LGF Archives: July 2002
attack at hebrew university
Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 6:22:58 pm PDT
We see many images of Palestinian suffering in US media, but too few images like these:
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party time
Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 5:47:41 pm PDT
Since photos of Palestinian murder parties have a way of suddenly disappearing from the web (try to find scenes of the post-9/11 jubilation in Nablus and Ramallah—you can, but it ain’t easy), I’m saving these three AP photos from today’s repellent celebrations in Gaza.
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celebrations in gaza
Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 4:25:28 pm PDT
When innocent bystanders were accidentally killed in the attack on the fiend Salah Shehade, Israel apologized and launched investigations. Israeli newspapers published many soul-searching articles about what went wrong. Peace activists marched in protest. In Gaza today, thousands of Palestinians celebrated the deliberate mass murder of students at Hebrew University.
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the last missed opportunity
Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 3:34:43 pm PDT
The atrocity this morning left me so full of sadness and rage that I took a few hours off and went to the beach. At this point I still don’t really trust myself to put into words what I think is going to happen in the Middle East. I ran ...
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usa to fbi: anybody home?
Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 3:12:26 pm PDT
Don’t miss John Hawkins’ interview with Jon David, the man who hijacked al-Queda’s website but couldn’t get the FBI interested. Jon David: We have all the IP addresses to the tune of 27 thousand visitors a day seeking Alneda.com (the calling) from every hostile country imaginable. But interestingly enough, 90% ...
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hee haw!
Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 2:59:49 pm PDT
I wasn’t going to needle Bradley any more, but this is so perfect you’d think I planned it. From today’s Best of the Web: "I'm not in the habit of hanging out with white trash."--John R. Bradley, news editor, Arab News, LittleGreenFootballs.com, July 29 "Monster Truck Show Proves a Big Draw"--headline, ...
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the british journalist
Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 2:22:56 pm PDT
LGF reader “canadian lady” discovered a gem; a poem that I hereby dedicate to the Robert Fisks, the Justin Hugglers, the John R. Bradleys, and the John Pilgers (yes I know he’s an Ozzie but somehow he belongs) of this world: The British Journalist You cannot hope to bribe or twist, Thank God! ...
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internet filtering in the saudi entity
Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 8:09:51 am PDT
When we had our light-hearted exchanges with Arab News editor John R. Bradley, one of the charges he made was that LGF was blocking comments from “ordinary Saudis.” I explained the reasons for this to Bradley, but in standard Arab lapdog fashion he continued to make the accusation anyway. “What are ...
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bastards
Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 6:53:50 am PDT
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and again
Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 6:40:13 am PDT
Another monstrous Palestinian bombing this morning, in the cafeteria at Hebrew University. Six people are reported dead, and more than 70 injured. Hamas is gloating. There went the very last shred of my sympathy for the Palestinian people. With each new atrocity, these barbarians push Israel closer to serious, drastic retaliation. And when ...
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just like gandhi
Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 7:21:09 pm PDT
There are several interesting items at DEBKAfile today. I never know how much credibility to give their reports, but on balance I’d have to say they’ve been more often right (or close to it) than wrong. Here’s their take on Arafat’s meeting with Jesse Jackson: On July 29, Yasser Arafat ...
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binnie’s in the boneyard
Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 6:07:43 pm PDT
Interesting news from Guantanamo Bay: they’re apparently holding some members of Osama bin Laden’s security detail, which suggests very strongly that Crazy Sammy is taking the dirt nap.
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costumed commandos
Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 4:38:00 pm PDT
Here’s a fascinating (albeit somewhat out of date) article about Israel’s elite undercover operatives, working in disguise at great peril in Palestinian areas: Hunting For Suicide Bombers. (Via Solly Ezekiel.)
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jackson sinks to a new low
Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 2:16:37 pm PDT
It didn’t take long for Jesse “Hymietown” Jackson’s true sympathies to show. In Bethlehem today, he called on President Bush to “end Israeli occupation” and build a Palestinian state, and expressed his enthusiastic support for Yasser Arafat. Here’s a quote from the shakedown artist himself: "President Bush must use the ...
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today’s outrage
Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 12:18:36 pm PDT
On July 21, we noted a report on a pro-jihad site that said an Al Qaeda web site had been taken over by the FBI. The truth about this report has now come out, and it’s another outrageous example of the FBI’s appalling ineptitude: Man Hijacks Al-Qaida Web Site. WASHINGTON (AP) ...
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palestinian report card
Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:48:23 am PDT
President Bush laid out very clear conditions for Palestinian Arabs to meet, in order to merit US support for a Palestinian state. Five weeks after Bush’s speech, how are they doing? Take a wild guess. I. "Dismantle the Terrorist Infrastructure"What They Must Do: President Bush said that the Palestinian Arabs must ...
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on responsibility
Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 10:55:56 am PDT
Diane E. has some excellent thoughts on the Israeli bombing that killed the monster Salah Shehade, contrasting Israel’s reaction to the accidental deaths in that attack with the reaction of Jordanians to the horrific murder of 13 Israeli schoolgirls in 1997 by Ahmed Yousef Mustafa. CORRECTION: Mustafa shot 13 girls, and ...
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terrorized by numbers
Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 9:37:39 am PDT
At Tech Central Station, Howard Fienberg analyzes a study by the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism that reveals the true meaning of those casualty figures we see in every story about violence in the Middle East. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been marred by many casualties on both sides. Between the ...
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victor goes to europe
Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 8:19:19 am PDT
Ten days without a Victor Davis Hanson essay; I was beginning to wonder if he had been kidnapped by Javier Solano and subjected to the hideous Torture of the Comfy Chair. Nope. He’s been talking to Europeans. After spending the last two weeks abroad talking to a number of Europeans, I ...
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attempted murder
Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 8:10:17 am PDT
A suicide bomber in Jerusalem succeeded only in slaughtering himself. Look at you now, you dumb murderous piece of shit. No raisins for you.
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today’s outrage
Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 6:37:04 pm PDT
Professor Anne Bayefsky wrote an op-ed critical of the United Nations and human rights groups for their obsessive focus on Israel and failure to confront real human rights abusers. The article was accepted for publication by the New York Times, and appeared on May 22 under the title “Ending Bias ...
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hebron riot update
Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 3:42:26 pm PDT
Arutz Sheva has a very different perspective on yesterday’s melee in Hebron: A violent exchange took place between Arabs and Jews in Hevron yesterday, as mourners gathered to bury slain IDF Sgt. Elazar Leibovitz. Arabs murdered Leibovitz at the Zief junction near Hevron on Friday. As the funeral procession left ...
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peaceful religion watch
Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 2:18:02 pm PDT
Last Friday, right around the time John R. Bradley was finishing up his limp-wristed slap at OpinionJournal’s James Taranto and chuckling with satisfaction at his own devastating cleverness, an imam on Saudi government television was asking God to destroy the tyrant Jews and their supporters. In the second part of ...
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hang time: zero
Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 1:55:14 pm PDT
And now for something completely different: an elephant shooting free throws in Thailand!
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bradley cuts and runs
Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 7:33:16 am PDT
Well, I was expecting this; as soon as the questions get tough, John R. Bradley tucks his tail between his legs and runs away, whimpering that LGF readers are “ignorant white trash”—among other insults. He’s apparently very uncomfortable with a discussion forum that isn’t vetted by an Arab, and accuses ...
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one lonely chapter
Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 7:11:51 am PDT
Joshua Trevino emailed Lonely Planet to check up on John R. Bradley’s claim that he wrote The Lonely Planet Guide to Saudi Arabia. As Mr. Bradley wrote in a comment here at LGF, he did write a chapter in Lonely Planet’s Middle East Guide 4, and Joshua’s reply from Lonely ...
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four in a row
Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 10:12:25 am PDT
The world’s greatest athlete. Bar none.
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pretty please, yasser?
Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 9:21:58 am PDT
Jesse “Hymietown” Jackson plans to meet with Yasser Arafat, and ask him to choose non-violence. Jackson said Saturday that in his expected meeting with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, he would stress to the Palestinian leader that non-violence was not a sign of weakness."Non-violence is a form of resistance, not ...
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riot in hebron
Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 9:14:32 am PDT
Jewish settlers went on a rampage in the town of Hebron as they returned from the funeral of an Israeli soldier killed in a terrorist attack. The trouble erupted as the settlers were carrying the body of the soldier from the biblical Tomb of the Patriarchs, through the narrow streets ...
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humans do the darndest things
Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 8:57:26 am PDT
Jewish American Joseph Cohen moved to Israel in 1998. Now his name is Yosef Mohammed Khatib, he supports Hamas, he wants to see Israel destroyed and replaced with an Islamic state, and he idolizes Osama bin Laden. I suspect a chemical imbalance. He praised Hamas for setting up social services for Palestinians ...
