LGF Archives: October 2001
bearing witness
Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 7:55:12 pm PST
Some stories are so horrific we can do nothing but bear witness: I dream only of having my hand again. "The mullahs didn't even ask my name or speak to the crowd. Seven doctors approached me. They wore grey uniforms, surgical masks and gloves. I could see one was crying. ...
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percentages
Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 6:21:43 pm PST
By the way, folks—four people dead of anthrax equals about 0.000000016 percent of the USA's population.
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the nuclear possibility
Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 8:26:54 am PST
At the Christian Science Monitor, another report on the threat of nuclear terrorism: Nuclear attack a real, if remote, possibility.
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eye on the goal
Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 6:40:36 am PST
Good rah-rah piece by Jim Hoagland at the Washington Post: Eye on the Goal.
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sexual rage
Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 6:11:20 pm PST
Looking for more about the strange “72 virgins” fantasy (which is evidence of severe sexual dysfunction), I came across this piece by Jamie Glazov at Front Page Magazine, which compares suicide bombers to serial killers: The Sexual Rage Behind Islamic Terror. ALL SERIAL KILLERS, almost without exception, are severely sexually ...
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the black-eyed
Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 4:49:35 pm PST
That “72 virgins” thing. Like much of the belief system driving Islamic extremists, it seems so deranged it’s difficult to give it credence; like a bizarre adolescent sex-mad power fantasy. About two weeks before the 9/11 attacks, 60 Minutes aired a report on the Palestinian Hamas terror group. They interviewed a ...
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another nuclear warning
Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 2:51:08 pm PST
This article by UPI correspondent Richard Sale says the US government is concerned that Al Qaeda may be in possession of a nuclear device: Fear of bin Laden nukes. The Bush administration believes that bin Laden -- the prime suspect in the Sept. 11 terror attacks -- may be in ...
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return of the russians?
Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 2:18:04 pm PST
DEBKAfile doesn’t have links to individual stories, so I’m reprinting a large part of this one. I haven’t seen it mentioned in Western media yet, but if true it could be very big news: Russia is preparing to deploy a ground army in Afghanistan, with up to a million men. ...
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drilling for tolerance
Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 1:32:57 pm PST
Thomas Friedman with still more about the duplicitous, autocratic House of Saud: Drilling for Tolerance. The truth is, there are at least two sides to Saudi Arabia, but we've pretended that there's only one. There is the wealthy Saudi ruling family and upper middle classes, who send their kids to ...
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wahhabis in america
Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 8:19:19 am PST
No sooner do I write about the fifth column of Wahhabism than I find this article at the Weekly Standard by Stephen Schwartz: Wahhabis in America. For Wahhabis everywhere, the party line is laid down in Riyadh, which simultaneously foments terrorist teaching and disclaims any responsibility for Wahhabi atrocities, exemplified ...
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the fifth column
Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 7:37:00 am PST
Glenn Reynolds writes about the people who want to go join the Taliban: I think that such departures should be encouraged. We should facilitate the travel of people like this from all over the world to Afghanistan. We should then do our best to kill as many of them as ...
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british muslims joining the taliban
Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 7:00:50 am PST
More disturbing evidence of the prevalence of radical Muslim groups in the UK: Britons who join Taliban to face trial. These poll results from the article are truly shocking: Sunrise, an Asian radio station, canvassed the opinions of 500 Muslims in Greater London, mainly of Pakistani origin and aged between ...
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blair talks sense
Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 6:44:48 am PST
Tony Blair continues to be one of the most eloquent and forceful voices of the war. "They have one hope: that we are decadent, that we lack the moral fibre or will or courage to take them on; that we might begin but we won't finish; that we will start, ...
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our tip jar
Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 6:11:30 pm PST
Regular visitors may have noticed the Amazon Honor System link we installed about a week ago. No, you're not obligated to pay for LGF. Not at all. Not one bit. This weblog is as much for us as for anyone; lately I’ve been using it as a way to figure ...
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new alert
Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 4:51:50 pm PST
In case anyone missed it, there’s been another nonspecific Terror Alert from the FBI, based on intelligence information that “has been deemed credible.” Everyone’s getting impatient with vague warnings like this. Me? I'm waiting for the next attack. They’ve had years to prepare, and I seriously doubt we’ve seen the worst ...
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cynthia's at it again
Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 1:18:32 pm PST
Cynthia McKinney digs the hole a little deeper. Rather than back down in the face of well-deserved public criticism for blatantly kissing the ass of the bloated tick known as Prince Al-Walid bin Talal, here she is in your face again, this time trying to picture herself as a hero ...
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new build-rss script
Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:52:19 pm PST
Weblogs.Com changed their backend recently so that it no longer checks a list of weblogs automatically every hour; now you must explicitly notify them when your weblog is changed. Matt Bean was nice enough to allow me to incorporate his function for notifying weblogs.com to this new version of my ...
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islamo-fascists
Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:53:25 am PST
Andrew Sullivan, with more about the pathological anti-Semitism (often state-sponsored) that permeates the fundamentalist Muslim world: The Anti-Semitism of the Islamo-Fascists. The sobering truth is that somewhere in my head, I knew all this already. It is not a revelation that large segments of the Arab world--at all levels of ...
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the new antisemitism
Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 8:31:02 am PST
Browsing through translations of Muslim media at sites like MEMRI, the amount of unreasoning hatred directed at Jews in general and Israel in particular is astounding. Daniel Pipes writes about the very disturbing prevalence of The New Anti-Semitism. Antisemitism, historically a Christian phenomenon, is now primarily a Muslim phenomenon -- ...
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fbi timidity
Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 6:42:47 am PST
This article at the Washington Post says Islamic extremists have been able to operate freely in the US because the FBI is afraid of being politically incorrect: FBI Wary of Investigating Extremist Muslim Leaders. Under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the FBI has broad powers to wiretap or bug any ...
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intro to XHTML
Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 6:20:24 pm PST
Taking a break from the war news, here's a good introduction to XHTML at WebmasterBase.
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privileged hijackers
Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 5:38:49 pm PST
At the Sunday Times, new details are emerging about the Saudi hijackers: Hijackers were from wealthy Saudi families . Most of the hijackers in the terrorist attacks on America were recruited from wealthy Saudi families and were bound by family ties, the first detailed account of their background has revealed.Rather ...
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more about haq
Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 4:22:29 pm PST
The Washington Post has more information about Abdul Haq’s ill-fated attempt to enter Afghanistan: Slain Rebel's Brief but Disastrous Foray.
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the money trail
Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 10:31:15 am PST
The Chicago Tribune reports on the financial connection between Saudi millionaire Yassin Kadi and Osama bin Laden: Money trail leads to Saudi, U.S. says.
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the death of abdul haq
Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 8:18:57 am PST
Ken Layne rants about the tragic death of Abdul Haq, the need for more Wolfowitz and less Powell, the swinish rulers of Saudi Arabia, Israel, Palestine, anthrax, and more. I had not heard of Abdul Haq before the reports of his execution by the Taliban. But reading about this man—a war ...
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suicide bombers
Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 7:46:32 am PST
Pulitzer Prize winner Joseph Lelyveld traveled to Egypt, Palestine, and Hamburg to look into the motivations of suicide bombers, and produced this excellent piece for the NY Times Magazine: All Suicide Bombers Are Not Alike. There are some surprises here; the scariest people Lelyveld encountered were not in the Middle ...
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what the hell is wrong with these people?
Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 5:49:02 pm PDT
According to a column published in the Saudi paper Al-Riyadh, “Governor” Rudy Giuliani is a Jew fag. And when he rejected Saudi prince Al-Walid bin Talal's $10 million donation Giuliani said, “The Prince’s declarations are grievous and irresponsible; these Arabs have lost the right to dictate [to us what ...
