LGF Archives: January 2004
No Evidence CIA Slanted Iraq Data
Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 4:52:27 pm PST
Investigations into the prewar intelligence on Iraq show no evidence the CIA slanted the data. Richard J. Kerr, a former deputy CIA director who is leading the CIA’s review of its prewar Iraq assessment, said an examination of the secret analytical work done by CIA analysts showed that it remained ...
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No Flying Pigs Here, Move Along
Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 4:41:12 pm PST
The Associated Press is doing backflips of approval and delight over the sermon preached today at Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia: Top Saudi Cleric Assails Terrorists. AP always surrounds the word “terrorists” with scare quotes when it’s used by a Western source—but notice the complete absence of quotes in this ...
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They're Still Trying
Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 9:07:42 am PST
Several flights from Britain and France to the US have been canceled for security reasons. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) On Friday, U.S. officials said new intelligence indicated BA flight 223 and Air France flights from Paris to an unspecified U.S. city could be terrorist targets. There was no immediate word ...
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Not So Peaceful for the Sheep
Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 8:42:20 am PST
Muslims Pray at Mt. Arafat Despite Security Concerns. “Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance,” said Information and Culture Minister Fouad bin Abdul-Salam bin Mohammad Farisi, adding that the Muslim faith had been portrayed negatively since the September 11 attacks. “...and of course, deadly stampedes and animal sacrifice,” Farisi ...
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Hitler Makes the List
Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 8:04:14 am PST
After awarding the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize to Yasser Arafat, how much lower can the Nobel Committee go? Ten years later, we may get to find out. Among the nominees for the 2004 prize are Slobodan Milosevic and ... Adolf Hitler. (Hat tip: Valentine.) Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and former ...
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The Mind of Our Enemies
Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 6:54:56 pm PST
VDH: The Mind of Our Enemies. Just because we are spending billions and are tied down in Afghanistan and Iraq does not mean that we must remain complacent with Syria and Iran. Each problem has its own unique solutions. If the two countries continue to aid and abet the insurrectionists, ...
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Word of Mouth
Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 6:44:38 pm PST
For several months I’ve been receiving occasional emails that say they’re “notifying” me that “someone is researching” my background, from a site with a domain name that’s a variation on word-of-mouth.org. I always assumed it was a scam of some kind, but after receiving another one tonight I finally Googled ...
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Jerusalem, 8:48 am
Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 6:02:02 pm PST
Bret Stephens lives near the site of yesterday’s terrorist mass murder in Jerusalem. Here is his heart-breakingly surreal account of what he witnessed: Jerusalem, 8:48 am. Survivors lay on the pavement. One elderly man had flecks of human tissue on the back of his coat and scalp, but otherwise he ...
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Life Is Many Things
Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 5:37:52 pm PST
Jerusalem Post Editor Saul Singer remembers his brother Alex, murdered by one of the Palestinian Arab prisoners released this week by Israel: Life is many things. This week’s prisoner deal, however, made the issue unavoidable for my family and a number of others who lost soldiers in Lebanon. Among the ...
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Quakes Continue at the Beeb
Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 2:52:48 pm PST
Andrew Gilligan is out. And he’s whining furiously about the Hutton report: He said: “If Lord Hutton had fairly considered the evidence he heard, he would have concluded that most of my story was right.” He said the BBC’s punishment was “far out of proportion to its or my mistakes, ...
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Peaceful Religion Watch
Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 1:42:22 pm PST
An audience of 500,000 people who made the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca listened today as Sheik Saleh al-Taleb issued the customary demands for Allah to kill, destroy, and inflict his wrath: Millions of pilgrims pray outside Mecca as hajj nears end. (Hat tip: Tim R.) MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — ...
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Arafish Says...
Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:21:41 pm PST
After briefly greeting the school gathered in a large aquarium in his Muqataa headquarters here, they in turn pledged their loyalty to the 74-year-old symbol of Palestinian resistance. “We sacrifice our blood and our gills to you, Abu Ammar,” they chanted, using Arafat’s nom-de-poisson, in unison with brood spawn who ...
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Slouching Toward Big Brother
Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:16:48 am PST
After September 11, most Americans felt that some tradeoffs between personal liberty and national security were warranted, and I still believe this was a correct feeling. But in this thought-provoking article, security expert Bruce Schneier warns that we need to make sure the people in charge of national security don’t ...
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UW Newspaper Hits Bottom
Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:41:18 am PST
One of the standard lies of Palestinian propaganda is that the Israeli government somehow deliberately provokes incidents like yesterday’s bus bombing in order to manufacture an excuse to launch incursions into sacred Palestinian land. It’s a twisted rationale, and very typical of terrorist groups like the PFLP, who employ such tangled ...
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Wesley Clark Courts Radical Muslims
Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 8:00:37 am PST
According to the New York Daily News, Democratic candidate Wesley Clark sought the political support of the Muslim American Society and the Islamic Circle of North America—two Muslim groups that have been linked to terrorism by numerous sources, and are currently under investigation by the FBI: Clark appealed to group ...
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Hizb'Allah Via Mexico
Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 9:38:50 pm PST
At least one alleged Hizb’Allah terrorzoid has already used our sieve-like border with Mexico to sneak into the US: A question about Hizballah and Mexico. Now, turn to May 3, 2003. That’s when FBI agents searched the Dearborn, Mich., residence of Mahmoud Kourani, a 32-year-old illegal alien from Lebanon. In a ...
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The Terrorist and the Archbishop
Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 9:02:22 pm PST
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, awards Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams the Bethlehem 2000 medal during a special ceremony at his office in the West Bank town of Ramallah Thursday Jan. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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MPAC Attacks Emerson
Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 7:52:46 pm PST
In an uncredited hit piece, the Muslim Public Affairs Council has launched a completely unhinged attack on Steven Emerson: Steve Emerson’s Self-Serving Distortions. (Hat tip: Baldy.) The real difference between Steve Emerson and Salman Rushdie is that Emerson is a bigot who has made a career of rhetorically shooting Muslims ...
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The Nature of the Shark
Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 7:08:06 pm PST
Here’s a perfect example of the Dark Ages mentality of the enemies of civilization. Despite the release of more than 400 Arab prisoners by Israel, for which Israel received the remains of three murdered IDF soldiers and a businessman with legal problems, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the evil-minded “spiritual leader” of the ...
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"We Live in a Dangerous World..."
Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 6:58:59 pm PST
I don’t agree with everything he says, but Joe Lieberman continues to impress me as the only Democratic presidential candidate with an ounce of plain old common sense: What They Said: Candidates’ Statements. “We live in a dangerous world. ... In a dangerous world, sometimes you have to ...
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Islamic France and Human Rights
Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 6:45:27 pm PST
Robert Spencer makes a very good point about the French ban on the Islamic head scarf (the hijab): Islamic France and human rights. France seems to be placing all the hope it once placed in the Maginot Line in a strange and seriously flawed idea: that it can contain the ...
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Cycling Through Quicksand
Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 5:02:07 pm PST
Yep, the site is loading slowly; sorry about that. (Our email has also been flaky.) The elves and pixies that secretly run the Internet have been fending off an invasion of gremlins with terrible vorpal blades, and it’s taken an awful toll on their fast-twitch muscle fibers. Had you going there ...
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Aspiration, Not Desperation
Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 1:47:57 pm PST
A piece at the Jerusalem Post by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook shows beyond any doubt that the driving force behind atrocities like today’s bus bombing is not poverty. It’s not desperation, and it’s not lack of full employment. It’s an all-pervasive Islamic cult of death, deliberately and relentlessly hammered ...
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Video of Jerusalem Bombing
Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 8:26:52 am PST
Here is a video of the aftermath of today’s Arab mass murder in Jerusalem. WARNING: it’s very graphic.
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And Again
Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 7:35:13 am PST
Palestinian Arab savagery strikes again: Jerusalem Bus Bomber Kills 10, Wounds 50. JERUSALEM - A Palestinian suicide bomber detonated a bag of explosives on a crowded Jerusalem bus outside Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s residence Thursday, killing 10 passengers and wounding 50 bystanders in the deadliest attack in four months. The ...
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Dhimmitude at the Times
Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 4:15:49 pm PST
In the New York Times, John Kearney wants the media to stop calling Allah “Allah,” and just use the name “God” to signify that Jews, Christians, and Muslims all worship the same deity: My God Is Your God. (Hat tip: davesax.) Last August the Washington Post Web site posed this ...
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Weapons of Mass Distraction
Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 1:09:43 pm PST
Claudia Rosett says the debate over weapons of mass destruction is a red herring; the real threat is tyranny. We seem to be heading for the surreal conclusion that it is all right to be a murderous tyrant who only thinks he is pursuing weapons of mass destruction—even if he ...
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Kay's Testimony
Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:47:04 pm PST
C-SPAN is showing David Kay’s testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee; I recommend watching for yourself, because if you rely on media or politicians to tell you what Kay said you’re not going to get the truth.
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IDF Raids Islamic Jihad
Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:36:09 am PST
Every once in a while, the wire services slip up and release a photo that gives an inadvertent glimpse at the truth of the Arab-Israeli conflict; here’s one, as armed Palestinian terrorists take cover among unarmed “bystanders” during a fierce battle with IDF troops raiding an Islamic Jihad stronghold. Palestinians ...
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Earthquake at the Beeb
Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:13:07 am PST
BBC chairman Gavyn Davies has resigned. It comes after Lord Hutton said the suggestion in BBC reports that the government “sexed up” its dossier on Iraq’s weapons with unreliable intelligence was “unfounded”. And he criticised “defective” BBC editorial processes over defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan’s broadcasts of the claims on the Today ...
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Iran's Manhattan Project Speeding Ahead
Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 9:47:50 am PST
Having bought more time by making bogus agreements with the easily-hoodwinked IAEA, Iran is now moving into the “cheat” phase of their cheat-and-retreat cycle: Iran: Uranium Enrichment Halt to Be Short. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s suspension of uranium enrichment will be short-lived and the Islamic Republic will restart the program ...
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Kay Blames Weak Intelligence
Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 9:17:57 am PST
I’m getting dizzy watching all sides trying to spin the statements of former weapons inspector David Kay; today Kay clarified his opinions in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee: WASHINGTON - Former top U.S. weapons inspector David Kay told members of the Senate Wednesday that the failure to turn up ...
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Did Hitlerism Die with Hitler?
Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 8:58:02 pm PST
Here’s a powerful essay/book review by Omer Bartov on the unpublished sequel to Mein Kampf, that asks the question: Did Hitlerism die with Hitler? (Again, thanks to all who emailed about this.) Must we read another ranting book by Hitler? This book is certainly as close to the heart of ...
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New Hampshire Live
Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 6:42:32 pm PST
New Hampshire festivities are available to you live over the Innernut, at C-SPAN. Medal-tossing Kerry is on as I write this, talking about “defeating George W. Bush and the economy of privilege.”
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Vietnam Vet Wins NH
Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 6:24:01 pm PST
In New Hampshire, it’s John Kerry (who served in Vietnam) by a length: Kerry Wins N.H. Primary, Boosts Momentum. MANCHESTER, N.H. - John Kerry easily won New Hampshire’s primary Tuesday, overpowering Howard Dean and other Democratic rivals for a second-straight victory to establish the four-term senator as the party’s presidential ...
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You Can Fool Some of the People...
Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 6:16:39 pm PST
A poll commissioned by the Zionist Organization of America (carried out by the firm of McLaughlin & Associates) found that 67.4% of Americans do not believe Palestinian Arabs deserve their own state. (Thanks to all who emailed about this.)
