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2005-04-13 Home Front: WoT

Saudi denies recruiting Americans for al-Qaeda training

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-04-13 12:13:41 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Just for the record: Lackawanna, a city/suburb of Buffalo, NY, is in Western New York State. Upstate NY means places like Syracuse, and perhaps Albany. But those bits that along Lake Erie that are forever in the news because of their amazing snowfalls are in the western part of the state, and we are tired of those City folk misunderstanding their place in the universe relative to the rest of us.

Thank you. You may now return to reality. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-04-13 2:03:16 AM|| 2005-04-13 2:03:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 tw - Welcome back from, well, from wherever you've been!

And, of course, all Muzzies are poor put-upon innocents who never do mean, nasty, ugly, seditious, or violent things. All those stonings and beheadings and female castrations and "honor" killings and murders and purges and suicide bombers and genocidal campaigns to "reclaim Muslim Lands" and calls for jihad and Jooo-hating screeds are just misunderstandings.

Posted by .com 2005-04-13 2:24:30 AM|| 2005-04-13 2:24:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Thank you, .com. Gallant, as always!

A nasty virus started eating my .dll files, so we had to be rescued by a computer jockey friend. Which of course took more time than originally planned, as his group had to keep stopping to do their real work. ;-) Mr. Wife is much happier, now that he's managed to print out the tax returns -- which is what he was in the middle of when it all went whoopsy -- and I'm praying hard that nothing else happens before we figure out why I can't get McAfee VirusScan to admit it's already on the computer somewhere. Which is something for a nice Jewish girl who doesn't much worry about whether or not God exists...

But I have missed you all and Rantburg terribly -- where else can I get real news?!? And trailing daughter #1 has been going through serious internet withdrawel, compounded by general 14-year old craziness (#2 is just happy that her bat mitzvah went well, and now she doesn't have all that extra studying to do). So hopefully now we can all heave a deep sigh of relief, and return to normal life ... at least as normal as it ever gets around here.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-04-13 3:07:11 AM|| 2005-04-13 3:07:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 According to the records Syracuse gets more snow than Buffalo, although neither compares to the Tug Hill Plateau on the Western side of the Adirondack Mountains where some places get as much as 300" of snow a year. I recall being in the town of Old Forge and being astounded at how deep the snow was.

Posted by phil_b 2005-04-13 3:40:04 AM|| 2005-04-13 3:40:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 tw - Sorry, ran out for some Taco Bell, heh.

Ouch! A sick 'puter, IMHO, lies somewhere between a sick child and a sick pet, lol! The pain you feel is real enough, heh. Even if one leans towards the lower end of that range, i.e. pet, well, it's a damned talented one!

RB was down for about 3 hours the other day - and I was deep into DT's. I'm not sure I can feature, what, 2 weeks? No thanks, heh. When there are others involved, well, commiseration doesn't seem to apply, it's just compounded, lol!

Great to have you back!

I dunno diddley about NY outside of NYC - and that only for short layovers - so you and phil_b (and ZF, who's an NYC denizen, I believe) will have to cover the geography and weather, there, heh.

Posted by .com 2005-04-13 4:10:31 AM|| 2005-04-13 4:10:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Phil_b, right again, but it's generally Buffalo that makes the news anyway, ever since the blizzards of '76 and '77, when we had impassable snowdrifts picturesquely blocking main roads until June. As a precaution, we never go back to visit family at Christmas... as we've been snowed in for days even before the Thanksgiving holiday in November.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-04-13 7:22:59 AM|| 2005-04-13 7:22:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Al-Dosari returned to Afghanistan in 2001 and fought with al Qaeda against a U.S. led assault in Tora Bora, according to the Navy. He surrendered to Pakistani authorities later in that year.

"I am not an enemy of the United States," al-Dosari told his Guantanamo interrogators last December, according to the case file.

"I am not a member of al Qaeda. I did not encourage anyone to go fight with al Qaeda, and I had no relationship with al Qaeda," he said.

