LGF Archives: March 2003
Guardian Source: Neo-Nazis
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 9:37:48 pm PST
Bill Herbert has traced the anti-Semitic libels in John Sutherland’s foul article to a neo-Nazi web site. Surprised?
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Here's the Difference
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 8:30:55 pm PST
Hey, Oliver Willis. Mr. Moral Equivalence. Go look at this page at the Al Jazeera site, and then come back here and try to defend your opinion that Fox News “serves the same purpose,” you deluded fool. (Hat tip: moxiepundit.) WARNING: this page is very graphic ... and these horrific ...
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Arnett Gets a New Job
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 7:54:30 pm PST
Are you angry enough at Peter Arnett yet? No? Then read this.
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AIPAC Hacked
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 5:33:05 pm PST
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) web site has been hacked by Jew haters. They must be on a Microsoft server.
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Australian Arabs Seethe, Threaten
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 5:27:25 pm PST
A professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the Australian National University is issuing not-very-veiled threats against Australia. Why are the Muslims of the world, normally the most peaceful of people, so enraged at Australia? Because the SAS destroyed Iraqi missile sites that could have attacked Israel: Arabs enraged by SAS ...
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This Is Not Good
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 3:33:48 pm PST
Disturbing news from Pakistan—the fourth wheel on the Axis of Evil—where the US has imposed sanctions on a key nuclear installation because it is helping “another country” develop WMD. (Hat tip: NC.) Pakistan launched a nuclear missile from Kahuta Research LaboratoriesThe United States says a key nuclear installation in Pakistan ...
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National Geographic Fires Arnett
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 3:11:29 pm PST
Here’s National Geographic’s statement about their firing of traitorous swine Peter Arnett: National Geographic Fires Peter Arnett. (Hat tip: Victrade.)
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US Soldiers Fire On Civilian Van
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 2:09:14 pm PST
US soldiers were forced to fire on a van approaching a checkpoint near Najaf, when the driver refused to stop even after several warning shots. Regrettably, 7 Iraqi women and children were killed. WASHINGTON - U.S. troops killed seven Iraqi women and children at a checkpoint Monday when the Iraqis' ...
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Iraqi War Crimes
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 1:59:01 pm PST
In southern Iraq, three US soldiers were wounded when Iraqi “soldiers” opened fire on them from within a Red Crescent ambulance. SOUTHERN IRAQ (AFP) - Three US troops were wounded , one seriously, after Iraqi soldiers used a Red Crescent ambulance to stage an attack in southern Iraq, an AFP ...
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It Could Be Algeria...
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 1:50:49 pm PST
...except for the French National Assembly in the background: (Hat tip: Merde in France.)
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A History Lesson
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 1:15:38 pm PST
If you haven’t already, go read Bill Whittle’s latest essay right away, soldier: HISTORY.
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French Shari'a Watch
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 1:07:48 pm PST
Last Saturday, a so-called “peace demonstration” in Paris was disrupted by large mobs of violent Arabs, screaming for the blood of Jews and Americans: French Rallies Against War Shift Focus To Israel. And that’s a typically innocuous-sounding New York Times headline for a scary story of genocidal Muslim madness. Today, ...
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The Battle of Baghdad
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:55:07 pm PST
Baghdad is under heavy fire. The presidential palace has been bombed, and coalition troops are battling the Republican Guard.
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LGF in TIME
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:25:18 am PST
Look, Mom! LGF is in TIME magazine! I wonder how they’re going to square this with what appears to be an editorial policy to whitewash radical Islam?
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:37:13 am PST
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About That Roadmap...
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:31:58 am PST
Palestinian Arabs donating blood for Iraq:
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Tell Me Again About the Roadmap
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:27:46 am PST
The Palestinian Authority has renamed the main town square in the Jenin “refugee camp” after the Iraqi suicide bomber who killed four American soldiers. The name of the plaza in Jenin was changed from Mosque Square to the Na'mani Square during a rally Sunday attended by scores of camp residents ...
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Two UK Soldiers Refuse to Fight
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 9:36:50 am PST
Two British soldiers have been sent home for refusing to fight in a war involving civilians. (Are there wars that don’t involve civilians?) Justin Hugheston-Roberts says the soldiers from 16 Air Assault Brigade, based in Colchester, Essex, told their commanding officers they would not take part in the military action. ...
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UN Human Wrongs Commission
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 9:10:16 am PST
The Palestinian Arab observer at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva called for the elimination of the state of Israel. (Hat tip: selpaw.) Shimon Samuels, the Wiesenthal Center's representative at the 59th Human Rights Commission session currently taking place in Geneva, wrote the UN Human Rights High Commissioner ...
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Glossary of Iraqi Curses
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 8:56:29 am PST
Having trouble telling your Tartoor from your Khaeboon? The Middle East Media Research Institute comes to the rescue with a handy dandy Glossary of Iraqi Curses. Akrout (pl. ’Akarit): loathsome, pimp a reference to British Prime Minister Tony Blair Ilj (pl. Uluj): lout, uncouth, infidel warrior a reference to the American soldiers ...
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Geraldo Gets the Heave-Ho
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 8:06:46 am PST
It’s a two-fer! Geraldo Rivera is being expelled from Iraq for drawing a map in the sand to demonstrate troop movements, complete with city names. U.S. military officials say Fox News Channel correspondent Geraldo Rivera will be expelled from Iraq after violating the cardinal rule of war reporting Monday by ...
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Arnett Fired
Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 5:09:45 am PST
Nothing on the web yet, but Peter Arnett has been fired by both NBC and National Geographic. Just imagine the incredible flood of email and voice mail that must have led to this. Now if he returns to the United States, he should be arrested and charged with treason. Being fired ...
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Guardian Lies Through Its Teeth
Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 10:22:50 pm PST
In a sleazy smear piece dripping with hatred for Israel, the Guardian’s John Sutherland tries his level best to blame the photos of Rachel Corrie teaching Palestinian children to burn American flags on the evil Jews. Pictures had accompanied the news reports of Rachel's death, megaphone in hand, standing in ...
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Suicide Attacks = Freedom
Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 9:51:31 pm PST
In the Moroccan capital of Rabat, 150,000 idiotic Muslims took to the streets today, chanting “suicide attacks lead to freedom.” The force of Schtoopidity is strong within these people.
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Arnett's Treasonous Words
Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 8:28:07 pm PST
Here is the complete transcript of Peter Arnett’s treasonous interview on Iraqi TV. It’s worse—far worse—than our timid, controversy-shy media has portrayed it. There are no words harsh enough to condemn what this evil piece of garbage has done. And it makes me sick to think that we no longer have ...
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Live Free
Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 7:08:00 pm PST
From Cox & Forkum.
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Willis Ducks and Dodges
Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 5:47:10 pm PST
Oliver Willis responds to my criticism of his fatuous statement that Fox News “serves the same function” as JihadTV (aka Al Jazeera). Well, actually—truth is, he doesn’t respond to my criticism. Instead he picks some comments out of more than 100 in that topic and uses them to illustrate ... what? ...
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Iraqi Torture Hospital
Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 5:29:03 pm PST
Some of the US soldiers seen in that evil video may have been tortured at a hospital near Nasiriyah. At least one of the bodies of the four American soldiers discovered in a shallow grave was "brutalized and mutilated," Pentagon sources revealed yesterday. The corpses were unearthed in the vicinity ...
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Arnett Crosses the Line
Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 3:34:52 pm PST
Peter Arnett has gone on Iraqi TV to tell them that the US is losing the war, that resistance to the war is growing within the US, and that coalition forces have had to change their war plans because of his reporting. The only story on the web I could ...
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Just a University Student, Protesting
Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 2:15:21 pm PST
Here’s another view of the genocidal Pakistani student we wrote about a few days ago. It’s a woman. (Hat tip: wsba.) There seems to be another word preceding “Kill.” It might be “We.” But unlike the other photos in the Times slideshow, the caption for this one is oddly stripped of all ...
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Ansar al-Islam Terror Camp
Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 1:07:45 pm PST
US and British forces have driven Ansar al-Islam terrorists out of a large camp in northeastern Iraq that was probably the origin of the ricin poison found in London and Paris: U.S. Controls Terror Camp in Iraq. WASHINGTON - American forces are searching a terrorist compound in northeastern Iraq that ...
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Arabs Seethe, Promise Murder
Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 12:13:59 pm PST
Arab media is universally inciting the illiterate masses of the Arab world to blind rage against the United States, with non-stop images of severed body parts and dead children, and outrageous lies: Outrage Spreads in Arab World. (Hat tip: NC.) "Monstrous martyrdom in Baghdad," said a huge headline in al-Dustur, ...
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Henry IV Surrenders
Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 10:37:02 am PST
Claire Berlinski emailed us a picture from Paris that’s worth a few million words.
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Pro-US Rally in Ottawa
Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 9:50:59 am PST
A reader forwarded a link to photographs from the pro-US rally in Ottawa. The last one is the best.
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Sowing the Seeds of Hate
Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 9:44:27 am PST
The New York Daily News carried out a special investigation of the textbooks used in New York’s Islamic schools—and discovered a snakepit of blatant anti-Semitism, Muslim supremacy, and hatred of Christians and infidels: Sowing the seeds of hatred. This is a very scary article; it demonstrates beyond any doubt that ...
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Filipino Hatred
Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 9:27:37 am PST
Reader m12edit points out an almost unbelievably foul editorial at a Philippine web site: Addressing stuff floating out there. Here’s what the editor of this shabby rag thinks of us: Another piece of stuff floating around is that one’s moral position on this war is limited to just two choices, ...
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Four GIs Found in Shallow Grave
Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 8:22:23 am PST
The bodies of four US soldiers have been found in a shallow grave near a house in Nasiriyah. The Sydney Morning Herald says they may be the captured soldiers who were paraded on Al Jazeera TV. None of the stories online mention it, but a news crawl on Fox said ...
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And Again
Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 3:57:33 am PST
Another Arab suicide bombing in Israel; thankfully, no human beings were killed, although several were seriously injured: Suicide Attack Wounds 30 on Israel Coast. NETANYA, Israel - An Islamic militant blew himself up in a crowded pedestrian mall in the Israeli coastal town of Netanya on Sunday, wounding 30 bystanders ...
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Vision and Division
Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 3:52:53 am PST
Here’s an excellent article about Al Jazeera by Egyptian writer Mamoun Fandy: Vision and Division. Today, just like CNN, every one of the 10 Arab channels I watch, or appear on as a commentator, has a "war room" staffed with retired generals discussing the progress of the war and freely ...
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Patriots in San Francisco
Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 8:18:22 pm PST
Pro-America rally in San Francisco. Yes, really.
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Bad Karma
Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 6:21:19 pm PST
In a very disturbing column, Jed Babbin reveals that the suicide car bomber who killed four American soldiers yesterday may have been a member of Hamas. (Hat tip: Andrew Bostom.) There is more, much more, than is being reported about the suicide bombing that killed four Americans earlier today. And ...
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Va', Pensiero
Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 6:11:44 pm PST
David Warren (a writer I should feature more often) has a moving, perceptive essay on what it means to be a Canadian, and why the remaining “tough people, a people conversant with both life and death” are ashamed of their current leadership. (Hat tip: Gary G.)
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Silly Equivalence Watch
Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 4:34:08 pm PST
Oliver Willis, who I used to think was pretty sharp, says that Fox News and Al Jazeera are exactly equivalent. Fox News basically serves the same function in the United States that Al Jazeera does - whipping up a receptive audience into a frenzy without presenting a full slate of ...
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French Shari'a Watch
Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 3:50:18 pm PST
Christopher Caldwell writes about a contributing factor to French anti-Americanism that gets very little play in Western media; their large—and rapidly growing—Arab Muslim minority. Conservative estimates put the Arab population at about 10%, although no one knows for sure because France does not collect ethnic data in its census. French ...
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Fatah Sends Terrorists to Iraq
Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 2:03:33 pm PST
Yasser Arafat’s Fatah gang has dispatched hundreds of Palestinian Arabs to Iraq, to carry out suicide attacks against coalition troops. Colonel Munir Maqdah, one of the top commanders of the Fatah movement in Lebanon, said his men were already in Baghdad, prepared to launch suicide attacks. Another group of Fatah ...
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Star-Tribune Whitewashes JihadTV
Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 10:37:39 am PST
Today Eric Black of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (James Lileks’ paper; what’s going on over there, James?) does his level best to whitewash JihadTV, aka Al Jazeera. Black doesn’t just portray Al Jazeera as an “alternative view” either; he actually seems to be promoting them as an unbiased source, compared to ...
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They Dominate the Air
Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 10:12:34 am PST
A stingingly satirical column from Mark Steyn on the absurdly defeatist media: They dominate the air, but still the media can't win. After little more than a week, is this war coverage in trouble? Already questions are being raised about whether the media's plan was fatally flawed. Several analysts are ...
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Palestinians Love Terrorists
Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 8:14:52 am PST
In the heat of the moment, all fired up in a frenzy of bloodlust by the sick images streaming from Al Jazeera and the insane ranting of the sheikhs, Palestinians seem to have forgotten that they’re supposed to conceal their support of Osama bin Laden. Tell me again about the “roadmap ...
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Assad Seethes, Threatens
Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 8:00:45 am PST
Baby Assad of Syria is getting very worried, and it’s causing him to say very foolish things: 'We will not wait' to be next U.S. target. NICOSIA — Syria, alarmed by the impending collapse of its neighbor and ally, has called for suicide missions against U.S. forces in Iraq.Syrian President ...
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Car Bomb in Iraq
Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 3:07:05 am PST
The Palestinian Arabs demonstrating in support of Saddam Hussein will be proud to know that their murderous terror techniques are serving the Iraqis well: Suicide Bomber Kills 5 in Northern Iraq. IN THE IRAQI DESERT - A suicide bomber killed five Americans in an attack Saturday north of the city ...
