On review, I question whether or not Clinton's "rage" at Chris Wallace wasn't coldly calculated, and part of the Democratic midterm election playbook. more...

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Regional French newspaper L'Est Republicain, quoting a confidential source in French intelligence reports that Osama bin Laden has died of typhoid. The source notes an email circulated among French officials based on information from the Saudis.

CBS reports that the account in the French newspaper stems from an actual secret document and that the French are investigating the leak.

The information comes from a brief to French president Jacques Chirac based on Saudi intelligence sources. The Saudis seem to have confidence in the report but will not confirm without further corroboration, like locating bin Laden's burial site.

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Pay particular attention to the lead sentence in this story from Reuters:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush and Senate Republicans hammered out a deal on Thursday for interrogating and trying foreign terrorism suspects, and Bush hailed it for preserving his program for CIA questioning of detainees.

"I'm pleased to say that this agreement preserves the most single -- the most potent tool we have in protecting America and foiling terrorist attacks, and that is the CIA program to question the world's most dangerous terrorists and to get their secrets," Bush said of the deal.

"The measure also creates military commissions that will bring these ruthless killers to justice," Bush said on a trip to Orlando, Florida, adding he hoped Congress would send him the legislation before it wraps up its business next week."

But what about the dog that didn't bark? The Reuters story says, "...Republicans hammered out a deal..."

This is a tremendously important deal with huge implications for America's national security...and the entire thing is being handled by one political party, which begs the question: why aren't Democrats involved in protecting the United States from terrorist attack?

Update: It must be a good deal, because, as Stop the ACLU reports, the ACLU has already condemned it.

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Ansar al Sunnah has worked with al Qaeda in the past. A couple of times we even saw Zarqawi operatives on Ansar al Sunna murder videos. It looks like Ansar may be formally coming into the jihadi big tent. CT blog:

As-yet unsubstantiated reports have begun circulating on radical Arabic-language Internet chat forums that a major effort is now underway to bring the notorious Ansar al-Sunnah Army in Iraq officially under the umbrella of Al-Qaida's Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC).

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The Guardian reveals the horrors of the secret CIA torture chambers:

Details emerged yesterday about the seven interrogation techniques the CIA is seeking to be allowed to apply to terror suspects...

The techniques sought by the CIA are: induced hypothermia; forcing suspects to stand for prolonged periods; sleep deprivation; a technique called "the attention grab" where a suspect's shirt is forcefully seized; the "attention slap" or open hand slapping that hurts but does not lead to physical damage; the "belly slap"; and sound and light manipulation.

Those diabolical bastards, have they been recruiting fraternity rush chairmen?

Via Stop the ACLU.

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Thank you to the good folks at Bizland for taking down two websites belonging to the Islamic Army in Iraq.

And thank you Jawa readers for raising a stink about this. Sometimes it just takes a little noise to grab the attention of those in charge. Frankly, most customer service agents just aren't prepared to handle complaints about terrorist websites.

However, it would be nice if corporate America would do their jobs and police themselves rather than forcing us to do it for them.

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A Yemeni man buys a one way ticket with a fork in the road.

Unfortunately for him, he had to take a detour. Hopefully, eventually, to a federal prison.

He'll still be able to get married, only he'll have to change his last name to "You my bitch."

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UPDATE: Resolved. Bizland has taken down the two websites. Thank you Bizland and to concerned readers who helped them clean house.

A Massachusetts company has ignored pleas to take down two websites belonging to a well known terrorist organization. The Burlington, MA, Bizland company has not responded to complaints to its legal department that its servers are being used by fronts for the Islamic Army in Iraq.

The websites of The Al Boraq Media Organization features various propaganda messages from the 'Iraqi resistance'. It is registered to an organization called 'iaisite' to a Baghdad address. Many of the Islamic Army in Iraq's previous websites included the term 'iaisite' in the url, including iaisite.org which is also hosted by Bizland.

The Islamic Army in Iraq is notorious for producing propaganda videos of attacks on American and Iraqi forces and has threatened to extend their terrorism to American soil. The group also claimed the murder of American hostage Ronald Schulz and Italian Red Cross worker Enzo Baldoni.

Countless others have been killed by the Islamic Army in Iraq, including many American soldiers.

