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Saturday, May 31, 2003

Nazimedia Stalker Continues Attacking LGF

Sat, May 31, 2003 at 9:28:08 pm PDT

The stalker at Indymedia who keeps posting libelous entries about LGF has outdone itself. Little Green Footballs openly links to White Power website. It would be funny if it weren’t so utterly pathetic. Here’s what the illiterate cretin wrote this time: notorious hate mongering site LGF links to White Power ...

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The Mullahs' Manhattan Project

Sat, May 31, 2003 at 6:28:39 pm PDT

Ready for a really scary look at the possibility of Iran getting their hands on nuclear weapons? Then read this article by Reuel Marc Gerecht at the Weekly Standard: The Mullahs' Manhattan Project. The Islamic Republic of Iran is much closer to the ultimate weapons than Saddam ever was, and ...

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University of Death Photo Album

Sat, May 31, 2003 at 5:25:52 pm PDT

The hard-working students at An-Najah University in Nablus have been very busy, getting ready for the “roadmap to peace.” Here we see the professors instructing a crowd of doctoral candidates in the fine points of slaughtering Jews on a bus: And here we see the Palestinian equivalent of the PTA, as proud ...

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Eurocreeps Start the Riots Early

Sat, May 31, 2003 at 5:01:44 pm PDT

G-8 protesters (communists, socialists, anarchists, anti-globalists, pro-Palestinians, and every other group of fruitcakes known to man) have been looking forward to rioting in Geneva all year; they’re so anxious to get started that they’re attacking each other. A group of about 350 protesters disrupted a meeting of France's Socialist Party, ...

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Condi Doesn't Understand France

Sat, May 31, 2003 at 3:31:52 pm PDT

Condoleeza Rice just doesn’t understand the French infatuation with murderous dictators. "I do not understand the continuing interest in Arafat," US National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice said in an interview with Le Monde Saturday, regarding Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin's meeting last week with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. "The fact ...

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The Bloodthirsty Women of An-Najah

Sat, May 31, 2003 at 3:12:29 pm PDT

Palestinian women participate in an anti-Israeli Hamas rally at the An-Najah University in the West Bank town of Nablus, Monday May 26, 2003. A 19-year-old woman who blew herself up at an Israeli mall nearly two weeks ago has raised something of a feminist debate among Palestinians: Should women ...

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"I Would Have Drunk Her Blood"

Sat, May 31, 2003 at 1:51:06 pm PDT

Iman Salih Mutlak was a 22-year old Iraqi woman who was shot to death while trying to attack US soldiers with grenades. Now her family is filled with shame over her appalling act. Not the act of attempted murder. The act of leaving the house alone, without permission. Iraqi Woman Hailed, ...

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And the Winners Are...

Sat, May 31, 2003 at 1:14:55 pm PDT

Oh boy! Award ceremony time in Great Britain! The Islamic Human Rights Commission (oxymoronic enough for you?) has announced the winners of The Annual Islamophobia Awards for 2003! (Hat tip: say it like it is.) 1)'Most Islamophobic British Politician of the Year' award: Nick Griffen, leader of the British National Party, ...

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Adam Shapiro Gets a Guardian Tongue Bath

Sat, May 31, 2003 at 12:45:53 pm PDT

Here’s an article at the Guardian that just might make you hurl; a ridiculously overdone, glowing portrait of self-hating terrorist enabler Adam Shapiro and his Palestinian wife: A love under fire. (Hat tip: Ralphoosh.) The article makes numerous references to Israel’s “invasion” of the West Bank, with no mention whatsoever of ...

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Arab Jew-Hatred in Holland

Sat, May 31, 2003 at 11:26:47 am PDT

Europeans regularly issue scathing denunciations of American gun violence. But when it comes to violent pro-Palestinian demonstrations, they give their children kaffiyeh and toy guns, to show their approval of killing Jews. From a sick antisemitic web site in Holland, associated with the white supremacist hate group World Church of the Creator: UPDATE: ...

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We Got Mail!

Sat, May 31, 2003 at 10:25:41 am PDT

Today’s hate mail comes from an admirer in the city of Multan in the Punjab region of Pakistan, using the obviously fake email address fuckamerica@yahoo.com and the IP address 63.100.211.108. This benighted creature took time out of his busy schedule rocking on his heels and chanting the Koran to email the ...

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Victor Davis Hanson on Book TV

Sat, May 31, 2003 at 10:04:27 am PDT

Victor Davis Hanson will be interviewed on Book TV today at 11:30 am Pacific time; there’s no mention on their web site, but it was announced on air. You can watch streaming video over the internet on this page.

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Krauthammer on the Roadmap

Sat, May 31, 2003 at 9:52:02 am PDT

A clear view on the “roadmap” from Charles Krauthammer, who points out an irrefutable truth—that to date, Abu Mazen has done absolutely nothing to uproot and extinguish the culture of incitement and terrorism that grips the Palestinian Authority: The Middle East 'road ahead'. WASHINGTON--On May 23, just a week ago, ...

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After Auschwitz

Sat, May 31, 2003 at 8:50:23 am PDT

Remarks by the President After Tour of Auschwitz. (Hat tip: Ben F.) Laura and I have just toured Auschwitz I, and what they call Auschwitz II, a place where millions were murdered. The sites are a sobering reminder that -- of the power of evil and the need for people ...

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Friday, May 30, 2003

JihadTV in Canada

Fri, May 30, 2003 at 8:34:54 pm PDT

Raja Khouri, national president of the Canadian Arab Federation, says that Canada must allow Al Jazeera—outlet for the hate speech and conspiracy garbage that infests the Arab world—to be broadcast on Canadian cable television, in spite of their open Jew-hatred and anti-Americanism: Al Jazeera. (Hat tip: speedster.) The Canadian Cable ...

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Davidian Rant One

Fri, May 30, 2003 at 8:08:01 pm PDT

Gil Ronen channels King David, in a powerful and disturbing Flash presentation: Davidian Rant 1 - roadmap.

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Bush Arrives in Poland

Fri, May 30, 2003 at 5:48:18 pm PDT

President Bush has arrived in Poland, and is warning France and Germany not to punish the Poles for supporting the Iraq War. But in an interview with Polish television aired just before he arrived, Bush warned European powers not to punish Poland for its stance on Iraq. "I think it's ...

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Egyptian Hate Watch

Fri, May 30, 2003 at 4:54:49 pm PDT

On the eve of President Bush’s visit to Egypt, government-controlled Egyptian newspapers launch a series of insanely vicious attacks on Bush and on the United States. Muhammad Nafi' wrote in Al-Gumhuriya: "It has been proven that Bush and Saddam are the two sides of the same coin, they are both ...

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Pro-Pal Groups Plan Israel Day Protests

Fri, May 30, 2003 at 4:30:35 pm PDT

Israpundit reports that pro-Palestinian groups are planning to do their best to ruin the Israel Day Parade in New York City this Sunday, June 1. Here’s the web site of one of these groups, the Palestine Activist Forum of New York.

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Vanity Fair Misquotes Wolfowitz

Fri, May 30, 2003 at 2:07:50 pm PDT

Britain’s Independent, home of the execrable über-idiotarian Robert Fisk, picks up a deliberate misquote of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz in a truly shoddy piece of anti-American “journalism” with a headline that bears no relation to the truth: WMD just a convenient excuse for war, admits Wolfowitz. Wolfowitz “admitted” no ...

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What's On Arafat's Desk?

Fri, May 30, 2003 at 1:37:48 pm PDT

Abu Mazen reports to his master, giving us another chance to view the amazing clutter on the desk of the world’s oldest terrorist: My eyes may be deceiving me, but I think I see a hint of the red binder—the horrible red binder!—about a third of the way down that impressive ...

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Washington Betrays Israel

Fri, May 30, 2003 at 12:09:44 pm PDT

Caroline B. Glick says that Washington has betrayed Israel, after President Bush’s ground-breaking June 24 speech last year that put the blame for aggression squarely on the Palestinian Arabs: Washington's Betrayal. Read the whole column, but the beginning deserves to be quoted, as it contains a chilling description of the ...

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Reno: Dachau = US

Fri, May 30, 2003 at 11:37:03 am PDT

During a speech at a Boca Raton Democratic club, Janet Reno came awfully close to comparing George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler. One part of Reno's speech, which touched upon issues such as classroom sizes, health care and the criminal justice system, seemed to speak directly to Goldfarb. Reno spoke ...

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US Embassy: Gaza Kidnap Threats

Fri, May 30, 2003 at 11:21:23 am PDT

The US embassy has issued a warning that Palestinian terrorists are planning to kidnap US citizens in Gaza: Americans Warned of Gaza Kidnap Threats. JERUSALEM - The U.S. Embassy has received "credible reports" of plans to kidnap U.S. citizens in Gaza, the Embassy announced on its Web site Friday."At this ...

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Iran's Nuclear Threat

Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:13:45 am PDT

Iran is building a huge facility to enrich uranium for use in nuclear weapons—and TIME reports that it is much closer to completion than the IAEA wanted us to believe: Iran's Nuclear Threat. (Hat tip: NC.) On a visit last month to Tehran, International Atomic Energy Agency director Mohamed ElBaradei ...

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Al Qaeda Threatens Revenge

Fri, May 30, 2003 at 9:48:24 am PDT

Al Qaeda is threatening the Saudi royal family, according to this article in the Washington Times. JIDDA, Saudi Arabia — An e-mail purportedly from terror network al Qaeda threatens the Saudi royal family with revenge attacks over reports that police killed two clerics during a roundup of militants connected with ...

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Gone But Not Forgotten

Fri, May 30, 2003 at 9:41:23 am PDT

Victor Davis Hanson on the ghost of the Soviet Union, which still haunts the modern Middle East: Gone But Not Forgotten. A liar like "Baghdad Bob" — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the so-called Baathist "information" minister — did not learn his craft reading the Arabian Nights, or from the braggadocio and ...

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NYT: Root Causes

Fri, May 30, 2003 at 8:23:33 am PDT

The New York Times has made it their mission to publish nauseatingly sympathetic portraits of fanatical mass murderers, apparently because they feel we need to “understand” their motivations—or at least, what the Times wants us to believe are their motivations. In the case of Fuad Qawasmeh, a Hamas suicide bomber ...

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Thursday, May 29, 2003

The Horror

Thu, May 29, 2003 at 7:10:43 pm PDT

The horror of being detained in a United States death camp. The horror. It’s so horrible that the detainees have gained an average of 13 pounds feasting on their starvation rations: Packing on the pounds at America's toughest prison. (Hat tip: NC.) And to add insult to weight gain, the 19 ...

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Nazimedia Stalkers Keep On Truckin'

Thu, May 29, 2003 at 6:23:42 pm PDT

The illiterate Nazimedia moron who stalks LGF has posted an article using my name at their hate site, and can’t even bother to learn how to spell “Robert Scheer.”

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New Zealand Thumbs Nose at US

Thu, May 29, 2003 at 6:02:15 pm PDT

New Zealand foreign minister Phil Goff shakes hands with one of the world’s foulest murderers: UPDATE: Isn’t that Saeb Erekat immediately behind the Arafish? I thought he resigned again earlier this month.

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Television Creates Terrorists

Thu, May 29, 2003 at 5:41:07 pm PDT

Here’s a scary article by Patrick Sookhdeo about the influence of rabidly anti-Western satellite television on British Muslims: Television creates terrorists. While south Asians comprise the largest grouping within the British Muslim community, there is plenty of television for other Muslims also. Arabs can choose between news channels with varying ...

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Belgian Shari'a Watch

Thu, May 29, 2003 at 4:53:51 pm PDT

LGF reader Channy A. forwarded this Belgian advertisement, showing the growing power and influence of the Arab fifth column in Belgium. Translation: Israeli fruit has a bitter taste. Refuse accepting occupied Palestine. Don't buy Israeli fruit and vegetables.Belgian-Palestinian Association UPDATE: Here is the web site of the Belgian-Palestinian Association. UPDATE: And here is a ...

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Road Trap for America

Thu, May 29, 2003 at 4:08:40 pm PDT

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. says the “roadmap to Murderville” will not only be a disaster for Israel—it will cause serious negative repercussions for the US war on terror as well: Road Trap for America, Too. Americans should be under no illusion: What might more accurately be called the "road trap" ...

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The Charade Continues

Thu, May 29, 2003 at 4:01:18 pm PDT

Ariel Sharon says he will lift the closure of the West Bank and allow Palestinian workers to enter Israel as a good faith measure, while demanding that Abu Mazen crack down on terrorism. In the nearly 3-hour meeting Thursday night, Sharon told Abbas that as a good faith measure he ...

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Sacred Words

Thu, May 29, 2003 at 3:33:25 pm PDT

This should have been posted on Memorial Day, but better late than never. John Greyhawk has an extraordinary post featuring the last letters home from two US soldiers killed in Iraq, and if you scroll down a bit further you’ll also find links to charities where you can donate to ...

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Fire Robert Scheer

Thu, May 29, 2003 at 2:05:01 pm PDT

Robert Scheer attempts to defend his smear job on the rescue of PFC Jessica Lynch. Roger L. Simon says it’s time for Scheer to be fired. I say it’s past time. Scheer is a loathsome creature, so full of hate and contempt for his own country that it’s risen past his ...

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Indymedia Tries to Hide the Hate

Thu, May 29, 2003 at 1:56:22 pm PDT

Today Best of the Web linked to LGF’s entry about the appalling sign carried by San Francisco “anti-war” protesters back in March, that read “We support our troops when they shoot their officers.” I was curious to see if the photo of the sign was still at Indymedia, so I clicked ...

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MSA Figure Seized By FBI

Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:45:31 pm PDT

Here’s an in-depth look at a Saudi Arabian leader of the Muslim Student Association at the University of Idaho, currently under arrest for ties to terrorist groups—and who communicated often with two radical clerics known as the “awakening sheikhs.” In the days after Sept. 11, 2001, Sami Omar al-Hussayen led ...

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Kingdom of Venom

Thu, May 29, 2003 at 11:44:55 am PDT

Joel Mowbray writes about the insane hate speech that continues to gush out of the holiest mosques in Islam: Kingdom of Venom. As part of its ongoing efforts to keep abreast of the "Saudi street," the State Department had asked some of its employees inside the kingdom to attend mosque ...

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Peaceful Religion Watch

Thu, May 29, 2003 at 11:30:33 am PDT

The Saudis are really starting to get it, and they’re going to renounce their support for terrorists and hatred of infidels! That’s what they’d like you to believe. That’s what the oily Saudi PR guy al-Jubeir is pushing on US TV, and what the Arab News is pushing in their “we’ve ...

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Mixed Message

Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:22:22 am PDT

From the always on-target Cox & Forkum.

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An Unveiled Felon

Thu, May 29, 2003 at 8:12:26 am PDT

Sultaana Freeman (formerly Sandra Keller), the Florida woman suing the state to be allowed to wear a sack over her face for her driver’s license photograph, has previously posed for an unveiled government portrait—when she was arrested (and subsequently convicted) for battering a foster child. UPDATE: A Florida local news site ...

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Al Azhar Condemns Terrorist Attacks

Thu, May 29, 2003 at 8:07:05 am PDT

Earlier this week, Egypt’s Al Azhar mosque condemned the terror attacks in Riyadh and Morocco. Al Azhar's committee of theological research said in a release published at the end of a meeting chaired by the imam of Al Azhar, these attacks are "a crystal clear violation to numerous Islamic principles." ...

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Wednesday, May 28, 2003

The Farmer

Wed, May 28, 2003 at 9:36:32 pm PDT

At the Boston Globe, a fascinating look at the life and work of raisin grower Victor Davis Hanson: The Farmer.

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Fifth Column Academia Watch

Wed, May 28, 2003 at 7:43:10 pm PDT

In a pseudo-intellectual jargon-packed opinion piece for Egypt’s government-controlled Al Ahram, Columbia University assistant professor of “Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History” Joseph Massad exhorts the “Arab street” to continue the jihad against Israel and the infidels: Subverting 'the Arab street.' (Hat tip: Victrade.) As the last and only bastion ...

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Saudis Revert to Type

Wed, May 28, 2003 at 7:15:58 pm PDT

The Saudis are cracking down—on newspaper editors who try to tell the truth about their Islamic totalitarian government: Hard to Kill. The editor is Jamal Khashoggi, 45, a widely respected journalist, who learned this week that his services as editor of Al Watan, Saudi Arabia’s largest daily, were no longer ...

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The Rubber Doll Analogy

Wed, May 28, 2003 at 6:19:16 pm PDT

Robert Crawford has a good analogy about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.

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New Film from Honest Reporting

Wed, May 28, 2003 at 1:27:44 pm PDT

Honest Reporting is releasing a new film that reveals a side of the Arab-Israeli conflict with which most Americans are not familiar, including source footage from Palestinian and Arab television showing the horrific indoctrination and Jew-hatred practiced by these countries: Relentless - The Struggle For Peace In Israel.

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Update: Mobile Labs

Wed, May 28, 2003 at 1:11:20 pm PDT

The CIA has now confirmed that the truck-trailers found in Iraq were mobile biological weapons labs. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two truck-trailers found in Iraq were "ingeniously simple" mobile biological weapons factories, with other as-yet-undiscovered trailers holding the end of the production chain, the CIA said on Wednesday.No trace of biological ...

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Israeli ISP Blacklisted?

Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:08:19 am PDT

The largest Internet Service Provider in Israel, Bezeq International, with more than 300,000 subscribers, is apparently being blacklisted by several major American and Australian ISPs, including AOL, Netscape, Excite, and ACENET. More than one LGF reader in Israel has contacted me through our web form (in the left sidebar) to ...

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Epidemic of Lies About Hate Crimes

Wed, May 28, 2003 at 10:35:43 am PDT

The Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee has released a new report full of their usual hysterical and unfounded claims of an “epidemic” of hate crimes against American Muslims. Michelle Malkin shows how disingenuous the report is, in a new column: Myth of the Muslim hate-crime epidemic. (Hat tip: Brenda Walker.) The ADC ...

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Outrage of the Day

Wed, May 28, 2003 at 9:01:37 am PDT

Al Qaeda and Taliban jihadis convicted of terrorist activity by military tribunals may be executed at the Guantanamo Bay facility. So what does the Melbourne Herald-Sun use for a headline to this story? US plans death camp. (Hat tip: NC.) THE US has floated plans to turn Guantanamo Bay into a death ...

