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LGF Archives: October 2002

Thursday, October 31, 2002

That Apes and Pigs Thing

Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 6:52:12 pm PST

The dehumanization of Jews (and infidels) is widespread in the Arab world, as this new MEMRI report makes clear: The Jews Are the Descendants of Apes, Pigs, And Other Animals.

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Nobel Winner Guilty of War Crimes

Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 5:11:31 pm PST

It’s about 10 years too late but still a good thing to see, even if it’s only happening now because Arafat’s star is on the wane. Human Rights Watch has finally come out with an unequivocal condemnation of suicide bombings—and it even puts the “political responsibility” for them squarely on ...

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The Settlement Issue

Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:09:54 pm PST

Diane E. really wants me to notice this essay by Hillel Halkin at the Jerusalem Post, criticizing the recent actions of Jewish settlers in the disputed territories. It’s a thorny issue, and reader Ted B also says it’s time to discuss it. To keep things in context, Hillel Halkin is anything ...

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PLO Tells the Truth

Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 11:24:13 am PST

The New York Sun reports that PLO representatives are openly threatening to abandon a two-state solution in response to the collapse of Sharon’s coalition government. Though Yasser Arafat said he accepted Israel’s right to exist in the 1993 Oslo Agreement, skeptics have always said he was seeking a two-stage solution ...

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Who Let da Dogs Out? Who?

Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 11:06:04 am PST

Since the militant Islamozoids hate dogs and Halloween, here’s a photo guaranteed to get me a fatwa. (This one is reader NRevy’s fault.)

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Hawkins Interviews Malkin

Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 9:15:32 am PST

John Hawkins has an interesting interview with Michelle Malkin, about (what else?) immigration and our lax border policies.

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It’s About Oooiiiillll

Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 9:09:22 am PST

Funditry has a great answer to that bit of surrender monkey humor we posted last week.

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Swine Wrapped in Swine

Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 8:27:55 am PST

Russian security forces are going to bury the terrorists from the Moscow theater siege wrapped in pigskin. Reader J Lichty, who forwarded the story, comments: “Imagine if Israel did this.” The Russians understand the mindset of the Islamic terrorist. Far from being a spiteful symbolic gesture, to the Islamozoids this is ...

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Canada: Infested with Hezbollah

Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 7:32:29 am PST

Our entry yesterday about the Canadian Hezbollah agent arrested in the Middle East was merely the tip of an iceberg. In today’s National Post Stewart Bell reveals that Hezbollah has been using Canada as an “offshore base” for raising (and laundering) money, and purchasing weapons and materiel to carry out ...

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Israel Moves Right

Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 6:43:58 am PST

The Israeli government is taking a large step to the right, with the departure of the entire Labour Party (including Oslo-nik Shimon Peres) and the appointment of ex-army chief Shaul Mofaz as Defense Minister.

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Wednesday, October 30, 2002

Palestinian Hallucinations

Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 6:24:58 pm PST

The Palestinian Authority’s official daily says the CIA was behind the Moscow terrorists, as part of a complicated and highly illogical plot to enlist Russia’s support for an attack against Iraq. "[Russian] President Putin's ambassador to the Security Council is threatening to vote against the American's proposed resolution to attack ...

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The Democracy Thing

Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 4:54:05 pm PST

Thomas Friedman finds hope in the recent democratic elections held in Bahrain. Think about the contrasting headlines made last week by the biggest Arab state and the smallest Arab state. From the biggest state, Egypt, came the news that its state TV planned to run a 41-part series during the ...

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A Canadian Hezbollah Agent

Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 4:30:39 pm PST

A Canadian citizen originally from Lebanon was recently arrested in Israel for helping Hamas and Islamic Jihad cells build bombs and plan terror attacks. The arrest of the Hizbullah agent was originally reported in Yediot Aharonot on June 27. According to the paper's sources at the time, the terrorist was ...

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Return of the Chicken Hawks

Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 8:59:38 am PST

An excellent essay by Michael Kelly on the dishonest, reactionary insult favored by the “anti-war” crowd: Return of the Chicken Hawks. Nothing could seem more immediately unanswerable than "my country right or wrong." Of course: It is your country, and it remains your country no matter what, and at first ...

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MTA Security Chief Warns NY

Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 8:42:31 am PST

On returning from a trip to Israel, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority security chief Louis Anemone and Port Authority police chief Joseph Morris warned that bus bombings are coming to New York. “This stuff is going to be imported over here,” Mr. Anemone said. “It already has, and I want ...

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Interview with Bat Ye'or

Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 7:36:27 am PST

Here’s an interesting interview with historian Bat Ye'or about the concepts of jihad and dhimmitude. Related: Rod Dreher writes about the disruption of Ye'or’s recent speech at Georgetown University.

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The New Arab Anti-Semitism

Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 7:20:41 am PST

Ha'aretz looks at the rise of Nazi-like “annihilationist” anti-Semitism in the Arab world. Fundamentalist and wealthy Saudi Arabia, the turf that produced Osama bin Laden and his movement, is a hotbed of Muslim anti-Semitism, which often influences Egypt, Syria and other "progressive" Arab states. Saudi Arabian television and newspapers specifically ...

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The Baker Pogrom

Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 6:51:15 am PST

The First Couple of British academic anti-Semitism, Ken and Mona Baker, are continuing their pogrom by refusing to provide academic texts to Israel’s Bar-Ilan University. The Board of Deputies of British Jews on Tuesday wrote to Ken Baker, condemning his company's decision to withhold academic texts from Bar-Ilan University. Board ...

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The Saudi Bomb

Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 6:33:48 am PST

Here’s a troubling report that Saudi Arabia has been trying to obtain completed nuclear weapons from Pakistan, for delivery via the CSS-2 medium-range missiles they bought from China.

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Tuesday, October 29, 2002

Divest from Europe

Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 5:39:18 pm PST

A new petition urges US corporations to divest from Europe, because of the EU’s support for “the terrorist organization known as the Palestinian Authority (PA) and defense of the terrorist leader Yasser Arafat.” UPDATE: Meryl Yourish reminds me to credit Mac Thomason.

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India Gives a History Lesson

Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 5:23:37 pm PST

The Indian delegate to the United Nations slammed Pakistan today for supporting terrorism, in spite of “surface manifestations of democracy and rule of law.”

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BBC Bias Watch

Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 5:09:11 pm PST

Palestinians in Britain are trying to have retired Israeli general Shaul Mofaz arrested for war crimes. Amazingly, even after it’s been disproved by a UN report and an Amnesty International report and the Palestinians themselves (who now refer to it as “a victory”), the BBC uncritically repeats the Jenin “massacre” ...

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And Again

Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 4:27:25 pm PST

Another jihad-drunk Palestinian mass murderer struck today, sneaking into a Jewish community near Jenin and opening fire on a playground, killing a 12-year old girl and critically wounding a 14-year old girl. The Jerusalem Post reports that the killer was also wearing an explosive belt.

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FedEx Truck Explodes in Missouri

Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 11:51:43 am PST

A FedEx truck has exploded on a highway near St. Louis. From the pictures on Fox News it looks like it was an enormous explosion; the trailer is completely blown apart, even though the cab and fuel tank are intact. No details on the net yet.

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15 Minutes of Satan

Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 9:24:06 am PST

Bill Quick is running a competition for the most hawkish and blood-hungry blog. My feelings are hurt that LGF isn’t included in the nominations yet. I thought we were the Great Satan of the blogosphere. Sniff. Sob.

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Disgrace of the Day

Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 8:57:08 am PST

This would be the “Outrage of the Day,” but outrage requires a component of surprise; and sadly I’m no longer surprised to see Canada’s shameful official attitudes toward Israel. The latest: a Canadian court has upheld the removal of tax exemptions on donations made to Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s ...

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Crazy or Jihadis?

Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 8:41:27 am PST

If American media is controlled by the Worldwide Zionist Conspiracy™, why are all the news channels pushing the “psychotic serial killer” angle in the Beltway sniper case, and ignoring the evidence of jihad? That’s the question Daniel Pipes asks in this new article: The Snipers: Crazy or Jihadis? Unwilling to ...

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Russian Gas: Etorphine

Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 8:20:57 am PST

The knock-out gas used by the Russians in the Moscow theater siege has been identified as a synthetic opiate called etorphine: We all have seen Africa wildlife documentaries, such as on the Discovery Channel, showing researchers immobilizing and capturing big animals such as elephants, giraffes, rhinos and hippos by darting ...

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Jordan Says: No Terrorism Here

Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 7:40:48 am PST

A little-known Jordanian terrorist group has admitted guilt in the killing of American diplomat Laurence Foley. The group, calling itself Shurafaa' al-Urdun, or the Honorables of Jordan, sent a statement to the London-based Arabic daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi Monday saying Foley was killed to protest U.S. support for Israel and the ...

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What’s on Arafat’s Desk?

Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 7:28:19 am PST

Today Nobel Peace Prize winner Yasser Arafat said something about extending an olive branch to Israel. He mentioned Oslo. Oh yes; he also “unveiled” a new “cabinet,” fooling nobody. The Palestinian president reacted fiercely when legislator Abdel Jawad Salah, an independent, accused his Palestinian Authority of corruption. "I will not allow ...

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Monday, October 28, 2002

PA Sentences B'tselem Worker to Death

Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 6:16:05 pm PST

The Palestinian Authority has sentenced Haidar Ghanem, a human rights worker and journalist, to death by firing squad after finding him guilty of collaboration with Israel. The PA's state security court sentenced Ghanem, a field researcher for B'tselem and a resident of Rafah, after holding only two sessions. He was ...

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Peaceful Religion Watch

Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 5:28:56 pm PST

Either I’m beginning to get numb to it, or this week’s ranting from the mosques of the Arab world is a little muted. Especially in Yemen, where you’d never know that two weeks ago they were shrieking for God to “freeze the blood in their veins.” An identified imam delivers ...

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A Graduate of An-Najah

Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 12:39:45 pm PST

The homicidal maniacs of Hamas, in admitting their guilt for yesterday’s suicide bombing in Ariel, revealed that the murderer was a 22-year old student at the University of Death, aka Splodeydope U, aka An-Najah University in Nablus.

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The Penny Drops Slowly

Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:33:25 am PST

Another great column from Mark Steyn on the Beltway sniper: Muslim ties are no surprise. As I wrote in this space last week, "I bet my assistant a hundred bucks that the sniper would turn out to be a Middle Eastern terrorist." I had a similar bet with my wife. ...

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Anthrax Redux

Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 8:05:25 am PST

From the start, I didn’t buy the FBI’s “angry white loner” theory about the anthrax mailings. As more information came out, it became clear that the anthrax could not have been cooked up in a still in the Ozarks; this was an exceedingly finely ground powder, coated with silica to ...

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Harem Scarem

Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 7:02:46 am PST

The leader of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party came out against polygamy today. Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, the spiritual leader of the country's largest opposition political group, the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, was quoted Monday as saying too many Malaysian men were abusing Islamic tenets that allow them to take up ...

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Decapitation #43

Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 6:32:27 am PST

This week in tolerant, enlightened Saudi Arabia they used swords to hack off the heads of three more people.

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American Killed in Jordan

Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 1:28:04 am PST

US diplomat Lawrence Foley has been gunned down outside his home in Amman, Jordan.

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Sunday, October 27, 2002

Shariatopia Sweepstakes

Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 4:51:13 pm PST

We have a new poll up, only partially tongue-in-cheek: which European or Scandinavian country do you think will be first to institute Islamic law (shari'a)?

