A new video release from the Filipino arm of the global jihad movement, Abu Sayyaf, is entitled "Asian Jihad Champions". The video can be downloaded here.

Thanks a lot you filthy terrorist bastards, now I can't get that damn song out of my head! For that alone you should be summarily executed.....

Bonus video below. more...

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Earlier this week we announced the capture of Abu Dujana, the top military leader of Jemaah Islamiyah. Today it was announced that the head of Southeast Asia's al Qaeda affiliate organization was also arrested. He is known simply as Zarkasih.

CNN:

Indonesian police said Friday that one of a group of suspected terrorists seized in a raid is the head of Jemaah Islamiyah -- the al-Qaeda-linked terror network blamed for attacks including the deadly Bali bombings.

Known simply as Zarkasih, the alleged leader of the Southeast Asian terror groupwas apprehended at the same time as its confessed military leader, Abu Dujana, whose arrest was announced on Tuesday, Brig. Gen. Surya Dharma said .

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Judith Apter Klinghoffer notes that over 70 Buddhist teachers have been murdered in cold blood by Islamists in Thailand. Three this week. Where is the outrage?

Despite a Muslim now in charge in Thailand after a coup which ousted the democratically elected Buddhist head of government, the 'insurgents' are still not satisfied. And what, exactly, are the 'insurgents' demanding? Sharia law.

Quran Sura 8:60:

"The only person who matters is Allah--and the only question he will ask me is 'How many infidels did you kill?'"

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(Fresno, California) Although it may sometimes appear that plotting to overthrow the U.S. government is an everyday political exercise, plotting to overthrow a foreign government while on U.S. soil is a serious felony.

Neighbors said federal agents swarmed a house about 10 Monday morning. Those who live on the street say they showed up in military type vehicles with full body armor on and large guns.

It's just one of 8 places searched in the Central Valley in an investigation that has international ties. One by one FBI and ATF agents raided several homes and at least one business.

Government Officials are tying together an investigation that has spanned 6 months. Under arrest are 8 people, including several prominent Hmong leaders.

77 year old General Vang Pao is being charged as the ringleader for plotting to overthrow the communist government of Laos. Also charged are Lo Cha Thao of Clovis, Hue Vang of Fresno, Lou Tao of Sacramento, Youa True Vang of Sanger, Chung Yang Tao of Fresno, Chue Lowe of Stockton and Seng Vue of Fresno.

Federal Officials say the group was planning to make an initial purchase of 125 AK-47 assault rifles, 20 thousand rounds of ammunition and crates of smoke grenades.

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You. Can't. Make. This. Stuff. Up. CNN:

Three simultaneous bomb blasts rocked separate railway terminals in Bangladesh on Tuesday, with militant slogans claiming to be from al Qaeda found at two of the sites.....

"... If Hazrat (Prophet) Mohammad is not declared the superman of the world by May 10, all non-governmental organizations will be blown up," the slogans on the metal sheets read in the Bengali language. They were signed "the al Qaeda network" in English.

By the authority vested in me by the Halliburton Corporation, the Illuminati, and various other Zionist-Crusader fronts, I solemnly declare Muhammed to be the Superman of the World.

Do you promise not to blow me up now?

A PS to our new Mohammed-superman-of-the-world overlord below: more...

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(Kelang, Malaysia) The theft of four-wheel drive vehicles by organized crime syndicates has been big business in Malaysia with buyers typically in Thailand and other southeast Asian nations. In the latest news, however, buyers in other destinations have emerged for the stolen 4WDs and transshipment is through the ports of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

According to Police Chief Assistant Commissioner Rodwan Mohd Yusof:

"We believe the UAE is a point of transit before the stolen vehicles are shipped to new markets and this is said to include Afghanistan, Pakistan and Africa," he said.

If the management controls over Dubai ports fail to prevent international trade in stolen, difficult to conceal, goods, one must wonder what other contraband makes it through. Also, is it logical to assume that the Dubai swag-movers are the same crowd that last year wanted to take over the operation of American ports?

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After showing up to a Thai movie awards show in a sexy black dress (photos here) Thai actress Chotiros Suriyawong has found herself in hot water:

BANGKOK, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- The Thai actress known as "Amy" has been ordered to perform community service for wearing a dress deemed too revealing at an awards ceremony.

Chotiros Suriyawong, 22, has also been axed from her latest movie project amid the uproar over her couture at Thailand's version of the Academy Awards.

The Independent described the daring frock as one based on "Elizabeth Hurley's well-known safety-pin number." The Versace number Hurley wore to a premier in 1994 featured a neckline that didn't so much plunge as free fall.