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Protests in "Palestine"
Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 2:59:38 am PST
Agence France Presse seems to have discovered a non-existent country. Must be that involuntary appeasement reflex kicking in. Anti-war demonstrators stage protests in Palestine against the US led invasion in Iraq. Around 30,000 Palestinians marched in Gaza and West bank after Muslim weekly prayers in Friday.(AFP/File/Jamal Aruri) By the way, ...
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Why I Didn't March This Time
Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 9:41:37 pm PST
Nat Hentoff explains: Why I Didn't March This Time. (Hat tip: msimon.) Required reading for paleo-liberals; in fact, this article should be tattooed on their chests, next to a picture of the World Trade Center.
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Peace Creep Racism
Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 5:56:07 pm PST
Mind-bogglingly blatant racism from San Francisco “peace activists:” The text at the top reads: “You have food, I take ... You have ooooiiiiiilllll, we take.” (Via Aaron Weisburd, who found it at ProtestWarrior.com.)
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Iraqi War Crimes
Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 5:25:32 pm PST
Desperate Iraqi civilians trying to flee Basra are being murdered by Saddam’s fedayeen. More than 1,000 men, women and children from Iraq’s second city were caught up in deadly confrontations yesterday. The first incident involved small arms fire being trained on them. The second came on the other side of ...
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Pro-America Rallies
Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 4:24:17 pm PST
If you know of a pro-America rally being held this weekend, please leave the details in a comment here. Thanks! Let’s get the word out. NOTE: This is not the room for arguments or off-topic posts, and trolls are NOT welcome here. Comments falling into one of these categories will be ...
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Ivory Tower Hate
Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 4:00:29 pm PST
The full story of the “anti-war teach-in” at Columbia University is an almost unbelievable cavalcade of idiocy; and Professor De Genova’s comments were actually worse than first reported. (Hat tip: Loweeel.) "Peace is not patriotic," DeGenova began. "Peace is subversive, because peace anticipates a very different world than the one ...
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Sarandon Seethes, Whines
Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 3:28:28 pm PST
Sarandon Disturbed By Event Cancellation. The United Way of Tampa Bay was to feature the 56-year-old actress as keynote speaker at an April 11 women's leadership event designed to inspire volunteerism in the community. But organizers this week scrapped the $75-a-plate event after the charity got three dozen complaints about ...
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Explosion in Kuwait
Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 3:22:39 pm PST
BREAKING: There’s been a large explosion in central Kuwait City, possibly caused by an Iraqi missile. The official said the explosion was in the vicinity of the Souq Sharq district, on the Gulf coast near the center of the city. Several missiles have been launched at Kuwait from Iraq since ...
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Rumsfeld Warns Syria
Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 1:11:40 pm PST
Donald Rumsfeld warns the Ba'athist dictatorship of Syria to stop messing around. WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned Syria on Friday to stop sending military equipment to Iraqi forces, a charge that Mideast nation called "absolutely unfounded."Rumsfeld said he had "information that shipments of military supplies have been ...
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Lance Stands Up
Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 1:00:23 pm PST
France’s worst nightmare, Lance Armstrong, comes out in support of the war. (Hat tip: SecHumanist.) In my opinion it's not really the place of an athlete to take a position here. And I do think there should be a strong deliniation from sports, war, diplomacy, and politics. I am getting ...
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Columbia Prof Wants US To Lose
Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 12:02:14 pm PST
Columbia University professor Nicholas De Genova has a dream. He would like to see 18 million dead Americans and a crushing defeat for the United States. At an anti-war "teach-in" this week, a Columbia University professor called for the defeat of American forces in Iraq and said he would like ...
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Viewers Don't Want Protest Coverage
Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:35:20 am PST
Media consulting firms are advising clients to shy away from war protest coverage. The Washington Post, of course, frets that this is “marginalizing opposing voices.” The influential television-news consulting firm Frank N. Magid Associates recently put it in even starker terms: Covering war protests may be harmful to a station's ...
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Humanitarian Aid Arrives in Iraq
Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:29:18 am PST
The port of Umm Qasr is now secure, and the first large shipment of aid relief has arrived aboard the British supply ship Sir Galahad.
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Wu-Tang Clan is Pro-Israel?
Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:23:32 am PST
I’ve never been a fan, so I don’t know if this is a surprise—but rap group Wu-Tang Clan is going to tour Israel.
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Toxic Terror
Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:04:29 am PST
Here’s a great article by Joe Katzman on the threat of bio-terrorism, and why our current strategy of aggressively confronting terrorist states is making us safer—in the short run: Toxic Terror Tick Tock.
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Rally for America
Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 9:48:40 am PST
We do have some friends in Canada, as anyone who reads the comments from our Canadian readers knows; and next week a group of our friends is planning a Rally for America at Toronto City Hall. (Hat tip: rj.)
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Backpedaling Furiously
Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 8:53:37 am PST
The French are starting to realize they may have made a mistake. A really big mistake. PARIS - France's government angrily insisted on Friday that it hopes U.S.-led forces win the war in Iraq, signaling fear in Paris that its image as an untrustworthy friend could seriously damage long-term relations ...
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Egypt Mocks US, Gets Paid
Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 1:57:40 am PST
Here’s what our $2 billion a year in foreign aid buys us from Egypt: "Six days have passed and not one Iraqi city has fallen to the invaders," wrote Mahmoud Abdel Moneim, a columnist for the al-Ahram daily newspaper in Cairo, Egypt."Saddam Hussein hasn't fled, and he hasn't given in. ...
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Syria Acts Up
Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 1:54:55 am PST
Syria is sending military supplies to Iraq. Syria "has been the major conduit for illegal military equipment" into Iraq, Fox News foreign affairs analyst Marc Ginsberg, said Thursday.Ginsberg, a former U.N. ambassador to Morocco, said Syria has been making money off the oil it allows Iraq to illegally sell on ...
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Peace Creeps Attack National Guardsman
Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 1:34:42 am PST
“Peace activists” scream obscenities and throw stones at a female National Guard sergeant in Vermont. (Hat tip: Alfred M.) The teens blocked the sergeant as she went into a store and again on the way out, yelling obscenities at her along the way, Roosevelt said. The group also threw small ...
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Chicago Muslim Leader Banned from US
Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 8:07:12 pm PST
A Chicago-area Muslim leader has been barred from re-entering the US on national security grounds: Court Blocks Muslim Leader's Return. Immigration officials had prevented Sabri Samirah, 36, from returning after a visit to Jordan, but a federal judge ruled Tuesday that he could come back for an immigration hearing. The ...
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France Shines Again
Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 4:49:25 pm PST
In a Q&A session, French foreign minister Dominique de Villepin (who spends way too much time on his hair) refused to say who he wants to win the war. During a question and answer session at the end of his speech he refused to answer the question: "Who do you ...
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Human Shield on Radio
Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 4:11:37 pm PST
One of the human shields who was mugged by Saddam Hussein’s reality is being interviewed on the Larry Elder show right now.
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Fortuyn's Killer 'Acted for Muslims'
Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 3:17:49 pm PST
Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn’s killer, long described as an “animal rights fanatic,” now says he did it on behalf of the Muslims. (Thanks to all who emailed this.)
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ISM Hides Islamic Jihad Terrorist
Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 1:26:17 pm PST
Today in Jenin, IDF troops raided the offices of the International Solidarity Movement, the “peace” group to which Rachel Corrie belonged—and arrested a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist they were hiding. The army said the man was being sheltered in the Jenin offices of the Palestinian-backed peace group whose members often ...
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LGF Kudos to Negroponte
Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 1:04:13 pm PST
US Ambassador to the United Nations John Negroponte walked out of the Security Council today as the Iraqi ambassador spewed venom and lies. (Hat tip: Gary W.) UNITED NATIONS - The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations walked out of a debate on the Iraqi war Thursday after Iraq's ambassador ...
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Insane Rubbish
Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:47:37 am PST
Erick Stakelbeck savages one of the more repellent radical Arab mouthpieces, mostly by quoting his own words: The Insane Rubbish of Hussein Ibish.
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The Following Message...
Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 9:56:16 am PST
...is brought to you by the Religion of Peace™. A Pakistani student wears a headband with the words 'kill jews,' during an anti-war rally at a university in Islamabad, March 26, 2003. The students of Quaid-i-Azam University gathered on Wednesday to protest against the U.S.-led war in Iraq. REUTERS/Mian Khursheed ...
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Iraqi Missile May Have Hit Market
Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 9:12:21 am PST
The Pentagon says yesterday’s explosion in a Baghdad market was probably not caused by a US missile. CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar - The U.S. military said Thursday "it was entirely possible" that an Iraqi missile was responsible for the marketplace explosion in Baghdad that killed 14 civilians.Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, ...
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Facing Reality
Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 8:19:27 am PST
In an excellent essay that coincides with the topic of our latest poll, Barbara Lerner says the Arab world may eventually find its way to democracy—but the Palestinians never will. Still, the situation isn't hopeless, because most Arab states have one important positive thing in common with Germany and Japan. ...
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Thrill at Their Antics
Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 7:33:31 am PST
If you’ve ever wondered what thousands of spoiled, selfish, irresponsible tools look like causing a giant nuisance in a city under threat of terrorist attack, here are the webcams. (Hat tip: Joseph Hertzlinger.)
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What the Hell is Wrong with Google News?
Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 2:24:50 am PST
Did the Saudis buy Google recently, and I missed it? If not, then what the hell is going on over there? A couple of days ago I discovered that one of their news sources was Indymedia, for God’s sake; but this is worse, much worse. The first result for this ...
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Amnesty Int'l Condemns TV Bombing
Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 2:09:46 am PST
These guys can’t be serious, can they? Attack on television station condemned. Amnesty International said the bombing could be a breach of the Geneva convention. "The bombing of a television station, simply because it is being used for the purposes of propaganda, cannot be condoned. It is a civilian object, ...
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Highway of Death Redux
Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 1:27:09 am PST
A column of tanks and armored vehicles moving south out of Basra has been decimated by British and US forces: Iraqi Column Outside Basra Wrecked. The armored column -- estimated to be between 70 and 120 vehicles -- left the southeastern part of Basra on Wednesday and was moving down ...
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Outrage of the Day
Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 1:15:05 am PST
Immediately following the September 11 attacks, Saudi Arabia began providing top defense lawyers, free of charge, to jihadis arrested in the United States—a policy that continues to this day: With Friends Like These. “That has been the policy since day one,” said Muddassir H. Siddiqui, the former chief counsel for ...
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True Evil
Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:39:17 am PST
Iraqi scum fighting on the side of the monster Saddam are using women as shields and giving guns to children. (Hat tip: skukeisha.) Garvin said some of the Iraqi fighters were using women as shields and had given guns to children."Unfortunately some of the children have been firing at our ...
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Marines Discover 9/11 Mural
Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 7:15:29 pm PST
US Marines searching an Iraqi military headquarters near Nasiriya discovered a mural depicting airplanes smashing into skyscrapers resembling the World Trade Center.
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Paratroopers in Northern Iraq
Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 6:37:19 pm PST
US paratroopers seize an airfield in Northern Iraq.
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Idiot Alert
Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 1:44:34 pm PST
By the way, we have an infestation of idiots over here, pathetically trying to get someone’s attention. THRILL at the accusations of racism! MARVEL at their boneheaded support of terrorists! HURL at their sanctimonious impersonations of ... yes! ... God, Jesus, and H. Goering! Why is the loony left so lame? UPDATE: ...
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Feel the Love
Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:39:45 pm PST
French scumbags vandalized the replica of the Statue of Liberty in Bordeaux today, and damaged a 9/11 memorial. The crowned head of the 8-foot-tall statue was blackened by fire and its eyes were marked with red paint, apparently to symbolize tears of blood, an official at the mayor's office said. ...
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Brit Fighting for Saddam
Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:13:15 am PST
A British man from Manchester has been captured in Iraq, fighting for Saddam Hussein, and he’s got a giant attitude. Born in Iraq, the unidentified prisoner, who speaks in a Mancunian accent, is currently being held in a prisoner of war camp in the south of the country.A source within ...
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Jihad TV
Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:44:55 am PST
I’ve been calling Al Jazeera “Jihad TV” ever since I first became aware of them, shortly after September 11. They put on a good show of occasionally criticizing corrupt Arab leaders (an easy target if there ever was one), but their true agenda is to promote the anti-Israel, anti-American jihad ...
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Peace Creeps Plan Manhattan Die-In
Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:17:31 am PST
If Iraqi terror cells are in this country planning an attack in response to the Iraq War, their most tempting target would have to be Manhattan; the symbolic value of striking the US again in our center of power makes the jihadis salivate. And at this most dangerous time, infantile, selfish ...
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Brutality by the Book
Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 9:35:21 am PST
The Iraqi Muslims brutalizing and executing American prisoners and violating every civilized convention of war are just acting according to the Koran. "A Guide to the Perplexed about the Permissibility of Killing Prisoners"In an article titled "A Guide to the Perplexed Regarding the Permissibility of Killing Prisoners," which appeared in ...
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Public Executions
Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 9:20:25 am PST
The soldiers seen with bullet wounds to the head in that Iraqi videotape may have been executed in front of townspeople. WASHINGTON, March 25 — Some of the Army mechanics captured on Sunday after they took a wrong turn in the Iraqi town of Nasiriya were apparently executed by their ...
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Fifth Column Watch
Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 5:54:45 pm PST
News from the terror cell trial in Buffalo: another defendant has pled guilty, bringing the Lackawanna Jihadi Count to three. (Hat tip: Barak M.) Yahya Goba, 26, is one of six men charged with providing support to Usama bin Laden's terrorist organization by training at the camp in spring 2001. ...
