LGF Archives: June 2003
Musharraf Backs Israel, Muslims Seethe
Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 9:50:55 pm PDT
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf made some noises recently about possibly, maybe, tentatively recognizing Israel’s right to exist—which of course drove Pakistani Muslims into a seething frenzy, threatening violence and revolution: Outrage as Musharraf backs Israel. (Hat tip: NC.) Maulana Fazlur Rehman, secretary-general of the Mutahidda Majlis-e-Amal, an alliance of six ...
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A Burning Ring of Fire
Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 9:33:16 pm PDT
More photo ops for those wacky Palestinian flatfoots today, in training for ... well, who knows what? Any guesses? Ringling Brothers, maybe? These guys kill me. No, really. They slay me. Next up: how many Palestinian police recruits can fit into a VW bug? How about a flaming VW bug? (Notice in ...
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Protest the ISM in Cambridge
Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 8:22:36 pm PDT
Here’s an LGF action alert, courtesy of reader Benjamin, about a protest in Cambridge Massachusetts against the terror enabling pro-Palestinian group known as the International Solidarity Movement: Tuesday, July 1, at 6:30 pm, there will be a demonstration at 51 Inman Street, Cambridge (behind Cambridge City Hall, between Harvard St ...
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Can Hamas Be Trusted?
Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 6:15:10 pm PDT
If you read only one piece about the hudna (Arabic for “strategic truce”) to which Hamas has agreed, let it be this excellent, illuminating article by Robert Spencer that demonstrates beyond any doubt why the hudna isn’t worth the paper on which it’s written: Can Hamas Be Trusted? Hamas holds ...
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Palestinians Still Want More
Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 5:35:09 pm PDT
A poll of Palestinians shows a majority in favor of continuing the stupidfada that has wrecked their economy and society: Poll: 57% of Palestinians oppose ending armed intifada. A public opinion poll carried out by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion showed that more than 57% of the Palestinians are ...
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BBC Covers Oxford Flap
Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 3:50:07 pm PDT
Oxford University has finally released a much stronger statement about Professor Andrew Wilkie’s bigoted rejection of an Israeli postgraduate candidate—and wonder of wonders, even the BBC is forced to cover it: Israel row professor apologises. (Hat tip: Tom Gross.) An Oxford professor accused of rejecting a student because he was ...
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LGF: Shark Blog Site of the Day
Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 3:01:06 pm PDT
A big LGF domo arigato to Stefan Sharkansky, who has honored us as his Shark Blog Site of the Day. And if Stefan’s site isn’t on your daily visit list, you’re missing one of the best blogs on the web.
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Straight Dope Tries To Figure Us Out
Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 2:06:29 pm PDT
The Straight Dope Message Board is trying to figure out whether LGF is a “hate site” in a discussion started by a pro-Palestinian member in Scandinavia who (as usual when these sorts of people mount a smear campaign against LGF) takes a selection of the most vehement comments from our ...
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Moses Wine Tasting
Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 1:38:47 pm PDT
Roger L. Simon is hosting a book signing and wine tasting party this Wednesday evening at the wonderful Dutton’s Bookstore in Brentwood. Click the link for full details; here’s your chance to get a signed copy of Roger’s new Moses Wine book, and meet some of the luminaries of the ...
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Media Clueless As Usual
Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 1:28:33 pm PDT
How can a major network correspondent be so clueless that they could actually say what I just heard on MSNBC? “The truce between Israel and the Palestinians seems to be holding, despite two attacks by militants today.” Aaaarrrrggghhhh. (By the way, the question above is purely rhetorical.) Similar statement: “Yes, I’m a strict vegetarian, ...
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Armed Forces Sent to Radical Islamic Web Site
Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:32:53 am PDT
According to the Washington Post, the Defense Department’s chaplain services have been directing servicepeople interested in learning more about Islam to a radical Muslim web site. The chaplains' service Web sites for the Navy and the Air Force refer sailors and airmen interested in learning more about Islam to Islamworld.net, ...
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Wahhabi Propaganda on the Web
Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:26:47 am PDT
Randall “Ismail” Royer, arrested in Northern Virginia for alleged connections to a Pakistani jihad group, runs a web site called A True Word that offers a smorgasbord of Islamic supremacism and anti-Americanism, and features the writing of several other Islamist Wahhabi flacks such as Amir Butler. UPDATE: see this LGF comment ...
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Wahhabi Influence in the US
Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:09:50 am PDT
The Senate hearing on Wahhabi influence in the United States is live on C-SPAN 2 right now. An important milestone in the war on terror.
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CAIR Spokesman Indicted in Jihad Plot
Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 9:50:33 am PDT
One of the 11 men recently arrested in Northern Virginia for alleged Islamic terrorist plots against India (and there’s evidence they were also targeting US troops in Iraq and the FBI building in Washington DC) was a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations: 11 Indicted In Alleged Va. Jihad ...
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Hudna Watch
Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 8:01:53 am PDT
A Romanian truck driver has been murdered by an Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades shooter while driving in the West Bank. This is the first murder of the hudna, and it certainly won’t be the last. The local Al Aqsa gang leaders say, “What truce?” (Hat tip: Morten.) A local leader ...
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What's On Arafat's Desk?
Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 9:48:15 pm PDT
The unthinkable has happened. No, I’m not talking about the laughable cease fire Hamas and Islamic Jihad are trying to sell us. I’m talking about the truly unthinkable. Someone has cleaned up Arafat’s desk. And yet ... and yet ... I swear I see the red binder—the horrible red binder—still lurking ... still ...
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RIP Katherine Hepburn
Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 9:32:46 pm PDT
Katherine Hepburn passed away today, and with her an era. Chip Joyce has a comment that rings very true: Katherine Hepburn died today at 96. I think she was not only a wonderful actress, but she was so very American in the best sense. She was a fiercely independent woman--which ...
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The Mullahs Are Losing Their Grip
Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 9:23:59 pm PDT
The younger generation in Iran is increasingly turning to the Internet, and pushing the boundaries of what’s acceptable under the rule of the mad mullahs—and the mullahs are trying to fight back. MTV helped expedite the fall of the Soviet Union, and it may be the Internet—and the weblog—that helps ...
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Rice Influenced by Holocaust Denier
Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 5:31:21 pm PDT
In the last 33 months more than 250 suicide bombers have entered Israel from the West Bank, while none have entered from Gaza. Why? Because the Gaza Strip is surrounded by a security fence. But Condoleezza Rice is pressuring Israel to stop building a similar fence to contain the Arab murderers ...
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Details of a Bogus Truce
Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 4:57:24 pm PDT
Well, here they are, what you’ve been waiting for; the texts of the Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad truce declarations. (Hat tip: Steven Den Beste.) If good faith were measured in centimeters, these documents would be thinner than a human hair. In return for stopping terrorist attacks, these murderous animals only want ...
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Why I'm an Anti-Anti-American
Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 3:41:52 pm PDT
Here’s a terrific article by Dinesh D'Souza, with too much great stuff to pull out a quote. Just go ye and read of it, for it is good: 10 things to celebrate / Why I'm an anti-anti-American. (Hat tip: Braddah Michael.)
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Malawian Muslims Still Seething, Rioting
Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 10:30:49 am PDT
Thrown into a paroxysm of rage and violence by the arrest of five Al Qaeda suspects, followers of the Religion of Peace™ in Malawi indulged themselves with a second day of rioting, vandalizing Catholic churches and attacking priests. Witnesses said mobs attacked churches and Christian priests in a second day ...
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No Antisemitism in Europe
Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 9:36:38 am PDT
Remember: according to EUroweenie Javier Solana, there is no antisemitism in Europe. Remember those words as you read Merde in France’s account of a crossword puzzle recently published in Le Parisien. 'Wholesale meats' was the definition given for 'genocide'. 'Taken far from home' was the definition for 'deported' and 'Pejorative ...
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Terrorists Beware
Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 9:10:14 am PDT
Wire services have been flooding the zone with photos of small groups of Palestinian “police recruits” in training, apparently to convince us that the PLO really is determined to ... uh ... do something. Here we see these idealistic young peace officers learning effective anti-terror tactics like handstands, and leaping over ...
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The Hudna Treaty
Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 8:22:58 am PDT
Aaron at Internet Haganah has a great post on the truth about the so-called “truce” that Hamas and Islamic Jihad have announced: The Hudna Treaty. Once again, the Islamists are not even trying to hide their intentions; you can find out the real meaning of hudna on many web sites, ...
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Hudnas and Loopholes
Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 7:18:47 am PDT
Hamas and Islamic Jihad announced their hudna (an Arabic word meaning a temporary strategic truce intended to allow Muslims to gain strength before resuming a battle) today, but Fatah is refusing to play along. The Pediatrician of Death made sure they had a loophole big enough to drive a truck bomb ...
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Mandela Shuns Bush, Sucks Up to France
Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 9:22:53 pm PDT
As President Bush prepares to make an important trip to Africa to promote a wide-ranging policy initiative that could mark a new era in US-Africa relations, South African President Nelson Mandela plans to shun him: Mandela says he won't meet with Bush. Mr. Mandela, a vocal critic of the Iraq ...
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Root Causes
Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 9:14:33 pm PDT
Itamar Marcus puts his finger directly on the root of the problem in the Middle East: Planting the seeds of the next war. One of the most meaningful gauges of the integrity of the peace process and its likelihood of success is the degree to which the parties educate toward ...
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It's Not Right
Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 7:51:15 pm PDT
I’m a fan of Condoleezza Rice. I understand the need for diplomacy. Not every problem can be (or should be) solved at the point of a gun. But it really bothers me to see a photo of Condoleezza Rice, a representative of the United States, smiling and shaking hands with a ...
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Oxford Antisemitism Update
Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 6:38:49 pm PDT
The Telegraph (alone among the major media) is covering the story of Andrew Wilkie, the Oxford professor who turned down Israeli PhD candidate Amit Duvshani’s application simply because of his nationality: Outrage as Oxford bans student for being Israeli. A report into the matter will be presented to Sir Colin ...
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New Bin Laden Video?
Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 2:32:34 pm PDT
Pakistani authorities have arrested an Egyptian Al Qaeda freakazoid near Peshawar—and he supposedly had in his possession a videotape of Osama Bin Laden: 'Bin Laden video' seized in Pakistan. The Egyptian national was arrested on Wednesday in a raid on a house in the northwestern city of Peshawar, near the ...
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Fatwa of the Day
Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 1:18:33 pm PDT
An influential Presbyterian minister Shi'ite Muslim cleric in Iran has issued a fatwa that says any Jew who buys Iraqi land should be mildly chastised killed. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iran-based cleric, Ayatollah Kazem al-Husseini al-Haieri, also said in his fatwa that selling real estate to Jews was forbidden for ...
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Nazimedia Stalker At It Again
Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 12:26:24 pm PDT
Well, they’ve posted that inept Photoshop job featuring yours truly again, and called me a “Zionazi” again, and they still don’t know the difference between Google search and Google News. Not only that—they still haven’t caught on to the terrible secret of LFG, either. If they weren’t so flat-line one-brain-cell-max ...
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Arab Search Requests
Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 9:11:57 am PDT
Today’s curious search request from the Persian Gulf comes from Saudi Arabia, where someone found LGF by searching Google for: what do saudi princess use in their bath? Was it a random pervert, or a real princess looking for body wash recommendations? The mind reels.
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Islamic Jihad Takes a Break
Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 8:23:27 am PDT
Islamic Jihad has announced that they will take a short pause to rest, reload, and rearm, before they resume murdering Jews. "We have accepted a conditional cease-fire for three months," the leader," al-Hindi told The Associated Press on Saturday. "I expect that it's going to be finished within 24 hours ...
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A Society of Extremism
Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 8:02:12 am PDT
We’ve been focusing on the bad side of the BBC lately, but one bright spot in their wasteland of pro-Arab, anti-Israel and anti-American bias is Tim Sebastian’s Hardtalk program. Here’s a quite amazing interview with Dr. Abdul Rahman Al Matroudi, Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Minister for Islamic Affairs, who denies everything—he ...
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In the Arab World, Bigotry=Heroism
Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 7:38:11 am PDT
The Arab News lavishes praise on a disgusting bigot, table tennis player Nabeel Al-Magahwi, who refused to play against an Israeli and was barred from competition for a year: TT Player Becomes Celebrity After Refusing to Face Israeli. (Hat tip: Jewels.) On the second day of the table tennis World ...
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Israel: Fed Up With the BBC
Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 7:21:22 am PDT
Following the showing of a blatantly anti-Israel “documentary,” the Israeli government press office has announced they will break off contact with the BBC. “The BBC will discover that bureaucracy can be applied with goodwill or without it. And after the way that they have repeatedly tried to delegitimise the state ...
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BBC vs. British Government
Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:09:11 pm PDT
An extraordinary battle is taking place between the BBC and its sponsor—the British government—over the BBC’s incredibly biased, relentlessly negative coverage of the Iraq war. Here is the statement from 10 Downing Street: PMOS afternoon briefing - 26 June. And here is the BBC’s take: Iraq dossier row 'extraordinary'. The most ...
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The Politics of Mass Destruction
Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 6:44:53 pm PDT
The Politics of Mass Destruction. Even as evidence is uncovered that Saddam Hussein was planning to revive his nuclear-weapons program at the earliest possible date, politicians and pundits alike lament the failure of coalition forces to find a "smoking gun." Despite the recent discovery of plans and parts for a ...
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Saudi Funds Linked to US Sleeper Cells
Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 5:25:36 pm PDT
Saudi Arabia continues to spend large sums of money promoting an image of friendliness to the United States. Here’s an example; a site that showed up in our referrer log today for some reason (they’re watching us): Saudi Arabia United States Relations. The problem, though, is that for the past 3 ...
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Malawian Muslims Seething, Rioting
Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 4:23:48 pm PDT
Malawian Muslims were so enraged about the arrest and extradition of five suspected Al Qaeda members that they had to burn down a Catholic church and the local offices of the “Save the Children” charity: Malawi Muslims Riot Over Alleged Extraditions. BLANTYRE, Malawi (Reuters) - Angry demonstrators in the resort ...
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Nazimedia on VDH
Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 2:49:58 pm PDT
Ever wondered what the drooling moonbats at Nazimedia think about Victor Davis Hanson? (Hat tip: NC.) V D Hanson is infected with Mad Corporation Disease and Hemorrhagic Stupiditas.He is a perfect specimen of the notoriously ridiculous 'RAPACIOUS NEOCONDERTHAL OILODON GLUTTON". He is deluded, vain, conceited and WRONG. I could go ...
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Iran Denies Zawahiri Report
Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 2:39:13 pm PDT
Iran denies arresting bin Laden's top aide. TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry denied Friday that the government has arrested Ayman al-Zawahiri, the right-hand man to terror mastermind Osama bin Laden. The al-Arabiya satellite television network, citing unnamed diplomatic sources, reported al-Zawahiri and al Qaeda spokesman Suleiman Abu Ghaith ...
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A Non-Apology Apology
Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 1:49:02 pm PDT
Professor Andrew Wilkie, author of the blatantly antisemitic email reproduced two posts down, has issued a ... well, not an apology, exactly. He apologizes for the “distress” his email caused and admits it was “inappropriate” to express his personal opinions, but doesn’t back down one bit from those opinions. It’s ...
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Medved on Corrie and al-Dura
Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 12:09:31 pm PDT
Michael Medved is discussing Rachel Corrie and Mohammed al-Dura on his radio show right now: Listen live here.
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Antisemitism at Oxford
Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:08:47 am PDT
When Israeli Amit Duvshani applied to Oxford for a doctoral position, he received the following reply from Andrew Wilkie, Nuffield Professor of Pathology at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (Hat tip: Naomi Ragen): -------------------- From: "Andrew Wilkie" awilkie@worf.molbiol.ox.ac.uk To: "Amit Duvshani" Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 9:58 AM Subject: Re: PhD application Dear Amit Duvshani, Thank ...
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Breaking News from Iran
Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 9:26:19 am PDT
Possible big news at the Drudge Report: Al Arabiya reporting Ayman Zawahri, Al Qaeda's #2, one of Osama's sons, and Suliman Abu Ghaith, a spokeman for Al Qaeda, captured in Iran... MORE... Iranian diplomatic sources saying they want to deport them to their native countries... Developing...
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Missing 727 Update
Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 9:07:42 am PDT
The Boeing 727 that mysteriously disappeared from an airport in Angola was a factor in the recent closing of the US embassy in Kenya—and one of the FBI’s 22 most-wanted terrorists is affiliated with a 727 plane operator in Africa: Missing 727 Inspires Fear. U.S. intelligence agencies are trying to ...
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UN Wants US to Pay
Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 8:47:48 am PDT
The United Nations building in New York is decrepit and falling apart. And even after their disgraceful behavior towards the US, their installing Libya as chair of the Human Rights Commission, and their ineffectual coddling of murderous dictators worldwide, they seem to think America should foot the bill for renovations—to ...
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Old and in the Way
Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 8:10:44 am PDT
Victor Davis Hanson says the American street is fed up with the ingratitude of those who suck up our foreign aid, and that big changes are on the horizon: Old and in the Way. During this entire crisis tired voices of convention have misunderstood the nature of this war and ...
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Move Along, Nothing to See Here
Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 7:32:21 am PDT
At the US-EU summit meeting in Washington, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana told the House of Representatives International Relations Committee that there is no antisemitism in Europe. None. Nope. Zilch. Zip. Nada. It was all just a bad dream. "When the issue of increased anti-Semitism was raised, he ...