The newspaper said Amy was caught up in a "morality drive" launched by the military government that seized power in Thailand last fall.

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You'd better watch your step if you're surfing the internet for Tammy NYP (or anything else, for that matter) in Singapore. They have some pretty harsh penalties for "creative" methods of internet access over there:

A Singaporean teenager who illegally tapped into a neighbour's wireless Internet network - an offense the city-state deems punishable by jail - was placed on 18 months' probation by a district court on Tuesday.

The court also ordered Garyl Tan Jia Luo, 17, to carry out 80 hours of community service after he admitted linking his computer to his neighbour's wireless router to access the Internet without permission.

Tan could have been jailed up to three years and fined $S10,000. ...

[Judge] Reddy said Tan should seek "disciplined and structured psychiatric and psychological intervention" to cure his [internet] addiction.

what's potentially worse is the fact that he is not allowed to access the internet during his stint. Apparently, the judge felt this was the best way to break him of his internet addiction...

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Madrassas will surely follow:

BANGKOK, Thailand - Hundreds of schools in Thailand's restive south will shut their doors in response to increasingly vicious attacks by suspected Muslim insurgents against teachers and schools, a regional education representative said.

The closure, which begins Monday, affects all 336 primary and secondary schools in the province of Pattani, where two teachers were shot and killed by suspected insurgents in the past two days. In one of the killings, attackers shot a school principal Friday, and then set his body on fire.

"Teachers can't bear what has happened," said Bunsom Thongsriprai, president of Teachers' Association in Pattani. "They are paranoid, worried and afraid." He said the schools will reopen when teachers feel safe.

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Journalist advocates ties with Israel. Moderate Muslim country puts him on trial for sedition.....because having an embassy in Tel Aviv is, er, you know, treason. Not content, members of ruling party form mob and beat him to a pulp.

Religion of something something something........

JPOST:

A Muslim journalist facing charges of sedition for advocating ties with Israel was recently attacked and beaten by a crowd in Bangladesh that allegedly included leading officials of the country's ruling party, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, editor of the Weekly Blitz newspaper, an English-language publication based in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, was working in his office on October 5 when nearly 40 people stormed the premises.

The mob beat Choudhury, leaving him with a fractured ankle, and looted cash that was kept in the company safe. Choudhury was briefly hospitalized.

According to a statement appearing on the Web site of the Weekly Blitz, the attackers were led by Helal Khan, international affairs secretary of Jasas, and included Babul Ahmed, Jasas's secretary-general. Jasas is the cultural wing of the ruling Bangladeshi National Party (BNP).

During the assault, Ahmed is said to have shouted at Choudhury, labeling him an "agent of the Jews."

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State of emergency declared in Thailand. Possible coup attempt. If successful, I've no idea what this would mean to the war on terror. Thailand is in a hot war with Muslim rebels in the south.

Mary Katherine is covering.

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Buddhist teachers arming themselves against Muslim mobs. Religion of Peace and all that.

CNN:

Teachers have one of the deadliest jobs in southern Thailand, with 44 killed by the bombs and bullets of an Islamic insurgency since 2004.

So the teachers are learning how to shoot back.

The Chulabhorn naval base, on the Gulf of Thailand in Narathiwat province, opened its heavily guarded gates on a recent weekend to a training course for 100 public school teachers, mostly Buddhist men and women who say bringing a gun to school has become essential.

"You'd never see a teacher anywhere else in Thailand carrying a gun," said Sanguan Jintarat, head of the Teachers' Association that oversees the 15,000 teachers in the villages and towns of the restive south. "But, we need them, or we'll die."

That teachers -- not to mention Buddhist monks, bank tellers and motorcycle mechanics -- have become targets in the insurgency illustrates how badly law and order has degenerated in southern Thailand since the violence flared in January 2004.

At first insurgents targeted mainly civil servants, soldiers and police officers. Attacks then spread to businesses that serve soldiers: restaurants, outdoor markets, garages. And now come attacks that seem to have no rationale at all, such as the murder last month of an elephant trainer who was shot seven times by gunmen who had lined up with children to buy tickets for a show.

More than 1,700 people have been killed across Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat -- the only Muslim-majority provinces in this otherwise peaceful, tourist-friendly Buddhist country.

Among them was a teacher gunned down at his blackboard in July as his 4th graders watched in shock, and a Buddhist art teacher clubbed by a village mob in May until her skull shattered.

UPDATE: ROP strikes again in Thailand.

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No word from PETA yet on whether or not the sheep is claiming the relationship was consensual.