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Tuesday, May 27, 2003

The Fish Attempts A Comeback

Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:18:44 pm PDT

Whassup with the Arafish? Israel accepts the roadmap (well, sort of) and the first thing he does is go right back to business as usual? JERUSALEM - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat stepped in to assert Tuesday that he — not his prime minister — is in charge of the Palestinian ...

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Say It Loud. I'm Back and I'm Proud.

Tue, May 27, 2003 at 9:36:25 pm PDT

So, uh ... this weblog thing? How does it work, again? I’m a little rusty... UPDATE: Oh! I think it’s coming back to me now. You just sit in front of the keyboard, lift your fingers ... and type. UPDATE: As soon as I recover from the driving and the eating and ...

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Saturday, May 24, 2003

A 296-Pound Bundle of Joy

Sat, May 24, 2003 at 6:24:14 am PDT

I didn’t want to have an entry about hate mail at the top of the page while I go away for three days, so I’ll leave you with this delightful photo of a newborn baby, courtesy of zulubabe.

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We Got Mail!

Sat, May 24, 2003 at 5:54:48 am PDT

Once again, an admirer from the benighted zone of primitive hatred has taken the time to let me know what’s in his dark mind, with an email that’s as illiterate as it is hostile. This morning I received the following lovely missive from Arabi30@hotmail.com (who lives in Cardiff, Wales—what would ...

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Friday, May 23, 2003

Memorial Day Vacation

Fri, May 23, 2003 at 10:45:20 pm PDT

I have some good news and some bad news. The good news: my brother’s getting married on Memorial Day. The bad news: that means I’m going to be out of town until Tuesday, so Little Green Footballs will be lying fallow until then. Joining the Temporary Choir Invisible, if you will. And it ...

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NYT Meltdown Watch

Fri, May 23, 2003 at 9:12:50 pm PDT

The New York Times has now suspended star reporter Rick Bragg for two weeks, for possible fabrication of stories. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that they did it at the start of the Memorial Day weekend: More Trouble at the Times.

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French Passports Found in Iraq

Fri, May 23, 2003 at 7:41:43 pm PDT

France has indignantly denied it, but Matt Drudge says: A U.S. military intelligence team in Iraq has uncovered a dozen French passports, and defense officials believe other French passports from the same batch were used by Iraqis to flee the country...

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The Left Has A New Agenda

Fri, May 23, 2003 at 7:21:05 pm PDT

Here’s a perceptive essay by Jonathan Rauch on the new agenda of the American Left: Containing America. (Hat tip: Barry Kaplovitz.) "As the United States government becomes more belligerent in using its power in the world, many people are longing for a 'second superpower' that can keep the U.S. in ...

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Britain Landmarks Under Threat

Fri, May 23, 2003 at 7:04:21 pm PDT

The London Times reports that Scotland Yard undercover squads have been given orders to shoot to kill if they believe a suicide attack is underway. (Hat tip: NC.) MANY of London’s most popular tourist landmarks are to be surrounded by concrete after a CIA-MI5 summit called for special protection zones ...

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Hardtalk Interviews Al Muhajiroun Freak

Fri, May 23, 2003 at 6:36:25 pm PDT

Here’s another BBC Hardtalk program that will blow your mind: an interview with the leader of Britain’s incredibly foul Al Muhajiroun Muslim group, Anjem Choudary, who defends suicide bombing and says jihad is an obligation for all good Muslims: Suicide attacks. (Hat tip: hans ze beeman.) Choudary denies any involvement ...

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Palestinian Child Abuse

Fri, May 23, 2003 at 1:24:14 pm PDT

The look on that little boy’s face, trapped in a nightmare of terror and violence, is heartbreaking. Notice that the “gunman” at left is missing some fingers. LGF reader Julio Jurenito points out: that’s what happens when something explodes in your hand.

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Sharon Accepts Roadmap

Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:44:13 am PDT

Ariel Sharon has announced he is ready to accept the roadmap and will present it to the government for approval. I’d be upset about this, if I didn’t believe all involved are fully aware that this is a pointless charade that will change nothing.

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Iraqi Doctors: The Truth About Sanctions

Fri, May 23, 2003 at 10:26:24 am PDT

Here’s an article that should be rolled up and rammed down the throats of the “peace activists” at Indymedia, Counterpunch, Common Dreams, and all the other centers of self-loathing who have been screaming about the brutal “US sanctions” on Iraq for years. Iraqi doctors, finally free to tell the truth, ...

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The True Goal of Islam

Fri, May 23, 2003 at 10:01:30 am PDT

Hamas freakazoid Mahmoud Zahar was one of the killers who met with Abu Mazen yesterday, ostensibly to discuss a “cease fire.” But two days before, this genocidal monster was interviewed by the BBC (in a surprisingly hard-hitting Q&A) and made very clear—once again—the ultimate goal of Hamas and all the ...

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Morton Klein Interviewed by ABC

Fri, May 23, 2003 at 9:19:48 am PDT

ZOA president Morton Klein is interviewed by a complete idiot from the Australian Broadcasting Company, relentlessly laying out the facts to no avail. (Hat tip: J. Lichty.) Stephen Crittenden: Morton Klein is President of the Zionist Organisation of America, the most forceful spokesman for the right wing of American Jewry. ...

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Middle East Tragedies

Fri, May 23, 2003 at 8:20:13 am PDT

In yet another excellent essay, Victor Davis Hanson says that over the decades prior to 9/11 we tried almost everything in the Middle East—but only in the last two years have we seen any real changes. I think the American street — and as we have learned in the case ...

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Funny Business in Syria

Fri, May 23, 2003 at 8:10:20 am PDT

US troops have confiscated $34 million worth of gold bars from a truck on its way into Syria. The truck carrying 1,600 gold bars was stopped at a military checkpoint near Qaim, a northwestern city near Iraq's border with Syria, Pentagon officials said. Two men were taken into custody, but ...

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Uday: No Good Choices

Fri, May 23, 2003 at 8:00:39 am PDT

Saddam’s psychotic murdering rapist son Uday is trying to negotiate terms for surrender to US forces, but the US doesn’t want to play. Uday Hussein, who is hiding in a Baghdad suburb, wants to know what the charges against him will be and the process for interrogation and custody, the ...

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Montreal Muslims Defend Terror Suspect

Fri, May 23, 2003 at 7:53:16 am PDT

The Moroccan arrested in Montreal on suspicion of links to an active Al Qaeda cell is screaming “McCarthyism!” and as usual, the local Muslim community is rushing to his defense. (Hat tip: Smitty.) "It's always just suspicions," Adil Charkaoui, 30, a landed immigrant originally from Morocco, said in an interview ...

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Roadmap to Murderville Update

Fri, May 23, 2003 at 7:33:02 am PDT

Hamas has attacked a civilian bus on its way from Gaza into Israel, injuring nine people but thankfully killing no one. (Not for lack of trying.) Hamas has claimed responsibility for an attack on a passenger bus traveling from Netzarim in Gaza into Israel in which nine people were injured. ...

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Thursday, May 22, 2003

Pygmies Appeal to UN

Thu, May 22, 2003 at 9:51:09 pm PDT

In the Congo, pygmies are being hunted and eaten, and they are appealing to the United Nations for help. Good luck, pygmies. It might be a while until the UN can get around to you; they have 12,385 resolutions condemning Israel to approve first. Sinafasi Makelo, a representative of Mbuti ...

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Hamas to Mazen: Bite Me

Thu, May 22, 2003 at 6:25:25 pm PDT

This is Ismail Haniyah, a senior Hamas official. Doesn’t he look happy? Well, of course he does. Because he just told the Palestinian puppet prime minister Abu Mazen that Hamas intends to keep killing Jews. And nothing fills a terrorist’s heart with joy like some good old fashioned Jew-killin’. Hamas leaders ...

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Morlocks Purge Petty Petition

Thu, May 22, 2003 at 5:35:58 pm PDT

The Nazimedia Morlocks have purged the unclean lizardoids from their whiny Stop Censoring IndyMedia from Google News petition, but they left any name in place that wasn’t obviously fake, probably so they can illegitimately claim hundreds of signatures that were really spoofs. A typical Morlock ploy.

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A Reminder

Thu, May 22, 2003 at 4:56:06 pm PDT

A couple of days ago LGF suffered a serious attack from an Indymedia Morlock who posted long comments over and over, several hundred times. As a result I had to ban its entire IP block, which belonged to Level 3 Communications, to prevent it from continuing. I’ve complained to Level ...

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What Terrorists?

Thu, May 22, 2003 at 4:19:50 pm PDT

Iran says, “Terrorists? In Iran? Prove it!” TEHRAN, Iran - Iran demanded on Thursday that Washington prove its claims that Tehran harbors al-Qaida terrorists and accused Osama bin Laden's network of "threatening" Iranian national interests. Saeed Pourazizi, a close aide to President Mohammad Khatami, said it was Tehran's policy to ...

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Never Too Nuts for Berkeley

Thu, May 22, 2003 at 1:38:49 pm PDT

The crackheads at Counterpunch have published a transcript of Cynthia bint McKinney’s whacked-out victocratic commencement address to the African Studies department of UC Berkeley: Toward a Just and Peaceful World. LGF reader “whiner” says this is a close second to Chris Hedges’ nasty speech—but I think it’s actually much worse. ...

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Norway Feels Betrayed

Thu, May 22, 2003 at 11:16:49 am PDT

A BBC report on the latest threatening Al Qaeda audiotape contains this revealing passage: Norway, meanwhile, says it has no idea why it was singled out for attacks on its interests. BBC's Lars Bevanger in Oslo says people there were baffled because Norway has a reputation for its attempts to ...

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Watch Hedges Get Booed

Thu, May 22, 2003 at 9:35:40 am PDT

The Rockford Register Star now has video available of Chris Hedges’ astoundingly nasty commencement speech at Rockford College. Unfortunately, the server that the video files are on seems to be connected to the Internet with a 56K modem; I’m getting a transfer rate of about 4K/second. Ouch.

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Pro-Israel Action Alert

Thu, May 22, 2003 at 9:03:30 am PDT

If you’ll be in the DC area this June 17-18, Israpundit has information on the ZOA’s upcoming “Mission to Washington,” a good way to make your voice heard and speak out against the disastrous “roadmap to Murderville.”

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Palestinian Arms Smuggling Confirmed

Thu, May 22, 2003 at 7:55:46 am PDT

Tell me again about that “roadmap to peace.” Because here’s confirmation of the story we posted yesterday about a large shipment of arms being smuggled into the Palestinian Authority: IDF intercepts weapons-laded boat bound for Gaza. (Thanks to all who emailed about this.) Israeli naval commandos intercepted a boat from Lebanon ...

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Shooting Spree?!

Thu, May 22, 2003 at 7:40:42 am PDT

Is Reuters routinely anti-American? Of course not! What would ever give me a silly, unsophisticated idea like that? U.S. Troops on Shooting Spree After Attack in Iraq. FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen fired anti-tank rockets at a U.S. armored vehicle in the tense Iraqi town of Falluja, sending U.S. troops into a ...

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Head Weasel to Whine at Evian

Thu, May 22, 2003 at 7:31:50 am PDT

The Telegraph says Jacques Chirac is planning to do his best to embarrass George Bush at the upcoming G8 conference in Evian. The summit at Evian on June 2 and June 3 will be the first time M Chirac and Mr Bush have met since their diplomatic war preceding military ...

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Boca Raton, City of Terror

Thu, May 22, 2003 at 7:14:45 am PDT

Joe Kaufman follows the trail of terror to what seems an unlikely destination: Boca Raton, Florida. Ibrahim Dremali is the imam of the Islamic Center of Boca Raton. Questions have been raised as to a possible association of his to a militant Islamic group. On July 1, 1996, Dremali was ...

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Fifth Column Cab Driver

Thu, May 22, 2003 at 7:08:44 am PDT

A New York City cab driver is under arrest for trying to buy “enough explosives to blow up a mountain.” (Hat tip: NC.) Abdul Malike, 43, a legal U.S. resident born in Afghanistan, had been under surveillance for two months, after a computer store owner in Queens reported he was ...

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Got One in Montreal

Thu, May 22, 2003 at 6:44:27 am PDT

A Moroccan man suspected of belonging to Al Qaeda has been arrested in Montreal. (Hat tip: Smitty.) Few details were available on the arrest, initiated when two federal Cabinet ministers signed a security certificate declaring the man a threat to Canada because of his membership in the terrorist group.Citizenship and ...

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Zombie-Teenager Peace Process

Thu, May 22, 2003 at 6:21:20 am PDT

At Rand Simberg’s Transterrestrial Musings, here’s another “iowahawk” masterpiece that I missed when Rand posted it last April.

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Wednesday, May 21, 2003

The Golden Chain

Wed, May 21, 2003 at 6:00:19 pm PDT

A document seized in March 2002 by Bosnian police during searches of the offices of Benevolence International Foundation in Sarajevo reveals the main Saudi financiers of Al Qaeda, a group whose combined net worth exceeds $85 billion, and includes the Bin Laden family—despite their statements denying support for black sheep ...

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Jayson Blair: Mad as a Hatter

Wed, May 21, 2003 at 5:21:36 pm PDT

Wow. What can you say about this? How representative of the New York Times is this attitude? Times Writer Laughs at Correction. And how did he get away with it for so long, when he was clearly out of his frickin’ mind? Former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair said ...

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Explosion at Yale

Wed, May 21, 2003 at 4:56:52 pm PDT

There was an explosion at Yale Law School today, but despite the inevitable media hysteria I doubt it had anything to do with Islamic terrorism; it happened in an empty classroom, and the bomb was apparently not even powerful enough to blow out the windows. This is not Al Qaeda’s ...

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Saudi Hijackers Planning Mega-Attack in Israel?

Wed, May 21, 2003 at 4:30:01 pm PDT

DEBKAfile has a very plausible—and frightening—explanation for the strange reports coming out of Saudi Arabia about the terrorists arrested for planning to hijack a plane at Jeddah airport. The terrorist mega-attack against which Israeli security - like the US, Britain, Australia and other western powers – has been on high ...

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Comments Temporarily Disabled

Wed, May 21, 2003 at 1:14:59 pm PDT

I have to step out of the office for a few hours, and I’ll be disabling comments during that time to prevent a repeat of yesterday’s troll infestation. UPDATE: Comments are now open again.

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Nayef: No Saudis Involved, No Hijack

Wed, May 21, 2003 at 1:12:19 pm PDT

Saudi Prince Nayef, who blamed September 11 on Israel, is now denying the reports that three Saudis were arrested trying to hijack a plane: Saudi Reports Suicide Hijack Plot, Then Denies. Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef denied any plot to stage a September 11-style attack, Saudi television said. But the ...

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A Message to the Religion of Peace

Wed, May 21, 2003 at 12:53:03 pm PDT

Al Jazeera, always eager to give a platform to anyone calling for the deaths of Americans and Jews, has aired a new tape supposedly made by Bin Laden lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahiri, calling on Muslims to imitate the September 11 attacks. "Consider your 19 brothers who attacked America in Washington and ...

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Palestinian Arms Smuggling?

Wed, May 21, 2003 at 12:07:31 pm PDT

Guysen Israel News has a breaking story that a very large shipment of contraband weapons, of similar magnitude to the infamous Karine-A incident, has been intercepted on its way to the Palestinian Authority. Guysen is a French Jewish news outlet; LGF reader Caton supplies the following translation: The IDF confiscated ...

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Zayed PR: Unbounded Dialoging

Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:17:49 am PDT

LGF reader “iowahawk” has unearthed another press release from the Zayed Centre, clarifying and expanding on their comments about MEMRI: ___________________________ UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Zayed Centre For Ululation and Aimless Air-Shooting On 16/05/2003, The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) issued a report on the Zayed Centre which frolics in the autumn mist ...

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Hedges Seethes, Whines, Bawls

Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:07:33 am PDT

Anti-American New York Times reporter Chris Hedges whines about the overwhelmingly negative reaction to his commencement speech at Rockford College. Hedges’ oration was trimmed to 18 minutes as the ceremony threatened to become out of control. The 20-year war correspondent said Tuesday he was disturbed by the emotional response to ...

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PR from Centre for Obsessive Hand-Washing

Wed, May 21, 2003 at 9:25:30 am PDT

This is hilarious: the Zayed Center for Coordination and Followup has issued a press release (following their appearance on CBS News, exposing them for the lunatics they are), accusing MEMRI of calling them ... well, just go read it for yourself. UPDATE: LGF has a new 404 error page inspired by ...

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Troll Update

Wed, May 21, 2003 at 8:52:10 am PDT

The moronic troll who abused our comments last night and this morning is in for a rude awakening. Just received this email from Level 3 Communications: Thank you for contacting Level 3's Network Security Operations department.This message is to inform you that your case is being investigated and action will ...

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Klein Whitewashes Corrie

Wed, May 21, 2003 at 8:46:22 am PDT

Man, the attempts to glorify Rachel Corrie and the ISM are never-ending. The anti-Israel propagandists are in a rage over their complete failure to milk Corrie’s death the same way they did the Mohammed al-Dura incident. The latest to break out a big pail of whitewash is Naomi Klein, in the ...

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Outrage of the Day

Wed, May 21, 2003 at 8:08:13 am PDT

In an editorial today, the Washington Times reveals that the State Department knew North Korea was reprocessing plutonium, but did not inform the White House or the Pentagon: The fog at Foggy Bottom. Walk the halls of the State Department's main offices in Washington these days, and you'll encounter an ...

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Did the Iraq War Help al-Qaeda?

Wed, May 21, 2003 at 8:02:03 am PDT

Another excellent column from Christopher Hitchens on the aftermath of the Iraq War, dealing with the latest bogus argument from the Appeasement Left: Did the Iraq War Help al-Qaeda? In a civil war within the Islamic world, secularists and liberals have the chance to make many allies against theocracy and ...

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Hijack Attempt in Saudi Arabia

Wed, May 21, 2003 at 7:48:44 am PDT

Three Presbyterians Islamic terrorists were arrested trying to board a flight in Saudi Arabia, apparently thwarting an attempt to hijack the plane and fly it into a building in Jeddah: Three arrested in hijack plot. (Hat tip: NC.) The al Qaeda suspects were arrested Monday evening in the Jeddah airport ...

