LGF Archives: April 2003
Passports to Murder
Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 8:10:29 pm PDT
Here’s the British passport photo of the murderous animal who failed to blow up as planned at Mike’s Place in Tel Aviv, and is now on the loose somewhere in the Palestinian Authority. (Hat tip: Joe.) And here’s his accomplice who successfully exploded, committing another horrific atrocity in the name of ...
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Saudis Continue to Finance Terrorism
Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 7:12:34 pm PDT
Saudi Arabia has given more than $15 million dollars to the Palestinian Arab “government,” to help them continue with their sacred Jew-killin’. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has taken the necessary measures to transfer $15.4 million to the allocated account for the support of the Palestinian National Authority budget. In ...
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Indymedia Psychosis
Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 6:37:13 pm PDT
Want to see just how evil and anti-Semitic Bill Moyers’s pet project Indymedia has become? Then have a look at this article and related comments, about the suicide bombing of Mike’s Place in Tel Aviv: Zionazis Get Bombed. Don’t follow this link if you have high blood pressure. It’s disgusting beyond ...
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The New PA Security Ace
Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 6:19:30 pm PDT
Michael Freund has the number of Muhammad Dahlan, the new Palestinian “security ace.” Passover may be behind us, but there is one plague that continues to haunt much of the region: wishful thinking. And, if the past decade is any guide, it is an affliction that may prove as deadly ...
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A Really Big Fish
Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 5:48:31 pm PDT
We caught a big one today: Waleed bin Attash, a serious Islamic nutcase who helped organize the September 11 atrocities and the bombing of the USS Cole. Great, great news. Waleed bin Attash, also known as Tawfiq Attash or just Khallad, coordinated the activities of at least two of the ...
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Hamas Isn't Hiding Anything
Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 5:38:45 pm PDT
The Arab rejectionist murderers of Hamas are the only ones who are really being honest about the “roadmap.” Road map will cause inter-Palestinian strife: Hamas. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh says his radical Islamic group rejects the international peace "road map", which has been handed to both the Israelis and Palestinians ...
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LGFers Know How to Kvetch
Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 5:27:40 pm PDT
Sheesh! I go out for a few hours on a consulting call, and when I get back home ... more than 400 comments! Man, are you guys verbose or what. (Insert obnoxious smiley icon here.)
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The Anti-CAIR
Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 5:16:47 pm PDT
Here’s an interesting site emailed by LGF reader Mossley: Anti-CAIR International. Welcome to the home of Anti-CAIR (ACAIR). We are a group of Americans dedicated to exposing the truth about the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR, cair-net.org). The Council on American Islamic Relations is just one of many anti-American terrorist-sponsoring ...
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Saudis May Have Been 'A Little Harsh'
Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 11:20:30 am PDT
A British man arrested in Saudi Arabia after being the victim of a terrorist car bomb is suing the Saudi government, saying he was tortured to get him to confess to the bombing: Torture victim sues Saudis. (Hat tip: Victrade.) The writ names the Saudi ministry of the interior, led ...
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Tel Aviv Bomber Was British
Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:26:19 am PDT
The suicide bomber who attacked Mike’s Place in Tel Aviv was a British Muslim—and he had an accomplice, also British. They were apparently planning a double bombing, where the second mass murderer detonates as people flee the scene of the first. The man who carried out the suicide bombing late ...
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Road Map to Nowhere
Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 9:58:44 am PDT
Joshua Muravchik, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, makes it very clear in this excellent analysis that the “roadmap” is just a warmed-over Oslo, with even less chance of succeeding: The Road Map to Nowhere: Do we really need another doomed Mideast peace process? (Hat tip: Israpundit.)
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The True Face of the PA
Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 9:44:48 am PDT
Maybe supporters of the “roadmap” would like to explain how this lovely Palestinian video—showing right now on PA TV even as Arafat’s wonderful new puppet government poses for AP photographers—is “helpful” in advancing the “peace process?” Kill Jews of the Disputed Areas. Official Palestinian Authority [PA] TV has broadcast a ...
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Roadmap to a Town Called Murder
Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 9:04:00 am PDT
With the blood still on the floor in Mike’s Place in Tel Aviv, and dozens of innocent people fighting for their lives in Israeli hospitals with limbs blown off and nails and screws embedded in their bodies, the corrupt unelected bureaucrats of the European Union join blood-drenched hands with the ...
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Mad Mullahs Plan Nuclear Test
Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 8:42:21 am PDT
In an article about the necessity to fight for a free Iraq (because Iran will be fighting very hard for the opposite), Michael Ledeen reveals something truly disturbing: Even as we prepared to invade Iraq, the Iranian and Syrian dictators increased their bloody repression, desperately trying to stave off their ...
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More Millions Discovered in Baghdad
Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 8:33:22 am PDT
Another $200 million has been discovered hidden behind a false wall in a house in Baghdad. (Hat tip: Robert Hinkley.) Tell me again how awful the UN sanctions were for the poor, innocent Iraqis, as their “leaders” were hiding billions of dollars in their yards and houses, and living like degenerate ...
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Love Letter from London
Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 8:02:06 am PDT
This morning’s love letter comes from an LGF admirer in London, England, who used our email form to send the following well-composed and thoughtful missive, with the email address “suicidebomber@yid.com” and the IP address 195.107.47.212: you are f*cking jews. its a jewish site. you know you are all gonna die and end up ...
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Babe the Flying Pig
Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 11:17:44 pm PDT
When people I don’t know post mean things about me on their obscure weblogs, I just look at Babe the flying pig, and all’s right with the world.
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Iraqi Hero Granted Asylum
Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 10:51:31 pm PDT
Here’s a story to warm the crusty old heart of any bloodthirsty warmonger: the Iraqi lawyer who helped save PFC Jessica Lynch’s life has been given asylum in the United States. It really is nice to see that the US isn’t forgetting its friends.
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Support Daniel Pipes for USIP
Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 9:37:48 pm PDT
Here’s a petition you can sign to support the nomination and confirmation of Middle East scholar and terrorism expert Daniel Pipes to the Board of the United States Institute of Peace: Confirm Daniel Pipes to USIP Petition. I urge every one of our readers to sign this petition; it takes just ...
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A Message to the US
Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 5:44:39 pm PDT
Kathryn Jean Lopez at The Corner received a letter from a reader named “IDF Guy” that I think needs to be circulated widely, so I’m reprinting it here. The murdering barbarians who perpetrated today’s terrorist attack in Tel Aviv were almost certainly sending a message of hatred and death not ...
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At Least 5 Dead in Tel Aviv
Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 4:41:40 pm PDT
At Least 5 Die in Tel Aviv Suicide Blast. The bomb blew the front off the restaurant and demolished walls, doors and furniture inside. The owner of the restaurant, Gal Ganzman, his shirt covered with blood, said he was standing behind the bar when he heard the explosion. "I'm alive, ...
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Outrage of the Day
Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 4:10:31 pm PDT
Cuba, which in recent days has summarily executed three dissidents and sentenced dozens of others to long prison terms, has been elected—without opposition—to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. The US walked out of the meeting. And we should never return.
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And Again
Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 3:31:29 pm PDT
Not many details yet, but there has been another suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, near the US embassy. Tel Aviv area police are reporting many persons were injured in a suicide bombing attack in Mike's Cafe on Tel Aviv's Herbert Samuel Street, near the US Embassy a short time ago. ...
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Giving Saddam the Boot
Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 3:15:45 pm PDT
Well. Here’s something you don’t see every day. A creation by Iraqi artist Zerak Mera made from Iraqi army boots is seen where a statue of toppled Iraqi president Saddam Hussein once stood, in the center of Kirkuk, April 29, 2003. You know what? The Iraqis are gonna be just ...
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Two Views of Holocaust Remembrance Day
Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 2:21:59 pm PDT
Cox & Forkum commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day with a look at the powerful work of Jewish illustrator Arthur Szyk. Highly recommended. Meanwhile, the Palestinian Arabs chose this day to approve a Holocaust denying prime minister and his corrupt cabinet full of Fatah (Conquest in Arabic) members: Palestinian MPs Approve New Cabinet ...
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Betcha By Golly Wow
Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 2:09:32 pm PDT
Note to anyone tempted to believe the latest hooey that Saudi Arabia is trying to peddle to gullible Westerners, that they’re trying to moderate their words and actions: read this article to see just how flat-out bugshit insane these people really are: What Kind of a Plain-Jane Victory Is ...
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Al Qaeda Member Captured in Iraq
Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 1:37:23 pm PDT
Breaking news at CNN: Member of group with al Qaeda ties captured in Iraq... no details yet...
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Al-Sahaf Lives to Rant Again
Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 1:28:13 pm PDT
Baghdad Bob is alive! And he’s been trying to surrender to the non-existent US military in Baghdad... Iraq's former information minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf, who denied to the end the presence of US forces in Baghdad, was turned down by US troops after trying to turn himself in, said the ...
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New Anthrax Detail
Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 12:24:04 pm PDT
The caption for this Reuters photo of Brazilian health workers carrying the coffin of Egyptian Ibrahim Saved Soliman Ibrahim, who apparently died from anthrax, contains an interesting new detail I haven’t seen elsewhere. Brazilian health workers carry the coffin of Egyptian Ibrahim Saved Soliman Ibrahim, as it arrives in the ...
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Pro-Hamas Figure Reappears at AMC
Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 10:58:43 am PDT
After publicly and loudly disavowing their ties to former executive director Adurahman Alamoudi (in order to meet with FBI director Robert Mueller without having to answer uncomfortable questions), the American Muslim Council has quietly brought this openly pro-Hamas freakazoid back into the fold—as chairman of the AMC’s Imam Conference ...
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Actions Speak Louder Than
Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 10:39:06 am PDT
The United States military says, “So long, Saudi Arabia.” What do you know? For all the crazed conspiracy theories about US imperialism and hegemony, it really was about Iraq.
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Free Speech for Me, Not for Thee
Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 9:33:05 am PDT
Daniel Pipes is giving a lecture at the University of Wisconsin in Madison tonight, and the Muslim Students Association is freaking out in a big way. Here’s a vein-popping, eyeball-bulging, spittle-spewing rant in the student newspaper demanding that Pipes be censored for his “extreme Zionist” views: Spotlight hosts openly racist ...
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Abu Mazen: Black September Financier
Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 9:05:49 am PDT
In an article about Abu Daoud, mastermind of the Black September attack at the Munich Olympics, Sports Illustrated reveals that the financier of this attack was none other than the new Palestinian puppet prime minister, the Holocaust-denying “man of peace” known by his nom de guerre: Abu Mazen. Though he ...
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Apprehending Mr. Germ
Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 10:59:01 pm PDT
Another big catch today: the husband of Dr. Germ. DOHA, Qatar - The former Iraqi oil minister, Amir Rashid Muhammad al-Ubaydi, has surrendered to the U.S.-led coalition forces, the U.S. Central Command said.He surrendered Monday and is in coalition custody, the command said in a brief statement from Camp As ...
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Caught the Bastard
Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 9:46:00 pm PDT
The rotten bastard who spams referrer logs with disgusting pr0n sites hit us again tonight, and I got its IP address this time: 66.28.25.3 This IP is now banned from our site, and I will also be sending a complaint email to the abuse address for its ISP, Cogent Communications of Washington ...
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Road Map to Nowhere
Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 7:22:52 pm PDT
I have a major crush on Barbara Amiel after reading these two laser-like paragraphs in her latest article for the Telegraph: The road map has not officially been published but drafts have circulated. Produced by the "Quartet" of America, Russia, the EU and the UN, it is all that one ...
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Mahathir Mouths Off (Again)
Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 6:14:56 pm PDT
The idiotarian prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, often touted as a “moderate Muslim,” is slamming the US again. Notice how similar Mahathir’s ravings are to our own loony left’s party line; not to put too fine a point on it, but Mahathir is a barking moonbat of the first ...
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Mike Hawash Charged in Terror Investigation
Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 2:32:53 pm PDT
Do a Google search for Mike Hawash and you’ll get more than a thousand results, almost all from left-leaning sites with titles like “Free Mike Hawash,” followed by varying numbers of exclamation points. Today Mike Hawash was charged in Oregon with conspiracy to help six people accused of assisting al Qaeda ...
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VICTORY
Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 2:06:14 pm PDT
Another great Bill Whittle essay says that VICTORY begins at home.
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Lantos Offers Abu Mazen an Education
Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 1:55:10 pm PDT
Democrat Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor in the US Congress, has offered a guided tour of the Holocaust Museum to Palestinian puppet prime minister Abu Mazen. "I am fully aware of his past record on the Holocaust," Lantos said when asked at a Jerusalem press conference about Abbas' doctoral ...
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Egyptian Sailor Dies from Weaponized Anthrax
Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 11:41:57 am PDT
LGF reader Jheka emailed about this story. It gave me cold chills. If it turns out to be verifiable, this could be huge. And quite scary. Egyptian Sailor Dies in Brazil From Anthrax. He was on his way to Canada. BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) - A crew member of an Egyptian merchant ship has ...
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A Modern Jihad Genocide
Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 10:39:57 am PDT
Andrew Bostom writes about the monstrous campaign of genocide waged by the Turks against the Armenians in 1915, and points out that it was very much a jihad operation by Turkish Muslims: A Modern Jihad Genocide. The genocide of the Armenians was a jihad. No rayas took part in it. ...
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Mystery Signals from the Schtoopidverse
Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 9:58:43 am PDT
The latest dispatch from the Indymedia schtoopidverse, which was overtaken by a galaxy-sized schtoopidity-inducing field several years back and shows no sign of emerging, says that 9/11 was a hoax. (Hat tip: Laura B.) These people’s brains are wired very, very differently from those of normal humans. Oh, but excuse me; ...
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Perky Pop in Pakistan
Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 9:30:03 am PDT
Our ally Pakistan has a new growth industry: Hate-U.S. Songs. Clearly, music companies seem to have struck the right chord. For the recently produced cassettes are moving off the shelves faster than companies can replace them. "We sold audio cassettes on Iraq in the thousands," says the owner of Peshawar's ...
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Arafish Says...
Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 8:26:56 am PDT
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Poodles to Try Franks for War Crimes
Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 1:41:06 am PDT
More disgusting news from the land of chocolate poodles, where Belgium is planning to file war crimes charges with their international kangaroo court against General Tommy Franks and other top US military commanders. (Hat tip: ploome.) The complaint will state that coalition forces are responsible for the indiscriminate killing of ...
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The Writing On the Wall
Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 1:33:12 am PDT
The Appeasement Bloc (France, Germany, Begium, and Luxembourg) are meeting in Brussels to discuss a new military alliance that would compete with NATO. At a meeting in Brussels with the Prime Ministers of Belgium and Luxembourg, President Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder, the German Chancellor, want to clear the way for ...
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Saddam's Cash
Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 9:55:21 pm PDT
Stephen F. Hayes writes about the Saddam regime’s blatant bribery of politicians and journalists; Gorgeous George Galloway wasn’t the only one on the take, not by a long shot: Saddam's Cash.
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The Real Shari'a
Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 8:48:15 pm PDT
Shari'a, up close and very personal. (WARNING: very graphic images.)
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Uday's Iron Maiden
Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 8:10:01 pm PDT
In the countries of the West, “Iron Maiden” is a mediocre heavy metal band that panders to adolescent torture fantasies, selling more than 50 million albums, getting rich, and living in mansions in the British countryside. In Iraq, the Iron Maiden was a very real nightmare tool of torture used by ...
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More French Collusion Revealed
Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 6:51:40 pm PDT
The intelligence floodgates are opening wide, and evidence of French collusion with Saddam Hussein’s monstrous regime is pouring out. New documents found by the Telegraph in Baghdad’s foreign ministry show that France worked with the Iraqi secret service to undermine a Paris conference held by the prominent human rights group ...
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Celebrity Death Match on C-SPAN2
Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 12:14:01 pm PDT
Another show later today on C-SPAN2 is going to feature Christopher Hitchens vs. crypto-Marxist idiotarian LA Times columnist Robert Scheer: C-SPAN: Full Schedule. Don’t miss this one; expect fireworks.
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Syrian Liar on C-SPAN
Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 11:44:35 am PDT
And here is the liar from Syria, whitewashing Hizb'Allah and their occupation of Lebanon: C-SPAN.
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Middle East Books Panel
Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 11:10:53 am PDT
The Middle East Books panel from Los Angeles is on C-SPAN right now, featuring Michael Oren, author of Six Days of War. (Hat tip: Brenda Walker.) This is getting interesting; Michael Oren just said that the Arab world needs to wean itself from its addiction to blaming others—and up popped ...
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Poonawalla Pile-On
Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 10:26:50 am PDT
Judith Weiss has a summary of just about every post on just about every weblog about Aziz Poonawalla’s loony accusations of Israeli “Weapons of Mass Genocide.” (Accusations he still has not recanted, by the way, preferring instead to whine about “persecution.”)
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Germans Play Armageddon
Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 10:12:38 am PDT
A German company has been caught trying to ship aluminum tubes for enriching uranium to North Korea, aboard a French ship: German Man Accused in Nuke Component Sale. BERLIN - The manager of a German company has been charged with trying to ship to China components that could have been ...
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No Democracy Yet, But Plenty of Whiskey
Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 9:53:00 am PDT
Rosie DiManno says Iraqis are cutting loose in Baghdad: Liberated Baghdad streets awash in booze, smokes. (Hat tip: M. Simon.) Two weeks ago, American troops eagerly traded their MREs — Meals Ready to Eat (or, in grunt parlance, Meals Rejected by Ethiopians) — for individual cigarettes, none so coveted as ...
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Syria: A Nice Place to Raise Your Kids
Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 9:06:00 am PDT
Syria has sent their smoothest liar to the United States to try to convince people that Hizb'Allah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad are not terrorists, that Syria would never give shelter to Iraqi fugitives, and that Syria is just a warm fuzzy teddy bear of a country: Syria launches image-mending campaign ...
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Abdullah Whines, Blames
Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 8:55:40 am PDT
King Abdullah of Jordan says Arabs will never have democracy—and (surprise!) it’s all Israel’s fault: Jordan's Abdullah: Arab-Israeli conflict blocks Arab democracy. "With the cloud of the Israeli-Palestinian, Israeli-Arab issue hanging over our heads, we'll never have the secure, stable atmosphere, not only in Jordan, but throughout the region, to ...
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It's a Puppet Show!
Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 8:33:57 am PDT
Time for the latest act in the Palestinian puppet show—where Abu Mazen, in typical Palestinian Arab fashion, is overplaying his hand: Abbas Says to Shun Talks Abroad if Arafat Isolated. RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian prime minister-designate Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday he would not visit foreign capitals to ...
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NRO Hacked!
Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 8:18:59 am PDT
Oops... National Review Online has been hacked. The only thing showing on their home page is the message: Hacked by DarkHunter ... Freedom for palestian and Iraq ... gr33tz to #USG and #teso channels (Looks like they’re on a Microsoft server...)
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Tariq Aziz: Coalition Mole?
Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 9:39:46 pm PDT
Now here’s a twist in the Iraq story that could have come straight out of a Le Carré spy novel: Was Tariq Aziz the coalition's mole? (Hat tip: Roger L. Simon.) ...yesterday the favourable surrender terms agreed between coalition commanders and Aziz prompted speculation that Saddam's trusted foreign policy adviser ...
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Hanson at Naval Institute
Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 9:03:31 pm PDT
Victor Davis Hanson is interviewed by the US Naval Institute. For our regular readers, that’s probably all I need to say. Go ye and read of it, for it is good.
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France Loves Osama, Part Deux
Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 7:11:52 pm PDT
For the readers who tried to brush off our entry about French telecom companies offering cell phone logos of Osama Bin Laden (you know those crazy French kids, they’ll rebel against anything), please explain this entire category of OBL logos offered by another French telecom company. (Bout de chapeau: Merde ...
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French Perfidy Update
Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 6:50:18 pm PDT
And the hits just keep on comin'. In the latest bombshell from Baghdad, documents discovered in the Iraqi foreign ministry reveal that France was giving regular reports to Iraq on their private dealings with American officials. The first Iraqi files to emerge documenting French help for the regime show that ...
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Religion of Peace Kills 14, Wounds 3
Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 6:39:20 pm PDT
Attack on Kashmir radio station, other violence leaves 14 dead. The new deaths came on a second day of bloody violence in the region, after 18 people were killed on Friday, including six in a suicide attack. Two Indian security men and three Muslim rebels were killed Saturday in a ...
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Revolution's Grievous Wake
Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 3:54:14 pm PDT
The Weekly Standard has uncovered an old copy of Ye Newe York Times from November 11, 1781, bemoaning the lack of a Constitution three weeks after the victory at Yorktown. Some things never change.
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The Al Qaeda Link
Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 2:57:23 pm PDT
Britain’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper has discovered documents showing that Iraq invited an envoy from Osama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terror gang to visit Iraq in 1998, in order to set up a meeting with Bin Laden himself: UK Newspaper Says Documents Link Bin Laden to Iraq. The paper said the ...
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Velvet President
Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 1:47:49 pm PDT
A great piece by Matt Welch on a very great man, former Czech president Vaclav Havel: Velvet President: Why Vaclav Havel is our era's George Orwell and more. Havel is a short and rumpled man, even in a sharp presidential suit. He’s a disaster at press conferences, wiggling his ...
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Pork Takes Wing
Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 1:35:57 pm PDT
In response to the entry below, titled “The Anti-Militant Muslim View,” LGF reader Anant comments: Wow, a Pakistani who DOESN'T support Jihad in Kashmir! What a find! I guess I'll be seeing pigs flying pretty soon...
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Palestinians Support Murder
Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 11:46:50 am PDT
The latest poll released by the Jerusalem Media & Communication Centre, a Palestinian Arab organization, shows that only a very small minority of Palestinian citizens believe in non-violence; but a large majority (65.3%) support continuing the stupidfada, 60.5% support military operations inside the Green Line and 59.9% support suicide bombing ...
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Internecine Warfare in Ain el-Hilweh
Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 10:55:00 am PDT
There are no Jews near the Palestinian Arab “refugee camp” of Ain el-Hilweh in Lebanon—so the Palestinians have to resort to killing each other (or trying to): Four Blasts Rip Into Lebanon Camp. BEIRUT (Reuters) - Four bombs ripped through Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp overnight on Saturday, ending a ...
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The Anti-Militant Muslim View
Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 9:27:10 am PDT
Here’s a great letter to the Washington Post from Tashbih Sayyed, a Muslim and editor in chief of Pakistan Today, responding to the WaPo’s smear job on Daniel Pipes and supporting his nomination to the US Institute for Peace: The Anti-Militant Muslim View. To begin with, "Muslims" are not a ...
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Shapiro Whitewashes Corrie
Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 9:09:57 am PDT
Last Saturday, Eric Rozenmann of the excellent media watch site CAMERA wrote a fact-filled letter to the Washington Post about “peace activist” Rachel Corrie and her appalling sympathy for Palestinian terrorism: Last E-Mails of an Indoctrinated Activist. Corrie claims, "I am in the midst of a genocide which I am ...
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Staged and Exploited Martyrdom
Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 8:34:59 am PDT
Here’s an in-depth look at the case of Mohammed Al-Dura, the Palestinian boy who became the poster child for the disastrous intifada, by David Kupelian: Famous 'martyrdom' of Palestinian boy 'staged'. Kupelian writes that not only was the incident staged by Palestinians, French media was complicit in the entire ...
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We Got Mail!
Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 6:12:58 pm PDT
Here’s today’s love letter from the loony left. marysc@aol.com, who I assume is a woman (although you never know with these freaks) puts her caps lock key on STUN and rants: THANK GOD THIS IS AMERICA AND NAZI LIKE YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO SILENCE THOSE OF US WHO ...
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The Definition of Insanity
Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 5:40:14 pm PDT
Colin Powell is preparing to go on another tour of the Middle East, although he hasn’t quite committed to visiting Israel and the disputed territories yet. The last time Powell went to Israel, the Palestinian Arabs demonstrated their commitment to peace by sending a woman to blow herself up at a ...
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France Loves OBL
Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 3:20:24 pm PDT
Merde in France reports that French kids are downloading pictures of one of their idols to display on their cell phones: Osama Bin Laden. Don’t believe it? Here’s one of the French telecom companies offering OBL logos for downloading.
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Saddam Aide: Galloway Documents Genuine
Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 9:49:35 am PDT
Saddam Hussein’s former head of protocol, Haitham Rashid Wihaib, says the documents found by the Telegraph implicating British MP George Galloway in a bribery scheme are 100% genuine. (Hat tip: Susan.) Sitting in a cafe in central London, a world away from Saddam's palace where he spent 13 years arranging ...
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Time Is on Our Side
Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 9:41:27 am PDT
Victor Davis Hanson is optimistic about the future of Iraq: Time Is on Our Side. ...for the first time in decades, time is on our side in that part of the world. Most would laugh at such optimism. But billions of dollars in world aid will soon pour into Baghdad, ...
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Poonawalla Spreads Blood Libel
Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 9:35:10 am PDT
Aziz Poonawalla, a blogger who seems to be respected by many but whose weblog I never read after a very offensive post following a suicide bombing in Israel (a post I couldn’t find there when I searched for it later), has gone way over the line by promoting a disgusting ...
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The Al Qaeda Link
Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 8:34:40 am PDT
More excellent news; a former chief of the Mukhabarat (Iraqi intelligence) who reportedly met with Osama Bin Laden has been grabbed: Former Iraqi Spy Chief Taken Into Custody. A former Iraqi intelligence official accused of links to al-Qaida has been captured by U.S. forces, American officials said Friday. The announcement ...
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The Root Cause
Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 6:24:57 pm PDT
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Referrer Spamming
Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 5:48:56 pm PDT
Sorry to any readers who use our “Referrers” page to see who’s talking about LGF, but I’ve had to remove it from public view because we’re suffering a serious attack from pr0n spammers. If the idiot who’s doing it is reading this entry, I’d like to urge you to F ...
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Birds of a Feather
Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 5:23:53 pm PDT
Look who’s sticking up for Saddam’s humble servant George Galloway; none other than former UN weapons inspector turned manic apologist for Iraqi brutality, Scott Ritter: Galloway's a crook - how convenient. (Hat tip: Susan.) The most interesting thing about Ritter’s pile of Guardian rubbish is that he included his email ...
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Egyptian Love Letter
Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 4:35:47 pm PDT
An LGF admirer from Egypt found us this afternoon by searching Yahoo for nuclear weapons of egypt, which led him to this LGF entry from last year: Egypt Wants to Join the Club. He was so enraged by what he found there that he emailed me the following seething love ...
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Aziz Nabbed?
Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 1:38:14 pm PDT
BREAKING NEWS: Just heard on the radio that we’ve captured Saddam’s number two man, Tareq Aziz. Nothing online yet, but this could be fantastic news. UPDATE: Yes!
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NK Brinksmanship
Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 1:28:02 pm PDT
North Korea admits having nuclear weapons, and they say they’re going to “prove” it ... soon. A source said Gen. Li Gun, North Korea's representative to the talks in Beijing, China, told U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly "blatantly and boldly" that the country has nuclear weapons and then ...
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Stripped Chix Pic
Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 12:13:49 pm PDT
The Blixie Chix have now joined the very stupidest of the “anti-war” crowd, the ones who think removing their clothes like hyperactive two-year olds is a powerful political statement.
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Shock and Awe
Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 10:05:41 am PDT
I had to take a screenshot of this amazing caption on the front page of today’s Guardian, because an earth-shaking moment like this may never come again. Terrorist. Without sneer quotes. Let’s see how long it stays there.
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Straight from Afghanistan
Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 9:14:24 am PDT
Reader Mark Young emailed about this collection of incredible photographs by Mustafa Rasuli, showing a side of Afghanistan that we never see in Western media. Highly recommended.
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AP/Reuters Join NK in Slamming US
Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 8:58:33 am PDT
The anti-Americanism of the Associated Press and Reuters is amazingly blatant in their latest series of wire stories about North Korea. AP: North Korea Is Wary of U.S. Intentions. BEIJING - North Korea accused the United States of leading the region toward war Thursday in an apparent attempt by the ...