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Made in America
Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 5:28:50 pm PDT
Tough words for Iran from Condoleeza Rice: Rice warns of 'Made in America' solution to Iran's nuclear plans. America gave notice yesterday that it was ready to act alone against Iran and North Korea if European countries did not co-operate in stopping them from developing nuclear weapons."If we do not ...
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Australia Minces No Words
Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 5:22:44 pm PDT
Wow. Australia has told the United Nations to bugger off. (Hat tip: Victrade.) CANBERRA, Australia -- The Australian government on Thursday branded multilateral forums such as the United Nations "ineffective and unfocused" and said its foreign policy will increasingly rely on "coalitions of the willing" like the one that waged ...
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LGF at HughHewitt.com
Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 5:10:17 pm PDT
A big LGF thank you to Hugh Hewitt, for including LGF on his list of “Key Blogs.”
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Ain't No Peace Symbol, AP
Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 4:49:06 pm PDT
Question: is the Associated Press really so clueless that they don’t know the Palestinians use this two-finger gesture as a victory sign? Answer: I doubt it. A young Palestinian protester flashes the peace sign during a rally calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails at the International Red ...
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Unclear on the "Truce" Concept
Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 4:11:56 pm PDT
The Palestinian Arabs have been awfully busy today, preparing for that “truce:” Militants Increase Attacks in Mideast. JERUSALEM - Palestinian militants stepped up violence against Israelis on Thursday, dispatching bombers, roadside snipers and a teenage gunman even as Palestinian officials and militia leaders discussed the time and place to announce ...
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Road Map to Murderville Update
Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 3:57:07 pm PDT
Another sniper attack against an Israeli motorist this evening. An Israeli civilian was shot this evening as he was driving his car near the West Bank settlement of Beitar Ilit, west of Bethlehem. The terror attack took place in the area of Palestinian village of El Hader, according to media ...
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Final Report: Corrie Death an Accident
Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 3:42:56 pm PDT
The Israel Defense Forces have finished their investigation into the death of ISM tool Rachel Corrie, concluding what most reasonable people already knew—that her death was an accident, and that the circumstances bore little or no relation to the descriptions given by Palestinian and ISM “eyewitnesses.” The military investigation conducted ...
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One in Three Americans "Invincibly Ignorant"
Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 9:47:14 am PDT
In an editorial that was apparently written after the discovery of gas centrifuge components in Iraq—but still pushes the “Bush lied” line—the Toronto Star says that one out of every three Americans is invincibly ignorant. Most Americans remain persuaded that the war and 8,000 Iraqi deaths were justified, to topple ...
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The “Bush Lied” Case Falls Apart
Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 9:40:17 am PDT
Byron York gets it exactly right, in a piece about the discovery of gas centrifuge parts and plans buried in a Baghdad backyard—a major discovery that is being relentlessly downplayed and second-paged in the New York Times and the Washington Post: The “Bush Lied” Case Falls Apart.
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Moussaoui Trial Backfire Watch
Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 9:14:25 am PDT
Back in January 2002, I wrote: A criminal trial is too good for the likes of Zacarias Moussaoui, who by any definition of the words has to be considered a spy and a saboteur. But he will now be afforded all the rights and privileges of a US citizen, in ...
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Three Suicide Bombers Stopped
Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 8:44:49 am PDT
The Palestinian Arab murderers are doing their best to get in a few last killings before their leaders agree to a “cease fire”—which they will, of course, immediately violate: 2 militants killed in north; Israeli shot dead by Palestinian. (Hat tip: Colt.) Two Palestinian would-be suicide bombers were shot dead ...
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Arafish Says...
Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 7:28:16 am PDT
Looks like the fish is behind the wheel again, with reporters hanging on his every word. Arafat told reporters at his West Bank headquarters Thursday that a formal announcement would be made soon.... But Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas leader in Gaza, said more time was needed. "There is a ...
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Palestinian Car Swarm Watch
Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 9:59:43 pm PDT
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House Votes Overwhelmingly in Favor of Israel
Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 8:10:32 pm PDT
U.S. Congress backs Israel's response to terrorist attacks. A House resolution, passed 399-5, condemned attacks on Israel since President George W. Bush, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas met in Jordan three weeks ago to pledge for the U.S.-backed peace plan. But a few lawmakers warned ...
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Blowing My Own Horn
Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 5:25:14 pm PDT
Muchas gracias and a big domo arigato to Israpundit, for making LGF their first Site of the Week.
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Hangin' With the Prince
Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 4:34:04 pm PDT
LGF reader CastorOil has discovered (read: Photoshopped) a picture of Thomas Friedman with another of his friends: UPDATE: it’s a riff on this photo we linked to yesterday.
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Gas Centrifuge in Baghdad
Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 3:25:19 pm PDT
Here it is, folks: Nuke component unearthed in Baghdad back yard. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The CIA has in its hands the critical parts of a key piece of Iraqi nuclear technology -- parts needed to develop a bomb program -- that were dug up in a back yard in Baghdad, ...
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US Intel Centers in Iraq
Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 2:33:53 pm PDT
Here’s a very interesting report at Debkafile: Two Huge US Intelligence Centers Go up in Iraq. The Americans are secretly building two giant intelligence facilities in Iraq at a cost of some half a billion dollars, according to an exclusive report received from DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s intelligence sources. US engineering and construction ...
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Ba'athists Take a Bath
Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 1:53:10 pm PDT
The US Treasury has frozen more than $1.2 billion in Iraqi assets from former senior Iraqi officials. (Hat tip: Victrade.) The US Treasury Department added the names of 55 former senior Iraqi officials, known as the Department of Defense's 55 "Most Wanted" figures, to the Foreign Assets Control list, freezing ...
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Dubya Gets It
Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:14:42 pm PDT
Here are some very heartening words from George W. Bush, who has been driving me crazy with his equivocating lately—but now seems to get it: Bush Skeptical of Mideast Truce Reports. WASHINGTON - President Bush reacted skeptically Wednesday to a reported agreement by Palestinian militants to halt attacks on Israelis ...
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Breaking: US Embassy in Liberia Attacked
Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:47:40 am PDT
From Ha'aretz Flash News: 20:17 Blasts rock U.S. Embassy compound in Monrovia; injuries among thousands of Liberians seeking protection there UPDATE: More details from the AP: Shells Explode in U.S. Embassy in Liberia. (Hat tip: ralph.) MONROVIA, Liberia - Explosives landed in a U.S. diplomatic complex in Liberia's besieged capital Wednesday, ...
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Moral Stupidity
Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:01:51 am PDT
A great clear-sighted essay by writer Orson Scott Card: Moral Stupidity. Israel seems to be taking the only course that is left to them. They are building a Berlin Wall around the West Bank, as they have already done around Gaza. When it is complete, they will simply withdraw behind ...
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Another Attack Thwarted
Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 9:21:05 am PDT
As Hamas and Islamic Jihad lie about a three-month “truce” with Israel, two more terrorists from Nablus have been caught with a large bomb before they could commit mass murder: Security forces thwart terror attack in central Israel. (Hat tip: CastorOil.) The terrorists were identified as Nidal Subhi Abdelhak and ...
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Breaking News
Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 9:16:40 am PDT
From Ha'aretz Flash News: 19:13 Palestinians: Israeli helicopter strike in Gaza could thwart 3-month cease-fire truce 18:26 Palestinian sources: One person dead in Israeli air attack on Palestinian car in the Gaza Strip
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Irish Foreign Minister Makes a Choice
Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 8:13:28 am PDT
Irish Foreign Minister Brian Cowen was told that if he met with the bloodstained murderer Yasser Arafat, he would not be allowed to meet with Israeli officials. He chose to meet with the terrorist. Cowen is slated to arrive Wednesday night and meet Thursday in Ramallah with Arafat, PA Prime Minister ...
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Friedman's Roots
Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:01:05 pm PDT
Here’s a photograph of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman that I’m sure he wouldn’t like his buddy Crown Prince Abdullah to see. (Hat tip: Allison Kaplan Sommer.)
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EUroweenie Fascism
Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 9:43:29 pm PDT
The unelected weeniecrats of the European Commission continue their efforts to regulate all human behavior to fit the desires of the übervolk, with a proposed ban on “sexist” TV programs and advertising: EU plan for sexism law draws fire. BRUSSELS, June 24 — Media groups on Tuesday reacted with disbelief ...
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If You See a Message...
Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 6:07:55 pm PDT
...that you are “not allowed to post comments,” it’s because I had to block a range of IP addresses to stop a group of drooling antisemitic morons from harassing us. Sorry for the inconvenience; email me for more information.
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Here Comes the Tour
Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 5:58:21 pm PDT
At the Trek Bikes web site, here’s a nice, concise look at the key stages of this year’s Tour de France, which begins July 5 and continues for three grueling weeks: About The Tour de France. Lance Armstrong is in fantastic shape and positioned to win his fifth Tour in ...
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No More Errors, Ever
Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 5:48:23 pm PDT
If you’ve been noticing odd “scripting errors” the first time you load the Little Green Footballs page, I’m happy to report that I debugged that problem today. It was related to the new “Users Online” feature that shows the number of people currently browsing the site. Thanks to all who ...
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Qatari Antisemitism Watch
Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 5:22:29 pm PDT
The ADL site has a collection of utterly appalling antisemitic cartoons published in the Qatari newspaper, Al-Watan. (Hat tip: NC.)
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RIP Leon Uris
Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 4:38:20 pm PDT
Rest in peace, Leon Uris. Everyone knows his most popular book Exodus, but I also highly recommend a lesser-known novel, The Haj.
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Breakthrough Time (Yeah, Right)
Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 3:57:05 pm PDT
It looks like Hamas is finally figuring out how easy it is to pull the wool over the eyes of the West; just say the words we want to hear! Hamas: We envision Palestinian and Israeli states side by side. (Hat tip: J. Lichty.) Hamas has said that it envisions ...
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The French Hamas Connection
Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 2:52:06 pm PDT
TIME Magazine reports that France is winking at Hamas fund raising: Hamas' French Funds? (Thanks to all who emailed about this.) State Department and White House sources tell TIME the U.S. has lodged complaints that Paris is turning a blind eye to fund raising in France by front organizations for ...
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Ibn Warraq in Cambridge
Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:33:46 pm PDT
If any of our readers in Massachusetts are without plans for the evening, please note: Ibn Warraq, author of the book “Why I Am Not A Muslim,” will give a reading/ lecture in Cambridge tonight at 7 PM entitled, “Apostasy and Apostates under Islam.” Here’s the info: Tuesday Evening June 24, ...
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Al-Zawiya Paranoia Redux
Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 9:53:45 am PDT
Our paranoid Jew-hating friends at the al-Zawiya Forum have posted another hilarious message, charging that LGF is funded by evil Zionists bent on world domination. Or maybe we’re actually evil Zionists ourselves. They’re trying to figure it out. It would be difficult to prove that Zionists are funding the weblog ...
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Hope vs. Experience
Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 9:34:24 am PDT
Here we go again with a meaningless Hamas truce deal, which even if true, would be nothing but a temporary cease fire (in Arabic, a hudna) to allow them to regroup and rearm, on the way to their often-stated goal of wiping out Israel. The always excellent Shark Blog has a ...
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The Arafat-Gadafi Connection
Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 9:23:15 am PDT
Now that Saddam Hussein is in no position to fund Palestinian terrorism, Libyan wacko Muammar Gadafi is stepping up to the plate: Arafat alleged to raise Libyan money. (Hat tip: kamala.) Sources close to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat say he has raised $2. 5 million from Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy ...
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Activist Car Bomber
Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 8:31:17 am PDT
Last night Israel arrested 154 Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank, accused of being members of Hamas. The Palestinians are, naturally, whining about how this undermines their authority just as they were on the verge of making a deal with Hamas (where have we heard this one before?): Michael Tarazi, ...
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Missing 727 Update
Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 7:55:15 am PDT
Here’s an update on that Boeing 727 missing in Africa; the new piece of information here is that Ben Padilla was not alone in the plane when it took off from Angola: Missing Cargo Jet Prompts Africa Search. U.S. Federal Aviation Association records show the aircraft was most recently owned ...
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The Crushing of Dissent
Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 8:13:10 pm PDT
Today John Ashcroft called for the death penalty for protesters. Wait ... did I write “John Ashcroft?” I meant to write “the Ayatollah Mohammed Yazdi:” A senior hardline cleric in Iran has called on the judiciary to bring charges carrying the death penalty against people arrested for involvement in the recent ...
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Human Shields for Israel
Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 6:56:43 pm PDT
If you’re planning to visit Israel, here’s a great idea from reader Gadi Niram, as a response to the cowardly American Apology Shirt we wrote about yesterday: Human Shields for Israel. Gadi has priced all the pro-Israel items at cost.
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Hamas Declares War on US
Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 5:39:20 pm PDT
Senator Arlen Spector wants Palestinian murderer Hassan Salameh, who was convicted in Israel of the 1996 bus bombing that killed three American citizens, to be extradited to the US. (Hat tip: Robert.) Sen. Arlen Specter told CNN's Late Edition that U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft supported extraditing Hassan Salameh to ...
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Religion of High Explosives
Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 5:23:10 pm PDT
A huge cache of C4 explosive was discovered in the Philippines, after a clash between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Philippine Army troops: Big explosives cache found in Maguindanao. (Hat tip: Andrew Weisburd.) More than 450 kilos of explosives, enough to demolish a 10-story building, were recovered on Saturday ...
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Terrorist Incident Chart
Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 4:53:24 pm PDT
Here’s the latest breakdown of terrorist incidents in Israel and the Palestinian Authority, over the past three weeks. They average out to about 100 attacks per week—attacks that were supposed to end before “negotiations” began.
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Al-Zawiya Yahoo Group Notices LGF
Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:47:26 am PDT
Hey, look who’s talking about us: Yahoo! Groups : al-Zawiya Messages. (With a special warning not to post comments here.)
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This'll Get Them Back in Google News
Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:30:04 am PDT
Here’s good old Nazimedia, showing once again why they deserve the name I’ve given them, by asking thoughtful, intelligent questions like, “Did Jesus hate Jews?”
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Funeral Gun Fun
Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 8:14:41 am PDT
An armed Palestinian fires his weapon while others chant anti-Israeli slogans during a funeral Monday, June 23, 2003, in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. Four Palestinians were killed apparently when a bomb they were planting went off in northern Gaza.
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Back the Freedom Fighters
Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 7:51:59 am PDT
Michael Ledeen says democratic revolution has broken out in Iran, and there’s no going back. Even the fragmentary reports from journalists operating under tight regime control in very limited areas of the country show that the mass demonstrations now involve all classes and regions. This is no longer purely or ...
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Saint Rachel Finds a Home
Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 7:42:49 am PDT
Rachel Corrie is in good company on a mural in San Francisco’s Mission District, alongside communist guerilla/T-shirt idol Che Guevara, and brutal cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal. (Hat tip: Tim Blair.) Here’s Saint Rachel in her more three-dimensional days, instructing the little children of Gaza in the proper way to burn a ...
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Roadmap to Murderville Update
Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 7:22:40 am PDT
Colin Powell says the Palestinian Authority has made “a considerable effort” to put an end to the terrorist violence. US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday that in the past two and a half weeks there has been considerable progress made in talks between Israel and the Palestinians and ...
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Explosives Ship Headed for Sudan
Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 7:05:28 am PDT
The Baltic Sky, a ship discovered by Greek authorities to be carrying 680 tons of explosives and 8,000 detonators, was headed for Sudan. The ship was carrying 680 tonnes of explosives, mainly TNT -- the "equivalent of an atomic bomb" -- and 8,000 detonators, Greek Merchant Marines Minister Georges Anomeritis ...
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Breaking News
Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 8:59:36 pm PDT
A Ha'aretz news flash: 04:02 Security officials: 15 IDF tanks enter central Gaza town of Qarara, surround house of Hamas leader
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Alpha Shipping
Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 5:59:24 pm PDT
UPDATE: on that ship discovered carrying 680 metric tons of explosives. News reports say the owner of the ship is a company named Alpha Shipping registered in the Marshall Islands. Lloyd’s World Shipping Directory has four search results for Alpha Shipping.
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The Lady of Steel
Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 5:44:46 pm PDT
The Palestinian Authority’s official newspaper Al-Ayyam published a bizarre article about Condoleeza Rice today; the Jerusalem Post calls it a scathing attack, but I’m not sure I agree. Oh, it is dripping with racism and sexism, yes—but the author seems to have a bit of a crush on Condi, in ...
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680 Tons of Explosives Discovered
Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 5:14:13 pm PDT
Greek forces today discovered 680 metric tons of explosives on a ship bound for Africa. That’s a whole lotta boom boom stuff. UPDATE: and here is the ship Baltic Sky.
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Job Safety
Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 4:10:48 pm PDT
Three Palestinian Arabs were killed in a work-related accident today in the Gaza Strip: IDF: 3 Palestinians killed in northern Gaza Strip died in "work accident." IDF sources said that the three Palestinians killed late Sunday night in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip were not killed by IDF ...
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Anti-Roadmap Protest
Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 1:20:48 pm PDT
At Israpundit, Joseph Alexander Norland has the information about a planned international day of protest against the “roadmap to Murderville,” on July 20.
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The New Antisemitism
Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:42:35 pm PDT
You know that the antisemitism of the Arab world is bad when even Britain’s Observer can no longer ignore it: The new anti-Semitism. (Hat tip: Julian.) There is a great deal to shudder about. The amount of anti-Semitic literature, journalism and television in Arab countries is voluminous. The more sophisticated ...
