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Friday, April 30, 2004

Thai Muslims Enraged, Seething

Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 8:05:37 pm PDT

Muslims in southern Thailand are seething over the Thai army’s harsh response to the violence of their Islamic brethren: Thai Muslims enraged and fearful as army hunts for more rebels. THAI troops stepped up the hunt for thousands of Islamic militants as fear and anger spread across the south of the ...

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Hijab Ban Becomes Nuanced

Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 5:22:00 pm PDT

France begins the process of backing down from its ban on Islamic headscarves (hijab): French Head Scarf Law Allows Some Leeway. PARIS - France’s public schools will have considerable leeway in applying a new law banning conspicuous religious apparel, a government document said Friday, meaning bandanas favored by some Muslims could ...

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March of the Moderate Muslims

Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 5:17:07 pm PDT

Arizona physician Zuhdi Jasser organized a “Rally Against Terror,” intended to give moderate Muslims a chance to speak out against the extremists and show their support for America. As the nation’s first such rally, the event got national coverage and the backing of Arizona’s leading newspaper the Arizona Republic. And 30 ...

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The Bug Nebula

Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 4:48:38 pm PDT

This image, released April 29, 2004, of the Bug Nebula (NGC 6302) taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows impressive walls of compressed gas, laced with trailing strands and bubbling outflows. A dark, dusty torus surrounds the inner nebula (seen at the upper right). At the heart of the ...

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LGF in JPost

Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 2:22:40 pm PDT

Little Green Footballs gets a nice writeup in the Jerusalem Post’s Business section, in a story about RSS newsreaders: No newz is bad newz. It’s easy to get at a range of opinions today, thanks to the Web. Any opinionated person can open up a Web site and post their screed ...

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Arab World Drunk with Rage

Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 12:44:56 pm PDT

Rage. Seething. Humiliation. “They keep asking why we hate them? Why we detest them? Maybe they should look well in the mirror and then they will hate themselves,” said Khadija Mousa from Syria. “What I saw is very very humiliating. The Americans are showing their true image.” “The liberators are worse than ...

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French Antisemitism Watch

Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 12:34:09 pm PDT

Graffiti reading ‘Jews out’ and depicting a swastika are painted at the entrance of a Jewish cemetery in Herrlisheim, eastern France, Friday, April 30, 2004. About 100 headstones have been desecrated in the cemetery and the French government quickly condemned the attack. In the past few years, France has suffered ...

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Dark Ages Spreading in Nigeria

Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:55:10 am PDT

The governor of Zamfara State in Nigeria has ordered the demolition of all churches in the state, in accordance with Islamic shari’a law. (Hat tip: jrwalker.) Governor Ahmed Sani of Zamfara State, has ordered the demolition of all churches in the state, as he launched the second phase of his ...

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A Next Step for Israel?

Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:29:28 am PDT

Charles Krauthammer states the plain truth once again in a piece about the world’s reaction to Israel’s offer to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza: A next step for Israel? It is in this kind of atmosphere that Israel offers unilateral withdrawal from Gaza — uprooting 7,000 Jews, turning over to the Palestinians ...

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Japanese Hostages Admired Their Abductors

Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 10:04:38 am PDT

Oh, brother: Japanese Hostages Talk About Their Ordeal. They said their captors treated them relatively well, despite a grim video aired repeatedly on Japanese television in which the kidnappers manhandled the three at gunpoint and pointed knives at their throats. Imai said the abductors told them to act afraid and to cry ...

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French Shari'a Watch

Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 9:56:19 am PDT

The New York Times has a report on France’s struggles to curb extremist Muslim clerics. Mr. Bouziane has preached at several mosques in and around Lyon since arriving in France from Algeria in 1979. After a six-month stint in Saudi Arabia, he began preaching at the Vénissieux mosque, an unassuming ...

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An Islamic State in Thailand?

Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 8:51:02 am PDT

According to Thai security officials, the Muslim violence in southern Thailand is the work of a growing movement that wants to establish an Islamic state: Adviser: Thai Violence From Movement. Gen. Kitti Rattanchaya, the south’s top security adviser, said the movement has enlisted hundreds of fighters ready to sacrifice themselves. He ...

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Arab Media Seething, Humiliated

Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 8:41:56 am PDT

If true, the stories of Iraqi prisoners being embarrassed by US military police are distasteful at the very least, and the MPs involved should be disciplined if found guilty. What worries me about this, however, is the imminent, very predictable self-flagellating guilt orgy from the media, replete with silly exaggerations of ...

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Rumsfeld's War, Powell's Occupation

Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 7:49:30 am PDT

An excellent analysis by Barbara Lerner on the occupation of Iraq—an occupation planned and overseen by the State Department: Rumsfeld’s War, Powell’s Occupation. The latest post-hoc conventional wisdom on Iraq is that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld won the war but lost the occupation. There are two problems with this analysis (which comes, ...

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Muslims and Christians Battle in Nigeria

Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 7:09:49 am PDT

More than 100 dead in Muslim-Christian battles in Nigeria. LAGOS (Reuters) - More than 100 people were believed killed and 1,000 wounded in fresh ethnic and religious fighting in central Nigeria, the Nigerian Red Cross said on Friday. The death toll from Tuesday’s fighting between Muslims and Christians in six remote farming ...

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Thursday, April 29, 2004

RoP Battles Indonesian Police

Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 8:52:04 pm PDT

The tiny minority of Islamic extremists who support terrorists like Abu Bakr Bashir fought running battles with Indonesian police today as the Jemaah Islamiyah leader was released and re-arrested: Indonesia Police Arrest Bashir, Clash with Supporters. Hundreds of his supporters clashed with police before dawn near the prison in Jakarta before ...

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US to Qatar: Do Something About JihadTV

Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 7:54:46 pm PDT

The United States is pressuring Qatar to do something about the non-stop jihad incitement pouring from Al Jazeera television: At U.S. Urging, Qatar to Seek Review at Al Jazeera. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Under U.S. pressure, Qatar’s foreign minister said on Thursday he would seek a review of Arabic television station al ...

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Google Goes Public for Big Bux

Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 6:27:05 pm PDT

Google is Going Public in a $2.7 Billion Offering. The planned initial public offering promised to enrich the founders and early backers of the unconventional six-year-old company, which posted revenue of almost $1 billion last year. It also set the stage for a new round of competition for Internet advertising dollars between ...

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Utopian Dreams, Iraqi Irredentism

Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 5:29:05 pm PDT

A fascinating piece by Andrew Bostom on Gertrude Bell, a turn of the century explorer and adventurer famous for her knowledge of the Middle East, and her writings about the formation of the modern state of Iraq: Fond Foolishness - Utopian dreams and Iraqi irredentism. Baghdad, March 14, 1920 It’s a problem ...

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The Dogs of Gaza

Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 5:21:14 pm PDT

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Alhurra TV Gets Ratings

Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 3:18:07 pm PDT

Arabic-language TV channel Alhurra, founded by the US to counteract the poisonous incitement of Arab TV channels like Al Jazeera, is winning viewers in the Arab world: Arabs are watching US TV channel Alhurra. WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) - The controversial U.S. Arabic-language TV channel Alhurra is winning viewers as a ...

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The CAIR-Terror Connection

Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 2:36:54 pm PDT

Joe Kaufman details CAIR’s connections to the Global Relief Foundation and the Holy Land Foundation, two Islamic “charities” shut down for connections to terrorism: The CAIR-Terror Connection. In September of 2001, just following the worst terrorist attack ever suffered in modern history, CAIR placed on its website, under a picture of ...

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American Purposes In Iraq

Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 2:06:33 pm PDT

Daniel Pipes makes the case for a more pragmatic set of goals by which to measure success in Iraq, making reference to a new book by Samuel P. Huntington: American Purposes In Iraq. Cosmopolitans reject the unilateralism of the Iraq campaign, despise the notion of guiding the Iraqis to “a free ...

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Bush and Cheney Meet with 9/11 Panel

Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 8:05:19 am PDT

The President and Vice President are talking with the 9/11 commission behind closed doors, in discussions that are supposed to remain private. How long until the first leaks?

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Bashir to be Re-Arrested

Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 7:31:38 am PDT

Indonesian Jemaah Islamiyah ringleader Abu Bakar Bashir will be released from jail on Friday—but thankfully, Indonesia plans to arrest him again immediately: Abu Bakar Bashir to Be Re-Arrested. JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The suspected spiritual leader of the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror group will be re-arrested after he is released from ...

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Terror Threat Against LA Malls

Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 7:05:43 am PDT

L.A. shopping malls on alert over terror threat. (Hat tip: Ed Moran.) LOS ANGELES - Westside residents were being asked to be on the lookout for unusual activities around local shopping malls after a terrorism task force reported an “uncorroborated” threat of a possible attack Thursday. FBI spokesman Matt McLaughlin said that ...

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Wednesday, April 28, 2004

The "Name and Shame" Game

Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 6:38:44 pm PDT

Islamic nations lusting for nuclear weapons got a slap on the wrist from the United Nations today, as the Security Council passed a resolution calling for nations to enact laws “prohibiting” weapons of mass destruction: UN Council Unanimously Adopts Terrorist Arms Ban. In a White House statement, Bush called the vote ...

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Palestinian Child Abuse

Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 6:32:49 pm PDT

The reason for check points: Sister of Palestinian Hamas militant Amjad Amarah, killed by an Israeli soldier, mourns as she holds his picture during his funeral in the West Bank town of Tulkarm April 28, 2004.

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A Study of Moonbat Migration Patterns

Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:41:38 am PDT

INDC Journal mounts an expedition to observe the fascinating and often bizarre Seasonal Moonbat IMF Migration.

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UN Manager Will Spill Beans on Oil-for-Food

Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:32:34 am PDT

According to the New York Post, the gigantic United Nations boondoggle known as the Oil-for-Food program is about to be blown wide open. (Hat tip: Tim Blair.) WASHINGTON - A former manager in the scandal-scarred oil for food program will tell Congress today how top U.N. officials running the program deliberately ...

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Death Cult Family Album

Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 9:53:50 am PDT

The mother of Palestinian suicide bomber Tareq Hmaid 24, places a picture of her son on her forehead at his family house at the Nusseirat refugee camp in Gaza Strip April 28,2004. Israeli soldiers thwarted an attempted car bombing against the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip ...

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Major Car Bomb Attack Stopped in Gaza

Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 9:30:51 am PDT

A Palestinian suicide car bomb attack with a huge amount of explosives was stopped today by Israeli soldiers in Gaza: Israel Thwarts Major Car Bomb Ahead of Gaza Vote. GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide car-bomber hurt four Israeli soldiers who stopped him reaching his target in the Gaza Strip on ...

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French Shari'a Watch

Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 8:59:57 am PDT

The radical imam expelled by France last week for advocating polygamy and wife beating will be allowed to return: France allows deported imam back. PARIS, April 28 (AFP) - The French government said Wednesday it would allow an Islamic imam it deported last week back into the country, but warned he ...

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The Royal Treatment

Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 8:00:07 am PDT

Steven Stalinsky on the virulent antisemitism of the House of Saud: The Royal Treatment. Prince Sultan — who is also second deputy prime minister, defense and aviation minister, and inspector general of Saudi Arabia — has been making statements against Jews for years. Following a ceremony at the Saudi Public Institution ...

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Muslim Battles in Thailand

Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 7:30:18 am PDT

The death toll in battles between Muslims and Thai authorities has now risen to more than 100. PATTANI, Thailand (Reuters) - Troops and police killed more than 100 gun and machete-wielding Muslim militants Wednesday, including more than 30 in a three-hour mosque shoot-out, on a day of carnage in Thailand’s restive ...

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Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Black Hat Blog Chasers

Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 6:59:15 pm PDT

A hopeful sign that US intelligence services are no longer ignorant of the internet: Blog-Tracking May Gain Ground Among U.S. Intelligence Officials. (Hat tip: ted.) People in black trench coats might soon be chasing blogs. Blogs, short for Web logs, are personal online journals. Individuals post them on Web sites to ...

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Village Voice Abandons Ship

Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 6:39:45 pm PDT

The Village Voice says John Kerry Must Go. (Hat tip: Ethel Carol.) WASHINGTON, D.C.— With the air gushing out of John Kerry’s balloon, it may be only a matter of time until political insiders in Washington face the dread reality that the junior senator from Massachusetts doesn’t have what it takes ...

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RoP Attacks in Thailand

Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 6:24:28 pm PDT

Thai Police Kill 24 in Muslim South After Attacks. BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police shot dead at least 24 people on Wednesday, most of them youths, in a series of dawn gun-battles in what is a serious escalation of four months of violence in the restive Muslim south, officials said. “They attacked ...

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The Colonel and His Women

Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 5:48:02 pm PDT

Here’s another view of Colonel Gaddafi’s fabulous grrrl squad, this time with fetching blue camo ensembles. UPDATE: In Brussels, an unidentified man tried to give Muammar Gaddafi a letter while he was shaking hands with European Union Commission President Romano Prodi—and was promptly hustled offstage. I’ve been trying to find photos of ...

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Lebanese MP: Al Qaeda is Tool of US Intelligence

Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 4:19:26 pm PDT

Lebanese Druze leader and Parliamentarian Walid Jumblatt found a willing audience for his crack-brained conspiracy rants—Al Arabiya television: Al-Qaeda and bin Laden are Tools of US Intelligence Agencies. Walid Jumblatt: “Until now, the consequence of Mr. Bush’s and Blair’s historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass ...

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They Shall Have War

Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 3:55:22 pm PDT

Riding that cresting wave of appeasement fervor, Spanish prime minister Jose Zapatero is planning to approach Germany and France with a proposal to work out a direct opposition to the US presence: Spain to Float Iraq Proposal to France, Germany. Shouldn’t they wait and see if Spain’s little experiment in giving ...

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Col. Gaddafi's Grrrl Squad

Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 3:31:29 pm PDT

A reader who wishes to remain anonymous forwarded this photo, origin unknown, of Libyan strongman and psycho freak snappy dresser Muammar Gaddafi ... with his rarely seen grrrl squad of hard-nosed bodyguard babes.

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Robbers vs. Suicide Bomber

Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 2:47:19 pm PDT

Here’s the twisted story of the day, as two Palestinian armed robbers try to steal the explosive belt from a suicide bomber, and all three are blown up: Robbers die trying to hold up suicide bomber. (Hat tip: Laurence Simon.) A Hamas suicide bomber blew up two armed Palestinians who tried ...

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Violence in Damascus

Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:47:27 pm PDT

Syrian Forces Clash With ‘Terrorist Band’. Residents of the area had reported explosions and gunfire in Mazza, on the western edge of the city. Smoke was seen billowing from the area, which security forces sealed off, the residents said. Al-Jazeera reported that car bombs were used in the attack and that heavy ...

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Iran's Manhattan Project Speeding Ahead

Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 8:11:25 am PDT

Iran has placed its nuclear experts under the control of the Revolutionary Guard, to prevent leaks about their clandestine nuclear weapons program: Sources: Iran Military Supervising Atomic Experts. VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are overseeing some 400 nuclear experts in order to prevent further leaks of sensitive information about Tehran’s ...

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He Who Hesitates

Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 7:52:53 am PDT

Ralph Peters returns to a common theme, and says we’re setting ourselves up for disaster by trying to fight a politically correct war: He Who Hesitates. Since the cease-fire, our troops have had to endure the ludicrous charade of “negotiations” with the Fallujah city fathers - breaking the rule that we ...

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Gaddafi: Don't Force Us Into Terrorism

Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 7:10:57 am PDT

Uh oh. Mere days after the US moved to lift sanctions against Libya, crazy old Muammar Gaddafi is threatening the European Union: Don’t Force us Back to Bombing, Gaddafi Tells West. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi appealed to the West Tuesday to take up Libya’s offer of peace and ...

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Monday, April 26, 2004

Pearl 2001

Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 8:23:28 pm PDT

LGF reader James Croak, aka “Right Brain,” forwarded us these two emails that he sent out shortly after the September 11 atrocities; they speak for themselves. *** Pearl 2001 Within one hour of the second tower falling, James Croak, a sculptor living in New York, sent this email via DSL to ...

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The Power to Do Good

Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 6:27:44 pm PDT

Victor Davis Hanson reviews the new book by Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Price of America’s Empire: The Power to Do Good. SO, the real crises of American power are soaring entitlements, unfunded social mandates and ever-increasing laxity and affluence among an indulgent citizenry. While we fret about prescription-drug benefits, the madrassas ...

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The Thug is Dead, Long Live the Thug

Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 5:11:44 pm PDT

The new leader of Hamas, to no one’s great surprise, is Mahmoud Zahar: Israel Identifies New Hamas Leader. Zahar is a repulsive and malevolent human being; here’s an LGF entry from last May with a link to a BBC HardTalk interview with him: The True Goal of Islam. And by the way, ...

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The RoP-Peacenik Alliance

Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 3:36:53 pm PDT

Al Arabiya has mysteriously come up with yet another videotape of Western hostages; this time the terrorists’ demands are aimed straight at the appeasement bloc in Italy: Iraqi Group Threatens to Kill Italian Hostages. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) - A group holding three Italians hostage in Iraq has threatened to ...

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Comments Temporarily Disabled

Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 2:31:11 pm PDT

Comments will be disabled for a short time while I do some maintenance work, and try to debug a problem some people have reported with comment previewing. UPDATE: Comments are back; those of you who’ve had trouble using the “preview” function when commenting, please let me know if the problems ...

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The Fallujah Stakes

Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 9:49:52 am PDT

Good points in an OpinionJournal editorial: The Fallujah Stakes. Sooner or later the Baath remnants, jihadists and criminals who have used Fallujah as a sanctuary have to be killed. They can’t be bargained with, they can’t be reasoned with, because for them a peaceful transition to Iraqi control after June 30 ...

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Eurabian Shari'a Watch

Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 8:23:06 am PDT

The New York Times has an article about the rise of militant Islam in Europe; ignore the typical NYT slant about the war in Iraq “enflaming Muslims,” and notice that even the Old Grey Lady is now reluctantly starting to tell the truth about the Islamic supremacists and their fantasies ...

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C&F Auction for Spirit of America

Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 7:49:48 am PDT

Cox & Forkum are auctioning off the original artwork for a special cartoon, to benefit a special cause.

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British Dhimmitude Watch

Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 7:44:12 am PDT

Even as British intelligence regularly warns of terror threats, the government of the UK will allow Muslim women to be exempt from ID card photos. Thousands of Muslim women will be exempted from having to show their faces on identity cards as the Government moves to allay fears among British Muslims ...

