American Kaiser points to a tiresomely pro-Paleostinian stacked deck at Central Connecticut State University.
CCSU apparently held a summit of high school teachers in order to explain to them how the Middle East conflict should be taught. As you can probably guess, the workshops were biased, with virtually no pro-Israeli speakers.
Putting the propaganda pearls before the sheep. With apologies to Weird Al, "we're livin' in a post-modern paradise"...
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Nigeria is humming with controversy over the Miss World Pageant, to be held in Lagos instead of, say, Bucharest. Seems the Muslims are offended at the thought of all that nekkidness and depravity and the bosoms and the legs and the skin and the pretty eyes and the thighs and the hair and the graceful carriages and the softly rounded heinies... (pant!) Corsair observes the controversy dispassionately â well, maybe not dispassionately â and flips the whole blasted country the bird. I think it was a buzzard. Gosh, I get so much e-mail correspondence from Nigeria, I feel like I know the place well. He-e-e-e-ere, birdy, birdy, birdy!
Geeze. Speaking of chickens — birds, anyway — I haven't been to visit Mike the Headless Chicken in awhile...
Ha! I knew I had these someplace! I won't be able to make the Miss World contest, darn it. I have to, um... do my hair that week...
LAGOS (Reuters) - The army band which has been playing the national anthems at the World Youth Cup has been fired following out-of-tune performances. Pre-recorded national anthems replaced live versions for the second round ties with local media reporting it was because the band was hitting too many wrong notes. "They play well alright but they lack precision," the ceremonial committee was quoted as saying. Brazilian players grimaced and were clearly embarrassed at the way their anthem was played before a game with Zambia. The off-key anthem was played at about half its normal speed and was barely recognizable. - 4/99 Uh, fellas? A band that doesn't play with precision doesn't play well.
LAGOS (Reuters) - Spectators at the World Youth championship have been told to beware of flying urine at matches. The Sports Vanguard newspaper said youths had filled plastic bags with urine at the opening game between Nigeria and Costa Rica and then hurled them at unsuspecting supporters. "When next your [sic] are coming to the stadium, endeavor to come with your umbrella," the paper suggested. "A lady got the baptism of urine and it was not funny." - 4/99
LAGOS (Reuters) - A group of Nigerian prostitutes has threatened nude protests at World Youth Cup soccer matches after being barred from hotels by tournament organizers. Charity Emevon of the Association of Practicing Prostitutes of Nigeria said hundreds of women would march naked through the streets if authorities did not bow to their demand to be able to operate freely. - 4/99
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U.S. warplanes struck targets in Iraqi "no-fly" zones yesterday, with Washington saying they attacked air defence positions but Baghdad saying a civilian airport was one of the places hit. Oh, there's nothing like waxing a bunch of civilians. Guess all those civilians in green suits were just too tempting to pass up...
The U.S. military, citing repeated Iraqi attempts to shoot down U.S. and British warplanes, said its jets attacked a radar site in northern Iraq and an air defence command facility in southern Iraq, in its sixth and seventh raids within a week. That's what we thought they were, anyway. Why'd they leave them in the middle of... Oh. Never mind.
But the official Iraqi News Agency said U.S. and British jets fired two bombs at Mosul civilian airport, 450 km (270 miles) north of Baghdad. "The aggression led to the destruction of windows in the passenger terminals and of the airport radar system," a Transport Ministry spokesman told the agency. An Iraqi military spokesman said Allied jets bombed civilian targets in the south of the country, but reported no casualties. Just dumped 'em somewhere in the desert so they wouldn't have to lug 'em back home...
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Fired two bombs? The wording makes it sound like the newly unemployed bombs then went on to riot which "led to the destruction of windows in the passenger terminals and of the airport radar system"
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Two top al-Qaeda deputies in charge now of planning terrorist operations are hiding out in Iran along with dozens of al-Qaeda fighters. Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian, and Mahfouz Ould Walid, also known as Abu Hafs the Mauritanian are being sheltered in hotels and guesthouses in the border cities of Mashhad and Zabol. Al-Adel is on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's most-wanted list. US officials had reported Walid killed near the Afghan city of Khost in January. Confusion might be because there were two, an elder and a younger, if I remember correctly...
After the September 11 attacks, the two men were put in command of al-Qaeda's military and ideological committees, said the sources who did not want their names or countries disclosed. Abu Hafs was the fatwah man, and al-Adel was one of Binny's top security guys; al-Adel was also one of the potential successors.