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Hamas in the Florida Classroom
Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 5:29:51 pm PST
Daniel Pipes and Asaf Romirowsky write about Mustafa Abu Sway, a visiting Palestinian professor at Florida Atlantic University—and a Hamas “activist:” Hamas in the Florida Classroom. Our little scoop met with yawns or with disbelief. Abu Sway himself denounced our article as a “witch hunt.” FAU ignored the revelation (“we ...
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The MyDoom Virus
Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 5:10:33 pm PST
Several people have asked whether we were under a DDoS attack today, but no; the slowdown you may have seen at LGF was probably caused by the massive traffic being generated by the MyDoom virus. UPDATE: Scratch that; MyDoom is a big problem, but it looks like the sluggishness may have ...
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Pakistan Nuke Scientists "Got Millions"
Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 3:24:52 pm PST
Pakistan’s nuclear scientists got rich by spreading the tools of doomsday around the world: Scientists ‘got millions for nuclear secrets’. Leading Pakistani scientists who sold nuclear secrets to rogue states will be punished as “enemies of the state”, President Pervaiz Musharraf said yesterday. He was speaking after press reports stated that ...
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UN: Get Out of NY
Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 9:17:53 am PST
In Forbes Magazine, British historian Paul Johnson has a message for the United Nations: Get Out of New York! (Hat tip: Kae.) When America was the leader of a successful wartime coalition—and the world wished it to continue in that role—it made excellent sense to place UN headquarters in New ...
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The Islamification of the UK
Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 8:48:59 am PST
In Britain, there are now more Muslims attending a place of worship at least once a week than Anglicans: More attend mosques than church. (Hat tip: Norwegian kafir.) According to figures 930,000 Muslims attend a place of worship at least once a week, whereas only 916,000 Anglicans do the same. ...
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Iraqi Oil Bribes Revealed
Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 8:11:29 am PST
The Iraqi Governing Council is planning an investigation after a Baghdad newspaper published a list of companies, politicians, and individuals who accepted illegal “oil bribes” from Saddam Hussein: Iraq to Probe Alleged Saddam Oil Bribes. “I think the list is true. I will demand an investigation. These people must be ...
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Frankenbouncer
Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 7:58:26 am PST
In New Hampshire yesterday, peace lover Al Franken attacked a heckler trying to shout down Howard Dean. (Hat tip: Michael S.) January 27, 2004 — EXETER, N.H. - Wise-cracking funnyman Al Franken yesterday body-slammed a demonstrator to the ground after the man tried to shout down Gov. Howard Dean. The tussle ...
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French Jihad Watch
Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 5:54:09 pm PST
Last week we noted a report that the car of Aissa Dermouche, the French Muslim leader appointed by Jacques Chirac to a high administrative position, had been bombed. Yesterday another “small blast” damaged a well known business school formerly headed by Dermouche: Small Blast Damages French School. NANTES, France - An ...
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Jailhouse Rock
Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 4:27:21 pm PST
A Palestinian woman ululates the intro to Jailhouse Rock while holding up pictures of the King, who she says is jailed in Israel, during a protest in the West Bank city of Ramallah January 19, 2004, demanding the release of the Memphis Mafia. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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9/11 Panel Gets to the Bottom
Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 11:30:31 am PST
Law enforcement and border security failures that contributed to the 9/11 atrocity are finally getting the scrutiny they deserve: Sept. 11 Panel Looks at Border Security. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) WASHINGTON - A border agent said Monday that the suspected ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks raised enough red flags at ...
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Hawkins Interviews Frum
Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 11:17:06 am PST
John Hawkins has a wide-ranging interview with David Frum, author (with Richard Perle) of the new book An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror. And of course, like most people with taste and discretion, he is a reader of LGF.
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 10:24:49 am PST
In this undated but recent image released Monday, Jan. 26, 2004, by the Hamas group in the Gaza Strip, female suicide bomber Reem Raiyshi, holds her son Obida, 3, as they pose with weapons. Raiyshi blew herself up at the major border crossing point between Israel and the Gaza ...
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Dean: Iraqi "Living Standard Worse"
Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 9:01:33 am PST
Howard Dean is sounding more and more like an uninformed Democratic Underground poster: Dean Says Iraqis Lived Better Under Saddam. (Hat tip: growler.) “You can say that it’s great that Saddam is gone and I’m sure that a lot of Iraqis feel it is great that Saddam is gone,” Dean ...
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French Shari'a Watch
Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 8:42:21 am PST
An excellent piece by Barbara Amiel asks the question: Is France on the way to becoming an Islamic state? (Thanks to all who pointed this out.) France is facing the problem that dare not speak its name. Though French law prohibits the census from any reference to ethnic background or ...
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Kay: Iraqi WMD Components in Syria
Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 8:21:22 am PST
Former chief weapons inspector David Kay told the Telegraph he discovered evidence of shipments of material from Iraq to Syria: Saddam’s WMD hidden in Syria, says Iraq survey chief. In an exclusive interview with The Telegraph, Dr Kay, who last week resigned as head of the Iraq Survey Group, said ...
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MoDo Phones It In
Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 8:03:00 am PST
Iowahawk has been exploring the trash bins behind the New York Times building again, and this time he came up with the first draft of a new piece about the State of the Union address by a well-known star columnist: MoDo Phones It In. WASHINGTON — Gag me with a ...
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Kay: "Not a Political Issue"
Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 5:24:14 pm PST
Democrats are doing their best to score political points from CIA weapons inspector David Kay’s statements that he doesn’t believe Iraq had WMD stores—despite Kay’s own cautions that the issue was a failure of intelligence, not a deliberate attempt to mislead: Kay: Lack of Iraqi WMD Requires Review. “I don’t ...
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We Got Mail!
Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 4:45:23 pm PST
An admirer in Santa Clara California used our contact form this morning, and gave the probably phony address of hasbiyallah@hotmail.com. Mr. Hasbiyallah found LGF through this Google Search, and his reaction to LGF exemplifies the tolerance and good humor we’ve come to expect from representatives of the Religion of Peace™: ...
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A Reminder...
Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 11:22:22 am PST
...that if you see a message saying you’re not allowed to post comments, or use our forms to send email, it may be because I’ve had to completely block AOL addresses from using those functions of LGF. There is a group of truly nasty and very persistent creatures who have ...
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We're Frank Sinatra
Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 11:15:08 am PST
Dennis Miller says 9/11 changed him, and comes up with an incredibly accurate comparison: The United States right now is simultaneously the world’s most loved, hated, feared and admired nation, he said. “In short,” he said, “we’re Frank Sinatra.”
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Islamic Scholar: Women Driving is "Sinful"
Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 11:06:04 am PST
Man, these guys are pathetic. (Sometimes you just have to say it.) Women Driving Cars Is a Sinful Thing: Al-Qarni. MAKKAH, 25 January 2004 — Sheikh Ayed Al-Qarni, the well-known Islamic scholar, has denied telling the press that it was permissible for women to drive cars in Saudi Arabia. Al-Qarni ...
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Islamic Nuclear Cravings
Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 10:47:03 am PST
Discovered by Internet Haganah on an Arabic site registered in Egypt called know-islam.com, an illustration titled “The Beauty of Destruction.” http://files.know-islam.com/bandr/BeautyOfDestruction00.jpg
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Nasrallah Gloats Over Prisoner Swap
Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 10:04:08 am PST
Apparently Israel will be going ahead with their incredibly foolish prisoner swap with Hizb’Allah, in which they will exchange 435 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners for the remains of three Israeli soldiers and an Israeli businessman who may also be dead. The leader of Hizb’Allah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, isn’t even trying ...
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Mad Dr. Dean
Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 9:38:10 am PST
Mark Steyn’s new column is about Howard Dean’s stunning transition from raving, shrieking wildman to heavily tranquilized milktoast: Mad Dr. Dean jolts Kerry campaign to life. In his interview with Diane Sawyer from Vermont’s charmingly restored Norwich Inn, he seemed to be fading into the authentic colonial wainscoting. The Vermonster ...
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The Nuclear Black Market
Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 9:14:58 am PST
The Washington Post has more disturbing information on the discovery of a nuclear black market that aided the Libyan weapons program, including the revelation that one of the “secret factories” that manufactures components is located in Malaysia—whose ex-prime minister Mahathir Mohammad has on many occasions called for Muslims to arm ...
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Mars Is Crowded
Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 9:04:34 am PST
The second Mars rover, Opportunity, has landed and is working beautifully: Second Mars Rover Sends Pictures to Earth. Swaddled in protective air bags, Opportunity plunged into the martian atmosphere at more than 12,000 mph and bounced down on Mars at a force estimated to be just two to three times ...
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Amazon: Now Part of the Electoral Process
Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 6:37:28 pm PST
Interesting: Amazon has a page where you can donate money (from $5 to $200) to your favorite presidential candidate’s campaign: Amazon.com: Presidential Candidates.
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Ilan Ramon's Diary
Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 5:24:14 pm PST
A Native American searching a Texas field after the crash of the Columbia space shuttle made an amazing discovery. January 23, 2004 — JERUSALEM — Disintegrating pages of a diary that an Israeli astronaut wrote during the doomed Columbia space shuttle mission were miraculously found in Texas, it was disclosed ...
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Jihad Unspun and Google News
Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 4:38:25 pm PST
Honest Reporting criticizes Google News for including the work of Jihad Unspun, a really whacked-out, seemingly pro-jihad (so over-the-top that some say it’s a CIA “honeypot”) web site that often publishes incredibly vile antisemitic articles. I’ve complained several times myself to Google News about Jihad Unspun, and also about their inclusion ...
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Mass. Man Cleared in Rape Case
Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 4:26:53 pm PST
Last December we noted the story of Hossam Mousa, a Massachusetts pizza shop owner whose Egyptian wife alleged that he held her captive and beat her. On Thursday, all charges against Mr. Mousa were dropped after key elements of the wife’s testimony failed to check out: Husband cleared in rape case: ...
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Arafish Says...
Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 1:26:32 pm PST
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Secret Nuclear Factories
Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 1:08:51 pm PST
The discoveries coming out of Libya are truly chilling, revealing an unsuspected underground nuclear black market, possibly even with its own secret factories for machining “sensitive” parts: Libya Nuclear Components Said Headed for US. (Hat tip: Roll-aid.) The Washington Post reported in Saturday’s editions that Libya’s quest for atomic weapons ...
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Musharraf Details Nuclear Program
Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 8:28:20 am PST
Extraordinary revelations about Pakistan’s nuclear program from Pervez Musharraf: Pakistan Details Its Covert Nuke Program. “We are carrying out an in-depth investigation and...we will sort out everyone who is involved,” Musharaff said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum meeting in this Alpine resort. Speaking to reporters at a breakfast ...
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Suffer the Little Children
Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 8:19:28 am PST
You may have seen the stories about British Liberal Democrat MP, Jenny Tonge, who provoked outrage with her statement that if she were Palestinian, she might become a suicide bomber. Well, this story is even worse than it appears on the surface—because Tonge is also the party’s frontbench spokesperson for ...
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Antisemitic French Comedian to Be Prosecuted
Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 6:43:19 pm PST
Last year we noted a report about French “comedian” Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala, who appeared on French television dressed as an Orthodox Jew, shouting “Heil Israel” while making the Nazi salute. Today a report came over the AP wire that Dieudonne will be prosecuted under French hate crime laws: PARIS - A ...