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One Page Standing

Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 7:31:39 am PDT

Two weeks after John F. Kerry’s web site offered free, unverified, unapproved web pages to the entire internet, leading to a flood of hilarious joke pages, one page remains. (Hat tip: D. Edgren.) I’m still surprised this incident didn’t get wider publicity; at the very least it shows a troubling lack ...

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Sunday, April 25, 2004

Frequently Asked Questions

Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 8:39:16 pm PDT

The Little Green Footballs FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page has been updated, with lots of new answers to those questions you may frequently find yourself asking. (Special thanks to LGF readers cba, evariste, Geepers, Grandma, Iron Fist, justdanny, logger phd, PDM, and zulubaby for helping put ...

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They Call Him "Flipper"

Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 4:37:15 pm PDT

Drudge is reporting that this claim at John Kerry’s web site ... RIGHTWING FICTION: John Kerry threw away his medals during a Vietnam war protest. FACT: John Kerry is proud of the work he did to end the Vietnam war. The Nixon Administration made John Kerry one of its targets and Kerry’s ...

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DUmmies: "I Hate America"

Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 4:25:13 pm PDT

The denizens of Democratic Underground are prone to apoplectic fits when you question their patriotism, or call them America-haters. But see ... that’s the thing. They really do hate America, and in this thread they discuss the reasons for their hatred with total candor: If by ‘America’ you mean the ...

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Slain Israeli Arab's Father Begs for Sanity

Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 3:17:50 pm PDT

Elias Khoury, the father of a young Israeli Arab murdered by Palestinian terrorists (who mistook him for a Jew), today issued an appeal for sanity in the PA. It’s all the more heartbreaking because this kind of statement is so vanishingly rare. Elias Khoury, a prominent lawyer from the Galilee who ...

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Bush Takes Erekat's Job

Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 9:37:28 am PDT

PLO spokesliar Saeb Erekat has resigned from Arafat’s “cabinet” 9 or 10 times now, but in today’s Washington Post he says George W. Bush had him fired: Why Did Bush Take My Job? (Hat tip: Carl in Jerusalem.) Erekat’s op-ed is the typical Palestinian propaganda line, but the best part is ...

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Saudis: "What Kind of Jihad is This?

Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 9:23:02 am PDT

The LA Times showcases Islamic supremacism in Saudi Arabia, as Saudis are shocked and outraged that the jihadis are killing Muslims in the home of Islam. Kill Jews, no problem. Kill Americans, business as usual. Kill Muslims, and suddenly Jihad Hits Home in Saudi Arabia. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Abdelaziz Raikhan ...

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French Shari'a Watch

Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 8:28:46 am PDT

Merde in France reports that the television station run by the Hizballah terror gang, Al Manar, is getting so popular in France that shows are now being broadcast in French.

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Jihad in Kosovo?

Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 7:54:22 am PDT

That Jordanian UN policeman who murdered three American UN police and wounded 11 others in Kosovo may have connections to Hamas: Authorities Probe Kosovo Prison Shooting. As investigators tried to pin down Sgt. Maj. Ahmed Mustafa Ibrahim Ali’s motive, a clearer picture of the April 17 attack emerged this week. Witnesses, ...

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RoP Battles Christians in Indonesia

Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 7:36:54 am PDT

Ten people are dead in the Indonesian city of Ambon, as Muslims and Christians battled in the street, and a church and UN office were burned. This Reuters report is typically vague on the details, as in any of their reports from Muslim-Christian hot spots, but it appears the fighting ...

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RoP in Netherlands: Kill Gays, Beat Women

Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 7:28:41 am PDT

Ex-Muslim Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali is trying to have one of the more extreme mosques in the Netherlands shut down: Hirsi Ali: shut anti-woman, anti-gay Dutch mosque. (Hat tip: Norwegian kafir.) The Dutch Parliament is to hold an emergency debate about the El Tawheed mosque next week. MPs want Justice ...

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365 Days of Jihad

Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 7:15:15 am PDT

Confiscated from Arab schoolteachers at a checkpoint near Ramallah, here is this year’s jihad calendar for kids. (Hat tip: dave.)

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Saturday, April 24, 2004

Brits Nix EU Constitution

Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 8:17:47 pm PDT

Tony Blair seems to aspire to be an EU power player; but the British public overwhelmingly wants nothing to do with the European Union and its over-inflated, bureaucrats-on-crack Constitution: Polls: Most Britons Nix EU Constitution. LONDON - A majority of Britons would vote “no” in a referendum on a European ...

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T-Shirts with a Twist

Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 6:39:45 pm PDT

Check out these very cool Arabic-language, pro-Israel, anti-jihad T-shirts from Rokem Needle Arts: Arabic Zionist Apparel.

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Zapatero to Crocodile: We're On Your Side

Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 6:00:04 pm PDT

Spain’s newly-installed prime minister Jose Zapatero took time out from overseeing the withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq to come to the defense of Yasser Arafat: Spain’s Leader Criticizes Israeli Threat to Arafat. “I don’t think certain threats, that undoubtedly contribute to intensifying the climate of tension...are the right way,” Jose ...

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Email Referrers

Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 5:38:01 pm PDT

I’m seeing a lot of referrals from Yahoo Mail and HotMail. Anyone know if there was a link to LGF on someone’s mailing list?

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DUmmies Try to Figure Out Why Bush is Ahead

Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 5:24:33 pm PDT

The denizens of Democratic Underground are trying to figure out how George W. Bush can possibly be ahead in the polls, when he’s obviously such a fascist Hitler smirking chimp. Simple-minded yet all-powerful, the cowboy chimp bestrides the world like a low-IQ colossus, and Democratic Underground can only ask the poignant ...

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Terror Enablers Making Pests of Themselves

Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 4:35:29 pm PDT

Quranblog has photos of the anti-Caterpillar protest in Peoria, at which Rachel Corrie’s parents, relatives, and fellow terror-enablers made a royal pain of themselves, demanding that Caterpillar stop selling bulldozers to Israel: Cat Protest 04-23-2004. Here we see the well-known dexterity with arts and crafts for which the pro-terror anti-war movement ...

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Hate Like an Egyptian

Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 3:33:08 pm PDT

In March, the Egyptian government daily Al-Gumhouriyya published an article by deputy editor Abd Al-Wahhab ’Adas that has to rate as one of the all-time top ten most insane, hate-filled diatribes ever seen in the government-controlled media of the country that eagerly sucks up $2 billion a year of US ...

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Long Live the King

Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 2:42:05 pm PDT

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Honor Killing in New York

Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 2:09:57 pm PDT

Man killed wife for ‘honor,’ he tells cops. Ismail Peltek, who was indicted Friday on charges of second-degree murder in the April 15 slaying of his wife, Hatice Peltek, claimed he attacked his wife and daughters after learning that his brother had molested his wife and his 22-year-old daughter, according to ...

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Food for Dictators

Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 8:29:28 am PDT

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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UN Human Wrongs Commission

Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 8:25:15 am PDT

Here’s an absolutely horrific example of the United Nations’ corruption, as the UN “Human Rights” Commission issues only the weakest disapproval for the ongoing genocidal war in Sudan: UN human rights forum avoids harsh critique of Sudan’s Darfur conflict. The “weak” decision adopted by the Commission reflected a compromise that all ...

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Al-Qaeda's War on Iraq

Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 8:07:32 am PDT

Dr. Walid Phares says there is a war against Iraq—but that Iraq’s real enemy is not the United States: Al-Qaeda’s War on Iraq. In targeting police stations, the attacks were meant not only to kill security officers, but also to disrupt the present and future security of Iraq. The aim goes ...

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Friday, April 23, 2004

The Enemy at Home

Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 9:51:50 pm PDT

If your stomach feels strong, go read what the sewer-minded Morlocks at Portland Indymedia are saying about the death of Pat Tillman: Dumb Jock Killed in Afghanistan. (Hat tip: Dar ul Harbarian.) Were the Nazis heroes? Didn’t they also die for what they thought was right? Haven’t we all learned by ...

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The Media Mask Slips

Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 9:44:19 pm PDT

Falling all over themselves in an unseemly and ghoulish haste to publish photographs of American soldiers arriving home in coffins, the Washington Post, CNN, AP, and Reuters all ran pictures of Columbia shuttle disaster victims—wrongly identified as Iraqi war dead.

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The Wisdom of Google

Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 8:30:40 pm PDT

OK, it’s Friday night, I give in ... I’ll link to a Google bomb. Search Google for waffles and right at the top of the list is ... none other than ...

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Fisk Fisks Self

Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 8:06:52 pm PDT

Challenged on his blatant lies about “massacres” in Jenin, Robert Fisk loses it. Big time. (MPEG video, 7.7 Meg. Hat tip: Y&Y.)

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Palestinian Child Abuse

Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 6:56:44 pm PDT

A Palestinian peers around a “militant” carrying an explosive belt during the funeral of three “militants” who were killed in an Israeli army operation in the West Bank city of Qalqilya April 23, 2004. Israeli troops shot and killed the Palestinians on Friday in West Bank raids targeting suspected “militants.” ...

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Kerry Adrift

Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 6:53:08 pm PDT

Charles Krauthammer turns his withering gaze on John F. Kerry’s bizarre, vague proposals to get the United Nations involved in Iraq—an involvement the UN desperately eschews at every opportunity: Kerry Adrift. “If I’m president,” John Kerry said, “I will not only personally go to the U.N., I will go to ...

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Escaping Arab Failure

Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 4:36:11 pm PDT

Ralph Peters has a dash of cold reality for us, in the New York Post; a reminder that the problems in the Arab world go much deeper than anyone—especially the Arab world itself—wants to admit: Escaping Arab Failure. (Hat tip: ploome.) The failure of Arab civilization in our time is the ...

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King Abdullah's Brother To Wed CNN Reporter

Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 1:02:21 pm PDT

Anyone think there’s a slight potential for conflict of interest here? Jordanian royal court announces engagement of King Abdullah’s brother to a CNN reporter. (Hat tip: zombie.) Jordan’s royal family on Friday announced the engagement of King Abdullah II’s half brother, Prince Ali, to CNN reporter Rym Brahimi. The wedding will take ...

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Myth or Reality?

Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:30:29 pm PDT

Victor Davis Hanson counts up the fashionable myths about the Iraq War and knocks them down, one by one: Myth or Reality?

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RIP, Pat Tillman

Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 7:49:02 am PDT

Pat Tillman, who left the NFL and joined the Army Rangers in an inspirational act of patriotism after September 11, has been killed in Afghanistan.

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Attack Threat to British Parliament

Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 7:34:55 am PDT

British intelligence is warning of a specific threat to attack the House of Commons: MPs warned of anthrax threat to British parliament. Members were alerted over a possible strike using anthrax or the deadly chemical ricin on the House of Commons, the lower chamber of parliament, by MI5, Britain’s domestic security ...

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Open Jew-Hatred at Rutgers

Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 7:08:46 am PDT

This is how bad things are getting on American campuses, as the Rutgers University “entertainment” newspaper features an evil antisemitic cartoon on its cover for Holocaust Remembrance “Week”—with the excuse that it’s supposed to be funny: The Medium Online. (Hat tip: Alexis Z.)

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Thursday, April 22, 2004

Arab Rage and Revisionist History

Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 8:23:04 pm PDT

In case you thought the Arab Street™ had settled down with a couple of brewskies and watched American Idol and chilled out a little, well ... no such luck. The Associated Press wants you to know that the Arab Street™ still hates us, so much that even the intellectuals are ready ...

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"This is Jihad"

Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 8:04:04 pm PDT

When Westerners are murdered in the name of Islam, Saudis smile and nod approval. When Saudis are murdered in the name of Islam, suddenly it’s a shocking and unsettling crime: Saudis Support a Jihad in Iraq, Not Back Home. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, April 22 — On Wednesday morning, just hours before ...

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Fund Raising Maps Online

Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 7:06:43 pm PDT

If DNC leaders are aware of it, this map of the USA showing fund-raising for Republicans (red) and Democrats (blue) must be giving them nightmares. (Hat tip: Solomon X.)

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Crop-Dusters Investigated

Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 6:33:49 pm PDT

Crop-dusting planes and pilots have been coming under special scrutiny in the past year: FBI Checking Crop-Dusting Planes, Pilots. WASHINGTON - The FBI has questioned more than 3,000 pilots and aircraft owners, most of them in the past year, amid persistent concerns that terrorists might use crop-dusting planes to mount a ...

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Moussaoui Meltdown Continues

Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 6:21:40 pm PDT

The Zacarias Moussaoui case is going to continue limping along, but the appeals court will allow Moussaoui access to written statements from high-level Al Qaeda prisoners: Appeals Court: Continue Moussaoui Case. The three-judge panel backed Moussaoui on the key issue, granting him access to three al-Qaida prisoners who have made statements ...

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De Villepin: No Terrorists, S'il Vous Plait

Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 5:25:21 pm PDT

French Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin (who is a man) is embarking on a simplistic, unilateral, racist campaign to expel foreign imams of the Religion of Peace™ from France, unjustly accusing these religious leaders of extremism, violating their civil rights, and causing them severe humiliation, in a stunning act of ...

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PLO Head Spills the Beans

Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 3:36:39 pm PDT

Farouk Kaddoumi, the “foreign minister” of the PLO who lives in Tunisia, gave an interview with a Jordanian newspaper in which he openly admits the PLO charter was never changed to recognize Israel’s right to exist, and that when Arafat talks about “struggle,” he means armed struggle. In response to a ...

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Image Mirrors Reality

Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:41:50 pm PDT

In Pakistan’s Daily Times, a very unusual op-ed by Razi Azmi on the Islamic “image problem,” daring to suggest that the negative image of Muslims may be due to the actions of ... Muslims: Image Mirrors Reality. (Hat tip: Dhimmi Watch.) Muslims of all hues and lands protest their so-called image ...

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Peaceniks Want to Take Away Teddy Bears

Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 8:03:22 am PDT

British “anti-war” group Suffolk 4 Peace is crying “insensitivity” over a campaign to give teddy bears to Iraqi children—because the bears are made from old uniforms: Military bears are ‘insensitive’. (Hat tip: twostellas.) Volunteers at the US RAF Lakenheath base in Suffolk have been producing the soft toys from old and ...

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No Honor Among Murderers

Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 7:50:30 am PDT

Today the world’s oldest terrorist gave all those other terrorists who’ve been holed up in his stinky office the heave-ho. RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - Yasser Arafat expelled a group of 21 members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades from his West Bank headquarters overnight, a leader of the “militant” faction told ...

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Saudis to Al Qaeda: You're Killing the Wrong People

Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 7:37:09 am PDT

The Associated Press continues their shameless whitewashing of radical Islam, with a blatantly misleading headline: Saudi Cleric Denounces Suicide Bombing. Grand Mufti Abdul-Aziz al-Sheik, the kingdom’s highest religious authority, denounced the bombing in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. “God revealed the criminality of this wayward group, which harms ...

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Ah Vanunu, We Hardly Knew Ye

Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 7:25:15 am PDT

LGF reader “zombie” gives us a close-up look at the implosion of the anti-Israel movement in the heart of idiotarianism, San Francisco, as a demonstration in favor of Israeli “nuclear whistleblower” Mordecai Vanunu couldn’t even draw 10 people: Mordechai Vanunu rally in SF, April 21st, 2004.

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Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Just Ignore Those Sermons...

Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 9:54:36 pm PDT

The Crown Prince of the Saudi entity sets our minds to rest about that whole terrorism thing: Islam Is a Religion of Peace, Says Abdullah. RIYADH, 21 April 2004 — Crown Prince Abdullah, deputy premier and commander of the National Guard, yesterday reaffirmed that Islam is a religion of peace and ...

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Mideast Instability: Is That Such a Bad Thing?

Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 9:45:07 pm PDT

Mark Steyn says the status quo was not working—more than that, it had become dangerous—and the solution might be more Mideast instability. In the summer of 2002, Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League, issued a stern warning to the BBC: a US invasion of Iraq would “threaten the whole stability ...

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Peaceful Religion Watch

Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 9:19:14 pm PDT

The ranting was slightly more apocalyptic and xenophobically paranoid than usual last Friday in the spiritual centers of Islam, all broadcast live over Arab television to millions of viewers. From the holy mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia: Shaykh Salih Bin-Abdallah Bin-Humayd delivers the sermon. After praising God and His messenger, he calls ...

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OIC Springs Into Action

Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 8:24:28 pm PDT

The Organization of the Islamic Conference is holding an emergency meeting. Yes, another. Care to guess the topic? Islamic Nations Open Meeting on Iraq, Israel. PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (Reuters) - Islamic nations, opening an emergency meeting on Thursday, will urge the U.N. to take a key role in Iraq after Washington transfers ...

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Vermont is Missing Something Important

Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 8:07:57 pm PDT

The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is missing two pieces of a highly radioactive fuel rod: Vermont nuclear plant searching for missing fuel rods. The fuel rod was removed in 1979 from the Vermont Yankee reactor, which is currently shut down for refueling and maintenance. Remote-control cameras will be used to ...

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LFG Makes the WaPo

Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 6:53:25 pm PDT

Hey, Mom! I’m in the Washington Post! Some Candidates Turn To Blogs to Place Ads (washingtonpost.com). (Hat tip: bad elvin.) Back in January, during the waning weeks of his special election campaign for the House, the Kentucky Democrat spent $2,000 on ads on 11 blogs. It was, at the time, a novel ...

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Missing 727 Update

Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 6:16:42 pm PDT

Remember that Boeing 727 outfitted with 10 500-gallon fuel tanks that vanished after taking off from an airport in Angola? Well, they’re still looking for it: Missing Plane, Pilot Baffle Investigators.

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Thank You, Ariel Sharon

Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 6:10:25 pm PDT

Surely the strongest endorsement of Israel yet—combined with a refreshingly honest assessment of the PLO’s evil agenda—from an American President: Bush Says World Owes Israel’s Sharon a ‘Thank You’. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush on Wednesday rejected international condemnation of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and said world leaders owed him ...

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A Routine Day in Iraq

Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 5:24:54 pm PDT

A very powerful, straight-from-the-heart post from Mohammed at Iraq the Model. I believe in the bright future ahead but I’m upset now and I came here to write and release some of my frustration. I can’t bear it alone. why me? Why my country? All that we need is a moment ...