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Shalom: Arafat Should Be Expelled

Wed, May 21, 2003 at 7:13:17 am PDT

Israel’s foreign minister Silvan Shalom says the Arafish should be expelled. Appearing before the parliamentary defense committee, Shalom said as long as Arafat is on the scene, terror will continue and there will be no chance to move the peace process forward. Shalom said Israeli generals do not oppose the ...

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Tuesday, May 20, 2003

Nazimedia Begs Google

Tue, May 20, 2003 at 5:50:02 pm PDT

How pathetic is this? Stop Censoring IndyMedia from Google News Petition. Exclusive: I’ve located a recording of a Nazimedia representative, reacting to the report that they had been removed from Google News’ list of sources: Oh dear. UPDATE: Sheesh. Go out for a few hours, and look what happens. Some fool posted ...

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Dogging the Wag

Tue, May 20, 2003 at 4:58:03 pm PDT

Roger L. Simon diagnoses LA Times proto-Marxist columnist Robert Scheer with a severe (possibly terminal) case of SAD—Sixties Arrested Development. Scheer’s column on the Jessica Lynch rescue is so full of logical holes and cognitive dissonance that he’s a one-man LA Times credibility destroyer. (That is, if you still thought ...

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Anti-Americanism in English

Tue, May 20, 2003 at 4:41:48 pm PDT

Here’s a good piece by Jim Geraghty on the non-stop anti-Americanism that spews from Egypt’s state-controlled media: Anti-Americanism in English. The state-controlled, carefully-censored Egyptian Gazette even had the audacity to run an article worrying about press freedom in Iraq — and expressing worries that Americans may be censoring Iraqi's freedom ...

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Macadamia Alert!

Tue, May 20, 2003 at 4:00:00 pm PDT

It’s been a while since a flat-out barking moonbat worked up enough courage to post here at LGF. Suddenly, though, we have not one, but two of them hooting and howling away, oddly enough in the last topic dedicated to the Indymedia Morlocks. Wear your biohazard suits.

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Can We just Stop This 'Roadmap' BS Now?

Tue, May 20, 2003 at 2:46:00 pm PDT

Palestinian Minister for Foreign Affairs Nabil Sha'ath admits outright that the Palestinian Authority will not stop killing Jews until Israel stops defending its citizens and accepts the “roadmap” ... unconditionally. The Palestinian Authority will not disarm Palestinian terrorist groups until the "Israeli occupation forces stop the killing and the oppression" ...

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The Jihad is Over

Tue, May 20, 2003 at 11:59:54 am PDT

An interesting piece at Martin Kramer’s blog on Noah Feldman, the Jewish professor who has been appointed to oversee the writing of Iraq’s new constitution—but who seems to believe that Islamists are really no worry at all.

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Terror Threat Level Raised

Tue, May 20, 2003 at 11:52:05 am PDT

U.S. Raises Terror Alert Level to Orange. WASHINGTON - The terror alert level is going up again. An official at the Department of Homeland Security says it's going from yellow to orange — its second-highest level. The FBI had warned earlier that last week's bombings in Saudi Arabia are a ...

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'A Change of Heart'

Tue, May 20, 2003 at 11:50:17 am PDT

Joe Katzman and I had an interesting email exchange about the recent rash of “look! we’re changing!” stories in the Arab News. Salon.com also published a story about Arab News editor Khaled Al-Maeena, in which he pushes this same line: A change of heart in the Saudi media. My response to ...

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The Threat Among Us

Tue, May 20, 2003 at 11:13:57 am PDT

An important piece by Cal Thomas at JWR looks at The Threat Among Us—a threat to which many Americans prefer to close their eyes. Like the Greek myth of Cassandra, those who try to tell the truth about the danger are accused of lying and bigotry. In at least 16 ...

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Palestinians Protest Against Terror

Tue, May 20, 2003 at 10:31:18 am PDT

Are some Palestinian Arabs finally getting fed up with the terrorists hiding among them? Palestinians Protest, Blame Militants. BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip - Hundreds of Palestinians burned tires and blocked a main road Tuesday in a rare burst of anger at Islamic militants whom they blamed for prompting Israeli military ...

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Hedges Booed Off Stage

Tue, May 20, 2003 at 9:48:01 am PDT

Maybe there’s hope for the college generation after all. New York Times reporter Chris Hedges, author of the foul pack of anti-Israel lies called the Gaza Diary (links to this nasty piece of work are found on many terrorist and terror-enabling web sites), was booed off the stage at Rockford ...

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Hamas Goes Global

Tue, May 20, 2003 at 9:32:19 am PDT

TIME reports that the Hamas terror gang is expanding its operations to target US interests: Hamas Goes Global. Hamas is expanding its operations out of the narrow Israeli theater. Jordanian security officials tell Time that two Hamas agents recently traveled to Afghanistan to recruit the remnants of al-Qaeda's network to ...

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Warnings Mounting

Tue, May 20, 2003 at 9:13:46 am PDT

Al Qaeda has set up new training camps in the Republic of Georgia, terror teams have been sent to Europe, US embassies in Saudi Arabia are being closed, and Saudi shill Prince Bandar says he has a gut feeling. "My gut feeling tells me something big is going to happen ...

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Terror Team Headed To US?

Tue, May 20, 2003 at 8:51:25 am PDT

The bombings in Riyadh may have been intended as diversions while Al Qaeda teams prepare for terror attacks in the US or Europe. (Hat tip: NC.) The probe into last week's deadly terror attacks in Riyadh has uncovered evidence that additional teams of terrorists may have fled Saudi Arabia before ...

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Monday, May 19, 2003

Arab Kill Arab

Mon, May 19, 2003 at 9:40:42 pm PDT

When there are no Jews nearby, Palestinian Arabs kill each other. AIN EL-HILWEH (Reuters) - At least seven people were killed and 24 wounded when militant Islamists battled Fatah fighters in an apparent turf war in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp Monday, witnesses said. Analysts said the clash, the bloodiest ...

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Slouching Toward Reality

Mon, May 19, 2003 at 9:32:17 pm PDT

More than two years after September 11, 2001, the US government will finally begin fingerprinting most foreign visitors. WASHINGTON - Foreign visitors arriving with visas at U.S. airports or seaports next year will have their travel documents scanned, their fingerprints and photos taken and their identification checked against terrorist watch ...

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What the World Doesn't Understand

Mon, May 19, 2003 at 9:12:41 pm PDT

I thought long and hard about posting this link. I got at least a dozen emails today urging me to write about it, saying that it shows something the world needs to see. Part of me agrees, and part of me is so repelled by the images on this page, ...

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Magic

Mon, May 19, 2003 at 8:14:03 pm PDT

Why am I always behind the blogosphere curve linking to Bill Whittle’s great essays? Because they’re long. But man, are they worth the time it takes to read and digest. MAGIC.

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Totten on Anti-Idiotarianism

Mon, May 19, 2003 at 6:55:54 pm PDT

Michael J. Totten expands the definition of anti-idiotarianism, a term that ... ahem, not to blow my own horn, but it’s true .. I coined to describe my own political leanings, and that has seriously irritated many of the idiotarians with whom I have clashed. Like me, Totten is a ...

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Final Lackawanna Terrorist Pleads Guilty

Mon, May 19, 2003 at 5:59:48 pm PDT

Today the sixth and final member of the Lackawanna terror cell pleaded guilty to supporting terrorism. (Hat tip: Michael S.) Mukhtar al-Bakri, 23, admitted to being trained in assault weapons and explosives, and meeting with al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden at the al-Farooq camp in Afghanistan before returning home to ...

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Neo-Nazi Web Sites Multiplying

Mon, May 19, 2003 at 5:14:35 pm PDT

The number of neo-Nazi web sites in Germany has more than tripled in the last four years. A study released in Berlin by Germany's family ministry showed a drastic increase in the number of Web sites run by far-right extremists, many of them using a blend of sophisticated programming and ...

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The Abominable One

Mon, May 19, 2003 at 4:47:53 pm PDT

Bwa hahaha! Our LFG thread about the diabolical music being used by US interrogators to break the will of Iraqi prisoners of war has led to a veritable flood of bad music recommendations from my lizardoid minions! But none of these songs, hideous though they are, can compare to this brain-warping ...

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The Digital Warrior

Mon, May 19, 2003 at 3:51:22 pm PDT

Congrats to Steven Den Beste on his article at the Wall Street Journal Online: The Digital Warrior, about the revolutionary advancements being made in US warfare technology. (Uh, I hate to nitpick ... but it’s too bad the first sentence contains a typo...)

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A True Islamic Reformation

Mon, May 19, 2003 at 3:44:08 pm PDT

At FrontPage, an excellent article by Ibn Warraq on the possibility (and that’s all it is, a possibility, with many reasons to be pessimistic) of secularizing Islam: A True Islamic Reformation. There is much food for thought in this article, so much that it’s hard to pull out a representative ...

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CBS News Investigates Harvard Divinity

Mon, May 19, 2003 at 1:36:53 pm PDT

About a week ago we had an entry about a report that Harvard Divinity School had accepted millions of dollars from the “president” of the United Arab Emirates, who is linked to the insane anti-American, anti-Semitic Arab “think tank” called the Zayed Centre for Coordination and Followup. Tonight’s CBS Evening News ...

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Saudis, Iran to Upgrade Syrian Military

Mon, May 19, 2003 at 1:03:55 pm PDT

Middle East Newsline reports that Saudi Arabia and Iran are cooperating in a program to upgrade and modernize the military forces of Syria—with help from Russia. ABU DHABI [MENL] -- Iran and Saudi Arabia are said to have agreed to finance an ambitious program to modernize Syria's military.Gulf industry and ...

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Nazimedia Update

Mon, May 19, 2003 at 11:39:26 am PDT

Good news: a lot of readers have been contacting me to let me know that Google News has confirmed they have removed Indymedia from their list of news sources—and a search turns up no recent articles from that disgusting place. To remind you why Indymedia should never be considered anything more ...

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The Textbook League

Mon, May 19, 2003 at 11:01:30 am PDT

LGF reader Jocund Mavis pointed out this valuable site: The Textbook League, providing professional reviews and commentary on school textbooks, manuals, videos, and other instructional material. Here’s a review of a very disturbing curriculum manual currently in use in parts of California, which has students dress as Muslims and carry ...

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US War Crimes

Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:33:16 am PDT

US military interrogators are breaking down the resistance of Iraqi prisoners—by forcing them to listen to Metallica, the Sesame Street theme, and Barney the singing dinosaur. Reached for comment, Ramsey Clark wailed, “This is a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions! Dear God, what’s next? America's 'Horse With No Name?' ...

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The Right to Drive While Masked

Mon, May 19, 2003 at 9:24:30 am PDT

A Muslim woman in Florida is suing the state to be allowed to wear a full-face mask in her driver’s license photograph, and her attorney is arguing that the state is repressing her freedom of religion, and that driving is a right, not a privilege. Why is the court even hearing ...

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And Again

Mon, May 19, 2003 at 8:22:23 am PDT

Another mass murdering Palestinian Arab animal struck today, at a shopping mall in Afula. Three people were killed and 18 were wounded when a suicide bomber blew herself up at the entrance to the Emakim Mall in Afula on Monday afternoon. The bomber detonated her explosive belt after a security ...

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Fleischer Resigns

Mon, May 19, 2003 at 8:15:01 am PDT

Bush Press Secretary Fleischer Resigns. "I love this job," Fleischer told reporters at his informal Monday morning briefing. "I believe deeply about President Bush as a man and I believe deeply in his policies, but it's my time to go." Fleischer said he wanted to leave the hard-driving job before ...

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Second Brit Bomber's Body Identified

Mon, May 19, 2003 at 3:31:33 am PDT

The body that washed up on a Tel Aviv beach last week has now been positively identified from DNA as Omar Khan Sharif, the British citizen whose explosive belt failed when he tried to blow himself up at Mike’s Place. No word on cause of death. (Hat tip: someguy.)

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And Again

Mon, May 19, 2003 at 2:58:26 am PDT

Suicide Bomber Wounds 3 Israeli Troops. Thankfully, this time the would-be mass murderer killed only himself and didn’t inflict serious wounds on his victims. No virgins for you, pond scum. In Monday's bombing, a 19-year-old Palestinian rode a bicycle toward an Israeli army jeep near the Jewish settlement of Kfar ...

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Sunday, May 18, 2003

Another One Bites the Dust

Sun, May 18, 2003 at 6:51:07 pm PDT

The sick Arab hate site freearabvoice.org that we wrote about last Wednesday has been shut down, thanks to the tireless efforts of Aaron Weisburd.

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Peres: Still Blind, Still Stupid

Sun, May 18, 2003 at 5:46:33 pm PDT

The architect of the Oslo Disaster, Shimon Peres, made some remarks to Israel Radio today that border on criminal stupidity. Labor MK Shimon Peres told Israel Radio in a live interview that PA Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) cannot be expected to fight Palestinian terrorists. Instead, Peres suggested, Israel ...

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Where Are the Palestinian Moderates?

Sun, May 18, 2003 at 4:36:39 pm PDT

An AP release about the terror attacks in Israel has a couple of interesting bits: Israel Weighs Response to Suicide Bombers. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) First, Arafat told some of the terrorist goons who’ve been hiding out in his Muqata compound to beat it, before they brought the heat down on him: ...

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Arafish Says...

Sun, May 18, 2003 at 3:19:12 pm PDT

The world’s oldest and ugliest terrorist was interviewed by telephone on Fox News today, and told Rita Cosby (who obsequiously referred to him as “Mr. President” throughout) that he was still the leader of the Palestinian people and that Abu Mazen reports to him. "I sent my colleague Abu Mazen, ...

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Never Ending Smear Campaign

Sun, May 18, 2003 at 2:39:24 pm PDT

The French are whining loudly about a US “smear campaign” against them. But who’s really smearing who? Merde in France has the damning details, featuring over-the-top anti-American cartoons from Le Monde that are shocking in the outright hate they display.

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What Happened to the Left?

Sun, May 18, 2003 at 2:14:13 pm PDT

LGF reader Photios recommended this fascinating and revealing panel discussion on What Happened to the Left? It features Frank J. Gaffney Jr., Stanley Aronowitz, Paul Hollander, and ... “peace activist“ Ted Glick, whose profanity-laced answers, ad hominem attacks, and logic-free arguments are a perfect example of the premise of the ...

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Al-Jubeir Lies To Us Again

Sun, May 18, 2003 at 1:02:07 pm PDT

With his puppy dog eyes and expensive Western suit, Saudi spokesman Adel al-Jubeir is all over the news, doing damage control for the barbarians who rule his repressive country with a hurt look in his eye and a hint of a quiver in his otherwise perfectly modulated voice. Here he ...

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Explosion in Tel Aviv

Sun, May 18, 2003 at 12:03:29 pm PDT

BREAKING NEWS: Fox News is reporting another explosion in Tel Aviv. No details yet... UPDATE: It was not a terror attack; it was an accident caused by natural gas canisters at a restaurant.

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Proud Murderers for Allah

Sun, May 18, 2003 at 11:49:41 am PDT

In the entry below titled “The Face of a Palestinian,” I showed a photo of Bassem al-Takrouri, the murderer who blew up a Jerusalem bus yesterday—looking clean-cut and collegiate. It’s the photo his family handed out to the press. Today his other family, Hamas, handed out a very different picture of ...

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Muslims Uber Alles

Sun, May 18, 2003 at 10:36:20 am PDT

The Palestinian Authority’s Mufti in Jerusalem is threatening that if Jews set foot in the Temple Mount, there will be a “bloodbath.” Ahmed Abdel Rahman, a senior political advisor to Arafat, said: "This could be the trigger for a third intifada. How else can we interpret the stupidity of Israel's ...

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The World Should Know

Sun, May 18, 2003 at 9:10:56 am PDT

Smadar Haran Kaiser is an Israeli whose family was murdered in 1979 by a Lebanese terrorist named Samir Kuntar, sent by Abu Abbas to “protest the signing of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty.” This is her heartrending story: The World Should Know What He Did to My Family. It had been ...

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Arabs Deny All Responsibility

Sun, May 18, 2003 at 8:26:49 am PDT

The Palestinian Arabs blame Ariel Sharon for the failure to reach agreement on the “roadmap to more terror.” "The talks ended in total failure because Sharon insisted on discussing only security matters and refused to accept the road map plan for peace in the Middle East," a senior Palestinian official ...

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The Face of a Palestinian

Sun, May 18, 2003 at 8:12:40 am PDT

The International Solidarity Movement continues to recruit stupid, deluded young Westerners to go to the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria, as human shields for terrorists and smugglers: Louisville duo hopes to end Israeli occupation. (Hat tip: Channy.) Sharon Wallace, 44, and Mateo Bernal, 22, left Friday and plan to ...

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Saturday, May 17, 2003

And Again

Sat, May 17, 2003 at 8:17:44 pm PDT

Another suicide bombing on a bus in Israel. Four Israelis were killed and twenty were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up on an Egged bus in Jerusalem early Sunday morning. The attack, on line 6, took place shortly before 6 A.M., near French Hill, in the capital. The ...

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Roadmap to Nowhere

Sat, May 17, 2003 at 6:59:38 pm PDT

Ariel Sharon and Abu Mazen met today and talked for three hours, but resolved nothing. Imagine my surprise. Israeli officials want Bush to endorse the amendments they are seeking to the "road map," which calls for reciprocal steps leading to a Palestinian state by 2005 and security for Israel. The ...

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On Politics

Sat, May 17, 2003 at 6:42:09 pm PDT

Patrick Ruffini is talking left vs. right politics. I’m talking Jackson vs. Carter.

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A Journey Without Maps

Sat, May 17, 2003 at 5:49:06 pm PDT

A savagely on-target piece by Fouad Ajami at US News about our naïve belief that addressing the Israeli-Arab conflict will result in anything but more terror, more hate, and more murder: A journey without maps. A dozen years ago, after the first Gulf War, the Iraqi regime was in its ...

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More Casualties Than Saudis Admit

Sat, May 17, 2003 at 4:40:16 pm PDT

DEBKAfile says there were far more casualties in the Riyadh terror attacks than the Saudis are admitting, and that it was very much an inside job: 1. The casualty count in al Qaeda’s chain of attacks in Riyadh on Monday, May 12, is between 94 and 96 killed and 196 ...

