LGF Archives: August 2006
Got One in Nablus
Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 9:42:35 pm PDT
Nearly ignored by mainstream media, Israel has quietly been eliminating many of the leaders of the Palestinian terror gangs: ‘Settling accounts,’ IDF kills Al Aksa chief in Nablus. IDF forces operating in Nablus early Thursday morning gunned down Fadi Kafisha, 29, commander of Fatah’s Al Aksa Martyrs’ Brigades in the ...
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Thursday Night Chain Rings
Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 9:25:01 pm PDT
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Iranian Totalitarian Misogyny
Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 9:20:50 pm PDT
Iran’s totalitarian rulers are stepping harder on the necks of women: Iran cracks down on women’s dress. TEHRAN, Aug. 29 (UPI) — Police in Tehran have been ordering Iranian women to cover up, stopping those they perceive as “badly veiled.” The crackdown followed the 2005 election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “We are certainly ...
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100,000 Israelis Rally for Kidnapped Soldiers
Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 9:17:10 pm PDT
An amazing demonstration of solidarity in Tel Aviv: Israelis rally in Tel-Aviv in support of abducted soldiers. TEL AVIV (AFP) - Tens of thousands of Israelis rallied in Tel Aviv, putting pressure on the government to secure the release of two soldiers captured by Hezbollah and a third held captive by ...
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Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 8:42:53 pm PDT
Allahpundit graciously granted permission to repost his video capture of Steve Emerson on the Hannity & Colmes show, featuring faux moderate Maher Hathout raving about Israel in 2000. Standing next to Hathout onstage: CAIR’s executive director, Nihad Awad. [Video]
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Religion of Tolerance in Zanzibar
Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 7:49:47 pm PDT
Islamists in Zanzibar have forced the cancellation of a birthday celebration for Freddie Mercury of the rock group Queen. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AFP) - Organizers of a 60th gala birthday party for the late Zanzibar-born rock star Freddie Mercury, have cancelled the weekend event after outraged Muslims threatened ...
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Outrage of the Day
Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 6:31:31 pm PDT
We’ve got a representative of the theocratic tyranny in Iran doing a propaganda tour of the US during the 9/11 anniversary, and now the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations is giving an award for “human relations” to another raving radical Islamic nutjob: A Hezbollah apologist wins an award ...
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Miss England: Moderate Muslims Become Terrorists to Prove Themselves
Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 3:17:05 pm PDT
Miss England 2006, in a daring departure from the usual beauty queen peppy positivity, is preaching twisted victimology to Britain’s Muslims: Stereotyping is leading to terror, says first Muslim Miss England. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) She said: “The attitude towards Muslims has got worse over the year. Also the Muslims’ attitude ...
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CAIR Offers Half-Price Student Tickets to See Theocratic Mass Murderer
Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 1:58:17 pm PDT
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is not only hosting a dinner for Iranian mullah Mohammad Khatami in Washington DC, they’re offering half-price tickets to students. (Hat tip: Bubbaman.) (WASHINGTON, D.C., 8/30/06) - Because of many requests from students nationwide, CAIR is offering a limited number of half-price student tickets for the ...
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National Guardsman Brutally Attacked
Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 8:46:50 am PDT
The peaceful, tolerant left, supporting the troops in their own special way: National Guardsman Brutally Attacked In Pierce County. (Hat tip: Andy.) PARKLAND, Wash. — The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department is searching for five people who allegedly attacked a uniformed National Guardsmen walking along 138th Street in Parkland Tuesday afternoon. The soldier ...
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Bush Derangement Syndrome on UK TV
Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 8:23:12 am PDT
Abandoning all decency: President Bush ‘assassinated’ in new TV docudrama. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Set around October 2007, President Bush is assassinated as he leaves the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago. Death of a President, shot in the style of a retrospective documentary, looks at the effect the assassination of Bush has on ...
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Lebanese PM to West: Don't Worry About Hizballah
Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 8:04:42 am PDT
Lebanon’s prime minister tells Western nations to open their pocketbooks and give generously—there’s nothing to be concerned about: Lebanese PM: Aid won’t go to Hezbollah. STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Lebanon’s prime minister urged world donors Thursday to help his country recover after Israeli bombing wiped out “15 years of postwar development” in ...
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Dershowitz: Amnesty International Redefines "War Crimes"
Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 7:54:24 am PDT
Alan Dershowitz tears apart the latest Amnesty International anti-Israel disgrace: Amnesty Int’l redefines ‘war crimes’. The two principal “human rights” organizations are in a race to the bottom to see which group can demonize Israel with the most absurd legal arguments and most blatant factual mis-statements. Until last week, Human Rights ...
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Hizballah: We're Arming for the Second Round
Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 7:39:14 am PDT
Hizballah never tries to hide their murderous intentions; it’s up to useful idiots like Kofi Annan and Human Rights Watch to do it for them: Hizbullah: We’re arming for second round. Hizbullah representative in Iran Muhammad Abdullah Sif al-Din, said Wednesday that Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah has a new strategic plan ...
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Religion of Peace Strikes in Thailand
Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 7:33:06 am PDT
23 Yala banks hit by bomb blasts. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Yala - Muslim militants launched 23 coordinated time bomb attacks at commercial banks in this southern province Thursday, killing at least one man and severely injuring at least four bank customers, police said. The bombs, mostly left on bank counters ...
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Phillips: The Media War Against Israel
Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 7:57:53 pm PDT
Here’s a great piece by Melanie Phillips on the wider lessons of the Fauxtography scandal: The media war against Israel. In short, much of the most incendiary media coverage of this war seems to have been either staged or fabricated. The big question is why the western media would perpetrate such ...
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There Are Still Depths to Plumb
Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 7:18:00 pm PDT
Are political consultants now advising clients to call their opponents “Unterfuhrer?”
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Legal Jihad in Boston
Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 6:41:58 pm PDT
The radical-linked Islamic Society of Boston is continuing to sue just about everyone who criticizes their plans for a huge mosque in Roxbury; their latest targets are talk show host Michael Graham and a list of other Boston media outlets: WTKK, Boston Herald, FOX 25 Boston, Michael Graham. They must really ...
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Hardcore Islamists Invited to Aussie Muslim Conference
Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 3:11:17 pm PDT
Australia is going to pay $300,000 for a conference to which the Prime Minister’s Muslim advisory board chairman has invited several hardcore Islamists. (Hat tip: aussiemagpie.) The Muslim chairman says there’s “a good chance” these jihad clerics will learn to stop worrying and love the infidel. The Prime Minister’s Muslim advisory ...
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Abu Mazen Says...
Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 3:02:03 pm PDT
No security in Mideast without Palestinian state: Abbas.
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Yglesias: Let Iran Have Nukes
Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:07:47 pm PDT
Matthew Yglesias, who once applauded a stalker’s web site that featured a picture of my head photoshopped onto Eva Braun’s body (funny stuff!), makes the argument even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won’t attempt: Iran Should Have Nukes. (Hat tip: Daniel Freedman, who spends more time answering Yglesias’ ridiculous post than it’s worth.) The ...
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Bolt: Not the Hole Truth
Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 11:48:01 am PDT
At Australia’s Herald Sun, Andrew Bolt makes some excellent points about the Lebanese ambulance controversy, as mainstream media in the US continues to completely ignore the story: Not the hole truth. IT’S bad enough that friends of Hezbollah terrorists could trick so many journalists with just a tall story and a ...
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Couric's Photoshop Diet
Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 11:23:22 am PDT
More fauxtography (of the relatively insignificant kind) at CBS: CBS magazine slims down Couric in photo. It’s a trivial event, but it does indicate that alteration of photographs is quite commonplace in mainstream media—and that people are paying more attention to it now.
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Harvard Will Host Iranian Mullah
Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 10:09:29 am PDT
When he visits the United States on a mission to spread Islamist propaganda, Iranian mullah Mohammad Khatami will be feted at Harvard University in an event titled: Ethics of Tolerance in the Age of Violence: Mohammad Khatami. Orwell would be envious. (Hat tip: Daniel Freedman.) This celebration of tolerance will take ...
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SF Driver Called Himself a "Terrorist"
Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 9:21:38 am PDT
From KTVU in San Francisco, here’s a little bit of information that somehow failed to make it into any of the media reports on yesterday’s hit and run attacks in San Francisco. Watch as reporter Rob Roth says a witness heard the suspect refer to himself as a “terrorist,” then without ...
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Media Shies Away from M Word Again
Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 8:31:21 am PDT
The media is shying away from the subject of whether Omeed Aziz Popal is a Muslim as if it were radioactive. Here’s a story at Mercury News that floats the thoroughly predictable excuse that he was normally kind and pious, but the stress of an arranged Islamic marriage caused him ...
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Carter Will Hold Talks with Khatami
Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 8:24:12 am PDT
Didn’t Jimmy Carter do enough damage the first time he tried diplomacy with Iran? Carter Agrees to Hold Talks With Khatami. (Hat tip: LawHawk.) Giving Khatami a visa is a sheer outrage, at a time when Iran is issuing genocidal threats, sponsoring terrorism around the world, and rushing toward nuclear weapons. ...
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Religion of Decapitation and Child Murder
Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 8:14:30 am PDT
Militants say behead two men for being U.S. ‘spies’. WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pro-Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan beheaded two men they accused of being U.S. spies and a boy who had been kidnapped was found dead in the same region, security officials said on Wednesday. ... The beheaded bodies of the ...
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Israel Won't Lift the Blockade
Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 8:09:11 am PDT
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan wants Israel to lift their “humiliating” blockade of Lebanon, long before there are enough UN troops to stop Hizballah from being resupplied with smuggled weapons. Why, you might almost think he wants Hizballah to be resupplied. But Israel isn’t buying what Annan’s selling.
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"As You Bomb, You Will Be Bombed"
Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 8:02:36 am PDT
British police have discovered at least seven “martyrdom videos” made by suspects in the airplane bombing plot: As you bomb, you will be bombed, says video ‘martyr’. MARTYRDOM videos found by police investigating the alleged airline terrorist plot contain chilling statements made by young men who are apparently willing to die ...
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Three More Charged in Jetliner Bomb Plot
Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 7:04:13 pm PDT
Three more British Muslims have been charged in the Heathrow bombing plot: LONDON - British anti-terrorist police charged three more people late Tuesday with conspiring to commit murder in the alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners. The three — Mohammed Yasar Gulzar, Mohammed Shamin Uddin and Nabeel Hussain — were also ...
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Propaganda Even An Infidel Can Love
Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 6:37:32 pm PDT
Well, it’s better than stuffed Mickey Mouse dolls, anyway.
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Who's Working the Control Room?
Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 6:34:34 pm PDT
Mainstream media screws up, big time: Oops! CNN Airs Anchor’s Girltalk Over Bush Speech. I don’t blame Kyra Phillips for this, by the way. She had a right to expect that her conversation with a friend was not being broadcast to the entire free world. The more interesting part is that no ...
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Poll: Americans Back Profiling
Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 5:03:03 pm PDT
It’s taken five years, but the US public is beginning to rebel against the pointless random security measures forced down its throat by special interest groups: Americans back anti-terrorism racial profiling: poll. BOSTON (Reuters) - Most Americans expect a terrorist attack on the United States in the next few months and ...
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Navy Officer Charged with Revealing Secret Gitmo Info to NGO
Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 4:09:29 pm PDT
A Navy officer who worked as a lawyer at Guantanamo Bay has been charged with revealing classified information on the detainees to a US “non-governmental organization:” U.S. Navy says officer passed secret Guantanamo data. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The military has charged a U.S. Navy officer who worked as a lawyer at ...
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Breaking: Hit and Run Spree in San Francisco
Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 3:48:30 pm PDT
Up to 14 hurt in SF hit-and-run spree. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) (08-29) 15:20 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — As many as 14 people were injured this afternoon by a motorist who drove around San Francisco running them down before he was arrested, authorities said. Seven of those injured were in critical condition, ...
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This is Your Gazan Conversion
Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 3:36:03 pm PDT
Following the release of Fox reporters Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig after a conversion at gunpoint, Andrew Bostom takes a look at the history of forced conversions to Islam: This is Your Gazan Conversion. Forced conversions in Islamic history are not exceptional—they have been the norm, across three continents—Asia, Africa, and ...
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Your Terrorist Propaganda Moment of the Day
Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 2:56:26 pm PDT
Brought to you by Jesse Jackson and the Associated Press: Veteran U.S. civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson, right, walks past an anti-U.S. banner placed among the rubble of a building that was destroyed following Israeli bombardment during the 34-day long Hezbollah-Israel war, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, ...
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International Journalists Blame Israel for Slanted Coverage
Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 2:20:01 pm PDT
At a convention in Jerusalem, a number of international journalists blamed Israel for their biased coverage of the Hizballah war: Journalists blame Israel for war coverage. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) And if you’ve ever wondered why the reports of Steven Erlanger for the New York Times are so outrageously biased against ...
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ICRC Slams Aussie FM, Zombietime
Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 12:42:46 pm PDT
The International Committee of the Red Cross is digging in their heels and rebuking Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer: Red Cross slams Downer hoax claim. THE International Committee of the Red Cross has rebuked Foreign Minister Alexander Downer for relying on an unverified internet blog to claim an Israeli missile strike ...
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When Sock Puppets Attack
Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 12:26:06 pm PDT
The left’s most dishonest blogger, Glenn Greenwald (aka Socky Sockpuppet), is on a quest to prove that I’m a blood-crazed, immoral, genocidal monster, and if he has to search the LGF archives for three-year old posts to do it, and pick one sentence out of context, well, no sacrifice ...
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What if the Heathrow Bombers Succeeded?
Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 9:01:35 am PDT
Here’s a nasty scenario imagined by Niall Ferguson: What if the Heathrow Bombers Succeeded? We cannot assume, for obvious legal reasons, that the suspects who were charged in London are anything other than innocent, as they themselves maintain. Nor should we speculate about those who haven’t yet been released or charged. ...
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Posner: "Civil Libertarians Are in a State of Denial"
Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 8:52:25 am PDT
The Glenn & Helen Show interviews Richard Posner on Terrorism and the Constitution.
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Iowahawk: Airstrike Leaves Reuters Ambulance in Flames, Chopped, Channeled
Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 8:29:13 am PDT
Another brutal Israeli airstrike has left a Reuters ambulance in flames, chopped, and channeled. QANA, LEBANON - Israeli Defense Forces face fresh charges of war atrocities today, as international press agency Reuters released stark photos showing the devastation caused by a daylight IDF missile attack on a clearly marked Reuters press ...
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Question of the Day
Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 8:22:42 am PDT
Which does more damage to a moving vehicle: an Israeli missile, or an airborne hooved mammal?
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Australian FM Slams Media for Lebanon Hoaxes
Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 7:59:41 am PDT
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has harsh, well-deserved criticism for mainstream media’s uncritical dissemination of terrorist propaganda: Downer accuses media of Lebanon hoax. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) FOREIGN Minister Alexander Downer is standing firm on his comments yesterday slamming the media over its coverage of the Lebanon conflict. Speaking in Brisbane, Mr ...
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American Muslims Increasingly Separate
Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 7:57:39 am PDT
According to the Washington Post (who are about 5 years behind LGF) Muslims in America are becoming more radical: America’s Muslims Aren’t as Assimilated as You Think. From schools to language to religion, American Muslims are becoming a people apart. Young, first-generation American Muslim women — whose parents were born in ...
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Ahmadinejad Challenges Bush to Debate
Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 7:50:35 am PDT
Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has challenged President Bush to a debate: Ahmadinejad defiant, challenges Bush to TV debate. Now, that would be must-see TV. TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voiced defiance on Tuesday as a deadline neared for Iran to halt work the West fears is a step toward building nuclear ...
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CAIR Anti-Israel Circus Backfires
Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 7:38:46 pm PDT
If even the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank notices the ... problems in today’s CAIR-sponsored event with Stephen Walt and John Mersheimer, you know CAIR may have finally pushed their agenda a bit too far: Pronouncing Blame on the Israel Lobby. It was quite a boner. University of Chicago political scientist John Mearsheimer ...
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Studying Little Green Footballs
Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 6:54:12 pm PDT
A UK web geek analyzes the viral nature of Little Green Footballs here and here, in a hopeless quest to understand how this site with the freakish name has become ... popular. But to truly comprehend the LFG drive for world domination, comfortable shoes, and an environment of nearly pure nitrogen, ...
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Frum: Counterfeit News
Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 6:25:12 pm PDT
Notorious neocon Machiavelli [heh. —ed.] David Frum has some thoughts on Counterfeit News. Perhaps you saw the images in your newspaper or on television: “A Lebanese man counts U.S dollar bills received from Hizbollah members in a school in Bourj el-Barajneh, a southern suburb of Beirut, August 19, 2006. Hizbollah handed ...
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Kofi Annan In His Element
Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 6:10:48 pm PDT
What’s left to say about appalling displays like this? Supporters of Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (top) shout anti-American slogans as U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (R), Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh (L) and parliament member Ali Ammar (C) arrive in a damaged area of Beirut August 28, 2006. (Eric Gaillard/Reuters) UPDATE ...