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A True Human Shield
Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 8:39:48 am PDT
In an act of selfless courage, an Israeli security guard sacrificed his life today to prevent a Palestinian Arab from reaching a crowded train platform and committing mass murder. An Israeli security guard died Thursday while blocking a suicide bomber from reaching a busy train platform in central Israel. Fourteen ...
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Chix Whine, Powell Warns
Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 7:31:36 pm PDT
The Blixie Chix whine that they were, you know, like, misunderstood: "At that moment, on the eve of war, I had a lot of questions that I felt were unanswered," Maines said. "I think the way I said it was disrespectful. The wording I used, the way I said it, ...
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We Got Mail!
Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 5:33:52 pm PDT
An LGF admirer from New Brunswick, New Jersey dropped this little love note in our Inbox this afternoon, with the subject “Islamic Haters”: You f*cking *ssholes. I can't wait to see the day you *ssholes run out of cash and crash. Beggars! Dear ask_dougboy@hotmail.com: Thank you for the thoughtful comments. I ...
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France's Headscarf Problem
Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:33:12 am PDT
Here’s an excellent piece by Theodore Dalrymple on France's Headscarf Problem, a case of a deeply intolerant, supremacist belief system cunningly using the freedoms of secular society to work toward the destruction of those very freedoms. (Hat tip: Brenda Walker.) France’s headscarf problem illustrates the limited ability of abstract principle ...
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A Saddamite Plaything
Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:11:29 am PDT
Mark Steyn hits the nail on the head in a new column about the destruction of the Iraqi National Museum: Iraq's past was just a Saddamite plaything. (Hat tip: Andy.) Boris Johnson called the Iraqi museum's contents "the equivalent of the Crown Jewels, things that were meant eternally to incarnate ...
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Oil for Food = Money for UN
Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 9:21:43 am PDT
Claudia Rosett has an op-ed in the New York Times about the appallingly corrupt United Nations “oil for palaces” program: Oil, Food and a Whole Lot of Questions. The oil-for-food program is no ordinary relief effort. Not only does it involve astronomical amounts of money, it also operates with alarming ...
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Hey Macarena!
Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 8:55:10 am PDT
Amazing! I am flabbergasted! Flummoxed! Who could ever have predicted that the world’s oldest terrorist would reach a last minute agreement with his newly appointed Holocaust-denying prime minister! What would we do without Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman and his incredible last minute mediation skills? Imagine that! At the very last ...
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Religious Child Abuse
Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 8:22:10 am PDT
After years of being prevented by Saddam Hussein, Shi'ites in Iraq are hacking their children’s heads with swords again. (Troll pre-emption: oh yeah? What about circumcision? And don’t forget the Phillipine Christians! You bigot!)
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Islamic Radicals On Campus
Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 2:24:18 am PDT
Erick Stakelbeck has a frightening article at FrontPage about the Saudi-funded Islamic group that has its tentacles deep inside hundreds of universities in the United States and Canada—the Muslim Students Association: Islamic Radicals On Campus. Although it presents itself as a benevolent, faith-based campus organization, the MSA in reality serves ...
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More Millions Found in Baghdad
Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 2:12:51 am PDT
Another $112 million in US currency has been found in an upper class neighborhood in Baghdad, hidden in dog kennels. (Hat tip: Serenity.) BAGHDAD - U.S. soldiers found $112 million in U.S. currency sealed inside seven dog kennels in a wealthy Baghdad neighborhood of mansions and rose gardens where top ...
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Palestinian Reality
Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 7:36:32 pm PDT
Ralph Peters tells the unvarnished politically incorrect truth in this column about Palestinian Reality. The money quote: The Arab world is as addicted to blame as any junkie was ever addicted to heroin.
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Peaceful Religion Watch
Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 6:37:31 pm PDT
The sheikhs, imams, and mullahs of the Arab world are having a hard time figuring out why Allah didn’t shake the ground under our feet, or show us a black day, or freeze the blood in our veins. After all, they asked for it every week, for years, right? Hey ...
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Armchair Savants
Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 5:46:26 pm PDT
Martin Kramer makes a great point about the looting and destruction of Iraq’s archaeological treasures: But since Egypt has been cited as a metaphor for Iraq, let's take it one step further. Napoleon set out to conquer and occupy Egypt in 1798. There were no journalists, but his ships did ...
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France Surrenders Again
Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 5:03:11 pm PDT
France is beginning to backpedal (something they have a lot of experience with, after losing the last, oh, 5,000 or so Tours de France). The land of cheesy weasels is now proposing a “suspension” of the UN sanctions on Iraq. Of course, they want to attach conditions to it—they want ...
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War=Bad! Peace=Good!
Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 4:56:07 pm PDT
Jackie at au currant also entered some funny spoof posters in the Incredibly Silly Peace Contest we wrote about yesterday. And Melanie Goux, who ran the contest, has now replaced one of the spoof posters with a quote from America-hating moonbat John Pilger—probably the single most dishonest “columnist” writing for ...
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Saddam's Little Helper
Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 3:46:29 pm PDT
Here’s an op-ed at the Telegraph about the allegations that British MP George Galloway took bribe money from Saddam Hussein, and what it might mean for the “anti-war” movement: Saddam's little helper. (Hat tip: Dave R.) It is hard to think of a graver setback to the British anti-war movement. ...
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Saudis Still Funding PLO Terror
Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 2:30:38 pm PDT
Our good friends the Saudis are making a big show of changing their attitudes lately, after a little birdy (actually, a large eagle) delivered a wake-up call from Iraq. But you shall know them by their deeds, and today they delivered a cool half million dollars to the mujahideen (otherwise ...
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Good Cop, Bad Cop
Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 12:48:10 pm PDT
More maneuvering from Arafat and Abu Mazen; now they’re floating the story that good cop Abu Mazen wants to disarm the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, but that pesky bad cop Arafish won’t let him: Arafat rejects plan by Abu Mazen to disarm Fatah militia. Most reports have focused on Abu ...
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Daniel Pipes Day
Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 11:44:09 am PDT
Several articles have appeared today defending the nomination of Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes to the US Institute for Peace, in response to the scurrilous attacks from the Washington Post and the usual panoply of Islamist front groups. Robert Spencer: Dr. Daniel Pipes and His Critics. Art Moore: Muslims try to quash ...
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Update on Downtime
Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 11:30:20 am PDT
If you had trouble getting on LGF for a little while this morning, it’s because a Time Warner Telecom node was undergoing a Denial of Service attack; it was not directed at LGF specifically. Things are back up to speed now.
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They Can't Help Revealing Themselves
Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 11:01:38 am PDT
Hussein Shobokshi of the Arab News probably thought the title for his latest disgusting anti-Semitic rant was terribly witty: Protocols of the Elders of Neocons. In this weekly telephone report Paul Wolfowitz expressed his anxiety to Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister about the situation in the Middle East. “How are ...
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Timing Is Everything
Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 8:36:15 am PDT
Michael Ledeen writes about the nefarious intentions of the mad mullahs of Iran, who already have a well-organized plan to instill in Iraq the same type of Islamic government that has transformed Iran from a progressive society into a third-world hellhole. (Hat tip: Montaigne’s Cat.) The Iranians have infiltrated more ...
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Yes Yes For Islamic Government
Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 7:45:47 am PDT
Some Iraqis are eager to plunge back into the Dark Ages. The forces of schtoopidity are strong within these people. Would it be insensitive to point out that these morons wouldn’t even be able to celebrate their barbaric ritual if it weren’t for the United States? Yes? OK, never mind.
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Religion of Blood
Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 7:38:56 am PDT
It’s medieval self-mutilation time again in Iraq, and the Shi'ites are really getting into it. This kind of thing is why I voted NO in our current poll. (Troll pre-emption: Christians do this too, in the Phillipines! And don’t forget the running of the bulls in Pamplona! You bigot!)
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Corrie Propaganda Motherlode
Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 6:05:26 pm PDT
If you’re wondering why I keep returning to the topic of Rachel Corrie, who lost her life protecting smuggler’s tunnels in Rafah—it’s because of pages like this, that make it clear how valuable this terrorist supporter’s death is to the Palestinian propaganda machine, with dozens and dozens of links to ...
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Galloway Was Bribed
Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 5:56:50 pm PDT
British “anti-war” politician George Galloway was in Saddam's pay, according to secret documents obtained by the Telegraph. Wow. (Hat tip: Susan.) George Galloway, the Labour backbencher, received money from Saddam Hussein's regime, taking a slice of oil earnings worth at least 375,000 British pounds a year, according to Iraqi intelligence ...
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On the Wrong Side Again
Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 4:20:01 pm PDT
A Palestinian woman holds a picture of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and stands next to a girl holding a picture of captured Palestinian terrorist Abu Abbas during a demonstration in front of the United Nations headquarters in Gaza City, Monday, April 21, 2003. The Associated Press’s sneer quote generator ...
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Precursor Chemicals Found
Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 3:59:37 pm PDT
U.S. Finds Suspicious Chemicals in Iraq. U.S. weapons experts in Iraq have discovered ingredients and equipment that can be used to make a chemical weapon, U.S. military officials confirmed Monday.The discovery south of Baghdad was made several days ago with the help of an Iraqi scientist who claimed to have ...
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Road Map to Murderville
Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 11:37:33 am PDT
Yasser Arafat and Abu Mazen are staging a very public squabble, over Abu Mazen’s appointment of Mohammed Dahlan as security chief. To me, the amazing thing about this is the way the entire world seems to be accepting this charade at face value. Abbas, the Palestine Liberation Organization second-in-command who ...
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Please Stand Up?
Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 10:53:09 am PDT
It’s time for some comic relief around here: The Real Hussein. (Hat tip: Jheka.)
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What the Hell is Wrong With These People?
Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 9:27:06 am PDT
Wondering how low the peace creeps will go? As mass graves and torture chambers are being discovered in Iraq, the “anti-war” crowd takes the side of another murdering, torturing dictator. I guess hating George Bush takes precedence over simple human decency. (Hat tip: Barak M., via Andrew Sullivan.) UPDATE: Someone has been ...
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Mass Graves in Baghdad
Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 8:44:17 am PDT
Another mass grave of murdered political prisoners discovered in Baghdad. (Hat tip: Susan.) Nearly 1,000 political prisoners slaughtered by the Iraqi regime are buried in secret graves at a cemetery on the outskirts of Baghdad, news agency AFP has reported.Other secret cemeteries in the city could take the number of ...
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The Job Ahead
Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 8:02:34 am PDT
An excellent essay from Stanley Kurtz looks at the difficulty of bringing a democratic political system to Iraq, using as reference points the experiences of the US in post-war Japan, and the British experience in 19th century India: The Job Ahead. The essential step toward building a democratic Iraq after ...
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French Minister Booed at Muslim Conference
Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 1:54:59 am PDT
France’s little experiment in appeasing radical Muslims by giving them a voice in the French government is not going well. Insert expression of faux surprise here. After the UOIF (linked to the extremist Muslim Brotherhood, which is banned in Egypt but not France) made an unexpectedly strong showing in the first election ...
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Tell Me Again About the Sanctions
Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 10:18:43 pm PDT
Iraqis accustomed to a life of deprivation and poverty are shocked and horrified to discover the truth about the Saddam Hussein clan’s extravagant, depraved lifestyles: Saddam's Family Lifestyles Shock Iraqis. BAGHDAD, Iraq - The blacksmith paused from his looting of the palace to gape at a door a foot thick, ...
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An Iraqi Scientist Talks
Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 9:33:25 pm PDT
According to New York Times reporter Judith Miller, an Iraqi chemical weapons scientist has told a military team that Iraq destroyed unconventional weapons equipment shortly before the start of the Iraq War, and also revealed Iraqi links to Syria and Al Qaeda: Illicit Arms Kept Till Eve of War, an ...
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Hizb'Allah on 60 Minutes
Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 7:20:07 pm PDT
Go ye and read this article at CBS News about Hizb'Allah. This America-hating, Jew-hating Islamist group is well-organized, well-funded (from Iran, to the tune of $100 million a year), and has infiltrated the United States and Canada to a frightening degree: The A-Team Of Terrorists. We simply cannot afford to ...
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Holiday Greetings
Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 6:06:55 pm PDT
Happy Easter and Happy Passover to our many treasured readers. And a big LGF thank you to the IDF, who prevented another horrific Passover attack this year by intercepting a group of Islamic Jihad terrorists. The Islamic Jihad terrorist Amar Ahmed Muhmad Mabruk turned himself in this afternoon to IDF ...
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Corrie Propaganda Continues
Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 2:42:45 pm PDT
Efforts to canonize ISM terrorist supporter Rachel Corrie are continuing; I have some sympathy for her parents, who sound like well-meaning but naive and deluded people. But this AP release shamefully recycles the long-debunked lies of the pro-Palestinian, pro-terrorist ISM. (Hat tip: Melissa M.) CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The parents of ...
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Islamists Hate Education
Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 9:46:58 am PDT
The Religion of Peace™ is doing everything it can to prevent Afghan children from learning to think for themselves: Attacks on Afghan schools escalate. (Hat tip: M. Simon.) SHEIK MOHAMMADI, Afghanistan -- The men showed up at the end of the party celebrating the new school. They broke the windows, ...
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French Shari'a Watch
Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 9:10:33 am PDT
The BBC paints an idyllic picture of an Islamic institution deep in the heart of France, run by a former Iraqi nuclear scientist: France's Islamic heartland. (Hat tip: Victrade.) In the heart of what the French call "La France profonde" (deepest France) - amid the herds of cream-coloured cattle and ...
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Lessons From the Fall
Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 8:39:45 am PDT
Here’s a great new column from Dr. Bala Ambati at the Duke University Chronicle: Lessons from the fall of Iraq.
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The Tip of the Iceberg
Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 3:30:55 am PDT
We all suspected that after the fall of Saddam, revelations about the complicity of France and Germany in his foul regime would pour out. Well, here they come; and it’s going to be even worse than we thought. German spies offered help to Saddam in run-up to war. They show ...