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Saudis Explain the Difference

Sat, May 17, 2003 at 2:53:19 pm PDT

An article that the Arab News attributes to the “local press” of Saudi Arabia is chock full of the truly bizarre cognitive dissonance we’ve come to expect from Arab media: Martyrdom and Terrorism. To carry out attacks against an enemy occupying your land, killing your children and humiliating your family ...

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Nazimedia Threatens Willamette Writer

Sat, May 17, 2003 at 2:33:45 pm PDT

Here’s an interesting story about the peace creeps of the Oregon branch of Nazimedia, threatening reporters who expose their lies and cover-ups: Corporate Media Is the Disease. (Hat tip: Meryl Yourish.)

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No Political Fallout

Sat, May 17, 2003 at 2:08:25 pm PDT

Democrats hoping to use the failure (so far) to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as a campaign issue with which to club George Bush may be out of luck: No Political Fallout for Bush on Weapons. According to a May 1 Gallup poll for CNN and USA Today, ...

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Al Qaeda Blusters in London

Sat, May 17, 2003 at 11:23:39 am PDT

An Arabic-language weekly based in London has published another email from the Al Qaeda freakazoids threatening more attacks against the United States and Israel. DUBAI & NEW YORK - Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror network has threatened to deliver devastating blows to the United States and Israel, a Saudi-owned weekly ...

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Islamist Calls for 'Global Jihad'

Sat, May 17, 2003 at 10:51:33 am PDT

In a Moroccan magazine published yesterday shortly before the bombing attacks, a pro-Al Qaeda Islamozoid leader called for globalizing the jihad. (Hat tip: Trevor Stanley.) "After September 11 (2001), the jihad (holy war) has become open everywhere," Abu Seif al-Islam, whose movement is considered sympathetic to terrorist mastermind Osama bin ...

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Roadmap to Murderville Update

Sat, May 17, 2003 at 10:16:42 am PDT

The brave Palestinian Arab jihad warriors are attacking women again, while disguised as religious Jews. One Israeli was killed and another was critically wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at around 7:30 PM Saturday next to homes belonging to Jewish settlers living in the West Bank city of ...

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Al Qaeda Operatives Pardoned by Morocco

Sat, May 17, 2003 at 9:56:03 am PDT

LGF reader Z. Z. Zoot (I think it’s a pseudonym) points out a very interesting detail at the end of CNN’s latest story on the Casablanca bombings: A few days ago, three suspected al Qaeda operatives -- all Saudis -- were granted amnesty by Morocco's King Mohammed VI after having ...

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Anarchists Get Google's Blessing

Sat, May 17, 2003 at 9:22:14 am PDT

Another “alternative news source” that apparently meets Google News’ standards for inclusion in their index is Infoshop, whose editorial policy states: Purpose of Infoshop.org [this will match the mission statement drawn up when the AMP nonprofit is incorporated]: Infoshop.org exists as an ecumenical online resource for the anarchist movement, which ...

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The Road Map to Munich

Sat, May 17, 2003 at 8:42:08 am PDT

Steven Plaut has a troubling, well-researched article comparing the role of Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s with the Israeli Arab fifth column in modern Israel: The Road Map to Munich. (Hat tip: someguy.) It has become a matter of near-universal consensus in recent years that Palestinian self-determination stands ...

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Mahathir Mouths Off Again

Sat, May 17, 2003 at 8:16:56 am PDT

The Malaysian Prime Minister says the Morocco attacks are Israel’s fault. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahatir Muhammad said Saturday that last night's series of terrorist suicide bombing attacks in Casablanca were a direct result of Muslim anger at the "aggressive policies of Israel against the Palestinians". Mahatir said that stopping this ...

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Religion of Peace Kills 39 in Morocco

Sat, May 17, 2003 at 8:09:46 am PDT

The death toll in the horrific Morocco suicide bombings now stands at 39. As with the Riyadh assault, Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda was the top suspect. A U.S. official said it was plausible to suggest that al Qaeda, which Washington blames for the September 11, 2001 suicide hijackings, was ...

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Friday, May 16, 2003

Roadmap to Murderville Update

Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:25:46 pm PDT

The Hamas chief in Lebanon, whose name is Osama, says they will never disarm and never agree to a ceasefire with Israel. TYRE, Lebanon (AFP) - The radical Palestinian movement Hamas refuses to disarm and will continue its armed resistance against the Israeli occupation, the group's representative in Lebanon, Osama ...

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24 Killed in Morocco; CNN Lies

Fri, May 16, 2003 at 9:03:28 pm PDT

At least 24 people are dead in Casablanca. RABAT, Morocco - Terrorists exploded four bombs in the coastal city of Casablanca late Friday, killing at least 24 people and damaging the Belgian consulate, a Jewish center and a Spanish restaurant, officials said. Sixty people were wounded. And I just heard ...

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MEMRI Exposes the Zayed Centre

Fri, May 16, 2003 at 5:39:52 pm PDT

MEMRI has a terrific in-depth report on the lunatic black hole at the center of the Islamist galaxy: the Arab “think tank” known as The Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-Up. The insane antisemitism and Nazi-like rhetoric on display at this place stands in stark contrast to the praise it ...

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Solana Sets a Trap for Israel

Fri, May 16, 2003 at 5:26:40 pm PDT

According to DEBKAfile, the Euroweenie Union’s foreign affairs executive, Javier Solana, is planning to try to ram the “roadmap to Murderville” through the United Nations as a mandatory Security Council resolution. The road map is the perfect vehicle. It was formulated with American participation by the UN, EU and Russia. ...

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Terror Attacks in Casablanca

Fri, May 16, 2003 at 5:02:58 pm PDT

Breaking News: Morocco Reports Casualties in Casablanca Attacks. Radio reports say that one of the bombs went off at an Israeli nightclub, and there are “many dead.” UPDATE: From the latest wire story at Reuters: Against a background of a worldwide terror alert, residents told Reuters one target of several apparent ...

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Al Qaeda is Still Dangerous

Fri, May 16, 2003 at 3:48:10 pm PDT

The International Institute for Strategic Studies, a think tank based in London, has issued their annual report—and it warns that there may be as many as 18,000 Al Qaeda operatives still at large: Terror crackdown has not reduced al-Qaida threat. The report warns that al-Qaida has reconstituted itself since the ...

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ISM Really is Nominated for Nobel

Fri, May 16, 2003 at 2:57:09 pm PDT

A lot of people thought because our entry about Canadian MP Svend Robinson nominating the ISM for a Nobel Peace Prize appeared at Nazimedia and Electronic Intifada even before it was posted at his own web site, that it might have been a hoax. Well, it wasn’t. A member of the ...

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The Road Map to Appeasement Avenue

Fri, May 16, 2003 at 11:54:47 am PDT

British writer Melanie Phillips says the “roadmap to peace” leads to a dead end on Appeasement Avenue, and that the West is being played for a bunch of suckers. She’s right.

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Belgian Shari'a Watch

Fri, May 16, 2003 at 11:49:13 am PDT

How bad is the radical Islamic threat in Belgium? The Christian Science Monitor has a piece on “former” Hizb'Allah terrorist (he now denies he was a member, even though that’s how he attempted to gain entry to Belgium) Abou Jahjah: 'Belgian Malcolm X' seeks office. Bat Ye'or’s designation “Eurabia” has ...

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The Terrible Secret of LFG

Fri, May 16, 2003 at 9:31:27 am PDT

Curses! Cox & Forkum have obtained a picture of me, “Charles,” relaxing in my top secret bomb shelter while oppressing an Indymedia peace activist and accepting my weekly Zionazi bribe! There must be a mole in my lizardoid army! Heads will roll! Luckily for me, “Charles,” the Morlocks are too concerned with ...

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Spokesliar Resigns (Again)

Fri, May 16, 2003 at 9:00:23 am PDT

The latest act in the Palestinian puppet show has top spokesliar Saeb Erekat resigning. Bravo! Who could have foreseen this astonishing plot twist? Well, actually, he’s resigned before and mysteriously reappeared, but never mind that. This time it’s for real, and it shows that Abu Mazen is really making a break ...

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Back to the Falklands

Fri, May 16, 2003 at 8:36:16 am PDT

A painfully ironic column from Victor Davis Hanson looks at what might have happened if we’d had a “roadmap to peace” for the Falkland Islands in 1982: Back to the Falklands. Ex-president Jimmy Carter summed up the risks: "We all better pause and realize what Thatcher has unleashed: Anglo versus ...

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Newspapers Are Only Human

Fri, May 16, 2003 at 8:23:10 am PDT

Jewish World Review has a great column by James Lileks today, on the Jayson Blair scandal, journalistic failings, and the Case Western University killer: Newspapers Are Only Human, After All. (And I’m not saying that just because of the nice mention of LGF at the end...)

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Thursday, May 15, 2003

Guide to Arafat's Desk

Thu, May 15, 2003 at 9:30:20 pm PDT

Adi Neuman has a handy Guide to Arafat's Desk to help you make sense of the Naqba in Muqata.

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Saudi Crocodile Tears

Thu, May 15, 2003 at 6:40:22 pm PDT

Call me cynical if you like, but what I take from the last few days worth of Saudi statements and articles in the Arab News about how guilty they are and how they need to start cleaning house and examining their flaws and cracking down on terror is ... they’ve ...

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Another Mass Grave

Thu, May 15, 2003 at 6:05:23 pm PDT

LGF reader Susan pointed out a story at the Guardian, about another mass grave found in eastern Iraq. A mass grave containing the bodies of up to 300 people has been discovered near the eastern Iraqi city of Amara, a British aid worker said today.Dominic Nutt, of Christian Aid, said ...

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The All-Seeing French Eye

Thu, May 15, 2003 at 5:54:18 pm PDT

We must be on guard, my lizardoid minions. France is watching us. (Tin foil hat tip: zulubaby.) PARIS (Reuters) - France, which led opposition to the Iraq war, has instructed its diplomats to monitor U.S. media for signs of an orchestrated campaign of misinformation to discredit it, the Foreign Ministry ...

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Where Are the WMDs?

Thu, May 15, 2003 at 5:39:51 pm PDT

TIME war correspondent Jim Lacey has an interesting and plausible theory about the coalition’s failure (so far) to find weapons of mass destruction: Where Are the WMDs? It is likely that if Saddam no longer had a WMD program he did not know it. Why else would he endure over ...

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What's On Arafat's Desk?

Thu, May 15, 2003 at 2:45:18 pm PDT

U.N. envoy to the Middle East Terje Roed-Larsen shares a moment of jollity with the world’s oldest terrorist, in an office that is truly a Naqba in and of itself. Maybe the title of this ongoing series should be changed to “What’s Not On Arafat’s Desk?” I’m pretty sure the red binder—the ...

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A Modest Proposal

Thu, May 15, 2003 at 2:04:58 pm PDT

Several people have forwarded this email to me, containing a proposal that could solve the Israeli-Arab conflict for good. I say it’s worth a try: Since the Palestinians want a homeland and it doesn't seem like a good idea to chop Israel up even smaller than it already is, here ...

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France Seethes, Whines

Thu, May 15, 2003 at 2:00:59 pm PDT

The French are hopping mad (excuse the oblique frog reference) over reports that they aided Iraq in everything from obtaining passports to obtaining weapons, and they’re blaming it on an organized conspiracy within the Bush administration. In a letter prepared for delivery today to administration officials and members of Congress, ...

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How Ford Funds the Left

Thu, May 15, 2003 at 1:28:23 pm PDT

A very revealing article by William Bacon on the Tides Foundation, which funds (with grants from the Ford Foundation) many “anti-war” groups and Islamist organizations—including CAIR: How Ford Funds the Left. Too much here to pull out a quote. Just go ye and read of it, my lizardoid minions. (Hat ...

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Terror Attack Imminent in Kenya

Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:40:58 am PDT

U.K. Suspends Kenya Flights on Warnings. NAIROBI, Kenya - Britain on Thursday suspended its flights to and from Kenya, after an al-Qaida suspect wanted in three terror attacks reportedly returned to the East African nation and the United States warned its citizens to postpone visits there. It was not immediately ...

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Kinky Friedman Comes Clean

Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:11:36 am PDT

Another reason to love Kinky Friedman. Well, maybe “love” isn’t quite the right word. (Hat tip: Steve Hall.)

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The Truth About LFG

Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:02:07 am PDT

The IndyMedia Morlocks are on to me! LFG pose as a graphic design/web design company that is funded by Federation UJA and other Jewish organizations. "Charles", the "owner" of the site, claims to be some non-Jewish supporter of Israel and other similar terrorist regimes. It appears that the Jewish community ...

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Religion of Peace Attacks Gas Stations

Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:38:29 am PDT

Bombers Set Off Explosions in Pakistan. (Hat tip: Michael S.) KARACHI, Pakistan - A series of explosions shook 18 Shell gas stations in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi early Thursday, slightly injuring four employees, police and company officials said. Police spokesman Malik Sheikh said two men on a motorcycle ...

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Arafish Says...

Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:15:41 am PDT

Happy Naqba Day!

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Nazimedia in Fine Form

Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:00:35 am PDT

Nazimedia is calling LGF “right wing warmongers” again, and whining about their removal from Google News here. This is funny: Indymedia activists and friends are urged to write to Google in support of the reinstatement, and to work towards ensuring that those newswire items which give Indymedia a bad name ...

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Outrage of the Day

Thu, May 15, 2003 at 9:11:03 am PDT

A Lebanese man who spied on the terror gang Hizb'Allah for Israel, then filed for refugee status in Canada, has been branded a “war criminal” by the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board: Federal lawyer cites Israeli 'war crimes.' In a ruling likely to raise diplomatic tensions between Canada and Israel, ...

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Iran is Producing Anthrax

Thu, May 15, 2003 at 8:27:23 am PDT

The Washington Post reports that an Iranian opposition group has evidence Iran has begun production of weaponized anthrax and at least five other pathogens, in a drive to build an arsenal of biological weapons. (Hat tip: anti-com.com.) The group, Mujaheddin-e Khalq, citing informants inside the Iranian government, says the anthrax ...

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BBC Bias Watch

Thu, May 15, 2003 at 8:06:30 am PDT

Israel has launched a large offensive into the Gaza Strip, and the BBC is outraged; can you believe the evil Zionists launched their “fresh blow to US efforts” on Naqba, the most sacred Palestinian day of the year? Israeli tanks pour into Gaza. (Tanks can “pour?” I thought they were ...

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Lebanon Attack Plot?

Thu, May 15, 2003 at 7:57:30 am PDT

Lebanon (where they just made a big show of welcoming Iran’s Supreme Leader Mohammad Khatami and reiterating their support for Hizb'Allah) says they have arrested 9 people in a plot to attack the US embassy. But they haven’t identified the people, and they haven’t said when they were arrested, and ...

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Wednesday, May 14, 2003

Iraq's Manuscripts are Safe

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 6:56:56 pm PDT

Good news from Iraq: the priceless manuscripts from Iraq’s National Library were not looted. They were hidden for safekeeping. (Hat tip: Elizabeth.) BAGHDAD -- On a rundown street of auto repair shops in old Saddam City, a Shi'ite mosque run by men in tattered clothing has become a secret safe ...

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Maggie Speaks Out

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 6:25:13 pm PDT

Margaret Thatcher is back. And she’s taking no prisoners. “For years, many governments played down the threats of Islamic revolution, turned a blind eye to international terrorism and accepted the development of weaponry of mass destruction. Indeed, some politicians were happy to go further, collaborating with the self-proclaimed enemies of ...

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Disney Drops Moore

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 6:14:19 pm PDT

Hollywood Halfwits reports that Disney has dropped the Michael Moore Fahrenheit 911 project. According to John Alvarez of Patriotic Americans Boycotting Anti-American Hollywood (PABAAH), who just e-mailed me, Disney has come to its senses regarding the Michael Moore project just recently dropped by Mel Gibson's Icon Productions (see story). Alvarez ...

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Nazimedia Back on Google News

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 5:12:09 pm PDT

Another sickeningly antisemitic “article” at the creepiest site on the web today: BLOODSUCKING ZIONAZIS THROW TWO YEAR OLD BOY OUT WINDOW. Several people sent this to me, and Only In Israel reports that Google News has now started indexing Indymedia again—and another disgusting Jew-hate site that’s even more foul than ...

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Israel Meets with Qatar

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 4:41:45 pm PDT

We’re long overdue for some possible good news from the Middle East: Israel holds talks with Qatar. (Hat tip: ploome.) Silvan Shalom and his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani met for about an hour at a Paris hotel as Mr Shalom passed through on his way ...

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Hopelessly Ignorant Apologists for Islam

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 4:35:00 pm PDT

Here’s a terrific post by Fatimah, the Disaffected Muslim, on Western apologists for Islam. (Hat tip: Susan.) Sometimes one will come across someone who will extoll the tolerance, high culture and harmony of Islamic culture, often in Andalusia, Spain, but also in Baghdad, Cairo, India, etc. However, when confronted with ...

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FBI Doesn't Want to Hurt Saudi Feelings

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 3:22:04 pm PDT

The FBI has scaled back the investigation team sent to Saudi Arabia from 12 to 6 people—because of concern that the Saudis would be sensitive to such a large US presence: FBI Scales Back Saudi Investigative Team. WASHINGTON - The size of the FBI contingent headed to Saudi Arabia to ...

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Steyn Fired from NatPost

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 1:33:04 pm PDT

What?! The National Post’s new editor has fired Mark Steyn. (Hat tip: Glenn Reynolds.) This is sure to go down as one of the dumbest decisions in journalistic history, along with the New York Times’ hiring of Jayson Blair.

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Who Shot Mohammed al-Dura?

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 12:35:56 pm PDT

An excellent investigative report at the Atlantic on Who Shot Mohammed al-Dura? Hint: it wasn’t the IDF. And it does matter. Read the whole thing; it’s an eye-opener.

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'Salam Pax' Plays Americans for Fools

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:15:02 am PDT

David Warren comes out and says something that’s been my privately held belief for quite some time: 'Salam Pax' plays Americans for fools in Iraq. What we can know, just by reading his blog, is that this Salam is up to no good. He is spreading "inside views" of the ...

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Saudis Knew, But Did Nothing

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:33:22 am PDT

US ambassador to Saudi Arabia Robert Jordan reveals that we warned the Saudis an attack was imminent and tried to get them to increase security—but the Saudis did nothing. (Hat tip: NC.) The United States sought futilely to get security tightened around western residential compounds in Riyadh before this week's ...