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The Jinn of the Dunes
Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 5:42:32 pm PST
The huge sandstorm that has slowed our advance on Baghdad is one of the worst in 18 years. Prediction: the Arab world will soon be hailing this as the will of Allah...
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Fair and Balanced Anti-Americanism
Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 5:06:28 pm PST
Check out Political Lomcevak for a very revealing look at what we can expect from the English version of Al Jazeera—the Arab news channel whose New York Stock Exchange press credentials were revoked today. Here’s their caption for a photo of Fidel Castro: Cuban President, Fidel Castro (76), was reelected yesterday ...
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The Great Divide
Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 4:45:53 pm PST
Question for the crew: are any of you losing friends over the Iraq War?
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Canadian Friends of America
Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 3:38:31 pm PST
As an antidote to the poisonous drivel of the wanker from Edmonton linked below, here’s a heartening site run by LGF reader Jay Currie: Canadian Friends of America.
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Shun a Pork Chop for Peace
Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 3:30:59 pm PST
Here’s a petition calling on Michael Moore to demonstrate his convictions by going on a hunger strike.
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Nevada Posts Guide for Terrorists
Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 3:21:32 pm PST
A very disturbing discovery from Aaron Weisburd: the state of Nevada has published on their public web site a highly detailed document about shipments of nuclear waste, with information about types of containers, which routes are used, and studies of various disaster scenarios—and Aaron discovered this document through a link ...
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Chemical Suits and Gas Masks
Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 2:15:51 pm PST
The Pentagon is warning that as troops approach Baghdad, the likelihood of an Iraqi chemical weapons strike increases. A cache of weapons and equipment found in a hospital in An Nasiriyah included more than 3,000 chemical suits: Suits, Masks May Signal Chemical Strike. In the city of An Nasiriyah, Marines ...
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University of Alberta Sneers at US
Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 1:33:39 pm PST
Warning: if you have a problem with anger management, do not read this article from a college paper in Edmonton, which could have been written by one of our nastier LGF trolls: America: it’s far too easy to ridicule you. I also used to think—a very long time ago—that the ...
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US Rebukes Canada
Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 1:11:44 pm PST
The United States ambassador to Canada harshly criticized Canada’s stance on Iraq today: U.S. Raps Canada on Iraq, Says Should Quiet Critics. Cellucci told an audience of business executives in Toronto that had Canada found itself under threat, Washington would have come to its aid immediately."There is no security threat ...
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The Great One is On the Right Side
Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 1:05:01 pm PST
Wayne Gretzky stands up: Gretzky speaks out in support of Bush. "All I can say is the president of the United States is a great leader, I happen to think he's a wonderful man and if he believes what he's doing is right I back him 100 per cent," said ...
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Fifth Column Syndrome
Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 1:01:17 pm PST
Frank Gaffney on the case of American Muslim Asan Akbar, accused of murdering his fellow soldiers in Kuwait: The fifth column syndrome. Perhaps, Akbar was exposed to Islamist thinking via the Wahhabi-backed Muslim Student’s Association, which has a chapter at the University of California, Davis — an institution he reportedly attended ...
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DoS Attack on Al Jazeera
Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 11:44:32 am PST
The Arab JihadTV news channel, Al Jazeera, has opened an English web site to spread their anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism in this country. Last night they were attacked by hackers.
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Saddam’s Bunkers
Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:39:43 am PST
A retired Yugoslav Army officer who helped build Saddam Hussein’s bunkers says they are nearly impossible to destroy. "I believe that if Saddam does not leave, and I think he has nowhere to go, they will find him in one of these facilities -- if he does not find a ...
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Popular Revolt in Basra
Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:14:06 am PST
FOXNews reports that the Shi'ite majority in the city of Basra is rising up against Saddam Hussein’s goons.
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US Marines Seethe, Win
Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:10:10 am PST
Vince Morris has a report on Marines’ reactions to the disgusting Iraqi video of murdered American soldiers: Marines Out to Avenge Blood of Executed GIs. (Hat tip: adam.) "We want to help these people and look what they're doing to us," said more than one shocked Marine. "What we should ...
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No Baghdad Bloodbath
Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 9:30:04 am PST
Ralph Peters has another good column today, as a counterweight to the absurdly defeatist reporting from the media, most of whom seem to have decided that if we haven’t won in 5 days we’re in a quagmire: No Baghdad Bloodbath.
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Krugman Trivializes Kristallnacht
Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 9:25:49 am PST
My jaw dropped last night when I read Paul Krugman’s column in the New York Times, comparing criticism of the Dixie Chicks to Kristallnacht: Channels of Influence. (Hat tip: atomic conspiracy.) But when I went back to write about it this morning, look what they’ve done: By and large, ...
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Saud al-Faisal: Peace Angel
Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 8:50:48 am PST
Those irrepressible peace-loving Saudis are at it again: Saudis Make Peace Proposal to U.S., Iraq. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia has contacted the United States and Iraq with a peace proposal, the kingdom's foreign minister told reporters Tuesday. He said he was awaiting a response. Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal, ...
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A Thank You Note
Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 6:48:20 pm PST
Send a note of support to our troops in Iraq: DefendAmerica.
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Don't Mourn for Corrie
Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 5:33:24 pm PST
Steven Zak says Rachel Corrie, the dead “peace activist” currently getting the full whitewash, hot wax, and propaganda treatment from every terrorist front group in the world, had crossed the line between human shield and enemy combatant. Don't mourn for Rachel Corrie.The 23-year-old American "peace activist" was fatally injured ...
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The Chicken Ship
Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 5:08:22 pm PST
The British are better (and more cruel) at mocking the French than we colonial cowboys will ever be; they’ve had so much more practice. Case in point, the stunt pulled today by UK tabloid The Sun: Sun hits the chicken ship. (Hat tip: msimon.) COWARDLY French sailors are enjoying a ...
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Religion of Peace Claims 24 More
Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 3:41:57 pm PST
Pakistani jihadis have killed at least 24 people in Kashmir. (Hat tip: Bala Ambati.) Kashmir range police chief K Rajendra told rediff.com that militants came to the village, 75 kilometres from Srinagar,late Sunday night and disarmed the policemen guarding the Pandits. One version said the militants were dressed in ...
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Be Vewy Quiet...
Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 3:09:55 pm PST
Sergeant Asan Akbar, the American Muslim accused of killing a division captain and wounding 15 fellow soldiers, was pretty clearly on a personal jihad, just as the spiritual centers of the Islamic world have ordered: GI Held in Attack at Base Made Anti-U.S. Remarks. Outside the charred and blood-splattered tents ...
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MSA President Update
Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 1:57:11 pm PST
Here’s an update on the story of the president of the Muslim Students’ Association of Grand Valley State University in Michigan, who apparently authored a series of very disturbing messages at the jihadi web site Clear Guidance. Ahmed Eissa has posted comments here denying that he wrote the messages in ...
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Philly Indymedia Sedition
Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:58:44 am PST
Indymedia of Philadelphia is the latest branch of this fifth column web group to applaud the murder of US soldiers by an American Muslim: KILL YOUR OFFICER. US Army Sgt. Asan Akbar is an example ! Two “moderators” have reviewed this call to murder, and given it a rating of 8.50—presumably ...
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And the Loser Is...
Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:27:14 am PST
From the weaponized pen of Cox & Forkum.
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Of Lumbering Pseudoproles
Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:03:23 am PST
James Lileks has a good one today, on media negativity and Michael Moore’s pathetic performance at the Oscars: I’m not disheartened by the sight of what those motherless sons of bitches did to the captured troops - not in the sense of wishing we would curl up and whimper Mommy ...
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Palestinians Celebrate Our Deaths
Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 9:46:06 am PST
Yesterday’s rage-inducing propaganda display of murdered Americans made a lot of Palestinians very happy. There were many smiling faces in Ramallah Monday as Palestinians celebrated the capture of American and British soldiers by the Iraqi army. "This is a big day for the Iraqi people and all the Arabs and ...
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Iraqi Prisoners Had Anthrax Antidote
Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 9:19:13 am PST
CBS News reports that some high-ranking Iraqi prisoners were carrying Cipro. CBS News Correspondent Phil Ittner reports that Army doctors who treated some Iraqi prisoners of war, believed to be some high-ranking Iraqi officials, found Cipro pills among the Iraqis’ personal possessions. Cipro is meant to ward off the effects ...
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The Long Riders
Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 9:07:27 am PST
An eloquent tribute to the men and women fighting for us in Iraq, by Victor Davis Hanson: The Long Riders. All in the Middle East claim they want democracy; few wish to fight for it; most begrudge those who do. Tactical surprise was lost long ago. In fact, never in ...
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Winning Big
Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 9:00:01 am PST
If the Wolf Blitzers and Peter Jenningses and Aaron Browns are driving you nuts with their turn-on-a-dime defeatism (did I really hear Blitzer use the word “quagmire” yesterday?), Ralph Peters brings it back to the real world: Winning Big. IN combat, the ideal leader is the man who remains calm ...
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Dead Man Talking
Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 1:49:00 am PST
Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi TV tonight; here’s an AP story with a weirdly respectful tone: Saddam Vows 'Victory Will Be Ours Soon'. BAGHDAD, Iraq - With U.S.-led forces closing in on Baghdad, a composed Saddam Hussein tried to rally his people and his troops with a stirring address Monday ...
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Saudis Say: Take a Breather
Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 5:25:16 pm PST
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal, is urging the US to take a chill pill and let Blix the wimp have another crack at it. "Stop the war, let's sit down, let's have a breather after what we have seen of the destruction," Prince Saud told Western journalists ...
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Chemical Weapons Plant in An Najaf
Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 4:39:23 pm PST
Legacy media is finally beginning to pick up on the chemical weapons plant story we broke this morning. FOXNews.com has a banner at the top of their page, and ABC News is reporting it on the radio. You saw it here first. (Unless you saw it at JPost first—and Caroline Glick ...
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The Trolls Are Out
Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 2:23:18 pm PST
By the way—someone has been posting articles copied from LGF at Indymedia. This is not cool; if it’s one of our readers, please knock it off. Our material is copyrighted and you do not have permission to repost it, especially not in that sinkhole. If it isn’t one of our readers, ...
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Suggestion Box is Open
Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 2:11:02 pm PST
I’m having a bit of writer’s block trying to come up with a new poll. Suggestions are welcome. UPDATE: Thanks for all the suggestions, cats and kittens. The new poll: Do you believe it is possible to bring democracy to a post-Saddam Iraq?
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Our Russian Buddies
Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 1:05:50 pm PST
Russian arms dealers have been supplying Iraq with high-tech GPS jamming gear, anti-tank missiles, and thousands of night vision goggles: 3 Russian Firms' Deals Anger U.S. During more than a year of intensifying discussions, the Russian officials initially denied the existence of the company that allegedly sold at least a ...
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Indymedia Supports the Troops Again
Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 11:32:26 am PST
The peaceful people at Indymedia are crowing over yesterday’s grenade attack on a command tent by an American Muslim soldier. The grenade attack that took place today in Kuwait is alleged to be committed by another AMERICAN SOLIDER. Repeat. The Grenade attack today was an example of Fragging--not a terrorist ...
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It's Got to Start Somewhere
Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 11:19:06 am PST
Mark Steyn says reforming Iraq is a huge gamble, given the cultural psychosis of the Arab world—but the status quo is not an option. (Hat tip: NC.) America, in returning to Iraq 12 years on, is embarking on its boldest gamble in decades--a new Middle Eastern domino theory that says ...
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Chemical Plant Captured
Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 9:20:54 am PST
BREAKING NEWS: According to Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post, coalition forces have captured a camouflaged Iraqi chemical plant in An Najaf. About 30 Iraqi troops, including a general, surrendered today to US forces of the 3rd Infantry Division as they overtook huge installation apparently used to produce chemical weapons ...
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Iraq Parades Prisoners
Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 8:49:10 am PST
Al Jazeera is gleefully showing pictures of captured coalition soldiers: Arab TV Shows Allegedly Captured Troops. And there are reports that some of them have been summarily executed. Al-Jazeera later showed footage of what appeared to be a fuel or water carrier parked alongside a highway and a body in ...
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Surrounding Baghdad
Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 8:17:01 am PST
In a stunning high-speed advance unprecedented in military history, US troops have moved to within 100 miles of Baghdad. NEAR NAJAF, Iraq - Driving night and day, more than 70 American tanks and 60 armored troop carriers raced 700 miles across rough desert terrain — a bold flanking movement that ...
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Anti-War Protesters Have No Idea
Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 8:09:40 am PST
An Iraqi refugee in Sydney says anti-war protesters are utterly clueless. (Hat tip: moxiepundit.) Dhafir Al-Shammery escaped certain death under Saddam Hussein's regime in 1996. Today he is one of several hundred Iraqis living in Sydney who now know what the term freedom truly means. In an exclusive interview with ...
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Al Qaeda Bio Threat
Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 1:37:14 am PST
Evidence discovered on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s computers reveals that Al Qaeda is close to producing anthrax. (Hat tip: msimon.) Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network has assembled the material necessary to make the biological toxins botulinum and salmonella as well as the poison cyanide, the Post said. The group is ...
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RAF Aircraft Missing
Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 1:30:31 am PST
U.S. Missile May Have Downed RAF Plane. CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar - A Royal Air Force aircraft was reported missing Sunday and British and U.S. officials said it may have been shot down by a U.S. Patriot missile. Group Capt. Al Lockwood, a spokesman for British forces in the Persian ...
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Megiddo House
Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 6:40:34 pm PST
Gil Ronen has a wild vision: a Jewish museum that will become “a symbol of Jewish-Israeli sovereignty in an area which the extremist Israeli Arab leadership has been trying to turn into the opposite:” Megiddo House.