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questions for the arab news
Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 7:42:27 am PDT
We’ve had a lot of excellent comments in response to John R. Bradley of the Arab News. We’ve also had a few comments that simply expressed anger. Now, there’s nothing inherently wrong with expressing anger. But since, in his second comment, Bradley threw out a challenge to engage in a ...
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saudis turn on the west
Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 7:13:20 pm PDT
A horrifying look at what life is like for Westerners living in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi entity may be closer to collapse than we know. Totalitarian regimes do their best to cover up stories like this, but in the Internet era they’re fighting a losing battle. Because in the immortal words of ...
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bradley at lgf
Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 5:31:31 pm PDT
Well, isn’t this special? John R. Bradley, who has written some of the ugliest, most whacked out articles at the Arab News (and that’s really saying something), has discovered LGF. And he’s posting comments here, asking LGF’s readers to engage in a CONSTRUCTIVE (capitals are his) debate. Have at him, ...
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the reasons
Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 3:28:48 pm PDT
Why Israel Had to Kill Sheik Salah Shehadeh.
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mona baker’s judenrein
Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 2:39:51 pm PDT
The Palestine Chronicle is running an email campaign to support Professor Mona Baker’s Judenrein, with a suggested message: I am writing to express my full support for Professor Mona Baker's principled stance in boycotting Israeli academic institutions and their representatives. In my view, academic freedom demands that Israeli academics speak ...
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idiot of the day
Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 1:02:21 pm PDT
This idiot “peace activist” is running away after splashing red paint on an Israeli armored vehicle. She’s lucky the Israelis aren’t as murderous as she “thinks.” I wonder what would happen if she did this to a car carrying a Hamas leader?
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tolerating intolerance
Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 12:31:33 pm PDT
A fascinating and very disturbing article by Bruce Bawer at Partisan Review looks at the ticking time bomb of Europe’s unassimilated fundamentalist Islamic population: Tolerating Intolerance. Even as the violence rises, intellectuals enamored with multiculturalism blame it on everyone but the criminals: Then, in September 2001 (only five days, in ...
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honor killings
Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 11:30:29 am PDT
Mona Eltahawy writes in the Washington Post about the barbaric Muslim tradition of “honor killings.” The Pakistan Human Rights Commission estimates that at least eight women, five of them minors, are reported raped every day; more than two-thirds of them are gang-raped.In Pakistan rape is often used for revenge or ...
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cloaks and daggers
Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 10:24:26 am PDT
Craig Isman writes that even if Yasser Arafat wanted to make peace with Israel (which he obviously doesn’t), he couldn’t—because he’s merely a puppet whose strings are controlled by Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Iran, in their hidden war against Israel: Cloaks and daggers. Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iran learned from ...
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heading for a fourth win
Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 9:58:09 am PDT
Wow. An incredible time trial performance from the world’s greatest cyclist increased his lead to 7 minutes and 17 seconds. Say hello to the Champs-Elysées, Lance.
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blogathon
Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 7:50:35 am PDT
Meryl Yourish and Laurence Simon are blogging for a good cause today—the 24-hour Blogathon. Every 30 minutes a new post, for 24 straight hours. Give ’em a visit today, and contribute to their causes if you can.
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jesse to the rescue
Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 7:12:57 am PDT
After a string of suicidal mass murderers disrupted his previous travel plans, Jesse “Hymietown” Jackson is going to the Middle East, where he “hopes” to meet with Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon. Peace is at hand.
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iraq's nuclear mujahidin
Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 5:10:49 pm PDT
Bill Gertz reports that Iraqi agents have been attempting to buy stainless steel tubing used in gas centrifuges—a key component in manufacturing nuclear weapons.
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blog o' the week
Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 3:42:40 pm PDT
Joshua Claybourn of the Hoosier Review has picked Little Green Footballs as his first Blog of the Week! Thanks, Josh.
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taranto bites back
Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 2:40:57 pm PDT
James Taranto answers Arab News lackey John R. Bradley. Bradley is credited by Arab News as the author of The Lonely Planet Guide to Saudi Arabia. Just one small problem—turns out there is no Lonely Planet Guide to Saudi Arabia. The kingdom is nowhere to be found on the Lonely ...
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letters from noam
Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 2:18:51 pm PDT
Elliott Marc Davis, who tipped us off about Noam Chomsky’s expensive capitalist tastes, has been carrying on an email exchange with the Great Man Himself—and Chomsky comes off as a real loon.
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how to lose 20 pounds
Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 1:43:32 pm PDT
Well, this is one way to get a head. Such lovely people our Saudi allies are.
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teach your children well
Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 12:31:45 pm PDT
This is American citizen Susan Barney, a book binder from Boston. She traveled to Gaza to teach Palestinian children some useful skills.
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oh, those rockets
Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 11:30:12 am PDT
Noble Palestinian freedom fighters continue to deliberately attack civilians: Anti-tank missile hits civilian bus. Later Friday, Palestinians fired an anti-tank missile at an armored civilian bus on the Karni-Netzarim road in the Gaza Strip. The bus was heavily damaged but no injuries were reported. This is the first time in ...
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rockets? what rockets?
Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 8:31:35 am PDT
Reuters continues pushing their anti-Israel agenda with this article: Israeli Troops Demolish Gaza 'Rocket Workshops'. While casting doubt on the reality of Palestinian rocket workshops (I suppose these rockets appear magically from the ether?), they uncritically report the latest Palestinian canard—that they were just about to sign a “truce” ...
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stinky cheese and nazi sympathizers
Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 9:03:51 pm PDT
Meanwhile in France, they’re trying to set Nazi collaborators free.
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arab news attacks taranto
Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 8:52:03 pm PDT
Arab brown-noser John R. Bradley has noticed James Taranto’s Best of the Web, and he launches an incredibly inept (and unintentionally hilarious) personal attack: James Taranto’s private agenda on OpinionJournal.com. Utterly pathetic, devoid of rational argument, and teeming with pointless ad hominem remarks; I hope the oil ticks are paying ...
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jihad in alabama
Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 5:59:23 pm PDT
Islamic extremists have been training for jihad at a camp in Alabama: An investigation by Britain's Scotland Yard led to the discovery of the camp in Marion, Ala. The facility is called "Ground Zero USA."Bullet-riddled police cars and a school bus with mannequin targets are scattered around the property. Inside ...
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today’s outrage
Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 3:47:27 pm PDT
How much more evidence do we need that our government still doesn’t get it? According to this story, the US Air Force recently asked the Islamic Society of North America, a group funded by Saudi Arabia’s extremist Wahhabi sect, to help recruit Muslim chaplains. The Islamic Society of North America ...
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back, kind of
Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 1:43:41 pm PDT
Ouch. $450.00 later, I have a working hard drive in my Mac, with most of my files recovered. The only important loss: all the email I’ve received since I installed that blasted defective hard drive two months ago. So if you’ve sent me something important in the last week or ...
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hard drive nightmare hell
Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 8:30:06 pm PDT
Yes. I am in hard drive recovery hell. My teeth are worn down to tiny nubs. My hair is torn at the roots. (Don’t talk to me about the root user right now.) My nerve endings are frayed and twitching. Where’s my email, goddammit?! If you’ve sent me email in the ...
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tour de lance update
Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 11:02:29 am PDT
Excellent. Today Lance Armstrong took another half minute away from his closest competitor Josepa Beloki, and increased his lead to over five minutes. It’s in the bag now; all he has to do is keep the rubber side down.
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the murderer’s own words
Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 9:49:37 am PDT
From an interview on the Hamas web site, here is Sheikh Salah Shehade espousing his rationale for mass murder: " Religious Beliefs- All those who are sent to perform suicide attacks must be devout moslems, perform good deeds and pray in a mosque." Parental Approval- We (Hamas) make sure that ...
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the international kangaroo court
Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 8:20:32 am PDT
I wondered how long it would be before the Palestinians tried to use the EU’s International Criminal Court to prosecute Israel for war crimes. Answer: about three weeks. Called the International Criminal court, its first case could involve the Israel-Palestinian conflict, after Palestinian leaders on Tuesday accused Israel's generals of ...
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friends of louis
Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 7:58:36 am PDT
Speaking of Screwy Louie, David Horowitz has some, uh, interesting letters from Farrakhan supporters on his weblog, responding to his suggestion that the FBI should watch those who mouth anti-American rhetoric and embrace our sworn enemies.
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iran in crisis
Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 7:52:07 am PDT
Daniel Pipes writes about Iran in Crisis, making a great point: the nation that has experienced extremist Islamic rule the longest is now the closest to a popular revolt. (If we can prevent the EUroweenies from propping up the mullahs, as they seem determined to do.) This situation has vast ...
