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Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Making the Grandest Tour

Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 7:27:46 pm PDT

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting excited at the approach of the Tour de France, and the very good possibility that Lance Armstrong is going to do what no man has done before—win six, and humiliate ze French to ze point of national hara-kiri: Making the grandest tour. Armstrong ...

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Love In A Time Of Danger

Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 6:16:21 pm PDT

Right Thinking Girl has a moving post about a late night phone call: Love In A Time Of Danger. (Hat tip: Cranch.)

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Appreciate the Nuance

Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 6:05:57 pm PDT

Once again we see that fine French sensibility, the kind that appreciates the buffoonish work of a Michael Moore for example, on display in Arafat’s reeking terrorist hole—where Foreign Minister Michel Barnier, surrounded by thugs, called for an end to Israeli “repression” as he shook the bloodstained hand of the ...

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Mass Murdering Dictator Faces Judge

Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 5:07:12 pm PDT

Saddam Hussein and some of his closest cronies, including Tariq Aziz and “Chemical Ali,” went before an Iraqi judge today, in the beginning of an historic trial: Saddam Faces Iraqi Judge in First Step to Trial. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein appeared before an Iraqi judge on Wednesday when Iraq’s new ...

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The Islamic Sway Over Turkey

Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 3:50:34 pm PDT

Raphael Israeli, a professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Hebrew University, has a piece warning of the rise of Islamism in Turkey, and arguing that the Europeans may have good reason to be wary of letting Turkey into the European Union: Important to Understand the Islamic Sway Over ...

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Arab TV In Real Time

Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 3:41:07 pm PDT

A new site from MEMRI that may open a few eyes in the West: MEMRI TV. MEMRI’s TV monitoring center operates 16 hours per day, overseeing every major Arab channel. The center has the in-house capability to translate, subtitle and distribute the segments from Arab TV in real time to Western ...

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Kidnapped Marine Was AWOL

Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 2:14:27 pm PDT

Rumors about Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun’s “kidnapping” in Iraq have been circulating for a few days; here’s the first confirmation that Hassoun had indeed gone AWOL: Abducted Marine Had Reportedly Deserted. (Hat tip: Spoons.) I put the word “kidnapping” in quotes above because I agree with Spoons that something about this ...

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Nader: "The Israeli Puppeteer"

Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 9:55:42 am PDT

Ralph Nader: anti-Semite. (Hat tip: Ethel Carol.) On Tuesday, as broadcast on the American cable network C-Span, independent presidential candidate and environmental crusader Ralph Nader said the following: “What has been happening over the years is a predictable routine of foreign visitation from the head of the Israeli government. The Israeli puppeteer ...

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The Media Are the Enemy

Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 8:54:15 am PDT

You’re not going to believe the way NBC’s Tom Brokaw interviews new Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, openly spouting “quagmire” defeatism and patronizingly dismissing Allawi’s belief that Saddam Hussein was connected to Al Qaeda: Allawi: Saddam connected to al-Qaida. (Hat tip: kstagger.) Brokaw: As long as the United States military remains ...

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Textbook Jihad in Egypt

Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 8:03:53 am PDT

Western media and Islamic advocacy groups are doing their best to absolve Islam of any responsibility in the beheadings of infidels. Islam does not sanction this type of killing, they tell us. As Andrew Bostom writes, this is a transparently obvious lie. But the media control the flow of information, and ...

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Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Hillary: "On Behalf of the Common Good"

Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 9:05:20 pm PDT

Well, at least she’s honest. Headlining an appearance with other Democratic women senators on behalf of Sen. Barbara Boxer, who is up for re-election this year, Hillary Clinton told several hundred supporters — some of whom had ponied up as much as $10,000 to attend — to expect to lose some ...

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The Enemy Within

Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 7:36:30 pm PDT

Interesting news from the Department of Homeland Security (for a change), as background checks of foreign airline pilots and truckers licensed to carry hazardous materials have turned up 38 people with connections to terrorists: U.S. Finds Truckers, Pilots Tied to Terror. Asa Hutchinson, undersecretary for border and transportation security, said the ...

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One Man, Two Registrations

Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 6:33:41 pm PDT

The Smoking Gun exposes another Michael Moore lie: Director Michael Moore Simultaneously On Voter Rolls In New York, Michigan. JUNE 28—Prior to last week’s Washington, D.C. premiere of “Fahrenheit 9/11,” Michael Moore denied that the new documentary represents his de facto endorsement of John Kerry. “I am an Independent,” the filmmaker ...

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Losing is Not an Option

Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 6:05:04 pm PDT

At the indispensable Israpundit blog, Ted Belman has posted a letter from a retired attorney to his sons: Losing is not an option. Dear Tom, Kevin, Kirby and Ted, As your father, I believe I owe it to you to share some thoughts on the present world situation. We have over the ...

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Jihad Watch: Now With Fewer Trolls!

Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 5:15:35 pm PDT

Please note: Jihad Watch is back up and running, with a shiny new installation of Movable Type 3 and registration (through TypeKey) for comments. Robert Spencer was being plagued by anonymous comment Morlocks, using every underhanded trick in the book to sow chaos and discord. And spammers posting hundreds of ...

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Clerics Who Should Really Just Shut Up

Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 2:54:53 pm PDT

The headline at news.com.au reads: Shiites denounce al-Qaeda terror. More wishful media thinking. Dig into the piece a little and you’ll find not one iota of real empathy for the victims of these brutal murders—just plenty of whining about “US policies” and the “harm to Islam’s reputation.” On Sadr’s behalf Sheikh Khafaji also ...

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Saudi Security Infiltrated

Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 2:37:01 pm PDT

Saudi security, police, and National Guard forces are lousy with Al Qaeda: Analysis: Saudi security organs infiltrated. (Hat tip: Barak Moore.) In some cases, Abdulaziz Muqrin used fake sleeper cells to divert U.S. spy hunters away from genuine operative cells, U.S. government officials said. The fact that fake cells were set up ...

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Steyn Skewers Moore

Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 2:01:38 pm PDT

Mark Steyn, on the importance of being Michael Moore. Midway through the picture, a “peace” activist provides a perfect distillation of its argument. He recalls a conversation with an acquaintance, who observed, “bin Laden’s a real asshole for killing all those people”. “Yeah,” says the “pacifist”, “but he’ll never be as ...

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Turkish Muslim Hostages Released

Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 8:34:27 am PDT

The three Turkish hostages have been released by their Islamic kidnappers: Turkish hostages in Iraq released. ANKARA (AFP) - Three Turkish hostages held in Iraq by an extremist group that had threatened to behead them have been freed, a Turkish official and a statement from the group carried by the Arabic ...

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Moore and MoveOn

Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 7:42:28 am PDT

Here’s Byron York, on the political campaign disguised as a movie: Michael Moore, MoveOn & Fahrenheit 9/11. The left-wing activist group MoveOn.org, which last week launched a campaign to encourage members to see Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 during its premiere weekend, is now taking partial credit for the early success of ...

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ElBaradei Praises Iran

Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 7:27:58 am PDT

The UN’s toothless nuclear watchdog is back to praising Iran for their “cooperation” with the IAEA: Iran Says Suspected Nuke Site Was Military Lab-U.N. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Iran has told United Nations inspectors a site at Lavizan, in Tehran, was used for military research before it was razed and not atomic ...

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French Perfidy Watch

Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 7:17:36 am PDT

The French are at it again: France Blocks U.S. on Elite Force for Afghanistan. ISTANBUL (Reuters) - France has blocked a U.S. bid to deploy NATO’s new strike force to safeguard Afghanistan’s elections, stoking tension between the two allies that fell out over the Iraq war, diplomats said Tuesday. “France, and to ...

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Monday, June 28, 2004

The Mask Slips at JihadTV

Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 7:36:04 pm PDT

Al Jazeera’s web site slipped up tonight and labeled the Israeli city of Sderot a “settlement”—which it is not—in English this time: Aljazeera.Net - Settlement targeted after Gaza attack. (Hat tip: Laurence Simon.) At least two Israeli settlers were killed and a third seriously wounded when two home-made missiles fell on ...

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Cheapening the National Debate

Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 7:00:45 pm PDT

Former New York mayor Ed Koch, another Bush Democrat, has some comments on Michael Moore’s agit-prop film that are worth reading: Koch: Moore’s propaganda film cheapens debate, polarizes nation. (Hat tip: Jheka.) A year after 9/11, I was part of a panel discussion on BBC-TV’s “Question Time” show which aired live ...

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Buglets Zapped

Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 6:46:13 pm PDT

I fixed several small buglets (any software problem that doesn’t result in global thermonuclear war is dubbed a “buglet” around here) in the User Account Management code today, so if you had trouble logging in or saving your profile, please try again. UPDATE: In other earthshaking news, I increased the limit ...

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Holy Warriors Murder Another Hostage

Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 6:38:34 pm PDT

Thanks to all who alerted me about this story earlier. I was holding off until confirmation, but there’s not much doubt now; Spc. Keith M. Maupin, kidnapped in April, was murdered by the mujahideen: Report: Iraqi Militants Kill U.S. Soldier. The Arab satellite station aired video showing a blindfolded man sitting ...

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"We Will Be Coming For You"

Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 5:47:35 pm PDT

Hugh Hewitt has a letter from a retired US Marine that says it all, and says it well. This letter is for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, “Islamic Response,” and the rest of the so-called “insurgents” in Iraq. I obviously do not have an e-mail address for these vermin, so I am forwarding ...

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Iranian Woman Gives Birth to Frog

Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 3:10:16 pm PDT

On June 24, the editor of an Iranian daily published a stunning revelation: the true perpetrators of the hostage decapitations were the Americans themselves. Here, Hossein Shari’atmadari offers a closely-reasoned, highly persuasive argument for why they would do such a thing: “Why did the Americans slaughter their citizens and the citizens of ...

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IDF vs. JihadTV

Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 2:37:45 pm PDT

Israeli helicopters have attacked a building in Gaza that houses one of the Palestinian offices of JihadTV: Israeli Copters Fire at Media Building. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli helicopters fired three missiles at a 16-story building in Gaza City early Tuesday, witnesses said. The building houses several media outlets, including the ...

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Aid and Comfort

Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 2:25:25 pm PDT

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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Reuters: "Bush's War on Terror"

Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 10:22:18 am PDT

Wow. Here’s a Reuters release on today’s Supreme Court decision with such blatant bias that it reads like a story at the Arab News: U.S. Citizen Can’t Be Held in Bush’s War on Terror. (Hat tip: Donald H.) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that an American ...

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LGF Lizard Profiles

Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 9:15:28 am PDT

If you’ve been seeing the error message “This lizardoid’s name does not seem to exist in the LGF repository” when you click the little football next to a user’s name, try it again. Thanks to a tip from evariste, I believe I’ve found the problem and repaired it. UPDATE: To edit ...

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Palestinians Attack Kindergarten

Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 8:54:10 am PDT

This morning in Israel, the swine of Hamas launched missiles at a kindergarten in Sderot, murdering a 4-year old boy and a 49-year old man, and critically injuring the boy’s mother. Mordechai Yosefov, 49, and Afik Zahavi, 4 were killed after three Kassam rockets landed near a kindergarten in Sderot on ...

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SCOTUS: Terrorists Have Right to Open Trial

Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 8:29:48 am PDT

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Islamic terrorists, making possible dozens of Moussaoui circus trials: Terror Detainees Win Right to U.S. Courts. WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court delivered a mixed verdict Monday on the Bush administration’s anti-terrorism policies, ruling that the U.S. government has the power to hold American ...

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Reuters France: Terrorists = Activists

Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 8:06:27 am PDT

You don’t need to read French to see that the Gallic branch of al-Reuters is now describing the subhuman slime who kidnap civilians and videotape their murders as “activists.” A trois jours du transfert officiel de souveraineté, la situation restait très tendue dimanche en Irak, où des activistes menacent de décapiter ...

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What Will ANSWER Do Now?

Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 6:50:15 am PDT

Iraq’s future is now in the hands of the Iraqis: Early Iraq Handover Surprises Rebels and Reporters. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Dogs sniffed for explosives, mobile phones were impounded and U.S. officials bombarded reporters with contradictory orders and scant information just moments before Iraq formally regained sovereign powers. Journalists had been hastily summoned ...

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Sunday, June 27, 2004

In Praise of Attrition

Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 8:33:52 pm PDT

Here’s a terrific new essay by Ralph Peters at the US Army War College quarterly Parameters: In Praise of Attrition. (Hat tip: Da Beerfreak.) It cannot be repeated often enough: Whatever else you aim to do in wartime, never lose your focus on killing the enemy. A number of the problems we ...

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A Sleeper Cell in Boston

Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 5:58:32 pm PDT

The Boston cabbie connection: FBI probes ‘sleeper cell’ possibility. The Boston office of the FBI is investigating whether a former local cabdriver indicted Friday on charges of lying about ties to a suspected terrorist may have been part of a “sleeper cell” in the Boston area supporting Al Qaeda terrorist activities ...

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Iraqi Police Fight US

Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 5:42:06 pm PDT

Here’s a Telegraph piece that’s very likely to make you mad. Iraqis entrusted with police duty throw away their golden opportunity to help build a civil society, and side with the forces who will turn Iraq into an Islamic hellhole of power challenging and chaos: New Iraqi police fight US troops ...

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"Allies! To the Shaitan!"

Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 5:23:21 pm PDT

Over at gawaher.com, the Islamic forum where English-speaking Muslims talk openly of jihad and holy warriors, we find a charming discussion of their love for Osama bin Laden: Bin Laden Is Not a Terrorist!!! Osama is the best!^_^! Osama did 9/11 but the muslims who died there shound have NOT! been there! ...

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French FM Will Meet Arafat

Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 3:37:04 pm PDT

Are there any terrorists so loathsome and foul, whose hands are so bloody, that even the French will shun them? Don’t bother answering. It’s a rhetorical question. French FM risks ire of Israel by meeting Arafat. JERUSALEM (AFP) - French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier will risk the ire of Israel this week by ...

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Morlock Alert

Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 3:20:48 pm PDT

We’ve got a Morlock trying to stir up trouble again. It must really frustrate these creatures that they can’t abuse our comments like they used to, so now they’re trying to make themselves feel important and brave by ... crashing our poll? That’s it? Make Little Green Fascists cry like little ...

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Islamic Serial Killers Kidnap Marine

Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 1:30:07 pm PDT

Iraq Militants Threaten to Kill U.S. Marine. DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iraqi Islamist group has kidnapped what is said was a U.S. Marine and is threatening to behead him unless Iraqi prisoners are freed, Al Jazeera television reported Sunday. Al Jazeera said the group called itself the Islamic Response Movement. A brief ...

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Palestinians Set Off Tunnel Bomb

Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 12:55:01 pm PDT

Palestinian terrorists have set off a large bomb in a tunnel dug under an Israeli outpost in the Gaza Strip: Six IDF soldiers injured in attack on Gaza Strip outpost. Six Israel Defense Forces soldiers were injured Sunday evening after an explosion went off at an army outpost located near the ...