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Look But Don't Touch
Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:33:43 am PDT
Palestinians look at the blood of Abdullah Kawasme, a militant of the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas, at the site where he was killed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron early Sunday June 22, 2003. The guy at lower left is doing more than looking.
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Texas Attack Warnings
Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:13:14 am PDT
Newsweek has an exclusive report of possible imminent Al Qaeda attacks in Texas—around the Fourth of July. (Hat tip: NC.) Earlier this month, NEWSWEEK has learned, U.S. intelligence intercepted chat-room conversations between suspected Qaeda associates about attacks in Texas around the Fourth of July. One of the operatives, known only ...
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American Apology Shirt
Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 9:57:13 am PDT
Here’s a T-shirt for US travellers abroad who are ashamed of their own country, with a charming slogan translated into several languages: “I’m sorry my president’s an idiot. I didn’t vote for him.” American Apology Shirt. (Hat tip: Douglas.) To really complete the message, though, it should also read: “Please don’t ...
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Hamas: "This is Not Iraq"
Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 9:45:11 am PDT
The director of London’s Arabic language Al-Hayyat newspaper, Jihad Khazen, says Hamas will not agree to a cease fire because they haven’t been defeated. Exactly right. Khazen, who spoke at Saturday's session on Middle East Politics at the World Economic Summit in Jordan, said he had been asked by Mohammed ...
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Muslim Youth Camps of America
Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 7:55:49 pm PDT
The Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia are trying to set up a “youth camp” near North Liberty, Iowa, along Coralville Lake, and the US Army Corps of Engineers is doing their best to make it happen: Proposed Recreation Area - Formerly Daybreak Camp Site. See this thread for more information. (And ...
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Observer: Missile Strike on "Saddam Convoy"
Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 6:52:49 pm PDT
Britain’s Observer has a report that Saddam Hussein and at least one of his sons may have been killed in a Hellfire missile strike against a convoy of vehicles travelling in the Western Desert near Syria: DNA tests after missiles strike Saddam convoy. (Hat tip: Aaron.) I don’t know about you, ...
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Adam Shapiro Self-Hate World Tour
Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 6:13:22 pm PDT
The next stop on Adam Shapiro and wife Huwaida Arraf’s terror enabling world tour is the United Arab Emirates capital of Abu Dhabi, where they seem to feel quite at home—so much so that Arraf let her mask slip. They agreed that the Arabs do support the Palestinians but that ...
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Israel Size Comparison Maps
Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 5:30:24 pm PDT
Here’s an interesting series of maps showing the size of Israel in comparison to other parts of the world, revealing how small the country is in reality: Israel Size Comparison Maps.
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Got Another Hamas Creep
Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 3:30:21 pm PDT
Another Hamas subhuman went to that great celestial bordello today: Senior Hamas terrorist killed by IDF in Hebron. Abdullah Kawasme, the head of Hamas' military wing in Hebron, was killed in a gunbattle as security forces moved in to arrest him, a military source told the Jerusalem Post. Kawasme is ...
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Iran Buys Some More Time
Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:29:31 am PDT
Iran is using the same cheat-and-retreat tactics that Iraq got away with for years, to buy time for its nuclear weapons program. And the United Nations is, of course, perfectly willing to play along: Iran Backs Away from Nuclear Row, Vows Cooperation. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran backed away from confrontation ...
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Kavkaz Center Goes Dark
Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:21:31 am PDT
Aaron at Internet Haganah reports that the evil jihadi site called Kavkaz Center is offline, after its web server was physically seized by the Lithuanian Security Service. Excellent. Those server logs will be a goldmine of information.
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Belgium: The Conscience of the World
Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 9:40:15 am PDT
Yesterday the Belgian Foreign Minister found himself accused under the same Belgian war crimes law that is being used against Ariel Sharon, George Bush, and Donald Rumsfeld. He didn’t like it very much. Now, all of a sudden, a leading Belgian politician wants to abolish the law. (Hat tip: Amos.) Former prime ...
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Antisemitism in Malaysia
Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 8:24:58 am PDT
Last time I checked, the Jewish population of Malaysia was approximately ... zero. So why the hell is Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad handing out copies of Henry Ford’s ugly antisemitic book The International Jew and the infamous Russian forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Mahathir's Party Hands ...
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"Top Secret" Documents Found
Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 8:12:00 am PDT
Soldiers searching an abandoned community hall in Baghdad have found something very interesting: U.S. Forces May Have Found WMD Documents. About 50 soldiers from the 1st Armored Division stormed the building at about 1 a.m. after sealing off part of Baghdad's Azamiyah district — a center of support for Saddam's ...
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Death Cults of War
Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:36:24 pm PDT
Arnold Beichman has a chilling piece at NRO on the Islamic Death Cults of War, fueled by fatwas from the highest Muslim authorities in the world. So how will the next suicide bomber disguise him or herself to execute an Israeli-killing mission? Now that every orthodox Jew with black hat ...
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Holy Land Foundation Loses Again
Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:09:50 pm PDT
Today an appeals court upheld the government’s freezing of the financial assets of the Holy Land Foundation, one of the Islamic “charities” that funded Hamas’s efforts to slaughter women and children on buses in Israel. On Dec. 4, 2001, the U.S. Treasury Department designated the foundation a terrorist group and ...
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Egypt: What Jewish State?
Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 7:40:15 pm PDT
Egypt’s Al-Ahram blew a gasket when George Bush referred to Israel as a “Jewish state” in his speech at the Aqaba summit meeting: What Jewish state? (Hat tip: Tal G. in Jerusalem.) Egypt receives $2 billion a year in foreign aid from the United States, and substantially more this year after ...
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The Real Quagmire
Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 5:36:20 pm PDT
Ralph Peters writes that the idea floated by Senator Richard Lugar (to send US troops to Israel and the PA) would result in a real quagmire. RECENTLY, a number of senators who are usually clean and sober suggested that American troops should be inserted to separate the Israelis and Palestinians. ...
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"Butcher It The Islamic Way"
Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 3:59:22 pm PDT
A Kuwaiti newspaper published a message today purportedly from Al Qaeda’s “chief of training” Abu Muhammad Al-Ablaj, threatening an impending attack against the “international media serpent.” The communiqué stated that Al-Qa'ida's chief of training Abu Muhammad Al-Ablaj said Osama bin Laden is about to direct a "fatal blow" to the ...
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EU Springs into Action
Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 3:18:22 pm PDT
The European Union has called on Hamas to stop murdering Israelis—or risk being listed as a terrorist organization. (Hat tip: Daniel.) PORTO CARRAS, Greece - Backing U.S. appeals, European Union leaders on Friday called on Hamas to declare an immediate cease-fire and halt all terrorist activity or face having the ...
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Cose Turche
Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:57:36 pm PDT
Frequent LGF commentator and fiery defender of Western values “Zaza” now has her own weblog: Cose Turche, an Italian idiom which roughly translates to “crazy stuff, wild things, unbelievable.” Congratulations, Zaza!
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Iraqi Poll Backs US
Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:27:37 pm PDT
Iraq’s first-ever public opinion poll, taken in Baghdad, reveals that a substantial majority of Iraqis are glad for the US presence: Iraq's 1st Public Poll Backs U.S. (Hat tips: speedster and Bill Herbert.) Sixty-five percent of Iraqis polled in Baghdad claimed they want the U.S. military to stay until Iraq ...
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Poetic Justice for Chocolate Poodle
Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 11:31:32 am PDT
Sublime schadenfreude; the Foreign Minister of Belgium is being accused of war crimes under the same law that has been used against Ariel Sharon, President Bush and Donald Rumsfeld: Belgian Foreign Minister Joins Americans as Target of War Crimes Law. BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Belgium's government itself became the target ...
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Terror Threat in Kenya
Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 11:10:30 am PDT
The US Embassy in Nairobi has been closed due to a terror threat against “a specific target.” The warning, issued Thursday by the Defense Intelligence Agency, is based on specific information about a threat against a specific target, the official said, speaking only on condition of anonymity. Details of the ...
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They Never See It Coming
Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 9:43:12 am PDT
From Cox & Forkum, of course.
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BBC is Sick to the Core
Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 9:21:27 am PDT
There’s no other way to say it; the BBC makes me sick. In this article about Colin Powell’s visit to Israel—Powell warns Mid-East militants—you’ll find a sidebar summary of events titled “Roadmap’s Path to Crisis” that is so blatantly biased it’s just nauseating. (Hat tip: Model4.) 4 June: US-Jordanian-Israeli summit in ...
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Atta Lived in Jersey
Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 8:17:44 am PDT
Mohammed Atta, the demon who led the September 11 hijackers, lived for a year in a motel in Wayne, New Jersey: State police tie Sept. 11 leader to Wayne inn. (Hat tip: Michael S.) The revelation - the first time authorities have placed Atta in the motel - came after ...
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Powell Speaks, People Die
Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 7:36:51 am PDT
Today in Israel, Colin Powell called Hamas an “enemy of peace,” but he still insists on moving forward with the doomed “roadmap.” In response to Powell’s lukewarm condemnation, Hamas leader Adel Aziz Rantisi, in typical fashion, raved and foamed like a rabid animal: Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi responded angrily, calling ...
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Winning After All
Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 7:07:36 am PDT
It’s Friday, and that means Victor Davis Hanson: Winning After All. If on the evening of September 11th, an outside observer had predicted that the following would transpire in two years, he would have been considered unhinged: Saddam Hussein gone with the wind; democratic birth pangs in Iraq; the Taliban ...
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CSM's Galloway Documents Forged
Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 6:58:18 am PDT
The Iraqi documents obtained by the Christian Science Monitor linking British MP George Galloway to payments from the Saddam regime were forged. (Hat tip: WAS.) However, the CSM’s Iraqi expert still maintains that a similar set of documents published by Britain’s Telegraph are genuine.
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Comments Disabled
Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:38:29 pm PDT
Comments will be disabled for a few hours, so the Morlocks don’t stink up the place with their foul spoor while I rest. UPDATE: Comments are on again, is what I’m sayin’.
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NK Has Nuclear Missiles
Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:22:18 pm PDT
North Korea has nuclear ballistic missiles. (Hat tip: Julian.) US authorities have unofficially told their Japanese counterparts that North Korea already possesses several small nuclear warheads for ballistic missiles, a news report said today. It is the first confirmation that Pyongyang has nuclear missiles that can immediately strike Japan, the ...
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Another Failed Palestinian Attack
Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:01:36 pm PDT
Another attempted terror attack was foiled at a checkpoint for Palestinian workers in Gaza today: Bicycle explodes near Gaza pass for Palestinian workers. A bicycle laden with explosives detonated Friday morning next to a checkpoint for Palestinian workers in the central Gaza Strip, Israel Radio reported. No injuries or damage ...
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Arab News Squirms, Whines
Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:42:52 pm PDT
On June 14 we linked to a particularly hideous example of Saudi Arabian lies: a blatantly distorted article about a “research study” on the Mentality of Jewish Children. Today the oil ticks at the Arab News published one of the most amazingly squirmy, whiny, transparently guilty articles I’ve ever read, in ...
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Shame on the Washington Post
Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 9:52:58 pm PDT
An unbelievably biased statement at the Washington Post, in an article about Colin Powell’s trip to Israel. (Hat tip: Eran Z.) DEAD SEA, Jordan, June 19 -- Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, in advance of meetings Friday with senior Israeli and Palestinian leaders, suggested the Bush administration had reached ...
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Why Not for Israel?
Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 8:16:10 pm PDT
Edwin Black gets it exactly right, in an editorial for Newsday: If U.S. Tactics Are OK, Why Not for Israel? (Hat tip: Leslie.) When it comes to Israel's fight against Hamas, a triple standard seems at work.Israel is now completely at war with Palestinian terror groups, no less than America ...
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Religion of Peace Burns Churches in Kenya
Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 7:24:08 pm PDT
In Kenya, five Christian churches have been burned down, apparently by followers of a pastor who converted to the peaceful religion of Islam: Five churches torched in Tana River District. (Hat tip: Juliette.) The churches that were burnt down include Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) in Bura, Pentecostal Evangelism Fellowship ...
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CAIR Action Alert Reveals an Ugly Truth
Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 6:21:43 pm PDT
The Wahhabi Islamist front group known as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) organized a hate mail campaign (they call them “action alerts,” but in truth these campaigns are nothing more than organized harassment) against Shawn Steel, former chairman of the California Republican Party, because a speech he made ...
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Got One in Columbus, Ohio
Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 4:16:18 pm PDT
An Ohio truck driver named Iyman Faris, aka Mohammed Rauf, who is from Kashmir but became a naturalized US citizen in 1999, has pleaded guilty to supporting Al Qaeda: Ohio Trucker Pleads Guilty in Terror Case. Iyman Faris, 34, of Columbus acknowledged in court documents that he met bin Laden ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 3:30:39 pm PDT
The headbands these children are wearing are from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
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PFLP/DFLP Won't Stop
Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 3:20:24 pm PDT
The Palestinian B team terror gangs, the PFLP and the DFLP, have now followed the lead of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatah, and told Abu Mazen that they intend to continue slaughtering Jews. Abbas met separately in Gaza City Thursday with representatives of the Popular Front for the Liberation of ...
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Securing the Gulf
Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 1:40:13 pm PDT
Here’s a very interesting, thought-provoking article by Kenneth M. Pollack at Foreign Affairs magazine, on the problems we face in the Persian Gulf: Securing the Gulf. It’s a long piece, but very much worth reading.
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The Case of the Missing 727
Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 1:14:08 pm PDT
Here’s an update on that Boeing 727 that vanished after taking off from an airport in Angola—and ABC News now confirms that the plane was outfitted as a fuel tanker: Family of AWOL Plane's Pilot in 'Anguish.' (Hat tip: RF.) In a baffling aviation vanishing act, workers at Luanda Airport ...
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Giuliani Stands Up
Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:42:16 pm PDT
Rudy Giuliani has proven to be one of the most principled of American politicians, and he shows it once again by taking a stand at a grudgingly-convened European conference on the rise of anti-Semitism: Giuliani: Europe must do more to combat anti-Semitic violence. (Hat tip: NC.) The two-day conference, grouping ...
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Shapiro: Tear Down This Wall, Mr. Arafish
Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:12:14 am PDT
Self-loathing terror enabler Adam Shapiro and his Palestinian wife are in Malaysia, preaching to the choir about the evil Israelis and how best to contribute to the Palestinian goal of wiping Israel out: US activist: Boycott Israel's supporters. (Hat tip: Bert Wolff.) Malaysia and the international community should boycott supporters ...
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Iranian Self-Immolation Watch
Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 9:14:13 am PDT
It’s not just happening in France and Britain; Iranians are setting themselves on fire in Rome too: Due iraniani si danno fuoco a Roma. (Hat tip: godfrey.)
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Here Comes Jonah
Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 9:02:26 am PDT
Uh oh. Colin Powell is going to Israel again, planning to meet with Israeli and Palestinian “officials.” After a visit to Jerusalem for talks with Israeli officials, Powell said he will travel to "another location," probably Jericho, to meet with Palestinian officials. Seems like Powell is worried about something. “Another ...
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Hamas and the PA are One
Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 8:28:44 am PDT
Alyssa Lappen writes an open letter to the president, pointing out the fallacy of drawing an artificial (and false) separation between the PA and Hamas: Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are One. Dear Mr. President: The Road Map dangerously subverts the U.S. War on Terror. As a journalist specializing on ...
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Italy vs. France
Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 8:10:12 am PDT
Bravo, Silvio! Bravissimo! Berlusconi slaps down France over Israel trip. (Hat tip: Joel G.) ”They missed a good opportunity to shut up,” Berlusconi told reporters in response to French criticism of his decision not to meet Palestinian leaders during a recent trip to Israel.French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said ...
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Moonbat Mahathir Mouths Off
Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 7:50:35 am PDT
The craziest Muslim supremacist leader in the world, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, launched another utterly bizarre attack on “the European race” today. (Hat tip: the Viking.) Mahathir has done this before, but today’s speech was a true marvel of paranoid moonbattery. The 77-year-old medical doctor, who has attained almost ...
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Comments Temporarily Disabled
Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:33:46 pm PDT
Comments are turned off for a few hours while I rejuvenate my wetware. UPDATE: Comments are now back on!
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Holocaust Denier Plays Charades
Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:22:44 pm PDT
Strong words from Abu Mazen. He told the “militants” to end attacks. He urged Hamas to stop murdering innocent people. He even “pushed” them to stop. That’s tellin’ ’em, Abu.
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Bush: We Will Not Tolerate Iranian Nukes
Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:07:44 pm PDT
Today President Bush said he will not tolerate nuclear weapons in Iran. (Hat tip: Mara G.) Thank you, George. Now follow through, please. WASHINGTON - President Bush said Wednesday that he and other world leaders would not tolerate nuclear weapons in Iran, and administration officials expressed concern to the U.N. ...
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And Again
Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 9:46:35 pm PDT
Another suicide bombing in Israel, at a grocery in an Israeli village near Jenin. One human being was seriously wounded. Bastards. JERUSALEM - A suicide bomber blew himself up at an Israeli village in the Jordan River valley early Thursday, police said, killing himself and wounding an Israeli.The bomber entered ...
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Isn't It Strange?
Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 8:32:56 pm PDT
Mona Charen asks the question of the day: Isn't it strange that the very same people who were prepared to give the United Nations weapons inspectors months and even years to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq are screaming after just a few weeks that our failure to discover ...
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When Will It End?
Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 6:42:46 pm PDT
Excuse me while I pick up my jaw from the floor, because the BBC has an article about Shiri Negari, who was murdered in a Palestinian suicide bomb attack one year ago—and it actually shows some sympathy for her family. On 18 June, 2002, Palestinian suicide bomber Mohammed al-Ghoul blew ...
