LGF Archives: February 2002
urban warfare at its dirtiest
Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 6:40:10 pm PST
The IDF is finally taking action against the Balata refugee camp, a lawless area of the West Bank that houses many of the terrorists and their bomb factories: Shattering the myth of sanctuary. In the process the IDF is confronting the demon of urban warfare and coming up with solutions: ...
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nefarious
Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 6:09:59 pm PST
The wily Police Chief of Dubai, Maj. Gen. Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, is on to the nefarious Jews and their secret plots for world domination. Addressing intellectuals and foreign dignitaries at a press conference held at the Juma Al Majid Centre for Culture and Heritage on Tuesday, Maj Gen Dhahi Khalfan ...
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how cynical is too cynical?
Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 5:45:01 pm PST
Just in case you harbor some illusions that the Saudi “peace plan” is anything but a public relations scam: Saudi Plan Seen Benefiting Relations with U.S. This Reuters article contains some rather amusing passages: While a positive effect might be improved U.S.-Saudi ties, analysts are quick to point out they ...
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hatred that won’t die
Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 4:14:11 pm PST
In the Guardian, an excellent column by Jonathan Sacks about The hatred that won't die. Anti-semitism is undeniably the most successful ideology of modern times. Fascism came and went. Soviet communism came and went. Anti-semitism came and stayed. Its success is due to the fact that, like a virus, it ...
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pulling back from the brink of peace
Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 2:50:57 pm PST
The LA Times has more details on the speech Saudi ambassador Fawzi Shubukshi gave to the UN Security Council yesterday, which many found surprising and disappointing. (Not me—it’s exactly what I expected.) Before the ambassador's address, which came near the end of the two-day council debate, the nascent Saudi initiative ...
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google loves us
Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 8:46:11 am PST
Here’s a great article on the impact weblogs have on the Google search engine: Google Loves Blogs. (via InstaPundit, via Ginger Stampley.)
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3 impossible things
Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 8:17:48 am PST
Three things that are impossible (and/or imaginary): 1. A Middle East peace agreement brokered by Saudi Arabia. 2. The square root of -1. 3. Me caring any less about the Grammy awards.
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the root of conflict
Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 7:59:25 am PST
Reader Bala Ambati sent us this link to a long but excellent article that examines the roots of India-Pakistan conflicts, with some good insights into the role of Islam. The three important social demands that dominate the Islamic orthodoxy as adopted by Pakistan's government and many other Islamic States (as ...
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so much for the “peace plan”
Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 7:29:11 am PST
I hate to say “I told you so.” But when the Saudi ambassador to the UN formally presented their so-called Mideast “peace plan” he made not one mention of recognizing Israel’s right to exist, and used the majority of his speech to accuse Israel of “racism” and “systematic terrorism.” "Israel ...
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american jihad
Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 8:25:49 pm PST
Steve Emerson has been trying to get our attention about Islamic terrorism for years. Here’s an excerpt from his new book American Jihad.
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the olive garden
Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 7:18:53 am PST
James Lileks has a great new screed up; in this one he draws and quarters yet another anti-American column from the Daily Wanker (aka the Guardian).
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“no longer credible”
Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 7:12:05 am PST
Even other Arabs are starting to see through the duplicitousness of the Palestinian Authority: "When Israel announced that it had seized the [Karine A] weapons ship, I doubted the Israeli account and espoused the PA's claim - that the whole thing was a fabrication. I did this out of a ...
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american madrassas
Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 6:27:37 pm PST
Of course, the day I don’t post anything is the day the dreaded InstaPundit links to me on his front page. Twice. (So that’s why our traffic is through the roof today. Hi Cecilia, if you read this.) But here’s a very scary article at the Washington Post about what’s being ...
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ICTM
Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:09:50 pm PST
Posting will be light today; I’ve got work to do. I’ve got a job, baby. And I’m in intense coding trance mode (ICTM™). My mind is a raging torrent of five-dimensional arrays.
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a modest proposal
Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 8:31:29 am PST
The Atlantic Online has a remarkable piece by Peter Landesman about a frighteningly nihilistic conversation with Brigadier Amanullah, the former secretary to Benazir Bhutto: A Modest Proposal From the Brigadier. I thought of the shrines to Pakistan's nuclear-weapons site, prominently displayed in every city. I told Aman that I was ...
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israel’s main concern
Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 1:47:10 am PST
Megan McArdle has a thoughtful post about the Israel/Palestine conflict, reacting to an exchange I had with Damian Penny about the so-called Thomas Friedman “peace plan.”
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the unbearable lightness of blogging
Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 6:16:42 pm PST
Posts have been light today, because I’ve been answering backed-up email (417 Inbox messages? How did that happen?) and dealing with some mundane household issues (broken toilet, lime-deposit-clogged faucet, isn’t LA’s water system great?). Sucks when reality gets in the way of blogging.
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don’t worry, little prince
Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 6:02:13 pm PST
The Saudis are worried about what might happen if we attack Iraq and fail. I’m going to surprise everyone and say I think they actually have reason to be concerned, after the unfinished business we left in their back yard after Operation Desert Storm. And that could be why the ...
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get your gore on
Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 4:53:51 pm PST
Jim Treacher’s take-off/parody of “Get Your War On” is hilarious: Get Your Gore On. (Rated PG for language.)
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detainee details
Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 6:26:19 pm PST
The Miami Herald has a story about the detainees at Gitmo, with the revelation that some of them hold degrees from American colleges. ''That's the kind of ironic thing about it. They don't mind criticizing us but they don't mind coming here and getting educated,'' said Army Lt. David Walters. ...
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peace plan? what peace plan?
Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 3:56:56 pm PST
Addressing a crowd of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia, King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah used very harsh anti-Israel rhetoric, and made no mention of “Ambassador” Thomas Friedman’s so-called “peace plan.” How odd. Since they’re planning to unveil their ground-breaking proposal to the Arab League next month, you’d think they would ...
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valhalla here i come
Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 1:10:54 pm PST
This is not a quality death.
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quick flenses fisk
Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 1:03:52 pm PST
A most excellent off-handed insult for the eminently insultable Robert Fisk, from Bill Quick: Unfortunately, his deeply ingrained self-loathing (perhaps the most justifiable aspect of his personality)...