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Ahmadinejad's Insane Letter to Germany
Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 6:03:42 pm PDT
Here’s the full text of the demented letter sent to German Chancellor Angela Merkel in July by Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Full Text of Pres. Ahmadinejad’s Letter to German Chancellor. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) An excerpt: We need to ask ourselves that for what purposes the millions of dollars that the Zionists ...
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CAIR's Fellow Travelers
Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 4:11:35 pm PDT
Nihad Awad, Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, appeared on C-SPAN today hosting Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer. In his speech, Awad highly recommended a book by antisemitic ex-Congressman (and Saudi puppet) Paul Findley, praising Findley as “a pioneer in promoting America’s interests in the Middle East.” ...
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Turkey Terror Update 2
Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 2:35:10 pm PDT
Another bomb attack in a Turkish resort today, and a claim of responsibility from the PKK: Three killed in new attack on Turkish resorts. ANTALYA, Turkey (Reuters) - A bomb blast killed three people and wounded dozens in the coastal city Antalya on Monday in a second day of attacks on ...
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Injured Reuters Associate Worked for Iran?
Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 1:01:03 pm PDT
As noted in our first post about the Reuters vehicle purportedly hit by an Israeli missile (or two Israeli missiles, depending on which news service you read), the wire services were playing games with the identity of the “news agency” that employed Sabbah Hmaida, injured in the incident along with ...
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UK High Court Dismisses Islamic Group's Suit
Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 12:38:55 pm PDT
Last Tuesday we reported on the UK’s Islamic Human Rights Commission’s suit against the British government, for allowing US arms shipments to Israel to use UK airports. In an update to that absurd story, the High Court has called the IHRC’s case “hopeless:” High court dismisses Muslim group. The Islamic Human ...
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The Case of the Vanishing Microphone Stand
Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 11:44:51 am PDT
Another Photoshopped image (?) at the New York Times, as things get really silly. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Inside the Haditha Dam in Iraq, a member of the Purrfect Angelz dance group entertained American troops. UPDATE at 8/28/06 12:04:19 pm: The photographer explains: what appears to be a pointless Photoshop alteration is ...
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Coming Up: CAIR on C-SPAN
Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 9:54:54 am PDT
A reminder: the radical Islamic front group calling itself the Council on American Islamic Relations is hosting a show to discuss the discredited Walt and Mearsheimer paper, “The Israel Lobby,” in about five minutes on C-SPAN. You can watch over the web at this page: C-SPAN: Watch LIVE. I’ll be recording. ...
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ICRC Removes High-Res Ambulance Photo
Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 8:30:51 am PDT
The International Committee of the Red Cross seems to have removed the high resolution image of ambulance 782 (supposedly struck by an Israeli missile) from their web site: Conflict in the Middle East: selection of photos. Is someone getting a little too close to the truth? Here is the high-resolution photograph that ...
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Kofi Annan Springs Into Action
Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 8:22:41 am PDT
Extra! Corrupt Israel-hating diplomat saves Middle East with sheer presence! Read all about it! UN chief in Beirut to shore up fragile peace. BEIRUT (AFP) - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has met with Lebanese leaders in Beirut on the first leg of a Middle East tour aimed at strengthening the ...
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Iran's Execution Of A Teenage Girl
Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 8:29:30 pm PDT
Here’s a documentary from BBC2, on the appalling execution by Iran of a 16-year old girl, Atefah Sahaaleh, for violating shari’a law. LGF covered this story of medieval misogyny in 2004: Justice in the Islamic Republic. (Hat tip: truth_seeker.) [Video]
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CAIR to Discuss "Israel Lobby" on C-SPAN
Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 8:04:06 pm PDT
The Council on American Islamic Relations will discuss “The Israel Lobby” with Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, Monday on C-SPAN at 1:00 pm Eastern. (Hat tip: Solomonia.) They certainly are getting bold lately, to stage events like this in public and allow recordings.
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Turkey Terror Update
Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 6:31:03 pm PDT
The Times says four simultaneous explosions, which obviously indicates an Islamist operation: 10 Britons hurt in Turkish resort bomb attacks. AT LEAST ten Britons were injured in the early hours of this morning in four explosions in Turkey. Three blasts rocked the popular holiday resort of Marmaris in the south of the ...
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Cycle of Violence: Sunday 45
Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 6:27:17 pm PDT
Today’s ride: 45.32 miles, mostly flat but with impromptu intervals of sustained near-max effort alternating with short recovery periods. I don’t even want to say how perfect the weather was today, because you’ll all move here. It sucked, really. Nasty, brutish weather. Fascist, in fact. Yep. Fascist weather. No sane ...
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Breaking: 10 Britons Hurt in Turkey Attack
Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 4:41:04 pm PDT
Ten Britons hurt in Turkey blasts. Ten Britons have been injured after three explosions hit a holiday resort in Turkey, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has said. The blasts happened at the coastal resort of Marmaris. All ten are in hospital with four seriously injured, the FCO said. The explosions are ...
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Two Lodi Muslims Denied Entry to US
Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 3:31:01 pm PDT
Two relatives of the Lodi Muslim convicted of terrorism charges have been denied entry to the US. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) (08-26) 04:00 PDT Sacramento — The federal government has barred two relatives of a Lodi man convicted of supporting terrorists from returning to the country after a lengthy stay in ...
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"Only Hizballah Can Defend Us"
Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 3:25:55 pm PDT
The Associated Press wants us to know that many residents of the Middle East are cynical about the United Nations’ ability to protect them from violence. Israeli violence. MARWAHEEN, Lebanon - It was the fourth day of the war, and an Israeli army loudspeaker boomed a warning across the border to this ...
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Iran Tests New Missile
Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 9:10:54 am PDT
Iran test-fires sub-to-surface missile. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) TEHRAN, Iran - Iran test fired a new submarine-to-surface missile during war games in the Persian Gulf on Sunday, a show of military might amid a standoff with the West over its nuclear activities. A brief video clip showed the long-range missile, called ...
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Reuters Urges Investigation of Airstrike
Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 8:45:03 am PDT
Here’s Reuters Palestinian propagandist Nidal al-Mughrabi, on the airstrike that injured two Palestinian journalists yesterday: Wounded cameraman tells of Gaza blast. GAZA (Reuters) - The missile struck the “P” of the bright red “PRESS” sign on the roof of the armor-plated Reuters car as Gaza cameraman Fadel Shana hurried to film ...
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Lantos Will Block Lebanon Aid
Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 8:16:15 am PDT
Following Lebanon’s statement yesterday that they would not allow UN troops on the Syrian border, Democrat Tom Lantos says he will block aid to Lebanon. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A key U.S. legislator said in Israel on Sunday he would block aid President George W. Bush promised Lebanon and free the funds ...
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Fox Journalists Released
Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 7:42:54 am PDT
Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig have been released, following a bizarre “conversion to Islam:” Kidnapped Fox journalists released. Hours before their release, a video from Ramattan showed the two reading statements proclaiming that they had embraced Islam with the Prophet Mohammed as their leader. “Islam is not just meant for some people — it ...
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Saturday Night Reflections
Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 8:15:17 pm PDT
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Scrappleface: Give Peace a Chance
Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 7:59:32 pm PDT
In my ideal universe, the President of the United States actually says things like this: Bush: B-2 Flights Over Tehran for ‘Peaceful Purposes’. (2006-08-26) — Just hours after Iran opened a new plant capable of making plutonium “for peaceful purposes”, U.S. President George Bush assured his Iranian counterpart that any B-2 ...
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Germany Arrests Syrian "Student"
Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 6:47:18 pm PDT
Developments in the German train jihad case: Arrest order for Syrian suspect in German bomb plot. BERLIN (Reuters) - German authorities issued an arrest warrant on Saturday for a Syrian suspect in a failed plot to detonate bombs on German trains last month. A spokesman for the Federal Prosecutors Office said a ...
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Former Malaysian PM on UK TV: "Something Has To Be Done Against the United States"
Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 6:05:59 pm PDT
The poster girl for Stockholm Syndrome, Yvonne Ridley, interviews the incredibly vicious former prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohammad [lgf: search], discussing the best ways to harm: 1) Israel, and 2) America, not necessarily in that order. From Islam Channel in Britain, August 23, 2006. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Mahathir Mohammad: ...
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Cycle of Violence: Half Century Saturday
Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 5:42:21 pm PDT
Today’s ride: 50.71 miles, not at killer pace, but not exactly easy either, on several undisclosed routes in the vicinity of Palos Verdes. Managed to get in a total elevation gain of 3,225 feet, and hit a maximum of 43.5 miles per hour on one descent through the slums of ...
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Annan Makes One Thing Perfectly Clear
Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 4:06:16 pm PDT
Kofi Annan: “The troops are not going there to disarm Hezbollah. Let’s be clear about that.” A French United Nations vehicle drives past a poster of Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Tyre, in southern Lebanon, August 26, 2006. REUTERS/Ammar Awad Someone please tell me they aren’t really flying a white ...
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IAF Airstrike Hits Reuters Armored Car
Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 3:23:54 pm PDT
Air strike hurts two journalists in Gaza: doctors. GAZA (Reuters) - Two journalists were wounded by an Israeli air strike that hit a Reuters vehicle in Gaza City on Saturday, doctors and residents said. One of the journalists, who worked for a local media organization, was seriously wounded. A cameraman working for ...
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UNIFIL Broadcast Israeli Troop Movements
Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 3:06:48 pm PDT
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon acted as an intelligence gathering service for Hizballah during the war: What did you do in the war, UNIFIL? (Hat tip: LGF readers.) DURING THE RECENT month-long war between Hezbollah and Israel, U.N. “peacekeeping” forces made a startling contribution: They openly published daily real-time ...
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Iran's Manhattan Project Rushing Ahead
Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 8:48:22 am PDT
Iran opened a heavy water plant today. (Hat tip: Jason.) August 26, 2006 — Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad today opened a heavy-water plant intended to fuel a nuclear research reactor that is currently under construction. The ceremony took place at the Khondab plant near the city of Arak, some 200 kilometers southwest ...
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Last Virginian Muslim Sentenced in Terror Case
Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 8:39:12 am PDT
The last defendant in the Virginia jihad case has been sentenced to 15 years in prison: Ex-teacher gets 15 years for aiding terror group. A federal judge yesterday sentenced a former third-grade teacher at a Muslim school in Maryland to 15 years in prison for providing support to a terrorist organization ...
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Inadvertently Hilarious Article of the Day
Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 8:28:41 am PDT
By Catherine Triomphe of Agence France Presse: EU enters new era of Middle East influence with UN mission. BRUSSELS (AFP) - European support for the UN force in Lebanon has thrust Europe into a major new political role in the Middle East, a region where it has traditionally been better known ...
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Rewriting History at Editor & Publisher
Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 8:20:46 am PDT
Unbelievable. After the blogosphere picked up on his 2003 article revealing that he faked a news story while working at the Niagara Gazette, the editor of Editor and Publisher, Greg Mitchell (or someone covering for him), apparently went in and edited the 3-year old article to make him look less ...
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Friday Night Shore
Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 8:45:26 pm PDT
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Hamas Smacks Abu Mazen, Caliphate Imminent
Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 6:21:31 pm PDT
As everyone knew he would, Mahmoud Abbas is learning to love Hamas: Abbas’ party OKs Hamas unity government. A Fatah member provides the necessary context: “The problem is the Israeli occupation,” he said. Uh huh. Meanwhile, in related news of the coming Islamic domination of the world: Meanwhile, a radical Islamic group called Hizb ...
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CNN Will Replay 9/11 Coverage (Really?)
Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 5:47:10 pm PDT
For the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks, CNN.com is going to replay their coverage. NEW YORK - CNN will mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by replaying on the Internet the cable network’s coverage of that day’s events. Viewers can watch how events unfolded starting at ...
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Fauxtography Defender's Faux News
Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 3:52:49 pm PDT
Turns out that Greg Mitchell, the Editor & Publisher editor who has been attacking the blogosphere like a rabid ferret for pointing out the bogus news from the Middle East, has first-hand experience with staging news. (Hat tip: Confederate Yankee.) Since the press seems to be in full-disclosure mode these days, ...
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HuffPo Writer Yearns for Terror Attack
Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 3:14:27 pm PDT
The Huffington Post (your one stop shop for the looniest of the moonbatosphere) today features a piece by Russell Shaw wishing for a major terrorist attack on America. Because it will allow Democrats to regain power: I Hope And Pray We Don’t Get Hit Again-BUT... (Hat tip: Killgore Trout.) What if another ...
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BBC Explanation Watch
Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 3:03:03 pm PDT
As we reported on August 21, the BBC casually allowed a Lebanese child to be endangered by propagandists, while they stood by and took photographs. But that wasn’t the only questionable photograph from that little BBC junket, as this post at Poynter Online attests: From SUSANNA BRANDON, copy editor, USA Today: BBC correspondent ...
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"Death to Israel" in Salt Lake City
Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 2:56:40 pm PDT
The Salt Lake Tribune headlines this piece about a disturbing request for a demonstration permit: Protest permit alarms Utah’s Jews. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) But it isn’t only Utah’s Jewish community who should be alarmed. Members of Utah’s Jewish community are alarmed by a proposed demonstration that will call for “Death to ...
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RoP Tips and Tricks
Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 1:43:12 pm PDT
An Islamist web site recently published this handy guide for jihadis: How to Kill a Westerner in the Arabian Peninsula. How to Kill the Infidel and What Security Measures to Take The best way to carry this out is to forge an ID card and a work ID, in order to rent ...
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Profiled
Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 12:36:16 pm PDT
From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.
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Russia and France Advise Inaction
Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 11:56:36 am PDT
Here we go again. Russia rules out UN sanctions against Iran. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia rejected talk for now of sanctions against Iran and France warned on Friday against conflict with Tehran, raising doubts whether it will face swift penalties if nuclear work is not halted by an August 31 deadline. By ...
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Hizballah's Media Tours of Beirut
Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:50:30 am PDT
Here’s Annia Ciezadlo at the New Republic on Hizballah’s staging of news from Beirut: Exploring scenic South Beirut, the Hezbollah way. Who says Lebanon’s tourism industry is dead? Come to Beirut these days and you can take a guided tour of Hell, with Hezbollah as your escort. Every day, the Party ...
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Adolf's Eatery Changes Name (Update)
Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:31:41 am PDT
That Indian restaurant named after Adolf Hitler has been forced to change its name. Previously at LGF: Hitler Sells in Mumbai. Eat At Adolf’s.
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Coming Soon to a Blog Near You
Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:14:34 am PDT
(Hat tip: Derek.) UPDATE at 8/25/06 11:48:54 am: A note from the illustrator: The point of the poster isn’t to bring humor from a dead baby - quite the opposite actually. It’s intended to use the same means and exploitation that the MSM use when ‘reporting’ on their stories - mainly photoshopped images ...
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Al-Manar in New York (Update)
Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 10:09:19 am PDT
The usual suspects are lining up to defend Javed Iqbal for illegally providing access to the Hizballah hate network Al-Manar: Islander in TV terror link. (Hat tip: LawHawk.) Earlier this year, the U.S. Treasury Department designated al-Manar as a global terrorist entity, freezing its U.S. assets and contending it supported Hezbollah’s ...
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Chavez: Israel Worse Than Hitler
Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 9:57:25 am PDT
Venezuelan thug Hugo Chavez continues spewing antisemitic insanity to the hordes: Chavez says Israel’s action in Lebanon ‘worse’ than Hitler. BEIJING (AFP) - Visiting Venezuela President Hugo Chavez has denounced Israel’s recent attacks on Lebanon as “genocide,” likening its action to war crimes committed by Germany’s Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. “Israel often ...
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Islamist Complains in the LA Times
Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 8:59:41 am PDT
Shakeel Syed, executive director of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, has a piece in the Los Angeles Times today castigating Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for refusing to listen to the local Muslim community’s hatred of Israel: The Governor’s Cold Shoulder to Muslims. EARLIER THIS MONTH, with war raging in the ...
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The Citizen Journalist Report
Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 8:33:56 am PDT
Jeff Goldstein, master of disguise.
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Lebanon Dances to Syria's Tune
Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 8:21:05 am PDT
When Syria says “Jump!” Lebanon says, “How high?” Syria objects to U.N. troops on border. Beirut rejects deployment of UN troops on the border with Syria. BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon is against the deployment of United Nations peacekeeping forces along its border with Syria, Information Minister Ghazi Aridi has told AFP. “Only the Lebanese ...
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CAIR to Host Anti-Israel Event in DC
Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 8:09:48 am PDT
This Monday, the radical Islamic front group calling itself the Council on American Islamic Relations will hold a panel discussion featuring the thoroughly discredited authors of the antisemitic screed “The Israel Lobby:” ‘Israel Lobby’ Authors To Speak at DC Press Club Forum: Financial News. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ — On Monday, ...
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EU Referendum: The Corruption of the Media
Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 8:59:33 pm PDT
Richard North at EU Referendum has completed his massive report on media coverage of the “Qana” incident on July 30, 2006: The Corruption of the Media.
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Thursday Night Fence
Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 8:33:13 pm PDT
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Who's Looking for Al-Manar TV?
Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 7:40:03 pm PDT
Courtesy of Google Trends, here are the countries whose citizens are searching the web for links to the Hizballah hate channel Al-Manar. (Hat tip: Egfrow.)
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Argentinian Iranians Attack Jews
Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 7:15:02 pm PDT
Gateway Pundit has pictures.
