Archaeologists in China have uncovered seven ancient bronze dildos in a Han Dynasty tomb. The Straits Times quotes the Beijing Morning Post as saying this is the first time so many have been unearthed from that era (206 BC - AD 25). The dildos were cast from a mould, suggesting they were made by a specialist artisan. That's amazing. I never would have guessed that two thousand years ago people had genitalia. Who'da thunkit?
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Andrea Harris notes that Sammy drinks Mateus, a cheap pale pink soft drinktable wine concoction while seducing women who need strictness so they feel protected...
It's that handy twist-off cap. Gets 'em every time. If you're an iron-fisted dictator, you give 'em a soulful look while twisting the cap and their pants fall right down...
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Mateus Rose?
Sorry, when I see someone drinking that stuff I snigger. I certainly don't think 'Evil Overlord'. It's the sort of stuff you use to pad out a punch - when everything else has gone (including the Cinzano).
BTW Fred, this blog is great. The story on the Kuchays' misfortune you posted on 6/21/2002 had me in stitches!!
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Visualize this. Unscrews cap. Sniff cap. What vintage yer majesty? Hmmmm. Think it's September.
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North Korea says the maritime border where the sea battle with South Korea took place was illegal and should be abolished. "The border should be wherever we say it is, subject to change without warning..."
It has refused to apologise for the skirmish in which four South Korean sailors died. "That's 'cause we're communist tough guys who're into juche, so that means we can be arrogant and brutal even though we don't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out."
The South Korean military claim North Korea suffered about 30 casualties. "The government will take necessary steps so the people can engage in their business without concerns," said South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, who has urged his military to be more vigilant. Does that mean they're gonna shoot first and ask questions later? They've been pretty peace-loving so far...
The fight broke out after two Northern patrol vessels accompanying fishing boats crossed the sea border and one opened fire after ignoring warnings to retreat, South Korean officials said. North Korea, however, accused Southern boats of provoking the battle by entering communist territory. If you're North Korea, it's a provocation when somebody shoots back.
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Iraqi police came to the door of Mohammed Osmanâs home in Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, and gave him a choice to give up his Kurdish identity or leave town. Osman knew the routine. It had happened several times before and he had been able to buy some time with a $60 bribe. But this time he had run out of money "I couldnât afford it any more and I had to leave," he said. He came to a refugee camp in Benaslawa where 100 other families from Kirkuk have also fled what they call a policy of âArabisationâ of the city. They are among tens of thousands of Kurds, Turkomans and Assyrians who have had to leave Kirkuk because they were not Arab. If you're an Arab, you don't have to hide any racism. Jews, Assyrians, Hindus, they're all the same. Even if they're Muslims, they're still not part of the Master Race...
Iraqâs non-Arabs and international human rights groups claim that Arab-controlled governments in Baghdad, in an effort to solidify Arab control of Kirkuk, have been kicking out non-Arabs ever since the founding of the Iraqi state after the First World War. In 1999, the Iraqi government stepped up the practice with the new policy of ânationality correctionâ. Under the new rule, non-Arabs are asked to change their ethnicity on identity cards and census documents. If they refuse, they are kicked out. Why, they should count themselves lucky at being invited to join the master race. Lotsa places, they're not that generous.
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Yes, islamania is based on a master-race doctrine.
In the Bukhari prophet-hearsay (Hadeeth), Mohammed calls his own tribe - Kureshi - the "greatest of people" and is quoted as claiming that his Successor (khalif) must be of the master-race.
Mohammed's Koran (god-hearsay)was written (not recorded from "recitation", folks) in Kureshi, a regional dialect which became Arabic.
