September 07, 2007
So far, a total of 93 Saudi Gitmo prisoners have been released while 37 remain. The numbers don't include three Saudis that allegedly committed suicide, one hunger-striker and two hangings, which are being investigated.
Interestingly, Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki of the Interior Ministry, stated that 54 of the released detainees "have been tried and have undergone a rehabilitation program before rejoining their families."
Isn't that nice? The detainees have been rehabilitated and are back with their families.
Pardon me for being skeptical about the radical Islamist rehabilitation program.
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"And let me be clear, the violence in Anbar has gone down despite the surge, not because of the surge.vs. Anbar as it really is. Notice that Iraqis credit the surge.
And if stories from the ground in Fallujah aren't enough, here are some statistics that back them up.
Also, Blackfive interviews Bill here.
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September 06, 2007

If you're not convinced, you can have an uncensored gander here or here or here (NSFW).
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They apparently were high when they voted to confirm him. 81 yeas. 19 No votes. 0 Nays.
Schumer - Yea
Durbin - Yea
Feinstein - Yea
Clinton - Yea
Kennedy - Yea
Reid - Yea
Levin - Yea
ht: Purple Avenger, Bob Owens
UPDATE: Schumer is caught scrubbing damning passages from his disgraceful remarks on his website. See Sweetness and Light for details.
And whatever you do, don't question his patriotism.
ht: AllahP
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That's good news for the Republicans, although I know they won't exploit it and use it because they're stupid.
Also, Troofers are publicly crowing but secretly cursing that only 4.6% of respondents in a poll they commissioned are MIHOP (made it happen on purpose). For the uninitiated or apathetic, this means that the controlled-demolition, no-planes/remote-controlled planes, laser/space beam, WTC7 demolitionLOL, Bush/Cheney/Joooos-did-it crowd takes one in the chops, because they wanted a much higher number than that. Most 9-11 Troofers are MIHOP. Here's some more poll analysis from Pat at Screw Loose Change.
And last but not least, here's a personal rant at the 9-11 Troofers from yours truly, in honor of the 9-11 victims they're spitting on with their unfettered nuttery.
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UPDATE 9/07/2007 11:45 AM: White House has copy of bin Laden tape.
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Holy schneike, new bin Laden video! Could this be the 9/11 gift to Manhattan? Maybe so.

I had heard that a new bin Laden video was coming out, but frankly I thought it was just wishful thinking on the jihadis part.
Terror mastermind Osama bin Laden plans a new video addressing the American people regarding the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, a terror monitoring group said Thursday.And both AllahP and The Blotter connect the video to the "special gift for Manhattan on 9/11" message.SITE Intelligence Group said an Internet announcement of the plan included a photo of the al-Qaida leader from the upcoming video—his beard, which in previous messages had been streaked with gray, was entirely dark.
UPDATE: Look at the two pics AllahP has up. Isn't it odd that bin Laden is wearing the same outfit? What could that mean?
Also word now that video will be released within the next 72 hours.
UPDATE: Here's a hint about the two pics: I aint the only one thinking it.
I'll even go out on a limb.
Prediction 1: Any "new" video of Osama will be him talking in generalities, conveniently wearing same clothes as previous videos, only everything looks a bit darker in it. What, you don't think al Qaeda editor at large Adam Gadahn doesn't know how to use video editing tools, which include simple color and tone "fixes"?
Prediction 2: Anything "new" that could possible serve as "proof of life" will actually be audio overlaid on to static photos of bin Laden.
Any takers? I could be wrong, but I just have this sneaking suspicion.
UPDATE: Too good to be true--Kos Kidz already questioning the timing.
Expect more scare tactics from Bush soon.Like clockwork.
UPDATE: I knew there was a reason Charles was my blogfather--like minds and all that. And do they have digital botox?
UPDATE: The banner above is the official banner released by al Qaeda's as Sahab, the production company thought to be run by Adam Gadahn. It isn't my photo, but the one al Qaeda is using to promote the video.