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Thousands of Hamas Supporters in Nablus
Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 6:13:40 pm PST
On the Muslim day of prayer, thousands of Palestinian Hamas supporters poured out of the mosques of Nablus filled with that lovin’ feelin’ ... for Hamas master creepazoid Sheikh Ahmed Yassin: NABLUS, West Bank (AFP) - Some 2,500 sympathizers of the hardline Islamic group Hamas took to the street of ...
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Crackdown on Al Qaeda-Linked Charity
Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 4:27:07 pm PST
One link in the Golden Chain of terrorist financing that runs through Saudi Arabia is finally coming under attack—the Islamic “charity” known as Al-Haramain: U.S., Saudi Arabia Fettering Charity Linked to Terrorism. U.S. officials yesterday released pages of declassified intelligence about Al-Haramain in the four countries. The documents allege that ...
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Howard's Tinfoil Hat Brigade
Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:12:13 am PST
Wow. At deanforamerica.com, Deaniacs discuss whether the Bush administration perpetrated the September 11 attacks: 911 Stunning Development. (Hat tip: Ms Andi.) It’s almost pitiful to read the comments from the few sensible folks trying to stop the tinfoil people from taking over. jonathanclassof99 Posted: Jan 22 2004, 03:21 PM Dean Starter Group: Members Posts: 65 Member ...
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Ever Feel Like You're Being Watched?
Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:51:17 am PST
LGF reader Shtetl G requested a picture of puppies:
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Arab One-Track Mind Watch
Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:19:50 am PST
Arab leaders at the World Economic Forum are obsessively seething again about US support for Israel, as they do at every opportunity, and accusing the Bush administration of “hypocrisy” because of its policy of “democratizing” the Arab-Muslim world: Arabs slam U.S. over democracy. (Hat tip: scaramouche.) At a public debate ...
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Maariv International
Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 9:38:32 am PST
LGF reader NC let me know that Israeli journal Maariv is finally available online in English.
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Better or Worse?
Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 9:27:23 am PST
Victor Davis Hanson takes stock of Moe, Larry, and Curly Dean, Clark and Kerry, and concludes they may end up destroying the Democratic party for a generation: Better or Worse? Thematic in the Democratic primary campaign is that the United States is worse off now than it was before the ...
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Musharraf Admits Nuclear Leaks
Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 8:43:58 am PST
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf admitted that Pakistani nuclear scientists have been selling secrets: Musharraf: It Appears Scientists Sold Secrets. DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said on Friday it appeared Pakistani scientists had sold nuclear secrets abroad, but reiterated Islamabad’s ...
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Arab Media Seethes Silently
Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 4:29:38 pm PST
President Bush’s State of the Union speech was not a big hit in the Arab world: Bush’s speech leaves Arab commentators speechless. CAIRO (AFP) - Newspapers in Egypt and Syria took pains to highlight US President George W. Bush’s omission of any reference to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in his State ...
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Spirit Goes Haywire
Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:48:37 am PST
Ouch. This is not good news from the Spirit rover on Mars; after scientists yesterday were doing handstands about the great data they were getting from the rover, it suddenly stopped transmitting—just as it began to examine its first rock sample: NASA: Spirit Rover Not Sending Data. NASA last heard ...
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Anti-Terror Technology
Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:14:18 am PST
Israel Unveils System to Beat Bus Bombers. (Hat tip: Steven Zak.) RAMAT HASHARON, Israel (Reuters) - Israel unveiled a system on Thursday aimed at stopping suicide bombers boarding buses and carrying out attacks like those that have killed hundreds of people in the past three years. Bus bombings are some ...
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Angriest Dwarf Gets Sheepish
Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 8:57:19 am PST
Howard Dean has warts. “Look, I’m not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I’m willing to say things that are not ...
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Iran Involved with 9/11?
Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 8:44:24 am PST
Lots of people have emailed about this story; it could be a red herring, but if proven true it certainly would have huge implications: Terror trial witness links Iran to 9/11. On what had been the eve of his widely expected acquittal, the trial of the second person charged by ...
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Tick, Tick, Tick
Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 8:36:49 am PST
International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei is warning that unless Iran cooperates fully with the investigation into their nuclear program, he will be forced to consider the matter at length. And possibly even refer it to ... the UN Security Council. IAEA to Iran: Cooperate or Face Consequences. “They ...
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Gimli Battles the Race Card
Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 8:25:47 am PST
At FrontPage, Robert Spencer goes to battle for John Rhys-Davies: Gimli Battles the Race Card.
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Lantos Invited to Libya
Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 6:13:52 pm PST
Democrat Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to the US Congress, will go to Libya to see if Gadhafi’s renunciation of nuclear weapons is genuine: Rep. Lantos to Check Libya’s WMD Program. WASHINGTON - A senior Democratic congressman plans to go to Libya this weekend at the invitation ...
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Got One in Minnesota
Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 6:04:39 pm PST
Minnesotan Charged With al-Qaida Support. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) MINNEAPOLIS - A federal indictment unsealed Wednesday charged a Minnesota man with conspiracy to provide material support to the Al-Qaida terrorist network. Authorities said the man acknowledged being at training camps in Afghanistan at the same time as Osama bin Laden. Mohammed Abdullah ...
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Cleveland Islamic Groups Back Damra
Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 5:25:14 pm PST
The Islamic community of Cleveland, after initially calling for him to step down, is now rushing to the defense of Fawaz Mohammed Damra, Imam of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, following his arrest for connections to Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Sami al-Arian case: Damra is forced to take paid ...
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Hanson: The Election of 1864
Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:34:31 pm PST
Reacting to the SOTU speech, Victor Davis Hanson is very worried about some of President Bush’s domestic policies—especially the guest-worker program—but he’s still a supporter: The Election of 1864.
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Muslim Speaker Attacks Israel at MLK Tribute
Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 11:15:38 am PST
The Israeli consul general in Montreal walked out of an interfaith memorial ceremony for Martin Luther King Jr., when Yahya Abdul Rahman of the Montreal Muslim News Network used his speech to launch attacks on Israel: Anti-Israel comments mar King tribute. Rahman had some very interesting comments when asked about ...
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Road Map to Murderville Update
Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:33:18 am PST
The latest report on Palestinian Arab Violations of the Roadmap contains an eye-opening statistic: During the first 38 weeks since the Road Map was issued, there have been a total of at least 954 Palestinian Arab terrorist attacks or attempted attacks, in which 140 people were murdered and 743 ...
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Pakistan Islamists Seething Over Nuke Probe
Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:15:54 am PST
Pakistani Islamofascist groups are not happy about the investigations into nuclear technology leaks from Khan Research Laboratories, and are staging a series of protest rallies: Countrywide protests against detaining nuclear scientists. ISLAMABAD: Shabab-e-Millie (Youth of the Nation), to protest countrywide over the arrests of Pakistan’s nuclear scientists from Wednesday (today). The ...
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Bad Cop / Not-So-Bad Cop
Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 8:28:27 am PST
The clerics and the princes are playing bad cop/not-so-bad cop in Saudi Arabia. After the highest religious authority in the Saudi entity said yesterday that women who don’t wear the veil “cause the doors of evil to open” ... His remarks came after Saudi Arabia’s leading businesswoman, Lubna Olayan, who ...
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State of the Union
Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 5:58:27 pm PST
Here’s the C-SPAN streaming video of President Bush’s State of the Union address.
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"Hey People It was Only a Tower"
Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 4:48:59 pm PST
You’ll never confuse Egyptian pop singer Sha’ban Abd Al-Rahim with Bob Dylan; his past Arabic hit songs have included golden oldies like “I Hate Israel” and “Striking Iraq,” and in his hot new release “Road Map,” currently rocketing up the charts in Cairo and Mecca, he sings that the USA ...
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The Shriek
Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 4:36:46 pm PST
Amaze your friends, confound your enemies, frighten household pets! Here it is, in MP3 format: Howard Dean’s gargled, hideous snarl.
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A Walk On the Addled Side
Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 2:21:10 pm PST
In his new video, Evan Coyne Maloney tries to get inside the minds (?) of a group of a MoveOn.org supporters: Gettin’ a MoveOn.
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Dark Ages Spreading in Nigeria
Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 1:40:43 pm PST
Saudi Arabia is very pleased with the progress toward an Islamic state in Nigeria, where about 200 people were killed in the Muslim riots that broke out in November 2002 during the Miss World pageant: Saudi to Finance Religious Teachers’ Employment in Kebbi. (Hat tip: Baldy.) The Saudi Arabian Religious ...
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EU Funds Disappear
Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 1:21:33 pm PST
Investigators from the European Union’s fraud office are arriving in Israel this week to try to find out where all that money the EU’s been sending to the Palestinians is really going: EU Funds Disappear. (Hat tip: Elle Plater.) The European fraud-busters come at a time when allegations are mounting ...
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IAF Strikes in Lebanon
Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 8:50:17 am PST
Responding to yesterday’s attack by Hizb’Allah that killed an Israeli soldier, the Israeli Air Force is hitting Hizb’Allah targets in Lebanon.
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Dean Wigs Out
Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 8:01:19 am PST
If you haven’t seen Howard Dean’s extraordinarily whacked-out speech from last night, you must. It’s an amazing moment of public unhingement, and it’s available on this page at C-SPAN; look for the link titled “Howard Dean Reaction to Iowa Caucus Results.”
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El Norte
Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 7:41:12 am PST
Victor Davis Hanson says that President Bush’s immigration plan is insane, and a disaster waiting to happen: El Norte. ...what about the hundreds of thousands of workers who either cannot or will not participate? Will illegal immigrants outside the program be stopped at the border, requiring more guards or an ...
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Clothes Make the Man
Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 7:30:47 am PST
When Howard Dean wants to party, he breaks out the kaffiyeh. Democratic presidential hopeful former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean greets supporters after his address during his caucus night party in West Des Moines, Iowa, Monday, Jan. 19, 2004. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) Because nothing says “merriment” like a stylish Palestinian Fatah head ...
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Iowa Surprise
Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 7:03:13 pm PST
Kerry Wins Iowa Caucus in 11th Hour Surge. DES MOINES, Iowa - John Kerry rode an 11th-hour surge to victory in Iowa’s kickoff presidential caucuses, upsetting Democratic front-runner Howard Dean and stunning caucus favorite Dick Gephardt. Kerry’s comeback blew the nomination fight wide open, setting the stage for a free-for-all ...
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Bild: RAF Bombers "Ignored Auschwitz"
Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 6:32:58 pm PST
A very old debate with no clear winner has been reopened with the release of the RAF’s reconnaissance photos of Auschwitz; the argument has been raging at LGF, and now it has erupted in Germany as well, with the appearance of an article in the top German newspaper Bild: RAF ...
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A Fatwa For Gimli
Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 3:39:25 pm PST
European Muslim groups and their apologetic dhimmis are seething again—this time they’re offended by remarks made to an American interviewer by John Rhys-Davies, who was featured at LGF last month for his unabashedly pro-Western views.
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Bubba Gibbers
Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 2:43:29 pm PST
Speaking in Saudi Arabia, Bill Clinton rhapsodized Mohammed as a sort of Arab Henry Ford, and said that if cars had been around 1400 years ago (stay with me here), not only would Mohammed have made the desert kingdom the first automobile producing nation on earth, he would have even ...
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LGF News Feeds Page
Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 10:19:34 am PST
In our constant quest to feed the monkey of news addiction, we have a new feature: LGF News Headlines. This is a simple RSS news feed reader, showing the current feeds from several BBC pages, the Telegraph, the Department of Defense, Yahoo Politics, and Google News. You will find the ...