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new anti-idiotarians
Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 10:44:19 am PST
Please join us in giving a warm anti-idiotarian welcome to Fritz Schranck, The Corner (it’s not a weblog, honest), Kathy Shaidle (a recovering liberal like me), the amazing Banana Counting Monkey, Charles Kuffner, Craig Biggerstaff, and Mike Sanders who runs a great blog about blogs. (By the way, I hope somebody ...
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reality has finally sunk in
Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 8:50:08 am PST
A very interesting, dispassionate look at the Mideast conflict by Gerald M. Steinberg: Reality has finally sunk in. It’s no longer possible to keep up the pretense of a “peace process.” Arafat has been hiding behind the Oslo accords, building and arming a military force disguised as “police,” and maintaining ...
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moving towards the center
Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 8:16:55 am PST
Dr. Frank publishes a remarkable essay by a woman who lost a friend on 9/11, and was forced into a stark confrontation with her long-held, seldom-challenged Chomskyite belief system. It’s a must read.
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before and after
Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 8:06:47 am PST
Heartbreaking photographs taken from space by the Ikonos satellite. (via USS Clueless.)
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the devil is in the details
Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 6:08:03 pm PST
I’ve been debating with myself whether to post this. But it’s vitally important to know the enemy—and by their deeds, you shall know them. So, via the Arab News, here are some painful details about what happened to Danny Pearl. KARACHI, 23 February — US reporter Daniel Pearl was murdered in ...
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what did they gain?
Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 9:57:19 am PST
Ex-hostage Terry Anderson talks about the death of Danny Pearl: "Those who murdered him gained absolutely nothing," said Anderson, now the honorary co-chair of the Committee to Protect Journalists. "There was no purpose to his death, political or otherwise. They didn't even gain publicity for the cause that they supposedly ...
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they’ve gotta be kidding
Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 8:15:25 am PST
U.S. may pay ransom for hostages under new policy. In a major policy reversal on international hostage-taking, Bush administration officials said Wednesday that the United States might sometimes pay ransom to kidnappers. However, the officials also stressed that the government would be aggressive in recovering the money once a hostage ...
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liberation
Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 8:01:45 am PST
The last installment in James S. Robbins’ excellent 5-part series looks at possible scenarios for the Iraqi endgame: Liberation. A good companion to the Robbins series is Steven Den Beste’s analysis of the situation, with input from several other armchair generals.
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what’s the frequency, kenneth?
Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 7:43:58 am PST
Looks like Layne has been forgetting to wear his aluminum-foil skullcap again, and the CIA mind control androids are beaming bad thoughts into his head.
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page size competition
Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 5:46:48 pm PST
Reid Stott does a web design weigh-in, comparing number of links and total page size. I’d just like to point out that LGF takes the gold in overall number of links. Thank you, thank you. (Update: InstaPundit has lodged a complaint with the International Blogging Committee, claiming that “Charles Johnson’s obsession with ...
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benny morris sees the light
Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 5:04:39 pm PST
Radical revisionist historian Benny Morris, who was once jailed for refusing military service in the West Bank, has had a real change of heart about Yasser Arafat: Peace? No chance. The rumour that I have undergone a brain transplant is (as far as I can remember) unfounded - or at ...
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mideast dead end
Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 3:55:38 pm PST
The National Post isn’t fooled by the so-called Saudi “peace plan”: Mideast dead end. But details of who should do what and when ignores an important point: The Friedman-Saudi idea suffers from historical amnesia. The proposed concessions go further than what was discussed at Camp David in 2000 and Taba ...
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on the right side of history
Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 3:13:33 pm PST
A great new Mark Steyn piece: On the right side of history. Unlike Chris Pétain, I take these guys at their word. The EU supposedly fears massive ‘destabilisation’ of the Muslim world. I say, bring it on, baby. If we don’t destabilise them now, they’re going to be destablilising us ...
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they killed him on tape
Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 2:53:46 pm PST
The worst news possible for those hoping against hope; Danny Pearl is apparently confirmed dead. "Our embassy in Pakistan has confirmed today that they have received evidence that Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is dead," the department said in a statement. "We have informed Mr. Pearl's family and expressed ...
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virtuoso
Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 2:30:36 pm PST
Jesus. Don’t ever put on a Joe Pass record when you’re trying to get some work done. I keep having to stop and pick my jaw up off the floor. What a monster he was.
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dialogue with the deaf
Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:32:55 am PST
At OpinionJournal, Tunku Varadarajan has an excellent piece on the recent meeting in Turkey of EU and Islamic representatives: Dialogue With the Deaf. There was, however, no escape from one depressing truth. The cultures of the West and the Islamic world are so far apart that it would seem that ...
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fox weblog
Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:17:50 am PST
Today’s celebrity FoxNews weblogger is Rand Simberg, reprising one of his favorite themes: space exploration. Great stuff. And I was too busy yesterday to mention it (flat tire) but the distaff side of the anti-idiotarian movement was represented on Fox by the lovely and talented Moira Breen.
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frog vs. scorpion
Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:05:56 am PST
The native American story of the Indian and the Snake is often told with a scorpion and a frog in the main roles. Here’s a page that looks at the parable through the lens of game theory: The Prisoner’s Dilemma. It is the scorpion that pulls humanity down. If you ...
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ambassador friedman’s plan
Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 8:53:41 am PST
The NY Times today endorses the Thomas Friedman/Prince Abdullah “peace plan,” apparently thinking that if they keep the pressure on, Abdullah will actually follow through with the proposal to the Arab League: A Peace Impulse Worth Pursuing. The violent cycle of Palestinian attack and Israeli reprisal grows deadlier by the ...
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war in the shadows
Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 7:53:21 am PST
Part 4 of James Robbins’ series on the Iraq problem is now up; this one looks at the role of covert operations and the Iraqi opposition. The Iraqi Opposition may play a considerable part in this early phase of the campaign, particularly the members of the foreign-based opposition groups such ...
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a new memri
Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 7:46:10 am PST
I received an intriguing item from MEMRI’s email list yesterday, and when I went to their site to see if it was posted yet, I caught them in the middle of an apparent redesign. MEMRI’s been getting a lot of attention lately and I’m glad to see they’re working on ...