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louis mouths off again
Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 7:30:38 am PDT
Screwy Louie Farrakhan told reporters that a US attack against Saddam Hussein would be an “attack against God Himself.” At the same press conference he also hauled out the soggy excuse that suicide bombers murder women and children out of “desperation.”
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the hidden threat
Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 7:14:49 am PDT
Former Middle East envoy Dennis Ross sees a hidden threat in the region: the growing support for Hezbollah from Iran and Syria. It's no surprise that the Israeli killing of wanted Hamas militant Salah Shehada and members of his family has drawn the world's attention. It is graphic and it ...
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compare and contrast
Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 9:34:47 pm PDT
A great post by A. Beam compares two cyclists—one of them is French, and one is a true champion.
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peaceful religion watch
Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 6:28:03 pm PDT
The tolerant, enlightened government of Saudi Arabia has hacked off the hands of two pickpockets. The punishment was endorsed by the Court of Cassation and the Supreme Judicial Council. Cassation? Is that the Saudi term for “barbaric medieval punishment for minor crimes?”
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the closet capitalist
Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 5:58:19 pm PDT
We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam Chomsky has embarrassingly capitalist tastes; among other expensive property he owns a 36,155 square foot home near Cambridge, a 13,503 square foot vacation home, and four boats. And ...
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wipeout
Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 5:29:20 pm PDT
Why? Dear God, why?
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reckless reporting
Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 12:15:20 pm PDT
James S. Robbins rips the New York Times for publishing leaked attack plans for Iraq.
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erekat the liar
Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 8:01:28 am PDT
While watching Palestinian spokesthing Saeb Erekat on television last night, spit bubbles flying as he ranted about the attack that ended the worthless existence of mass murderer Salah Shehada, a question occurred to me. Is there a point at which CNN would refuse to interview someone, based on an undeniable history ...
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the gloves are off
Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 4:12:42 pm PDT
Good news for Israel: the head of the military wing of Hamas, Sheikh Salah Shehada, has been killed in an air raid in Gaza. UPDATE: Why are these freaks always called Sheikhs? Ha'aretz has more details about Sheikh Shehada, a thoroughly evil creature.
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did state cover up a saudi suicide bombing?
Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 3:14:57 pm PDT
The St. Petersburg Times is running a five-part series titled Inside Saudi Arabia that’s quite good. But today’s installment contains a real bombshell (no pun intended). On October 6, 2001 an American named Michael Martin, working for US energy firm Halliburton, was killed in a suicide bombing in downtown Khobar—and Saudi ...
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peaceful religion watch
Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 2:48:20 pm PDT
A sermon on official Yemen television: The imam concludes with a prayer to God to support Palestinian mujahidin, strengthen their hearts, and make them steadfast. He prays: "O God, deal with the enemies of religion. O God, deal with Jews and their supporters and Christians and their supporters. Shake the ...
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idiots of the day
Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 1:27:26 pm PDT
There are some people so transcendently stupid that they attain a sort of divinity. And sometimes two of them converge, to spectacular effect: Virginia man opens fire on helicopter, thinking occupants are terrorists. WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia - A man armed with an assault-style rifle opened fire on a helicopter landing in ...
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that’s much clearer, thanks
Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:41:54 am PDT
Sheikh Hamed Bitawi, a Hamas leader in Nablus, decided that Sheikh Yassin’s statement calling for a possible tentative study of ending suicide bombings was a bit extreme. So he clarifies things for us. Sitting in his living room, thin hands gripping his armchair, the bearded Bitawi, who heads the Nablus ...
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today’s outrage
Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:14:50 am PDT
Deena Gilbey’s husband Paul worked on the 84th floor of the WTC’s south tower; he was killed when the building collapsed as he was heroically helping to evacuate his co-workers. But Deena is a British national, and the INS is now trying to deport her. "Two days after he was ...
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unwelcome experience
Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 9:39:03 am PDT
Israeli and Palestinian doctors are becoming the best trauma care specialists in the world. The difference between the two, however, is that Israeli physicians treat injured Palestinians and Israelis alike, even giving expert medical care to failed suicide bombers.
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like, totally
Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 8:24:16 am PDT
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the disgusting bloody-handed “religious leader” of Hamas, says that if Israel withdraws from all West Bank cities, releases all Palestinian prisoners, and stops all measures intended to combat terrorism, he will “totally study” thinking about possibly considering whether it might be a good idea to tentatively discuss ...
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in context
Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 7:59:24 am PDT
Lynne B. has a new weblog, and she starts off with a great takedown of a misleading article by Ahmed Bouzid, the president of Palestine Media Watch.
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a sign of intelligent life
Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 7:32:20 am PDT
Liberal Tunisian writer Al-'Afif Al-Akhdhar has published an open letter to Hamas, begging them to stop suicide bombings. "I ask the intelligent among you: 'Do your religion and your moral conscience permit you to brainwash the Palestinian youth whose lives you risk with such nonsense?' How can you allow your ...
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iranian cover up
Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 7:20:51 am PDT
Eight years ago the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires was bombed, killing 85 people. Now, according to sealed testimony acquired by the New York Times, a high-level defector from Iran’s intelligence agency says the bombing was planned and carried out by the Iranian government. And they paid the president ...
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sweaty french guys
Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 6:57:12 am PDT
Someone asked to see photos of the Tour de France; here’s the Yahoo Tour de France slideshow, which as of this writing contains 169 very cool pictures.
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Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 9:01:51 pm PDT
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comment trolls
Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 6:57:27 pm PDT
Kelly Caldwell identifies the various species of “comment trolls.” The entire menagerie seems to visit LGF on a regular basis. (Via ex-Goth Andrea Harris.)
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naked anti-semitism
Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 6:24:10 pm PDT
More naked anti-Semitism at the Arab News: Anti-Semitism charges can no longer silence Israeli critics. The number of hideous statements in this article is just stunning. They even twist Charles Krauthammer’s words to their evil purposes. Read it and weep. And then get mad. This is the voice of our ...
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death cult bluster
Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 5:40:41 pm PDT
The brain-damaged death freaks of Yasser Arafat’s Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades are threatening to attack the families of Israeli leaders if relatives of Palestinian suicide bombers are deported. I thought they were already attacking families.
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lance increases his lead
Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 5:13:11 pm PDT
Another amazing day for Lance Armstrong, who looks like he’s got another Tour in his pocket. Richard Virenque won the stage, finishing on the insanely difficult Mont Ventoux climb, but Lance more than doubled his lead over his closest rivals with one of his patented rocket-like attacks that left everyone ...
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visa express still running!
Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 11:46:17 am PDT
Yesterday the State Department announced that almost a year after the attacks on New York and Washington, they were finally shutting down the disgraceful “Visa Express” program that allows Saudis to obtain visas without being interviewed. Today the Arab News is reporting that the State Department has still not shut down ...
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hijacking the hijackers
Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 11:33:15 am PDT
The Al Qaeda web site (www.alneda.com) has apparently been taken over by the FBI—and some of the links now point to adult sites. (Via Rantburg.)
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fragility exposed
Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 10:41:37 am PDT
An incredible poetic essay from David Warren about the awakening many people experienced after 9/11: Fragility exposed. This could be the manifesto for LGF, and I suspect for many other anti-idiotarian weblogs. But on the morning of Sept. 11th, we, so many of us, began to come awake. Awake as ...
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cashing in on the oil ticks
Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 9:57:44 am PDT
Diane E. points out this two-part Boston Herald piece from December 2001, exploring the ties between US government/corporate officials and the elites of the Saudi entity: U.S. ties to Saudi elite may be hurting war on terrorism. Bush advisers cashed in on Saudi gravy train.
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citizen of the 21st century
Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 9:26:25 am PDT
In this interesting interview, Daniel Pipes discusses the differences between “nations of citizens” and “nations of inhabitants:” The Citizen of the 21st Century. The distinction goes to heart of the difference between democracy and other forms of government-the active participation of citizens versus the passivity of inhabitants or subjects. It ...
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hoder’s english blog
Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 6:33:45 pm PDT
Here’s an Iranian blog written by Hossein Derakhshan, who lives in Toronto, Ontario but is in Tehran right now—and he saw those “anti-American demonstrations” at first hand: Yesterday was a anti-American demonstration. Although we all know these kind of demonstrations and people who participate in these kind of stuff. Most ...
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sari nusseibeh’s appeal
Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 6:04:30 pm PDT
The person most often cited as a Palestinian moderate is Professor Sari Nusseibeh, scion of an aristocratic Muslim family in Jerusalem. Nusseibeh was the main author of “The Appeal,” a newspaper ad financed by the European Union and signed by a group of Palestinian intellectuals, that purportedly asks Palestinians to ...