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French Shari'a Watch
Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 8:17:28 am PST
A nice deadpan headline from al-Reuters wire service: Marches, Bomb Mar French Drive to Integrate Muslims. PARIS (Reuters) - France’s drive to better integrate its five million Muslims looked shaken Monday after a weekend of protests against a looming ban on Islamic veils and a bomb attack on the car ...
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French Jihad Watch
Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 8:07:17 pm PST
This may be the start of something big: Car bomb targets French Muslim leader. (Hat tip: Kragar.) Hours after up to 40,000 Muslims marched against a planned ban on Islamic headscarves in state schools, a carbomb attack on a newly appointed prefect of Algerian origin dramatically underlined the scale of ...
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Video of Ambassador Mazel
Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 5:22:08 pm PST
Dutch television has actual film of Israeli ambassador Zvi Mazel at the opening of Stockholm’s Museum of National Antiquities, showing that he did not lose it and trash the entire exhibit, as the press originally spun it; he walks calmly around the exhibit unplugging the spotlights, then pushes one of ...
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French Shari'a Watch
Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 4:39:26 pm PST
A suburb of the French city of Lyon, Venissieux is becoming known as a hotbed of Islamic terrorism: Muslim Radicalism Flowers in French Town. (Hat tip: scaramouche.) Six residents of Venissieux were arrested Jan. 6 in connection with the planned 2002-2003 New Year’s celebrations attack, including a local imam, or ...
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Behind the Hijab Demonstrations
Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 9:16:18 am PST
Watch has posted a translation of an article in the French journal Libération about Mohammed Ennacer Latrèche, the man behind the French Muslim Party (PMF) who sponsored yesterday’s demonstrations in Paris against the French hijab ban. (Hat tip: Merde in France.) The son of an Algerian Imam from Strasbourg, Latrèche ...
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Sharon Backs Ambassador Mazel
Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 8:34:02 am PST
Yesterday I wrote that Israel’s ambassador to Sweden, Zvi Mazel, who staged a wonderful piece of performance art when he physically shut down an antisemitic exhibit glorifying a suicide bomber, would probably be forced to apologize and resign; well, today I’m happy to report that I was wrong. Israeli prime ...
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British Academics Seething
Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 8:34:02 pm PST
Senior British academics have been whipped up into a snarling, vicious pack of starving carnivores by the new Ridley Scott film about the Crusades—which they say ‘panders to Osama bin Laden’. Sir Ridley Scott, the Oscar-nominated director, was savaged by senior British academics last night over his forthcoming film which ...
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The Meaning of Jihad
Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 6:45:16 pm PST
An excellent post on yet another attempt by Islamic scholars from four nations (Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia) to define the true meaning of jihad, at Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch. It does no good simply to pretend that this is not so and hope that it will go away; it ...
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Michael Moore Slimes Weasely Clark
Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 5:55:44 pm PST
Idiotarian of the Year runner-up Michael Moore introduced Wesley Clark today in his inimitable way, showing why he came so close to grabbing the 2003 Fiskie: Clark Hints at Bush’s Military Service. Moore manifestly represents the looniest of the loony left, unscrupulous and unserious; it’s a real tragedy to see ...
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Incredible WWII Photos Released
Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 5:45:20 pm PST
A treasure trove of high-resolution aerial photographs taken by the British Royal Air Force during World War II will soon be available online. More than five million aerial photographs of World War II are to be made publicly available on the internet. The pictures will go online on Monday. Taken by ...
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Antiwar = Pro-Hijab
Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 8:34:22 am PST
The Campus Antiwar Movement is meeting this morning before marching over to San Francisco City Hall and the French consulate to whine and scream about France’s ban on religious head wear. If you’d like to attend (bring a camera if you do), they’re getting together at the Starbucks at 1231 ...
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Israeli Ambassador Smashes Swedish Art Exhibit
Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 7:56:27 am PST
The Israeli ambassador to Sweden completely lost it at the opening of a new exhibition at Stockholm’s Museum of National Antiquities, and smashed an exhibit glorifying the Islamic Jihad mass murderer who blew up the Maxim restaurant: Ambassador wrecks suicide bomber exhibit in Sweden. Located in the museum’s courtyard, “Snow ...
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Out With the Old, In With the New
Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 6:14:49 pm PST
Lots of readers emailed about this one; on the same day they forced Robert Kilroy-Silk out of his job for stating some simple truths about the Arab world, the British Broadcasting Corporation hired a reporter from JihadTV: Al-Jazeera editor leaves for BBC. According to an al-Jazeera spokesman, Ibrahim Helal said ...
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French Dhimmitude Watch
Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 5:35:01 pm PST
France’s Defense Minister, Michele Alliot-Marie (who is a woman), tells the US it should be listening more to the Arab-Muslim world and its overwhelming sense of humiliation: French Minister Blasts Certain U.S. Ideas. Outlining the views of France, she said while terrorism is a great threat, its causes must be ...
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Virginia Jihadi Royer Pleads Guilty
Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 2:49:26 pm PST
Former blogger and CAIR official Randall Todd Royer (aka Ismail Royer) has entered a surprise guilty plea in his trial: Va. Jihad Activist Pleads Guilty. A key member of an alleged Virginia jihad network pleaded guilty to federal weapons and explosives charges today, denying that he intended to harm Americans ...
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Rhys-Davies on Medved
Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 2:14:08 pm PST
Michael Medved is talking with John Rhys-Davies (who plays Gimli the dwarf in the Lord of the Rings) right now; you can listen to streaming audio here. As we pointed out last month, Rhys-Davies is an anti-idiotarian.
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Silk Sacked
Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 2:10:31 pm PST
Robert Kilroy-Silk has been sacked: Kilroy to step down from BBC. (Hat tip: Colt.) Robert Kilroy-Silk has agreed to quit as presenter of the BBC’s morning talkshow after 17 years just a week after the row blew up over his anti-Arab diatribe in the Sunday Express. In a carefully worded statement ...
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Consummated in Cairo
Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 2:07:09 pm PST
Robert Spencer has an illuminating piece about the 2003 Cairo Conference—a Moronic Convergence of epic proportions, attended by representatives of the Western far left and the Islamic world’s most radical ideologues: Consummated in Cairo. The polarities of the Conference were exemplified when Ma’mum Hudaybi, leader of the Egyptian radical Muslim ...
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Teach Your Children Well
Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 1:44:33 pm PST
A Palestinian boy holds a picture of Reem Raiyshi, the woman who blew herself up Wednesday at the major crossing point between Israel and the Gaza Strip killing four Israelis, during a rally in support of Hamas Spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin in the southern Gaza Strip town of ...
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Our Primordial World
Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:08:49 pm PST
Victor Davis Hanson on the power of pride: Our Primordial World. Where Americans see skill and subtlety in taking out Saddam Hussein and a costly effort to liberate a people, many Iraqis, even as they taste freedom, drive new cars, and see things improve, talk instead of humiliation, hurt pride, ...
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Got One in Germany
Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:32:16 am PST
Another RoP member arrested and charged in Germany with planning terror attacks against US and Jewish targets: Germany Charges Tunisian with Planning Qaeda Bombs. BERLIN (Reuters) - German state prosecutors said on Friday they had charged a Tunisian man, allegedly trained by al Qaeda in Afghanistan, with trying to form ...
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Got One in Dearborn
Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:08:59 am PST
Feds: Man hid terror cash. (Hat tip: Ethel Carol.) DEARBORN — Federal agents found thousands of dollars and evidence of wire transfers when they searched the house of an illegal immigrant charged with providing material support to terrorists. Mahmoud Kourani was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on a charge ...
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How to Stop Nuclear Terror
Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:35:09 am PST
Here’s a very good piece at Foreign Affairs by Graham Allison: How to Stop Nuclear Terror. (Hat tip: Motti.) Allison argues for a “zero tolerance for nuclear weapons” policy that would require very strict international controls on the means of production, and says that the United States is not doing ...
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Moonbat Alert!
Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 9:11:39 am PST
Posting from the University of Nottingham in the UK, an apparent devotee of the Religion of Peace™ wishes for all LGFers to be exterminated, and says: Whichever God is up there, if He is as benevolent and compassionate as I believe Him to be, then He shall mete out the ...
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Yassin Living on Borrowed Time
Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 8:39:56 am PST
Israel Says Hamas Leader Yassin ‘Marked for Death’. “He is marked for death and he had better dig deep underground, where he won’t be able to tell the difference between day and night,” Deputy Defense Minister Zeev Boim said of Yassin. “We will find him in his tunnels and liquidate him,” ...
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Iraqi Council Curbs Women's Rights
Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 8:26:15 am PST
This is not good news from Iraq; Shi’ite members of the Iraqi Governing Council have voted to abolish civil codes that give women more freedom than in most Islamic countries, putting family law under the jurisdiction of shari’a: Women in Iraq Decry Decision To Curb Rights. (Hat tip: NC.) BAGHDAD, ...
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Poll Suggestions, Please?
Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 5:47:54 pm PST
Well, now that the Fiskie Award voting is over, and every lefty blogger in the universe has weighed in on what a disgusting horrible excuse for a human being I am, no better than a serial killer or Osama bin Laden, a coward, an extremist, a ghoul, a bad web ...
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Yellowcake Discovered in Rotterdam
Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 5:35:37 pm PST
Here’s a report on a possibly significant discovery, concealed within a shipment of scrap metal originally from Iraq—two pounds of uranium oxide, otherwise known as “yellowcake.” (Hat tip: Daniel A.) AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A recycling company found uranium oxide — a radioactive material also known as yellowcake — in a ...
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Hamas-Lovin' Granny
Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 5:09:16 pm PST
Meet Anne Gwynne: a 65-year old Welsh grandmother with an affinity for Islamic terrorists. Anne Gwynne, a former bank manager in Aberystwyth, has lived as an ambulance nurse in the West Bank town of Nablus. The 65-year-old claims Israeli soldiers have wounded her and threatened to both frame her for ...
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Death Cult Hails Female Bomber
Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 3:54:18 pm PST
Palestinians Hail Female Bomber As Hero. “She is not going to be the last (attacker) because the march of resistance will continue until the Islamic flag is raised, not only over the minarets of Jerusalem, but over the whole universe,” Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar said. ... The bombing was carried out ...
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Religion of Totalitarianism
Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 3:44:53 pm PST
At the same time as Saudi front groups around the world scream, whine, and organize email campaigns at the slightest criticism of Islam, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia shows us that these groups are only trying to make the rest of the world just like home sweet home—a totalitarian, ...
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Red Mars
Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 1:42:49 pm PST
NASA’s Spirit rover is now a-ramblin’ on the surface of Mars. Spirit was to have taken less than two minutes to travel the 10 feet from the unfolded petals of its lander onto Mars. Engineers said the move likely would be the riskiest of Spirit’s entire three-month mission. Engineers delayed the ...
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Can We Make Iraq Democratic?
Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 1:15:41 pm PST
Plenty of informative reading in the current edition of City Journal, highlighted by George Will’s piece raising serious questions about the feasibility of democratizing Iraq. It is counted realism in Washington now to say that creating a new Iraqi regime may require perhaps two years. One wonders: Does Washington remember ...
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Yassin Personally Authorized Female Bomber
Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:57:43 pm PST
The “spiritual leader” of Hamas, a wheelchair-bound locus of festering evil named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, personally gave his blessing to female suicide bomber Reem al-Rayashi: According to Channel 2, Reem Salah al-Rayashi, 21, the mother of two small children, approached Hamas several times with the request to be a suicide ...