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withdrawal cancelled
Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 1:40:25 pm PDT
Israel has called off the withdrawal of their forces from the West Bank, citing continued Palestinian violence in spite of the ceasefire agreement. Not good. But the other word for “withdrawal under fire” is “retreat.”
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the dark ages
Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 11:31:15 am PDT
At the Washington Times Diana West asks (as do many of us) where the “moderate” Muslims are: Islam is in Dark Ages. The experts tell us militant Islamic fundamentalists, or "Islamists," represent a narrow, if murderous, fringe. They number no more than 10, maybe 15, percent of all Muslims. That ...
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egypt's elite
Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 8:02:58 am PDT
Here’s an interesting look at the effete privileged class of Egypt: Egypt's Elite Torn by Arab Roots and Western Ties. On the surface, social relations appear calm. But in a nation of manifest poverty, the easy success of the privileged few does cause resentment.A willowy young woman named Lara, the ...
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the guardian of illogic
Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 8:10:39 pm PDT
Steven Den Beste does an excellent job of skewering yet another murky anti-war Guardian editorial: A fog of uncertainty.
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the us and israel
Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 7:08:09 pm PDT
At the Christian Science Monitor, a good overview of US policy toward Israel since 1948: The US & Israel. (via More Than Zero.)
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pakistani nuclear scientists
Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 5:55:13 pm PDT
Two “deeply religious” Pakistani nuclear scientists have been interrogated about possible connections with Osama bin Laden. Pakistan sources told CNN the two men were Chaud Abdul Majeed and Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, both people of deep religious beliefs and acclaimed scientists in the region.Mahmood was one of the founders of Pakistan's ...
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no freedom of information
Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 5:34:55 pm PDT
According to this cynical piece of bottom-feeding anti-Western propaganda at Saudi Arabia’s Arab News, America’s free society has no freedom of information. Here’s their bizarre take on freedom of speech (a luxury their own citizens do not enjoy): One of the freedoms they do not have is the freedom of ...
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alarmism becomes realism
Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 3:37:58 pm PDT
Most of the time I’m a pretty upbeat person. But my friends have known for years not to get me started on the subject of terrorist atomic bombs. It’s a surefire conversation killer, and as someone who was involved with several anti-nuclear groups during my high school and college days ...
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growing up palestinian
Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 7:32:02 am PDT
No matter how many photos I see of Palestinian children being taught to idolize terrorists and suicide bombers, they still break my heart.
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bin laden’s nukes
Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 7:38:03 pm PDT
The Times of London (not known as an alarmist tabloid rag) says it outright: Bin Laden and Al Qaeda have nuclear weapons.
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cropduster update
Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 5:23:26 pm PDT
A couple of days ago I posted an entry about some mysterious incidents with cropdusters in Mississippi. Well, you can all just move along now. Nothing to see here.
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ultra zealots
Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 4:59:36 pm PDT
You may have thought Osama and his twitching nutbag henchmen were about as far out as a self-respecting religious fanatic could get. But nooo. There are actually Islamic extremist groups who want to kill Bin Laden because he’s too soft. Bin Laden's declaration of war against the West has failed ...
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no freedom, no prosperity
Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 4:37:57 pm PDT
At Reason Online, Michael Lynch examines what happens when you mix socialist economic ideas with totalitarian governments: No Freedom, No Prosperity. But there’s a critical relationship between economic freedom and political freedom, and neither [Saudi Arabia nor Egypt] is willing to budge on the latter. Not a single country in ...
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endangered species
Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 4:13:31 pm PDT
Steve Huntley writes about the political atmosphere in Israel: Israel doves on brink of extinction. As a Western diplomat put it, there is essentially no left left. The peace camp is demoralized or vanished because of Yasser Arafat's focus on the right of return--the demand that all Palestinian refugees from ...
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seeking moderation
Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 12:40:24 pm PDT
Stephen Schwartz at the National Review, refuting the ideas of Professor David Forte and looking into the history of one of the most intolerant and violent Islamic sects—Wahhabism: Seeking Moderation. The article concludes with the following theses: 1. Fundamentalism was always a tendency in Islam, as in every other religion, ...
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foreign media
Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:59:01 am PDT
The Department of State has a page with translations from foreign media. Check out the “moderate” press in Saudi Arabia: Abha-based, moderate Al-Watan held (10/23): "Since the Zionist terrorism is being inflicted on the U.S. daily, it blocks the improvement of American-Arab-Muslim relationships. We know quite well that the American ...
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a dream
Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 9:41:58 am PDT
Air traffic controllers at Dulles International Airport were interviewed by ABC News; Danielle O’Brien talks about her dreams: "The one that comes to mind most, dreaming of a green pool in front of me. That was part of the radar scope. It was a pool of gel, and I reached ...
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the saudi spin
Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 8:10:42 am PDT
We’re seeing a lot of stories lately about Saudi Arabia with a decidedly negative spin. This latest one at the NY Times contains a bit of news—that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi: Naming of Hijackers as Saudis May Further Erode Ties to U.S. This story ends with a couple ...
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uzbeks
Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 8:44:10 pm PDT
At least the Uzbeks like us.
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if this be war
Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 5:27:44 pm PDT
Military historian Victor Hanson, with an excellent essay about what it means to be at war: If This Be War. (Note: if you think we’re going to solve this crisis with hugs and fluffy bunnies, Hanson’s essay may trigger your hypoglycemia.) We are at the precipice of a war we ...
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homeland defense
Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 2:16:13 pm PDT
Here’s a great article at the New Republic about how the Mob helped defend New York against Nazi terrorists in WWII: Homeland Security. Redefined.
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another nobel move
Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:41:06 am PDT
I’ve written before about my disgust that Syria was allowed into the UN Security Council; this is a state that has strong ties to many terrorist groups, a horribly brutal military government, and is a major center for the world drug trade. Ami Horowitz writes on this subject at the ...
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mysterious death
Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:02:59 am PDT
In New Jersey, a Pakistani man detained on immigration charges in the 9/11 investigation has been found dead in his cell.
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human shields
Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 8:04:18 am PDT
The Taliban continue to act like vermin, using civilians as human shields, hiding in schools and mosques. And according to this article at the Washington Post, many residents of Kabul support the US airstrikes in spite of the inevitable civilian casualties, because they want the Taliban to fall. I wonder how ...
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photos of the letters
Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 4:01:47 pm PDT
The Justice Department has released photographs of the envelopes and letters that contained anthrax.
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the nuclear threat
Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 3:45:09 pm PDT
The Times has a frightening investigative report on the possibility that bin Laden and other Middle East madmen may have already gotten their hands on nuclear weapons. Welcome to a world where the philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction has been rendered irrelevant by murderous religious fanatics who live in caves.
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thanks for clearing that up
Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 2:55:02 pm PDT
Iraq denies involvement in the US anthrax cases. Foreign Minister Naji Sabri last week denied any link to the U.S. anthrax cases, telling reporters: "It's bullshit."Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz, however, admitted Iraq developed anthrax during the 1980s but he said the program was destroyed in the 1990s. Heh ...
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the ugly truth
Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:32:50 am PDT
Despite attempts in the West to promote the view that most Muslims are opposed to Osama bin Laden, if you surf around some Arab media sites you’ll soon discover that support and admiration for bin Laden is very widespread, as is anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism. At Israel Insider, Daniel Pipes writes ...
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mystery cropduster
Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:03:38 am PDT
The first incident was last Friday, when a small cropduster airplane sprayed a Mississippi towboat with an “unknown substance.” Now it’s happened again. This is very creepy; I hope it turns out to be just a stupid prank.