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kernel panic!
Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 4:25:46 pm PDT
Yes. It's true. My Mac's internal hard drive seems to have failed. There I was, just checking my email, when suddenly a screen full of text appeared right on top of all my lovely windows, and the first line read "KERNEL PANIC!" I immediately started running around my office ripping up ...
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stolen plutonium
Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 9:38:04 am PDT
Joe Katzman found this disturbing story for us: Russian nuclear theft alarms US. Chechen rebels have stolen radioactive metals, possibly including plutonium, from a Russian nuclear power station in the southern region of Rostov, according to US nuclear officials. The theft, which took place within the last 12 months at ...
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would you buy a t-shirt from this man?
Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 11:56:15 pm PDT
The Swiss Intellectual Property Office is revoking the registration of the Bin Ladin Trademark after re-assessing the brand name in the wake of the Sept 11 attacks. Two questions - why did it take this long and who is minding the intellectual property of the Intellectual Property Office staff?
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psa
Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 10:30:02 pm PDT
I need to mention that LGF may not be updated for a little while - Charles has become the unfortunate victim of a hard drive failure. Our attempts to resuscitate the drive have so far been unsuccessful. Hopefully the local computer store will be able to rescue his data and ...
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the tour de lance
Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 1:41:39 pm PDT
Lance Armstrong is unbeatable. Simply awesome.
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yes, i do read minds
Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:16:46 pm PDT
(Amazon and Paypal links are in the left sidebar.)
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palestinians support iraq
Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 10:51:04 am PDT
A public opinion survey conducted (but not released) in March by a Palestinian organization showed that 79.9% of Palestinians say they would support Iraq in a conflict with the US. A poll conducted by the PCPO, and prepared by President Dr. Nabil Kukali, in the period March 10 - 13, ...
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peaceful religion watch
Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 10:02:40 am PDT
An Iranian man convicted of raping and killing his nephew will be executed by being stuffed into a sack and thrown off a cliff. If he survives, he’ll be hanged. Well, at least they won’t throw him off the cliff again.
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parable of the weed
Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 9:37:24 am PDT
Victor Davis Hanson knows the best way to kill weeds.
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ode to cynthia
Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 9:20:27 am PDT
Sometimes there’s not much to say except ... wow. Sometimes you have to say it twice. Wow. The Arab News publishes an Ode to Cynthia by wacko Israeli writer Israel Shamir. Yes, that Cynthia. Things must be bad indeed if a woman steps forward to the line of fire.Nature arranged that a woman ...
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foggy malfeasance
Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 7:43:38 am PDT
The Wall Street Journal weighs in on the State Department’s outrageous abuse of their visa powers: Siege of State. We sympathize with the argument, made by Colin Powell and others, that visa decisions are a foreign-policy matter. The problem is that Congress no longer trusts the State Department to administer ...
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nice friends
Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 6:20:38 pm PDT
Colin Powell continues to promote the agenda of the State Department, publicly undercutting Bush’s Middle East policy at every safe opportunity: U.S. reaffirms commitment to Palestinian state within 3 years. "Only a political solution will bring an end to this tragic situation," Secretary of State Powell told reporters after lunch ...
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lance takes maillot jaune
Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 4:44:26 pm PDT
The first hard climb of the race, and Lance is back in yellow, led out by an amazingly strong performance from Roberto Heras. What did I tell ya?
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peaceful religion watch
Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 4:23:33 pm PDT
The freaky sheikhs of the Saudi entity are feeling bold again. After a first attempt at an interview was blocked by the Saudi government (bad for that tolerant image they’re pushing to the infidels), Al Jazeera succeeded in talking to a trio of radical “Doctors” (one of whom actually has ...
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their kampf
Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 1:26:25 pm PDT
David Pryce-Jones writes about the Arab world’s infatuation with Nazism and the continued popularity of Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Muslim and Arab society is today a failure much as Communism used to be. Muslims and Arabs live under absolute and despotic government which prevents them from enjoying anything like the freedom ...
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annoying disclaimer watch
Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 11:47:43 am PDT
Yes, you’ve probably noticed that I added a disclaimer to our comments, just to make it clear that authors of comments are responsible for their own opinions, and that we don’t necessarily agree with everything written. I thought it was obvious, but several people out there (who shall remain ...
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khilafa collapse watch
Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 11:10:30 am PDT
Iranian reform movements are growing in strength, and the mad mullahs are beginning to worry—and when dictators worry, people die. The leader of Iran’s largest reform party is warning the hardliners that a crackdown might plunge the country into chaos. Expectations of a hardline backlash have been fuelled by events ...
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zacarias admits being #20
Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 10:53:55 am PDT
Fox TV just reported that Zacarias Moussaoui tried to enter a guilty plea today, in an attempt to avoid execution, and admitted his participation in the 9/11 conspiracy. Nothing on the wires yet. UPDATE: Here’s the deal.
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state of deception
Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 10:06:14 am PDT
Joel Mowbray puts together a damning list of the State Department’s smears, distortions, and intentional falsehoods, as they tried to cover up their dangerous “Visa Express” program: State of Deception.
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what the hell is wrong with these people?
Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 8:51:04 am PDT
No fewer than four people sent me this link last night. What the hell is going on at the Department of State? Consular officials liken visa critics to neo-Nazis. Chuck Keil, the consul general in Rome, complained to several State Department officials — including Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage ...
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if i had a hammer
Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 6:22:27 pm PDT
Someone said I could increase our donations (PayPal or Amazon, left sidebar) if I used a picture of Peter, Paul & Mary, like PBS does. Hey, what the hell.
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arab news girlie pic
Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 2:52:55 pm PDT
Here’s the photograph that the Arab News chose to accompany their article about today’s double suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. A young woman waves a Palestinian flag, during a protest against the Israeli curfew, in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Wednesday. This is a bizarre choice, and not ...
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a double bombing
Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 1:00:20 pm PDT
Bomb Goes Off in Tel Aviv. I’ve heard on the news that 6 people are reported dead, in a double suicide bombing. UPDATE: And I’ve already heard the first TV reporter hint that this means Israel’s military response has failed.
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about that anthrax
Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 12:04:32 pm PDT
David Tell uncovers some disquieting information about a Pakistani man who purchased a $100,000 “fine particulate mixer” last summer: Who is Syed Athar Abbas?
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visas for suspected terrorists
Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:51:48 am PDT
The story of the State Department’s mishandling of its visa powers is getting even more outrageous. Today Joel Mowbray reports that State is actually fighting a task force recommendation to deny visas to suspected terrorists! State defends the indefensible. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage responded to the recommendation by ...
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quickie telethon time
Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 9:42:15 am PDT
A quick reminder: if you enjoy reading LGF, one way to show your appreciation is by using our Amazon or Paypal links (scroll down, on the left side) to make a donation. It’s not required, of course, but we do this without pay and every little bit helps; the more ...
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nice friends you have, colin
Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 9:18:51 am PDT
The guy shaking hands with Colin Powell is Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher. After this meeting, he told reporters that yesterday’s terrorist attack in Israel was “an accident,” that proves the futility of the IDF crackdown. Maher made the remark Tuesday night after announcing Egypt's support for international peace initiatives ...
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the t word
Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 6:21:13 am PDT
You can disguise yourself in an IDF uniform, ambush a bus, gun down babies and pregnant women, and the wire services still won’t call you a terrorist: Israel Searches for Militants.
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selling martyrdom
Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 3:28:50 pm PDT
The guys at Middle East Realities point out this Jordanian site called Dying To Live, featuring a collection of slick/sick posters with Palestinian children posed to emulate famous pictures of Charlie Chaplin, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Umm Kulthum (who?), William Shakespeare, John Lennon, Mother Teresa, Pablo Picasso, and ...
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got three more
Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 12:50:06 pm PDT
Three Syrians suspected of being Al Qaeda members have been arrested in Spain—and one had videos of the World Trade Center and other United States monuments such as the Statue of Liberty and Golden Gate Bridge. Two of the suspects were arrested in Madrid and the other in the eastern ...
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driven by vengeance
Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:26:29 am PDT
Here’s an interesting piece in Ha'aretz about the real motivations of suicide bombers. We’ve seen the opinion polls in which Palestinians overwhelmingly support this debased form of violence; this article provides chilling anecdotal evidence. Remember the statement from Palestinian “moderates” calling for an end to suicide attacks? One of the ...
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murderfest in tehran, part 2
Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 9:09:45 am PDT
At the beginning of June I noted a conference of international terrorists that took place in Tehran. The National Post has more details about the real terror summit that took place the night before the public conference. The report refers to a series of secret meetings overseen by the Revolutionary ...