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Germany's Belated Awakening
Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 6:55:03 pm PDT
Germans, Spared Until Now, Awaken to Reality of Terror Threat. (Hat tip: J.D.) Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) — Germans are beginning to awaken to a new reality: Their country is no longer one of the apparently safe havens in the post-Sept. 11 world. “It’s never really bothered me what people next to me ...
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UK: 53% "Threatened By Islam"
Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 6:37:03 pm PDT
In Britain, if you can believe it, many feel threatened by Islam. (Hat tip: Killgore Trout.) Mass murder attacks by Muslim groups using the Koran as justification, successful and otherwise, proliferating almost daily, might tend to produce that result. I’m just sayin’. Most people in the UK feel threatened by Islam, a ...
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What Are MAS Members Watching?
Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 6:27:13 pm PDT
According to Solomonia, as recently as August 16 the Boston Muslim-American Society (MAS) was tipping off their members to a web address where they could watch Hizballah’s Al-Manar TV via streaming video. (Hat tip: Miss Kelly.) Banned in Europe for the virulent anti-Semitism it broadcasts, the local Boston Muslim-American Society (MAS) ...
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About Those Israeli "Chemical Weapons..."
Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 4:24:11 pm PDT
German public TV ARD looked into the latest mainstream antisemitic libel to make the rounds of Arab and Western media, the report that mysteriously blackened bodies in Lebanon had been victims of mysterious super-blackening Zionist “chemical weapons.” They took tissue samples from the bodies and had them scientifically analyzed. And ...
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Red Cross Ambulance Incident on Fox
Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 4:13:47 pm PDT
Kudos to zombie, whose exposé of the Lebanese Red Cross Ambulance hoax was featured on Brit Hume’s show today; Allahpundit is always first with the vidclips: Video: Fox reports on Zombie’s expose of the ambulance incident. UPDATE at 8/24/06 7:34:15 pm: Dan Riehl is looking closely at Lebanese ambulance license plates.
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Steyn to the Left: Get in the Game!
Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 3:26:21 pm PDT
Some great clips of Mark Steyn, standing in as host for Rush Limbaugh’s show today: Highlights of Mark Steyn Guest Hosting For Rush.
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A Demand for Hizballah TV in New York City
Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 2:57:27 pm PDT
A Staten Island man has been providing the banned Hizballah TV channel Al-Manar to viewers in New York City: Man charged with relaying Hezbollah TV. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) NEW YORK - A businessman was charged with providing satellite broadcasts of a Hezbollah television station to New York-area customers, authorities said ...
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Radical Islamic Group Will Hold Dinner to Honor Khatami
Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 2:14:00 pm PDT
On September 8, three days before the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 Islamic terror attacks, the Council on American Islamic Relations will host a dinner for the former president of the world’s worst terror-sponsoring state, Mohammad Khatami, at the Marriott Hotel in Arlington Virginia. CAIR TO HOST DINNER FOR FORMER PRESIDENT ...
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CAIR and the ACLU On the Attack
Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 9:02:50 am PDT
The radical Islamic front group calling itself CAIR is seething again, and joining forces with the ACLU: U.S. family says racially profiled at NY airport. NEW YORK (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union and a leading Islamic group on Wednesday accused security officials at New York’s JFK airport of racially ...
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Religion of Misogyny
Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 8:43:49 am PDT
Pakistani lawmakers trying to change their insane Dark Ages hadood laws ran afoul of the Religion of Peace™: Pakistan opposition MPs protest change to rape laws. ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Pakistani opposition lawmakers walked out of federal parliament in protest at government proposed amendments to Islamic rape laws. Rights groups have been demanding ...
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Pro-Hizballah Canadian MP Quits
Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 8:24:54 am PDT
Another terrorist-enabling Canadian politician bites the dust: Canadian lawmaker ousted for proposing talks with Hezbollah. OTTAWA (AFP) - A Canadian lawmaker resigned his job as the opposition’s assistant foreign affairs critic over comments last week touting dialogue with Hezbollah that sparked a furor in Ottawa. Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj proposed during a ...
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What Media Bias?
Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 8:08:44 am PDT
Reuters Palestinian propagandist Nidal al-Mughrabi uncorks a real winner of a biased piece: Israel kills civilian in Gaza raid. GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man and seized his brother, a senior member of the ruling Hamas movement, during a raid in southern Gaza early on Thursday, witnesses and ...
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All Your Fakes Are Belong To Us
Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 7:57:17 am PDT
Somebody had to do it, and The Jawa Report stepped forward...
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Hitler Sells in Mumbai
Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 8:11:28 pm PDT
Here’s an update on that Hitler-themed Indian restaurant, as the manager of the place complains that nobody’s objecting to all those other Hitler-themed businesses. Those who run the 1,000 sq ft restaurant have removed a poster of Hitler and the swastika pasted in the restaurant following the outrage from the Jews. ...
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Holy Warriors Using Blogspot
Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 6:31:54 pm PDT
The mujahideen have apparently realized how simple, quick, and private it is to set up a blog on the Google-owned Blogspot. Here are three Blogspot sites being used to distribute jihad announcements and videos: Globale Islamische Medien-Front. Al Bayanat. Press Release. UPDATE at 8/23/06 7:05:02 pm: Clicking through to any of these sites is safe, ...
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Zombie: The Red Cross Ambulance Incident
Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 3:25:12 pm PDT
Zombie’s latest is a massive exposé of a particularly ugly bit of Hizballah propaganda, that was quickly and efficiently circulated by our always-willing-to-be-fooled mainstream media: The Red Cross Ambulance Incident.
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New York Sun on Human Rights Watch
Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 3:09:46 pm PDT
A New York Sun editorial blasts the director of the George Soros-funded far-left “NGO” Human Rights Watch, for twisting the facts and attempting to obfuscate his organization’s clear antipathy toward Israel: Roth’s Latest. Kenneth Roth denies a “rush to judgment” in Qana. But only hours after the attack, Mr. Roth and ...
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E&P Goes for the Smear
Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 12:35:42 pm PDT
Here’s a textbook example of how to deliberately avoid dealing with important issues by employing that time-honored journalistic technique, the cheap smear. From Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor & Publisher: In Defense of War Photographers. Allahpundit has gone through most of Mitchell’s flagrantly dishonest piece, and there isn’t much to add: ...
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German Muslims: It's a Protestant Crusade
Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:52:52 am PDT
Spiegel Online notes that the discovery of the failed Islamic terror plot to bomb German trains has given rise to the usual pathological denial and anti-logical conspiracy theories among the Muslim community of Hamburg: What Terror? The Protestant Crusade Conspiracy. This just in: The Lebanese men suspected of having deposited bombs ...
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Dutch Plane Incident
Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:18:28 am PDT
A Dutch plane bound for India was forced to return to the Netherlands today, and 12 passengers were arrested on landing. AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch police arrested 12 passengers on a U.S. Northwest Airlines plane bound for India which was forced to turn back to Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on Wednesday, news ...
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Hizballah Mosque in Hamburg
Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 9:41:04 am PDT
One of the suspects in the failed Islamic terror plot to bomb German trains may have been connected with the Imam Ali Mosque in Hamburg—believed by German intelligence to be a meeting place for Hizballah supporters: German police identify second train bomb suspect. The online version of newsweekly Der Spiegel said ...
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No Photos Without Hizballah Permit
Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 9:06:38 am PDT
A highly revealing sentence in the latest Kevin Sites post from Lebanon: As I raise my camera, the shouting becomes louder. Finally, even the men acquiesce to the women’s protests. No pictures, I’m told — unless we get a letter from Hezbollah giving us permission.
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Amnesty International Springs Into Action
Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 8:53:57 am PDT
Another day, another outrageously biased anti-Israel report from left-wing advocacy group Amnesty International: Lebanon: Deliberate destruction or ‘collateral damage’? Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure. It’s the usual AI fare, so slanted and deceptive it’s like reading a report from another dimension, a dimension where Hizballah barely exists, and Israel launched into ...
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Video of Kidnapped Fox Reporters Released
Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 8:17:33 am PDT
The Palestinian group that kidnapped Fox News reporter Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig has issued their demands, and a video of the hostages. TV critic Bob Laurence of the San Diego Union-Tribune says Centanni and Wiig deserved to be kidnapped because they worked for Fox, and they shouldn’t expect any ...
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Lebanese PM Wants US to Help Hizballah
Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 8:01:45 am PDT
Lebanon appeals to the United States to pressure Israel into lifting their blockade, so that Hizballah can restock their arsenals. They also want more money from us. BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon urged the United States on Wednesday to make Israel remove a sea and air blockade it imposed at the start of ...
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Tuesday Night Fence
Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 8:23:27 pm PDT
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NSA Judge Update
Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 6:32:26 pm PDT
In the NSA controversy, it turns out that the judge might have had a conflict of interest. Color me surprised. UPDATE at 8/22/06 6:36:19 pm: More at Gateway Pundit: Judge Anna Diggs Taylor’s Dirty Donations.
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AP: Germany "Surprised"
Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 6:30:06 pm PDT
The Associated Press says Germans are surprised that Islamic terrorists plotted mass murder against them, since they opposed the Iraq war: Train bombing plot surprises Germany. (Hat tip: Piltdown Man.) But I know that a lot of Germans were not surprised at all. BERLIN - A Lebanese student suspected of planting a ...
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Islamic Scholars: Kill The Jews, But Not Here
Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 6:12:41 pm PDT
As an indicator of how out-of-control the jihad incitement has gotten in the Middle East over the Lebanon War, the sheikhs of the Al-Azhar Mosque, considered among the world’s highest authorities on Sunni Islam, had to issue a special fatwa forbidding the random murder of Jews: Egypt’s Muslim authorities disown ...
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Brit Passengers Defend Air Mutiny
Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 4:30:10 pm PDT
We have an update on that British Air Passengers Mutiny story from Saturday, as information emerges that the passengers may have had more cause for alarm than first reported: Malaga passenger defends actions. (Hat tip: Allahpundit.) David Wearden, who was returning from a nine-day holiday with his wife and three children, ...
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"You Live For the Sake of the Devil"
Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 3:21:59 pm PDT
Abu Abdullah, a British convert to Islam and associate of convicted terrorist Abu Hamza, is interviewed by Dan Rivers for CNN and says the US deserved the 9/11 attacks. (Rivers does his best to promote the “tiny minority” line of PC hogwash, in the face of the almost palpable hatred ...
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UK Muslim Group Suing Government
Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 2:07:58 pm PDT
The Islamic Human Rights Commission (aka the legal wing of the global jihad) is suing the British government for allowing the US to use UK airports for shipments of military hardware to Israel: Muslim group sues UK over arms flights. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The Government will face claims in the ...
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The Return of the Incredibly Strange Training Session of the Palestinian Security Officers
Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 9:19:23 am PDT
In the West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian security officers demonstrate their state of the art security officering techniques, including ... The mastery of camouflage! Kidnapping by fern people! And last but definitely not least... The leap of flaming doom!
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Iran Goes for Overtime
Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 8:49:44 am PDT
Iran issued their reply to the EU-US package of “incentives” today—another ploy to buy time to complete their Manhattan Project: Iran ready for ‘serious’ nuclear talks. The negotiator, Ali Larijani, hand-delivered Iran’s response to a Western package of nuclear incentives aimed at persuading it to suspend enrichment. He gave the reply ...
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Iranian Ex-President to Speak at National Cathedral
Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 8:33:37 am PDT
The Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation (a name that’s a tip-off to its loony left nature), at the behest of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, has invited Iranian mullah Mohammad Khatami to speak next month at the Washington National Cathedral: Iran ex-president invited to Washington. At the Cathedral, the Rev. ...
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UN to Israel: "File a Complaint"
Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 8:21:41 am PDT
Anti-Israel UN tool Terje Roed-Larsen (lgf: search) says that if Israel discovers Hizballah smuggling arms into Lebanon, they should file a complaint through diplomatic channels: UN envoy to Livni: IDF raid near Baalbek violated cease-fire. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan views the Israel Defense Forces’ commando operation near Baalbek over the ...
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Hizballah Fauxtography
Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 8:07:33 am PDT
Andrew Bolt exposes a ridiculous Hizballah fauxtograph: Hezbollah sinks Australian warship.
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Iran Attacks Romanian Facility
Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 7:59:38 am PDT
Iran ‘fires on Romanian oil rig’. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian oil rig off the coast of Iran came under fire from an Iranian warship and was later occupied by Iranian troops, a company spokesman said. The Iranians first fired into the air and then fired at ...
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Monday Night Ocean
Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 9:12:58 pm PDT
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UN Peacekeepers Spring Into Action, Open Gates for Hizballah
Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 6:42:14 pm PDT
Hizbollah pushes past guards in show of force. (Hat tip: Ethel.) Hizbollah mourners on a funeral parade shoved aside anti-tank barriers at a United Nations base in Lebanon yesterday in a demonstration of their new political strength. The party had been told it would be allowed to bury three “martyrs” at the ...
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Bashir: "Our Prophet Was a Radical Too"
Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 5:58:33 pm PDT
Abu Bakr Bashir, recently released from prison by the “moderate” Muslim state of Indonesia, is interviewed by a sympathetic Malaysian “academic” for Al Jazeera, and says Islam is not radical enough. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Farish A. Noor: Some would argue that this weakness stems from the fear of being ...
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Extremist Groups Recruiting at UK Schools
Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 3:53:04 pm PDT
The Times Higher Education Supplement has a piece about radical Islamic recruitment efforts at British universities: Extremist groups set to recruit freshmen. Universities have been warned this week that Islamist extremists are likely to target freshers fairs looking for recruits, fuelling accusations that politically correct academics are burying their heads in ...
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Ahmadinejad: "The Iranian People Will Force You to Bow and Surrender"
Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 1:07:57 pm PDT
From Iranian TV, August 13, 2006. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: When they talk about a “New Middle East,” they mean a Middle East that is held captive by America, England, and the Zionist regime. When they talk about a “New Middle East,” they do not mean progress, development, independence, ...
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Video: Bush Press Conference
Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 12:57:25 pm PDT
Allahpundit has video clips from President Bush’s press conference: “We’re not leaving so long as I’m president.”
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Britain's Big Problem
Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:41:50 am PDT
A surprisingly frank piece from the New York Times on the disturbing prevalence of violent jihadist rhetoric in Britain: British Law Against Glorifying Terrorism Has Not Silenced Calls to Kill for Islam. LONDON, Aug. 20 — From his home on the northwest edge of this city, Muhamad al-Massari runs a Web ...
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BBC Admits Engaging in Staged Photos
Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:15:06 am PDT
In this Lebanon report, the BBC (probably inadvertently) admits that they stood by and took photographs as Hizballah put a child’s life in danger: Dangers await Lebanon returnees. (Hat tip: USS Neverdock.) When Um Ali Mihdi returned to her home in the southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil two days ago, ...
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Video: I, A Muslim
Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 10:42:42 am PDT
The controversial Czech TV documentary “I, A Muslim,” in which a reporter used a hidden camera to record inside mosques, has been posted (with English subtitles) at Google Video by LGF reader “Abu Kafir:” I, a Muslim. Previously at LGF: Czech TV Documentary Enrages Muslims.
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CAIR Smears Jihad Watch
Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 9:27:31 am PDT
The Council on American Islamic Relations is whining, seething, and doing one of their trademark “Action Alert” smear jobs (intended to provoke their members into harassing and muzzling their critics), in response to Robert Spencer’s appearance last night on C-SPAN: CAIR wants YOU to write to C-Span! UPDATE at 8/21/06 9:44:55 ...
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Eat At Adolf's
Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 8:59:49 am PDT
From the “World Gone Nuts” file: MUMBAI (Reuters) - A new restaurant in India’s financial hub, named after Adolf Hitler and promoted with posters showing the German leader and Nazi swastikas, has infuriated the country’s small Jewish community. ‘Hitler’s Cross’, which opened last week, serves up a wide range of continental fare ...
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British Jihadis Charged
Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 8:51:43 am PDT
Britain has charged eleven people in the Islamic terror plot to blow up airplanes on their way to the US. Eight have been charged with conspiracy to murder and preparing acts of terrorism. Two have been charged with failing to disclose information and a 17-year-old with possessing articles useful to a ...
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Iran Denies Inspectors Access to Site
Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 8:39:58 am PDT
Iran is refusing to allow IAEA inspectors into the nuclear site at Natanz. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) VIENNA, Austria - Iran has turned away U.N. inspectors wanting to examine its underground nuclear site in an apparent violation of the Nonproliferation Treaty, diplomats and U.N. officials said Monday. The officials, who spoke on ...
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Guardian: Arabs Are Sensible, Western Leaders Are Intemperate Brutes
Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 8:17:43 am PDT
At the Guardian, the editor of Lebanon’s Daily Star demonstrates that curious inversion of reality that dominates Arab discourse, denying (or completely ignoring) the genocidal hatred of the surrounding Arab states and blaming everything on Israel: Israel and the US are still focused on the wrong issues. (Hat tip: WriterMom.) Israel’s ...
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Saudis Demand Apology
Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 9:13:39 pm PDT
Our friends the Saudis are demanding an apology from President Bush: Shoura Chief Wants Bush Apology. JEDDAH, 21 August 2006 — Shoura Council Chairman Dr. Saleh Bin-Humaid yesterday called for a public apology from US President George W. Bush for linking Islam and Muslims with fascism and terrorism. The chairman was referring ...