The immediate consequence of Mohammed's tribal supremacism is as follows. First, the first four Successors were of the Kureshi blood-line. Second, the first two Khalifs waged what the Submissives (moslems) call "wars of apostasy" against "phony Submissives" (munafikoon), of nominally inferior Arabic blood. Third, three of the first four master-racists (Submissives call them the "rightly guided Khalifs", or 'Rashdoon") were murdered by nominally inferior-Arabs. Fourth, after the fourth racial-successor was killed, a civil war ensued in islamania, which split the religion (read: slaver-ideology) into the mutually genocidal' Sunni and Shia factions. Fifth, the current battle for restoration of the Kureshi-Khalif, is led by Wahabis, a clique of Arabist racists who believe that the god-hearsay (koran) should only be written in Kureshi. Pakistani doormats, burdened by a disgraceful 50% illiteracy rate, incorporated compulsory Kureshi-Arabisation dictum into the constitution of Pakistan (the Saudi financed indoctrination centers - madrassahs - use recitation of Kureshi, as core-curriculum material. The Wahabis want all Submissives to hate in the same language.)
Lastly, the Mohs often make reference to the alleged racial benevolence of the pretender-"prophet" (AKA: Mohammed), and point to evidence of same in the so-called "Last Sermon of Mohammed". That document is a forgery, produced with the same intent as those who scribed the phony "Gospel of Barnabus": bait and switch.
Islam is racism, and Mohammed is its master-racist.
A restaurant bombing in Kurdish-run northern Iraq wounded 20 people, a northern Iraqi Kurdish official said yesterday. No one was killed when the blast damaged the restaurant in Arbil, a city controlled by the Kurdistan Democratic Party. But KDP sources in Arbil said police were investigating members of Jund al-Islami, a militant Islamic group believed to be associated with al-Qaeda. Restaurants... Yeah. Those are legitimate military targets, aren't they?
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Iran Press is not the most reliable source, but for what it's worth...
Iranian embattled President Mohammad Khatami is actively preparing himself to assume the role of the leader and all his latest moves, including his rapprochement with Ayatollah Khameneh'i, the present lamed ruler, is turned towards this aim, according to Dr Mehdi Mozaffari, a professor of international politics at Aahrus University, Denmark. In an interview with Iran Press Service, Dr. Mozaffari, a veteran analyst of Iranian affairs said if Mr. Khatami succeeds in his bid to replace Mr. Khameneh'i as leader, the present theocracy, which is battered by rivalries and feuds between the ruling conservatives and the classic reformers in the one hand and plagued by economic hardship could be saved from collapsing. On the other hand, if the theocrats aren't in charge anymore, it's not a theocracy, is it? I don't get the feeling the theocrats are ready to step aside yet...
"With reforms being almost shelved and Mr. Khatami not being able to implement any of his electoral promises, the Islamic Republic is approaching fast the end of its road. But if the conservatives accept Khatami replacing Mr. Khameneh'i, then the situation might reverse", Mr. Mozaffari said. In his view, the appointment of Mr. Khatami as leader not only is compatible with the regime's interests, but it would also preserve the system. "We had to dismantle the system to save it"? Cheeze, I love pure logic...
"The idea is being worked among the conservatives, particularly at the Assembly of Experts", he said, adding that in such an eventuality, the present leader, Mr. Khameneh'i, would be promoted grand ayatollah and becomes the regimeâs "supreme guide", watching out that the government does not deviate from the path of Islam, without intervening in the running of the nationâs affairs, as he does now. So Khamenei would become pope, and Iran the papal states, with Khatami playing the part of Mazzini. Interesting idea. I'm not sure I buy it, but it would represent a step toward a bit more normal structure...
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South Korea pledged Saturday to take 'strong military steps' against North Korea over the communist neighbor's military provocation in the Yellow Sea earlier in the day. The pledge was made at a meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) that President Kim Dae-jung convened following a shootout between the South and North Korean naval vessels near the inter-Korean maritime border in the Yellow Sea. "What steps?"
"Ummm... Diff'rent steps."
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This is a result of the Sunshine (Appeasement Policy) implemented by the Kim Dae Jung administration. There will be no significant changes in South Korean Policy until next year when a new admicstration takes power.