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Chirac Makes the List

Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 12:43:49 pm PDT

The Islamic Human Rights Commission (hey! who laughed?) has named the winners of its glamorous Islamophobe of the Year competition! Aren’t you thrilled? And this year’s winners are the same as last year’s winners—with one notable addition. This year, Ariel Sharon shares the title of “Most Islamophobic International Politician” with ...

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Islamic Serial Killing Spree Continues

Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 12:12:30 pm PDT

Another kidnap victim, another threat of beheading, brought to you by the RoP: Masked Iraq Gunmen Threaten to Behead Pakistani. DUBAI (Reuters) - An unidentified group of gunmen in Iraq have kidnapped a Pakistani driver and are threatening to behead him within three days unless Iraqi prisoners are released, Arabiya television ...

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Radical Islamists Discover PetitionOnline

Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 10:57:36 am PDT

Radical Islamic propaganda site IslamOnline is sponsoring a petition to have the United Nations prosecute the US for war crimes in the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal: People Against POW Abuse Petition. (Hat tip: steve miller.) We, the undersigned, petition the United Nations, its Security Council, Heads of States, and International Organizations ...

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Kerry: Man of the People

Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 9:26:13 am PDT

The wife of Presidential candidate John F. Kerry is worth at least a billion dollars. With a B. (Hat tip: Hulugu.) Teresa Heinz Kerry, through a network of investments in blue-chip corporations, venture capital funds and municipal bonds, controls a family fortune worth an estimated $1 billion, an examination of public ...

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Belmont Club: The Price of Newsprint

Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 9:00:51 am PDT

Wretchard at Belmont Club has a post about the US victory—yes, victory—against Muqtada al-Sadr’s “Army of the Mahdi,” and what the manner of this victory reveals about the new face of warfare: In what was probably the most psychologically revealing moment of the battle, infantrymen fought six hours for the possession ...

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Iran Nuclear Spill Cover-Up

Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 8:48:31 am PDT

The Age reports that Iran covered up a dangerous spill of weapons grade uranium from North Korea at Tehran’s new international airport: Iran nuclear spill cover-up feared. (Hat tip: Geepers.) Western intelligence officials believe Iran’s Revolutionary Guards tried to cover up a nuclear accident triggered when weapons-grade uranium was being shipped ...

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What If They Gave a Demonstration and Nobody Came?

Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 8:34:43 am PDT

“Anti-war” demonstrations across the nation are fizzling out: War Protesters Gather in Boston and Connecticut. BOSTON - Anti-war protesters gathered at a city plaza Saturday calling for an end to U.S. occupation in Iraq and voicing skepticism about Wednesday’s scheduled transfer of power to the Iraqis. Police estimated Saturday’s Copley Plaza crowd ...

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ElBaradei: Everyone Should Have Nukes Unless Israel Disarms

Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 8:17:41 am PDT

The UN’s toothless nuclear watchdog springs into action once again—against Israel: Israel Should Talk About Nuclear Arms-ElBaradei. (Hat tip: Amir.) Speaking to reporters on an official visit to the Russian capital, Mohamed ElBaradei — director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) — said this would be a main topic ...

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Moore's 'Hate-Riotism'

Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 7:39:21 am PDT

A Persian Turkish immigrant says Michael Moore’s agit-prop film Fahrenheit 911 spits in the face of his dead countrymen: Moore’s ‘Hate-Riotism’. (Hat tip: deja vu.) “HATE-RIOTISM” describes the new breeze blowing through the American media. It is now “cool” and “relevant” to mock everything for which our soldiers are fighting in ...

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Saudis: Families Can Decide "Militants'" Fate

Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 7:33:32 am PDT

Emphasizing the importance of bloody tribal revenge in the Saudi legal system (otherwise known as shari’a), the families of victims will be the ones to decide if surrendered terrorists will have their heads chopped off: Families Can Punish Saudi Militants -Envoy to UK. LONDON (Reuters) - Families of victims killed by ...

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Saturday, June 26, 2004

LGF Lizard Profiles

Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 7:30:09 pm PDT

The newest addition to our LGF registration system: user profiles. Can we have a fanfare, please? See, I had a reason for adding those little footballs that appear next to registered users’ names. I know some of you thought they were obnoxious, but I had a master plan. If you click one, you ...

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The Gravitas of Michael Moore

Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 3:52:35 pm PDT

David Brooks has a cutting piece on Michael Moore and his shameless pandering to bigoted European stereotypes about Americans: All Hail Moore. (Hat tip: lawhawk.) Like Hemingway, Moore does his boldest thinking while abroad. For example, it was during an interview with the British paper The Mirror that Moore unfurled what ...

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Islamic Serial Killers Threaten Turkish Hostages

Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 1:47:19 pm PDT

Welcome to the world of 21st century journalism, where subhuman beasts commit the most despicable atrocities, kidnapping, torturing, and murdering civilians—and the most appropriate label the media can find for them is “militant:” “Militants” Threaten to Kill 3 Turkish Hostages. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Militants loyal to suspected al Qaeda operative ...

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Cleaning Out the Rats' Nest

Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 1:32:59 pm PDT

Good news from Israel, where the ranks of terrorist gang leaders have been severely thinned: Nablus Tanzim head killed. During the operation, the IDF troops swept through the Casba, blowing open doors or using sledgehammers to knock them down. Palestinian reports said soldier sealed some alleys with cement blocks and barbed ...

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Religion of Child Murder

Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 7:36:06 am PDT

Al-Reuters apparently sees nothing wrong with using the word “militants” to describe people who murder children in their sleep: Twelve Kashmiri Villagers Shot Dead Ahead of Talks. JAMMU, India (Reuters) - Suspected militants shot dead at least 12 villagers, including four children, in their sleep in Indian Kashmir on Saturday, a ...

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UN Springs Into Action

Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 7:15:28 am PDT

Now in the “cheat” phase of their cheat-and-retreat cycle, Iran has announced that they will continue building centrifuges to enrich uranium. For an atomic bomb, of course. But don’t worry, because the UN watchdog is hopeful that the mullahs will do the right thing. Iran Should Reverse Centrifuge Plans-ElBaradei. “I hope it is temporary,” ...

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Friday, June 25, 2004

Belgian Shari'a Watch

Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 7:07:07 pm PDT

What can I even say about stories like this? Boy stabbed in anti-Semitic attack in Belgium. BRUSSELS - Jewish organizations and the mayor of the Belgian port city of Antwerp held an emergency meeting on Friday after four students from a Jewish school in an Antwerp suburb were attacked. A spokesman for ...

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A Manufactured Scandal

Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 6:44:35 pm PDT

Andrew C. McCarthy, who led the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, deconstructs the New York Times’ “torture memo scandal:” A Manufactured Scandal. (It’s difficult to pull a quote from this one; you need to follow his argument all the way through.)

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Killing Me Softly

Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 3:14:48 pm PDT

Somehow, while I wasn’t looking, old Hawaiian radical “Democrat” Neil Abercrombie managed to weasel his way onto a House Armed Services subcommittee, and now he’s responsible for one of the more asinine statements I’ve seen recently: U.S. Army Told Not to Use Israeli Bullets in Iraq. Definitely a candidate for ...

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"Terrorist" Musical Chairs

Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 11:13:32 am PDT

Another airstrike in Fallujah, against a suspected hideout of the Zarqawi network: U.S. Launches Airstrike in Fallujah. I can’t figure out how the wires decide who gets called a terrorist and who doesn’t. Apparently now, AP is fine with calling Abu Musab al-Zarqawi a “terrorist” who runs a “terror network.” But ...

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Car Bomb Discovered at Istanbul Airport

Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 11:01:53 am PDT

As George W. Bush heads to Europe, a vehicle “full of explosives” has been found at Istanbul International Airport: Explosives Found at Istanbul Airport Before Summit. ISTANBUL, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish authorities discovered a vehicle full of explosives in the parking lot of Istanbul international airport Friday, local television station CNN ...

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Large Scale Internet Attack Developing

Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 10:55:45 am PDT

Experts Study Developing Internet Attack. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) CHICAGO - Government and industry experts warned late Thursday of a mysterious, large-scale Internet attack against thousands of popular Web sites. The virus-like infection tries to implant hacker software onto the computers of all Web site visitors. Industry experts and the Homeland Security ...

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Year Three

Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 9:25:43 am PDT

Again with the Victor Davis Hanson, summing up our current position in this disorienting war: Year Three. But if the pulse of the strategic, tactical, and ideological theaters suggests we can win this war, the home front is not so bright. The few hundred American lunatics who tried to explain away ...

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Palestinian Food Fight

Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 8:49:44 am PDT

Check The Daily Blitz for some photos of “starving Palestinian children” throwing eggs (i.e. food) at a USAID-linked office during an anti-American demonstration.

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Religion of Throat Slitting

Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 8:31:14 am PDT

Islamic serial killers have murdered two Hindu hostages in Kashmir: Kashmir “Gunmen” Slit Throats of Engineer, Brother. (Hat tip: Ethel.) SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Suspected Kashmiri militants killed an engineer working for India’s state-run railway and his brother by slitting their throats after holding them hostage for two days, police said ...

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Thursday, June 24, 2004

Mirror Fakes Photos, Suffers Consequences

Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 5:49:47 pm PDT

After publishing faked photographs purporting to show British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners, the Daily Mirror is losing tens of thousands of readers. (Hat tip: NC.) Tens of thousands of readers have deserted the Daily Mirror because its Iraqi torture pictures were exposed as a fake, the newspaper’s owner admitted yesterday. Trinity Mirror ...

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Istanbul Bombings

Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 5:38:43 pm PDT

Someone seems to be trying to send a warning to George W. Bush about his visit to the NATO summit: Bombs Explode in Turkey Before Bush, NATO Summit. ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Bombs exploded in Turkey’s two main cities on Thursday before a visit by President Bush to Ankara and a NATO ...

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"A Force to be Feared by the Infidel States"

Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 5:19:23 pm PDT

Uh, I hope you’re not buying all that hot air from the Saudis that they’re “cracking down” on terror incitement. Because in truth, they’re openly discussing on Saudi government-controlled television the coming Islamic takeover of the US. Much of Saudi TV is based upon religious programming. Many of these programs refer to ...

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Arabs Seethe at Caterpillar

Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 4:23:27 pm PDT

Arab states are threatening to boycott Caterpillar Inc. unless they stop selling bulldozers to Israel. The Damascus-based Arab office for the boycott of Israel has warned US company Caterpillar Inc. that Arab states will blacklist it if it keeps selling bulldozers to Israel’s military. The boycott office, in a letter sent to ...

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"A Cynical Mantra" for "Digital Brown Shirts"

Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 1:12:06 pm PDT

Stand back! He’s gonna blow! Gore Says Bush Lied About Iraq to Push for War. “Beginning very soon after the attacks of 9/11, President Bush made a decision to start mentioning Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein in the same breath in a cynical mantra designed to fuse them together as one ...

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Non-Redeemable

Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:39:05 pm PDT

Since our allies the Saudis have given the terrorists among them 30 days to surrender or face the wrath of Allah, Cox & Forkum have designed a handy coupon to help expedite the process.

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SCOTUS Turns Down Bid to Reveal Cheney Secrets

Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:50:39 am PDT

The Supreme Court has ruled that a lower court overstepped its bounds by ordering the release of secret details of Dick Cheney’s energy task force: Court Won’t Order Cheney Papers Released. WASHINGTON - The Bush administration won’t have to reveal secret details of Vice President Dick Cheney’s energy task force before ...

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The "Angry Muslim" Defense

Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:27:31 am PDT

We first saw this defense tried out in the Fawaz Damra trial in Cleveland; now a lawyer for a co-defendant in the Lynne Stewart case is testing the court’s tolerance for pure BS too. His argument is that when Muslim clerics call for their followers to kill Jews, they don’t really ...

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Jihadis = "Rebels"

Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 6:49:13 am PDT

Al-Reuters has moved the killers and mujahideen one step closer to total respectability. Now they’re “rebels:” Rebel Attacks in Five Iraq Cities Kill 75. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents killed 75 people on Thursday in a wave of attacks across Iraq aimed at sabotaging the handover to Iraqi rule in six days’ ...

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Two Terrorists Killed in Gaza

Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 6:36:38 am PDT

Another deliberately misleading headline at al-Reuters: Israeli Soldiers Kill Two Palestinians in Gaza. No need to mention that the Palestinians were on a mission to commit mass murder. GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinian gunmen who tried to infiltrate a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, military sources ...

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Abu Ghraib = Auschwitz = Crucifixion

Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 6:27:13 am PDT

The derangement of world media continues apace; Davids Medienkritik reports on the effort of German media to put Abu Ghraib on the same moral level as Auschwitz: Auschwitz and Abu Ghraib - In the Same League. We expected it. We knew it would come. Only the when and where were in ...

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Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Are You Blind Too? (The Sequel)

Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 5:20:52 pm PDT

As blindfolded kidnap victims are paraded in front of Arab cameras before having their heads chopped off, and blindfolded British soldiers are displayed on television by the mullahs of Iran in blatant violation of the Geneva Conventions (but nobody seems to notice or care), the peace creeps of the world ...

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Stay Quiet and You'll Be OK

Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 5:03:29 pm PDT

Robert Spencer suggests a new slogan for the anti-war militant left: “Stay Quiet and You’ll Be OK.” Here’s a new slogan for the zeitgeist: stay quiet and you’ll be OK. This was the message, according to the tapes released last week, that Muhammad Atta gave to the passengers on the ill-fated ...

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Savages with VCRs

Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 4:51:10 pm PDT

Beheading of South Korean Hostage Shown on Web Site. DUBAI (Reuters) - An Islamist Web site has posted a videotape of the beheading of the South Korean hostage killed by militants in Iraq. Kim Sun-il, an Arabic-speaking translator, was executed on Tuesday by his captors after Seoul rejected demands for South Korea ...

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More Registration Goodies

Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 2:18:43 pm PDT

I’ve revamped the “Forgotten Password” reminder code (the link to which is at the upper left) to make it more secure, mostly to avoid sending passwords through unencrypted email. It now works in a very similar way to registration. Instead of sending you your actual password (which, by the way, does ...

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Glasgow University: BBC Favors Israel

Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 2:05:39 pm PDT

I’ll bet there were some dropped jaws in BBC boardrooms at the results of this Glasgow University study, which somehow, against all odds and evidence, found that the BBC favors Israel in its reporting. (Thanks to all who emailed about this.) The study, by the Media Group at Scotland’s Glasgow University, ...

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Suicide Attack Stopped

Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 1:50:03 pm PDT

A major suicide bomb attack was thwarted in Israel yesterday, in which an 18-year old planned to use an explosive belt smuggled in a children’s schoolbag. (Hat tip: Steven S.) The Shin Bet internal security service and police thwarted a suicide bombing attack in Jerusalem on Tuesday after they caught a ...