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Defeat Terrorism First
Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:49:27 am PDT
At NRO, Tashbih Sayyed makes what would seem to be an obvious point—that rewarding Palestinians with a state before they have done anything to renounce terrorism as a tactic to destroy Israel would only engender more terrorism: Defeat Terrorism First. It seems obvious, yet much of the world is in ...
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Iranians Self-Immolating in Paris
Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:53:59 am PDT
Iranians in Paris are self-immolating to protest the French government’s crackdown on the Iranian opposition group Mujahedeen Khalq. Warning: the link above goes to a disturbing and graphic slideshow of the protesters setting fire to themselves. (Hat tip: WAS.)
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Big Fish Caught in Iraq
Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:21:19 am PDT
Saddam Hussein’s presidential secretary has been captured in Iraq. (Hat tip: Caton.) US forces in Iraq have captured Saddam Hussein's presidential secretary, Abdel Hamid Mahmoud, the fourth most wanted official of the former regime, a US defense official said. Abdel Hamid Mahmoud Al-Tikriti, described by the US as a presidential ...
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Another Suicide Bombing Averted
Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:01:51 am PDT
A 16-year old Israeli Arab apparently lost his nerve and turned himself in before carrying out a suicidal mass murder. The young man said that he was to receive an explosives belt from his operative in Qalqilyah but the curfew imposed on the city Wednesday morning postponed the suicide attack, ...
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Another Scheme from Abu Mazen
Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 9:55:39 am PDT
Rather than cracking down on the terror gangs as he is required to do by the “roadmap to peace,” Arafat’s puppet prime minister has decided to offer them a role in the Palestinian ... well, I was going to write “government,” but to have a government you need to actually ...
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Axis of Evil Now Includes Libya
Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 9:46:24 am PDT
Ha'aretz reports today that Libya is paying large sums of money to Iran for assistance in developing mid-range missiles capable of reaching Israel. The Iranian delegation, most importantly, reveals the secret, dangerous connection among members of the coalition that U.S. President George W. Bush refers to as the "axis of ...
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Foggy Bottom Promotes Islam
Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 9:10:41 am PDT
The State Department, whose Visa Express program allowed three of the 9/11 hijackers to enter the United States with blatantly false documents, is also engaged in the business of promoting Islam in America, with a very extensive presentation that reads just like a CAIR propaganda pamphlet. (Hat tip: fiery celt.) ...
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Germans Likely to Visit France
Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 9:58:12 pm PDT
A new poll shows that Germans are more likely to visit France than the US, because of France’s anti-war stance. A similar trend was noticed 63 years ago.
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The Only Exception
Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 8:50:39 pm PDT
Here’s a sad commentary on the world’s tolerance for murdering Jews, by Jeffrey Dunetz: Except When You're Targeting Jews. (Hat tip: Laura.) On the world political stage, there is only one exception and it's the same for each rule. It's called, "Except when you're targeting Jews." Let me explain how ...
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Director Loots Own Museum
Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 5:50:46 pm PDT
Even Britain’s al-Guardian is now forced to report that the looting of the Iraqi National Museum was 1) nothing like the appalling tragedy they first reported, and 2) probably carried out by none other than the director of the museum, Dony George: Staff revolt at Baghdad museum. Roger L. Simon was ...
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Romania Forced to Tell Truth
Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 4:05:05 pm PDT
It took a worldwide storm of bad publicity, but today Romania acknowledged they did take part in the Holocaust. The government issued a statement Tuesday saying the pro-Nazi Romanian regime "was guilty of grave war crimes, pogroms, and mass deportations of Romanian Jews to territories occupied or controlled by the ...
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American Woman Trapped in Saudi Arabia
Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 3:58:31 pm PDT
Sarah Saga is living a nightmare in Saudi Arabia, where she sought refuge in the US consulate in Jeddah with her two children: Sarah and the Saudis. (Hat tip: ploome.) Ms. Saga ... found herself trapped in Saudi Arabia at age six, when her Saudi father defied a U.S. custody ...
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He Did It "Out of Sympathy"
Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 3:21:23 pm PDT
The Reuters headline for this update to the story of Sgt. Hasan Akbar, the American Muslim soldier accused of murdering two officers and injuring 15 others in Kuwait, says he did it out of “sympathy for Muslims:” Muslim Sympathy Said to Prompt Kuwait Camp Attack. FORT KNOX, Ky. (Reuters) - ...
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And Again
Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 2:00:12 pm PDT
Palestinian terrorists shot at a car today near the Green Line border with the West Bank, wounding a five-year old girl, a baby and an adult. One of the children was seriously hurt and the other was in moderate condition, a representative of the Magen David Adom ambulance service told ...
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France Arrests Iranian "Terrorists"
Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 1:27:25 pm PDT
France thinks Hamas is a legitimate “mass movement” and resists efforts to have them blacklisted by the EU—but an Iranian opposition group that threatens the ruling mullahs is a gang of terrorists: France Raids Compound of Iran Opposition. PARIS - Masked and heavily armed police raided the compound of an ...
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About That Missing 727...
Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:18:21 am PDT
Last Friday we noted a report that a Boeing 727 had apparently been stolen from an airport in Angola. I’m not sure how much credibility to give this, but LGF reader “Cowboy Engineer” points out this thread at the Professional Pilots Rumor Network in which a poster claims that the plane ...
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A Matter of Time
Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:02:27 am PDT
The head of Britain’s domestic intelligence service says it’s only a matter of time until Al Qaeda hits a Western city with “unconventional weapons.” "We are faced with the realistic possibility of some form of unconventional attack" that could include chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons, said Eliza Manningham-Buller.In her ...
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Morality Not Money
Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 9:58:45 am PDT
Here is a petition asking Harvard Divinity School to reject the $2.5 million donation from the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan: Morality Not Money. Sheikh Zayed is the founder of the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-Up, an Arab “think tank” about which we’ve written ...
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Arafish Says: Barghouti to Be Sprung
Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 9:13:13 am PDT
Will Israel really hand the Palestinians another huge propaganda victory and release Marwan Barghouti? (Hat tip: PDM.) JERUSALEM - Yasser Arafat called the family of a Palestinian uprising leader early Tuesday and said that he will be released within two days, Marwan Barghouti's wife said.Fadwa Barghouti told The Associated Press ...
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Emotional Weather Report
Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 8:53:41 am PDT
You know, I was hoping to wake up today and discover that the world had suddenly come to its senses, and realized the United States has been the greatest force for positive achievement and human freedom in the history of mankind. But it looks like they still hate us. (Hat tip: ...
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Hamas Ridicules Lugar
Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 8:40:58 am PDT
A headline from MEMRI’s scrolling news ticker shows Hamas blustering and insulting Senator Richard Lugar: THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE GROUP, HAMAS, RIDICULED A CALL BY US SENATOR RICHARD LUGAR TO SEND U.S. TROOPS TO THE WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP TO FIGHT HAMAS. 'IT SEEMS THE SENATOR'S TONGUE FUNCTIONS MUCH MORE ...
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Akbar Hearing Opens
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:40:01 pm PDT
The military hearing of Sgt. Hasan Akbar, the American Muslim accused of attacking his fellow soldiers with grenades in Kuwait, began today: Officer Testifies in Grenade Attack Case. Akbar was present at the hearing, looking subdued. He yawned and closed his eyes a few times. Capt. Terence Bacon had shrapnel ...
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If You Get a Message That You're Blocked...
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 9:56:05 pm PDT
...once again, it’s because I’ve had to block a range of dial-up IP addresses to shut out some abusive users. Sorry for the inconvenience. Note: blocking a user does not prevent them from reading LGF—only from commenting.
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Zayed Centre is Stalking LGF
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 9:53:33 pm PDT
Tonight I watched as someone from the lunatic center of the Islamic Nutbin—the Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-Up—kept loading the same page at LGF over and over and over. After a while, this obsessive behavior began to creep me out, so I blocked them. If you run a blog ...
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Recruiting for Jihad
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 8:59:40 pm PDT
Joe Kaufman follows the jihad trail from an ugly terrorist site called palestine4ever.net—on whose homepage you will find the statement “Death is more than escape from occupation, it is the way of life for our courageous countrymen”—to the Islamic “charities” that operate in the United States, Recruiting for Jihad.
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Religious Fanatics Target Islam's Center
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 8:02:38 pm PDT
More details are emerging about the Al Qaeda cell in Mecca that was broken by the Saudis before it could launch an attack: Qaeda May Have Targeted Mecca. (Hat tip: NC.) Mecca, located some 450 miles west of Riyadh, is the birthplace of Islam's seventh-century prophet Muhammad, the heart of ...
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The Straight Dopes
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 7:51:09 pm PDT
Cecil Adams has long been someone I turn to for “The Straight Dope,” but the people commenting on his Straight Dope Message Board are some of the most clueless I've ever seen. Lots of uninformed knee-jerk LGF bashing here.
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Shame on the New York Times
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 6:31:32 pm PDT
Here’s an unbelievably sickening whitewash of Hamas that makes no mention of their openly avowed genocidal intentions (see the Hamas Charter for their own words), at—where else?—the New York Times: Defining Hamas: Roots in Charity and Branches of Violence. Just “branches of violence,” of course. Never mind the simple fact ...
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Explosives Found in Vancouver
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 6:06:54 pm PDT
A huge quantity of explosives has been seized by Canadian police in several towns near Vancouver, British Columbia—enough to flatten a building. Police said they now believe the C$50,000 ($37,000) worth of explosives were to be used for criminal activity in British Columbia, where gangs have been fighting a turf ...
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Armstrong Wins 2nd Dauphiné Libéré
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 5:42:47 pm PDT
Lance Armstrong is on track to brutally punish all rivals and humiliate the French (who are not rivals) once again at this year’s Tour de France: Armstrong sews up Dauphiné.
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Al-Azhar to Meet with Anglicans on 9/11/2003
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 5:28:30 pm PDT
Al-Azhar University in Egypt, the most influential Sunni Muslim seminary in the world, has issued statements approving of Palestinian suicide bombings, and calling for jihad against the United States. But, as Christopher Johnson reports, that doesn’t seem to bother the Anglican church, which is planning a meeting with the jihadis ...
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De Villepin Hits Bottom, Digs
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 4:52:22 pm PDT
Article 13 of the openly genocidal and thoroughly insane Hamas Charter states: There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors. Nevertheless, French Foreign Weasel Minister Dominique de Villepin (who is a man) says ...
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Outrage of the Day
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 3:57:09 pm PDT
The Romanian Ministry of Public Information has claimed that “within the borders of Romania between 1940 and 1945 there was no Holocaust.” (Hat tip: the Viking.) There were 760,000 Jews in Romania before World War II and an estimated 420,000 were killed according to Jean Ancel, a leading Israeli ...
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The Plot to Kill Wellstone
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 1:33:40 pm PDT
James Lileks takes aim at James H. Fetzer, “McKnight professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth”—a dyed-in-the-wool barking moonbat who believes Paul Wellstone was assassinated, Israel is identical to Nazi Germany, and America is a terrorist state.
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Why Europe Doesn't Get the Internet
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 1:19:14 pm PDT
The Council of Europe, a quasi-governmental body (read: unelected weeniecrats) that drafts conventions and treaties, is finalizing a proposal to grant anyone criticized on an online site a “right of reply”—and this would include weblogs. Declan McCullagh at CNET has the details on this typically European attempt to “protect” freedom ...
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Muslim Vote Campaign
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:51:24 am PDT
Islamic groups are making a concerted, highly organized effort to get Muslims to register to vote. (Hat tip: Michael S.) After the call to prayer, there came the call to politics.As worshipers at the Islamic Center of Long Island, in Westbury, Nasau County, chatted and rose from Friday Prayers last ...
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Jews and Anti-Jews
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:02:17 am PDT
An excellent piece by Ruth Wisse at OpinionJournal today: Jews and Anti-Jews. The White House still cannot bring itself to admit the true nature of the aggression against Israel. It still tends to treat the regional crisis as "a conflict of two people over one land" that can be resolved ...
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Radioactive Material and Mustard Gas Found
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 9:29:57 am PDT
Georgia Finds Dirty Bomb Material in Taxi. Police searched the taxi on May 31 and found two metal boxes stuffed with radioactive by-products of nuclear fission, Cesium-137 and Strontium-90. One container, inscribed in Russian and English, weighed at least 170 pounds. A separate container had Mustard Gas, or Yperite, an ...
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Denial in the Gulf
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 8:49:36 am PDT
Just for fun, I’ve installed some code that notifies me when a visitor from a Gulf state hits our weblog, with an email containing the referring page. Turns out that a large number of them are referred by search engines—usually msn.com—and that an overwhelming majority of those are searching for—you ...
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In Defense of Paranoia and Intolerance
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 8:32:06 am PDT
One of the defining features of the Islamic supremacists who rule Saudi Arabia is their complete intolerance for other points of view. Another is raging paranoia. And another is their unrepentant support for “charities” that finance world-wide jihad. All these lovely traits are on full display in this bizarre article at the ...
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News from Iran
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 8:01:53 am PDT
As unrest in Iran continues to spread, here’s a web site with up-to-date Iranian news reports: Iran va Jahan. (Hat tip: SteynOnline.)
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Whiplash
Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 7:44:41 am PDT
One hour and 20 minutes ago, the Associated Press headline read: Palestinians Say Truce Announcement Near. One hour and six minutes ago, the Reuters headline read: Gaza Talks with Militants Fail to Make Breakthrough. For a change, Agence France Presse seems to be the only wire service willing to report what the ...
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Letters from Iran
Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 7:17:42 pm PDT
I’m not fond of the BBC; in many ways they’ve become a tool of the world’s anti-civilization forces. But there must still be a few lonely souls laboring away in windowless offices, carrying on the tradition of Winston Churchill, because this page full of letters from Iranians about the growing ...
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AP Distorts the Truth (Again)
Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 6:01:20 pm PDT
LGF reader Ariel has an account of the Israel Day celebration in Boston here: There was a live band playing Israeli metal and a lot of nice little stores. Really good atmosphere. There was the obligatory pro-paleonazi protest on the opposite side of the street, including Naturei Karta members. ...
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Capital in the Arab World
Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 4:39:58 pm PDT
While the Arab world obsesses over the evil Jews and their heinous Zionist state, lodged like an unreachable splinter in the butt of Islam, Arab economies are utterly stagnant, with little prospect of improvement: Democratization of Capital in the Arab World. To be sure, the Arab world has stagnated. Per ...
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Truck Bomb in Ireland
Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 4:19:23 pm PDT
In terrorist news from the Emerald Isle, a devastating attack (probably planned by the IRA) was averted today when police intercepted and defused a huge truck bomb in Northern Ireland: British Army Dismantles Bomb in Ireland. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) Police said the bombers were spotted driving the van on the ...
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Funniest Headline of the Day
Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 3:56:53 pm PDT
It’s not often that an AP headline makes me laugh out loud: Egypt Tries to Rescue Mideast Peace Plan. Like a cat tries to rescue a mouse caught in a trap. Uh, I guess we’re just supposed to forget about the Egyptian broadcast of the serialized “Protocols of the Elders of Zion?” ...
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Lebanese Finance Minister: Persona Non Grata
Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:44:29 pm PDT
The Lebanese finance minister, Fuad Saniora, has been barred from entering the US for donating money to Hizb'Allah. Saniora's spokesman said the minister donated 1 million Lebanese pounds, or $650, last year to the Islamic Benevolent Society headed by Grand Ayatollah Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, often cited as a spiritual ...
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Got One in Nablus
Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:39:55 pm PDT
A suicide bomber from the West Bank town of Nablus (home of the University of Death, An-Najah) was caught today before he could commit mass murder. The terrorist was captured in the West Bank city of Nablus amid reports of numerous intelligence warnings about plots to carry out attacks against ...
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Holy City of Bombs and Terrorists
Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:33:36 am PDT
The Saudis claim they foiled an “imminent” attack today—in the holiest city of Islam, Mecca. At about 9:30 p.m., Saudi security agents broke into an apartment in al-Khalidiya district about three miles from Mecca's main mosque, where "a group of terrorists ... were preparing an imminent terrorist act," the official ...
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The New Rorschach
Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:13:18 am PDT
From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.
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US Ambassador’s Cousin Murdered
Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:00:22 am PDT
Allison Kaplan Sommer notes a report in the Hebrew daily Yediot Aharonot that one of the murder victims of the recent Jerusalem bus bombing was US Ambassador Dan Kurtzer’s cousin Anna Orgel, 55.
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Al Qaeda in America
Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 10:43:16 am PDT
Newsweek has a scary report on terror cells within the United States: Al Qaeda in America: The Enemy Within. During his interrogation, KSM identified a man named Ali S. Al-Marri as “the point of contact for AQ operatives arriving in the US for September 11 follow-on operations.” KSM described Al-Marri ...
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Bush: "Deal Harshly" with Hamas
Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 10:07:47 am PDT
George W. Bush makes me proud again that he’s the President: Bush urges ”deal harshly” with Hamas. ”The free world and those who love freedom and peace must deal harshly with Hamas and the killers,” Bush told reporters when asked whether Israel was justified in recent attacks against the group.”That's ...
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Useful Idiot Comes Home
Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 9:33:01 am PDT
ISM terror enabler Brian Avery, shot in the face (he claims by the Israeli military, although there is some doubt) returned to the US, receiving a hero’s welcome from a small group of fellow terror enablers. (Hat tip: PDM.) Avery smiled, despite the wires and rubber bands clamping his jaw ...
