Taliban Teen Beheads Pakistani Hostage on Video

The return of Islamic beheading chic? A video showing a teenage Taliban beheading a Pakistani soldier has emerged. A frame from the video is right. The video was obtained by the AFP but has not emerged yet on the usual jihadi forums, usually an indication that it is being sold as a VHS or DVD recording in Pakistani markets where demand for such snuff films are high.

Khaleej Times:

Four teenage boys with Kalashnikov assault rifles, daggers and headbands with jihadi slogans are then shown along with one of the soldiers kneeling in front of them.

One boy cuts off the soldier’s head using a knife and holds it up for the camera. The soldier’s body was recovered on August 14 from a nearby town.

The video shows the victim saying just before his death that ‘security forces should not fight against the Taleban’.

The Taliban as they truly are. more...

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Guess the Religion of the 'Seperatists' Murdering Buddhist Teachers in Thailand

No man dares speak its name. Bangkok Post:

Insurgent attacks on state schools and Thai-Buddhist communities have claimed more civilians lives in the past two days in the deep South, provincial officials said Tuesday....

Female teacher Kesine Timthep, 42, was shot dead Monday in front of her pupils by two gunmen as she was about enter the Sasanasuksa School in Sai Buri, Pattani. A male teacher was also gunned down Monday in Yalang, also in Pattani province.

Arsonists set fire to at least five state schools in the province Monday night, forcing ten schools to shut their doors to pupils on Tuesday.

Prapaijit Noonlaksert, 44, a female rubber tapper, was killed in an ambush early Tuesday as she entered a plantation with four other Thai-Buddhists workers, police said.

Six other civilians also murdered by these 'seperatists'.

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African Taliban Killing Children

Buried in this article about renewed fighting in Somalia between the African Taliban of the Islamic Courts Union and the Ethiopian backed Somali forces is this nugget:

On Sunday, a roadside bomb killed two children and an elderly man and wounded five people.

Apparently its just too obvious to identify those responsible. In addition, at least 4 other civilians are known to have died in Somalia over the past few days.

So, we have international conferences, awareness campaigns, and conventions on the use of land mines, how come we never hear any international outrage over the use of IEDs? Maybe the U.S. or its allies ought to start planting roadside bombs just so we can finally hear some condemnation of their use.

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Dan Abrams, Steven Emerson Hammer Christiane Amanpour

A well-deserved thrashing.

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Happy B-Day Gilad Shalit

Israeli hostage Gilad Shalit held by Hamas terrorists turns 21 today. May his captors rot in hell.

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Women Suffraging in Iraq, Plight of Yankee Imperialist Women Revealed

I think we all know why Sgt. 1st Class Rick Emert really showed up at the Women's Equality Day celebration at Camp Taji. I mean, how often do you find a room full of American women in Iraq? more...

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No sh*t? "Al Qaeda Planning to Attack the West"

Well, duh. In related news Hillary Clinton plans to run for President, Bush still unpopular, and Franco still dead.

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Happy B-Day

Vicki's blog, Not Ready for My Burqa, is one year old today. Vicki and I share a passion in ending the brutal and disgusting practice of taking hostages.

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El Video de Wanda Nara--SIN CENSURA

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Koreans Bow to Taliban Demands, Hostages to Go Free

The scumbags in the Taliban have agreed to free the remaining hostages. Do you think this makes them look good? Remember, they already murdered two hostages. Oh, and the fact that they took hostages in the first place should tell you something--they are sumhuman filth!

But thank God for all miracles small and great, even if the price tag is high. It's really the hostage catch 22---we celebrate the fact that the 19 hostages will be coming home but mourn the fact that more hostages will be taken because South Korea bowed to at least some of the Taliban's demands. But, as Michelle said, "I’ll believe it when they are all back safe and alive."

The price? South Korea will withdraw all troops and ban Korean nationals from going to Afghanistan as Christian missionaries.

The last part is no big deal since it is already against the law in the newly "liberated" Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to try to convert Muslims. The only "missionaries" presently allowed in the country are those on humanitarian missions. Which is what the South Koreans were in Afghanistan for, on a medical mission.

According to Wikipedia the South Korean military has about 60 medics and 150 engineers in Afghanistan. So, it's not a big loss in strictly military terms.

However inconsequential the demands may seem, though, the fact that the South Koreans a) negotiated b) capitulated sends the wrong message and could have some very negative long term consequences. By negotiating with the Taliban the South Koreans legitimize them.

