LGF Archives: May 2004
Fighting Music of World War II
Mon, May 31, 2004 at 9:44:53 pm PDT
One of my idols, Les Paul, remembers the Fighting Music of World War II. (Hat tip: Geepers.) Showtime approaches, and there is a light, respectful tapping by band members at his dressing room door. But Paul isn’t quite finished talking about his memories of the war era. “We were all so ...
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"When We Finish Our Mission"
Mon, May 31, 2004 at 9:36:54 pm PDT
President Bush’s remarks at the Arlington National Cemetery Memorial Day Commemoration. This morning I had the honor of placing a wreath before the Tomb of the Unknowns. This custom is observed every Memorial Day on behalf of the American people as a mark of gratitude and respect. And when this ceremony is ...
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No Blood for Oooiiiillll!
Mon, May 31, 2004 at 8:50:20 pm PDT
The Christian Science Monitor, a formerly valued news source whose pro-Palestinian writers have ruined its credibility, points out the obvious fact that the Islamofascists are trying to hurt the US economy by attacking our Saudi oil subsidy: Al Qaeda targets US oil supplies. JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA — In two deadly attacks ...
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Saudis Let Terrorists Escape
Mon, May 31, 2004 at 7:06:40 pm PDT
Saudi security forces allowed the Islamic mass murderers who perpetrated the Khobar atrocities to escape. SAUDI authorities struck a deal with al Qaeda hostage-takers which led to three of them escaping, it was claimed yesterday. Checkpoints set up across Saudi Arabia also failed to trace three Islamic militants who went on the ...
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Bradley Has a Blog
Mon, May 31, 2004 at 6:32:02 pm PDT
As John R. Bradley—former editor for the anti-American Saudi mouthpiece Arab News—works to promote himself as a serious journalist, I recommend that all our readers review the man’s writing by following this link to a page of LGF search results for his name: John R. Bradley. And note that every one ...
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Troll Spills Beans
Mon, May 31, 2004 at 5:07:00 pm PDT
Here’s an important note for lizardoid minions who comment at LGF. One of our more tedious holier-than-anyone trolls made a very interesting admission last week, brought to my attention by reader “twisterella,” in this topic: It’s been a fun visit, but it’s come to pass that my week’s patrol duty for ...
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VDH on Hewitt
Mon, May 31, 2004 at 3:09:44 pm PDT
Victor Davis Hanson is on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show at this very moment. You can listen over the web here: KTKZ AM 1380. If that station doesn’t work for you, try: KSKY-AM 660.
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The Soldiers You Never Hear About
Mon, May 31, 2004 at 9:18:46 am PDT
The Soldiers You Never Hear About. Ask Americans to name some of our soldiers in Iraq and chances are they’ll readily identify Lynndie England, Charles Graner Jr., Jeremy Sivits, and Ivan “Chip” Frederick II. The three major networks have run over 200 stories on the detainee-abuse scandal, making the seven disgraced ...
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Islamic Religious Cleansing
Mon, May 31, 2004 at 9:04:09 am PDT
Al Qaeda vows to ‘cleanse’ Arabian Peninsula. (Hat tip: twostellas.) “We renew our determination to repel the crusader forces and their arrogance, to liberate the land of Muslims, to apply Sharia [Islamic law] and cleanse the Arabian Peninsula of infidels,” said the website message. ... It said the attacks and hostage-taking were ...
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Religion of High Explosives
Mon, May 31, 2004 at 8:54:46 am PDT
Another day, another Islamofascist bombing: At Least 6 Killed by Karachi Mosque Bomb. KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least six people were killed by a bomb during evening prayers in a Shi’ite mosque in the southern Pakistani city Karachi on Monday, a hospital doctor told Reuters. “We have received six dead bodies,” ...
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Flying Pig Grounded
Sun, May 30, 2004 at 9:56:46 pm PDT
Your attention please: Thursday’s flying pig has been grounded indefinitely. Imagine my surprise. DOHA - A Vatican-led conference in Qatar on dialogue with Muslims ended with bickering over whether to allow Jews to take part in future meetings, because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Emir of the Gulf state had opened the seminar ...
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Bad News for the Americanized
Sun, May 30, 2004 at 9:35:40 pm PDT
Have a look at the way recent statements by Anthony Zinni and Fritz Hollings are playing in the Arab press—and then ask yourself why Zinni and Hollings are saying these things: Bad News for the Americanized. (Hat tip: Hulugu.) And note that on a day when more than 20 Westerners have ...
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Sanity vs. Insanity
Sun, May 30, 2004 at 7:56:22 pm PDT
Two articles that illustrate the yawning gap between the two increasingly delineated Western sides of World War 04: The Nazi Seduction by Jean Bethke Elshtain. The deluge of books about Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler apparently knows no end. In addition to those here under review, dozens of others have appeared in ...
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Arafat to Israel: We're On Your Side
Sun, May 30, 2004 at 6:28:56 pm PDT
Are there still people who believe the horse puckey that spews from the mouth of the world’s oldest serial killer? (Aside from al-Reuters?) Arafat: Palestinians Foiled Revenge Against Israel. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat said on Sunday his government had helped thwart revenge attacks on Israel for the ...
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Holy War Ghouls Drag Away Survivors
Sun, May 30, 2004 at 4:29:28 pm PDT
The mujahideen have gotten their filthy hands on some very unfortunate Western civilians in Iraq: Gunmen Kill 2 Foreigners, Seize 3 in Baghdad. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen attacked three civilian vehicles carrying foreigners in northwest Baghdad Sunday, killing two Westerners and seizing three others, witnesses and police at the scene said. Two ...
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Prison Abuse 2004!
Sun, May 30, 2004 at 4:19:31 pm PDT
Newsweek reads more and more like the farthest left of the leftist rags. The insanely overwrought title of their latest PhotoGallery: Abu Gulag. Millions vanished into the Gulag, over the course of decades. Most of the Abu Ghraib abuses took place in a single day, and the few soldiers responsible are already ...
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Pakistani Talibanistas Seethe, Rampage
Sun, May 30, 2004 at 3:56:36 pm PDT
A well-known pro-Taliban Islamozoid cleric was assassinated in Karachi, Pakistan, earlier today. And you know what that means: Pakistan Cleric Killed; Thousands Rampage. They really seem to have it in for Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants. KARACHI, Pakistan May 30, 2004 — Thousands of Sunni Muslims rampaged through this volatile southern Pakistani city Sunday, ...
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Muslim Cop Kills "Blasphemer"
Sun, May 30, 2004 at 3:31:28 pm PDT
Pakistani Christian Samuel Masih was charged with blasphemy, for allowing garden rubbish he was collecting to touch the side of a mosque. While awaiting trial for his “crime,” he suffered a bout of tuberculosis—and as he lay in his hospital bed, a Muslim police constable came into the room and ...
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The Case Against Rachel Corrie
Sun, May 30, 2004 at 3:18:09 pm PDT
Bruce S. Ticker spells out the blindingly obvious fact about Rachel Corrie and all the other objectively pro-terror swine of the International Solidarity Movement—they know perfectly well what they are doing: The Case Against Rachel Corrie. (Hat tip: NY Nana.) Maybe, just maybe, Rachel Corrie knowingly aided and abetted cold-blooded murderers. Many ...
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Arafish Says...
Sun, May 30, 2004 at 2:02:22 pm PDT
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Don't Look Away
Sun, May 30, 2004 at 11:17:48 am PDT
This is the enemy. Don’t look away. (Hat tip: selpaw.) Nick Berg, an American from Philadelphia, was kidnapped and tortuously beheaded by Arabs in Iraq sometime in May. The murderers filmed the deed and proudly displayed the victim’s severed head. After killing six Israeli soldiers in an attack on an armored vehicle ...
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Islamic Supremacists Slaughter Westerners
Sun, May 30, 2004 at 10:27:27 am PDT
Saudi Arabia is doing their best to control the news about the horrific slaughter of Westerners in Khobar, but what’s slipping out is just nightmarish. Islamic supremacist bloodlust on full display: Gunmen hunted “infidel” Westerners. (Hat tip: Colt.) And Reuters still refuses to label these savages as “terrorists.” KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) ...
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Lovely Surprise for Lovely People
Sun, May 30, 2004 at 9:51:06 am PDT
When the webmasters at Hatzolah Jerusalem discovered that a group of Arab sites had linked directly to one of the photographs on their web site—as part of a sick little “slideshow” gloating over dead and grieving Jews—they arranged a lovely surprise for the death junkies. A day later, the Einsteins who ...
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Bloggers Run Amok at AFI; No Fatalities
Sun, May 30, 2004 at 9:20:33 am PDT
Domo arigato to Cathy Seipp, our gracious host and moderator for last night’s panel discussion for the American Cinema Foundation and LA Press Club, titled The Real Story: L.A Bloggers take on Politics and the media. After all the thrashing and ranting at LA Observed when the LGF haters (those curious ...
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When Setbacks Didn't Deter Us
Sun, May 30, 2004 at 8:01:24 am PDT
Mark Steyn evokes an earlier era, when the cult of victimhood had not yet gotten a grip on America: Recalling a time when setbacks didn’t deter us. Before the First World War, it was called Decoration Day — a day for going to the cemetery and “strewing with flowers or otherwise ...
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Breaking News
Sat, May 29, 2004 at 3:38:23 pm PDT
Another top Hamas freakazoid has met his end in Gaza. (Hat tip: Davenport.) An explosion ripped apart a motorcycle in Gaza City early Sunday, residents said, killing three people - including a senior Hamas commander and his assistant. Hamas charged that Israel was responsible for what it called a “dirty assassination crime” ...
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MPAC Wants to Fight "Terrorism"
Sat, May 29, 2004 at 1:06:01 pm PDT
On the surface, a very positive development: Muslim Group Wants to Fight Terrorism. LOS ANGELES - A national Muslim group called Friday for a campaign within the Muslim community and mosques to root out terrorist supporters after federal officials said they were looking for a California man with links to al-Qaida. The ...
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Religion of Decapitation
Sat, May 29, 2004 at 12:31:54 pm PDT
Islamic terrorists in South Thailand are upset that “innocent Muslims” are being arrested by Thai security forces. To protest this injustice, they decapitated a 63-year old Buddhist man and left his head on display. (Hat tip: Nannette.) The restive South took a turn for the worse yesterday as suspected Muslim militants decapitated ...
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Sacred Islamic Holidays Recognized in NJ Schools
Sat, May 29, 2004 at 9:41:56 am PDT
School districts in New Jersey have approved days off for Islamic holidays. Excuse me; according to this AP release, that should be “sacred” Islamic holidays. Without the quotes. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) _ Atlantic City has become the fourth school district in New Jersey to recognize Muslim holidays. The city’s board of ...
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Fuzzy Fingerprints and Puff Pieces
Sat, May 29, 2004 at 8:37:26 am PDT
The LA Times serves up a puff piece about Brandon Mayfield, the Portland lawyer wrongly accused (due to faulty fingerprint analysis) of involvement in the Madrid train bombings—and makes no mention at all of Mayfield’s ties to convicted terrorist Jeffrey Battle of the Portland Seven jihad group: A Fuzzy Fingerprint ...
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Religion of Mass Murder
Sat, May 29, 2004 at 7:56:27 am PDT
Qaeda Attack Kills at Least 9 Saudis, 7 Foreigners. KHOBAR (Reuters) - Al Qaeda-linked militants killed at least nine Saudis and seven foreigners in a string of attacks in an oil-industry city on Saturday, then took hostages and fled with security forces in hot pursuit. Saudi security sources said an American, a ...
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Video of Palestinian Terrorists in UN Ambulances
Fri, May 28, 2004 at 9:52:25 pm PDT
Access Middle East, an excellent new site, has video footage of Palestinian terrorists using UN ambulances—Reuters video shot on May 11, the day that an IDF APC was blown up. For some reason it was not aired on the media that day, or for 2 weeks thereafter, until Israel’s ...
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Links Between Terror Groups
Fri, May 28, 2004 at 7:12:33 pm PDT
Eye-opening revelations from the Jack Roche Al Qaeda trial in Australia: Trial Shows Links Between Terror Groups. PERTH, Australia - In testimony to investigators and scribblings in a pocket notebook, a British convert to Islam has shown how tightly knit the terror network of al-Qaida and Jemaah Islamiyah really is. Ties ...
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Vanunu: Traitor By Any Definition
Fri, May 28, 2004 at 6:06:16 pm PDT
I’m going to use slightly stronger language than usual, because this person truly does fill me with a rare level of disgust. The very definition of a rotten, stinking traitor ... to his people, his homeland, and ultimately the entire world: I gave nuclear secrets to save Israel from ‘new holocaust’: ...
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Bush Interviewed at Christianity Today
Fri, May 28, 2004 at 5:44:08 pm PDT
George W. Bush is interviewed at length by Christianity Today magazine, and I am going to risk whipping the deranged Bush haters into an even bigger frenzy by saying that he comes across as very genuine, very thoughtful, and totally straightforward about his beliefs and his practices: Bush Calls for ...
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"Our Missiles Are Ready to Strike at Anglo-Saxon Culture"
Fri, May 28, 2004 at 3:26:36 pm PDT
On Wednesday I noted a Michael Ledeen column about an open declaration of war on the US by a top Iranian official, Hassan Abbasi. Today MEMRI has a more complete translation of Abbasi’s threatening statements: “Our Missiles Are Ready to Strike at Anglo-Saxon Culture.” “’(President Muhammad) Khatami speaks of the dialogue ...
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Media Ignore Siddiqi's Radicalism
Fri, May 28, 2004 at 2:19:35 pm PDT
The New York Times says Adam Yahiye Gadahn, the American Muslim convert sought by the FBI for connections to Al Qaeda, found his place in Islam. They quote Muzammil Siddiqi: Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi, the imam of the Islamic Society of Orange County, said Mr. Gadahn was working as a guard or ...
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Enriched Uranium on Libyan Centrifuges
Fri, May 28, 2004 at 1:28:31 pm PDT
The United Nations “nuclear watchdog” (a blind and toothless old hound) has found enriched uranium on Libyan centrifuges. VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog said in a confidential report [...that Reuters published immediately — ed.] Friday it had found traces of high and low enriched uranium on Libyan nuclear centrifuges, ...
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DUmmies: "The Threat of Robert Spencer"
Fri, May 28, 2004 at 1:21:08 pm PDT
The Morlocks at Democratic Underground have suddenly discovered Robert Spencer and his voluminous knowledge of Islam—and of course, since most of the DUmmies can’t tell Mohammed from Maimonides, they’re in attack mode: The threat of Robert Spencer and the danger he poses to American Muslims. And one of the worst things ...
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Religion of Car Bombs
Fri, May 28, 2004 at 9:42:36 am PDT
No virgins for Ahmed: Suicide blast targets Israeli bus in Gaza Strip. JERUSALEM (AFP) - A failed suicide attack on a busload of Israelis in the southern Gaza Strip killed a Palestinian militant and wounded two soldiers. An explosives-laden jeep blew up Friday as it tried to ram the bus carrying some ...
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Roche Pleads Guilty in Australia
Fri, May 28, 2004 at 9:06:46 am PDT
Jack Roche, the British-born Muslim convert recruited by Al Qaeda to attack the Israeli embassy in Canberra, Australia, has suddenly changed his plea from innocent to guilty: Roche Pleads Guilty in Australia Bomb Plot. The trial of the Muslim convert, who first came in contact with Islamic militants in Australia and ...
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Powell Continues to Trust the UN
Fri, May 28, 2004 at 8:43:53 am PDT
There seems to be a dearth of volunteers for the job of Iraqi prime minister, and Colin Powell says he’s waiting for UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to make a recommendation: Powell: U.S. Waits to Hear from Brahimi on Iraq PM. I don’t make too many predictions, but my lizardoid senses are ...
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Our Reptilian Brains
Fri, May 28, 2004 at 8:26:25 am PDT
This Friday we’ll open with another great column from Victor Davis Hanson, on the folly of half-measures: Our Reptilian Brains. Here our greatest weakness has been the half-measure: the need to consult all the ill-informed in the Middle East rather than a few of sound judgment; the good intention not carried ...