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France Expels One

Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 1:16:56 pm PDT

France has deported an Algerian Muslim “prayer leader” who told a magazine interviewer that he was in favor of wife beating and stoning: France expels radical Muslim prayer leader. (Hat tip: Carl in Jerusalem.) An Algerian Muslim prayer leader whose comments condoning wife-beating sparked an uproar in France was deported Wednesday, ...

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Jermaine Spreads Love in the Gulf

Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 8:28:16 am PDT

Jermaine Jackson, washed-up pop star and brother of accused child molester Michael, is in the Persian Gulf “promoting understanding” between the Muslim world and America. How does this spoiled, pampered product of the Western star-making machine “promote understanding?” By appealing to Muslims’ sense of victimhood, and expressing sympathy for the ...

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Holy Warriors Murder Children

Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 8:20:32 am PDT

The noble mujahideen in Iraq have attacked again with car bombs, killing at least 68 people including 17 children on their way to school: Suicide Bombers Kill 68 in Southern Iraq. Near-simultaneous vehicle explosions hit three police stations in Basra and a police academy in Zubair, a mainly Sunni town 25 ...

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Terror on the Dole

Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 8:10:09 am PDT

The radical British Muslims profiled in this story from London’s Evening Standard don’t really fit the definition of “fifth column,” because there’s nothing secret about their desire to cannibalize the body of their host: Terror on the dole. (Hat tip: Montaigne’s Cat.) Four young British Muslims in their twenties - a ...

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Religion of Peace Strikes in Saudi Arabia

Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 8:05:23 am PDT

’Terrorist’ Car Bomb Kills at Least 10 in Saudi. Ambulances rushed toward the site of Wednesday’s blast and smoke billowed from damaged buildings in the area, which also houses state television and the Information Ministry. The explosion gouged a deep crater in the road where dozens of blackened and twisted cars still ...

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JihadTV: Up for a Webby

Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 7:49:12 am PDT

How clueless are web design weenies about what’s going on in the world? So clueless that they have nominated Al Jazeera, the rabidly anti-American and anti-Israel propaganda arm of worldwide jihad, for a Webby Award. (Hat tip: Cranial.)

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Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Terror Enablers Making Pests of Themselves

Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:06:47 pm PDT

This Friday the terror-enabling morons of the ISM are converging on Caterpillar headquarters in Peoria, joined by the parents of Rachel Corrie, to demand that Caterpillar stop doing business with Israel: Stop Cat Coalition. (Hat tip: ism_truth.) Oh yes; they also want a “fair contract” for Caterpillar workers. That’s how much ...

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"Hate Hurts America"

Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 9:14:24 pm PDT

Islam Online reports that the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is launching a campaign to teach American Muslims how to monitor the US media for anti-Muslim “hate:” CAIR Launches ‘Hate Hurts America’ Radio Campaign. Elsewhere at Islam Online, one of their Islamic scholars explains when it’s permissible to rob Jewish ...

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Adhan in Michigan

Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 8:58:24 pm PDT

Muslim groups in Hamtramck, Michigan, who want a special exemption from noise ordinances to blare the Islamic call to worship over loudspeakers five times a day, are going to get their wish: Hamtramck may approve Muslim prayer call. (Hat tip: Brenda Walker.) HAMTRAMCK — Along with pierogi and paczki, Hamtramck may ...

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How Bush Caused 9/11

Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 7:40:15 pm PDT

Another terrific essay from Orson Scott Card, on the bizarre partisan circus of the 9/11 hearings: How Bush Caused 9/11. (Hat tip: mal.) The America of 10 September 2001 could not have prevented or predicted the events that happened the next day. It’s no one’s fault, it’s just a fact. There ...

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Arab Anger Watch

Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 7:24:46 pm PDT

You may not have thought it possible, but the Associated Press wants you to know that Arab Anger at US Is Mounting. WASHINGTON - Egypt’s president says Arabs hold a “hatred never equaled” toward America. Jordan’s king abruptly postpones a visit to the White House. And those are among the United ...

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Anti-Israel Terror Backfires

Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 7:07:08 pm PDT

No surprise to see the Arab Street™ go insane following the execution of the mass murderer Rantisi; that’s what they do whenever anything of import happens in the Middle East. It’s as predictable as the sunrise. But Daniel Pipes argues that all this seething rage—the flag burnings, the threats of volcanos ...

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Cycling Diary

Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 5:45:01 pm PDT

Today’s ride was one of those short easy rides that turned into an all-day time-waster. I was less than 5 miles from home when I heard a ping! from my rear wheel—and it turned out to be a broken spoke. Unfortunately, when you break a spoke on a 20-spoke rear ...

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Candygram from Mubarak: Arabs Hate Us a Lot

Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 9:06:26 am PDT

The “president” of Egypt says we’ve done it now. Israel has killed two major Arab heroes/mass murderers, and the Arab Street™ is really, really angry, full of hate, and burning for revenge: Mubarak: Arabs Hate U.S. More Than Ever. PARIS (Reuters) - Arabs in the Middle East hate the United States ...

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People are Beautiful, the World Stinks

Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 8:55:42 am PDT

A great piece by Dennis Prager: People are beautiful, the world stinks. (Hat tip: Wild Justice.) If you love goodness and hate evil, this is a tough time to stay sane. Israel has killed Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the Hamas terror leader, and almost every nation in the world and the nations’ theoretical ...

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Indonesia to Israel: Lay Down Your Weapons, Now

Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 8:46:11 am PDT

Yesterday the Indonesian representative to the United Nations demanded that Israel stop using “weapons and bullets” to defend against the atrocities committed by monsters like Rantisi: Indonesia demands Israel does not use weapons, bullets anymore. (Hat tip: Avi.) NEW YORK (Antara): The government demanded on Monday that Israel return to negotiations ...

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CNN: PR Firm for Islam

Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 8:09:47 am PDT

In this story about a female TV host in Saudi Arabia brutally beaten by her husband, CNN acts as a public relations firm for Islam: TV host goes public with abuse. (Hat tip: Tzalmaves.) Although Islam prohibits violence against women, many believe spousal abuse is common in the almost entirely Muslim ...

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Monday, April 19, 2004

They Shall Have War

Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 9:14:19 pm PDT

Honduras rushes to join Spain in pulling troops out of Iraq, as Iranian puppet Muqtada al-Sadr gloats. But the news pleased Muqtada al-Sadr, the influential Shiite cleric who is hiding in the holy city of Najaf, where the Spanish troops are deployed, “We have noticed that the coalition has pulled back,” al-Sadr ...

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Calling Jews, Nazis

Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 6:34:36 pm PDT

Manfred Gerstenfeld, chairman of the Board of Fellows of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, says that a common chant of the Eurabian-American far left reveals their barely-hidden antisemitism: Calling Jews, Nazis. (Hat tip: Carl in Jerusalem.) One easy way to capture the essence of anti-Semitism succinctly is to examine European ...

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Bowling for Fallujah

Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 6:08:41 pm PDT

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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Hamas Terror Attack Chronology

Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 4:16:52 pm PDT

The horrendous toll of smashed lives and destroyed families caused by the Hamas terror gang since September 2000: A Chronology of Terrorist Attacks Carried out by Hamas.

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Oil-for-Terror?

Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:45:26 pm PDT

Claudia Rosett has been digging into the massive boondoggle known as the UN’s Oil for Food program, and today in the National Review she says it’s not just a case of corruption and graft: Oil-for-Terror? It’s time to talk about Oil-for-Terror. Especially with the U.N.’s own investigation into Oil-for-Food now taking shape, ...

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We Got Mail!

Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:23:46 pm PDT

A gentleman from Australia found us this morning by searching Google for “rikki lee jones,” then emailed to express his admiration, with the subject “idiots” and (as usual) an address at Hotmail: You stupid f-cking yanks are the bane of this world. Who the f-ck made you the moral gaurdians of ...

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Rethinking Armageddon

Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 10:35:49 am PDT

An OpinionJournal editorial takes on the subject nobody wants to discuss: Rethinking Armageddon. No one likes to consider the possibility of nuclear war. But somebody’s got to do it, and that sober duty fell recently to a special task force of the Defense Science Board, which has just recommended useful changes ...

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UN Springs Into Action

Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 10:23:00 am PDT

Here we go again, as the UN dutifully obliges the Arab dictatorships with another emergency meeting that will produce another condemnation of Israel. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council scheduled emergency consultations on the Middle East on Monday at the request of Arab nations following Israel’s assassination of a ...

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Martin: Al Qaeda Family Welcome

Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 10:12:38 am PDT

Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin says the Khadr family, admitted Al Qaeda members with close ties directly to Osama Bin Laden, deserves the full protection of Canadian citizenship. (Hat tip: Geepers.) “I believe that once you are a Canadian citizen, you have the right to your own views and to disagree,” ...

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Got 10 in Manchester

Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 10:04:25 am PDT

British Police Arrest 10 in Anti-Terror Raids. LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested 10 people suspected of terrorism in raids in the northern English city of Manchester Monday. A police spokeswoman could not confirm reports that those arrested were linked to Islamic groups who may have been targeting a shopping center ...

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Attacks on London "Inevitable"

Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 9:18:31 am PDT

When the next terror attack hits Europe, no one will be able to say it was a surprise, or a secret—as al-Muhajiroun leader Omar Bakri Muhammad openly threatens attacks on London. “It’s inevitable. Because several (attacks) are being prepared by several groups,” Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad told Lisbon’s Publica magazine from ...

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Holocaust Remembrance Day

Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 8:51:38 am PDT

This is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Jeff Jacoby tells a story of Faith in the depths of Hell. (Hat tip: aFriend.) In October 1941, “one of the respected members of the community” asked Rabbi Oshry if he could commit suicide. His wife and children had been seized by the Nazis, and he knew ...

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They Shall Have War

Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 8:24:14 am PDT

Someone broke into the tomb of a Spanish police officer killed in the recent raid on Islamic terrorists, dragged his body out, and set it on fire: Madrid policeman’s body burned. (Hat tip: Niall.) Hmm. This doesn’t look like the work of Buddhists. MADRID, Spain (CNN) — The body of a ...

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Operatives "In Place"

Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 7:59:10 am PDT

ABC News has a report that intelligence officials have uncovered evidence of an imminent terror attack against the US: Officials Warn Police of Potential Terror. (Hat tip: Allah.) Like many such tips, it is vague, but the government is disturbed enough that it held a rare conference call with local police ...

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Very Different Playbooks

Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 7:30:14 am PDT

Michael Ledeen says the terror masters and their media enablers are playing us for suckers: Very Different Playbooks. The fascists believed that we had become soft and effeminate, that we were so hooked on materialism and self-indulgence that they, the representatives of a younger, more virile, and more spiritually robust race ...

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Sunday, April 18, 2004

The New Arab Way of War

Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 6:08:03 pm PDT

I’ve posted this article by Captain Peter Layton of the Royal Australian Air Force before, but it’s very much worth another read in light of the recent violence centered around Iraq, Syria and Iran: The New Arab Way of War. The new Arab approach to conflict is an adaptation of the ...

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Straight Talk from Canada

Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 5:56:33 pm PDT

At the National Post, George Jonas says America must find its national purpose to beat the terrorists. There’s a demand for Pax Americana and, judging by President George Bush’s press conference this week, the United States is ready to supply it. The Bush administration seems anything but wobbly. Even so, one ...

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That's For Us to Know and You to Find Out

Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 5:41:14 pm PDT

Last August, Abdel Aziz Rantisi went on record: “We love martyrdom and we seek martyrdom,” Rantissi said. “Our leaders and followers will continue to fight until we achieve martyrdom.” OK, so he got his fondest wish. Why is the Arab Street so upset? (Relatively speaking?) And if they love martyrdom so much, ...

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UK Dhimmitude Watch

Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 5:18:49 pm PDT

Britain’s most exclusive school, Eton College, is appointing an imam to promote Islam to the children of Britain’s upper crust: Eton to appoint imam to help understanding of Islam. Eton College is to become the first top public school in the country to appoint an imam to help pupils gain an ...

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Jordanian UN Peacekeepers Attack US Members

Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 1:55:04 pm PDT

Four Jordanian members of the UN police force are being held after apparently opening fire on American members of the force in a convoy leaving the UN compound in Mitrovica: UN ‘Doesn’t Know’ Reason for Police Clash in Kosovo. A U.N. spokesman denied that the shooting had been preceded by a ...

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The Arab Way of War

Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 1:12:06 pm PDT

Battles near the Syrian border have claimed the lives of five Marines—but the mujahideen paid a heavy price, with dozens of fatalities. Once again we see the noble holy warriors using women and children as human shields: Insurgent Iraqis kill five Marines. (Hat tip: Belmont Club.) All of the slain Marines ...

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The Binder Changes Hands

Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 1:02:29 pm PDT

The red binder—the horrible red binder!—has passed into the hands of Ahmed Qureia. May God have mercy on us all. The strange history of the horrible red binder.

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Beach Cities Indymedia Loves LFG

Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 12:35:44 pm PDT

The Beach Cities branch of Indymedia now features an LGF news feed: Beach Cities IMC Newswire. I can’t help these thoughts that popped into my head when I saw this ... thoughts of a special newsfeed customized for the Morlocks ... I know, I’m evil.

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They Call Him "Flipper"

Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 12:06:16 pm PDT

Here’s John F. Kerry on Meet the Press painfully squirming and waffling about his 1971 appearance on the same show, in which he claimed to have personally committed “war crimes.” (Hat tip: Advisory Opinion.) (Videotape, MEET THE PRESS, April 18, 1971): MR. KERRY (Vietnam Veterans Against the War): There are all kinds ...

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Kerry Promises to Be Humble, Beg Forgiveness

Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 11:56:06 am PDT

John F. Kerry says the US has been terribly “arrogant,” and if he’s elected President he’ll be much more humble and then the French will like us again: Kerry Says Bush ‘Arrogance’ Risks Other Nations’ Help. (Hat tip: scaramouche.) Appearing on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” the four-term U.S. senator from Massachusetts ...

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Our Friends the Egyptians

Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 11:26:18 am PDT

Students at Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, the world’s highest Sunni Islamic institution, show off their arts and crafts expertise by burning mock flags of Israel, Britain, and the country that gives them more than $2 billion a year in foreign aid.

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Palestinian Child Abuse

Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 10:42:01 am PDT

One of the hardest things to understand about the Palestinian death cult is why they seem to think scenes like this help their cause: A Palestinian child carries an AK-47 rifle during a symbolic funeral for the assassinated leader of Hamas Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi April 18, 2004 in the Baghdad suburb of ...

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They Shall Have War

Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 10:08:15 am PDT

Acting within hours of being sworn in as Prime Minister of Spain, Jose Zapatero has ordered the immediate removal of all Spanish troops from Iraq. MADRID, Spain - Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Sunday he had ordered Spanish troops withdrawn from Iraq as soon as possible. While Zapatero had ...

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What Media Bias?

Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 9:57:09 am PDT

Al-Reuters news wire joins the mourning for a mass murderer openly dedicated to genocide: Gaza Mourns Slain Hamas Leader with Anger, Grief. GAZA (Reuters) - Even in death, the voice of slain Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi, the Palestinian militant group’s most outspoken hard-liner, could not be silenced. His defiant words recorded ...

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Your Attention, Please!

Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 9:40:04 am PDT

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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A Terrorist's Funeral

Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 9:19:48 am PDT

Today Rantisi’s corpse was paraded through the streets of Gaza, with bloodstains and shrapnel wounds highly visible, as thousands of Palestinians mobbed the procession trying to touch the body.

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Sweet Reems and Dr. Batarfi

Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 9:00:13 am PDT

The government-controlled English mouthpiece of the Saudi oil ticks, Arab News, has unleashed quite a barrage of anti-American incitement in their latest edition, starting with this screed by rabid America-hating Saudi princess Reem Mohammed Al-Faisal: American Contempt. It seems that the American experiment in Iraq has failed; that at least is ...

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UN: The Dictators' Friend

Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 8:12:32 am PDT

The UN Human Rights Commission has adopted a resolution whining about the association of Islam with human rights violations and terrorism. (Hat tip: Deus ex Macrame.) 2004-04-15 | The first text concerned combatting defamation of religions and was adopted by a roll-call vote ... ... the report of the Special Rapporteur ...

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Jordan Was "Chemical Bomb" Target

Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 7:42:43 am PDT

Here are new details about the bomb plot thwarted in Jordan; the plot apparently involved some sort of deadly gas. Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists planned a chemical attack on Jordan’s spy headquarters that could have killed 20,000 people, officials have said. Earlier this week King Abdullah said a massive attack had been thwarted by ...

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Saturday, April 17, 2004

Jihad Death Count

Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 6:10:56 pm PDT

Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad reports that in the period between September 11, 2001 and April 15, 2004, Islamic terrorists have killed at least 7,085 people and wounded 10,132 in 393 attacks around the world. The surprising thing is that the study appeared in a Dutch paper not known for a hawkish ...

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"It Was Bush"

Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 4:24:17 pm PDT

Raging Palestinians Blame Bush. GAZA (Reuters) - “It was Bush.” The verdict was near unanimous amid the tears and rage on Palestinian streets after Israel killed Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi in an air strike Saturday that many Arabs felt President Bush must have approved. “Bush has Rantissi’s blood on his hands,” said ...

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Moore: Mujahideen = Minutemen

Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 3:37:19 pm PDT

Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore wants Americans to die, in what surely must be the most disgusting thing he’s written yet. (Thanks to all who emailed.) First, can we stop the Orwellian language and start using the proper names for things? Those are not “contractors” in Iraq. They are not there ...

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Palestinian Car Swarm Watch

Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 2:19:23 pm PDT

The long-overdue execution of the Pediatrician of Death, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, resulted in one of the most extravagant car swarms ever, as a screaming Palestinian mob climbed over the wreckage, pulling out body parts and dipping their hands in the blood.

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Breaking News: Rantisi Dead!

Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:03:36 am PDT

Initial report: Hamas leader Rantisi killed in IAF strike. According to initial reports, Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi was killed in an Israeli helicopter missile strike on his car Saturday evening. Two other people were killed in the strike, witnesses said. There was no immediate response from the IDF. UPDATE: Confirmed on Fox ...

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Religion Gone Mad

Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:30:56 am PDT

I’m a bit amazed that the Toronto Sun published this very un-PC column by Michael Coren: It’s religion gone mad. Coren is going to be roundly attacked, but he’s voicing the feelings of a growing number of people. (Hat tip: CastorOil.) We used to be told by pop stars and other ...