By capitulating they send a very clear signal to the Taliban: taking hostages works.

What we are witnessing is the Spaniardization of South Korea. more...

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The Gonzo Departure

Michelle:

For what it’s worth, I can’t say I’ll miss him.

Baseball Crank:

Whatever his other merits or faults, Gonzales had to be one of the most politically incompetent people ever to hold such a high position in Washington. It's hard to think of anything he touched in six and a half years in Washington that didn't end up getting President Bush the worst possible press (with the arguable exception of when he advised Bush not to put Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court).

Brit Hume:

Gonzales was a man almost without fans in Washington at the end, because he was never much appreciated or accepted by the conservative base of the Republican party and the conservative activists in Washington. And he certainly wasn’t popular among the Democrats. He was simply a crony. And I don’t mean that word to sound any worse than it is, but that was the case here.

On the other hand, Paul Mirengoff offers a spirited defense of the embattled AG:

Gonzales’s only real offense seems to have been mediocrity. But mediocrity in an Attorney General is nothing new (think Janet Reno)

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Will Petraeus Downplay Surge Success?

Matt Sanchez is in Iraq and says the surge is working. So well, in fact, that he expects Petraeus will downplay surge success because it might look too partisan.

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Islamic Rage Boy on Opus Cartoons

Islamic Rage Boy responds to reader mail about the censored Opus cartoons.

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Rasmussen on the GOP Race : How the Media Gets it Wrong

Rasmussen weighs in on the media hype vs. electoral reality:

Both Romney and Huckabee received a minor bounce in the polls for a few days [after the Iowa Straw Poll]. But, two weeks later, the national polls show that the Iowa event had virtually no impact. Romney remains mired in third place barely ahead of John McCain. Huckabee's support continues to be measured in the mid-single digits....

eporters have picked up on a story line that Fred Thompson's delay in entering the race has been a mistake. However, the polls show Thompson remains more of a threat to Giuliani's lead that Romney. His support is down a bit from its peak, but he's still showing a lot of potential.

Which brings us to our Fred Thompson Frank fact of the day:

Fred Thompson can know both the exact position and momentum of a particle. Furthermore, he knows Schroedinger's cat is dead because he personally strangled it.

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China Accused of Computer Espionage

(Berlin, Germany) Presumably marring German-Chinese relations, a news source has reported that computers in the offices of Chancellor Angela Merkel, as well as computers in the foreign, economy and research ministries, have been infected with Chinese spy software.

The so-called "Trojan" espionage programs were concealed in Microsoft Word documents and PowerPoint files which infected IT installations when opened, SPIEGEL reported. Information was taken from German computers in this way on a daily basis by hackers based in the north-western province of Lanzhou, Canton province and Beijing.

German officials believe the hackers were being directed by the People's Liberation Army and that the programs were redirected via computers in South Korea to disguise their origin.

German security officials managed to stop the theft of 160 gigabytes of data which were in the process of being siphoned off German government computers. "But no one knows how much has leaked out," a top official told SPIEGEL.

The Chinese government has vehemently denied the allegations, saying there is no evidence. Imagine that? Nonetheless, Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, uncovered the hacking operation which gives credence to the accusations. Statistically, one domestic intelligence agent estimates that 60 percent of alleged espionage cases involve China.

German companies now are fearing that China may have infiltrated their company computers to steal trade secrets. Concern has been expressed by the Economics Ministry.

Investigators caution that businessmen should not leave their laptop computers in hotel rooms while at official functions because of the risk of data theft. And all information transferred from China to German corporate headquarters should be encoded. "I have become really worried about Chinese espionage in the technology area," says Hartmut Schauerte, parliamentary minister in the Economics Ministry and a China specialist.

The suspicions are now so deep that the motives of Chinese researchers at German universities are being questioned.

Heh. I suggest that the same suspicions should apply to foreign researchers at American universities.

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Michelle : Larry Craig = "Lying Crapweasel"

Michelle weighs in:

He’s not just a weasel.

He’s a lying crapweasel.

Should he resign? Well, yeah. If he cared about the dignity of his office, he would. But he obviously doesn’t, does he?

OK, I'm not sure "crapweasel" is really a word, but it sounds like an appropriate moniker for a good chunk of our national politicians on both sides of the aisle.

With 1,034 votes cast so far in Michelle's poll asking "Should Larry Craig resign?," the emphatic "Hell Yes" has garnered 56%, followed by "They're all crapweasels" at 21% and the simple yet timeless "Yes" at 20%.