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Religion of Peace Kills 92 in Russia

Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 1:46:13 pm PDT

Official Puts Russia Attack Toll at 92. VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia - A nighttime attack this week in the Russian republic of Ingushetia by militants near the border of war-ravaged Chechnya killed 92 people and wounded 125, a regional government official said Wednesday. Among the dead were 67 members of law enforcement agencies, said ...

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Death Cult Kiddie Movies

Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 8:01:42 am PDT

I thought there could be nothing more horrific and maddening than the home movies of jihadis cutting off heads. But then LGF reader ‘Norwegian kafir’ forwarded a link to a Swedish Islamic forum, where he found a video that’s a glimpse into a parallel universe inhabited by demons. From a discussion thread ...

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Iran: Experts at Cheat-and-Retreat

Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 7:23:23 am PDT

Iran now says they will free the British soldiers they detained Monday: Iran Frees British Sailors After Two Days. TEHRAN, Iran - Iran released eight British sailors it had detained for illegally entering Iranian waters, but said Wednesday it was keeping their three military patrol boats. “The eight British sailors, including six ...

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Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Religion of Beheading

Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 8:56:55 pm PDT

Wondering what the internet-savvy Islamic community has to say about the decapitation murder of South Korean hostage Kim Sun-Il? Islamic Forum - Breaking News. Sister, in the eyes of an Iraqi and a real human, an occupier and his ally are one. There is no difference between them. Infact, the latter ...

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Doormen Trained in Anti-Terrorism

Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 7:31:54 pm PDT

New York City doormen are being trained to recognize and combat terrorism. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) NEW YORK - Building superintendents and doormen in New York City are receiving anti-terrorism training under a program developed with the help of the Police Department. The idea is to make the building employees the eyes ...

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Jihad in Queens

Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 4:30:02 pm PDT

Islamic supremacist group Al Muhajiroun continues to operate openly in Queens, New York—and one of their alumni, Mohammed Junaid Babar (whose mother escaped from the World Trade Center on 9/11), was secretly placed into custody in April for his participation in a plot to launch attacks in London: Al-Qaida suspect ...

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LA Times Whitewashes Islamic Beheading

Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 1:03:44 pm PDT

These days when I read whitewash pieces like this one at the LA Times, they strike me as the work of people so lost in denial that they are indistinguishable from schizophrenics: Beheading for Sake of Fear, Not Islam. (Hat tip: denbike.) LONDON — Daniel Pearl, Nicholas Berg, Paul M. Johnson ...

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Religion of Decapitation

Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 12:11:43 pm PDT

The filthy subhuman monsters have decapitated their South Korean hostage, and once again videotaped the murder to use for terrorizing Westerners and recruiting more jihadis: Militants Decapitate South Korean Hostage in Iraq. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Militants beheaded a South Korean hostage in Iraq Tuesday after Seoul refused their demand to withdraw ...

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Moore's Distributor OK with Hizballah Support

Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 8:21:41 am PDT

Last week we reported that terror gang Hizballah was anxious to help promote Michael Moore’s anti-American film Fahrenheit 911 in Lebanon. Today comes the news that Moore’s distributor is fine with that: Moore film distributor OK with terror support. (Hat tip: rumpole.) The company distributing filmmaker Michael Moore’s Bush-bashing movie “Fahrenheit 9/11” ...

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Iran to Prosecute UK Sailors

Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 7:44:50 am PDT

A “serious diplomatic spat?” In the days before multiculturalism and political correctness sapped the moral clarity from Western society, this would have been a casus belli: Iran to Prosecute UK Sailors - Iranian TV. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Eight British sailors seized in Iranian waters appeared in blindfolds on Tuesday on Iranian ...

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S. Korean Hostage Still Alive

Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 7:20:35 am PDT

The South Korean hostage being held by savages in Iraq has not been murdered. Yet. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Militants threatening to behead a South Korean hostage in Iraq unless Seoul withdraws its troops have agreed to allow more time for talks on his fate, an Iraqi mediator told Reuters on Tuesday. Jama’at ...

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Monday, June 21, 2004

Hitchens: "Any Time, Michael My Boy"

Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 8:45:52 pm PDT

Savor the moment, if you will, as Christopher Hitchens eviscerates Michael Moore (and that’s no small task): Unfairenheit 9/11. Moore has announced that he won’t even appear on TV shows where he might face hostile questioning. I notice from the New York Times of June 20 that he has pompously established ...

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The Perennial Email Disclaimer

Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 7:20:37 pm PDT

Since installing registration, the amount of email I receive has escalated dramatically, almost like SpaceShipOne. MOJAVE, Calif. - An ungainly-looking rocket plane punched through the Earth’s atmosphere and then glided home to a desert landing Monday in history’s first privately financed manned spaceflight — a voyage that could hasten the day ...

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Comments Temporarily Disabled

Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 6:10:57 pm PDT

Comments are turned off temporarily while I install some back-end enhancements to the Rube Goldberg apparatus that is LGF. UPDATE: OK, comments are enabled again. I identified a minor security problem with one of the registration modules and had to fix it. UPDATE: The “lost password” script is temporarily offline, while bulletproofing ...

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The Focal Point of Antisemitism

Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 2:59:19 pm PDT

Columbia University adjunct professor Anne Bayefsky gave a speech today to a United Nations conference on Confronting Anti-Semitism, turning the spotlight squarely on the UN itself: One Small Step. The perpetrators of anti-Semitism today are the preachers in mosques who exhort their followers to blow up Jews. They are the authors ...

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Religion of Preaching and Combat

Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 2:52:03 pm PDT

Last weekend Algeria reported that they had killed Nabil Sahraoui, leader of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat: Algerian Death a Blow to Al Qaeda Sahara Ambitions. Minutes ago a “large blast” was heard in Algiers: Loud Blast Heard in Algerian Capital. ALGIERS (Reuters) - A loud explosion was heard across ...

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Overwhelming Majority of Muslims Doesn't Attend NJ Rally

Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 2:31:20 pm PDT

The city of Paterson has one of New Jersey’s highest concentrations of Muslims, and last Saturday several Islamic groups held a rally there to express condemnation of the savage murder of P@ul J0hnson: Muslims Gather In N.J. To Condemn Killing. (Hat tip: ploome.) PATERSON, N.J. — Leaders from several national and ...

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Killers with Cameras

Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 9:43:11 am PDT

Ralph Peters says JihadTV (Al Jazeera) is the most powerful ally of terror in the world—and we’re fools to ignore it: Killers With Cameras. IMAGINE if, on D-Day, the Nazis had been al lowed to place camera teams on Omaha Beach — with our suffering soldiers forbidden to interfere. What if, ...

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Naked Appeasement at the Australian

Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 9:10:00 am PDT

The Australian’s Kevin Rudd says that fighting back against terrorists is a very bad thing. It makes them mad: PM stirs terrorist hornets. (Hat tip: NC.) The head of Indonesia’s intelligence service Ahmad Hendropriyono confirmed only last month that the Iraq war has further stimulated Jemaah Islamiyah activity in Indonesia. Tracking ...

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S. Korea Won't Back Down

Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 8:17:29 am PDT

South Korea is not backing down, despite threats by terrorist scum to behead a kidnapped South Korean: S.Korea Vows to Send Iraq Troops Despite Kidnapping. SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will go ahead with its plan to send 3,000 troops to help rebuild Iraq despite a threat from Iraqi militants to ...

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MSNBC: Failure Central

Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 7:33:50 am PDT

MSNBC has a piece by Michael Moran castigating the Air Force and NORAD for what he says is their utter failure on September 11: The Air Force has a long-delayed reckoning. (Hat tip: Dirk Diggler.) For more than three years, countless reviews, investigations and commissions on the 9/11 attacks concentrated on ...

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Sunday, June 20, 2004

Reaching Out to the Under-Educated

Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 8:37:55 pm PDT

Rand Simberg reports on a very imaginary presidential initiative to educate the Fourth Estate. Standing in front of the Los Angeles Times building on Spring Street and surrounded by aides, President Bush put forth a new and long-overdue proposal today, to the cheers of thousands of long-suffering readers of that paper, ...

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Daily Kos Takes Show on the Road

Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 8:06:16 pm PDT

Democratic Party “rising star” Markos Moulitsas Zuniga (Daily Kos), infamous for writing “Screw them” about the American contractors dismembered and hung from a bridge in Fallujah, will be speaking at the El Cerrito Democratic Club this Tuesday: Blogger/political consultant at Democratic Club meeting June 22. (Hat tip: TrueReliever.) The El Cerrito ...

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The MT3 Thread

Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 6:19:29 pm PDT

I have several requests from clients to install the new version of Movable Type (3.0), which allows registration for comment posting. Any lizardoids have experience with the new version? Are there any gotchas I should know about? (Everybody wants registration suddenly. There’s an obnoxious stalker/troll/pest making trouble at several blogs, using ...

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Ignore the Man Behind the Burqa

Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 5:44:42 pm PDT

Last week we noted the case of a Muslim schoolgirl in Britain whose desire to wear the jilbab (a full-length Muslim gown, almost like a burqa but not covering the face) was turned down by the High Court: Symbols of Oppression. Can you imagine my surprise to discover that this 15-year ...

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Anti-War Militants Hang with Hizballah

Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 4:47:01 pm PDT

Arab News quotes an AFP release (with their usual anti-Israel editing added to AFP’s anti-Israel bias) that says US “peace activists” were given a tour of beautiful south Lebanon—by Hizballah “militants.” And the jovial group stopped to symbolically throw some non-violent stones across the border into Israel: US Peace Activists ...

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The Media Are the Enemy

Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 3:14:22 pm PDT

Iraqi “militiamen” go about their bloody business with machine guns and RPGs, while the cameramen of the AP and al-Reuters and AFP stand mere inches away to get closeups: Yahoo! Photo Search results for Iraqi Shi’ite militiaman. (Hat tip: NC.)

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The Connections Are Coming Out

Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 2:33:57 pm PDT

New intelligence reportedly shows a direct link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda: Iraqi Officer Tied to Al Qaeda - 9/11 Commissioner. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks has been told “a very prominent member” of al Qaeda served as an officer in Saddam Hussein’s militia, a ...

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Religion of Decapitation

Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 1:59:19 pm PDT

Iraq Group Threatens to Behead S. Korean. DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iraqi group has threatened to behead a South Korean hostage if Seoul does not end cooperation with U.S. occupying authorities, a videotape aired on Arabic television station Al Jazeera said on Monday. “We ask you to withdraw your forces from our ...

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Middle East in Microcosm

Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 1:49:06 pm PDT

What’s this we see here? A brutal Israeli soldier, armed with a genocidal, apartheid assault rifle, letting a peaceful Palestinian “protester” attack him—when he could stop it with one bullet? Why, his finger isn’t even on the trigger. There are dozens of these photos at Yahoo, showing IDF soldiers being punched, kicked, ...

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French Perfidy Watch

Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:41:03 am PDT

Lawyers for a French human rights group are accusing the French government of making a deal with Iran, to crack down on exiled Iranian opposition members in return for lucrative oil contracts with the mullahs: Paris arrests ‘used to seal Iran deals’. (Hat tip: Hulugu.) Lawyers for France’s human rights league, ...

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Not a Cocoon

Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 9:29:11 am PDT

Jeff Jarvis, who barely survived the attacks of September 11, rips apart the 9/11 panel’s wrongheaded blame game, and nails the false premise on which it’s based: Not a cocoon. Underlying the 9/11 Commission’s unrelenting coulda/shoulda/woulda criticism of government action before, during, and after the 9/11 attacks is an unstated — ...

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San Francisco: City of the Fifth Column

Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 8:28:40 am PDT

A San Francisco moron is defacing buildings with a poster showing an Abu Ghraib prisoner superimposed on an American flag, with the text: Got Democracy? (Hat tip: Brenda Walker.) The poster is designed to make people question whether the United States is adhering to democratic ideals if American soldiers have been ...

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Saudi Security: In League with Savages

Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 8:06:50 am PDT

In the 21st century, murderous savages spread their poisonous views through the internet; the Al Qaeda “periodical” called Voice of Jihad is now routinely publishing first person accounts of their atrocities. The latest “issue” contains an “article” that says Saudi security forces helped the monsters kidnap P@ul J0hnson—and it’s probably ...

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Saturday, June 19, 2004

Are You Blind Too?

Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 6:19:21 pm PDT

(Hat tip: Helena.)

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BBC: Living in a Bubble

Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 6:06:43 pm PDT

Tom Gross has a withering indictment of the unhidden bias of the British Broadcasting Corporation: Living in a Bubble. Sheikh Abdur-Rahman al-Sudais (referred to in the introduction to this article, and whose surname has also been transliterated by MEMRI and others as Al-Sudayyis [1]) is not just any imam, and his ...

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British MP Traumatized, Seething

Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 5:45:28 pm PDT

A British MP is belatedly claiming that her convoy in Rafah was fired on by Israeli soldiers: Israeli Troops Shot at Convoy in Gaza - UK Lawmaker. Baroness Lindsay Northover of the Liberal Democrat party said she and two other lawmakers had visited Rafah Friday with a U.N. convoy to observe ...

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The Intifada Is Over

Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 5:00:57 pm PDT

Charles Krauthammer’s latest column says the Palestinians may still be blustering and threatening, but it’s increasingly obvious that the intifada is over: Calmer times in Israel? WASHINGTON — While no one was looking, something historic has happened in the Middle East. The Palestinian intifada is over, and the Palestinians have lost. For ...

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21st Century War

Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 8:16:45 am PDT

This is the way of warfare in the 21st century. Any time the US military is deployed against an Arab target, Arab stringers for Western news wires instantly deploy Arab propaganda across the media, quoting unnamed “hospital officials” and random Arabs on the street to cast the most negative light possible ...

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Self-Taught Spiritual Leaders

Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 7:22:53 am PDT

In a commentary about Saudi Arabia’s nurturing of extremism, Arnaud de Borchgrave has some information on France I haven’t seen elsewhere. French Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin, who is a man, received a report from French intelligence that must have evoked a tiny frisson of fear in the highly-nuanced diplomat: ...

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Friday, June 18, 2004

Evil Uses the Internet

Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 6:02:58 pm PDT

The Islamic fanatics who butchered P@ul J0hnson made no secret of their intentions, publishing an article on the internet two months ago that predicted today’s events: Article Details Blueprint for Hostage-Taking. June 18, 2004 — The self-described al Qaeda leader who threatened to kill an American hostage in Saudi Arabia allegedly ...

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More Registration Goodies

Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 5:33:27 pm PDT

Trying to anticipate what people are going to want to do with the LGF registration system, I’ve added a new module that lets you manage your account: lgf: User Account. At present, the only things you can change are your email address and your password. Usernames have to remain fixed ... ...