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A top advisor to Khamenei has opened a "liaison bureau" in the Persian Gulf to nurture contacts with the US administration, Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported Tuesday. Former foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati has set up the office after "managing to convince Khamenei of the need to establish dialogue with the United States before a US military campaign starts against Iraq," the daily said. "I mean, lookee here, Boss: sure, they're hegemonists and all, but if they whack Sammy and his Elite Revolutionary Guard®, then they're gonna start lookin' at us, and our Elite Revolutionary Guard®. Puttin' the talk to the U.N. doesn't seem to be workin' for Sammy. If worse comest to worst, I wanna be the Voice of Reason, instead of gettin' hung with my own turban..."
The despatch, datelined London, quoted a former Iranian diplomat close to Velayati, who ran Iran's foreign ministry for more than 15 years, saying he had been charged with "contacting influential circles in the United States to find common ground to establish a dialogue between the two countries." The source said Velayati "enjoys the trust of Ayatollah Khamenei, which allows him to play the role of postman between the Guide and the US administration." "Well, you can just go right back to Teheran and tell your boss that he can't be khalif, no matter what it says in the hadiths..."
The pan-Arab newspaper noted that the opening of the Iranian bureau, which could not be confirmed in Dubai, comes despite public warnings by Khamenei to the government and MPs against contact with the administration of President George Bush. That's the left side of his mouth talking. This is the right side of his mouth.
Asharq al-Awsat said other Iranian officials, including former head of state and Expediency Council leader Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, were trying to open channels to Washington but that the administration seems to prefer dealing with the reformist president and his advisors. Something to do with that "Death to America!" chant...
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The Regional Staff has reported the details of an operation to eliminate Chechen separatist Aslanbek Abdukhadzhiyev, a deputy of Shamil Basayev's who was in charge of intelligence and subversive tasks. On Monday the Russian interior ministry task force in Chechnya's Shali district conducted an operation to arrest the terrorist, who was armed with two pistols and an F-1 grenade. The gunny militant was iced killed in an armed clash which he initiated. The body was brought to Khankala for subsequent identification. Later this day Abdukhadzhiyev's relatives are expected in the town. "Har! I'm Two-gun Abdulkhazhiyev! You'll never take me alive, coppers! Ow... Ow!... Hey! Stop that!... O-o-o-o-o-w!"
The 40-year-old militant, who was known under his nickname Bolshoi Aslanbek (Great Aslanbek), was a member of Basayev and Raduyev's gangs and an active participant in armed attacks on the towns of Budyonnovsk, Stavropol territory, and Kizlyar, Dagestan. During Maskhadov's rule, he was a military commandant in Chechnya's Shali district. Abdukhadzhiyev was wanted by the federal authorities since the day of the attack on Budyonnovsk, but managed to avoid arrest for seven years running. Didn't make it to eight, did he?
Thanx to my anonymous tipster for the headzup!
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Georgian troops have swept through the Pankisi Gorge but have found no militants. The raid follows Russian claims that Chechen rebels are using the gorge as a safe haven and training ground. Russia has also called for its own troops to be allowed to flush the rebels out. But Georgia is in no mood to allow Russians into the Pankisi. Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze was sarcastic after the action by 1,000 of his troops in the gorge. He said that the militants may have moved to other addresses, adding that Georgia had not discussed it with them. "Knock knock!"
"Who's there?"
"It's the Georgian army!"
"We can't come to the door right now. We just got outta the shower! Whattya want?"
"You guys got any terrorists in there?"
"Nope. They all moved to another address."
"Hokay."
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The United States has put a small Muslim separatist group that is resisting Chinese rule in northwestern Xinjiang province on a list of terrorist organizations, a senior US diplomat said. The US government put the East Turkestan Islamic Movement on its terrorist list several days ago after "careful study," US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said Monday. Armitage, who is on a diplomatic trip to Beijing, said Chinese officials greeted the move "with satisfaction." China has linked the group to the Al Qaeda terror network. The group "committed acts of violence against unarmed civilians without any regard for who was hurt," Armitage said. His announcement came a day after China released rules on missile exports â a step long sought by Washington. Whether we're best friends with the Chinese or not, terror networks are still terror networks. Treat them all the same, because they are all the same.