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Iraqis Back at Work, NYT Glum
Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 3:15:57 am PDT
Barely a month after the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the people of Iraq are finally out from under the boot of a monstrous dictator and are beginning to return to work. Most would call this a stunning success. But leave it to the Old Grey Lady to find the ...
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Peacenik Inaction Cards
Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 3:03:10 am PDT
LGF reader PDM has outdone himself with these satirical Peacenik Inaction Cards (Iraqi Oppression Series). Collect the whole set!
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Iraqi Art Recovered
Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 2:55:39 am PDT
Jordanian customs officials have seized 42 paintings believed to have been stolen from Iraq’s National Museum. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) Border officials seized the paintings earlier this week from unidentified people entering Jordan from Iraq's western desert, officials familiar with the matter said, confirming a newspaper report. It wasn't clear what ...
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Doomed at Liftoff
Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 7:03:40 pm PDT
New data released by NASA shows that the space shuttle Columbia was almost certainly doomed at liftoff. (Hat tip: M. Simon.) The evidence comes from an old magnetic tape recorder that is part of the Orbiter Experiment Support System, sources said.It shows an unusual temperature increase in a key sensor ...
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Liberation
Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 6:29:55 pm PDT
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Hundreds of Millions Found in Iraq
Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 5:58:18 pm PDT
Two Army sergeants searching for saws to clear away branches blocking their Humvee stumbled onto an amazing discovery—more than half a billion US dollars, hidden in sealed-up cottages in an upper class Baghdad neighborhood: Soldiers Stumble on Outrageous Fortune. The sergeants tore down a cinder-block and concrete barricade at the ...
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WaPo Opposes Pipes Nomination
Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 9:39:53 am PDT
The gutless ostrich known as the Washington Post comes out against the nomination of Daniel Pipes to the U.S. Institute of Peace: Fueling a Culture Clash. MANY MUSLIMS received the news that the White House had nominated scholar Daniel Pipes to, of all places, the U.S. Institute of Peace as ...
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Zimbabwe Atrocities Ignored by UN
Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 9:10:01 am PDT
As the world focuses on the conflict in the Middle East, Jacques Chirac’s dictator friend Robert Mugabe has unleashed a reign of unprecedented terror against political opponents in Zimbabwe. (Hat tip: Jewels.) The 79-year-old President marked the 23rd anniversary of independence yesterday with a speech in which he warned that ...
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Post Office Dhimmitude
Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 8:42:42 am PDT
The United States Post Office has a rather curious restriction on items that can be mailed to military members serving overseas in Operation Iraqi Freedom. E2. Any matter containing religious materials contrary to Islamic faith or depicting nude or seminude persons, pornographic or sexual items, or nonauthorized political materials is ...
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Update on Daniel Pipes' Nomination
Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 6:54:30 pm PDT
One of our readers received the following email from Senator Dianne Feinstein, in response to his message of support for President Bush’s nomination of Dr. Daniel Pipes to the United States Institute of Peace. Your representatives are listening, folks, but the Islamists are doing their best to drown us out. -------------------------------------------------------------- Dear ...
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Fifth Column Web Hosting
Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 6:28:20 pm PDT
Aaron Weisburd tracks down another Islamic web host specializing in jihad sites—operating in New Jersey.
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Yassin Gets Clue
Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 6:26:14 pm PDT
Sheikh Yassin gets it. The founder of Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Thursday the arrest of Palestinian terror leader Abu Abbas by U.S. forces in Iraq suggested U.S. forces were now targeting leaders of a Palestinian uprising against Israel. "It (the arrest of Abu Abbas) indicates that America is ...
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NK Brain Drain
Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 2:43:19 pm PDT
An incredible story at the Weekend Australian says a secret operation has led to the defection of almost two dozen top North Korean scientists: N Korean scientists defect. (Hat tip: Tim Blair.) A SWATH of North Korea's military and scientific elite, among them key nuclear specialists, has defected to the ...
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Oleaginous
Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 2:34:23 pm PDT
The “it’s all about oooiiilllll!” argument is so tiresome by now that I wish I could reach through my monitor screen and choke the idiots who insist on regurgitating it over and over, as if their irrational effluvia were wisdom from on high. A new column by Christopher Hitchens does a ...
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Peaceful Religion Seething in Iraq
Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 9:47:08 am PDT
The Washington Post reports that thousands of Iraqi Muslims poured out of mosques today, screaming anti-American slogans. The Post says “pro-Islam slogans” following “Friday prayers,” without making the obvious connection that the “prayers” were the reason for this demonstration. Clearly, the imams in Iraq are still up to their usual ...
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Our Allies the Saudis
Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 8:47:36 am PDT
Matt Welch has a good post on the disturbing ties between the Bush White House and the corrupt House of Saud. As much as I believe President Bush is doing a terrific job in the war on terror, his apparent reluctance to deal with Saudi Arabia and the Wahhabist ideology ...
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Dead Man Says What?
Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 7:33:01 am PDT
Today Abu Dhabi television showed a video, supposedly shot on April 9, of someone they claimed was Saddam Hussein. Walking through a crowd of armed people and shaking hands. Yeah, right. The Iraqi ambassador to Belgrade, however, says all contact with Saddam and his goons stopped abruptly after the bombing of the ...
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The David Horowitz Interview
Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 6:24:43 pm PDT
John Hawkins interviews the left’s most hated right wing icon (because he used to be one of them), David Horowitz. Guess whose blog he reads? (Another person reviled by the left, who used to be one of their fellow travellers, otherwise known as yours truly.)
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Your Attention, Please
Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 6:03:13 pm PDT
Cox & Forkum hit the nail on the head.
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Mass Graves in Iraq
Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 4:14:21 pm PDT
More than a quarter mile of unmarked graves found near Kirkuk: Unmarked Graves Testify Silently to Iraq's Decades of Grief. IRKUK, Iraq, April 17 — The mounds stretch in rows for more than a quarter-mile across the hard, cracked earth at the edge of an industrial park here. Many are ...
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EU to Iraq: What's the Rush?
Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 11:01:54 am PDT
Washington has requested that the United Nations lift its sanctions on Iraq, so that sales of oil can help pay for reconstruction as soon as possible. But at the European Union summit in Greece, the leaders of the Axis of Weasels are making it clear, once again, that they simply ...
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What's On Arafat's Desk?
Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 9:44:35 am PDT
It’s been a while since we got a glimpse of Arafat’s inner sanctum. The scenario is depressingly unchanged, so much so that I’m beginning to suspect it’s actually an exhibit at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum. Towering stack of unfinished paperwork (red binder not visible this time): check. Bizarre religious fetish objects (cross ...
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Islamic Extremists In Our Schools
Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 8:55:57 am PDT
While our attention has been focused on the war in Iraq, Islamist front group CAIR has not stopped its determined efforts to infiltrate and corrupt American educational systems. Joe Kaufman writes about a particularly disturbing example, in the Broward County public school system: Bringing Islamic Extremists Into Our Schools. A ...
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Museum Looters Had Keys
Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 8:38:23 am PDT
The looting of museums in Baghdad was apparently not just the act of a random mob; some of the robbers had keys to Iraqi vaults. "It looks as if part of the looting was a deliberate planned action," said McGuire Gibson, a University of Chicago professor and president of the ...
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Bernard Lewis in the Atlantic
Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 7:59:42 am PDT
The Atlantic has a brilliant essay by Mideast scholar Bernard Lewis on the clash between Christian and Muslim civilizations, and the evolution of religious tolerance: I'm Right, You're Wrong, Go To Hell. (Hat tip: Wild Justice.) Here’s a paragraph to give you the flavor of it, but you’ll be missing ...
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Solidarity With Terrorists
Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 7:43:01 am PDT
Here’s a great piece by Brian Sayre on the extremist pro-Palestinian group called the International Solidarity Movement; the group responsible for sending deluded anti-American students to the Palestinian Authority, to defend terrorists with their self-professed “white privilege:” Solidarity With Terrorists. Some of the International Solidarity Movement's tactics are old. In ...
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Political Shock and Awe
Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 7:27:06 am PDT
Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger on the lessons of the Iraq War for the Middle East: Political Shock and Awe. ...the longer-run strategic meaning transcends the essentially three-week war itself. The outcome will alter the strategic--and psychological--map of the Middle East.The war has most dramatically conveyed the following realities:1.) ...
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Battlefield Lasers
Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 6:49:56 pm PDT
Incredibly cool news from the military technology front: Military Tests Laser Defense to Artillery. "This is actually a very pivotal time in terms of high-powered laser systems," says Brent Dane, project manager for high-energy lasers at Lawrence Livermore Labs.For about six years he and his team have been hard at ...
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A Vigorous Diplomatic Exchange
Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 6:03:02 pm PDT
Here we go again. I wish I had faith that Powell’s State Department diplomacy could produce results. I wish. Powell Plans Talks in Syria With Assad. WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday the Bush administration had begun a "very vigorous diplomatic exchange" with Syria and he intended ...
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Captain America, Traitor?
Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 5:05:17 pm PDT
I don’t know why this latest evidence of American leftist cultural insanity gets under my skin so much. When I was a kid, my favorite comic books were the Fantastic Four, Spiderman, and the X-Men, with Captain America coming in fourth. But Captain America was always supposed to represent the best ...
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Peace Creeps Find New Low
Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 2:11:58 pm PDT
How low will the “anti-war” creeps sink? Well, they haven’t found the bottom yet, but it’s not for lack of trying; and here’s their latest sick attempt. (Hat tip: xlrq.) Warning: when I say sick, I mean sick. Don’t look at this if you have a weak stomach.
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Kramer on Said
Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 12:14:47 pm PDT
Martin Kramer writes about Columbia University’s tribute to Edward Said, and the corrupting influence Said’s work has had on the field of Middle East studies.
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War's New Face
Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:41:20 am PDT
Daniel Pipes has a great analysis of the incredible changes in the rules of conflict embodied by the Afghanistan and Iraq wars: War's New Face .
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BBC Sneers at Abu Abbas Capture
Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:23:42 am PDT
Paul Reynolds of the BBC does his best to piss all over America’s success in capturing Abu Abbas: Unfinished business. (Hat tip: NC.) His capture will be used by the United States as evidence that Iraq was harbouring international terrorists. His fate, presumably prolonged imprisonment despite Palestinian demands that he ...
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Syrian Link to Ansar al-Islam
Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 10:54:28 am PDT
Italian anti-terrorism investigators say they’ve discovered a link between Syria and the Al-Qaeda spinoff Ansar al-Islam: Probe Links Syria With Iraqi Extremists. The six men arrested in Italy's latest sweep — an Egyptian, a Somali, two Tunisians and two Iraqi Kurds — are suspected of links to the extremist Islamic ...
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Report No Evil
Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 10:25:06 am PDT
From Cox & Forkum.
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Abu Abbas is Going Down
Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 9:59:36 am PDT
Palestinian Arab spokesliar Saeb Erekat threw a fit when the US captured terrorist swine Abu Abbas, claiming that the Oslo Accords granted him immunity for the despicable murder of Leon Klinghoffer, and demanding his immediate release. This comes as no surprise, because Abu Abbas was quite important to the PLO ...
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Special Forces vs. Dr. Germ
Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 9:04:23 am PDT
US special forces have raided the home/laboratory of “Doctor Germ,” Iraq’s top bioweapons researcher, who was in charge of weaponizing anthrax. The special force raid in Baghdad, backed by about 40 Marines with machine guns, was carried out at the home of Rihab Taha, who was in charge of a ...
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French Shari'a Watch
Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 8:03:39 am PDT
France’s attempt to appease their growing Muslim population by creating an Islamic Council has already blown up in their faces. In the first election, hard-core Islamofascists linked to the infamous Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt won 19 of 58 council seats. (Hat tip: 'Splodey Owl.) PARIS - Worried by the growth ...
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The Distance of Allah from His Creatures
Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 7:01:41 pm PDT
Go ye and read this incredible post from the Disaffected Muslim: The Distance of Allah from His Creatures.
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The Mask Slips
Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 5:52:31 pm PDT
Remember the blatantly whitewashed commercial for Islam that PBS showed last December, called Legacy of a Prophet? The one that held up a New York City firefighter named Kevin James as a shining example of a patriotic, moderate Muslim? Today this same Kevin James, who also just happens to be the ...
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Abu Abbas Captured
Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 3:15:12 pm PDT
Breaking news: CNN is reporting that Palestinian terrorist Abu Abbas, who masterminded the Achille Lauro hijacking (during which wheelchair-bound American Leon Klinghoffer was shot, and his body dumped overboard) has been captured in Iraq.
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Corruption at CNN
Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 12:32:17 pm PDT
Revelations about CNN’s deliberate obfuscation of the truth in Iraq are pouring out; here’s the latest, from Peter Collins who was in Baghdad with CNN in 1993 and witnessed their complicity in Iraqi propaganda at first hand: Corruption at CNN. I was on the roof of the Ministry of Information, ...
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Pentagon Muslims Seethe, Whine
Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 11:49:34 am PDT
Muslim employees at the Pentagon are seething about an invitation to evangelist Franklin Graham to preach at Good Friday services. And of course, the Islamist front group known as CAIR (who still haven’t put one word about the war in Iraq on their web site) is whining, with spokesliar Ibrahim ...
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Journalists' Hotel Raided
Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 9:21:36 am PDT
Today US Marines raided Baghdad’s Palestine Hotel, the headquarters for most foreign journalists, and took at least four Iraqis into custody. Four Iraqi men who did not have proper identification were detained in the raid that began at about 7 a.m. The Marines had information that Fedayeen paramilitary fighters might ...
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Palestinian Puppet Parade
Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 8:30:06 am PDT
There’s a puppet show being staged in the Palestinian Authority, where Yasser Arafat is said to be “unhappy” with Abu Mazen’s cabinet appointments: Arafat Holds Up New Palestinian Cabinet. These guys sure know how to manipulate Westerners; if they’re going to make us believe that Holocaust denier Abu Mazen represents ...
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Arab Dictators: Step Aside, Cowboys
Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 8:17:24 am PDT
Egypt and Jordan are demanding the immediate withdrawal of coalition forces from Iraq, so that they can get on with the business of helping to install a new repressive despot, same as the old repressive despot: Egypt, Jordan demand withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq. CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt and ...
