for the troops and toured several locations around the post visiting with some of the finest military personnel on planet earth. The kids seemed to really enjoy the shows and especially liked "This Ain't No Rag, It's A Flag" and "In America". We had a great time with them. We saw Camp X-Ray, where the Taliban detainees are being held only from a distance, but I picked up a lot of what's going on there from talking with a lot of different people. The truth of the matter is that this operation is under a microscope. The Red Cross has an on site presence there and watches everything that goes on very closely. The media is not telling you the whole truth about what's going on over there. The truth is that these scum bags are not only being treated humanely, but they are probably better off healthwise and medically than they've ever been in their lives. They are fed well, able to take showers and receive state of the art medical care. And have their own Moslem chaplain. I saw several of them in a field hospital ward where they were being treated in a state of the art medical facility. Now let's talk about the way they treat our people. First of all, they have to be watched constantly. These people are committed and wanton murderers who are willing to die just to kill someone else. One of the doctors told me that when they had Taliban in the hospital the staff had to really be careful with needles, pens and anything else which could possibly be used as a weapon. They also throw their excrement and urine on the troops who are guarding them. And our guys and gals have shown great restraint in not retaliating. We are spending over a million dollars a day maintaining and guarding these nasty killers and anyone who wants to see them brought to the U.S.A. for trial is either out of their heads or a lawyer looking for money and notoriety. Or both. I wish that the media and the Red Cross and all the rest of the people who are so worried about these criminals would realize that this is not a troop of errant Boy Scouts. These are killers of the worst kind. They don't need protection from us, we need protection from them. If you don't get anything else out of this soapbox, please try to realize that when you see news coverage much of the time you're not getting the whole story, but an account filtered through a liberal mindset with an agenda. We have two fights on our hands, the war against terror and the one against the loudmouthed lawyers and left wing media who would sap the strength from the American public by making us believe that we're losing the war or doing something wrong in fighting it. Remember these are the same people who told us that Saddam Hussein's Republican guard was going to be an all but invincible enemy and that our smart bombs and other weapons were not really as good as the military said that they were. They also took up for Bill Clinton while he was cavorting around the Oval office with Monica Lewinsky while the terrorists were gaining strength and bombing our Embassies and dragging the bodies of dead American heroes around the dusty streets of Somalia. It's a shame that we can't have an unbiased media who would just report the truth and let us make up our own minds. Here I must commend Fox News for presenting both sides much better than the other networks. They are leaving the other cable networks in the dust. People like being told the truth. Our military not only needs but deserves our support. Let's give it to them. The next time you read a media account about the bad treatment of the Taliban in Cuba, remember what I told you. Been there done that. Footnote: I got an e-mail from a rather irate first cousin of mine the other day who has a daughter who's a lawyer and she seemed to think that I was painting all lawyers with the same brush. Please understand that I'm not doing that at all. That would be like saying that all musicians were drug addicts. There are a lot of good and honest attorneys out there. I happen to have one of them. But it seems that they never get any airtime. It's always the radicals who get their opinions heard, who fight the idea of the military tribunals and cite The Constitution and the integrity of America as their source of jus tifying their opinions. Well, first of all The Constitution says "We the people of the United States", it doesn't mention any other country. And secondly as far as integrity is concerned, I don't think some of these folks would know integrity if it bit them in the posterior. What do you think? God Bless America. Charlie Daniels

Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at June 16, 2005 09:44 AM (x+5JB)

8 YBP: Very good reading.

Posted by: Howiie at June 16, 2005 10:09 AM (D3+20)

9 Charlie Daniels is on my list of 100 greatest Americans. Seriously. My list isn't like most lists of the sort. I don't put people on just for being famous, or lucky, I put them on for choosing to do what is right for the nation when it would be easier to do what is popular. There are precious few celebrities on my list.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at June 16, 2005 01:41 PM (0yYS2)

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