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Fish and Puppet
Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 9:00:19 am PDT
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A.N.S.W.E.R Infiltrated
Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 8:21:01 am PDT
Protest Warrior infiltrated the International A.N.S.W.E.R. conference in New York with a hidden camera and videotaped these enemies of the United States “empire” (and that’s no exaggeration; they say it themselves) as they plotted their “Action Plan” for this fall. A must-see: A.N.S.W.E.R Infiltrated. (Hat tip: Sean Fleming.) One important ...
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Mass Murder = "Resistance"
Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 11:07:25 pm PDT
An Arabic satellite TV channel financed by the Qatari government broadcast a live talk show called “Open Dialogue” earlier today, featuring the Pediatrician of Death, Dr. Abd-al-Aziz al-Rantisi, and the Palestinian Authority’s Information Minister, Nabil Amr—who once again made it clear that they do not consider the wholesale murder of ...
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The Gaza Coast
Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:47:12 pm PDT
Here is a fascinating, informative, and rather sad photo essay on the history and present-day situation of the Israeli communities along the Gaza Coast, including many very useful maps. (Hat tip: Caton.) This is a view of the area you will never see from Western mass media.
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The Palestinian Nelson Mandela
Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:08:11 pm PDT
Ahmed Jbarra, the Palestinian terrorist who was released from prison in Israel as a “goodwill gesture” after serving 28 years of a life sentence for murdering 14 people and wounding 62 with a booby-trapped refrigerator in 1975, has been appointed a “special adviser” to Yasser Arafat. Senior PA officials told ...
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If You See a Message That You're Not Allowed...
Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 9:26:46 pm PDT
...to post comments, try again in a little while.
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Hamas: "Ceasefire" Not in the Dictionary
Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 7:56:26 pm PDT
Once again, Hamas and Islamic Jihad say they intend to continue slaughtering Jews. "Hamas is rejecting any call for ceasefire under occupation," senior Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi said in Gaza City. "The word ceasefire is not in our dictionary. We are being attacked, the Palestinian people, our land, our ...
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Conservative Egyptian Kills Self
Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 5:45:07 pm PDT
An Egyptian woman committed suicide hours after giving birth to a girl, because her husband threatened to kill her if the baby was female. (Hat tip: nikolakis.) The 27-year-old woman left her home in Saff, a rural town about 25 miles [40 kilometers] south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, and ...
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Religion of Peace
Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 4:06:59 pm PDT
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Local Paper Struggles for Survival
Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 4:00:53 pm PDT
David Burge (known as “iowahawk” at LGF) tells the sad story of a scrappy local New York newspaper fallen on hard times. Make sure to have a tasteful floral print box of facial tissues nearby while you read. (Hat tip: Rand Simberg.) "Everyone knew that Jayson was Howell's favorite and ...
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American Victims of Arab Terrorism
Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 3:51:22 pm PDT
A reader emailed a link to this eye-opening page, listing the many American Victims of Palestinian/Arab Terrorism—starting with Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. UPDATE: Looks like the traffic from LGF has overwhelmed the site’s Tripod bandwidth limit. Thanks to reader RF for digging up the Google cache of the page.
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If You Get a Message That You're Blocked...
Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:45:32 am PDT
...once again, it’s because I’ve had to block an entire range of dial-up IP addresses to shut out a gang of antisemitic Morlocks that insist on spewing hatred in our comments. Sorry for the inconvenience. Note: blocking a user does not prevent them from reading LGF—only from commenting.
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Iran Reaching the Boiling Point
Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:40:31 am PDT
The situation in Iran is really heating up, with a fourth night of protests brutally suppressed by pro-mullah thugs, called militants by the Associated Press. TEHRAN, Iran - Hundreds of pro-cleric militants and security forces clashed with Iranians throughout the capital late Friday, firing machine guns in the air and ...
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Interview with VDH
Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:15:21 am PDT
From March of this year, here’s an interview with military historian Victor Davis Hanson on the Hoover Institution’s Uncommon Knowledge show, with links to RealPlayer and Windows Media streaming video: Carnage and Culture. (Hat tip: bull.) Highly recommended.
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The 36-Year War
Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 9:44:57 am PDT
Michael B. Oren, author of Six Days of War, writes about the true root cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict—the rejection of Israel’s right to exist: The 36-Year War. In order for the road map to succeed, President Bush must confront the profound asymmetry between the Palestinian and Israeli concepts of ...
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Saudis Caught in a Vicious Lie
Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 8:48:58 am PDT
A few days ago the Arab News published an English translation of an article from an Arabic language Saudi magazine, titled Psychological Study of the Mentality of Jewish Children, that was discussed in our comments quite a bit. I didn’t feature it on the front page at LGF because it ...
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Comments Are Back
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:44:09 pm PDT
Since the banned Morlocks are buzzing like apoplectic wasps on crack tonight, trying one ISP account after another in their futile attempts to post comments letting me know how much they hate me, I’m shutting off comments until the morning. UPDATE: The comment door is now open again.
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Sharon's Unenviable Decision
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:58:37 pm PDT
Here’s another excellent column by Caroline B. Glick, on Sharon's unenviable decision. With brotherly love and deepest respect, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas Sunday embraced Ahmed Jbarra during his morning press conference in Ramallah. In the shadow of a dawn attack conducted jointly by Fatah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad ...
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We Got Mail
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 9:52:04 pm PDT
A lovely gentlemen in Great Britain (who was banned from posting comments at LGF) set his Caps Lock key on stun and sent the following rant to me today, with the title “LITTLE BLIND IDIOTS SHOULD BE THE NAME OF YOUR SITE.” Just to make sure I knew how much ...
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Student Movement for Democracy in Iran
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 9:29:20 pm PDT
Here’s a site that may become very important for breaking news in the weeks and months to come: Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran. (Hat tip: Robert.)
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Think-Israel
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 9:23:13 pm PDT
Here’s an excellent site featuring commentary and context for current events in the Middle East: Think-Israel. Now added to our anti-idiotarian links page.
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LGF Under the Bus
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 9:00:06 pm PDT
Thanks, Dawn. I don’t want to start (another) war, but I think you got it exactly right.
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Long Live the King
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 6:42:17 pm PDT
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Body Parts Collector Tells All
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 6:00:56 pm PDT
A chilling and horribly sad account of what ZAKA workers in Israel have to do, as they clean up the aftermath of Palestinian terror attacks. Those who try to find an equivalence between the crazed mobs of Palestinians pictured below and the efforts of these volunteers should listen to this; ...
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European Economy is Tanking
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 5:33:51 pm PDT
European Central Bank President Wim Duisenberg has warned that the 12-nation “Eurozone” economy is in serious trouble: European economy very weak. (Hat tip: msimon.) The warning, from European Central Bank President Wim Duisenberg, comes just a week after the ECB slashed interest rates by half a percentage point to 2% ...
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Another Car Swarm
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 3:58:00 pm PDT
Palestinians hold up remains from a destroyed car after Israeli helicopter gunships attacked the car in Gaza City June 13, 003. Palestinians chant islamic slogans standing on top of a car that was hit by missiles following an Israeli helicopter gunship attack in Gaza city Friday evening, June ...
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Corrie to Graduate Posthumously
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 1:19:12 pm PDT
Evergreen State College is honoring ISM terror enabler Rachel Corrie today at their graduation ceremonies: Graduation day activities to honor slain activist. (Thanks to all who emailed about this.) Of course, this article in the Olympian repeats the lie that she was “run over by a bulldozer” again. This is becoming ...
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Islamic Whitewash Alert
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:58:28 am PDT
We have a visitor attempting to whitewash the radical Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir over here.
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"Serious Mental Problems"
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:52:10 am PDT
Belgian police narrowly averted an attack on a synagogue in the city of Charleroi today: Synagogue bomb plot foiled. (Hat tip: ploome.) BELGIAN police arrested a man today shortly after he tried to explode a vehicle loaded with gas canisters in front of a synagogue in the southern city of ...
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Andrew Sullivan Replies
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:19:43 am PDT
Last night, after learning that Andrew Sullivan had withdrawn his link to our entry about the crazed Palestinian mob swarming over a terrorist’s destroyed car and pulling out body parts with their bare hands, I emailed him about it—because he seemed to be implying that I had intentionally deceived our ...
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Another Missile Attack in Gaza
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:40:36 am PDT
From Ha'aretz Flash News: Palestinian medical sources: At least two IAF missiles fired at car in Gaza City, killing one and wounding 15
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Murderers Marching in Gaza
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 8:54:16 am PDT
Notice how there are always children at these Palestinian freak shows, watching the masked gunmen with admiration. The Associated Press refers to the Islamic terrorists pictured above as “militants,” of course—and the terrorist killed in yesterday’s missile attack as a “colleague.” Hamas militants march during the funeral processions of their colleague ...
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Dirty Bomb Material Seized in Thailand
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 8:36:11 am PDT
Police in Thailand have arrested a man who was trying to sell a quantity of cesium-137 for use in a “dirty bomb.” (Hat tip: NC.) OFFICERS ARRESTED Narong Penanam, 44, in the parking lot of a Bangkok hotel after he offered to sell agents a metal container that he said ...
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Email Overload
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 8:31:47 am PDT
It’s time for my periodic disclaimer about my email overload; if you’ve sent email and haven’t received a response, it’s not because I’m ignoring you. I try (really, I do!) to read it all, but in the past week I’ve received more than 3,000 emails. I just don’t have time ...
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727 Disappears From Angola
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 8:00:55 am PDT
Here’s a very disturbing report from the Jerusalem Post that a Boeing 727 aircraft has disappeared after taking off from an airport in Angola. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) Western investigators are seeking a Boeing 727 passenger aircraft that disappeared May 25th under mysterious circumstances from the airport at Luanda, the coastal ...
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An Indirect Approach?
Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 7:56:53 am PDT
It’s Friday, which means another excellent column from Victor Davis Hanson, who argues that peace in the Middle East will not be won in the West Bank: An Indirect Approach? Israel, it is true, is relatively safe from conventional enemies, but not from suicide bombers, assorted terrorists, and the exhausting ...
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History of a Lie
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:11:39 pm PDT
Earlier today I linked to a New York Times article that mentioned the “massacre” of Palestinians at Deir Yassin by Menachem Begin’s Irgun militia in 1948. In response to this article, a reader emailed me about this very interesting, very detailed ZOA study of the Deir Yassin incident: Deir Yassin: ...
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American Muslims Seething at Bush
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:44:42 pm PDT
The Straits Times reports that American Muslims are threatening that they won’t vote for Bush in 2004—because they feel persecuted and anxious and filled with seething rage over the requirement for immigrants from Islamic countries to register with authorities. (Hat tip: Juliette.) The issue which most riles Muslims and Arab-Americans ...
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The Ayatollah’s Funeral
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 9:43:11 pm PDT
Several readers pointed out the similarity between today’s Palestinian car swarming scenes and the 1989 funeral of Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, at which mobs of millions (yes, millions) of Iranians stormed the funeral bier and tore Khomeini’s corpse apart in a frenzy to obtain magical relics—i.e., body parts.
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Old Dog, Old Tricks
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 9:28:16 pm PDT
The world’s oldest terrorist condemned terrorism yesterday, and now he’s waiting for the US to give him a biscuit. It always worked before... A senior Palestinian official said Arafat now expects some recognition from the US in return for his condemnation of terror. "If they continue to isolate him and ...
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No Cycle Here
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 7:14:14 pm PDT
Western media insists on portraying the IDF attack on Abdel-Aziz Rantisi and the Jerusalem bus bombing as a “tit-for-tat” cycle of violence/retaliation. But both the IDF and Hamas say the attacks were unrelated. Both IDF and Hamas spokesmen announced this evening that the suicide bombing in Jerusalem and the IDF ...
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Comment Cornucopia
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 6:26:30 pm PDT
Great googly moogly. Would you believe that we’ve had more than 2,000 comments posted today? (Including all the blocked comments from trolls, haters, and Morlocks?) And the sun is still out on the west coast... UPDATE: and by the way, I don’t want to point a finger at anyone. But I ...
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LAT-Early
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 6:10:29 pm PDT
LGF reader and frequent commentator Michael Levy has started a new project to look at LA Times media bias: LAT-Early. He certainly won’t lack material.
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Morlocks Figure It Out
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 5:39:44 pm PDT
Now see—this is why I call Indymedia “Nazimedia.” The antisemitic Morlocks have figured out who was responsible for the Jerusalem bus bombing. Forget what you heard about Hamas “taking responsibility.” That’s just more cointelpro disinformation. The real culprit was ... well ... guess who? (Hat tip: NC.) So today an ...
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Learning from a Turning Point
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 2:57:24 pm PDT
Here’s a thought-provoking article on Israel’s landmark decision to enforce the government’s monopoly of arms—and What Palestinians Can Learn From a Turning Point in Zionist History. (Hat tip: Judith Weiss.) Mr. Sharon and his aides say a cease-fire pact is not enough, however, that what is needed is to arrest ...
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Explosives Found on Plane
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 2:25:04 pm PDT
A suspected explosive device has been found on a plane at an airport in Italy, hidden in a life jacket under a seat. (Hat tip: nikolakis.)
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Islamic Jihad Leader Killed in Jenin
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 1:32:06 pm PDT
Guysen Israel News (in French) reports that a leader of Islamic Jihad, Salah Djardat, has been killed in Jenin by an Israeli sniper. (Hat tip: Caton.) UPDATE: It may not have been a sniper, as Caton first reported. The Guysen story seems to indicate that Djardat was shot by soldiers who ...
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These Aren't Savages?
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:52:38 am PDT
OK. I’m sorry to post a photo like this, but it’s time to put an end to the denials that Palestinians pull body parts out of missile-struck cars with their bare hands, and the accusations that I’m somehow a “racist” for pointing it out. Deny this. Andrew Sullivan has removed his link ...
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RoP: It Served Them Right
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:44:16 am PDT
The Islamic freakazoid who masterminded the Bali bombing says it served the whites right. (Hat tip: the Viking.) Amrozi, 40, also said he had been involved in several bombings across Indonesia including a blast outside the home of a Philippine ambassador in 2000 that killed two people. The mechanic from ...
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Lileks on the Road Trap
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:12:08 am PDT
James Lileks is brilliant as always. You already read his site every day, right? I haven’t written much about the “Roadmap to Peace” for the same reason I wouldn’t write much about attempts to crossbreed a llama with a vacuum cleaner: I don’t think it’s going to work. I never ...
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US: Hamas is the Issue
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:37:01 am PDT
After President Bush’s “deeply troubled” remark on Tuesday about the attack on Rantisi, I’m encouraged to see the latest statements from the White House, placing the blame for the violence in the Middle East squarely where it belongs—on the terrorists: U.S. Blasts Hamas as Main Obstacle in Middle East. (Hat ...
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Another Mob of Savages
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 10:30:19 am PDT
After today’s Israeli missile attack in Gaza against a car carrying Hamas terrorists, once again a huge mob of Palestinians swarmed over the destroyed vehicle—and in a ghoulish, debased display of savagery, reached into the car with their bare hands to pull out ... well, see for yourself. They’re obviously performing ...
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Washington State Student Arrested for Bomb Plot
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 7:31:34 am PDT
A 20-year old college student in Washington state has been arrested for plotting to blow up Coast Guard, Army National Guard, and oil facilities near Bellingham: Washington State Student Arrested for Bomb Plot. (Hat tip: spidly.) Paul Revak, 20, a student at Western Washington University, was charged with threatening to ...
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Israel Strikes at Hamas
Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 7:19:09 am PDT
Israeli Missiles Kill Nine in Gaza City. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli helicopters fired rockets at two cars carrying Hamas activists Thursday in Gaza, the latest strikes after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon swore to hunt Palestinians militants in response to a suicide attack on a bus that killed 16 ...
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Palestinian Child Abuse
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:16:51 pm PDT
These are the commencement ceremonies at An-Najah University in the West Bank, hotbed of Hamas terrorist activity and origin of many suicide bombers, where a Palestinian child is never too young to learn to hate and kill.
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People Burned Like Torches
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 8:14:41 pm PDT
People burned like torches. "I saw a woman going up in flames, as if she were a torch. Her clothes burned first and then her skin," said Eli Shmueli as he described the Jerusalem suicide bomb attack that killed 16 and wounded 100 others. A parking inspector for the city, ...
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NYT Lies About Israel (Again)
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 5:54:46 pm PDT
Several people emailed about this one; the New York Times has been caught in another enormous lie about Israel’s history. An article yesterday about the dismantling of a rusty tower by an Israeli settlement in the West Bank as a gesture of compliance with the American-led peace initiative misstated the ...
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10 Would-Be Suicide Murderers Arrested
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 5:34:29 pm PDT
In a story at the Jerusalem Post about today’s bus bombing in Jerusalem and the subsequent Israeli strikes against Palestinian terrorists, we find a very revealing, sad, and maddening fact: Israeli Security officials warned that no Hamas leader will be immune to Israel's wrath and noted that since the ...
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A Mob of Savages
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 5:13:27 pm PDT
Following today’s Israeli missile attack that killed two Hamas terrorists in Gaza, a Palestinian mob swarmed over the car, pulling out body parts with their bare hands—as they always do. UPDATE: in our comments, some readers questioned my description of this event. Please see this entry at LGF for a much ...