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moderately crazy
Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:29:49 am PDT
Andrew Stuttaford writes about the difficulty of finding “moderate” Taliban leaders: Moderately Crazy. Mullah Omar Mohammed, the Taliban's one-eyed leader, is, we are often told, insane. A twitching, convulsing Cyclops in a turban, this lunatic clergyman is, apparently, a standout kook even in a region famous for its delusional and ...
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giant footprints
Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 9:41:33 am PDT
A good article at the Washington Post talks about the Arab fundamentalist world’s fixation on the Crusades: The Crusaders' Giant Footprints. When President Bush on Sept. 15 declared that "this crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while," Muslims were stung.The president was using "crusade" in its ...
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seeing the horror
Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 9:17:16 am PDT
It’s very hard to look. The pain has not diminished. But we need to remember. Seeing The Horror.
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another powder trail
Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 8:38:33 am PDT
The Economist looks at another Taliban weapon—opium: Another powder trail.
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a new disease to worry about
Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 8:25:18 am PDT
Along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, an Ebola-like virus with the euphonious name Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever is causing great concern.
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anti-semitism in islam
Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 5:49:45 pm PDT
Suzanne Fields, in the Washington Times: Anti-semitism in Islam and beyond. In the present crisis, the portrait of the Jew in the Middle East emerges as an ugly and perverse mix of theological, moral, racial, social and political negatives. If you think these images are pushed only by the usual ...
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the role of religion
Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 3:36:09 pm PDT
Two very thoughtful articles by two very sharp guys, exploring the role that Islamic fundamentalism plays in fostering terrorism: David Forte argues that bin Laden and Al Qaeda are fanatics on the extreme margins of Islam, but Daniel Pipes says the influence of Islamic fundamentalism is much more widespread (and ...
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the biological rubicon
Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:35:53 am PDT
Andrew Sullivan asks if we’ve crossed The Biological Rubicon. Even Susan Sontag has back-tracked, after arguing in the wake of the massacre that the murderers were morally superior to NATO pilots policing Northern Iraq. Interviewed by Salon magazine last week, she reiterated some of the inanities of her first response ...
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nosmo king
Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 9:10:51 am PDT
More evidence that smoking is bad for you.
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italian surveillance
Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 8:16:09 am PDT
Italian investigators bugged a Tunisian man's apartment in Milan, and discovered a nest of snakes, along with evidence that Al Qaeda members are widespread throughout Europe.
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more intelligence
Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 7:50:53 am PDT
Lest we think the worst is over, this NY Times article is a reminder that intelligence from US and foreign agencies still indicates more attacks are planned.
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minute by minute
Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 5:16:47 pm PDT
A riveting story by Andrew Kirtzman at the NY Daily News: Mayor Dodges Death and Calms the City.
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muslims in denial
Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 4:29:25 pm PDT
At the Guardian Unlimited, Ziauddin Sardar asks how, in the twenty-first century, the Muslim world could have produced a bin Laden: Islam has become its own enemy. ...terrorism, the horror it provokes and the consequences it breeds, [is] more familiar to Muslims than to any other people.Yet, while they have ...
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gm meltdown
Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 8:57:05 am PDT
Well, this isn’t good. For the past 3 months I’ve really been struggling with Greymatter (our weblog backend). Some functions simply don’t work at all any more. I haven’t been able to do a total rebuild of our files for a long time. Posting entries has become a real chore, often ...
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smarter times
Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 8:18:25 am PDT
Found in More Than Zero’s recommended reading list: Smarter Times, a curmudgeonly site run by “an ordinary semi-intelligent guy in Brooklyn” that claims to spot and correct errors in the NY Times. Great motto: “Smarter than the Times, and almost as arrogant, but with only a tiny fraction of the ...
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beyond the noam
Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 6:14:48 pm PDT
Here's a well designed site that presents the viewpoints of people like Noam Chomsky and Arab feminist Nawal el Saadawi, with video, audio, and transcripts: Beyond the Frame. Watch the Noambot speak, and judge for yourself. (via ethel the blog.) And here's an article at the American Prospect analyzing some of ...
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coincidence?
Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 3:14:02 pm PDT
Fredrik Norman points out a bizarre coincidence (?): the domain name saudi-binladin-group.com was set to expire on September 11, 2001.
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the pashtun tribe
Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 2:27:15 pm PDT
The NY Times has been doing an exemplary job of covering the war, and here's another great piece about the Pashtun tribe of Pakistan/Afghanistan: Afghan and Pakistani Tribe Lives by Its Own Set of Rules. When a male child is born in a Pashtun village, gunfire is the first sound ...
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multiculturalism vs. feminism
Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 1:06:45 pm PDT
At Reason Online, Cathy Young with a good essay on Multiculturalism vs. feminism. Indeed, some argue that among the evils and corruptions of the West that so enrage the radical Islamic fundamentalists, liberated women rank pretty high. The leader of the Taliban, Mohammad Omar, rails against ''ugly and filthy Western ...
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war bloggage
Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 11:58:53 am PDT
Muchos gracias to Matt Welch for including us in this illustrious list of weblogs! (He's right, a lot of us do play guitar.) These are all more than worthy of your attention, and I daresay they represent a very interesting phenomenon: First, there’s the eponymous mainstays of Ken Layne, Tony ...
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macromedia vs. adobe again
Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 9:46:53 am PDT
Technology corporations continue to find new and amazing ways to abuse patent law: Macromedia claims it owns the patents to Photoshop and GoLive.
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proselytizing islam
Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 9:32:35 am PDT
For decades Saudi Arabia has been spending large sums of money to promote Wahhabism (a particularly intolerant form of Islam) in the US: Saudis Seek U.S. Muslims for Their Sect. I live just a few blocks from the King Fahd Mosque pictured in this article.
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a different kind of suicide mission
Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 7:48:32 am PDT
In this week's NY Times Magazine, a wrenching story by Scott Anderson explores a different kind of suicide mission in Istanbul, Turkey. At 22, Fatma is an extraordinarily beautiful woman, with an infectious smile and penetrating brown eyes. More than her beauty, though, there is something in her manner -- ...
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mckinney
Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 7:35:05 pm PDT
I took a look into Cynthia McKinney's background and yes... she's done some good things, although I don't agree with the 'victim' mentality that underlies a lot of her public statements. Two months ago I would have been with her on the Shrub legitimacy issue. But jeez. This letter. I went back ...
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osama bin laden products
Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 6:35:49 pm PDT
Osama bin Laden products blitz Pakistani markets. Anti-capitalist capitalism.
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the humanity of the air war
Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 6:00:00 pm PDT
At the National Review, an important perpective from James S. Robbins about the humanity of the air war. Critics of the air campaign at home and abroad make as much of civilian casualties as suits their purposes, but arguments over whether a few, a dozen, or hundreds of people have ...
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true intent
Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 4:49:43 pm PDT
An engineer studying the WTC collapse says there is evidence the attackers intended the towers to fall over, not collapse—which would have caused much worse destruction and death, since it was morning rush hour and the streets and office buildings in the neighboring financial district were full of people.
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syria's big lie
Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 3:51:05 pm PDT
Syria—who, in another craven spasm of appeasement recently gained a seat on the UN Security Council—has now come out officially in support of the big lie, in a statement by Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass: that Israel was responsible for the WTC/Pentagon attacks. As far as I can tell, the rationale behind ...
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profiles encouraged
Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 2:45:16 pm PDT
Peggy Noonan writes about having to accept a difficult reality: Profiles Encouraged. She brings up the possibility (which had also occurred to me) that there may be many more terrorist cells in this country than we're being led to believe. The murderers were religious fanatics, and although not outright stupid, certainly ...