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Shame, Honor, and Falsehood
Thu, May 27, 2004 at 9:26:03 pm PDT
Families of Iraqi women detained at Abu Ghraib prison are horrified that their relatives might have been raped by American guards, their fear fueled by phony photographs reprinted endlessly in Arab media. But they’re not concerned about the trauma that the “victims” suffered—their horror is reserved for the damage done to ...
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Saudi with Ties to 9/11 Arrested
Thu, May 27, 2004 at 6:14:34 pm PDT
A Saudi national with connections to the 9/11 hijackers has been arrested in the San Diego area. VISTA, Calif. — Officials arrested a Saudi man living in Vista on Thursday who federal officials say has ties to the 9/11 hijackers. Mike Unzueta, a deputy special agent with the Immigration and Customs Service, ...
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Reform Begins At Home
Thu, May 27, 2004 at 4:44:54 pm PDT
A good piece full of righteous anger by Paul Marshall looks at the mind-blowing hypocrisy of the recent Arab League summit meeting: Reform Begins At Home. While the summit went on, the Sudanese government continued its war on the Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa people in Darfur, in the west of the ...
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Another Berg Coincidence?
Thu, May 27, 2004 at 3:06:09 pm PDT
Michael Moore says he has footage of a 20-minute interview with Nick Berg. NEW YORK - Filmmaker Michael Moore, whose incendiary new documentary lambastes President Bush’s handling of the war, said Thursday that he has footage unused in the film of Nicholas Berg, the American civilian later beheaded in Iraq. The footage, ...
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Flying Pig Sighted
Thu, May 27, 2004 at 2:16:03 pm PDT
Qatar wants to broaden Muslim-Christian forum to include Jews. DOHA: A conference on Muslim-Christian Dialogue opened Thursday in Qatar with an official call to include Judaism. Qatari Premier Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani set the stage for two days of inter-faith talks by drawing parallels between those who believe in the oneness ...
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Buchanan Finds a Home
Thu, May 27, 2004 at 12:50:31 pm PDT
Pat Buchanan meets the Arab News, with an anti-American article flavored with antisemitism that fits perfectly in its surroundings: What Does America Offer the World? (Hat tip: ism_truth.) WASHINGTON, 27 May 2004 — “So, how do we advance the cause of female emancipation in the Muslim world?” asks Richard Perle in ...
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Philly Mosque Raided
Thu, May 27, 2004 at 12:00:21 pm PDT
A mosque in Northeast Philadelphia has been raided in a terrorism investigation: Raid at Mosque. (Hat tip: Ann.) NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA-May 27, 2004 — Federal and local law enforcement officers swooped down on a mosque in Northeast Philadelphia this morning. The FBI, IRS and INS were all involved in this morning’s raid. The ...
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Orland Park Mosque Opponents Shut Down
Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:22:48 am PDT
Radical Islamic front group CAIR is doing a full court press to push through the construction of a huge mosque in the Orland Park suburb of Chicago—and anyone who protests is being labeled a “racist” and a “bigot:” Mosque foes’ fear is clear. (Hat tip: fiery celt.) The concerns of some ...
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Call to Prayer in Michigan
Thu, May 27, 2004 at 9:47:01 am PDT
Here’s the latest news on the Muslim call to prayer (the adhan) that will be allowed in Hamtramck Michigan by a feckless City Council: Mich. Mosque Loudspeaker Issue on Ballot. HAMTRAMCK, Mich. - A noise-ordinance change that would allow mosques to broadcast calls to prayer on loudspeakers will be put to ...
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American Muslim: Taught by Siddiqi
Thu, May 27, 2004 at 9:28:07 am PDT
The American who was named as one of seven Al Qaeda monsters sought by the FBI is a convert to Islam who attended the Islamic Society of Orange County—and was taught Islam by Muzammil Siddiqi: American Terror Suspect Had 1997 Arrest. GARDEN GROVE, Calif. - Adam Yahiye Gadahn was 17 years ...
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Saudi Insurgents Promise More Death
Thu, May 27, 2004 at 8:59:32 am PDT
The Islamic supremacists are planning to increase the violence level in Saudi Arabia, with the goal of bringing down the ruling oil ticks: Saudi ‘Qaeda’ Leader Calls for Guerrilla Warfare. And these half-smart barbarians are beginning to realize that boasting openly about their exploits may not be the smartest thing ...
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Abu Hamza Arrested At Last
Thu, May 27, 2004 at 8:35:07 am PDT
The one-eyed, hook-handed Islamofreak named Abu Hamza has finally been arrested, after being allowed to spread jihad ideology in Britain for years: US: Cleric Tried to Start Terror Camp. NEW YORK - Abu Hamza al-Masri, the fiery Muslim cleric whose shuttered London mosque was linked to Zacarias Moussaoui and shoe bomber ...
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United Nations: In League with Terrorists
Thu, May 27, 2004 at 7:59:48 am PDT
United Nations tool Peter Hansen is demanding that Israel apologize for alleging that UN ambulances had been used to transport Palestinian terrorists. (Hat tip: ploome.) UNWRA’s commissioner general Peter Hansen is demanding Israel apologize for allegations made last week by defense minister Shaul Mofaz that UN ambulances had been used to ...
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Zerbisias Dons Tinfoil
Wed, May 26, 2004 at 8:15:53 pm PDT
The Toronto Star continues to let the execrable Antonia Zerbisias drag their newspaper into the gutter, with a truly insane column quoting internet wacko Barry Zwicker as if he were a credible source: Poking holes in the official story of 9/11. (Hat tip: Truth Dr.) Whatever the explanation, Zwicker, a media ...
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Understanding the Middle East
Wed, May 26, 2004 at 7:18:08 pm PDT
Here’s Barry Rubin’s guide to understanding the Middle East. Failed dictatorships: The region is run by dictatorial regimes that are incompetent at doing anything but staying in power. Their citizens lack human, civil, and democratic rights. Their foreign policies lead to disaster and defeat; their economic policies bring stagnation and low ...
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Gore Goes Nuts
Wed, May 26, 2004 at 4:38:24 pm PDT
Al Gore retched up an absolutely disgraceful speech today, looking like a raging lunatic as he addressed far left group MoveOn.Org—who have proudly posted a transcript of his nightmarish moral inversions. What happened at the prison, it is now clear, was not the result of random acts by “a few bad ...
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Iran is at War with Us
Wed, May 26, 2004 at 12:51:17 pm PDT
Michael Ledeen reports some extremely disturbing statements from a top Iranian official: No Way Out. Meet Hassan Abbasi, a well-known Iranian political scientist, longtime top official of the Revolutionary Guards, and currently “theoretician” in the office of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (how does one get a job description like that, I ...
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New Terror Warnings: Extremely Credible
Wed, May 26, 2004 at 9:15:34 am PDT
New Information Indicates Attacks in U.S. WASHINGTON - Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Wednesday new information indicates terrorists are planning an attack on America, possibly connected to high-profile upcoming events such as the dedication of a new World War II monument, economic summit and political conventions. “I can confirm that we ...
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Amnesty International Hits Bottom, Digs
Wed, May 26, 2004 at 8:59:56 am PDT
According to Amnesty International, the United States is the worst violator of human rights in the world: Amnesty slams ‘bankrupt’ vision of US in damning human rights report. (Hat tip: Beagle.) LONDON (AFP) - The United States has proved “bankrupt of vision and bereft of principle” in its fight against terrorism ...
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Bazian Lies About "Intifada" Speech
Wed, May 26, 2004 at 8:34:50 am PDT
Anti-Israel UC Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian, who called for an intifada in this country, is interviewed for the Berkeley Daily Planet by a gullible reporter who accepts his every lie at face value: UC Lecturer’s ‘Intifada’ Comment Brings Death Threats. (Hat tip: zombie.) He’s now trying to claim he said “political” ...
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Got Four in Japan
Tue, May 25, 2004 at 9:13:28 pm PDT
Japan Arrests Four in Al Qaeda-Linked Probe. TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese police arrested four foreigners on Wednesday in a widening probe into suspected al Qaeda activities in the country. The government’s top spokesman said he hoped the police action would yield clues about the activities of Lionel Dumont, a French national ...
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LGF Bashers at LAObserved.com
Tue, May 25, 2004 at 8:26:08 pm PDT
Sometimes it’s tough to be an odious Neanderthal. But it’s nice to know that the media notices they have critics.
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The Wages of Tyranny
Tue, May 25, 2004 at 6:58:02 pm PDT
Bush Meets Iraqis Maimed Under Saddam. WASHINGTON - Seven Iraqi men whose hands were ordered cut off by Saddam Hussein met with President Bush at the White House on Tuesday, along with a Houston doctor who helped fit them with prosthetics. “I’m honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen ...
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Jihad Training Manual, Issue #10
Tue, May 25, 2004 at 6:15:23 pm PDT
The SITE Institute translates issue #10 of Al Qaeda’s Al-Battar training manuals, focusing on kidnapping. C. Types of kidnapping: Secret Kidnapping: The target is kidnapped and taken to a safe location that is unknown to the authorities. Secret kidnapping is the least dangerous. Such was the case of the Jewish reporter Daniel ...
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UN Troops Exploit Rape Victims
Tue, May 25, 2004 at 3:29:35 pm PDT
Britain’s Independent reports that United Nations peacekeepers in the Congo are sexually exploiting young refugees: UN troops buy sex from teenage refugees in Congo camp. Teenage rape victims fleeing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo are being sexually exploited by the United Nations peace-keeping troops sent to the stop their ...
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Sarin Gas Confirmed
Tue, May 25, 2004 at 3:11:53 pm PDT
Tests Confirm Sarin Gas in Baghdad Bomb. (Hat tip: Occasional Reader.) WASHINGTON - Comprehensive testing has confirmed the presence of the chemical weapon sarin in the remains of a roadside bomb discovered this month in Baghdad, a defense official said Tuesday. The determination, made by a laboratory in the United States that ...
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LGF on Hewitt w/ Northern Alliance
Tue, May 25, 2004 at 1:59:00 pm PDT
I’ve been invited to crash the party on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show tonight, as the Northern Alliance bloggers take over and lay waste to Hugh’s studio. I don’t have an exact time, but they tell me it will be during the second hour. Dallas’ KSKY has a streaming audio web ...
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Palestinian Inflation
Tue, May 25, 2004 at 1:41:01 pm PDT
The Israeli crackdown on smuggling tunnels in the Philadelphi corridor is having a terrible effect on the Palestinian economy. The price of smuggled bullets is going through the roof. (Hat tip: Mara.) Gaza Strip arms prices reportedly have spiked since Israel began cracking down on weapons-smuggling tunnels. Ha’aretz reported Tuesday that a contraband ...
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Terrorist Kitsch
Tue, May 25, 2004 at 1:33:56 pm PDT
(Yes, it was Photoshopped.)
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Madison City Council: Solidarity with Hamas
Tue, May 25, 2004 at 11:43:11 am PDT
The City Council of Madison Wisconsin is considering a proposal to become a “Sister City” with the town of Rafah in the Gaza Strip: Madison-Rafah Sister City Project. (Hat tip: Stefan Sharkansky.) The resolution states: WHEREAS, a sister city relationship between the City of Madison and Rafah would foster deeper understanding of ...
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Jihad's Unlikely Alliance
Tue, May 25, 2004 at 11:17:49 am PDT
The LA Times reports that the Madrid train bombers financed their atrocities in part by selling hashish: Jihad’s Unlikely Alliance. (Hat tip: Ethel.) MADRID — The odd crew of longtime extremists and radicalized gangsters accused of carrying out the March train bombings here nourished their holy war with holy water. And hashish. The ...
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FBI Apologizes to Mayfield
Tue, May 25, 2004 at 10:34:08 am PDT
Apologizing has become very fashionable for US government agencies; even the FBI is doing it now: FBI Apologizes to Lawyer Over Madrid Case. The apology Monday came hours after a judge dismissed the case against Brandon Mayfield, who had been held as a material witness in the Madrid bombings case, which ...
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Michael Moore and Fred Barnes
Tue, May 25, 2004 at 10:09:47 am PDT
At the Weekly Standard, Fred Barnes says Michael Moore is a liar. A FEW YEARS AGO Michael Moore, who’s now promoting an anti-President Bush movie entitled Fahrenheit 9/11, announced he’d gotten the goods on me, indeed hung me out to dry on my own words. It was in his first bestselling ...
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Hamtramck Mosque Will Defy Community
Tue, May 25, 2004 at 9:09:10 am PDT
Here’s an update on the mosque in Hamtramck Michigan that was granted an exemption from noise ordinances to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer five times a day. The residents of the town have gathered enough signatures on a petition to force the issue to a vote—but mosque leaders are ...
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Slanted
Tue, May 25, 2004 at 8:24:54 am PDT
From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.
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Gravy Train for EUrocrats
Tue, May 25, 2004 at 8:01:21 am PDT
The New York Times has a report on the endemic corruption of the European Parliament, a candy store of tax-free perks and bonuses for bureaucrats and their families : In Europe’s Parliament, a Fondness for the Perks. (Hat tip: Mary.) The Parliament is increasingly influential, passing laws on issues like agriculture, ...
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French Politician Wants to Give Nukes to Arab World
Mon, May 24, 2004 at 7:23:44 pm PDT
The Dissident Frogman reports an almost unbelievable statement from a French delegate to the European Parliament: Stop Them. Now. There is, however, another serious imbalance for which we are in part responsible, namely the imbalance of forces. I have no hesitation in saying that we must consider giving the Arab side ...
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Eurabian Times
Mon, May 24, 2004 at 6:41:13 pm PDT
Long-time LGF reader and valued British equestrian Colt has a weblog, and you should immediately add it to your bookmarks, as I did: Eurabian Times.
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"They Were Going to Kill Muslims"
Mon, May 24, 2004 at 6:36:03 pm PDT
Here’s the latest news in the court martial of Hasan Akbar, accused of rolling a grenade into an officer’s tent during the Iraq War: Witness: Soldier Admitted Attack on 101st. FORT BRAGG, N.C. - A prosecution witness testified Monday that a soldier charged with killing two officers in a grenade attack ...
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Reiteration of Hollow Slogans?
Mon, May 24, 2004 at 6:18:17 pm PDT
A liberal Arab writer takes an exceedingly jaundiced look at the recent International Islamic Conference in Cairo and its empty promises to promote democracy and human rights, courtesy of MEMRI’s indispensable translations: Genuine Call for Tolerance or Reiteration of Hollow Slogans? ’The Conference’s Resolutions and Recommendations [are] Clichés that Recur Year ...
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Presidential Speech
Mon, May 24, 2004 at 5:03:11 pm PDT
The President’s speech is viewable on the web at C-SPAN. We can discuss it in this topic.
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Musharraf Tells Pakistan: Reject Islamic Extremism
Mon, May 24, 2004 at 2:38:19 pm PDT
It’s hard to avoid the suspicion that Pakistan strongman Pervez Musharraf is playing a double game. But even if that’s true, his latest statements show a tremendous amount of guts—especially for a man who has already been the target of several near-miss assassination attempts: Reject Islamic Extremism, Musharraf Tells Pakistan. “What ...
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Uneasy Loyalties
Mon, May 24, 2004 at 1:27:26 pm PDT
An interesting look at a Muslim National Guard medic deployed in Iraq, and his father’s need to defend his son at the local mosques: The uneasy loyalties of a Muslim soldier. (Hat tip: Allah.) Mirza Mahmood Ahmad of Great Falls, Va., recalls his uneasy feelings about his son’s deployment to Iraq ...
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A Face Plant for Dubya
Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:58:02 am PDT
Ouch. Looks like Dubya did a face plant and used his hand to break the fall. Wasn’t he wearing gloves? John Kerry made a snarky comment about “training wheels,” after taking a fall himself a couple of weeks ago. George Bush said nothing about Kerry’s fall. Which reaction seems more presidential to ...
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"Fear Factor" Trumps War of Civilizations
Mon, May 24, 2004 at 9:27:57 am PDT
The Big Four broadcast networks will not be showing President Bush’s speech tonight. The broadcast networks are not expected to carry President Bush’s primetime speech tonight, in which he will lay out a “clear strategy” for the future of Iraq. The Bush administration has not requested the Big Four to air ...