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The Duel

Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 3:00:42 pm PST

Earlier this month Saddam Hussein, through his intermediary, challenged our nation’s president to a duel. Well, it looks like it’s on. Dear Mr Saddam Hussein,By your Distempers and want of those Decent Principles by which have all Men liv'd peaceably, by your Baseness and notorious Felonies, your Threats and Vile ...

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US Railway Photos in Kuwait

Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 2:29:56 pm PST

You might have heard the FBI warnings that US railways could be targeted by Al Qaeda. The source of the warning: a raid on an Al Qaeda cell in Kuwait discovered a computer with photos of American passenger and cargo trains as well as rail crossings.

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Religion of Peace Gets Busy

Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 12:34:57 pm PST

* The Bali nightclub bombing. * Mall bombings in the Philippines. * A bus bombing in the Philippines. * A bus bombing in Israel. * The French oil tanker bombing in Yemen. * Attacks on Marines in Kuwait. * Continuing terrorist attacks in Kashmir. * Continuing atrocities and slave trading in Sudan. * Suicide bombings in Israel. * Moscow ...

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Outrage of the Day

Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 11:43:56 am PST

This one is so beyond the pale, so Bizarro-world schtoopid and wrong that it’s nearly impossible to believe. The German embassy in Israel is planning a memorial ceremony in Nazareth—for Germans killed while serving in the army of the Third Reich, including members of the Wehrmacht and SS. And it’s ...

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Arab News Sick As Ever

Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 10:47:35 am PST

The Arab News calls what happened in Moscow a massacre, in an article with a faint smell of sympathy for the terrorists—who are referred to as raiders, rebels, guerillas, fighters, etc.—and a strong reek of disapproval for the hostages and their Western decadence: The captives had been indulging a new ...

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Farrakhan Confirms It

Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 10:33:30 am PST

Louis Farrakhan has acknowledged that sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad was a member of the Nation of Islam.

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The Power of Facing

Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 8:05:27 am PST

At the Atlantic, a fascinating interview with Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell: The Power of Facing. You write a lot about the intense bitterness that the left still harbors toward Orwell. I wonder whether you think this is something typical—leftist intellectuals today are often accused of intolerance of criticism, especially ...

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Ujaama and Muhammad

Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 7:22:25 am PST

Greg Buete has some interesting speculations on possible links between sniper suspect John Muhammad and indicted terror suspect James Ujaama.

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Al Qaeda in Moscow

Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 6:52:25 am PST

The Telegraph reports that a number of Arabs with links to Al Qaeda were among the hostage takers in Moscow, and that several calls were made to the United Arab Emirates.

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And Again

Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 6:34:34 am PST

Another filthy mass murderer blew himself up in Israel this morning, killing three real human beings and injuring 15. Arafat’s Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades have admitted their guilt in the atrocity.

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Saturday, October 26, 2002

Road Map to Nowhere

Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 5:53:10 pm PDT

The lack of enthusiasm for the grandiosely named “Road Map to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli Palestinian Conflict,” proposed by the US, EU, UN, and Russia, couldn’t be more obvious, or more logical from both sides. From the Israeli side this looks like just another attempt to sell them ...

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Palestinian Justice

Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 2:55:25 pm PDT

Palestinian terrorists from the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades dragged a 39-year old woman into the street and shot her to death today, for “collaborating” with Israel. Witnesses said the 39-year-old mother was dragged with her sister from their house in Nablus onto the street outside, where she was shot dead.The ...

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C-SPAN Has Idiots

Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 11:29:13 am PDT

My Gawd. C-SPAN is broadcasting the speeches from today’s ANSWER anti-war rally in Washington DC right now. Tune in to hear the entire pantheon of the American idiotarian movement (Jesse! Cynthia! Ramsey!) spouting their litany of anti-American rhetoric. I just saw the small crowd of dirty-dreadlocked kids chanting “Free Mumia! ...

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Surrender Monkey Humor

Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 10:47:44 am PDT

LGF reader NRevy sent us this amusing little example of the whimsical Gallic sens de l'humour, which is apparently being emailed around among French businessmen. Who says ze French have no sense of humor? Wait. That was the Germans. I always forget. Touché, mes amis! But where is ze clevair pun on ...

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Connect the Dots

Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 9:59:02 am PDT

When alleged sniper John Allen Muhammad lived in Bellingham Washington, he stayed in a homeless shelter—yet, according to acquaintances, he flashed large wads of cash and expensive jewelry and took frequent flights around the country, packing a large, heavy duffel bag from which metallic sounds were heard. His behavior was ...

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With Hope Like This, Who Needs Despair?

Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 8:44:23 am PDT

A couple of weeks ago I noted the emergence of a new satellite channel in Egypt called Dream TV. Martin Walker’s article portrays Dream TV as an encouragingly open-minded new media company, free of government interference. A forum for forward-thinking new Arab ideas. New ideas like The Protocols of the Elders ...

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Islamic Terrorism in Moscow

Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 8:03:30 am PDT

It’s over. Russian special forces moved in when the barbarians started killing their hostages. The religion of peace claims another 67 lives.

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Friday, October 25, 2002

A Funny Morality

Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 4:46:31 pm PDT

Another brilliant piece by Victor Davis Hanson, on North Korea: The disclosures of North Korean duplicity in acquiring nuclear weapons were disturbing for a variety of reasons, involving more than our national security. That Pyongyang had been lying and cheating all along since President Clinton's accords of summer 1994 was ...

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Suicide U

Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 4:23:35 pm PDT

Shortly after September 11, IMRA’s Aaron Lerner interviewed a spokesman for the Palestinian An-Najah University about their student exhibit celebrating the Sbarro pizzeria suicide bombing. At that point the Palestinians were feeling the international glare, and in light of our recent close encounters with the creepy kids of An-Najah, it’s ...

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Osama-Moscow Connection

Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 3:47:43 pm PDT

Damian Penny points out this article at the BBC about Osama Bin Laden’s connections to Muslim fundamentalist warlord Arbi Barayev—the uncle of the leader of the Moscow terrorist gang, Mosvar Barayev.

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If It Benefits the Muslims

Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 3:33:18 pm PDT

MEMRI has another horrifying telegram from the 12th Century today; a story on a pro-Chechen Islamic website that draws on Koranic sources to justify the killing of prisoners—as long as it benefits Muslims. In an article titled “A Guide to the Perplexed Regarding the Permissibility of Killing Prisoners,” which appeared ...

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Outrage of the Day

Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 12:04:32 pm PDT

Bush administration lawyers may be preparing to move that the lawsuit accusing members of the Saudi royal family of ties to Al Qaeda be dismissed. Government laywers, the officials said, are trying to determine whether the case threatens to damage Saudi-American relations, which would give them reason to block the ...

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Goldstein’s Wife Arrested

Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:28:58 am PDT

The wife of Dr. Robert Goldstein (the podiatrist who was allegedly plotting to bomb Islamic centers in Florida) has been arrested and charged as his accomplice. Kristi Goldstein, 28, shared Dr. Robert Goldstein's fascination with building bombs and knew about his plans to blow up an Islamic education and cultural ...

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Wellstone Dies in Plane Crash

Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:51:58 am PDT

Breaking: Senator Paul Wellstone has been killed in a plane crash in Minnesota.

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Converts to Violence?

Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:35:06 am PDT

Daniel Pipes writes about the sniper case, focusing on “the troubling coincidence of conversion to Islam and hatred of the United States.”

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I’d Rather Be a Dog

Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:30:55 am PDT

LGF reader and frequent commentator E. Nough emailed about this fantastic article in The Mirror by Tony Parsons: Shame on You American-Hating Liberals. E. nominates this for the Quote of the Day: I love America, yet America is hated. I guess that makes me Bush's poodle. But I would rather ...

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Bin Laden’s Ambassador

Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:05:02 am PDT

The freakazoid described as Osama Bin Laden’s “ambassador to Europe,” Abu Qatada, has been arrested at his hideout in London. The radical 42-year-old Muslim cleric, whose real name is Sheikh Omar Mahmood Abu Omar, has been accused by police in eight countries of being a pivotal figure in the al-Qaeda ...

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Undermining Peace Efforts

Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 9:26:24 am PDT

The IDF is back in Jenin after Sunday’s Islamic Jihad bus bombing that killed 14 Israelis. Palestinian officials are, of course, complaining that the operation “undermines US peace efforts.”

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Defeating Wahabbism

Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 9:06:49 am PDT

Here’s a transcript of a very interesting speech by Stephen Schwartz, about the worldwide battle against the totalitarian ideology of Wahhabist Islam: Defeating Wahabbism. I don’t agree with everything he says, but I think he’s right that the main engine of extremist Islam is the Saudi entity.

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Thursday, October 24, 2002

What's on Egyptian TV these days?

Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:41:12 pm PDT

Our friends in Egypt have decided to broadcast A Knight without a Horse, "an artistic work meant to show the Zionist plots against the Arab nation." They chose to air this during Ramadan, of course.

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University of Death III

Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 6:13:39 pm PDT

Speaking of the University of Death, today I used Google’s image search feature to dig up two more photographs from An-Najah University’s exhibit celebrating the Sbarro pizzeria suicide bombing. The first photo is very hard to find; it seems to have been purged from most archives for some reason. Even in ...

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Tags: Al Najah, An Najah, Al-Najah, An-Najah, Nablus, Militant Islam

Vows of Murder

Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 3:51:25 pm PDT

On that videotape made by the Chechen terrorists, a woman in a chador vowed to “kill hundreds of infidels.” "We have chosen to die in Moscow and we will kill hundreds of infidels," said the woman covered in a black robe from head to foot, flanked by several other women."We ...

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Them Changes

Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 3:08:44 pm PDT

After a flood of sick comments at LGF last night from our good pals at An-Najah University in Nablus (which was, by the way, the location of that horrific reenactment of the Sbarro pizzeria suicide bombing), I finally got around to writing code that turns off commenting for entries older ...

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The Spin Begins

Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 2:53:57 pm PDT

Here comes the spin. Didn’t take long. W A S H I N G T O N, Oct. 24 — The arrest of a Muslim man on charges connected to the deadly Washington-area sniper shootings has the Islamic community bracing for another round of threats and attacks like those that ...

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Masked Killers

Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 2:10:30 pm PDT

An image from the Chechen terrorists’ videotape, broadcast today on Al-Jazeera television: A picture taken from a video tape released by Arab satellite television station al-Jazeera October 24, 2002 showing Chechen rebels saying they were ready to die for the independence of their homeland and to take the lives of ...

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We’re Back and We’re Proud

Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 1:36:25 pm PDT

Hello? Is this thing on? We went offline for a couple of hours there; at this time there is no indication of terrorism.

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Indonesian Muslims Urge Crackdown

Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 9:42:50 am PDT

Reader Andrew Chen emailed about this article I missed a few days ago. The two largest Muslim organizations in Indonesia are urging the government to crack down on Islamic militants. The Indonesian brand of Islam has traditionally been one of the world’s most tolerant; it’s good news that they’re fighting ...

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Peaceful Religion Watch

Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 9:02:32 am PDT

A videotaped statement from the Islamic terrorists in Moscow has been broadcast to the Arab world on Al Jazeera. In a broadcast monitored in Cairo, Egypt, the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera satellite TV channel broadcast a videotaped statement by one of the estimated 40 hostage-takers from inside the theater."I swear by God ...