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They Were Wrong
Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 8:00:40 am PDT
An excellent rant in Australia’s Herald Sun: They Were Wrong. (Hat tip: msimon.) Read it all; it’s worth the time. WHEN protesters marched to stop this war of liberation, Saddam Hussein was filmed gloating to his generals. "They support you," he crowed. So where are you today, you whom Saddam ...
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Ujaama Pleads Guilty
Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 9:01:47 pm PDT
Seattle Al Qaeda terrorist James Ujaama has pleaded guilty to recruiting jihadi fighters for the Taliban, as part of a deal that gives him a light sentence in return for cooperating in the prosecution of one-eyed, hook-handed Finsbury Park freakazoid Abu Hamza. Under a plea agreement, James Ujaama pleaded guilty ...
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Weasel Meets Despot
Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 12:09:45 pm PDT
H. D. Miller digs up another photo from Jacques Chirac’s ever-expanding gallery of infamy.
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Howard: France Distorts UNSC
Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 12:05:31 pm PDT
Australian Prime Minister John Howard says that France’s permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council should be revoked. I don’t like to overuse this word, but ... wow. Prime Minister John Howard wants to reform the United Nations, saying the presence of France as a permanent member of the ...
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No Apology, No Surprise
Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 10:25:27 am PDT
Empty-headed comedian Janeane Garofalo says she has nothing to apologize for. And she gloats that her ABC sitcom is going ahead in spite of thousands of complaints. (Hat tip: DB.) "I have nothing to apologize for," she told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg, who requested an interview with the comedian-turned-peacenik for ...
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Chem/Bio Labs Found Buried
Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 9:49:22 am PDT
Breaking News from CNN: the banner at the top of their page says: U.S. Army: 11 mobile chemical and biological labs, documents found buried near Karbala. No details yet, but this could be huge. (Hat tip: NC.)
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Our Western Mob
Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 9:34:02 am PDT
Victor Davis Hanson has been writing brilliantly on the historically ignorant Chicken Little mentality of Western media, and today’s column is his sharpest yet: Our Western Mob. In the weeks that follow, the media, not the military, will be shown to be in need of introspection and vast reform. ...
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New Evidence of French Perfidy
Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 6:39:13 pm PDT
France was selling Iraq weapons and other goodies as recently as last year, in clear violation of the embargos imposed by the United Nations—and yes, that would be the same United Nations the French hold up as the paragon of international legitimacy: The French: I’m Shocked, Shocked! (Hat tip: ploome.) ...
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But It Was All a Dream
Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 5:28:03 pm PDT
You know, I could have sworn that one of the conditions the United States put on the Palestinian Arabs in order to gain our support for a Palestinian state was that they had to hold democratic elections, to replace the thoroughly corrupt terrorist PLO machine headed by Yasser Arafish. But I ...
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C-SPAN Has Idiots
Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 2:43:12 pm PDT
The Stalinist peace creeps of A.N.S.W.E.R. are throwing tantrums in Los Angeles today. If you’d like to see what the stupidest humans on Earth look like, C-SPAN has ’em on right now. The buzzword for the day: OCCUPATION! The A.N.S.W.E.R. representative just screamed, “Victory for the people of the Middle East.”
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Egyptian Hate Machine
Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 2:21:07 pm PDT
Here are more examples of the psychotic delusional ranting that passes for journalism at Egypt’s government-controlled Al Ahram. Courtesy of Aaron Lerner’s IMRA, who comments, “Absolutely no articles, either favorable or even neutral towards the US and Britain have appeared throughout their reporting of the Iraq situation.” Two billion dollars every ...
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I Hate it When That Happens
Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 11:54:18 am PDT
Four would-be jihadis suffered a terminal case of premature explodulation today in Afghanistan, on their way to commit mass murder for Allah. (Hat tip: speedster.) KABUL, Afghanistan - A car packed with explosives exploded in eastern Afghanistan, killing four people who apparently were planning a terrorist attack, an Afghan military ...
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No Time is a Good Time for Weasels
Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 11:11:54 am PDT
Dominique de Villepin, visiting his Hizb'Allah pals in Lebanon, said “the time is not right” for the United States to turn up the heat on Syria.
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Saddam's Bro Nicked
Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 10:14:07 am PDT
Saddam Hussein’s half brother has been captured while attempting to escape to—where else?—Syria. WASHINGTON - Allied forces have captured a half brother of Saddam Hussein in northern Iraq, a U.S. official said Sunday. Watban Ibrahim Hassan, who had in the past served as an adviser to his half brother, was ...
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Euroweenie Alert
Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 9:08:55 am PDT
Hilariously condescending Euroweenie sighted in the Super al-Sahaf topic! Choice bits: I'm from Portugal, a country which enjoys an immensely greater freedom of the press than the USA...What you don't realize is that, by making fun of al-Sahaf, you're just showing to the world the obscene spectacle of racist minds ...
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POWs Freed!
Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 8:56:22 am PDT
Fantastic news from Iraq—seven captured US troops have been freed! NEAR KUT, Iraq - Iraqi troops released seven captured U.S. soldiers — some wounded but in good condition — to Marines on Sunday, a surprise discovery near where U.S. troops were entering Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit. Clad in an ...
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Syria Raves, France Says "Shut Up"
Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 8:17:17 am PDT
Amid increasing reports that Syria has been hiding Iraqi weapons and giving sanctuary to Iraqi leaders, Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa denies everything and continues to act like a raving lunatic. (Maybe because that’s what he is?) What does it say when Dominique de Villepin has to step in and ...
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Al Ahram Seethes, Threatens the US
Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 10:12:26 pm PDT
Egypt’s government-controlled newspaper Al Ahram is threatening the United States with “acts like those in New York and Washington.” When the dust of this conflict settles, which is unlikely to happen with the ease the invaders envisaged, the Arab world will not return to the way it was before. Deep-rooted ...
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A Retroactive Fisking
Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 9:12:07 pm PDT
David Kenner points out that one person has rarely been so wrong, so many times, in one interview, as traitorous newsman Peter Arnett.
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Amish Tech Support's New Digs
Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 8:52:25 pm PDT
One of our favorite insane people, Laurence Simon, has a new address. Bookmark him. Put him in your favorites. Unless you are devoid of a sense of humor and bereft of a reason to carry on, you won’t regret it. Amish Tech Support.
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Gold-Plated Gun Cache
Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 7:00:39 pm PDT
A huge cache of arms found in Baghdad included gold-plated rifles inscribed as gifts from Saddam Hussein. "It is definitely a major discovery," said a US officer, who asked not to be identified, in the wealthy Al-Harithiya neighbourhood."But the most interesting discovery was the large quantity of gold-plated assault rifles ...
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Russia Spied on Blair for Saddam
Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 5:38:03 pm PDT
Wow. We all suspected that the Axis of Weasels had dark ulterior motives for their strenuous, seemingly illogical attempts to keep Saddam Hussein in power. Now, the first of many revelations to come shows that it may have been much worse than we thought: Russia spied on Blair for Saddam. ...
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Of Cabbages and DNS Propagation
Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 4:20:23 pm PDT
If it seems awfully quiet around here today, it’s because most of our visitors still aren’t reaching us at our new host. When a web site moves to a new server, the DNS (Domain Name Server) records need to be changed, and the change can take 2 or 3 days ...
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The Ethics of Pursuit
Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 4:11:10 pm PDT
Near the end of the first Gulf War, US forces attacked a retreating Iraqi military column on the highway to Basra—an attack that became known as the “Highway of Death.” Here’s an interesting study of the ethics of this attack at the Military Review: The Highway to Basra and the ...
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Saddam's Love Shack
Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 1:41:09 pm PDT
Yeah, baybee! While his people starved, Saddam Hussein lived like Austin Powers, with a taste for kitschy fantasy art. BAGHDAD, Iraq - The doors of the town house opened to reveal a playboy's fantasy straight from the 1960s: mirrored bedroom, lamps shaped like women, air-brushed paintings of a topless blonde ...
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Coalition of the Unwilling
Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 11:56:04 am PDT
Jacques Chirac, Vladimir Putin, and Gerhard Schroeder are seething and whining and demanding a role for the United Terrorist Nations in Iraq. In comments likely to further strain relations with Washington, the three leaders said the future world order was at stake as only the United Nations could ensure that ...
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ISM Terrorist Lovers
Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 11:05:41 am PDT
Reader Glen Wishard has been ferreting out the web sites of some of these “peace-loving” ISM members, and here’s a particularly sickening example of the admiration these deluded freaks have for terrorists, from barely literate ISM tool Matt Horton: ISM Reports. The israeli army and goverment have been changing their ...
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LGF Gets Slashdotted
Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 10:39:15 am PDT
Uh oh. On our first day at our new host we’re getting Slashdotted, with a link to our entry about the LGF spambot trap.
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Peaceful Religion Watch
Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 10:32:01 am PDT
An anti-war activist from the human rights organization Hamas peacefully demonstrates against the brutal occupation of Iraq. (Do I need to say I’m being sarcastic?) Oh yeah, let’s give these people their own state. Right away. No one is more deserving.
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A Palestinian State and Regional Nuclear War
Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 10:04:21 am PDT
Professor Louis Rene Beres has a sobering article at Israel Insider, making a strong argument that the “road map” to a Palestinian state would actually lead to nuclear war in the Middle East. A new state of Palestine would preoccupy Israeli military forces to a much greater extent than does ...
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The ISM Whitewash Continues
Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 9:32:26 am PDT
Lewis W. Diuguid of the Kansas City Star is the latest reporter to apply a coat of whitewash to the story of Rachel Corrie and the International Solidarity Movement: Workers for peace collide with violence. In this disgracefully biased and incomplete article, you will find no mention of Rachel Corrie’s ...
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Mass-Produced Suicide Vests
Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 8:41:11 am PDT
Marines have found a cache of suicide bomb vests, apparently mass-produced, hidden in an elementary school in Baghdad. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Scores of black leather vests stuffed with explosives and ball-bearings were found by U.S. Marines at a Baghdad school, along with empty hangers hinting that suicide bombers might be ...
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Lest We Forget
Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 8:31:53 am PDT
Michael Gonzalez says France and Belgium will pay a very high price for feeding the beasts of anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism: Lest We Forget. (Hat tip: Bala Ambati.) Mr. de Villepin, the pinup boy of diplomacy in "progressive" circles, was not just content to travel the world in an attempt to ...
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LAX Shooting: Terrorism
Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 8:20:09 am PDT
It took the FBI almost a year, but they’ve finally admitted the obvious—the July 4 shooting at Los Angeles International Airport was a terrorist attack. (Hat tip: ploome.) LOS ANGELES - An Egyptian immigrant's deadly attack on an Israeli airline ticket counter last year has been ruled a terrorist attack ...
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Seismic Changes at CNN
Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 6:44:40 pm PDT
Eason Jordan’s confession that CNN has been mis-reporting and covering up news from Iraq is flashing around the world like wildfire. Many people are asking, “What else has CNN been hiding?” If you read Jordan’s original article again, it’s clear that he never expected this; in fact, he seems to ...
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Super al-Sahaf
Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 2:12:38 pm PDT
People around the world are making the al-Sahaf/Monty Python connection. (Hat tip: ploome. Oops! I meant, hat tip: Victrade.)
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Moving Day
Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 2:07:38 pm PDT
Heads up, LGFers. In a little while I’ll be moving Little Green Footballs to our new host, and at that point I’ll need to disable comments so we don’t lose anything. Stay tuned for updates.
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A.N.S.W.E.R. Prof on the Air
Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 11:17:40 am PDT
Hot tip: In a few minutes, talk show host Al Rantel is going to speak with a UCLA professor representing International A.N.S.W.E.R. (front group for the Stalinist Workers World Party) about the “peace protest” planned for this weekend in Los Angeles. This oughtta be great. Listen live here. (Windows Media ...
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Outrage of the Day
Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 9:32:29 am PDT
CNN executive Eason Jordan admits that the network regularly covered up stories of Iraqi torture and atrocities—out of simple fear: The News We Kept to Ourselves. Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN’s Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews ...
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Call Me Nostradamus
Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 8:40:32 am PDT
I’m getting so good at predicting the Arab world’s craziness that I’m starting to scare myself. Yesterday I wrote: Oh, the seething. Oh, the whining. It’s another Naqba. Today the Palestinian Arabs are following my script to the letter: Palestinians say they will step up attacks after Saddam's 'nakba'. (Hat ...
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And They Know It
Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 7:51:37 am PDT
Colin Powell continues to exhibit the signs of a multilateralist mugged by reality: Coalition will select Iraqi leaders. (Hat tip: aphex jim.) "The suggestion... that now that the coalition has done all of this and liberated Iraq, thank you very much, step aside and the Security Council is now going ...
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Unclear on the Concept
Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 7:41:06 am PDT
Iraqi exiles living in Iran stormed the Iraqi embassy, tearing down pictures of Saddam Hussein and chanting ... “Death to America?” Iran's supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei welcomed the overthrow of the Iraqi leader by U.S. troops but urged them to quit Iraq immediately. "You toppled Saddam, so now ...
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Mobile Bioweapons Lab?
Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 5:10:10 pm PDT
Possible mobile bioweapons lab discovered in Iraq. (Hat tip: wowbagger.) Fox News' Rick Leventhal reported that the Marines he is embedded with -- the 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marines -- may have found a mobile biological weapons lab around Baghdad.The Marines ordered a vehicle that appeared to be a refrigerator truck ...
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Step Aside, Cowboys
Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 4:15:04 pm PDT
With outrageous gall and hubris, the leaders of France and Germany are now saying, “Good work, you dumb cowboys. We’ll take it from here.” PARIS - The leaders of France and Germany, two of the most vocal critics of the U.S.-led war on Iraq, both hailed the crumbling of the ...
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Hall of Shame
Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 3:50:43 pm PDT
NRO has a collection of shamefully wrong pronouncements about the war, from the likes of Maureen Dowd, Chris Matthews, and the sleaziest of them all—Eric Alterman: To make matters worse, many of these Jewish hard-liners — "Likudniks" in the current parlance — appear, at least from a distance, to be ...