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Thousands Attend Salute to Israel Parade
Mon, May 24, 2004 at 8:33:25 am PDT
No matter how many thousands of people turn out for New York’s Salute to Israel parade, the cameras of world media focus on the handful of Neturei Karta fanatics. Out of six photos at Yahoo, two are of these lunatics.
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A Singer with Two Names
Mon, May 24, 2004 at 8:11:37 am PDT
The “wedding singer” killed in the attack on a “wedding party” in the middle of the Iraqi desert apparently had two completely different names. From the New York Times: Among the dead, by several accounts, was Nazar al-Khalid, a well-known Iraqi wedding singer who often traveled to Syria. From the Washington Post: Among ...
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Madonna Threatened
Mon, May 24, 2004 at 8:00:23 am PDT
Madonna has cancelled performances in Israel after a series of threatening letters from “an unnamed Palestinian group:” Terror threat: We’ll kill Madonna. (Hat tip: Ethel C.) The singer was terrified by a blitz of poison-pen letters. Madge “freaked out” when she learned of a terrorist plot to kill her two young children ...
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Incremental Self-Rule
Mon, May 24, 2004 at 7:44:43 am PDT
Mark Steyn advocates a gradual turning over of power in Iraq: Don’t give Iraqis self-rule all at once. (Hat tip: scaramouche.) There are some 8,000 towns and villages in the country. How many do you hear about on the news? For a week, it’s all Fallujah all the time. Then it’s ...
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Walid Shoebat on Prager
Sun, May 23, 2004 at 6:19:33 pm PDT
Tomorrow morning at 11 am Pacific time, Dennis Prager will be talking with former PLO terrorist Walid Shoebat, now an apostate Muslim and passionate pro-Western voice. You can listen to the broadcast over the web by clicking the “Listen Live” link at the top of this page: News Talk 870 ...
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Palestinians Kill Own Children
Sun, May 23, 2004 at 5:54:23 pm PDT
From Aaron Lerner’s relentless, invaluable IMRA service comes the news that the IDF has photographs of Palestinian terrorists deliberately killing two Palestinian children. An official IDF source confirmed Amir Orens’ 21 May story this afternoon to IMRA that two Palestinian children who died in the Rafah procession incident were murdered by ...
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Arabs Kill 56 More in Sudan
Sun, May 23, 2004 at 5:01:19 pm PDT
Sorry to take anyone’s attention away from US and Israeli transgressions, but Arab “militias” have killed 56 more villagers in west Sudan. At least the janjaweed murderers didn’t do something really horrible, such as threatening the villagers with dogs.
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US Muslim Chaplain: CAIR's Berg Petition is Un-Islamic
Sun, May 23, 2004 at 4:51:17 pm PDT
In an article for Islam Online, Samir Jerez, Executive Director and certified Islamic Chaplain of the 5-Pillar Foundation of South Florida and Vice President of Operations for the National Islamic Chaplains Organization in Portland, Oregon, says that by circulating a petition condemning the murder of Nick Berg, CAIR is ...
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The Wars Through Arab Eyes
Sun, May 23, 2004 at 12:08:12 pm PDT
An almost unbelievable article at Loseweek, as mainstream American media continues to do everything possible to undermine their own country—this time mixed with a hefty dose of Israel-hatred: The Wars Through Arab Eyes. (Hat tip: Allah.) May 31 issue - The images were searing, and strikingly similar. Last Wednesday afternoon, as ...
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Dangerous Chemicals Intercepted in Canada
Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:33:02 am PDT
Canadian police arrested two Muslims driving an illegal load of red phosphorus, a chemical that can be used to generate phosphene gas among other nefarious purposes—and let them go: Kakebeka Falls Incident Attracts U.S Security Attention. An incident in Kakabeka Falls last month has apparently caught the attention of the U.S. ...
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Motion Sensor Found on Philly Tracks
Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:23:34 am PDT
The FBI is investigating an infrared device found next to train tracks in Philadelphia, amid reports of suspicious surveillance of trains in New Jersey: Device found by tracks. (Hat tip: Colt.) The FBI is investigating the discovery of an electronic device found alongside SEPTA train tracks in West Philadelphia, but the ...
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"Our Sanctity Has Been Violated"
Sun, May 23, 2004 at 10:57:20 am PDT
An early report on the fighting in Kufa, Iraq, describes the weapons and ammunition found in a mosque, with the usual skeptical AP tone: Fighting Continues in Kufa; Karbala Quiet. U.S. forces fought militiamen near Kufa’s Sahla mosque and an Iraqi counterterrorism force then entered and “cleared” it, the military ...
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RoP Strikes in Kashmir
Sun, May 23, 2004 at 9:39:45 am PDT
Terror attack on BSF vans in J&K kills 33. (Hat tip: Anant.) In a major strike, militants attacked a BSF convoy by detonating a powerful landmine killing 33 personnel and their family members, including six women and three children, and seriously injuring two others on Srinagar-Jammu national highway Sunday morning. Among the ...
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Zinni to Promote Book
Sun, May 23, 2004 at 9:24:40 am PDT
Here comes another retired official with another anti-Bush book to promote on 60 Minutes: Gen. Zinni: ‘They’ve Screwed Up’. (Hat tip: Ann.) Zinni is famous for being the ineffective, underachieving “Special Envoy” to the Middle East who we affectionately dubbed “Zinni the Yoyo” in 2002. The terror gangs used his ...
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The Threat is Growing
Sun, May 23, 2004 at 8:37:15 am PDT
While US media focuses obsessively, relentlessly on the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, the Islamic supremacist enemy is preparing the next big event: Suspicions about a new terrorist attack have U.S. spies scrambling. The chatter was persistent—and alarming. In the weeks after the deadly March bombings of four commuter trains in ...
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Palestinian Work Accident Watch
Sun, May 23, 2004 at 8:20:00 am PDT
No virgins for these two. NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Two Palestinians were killed in an explosion in the West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday, witnesses said. Some of the witnesses said the blast was caused by an Israeli air strike on a car, while others reported the men were picking ...
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The Wedding That Wasn't
Sun, May 23, 2004 at 8:16:21 am PDT
The so-called “wedding party” near the Syrian border that was attacked by US forces on Wednesday appears to have been something else entirely: US Says No Evidence of Wedding at Site. Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, coalition deputy chief of staff for operations, showed slides of military binoculars, guns and battery packs ...
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Hansen Seethes, Whines, Dances
Sat, May 22, 2004 at 7:14:32 pm PDT
The execrable Peter Hansen, UNRWA stooge who played willing propaganda pawn for the Palestinians in Jenin, is back in his old familiar role again, screaming massacre! in Rafah: Child Shot in Gaza As Incursion Continues. And by the way, I thought I was pretty much inured to media bias, but this ...
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Canadian Shari'a Watch
Sat, May 22, 2004 at 4:54:19 pm PDT
Homa Arjomand fled Iran in 1989 to escape the brutal misogynistic barbarism of shari’a law. The problem, though, was that she fled to Canada. And shari’a followed her, with the help of the multiculturalist Canadian government: Ontario sharia tribunals assailed. The last time this subject was raised at LGF, many readers seemed to ...
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The Reason Israel is in Gaza
Sat, May 22, 2004 at 4:17:35 pm PDT
In this photo made available by the Israeli Army, soldiers explore a tunnel, found covered in concrete under a home, which they claim was used by arms smugglers between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, Gaza, Saturday May 22, 2004. One such tunnel has so far been discovered by ...
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"I'll Butcher Him"
Sat, May 22, 2004 at 2:56:27 pm PDT
The Islamic mass murderer convicted of the Bali bombing has a dream. He would like to “butcher” Australian prime minister John Howard. “If John Howard appears before me, I’ll butcher him,” Mukhlas, whose real name is Ali Ghufron, said in an interview for TV Nine Network’s Sunday current affairs program. ... He ...
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France Loves Fat, Stupid, Clownish American
Sat, May 22, 2004 at 1:11:23 pm PDT
Michael Moore. A deranged Bush-hating film. Cannes. France. What else would you expect? Anti-Bush film tops Cannes awards. It was the first documentary to win the top prize since Jacques Cousteau’s The Silent World in 1956. The film received a 15-minute standing ovation when it was screened on Monday. Fahrenheit 9/11 explores ...
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"We Will Drag You By Your Beards"
Sat, May 22, 2004 at 12:58:14 pm PDT
Here’s an interesting insight into the strategy of the jihad, from an otherwise undistinguished article by Jamal A. Khashoggi, a former editor of the Saudi newspaper Al Watan: You’re either with terrorism or against it. A few years ago in London’s Islamist community, I met with one of the theorists of ...
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Crazy Muammar and the White Paper Walkout
Sat, May 22, 2004 at 12:44:51 pm PDT
Attention-hungry Libyan dictator Muammar “Crazy Old Coot” Gaddafi caused another scene at the Arab League meeting in Tunisia, stalking out after his bizarre “Isratine” proposal was not accepted by the other despots in attendance: Gaddafi Walks Out, Boycotts Arab Summit. TUNIS (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi walked away from an ...
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On Strength
Sat, May 22, 2004 at 12:07:49 pm PDT
Bill Whittle has outdone himself with this new essay: STRENGTH (part 1). STRENGTH (part 2). And thank you, Bill, for the passionate defense of what I’m doing here at LGF. It’s very much appreciated.
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An SS Monument in Estonia
Sat, May 22, 2004 at 11:44:37 am PDT
Estonia is planning to build a monument in the city of Tallinn to honor Estonians who fought in World War II. On the side of the Nazis. The Society of Fighters for Estonia’s Freedom, which includes, among others, veterans of the Estonian 20th SS division, has initiated the opening of a monument ...
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Syrian Friday Sermons in English
Sat, May 22, 2004 at 9:37:55 am PDT
The Grand Mufti of Syria, Sheikh Ahmed Kuftaro, has a web site. Sheikh Ahmad Kuftaro, the grand Mufti of Syria, is actively striving to unite the human family. Since 1940 he has been working to achieve better understanding and cooperation amongst the people of the heavenly religions. As a teacher of ...
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Media Not Interested in the Truth
Sat, May 22, 2004 at 9:11:11 am PDT
In another excellent analysis of the situation in Israel, Caroline Glick illustrates the blatant undisguised bias of international media: The new plan. (Hat tip: Barry.) In an attempt to get the foreign media to report what is actually happening on the ground in Gaza, the IDF’s spokesman’s unit pleaded with foreign ...
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White House to Request UN Aid in Sudan
Fri, May 21, 2004 at 8:58:11 pm PDT
According to the Associated Press, President Bush will ask the United Nations to do something about the madness in Sudan next week: White House to Request U.N. Aid in Sudan. WASHINGTON - The Bush administration will ask the United Nations next week to deal with what the United States considers an ...
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"Don't Fall for the Spin"
Fri, May 21, 2004 at 8:25:57 pm PDT
A soldier’s view from the frontline. (Hat tip: Cornholio.) BAGHDAD, Iraq - I am a soldier with the 16th Engineering Battalion of the 1st Armored Division. Our unit is presently in combat against the uprising of Muqtada al-Sadr. This situation is extremely sensitive. Had we entered this prematurely, victory would not have ...
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Stop the Presses! Abu Ghraib Duration: One Day
Fri, May 21, 2004 at 8:18:10 pm PDT
Most of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuses occurred in a single day. That’s right. One day, as in 24 hours, as in one rotation of the Earth. WASHINGTON - Many of the worst abuses that have come to light from the Abu Ghraib prison happened on a single November day amid a ...
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Berg's Dad Dishonors His Son
Fri, May 21, 2004 at 8:14:49 pm PDT
This is just awful. I’ve been willing to cut Nicholas Berg’s father a lot of slack. But his piece in today’s edition of the Grauniad is simply contemptible. He makes it appallingly clear that his signature on a statement from International ANSWER was no fluke—and that he’s willing to exploit his own ...
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Please, Please, Forgive Us
Fri, May 21, 2004 at 7:51:34 pm PDT
If you’re still not satisfied with the numerous apologies offered to Iraqis and Arabs by President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Carrot Top, and every other person of note in the US, and you bear the guilt for every oppressed microbe in the universe on your conscience, here’s your chance ...
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Lying into the Mirror
Fri, May 21, 2004 at 6:29:23 pm PDT
Michael Ledeen has a rather different take on Ahmed Chalabi than the current media pile-on: Lying into the Mirror. I am not sure if CPA — including State and CIA officials — has spent more man hours fighting Chalabi than fighting Moqtada al Sadr, but it’s probably pretty close, and in ...
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Seethe Factor Increasing
Fri, May 21, 2004 at 5:10:05 pm PDT
The Arab Street™ continues to seethe maniacally, as world media—both Arab and Western—stoke the death cult with abandon: U.S. Troop Presence Sparks Shi’ite Fury Beyond Iraq. Chanting “Death to America, death to Israel,” a white sea of men, women and children marched through Beirut’s mainly Shi’ite suburbs in a show of ...
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Berkeley Intifada
Fri, May 21, 2004 at 5:01:29 pm PDT
Here’s a must-read, in-depth article in the alternative weekly East Bay Express, about the sad and scary transformation of Berkeley California, from the birthplace of the Free Speech movement to an epicenter of hatred, antisemitism, and jihad ideology: Berkeley Intifada. (Hat tip: DP111.) “The politicization of this university began forty years ...
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Rumsfeld’s Good Idea
Fri, May 21, 2004 at 2:46:36 pm PDT
A great piece by Byron York points out that many of the “troubling methods” described in Seymour Hersh’s New Yorker hit pieces are actually pretty sound policy: Rumsfeld’s Good Idea. (Hat tip: Voidseeker.) There are serious doubts about the accuracy of some of Hersh’s information. And what has not been discussed ...
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NYT: Appeasement Journalism at Its Finest
Fri, May 21, 2004 at 8:41:12 am PDT
The New York Times has been absolutely despicable lately, doing everything they can to undermine and destroy US efforts in Iraq, printing stories from the viewpoint of terrorists, running sympathetic articles about “insurgents,” and generally behaving more seditiously than just about any other American media sewer outlet. And one of the ...
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Must Be the Season of Apologies
Fri, May 21, 2004 at 8:20:54 am PDT
Ready for some Victor Davis Hanson humor? In today’s column he demands apologies—from Ted Kennedy, Thomas Friedman, and Kofi Annan, for starters: Season of Apologies. Still, in just a year the worst mass murderer in recent history is gone and a consensual government is scheduled to assume power in his place ...
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Searching for the Bullet Hole
Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:10:11 pm PDT
It’s very hard to know what’s really going on with Ahmed Chalabi, although the possibility that he’s working with Iran can no longer be completely dismissed. But LGF reader “Oktober” noticed a curious discrepancy between what’s reported in this article (typically slanted against the US): Iraqi Police Raid Home of ...
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France Expels Another
Thu, May 20, 2004 at 7:54:06 pm PDT
In a sure sign of how worried France is becoming, they have deported another radical Islamic nutbar preaching the establishment of the Caliphate: France Deports Islamic Mosque Leader. PARIS - France deported an Islamic mosque leader Thursday who was accused of leading a group that advocates terrorism, the Interior Ministry said. The ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Thu, May 20, 2004 at 7:18:25 pm PDT
The world screams in outrage as media reports that Israel is defying international fury! And what do the Palestinians do? They send their children out at night to join “rallies” carrying objects like the one below. Palestinian youths carry a mock missile during a Hamas rally in Gaza City, demonstrating against the ...
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Austrian Antisemitism Watch
Thu, May 20, 2004 at 5:50:59 pm PDT
Yad Vashem protests Austrian newspaper caricature. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) In the caricature titled “Then and Now,” which appeared Wednesday in the Austrian newspaper Kleine Zeitung, a frightened Jew appears on one side of the cartoon, labeled past, as a Nazi soldier, with a swastika on his arm, bears down on him. On ...
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Israel Develops Large UAV
Thu, May 20, 2004 at 5:30:51 pm PDT
A very interesting release at WorldTribune.com says Israel is developing an unmanned air vehicle the size of a fighter jet. (Hat tip: marek.) TEL AVIV — The Israel Air Force plans to procure a large and long-range unmanned air vehicle that resembles a fighter-jet. The UAV has been dubbed Eitan and has ...