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American Muslim Suspected
Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 6:13:32 pm PST
A black American Muslim is suspected in today’s grenade attack on troops in Kuwait. (Hat tip: NC.) Strassmann said three grenades were rolled into three officers' tents at the camp. When officers ran from the tents, they were hit by small arms fire. George Heath, spokesman at Fort Campbell, home ...
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Iraqi Missiles Still a Threat
Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 5:39:20 pm PST
Iraq is repositioning their surface-to-surface missile launchers to take aim at the right flank of troops advancing on Baghdad. Kuwait, March 22 — Iraqi forces have been repositioning their surface-to-surface missiles and are expected to try further missile attacks against advancing American troops, senior American officials said today. The officials ...
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Attack in Kuwait
Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 5:03:09 pm PST
Ten American soldiers have been wounded in Kuwait, in an apparent terrorist attack. KUWAIT CITY - A grenade and gunfire attack injured 10 American soldiers at the 101st Airborne Division's camp in Kuwait early Sunday, U.S. military officials said. Six of the troops were seriously hurt."From our reports it appears ...
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A Tale of Two Portraits
Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 2:11:34 pm PST
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Soda, Pizza and the Destruction of America
Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 1:30:05 pm PST
Speaking of the Muslim Student Association, here’s a scary article by a Jewish student who infiltrated a closed (meaning: Muslims only) MSA meeting at Queensborough Community College in New York, to hear speakers from Al-Muhajiroun call for the destruction of America. "Because there is no way to justify this war," ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 1:06:20 pm PST
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Turkish Troublemakers
Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 12:40:45 pm PST
Turkey has been threatening to send troops to northern Iraq, and last night reports began to circulate that they may have already done so. Howard Veit comments: The unreadiness of our military for this Turkish "betrayal" is inexcusable. The current leader of Turkey, Necmettin Erbakan, is well known as a ...
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Terrorists for Peace
Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 9:37:57 am PST
The British “anti-war” demonstrations are lousy with Palestinian flags and terrorist sympathizers:
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What Took So Long?
Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 9:12:14 am PST
“You're late. What took you so long?” (Hat tip: Stephen Rawls.) Ajami Saadoun Khlis, whose son and brother were executed under the Saddam regime, sobbed like a child on the shoulder of the Guardian's Egyptian translator. He mopped the tears but they kept coming."You just arrived," he said. "You're late. ...
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The Decapitation Strike
Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 8:45:59 am PST
The US has photographs of Saddam Hussein on a stretcher. WASHINGTON —Saddam Husseinis seen being placed on a stretcher and into an ambulance in photographs in the possession of the U.S. government showing what is described as "panicked digging" at the bunker/command-and-control facility that was struck inthe first strike of ...
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MSA President at ClearGuidance
Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 8:13:55 am PST
I just dropped in at clear guidance, the site run by an anonymous blogger who calls him/herself “clear” and monitors discussions at the ClearGuidance Islamic forum—the site that bills itself as “the Resource Guide for Muslim Teenagers” but is actually home to a scary gang of radical, bloody-minded Islamozoids who ...
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Surrender Tales
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 6:39:12 pm PST
Iraqi conscripts shot their own officers today to avoid a battle at the oil terminals of the al-Faw peninsula. British soldiers from 40 Commando’s Charlie Company found a bunker full of the dead officers, with spent shells from an AK47 rifle around them. Stuck between the US Seals and the ...
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Bye Bye, Chemical Old Boy
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 4:04:11 pm PST
Chemical Ali has joined the Choir Invisible. ABCNEWS' Brian Ross reported that the three critical Iraqi officials — Taha Yasin Ramadan, Izzat Ibrahaim al Douri, and Ali Hassan Majid, known as Chemical Ali — are believed to have died in Wednesday night's "decapitation attack," the opening salvo of the war. ...
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Smartass Protest Sign Watch
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 3:38:44 pm PST
Wonderfully snide anti-protest signs at Citizens Of Upright Moral Character.
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The Weasel-Poodle Pact
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 3:19:26 pm PST
France, Germany, and Belgium are planning a defense pact without the UK. BRUSSELS, Belgium (Reuters) - European Union divisions over Iraq widened Friday when three anti-war states agreed to hold a summit on defense integration without Britain, while London stood by charges that France had wrecked diplomacy in the crisis.As ...
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Molotov Cocktails in SF
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 2:33:01 pm PST
Police discovered a cache of Molotov cocktails in downtown San Francisco today. (Hat tip: Brenda.) SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco arson investigators removed 12 Molotov-type cocktails on Friday from a backpack discovered by a groundskeeper cleaning up debris left by anti-war protesters in a downtown alley way. The investigators carefully ...
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Iraqi Leader Surrenders
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 2:03:17 pm PST
I’m hearing radio reports that the commander of Iraq’s 51st Division has surrendered to coalition forces.
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Indymedia Supports the Troops
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 1:49:08 pm PST
Here’s a lovely sentiment from the twisted holier-than-thou haters at SF Indymedia. They seem proud of this; it’s still on the page, right at the top, a week later. (Hat tip: Spiny Norman.)
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Shocked Back to Reality
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 1:22:23 pm PST
Some of the deluded “human shields” who let themselves be used by the monster Saddam are coming home with all their blinkered Western naivete stripped away. (Hat tip: jdwill.) A group of American anti-war demonstrators who came to Iraq with Japanese human shield volunteers made it across the border today ...
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Don't Go Back
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:39:24 am PST
Charles Krauthammer pleads: Mr. President, don't go back to the U.N. WASHINGTON--Don't go back, Mr. President. You walked away from the United Nations at great cost and with great courage. Don't go back.No one knows when this war will end. But when it does, you'll have to decide the terms. ...
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Shock and Awe
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:09:31 am PST
Baghdad is being pounded. Journalists were warned to leave the Al Rashid hotel; they didn’t. And now I’m hearing on the radio that the entire area is in flames.
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B-52s Leave Britain
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 8:46:24 am PST
B-52s have left the United Kingdom. WASHINGTON - Heavy B-52 bombers left England Friday, portending major nighttime air strikes against Iraq, two U.S. officials said, as American forces seized important ground in south and western Iraq. One U.S. official involved in military planning said the B-52s had been scrambled en ...
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Down with the Dictator
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 8:41:20 am PST
Another beautiful story from Iraq today: U.S. Marines Rip Down Saddam Portraits. (Hat tip: wordwarp.) SAFWAN, Iraq - U.S. Marines hauled down giant street portraits of Saddam Hussein in a screeching pop of metal and bolts Friday, telling nervous residents of this southern Iraqi town that "Saddam is done." Milling ...
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Palestinians: Saddam, Hit Tel Aviv
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 8:28:03 am PST
Palestinian Arabs on the wrong side of history again: “Our beloved Saddam, hit Tel Aviv.” Thousands of Palestinians holding pictures of Saddam Hussein poured out of mosques after Friday prayers to protest the US-led attacks on Iraq and cheered for the Iraqi leader to bombard Israeli cities with Scud missiles. ...
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Disgrace of the Day
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 8:19:16 am PST
Reader Stuart Browning forwarded this absolutely disgraceful photo from yesterday’s “peace protests” in San Francisco, showing a group of bad Americans hoisting an Iraqi flag at 45 Fremont Street. I don’t know or care whether this fits the legal definition of treason. My gut tells me that if you raise the ...
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An American Muslim's Perspective
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 8:07:19 am PST
Mansoor Ijaz says it’s time for American Muslims to stand up and support the armed forces of the United States: An American Muslim's Perspective. FOR MONTHS, ARAB- AND MUSLIM-AMERICAN lobby groups have passionately spoken out against war with Iraq, citing the potential for everything from the mass murder of Iraqi ...
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Saddam Down?
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 8:00:42 am PST
A headline at Drudge Report says that eyewitnesses saw Saddam Hussein being carried out of his bombed complex on a stretcher. (Hat tip: Barak M.) Intelligence sources now say there were eyewitnesses at the scene where Saddam Hussein's complex was bombed on the first night, ABC reported Friday morning.John McWethy, ...
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On a Roll
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 7:29:32 am PST
For once I’m not tempted to Photoshop in the dogs playing poker; this photograph is perfect just the way it is.
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Now with Unbreakable Spambot Protection
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 2:01:42 am PST
Today I implemented a new email protection system that I defy any no good address-harvesting spambot to break, now or ever. When you click on any email link in our comments, you’ll see a page that asks you to enter a six-digit random code—in reverse—before you can proceed to launching ...
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Hurl for Whirled Peas
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 1:34:51 am PST
Just when you thought the “anti-war” creeps couldn’t get any more filthy and disgusting, they hold a “vomit in.” In a unique form of opposition, some protesters at the Federal Building staged a "vomit in,” by heaving on the sidewalks and plaza areas in the back and front of the ...
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Canadians Boo US Anthem
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 1:30:53 am PST
At a hockey game in Montreal, Canadians booed throughout the playing of the US national anthem. The sellout crowd of 21,273 at Bell Centre was asked to "show your support and respect for two great nations" before the singing of the American and Canadian national anthems. But a significant portion ...
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Al-Arian and Friends Seethe, Whine
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 1:25:33 am PST
Suspected terror kingpin Sami Al-Arian is asking to be freed on bond and whining about persecution, while family members and terrorist buddies demonstrate outside the courtroom and call for President Bush to be tried instead. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) About two dozen supporters of the defendants demonstrated outside the Tampa federal ...
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Over on the First Day?
Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 1:01:31 am PST
US Intelligence believes that Saddam Hussein and members of his inner circle were inside the compound that was bombed yesterday. And the Iraqis have learned well from their pals the French; the war has barely begun and the surrendering has started.
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First 24 Hours
Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 6:31:18 pm PST
Robert Crawford makes two important points about the first 24 hours of the Iraq War.
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Whitewashing Truth
Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 4:28:20 pm PST
Another great column from Dr. Bala Ambati: Whitewashing truth. Sugarcoating and whitewashing Islamic fundamentalism has become a pastime for an odd assortment of loony leftists, so-called self-proclaimed "moderate" Muslims, warmed-over ex-Communists and perennial anti-Americans. The Sept. 11 aftermath witnessed these terrorist apologists blaming the CIA or Mossad for the attacks, ...
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Ricin in Paris
Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 2:12:02 pm PST
Ricin found in Paris railway station. Two vials of the potentially deadly substance were found inside a locker at the Gare de Lyon, according to ministry officials. Ricin, a toxin found in castor beans, can be fatal when inhaled or ingested. The substance is 6,000 times more powerful than cyanide ...
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Sensitivity Training, Muslim Style
Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 2:04:45 pm PST
Last October, San Francisco International Airport held a sensitivity training session sponsored by the Arab Cultural Center, to help airport employees avoid bruising the tender feelings of Arab passengers. But instead of “sensitivity,” the airport managers got a heaping dose of anti-Americanism and Jew-hatred: The class -- which was ...
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Indymedia Creep Still At It
Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:34:26 am PST
Update on the continuing saga of mchris@speakeasy.net, who is continuing to harass our visitors and clients with libelous emails. Here’s his latest sick rant, already forwarded to me by several people: You are free to post or say anything you want, I am not opposing that. This is not about ...
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Palestinian Kids Give Souls to Saddam
Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:23:50 am PST
A Ha'aretz report on Arab reactions to the Iraq War says that hundreds of Palestinian schoolchildren took to the streets yesterday, burning American flags and screaming, “Death to America, death to Bush, we will sacrifice our soul and our blood for Saddam.” (Hat tip: Gil Shterzer.) UPDATE: Israpundit has photos of ...
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Palo Verde Nuclear Plant Targeted
Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:00:57 am PST
Bill Gertz reports that Iraqi cells in the United States have targeted the nation’s largest nuclear power plant, near Phoenix Arizona: Nation's biggest nuclear power plant a terrorist target. Terrorists have targeted the United States' largest nuclear power plant near Phoenix, and security officials are looking for Iraqi government "sleeper ...
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Flood of Morons Shuts Down SF Streets
Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:53:00 am PST
Protest creates gridlock on SF streets. My contempt for these empty-headed, disloyal, self-obsessed people knows no bounds. My brother reports from San Francisco: SF is currently crippled by anti-war demonstrations. Throughout the city protesters have blocked intersections and completely disrupted traffic. Helicopters everywhere and chaos. News reports are recommending that people ...
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Battle at Kuwait Border
Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 9:16:06 am PST
ABC News is reporting a battle at the Kuwait border between Iraqi troops and the Third Infantry Division.
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Herold is Counting Again
Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 9:10:35 am PST
Marc Herold, the leftist professor of women’s studies who compiled a fraudulent and thoroughly debunked account of Afghan civilian casualties during the Taliban war, is at it again. (This link has been sent to me several times before; thanks to all who pointed it out.) UPDATE: The Angry Cyclist has a ...
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Flames Seen Near Oil Center
Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 8:54:31 am PST
Iraq may have begun setting their southern oil fields ablaze. NEAR THE KUWAIT-IRAQ BORDER - Orange flames could be seen Thursday on the northern horizon in the direction of the southern Iraqi oil center Basra, witnesses said. A Marine commander said three wells were set afire.The witnesses, located in Kuwait ...
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Turkey Opens Flight Path
Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 8:32:39 am PST
Turkey Approves U.S. Overflights to Iraq. ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's parliament approved a motion on Thursday allowing overflights for U.S. warplanes in a long-awaited vote that could help the United States shorten its war against Iraq, a parliament deputy told Reuters.The motion was approved by 332 members of the 550-seat ...
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Indymedia Hater Harasses LGF
Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 8:11:59 am PST
The creep who threatened the President in comments here at LGF has been continuing his campaign of harassment against us; he has apparently sent email to everyone whose address he could find here, and has started copying all the responses he receives to each person on his little hate list. He ...