Interested Participant:

.... heard the frantic bleating of her ewe. The sound came from beneath the lower portion of her house, which is built on stilts, where she kept her livestock.

On checking, the woman found the youngster naked with one of her ewes.

"When she screamed, the youth jumped up and fled. She lodged a police report," Nazley said.

UPDATE: The wisdon of Khomeini:

"The meat of horses, mules, or donkeys is not recommended. It is strictly forbidden if the animal was sodomized while alive by a man. In that case, the animal must be taken outside the city and sold."

"If one commits an act of sodomy with a cow, a ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed as quickly as possible and burned, and the price of it paid to its owner by him who sodomized it."

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1 Now, Rusty, isn't this what the great prophet told these dimwits to do? Oh, yeah, that was goats, but it's the same thing. They can always say, "The Prophet(PBUH) made me do it."

Posted by: jesusland joe at May 08, 2006 12:13 PM (rUyw4)

2 Some is raping sheep and PETA has not responed what is happening its weird

Posted by: sandpiper at May 08, 2006 12:34 PM (gJhPg)

3 Next minute they'll be stoning the sheep to death for leading the men astray.

Posted by: Jester at May 08, 2006 01:59 PM (TuAMG)

4 I can see it now, Jester. Burn the manger and barn of this filthy sheepish whore and prostitute. Malaysian sheep are warring against the ummah, probably inspired by jinni, and must be destroyed. Let Dukhtaran-e-Milat have at this slutty sheep.

Posted by: jesusland joe at May 08, 2006 02:35 PM (rUyw4)

5 B-a-a-a.

Posted by: Oyster at May 08, 2006 02:42 PM (EigeA)

6 JJ, the frightening thing is this could all be possible in the parallel universe that is Islam.

Posted by: Jester at May 08, 2006 03:07 PM (TuAMG)

7 Does "frantic bleating" mean he was doing it right or wrong?

Posted by: Graeme at May 08, 2006 04:02 PM (xT207)

8 I can't BELIEVE it. Don't you guys realize that Islam treated sheep better during the Middle Ages than Christianity ever did? That the Koran teaches LOVE the sheep, and only be consensual with them? That in fact, Jewish sheep were veritable kings of Damascus? Islam just needs a reformation in its lovemaking of sheep...



Actually, given the religious diversity of Malaysia, we don't even know if this guy was Muslim.

Posted by: jd at May 08, 2006 04:08 PM (aqTJB)

9 How can they call this rape? In my my experience, Malaysian sheep, usually, are just asking for it.

Posted by: lumberjack at May 08, 2006 04:56 PM (wMUe9)

10 On the bright side, at least the family will get a nice hearty meal out of the inevitable honor killing.

Mmmm... Stuffed mutton!

Posted by: ShannonKW at May 08, 2006 05:04 PM (dT1MB)

11 "given the religious diversity of Malaysia....."

jd, you need to update your records. The ROP has forced a goodly number of Christians and Buddists to leave Malaysia. My latest count has Muslims in the 60-65% range.

Posted by: jesusland joe at May 08, 2006 05:37 PM (rUyw4)

12 What's the most popular Cole Porter song in Malaysia?

"My Sweet Embraceable . . . Ewe"

Posted by: ScurvyOaks at May 08, 2006 05:52 PM (a6SFl)

13 Sheep stories? Oh God! Where is this blog going!

Posted by: hondo at May 08, 2006 09:48 PM (SeBrl)

14 The East coast sheep are hip I really dig the fleece we share, and the southern rams with the way they balk ... they knock me out when I'm down there ....

Posted by: Last gasp Larry at May 08, 2006 11:57 PM (FCC6c)

15 That would be my point, JJ--that we don't know his religion. At 65%, that's lower than the % of Americans who are Christian. Yet if some American were going to town on a sheep, would you be okay with the world assuming he was a Christian? (altho I'd bet good money he was, given that this is primarily a rural game, and rural America is much more Christian. Not so many Jewish/Buddhist/Muslim/atheist farmers in the heartland!).

All this reminds me of a good joke, though. A prim and proper British major was sent to a desert outpost in Egypt during WWII. A gruff corporal was giving him a tour of the camp. Tour ends, major says "Just one question: what is that camel for?"
The corporal looks ashamed, but says "Major, we are 100 men, and it gets lonely out here in the desert. We are 50 miles from the nearest town, so when the powerful urges strike, well, the men use the camel."

The major nods "I see. Well, you can assure the men that given the circumstances, I will allow the camel to remain, although I deeply disapprove."