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INC: Close Ties with Israel
Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 3:22:46 pm PDT
If what the Iraqi National Congress says is true, we are in for some very interesting times in the Middle East; the INC has plans for strong ties with Israel and Turkey, and no support for the Palestinian Arabs. (Hat tip: Yossarian.) One of the most elegant and eloquent princes ...
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Oh, You Poor People
Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:52:55 am PDT
A great cartoon by John Cole about the “anti-war” crowd: Oh, you poor people! (Hat tip: Frederick L.)
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Nuclear Facility Confirmed
Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:45:38 am PDT
Here’s confirmation on yesterday’s story about the huge underground nuclear facility discovered south of Baghdad. While they aren't prepared to say the discovery is the smoking gun proving Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction, Fox News confirmed that officials are very interested in the labyrinth of labs and warehouses ...
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This is Getting Tiresome
Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:31:15 am PDT
Once was funny. Twice was hilarious. But three times ... well, that’s evidence of mental illness. Yes, the Indymedia peace creeps in Britain chained themselves to the bomb convoy again. (Hat tip: Simon.) A convoy carrying bombs from RAF Welford in Berkshire to RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire has been stopped ...
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Fisk Fisks Fisk
Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:26:53 am PDT
The Telegraph has a very revealing collection of predictions about the war made by various commentators and politicians. Robert Fisk acquitted himself magnificently, reminding us once again why we named the Idiotarian of the Year award for him. (But he does have plenty of extra “loo rolls.” Hat tip: msimon.) ...
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Tears for a Monster
Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 9:43:57 am PDT
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Not Even Arabs Believe JihadTV
Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 9:32:56 am PDT
Oh, the seething. Oh, the whining. It’s another Naqba. Waaahh! "Why did he fall that way? Why so fast?" asked Yemeni homemaker Umm Ahmed, tears streaming down her face. "He's a coward. Now I feel sorry for his people." Arabs clustered at TV sets in shop windows, coffee shops, kitchens ...
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Iraqi Embassy in Brazil Burns Documents
Wed, Apr 9, 2003 at 7:13:49 pm PDT
Shortly after the images of Saddam’s statues being toppled were broadcast around the world, Iraqi embassy employees in Brazil started burning large quantities of documents. (Hat tip: wordwarp.) BRASILIA, Brazil - Iraqi Embassy employees in Brasilia started burning documents Wednesday after TV stations broadcast images of a Saddam Hussein statue ...
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Garofalo Apology Watch
Wed, Apr 9, 2003 at 6:49:45 pm PDT
I wonder if celebrity loudmouth Janeane Garofalo will keep her promise? O’Reilly: “If you are wrong, all right, and if the United States -- and they will, this is going to happen -- goes in, liberates Iraq, people in the street, American flags, hugging our soldiers, all right, we find ...
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Underground Iraqi Nuclear Facility
Wed, Apr 9, 2003 at 6:18:59 pm PDT
Here’s a potential bombshell of a story, emailed to me by at least 7 people; Marines have occupied an Iraqi nuclear facility in the city of Al-Tuwaitha, south of Baghdad—and discovered a hidden underground complex with dangerously high levels of radiation: Marines hold nuclear site. Nestled in a bend in ...
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Journalists Not Killed By US
Wed, Apr 9, 2003 at 3:28:44 pm PDT
BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan says the explosion that killed 2 foreign journalists in Baghdad’s Palestine Hotel was probably not caused by US tank fire. The US military has admitted one of its tanks fired on the Palestine Hotel, the centre for most of the foreign media in the Iraqi capital. ...
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Frustrated Howler Monkeys
Wed, Apr 9, 2003 at 1:21:34 pm PDT
You guys should see the comments that various lefty moonbats and howler monkeys are trying to leave here at LGF, but that are being blocked by my various filters. Whoo-wee! Are these people ever thrashing and kicking, and screaming, “Love me, daddy!” These are the people that invariably show up ...
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Palestinians Stunned, Whining
Wed, Apr 9, 2003 at 12:01:54 pm PDT
The Palestinian Arabs are stunned that they picked the wrong side, and they’re whining about it as usual. "I'm stunned and appalled. I can't understand what is happening," said Rustum Abu Ghazalah, a 30-year-old shopkeeper in the center of Ramallah. He and grim-faced fellow shopkeepers zapped from one Arab TV ...
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Signs of Intelligent Life in Hollywood
Wed, Apr 9, 2003 at 11:30:06 am PDT
Here’s a great new weblog (designed by yours truly) from mystery novelist and screenwriter Roger L. Simon. Roger is the author of the Moses Wine series of detective novels, one of which (The Big Fix) was made into a very good film starring none other than LGF troll-repellent Richard Dreyfuss. ...
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In Our Name
Wed, Apr 9, 2003 at 10:15:11 am PDT
This is a truly historic moment, LGF readers. To the naked protesters, the Hollywood whiners, the Indymedia haters, the BBC and CNN and MSNBC and Al Jazeera and Arab News: This moment is IN OUR NAME. Those who sought to keep the Iraqi people in their living hell, who stood in the ...
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Human Shields = Wankers
Wed, Apr 9, 2003 at 9:52:48 am PDT
Donald Sensing has a beautiful picture of liberated Iraqis holding a sign saying, “Go Home Human Shields, You US Wankers.”
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Quagmire Watch
Wed, Apr 9, 2003 at 9:44:34 am PDT
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Why They'll Never Admit It
Wed, Apr 9, 2003 at 9:37:34 am PDT
Much as we might like to see the fools who stood against regime change in Iraq admit they were wrong (as in: seriously wrong), a great op-ed by Janet Daley says it will never happen. (Hat tip: msimon.) What I want to know is when the perpetrators of the myths ...
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The Icons Crumble
Wed, Apr 9, 2003 at 3:46:26 am PDT
Iraqi President's Images Crumble. "Every time we tear down a picture of Saddam, they cheer," said Cpt. Peter McAleer, commander of Echo Company of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit. The 15th is helping to hold Nasiriyah, a key crossroads for supplies and military personnel heading north to Baghdad. Just a ...
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A Religious War?
Tue, Apr 8, 2003 at 9:43:07 pm PDT
Another “Bin Laden” audiotape. Yawn. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - An audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden exhorts Muslims to rise up against Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other governments it claims are "agents of America," and calls for suicide attacks against U.S. and British interests to "avenge the innocent children" of Iraq.The ...
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British Sailors Say No to BBC
Tue, Apr 8, 2003 at 7:33:33 pm PDT
The British Navy has pulled the plug on the Beeb, after many complaints from sailors aboard the flagship HMS Ark Royal. (A lot of readers emailed about this, but atomic conspiracy was first.) The Navy has taken rolling news show News 24 off the air on the HMS Ark Royal ...
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Update on Server Issues
Tue, Apr 8, 2003 at 5:07:13 pm PDT
I know that new entries have been a bit slow today; I’ve been getting quotes on a new hosting plan from several places. Looks like it’s going to cost about 5 times as much to host our site as we’re currently paying. The perils of popularity. Muchas gracias to everyone who’s ...
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Street Justice
Tue, Apr 8, 2003 at 3:50:07 pm PDT
It’s not a good time to be a fedayeen member in Basra. A man, suspected of being a Fedayeen member, is beaten by a group of residents on the streets of Basra, Iraq Tuesday April 8, 2003. (AP Photo/Jon Mills, Pool) UPDATE: I’ll bet this guy never thought he’d be ...
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Egyptian Jihadis With Clean Records
Tue, Apr 8, 2003 at 3:45:18 pm PDT
More than 4500 Egyptians have volunteered to go to Iraq and fight in the jihad against the United States. (Hat tip: msimon.) Cairo - More than 4500 Egyptians have volunteered to fight the United States-British coalition which is swiftly taking control over Iraq, the national bar association which is organising ...
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Children Freed From Jail
Tue, Apr 8, 2003 at 10:44:30 am PDT
This is what the “anti-war” activists have been supporting and condoning. Hang your heads in shame, lefty bloggers like Oliver Willis and Hesiod and Atrios and Josh Marshall. Hang your heads in shame. (But I know you won’t—because shame is an emotion induced by morality and conscience, and you’ve demonstrated ...
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Shock and Awe
Tue, Apr 8, 2003 at 10:25:22 am PDT
I hope you’re sitting down. This may come as a bit of a shock. 63% of the residents in the San Francisco Bay Area support the war in Iraq. (Hat tip: Cowgirl Carrie.) Despite the Bay Area's reputation as a hotbed for anti-war dissent, the overwhelming majority of residents support U.S. ...
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Journalists Killed
Tue, Apr 8, 2003 at 10:03:25 am PDT
Three foreign journalists were killed yesterday in Baghdad. Two of them were in the Palestine Hotel, from which grenades and small arms fire were directed at a US tank: Ukrainian cameraman Taras Protsyuk from the Reuters news agency and Jose Couso, a cameraman from Spanish televison station Telecinco, were killed ...
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Arab Fantasyland
Tue, Apr 8, 2003 at 3:31:47 am PDT
The amazing thing about the Egyptians, and the Arab world in general, is that even after losing every war they’ve started (and losing badly) they still have not learned that honest self-criticism is the key to avoiding ignoble defeat. Instead they concoct elaborate, contradictory fantasies featuring themselves as heroes, martyrs, ...
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Saddam's Final Funeral?
Mon, Apr 7, 2003 at 7:15:29 pm PDT
Breaking news: US bunker busters may have killed Saddam (if he wasn’t already dead) and his sons tonight. Here’s the ABC News report: U.S. Hits Iraqi Leadership Target.
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Server Issues
Mon, Apr 7, 2003 at 11:22:55 am PDT
Our connectivity is going up and down like a yoyo today. It’s getting very frustrating and I’ve put in several support requests to our host, so far with no reply. Sorry for the problems, folks. UPDATE: Well, now I know what’s going on. We’ve gotten too popular for this web host, ...
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Canadian Fifth Column Watch
Mon, Apr 7, 2003 at 10:24:35 am PDT
The imam of the Ottawa mosque calls for Muslims to join the jihad against the United States. (Hat tip: Moe Katz.) Muslims across the Middle East should take up arms to expel U.S. troops from Iraq, the imam of the Ottawa mosque said Sunday. "If I were there, I would ...
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Rachel Corrie's Students
Mon, Apr 7, 2003 at 10:10:02 am PDT
Remember these scenes when the Palestinian Arabs start begging us to force Israel to grant them unearned concessions ... again.
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Waaaah!
Mon, Apr 7, 2003 at 9:40:54 am PDT
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Sarin and Mustard Gas
Mon, Apr 7, 2003 at 8:11:18 am PDT
Reuters reports that a cache of BM-21 missiles loaded with sarin and mustard gas has been found near Baghdad, ready to fire.
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Jihad Via Satellite
Mon, Apr 7, 2003 at 2:38:19 am PDT
From Cox & Forkum.
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The Lesson of Mogadishu
Mon, Apr 7, 2003 at 2:25:13 am PDT
James Lileks, in a terrific “bleat,” comes up with one of his best lines ever: “The lesson of Mogadishu: don’t draw any lessons from Mogadishu.”
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The End of Saddam Hussein
Mon, Apr 7, 2003 at 2:13:12 am PDT
Chemical Ali found dead in Basra. BASRA, Iraq - Ali Hassan al-Majid, dubbed "Chemical Ali" by opponents of the Iraqi regime for ordering a 1988 poison gas attack that killed thousands of Kurds, has been found dead, a British officer said Monday.Maj. Andrew Jackson of the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment ...
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Sarin
Sun, Apr 6, 2003 at 7:27:01 pm PDT
Sarin in Iraq.
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Powell Gets It
Sun, Apr 6, 2003 at 6:34:20 pm PDT
I am now officially reconsidering my opinion that Colin Powell is mired in the traditional Foggy Bottom Arabist appeasement mentality. Because this confrontational interview with a German TV reporter indicates that Powell not only gets it—he’s as fed up with the Euroweenies as the average LGF reader. (Hat tip: Christopher Johnson.) ...
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Steyn’s Shifting Sands
Sun, Apr 6, 2003 at 6:01:16 pm PDT
Mark Steyn takes on the New York Times, in what seems like the 73rd column he’s written this week: Shifting sand and fickle opinion. You can't help noticing that, just as the Iraqi president's war reports are entirely prerecorded, so amazingly are much of the media's! Has the entire New ...
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So Many Moonbats, So Few Straitjackets
Sun, Apr 6, 2003 at 5:26:49 pm PDT
The most unattractive nude protesters yet. LGF is not responsible for uncontrollable eye-gouging causing by viewing the photo at this link. (Spidly is, though.) LGF reader PDM supplies the commentary. UPDATE: I admit it. I was wrong. Mea culpa. These are the most unattractive nude protesters ever. (NC is responsible for exposing these ...
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Faces of Hope
Sun, Apr 6, 2003 at 2:56:20 pm PDT
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Widespread Support for the War
Sun, Apr 6, 2003 at 2:34:58 pm PDT
A new Los Angeles Times poll shows that more than three-fourths of the American public supports the war in Iraq. Public support for the war is widespread and strong, crossing political and ideological boundaries. More than three-fourths nationwide, including more than seven out of 10 self-described Democrats and independents said ...
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The Same Man
Sun, Apr 6, 2003 at 2:26:20 pm PDT
On the “anti-war” side we have George Michael, Pearl Jam, and Radiohead; but have you been wondering where the pro-America (non-country/western) songs are? (Nothing against CW, but we expect them to be pro-American—except for the Blixie Chicks, of course.) Well, here’s one from Texas artist Rachel Loy, and it’s wonderful: The ...
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If It's Good for Arafat...
Sun, Apr 6, 2003 at 1:56:08 pm PDT
A painfully funny satire by David M. Weinberg turns the “roadmap” around, but amazingly ends up in the same place—a dead end: If it's good for Arafat... (Hat tip: selpaw.) There is an urgent need to end the bloodshed in Iraq. The cycle of violence must come to a stop. ...