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Muslim leader Sheikh Abu Hamza has told young British supporters that murder, bank robbery and looting are legitimate weapons against the enemies of Islam. Secret tapes obtained by the Daily Mirror show how the one-eyed cleric has urged violence at recruitment meetings across Britain â and warned that the infidel should be kept on the run. Perhaps Her Majesty's gummint might consider doing something about this guy? No? Ah, well...
Hamza, 44, appearing at an Islamic rally in London yesterday, denied telling followers that it was all right to kill westerners living and working in foreign lands. But on one of the six video tapes made at private meetings around the country the fanatic tells impressionable young supporters: "What are they doing there anyway? Most of them are spies. Even if they don't do anything â if Muslims cannot take them and sell them in the market â kill them, it's OK." "It says so right in the Koran, someplace. You could look it up..."
Egyptian-born Hamza, who lost an eye and had both arms blown off by a landmine during the Afghan war against the Russians, is leader of the Supporters of Shariah movement based at the mosque in Finsbury Park, North London. He has denied recruiting British Muslims into the al-Qaeda terrorist network and claims inflammatory statements attributed to him are fabricated. "Yeah. They just made that stuff up and put it on tape to try and frame me, 'cuz I'm so holy an' they ain't."
But at meetings behind closed doors, he urges followers to take up arms against the infidel. "We have to push our children to the front line," he said. "Everybody wants his son to be killed like a lion." Ummm... Maybe you do, Jack...
Hamza said anyone standing in the way of his Islam would spend their life in fear. He warned: "They should always be worried. They should always be on the run. They should always feel insecure." Kinda the nature of terrorism, isn't it?
At a mosque in Birmingham, the sheikh issued another call to arms. "Why should there be a battle? Why should there be an argument? But a struggle means sometimes arguing to convey the message. Even if it means you convey the message by carrying a sword. Allah wants to know who will sacrifice for him." "Step right up, Brothers and, uh... Sisters. Put yer kids right here, yer money right there..."
During a question and answer session, Hamza said banks were a Jewish establishment, the work of Satan. Robbing them and kafirs, or unbelievers, could be acceptable because they were not protected by Allah. He said: "I say go and do it (steal), take shoot and loot. "There's more where that came from!"
"Every battle has its purpose. Ours is to put the authority of Allah and humiliate kafir who are challenging the authority of Allah and Muslims. Sometimes you will feel too weak to go on, but you say 'I still have some strength to humiliate and kill and remove some of the germs who are making me weak so that people who come after me can carry on with weaker enemies'." "Cuz that's what Muslims do best..."
Hamza also backed burglary and theft from non-believers. He said: "I can't see any problem giving yourself a free hand â getting yourself a new car. Go for their houses where you can loot and come back. It is like going to the forest and picking up wood from no man's land." "They're just infidels, kafirs. They don't count for nuttin'."
On one video Hamza says it is legitimate to wage war against targets such as the American embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi which were attacked by al-Qaeda in 1998. The sheikh is also heard giving advice to those joining a jihad, or holy war. He said: "Allah made the contract that a certain kind of believer will fight in the cause of Allah ... they will kill in the cause of Allah. Jihad is their fight and it is also an obligation. But some people call this terrorism." Hey, that's the same word I was thinking of...!
"Jihad is the only way to protect believers. Jihad comes first. I do not want you to say 'I believe in one God'. No, no. I want you to make trouble for kafirs. Before you can say I believe in you God I want you to put everybody's god in the dustbin. And so you insult kafir... you say there is no god except the creator Allah. You start the trouble." "Be truculent. Start fights. Steal their money. Rape their women. Make life miserable for those around you. Bitch and moan and whine if they do anything to protect themselves..."
"Allah will never ever allow the kafir to be pleased with you. He created them and he moulded them to be your enemy. Jihad is moving up and proving yourself. It is something for you to look for. Go and look for it." "There ain't nothin' like jihad, unless it's a hot bath and a coupla babes..."
The sheikh has been linked to alleged shoe bomber Richard Reid â awaiting trial in America â Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker on September 11 who is on remand in the US, and Feroz Abbasi, from Croydon, South London, who is among the prisoners at Camp X-Ray in Cuba. Pretty good record, huh? Three champs.