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Metafilter Weenies Seethe, Whine

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:13:13 am PDT

The terror apologists at Metafilter are at it again, bashing LGF (and ignoring the facts Asparagirl attempted to expose) in a thread about an Atlantic article that tells the truth about Mohammed al-Dura: Who Shot Mohammed al-Dura? : Metafilter. An example of the willfully blind mentality that prevails at that ...

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BBC Bias Watch

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:07:09 am PDT

Here’s a BBC article about an Irish ISM member who is being deported from Israel, in which the BBC wails and moans about the “tough sanctions” imposed on these “non-violent peace activists,” but utterly fails to mention the context for the deportation: that the ISM has admitted being associated with ...

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Arabia's Civil War

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 9:38:37 am PDT

Here’s an excellent article by Daniel Pipes on Saudi Arabia’s Civil War—a war that has been waged below the surface for many years, and is now coming into the open again. The current iteration of the Saudi kingdom came into being in 1902 when a Saudi leader captured Riyadh. Ten ...

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Mr. Nasty

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 9:30:18 am PDT

Here’s a photo of Shi'ite cleric Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim (last seen at LGF ranting insanely) doing something so nasty that I’m not going to post it at LGF. Click the link at your own risk. Yecchhh.

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The War is Not Over

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 9:01:33 am PDT

NRO’s Kathryn Jean Lopez interviews former Israeli ambassador to the UN Dore Gold, about the nefarious Saudi oil ticks and their global support for terrorism: The War on America Is Not Over. NRO: Do you think the Saudi government had a role to play in the attacks this week, direct ...

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Religion of Peace Kills At Least 30 More

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 8:53:18 am PDT

At Least 30 Reported Killed in Chechnya Bomb Attack. MOSCOW (Reuters) - A woman suicide bomber blew herself up in the middle of a Muslim religious festival in Russia's rebel Chechnya on Wednesday and Itar-Tass news agency said more than 30 people had been killed and 150 wounded.Quoting Chechen Emergency ...

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Iraqi Atrocities Uncovered

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 8:36:11 am PDT

At least 3,000 bodies have now been exhumed from the appalling mass grave discovered near the Iraqi city of Hillah, a charnel pit that may contain as many as 15,000 victims of Saddam Hussein’s purge following the 1991 Shi'ite uprising. By every indication, the mass grave in a village outside ...

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Canadian Shari'a Watch

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 8:31:00 am PDT

Canada’s 2002 census reveals a troubling demographic; there are now more Muslims than Jews living in the Great White North, and Islam is the fastest growing religion. (Hat tip: Lizzy.) "I would have to say with a caution that, yes, of course it is going to have an effect because ...

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A Message from the Religion of Peace

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 8:17:07 am PDT

From a web site called freearabvoice, registered to someone in Greece: Ten Reasons why 'Israeli' Jews are Kosher Targets. (Hat tip: Babylonian Musings.) 1. They are occupying by force land which doesn't belong to them2. They have ethnically cleansed the Palestinians from that3. After more than fifty years, they still ...

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Terror Attack in Yemen

Wed, May 14, 2003 at 8:06:41 am PDT

4 Hurt As Bomb Rips Through Yemeni Court. SAN'A, Yemen - A bomb exploded Wednesday in a Yemeni court where a suspected al-Qaida militant was condemned to death last week for killing three U.S. missionaries, security officials said. A judge and three other people were wounded. A man arrested in ...

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Tuesday, May 13, 2003

Cuban Diplomats Expelled

Tue, May 13, 2003 at 10:29:25 pm PDT

Fourteen Cuban diplomats have been expelled from the United States for engaging in “unacceptable activities”—diplomatic language for spying. "In response to certain inappropriate and unacceptable activities, the United States has decided to take strong action," State Department deputy spokesman Philip Reeker told reporters at a daily briefing. "I think you ...

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What the Hell is Going On Here?

Tue, May 13, 2003 at 10:05:36 pm PDT

I’ve been more than willing to give Bechtel the benefit of the doubt, in spite of the yelling and whining from the “cabal” crowd. After all, they have more experience in the types of work necessary to rebuild Iraq’s infrastructure than almost any other company. But what the hell is going ...

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NYT Newsroom in Crisis

Tue, May 13, 2003 at 7:54:48 pm PDT

Wow. Matt Drudge reports that at least two more NY Times reporters are being investigated for possible journalistic irregularities. The New York Times is experiencing a core meltdown.

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Iraqi Freedom?

Tue, May 13, 2003 at 6:48:22 pm PDT

Cox & Forkum are not optimistic about democracy in Iraq.

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Reactions to the Symposium

Tue, May 13, 2003 at 6:12:24 pm PDT

Ted Belman at Israpundit has some very good thoughts in reaction to the Blogger Symposium on the Israeli/Arab conflict. He’s optimistic, and has persuasive arguments to back it up.

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A Replay of the Khobar Towers Bombing

Tue, May 13, 2003 at 5:57:25 pm PDT

DEBKAfile has a horrifying account of the terror attacks in Riyadh, showing the high level of planning involved. (Hat tip: NC.) The elite locations populated by foreign expatriates including many Americans that came under attack were Garnata, Cordoba and Ishbiliya. All sheltered behind concrete walls, electronic detectors and automatic sensors, ...

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Breaking: More Attacks Coming

Tue, May 13, 2003 at 5:39:36 pm PDT

The news alert banner at CNN reads: Knowledgeable U.S. officials say there is evidence al Qaeda terrorists are plotting a number of additional attacks in the wake of the attacks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Roadmap to Murderville Update

Tue, May 13, 2003 at 5:16:52 pm PDT

Palestinian Arab “refugees” are putting pressure on Abu Mazen to refuse to negotiate on their “right demand of return:” In a letter sent to Abbas Tuesday, representatives of the refugees in the West Bank and Gaza Strip warned Abbas and his newly installed cabinet against succumbing to Israel's demand to ...

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Arab Mag in London Was Warned

Tue, May 13, 2003 at 4:48:19 pm PDT

An Arab magazine in London received an email on Sunday from an Al Qaeda operative that warned about the terror attacks in Riyadh. DOHA, Qatar - An al-Qaida commander warned that the terror network was about to carry out major attacks in Saudi Arabia in an e-mail just a day ...

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It's a Clown Show!

Tue, May 13, 2003 at 4:06:53 pm PDT

The House of Saud’s Clown Prince Abdullah says the bombings are un-Islamic. "The terrorists are criminals, butchers and devoid of all Islamic and humane principles," Prince Abdullah said in a state television address, referring to Monday's suicide bombings that killed at least 29 people, according to Saudi officials. "If they ...

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This is Not a Joke

Tue, May 13, 2003 at 3:28:06 pm PDT

First they came for the Nutter Butters, and I said nothing, because peanut butter cookies make my fillings hurt. Then they came for the Mallomars, and I said nothing, because Mallomars are really kind of gross. Then they came for my Oreo cookies, and it was too late, because there was no ...

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NPR: Tell the Truth

Tue, May 13, 2003 at 3:03:44 pm PDT

Here’s a list of the sites and times for tomorrow’s NPR: Tell the Truth protests, if you’d like to participate in a demonstration against NPR’s outrageously biased reporting.

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Second Brit Bomber Found Dead?

Tue, May 13, 2003 at 2:21:08 pm PDT

Breaking news at the Jerusalem Post: Police claim found second Brit bomber's body. Police on Tuesday said a body washed out to shore earlier near Tel Aviv may be the body of 27-year-old Omar Khan Sharif, the British citizen who is suspected of involvement in the bombing of a Tel ...

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Saudi Psychosis on the Web

Tue, May 13, 2003 at 1:39:05 pm PDT

The Saudi religious police, known as The Authority for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices (if that sounds familiar, it’s because the Taliban had an identical operation in Afghanistan), have launched a web site, revealing a truly bizarre confluence of 21st century technology with 14th century barbarism, seasoned ...

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Indymedia Morlocks Go Berserk

Tue, May 13, 2003 at 1:15:31 pm PDT

The conspiracy loons are gibbering and raving about Mossad being responsible for the Riyadh bombings over at the creepiest site on the web. UPDATE: Someone asked who funds Indymedia; here’s a list of their supporters and allies.

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Shopping in Israel

Tue, May 13, 2003 at 11:31:29 am PDT

Time for a spot of humor, I think. LGF reader Claudia emailed this MPEG movie about Shopping in Israel.

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More Mass Graves in Iraq

Tue, May 13, 2003 at 11:07:09 am PDT

It seems like every day brings new reports of mass graves found in Iraq; today the Iraqi National Congress claims to have discovered four sites in the city of Hilla containing as many as 15,000 corpses. The remains of 15,000 people killed by the regime of Saddam Hussein have been ...

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Death Toll in Riyadh: 91 and Rising

Tue, May 13, 2003 at 9:15:28 am PDT

The death toll in Saudi Arabia is rising fast, after initial attempts by the Saudis to keep it quiet. Reports now say at least 91 killed. The Saudis have big, big problems. They’ve appeased and made deals with terrorists, and even openly supported them for so long that they’re now on ...

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French Shari'a Watch

Tue, May 13, 2003 at 8:40:08 am PDT

Guy Milliere writes about the Union of Islamic Organizations in France—the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood under a new name, now given legitimacy by the French government even though it is banned everywhere else in the world. The Muslim Brotherhood is a forbidden movement in Egypt where it was born. It is ...

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20 Killed in Saudi Arabia

Tue, May 13, 2003 at 8:06:05 am PDT

This morning US media is finally realizing that the terror attack in Saudi Arabia might be something they should notice. Officials Say 20 Killed in Saudi Blasts. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Attackers shot their way into three housing compounds in synchronized strikes in the Saudi capital and then set off multiple ...

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Monday, May 12, 2003

Iraq's Grisly Past

Mon, May 12, 2003 at 7:43:17 pm PDT

Another mass grave in Iraq, possibly the largest yet found: Digging Up a Grisly Past. For nearly two decades the military vehicles moved in and out of the camp at Qaryat al-Marrajah in the middle of the night. From their homes in the sandy wastes alongside Habaniya lake, the villagers ...

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Another Message from the Religion of Peace

Mon, May 12, 2003 at 4:54:10 pm PDT

More on the terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia against Westerners: RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Hours before a visit by the American secretary of state, four explosions rocked the Saudi capital late Monday, including car bomb attacks at compounds housing Americans and other Westerners. There were dozens of injuries, a hospital ...

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Arafat’s Terrorists

Mon, May 12, 2003 at 4:50:22 pm PDT

The Palestinian terrorists who murdered Gideon Lichterman on Remembrance Day Eve and shot his six-year old daughter in the head were sent from Yasser Arafat’s Muqata compound—and returned there after the attack. A terror cell left Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's Mukata compound in Ramallah on Remembrance Day Eve, murdered ...

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Svend Robinson: ISM for Peace Prize

Mon, May 12, 2003 at 4:44:00 pm PDT

Canadian MP Svend Robinson has nominated Rachel Corrie and the terror-supporting ISM for the Nobel Peace Prize—and he (or someone using his name) decided that the perfect place to announce it was IndyMedia. (Hat tip: Babylonian Musings.) Because after all, who is more deserving of this by-now-totally-debased Nobel Prize than peace-loving ...

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Blogger Symposium

Mon, May 12, 2003 at 4:31:29 pm PDT

Yesterday John Hawkins put together a blogger symposium on the Israeli/Arab conflict attended by Allison Kaplan Sommer, John Little, Damian Penny, Ben Shapiro, and yours truly. (I kept getting knocked out of the chat room, as IE5 Mac choked on the Java chat software. Finally I logged on with Safari ...

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Breaking: Car Bomb in Saudi Arabia

Mon, May 12, 2003 at 3:30:53 pm PDT

Breaking News: A car bomb has crashed into a Western compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Car With Explosives Hits Saudi Compound. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - A car packed with explosives crashed into a Riyadh compound housing Westerners and blew up late Monday. There were casualties, Saudi security officials said.The officials, ...

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Peaceful Religion Watch

Mon, May 12, 2003 at 3:22:49 pm PDT

Hey, what happened to that “moderation” the Saudi sheikhs were supposed to be practicing? Weren’t they supposed to be toning down the calls for destruction and jihad? Because last Friday, the khutba was just as rabid as ever. If you’re one of those who chooses to delude yourself that only a handful ...

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The Jayson Blair Scandal

Mon, May 12, 2003 at 12:00:27 pm PDT

Andrew Sullivan is all over the Jayson Blair/New York Times scandal. And now Blair’s work for the Boston Globe is also coming into question. On April 18, 1999, a story in the Globe appeared under Blair's byline about the political challenges facing the District of Columbia's mayor, Anthony A. Williams. Quotations ...

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Madonna's New Friends

Mon, May 12, 2003 at 11:39:00 am PDT

Madonna has some nice new British friends. (Hat tip: Wowbagger.)

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The Nuclear Axis of Evil

Mon, May 12, 2003 at 11:23:19 am PDT

Michael Ledeen writes about the very frightening possibility that Iran is about to go nuclear, with help from Russia, and makes a great (scary) point: that estimates of when countries will achieve nuclear weapons have traditionally been very wrong. Concern over the Iranian nuclear-weapons program is growing, as well it ...

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ISM Press Conference at UN

Mon, May 12, 2003 at 9:56:57 am PDT

The terror supporters of the ISM will be holding a press conference at the United Nations in Manhattan tomorrow, led by Yasser Arafat’s boyfriend Adam Shapiro and his Palestinian wife: Scoop: ISM Press Conf at Uited [sic] Nations. (Hat tip: Haiku.) The International Solidarity Movement will hold a press conference ...

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Religion of Peace Kills At Least 40 More

Mon, May 12, 2003 at 9:33:35 am PDT

Chechnya Truck Bomb Kills at Least 40 People. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers drove a truck full of explosives into a government complex in Russia's rebel Chechnya on Monday, killing 40 people in the deadliest attack since the Kremlin's March poll to keep the region in its grip.The blast ...

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Egypt to Powell: It's All Israel's Fault

Mon, May 12, 2003 at 9:31:32 am PDT

Colin Powell gets a cool reception in Egypt, from a repressive dictatorship that gets more than $2 billion a year from the United States. This NYT article goes on endlessly about the harsh conditions that Palestinians have to endure, while the only mention of continuing Palestinian terrorism is this: Moreover, ...

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Interview with a Dictator

Mon, May 12, 2003 at 9:16:19 am PDT

Newsweek interviews Syrian “president” Bashar Assad: “We Don't Call It Terrorism.” Remember Colin Powell saying that Syria was closing the offices of terror groups in Damascus? NEWSWEEK: Secretary Powell said you had agreed to close the headquarters of some Palestinian rejectionist groups here in Damascus. Did you?Bashar Assad: There are ...

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Got Doctor Germ!

Mon, May 12, 2003 at 8:21:31 am PDT

Iraq's 'Dr. Germ' Surrenders to Coalition. WASHINGTON - Coalition forces have taken custody of the Iraqi scientist known as "Dr. Germ" for her work in creating weapons-grade anthrax, officials said Monday.Dr. Rihab Rashid Taha, who had been negotiating her surrender for days, turned herself in over the last 48 hours, ...

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Religion of Peace in Derby

Mon, May 12, 2003 at 8:16:00 am PDT

The New York Times has a story about Pakistani Muslims in the British city of Derby, and the genocidal Jew-hatred that has taken root in the younger generation: What Drove 2 Britons to Bomb a Club in Tel Aviv? Publicly, what Mr. Sharif is accused of doing has been roundly ...

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Sunday, May 11, 2003

Islamozoids Infiltrate Harvard Divinity

Sun, May 11, 2003 at 9:40:24 pm PDT

The Boston Globe has a disturbing report that Harvard Divinity School accepted a $2.5 million donation from the “president” of the United Arab Emirates, a radical Islamist with ties to the lunatic black hole of the Islamic galaxy—the Zayed Center for Communication and Followup, an Arab “think tank” which has ...

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Freeing the Middle East

Sun, May 11, 2003 at 8:37:01 pm PDT

At the Jerusalem Post, a very thought-provoking analysis of a speech by President Bush at the University of South Carolina that flew totally underneath the media radar: Freeing the Middle East. (Hat tip: ploome.) Is the diplomatic dance of the “roadmap to peace” hiding a much deeper, much more visionary ...

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An Najah Creates Suicide Bomber Shrine

Sun, May 11, 2003 at 6:13:21 pm PDT

You may recall our entry last Friday about the exhibit at An Najah University, depicting the “paradise” that “martyrs” will enter after dying while slaughtering Jews. (Complete with air conditioning and plastic trees.) Ben at Allies Against Online Terrorism has forwarded a link to an article in The Times describing another ...

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An Najah Sends a Message to Colin

Sun, May 11, 2003 at 5:38:43 pm PDT

As the Palestinian Arabs, led by Holocaust denier Abu Mazen, tell Colin Powell they’ve “dropped their reservations” about the “roadmap to peace,” over at the University of Death (An Najah) in Nablus, masked students are taking time out from their busy course schedules (Semtex 101, The Semantics of Jihad, Introduction ...

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Disney Will Finance Moore

Sun, May 11, 2003 at 3:49:19 pm PDT

And now for something completely nauseating: according to the Drudge Report, the financing for Michael Moore’s new hate-America film will come from the Walt Disney Company. Arrggghh. The WALT DISNEY CO. is set to spend millions financing a new explosive Bush-bashing documentary from Michael Moore [BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE] -- a ...

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The Land of the Schtoopid

Sun, May 11, 2003 at 3:27:53 pm PDT

I was going to lay off the Indymedia maroons for a while, but comedy like this is too good to pass up. One of the illiterate idiots took it upon himself to write to Google complaining about their removal from Google News’ list of sources, with the following hilarious email: ...

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Pipes Debates Indyk

Sun, May 11, 2003 at 3:01:47 pm PDT

Here’s the transcript of a very interesting debate between Mideast scholar Daniel Pipes and former ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk: Should Washington Actively Promote an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Settlement?

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The Reopening of Mike's Place

Sun, May 11, 2003 at 2:16:32 pm PDT

Allison Kaplan Sommer has translated some moving excerpts from an article in the Hebrew-language Yediot Aharonot about the reopening of Mike’s Place, the blues bar in Tel Aviv attacked by two British suicide bombers a little over a week ago.