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Mayfield Released
Thu, May 20, 2004 at 4:49:44 pm PDT
Brandon Mayfield, the Portland Oregon lawyer arrested in connection with the Madrid train bombings, has been released. PORTLAND, Ore. - A lawyer who was arrested two weeks ago in connection with the terror attacks in Spain was set free Thursday after evidence pointed to another suspect in the deadly train bombings. Brandon ...
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The Neverending Move
Thu, May 20, 2004 at 4:40:07 pm PDT
Again I must apologize for the slow rate of posts. I’ve been running around all day taking care of the countless tasks that must be done upon moving; keys, address changes, telephone, utilities, etc. etc. ad infinitum. We’ll be back to normal soon. Still no sign of Sasha the cat.
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Palestinians Try to Kidnap Their Best Friend
Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:35:08 am PDT
Yesterday, Palestinian Arabs tried to kidnap New York Times reporter James Bennet—their best friend in the Western press, who never misses a chance to whitewash Palestinian terrorism: Palestinians try to kidnap U.S. reporter from Rafah. (Hat tip: Josh Harvey.) A New York Times correspondent narrowly escaped a kidnap attempt by Palestinians ...
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Barghouti Takes the Fall
Thu, May 20, 2004 at 7:40:34 am PDT
Smirking terrorist leader Marwan Barghouti has been convicted by an Israeli court, and will probably receive a life sentence: Palestinian Uprising Leader Convicted. TEL AVIV, Israel - Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti, a potential successor to Yasser Arafat, was convicted Thursday in attacks that killed four Israelis and a Greek monk. ...
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DoJ on the Wrong Side
Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:33:35 pm PDT
An Oklahoma public school district will allow a sixth-grade Muslim girl to wear the symbol of her oppression by Islamic male society, and the Justice Department is on the wrong side: U.S., Okla. Settle Muslim Head Scarf Case. WASHINGTON - A sixth-grade Muslim girl in Oklahoma can wear a head scarf ...
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A Moving Experience
Wed, May 19, 2004 at 9:18:02 pm PDT
Mundane reality interfered with the production of LGF today, as I relocated self and stuff. This is why you didn’t see the usual 10+ front-page posts. No matter how many times you move, it doesn’t get easier; in fact, the reverse is true. At least I didn’t screw up my ...
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Suicide Bombing vs. Democracy
Wed, May 19, 2004 at 8:25:32 pm PDT
In OpinionJournal, a brilliant piece by chess genius Garry Kasparov: Stop the Moral Equivalence. It is said that to win a battle you must be the one to choose the battleground. Since the Abu Ghraib abuses were revealed, the battleground has been chosen by those who would blur the lines between ...
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Sivits Sentenced for Abu Ghraib
Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:47:08 pm PDT
The first sentence has come down in the Abu Ghraib abuse story—Jeremy Sivits gets a year in prison and a bad conduct discharge: Sivits Sentenced for Role in Iraq Abuse. The Army doesn’t waste time when it comes to courts martial. Sivits pleaded guilty to four counts for taking pictures of ...
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Doin' the Lizardoid Shuffle
Wed, May 19, 2004 at 6:47:29 am PDT
Good morning, lizards! Posts will be a bit light today; LGF headquarters is being moved to a new secure undisclosed location, and I’ve got a lot of lifting to do. We’ll be back up to speed in a few hours.
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WorldsOldestTerrorist.Com
Tue, May 18, 2004 at 7:57:31 pm PDT
You must be accurately when surfing the official web site of Prisedent [sic] Yasser Arafat! (Hat tip: MEMRI.)
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Gene Simmons: Islam a "Vile Culture"
Tue, May 18, 2004 at 7:02:43 pm PDT
Everybody and their grandmother has sent me the link to this story about KISS bassist Gene Simmons’ remarks on Islam to an Australian interviewer, which caused tsunamis of seething in the Australian Muslim community. For one reason or another I didn’t get around to it until now: KISS bassist offends ...
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Schroeder's Big Idea
Tue, May 18, 2004 at 10:46:33 am PDT
After all, why would NATO want to help the United States? It’s not like the US has ever done anything for the NATO alliance: Schroeder Skeptical of NATO in Iraq. The level of self-delusion here is stunning, as Schroeder actually suggests sending Muslim troops to Iraq from neighboring Arab countries. Oh ...
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Blogads Demographic Survey
Tue, May 18, 2004 at 10:33:08 am PDT
To help direct their advertising to better reach the blog-reading audience, and to get some larger advertisers interested, Blogads is running a demographic survey. I encourage our readers to go and participate, and enter “LGF” for question #22. (You don’t have to enter any private info such as an email ...
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Four Held in Berg Murder
Tue, May 18, 2004 at 7:34:32 am PDT
Sky News reports that four people have been arrested in Iraq for the murder of Nicholas Berg. (Hat tip: Harlan Pepper.)
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Europe's Threat to the West
Tue, May 18, 2004 at 7:10:49 am PDT
Daniel Pipes on Europe’s Threat to the West. “In Western countries jihad has grown mainly via Muslim immigration,” concludes Robert S. Leiken, a specialist on immigration and national security issues, in an important new monograph, Bearers of Global Jihad: Immigration and National Security after 9/11 (published by the Washington-based Nixon Center, ...
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The Un-PATRIOT-ic Left
Tue, May 18, 2004 at 7:02:02 am PDT
Here’s an interesting debate about the Patriot Act, between Heather McDonald of City Journal and Joe Williams of Santa Cruz Indymedia: The Un-PATRIOT-ic Left.
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The Fall Of Troy
Mon, May 17, 2004 at 9:01:14 pm PDT
I recently rediscovered this heart-breaking slice of reality from Tom Waits: The Fall Of Troy. It’s the same with men as with horses and dogs Nothing wants to die Ethel and James they killed in a game With guns too big for their hands Just off St. Charles in no man’s land And you’ll have to ...
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"Israeli Helicopters Kills Seven"
Mon, May 17, 2004 at 8:17:36 pm PDT
Something is very wrong at al-Reuters (as if we didn’t already know) when they release incoherent, grammatically-challenged, pro-terrorist propaganda like this: Israeli Helicopters Kills Seven in Gaza, Medics Say. Count the grammatical problems and win a prize. RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli helicopter gunships killed seven Palestinians, at least three of ...
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Grow Up and Leave the 7th Century
Mon, May 17, 2004 at 7:22:11 pm PDT
Zeyad at Healing Iraq has a courageous post on the slaughter of US hostage Nick Berg that I’m going to reprint in its entirety. Please note that he was attacked almost immediately for expressing these unwelcome, subversive truths in the very heart of Islam. Stay safe, Zeyad. (Hat tip: Joshua ...
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Britain Will Not Cut and Run
Mon, May 17, 2004 at 6:25:28 pm PDT
Tony Blair continues to show more spine than Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schroeder, and whoever leads Belgium put together: Blair Says Britain Will Not ‘Cut and Run’ from Iraq. “Of course it is difficult, but the task of leadership when things get difficult is precisely not to cut and run but to ...
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Religion of Decapitation
Mon, May 17, 2004 at 4:53:28 pm PDT
Here’s a chilling translation of the speech made by the mujahideen before they butchered Nick Berg: Berg video called how-to-kill demo. Whether President Bush is right and the assassin and speaker is al-Qaida ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Joel Cohen, with a master’s degree in Semitic languages from Princeton University and a ...
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The ISM Mask Slips
Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:09:40 pm PDT
A member of the International Solidarity Movement lets the mask slip, in a semi-coherent message ranting about sacred martyrs and blood, posted in their Yahoo Group: Palestinian Blood Is Not Cheap. (Hat tip: ism_truth.) Palestinians wants peace, and they don’t want any one to die, but if there must be some ...
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The War that Dare Not Speak Its Name
Mon, May 17, 2004 at 11:57:04 am PDT
Here’s an excellent statement of the goals and obstacles in the war against militant Islam, by Andrew C. McCarthy, a former chief assistant U.S. attorney who led the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman: The War that Dare Not Speak Its Name. (Hat tip: Michael Z.) As an assistant ...
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Prison Abuse Trumps Saddam's Mass Graves
Mon, May 17, 2004 at 10:34:19 am PDT
Media Research Center has a revealing report about the media’s Abu Ghraib feeding frenzy: Prison Abuse Trumps Saddam’s Mass Graves. (Hat tip: Writermom.) The national media pride themselves on their ability to make fine distinctions and appreciate subtle nuances. But their incessant repetition on the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse story, accompanied by ...
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Powell Lashes Out at Arafat
Mon, May 17, 2004 at 8:50:12 am PDT
Colin Powell has the unenviable job of meeting and talking with some of the world’s worst people—but in one US policy that has remained consistent, he draws the line at Arafat: Powell lashes out at Arafat. (Hat tip: Carl in Jerusalem.) U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday blamed Yasser ...
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Sarin Nerve Agent in Iraq
Mon, May 17, 2004 at 8:09:32 am PDT
Sarin Nerve Agent Bomb Explodes in Iraq. BAGHDAD, Iraq - A roadside bomb containing sarin nerve agent exploded near a U.S. military convoy, the U.S. military said Monday. Two people were treated for “minor exposure,” but no serious injuries were reported. “The Iraqi Survey Group confirmed today that a 155-millimeter artillery round ...
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Gays Attacked At Palestinian Protest
Mon, May 17, 2004 at 7:59:41 am PDT
Deluded members of two pro-Palestinian gay organizations turned up at Trafalgar Square to show their support for the “people of Palestine”—and were promptly assaulted by a screaming mob of Islamofascists and peaceniks: Gays Attacked At Palestinian Protest. (Hat tip: twostellas.) And they still marched in the demonstration. OutRage and Queer Youth Alliance ...
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No Way to Run a War
Mon, May 17, 2004 at 7:49:33 am PDT
In a great piece at OpinionJournal, Mark Helprin has harsh words for both sides of the political aisle: No Way to Run a War. When soldiers are killed because they do not have equipment (in the words of a returning officer, “not enough vehicles, not enough munitions, not enough medical supplies, ...
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Iraqi Jihad Strikes Again
Mon, May 17, 2004 at 7:02:33 am PDT
Suicide Car Bomb Kills Iraq Governing Council Chief. Deputy Foreign Minister Hamed al-Bayati said the other councilors near the checkpoint at the time escaped unharmed. “They managed to get through the checkpoint before the explosion. Salim was still waiting to enter,” Bayati said. The second suicide car bomb attack on a Green Zone ...
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New! Improved LGF!
Sun, May 16, 2004 at 5:54:36 pm PDT
I’ve been tinkering with the “Now Playing” feature, which shows the current music I’m listening to with iTunes. On the weblog page, it now shows the track that’s currently playing in addition to the album name. And there’s a new page, showing the Last 40 Songs Played, with an option ...
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"They Made Me Their Slave"
Sun, May 16, 2004 at 4:06:46 pm PDT
A horrifying and heart-rending account by Benjamin Joffe-Walt of the genocidal war being waged on black Africans by government-backed Sudanese Arab “militias:” They killed my whole family and then took me away and made me their slave. Deep in remote northern Darfur, the Sudanese rebel fighters are gathering to talk tactics ...
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Now's Not the Time for Bush to Go Soft
Sun, May 16, 2004 at 12:41:37 pm PDT
From time to time Mark Steyn issues a call to the Bush administration to buck up, stop apologizing, say to hell with the bastards, and get on with it: Now’s not the time for Bush to go soft. The American people, no thanks to their media, still understand what’s real and ...
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Earthquake in LA
Sun, May 16, 2004 at 12:19:38 pm PDT
Whoa! We just had a pretty big earthquake in Los Angeles! UPDATE: Here’s what happened—only a 2.7. Apparently it felt more severe than it was because I’m very close to the epicenter. (Hat tip: zulubaby.)
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Kuwait Takes a Step Out of the Dark Ages
Sun, May 16, 2004 at 12:11:09 pm PDT
This piece of somewhat hopeful news is really going to infuriate the tiny minority of Islamic extremists; I hope the emir of Kuwait has very good security: Kuwait Approves Draft Law Giving Women the Vote. KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait’s cabinet approved a draft law Sunday allowing women to vote and run ...
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US Athletes Told to Cool it at Olympics
Sun, May 16, 2004 at 10:39:22 am PDT
In a “charm offensive” to try to get the world to like us, US athletes have been warned against waving their flag at medal celebrations: U.S. athletes told to cool it at Olympics. (Hat tip: Pamela.) NEW YORK — American athletes have been warned not to wave the U.S. flag during ...
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I'm Ready for My Closeup, Mr. AP
Sun, May 16, 2004 at 9:45:37 am PDT
This surely must be the first war in history in which loving closeups of posing enemy thugs, complete with weapons used to kill US soldiers, are widely distributed by Western wire services. Shiite militiamen take up position in the center of Karbala, 110 km south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, May 16, ...
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Pentagon: Hersh Story "Outlandish, Filled with Error"
Sun, May 16, 2004 at 8:58:32 am PDT
The Pentagon strongly denies the claims made in Seymour Hersh’s New Yorker piece: Pentagon Denies Rumsfeld OK’d Prison Plan. The Defense Department strongly denied the claims made in the report, which cited unnamed current and former intelligence officials and was published on the magazine’s Web site. Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita ...
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Canadian Moonbat Zerbisias Slimes LGF
Sun, May 16, 2004 at 8:38:46 am PDT
Hizballah supporter Antonia Zerbisias takes aim at what she calls “warblogs” and singles out LGF for some special attention: Insult-happy Web guns fall quiet. Probably the most venomous of all is Charles Johnson. His site (http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com) is the toilet in which all sorts of misinformation and malice about Arabs and, in ...
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Kofi the King
Sun, May 16, 2004 at 7:59:43 am PDT
A very disturbing column from Amir Taheri on France and Russia’s plans to turn Iraq into another UN-managed disaster area, with Lakhdar Brahimi—an Israel-hating Algerian—in charge: Kofi the King. (Hat tip: abu hoo-hoo.) WITH just seven weeks to the scheduled transfer of power to the Iraqis, the United States seems to ...
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The Gray Zone
Sat, May 15, 2004 at 4:35:35 pm PDT
Well, here’s Seymour Hersh’s latest hit piece, impressively documented with names, dates, and places: The Gray Zone. Some of it may even be true. Hersh says the Abu Ghraib prison scandal is going to lead to another Church Commission—and as one of the prime driving forces making this happen, he ...
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Three Non-Entities Appear in Canadian Court
Sat, May 15, 2004 at 3:27:25 pm PDT
As jihadis threaten openly to bomb Canada, the Canadian government is playing coy with the identities of the 5 people arrested in the firebombing of a Jewish school. (Psst. The note left at the scene doesn’t read like the typical ones left by Buddhists when they commit firebombings.) Montreal — Three ...
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The Voice of Jihad
Sat, May 15, 2004 at 2:38:44 pm PDT
Here’s the jihad mindset revealed in all its anti-rational glory, in an interview with a friend of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan; notice that Canada’s non-judgmental attitude toward extremist Islam (case in point: the Khadr family) has bought them precisely zero good will from the barbarians waging civilizational war: Al ...
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Syrians Killed in North Korean Train Blast
Sat, May 15, 2004 at 1:25:24 pm PDT
Remember the gigantic train explosion in North Korea last month? NK blamed it on ammonium nitrate fertilizer at the time. But here’s a very interesting report from Tokyo Sankei Shimbun that says as many as 10 Syrian “technicians” were killed in the blast—in the area of the train where the damage ...
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Boo Freakin' Hoo
Sat, May 15, 2004 at 7:42:07 am PDT
Al-Reuters is throwing a gigantic pity party for the Palestinian Arabs, as today is the no-fun holiday called Naqba (Catastrophe)—the Arab term for the creation of Israel: Palestinian Refugees Twice Over Mark ‘Catastrophe’. GAZA (Reuters) - For Mohammed al-Bassiouny, the war over Israel’s creation in 1948 spelled lifelong misery in a ...
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Arafish Says...