Complaints can be sent to Bizland at: legal@bizland-inc.com

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Newt takes to task the modern peace Democrats for their ignorance and the Bush Administration for their failure to will the fight necessary to win against the forces of Islamofascism. If it wasn't for his personal failings and the fact that everyone in the media hates him, he'd be a great candidate for President.

Opinion Journal:

The first and greatest lesson of the last five years parallels what Lincoln came to understand. The dangers are greater, the enemy is more determined, and victory will be substantially harder than we had expected in the early days after the initial attack. Despite how painful it would prove to be, Lincoln chose the road to victory. President Bush today finds himself in precisely the same dilemma Lincoln faced 144 years ago. With American survival at stake, he also must choose. His strategies are not wrong, but they are failing. And they are failing for three reasons.

(1) They do not define the scale of the emerging World War III, between the West and the forces of militant Islam, and so they do not outline how difficult the challenge is and how big the effort will have to be. (2) They do not define victory in this larger war as our goal, and so the energy, resources and intensity needed to win cannot be mobilized. (3) They do not establish clear metrics of achievement and then replace leaders, bureaucrats and bureaucracies as needed to achieve those goals.

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UPDATE: Video here.

Here is the full text of the Bush speech as transcribed by the White House. more...

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Is my love affair with Bush about to be rekindled? Perhaps.

Hot Air has the vid, but I find that readinga Bush speech is much more satisfying than listening to them. Let's face it, he's a terrible speaker. But this speech is awesome!

How awesome? I think we are in boner territory here. Yes, that awesome.

He even gets al Qaeda 3.0.

Apparently some one up there understands a) the threat b) the scope of the threat c) the changing nature of the threat.

Bush on a) the threat:

We know what the terrorists intend to do because they've told us -- and we need to take their words seriously....

Now, I know some of our country hear the terrorists' words, and hope that they will not, or cannot, do what they say. History teaches that underestimating the words of evil and ambitious men is a terrible mistake. In the early 1900s, an exiled lawyer in Europe published a pamphlet called "What is to be Done?" -- in which he laid out his plan to launch a communist revolution in Russia. The world did not heed Lenin's words, and paid a terrible price. The Soviet Empire he established killed tens of millions, and brought the world to the brink of thermonuclear war. In the 1920s, a failed Austrian painter published a book in which he explained his intention to build an Aryan super-state in Germany and take revenge on Europe and eradicate the Jews. The world ignored Hitler's words, and paid a terrible price. His Nazi regime killed millions in the gas chambers, and set the world aflame in war, before it was finally defeated at a terrible cost in lives.

Bin Laden and his terrorist allies have made their intentions as clear as Lenin and Hitler before them. The question is: Will we listen? Will we pay attention to what these evil men say? America and our coalition partners have made our choice. We're taking the words of the enemy seriously. We're on the offensive, and we will not rest, we will not retreat, and we will not withdraw from the fight, until this threat to civilization has been removed.(Applause.)

The terrorists who attacked us on September the 11th, 2001, are men without conscience -- but they're not madmen. They kill in the name of a clear and focused ideology, a set of beliefs that are evil, but not insane. These al Qaeda terrorists and those who share their ideology are violent Sunni extremists. They're driven by a radical and perverted vision of Islam that rejects tolerance, crushes all dissent, and justifies the murder of innocent men, women and children in the pursuit of political power. They hope to establish a violent political utopia across the Middle East, which they call a "caliphate," where all would be ruled according to their hateful ideology. Osama bin Laden has called the 9/11 attacks -- in his words -- "a great step towards the unity of Muslims and establishing the righteous caliphate."

This caliphate would be a totalitarian Islamic empire encompassing all current and former Muslim lands, stretching from Europe to North Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. We know this because al Qaeda has told us. About two months ago, the terrorist Zawahiri -- he's al Qaeda's second in command -- declared that al Qaeda intends to impose its rule in "every land that was a home for Islam, from Spain to Iraq." He went on to say, "The whole world is an open field for us."....

This charter states that "There will be continuing enmity until everyone believes in Allah. We will not meet the enemy halfway. There will be no room for dialogue with them." Another document.... declares that their vision of Islam "does not make a truce with unbelief, but rather confronts it." The confrontation calls for the "dialogue of bullets, the ideals of assassination, bombing, and destruction, and the diplomacy of the cannon and machine gun."