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Motherly Hate
Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:49:18 pm PST
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Veiled Threat
Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 8:41:00 am PST
Here’s a good piece by Christopher Caldwell on the rise of Islam in France: Veiled Threat. (Hat tip: DP.) French politicians were apt to brag during the Iraq war of how clearly their voice was heard in the Arab world. France indeed has sway there, but at the price that ...
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Bush in 41.2 Seconds
Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 8:14:23 am PST
Several people emailed about this very funny parody of those anti-Bush ads at Moveon.org (warning: colorful language): Bush in 41.2 Seconds. UPDATE: What do you mean, it isn’t a parody?
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Religion of Mass Murder
Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 7:49:16 am PST
Reem Raiyshi a mother of two from Gaza, poses holding a Quran, the Muslim holy book, and a machine gun in this image released by Hamas and taken at an unknown location in the Gaza Strip in recent days. Raiyshi was named as the woman who blew herself up ...
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Coming Unarmed to the Battle
Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 8:44:39 pm PST
Mix two parts “chicken hawk” fallacy with three parts moony-eyed envy, add a dash of holier-than-thou and a sprinkle of mean-spirited, and what do you get? This bizarre little attack on James Lileks, by Dennis Perrin, who also adoringly cites the “web-savvy anarchists at Infoshop.org.”
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PA Declines to Condemn
Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 5:53:38 pm PST
The PLO apparently thinks they’ve conned enough of the world into believing Israel’s security fence is an “apartheid, land-grabbing separation barrier” that they can drop all pretense of “condemning” the latest Palestinian mass murder: Israel ‘to blame for Gaza attack’. (Hat tip: Tim Blair.) “Israel bears sole responsibility for what ...
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Arab Masses Long for Nukes
Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 5:33:18 pm PST
LGF reader Tony Abu Tuz notifies us that the Arabic-language Al Jazeera (aka JihadTV) site is running a poll that asks: Do you support the Arabs having nuclear weapons? And the current results are (click on the left one of the two buttons below the radioactive symbol): Yes: 80.7% No: 19.3%
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Random Glitch Factor (I Hope)
Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 4:52:45 pm PST
Just had a strange semi-problem with our weblog index; I repaired things, but have not been able to figure out yet what caused it. That’s why comments were turned off for a little while. Needless to say, I’ll be keeping an eye on the situation.
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The Reluctant UN
Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 4:39:42 pm PST
The United States would like the United Nations to go back to Iraq. Kofi Annan is still having nightmares from the shock of finding out that even with all the appeasing and obstructionism and anti-Americanism that pours from the UN, the mujahideen will still attack them when they get the ...
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The Beginning of the French Jihad?
Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 4:04:37 pm PST
Walid Phares has a very interesting piece about the Islamist significance of the hijab, and Chirac’s efforts to ban it in public places in France: The Beginning of the French Jihad? When women wear the scarf, Islamic fundamentalists consider it a pillar of their influence. They can deploy their statistical ...
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AMECA Protests CAIR Intimidation
Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 3:06:11 pm PST
I received the following email about a protest/seminar scheduled in front of the Anaheim office of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) on January 19. Readers in Southern California: here’s your chance to stand up and let CAIR know that you’re not dhimmis. *** American Middle East Christian-Jewish Association P.O. Box 8152, ...
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Libya Ratifies Nuclear Test Ban
Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 2:02:50 pm PST
Libya continues to show every sign of being honest about their intention to renounce weapons of mass destruction: Libya Ratifies Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Libya’s nuclear program was far from producing a weapon and the treaty is 12 nations short of the 44 ratifications needed for it to enter into ...
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PA Radio Celebrates Mass Murder
Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 1:39:50 pm PST
Voice of Palestine, the official radio station of the Palestinian Authority, has been celebrating and praising today’s suicide bombing by a monstrous young mother: Arafat’s Radio Blesses Woman Bomber. In an unprecedented show of support for a human bomb attack, Yasser Arafat’s official radio greeted with elation the news of ...
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No Chemical Agent Found
Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 1:22:32 pm PST
Another false alarm; those Iraqi shells that initially tested positive for a “blister agent” are clean: Tests on Iraqi Shells Find No Chemical Agent. COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Mortar shells found in southern Iraq by the Danish military do not appear to contain chemical weapon agents as originally suspected, Fox News has ...
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And Again
Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 8:51:53 am PST
Suicide bomber kills four at Erez crossing in Gaza. Three IDF soldiers and a civilian were killed and ten injured when a suicide bomber blew herself up at the Erez checkpoint in the Gaza Strip just after 9:30 on Wednesday morning. The explosion took place inside the security check terminal, where ...
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Here She Is, Miss Un-American
Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 9:16:05 pm PST
It’s a time-honored tradition for the talented team of Cox and Forkum to provide the official illustration for the LGF Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year (Fiskie for short), and they’ve come through in fine form to honor this year’s winner: Rachel Corrie.
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Internet Haganah vs. The Beltway
Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 6:33:18 pm PST
Internet Haganah has apparently been contacted by a well-known three-letter federal law enforcement organization, who are not pleased with Aaron’s (highly successful) grassroots crusade to expose and close jihad web sites.
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Been Globally Dispossessed So Long It Looks Like Marxist Utopia To Me
Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 6:04:17 pm PST
The World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos, Switzerland from January 21 to 25: WEF draws world leaders to Davos. (Hat tip: Baldy.) Last year the Davos meeting was the scene of a gigantic antisemitic and anti-American Moronic Convergence, and with Paul Bremer and John Ashcroft attending, this year’s event ...
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Iran's Manhattan Project Speeding Ahead
Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 5:18:46 pm PST
So Iran signed an “accord” with the International Atomic Energy Agency that they would allow “snap inspections” of their nuclear sites. Of course, no inspections have actually taken place, but I’m sure they will. Would the mullahs lie to us? Would the IAEA? The second question seems especially pertinent, after reading the ...
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Islamic Center of Cleveland Imam Arrested
Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 3:04:07 pm PST
Yet another prominent American Islamic leader has been arrested, for failing to disclose his past affiliations with Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other terrorist groups: Prominent Ohio Islamic Leader Indicted. Imam Fawaz Mohammed Damrah, who leads the Islamic Center of Cleveland, Ohio’s largest mosque, withheld information on his membership or affiliation ...
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The Envelope, Please
Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 8:45:37 am PST
The people have spoken! And the winner of the Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year 2003 is ... Saint Rachel Corrie!
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Boo Freakin' Hoo
Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 8:12:15 am PST
Reuters is shifting into high gear in their outrageously biased propaganda campaign against the Israeli security fence: Tears Run as Israeli Barrier Rises Near Jerusalem. ABU DIS, West Bank (Reuters) - Tearful Palestinians watched cranes lower huge concrete slabs into place at the edge of Arab East Jerusalem Tuesday as ...
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Huge Support for Kilroy-Silk
Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 7:50:35 am PST
The Robert Kilroy-Silk story is taking an extraordinary turn, as 50,000 people have responded to a phone poll, supporting Kilroy-Silk’s right to free speech. Have the British had their fill of whining professional victims like the Muslim Council of Britain? 50,000 protest at BBC host’s suspension for anti-Arab comments. Fifty ...
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Christian Science Monitor Hits Bottom, Digs
Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 9:33:32 pm PST
The Christian Science Monitor has really crossed the line into serious moonbattery; in an article about David Frum and Richard Perle’s new book, they use for reference not only Indymedia—they also link to a post at the absolutely foul, openly anarchist web site Infoshop: Terrorism & Security. (Hat tip: Doss.) ...
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Clinton: The "Narrow Lens of Terror"
Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 8:45:17 pm PST
Bill Clinton is in Qatar at the US-Islamic conference where Muslims are seething about the US standing in the way of destroying Israel, and he says it’s all just a big misunderstanding: Clinton Discusses Muslims’ View of US. DOHA, Qatar - Former President Clinton said Monday that many Muslims have ...
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Indonesia: Genital Mutilation Half Price Sale
Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 6:42:30 pm PST
In Indonesia, 90% of Islamic mothers surveyed support the barbaric practice of female circumcision—and hospitals are now offering a two-for-one deal: In the cut. (Hat tip: speedster.) Hospitals across Indonesia are offering new parents a one-price surgical package for their just-born girls - when they pierce their ears, they’ll circumcise ...
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Falling Under the Imam's Spell
Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 6:20:06 pm PST
Mark Steyn says the Kilroy-Silk affair reveals something very disturbing about the oh-so-tolerant West: We are falling under the imam’s spell. And so, when free speech, artistic expression, feminism and other totems of western pluralism clash directly with the Islamic lobby, Islam more often than not wins – and all ...
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Saint Rachel Goes For the Win
Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 5:43:20 pm PST
We’re coming down to the wire in the voting for Idiotarian of 2003, and in a surprise reversal, Rachel Corrie has surged ahead of Michael Moore, with 28% of the vote compared to Moore’s 26.2%. Voting ends tonight at 11:59:59 pm Pacific time.
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Spies, Lies, and Weapons
Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 4:21:01 pm PST
Kenneth M. Pollack, author of The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq, has a thoughtful article in the Atlantic examining the possible reasons why we have not (so far) found the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that every intelligence agency in the world predicted: Spies, Lies, and Weapons: ...
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Religion of Blood and Body Parts
Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 3:15:05 pm PST
The London Arabic-language daily Al-Hayat published an interview with Algerian Islamozoid Nabil Sahrawi, also known as Abu Ibrahim Mustafa, a leader of the Salafi Group for Da’wa and Fighting, in which he lays out the theological doctrine of jihad in an especially colorful way: The Islamic State Will Arise Only ...
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Now Their Target is Europe
Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 1:13:54 pm PST
The Observer has a report on an investigation of Islamic terror cells in Europe, suggesting that the bill is coming due for years of appeasement and unregulated immigration from Islamic countries: Terror cells regroup - and now their target is Europe. (Hat tip: SecHumanist.) Previously seen as a relative ...
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Bob's Your Anchor
Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:49:28 pm PST
Proving once again that scrupulous fact-checking, honesty, and credibility are completely unnecessary qualifications for Arab journalism, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf—yes, Baghdad Bob—has been hired as a commentator on Abu Dhabi TV: Bob’s Your Anchor. January 12, 2004 -- It’s the all-new Baghdad Bob - he’s cleaned up his act, dyed his ...
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The WMD Road to Damascus
Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:36:27 am PST
Since shortly before the Iraq War, we’ve been hearing reports that Iraq smuggled their weapons of mass destruction to Syria. Today at National Review Jim Geraghty writes about an exiled Syrian journalist who claims to have very specific knowledge about these smuggling operations: The WMD Road to Damascus. One of ...
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The O'Neill/Suskind Hoax
Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:19:23 am PST
Yesterday CBS News heavily promoted a new book by Ron Suskind, featuring allegations by former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill that the Bush administration was planning to go to war against Iraq even before September 11. Today Power Line reports an email from author Laurie Mylroie, revealing that the document used in ...
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NYT Removes Interview With Assad
Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:05:33 am PST
David Gerstman of Israpundit has discovered yet another possible case of subterfuge on the part of the New York Times, where they suddenly “disappeared” a very inflammatory interview with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and are now stonewalling Gerstman’s inquiries. Donald Luskin has the details, including Gerstman’s speculations on why ...
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PA Demands Journalists Call Murderers "Martyrs"
Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 9:46:51 am PST
The Palestinian Authority now demands that journalists refer to all Palestinians killed in the Arab-Israeli conflict as shaheed—“martyrs.” (Hat tip: C.S.) Yussef al-Qazzaz, a senior official with the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, lashed out at Palestinian journalists for not placing the interests of their people above everything else, and dubbed some ...