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Hostage Murdered in Moscow

Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 8:23:51 am PDT

This is a very bad situation. The Islamic terrorists in Russia have killed one of their hostages. The killing was believed to have taken place in the early hours of the crisis that began when gunmen in camouflage stormed the theater at 9:05 p.m. Wednesday as an audience of about ...

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Palestinian Child Abuse

Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 8:07:37 am PDT

The ever-charming Hamas terror group has launched a new Internet comic strip for children, teaching them how to be angry little Jew-hating jihadis. The second edition, (Oct. 2002) as published on the Internet site of the Hamas movement, lashes out against the "Jewish enemy" and the other countries that assist ...

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Stop the Leafleteer

Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 2:57:39 am PDT

CAIR is up in arms (yes, again) about a hideous anti-Muslim hate crime in Hawaii. Seems an unknown criminal threw leaflets into the yard of a Honolulu mosque. HONOLULU, Hawaii (AP) -- Hundreds of leaflets containing threats and disparaging remarks toward Muslims were found in the yard of an Islamic ...

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Wednesday, October 23, 2002

Sniper Warrants

Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:05:12 pm PDT

An arrest warrant has been issued in the Beltway sniper case for John Allen Muhammad. Police are also reported to be searching a location near Marion, Alabama, known as Camp Ground Zero USA, which I wrote about here last July.

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The Iranian Comedy Hour

Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 8:02:35 pm PDT

Michael Ledeen continues calling for us to wake up to what’s happening in Iran—the world’s first shariatopia, now on the brink of democratic revolution.

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My Last Word on the Subject

Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 5:16:04 pm PDT

I’m really torn about posting this. On one hand, the whole issue is so monumentally inconsequential that I’ve been attempting to ignore it, from the start. But on the other hand, today Anil Dash made some claims that are such a gross misrepresentation of the facts that I think I ...

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Eat the Flames of Evil Guns

Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 3:06:45 pm PDT

New Jersey poet laureate Amiri Baraka has a competitor in Saudi Arabia: It was not my dream last night. Merely, I was an eyewitness; events unfolded from a chain of scenes, sometime, flashed like visions, then turned into total dreams. One Palestinian child on one limb, dashing through the desert heat at the speed of light yelling ...

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Terrorism for Dummies

Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 2:14:27 pm PDT

A Fatah terrorist in the Gaza Strip demonstrates how to break through a “settlement” fence and kill Jews with a mortar.

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Russian Hostage Situation

Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:17:23 pm PDT

A large number of gunmen have taken an entire theater audience hostage in Moscow. The Soviet Palace of Art was holding a performance of the musical Nord-Ost (North-East), one of the Russian capital's most popular productions.The Interfax news agency said one of its reporters was inside the theater at the ...

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LGF Preferences

Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:04:35 pm PDT

I’ve received several emails from new readers that love the content, but think our fonts are too small. So I wanted to point out our Preferences page, where you can set the font sizes you like for all the main typestyles at LGF, and some other options too.

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Outrage of the Day II

Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:28:11 am PDT

European NGO Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters without frontiers) has published an index of world press freedom, in which the US is ranked 17th. Below every European country on the list. And Israel is ranked below the Palestinian Authority, at 92nd and 82nd respectively. (Hat tip: reader Stuart LeVine.)

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Root Causes

Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:54:16 am PDT

On Monday the Internet’s primary (or “root”) servers suffered one of the largest and most sophisticated attacks in history. The heart of the Internet sustained its largest and most sophisticated attack ever, starting late Monday, according to officials at key online backbone organizations.Around 5:00 p.m. EDT on Monday, a "distributed ...

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Mark Steyn Backs LGF

Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 9:32:40 am PDT

I really wasn’t going to write anything more about the smear campaign against LGF (which is still going on, by the way), or about MSNBC’s Will Femia’s non-apology for what some people believe came close to a libelous accusation. But I just received a copy of a letter to MSNBC that ...

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Outrage of the Day

Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 8:59:55 am PDT

The State Department continues to amaze. You might think that after the 9/11 hijackers gained visas in spite of numerous blatant lies on immigration forms, State would punish (or at least reprimand) the officials responsible for the worst security lapse in their shameful history. You’d be wrong. Joel Mowbray says State ...

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Oriana Stands Up

Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 8:25:37 am PDT

Oriana Fallaci’s book The Rage and the Pride has been vilified in Europe, for daring to tell the truth about Islam’s hatred of the West. Islamic groups have tried to have her arrested, and her book banned. She may be the gutsiest journalist who ever lived. A partisan in the ...

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Tuesday, October 22, 2002

Best of the Web Backs LGF

Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 2:06:43 pm PDT

Remember that rush project I mentioned yesterday? That was supposed to be done yesterday? Well, it’s getting finished today. That’s where I’ve been for the past few hours, while you folks were posting almost 300 comments. I’m sure glad I took that Evelyn Wood Speed Reading course lo, those many ...

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Nutso State has Nukes

Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 9:22:49 am PDT

John Derbyshire is right on the money in this column about the terrifying spread of nuclear weapons to rogue states, and the missed opportunities to stop it. Among the nine nations currently known to have nuclear weapons, two — China and North Korea — are dictatorships, run by secretive cliques ...

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Zigging and Zagging

Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 9:09:20 am PDT

Mark Steyn on the Beltway sniper. A few days ago, I caught the tail end of a news bulletin on how the police had at last put together a "composite." I was impressed. But it turned out to be a composite not of the suspect but of his vehicle, a ...

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LGF Blogburst

Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 8:41:57 am PDT

Wow. I am being deluged with messages of support. My Inbox is totally out of control. I can see that I’m not going to have time to answer every one, so let me say a most sincere “thank you” for all the thoughtful comments and heartening messages. I’m really blown ...

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Iraq and Oklahoma

Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 8:25:57 am PDT

LGF reader zulubaby linked to this article at the Evening Standard that looks at the persistent rumors of an Iraqi connection to the Oklahoma City bombing. There’s enough here to warrant an investigation, obviously; does anyone really have confidence that the FBI didn’t miss things the first time around?

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Left-Wing Fascism

Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 7:51:06 am PDT

Reader M. Simon forwarded an interesting piece about the fascist origins of many far-left ideas, by John J. Ray: Left-wing Fascism: An Intellectual Disorder.

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New Strongholds

Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 7:45:43 am PDT

Daniel Pipes and Jonathan Schanzer write about the spread of militant Islam into new territories; specifically Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Nigeria: Militant Islam’s New Strongholds.

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The Heirs of Goebbels

Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 2:28:46 am PDT

One of the most popular books at the recent Syrian International Book Fair was The Matzah of Zion by Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass, which presents the Damascus blood libel as “historical fact.” "A source in the Tlass Publishing House for Research and Translation told Al-Hayat that this book is ...

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More LGF Supporters

Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 2:08:45 am PDT

Expressions of support for LGF against the Anil Dash smear campaign continue to pour in. In addition to dozens of emails (might be over a hundred now), more bloggers are going public to denounce Dash’s mean-spirited allegations; I owe big thanks to Heather Chase, Martin Devon, Laurence Simon, and Jay ...

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Monday, October 21, 2002

Peaceful Religion Watch

Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 8:20:02 pm PDT

In this week’s look at the disgusting anti-Semitism, bigotry, and incitement to violence pouring from the official media of the Arab world, our first example is from an unidentified mosque in Gaza, complaining that the Arab states haven’t used their armies to attack Israel since ... well, since the last ...

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Still More

Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 7:57:11 pm PDT

Still more support for LGF from skippy the bush kangaroo, John Bono, and a very nice doggie.

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Photos From the Front

Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 7:16:19 pm PDT

Gil Shterzer has compiled a list of photographs from today’s bus bombing in Israel. Islamic Jihad has confessed to perpetrating the crime.

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I’m Not Worthy

Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 5:00:33 pm PDT

More messages of support for LGF from Jennie Taliaferro, Michele at a small victory, and the Instantman too. Domo arigato, fellow anti-idiotarians.

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Hey Tony!

Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 1:43:10 pm PDT

Tony Pierce, one of the gentlest, most kind-hearted horndog freaks I’ve ever met, is also sticking up for the beleaguered Football. Thanks, Tony.

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Yourish to MSNBC

Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 1:34:04 pm PDT

I have a rush job to finish today, folks, so posting will be light until later this evening. (And I really do have another Peaceful Religion Watch in the works.) But I want to express my gratitude to Meryl Yourish for her strong support for LGF against the smear ...

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The Wages of Hate

Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:05:49 am PDT

Andrew Sullivan has an excellent piece today on the growing prevalence of anti-Semitism in the so-called “anti-war” movement. America's anti-war movement, still puny and struggling, is showing signs of being hijacked by one of the oldest and darkest prejudices there is. Perhaps it was inevitable. The conflict against Islamo-fascism obviously ...

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Australian Red Cross

Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:38:07 am PDT

Here’s where you can donate to help the victims of the Bali nightclub bombing: Australian Red Cross.

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The Fifth Column at Berkeley

Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 9:45:37 am PDT

Last Friday at a campus roundtable discussion, UC Berkeley professors called Al Qaeda “an incredibly convenient phantom,” and blamed the Bali nightclub bombing on—who else?—the United States. No, not indirectly, as in “US actions enraged the otherwise peaceful tolerant Islamozoids.” Directly, as in “the US planted the bomb.” The United ...

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Support

Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 9:12:54 am PDT

I’m receiving a flood of emails this morning supporting LGF against the smear campaign, and I’m really touched. Thank you, LGF readers. If you’d like to add your voice to the chorus, here’s the email address of MSNBC’s Best of the Blogs editor. I don’t want to gaze into my navel ...

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Car Bomb in North Israel

Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 8:06:02 am PDT

There was another cowardly Palestinian attack against Jewish civilians this morning; a car bomb that went off next to a bus.

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Sunday, October 20, 2002

Prague Discounts Meeting

Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:17:58 pm PDT

After many months of conflicting reports, Czech president Vaclav Havel has told the White House there is no credible evidence that 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague.

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Anti-Israel Week in Florida

Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 8:59:03 pm PDT

LGF readers in central Florida may be interested in this; the University of Florida’s pro-Palestinian (read: anti-Israel) group is having an “awareness week,” which they have given the name NAKBA '48. Nakba is Arabic for “the Catastrophe,” and it refers to the creation of the state of Israel. Speakers at ...

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LGF Crusade

Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 8:20:24 pm PDT

Yesterday, MSNBC’s Weblog Central linked to LGF, after several readers recommended us. Today the LGF detractors (one in particular) are trying to smear us as a “hate” site. We can use your help, loyal readers. Now is the time to stand up and tell MSNBC that you support LGF. Here’s the ...

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New Feature

Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 1:47:53 pm PDT

I finally got around to adding keyboard equivalents for some of the common commands at LGF. For example, typing Alt-S (Control-S on Mac) will put the text cursor in the search form at the top of the page. Alt-A (Control-A on Mac) will open the anti-idiotarian links page. Anywhere you ...

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Francophreaks in Lebanon

Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:19:56 am PDT

Mon dieu. There is a veritable flood of disgraceful stories coming out of the Francophone Conference in Lebanon. First, Meryl Yourish writes about a group of French journalists that included a Jewish correspondent; the Arab journalists in attendance went ballistic and almost attacked him physically. And here’s how Canadian Prime Minister ...