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Iraq Fires a Scud
Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 2:12:40 am PST
An Iraqi Scud missile fired at US troops in Kuwait has been intercepted by Patriot missiles.
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It Approaches
Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 6:48:26 pm PST
Air raid sirens and anti-aircraft fire in Baghdad.
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Morons Annoy Los Angeles
Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 6:20:05 pm PST
An aerial shot of the morons (and I make no apologies for using the word) who managed to shut down one of the busiest traffic intersections in Los Angeles today, by lying in the filthy street and annoying an awful lot of people: And the LAPD is already launching an investigation ...
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The Seminole War Dance
Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 5:14:40 pm PST
Earlier today I linked to a story about a company commander leading his troops in a “Seminole war dance.” Here’s a photo of this quaint native American ritual (hat tip: Brenda).
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It's a Love Thang
Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 4:58:16 pm PST
I’ve gotten more hate mail in the last week than in the previous year, all related to the Rachel Corrie case. The so-called “peace activists” (who are really irrational, ignorant Jew-hating weenies in flimsy disguise) get extremely pissed off when someone finds out the truth about one of their prized ...
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Who Says the French Won't Fight in Iraq?
Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 4:27:11 pm PST
Mapchic emailed to let me know about a little nugget buried in yesterday’s NPR broadcast of All Things Considered. At about 2:40 into the show, the reporter says “Journalists were taken outside Baghdad to see a group of Muslim fighters from France, Algeria, Morocco, and Libya.” I’ve scoured online news sources ...
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Speed Bumps
Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 2:37:54 pm PST
I just had to go into Westwood (here in Los Angeles) and couldn’t make it, because a small group of “peace activists” is blocking traffic and getting into scuffles with police. Unbelievable footage on local TV of these creeps taunting police, trying to grab their batons, sticking cameras into their ...
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Protesting the Protesters II
Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:54:04 am PST
Evan Coyne Maloney continues to do a brilliant job exposing idiotarian “peace activists:” Protesting the Protesters II. (Hat tip: Eric M.) They would be funny if they weren’t so pathetically stupid. Actually they’re still pretty funny.
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Fierce Battle Near Basra
Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:10:55 am PST
This Is London reports that fighting has begun in Iraq. (Hat tip: wordwarp.) British and American troops were involved in fierce fighting near Iraq's main port today as the war to topple Saddam Hussein began. The firefight broke out near Basra as men of the Special Boat Service targeted the ...
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Seeing Through Propaganda
Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:06:59 am PST
You’ll swear you’re reading the Onion, but no; it’s Courtland Milloy in today’s Washington Post with an editorial calling for civil disobedience and heaping praise on ANSWER robot Peta Lindsay: Student Leader Sees Through Bush Propaganda. (Hat tip: Mule.) Peta Lindsay is one of those people who gives me hope ...
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The War Against America
Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:45:41 am PST
Former Australian minister Andrew Thomson says that the virulent anti-Americanism we’ve seen blossom around the world since 9/11 is not a fluke; it’s a War Against America. The world is not unipolar. It is split. The split is real, and it is dangerous. It will not go away. Obsolescent institutions ...
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Why the Left Loves Osama
Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:29:06 am PST
An excellent Daniel Pipes column on Why the Left Loves Osama [and Saddam]. Has anyone noticed an indifference in the precincts of the far Left to the fatalities of 9/11 and the horrors of Saddam Hussein?Right after the 9/11 attack, German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen called it "the greatest work of ...
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It’s War
Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:03:48 am PST
The long wait is over. May God speed our troops, and spare the innocents: U.S. Troops Advance Toward Iraqi Border. IN THE KUWAITI DESERT - Long columns of U.S. troops, armored vehicles and trucks advanced through swirling sand toward the Iraqi border Wednesday, positioning themselves to invade on short notice.With ...
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No Tears for Corrie
Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 9:26:30 am PST
Anti-American terror-supporting child abuser Rachel Corrie was killed while attempting to block a bulldozer from tearing down houses in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip. The leftist press sees her death as a huge propaganda victory—but the people that this noble “human shield” was protecting are smugglers of weapons, ...
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US Denies Aziz Reports
Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 8:13:54 am PST
Rumors are flying that Tareq Aziz has been shot trying to defect, but the US government says it isn’t true.
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Email Glitches
Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 7:40:35 am PST
If you tried to email us and received a bounce message, please give it another shot. Our mail wasn’t set up, but it has been corrected now.
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Indymedia Hater Gets His Smear On
Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 2:00:45 am PST
The pathetic little Indymedia hater who threatened the President in our comments areas, using the names “Jewjerker” and “POPAJEW” among other lovely pseudonyms, has started sending the following email to clients listed in our portfolio: To whom it my concern,I recently ran across the web site " http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com where links ...
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You Made It!
Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 5:36:15 pm PST
If you’re seeing this entry, you’ve reached our new server! I’m going to enable comments; drop a note and let me know when you get here.
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Server Update
Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 9:18:41 am PST
Finally some information; apparently our site is hosted on an older server, with no room to add additional hard drives when space becomes tight. Today we’ll be moving to a different machine where space is not an issue, so this problem should be solved for good. NOTE: if you have bookmarked ...
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The World According to Rumsfeld
Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 8:59:16 am PST
A great Mark Steyn column on LGF’s favorite blood-hungry warhawk, Donald Rumsfeld: The World According to Rumsfeld. For those who think world affairs can use a bracing shot of candour, Rumsfeld is the star of this war. At one Pentagon briefing on Afghanistan, some showboating reporter noted that human rights ...
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Iraqi Saber Rattling
Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 8:43:44 am PST
Iraq’s ambassador to the United Nations, possessor of a Hairdo of Mass Combover, is issuing the standard murderous threats. I hope someone lets the human shields know. Iraq Envoy: No Safe Place for Americans. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iraq's U.N. ambassador said on Tuesday that no place would be safe ...
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Stand By
Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 8:02:35 am PST
Comments are still disabled, but I’m hoping for a resolution of our server space problem soon. I feel like a security guard in a large concert hall waiting to open the doors for a big show, hearing the talking and laughing and shuffling of a large crowd just on the ...
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A Machine for Shredding
Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 7:55:17 am PST
Ann Clywd in today’s London Times: See men shredded, then say you don't back war. “There was a machine designed for shredding plastic. Men were dropped into it and we were again made to watch. Sometimes they went in head first and died quickly. Sometimes they went in feet first ...
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Australia's IN
Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 8:02:28 pm PST
Australia is with us. (Hat tip: Tim Blair.) In a serious fight there are no better allies.
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The Baby Wipe Harbinger
Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 7:57:31 pm PST
Here’s another sign that war is imminent; the troops are being issued baby wipes. (Hat tip: Aaron.)
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T-Shirts Shipped
Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 5:41:18 pm PST
While I’m waiting for our host to get back to me on our space issue, I wanted to let our readers know that a large shipment of T-shirts went out today.
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The Ultimatum
Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 5:13:39 pm PST
Live webcast at the White House.
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You Chirping Little Bird
Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 1:58:23 pm PST
We’ve had an unbelievable flood of traffic today, and it has maxed out our server space. Comments are temporarily disabled while I iron it out. In the meantime, don’t miss this audio clip of a “peace activist” on a radio talk show being absolutely eviscerated by an Iraqi caller. A classic. ...
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Pals Exploit Corrie
Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 9:51:53 am PST
The Palestinian propaganda machine is kicking into high gear, exploiting the death of this useful idiot for all it’s worth. Palestinian children carry a mock coffin covered by a American flag commemorating Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Washington, a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' during a memorial service at ...
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Indymedia Haters
Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 9:40:52 am PST
Note to our readers who followed the discussion about Rachel Corrie, and saw the threats against President Bush made by one of the idiots from Indymedia: this freak, who was apparently posting from Bothell, Washington, has a surprise coming.
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Storm Approaching
Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 9:30:47 am PST
UN inspectors are leaving Baghdad and President Bush will address the nation at 8:00 pm EST.
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Leftwing Hatchet
Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 9:14:09 am PST
David Horowitz responds to Joshua Micah Marshall. Now he has paid me back with a new smear, this time on his website. Happily, he has also done me the favor of providing a perfect example of his lack of integrity and scruple. Thus the smear is a gratuitous accusation that this site, frontpagemag.com is "misleading, hysterical and tendentious" without a ...
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Ignoring The Unthinkable
Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 9:08:55 am PST
In today’s Washington Post, Fred Hiatt writes about a frightening report commissioned by the Nuclear Threat Initiative that says our response to the threat of nuclear terrorism has been dangerously inadequate: Ignoring The Unthinkable. (Hat tip: NC.) If a terrorist were to detonate a 10-kiloton nuclear bomb in Grand Central ...
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Teaching the Children
Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 9:43:47 pm PST
Some people have questioned whether the photo below (of a woman burning a US flag in front of Palestinian children) really is Rachel Corrie; here’s the proof, in another picture of her little hate party for the kiddies: Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the ‘International Solidarity ...
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ISM Human Shield: Alice Coy
Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 8:06:37 pm PST
After she got rid of her scabies, International Solidarity Movement member Alice Coy headed to “Palestine” to protect the psychotic murderers she finds so very romantic. Been in Gaza since Sat 8th, but arrived in Rafah the following day as that day we were forbidden at gunpoint to cross the ...
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The LGF Prayer Reprise
Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 6:16:13 pm PST
As the peaceniks become inflamed by the events that are about to unfold, and random idiotarians find their way to our comments areas, let us remember the LGF Prayer: Lord, grant me the serenity to ignore the trolls, the courage to debate with honest opponents, and the wisdom to know the ...
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Health Alert for Mystery Disease
Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 4:46:52 pm PST
The World Health Organization has issued an alert about a mysterious respiratory illness that has caused at least 9 deaths. One of the people who contracted the disease spent some time in New York City, and may have gone to a hospital there. World Health Organization officials say they are “keeping ...
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$2 Billion a Year Isn't Enough
Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 2:21:43 pm PST
Last week Egypt’s government-controlled Al Azhar University (the top Islamic seminary in the world) issued a ruling calling for jihad against America. This week an Egyptian delegation is coming to Washington with their hands out. CAIRO, Egypt - A top Egyptian delegation has left to the United States for talks with ...
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The New Arab Way of War
Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 1:18:13 pm PST
At the US Naval Institute, a fascinating strategic analysis of The New Arab Way of War, by Captain Peter Layton of the Royal Australian Air Force. (Hat tip: Montaigne’s Cat.) The new Arab approach to conflict is an adaptation of the revolutionary warfare of the second half of the 20th ...
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American Human Shield Killed in Gaza
Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 12:54:36 pm PST
A young American woman was killed today in Gaza, when she jumped in front of an Israeli armored bulldozer as it was destroying a terrorist’s house: Israeli Bulldozer Kills U.S. Woman, 23. Witnesses said Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Washington, was trying to stop the bulldozer from tearing down a ...
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Another CAIR Official Busted
Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 9:54:54 am PST
Another official from the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been arrested in a widening investigation into the terrorist web at the University of Idaho. Former Idaho student Bassem K. Khafagi was arrested in January in a hotel near New York City's LaGuardia Airport and was returned to Michigan ...
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UN Copters Yanked
Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 9:10:31 am PST
Five UN helicopters have been pulled out of Iraq after a Western insurance company suspended coverage of the aircraft. (Hat tip: zulubaby.)
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Final Approach
Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 9:06:56 am PST
President Bush is meeting in the Azore Islands with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, and Portugal Prime Minister Jose Durao Barroso. After doing it Colin Powell’s way for the last six months, we’ll be going into this war with no more allies (and no ...
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Not Fun and Games Anymore
Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 6:11:18 pm PST
Here’s a friendly note to our “peace activist” readers (the ones who hate LGF so much that they check in several times a day): if I were you I would think twice about messing around at Vandenberg Air Force Base. (Hat tip: Atomic Conspiracy.) VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - ...
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What the Hell is Going on at TIME?
Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 2:29:53 pm PST
Martin Kramer catches TIME magazine publishing an article by a Hamas mole: Time runs an article in the March 17 issue by one Azzam Tamimi, on why it would be better to capture and not kill the "agitator" and "spiritual leader" (the word "terrorist" is not used) named Osama bin ...
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Idiotic Protest Sign Watch
Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 1:44:30 pm PST
More disgracefully stupid behavior from Americans overseas, non-celebrities for a change: Two American women living in Lebanon Elizabeth Hunter, 35, from Michigan, left, and Kirsten Scheid, 22, of Portland, Oregon, right, hold banners against the war during a demonstration in front the Lebanese Museum in Beirut, Lebanon, on Saturday March ...
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A Weak Defense
Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 11:08:15 am PST
Joshua Marshall responds to criticism of his description of Arafat’s figurehead prime minister Abu Mazen as “unquestionably one of the good guys.” He takes a gratuitous slap at FrontPage magazine, then admits their facts are accurate; admits he didn’t know about Abu Mazen’s history of Holocaust denial (while ignoring his ...
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Our Friends in Montreal
Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 9:40:22 am PST
This is what passes for artistic expression and “peaceful dialog” at Concordia University in French-occupied Montreal. (Hat tip: whiner.) The artist has made the following statement in regards to the piece: “This piece is in no way meant to trivialize the events of Sept. 11. My intent is to create ...
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Palestinians Kill Their Own
Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 9:33:01 am PST
Two more so-called Palestinian “collaborators” have been murdered in Nablus by Yasser Arafat’s Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. This is what happens to Palestinians who try to stand up to the terror gangs. The bullet-riddled bodies of the dead Palestinians, both from villages near Nablus, were brought to the city hospital ...
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Blix Isn’t Worried
Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 3:39:30 am PST
In an interview with MTV, grinning wimp Hans Blix said he is more worried about global warming than he is about war. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way. I regret it. To me the question of the ...