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the saudis are up to their necks
Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 7:37:41 am PST
When NATO authorities raided a Saudi “humanitarian” agency in Bosnia last October, they found extensive evidence of connections to Al Qaeda: NATO authorities who raided a Saudi aid agency last fall found computer files containing photographs of terrorist targets and street maps of Washington with government buildings marked, a senior ...
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dye, infidel, dye!
Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 1:56:56 pm PST
Did you hear the one about the four Moroccans arrested with “large amounts” of cyanide in Italy? Well, the story has been quietly getting revised; the page I linked to earlier now reads: ROME (Reuters) - Italian officials squashed fears on Wednesday that Rome had been threatened by a bio-terrorist ...
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arafat calls on the security council
Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 9:13:21 am PST
Yasser Arafat wants the UN Security Council (which is thoroughly staffed with representatives from Arab thugocracies who regularly condemn Israel, while turning a blind eye to attacks against Israeli civilians) to intervene in the Israel-Palestine conflict. And at least two European leaders have apparently forgotten that the primary mandate of any ...
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thwarted cyanide attack
Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 7:34:27 am PST
Four Moroccans in Rome Arrested With Cyanide: ROME (Reuters) - Italian police said Wednesday they had arrested four Moroccans in possession of large quantities of the deadly poison cyanide and maps of Rome highlighting the U.S. embassy and the city's water supply.Police said they suspect the men, arrested early Tuesday ...
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on the road to baghdad
Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 7:17:05 am PST
James S. Robbins’ five-part series on Iraq continues, with a look at the international context for action against Saddam: On the Road to Baghdad. So why the reticence in the region to resolve the Iraq issue? Is it Arab or Muslim solidarity? Doubtful — actual examples of this purported togetherness ...
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polishing a turd
Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 6:52:57 pm PST
When I read Yasser Arafat’s op-ed in the NY Times I thought it was pretty damned articulate for a guy who comes across in interviews as barely able to converse in English. Turns out my gut feeling was right. According to the Jerusalem Post, the old killer’s column was actually ...
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blogspot apocalypse
Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 1:38:08 pm PST
I’m starting to wonder if Blogspot has suffered a total meltdown. It’s been offline for several hours now. If any of our new visitors are wondering why a lot of our anti-idiotarian links seem to be missing in action, it’s because many of them are hosted on a low-cost (read: free) ...
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where’s the outrage?
Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:04:30 am PST
Indications are that the US intelligence community is going into “butt-covering” mode, instead of doing a thorough and impartial investigation into the failures that may have contributed to the 9/11 attacks. Frank Gaffney says the fix is in, and asks, “Where’s the Outrage?” On Thursday, Sen. Graham and Rep. Goss ...
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fatah praises suicide bombers
Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:55:03 am PST
According to this report, Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization is bragging openly about their involvement in the recent string of terror attacks against Israeli citizens: “The two martyrs who carried out Operation Hadera were members of ‘the Brigades of the Martyrs of al Aqsa’ that is part of the Fatah movement, ...
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al qaeda home movies
Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:13:57 am PST
In this USA Today report, scary new details about the Al Qaeda plot to attack US and Israeli targets in Singapore and Southeast Asia. The frightening thing is how methodically and systematically they went about their plans, and how they were able to operate for years without being detected. And ...
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layne on fox
Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 9:45:50 am PST
Ken Layne is today’s Fox News weblogger . . . and he was kind enough to link to us in his column. Thanks, Ken, and to our new visitors . . . welcome!
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the EU springs into action!
Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 9:30:00 am PST
Watch out, Robert Mugabe! The European Union is getting serious! The European Union's confrontation with Zimbabwe entered a new and volatile stage last night when it slapped "smart sanctions" . . . (. . . which have worked so incredibly well in Bosnia and Iraq . . .) . . ...
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the iraqi opposition
Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 8:41:44 am PST
Part two of James S. Robbins’ analysis of possible methods for overthrowing Saddam Hussein: The Iraqi Opposition.
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no one asked
Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 8:10:27 am PST
The Washington Post reports on the shockingly lax security at US biodefense research labs: No One Asked Questions. Former Army scientist Richard Crosland kept scrupulous notes about the frozen crystals he kept in his lab, and for good reason: The crystals contained botulinum toxin, a biological poison so deadly a ...
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been down so long
Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 7:56:19 am PST
Yes, Blogspot is down again. It’s becoming a daily occurrence. I don’t know if there has been a sudden influx of new weblogs or if the system is just breaking down under the load, but it’s definitely getting worse. Again I urge the anti-idiotarian bloggers to find themselves professional web hosts; ...
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overthrowing saddam
Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 4:23:13 pm PST
Here’s part one of an authoritative 5-part series on Iraq by James S. Robbins at NRO: Overthrowing Saddam.
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even the patch doesn't help...
Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 2:10:29 pm PST
Apparently the patch released by Microsoft to address its browser security problem doesn't work.
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congratulations, will
Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:52:17 pm PST
Kudos to Will Vehrs, whose excellent Punditwatch has been picked up by the new FOXNews weblog.
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friedman’s pipe dream
Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 9:40:06 am PST
Ira Stoll (the best fact checker the NY Times never had) responds to the Thomas Friedman/Prince Abdullah “peace plan.” It’s curious how Paul Krugman is raked over the coals for taking money from Enron, while the Saudis can wine and dine Friedman (and blow smoke up his ass) as part of ...
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kalashnikovs in the cellar
Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 9:05:35 am PST
A notorious London mosque that has been linked to Al Qaeda recruitment has also been holding AK-47 training sessions. MI5 recruited worshippers at Finsbury Park who opposed the hardline stance taken by controversial Muslim cleric Abu Hamza, who often leads prayers there, and asked them to help monitor the activities ...
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tough love
Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 8:35:07 am PST
I’m as skeptical about Pervez Musharraf’s true motives as anyone. We shouldn’t forget that until recently, his government was a major source of support for the Islamo-fascists. But he sure has been saying all the right things recently—in a part of the world where that can get you killed. At an ...