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President Saddam Hussein has praised Iraqi military scientists for making a "new and important scientific achievement" to upgrade Iraqi defense systems. "We are not surprised when you (the scientists) say you can accomplish any task," Saddam told a group of military commanders and researchers, according to a report in Sunday's official al-Iraq newspaper. "The policies of big countries are those of (self) interest. So, we have to depend on ourselves to reach our goals," Saddam reportedly said. The report did not provide specific details about the "new and important scientific achievement" Saddam referred to, except to say it "would strengthen Iraq's capabilities in defending its skies and territories."
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A Chinese diplomat was shot and killed by unknown gunmen in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, police said Sunday. Umurbek Agemberdiyev, the head of Interior Ministry's press department, said the diplomat, who held the post of consul, was shot and killed Saturday night as he and a businessman were driving in the center of Bishkek. The Chinese diplomat was identified by police as Van Tu Yu. There was no one available at the Chinese Embassy to confirm the identification. The businessman, identified as Nurmachamed Umarov, was a Uighur by nationality, Agemberdiyev said. Agemberdiyev said the shooting could have been a contract killing, with Umarov the main target. "It could have been a mafia sorting out," he said. It could have been some sort of "mafia" hit. It could also have been an Islamist hit. Something to keep an eye on, since there aren't many Chinese diplomats assassinated on a daily basis.
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Calling them "dangerous religious terrorists," the Pakistani government made a public appeal Sunday for help in finding Osama bin Laden, his top aide and 16 other al-Qaida members. So soon? It's only been eight months...
The statement features photographs of bin Laden and 17 others including his chief deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri. It urges people not to support jihad, or Islamic holy war, if it includes terrorist acts. "Those who kill innocent Pakistani people are the enemy of peace and country," the Urdu-language statement says. "Their purpose is terrorism and destruction. Their religion is only terrorism. Terrorism is not jihad. Support the Pakistani government against terrorism." Still working on that distinction between jihad and terrorism, but they're getting closer...
It includes quotes in Arabic from the Quran, denouncing terrorism and urges people with information about terrorists to contact police, who would treat sources and information as confidential. No reward money was offered. The statement was distributed to local and international news outlets late Saturday, and was carried in the Sunday edition of the Daily Jang newspaper in the southern city of Karachi. The statement was not carried in major newspapers - including Jang - printed in the capital, Islamabad. One little shootout with the coppers and suddenly Perv's all bent out of shape.
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India's army said it killed three suspected Islamic militants Saturday after they entered Indian-controlled Kashmir from Pakistan, in the first incursion reported since Pakistan's president pledged to stop cross-border infiltrations. Pakistan government officials denied that any militants had crossed from Pakistan into Indian Kashmir. Hell, no! They came from, ummmm... someplace else.
On Saturday, the army spotted the crazed killers rolling their eyes and waving guns in Sagwari sector, half a mile from the Line of Control dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan. The three were zapped during an hour-long exchange of gunfire.
The Indian army also raided a hide-out infested with gunnies overnight and waxed two in Angan Patri, a nearby village in Poonch district.
Also Saturday, a politician was one of four people killed in attacks blamed on homicidal maniacs. Bashir Ahmad, a member of Kashmir's the governing National Conference party, was shot by two masked men at his home in Srinagar.
In two other attacks in the Kashmir Valley, two police officers were killed in a raid on their post and an army officer was killed in Zadura, 65 miles north of Srinagar.
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Pakistani police today published a "Most Wanted" poster offering rewards for the capture of a dozen men sought in connection with the three terrorist operations that have targeted Westerners in Karachi this year. The poster, which covered a quarter-page in the national daily Dawn, named suspects in the kidnapping and murder of American reporter Daniel Pearl, the May 8 car bombing that killed 11 French engineers and three Pakistanis, and the truck bombing of the U.S. Consulate a month later. In grouping the cases together, the appeal reflects the overlap investigators have found among the cases and among the groups blamed for them. Hey! Careful, dammit! You knocked me over with that feather!
Heading the poster were five photos of Asif Ramzi, a militant wanted in the Pearl case and in sectarian killings. Police have said Ramzi took his name in homage to Ramzi Yousef, convicted of masterminding the 1993 truck bombing of the World Trade Center. Police are offering the equivalent of $50,000 in "head money" for Ramzi, and $25,000 each for two men pictured but identified only as "unknown associates" of his.