Thanks to Garduneh Mehr, here is a translation:
A video clip."
UPDATE: Via Gateway Pundit, this Fox News item seems to be the first to at least hint that we should be skeptical:
The official could not confirm or deny the authenticity of the images released, but he said "it's not exactly clear at this point" if the message will be authentic. The official also pointed out that previous messages were later proved to be older footage.It's almost as if the MSM wants the video to prove once and for all that bin Laden is alive.
In my mind he's dead unless they can prove otherwise. And not with some old video and some static-laden audio.
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I promised myself that I wouldn't give my 'friend' Inshallahshaheed from the Wordpress hosted al Qaeda support website The Ignored Puzzle of Knowledge any more press than he deserves. Inshallahshaheed is at the center of a network of online jihadis that include convicted terrorist Daniel Joseph Maldonado, aka Daniel al Jughaifi. Wordpress continues to host the convicted terrorist's website.
After complaining to Wordpress on dozens and dozens of occasions about Inshallahshaheed I pretty much gave up on getting them to play ball. But I also knew that Inshallahshaheed was being investigated, not by the FBI, but by other interested parties. So I stopped writing about that particular website and even discouraged others (like Weasel Zip) from writing about it. Except, of course, in passing reference.
Earlier today, though, I noted that Rabbi Abraham Cooper mentioned the website at a Simon Wiesenthal Center sponsored event. It now seems that the FBI are taking the website seriously. Finally.
Howie sends this Fox News report:
DEVELOPING STORY: Federal counterterrorism officials are analyzing a posting on an Islamic forum Web site that warns of "a special gift" to be given on the sixth anniversary of Sept. 11, FOX News has learned.I can reveal that the website of interest is that of Inshallahshaheed's The Ignored Puzzle of Knowledge'. The particular post in question is simply a preview of an audio set to be released on Sept. 11.The warning was posted Sept. 2 on a site frequented by radical groups and said in part that "there will be a special gift coming on the day of the blessed invasion of Manhattan."
Federal officials told FOX News they are trying to determine if it might be a specific warning or just part of broad chatter that has been heard during the last few months.
Postings talking about "gifts" have been seen before in the days leading up to the anniversary of Sept. 11.
Soon …. Soon … Soon … Soon… the blessed invasion of ManhattanThe audio wasn't actually originally posted by inshallahshaheed, rather, he found it an an Islamist forum and then simply reposted it with commentary at his own blog. I've backed up the post, since I have a feeling it will be gone soon.September 2, 2007
Posted by inshallahshaheed in United States of Losers, Jihad, America
بســــم الله الرحمن الرحــــيم [In the name of God, the Merciful]
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاتة
اخوانــــي الافاضــل
هذاالمقطع الصوتي سيكون باذن الله في احد اصدارتنا بمناسبة ذكرى غزوة منهاتن
ودمتم برعاية الله
[There will be a special gift coming on the day of the blessed invasion of Manhattan…]
[Below is an audio preview]
By "soon" the post simply means that the complete audio will be released, not that Manhattan will be invaded soon. The rumors are that this audio is of Osama bin Laden. I have not yet listened to it.
If the website goes down, I'll put up the archive I made.
UPDATE: Bingo, the blog is down. Yet, I have the cache of the post. View it here (minus the images). And a screenshot below.
Update within an update: Tim from Opinion Bug finds the Google cache. Nice work Tim. Not included in the Google cached version are some of the comments, including a conversation between inshallahshaheed and a 9/11 Truther. Inshallahshaheed convincingly argues that since al Qaeda produced a video showing the "19 martyrs" and admitted to being behind the attack then of course they were behind 9/11, inshallah. See, trutherism is offensive even to jihadis.
UPDATE II: I'm listening to the audio now. Starts out with sirens, gunshots, and panicked people screaming. There is a voice over in Arabic. Very menacing. Not at all like the usual. There's shouting and screaming, and gunshots. Very different than most of these types of audios which are usually calm sermons with nasheeds (music) in the background.