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Block the Snuff Seekers

Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 3:21:59 pm PDT

If your weblog template uses PHP, and you’d like to stop all these search requests from sapping your bandwidth, and you know enough about PHP that you can do this without support because I don’t have time, here’s some code you can try. First, define an array of strings that might ...

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Breaking News

Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 2:53:03 pm PDT

There’s a report that Abdulaziz al-Muqrin, leader of the savages who murdered P@ul J0hnson, has been killed. DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Arabiya television said it had unconfirmed reports that the top al Qaeda leader in Saudi Arabia, Abdulaziz al-Muqrin, was killed Friday. The television, which is majority owned by Saudis, did not ...

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The Real Abu Ghraib Torturers

Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 2:40:28 pm PDT

The American Enterprise Institute has made available the horrific video of Saddam Hussein’s thugs torturing, mutilating, and murdering a succession of victims—the video that has barely even been mentioned in mainstream media: Naming Names. WARNING. This is not for the squeamish. Even if you think you’re tough, you may find it ...

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Searching for Snuff

Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:27:59 pm PDT

Here comes another deluge of search requests for the pictures of poor P@ul J0hnson. I’ve put up a block; people coming here from a search engine looking for these images will see a notice that there are no pictures of the atrocity at LGF. This should stop the flood of ...

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P@ul J0hnson Beh3aded

Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:00:05 pm PDT

Where are the Muslims who will stand up to this foul savagery? U.S. Hostage Beheaded, Terror Group Says. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - An al-Qaida group said Friday it killed American hostage Paul M. Johnson Jr, posting an Internet message that showed three photographs of a severed head that appeared to be ...

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Let Europe be Europe

Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 8:35:58 am PDT

Victor Davis Hanson continues to eschew diplo-speak and tell it like it is, in a piece about the moral derangement of Europe: Let Europe be Europe. Beware of punditry now assuring us that, because we have seen the error of our ways and are now penitent, Europe is back on board. ...

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When Worlds Collude

Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 8:07:51 am PDT

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

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Russia Warned of Iraq Terror Attacks

Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 7:47:21 am PDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russian intelligence warned the United States that Saddam Hussein was planning terror attacks in the US—after September 11: Putin Says Russia Warned U.S. on Saddam. (Hat tip: Power Line.) ASTANA, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin, in comments sure to help President Bush, declared Friday ...

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AFP Photo Editorial

Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 7:42:19 am PDT

On the day of the release of the 9/11 panel’s findings, Agence France Presse resurrected a stock photo of Dick Cheney from May of this year. Hmm. Why this photo, out of what must be thousands?

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Thursday, June 17, 2004

No One Asked Us

Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 6:28:53 pm PDT

LGF reader “Jolly Roger” forwarded a great essay from Major Stan Coerr, who served in Iraq as liaison officer between U.S. Marines and British Army forces (among other duties). *** No One Asked Us By Major Stan Coerr, USMCR George Bush coalesced American support behind invading Iraq, I am told, using two arguments: Iraq ...

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More Registration Goodies

Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 4:40:58 pm PDT

If you forget your password, you can now have a reminder emailed to you: Password Reminder. There’s a permanent link for this at the top of the left sidebar. UPDATE: I have also just written a little script to send out repeat confirmation emails to all those who’ve registered, but not ...

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In Detail: Bin Laden's Plan

Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 3:31:47 pm PDT

A good piece in the New York Times ties together all the newly released information about the 9/11 plot (much of which comes from Khalid Shaikh Mohammed) into a loose narrative: The Hijackers: In Detail: How bin Laden Set Plan in Motion in ‘99. (Hat tip: PDM.) WASHINGTON — In early ...

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Israel - A State Of Mind

Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 3:07:42 pm PDT

A terrific, courageous essay by Tashbih Sayyed, editor of Muslim World Today and Pakistan Today, a Muslim unafraid to stand up to the hatred, antisemitism, and totalitarianism of radical Islam: Israel - A State Of Mind. (Hat tip: Israellycool.) I am convinced that the only way to save the Muslims from ...

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Fawaz Damra: Guilty

Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 2:56:54 pm PDT

Fawaz Damra, the radical Cleveland imam on trial for hiding terrorist ties on his citizenship application, has been found guilty. (Hat tip: Scootran.) AKRON — The leader of Ohio’s largest mosque was found guilty of lying to become a U.S. Citizen on Thursday. Imam Fawaz Mohammed Damra left the courthouse with his ...

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Hate Like an Egyptian

Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:45:50 am PDT

A renowned Egyptian film producer says he fights by means of love. The Egyptian Nasserite weekly Al-Arabi featured an interview with Egyptian producer Yousef Shaheen, in honor of the screening of his new film ‘Alexandria-New York’ at the May 2004 Cannes Film Festival. The following are excerpts from the interview: “[I changed ...

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Mubarak Rumor Mill

Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 10:35:42 am PDT

Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak has inexplicably called off his meeting with Arafat’s puppet Ahmed Qureia: Mubarak calls off meeting with Palestinian PM amid health rumours. CAIRO (AFP) - Amid persistent rumours over his health, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called off a meeting with Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei. There was no official ...

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Terrorists Love Moore

Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 9:42:46 am PDT

The United Arab Emirates distributor for Michael Moore’s film Fahrenheit 9/11 has gotten offers of help from a group that knows the value of agit-prop—the Hizballah terror gang. (Hat tip: Mordred.) Meanwhile, in the United Arab Emirates, the film is being offered the kind of support it doesn’t need. According to ...

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Unregistered Comments: ENABLED

Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 9:24:45 am PDT

I’ve opened the gates to allow unregistered users to post comments, after leaving them shut most of yesterday. I must say, there’s a very noticeable decrease in random noise and drive-by Morlock incidents when the gates are closed. So noticeable that I’m thinking of making that the default state. Opinions? So ...

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Breaking News!

Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 8:25:28 am PDT

Stop the presses! 9/11 Panel: Confusion Hindered Response!

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Toothless Watchdog Also Hard of Hearing

Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 7:57:54 am PDT

Oh, brother. U.N. Admits Mistake in Iran Nuclear Report. And the mullahs are beside themselves with glee. VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog was forced to make an embarrassing admission Thursday — that it had wrongly accused Iran of withholding information about imports of potentially weapons-related technology. Iran seized on the ...

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Iraq & Al Qaeda

Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 7:40:28 am PDT

The media are pushing the “no connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda” meme so hard and the bias is so bleeding obvious that it might be laughable—if the failure of intellect involved weren’t so dangerous. Check out some of the AP, al-Reuters, and AFP headlines at Yahoo News: Search results for ...

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Mall Plot Suspect Puts On a Show

Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 7:15:19 am PDT

The Somali man accused of plotting to blow up a shopping mall in Ohio is apparently trying to set up an “Abu Ghraib” defense: Suspect in Mall Plot Sent for Evaluation. COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Somali man charged with plotting to blow up a shopping mall has been ordered to undergo ...

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Wednesday, June 16, 2004

About Andrew

Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 8:43:46 pm PDT

If you’re among the many (judging from my email, anyway) who have been increasingly puzzled about where Andrew Sullivan stands, Jonah Goldberg removes all doubt at The Corner. (Hat tip: NC.)

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Cleveland Imam Spews Hate on Video

Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 7:24:01 pm PDT

Jurors in the trial of Fawaz Damra, imam of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, watched a video today of the imam raising money for “Palestinian Islamic Jihad” at a meeting which included former University of South Florida professor Sami al-Arian: Jurors see video of Ohio imam fund raising, introducing Al-Arian. ...

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Reports of Mubarak's Death Exaggerated

Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 1:28:33 pm PDT

How can you tell when an Arab dictator rumored to be dead is actually alive? When he still schemes to destroy Israel. CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appeared on state television just hours after a London-based Islamist group alleged he had been admitted to hospital in critical condition. The president, who ...

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Islamist Front Group Buys More Ads

Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 1:18:42 pm PDT

Once again the Associated Press blandly refers to CAIR as an “Islamic civil rights group,” reporting their absurd unsubstantiated claims of “hate crimes and bias” while ignoring their Wahhabi roots, the openly stated sympathy of their leaders for terrorist groups, and the trifling little fact that three former CAIR officials ...

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Mubarak Death Rumors

Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 12:15:14 pm PDT

DEBKAfile now is also reporting the rumor of Hosni Mubarak’s death: DEBKAfile reports exclusively: Stubborn rumors that Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has died are coming from Washington — but not confirmed in Cairo. CIA chief Tenet is reported to have met Mubarak Wednesday.

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Unregistered Comments: DISABLED

Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:53:47 am PDT

I’ve turned off unregistered comment posting again, for testing purposes. Please note that there is now a message right above the comment posting area that tells you whether unregistered posting is ENABLED or DISABLED.

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Because They Are Jews

Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:17:07 am PDT

Here’s a perceptive and sobering column by Rabbi David Wolpe, on the relationship between anti-Zionism and antisemitism: Because They Are Jews. (Hat tip: Queen Esther.) It may be happenstance that people who live in countries where Jews were hated for millennia are saying that only Jews should not have a country, ...

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Reporting for the Enemy

Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:45:05 am PDT

As the media ramps up for Prison Scandal II: The Sequel and a second orgy of guilt, blame, apologies, and self-loathing, Deborah Orin reports on a screening that received absolutely zero mention in the mainstream press: Reporting for the Enemy. (Hat tip: brianstien.) June 16, 2004 — THE video only lasts ...

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Registration Glitch

Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:19:27 am PDT

Since I’m still tweaking the registration system, things like this may happen: I just had a small glitch with the database, and lost the last dozen or so registered users. If you registered and confirmed within the past half hour, please do it once more: User Registration. (If you get a ...

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Virginia Jihadi Gets Life

Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 9:45:06 am PDT

The Virginian jihad group that trained for holy war against the United States shortly after September 11 is going to jail for a very long time: Sentences Lengthy for ‘Virginia Jihad’. ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland man convicted of traveling to Pakistan and seeking to fight with the Taliban against the ...

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Rumor: Mubarak Dead

Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 9:17:01 am PDT

The world’s most alarmist web site says Arabic message boards are buzzing with a rumor that Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak has died. Unconfirmed reports by multiple posters on multiple Arabic language message boards claim that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has died. The reports indicate that Mubarak’s health took a turn for the ...

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Muqtada al-Sadr Gets a Hudna

Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 8:39:30 am PDT

Stories like this make me wonder whether anyone in the military is familiar with the Islamic concept of hudna—a temporary truce, until the ammo is restocked and the weapons are serviced: Iraqi Cleric Signals End to Shi’ite Revolt. NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr sent his fighters home on ...

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Death Cult Family Outing

Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 8:16:32 am PDT

2 Palestinian girls nabbed on way to suicide attack. Two 15-year-old girls were arrested overnight Wednesday in the West Bank city of Nablus for allegedly planning to carry out a suicide attack together with their fathers, Army Radio reported. According to the report, the four were recruited by an Al-Aksa activist. IDF ...

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The UN Gets Even More Repellent

Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 7:30:04 am PDT

A United Nations “expert” has now sided (openly) with the pro-terror International Solidarity Movement, sending a letter to Caterpillar Inc. warning them not to sell bulldozers to Israel: UN to Caterpillar: Don’t sell bulldozers to Israel. A UN-appointed expert said Wednesday that he has warned Caterpillar Inc. that Israel’s use of ...

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Unregistered Comments Allowed

Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 7:10:35 am PDT

I’ve turned on unregistered comments again. I’ve been getting quite a few emails from people who don’t receive the confirmation email; I think this must be happening because of spam filters. I’ll try to come up with an alternate method of confirmation today. UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE! If you haven’t received your ...

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Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Islamic Savages Parade US Hostage

Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 7:46:49 pm PDT

The savages have released another videotape, gloating over an American hostage who may soon—God forbid—be dead: Islamic Group Shows Tape of U.S. Hostage. CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - An Islamic Web site showed videotape Tuesday of a blindfolded American hostage in Saudi Arabia, and said abductors threatened to kill him unless Saudi ...

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This is Only a Test...

Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 4:41:57 pm PDT

I’m going to shut off unregistered comment posting for a little while, to test the new User Registration system. Only registered users will be able to post, if everything is working right. UPDATE: If your registration doesn’t seem to “take,” try submitting it again. I’m working on the code behind the scenes ...

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Iran Massing Troops on Iraq Border

Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 1:53:41 pm PDT

Is Iran getting ready to make the big play? Iran massing troops on Iraq border. Beirut, Lebanon, Jun. 15 (UPI) — Iran reportedly is readying troops to move into Iraq if U.S. troops pull out, leaving a security vacuum. The Saudi daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat, monitored in Beirut, reports Iran has massed four ...

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The Time Has Come, The Walrus Said

Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 12:38:47 pm PDT

User Registration. That’s right. It’s here. You can now register a username and password for posting comments at LGF. Unregistered comments will still be allowed, however ... at times of severe attack by Morlocks and trolls, unregistered comments may be disallowed, and only registered users will be able to post. This system gives ...

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Symbols of Oppression

Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 9:21:08 am PDT

Even though an alternative uniform for Muslim schoolgirls is offered, a British Muslim asked the High Court to allow her to wear a jilbab—a full-length gown—to school. The High Court has turned her down, and the Islamovictim groups are already going into seethe mode: Schoolgirl loses Muslim gown case. (Hat ...

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Got 14 in France

Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 8:38:10 am PDT

The religion of forged documents and guns is working overtime in France: French Anti-Terror Police Make Arrests. PARIS - French anti-terror police arrested 14 people, including a Muslim prayer leader, and seized guns in raids Tuesday of suspected Islamic militants in the Paris region, police said. Police said the suspects were thought ...

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Reagan's Early Victory

Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 8:33:44 am PDT

Daniel Pipes recalls Reagan’s Early Victory in the War on Terror. On November 4, 1979, a mob indirectly under Khomeini’s direction seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran, an action that encouraged Islamist confidence and unleashed Muslim fury against Americans worldwide. That fury then took violent form when Khomeini inaccurately declared that ...

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Monday, June 14, 2004

The O'Keefe Clown Show Continues

Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 5:23:26 pm PDT

Ken O’Keefe, ex-Marine and head clown in the human shield circus that played in Iraq before the war, has been thrown in jail in Israel after trying to sneak into the Gaza Strip: P10K Founder Ken O’Keefe in Israeli Jail for Entering Gaza. (Hat tip: SoCalJustice.) O’Keefe sports a big, ostentatious ...

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ICRC "Clarifies" Saddam Detention

Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 3:48:33 pm PDT

The International Committee of the Red Cross is now backpedaling furiously, after what must have been quite an outcry following their statement that Saddam Hussein should be charged or released by June 30: Red Cross Clarifies Saddam Detention. “Any prisoner of war suspected of having committed any type of crime can ...