The advertisement also features photos of three men identified as associates of Saud Memon, the man believed to own the property where Pearl was held captive, killed and buried. Only one of the three associates, Abdul Rehman Sindhi, is identified by name.
A bearded young man identified as "Sharib" is listed as wanted for both the suicide bombing outside the consulate, which killed 12 Pakistanis, and the attack at the Sheraton Hotel, where the French engineers were boarding a bus.
A well-dressed man named Naveed Ul Hassan is also listed as wanted in the consulate case.
The poster also offers a $50,000 reward for a suspect, Naeem Bukhari, who Pakistani security sources had said privately last week was already in custody. A U.S. official said American investigators had not been notified of Bukhari's arrest but added that Pakistani police sometimes delay formal notice.
Two "unknown" activists of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, a sectarian group, are also pictured.
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Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Sikandar Hayat has warned the Arab world of the growing Indian designs of expansionism and hegemony in Gulf with the cooperation of Israel. Addressing a seminar on Kashmir, he said: "It is a proven fact that India and Israel are actively collaborating in defence and military operations and this nexus with the presence of a large number of Indian forces in Gulf countries is an alarming situation for the world." More alarming for the gunnies and snuffies in Kashmir, though...
He said the United Nations Security Council had passed resolutions to give right of self-determination to the people of occupied Kashmir through a plebiscite to be held under the UN. It's true. They did. India should hold them, and so should Pakland...
The AJK prime minister said accession of Kashmir to India was not possible. Nope. Not even if that plebiscite voted for it. Just couldn't happen...
Sikandar asserted that the resistance movement in occupied Kashmir was indigenous and added that the graveyards in occupied area bore testimony to the fact. "How can a resistance sustain for 13 years at this pitch if it is not popular or indigenous," he asked. Dunno. Maybe if Pakland keeps pouring money and mercenaries into it? How many dead guys were there before they started doing that?
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At least seven Al Qaeda suspects were arrested by army troops in an operation near the Afghanistan border in the Darmilan area of South Waziristan Agency, and shifted to military headquarters in Wana on Friday night. These men were later handed over to the Joint Interrogation Team on Saturday for further investigation. According to preliminary reports, the seven Al Qaeda suspects hailing from different cities of Pakistan told the JIT that they were the members of a Tableeghee Jamaat which was on a one-year visit of the area since October last year. However, their claim could not be confirmed. Oh, so it's not only the "FBI" and its surrogates disguising themselves as wandering preachers so they can blend in with the local populace...
In a separate raid, three tribesmen belonging to Dotani tribe of the South Waziristan Agency, allegedly having links with Al Qaeda, were also rounded up at the Tanai checkpoint on the Durand Line on Saturday. Another suspect, Abdul Ghaffar, an Uzbek from Konduz area of Afghanistan, arrested from the border town of Gulkash, was being quizzed by the JIT. A member of the JIT also disclosed that a Turkmen, Mohammad Yahya, arrested in Tuesday's encounter which resulted in the death of 10 army men and two Al Qaeda members, had been put under quarter guard and would be tried by a military court once the investigations of the case were completed. Seven Paks, three tribesmen, an Uzbek and a Turkmen. Looks like they might actually intend cleaning out this little pocket of Evil...
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Around a dozen alleged terrorists were arrested on Saturday in another massive crackdown against the activists of banned militant outfits across the Faisalabad division. Special police teams raided dozens of houses and dens of alleged terrorists in different parts of Faisalabad, Jhang and Toba Tek Singh districts and held top wanted men of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi and Lashkar-i-Tayyaba. Some heads of seminaries were also rounded up from Jhang during the operation. Police sources revealed that all raids were conducted on the information received from persons who were arrested from Lahore and some other parts of the province. The intelligence information about the alleged terrorists also shared by the American FBI. Sources said the arrested persons were include Muhammad Alam Tariq, brother of former MNA and head of banned Sipah-i-Sahaba, Azim Tariq. He was arrested from Faisalabad where he had been residing for the last many months with a fake name.