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She Couldn't Ask For Anything Better
Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 6:19:10 pm PST
Every day brings a new slap in the face from people and nations who should (and do) know better. Today I learned about the latest outrage from the Canadian center of Arab/Arabist hatred and psychosis, Concordia University in French-occupied Montreal: Bush painting provokes furor in Montreal. (Hat tip: The Canadian ...
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The NYT and Israel
Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 1:29:02 pm PST
An excellent article by Tom Gross on the New York Times’s shameful history of bias against Israel: All The News That’s Fit to Print?
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Muscular Independence
Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 1:09:43 pm PST
If you aren’t already checking the National Review every Friday for Victor Hanson’s columns, why not? Today’s is a typically brilliant one: Muscular Independence. Nothing is worse for a great power than to ask others far less moral for permission to use its power; and nothing weakens a great power ...
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Hobbs on Chicks
Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 1:00:43 pm PST
Nashville blogger Bill Hobbs has some pointed comments on the Dixie Chicks, who are cashing in on patriotism at home while trashing America overseas.
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LGF in WaPo
Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:55:06 pm PST
Hey, mom! Look! Little Green Footballs is in the Washington Post, as a “pro-war” blog!
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Chirac Gets Photoflogged
Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:02:02 pm PST
Another hysterical Fark Photoshop contest today, with our phavorite phrog: Jacques Chirac. (Hat tip: Sharona [1] and Doug Stewart [2].)
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NameProtect.com is Evil
Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:30:47 am PST
The web crawler for NameProtect (the first entry on display in our robot pillory) has been thrashing around in our bot trap all day, trying to download every page from our site but getting this instead. NameProtect is another company whose web crawler violates the robots.txt protocol; if you follow ...
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Marshall: Abu Mazen a "Good Guy"
Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:35:06 am PST
Joshua Micah Marshall led the charge to have Trent Lott removed from office for an off the cuff remark at a party. Today he describes Abu Mazen, Arafat’s new puppet-head prime minister, as “unquestionably one of the good guys.” (Hat tip: NC.) Is Marshall applying a monumentally hypocritical double standard here, or ...
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Celebrity Hall of Shame
Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 7:59:00 am PST
The latest additions to the Celebrity Hall of Ignorant Loudmouthed Shame: the Dixie Chicks, the Beastie Boys, Madonna, and perennial name-changer and trend-follower John Cougar Mellencamp, who, as usual, is trying to have it both ways. In Mellencamp's "To Washington," he sings: "He wants to fight with many, and he ...
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Palestinian War Crimes
Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 1:19:49 am PST
A Palestinian Red Crescent driver has been sentenced to prison for smuggling weapons and explosive belts in his ambulance. The Associated Press, of course, gives equal weight to the weasel words of a Palestinian liar: Palestinian medical official Mustafa Barghouti said that Jibril's case was the only one that Israeli ...
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Surrender Monkeys Pleased with Themselves
Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:43:49 am PST
If you don’t want any more reasons to dislike the French, don’t follow this link: It's your mess, say French with disdain. FRANCE has adopted a posture of pained superiority in the face of the torrent of Anglo-Saxon invective flowing its way. Its dismissive tone reflects the view that President ...
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Saddam Planning First Strike
Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 6:03:33 pm PST
Breaking news: Saddam Hussein may be planning a first strike. This new level of concern about Iraq is caused by an accumulation of intelligence including troubling new details that focus on three areas:* Specific new evidence indicates that Iraqi activity in the Western desert shows the strong likelihood Scud missiles ...
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Email Address Protection at LGF
Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 4:50:22 pm PST
The best way to prevent all spam from reaching your Inbox is, of course, to never put your email address on the web. There should be a big sign at the entrance to the internet, “Abandon all hope, ye who enter — for here there be robots.” Night and day, ...
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You Knew It Was Coming
Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 4:30:17 pm PST
News flash at the Drudge Report: a group of liberal attorneys led by John Conyers and Ramsey Clark is drafting articles of impeachment against President Bush. House Judiciary ranking member John Conyers (D-Mich.) assembled more than two-dozen prominent liberal attorneys and legal scholars on Tuesday to mull over articles of ...
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La Habra 9/11 Memorial Update
Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 3:22:16 pm PST
The September 11 memorial trashed by “anti-war” vandals in La Habra California has been rebuilt bigger than before. Late Tuesday, one of the peace lovers who vandalized it showed up, pontificated about peace and togetherness, and then, overcome with the spirit of togetherness, peacefully grabbed and assaulted the memorial’s owner. ...
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Cult of Blood and Death
Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 9:55:21 am PST
A Shiite Muslim man holds his son as another man in the left slashes his head with a razor during the annual ritual to mark Ashoura Day in the southern Lebanese town of Nabatiyeh, on Thursday, March 13, 2003. A Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim mother helps her son beat ...
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Outrage of the Day
Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 8:53:03 am PST
Yesterday Saddam Hussein distributed 260 grand in blood money to the families of Palestinian mass murderers, rewarding and reinforcing their debased culture of Islamic death worship. That’s not our outrage of the day, although it should be. Saddam has done this before; in fact, as this AP story points out, he’s ...
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The Rage, the Pride and the Doubt
Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 8:13:16 am PST
A powerful and thought-provoking essay from Oriana Fallaci on the eve of battle: The Rage, the Pride and the Doubt. (Thanks to all who emailed about this one.) The third reason [for my dilemma] is the wrong way in which the promise has materialized. Let's admit it: from September 11 ...
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Patten Threatens to Withhold EU Funds
Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 5:18:22 pm PST
That loathsome, toad-like, unelected bureaucrat Chris Patten—who is actively resisting an investigation of EU funding of Palestinian terror—is threatening that the European Union will not help financially with the reconstruction of Iraq unless the US bends to the will of the United Nations: EU threat to Iraq reconstruction. Patten told ...
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Al Qaeda Member Claims Reward
Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:02:41 pm PST
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (known around here as “the human carpet”) had a $25 million reward on his head, and the US government is going to pay it—to a radical Islamic Egyptian described as an “Al Qaeda foot soldier.” (Hat tip: NC.) And he extorted another $2 million while he was ...
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Buchanan Shows His Stripes
Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:00:22 am PST
I’m not a conspiracy freak; if you’ve read LGF much, you know that. But I’m almost ready to believe a shadowy secret group has given the high sign to the closet anti-Semites of the world that it’s OK to crawl out of the woodwork. Case in point, Pat Buchanan, with ...
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Mr. President, Walk Away From the U.N.
Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 9:50:32 am PST
Charles Krauthammer lays it on the line, and I could not agree more: Mr. President, Walk Away From the U.N. WASHINGTON--Walk away, Mr. President. Walk away from the U.N. Security Council. It will not authorize the coming war. You can stand on your head and it won't change the outcome. ...
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Sheikh Palazzi Condemns Arafat
Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 8:34:16 am PST
Maverick Italian Muslim Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi speaks out against the establishment of a Palestinian state: Sheik joins rabbi's condemnation of Arafat. Responding last week to the attack in Haifa that killed 15 Israelis, Palazzi said at the New York protest, "We must ask if the perpetrators were educated to ...
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Al Azhar Calls for Holy War
Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 8:15:06 am PST
Al Azhar University, the most prominent Sunni Muslim seminary in the world, has issued a ruling calling for all Muslims to wage jihad against the United States. (Hat tip: Outsider.) The Cairo-based Al Azhar seminary issued a ruling on Monday that called on Muslims to wage a "jihad," or holy ...
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Our World-Historical Gamble
Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 8:11:20 pm PST
An amazing essay by Lee Harris at Tech Central Station, impossible to summarize: Our World-Historical Gamble. Highly recommended. (Too many hat tips to list them all; thanks everyone.)
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Reporters Without Borders Stand Up
Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 7:56:26 pm PST
Yesterday Kuwait warned journalists not to cooperate with Israel. Today Reporters Without Borders does the right thing. Reporters Without Borders, the French-based international watchdog for the freedom of the press, urged Kuwaiti information minister Sheikh Ahmed Al-Fahd Al-Sabah to withdraw his threats against foreign journalists based in Kuwait who pass ...
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Then As Now
Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 5:47:43 pm PST
Even in World War II, with the issues clearly defined (in 20/20 hindsight), the US was very reluctant to declare war on Germany—and as Rick Heller points out, the America First “peace” movement fronted by Charles Lindbergh was largely responsible for sapping the nation’s will to do what had to ...
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Hamas, Islamic Jihad Dismiss Abu Mazen
Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 5:22:33 pm PST
If they weren’t cowards and mass murderers, you’d almost have to admire Hamas and Islamic Jihad for being so totally single-minded about their homicidal hatred and paranoia. Maybe that’s what attracts the loony left to these freaks? Hamas, Islamic Jihad dismiss premier post. GAZA, March 11 (UPI) -- Islamic militants ...
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Brits Backing Out?
Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 4:02:03 pm PST
Is Tony Blair going wobbly? (CBS)Sources tell CBS News that Great Britain – America's closest ally – may find it politically impossible to commit its military to a U.S.-led attack on Saddam Hussein. And that could force the United States to go it alone in Iraq. Defense Secretary Donald H. ...
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Crocodile Tears
Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 3:58:04 pm PST
Here’s a righteously angry Ralph Peters column in the NY Post: Crocodile Tears. (Hat tip: Brenda.) Today, Europeans dismiss their historical guilt toward Jews by insisting that Israel is as bad as Nazi Germany - a Big Lie worthy of Hitler and Goebbels - while cheering on Israel's genocidal enemies. ...
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With a Bullet
Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 3:15:44 pm PST
Egyptian pop star Shaaban Abdel Rahim, whose smash hit song “I Hate Israel (and Love Amr Moussa)” rocketed to the top of the Cairo charts, has a new creation for his Jew-hating fans: Don't Hit Iraq. (Hat tip: NC.) Shaaban Abdel Rahim's song Don't Hit Iraq is being played on ...
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Terror Tools
Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 1:02:55 pm PST
We’re just beginning to discover the true extent of radical Islam’s penetration of American society, achieved while we (the collective we) dozed in the years before September 11. And every time a new revelation comes out, the House of Saud is involved. Rita Katz and Josh Devon write about the ...
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The Mother of All Bombs
Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 12:36:20 pm PST
Here’s how to give everybody what they want; drop a MOAB on Saddam’s suicide camp. They get to be martyrs, and we get to kill them; win-win! EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force said it dropped a 21,000-pound MOAB bomb on a range in northwest ...
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Saddam’s Suicide Camp
Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 12:05:55 pm PST
Al Jazeera reports that Saddam Hussein is running a training camp for suicide bombers. DOHA, Qatar - Saddam Hussein has opened a training camp for Arab volunteers willing to carry out suicide bombings against U.S. forces in case they invade Iraq, Arab media and Iraqi dissidents said Tuesday.The dissidents, speaking ...
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Iraq Threatens U-2 Planes
Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 9:54:01 am PST
Emboldened by anti-war protests and the obstructionism of the Axis of Weasels, Saddam Hussein sent two Iraqi fighter jets to threaten U-2 surveillance planes today.
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Robots Behaving Badly
Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 9:40:58 am PST
The WiseNutBot is one of the web crawlers that was caught in our bot trap when it ignored our robots.txt file—even though their site says: We work very hard to ensure that our crawler behaves itself. We respect the access controls specified in the /robots.txt file at all Web sites ...
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What the West Doesn't Get
Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 9:01:10 am PST
Barry Rubin makes some excellent points in this editorial on what the West just doesn't get about the Middle East; hard truths that Western media insistently ignores. The problem is not Sharon but the worldview and strategy of Arafat and the Palestinian leadership. By rejecting the Camp David and Clinton ...
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Peace Creeps Attack 9/11 Memorial
Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 8:14:33 am PST
Just when you thought your dislike for the “anti-war” movement couldn’t possibly be any greater, a group of “protesters” in Whittier California burned and slashed US flags at a September 11 memorial—as the local police just stood and watched. (Hat tip: Swerdloff.) LA HABRA -- Antiwar protesters burned and ripped ...
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New Spambot Shield in Place
Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 6:52:01 pm PST
If you’ve been reluctant to share your email address in our comments area (and who could blame you, with all the spambots infesting the web?), I implemented a new system today to prevent the bots from harvesting addresses at LGF. If you’re still reluctant I still don’t blame you; but ...
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Fifth Column in Eight Cities
Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 6:32:31 pm PST
The arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed has triggered urgent investigations in eight US cities, according to this NBC report: Al-Qaida newly suspected in 8 cities. (Hat tip: NC.)
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Pro-America Brits
Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 4:14:33 pm PST
Here’s a nice surprise from the UK, given all the anti-American rhetoric pouring from the BBC and the Guardependent; a SkyNews public opinion forum page that is overwhelmingly in favor of the Bush-Blair stance on Iraq. (Hat tip: Sharona.) I can't believe how ill-informed and stupid some people are. At ...
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CBS: Palestinian Peacenik
Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 1:38:40 pm PST
Look here, people. The man nominated by Arafat to be his puppet prime minister of the PA, Abu Mazen, the grandfatherly man seen smiling genially and waving at the camera in photo ops, is not a moderate. Good grief, he’s a Holocaust denier. The name “Abu” is a commonly used ...
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Assad Seethes, Whines
Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:34:30 am PST
The “President” of Syria is warning Arabs not to befriend the US. Apparently, he feels we don’t keep our agreements. "I warned the Arab rulers and told them don't pave the way for the U.S. as they are doing now because their turn will come next," Assad was quoted as ...
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The French-German Con Game
Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:00:58 am PST
A great column by William Saletan exposes the absurdity of the French-German arguments against using force in Iraq: Top This - The French-German Iraq con game. (Hat tip: Michael S.)