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EUrabia Warns, Whines, Weasels

Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 9:27:24 am PDT

The unelected bureaucrats who sit atop the Eurabian Union are warning the US about backing Ariel Sharon’s plan: EU Warns About Dangers of Sharon Plan. “There are an awful lot of people in the Arab world on the whole who take the view that what this week means is that America ...

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Islam, Apostasy, and Human Rights

Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 9:17:03 am PDT

At Dhimmi Watch, Robert Spencer has published the full text of an important paper presented to the UN Commission on Human Rights by noted Islamic apostate Ibn Warraq: Islam, Apostasy, and Human Rights. A must-read. The various Islamic human rights schemes or declarations - such as the Universal Islamic Declaration of ...

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Let's Give Them a State!

Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 8:22:33 am PDT

Palestinian “foreign minister” Nabil Shaath says that an essential step toward renewing the peace process is for Palestinians to stand up, renounce genocide, put down their weapons, and begin building better lives for their children. Just kidding. Actually, he said an essential step to renewing the peace process is for Israel to ...

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And Again

Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 8:09:53 am PDT

Thousands of Palestinians pass through the Erez checkpoint every day, to work inside Israel. Today, as workers were returning to Gaza in the afternoon, another Palestinian savage blew himself up in an attempt at mass murder and Hamas and Fatah gleefully claimed responsibility. A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday afternoon ...

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Obsessive Ankle Biters

Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 7:52:29 am PDT

Mary at exit zero posted a defense of LGF—and attracted the two obsessive sewer-weenies who are the main pushers of the recent smear-LGF campaign. It’s sort of interesting (in the way turning over a damp rock is interesting) to read as they let their hair down and rant about LGF. ...

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Friday, April 16, 2004

French Passport Theft

Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 5:57:17 pm PDT

In February, nearly 10,000 blank French passports were stolen. (Hat tip: CastorOil.) “These stolen passports are of particular concern because France participates in the Visa Waiver Program (search) that allows visitors from 27 nations to enter the United States for pleasure for 90 days without a visa,” the FBI said in the ...

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Our Present Chaos

Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 5:28:02 pm PDT

You already read Victor Davis Hanson’s Friday column for the National Review, right? If not, what are you waiting for? As usual, VDH delineates the issues with a clarity few others can match: Our Present Chaos. Apparently a new exegesis has arisen that goes something like the following: The United States ...

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Satellite Photos of Fallujah

Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 5:00:06 pm PDT

Here are some interesting satellite photographs of Fallujah, Iraq, including the Haj Musheen Abdul Aziz Az-Kubaysi mosque complex that was attacked last week.

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Palestinian Work Accident Watch

Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 4:32:59 pm PDT

Another case of premature explodulation, at a “refugee camp” outside Nablus: Islamic Jihad man killed, 2 injured in explosion in Nablus. An Islamic Jihad militant was killed on Friday night and two others were injured in an explosion in an apartment building at a refugee camp outside the West Bank town ...

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JihadTV Shows Kidnapped Soldier

Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 2:41:20 pm PDT

JihadTV is once again gloating over the capture of an American soldier: Al-Jazeera Airs Video of US Soldier. BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Arab television station Al-Jazeera aired footage Friday showing a 20-year-old U.S. soldier captured by insurgents, apparently unharmed and surrounded by five masked men holding automatic rifles. The soldier, wearing ...

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Palestinian Child Abuse

Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 2:17:48 pm PDT

Palestinian boys wear camouflage and carry toy guns during a demonstration by Hamas in Gaza City, Friday, April 16, 2004. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

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Arab Writer: RoP a "Cover for Violence"

Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 11:44:46 am PDT

According to liberal Arab writer Khaled Kishtainy, that tiny minority of extremists we’re supposed to ignore is neither tiny nor extreme: Most Islamic Ideologues, Organization Leaders Advocate Violence. Islamist Talk of ‘Love and Peace in Islam’ is Just a Cover for Violence “[The phenomenon] called Islamic terrorism has many roots and causes, ...

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The Iranian Hand

Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 11:22:08 am PDT

Michael Ledeen lays out the truth about Muqtada al-Sadr and his “Army of the Mahdi:” The Iranian Hand. That the war being waged by Shiite militants throughout Iraq is not just a domestic “insurgency” has been documented by the Italian Military Intelligence Service (Sismi). In a report prepared before the current ...

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Al-Sadr: Quagmire!

Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 11:11:32 am PDT

Muqtada al-Sadr remains defiant, and is canny enough to use Western buzzwords combined with traditional Arab blood imagery. “You Americans, do not fall into a quagmire and storm Najaf. Rivers of your blood will flow,” Sheikh Nasser al-Saedi told tens of thousands of Sadr supporters in Baghdad’s Sadr City slum, named ...

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The Uncivilized

Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:52:10 am PDT

The soft racism of the Western left turns hard, in a viciously patronizing email sent to Iraqi blogger Sam at Hammorabi. Ah sweet child, you keep on believing in the good intentions of your “liberators” don’t you? You poor thing, I used to think that your mentality lacked reasoning and common ...

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Not With a Bang, But a Whimper

Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:48:11 am PDT

Young Matthew Yglesias is really quite a piece of work. After repeating several times how unimportant he considers LGF, and how little he wants to discuss us, he posts a link to another LGF basher—and disables comments: Just a Link. I once had a neighbor who owned a little dog, of ...

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Outlandish Claims in "Arab World Studies"

Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:23:51 am PDT

A Muslim advocacy group has succeeded, for the past five years, in promoting a school textbook containing the bizarre claim that Muslim explorers preceded Christopher Columbus to North America and became Algonquin chiefs: Textbook on Arabs removes blunder. Peter DiGangi, director of Canada’s Algonquin Nation Secretariat in Quebec, called claims in ...

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Pro-Terror Groups on Prager

Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 9:20:26 am PDT

Dennis Prager is talking with a female representative of the Muslim Student Association and a Jewish member of one of the many “Palestine Solidarity” groups on his radio show; you can listen over the web here.

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Spirit of America

Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 8:17:28 am PDT

Here’s a fantastic cause (and also our newest advertiser): Spirit of America. We’ve shown many times on LGF how Arab media operates as the public relations wing of the worldwide jihad, using Western audiovisual techniques to subtly (and sometimes, not so subtly) promote the cause of radical Islam. Spirit of ...

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The 1000 Styles of Rumsfeld

Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 8:07:17 am PDT

Camel Spider Technique!

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Svend Robinson: Kleptomaniac Terror Enabler

Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 7:46:45 am PDT

Svend Robinson, the raving pro-Palestinian Canadian MP who (among other outrageous acts) nominated the International Solidarity Movement for the Nobel Peace Prize, has confessed to a petty act of thievery. Admitting he helped himself to a piece of jewelry at a recent public sale, veteran NDP MP Svend Robinson has announced ...

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Thursday, April 15, 2004

Yglesias: I'm Important, You're Not

Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 9:35:15 pm PDT

Matthew Yglesias would like his readers to know that LGF is totally unimportant. So unimportant that his slams against me and LGF resulted in the most active topics he’s ever had on his tedious Bush-bashing blog. So unimportant that he had to close down comments for his latest LGF-bashing post before the ...

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Voices of Blessed Sanity

Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 7:00:57 pm PDT

Voices of blessed sanity from Iraq, translated by Omar. “What’s happening in Fallujah and Baghdad now is the doings of the enemies of Iraq and his people and I mean our ”brother Muslims and Arabs“ who fear that the fire might reach their kingdoms and let Iraqis go to hell. Iran ...

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State Department: Get Out of Saudi Arabia

Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 6:37:32 pm PDT

U.S. Pulls Some Diplomats from Saudi, Warns Americans. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States ordered nonessential diplomats out of Saudi Arabia on Thursday and warned all Americans they should leave, citing fresh signals that attacks are planned on U.S. and Western interests. The decision requires the families of all diplomats at ...

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Flesh-Eating Camel Spiders

Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 5:55:10 pm PDT

In addition to the mujahideen and the heat, soldiers in the Iraqi desert have to deal with these insanely scary giant flesh-eating camel spiders. (Blame LGF minion Amy for your nightmares.) UPDATE: Here’s a much higher resolution photograph of the creatures. If this photo is faked, it’s a masterful job. (Hat ...

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Palestinian Child Abuse

Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 4:10:41 pm PDT

Palestinian sisters Aya, 3, is hugged by Riham, 9, posing with her father’s handgun, at a food market in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh, in the south of the country. The Palestinian authority is enraged following US President George W. Bush execution of a major change in ...

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Let's Give Them a State!

Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 4:01:40 pm PDT

An armed Palestinian from the popular resistance committee holds an anti-tank missile as he marches in front of a poster of Osama bin Laden during an anti-U.S and Israel rally at the Buraji refugee camp, in Gaza Strip April 15, 2004. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

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Palestinian Animal Abuse

Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 2:31:27 pm PDT

A Palestinian youth kicks a donkey wearing a picture of President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair as it is walked during a Fatah demonstration in Bureij Refugee Camp, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, April 15, 2004.

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Terrorist or Peacenik?

Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 1:45:38 pm PDT

MEMRI has a more detailed translation of the latest bluster from “Al Qaeda” (which I suspect has become a meaningless name): “When you look at what happened and is happening, the killing in our countries and in yours, an important fact emerges, and that is that the oppression is forced on ...

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Vintage Whine from the French Envoy

Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 12:49:01 pm PDT

Apparently, the French are now a “race.” France’s US envoy slams ‘racist campaign’ against French over Iraq war. (Hat tip: Occasional Reader.) LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) - France’s ambassador to the United States denounced what he called a “racist campaign” against the French waged by US media and fueled by ...

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Dead Man Offers Hudna to Eurabia

Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 8:26:36 am PDT

Arab television, equipped with the Western world’s best audio and video manipulation gear, seems to keep coming up with new audio tapes of Osama bin Laden every two or three weeks. Each time a new tape mysteriously appears in their mailboxes, they immediately put it on an endless loop, repeating ...

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Arafish Says...

Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 7:38:45 am PDT

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Wednesday, April 14, 2004

Egyptian Economics

Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 9:56:15 pm PDT

Galal Amin, professor of economics at the American University in Cairo, says the United States “may” be responsible for launching the September 11 attacks against itself: ’No Conclusive Proof’ Arabs & Muslims were Behind 9/11. “The claim that the Greater Middle East Initiative aims, wholly or partly, to eliminate terror of ...

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New Poll

Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 9:09:09 pm PDT

Roger L. Simon calls for a new name for the United Nations’ mind-bogglingly corrupt Oil for Palaces Food program, and I’m helping him out by running a new poll on the topic, featuring the best names culled from his thread.

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JihadTV Poll Watch

Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 6:51:52 pm PDT

The forward vanguard of radical Islam in the West is running a poll that tries to gauge the support for terrorism among their readers: Will the Iraqi resistance strategy of kidnapping foreigners lead nations to withdraw their troops? As of this writing, with 45,757 votes, results are: Yes: 27% No: 64% Unsure: 9%

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The Corrie Whitewash Continues

Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 5:31:25 pm PDT

A cousin of Rachel Corrie, Brij Patnaik, has a piece in OpinionJournal defending Rachel from what he obviously feels are unwarranted slurs by James Taranto and Ruhama Shattan. I was waiting for Mr. Taranto to respond before noting this, since Patnaik’s article is harshly critical of him: An Unfitting ‘Tribute’. Ms. ...

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Air America in Financial Trouble?

Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 5:03:17 pm PDT

I’ve been a little busy today and just got to the dozens of emails that came in about this story; Air America has bounced a check and is off the air in Chicago and Los Angeles: Fledgling liberal radio pulled from stations in dispute. I thought George Soros was supposed to ...

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Bloggers Occupy Hewitt

Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 3:11:46 pm PDT

A bunch of wingnut bloggers have invaded and occupied Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, and they’re trashing the place. It’s brutal. I’ve heard a rumor that James Lileks is going to interview Mark Steyn: Listen live here.

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Hostage Murdered on Tape

Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 2:52:48 pm PDT

JihadTV has a videotape showing one of the Italian hostages in Iraq being murdered: Al-Jazeera: Italian Hostage Killed on Tape. CAIRO, Egypt - An Arab network broadcast a report Wednesday that it has a video showing the killing of one of four Italian hostages being held by militants in Iraq. Al-Jazeera ...

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Mich. Muslims Want Call to Prayer

Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 2:35:41 pm PDT

Muslims in Michigan are trying to get an exemption from the noise ordinance in the town of Hamtramck, so that the muezzin can call out the adhan, five times a day: Mich. Town Split Over Muslim Loudspeakers. (Hat tip: dennisw.) HAMTRAMCK, Mich. - A request by Muslims to allow mosques to ...

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And Now: Seething!

Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 2:26:06 pm PDT

Palestinian spokesliars are exploding with rage (I know, hard to believe, isn’t it?) at the statements made today by President Bush in his meeting with Ariel Sharon: PA angry over Bush, Sharon meeting. Palestinian Authority officials reacted with anger and deep disappointment to the outcome of the meeting between Prime Minister ...

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LGF Update Note

Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 12:14:24 pm PDT

If you see the Blogads section in our right sidebar suddenly appear with no formatting, you may need to Reload the page. If that doesn’t work, you may need to empty the browser cache and restart the browser. The reason: I made some changes to the CSS files for LGF, and ...

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Get Ready for the Screaming

Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 10:46:12 am PDT

And now the seething starts: Bush Says Israel Has Claim to Part of West Bank. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush said on Wednesday that Israel has a claim on some West Bank land that Palestinians say is theirs, in a shift in policy that possibly has major implications for Middle East ...

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Arabs Find No Hope

Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 10:29:56 am PDT

The Associated Press wants us to know that the Arab world didn’t like anything George W. Bush said last night: Arabs Find Little Hope in Bush Iraq Plans. “No matter how the president tries to paint the picture, it is tragic,” said Massouma al-Mubarak, a political analyst who teaches at Kuwait ...

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Presidential Conference Transcript

Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 9:12:41 am PDT

The White House has a complete transcript of the conference. Nearly every question from the press tries to get the President to admit to having made mistakes, to “apologize” for something, or to list his “failures.” The bias is amazingly blatant. Some of the questions: Mr. President, April is turning into the ...

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Bush Hangs Tough

Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 8:51:52 am PDT

In the NY Post, John Podhoretz on the President’s press conference: Bush Hangs Tough. The purpose of the White House press corps was to make the president confess to weakness - to corner him into creating the soundbite of all soundbites, in which Bush would acknowledge his errors as president and ...

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Finish It or Forget It

Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 8:27:58 am PDT

I’ve been assured by many LGF readers that all this talk of a truce with Muqtada al-Sadr and his Army of the Mahdi is part of a master plan, and not wobbling. As the days pass, and al-Sadr still converts oxygen to carbon dioxide, it looks more and more like wobbling ...

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Tuesday, April 13, 2004

MENL: Arafat Approved Convoy Bombing

Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 7:32:56 pm PDT

Middle East Newsline has a report that Yasser Arafat personally authorized the terror attack that killed three Americans in a diplomatic convoy. (Hat tip: IsraPundit.) RAMALLAH [MENL] — The United States has determined that Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat approved an attack on a U.S. embassy convoy in which three Americans ...

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Bush Press Conference

Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 5:25:09 pm PDT

President Bush’s press conference is starting in a few minutes; you can watch over the web here: C-SPAN: Watch LIVE. UPDATE: anyone else get the feeling that each and every one of these careerist media bottom feeders is hoping to be the one to get the president so flustered he says ...

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HRW: Turning Fallujah into Jenin

Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 5:08:38 pm PDT

Human Rights Watch, in addition to denouncing Israel, is also demanding an investigation into US actions in Fallujah. Right now, while the fighting is going on. Civilians who fled the fighting described the streets of Falluja as being littered with bodies, including women and children, and Iraqi politicians have accused U.S. forces ...

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Pro-Terror Groups in DC Tomorrow

Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 4:27:27 pm PDT

I just received this communiqué from an anonymous lizardoid, about a planned demonstration by the terrorist enablers to disrupt Ariel Sharon’s visit to the White House: Protest Ariel Sharon - Apr. 14 Washington, DC 2. President George Bush is welcoming Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Washington, DC. We’d like to protest ...

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Raising Tyranny

Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 3:59:11 pm PDT

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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More Fun!

Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 3:24:49 pm PDT

Hey kids! Here’s another survey about LGF you can take. This one also compares quotes from LGF and other sources, but with a slightly different agenda: NAZI OR BLOGGER? (Thanks, Mary.)

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The Arab Way of War

Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 3:16:16 pm PDT

Here’s a glimpse at what our soldiers are facing in Fallujah: Some Troops Expect All-Out Fallujah Fight. (Hat tip: Montaigne’s Cat.) One complex ambush began when a small girl led a herd of cattle across the highway in front of a seven-vehicle convoy, said Lance Cpl. Ryan Christiansen, 25, from the ...

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Four US Hostages Found Dead

Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 3:05:14 pm PDT

Bodies of 4 U.S. contractors found in Iraq. NBC News has learned that bodies of at least four men believed to be among the seven civilian contractors missing in Iraq since Friday were found Tuesday in a shallow grave near the site of the explosion of a convoy in which they ...

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Zarqawi in Fallujah?

Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 2:51:02 pm PDT

Verrrry interesting: Alleged Al-Qaeda Iraq chief believed to be in Fallujah. BAGHDAD (AFP) - The alleged mastermind of Al-Qaeda operations in Iraq, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, is believed to be in the city of Fallujah, which is under US marine siege, a senior coalition spokesman said. “Zarqawi is believed to be in Fallujah ...

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Ze Risk is High

Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 2:07:23 pm PDT

Zose mujahideen are so ... so ... simpliste sometimes. Don’t zey understand zat ze French were opposed to ze Americain cowboys? French Journalist Taken Hostage in Iraq. France first issued its warning on Friday. In a statement, the foreign ministry said that the “risk is high that French citizens would be ...

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They Chose Dishonor

Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 1:46:46 pm PDT

Tape Threatens More Bombings in Spain. The badly damaged videotape was found in the rubble of a Madrid apartment where seven suspects in the bombings blew themselves up on April 3 as police move in to arrest them. In two previously unintelligible sentences on the tape that have now been deciphered by ...

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Spiritual Leader Arrest Shocka!

Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 1:44:38 pm PDT

A tiny minority of Arabs—including the “spiritual leader” of a Budapest Islamic group—has been arrested in Hungary for being involved in a plot to bomb a Jewish museum. BUDAPEST, Hungary - Police arrested three Arabs on Tuesday in an alleged plot to bomb a Jewish museum two days before Israeli President ...