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"The Search for the Infidels"

Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 2:01:24 pm PDT

The leader of the Islamic mass murderers who perpetrated the May 29 atrocities at Khobar was interviewed for an Al Qaeda internet “journal.” MEMRI’s translation is a chilling look at the religion-soaked brutality of these savages: Commander of the Khobar Terrorist Squad Tells the Story of the Operation. “We turned to ...

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Palestinian Work Accident Watch

Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:19:24 pm PDT

Oops! No virgins for Khalil. Two Palestinians, including a local terror cell leader, were killed Monday night in an explosion in a car in the West Bank city of Nablus, Palestinian medics said. One of the Palestinians killed was Khalil Marshud, the commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the Balata refugee ...

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Swedish Shari'a Watch

Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 11:27:37 am PDT

LGF reader “Norwegian kafir” posted a comment with a scary look at the future of Eurabia, reprinted below: *** I actually think Sweden is leading the race to be the worst dhimmi-nation of the Western world. As a Scandinavian myself, I expect to get refugees across the border any time soon. Yesterday, ...

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UN Springs Into Action

Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:33:21 am PDT

U.N. Nuke Chief: Iran Must Come Clean ‘Within Months’. VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is not fully cooperating with U.N. inspectors and must come clean about the full extent of its nuclear program within months, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday. Mohamed ElBaradei said Iran’s cooperation has been “less ...

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Salon Admires Belgian Thug

Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:03:52 am PDT

Salon has an article about Arab European League leader Abou Jahjah, a raving Jew-hater and Islamic supremacist who unequivocally supports terrorist violence but lies about it when asked—and Salon, of course, is quite captivated by this evil thug: The Arabian Panther. (Hat tip: Jos.) The determinedly clueless tone is summed up ...

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Red Ken Gets Four More

Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 9:07:41 am PDT

“Red Ken” Livingstone, the rabidly anti-American mayor of London who said, “Bush is the greatest threat to life on this planet that we’ve most probably ever seen,” has been reelected. (Hat tip: Matt Skosh.)

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Got One in Columbus

Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 8:45:56 am PDT

A Somali national has been charged with plotting to blow up a shopping mall in Columbus, Ohio. (Hat tip: Ward Cleaver.) According to the FBI, Nuradin M. Abdi, a 32-year-old Somali national, was indicted and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaeda, ...

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Reagan's Lessons for Islamism

Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 8:14:13 am PDT

Here’s another good piece on the subject of our ill-defined “war on terror” by Diana West: Reagan’s lessons for Islamism. Looking back on Nazism and communism, we see the seamless succession and demise of totalitarian threats once poised to rob the West of its liberties. In this sweeping history lesson, it ...

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Religion of Suicide Car Bombs

Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 7:41:03 am PDT

Another suicide car bomb in Baghdad, leading to another barbaric mob scene. As U.S. forces began arriving at the scene, Iraqi youths poured out from nearby alleys, some to hurl stones at them. Dozens of people gathered around two of the vehicles targeted in the blast, jumping up and down on their ...

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Feeding the Minotaur

Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 7:30:07 am PDT

A recurring theme of many LGF entries is that we are not yet serious about the war against militant Islam; and that’s also the theme of Victor Davis Hanson’s new column: Feeding the Minotaur. In and of itself, our enemies’ ambitions would lead to failure, given the vast economic and military ...

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Sunday, June 13, 2004

America After Oil

Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 7:44:18 pm PDT

George Will makes some interesting points about the oil supply: America After Oil. OIL produced the modern world — its ways of work, warfare and recreation — and soon, we are told, the end of cheap oil will produce abrupt, wrenching changes in the way we live. Changes, certainly, but not ...

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Red Cross: The Dictator's Friend

Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 7:33:02 pm PDT

The International Committee of the Red Cross says ... Saddam Hussein should either be charged or freed. (Hat tip: Ploome.) Saddam Hussein must either be released from custody by June 30 or charged if the US and the new Iraqi government are to conform to international law, the International Committee of ...

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Extremists Using Web to Spread Terror

Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 12:20:32 pm PDT

This information will come as no surprise to long-time LGF readers, but the Associated Press is beginning to notice that Islamofascist groups use the internet and other Western technologies in a parasitical fashion, to amplify the effects of their atrocities: Extremists Using Web to Spread Terror. The real surprise is how ...

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French Antisemitism Watch

Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 11:07:18 am PDT

Mural by Jewish child prisoners in WW2 desecrated in France. (Hat tip: Goldie.) PARIS - Vandals have desecrated a mural painted by Jewish children during World War Two in a transit camp in southern France where they were held before deportation to Nazi Germany, police said Sunday. The desecration, which a historian ...

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The Definition of a Dhimmi

Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 9:56:24 am PDT

The “scholar” who submitted a bizarre rationalization for the defense in the trial of Cleveland radical imam Fawaz Damra has withdrawn his testimony. The Chicago Tribune headlines this one, “After Jewish outcry, scholar bows out of testifying for imam,” as if only Jews should/would be concerned about violent hate speech like ...

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Metafilter Hits Bottom, Digs

Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 9:47:03 am PDT

Holocaust mockery gets big laughs at Metafilter: Most. Tasteless. Journal. Evar?! (Hat tip: Kot Begemot.)

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Religion of Kidnapping and Murder

Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 9:13:41 am PDT

The Islamic barbarians have murdered another Westerner (possibly the one they boasted of kidnapping), and contemptuously dumped the body near the Saudi National Guard headquarters: Report: Man’s Body Found in Saudi Arabia. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - The body of a man, possibly a Westerner, was found Sunday near the National Guard ...

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Chomsky Finds a Home

Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 8:04:17 am PDT

What a surprise to see Noam Chomsky’s latest crypto-babble picked up by pro-terror web site Palestine Chronicle: Doctrines And Visions - Who Is To Run The World, And How? The very first sentence contains a huge distortion: We have just passed the first anniversary of the President’s declaration of victory in Iraq. ...

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Saturday, June 12, 2004

Cycling Diary

Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 7:22:34 pm PDT

Today’s ride: 51.07 miles. Average speed: who cares? Down the South Bay bike path into Palos Verdes, up PV drive to Paseo Del Mar, down through the high-priced residential area, then back up to PV Drive for a breakneck pace to Hawthorne Boulevard, and the Point Vincente lighthouse. Then back, on ...

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Pakistani Warplanes Bomb Terror Hideouts

Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 6:49:07 pm PDT

After days of these reports from Pakistan, I’m almost beginning to believe that Pervez Musharraf is serious about rooting out the freakazoids: Pakistani Warplanes Bomb Militant Hideouts. This can’t all be for show. WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani warplanes, backed by helicopter gunships, bombed hideouts of al Qaeda-linked militants on Saturday ...

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Another Islamic Snuff Film

Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 6:33:15 pm PDT

In another diabolical use of Western technology against its creators, the jihadis are now routinely deploying video cameras and cheap PC video editing software as weapons of war: Saudi Qaeda tape says shows killing of American. (Hat tip: NY Nana.) DUBAI, June 13 (Reuters) - A purported al Qaeda videotape posted ...

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Children Corrupting Children

Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 6:12:46 pm PDT

The New York Times headline attempts to cast doubt on this story (“Israel Says...”), but we all know every word is true: Israel Says Children Enlist Children as Suicide Bombers. (Hat tip: Joel.) In November, a 16-year-old from Nablus blew himself up near Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, killing no ...

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RoPMA

Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 5:08:07 pm PDT

Bomb attack on Indian Kashmir hotel kills 4. In Indian Kashmir, the AP news agency reports that attackers threw a bomb in a hotel on Saturday, killing four people and injuring 28 others. Police say the bomb was thrown in the dining room of the hotel in Pahalgam, a popular holiday ...

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Note to Salman Rushdie: Don't Fire the Bodyguard Yet

Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 4:42:28 pm PDT

At ShiaChat.com, the tiny minority of extremists has a cheery little discussion going on; the topic is murdering Salman Rushdie. According to the poll, most of these practitioners of the Religion of Peace™ seem to want Rushdie dead or injured: AhlulBayt Discussion Forum: Salman Rushdie: What would you do if ...

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Religion of Kidnapping and Murder

Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 4:01:24 pm PDT

The tiny minority of Islamic extremists has kidnapped another American in Saudi Arabia: Al-Qaida Claims U.S. Slaying and Hostage. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - A purported al-Qaida statement Saturday claimed the terror group had kidnapped one American man in the Saudi capital and killed another American. It threatened to treat the captive ...

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Give Us Bigger Houses Or Die!

Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 3:57:28 pm PDT

The entitlement mentality meshes with the death cult: Palestinian gunmen raid UNRWA offices in Jenin. The United Nations decided over the weekend to suspend its construction project in the Jenin refugee camp after Palestinian gunmen threatened crews rebuilding houses destroyed during Operation Defensive Shield in 2002. Five men armed with M-16 rifles ...

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Hamas Will Keep On Killin'

Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 2:05:18 pm PDT

You’ll know the Hamas savages have been punished enough when they stop talking like this: Hamas Refuses to Halt Attacks After Gaza Pullout. GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinian militant group Hamas vowed on Saturday to continue attacks against Israel after an Israeli pullout from Gaza and refused to give a green ...

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WMD Puzzle Begins to Come Together

Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 1:32:09 pm PDT

UN inspectors: Saddam shipped out WMD on eve of war. The United Nations has determined that Saddam Hussein shipped weapons of mass destruction components as well as medium-range ballistic missiles before, during and after the U.S.-led war against Iraq in 2003. The UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission briefed the Security Council ...

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Media Hiding the Truth

Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 8:16:25 am PDT

Once again our clueless Western media are either 1) deliberately concealing the truth, or 2) so incompetent they can’t find it. Not one story about the East London Mosque and its raving nutbar Saudi keynote speaker bothers to bring up the imam’s rabid Jew-hatred and extremism; every single wire story ...

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Iran Isn't Even Hiding It

Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 7:25:12 am PDT

Iran’s foreign minister says the international “community” is just going to have to accept that Iran is a member of the nuclear club. Iran’s top diplomat said Saturday the country won’t accept any new internationally imposed obligations regarding its nuclear program and that the world must recognize Iran as a nuclear-capable ...

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Friday, June 11, 2004

Saddam's Spawn Lives in Luxury, Whines

Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 7:27:54 pm PDT

Pause for a moment, won’t you, to commiserate with Raghad Saddam Hussein, whose life has been a living hell in Jordan: Saddam’s Daughter Says Life Has Been Hard. CAIRO, Egypt - Saddam Hussein’s eldest daughter told a weekly women’s magazine that her life has been full of emotional suffering and that ...

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15 Arabs Arrested in Portugal

Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 6:47:40 pm PDT

Portugal police arrest 15 at Euro 2004 city. (Hat tip: Gnida.) LISBON - Portuguese police arrested 15 people of Arab origin on Friday in the city of Porto, site of the inaugural game of the Euro 2004 soccer championships, a police spokesman said. The 15 were arrested in a joint operation by ...

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Extremist Sheikh: Keynote Speaker at Mosque Opening

Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 6:19:50 pm PDT

One of the largest Islamic centers in Europe has opened in London: New Muslim centre opens its doors. (Hat tip: Harry’s Place.) The BBC’s whitewash of the mosque’s keynote speaker is quite amazing: The centre was opened as Friday prayers took place, led by one of Islam’s most renowned Imams, and celebrations ...

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The LGF Drinking Game

Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 5:21:03 pm PDT

Another idea whose time has come: Little Green Footballs - the Drinking Game. The Rules A Drink can be a beer, a glass of wine or a shot of liquor ... your choice. You must take a drink: 1. Anytime someone posts “FIRST!” 2. Anytime Bigel posts that we should nuke Mecca and Medina, you ...

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Zawahri Raves, Seethes, Threatens

Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 4:46:53 pm PDT

There’s another tape reportedly from Ayman al-Zawahri, with that inimitable brand of paranoia and savagery that distinguishes the Islamist mind: Tape: U.S. Trying to Replace Arab Gov’ts. “America has no relation with reform. What it is really looking for is to replace the existing regimes with new ones,” said the voice ...

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The Patriot Act Is Your Friend

Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 1:19:43 pm PDT

Several months old but still very pertinent, here’s an interview with Viet Dinh, the Vietnamese professor of law at Georgetown University who authored the much-maligned, much-misinterpreted Patriot Act: The Patriot Act Is Your Friend. Excerpts: WN: An estimated 5,000 people have been subjected to detention since 9/11. Of those, only five ...

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"Culture of Death" Taught in Saudi Schools

Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:40:03 am PDT

MEMRI has translations from Saudi newspapers of educators and parents appalled at the culture of death disseminated in Saudi schools. “Abd Al-’Aziz Al-Athian from the city of Al-Jawf sent a letter to the magazine Al-Yamama, which was published in Issue No. 1789 on page 16, under the title ‘How They Educated ...

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Managing Pathologies

Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:35:44 am PDT

Another excellent column from Caroline Glick, on managing the pathologies of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In Geneva this week, under UN aegis and Swiss funding, the “international community” held a donors conference for UNRWA — the UN’s self-appointed wing of the Arab war against Israel. UNRWA is the only UN refugee relief ...

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Iron Lady Remembers Happy Warrior

Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 8:52:12 am PDT

Margaret Thatcher is speaking now; you can watch the funeral service for Ronald Reagan at C-SPAN.

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In Solidarity

Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 8:13:05 am PDT

Lech Walesa remembers the friend who freed Poland from the prison of Communism: In Solidarity. GDANSK, Poland—When talking about Ronald Reagan, I have to be personal. We in Poland took him so personally. Why? Because we owe him our liberty. This can’t be said often enough by people who lived under ...

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Baby Got Burqa

Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 7:38:21 am PDT

From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons, inspired by this post: Hip-Hop, Islamofascist Style.

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Religion of Peace Rampages in Thailand

Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 7:20:48 am PDT

According to this AP release, Thailand’s Muslims feel they are the victims of cultural insensitivity. So they’re slashing people’s throats, stealing weapons, and blowing things up: Hooded Thai Assailants Slash School Guard. BANGKOK, Thailand - Hooded assailants with assault rifles slashed the throat of a night guard outside a government school in ...

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Troubling Presence at a Funeral

Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 6:41:33 am PDT

We’re just not serious about the war against radical Islam. Case in point, a Muslim imam with ties to many suspect individuals and groups ... invited to the Reagan ecumenical service: A Troubling Presence at a Funeral. Patriotic Americans will always cherish their memories of Ronald Reagan’s strong and courageous leadership ...

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Thursday, June 10, 2004

Khobar: An Insider's Story

Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 7:39:25 pm PDT

I missed it a couple of days ago when Tim Blair posted it, but it’s still very much worth highlighting—a detailed account of the May 29 attack by Islamic jihadis on an oilworkers’ compound in Khobar, Saudi Arabia: Khobar: An Insider’s Story.