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explosives in bus terminal
Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 2:19:32 pm PDT
Police have confirmed finding a third of a pound of C4 plastic explosive with a thousand feet of detonator cord at a Philadelphia Greyhound bus station.
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the rifle and the veil
Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:40:50 am PDT
Jan Goodwin and Jessica Neuwirth write about the dismaying situation of women in Islamic fundamentalist states like Afghanistan: The Rifle and the Veil. Anyone who has paid attention to the situation of women in Afghanistan should not have been surprised to learn that the Taliban are complicit in terrorism. When ...
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a nice breakfast
Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 7:43:47 am PDT
Nothing like a nourishing breakfast of anti-Americanism and death-love to get the old motor going! Here's that wacky religious columnist "Dr." Abdallah Al-Naggar (doctor! har! these guys kill me) writing in the Egyptian government daily Al-Gumhuriya (via MEMRI.): Egyptian Government Daily On the Muslims' Love of Death and Their Enemies' ...
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israel says: the arafat era is over
Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 7:05:01 pm PDT
The Middle East edges closer to war as Israel reacts to the assassination of Rechavam Ze'evi by moving tanks into three West Bank towns.
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the baghdad issue
Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 6:32:32 pm PDT
The Sydney Morning Herald has an interesting op-ed piece about the possibility that the fragile coalition against terrorism may fall apart if the "hawks" in Bush's cabinet have their way. I think the author may be right. The coalition members may scatter if the US tries to go after Saddam Hussein. And ...
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king of plop
Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 5:22:20 pm PDT
I'm not even gonna link to the article about all the A-list stars bailing out of Michael Jackson's sing-along project. All of them. Every one. Poor guy. Well ... er, not really poor. And ... uh, not really a guy. (Damn! I was really trying not to bag on the King!)
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ground zero
Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 4:49:25 pm PDT
A high resolution photograph of Ground Zero. (via milov.nl.)
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intellectual roots of islamic terror
Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 4:03:55 pm PDT
Robert Worth at the NY Times, with a very good article exploring The Deep Intellectual Roots of Islamic Terror. Long before Osama bin Laden appeared on television screens with an AK-47 by his side, he released earlier videotapes in which he appears in the guise of a holy man, sitting ...
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black ice
Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 3:53:57 pm PDT
Officials in Utah recently conducted an exercise called Black Ice to help prepare for possible terrorist attacks during the 2002 Winter Olympics, and demonstrated that an atrocity like 9/11 could be made much worse by a coordinated cyberattack.
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disputed territories
Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 2:16:37 pm PDT
Israel Insider has some damned good designers working for them. Check out this well-done Flash presentation: a zoom map of the disputed territories. Ambrose Bierce wrote "war is God's way of teaching Americans geography." Class is in session.
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gaddafi pipes up
Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 2:01:37 pm PDT
Crazy old Muammar Gaddafi says anthrax is the "worst form of terrorism." Gaddafi, who has often assailed the United States for its policies in the Middle East and elsewhere, urged world leaders to put aside their differences and come together to "pay whatever the price needed to stop the danger.""The ...
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the real battlefield
Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 8:27:19 am PDT
In the Wall Street Journal, Claudia Rosett says the best propaganda is victory. One of America's virtues is that everyone gets a say. But it might also help as we listen to the chatter to remember that for all the patriotism and unity emerging from Sept. 11, there's still a ...
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bin laden letters
Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 8:06:12 am PDT
Letters allegedly written by Bin Laden order Muslim followers to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and "kill, fight, create traps and destroy" Americans.
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a high level of skill
Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 7:49:59 am PDT
The prevailing opinion among experts seems to be that the anthrax in Florida, New York, and Washington took a high level of skill to make.
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pakistan does the right thing
Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 9:15:42 pm PDT
Of all the people I never expected to do the right thing, Pakistan's military leader Pervez Musharraf (who seized power in a coup) is probably at the head of the list. But he seems to be stepping up to the plate and cracking down on the loonies. It could be ...
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israel and its neighbors
Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 7:46:32 pm PDT
Israel Insider has prepared a Flash presentation comparing Israel with its surrounding Arab countries: Israel and its neighbors.
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the internet flounders
Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 7:13:25 pm PDT
Kevin Cooke of Wired Digital asks why the internet isn't faster: Tragedy Strikes, Internet Flounders. My opinion: it's because the emphasis in software engineering has shifted from "optimize the program so it runs as fast as possible" to "minimize the expense to make this damned thing work as soon as possible." ...
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aum shinrikyo
Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 6:48:43 pm PDT
At the CDC (an acronym with which I suspect we'll all become dismayingly familiar), an article exploring in depth the Aum Shinrikyo apocalyptic cult, which attempted to disperse anthrax and botulin toxin in Tokyo: Aum Shinrikyo: Once and Future Threat?
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the ordinariness
Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 9:43:48 am PDT
An excellent essay by Todd Gitlin: The ordinariness of American feelings. But from others there have come reversions to old reflexes and tones – smugness, acrimony, Schadenfreude. Long before the attacks on the Taliban regime, the world’s fellow-feeling began to subside, displaced by apprehension about the scale and focus of ...
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failure
Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 8:11:30 am PDT
Glenn Reynolds, at Fox News: Terrorists Failed in Their Ultimate Mission.
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plague on the potomac
Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 7:40:54 am PDT
Maureen Dowd, typing with gloves on: Plague on the Potomac. A society that indulged in recreational victimology seems to be turning into a society of potential victims.When things were in our control, we used to love to think that they were out of our control. Taking responsibility for moral failings ...
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a very potent strain
Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 7:29:28 am PDT
22 people in Senator Tom Daschle's office have tested positive for anthrax exposure. This page at the NY Times has a photo of the envelopes that contained the spores.
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israeli cabinet minister killed
Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 7:14:55 am PDT
After resigning from Sharon's government on Monday in protest over plans to negotiate a withdrawal from the West Bank, right-wing Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Ze'evi was killed by Palestinians in his hotel.
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credit cards still in use
Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 7:06:32 am PDT
Well, it's the NY Post, so who really knows if it's true? But according to this story, credit cards belonging to the murderers were still in use weeks after the attacks.
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memri
Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 7:03:38 pm PDT
Here's a very interesting website: The Middle East Media Research Institute, a non-profit organization that provides English translations of Arab media.
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deserted
Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 6:33:01 pm PDT
And yet another article on Saudi Arabia, this one focusing on why Riyadh stiffs America: Deserted. For a decade America has considered its difficulties with the Saudi government to be occasional lapses in an otherwise solid relationship. But the truth is that the relationship between the two nations was never ...
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the letter
Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 3:38:58 pm PDT
I've never seen such a repellent mixture of victimhood, fawning obsequiousness, and outright begging as in this letter from Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney to Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. Absolutely shameful.
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king's ransom
Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 3:02:06 pm PDT
This seems to be Saudi Arabia day at LGF. In the New Yorker, Seymour Hersh with an excellent article: King's Ransom. N.S.A. intercepts reveal the hypocrisy of many in the Saudi royal family, and why the family has become increasingly estranged from the vast majority of its subjects. Over the ...
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the house of saud
Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:18:35 am PDT
At the National Post, Mark Steyn writes about the corrupt and decadent House of Saud: Saudis are behind all the 'root causes'. A century ago, Ibn Saud was a desert warrior of no fixed abode. Today the House of Saud has approximately 7,000 members. In our own Royal Family, the ...
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space colonies
Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 9:40:34 am PDT
Stephen Hawking says we need to start colonizing other planets, because recent events show that it's probably just a matter of time until psychotics destroy the entire Earth, either by accident or on purpose. I think he's right.