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bush vs. the mullahs
Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 8:52:15 am PDT
Michael Ledeen is staying on the Iran story. If it really is true that the mullahs are losing their grip, this could be a pivotal moment in the history of the region. When Iran became the world’s first fundamentalist Islamic state, it encouraged Islamists around the world to believe ...
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sliding into irrelevance
Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 8:13:13 am PDT
Daniel Pipes says Europeans are from Venus.
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and again
Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 7:00:13 am PDT
In another cowardly attack on civilians, Palestinians disguised as IDF soldiers set off a bomb as a bus passed by, then shot people down as they fled. Seven Killed in West Bank Violence. The UN and EU immediately denounced this attack as a Palestinian war crime, and announced investigations to determine ...
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funny if it weren't sad
Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 6:25:23 pm PDT
The Jews are coming! The Jews are coming!
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foggy bottom turns nasty
Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 1:51:22 pm PDT
In a heavy handed attempt at intimidation, State Department goons detained National Review’s Joel Mowbray last Friday after Mowbray embarrassed them over the “Visa Express” program in Saudi Arabia. Here is Rich Lowry’s open letter to Richard Boucher about this outrageous incident.
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a deep, deep mystery
Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 1:08:31 pm PDT
Larry Miller takes a hilarious look at the government’s (mis)handling of the LAX terrorist attack: A Deep Mystery For Deep People. THE CAREER DIPLOMAT studied the two newspaper headlines with an intensity usually found only in safecrackers. Where average people have laugh lines, his 57-year-old patrician face had lines of ...
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twenty years
Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 12:03:47 pm PDT
So here’s how it ends for Johnny “The Rat” Walker: in a deal. "I plead guilty. I plead guilty, sir," Lindh told the judge as he entered the plea to two charges alleging he supplied help to the Taliban and carried explosives.Under terms of his deal with prosecutors, Lindh, 21, ...
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a society that worships death
Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 9:59:53 am PDT
Stefan Sharkansky found a true pit of evil on the web site of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the bloodthirsty military wing of Hamas: Psychotic Death Cult Photo Album. Take a look at the pictures on this organization's own website and see for yourself how this group chooses to honor itself. The ...
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the significance of punctuation
Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 9:39:08 am PDT
Hilary and Steven Rose are the lovely British couple who authored the boycott of Israel, inspiring Mona Baker to let her anti-Semitism run free. Now the Roses are in the spotlight too, and they’re trying to justify their ugly academic pogrom with an article in (where else?) the Guardian: The ...
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help rocco
Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 9:06:50 pm PDT
Rocco Prestia, the incredible bassist for Tower of Power who inspired countless musicians (myself included), desperately needs a liver transplant. Please help if you can. We’re pulling for you, Rocco.
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more palestinian child abuse
Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 3:15:54 pm PDT
Discovered by the IDF in a routine search of a Palestinian house on the outskirts of Hebron: And those are definitely not toy guns. UPDATE: here’s an AP story that says the assault rifle in the photograph is a fake, although it offers no reason for this appraisal. Looks pretty damned real ...
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saudi hate unabated
Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 1:49:54 pm PDT
Saudi government television continues to broadcast sermons calling for the destruction of Jews and infidels: Concluding, the imam prays to God: "O God strengthen Islam and Muslims, humiliate infidelity and infidels, and destroy the unbelievers, your enemies, the enemies of Islam. O God, give safety to this country and to ...
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opposing divestment
Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 12:08:59 pm PDT
If you’re a student/alumnus or teacher/faculty member at the University of California, here’s where you can sign the petition to oppose divestment from Israel.
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10-watt bulbs
Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 10:31:41 am PDT
(Via Damian Penny.)
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ordinary people
Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 9:35:48 am PDT
Why is everyone picking on Mona Baker? Ken Baker is sitting, head in hands, behind his desk at St Jerome Publishing, a small office tacked on to the side of his detached house in a leafy suburb in Manchester."It's not fair, we are just ordinary people," he says, the strain ...
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i ruminate
Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 5:49:58 pm PDT
Adjectives really are treacherous little monsters, aren’t they?
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iraq’s chem/bio weapons
Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 5:11:39 pm PDT
A Washington think tank came up with estimates of Iraq’s remaining stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons: Iraq Weapons Glance.
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arab news digs past bottom
Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 4:36:59 pm PDT
Apostrophe abuser “Bennie Walton” (whose real name is probably Mohammed bin Walid) is back, with one of the most insanely anti-Semitic articles yet to be published by the Arab News, and that’s saying plenty: Keep remembering - lest a surprise comes your way. And this is the face the Saudis ...
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farrakhan world tour
Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 2:12:21 pm PDT
The latest stop on Screwy Louie Farrakhan’s tour of the world’s dictatorships is Zimbabwe, where he stated his “full support” for Robert Mugabe’s disastrously self-destructive land seizure campaign.
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signs of anti-idiotarianism
Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 12:38:51 pm PDT
LGF reader Bala Ambati (who has forwarded several good links to us today) pointed out this fascinating article at the New York Times about an anti-idiotarian Arab poet.
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terror convention
Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 12:35:05 pm PDT
Terrorists wanted in the US and the Middle East have held a public conference in London.
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peaceful religion watch
Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 12:21:10 pm PDT
Islamic terrorists have launched another cowardly attack against Hindu women and children in Kashmir, killing 20 people in a slum area. The last such atrocity pushed India and Pakistan to the brink of nuclear war. UPDATE: the killers were disguised as Hindu holy men.
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reuters again
Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 11:57:34 am PDT
Reuters, the news service so eager to appear “balanced” that they refuse to use the word “terrorist” to describe suicide bombers, has no compunctions whatsoever about publishing blatantly pro-Palestinian propaganda disguised as straight news. Here’s a particularly egregious example: Israeli Curfew Silences Ancient West Bank City. First, they express outright ...
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tdf update
Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 10:26:53 am PDT
Lance crashed today, but he’s fine. And he wisely stayed out of the sprint. He doesn’t need to be sprinting. He’s biding his time until he can decimate everyone else in the mountains.
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clueless comments defunked
Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 10:02:35 am PDT
Steven Den Beste is shutting down his forum, because he just wasn’t having any fun with it. There’s no better reason to do it, and I completely understand; in fact, I’ve occasionally considered shutting down our comments as well, particularly after white-power morons or incoherent Eurokiddies take a dump there. But ...
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in brian’s hizzouse
Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 9:40:01 am PDT
A big domo arigato goes out to “IsntSuchABadChap” Brian Linse for hosting last night’s LA Blogapalooza. A stellar list of scary-smart journo-techno-wacko geeks attended, including the lovely and talented “Madison Slade,” all-Hawaii’d-out Dawn and Eric Olsen, charmingly French Emmanuelle Richard with on-hiatus blogger hubby Matt Welch, killblogger Bill Quick, Linux ...
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this is your captain
Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 8:44:04 am PDT
Kathleen Parker does some heavy lifting: Given the amount of energy required for thinking, and my aptitude for staring into middle space, I confess to an affection for no-brainers, such as: Should airline pilots carry guns? Wait, wait, I'm tearing myself away from a mesmerizing galaxy of dust particles to ...
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european morality
Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 6:14:05 pm PDT
Victor Davis Hanson says we should look at what Europe does, not what it says: European Morality? We all remember the recent storm of suits, writs, and indictments that faced Mr. Pinochet when he ventured to England. No one wishes to defend such an unattractive character; but why were the ...
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the saudi oligarchy
Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 5:09:36 pm PDT
MEMRI has a very interesting article today about the structure of the Saudi oligarchy, with organizational charts. Oligarchy is a government in which a small group exercises control, especially for corrupt and selfish purposes. In Saudi Arabia, the few are the royal princes who are descendents of the founder of ...
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lgf in slate
Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 3:50:37 pm PDT
Welcome to our visitors from Slate’s Other Web Sites page! Just to help us all keep up on the most important story of our time, the Arafat Baby Wipe Mystery, here’s an index of all our ABWM-related entries to date, from newest to oldest: midnight wipes now it’s jelly the baby wipe mystery freshest terrorist ...
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midnight wipes
Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 1:46:34 pm PDT
A lonely Yasser works late into the night, with only his baby wipes for company.
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anti-semitism at DMOZ
Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 12:07:23 pm PDT
You may have heard about Netscape’s Open Directory Project (known as DMOZ), a human-edited index of the Web maintained by volunteer editors, that supplies directory services to most of the popular search engines, including Google, Lycos, and AOL. Today a reader emailed us to say that he had been searching for ...
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exiled
Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 9:15:06 am PDT
Lavatory aficionado and has-been popstar George Michael won’t be visiting the US, because he’s afraid. In an interview to be broadcast on Britain’s ITV network on Friday evening, Michael said a New York Post article about him headlined “Pop Perv’s 9/11 slur” followed by a disastrous interview on the CNN ...
