Abu Abduallah Ahmad, financial officer of the so-called "al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb," confirmed to AlJazeera's Morocco office that his group was responsible for two attacks in Algeria over the March 3-4 weekend that killed seven policemen and four Russian gas pipeline workers. AlJazeera quoted the speaker as saying: "We, al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, claim responsibility for the bombing of the bus of the Russians, who fight Islam and its followers and our brothers in Chechnya. We ask the Muslim Algerian people, to keep away from the infidels and tyrant posts to avoid future attacks."
The attacks were also verified in a statement posted on an Islamist group website. "Our fighters conducted an attack on the municipal guard in Tizi Ouzou and killed a number of infidels," the web statement said.
An Algerian newspaper also reported that suspected Islamist militants killed seven police in an ambush in Tizi Ouzou. The newspaper said the fighters detonated an explosive device at two cars carrying police and then opened fire on them, killing five and wounding another three.
Attacks by Islamist insurgents have fallen sharply in recent years, but raids by re-grouped guerillas persist, mainly in the Boumerdes and Tizi Ouzou regions to the east of Algiers.
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Deputy Campaign Manager Jonathan Prince sent the following whiny email to supporters this evening in an effort to drum up more contributions and energize the base by giving them more to seethe about:
You may have heard by now that the way too happy John Edwards who thinks everyone should just get along was the first candidate to officially say no to the Fox News debate in Nevada -- and because of the hard work of so many grassroots and netroots Democrats, news is breaking tonight that Fox is out. Sounds like a two year old to me.
Fox has already started striking back at John for saying no. (There's a surprise - Fox attacking a Democrat.) Last night, Roger Ailes - the life-long Republican operative who is now Chairman of Fox News Channel - said that any candidate "who believes he can blacklist any news organization is making a terrible mistake" and "is impeding freedom of speech and free press."
And John's afraid of his own shadow not their only target. Tonight Fox News Vice President David Rhodes is telling news organizations not to get involved in the Nevada Democratic Caucus because of "radical fringe" groups - meaning grassroots Democrats (that would be you) - who objected to Fox's long history of spreading Republican propaganda at the expense of Democratic leaders.
The whole right-wing is getting in on the attack; the Drudge Report is blaring the headline: "War! Dems Pull Out of Fox News Debate." We're surrounded by all two of them! Are you getting upset now?
Enough is enough. It's time to send a clear message to Fox News and their allies that their right-wing talking points and temper tantrums won't go unchallenged anymore - when it comes to what Democrats should do in the Democratic primary, we'll decide - no matter what they report: Hard to do things without the cover of darkness, eh?
https://johnedwards.com/action/contribute/fox Har har! Get the masses worked up and get them to contribute!
Fox News has already proven they have no intention of providing "fair and balanced" coverage of any Democrat in this election. Ah, so you want segregation in the news service?
In recent weeks they have run blatant lies about Senator Obama's background. And Fox was only too happy to give Ann Coulter a platform to spew more hate a few days after her bigoted attack on Senator Edwards and the gay community. If you want to interpret things in such a shallow manner to get votes I guess go ahead if your constituents are short-sighted enough to fall for it.
Now it's time for Democrats to stand together and send a clear message to Roger Ailes, Fox News and all the rest of them: bias isn't balance, but turning tables is fair. I'm biased this way, you're biased that. Which is more unbalanced? Whatever viewpoint is not yours, I assume.
The truth is, Fox News can "report" whatever they want. And when it works for us, we'll deal with them on our terms. But this campaign is about responsibility and accountability, and we need to send the message to Fox that if they want to be the corporate mouthpiece of the Republican Party more than they want to be an impartial news outlet, they shouldn't expect Democrats to play along. So this so-called republican mouthpiece ought to be clamped shut? How democratic of you. Who's next?
You can send that message by contributing today, and remind Fox News that in this election, Democrats won't take their spin lying down: I think I'm seeing a pattern here.
https://johnedwards.com/action/contribute/fox Maybe they're madder now and stupid enough to contribute twice!
Thank you for standing up for what we believe in. Yeah, you show 'em girl!
Jonathan Printhce
Deputy Campaign Manager
Edwardths for Prethsident
P.S. If the folks at Fox wonder why nobody thinks they play it straight, they should take a look at what Roger Ailes said about debates in 1988 when he was a top Republican spinmaster for then Vice President Bush: He told the Washington Post, "I don't know that we need to do more than one [debate]. There's no reason to think we'd need more than one." And he told the New York Times, "I don't think you learn anything about the issues" from debates. So please send Roger Ailes a message: Hypocrisy isn't fair and it isn't balanced; it's just hypocrisy - and we've had enough of it from you. In the words of the Great Ray Stevens: "And furthermore, in addition to, on top of that: [Razzberry sound]!"
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What do Edwards and Jonathan Prince have in common? They're both faggots (in the Ann Coulter sense of the term). Voting Democrat is clear proof of diminished responsibility and a lack of any capability for accurate judgment.
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Come on, people, stop using the "faggots" word.
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Let the Donks refuse to speak to anyone but their allies. It'll show their colors faster.
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Last night, Roger Ailes - the life-long Republican operative who is now Chairman of Fox News Channel - said that any candidate "who believes he can blacklist any news organization is making a terrible mistake" and "is impeding freedom of speech and free press."
So...proof of the falsity of a claim is to point out that the one making the claim has been a life-long member of the other party.
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Breck girl scared by Fox? Nutroots pressure? LOL...they're marginalizing themselves better than we ever could. Don't stop em
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Humm he is afraid of a girl that calls him names and afraid of a nes channel that MIGHT call him out. Oh yes this guy would make a great President.....Of Phrance.
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About a week and a half ago, The Hill had a story on how John Edwards would be in for some uncomfortable times in Nevada owing to the former Senator's support for a bill against collegiate sports betting.
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I wouldn't wish Edwards on Iran, much less France. They've had enough misery with 12 years of Sh$$rack. Now Brussels and the EU, on the other hand...
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How about the #3 guy in the UN, we NEVER hear from whoever that is. It would be a quick trip down the "Memory Hole".
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Wait until the Dems watch the message in the "300"!
We "heart" Cardinal Park, who co-blogs at TigerHawk. His words speak for themselves and make our heart sing:
I have held rather tenaciously to the view that the war in Iraq was 1) well chosen; 2) noble; 3) well fought and 4) won.
That has elicited some wonderfully amusing and sometimes nasty criticism, primarily from the left. I happen to believe -- completely smugly and to the utter annoyance of my critics -- that they will eventually come around. I draw the historical parallel to the Reagan administration's diplomatic approach to the Soviet Union and its abandonment of the language of detente, which was detested by and critiqued aggressively by the left and which today is almost universally acknowledged by left and right as responsible for the collapse of the USSR . . .
Eventually, the left must come to embrace what we are doing and achieving in the Middle East. Defeating tyranny and genocide is the raison d'etre of liberalism, is it not?
Yah. That's what's kept us keeping on during these long days and weeks and months and now years of "polls" taking the "pulse" of our fellow citizens. What is the citizenry's cotton-candy "opinion" made of other than the relentless anti-American, anti-Bush, anti-war gloom-and-doom spoutings of the navel-gazing media itself? Where else do Americans get their "news"? Fortunately, some of us get our news and sometimes report our news via the internet, but it seems the majority of the mushy middle are still answering the call of the bellwethers [castrated rams] of the MSM.
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KAREN J. GREENBERG is the executive director of the Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of Law and editor of "The Torture Debate in America"
uh huh. She's not a reporter, and she had her own script, it's obvious
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