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the big lie
Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 8:22:44 am PDT
At the NY Times, Thomas Friedman tears into the Saudi royal family and their dirty habit of lying to appease murderers: Saudi Royals and Reality. Three cheers for Mayor Rudy Giuliani for returning the $10 million donation made by a Saudi billionaire, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, after he toured the ...
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the final moments
Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 9:16:48 pm PDT
A chilling account of the final minutes of the hijackings, as experienced by horrified air traffic controllers and others: 'We Have Some Planes,' Hijacker Told Controller. Then the pilots received the most surreal order of the awful morning. "A person came on the radio," General Haugen said, "and identified themselves ...
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al jazeera
Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 6:30:34 pm PDT
The truth about Al Jazeera's connection to bin Laden is starting to come out.
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child gets anthrax
Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 6:14:16 pm PDT
The 7 month old son of an ABC News employee has cutaneous anthrax.
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mass hysteria
Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 5:07:56 pm PDT
Fear of anthrax is spreading around the world. Mass hysteria on a huge scale, fed by mass media.
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don't feed israel to the beast
Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 4:51:14 pm PDT
Some people on the synapse-challenged far left seem to think the terrorists will leave us alone if we just abandon Israel and pull our forces out of the Middle East. (The same people who reveal the depth of their political thought by marching with signs that read "US Foreign Policy ...
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about anthrax
Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 3:02:06 pm PDT
The truth is that anthrax is not a very good weapon, unless an attacker has very deep pockets and considerable scientific expertise. This article at the Washington Times does a good job of weighing the real risks: Anthrax a weapon of mass bioterrorism? To a terrorist the real value of anthrax ...
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california cells
Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 2:49:14 pm PDT
Investigations have revealed evidence of terrorist cells in California, particularly in San Diego.
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RIAA = weasels
Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 8:44:51 am PDT
Unbelievable! Wired News reports that the RIAA tried (and failed, thank god) to slip in a provision to the anti-terrorism bill that would let their goons hack into your computer and delete MP3s!
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kingsolver's idiocy
Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 8:09:01 am PDT
Matt Welch brutally dissects another horrible LA Times essay by Barbara Kingsolver. The LA Times editorial staff should be ashamed of themselves for printing this woman's self-aggrandizing garbage.
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a palestinian state?
Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 7:34:02 am PDT
Israel views the creation of a Palestinian state with great alarm (and who can blame them?): A Palestinian state and regional nuclear war. When Israel soon faces a new state of Palestine, the Jewish state's vulnerability to armed attack by hostile neighbors will increase markedly. If this diminished safety is ...
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standing up
Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 7:13:03 am PDT
There are some people with integrity and courage in the Middle East, who are tired of appeasing the wackos: Ex-Kuwaiti Official Assails His Nation for Weak Support of U.S. In a stunning denunciation of what he called a "shameful" betrayal of the United States, a former Kuwaiti government minister and ...
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behind debka
Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 6:58:20 am PDT
Who's behind DEBKAfile?
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who needs the internet?
Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 6:57:12 pm PDT
My internet connection went south this morning and I was offline all day. So I used the opportunity to get outside, do some jogging, and enjoy the beautiful warm Southern California weather. Hey. What do you know. The world's still here. As I jogged down the bike path, contrails from military ...
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diary of a monster
Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 9:05:10 pm PDT
He kidnapped people in the name of Allah, and kept a diary about it: Inside the mind of a terrorist.
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one good sign
Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 7:14:10 pm PDT
In all the endless yammering about anthrax (which so far has claimed one victim), the mainstream media is ignoring this story: Muslim Ruling Endorses U.S. Action. I've been saying for a while that decent people in Muslim countries need to stand up and be counted, and it looks like—finally—someone with ...
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what else could it be?
Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 6:36:12 pm PDT
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud was troubled. "I do not understand!" he thought. "Why would Rudy bin Giuliani reject my generous offer of an entire day's pocket change, an amount which cannot have been unimpressive to one such as he? Surely he cannot have been offended by ...
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dynamic URLs
Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 4:16:10 pm PDT
This week's A List Apart features a great article about dynamically redirecting URLs, using mod_rewrite and a PHP script: How to Succeed With URLs, Part One.
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osama at 14
Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 3:20:23 pm PDT
When Uncle Osama was a wee lad of 14, taking a language course at Oxford, he wasn't above partying with some Spanish babes. I wonder which one he was after? My money's on the girl in gogo boots. (via ken layne.)
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mum's the word
Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 2:59:14 pm PDT
Shh. Here's a tip: you can catch the latest CNN stories without any ads by using this link. Just between you and me. (via zeldman.)
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nursing hatreds
Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 1:36:30 pm PDT
At the NY Times, another article about the hatred and anti-Semitism being instilled in young men's minds at many Pakistan madrassas: Nurturing Young Islamic Hearts and Hatreds.
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osama's u-235
Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 1:19:18 pm PDT
DEBKAfile has an alarming report today on the possibility that Bin Laden may have nuclear arms: The question of whether Bin Laden has a nuclear capability still remains to be officially addressed. According to the information disclosed in the latest DEBKA-Net-Weekly, it is very possible that he has.In a special ...
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saudi arabia
Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 11:29:01 am PDT
In the Village Voice, James Ridgeway with a look at Saudi Arabia: Why the U.S. Can't Lean on Saudi Arabia. Estimates place the total size of the royal family at 5000-plus princes, each one of whom is given $500,000 as a sort of start-up fee at birth. The family propagates ...
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palestinian poll
Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:38:42 am PDT
The Jerusalem Post reports on a poll taken among Palestinians: 76% oppose Arab/Palestinian cooperation in the US-led coalition 89% believe the US is not justified in attacking Afghanistan 92% believe attacking Afghanistan will cause more terrorist attacks 64% believe the 9/11 atrocities violated Islamic law 26% believe the 9/11 atrocities were consistent with Islamic law 57% ...
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more hijackers still at large
Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 9:23:15 am PDT
Guardian Unlimited is reporting that up to 10 trained Al Qaeda hijackers may be still at large in the US. An intelligence source in the US said another plane due to have been hijacked was a Continental Airlines flight from Newark on the morning of September 11. Retractable knives (similar ...
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tracing the assets
Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 8:23:33 am PDT
The NY Times looks at Bin Laden's financial connections in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan: Saudi and Pakistani Assets Cited for Ties to bin Laden.
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the final saladin
Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 6:14:22 pm PDT
An excellent analysis of Bert Laden's objectives at the New Republic: The Final Saladin. Bin Laden is not, as American equivocators would have it, merely annoyed about the America's "colonialist" occupation of Saudi Arabia or Washington's apparent support for Israel. No, his goal is both irrational and unrealistic, which makes ...
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a memorial service
Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 6:00:58 pm PDT
Michele went to a memorial service today and wrote about it on her weblog.
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what about syria?
Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 4:01:43 pm PDT
Syria, recently elected to the "UN Security Council" (notice the use of irony-inducing quotation marks) has come out in support of Palestinian terrorism.
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the politics of rage
Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 2:43:04 pm PDT
Newsweek has a lengthy but generally excellent series online: The Politics of Rage: Why Do They Hate Us?
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explosives recovered
Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:15:40 pm PDT
Good news: the 700 pounds of explosives stolen earlier this week in Texas have been recovered. (Thanks to marcyb for the link.)
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more on iraq
Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:25:03 am PDT
Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter has a different take on the Iraq situation: The Bioterror Road Doesn't Lead to Iraq.
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mystery solved
Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 10:56:05 am PDT
This page at Yahoo contains the truth about the Osama Bert Laden posters. Azad Products, who manufactures the poster was not aware of the appearance of Bert in one of the collaged images that make up the poster. "We got the images through e-mails and off the internet. We did ...