Sat, May 15, 2004 at 7:17:12 am PDT
The al-Reuters release for this story is an amazing example of media cognitive dissonance: Arafat Makes Call to ‘Terrorize’ Enemy. (Hat tip: Bruce.) Arafat, whom Israel accuses of supporting militant groups, did not appear to be calling for new attacks on Israel. The passage in the Quran refers to the ...
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Chopping Heads
Sat, May 15, 2004 at 6:40:18 am PDT
Amir Taheri looks at the time-honored, sacred Islamic tradition of chopping heads. Berg is, of course, not the first to be murdered in such a gruesome manner. Nor, alas, is he likely to be the last. For the cutting of heads (in Arabic, qata al-raas) has been the favorite form of ...
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Missed One in Gaza
Fri, May 14, 2004 at 7:06:03 pm PDT
More pro-Palestinian propaganda, barely disguised and repeated in more than a dozen al-Reuters releases I’ve read today: Israel Tries to Kill Islamic Jihad Chief in Gaza. GAZA (Reuters) - Israel tried to assassinate the top leader of the militant Palestinian group Islamic Jihad in a missile strike in Gaza City on ...
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Malaysian Death Cult "Torture" Sketches
Fri, May 14, 2004 at 6:09:44 pm PDT
The lessons of Abu Ghraib are not lost on the Jemaah Islamiyah freakazoids in Malaysian custody, who are now alleging torture at the hands of Malaysian authorities—with illustrations from the Jemaah Islamiyah equivalent of Ted Rall. The scenes of police torture inside a Malaysian detention camp are shown in the drawing ...
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RoP Moonbat Canadian Visit Update
Fri, May 14, 2004 at 5:38:45 pm PDT
Yesterday we linked to a report by Steven Stalinsky of MEMRI that the imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca (a hate spewing, holy war preaching moonbat) was scheduled to visit Canada for a series of lectures and an appearance at the ISNA convention in Toronto. LGF reader “justdanny” emailed ...
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Vatican Warns Catholics Not to Marry Muslims
Fri, May 14, 2004 at 4:37:11 pm PDT
The Vatican continues a history of flip-flopping and mixed signals toward Islam, with a new warning that Catholic women should not marry Muslims. (Thanks to all who emailed.) VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican warned Catholic women on Friday to think hard before marrying a Muslim and urged Muslims to show ...
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Alhurra TV: New Saddam Atrocity Videos
Fri, May 14, 2004 at 4:17:28 pm PDT
Roger Simon has a report that Alhurra, the US-sponsored Arabic language TV station, has been given previously unseen videotapes and photographs, of Saddam Hussein’s police and military perpetrating stomach-turning torture, murder, and mutilations. Here’s Roger’s description of some of the contents: Two beheadings, during one of which “Happy Birthday, Saddam” is ...
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Muslim Children's Fund
Fri, May 14, 2004 at 4:00:46 pm PDT
Here’s a heartwarming charity, working to give Muslim children the tools they need to succeed in the afterlife: Muslim Children’s Fund. (Hat tip: militarybrat.) (Please note: joke. With a serious point. See here.)
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Stop Navel Gazing
Fri, May 14, 2004 at 1:26:19 pm PDT
An excellent Column One from Caroline Glick: Stop navel gazing. Our enemies, the forces of global jihad, be they Palestinian or Jordanian, Saudi, Egyptian, Syrian, Lebanese, Iranian or Iraqi use all the means at their disposal to wage their war against us. From their television and radio stations and newspapers they ...
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Mirror Fires Editor Over Fake Photos
Fri, May 14, 2004 at 12:46:14 pm PDT
Piers Morgan, editor of Britain’s Daily Mirror, has been fired for publishing fake Iraqi abuse photos. Despite mounting expert criticism of the pictures, and a statement by the government Thursday that they were fake, Morgan insisted his stories of abuse by troops were accurate. “The pictures accurately illustrated the reality about the ...
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British Shari'a Watch
Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:21:24 am PDT
Muslims in Britain can now turn on Channel 4 and zone out with Shariah TV. (Hat tip: Quodlibetarian.)
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Berkeley Prof Slithers on Call for Intifada
Fri, May 14, 2004 at 10:47:16 am PDT
Jonathan Calt Harris recaps the story of Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian and his call for an “intifada” in America, and credits LGF. (Hat tips: zombie, for capturing the moment on video, and Banagor for the heads-up.)
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Closing the Spigot
Fri, May 14, 2004 at 10:06:48 am PDT
The flood of search requests for the snuff video of Nick Berg has not abated; if anything, it’s intensifying. I’ve got to do something to get this under control before it brings down our server again, so I’m putting in a redirect that will tell people coming from a search ...
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Holes in Holy Shrine, Mujahideen Seethe
Fri, May 14, 2004 at 8:57:31 am PDT
The Imam Ali mosque in Najaf apparently sustained some slight damage in battles between mujahideen and US soldiers: Holiest Shi’ite Shrine Seen Damaged After Battle. Notice how al-Reuters uses the word “holy” repeatedly in this story, sans scare quotes. NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Aides to militant Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr blamed ...
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American Cannibalism
Fri, May 14, 2004 at 7:59:33 am PDT
Victor Davis Hanson says we’re doing to ourselves what the enemy cannot: American Cannibalism. Have we any memory of a man in a suit and tie, nearly three years ago wading through the din and panic amid the morning rubble, assuring millions of stunned Americans that the national headquarters of their ...
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Palestinians Used UN Ambulances
Fri, May 14, 2004 at 7:26:04 am PDT
The Hamas murderers who tore apart the bodies of IDF soldiers and then played with the remains in front of cameras used United Nations and Red Cross ambulances to carry away the body parts. On Friday morning, Defense minister Shaul Mofaz told reporters that Palestinians had used United Nations and Red ...
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"Let Us Have Faith"
Fri, May 14, 2004 at 6:48:53 am PDT
Joe Lieberman, one of the few high-ranking Democrats who hasn’t taken leave of his senses, says Donald Rumsfeld must stay. Most Democrats and Republicans, including President Bush and Sen. Kerry, agree that we must successfully finish what we have started in Iraq. Now is the time for all who share that ...
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Stop Attacking Us!
Thu, May 13, 2004 at 6:56:57 pm PDT
Arab News, the face Saudi Arabia chooses to show to the West, says: Stop The Attack Against Islam, in a wall-of-text rant that has to be read to be believed. Feelings of injustice and frustrations are driving more Muslims into the arms of extremist groups. The distorted facts that Israel and ...
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The Sacred Muslim Practice of Beheading
Thu, May 13, 2004 at 6:53:27 pm PDT
Andrew Bostom reminds us that Nick Berg’s decapitation was not an anomaly: The Sacred Muslim Practice of Beheading. Reactions to the grotesque jihadist decapitation of yet another “infidel Jew,” Mr. Berg, make clear that our intelligentsia are either dangerously uninformed, or simply unwilling to come to terms with this ugly reality: ...
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Berg Detained Because He was Jewish
Thu, May 13, 2004 at 5:54:20 pm PDT
According to The Age, Nicholas Berg was detained by Iraqi police because his passport had a Jewish name and an Israeli visa stamp—and they thought he was a spy. Nicholas Berg, the American who was filmed being beheaded, had been arrested by Iraqi police earlier and held on suspicion of being ...
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Nick Berg Search Requests
Thu, May 13, 2004 at 5:49:11 pm PDT
Search requests for the awful Nicholas Berg snuff film continue to pour in. This is the reason why LGF and several other sites (including Jihad Watch) have been slow and/or inaccessible today. It’s also the reason for the rash (and I use the word advisedly) of Morlockish comments in the past ...
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Berg Linked to Moussaoui
Thu, May 13, 2004 at 4:02:29 pm PDT
US intelligence has concluded there’s a very good chance the person shown murdering Nicholas Berg was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi himself. But another interesting new development in the case stretches the bounds of coincidence: Bizarre New Link In Berg Murder. (Hat tip: Nancy.) U.S. officials say the FBI questioned Berg in 2002 after ...
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There's Nothing Kind About Man
Thu, May 13, 2004 at 12:41:50 pm PDT
Theodore Dalrymple has a sobering look at the power of evil: Nick Berg’s executioners all too clearly enjoyed beheading him. (Hat tip: mal.) One thing that unites the men who beheaded the American Nick Berg in Iraq, the soldiers who abused Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib, the Palestinians who have held ...
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Al Jazeera: The Delusions Begin
Thu, May 13, 2004 at 8:23:57 am PDT
JihadTV has begun constructing the inevitable conspiracy theory around the Nick Berg snuff film: Bloggers doubt Berg execution video. Their sources: unnamed “bloggers” and internet discussion forum messages. Oh, brother.
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RoP Head to Visit Canada
Thu, May 13, 2004 at 7:27:32 am PDT
The imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Sheikh Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sudayyis, will be a guest of Canada next week, giving a series of lectures and attending the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) conference in Toronto. The Sheikh is a Grade A, Saudi-certified, jihad-preaching moonbat, whose khutba (sermons) are distinguished ...
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Kofi is "Horrified"
Wed, May 12, 2004 at 7:08:08 pm PDT
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Secretary General of the United Nations, equating the savage, prolonged decapitation of an American hostage with the humiliation of Iraqi fedayeen prisoners: U.N. chief ‘horrified’ by Iraq beheading. (Hat tip: Ted.) The U.N. spokesman said, Annan “condemns all killings of innocent civilians in Iraq ...
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Searching for Snuff
Wed, May 12, 2004 at 6:23:28 pm PDT
I’ve never seen anything like the storm of search requests for the video of poor Nicholas Berg being slaughtered by Islamic holy warriors. If LGF seems slow today, this is why. We’ve already had over 50,000 unique visitors, and a little less than half of them are from Google, Yahoo, or another ...
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Nigerian Muslims Rampage
Wed, May 12, 2004 at 6:03:38 pm PDT
Nigerian Muslims continue to kill Christians in the streets of Kano: Nigerian Muslims Rampage for Second Day. KANO, Nigeria - Muslim mobs brandishing machetes and clubs attacked Christians in the streets of Kano on Wednesday as security forces struggled to quell a two-day rampage to avenge a massacre of hundreds of ...
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Bad Radio
Wed, May 12, 2004 at 2:34:51 pm PDT
Michael Goodwin has a spot-on look at the venom and street-corner-crazy ranting of Air America: Liberal radio is airing bad jokes and worse taste. (Hat tip: Joel.) The network aims to give Dems a media organization to counter Limbaugh and others on the right who dominate talk radio. (What, National Public ...
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Syria Sanctioned, Arabs Seethe
Wed, May 12, 2004 at 1:12:41 pm PDT
Yesterday President Bush signed an order imposing sanctions on Syria, for supporting and training terrorist groups and sending jihadis into Iraq. Today Arabs are seething. I know! Amazing! Al-Reuters says: US Chose Bad Time to Impose Syria Sanctions-Arabs. BEIRUT, Lebanon (Reuters) - The United States, battling a prisoner abuse scandal and insurgency in ...
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"It Must Have Been a Beautiful Sight"
Wed, May 12, 2004 at 12:24:48 pm PDT
The Arab Street™ reacts to the slaughter of Nick Berg. “This was a justified retaliation. The Americans had committed very ugly actions against the Iraqi people in general and Iraqi prisoners in particular,” said Mohammed AlBargouti, a 24-year-old security guard in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Mutaz, a Syrian taxi driver ...
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Arab Media Play Down, Ignore Beheading
Wed, May 12, 2004 at 12:13:35 pm PDT
Unsurprisingly, Arab media are downplaying and ignoring the beheading of Nick Berg. It takes air time away from the much more important prison abuse scandal. Lebanon’s private Al Hayat-LBC station led its bulletins Wednesday with the video. Its news presenter said: “We apologize to our viewers for not showing the entire ...
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Berg Not Detained by US
Wed, May 12, 2004 at 8:38:09 am PDT
The Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority says Nick Berg was arrested by Iraqi police in Mosul, but was never detained by coalition forces. BAGHDAD, Iraq - The young American who was shown being decapitated on a videotape posted by an al-Qaida-linked Web site was never under U.S. custody despite claims by his ...
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Vatican Babbles Nonsense
Wed, May 12, 2004 at 8:14:26 am PDT
In the most insanely out of proportion statement yet on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, the Vatican’s foreign minister says the prison abuse is a more serious blow to the US than 9/11. ROME - The scandal of prisoner abuses by U.S. soldiers in Iraq has dealt a bigger blow to ...
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The Beheading of an Innocent
Wed, May 12, 2004 at 7:50:27 am PDT
Professor Walid Phares on The Beheading of an Innocent. Nick Berg’s life was simple. Out of Philadelphia, he sought a job in a liberated Iraq, or so he thought. He trusted his government, and trusted the politicians of his country. He traveled to help Iraqis and establish a personal link with ...
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Turning the Tables
Wed, May 12, 2004 at 7:25:26 am PDT
Here’s an interesting column by Bob McManus on the “Boyd Cycle,” and what it tells us about the battle against radical Islam: Turning the Tables. Nick Berg’s beheading ricocheted around the Internet yesterday, as it was meant to, in ostensible retaliation for the outrages at Abu Ghraib prison - themselves digitized ...
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The Good, The Bad, The Media
Tue, May 11, 2004 at 9:02:16 pm PDT
From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.
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Nigerian Shari'a Watch
Tue, May 11, 2004 at 6:37:28 pm PDT
Muslim-Christian violence continues in Nigeria. KANO, Nigeria - Angry young Muslim men attacked “nonbelievers” with machetes Tuesday, while others burned cars, stores and apartments in apparent revenge for last week’s killings of hundreds of Muslims by a Christian group. Three corpses — one charred and another badly mutilated — lay in ...
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Berg Family Angry with US Government
Tue, May 11, 2004 at 5:35:28 pm PDT
Nick Berg’s father is lashing out at the US government for detaining his son in Iraq for 13 days: Pa. family angry with American government over son’s brutal death. Michael Berg lashed out at the U.S. military and Bush administration, saying his son might still be alive had he not been ...
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Council of Churches: Give Iraq to the UN!
Tue, May 11, 2004 at 4:56:59 pm PDT
The National Council of Churches has called for the UN to Take Over in Iraq. The nation’s largest association of mainline Protestant and Orthodox Christian churches said Tuesday that U.S. policy in Iraq has become so destructive the United Nations should take over. Separately, bishops of the United Methodist Church, which claims ...
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Islamic Snuff Film
Tue, May 11, 2004 at 3:45:40 pm PDT
The video of Nick Berg’s murder is one of the most demonic things I’ve ever seen. It’s available here: Northeast Intelligence Network. (The site is getting heavy traffic and is occasionally down.) It opens with Berg sitting on a plastic chair, reciting his own name and the names of his parents ...
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Where's the Outrage?
Tue, May 11, 2004 at 2:57:31 pm PDT
The debased swine of Hamas are now attempting to hold the body parts of murdered Israeli soldiers for ransom. A frame grab taken from handout video footage shows two masked Palestinian Hamas gunmen making a statement in front of a table with the remains of Israeli soldiers May 11, 2004. Palestinian ...
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Al Jazeera Delights in Decapitation
Tue, May 11, 2004 at 1:02:59 pm PDT
JihadTV has broadcast a video of Hamas terrorists with the head of one of the IDF soldiers killed in Gaza today: Troops will stay in Gaza until bodies recovered. In a statement released by the Fatah, the organization claimed that they are in fact in possession of body parts and tat ...
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Religion of Decapitation
Tue, May 11, 2004 at 12:28:39 pm PDT
Video Shows Beheading of American in Iraq. CAIRO, Egypt - A video posted Tuesday on an Islamic militant Web site showed the beheading of an American civilian in Iraq, and said the execution was carried out by an al-Qaida affiliated group to avenge the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers. The ...
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British Abuse Photos: Faked
Tue, May 11, 2004 at 8:09:50 am PDT
The Sun reports that photographs of British troops abusing Iraqi prisoners are confirmed to be fake. (Hat tip: Barak Moore.) SHAMEFUL photographs showing British troops abusing Iraqi prisoners ARE fake, the Government confirmed yesterday. Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon told MPs that an Army truck seen in the photos had never been in ...