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Somalia's transitional government on Saturday formally called for the U.N. Security Council to send an armed force to the Horn of Africa nation. In a letter to the United Nations, Prime Minister Hassan Abshir Farah said a strong central government would be impossible to establish without the help of an international force to disarm the country's warring factions. And probably not then...
Farah told a news conference that the massive amount of weapons prevents a stable government in Somalia, and destabilizes neighboring countries by being a source for illegal small arms. Guns + ammunition + (baseless but prickly pride) = destitution. Not only is it not rocket science, it's barely arithmetic. Appears to be an iron law, though. Can we call it Pruitt's Law? And maybe add in Quick's Corollary.
The government also accused neighboring countries of interfering in Somalia's internal affairs. It's like that time they were importing all that coal to Newcastle...
Farah's request comes just weeks before the second anniversary of his transitional government, established by clan elders and businessmen. But the government has failed to include powerful faction leaders who have private militias, so the government controls only a small portion of the country. Somalia has had no effective central government since opposition leaders ousted dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 and the country turned into a patchwork of battling warlords ruled by heavily armed militias. So the arguments in favor of anarchy are...?
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A bomb exploded outside a ticketing office in the Greek port of Piraeus on Saturday night, injuring a man. Explosives disposal experts defused a second unexploded device in the area, and found a hand grenade and a revolver near the injured man. Authorities said they were investigating whether the injured man had been carrying the bomb when it detonated outside the ticketing office of a hydrofoil company that runs passenger trips to the Aegean islands. The office was closed at the time but the port area was busy.
It was the second time in less than two weeks that an explosive was detonated in Piraeus. On June 17, a hand grenade damaged the political office of a retired basketball star, who is now a socialist lawmaker in parliament. A group calling itself the Popular Resistance claimed responsibility. "I dunno. He was jes' standin' there lookin' around, and suddenly, 'Boom!' I think that's his elbow, over there..."
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State-run newspapers published a statement from the Ethiopian Ministry of Information on Saturday saying the army had killed 20 rebels from the Oromo Liberation Front and captured 227 earlier this week in the western Gambella region, along the Sudanese border. The statement claimed the army had also captured a large number of weapons, while accusing the Eritrean government of training and equipping the rebels. "Damn those Eritreans!"
Ethiopia and Eritrea fought a two-year border war from 1998 to 2000, but have since reached a peace agreement. "So take that, suckers!"
But a rebel statement has denied the government claims and insisted they had gained ground. "It is remembered that Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, a month ago in a nationally televised interview, claimed to have destroyed the entire Oromo Liberation Army in the Western zone and that the OLF is left only with fifteen fighters," the statement said. The regime says "one thing today and another thing tomorrow." "Nope. Wudn't us. Maybe it was somebody else you wiped out."
Rebel spokesman Leneho Batti said the rebels attacked Ethiopian troops near Akobo and had inflicted heavy losses. "Matter o' fact, we beat you up. So take that, suckers!"
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Christians and Muslims have clashed in a fresh outbreak of violence in central Nigeria that left at least six people dead and churches and mosques on fire. The fighting began late on Wednesday and continued on Thursday in the trading town of Yelwa, said Ezekiel Gomos, a senior official of the Plateau state government. Gomos said six people were killed, but witnesses - some of them wounded - arriving in Jos yesterday said the death toll was more than three times the figure announced by the government. Police and soldiers were sent to Yelwa to quell the violence and the town has been reported calm since Friday. A dusk to dawn curfew was being imposed in Yelwa and surrounding villages. Six gas stations were set ablaze and 22 vehicles were destroyed during the clashes. Gomos said the cause of the fighting was not known. It's just terrible, the way everywhere Muslims go those damned infidels are always starting fights with them...
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In Ramallah, Israeli troops stopped two Palestinianambulances and found 27 peoplepacked inside - ten of them suspected of involvement in shooting or bombing attacks, a military source said. While Palestinian officials denyambulances are used for moving militants about, the army says it is a matter of routine. Obviously there's some sort of mistake, then. Paleostinians would never lie to us... would they?