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what about...
Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 10:23:00 am PDT
What About Iraq? What About Saudi Arabia?
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columbus day
Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 10:10:56 am PDT
A good article at Israel Insider exploring the historical humiliations that drive extremist Islamic sickos like Osama Bert Laden, and explaining why this is a dangerous weekend: The Columbus Day Threat.
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terror unanswered
Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 9:40:29 am PDT
At Slate, William Saletan writes about the need to influence Muslim public opinion: Terror Unanswered. You may find Bin Laden's message absurd. You may find its resonance in the Muslim world absurd. But surely the failure of the United States to rebut it is even more absurd. We're at war ...
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dragnet
Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 8:17:52 am PDT
The LA Times has alarming new details about the evidence being discovered in the investigation of terrorist activity in the US.
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about fear
Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 7:42:03 pm PDT
Tonight as I was driving I heard a real war-hawk on a talk show, one of those guys who lives for danger and conflict. A warrior. A guy with whom I probably wouldn't have agreed very much before September 11th. But he said something that resonated in my fragile psyche, ...
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take this check and...
Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 6:20:50 pm PDT
Go Rudy! A Saudi prince who toured Ground Zero wrote a check to the city of New York for $10 million. Trouble is, he included a press release with his donation: “However, at times like this one, we must address some of the issues that led to such a criminal attack. ...
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gilligan vs. the taliban
Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 3:41:44 pm PDT
A funny essay by Catherine Seipp at Reason Magazine, with a surprise ending: Gilligan's Island vs. the Taliban (via Ken Layne.)
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iraq's germs
Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 2:34:31 pm PDT
In 1997, Time Magazine reported on Iraq's germ warfare program in a very chilling article. Since then, Iraq has been able to continue its research into weapons of mass destruction without any UN inspections. Four years.
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another fbi warning
Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 1:24:53 pm PDT
The FBI just issued a warning of possible terrorist attacks within the next few days.
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realpolitik
Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 1:03:52 pm PDT
Good column at Working for Change by Matt Welch, about the need to develop a new realpolitik: Attach those strings. For now, maybe the most intriguing question will be what to do with our "friends" in Egypt and especially Saudi Arabia, who cling to power by any means necessary, shun ...
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who knew?
Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 12:30:59 pm PDT
We continue to get hits from people searching for stuff related to the "4000 Jews" hoax/propaganda story. It's not true, people. But here's a story that claims there were some very specific rumors about the attacks circulating in the Arab American community before 9/11: Police Say Student spoke of attacks before ...
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explosives stolen?
Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 8:19:21 am PDT
Nothing on the wires about it yet, but I just heard a report on the radio that over the Columbus Day weekend, a large amount of explosives was stolen from a construction company in Texas. Seismic charges and 700 pounds of TNT.
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saudi arabia
Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 8:07:58 am PDT
The craven leaders of Saudi Araba are dragging their feet again. Not only are they stonewalling on attempts to investigate the hijackers (6 of whom obtained passports in Saudi Arabia), they still haven't frozen Bin Laden assets. To anyone familiar with the history of the last attack on the WTC ...
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blood libel
Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 9:14:02 pm PDT
At the National Review, a thought-provoking op-ed piece by Jay Nordlinger: Blaming the Jews... It's difficult to say which is the more revolting: those in the Middle East who accept the obvious fact that Sept. 11 was the work of Arab terrorists, and rejoice over it; or those who do ...
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when the enemy of your enemy...
Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 7:38:20 pm PDT
Here's an excellent article by Barbara Crossette in the NY Times Week in Review, about the tightrope we're walking in the Middle East: When the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Your Friend's Enemy.
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one million children?
Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 5:38:48 pm PDT
"One million Iraqi children are dead" because of US sanctions against Iraq. Everyone from Uncle Osama on down to that wacky Noam Chomsky says it. I don't think you could find a better propaganda phrase than "one million dead children." But is it true? Thomas Nephew's Newsrack blog has some facts, ...
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eastern union
Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 5:10:56 pm PDT
A good article at the New Republic about the hawala money transfer system: Eastern Union. It seems that one of the ways Osama bin Laden and his deranged holy warriors move money around the globe is through hawala agents, or hawaladar. Centuries old, the system works like a low-tech Western ...
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felt-skinned henchman?
Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 4:52:45 pm PDT
Fox News has more info on the Bert/Bin Laden connection. Is it possible that the unknown person who created this poster didn't notice Bert? Or did he deliberately do a little culture jamming? (It's hard to believe he didn't notice.) This is really messing with my already tenuous grip on reality. ...
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22 most wanted
Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 1:26:20 pm PDT
Here is the FBI's list of the world's Most Wanted Terrorists.
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et tu, bert?
Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 7:25:12 am PDT
Just when you thought it couldn't get any weirder: Bert in Bangladesh.
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blair's finest hour
Tue, Oct 9, 2001 at 7:08:42 pm PDT
Tony Blair has emerged as an eloquent voice for democracy in this crisis: His Finest Hour.
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jeez, mike
Tue, Oct 9, 2001 at 6:49:47 pm PDT
I know Michael Moore is supposed to be a satirist. But in his latest rant, he sounds more like someone who forgot to take his medication. As I'm sure you must agree, there are many upsides to this war. Sure, The Emmys got cancelled again, and, as a nominee this ...
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excusing terror
Tue, Oct 9, 2001 at 1:13:48 pm PDT
Another good article at the American Prospect, examining the flawed arguments of those who make ideological apologies for terrorism: Excusing Terror.
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the taliban soldier
Tue, Oct 9, 2001 at 12:53:50 pm PDT
A 25 year old Taliban soldier contemplates Sept. 11. Read it to the end. It's just heart-breaking.
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arab warnings
Tue, Oct 9, 2001 at 12:43:54 pm PDT
Arabs warn against wider attacks. Well, of course they do. Most of those leaders are tangled in a hopeless mess of appeasement and corruption, scared shitless of their own extremist populations. But let's face it; the entire world has a big problem, and it's named Saddam Hussein. The terrorist state of Iraq ...
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foreign affairs magazine
Tue, Oct 9, 2001 at 11:53:17 am PDT
Foreign Affairs Magazine has made available a collection of previously published essays dealing with terrorism and Islamic extremism: The Terrorist Attack on America. Great stuff here, including Bernard Lewis's analysis of Bin Laden's 1998 declaration of jihad.
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sick noam
Tue, Oct 9, 2001 at 9:32:53 am PDT
I'm starting to get the impression that David Horowitz doesn't really like Noam Chomsky: The Sick Mind of Noam Chomsky.
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80 years
Tue, Oct 9, 2001 at 9:01:05 am PDT
Did you wonder what Bin Laden was talking about when he mentioned "80 years" twice in his charming little home video?
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a rehearsal?
Tue, Oct 9, 2001 at 8:46:42 am PDT
A biological weapons expert tells the Times that the anthrax cases at the offices of American Media were probably the result of an inept attack. (Or maybe a rehearsal for the main event?) And the NY Post reports that a third employee has now tested positive.
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protests in indonesia
Tue, Oct 9, 2001 at 8:31:44 am PDT
Hey, will you freaks please keep it down? We're trying to have a civilization here!
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holy terror
Tue, Oct 9, 2001 at 8:26:55 am PDT
At the New Republic, an interesting essay about the situation in Israel: Holy Terror. Once again we have entered what Israelis have called the waiting period--like the weeks before the Six Day War and the months before the Gulf war. There's an acute awareness of impermanence; daily life seems mere ...