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Europe Backs Out of Lebanon Cease-Fire
Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 7:47:20 pm PDT
They’re all backing out. None of the European countries who were so loudly calling for a cease-fire in Lebanon are willing to commit troops. They’re afraid of being sitting ducks, human shields for Hizballah. And they should be: Europeans Delay Decision on Role Inside Lebanon. (Hat tip: Ron.) PARIS, Aug. 20 — ...
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Cycle of Violence: Law of the Beehive
Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 7:34:18 pm PDT
Yesterday’s ride: 47.92 miles, mostly flat, mostly uneventful. And then there was the bee, near the end of the ride. We were pedaling along at a pretty high intensity into a headwind, when suddenly it felt like someone had stabbed my leg. I looked down; a very large bee (about ...
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Olmert: Anyone But France!
Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 6:27:37 pm PDT
Ehud Olmert wakes up and realizes that if he doesn’t do something fast, France, Indonesia, and Malaysia are going to be supplying most of the troops for the UN “force” on Israel’s northern border: Olmert asks Italy to lead UN force. (Hat tip: The Possessed.)
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Melanie Phillips on "Londonistan"
Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 4:33:04 pm PDT
Melanie Phillips on Britain’s (and the West’s) debilitating refusal to confront the hard issues—issues of religion and ideology—in the war against radical Islam: Video: Melanie Phillips on “Londonistan”.
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Jihad Watch on C-SPAN
Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 4:17:59 pm PDT
Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, will be interviewed on C-SPAN’s Q & A at 8 pm ET tonight. You can watch it over the web here: C-SPAN: Watch LIVE. UPDATE at 8/20/06 8:24:41 pm: Robert Spencer emailed to let me know that he’s having some problems at Jihad Watch; you can ...
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Iran Won't Stop Manhattan Project
Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 3:50:29 pm PDT
Iran keeps telling the Western world they’re not going to stop developing nuclear weapons. The West keeps pretending we just need to find the right incentives, as a radical Islamic totalitarian state run by Holocaust-denying apocalyptic lunatics inches ever closer to the ultimate weapon: Iran says it won’t halt atomic ...
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Tamimi: "We Are Muslims in Europe, Not European Muslims"
Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 2:46:52 pm PDT
At the ExpoIslamia convention in Manchester today, billed as “A Call to Humanity,” featured speaker Azzam Tamimi expressed support for Hizballah and Hamas, and extolled the virtues of death: Firebrand Islamic academic: ‘dying for your beliefs is just’. A British-based Muslim radical appeared to back suicide bombing yesterday when he claimed ...
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Ben Stein: Looking for the Will
Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 9:02:15 am PDT
An excellent piece by Ben Stein that somehow slipped past the filters at the New York Times: Looking for the Will Beyond the Battlefield. The other side considers it a privilege to fight and die for its beliefs. Those on the other side cannot wait to line up to blow themselves ...
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Hizballah Night-Vision Gear: From the UN?
Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 8:33:36 am PDT
Israeli intelligence says that British-made night-vision equipment captured from Hizballah terrorists came from Iran—via the United Nations. (08-20) 04:00 PDT Kiryat Shemona, Israel — Israeli intelligence officials have complained to Britain and the United States that sensitive night-vision equipment recovered from Hezbollah fighters during the war in Lebanon had been exported ...
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UN Worried About Bogus Truce
Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 8:17:23 am PDT
The UN, having totally failed to assemble a credible peacekeeping force for Lebanon, now frets that the “truce” may unravel. BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Sunday the week-old truce between Israel and Hizbollah could easily collapse, a day after it condemned an Israeli raid on the guerrillas in ...
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Hatefest in Manchester
Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 8:05:57 am PDT
Today in Manchester, thousands of UK Muslims will attend ExpoIslamia, a convention whose stated goal is to “present Islam to Muslims and non-Muslims in its clearest and most original form.” A featured speaker at the convention will be the infamous Azzam Tamimi, whose raving and shrieking about jihad was captured on ...
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Saturday Night Spheres
Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 8:10:42 pm PDT
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AFP Gets Hizballah's Word Out
Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 6:25:25 pm PDT
Are you curious about Hizballah’s view of the Israeli raid today? Then you’re in luck, because there’s this wire service called Agence France Presse that specializes in stories from the terrorists’ point of view: Hezbollah supporters tell of bold Israeli raid gone wrong. BUDAY, Lebanon (AFP) - In the eastern Lebanese ...
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British Air Passengers Mutiny
Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 5:51:53 pm PDT
Mutiny on Flight 613. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny - refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed. The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian ...
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Britain Has a Big Problem
Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 4:45:30 pm PDT
At Moonbat Media, scenes from radical Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir’s march to the US embassy: Hizb ut-Tahrir protest against America, London, 19 August 2006.
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"Martyrdom Videos" Found in UK Airplane Plot
Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 4:10:32 pm PDT
British authorities investigating the airplane bombing plot have discovered several “martyrdom videos” (the taped statements often made by Islamic terrorists before they commit suicidal mass murder): Terror police find ‘martyr tapes’. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Police investigating an alleged plot to bring down airliners have found several martyrdom videos in the ...
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Kofi Annan Springs Into Action, Condemns Israel
Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 3:23:40 pm PDT
He’s not one bit concerned that Syria and Iran are trying to rearm Hizballah as quickly as possible, but Kofi Annan says the Israeli raid in Lebanon violates the UN’s meaningless truce. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said an Israeli raid in Lebanon on Saturday violated the U.N.-backed truce ...
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Honor Killing in Italy
Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 3:08:09 pm PDT
Two charged with honour killing. Italian police were searching yesterday for a man suspected of involvement in the killing of a Pakistani woman after her father and uncle were charged with slitting her throat because she dated an Italian man and refused to conform to an Islamic lifestyle. Investigators believe the third ...
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Hizballah's Media Relations Department Gets to Work
Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 9:04:43 am PDT
Now that the fighting is (temporarily) over in Lebanon, Hizballah and their wire service useful idiots are issuing an amazing barrage of pro-Hizballah propaganda, with numerous shots of Hizballah workers distributing stacks of apparently new, possibly counterfeit $100 bills.
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Germans Arrest Terror Plot Suspect
Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 8:39:29 am PDT
German police have arrested a suspect in the attempted Islamic terror attack on German trains: Police detain suspect in July bomb plot-report. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BERLIN (Reuters) - German security forces have taken into custody a suspect linked to last month’s failed plot to explode bombs on German trains, a ...
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Toronto Terror Suspects Were ClearGuidance Kids
Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 7:56:47 am PDT
In the early days of Little Green Footballs, following the 9/11 attacks, we discovered an incredibly vile Islamic discussion forum known as ClearGuidance, self-described as “a resource guide for Muslim American teenagers,” where Muslim kids traded decapitation videos and jihad talk. Today the Globe and Mail reports that at least two ...
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France Springs Into Action
Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 7:41:49 am PDT
About 50 French peacekeepers arrive in south Lebanon.
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CAIR Vice-Chairman Assaults Woman, Gets Free Pass
Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 7:35:44 am PDT
The Columbus city prosecutor is refusing to prosecute CAIR’s National Vice-Chairman, Dr. Ahmad Al-Akhras, for assaulting LGF reader Ciaospirit—even though she has proof of the assault on video: The Columbus city prosecutor refuses to press charges against CAIR and Dr. Al-Akhras for assaulting me, twice. I was told that there wasn’t ...
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Peacekeeping Force Won't Use Force to Keep Peace
Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 7:23:00 am PDT
Today Kofi Annan reassured Hizballah that they have nothing to fear from the United Nations. UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan appealed to U.N. member states to provide desperately needed U.N. peacekeeping troops for Lebanon and assured them the U.N. force would not “wage war” on Israel, Lebanon, or Hezbollah militants. “It ...
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Friday Night Globe
Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 8:49:02 pm PDT
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Inciting Children
Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 6:44:42 pm PDT
MEMRI TV has a new category focused on Arab media’s indoctrination of Arab Muslim children to a life of hatred and violence: Inciting Children.
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The Next Generation
Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 6:07:33 pm PDT
A Palestinian boy holds a toy gun and wears a mask while pretending to shoot at U.S. tourists on a street in Jerusalem’s old town August 18, 2006. REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly (Hat tip: Dan Riehl.)
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Bernard Lewis: August 22
Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 5:49:50 pm PDT
A lot of people are talking about the significance of August 22 in the “Hidden Imam” apocalyptic fantasy apparently believed by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I’ve been reluctant to give too much credence to it, because the whole thing smacks of whacked out end times craziness, and Gog knows there’s ...
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Perlmutter: Photojournalism in Crisis
Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 4:11:30 pm PDT
David D. Perlmutter, Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies & Research at the University of Kansas School of Journalism & Mass Communications, has an excellent piece on the Fauxtography Scandal—with a big salute to all the blogs who pushed the story forward: Photojournalism in Crisis. (August 18, 2006) — The ...
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The Michael Moore Fan Club
Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 1:18:50 pm PDT
Michael Moore has fans all over the world, not just at Daily Kos: Iraqi group uses Michael Moore film to mock Bush. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi militant group has produced an elaborate video of what it said were attacks on U.S. troops, in the latest example of the increasingly sophisticated ...
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UK Radical Front Group Gets Blogger Suspended
Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:13:54 am PDT
The UK’s Muslim Public Affairs Committee saw nothing wrong when a Reuters employee sent a death threat to Little Green Footballs in May. In fact, MPACUK invented a bizarre conspiracy plot to justify it, calling LGF (quite flatteringly, I thought) “the most powerful enemies Muslims have faced in a thousand ...
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The Army That Only Goes Where It's Safe
Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:16:40 am PDT
Before committing troops to the Lebanon ceasefire they championed at the United Nations, France wants safety guarantees. I’m not making this up. Despite expectations that France would provide the bulk of a planned 15,000 strong UN force, Paris said Thursday it would send 200 troops to reinforce the UN mission in Lebanon. While ...
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Details of German Terror Plot Released
Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 9:37:14 am PDT
Earlier this month we noted a report of bombs found on German trains, and today German authorities released more details on what was apparently intended to be an atrocity on the scale of the July 7 bombings in London: German Police Release Bomb Suspect Images, Set Reward. The German Criminal Police ...
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UN Springs Into Action, Begs for Help
Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 9:06:04 am PDT
The UN’s second in command, anti-American George Soros pal Mark Malloch Brown, who doesn’t believe we should label Hizballah a terrorist organization, is making an urgent appeal to Europe to provide Lebanon peacekeepers. Because all those nations that were screaming so loudly for a ceasefire are now dragging their heels. UNITED NATIONS ...
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Israel's Enemies Part of UN Force
Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 8:38:17 am PDT
Among the so-called “peacekeepers” in the UN’s toothless international force, supposed to guard Israel’s northern border and prevent Hizballah from reestablishing itself, are two Islamic nations who do not recognize Israel’s right to exist: Israel alarm at UN force members. (Hat tip: Kragar.) Israel says it would be “difficult if not ...
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What CNN Bias?
Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 8:13:16 am PDT
After uncritically publishing hundreds (if not thousands) of photos misrepresented and staged by Hizballah, CNN suddenly decides to inform their readers that images from Lebanon may have been edited. By Israel. Video provokes questions of Lebanese army. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) In the video, two Israeli tanks roll up to the gate of ...
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Thursday Night Kite
Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 8:49:34 pm PDT
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UK Police Find Bombmaking Equipment
Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 7:12:58 pm PDT
The Times of London reports that a suitcase full of bomb equipment has been found by police investigating the airplane bombing plot. (Hat tip: Robert O.) A SUITCASE filled with bomb-making material has been found by police teams investigating the alleged plot to blow up aircraft over the Atlantic. The suitcase, containing ...
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A New Amendment
Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 7:04:14 pm PDT
From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.
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Peters: Hezbollah 3, Israel 0
Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 6:08:52 pm PDT
I’m having a difficult time coming up with a reason not to agree with Ralph Peters’ hard nosed assessment of the outcome of the Hizballah-Israel war: Hezbollah 3, Israel 0. August 17, 2006 — ISRAEL’S rep for toughness in tatters. Hezbollah triumphant. Iran cockier than ever. Syria untouched. Lebanon’s government crippled. ...
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Desecration of Israeli Bodies by Lebanese Villagers
Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 4:54:50 pm PDT
In this Future TV (Lebanon) propaganda piece about a Hizballah stronghold in southern Lebanon, villagers are seen dumping body parts out of duffel bags—from IDF soldiers, they claim—and desecrating them, stepping on them and holding them up for Future TV’s camera. The words that come immediately to mind are “appalling savagery.” ...
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Wiretapping Overseas Terror Suspects Ruled Illegal
Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 3:58:35 pm PDT
In a nation five years removed from the destruction of the two tallest buildings in New York City and the murder of nearly 3,000 people, the ACLU has acted on behalf of radical Islamic front group CAIR and succeeded in getting a federal judge to order a halt to the ...
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N. Korea Preparing Nuclear Test?
Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 2:49:02 pm PDT
ABC News reports that North Korea appears to be preparing for a nuclear test. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Aug. 17, 2006 — There is new evidence that North Korea may be preparing for an underground test of a nuclear bomb, U.S. officials tell ABC News. “It is the view of the intelligence community ...
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The Protocols of the Daily Kos, Part 15
Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 2:23:54 pm PDT
The mistaken bombing of the USS Liberty by Israel during the Six Day War, a linchpin of antisemitic conspiracy delusions for decades, makes an appearance today in a Daily Kos diary as the progressive, tolerant, netroots gang “criticizes Israel:” Daily Kos: Beholden to Israel? : Case study - the USS ...
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Mufti of Egypt: "The Blood-Sucking Hebrew Entity"
Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 2:02:12 pm PDT
One of the world’s highest Islamic authorities, the Mufti of Egypt Dr. ’Ali Gum’a, has written an article for Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram just oozing insanity and Jew-hatred, and drawing on medieval blood libel fantasies: The Mufti of Egypt: The True Face of the Blood-Sucking Hebrew Entity has Been Exposed. “Greetings ...
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Breaking: Explosives Found at Tri-State Airport
Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 12:53:17 pm PDT
Explosive Substances Found at Tri-State Airport. Tri-State Airport in Wayne County has been evacuated. A perimeter has been set up, and evacuees are being asked to stand back 350 feet from the airport. The Transportation Security Administration reports that a passenger’s water bottle screened positive for an explosive material around 9:15 this ...
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Flying Pig Sighted in Hollywood
Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 9:26:18 am PDT
A group of Hollywood stars, directors, and studio suits has taken out an ad in the LA Times condemning terrorism. And for once, they aren’t talking about the United States. Kidman condemns Hamas, Hezbollah. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) NICOLE Kidman has made a public stand against terrorism. The actress, joined by 84 other ...
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LA Times Covers for Murtha
Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 9:05:50 am PDT
Patterico, the nemesis of Pravda West, has caught the LA Times lying again, this time about their cut-n-run poster boy John Murtha: Hagee’s Office Responds: Contradicts L.A. Times.
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France's Very Cold Feet
Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 8:21:11 am PDT
The Lebanon ceasefire is becoming a pathetic joke, as the macho French, so quick to jump in and lead the ceasefire initiative, decide they’re not interested in actually doing anything they promised. France is considering providing only a symbolic force for the United Nations contingent in Lebanon, and not the thousands ...
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Lebanese MP Wants Credit for "Victory"
Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 8:17:57 am PDT
Still believe that Lebanon is going to take action to disarm Hizballah, or guard the Syrian border to make sure Hizballah isn’t re-armed? Then read the statements of Parliamentary leader Saad Hariri—whose own father was assassinated by Syria: Hariri slams Assad for trying to ‘steal’ Lebanon victory. BEIRUT (AFP) - Parliamentary ...
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Carter: "Historical Facts Can Be Ignored"
Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 8:06:20 am PDT
The worst President the United States ever had continues subverting the country with interviews overseas, and his latest is a real winner: ‘The US and Israel Stand Alone’. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) SPIEGEL: You also mentioned the hatred for the United States throughout the Arab world which has ensued as a ...
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Indonesia Frees Mass Murderer
Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 7:48:19 am PDT
The “moderate” Islamic state of Indonesia has released from prison one of the evil mass murderers who killed 202 people in the Bali nightclub bombings: Islamic Militant Convicted in 2002 Bali Bombings Released From Prison. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) JAKARTA, Indonesia — An Islamic militant jailed for the Bali bombings ...
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Wednesday Night Dunes
Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 8:32:17 pm PDT
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New 9/11 Tapes Released
Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 7:46:28 pm PDT
NYC releases new 9/11 tapes. There are no words. NEW YORK - Trapped and running out of air on the smoky 83rd floor of the World Trade Center, Melissa Doi begged the 911 operator not to hang up. “Can you stay on the line with me, please? I feel like I’m dying,” ...
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France Getting Nervous
Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 7:06:11 pm PDT
It’s beginning to dawn on France what they’ve gotten themselves into: France uneasy about mandate. (Hat tip: Tadeusz.) French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie voiced concern about deploying troops without clearly defined goals. “France wants the mission’s rules of engagement to be clear and it to have real means,” she told French TV. ...