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Israel is to dismantle the liaison offices with the Palestinians set up in the West Bank and Gaza Strip under the 1993 autonomy accords, Yediot Aharonot newspaper reported Sunday. It said the dismantling of the last vestiges of security cooperation between the Jewish state and the Palestinians showed that Israel's aim was to take sole responsibility for security in the Palestinian territories. At a later state, Israel would also take charge of affairs of civilian administration in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, according to Yediot, Israel's best-selling newspaper. The liaison offices were opened in 1995 to coordinate between the Israeli army and Palestinian security services, which carried out joint patrols from the missions. That sure worked well, didn't it?
But the defence ministry has ruled out such a development, which would amount to a return to full Israeli occupation. It sounds like the Israelis are of two minds, knowing they'll probably have to do it eventually, but not wanting to. Ben Eliezar would represent the second point of view.
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Israeli troops searched Saturday through heaps of smashed concrete and metal, but found no sign of several wanted Palestinians who Israel said may have escaped massive explosions at the Palestinian headquarters in Hebron. Many Palestinians doubt the men were even inside when the four-day siege ended at a government and security compound early Saturday, maintaining Israel only wanted to deliver another blow to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's administration. Yup. Probably right on both counts.
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A bomb exploded under a moving passenger train in central Israel on Sunday, damaging one car but causing no serious injuries, police said. A Palestinian near the blast was held for questioning, but authorities said they were not certain the explosion was the work of militants. I'd be mighty surprised if it wasn't. It didn't just grow there.
Authorities said the bomb appeared to have been planted on the tracks overnight just north of the town of Lod. It was not clear if the device was on a timer or was detonated by remote control as the train passed.
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Egypt threw its support behind Yasser Arafat and said Sunday that Mideast diplomacy should focus on the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks rather than attempts to oust the Palestinian leadership. Well, yeah. Of course. They've been very productive so far...
Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher also accused Israel of "obstructing peace and stability in the region" in remarks after President Hosni Mubarak met Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat and a delegation from the Senate Intelligence Committee headed by chairman Bob Graham, a Florida Democrat. "Egypt strongly supports the democratically elected Palestinian leadership and refuses any attempt to outflank it," Maher told reporters. "We have told all (parties) that that we support the will of the Palestinian people as it was expressed in the 1996 elections in which Arafat was freely and democratically elected. Next year's elections announced by Arafat will also prove so." The fix is in, huh? We guessed that. Wonder what Saeb promised them?
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The grandfather of a Palestinian baby who was photographed in a suicide bomber's costume - replete with fake explosives, ammunition belt and red Hamas headband - said Saturday that the disguise was a joke. Initially denying the baby in the photograph - which was splashed across the front pages of Israeli newspapers and international television networks - was his grandson, Redwan Abu Turki finally admitted he was related to the child. First we lie. Only if that doesn't work do we explain with another lie. That's the way good Muslims do it. It's in the Koran someplace. You could look it up.
"This picture was at a rally at the university. The picture was taken just for the fun of it," he told The Associated Press. Heh heh. Very funny. How come you didn't laugh when the house was demolished?
Redwan Abu Turki said his son, Nader Abu Turki, is the baby's father and is wanted by the Israeli army. He said Nader has been on the run since the army searched the family's home last week seeking to arrest him for involvement with the Islamic militant group Hamas. Nothin' but fun-lovers in that family, by golly. That Hamas organization, they're kinda like the Not Ready for Prime Time Players and the Wyans Brothers rolled into one, only with bombs. This whole intifada thing, that's just an on-going prank.
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Nablus Hamas head Muhanid Taher, 26, was killed by IDF troops in a targeted interception in the northern West Bank city earlier today. Taher, leader of the group's Izzadin Kassam military wing, has been on Israel's most wanted list for four years, and was responsible for planning the homicide bombing on a bus in southern Jerusalem on June 18. 19 passengers were killed, and over 70 wounded in the blast on the crowded morning commuter line. Not bad. The bastard lived for 12 days after the attack...