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Saturday, October 19, 2002

Hitchens

Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 6:14:30 pm PDT

I know the rest of the blogosphere has already linked to Hitchens’ new fisking of the idiotarians of the loony left, but if you haven’t read it yet, you need to: So Long, Fellow Travelers. (If those terms didn’t make sense, stick around. They will.)

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It’s Not About Politics!

Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 4:41:32 pm PDT

Rand McNally has a terrific new online mapping site. I just wasted almost half an hour playing it. The maps are very nicely implemented and drawn, and I was impressed with the driving directions; I checked some local routes and it knew the shortcuts. Highly recommended. (Via Jeff Jarvis.)

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In the Empty Quarter

Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 4:22:33 pm PDT

Well, this Bin Laden sighting is a bit more reliable than the last one I published. If true, it’s major news. DEBKAfile has been right enough times for me to think their sources must be pretty good, and today they report that Osama decided there’s no place like home, when ...

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Motherly Hate

Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 3:25:09 pm PDT

Last week the Hamas web site published an interview with the mother of Mahmud Alabad. Mahmud Alabad was born in the Shati refugee camp on April 30, 1979. When I gave birth to Mahmud, I was so happy when I saw him, and when I said goodbye to him when ...

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A World Filled With Allies

Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 2:40:29 pm PDT

The leaders of Iraq seem convinced that the world is on their side, and against the United States. The government's fondness for compliant voices was only one of many similarities to the old Soviet Union that struck visitors in the past week. Baghdad's best hotels overflowed with more than 2,000 ...

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PLO in Canada

Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 10:24:47 am PDT

According to the National Post, a Jordanian newspaper has reported that Hasan Abul-Aynain, the head of the Fatah terrorist group in Lebanon, has been allowed to immigrate to Canada under the controversial investor immigrant program, after making a $450,000 “investment.” Also known as Brigadier General Sultan Abul-Aynain, the Fatah leader ...

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Maximum International Verbiage

Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 9:21:40 am PDT

US Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly says we will bring maximum international pressure on North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program. That’s telling ’em.

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Peaceful Religion Watch

Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 8:40:37 am PDT

One of the nation’s largest Islamic charities, the Global Relief Foundation, has been designated a terrorist organization by the US Treasury Department. The foundation "has connections to [and] has provided support for . . . the al Qaeda network and other known terrorist groups," Treasury said in a statement. It ...

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Visitor from Splodeydope U

Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 7:43:13 am PDT

David Vickery (known as “Dhoud” to his friends) dropped by again last night, to tell us that we’re all stupid, ill-informed dupes of the “Jew-controlled western media,” and that the brave, patient rock-throwing Palestinians are being slaughtered indiscriminately, apparently for no reason whatsoever. He also denies that An-Najah University has ...

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Friday, October 18, 2002

Opinions?

Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 5:33:45 pm PDT

This weekend I’m planning to write some code for the LGF backend system that will disable comment posting for topics older than 30 days. I want to do this because, as we’ve noted and discussed before, moonbat trolls tend to leave their stinkiest droppings in non-active topics. With 500-1000 comments ...

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Blogspot, Oh Blogspot

Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 3:58:29 pm PDT

Rand Simberg’s Blogspot traffic light has been green all day, but I have not been able to connect to a single Blogspot site since this morning. Anyone else having trouble?

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Pakistan Helped North Korea

Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 3:32:53 pm PDT

Karl Inderfurth, a South Asia expert who served in the Clinton administration, says that Pakistan was instrumental in providing materials and technical assistance to North Korea’s secret nuclear program. Inderfurth said President Clinton, on three occasions, raised concerns directly with Pakistani leaders about reports that Islamabad was sending nuclear materials ...

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Iraqi Exiles’ Perspectives

Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 3:17:45 pm PDT

MEMRI has a very interesting analysis piece today about Iraqis in exile, and their perceptions of the American role in a post-Saddam Iraq. Note that the Islamists are already positioning themselves for another attempt at establishing shariatopia: Writing from London, Ghassan Al-Attiyya expresses the concern that some elements of the ...

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Dental Karma

Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 2:07:39 pm PDT

Ever bite into something hard and break a tooth? Ow. Just happened to me. Bottom molar on right side. And even more painful is thinking about the large dental bill looming on the horizon; my dentist’s kids are going to Ivy League schools thanks to me. If you’ve been considering ...

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Voices in the Wilderness

Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:44:10 am PDT

Another excellent column today from Victor Davis Hanson, about the siren song of appeasement always heard at history’s turning points: Voices in the Wilderness. Think of the truculent Demosthenes, who spent two decades warning complacent city states that Philip II and Alexander were more than modern monarchs who wished to ...

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Bombing in Manila

Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 9:39:13 am PDT

A bus bombing in suburban Manila has killed at least 3 people and injured 20.

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Religion of Murder

Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 9:05:15 am PDT

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Field Trip Report

Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 8:46:08 am PDT

Last weekend several of our regular readers got together in San Diego to visit the “Here is New York” exhibit, and “mommydoc” emailed a report of the get-together (which I’m sorry to say I couldn’t attend). Freedom tea cakes were had by all. ——————————————- The inaugural real-time Southern California social event for ...

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The Usual Idiots

Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 8:30:20 am PDT

Jane Fonda, Noam Chomsky, Susan Sarandon, and the other high-profile idiots of the anti-American left have taken out another ad in the New York Times. The ad says that Sept. 11th "recalled similar scenes in Baghdad, Panama City … and Viet Nam.”Excuse us? When did anyone ever hijack a plane ...

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More on Kidnapping Handbook

Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 8:03:08 am PDT

Jeremy Reynalds has details about al Qaeda’s online guide to kidnapping Americans, including a link to the Arabic-language discussion forum where the guide is posted. As part of the procedure involved in checking out an area planned for a kidnapping, the writer of the guide encourages people to carefully ...

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Thursday, October 17, 2002

The Peaceful Youth of Islam

Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 4:19:52 pm PDT

The rabid violence-obsessed Muslim kidz at ClearGuidance have found a new web host for their poisonous discussion forum. In this thread a member tries to talk sense into the rest of the bloodthirsty bunch, asking if this is really the image of Islam they want to portray: Don't mean to ...

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Not the Funny Kind

Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 1:11:30 pm PDT

The Kurds of northern Iraq have a simple two-word description of Saddam’s “landslide victory:” a joke. SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq Oct. 16 — A radio station in northern Iraq's Western-protected Kurdish region had just one observation about Saddam Hussein's 100 percent victory in a leadership referendum: "a joke."The Kurds, who occupy three ...

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They Want to Kill Us All

Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:38:41 pm PDT

Another great Mark Steyn column today in the Spectator: They want to kill us all. The French were supportive for about ten minutes after 11 September, but for most of the last year have been famously and publicly non-supportive: throughout the spring, their foreign minister, M. Védrine, was deploring American ...

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Saudis Fund Al Qaeda

Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:18:22 am PDT

A new report from the Council on Foreign Relations says what the Bush administration won’t: Terror Funds Flow Through Saudi Arabia. The Bush administration's efforts to cut off funds for international terrorism are destined to fail until it confronts Saudi Arabia, whose leaders have tolerated some of its wealthy citizens ...

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NYT: Mouthpiece for Dictators

Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 9:49:46 am PDT

Today the New York Times publishes a statement from the Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations, letting us know that Iraq is a peaceful, friendly place with no intention at all of ever doing anything aggressive or violent. He cites Scott Ritter. What more is there to say about the New ...

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The Ostrich Position

Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 8:04:20 am PDT

Paul Johnson writes that the irrational anti-Americanism of many European countries results from a deeper economic malaise: The Ostrich Position.

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Wednesday, October 16, 2002

Comments Enabled

Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 8:01:04 pm PDT

Comments were temporarily disabled this afternoon while I did some maintenance work, but they’re back on now.

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The Lowest-Tech A-Bomb

Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 7:13:47 pm PDT

Here’s a scary little article at MIT’s Technology Review about what Saddam Hussein needs to build the lowest-tech atomic bomb possible.

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Cola Jihad

Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 5:57:22 pm PDT

Come on. Admit it. You’ve been breathlessly waiting for more information about Zam Zam Cola, the “slightly sickly” Islamic carbonated beverage guaranteed to contain no pork whatsoever. Turns out we have a cola jihad going on. Ten million bottles of Zam Zam have been exported to Saudi Arabia and Gulf countries ...

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Shocker of the Day

Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 5:18:05 pm PDT

Everyone knew it, but it’s still a rather nasty shock to hear that North Korea has admitted having a secret nuclear program. WASHINGTON (AP) - North Korea has told the United States it has a secret nuclear weapons program in violation of an agreement signed with the Clinton administration, a ...

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Indymedia Hits Bottom, Digs

Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 5:07:36 pm PDT

More evidence of a complete take-over of Indymedia by a heretofore unsuspected race of mutant anti-Semitic weasels: U.S., Israeli governments commit random murder to deflect attention from invasion of Iraq. A CIA hit team or Mossad agents sent by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to the United States are the ...

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CFT Urges Appeasement

Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 12:11:17 pm PDT

The California Federation of Teachers, who have done such a wonderful job of destroying the state’s educational system, have passed a resolution condemning the war on Iraq and the Bush administration. Whereas, the United States and Britain have been bombing Iraq on a virtually continuous basis since the end of ...

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Macadamia Alert

Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:47:25 am PDT

Today’s Macadamia Alert is a comment posted from the University of Michigan in Dearborn.

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Brits Respond to Bali

Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:36:08 am PDT

In the wake of the monstrous Bali nightclub terror attack, the Wanker Unlimited reports a “spectacular surge” in support among British voters for military action against Iraq: Sharp rise in favour of war on Iraq. (Hat tip: M. Simon.)

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Bin Laden in Bali?

Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:26:14 am PDT

A reader in Israel who wishes to be known as “israeli guy” (no, it isn’t Gil Shterzer) has forwarded the following English translation of an article in Maariv by well-known Israeli journalist Yair Lapid, reporting a sighting of Osama Bin Laden at Denpasar airport in Bali shortly before the night ...

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A Confession

Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 8:44:47 am PDT

A former member of the Indonesian Air Force has confessed to making the Bali bomb.

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Complete Idiot’s Guide to Kidnapping

Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 8:20:03 am PDT

The IDF reports on a new online guide found on an al Qaeda web site, entitled How to Kidnap American Citizens. The guide describes kidnapping methods, from choice of location, to information gathering about the location, to ways of carrying out the kidnapping.The guide was apparently written by someone associated ...

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Nuclear Numbskull

Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 1:54:25 am PDT

The logic-impaired Prime Minister of Malaysia says the possibility that Iraq is developing nuclear weapons does not justify military action to remove Saddam Hussein. Apparently we’re supposed to wait until he actually uses them. But he’d have no problem if we attacked Israel instead. "If you attack a country because of ...

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Tuesday, October 15, 2002

Say It Ain’t So, Jerry Cornelius

Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 5:50:37 pm PDT

No. Please. Someone tell me I’m hallucinating. I didn’t really see Michael Moorcock’s name on this petition. Another hero toppled from his pedestal. Sob. Artists and Writers Oppose Expanding War On Terrorism Petition. To: US Government, War on Terrorism coalition partners Artists have both the ability and the moral obligation ...

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Europeans Give the Edge to Saddam

Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 2:37:14 pm PDT

Vinod Valloppillil writes from Europe on the appalling Iraqi election coverage on BBC, CNN-Europe and EuroNews.