According to their public statements, countries that have -- they have targeted stretch from the Middle East to Africa, to Southeast Asia. Through this strategy, al Qaeda and its allies intend to create numerous, decentralized operating bases across the world, from which they can plan new attacks, and advance their vision of a unified, totalitarian Islamic state that can confront and eventually destroy the free world.

Al Qaeda continues to adapt in the face of our global campaign against them. Increasingly, al Qaeda is taking advantage of the Internet to disseminate propaganda, and to conduct "virtual recruitment" and "virtual training" of new terrorists. Al Qaeda's leaders no longer need to meet face-to-face with their operatives. They can find new suicide bombers, and facilitate new terrorist attacks, without ever laying eyes on those they're training, financing, or sending to strike us.

As al Qaeda changes, the broader terrorist movement is also changing, becoming more dispersed and self-directed. More and more, we're facing threats from locally established terrorist cells that are inspired by al Qaeda's ideology and goals, but do not necessarily have direct links to al Qaeda, such as training and funding. Some of these groups are made up of "homegrown" terrorists, militant extremists who were born and educated in Western nations, were indoctrinated by radical Islamists or attracted to their ideology, and joined the violent extremist cause. These locally established cells appear to be responsible for a number of attacks and plots, including those in Madrid, and Canada, and other countries across the world.

As we continue to fight al Qaeda and these Sunni extremists inspired by their radical ideology, we also face the threat posed by Shia extremists, who are learning from al Qaeda, increasing their assertiveness, and stepping up their threats

WARNING: The following speech contains truths that some on the extreme Left might find offensive and make them feel all icky inside. more...

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Cookie can tell you, and does, here. This gross mismanagement of TSA assets isn't limited to Cookie's home airport and leaves us open to another 9/11.

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...what the hell is wrong with you people?

Jay at Stop the ACLU has the story: ACLU Wants Suspected Terrorists Allowed Back Into U.S..

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Ever want to e-mail a terrorist? If you receive any reply, please forward the message to me immediately. Thank you.

iaisite@yahoo.com

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The New York Post fronts this story of unbelievable depravity in the service of Islamic Jihad:

Baby Bomb

August 16, 2006 -- Twisted young British parents planned to sacrifice their precious baby in the evil cause of jihad by mass murder.

Fanatical terror suspect Abdula Ahmed Ali, 25, and his wife, Cossor, 23, are among those being interrogated by police as suspects in the massive plot to attack trans-Atlantic flights in midair.

Doubtless, CAIR will soon have an explanation as to why Islam is not to blame.

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"Report: X-Rays Don't Detect Explosives" is the red letter entry at the Drudge Report, linking the latest Associated Press scoop from a leaked document:

X-ray machines that screen airline passengers' shoes cannot detect explosives, according to a Homeland Security Department report on aviation screening.

I haven't seen the report, which is most likely classified and should earn the leaker a trip to Leavenworth, but from what AP has written, it most likely was pointing out that the small amount of explosive in a shoe bomb would be difficult to detect. True. That's what Explosive Trace Detection (ETD) equipment is for. But what's a good indicator to determine which shoes might deserve to be tested by the ETD? Anomalies in the x-ray image of the shoe.

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1 Hello, you human filth. I would like to direct this to whom ever started this pathetic blog. First, your opinion counts for shit. Second, A blog with "Star Wars" connotations? Puh-lease. This is the most pathetic pile of dog feces I have ever seen in my life. Third, let's take a little time to get to know each other. You first, OK I'll describe you, then you tell me if I am correct. Can your miniscule brain handle that you fucking proto-human? My guess is that you had inappropriate relations with your own sister or mother. Your mother didn't set the proper boundaries for you sexually, so that completely messed you up during your adolescence. I don't know if you are a he/she/it so if you are a female this still applies, it just makes you a lesbian. Anyway, I grow weary of this so let's just end with this. Somebody in your family sexually molested you, probably your father. On an aside, do you know Leshawn Barber? Thaqt chick is whack, I can't believe a black chick would ever be brain washed enough to join the republican cult. She must of blown somebody and then received a hefty allotment for said blowjob. Anyway she sucks too. Both literally and figuratively. TTFN

Destroy ole boy,
Jara sang

Posted by: Jara sang at August 15, 2006 02:03 AM (AVl7c)

2 Nice projection of yourself Jara sang! Whew!

Posted by: xyzgenericid at August 15, 2006 05:47 AM (Bt76v)

3 troll... sexually repressed troll

Posted by: EricInTexas at August 15, 2006 08:06 AM (u4yg1)

4 I'm stationed on the USS Kitty Hawk, and we use RapidScan X-Ray machines for security at gate entry points. The machines allow various programmable settings for detecting a variety of substances; organic, inorganic, gold, etc. So, to say the machines cannot detect explosives is ridiculous if the operator has the proper training and the machine is utilized properly.