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The Robot Pillory
Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 9:38:25 am PST
It’s very gratifying to see so many ill-behaved web robots falling into our trap; so gratifying that I’ve put together a dynamically updated page showing the evil robots’ information: the robot pillory. We caught another one this morning. Feel free to throw rotten fruit. UPDATE: when a spambot is caught in ...
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Hebrew National Update
Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 9:11:34 am PST
Last month we noted the story of a restaurant owner in Kennebunk, Maine, who was ordered to remove Hebrew National advertisements from his table umbrellas; the owner sued, and today the judge ruled in favor of the town. (Hat tip: selpaw.)
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Hunt for a Dead Terrorist
Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 8:48:10 am PST
Here’s the latest on the hunt for Osama bin Laden; Pakistan’s intelligence agency says they’re closing in. Of course, the ISI is lousy with radical Islamozoids, so who knows what’s really going on? ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The net is closing around terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, Pakistani intelligence officials said Monday, ...
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Norwegian Friends of America
Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 8:24:49 am PST
Fredrik Norman has launched a new web site called Venner av Amerika (Norwegian Friends of America), an ad-hoc campaign against increasing anti-American sentiments in Norway.
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Madrassa in Brooklyn
Sun, Mar 9, 2003 at 8:30:38 pm PST
The New York Times puts their best possible spin on this story about the Al Farooq Mosque in Brooklyn, accused of funneling millions of dollars to terrorist groups: Brooklyn Mosque Becomes Terror Icon. (Hat tip: davesax.) Clearly the Times thinks the government is hallucinating all this “terror” stuff. At Friday's ...
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Clear Guidance Blog
Sun, Mar 9, 2003 at 7:53:15 pm PST
One of the charming Islamic kiddiebots who frequents clearguidance.com—and is studying chemistry in Britain, along with several like-minded friends—has his own weblog. (Hat tip: Tal G.)
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Through the Looking Glass
Sun, Mar 9, 2003 at 1:56:24 pm PST
Last Thursday we featured photographs from a bizarre “field trial” held by a Palestinian children’s group known as the Young Palestinian Parliament (started by Yasser Arafat’s Fatah gang), in which they found President Bush “guilty of war crimes.” Today MEMRI translates an article from the Palestinian Authority daily about this ...
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Marching with Kim
Sun, Mar 9, 2003 at 11:39:55 am PST
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Fiskie Winner Mouths Off Again
Sun, Mar 9, 2003 at 9:43:31 am PST
Jimmy Carter is proving to be an utter disgrace as an ex-President (even worse than he was as President), violating a long-standing tradition not to criticize a sitting president’s policies, and sucking up to his Euroweenie friends who awarded him the Nobel “Peace” Prize. His latest op-ed for the NY Times ...
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What's Wrong With This Picture?
Sun, Mar 9, 2003 at 9:10:57 am PST
This has to be one of the stranger pictures of Palestinian child abuse I have seen yet. Would someone please tell me what the hell is going on here? Isn’t that a Star of David and Hebrew lettering on the kid’s shirt? (Hat tip: nik.)
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Arafish Gets Around
Sun, Mar 9, 2003 at 8:51:31 am PST
It is said that in his entire life, the Ayatollah Khomeini smiled only once. (Hat tip: David.) Mr. Arafat was the first foreign dignitary —actually the first official terrorist — who came to Iran after Iranian generals were summarily executed by order of criminals such as Dr. Ibrahim Yazdi (now ...
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Kebab Eating Surrender Camels
Sun, Mar 9, 2003 at 8:18:33 am PST
Ladies and gentlemen, the only people on Earth quicker at surrendering than the French—the kebab eating surrender camels of Iraq: Saddam’s Soldiers Surrender. A British Army source in Kuwait contacted me to explain how the extraordinary surrender bid unfolded. The source said: "The British guys on the front-line could not ...
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Trapping the Spambots
Sat, Mar 8, 2003 at 6:36:16 pm PST
The new generation of spambots (evil programs that crawl around the web searching for email addresses) is a little smarter than their pinheaded predecessors, and they can apparently now decipher the simple character encoding we were using to hide email addresses here at LGF. So it’s time to take it to ...
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No Tongues Remixes
Sat, Mar 8, 2003 at 5:59:48 pm PST
Say what you like about fark.com but they really do have great Photoshop contests, and this one featuring the special moment between Abu Mazen and the Arafish is one of their funniest ever. Not for the faint of heart. (Hat tip: apotheosis.)
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LGF Button Image
Sat, Mar 8, 2003 at 3:53:33 pm PST
Several people have emailed asking me for a graphic logo they can use for a button to link to LGF on their pages. Your wish is my command: To use this, please make a copy on your own server by right-clicking (control-clicking on Mac) and saving the image to disk, then ...
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Before and After
Sat, Mar 8, 2003 at 8:57:50 am PST
This is Ibrahim Makdme, the Hamas murderer who kept an appointment with an IDF missile earlier today; another oppressed, starving Palestinian terrorist who looked like he never missed a meal. Immediately after the car carrying this bastard exploded, a mob of barbarians swarmed over the wreckage, pulling body parts out with ...
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Blix's Biggest Fan
Sat, Mar 8, 2003 at 8:39:49 am PST
Nice going, Hans. Saddam Hussein has called on the UN to lift the sanctions imposed on Iraq at the end of the Gulf War, twelve years ago, reports Israel Radio. According to Hussein, UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix and IAEA chief Muhammad el-Baradei, vindicated Iraq's position that it has ...
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Religion of Masked Women
Sat, Mar 8, 2003 at 8:11:22 am PST
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Blix Hid Drone
Sat, Mar 8, 2003 at 1:29:48 am PST
The Times of London is reporting that Hans Blix attempted to cover up the discovery of a new undeclared Iraqi drone aircraft. A REPORT declassified by the United Nations yesterday contained a hidden bombshell with the revelation that inspectors have recently discovered an undeclared Iraqi drone with a wingspan of ...
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A Bomber in Wisconsin
Sat, Mar 8, 2003 at 1:16:56 am PST
A man in Wisconsin was critically injured when a bomb he was making in his apartment exploded. The blast damaged the walls and ceiling of the apartment and blew out the living room windows of the apartment in this small town just outside Milwaukee. "We found a large quantity of ...
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Storm on the Horizon
Fri, Mar 7, 2003 at 6:11:25 pm PST
(Hat tip: reaganite.)
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A Place for Temporary Appeasement
Fri, Mar 7, 2003 at 1:37:11 pm PST
A sharp Krauthammer column on the North Korean situation makes a case for temporary appeasement.
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Yusuf Islam Back in the Studio
Fri, Mar 7, 2003 at 1:23:00 pm PST
Cat Stevens is coming out of retirement, to record a couple of “anti-war” songs. Of course. LONDON - Yusuf Islam, formerly known as pop singer Cat Stevens, has recorded two songs to express his opposition to a U.S.-led war on Iraq. One song is a rerecording of his ‘70s hit ...
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Sorry Facts and Apologies
Fri, Mar 7, 2003 at 9:04:37 am PST
Here’s an excellent op-ed by Diana West about the hard questions raised by recent busts of Islamic leaders in the United States: Sorry facts and apologies for the truth. (Hat tip: Andrew Bostom.) This is a tale of two news stories. They both pertain to Islam and the post September ...
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UN Puppet Show
Fri, Mar 7, 2003 at 8:36:19 am PST
The latest wimp-out from the UN’s surreal theater of the absurd, where grown men representing major world powers act with all the worldliness and common sense of two year olds. UNITED NATIONS - Iraq's destruction of its Al Samoud 2 missiles constitutes a "substantial measure of disarmament," the chief U.N. ...
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Breaking News
Fri, Mar 7, 2003 at 7:36:34 am PST
A report from Pakistan says that two of Osama bin Laden’s sons have been captured. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Two sons of Usama bin Laden were arrested in southeastern Afghanistan in a joint operation involving Pakistani and U.S. forces, Pakistan's provincial home minister Sanaullah Zehri said."They were arrested from Rabat area in ...
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Postmodern War
Fri, Mar 7, 2003 at 7:27:47 am PST
One of Victor Davis Hanson’s best essays, brimming with righteous anger: Postmodern War. There is a Potemkin phoniness to this war to come. We live in a world of images broadcast immediately into our living rooms without commentary — or, indeed, any intellectual context at all. Thus, because a Tariq ...
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French Perfidy
Fri, Mar 7, 2003 at 7:10:57 am PST
A French company has been smuggling spare parts to Iraq for their fighter jets and military helicopters—as recently as January: Iraq strengthens air force with French parts.
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Helen Thomas Snubbed
Fri, Mar 7, 2003 at 6:55:29 am PST
I was wondering if President Bush would take a question from that nasty old crone Helen Thomas; but she was well and truly snubbed: Press corps doyenne gets no notice. (Hat tip: Ben G.)
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No Tongues Now
Fri, Mar 7, 2003 at 2:51:19 am PST
Arafish shares a special moment with his new prime minister, Holocaust denier and great kisser Abu Mazen. (Disclaimer: LGF is not responsible for any psychic damage caused by viewing the hideous photo above.)
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Osama Arrested?
Thu, Mar 6, 2003 at 7:40:03 pm PST
Who knows how much credibility any Pakistan news source has, but the PakTribune reports that Osama has been arrested near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. (Hat tip: John Bono.) I’m still 97% sure he’s joined the Choir Invisible.
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White House Webcast
Thu, Mar 6, 2003 at 5:33:15 pm PST
Live webcast of the President’s press conference at the White House.
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Sami al-Arian on Video
Thu, Mar 6, 2003 at 4:43:00 pm PST
If you’re tempted to believe that Sami al-Arian is being unfairly targeted, one look at these video clips will cure that, as Sami rants about killing Jews, “monkeys and pigs,” “jihad, jihad, jihad,” the whole nine yards. What an evil bastard. (Hat tip: GI Joe.)
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Operation USO Care Package
Thu, Mar 6, 2003 at 4:05:20 pm PST
Here’s a great way to show your support for our men and women deployed in the Middle East—make a donation to send a USO Care Package. (Hat tip: Chug.)
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Our Favorite Pastime
Thu, Mar 6, 2003 at 11:15:05 am PST
All Frawnce bashing, all the time: Pave France.com. (Hat tip: Bender.) UPDATE: In Los Angeles this Friday at 12 noon, there will be a demonstration in front of the French consulate. Please bring a bottle (or bottles) of French wine to dump in the gutter. We will not be able to ...
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Lindh Assaulted in Prison
Thu, Mar 6, 2003 at 10:38:53 am PST
John Walker Lindh (who the media insists on calling “the American Taliban” even though “Taliban” is plural) has been assaulted in prison by one or more white supremacists. The interesting part of the story: this particular jail seems to have a large population of radical Muslims, who treated Lindh as ...
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Bush in Prime Time
Thu, Mar 6, 2003 at 8:13:31 am PST
The President will hold a news conference tonight at 8:00 EST. Rumors are flying that he may announce the capture of Bin Laden.
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The Dishonest Whining of Weasels
Thu, Mar 6, 2003 at 7:40:08 am PST
Kalle Barfot has a good post showing exactly why the Axis of Appeasement’s statement refusing to support another UN resolution against Iraq is a heap of lies and obfuscations.
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Thu, Mar 6, 2003 at 1:36:20 am PST
In a mind-bending act of disgusting hypocrisy, Palestinian children staged a “mock trial” in Gaza yesterday, finding President Bush “guilty” of crimes against humanity. On the same day that a Palestinian mass murderer blew up a bus full of teenagers. Palestinian youths, left, act as judges as a boy dressed up ...
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Islamic Leaders Braying Like Jackasses
Wed, Mar 5, 2003 at 5:26:32 pm PST
It’s already been discussed in our comments areas quite a bit, but I would be remiss if I didn’t have a front page entry for the “Lawrence of Arabia” moment that took place today at the Organization of the Islamic Conference meeting in Qatar: Islamic Summit Has Loud Shouting Match. ...
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How Deep is the Muslim Fifth Column?
Wed, Mar 5, 2003 at 2:10:38 pm PST
David Frum hits the nail on the head with a very politically incorrect question: The NYPD is now alleging that al Qaeda raised many of its millions right here in the United States, and specifically in Brooklyn. The worshippers at the al Farooq mosque were not wealthy people – few ...
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Broke in Beirut
Wed, Mar 5, 2003 at 1:06:31 pm PST
The saga of the human shields just gets funnier, as they’re marooned in Beirut and out of money. If someone isn’t already working on the screenplay for the movie, they should be; this is comedy gold, people. The buses and taxi, dusty after a six-week overland journey that began at ...
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Jihad in Brooklyn
Wed, Mar 5, 2003 at 8:43:30 am PST
A Yemeni cleric arrested in Germany boasted that he had supplied arms and recruits to Osama bin Laden—and millions of dollars collected from Arab businessmen at a Brooklyn mosque. (Hat tip: NC.) Sheik Mohammed Al Hasan Al-Moayad said that a big chunk of the $20 million he raised for al ...
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And Again
Wed, Mar 5, 2003 at 8:11:40 am PST
Suicide Bus Bombing Kills 15 in Israel. Every news story I’ve seen so far repeats the blatant lie that this is “the first suicide attack in two months.” It’s the first successful attack, but the rotten Palestinian cowards have been trying to do this every day.
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Belafonte Drools Again
Wed, Mar 5, 2003 at 1:58:08 am PST
Harry Belafonte should wake every morning and kiss a photograph of Tim Burton, for using Belafonte’s lame novelty song in the movie Beetle Juice and reviving his nowhere career. And then, in a perfect world, the ignorant bastard would spend the rest of the day shutting up. The 76-year-old U.S. singer ...