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Support for ABC News Waning

Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 2:08:17 pm PDT

LGF reader Diane L. sent us this story by Bill Redeker at ABC News that is one of the most outrageous examples of pure propaganda masquerading as news I’ve ever seen. With a title like “Support for Iraq War Waning Across U.S.” you might expect to find poll numbers, statistics, ...

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What the Hell is Wrong With Reuters?

Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 1:08:03 pm PDT

Is Reuters kidding? Is a lobotomy now required to be a Reuters stringer? Have they changed their name to Dictators’ News Agency? Defiant Iraqis Vote 'Yes' to Saddam? “Vote?” Are they seriously trying to portray the Iraqi election as anything other than a complete fraud and a sham? BAGHDAD (Reuters) - ...

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Peaceful Religion Watch II

Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:50:52 am PDT

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Ikrima Sabri, has been detained for questioning about his statements inciting suicide bombing. Sabri is quoted as having voiced support for Palestinian suicide bombings and asserting that "suicide bombings are a legitimate Palestinian right against Zionist occupation." He is also accused of saying there is ...

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Joe Bob’s Talk Show

Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:31:55 am PDT

In an awesome rant, Joe Bob Briggs demonstrates why he’ll never host a talk show.

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The Eastern Front

Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:12:10 am PDT

Ralph Peters says the Bali nightclub bombing was an act of desperation, not strength—and a huge strategic mistake for al Qaeda. Indonesia is a country of 210 million with a 90% Muslim majority that produces good beer and likes to party (most young Indonesians tend to hear only the first ...

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Saudi Hijack Attempt

Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 10:11:34 am PDT

A passenger on a flight from Sudan to Saudi Arabia attempted to hijack the plane, but was overpowered by security. The official Saudi press agency described the gunman as a Saudi national who was acting alone. Aren’t they all?

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Peaceful Religion Watch

Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 9:48:12 am PDT

Once again last Friday, like clockwork, the spiritual leaders of the Arab world were screaming for Allah to kill and destroy. But something tells me Allah tuned them out a long time ago. From the Grand Mosque in Sanaa, Yemen: "O God, support whoever supports religion, humble whoever humbles Muslims, and ...

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The Truth Inside

Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 8:00:41 am PDT

From Iran, Farideh Tehrani writes a heartfelt plea for US journalists to tell the truth about her country. Please tune out the biased and shallow works of journalists who use their pens to editorialize rather than report news. The Los Angeles Times's Robin Wright often calls Khatami "the leading reformer ...

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Paying the Enemy

Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 7:53:11 am PDT

Responding to pressure from the US State Department, Israel will release $500 million in frozen tax revenue to the Palestinian Authority. Construction and Housing Minister Natan Sharansky, who has been a vociferous opponent to releasing the funds, said Monday he was "shocked and appalled" by the understanding and called it ...

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Monday, October 14, 2002

Immediate Promotion of the Big Lie

Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 6:03:06 pm PDT

Would you believe that before September 11 I used to visit Indymedia occasionally, and mostly agreed with what I read? But since that dark day, the incredibly strange creatures have completely taken over every branch of Indymedia, typified by Bizarro World articles like this: BALI, Indonesia (Sun Oct 13, 2002) ...

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An-Najah International Relations

Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 5:05:02 pm PDT

Reader Jeremy Deutsch did a little digging around the An-Najah University web site, and guess what he found on this page: International Relations: Arrangements for co-operation include those with: University of Barcelona; University of Nottingham; University of Manchester; Institute of Science and Technology; University of Lancaster; University of Oslo; Oslo ...

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Outrage of the Day

Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 3:35:58 pm PDT

Former UN Secretary General and ex-Wehrmacht intelligence officer Kurt Waldheim has been pulling down an annual pension of $124,754 for two decades, for a total of $2.3 million so far—and the US is paying 24% of the tab for the creepy old ex-Nazi’s life of luxury in Vienna. (Hat tip: ...

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Dundee University Replies

Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:25:55 am PDT

In the continuing saga of An-Najah University, David Vickery makes another appearance in our comments, quoting Edward Said to us and inviting us to visit. Sure. We’ll be right over. Meanwhile, Ms. Carol Pope from Dundee University in Scotland has responded to our inquiry. But first, for completeness, here again is the ...

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Canada, the 51st State

Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:45:55 am PDT

In a recent poll, 38% of Americans support annexing Canada. But those who follow Canada-U.S. relations closely said Canadians should not panic."I wouldn't worry about the army coming," said Christopher Sands, director of the Canada Project for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. ...Harold Waller, who ...

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German-Iraq Nuclear Link

Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 9:24:54 am PDT

Reader M. Simon tipped us to this item about a new documentary film titled Stealing the Fire, that traces the roots of Iraq’s nuclear arms program to Germany: Film Probes German-Iraq Nuclear Link. Iraq was failing with other enrichment technologies when German centrifuge experts Bruno Stemmler and Walter Busse, recruited ...

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Finland Bomber Photo

Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 8:46:38 am PDT

Reuters and AP still don’t have it, but LGF reader Amnah sent a link to this photo of the Finland mall bomber:

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Sneak Attacks in Kuwait

Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 8:23:33 am PDT

US forces in Kuwait were fired upon today, from two civilian SUVs. No one was hurt, and Americans did not return fire. Here’s a quote that almost made me spit coffee all over the keyboard: Neighboring Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, expressed concerned that al-Qaida members may be in Kuwait, Saudi Interior Minister ...

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Sunday, October 13, 2002

Come On In

Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 7:34:55 pm PDT

Representatives from Canadian universities spent the weekend in Cairo, trying to recruit Arab students. CAIRO - With fewer Arab students being welcomed into the United States because of stricter visa rules, Canada is becoming a popular second choice for post-secondary education. Representatives from more than two dozen Canadian colleges and ...

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A Dark Day in Bali

Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 7:07:47 pm PDT

Photos from the Bali bombing. Our hearts go out to our Australian allies.

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Bin Laden’s Brother-in-Law

Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 6:55:12 pm PDT

DEBKAfile reports that the Bali nightclub bombing was engineered by Osama bin Laden’s brother-in-law. No group claimed responsibility for the two car bombs that turned the Indonesian island paradise of Bali into a fiery inferno Saturday, October 12, killing close to 200 and maiming many hundreds. But the hand of ...

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Thinking Big?

Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 6:38:09 pm PDT

LGF reader Bala Ambati drew our attention to this interesting proposal for a radical reshaping of the Middle East after a regime change in Iraq, by Yosef Goell in the Jerusalem Post: Thinking Big After Iraq. LAST YEAR, Prof. Walter Reich of George Washington University, writing in The Jerusalem Post, ...

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The Number Has Been Disconnected

Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 4:08:07 pm PDT

The exploding telephone strikes again.

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Saddam’s Favorite Themes

Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 3:51:09 pm PDT

Here’s a great new Mark Steyn column, on Saddam’s sham election and his odd choice for a “campaign” theme song: Saddam’s Favorite Themes. Well, I knew this would happen. Saddam Hussein has finally got hold of a Weapon of Mass Destruction. In a dispatch on Tuesday's presidential election in Iraq, ...

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Mall Bomber an “Ethnic Finn”

Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 3:20:05 pm PDT

The Finland mall bomber is described in this AP story as an “ethnic Finn.” It’s looking more like a teenage Finnish psycho than an Al Qaeda style terrorist. But I wonder how much the relentless glamorization of the Palestinian “cause” in Europe and Scandinavia contributed to this kid’s murderous plan? ...

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Something’s Happening in Egypt

Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 12:19:48 pm PDT

Martin Walker reports on a new private satellite channel in Egypt called Dream TV: Egypt's Cultural Revolution. The show that everyone watches is Al-Ustaz, the Professor, which features the grand old man of Egyptian journalism, Mohamed Heykal, former editor of Al-Ahram, adviser and close confidant to former President Nasser. So ...

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Mandela Sides with Iraq

Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 12:06:04 pm PDT

Nelson Mandela is now openly accusing the United States of “racism and white supremacism,” and offering to serve on a panel of “12 wise men” proposed by Saddam Hussein to oversee the UN inspectors: Mandela picks Iraq over U.S. Mandela has uttered stronger and stronger statements critical of Bush. Originally ...

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War Plans Rewritten

Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 10:31:25 am PDT

Reader M. Simon sent us a link to this story at the NYT that says Donald Rumsfeld has told the military’s regional commanders, “Faster, please.”

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A Respectful Rapist

Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 10:03:12 am PDT

An Australian Muslim accused of kidnapping and raping a 16-year old girl took off his “Islamic pendant” before the assault—because keeping it on would have been “disrespectful.” Farhad Qaumi, 19, of Berala, appeared in Parramatta Bail Court charged with aggravated sexual assault, causing bodily harm and two counts of detain ...

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187 Dead in Bali

Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 8:40:46 am PDT

The Sydney Morning-Herald reports that the death toll in the horrific Bali nightclub bombings has risen to 187, including many Australians.

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“Jim” from An-Najah

Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 8:21:45 am PDT

Our dear friend “David Vickery” from An-Najah University in Nablus stopped by last night at LGF, this time using the name “Jim,” to leave a comment calling our readers “ill-educated and easily manipulated,” and praising LGF’s skills at “hate-mongering and prejudism [sic].” I guess he had some spare time between ...

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Saturday, October 12, 2002

Reports from Umich

Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 6:29:47 pm PDT

Haggai's Place has detailed reports from this weekend’s pro-terrorism conference at the University of Michigan, including a conversation with Adam Shapiro’s Palestinian wife.

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Bali Nightclub Bombings

Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 5:45:35 pm PDT

Fifty-eight people are now confirmed dead in multiple bombings in Bali, obviously targeting infidels. UPDATE: James Morrow reports that the Sydney Morning-Herald is whitewashing the wire stories about these bombings, removing references to Islamic terror groups. UPDATE: The death toll has now climbed to at least 150 people.

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Iraq Warns Inspectors

Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 2:29:52 pm PDT

Iraq is warning UN weapons inspectors that it reserves the right to end cooperation at any time. BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq reserves the right to end cooperation with U.N. weapons inspections if it deems Washington is manipulating them, the Iraqi inspections chief said, clouding prospects of the high-stakes U.N. ...

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University of Death Discovers LGF

Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 2:09:38 pm PDT

In mid-August I posted an entry about Al-Najah University, a school in the West Bank city of Nablus that openly supports and promotes terrorism. At least seven suicide bombers were Al-Najah alumni, and Hamas has often referred to the school as “a greenhouse for martyrs.” Last night my brother and ...

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France Remains Committed

Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 11:31:02 am PDT

Even though a French oil tanker in Yemen was attacked by terrorists, the French government says they remain firmly committed to appeasing Saddam Hussein. The French have firmly opposed a unilateral U.S. strike against Iraq — and the government says evidence of terrorism in an explosion on a French oil ...

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The Definition of “Ingrate”

Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 9:15:47 am PDT

Well, I guess I understand how the Kuwaitis feel. After all, it’s not like the United States ever did anything for their country, besides discover oil there and make them all rich. Oh yes, and we did drive the invading Iraqis out. And, uh, we did extinguish all those oil ...

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Suicide Bomber in Finland

Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 8:12:33 am PDT

According to the BBC, the explosion yesterday in a shopping mall in Finland was caused by a suicide bomber, who was under the age of 20. I assume that if they know this much, they also know the freak’s nationality. But as usual, they’re playing games and withholding that information. ...

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Friday, October 11, 2002

Who’s On First?

Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 6:47:50 pm PDT

David Warren asks, “Who will be first to drop the pretence?”

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Mr. Duplicity

Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 5:34:10 pm PDT

At MEMRI today, a barely coherent interview with the baby wipe billionaire himself, for the London Arabic-language daily Al-Hayat. Hamad: "It is known that the Israeli army planned to expel you from the Palestinian territories, to a remote area."Arafat: "To a remote area! That is, to the desert! They are ...

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Cowards’ Counsel

Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 4:52:40 pm PDT

A great op-ed from Ralph Peters in today’s New York Post: Cowards’ Counsel. There are few things more repugnant to a soldier than a coward who claims to speak on his behalf. At present, there seems no end of politicians and pundits claiming we dare not strike Saddam because of ...

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Remembrance of Things Past

Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:55:15 am PDT

Victor Davis Hanson on the surprisingly vicious anti-Americanism that surfaced during the recent German elections, and what it means for the future of American-German relations: Remembrance of Things Past. What will be the result of all this? Our elites and theirs claim that they will huddle together and quickly fix ...

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Harvard’s Un-American Activities

Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:16:32 am PDT

Daniel Pipes talks with the Harvard Salient about Campus Watch, and about Harvard’s Un-American Activities. Here he discusses a survey that reveals academia’s whitewashing of the word jihad: I have just finished a survey of more than twenty-five academics, including three at Harvard, to hear what they had to say ...

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Pro-Taliban Parties Win

Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 10:07:40 am PDT

The news from Pakistan is not good; pro-Taliban Islamozoids gained quite a bit of power in yesterday’s elections. I sincerely hope we have a fast-action contingency plan for either destroying or seizing Pakistan’s nuclear weapons in the eventuality of an Islamist coup.

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Like an Owl Exploding

Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 9:53:39 am PDT

John Derbyshire takes Amiri Baraka to the woodshed, in a devastatingly funny critique of Baraka’s magnum opus, “Somebody Blew Up America.”

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The Nobel Evil Prize

Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 9:09:16 am PDT

Tunku Varadarajan says the irrelevant Nobel Peace Prize should be scrapped in favor of a Nobel Evil Prize. Instead of the annual twitterings about peace, this will offer up an alternative gesture that is truly difficult and controversial, one that requires choosing sides and baring moral criteria.This will not be ...

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Peace Prize Meant as a Rebuke

Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 8:10:16 am PDT

The Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee would like us to know that they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to Jimmy Carter because they don’t like President Bush. UPDATE: At least they didn’t give it to Fidel Castro.

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Outrage of the Day, Part 2

Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 7:46:50 am PDT

I’m even more outraged at the State Department’s biased Religious Freedom report, now that I’ve read this detailed piece at IMRA about the appalling situation of Christians in the Palestinian-Controlled Areas. In another article, IMRA points out that the same US authorities responsible for whitewashing the PA are supposed to accurately ...

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Thursday, October 10, 2002

Got Another One

Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 6:24:39 pm PDT

German authorities have arrested a Moroccan man for connections to the September 11 cell in Hamburg. Abdelghani Mzoudi, 29, had close contacts over several years with members of the cell, which included two other Sept. 11 pilots — Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah — and attended training camps in Afghanistan ...

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Canadian Iraqis Say, “Faster Please.”

Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 6:01:22 pm PDT

Iraqi immigrants to Canada speak out in favor of US action against Saddam Hussein: Iraqi-Canadians want an invasion. A Toronto man, an Iraqi-Canadian who said his family in Iraq would be harmed if his name were published, said he too was against war with Iraq -- until he returned to ...

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No Surrender Jokes, Please

Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 5:43:33 pm PDT

Bad news for Saddam—even the French are beginning to face reality: France signals wish to fall in with America over Iraq.

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Passed in the House

Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:26:44 pm PDT

House Approves Iraq Resolution.

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Outrage of the Day

Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 12:00:05 pm PDT

The State Department recently released their annual International Religious Freedom report—and it criticizes Israel while praising the Palestinian Authority. Anti-Jewish sentiment in the PA was limited to one paragraph that criticized "the rhetoric of some Jewish and Muslim religious leaders," which it described as "harsh and at times constituted an ...

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State Defends Terrorist Visas

Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 9:47:57 am PDT

State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher attempts to dismiss Joel Mowbray’s damning exposé of State’s shockingly negligent approval of the 9/11 hijackers’ visas. Joel Mowbray responds to Boucher’s “political three-card monty.”

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Lies Harvard Told Us

Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 9:32:39 am PDT

Meryl Yourish tears apart a Harvard Crimson op-ed defending the Israel divestment campaign.

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First Class Dawdling

Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 9:24:43 am PDT

Stephen Gordon has a good take on the politically motivated dawdling and maneuvering in the Senate.

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Hamas On Top

Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 9:00:25 am PDT

In the Spectator, Alan Philps sits down for an amiable chat with the Pediatrician of Death, Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz Rantisi, about the rising popularity of the genocidal Islamic terrorist group. There is an argument in the taxi about the proper form of address for Abdel-Aziz Rantisi. Should it be ‘doctor’, ...

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Attempted Bus Bombing

Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 8:39:28 am PDT

The Jerusalem Post has first-hand accounts of today’s attempted suicide bombing of a bus in Israel. Although one woman was killed when the murderous idiot blew himself up, a much worse atrocity was averted by the quick-witted bus driver.

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Don’t Mess with LGF

Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 7:49:37 am PDT

Last night, as I slept the peaceful sleep of the righteous (aided somewhat by the two glasses of wine I had with dinner) an idiotarian troll breezed through and dropped a couple of big propaganda pies in our comments, with links to an Islamic web site containing way too many ...

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Wednesday, October 09, 2002

Pipes vs. Zinn

Wed, Oct 9, 2002 at 7:57:44 pm PDT

Daniel Pipes dukes it out with Howard Zinn.

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Lawsuit at UMich

Wed, Oct 9, 2002 at 7:35:51 pm PDT

Two University of Michigan students filed a lawsuit yesterday, trying to prevent the 3-day anti-Israel conference scheduled for this weekend.

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Peaceful Religion Watch

Wed, Oct 9, 2002 at 6:14:44 pm PDT

The imam of the Grand Mosque in Kuwait is under investigation for allegedly assisting the two terrorzoids who killed a U.S. Marine on Tuesday. Root causes, anyone? But hey. It’s not as if America has ever done anything for Kuwait.

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American Honor

Wed, Oct 9, 2002 at 3:03:38 pm PDT

Don’t miss this letter from one of Steven Den Beste’s readers: American Honor.

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Funneling Funds to Bin Laden

Wed, Oct 9, 2002 at 2:42:08 pm PDT

The Benevolence International Foundation has been under investigation since shortly after September 11, and today the head of the foundation was indicted: Funneling Funds to Bin Laden. The indictment said a criminal enterprise that existed for at least a decade used charitable contributions from innocent Muslims, non-Muslims and corporations to ...

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The Visas That Shouldn’t Have Been

Wed, Oct 9, 2002 at 2:15:16 pm PDT

Joel Mowbray says the 9/11 hijackers should never have been granted visas. According to expert analyses of the visa-application forms of 15 of the 9/11 terrorists (the other four applications could not be obtained), all the applicants among the 15 reviewed should have been denied visas under then-existing law. ...

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Eurabia

Wed, Oct 9, 2002 at 8:54:27 am PDT

Here’s an excellent article by Bat Yeor on Europe’s decades-long appeasement of Arab aggression: Eurabia. The sudden collapse of the World Trade Center’s twin towers, the recent threat of an American boycott of what was perceived as an antisemitic Europe, President Bush’s ironic criticism of Europe’s moral haughtiness, and especially ...

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Goodbye To All That

Wed, Oct 9, 2002 at 8:36:21 am PDT

We seem to have a theme developing today: the idiocies of the blame-America left. An excellent article by Ron Rosenbaum in the New York Observer says Goodbye To All That. It was a mixed gathering with a heavy representation of Left academics, and people were going around the room and ...

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Idiotarian Congressmen

Wed, Oct 9, 2002 at 8:03:06 am PDT

Lileks is on the mark today: instead of reasoned debate on Iraq, we’re getting politically motivated emotional idiocy from the anti-war side. It’s not the “dissent” that annoys me. Really. I learn what I believe, and why I believe what I believe, when my beliefs engage the opposition. I am ...

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Iraqi Blood Money

Wed, Oct 9, 2002 at 7:21:17 am PDT

Saddam Hussein’s payments to families of suicide bombers and wounded Palestinians have reached $15 million—with the full knowledge of Yasser Arafat. Rafad Salim, head of the pro-Iraqi Arab Liberation Front in the West Bank, was responsible for transferring the funds. He was arrested by Shin Bet agents and soldiers on ...

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Tuesday, October 08, 2002

Am I A Threat or Not?

Tue, Oct 8, 2002 at 6:51:29 pm PDT

LGF reader E. Nough emailed a link to this article about a recent survey conducted by French newspapers, in which Israel was ranked number two, just after Iraq, on a list of countries that threaten world peace. The survey was conducted jointly by five local dailies in northwest France, which ...

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Dershowitz on Divestment

Tue, Oct 8, 2002 at 6:13:41 pm PDT

Alan Dershowitz has a history of being either spectacularly wrong (cough OJ cough) or spectacularly right: A Challenge to House Master Hanson.

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Speaking of Our Pals the Saudis

Tue, Oct 8, 2002 at 5:32:19 pm PDT

Creepy web site Jihad Unspun reports that former head of Saudi Intelligence Prince Turki Al Faisal gave an interview to a London Arabic-language newspaper, in which he claimed that Osama bin Laden is alive and will “ace the world” in “an astonishing manner.” On Sunday, while giving an interview to ...

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Saudis Will Fingerprint Americans

Tue, Oct 8, 2002 at 5:22:12 pm PDT

Those laff-a-minute Saudis. Now they’re threatening to fingerprint Americans seeking visas for Saudi Arabia. It’s that pesky honor/shame thing acting up again.

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Funeral Parties

Tue, Oct 8, 2002 at 4:57:37 pm PDT

Funeral processions in the Palestinian Authority are really parades of incitement. Women ululate on the sidelines. Kids ogle the cool terrorist gear. The local terrorzoids break out their best weaponry and strut around, firing in the air. The whole neighborhood gets crazy. Here we find some Palestinian Hamas supporters trashing a ...

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A Society that Sanctifies Death

Tue, Oct 8, 2002 at 1:11:26 pm PDT

Here’s a horrifying look at the child abuse endemic in the psychotic Palestinian death culture. Violent death is sanctified throughout the Palestinian areas. The streets are plastered with posters glorifying the exploits of individual suicide bombers. Children trade martyr cards, purchased at their local shops, instead of Pokemon or baseball ...

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Valberg MiSTs Kooky Shrink

Tue, Oct 8, 2002 at 11:59:02 am PDT

You’ll have to be a Mystery Science Theater fan to get it, but I thought Vigard Valberg’s extended riff on moonbat psychiatrist Carol Wolman was pretty darned hilarious.

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Marines Attacked in Kuwait

Tue, Oct 8, 2002 at 10:30:49 am PDT

A US Marine was killed by unidentified gunmen today, during military exercises in Kuwait. KUWAIT (AP) - Gunmen riding in a pickup truck attacked U.S. Marines during war games in Kuwait Tuesday. One Marine was killed and a second was wounded. The two attackers were shot dead by U.S. forces. ...