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Green Helmet Guy on Hizballah TV
Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 6:39:35 pm PDT
This is an edited collection of clips that I put together, featuring Salam Daher (“Green Helmet Guy”) from video shot by Al Manar TV (the Hizballah television channel, listed as a terrorist-supporting entity by the US State Department) on the day of the Israeli bombing in Qana that killed 28 ...
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Human Rights Lawyers Prepare to Condemn Israel
Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 5:58:37 pm PDT
Here we go again: International jurists group to probe Israel-Hezbollah conflict. Prediction: these mostly European elite “jurists” will produce a totally unbalanced report focusing on Israel’s “violations of humanitarian and human rights law,” with only the most cursory recognition of the fact that Hizballah is an illegitimate terrorist force using civilians ...
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Pro-Hizballah Rally in Washington DC, Aug 12, 2006
Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 5:36:29 pm PDT
Lots of disturbing, revealing video from the pro-Hizballah demonstrations in Washington DC this past weekend, at FightingTheLeft.com. As you watch, remember that the Associated Press described this rally as a “family friendly crowd,” calling for “peace and justice for all.”
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Orla Guerin: "You People Are All the Same"
Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 5:14:30 pm PDT
Daniel Freedman at the New York Sun remembers a previous encounter with BBC reporter Orla Guerin (recently caught playing fast and loose with the truth in Lebanon): How Orla Guerin Ruined My Afternoon; or, BBC Bias Exposed Archives. I would have expected nothing less from her, since I’ve been on the ...
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Hitler, the Mufti of Jerusalem, and Islamic Fascism
Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 2:25:58 pm PDT
I’ve read about the alliance between Adolf Hitler and Muslim Arab leaders in World War II, and seen still photographs, but this is the first time I’ve seen actual video of Hitler meeting with the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini—Yasser Arafat’s alleged uncle. From a German TV documentary, ...
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Azzam Tamimi's Duplicity Exposed
Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 11:42:21 am PDT
Dan Sytman, co-host of “Sytman & Boze” on Seattle’s KTTH radio, put together this audio collage of Azzam Tamimi, with segments from his NPR appearance interspersed with his ranting jihad speech, for a very revealing look at the duplicity of radical Islamists. [Audio]
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Fox is Zombiefied
Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 9:59:45 am PDT
Zombie’s pictures of the collaboration between radical left and radical Islam in San Francisco made it onto Brit Hume’s show yesterday: Long time LGF readers and zombie fans will already know how widespread this kind of hate speech is at leftist “anti-war” rallies, but mainstream media usually do their best to ...
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NYT: Hizballah Suddenly Everywhere
Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 9:44:13 am PDT
During the war, as far as the New York Times was concerned, Hizballah didn’t exist. All we heard about, in a seemingly endless stream of photographs and articles, were civilians, rescue workers, and innocent victims. Today the New York Times reports that Hizballah is everywhere: Hezbollah Leads Work to Rebuild, Gaining ...
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An AP Anti-Israel Reporter
Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 8:51:15 am PDT
Associated Press reporter Bassem Mroue has a blog, and it demonstrates why so much of the reporting from the Middle East is blatantly biased—because many of the wire service journalists are promoting a hard core anti-Israel agenda. (Hat tip: Media Blog.) This charming illustration is now featured on Mroue’s blog: UPDATE at ...
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Reuters Files Puff Piece from Iran on Holocaust Denial
Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 8:17:33 am PDT
Here’s an excellent example of how degraded mainstream media has become as they increasingly allow themselves to be used by hate-spewing enemies of the free world, in a Reuters value-neutral, determinedly non-judgmental article about Iran’s Holocaust-denying cartoon contest: Iran seeks to test taboos with Holocaust cartoons. Organizers say displaying more than ...
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Breaking: Flight from London to DC Diverted
Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 8:00:34 am PDT
London-to-D.C. flight diverted to Boston. BOSTON - A flight from London to Washington, D.C. was diverted to Boston Wednesday morning after the pilot declared an emergency because of a passenger disturbance, the airline said. United Flight 923 with 182 passengers and 12 crew members landed safely at Boston’s Logan International Airport, United ...
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Palestinians Name Children "Hezbollah"
Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 7:53:51 am PDT
Such lovely people. I think it’s time for them to have their own state! Palestinians being named after Hezbollah. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Nahed Ghurani worried that naming his new son Hezbollah might cause the boy problems when he grows up. But young Hezbollah Ghurani won’t be the only Palestinian in ...
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LGF Tipster Profiled
Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 7:50:44 am PDT
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an article on Mike Thorson, the LGF reader who tipped me off to Adnan Hajj’s fauxtography: Janesville man spotted doctoring of photo from war in Middle East. The furor over a photograph began in such a quiet, ordinary way. Mike Thorson, a Janesville artist and part owner ...
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France Calls for Israel to Stop Worrying
Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 7:19:04 am PDT
France says there’s no need for Israel to worry about Hizballah re-arming themselves, now that the blue helmets are on the scene: France calls for end to Lebanon blockade. BEIRUT, Lebanon - The French foreign minister on Wednesday called for Israel to lift its air, naval and land blockade of Lebanon, ...
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Azzam Tamimi Uncensored
Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 8:32:32 pm PDT
LGF reader Alfred emailed a transcription of this video, featuring the Associated Press go-to guy, Azzam Tamimi, raving about jihad and destroying Israel. ... anybody in the world, with faith or without faith, must come together in order to eradicate this cancer from the body of humanity. [Crowd: Allah –u-Akbar] We ...
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"This Administration is Clearly So Beholden to Israel"
Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 7:46:10 pm PDT
Why do I have the feeling that if I look into the background of this group, I’ll find connections to one or another trans-nationalist progressive organization? Letter From Leaders Assails Bush’s Middle East Policies. (Hat tip: Ron.) In an effort to counter a mounting White House campaign to depict its Middle ...
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Tuesday Night Beach
Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 7:05:13 pm PDT
And always on the horizon, the double-hulled multinational supertankers.
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Headline of the Day
Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 6:54:04 pm PDT
The always effervescent Robert Fisk provides today’s Bizarro World headline: In the face of Bush’s lies, it’s left to Assad to tell the truth. In the sparse Baathist drawing rooms of Damascus, reality often seems a long way away. Indeed.
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Green Helmet Admits Staging Photos, AP Spins Furiously
Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 5:30:16 pm PDT
Salam Daher, the Green Helmet Guy, admits pimping dead bodies for staged photos. The AP’s bureau chief in Iran, Kathy Gannon, tries her best to spin the story. (Hat tip: Allahpundit.) The 20-year veteran civil defense worker said he shows dead children to photographers to make clear that Israeli airstrikes killed young ...
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Islamic Supremacist on Tucker Carlson
Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 5:15:21 pm PDT
Stephen Spruiell at National Review’s Media Blog has a video capture of radical Islamist lunatic Azzam Tamimi, trying to appear sane on Tucker Carlson’s show and failing miserably: Meet A Guy Who Thinks The British Terror Plots Are a Hoax. And good on Tucker, for holding this snake’s feet to the ...
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The Incredibly Strange Training Session of the Palestinian Security Officers
Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 4:41:06 pm PDT
Palestinian security officers demonstrate their mad skillz at: Camouflage! Kicking the jars of fire! And the ever-popular... flaming hoop leaping! Tremble, oh infidel, before their majesty.
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Al-Guardian Shills for Radical Islam
Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 3:44:39 pm PDT
The Associated Press quoted him yesterday issuing veiled threats to Britain without identifying him as a hard core hate-spewing radical Islamist, and today Azzam Tamimi shows up in al-Guardian arguing that the airplane bombing plot isn’t real: I bet you it will turn out to be a hoax. (Hat tip: ...
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Leading BBC Reporter Caught Lying
Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 2:45:24 pm PDT
Drinking From Home catches notoriously anti-Israel BBC reporter Orla Guerin in a blatant lie, claiming that the entire town of Bint Jbeil was destroyed—even though she could see untouched neighborhoods from where she stood: Orla Guerin - Busted! (Hat tip: JohninLondon.) Here’s her dishonest report at YouTube; see the link above ...
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Fox Shows Green Helmet Staging Corpse
Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 9:53:36 am PDT
This is excellent news, as mainstream media (Fox News, anyway) begins to examine the very serious evidence that photographs from Qana were deliberately staged for propaganda: Fox airs German clip of Green Helmet staging a scene at Qana.
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Reuters Shills for Death Cult Ideology
Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 8:51:15 am PDT
Absolutely astounding pro-Hizballah propaganda, reported from the terrorist viewpoint at Reuters by Arab writer Yara Bayoumy: Lebanese families praise Hizbollah ‘martyrs’. NABATIYEH, Lebanon (Reuters) - In the sheltered porch, women in headscarves and long robes weep gently, whisper verses of prayer and mourn a teenager as a “martyred hero.” The women are ...
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Still More Photo Staging Identified
Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 8:42:22 am PDT
Ray Robison has yet another example of staged photojournalism from Lebanon, a car with verses from the Koran strategically placed for propaganda effect: Al-AP at it again with staged photos. Ray comments: Notice this car has a wall-hanging positioned on the door. An Arabic reader tells me this board has verses ...
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Indonesian Jihadis Leaving for Lebanon
Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 8:03:07 am PDT
If you need more evidence that the “ceasefire” in Lebanon is a sham, intended to allow Hizballah a chance to rearm, here’s a report from Indonesia about 1,000 jihadis (financed by “Muslim businessmen”) on their way to Lebanon. (Hat tip: Nancy.) BATAM, Riau Islands: “Jihadists” wanting to transit in Batam before ...
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Ahmadinejad: "Allah's Promises Have Come True"
Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 7:43:41 am PDT
We knew this was coming: Ahmadinejad says Hezbollah victorious. TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that Hezbollah has “hoisted the banner of victory” over Israel and toppled U.S.-led plans for the Middle East. Iran and Syria are the main backers of the Islamic militant group. Ahmadinejad struck a tone ...
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UK Muslims Demand Special Rights and Sharia Law
Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 7:18:07 am PDT
Radical Islamic front groups in Britain have an overabundance of shameless audacity. Following the exposure of an Islamic terror plot to blow up a dozen airliners, Muslim leaders are now demanding special holidays and shari’a law: Muslims call for special bank holidays. (Hat tip: Niall.) Muslim leaders summoned to talks with ...
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UN Springs Into Action, Demands Full Reports
Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 9:31:48 pm PDT
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has a plan to stop the violence—he’ll demand full reports in triplicate: Annan details Mideast cease-fire terms. UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan has warned Israel and Lebanon against occupying additional territory and told them to refrain from responding to any attacks “except where clearly required ...
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Revisiting Beslan
Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 8:46:47 pm PDT
A grueling, must-read account of the horror that took place in The School at Beslan. (Hat tip: WordWarp.) SEPTEMBER 1. AFTERNOON. THE GYM. Kazbek Misikov stared at the bomb hanging above his family. It was a simple device, a plastic bucket packed with explosive paste, nails, and small metal balls. It ...
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Glick: The Olmert Government Must Go
Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 8:10:07 pm PDT
At the Jerusalem Post, Caroline Glick says: The Olmert government must go. From all sides of the political spectrum calls are being raised for the establishment of an official commission of inquiry to investigate the Olmert government’s incompetent management of the war in Lebanon. These calls are misguided. We do not need ...
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The Chinless Ophthalmologist Speaks
Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 7:46:06 pm PDT
Judging from Baby Assad’s latest pronouncement, Syria is preparing for more genocidal murder in the near future: Assad: We’ll liberate Golan Heights. Syrian President Bashar Assad said his country is prepared for any war that may break out with Israel, adding that he is convinced that the chances for peace have ...
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More Cell Phone Purchases
Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 6:08:53 pm PDT
A reader emailed on Saturday to let me know that he had personally seen (and reported) two Middle Eastern men purchasing a large quantity of untraceable cell phones at a Sam’s Club store in Tucson, Arizona. Today this incident is in the Tucson news, as police try to locate the ...
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A Death Cult Party in Jenin
Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 5:31:37 pm PDT
Here are some mainstream media photographs of a death cult party in the West Bank town of Jenin that are definitely not faked or staged, as Palestinians murder a “collaborator” in a public square in front of a celebratory crowd—who then take pictures of the murdered man with their mobile ...
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Our Friends the Saudis
Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 4:11:44 pm PDT
The petroleum parasites at the center of the global jihad are whining, seething, and lying through their teeth about President Bush’s statement on “Islamic fascism:” Saudi warns against accusing Muslims of fascism. JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) - Saudi Arabia warned against accusing Muslims of terrorism and fascism, in an apparent reference ...
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The Most Hypocritical People on Earth
Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 3:48:33 pm PDT
Lebanese writer Michael Béhé sees the situation clearly: The most hypocritical people on earth. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Of course, our army, reshaped over the years by the Syrian occupier so it could no longer fulfill its role as protector of the nation, did not have the capacity to tackle the ...
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Pro-Hizballah Rally in Toronto
Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 3:40:22 pm PDT
Girl on the Right has photos from the terrorist supporters’ rally in this weekend in Toronto—the city where an Islamic terror plot was only recently foiled.
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Multi-Use Building Watch
Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:50:07 am PDT
Randy at RightWinged.com has identified another multi-use building in Beirut: Reuters Attributes 3 Different Dates To One Building’s Destruction.
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Hizballah Proclaims Glorious Victory
Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:24:26 am PDT
Hezbollah claims victory against Israel. Well, of course. What else would they do? It’s standard Arab practice following an Israeli beatdown. BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said Monday that his guerrillas achieved a “strategic, historic victory” against Israel — a declaration that prompted celebratory gunfire across the Lebanese capital. Israel’s ...
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Breaking: Fox News Reporters Kidnapped in Gaza
Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:15:24 am PDT
Fox News television is running a developing story that two of their reporters may have been kidnapped in Gaza... (Hat tip: LGF readers.) UPDATE at 8/14/06 11:30:30 am: Two Fox News journalists kidnapped in Gaza: witness. (Hat tip: Abu Maven.) GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen kidnapped two foreign journalists working for the Fox ...
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Lebanese Autos Miraculously Survive Airstrikes
Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:53:22 am PDT
Allahpundit is examining another possible case of fauxtography, Lebanese cars supposedly hit by Israeli missiles that somehow remain remarkably intact and unburned: Fauxtography? Amazing new IAF missiles mimic sledgehammer damage. For example, this one taken by AP’s award winning photographer Nasser Nasser on August 6, 2006: Compare with Michael J. Totten’s photo ...
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British Government Dhimmitude Watch
Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:26:59 am PDT
Passport photograph of girl’s bare shoulders rejected ‘as it may offend’. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A five-year-old girl’s passport application was rejected because her photograph showed her bare shoulders. Hannah Edwards’s mother, Jane, was told that the exposed skin might be considered offensive in a Muslim country. The photograph was taken at a ...
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Unedited Ahmadinejad Today on C-SPAN
Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:01:25 am PDT
Today at 8 pm Eastern, at the request of Iran, the entire unedited (and unhinged) version of Mike Wallace’s interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be broadcast on C-SPAN. (Hat tip: grayp and Brenda.) UPDATE at 8/14/06 10:06:09 am: You can watch C-SPAN over the web here: C-SPAN: Watch LIVE.
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Associated Press Go-To Guy: Hard Core Radical Islamist
Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 9:20:48 am PDT
One of the most insidious and deceptive mainstream media practices is quoting radical Islamists (or radical leftists) as “experts” without providing any context to evaluate their statements. Here’s a prime example in an Associated Press article by William J. Kole, promoting the nonsensical, ahistorical view that US/British “foreign policy” is somehow ...
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Palestinians Targeted Mackinac Bridge?
Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 8:43:09 am PDT
Coast Guard increases Mackinac Bridge patrols. CARO - The U.S. Coast Guard has increased patrols near the Mackinac Bridge after prosecutors said they believe three Palestinian-American men from Texas now jailed on terrorism-related charges were targeting the 5-mile-long span. The men were arrested Friday outside a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. outlet in Caro ...
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The Corruption of the Media
Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 8:20:04 am PDT
A marathon post at EU Referendum collates the evidence of massive media corruption in the photographs from the Qana bombing, including yet another instance where a child’s body was repeatedly posed and staged for a swarm of photographers by more than one person, as a Hizballah handler directed the scene. ...
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CBS Viewers Dig Ahmadinejad, Dis Wallace
Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 7:57:16 am PDT
CBS News now allows reader comments on their web site, and the comments about Mike Wallace’s interview with Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are quite astounding: Iranian Leader Opens Up, Ahmadinejad Speaks Candidly With Mike Wallace About Israel, Nukes, Bush. This is a poor interview, everything from the hokey dubbing, the radically ...
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Ahmadinejad's Blog is Dangerous
Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 7:45:48 am PDT
A lot of readers emailed about a new Iranian web site that purports to be Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s blog, and a lot of other blogs have linked to it. But before you click through to the site (from somewhere else, I won’t post the link here), make sure your virus prevention software ...
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AP Circles the Wagons Around Green Helmet Guy
Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 8:26:48 pm PDT
It’s utterly surreal. The Associated Press does a full court press, supporting the man they now call Salam Daher with a multimedia presentation packed full of distortions and outright lies: A Grueling Task in Lebanon. (Hat tip: Geepers.) And again, just so we’re all clear about what’s being discussed and defended in ...