A month later, those powerful urges come over the major, and he figures, why not try it? He asks the corporal to bring the camel to his tent, mounts up on a little stool, and has loud, violent sex with the camel. When he finishes, he asks the corporal "Is that pretty much how the men do it?"



"Not exactly, sir. They usually ride the camel into town where the girls are."

Posted by: jd at May 09, 2006 10:29 AM (aqTJB)

16 erm:

"The meat of horses, mules, or donkeys is not recommended. It is strictly forbidden if the animal was sodomized while alive by a man. In that case, the animal must be taken outside the city and sold."

"Sodomized while alive"?

Necrophilic bestiality is okay?

Posted by: Phillep at May 09, 2006 02:00 PM (OpGpa)

17 Also--this seems kind of bogus, actually, now that I think about it. If it is ritually unclean after sodomizing, why is it okay to sell it to someone from the next village? Presumably, Khomeini was writing for the whole nation, anticipating everyone is Muslim.

Put me down as skeptical as to its authenticity.

Posted by: jd at May 09, 2006 02:06 PM (aqTJB)

18 Yeah, the same source says Khomeini endorsed sex with infants, so long as there was no penetration. This sounds like a bogus translation. There are MANY weird things endorsed by religious leaders of all stripes, and I've read some imams who have very peculiar views about masturbation, menstruation, etc. But infantophilia seems an unlikely thing for Khomeini to endorse. You can find websites that say that Jews are instructed to eat infants and drink Christian blood. It doesn't make it true, just because it is up on the web.

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Muslim scholars ask the tough questions. Not content with exploring the deep mysteries of whether or not it is forbidden to take a dump facing Mecca or whether the sunna forbids talking while taking a wiz (no word yet on whistling) comes news that Malaysians are worried about Sharia in outer space.

TMC:

How do Muslim astronauts pray five times a day in space when a "day" in orbit is only 90 minutes? How does one determine where Mecca is in a constantly moving space station?

These were some of the questions Islamic scholars and scientists wrangled with in a seminar Tuesday, as Malaysia, a Muslim country, prepares to send its first citizen into space next year....

"Our astronaut will stay in the International Space Station for about seven to eight days. Among the important needs of this astronaut, should he be a Muslim, is a guide on how to perform the prayer ritual in space," Mohamad Ruddin Abdul Ghani, permanent secretary of Malaysia's Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry, said in a speech at the "Islam and Life in Space" seminar.

But as Zainal Abidin Abdul Rashid of Malaysia National University pointed out at the seminar, the space station circles the Earth 16 times in 24 hours, with a sunrise and sunset occurring about every 90 minutes.

"Does this mean we have to perform 80 prayers a day," he said in his seminar paper.

He proposed that Earth time, especially the time zone in Mecca, be used as the reference point to determine the prayer schedule.

On the issue of "qiblat" or the direction of Mecca, suggestions range from installing a special rotating seat so that the Muslim astronaut could turn easily toward Mecca, to using calculator that can determine qiblat direction and the prayer schedule.

Then there is also the question of how to perform ablution, a ritual cleansing of the body, with water-rationing in space.

Also, how does one do the prayer ritual of kneeling and prostrating under zero gravity?

Brilliant.

This goes a long way in explaining the myth of the 'Golden Age of Islam'. Never. Happened.

One important question not addressed at the conference is this: Does the prohibition against eating pork extend to outer space? And if it does, is there at least a Miss Piggy exception?

Hat tip Joel who found it at Nobody's business.

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One of the stories being widely circulated right now is that the King of Nepal has ordered that protesters would be shot on site. What the headline does not say, is that Nepal is in the midsts of a civil war with Maoist rebels. And that no protesters have, in fact, been shot on site!Guardian:

Protesters demanding a return to democracy postponed a rally that had been expected to draw thousands on Saturday, after the king imposed an all-day curfew and ordered violators shot on sight.

One person was killed and at least two wounded when security forces fired at demonstrators in Pokhara, a resort town 125 miles west of the capital, Katmandu, said Gangadhar Baral, who was among those wounded.

"We were protesting and some of us were throwing stones at the soldiers. Suddenly, the soldiers fired shots at us. One of my friends was killed instantly,'' Baral said. He spoke from the town's main hospital.

And why the imposition of the restrictions?

The rebels bombed government buildings and attacked a jail in the southwestern town of Taulihawa on Friday night, freeing 104 prisoners, officials said. Insurgents also attacked security bases in the nearby town of Butwal.

Officials said the curfew was in response to information that the rebels would try to infiltrate the rallies and wage terror attacks against government targets.