Hamza is wanted by America and the Yemen. Questions are now being asked over why he has not been dealt with under the Terrorism Act 2000 outlawing support for radical Islamic groups and making it a criminal offence to raise funds. The only time Hamza has been detained was in 1999 when he was questioned by Scotland Yard detectives on suspicion of terrorism offences. He was held for several days and released without charge. "Well, he seemed like such a nice fellow. And he was horribly wounded in Afghanistan. We figured he'd suffered enough, and besides he denied all the charges. Whoever heard of a holy man lying?"
Andrew Dismore, Labour MP for Hendon, North London, has spoken out since September 11 on Hamza's suspected links with terrorists and alleged anti-American comments. He said the videos were "one more argument that it is about time action was taken against Hamza". Or maybe past time...
The MP added: "I believe he has committed incitement to violence and I find it very difficult to understand why he has not been subject to prosecution." It's beyond me, too, Andy...
A spokeswoman for the Home Office said she could not comment on the Hamza case, but added: "We are monitoring a number of individuals and organisations. The Home Secretary has powers to deport someone who represents a danger to the public good." "He just doesn't use them because he doesn't want to offend anyone..."
The spokeswoman said someone seen to be inciting the public could warrant a Government investigation. And prob'ly a good talking-to, too...
She added: "If it was seen as a threat, for example, to national security that could be a reason to deport somebody." Scotland Yard said it would be keen to study the tapes to see whether the cleric had broken the law. "Duh. We'd rilly like to see them tapes, thanks. We're not bright enough to come up with any evidence ourselves. Huh huh."
At yesterday's rally in Trafalgar Square, Hamza refused to condemn terrorist atrocities against the West and said he backed a jihad: "We support a nice clean war. We don't know any war other than a holy war. We are not going to spill blood unnecessarily." "But by golly, we're gonna spill blood! We're talkin' the essence of Islam here, friends! Pure distilled holiness, type O and fresh from the wound..."
Hamza even claimed New York's Twin Towers collapsed from inside because of "an America-Zionist plot to blame the Muslim world". The sheikh denied ever urging young Muslims to kill westerners. "I haven't said that," he said. "It is a crude statement. If you leave us alone, we will leave you alone." He said, piously... Thanks to Paul for the link!
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I doubt that the Arab idiocracies would take back scum like Hamza. They are already running low on the Human Development Index. Hamza would take them down a notch.
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Federal prosecutors filed charges Wednesday against Mounir El Motassadeq, the only Sept. 11 suspect in custody in Germany, where several of the key hijackers were based. The federal prosecutor's office in Karlsruhe said El Motassadeq was charged in a Hamburg superior court in "connection with his connection to the terror attacks on the United States," but did not announce specific charges.
El Motassadeq, 28, was picked up Nov. 28 at his Hamburg apartment on suspicions he had "intensive contacts" with the Sept. 11 hijackers who had been living in Hamburg, including alleged ringleader Mohamed Atta, Marwan Al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah. Prosecutors in the past accused him of running Al-Shehhi's bank account, using it to finance the hijacker's stay in the United States and his flight training school in Florida. El Motassadeq's name appeared on a U.S. list of 370 individuals and organizations with suspected links to the Sept. 11 attacks that Finnish financial authorities made public in October. When contacted at that time by The Associated Press, El Motassadeq angrily denied any involvement. "All of this is false, I have nothing to do with this thing," he said before hanging up. "Nope. Wudn't me. Musta been somebody that looked like me. Sa-a-a-a-a-y! I bet it was them Jews, set me up!"
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Police breached human barricades and seized offices of the pro-independence Basque party Batasuna yesterday, enforcing a Spanish judge's order to shut it down because of its links to the armed group ETA. Good riddance to them. You can't shut down a terror organization without shutting down its front group.
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An airport screening supervisor in Atlanta was fired because he missed a loaded gun during a hand-check of a bag belonging to a woman charged with carrying the weapon into a terminal at Philadelphia International Airport. The appeal process is probably under way right now...
Nancy Keller, 37, of Huntersville, N.C., was detained Sunday morning after she put a carry-on bag containing a .357-caliber handgun through an X-ray machine. Keller got the weapon past security screeners in Atlanta. A woman screening bags in Atlanta noticed something strange on her screen and alerted a supervisor, who did a hand-check of Keller's bag and "simply missed" the weapon and another clip of ammunition. There were some tweezers and nail clippers there, so he confiscated them...