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Rogue's Gallery
Sun, Apr 6, 2003 at 10:29:49 am PDT
In Iraq, the dictator’s cult of personality is being dismantled: But in the Palestinian Authority, Arab artists still glorify the foulest killers and losers of history: (clockwise from lower left) Marwan Barghouti, Yasser Arafat, Gamal Abdel-Nasser, and the dead man formerly known as Saddam Hussein.
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Bernard Lewis Interview
Sun, Apr 6, 2003 at 9:10:59 am PDT
Streaming video (Real format) of Book TV’s 3-hour interview with brilliant Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis is here. A must-see.
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Peace Creeps Plan Disruptions
Sat, Apr 5, 2003 at 11:37:50 pm PST
San Francisco “peace activists” are planning to disrupt shipments of supplies to Iraq by shutting down the port of Oakland. (Hat tip: atomic conspiracy.) “Whether or not war cargo is there on that day, we are trying to send a message to APL that we oppose their profiting off this ...
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Anti-War French Jews Learn a Lesson
Sat, Apr 5, 2003 at 11:30:03 pm PST
In France, violent Muslim “peace activists” have been using anti-war demonstrations as cover for attacking Jewish participants. (Hat tip: Steven Zak.) The French government was forced to appeal for calm after protesters, some of them carrying pictures of Saddam Hussein, burned the Israeli flag and turned on Jewish students, attacking ...
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It's All Over
Sat, Apr 5, 2003 at 11:20:55 pm PST
Mark Steyn says, “What war? That was over two weeks ago.” This war is over. The only question now is whether a new provisional government is installed before the BBC and The New York Times have finished running their exhaustive series on What Went Wrong with the Pentagon's Failed War ...
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J'Accuse
Sat, Apr 5, 2003 at 2:41:37 pm PST
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Religion of Suicide Bombing
Sat, Apr 5, 2003 at 2:10:11 pm PST
The world’s highest authority of Sunni Islam, Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi of al-Azhar University in Cairo, is telling Muslims that suicide bombings are just fine with God: Suicide attacks on US-led troops in Iraq permitted. Suicide attacks on the US-led coalition in Iraq are "permitted under (Islamic) religious law," the ...
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Another ISM Tool is Shot
Sat, Apr 5, 2003 at 1:59:12 pm PST
Another member of the terrorist-supporting “peace” group known as the International Solidarity Movement was shot today in Jenin. JERUSALEM - An American peace activist working as a human shield in the West Bank was seriously wounded on Saturday when Israeli troops allegedly opened fire on him.Brian Avery, 24, from Albuquerque, ...
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What the Hell is Wrong with Colin Powell?
Sat, Apr 5, 2003 at 9:36:44 am PST
Someone please tell me I’m still asleep, and having a nightmare, because Colin Powell could not possibly have said this, could he? (Hat tip: D H.) US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday he favoured France, Germany, Russia and Syria participating in post-war reconstruction, although the US House of ...
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Iraqi Atrocities
Sat, Apr 5, 2003 at 8:28:36 am PST
British forces have discovered hundreds of human remains, possibly prisoners from the first Gulf War, in a makeshift morgue in southern Iraq. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) The skulls, bundles of bone in strips of military uniform, were dumped in plastic bags and unsealed hardboard coffins in an abandoned Iraqi military base ...
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Arnett Finds Dream Job
Sat, Apr 5, 2003 at 8:12:13 am PST
Arab media regularly publishes the work of haters and loons like Lyndon LaRouche and David Duke. “Credibility” in the Western sense has no meaning to these state-controlled propaganda outlets; it’s more a matter of how much they can get away with before someone notices. Case in point: Peter Arnett, the traitorous, ...
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Finsbury Park Freakazoid Gets His
Sat, Apr 5, 2003 at 7:50:40 am PST
One-eyed hook-handed terrorist supporter Abu Hamza has had his British citizenship revoked. It should have happened years ago, but better late than never. David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, today confirmed that he has written to radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza revoking his British citizenship.Mr Blunkett said he had taken ...
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Prime Time Martyrdom on JihadTV
Fri, Apr 4, 2003 at 10:50:14 pm PST
Al Jazeera continues to demonstrate their true colors by broadcasting the martyrdom videos of the two evil shrews who blew themselves up to kill US soldiers today. Al-Jazeera broadcast separate videotapes of two Iraqi women, each of whom stood in front of the Iraqi flag, right hand on a copy ...
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Iraqi Pencil Terror
Fri, Apr 4, 2003 at 10:39:43 pm PST
The Iraqi Disinformation Minister says the US is lying about the progess of the war, and warns children not to pick up the dreaded death-dealing pencils of the infidels. (Hat tip: Andjam.) The minister also said that coalition forces were throwing booby traps in the form of pens and pencils ...
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Peace, Love and Anti-Semitism
Fri, Apr 4, 2003 at 9:50:37 pm PST
Evan Coyne Maloney has a new video online, looking at the most under-reported aspect of the so-called “anti-war” movement—the prevalence of irrational, virulent anti-Semitism.
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Akbar Charged with Murder
Fri, Apr 4, 2003 at 8:50:42 pm PST
Asan Akbar, the Muslim soldier who allegedly threw grenades into an officers’ tent, has been charged with murder. The charges against Sgt. Hasan K. Akbar, 32, were filed two days after the March 23 incident at a 101st Airborne Division camp in Kuwait. They were disclosed in a statement from ...
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Jessica Lynch WAS Shot
Fri, Apr 4, 2003 at 6:56:39 pm PST
Facts are now emerging from the fog of war, and it turns out that Jessica Lynch was shot—twice. (Hat tip: ChuckG.) PALESTINE, W.Va —Former POW Pfc. Jessica Lynch suffered gunshot wounds when her convoy was attacked in Iraq, her family said Friday night.The family of the 19-year-old supply clerk spoke ...
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Bernard Lewis on Book TV
Fri, Apr 4, 2003 at 6:44:50 pm PST
C-SPAN’s excellent program Book TV is featuring a three hour interview with Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis this Sunday at noon Eastern Standard Time. Highly recommended. (Hat tip: Brenda Walker.)
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Pipes Nominated, CAIR Seethes
Fri, Apr 4, 2003 at 10:22:50 am PST
This actually comes as quite a surprise: President Bush has nominated Daniel Pipes to the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace. The times they are a-changing. But this comes as no surprise at all: radical Islamic front group CAIR is blowing a gasket. An American Muslim advocacy group that Pipes ...
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Akamai Does the Right Thing
Fri, Apr 4, 2003 at 9:48:00 am PST
Akamai Technologies has refused to deal with Al Jazeera. (Hat tip: Yuvalien.) The Web site of Arab satellite news channel Al-Jazeera was refused assistance this week when it sought help from Akamai Technologies Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., in dealing with hacking attacks and massive interest from Web users."We think it's ...
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The Train Is Leaving the Station
Fri, Apr 4, 2003 at 9:36:50 am PST
Another great Victor Davis Hanson column on the perfidy of our so-called allies: The Train Is Leaving the Station.
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RIP, Michael Kelly
Fri, Apr 4, 2003 at 9:25:11 am PST
One of our favorite columnists has been killed in a Humvee accident in Iraq. Michael Kelly was a brilliant writer, and we often linked to his columns at LGF. He will be sorely missed.
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Bioweapons Confirmed
Fri, Apr 4, 2003 at 8:21:19 am PST
Ricin and botulinum toxin confirmed at terror camp in northern Iraq. (Hat tip: Steve P.) SARGAT, Iraq, April 4 — MSNBC.com tests reveal evidence of the deadly toxins ricin and botulinum at a laboratory in a remote mountain region of northern Iraq allegedly used as a terrorist training camp by ...
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Another Suicide Attack
Fri, Apr 4, 2003 at 4:38:49 am PST
Another suicide car bomb at a checkpoint in western Iraq has killed three coalition soldiers—and this time they used a pregnant woman to deliver the weapon. The apparent suicide attack occurred Thursday evening about 11 miles southwest of the Haditha Dam, Central Command said in a written statement. The site ...
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The True Face of Al Jazeera
Thu, Apr 3, 2003 at 9:19:00 pm PST
One of our readers (thanks, sam) had the patience to go through the Arabic Al Jazeera site, and discovered a series of “cartoons” that reveals everything you need to know about JihadTV’s sick anti-Semitic agenda. They may have spent millions on focus groups and research and PR firms to make ...
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Hoarding While the People Starve
Thu, Apr 3, 2003 at 8:09:01 pm PST
More evidence of United Nations fecklessness and corruption tonight, as US and British forces discover a huge complex bulging with food in a city full of starving people. (Hat tip: Adam O.) A walk through only about 20 percent of the warehouses in the complex revealed that tens of thousands ...
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JihadTV Is On the Air
Thu, Apr 3, 2003 at 6:18:15 pm PST
Al Jazeera’s English site is back up, and it’s fascinating to see them getting their taqqiyeh on. The English site is very light on photos of dead children; be aware that when you go there, you are seeing the face they want to show to the West, while the Arabic ...
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Lynch Wasn't Shot
Thu, Apr 3, 2003 at 5:32:50 pm PST
The family of rescued POW Jessica Lynch is contradicting the Washington Post report that she was shot and stabbed. PALESTINE, W.Va. - The father of rescued POW Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch said Thursday she was in great spirits following her first surgery and said doctors told him she had not ...
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How Al Jazeera "Reports" the News
Thu, Apr 3, 2003 at 4:55:45 pm PST
Those who continue to insist that Al Jazeera is really just an Arab version of CNN should read Stefan Sharkansky’s translation of just one article from their web site: How the Arab media reports on the war. Iraqi Army spokesman General Hazem Ar-Rawi said that more than four thousand Arab ...
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The Grandmother from Hell
Thu, Apr 3, 2003 at 4:20:34 pm PST
Mahia Aouri adjusts bandanas reading 'God is great' and 'Martyrs Brigade' to her grandsons Yazan, left, and Mumim, after a rally marking the first anniversary of the Israeli raid when 58 Palestinians and 23 Israeli soldiers were killed, in Jenin, West Bank, Thursday, April 3, 2003. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic) ...
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French Anti-Semitism Watch
Thu, Apr 3, 2003 at 3:54:15 pm PST
Andrew Sullivan points out an article in France’s "Proche-Orient," a journal covering the Middle East. In one of hundreds of anti-Semitic incidents last year, a young Jewish girl was attacked and beaten. Now a judge has fined the parents of the girl for talking to French media about the case. ...
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Europe DEMANDS Role
Thu, Apr 3, 2003 at 1:17:15 pm PST
After behaving with stunning irresponsibility, obstructing all efforts to force Saddam Hussein to disarm, and generally hacking off everyone in the United States (San Francisco excluded), the Axis of Weasels and Poodles is now demanding a key role in postwar Iraq. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell faced ...
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Slate Whitewashes JihadTV
Thu, Apr 3, 2003 at 12:12:03 pm PST
At Slate, yet another Al Jazeera whitewash article by Chris Suellentrop, who in a stunning feat of boneheaded equivalence says it's just as fair as CNN. No mention of little unimportant details like Al Jazeera’s jihad agenda, of course, or their rabid Jew-hatred. (Hat tip: davesax.)
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World War IV
Thu, Apr 3, 2003 at 11:40:00 am PST
Former CIA director James Woolsey says World War IV has been going on for years—and we’re finally realizing it. (Hat tip: Michael S.) In the address to a group of college students, Woolsey described the Cold War as the third world war and said "This fourth world war, I think, ...
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Al Jazeera Whitewash Watch
Thu, Apr 3, 2003 at 10:58:38 am PST
Something is going on. Newspaper articles attempting to promote JihadTV—Al Jazeera—as a “balanced alternative viewpoint” are proliferating like rabbits in springtime. I’m not into the conspiracy thing, but either our Western media is in the grip of an incredible delusion or the fix is in. Can they really be this ...
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Ansar al-Islam’s Murderous Plans
Thu, Apr 3, 2003 at 10:40:58 am PST
New evidence of connections between Al Qaeda and Ansar al-Islam. WASHINGTON—Evidence has been found in the Kurdish-controlled regions of northern Iraq that the Islamic militant group Ansar al-Islam was working on three types of chlorine gas and ricin and has ties to Al Qaeda, U.S. officials told Fox News.Officials said ...
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The House that Raised Akbar
Thu, Apr 3, 2003 at 10:22:53 am PST
Joel Mowbray looks into the Islamic background of grenade attacker Asan Akbar, and finds dirty Saudi money hidden behind every mosque door: The House that Raised Akbar. While stationed at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, Akbar was one of roughly 20 soldiers who attended weekly services — and his Muslim chaplain ...
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China Slams US on Human Rights
Thu, Apr 3, 2003 at 10:15:50 am PST
China—yes, China—has issued a “report” criticizing the human rights record of the United States. (Hat tip: NC.) BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- China retaliated on Thursday against a U.S. report critical of its human rights performance, accusing America of turning a blind eye to violations at home while "pretending to be ...
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Vedder Launches Suicide Attack
Thu, Apr 3, 2003 at 8:50:49 am PST
The latest celebrity to self-destruct: Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam. (Hat tip: Dar ul Harb.) Incensed fans walked out of Pearl Jam's concert Tuesday after lead singer Eddie Vedder impaled a mask of President Bush on a microphone stand, then slammed it to the stage.Most of Vedder's antiwar remarks earlier ...
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Resistance is Crumbling
Thu, Apr 3, 2003 at 8:44:05 am PST
Iraqi deserters and civilians are fleeing Baghdad in large numbers. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraqi deserters and civilians are flooding out of Baghdad by the busload on Thursday and surrendering to U.S. forces advancing on the Iraqi capital, said a U.S. television reporter traveling with Marines."There are so many people on ...
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DeGenova Cowers
Thu, Apr 3, 2003 at 8:37:59 am PST
Columbia professor Nicholas DeGenova, who wished for our defeat in Iraq and the bloody death of US troops, has gone into hiding after claiming to have received death threats. Some of his students (who are as confused about cause and effect as DeGenova himself) are blaming the university for his ...