Impending geek alert: Interestingly enough, last night's episode of Dr. Who featured a Prime Minister of England ordering the Doctor shot on site. Which is neither here nor there, but I just figured you ought to know a little about Macktastick Rusty Wicked's geek factor. It's off the scale.

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While the Dark Lord of the Sith has been away, we’ve had a pretty good week here. Lot’s of posts, hits, comments, trolls, annoying annoyances, the whole bit. Feels like the good old days before the dark times, before the Empire!

Thanks to Demosophist.
Vinnie.
Mike Pechar.
See-Dubya who also posts here.
Chris Short.
Traderrob.
The Dread Pundit Bluto.
Chad Evans.
Drew.
Richard.
Jane from Armies of Liberation.

Thanks also to all our regulars and trolls as well for taking things out on each other and keeping us entertained in the process. As Rusty says, “You came here for the insults didn’t you Howie?” Howie Says blushing shamefully, “Of course.” So I’ve saved up some linky, linky for you. Rusty says if the hotel has free internet we would hear from him. Apparently they don’t but I expect my master will return on Monday.

New York Jail Imam opens mouth, inserts foot via Jihadwatch

Umar Abdul-Jalil via NYPOST : "greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House," Jews control the media, and Muslims are being tortured in Manhattan jails... ...the Zionists of the media to dictate what Islam is to us" and said Muslims must be "compassionate with each other" and "hard against the kufr [unbeliever]."

Clinton W Taylor asks we send our “trimmings to Yale”

Clinton via Townhall : Referring to the Taliban’s policy of pulling the fingernails off of Afghani women who dared to wear fingernail polish. Some of these women even had their thumbs sliced off as punishment. To date, Mr. Rahmatullah has not apologized or taken responsibility for his support of this brutal regime, though he told the Times he wished he’d been "a little bit softer" in his advocacy.
If you’d like to show your outrage at Yale’s decision to admit the Taliban’s spokeman, join us in "giving Yale the finger." It would be disgusting– not to mention really painful — to mail your own fingernails, but you can buy glamorous, decadent, shameless-hussy-scarlet press-on nails (ask for "nail tips") from any drug store or beauty shop. They’re cheap; a box costs about $5.00. (Caution to Harvard-educated readers: do not eat the press-on nails. Sure, they look tasty, but they will make you sick.)

If you have not read all Michael Totten’s latest report from Iraq clickety click here!

Totten : “Zarqawi destroyed the tombs,” the caretaker said. “He and his men turned this room into a toilet.” He shook his head in disgust at the filthy Islamists who fouled their Islamic shrine. Muslims who say Al Qaeda is not really Islamic may have a point.
“You see that there in the floor?” he said. “That’s where they began to install plumbing.”
I braced myself. “How do you feel about the U.S. bombing this mosque?” I said.
“I don’t know,” he said, as if he had never even pondered the question. “It’s okay, I suppose. I am grateful. If they had not done it this place would still be a toilet.”

All those hours spent killing space bastards can pay off!

Living under Democratic leadership, what it’s really like. Sorry Gov Rod you suck buddy.

NPR : Five Jewish members of Illinois' hate-crimes commission have resigned in protest over another commissioner who is an official with the Nation of Islam. Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, rails against Jewish and gay people this week in front of commissioners. Chicago Public Radio's Catrin Einhorn reports.

Bad, bad gay terrorists in love never underestimate a terrorist in love!

Filthy’s post on how returning soldiers should be treated.

The Filthy Report : Hundreds of people, including Girl Scout troops, Vietnam Veterans of America chapters, senior citizens clubs and individuals wanting to give personal thanks to America’s returning troops lined the terminal exit and filled the airport with deafening cheers from the first service member to the last.

Giggle, giggle times four = one happy group!.(just click)

I’ll try and update with more linky, linky later. Busy, busy.

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With the Cold War over and a new Cold War between civilizations brewing, India has become our natural ally in Southeast Asia. Pakistan is only a reluctant ally which only supports the war on terror to the extent that it prevents a U.S. invasion. Pakistan cannot even control vast areas of its own territory. There is little doubt in my mind that a coup or pupular uprising will eventually remove the present pro-U.S. military dictatorship and replace it with an even more overtly Islamist regime.

To prepare for that day, we must earnestly cultivate our friendship with India. India and the U.S. have had shaky relations in the past--especially given our Cold War alliance with Pakistan--but the relationship between us and the Subcontinental state have improved drastically in the past 15 years. Not only do we have strategic mutual interests with India, but our cultures and civilizations both emphasize democracy, pluralism, and tolerance. India is fast becoming more than an ally, they are becoming our friend.