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the way to paradise
Mon, Oct 8, 2001 at 2:05:23 pm PDT
Peter Maass writes about the paradise promised to followers of Islam. Islam forbids alcohol, but only in the earthly life. In paradise, alcohol is no problem at all. It is available not simply for the asking, but for the mere thinking. If you think you want a glass of wine, ...
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military aircraft
Mon, Oct 8, 2001 at 12:32:00 pm PDT
Several times today I've heard military aircraft, with that unmistakable high-altitude, high-speed ripping sound. Keeping watch over LAX...
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pulmonary anthrax
Mon, Oct 8, 2001 at 11:41:53 am PDT
With two confirmed cases in Florida, I've been doing some research into pulmonary anthrax. Without exception, every medical source says this type of anthrax is extremely rare, and several papers and references even mention that terrorism should be suspected in any case of pulmonary anthrax.
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do what we say, not what we do
Mon, Oct 8, 2001 at 10:42:03 am PDT
With almost every secular Arab state calling for the US to show restraint against Islamic extremists, it's instructive to look at how they handle the threat in their own countries: Egypt's Brutal Response to Militants. The only way secular Middle Eastern governments are able to remain in power is by ...
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the other enemy
Mon, Oct 8, 2001 at 9:04:53 am PDT
Safire in the NY Times, pointing out that crazy Osama was very specific about his goals: Our 'Relentless' Liberation. The stated purposes of the terror network are (1) to drive any manifestation of democracy and human rights, such as Israel, out of the Middle East and (2) to free the ...
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second anthrax case
Mon, Oct 8, 2001 at 8:21:42 am PDT
A second man has now tested positive for anthrax.
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the birds
Sun, Oct 7, 2001 at 6:25:59 pm PDT
The Javascript version (somewhat abridged) of an Alfred Hitchcock classic.
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evidence
Sun, Oct 7, 2001 at 6:13:28 pm PDT
Here is the evidence of Al Qaeda's involvement presented to the British Parliament.
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bin laden's rant
Sun, Oct 7, 2001 at 5:48:09 pm PDT
The NY Times has a much better translation of Uncle Osama's fruitcake rant than the one I linked to earlier: Text of bin Laden Video Statement.
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religious war
Sun, Oct 7, 2001 at 4:43:57 pm PDT
Western leaders are falling over themselves trying to avoid labeling this a "religious war." But after listening to Uncle Osama spewing his psycho God-speak today, is there any doubt that he thinks it is? "I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is his messenger.There ...
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reactions in the muslim world
Sun, Oct 7, 2001 at 4:24:57 pm PDT
Across Muslim world, many see retaliatory strikes as war on Islam.
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background on sharon
Sun, Oct 7, 2001 at 2:53:25 pm PDT
The Israel Insider (a very nicely designed news magazine) has an article that tries to provide some context for Ariel Sharon's warning to the West.
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situation reports at stratfor
Sun, Oct 7, 2001 at 1:30:40 pm PDT
Stratfor.com has timely situation reports on the war.
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words and action
Sun, Oct 7, 2001 at 1:08:00 pm PDT
George W. Bush's speech on strikes in Afghanistan. Tony Blair's speech. The words of a dead man walking.
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life during wartime
Sun, Oct 7, 2001 at 10:33:17 am PDT
US begins military strike.
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4000 jews - one lie
Sat, Oct 6, 2001 at 3:31:53 pm PDT
We've gotten quite a few search engine hits looking for info about the rumor that seems to have grabbed hold in a big way in Arab countries—that 4000 Jews were warned not to go to work in the WTC on September 11, implying, of course, that Israel was involved in ...
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the black day
Sat, Oct 6, 2001 at 2:43:12 pm PDT
Another collection of photos of the attacks: Black Day - 911. (Warning: some of these photos are very disturbing.)
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troops at airports
Sat, Oct 6, 2001 at 2:08:30 pm PDT
The National Guard has been deployed to protect LAX and San Francisco Airport.
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you gotta fight for your right
Sat, Oct 6, 2001 at 12:27:44 pm PDT
Yo, it's the apocalypse, dude! Woohoo! Let's party!
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wahhabism
Sat, Oct 6, 2001 at 12:03:53 pm PDT
Bin Laden's Followers Adhere to Austere Form of Islam: a good introduction to the history of Wahhabism. Whether you wanted it or not. In addition to sowing fear, the terrorist beasts achieved something else, something they may regret. They got America interested in them. Many people overseas (and some in the ...
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bill maher
Sat, Oct 6, 2001 at 11:33:37 am PDT
You may have noticed that I've stayed out of the whole Bill Maher thing 'til now. (If anyone hasn't heard, he said something politically incorrect on a TV show he hosts called "Politically Incorrect" -- that the US military is "cowardly" for "lobbing cruise missiles" from a distance.) Hey, don't shut ...
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osama's lair
Sat, Oct 6, 2001 at 11:02:17 am PDT
Another fascinating story from DEBKAfile, this one at WorldNetDaily: Osama's secret citadel in the Pamir mountains. (via blogorama.)
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more about debka
Sat, Oct 6, 2001 at 10:48:48 am PDT
The NY Observer has more info about the "crudely designed" (no scheisse!) DEBKAfile website.
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another missed chance
Sat, Oct 6, 2001 at 10:36:23 am PDT
It's frustrating and sad (but not surprising) to see Palestinian extremists once again rejecting the call for a ceasefire from their own "leaders." They want blood instead. And so it goes.
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the true soul
Sat, Oct 6, 2001 at 10:09:03 am PDT
The true soul of America. This is why the barbarians can never win.
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tactical weapons deployed?
Sat, Oct 6, 2001 at 9:58:55 am PDT
Another item I have no way of verifying, but Israel's counterpart to Matt Drudge—DEBKAfile—has hit the mark with more than a few stories recently. 6 October: DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report that Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin, in a single 70-minuted conversation on September 23, eleven days ...
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after the fall
Sat, Oct 6, 2001 at 9:42:40 am PDT
The Washington Post has put together a very moving "tribute to the living and the dead": After the Fall.
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LAX a target?
Sat, Oct 6, 2001 at 9:21:00 am PDT
CBS2 News in LA is reporting that one of bin Laden's training camps had a mockup of LA International Airport. Scary, if true; but according to the article FBI and LAX officials say they haven't heard the reports, and CBS2 gives no source. (Which is typical of the unbelievably sloppy ...
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airplanes
Fri, Oct 5, 2001 at 6:59:27 pm PDT
Today a small airplane passed overhead. Earlier this morning, several helicopters flew slowly over the neighborhood at low altitude. At 3:00am I heard a large plane coming in for a landing at LAX. And I noticed them all.
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september first
Fri, Oct 5, 2001 at 6:38:46 pm PDT
On the first day of the month when everything changed I wrote this.
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terror and liberalism
Fri, Oct 5, 2001 at 4:46:00 pm PDT
An absolutely fantastic article at the American Prospect by Paul Berman, exploring the history of Terror and Liberalism. The antiliberal movements took root in Europe and in small degree even in the United States. As the years went by, though, those same movements spread to other places and eventually to ...
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yes, but...
Fri, Oct 5, 2001 at 11:41:28 am PDT
Thomas Friedman at the NY Times: Yes, but What? One can only be amazed at the ease with which some people abroad and at campus teach-ins now tell us what motivated the terrorists. Guess what? The terrorists didn't leave an explanatory note. Because their deed was their note: We want ...
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an iranian serial killer
Fri, Oct 5, 2001 at 10:22:47 am PDT
There are serial killers in Iran, too, but they have a different word for them: "heroes." In the World Press Review: Homicidal Web. Wrapped in traditional black Islamic cloaks (chadors), the female corpses first surfaced in the holy Shiite city of Mashhad last year. The 19 victims with arrest records ...