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arafat ouster watch
Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 7:26:56 am PDT
An excellent, detailed look at the political maneuvering in the Palestinian Authority: Rearranging the deck chairs at Arafat’s headquarters. After reading the article, it’s hard to imagine any kind of democracy ever coming out of this morass. The most popular figures seem to be the most successful killers. The scene ...
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best of the web
Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 6:55:30 pm PDT
James Taranto got on a serious roll today—Best of the Web is chock full of interesting goodies. Go ye now and read of it, for it is good.
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nuclear theft in the congo
Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 6:34:04 pm PDT
The Voice of America reports that a nuclear fuel rod is missing from a research reactor in the Congo. The recent disclosure that a nuclear fuel rod is missing from a research reactor in Congo-Kinshasa and could be in the hands of terrorists has underscored concerns that the former Soviet ...
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saudi blood money
Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 3:25:01 pm PDT
Here’s a chart compiled by Deroy Murdock showing Saudi Arabian payments to the families of suicide bombers, discovered in documents captured by the IDF in the West Bank.
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barghouti to be tried
Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 2:07:50 pm PDT
Israel will put Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti on public trial in a civilian criminal court.
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bush wins, europe loses
Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 1:58:36 pm PDT
Another Mark Steyn column in the Spectator, terrific as usual: Bush pulls it off again. Can’t wait for the comeback from Steyn fan Ghazi Algosaibi.
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saddam’s war plan
Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 12:49:06 pm PDT
Reader Randall Parker alerted us to this UPI story about Saddam Hussein’s war plan, leaked to a Saudi newspaper. If President Bush doesn't have a war plan on his desk to unhorse Saddam Hussein -- maybe he doesn't allow the New York Times to touch his desk -- the Iraqi ...
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farrakhan denial
Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 12:20:27 pm PDT
The Iraqi News Agency quoted Louis Farrakhan as saying, “Muslim American people are praying to the almighty God to grant victory to Iraq.” Now Farrakhan’s denying it. "That absolutely is not true," Farrakhan said in a broadcast interview from South Africa, the latest stop on his tour of the Mideast ...
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the boycott
Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 8:32:47 am PDT
Charles Austin points out this WaPo article about the repellent and disgraceful European academics’ boycott of Israel. I can’t add anything to Charles’s comment: These "learned" men and women would have more credibility if they had first signed petitions boycotting Iraq, Iran, Syria, the Sudan, Libya, China, Zimbabwe, and a ...
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it could have been much worse
Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 7:55:33 am PDT
According to new calculations by a Swarthmore College physics professor, the hijacked jets came very close to toppling the World Trade Center Towers on impact. "Certainly the loss of approximately 2,830 people in a single event is a tragedy," says Professor of Physics Frank Moscatelli, a native New Yorker. "But ...
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mark has a fan
Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 7:24:56 am PDT
When freaky Saudi ambassador Ghazi Algosaibi isn’t composing odes to suicide bombers or comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, he enjoys reading ... Mark Steyn??! Secret weaponFrom His Excellency Ghazi AlgosaibiSir: In his most recent hilarious-as-usual masterpiece, Mark Steyn (‘Dust bin’, 29 June) refers, directly and indirectly, three times to Osama ...
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good morning!
Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 9:24:42 pm PDT
At the Telegraph, Simon Henderson says the West must stop kidding itself about Saudi Arabia. According to a leaked British intelligence dossier, al-Qa'eda has been receiving large sums from bin Laden's Saudi supporters since last year to fund future terrorist attacks. A British official said last month that he hoped ...
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vatican attack
Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 8:58:22 pm PDT
An interesting story from Italy says Al Qaeda was planning to attack the Vatican before 9/11, but the plan was “put on hold” in July: Italian police believe al-Qaida was ready to strike in Italy before Sept. 11.
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amnesty awakes, notices terrorism
Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 8:17:08 pm PDT
Although I’m glad to see it at last, it’s beyond disgraceful that they haven’t done this before: Amnesty Raps Palestinian Attacks on Israelis.
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yer out
Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 3:24:40 pm PDT
A most excellent photo essay on last night’s lame All-Star baseball game, by Tony Pierce: no tying in baseball.
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comin’ atcha
Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 1:45:04 pm PDT
Bull’s eye!
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better treatment
Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 11:56:45 am PDT
The Palestinian Authority would like “collaborators” to know that if they turn themselves in to the thugs at their local PA police station within the next month, they’ll receive better treatment. Of course, “better” is a relative term. (Warning: graphic photos.)
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shunning the T word
Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 11:12:58 am PDT
Here’s a gloriously snarky Mark Steyn column on the July 4th LAX killer. But let's take the Feds at their word when they insist there's "no connection" between the LAX killer and any terrorist organizations. In its way, that's even more disturbing. Mr. Hadayet doesn't fit the poverty-breeds-desperation-breeds-resentment routine: He ...
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iranian revolution watch
Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 9:12:24 am PDT
A senior Iranian cleric has resigned from the government and issued a scathing denunciation. Ayatollah Taheri said he could not close his eyes to "tangible realities, and witness the stifling pain and unbearable suffering of people who were seeing the flowers of virtue being trampled, values collapsing, and spirituality being ...
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a pilot’s tale
Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 7:44:27 am PDT
Instantman points to this story at Newsmax that suggests Al Qaeda is still going after airplanes: Pilot's Tale of March 29. In April I received an e-mail from a pilot for one of the top three airlines. It confirmed my worries. The pilot wrote: "I am a pilot for [name ...
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more threats
Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 7:36:55 am PDT
Here we go again. “Kill the enemies of God ... blah ... we are coming back ... blah blah ... America is the head of evil ... blah blah blah blah blah blah ...”
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now it’s jelly
Tue, Jul 9, 2002 at 6:57:43 pm PDT
A possible clue to the Baby Wipe Mystery is contained within this photo from Al Jazeera that appears to be from April of this year: Petroleum jelly. Need I say more?
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saudi ambassador mouths off (again)
Tue, Jul 9, 2002 at 6:35:04 pm PDT
Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Britain is running off at the mouth again, revealing the true sentiments of the House of Saud. I’m starting to wonder if this guy is a heavy drinker. Saudi ambassador to Britain says Israeli occupation worse than Nazi war crimes. "Israel's actions in the occupied territories ...
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the focus shifts
Tue, Jul 9, 2002 at 5:45:32 pm PDT
A numbingly verbose op-ed at the Arab News says it’s time for the Saudis to butt out of the Israel-Palestine conflict. I’ll drink to that: Why Saudi Arabia should pull out from the Oslo-based process. But maybe that’s only to save their energy for Kashmir: When will the misery of Kashmir ...
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fear isn’t the right word
Tue, Jul 9, 2002 at 4:30:03 pm PDT
Unelected EU windbag Chris Patten offers up a smug, misleading, and ultimately very weak defense of the EU’s latest Big Idea, the International Criminal Court: Why Does America Fear This Court? He says it hurts him when Americans call Europeans “unprincipled wimps.” Well, let me go on the record right now ...
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arafat ouster watch
Tue, Jul 9, 2002 at 2:47:30 pm PDT
The World Tribune says Arab leaders have told Yasser Arafat that neither America nor Israel will ever deal with him again. Arab and Israeli diplomatic sources said Arafat has been dismayed that his authority and freedom of movement have been whittled down to the point where he could be removed ...
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stage 3
Tue, Jul 9, 2002 at 2:29:18 pm PDT
Jackie Durand: the rabbit who always fights, but never wins. Today he broke away almost immediately and stayed in front for 162 kilometers, only to be reeled in 6km from the finish. Bravo, Jackie, you silly rabbit.
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RSVP
Tue, Jul 9, 2002 at 11:47:14 am PDT
This is priceless! Stefan Sharkansky mistakenly received an invitation intended for anti-Semitic German politician Juergen W. Moellemann, to visit the psycho Arab League “think tank” known as the Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-Up. I hope he accepts the invitation; what a blog entry that would make.
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wacky zacky update
Tue, Jul 9, 2002 at 11:22:34 am PDT
The judge in the Moussaoui case is allowing a review of his competency to act as his own attorney. Since starting to act as his own lawyer, Moussaoui has filed more than four dozen motions detailing that alleged conspiracy and his claim that the FBI knows he's innocent because it ...
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the fourth mystery
Tue, Jul 9, 2002 at 10:44:26 am PDT
John O'Sullivan has an explanation for the US government’s weird timidity about using the T word. What seems to be the explanation is that the U.S. government is less afraid of terrorists than of the American public. For the authorities the terrorists are a known factor. Their habits and "M.O.s" ...