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The 1000 Styles of Rumsfeld

Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 12:23:13 pm PDT

Pincer of Death!

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Rachel Corrie, One Year Later

Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 10:15:52 am PDT

Steven Plaut looks back at Idiotarian of the Year Rachel Corrie, One Year Later, and the ongoing attempts by the terrorist-supporting International Solidarity Movement to turn her accidental death into a propaganda windfall. Corrie’s own parents have gone on their own revenge, touring the world to demonize Israel, and represent daughter ...

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The Deranged Left Gets Worse

Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 10:02:31 am PDT

Blatant racism on the left. Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice are apparently now considered fair game for the most appalling racial slurs and epithets. (Hat tip: soundfury.) Brought to you by the people who call blogs like LGF “racist.” UPDATE: In case you think this is an isolated opinion expressed on one ...

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Breaking News

Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 9:14:08 am PDT

The headline at Drudge Report: CAMPAIGN RAGE: FLORIDA DEMOCRATS PLACE NEWSPAPER AD CALLING FOR RUMSFELD HIT ‘We should put this S.O.B. up against a wall... and pull the trigger.’

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German Antisemitism Update

Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 8:56:28 am PDT

If you followed the discussion in the German Antisemitism Watch thread, some were questioning whether the hateful email published at LGF was genuine. I received confirmation from the Israeli medical firm’s spokesperson, but LGF minion grayp did a little more follow-up, contacted the actual author of the email, and established ...

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Yglesias "Changes Tone"

Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 8:17:51 am PDT

After labeling me a Nazi, and allowing one of the most vicious, foul comment threads I’ve ever witnessed outside of Indymedia to develop at his blog (including at least one comment from a real Nazi, posting with the name “666”), Matthew Yglesias now wants me to dance for him: Changing ...

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Al-Sadr: Martyr Me, Please

Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 7:53:25 am PDT

More death cult rhetoric from Muqtada al-Sadr: Iraq’s Sadr Says Ready to Die for Anti-U.S. Drive. BEIRUT (Reuters) - Shi’ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, wanted by U.S.-led forces in Iraq, said Tuesday he was willing to die for his campaign to end their occupation. But the radical preacher also appeared to ...

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Monday, April 12, 2004

UN in the Film Biz

Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 7:34:08 pm PDT

The Financial Times reports that United Nations Oil for Food money may have been used to finance former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter’s pro-Saddam film: UN’s oil-for-food programme under scrutiny. A Detroit-based businessman of Iraqi origin who financed a film by Scott Ritter, the former chief United Nations weapons inspector, has ...

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It's the War, Stupid

Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 5:48:15 pm PDT

A spot-on criticism of the Bush administration’s wobbly, try-to-please-everyone “War on Terror,” by comedian/actor Larry Miller—who proves again to be one of the best common sense commentators on the scene: It’s the War, Stupid. (Hat tip: Jheka.) Message to the administration: No one in Europe or on the left is ever, ...

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Mujahideen for Kerry

Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 4:12:07 pm PDT

In a story at UPI about foreign fighters in the Iraqi “resistance,” a 20-year old mujahid gives his endorsement to John Kerry: Fallujah resistance vows to continue fight. (Hat tip: Andrew Coulson.) In another interview the previous day, a wounded fighter told United Press International about the role of the ...

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The Crusade Against E-Jihad

Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 4:05:39 pm PDT

Here’s a good article about jihad web sites, and the work being done by Aaron at Internet Haganah to shut them down: Activists Crusade Against E-Jihad. Haganah’s dogged persistence has made it the bane of Islamist websites, discussion forums and chat rooms. In forums on Islamist sites, posters urge Muslim hackers ...

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Religion of Totalitarianism

Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 2:51:50 pm PDT

One of Theodore Dalrymple’s main points in his essay When Islam Breaks Down is that Church and State are inseparable within Islam. So let’s use IslamOnline’s “Ask About Islam” fatwa database to see what the experts say. (Hat tip: Allah.) Is it legal for Muslims to follow a non-Muslim government? Must ...

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When Islam Breaks Down

Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 2:16:01 pm PDT

A very provocative and somewhat depressing article by Theodore Dalrymple, on the ragged edge where unassimilated Islam meets traditional European culture: When Islam Breaks Down. Anyone who lives in a city like mine and interests himself in the fate of the world cannot help wondering whether, deeper than this immediate cultural ...

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Some Deserved Attention

Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 1:03:08 pm PDT

Hey, Michele: she’s not on my A list. But you are. (Whether you write about sex or not.)

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Religion of Conspiracy Delusions

Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 10:50:06 am PDT

Imam Mohamed al-Asi, who preached and taught outside the Islamic Center of Washington DC for decades (until very recently) was invited to Canada’s York University, where he told an applauding audience that Israel was behind the 9/11 attacks. (Hat tip: Daniel Pipes.) The “Israeli Zionists” and the “neo-cons in Washington, D.C.,” ...

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The Fruits of Appeasement

Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 10:05:36 am PDT

Victor Davis Hanson has another brilliantly written column at City Journal, opening with a look at what might have been if Jimmy Carter had possessed a spine when he was President: The Fruits of Appeasement. (Hat tip: Dan.) Imagine a different November 4, 1979, in Teheran. Shortly after Iranian terrorists storm ...

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The Media's Jihad

Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 7:36:47 am PDT

Here’s a wire story from al-Reuters that could not be any more anti-American if it had been written by Muqtada al-Sadr’s public relations department: Falluja Fighting Haunts Iraqis Who Fled. Included: allegations of mass graves, innocent people killed, US snipers firing from within mosques, etc., etc., all printed with no ...

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The Granite of Mauthausen

Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 7:16:21 am PDT

LGF reader Ronnie Schreiber posted this powerful letter by Fred Friendly, who would become the president of CBS News, written in 1945 when he was a master sergeant with the American Army unit that liberated the Mauthausen concentration camp. *** May 19, 1945 Dear Mother, In just a few days I will be in ...

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The Ankle Biters

Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 6:57:08 am PDT

It’s quite amazing how many lefty bloggers seem to see nothing wrong with an evil-minded poll created by an obsessed stalker that basically calls me a Nazi, accompanied by a picture with my head on the body of Eva Braun. What fun! Now Matthew Yglesias gets into the act: Matthew Yglesias: ...

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Sunday, April 11, 2004

Death Cult Pop Culture

Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 10:39:04 pm PDT

While UC Berkeley Lecturer Hatem Bazian calls for an intifada in the United States, Palestinian children have a new fad: terrorist sticker albums. The cover sports a picture of the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem with the words “Intifada album” written in flaming stones while the back is a less aggressive watercolour ...

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Palestinian Child Abuse

Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 10:35:19 pm PDT

A small girl smiles as she stands among Palestinian gunmen from Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement, Sunday, April 11, 2004, during a demonstration against the US-led war in Iraq in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza strip.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

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Madrid Terrorists Called Britain

Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 9:51:59 pm PDT

Was there a British connection to the Islamic bombings in Madrid? Spanish killers may have called British cleric. (Hat tip: The Grand Vizier.) SPANISH police believe the Madrid bombers may have called a radical Islamic leader based in Britain shortly before they blew themselves up last week, a month after the ...

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"An Intifada in This Country"

Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 8:17:06 pm PDT

LGF reader “Zombie” took movies of the unbelievable events in San Francisco this weekend: Movies of the April 10, 2004 Rally in San Francisco. Here, UC Berkeley Lecturer Hatem Bazian calls for an intifada in the United States: “Are you angry? [Yeah!] Are you angry? [Yeah!] Are you angry? [Yeah!] Well, we’ve ...

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The Attack on Kerry's Website

Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 6:57:29 pm PDT

I’m calling for an investigation into what John F. Kerry knew, and when he knew it. Specifically referring to the hundreds, possibly thousands of bogus web pages submitted—and displayed!—at his official campaign web site. Was Kerry just so out of touch with the day-to-day workings of his campaign that he didn’t even ...

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Another Loaded CNN Poll

Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 5:46:09 pm PDT

CNN has another bogus non-scientific poll asking, “Do you agree with President Bush that the U.S.-led mission in Iraq is right?” (Hat tip: Evan Kaiser.) As of this writing with 64,990 votes, results are: Yes: 35% No: 65%

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The Hour's Getting Late

Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 5:41:08 pm PDT

To me, these are the most frightening reports coming out of the “War on Terror:” hints and omens that it’s much later than we think: Terrorist chemical threat ‘worse than suspected’. (Hat tip: FH.) Terrorists plotting to use chemical weapons in Europe have more advanced plans than security services previously suspected, ...

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Photos From Iraqi Insurgence Solidarity Day in SF

Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 4:05:44 pm PDT

LGF minion “zombie” has forwarded some really mind-blowing photographs from the San Francisco rally in favor of killing American soldiers in Iraq. Think my description is a little over the top? Think again. Hasan Akbar is the Muslim soldier on trial for rolling a grenade into an officers’ tent, then shooting people as ...

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Terrorist Jailbreak in Philippines

Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 2:30:48 pm PDT

Yesterday 53 prisoners, including members of Islamic terror gang Abu Sayyaf, escaped from a jail in the Philippines; today the government said 19 of them have been recaptured, and 8 more killed. ISABELA, Philippines, (AFP) - Nineteen of 53 prisoners who escaped from a Philippines jail, including several Muslim extremists, have ...

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The Arguments of the Strong

Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 9:20:26 am PDT

From Alaa, the Mesopotamian. Hi Friends, I hope you all realize that a major objective of the enemy is to produce defeatism in the U.S. and allied nations home front, counting on the democratic process to force the hand of policy makers. The War in fact never stopped from the first day ...

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Talking Truce Before the Job is Done

Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 8:33:54 am PDT

I’m trying to believe that we have a plan to crush the radicals in Fallujah. But this kind of talk from Paul Bremer, sending exactly the wrong signal to the power-worshipping mujahideen, makes me want to weep in frustration: Truce holding in Fallujah, Bremer says. WASHINGTON (AFP) - A truce in ...

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JihadTV Injects More Poison

Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 8:02:17 am PDT

The ghouls at JihadTV are gloating over the deaths of Americans again: Arab TV Airs Tape of ‘Two Dead U.S. Officers’. DUBAI (Reuters) - Arab television station Al Jazeera aired a tape on Sunday showing the bodies of two men it said were U.S. intelligence officers killed in the Sunni town ...

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Metafilter: Stalkers Welcome

Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 7:40:37 am PDT

One of the mudheads at Metafilter is taking another feeble slap at LGF; I guess it’s OK with Matt Haughey when his web site is used for mean-spirited personal attacks, since the post has been up for four hours now. So this is what it feels like to be stalked. Happy Easter ...

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Saturday, April 10, 2004

SF "Insurgence Solidarity March"

Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 10:12:32 pm PDT

The Morlocks at Nazimedia have their own photos from the demonstrations in San Francisco. Titled: Pictures From Insurgence Solidarity March. But whatever you do, don’t question their patriotism. Dude. More photos from the San Francisco Moronic Convergence here and here. Lots and lots of Palestinian flags and kaffiyeh in evidence. The radical Islamic bloc ...

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International ANSWER Protests in DC

Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 9:39:24 pm PDT

Bill at INDC Journal has photos from today’s International Answer Protests in DC. Attendance: sparse. Very sparse. But the moonbats were out, hawking tracts by Trotsky, wearing Rachel Corrie Ts, and being humiliated by Iraqi counter-protesters.

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What's On Arafat's Desk?

Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 8:06:41 pm PDT

As the media continues their full-court press against George W. Bush and in favor of terrorists, do you really think it’s sheer coincidence that the best photograph yet of Arafish’s red binder—the horrible red binder!—shows him grinning at the secretary of the Italian Communist Party? No way, man. In this photo released ...

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Hamas Rakes In the Cash

Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 4:39:01 pm PDT

The tiny minority of extremists in the Palestinian Authority turned out by the thousands yesterday to give money, weapons, and ammunition to the genocidal terror gang Hamas at their local mosques: Palestinians Give to Fight Against Israel. Thousands of Palestinians responded to Hamas’ call, with no apparent signs of intimidation from ...

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Kerry Asks For Contributions

Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 3:05:14 pm PDT

The Kerry campaign is allowing visitors to create their own web pages. Yes, really. I predict this is going to last about another hour: John Kerry for President - Contribute. Here’s Kevin Aylward’s page. And check the URLs in Allah’s comments. UPDATE: Four and a half hours later, and the joke pages are still ...

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The Ungovernable Shiites

Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 2:22:07 pm PDT

Here’s a harrowing must-read article by Steven Vincent at National Review: The Ungovernable Shiites. As I’ve written here before, during my two trips to Iraq I’ve studied the Shia — praying in their mosques, attending their religious gatherings, interviewing their clerics and, most of all, examining their teachings and iconography. This ...

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Outrage of the Day

Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 1:16:03 pm PDT

Canada paid for the mother and brother of an Al Qaeda terrorist leader to be flown from Pakistan to Toronto. Business class. Khadr mother, brother arrive in Canada. Maha Elsamnah Khadr and her 14-year-old son Karim landed at Pearson International Airport from Pakistan. Wearing a white veil covering most of her face, ...

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Car Bombs Found in Jordan

Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 12:27:17 pm PDT

It’s hard to completely trust any news coming from an Arab country about terror-related arrests and discoveries, but in a typically vague announcement, Jordan says they’ve thwarted a plot to attack the US embassy with car bombs: Jordan Says Found Cars Laden with Explosives. AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordanian authorities said ...

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Moonbat Alert!

Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 11:50:56 am PDT

We’ve had a swarm of moonbats in the past week, and some of the worst showed up last night and this morning. I left the comments there, for a reason. I’ve been coming in for some (in my opinion) unwarranted criticism for the types of posts that get deleted at LGF. Well, ...

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Al Qaeda's Ideologist

Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 10:51:01 am PDT

The key ideologist of Al Qaeda, Lewis ‘Atiyyatullah, says the West will fall, and an Islamic state will control the world. (Hat tip: Internet Haganah.) ‘Atiyyatullah sees the future very clearly: the balance of power will change; the international system built-up by the West since the Treaty of Westphalia will collapse; ...

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Liar

Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 10:45:20 am PDT

Wow. The lyrics to Liar, from Todd Rundgren’s terrific new album. Duty calls the faithful few The infidel must pay his due For your family we will provide You will fill them with empty pride And for you many virgins wait Say your prayers, accept your fate Liar And with every lying breath You send them to their death We need ...

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Talking Truce Before the Job is Done

Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 9:43:16 am PDT

This is how we might lose in Iraq. Does America still have the will to take a fight all the way to the end, or will we make another laughable truce with the mujahideen, and let them get away again? U.S. Seeks Truce With Fallujah Militants. FALLUJAH, Iraq - Government negotiators ...

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The Hatchets Are Out

Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 9:17:31 am PDT

The 9/11 hearings sound good on paper. Investigate the intelligence and leadership problems that led to 9/11, with the aim of improving our battle against the Islamic fascists. Who could argue against that? The trouble is, it’s turned into a disgraceful partisan circus, with Bush administration officials being disrespectfully shouted at ...

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Palestinians Seethe, Shriek for Holy War

Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 8:52:20 am PDT

Those lovely Palestinians turned out across the West Bank and Gaza Strip for violence-glorifying revenge rallies yesterday, burning US and Israeli flags, strutting around with weapons, and screaming for jihad: Palestinians call on Iraqis to rise up against US. Thousands of Palestinians staged pro-Iraq rallies Friday to mark the first anniversary ...

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Friday, April 09, 2004

Virginia Jihadis Sentenced

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 9:57:49 pm PDT

Randall “Ismail” Royer—former spokesman for CAIR and the Muslim American Society—was sentenced to 20 years in prison today: Muslim Pair in ‘Virginia Jihad’ Sentenced. Randall Todd Royer, 31, and Ibrahim al-Hamdi, 26, were among nine men who either pleaded guilty or were convicted of charges related to their participation in what ...

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AP: The Honor of Jihad

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 8:46:20 pm PDT

The pro-Arab, anti-Western agenda of al-Associated Press has never been on display more nakedly than in the caption of this photograph, showing Palestinians exchanging weapons and money with Hamas terrorists in a mosque. Palestinian Hamas activists gather around the money, military clothes and other items that were donated by Palestinians during ...

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The Puppetmaster Revealed

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 8:00:51 pm PDT

MEMRI has an eye-opening article on Iran’s Role in the Recent Uprising in Iraq, as seen by the other side Arab media. A source in the Quds Army of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard revealed to Al-Sharq Al-Awsat(4) information relating to the construction of three camps and training centers on the Iranian-Iraqi ...

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The Media Are the Enemy

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 6:54:46 pm PDT

France’s Agence France Presse news service continues waging their own little Gallic Tet Offensive, with another blatantly anti-American caption grafted onto another photo plucked from Getty Images: US Marines give first aid to a slightly wounded comrade on April 8 in the flashpoint town of Fallujah, 50 km west of Baghdad. ...

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Soul Brother

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 6:37:17 pm PDT

Todd Rundgren has said things recently that tempted me to put him in the “Sheryl Crow/Dixie Chicks/Moby” camp. He also said “[expletive deleted] you, Tipper Gore,” a sentiment with which I heartily agreed at the time, when Al Gore’s wife was trying to impose 50s-style censorship on the record industry. Yes, ...

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VDH In the Den of Morlocks

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 6:14:09 pm PDT

Victor Davis Hanson spoke at the UC Berkeley campus earlier this month, and the video from the event is here. (Real Player format. VDH is about six minutes in. Hat tip: Brenda Walker.)

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Aquila Non Captant Muscas

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 5:07:44 pm PDT

It’s a bit like watching an eagle catch a fly. At FrontPage, Matthew Yglesias vs. Victor Davis Hanson in Symposium: The Left’s Attack on Bush. The question: “There is, undeniably, a visceral disdain and hatred on the part of the Left when it comes to dealing with this Republican President. Could ...

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Excellent Commentary at Belmont Club

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 4:46:01 pm PDT

Be sure to read Belmont Club’s entries about Iraq; he’s proven very perceptive about the situation. Start at the top and read on down, and don’t miss the Time Machine piece: Belmont Club.