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French Kids Love OBL

Sun, May 11, 2003 at 10:58:01 am PDT

Merde in France has more on French cell phone companies offering pictures and sound files with Osama Bin Laden themes, for terrorist-infatuated young weasels. Here’s a sound file featuring the Islamic mass murderer greeting callers with an announcement that “this is not the voicemail of your mother.”

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Happy Mother's Day

Sun, May 11, 2003 at 10:41:01 am PDT

To all the mothers who love their sons and daughters, and give their all to provide their children with the tools and ideals to succeed in this crazy world, LGF wishes a very happy and peaceful Mother’s Day.

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A More Accurate Poster

Sun, May 11, 2003 at 9:55:40 am PDT

A suggested revision for the ISM “martyr” poster from yesterday’s March of the Tools:

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The Real Scandal of Iraqi Relief

Sun, May 11, 2003 at 9:34:24 am PDT

Jonathan Foreman has a piece on the feckless whining international NGOs in Iraq that has to be read to be believed: The Real Scandal of Iraqi Relief. Ask any soldier who patrols this city, and you'll hear the same thing: The NGOs have been here for weeks, but they're not ...

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Puppet Show Continues

Sun, May 11, 2003 at 9:11:35 am PDT

Palestinians Drop Peace Plan Reservations. Right. "We have accepted the road map," Abbas said at a joint news conference with Powell after their first meeting since Abbas was sworn in on April 30. "For the sake of opening the road, we have dropped our reservations," Abbas said. But other Palestinians ...

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Roadmap to Murderville Update

Sun, May 11, 2003 at 8:23:10 am PDT

As Ariel Sharon prepares to announce a list of good will gestures, the head of the Palestinian “Preventive Security Service” openly sneers at the idea of disarming the terror gangs. In a move contradictory to US and international pressure to crack down on terrorist activity, Col. Rashid Abu Shbak, head ...

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Saturday, May 10, 2003

ISM 'Activists' Still Supporting Terror

Sat, May 10, 2003 at 10:40:50 pm PDT

Smug, self-satisfied ISM “peace activists” continue to make trouble in the disputed territories. What’s interesting about this photo is the guy behind the tool on the left, holding the sign; it’s hard to tell for sure, but that black headband with Arabic script looks a lot like the type worn ...

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Outrage of the Night

Sat, May 10, 2003 at 10:19:37 pm PDT

The Simon Wiesenthal Center recently criticized the appointment of Libya to head the UN Human Rights Commission. Now Libya is demanding an apology, and calling on the UN to revoke the Wiesenthal Center’s NGO status. "The Libyan representative said he wanted an apology and a promise that the Wiesenthal Center ...

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Roadmap to Murderville Update

Sat, May 10, 2003 at 10:10:48 pm PDT

As Colin Powell says, “Let’s get on with it!” and prepares to meet with Holocaust denier Abu Mazen, and the IDF lifts the security closure of the West Bank in a show of good faith, here’s more evidence of the Palestinian Arabs’ sincere commitment to the “roadmap to peace:” Israeli ...

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Religion of Mass Murder

Sat, May 10, 2003 at 9:51:39 pm PDT

The Telegraph has a disturbing report on British Muslims studying at an Islamic college in Damascus, Syria—studying how to commit mass murder in the name of Allah: Muslim students in Syria support suicide raids. Two men, who gave their names as Amir Aziz and Tahir Sharaf, told The Telegraph that ...

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Committee of the Missing

Sat, May 10, 2003 at 9:22:39 pm PDT

An utterly chilling report from Newsweek on efforts to document the mass murders perpetrated by the Saddam Hussein regime: Committee of the Missing. The Committee’s view is that Saddam Hussein’s regime slaughtered 8 million people; in a country of 25 million that’s a pretty extreme estimate. “Hitler was a minor ...

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The Right to Return

Sat, May 10, 2003 at 5:51:40 pm PDT

Judging from the caption of this photograph, Reuters seems to think that every Palestinian Arab in the world has a “right to return” to Israel—even terrorist thugs who are exiled for shooting their way into the Church of the Nativity. Relatives of Palestinians who were sent into exile after the ...

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Regime Change in Iran?

Sat, May 10, 2003 at 2:47:27 pm PDT

A very interesting headline at the top of DEBKAfile: First US-Iranian exploratory talks held very recently in Geneva. They discussed regime change in Tehran and Iran’s drive for nuclear weapon. According to rumors going round Middle East capitals, Powell or member of his party may soon meet Iranian president Khatami ...

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More on the Case Western Shooter

Sat, May 10, 2003 at 1:57:49 pm PDT

Here is a letter to the Independent Florida Alligator in which Biswanath Halder appeals to “compassionate and rational people” to “oppose the inhuman policies of the United States and the United Kingdom against Iraq.” Here is a rant about the UN sanctions against Iraq, titled Let Us Make The World A ...

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Roadmap to Murderville Update

Sat, May 10, 2003 at 1:26:38 pm PDT

Colin Powell appears ready to accept another empty promise of a cease fire by Palestinian Arab terror gangs; Israel is already signalling that this won’t be good enough. The secretary of state called for an end to terrorism, and expressed the need to prevent organizations that have conducted terror activities ...

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'Anti-War Activist' Runs Amok

Sat, May 10, 2003 at 12:12:09 pm PDT

The graduate student arrested in yesterday’s hostage stand-off at a Cleveland university, after killing one student and injuring two other people, was named Biswanath Halder. Biswanath Halder, 52, carried two guns and wore a bulletproof vest, wig and "a kind of World War II Army helmet" as he walked the ...

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Imam of King Fahd Mosque Deported

Sat, May 10, 2003 at 10:44:00 am PDT

A Saudi Arabian consular official living in Los Angeles has been deported for terrorist links. LOS ANGELES - U.S. authorities expelled a Saudi consular official and Muslim leader who had been living in Southern California, saying he was suspected of having terrorist links.Fahad al Thumairy, 31, was detained at Los ...

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Germany Mocks Poland

Sat, May 10, 2003 at 10:35:27 am PDT

German politicians and media are jeering and mocking Poland over its role in Iraq. Poland is set to lead one of the occupied sectors in Iraq. German commentators greeted the proposal that it help its neighbor patrol Iraq with jeers, speaking of a wannabe great power bankrolled by the United ...

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It's a Puppet Show!

Sat, May 10, 2003 at 10:13:08 am PDT

Here are the money quotes from a Washington Post article about Arafat’s puppet prime minister: Palestinian leader's conflicting impulses. (Hat tip: NC.) “Nobody who is really informed about the situation in the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian street will say Abu Mazen is in power instead of Yasser Arafat,” said ...

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Religion of Peace Kills 13 More

Sat, May 10, 2003 at 10:06:45 am PDT

A bomb blast has killed at least 13 people in a crowded market in the southern Philippine city of Koronadal. Mayor Fernando Miguel said the Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf claimed responsibility in a telephone call. The group is on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations. Miguel said in a ...

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Holocaust Denier Reads Zerbisias

Sat, May 10, 2003 at 9:33:52 am PDT

Holocaust denier David Irving has posted on his sick web site the Toronto Star article by Antonia Zerbisias that we wrote about on Thursday. Lovely bunch of friends Antonia has. (Hat tip: Stefan Sharkansky.) UPDATE: You may not want to click on the link to Irving’s site if you’re not wearing ...

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Roadmap to Murderville Cartoons

Sat, May 10, 2003 at 9:26:20 am PDT

Here’s a collection of editorial cartoons from the Arab press that makes very clear what they think about the “roadmap to peace.” (Hat tip: Jal Hampson.)

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Islamic Dystopia Looms

Sat, May 10, 2003 at 8:47:40 am PDT

This is how we can win a war, but lose the peace. A Shi'ite ayatollah who has been living in Iran for two decades has returned to Iraq—and instead of a democracy with freedom and opportunities for all, he wants to see Iraq become another hellhole of Islamic totalitarianism, with himself ...

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Friday, May 09, 2003

Powell Goes to Israel

Fri, May 9, 2003 at 10:17:29 pm PDT

I have a really bad feeling about Colin Powell’s trip to the Middle East. ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. (Reuters) - Secretary of State Colin Powell left for Jerusalem on Friday to promote a Middle East peace plan and resume personal mediation between Israelis and Palestinians after a one-year hiatus. ...

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The Hypocrisy of Chomsky

Fri, May 9, 2003 at 10:02:51 pm PDT

Speaking of Noam Chomsky (weren’t we? no?) here’s a terrific takedown of the Noambot and his arrogant, patronizing disdain for everyone who disagrees with his warped anti-Americanism: The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky. Over the past thirty years, the left in the humanities has been smitten by high theory, especially neo-Marxist, ...

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VDH Reads LGF

Fri, May 9, 2003 at 9:14:48 pm PDT

OK, LGFers. Time to straighten up and fly right. Because Victor Davis Hanson is reading.

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Indymedia In Fine Form

Fri, May 9, 2003 at 9:03:17 pm PDT

The Indymedia maroons are trying to mobilize the shlock troops to protest the IDF raid on ISM headquarters: PROTEST LETTERS NOW!!! Nothing says “passionate activism” like upper case letters and multiple exclamation points. Seriously though; I think there’s some sort of mysterious wacky radiation from the planetoid Booga-Booga in the air ...

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Caution: Abaya Crossing

Fri, May 9, 2003 at 8:52:56 pm PDT

Wearing an abaya at night in Jeddah may be hazardous to your health. (Hat tip: Victrade.) JEDDAH, 10 May 2003 — A study has warned that women who are hit by cars while crossing the road at night in their black abayas form as much as 20 percent of the ...

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The GROM Factor

Fri, May 9, 2003 at 6:21:12 pm PDT

When I read about US plans to divide Iraq into three zones that would be initially governed by the US, Britain, and Poland, I thought .... wha? Poland? Whassup? I couldn’t recall a single report about Poland’s role in the Iraq War. Today Victorino Matus tells us whassup, in an article ...

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Marduk's Birthday

Fri, May 9, 2003 at 5:36:42 pm PDT

Happy birthday to Prince Marduk of Babylonian Musings, who found (on an anti-Semitic hate site) a fascinatingly bizarre photo of Golda Meir as a young babe, dressed up as the Statue of Liberty.

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Explosive Laffs

Fri, May 9, 2003 at 5:22:34 pm PDT

Al Jazeera is learning that reality TV sells advertising, and they’ve launched a hilarious new series called American Jihad. In the show, 10 would-be human bombs compete for fame, martyrdom, and fabulous cash prizes. The first one to complete his mission will get $1 million in cash for their surviving ...

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The Perils of Publishing

Fri, May 9, 2003 at 4:58:18 pm PDT

Roger Simon says blogging can help ease the pain of a bad review. Look on the bright side, Roger; at least Publisher’s Weekly didn’t call you a “Zionist Supremacist.”

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Evangelicals Condemn Islam Criticism

Fri, May 9, 2003 at 4:38:27 pm PDT

An association of Christian evangelicals has condemned remarks by Franklin Graham and others criticizing Islam. The evangelicals said that the derisive comments endangered Christians working in the Muslim world, strained already tense interfaith relations and fed the perception in the Mideast and beyond that the war on terrorism is a ...

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Oh, the Humiliation of Checkpoints!

Fri, May 9, 2003 at 3:57:59 pm PDT

As the Saudis set up checkpoints near Riyadh to help them track down terror suspects (sound familiar?), the secretary general of the Muslim World League assures us that Terrorism Is Alien to Islam. JEDDAH, 10 May 2003 — The Shariah considers terrorism one of the most heinous crimes, says Dr. ...

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Postbellum Thoughts

Fri, May 9, 2003 at 3:38:34 pm PDT

An excellent Victor Davis Hanson column (is there another kind?) on his ideas for the aftermath of the Iraq War, with special attention paid to the mendacious media and their disturbing deals with dictators: Postbellum Thoughts. We need legislation requiring journalists and reporters to publicly disclose the financial and political ...

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Paradise at the University of Death

Fri, May 9, 2003 at 11:21:56 am PDT

How debased is the Palestinian educational system? Judge for yourself: Palestinian students recreate paradise to show what awaits "martyrs." (Hat tip: Tom DiLello.) Plastic trees, goldfish swimming in a generator-powered fountain, posters of the dead on the wall: This is a model of the paradise Islamic militants say awaits those ...

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Jewish Cemetery Desecrated

Fri, May 9, 2003 at 11:09:56 am PDT

More than 380 graves have been desecrated in a Jewish cemetery in London. (Hat tip: zaza.) Officers were called to Plashet Cemetery in East Ham, London, on Thursday.They discovered 386 graves which appeared to have been pushed over and damaged.A police spokesman said: "There was no evidence of any disturbance ...

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Iran Seethes, Threatens

Fri, May 9, 2003 at 10:35:30 am PDT

Iran’s former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is issuing threats: Senior Iranian Cleric Warns U.S. Over Iraq. 'We stayed neutral in the Iraq war, but we will not remain neutral in the future if America wants to run Iraq,' Rafsanjani said in a Friday prayers sermon in Tehran broadcast live on ...

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Another Mass Grave

Fri, May 9, 2003 at 9:31:35 am PDT

More evidence of the evil nature of the Saddam regime: Mass grave found in southern Iraq. A mass grave has been found by delegates from Amnesty International at Abul Khasib in southern Iraq, the organisation has said.The grave, containing approximately 40 bodies, is believed to be from 1991 after two ...

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Weapons of Mass Distortion

Fri, May 9, 2003 at 8:40:53 am PDT

At Tech Central Station, a good article by Joe Katzman on the intelligence bonanza being reaped from Iraq: Weapons of Mass Distortion. Revelations concerning Saddam's network of influence are coming thick and fast in the wake of his regime's collapse. Politicians like George Galloway. Diplomats and business people. Even journalists. ...

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IDF Raids ISM

Fri, May 9, 2003 at 8:30:34 am PDT

In the It’s About Time department, the IDF raided the offices of the Palestinian International Solidarity Movement today, detaining two “activists.” IDF forces raided the Bethlehem offices of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement Friday, confiscating documents and CDs. Two activists were detained, Israel Radio reports. The army has stated that ...

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Roadmap to Murderville Update

Fri, May 9, 2003 at 8:24:24 am PDT

More evidence of the Palestinian Arabs’ sincere commitment to the “roadmap to peace:” Girl injured as 6 Qassam rockets fired from Gaza. Six crude rockets fired from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel Friday, wounding a 10-year-old girl, police said. One of the missiles struck a street in the ...

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Red Ken Mouths Off

Fri, May 9, 2003 at 2:12:33 am PDT

The Mayor of London, known as “Red Ken,” called for President Bush to be overthrown. (Hat tip: Julian.) It came as Mr Livingstone took questions from 200 schoolchildren visiting City Hall this morning, London's Evening Standard said.Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murphy, who was chairing the meeting, asked the mayor to explain ...

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Thursday, May 08, 2003

Mugabe Crony: VP of Interpol

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 9:20:49 pm PDT

The new honorary vice president of Olde Europe’s Interpol police agency is one of Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe’s closest cronies. (Hat tip: Julian.) Augustine Chihuri is on a list of close Mugabe associates subject to sanctions by the European Union and the United States because of the regime's human rights ...

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The Heart of It

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 6:58:59 pm PDT

A terrific thought-provoking comment from a reader with the handle “Bleeding Heart Conservative” explains the philosophy of LGF better than I ever could. Read it carefully; it’s a marvel.

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Gentlemen, Start Your Whining

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 5:52:36 pm PDT

Oh man, this is rich! The Indymedia maroons have seen our post about them being booted out of Google’s list of news sources. Gentlemen, start your whining. UPDATE: For the record, LGF has never mounted a campaign to have Indymedia removed from Google News’s list of sources. If Google decided to ...

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High Hopes

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 5:25:44 pm PDT

Colin Powell will be in Israel on Saturday to promote the “roadmap to peace:” Washington has high hopes for Powell's Middle East tour. If Hamas and Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade and Islamic Jihad are true to form, they’re planning a very large mass murder to coincide with Powell’s visit, preferably somewhere ...

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Al Qaeda Cell in Saudi Arabia

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 5:15:27 pm PDT

Something is happening in Saudi Arabia, with reports that a large Al Qaeda cell has been broken up: Saudi fugitives 'are al-Qaeda'. Prince Nayef said the men - 17 Saudis, an Iraqi and a Yemeni - were known members of an al-Qaeda cell. Al-Qaeda targeted He told a Saudi newspaper ...

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Roadmap to Murderville Update

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 4:59:47 pm PDT

Another sincere effort by the Palestinian Arabs to show their commitment to the “roadmap to peace:” Suicide bomber dies in foiled attack. (Hat tip: Tom Dilello.) A suicide attack was foiled last night near the Kfar Darom settlement. One attacker was killed and a second escaped on foot; no Israel ...

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Al Qaeda Blusters

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 4:55:16 pm PDT

An email from someone purporting to be a new spokesman for Al Qaeda is threatening a major attack in the United States: Al-Qaeda preparing new attack in US 'on scale of September 11'. "An attack against America is inevitable," Al-Majallah quotes the Islamic militant network's newly-appointed spokesman Thabet bin Qais ...

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PA Mufti: No Jews Allowed

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 4:44:44 pm PDT

The Palestinian Authority’s mufti is warning that allowing Jews to visit the Temple Mount will have grave consequences. The mufti was responding to statements attributed to Jerusalem Police Cmdr. Micky Levy to the effect that the time is ripe for reopening the Temple Mount to Jews and non-Muslim tourists. The ...

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FBI Increases Focus on Hamas, Hizb'Allah

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 4:42:32 pm PDT

The FBI is intensifying its investigations into Hamas and Hizb'Allah and their supporters in the US. (Hat tip: Ben F.) According to the report, FBI policymakers, confident that the organizations' efforts to track the al Qaida terrorist network in the US are beginning to pay off, are now devoting more ...

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Charges Filed in UK

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 4:25:10 pm PDT

Good news from the United Kingdom, where three associates of the two murdering animals who attacked Mike’s Place in Tel Aviv have been charged: Charges over Israel suicide blast. (Hat tip: Allies Against Online Terrorism.) The three, who come from Derbyshire, have been charged under Section 38 of the Terrorism ...