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Internecine Warfare

Tue, Oct 8, 2002 at 10:05:51 am PDT

The thugs are battling each other in Gaza City: Four dead as Hamas, PA clash. An extended shootout occurred after Hamas terrorzoids kidnapped and murdered Col. Rajeh Abu Lahiya, commander of the Palestinian riot police. Hamas militants disguised as police officers reportedly set up a check point and stopped Abu ...

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The Grey Lady Frets

Tue, Oct 8, 2002 at 9:55:11 am PDT

The New York Times indulges in some mournful hand-wringing, in response to the Bush speech on Iraq: A Nation Wary of War. This is a distillation of all the long-refuted arguments against dealing with Iraq, with one or two new twists. I was going to write more about it, but ...

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Macadamia Alert

Tue, Oct 8, 2002 at 8:44:24 am PDT

We start this morning with a Macadamia Alert. I’ve noticed before that when a comment is suddenly posted in a topic that’s been inactive for a while, it’s almost invariably from a lunatic. Today’s lunatic posted his comment from Israel, to tell us that the end is near. Just a ...

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Monday, October 07, 2002

Bush’s Iraq Speech

Mon, Oct 7, 2002 at 6:26:51 pm PDT

Here is the full text of President Bush’s address on Iraq.

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Not In Our Name

Mon, Oct 7, 2002 at 2:34:18 pm PDT

The New York Sun reports that the anti-war demonstration yesterday in Manhattan’s Central Park was riddled with anti-Semitism: Ayman Asawa, who called himself a peace activist, said, “Bush is more Israeli than the Israelis themselves. He is a puppet of the Zionists [who] control the media, the government and the ...

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The Suicide Bomber’s Father

Mon, Oct 7, 2002 at 2:05:05 pm PDT

MEMRI translates an extraordinary, wrenching letter to the editor of the London Arabic-language daily Al-Hayat, from the father of a young Palestinian who carried out a suicide bombing in Israel. "I can find no better words with which to begin my letter than the words of Allah, in his precious ...

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Next Door to Mohammed Atta

Mon, Oct 7, 2002 at 1:45:16 pm PDT

Stefan Sharkansky has translated a pair of articles from the German weekly Die Zeit, with the surprising revelation that there really were Mossad agents posing as art students in the US before September 11—trying to figure out what Mohammed Atta and Marwan al-Shehi were up to. Not until after ...

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The Truth About the Mideast

Mon, Oct 7, 2002 at 10:12:26 am PDT

David G. Littman reviews 14 fundamental facts about the Middle East from the last century—facts that are often distorted and suppressed by the Palestinian PR machine.

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Peaceful Religion Watch

Mon, Oct 7, 2002 at 10:01:32 am PDT

There’s a reason why I highlight the hate sermons that flow every Friday from the mosques of the Arab world, even though it may seem repetitious. It is repetitious, and that’s the whole point. This noxious bigotry, Jew-hatred, and glorification of murder and violence continues unabated, week after week, regardless ...

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Terror Supporters at Berkeley

Mon, Oct 7, 2002 at 8:52:39 am PDT

At UC Berkeley, the Students for Justice in Palestine are planning another anti-Israel demonstration on October 16. Berkeley blogger The Angry Clam points out this page about the demonstration, with a romantic illustration of a masked Palestinian terrorist, lovingly rendered in revolutionary black and red. As Angry Clam says: Remember the ...

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Why Dems Should Support Bush

Mon, Oct 7, 2002 at 8:22:28 am PDT

Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman answers the question, “Why should Democrats support the President on Iraq?” I can’t help noticing that it doesn’t seem to matter how many times these questions (why attack now? do we have the “right” to launch a pre-emptive strike? etc.) are clearly answered; the anti-war crowd simply ...

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Dust and Death in Gaza

Mon, Oct 7, 2002 at 8:09:06 am PDT

Here’s a good piece at the Boston Globe about the perils of patrolling the Gaza Strip.

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Sunday, October 06, 2002

Dutch Woman Threatened for Criticizing Islam

Sun, Oct 6, 2002 at 5:30:43 pm PDT

Somali political scientist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who immigrated to the Netherlands when she was 9, recently took part in a live debate on Dutch TV in which she strongly criticized Islam’s treatment of women. An advisor to the Dutch opposition Socialist party, she used the opportunity to launch a bitter ...

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Threats from “Osama”

Sun, Oct 6, 2002 at 4:41:16 pm PDT

Al Jazeera is playing another tape they say is from Osama bin Laden (voice only), threatening more attacks. I don’t buy it; I still believe he is currently a thin layer of decomposing protein paste on a collapsed cave wall.

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Diagnosing Dubya

Sun, Oct 6, 2002 at 3:12:10 pm PDT

Here’s a hilarious article in an Indian newspaper by Carol Wolman, M.D., who is described as “a board certified psychiatrist, in practice for 30 years:” Diagnosing Dubya. According to Dr. Wolman’s carefully considered diagnosis, the most appropriate clinical term to describe George W. Bush is “nuts.” Many people, inside and ...

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The 50-Year Itch

Sun, Oct 6, 2002 at 11:50:48 am PDT

In a fascinating (and frightening) interview with Ha'aretz, German socialist journalist Thomas von der Osten-Sacken says that since 1979, Saddam Hussein has killed more than a million of his own people. "Yes, that would include Kurds, Shi'ites, Christians and Sunnis. There were two huge massacres. There was the so-called Anfal ...

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National Geographic Takes Sides

Sun, Oct 6, 2002 at 10:33:26 am PDT

When the National Geographic needed someone to write about the Middle East for a special feature in their October issue, they enlisted none other than Andrew Cockburn—a man whose hatred of Israel is legendary. Andrea Levin writes about the outrageously biased article Cockburn produced: National Geographic loses its compass. UPDATE: there’s ...

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Hacking for Dummies

Sun, Oct 6, 2002 at 10:04:41 am PDT

The cute little teenage jihadis at ClearGuidance.com are planning a hacking group. salmandada Junior MemberRegistered: Sep 2002 Location: Posts: 6I second a hacking groupit was posted on wired.com that there are plenty of isreali hacking groups taking down sites that tell the truth. i say we form a muslim hacking group and ...

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Kidnapping for Dummies

Sun, Oct 6, 2002 at 9:05:50 am PDT

In an interview with a Danish newspaper, Hamas leader Abdel Azziz Rantissi (the Pediatrician of Death) admitted that IDF operations have had an impact on Hamas’s ability to carry out attacks against Israel. So they’re getting creative, with a 16-page kidnapping manual. A Channel 2 report on Friday said Hamas ...

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French Oil Tanker “Rammed”

Sun, Oct 6, 2002 at 8:41:35 am PDT

A French oil tanker is ablaze off the coast of Yemen. Yemeni officials say there is no indication of terrorism. But the BBC reports that the tanker’s owners say it was rammed by a smaller boat, probably loaded with explosives. Sounds familiar.

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Victims of Shari'a

Sun, Oct 6, 2002 at 8:17:47 am PDT

Amina Lawal is waiting to hear whether she will be the first woman ever to be executed by stoning in Nigeria. And according to the BBC, she’s terrified. Amina Lawal is in hiding, awaiting the outcome of her latest appeal against being sentenced to death by stoning in a Nigerian ...

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Saturday, October 05, 2002

UNRWA and Arafat

Sat, Oct 5, 2002 at 5:25:12 pm PDT

The avuncular gentleman pumping Arafat’s hand and grinning like a fool is Peter Hansen, commissioner general of the U.N. Relief Works Agency (UNRWA), responsible for the management of the Palestinian “refugee camps.” The other two guys seem a bit stressed. While Hansen was chewing the fat with Arafat, this was the ...

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Police Raids in Germany

Sat, Oct 5, 2002 at 1:36:09 pm PDT

More good news on the anti-Islamofascist front: German police raided the homes of Islamic militants in several German states today. The state prosecutor said that officials raided 11 apartments and homes in the states of Brandenburg, Hesse and Baden-Wuerttemberg on Saturday afternoon. The statement did not say whether any suspects ...

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Why Israel is Singled Out

Sat, Oct 5, 2002 at 10:43:26 am PDT

Two million people have been killed in Sudan, by a Taliban-like Muslim regime waging jihad against black Christians and tribal groups in the south, and the Sudanese slave trade is openly flourishing. It’s a human catastrophe on a huge scale, yet human rights groups and “progressive” NGOs of the West ...

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Jewish McCarthyism

Sat, Oct 5, 2002 at 9:57:07 am PDT

Today the New York Times promotes Jewish loony left appeasement group Tikkun, and their leader Rabbi Michael Lerner’s new campus group, that seeks to combat what Lerner calls “Jewish McCarthyism.” The description of Lerner and his group is a classic example of New York Times greywashing (a white-washing by the ...

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Friday, October 04, 2002

She’s Getting Warmer

Fri, Oct 4, 2002 at 5:59:19 pm PDT

First it was the J-E-W-S who conspired to defeat Cynthia McKinney. Then it was the H-I-N-D-U-S. But she’s really getting to the bottom of the vast anti-McKinney Conspiracy now—it was the malicious V-O-T-E-R-S. Hard to argue with that, Cyn. The suit claims that black Democratic voters in the 4th District had ...

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A Bad Hire

Fri, Oct 4, 2002 at 5:42:23 pm PDT

Stanley Crouch weighs in on the Amiri Baraka issue: Poet laureate was a bad hire. LeRoi Jones, aka Amiri Baraka, has been asked to resign as poet laureate of New Jersey. He refuses. Hmm.The governor wants him gone because of what have been interpreted as anti-Semitic statements in his poem ...

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With The Book and a Bomb

Fri, Oct 4, 2002 at 3:18:03 pm PDT

A grim report on the unbending Islamic fanaticism of Hamas, by Matthew Gutman: With The Book and a bomb. MOST Palestinians also believe an invasion and reoccupation of Gaza is absurd. Drive past Beit Lahia, along the squalid streets of Jabalya, and into Gaza City and you might realize why.Houses, ...

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20 Years for Lindh

Fri, Oct 4, 2002 at 2:07:17 pm PDT

John Walker Lindh gets 20 years. Pausing frequently to compose himself throughout a 20-mintue statement, the 21-year-old Lindh renounced terrorism and bin Laden, declaring that if he had known the Taliban was harboring terrorists, he never would have joined them. And new details about Al Qaeda’s plans are coming out: ...

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It’s Official

Fri, Oct 4, 2002 at 12:07:54 pm PDT

According to a British psychology professor—and who would know better?—this man is the world’s funniest human being. And here—read at your own risk!—is THE JOKE: "Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other man ...

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Hate Poetry

Fri, Oct 4, 2002 at 11:51:26 am PDT

New Jersey poet laureate Amiri Baraka is defying calls to resign. "Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get bombed," the poem says. "Who told 4,000 Israeli workers at the Twin Towers to stay home that day? Why did Sharon stay away?" During his speech Wednesday, Baraka insisted that ...

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The Strangest of Times

Fri, Oct 4, 2002 at 11:16:08 am PDT

Victor Davis Hanson says we’re living in strange times—and it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

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Outrage of the Day

Fri, Oct 4, 2002 at 10:33:48 am PDT

A shipment of pro-Israel newsletters from the Ayn Rand Institute to the University of Toronto has been confiscated at the Canadian border, because, according to Canadian Customs, they “may constitute obscenity or hate propaganda.” The theme of the newsletter: defending Israel’s moral right to exist. Outrageous. And I have to wonder ...