Posted by: CV63Snipe at August 15, 2006 08:38 AM (YFZD8)

5 You can tell Jara Sang is just pleading for a good ass-plugging. :>

Posted by: Last gasp Larry at August 15, 2006 09:31 AM (gLMre)

6

So Jara Sang thinks the x-ray screeners are just fine and feels safe to board her ass on any plane? Good, take the next flight over to the promised land. You should know before you start singing, that Jawa reports exposed " doctored " propaganda photos that Reuter's and MSM posted you dumb shit. Or I guess you must be a terrorist muslim is why you are so pissed off?  GTH!

Posted by: Last gasp Larry at August 15, 2006 09:37 AM (gLMre)

7 Excuse me, jara sang, but its the Muzzies who marry their sisters, and fuck goats, and after looking at the ugly women you have, maybe goats do look better. Come back when you have advanced enough to have a brain.

Posted by: jesusland joe at August 15, 2006 10:36 AM (rUyw4)

8 CV63Snipe is absolutely correct about the capabilities of the Rapiscan machines. In 2002, when I was training federal screeners at airports, one of them asked me what a particular object on the x-ray image was. I told him it was a tampon. He didn't believe me, until he searched the bag to remove the credit card knife set that was also in the bag and found the tampon for himself.

Jara Sang: you are mistaken about my family history. Actually, my brother and I appeared on Oprah Winfrey fifteen years ago when we discovered that we were incestuous lesbians trapped in men's bodies. No, really...

Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at August 15, 2006 12:04 PM (vBK4C)

9 Same post, different comment field for Jara.
 
Anyone care about the rant?
 
(crickets)

Posted by: SeeMonk at August 15, 2006 12:29 PM (7teJ9)

10 Jara sang is from a U2 song about Victor Jara. He was executed in Chile' during the Pinochet reign. Yep that would likely mean our mystery potty mouth is a lib. Duh.

Posted by: SeeMonk at August 15, 2006 12:33 PM (7teJ9)

11 Who deleted my comments?

Posted by: Impobulus Maximus at August 15, 2006 12:52 PM (v3I+x)

12 You mean the AP reporter is not an expert in X-ray technology and imaging interpretation?

And the purpose of the story is to what - tell us the TSA is incompetent and neither it nor their employees no what the hell they are doing?

Oh what a relieve the AP is looking out for us.

Posted by: hondo at August 15, 2006 12:56 PM (XrexX)

13 On no not another deletion! Maxie, did you forget to say:  "  You filthy jews i kill you mother fucker. I hope to allah i cut all heads for you son of bitchin, go fuck you sister, death to america. Devil will make meetballs from your body! " ?

Posted by: Last gasp Larry at August 15, 2006 02:29 PM (gLMre)

14 I haven't made any deletions.

Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at August 15, 2006 02:48 PM (vBK4C)

15 Apparently so Larry.

I will cut ur neck!

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at August 15, 2006 05:01 PM (v3I+x)

16 Thanks! :>

Posted by: Last gasp Larry at August 15, 2006 05:30 PM (gLMre)

17 Jara Sang: Bluto is telling the truth about the Oprah Winfrey thing. He really was on the show for that very reason.

Posted by: greyrooster at August 16, 2006 10:03 AM (vCjBd)

18 LGL wins.

Posted by: greyrooster at August 16, 2006 10:05 AM (vCjBd)

19 I will have the last gasp!   :-o )

Posted by: Last gasp Larry at August 16, 2006 10:59 AM (gLMre)

20 Close your mouth - people are starting to wonder.

Posted by: hondo at August 16, 2006 11:55 AM (XrexX)

21 :-|)

Posted by: Last gasp Larry at August 17, 2006 12:28 AM (gLMre)

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According to the U.K.'s Daily Mail, next Wednesday was supposed to be the day that airplanes were to be dropping out of the sky.