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Indymedia Gets the Boot from Google

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 3:19:53 pm PDT

This is great; the Indymedia freakazoids may be attacking LGF on a daily basis now, but Michael at Only In Israel reports that Indymedia has been removed from Google’s list of news sources, because of their insanely anti-Semitic posts. Hi Michael,Thanks for your email. We have recently removed Indymedia from ...

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Here Come the Trolls

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 2:30:08 pm PDT

There go the IndyMedia maroons again.

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Continuing a Precedent of the First George W.

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 1:33:29 pm PDT

Here’s a great article by Gleaves Whitney, on that image of George W. Bush in a flight suit on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln—the image that is driving the loony left nuts: George W. in the Flight Suit. Consider the Father of Our Country. Our nation's first commander-in-chief ...

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Al Qaeda Links in Italy

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 1:16:52 pm PDT

Investigators analyzing computers seized from an Italian mosque discovered photos of the World Trade Center downloaded on September 4, 2001, and pornographic images used to encode Al Qaeda messages in a process known as steganography. (Hat tip: NC.) On Sept. 4, 2001, according to investigators, pictures of the World Trade ...

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Madonna Thanks France

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 1:08:09 pm PDT

Madonna thanks France for opposition to Iraq war. (Hat tip: Victrade.) Madonna has thanked France for its opposition to the Iraqi war, during a private performance for 200 guests of a radio station in Paris.Dressed in a low-cut black top and black glittery trousers, she performed the title track to ...

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Builders and Defenders

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 12:42:46 pm PDT

I know I’m late to the party, but Michael J. Totten has a very interesting post titled Builders and Defenders, about differences between the right and left. He’s quite correct that most on the left have only a thimbleful of historical knowledge. They know who Hitler was, but not much ...

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Most Pathetically Funny Hate Mail Ever

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 12:11:31 pm PDT

How pathetic are the LGF haters? Judge for yourself. I just received the following email from a person in Rexdale, Ontario with the IP address 205.205.25.146, pretending to be from ... wait for it ... the State Department. tHIS SIT IS UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE US STATE DEPARTMENT FOR HATE CRIMES.GOVERN ...

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Roadmap to Murderville Update

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 10:52:28 am PDT

Update on the latest Palestinian efforts to comply with the “roadmap to peace:” Mortars fired at Gaza Jewish communities. Car bomb explodes near IDF vehicle in Gaza Strip.

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Thank You from Iraq

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 10:42:03 am PDT

An Iraqi poet expresses his gratitude to the men and women of the coalition who freed his people from decades of brutal oppression: Thank You. A must read.

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Zerbisias Slams LGF

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 10:23:33 am PDT

The lamest columnist currently writing for a major Western newspaper, Antonia Zerbisias, whines that the terrorists she openly supports aren’t getting the same propaganda mileage out of poor saintly Rachel Corrie that they did from Mohammed al-Dura: Where is the outrage over activist's death? Along the way, she quotes anti-Semitic ...

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IDF Gets Another Hamas Freak

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 9:24:19 am PDT

Terrorist linked to Al-Qaida killed in Gaza. Israeli Air Force helicopters fired three missiles at a car driving north of Gaza City on Thursday, killing a Hamas official once linked to Al Qaida and wounding three other Palestinians, media reports said. Two of the missiles struck the car and a ...

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Hollywood's Chill Wind of Censorship

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 8:25:34 am PDT

Lisa S. of Boycott Hollywood has an article at FrontPage today about the true chill wind of censorship—the efforts of powerful Hollywood lawyers to shut down her web site for daring to criticize their pampered, whiny clients.

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Israel Celebration

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 8:15:51 am PDT

Here’s a very interesting site that highlights the many achievements made by Israelis and Israeli society: Israel Celebration. (Hat tip: Kelly.)

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Blinded by Bush-Hatred

Thu, May 8, 2003 at 8:10:52 am PDT

Jonathan Chait makes a number of excellent points in this commentary for the Washington Post: Blinded by Bush-Hatred. Now, it seems, war opponents are making a similar mistake. The present cause of their crowing is the failure (thus far) of the military to find solid evidence of weapons of mass ...

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Wednesday, May 07, 2003

Powell is Back to His Old Tricks

Wed, May 7, 2003 at 9:34:02 pm PDT

I’m getting whiplash trying to follow Colin Powell’s diplomatic switchbacks. But if it’s all going to come down to this—TransAtlantic differences over Iraq a thing of the past—then I’m going back to viewing him as a serious detriment to US foreign policy. Unless there’s more here than meets the eye, ...

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Pressuring the Mullahs

Wed, May 7, 2003 at 7:08:02 pm PDT

The Straits Times reports that the US is pressuring the mad mullahs of Iran on their nuclear plans: Iran 'violating nuclear treaty.' 'Nothing that we have seen suggests the Iranians are being transparent about their nuclear activities in the true meaning of transparent,' said the official, who declined to be ...

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Nativity Terrorists Want to Go Home

Wed, May 7, 2003 at 6:41:28 pm PDT

The terrorists deported from Israel for their role in the Church of the Nativity takeover are now demanding that they be allowed to return. Tell me you didn’t see it coming. This article at the always-loathsome Islam Online contains the following outrageous distortion of the war launched by Arab states against ...

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The Unpatriotic University: Duke

Wed, May 7, 2003 at 6:27:47 pm PDT

Chris Arabia and Jean Pearce say that Duke University has been pretty much overrun by Marxists; take a course in history, literature, religion, politics, whatever, and you’ll get a heapin’ helpin’ of Karl Marx’s failed ideology, along with radical anti-Americanism and radical Islamic sympathizing: CSMN Co-Director Ebrahim Moosa, a Duke ...

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Thousands of Artifacts Recovered

Wed, May 7, 2003 at 5:02:33 pm PDT

Thousands of artifacts and manuscripts from the Iraqi National Museum have been recovered, leaving only 38 items still missing. This is going to come as a real blow to Hesiod and Atrios and the other anti-American whiners, but don’t expect acknowledgment; they’ll simply move on to the next whine. WASHINGTON ...

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Muslims Seething Over Good Will Visit

Wed, May 7, 2003 at 2:07:30 pm PDT

The Israeli ambassador to Paris made a good will visit to the Mosque of Paris, to congratulate the imam on winning the presidency of France’s new national Muslim council. Islamic groups are seething about it. (Hat tip: Babylonian Musings.) PARIS, May 7 (IslamOnline.net) - The Israeli ambassador’s visit to the Mosque ...

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Bioweapons Lab Confirmed?

Wed, May 7, 2003 at 11:48:55 am PDT

A breaking news headline at the top of FOXNews.com says: “Pentagon: Mobile Bioweapons Lab Found in Iraq.” UPDATE: This could be it; the Defense Department has gone public with the announcement: U.S. Says It Has Suspected Iraq Arms Lab. "On the smoking gun, I don't know," Under Secretary of Defense Stephen ...

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Documentary Evidence of Iraqi WMD

Wed, May 7, 2003 at 10:30:45 am PDT

General: U.S. Finds Iraq Arms Evidence. WASHINGTON - American forces have collected "plenty of documentary evidence" suggesting Saddam Hussein had an active program for weapons of mass destruction, the commander of U.S. Army troops in Iraq said Wednesday.And officials were taking extra care in studying a truck suspected to be ...

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Religion of Peace Burns Family to Death

Wed, May 7, 2003 at 10:18:14 am PDT

In Nigeria, where shari'a is the law of the land, a Christian preacher and six family members were burned alive in their house while sleeping. Pastor Sunday Madumere and his family were asleep in the early hours of the morning when flames engulfed their home, located on Apple Avenue in ...

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Wrong Way Sy

Wed, May 7, 2003 at 9:33:30 am PDT

Jack Shafer says the best indicator that weapons of mass destruction will be found in Iraq is that Seymour Hersh says they won’t. (Hat tip: Michael S.) Hersh casts extreme doubts on the cabal's findings that Iraq still possessed WMD by the time of the U.S. invasion. Too many of ...

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Sami's Still Their Man

Wed, May 7, 2003 at 9:22:33 am PDT

Jon Levin points out that the American Muslim Council is mounting a vigorous defense of Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami al-Arian. As we’ve mentioned many times at LGF, the AMC has openly expressed support for Hamas and Hizb'Allah, yet FBI Director Robert Mueller spoke at their 11th annual convention (they’ve ...

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Berkeley ME Studies Linked to Terror Groups

Wed, May 7, 2003 at 8:52:38 am PDT

More evidence today that the infiltration of radical Islam into the universities of America has gone much, much further than most people are willing to believe; the California Patriot reports that UC Berkeley’s Middle Eastern Studies program has accepted significant funding from Saudi Arabian sources linked to terrorism. (Hat tip: ...

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Roadmap to Hell

Wed, May 7, 2003 at 8:32:13 am PDT

An excellent essay by David Warren on the Roadmap to Hell. (Hat tip: M. Simon.) ...the least funny part of this bad joke, is the fact that the U.S. will continue to co-ordinate its position with that of the other members of the "Quartet" -- Russia, the European Union, and ...

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Arab News: Anti-Anti-Terror

Wed, May 7, 2003 at 8:26:33 am PDT

Exhibiting that peculiar Saudi Arabian tone-deafness that lets them whine ceaselessly about violations of their rights, even as they brutally suppress women, torture prisoners, and punish practitioners of non-Muslim religions with death, the Arab News reprints a hand-wringing article from Britain’s Independent: Liberties Under Threat in the Wake of Sept. ...

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Tuesday, May 06, 2003

Iraqi Documents on Israel

Tue, May 6, 2003 at 9:40:35 pm PDT

Judith Miller reports on a very disquieting series of discoveries in Iraq, related to terrorism against Israel: Iraqi Documents on Israel Surface on a Cultural Hunt. (Hat tip: Maine's Michael.) In one huge room in the flooded basement of the building, American soldiers from MET Alpha, the "mobile exploitation team" ...

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AP Blames Israel (Again)

Tue, May 6, 2003 at 8:30:51 pm PDT

The Associated Press says Israel Throws Mideast 'Road Map' in Doubt, while totally ignoring the outrageously long list of Palestinian violations in the first week of the “roadmap to nowhere.” JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon threw a U.S.-backed peace plan into doubt Tuesday, saying the Palestinians must drop ...

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Arafat's Road Map

Tue, May 6, 2003 at 8:24:39 pm PDT

(Hat tip: Cox & Forkum.)

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No More Dollars for Martyrs

Tue, May 6, 2003 at 7:59:51 pm PDT

The execrable Justin Huggler—who should have been fired for his dishonest anti-Semitic “reporting” of the Jenin massacre hoax, but wasn’t, because he writes for the Independent—says the Palestinians are very much out of pocket since the blood money from Iraq has dried up. (Hat tip: Victrade.)

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NK Goes Downtown

Tue, May 6, 2003 at 7:48:35 pm PDT

North Korea has been caught by Australian special forces, trying to smuggle $50 million dollars worth of heroin. (Hat tip: Julian.) North Korea denies it was behind a heroin haul seized by Australian special forces.It accused the West of launching a smear campaign.The 110lb $50m drugs shipment was found last ...

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Oddly Enough!

Tue, May 6, 2003 at 6:59:42 pm PDT

An Alitalia pilot outraged Israeli passengers flying to Tel Aviv yesterday by announcing “Welcome to Palestine, Happy Independence Day to Palestine.” "(The pilot's comment) was insensitive on a day when thousands of people are at cemeteries," said Pini Schiff, spokesman for Israel's Civil Aviation Authority. He told Reuters the CAA ...

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Palestinian Violations in the First Week

Tue, May 6, 2003 at 5:42:05 pm PDT

Here’s an eye-opening report on Palestinian violations of the so-called “roadmap to peace,” covering just the first week since the plan was announced: I. "Cease All Violence"What They Must Do During May 2003: The Road Map states: "In Phase 1 [May 2003], the Palestinians immediately undertake an unconditional cessation of ...

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Religion of Peace Claims 25 More

Tue, May 6, 2003 at 3:53:32 pm PDT

In the Philippine town of Siocon, 70 Moro Islamic Liberation Front guerillas murdered 25 people last Saturday, including two Christian seminarians. (Hat tip: Lizzel.)

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This Is Not Good

Tue, May 6, 2003 at 3:41:50 pm PDT

My God. Even with all of LGF’s coverage of the threat of Islamic terrorism, I had no idea that the situation in Britain was this far gone. Reader Glen Wishard has unearthed one of the most troubling things I have ever seen on the Internet; a page at an Islamic ...

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Anything Into Oil

Tue, May 6, 2003 at 1:24:27 pm PDT

Brian Appel, chairman of Changing World Technologies, says he’s discovered a process that can turn almost anything into oil. (Hat tip: Bob.) Unlike other solid-to-liquid-fuel processes such as cornstarch into ethanol, this one will accept almost any carbon-based feedstock. If a 175-pound man fell into one end, he would come ...

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That File Has Been Shamed

Tue, May 6, 2003 at 12:01:02 pm PDT

The funniest Error 404 page ever. (Hat tip: Chuck T.)

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Pipes Haters Still Whining at UW

Tue, May 6, 2003 at 11:52:11 am PDT

The Daniel Pipes haters at University of Wisconsin at Madison are still whining about last week’s lecture. Christopher Dols, a sophomore and member of the International Socialist Organization, demonstrates where the term “sophomoric” comes from, with a foul rant that calls Pipes every name in the book without a single ...

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Galloway in Hot Water

Tue, May 6, 2003 at 11:41:15 am PDT

British MP George Galloway has been suspended from the Labour Party, for outrageous statements he made in an interview with Arab television. (Hat tip: Sharon.) Controversial MP George Galloway has been suspended from the Labour Party over claims he urged Arab nations to fight against British and American soldiers in Iraq.Party ...

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French Perfidy Watch

Tue, May 6, 2003 at 10:06:21 am PDT

Bill Gertz reports that France supplied fleeing Iraqi officials with passports, allowing them to move freely among the 12 EU countries that are part of the Schengen agreement on unrestricted travel. (Hat tip: Michael S.) An unknown number of Iraqis who worked for Saddam Hussein's government were given passports by ...

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Rough Exit From Iraq

Tue, May 6, 2003 at 9:04:56 am PDT

The Iraqis are expelling Palestinians from their country, for collaborating with Saddam Hussein: Rough Exit From Iraq. (Hat tip: James.) "I was kicked out [of Palestine] with my mother and father 55 years ago - now I've been kicked out [of Iraq] with my wife and children," said Ahmed Kadoura, ...

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Road Map to Murderville

Tue, May 6, 2003 at 8:54:26 am PDT

This ugly farce would make me laugh if it weren’t so deadly serious: Palestinians Promise to Subdue Militants. Right. They’re going to “first try persuasion.” Please don’t killl any more little girls, Sheikh Yassin. Please? The Palestinian parliament speaker said the government first will try to persuade militant groups to ...

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Monday, May 05, 2003

Remembrance Day

Mon, May 5, 2003 at 8:41:03 pm PDT

Ariel Sharon’s moving, eloquent Remembrance Day speech. I shall do my utmost to bring about a breakthrough towards peace. There is hope in the air this spring, a hope rooted in constant and persistent combat; the battle of IDF soldiers, Israeli Police and the security services, who include in their ...

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Sarah: Terrorist Hunter

Mon, May 5, 2003 at 6:19:35 pm PDT

The Islamozoids plot day and night to attack us infidels. For decades they’ve been in our midst, taking advantage of our freedoms to further their evil designs. On September 11, many of us woke up to the threat. But some of us went back to sleep, maybe not right away, ...

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Chalabi: Documents Incriminate Jordan

Mon, May 5, 2003 at 5:16:46 pm PDT

In an interesting article about Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi, Newsweek reveals that Chalabi has taken possession of more than 25 tons of documents from Saddam’s secret police—and that they contain very incriminating information about the Jordanian royal family. (Hat tip: Rantburg.) “It’s a huge thing,” Chalabi told NEWSWEEK. ...

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And Again

Mon, May 5, 2003 at 3:26:04 pm PDT

Just hours after Assistant Secretary of State William Burns smiled for photographs with the Holocaust denier Abu Mazen... Palestinians must seriously fight terror and Israelis must halt settlement activity, US Middle East envoy William Burns said Monday in a meeting with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. "On ...

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What's On Arafat's Desk?

Mon, May 5, 2003 at 2:00:11 pm PDT

Here’s an excellent view of the pathetic clutter on the desk of the world’s oldest terrorist, featuring the ever-present EUroweenie Miguel Moratinos who must have his own key to the Muqata (and who looks as if he’s about to let out with a Three Stooges nyuk nyuk nyuk!):

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T-Shirt Madness

Mon, May 5, 2003 at 1:43:12 pm PDT

Quick note to those waiting for their LGF T-shirts: we got a little behind with all the madness going on around here, but a large shipment is headed out tomorrow. So if you’ve been waiting patiently for your softwear, your wait is almost over! If you haven’t yet ordered your very ...

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UN Food Fight

Mon, May 5, 2003 at 12:23:20 pm PDT

When United Nations food service workers went on strike, the leaders of the world, those shining examples of even-handed diplomacy and international legitimacy, turned into an unruly mob of looters: Food Fight. My irony gland is exhausted; there are no words. Kofi Annan, who had a private lunch previously scheduled ...

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Arab Denial Alive and Well

Mon, May 5, 2003 at 10:41:34 am PDT

Last year a report on Arab Human Development commissioned by the United Nations warned that the Arab world was trapped in a societal dead end caused by lack of political freedom, repression of women, and isolation from the world of ideas. At the time of its release, we noted it ...

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Killers Had Tea at ISM Headquarters

Mon, May 5, 2003 at 9:36:31 am PDT

The two mass murderers who attacked Mike’s Place visited the headquarters of the ISM in Gaza and had a lovely spot of tea with the “peace activists,” before continuing with their mission of Jew-slaughter. (Hat tip: the Viking.) [ISM member Raphael] Cohen confirmed he met the men, who were given ...

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Got Mrs. Anthrax

Mon, May 5, 2003 at 8:03:15 am PDT

This is why I say that DEBKAfile’s stories often turn out to be accurate. Although I didn’t highlight it, DEBKA reported on Saturday that the US had captured one of the top Iraqi bioweapons scientist, known as “Dr. Germ.” (See update below.) They were the only ones with the story. ...