Keller told an FBI agent that the gun belonged to her husband and she wasn't aware it was inside the bag. She was charged with boarding an aircraft with a concealed weapon. "Didja pack yer own bags?"
"Nope. My husband dunnit. Any guns are his."
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A suspicious powder spilled from an envelope opened Tuesday at Al Gore's Nashville office, an incident an FBI agent referred to as an "anthrax hoax case." Gore spokesman Jano Cabrera said the envelope was received in the mail Monday. It was opened Tuesday by an office manager and the white powder spilled from it, Cabrera said. He described the piece of mail as "smaller than a usual envelope." The contents of the envelope were being tested. "No one has been transported because of medical reasons, and no suspects have been identified," said Jon Stephens, spokesman for the FBI in Nashville. "Right now, we are referring to it as an anthrax hoax case." This sort of thing would be boring if it wasn't so stoopid. I guess in any national crisis, all the cockroaches in the nation will come out from under their rocks and the cracks in the National Floor to feed.
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CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer discussed the Saudi view of such a military action with Adel Al-Jubeir, a foreign policy adviser to Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah.
BLITZER: Why do the Saudis this time not see Saddam Hussein as an imminent threat to Saudi Arabia because 11 years ago, as you of course remember, you did perceive Saddam Hussein as a major threat? "You remember, back when they were sitting on your doorstep and they were going to take everything you had and kick your asses out of the country? Then after they took all the money, they were going to give the empty husk to the King of Jordan to rule. You remember that?" AL-JUBEIR: Quite the contrary. We see Saddam Hussein as a threat. We see him as a menace to the region. We believe that he must be brought into compliance with the U.N. resolutions. He must give up his weapons of mass destruction program. He has signed agreements to that effect and he should be held accountable to do so. "Certainly he should not be allowed under any circumstances to kick the Sauds out of Arabia and replace them with some poor relation minor king. But other than that..."
What we don't see is, we don't see a need at this time for use of force. We believe that there's a process. There are negotiations under way between the U.N. and the Iraqis on letting the inspectors back. Let's pursue that. If we can succeed in achieving the objective of having inspectors on the ground and dismantling his weapons of mass destruction program, we would have done so without firing a single bullet or losing one single life. "It doesn't matter to us if he's a danger to you. As long as we can keep up this Muslim unity stuff and push our wahhabi fanatics down the throats of everyone around us, that gives us a party in each country that could be our enemy, which is all of them, of course. So we think we've got enough of an infrastructure in place now to protect ourselves. Meanwhile, if you kick the traces over in Iraq, and do something drastic like introduce the concept of individual liberty or even — God forbid! — religious freedom, we stand a good chance of seeing our own collapse. Who the hell wants that?" BLITZER: But you heard Vice President [Dick] Cheney say that might be too late. Delay could cause enormous casualties, enormous death. "You're not getting his point, are you?" AL-JUBEIR: Well, we have, I believe and I can't speak for the vice president, but he was talking about the doctrine of pre-emption, whereas what we talk about in this case is that an issue of pre-empting an attack against Iraq. We still think that war at this time is not advisable. There is no country in the world that supports it. There is no legal basis for it. There's no international sanction for it. There is no coalition for it. "We're doing our best to make sure nobody supports it. We're the leader in the Leave-Iraq-Alone Movement, except maybe for Ramsey Clark and his bunch."
There are two wars currently going on in the region, one in Afghanistan and one between Israel and Palestinians. There's a third war going on in terms of the war against terrorism. We really don't need a fourth war in the region at this time. "None of these are related in our minds, mind you, even though they may all be connected in yours. We see three wars and want to avoid a fourth. You see one war, with Sammy just a campaign in it. You say 'banana,' we say 'death to infidels.'" BLITZER: You heard the vice president, though, make the case that by removing Saddam Hussein from power in Baghdad that would help the U.S. in the war on terrorism and potentially help solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as well. "It'd really unjam some logs, I'd think..." AL-JUBEIR: I think our view is that it's the other way around. You need to settle the Israeli-Palestinian problem. You need to tone down the anger that's directed at the U.S. in the region, and then you need to pursue a legal process to bring Saddam into compliance. And if that doesn't work, then you pursue other options, but you don't put the cart before the horse. "You're assuming breaking up a logjam is a good thing. Let's be realistic here. Logjams are what we do, you know? While everyone's busy talking, they're not paying attention to the jihadis while they're cutting the heads off infidels. And that's the important thing."