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sue the saudis
Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 7:34:47 am PST
Daniel Pipes has an intriguing idea for the victims of 9/11: Sue the Saudis. The fact that Saudi ideology, nationals and money play so large a role in the attacks has two important implications.First, the Saudis' own legal code is largely based on the compensating the injured party. (Hit a ...
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welch on sanctions
Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 6:21:58 pm PST
Matt Welch’s long-promised article on the UN sanctions against Iraq is finally online: The Politics of Dead Children. An even-handed search for the truth behind the hyperbole. The idea that sanctions in Iraq have killed half a million children (or 1 million, or 1.5 million, depending on the hysteria of ...
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blogspot jihad
Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 10:39:20 am PST
I’m about ready to issue a fatwa on Blogspot, which is down again as it has been every weekend. Come on, you bs'ers. Get a real web host. Email me for a recommendation; you might be surprised how inexpensive it can be.
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no hump jokes please
Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 10:32:58 am PST
It’s a love thing.
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at the valentine checkpoint
Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 10:06:27 am PST
The Committee for the Prevention of Vice and the Promotion of Virtue is on the job! RIYADH, 17 February — A number of young people in the capital were “taken to task” by the Committee for the Prevention of Vice and the Promotion of Virtue on Feb. 14 for buying ...
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barry at the olympics
Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 9:25:36 am PST
If Ken is a moron, so am I (pipe down, peanut gallery), because I didn’t know about these hilarious Dave Barry columns from the Winter Olympics either. Go ye and read of them.
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carr goes python
Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 9:17:19 am PST
Carr goes Python on Rubush. Scott Rubush is far from impressed with all this technology and I, for one, am greatly relieved that, at long last, somebody has had the guts to speak the truth."technology does little to change the quality of life..."Says Scott and..."Hell, I live in the 21st ...
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signal or smoke screen?
Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 8:51:00 am PST
Ambassador . . . sorry, I mean columnist Thomas Friedman writes from Saudi Arabia about an intriguing signal from the Saudi Crown Prince. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Earlier this month, I wrote a column suggesting that the 22 members of the Arab League, at their summit in Beirut on March ...
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make him go away
Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 5:45:33 pm PST
Here is Robert Fisk’s latest tedious anti-American screed. I read the whole thing and it gave me a headache. Couldn’t he have made his point (whatever the hell it is) without 23 scare quotes?
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the real root cause
Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 3:34:47 pm PST
Michael Long makes a simple but often overlooked point about terrorism: Terror isn't about throwing off oppression, and it never has been. Terror is about the obscene joy to be had in creating chaos. ...Too many here in America wishfully imagine terrorists as ignorant unwashed vagabonds who, for want of ...
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root causes
Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 3:04:10 pm PST
Mark Steyn asks the important question: Why do they hate Canadian skaters? I was in the Canadian VIP pavilion at Salt Lake when Jamie and David were cruelly cut down on Monday -- or, as I like to think of it, 2/11. "This is outrageous!" I cried, leaping to my ...
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another suicide bombing
Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 11:29:46 am PST
Another deluded, sick Palestinian has perpetrated a suicide bombing at a pizzeria in a West Bank shopping mall, killing two people and wounding at least a dozen others.
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inside the kingdom
Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 10:21:09 am PST
Elizabeth Farnsworth has a very interesting three-part report on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at PBS; parts one and two are now online. (Thanks to PJ Swenson for the tip.)
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the egyptian hate machine
Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 9:11:43 am PST
Egyptian government-fueled paranoia and anti-Semitism is out of control, says Joshua Hammer in the New Republic: Tie Breaker. Newspapers--both government-run and independent--claim that the Mossad is injecting the aids virus into the Jaffa oranges it exports. And during the recent Cairo trial of 52 homosexuals on charges of "defiling Islam," ...
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why do they hate us? (the stupid version)
Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 6:19:56 pm PST
The Arab News found someone named “John Adams,” who is supposed to be from Los Angeles, to write a pitifully incoherent and suspiciously grammar-impaired article called Why do they hate us, a politically incorrect answer. You’ll never guess why they hate us! Yes, we will find Al-Qaeda and destroy it, ...
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new anti-idiotarians
Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 4:03:31 pm PST
I’ve added some more weblogs to our list of anti-idiotarians: Richard Bennett, Emily Jones, Suman Palit, Scott Rubush, Ginger Stampley, and Will Warren. Let’s give them a warm round of applause, shall we? And also, a new addition to our bloggage section (and one we should have added a long time ...
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parallel universe
Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 1:32:51 pm PST
Victor Hanson reports from a parallel universe where France was attacked on 9/11.
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PA nearing financial collapse
Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:47:21 am PST
According to the Jerusalem Post, the Palestinian Authority is nearly broke. Since the outbreak of the intifada, the Palestinian Authority has spent more than $1 billion annually, and mounting debts could lead to its collapse, according to Lt. Col. Yitzhak Gurevitch, head of the economic desk for the government coordinator ...
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your tax dollars at work
Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:05:59 am PST
The Department of Defense has put together a list of terrorist organizations that threaten the United States and its allies: A Global Terror Group Primer. Now you have no excuse for confusing the Palestine Liberation Front with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
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a surfeit of lawyers
Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 8:10:01 am PST
According to this LA Times article, the military now checks out every target with a team of lawyers before taking action—and as you might expect, this policy has resulted in several missed opportunities: War, on Advice of Counsel. When Air Force targeters in Afghanistan spotted a Taliban convoy rumbling along ...
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an infidel holiday
Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 1:23:51 pm PST
Saudi Arabia’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Evil has banned Valentine’s Day. Fun haters. Hmm. The “Prevention of Evil,” eh? I thought that used to be “Prevention of Vice?” Is this some kind of convoluted, surreal response to Bush’s “axis of evil?”
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CSS Style Switcher
Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:00:54 am PST
A List Apart offers up a Backward Compatible Style Switcher that even works with Netscape 4! A Style switcher that works in Netscape 4? Ridiculous! Impossible! Why on earth would you want to? Go back to your cave, Neanderthal!
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palestinian thanatopia
Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 8:25:14 am PST
The Palestinian woman who blew herself up in Israel, killing one civilian and wounding more than 100 others, is being lauded as a heroine in the Arab press, in a disgustingly orgiastic celebration of death, violence, and anti-Semitism.