It's good to see that Bush is cultivating this relationship and a pity that the NY Times is such a partisan rag. Instead of focusing on the flowering relationship between our two countries, they instead lay into Bush for neglected issues such as "poverty", "the search for renewable energy", and reaching out to India's Muslim minority. What idiots:

Relations between the United States and India have never been more important, thanks to global terror in the post-Sept. 11 world, the search for sustainable energy resources and the United Nations' pledge to halve world poverty by 2015. More than 500 million of the world's poor are Indian villagers. India is also home to one the largest Muslim populations in the world.

So it's a pity that this trip, which should focus American attention on such a rich array of issues, now revolves largely around whether India and America will manage to conclude a nuclear deal that shouldn't have been initiated to begin with.

President Bush's wrongheaded decision last year to make an end run around the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty by agreeing to share civilian nuclear technology with New Delhi took America's contain-China-by-building-up-India strategy a step too far. The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty's basic bargain has been to reward countries that renounced nuclear weapons with the opportunity to import sensitive nuclear technology to help meet their energy needs. For decades, America has imposed nuclear export restrictions on India — and Pakistan, for that matter — in response to those countries' refusal to sign the nonproliferation treaty and their open development of nuclear weapons

This carrot-and-stick approach has dissuaded many other countries capable of building or buying nuclear arms from doing so, from South Korea to Turkey to Saudi Arabia. Now President Bush wants to carve out an exception for India. That's the worst possible message to send to other countries — Iran comes to mind — that America and its nuclear allies in Europe are trying to keep off the nuclear weapons bandwagon. Already, Pakistani officials are requesting the same deal for their country, although it is a request that is unlikely to be granted.

Idiots. more...

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The two ringleaders of the Bali 9 drug smuggling ring have been sentenced to death by an Indonesian court. Get that? In Indonesia they kill you for smuggling drugs.

Compare that sentence to this one. Abu Bakar Bashir is the head of Southeast Asia's al Qaeda affiliate, Jemaah Islamiyaah. He is the Osama bin Laden of Southeast Asia. It was Bashir's terrorist group that murdered 202 people at a night club in Bali. For that, Bashir was senteneced to 25.5 months in prison.

That's about 765 days.

That's 3.8 days per victim.

Drug dealers, though, are put in front of a firing squad. Our friends in the war on terror in a moderate Muslim country. Indeed.

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Allahpundit points out that Malaysia's impending law legalizing polygamy is on hold--for now. Personally I think polygamy ought to be legal (but only good polygamy--two hot chicks), but Islamic law's version of unfair to women at best and a license for masogony at worst. AFP:

Malaysian women's groups claimed victory after the government put on hold contentious legislation which would have helped Muslim men to take multiple wives and claim property after divorce.

The government agreed to review the Islamic Family Law bill after it triggered a public outcry last month by forcing it through the upper house over the protests of women senators and civil society groups....

Malaysian Muslim men are allowed four wives under Islamic law, but under the new amendments they would no longer have to prove they are financially capable of treating all their wives equally before taking on another.

On taking a new wife, men could seize property belonging to existing wives, and they would be given new rights to claim assets after a divorce, as well as less obligation to pay compensation and maintenance.

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(Jawa, Indondesia) A new video from Jemaah Islamiah. al Qaeda's Southeast Asia counterpart, warns Australia to pull out of Afghanistan and Iraq or faced renewed acts of terrorism. The video was found ten days ago in a cave on the Island of Jawa (Java in English) after a top Jemaah Islamiah was killed there. The man on the video (shown right) is believed to be Malaysian national Noordin Top, a senior operative of Jemaah Islamiah.

Jawas on Jawa? Indeed.

The Age:

SOUTH-EAST Asia's most wanted terrorist has warned in a video message seized by Indonesian police that Australia will be the prime target of new "intimidation and terror" attacks while its troops remain in Iraq.

In an apparent copy of al-Qaeda tactics, the video features a masked man believed to be Jemaah Islamiah mastermind Noordin Top urging strikes against Australia and claiming Prime Minister John Howard is leading the nation into tragedy.

The video threat, a first for Jemaah Islamiah, was seized when police raided Noordin's Central Java hide-out 10 days ago, soon after his bomb-making partner, Azahari Husin, was shot dead. Farewell video messages from the three suicide bombers who struck Bali in October were also recovered.

Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla played the videos to Islamic leaders, saying police believed the man issuing the warning was Noordin.

"America, Australia, England and Italy are all our enemies," says the militant. "We especially remind Australia that you, Downer and Howard, are killing Australia, leading it into darkness and tragedy and into mujahideen terror.