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The Berkeley Intifada

Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 7:22:24 pm PDT

Here’s a great piece by Michael J. Totten, on a frequent LGF theme—the importation of intifada-flavored Jew-hatred to the campuses of America: The Berkeley Intifada? I could be wrong. Maybe the double standard isn’t racist at all. Maybe it’s all about fear. For the politically correct activist, nothing is worse than ...

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Australian Gitmo Prisoner Charged

Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 6:33:45 pm PDT

Australian Muslim convert David Hicks, captured in Afghanistan and held at Guantanamo Bay, has been arraigned on three criminal charges: US Charges Australian Guantanamo Prisoner Hicks. Hicks, captured in Afghanistan in late 2001 and held for more than two years at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was charged ...

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UN Springs Into Action

Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 5:51:10 pm PDT

The United Nations will be taking up the pressing issue of Israel’s attack on the French-built Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq—23 years ago: UN to Deal With Israeli Attacks on Lebanon and Iraq. Israeli Air Force jets attacked Palestinian terrorist bases just 20 kilometers south of Beirut last night. The raid ...

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Iran's Manhattan Project Speeding Ahead

Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 5:36:15 pm PDT

Now, don’t rush to judgment here. I’m sure Iran will have a good excuse (well, good enough to fool the IAEA a little longer) for the latest news about their alleged nuclear weapons program: Iran Said Interested in Nuclear Parts. VIENNA, Austria - Iran told a black market supplier it was ...

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RIP, Ray Charles

Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 4:12:32 pm PDT

Ray Charles, whose version of God Bless America can still evoke chills, has passed away at the age of 73. Ray Charles Quotes: “When I started to sing like myself — as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while — when I started singing like Ray ...

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Court Lets One Go

Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 1:47:32 pm PDT

Criminal courts are failing us in the war against radical Islam, with help from (who else?) the ACLU: Saudi Cleared of Terror Charges in Idaho. Depressing. Al-Hussayen’s attorneys have argued that he had little to do with the creation of the material posted. And they say the material was protected by ...

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"Nothing But Respect"

Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 1:22:01 pm PDT

LGF reader “reaganite” has the singular honor of being on the Secret Service security detail for the funeral of Ronald Reagan; here is his account of yesterday’s procession: Yesterday was a draining/emotional day. We got to the site about 2:15. Those of you in the DC area know how hot it ...

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American Muslim Council Leader in Assassination Plot

Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 7:32:43 am PDT

Last year Abdurahman Alamoudi, the founder of the American Muslim Council, was caught trying to smuggle $340,000 in cash from Libya’s Jihad Fund, and arrested. Newsweek also reported that in the fall of 2000, Alamoudi had meetings with Mohammed Belfas, a “spiritual leader” from the Hamburg Islamic community who had ...

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Wednesday, June 09, 2004

LA County Kneels to the ACLU

Wed, Jun 9, 2004 at 7:06:44 pm PDT

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has now definitively caved in to the ACLU’s demand to remove a tiny cross from the county seal: Board of Supervisors Affirms Decision to Remove Cross From County Seal. (Hat tip: Radian.) The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors yesterday affirmed its decision last ...

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Pentagon May Withdraw Troops From Germany

Wed, Jun 9, 2004 at 6:44:54 pm PDT

An idea whose time has come: Pentagon May Withdraw Troops From Germany. WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has advised Germany that as part of a global shifting of U.S. military forces, it wants to withdraw its two Army divisions and replace them with fewer, lighter, more mobile troops. The move would represent a ...

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Dark Ages: Now on Video and Glossy Websites

Wed, Jun 9, 2004 at 6:31:28 pm PDT

Northeast Intelligence Network has a chilling video they say is from an Islamist web site, showing interviews with British and Scottish jihadis in training for suicide bombing missions: Windows Media format. On the subject of such missions, Egypt Today - The Magazine of Egypt, a thoroughly Westernized magazine apparently oriented toward ...

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Protest Rises Over Islamic Law in Ontario

Wed, Jun 9, 2004 at 1:58:25 pm PDT

Women’s rights activists in Ontario are outraged about the establishment of a so-called “Canadianized” version of Islamic shari’a law, and have vowed to stop it before it starts later this year: Protest rises over Islamic law in Ontario. (Hat tip: a poet.) “We’ve had a flood of e-mails from people, asking ...

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Italian Wiretaps: Chemical Attack in US

Wed, Jun 9, 2004 at 1:36:20 pm PDT

Here are more details on the arrest in Italy of Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed (aka “Mohamed the Egyptian”), including a report that one of the Italian wiretaps refers to an imminent chemical attack in the United States: Lawyer Says He Gave Phone Taps to US. ROME - An Italian prosecutor said ...

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50 Dead in Nigeria

Wed, Jun 9, 2004 at 12:06:32 pm PDT

At least 50 Nigerians have been killed in riots in the northern village of Numan, triggered when Muslims refused to halt construction of a controversial mosque. Numan’s Muslims are rebuilding their main mosque after it was destroyed on June 8 last year, when 100 people where killed in a riot triggered ...

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Hip-Hop, Islamofascist Style

Wed, Jun 9, 2004 at 11:47:46 am PDT

The mullahs of Iran have allowed a “hip-hop” album to be released—but the message is nothing like Baby Got Back: Mullahs give their blessing to leader of the Teheran posse. He is clean-shaven and goes about his business wearing a suit and tie with his cut-back collar shirt. Hardly a hip-hop ...

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The Road Map for A Sovereign Iraq

Wed, Jun 9, 2004 at 11:05:57 am PDT

A terrific piece by Paul Wolfowitz (or as Al Gore pronounces the name, “Wooolllffooowwiiiiittzzz!”) in today’s OpinionJournal cites Iraqi blogger Omar at Iraq The Model, and spells out the US plan in great detail: The Road Map for A Sovereign Iraq. (Hat tip: Roger L. Simon.) After a suicide car bombing ...

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Got Six in Spain

Wed, Jun 9, 2004 at 10:05:07 am PDT

Spain Arrests Six in Madrid Bombs Probe. MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police arrested six people in northern Spain Wednesday in connection with the sale of explosives used in March 11 train bombings in Madrid, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. The spokesman said police wiretaps had shown several of the six had spoken ...

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Breaking News

Wed, Jun 9, 2004 at 9:32:04 am PDT

An explosion in a three-story residential and business building in the German city of Cologne: Cologne Blast Caused by Bomb. BERLIN (Reuters) - An explosion in a building in the German city of Cologne that injured up to 12 people Wednesday was caused by a bomb, German police said. “We are ...

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"The Lightning-Strike War"

Wed, Jun 9, 2004 at 8:58:41 am PDT

One of the movies shot by Agent Zombie at last weekend’s hatefest in San Francisco shows International ANSWER’s Richard Becker in a deranged anti-Israel rant, including a bizarre, twisted summary of the 1967 War portraying Israel as a marauding conqueror. [Referring to people who support Israel...] “They don’t care any more ...

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No Antisemitism in France

Wed, Jun 9, 2004 at 8:44:22 am PDT

Carole Raphaelle Davis writes about the frightening increase in attacks by Arabs on French Jews—and the equally frightening refusal of the French to acknowledge the problem: What’s New in Paris? (Hat tip: Carl in Jerusalem.) Unlike the last big wave of anti-Semitism in France, the people who are committing these crimes ...

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Terror Cell Ready to Attack France

Wed, Jun 9, 2004 at 8:29:39 am PDT

Belgian police are warning that in addition to the Islamic terrorzoids arrested yesterday, there was a second cell preparing an attack in France: France Possible Target of Suspected Militants. Police in Milan late Monday seized Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, known as “Mohamed the Egyptian” and suspected of playing a lead role ...

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Morning in Europe

Wed, Jun 9, 2004 at 7:50:13 am PDT

Europe is beginning to see what they’ve allowed to flourish in the Continent. Their reaction? Pass more laws: European nations tighten laws to oust extremists. (Hat tip: NC.) PARIS — Western European countries are tightening their laws to facilitate the expulsion of Islamist extremists, a response to court rulings overturning several ...

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Tuesday, June 08, 2004

The Enemy at Home

Tue, Jun 8, 2004 at 7:20:54 pm PDT

Agent Zombie’s latest collection of photos and videos from the San Francisco International ANSWER Moronic Convergence is now online: Protests, San Francisco, June 5th 6th, 2004.

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Wahhabi vs. Wahhabi

Tue, Jun 8, 2004 at 6:57:55 pm PDT

Here’s an excellent piece by Professor Walid Phares on the House of Saud’s bargain with the devil: Wahabi vs. Wahabi. (Hat tip: Jihad Watch.) “And remember,” said Osama bin Laden in his February 11, 2003 audio tape to al Jazeera, “those who deal with the infidels will be treated as infidels.” ...

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Religion of "Gunmen"

Tue, Jun 8, 2004 at 6:19:16 pm PDT

Another American murdered in Riyadh; al-Reuters still shying away from the T word: Gunmen Kill American in Saudi Capital Riyadh. RIYADH (Reuters) - Gunmen killed an American working for a U.S. company in the Saudi capital Riyadh Tuesday, the fifth attack on Westerners and other foreigners in the world’s top oil ...

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"Death to Jews" - Just a Saying

Tue, Jun 8, 2004 at 5:55:45 pm PDT

A federal judge has thrown out very damning evidence in the trial of Cleveland radical Islamic imam Fawaz Mohammed Damra: Search of Ohio Imam’s Home Invalidated. CLEVELAND - A terrorist group’s manifesto and other items seized by the FBI in a search of an Islamic cleric’s home were taken in an ...

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Kerry: "I'm Proud I Stood Against Ronald Reagan"

Tue, Jun 8, 2004 at 3:16:29 pm PDT

John Kerry is a canny enough politician to say only gracious things about Ronald Reagan this week. But at the Weekly Standard, Katherine Mangu-Ward has compiled a list of Kerry’s previous statements about Reagan—and they were anything but gracious: Kerry on Reagan. * In November 2002, U.S. News & World Report ...

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A Victory for the US

Tue, Jun 8, 2004 at 2:12:21 pm PDT

The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to support President Bush’s resolution defining the powers of the Iraqi government: Germany, France Promise Support on Iraq. This is a great victory for the Bush administration. UNITED NATIONS - The United States called for a vote Tuesday on a revised U.N. resolution defining ...

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AP Horrified at Legal Study

Tue, Jun 8, 2004 at 8:39:06 am PDT

The Associated Press gasps, Lawyers Argued Bush Could Order Torture. Of course, this was part of a legal study, intended to be used in cases where an attack was imminent. And the methods it discussed were not implemented. But that headline is just so ... sexy. Who cares about context? WASHINGTON - ...

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Got "Mohamed the Egyptian"

Tue, Jun 8, 2004 at 8:23:48 am PDT

One of the chief planners of the Madrid train bombings has been arrested in Italy. And oddly enough, he’s not a Buddhist. MILAN (Reuters) - Italy arrested an Egyptian man suspected of helping to plan the Madrid train bombings as police across Europe swooped on Islamic militants in coordinated anti-terror raids, ...

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Hostages Rescued

Tue, Jun 8, 2004 at 7:37:12 am PDT

Three Italians and a Pole kidnapped by the mujahideen in Iraq have been rescued by US-led forces. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces freed three Italians and a Pole held hostage in Iraq in a rescue Tuesday that Italy said involved no deal with their kidnappers. “They were freed about one and a ...

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Stop War, End Racism, Kill Americans

Tue, Jun 8, 2004 at 7:23:43 am PDT

Below Street Level has an account of the Moronic Convergence in San Francisco last weekend, with photographs of some of the hateful, seditious behavior: Answer’s June 5th protest. Here’s a woman with a sign calling for “armed resistance” in Iraq and “Palestine:” This puts the lie to their laughable claim that they ...

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Monday, June 07, 2004

The Normandy Quagmire

Mon, Jun 7, 2004 at 8:14:17 pm PDT

VDH imagines what our generation might have said a month later in July, 1944: Our Look Back at Normandy. Al Gore: General George Marshall—You, you.... You, go now! You approved of it; you signed off; you gave us the Philippines disaster, the B-17 slaughters, and now this. So go! Go, go, ...

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Iraqi Missile Engines Found in Netherlands

Mon, Jun 7, 2004 at 7:09:23 pm PDT

Here’s another indicator that during the run-up to the Iraq War, Saddam Hussein did everything possible to hide or destroy evidence of his WMD programs: Iraqi Missile Engines Found in Netherlands, UN Inspectors Say. (Hat tip: struan al kufr.) June 7 (Bloomberg) — Two engines from Iraqi surface-to-air missiles, including one ...

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Respect Islam, Do Not Vote

Mon, Jun 7, 2004 at 6:47:54 pm PDT

Britain’s resident Islamic wacko group Al Muhajiroun says: RESPECT ISLAM ... DO NOT VOTE and STAY A MUSLIM ... DON’T VOTE I wholeheartedly support this initiative.

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Telling the Truth About the Palestinians

Mon, Jun 7, 2004 at 6:26:22 pm PDT

Khaled Abu Toameh, an Israeli Arab whose writing for the Jerusalem Post is a model of unflinching integrity and courage, has a great analysis of the media’s dysfunctional relationship to the Arab-Israeli conflict: Telling the Truth about the Palestinians. (Hat tip: DP111.) The lack of free speech in the territories should ...

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Haters Converge in SF

Mon, Jun 7, 2004 at 6:05:31 pm PDT

LGF reader “zombie” has new photographs and video from last weekend’s Moronic Convergence in San Francisco, but he’s been warned by his ISP that if he gets another link from LGF (and the thousands of hits that entails) they’ll shut him down for overuse of bandwidth. If you’re a lizardoid ...

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1st Annual Blog-Iran Challenge

Mon, Jun 7, 2004 at 5:40:49 pm PDT

Activist Chat is running a promotion to commemorate the anniversary of the Iranian student uprising that was brutally crushed by the mullahs and their thugs: The 1st Annual ‘BLOG-IRAN!’ Challenge!.

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Fifth Column High

Mon, Jun 7, 2004 at 4:34:15 pm PDT

Citizen Smash has an entry about Gillian Russom, the LA spokesperson of the International Socialist Organization, who works to bring about a defeat for the US in Iraq—when she isn’t teaching history at Roosevelt High in East LA: Do you know who’s teaching your children? After the march, I found Gillian ...

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Flying Pig Watch

Mon, Jun 7, 2004 at 12:51:15 pm PDT

New Violence, Old Problem: The Saudis Fight Terror, but Not Those Who Wage It. (Hat tip: SA.) Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to Washington, published an extraordinary article Tuesday in Al Watan, a newspaper run by the descendants of King Faisal, in which he called the domestic Saudi effort ...

