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2004-09-22 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-09-22 9:15:45 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ooooooohhhh All Abu Grahib, all the time? Will the MSM trumpet this victory? Naaahhh, they'll focus on that prison story..

Posted by Frank G 2004-09-22 10:20:24 AM|| 2004-09-22 10:20:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 The clerics close to the family recalled al-Shami as a calm, flexible person of moderate ideology. They were surprised to hear he had joined Tawhid and Jihad. When he left Jordan last year, he told friends he was going to Saudi Arabia. They said al-Shami was a leading member of a small Salafiyah movement in Jordan.

Oh yeah, the very model of moderation.

Posted by jules 187 2004-09-22 10:24:15 AM|| 2004-09-22 10:24:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Oooo...where can we send the ~~cluster bombs~~ flowers?

Posted by Seafarious 2004-09-22 10:25:11 AM|| 2004-09-22 10:25:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Killed when a missle hit his car? Exccccccccccellent. Did we heli-zap this guy? Looks like the intel situation is improving. Coming for you Zarq. Better get yer raisons ready.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-09-22 11:07:55 AM|| 2004-09-22 11:07:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 The spiritual leader of a militant group that claimed to have beheaded two American hostages in Iraq has been killed in a U.S. airstrike, and his Jordanian family is preparing a wake...

Unfortunately, we probably won't send the Air Force to offer our regrets.

Posted by Patrick Phillips 2004-09-22 11:39:43 AM|| 2004-09-22 11:39:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Hmmm... We are starting to invoke the Isralei Yassin Procedure...

As the Wizard of Oz Said, "Very Resourceful"

Zarqawi: What sort of virgins do you fancy? Tall or Short, Blonde, Brunette, or Redhead or a mix? Inquiring minds want to know...

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-22 11:41:18 AM|| 2004-09-22 11:41:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 And don't try pulling any midnight wakes on the border, unless you want to follow in the steps of a certain wedding party...

Posted by jules 187 2004-09-22 11:42:35 AM|| 2004-09-22 11:42:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Big Ed: aged 6-9.

Posted by jules 187 2004-09-22 11:43:46 AM|| 2004-09-22 11:43:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Jules: Make life-like dolls filled with leeches and scorpions, ages 6-9. They would atract Jihadi's like flies to Yassins carcass.

Posted by Anonymous6595 2004-09-22 11:54:18 AM|| 2004-09-22 11:54:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 An6595-Wouldn't it be fun to be the medic assigned to that case...

"Well ya see, nurse, I accidentally spilled a bottle of honey on my crotch and then I accidentally spilled my fishing tackle, and then I tripped and felt into a swarm of scorpions...I don't know where this doll came from...

Posted by jules 187 2004-09-22 12:01:00 PM|| 2004-09-22 12:01:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 LOL! That would be funny! An6595 was me btw. I can see even more...

" Well, ya see doc, I fell face first into this barrel of yogurt, stumbled blindly around because of the yogurt and right into a pit of slugs. The doll? It was possessed by a Jew and attacked me..."

Posted by Charles 2004-09-22 12:22:36 PM|| 2004-09-22 12:22:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 The clerics close to the family recalled al-Shami as a calm, flexible person of moderate ideology.

If the guy is "moderate" and "flexible", it means he could have taken into a more extremist position. The fact that the guy is now dead seems to bear that out.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-09-22 1:25:58 PM|| 2004-09-22 1:25:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 he told friends he was going to Saudi Arabia. They said al-Shami was a leading member of a small Salafiyah movement in Jordan. The movement advocates the peaceful introduction of strict Islamic law, such as veils for women and gender segregation.

A moderate by Saudi standards maybe. Not by Jordanian standards - he was a wahabite, and an in favor of full sharia as state law - just not openly in favor of violence. He didnt have far (if any) to go to become a killer.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-09-22 1:42:20 PM|| 2004-09-22 1:42:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 So who's next? Be he moderate or mild. This guys death means nothing. It's the evil thing that is the problem.

Has anything changed? Any closer to an end to the conflict?

Why yes Lucky, we've rolled up a nasty cell. They'll think twice now.

But okay. Until the time is right lets maneuver and help our allies until they are happy with their mullahs and okay with arrogant American foreign policy and the fence and all. Then...Then what?

The more I think about it the more I'm convinced. Either defund them ala PD's 40km master stroke and turn the hokey sites into a UN E ticket or put the sword to the whole thing like WW2.

BTW, I've been a big proponent of this type of targeting but this is so minor and after his wake Jordanians will curse us by god. Yes I'm being followed by a moon shadow, MOON shadow, moon shadow. Some body cut that asholes beard off.

Posted by Lucky 2004-09-22 3:54:03 PM|| 2004-09-22 3:54:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Piss on his grave.

Posted by anymouse 2004-09-22 4:01:20 PM|| 2004-09-22 4:01:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 I hate Lucky...

Posted by Kentucky Beef 2004-09-22 4:47:09 PM|| 2004-09-22 4:47:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Thanks for noticeing KB. Remember Jethro when he wanted to be an actor. He took the stage name Beef Jerky.

Posted by Lucky 2004-09-22 5:19:56 PM|| 2004-09-22 5:19:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 That's right Lucky I tried to give him a hand up in the biz.

Posted by Dash Rip Rock 2004-09-22 7:19:07 PM|| 2004-09-22 7:19:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 "We will not allow you to destroy our hopes in this blessed holy war, and we will not let you steal our bright tomorrow, which is now appearing on the horizon," the speaker said on the tape.

Guess again, @sshole. We just destroyed your "hopes", your "bright tomorrow" and we're working on your stinking "blessed holy war" too.

The clerics close to the family recalled al-Shami as a calm, flexible person of moderate ideology.

Yeah, he's really, really "flexible" right about now. He can move in all different directions at once. Well, at least bits of him did.

The movement advocates the peaceful introduction of strict Islamic law, such as veils for women and gender segregation.

That's f&%king rich! How in hell are you going to "peacefully" introduce the usual repressive Islamist misogynistic bullsh!t? So far, all I've seen indicates that it only happens at the end of a gun.

Posted by Zenster 2004-09-22 9:45:45 PM|| 2004-09-22 9:45:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 --It said the family was preparing a wake in the east Amman suburb where al-Shami lived before he went to Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion last year.

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Many roadside bombs or car bomb?

Decisions, decisions.

Posted by Anonymous2u 2004-09-22 11:17:27 PM|| 2004-09-22 11:17:27 PM|| Front Page Top

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