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Mr Justice Ijaz Ahmad Choudhary of the Lahore High Court Tuesday adjourned the hearing of the petition about Hafiz Muhammad Saeedâs illegal detention to September 4. "Yasss... We'll get around to it. Handle these things expeditiously, y'know. Always have. More tea?"
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, founder of Kashmiri freedom fighters group Lashkar-e-Taiba, was arrested on May 15, this year but later the government authorities denied in the Lahore High Court that he was in custody of the provincial or federal governments. Can it be? Has he been... disappeared?
Petitioners, counsel Nazeer Ahmad Ghazi sought adjournment on the plea that some talks on this issue with the government authorities are in progress. The Court adjourned the hearing of the petition on the request of the petitioner.
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The Palestinian man accused of having tipped off Hamas military leader Salah Shehade to Israeli intelligence officers was presented to the press by Palestinian security. Akram al-Zatma, a 22-year-old student, confessed in front of journalists he had worked with the Israelis for 230 dollars a month in the run-up to the July 22 F-16 bombing of a Gaza City apartment complex that killed a total of 17 people, including Shehade and 9 children. Did he show them his back, I wonder?
Zatma, who looked calm and spoke without any prompting by the large contingent of policemen guarding him during the news conference, explained how he was tasked with informing his Israeli contact of Shehade's whereabouts. "I was contacted an hour before the raid. After Salah Shehade's car arrived in front of the house he was renting in the Al-Daraj neighbourhood, I called him back. Twenty minutes later, the neighbourhood was devastated," he said. And how's his Mom doing?
He added that he was not the only collaborator involved in Israel's most controversial "targeted killing" and that his Israeli contact frequently asked him to "check information obtained through other sources." He called on other collaborators to give themselves up to the Palestinian security services to be tried and "free themselves from the grip of the Israeli intelligence services." "'Cuz when you're dead, what do you have to worry about?"
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Saudi billionaire Prince Al Walid Ben Talal Ben Abdul Aziz on Tuesday refused to rule out the possibility that he will one day become prime minister of Lebanon. "I am a Saudi gentleman right now who has Lebanese nationality and who will decide when the time comes," he told CNN in an interview on his yacht in Cannes, southern France. "I guess it would be okay to own Lebanon, but I'd really rather have Denmark. It's those blondes, y'know...?"
"Even if I deny it right now officially, will it put this to bed?" he asked of rumours in the Lebanese press that he wanted the job. "I tell you it will not because there are many people in Lebanon, and I thank them, that would like me, wish me to be prime minister over there," said the 43-year-old nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, with a personal fortune estimated at $20 billion. "I figure I get prob'ly buy the whole country for six or seven bucks a head. I don't know that I'd go any higher than that, though. After all, it is Lebanon we're talking about..."
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Eight members of the Manila's Special Forces were slain and an undetermined number wounded during a clash initially with forces loyal to jailed leader Nur Misuari, deposed leader of the Moro National Liberation Front. They were later joined by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front's freedom fighters in Maguindanao on Sunday, August 25. "Hey! They're shootin' up some soldiers over in Maguindanao! Grab yer shootin' arns!"
The commanding officer of the attacking government forces were led by a young lieutenant, a graduate of the Philippine Military Academy, who almost drowned in a river after they were pinned down by burst of automatic weapons from the defenders. However, the army attackers burned down at least ten houses after they suffered heavy casualties. There was also widespread looting of civilian properties by the army. The MNLF forces were led by a certain Commander Gary, while that of the MILF by Commander Hassan Indal. The MNLF and MILF are maintaining adjacent bases in this town. Names of Manila's casualties were not reported as of press time. Two contending groups of Bad Guys maintain adjacent bases in the town. There're lucky they're not the Idy-ho militia. The Feds'd be all over them â as they should be. Too bad Manila doesn't have the same kind of power.
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Editors Note: This letter, from Osama Bin Laden was delivered to Islam Onlineâs correspondent in Pakistan on Saturday, and has been translated from Arabic by JUS [Jihad Unspun] translators.