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Except I Never Wear Polka Dots

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 3:35:09 pm PDT

Apparently, I’m moving up in the world. The left’s most feared weapon is the dreaded cry, “You’re Hitler, man!” screamed at the nearest recipient of their peace and love. Well, I haven’t made it to the Hitler stage yet; for now I’ll have to content myself with being equal to Eva ...

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Kathryn Cramer Continues Attacking

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 2:53:42 pm PDT

I just received an email from our web host, Hosting Matters, containing their side of an exchange with internet harpy Kathyn Cramer in which she demands LGF be shut down because (she alleges) we’ve been “inciting organized attacks” on her web site. This is how Hosting Matters’ stellar support team responded: This ...

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"The Day That Brought Me Back to Life"

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 1:46:44 pm PDT

Go read what Omar has written at Iraq the Model. It’s the day that brought me back to life. It’s the 9th of April and I’m free, and they will not steel my joy again and they will not silence me. A year ago at the same date, the thieves and ...

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US Muslims Seething Over Mosque Bombing

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 1:30:24 pm PDT

US Muslims are circulating a petition condemning the bombing of the mosque in Fallujah that was used as cover by the mujahideen: Muslims in U.S. Voice Concern About Iraq. Copies of the Westbury petition — written Thursday night by Ghazi Khankan, regional director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations — will ...

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An Alternative History

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 12:37:18 pm PDT

Gregg Easterbrook, who was raked over the pitiless coals of the blogosphere last year, has a really good piece at his New Republic blog; an alternate history of the past two and a half years, as it might have been if President Bush had launched a preemptive attack on Al ...

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Peanut Pres Flaps Gums

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 12:18:41 pm PDT

Idiotarian of Year award winner Jimmy “The Dhimmi” Carter says the war in Iraq “was ill-advised and unnecessary and based on erroneous statements, and has turned out to be a tragedy.” And he advocates throwing Israel to the wolves instead. (Oh, sorry. I mean, he advocates a balanced policy that respects ...

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Religion of Money and Bullets

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 12:04:40 pm PDT

Palestinians gather money collected by Hamas after Friday prayers in Salahdin mosque in Gaza April 9, 2004. Worshippers handed over cash and jewelry [ed. note: and a few large caliber bullets as well...] to armed and masked men at Gaza mosques on Friday, at the start of a drive by ...

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P. J. O'Rourke: Kerry the Jerk

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 11:46:11 am PDT

In 1986 P. J. O’Rourke encountered John Effin’ Kerry in the Philippines, during then-dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ infamously corrupt “snap election.” P. J. says Kerry hasn’t changed a bit since then; he’s still a real jerk. From the article O’Rourke did for Rolling Stone: Most of the Potomac Parakeets were a big ...

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The Wages of Appeasement

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 10:44:04 am PDT

As the mujahideen get bolder, North Korea also begins pushing hard and talking about “nuclear war.” (Hat tip: speedster.) North Korea said Friday the standoff over its atomic ambitions was on the brink of nuclear war as US Vice President Dick Cheney headed to the region for talks with key Asian ...

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Murdered Americans Lured into Ambush

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 9:43:08 am PDT

The four Americans burned alive and ripped apart by a savage mob in Fallujah were apparently lured into an ambush by mujahideen posing as Iraqi Civil Defense members. (Hat tip: paul.) At first, their gruesome deaths seemed the work of yet another random ambush in Iraq, this one made unforgettable by ...

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Belgium: US Has World's Worst Genocide

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 9:30:08 am PDT

As the Arab European League threatens to launch terror attacks unless Belgium immediately withdraws all support for Israel, the Belgians are getting busy. They’re busy putting up a display at the monument of the Unknown Soldier in Brussels that says the world’s worst genocide was perpetrated by the United States. (Hat ...

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They Shall Have War

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 12:27:58 am PDT

Unfortunately, if this story at the Herald Tribune is accurate it’s not just Jose Zapatero and the new Socialist Spanish government who are scared of the mujahideen: Spaniards say war makes them a target. Calls for troop withdrawals intensified after a tumultuous weekend. On Friday police discovered a partly assembled bomb ...

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Hang On, Japan

Fri, Apr 9, 2004 at 12:17:15 am PDT

So far, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is not bowing to the demands of the Iraqi jihadis holding three Japanese citizens—or to the demands of the appeasement bloc in Japan: Japan PM in Pinch Over Iraq Hostage Crisis. TOKYO (Reuters) - Facing his toughest political test, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told ...

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Thursday, April 08, 2004

If I Didn't Try

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 11:04:46 pm PDT

From the CD currently playing—Oblivion, the best album by Todd Rundgren’s great pop-metal band Utopia—these are the lyrics to “If I Didn’t Try.” Just seemed appropriate, somehow: If I didn’t try, how would I know, how would I know If I didn’t try, how would I know, how would I know Sometimes I ...

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Western Cannibalism

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 10:16:50 pm PDT

I’m angry about what I saw happen today at the 9/11 hearings. I’m angry at the left (both far and near), and at the media, who are doing their best to promote defeatism and failure. This is not how Americans work. Criticize yes, passionately. But the derangement, venom, and anti-rational posturing ...

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Daily Kos: Strike Back at LGF!

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 6:46:39 pm PDT

What a pleasant surprise to find this page at Markos Zuniga’s hate-filled web site in our referrers, urging his readers to Strike Back: Target #1 - LGF (Must Read!). I’m starting to get a big headache, just from trying to comprehend the sheer schtoopidity of the Morlocks who do things like ...

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Spanish Easter Jihad

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 6:07:27 pm PDT

Officials: Madrid Terrorists Planned More. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) MADRID, Spain - The suspected terrorists who died in last weekend’s suicide blast had planned another major attack in Madrid, possibly during this week’s Easter celebrations, a court official said Wednesday. Police also fear Saturday’s explosion that may have killed seven suspects and ...

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Media in Full Tet Mode

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 5:35:32 pm PDT

I’m not going to post this photo here at LGF, out of respect for the fallen soldiers it portrays. But the caption, from Agence France Presse, is one of the most dishonest media tricks I’ve seen in a long while. And that’s saying something. Here’s the AFP caption, a nauseating mix of ...

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Bob Kerrey: A Disgrace

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 4:21:19 pm PDT

By the way... I’ve never seen anything like the spectacle that played out today at the 9/11 hearings. Bob Kerrey was just awful, grilling Condolleeza Rice in a sneering, disrespectful manner, talking over her responses and then accusing her of filibustering, and launching into an extended rant about Iraq that ...

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The Media Are the Enemy

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 3:58:32 pm PDT

The Yahoo Iraq slideshow is mind-blowing today, with photo after photo shot in proximity to the murderous Army of the Mahdi as they fire weapons at US and coalition troops. The mujahideen clearly know that journalists are their allies in this battle.

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Arab European League Threatens Belgium

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 3:34:11 pm PDT

The Islamic thugs of the Arab European League are threatening to attack Belgium’s diamond sector, as the wages of appeasement are paid across Europe: Antwerp Diamond Trade Seeks Security After Threats. (Hat tip: Ethel C.) BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium’s diamond industry, which involves a large number of Jewish businessmen, asked for ...

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"Burn Them Alive and Feed Them to the Fighters"

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 3:16:43 pm PDT

The noble mujahideen in Iraq (the people the far left calls the “Iraqi resistance”) have kidnapped three Japanese citizens and are threatening to burn them alive. And eat them. Al Jazeera has been showing their sickening videotape—savages capering around and holding knives to the hostages’ throats—on a continuous loop for the ...

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Murderous Rhetoric

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 2:47:56 pm PDT

Mark Steyn takes a walk on the wild side with cyber crazy Markos Zuniga—and diagnoses a virus of hatred raging through the Democrat Party: Murderous rhetoric. (Hat tip: Greg.) On 31 March, four civilian contractors to the Coalition Authority in Iraq were ambushed in Fallujah. They were shot, burned, mutilated, and ...

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A Reminder...

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 11:04:13 am PDT

...that if you see a message saying you’re not allowed to post comments, or use our forms to send email, it may be because I’ve had to completely block AOL addresses from using those functions of LGF. There is a group of truly nasty and very persistent creatures who have ...

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They Call Him "Flipper"

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 10:23:00 am PDT

Yesterday on CNN, John Effin’ Kerry was asked how he would handle the situation in Iraq, after his strident criticisms of the Bush administration’s handling of the war. His response: “Right now, what I would do differently is, I mean, look, I’m not the president, and I didn’t create this mess so ...

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Postcard from the Edge

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 9:57:24 am PDT

LGF reader Jolly Roger forwards an email from a soldier preparing to go into battle in Fallujah: From: XX, Thomas E. MAJ Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 8:19 Subject: Postcard from the edge: e-mail home The author is a Marine Corps rifle company commander waiting to attack into Fallujah. He is writing to ...

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Possible Bomb at Montreal Jewish Cemetery

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 9:46:02 am PDT

A suspicious package has been discovered at a Jewish cemetery in Montreal. A police operation is underway at the Jewish cemetery in north-end Montreal after a suspicious package was discovered Thursday morning. All access to the cemetery, which is bordered by Sauvé St. and Lajenuesse St. in the north end of town, ...

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Got 6 in the Philippines

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 8:38:03 am PDT

Abu Sayyaf Leader Killed in Philippines. ZAMBOANGA, Philippines - Six members of the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group, including a senior leader wanted by the United States, were killed in a clash Thursday with Philippine troops on southern Basilan island, officials said. Hamsiraji Sali, one of five Abu Sayyaf leaders wanted ...

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Liberal Radio Talks, Nobody Listens

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 8:35:41 am PDT

Byron York at National Review Online shows that the Great Left Hope, Air America, is bombing. Of course, you wouldn’t know this from the slobbery media coverage. As the new liberal talk-radio network finishes its first week in operation, industry insiders say the most impressive thing about the effort is not ...

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The Saudi Fifth Column on Campus

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 8:30:04 am PDT

Here’s an article by Lee Kaplan that came out a few days ago, on The Saudi Fifth Column On Our Nation’s Campuses. Not all conspiracies are delusions; the Saudis are quite open about their intentions, but Americans apparently can’t be bothered. We’re subsidizing our own destruction, and the House of Saud ...

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What Media Bias?

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 8:11:16 am PDT

I can no longer be surprised at the blatant, in your face bias of the media; all I can do is point it out. Just get a load of this headline, on what’s supposed to be a news story: Gov’t Eludes 9/11 Accountability, Blame. In the two and a half years since ...

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Condoleezza Rice Testifies

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 8:09:08 am PDT

Rice: Nation Ill-Prepared Despite Threats. WASHINGTON - National security adviser Condoleezza Rice testified Thursday “there was no silver bullet that could have prevented” the Sept. 11, 2001 terror strikes, conceding the United States was ill-prepared despite a threat two decades in the making. President Bush “understood the threat, and he understood ...

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The Alamo is Over-Rated

Thu, Apr 8, 2004 at 8:07:46 am PDT

Here’s a terrifying account of the fighting in Baghdad, from a female soldier: The Alamo is over-rated as a tourist attraction, dammit.

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Wednesday, April 07, 2004

The Left is Thrashing

Wed, Apr 7, 2004 at 9:35:27 pm PDT

These are some of the emails received today by our advertiser Holy Land Olive Oil, who has no intention of pulling their ads: name: JesusFreak comments: Did you know that you’re advertising on a neo-Nazi site, Little Green Footballs? It’s outrageous that you sell Holy Land Olive Oil from there. ...

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Lost in a Mosquerade

Wed, Apr 7, 2004 at 9:17:38 pm PDT

(From the savage pens of Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons, naturally.)

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Boing Boing Joins the Bashers

Wed, Apr 7, 2004 at 9:06:05 pm PDT

Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing completely distorts the truth: Boing Boing: Little Green Footballs readers jihad investigative blogger for outing mercs in Iraq. Little Green Footballs readers jihad investigative blogger for outing mercs in Iraq Kathryn Cramer, the investigative blogger who tracked down a lot of the information on the use of ...

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Israel Is Not Allowed

Wed, Apr 7, 2004 at 7:03:30 pm PDT

Ze’ev Schiff states the obvious fact that can’t be repeated enough—because the world just doesn’t want to hear it: Israel is not allowed to defend itself. (Hat tip: Joel G.) A few days after the publication of the report in which the Europeans admit anti-Semitism has worsened there, Europe took another ...

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Kerry Campaign Hires MoveOn Moonbat

Wed, Apr 7, 2004 at 6:54:33 pm PDT

A senior “strategist” for MoveOn.org (how much “strategy” does it take to spout “Bush = Hitler”?) is now employed by the John Effin’ Kerry campaign: MoveOn staffer moves on to Kerry campaign. (Hat tip: black_flag.) WASHINGTON — A senior strategist for MoveOn, a liberal activist group, is joining John Kerry’s Democratic ...

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Kathryn Cramer Loses It

Wed, Apr 7, 2004 at 5:35:54 pm PDT

Kathryn Cramer, who tried to link murdered and dismembered contractor Michael Teague with a notorious neo-Nazi (and then “apologized” when she was caught), is completely losing it; it’s kind of sad, really. Now she’s making a garbled, incoherent claim that her site was under a DDoS attack, a claim that ...

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German Antisemitism Watch

Wed, Apr 7, 2004 at 12:59:12 pm PDT

Yesterday I posted about a shockingly antisemitic email received by an Israeli medical firm from a German company: German Antisemitism Watch. Many readers questioned the veracity of the email, because the hatred expressed was so far beyond the pale. Today I received a reply to my request for confirmation from the Israeli ...

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Let's Give Them a State!

Wed, Apr 7, 2004 at 11:31:48 am PDT

Someone remind me why we’re supposed to be sympathetic to these people. Palestinian demonstrators burn the US flag as they hold up the Iraqi national flag, during an all women’s protest in support of Iraq in Gaza City. Scores of Palestinian women protested against what they called US ‘war crimes’ in ...

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Kerry: Muqtada al Sadr a "Legitimate Voice"

Wed, Apr 7, 2004 at 11:10:22 am PDT

This may be the worst thing said yet by a Presidential candidate; even as Muqtada al-Sadr’s goons are killing coalition soldiers, John Kerry told NPR this morning that al-Sadr and his jihad newspaper are a legitimate voice. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.) In an interview broadcast Wednesday morning, Democratic presidential candidate John ...

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About Those Mosques

Wed, Apr 7, 2004 at 10:29:47 am PDT

The loony left will be screaming about the mosque that was apparently hit by US soldiers today. “Insensitive! War crime! Where’s my latté, wage slave?” The wire services are already reporting that 40 “worshippers” were killed at one mosque in Fallujah. But the simple fact, borne out by hundreds of posts here ...

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Nader Calls for Impeachment

Wed, Apr 7, 2004 at 10:05:04 am PDT

Crazy old Ralph Nader is calling for President Bush to be impeached. CHICAGO - Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader called Tuesday for President Bush to be impeached for “deceiving the American people night after night after night” about U.S. involvement in Iraq. “When you plunge our country into war on a ...

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Kofi Annan Springs Into Action

Wed, Apr 7, 2004 at 9:45:38 am PDT

Q: What does it take to get Kofi Annan to notice that there just might be a genocidal war going on? A: About two million corpses. Annan Warns of Rwanda-Style Genocide in Sudan. (Hat tip: Henry S.) GENEVA/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - U.N. chief Kofi Annan warned on Wednesday a Rwanda-style genocide may be in ...

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Germany to Al Qaeda: Hit Us, Please

Wed, Apr 7, 2004 at 9:08:45 am PDT

Germany has set free one of the people convicted of taking part in the September 11 attacks: Convicted Sept. 11 Suspect Leaves Prison. Way to go, Germany. Every time something like this happens, the jihadis around the world get more proof that Europe is hopelessly effete and unable to respond ...

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Al-Reuters: Mouthpiece for Arab Despots

Wed, Apr 7, 2004 at 8:40:30 am PDT

Al-Reuters would like us all to know that the corrupt, debased, murderous leaders of the Arab world are saying, “We told you so.” ANALYSIS-Arab Rulers’ Worst Fears on Iraq Come True. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) - As U.S. forces battle on a new front in Iraq, Baghdad’s Arab neighbors watch ...

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Tuesday, April 06, 2004

Iran's Proxy War

Tue, Apr 6, 2004 at 11:59:45 pm PDT

(From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons, of course.)

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Hosting Matters Does Right

Tue, Apr 6, 2004 at 10:56:41 pm PDT

I’d like to thank Hosting Matters for being a really stand-up company, and not bowing to pressure from people with a transparently vindictive agenda: Hosting Matters Support Forum - What’s up with the racists? The LGF haters, probably inspired by Markos Zuniga and his sycophants, are trying every avenue to hurt ...

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Not Anti-War - Just on the Other Side

Tue, Apr 6, 2004 at 10:09:57 pm PDT

The left continues to descend into sheer mind-boggling hatefulness: Bush photomosaic of American dead in Iraq. (Hat tip: hornsofthedevil.)

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LGF Attacked at Winds of Change

Tue, Apr 6, 2004 at 8:36:04 pm PDT

LGF and all of our readers and commenters are under attack (“white supremacists,” “Nazis,” “hate speech,” etc. etc. you know the drill) at Winds of Change. I’ve had my say. Perhaps some of you might want to defend yourselves against these accusations too.

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Defending Secular Democracy

Tue, Apr 6, 2004 at 7:20:10 pm PDT

Here’s a great piece by George Miller, Bill Hobbs’s new London correspondent, on the blatantly whitewashed EU antisemitism report that blames the precipitous rise in European antisemitism on “disaffected white European youth:” Defending Secular Democracy. Why would a European Union agency want to misinform the European people on the nature of ...

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The Religious Policeman

Tue, Apr 6, 2004 at 6:36:28 pm PDT

Here’s an encouraging development; a liberal Saudi Arabian with a weblog, now added to our anti-idiotarian page: The Religious Policeman. (Hat tip: Shari.) UPDATE: I really want to find signs of moderation and civilization in the Arab world. But this may not be one. A person calling himself Alhamedi Alanezi, the blogger ...

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JihadTV: Injecting Poison into Iraq

Tue, Apr 6, 2004 at 5:14:54 pm PDT

Iraqi blogger Sam at Hammorabi weighs in on the poisonous incitement of Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya, the Arabic television networks that serve as the voice of jihad. (Hat tip: Mister Ghost.) While writing these lines I am watching the f*cking TV of Al Jazeera which inflame the situation as if ...