Taher is also charged with being behind the Tel Aviv Dolfinarium attack in June of last summer and the Netanya Park Hotel attack on Pessah this year. This must be about the last of them, since the Shin Bet set out to hut them all down...
Another Hamas operative, Immad Darawze, was also kiled in the army operation. A third Hamas member, Amr Masri, was wounded, and was taken to a hospital in Israel, Israel Radio reported. The IDF later razed the structure where the three were found. Guess IDF wasn't in a good mood. Maybe the Bad Guys shoulda dressed some babies up as suicide bombers, just to lighten things up...
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Islamic extremists attacked a bus on the outskirts of the Algerian capital, killing 13 people aboard and injuring nine. Five or six men attacked the bus on Friday night in the town of Eucalyptus, about 12 miles south of Algiers. The area, and the Mitidja Plain to the south, were long controlled by the Armed Islamic Group, blamed for large-scale massacres there. Security forces were thought to have largely cleaned up the area over the past two years. The Friday night attack was the third deadly assault on a bus in the last three weeks, and there was speculation that it might signal a new strategy by the Armed Islamic Groupâs new leader, Rachid Abou Tourab. Abou Tourab replaced Antar Zouabri, who was killed by security forces in February.
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Hezbollah is increasingly teaming up with al Qaeda on logistics and training for terrorist operations, according to U.S. and European intelligence officials and terrorism experts. The new cooperation, which is ad hoc and tactical and involves mid- and low-level operatives, mutes years of rivalry between Hezbollah, which draws its support primarily from Shiite Muslims, and al Qaeda, which is predominantly Sunni. It includes coordination on explosives and tactics training, money laundering, weapons smuggling and acquiring forged documents, according to knowledgeable sources. "So first we kill all the infidels, then we can fight it out among ourselves who's gonna be in charge, okay?"
This new alliance, even if informal, has greatly concerned U.S. officials in Washington and intelligence operatives abroad who believe the assets and organization of Hezbollah's formidable militant wing will enable a hobbled al Qaeda network to increase its ability to launch attacks against American targets. To me, that says we should be striking back on their side of the pond...
U.S. officials believe that after al Qaeda was driven from Afghanistan, leader Osama bin Laden sanctioned his operatives to ally themselves with helpful Islamic-based groups, said a senior administration official with access to daily intelligence reports. Uh... They were doing that before. That's how they put al-Qaeda together. They've just used up most of the snuffies that came with the first alliance.
The more recent relationship between Hezbollah and al Qaeda first surfaced publicly in testimony in October 2000 by Ali Mohamed, a former U.S. Green Beret who pleaded guilty to conspiring with bin Laden to bomb U.S. embassies in Africa. He testified to having provided security for a meeting in Sudan "between al Qaeda . . . and Iran and Hezbollah . . . between Mughniyah, Hezbollah's chief, and bin Laden." Hezbollah, he testified, provided explosives training to al Qaeda while Iran "used Hezbollah to supply explosives that were disguised to look like rocks."
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A bomb was found under an American's car in Saudi Arabia while a "suspicious object" was attached to a Briton's vehicle, but were both removed without incident. An embassy circular said that Saudi authorities are investigating the incidents, which occurred during the past two days.
An American employee at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, on Saturday found an explosive device attached to his car. "The American and his spouse discovered an unfamiliar and suspicious object attached underneath the vehicle because the object was dragging on the road as they set off to work," the circular said. The man contacted Saudi police who removed the device. Further checks determined it was a bomb. US Embassy officials are following the Saudi investigation into the incident.
A "suspicious object" was found attached to the underside of a Briton's vehicle on Sunday at the Al Nakheel Residence Compound in Riyadh. Saudi police removed the device and an investigation is underway. Saudi officials were not immediately available for comment. Wonder if they'll pass these guys off as alk dealers, too?
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"The American and his spouse discovered an unfamiliar and suspicious object attached underneath the vehicle because the object was dragging on the road as they set off to work,"
So the bomb...was dragging...on a Saudi road...and didn't explode?
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If there's one thing I'd call that guy, it's lucky...
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