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UN Says Go Back to Sleep
Thu, Apr 3, 2003 at 8:05:58 am PST
A United Nations panel examining terrorist connections in Somalia concluded that terrorist groups use the country as an operational hub. But it's really nothing to worry about. After Sept. 11, President Bush put the country's largest company, Al-Barakat, and a Somali Islamic group, al-Ittihad al-Islami, on a list of groups ...
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She Fought Like a Demon
Wed, Apr 2, 2003 at 11:27:07 pm PST
As more details about PFC Jessica Lynch’s capture and ordeal emerge, she is looking more and more like a genuine heroine. The 507th was attacked March 23 during some of the earliest fighting in Nasiriyah, where Saddam's Fedayeen loyalists and other Iraqi fighters are said to have dressed as civilians ...
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An About Face for Germany
Wed, Apr 2, 2003 at 10:56:39 pm PST
Well, well, well. Look who’s suddenly having a change of heart: Germany Now Backs Regime Change in Iraq. BERLIN - German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said Wednesday he hoped Saddam Hussein's government would collapse quickly, marking a stark turnaround from Germany's previous opposition to regime change as a goal of ...
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A Phony Apology Isn't Good Enough
Wed, Apr 2, 2003 at 10:33:31 pm PST
Senator Jim Bunning (R-Ky) wants Peter Arnett to be tried for treason—and I couldn’t agree more. In fact, I said almost the same thing last Monday. NBC and its related network, for which the longtime war reporter had been covering the conflict from Baghdad, dismissed Arnett despite his apologies Monday. ...
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It Means Victory
Wed, Apr 2, 2003 at 7:59:29 pm PST
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Yes!
Wed, Apr 2, 2003 at 7:35:38 pm PST
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Alone But for the Screams
Wed, Apr 2, 2003 at 6:42:59 pm PST
A harrowing report from the London Times on the imprisonment of the Newsday reporters (who were apparently hanging out with “peace activists” and human shields): Alone but for the screams of the tortured. “I frequently thought we were going to die,” said Mr McAllester, 33, a London-born Scot raised in ...
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Our Mate, Saddam
Wed, Apr 2, 2003 at 6:32:27 pm PST
James Morrow reports on a “peace” demonstration in Sydney, complete with violent Arab thugs. The TV footage I saw on Channel Ten showed large numbers of Arab-looking high school kids in the crowd, mostly young toughs, and reportedly, they got into a scuffle with at least one media crew. (The ...
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Arafish to the Rescue
Wed, Apr 2, 2003 at 6:00:38 pm PST
Ha'aretz reports that the two Newsday reporters released from jail in Iraq owe their freedom to ... none other than the world’s oldest terrorist, Yasser Arafat. (Hat tip: selpaw.) The two, reporter Matthew McAllester and photographer Moises Saman, of Palestinian origin from the West Bank town of Beit Jala, were ...
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Seething Jordanian Muslims
Wed, Apr 2, 2003 at 4:24:19 pm PST
“Islamic scholars” in Jordan are enraged, and we all know what that means—it’s time to put words in the mouth of God: Islamic group says government has sinned by letting U.S. troops into Jordan. The Islamic Action Front, Jordan's most powerful opposition group, issued its religious edict, or fatwa, Wednesday, ...
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Protesters Under Lorries Again
Wed, Apr 2, 2003 at 3:31:29 pm PST
Oh man. If you thought yesterday’s story about the British peace ninnies who chained themselves to a bomb convoy was funny, you are not going to believe this. They did the exact same thing again today, and the whining went up a few octaves. I can’t stop laughing. (Hat tip: ...
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Dead Man Says What?
Wed, Apr 2, 2003 at 12:31:40 pm PST
“Saddam Hussein” says, “victory is at hand!” BAGHDAD, Iraq—Declaring "victory is at hand," Saddam Hussein issued a new statement urging Iraqis to continue fighting in defense of their towns, according to a broadcast Wednesday on Iraqi satellite television.Two additional statements Wednesday were also attributed to Saddam — a warning to ...
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Macadamia Alert
Wed, Apr 2, 2003 at 12:15:54 pm PST
The Jew-hating Tinfoil Hat Brigade has sent another emissary to LGF. (Page will take a while to load, with over 400 comments.)
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Elite Republican Guard Disintegrates
Wed, Apr 2, 2003 at 11:44:04 am PST
Not one, but two Iraqi Republican Guard divisions have been decimated by coalition forces. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. general said on Wednesday two of the Iraqi Republican Guard divisions defending Baghdad have been pounded by U.S. forces to the point that they are "no longer credible forces."Maj. Gen. Stanley ...
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Kucinich: Stop War, Send Inspectors
Wed, Apr 2, 2003 at 9:25:05 am PST
In the middle of the final push into Baghdad, Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) calls for the war to be stopped. (Hat tip: msimon.) “Stop this war now. It is wrong. It is illegal. It is unjust and it will come to no good for this country.“Stop this war now. ...
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LAT Doctored Photos
Wed, Apr 2, 2003 at 9:13:05 am PST
The LA Times photographer who was fired for altering a front page photo says he did it to “improve the composition.” Apparently, “improve the composition” means: to make it look as if Iraqi civilians are being menaced by a British soldier. Here’s the first photo: The second photo: And the altered photo: Notice: he took ...
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Religion of Peace Kills 6 More
Wed, Apr 2, 2003 at 8:45:40 am PST
Philippines wharf bomb kills 6. DAVAO, Philippines (CNN) -- A bomb went off Wednesday in this city's wharf area Wednesday killing at least six people and injuring several more in what the military suspects is a terror attack staged by a Muslim separatist group. A Philippines armed forces spokesman told ...
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With Elite Like This, Who Needs Ordinary?
Wed, Apr 2, 2003 at 8:36:31 am PST
An entire division of the Iraqi “elite” Republican Guard has been destroyed, and two other divisions have been seriously damaged. (Hat tip: msimon.) AS SAYLIYA CAMP, Qatar (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday its troops had destroyed one of the six divisions of the elite Republican Guard defending ...
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LA Times Photographer Alters Picture
Wed, Apr 2, 2003 at 8:17:10 am PST
A photographer for the Los Angeles Times has been fired for altering a front page photo of a British soldier and a group of Iraqis. In an editor's note in Wednesday editions, the Times said photographer Brian Walski acknowledged in a phone call from Iraq that he had used a ...
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Crossing the Red Zone
Wed, Apr 2, 2003 at 3:58:30 am PST
US forces have crossed the “Red Zone” around Baghdad for the final push into the city. If the Iraqis are foolish enough to use chem/bio weapons, this is the most dangerous time. Army's 3rd Infantry Division and the First Marine Expeditionary Force both reported breakthroughs as some units entered the ...
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Eleven Bodies Found With Lynch
Wed, Apr 2, 2003 at 3:53:46 am PST
When US special operations forces rescued Jessica Lynch from the hospital near Nasiriyah, they also discovered 11 bodies. Lynch, a 19-year-old Army supply clerk, was captured by the Iraqis on March 23 after her maintenance unit made a wrong turn and was ambushed in the Euphrates River city of Nasiriyah. ...
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Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
Tue, Apr 1, 2003 at 6:56:23 pm PST
Michael Freund tells the plain truth about Abu Mazen, aka Mahmoud Abbas, aka Arafat's 'pragmatic' protege. As a doctoral candidate at Moscow's Oriental College in 1982, Abu Mazen composed a thesis accusing the Jews of exaggerating the Holocaust for ulterior motives. "The Zionist movement's stake in inflating the number of ...
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Danish PM Stands Up
Tue, Apr 1, 2003 at 6:20:16 pm PST
The prime minister of Denmark refuses to be swept up in the anti-Semitic madness that has Old Europe in its grip: Danish PM rejects comparison between Israel and Iraq. (Hat tip: NC.) Denmark's Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, strongly rejected political opposition voices in his country Tuesday when he refused ...
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France Again
Tue, Apr 1, 2003 at 5:17:19 pm PST
One of the most despicable stories yet to come from our former ally: Iraq protesters deface British war monument in France. Insults aimed at British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W Bush were sprayed in red paint over a monument to Britain's dead from World War ...
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Silenzio
Tue, Apr 1, 2003 at 4:37:22 pm PST
In a moving essay, Sasha Castel-Dodge reminds us why we’re in Iraq. Here at Casa Dodge just off our bedroom is a tiny room that serves as a storage area. Out-of-season clothes, books, knicknacks, and all manner of things find their home here, including several boxes of stuff that I ...
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POW Rescued
Tue, Apr 1, 2003 at 4:16:30 pm PST
BREAKING NEWS: an American prisoner of war has been rescued by coalition forces!
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Seattle Peaceniks Whine, Claim Harassment
Tue, Apr 1, 2003 at 4:00:04 pm PST
We’ve become aware recently of the existence of a previously unsuspected constitutional amendment, which one of our readers dubbed “Amendment X”—granting all “peace activists” the right to be exempt from criticism for expressing their “views.” Now a group of Seattle peace birdies is claiming their Amendment X rights in Seattle. ...
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More Iraqi Propaganda
Tue, Apr 1, 2003 at 3:10:33 pm PST
Is there a law that the Associated Press has to report every single Iraqi propaganda claim, no matter how patently false? Iraq Says U.S. Kills Civilians in Hillah. HILLAH, Iraq - Iraqi officials said Tuesday that U.S. Apache helicopters attacked a neighborhood in the central Iraq city of Hillah, killing ...
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Indymedia UK Seethes, Whines
Tue, Apr 1, 2003 at 2:58:42 pm PST
A group of starry-eyed peace ninnies tried to stop a British RAF convoy carrying bombs, by locking themselves to the trucks. Imagine their surprise when the trucks just kept moving, forcing them to rapidly open the locks and run away scared. Now they’re whining petulantly about it at Indymedia UK. (Hat ...
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Halliburton Will Not Bid
Tue, Apr 1, 2003 at 2:46:37 pm PST
Vice president Dick Cheney’s former company Halliburton will not bid for Iraq reconstruction projects. (Hat tip: velvetelvis. And Ariel too.) Time to find another phony argument, Indymedia fans.
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Madonna Launches Suicide Attack
Tue, Apr 1, 2003 at 1:10:42 pm PST
Matt Drudge reports that Madonna will not release her new video in the United States, because she doesn’t “want to risk offending anyone who might misinterpret the meaning.” Let’s see if we can interpret the meaning correctly from Drudge’s description: Scenes of stealth bombers and missile launches are edited with ...
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Columbia vs. America
Tue, Apr 1, 2003 at 12:37:12 pm PST
Daniel Pipes writes about the disgraceful professorial staff of Columbia University: Columbia vs. America.
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The Truth Is Out There
Tue, Apr 1, 2003 at 12:19:01 pm PST
BREAKING: I just heard a report on Fox that the driver of that van fired upon by US soldiers at the Najah checkpoint was forced to drive past the stop signs, by fedayeen who were holding her family hostage. Still waiting for an online story.
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DeGenova to Speak in NY
Tue, Apr 1, 2003 at 10:49:48 am PST
Columbia professor Nicholas DeGenova, who openly wished for the defeat of the US and the deaths of American soldiers (yet still has a job at Columbia), will be speaking this Thursday, April 3, at the Brecht Forum along with several Arab “anti-war” representatives. (Hat tip: Brenda Walker.) Here’s how the ...
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Dead Man Says, Join Me
Tue, Apr 1, 2003 at 10:13:44 am PST
OK, that’s it. I am now 100% convinced that Saddam Hussein is either dead or totally incapacitated, as the Iraqi information minister reads a “statement” from the dictator: Purported Saddam Message Calls for Jihad. BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi information minister, reading a statement he said was from Saddam Hussein, ...
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Scheer: Anti-American Moonbat
Tue, Apr 1, 2003 at 9:58:06 am PST
Just turned on the radio to hear Bill O'Reilly going off on the Los Angeles Times and this incredibly foul Robert Scheer column: 'Terror' as the Ultimate Excuse. United States a terrorist state. Depleted uranium. Vietnam. Scare quotes out the yin yang. It’s all here. Scheer has been pumping out these ...
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Urban Warriors
Tue, Apr 1, 2003 at 9:39:49 am PST
Here’s another great column from Ralph Peters, on Urban Warriors, American style. SADDAM had a plan. He intended to lure allied forces into the streets of his cities, where ambushes would turn the war into a bloodbath. Unfortunately for Saddam, our troops failed to cooperate: The blood being shed is ...
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Human Shields and Suicide Arabs
Tue, Apr 1, 2003 at 8:47:48 am PST
I’m shocked that Agence Frawnce Presse is reporting Iraqi propaganda as fact! US warplane hit buses carrying human shields. BAGHDAD (AFP) - Several people were wounded when a US warplane attacked two Iraqi buses carrying international volunteers, some of them American, who were operating as "human shields", Information Minister Mohammad ...
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The American Way of War
Tue, Apr 1, 2003 at 8:34:43 am PST
Victor Davis Hanson on The American Way of War. A dead-on characterization of the media’s spin cycles: The American media and its punditry follow a predictable wartime volatility — as Gulf War I, Serbia, Afghanistan, and the present conflict attest: day-one euphoria; followed by week two of dejection and recrimination; ...
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Oliver Willis Dodge Watch
Tue, Apr 1, 2003 at 8:23:34 am PST
Oliver Willis continues to take snippy little potshots at LGF, while completely refusing to deal with his idiotic statement that Fox News and Al Jazeera “serve the same purpose.” The Oliver Willis Dodge Watch stands at: 3 days and counting. UPDATE: and this is just pathetic. More ad hominem attacks, more selective ...
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Who Needs Oil? We Ride the Bus!
Tue, Apr 1, 2003 at 8:04:38 am PST
Calling all would-be suicide bombers, jihadis, and all other Arabs interested in killing some infidels: free bus rides to Iraq! Such a deal. (Hat tip: Rand Simberg.) AMMAN, Jordan, March 31 (AFP) - A first free bus to Baghdad left the Jordanian capital Monday, courtesy of one of Saddam Hussein's ...
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