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the real extremists
Fri, Oct 5, 2001 at 9:06:54 am PDT
Here's a good look at the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, supposedly one of our closest allies in the area, and home for 13 of the 19 hijackers: The real Muslim extremists. Regardless of whether Osama Bin Laden gave the order or not, it is indisputable that the bulk of his ...
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warnings
Fri, Oct 5, 2001 at 8:42:41 am PDT
FBI, CIA Warn Congress of More Attacks.
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appeasement?
Fri, Oct 5, 2001 at 8:11:39 am PDT
I've been increasingly disturbed by the "coalition" approach being pushed through by Colin Powell, because the states with which we're trying to form alliances are themselves virulently anti-Semitic autocratic theocracies. Are these nations our friends? Will they ever be our friends? The tyrants who run countries like Iran and Syria are ...
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the nature of bullies
Thu, Oct 4, 2001 at 8:37:04 pm PDT
Terrorists are bullies writ large. The thing about bullies: deep down inside, where their true nature lies, they are craven cowards. Alone and friendless, and lashing out at everyone who isn't them.
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another attack in israel
Thu, Oct 4, 2001 at 6:46:59 pm PDT
This time a Palestinian suicide terrorist disguised himself as a member of the Israeli military to gain access to a central bus station, then opened fire with an M16 rifle, killing three people and wounding 16 more before being shot by police.
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the last war
Thu, Oct 4, 2001 at 6:21:03 pm PDT
A sharp and brutally pragmatic analysis from Israeli security expert Barry Rubin, with 10 important points to think about: Don't fight the last war. (via Jeff Jarvis's WarLog.)
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new photos
Thu, Oct 4, 2001 at 6:01:06 pm PDT
The FBI has released new surveillance photos of the creatures we're calling Atta and Alomari.
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Holy Warriors?
Thu, Oct 4, 2001 at 1:23:45 pm PDT
Agents of terror leave their mark on Sin City - according to this article, 5 of the terrorists involved in the Sept 11 attack stopped off in Las Vegas to engage in some decidedly un-islamic samplings of prohibited pleasures prior to completing their "holy" mission...
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arab reps say 'understand terrorists'
Thu, Oct 4, 2001 at 10:25:23 am PDT
At the UN, representatives of several Arab countries, after offering token condemnations of the September 11 attacks, also urged the world to understand the terrorists. Even as they condemned the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington and vowed to join an international effort against terrorism, Arab representatives addressing ...
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a test of bioterrorism?
Thu, Oct 4, 2001 at 9:41:59 am PDT
In the Pakistani city of Quetta on the Afghan border, there has been a serious outbreak of a highly contagious Ebola-like killer virus.
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analyze this
Thu, Oct 4, 2001 at 8:02:16 am PDT
In Australia's SMH, Paul Sheehan writes about the tendency of many on the "left" to embrace and make excuses for autocracies: Analyse this, you pious hypocrites. Many of the explanations for the September 11 mass murders carry more than a whiff of racism. It is a point made eloquently by ...
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hawala
Wed, Oct 3, 2001 at 6:19:16 pm PDT
One of the things that makes tracing terrorist money so difficult is an ancient banking system known as hawala, illegal in most countries: Ancient Secret System Moves Money Globally.
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W3C patent policy
Wed, Oct 3, 2001 at 9:11:42 am PDT
If you're a web designer, you've probably already heard about the W3C's proposal to allow patented technologies that require royalty payments to be adopted as standards, using something called the "RAND license." I haven't written about it before now, because (to be honest) I couldn't make any sense out of ...
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terror schools
Wed, Oct 3, 2001 at 8:17:32 am PDT
Suicidal murderers are not born; they're made, at madrassas like the one described in this article: Schools indoctrinate young radicals. The day begins at dawn with prayers and koranic studies. After breakfast, Mujeburahman, who like many Afghans uses only one name, gives religious instruction to boys and girls ages 4 ...
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terror attacks in israel
Wed, Oct 3, 2001 at 7:57:31 am PDT
Meanwhile in Israel, Palestinian terrorists are staging suicide attacks on civilian homes, bursting in with grenades and Kalashnikov rifles and killing everyone in sight. Yesterday two of these "holy warriors," supported by covering fire from Palestinian military and police, invaded a home and slaughtered an 18-year old girl and her ...
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bin laden's documents
Tue, Oct 2, 2001 at 7:41:36 pm PDT
The Smoking Gun has several of the actual documents produced by the bin Laden terror network.
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blair's speech
Tue, Oct 2, 2001 at 7:22:48 pm PDT
British Prime Minister Tony Blair gave an eloquent and impressive speech today, pledging the UK's support in the war against terrorism with enormous popular approval. Latest polls say that ~80% of the British public are with him. Here's the full text of the speech.
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salman rushdie
Tue, Oct 2, 2001 at 6:37:16 pm PDT
Salman Rushdie knows a little about the effects of Islamic extremism, and he weighs in today with a wonderful essay in the Washington Post: Fighting the Forces of Invisibility. The fundamentalist believes that we believe in nothing. In his world-view, he has his absolute certainties, while we are sunk in ...
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history makes a comeback
Tue, Oct 2, 2001 at 5:26:22 pm PDT
Are we witnessing the end of history? The National Review's Jonah Goldberg thinks Fukuyama may have been more right than wrong, although it seems to be ending with more of a bang than a whimper: History Makes a Comeback? (Fukuyama revisited.)
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bin laden's mommy
Tue, Oct 2, 2001 at 11:24:04 am PDT
The story about Uncle Osama calling his mommy is apparently bogus (although it is true that satellite phone calls from Unk to Mom have been intercepted in the past).
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the letter
Tue, Oct 2, 2001 at 11:15:42 am PDT
Eric Zorn writes about the terrifying 4-page letter found among the hijackers, and what it reveals. "As they go about out their 'slaughter,' they are told not to fear that they are sinning because they are carrying out the duties of families who punish those who sin among them. But, ...
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the first anglo-afghan war
Tue, Oct 2, 2001 at 10:21:25 am PDT
Jon Swenson sent us the link to this excellent history of the First Anglo-Afghan War.
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the top 20 security vulnerabilities
Mon, Oct 1, 2001 at 3:55:12 pm PDT
The SANS Institute maintains a list of The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities.
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look ma
Mon, Oct 1, 2001 at 3:11:25 pm PDT
MSNBC reports that 2 days before the attacks, Uncle Osama made a phone call to his dear mother and told her to expect "big news."
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nukes for bin laden
Mon, Oct 1, 2001 at 12:39:29 pm PDT
One of the jailed conspirators in the 1993 bombing of the WTC was trying really hard to get Bin Laden a nuclear weapon.
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the algebra of infinite bullshit
Mon, Oct 1, 2001 at 10:47:38 am PDT
Yesterday I read this incredibly muddled, self-contradicting essay at the Guardian by Arundhati Roy, and made a note to put it in the weblog with appropriate comments on its mind-numbing stupidity. Then I discovered that Matt Welch had already beat me to it with a withering rebuttal. (Unfortunately, his blog ...
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parsing RSS
Mon, Oct 1, 2001 at 8:28:02 am PDT
Here's a very good article at SitePoint about using PHP to parse an RSS 1.0 file and create displayable HTML. (via rob.webLogs.com.)
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the last road trip
Mon, Oct 1, 2001 at 7:57:51 am PDT
At the NY Times, a harrowing article by John Sifton, who spent the last year working for a humanitarian aid group in Afghanistan: A Last Road Trip Through Premodern, Postmodern Afghanistan.
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