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Someone Tell Doctor Dean
Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 9:21:15 am PST
Since the capture of Saddam Hussein, attacks against coalition forces in Iraq have dropped by 22%. U.S. military officers say the decline in attacks, after months of growing intensity, is the first proof that Saddam’s capture and recent U.S. offensives have dampened, but not eliminated, resistance to the occupation. The average ...
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French Foil Biological Attack
Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 9:16:48 am PST
French police say they have foiled a biological poison attack by arresting members of a terror cell linked to a radical imam in Lyon: Al-Qaida terror plot foiled, say French police. (Hat tip: phillippe.) An interior ministry official said evidence from Islamist militants arrested in the Lyon area last week ...
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The Kilroy-Silk Affair Widens
Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 9:41:15 pm PST
British dhimmis are falling over themselves trying to stick it to Robert Kilroy-Silk for his criticism of the Arab world, demanding that he abase himself before the extremist Muslim Council of Britain, and threatening that his comments could damage the owner of the Sunday Express: Kilroy, the ‘24-carat martyr’, urged ...
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Sharon Criticized From the Right
Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 8:11:43 pm PST
A huge crowd turned out today in Israel to protest Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan to dismantle settlements in the disputed territories: 100,000 rally for settlements. More than 100,000 pro-settlement activists turned out Sunday night for a demonstration in Tel Aviv in a frontal assault on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s ...
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Howard Dean, In An Angry Mood
Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 5:33:21 pm PST
Speaking of Doctor Dean, in Iowa today he blew his stack at a retiree who dared to criticize his mean-spirited negativity and seething persona: Iowa Voter Blasts Dean for Knocking Bush. Dale Ungerer, a retiree from Hawkeye, Iowa, lectured Dean for nearly three minutes near the end of a forum ...
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Howard Dean, In a Mellow Mood
Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 5:30:23 pm PST
As a lifelong fan of inadvertently funny music, the kind of music that’s so bad it wraps around and becomes genius, Songs for Dean has been keeping me amused for the past half hour. (Hat tip: Cooper.) My favorite in this stellar collection has to be the “Howard Dean Rap,” ...
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BBC Double Standard
Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 2:02:40 pm PST
Here’s a very good illustration of the utterly blatant bias of the BBC, who suspend one contributor for criticizing the Arab world, while winking at another contributor calling Jewish settlers “Nazis” who should be killed: BBC chiefs accused of ‘double standards’ over TV presenter. (Hat tip: Filtrat.) Tom Paulin, the ...
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Arab Paranoid Conspiracy Watch
Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:13:26 pm PST
The latest irrational conspiracy theory to come out of the twisted paranoia of the Arab world: “Secret Zionist” gangs are blowing up synagogues in France to boost immigration to Israel. The following are the words of Hafez Barghouty on PA TV: “The Secret Zionists gangs have been trying, and are acting ...
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Brits Foil Suicide Bombing
Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:07:33 am PST
British police headed off a possible terrorist attack before Christmas, arresting an Algerian who was apparently preparing himself for a suicide bombing: UK Police Arrest Man in Suicide Bomb Plan. LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested a man before Christmas who was suspected of preparing himself for a suicide bombing ...
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Iran: Nukes Are a Basic Human Right
Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 10:45:46 am PST
Iranian “president” Mohammad Khatami says if the US wants better relations with Iran, they should accept Iran’s “right” to a nuclear program. Wow. Khatami singled out U.S. criticism of Iran’s nuclear program. Iran says its nuclear facilities are geared to producing electricity, not bombs and last month signed an international protocol ...
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Seething and Whining Continues
Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 10:35:35 am PST
Absolutely no signs of introspection whatsoever at a conference on US-Islamic relations in Doha, Qatar, where Islamic scholars and hereditary dictators are once again seething and whining obsessively about a small country the size of New Jersey: U.S.-Islamic Conference Opens in Qatar. Muslims criticized the United States for its ...
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Turning A Blind Eye
Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 9:30:27 am PST
You may have heard of the epidemic of rapes in Australia, committed by Muslim immigrants from Middle Eastern countries. But former Sydney detective Tim Priest writes that it’s going to get much worse, helped along by the multiculturalists: Don’t turn a blind eye to terror in our midst. (Hat tip: ...
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Premature Explodulation
Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 8:49:57 am PST
Another would-be Palestinian Arab mass murderer succeeded today only in blowing up himself: No virgins for Iyad. A bomb carried by a Palestinian exploded prematurely on Sunday in a West Bank village near the settlement of Immanuel, the army said. The bomber, identified by relatives as 19-year-old Iyad Bilal Masri, ...
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Possible Mustard Gas Found in Iraq
Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 8:48:04 pm PST
Danish and Icelandic troops may have discovered hidden Iraqi shells filled with mustard gas today; this release from the Associated Press shows how the media elites have decided to play it: Blister Agent Found in Old Iraqi Shells. See, the chemical weapons were old. Why, the Iraqis probably buried ‘em ...
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Nazimedia Meltdown Accelerates
Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 8:10:24 pm PST
Arizona Indymedia is down. Israel Indymedia is down. “Palestine” Indymedia is down.
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Airports on High Alert
Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 6:38:04 pm PST
The terror threat level has been lowered nationwide, but several US airports are still on high alert: Terror threat level still ‘high’ at eight US airports. Announcing the lowering of the threat level Friday, after 19 days of intense nationwide security precautions, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said that the ...
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Arab Press Freedom Watch Backs Kilroy-Silk
Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 6:02:55 pm PST
The head of Arab Press Freedom Watch, Ibrahim Nawar, comes out in support of BBC reporter Robert Kilroy-Silk and his comments about the Arab world: Kilroy-Silk is right about the Middle East, say Arabs. (Hat tip: Peter Verkooijen.) "I fully support Robert Kilroy-Silk and salute him as an advocate of ...
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Pathetic Nazimedia Meltdown Watch
Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 4:45:40 pm PST
Here’s the story of two star-crossed lovers, Indymedia moderators, whose love affair went very wrong. So wrong a professional mediator failed to resolve it. So wrong it’s destroying the San Francisco chapter of Indymedia: Open Letter to the Global Indymedia Network from SF Bay Area IMC. (Hat tip: Jheka.) Read ...
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Cycling Diary
Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 4:08:35 pm PST
All right now! Did 54 miles on the carbon fiber torture device today; rode down into Palos Verdes and had lunch at the light house park just south of Hawthorne Boulevard. And then I come back and there’s a morally blinkered ISM tool babbling about “Zionazis” all over the place ...
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Palestinians: We're A State! Nyah Nyah!
Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 7:37:24 am PST
The Palestinian Authority practices “I know you are, but what am I?” diplomacy, in a laughable new announcement that they have the “right” to unilaterally declare themselves a state: Palestinians Insist on Right to Declare State. RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - A top Palestinian decision-making body on Saturday voiced its ...
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Nazimedia Meltdown Watch
Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 7:32:55 am PST
The peace lovers at the San Francisco branch of Indymedia are fighting “visciously” [sic] among themselves: Open Letter to the Global Indymedia Network from SF Bay Area IMC. Our IMC has now split into two groups. When a few of the tech members began to have personal problems with ...
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The Global Ambitions of Hizb'Allah
Fri, Jan 9, 2004 at 6:37:56 pm PST
LGF reader “mad as hell” points out a thought-provoking article about the Iran-Lebanon connection, by Gal Luft of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security: Hizballahland. Formed in 1982 by a group of young graduates of Shiite seminaries in Iran, Hizballah took as its main goal the exporting of ...
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Got One in Idaho
Fri, Jan 9, 2004 at 5:32:58 pm PST
For quite some time we’ve been keeping an eye on the case of Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, a Saudi citizen studying for a PhD in computer security at the University of Idaho; today he was indicted for a number of terror-related offenses: Saudi in Idaho Charged with Supporting Terrorism. (Hat tip: ...
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Idiotarian Finals Update
Fri, Jan 9, 2004 at 5:27:02 pm PST
After 2,634 votes, Michael Moore has again assumed the lead in our final vote for the Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year 2003, with 26.6% of the ballots. You can’t hold the big man down! Rachel Corrie is making a surprisingly strong showing, though, with 25.2%, and could still ...
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Saddam: An Enemy POW
Fri, Jan 9, 2004 at 5:15:30 pm PST
Interesting move. The first person in the “War on Terror” to be formally declared an enemy prisoner of war under the Geneva Convention is Saddam Hussein. The Pentagon’s first official statement about the 66-year-old captive’s legal status means Saddam is due a host of rights spelled out by the Geneva ...
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Hitlerfest Won By Stone
Fri, Jan 9, 2004 at 1:52:10 pm PST
Iowahawk reveals that the far left “activists” at Moveon.org have a winner in their “Bush in 30 Seconds” commercial competition. Facing stiff competition from several other Hitler-themed entries, the prize goes to an Oliver Stone remake of a classic 1963 science fiction horror film: MoveOn Greenlights ‘They Saved Hitler’s Brain’. ...
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Why We Are Safer
Fri, Jan 9, 2004 at 1:14:01 pm PST
Charles Krauthammer takes a good swing at Howard Dean’s ridiculous comment that we are no safer after the capture of Saddam Hussein: Why We Are Safer. Howard Dean may end up as a footnote in history, but he has already earned a place in the dictionary as the illustration accompanying ...
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The Same Old Thing
Fri, Jan 9, 2004 at 10:24:16 am PST
Victor Davis Hanson compares the Middle East to the Stables of Augeas: The Same Old Thing. Thirty years ago, during the Yom Kippur War of October 1973, most of the Europeans of the NATO alliance refused over-flight rights to the United States. We had only hours in which to aid ...
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BBC Disgrace of the Day
Fri, Jan 9, 2004 at 9:29:18 am PST
The BBC races to show their sensitivity and appease the seething, whining Muslim Council of Britain, suspending talk show host Robert Kilroy-Silk for daring to voice some simple truths about the Arab world: BBC halts Kilroy for race ‘rant’. The Kilroy programme will be taken off air immediately following comments ...
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Our Friends the Saudis
Fri, Jan 9, 2004 at 9:04:25 am PST
It seems like the Arab News has been trying to appear more “moderate” lately, but the poisonous Jew-hatred simmering under the surface still erupts from time to time. Today’s “political cartoon” is one of their ugliest in quite a while. (Hat tip: Allah.)
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Palestinians Training for the Olympics
Fri, Jan 9, 2004 at 8:36:09 am PST
An article by Molly Moore at the Washington Post sympathizes mightily with Palestinian athletes training for the Olympics: High Hurdles for Palestinian Athletes On Road to Olympics. (Hat tip: scaramouche.) The article dwells on how the Israeli occupation has damaged training facilities and prevented athletes from working together; every reference ...
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New Space Exploration Plans
Thu, Jan 8, 2004 at 6:44:05 pm PST
As a long-time space exploration cheerleader, when I heard about President Bush’s newly announced missions to Mars and the Moon ... Three senior officials said Bush wants to aggressively reinvigorate the space program, which has been demoralized by a series of setbacks, including the space shuttle disaster last February that ...
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Weapons Flow From Iran to Hizb'Allah
Thu, Jan 8, 2004 at 6:30:22 pm PST
The Jerusalem Post reports that Iran and Syria have been using the massive airlift of relief supplies for the Iranian earthquake to hide weapons shipments to Hizb’Allah. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) Taking advantage of the massive airlift of humanitarian aid to earthquake victims in Iran, Syria has reportedly allowed Teheran to ...