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Bloggers Crash Anti-US Party in Paris

Mon, Jun 7, 2004 at 11:36:44 am PDT

Davids Medienkritik discovered that pro-US demonstrators were not welcome at last Saturday’s anti-Bush, anti-USA Communist-Arab-Pacifist rally in Paris, France. French protesters at the D-Day activities carried signs reading, “Withdraw the occupation troops. Solidarity with the Iraqi resistance.”

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"Help Me, I'm a Muslim"

Mon, Jun 7, 2004 at 10:39:40 am PDT

Saudi bystanders passively watched BBC reporter Frank Gardner as he lay bleeding in the street, screaming for help: Help me, I’m a Muslim. (Hat tip: TS.) RIYADH - Riddled with bullets, BBC correspondent Frank Gardner pleaded for his life in the Saudi capital shouting to bystanders to help a fellow Muslim, ...

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Terrorists Attack BBC

Mon, Jun 7, 2004 at 10:12:18 am PDT

Well, now we know what it takes for the BBC to use the word “terrorist” without scare quotes: Manhunt after attack on BBC crew. Saudi security forces are hunting gunmen who attacked a BBC news team in a drive-by shooting in Riyadh. Cameraman Simon Cumbers was killed and security correspondent Frank Gardner ...

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"Militants" Threaten to Kidnap and Murder

Mon, Jun 7, 2004 at 9:23:23 am PDT

“Feckless, terror-enabling Western media” seems to be today’s theme. Reading this release from al-Reuters, you have to wonder what it would take to get them to use the word “terrorist.” Apparently, threatening to kidnap and murder women and children doesn’t do it: Militants Threaten Israel Over Barghouthi Life Term. GAZA (Reuters) - ...

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"Militants" Threaten Airlines

Mon, Jun 7, 2004 at 9:06:15 am PDT

More big words from the jihadis: Al Qaeda Warns of Attacks on Western Airlines. DUBAI (Reuters) - A statement purportedly from al Qaeda militants in Saudi Arabia warned Monday of new attacks on U.S. and Western airlines, installations and areas frequented by Westerners. “All compounds, bases and means of transport, especially Western ...

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Palestinian Propaganda Party

Mon, Jun 7, 2004 at 8:47:28 am PDT

Palestinians love to position people like this in the middle of conflict zones, hoping they’ll be killed and become fodder for the propaganda mill: Paralyzed Palestinian Man Killed. The Associated Press obliges with an article by Nasser Nasser glorifying this member of Fatah (Arabic for “conquest”), who was in a ...

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One of These Things is Not Like the Other

Mon, Jun 7, 2004 at 8:30:23 am PDT

Howard Gleckman of Business Week is the latest comparison-impaired journalist to lose his mind: From Bush, Saddam-Style Justice. Sometime in the next month, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide the case of Jose Padilla. The decision will mark an important test of the Constitutional protections Americans have enjoyed for most of ...

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Mosques = Ammo Depots

Mon, Jun 7, 2004 at 7:30:18 am PDT

Oh, the humiliation. The holy mosque in Kufa has blown up. KUFA, Iraq - Explosions rocked the compound surrounding the Kufa mosque on Monday after ammunition used by fighters loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr apparently caught fire, witnesses and Shiite militia members said. At least nine people were hurt. Flames and smoke rose ...

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Sunday, June 06, 2004

"Tunnels Are Harmful"

Sun, Jun 6, 2004 at 6:22:41 pm PDT

Even the most prolific Palestinian stringer for al-Reuters, Nidal al-Mughrabi, is beginning to see the inexorable truth—that the intifada is over: Palestinians turn on tunnel men. (Hat tip: Melissa.) RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Mustafa used to fear little but a periodic Israeli army raid as he dug arms smuggling tunnels ...

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Media Attacked in Riyadh

Sun, Jun 6, 2004 at 2:56:31 pm PDT

An Irish cameraman has been killed and a British journalist wounded in Saudi Arabia: Irish cameraman shot dead in Saudi capital. (Hat tip: Colt.) RIYADH (Reuters) - An Irish cameraman has been shot and killed and a British journalist wounded after gunmen fired on them as they filmed in an Islamist ...

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Palestinian Portrait Swarm

Sun, Jun 6, 2004 at 2:36:20 pm PDT

(Psst. It’s Photoshopped.)

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Kerry Plays Politics by Not Playing Politics

Sun, Jun 6, 2004 at 1:56:34 pm PDT

At first I thought John F. Kerry was showing a rare bit of class: Kerry Suspends Campaign Events in Honor of Reagan. TOLEDO, Ohio (Reuters) - Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry canceled all public campaign events for the week on Sunday in deference to former President Ronald Reagan, a “modern ...

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Dutch Courage

Sun, Jun 6, 2004 at 12:46:01 pm PDT

Mark Steyn’s tribute to Ronald Reagan: Dutch Courage: Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004. I once discussed Irving Berlin, composer of “God Bless America”, with his friend and fellow songwriter Jule Styne, and Jule put it best: “It’s easy to be clever. But the really clever thing is to be simple.” At the Berlin ...

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Reagan Passes, Arabs Seethe

Sun, Jun 6, 2004 at 10:46:38 am PDT

Middle Eastern thugocracies didn’t like Ronald Reagan much, and the despots and their toadies have no compunctions about saying so: Europe Recalls Reagan Fondly, Arabs Don’t. (Hat tip: E. Nough.) The former U.S. president was not remembered so fondly in many Arab nations. The Reagan years marked the beginning of what ...

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WAMY Campfire Song

Sun, Jun 6, 2004 at 9:55:32 am PDT

Last Wednesday we noted a raid by federal agents on the Northern Virginia offices of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth. Representatives of WAMY promptly claimed they were being targeted because they were Muslim, and said they had no ties to terrorism. In The Corner, Rod Dreher quotes a songbook from ...

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Al-Reuters Slimes President Reagan

Sun, Jun 6, 2004 at 9:08:45 am PDT

Submerged in yesterday’s flood of stories about the passing of Ronald Reagan was this amazingly cold-hearted piece from (who else?) al-Reuters: Reagan Remembered as Charming Enigma. (Hat tip: Ethel Carol, who wrote, “Balanced reporting is necessary but this is just nasty.” Indeed.) LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ronald Reagan, who died on ...

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Unclear on the Concept

Sun, Jun 6, 2004 at 8:22:46 am PDT

This is rich. Here’s a site run by Islamists that tries to imitate Jihad Watch and Internet Haganah; its motto is “Exposing Islamaphobes and Racists.” And the name of the site contains a disgusting Arabic racial slur meaning “non-Muslim,” that’s also used as a derogatory term for black Africans: Kafir Watch. ...

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Barghouti Gets Five Life Sentences

Sun, Jun 6, 2004 at 8:06:30 am PDT

Palestinian terrorist leader Marwan Barghouti has been sentenced to five consecutive life terms for mass murder; in yet another shamefully biased article clearly sympathetic to this swine, al-Reuters calls the convicted killer a “lawmaker” and a “revolt leader:” Palestinian Revolt Leader Gets Life in Israeli Jail. (Hat tip: scaramouche.) A fiery ...

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Alpha Weasel Repeats History

Sun, Jun 6, 2004 at 7:48:12 am PDT

At a press conference yesterday in Paris, überweasel Jacques Chirac said “history does not repeat itself.” Over the past 10 days, Bush has attempted to link the overthrow of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with the struggle to defeat Nazism in World War II. He even quoted from Supreme Allied Commander ...

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Saturday, June 05, 2004

The Meaning of Omaha Beach

Sat, Jun 5, 2004 at 7:59:50 pm PDT

At Horsefeathers, Yale Kramer reprints a powerful article he wrote for the American Spectator in 1994, on the 50th anniversary of D-Day: Easy Red, Fox Green: The Meaning of Omaha Beach. It was clear that events had overtaken the elaborate plans to capture Omaha. Whatever happened was now out of the ...

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It's Over, Muqtada

Sat, Jun 5, 2004 at 7:52:08 pm PDT

One of the commanders in charge of Najaf, General Mark Hertling, says Muqtada al-Sadr’s “Army of the Mahdi” has lost their stomach for fighting. “The Moqtada militia is militarily defeated. We have killed scores of them over the last few weeks, and that is in Najaf alone,” Brigadier General Mark Hertling, ...

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Salman Rushdie: "Much Worse than a Military Assault"

Sat, Jun 5, 2004 at 3:13:46 pm PDT

An Iranian volunteer martyrdom group has enlisted some 10,000 people for suicide attacks against Israel, US forces in Iraq, and ... Salman Rushdie. (Thanks to all who emailed.) TEHRAN - Thousands of Iranians have signed up for suicide attacks on Israel, U.S.-led forces in Iraq and British author Salman Rushdie, a ...

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RIP: President Ronald Reagan

Sat, Jun 5, 2004 at 2:17:07 pm PDT

Mourning in America: Ronald Reagan is Dead at the age of 93.

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Village Voice Critic Calls for Bloodbath

Sat, Jun 5, 2004 at 1:15:12 pm PDT

Village Voice theater critic Michael Feingold says Republicans should be exterminated. (Hat tip: scaramouche.) No U.S. president, I expect, will ever appoint a Secretary of the Imagination. But if such a cabinet post ever were created, and Richard Foreman weren’t immediately appointed to it, you’d know that the Republicans were in ...

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NBC In League with Mossad

Sat, Jun 5, 2004 at 8:28:48 am PDT

NBC has hired a former Mossad chief to oversee the network’s security at the Athens Olympics. (Hat tip: ploome.) Athena, a company co-owned by former Mossad chief Shabtai Shavit and Yossi Maiman’s Merhav group, recently won a tender issued by the American television network NBC to plan and run security for ...

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Moronic Convergence in DC Today

Sat, Jun 5, 2004 at 8:07:30 am PDT

Nicholas Berg’s father is at it again, using the death of his son in the most cowardly, cynical fashion to promote hard left causes—so hard left that they are crowed over by Wahhabi mouthpiece Islam Online. (Hat tip: Elle Plater.) Thousands of Americans are expected to take to streets in ...

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Arab News Hits New Depths

Sat, Jun 5, 2004 at 7:33:34 am PDT

Western dhimmi Sarah Whalen spews America-hatred and slimes Daniel Pearl and Pat Tillman (among others) in a truly ugly piece for the always sub-wretched Arab News: Here Is the Latest News From Neocons. Remember as you read: this is the officially approved English voice of the House of Saud. Conspiracy? Dare we ...

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Friday, June 04, 2004

Why is This Man Smiling?

Fri, Jun 4, 2004 at 5:08:57 pm PDT

Unless something amazing happens, I think we have our winner in the Creepiest Smile of the Year competition. Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh issued a fatwa, or religious edict, calling on both citizens and expatriates to inform on suspected Islamist extremists engaged in terrorist activities.(AFP/File/Bilal Qabalan)

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Kerry: They Like Me! They Really Like Me!

Fri, Jun 4, 2004 at 4:19:38 pm PDT

This is terrible. I’ve heard of it happening before; a middle-aged man begins to exercise, say by riding a Serotta road bike long distances, and as decades-old fat cells start to break up they release minute quantities of illicit drugs from long-ago abuse, leading to the well-known “acid flashback.” Kerry: Many ...

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Roman Intifada

Fri, Jun 4, 2004 at 4:04:50 pm PDT

The intifada comes to Italy as anti-war militants clad in kaffiyeh and Converse sweatshirts, whipped into a frenzy by the visit of George W. Bush, clash with Italian police. Masked demonstrators hurl objects during clashes with Italian Police at Circo Massimo grounds at a protest against the visit by President Bush ...

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Chomsky vs Anti-Chomsky

Fri, Jun 4, 2004 at 3:39:44 pm PDT

A great take-down of one of Noam Chomsky’s seminal anti-Israel tracts, by Benjamin the Anti-Chomsky: Peace in the Middle East? : A Review.

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No Apology Necessary

Fri, Jun 4, 2004 at 2:54:47 pm PDT

Classic weaseling from oleaginous Saudi Foreign Affairs Advisor Adel Al-Jubeir, confronted (for a change) by Wolf Blitzer about Crown Prince Abdullah’s claim that “Zionists” were behind the recent terror attacks on the House of Saud: No Apology Necessary. On May 13, 2004, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer questioned Saudi foreign Affairs Advisor Adel ...

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Outrage of the Day

Fri, Jun 4, 2004 at 2:20:37 pm PDT

Wow. Just ... wow. More evidence that whatever the reason—ideology, greed, or competition—the media of the world are objectively on the wrong side. Because for the sake of some pictures, the media rats in this story were willing to witness coalition soldiers killed rather than share their tipoff about a planned ...

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Rules of War Enable Terror

Fri, Jun 4, 2004 at 1:57:53 pm PDT

Here’s an excellent piece by Alan Dershowitz on the dangerously imprecise and outmoded Geneva Conventions: Rules of war enable terror. (Thanks to all who emailed about this one.) THE GENEVA Conventions are so outdated and are written so broadly that they have become a sword used by terrorists to kill civilians, ...

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We Got Mail!

Fri, Jun 4, 2004 at 11:00:41 am PDT

A couple of weeks ago, an admirer from Karachi Pakistan dropped in to inform us that we’re all evil, disrespecful, unreligious bigots (infidels for short), and that the Muslim world was happy about 9/11. I was trying to go through some old email (I’m deluged as usual, and if you’ve written ...

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The New Defeatism

Fri, Jun 4, 2004 at 9:07:21 am PDT

Victor Davis Hanson continues to frame the issues with relentless intelligence. His new column asks, “Are we giving up, even as we’re succeeding?” The New Defeatism. Our Real Dilemma. We do have a grave problem in this country, but it is not the plan for Iraq, the neoconservatives, or targeting Saddam. ...

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The Real Roots of Muslim Hatred

Fri, Jun 4, 2004 at 8:50:50 am PDT

Here’s an important article by Dr. Andrew Bostom, on The Real Roots of Muslim Hatred. Bostom points out that the “root causes” excuses bandied about endlessly by ivory tower idiotarians—US policy, support for Israel, support for Arab dictators— are disingenuous in the extreme; in truth, the xenophobia goes way, way ...

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$300 Million Payoff to Egypt

Fri, Jun 4, 2004 at 8:33:07 am PDT

Two billion dollars a year isn’t enough for Egypt. The US government is throwing them another $300 million, to compensate them for “regional unrest:” U.S. Pays Egypt Compensation for ‘Regional Unrest’. We’ll just forget about the little fact that Egypt has been very much on the side of the mujahideen in ...

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Annan to Receive Harvard Degree While Sudanese Die

Fri, Jun 4, 2004 at 8:21:43 am PDT

Next Thursday, Harvard is hosting Kofi Annan as commencement speaker and giving him an honorary degree. Local activists, led by Boston’s Black Ministerial Alliance, and Sudanese survivors of genocide will be rallying to protest Annan’s shameful inaction on the genocide in Sudan. The coalition of activists is appealing to people ...