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Got 9 in Pakistan

Tue, Apr 6, 2004 at 3:40:36 pm PDT

The amazing thing about this Reuters story is not that Pakistan seems to be cracking down on Islamozoid terror gangs (that could be just a front, after all); the real jawdropper is the headline: Pakistan Raids Islamic Terror Group, Arrests Nine. I had to look twice to make sure this was ...

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Fallujah Update

Tue, Apr 6, 2004 at 10:06:39 am PDT

Rumsfeld: Troops Capture Fallujah Suspects. WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday that U.S. troops have captured a number of people in Fallujah as they begin an operation to pacify the Iraqi city where four American military contractors were killed and their bodies brutalized. “The forces have cordoned off ...

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ElBaradei: Not to Worry, Iran is Cooperating

Tue, Apr 6, 2004 at 9:58:24 am PDT

Iran continues playing the effete (and possibly complicit) United Nations atomic energy “watchdog” like a fiddle: Iran Vows to Speed Up Nuclear Cooperation with UN. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran pledged Tuesday to accelerate cooperation with the U.N. atomic watchdog in a bid to prove it is not seeking nuclear weapons, but ...

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ACLU: Let Terrorist Suspects Fly

Tue, Apr 6, 2004 at 9:51:02 am PDT

Ladies, gentlemen, and lizardoid minions: I give you the American Civil Liberties Union, hard at work trying to ensure that we suffer another 9/11-style attack: ACLU to Sue Government Over ‘No-Fly’ List. WASHINGTON - American Civil Liberties Union’s officials declined to comment in advance of their planned announcement Tuesday that they ...

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German Antisemitism Watch

Tue, Apr 6, 2004 at 9:42:51 am PDT

A representative of an Israeli medical association wrote to a German firm, requesting information about medical conferences in San Diego—and received the following, almost unbelievable reply: Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 9:19 AM Subject: Fw: Conferences in San Diego This email was sent to me when I asked about conferences in San Diego. ...

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Paying for Weakness

Tue, Apr 6, 2004 at 9:23:07 am PDT

Ralph Peters hits the nail on the head again. We’re trying to fight a politically correct war, with too many half measures and second chances, and the bill is now coming due: The Road to Iraq’s Riots: Paying for Weakness. April 6, 2004 — SEVEN American soldiers died in Baghdad on ...

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"Best Not to Mention Them, Man"

Tue, Apr 6, 2004 at 9:05:02 am PDT

Mark Steyn has a savagely funny piece about the absurd inversion of reality that has become commonplace in the politically correct West: You’re joking if you think this is satire. The contours of our epic clash of civilisations are clear now: Christians are a cheap laugh and in control of the ...

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What Media Bias?

Tue, Apr 6, 2004 at 8:57:07 am PDT

Yesterday President Bush said that if he had had the information necessary to stop the September 11 attacks, he would have stopped them—a fact that should be obvious to anyone not blinded by Bush Derangement Syndrome. So what headline does the AP put on their story? Bush Says He Lacked Info ...

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Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?

Tue, Apr 6, 2004 at 8:48:40 am PDT

Iowahawk has discovered that Google is even more amazing than we thought. It actually keeps a cache of first drafts, and the hawk from the Midwest has discovered the first draft of Markos Zuniga’s “apology” for his “Screw them” remark: ————— Why Hast Thou Foresaken Me? by Daily Kos In the mincing fringe fever ...

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Ignorance Is Blix

Tue, Apr 6, 2004 at 8:38:19 am PDT

Milquetoast “weapons inspector” Hans Blix says the Iraqis were better off when Saddam Hussein’s boot was on their necks: Blix Says Iraq Worse Off After War. COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The costs of the war in Iraq have outweighed the benefits of removing Saddam Hussein, former U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix told ...

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Monday, April 05, 2004

"Mercs" Defend US HQ in Najaf

Mon, Apr 5, 2004 at 10:14:31 pm PDT

While Markos Zuniga continues defecating on their memories, the compatriots of the murdered veterans in Fallujah are busy saving lives and defending the US government headquarters in Najaf: Private Guards Repel Attack on U.S. Headquarters. (Hat tip: Allah.) An attack by hundreds of Iraqi militia members on the U.S. government’s headquarters ...

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Not "Anti-War" - Just on the Other Side

Mon, Apr 5, 2004 at 9:21:33 pm PDT

John Kerry’s campaign web site has removed their link to Daily Kos. But another site, far worse even than Markos “Screw Them” Zuniga, is running a gory picture from Al Jazeera—right next to a Kerry campaign advertisement: NathanNewman.org - News and Views: Four Mercenaries Killed in Iraq. (Hat tip: Richard.) UPDATE: Nathan ...

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The Crocodile At the Door

Mon, Apr 5, 2004 at 7:47:51 pm PDT

Despite voting in the appeasement government of Jose Zapatero, Spain is nervous tonight. MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish government has called for calm as tensions run high after a series of bombings and a purported al Qaeda threat of more attacks that would “make blood flow like rivers.” Police patrolled Madrid’s ...

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Zuniga Spews on Air America Tonight

Mon, Apr 5, 2004 at 5:30:13 pm PDT

Proving once again that the LLL has absolutely no scruples, Markos “Screw Them” Zuniga is going to be interviewed by Janeane “I’ll Crawl Through Broken Glass — No I Won’t” Garofalo tonight on the Great Lefty Hope, Air America Radio. Chances are very good that LGF will come in for ...

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Aussies: Not Appeasers

Mon, Apr 5, 2004 at 5:07:59 pm PDT

Last month we reported that the Labor Party in Australia was trying to run on an appeasement platform similar to Spain’s. Well, once again I raise a glass to the Aussies. Because they’re not going for it: Mark Latham’s bubble bursts. (Hat tip: BT.) THE SURGE in Mark Latham’s personal popularity has ...

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Daily Kos: Armed Forces Don't Like "Mercs"

Mon, Apr 5, 2004 at 4:07:06 pm PDT

Markos Zuniga never learned that when you’re in a hole, you should stop digging: Mercs in Iraq. Let’s make it clear — our regular armed forces don’t like the mercs. That’s why no one responds to mercs in distress (like the four in Falluja). Our men and women in uniform ...

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Fallaci: Fiercer Than Ever

Mon, Apr 5, 2004 at 3:47:20 pm PDT

The new book by Oriana Fallaci calls Europe a province of Islam. Entitled “The Strength of Reason,” (“La Forza della Ragione” in Italian), the book also accuses the Roman Catholic Church of being too weak before the Muslim world. “Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. ...

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Iran Has Declared War

Mon, Apr 5, 2004 at 2:22:55 pm PDT

Joseph Farah states the glaringly obvious fact that US media is completely ignoring: Iran has declared war on the US. (Hat tip: CastorOil.) Nobody else is saying it, so, once again, it is left to me to explain what really happened in Iraq yesterday. Iran declared war on the U.S. The signs have ...

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A Coup D'Etat?

Mon, Apr 5, 2004 at 2:07:45 pm PDT

This is not good news from Zeyad, as Muqtada al-Sadr’s “Army of the Mahdi” is running wild in Baghdad. A coup d’etat is taking place in Iraq a the moment. Al-Shu’la, Al-Hurria, Thawra (Sadr city), and Kadhimiya (all Shi’ite neighbourhoods in Baghdad) have been declared liberated from occupation. Looting has already ...

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Taranto Displeases His Master

Mon, Apr 5, 2004 at 2:03:38 pm PDT

James Taranto gets email from a Markos Zuniga supporter. Our item Friday on blogger Markos Zuniga’s post about the four Blackwater Security Consulting contractors murdered in Fallujah, Iraq, last week—“They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them,” Zuniga said—brought this response from reader Josh Waxman: It would be “fair and ...

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Arafat's Shields

Mon, Apr 5, 2004 at 1:33:39 pm PDT

Ariel Sharon has been hinting that Yasser Arafat could become a target soon. (Couldn’t be soon enough.) Which, of course, leads to scenes like this:

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Hate Like an Egyptian

Mon, Apr 5, 2004 at 11:34:44 am PDT

This special report at MEMRI came out a few days ago, but I just got around to reading it; a thorough and thoroughly nauseating study of the insane antisemitism and anti-Americanism promoted by Egyptian media. Conspiracy theories against the U.S. and the Jews are also common in Al-Ahram. President Hosni Mubarak ...

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Jewish Library in Montreal Destroyed

Mon, Apr 5, 2004 at 10:49:04 am PDT

Yet another antisemitic attack in Montreal: Montreal police investigate fire that destroyed Jewish school’s library. (Hat tip: Jean.) MONTREAL (CP) - Police were investigating a fire that caused damage on Monday to the library of a Jewish school where anti-Semitic leaflets were found. Sidney Benudiz, head of the United Talmud Torahs school, ...

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"We Will Make Blood Flow Like Rivers"

Mon, Apr 5, 2004 at 10:32:24 am PDT

Note to Jose Zapatero: How’s that appeasement plan working out for you? I only ask because it looks like the crocodile’s still hungry. Spain Arrests Bomb Suspects Amid More Threats. Investigators were analyzing a letter purportedly sent by Osama bin Laden’s Islamic militant network to newspaper ABC that threatened more bombings unless ...

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Kos Can't Wait for US to Fail

Mon, Apr 5, 2004 at 9:43:49 am PDT

Markos Zuniga says we’re losing control. It’s the beginning of the end. We’re going to kill thousands of innocent people and spawn more hatred and extremism. He can barely contain his excitement: Dark day in Iraq. And he pauses to dishonor the four lynched Americans yet again: Falluja’s current occupiers have no intention ...

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An Iraqi on Al-Sadr

Mon, Apr 5, 2004 at 9:11:42 am PDT

Zeyad at Healing Iraq has a few words about Muqtada al-Sadr and his so-called “Army of the Mahdi:” Last thing we heard was that Muqtada Al-Sadr’s residence in Najaf was surrounded by coalition troops and that his followers clashed with Spanish troops in Kufa, 21 of them killed and 120 wounded. ...

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Sharon: "There Have Been Changes"

Mon, Apr 5, 2004 at 9:07:17 am PDT

Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon says things have changed since his promise to President Bush that the Arafish would not be gaffed: Sharon Backs Away from Pledge Not to Harm Arafat. “I am not vouching for his physical safety,” Sharon said of Arafat, the Palestinian president Israel accuses of fomenting violence ...

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Going After Muqtada al-Sadr

Mon, Apr 5, 2004 at 9:02:25 am PDT

An arrest warrant has been issued for Muqtada al-Sadr, the raving radical Shi’ite “cleric” who has been one of the worst agitators: Warrant Issued for Shiite Cleric’s Arrest. BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi judge has issued a murder arrest warrant for a radical Shiite Muslim cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, for the slaying ...

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Eurabia and Euro-Arab Antisemitism

Mon, Apr 5, 2004 at 8:58:07 am PDT

Go read this powerful piece by Bat Ye’or, on Europe’s slide into dhimmitude: Eurabia and Euro-Arab Antisemitism. (Hat tip: Andrew Bostom.) “The largest group of the perpetrators of anti-Semitic activities appears to be young, disaffected white Europeans,” announced a summary released March 31, 2004 to the European Parliament from the report ...

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Fallujah Cordoned Off

Mon, Apr 5, 2004 at 8:52:41 am PDT

Coalition forces and Iraqi soldiers have surrounded Fallujah. It looks like the reprisal has finally begun. Godspeed to our soldiers and those fighting alongside. It’s time for the people who lynched those Americans to pay a heavy price.

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Sunday, April 04, 2004

Vandals Deface Veterans Memorial

Sun, Apr 4, 2004 at 10:29:45 pm PDT

An almost unbelievable story of leftist hatred and bile, from San Marcos, Texas: Vandals deface Veterans Memorial; local residents react. (Hat tip: Jennifer Martinez.) A gasp of disbelief, a sad shake of the head and a feeling of general disgust. That’s how San Marcos residents reacted Saturday morning at the sight of ...

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Brazil Shielding Uranium Facility

Sun, Apr 4, 2004 at 10:04:33 pm PDT

We’ve noted before that Brazil has produced some of the ugliest antisemitic and anti-American eruptions in the Western hemisphere. And in a positively sickening development, now they’re working to join the nuclear weapons club. The Brazilian government has refused to allow U.N. nuclear inspectors to examine a facility for enriching uranium under ...

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Rats of a Feather

Sun, Apr 4, 2004 at 9:55:14 pm PDT

Markos Zuniga, who said “Screw them” about the Americans murdered and torn apart in Fallujah, has a proud new advertiser: Ohio Congressional candidate Jeff Seemann. (Hat tip: lazytart.) Zuniga, still gloating and arrogant as ever, and still dancing on the graves of the four Americans murdered in Fallujah, has this to ...

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Palestinian Child Abuse

Sun, Apr 4, 2004 at 9:40:49 pm PDT

Palestinian boys hold toy guns and a model of the Al Aqsa Mosque during an Islamic Jihad rally commemorating an intense battle two years earlier between militants and Israeli forces, in the West Bank town of Jenin, Sunday April 4, 2004. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

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In Memory of Wesley Batalona

Sun, Apr 4, 2004 at 9:32:18 pm PDT

Here’s the story of one of the men murdered last Wednesday in Fallujah, a Hawaiian kama’aina from the Big Island named Wesley John Kealoha Batalona: Ambush in Iraq leaves Paauilo family mourning. Rest in peace, Wesley. (Hat tip: Infidel.)

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Turning Over the Rocks

Sun, Apr 4, 2004 at 7:35:54 pm PDT

Want to see the left at work as they try to dig up some dirt to smear the names of the Americans murdered and torn apart in Fallujah? Well, here you go, as Kathryn Cramer tries to connect the murdered Michael Teague with a white supremacist with the same name, ...

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The Watchers Are Watching Us

Sun, Apr 4, 2004 at 6:27:08 pm PDT

Ooooh! We’re being watched! Unlike yesterday, when we were completely anonymous. It’s to laugh. You are right. You guys have set a precedent. Many of us on the left have ignore right-leaning blogs and have allowed you to play in your own sandbox. You have taught us that giving people the benefit of the doubt, ...

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The Mirror of Fallujah

Sun, Apr 4, 2004 at 5:48:14 pm PDT

A new essay at Victor Davis Hanson’s web site examines the thorniest, most politically incorrect question about the Middle East: The Mirror of Fallujah. Conspiracy theory in the West is the domain of Montana survivalists and Chomsky-like wackos; in the Arab world it is the staple of the state-run media. This ...

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Candidates Flee a Sinking Kos

Sun, Apr 4, 2004 at 4:54:45 pm PDT

Markos Zuniga may want to rethink that little boast about how he wasn’t going to suffer any consequences for his loathsome remarks; Democrat candidate Jane Mitakides is now pulling her campaign advertisement from Daily Kos. (Hat tip: brett.) Thank you to all who have contacted us to alert us to the ...

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Bad Day in Baghdad

Sun, Apr 4, 2004 at 4:24:05 pm PDT

Muqtada al-Sadr and his terrorist militia calling itself the “Army of the Mahdi” have been running amok in Baghdad, killing dozens of people including 10 US troops. Last Wednesday evening I asked why there had been no response to the atrocities in Fallujah. Tonight, Sunday, there have still been no consequences ...

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An Equal Opportunity Screwer

Sun, Apr 4, 2004 at 3:08:23 pm PDT

Lizardoid minion Glen Wishard reminds us that Markos Zuniga has a long long history of screwing around: The “moralizing” Joe Lieberman. Lieberman is NOT a Republican. He’s NOT even Republican-lite. Seriously, that line of thought has to end. Especially since there are so many good reasons to oppose his candidace: his moralizing, ...

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Religion of Wife Scalping

Sun, Apr 4, 2004 at 12:08:17 pm PDT

A Malaysian Muslim, displeased with his wife’s new hair color and her refusal to wear the symbol of women’s servitude, decided to teach her a lesson. He scalped her. (Hat tip: FreakyBoy.) But Malaysian justice is swift, and he may have to go to jail. For three years at the most. A ...

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Raze Fallujah

Sun, Apr 4, 2004 at 11:11:59 am PDT

Tammy Bruce makes a case for razing Fallujah. (Thanks to all who emailed this one.) Fallujah has remained a hotbed of support for the brutal past regime, and for reasons that can only be explained by political correctness, we have not, up to this point, destroyed that base of murder, terrorism ...

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The Kos Pool

Sun, Apr 4, 2004 at 11:04:37 am PDT

This topic is to start a pool, predicting how long it will be before Markos Zuniga acknowledges that dailykos.com has been dropped from the official John Kerry campaign web site’s list of links, with a very strong statement. I say he’s going to ignore it until he’s forced to say something ...

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Religion of Execution-Style Slaying

Sun, Apr 4, 2004 at 10:20:13 am PDT

Gunmen Storm Karachi Police Post, Kill 5. KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 10 gunmen stormed into a police station in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi on Sunday, killing five policemen and wounding one after demanding the officers recite Islamic verses, police said. The attackers escaped by car after the ...

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The Media Are the Enemy

Sun, Apr 4, 2004 at 9:15:29 am PDT

Describing the death in Spain of the so-called “ringleader” of the Madrid bombings, check out this incredibly passive AP headline: Alleged Ringleader of Madrid Bombings Dies. These terrorzoids blew themselves up in true Islamic jihad fashion, killing a policeman, and the best way AP can put it is that he ...

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Iran: There's Nothing Hidden Here

Sun, Apr 4, 2004 at 8:23:43 am PDT

It’s quite a relief to know that my fears of an Iranian nuclear bomb were unwarranted: Iran Says It Has Hidden No Nuclear Sites from UN. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran, under renewed pressure to prove it is not seeking an atomic bomb, said Sunday it had no clandestine nuclear sites hidden ...

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Daily Kos Delinked from Internet

Sun, Apr 4, 2004 at 8:20:21 am PDT

This morning Daily Kos is coming up with a blank white page. Is it the Mossad, or the wingnuts? I can’t see much difference in the content myself, but the not-very-lovable moonbats at Democratic Underground are having paroxysms of paranoia. Maybe Zuniga is raising a virtual white flag? UPDATE: Zuniga and his ...