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Lebanon UN Ambassador: This Truce Will Be Israel's Last
Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 7:42:53 pm PDT
If you believe the truce between Lebanon/Hizballah and Israel has a chance of holding, or that Hizballah isn’t running things in Lebanon, just read the remarks of Lebanon’s ambassador to the UN: Truce will be Israel’s last, Lebanon envoy declares. WASHINGTON (AFP) - Lebanon’s UN ambassador bitterly slammed Israel’s month-long bombardment ...
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Genocidal Hatred on 60 Minutes
Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 7:12:12 pm PDT
The voice-over in this video is Ahmadinejad’s personal interpreter: A Terror Master on 60 Minutes.
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Face Up to Your Problem, Muslims Told
Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 6:31:31 pm PDT
More evidence that John Bull may have finally been pushed a bit too far: Face up to your problem, Muslims told. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) LONDON’S most influential former police chief has rounded on Britain’s Muslims, blaming them for the terrorist networks in the country. “When will the Muslim community in this ...
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UK Muslim Groups Pick Wrong Day to Issue Threats
Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 6:10:23 pm PDT
Radical Islamic front groups in Britain may have overplayed their hand, with that outrageous threatening letter they sent to Tony Blair following the exposure of the massive airplane bombing plot: Backlash over Muslims’ letter to Blair. It didn’t go down well at all in Parliament. Muslim leaders will today face Government demands ...
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Mike Wallace Sucks Up to Genocidal Madman
Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 5:57:13 pm PDT
Mike Wallace interviews Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tonight on 60 Minutes, and as we noted last week, finds him personable and interesting. The Kos Kidz think he seems like an OK guy too. Daily Kos: Mike Wallace Interview With Iran Leader Tonight on 60 Minutes. (Hat tip: Dennis.) Some of the Kidz ...
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Party Like It's 1938
Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 5:42:56 pm PDT
Hizballah supporters and Communists take to the streets of Paris, in the Boycott Israel demo, Paris, France, 12 August 2006. Moonbat Media also shot this chilling video: We’ve now seen Hizballah flags waving in most of the major capitals of the free world—including in front of the White House.
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The Family That Kills Together
Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 1:53:41 pm PDT
It’s bad enough that they murder other people’s children, but the anti-life ideology of radical Islam even leads followers to the ultimate depravity: Bottle and baby used as bomb. A HUSBAND and wife arrested in the British terror raids allegedly planned to take their six-month-old baby on a mid-air suicide mission. Scotland ...
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LGF on Reliable Sources
Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 11:04:54 am PDT
Allahpundit fired up his TiVo and grabbed a copy of my caged death match with Arianna Huffington this morning on Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz, and graciously allowed me to steal his video file and post it here for the lizardoid hordes. I still hate watching myself on TV. [Video] UPDATE at 8/13/06 ...
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A Fidel Fauxtograph?
Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 9:16:13 am PDT
A lot of people have emailed to ask if I think this photograph of Fidel Castro has been altered. Answer: if so, it was done skillfully. I don’t see any obvious signs. I also loaded it into Photoshop and tried a few tricks that often reveal modifications, and nothing turned up. UPDATE ...
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Hizballah Supporters Rally in DC, MSM Whitewashes
Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 9:00:54 am PDT
Age of Hooper shot this video at yesterday’s pro-Hizballah demonstration in Washington DC. Click through to his site for more pictures—and notice that he also says the rally’s attendance was much higher than media reports indicated. In the previous post, I wrote that media’s refusal to show the truth about these ...
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Breaking: Green Helmet Guy Hit in Israeli Airstrike
Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 8:51:53 am PDT
Buried in this AFP release is a bit of info about the infamous Green Helmet Guy: Thirteen killed as Israel keeps up strikes on Lebanon UK. (Hat tip: Yoni.) Two rescue workers, including the chief of the Lebanese Red Cross in Tyre, Salam Daher, were wounded by shrapnel during raids near ...
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Terrorism Supporters in Washington DC
Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 8:27:04 am PDT
From the Flickr page of Beth Howe, a supporter of the terror gang Hizballah demonstrates in front of the White House, August 12, 2006. (Hat tip: Gateway Pundit.) UPDATE at 8/13/06 8:47:29 am: Here are more photos of these lovely people found on Flickr. Please note that you won’t find a single hint ...
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Hizballah's Media Relations Department
Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 8:09:55 am PDT
I mentioned these business cards this morning when I was on Howard Kurtz’s Reliable Sources, so here they are again for our new readers. These are scans of genuine Hizballah business cards, for two of their media relations people in Lebanon, forwarded to me by a journalist who had more ...
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Cycle of Violence: LGF vs. Puffington, Live
Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 9:01:53 pm PDT
Today’s ride: 35.76 miles, moderate pace, nothing crazy. Tomorrow I’m scheduled to do Reliable Sources on CNN, bright and early, a nice pleasant chat with Howard Kurtz and Arianna Huffington.
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Stop the US-Israeli War Rally, San Francisco, August 12, 2006
Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 8:33:32 pm PDT
Zombie documents the insanity in San Francisco. There’s no other way to describe this. But you won’t see any of these images in the mainstream media. Stop the U.S.-Israeli War rally, San Francisco, August 12, 2006.
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Hizballah Supporters in Toronto
Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 8:05:12 pm PDT
Highly disturbing photos of Hizballah supporters in Toronto, at Girl on the Right. I’ve received several emails from LGF readers about the increasingly open anti-Israel and anti-US hatred at pro-Hizballah demonstrations occurring across Canada and the United States.
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Galloway Asks Al Jazeera Viewers for Money
Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 7:16:41 pm PDT
George Galloway needs money. And after a really disgusting bit of pandering to the lowest common denominator of the Arab world on JihadTV (Al Jazeera), he finally gets to the point. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video] There’s something seriously wrong with this man.
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LGF Tech Notes: Momentary Outage
Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 6:45:14 pm PDT
Our server got a case of indigestion for a little while, but after a dose of electronic Beano we’re firing on all cylinders again.
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Pinkerton Defends LGF and Bloggers
Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 6:04:14 pm PDT
Allahpundit has video of Jim Pinkerton on Fox News Watch, in a segment that warmed the empty cavity in my lizardoid chest where a heart should be: Pinkerton defends LGF, bloggers on Fox News Watch. As Jane Hall’s fishing around for the negative spin, she comes out with “a lot of ...
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AP Whitewashes Pro-Hizballah Rally in DC
Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 3:41:26 pm PDT
From a quick email that a reader sent from the rally in Washington DC today, I already know this Associated Press story is an absurd whitewash: Mideast rallies held in Washington, SF. WASHINGTON - Thousands of people gathered across from the White House on Saturday, even though the president was out ...
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Photographer Alleges Unearthing of Bodies
Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 2:48:28 pm PDT
From the international photographer’s forum Lightstalkers.org, photojournalist Bryan Denton, in a message from Beirut Lebanon, describes the most vile sort of photo staging imaginable: Lightstalkers :: Staged Shots from Lebanon? Please comment... i have been working in lebanon since all this started, and seeing the behavior of many of the lebanese ...
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LA Times: Take a Closer Look
Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 10:18:47 am PDT
Bravo to Tim Rutten at the Los Angeles Times for seeing the elephant in mainstream media’s living room: Lebanon photos: Take a closer look . (Hat tip: LGF readers.) What the major news organizations ought to be doing is to make their own analysis of the images coming out of Lebanon ...
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France Springs Into Action
Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 9:13:06 am PDT
Have no fear! French diplomats will disarm Hizballah. French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy made clear in an interview with Le Monde newspaper that the mission of the larger UNIFIL would not include disarming Hizbollah by force. “We never thought a purely military solution could resolve the problem of Hizbollah,” he said. “We are ...
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"Quake Money" Used for UK Plot
Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 8:59:18 am PDT
Pakistan’s Daily Times ( a paper that’s been known to publish jihadi screeds) reports that an Islamic “charity” organization transferred “a huge amount” of money to the UK terror plotters—and called it “earthquake relief:” ‘Quake money’ used to finance UK plane bombing plot. KARACHI: A UK-based Islamic charity organisation remitted a ...
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Meaningless Ceasefire Watch
Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 8:33:57 am PDT
The UN-brokered ceasefire, that will put blue-helmeted troops in south Lebanon with no mandate to use force, is nothing but a pause to allow Hizballah to regroup and rearm—and Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah isn’t even bothering to hide it: Hezbollah Leader Accepts U.N. Cease-Fire But Vows to Fight. BEIRUT, Lebanon — ...
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UK Muslim Groups Issue Veiled Threats
Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 8:21:37 am PDT
Here’s the full text of the threatening letter to Tony Blair signed by a large number of UK Muslim groups: Full text: Muslim groups’ letter. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Prime Minister, As British Muslims we urge you to do more to fight against all those who target civilians with violence, whenever ...
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MCB's Bunglawala: Do As We Say, And Nobody Gets Hurt
Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 8:04:56 am PDT
Inayat Bunglawala, assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain and the public relations person for jihad in the UK, issues veiled threats against Britain like a Mafia extortionist: It’s undeniable: British foreign policy is endangering all of us. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) This should not be misinterpreted as an apologia ...
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CAIR's Fauxtography Scandal
Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 7:15:32 pm PDT
This might be a good moment to remind you, gentle LGF lizardoid reader, that the Council on American Islamic Relations, recently quoted by the Washington Post smearing LGF, was caught red-handed last year in their own little Photoshop scandal—crudely drawing an Islamic headscarf on a woman who committed the sin ...
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AP Stands Behind Green Helmet Guy
Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 5:48:45 pm PDT
The Associated Press identifies “Green Helmet Guy:” ‘Green Helmet’ helps rescue the wounded. (Hat tip: Bubbaman.) They want us to know that Salam Daher would never be involved in such a thing as propaganda for Hizballah. TYRE, Lebanon - After hours of digging in the blistering heat, Salam Daher emerged from the ...
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UN Springs Into Action
Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 5:31:22 pm PDT
The United Nations (mainly France) and the glorious Lebanese Army will be charged with keeping Hizballah away from the border, in the proposed Security Council resolution to make everyone feel better without actually doing anything to solve the terrorist infestation in southern Lebanon. Hizballah’s response will show us how badly they’ve been ...
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Pallywood
Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 5:00:33 pm PDT
Many LGF readers have probably already seen this well-done short film by Richard Landes, on Palestinian manipulation of the world’s all-too-cooperative media, but since we have a lot of new readers (and since it’s on YouTube and doesn’t consume our bandwidth) this is a good time to feature it again: ...
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Reuters Sanitizing Multi-Use Building Shots?
Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 3:59:31 pm PDT
Here’s a Reuters photo filed at 10:50 am ET, August 9: A Lebanese civilian walks past a building wrecked by an overnight Israeli air raid on Beirut’s southern suburbs, August 9, 2006. (Sharif Karim/Reuters) The caption for the same photo, filed again at 12:26 pm ET, August 9, has a very ...
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British Suspect Filmed Martyrdom Video
Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 3:11:39 pm PDT
The UK terror plot was apparently close enough to its launch date that one of the suspects had already filmed his “martyrdom” video: British police find martyrdom video. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BRITISH police claim to have found a “martyrdom video” in which one of the 24 British Muslims arrested over ...
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Schlussel: Hizballah High
Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 11:18:48 am PDT
Debbie Schlussel continues digging into the Hizballah presence in Dearborn Michigan, where the principal of a high school is a relative of Hizballah’s “spiritual leader:” Hizballah High. Early yesterday, when I wrote about “All-American” Islamic Terrorists Ali Houssaiky and Osama Sabhi Abulhassan a/k/a “The Dearbornistan Boys,” I noted that both are ...
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Olmert Orders Ground Invasion
Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 10:46:31 am PDT
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has given the order for a massive ground invasion of southern Lebanon; Allahpundit has lots of links as usual: UN-dermined: Olmert orders ground assault to push to the Litani.
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Video: Photo Fraud in Lebanon
Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 10:33:10 am PDT
Aish.com has a good presentation on the Reuters Fauxtogate Scandal: Photo Fraud in Lebanon.
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LGF Exclusive: How Much Does It Cost to Buy Global TV News?
Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 9:24:03 am PDT
An LGF reader who worked for Associated Press TV News sent me the following article explaining how APTN works, and suggesting a reason why their coverage of the Middle East is so overwhelmingly biased against Israel: How Much Does It Cost to Buy Global TV News? The vast majority of the TV ...
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State Dept. Wants to Delay Arms to Israel
Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 8:40:34 am PDT
According to the New York Times, State Department officials are working to delay arms shipments to Israel: Israel wants hastened shipment of US rockets: NYT. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israel has asked the Bush administration to hasten delivery of short-range anti-personnel rockets armed with cluster munitions, which it could use to strike ...
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UK Terror Suspect Knew George Galloway
Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 7:53:18 am PDT
One of the UK terror plot suspects met with malevolent British MP George Galloway “many times:” Suspect ‘met Galloway’. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) TERROR suspect Waheed Zaman met controversial MP George Galloway many times, his sister said last night. Safeena, 24, said of her 23-year-old brother: “He saw it as his duty ...
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The Kos GOP Photograph
Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 7:31:04 am PDT
Revisiting our post from last night, rising Democratic moonbat Markos Moulitsas Zuniga claimed to have found evidence that the GOP added a “Hitler mustache” to a picture of Howard Dean on their web site: Daily Kos: Republican Party puts Hitler mustache on Dean. Here’s the image Kos posted, with the “Hitler ...
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Daily Kos: Me Too!
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:37:49 pm PDT
Yes, they really are this pathetic, as the Nutroots gang (led by Kos himself) try to drum up their own little fauxtography scandal: Daily Kos: Republican Party puts Hitler mustache on Dean. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) And I do mean “little.”
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Thursday Night Lighthouse
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:23:09 pm PDT
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UK Terror Plot Overview
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 9:42:22 pm PDT
Allahpundit outdoes himself with this post pulling together the increasingly crazy UK terror plot details.
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19 UK Suspects Named
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 8:04:39 pm PDT
At the London Times Online: A plan ‘to commit unimaginable mass murder’. (Hat tip: sr_soph.) These are the names of 19 suspects reportedly being held by the police after the foiled plot and whose assets the Treasury has sought to have frozen. Umir Hussain, 24, London E14 Muhammed Usman Saddique, 24, London E17 Waheed ...
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Hizballah Supporters Rally in Dearborn
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 7:58:04 pm PDT
Daily pro-Hizballah rallies are taking place in Dearborn, Michigan: ‘Americans’ for Hezbollah. UPDATE at 8/10/06 8:06:15 pm: Also see Debbie Schlussel’s latest post on the Dearborn terror suspects.
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Photojournalism Ethics: Fauxtography
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 7:08:20 pm PDT
Interesting context for the fauxtography scandal: Photojournalism Ethics: Chapter Six: Picture Manipulations.
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McKinney Supporters Hate Jews
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 6:53:06 pm PDT
Supporters of Cynthia McKinney (Moonbat - Ga.) were in a foul mood when she lost the election, and showed it with openly antisemitic remarks. [Video]
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The Latest Hudna
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 6:03:07 pm PDT
Tashbih Sayyed offers some hard-won words of wisdom about The Cease-fire. (Hat tip: EE.) The latest flare-up in a 59 years long war to wipe the Jewish state off the map of the world is fast approaching its expected closure. Israel is once again being forced to leave the job of ...
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UK Terror Suspects Named
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 5:32:01 pm PDT
At ABC News’ The Blotter, the names of three of the terror suspects arrested in Britain: • Rashid Rauf • Mohammed al-Ghandra • Ahmed al Khan
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CAIR Doesn't Like Us
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 4:54:18 pm PDT
Radical Islamist front group CAIR continues to libel me (by name) and Little Green Footballs in general, with a release on their web site about their statement to the Washington Post that repeats Ibrahim Hooper’s falsehoods, and has a classic CAIR smear for its title: CAIR: Islamophobic Blog Takes Aim ...
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Hizballah Weapons Transport Vehicle
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 4:08:35 pm PDT
From Israeli site HNN, pictures of captured Hizballah weapons include a Katyusha rocket launcher, a US-made TOW anti-tank missile launcher, Sagger guided anti-tank missiles, and one of Hizballah’s sophisticated anti-tank weapons transport vehicles—a Nissan Primera. (Hat tip: MechFighter and Maxim.) This is why “civilian” vehicles in south Lebanon are being targeted ...
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Green Helmet Guy: The Blog
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 3:30:18 pm PDT
The Lebanese “rescue worker” we’ve seen in so many fauxtographs has apparently decided if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em: Green Helmet Guy: The Blog.
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CAIR Goes Nuts Over Bush Remark
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 1:34:40 pm PDT
Right on cue, the Council on American Islamic Relations pegs the Seethe-O-Meter over President Bush’s use of the words “Islamic fascism:” US Muslims bristle at Bush term ‘Islamic fascists’. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Muslim groups criticized President George W. Bush on Thursday for calling a foiled plot to blow up airplanes ...
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Iranians Fighting Alongside Hizballah
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:47:04 pm PDT
Several readers emailed about this report: Iranians among Hizbollah combat dead: TV. JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard have been found among Hizbollah guerrillas slain by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, Israel’s Channel 10 television reported on Wednesday citing diplomatic sources. It said the Iranians were identified by documents found ...