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ball of confusion
Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 7:05:12 pm PST
Just to add to the confusion surrounding the Arafat-pulling-a-heater incident, Israel Insider reports that Jabril Rajoub is now denying the whole thing. Spin, spin, spin.
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technology for presidents
Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 6:43:51 pm PST
UC Berkeley physics professor Richard A. Muller speaks the scientific truth about Iraq: Springtime, Taxes, and the Attack on Iraq. It is useful to remember the character of Saddam Hussein. He is the man who ordered that Kuwait be set on fire, with the expectation that it would burn for ...
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you-know-who watch
Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 8:47:19 am PST
Saudi Arabia’s assistant foreign minister addresses the European Union: Kingdom refutes ‘clash of civilizations.’ Saudi Arabia yesterday spoke out against the concept of a clash of civilizations and said the new world order should be established on the concepts of cooperation, integration, dialogue and understanding. Meaning “cooperation” with the religious ...
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arafat insanity watch
Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 7:29:43 am PST
Is Arafat losing his marbles? Yasser Arafat and his West Bank security chief got into such an angry argument yesterday about the Palestinian uprising that the PLO chairman drew his pistol, sources said. In a scene out of a Wild West movie, bodyguards of both men also pulled out firearms ...
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dsrotd
Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 6:00:04 pm PST
Disturbing Search Request of the Day: If something has been dead for a long time, how can you tell if it was ever alive?
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mpotd
Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 5:25:06 pm PST
The Monkey Picture of the Day.
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the usual suspects
Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 2:45:41 pm PST
Here are FBI photos of 13 people being sought for planning attacks against the US. Funny thing—I don’t see any 70-year old grandmothers from Vero Beach among them.
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cloud cuckoo land
Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:32:26 am PST
Is Yasser Arafat coming unglued? Palestinian President Yasser Arafat accused Israel Tuesday of trying to destroy his ties with Washington by orchestrating a shipment of arms that Israel says Palestinians sought to use against it.In an interview with Lebanon's An-Nahar daily published on Tuesday, Arafat offered no evidence to back ...
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think like a muslim
Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:11:15 am PST
Daniel Pipes writes about an important history textbook from Houghton Mifflin that seems to be promoting Islam: Think like a Muslim. The textbook endorses key articles of Islamic faith. It informs students as a historical fact that Ramadan is holy "because in this month Muhammad received his first message from ...
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the scary sheikh
Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:37:27 am PST
The Sunday Times has a scary article about a particularly malevolent Islamo-fascist nutjob, responsible for convincing some Britons to fight in Afghanistan: Sheikh gave race-hate lecture to Tipton pair. In one tape-recorded speech he tells an audience of British schoolboys: “All of you sitting down in front of me are ...
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keep on patchin’
Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:21:00 am PST
It’s time for you PC users to patch Internet Explorer again. Microsoft on Monday released a patch to correct six new security vulnerabilities in its Internet Explorer browser, including one that could let a hacker run any program on a victim's computer.
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choose life
Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 10:15:03 am PST
At the Jerusalem Post, Berel Wein has a heartfelt message for the Palestinian Legislative Council: My speech to our Palestinian cousins.
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scapegoat?
Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 9:42:39 am PST
Matt Welch rips apart a noisome op-ed in today’s LA Times that tries to portray Slobodan Milosevic as a “scapegoat.”
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marriage of convenience, part three
Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 8:53:22 am PST
In the final installment of the WaPo series on US-Saudi relations, the authors seem to be leaning toward the Saudis quite a bit more than in the previous two articles; for example, the Giuliani incident isn’t even mentioned. A good series over all, but it wimps out at the end. ...
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furqan the chechen
Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 8:17:40 pm PST
The FBI has issued another warning: "Recent information indicates a planned attack may occur in the United States or against U.S. interests in the country of Yemen on or around 02/12/02," the alert said. "One or more operatives may be involved in the attack, including Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei, also known ...
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go fred
Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 7:56:34 pm PST
Pruitt critiques Al Qaeda.
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al qaeda combat strategy
Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 6:29:13 pm PST
Here’s the MEMRI article I mentioned yesterday, containing the translated statements of “a top Al Qaeda lieutenant” who explicitly takes responsibility for the 9/11 attacks: Bin Laden Lieutenant Admits to September 11. "Al-Qa'ida takes pride in that, on September 11, it destroyed the elements of America's strategic defense, which the ...
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jail break
Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 1:39:43 pm PST
Some 300 Islamic “activists” stormed a Hebron prison and released all the inmates, including members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. According to the article, Palestinian Authority security forces made no effort to prevent the jailbreak.
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marriage of convenience, part two
Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 11:14:44 am PST
Part Two of the excellent WaPo series Marriage of Convenience: The U.S.-Saudi Alliance: Oil for Security Fueled Close Ties.
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UNconscious
Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 9:10:36 am PST
After the admission of Syria to the Security Council, the disgracefully anti-Semitic Durban Conference, and now this, does anyone still think the UN is anything but a terrorist-appeasing, dictator-coddling joke? The United Nations has abandoned plans for a proposed war crimes tribunal in Cambodia, paving the way for the release ...
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rest in peace
Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 6:57:31 pm PST
They found 5 police officers today, at the heart of Ground Zero. You did your very best. Rest in peace.
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al qaeda web site
Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 6:50:20 pm PST
According to MEMRI, this: http://www.geocities.com/al_anssar/index.html is a web site with close ties to Al Qaeda, with an explicit admission of responsibility for the 9/11 attacks. More to follow.
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about NPR
Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 6:36:07 pm PST
Greg McIlvaine speaks the truth about NPR. As someone who (before 9/11) used to listen to NPR regularly, and agreed with their viewpoints more often than not, I share his disillusionment.
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new feature!
Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 2:01:01 pm PST
Here’s something I’ve been tinkering with for a while that I finally decided to make public: show all entries. It shows summaries of all LGF weblog entries, with links to the individual page for each entry. It also shows how many comments have been made for each entry, and the ...