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Alleged Terror Cell Busted

Fri, Oct 4, 2002 at 9:59:27 am PDT

A possible Al Qaeda terror cell has been busted, with arrests of four people in Portland, Oregon, one in Detroit, and one overseas.

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Put Up or Shut Up

Fri, Oct 4, 2002 at 8:52:10 am PDT

Mark Steyn says Europe spends zip on defense, then sneers at US “warmongering.” There’s something a little bewildering about an anti-war movement suddenly pining for the noble sacrifice of the poor bloody infantryman up to his neck in muck and bullets. But, if you honestly believe the Pentagon are long-range, ...

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Shoe Bomber Pleads Guilty

Fri, Oct 4, 2002 at 8:20:21 am PDT

Shoe bomber Richard Reid has entered a guilty plea, to avoid the stress a trial would cause his family, he says. Apparently, blowing up an airplane over the Atlantic and murdering hundreds of people would have been an acceptable level of stress for the Reid family. Reid said he did ...

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Lileks Atomizes Wellstone

Fri, Oct 4, 2002 at 7:58:09 am PDT

Great new screed from Lileks today, ripping apart the latest appeasement speech from Senator Paul Wellstone.

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Thursday, October 03, 2002

Large Sunblock Order

Thu, Oct 3, 2002 at 7:52:36 pm PDT

The Department of Defense seems to be ordering a lot of sunblock. SPF 15, unscented.

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Sensitive Readers Beware

Thu, Oct 3, 2002 at 6:25:51 pm PDT

LGF reader Adam, who runs the great Drudge-esque site DonahueSucks Report, drew our attention to one of the most disturbing, reality-warping, cognitive-dissonance-causing, olfactory-memory-inducing photographs ever. Ladies and gentlemen, the world’s oldest terrorist, with the world’s oldest lime-green terrorist socks. Sensitive readers may wish to turn off image-loading in your browsers ...

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What’s on Arafat’s Desk?

Thu, Oct 3, 2002 at 3:31:51 pm PDT

Reverend Andrew White, the archbishop of Canterbury’s special representative to the Middle East, invades Yasser Arafat’s personal space. Baby wipes, front and center. Stack of paperwork, unchanged. Arafat’s clothing, unchanged for a very long time. But what’s that odd pentagonal box next to the water bottle?

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Zamzam Spam of the Day

Thu, Oct 3, 2002 at 2:47:51 pm PDT

Today’s funny spam comes from Bangladesh. Anybody want some Zamzam? ------------------------- Dear Sirs, Would you please extend your business cooperation to enable us to import Zamzam Cola for your business in Bangladesh having immense potentiality. We assure you all possible cooperation to market your Zamzam Cola with all seriousness as we possess ...

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A Message to Iraqi Air Defense

Thu, Oct 3, 2002 at 1:05:04 pm PDT

"The destruction experienced by your colleagues in other air defense locations is a response to your continuing aggression toward planes of the coalition forces. No tracking or firing on these aircraft will be tolerated. You could be next."

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Macadamia Alert

Thu, Oct 3, 2002 at 11:43:17 am PDT

Yesterday I noticed a lot of search engine hits for “Amiri Baraka” and related topics. “Uh oh,” I thought. “How long before a nut sandwich leaves an incoherent rant?” It took about 24 hours, and inspired me to start a new recurring feature: the Macadamia Alert.

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UMich Conference Resources

Thu, Oct 3, 2002 at 10:55:45 am PDT

Here’s a page devoted to the anti-Israel conference taking place at the University of Michigan October 12-14, with links to articles about the conference and info about the speakers. The site also has a copy of the so-called “forged” email invitation to the conference that was sent to faculty members—uh, ...

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Bush = Tojo?

Thu, Oct 3, 2002 at 9:06:42 am PDT

Here we go again with the Canadian loony left. This time an Ontario MP has compared a possible US attack on Iraq with Japan’s raid on Pearl Harbor. OTTAWA - An Ontario Liberal MP set off a heated debate in the Commons yesterday for comparing any U.S. attack on Iraq ...

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Jew-Killing Online

Thu, Oct 3, 2002 at 8:21:05 am PDT

Hamas has taken their new web site live: an interactive online bomb-making course. RAMALLAH — The Hamas organization has launched an Internet course in the production and assembly of explosives.Israeli and Palestinian sources said Hamas, which claims responsibility for the lion's share of Palestinian suicide bombing attacks, has established an ...

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Those Wacky Iraqis

Thu, Oct 3, 2002 at 8:13:00 am PDT

Oh man. One of Iraq’s “vice presidents” has challenged Dubya to a duel with Saddam. Ramadan suggested instead that Bush face Saddam in formal duel — with their vice presidents as their seconds and the weapon of their choice. "The American president should specify a group, and we will specify ...

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Wednesday, October 02, 2002

Same Place, Part Two

Wed, Oct 2, 2002 at 6:37:27 pm PDT

Jonah Goldberg is on fire with this “refute the popular arguments against war with Iraq” thing. If a scorpion sneaks into your house and bites your child, you kill the scorpion. That's a no-brainer. But if you believe "something like this must never happen again" then you also go out ...

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A Different Game

Wed, Oct 2, 2002 at 6:11:25 pm PDT

If, like me, you’ve been wondering what Russia’s true motivations are, this article by Uri Dan at the Jerusalem Post provides plenty of thought food: A different game than Russian roulette. (But my inner editor is screaming that the headline should be “A different game from...”)

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Peace Does Not Serve Egyptian Law

Wed, Oct 2, 2002 at 5:41:47 pm PDT

One reason we don’t hear about Arab “Peace Now” groups is that whenever such groups try to organize, Arab governments crack down on them. The Egyptian opposition weekly Al-Usbu' reported on an Egyptian administrative court's decision to disband a voluntary Egyptian organization that was founded to strengthen the peace process. ...

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It Was the H-I-N-D-U-S

Wed, Oct 2, 2002 at 12:59:16 pm PDT

Cynthia McKinney’s dad thought it was the J-E-W-S, but now Cyn is blaming it on the Hindus. As reader Robert Crawford observed, she seems to hate everyone the Islamists hate...

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Who’s Politicizing Now?

Wed, Oct 2, 2002 at 12:38:22 pm PDT

Stanley Kurtz, who’s been doing important work on the Iraqi threat, has a few words about the Baghdad Bozos. the worst offense was McDermott's claim that the president was lying about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction in order to start a war. McDermott gave absolutely no proof that the president ...

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Bizarre Photo of the Day

Wed, Oct 2, 2002 at 10:53:32 am PDT

An anonymous reader sent me this creepy photograph; he didn’t know where it came from or where it was taken (although it appears to be in either India or Pakistan). If anyone knows the story, please post a comment... UPDATE: Reader Tom Dilello solves the mystery.

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Goodbye to Europe?

Wed, Oct 2, 2002 at 10:25:57 am PDT

Victor Davis Hanson returns to the troublesome topic of US relations with Europe, in another insightful essay: Goodbye to Europe? If the fear of Russian tanks used to unite America and Europe, are differences over everything from greenhouse gases and Yasir Arafat now to divide us? Josef Joffe, the editor ...

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As War Looms, Democrats Unravel

Wed, Oct 2, 2002 at 10:15:10 am PDT

Mark Steyn, on the continuing meltdown of the Democratic party. (And I say this with no glee—I’ve voted Democratic most of my life.) The sight of the Democratic Party "wrestling" (as Al put it) with its conscience over Iraq is like some old-time carney freakshow: It's strangely compelling, but you ...

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Qur'anic Questions

Wed, Oct 2, 2002 at 9:42:30 am PDT

LGF reader Dr. Bala Ambati answers the charges of bigotry and racism that invariably follow attempts to honestly criticize Islam, in Duke University’s Chronicle: Qur'anic questions.

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Tuesday, October 01, 2002

Israel vs. the World

Tue, Oct 1, 2002 at 8:27:33 pm PDT

Here’s some excellent work from Meryl Yourish, revealing the overwhelming bias against Israel in the resolutions passed by the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly: Israel vs. the World.

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On the Other Front

Tue, Oct 1, 2002 at 8:20:39 pm PDT

“Beware the fury of the patient man.”

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A Sense of Proportion

Tue, Oct 1, 2002 at 8:12:19 pm PDT

In Arabic, Edward Said compares the Holocaust with the Palestinian situation: "Sixty years ago, the Jews of Europe were at the lowest point of their collective existence. Herded like cattle into trains, they were transported from the rest of Europe by Nazi soldiers into death camps where they were systematically ...

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Virgins Asked to Contribute

Tue, Oct 1, 2002 at 2:56:35 pm PDT

Well, this might get me a Rushdie-esque fatwa, but LGF reader Howard Veit emailed a story from the semi-mythical Routers news wire that needs to be read. Apparently the mullahs are getting worried about shortages if the US attacks Iraq... ------------------------- Mid East Virgins Asked to Contribute to War Effort; Rewards are ...

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The Old Same Place

Tue, Oct 1, 2002 at 1:58:23 pm PDT

Jonah Goldberg tears apart the tiresome arguments that keep bobbing to the surface of the Iraq debate. Here’s a great answer for the next time someone tries to tell you we can only act with the approval of the United Nations: People who think we must go through the U.N. ...

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Peaceful Religion Watch

Tue, Oct 1, 2002 at 10:10:40 am PDT

Time for the weekly roundup of hate speech spewing from the mosques of the Arab world as if from a broken water main. These are the words of the religious leaders of Islam. We ignore them at our peril. From the Grand Mosque in Sanaa, Yemen: "We must not forget the ...

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PA: We Can Stop Hamas, But Won’t

Tue, Oct 1, 2002 at 8:46:40 am PDT

Brigadier General Muhammad Masri, head of the Political Security Department at the Palestinian General Intelligence Service, openly admits that the PA has the power to stop Hamas from carrying out terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians—but they won’t, for political reasons. "We have enough men and arms, but not political horizon ...

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A War Against What?

Tue, Oct 1, 2002 at 8:27:42 am PDT

Daniel Pipes points out that our press and government continues to avert their eyes from the real enemy, using as an example the recent string of attacks against Christians in Pakistan. There is no doubt about the motives of the perpetrators: Militant Islamic groups brazenly speak their minds, declaring their ...

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Innocents Abroad

Tue, Oct 1, 2002 at 8:18:55 am PDT

George Will rips into Baghdad Bozos Jim McDermott and David Bonior. Bonior, until recently second-ranking in the House Democratic leadership, said sources no less reliable than Hussein's minions told them that inspectors would have an "unrestricted ability to go where they want." McDermott said: "I think you have to take ...

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No Uranium

Tue, Oct 1, 2002 at 8:03:04 am PDT

The Turks jumped the gun: Seized Material Not Uranium. Looks like it was another attempt to swindle some gullible jihadis.

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BBC Rabble Rousing

Tue, Oct 1, 2002 at 7:47:48 am PDT

The BBC indulges in some anti-American hand-wringing, with a scandalously misleading headline: US begins entry checks on Muslims. This is utter nonsense, as I’m sure the BBC is well aware—because their own sidebar makes it clear who is actually being checked on entry: Those affected by the new policy:* all ...

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