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Thursday, June 03, 2004

Forget Iran: IAEA to Focus on Israel

Thu, Jun 3, 2004 at 9:33:22 pm PDT

The spread of nuclear weapons throughout the Arab world and Iran is nightmarishly unsettling. But have no fear. The International Atomic Energy Agency is springing into action—against the only country in the region that really needs nukes and has demonstrated enough responsibility to handle them: IAEA to press for inspections of ...

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Red Cross to Open Nazi Victim Archives

Thu, Jun 3, 2004 at 5:38:55 pm PDT

The International Committee of the Red Cross will open its vast archive of information about Nazi victims—for the first time. Since World War II. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) The International Tracing Service, which stores information about inmates of Nazi concentration camps, will open its vast archives to researchers by next year, a ...

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Cycling Diary

Thu, Jun 3, 2004 at 4:42:51 pm PDT

Today’s ride: 40 miles (OK, 39.82) at a medium aerobic pace, up the bike path through Venice, up the Santa Monica Pier to Ocean Ave, north to San Vicente and around the Brentwood country club golf course at a steady pace of 15-18mph. Then back down San Vicente (at about ...

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The War We Don't See

Thu, Jun 3, 2004 at 3:24:40 pm PDT

American filmmaker Mike Tucker has a new movie titled Gunner Palace, about his experiences in Iraq with the 2/3 Field Artillery Battalion, aka the “Gunner” Battalion. The site includes two film clips in Quicktime format; if you have a problem viewing them, try the mirror sites: Baghdad Freestyle Star Spangled Banner Baghdad ...

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Not Anti-War - On the Other Side

Thu, Jun 3, 2004 at 2:59:35 pm PDT

Carole Ward, 57, proves that moonbattery knows no age limits. On Tuesday night she was ejected from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, after harassing military recruits with a disgusting poster showing a portrait of President Bush—composed of small images of soldiers who have died in Iraq: Woman says she was ejected from ...

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Mending Fences

Thu, Jun 3, 2004 at 2:21:12 pm PDT

As part of a good post about the effectiveness of Israel’s security fence, Bill Roggio of The Fourth Rail has a gracious admission: Mending Fences. I would like to take a moment to acknowledge Charles of little green footballs. After reading his blog for many months, I came to the conclusion ...

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Simon Says

Thu, Jun 3, 2004 at 1:58:10 pm PDT

Also at National Review today, Andrew Leigh profiles the man in the Borsalino, Roger L. Simon.

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The UN Wants Iraq to Collapse

Thu, Jun 3, 2004 at 1:39:31 pm PDT

The UN Security Council is pushing hard for the US to give the new Iraqi government veto power over US military actions: UN Council Haggles Over Iraq Control of U.S. Troops. “The consent of the Iraqi government on major operations by the multinational force is of paramount important,” Algeria’s U.N. Ambassador ...

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The Free Market at Work

Thu, Jun 3, 2004 at 1:22:41 pm PDT

At National Review, Cathy Seipp has a good report on the American Cinema Foundation’s panel on LA bloggers, featuring a certain controversial and much-hated lizardoid android: Bloggers Unregulated. (Whoever said I had an “Ozzy Osbourne look” needs to get out more.)

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Tenet Resigns

Thu, Jun 3, 2004 at 8:06:08 am PDT

CIA director George Tenet has resigned. WASHINGTON - CIA Director George Tenet, who weathered storms over intelligence lapses about suspected weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, has resigned, President Bush said Thursday. “I will miss him,” Bush said. Tenet came to the White House to inform Bush ...

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Aussie Terror Suspect Free on Bail

Thu, Jun 3, 2004 at 8:00:11 am PDT

Australian terror suspect Bilal Khazal, a former baggage handler for Qantas Airways who said “like any Muslim” he considered Osama bin Laden a “good man,” has been released by an Australian judge—on $10,000 (AUS) bail. SYDNEY, (AFP) - Australia have rushed to tighten new anti-terrorism laws to stop alleged terrorists getting ...

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The Case of Nabil al-Marabh

Thu, Jun 3, 2004 at 7:47:28 am PDT

If you’re looking for reassurance that our government is committed to a zero tolerance policy for terrorism, this probably isn’t the story you should read: Administration Freed Terror Suspect. (Hat tip: zulubaby.) WASHINGTON - Nabil al-Marabh, once imprisoned as the No. 27 man on the FBI’s list of must-capture terror suspects, ...

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Wednesday, June 02, 2004

Echoes of Other Enemies

Wed, Jun 2, 2004 at 8:08:42 pm PDT

Read this terrific speech by President Bush; it went a long way toward persuading me that he understands the stakes in the war against militant Islam far better than most realize: Remarks by the President at the United States Air Force Academy Graduation Ceremony. (Hat tip: Hulugu.) Like the Second World ...

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Test Your LLL Quotient

Wed, Jun 2, 2004 at 7:41:37 pm PDT

Here’s a web site you’re not going to believe: Peacetest.org, proving that pacifism is a mental disease. Who needs enemies when we have people like this among us?

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Kerry Fundraiser Hangs Up on LLL Columnist

Wed, Jun 2, 2004 at 6:34:16 pm PDT

Oh man. This is absolutely priceless. Anti-war columnist Robert C. Koehler is outraged that a Kerry fund-raiser hung up on him: Spectator democracy. The election ceased to be just a vaguely troubling reality TV show for me one day last week, when a Kerry fund-raiser hung up on me. Suddenly, ...

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Hey, ACLU: You Missed One Over Here

Wed, Jun 2, 2004 at 5:47:25 pm PDT

Will the flag of Maryland be the next target of the Judeo-Christo-phobic ACLU? (Hat tip: Thom.)

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Explosives Found on S. Korean Train Track

Wed, Jun 2, 2004 at 5:36:37 pm PDT

Suspected Dynamite Found Under S.Korean Bullet Train. SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea halted departures of its high-speed bullet train on Thursday after police found what appeared to be dynamite on a track at Pusan, the country’s second largest city, the YTN cable news and police said. Pusan police said they tightened security ...

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Propane Trucks Found in Texas

Wed, Jun 2, 2004 at 5:21:06 pm PDT

Those stolen propane trucks we noted yesterday have been found: Propane Trucks Stolen in Texas Are Found. LAREDO, Texas - Two propane-delivery trucks were found Wednesday after being stolen from a gas company over the weekend, a theft that raised fears of what could happen if terrorists got hold of the ...

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Iran Taunts US

Wed, Jun 2, 2004 at 5:03:45 pm PDT

Iran Challenges U.S. to Prove Nuclear Bomb Charge. “If the Americans have any claims or information they should hand it over to the (U.N. nuclear watchdog) agency, but it’s clear they have nothing,” Hassan Rohani, secretary-general of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said in Tehran. Kenneth Brill, U.S. ambassador to the International ...

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FBI Raids World Assembly of Muslim Youth

Wed, Jun 2, 2004 at 3:29:25 pm PDT

Today federal agents raided the Northern Virginia offices of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY): U.S. Raids N.Va. Office of Saudi-Based Charity. Alexandria, Va. (AP) - Federal agents have raided the Alexandria headquarters of a Saudi-based charity founded by a nephew of Osama bin Laden. The Washington Post reports that the ...

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Thai Buddhists Fearful of RoP

Wed, Jun 2, 2004 at 3:16:27 pm PDT

The Buddhists of south Thailand are being increasingly attacked by murderous Islamic groups: Fearful Buddhists rally in Thailand’s Muslim south. NARATHIWAT, Thailand (Reuters) - Buddhists in Thailand’s Muslim-dominated south have gathered for a morale-boosting rally after the beheading of a Buddhist man this week stoked fears of sectarian conflict in the ...

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Death of an Intifada

Wed, Jun 2, 2004 at 9:26:38 am PDT

Note to Palestinians and their Western enablers: the intifada is over. The fence is working; you can’t get into Israel any more to slaughter children on buses. The few remaining terrorist thugs are no longer welcome in Tulkarem; they lower the property value and people who hang with them end ...

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ACLU: A Crusade Against Christianity

Wed, Jun 2, 2004 at 9:15:13 am PDT

Can you find the evil cross in the above illustration of the Los Angeles County seal? Well, the eagle eyes of the ACLU did—and LA County has now caved in to their demands: LA County to remove cross from county seal after ACLU challenge. LOS ANGELES - County supervisors have decided to ...

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Islamism's Campus Club: the MSA

Wed, Jun 2, 2004 at 9:01:22 am PDT

Here’s a must-read article about the Saudi-funded fifth column activities of the Muslim Students’ Association: Islamism’s Campus Club: The Muslim Students’ Association. The northern Virginia-based Muslim Students’ Association (MSA) might easily be taken for a benign student religious group. It promotes itself as a benevolent, non-political entity devoted to the simple ...

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One Man's Militant

Wed, Jun 2, 2004 at 8:01:07 am PDT

Arab News uses the T word: Attacks Leave Many Questions Unanswered. ALKHOBAR, 2 June 2004 — With the worst now over and the body count completed, the injured are being treated and the traumatized hostages are working hard to bring their lives back to normal. The security forces are on high alert ...

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Never Trust a Smiling Mullah

Wed, Jun 2, 2004 at 7:49:12 am PDT

We were getting ourselves all worked up for nothing. Iran Says Its Nuclear Case Nearly Closed. This is such a relief. Thank you, Hassan. (Hat tip: scaramouche.) TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator said on Wednesday the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog will soon be able to reassure the world that Tehran ...

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Tuesday, June 01, 2004

Iran Building Stealth Missile

Tue, Jun 1, 2004 at 8:50:10 pm PDT

Iran says they are building a radar-evading stealth missile. TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran is producing its first stealth missile, a rocket that can evade electronic detection, the Iranian Defence Ministry said Tuesday. The missile, named Kowsar after a river in paradise, will be capable of hitting ships and aircraft, Defence Ministry ...

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Chinless Ophthalmologist Meets Spanish Royals

Tue, Jun 1, 2004 at 6:19:47 pm PDT

You think you can’t be surprised any more at Spain’s appeasement antics. Then they invite the head of a terrorist state in for “talks:” Iraq, Mideast head agenda as Syria’s Assad arrives in Spain. MADRID (AFP) - Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad began a two-day official visit to Spain with the troubled ...

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Contributions to Victory

Tue, Jun 1, 2004 at 5:50:17 pm PDT

A photograph of John Kerry is displayed in a place of honor—the Vietnamese Communist War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as the “War Crimes Museum:” Kerry honored at communist museum. (Hat tip: rumpole.) The snapshot of the display, which depicts a July 1993 meeting, was forwarded to ...

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Iraq & Militant Islam

Tue, Jun 1, 2004 at 5:17:54 pm PDT

In a long, detailed article, Andrew McCarthy lays out what we know to date about Saddam’s possible connections to 9/11: Iraq & Militant Islam. I recommend reading this one all the way through. McCarthy says those who state as fact (when they cannot possibly know for sure) that “Saddam had ...

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Islamofascists Dig Us Too

Tue, Jun 1, 2004 at 4:59:13 pm PDT

Look who’s reading LGF: Department of Justice Accessed Al-Masakin. (Hat tip: justdanny.) TUCSON, May 30 (MNA) — A routine audit of our weblog at Al-Masakin has revealed that the U.S. Department of Justice has once again made a complete review of Al-Masakin Online. The DOJ investigated Al-Masakin Online in response to ...

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Feeding Monsters is Dangerous

Tue, Jun 1, 2004 at 4:39:49 pm PDT

Victor Davis Hanson has another good piece, in The Australian for a change, on the recent horrific murders in Khobar and the Saudi royal family’s responsibility: Appeasing al-Qa’ida will only encourage militants. (Hat tip: FrankNH.) The Saudi royals, like most autocracies in Jordan, Egypt and Syria, play a tired game well ...

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Iran's Manhattan Project Speeding Ahead

Tue, Jun 1, 2004 at 4:29:19 pm PDT

UN Raises New Questions About Iran’s Nuclear Plans. VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog said in a confidential report on Tuesday Iran had acknowledged importing parts for centrifuges capable of making bomb-grade uranium that it previously said were made in the country. Washington accuses Iran of pursuing a nuclear arms program. ...

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Kerry: No Nukes, Man!

Tue, Jun 1, 2004 at 4:17:33 pm PDT

Perhaps the silliest pie-in-the-sky chicken-in-every-pot campaign promise hoo-ha ever offered up by a Presidential candidate: Kerry Outlines Way to Limit Nuke Threat. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, outlining a plan to reduce the potential for a nuclear attack by terrorists, promised on Tuesday to safeguard all ...

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FBI Issues Alert For Propane Trucks

Tue, Jun 1, 2004 at 4:13:25 pm PDT

The FBI has issued an alert for propane trucks stolen in San Antonio, Texas. ANTONIO — The FBI issued an alert Monday for two propane trucks and 15 gas canisters that were stolen over the Memorial Day Holiday weekend in San Antonio. FBI Agent-In-Charge Patrick Patterson, of San Antonio, said the possibility ...

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The New Face of Al-Qaeda

Tue, Jun 1, 2004 at 12:18:43 pm PDT

Here’s an excellent piece by Robert Spencer on Al Qaeda suspect Adam Gadahn’s recruitment to radical Islam: The New Face of Al-Qaeda. A young man like Gadahn who gains what he knows about Islam from the internet will find dozens of jihadist websites, many of which feature detailed explications of the ...

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RoPMA

Tue, Jun 1, 2004 at 8:21:46 am PDT

As one of their slaughtered victims lay bleeding on the ground, the Muslim terrorists at Khobar lectured another near-victim about the wonders of Islam: After the Saudi Rampage, Questions and Few Answers. KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia, May 31 - The Iraqi-born American engineer stood listening to two of the four terrorists who ...

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Kerry Flips Off Vietnam Vet

Tue, Jun 1, 2004 at 8:04:33 am PDT

When the head of Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry confronted the Democratic Presidential candidate yesterday, Kerry showed his true colors by extending his middle finger—in front of a group of schoolchildren. (Hat tip: Lambo.) Ted Sampley, a former Green Beret who served two full tours in Vietnam, spotted Kerry and his ...

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Monday, May 31, 2004

Death Cult Technology

Mon, May 31, 2004 at 10:15:10 pm PDT

Impoverished, desperate Palestinians use their mobile phones to take photos of dead “militants.” (Hat tip: ism_truth.)

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Congo Uranium Business is Booming

Mon, May 31, 2004 at 10:01:50 pm PDT

Here is a sentence that should send chills down your spine: SHINKOLOBWE, Congo - Business is booming in the mining zone that supplied uranium for the atomic bombs unleashed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — despite a decree by Congo’s president banning all mining activity here.

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