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More Mail from a Jew-Hater
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 4:37:58 pm PDT
Our friend calculum1@yahoo.com has emailed another admiring love note: Yea let's just keep it short:FU ZIO.Thanks. It’s always amusing when one of these inarticulate Morlocks ends a hate mail with a genial salutation. You’re quite welcome, calculum1@yahoo.com!
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NJ Senator's Daughter Injured
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 3:59:49 pm PDT
One of those injured in today’s horrific suicide bombing in Jerusalem was the daughter of New Jersey State Senator Robert Singer. The daughter of New Jersey Senator Robert W. Singer was lightly injured in Wednesday's terror attack on the Number 14 bus. Israel Radio reported that Senator Singer will set ...
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Landmark Speech #12,401
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 3:19:30 pm PDT
Agence France Press calls Yasser Arafat’s latest condemnation of terrorism “a landmark speech.” RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and prime minister Mahmud Abbas for the first time described Palestinian attacks as "terrorist operations" and called on all factions to declare an immediate ceasefire.Arafat made his landmark ...
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Breaking News
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 2:15:26 pm PDT
A news flash at Ha'aretz: Eyewitnesses: Israeli helicopters strike target in Gaza Strip
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Iranian Student Protest
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 1:58:06 pm PDT
The Iranian pot is coming to a boil, as students protest against the mad mullahs: Iranian students stage anti-government protest; Scores arrested. (Hat tip: Victrade.) A student protest against privatizing some of Iran's universities early Wednesday turned into a larger demonstration against the hard-line clerics that rule the country. Some ...
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France: We Got Another
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 1:45:54 pm PDT
French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that a German arrested on June 2 at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport is a top Al Qaeda leader. "(Intelligence) services know that he is a top leader of al Qaeda, in contact with Osama bin Laden himself, and has been in Afghanistan ...
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Macadamia Alert
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 1:21:20 pm PDT
Here’s another lovely message from a member of Metafilter going under the name “The Jesse Helms,” who takes it upon himself to tell our readers what a bunch of ignorant hate-filled saps they are. Referred by this ignorant hate-filled thread at MetaTalk. UPDATE: and they’re now indulging in yet another bash-LGF session. ...
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Moonbat Playwright Rant
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:45:50 pm PDT
Harold Pinter is off his medication again and raving like a loon: Pinter blasts 'Nazi America' and 'deluded idiot' Blair. (Hat tip: Victrade.) The playwright said: "The US is really beyond reason now. It is beyond our imagining to know what they are going to do next and what they ...
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The New Face
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:34:58 am PDT
From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.
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AP Bias Watch
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:22:50 am PDT
The onslaught of biased news reports about Israel is unceasing. Relentless. Israel Unapologetic About Botched Attacks. RAMALLAH, West Bank - Egypt's intelligence chief renewed truce efforts Wednesday in a long-shot mission aimed at persuading Hamas to halt violence despite an Israeli missile strike that wounded a leader of the Islamic militant ...
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By the Way...
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:54:39 am PDT
Yes, I did just hide an entry, in case you’re wondering what happened to it. I posted in great anger about a person who used to be something of a friend, but who sent me a very nasty piece of hate mail—and reconsidered.
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If You Get a Message That You're Blocked...
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:12:29 am PDT
...once again, it’s because I’ve had to block an entire range of dial-up IP addresses to shut out an antisemitic Morlock that insists on spewing its hatred in our comments. And the creature is really stirred up today; mass murder of Jews seems to get them going. Sorry for the ...
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Scenes from a Mass Murder
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:08:24 am PDT
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Hamas: We Did It
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:01:34 am PDT
Hamas claims Jerusalem bus bomb on website. GAZA CITY (AFP) - The Islamic movement Hamas claimed responsibility for the Jerusalem suicide bus bombing which killed 17 people, including the bomber, in a statement published on its website."16 killed and 75 wounded, several of which are clinically dead, following an operation ...
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We Got Mail
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 9:25:58 am PDT
Another piece of human garbage emailed this morning, with a concise little rant that reveals an incredible amount of sick hatred: Zionism is racism though with the interesting twist of having a Biblical sanction.I wish to applaud the Palestinians on their struggles with a colonizing power.If it means killing more ...
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And Again
Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 8:34:10 am PDT
I was afraid I would wake up to this. Suicide Bomber Kills 13 on Jerusalem Bus. JERUSALEM - A suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus in central Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing at least 13 bystanders and wounding at least 68, police and paramedics said. The bombing comes one day ...
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The Death of France?
Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:43:38 pm PDT
Here’s a great read (as long as you don’t live in France): a two-part symposium hosted by Jamie Glazov, featuring an excellent panel of French experts, writers, and academics, entitled The Death of France? The notion of the death of France is not, by any means, an absurd notion. To ...
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If You Get a Message That You're Blocked...
Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 9:08:38 pm PDT
...once again, it’s because I’ve had to block an entire range of dial-up IP addresses to shut out an antisemitic Morlock that insists on spewing its hatred in our comments. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Haughey Deletes Another LGF Thread at MeFi
Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 8:47:47 pm PDT
Our readers might be interested to know that Matt Haughey at Metafilter has deleted the post about Cafe Press’s Jihad Unspun store. Here’s the deleted thread, just for posterity’s sake. (And I mean “posterity,” as in “posterior”—because many of the foul mouthed Metafilter kiddies are talking out of that part ...
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Danny Pearl Case Isn't Closed
Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 7:54:55 pm PDT
Here’s a scary, thought-provoking piece about the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl by Ron Rosenbaum: Danny Pearl Case Isn't Yet Closed For Journalists. "[Bernard-Henri] Lévy concludes," according to the Time account, "that [Pearl’s] kidnapping, decapitation and dismemberment was essentially a ‘crime of state’ that implicates parts of ...
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Duranty's Pulitzer May Be Revoked
Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 7:38:26 pm PDT
The Pulitzer Prize awarded to New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty in 1932 may be revoked because he deliberately ignored Stalin’s forced famine that killed 7 million Ukrainians. Members of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America joined Ukrainians worldwide this year in urging the withdrawal of Duranty's award, said President ...
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Corroboration from a Most Unlikely Source
Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 7:28:21 pm PDT
Iran agrees Iraq hid arms. (Hat tip: Victrade.) "Yes, we agree with the Americans. Our intelligence indicated that Iraq did possess weapons of mass destruction and was hiding them from the U.N.," the official said.The official, from the top ranks of Iran's cleric-led government, asked to remain anonymous amid escalating ...
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The Most Popular Political Blogs On The Net
Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 5:51:35 pm PDT
Ranking schemes for weblogs are always open to question, and this one by John Hawkins relies on Alexa’s system, which only tallies results from people who have installed their toolbar. The Alexa toolbar only works under Windows, and only with Microsoft Internet Explorer. So even though Alexa claims “millions” of ...
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With Peacekeepers Like These...
Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 5:14:49 pm PDT
The French, working with the United Nations, have begun to intervene in the Congolese civil war. The Guardian has obtained a transcript of a French military briefing, in which the French “peacekeepers” admit outright that their intervention will be very short-lived and have little impact on the fighting. (Hat tip: ploome.) But ...
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Iraqi Weapons Imports
Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 2:53:15 pm PDT
Courtesy of Admiral Quixote at The Command Post (and some other folks listed at the bottom of the illustration), here’s a chart showing the countries who sold the most weapons to Iraq, during the period when reliable records were still being kept.
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A Plot to Deceive?
Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 2:27:31 pm PDT
LGF reader addison tipped us to a great piece by Robert Kagan that points out how stupid the argument over Iraq’s “missing” weapons has become: A Plot to Deceive? ...if Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are lying, they're not alone. They're part of a vast conspiratorial network of ...
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NPR’s Terror Problem
Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 1:07:28 pm PDT
Here’s an excellent article by Alex Safian of CAMERA about National Public Radio’s duplicitous coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict: NPR’s Terror Problem. Suicide bombers strike civilian targets in Saudi Arabia and Morocco, and National Public Radio quite reasonably labels the attacks "terror" and the attackers "terrorists," but when — at ...
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Israel Asks Diplomats to Leave Gaza?
Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:51:50 am PDT
A very interesting item at MidEast Web News: a TV station in Dubai is reporting that Israel has asked diplomats and foreigners to leave Gaza. (Hat tip: Robert.) Dubai Al-Arabiyah Television in Arabic, an independent television station financed by Arab businessmen, at 0950 GMT on 10 June carries an interview ...
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Sheik Yassin is a Marked Man
Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:11:24 am PDT
Israeli television is reporting that in addition to Rantisi, Hamas “religious leader” Sheik Yassin is also in the crosshairs. (Hat tip: Laurence Simon.) Israel Television Channel 2 correspondent Udi Segal reported this evening that Israeli officials say that in addition to Hamas leader Rantissi, Israel has been decided to kill ...
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Pediatrician of Death Speaks
Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 8:52:58 am PDT
Hamas leader calls U.S. peace plan 'mistake.' (Hat tip: NC.) GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A founder of the militant Islamic group Hamas condemned the latest U.S.-backed Mideast peace effort yesterday as Israel began dismantling an outpost for Jewish settlers as required by the initiative."It's a big mistake. You won't ...
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Almost Got the Bastard
Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 8:28:59 am PDT
Israel tried to kill the Pediatrician of Death today, but unfortunately he escaped with injuries: Israeli Rocket Attack Wounds Hamas Leader. The attack on Rantisi, a pediatrician, began before noon Tuesday, when three Israeli Apache helicopter gunships appeared over the skies of Gaza City. In quick succession, they fired seven ...
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Cafe Press Closes Down Jihad Store
Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 8:12:19 am PDT
Cafe Press has done the right thing and closed the store promoting jihad and terrorist related merchandise. That shop was not merely offensive. It was the front for a site called Jihad Unspun, that is openly aligned with—and promotes—the agenda of Islamic militancy. This goes beyond offensive, into the area of ...
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Here Come De Trolls
Mon, Jun 9, 2003 at 10:58:03 pm PDT
If you should happen to notice a sudden influx of nasty know-nothing weenies in our comments tonight, just visit our referrers page and you’ll see where they’re coming from. UPDATE: And here’s our first one already, right on cue.
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Graphing the Terror
Mon, Jun 9, 2003 at 10:21:29 pm PDT
Here’s a graph of terrorist incidents in Israel during the past three weeks—278 attacks, more than 13 per day. Tell me again about that roadmap.
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The Boy Who Cried Wolfowitz
Mon, Jun 9, 2003 at 9:26:21 pm PDT
Here’s a must-read column from Christopher Hitchens, on the far left media’s disgraceful, intellectually dishonest vendetta against Paul Wolfowitz: The Boy Who Cried Wolfowitz. (Hat tip: James.) "Yes that's all very well," said the chap from the BBC World Service, "but what about this man Vulfervitz who seems to run ...
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Osama-Love in Baghdad
Mon, Jun 9, 2003 at 7:18:38 pm PDT
You’re welcome, Iraq. OK. I know there are a lot of people in Iraq who are grateful to be free of the murdering monsters. But demonstrations like this are ... to use a State Department buzz phrase ... not helpful.
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Peaceful Religion Watch
Mon, Jun 9, 2003 at 5:12:45 pm PDT
On the Friday immediately following the summit meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh (where Clown Prince Abdullah smiled and posed for photos with George Bush), the sheikhs of the spiritual centers of Islam in Mecca and Medina went right back to their hate-spewing business as usual. Here’s a headache-inducing dose of crazy illogic, ...
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G8 Combats "Terrorism"
Mon, Jun 9, 2003 at 4:10:40 pm PDT
The G8 Summit earlier this month in Evian, France came up with a document titled Building International Political Will and Capacity to Combat Terrorism - a G8 Action Plan, which opens with the following paragraph: The international community has been united in fighting against international terrorism since the terrorist attacks ...
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Religion of Annihilation and Suicide Bombers
Mon, Jun 9, 2003 at 1:34:12 pm PDT
The imam of the largest mosque in Europe, the Saudi-financed Grand Mosque of Rome, calls for the annihilation of Israel and the destruction of the enemies of Islam: Imam in Rome says suicide bombings OK—in Israel at least. He called for Allah's help in "the destruction of the homes and ...
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If You Get a Message That You're Blocked...
Mon, Jun 9, 2003 at 11:55:03 am PDT
...once again, it’s because I had to block an entire range of dial-up IP addresses to shut out an antisemitic Morlock that insists on spewing its hatred in our comments. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Lies and Bias at AFP
Mon, Jun 9, 2003 at 11:23:36 am PDT
Wow. Get a load of the captions for these two photos from our pals at Agence France Presse. (Hat tip: Barak M.) Palestinian prime minister Mahmud Abbas stood by his pledge to put an end to anti-Israeli violence.(AFP/Jamal Aruri) Professionally shot and edited spots produced by the State Department ...
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Toronto Benefit for Mike's Place
Mon, Jun 9, 2003 at 10:15:32 am PDT
Notice to LGF readers in Toronto: there will be a benefit concert tonight for security guard Avi Taviv and the other victims of the suicide bombing of Mike’s Place in Tel Aviv. Here are the details: -------------------------------------- “Mike’s Place Toronto” A benefit concert for Avi Taviv And the Victims of the Mike’s Place ...
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Bomb in Dresden Train Station
Mon, Jun 9, 2003 at 9:02:41 am PDT
An unattended suitcase found in Dresden’s Central Train Station last Friday contained a bomb that, according to German police, “could have killed many travelers.” (Hat tip: Outsider.)
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French Hypocrisy Watch
Mon, Jun 9, 2003 at 8:49:44 am PDT
In a mind-bendingly hypocritical “open letter” to Israel, Dominique de Villepin (who is a man) says that France loves Jews, loves Israel, and that they have never compromised on Israel’s security. (Hat tip: davesax.) I guess that’s why they continue to prop up Yasser Arafat. It’s a love thing. For Jews. Retch. ...
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NYT Whitewashes Furiously
Mon, Jun 9, 2003 at 8:43:27 am PDT
The New York Times completely ignores Abu Mazen’s statement that he will not use force against terror gangs, focusing instead on yesterday’s statement that he “prefers” to use dialog: Abbas Answers Critics; Vows Support for Palestinian Issues. UPDATE: Amazing! The New York Times has actually changed the headline on this article ...
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Iran Failed to Report Uranium Imports
Mon, Jun 9, 2003 at 8:18:39 am PDT
Iran has admitted to the United Nations that it imported uranium 12 years ago, and didn’t report it. TEHRAN, Iran - Iran admitted Sunday it failed to inform U.N. authorities that it imported a small quantity of uranium 12 years ago but said that failure did not violate the international ...
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The Roadmap is Dead, Long Live the Roadmap
Mon, Jun 9, 2003 at 7:39:42 am PDT
Arafat’s puppet prime minister has now said outright that he will not crack down on the terror gangs under any circumstances, and that Arafat is still very much in charge—as if it weren’t obvious. RAMALLAH, West Bank - The Palestinian prime minister said Monday he will not use force against ...
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A Clinton Bombshell?
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 11:05:49 pm PDT
Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily has a breaking news story about an alleged attempt by Bill and Hillary Clinton to influence the 1999 Israeli elections, with money laundered through the extreme leftist group Americans for Peace Now: Another Clinton crime. (Hat tip: aturin.) Whistleblower Scott Marks of Orlando, Fla., recently concluded ...
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.Mac Problems
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 10:18:07 pm PDT
Suddenly I am unable to access my Apple iDisk, and all the picture files on this page (which are on my iDisk) are showing up as "Forbidden." Trying to mount the iDisk on my desktop results in an "error -5000." I've searched everywhere on the Apple site and found one ...
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Morally Bankrupt
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 7:34:24 pm PDT
A great web prank with a razor-edged point: follow this link to MorallyBankrupt.org. (Hat tip: james.)
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Another Mass Grave in Iraq
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 6:50:51 pm PDT
Saddam's last victims dug up in Iraqi grave. MADAEN, Iraq (AFP) - One by one the last victims of Saddam Hussein's regime, prisoners summarily shot through the head or chest as coalition forces attacked Baghdad, are being unearthed at this mass grave. Rotting flesh still hanging to the bones, locks ...
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Short: The UN is the Solution to All Problems
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 6:00:22 pm PDT
Former UK cabinet minister Clare Short says the United States should just shut up and let the United Nations handle things. And in the great tradition of Neville Chamberlain, she says that by fighting terrorism, we’re only generating more of it: What future for the UN? (Hat tip: NC.) The ...
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Roadmap to Hell
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 3:39:43 pm PDT
From the always on-target Cox & Forkum.
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Terrorism and Other Scholarly Pursuits
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 3:22:53 pm PDT
David Tell of the Weekly Standard rips the American Association of University Professors for their disgraceful (and continuing) support of accused Islamic Jihad kingpin and former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian: Terrorism and Other 'Scholarly Pursuits.' (Hat tip: davesax.) The American Association of University Professors appears inclined to ...
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PA Calls Terrorists "Freedom Fighters"
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 2:15:03 pm PDT
The official Palestinian Authority International Press Center calls the terrorists from today’s attack in Gaza “freedom fighters.” Three Palestinian Freedom Fighters and Four Israeli Soldiers Killed in Gun Battle GazaBEIT HANOUN, Palestine, June 8, 2003, IPC Agencies-- Three Palestinian freedom fighters and four Israeli occupation soldiers were killed early ...
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The Jihad Mosque
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 1:55:08 pm PDT
A Hamas cell was apparently using a Palestinian mosque as cover for a series of mass murder attacks against Israelis—eight members of the mosque soccer team have been connected to terrorist actions. The name of this house of worship for followers of the Religion of Peace™: the Jihad Mosque. (Hat ...