The authenticity of the letter remains in question. One Arab analyst has said that there are fundemental errors in the letter which it would be unlikely that Bin Laden would make. The letter may be a draft as several sentences are crossed out. Further speculation surrounds the signature, which is not bin Laden's traditonal style however the name Abu Abdullah has been affilaited with him before, particularly on FBI documents. Finally, Islam Online is a moderate Muslim site so this adds some credence to its legitimacy. We will advise viewers of further details as they come available Okay. Ready for this?
All praise is to Allah, Possessor of the kingdom, the Compeller of all heavens and the earth, the Almighty and peace and blessings be upon the leader of the Mujahideen, our Prophet Muhammad and all his family and companions and those who follow them in a good manner till the Day of Judgment. Flowery fellow, isn't he? Hello to you, too.
This is a letter I â your brother in faith and religion, Osama bin Muhammad bin âAud bin Laden, send you, so Assalamualeikum wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuhu! Oh. He wasn't done saying "hello" yet. That last bit is Arabic for "howdy."
I address this letter to the proud steadfast Jihad performing Afghan people that holds the sword in one hand and the Quraan in the other one. O Lions of Sharia and Protectors of the religion know that Allah â Most Great â said in His book: âAllah has promised those among you who believe, and do righteous good deeds, that He will certainly grant them succession to (the present rulers) in the earth, as He granted it to those before themâŠâ(24:55). Yup. Pious, God-fearing men, with the Koran in one hand and a gun in the other. And turbans. God's gonna put them in charge of the entire world. How comforting...
O People of Afghanistan, it is not hidden for you the great position of Jihad in the religion (Islam) and that it is the highest peak of Islam and it is (only) through Jihad that honor and might can be gained in this world and the hereafter. Also (it is through Jihad) that countries can be defended and the sanctities are protected and justice is established and security and prosperity is spread and the fear is settled in the hearts of the enemies and states are founded and the banner of truth rises over all other banners. "So get out there and jihad, you guys! Don't worry about the non-essentials, like feeding your families. We need, uhhh... justice. And, uh... security. And that stuff. Cuz who's more prosperous than us Muslims? Well, yeah, lotsa people. But that's because the fear hasn't settled in our enemies' hearts yet. Soon's it does, why, the prosperity'll just come rollin' in..."
O People of Afghanistan, Allah has honoured you with the Jihad in the cause of Allah and with your sacrifice of everything that is dear to you to realize this great expression: âThere is no God but Allahâ on your ground. So the worldwide Kuffr (Disbelief) didnât accept your intention. Thus America has now followed Britain and Russia in waging a war (against Afghanistan) and it is challenging the feelings of every Muslim throughout the world. I can tell you from my position here that all the venerations drawn around this super power do not equal a mosquito wing doesnât make even the wing of a fly or rather doesnât make anything in comparison to the power of the Almighty King and His support to the believing sincere Mujahideen. "There ain't nobody more pious than an Afghan. 'Course, there aren't many who're poorer, either, but that's beside the point, totally unconnected. Just watch out for those B52s..."
Who has any doubts in this aspect should go and ask the Russians how the Jihad destroyed their myth (of the âgreat Soviet Unionâ) and even before them, neither the Tartars nor the Brits managed to stay (in Afghanistan) because the peaks of this blessed country refuse any defiant atheist, and with the permission of Allah â Most Great â we will soon witness the fall of the Kuffr countries (of Disbelief) and on top of them the tyrant and oppressive America that violated all human values and transgressed all limits and knows only the logic of force and Jihad. We're getting better acquainted with jihad all the time.
The Glory is for Islam and the Victory for the Muslims! "Yeah, buddy!"
Abu Abdallah Normally, when you send a letter you expect to convey some information. This doesn't convey information â it's just a chest thump. So there's either some sort of a message deeply buried in it â read every ninth word or something â or it's another fake.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt ||
08/28/2002 03:27 pm ||
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If this is true example of his writing and thinking ability, I say we keep him alive. His own people must spend untold hours trying to figure out where he's going with this blather. If half of islam is sitting around in caves waiting for this guy to give orders, they are gonna have one hell of a charleyhorse buy the time hes done. Hes hardly channeling Winston Churchill here, I dont think this could inspire a hungry dog if you held a steak up while reading it.
Oh, by the way "binny", We aint the godless soviet union. we beat their ass to too, if you didnt notice!
Posted by: frank martin ||
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God bless you, mujahid Usamah! NA NACH NACHMA NACHMAN MEUMAN is with you! Destroy the US!!!
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