No bin Laden audio, but towards the end of the audio is a nasheed praising Osama bin Laden. Then gunshots. Then it ends. Scary.
Sounds threatening to me. And considering that I monitor a lot of this stuff, if I even think its scary, then I think that's saying something. It may not be a direct specific threat about an impending attack, but it is a general threat. And it reminds us of exactly who it is we're fighting. more...
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Ahmed Mohamed also faces charges of helping terrorists by demonstrating how to use explosives. I don't think its going out on a limb to suggest that his "demonstration" was done on the internet.
This new report, which I found via Dan Riehl, also adds two items: the arresting officer grew suspicious when he the suspects threw their laptop in the back seat where there was some ammo.
Normally you'd conclude they just didn't want the officer to see the porn on their computer, but I have a gut feeling that isn't what they were hiding. The internet, foreign Muslim nationals, and ammo aren't exactly the best combination.
As Rabbi Abraham Cooper mentioned yesterday, the internet now amounts to a "virtual university of terror" saving would-be jihadists the expense of traveling to Pakistan or Afghanistan for training.
TBO:
Alarm bells started going off for [Officer] Blakely even before he asked the students any questions, he says. They scrambled to toss a laptop into the back seat. Blakely spotted a box of bullets.Dan Riehl has more.
Again, as I've said before, the fact that they were in Goose Creek was probably only incidental. I now have confirmation that the two were heading somewhere else. Where that other place was, I have no idea. But they were carrying pipe bombs with them.
Probably not on their way to commit an act of terror. In fact, if my hunch is correct on this one, then they weren't planning any acts of terror here. This doesn't mean they weren't planning on helping terrorists in other parts of the world. Specifically in Diyallah province, Iraq.
I'm also told by a source close to the case that certain high placed members of the Tampa chapter of a well known Islamic "civil rights" organization could face obstruction of justice and other charges for making false statements to the grand jury. Let's put it this way: there may be a very good reason CAIR has shut up since Ahmed Bedier testified at the grand jury....
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Is it just me, or does Thompson come across as a guy who just doesn't give enough of a hoot to pander? There was nothing artificial about him, nothing prepackaged. Not only does he not smell of desperate effort to be liked by the audience, he seems like he's equally happy with winning or with going home to a happy life with Jeri, the kids, and playing an authority figure in whatever upcoming television project Dick Wolf has. This does not seem like a man who will flip-flop depending on political winds; if you don't like him... he really doesn't seem to care.
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A mannequin-dresser, 34-year-old James Rae (pic) and 39-year-old Alan Howitt, a former soldier, persuaded a female friend to allow them to babysit her son. The men were found guilty of repeated sex crimes against the boy.
Judge Christopher Critchlow heard last week that Howitt and Rae, lovers for more than 10 years, repeatedly sexually abused the tot over a four-year period - simulating sex acts with him and forcing him to have oral sex while he slept.This week, Rae was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Howitt is scheduled to be sentenced on November 2nd.They photographed some of the assaults and one act filmed on video was described by the judge as "about as bad an example as there could be" of an indecent attack on a child.
The pair, who have since ended their relationship, stood side-by-side in the dock to be sentenced for offences against the boy, now aged seven.
In June last year Howitt admitted possessing and making indecent images of children, and four counts of indecent assault.
Rae was convicted of the same four sexual assault charges on the boy between the age of six months and when he was four-and-a-half.
Heh, contrary to frequent pronouncements that male homosexuality and pedophilia are not related, James Rae and Alan Howitt are examples that they sometimes are.
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Blowback.... Bushitler... Haliburton....etc. He seems to forget that Mohammed himself ordered the beheading of 900 Jews of the Banu Qurayza tribe.
Martin Kramer debunks these and other stupid myths propagated by Juan Cole here.