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camp david redux
Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:51:25 pm PST
Gary Farber takes issue with the term “Barak’s offer” for the Middle East peace deal that was brokered and promoted by the Clinton administration, and he’s right, in a sense. When I talk about this I usually call it the “Camp David” proposal. But I don’t think it’s totally inaccurate ...
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marriage of convenience
Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:11:59 pm PST
Here’s part one of a new series (with too many subtitles) at the Washington Post called Marriage of Convenience : The U.S.-Saudi Alliance: Saudi Leader’s Anger Revealed Shaky Ties. On Aug. 24, Crown Prince Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz, the leader of Saudi Arabia, was in his palace in Riyadh watching President ...
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extremist recruiters
Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 9:11:40 am PST
Adil at Muslim Pundit hasn’t posted to his blog in a while, and now I know why; he was writing an extraordinary essay on Islamic extremist groups in the UK. A must-read.
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iranophrenia
Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 8:38:26 am PST
An Iranian intelligence officer does the booga booga routine: A high-ranking officer of the Iranian intelligence and security services menaced the United States and Israel with "suicide attacks" against their soldiers and disclosed that "many young Iranians were preparing for suicide operations" against them.The warning, published in the hard-line evening ...
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with a lower case ‘a’
Sat, Feb 9, 2002 at 6:48:53 pm PST
Victor Hanson defends Dubya. It is an axis. And it’s evil too. How long can we afford to ignore it? Mr. Bush's warning also prepares the American people for a much-needed dose of reality. For over a decade now, we have warned the Iranian government to stop its murdering of ...
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let us have him
Sat, Feb 9, 2002 at 2:54:33 pm PST
Afghan authorities want to interrogate the former Taliban foreign minister who surrendered on Friday. In Washington, Afghan foreign ministry spokesman Omar Samad said his country's interim government wants to talk to Muttawakil to find out what he knows about Taliban atrocities and its links to the al-Qaida terrorist network."We do ...
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on polygamy
Sat, Feb 9, 2002 at 1:15:39 pm PST
At MEMRI, Islamic clerics discuss the wisdom of polygamy. Sheikh Taysir Al-Tamimi, acting head of the Palestinian Authority's Shari'a Judicial System: "...As everyone knows, in non-Islamic societies that prohibit polygamy there are many lovers and mistresses alongside the wife. I say to those who demand equality and whine about women's ...
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european whines
Sat, Feb 9, 2002 at 8:04:37 am PST
Chris Patten, the EU commissioner in charge of Europe's international relations, whines bitterly to the Guardian about US unilateralism. Mr Bush's "axis of evil" speech appears to have been the last straw for EU policymakers. In today's interview, Mr Patten offers withering condemnation of the phrase. Besides balking at the ...
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about MEMRI
Fri, Feb 8, 2002 at 8:08:44 pm PST
An interesting piece at Israel Insider about the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI): MEMRI provides window into the Arab media. MEMRI exposes the West to the real sentiments of the Arab regimes as expressed in their respective government controlled press. Carmon said it was an "uphill battle" to get ...
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played like a fiddle
Fri, Feb 8, 2002 at 6:39:48 pm PST
Matt Welch says I’m being “played like a fiddle” by Condoleeza Rice. Sounds interesting. I’ve always had a thing for mature, smart women. Play me, Condi.
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new evidence in shoe bomber case
Fri, Feb 8, 2002 at 5:59:53 pm PST
These poll results show that our readers are incredibly smart, perceptive, and good-looking: Phone cards link Reid to al Qaeda.
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time to face mecca
Fri, Feb 8, 2002 at 2:47:27 pm PST
British journalist Tom Gross says it’s time to face Mecca. The Saudi regime — not merely its exiled son, Osama bin Laden — bears a major share of the responsibility for international terrorism. Further acts of terror against Americans, of the kind seen in Africa, Yemen, New York, and Washington, ...
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torpedo boat
Fri, Feb 8, 2002 at 2:28:31 pm PST
Lawrence Kaplan on why Bush thinks Arafat is beneath contempt: Torpedo Boat. With the Karine A, Arafat not only crossed the United States strategically; he crossed Bush personally. The episode humiliated the administration, single-handedly destroying a diplomatic mission into which the Bush team had sunk an extraordinary amount of political ...
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a positive fly
Fri, Feb 8, 2002 at 12:09:45 pm PST
Zacarias Moussaoui’s email to a US flight school: "I am Mrs Zacariasl," he wrote from his e-mail address, pilotz123@hotmail.com. "Basically I need to know if you can help me achieve my Goal my dream. "I would like to fly in a professional like manners one of the big airliners. I ...
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oops
Fri, Feb 8, 2002 at 11:49:10 am PST
In an effort to “promote religious understanding” after September 11, a Los Angeles Muslim group donated 300 copies of the Koran to local schools. A nice idea, but unfortunately the translations also contained anti-Semitic commentary. They were donated to schools by the Omar Ibn Khattab Foundation in Los Angeles to ...
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dump them
Thu, Feb 7, 2002 at 6:59:50 pm PST
Rich Lowry says what we’re all thinking. Well, what I’m thinking, anyway: Dump The Saudis. He argues that by replacing Saddam Hussein, we can change the balance of power in the Middle East and make the House of Saud, uh, irrelevant: Most importantly, a successful U.S. effort to topple ...
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a thumb in the eye of the IOC
Thu, Feb 7, 2002 at 10:50:28 am PST
Jeff Jarvis has a great idea: Here's how I want it to play out:As soon as the flag enters the stadium, the entire audience should rise and sing God Bless America -- spontaneously, unanimously, reverently, defiantly.I'll be damned if I'm going to hide like some PC mouse just because other ...
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the nightmare continues
Thu, Feb 7, 2002 at 9:20:38 am PST
Last night, a noble, heroic, oppressed Palestinian terrorist broke into an Israeli home in the Jordan Valley and killed a woman and her 11-year old daughter. This brave martyr shot the poor little girl as she was getting out of the shower. The terrorist first tried to take refuge in ...
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such a lovable terrorist
Thu, Feb 7, 2002 at 8:48:29 am PST
The anti-Israel slant of the BBC is just disgusting. I’m on the verge of removing them from our news links, after seeing the photo of Arafat at the top of this article.