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Failed States Meet in Qatar
Wed, Mar 5, 2003 at 1:42:34 am PST
Another Islamic summit meeting dissolves in impotence and infighting: Muslim Summit Seeks to Amplify Voice Against War. DOHA (Reuters) - Leaders and senior officials from the world's Islamic states met in Qatar on Wednesday to try to rally the voices of one billion Muslims against war on Iraq. But there ...
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Stupid Rock Star Watch
Wed, Mar 5, 2003 at 1:20:26 am PST
Before September 11, rock stars like Chrissie Hynde could make outrageously stupid statements and come off as rebellious and daring. Now she just seems ... pathetic. (Hat tip: Leandra.) "Have we gone to war yet?" she asked sarcastically, early on. "We (expletive) deserve to get bombed. Bring it on." Later ...
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Hot on Osama's Trail
Tue, Mar 4, 2003 at 5:50:12 pm PST
Is Osama bin Laden still inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide? I’ve been 97% convinced that he’s inert worm chow for almost a year—how could his massive ego resist the urge to get in front of a video camera and gloat?—but this TIME article raises the hope that we may ...
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Wash. State Reps Walk Out on Imam
Tue, Mar 4, 2003 at 4:11:47 pm PST
CAIR is seething (yes, again) and demanding apologies after two legislators walked out of the Washington state House of Representatives during an opening prayer by the imam of the Islamic Center of Olympia. Republicans Lois McMahan of Gig Harbor and Cary Condotta of East Wenatchee went to the back of ...
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The Pentagon's New Map
Tue, Mar 4, 2003 at 2:24:42 pm PST
A must-read essay by Thomas Barnett of the US Naval War College on the Pentagon’s New Map of the world, describing a new paradigm for the clash between disconnected states and the “Functioning Core” of global civilization. (Hat tip: wordwarp.) Highly recommended.
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Anti-War Groups Plan Sabotage
Tue, Mar 4, 2003 at 10:47:27 am PST
“Anti-war” groups are planning to infiltrate military bases and disrupt business districts and large corporations when the war with Iraq begins: Protesters prepared for war's beginning. (Hat tip: Ronnie S.) "My real hope is that the war doesn't start," said David Taylor of Direct Action to Stop the War. "But ...
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Islam, a Religion of Peace or War?
Tue, Mar 4, 2003 at 10:04:46 am PST
Here’s a fascinating symposium at FrontPage: Islam, a Religion of Peace or War? Part I. Critics of Islam Robert Spencer and Ibn Warraq in a rancorous debate with CAIR representative Hussam Ayloush and UC Berkeley professor of Middle Eastern studies As`ad AbuKhalil, whose first sentence is an ad hominem attack: ...
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TIME Shills for Islam
Tue, Mar 4, 2003 at 9:17:36 am PST
TIME Asia has a very glossy, very extensive advertisement for Islam in its latest issue, with some interesting information along with a liberal application of whitewash: Islam in Asia - Standing Up for Islam. (Hat tip: NC.)
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Saudis Linked to Bali Bombing
Tue, Mar 4, 2003 at 8:49:55 am PST
US lawyer Allan Gerson, who is suing Saudi Arabia on behalf of the families of September 11 victims, told an Australian interviewer he has evidence that Saudi Arabian funds funneled through European charity organizations were used to finance the Bali bombing: Saudi princes linked to terror funds. He could not ...
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Indonesian Shari'a Time
Tue, Mar 4, 2003 at 8:33:44 am PST
The Indonesian province of Aceh has installed a “moderate” shari'a court, apparently trying to appease Muslim separatists. (Hat tip: Dr. J.) Religious Affairs Minister Said Agil al-Munawar read a decree which establishes the sharia court in the staunchly Muslim province of Aceh as part of an effort to curb separatist ...
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RoP Claims 19 More
Tue, Mar 4, 2003 at 7:29:50 am PST
A bomb hidden in a backpack has killed at least 19 people at an airport in the southern Philippines. No one has confessed to the attack, but the most likely candidate is the local Islamozoid group MILF.
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The Decline and Fall of Hamas
Mon, Mar 3, 2003 at 6:46:23 pm PST
Mass-murdering Islamist freakazoids are reaping the whirlwind in Israel, as Hamas leaders are increasingly targeted by the IDF. (Hat tip: NC.) I hope they get every last one of the murderous filthy bastards—especially Yassin and Rantisi.
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Cox and Forkum
Mon, Mar 3, 2003 at 4:40:14 pm PST
Anti-idiotarian cartoonists Cox and Forkum have launched their weblog, with a batch of great new cartoons.
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Terror Front Group Opens in Netherlands
Mon, Mar 3, 2003 at 4:05:54 pm PST
The Arab European League, founded by a Hizb'Allah terrorist and responsible for riots and anti-Semitic violence in Belgium, has opened its first branch in the Netherlands—and immediately announced that “the state of Israel should be dismantled.” (Hat tip: Susan.) The programme of the AEL-NL also calls for the closure of ...
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Letter to a European Friend
Mon, Mar 3, 2003 at 2:48:29 pm PST
Robert L. Bartley’s Letter to a European Friend is a must-read.
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Stalinists and Islamists Together
Mon, Mar 3, 2003 at 1:29:28 pm PST
InstaPundit points out this article at the Washington Post that illustrates again the outrageously anti-American agenda of the Stalinist and Islamist groups who are organizing the so-called “anti-war” movement: Organizers of Antiwar Movement Plan to Go Beyond Protests. The organizers say the February rallies were first agreed upon at a ...
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The Other Imminent Danger
Mon, Mar 3, 2003 at 12:57:39 pm PST
A very sobering article by Stanley Kurtz on the serious threat of North Korea, and the proliferation of nuclear weapons: The Other Imminent Danger. Up to now, hawks have had an answer to the charge that they apply a double standard to Iraq and North Korea. The hawks point out ...
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Wouldn't Want to Be Ya
Mon, Mar 3, 2003 at 9:03:29 am PST
Awww. Did the widdle terrorist miss his beauty sleep? A most beautiful photograph. All praise to Allah for delivering this evil man into our hands. Here’s the latest update on the interrogation. Radio reports say that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is refusing to answer questions, reciting the Koran aloud. Heh heh.
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Welsh Jew-Hater Gets Rave Review
Mon, Mar 3, 2003 at 8:43:14 am PST
Chris McGreal, one of the Guardian’s most anti-Israel reporters (and that’s saying something) writes a nauseatingly positive article about a Jew-hating Welsh woman: Welsh pensioner turns freedom fighter. (Hat tip: Goldenwebb.) This woman is psychotic, but McGreal calls her a “freedom fighter,” and opens his article with this: Anne Gwynne ...
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Al Qaeda Planning to Hit Pearl Harbor
Mon, Mar 3, 2003 at 7:53:54 am PST
Bill Gertz reports that Al Qaeda is (still?) planning a large attack—on Pearl Harbor. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) Intelligence reports about the terrorist threat to the Hawaiian harbor bombed by the Japanese in World War II were sent to senior U.S. officials in the past two weeks and coincided with reports ...
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BBC: An Open Opponent of the US
Mon, Mar 3, 2003 at 7:38:42 am PST
If you live in the United Kingdom, here’s what the BBC is doing with your tax money: The BBC has become an open opponent of America's policies. (And, I might add, the voice of Arab hate and propaganda. Hat tip: Investigations of a Dog.) ...if the ordinary BBC news service ...
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A Few Still Remember
Sun, Mar 2, 2003 at 5:27:34 pm PST
Some French citizens have not forgotten: Several hundred French hold pro-U.S. demonstration. (Hat tip: Susan.) PARIS - The gratitude that Claire Gold has for the Americans who helped liberate France from the Nazis runs so deep that she still feels indebted to the United States, 59 years later.That is why ...
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Hamas Leader Disses Abu Mazen
Sun, Mar 2, 2003 at 2:48:45 pm PST
Hamas “politburo” chief Khaled Mesh'al brushes aside Abu Mazen’s call for a cease-fire: 'Halt the invasion, not the Intifada.' Abu-Mazen's statement about "demilitarising" the Intifada is nothing new, and it is not accepted by the Palestinians. Abu-Mazen's words come at a time when the Palestinians are suffering deeply from the ...
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Phleshy Photoshop Phun
Sun, Mar 2, 2003 at 9:29:11 am PST
Yesterday’s photo of the bare nekkid Aussies has provoked a photoshop pheeding phrenzy among our readers. From Allen Forkum (whose ladies look a bit sunburned): From James Croak: From Model4: And from Ernie G:
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EU Continues Funding Pal Terror
Sun, Mar 2, 2003 at 9:06:19 am PST
Israeli attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner is launching a lecture tour of the UK, in a campaign to block European Union funding for Palestinian terror gangs. She is also calling for the execrable Chris Patten (who is on record saying he wants an investigation into EU funding for the PA as much ...
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Michael to Release Cheery Pop Confection
Sun, Mar 2, 2003 at 8:04:19 am PST
British musical buffoon George Michael is recording an old Don McLean (of American Pie fame) song called The Grave, “a hard-hitting and provocative personal statement about the issue of war,” according to MTV Europe. "George Michael has a history of expressing strong, personal views, with inimitable creativity and conviction that ...
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What the Hell is Wrong with These People?
Sat, Mar 1, 2003 at 7:46:13 pm PST
Not again. Dear God, not again. More than 300 women use their naked bodies to spell out 'No War' on a sports field in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, March 2, 2003. The second nude protest in as many weekends is in opposition to the growing tensions against Iraq. Can we donate ...
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Human Shields Bailing Out
Sat, Mar 1, 2003 at 6:02:35 pm PST
The British human shields are scurrying out of Baghdad because ... like ... it’s too dangerous, man. Almost all of the first British "human shields" to go to Iraq were on their way home last night after deciding that their much-heralded task was now too dangerous.Two red double-decker buses, which ...
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Col. Gaddafi's Grrl Squad
Sat, Mar 1, 2003 at 5:24:33 pm PST
Here’s a side story from today’s Arab League freak show, that I’ve found described only in the photo captions at Yahoo. First, did you know that wacky old Moammar Gaddafi has a female bodyguard squad? Jeebus, no wonder the Saudis hate him. Well, apparently Gaddafi’s team of grrlbots tried to ...
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Anti-Americanism Trumps Self Interest
Sat, Mar 1, 2003 at 4:19:45 pm PST
The Turkish Parliament made a very bad decision today, that will have far-reaching consequences for their country: Turkey Rejects U.S. Troop Deployment Plan. I predict that when the smoke clears, Americans are going to take a hard look at the foreign aid and support we give to countries like Turkey ...
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No Future for the Arab League
Sat, Mar 1, 2003 at 3:50:20 pm PST
The Arab News is buzzing like a beehive over the Gaddafi-Abdullah faceoff at the failed Arab League summit. Here’s their account of the trash talk: Qaddafi criticized Saudi Arabia, in an impromptu speech, for the presence of US forces in the Kingdom.He said when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, American ...
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Your Grave Awaits You
Sat, Mar 1, 2003 at 1:47:20 pm PST
A real battle royale at the Arab League summit meeting—Crown Prince Abdullah and Colonel Gaddafi exchanging death threats live on Arab TV! Yee hoo! Public spat mars Arab summit. (Hat tip: NC.) The acrimonious exchange, which was broadcast live across the region, began when Colonel Gaddafi addressed the delegates. He ...
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Brutally Honest Protest Sign Watch
Sat, Mar 1, 2003 at 1:24:59 pm PST
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E. Said vs. E. Nough
Sat, Mar 1, 2003 at 12:23:34 pm PST
E. Nough tears apart Edward Said’s latest heap of steaming effluvia.
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Netscape's Creator: Not an Idiot
Sat, Mar 1, 2003 at 12:11:36 pm PST
The father of the Internet browser, Marc Andreessen, is an anti-idiotarian. Politically, while he doesn't identify with the Republican Party, Andreessen said he has become more disillusioned with the Democrats, especially those leading the opposition to an invasion of Iraq. He said he supports the Bush administration's bid to overthrow ...
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Honest Protest Sign Watch
Sat, Mar 1, 2003 at 11:09:48 am PST
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Got a Big Fish
Sat, Mar 1, 2003 at 11:04:47 am PST
Excellent news from Pakistan, where Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the 9/11 plot, has been arrested.
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Demon or Thug?
Sat, Mar 1, 2003 at 10:13:15 am PST
New York Times writer Marlise Simons seems to have made it a personal mission to whitewash the problem of radical Islam in Europe. In her latest attempt, she adopts a respectful and admiring tone for a profile of radical Islamic Belgian thug Abou Jahjah, a former Hizb'Allah terrorist who is ...
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Moab Mayor Mortified
Sat, Mar 1, 2003 at 9:34:27 am PST
Moab, Utah, is famous for its rock formations and mountain bike trails. MOAB—Massive Ordnance Air Burst—is the Air Force’s new 21,000 pound bomb that packs the punch of a small nuclear weapon, the successor to the “daisy cutter.” The mayor of Moab is ashamed of the association, and has written to ...
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Arab League Bickers in Egypt
Sat, Mar 1, 2003 at 2:43:24 am PST
The dictators, cronies, and bag men of the Arab League are having a squabble fest in Egypt, whining and complaining and failing to agree on much of anything—except that they really hate Jews and will continue helping Palestinians kill as many as possible. "My expectation for the summit isn't much. ...
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French Shari'a Watch
Sat, Mar 1, 2003 at 2:16:25 am PST
Muslim immigrants from North Africa have brought many of their cultural traditions to the French cites; traditions like misogyny, violence, and rape: Girls Terrorized in France's Macho High-Rise Ghettos. Imprisoned behind yellowed curtains that hang limply at windows, they stay indoors to avoid the jeers, bullying and the ominous risk ...
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