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Antisemitic Posters at Holocaust Museum
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 12:58:37 pm PDT
Sick hatred in Richmond, Virginia: Police investigating anti-Semitic posters at Holocaust Museum. (Hat tip: Reginleif.) RICHMOND, Va. -- Police are investigating posters found at the entrance of the Virginia Holocaust Museum that claim Jews are exploiting the Holocaust for commercial gain.The three posters printed on computer paper were discovered pasted ...
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Abu Mazen Says He Was Misunderstood
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 11:32:35 am PDT
Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency has a report that Abu Mazen is now recanting his speech at the summit meeting with George Bush and Ariel Sharon in Aqaba, because it wasn’t rejectionist enough. (Hat tip: Aaron Weisburd.) Al-Khalil, June 8, IRNA -- Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday ...
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From the Likud Convention
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 10:38:33 am PDT
Haaretz News Flashes from the Likud convention in Israel: 20:33 Sharon at Likud convention: We may raise our voices but not our fists; eventually we will attain peace20:31 Sharon at Likud convention: We will proceed carefully and responsibly; we will face difficult challenges20:27 Sharon at Likud convention: We will not waive the 14 ...
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If You Get a Message That You're Blocked...
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 10:23:30 am PDT
...once again, it’s because I had to block an entire range of dial-up IP addresses to shut out an antisemitic Morlock that insists on spewing its hatred in our comments. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Roadmap to Murderville Update
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 10:09:53 am PDT
Two more Israeli victims of the roadmap. The severely mutilated bodies of Moran Menachem, 17, and David Shambik, 27, were discovered in the early afternoon near Moshav Even Sapir, just beyond Jerusalem's Hadassah-University Hospital at Ein Kerem. The two had been repeatedly stabbed in the chest, abdomen, and face with ...
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RoP Kills 11 in Pakistan
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 9:36:10 am PDT
Gunmen Kill at Least 11 Pakistani Cops. QUETTA, Pakistan - Two gunmen on motorcycles sprayed a truck full of policemen with machine-gun fire in this Pakistani town near the Afghan border Sunday, killing at least 11 and wounding nine, police said.Most of the police were members of the minority Shiite ...
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Birds of a Feather
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 9:03:12 am PDT
Arafat’s puppet, Holocaust denier Abu Mazen, gives a hero’s welcome to a mass murdering swine: Ahmad Jubarah was released from prison by Israel as a “good faith” gesture. In 1975, this foul creature perpetrated a terrorist attack that killed 14 people and wounded 62, including two American citizens: According to the ...
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Roadmap to Murderville Update
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 8:40:13 am PDT
Border Policeman shot in Hebron. Initial reports indicated that the gunman had intended to enter the Machpela Cave, a holy Jewish site, and carry out a shooting attack there, Army Radio reported. According to the radio, border policeman at the entrance to the site stopped the gunman in order to ...
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Manhattan Church Caves In to Terror Threats
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 8:27:22 am PDT
A church on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that had rented space to a synagogue for several years suddenly closed its doors to the Jewish worshippers—after allegedly receiving threats from Arabs: 'Terror Threats' Put Jews on Street. (Hat tip: Bensmom.) Rabbi Bruce L. Cohen - who was forced to ...
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Disgrace of the Day
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 8:04:51 am PDT
Mr. Appeasement speaks out. "What we have to do now is make sure we don't let this tragic incident derail" the summit's gains, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday.The administration and Israel have in the past blamed such attacks on the longtime Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, especially those that ...
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Arafat in Charge
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 8:00:57 am PDT
Yasser Arafat is still acting as the leader of the Palestinian Authority; today he appointed a new head of the PA’s “Preventative Security Service.” (Hat tip: Susan.) Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat on Sunday appointed a new commander to head the PA's Preventative Security Service in the West Bank. The ...
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What the Hell is Colin Powell Saying?
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 7:52:00 am PDT
Powell: Arafat Must Do More to Promote the Peace Process. “Yasser Arafat has to play a more positive role than he has played in last few days, more than that over the last couple of years," US Secretary of State Colin Powell said in an interview with “Fox News Sunday.”According ...
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And Again
Sun, Jun 8, 2003 at 7:23:48 am PDT
This morning, three noble Palestinian jihadi warriors disguised as IDF soldiers infiltrated an army post in Gaza and mounted a sneak attack (the only kind of attack these brave holy warriors ever mount), killing 4 Israelis before they were stopped. Three armed groups — Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Al ...
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Comments Disabled
Sat, Jun 7, 2003 at 10:33:05 pm PDT
NOTICE: Comments are temporarily disabled, while I dream of a world without antisemitic trolls. See you tomorrow... UPDATE: We’re open for business again...
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Loopholes for Terrorists
Sat, Jun 7, 2003 at 5:27:12 pm PDT
I missed this story when ABC News broke it a few days ago; two men who bankrolled suicide bombings for Hamas in Israel have been living the good life as US citizens, thanks to a dangerous loophole in US immigration laws that makes it virtually impossible to deport a naturalized ...
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Nazimedia Denies Holocaust
Sat, Jun 7, 2003 at 4:54:44 pm PDT
The antisemites who have turned Indymedia into Nazimedia are at it again—denying the Holocaust. What a twisted bunch of pathetic losers. (Hat tip: NC.) (The person who posted this entry at Nazimedia uses the same name as a slug who was banned from commenting at LGF; and this is why.)
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Castles Made of Sand
Sat, Jun 7, 2003 at 4:43:37 pm PDT
Here’s an interesting roundtable discussion from the Hoover Institute’s PBS show Uncommon Knowledge, featuring Abraham Sofaer, Daniel Pipes, and a far left Arabist professor, As'ad AbuKhalil: Castles Made of Sand. (Hat tip: William.) The page has streaming video in RealPlayer and Windows Media formats. As'ad AbuKhalil: How can the Arabs have ...
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If You Got A Message That You're Blocked...
Sat, Jun 7, 2003 at 11:17:18 am PDT
...it's because I had to block an entire range of IP addresses to shut out a particularly obnoxious troll—and unfortunately, this creature is still attempting to abuse our comments. Sorry for the inconvenience, but it should be temporary.
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Religion of Peace Threatens Pope
Sat, Jun 7, 2003 at 9:45:09 am PDT
A Bosnian Muslim group calling itself the “Islamic Front of el-Mujahadeen” has threatened to kill Pope John Paul II “in the name of Allah.” (Hat tip: zulubaby.) Croatia's state-run news agency HINA reported Friday that it and a Croatian Catholic news agency had received e-mails threatening to kill Pope John ...
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AP: Hamas is Pragmatic
Sat, Jun 7, 2003 at 8:57:29 am PDT
The PA’s foreign minister politely asks their “friends” in Hamas and Islamic Jihad to “act responsibly.” Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath on Saturday accused Hamas of pulling out of talks before the Palestinian officials could meet with them to explain what happened in closed-door meetings at the summit. "They listened ...
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Religion of Masked Murderers
Sat, Jun 7, 2003 at 8:11:21 am PDT
Anyone seen my roadmap?
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Seeds of Hate (Long Sown)
Sat, Jun 7, 2003 at 8:04:51 am PDT
For LGF readers, there’s nothing new in this article about the sickening bigotry and hatred relentlessly drummed into the heads of Arab children: Seeds of Hate in Saudi Arabia. (Hat tip: Montaigne’s Cat.) I’ve been writing about this appalling situation ever since 9/11/2001; it’s taken the Washington Post a year ...
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No Solution
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 11:29:50 pm PDT
David Warren says the situation in the Middle East is Hopeless. And I’m very much afraid he’s right. It is terminal. It doesn't matter whether Mr. Abbas is sincere in his promise to end the Intifadah, and pursue a negotiated settlement that will lead to the creation of a democratic ...
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Bus Bomb Kills 5 German Peacekeepers
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 10:17:15 pm PDT
A bomb has exploded in a bus carrying German peacekeepers in Kabul, Afghanistan: Bomb Hits Bus in Kabul, Kills Five. The International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF, bus was traveling from the airport toward eastern Kabul and driving near the city's customs house when the bomb exploded inside it, Kabul ...
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Will Iran Go Nuclear?
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 9:53:03 pm PDT
Tonight we have a new poll for the first time in months, thanks to a suggestion from Nathaniel Harari: Will Iran Go Nuclear?
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Iran’s Nuclear Plans
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 7:09:32 pm PDT
Even the UN’s moribund nuclear agency is beginning to get vaguely worried about Iran’s nuclear aspirations: U.N. Says Iran Not Complying on Nuke Info. (Hat tip: Gary G.) VIENNA, Austria - Iran has not fully disclosed the extent of its atomic program to the U.N. nuclear agency as required by ...
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The Head of the Snake
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 6:15:19 pm PDT
Immediately before President Bush’s summit meeting with Ariel Sharon and Abu Mazen in Jordan, the Palestinian Authority daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida published an insanely vicious attack on Bush and the United States by PA Deputy Foreign Minister 'Adli Sadeq. "The Arab-American summit is convening today with the participation of the head ...
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Krauthammer: Let's Be Plain
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 5:50:19 pm PDT
Charles Krauthammer seems to be just as confused and unhappy about the Bush administration’s apparent coddling of Arab tyrants as I am—and just as pessimistic about the “roadmap to Murderville:” Shades of Oslo. (Hat tip: EE.) Let's be plain about what happened at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The president of the ...
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WaPo Whitewashes Freeman
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 5:21:24 pm PDT
Here are two copies of the same Associated Press release about Sultaana Freeman, both carrying the same writer’s byline (Mike Branom), but with an interesting difference. (Hat tip: Steven Zak.) First, from the Miami Herald: Judge: Woman Can't Wear Veil in ID Photo. Then, from the Washington Post: Muslim Woman Cannot Wear ...
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If You Got a Message That You're Blocked...
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 4:56:31 pm PDT
...it's because I had to block an entire range of IP addresses today to shut out a particularly obnoxious troll. Sorry for the inconvenience, but it should be a temporary thing.
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Plane Crashes in Apartment Building
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 4:03:11 pm PDT
Breaking News: a small plane has crashed into an apartment building near Fairfax High School in Los Angeles...
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History's Twists and Turns
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 3:13:52 pm PDT
An excellent op-ed piece by Diana West on History's twists and turns. Rather abruptly, it seems, the reluctance to endorse a Palestinian state has become the minority view in the Israeli government. This may also be the case in the United States, where it used to be that any politician ...
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Left Wing Idiot Can't Read
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 12:45:07 pm PDT
This guy—cdavies.org—is promoting a lie about my referrers script, claiming that it has a security hole that would allow people to insert Javascript code in the referrers list. C. Davies is an insulting moron who didn't even bother to examine the code fully before calling me a "right wing nut who ...
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Life in Israel
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 12:21:20 pm PDT
From LGF reader Lizzy, here’s a glimpse into the reality of living in Israel—under constant threat of murder from the gangs of marauding terrorist thugs who live right next door: ---------------------------------- Hag Semeach to all. Today I was in downtown Jerusalem with my husband and two daughters. Eden, my eldest, had her ...
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EUroweenie Silliness Reaches New Height
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 11:43:34 am PDT
The unelected bureaucrats of the European Union are now taking away children’s playground equipment in Great Britain: EU give swings the push. (Hat tip: ploome.) The three swings were erected more than 25 years ago. Kids playing on them have suffered nothing worse than a grazed knee ever since.But now ...
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Outrage of the Day
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 10:53:05 am PDT
The owner of the sick Islamist propaganda site Jihad Unspun (no link) is using Cafe Press to market a line of merchandise featuring terrorist murderers like Osama Bin Laden—and it includes baby clothing: Welcome to JUS Gear, you source of unique gear! (Hat tip: Ben.) I’m going to complain strongly to ...
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Radical Islam Loses One in Florida
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 10:35:55 am PDT
After three days of listening to whining about “religious freedom,” the judge in the Sultaana Freeman case has ruled that she cannot wear a black sack over her face in her driver’s license photograph.
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Muslim Charities Sue Terrorist Hunter
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 9:19:08 am PDT
Last month we had an entry about a woman who tracks down terrorists and their supporting organizations, who goes by the name of Sarah. Today the Washington Post reports that a group of Muslim “charities” (currently under investigation for ties to terror gangs) is suing CBS and a woman they say ...
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Pipeline of Hatred
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 8:49:01 am PDT
Here’s a terrific Flash presentation on radical Islam’s present day exploitation of an ancient plague: Anti-Semitism: Pipeline of Hatred.
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Remembering D-Day
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 8:39:18 am PDT
On this day in 1944, one of the largest invasion forces ever assembled landed on the beach at Normandy, beginning the assault on Hitler’s “Fortress Europe.” Please take a moment to honor the memory of the many brave soldiers who sacrificed their lives that day. Here’s a riveting, horrifying account of the ...
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The Old Game
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 8:04:16 am PDT
It’s Friday and you know what that means—another great read from Victor Davis Hanson: The Old Game. If I had been a terrorist in the 1980s and 1990s, I would have sized up the rules of the contest something like this. Kill or take hostages at no more than ten ...
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Gun in One Hand, Koran in the Other
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 7:57:54 am PDT
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Hamas Bails on Talks
Fri, Jun 6, 2003 at 7:46:47 am PDT
Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the Pediatrician of Death and leader of Hamas, has walked out of talks with Holocaust denier Abu Mazen, preferring instead to continue slaughtering Jews. (Hat tip: Henry S.) "He does not represent us," said Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a senior Hamas official, "And we refuse to meet with ...
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A Rachel Corrie Wannabe
Thu, Jun 5, 2003 at 9:03:09 pm PDT
The terror enablers continue their increasingly desperate, increasingly disgusting efforts to turn Rachel Corrie into a heroic martyr: A passer-by wheels his stroller around Rachel Perrotta a Jewish activist of Chicago lies on the sidewalk outside the Israeli consulate in Chicago, Thursday, June 5, 2003, as she portrays the death ...
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If You Ran the New York Times
Thu, Jun 5, 2003 at 6:13:17 pm PDT
Roger Simon asks: if you had the god-like power to choose the New York Times weekly op-ed columnist, who would you pick ? My choices: Victor Davis Hanson and/or Mark Steyn.
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Peaceful Religion Watch
Thu, Jun 5, 2003 at 5:53:38 pm PDT
Last Friday, May 30, the spiritual leaders of the Islamic world spewed an astonishing amount of hatred and bigotry in their weekly khutba (sermons) in the holiest mosques of Islam, as they do week after week, year after year—and it was all broadcast live on the official television stations of ...
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Arafish Says...
Thu, Jun 5, 2003 at 2:51:29 pm PDT
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The Mole Man is Dead
Thu, Jun 5, 2003 at 2:13:18 pm PDT
Stefan Sharkansky reports that antisemitic German politician Jürgen W. Möllemann is dead, following a bizarre parachuting accident/suicide. Stefan has been following the strange career of this strange man for some time; see The Jürgen W. Möllemann File for the story.
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Weasels Get One
Thu, Jun 5, 2003 at 1:55:40 pm PDT
Moroccan Arrested in France Over Sept 11 Attacks. (Hat tip: Merde in France.) PARIS (Reuters) - A Moroccan man wanted in connection with the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States has been arrested in France, a judicial source said on Thursday.Karim Mehdi, 34, was arrested Sunday. Thursday he ...
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Iraqi Arrested for Toxic Letters
Thu, Jun 5, 2003 at 12:29:28 pm PDT
An Iraqi man has been arrested in connection with the toxic letters case we wrote about yesterday. (Hat tip: Robert Crawford.) BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian prosecutors said on Thursday they had detained a man of Iraqi nationality after a series of letters containing a nerve gas ingredient were sent to ...
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The Guardian Story Gets Worse
Thu, Jun 5, 2003 at 12:11:02 pm PDT
The Guardian’s lie about Paul Wolfowitz was even more egregious and disgraceful than it first appeared—because the accurate quote from Wolfowitz was published on their own web site last weekend, in a context that makes it unmistakably clear what Wolfowitz was saying: U.S. to Put Economic Pressure on N. Korea. ...
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40 Taliban Creeps Die
Thu, Jun 5, 2003 at 11:32:04 am PDT
In a 7-hour battle near the Pakistan border in Afghanistan, up to 40 Taliban freakazoids have been rendered harmless.
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Florida Muslims Whine, Seethe
Thu, Jun 5, 2003 at 10:39:49 am PDT
Here’s an update on the case of Sultaana Freeman, the convicted child batterer who wants to have her driver’s license photograph taken while wearing a black sack over her face: S. Floridians split on whether Muslim woman should unveil for license photo. (Hat tip: Brenda Walker.) To start with, the headline ...
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The Community of the Disobedient
Thu, Jun 5, 2003 at 10:05:01 am PDT
Steven Zak has a good article at Israel Insider about Susan Sontag’s morally confused, nihilistic paean to terror enabler Rachel Corrie: The community of the disobedient. Corrie was acting on behalf of the radical Arab-led International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a group dedicated to "resistance" against "the occupation of Palestine." In ...
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Children Buried Alive in Iraq
Thu, Jun 5, 2003 at 9:44:59 am PDT
On Tuesday we noted the discovery of a mass grave in northern Iraq containing the remains of 200 children. Today, KurdishMedia News reports that the children were buried alive. (Hat tip: Laurence Simon.)