"Know that as long as you continue to colonise the land of Iraq and Afghanistan and intimidate Muslims then you, too, will feel our intimidation and terror."

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BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan aid 'totally inadequate'

Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf says the amount of foreign reconstruction aid pledged after the South Asia quake is "totally inadequate".

Translation: "It's not MY fault I'm an unelected dictator content to let my citizens suffer in grinding poverty, the world just isn't giving enough!"

Don't worry, Pervez, we stingy Americans are well aware that you were dragged kicking and screaming over to our side to help in the GWOT. We've also forgotten that your intelligence service propped up the Taliban, who in turn propped up OBL.

We're also well aware of the outpouring of love and support your nation showed ours after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and, I'm sure, will do so again when Wilma shows up.

One last thing, Musharraf, should he be toppled and survive, sounds like he'd make an excellent candidate for Mayor of New Orleans.

Oh, wait, one very last thing that needs no commentary:

Neighbouring India has also offered to send more aircraft, but Pakistan insisted they be provided without Indian crews, which India has refused to do.

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The story that seemed to kind of hang under the radar this week is the Bird Flu has reached Indonesia and bird culls are taking place there. I decided to see just what I could find out about H5N1 and flu vaccines and treatments in general. H5N1 is expected to follow the same path other flu does. Starting in chickens and ducks and migrating to swine and humans although direct jumps to humans are possible. I was able to find no one saying this is all a bunch of hooey. So while I’m not panicked and don’t think anyone else should there are a few issues that need attention here.

I’ve collected a big pile of links and will post them below the break so you too can be informed and make your own judgements. Because when you rely on the government or the drug companies, Well you get the idea. Howie also has his commentary below. more...

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It's about time is all I can say. I've seen some terrorists get like 3 days per victim. Looks like Iwan Darmawan will get his just deserts. But wait appeal in progress. It's also worth while to note that many local Indonesians were killed in this bombing. I can't help but wonder what the sentence would have been if the vast majority would have been Aussies.

"Your punishment will be worse than mine," Darmawan shouted as he was being led to a prison van.

I doubt that Mr. Darmawan, death right back at you sir. Inthebullpen has more.

Rois(aka Mr. Darmawan) said he would be happy to die. He was defiant before the verdict, saying that the bombing could be justified as defending Islam

Ok so we're all happy, good deal.

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Kill an infidel, get a light sentence. That seems to be the message out of Indonesia these days. Repeated over and over and over again. 10 people were murdered in this act of terrorism. Seven years for murdering 10 people.........

Related:
*Australian Embassy Bombed in Jakarta
*Bali Bombing Mastermind Sentenced to 4.5 days per victim
*Bali Bombing Mastermind's Sentence Reduced to 3.8 days per victim

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I'm not sure why this is 'news' any more, but it is scary:

Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal [Pakistani Jamat-e-Islami] President Qazi Hussain Ahmed has said he did not believe that Osama Bin Laden was capable of carrying out the sophisticated September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. “The Zionists must be behind the attacks as they were the only beneficiaries of the September 11 incident,” he said in an interview with BBC’s Hardtalk programme.

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1 That bloody copycat! I have been saying that for years! Did you know that the International Jewish Banking Conspiracy planted millions of dollars worth of diamonds on the hijacked flights, just so that the price of diamond would increase and thus fuel further implementation of their Protocols of the Elders of Zion? I bet you didn't, b/c I just made it up. See, it's really easy for idiots to run their mouth in the face of overwhelmingly contradictory evidence...

Judge: Mr. Hutz we've been in here for four hours. Do you have any evidence at all?
Lionel Hutz: Well, Your Honor. We've plenty of hearsay and conjecture. Those are kinds of evidence.

Posted by: Wine-aholic at August 25, 2005 09:44 AM (Wsn+K)

2 Off-topic but important: We're still getting drive errors, though now they're coming from the other drive. We'll be replacing it this weekend; we should only be down for an hour or so unless we completely screw it up.

It's not nearly as bad as before, but you may notice that sometimes a comment won't post or a page doesn't load properly the first time. Just try again and it should come right.

All the backups are completely up to date in case things take a sudden turn for the even worse.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 25, 2005 09:47 AM (ymzzr)

3 I noticed, and thanks for all your hard work Pixy!!

Wineaholic--it's good to have you back, you Zionist tool!!

Posted by: Rusty at August 25, 2005 09:49 AM (JQjhA)

4 And of course, if you look at the news reporting of Able Danger in the foreign press, you see the conspiracy nutbars coming unhinged over the fact that we might have known of Atta and his cohorts before the attack.