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More Death Cult Propaganda
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:10:38 pm PDT
This AP photograph from Gaza, published yesterday, claims to show a little Palestinian girl killed by an Israeli airstrike being carried into a hospital, surrounded by armed men (probably Hamas). A Relative carries the body of Rajaa Abu Shaban, into Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2006. An Israel ...
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Lefty Blog Gets Its Smear From CAIR
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:54:44 am PDT
Loony left blog Crooks and Liars parrots the Council on American Islamic Relations’ talking points: LGF investigated by the FBI. This claim, made by Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR in the Washington Post article on the Reuters scandal, is completely false. There was no “investigation,” simply two very courteous phone calls, about ...
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Bush: "At War with Islamic Fascists"
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:45:09 am PDT
This statement from President Bush is going to send the Council on American Islamic Relations through the roof: ‘Greatest terrorist threat’ since 9/11 blocked. President Bush said the arrests are a “stark reminder” that the U.S. is “at war with Islamic fascists.” UPDATE at 8/10/06 1:24:46 pm: Right on cue: US Muslims ...
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Deranged Progressives in Denial Watch
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 9:41:57 am PDT
Seventy-five percent of Daily Kos Kidz think the thwarted UK terror plot is “more drama from BushCo to keep us all afraid:” Daily Kos: The thwarted U.K. plot.
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Dearborn Terror Arrests
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 9:37:19 am PDT
Two Muslims from Dearborn Michigan charged with supporting terrorism had airplane passenger lists and security information in their possession when arrested—and 12 untraceable disposable cell phones, out of 600 they had purchased recently: Michigan Men Charged In Ohio With Supporting Terrorism. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) MARIETTA, Ohio — Investigators in southeast ...
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British Dhimmitude Watch
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 9:18:23 am PDT
As they launched raids on the alleged Islamic terrorists plotting to blow up a dozen airplanes with explosives hidden in baggage, British authorities reached out to the Muslim Council of Britain and other radical Islamic front groups to make sure the police would be sufficiently sensitive to the needs of ...
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VDH: Worry About the West, Not Israel
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 8:38:36 am PDT
Victor Davis Hanson hits another home run: Worry About the West — Not Israel. The Western press — usually so careful to condemn hate speech — is utterly silent about Arab racism. But a European paper recently published a cartoon portraying Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as a Nazi, secure that ...
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Directed By Green Helmet Guy
Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 7:57:54 am PDT
Conclusive proof that the photographs from Qana were cynically staged, as “Green Helmet” directs cameramen in a video from German TV (with English subtitles). They actually take the body of a child out of the ambulance, transfer it from the light stretcher used in the ambulance to the heavy duty ...
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Breaking: Major Terror Plot Foiled in UK
Wed, Aug 9, 2006 at 10:49:49 pm PDT
Plane Terror Plot Disrupted. (Hat tip: GNIDAthe#seCond.) Police say they have disrupted a major plot to blow up planes in mid-flight with explosive devices smuggled aboard as hand luggage. Sky News has been told the plan was to blow up around a dozen planes over UK and US cities. Police are said ...
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Dissident Frogman's Photoshop Workshop
Wed, Aug 9, 2006 at 8:28:23 pm PDT
If you haven’t already seen what the dissident frogman has been doing with this photoshop brouhaha, go ye now and partake of it. I’m glad he isn’t a Lebanese stringer for Reuters.
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LGF on CNN Again
Wed, Aug 9, 2006 at 8:14:53 pm PDT
Another video of yours truly, posted at Hot Air, in which CNN’s Anderson Cooper admits that Hizballah is staging photographs from Lebanon: Charles Johnson, Howard Kurtz, Anderson Cooper on Reutersgate.
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Red Cross Openly Helping Hizballah
Wed, Aug 9, 2006 at 8:00:11 pm PDT
Red Cross workers helped wounded Hezbollah fighters on a makeshift bridge at the Litani River in Lebanon on Wednesday. At a Makeshift River Crossing in South Lebanon, Guerrillas Come Out in the Open. (Hat tip: Ron.) QASMIYE, Lebanon, Aug. 9 — The wounded men moved slowly across the hot patch of ...
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Multi-Use Buildings
Wed, Aug 9, 2006 at 6:39:36 pm PDT
Unbelievable. The building that we saw in two different photos on July 24 and August 5 ... was actually photographed first on July 18: Beirut, LEBANON: A press photographer takes pictures of the devastated southern Beirut suburbs of Dahyieh Junibiya, 18 July 2006. Israeli jets pounded Lebanon with a blistering wave of ...
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Big Wheel Keeps On Turning
Wed, Aug 9, 2006 at 6:29:17 pm PDT
What year is this? 1948? Nasrallah urges Arabs to leave Haifa. BEIRUT, Lebanon - Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday warned all Israeli Arabs to leave the port city of Haifa so the militant group could step up attacks without fear of shedding the blood of fellow Muslims. Haifa, Israel’s third-largest city, has ...
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Second Worst Excuse of the Decade
Wed, Aug 9, 2006 at 4:44:41 pm PDT
This photo from yesterday, showing a Palestinian “freedom fighter” firing at Israelis right next to several children and an unarmed adult... A Palestinian militant fires toward Israeli troops during an arrest raid in the West Bank village of Qabatiyeh near Jenin, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006. Four Palestinians were wounded when the ...
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Wallace: Ahmadinejad Personable, Interesting
Wed, Aug 9, 2006 at 4:16:50 pm PDT
Old news anchors never die. They just get loonier and loonier: Mike Wallace Says Iranian President an ‘Impressive Fellow’ - Iran. “You’ll find him an interesting man,” the 88-year-old Wallace said. “I expected more of a firebrand. I don’t think he has the slightest doubt about how he feels ... about ...
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Bernhard: Reuters' Image Problem
Wed, Aug 9, 2006 at 3:35:56 pm PDT
What a pleasant surprise to find a completely fair, elegantly written article about Little Green Footballs at the LA Weekly, not normally known as a bastion of anti-idiotarianism. Thanks to Brendan Bernhard for reporting my views accurately: Reuters’ Image Problem. And I especially enjoyed this little excerpt: Though he has a few ...
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Arab Media Headline of the Day
Wed, Aug 9, 2006 at 3:23:13 pm PDT
The article itself is a pretty factual paste-up job of several wire service reports about the Hizballah War, but the headline is a classic from our friends in Kuwait: Israel on baby-killing spree. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
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ISM: Western Human Shields for Hizballah
Wed, Aug 9, 2006 at 11:49:16 am PDT
The collection of Western useful idiots known as the International Solidarity Movement is mobilizing their “activists” to Lebanon—to serve as human shields for Hizballah. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) BEIRUT (Reuters) - International and local activists are planning on Saturday to bring a civilian convoy to southern Lebanon, worst hit by Israel’s ...
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Down the Rabbit Hole
Wed, Aug 9, 2006 at 10:44:43 am PDT
A reader asked me to look at this New York Times photograph of a crowd of Lebanese refugees: Slide Show - Photographs: Lebanon. This is probably nothing. If it’s photo manipulation, it’s certainly an incredibly mundane example, and I can’t think of a reason why anyone would do it. I’m tossing ...
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Reuters Scandal Updates
Wed, Aug 9, 2006 at 10:27:56 am PDT
Jeff Goldstein has a good look at the Washington Post’s piece on LGF and the Reuters scandal: The Contingency of “Truth,” redux. The New York Times has issued a correction for the misleading caption they published on yet another Lebanon fauxtograph: Corrections: For the Record - New York Times. (After it ...
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How Hizballah Hijacks the Internet
Wed, Aug 9, 2006 at 9:17:48 am PDT
TIME.com has a piece on How Hizballah Hijacks the Internet, noting the excellent work of Internet Haganah in tracking the web sites of the terrorist gang.
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Egyptian Students Missing
Wed, Aug 9, 2006 at 8:57:14 am PDT
As reported on LGF, the US has relaxed its restrictions on student visas for Middle Eastern countries, so we shouldn’t be surprised by this story: Egyptian students disappear in US. WASHINGTON (CNN) — Immigration agents and the FBI are looking for 11 Egyptian students who entered the United States on valid ...
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Remembering the Sbarro Atrocity
Wed, Aug 9, 2006 at 8:24:31 am PDT
Today is the fifth anniversary of the horrific massacre of innocent civilians by a Palestinian suicide bomber, at the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem. Here’s the web site dedicated to one of the victims: A loving tribute to Malka Chana Roth 1985-2001. UPDATE at 8/9/06 8:32:33 am: And let’s also remember how the ...
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The Protocols of the Daily Kos, Part 14
Wed, Aug 9, 2006 at 8:04:31 am PDT
At the left’s premier “progressive” web site, Daily Kos, the Kidz take a short break from crowing over empty suit Ned Lamont to suggest that the US should “impose” a “solution” on Israel: Daily Kos: Why the US can impose a one-state solution on Israel-Palestine. Why would we do that? To appease ...
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CAIR Official Assaults Woman
Wed, Aug 9, 2006 at 7:42:54 am PDT
As the Washington Post calls the Council on American Islamic Relations a “civil rights group,” and quotes their spokesman calling LGF a “vicious hate site” (in an article about the Reuters scandal that has absolutely nothing to do with CAIR), here’s an article at FrontPage about an outrageous incident we ...
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WaPo Covers Reuters Scandal, Quotes CAIR
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 10:20:16 pm PDT
The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi has a story on the Reuters Photoshop Scandal, and he went to radical Islamic front group the Council on American Islamic Relations for a quote about Little Green Footballs: Blogger Takes Aim At News Media and Makes a Direct Hit. In Johnson’s view, the news media ...
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The Reuters Mystery Blog
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 10:06:12 pm PDT
You may have noticed that our Reuters visitor counter has been ticking over pretty steadily for the past couple of days, as the folks in the London Canary Wharf offices check what we’ve been saying about them. Interestingly, many of these hits from Reuters are coming from a link on ...
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Zombie: Reuters Photo Phraud
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 9:49:10 pm PDT
A terrific overview of the Reuters Photoshop Scandal by LGF operative zombie: Reuters Photo Fraud.
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Tuesday Night Cove
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 9:33:48 pm PDT
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Lamont Wins Nutroots Nomination, Dems Doomed
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 9:19:31 pm PDT
Ned Lamont opens his victory speech with a call to cut and run from Iraq: Hot Air: (Video of speeches added).
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Crazed Islamoleftist Rant of the Day
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 9:17:38 pm PDT
At the site that combines radical Islam and the radical left, uruknet.info (a news source that meets the high standards of Google News): Doctoring Photographs or Censoring War Crimes? The war lovers and child massacre apologists at Ynet News and obvious government psyop faux right wing cut-out alternative news site ‘Little ...
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Life Among the Footballs
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 8:52:54 pm PDT
From Day by Day, of course.
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Do Not Feed the Fauxtographers
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 7:04:33 pm PDT
I hate blowing my own horn, but people want to know this stuff, so here’s the skinny on the upcoming lizardoid media takeover, using the pretext of the Reuters Photoshop scandal as an excuse for world domination: * Tomorrow morning sometime after 7 am, ABC’s Good Morning America will show a ...
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Staged Photos at the New York Times
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 6:19:12 pm PDT
I have so many tips and links to photos in my Inbox after another day spent feeding the media machine, that I know I’m going to miss some. But that’s OK, because the blogosphere is still churning away with a fresh eye toward spotting frauds—and here’s one you’ve got to ...
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MSM Fauxtography Watch
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 1:38:28 pm PDT
Some more possible evidence of MSM fauxtography (hat tip: kay1212) at OpinionJournal. And here’s another at Hot Air: Another bogus photo? UPDATE at 8/8/06 2:08:50 pm: Wow. The Passion of the Toys. UPDATE at 8/8/06 6:32:11 pm: The photo linked by OpinionJournal above apparently shows a body with rigor mortis: Post on Washington Post Removed. ...
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LGF Grim Milestone
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 1:07:03 pm PDT
We just exceeded three million comments at Little Green Footballs! Somebody hand out the noisemakers... (Sorry, but I can’t tell exactly who posted the three millionth comment...)
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Engel: "We Will Kill You if You Film These Rockets"
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 1:02:49 pm PDT
On CNN’s Reliable Sources, Richard Engel details Hizballah’s management of the news from Lebanon. (Hat tip: TVNewser.) KURTZ: Richard Engel in Lebanon, let’s talk a little bit about your efforts to cover Hezbollah. Have you had instances in which Hezbollah guerillas have tried to interfere with your reporting? ENGEL: Yes and no; ...
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Britain Has a Big Problem
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 12:34:15 pm PDT
A quarter of British Muslims are willing to tell a pollster that they think the 7/7 bombings were justified. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) And nearly half say the 9/11 bombings were a conspiracy between the US and Israel. ALMOST a quarter of British Muslims say the 7/7 bombings can be justified because ...
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TIME Reporter: Hizballah Has Our Passports
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 12:23:21 pm PDT
For those who still don’t want to believe that Hizballah is stage managing the news from Beirut, please note this statement from TIME magazine reporter Christopher Allbritton, reported by J. Peter Pham & Michael I. Krauss: Hate to Say We Told You So, But... Time magazine stringer Christopher Allbritton, writing on ...
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Deranged Progressives in Denial Watch
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 11:22:51 am PDT
Right Wing Nut House pulls on the hip waders and forges into the fever swamp of the lefty blogosphere, to see what they’re saying about the Reuters Photoshop Scandal: Hizbullah’s “Useful Idiots” Mum About Reuters Scam.
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Re: Picture Kill
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 11:11:18 am PDT
Don’t miss Michelle Malkin’s Vent today: Picture Kill.
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Conspiracy Theorists Harass Flight 93 Photographer
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 10:54:42 am PDT
If you’re taking blood pressure medication, you may want to up the dosage before reading this account of what’s happening to Val McClatchey, who took the only known photograph of the crash of United Airlines Flight 93—and is now being tormented by the worst species of moonbat: Conspiracy theorists blog ...
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Palestinian Human Shield Watch
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 10:36:46 am PDT
A Palestinian militant fires toward Israeli troops during an arrest raid in the West Bank village of Qabatiyeh near Jenin, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006. Four Palestinians were wounded when the army arrested an Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades militant, Palestinians sources said. The army said two Islamic Jihad militants were arrested during ...
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The Larger Issue
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 9:43:56 am PDT
Richard at EU Referendum has some very apt comments on the Reuters Photoshop Scandal, and the likelihood that photos of the aftermath of the Qana bombing were staged by Hizballah. I’ve tried to bring up this subject in every interview, because I agree with Richard that this practice is much ...
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LGF on Fox
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 7:24:56 am PDT
Posts will be a bit slow this morning; I’m about to go to the Fox News studio...
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Media Matters Suddenly Trusts the Media
Tue, Aug 8, 2006 at 7:21:26 am PDT
The “progressives” at Media Matters are hopping mad that I suggested some of the photographs from the Qana bombing may have been staged: CNN’s Nguyen failed to challenge claims that Qana photos were staged. Their counter-argument consists of pointing out that the wire services have denied staging any photos. So now ...
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Monday Night Horizon
Mon, Aug 7, 2006 at 9:25:45 pm PDT
Don’t know about you, but I’m ready for an endless blue horizon.
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LA Mayor Apologizes to Islamic Groups
Mon, Aug 7, 2006 at 8:27:38 pm PDT
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has apologized to Muslim leaders for supporting Israel. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has apologized to Muslim leaders who accused him of taking Israel’s side in the violence in Lebanon by going to a pro-Israel rally and ignoring their invitations to interfaith peace vigils. Villaraigosa met with 10 Muslim ...
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Cindy Sheehan, Propagandist's Friend
Mon, Aug 7, 2006 at 8:15:03 pm PDT
Over at the new voice of the Democratic Party, Daily Kos, Cindy Sheehan has a new diary post accusing US soldiers of torturing a “Sheikh” and raping his wife in front of their son: Daily Kos: Heart Connects: Camp Casey Day. Every single person that we met with has been dreadfully ...
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Guardian Readers vs. Reality
Mon, Aug 7, 2006 at 8:04:46 pm PDT
Jeff Jarvis posts some on-target comments about the Reuters Photoshop Scandal at The Guardian’s semi-blog-thing, and faces a storm of hateful anti-rational attacks from Guardian readers: Making war look worse. The first comment: MisterGrumpy Comment No. 163497 August 7 16:19 GBR Either way it’s a gift to the swivel-eyed mouth-breathers who read LGF. If I were ...
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A Photojournalist Weighs in
Mon, Aug 7, 2006 at 7:43:00 pm PDT
Jeff Harrell has a fascinating interview with a veteran AP freelance photographer about the process of freelance photojournalism, and where the system might have broken down at Reuters: The Shape of Days: A photojournalist weighs in on the Adnan Hajj scandal.
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Monday Night Open Thread
Mon, Aug 7, 2006 at 6:31:01 pm PDT
Here’s an open thread for posts related to the Reuters Photoshop Scandal—blogs that are covering it, more suspect photos, analyses, speculations, or what have you...