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ISM Losing Confidence

Mon, May 5, 2003 at 2:17:49 am PDT

Well, well. International Solidarity Movement members in Rafah seem to be suffering pangs of ... what is that thing called, again? That thing that makes you, uh, uncomfortable when you know you’re doing something wrong? A conscience? (Hat tip: zulubaby.) Reports that last week's two British suicide bombers, one of ...

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Sunday, May 04, 2003

My Own Hate Page at Nazimedia

Sun, May 4, 2003 at 5:38:22 pm PDT

Now I know I’ve really arrived. I have my own page at Indymedia, dedicated to libeling me and LGF, by labelling us as “Zionist supremacists.” As Sir Winston Churchill said, “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” Note: any comments on that page purporting ...

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Hamas and Hizb'Allah Thumb Noses at Powell

Sun, May 4, 2003 at 5:00:01 pm PDT

The Arab News has more details on those supposed closures of terrorist organizations in Damascus, with the typical gloating attitude: Hezbollah and Hamas Brush Off US Pressure. DAMASCUS, 5 May 2003 — Several Palestinian factions said it was business as usual for their offices in Damascus yesterday, a day after ...

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France Asks Muslims Not to Hurt Them

Sun, May 4, 2003 at 4:15:17 pm PDT

The French government seems to think that if they ask really nicely, the members of their new national Muslim council will promote “moderate Islam.” "The Republic expects you to be the enlightened voice of Islam to fight against currents which could threaten our social cohesion," Raffarin told the first general ...

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British MP Attacks Blair's 'Jewish Cabal'

Sun, May 4, 2003 at 3:35:03 pm PDT

Left-wing British Labour MP Tam Dalyell is a gross anti-Semite, who does that little dance (common to the species) of trying to preempt charges of anti-Semitism by claiming that a) some of his best friends are Jews, or b) his grandmother was half-Jewish, or in this case, c) his children ...

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UK: A Paradise for Terrorists

Sun, May 4, 2003 at 2:16:32 pm PDT

Alasdair Palmer says Great Britain has become a paradise for terrorists. (Hat tip: Brenda Walker.) Everyone has been shocked by the discovery that Britain nurtured two suicide bombers of its own: Asif Hanif, who succeeded in blowing himself up in Israel, killing three others; and Omar Khan Sharif, who ...

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Terror Offices Open for Business

Sun, May 4, 2003 at 11:13:05 am PDT

Secretary of State Colin Powell reported after yesterday’s meeting with Bashar al-Assad that Syria had begun closing down the Damascus offices of terror gangs Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hizb'Allah. Bullshit. Powell visited Syria and Lebanon Saturday, telling reporters that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had begun closing the Damascus offices of ...

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The Corrie Canonization Continues

Sun, May 4, 2003 at 10:48:11 am PDT

Aarrrggghhh. It just never stops. Here’s yet another shameful, dishonest attempt to canonize terrorist supporter Rachel Corrie by Rekha Basu, in the Des Moines Register: The bold, tragic, and too-brief journey of Rachel Corrie. While most of us wring our hands at the endless cycle of repression and terror and retaliation ...

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People of the Book

Sun, May 4, 2003 at 9:38:59 am PDT

The two British murderers who attacked Mike’s Place in Tel Aviv made their way into the disputed territories from Jordan via the Allenby Bridge—and they hid their explosives inside a Koran. (Hat tip: selpaw.)

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Center for Islamic Terrorism

Sun, May 4, 2003 at 9:27:56 am PDT

According to a disturbing story in the London Times, reported in the Jerusalem Post (the Times has a nasty registration system for overseas users), Great Britain has become a hotbed of radical Islam, with a small army of suicide bombers preparing to attack: UK Muslims volunteer for "martyrdom operations" in ...

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Saturday, May 03, 2003

Interesting Stuff at DEBKA

Sat, May 3, 2003 at 9:46:06 pm PDT

Every time I post a story from DEBKAfile, the debate starts up again: how accurate are they? But looking back over the last year, I’d have to say they’ve been more often right than wrong; many of their breaking stories have proven to be correct, even if it takes months ...

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Germany Reacts with Dismay

Sat, May 3, 2003 at 8:35:36 pm PDT

Well, well. Suddenly the Germans don’t want us to leave. Can you say “schadenfreude?” Germany reacted with dismay yesterday to America's decision not to return the 17,000-strong 1st Armoured Division to Germany, accelerating plans to relocate its troops to eastern Europe.Roland Koch, the premier of Hesse state, where 3,700 of ...

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MI5 Did Nothing

Sat, May 3, 2003 at 5:17:01 pm PDT

Britain’s MI5 security service knew that the British Muslims who attacked Mike’s Place in Tel Aviv had links to Islamic extremists—but did nothing. (Hat tip: Sysab.) Sounds a lot like our own FBI before September 11. MI5 officers investigating Islamic terrorism identified Asif Mohammed Hanif and Omar Khan Sharif as ...

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British Journalist Killed in Gun Battle

Sat, May 3, 2003 at 3:48:42 pm PDT

An initial investigation into the death of James Miller, a British freelance journalist working in Gaza, indicates that he was probably shot in the back by Palestinian terrorists, not by the IDF as claimed by Palestinian “witnesses.” And yes, those sneer quotes around “witnesses” are there on purpose, because Palestinians ...

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Indymedia Anti-Semitism, Part 23,891

Sat, May 3, 2003 at 2:38:07 pm PDT

Santa Rosa Junior College’s student newspaper recently published a virulently anti-Israel rant, so ugly that the president of SRJC said, “The article should never have been printed.” The article, entitled "Is anti-Semitism ever the result of Jewish behavior?", was written by Mark McGuire, a student who's not a member of ...

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Canada Sponsors Jihad Site

Sat, May 3, 2003 at 2:13:35 pm PDT

Aaron Weisburd has discovered an evil jihad site run by the mentor of Osama Bin Laden, Safar al-Hawali, hosted by "Innovation Place"—a high-tech program funded by the Canadian federal government and the taxpayers of Saskatchewan.

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Islamic Supremacists in the UK

Sat, May 3, 2003 at 1:37:09 pm PDT

Here’s a sickening example of Islamic supremacist hatred, a discussion board in the UK called Islamic Awakening. I discovered this nest of vipers when I saw them in our referrer log; someone posted a link to LGF with the comment: VIEW DA LINK AND SEE THE KUFFAR AT WORK WHILE ...

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They Got the Message

Sat, May 3, 2003 at 11:50:41 am PDT

It was Osama Bin Laden who said that “people naturally follow the strong horse.” Iraq War's Impact Spreads in Arab World. Awed by Washington's display of firepower in Iraq, no one looks likely to claim Saddam's mantle as leader of defiance to the West. Even Syria, which likes to refer ...

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Iranian Cleric Seethes, Urges Murder

Sat, May 3, 2003 at 11:34:04 am PDT

A top Iranian cleric urges Iraqis to launch suicide attacks against US soldiers, and follow the example of Iran to create yet another brutal Islamic hellhole of a failed state. Because goodness knows, we can never have enough of those. "The Iraqi people have reached the conclusion that they have ...

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Another Mass Grave

Sat, May 3, 2003 at 11:01:30 am PDT

Here’s what International ANSWER and the Win Without War coalition and all the other dishonest “anti-war” groups worked desperately to keep hidden: Iraqis, U.S. Marines Uncover Grave, Dozens of Bones. "Some of the skulls appear to have been cut open, maybe they were experimenting with the prisoners. Some were executed, you ...

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iTunes Music Store

Sat, May 3, 2003 at 10:33:38 am PDT

Pardon me while I digress into something a little less serious—Apple’s wonderful new iTunes Music Store, which is becoming a monster hit. There’s no Windows interface for it yet (it’s promised soon), but if you’re using OS X and you’re a music lover, it is a real treat. Incredibly easy ...

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A Matter of Honor

Sat, May 3, 2003 at 10:13:52 am PDT

Steven Zak writes about the United States’ friendship with Israel—a friendship that is too often pursued furtively, as if we were ashamed of it: A Matter of Honor. Our capable ally not only supplied us with weaponry for use in Iraq, including Israeli-armored bulldozers and Israeli-made pilotless planes, but, as ...

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The Egyptian Way

Sat, May 3, 2003 at 10:01:17 am PDT

Susan Sarandon and Janeanne Garofalo and their comrades whine about the brutal repression they’ve had to endure as a result of their anti-war opinions. If the jackbooted thugs of Ashcroft are disturbing the beauty sleep of celebrities with midnight raids, maybe they’d prefer the Egyptian way. (Hat tip: Victrade.) "I ...

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Digging Up the Dead

Sat, May 3, 2003 at 9:00:55 am PDT

In today’s New York Times, Bill Keller argues that Iraqi war criminals must be tried by an international tribunal supervised by the UN, to avoid the appearance of “victor’s justice:” Digging Up the Dead. (Hat tip: Roger L. Simon.) It’s a persuasive argument, backed up by the experience of Aleksandr Yakovlev, ...

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Powell Does Right

Sat, May 3, 2003 at 8:10:01 am PDT

Secretary of State Colin Powell weathered a barrage of Syrian lies and the usual anti-Semitic raving, but didn’t fall for the terror state’s latest attempt to force Israel to relinquish her nuclear deterrent. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) Powell earlier rejected the idea put forth by Syria of immediate U.S. support for ...

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Friday, May 02, 2003

Five Humans Arrested in Britain

Fri, May 2, 2003 at 7:06:28 pm PDT

UK police arrest 5 in connection with Tel Aviv suicide bombing. British anti-terror police said early on Saturday they had arrested five people in connection with a suicide bombing at the entrance to a Tel Aviv beachfront pub. Three Israelis were killed and 55 wounded in the attack. A police ...

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Countries That Benefit Mankind

Fri, May 2, 2003 at 4:51:14 pm PDT

In a list of the top 20 countries in the world with the highest total citations for papers published in journals of Clinical Medicine, you will find tiny Israel at #17. Yet, with all their trillions of dollars in oil income, not one Arab state is on this list of countries ...

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Hizb'Allah Sends a Message to Colin

Fri, May 2, 2003 at 4:11:04 pm PDT

As Colin Powell begins his latest whirlwind tour of the Middle East with an engagement in Damascus, Syria, the Hizb'Allah terror gang announces their total rejection of the “road map.” (Hat tip: NC.) “I rule out that the road map is an acceptable solution for the Palestinian people,” said Hussein ...

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The Road Map in Full

Fri, May 2, 2003 at 4:03:34 pm PDT

Just so we all know what’s at stake, and everyone is arguing from the facts, here is the complete text of the so-called road map to peace in the Middle East. UPDATE: Reader Ben F. points out that the State Department’s formatted version of the “roadmap” is a little easier to ...

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Religion of Masked Murderers

Fri, May 2, 2003 at 2:32:46 pm PDT

So let’s see; according to the “roadmap” Abu Mazen has less than a month left to crack down on these guys. One might think that if he were sincere about stopping terrorism, he would have done it the day after the Mike’s Place bombing. One might think that. After all, it’s ...

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Tell That Guy to Sit Back Down

Fri, May 2, 2003 at 12:35:59 pm PDT

A soldier of U.S Army 173rd Airborne Brigade (R) and an Iraqi policeman arm wrestle in Kirkuk May 2, 2003. Am I allowed to point out that the Iraqi policeman is cheating? Or would that be (insert favorite PC word)ist?

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Aviation Terror Alerts

Fri, May 2, 2003 at 12:22:01 pm PDT

Homeland Security Issues Aviation Alert. WASHINGTON—TheDepartment of Homeland Security (search)has issued an alert to the general aviation community in the United States, as well as local governments, to be on the watch for suspicious activity in the near future, Fox News has confirmed.A DHS official said the request to boost ...

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Wrong Turn

Fri, May 2, 2003 at 10:54:06 am PDT

Abraham D. Sofaer, a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and principal negotiator of the 1989 accord that returned the Taba area of the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, has an outstanding analysis of the so-called “roadmap to peace”—a document based on wishful thinking and denial: Wrong Turn. (Hat tip: ...

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Saudis Finance Pali Terror

Fri, May 2, 2003 at 9:44:58 am PDT

Our allies in the gold-plated House of Saud continue to send hundreds of millions of dollars to help Palestinian Arabs kill Jews in Israel. RIYADH, 2 May 2003 - The Saudi Committee for Support of Al-Quds Intifada is executing 27 programs and projects to help the Palestinian people. More than ...

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ISM Sees PR Disaster in the Making

Fri, May 2, 2003 at 9:33:44 am PDT

At UK Indymedia, the ISM is desperately trying to distance themselves from the mass murderers who attacked Mike’s Place. (Hat tip: Simon UK.) UPDATE: At the link above, the Nazimedia overlords are deleting any comments that don’t agree with their pro-ISM agenda. UPDATE: Someone posted the photo of Rachel Corrie showing Palestinian ...

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Home Grown British Islamic Killers

Fri, May 2, 2003 at 9:12:55 am PDT

Sheik Omar Bakri, a leader of the radical Muslim group Al-Muhajiroun, admits he was the “teacher” of British suicide bombers Omar Khan Sharif and Asif Muhammad Hanif—and he’s mockingly unrepentant: Radical cleric 'taught' bomb suspects. Mr Bakri told BBC News: "To be honest with you I knew both of them, ...

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'Intellectuals' Defend Cuba

Fri, May 2, 2003 at 8:47:36 am PDT

Never mind the 75 dissidents sentenced to long prison terms. Never mind the three would-be escapees summarily executed. International “intellectuals” are lining up to defend Fidel Castro. (Hat tip: ags.) Latin American Nobel laureates Garcia Marquez, Rigoberta Menchu, Aldolfo Perez Esquivel and South African writer Nadine Gordimer, also a Nobel ...

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Brit Bombers Contacted ISM

Fri, May 2, 2003 at 8:17:31 am PDT

Some people questioned whether the suicide bombers who attacked Mike’s Place in Tel Aviv really were connected with the International Solidarity Movement; the Telegraph article I linked to yesterday at 6:18 Pacific didn’t make it clear. Well, they were. (Hat tip: Robert Hinkley.) The Britons who mounted the suicide attacks ...

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Thursday, May 01, 2003

Peace Creeps Swear Continuing Vendetta

Thu, May 1, 2003 at 8:59:59 pm PDT

“Anti-war activists,” frustrated at their complete failure to stop Saddam Hussein from being deposed, remain resolute and unyielding in their self-hatred. The unrepentant Marxists of ANSWER and the single-synapsed pinheads of Win Without War now swear that they will continue to stand in the way of self-defense for America, and ...

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Brit Bombers Posed as Peace Activists

Thu, May 1, 2003 at 6:18:07 pm PDT

The Telegraph has incredible news tonight: the two British Islamist suicide bombers who attacked Mike’s Place in Tel Aviv pretended to be peace activists. And although the article doesn’t come right out and say it, they were almost certainly using Rachel Corrie's International Solidarity Movement as their cover. (Hat ...

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Climbing the Rugged Ladder

Thu, May 1, 2003 at 5:25:26 pm PDT

With the capture of high-level Al Qaeda freakazoid Waleed Bin Attash, rumors are flying about Osama Bin Laden. Pakistani strongman Pervez Musharraf says he may be hiding in the lawless tribal area of Pakistan near the Afghan border, while the World Tribune (of dubious credibility) says we may have already ...

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President Lands on Carrier

Thu, May 1, 2003 at 4:00:16 pm PDT

President Bush, after executing a tailhook landing (the scariest way to land a jet, bar none) aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln: I’m sure more than one high-level adviser was sweating bullets over this one. (Note to Norman Mailer: sure looked to me like there weren’t just “white males” with expressions of delight ...

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King Bush's Wisdom

Thu, May 1, 2003 at 12:28:25 pm PDT

From Cox & Forkum, of course.

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Three Victims

Thu, May 1, 2003 at 11:35:59 am PDT

From Judy Balint’s Jerusalem Diaries group, here are the stories of the victims of the Islamist bombing at Mike’s Place in Tel Aviv. (Hat tip: Sam C.) ------------------------------- Thanks to Harvey Tannenbaum, Efrat for the following info on the 3 Jews murdered by terrorists in Tel Aviv a few days ago: ------------------------------- Judge Anat ...

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Museum Looting Overhyped

Thu, May 1, 2003 at 10:17:10 am PDT

The looting of the Iraqi National Museum, cause of much wailing and moaning by the “blame America first and always” crowd, was much less serious than first reported: Loss Estimates Are Cut on Iraqi Artifacts, but Questions Remain. (Hat tip: Michael S.) BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 30 — Even though many ...

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If There is a Bulldozer Threat

Thu, May 1, 2003 at 10:09:25 am PDT

Laurence Simon has some helpful safety tips for ISM human shields who find themselves confronted with a Bulldozer Threat. Well... maybe “safety” is the wrong word...

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It's Sad When Cousins Marry

Thu, May 1, 2003 at 9:37:51 am PDT

Saudi Arabia Awakes to the Perils of Inbreeding. (Hat tip: Bala Ambati.) Widespread inbreeding in Saudi Arabia has produced several genetic disorders, Saudi public health officials said, including the blood diseases of thalassemia, a potentially fatal hemoglobin deficiency, and sickle cell anemia. Spinal muscular atrophy and diabetes are also common, ...

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The Islamic Mr. Rogers

Thu, May 1, 2003 at 8:31:12 am PDT

The “Islamic Scholars” section of a Canadian web site for children called Play and Learn contains a biography of terror gang Hizb’Allah’s Ayatollah Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah—with a vicious anti-American, anti-Israel diatribe: Politically, my primary objective is to see the Islamic revolution in Lebanon brought to fruition. The newly dissolved and ...

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Hollywood Gets Ugly

Thu, May 1, 2003 at 8:13:23 am PDT

The Boycott Hollywood web site is being muscled out of existence by lawyers for the William Morris talent agency. As celebrities like Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon whine ceaselessly on national TV about how their right to free expression is being “repressed,” the hypocrisy of this move is absolutely stunning. ...

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Wednesday, April 30, 2003

Pipes Lecture at UW Madison

Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:08:46 pm PDT

Aaron the Mad has an account of the Islamist lunacy that greeted Daniel Pipes’ lecture at the University of Wisconsin at Madison last night, with photos: Descent into Madness. If you’ve doubted our coverage about the infiltration of militant Islam into university campuses, please take a look at what’s going ...

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