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poor johnny
Wed, Feb 6, 2002 at 10:40:22 am PST
Grumpy John Cole debunks the legal snake oil being peddled by Jihad Johnny’s lawyers.
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dear arab league
Wed, Feb 6, 2002 at 10:24:17 am PST
Little Satan Thomas Friedman channels Great Satan George Bush, in a letter to the Arab League. We're just bystanders. You're the ones with the power to really reshape the diplomacy, not me. And here is my advice for how to do it. You have an Arab League summit set for ...
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15 of 19
Wed, Feb 6, 2002 at 10:01:40 am PST
The Saudis now admit some hijackers were citizens. Saudi Arabia acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that 15 of the 19 hijackers involved in the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon were Saudi citizens. And it only took them 6 months. Asked if he had information on ...
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bin laden’s chef
Wed, Feb 6, 2002 at 9:08:53 am PST
The Christian Science Monitor interviewed a Saudi Arabian claiming to be Osama Bin Laden’s chef, who says his ex-boss is in Iran. "Osama's favorite meal is fowl - anything with wings," says the Saudi national. "He likes quails, and if he can't get his hands on one, he will settle ...
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cohen on suicide bombers
Wed, Feb 6, 2002 at 8:35:59 am PST
In the Washington Post, Richard Cohen writes about Palestinian suicide bombers. The piece concludes with this: Suicide bombers are not just killing themselves and others. They're killing the very humanity of their own people. Indeed they are; and I think I’ve made the same point here more than once. ...
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talk like an egyptian
Wed, Feb 6, 2002 at 7:43:39 am PST
The Egyptian Islamo-fruitcakes are at it again. Did you know that Dubya is just like Osama, Adolf, and Shylock? (Ya gotta love these wackos; who else would conflate Hitler and Shylock?)
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something new
Tue, Feb 5, 2002 at 7:34:18 pm PST
At LGF we’re all about shaking up the status quo. Rocking the boat. We live on the edge. You might want to sit down. We’re introducing a new feature: the Blogga the Week. It’s in our right sidebar, underneath the News links, and this week the spotlight is on Dr. Frank, ...
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the black hole
Tue, Feb 5, 2002 at 6:01:15 pm PST
For a brainwashed pawn of the military-corporate hegemony, this Sgt. Stryker guy is pretty sharp. Check out his capsule explanation of The Black Hole of Defense Spending.
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the return of anti-semitism
Tue, Feb 5, 2002 at 3:46:52 pm PST
Here’s another provocative and closely-reasoned piece from Commentary Magazine (published online by OpinionJournal), by Hillel Halkin: The Return of Anti-Semitism. One must not give an inch on this point. The new anti-Israelism is nothing but the old anti-Semitism in disguise.I will be told that my own account belies this. If ...
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how to win world war IV
Tue, Feb 5, 2002 at 12:25:25 pm PST
Lots of conservatives are rushing to blame Bill Clinton for his failure to deal with Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. But as Norman Podhoretz shows in his lengthy, detailed, and excellent analysis of the US government’s disastrous record of inaction in the face of terrorism, it didn’t start with ...
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a debased society
Tue, Feb 5, 2002 at 9:51:09 am PST
In an outburst of ugly clan warfare, hundreds of Palestinians stormed into a courtroom where three Palestinians were on trial for murder, chased them into a bathroom, murdered them, and then dragged their bodies through the street. Their society is falling apart, and it’s no surprise—given their almost universal embrace ...
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the debt
Tue, Feb 5, 2002 at 8:22:01 am PST
My post about Victor Hanson’s Why Support Israel? set off another passionate discussion, inspiring William Quick to write an eloquent coda to Hanson’s essay. If there is any debt in the world that can be said to be a moral one, then it is the one Europe as a whole ...
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a mystery
Mon, Feb 4, 2002 at 7:17:23 pm PST
OK, wait a minute. LGF has been an Enron-free zone until now. But what is up with this?
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september’s children
Mon, Feb 4, 2002 at 1:21:05 pm PST
At the New Republic, Yossi Klein Halevi writes about the burgeoning alliance between Israel and India: September’s Children.
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why support israel?
Mon, Feb 4, 2002 at 10:08:41 am PST
Still another masterful essay by Victor Hanson, on an issue that enrages and perplexes the Arab world (and many Europeans): Why Support Israel? The answer is found in values — not in brainwashing or because of innate affinity for a particular race or creed. Israel is a democracy. Its opponents ...
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rushdie on anti-americanism
Mon, Feb 4, 2002 at 9:55:08 am PST
In the NY Times, a great piece by Salman Rushdie: America and Anti-Americans. As always, anti- American radicalism feeds off widespread anger over the plight of the Palestinians, and it remains true that nothing would undermine the fanatics' propaganda more completely than an acceptable settlement in the Middle East.However, even ...
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apostasy
Mon, Feb 4, 2002 at 9:29:42 am PST
The Saudis spend a lot of time obsessing over how to handle apostates: people who renounce Islam. This article at the Arab News expresses the moderate view; the author argues that the punishment for this unforgivable crime—having your head hacked off with a sword—should be left to the state, instead ...
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palestinian poll
Sun, Feb 3, 2002 at 6:12:34 pm PST
Here’s the Palestinian poll referred to below. There’s a lot of data on this page, and Gary Farber has done a great job of collating it on his excellent weblog.
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see no evil
Sun, Feb 3, 2002 at 5:50:35 pm PST
An interesting interview with former CIA agent Robert Baer: See No Evil. FPA: Two of the places that you mention in your book quite frequently are Iran and Saudi Arabia. Many have begun to speculate where the war on terror will move to next. Somalia, Iraq and the Philippines have ...
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the settlement issue
Sun, Feb 3, 2002 at 11:19:56 am PST
Thomas Nephew writes about the results of a truly frightening Palestinian public opinion poll (in which an overwhelming majority are in favor of heinous acts of violence against Israelis, including chemical weapons), and about the Israeli settlements in the disputed territories. He identifies the settlements as being a major factor ...
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the annotated arafat
Sun, Feb 3, 2002 at 8:51:36 am PST
IMRA has a lot of experience interpreting and parsing Arafat’s public statements. Here’s their annotated version of the old butcher’s PR piece in the NY Times.