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Muslim Europe
Tue, May 11, 2004 at 7:57:34 am PDT
Daniel Pipes writes about the future of the Continent: Muslim Europe. “Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam.” So declares Oriana Fallaci in her new book, La Forza della Ragione, or, “The Force of Reason.” And the famed Italian journalist is right: Christianity’s ancient stronghold ...
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Palestinian Savagery
Tue, May 11, 2004 at 7:28:23 am PDT
Six Israeli soldiers were killed with a roadside bomb by Hamas terrorists in Gaza—who then proceeded to tear the corpses apart and play with the body parts as they took pictures: Six Soldiers Dead in Gaza Battle. Six Israeli soldiers are dead after their armored personnel carrier drove over a 100-kilogram ...
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Hamas vs. Fatah
Mon, May 10, 2004 at 7:26:50 pm PDT
Palestinian college students engaged in a uniquely Palestinian form of debate today: 8 Palestinians hurt in Hamas-Fatah gunfight. At least eight Palestinians were injured yesterday in the center of Nablus when a gunfight broke out between Hamas and Fatah activists. It is believed to be the first incident of its kind since ...
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Race to the Bottom
Mon, May 10, 2004 at 5:05:34 pm PDT
John F. Kerry’s chief adviser Ted Kennedy takes the bizarre, overheated self-flagellating hyperbole even further: Senate Condemns Iraqi Prisoner Abuse. “On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked, ‘Who would prefer that Saddam’s torture chambers still be open?’” said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. “Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened ...
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CAIR's Public Official of the Year: McDermott
Mon, May 10, 2004 at 4:15:54 pm PDT
In Washington State, the Islamist front group CAIR held a banquet to give an award to Representative (Moonbat-Seattle) Jim McDermott, and to announce that the King County Democratic Party has made an anti-Israel statement part of their platform: More than 300 Muslims gather for Seattle banquet. One overt political note was ...
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Bush Backs Rumsfeld, Arabs Seethe
Mon, May 10, 2004 at 2:45:37 pm PDT
In yet another al-Reuters release of barely disguised Arab propaganda, stringer Firouz Sedarat would like us to know that “analysts” have determined that the “true image of the occupation” is humiliation, contempt for Islam, sadism, and racism: Bush’s Backing of Rumsfeld Shocks and Angers Arabs. The “analysts” all seem to ...
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Bush Praises Rumsfeld
Mon, May 10, 2004 at 2:35:00 pm PDT
Bush Praises Rumsfeld on War on Terror. WASHINGTON - President Bush issued a strong endorsement of embattled Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld on Monday, telling him, “You are doing a superb job.” The president also saw more than a dozen additional photos depicting scenes of U.S. troops abusing Iraqi prisoners, White ...
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Burned Alive, a Story of Honor Killing
Mon, May 10, 2004 at 2:17:01 pm PDT
A riveting—and horrifying—first person account by the victim of an attempted honor killing in the West Bank: Burned Alive. (Hat tip: Miss Trixie.) He came towards me and said, with a smile: “Hi. How goes it?” He was chewing a blade of grass. “I’m going to take care of you.” I hadn’t been ...
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The Biscuits of Appeasement
Mon, May 10, 2004 at 2:05:23 pm PDT
Lots of people have emailed about this excellent Victor Davis Hanson column in today’s OpinionJournal: The Wages of Appeasement. It is a good one, but note that we already had a thread for this article, when it was published in City Journal last month under a slightly different title: The ...
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Electronic Surveillance and the Right to Privacy
Mon, May 10, 2004 at 12:52:42 pm PDT
Interesting points about the government’s new powers to electronically eavesdrop on private communications, from internet security expert Bruce Schneier: Curb electronic surveillance abuses. It’s a good and important thing to keep examining these issues, and to be on the lookout for abuse; the right to privacy is one of the ...
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London's Jihadists
Mon, May 10, 2004 at 9:42:24 am PDT
Rachel Ehrenfeld calls for the British government to wake up and do something about the almost unbelievable amount of jihad incitement that continues to be tolerated in the UK: London’s Jihadists. While the world is busy denouncing the United States for the deplorable behavior of a few soldiers, it is oblivious ...
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Panic Attack
Mon, May 10, 2004 at 9:26:00 am PDT
Midge Decter in the New York Post: Panic Attack. Now comes the latest scandal, over the behavior of a few prison guards in Iraq. This new scandal is no more than an election-season opportunity seized by certain serious opponents of the war, along with many more unserious opponents of the Bush ...
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Palestinian Hermaphrodite Suicide Bomber
Mon, May 10, 2004 at 9:20:19 am PDT
The latest Palestinian attempt at mass murder has been thwarted—and the would-be killer is reported to be a “hermaphrodite:” Security forces thwart suicide attack in Tel Aviv. A suicide bomb attack was thwarted with the arrest of a Palestinian woman, whom according to Palestinian reports is a hermaphrodite who goes by ...
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Army Times: Rumsfeld Should Go
Mon, May 10, 2004 at 8:36:58 am PDT
LGF reader Shiplord Kirel says that the Army Times will call for Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation. UPDATE: Please note—the Army Times is not an official publication of the US Army.
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Rumsfeld Must Stay
Mon, May 10, 2004 at 8:21:14 am PDT
David Frum says Donald Rumsfeld Must Stay. 1) Resignation would be utterly unjustified. The abuses in Abu Ghraib were in no way Donald Rumsfeld’s fault. Nothing he ever said or did could have given anyone in the chain of command beneath him any reason to think that he countenanced or would ...
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Welcome to the New Media Age
Sun, May 9, 2004 at 7:02:55 pm PDT
Well, that didn’t take long. Matt Drudge channels Seymour Hersh with this picture (and story) from the unreleased Abu Ghraib collection.
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Muslim Call to Prayer in Michigan
Sun, May 9, 2004 at 5:50:28 pm PDT
Residents of Hamtramck Michigan are petitioning the City Council to stop a new law allowing the amplified broadcast of the adhan (the Muslim call to prayer) five times a day: Petition to target prayer call law. (Hat tip: Dhimmi Watch.) Organizers say they are certain they’ll get the required 552 signatures ...
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Saudi Princess Responds to MEMRI
Sun, May 9, 2004 at 5:06:33 pm PDT
MEMRI has another update on the outrageous statements made recently by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah (he said that “Zionists” were behind the terror attacks in the Kingdom). First, the background: Following the terrorist attack in Yunbu, Saudi Arabia on May 1, 2004, Saudi Crown Prince Abdallah said in a meeting with ...
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Undoing Islam With Prefixes
Sun, May 9, 2004 at 4:18:58 pm PDT
In Pakistan Today, AbidUllah Jan explains that the distinction between “moderate” Islam and “fundamental” Islam is an invention of the West, for the purpose of dividing Muslims: Undoing Islam With Prefixes. (Hat tip: DP111.) Thanks for the clarification, AbidUllah. Others doubt intentions of the self-proclaimed moderates because they openly ask for Washington’s ...
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Operation Wolverines
Sun, May 9, 2004 at 1:29:35 pm PDT
Protest Warrior has a new 45-minute video showing what happened when PW cells infiltrated the International A.N.S.W.E.R. rallies last March. Watch as peaceful anti-war protesters turn into snarling animals when confronted with signs like “Communism has only killed 100 million people, let’s give it another chance!” and “Free Israel!”
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Holy Warriors Attack Mourners
Sun, May 9, 2004 at 11:51:35 am PDT
Today Palestinian Arabs lay in wait as mourners gathered at the spot where Tali Hatuel and her four daughters were murdered, then opened fire. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) Palestinians opened fire Sunday evening on a large group of Israelis who had congregated at the site of the attack on the Hatuel family ...
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Watching Big Brother
Sun, May 9, 2004 at 10:01:49 am PDT
EURSOC has a must-read entry about the amazingly bald-faced corruption of the European Union, and the puzzling silence of the media: Watching Big Brother. (Hat tip: Colt.) Hannan cites the scandalous treatment of German investigative reporter Hans-Martin Tillack as representative of the EU’s “looking-glass world.” Tillack - who is broadly Europhile ...
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Religious Leader Caught Plotting Suicide Attacks
Sun, May 9, 2004 at 8:10:25 am PDT
Italy ‘foils Iraq suicide plot’. Italian police say they have arrested an Algerian imam and four Tunisians suspected of planning suicide attacks against Western targets in Iraq. The men were seized in a series of raids in Florence and the province of Liguria - which were still ongoing. The raids were part of ...
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Religion of High Explosives
Sun, May 9, 2004 at 7:45:53 am PDT
Russia’s top man in Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, has been assassinated: Bomb Kills Chechen President, Several Others. The attack on the top-security event attended by military and political officials was one of the most audacious by Chechen rebels on Russian forces and the administration in mainly-Muslim Chechnya since Russian troops reoccupied the ...
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Open Road
Sun, May 9, 2004 at 7:38:36 am PDT
Bill Hobbs has started a new bicycling blog: Open Road. Thanks to Bill for inviting me to contribute.
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Nazimedia: Attack US Targets
Sat, May 8, 2004 at 8:55:44 pm PDT
The San Francisco branch of Indymedia advocates violent attacks against “military targets” in the United States, in a post that was moved by the Indymedia overlords to their “hidden” area, but remains visible with a few clicks: Military Targets in the USA must be Attacked. (Hat tip: Rayra.) UPDATE: The incriminating ...
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Cycling Diary
Sat, May 8, 2004 at 7:34:03 pm PDT
Trying to get back into top shape over here, today’s ride went down the South Bay bike path to the end, and up that steep little climb into Palos Verdes, then up to Malaga Cove and the more serious climb up Via Del Monte all the way to Hawthorne Boulevard. ...
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A Reminder...
Sat, May 8, 2004 at 6:30:40 pm PDT
Once again I must remind our readers that most of the top-level AOL proxies are blocked from commenting at LGF, because of a sustained and persistent pattern of Morlock abuse and idiocy. In other words, if you tried to comment and couldn’t, it may be because you’re using AOL. I’m not ...
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Who's Really Owed an Apology?
Sat, May 8, 2004 at 6:12:15 pm PDT
Joe Lieberman, a marginalized and ignored voice in a party which increasingly caters to its most extreme elements, reminds me why I used to think of myself as a Democrat: Who’s really owed an apology? “The behavior by Americans at the prison in Iraq is, as we all acknowledge, immoral, intolerable ...
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"They Killed us Like Rats"
Sat, May 8, 2004 at 5:50:19 pm PDT
How in the world did this article get into the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, normally one of the farthest left US newspapers? Iraqis who fled Saddam Hussein’s reign of terror don’t seem to have much sympathy for the prisoners abused at Abu Ghraib; in fact, they show a sense of perspective sorely lacking ...
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Iron Blog
Sat, May 8, 2004 at 5:33:51 pm PDT
Here’s a great idea for a blog, a spin-off of the wacky Japanese TV show Iron Chef, featuring bloggers from across the political spectrum squaring off in no-holds-barred debates to the death: Iron Blog.
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New Evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda Link
Sat, May 8, 2004 at 4:51:42 pm PDT
Possible new evidence about a meeting in Prague between September 11 plot leader Mohamed Atta and Iraqi intelligence officer Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani has been discovered. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.) Investigative journalist Edward J. Epstein has uncovered Czech government visa records indicating al-Ani was posted to the Iraqi embassy in ...
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JihadTV: Obsessed with Israel as Always
Sat, May 8, 2004 at 2:36:39 pm PDT
The only surprise in this article is that it took a whole week for JihadTV to come up with a way to blame the Iraqi prisoner abuse on Israel: Israeli lessons for the US in Iraq. (Hat tip: Quodlibetarian.) Hisham Abd al-Razzaq is a Palestinian Authority minister in charge of overseeing ...
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He Hates Israel, Too
Sat, May 8, 2004 at 2:07:44 pm PDT
Here’s a profile of Islam Khalil, an elementary school teacher and the “brains” behind Egyptian pop star Shaaban Abdel Rahim (whose new tune says Israel perpetrated the 9/11 attacks): He Hates Israel, Too. (Hat tip: ism_truth.) This is no Elton John/Bernie Taupin collaboration here. For one thing, Shaaban is illiterate. For ...
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Palestinians Seethe, Demand State
Sat, May 8, 2004 at 7:40:53 am PDT
In a masterpiece of understatement, President Bush says a Palestinian state by 2005 is “not realistic.” Palestinian Arabs are enraged, seething, and demanding a state by 2005, of course. This article brings up the “road map to peace,” as if such a thing still existed after years of Palestinian murder, brainwashing of ...
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Arabs Seethe, Demand Rumsfeld's Resignation
Sat, May 8, 2004 at 7:33:13 am PDT
The Arab world and the DNC find themselves in perfect agreement: Rumsfeld Apology Fails to Calm Arab Anger. The abuses by U.S. forces recalled the brutality of Saddam Hussein’s regime, said Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Salem al-Sabah. “For us in Kuwait these (abuses) mean a lot of things, and recall the ...
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Iraqis: Free All Prisoners as "Goodwill" Gesture
Sat, May 8, 2004 at 7:15:59 am PDT
Now that they see the US paralyzed with guilt over the prison abuse story, Iraqi tribal leaders are pressing their advantage and demanding that all Iraqi prisoners be freed. And they want to get paid too. The leaders from the Sunni-dominated al-Anbar province, from where many detainees come, said the gesture ...
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Poll: Rumsfeld Should Not Resign
Fri, May 7, 2004 at 7:40:19 pm PDT
Despite the three-ring guilt circus that performed today on Capitol Hill, even the Associated Press, ABC News, and the Washington Post are forced to admit that Most Don’t Want Rumsfeld to Quit. WASHINGTON - A majority of Americans say they are upset about reports of abuse of Iraqi prisoners, though more ...
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Forgive and Forget
Fri, May 7, 2004 at 5:12:48 pm PDT
Iowahawk News Service reports on the amazing global outpouring of sympathy and goodwill that followed George W. Bush’s apology to the Arab World™. *** Bush Apology Sparks Torrent of Global Goodwill Imams: “You Had Us at ‘Sorry’” Washington - The recent apology of US President George W. Bush for abuses by American military prison ...
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Anniversary of a Welcome Home
Fri, May 7, 2004 at 4:51:22 pm PDT
LGF reader “realwest” reminds me that today, May 7, is the anniversary of the “Welcome Home” parade for Vietnam veterans, held in New York City in 1985. It’s not a bad idea at all, as John F. Kerry reopens old wounds and tries to cover old transgressions, to say “Thank ...
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The Lizard is Loose in Iran
Fri, May 7, 2004 at 4:42:58 pm PDT
A new film mocking the mad mullahs is doing sell-out business in Tehran, and the turbaned ones are getting upset. You know what that means. Seething and banning, on Islamic grounds: Sell-out film that pokes fun at the mullahs faces ban in Iran. The film, The Lizard, follows the trail of ...
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Hate Like an Egyptian
Fri, May 7, 2004 at 2:10:43 pm PDT
Egyptian pop star Shaaban Abdel Rahim, who had a smash hit on the Arab charts in 2000 with “I Hate Israel (and Love Amr Moussa),” is back on the scene with the cheery pop confection “Hey Arabs Leaders!” The new song blames Israel for the World Trade Center attack, and ...
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Airhead America Melts Down
Fri, May 7, 2004 at 12:36:56 pm PDT
Air America, the stupefyingly dull liberal radio station headed by Al Franken, is in full Chernobyl mode. (Hat tip: zombie.) The chairman and vice chairman of Air America Radio have resigned, dealing the latest setback to the fledgling liberal radio network headlined by comedian and author Al Franken. The departures of Evan ...
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Our Weird Way of War
Fri, May 7, 2004 at 12:20:10 pm PDT
Victor Davis Hanson says the enemy knows us all too well: Our Weird Way of War. Still, we must give proper credit to our enemies for our present problems in Iraq and indeed in the so-called war against terror in general. The fundamentalists and holdover fascists are as adroit off the ...
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Iraqi Sheik: Keep Brit Females as Slaves
Fri, May 7, 2004 at 8:41:05 am PDT
A “senior aide” of Iraqi freakazoid Muqtada al-Sadr has advised the faithful that if any one of them captures a female British soldier, Allah says he can keep her as a slave. (Hat tip: V the K.) BASRA, Iraq - A senior aide of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr told worshippers ...