The stalwart "11th Commandment" contingent weighs in at a small but respectable 3%. Bless their hearts...

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San Fran Black Flight: Liberal Crisismania!

So those uppity blacks are casting off the yokes of city-machine politics and liberal programs designed for their betterment, and are leaving the city of San Francisco in droves.

Yeah. That's what happens when you promise everything in return for votes, and return nothing.

No single cause explains the continuing exodus, according to city officials, leaders in the black community, demographers and current and former black residents. The high cost of housing — one of the highest in the nation — is a dominant theme, but there are other factors:

•The loss in the 1950s and 1960s of a key black enclave to urban renewal.

•High crime rates in some of the city's surviving black neighborhoods.

•Substandard public housing, as acknowledged by city officials.

•Dissatisfaction with underperforming urban schools.

"Black people really don't matter in San Francisco. It's what this generation of political leadership inherited," says Chuck Collins, president of the YMCA of San Francisco. "There's been a very uneasy truce with the black population."

Hey. Complain to the San Fran Democrats - that is exclusively their turf (Pelosi turf, at that). Ask them why their progressive Mecca simply wasn't cutting it for anyone but the rich, elitist limousine liberals and their "culture.'

Cripes. They're acting like the advancement, financial improvement and uplifting of the black community is a bad thing because the blacks aren't choosing what is obviously (according to the liberals out there) 'good for them.' Even though most thinking folk know and have known for a long time that what the liberals offer isn't good for anyone except a small, elitist, wealthy subset of the population.

And what's the lib solution to this, um, "problem?" More government! A government "task force," no less!

The task force "ought to study what's wrong with the white power structure, why they can't be responsive to the African-American community," says Amos Brown, pastor of Third Baptist Church and president of the local NAACP chapter. "They didn't need us anymore."

Stopping black flight will be "an uphill battle," Blakely says. "If you're a middle-class African-American, one of your dreams was to move into a nice mixed neighborhood and send your kid to a decent school."

Today, African-Americans across the USA are "suburbanizing" at a rate slightly higher than whites, he says. "As their incomes go up, they move out."

That's usually how it works. And the San Fran libs want to put a stop to it.

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Is Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) a Perv?

Looks like he might be.

That, in and of itself, doesn't bother me too much. I don't care if the guy smokes a pole or rides around on a meat rocket or whatever. In my book, that's pretty much his own business. I'm generally a "live and let live" kinda guy--though I'd sorta prefer that U.S. senators "get their freak on" in their own homes rather than public bathrooms. The word "embarassing" doesn't even begin to capture it.

That said, looks like there's another piece to this little puzzle. Turns out that Sen. Craig voted for cloture on amnesty. Whoops.

Like a lot of conservative/libertarian types, I might be willing to look the other way on a little public pervitude once in a while, but public pervitude + total abandonment of national sovereignty and the rule of law is just a little too much for me to take. If Sen. Craig "goes down" over this (as I suspect he might,) I won't be shedding any tears.

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Yemen Headed Toward Revolution

The more instability that arises from political exclusion and the lack of basic services, the more repressive the Yemeni government becomes, which leads to greater fustration and down that road is the revolution. My article:

Since Yemen's presidential election, the nation is experiencing several areas of instability. Crisis areas include the fourth recurrence of the Sa'ada war in North Yemen, popular protests in the former South Yemen, hostile tribal posturing, and the resurgence of terror attacks directed at the state. One causal factor common to all these conflicts is institutionalized inequality or state discrimination. This inequality is also the foundation of massive corruption that is destroying Yemen. With elitism so engrained and corruption so pervasive, structural reform is nearly impossible. One solution may be to dissolve the national mechanisms that function to perpetuate inequality and enable corruption, starting with Yemen's ruling party.

Read the rest at the Arab American News. The Yemeni regime seems to have a problem with free speech anywhere that it occurs. Maybe they'll call me a Zionist in the newspapers or block my website again. There is a new law pending in Yemen which criminalizes opinions:

SAN'A, Yemen (AP)--Critics of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh could receive up to 15 years in prison under a proposed law introduced by the government and sent to parliament on Sunday.

Under the draft law, 'agitators' could also face a death penalty if their anti-government incitement causes deaths during protests.

Yemeni newspapers said the draft law also imposes severe prison sentences on journalists, writers and rights advocates who 'incite' anti-government activities including protests. These acts, according to the draft law, undermine national security and are harmful to social peace.

Did I mention they kidnapped my friend al-Khaiwani the editor?