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creatures of the cultural cringe
Sun, Feb 3, 2002 at 8:34:09 am PST
Almost a dozen people have emailed to point me to this terrific essay at The Spectator by Theodore Dalrymple, about the contempt many Western intellectuals feel for their own culture: Creatures of the cultural cringe. Needless to say, the self-hatred of Western intellectuals is not genuine or sincere: they do ...
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reuters on arafat
Sun, Feb 3, 2002 at 7:49:58 am PST
Here’s the Reuters take on Arafat’s NY Times editorial: Arafat Says He's Ready for Peace Talks with Israel. Arafat said in the newspaper article: "I condemn the attacks carried out by terrorist groups against Israeli civilians." "These groups do not represent the Palestinian people or their legitimate aspirations for freedom. ...
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terrorist editorial
Sun, Feb 3, 2002 at 7:33:10 am PST
The NY Times gives their editorial page over to a terrorist. Yes, it’s Yasir Arafat, doing his English song-and-dance again, playing the victim, talking about peace. Not one word about the Karine-A arms shipment, of course, although he “condemns” terrorist acts over and over. Just remember as you read that this ...
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today’s disturbing hippopotamus picture
Sat, Feb 2, 2002 at 6:45:19 pm PST
It’s sad what happens to a libertarian’s mind when he’s denied access to his weblog. To hell with monkeys, I want to see disturbing hippopotamus pictures! Hippos are were it's at! Hippos! Hippos, I tell you! Hippos! I want hippos!Sheesh. Look what happens to my mind when I don't blog ...
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wtf?
Sat, Feb 2, 2002 at 5:48:11 pm PST
Strange stuff is happening. Blogspot is down again. Andrew Sullivan’s site is empty. Sgt. Stryker was hacked. Dan Hartung has been offline for days. The apocalypse is nigh. I’m going to open a bottle of Kendall-Jackson Merlot.
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photo of the day
Sat, Feb 2, 2002 at 4:37:51 pm PST
Here’s today’s weird and disturbing monkey picture.
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blogspot defunked?
Sat, Feb 2, 2002 at 2:52:48 pm PST
Hello? Blogspot? Is anybody there? This time it’s been down most of the afternoon. A deathly silence hangs over the anti-idiotarian world. Shhh.
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do as americans do
Sat, Feb 2, 2002 at 9:18:23 am PST
At the Washington Post, another great Colbert King column on the need to take a strong stand against the barbaric practices of countries like ... you guessed it ... Saudi Arabia. A strong stance on human rights even turns off some on these shores who, in the name of "cultural ...
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anti-globo bozos
Sat, Feb 2, 2002 at 8:45:36 am PST
Matt Welch makes some good points about the “anti-globalization” movement. It’s a shame these issues have been hijacked by such buffoons, because there are some very troubling things about the WTO. (Glenn suggests that the anti-globo bozos are on the payroll of the WTO...)
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the wisdom of the blogosphere
Fri, Feb 1, 2002 at 6:30:03 pm PST
There’s been some great thought-provoking stuff in the blogosphere today. If you haven’t already followed someone else’s link to it, go read Steven Den Beste’s excellent piece about Europe’s paternalism: The cracked mirror. The United States is made up of people whose ancestors hated Europe. And follow that up with ...
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the far left in a nutshell
Fri, Feb 1, 2002 at 6:07:04 pm PST
Will Wilkinson sums up the far left’s intellectual dishonesty beautifully.
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unhappy campers
Fri, Feb 1, 2002 at 4:18:53 pm PST
Matt Labash has a great piece about the bizarre behavior of Guantanamo’s Unhappy Campers. The snipers, of course, are the camp's deadliest sharpshooters, ropy young bucks (21-23 years of age) who seem largely culled from the western or southern United States, where firearms are often regarded as extra appendages. ...
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al qaeda in lebanon
Fri, Feb 1, 2002 at 4:06:08 pm PST
The Times of London reports that Al Qaeda is seeking to establish a base of operations in Lebanon, by forming an alliance with Hezbollah: Al-Qaeda in talks with Lebanon group. A senior operative of Osama bin Laden’s network, a Yemeni national who has the alias of Salah Hajir, is believed ...
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doing their homework
Fri, Feb 1, 2002 at 3:23:26 pm PST
More scary details are emerging from captured Al Qaeda documents, suggesting that they were seriously studying US security flaws in preparation for numerous attacks: Terrorists Noted Flaws in Security. The intelligence report, reviewed by The Times, revealed that U.S. personnel in Afghanistan have discovered an Al Qaeda-linked computer hard drive ...
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did saudi arabia fund the karine-a?
Fri, Feb 1, 2002 at 2:38:10 pm PST
Wow. According to this article from the German Die Welt, influential Saudi Arabians—among them members of the royal family as well as Saudi intelligence—paid for the Karine-A arms shipment, funneling the money through Islamic charity organizations. The money transfer for the arms smuggling aboard the "Karine A" was completed through ...
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ideas whose time has passed
Fri, Feb 1, 2002 at 2:10:51 pm PST
Victor Davis Hanson has become one of my favorite writers since September 11, and here’s another excellent essay on multiculturalism and moral relativism: Gone With the War? A chief corollary of multiculturalism is that Americans have wrongly embraced a belief in the innate humanity of the West largely out of ...
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a blustery day
Fri, Feb 1, 2002 at 9:18:33 am PST
It’s a blustery day in sandy Saudi Arabia. Nourah Abdul Aziz Al-Khereiji fires up Microsoft Word, writes that he’s “incompetent” on matters of politics or economics, and then proceeds to prove it. The US president has further revealed the last layer of America’s dirty face by defending Israel’s atrocities. How ...
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arab hate speech
Fri, Feb 1, 2002 at 8:32:20 am PST
The Egyptian hate machine is still firing on all cylinders; today at MEMRI we have two disturbing new examples. First, Anis Mansour in the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram, describing the US treatment of Al Qaeda prisoners as “worse than prisoners under the Nazis.” "The Americans transferred the prisoners from Afghanistan to ...
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