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1) Al Qaeda is winning the internet battle and is using the internet not only for propaganda but for "command-and-control". It's true. One caveat, over the past several weeks there has been a chorus of complaints from the online jihadis that their websites are going down one by one. The lesson is that when we choose to fight, we win. The problem not that we can't win, it's that we have not yet begun to fight. To paraphrase Churchill, "Give us the tools and we will win the war."
2) It's time to formulate a policy to battle the online jihadis for the hearts and minds of Muslims.
3) Our 'friend' inshallahshaheed from the Wordpress hosted al Qaeda support website The Ignored Puzzle of Knowledge'. I'll let you read what he says. But be prepared for your blood to boil. more...
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"The Bush report?" Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin said when asked about the upcoming report from Gen. Petraeus, U.S. commander in Iraq.Discredit the report by linking it to the Bush administration, very clever."We know what is going to be in it. It's clear. I think the president's trip over to Iraq makes it very obvious," the Illinois Democrat said. "I expect the Bush report to say, 'The surge is working. Let's have more of the same.' " ....
"We will see what the Bush report will be at the end of next week," Mrs. Pelosi said. "The facts are self-evident that the progress is not being made. They might want to find one or two places where there has been progress ... but the plural of anecdote is not data."
She said Democrats were determined to uncover "the ground truth in Iraq."
I think Bill Ardalino might have something to say about "the ground truth", Mrs. Pelosi.
...the positive change in Fallujah since my January visit is astounding.INDC Journal: The "Bush report" from Fallujah.
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For homosexuals, cruising is a sacred pastime right up there with re-runs of Will and Grace, circuit parties and lip-syncing drag queens. Public sex is supposed to be "hot," and I have some knowledge of this having co-starred in the high-end fantasy film Tijuana Toilet Tramps.Well, I guess there's nothing like owning up to your past Matt. I've linked Matt's military embed videos, which he regularly posts on Liveleak, several times in the past without mentioning that he used to do gay porn. I knew about it, but somehow it didn't seem relevant.
In fact, the only reason I knew about his gay porn status was that the Lefty bloggers never fail to mention it. It wasn't "Matt Sanchez reporting from Afghanistan" it was always something like "cock loving former gay porn star Matt Sanchez is at it again from Afghanistan schilling for that homophobe Bushitler and the Amerikkkan Taliban. The hypocrisy!" You know, the consistently tolerant Left.
The rest of Matt's post is pretty good, go read it.
I'd leave it at that, but as long as we're talking about politicians involved in extramarital monkey business, here's Jules Crittenden on Larry Craig and Gary Hart:
You’ll remember that amid rumors of extra marital affairs in 1987, Democratic presidential candidate Hart dared reporters to follow him. They did, and caught him in DC with Donna Rice. He denied everything, said it was innocent. His wife came out and said the same thing. Shortly after that the “Monkey Business†photos emerged. It took a week.Of course, the obvious analogy kind of breaks down when you consider that Donna Rice was a) a chick b) kinda hot.

Who's with me?
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September 05, 2007
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Mary Katherine Ham via Townhall: I'm on O'Reilly in a few, talking about the Internets. After that, I'll be live-blogging the debate, I reckon. And, then maybe Fred's Leno appearance. The fun never ends!Looks like she found our post on Omar The Goat Humping Bakri Muhammad via AllahP at Hot Air. Cool.H/t to Jawa Report and Hot Air
Mary was talking about this story about an al-Qaeda video that mentions Justin Timberlake
In other news, wiki-trolls have had our wikipedia entry deleted because we are, excuse me, were irrelevant. I reckon we should get that back now?
Some liberal trolls also immediately accused Mary Katherine of blogwhoring so I filed this under Ministry of Blog Pimpage.
UPDATE: We now have video! Thanks, once again, to AllahP for the video. I'd just link his embed but let's face it, he needs the traffic like I need a lighter teaching load.