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Syria's Manhattan Project
Fri, May 7, 2004 at 8:11:40 am PDT
Source: Some in U.S. Think Syria Has Atomic Centrifuges. VIENNA (Reuters) - Some members of the Bush administration believe Syria has centrifuges that can purify uranium for use in bombs, though the intelligence community is divided on the issue, diplomats and experts told Reuters. Last week, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Arms ...
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A Grim Symbol
Fri, May 7, 2004 at 7:56:19 am PDT
Zaka Rescue and Recovery volunteers inspect bus number 19, in which a suicide bomber killed 11 and injured over 50 in Jerusalem on January 29, as it is shown to the public outside the Capitol Building in Washington, May 6, 2004. The organizations ‘Christians for Israel’ and Zaka have brought ...
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Oregon Lawyer Arrested in Madrid Bombings
Fri, May 7, 2004 at 7:29:42 am PDT
More information on the Oregon lawyer, a convert to Islam, who was arrested yesterday after his fingerprints were apparently found on a container related to the Madrid train bombings: Oregon Lawyer Arrested in Madrid Bombings. PORTLAND, Ore. - A lawyer and former Army officer who converted to Islam was arrested as ...
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Muslim Kill Muslim
Fri, May 7, 2004 at 6:39:21 am PDT
Karachi Mosque Blast Kills at Least 13, Wounds 80. KARACHI (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber blew up a crowded Shi’ite mosque in the business district of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Friday, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 80, police and officials said. More than 100 ...
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Behind CAIR's Hate Crimes Report
Thu, May 6, 2004 at 8:27:55 pm PDT
David Skinner takes a closer look at CAIR’s new “hate crimes” report, which makes the absurd claim that “anti-Muslim hate crimes” are up more than 70% this year: Behind CAIR’s Hate Crimes Report. It’s almost humorous what tiny offenses pass as worthy of complaint in the CAIR report. That a student ...
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Islamozoids Offer Bounties
Thu, May 6, 2004 at 7:47:30 pm PDT
The Islamists sat up all night in their dark holes again and word-processed a new set of Koran-based threats and warnings on their Windows laptops, including for the first time (who says they can’t innovate?) bounties on the heads of Paul Bremer, Kofi Annan, UN envoy Lakhdar “Israel is the ...
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True Colors
Thu, May 6, 2004 at 5:52:55 pm PDT
In an unstaged moment in Cincinnati, unnoticed by the media’s otherwise omnipresent cameras, George W. Bush reached out to a young girl whose mother died in the south tower of the World Trade Center: Bush pauses to comfort teen. (Thanks to all who emailed about this.) Lynn Faulkner, his daughter, Ashley, ...
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New Poll
Thu, May 6, 2004 at 5:18:02 pm PDT
I’m putting a finger out to test the wind: If the Presidential election were held next week, for whom would you vote?
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Madrid Bombing Probe Reaches Portland
Thu, May 6, 2004 at 4:30:09 pm PDT
A Portland Oregon man has been arrested by the FBI as part of the investigation into the Madrid bombings. (Hat tip: FH.) WASHINGTON — FBI agents arrested a Portland, Ore., man Thursday as part of the investigation into the deadly train bombings in Spain, federal officials said. Brandon Bieri Mayfield, a U.S. citizen, ...
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"Dirty Bomb" Material Seized in Ukraine
Thu, May 6, 2004 at 3:43:01 pm PDT
Ukrainian police have seized nearly 375 pounds of highly radioactive cesium-137: Ukraine Police Seize Radioactive Material. In a joint action, Ukraine’s police and state security agents seized two containers of cesium-137 and arrested three men from the southern city of Simferopol on the Crimean peninsula, police spokesman Yuriy Kondratyev told The ...
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Worldwide Wave of Hysteria
Thu, May 6, 2004 at 2:31:25 pm PDT
As Democratic sharks circle Donald Rumsfeld, President Bush says Rumsfeld ‘Will Stay in My Cabinet’. “Secretary Rumsfeld has served our nation well,” Bush told reporters in an appearance in the White House Rose Garden. Speaking slowly for emphasis, he added, “Secretary Rumsfeld has been the secretary during two wars, and he ...
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LGF in Arutz Sheva
Thu, May 6, 2004 at 12:58:27 pm PDT
Yours truly is featured, along with the Little Green Footballs lizardoids—even Arafish makes a guest appearance—in a positively glowing write-up for Arutz Sheva in Israel: At Israel’s Right. (Originally published in Hebrew in the B’Sheva newspaper.)
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Friedman: We're All Doomed Unless Bush Grovels
Thu, May 6, 2004 at 7:49:20 am PDT
Thomas Friedman demands that Donald Rumsfeld be fired, and maybe the entire Pentagon along with him. He says it’s the only way to restore our honor. After laying waste to our military command, Friedman proposes that President Bush invite to Camp David the UN Security Council, and the leaders of ...
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UN Springs Into Action
Thu, May 6, 2004 at 7:35:48 am PDT
Mohamed ElBaradei has issued another stern warning to Iran: Iran Must Come Clean on Atomic Plans. And if they don’t, why, he’ll escalate his rhetoric and issue a strict admonishment. PARIS (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog warned Iran on Thursday the world would not wait forever for ...
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Arabs Still Seething
Thu, May 6, 2004 at 7:25:22 am PDT
President Bush’s statements to the Arab world, broadcast on US-sponsored Alhurra and Arab jihad station Al Arabiya, did absolutely no good. Imagine my shock. “It’s not enough for the American president to punish the troops who committed the odious practices and it’s not enough that the national security adviser (Condoleezza Rice) ...
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Hate at the Local Mosque
Thu, May 6, 2004 at 7:07:09 am PDT
An op-ed at the New York Times by Asra Q. Nomani, a Muslim in West Virginia, describes the takeover of her mosque by radical Islamists—and the total lack of concern from “mainstream” Islamic groups like ISNA and CAIR: Hate at the Local Mosque. (Hat tip: Az.) MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Not long ...
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Not for Engagement
Wed, May 5, 2004 at 8:52:01 pm PDT
A New York Times story on the Muslim demand to have the adhan (the call to prayer) amplified over the town 5 times a day in Hamtramck, Michigan, contains a very revealing anecdote: Tensions rise in a Michigan town. ...for many Muslims in town, the dispute seemed less about noise or ...
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Zogby: Arabs are Victims of Antisemitism
Wed, May 5, 2004 at 8:28:11 pm PDT
James Zogby has apparently decided it’s time to come out into the open and back one of the most insidious distortions in the Arab/Palestinian propaganda playbook: Arabs and Muslims Are Victims of Anti-Semitism. Check your blood pressure before reading this masterpiece of moral equivalence with sinister intent. In the wake of ...
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The Right Stuff
Wed, May 5, 2004 at 6:15:54 pm PDT
Salvadoran soldiers praised for Iraq role. NAJAF, Iraq — One of his friends was dead, 12 others lay wounded and the four soldiers still left standing were surrounded and out of ammunition. So Salvadoran Cpl. Samuel Toloza said a prayer, whipped out his knife and charged the Iraqi gunmen. In one ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Wed, May 5, 2004 at 4:59:21 pm PDT
A Palestinian boy aims a “toy gun” in front of a portrait of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat during a rally for the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an “armed group” of the Fatah “faction,” in Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus, May 5, 2004. Reuters/Abed Omar Qusini ...
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Flipper Calls for Rumsfeld to Resign
Wed, May 5, 2004 at 2:55:59 pm PDT
Today John F. Kerry called for Donald Rumsfeld to resign. Howard Dean promptly screamed, “Yeaaargh! And Wolfowitz too!” KERRY, A SENATOR from Massachusetts, first said Thursday that Rumsfeld should step down, saying he proceeded in Iraq “in an arrogant, inappropriate way that has frankly put America at jeopardy.” Dean, the former governor ...
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Thoughts on "Torture"
Wed, May 5, 2004 at 2:22:55 pm PDT
I’m really surprised (and increasingly irked) at how widespread the label of “torture” is becoming, to describe what took place at the Abu Ghraib prison. I expect this stuff from places like CounterPunch and Indymedia and buzzflash, but even some people who ought to know better are starting to use ...
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Rall: A Loathsome Creep, Squared
Wed, May 5, 2004 at 1:49:22 pm PDT
Ted Rall must really be thriving under all the attention, like a noxious mushroom. His ego was so pumped up by his appearances yesterday on O’Reilly and countless radio shows that he scurried back to his hole and retched up his worst excrescence yet: An Army of Scum. Now it’s official: ...
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Outside Encouragement
Wed, May 5, 2004 at 1:28:26 pm PDT
According to Paul Marshall at National Review, the spread of brutal, inhuman shari’a law in Nigeria is being enthusiastically helped along by our allies in the war on terror, Saudi Arabia, and other foreign Islamic groups: Outside Encouragement. Since the governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Ahmed Sani, introduced a draconian version ...
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British Dhimmitude Watch
Wed, May 5, 2004 at 12:32:10 pm PDT
Schools in Manchester will be distributing new materials approved by the Muslim Council of Britan, to teach British schoolchildren that jihad is an inner struggle and nothing to worry about: Islam for Schools. (Hat tip: Dhimmi Watch.) A MAJOR initiative to counter anti-Muslim propaganda is to be launched in Greater Manchester ...
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The Horror
Wed, May 5, 2004 at 8:30:26 am PDT
Iowahawk News Service has uncovered even more shocking evidence of “torture” at the Abu Ghraib prison: New Iraq Shocker: Prisoners Forced to Wear Beanies, Swallow Goldfish. *** BAGHDAD - US CentCom braced for an international human rights backlash today, as it released another raft of photos detailing widespread inmate abuse and humiliation ...
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Inside Ted's Head
Wed, May 5, 2004 at 7:43:06 am PDT
From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.
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CAIR's War on Conservative Radio
Wed, May 5, 2004 at 7:28:55 am PDT
By taking an aggressive posture toward anyone who publicly criticizes Islamic extremism, CAIR is succeeding in one thing—exposing their own dishonest agenda and convincing more people every day that they are not to be trusted. Today Michelle Malkin has a good piece on CAIR’s War on Conservative Radio. CAIR, which calls itself ...
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NYT: Sloppy Thinking, Outright Lies
Wed, May 5, 2004 at 7:08:40 am PDT
The New York Times is reveling in the Abu Ghraib prison story; here’s a headline that flatly labels the incident with the ridiculously overblown, utterly wrong word “torture:” Revulsion Over the Torture Provokes Scorn for the US. To the New York Times, the faux outrage of the Arab world is to ...
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Al-Arabiya Will Question Bush
Tue, May 4, 2004 at 8:03:19 pm PDT
Uh. Why does the Bush administration think this will turn out well? Bush to Discuss Prisoner Abuse With Arab Media. WASHINGTON — President Bush has granted interviews to Arab news outlets in an effort to temper rising fury over images of American troops abusing Iraqi prisoners. White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Tuesday night that Bush ...
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Dark Victory
Tue, May 4, 2004 at 7:51:54 pm PDT
Silent Running reports on a disturbing outbreak of “artistic” antisemitism in Melbourne—funded by public money.
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Breaking News
Tue, May 4, 2004 at 7:11:16 pm PDT
Bomb blasts hit Athens police. ATHENS, Greece (Reuters) — Three bomb blasts have hit a central Athens police station early on Wednesday, a police official said. It was not clear whether there were any casualties or damage to the building. The police official said authorities had received an anonymous warning that the three ...
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French Shari'a Watch
Tue, May 4, 2004 at 5:37:51 pm PDT
France has reached out to soothe the delicate feelings of the Muslim community, after committing the almost unforgivable transgression of deporting an imam who preached wife beating: France reassures Muslims. Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the French prime minister, reassured the leader of the country’s Muslims yesterday of his government’s respect for Islam following ...
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Operation Black Dawn
Tue, May 4, 2004 at 5:19:10 pm PDT
Yesterday NATO conducted a simulation of an Islamic nuclear attack on the city of Brussels: Simulation Gives Glimpse of Nuke Terror. BRUSSELS, Belgium - European officials conducted a simulation showing how al-Qaida could kill 40,000 people and plunge the continent into chaos if a crude nuclear device were detonated outside NATO ...
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Justice Dept. Tells Prisons to Screen Imams
Tue, May 4, 2004 at 4:37:06 pm PDT
A new report by Justice Department investigators says that prisons are not adequately screening Muslim chaplains to find out whether they’re preaching jihad. WASHINGTON - Federal prison officials are failing to adequately screen Muslim chaplains and others who provide Islamic religious services to inmates to determine whether they hold extremist views, ...
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Unfit for Office
Tue, May 4, 2004 at 3:44:40 pm PDT
An absolutely withering assessment of John F. Kerry’s character by John O’Neill, who commanded the same Swift Boat as Kerry (after Kerry requested early departure): Unfit for Office. Vietnam was a long time ago. Why does it matter today? Since the days of the Roman Empire, the concept of military loyalty ...
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"Bomb London, Bomb New York"
Tue, May 4, 2004 at 2:30:03 pm PDT
Demonstrators chant ‘Bomb London, bomb New York’ and ‘We are terrorists’ outside Downing Street, London, Tuesday May 4, 2004, on the day that the British government announced that it will make a statement concerning the photographs which allegedly show British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners. (AP Photo/John D McHugh) (Hat tip: ...
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Iran's Game in Iraq
Tue, May 4, 2004 at 2:20:21 pm PDT
Here’s a good analysis at MEMRI of Iran’s destabilizing influence in Iraq: Iran’s Stirrings in Iraq. With the downfall of its nemesis Saddam Hussein, Iran can now pursue two principal objectives in Iraq: the first is to stir up problems for the Americans to keep them pinned down and divert their ...
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Austrian Muslims Seethe, Whine, Threaten
Tue, May 4, 2004 at 12:47:48 pm PDT
The Arab League and Austrian Muslim groups are freaking out about Vienna’s plan to name a city square after the father of Zionism, Theodor Herzl. As usual, the seething is accompanied by veiled threats of violence: Arabs Protest Vienna’s Plans for Square. VIENNA, Austria - Plans to name a Vienna square ...
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UN: Genocide and Slavery Compatible with Human Rights
Tue, May 4, 2004 at 8:35:32 am PDT
The US delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission walked out as Sudan was elected to the commission. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudan won an uncontested election on Tuesday to the United Nations’ main human rights watchdog, prompting the United States to walk out because of alleged ethnic cleansing in the ...
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The Force of Reason
Tue, May 4, 2004 at 8:29:49 am PDT
Lorenzo Vidino takes a look at the new book by Oriana Fallaci (not available in English yet): The Force of Reason. The long introduction to The Force of Reason recounts the intellectual lynching to which Fallaci was subjected following the publication of The Rage and the Pride. The PC establishment, which ...
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Arab Flunkies Urge Appeasement
Tue, May 4, 2004 at 8:01:46 am PDT
Former US ambassadors to Arab countries are putting together a letter urging President Bush to abandon Israel and show more support for the tyrannical, hate-filled countries that paid for their retirements: Ex-US diplomats urge Bush to rethink Israel support. WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former US diplomats and government officials are collecting signatures ...
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A Matter of Will
Tue, May 4, 2004 at 7:45:29 am PDT
Robert Kagan puts words to the misgivings I (and many others) feel about what’s been happening in Fallujah and Najaf: Lowering Our Sights. That is what President Bush has been saying all along. But Bush himself is the great mystery in this mounting debacle. His commitment to stay the course in ...
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UN Hits Bottom, Digs
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 8:41:42 pm PDT
The pathetic joke known as the “UN Human Rights Commission” has descended to a new low, as the country of Sudan, a hellhole of genocidal murder and unrepentant slavery, is assured a seat on the commission. UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - African nations have ensured that Sudan gets a seat on the ...
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The LGF Feed Bag
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 6:38:49 pm PDT
The LGF news feeds page has been significantly expanded; in addition to the headlines, you will now see text snippets from articles at the BBC, the Telegraph, Yahoo, Command Post, the Department of Defense, Google News, and Newstrove: LGF News Headlines.