I would personally like to breathe a sigh of relief, but I had to go and read this in the Washuffington post:

Some U.S. counterterrorism officials said plans originally were to allow the conspiracy to develop even further. But U.S. and British investigators made a sudden decision this week to close down the operation after they became increasingly worried that there were other bombers they had been unable to locate or identify, U.S. officials said.

Via no-linky-to-us Drudge.

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From the BBC:

A terrorist plot to blow up planes in mid-flight from the UK to the US has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said.
It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled on aircraft in hand luggage.

Police have arrested about 18 people in the London area after an anti-terrorist operation lasting several months.

Sky News reports that those arrested are thought to be "...mainly young, British-born Asian men," which usually means "middle eastern" in the British press. UPDATE RS: Actually, "Asian" always means Pakistani or Indian in Britain.

Few American media are covering the story yet. The Washington Post seems to be getting their information from the Beeb, but, for some reason, inserted this rather weird non sequitur into their version of the bomb plot story:

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has come under strong criticism at home and abroad for following the U.S. lead and refusing to call for an immediate ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Lebanese Hizbollah guerrillas.

Via protein wisdom.

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This is nice:

WASHINGTON -- U.S. authorities are searching for 11 Egyptian men who arrived in the United States last month but failed to turn up at Montana State University for a scheduled academic program.

According to the FBI and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, the men were among a larger group of students who arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York from Cairo on July 29 with valid visas.

FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko said there is no threat associated with the men.

A law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the men are between 18 and 22 years old.

Via Flopping Aces.

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Thanks to Chad Evans at In the Bullpen

Hizballah's propaganda wing, Al Manar TV, hijacked the service of a customer of Broadwing Communications, a Texas Internet Service Provider:

Broadwing Communications essentially threw Hezbollah off of the Internet this week. It came after the discovery that terror propaganda was linking to the company's network.

In an exclusive interview, Broadwing executives told us how Al Manar TV, the propaganda arm of the Lebanese terror organization was able to get on the Internet. It was done by hijacking the Web service of one of Broadwing's customers linking Al Manar to a Broadwing Internet address.

"Our customer had absolutely no relationship to Al Manar. And neither did we," Dillon said.

Terror experts say Al Manar's Web site is key to Hezbollah's fundraising, recruiting and communication. After being disconnected by Broadwing, they say it's already popped back up through India, but appears to have been shut right back down.

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From Ha'aretz via Captain Ed:

Senior Fatah sources in Gaza said on Saturday Hamas is ready to accept a deal that involves freeing abducted soldier Gilad Shalit, a joint cease-fire and an end to IDF actions in the Gaza Strip.

What is not clear is whether Khaled Meshal, the Hamas leader in Damascus, will sanction the Egyptian-brokered deal.

This represents a major concession from Hamas and an acceptance of the Israeli refusal to release prisoners in exchange for hostages. Olmert's military incursion and refusals to negotiate have finally made it clear that Israel has changed its policy in that regard.

It also appears to open a split between worldwide Hamas leadership based in Damascus and Hamas in the territories. Khaled Mashaal wanted no negotiation on the demands set at the beginning by his people; he wanted a lopsided prisoner swap to undermine Olmert. Instead, Olmert called his bluff, and Mashaal's the one who may lose a substantial amount of influence as a result.

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1 As for the "squishy Peace Thru' Begging" types; they don't really give a damn for peace. What these pinko's really want is the subversion of all Western democracies so that in the ensuing chaos they remake the world in the image of their false gods Marx and Lenin.

Posted by: Garduneh Mehr at July 23, 2006 07:04 PM (Bp6wV)

2 The chaps at "Jawa Report":
I just saw a very distrubing snippet of news from DebkaFile to the effect that Mullah regime ruling Iran has landed planes in Damascus loaded with supplies destined for the Hizbullah; and that the commander of the so-called revolutionary guards (the Mullah equivalent of "die Schutzstaffel") himself has taken over the command of Hizullah from Hassan Nasrallah and that the embassies of the Mullah regime in Damascus and Beirut have become his forward command posts.
I wonder if you guys would be so kind as to post this please.
http://www.debkafile.org/headline.php?hid=2950
Many Thanks
GM

Posted by: Garduneh Mehr at July 23, 2006 07:14 PM (Bp6wV)

3 I just read a piece by Alan Dershowitz that pretty much encapsulates
the whole of the Islamic radical's strategy in this one
paragraph.  Couldn't have said it better myself:



"By hiding behind their own civilians the Islamic radicals issue a
challenge to democracies: Either violate your own morality by coming
after us and inevitably killing some innocent civilians, or maintain
your morality and leave us with a free hand to target your innocent
civilians."