UPDATE: Finally was able to watch it. Our university regulates bandwidth so that while they don't officially censor Youtube, they make watching Youtube videos so excruciatingly slow that I usually don't bother. Hence, all the Divx and Liveleak videos, that the university software simply doesn't pick up as high usage sites.
But, after watching it, let me just say that Mary Kate was most gracious in the shout out. Her actual words were "it happens frequently and if you want to keep track of it places like The Jawa Report and HotAir.com are great for informing you about the real threats that come from these guys on our own internet sites."
Sweet. more...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – Three Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldiers were killed and two others wounded when an explosively-formed penetrator detonated on their patrol during combat operations in an eastern section of the Iraqi capital Sept. 4....
During an unrelated pre-dawn raid in Karbala Wednesday, Coalition forces captured a highly-sought individual suspected of being an Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) affiliate.
Coalition forces also detained another individual for questioning.
The detained individual is suspected of coordinating with high-level IRGC-QF officers for the transportation of multiple Iraqis to Iran for terrorist training at IRGC-QF training camps. He is also a known logistics facilitator providing lethal aid to terrorists operating in central Baghdad. It is likely that the affiliate is closely linked to individuals at the highest levels of the IRGC-QF. Coalition forces are still assessing his possible connection to the Special Groups. more...
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[A] quick teaser: the positive change in Fallujah since my January visit is astounding.You'll have to click on over to INDC Journal to read the rest. It's not a long post, but Bill promises more updates from Fallujah.I've attended a Fallujah City Council meeting, a recruiting day for the "Fallujah Protectors" (neighborhood watch), the establishment of the city's last police precinct and a meeting of "muktars," traditional cultural leaders of specific neighborhoods who work with Marines to improve infrastructure. Tomorrow, my CAG unit will distribute food bags downtown. Almost none of this access or interaction was possible in January, and the cooperation with American personnel is widespread and animated.
The surreality of the change can be summed up by this afternoon.
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And how dare they try to rig a scientific experiment. One that definitively, positively, empirically, and with epistemological certitude proves that Angelina is hot. And I mean smokin.
The video below is what we call an anecdote. It's not science..... but it's proof enough for me.
I couldn't find a video comparing Angelina Jolie to Jessica Alba, but it is Angelina vs. Liv Tyler. On the negative side it does have a Justin Timberlake soundtrack. On the positive side it has ANGELINA JOLIE and LIV TYLER! Just turn the sound off and enjoy. SFW unless you're in Saudi Arabia.
Bonus pic of Jessica Alba proving that she, like my beloved Angelina, is also a Jawa Report reader. more...
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PIJ has been designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and the leaders of PIJ Specially Designate Nationals by the U.S. State Department. Under U.S. law it is illegal to provide business services, even free ones, to terrorists such as the PIJ.
The three PIJ websites are:
http://www.shikaki.net/
http://www.sarayaalquds.org/
http://www.falestiny.net/
Below: each of the three websites carries the logo of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Above right: an image from one of the websites glorifying a rocket attack which killed an Israeli civilian.

Domain registration services are provided to PIJ for all three websites from the Sunnyvale California internet giant Yahoo!.
Webhosting is provided to all three PIJ websites from Dallas, Texas:
ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc.
1333 North Stemmons Freeway
Suite 110 Dallas, TX
abuse@theplanet.com
DNS service for http://www.falestiny.net/ provided by mydnsnet.com of St. Cloud, MN. Abuse: admin@mydnsnet.com
DNS service for http://www.shikaki.net/ provided by Cold Fusion's efree2net.com, also out of St. Cloud, MN. Contact: support@efree2net.com
DNS service for http://www.sarayaalquds.org/ provided by KOM.CC, which appears to also be run by St. Cloud's Cold Fusion.
Thanks to Larry for the tip.
BONUS: e-mail a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist!
Palestineway22@yahoo.com
As always, if he replies, please FORWARD the e-mail to Rusty.
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