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More Evidence of Lebanon Photo Staging
Mon, Aug 7, 2006 at 5:34:19 pm PDT
Power Line has still more Reuters photographs from Lebanon that show evidence of staging: A Bridge Too Weird. One of my mottos used to be, “It still isn’t weird enough.” OK. Now it’s weird enough.
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I Am The Slime From Your Video
Mon, Aug 7, 2006 at 5:16:00 pm PDT
I really hate watching myself on television, but here’s my chat with CNN’s Betty Nguyen at Hot Air: Video: Charles Johnson talks shop on CNN (Update: Drudge audio added).
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Jumping Through Hoops
Mon, Aug 7, 2006 at 3:32:25 pm PDT
I’m still here! Sorry for the slow posting; it’s because 1) I’m having trouble getting on my own site in what looks like a record traffic day around here, and 2) I’ve been jumping through media hoops most of the day. In the meantime, if you need something to laugh at ...
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Little Green Molasses
Mon, Aug 7, 2006 at 9:05:49 am PDT
Yes, I know we’re running very slowly today, but unfortunately there isn’t much I can do about it right away. We’re on a nice fast dedicated server, but only so many browsers can fit through one internet connection at a time, no matter how large the pipe. I’ve turned off ...
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Another Massacre That Wasn't
Mon, Aug 7, 2006 at 8:41:15 am PDT
More propaganda falls apart: Lebanon’s PM revises death toll from 40 to 1. BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said Monday that one person was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the southern village of Houla, not 40 as he had earlier reported. “The massacre in Houla, it turned ...
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More Photo Fraud by Reuters
Mon, Aug 7, 2006 at 8:31:20 am PDT
Power Line has another almost unbelievable example of distorted, misleading photojournalism from Reuters, as two photographs taken weeks apart show the same bombed area—and each photo’s caption claims that the bombing just occurred: Reuters calls the doctor, take 2. UPDATE at 8/7/06 8:38:31 am: And here’s another example of misleading photojournalism from ...
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Reuters on the Run
Mon, Aug 7, 2006 at 8:03:44 am PDT
Reuters has removed all the photographs by Adnan Hajj from their news wires: Reuters withdraws all photos by Lebanese freelance. Notice he’s now a “freelance.” And notice they go out of their way not to mention Little Green Footballs. LONDON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Reuters withdrew all 920 photographs by a ...
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Sunday Night Beach
Sun, Aug 6, 2006 at 10:21:22 pm PDT
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Hizballah Flag in Front of Big Ben
Sun, Aug 6, 2006 at 9:05:52 pm PDT
Moonbat Media has pictures of the pro-Hizballah demonstration in London yesterday that really bring home the depth of Britain’s problem with radical Islam: Unconditional Ceasefire Now! protest, London, 5 August 2006.
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Cycle of Violence: All This and Reuters Too
Sun, Aug 6, 2006 at 8:21:51 pm PDT
Saturday’s ride: 58.45 miles, with an elevation gain of 3,225 feet, on one of the harder climbs in the South Bay area, a series of punishing rollers leading to a 3-mile mini-mountain with switchbacks and grades of over 10% in places. Elevation at the top was almost 1,000 feet. Haven’t ...
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LGF on Drudge Radio
Sun, Aug 6, 2006 at 6:58:03 pm PDT
I’m scheduled to be on Matt Drudge’s radio show in about 10 minutes, talking about the Reuters brouhaha...
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The First Casualty
Sun, Aug 6, 2006 at 6:17:23 pm PDT
From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons, of course.
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Moonbat Rant of the Day
Sun, Aug 6, 2006 at 6:11:29 pm PDT
Over at Fark.com, a lot of the kids think Dan Rather and Mary Mapes were telling the truth, LGF is a tool of the Worldwide Zionist Conspiracy, and there’s no problem with Adnan Hajj’s photographs: Reuters’ Lebanese photographer: ‘denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying that he was trying ...
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Another Fraudulent Adnan Hajj Photo
Sun, Aug 6, 2006 at 5:52:38 pm PDT
Rusty Shackleford has done an analysis on another Adnan Hajj photograph, discovering more absolutely conclusive evidence of fraud in a picture that purports to be of an Israeli jet firing missiles into Lebanon: Another Fake Reuters Photo from Lebanon. LGF readers have been tirelessly digging into this and other photos, and ...
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Counterterrorism Blog: Another Pro-Hizballah Reuters Reporter
Sun, Aug 6, 2006 at 5:15:15 pm PDT
Walid Phares shines a spotlight on another nasty little coordination between Reuters and pro-Hizballah reporters: Reuters’ Hijacking Lebanon’s Answer to the UN? A few hours after a Franco-American draft for a UN Security Council resolution was released, pro-Hezbollah lobbies and allies launched a campaign to hijack the response of Lebanon to ...
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The Reuters Clone Tool Scandal
Sun, Aug 6, 2006 at 5:05:44 pm PDT
A great piece by Ed Driscoll looks back at the history of mainstream media’s treatment of the battle against radical Islam: Picture Kill: How We Got Here. Thomas Lifson at The American Thinker says that although Reuters has distanced themselves from photographer (propagandist(s)?) Adnan Hajj, the scandal demands an outside investigation. ...
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Doctored Beirut Photo: the First Draft
Sun, Aug 6, 2006 at 4:04:38 pm PDT
LGF reader humblegunner emailed what seems to be Reuters photographer Adnan Hajj’s first attempt to remove the dust from his Beirut photograph. UPDATE at 8/6/06 10:10:59 pm: Reader David Lunde has discovered what may be another attempt by Hajj to embed a subliminal message in his Photoshopped smoke: And reader THX-42 has found ...
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Green Helmet Guy Rides Again
Sun, Aug 6, 2006 at 2:57:17 pm PDT
He gets around, from town to town. Here’s the Qana “rescue worker” in the green helmet, photographed extensively in Qana by Adnan Hajj for Reuters, now in Tyre, doing what he does best: making sure wire service photographers get close-up pictures of dead bodies. (Warning! Gruesome images linked below.) Photo 1: Emergency ...
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Worst Excuse of the Decade
Sun, Aug 6, 2006 at 2:31:57 pm PDT
Make sure you aren’t consuming any liquid substances when you read Reuters’ explanation of why Adnan Hajj concocted an entirely faked photograph of a nonexistent Beirut: Reuters drops freelance Lebanese photographer over image. LONDON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Reuters, the global news and information agency, told a freelance Lebanese photographer on ...
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Hizballah Supporters in Belgium
Sun, Aug 6, 2006 at 2:11:46 pm PDT
Demonstrators hold photos of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah during a demonstration against Israel, in Brussels, Sunday Aug. 6, 2006. More than 5,000 demonstrators came out into the streets of Brussels to demonstrate against the current hostilities between Lebanon and Israel. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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The Propaganda Portfolio of Adnan Hajj
Sun, Aug 6, 2006 at 2:01:25 pm PDT
Dan Riehl has been taking a trip down memory lane, through the Reuters photos of Adnan Hajj—and there are quite a few that may not be digitally manipulated, but are definitely staged for propaganda effect like his infamous Qana photographs. And Ace of Spades has still more highly questionable work by ...
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Doctored Photo Still Posted
Sun, Aug 6, 2006 at 9:11:26 am PDT
As of this writing, the doctored photo by Adnan Hajj is still available on Yahoo News: Mideast Conflict on Yahoo! News Photos.
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Low Bandwidth LGF Enabled
Sun, Aug 6, 2006 at 8:41:08 am PDT
So many people are trying to get in to Little Green Footballs this morning that our doors are starting to get jammed with HTTP requests. In English, this means it’s going to be a little slow around here for a bit. One web server can only do so much, even ...
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Reuters Pulls Phony Photo
Sun, Aug 6, 2006 at 7:34:49 am PDT
Reuters admits altering Beirut photo. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A Reuters photograph of smoke rising from buildings in Beirut has been withdrawn after coming under attack by American web logs. The blogs accused Reuters of distorting the photograph to include more smoke and damage. The photograph showed two very heavy plumes ...
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Iran Seeking U-238 from Africa
Sat, Aug 5, 2006 at 10:34:48 pm PDT
Iran’s plot to mine uranium in Africa. (Hat tip: Mojoey.) IRAN is seeking to import large consignments of bomb-making uranium from the African mining area that produced the Hiroshima bomb, an investigation has revealed. A United Nations report, dated July 18, said there was “no doubt” that a huge shipment of smuggled ...
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Israeli Stabbed to Death in Sydney
Sat, Aug 5, 2006 at 9:36:54 pm PDT
Israeli man dead after stabbing attack. AN Israeli has been stabbed to death by a gang of men who jumped out of a car and cornered him outside a general store in Sydney’s east. NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Vic Alhadeff today said witnesses to the brutal attack in Bondi had ...
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Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut?
Sat, Aug 5, 2006 at 3:41:05 pm PDT
OK, now things are getting weird. This Reuters photograph shows blatant evidence of manipulation. Notice the repeating patterns in the smoke; this is almost certainly caused by using the Photoshop “clone” tool to add more smoke to the image. (Hat tip: Mike.) It’s so incredibly obvious, it reminds me of the faked ...
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Nasrallah Calls on Arab Leaders to Promote Ceasefire
Sat, Aug 5, 2006 at 8:56:26 am PDT
After weeks of telling other Arab leaders they should “get off his back,” Hizballah kingpin Hassan Nasrallah has changed his tune. On an August 3rd Al-Manar broadcast, he practically begged them to help promote a ceasefire: Hizbullah Secretary-General Nasrallah Calls on Arab Leaders to Promote Ceasefire in Meetings With US. ...
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Anatomy of a Media Event Staged by Terrorists
Sat, Aug 5, 2006 at 8:44:18 am PDT
If you have any doubt that the unfortunate deaths in the Qana bombing were exploited by Hizballah to the maximum, staging and posing photographs with the willing complicity of wire service photographers, see EU Referendum’s exhaustive collection of images that indisputably shows the ghoulish display for exactly what it was—a ...
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Anti-War Moonbats Undermining US in Jordan
Sat, Aug 5, 2006 at 8:26:25 am PDT
Reported in the Jordan Times on Thursday: Iraqi parliamentarians to discuss peace plan with anti-war hunger strikers. AMMAN (JT) — A group of American anti-war hunger strikers are scheduled to arrive in Jordan today to meet with Iraqi parliamentarians to discuss peacemaking in the war-ravaged country. The group, which ...
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Bombs Found on German Trains
Sat, Aug 5, 2006 at 8:21:52 am PDT
Bombs on German Trains: A Middle Eastern Connection? (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A leak from the investigation into a pair of unexploded bombs found on trains in Germany this week has produced a strange detail — a bag printed in Arabic. German officials won’t confirm anything, but the case has ignited ...
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New York Magazine: Israel is a Mistake
Sat, Aug 5, 2006 at 8:10:45 am PDT
New York Magazine comes right out and says the creation of Israel was indeed a mistake: What We Won’t Talk About in the Israel-Lebanon Conflict. (Hat tip: davesax.) Concerning Israel and the Palestinian territories, all the truths tend to be truly, deeply, tragically inconvenient. And the big one is this: Israel is ...
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VDH: It's Not Just About Land
Sat, Aug 5, 2006 at 7:58:47 am PDT
In the Washington Times, Victor Davis Hanson makes a point that can’t be stated enough: It’s not just about land. Despite the claims of terrorist organizations, Israel’s current two-front war is not just about land. After all, Hezbollah and Hamas fired rockets from Lebanon and Gaza well after Israel had withdrawn ...
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Friday Night Pier
Fri, Aug 4, 2006 at 7:42:02 pm PDT
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Children Killed by Palestinian Terrorists
Fri, Aug 4, 2006 at 6:11:01 pm PDT
There are no words. The 123 Israeli Children Killed by Palestinian Terrorists.
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CAIR Says They Speak For You
Fri, Aug 4, 2006 at 5:39:23 pm PDT
Radical Islamist front group CAIR paid for a survey of 1000 people, and now they’re claiming to speak for the majority of Americans with their anti-Israel agenda: Poll: Majority of Americans Support Mideast Cease-Fire; CAIR Launches ‘Not in America’s Name’ Online Petition Drive. CAIR’s survey was conducted July 28 to August ...
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DIY Terror Gang Biz Card
Fri, Aug 4, 2006 at 5:16:23 pm PDT
Thanks to the wonders of modern technology (and LGF reader Rick Adams), now you too can create your very own Terror Gang Media Relations Business Card™! (Based on the sadly all-too-real Hizballah Media Relations Department business cards we published yesterday.) Here’s the blank template for you to load into the Photoshop-like entity ...
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Hizballah, Stalinists, and the Muslim Brotherhood
Fri, Aug 4, 2006 at 4:00:30 pm PDT
The next big round of pro-Hizballah demonstrations in the United States, sponsored by radical Islamic front groups and the Stalinist International ANSWER, is scheduled for August 12: Permits have been obtained for Lafayette Park directly in front of the White House for the opening rally of the mass demonstration in Washington ...
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Hizballah Supporters in Istanbul
Fri, Aug 4, 2006 at 2:57:08 pm PDT
Turkish demonstrators, with a Hezbollah flag and a poster of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, chant Islamic slogans during a protest following the Friday prayer in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Aug. 4, 2006. Thousands of Turkish Islamists gathered in an Istanbul square to protest Israeli attacks on Lebanon and the Palestinian ...
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Another Jihad Suspect in Toronto
Fri, Aug 4, 2006 at 2:44:16 pm PDT
Canadian authorities have arrested an 18th suspect in the Toronto jihad case, another youth from a broad strata with no obvious correlation to anything: RCMP arrest 18th local terror suspect. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) A special multi-agency police team has arrested an 18th suspect on terrorism-related charges, two months after 17 ...
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The Sully Jones Conspiracy
Fri, Aug 4, 2006 at 2:14:26 pm PDT
Here’s a great post on the increasingly unhinged American left (and some who used to be considered “right”), at Shrinkwrapped: Clans of the Alphane Moon. Also see: Dean Barnett Jeff Goldstein Allahpundit Lileks
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Broken Windows
Fri, Aug 4, 2006 at 2:07:43 pm PDT
From Day by Day, of course.
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Hizballah Supporters in Baghdad
Fri, Aug 4, 2006 at 1:24:24 pm PDT
I’ll never understand why we didn’t wipe out Muqtada al-Sadr and his “Mahdi Army” when we had the chance: Shiites rally for Hezbollah in Baghdad. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Tens of thousands of Shiites thronged a Baghdad slum Friday to show support for Hezbollah as Arab anger toward Israel mounted on the ...
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RoP Raging Around the World
Fri, Aug 4, 2006 at 1:13:37 pm PDT
Notice that the ugly, hateful demonstrations always seem to take place on Friday. It couldn’t have anything to do with what they’re hearing at Friday prayers, could it? An Indonesian muslim holds a poster against Israel during a protest in front of the US embassy in Jakarta. Indonesian police said they ...
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Krauthammer: Israel's Lost Moment
Fri, Aug 4, 2006 at 11:32:12 am PDT
Charles Krauthammer says Ehud Olmert is looking for “victory on the cheap:” Israel’s Lost Moment. The defeat of Hezbollah would be a huge loss for Iran, both psychologically and strategically. Iran would lose its foothold in Lebanon. It would lose its major means to destabilize and inject itself into the heart ...
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Arab Officials Will Meet in Beirut
Fri, Aug 4, 2006 at 10:33:38 am PDT
It was awfully hard to resist titling this one “Target Rich Environment:” Arab foreign ministers to meet Monday in Beirut. CAIRO (AFP) - Arab foreign ministers will hold an extraordinary meeting Monday in Beirut to support Lebanon, Arab League number two Ahmed Ben Helli told AFP. “The meeting of Arab foreign ministers ...
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Genocide on Thursday, Peacekeeping on Friday
Fri, Aug 4, 2006 at 10:08:01 am PDT
Yesterday in Malaysia, leaders of more than 50 Islamic nations listened without protest as Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for “the elimination of the Zionist regime.” Today Malaysia announced that they’re ready to send a thousand “peacekeepers” to Lebanon: Malaysia readies 1,000 soldiers for Lebanon. KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysia’s defence chief ...
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Iran Will Supply SAMs to Hizballah
Fri, Aug 4, 2006 at 9:55:01 am PDT
Iran to supply Hezbollah with surface-to-air missiles. LONDON (AFP) - Iran will supply Hezbollah with surface-to-air missile systems in the coming months, boosting the guerrillas’ defences against Israeli aircraft, according to a report by specialist magazine Jane’s Defence Weekly, citing unnamed Western diplomatic sources. In a meeting, held late last month, the ...
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A Proud Antisemite at Indymedia
Fri, Aug 4, 2006 at 9:32:11 am PDT
It’s become commonplace for “progressives” to explain away their fellow travelers’ anti-Jewish remarks by claiming they’re not “antisemitic”—they’re only “criticizing Israel’s policies.” The “progressives” at Indymedia, however, are proudly dispensing with the excuses: Mel’s Real Crime: Not Loving the Jews Unconditionally. (Hat tip: Ghost of a flea.) Why then should otherwise ethical ...
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