Does CNN and AP not even READ what they wrote in the first parag when they wrote parags. #2 & 3? What in the world? Why even quote this jihadi lying about "not being an enemy of the U.S. or a member of AQ", when the first parag states he was fighting AGAINST US w/ AQ in Tora Bora! Man, the MSM never ceases to amaze. And I guess he went to Lackawanna for "sight seeing" too, eh? Only thing is, I can still see a Federale overturning his "status" and setting him free! Send him back to Gitmo in my mind.

Posted by BA 2005-04-13 8:47:05 AM|| 2005-04-13 8:47:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 A nasty virus started eating my .dll files, ...

TW, get a Mac! :-)

"get a Mac" should not be construed as a jihad in any way, nor as a reflection of the Steve Jobs reality distortion field, nor as a religious fever, ... oh hell with it, I'm on a crusade!

Posted by Steve White 2005-04-13 10:06:33 AM|| 2005-04-13 10:06:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Is that the best cover story the poor ijit can come up with?!? One would think these jet setting mujihadeens could be a little more tricky. I'd suggest to the judges that they opt for a more severe sentence just because he's stupid and lacks any discernable of creativity.

Posted by Tkat 2005-04-13 10:33:01 AM|| 2005-04-13 10:33:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Steve, trailing daughter wants a Mac notebook in the worst way -- she tells me Macs are better for doing artwork on, and of course she can do her homework on the notebook while riding the schoolbus. We're to sit down with friend computer jockey in a bit to make some serious computer decisions, after which I shall serve a lovely dinner to all. But fcj did say I had done well setting up our antivirus/spyware/adware thingies, it's just that something managed to sneak through anyway after four years of trying. See: I have learned from y'all here at Rantburg!

BA, Tkat, good catch! I completely missed the outright lie, even right there in black & white. But nobody goes to Lackawanna for sightseeing, especially not in the First Ward where the bad guys lived. That used to be the Black section, according to Mr. Wife (who grew up in the nicer part of Lackawanna, where his father worked in the now-closed Bethleham Steel plant), and has only deteriorated since then. Not like the Yemenis and Persians that I knew growing up on the university (SUNY @ Buffalo) side of town, who were Jewish, educated, and charmingly open minded. :-) Credit where it is due, though: the bad guys were turned in by their friends & relations, who were appalled by such plots against their new home.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-04-13 12:57:00 PM|| 2005-04-13 12:57:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 CPM computers are never attacked by spyware or virilli.

Posted by Sssssshipman 2005-04-13 7:35:05 PM|| 2005-04-13 7:35:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Bullshit! Windows is CPM based.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-04-13 7:42:25 PM|| 2005-04-13 7:42:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 You still have one Sssssship?

Posted by too true 2005-04-13 7:42:38 PM|| 2005-04-13 7:42:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 " CPM computers are never attacked by spyware or virilli."

Actually, there WERE a few CP/M viruses around. Of course, it was transmitted by copying floppies, since not many had modems.

Were there any ZX-81 viruses? How about My Heathkit ET-3400? Is it safe?

Oh, and Windows (or Winders, as they say in the South) has only a slight resemblance to CP/M. MS-DOS 1.0 was a quick and dirty copy of CP/M-80 v 2.x, but MS-DOS 2, 3, and 4 broke more and more away. Windows 1.x and 2.x (which no one bought) did indeed sit on MS-DOS (not CP/M). Windows/386 and later Windows 3.x (and 95/98/ME), were based on a new VM architecture which directly controlled the hardware and MS-DOS was only used for a few services (and it actually sat on top of the VM and VxDs, not actually touching harware itself.) Windows NT/2000/XP are a whole different matter. I have never tried to use the old FCB (CP/M compatible) method of accessing files, so I don't know if it's even still supported.

Posted by Jackal 2005-04-13 10:54:53 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-04-13 10:54:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Only the NDAFTFT* Operating System is truly safe. This is true of humans, as well.

* Never Do Anything For The First Time

Posted by .com 2005-04-13 11:35:01 PM|| 2005-04-13 11:35:01 PM|| Front Page Top

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