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Forbidden Iran
Thu, Jan 8, 2004 at 5:11:23 pm PST
Tonight, January 8, at 9 pm, PBS’s Frontline show will be Forbidden Iran, about the Iranian Islamic government’s reign of terror and brutal suppression of student uprisings. In July 2003, Canadian journalist Zara Kazemi was beaten to death in an Iranian prison for attempting to report a story that Iran’s ...
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Zerbisias: Idiotarian
Thu, Jan 8, 2004 at 3:37:42 pm PST
At the Toronto Star, poor Antonia Zerbisias has the weight of the world on her shoulders, doing real journalism, damn it, and all those dastardly blog lizards won’t leave her alone! Why, sometimes the little upstarts even have the temerity to ... criticize her! The nerve! Zerbisias is out there, ...
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Survival of the Fittest
Thu, Jan 8, 2004 at 2:30:15 pm PST
Here’s a fascinating interview with Israeli historian Benny Morris, conducted by a bleeding heart Ha’aretz liberal: Survival of the Fittest. (Hat tip: Benay.) Morris is a liberal himself, who has come to some hard realizations about the nature of Israel’s existential enemies, as shown in the following excerpt: "There is ...
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The ISM's Jihad Against Arabs
Thu, Jan 8, 2004 at 8:13:15 am PST
At FrontPage, Steven Plaut notices an ironic twist in the ongoing saga of the terror-enabling International Solidarity Movement, and their attempt to lionize member Tom Hurndall, shot by Israeli troops during a firefight with Palestinians: The ISM’s Jihad Against Arabs. The other near-martyr of the ISM is less known in ...
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BBC Reporter Tells Truth, Muslims Seethe
Thu, Jan 8, 2004 at 7:36:01 am PST
The hair trigger offense sponges of the Muslim Council of Britain are pressuring the BBC to punish a reporter who wrote a column for the Sunday Express, in which he stated a few simple truths about the Arab world: Kilroy-Silk investigated for anti-Arab comments. (Hat tip: Morgan.) And, to no one’s ...
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Canadian Islamists Host a Neo-Nazi
Wed, Jan 7, 2004 at 8:18:28 pm PST
On Monday, we noted reports that neo-Nazi William Baker had been invited to speak at a Muslim conference in Toronto titled “Reviving the Islamic Spirit.” Today Daniel Pipes has more details on Baker’s sordid past: Canadian Islamists host a neo-Nazi. Baker was exposed in February 2002 in the Orange County ...
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Democrats Unlearn 9/11
Wed, Jan 7, 2004 at 6:09:43 pm PST
Daniel Pipes really hits the nail on the head in this new article about the profoundly unserious attitudes of the Nine Dwarves and their fellow travelers: Democrats Unlearn 9/11. For about a year, Republicans and Democrats agreed on the need vigorously to prosecute the war on terror. No longer. Nearly all ...
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Intifadah Street
Wed, Jan 7, 2004 at 12:45:29 pm PST
James Taranto disagrees with my take on Egypt’s statements about the Camp David agreement being “a thing of the past.” He sees the tentative rapprochement between Iran and Egypt as more a part of a general trend toward gestures of peace in the Middle East, brought on by the Iraq ...
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Out of the Rathole
Wed, Jan 7, 2004 at 10:04:35 am PST
LGF reader Y&Y pointed us at this incredible photo of Saddam Hussein immediately after he was pulled from the converted septic tank in which he was hiding: Disclaimer: I went to Military.com and searched for the photo, but came up empty. So I’m not entirely sure whether this photo is genuine. ...
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Idiotarian Finals Starting Over
Wed, Jan 7, 2004 at 9:41:39 am PST
I’ve just discovered that Michael Moore slipped to third place in our Idiotarian of the Year finals because of a bug in the latest revision of my polling application, so I’m reinitializing the poll; starting over, in human speak. Since it was open less than 24 hours, and runs for five ...
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France Looks for Nonexistent Terrorist
Wed, Jan 7, 2004 at 9:16:15 am PST
After rushing to deny any evidence of terrorism on the Air France flight canceled on Christmas Eve, the French are now quietly searching for a man who may have trained at a jihad camp in Afghanistan: France Seeks Traveler Who Missed Flight. The man, who was ticketed for Air France ...
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Muslim Newspaper Publishes Hate
Wed, Jan 7, 2004 at 8:51:31 am PST
A Canadian Muslim newspaper called The Miracle, distributed in mosques in British Columbia, has reprinted an antisemitic article by a mentally disturbed neo-Nazi racist that originally appeared at the pro-jihad web site Jihad Unspun: B.C. Muslim Newspaper Accused of Anti-Semitism. (Hat tip: Damian Penny.) Copies of a B.C. Muslim newspaper ...
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Egypt Renounces Camp David
Tue, Jan 6, 2004 at 7:51:21 pm PST
Following up on the impending Egypt/Iran alliance, LGF reader Baldy points out an article with more extensive quotes from Egyptian foreign minister Ahmad Maher, making it very clear that Egypt no longer considers itself bound by the terms of the Camp David agreements: Maher says Camp David an issue of ...
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Two Flags on Mars
Tue, Jan 6, 2004 at 7:23:46 pm PST
Josh Harvey notices that NASA’s Spirit spacecraft, currently residing at a Mars address, carries a plaque commemorating the Columbia Shuttle disaster with the flags of two countries: the United States and Israel. Jihadis, this is your cue to go nuts.
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Egypt: Candidate for Axis Membership
Tue, Jan 6, 2004 at 6:42:17 pm PST
Iran is reportedly about to restore ties with Egypt. If this happens, it means that a member of the Axis of Evil, one of the worst terror-sponsoring rogue nations on the planet, will be allied with Egypt—currently considered “friendly” toward the US (even though they are not), and recipient of ...
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Martial Law in Muslim Thailand
Tue, Jan 6, 2004 at 6:08:21 pm PST
A wave of violence in southern Thailand, courtesy of the Religion of Peace™, has led the prime minister to declare martial law: Muslim areas get martial law. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.) BANGKOK — Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday he will enforce martial law in Thailand’s mainly Muslim south, where ...
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Idiotarian of 2003 Finals
Tue, Jan 6, 2004 at 2:55:08 pm PST
The final round of voting for the Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year is now open! You get one vote in this round, so make it count. Michael Moore is looking like this year’s favorite to win, but it ain’t over ’til it’s over...
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Libya to Make Peace with Israel
Tue, Jan 6, 2004 at 10:01:01 am PST
This is a huge story that’s getting almost no coverage; wacky old Gaddafi continues to pull surprises out of his purple velvet hat, and his latest is an offer of a peace treaty with Israel: Report: Israeli delegation to visit Libya later this month. (Hat tip: Baruch.) Following the announcement ...
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Iowahawk Waxes Taxonomic
Tue, Jan 6, 2004 at 9:51:34 am PST
Iowahawk explains the puzzling phenomenon of Bush Tolerance Syndrome.
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Masquerading as Mainstream
Tue, Jan 6, 2004 at 8:57:50 am PST
Sherrie Gossett’s article on the Orlando Islamic conference sponsored by the Universal Heritage Foundation (apparently a front group for the Islamic Society of North America), and on the funding and spread of radical Islam in America, concludes today with its third part. For completeness, here are links to all three ...
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Shari'a in Space
Mon, Jan 5, 2004 at 7:32:05 pm PST
Iran plans to be the first Islamic country in space: TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani said Monday Iran would launch a locally made satellite within 18 months, the official IRNA news agency reported. “Iran will be the first Islamic country to go into space with a locally produced ...
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We Got Mail!
Mon, Jan 5, 2004 at 6:14:52 pm PST
A few days ago, a person who identified himself as “Chris Stiner,” from an IP address that traces to Egypt and a probably phony Hotmail address, found LGF by searching for “interview with Everclear Islam” (for which we are Google’s #1 result, I’ll have you know) and sent the following ...
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Neo-Nazi Invited to Speak at Toronto Islamic Conference
Mon, Jan 5, 2004 at 5:16:32 pm PST
At a three-day Islamic conference in Toronto titled “Reviving the Islamic Spirit,” one of the featured speakers was William Baker—a neo-Nazi “evangelist” with a long history of connections to antisemitic groups: Pluralism is key, Muslim forum told. (Hat tip Randall.) The Toronto Star spends the first part of their account ...
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Al-Battar Training Camp
Mon, Jan 5, 2004 at 3:09:52 pm PST
The terror gangs headed by Al Qaeda are now publishing another online magazine to accompany their Voice of Jihad: Al-Battar Training Camp – A Magazine Published by the Military Committee of the Mujahideen in the Arabian Peninsula. Voice of Jihad focuses on Islamic holy war ideology; Al Battar gets down ...
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Moore Leads the Race
Mon, Jan 5, 2004 at 1:41:22 pm PST
The first round of voting for the Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year will be closing this evening at midnight Pacific, so if you haven’t voted yet, today’s your final chance. Michael Moore vaulted into the lead early on, and with 11,698 votes cast so far, he hasn’t budged ...
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Arab League Behaves Predictably
Mon, Jan 5, 2004 at 1:24:58 pm PST
The cronies and bagmen of the Arab League are meeting in Tunisia for another pointless conference at which they’re denouncing terrorism “in any form,” vowing to fight against it even as they deny its existence: Arab ministers: Freedom fighters aren’t terrorists. (Hat tip: ploome.) Resisting foreign occupation can’t be considered ...
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Seattle P-I: You're All Stupid!
Mon, Jan 5, 2004 at 10:14:42 am PST
In a dead-on parody of snobbish, arrogant, hilariously reductionist loony leftism, a guest column at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Neal Starkman explains why George W. Bush is popular with the American people: You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid! (Hat tip: V the K.) What? It isn’t a parody? ...
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Holocaust Minimizers at Moveon.org
Mon, Jan 5, 2004 at 9:59:54 am PST
Here’s a second Bush=Hitler advertisement submitted to Moveon.org, and (according to Drudge Report) streamed on their site: Moveon.org: Bush=Hitler.
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Islamic Dress for Non-Muslims in Malaysia
Mon, Jan 5, 2004 at 9:03:37 am PST
Islamists in the government of the Malaysian city of Kuala Terengganu have instituted restrictive Islamic dress codes for all women in all work places—and that includes non-Muslims: Malaysian city rules on women. (Hat tip: Diana.) The rules, which ban even moderately revealing clothing, are an unprecedented attempt to impose the ...
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Aftershocks
Mon, Jan 5, 2004 at 8:55:36 am PST
Here’s a good piece by Michael Ledeen on the situation in Iran, where a devastating earthquake has revealed the huge ideological gap between the mullahs and the people they rule—and also revealed the West’s capacity for denial of reality: Aftershocks. All of this makes it more perplexing than ever that ...
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EU Letter Bomb Watch
Mon, Jan 5, 2004 at 8:29:34 am PST
More letter bombs have been sent to European Union officials, all of them postmarked from Bologna, Italy: Two EU Officials Receive Letter Bombs. BRUSSELS, Belgium - Two letter bombs addressed to senior members of the European Parliament burst into flames and another was intercepted Monday, bringing to at least seven ...
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Pakistan's Nuclear Diaspora
Mon, Jan 5, 2004 at 8:25:43 am PST
Muammar Gaddafi’s son has told the London Sunday Times that Libya paid Pakistan for plans and components to make nuclear weapons. Pakistan is frantically spinning and denying. Pakistan: Libya Nuclear Report Unsubstantiated. ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Monday a British newspaper report that said Pakistani scientists sold plans to ...