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bu says boo
Tue, Jul 9, 2002 at 10:07:15 am PDT
Al Qaeda freakazoid Suleiman bu Ghaith (or a reasonable facsimile) is issuing more threats. "Our military and intelligence networks are assessing and monitoring new U.S. targets that we will strike in a period of time which is not long," spokesman Sulaiman bu Ghaith told the Algerian Arabic daily newspaper El ...
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crisis in turkey
Tue, Jul 9, 2002 at 8:59:45 am PDT
As if there weren’t enough to worry about, now the Turkish government is collapsing.
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terror and denial
Tue, Jul 9, 2002 at 8:46:28 am PDT
Daniel Pipes points out that the FBI’s bizarre refusal to label the LAX shootings “terrorism” is part of a long-established pattern of denial.
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shark hunt
Tue, Jul 9, 2002 at 8:27:36 am PDT
Newsweek has an interesting article about a platoon of IDF reservists patrolling the underground routes used by suicide bombers on their way into Israel: A Shark Hunt In The Night. Lebanon was a more traditional war for the infantrymen of the Palnat Company. There they shouldered TOW missiles into action ...
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a wave of husband killings
Mon, Jul 8, 2002 at 6:31:16 pm PDT
Iranian women are becoming increasingly sick of the male-dominated Islamic nightmareland in which they live. Divorce is not an option. While Iranian men can divorce almost at will, a woman who wants a divorce must go through a legal battle that can take up to 20 years, said lawyer Sara ...
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the baby wipe mystery
Mon, Jul 8, 2002 at 4:18:16 pm PDT
Now, you might think that the Arafat Baby Wipe Mystery is just some kind of wacky coincidence. But you’d be wrong.
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equipment shortage
Mon, Jul 8, 2002 at 2:33:11 pm PDT
Mike at Cold Fury received a very interesting email today: I'm in Intermodal transportation, rail-truck/truck-rail, you know the drill. Anyway, lately the industry has been hobbled by an acute shortage of equipment, trailers & containers. A seasonal shortage is not unusual and is expected every fall. This year however the shortage is ...
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freshest terrorist in the mideast
Mon, Jul 8, 2002 at 2:05:25 pm PDT
The best shot yet of Arafat’s omnipresent baby wipes, from a meeting with EUseless envoy Miguel Moratinos on June 25:
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arafat ouster watch
Mon, Jul 8, 2002 at 10:08:43 am PDT
UPI quotes a Jordanian magazine that says Arafat is about to step down.
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keeping terrorists fresh 'n clean
Mon, Jul 8, 2002 at 9:52:28 am PDT
Another baby wipe sighting! Notice how they are positioned just out of easy reach, to allow Yasser some deniability.
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peaceful religion watch
Mon, Jul 8, 2002 at 9:06:35 am PDT
Following up on the Pakistani court-ordered gang rape, four of the five rapists have been arrested. And this Reuters story has more scenes from the “religion of peace:” A man was stoned to death by a village mob last week near the industrial city of Faisalabad in central Punjab after ...
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turning point
Mon, Jul 8, 2002 at 8:59:16 am PDT
Michael Ledeen says Iran is a tinderbox; the Islamist government could collapse any day, and the West may be missing an historic opportunity to influence the course of events. The European Union recently lifted trade sanctions on the Islamic Republic, and the misnamed U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva failed ...
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communism and islamofascism
Mon, Jul 8, 2002 at 8:21:42 am PDT
Stephen Schwartz writes about the many parallels between totalitarian Soviet communism and Saudi-funded extremist Islam.
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stick a fork in him
Mon, Jul 8, 2002 at 7:44:00 am PDT
The IDF now says there’s no need to expel Arafat, because he’ll be displaced within 6 months.
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farrakhan in iraq
Sun, Jul 7, 2002 at 5:32:33 pm PDT
Louis Farrakhan is now in Baghdad, praying to “the almighty God” to grant victory to Iraq. Keep it up, Louis. The official Iraqi News Agency, INA, said Farrakhan, on a "solidarity" visit to Iraq, held talks with Islamic Affairs Minister Abdul Munem Saleh on "ways to confront the American threats ...
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another arab victim of injustice
Sun, Jul 7, 2002 at 5:01:51 pm PDT
The Arab News reports without a hint of skepticism that the wife of the Egyptian who murdered two people at LAX on July 4th says he was a victim of injustice. Speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat, a sister publication of Arab News, Hala Muhammad Sadek Al-Awadley emphatically denied reports that Hadayet ...
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tdf 2002
Sun, Jul 7, 2002 at 12:44:17 pm PDT
Psst. The Tour de France started yesterday. Lance won the prologue. And Jan popped some speed at a disco and failed a drug test.
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farrakhan meets soul mates
Sun, Jul 7, 2002 at 12:03:41 pm PDT
Louis Farrakhan, the racist loudmouth infamous for calling Judaism a “gutter religion” and currently on tour in the Arab world, has told the dictators of Syria, Lebanon, and Libya that he plans to start a “peace campaign” in the Middle East. He put forward his plan to confront the Zionist ...
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british academic anti-semitism
Sun, Jul 7, 2002 at 10:57:32 am PDT
Professor Mona Baker of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology doesn’t like Israel. In fact, I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that she hates Israel. She hates Israel so much that she decided to fire two scholars from the boards of her academic journals—simply because ...
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interview with the vampire
Sun, Jul 7, 2002 at 9:54:40 am PDT
As part of the House of Saud’s ongoing effort to polish up their image without changing their behavior, last month the Clown Prince invited members of the National Conference of Editorial Writers to visit him at his palace near Jeddah. This article (credited to the head oil tick himself) doesn’t ...
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palestinian funeral party
Sat, Jul 6, 2002 at 10:31:25 am PDT
Palestinians opening fire at an American flag at the funeral for Jihad Amerin, the Gaza leader of Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades:
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missiles over ukraine
Sat, Jul 6, 2002 at 7:52:21 am PDT
There is now confirmation from Russian pilots that a missile was fired near an El Al plane flying over eastern Ukraine on July 4. UPDATE: the Ukrainians are trying to say it was a meteorite, but the El Al plane’s pilot says: "I have seen missiles explode in my life and ...
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nude in pamplona
Fri, Jul 5, 2002 at 6:59:45 pm PDT
Naked bull run protesters. What more is there to say.
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NYT publishes US secrets
Fri, Jul 5, 2002 at 4:01:47 pm PDT
Nothing the New York Times does shocks me any more, but this does seem to break new ground: they’ve published a detailed report on US plans for war against Iraq, based on leaked documents. At what point does publishing sensitive information in a time of war cross the line between ...
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celebrate independence
Fri, Jul 5, 2002 at 3:42:26 pm PDT
Another great Mark Steyn column, celebrating American independence. Arafat has far more blood on his hand than Bossi, Haider, Jean-Marie Le Pen and Joerg Haider put together and multiplied a thousandfold, but he's the West's guy: they can talk to him, strongman to strongman, Jacques to Yasser. Suddenly Bush comes ...
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get out of jail free
Fri, Jul 5, 2002 at 3:36:49 pm PDT
The United States court system doesn’t have a monopoly on dopey behavior: Harrison Attacker Ordered Released.
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palestinian anti-americanism
Fri, Jul 5, 2002 at 8:28:58 am PDT
The official Palestinian Authority television station has recently begun showing anti-American propaganda. Correspondent Chanie Luz reports that in an hour-long film screened yesterday, U.S. Independence Day, a boy from Jenin is seen pushing away a food package sent by USAID, saying, "Enough with the lies. Tell those liars that it ...
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hate<>terror
Fri, Jul 5, 2002 at 7:53:27 am PDT
The FBI is leaning toward calling yesterday’s LAX attack a “hate crime,” presumably because there’s no evidence yet that links Egyptian limo driver Hesham Mohamed Hadayet to a terrorist group. What are they expecting to find? A membership card? A photo of Osama in a heart-shaped frame? It’s a good thing the ...
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arg
Thu, Jul 4, 2002 at 5:59:02 pm PDT
Why is the FBI so eager to say the shootings at LAX are not “terrorism-related?” Hello? Is this thing on? A guy walks into the El Al terminal area on July 4th and starts shooting and stabbing people at random, and it’s not terrorism? And why in the ever-lovin’ hell is ...
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shooting at LAX
Thu, Jul 4, 2002 at 12:11:07 pm PDT
A gunman has killed at least one person at the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport. UPDATE: the link is fixed. LAPD is on full tactical alert, and LAX is shutting down. I just heard an interview with an LAX security officer who said the gunman was a ...