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IDF Keeps the Pressure On
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 5:16:50 pm PDT
Another Israeli missile strike in Gaza. GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli helicopter gunship fired a missile at a group of gunmen during a raid in southern Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least one Palestinian and wounding a dozen more, Palestinian medics said. The helicopter was backing up Israeli forces raiding the southern ...
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"Zionism is Behind Terrorist Actions in the Kingdom"
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 5:11:08 pm PDT
Two days ago we reported the bizarre antisemitic statements by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah ibn Abd Al-’Aziz, blaming Zionists and Israel for the recent terror attacks against Muslims in Saudi Arabia. Today MEMRI has a more complete transcription of the Crown Prince’s ravings: Saudi Crown Prince on Yunbu Attack: ‘Zionism ...
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The Psychoanalytic Roots of Islamic Terrorism
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 4:42:42 pm PDT
Here’s a hair-raising article by feminist writer Phyllis Chesler, a professor of psychology and Women’s Studies, examining the Psychoanalytic Roots of Islamic Terrorism. In the ongoing battle for Fallujah, terrorists are using women and children as human shields against American soldiers. On April 27, 2004, in Jerusalem, Hamas used a Palestinian ...
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VDH: Abu Ghraib
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 4:15:33 pm PDT
The Benador Associates site has a copy of the Victor Davis Hanson column from today’s Wall Street Journal: Abu Ghraib. It’s hard to pull a quote from this one that isn’t better read in context—so just go ye and read.
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Islamic Murderbot Gets 32 Years
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 2:59:36 pm PDT
African embassy bomber Mamdouh Mahmud Salim got 32 years in prison today, for a horrific attack on a prison guard while awaiting trial for the bombings: Bin Laden Aide Gets U.S. Prison Term for Stabbing. The bombing charges are still pending. In an emotionally charged sentencing hearing, the defendant Mamdouh Mahmud ...
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Infidel Apparel
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 2:37:59 pm PDT
Ronnie Schreiber, who discovered the letter written by CBS exec Fred Friendly when he was one of the soldiers who liberated the Mauthausen concentration camp—The Granite of Mauthausen—is our newest advertiser, with his Infidel Apparel. Welcome him, won’t you, by clicking through and buying his wares if you like them? ...
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Religion of RPGs
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 2:18:16 pm PDT
Masked Palestinian militants, members of the Popular Resistance Committees, pray with their Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) launchers next to them in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah, during a rally in support of the attack at the Kissufim crossing between Gaza and Israel yesterday, in which a 34-year-old ...
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MSNBC Pulls Rall Cartoon
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 2:06:07 pm PDT
MSNBC - Why we pulled Monday’s Ted Rall cartoon. (Hat tip: Mr. Neutron.)
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Arab Street Reacts
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 11:50:14 am PDT
From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.
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It Was a Good Idea in '46
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 11:41:52 am PDT
Larry Miller takes one sentence from Kofi Annan and squeezes all the schtoopidity out of it, in a fine example of the art of fisking: Well, It Was a Good Idea in ‘46. “Violent military action by an occupying power against inhabitants of an occupied country will only make matters worse.” —Kofi ...
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RoP Plans NATO Summit Bombing
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 11:13:06 am PDT
Turkey says their police have foiled a bomb plot aimed at the upcoming NATO summit. Oddly enough, no Buddhists were involved. Police arrested 16 men they said were believed to belong to a militant Islamist group called Ansar al-Islam. They were detained on April 29 in the town of Bursa, 160 miles ...
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VCRs in the Hands of Savages
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 10:46:27 am PDT
The Palestinian Arab murderers who wiped out an entire Israeli family yesterday recorded a video of their barbaric act. (Hat tip: Saeel.) It was also learned that the terrorists not only murdered the 34-year-old mother of four who was eight months pregnant along with her children, but then ran up to ...
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Rall: A Loathsome Creep
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 10:35:10 am PDT
Why does Slate still publish the nasty scrawls of Ted Rall? You won’t believe this one. (Hat tip: sharona.)
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Spanish Dhimmitude Watch
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 9:49:45 am PDT
A Spanish cathedral will remove a statue of Saint James slaying Saracens, and replace it with a kinder, gentler statue—to avoid offending the delicate sensibilities of Spanish Muslims: Church to remove Moor-slayer saint. (Hat tip: Paco from Sefarad.) A statue in a Spanish cathedral showing St James slicing the heads off ...
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Iran Lectures US, Kills Dissidents
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 9:13:42 am PDT
Iran, that paragon of Islamic human rights, has blasted the US for “killing, torturing, and raping” Iraqis: Iran Blasts U.S. Abuses, Urges EU to Get Serious. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Iran accused the United States of systematically killing, torturing and raping Iraqis, and said such abuses by U.S. troops had bred hatred ...
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They Shall Have War
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 9:03:59 am PDT
Arafat’s best buddy Miguel Angel Moratinos is suddenly concerned about Islamic terrorism: Spain to monitor mosques. The Spanish government is considering monitoring mosques and imams to curb Islamic extremism blamed for the March 11 terror bombings in Madrid, the foreign minister said Monday. “I think it is important to know what is ...
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Kerry: Unfit to be Commander in Chief
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 7:52:57 am PDT
At the National Press Club in Washington, hundreds of former commanders and military colleagues of Democratic nominee John Kerry will declare in a signed letter that he is unfit to be Commander in Chief. (Hat tip: Rednek.) “What is going to happen on Tuesday is an event that is really historical ...
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Viva Palestine? With Friends Like These...
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 7:34:11 am PDT
Clifford May considers what’s required to wear the label “pro-Palestinian:” Viva Palestine? With Friends Like These... (Hat tip: Carl in Jerusalem.) To start, you have to appear non-judgmental about innocent Palestinian children being raised to become human bombs. You must refer to those who send such children on suicide/mass murder missions ...
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Religion of Machetes
Mon, May 3, 2004 at 7:15:16 am PDT
Thailand is sending reinforcements to the Muslim south, expecting more violence from the RoP: Troops Boost Thai Muslim South; New Attacks Feared. PATTANI, Thailand (Reuters) - More than 800 heavily armed troops arrived in Thailand’s Muslim south Monday where authorities are on full alert for possible suicide attacks after a bloody ...
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The End of American Jewry's Golden Era
Sun, May 2, 2004 at 8:39:15 pm PDT
Sobering insights into the struggle that lies ahead, from Daniel Pipes: The End of American Jewry’s Golden Era: An Interview with Daniel Pipes. In this context, it is important to understand the motivations and world of thought of extremist Muslims. Pipes defines an Islamist as one who believes Islam is the ...
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British Arabists Fail to Disclose Ties
Sun, May 2, 2004 at 8:32:53 pm PDT
Many of the diplomats who condemned Tony Blair’s Iraq policy in an “open letter” have financial ties to Arab countries: Diplomats failed to disclose their own Arab links. (Thanks to all who emailed about this.) Some of the most prominent former diplomats who condemned Tony Blair’s policies in the Middle East ...
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CAIR's Jihad against Talk Radio
Sun, May 2, 2004 at 8:23:58 pm PDT
The Council on American Islamic Relations is promoting good relations between Islam and America by waging jihad against another radio talk show host—Boston’s Jay Severin: Muslim Group Targets Talk-Show Host; Plans FCC Complaint. (Hat tip: Geepers.) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is demanding that a Boston-area talk show host be ...
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Chalabi: A Double Game?
Sun, May 2, 2004 at 6:22:21 pm PDT
Newsweek accuses Ahmed Chalabi of being in bed with the mad mullahs of Iran: MSNBC - Intelligence: A Double Game. (Hat tip: ActivistChat.) Ahmad Chalabi, the longtime Pentagon favorite to become leader of a free Iraq, has never made a secret of his close ties to Iran. Before the U.S. invasion ...
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Don't Count on Koppel
Sun, May 2, 2004 at 6:10:37 pm PDT
Mark Steyn refuses to be asphyxiated by the media’s smog of negativity in a new column about sweeps month, and Ted Koppel’s gravitas: Don’t count on Koppel for whole war story. (Hat tip: Connecticut Yankee.) According to Ted Koppel, dragging his gravitas like a ball and chain, “The most important thing ...
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Hold On
Sun, May 2, 2004 at 5:15:04 pm PDT
One of my very favorite songs, by a true original American talent, Tom Waits: Hold On. An achingly hopeful slice of reality from a songwriter better known for exploring the seedy side of life. *** They hung a sign up in our town “If you live it up, you won’t live it down” So ...
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Palestinian Car Swarm Watch
Sun, May 2, 2004 at 4:00:45 pm PDT
Palestinians gather around a destroyed car following an Israeli missle strike in the West Bank town of Nablus, Sunday, May 2, 2004. An Israeli missile strike killed four Palestinian militants, including two local leaders, as they drove in downtown Nablus, Palestinian security sources said. Two of the dead were identified ...
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Gaza Disengagement Plan Rejected
Sun, May 2, 2004 at 12:38:27 pm PDT
Ariel Sharon’s plan to pull put of Gaza is apparently being rejected by Likud party members. Telephone surveys of Likud members published as the polling stations closed following Sunday’s referendum of party voters showed a resounding defeat for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan. Channel 1’s survey found 62 percent of Likud ...
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The Koran's 111 Jihad Verses
Sun, May 2, 2004 at 11:36:11 am PDT
Here is a list of the Koran’s 111 Jihad Verses. (Hat tip: Joel S.)
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The Attacks That Fail
Sun, May 2, 2004 at 10:15:42 am PDT
Here are just a few of the Islamic terror attacks you never hear about—because they are thwarted by alert Israeli security personnel, or by sheer luck. Earlier on Sunday, security personnel at the Karni crossing in the Gaza Strip found an explosive belt hidden in a Palestinian truck attempting to leave ...
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US Hostage Escapes
Sun, May 2, 2004 at 9:39:15 am PDT
Some good news from Iraq: US Hostage Hamill Escapes in Iraq. BAGHDAD, Iraq - American hostage Thomas Hamill, kidnapped three weeks ago in an insurgent attack on his convoy, was found by U.S. forces Sunday south of Tikrit after he apparently escaped from his captors, the U.S. military said. An official ...
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Missile Strikes in Gaza
Sun, May 2, 2004 at 9:18:09 am PDT
Israel has launched three missiles at a building in Gaza that houses a Hamas radio station and the PA newspaper Al Ayyam: Witnesses: Missiles hit building in Gaza used by Hamas radio station.
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Daily Kos Bashing LGF Again
Sun, May 2, 2004 at 9:03:18 am PDT
Looks like their campaign to get all our advertisers to dump us hasn’t worked, so the lovely folks at Markos “Screw Them” Zuniga’s site are calling us fascists, Nazis, and racists again. This post at Daily Kos cherry-picks several comments from a long thread of more than 340, ignoring all ...
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Islam Online Glorifies Murder of Children
Sun, May 2, 2004 at 8:15:12 am PDT
In their story about today’s Islamic murders of four children and their mother, Islam Online displays that world-famous Islamic empathy with the headline: Palestinian Fighters Kill Five Israeli Settlers. GAZA CITY, May 2 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Five Israeli settlers were killed Sunday, May 2, and three soldiers injured in ...
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And Again
Sun, May 2, 2004 at 7:44:34 am PDT
Today Palestinian Arab savages murdered a 34-year old pregnant Israeli woman and her four daughters, walking up to their car and shooting them at close range. A pregnant mother and her four daughters were shot dead Sunday after two terrorists opened fire at Israeli cars traveling near the Kissufim Crossing at ...
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Saudi Antisemitism at the Highest Level
Sat, May 1, 2004 at 7:07:54 pm PDT
Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia says “Zionism is behind terrorist actions in the kingdom.” Later, the Saudi Press Agency quoted Abdullah as telling a gathering of princes in Jiddah that “Zionism is behind terrorist actions in the kingdom. I can say that I am 95 percent sure of that.” He said ...
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Cycling Diary
Sat, May 1, 2004 at 6:52:53 pm PDT
Great 50 mile hammerfest today, down to Palos Verdes on the bike path, then up PV Drive South and around the PV Country Club, down to Malaga Cove then up the PV Drive West climb and south to Hawthorne Boulevard, where we reversed direction. Medium/hard pace the whole way. The ...
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Saudi "Militants" Drag Body Through Streets
Sat, May 1, 2004 at 5:54:02 pm PDT
More details on the terrorist attack against Western petrochemical engineers in Saudi Arabia, including a report that one of the bodies was dragged through the streets of the Red Sea city of Yanbu: Saudi “Militants” Raise Stakes in Battle of Wills. Despite the arrest or killing of suspects, “militants” appear determined ...
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The 1000 Styles of Rumsfeld
Sat, May 1, 2004 at 4:33:28 pm PDT
Two Headed Finger Snake!
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Chinless Ophthalmologist Mouths Off
Sat, May 1, 2004 at 4:06:18 pm PDT
If you knew nothing about Syrian “President” Bashar al-Assad, or about Syria, you’d think from reading this al-Reuters release that he was a legitimate international head of state. Instead of a brutal Ba’athist dictator ruling a totalitarian, terror-sponsoring rogue nation. But there I go being judgmental again. Syria Sees Danger in ...
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A Reminder...
Sat, May 1, 2004 at 2:57:17 pm PDT
America OnLine is the bane of my existence. Every time I lift the block on their proxy servers, we get another influx of Morlock waste in our comments. So I’ve had to block the AOL range again; if you are unable to post comments, it doesn’t necessarily mean you were ...
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Arabs Seething at Schwarzenegger
Sat, May 1, 2004 at 2:45:02 pm PDT
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is in Israel to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for a Museum of Tolerance, a trip that was planned more than a year ago. Naturally, this has caused an outbreak of seething and whining from the US Arab community: Schwarzenegger Israel Trip Irks Arabs. “He’s going to disappoint a lot ...
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Islamic Supremacists Call for Worldwide Shari'a
Sat, May 1, 2004 at 2:24:35 pm PDT
Muslim scholars at the International Islamic Conference in Cairo—this year’s theme: “Tolerance in Islamic Civilization”—called for shari’a to become international law: Call For Incorporating Sharia Into International Law. (Hat tip: Bubbaman.) Their thinking is that since shari’a is the revealed word of Allah himself, it only makes sense to put the ...
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The Unilateral Cowboys of Thailand
Sat, May 1, 2004 at 8:15:44 am PDT
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra tells the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to buzz off. More than 100 suspected militants — mostly young men wielding machetes — were killed Wednesday when they attacked police and army posts in pre-dawn raids in three southern provinces. Three police and two soldiers were ...
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Bashir Supporters Clash with Indonesian Cops
Sat, May 1, 2004 at 8:02:21 am PDT
Devotees of Jemaah Islamiyah freakazoid Abu Bakar Bashir demonstrated the peaceful nature of Islam by battling with police in the Indonesian city of Makassar: Indonesian Police Clash with Bashir’s Supporters. Witnesses said the clashes erupted after some of the estimated 500 student protesters dragged a police officer inside the university compound. “The ...
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"The Brave Mujahideen of Fallujah"
Sat, May 1, 2004 at 7:54:49 am PDT
The mujahideen declare victory over the US in Fallujah. (Hat tip: mpax.) FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Soldiers of the old Iraqi army led by one of Saddam Hussein’s generals patrolled the city of Falluja on Saturday, a year after George W. Bush declared the U.S. “mission accomplished” in ousting the Iraqi ...
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Accused Jihadis Acquitted in Italy
Sat, May 1, 2004 at 7:44:09 am PDT
An Italian court has acquitted three Egyptian men accused of plotting terror attacks: Italy acquits ‘terror plotters’. Police held the three Egyptians in the port town of Anzio in October 2002, saying they found explosives, a gun and maps of alleged targets in their flat. After the men’s acquittal, defence lawyer Giovanni ...
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RoP Kills Five Westerners in Saudi
Sat, May 1, 2004 at 7:18:23 am PDT
Islamic terrorists have killed five Westerners in Saudi Arabia: Up to Five Dead in Attack on Western Firm in Saudi. Al-Reuters, of course, calls the murderers “militants.” Now watch as Saudi Arabia issues only the most perfunctory of condemnations; after all, no Muslims were killed this time. (This is the kind ...
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