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Searching for Fedex
Sun, Jan 4, 2004 at 7:36:10 pm PST
The LGF Search Requests page is showing a lot of searches for “fedex truck pictures” (or variations thereof) from widely separated US cities: New York, San Jose, Orlando, Little Rock, just from four quick lookups. Curious.
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Palestinians Must Maintain Moral Edge
Sun, Jan 4, 2004 at 6:45:22 pm PST
Ramzy Baroud, editor of the Palestinian Chronicle, says that Palestinians have to knock off the suicide bombings and the shootings of little girls, or they risk losing the moral upper hand. Words. Fail. Me. Palestinians have the right of self-defense, and the unequivocal right of ridding themselves of the occupation. ...
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Raw Pix from Mars
Sun, Jan 4, 2004 at 6:38:55 pm PST
LGF reader “Engineer” tipped us to a site where you can see the raw images transmitted from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission.
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More "Bush=Hitler" Inanities at Moveon.org
Sun, Jan 4, 2004 at 3:47:22 pm PST
The barking moonbats at Moveon.org have gone all the way Hitler with the latest anti-Bush video posted at their site in an ad selection campaign. The Republican National Committee site makes the ad available, in Quicktime format—and yes, it really is just as bad as it sounds.
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Dead Man Talking
Sun, Jan 4, 2004 at 3:24:39 pm PST
Al Jazeera, always eager to spread the message of jihad, is airing a new audiotape that’s supposedly the work of Osama bin Laden: Al-Jazeera Airs Purported Bin Laden Tape. CAIRO, Egypt - The Al-Jazeera satellite channel broadcast an audiotape Sunday purportedly from al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, in which he ...
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Iran Wants More
Sun, Jan 4, 2004 at 3:17:33 pm PST
It’s hard to feel good about being a Good Samaritan when the beneficiary acts like this: Iran says time not right for high-level US mission, more gestures needed. TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran’s foreign ministry said the time was not yet right to receive a high-level US delegation and urged Washington ...
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Palestinians Enraged by Anti-Terror Pledge
Sun, Jan 4, 2004 at 10:11:20 am PST
Palestinian nongovernmental organizations are refusing to sign an agreement that they will not aid terrorists: Palestinian NGOs reject antiterrorism pledge. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) The organizations said Saturday they are planning a popular campaign in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to express their opposition to the document. These organizations include social ...
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Egyptian Plane Crash: Terror?
Sun, Jan 4, 2004 at 8:43:18 am PST
DEBKAfile looks at the possibility that yesterday’s crash of an Egyptian chartered jet in the Red Sea was an act of terrorism: Too Soon to Dismiss Terror as Cause of Egyptian Air Disaster. (Hat tip: Ethel.) The Sharm el-Sheikh air disaster recalls the last Egyptian air disaster in 1999 when ...
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Berkeley ISM Tool Whines
Sat, Jan 3, 2004 at 6:06:14 pm PST
The American woman detained along with Swedish MP Gustav Fridolin for participating in a nonviolent riot in Israel happens to be from ... drum roll ... Berkeley! Berkeley activist jailed in Israel. A Bay Area peace activist is being held this weekend in an Israeli jail after her arrest during ...
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Pedagogy of Hate
Sat, Jan 3, 2004 at 5:58:59 pm PST
At the Jerusalem Post, an excellent opinion piece by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook on the tragic, evil brainwashing of Palestinian children into a life of hatred and murder: Pedagogy of hate. If you want to know what’s really at the heart of the Palestinian conflict with Israel, don’t ask ...
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IED: Intrauterine Explosive Device
Sat, Jan 3, 2004 at 5:26:41 pm PST
The latest news about the reason for those canceled British Airways flights is that the US had very specific intelligence about a female suicide bomber. (Assuming the Mirror isn’t making stuff up again.) A BA flight to Washington was cancelled at the last minute yesterday after an intelligence tip-off that ...
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Governor Dean: Worst Nuke Security Rating in US
Sat, Jan 3, 2004 at 5:19:21 pm PST
Howard Dean, who misses no opportunity to slam the Bush administration for being weak on homeland security, was warned repeatedly as Vermont governor about lax security at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. The warnings, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press, began in 1991 when a group of ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Sat, Jan 3, 2004 at 3:01:02 pm PST
Palestinian children march carrying toy weapons during a parade celebrating the 39th anniversary of Arafat’s Fatah movement at the Khan Yunes refugee camp in the southern Gaza strip(AFP/Said Khatib)
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New Year's Riots ala Francaise
Sat, Jan 3, 2004 at 1:29:20 pm PST
France apparently has a new way of celebrating New Year’s Day: More than 300 cars set ablaze as violence mars French celebrations. (Hat tip: norar.) FRANCE witnessed an orgy of vandalism as rioters set more than 300 cars ablaze, in what has become something of a New Year tradition. Thirty-two of ...
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Dude, Where's My Fiskie?
Sat, Jan 3, 2004 at 11:43:05 am PST
Michael Moore grabbed an early lead in the voting for the 2003 Fiskie Award, and is staying in front even as the rest of the top ten nominees get shaken out below him. And believe me, below Michael Moore is not a position in which you want to be. You could even ...
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A Reminder...
Sat, Jan 3, 2004 at 11:27:40 am PST
......that if you see a message saying you’re not allowed to post comments, or use our forms to send email, it’s because I’ve had to completely block AOL addresses from using those functions of LGF. There is a group of truly nasty and very persistent creatures who have been using ...
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Changing the Face of Foreign Aid
Sat, Jan 3, 2004 at 11:20:13 am PST
US to Begin New Approach on Foreign Aid. WASHINGTON - A revolution in U.S. foreign aid, rewarding countries for how they govern, is finally ready to get under way, almost two years after first promised by the Bush administration. The program will favor countries whose governments are judged to be ...
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All Roads Lead to Pakistan
Sat, Jan 3, 2004 at 10:25:58 am PST
Here’s a deeply scary report on Pakistan’s role as the spider in the center of the web of Islamic nuclear proliferation, and the activities of the “father” of Pakistan’s nukes, Abdul Qadeer Khan: From Rogue Nuclear Programs, Web of Trails Leads to Pakistan. (Hat tip: dennisw.) Dr. Khan returned to ...
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Saudi "Scholars:" Don't Follow Infidels
Sat, Jan 3, 2004 at 10:03:28 am PST
A group of highly placed Saudis has signed a document warning the kingdom not to change the religious supremacism and hatred taught in Saudi school books: Saudi scholars warn against changing school books. (Hat tip: Baldy.) RIYADH, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Some 150 Saudis, including judges, university professors and a ...
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Inside the Universal Heritage Conference
Sat, Jan 3, 2004 at 9:35:47 am PST
In the beginning of December, LGF noted an upcoming Islamic conference in Florida, featuring a stellar cast of radical Muslims including the senior imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, who is on record calling Jews the “grandsons of monkeys and pigs.” Sherrie Gossett attended the Florida conference and ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Sat, Jan 3, 2004 at 7:56:17 am PST
Palestinian children hold toy weapons as they stand next to masked militants from the Fatah movement during the 39th anniversary of Arafat’s Fatah movement, 02 January 2004, at the Khan Yunes refugee camp in the southern Gaza strip.(AFP/Said Khatib)
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One Across The Bow
Fri, Jan 2, 2004 at 6:14:56 pm PST
Yo, Allah. Are you trying to send a message to the mullahs? Meteorite hits Iran. (Hat tip: Gustavia.) TEHRAN (Reuters) - A meteorite has hit northern Iran causing minor damage to property but there were no immediate reports of casualties, state radio has said. It said the impact sent locals in panic ...
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Questions About Benin 727 Crash
Fri, Jan 2, 2004 at 4:45:07 pm PST
Was the Boeing 727 that crashed off West Africa on Christmas Day the same aircraft that mysteriously disappeared from Angola last May? Questions Surface About Benin Jet Crash.
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The Mullahs Bite
Fri, Jan 2, 2004 at 3:31:36 pm PST
The religious thugs who rule Iran are spewing venom at the US, to shore up their sense of honor after accepting our aid, and to keep the people’s anger focused on the Great Satan: U.S. Criticized Over Iran Relief Efforts. "The Americans, by publicizing their aid to Iran, have ...
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Spencer on Washington Journal
Fri, Jan 2, 2004 at 3:21:27 pm PST
Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, will be on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal show tomorrow, Saturday, at 7:45 am Eastern. You can watch video over the web at this page.
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Iraq's Future - and Ours
Fri, Jan 2, 2004 at 11:45:52 am PST
At Commentary Magazine, another great new essay from Victor Davis Hanson: Iraq’s Future - and Ours. (Hat tip: mal.)
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Iraqi Guerillas Pose As Journalists
Fri, Jan 2, 2004 at 11:20:29 am PST
Iraqi jihadis shot down a US helicopter today west of Baghdad, then posed as journalists in order to attack soldiers guarding the crash site. In Baghdad, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said enemy fire likely brought down the OH-58 Kiowa Warrior that crashed near Fallujah, a flashpoint in the ...
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Krekar Arrested in Norway
Fri, Jan 2, 2004 at 11:03:30 am PST
Mullah Krekar, “spiritual leader” of the Al Qaeda-linked Iraqi Islamist group Ansar al-Islam, has been arrested in Norway (where he has had refugee status for more than 10 years), on charges of attempting to murder his political enemies in Iraq. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.) Krekar was arrested at his apartment ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Fri, Jan 2, 2004 at 9:18:37 am PST
Palestinian children hold toy guns as others hold posters of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during a rally marking the 39th anniversary of the founding of the mainstream Fatah Movement in the Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Friday Jan. 2. 2003 (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra). The Palestinian daughter ...
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A Precision Weapon
Fri, Jan 2, 2004 at 8:41:59 am PST
Here’s an interesting look at some of the guys making a difference in Iraq—Army snipers who pick off mujahideen from as far as half a mile away: In Iraq’s Murky Battle, Snipers Offer U.S. a Precision Weapon. (Hat tip: Hugh Hewitt.)
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Swedish MP to Be Deported
Thu, Jan 1, 2004 at 11:49:34 am PST
Swedish parliamentarian Gustav Fridolin, as you can see from the photo accompanying this article at the Jerusalem Post, likes to mousse his hair into a sort of reverse DA. He also likes to hang out with the ISM tools, Israeli anarchists, and their Palestinian minders when they non-violently attack Israel’s ...
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Islam Is Not As Tolerant
Thu, Jan 1, 2004 at 11:14:49 am PST
Another Vatican official speaks out about the oppression of non-Muslims in Islamic countries, and Islamic intolerance of other religions: Islam not as tolerant as us: cardinal. Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, who recently retired as the Vatican’s foreign minister, told the French Catholic daily La Croix this week that Christianity and Islam ...
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May the "Best" One Win
Thu, Jan 1, 2004 at 10:48:16 am PST
The first round of voting for the 2003 Fiskie Award is now open: Idiotarian of 2003. As described earlier, in this round you get five votes that you can spend however you like. The top 10 nominees after five days will go on to the final round.
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BA Flight Held in Washington
Thu, Jan 1, 2004 at 9:06:09 am PST
Happy new year! Looks like the jihadis weren’t able to pull anything off yesterday; but the government was certainly very nervous about something: Agents Detain British Airways Jet at Washington Airport. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. security officials detained a British Airways Boeing 747 on arrival at a Washington, D.C., airport ...
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