(PS - this new comment thingy is great, if only it would remember one's name, email, etc.)

Posted by: Oyster at July 23, 2006 07:40 PM (YudAC)

4 Garduneh -

You are 100% right, as usual, as to the motivations of the "peacenik" leadership. After the Soviet Union fell, we learned for a fact what we had all long suspected--that the peaceniks and their protests were underwritten by none other than the Soviet KGB.

Of course, most of these organizations are still around. Who knows where they get their funding. Perhaps they have new benefactors?

Unfortunately, the peacenik leadership has managed to dupe a lot of good, well-meaning people over the years. Many of those dupes sincerely do want peace. What they don't understand is that peace requires the cooperation of at least two parties to succeed. So long as one party wants to continue fighting, the other party, no matter how sincerely it wants peace, must also fight.

Posted by: The All Seeing Eye at July 23, 2006 07:54 PM (I9YKk)

5 This may sound weird and illogical, but I think it is true.

One of the things that makes us better than the badguys is we can become completely ruthless and relentless in reaching our goals, then stop when the job is done, clean up the mess, and move on. We even help our former adversaries to recover and prosper. Unfortunately, our Islamofascist enemies will not let us solve this problem any other way. So, once again, we will be forced to kill a lot of innocent people, destroy a lot of worthy things, and test our strength and virtue to rid the world of its latest batch of murderous fanatics.

*sigh*

Posted by: eman at July 23, 2006 08:01 PM (ljoDE)

6 The new comment thingy is remembering my name and email, which is a nice improvement over the old. I minimize it instead of closing it. If I reboot, then it comes up blank, but I merely have to type in the first letter of my name and email and autofill does the rest. I figure with the time savings I can fire off 30% more useless comments an hour.

Posted by: Last gasp Larry at July 23, 2006 08:43 PM (gLMre)

7 Oh so Hamas wants to talk now, after their mischief, if you can call it that, now that the IDF is blowing their bums to paradise, suddenly they want to talk and promote peace.

I hope the IDF flay the skin off their backs, get the soldiers back and get the bastards to surrender all their weapons, its time to humiliate and crush the enemy, otherwise Israeli's will be running for their bunkers again in 2/6 years time.

Its time they learnt that the consquences of terror are incredible pain and hardship, perhaps it'll convince the Palestinians to vote for leadership thats more inclined towards providing health care and infrastructure than killing jews.

Posted by: Mathewk at July 24, 2006 01:15 AM (pVHqF)

8 I think this post is wrong. Jizholah is not suing for peace because of Israel's show of force, but rather is willing to accept a cease fire after being paid off by Israel. See, Israel is simply following the leftist strategy of showering the enemy with gifts until they feel sufficiently appeased.

Of course, Israel is showering their enemy not with money or concessions, but rather with the gift of virgin delivery packages...

Posted by: wooga at July 24, 2006 02:27 PM (tAB8A)

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The Alghurabaa website has been shut down. You may remember Alghurabaa from such classic videos as "Let's mock 7/7 & 9/11 Victims", such fatwas as "let's kill cartoon blasphemers" & protests such as "behead those who blaspheme Mohammed".

Thank you to the good folks at 1&1 Internet for their cooperation in shutting down the terror supporters website. And thank you to the British government for finally taking action against the remaining followers of Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed.

Unfortunately, The Saved Sect's--the Birmingham based sister organization of Alghurabaa-- website is still active. You can contact their Hong Kong based webserver with abuse complaints by e-mailing pihkcomplaint@pacific.net.hk.

Complaining to the companies that do business with terror supporters does work. Okay, sometimes it works. Be persistent.

If a company refuses to take a terror website offline, please contact me.

Now go start complaining to these companies that do business with Hezbollah!

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MSNBC prefers to call Shamil Basayev a "warlord", I think it's more than appropriate to refer to the monster who orchestrated notorious terrorist attacks, including the Beslan school massacre of 2004, as a "terrorist":

MOSCOW - Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, the purported author of modern Russia’s worst terrorist attacks, has been killed, the head of the Federal Security Service said Monday.