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Saturday, April 03, 2004

They Shall Have War

Sat, Apr 3, 2004 at 9:09:40 pm PST

So, Jose. How’s that plan to withdraw the Spanish troops from Iraq doing? Apparently, you’re not moving fast enough for the Islamists. Oh, and they’d like you to know that they expect Spain to withdraw from Afghanistan too. Chop chop. The Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported Saturday that the Spanish Embassy in Egypt ...

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Kerry's Site Delinks Daily Kos

Sat, Apr 3, 2004 at 6:27:38 pm PST

John Kerry’s campaign site has removed their link to Daily Kos: In light of the unacceptable statement about the death of Americans made by Daily Kos, we have removed the link to this blog from our website. As John Kerry said in a statement earlier this week, “My deepest sympathies are ...

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Google Does the Wrong Thing

Sat, Apr 3, 2004 at 6:00:06 pm PST

If you search for the single word “Jew” on Google, the very first result is an utterly disgusting antisemitic site to which I will not link. This is unacceptable. Here’s a petition to remove it from Google’s index: (I’ve removed the link to this petition because my BS detector is beeping at ...

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You Are Forgiven, My Son

Sat, Apr 3, 2004 at 5:31:06 pm PST

Gerard Van Der Leun takes Markos Zuniga’s non-apology apology, and fisks it down to the marrow: Father Forgive Me for I Must Fisk. A taste: >So I said something pretty stupid last week. No. You said many stupid things last week. You said one very evil thing. We are talking about your ...

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Emailing Kos

Sat, Apr 3, 2004 at 4:42:03 pm PST

From the evidence, Bill at INDC Journal is a very patient guy, and he’s opened an email dialog with Markos Zuniga by deliberately showing more respect than he really felt. He received a response to his first email, but I suspect his second, much more pointed email will go unanswered. ...

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Very Awkward Facts

Sat, Apr 3, 2004 at 3:57:28 pm PST

Laurie Mylroie dismantles Richard Clarke’s last shred of credibility in a terrific piece at OpinionJournal, fact checking Clarke in the best lizardoid fashion: Very Awkward Facts. (Hat tip: Hoystory, who also has a good post on the Daily Kos meltdown.) Mr. Clarke is a man famously intolerant of those who disagree ...

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The Army of the Mahdi

Sat, Apr 3, 2004 at 2:49:55 pm PST

I don’t know why more people—especially women—aren’t converting to Islam. They make it seem so inviting. Veiled Iraqi women parade in Sadr City, a northern Baghdad, Iraq, neighborhood, Saturday April 3 2004. Thousands took part in a parade of the Al-Mehdi army, a shiite group founded by Muktada Al-Sadr. (AP Photo/Samir ...

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Weapons of Mass Destruction Found in West Bank

Sat, Apr 3, 2004 at 2:24:28 pm PST

(Hat tip: Joel G.)

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Hamas Suffers Serious Blow

Sat, Apr 3, 2004 at 2:02:15 pm PST

This is great news; Israel may have broken the back of Hamas in the pit of radical Islam known as Nablus, arresting many senior leaders of the terror gang: 26 arrested in Nablus raid. (Hat tip: EE.) “Without a doubt the Hamas infrastructure has suffered a serious blow, as many of ...

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New Bombing in Madrid: Not "Controlled"

Sat, Apr 3, 2004 at 1:52:25 pm PST

Spain apparently tried to hide the truth about the explosion today in Madrid, originally calling it “controlled” even though it clearly was not: Shooting, Explosion During Madrid Police Sweep. MADRID (Reuters) - Suspects sought for the Madrid train bombings apparently set off an explosion when cornered by police on Saturday, ...

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They Shall Have War

Sat, Apr 3, 2004 at 12:52:35 pm PST

Note to Jose Zapatero: how’s that appeasement thing working out for you? Shooting, Blast Reported During Madrid Police Sweep. MADRID (Reuters) - Shooting and an explosion were heard on Saturday in a Madrid suburb where police were hunting for suspects in last month’s Madrid train bombings, Spanish media reports said. A ...

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Daily Kos Continues Gloating

Sat, Apr 3, 2004 at 12:31:43 pm PST

Markos Zuniga is not only unapologetic about his sick comments; he’s gloating that in today’s brave new Democratic fever swamp, he won’t have to suffer any repercussions. So I said something pretty stupid last week. I served up the wingnuts a big, juicy softball. They went into a tizzy, led by ...

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A 'Mercenary' Response

Sat, Apr 3, 2004 at 8:29:02 am PST

An excellent post from Greyhawk at the Mudville Gazette, on Markos Zuniga (Daily Kos) and his repellent statement of contempt for the Americans murdered and torn apart in Fallujah: A ‘Mercenary’ Response. And see Grim’s Hall for a response to Zuniga from one of these “mercenaries” Zuniga stabbed in the back. ...

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And Again

Sat, Apr 3, 2004 at 8:03:44 am PST

Another one of those brave Palestinian “freedom fighters” sneaked into a settlement near Tulkarm earlier today, killed a father and wounded his 12-year old daughter: Father killed, daughter wounded in terror attack. In Saturday’s attack, the terrorist broke through the perimeter fence near a row of homes and raced through the ...

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Arafish Says...

Sat, Apr 3, 2004 at 7:37:18 am PST

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Friday, April 02, 2004

Fallujah, a God Forsaken Town

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 9:04:00 pm PST

Zeyad at the Iraqi blog Healing Iraq reinforces

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Italy Moves Against Islamozoids

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 8:58:08 pm PST

On the heels of today’s Islamic threats to destroy Rome, Italian police have rounded up more than 100 suspected Islamic extremists. ROME, Italy (Reuters) - Italian police detained more than 100 people suspected of having links to Muslim militants in coordinated raids across the country Friday, an interior ministry spokesman said. Working ...

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Islamic Terrorists "Suspected"

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 8:19:04 pm PST

Well. What a surprise. Islamic Militants Suspected in Spain Bomb. MADRID (Reuters) - A bomb defused on a high-speed Spanish rail track was so like those used to blow up four Madrid trains that the same militant Islamist group is believed to be responsible in both cases, Spanish newspapers said Saturday. ...

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Fifth Column Blogs

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 8:12:33 pm PST

The shadowy anti-American scumbags who run Zmag have launched three new blogs, by three Noam Chomsky fellow travellers, all of them sneering at and mocking the American security personnel murdered in Fallujah, completing the work of their compatriots who tore those poor people apart. (Hat tip: Greg.) Word from the Wise ...

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Religion of the Striking Hand

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 7:11:34 pm PST

No response yet to the murder and mutilation of four of America’s best in Fallujah. And the Islamists are getting bolder. Influential Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr openly declares his allegiance with the Hizballah and Hamas terror gangs: Cleric elects himself Hamas’ ‘striking hand in Iraq’. CNN) — An influential Shiite cleric in ...

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2 Million Die, UN Issues Statement

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 6:34:25 pm PST

The UN is finally paying a little attention to the Arab “militias” that have been conducting genocidal campaigns against the African natives of Sudan, killing more than two million people: UN: Ethnic Cleansing Sweeps Sudan’s Darfur Region. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Arab militias are conducting an organized campaign of ethnic cleansing ...

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West: Fighting Terror

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 6:12:19 pm PST

An excellent opinion piece by Diana West on the Big Picture, and why letting the Middle East continue to fester in repression and extremism became an untenable option on September 11, 2001: Fighting terror. Will freedom spread to Iraq’s authoritarian neighbors? The recent collapse of an Arab summit on the subject ...

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Juan Cole: "A Piece of State Terror"

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 4:06:12 pm PST

Juan Cole, a Professor of History at the University of Michigan, has brought his intellect to bear on what happened in Fallujah. And his carefully considered opinion is that it was Israel’s fault. (Hat tip: CastorOil.) You put yourself in the shoes of an American military commander in Fallujah. He treats with ...

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Another Celebrity Endorsement

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 3:52:49 pm PST

Al Qaeda’s new video. (Hat tip: JohninLondon.)

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Killing for Bin Laden

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 3:28:28 pm PST

Four terrorists jailed in Malaysia for a series of bombings of churches and other targets have said they did it for Osama. Mohamed Nasir Abbas, one of the four men interviewed by Malaysia’s TV3, said the bombings were inspired by religious edicts, known as fatwas, attributed to bin Laden. “People who ...

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The Islamist Muzzle

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 3:21:02 pm PST

Here’s Arab-American writer Nonie Darwish, on a talk at UC Santa Barbara by Sheikh Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi, a vocal critic of militant Islam—and the thuggish reaction of the Muslim Students Association, who did their best to disrupt the speech: The Islamist Muzzle. One would think that UCSB’s Muslims, who proclaim ...

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Taranto on Kos

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 3:11:51 pm PST

At the top of today’s Best of the Web, James Taranto weighs in on Markos Zuniga’s comments about the security personnel murdered in Fallujah. It’s worth noting that the Daily Kos is popular among Democratic leaders. Zuniga is a principal in the Armstrong Zuniga political consulting firm, which touts the Daily ...

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Jews, Americans, Britons: Al Qaeda Targets

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 2:19:08 pm PST

A new “strategy paper” posted on an Al Qaeda-linked web site spells out the targets of the jihad: Jews, Americans, and Britons. DUBAI (Reuters) - A strategy paper posted on a Web site sympathetic to al Qaeda lists Jews, Americans and Britons as main targets, and calls on militant cells worldwide ...

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A Million Thanks

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 1:40:36 pm PST

This is just too cool for school; the Lutheran High School in Orange California, that is, where Shauna Fleming is running a campaign to send A Million Thanks To Our U.S. Military Men and Women. (Hat tip: sharona.) We are asking individuals, schools, churches, and businesses around the U.S. to participate ...

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The Incredible Disappearing Kos

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 12:42:05 pm PST

Markos Zuniga has disappeared his post on how little he cared about the security personnel torn apart in Fallujah, and replaced it with a Kerryesque flip-flopping non-apology that ends up saying pretty much the same thing: Daily Kos. Something else seems to have disappeared from Daily Kos, though; at least two ...

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Simon Goes Laingian On Us

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 11:54:43 am PST

Roger L. Simon weighs in on Markos Zuniga (Daily Kos) and his repellent “Screw them” remark about the Americans ripped apart in Fallujah. When I read yesterday on Little Green Footballs and this morning on Instapundit of the comments of Markos Zuniga of Daily Kos, seemingly gloating (at least to some ...

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RoP Burns British Flag in London

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 10:45:03 am PST

ThisisLondon reports that Muslim extremists burned the Union flag outside a London mosque today, while in other areas al-Muhajiroun spokesmen ranted and threatened. (Hat tip: Joel G.) Muslim extremists burnt the Union flag outside a London mosque today. The demonstration comes as nine British Muslims are still being questioned by anti-terror police ...

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Ask the Islamic Scholars

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 10:31:19 am PST

A Muslim named Muhsin from the United Kingdom has a timely question for the Islamic scholars at Islam Online’s Fatwa page. (Hat tip: Mr Pol.) As-Salamu ‘alaykum. Could you please clarify how Islam views the issue of mutilating the dead bodies of enemies at times of war? Sheikh Faysal Mawlawi, deputy ...

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Lovin' Europe by Leavin'

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 10:15:55 am PST

It’s Victor Davis Hanson day, and he returns to the topic of the future of NATO and the US-Europe alliance in another great column: Lovin’ Europe by Leavin’. Meanwhile, the American people who don’t read Foreign Affairs or go to briefings at Brookings grow increasingly cynical. It is not just that ...

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Arab News: Savagery

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 9:52:33 am PST

From a surprising source, Arab News: Savagery. (Hat tip: NC.) The spectacle of the mutilated remains of four American contractors being paraded through the streets of Fallujah will have turned the stomachs of all who saw this savagery on their television screens. This was mob violence at its worst. Those who participated ...

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RoP Threatens Rome

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 9:03:28 am PST

Italian police have found a videotape containing threats to “destroy Rome.” (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.) Oddly enough, it wasn’t Buddhists this time. “The person who will destroy Rome is already preparing his swords. Rome will not be conquered by words but by force and weapons,” Panorama quoted the message on the tape ...

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Iraqi Cleric Condemns Mutilation, Not Killing

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 8:52:28 am PST

Clan and religious loyalty takes precedence over human decency, as an Iraqi Sunni cleric “condemns” the mutilation of four murdered Americans—but not their murders. On Friday, in one of Falluja’s Sunni mosques, Sheikh Hamid Saleh denounced the mutilation, although he did not explicitly condemn the killing of the Americans. “We denounce the ...

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They Shall Have War

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 8:43:37 am PST

Note to Jose Zapatero: how’s that plan for appeasing the jihadis going? Bomb Found on Spanish High-Speed Rail Track. MOCEJON, Spain (Reuters) - A bomb was found on a Spanish high-speed rail track Friday and state radio reported it contained the same type of dynamite used in suspected al Qaeda bombs that ...

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Keeping Company with Pigs

Fri, Apr 2, 2004 at 8:40:31 am PST

Markos Zuniga (“Daily Kos”), who yesterday wrote this: Let the people see what war is like. This isn’t an Xbox game. There are real repercussions to Bush’s folly. That said, I feel nothing over the death of merceneries [sic]. They aren’t in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying ...

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Thursday, April 01, 2004

Crime and Punishment

Thu, Apr 1, 2004 at 9:09:10 pm PST

A beautiful, heartfelt post by Ali at Iraq the Model, putting all the Western naysayers to shame, with the fierce perspective of a rational human being caught in the midst of madness. Before going further, I’d like to say that we still have to work our minds while we combat evil ...

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Daily Kos Gloats Over Fallujah

Thu, Apr 1, 2004 at 8:45:19 pm PST

Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, also known as “Daily Kos,” couldn’t restrain his joy over the gruesome deaths of four of his fellow citizens yesterday, and expressed one of the ugliest sentiments I’ve seen yet on the lefty blogs (and that’s really saying something). His foul pronouncement is in the topic: Corpses ...

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Army Vets, Ex-SEAL Among 4 Killed in Iraq

Thu, Apr 1, 2004 at 7:49:54 pm PST

Here’s some information about the Americans murdered and torn apart in Fallujah yesterday. Our thoughts go out to their families, who must be suffering immensely. Army Vets, Ex-SEAL Among 4 Killed in Iraq. Family members and a spokesperson said Thursday that Jerko “Jerry’ Zovko, 32, Michael Teague, 38, and Scott Helvenston, 38, ...

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USIP Responds to Daniel Pipes

Thu, Apr 1, 2004 at 7:29:53 pm PST

The US Institute of Peace has responded to Daniel Pipes’s criticism that they sponsored an event with known radical Islamists, including a former leader of the British jihad group Al Muhajiroun. Their reply is defensive and willfully blind about the threat of Islamic supremacists, and that’s not good news for ...

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IDF Moves Into Gaza

Thu, Apr 1, 2004 at 7:04:37 pm PST

Israeli tanks have moved into the Rafah “refugee camp:” Israeli Tanks Enter Gaza Refugee Camp. (Hat tip: speedster.) GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli tanks entered the Rafah refugee camp on the Gaza-Egypt border early Friday, residents and Palestinian security officials said. There were heavy exchanges of fire between soldiers and ...

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Arab Sense of Humor

Thu, Apr 1, 2004 at 6:23:35 pm PST

Those Jordanians are such cut-ups! Jordan’s April fool: Sharon killed. AMMAN, Jordan, April 1 (UPI) — An April Fools’ Day rumor indicating Hamas had killed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon swept Jordan Thursday. Many Jordanians spread the “joke” the Palestinian militant group avenged its founder and spiritual leader Sheik Ahmad Yassin, who ...

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Den Beste on Fallujah

Thu, Apr 1, 2004 at 3:28:57 pm PST

Steven Den Beste makes some good points (and one with which I will take issue below) in this essay on what happened in Fallujah and what our response should be. Now, in Falluja, we have seen another operation consistent with the doctrine of terrorism, only this time the US was the ...

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Hate Like an Egyptian

Thu, Apr 1, 2004 at 2:45:08 pm PST

Jew-hatred trumps Islamic doctrine in Egypt. (Hat tip: Allah.) Officials at Al Azhar acknowledged that they have long forbidden depictions of prophets — or even the voices of prophets — in movies, but they said they have no intention of opposing the decision of government censors to allow “The Passion” to ...

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It's A Trap!

Thu, Apr 1, 2004 at 1:44:59 pm PST

Bill Whittle has posted Chapter Two of his new collection, and it’s a keeper. As usual, it’s hard to summarize, but one of his themes recurs often here at LGF: the damage done by pseudo-intellectuals promoting warped social theories. It’s A Trap! How many students today believe what they believe because ...

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EU Hits Bottom, Digs

Thu, Apr 1, 2004 at 1:13:49 pm PST

The European Union has investigated the allegations that EU money was used to fund Palestinian terrorism. Israel handed over confiscated Palestinian documents (many of which have been covered before at LGF) showing the money transfers. And I’m sure you’ll be completely unsurprised to learn that the weasels of the EU have ...

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What Has Gone Right in Iraq

Thu, Apr 1, 2004 at 12:52:00 pm PST

Jeff Jacoby reminds us: What has gone right in Iraq. (Hat tip: Carl in Jerusalem.) WITH ALL the news coming out of the Middle East, here is a detail you might have missed: A few weeks ago, the United Nations shut down the Ashrafi refugee camp in southwestern Iran. For years ...

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Bremer: "Deaths Will Not Go Unpunished"

Thu, Apr 1, 2004 at 8:05:21 am PST

Paul Bremer promised that the atrocity we saw yesterday will not go unpunished. Unfortunately he combined it with another refusal to look straight at the enemy. “The acts we have seen (Wednesday) are despicable and inexcusable. They violate the tenets of all religions, including Islam as well as the foundations of ...

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"A Gift"

Thu, Apr 1, 2004 at 7:51:22 am PST

Unknown group claims responsibility for Fallujah killings. FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFP) - A previously unknown group claimed the gruesome killing of four US contractors in Fallujah, western Iraq, in revenge for Israel’s assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. “This is a gift from the people of Fallujah to the people of ...

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Jihad in Andalusia

Thu, Apr 1, 2004 at 7:09:22 am PST

A Tunisian man suspected of being the ringleader of the Madrid train bombings began planning for Jihad in Madrid in 2003. The Tunisian, Serhane ben Abdelmajid Farkhet, 35, was identified as the “personal leader and coordinator” of the group implicated in the March 11 attack, which killed 191 people three days ...

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