(IHT)A Yemeni opposition editor who was accused of backing the country's Shiite rebels and recently spent a month in jail, was found badly beaten and bruised on Monday, just hours after a Yemeni journalists union reported him kidnapped....

Later Monday from his hospital bed, al-Khawinay, 38, who also suffers from heart problems, told The Associated Press that one of the kidnappers was among officers who stormed his house in June and took him to prison.

He also said that his kidnappers discussed whether to cut or just break the hand he writes with, and opted for the latter.

I'm kinda irked about that. Oh and they think I'm a spy for the Pentagon. Seriously. Is that idiotic or what?

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I'm Sorry But...

Shouldn't there be some standard on the quality of a cartoon depicting Muhammad before Muslims become outraged?

Like say maybe, the creator of the cartoon can at least draw? Getting all outraged over chicken scratch is just silly.

Via Opinion Bug

Iran is really ticked off that Nerikes Allehanda ran a sketch of the Prophet Muhammad. Lars Vilks created the sketch which depicts the prophet’s head on a dog’s body.

More here at LGF.

Since The Jawa Report is banned in Iran, that means I can post it here, right? This also means that many Iranians will never get the chance to laugh at this artist's er...uh...skillz.

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Probably not worth mentioning but...

Image Credit - Cox and Forkum

U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL RESIGNS

(AP via Breitbart) - Alberto Gonzales, the nation's first Hispanic attorney general, announced his resignation Monday, driven from office after a wrenching standoff with congressional critics over his honesty and competence.

Republicans and Democrats alike had demanded his departure over the botched handling of FBI terror investigations and the firings of U.S. attorneys, but President Bush had defiantly stood by his Texas friend for months until accepting his resignation last Friday.

"After months of unfair treatment that has created a harmful distraction at the Justice Department, Judge Gonzales decided to resign his position and I accept his decision," Bush said from Texas, where he is vacationing.

Buh bye.

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Wordpress Blocked in Thailand, Turkey

According to the watchdog website Don't Block This Blog (DBTB.org), the nations of Thailand and Turkey just recently blocked the entire Wordpress.com domain for all Internet users.

In Thailand, visitors to the blocked websites will see a message in Thai which translates as follows.

"Sorry. TOT Plc., as an organization of Thai people, has restrained the access to this website as it contains content, text, and/or picture that is unappropriated which affects the mind of Thai people all over the country and cannot be accepted."

Therefore, the government has determined that the "mind of Thai people" is affected by "unappropriated" material at Wordpress.com. It's not clear what "unappropriated" means.

Regarding Wordpress being blocked in Turkey, it appears that one blog owned by a proponent of creationism prompted a court order to block the entire Wordpress domain. However, an effort has been launched to collect signature on a petition to unblock blogs in Turkey.

Meanwhile, it appears that all Blogspot blogs are still banned in Pakistan. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority initially instituted the ban in March 2006 on Blogspot as a result of one blog carrying the infamous cartoons of Muhammad. However, a savvy blogger block workaround for determined bloggers has been developed using Google Docs.

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War Porn Fix #782

Video: AH-64 Warrior AC 130 FootageU.S. troops air assaulting a building where a car bomb is located as part of Operation Marne Husky. Aerial scenes include an Apache helicopter destroying the car bomb, a U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt jet firing a hellfire missile leveling the house the car bomb was attached to, and Soldiers leaving the scene in a Chinook helicopter. Produced by Task Force Marne Public Affairs Office.

Hat Tip: Stealth.

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"A 400% increase in tuberculosis among children in San Diego County, California"

I don't know what any of this means, but it sounds pretty bad:

From 1985 through 1993, the state of California reported 29% of all cases of tuberculosis in children in the United States, ranking them first among the 50 states and the District of Columbia.1 During this period, tuberculosis cases in children and adolescents younger than 20 years old reported by the County of San Diego, California increased by 400% from 15 cases in 1985 to 75 cases in 1993. Reported cases were reviewed to provide possible explanations for this increase to better describe the epidemiology of tuberculosis among children and adolescents younger than 20 years old and to identify missed opportunities for prevention of tuberculosis in children.

A 400% increase in San Diego??? Odd. No idea what might be causing that. No doubt it has something to do with global warming...

H/t : Michelle.

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Opus Offends

The controversial Opus comic Strip for August 26th is up here and here. I'd post it here but CAIR might have me locked up and I can't afford to pay Berkeley Breathhead, but mostly I can't make it fit here without a bunch of hassle.

Hat Tip: Captain Ed.

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