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king of all idiots
Thu, Jul 4, 2002 at 10:50:49 am PDT
When George Michael isn’t reading the words of wisdom on bathroom walls, he reads the king of all idiots, John Pilger. Here’s Pilger’s latest steaming heap: THE ROGUE STATE. There’s more insight on a bathroom wall. FOR 101 days, Royal Marines have been engaged in a farcical operation as mercenaries ...
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independence day, saudi style
Thu, Jul 4, 2002 at 9:25:31 am PDT
Here’s how our buddies in the House of Saud see fit to commemorate July 4th, thanks to the diseased mind of cartoonist M. Kahil. I scaled the image down to minimize the file size, so you may not be able to see that the hook-nosed, yarmulke-wearing pervert looking up Lady Liberty’s ...
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dark wings
Thu, Jul 4, 2002 at 9:06:13 am PDT
Here’s a good, detailed piece about the activities of Hezbollah in Lebanon, and their reported new alliances with Al Qaeda: Spreading their dark wings.
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spinning the unspinnable
Thu, Jul 4, 2002 at 7:57:21 am PDT
My favorite Arab News articles are the ones where they try to spin the unspinnable, as in this one about the baby suicide bomber photograph: To look at oppression, begin with the victims. Pure inadvertent comedy genius, complete with hilariously garbled Western colloquialisms: In a typically tendentious move, Israel last ...
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arabs at the crossroads
Thu, Jul 4, 2002 at 7:10:46 am PDT
Thomas Friedman does pretty well in this column about the Arab Human Development Report, but he loses it at the conclusion: There is a message in this bottle for America: For too many years we've treated the Arab world as just a big dumb gas station, and as long as ...
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cat and mouse
Thu, Jul 4, 2002 at 6:39:28 am PDT
Saddam Hussein continues to toy with the United Nations, in the third round of talks this year about allowing weapons inspectors into Iraq. And the EUroweenies continue to play “Who Can Be The Most Despicable Appeasing Buffoon?” with the Austrians coming into the lead: Sabri arrived late on Monday, welcomed ...
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final approach to civil war
Wed, Jul 3, 2002 at 6:38:54 pm PDT
I’m going out on a limb to predict that we may be about to see a complete collapse of the Palestinian pseudo-government, similar to the collapse of the Berlin Wall—but with a much more self-destructive period of civil unrest: Fired Palestinian Chiefs Incensed.
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a new record
Wed, Jul 3, 2002 at 6:22:29 pm PDT
By the way, yesterday we set a new record at LGF: I was called a “racist” and a “homophobe” in one day! Racist: because I think the sentence of gang rape meted out to an 18-year old girl to punish her tribe is repellent and unacceptable, by any standard, in any ...
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in the boneyard
Wed, Jul 3, 2002 at 2:53:44 pm PDT
A great new Mark Steyn column says Osama’s pushing up daisies. Taking the dirt nap. Worm chow. He's bin Laiden to rest - trust me. Hamid Karzai says he's in Pakistan. General Musharraf says he's in Afghanistan. From this we can deduce the general rule that, whatever country you happen ...
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according to the map
Wed, Jul 3, 2002 at 2:26:32 pm PDT
Stefan Sharkansky took a run around various Palestinian web sites—official agencies, terrorist groups, etc.—and put together a page of the “maps of Palestine” he found. Readers of LGF will not be surprised at these maps, all of which ignore the existence of Israel, but I suspect a lot of people ...
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like a slaughterhouse
Wed, Jul 3, 2002 at 12:41:15 pm PDT
Reuters, the wire service that can’t print the word “terrorism” without putting quotes around it, has no trouble at all headlining hearsay as unquoted fact when the United States is the subject: Afghan Party Like Slaughterhouse After U.S. Attack. Unbelievable. You read the article and discover that they are reporting ...
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jihad in 7th grade
Wed, Jul 3, 2002 at 8:32:00 am PDT
As our courts continue to do their best to eradicate all Judeo-Christian references from public schools, radical Muslim groups are sneakily introducing Islam to US children under the umbrella of political correctness. In classrooms across the United States, 7th grade students are following a three week course of indoctrination into ...
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an egyptian jihadi
Tue, Jul 2, 2002 at 7:01:40 pm PDT
At MSNBC (thanks, Bill), the story of Crazy Sammy’s right-hand man, Ayman al-Zawahri.
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come on feel the hate
Tue, Jul 2, 2002 at 6:49:59 pm PDT
After a period of stunned semi-acceptance, the Egyptians are starting to feel the hate again. From the Egyptian government daily Al-Akhbar: "What is the secret behind America's fear of Arafat? What is the secret behind the great powers' leaders' refusal of the American request? ... The simple answer is that ...
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kill apocalyptic terrorists
Tue, Jul 2, 2002 at 6:17:07 pm PDT
Retired Army Intelligence officer and author Ralph Peters has some important, perceptive observations in this UPI article: Kill apocalyptic terrorists, says expert. The nature of the terrorists that threaten the United States and the rest of the Western world has changed in a fundamental way, and we must recognize that ...
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has-been mouths off
Tue, Jul 2, 2002 at 10:10:03 am PDT
Blow-dried lavatory enthusiast George Michael read an article by John Pilger. Now he’s trying to pull his career out of the toilet by becoming a political commentator. In this incredibly gassy interview at the Mirror, the bathroom pundit makes a case for cowardice and appeasement: "I was moping around the ...
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VOA disgrace
Tue, Jul 2, 2002 at 9:17:15 am PDT
Noted authority on Islamic terrorism Stephen Schwartz has been fired from his job at the new Middle East radio network at The Voice of America, apparently because the State Department didn’t like his criticisms of our “allies” the Saudis. Schwartz had gone to VOA expecting to find himself part of ...
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arab stagnation
Tue, Jul 2, 2002 at 8:50:09 am PDT
Signs of intelligent life at the United Nations. A new report by Arab intellectuals shows that the Arab world is trapped in a societal dead end: Study Warns of Stagnation in Arab Societies. This is an important study, but once again we see that refusal to notice the angry elephant ...
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cultural differences
Tue, Jul 2, 2002 at 8:29:56 am PDT
An 11-year old Pakistani boy was seen walking with a girl from a higher class tribe. The punishment for this heinous crime: a “tribal court” (Islamic, no doubt, although the article doesn’t say) ordered his 18-year old sister to be gang-raped. According to the victim, the Mastoi tribe demanded punishment ...
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suicide mission
Tue, Jul 2, 2002 at 7:31:05 am PDT
The psychopaths of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a group closely linked to Yasser Arafat, are calling on all Palestinian organizations to attack American and Zionist “interests and installations” throughout the world. Arafat says he had nothing to do with this, of course. Fatah's military wing, al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades, issued ...
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tud roil
Mon, Jul 1, 2002 at 5:19:02 pm PDT
Several people emailed begging me to mercilessly mock Ted Rall’s latest idiotarian spew. But Rand Simberg beat me to it.
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the lurker
Mon, Jul 1, 2002 at 3:45:37 pm PDT
According to Rick Heller, Andrew Sullivan is giving blogging classes (nice work if you can get it!), and in Provincetown this weekend he recommended LGF and the always-delightful Asparagirl to the class. Thanks for the mention, Andrew!
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knowing the enemy
Mon, Jul 1, 2002 at 2:06:44 pm PDT
Moe Freedman kindly alerted us to this excellent new essay at Commentary by Victor Davis Hanson: Our Enemies, the Saudis.
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our allies the saudis
Mon, Jul 1, 2002 at 1:06:04 pm PDT
Joel Mowbray writes about the State Department’s unwillingness to confront Saudi Arabia’s involvement in Palestinian terrorism. The blind eye being turned to Saudis funding families of known terrorists is symptomatic of a larger problem at the State Department. In spite of mounting — some might say overwhelming — evidence that ...
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fusion at work
Mon, Jul 1, 2002 at 12:06:02 pm PDT
The SOHO satellite photographed a gargantuan solar eruption today, more than 30 times the length of Earth’s diameter.
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courting disaster
Mon, Jul 1, 2002 at 11:56:58 am PDT
The International Criminal Court officially opened today, opposed by the United States. At the Washington Post, Robert Kagan explains why the ICC is such a horrible idea: Europeans Courting International Disaster.
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has PETA seen this?
Mon, Jul 1, 2002 at 10:24:43 am PDT
Found earlier today in a veterinary office in Gaza: UPDATE: if it wasn’t obvious to you, please take note that this photo is a fake.
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peaceful religion watch
Mon, Jul 1, 2002 at 9:20:50 am PDT
Reader Bala Ambati sent a link to the web site of an Islamic group in London (loaded with tricky, useless, slow-running Javascript) that makes no attempt to hide its ultimate goal: the establishment of an Islamic State (or Khilafa) that rules the entire world. They explain quite clearly that it ...
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