A few even make the leap that since we knew of Atta and did nothing, that the US conducted the attacks themselves. Hey, and throw in the Zionists for good measure because it was all about the benjamins. Or a pipeline. Or about urban renewal. Or some other such blather.

If the 9/11 Commission has a lasting legacy, it is that they contributed to the conspiracy theories by purposefully leaving out significant pieces of information.

Posted by: lawhawk at August 25, 2005 10:13 AM (AcoYr)

5 That's enough proof for me ;-)

Posted by: Rusty at August 25, 2005 10:34 AM (JQjhA)

6 Rusty,

You're too easy. We had you at Zionist conspiracy!

Posted by: lawhawk at August 25, 2005 10:51 AM (AcoYr)

7 gee, that's almost as misguided as... saying Saddam was responsible for 9/11.

Just goes to show - the Taliban and their counterparts on the Christian right are two sides of the same coin.

Posted by: Aaron at August 25, 2005 11:02 AM (DEP33)

8 Some one ought to tell that goat smellin fly trap Mr. Qazi Hussain Ahmed to shut his damn pie hole. Blamin the Jooos for this is just WRONG BUB O! I know very well who pulled off this 9-11 business. Sure and Begorra, it was us IRISH CATHOLICS who did the big job.

Now that I’ve got that off me chest, let me share one of my favorite stories about the love and comradeship our Arab and Israeli friends have for each other:


Two Arabs boarded a shuttle out of Washington for New York. One sat in the window seat, the other in the middle seat. Just before takeoff a fat, little Israeli guy got on and took the aisle seat next to the Arabs. He kicked off his shoes, wiggled his toes and was settling in when the Arab in the window seat said, "I think I'll go up and get a coke."

"No problem," said the Israeli. "I'll get it for you."

While he was gone, the Arab picked up the Israeli's shoe and spit in it. When the Israeli returned with the coke, the other Arab said, "That looks good. I think I'll have one too."

Again, the Israeli obligingly went to fetch it, and while he is gone the Arab other picked up the other shoe and spit in it. The Israeli returned with the coke, and they all sat back and enjoyed the short flight to New York.

As the plane was landing the Israeli slipped his feet into his shoes and knew immediately what had happened.

"How long must this go on?" he asked. "This enmity between our peoples..... this hatred... this animosity... this spitting in shoes and peeing in cokes?"


Well, enough of this confession, I know it’s good for the soul, but I’ve got potatoes on the stove and those 15 kids are hungry. May the wind always be at your back,
and me ye be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead.

Posted by: Sean McMonigle at August 25, 2005 11:27 AM (3OPZt)

9 What are the coordinates for these people? Looks like we need an airstrike!

Posted by: patd95 at August 25, 2005 11:30 AM (ogWpI)

10 Lydon Larouche and his Executive Intelligence Review have published claims supporting the theory the pro-Israel/Jew-Neocons in the Pentagon were the TRUE MASTERMINDs of the Sept 11th. (yeah, they even attacked the Petagon, you say? Yes, but who was killed there?) This is not unbeleiavable, when you consider that it's an old tactic straight out of '1984.' Ever heard of the Reichstag Fire??? Simulate an attack on your own country, point at an Enemy. Zionist/Necons and friends have been itching for this Clash of Civilizations for decades!! Now they've created it. WHO ARE THE NO-CONS?? Neo-cons are JEW ZIONIST. Which countries is the US attacking? MUSLIM COUNTRIES HOSTILE TO ISREAL! What are the chances of a Bathist Iraq, or an Iran, attacking the US: NONE. Their missles don't even reach that far!! But they WILL attack ISREAl! So, send in the AMERICANS! WIlliam, Cristol, Paul Wolfowits, Douglass Feith, Richard Pearl, and other prominent Neo-conservatives are JEWS. One behalff of WHO'S INTEREST do they act upon??? Iraq/Arab freedom???? You think they care about the lives of WHITE AMERICANS who die in IraQ defending the security of ISREAL. It's time take a second look at the whole situtation. If the causes of this war still seem nebulous to you, read any speech or interview by Osama Bin Laden and he will repeatedly refer to the Jew/Zionist influuced US Goverment that he is fighting. Yet, even he aknolegdes that most Americans are completely ignorant of this influence.

Posted by: Tsunami at August 25, 2005 08:17 PM (PrqGm)

11 he sounds like a member of the DNC is he a memeber of the demacratic undergoround?

Posted by: sandpiper at August 27, 2005 05:22 PM (qMAo+)

12 TSUNAMI: Get help now.

Posted by: greyrooster at August 28, 2005 12:11 AM (CBNGy)

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