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Guardian Admits Their Lie
Thu, Jun 5, 2003 at 9:15:20 am PDT
LGF reader Marc forwarded this email from the Guardian, about their outrageous distortion of Paul Wolfowitz’s remarks: "A report which was posted on our website on June 4 under the heading "Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil" misconstrued remarks made by the US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, making it ...
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Pushing the Bias Button
Thu, Jun 5, 2003 at 9:10:46 am PDT
An excellent article by John Leo looks at CAIR’s insidious, dishonest focus on wildly exaggerated claims of “hate crimes” against Muslims: Pushing the Bias Button. (Hat tip: William.) Every now and then a Muslim spokesman slips and admits that the numbers aren't grave. When the executive director of the Muslim ...
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Death Cult Photo Album
Thu, Jun 5, 2003 at 8:19:53 am PDT
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Howell Raines Resigns!
Thu, Jun 5, 2003 at 8:02:03 am PDT
Breaking News: Executive editor of the New York Times Howell Raines has resigned!
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The Lie About Wolfowitz
Thu, Jun 5, 2003 at 7:52:21 am PDT
I just turned on the radio in my office, and the first thing I heard was clueless idiot Ken Minyard (local LA radio “personality”) repeating the lie about Paul Wolfowitz’s “swimming on a sea of oil” statement from the Guardian. (If you haven’t read the truth about what Wolfowitz said, ...
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Religion of Suicide Bombers
Wed, Jun 4, 2003 at 11:03:03 pm PDT
The Islamic Jihad suicide bombers-in-waiting, with the blessings of their families and spiritual leaders, are getting anxious to slaughter Jews. As many Jews as possible. GAZA (Reuters) - Ever since Abu Mujahed abandoned his university studies to join the ranks of Muslim militants, he has been preparing to die.Now, ...
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Gaahh! My Eyes!
Wed, Jun 4, 2003 at 10:34:27 pm PDT
Here’s a Windows Media video from reader Channy A. that may traumatize you for life, showing the world’s oldest terrorist getting some good, good lovin’ from the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem. I’m sorry to do this to you.
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Fark Free-for-All
Wed, Jun 4, 2003 at 8:46:06 pm PDT
Someone at FARK.com linked to our entry about Paul Wolfowitz being misquoted by the Guardian. It’s pretty funny that someone posting a comment at “FARK.COM” would say this: Well it's good we're getting the REAL STORY from a LEGITIMATE, REPUTABLE source like "LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS!!!" I may turn off comments ...
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Interview with the Beheader
Wed, Jun 4, 2003 at 7:12:58 pm PDT
Saudi Arabia lives in a 7th century time warp, and they’re proud of it: Kingdom's Leading Executioner Says: 'I Lead a Normal Life.' “Despite the fact that I hate violence against women, when it comes to God’s will, I have to carry it out.”There is no great difference between executing ...
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For the Sake of the Peace Process
Wed, Jun 4, 2003 at 5:26:45 pm PDT
Caroline Glick puts her finger on the lie at the heart of the “roadmap:” For the Sake of the Peace Process. There is no doubt that President Bush means well in his efforts. His genuine hope for peace in the Middle East literally dripped from every word he uttered on ...
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American Gigolo
Wed, Jun 4, 2003 at 5:16:48 pm PDT
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Another British Attack on Wolfowitz
Wed, Jun 4, 2003 at 1:06:02 pm PDT
The Guardian, not to be outdone by the Independent and Vanity Fair, is the latest anti-American rag to misquote Paul Wolfowitz, with a hideously misleading headline and a quote that’s taken so far out of context that it qualifies as deliberate deception: Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil. (Hat tip: ...
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Religion of Peace Strikes in Belgium
Wed, Jun 4, 2003 at 12:45:15 pm PDT
Letters containing a nerve gas ingredient were sent to several locations in Belgium, including the prime minister’s office and the US and British embassies: Belgium Finds Nerve Gas Ingredient in Letters. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) Two postal workers were taken to hospital after being exposed to the chemicals in the letters ...
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French Shari'a Watch
Wed, Jun 4, 2003 at 11:01:00 am PDT
Islamic extremists have invaded France’s National Institute for Eastern Languages and Civilizations: Students in Burqas. (Hat tip: Merde in France.) During the 2001/2002 academic year, headscarved students of the Arabic department demanded a prayer room within the university. The administration turned them down. Students, who are no longer content ...
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Hate Mail from Palestinian Children
Wed, Jun 4, 2003 at 10:22:42 am PDT
Since I subscribe to the Palestinian Media Watch mailing list, I saw this item a few days ago, meant to write about it, and then got into something else and forgot. Today WorldNetDaily has a story on PMW’s report of a Palestinian children’s letter-writing contest, that shows how horribly successful the ...
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Blood Libel at PA Info Center
Wed, Jun 4, 2003 at 8:28:45 am PDT
As Arafat’s puppet prime minister Abu Mazen meets with President Bush and Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, the Palestinian Authority State Information Center web site publishes a series of ugly anti-Israel and anti-American “cartoons,” including this horrific reiteration of the antisemitic blood libel: “Bad faith” doesn’t even begin to describe this. ...
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Hamas, Islamic Jihad Won't Disarm
Wed, Jun 4, 2003 at 8:03:43 am PDT
Right on cue, Hamas and Islamic Jihad issue a statement that they plan to continue slaughtering Jews until Israel is destroyed. GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militant groups vowed on Wednesday they would not disarm, defying an appeal by Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas issued at a U.S.-led peace summit with ...
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The Aqaba Summit
Wed, Jun 4, 2003 at 7:45:13 am PDT
Here is the text of Ariel Sharon’s statement at the Aqaba summit meeting in Jordan. The only interesting bit is that he promised to immediately begin dismantling “unauthorized outposts” in the disputed territories. Abu Mazen renounced terrorism, which sounds familiar.
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CAIR Library Propaganda Campaign
Wed, Jun 4, 2003 at 7:28:58 am PDT
Wahhabi front group CAIR has been carrying out an intensive propaganda campaign to flood US libraries with Islamic books and “educational” materials—and the Christian Science Monitor is glad to help promote it. From their December issue: Muslims counter ignorance with US library campaign. To help counter what it sees as ...
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Doonesbury Joins the Idiotarians
Tue, Jun 3, 2003 at 9:58:51 pm PDT
Is this supposed to be funny?
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Hatred Among the Elites
Tue, Jun 3, 2003 at 9:53:06 pm PDT
As a corollary to the Pew study we wrote about earlier today, USA Today looked at the attitudes of foreign “elites”—and found even more hatred of America: Views of world elite at core of U.S. problems abroad. (Hat tip: Victrade.) The disparity between mass and elite views sheds light ...
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Lessons of the War
Tue, Jun 3, 2003 at 9:17:40 pm PDT
A new essay at Commentary Magazine by Victor Davis Hanson: Lessons of the War.
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Pal Kids: Ask for Death
Tue, Jun 3, 2003 at 4:45:05 pm PDT
Palestinian children are taught to Ask for Death from a very young age. This page at Palestinian Media Watch has one of the most appalling videos you will ever see, showing the horrific propaganda and indoctrination that spews from official Palestinian Authority media: music videos that sing the praises of ...
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We Got Mail!
Tue, Jun 3, 2003 at 3:07:57 pm PDT
Today’s hate mail comes all the way from the lovely city of Leeds in Great Britain, a lower case impaired scream of pique courtesy of jfry@hotmail.com, who has a crush (no pun intended) on Saint Rachel Corrie and a burning hatred of Jews. GOD BLESS THE MEMORY OF RACHEL CORRIE ...
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ISM Seethes, Whines, Demands Apology
Tue, Jun 3, 2003 at 1:21:00 pm PDT
Over at Nazimedia, the terror-enabling International Solidarity Movement is demanding an apology from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs for their statements about ISM complicity in the terrorist attack against Mike’s Place in Tel Aviv. (Hat tip: Kelly.) Maybe they should hold their breaths.
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Jargon File: Anti-Idiotarianism
Tue, Jun 3, 2003 at 1:08:27 pm PDT
Now I know I’ve finally arrived. Anti-idiotarianism is listed in the Jargon File.
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Bush Leaves, Arabs Seethe
Tue, Jun 3, 2003 at 12:45:26 pm PDT
The US is trying like hell to put a positive spin on President Bush’s meeting with Arab despots at Sharm El Sheik in Egypt. Five Arab leaders pledged to President Bush today that they would actively fight "the culture of extremism and violence" that has undercut peace efforts in the ...
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Mass Grave of Children
Tue, Jun 3, 2003 at 10:38:16 am PDT
A mass grave found near Kirkuk in northern Iraq contains the remains of 200 Kurdish children. (Hat tip: MikeO.) The Kurdish newspaper Taakhi said the communal grave was found close to Debs, in Kirkuk, on May 30.The paper said the remains of the child victims were the repression of the ...
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Muslims Want Destruction of Israel, Hate America
Tue, Jun 3, 2003 at 9:05:52 am PDT
The Arab obsession with—and unreasoning hatred of—Israel is a mass psychosis the likes of which the world has never seen. A new poll conducted by the Pew Global Attitudes Project shows that an overwhelming majority of the world’s Muslims are yearning for the destruction of Israel. (Hat tip: Sydney Carton.) ...
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Campus Nonsense
Tue, Jun 3, 2003 at 8:46:37 am PDT
LGF recommends Campus Nonsense, a weblog dedicated to exposing the left-wing extremism that dominates US college campuses.
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CIA: Al Qaeda Still Plotting
Tue, Jun 3, 2003 at 8:21:27 am PDT
A new CIA report warns that al Qaeda has been preparing for attacks using weapons of mass destruction—possibly including radiological dispersion weapons or even crude atomic bombs: CIA says al Qaeda ready to use nukes. According to the report, al Qaeda and other terrorists also could produce what the CIA ...
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Hamas in the United States
Mon, Jun 2, 2003 at 7:03:52 pm PDT
The terror gang Hamas is here in the US, and raising money from Presbyterians supporters. LIVING IN Bridgeview, Ill., a middle-class suburb of Chicago, is a man the U.S. government calls a “designated global terrorist.” His name is Muhammed Salah.In 1993, Salah confessed in Israel to raising money for Hamas’ ...
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Iran Seizes US Troops
Mon, Jun 2, 2003 at 6:54:38 pm PDT
Iran detained by force, blindfolded, and interrogated four US soldiers and five civilians on Sunday—but American media was reporting on the all-important Laci Peterson case, so we don’t hear about it until now. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four U.S. soldiers and five civilians on boats in the Shatt al-Arab waterway were ...
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Political Asylum
Mon, Jun 2, 2003 at 6:16:48 pm PDT
Another bullseye from the talented pens of Cox & Forkum. Go buy their excellent book, and help them pay the rent. They deserve it.
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UK Bombers Helped by Journalist
Mon, Jun 2, 2003 at 4:04:27 pm PDT
The British Pakistani terrorists who attacked Mike’s Place in Tel Aviv were able to cross the checkpoints from Gaza into Israel because they were given a ride by an Italian journalist. (Hat tip: Mojo Jojo.) The two traveled to Israel via Jordan, crossing the Allenby Bridge on April 12, and ...
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Open Letter from an Arab-American Student
Mon, Jun 2, 2003 at 2:13:39 pm PDT
A big LGF Bravo! to Oubai Mohammad Shahbandar, an Arab American student of Syrian descent, who tells the hard truth about the fifth column of terrorist sympathizers and America-haters that has come to dominate the discourse on US campuses: Open Letter from an Arab-American Student. (Hat tip: Jane Doe.) The ...
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Iran to US: Help Us Build Nukes
Mon, Jun 2, 2003 at 11:35:31 am PDT
Iran says to the United States, “If you’re so worried about us having nuclear weapons, why don’t you help us build them?” Really. That’s what Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said. You can’t make up this kind of stuff. (Hat tip: NC.) "If the United States is really concerned, ...
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Ominous Warnings
Mon, Jun 2, 2003 at 9:57:52 am PDT
Israel security forces are seeing an ominous increase in terror warnings. The Shin Bet and security establishment have received 59 terror warnings in the past week despite Israel's confidence-building gestures such as the lifting of the general closure in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip on Saturday night and the ...
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Antisemitism at Chicago Tribune
Mon, Jun 2, 2003 at 9:30:57 am PDT
The Chicago Tribune crossed the line today, with a truly vile antisemitic cartoon. Here it is. The Chicago Sun Times is disgusted, and pulls no punches in their commentary: Newspapers tend to ignore each other's faults with a there-but-for-the-grace-of-God-go-I shudder and silence. Or else they tweak their rivals in a playfully ...
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Stalkers Now Sending Viruses
Mon, Jun 2, 2003 at 9:21:35 am PDT
Today I’ve received almost a dozen notices from email programs that an email I sent “contained a virus” and had been deleted. Someone (probably the same stalker who’s been libeling me at Indymedia) is forging my address on emails, in an attempt to smear me, and they’ve been very busy today. ...
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WaPo: 'Christian Terrorism'
Mon, Jun 2, 2003 at 8:49:46 am PDT
The Washington Post asks about Eric Rudolph, the accused Olympia Park bomber: Is Terrorism Tied To Christian Sect? My, my. Aren’t they quick to speculate about religious motivations, when the religion is Christianity—while shying away from even mentioning the perpetrator’s identity when a Muslim is involved?
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NYT Bias Watch
Mon, Jun 2, 2003 at 8:19:38 am PDT
The New York Times finally got around to noticing that 100,000 people marched up Fifth Avenue yesterday: Marchers Wave Flags at Salute to Israel Parade. Predictably, though, the article focuses mainly on the confrontations with “more than 200” protesters, including this very slanted account with an obvious sympathy toward the ...
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Prisoners in the Doghouse
Sun, Jun 1, 2003 at 9:50:05 pm PDT
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"That's Not Comforting"
Sun, Jun 1, 2003 at 7:45:58 pm PDT
Another 25-year old tool of the International Solidarity Movement writes home. (Hat tip: Tom Scott.) When Megan called and wrote, she'd tell of helping tear down roadblocks, of getting down on her knees in front of a tank, of barging into houses being stripped by soldiers in search of terrorists ...
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The End of Phase One
Sun, Jun 1, 2003 at 7:07:50 pm PDT
It’s the first of June. The end of “Phase One” of the Quartet’s “roadmap to peace.” The Palestinians have now completed the “unconditional cessation of violence” that they accepted “unconditionally.” Right? Here’s what they agreed to: Phase I: Ending Terror And Violence, Normalizing Palestinian Life, and Building Palestinian Institutions Present to May 2003 ...
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Mass Murderer to Get Out of Jail Free
Sun, Jun 1, 2003 at 5:42:55 pm PDT
Among the Palestinian Arabs who will be released from prison as a “good faith” gesture is a man named Ahmad Ibrahim Musa Abu El-Sukar, who slaughtered 14 people and wounded 62 with an old refrigerator packed with explosives on July 4, 1975—almost 30 years ago. Two US citizens were among ...
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Religion of Peace Training to Kill
Sun, Jun 1, 2003 at 3:03:21 pm PDT
Jemaah Islamiya, the Al Qaeda spinoff terror gang responsible for the Bali nightclub bombing, is up to no good: 50 new JI terrorists trigger attack fears. UP to 50 new operatives have been trained by terror group Jemaah Islamiah in rudimentary camps in the southern Philippines in the past six ...
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Salute to Israel Parade
Sun, Jun 1, 2003 at 2:16:09 pm PDT
The Jerusalem Post reports that more than 100,000 marchers took part in the Salute to Israel parade on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan today: 100,000 New Yorkers celebrate 39th annual Israel parade. Under rainy skies and with far fewer spectators than usual, more than 100,000 marchers, dozens of floats and marching ...
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Arafat's Kids
Sun, Jun 1, 2003 at 11:06:06 am PDT
On International Children’s Day, Yasser Arafat held a meeting with a group of Palestinian children in his terror hole in Ramallah—and told them to kill themselves. Arafat devoted his remarks to encouraging the children to be "shahid" (die for the cause), noting that one shahid who dies for the sake ...
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Oil Ticks Back to Old Tricks
Sun, Jun 1, 2003 at 10:07:50 am PDT
Arab News has a new look, but the same old fanatical hatred and Muslim chauvinism remains. Today they print an article titled Terrorists: Origin of the Species, blaming the upsurge in worldwide terrorism on the West, and singing the praises of the Islamic Revolution in Iran—a “revolution” born out of ...
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EU Antisemitism Watch
Sun, Jun 1, 2003 at 9:32:03 am PDT
Here’s yet another display of abysmal Euro-hypocrisy. The European Union, one of the “Quartet” sponsors of the “roadmap to Murderville,” is actually hosting an exhibit entitled “The New Doors of Jerusalem: Apartheid Israel”—at the European Parliament. (Hat tip: Henry S.) In a letter to the President of the European Parliament, ...
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Steyn in Iraq
Sun, Jun 1, 2003 at 9:16:50 am PDT
Mark Steyn is in Iraq, where he finds no sign of chaos or quagmire, but plenty of Arab politics as usual: Come on over the water's lovely. "Had a lot of refugees?" I asked the Jordanian customs officer."We had about 10 through last week," he said. "Palestinians.""Where were they headed? ...
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Euro-Hypocrisy
Sun, Jun 1, 2003 at 8:06:58 am PDT
The terrorist factories that pass for educational institutions in the Palestinian Arab areas of the West Bank and Gaza build shrines to suicide bombers, encourage women to become mass murderers, train students to attack civilian buses, and call for jihad against infidels throughout the world—but the Association of University Teachers ...
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