Basayev, 41, claimed responsibility for some of Russia’s worst terror attacks, including the seizure of some 800 hostages in a Moscow theater in 2002, the 2004 school hostage taking in Beslan that killed 331, and the seizure of about 1,000 hostages at a hospital in Budyonnovsk that killed about 100.

Posted by The Dread Pundit Bluto.

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I'm fairly interested since some of our reader love mail on this thread traced back to Germany. Not Hamburg specifically but..

CNN: German police arrested Redouane E.H., 36, on Thursday in the northern German city of Hamburg, according to a statement on the prosecutor's Web site. The suspect is from the nearby town of Kiel, where police searched several homes before his arrest.

He was nabbed after German investigators monitored his online chats.

The suspect was remanded to federal custody Friday after a court appearance in Karlsruhe.

He is accused of having numerous contacts with international terrorists in Syria, Algeria and Iraq. According to the prosecutor's office, he completed an explosives training course in Algeria in November and has ties to the Hamburg al Qaeda cell that included September 11 hijackers Mohamed Atta, Marwan el-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah.

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Mohammed Radwan Obeid has been sentenced to a year in prison for lying to FBI investigators. Thanks to Dibs for bringing this to my otherwise vacationing attention. They have the story here.

You may remember Mohammed Radwan Obeid's name from the small part that The Jawa Report had in aiding his conviction.

Obeid had fraudulently immigrated to the United States by marrying an American woman, and then having the marriage annuled. Obeid was working as a cashier in Dayton, Ohio last year and living with his girlfriend in a nearby town. It was from the Troy branch of the Miami (Ohio) County public library that he began to seek out fellow jihadis.

Obeid's posts at jihadi forums was noticed by more than those anti-terrorist crusaders who monitor them. Obeid's posts about nuclear weapons and gun silencers was somehow noticed by reference librarian Laura Girolamo. Ms. Girolamo contacted the FBI who, using their newly found powers under the Patriot Act, were able to confirm the librarians suspicions.

At about the same time a Jawa Report reader from Virginia, David Vazquez, began e-mailing Obeid after we posted his address. Obeid was under the false impression that Vazquez was a fellow jihad supporter. Obeid, Vasquez says, was now trying to recruit him for a terrorist cause.

Obeid told David Vazquez in e-mails that "we are starting a big operation that will make 9/11 nothing but a little bit of headache."

According to Vazquez, "I was very alarmed at the words (Obeid) was saying." He contacted the FBI.

Armed with the knowlege provided them by their ability under the Patriot Act to monitor public library computers, and by David Vazquez's saved e-mail conversations, the FBI picked up Obeid on March 28th for 'immigration violations'.

When asked about whether or not the e-mails were his, Obeid denied that they were. Since he was asked under oath, Obeid's denials amounted to knowingly and willfully making a false material representation.

Like many other terror related cases prosecuted after 9/11, Obeid was charged first with immigration violations and then with lying to investigators. However, the content of those seemingly minor violations should not be overlooked. What was it that Obeid had lied about? About the fact that he was attempting to form a terror cell within the United States.

Perhaps Obeid would never have succeeded, but that misses the point. A Jordanian immigrant was hoping to start or join a terror cell in the U.S. He hoped to carry out terror attacks here on our soil. He dreamt that his act of terrorism would make the 9/11 attacks seem mild. Seems like kind of a big deal to me.

The Jawa Report played a small part in his arrest. For that, I am extremely proud. It's a kind of good that I never expected to play a role in. Thank you David Vazquez for helping nab this enemy of the United States and for allowing me a minor role.

Resources on the Mohammad Radwan Obeid case:
*Jawa Report Helps Nab Would-be Terrorist
*The Jawa Report: Nuke Bomb Plans Posted by American at Terrorist Website *Patriot Act's Controversial Library Provision Puts Ohio Terror Suspect Away (Blogs help too)
*Jawa Report To Terrorist Supporters: "You're Fired!"
*E-mail an al Qaeda Fan! (Updated with more e-mails)
*Internet Haganah: How to build your own H-Bomb at home
*Michelle Malkin: [JOKE] H-BOMB PLANS POSTED ON WEB SITE
*Arab News: Terrorist Website Drops Dirty Bomb
*Jihad Watch: Norfolk Officer Says Man Tried to Recruit Him for Terrorist Cause

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