The teevee, the radio, the papers and the blogs are all full of indignant reaction to yesterday's Passover hotel bombing. Last night on FoxNews Field Marshal Geraldo Rivera got in the Hamas spokesman's face in Beirut. "These were innocents," General Rivera told him. There are no innocents in Occupied Territories Mr. Hamas Representative replied sneeringly.
The Saudis report the attack, adding only that "The bombing threatened to derail the latest US truce mission, which survived two attacks last week. Only hours earlier, US President George W. Bush said his envoy to the region had made progress in truce talks." Just another impediment to the "peace process." A minor detail.
"I hope they crush this demented rebellion with such ruthless force that Palestinians and all Arabs speak for centuries with hushed tones remembering the day Israel woke up and the end of the "Old Islam" began," writes Dan Rector at Blorg.
VodkaPundit has a long and moving expression of pure outrage.
All I have to offer is the warning: Don't forget.
Each of these attacks is worse than the last, but only because it's the most recent. Objectively, this one may not even be as "bad" as the BatMitzvah attack. But it's two months later, and those killed have been buried for at least 60 days. There was another hotel boomer six days ago, the third to explode in three days, a cycle that included the bus boomer. A couple weeks before they hit a supermarket. The attack on March 2nd killed three infants, and they hit a fast food restaurant (Ooooh! Strategic target!) two weeks before that.
I could go on until I fall asleep and you go read somebody else's page. If you want the full list, type "boomer" into the search box. Instead, I'll point out that the attacks aren't without direction, that their targeting and the frequency are planned, and that their purpose is to goad the Israelis into military action that the lemmings Palestinians can point to and holler "overreaction!" They're counting on the fact that the world has a short attention span and that this week's dead people are quickly replaced in memory by whether Britney and Justin are still a couple.
Well said, sir. You kept your trademark tongue-in-cheek to a minimum and wrote eloquently on this outrage.
Both the size and the Passover Seder timing are outrageous enough to give Israel political cover for a serious move to clean things up. I don't think we'll see the all out war next month, but a lot of thoughtful people are thinking along those lines.
One downside-this will give the eschatology junkies a field day.
As much as it pains me to admit it, I think its time for Israel to build a fence. The only question is no longer whether but where. Posted by Anonymous 3/28/2002 6:17:35 PM
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Canada's intelligence service has acknowledged for the first time that Canadian-based Islamic militants have set off for Afghanistan since Sept. 11 to fight alongside Taliban and al-Qaeda forces. While no Canadian has yet been captured by allied troops in Afghanistan, the spy agency said a small number had attempted to travel to the region with the intention of joining the pro-Taliban militia. "People have gone continuously [both before and after Sept. 11]," said Ward Elcock, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. "Not in huge numbers, we're not talking about thousands of people. The numbers are small, but there are some." Mr. Elcock emphasized that his agency can only confirm that militants have left Canada over the past six months with the intention of fighting with the Taliban. Whether they actually made it there is not known, he said. Betcher surprised, eh, hoser?
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Osama bin Laden may have re-emerged after months in hiding yesterday, sending an e-mail message to a newspaper praising the Palestinian suicide bombers and denouncing Saudi Arabia's Middle East peace plan. Either than, or an imposter is pretending to be him. Chances of the latter are probably greater than chances of the former.
A message titled "Statement from Sheikh Osama bin Laden" was sent to the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper. The paper has received other statements from al Qaeda, and an editor said that it appeared to be genuine. They've about as reliable as the Arabic press generally is, which isn't very. We won't dwell on the reaons for that.
Written in the flowery Arabic style for which bin Laden is noted, it said that the "battle of New York" - an apparent reference to the Sept. 11 atrocities - was "the beginning of the end, God willing," of what he called the "god of pagans," and called for Muslims throughout the Middle East to rise up against U.S.-backed regimes. Well, hell. I guess we might as well pack it in then. "Battle of New York," huh? Right up there with Waterloo and Crecy and Salamis.
The message also denounced Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's initiative to resolve the Israel-Palestinian conflict as a "Zionist-American one in Saudi clothes," and called for continuation of Palestinian suicide attacks on Israel. Those Saudis. Terrible how they've caved in to the Jews. They've just taken over in Mecca.
"In light of the bloody events that our nation is going through, everybody is required to take up jihad, and grass-roots leaderships have to move to end this roaring bloodshed and to expose treacheries," the statement said. "Let's get a little fanaticism going here, folks!" Gawd, I love civil, well-reasoned discourse!
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This is from March 16th, but better late than never...
Mujahideen attacked the Khost airport at 1:30 in the morning, they killed 8 soldiers and threw grenades at 2 helicopters wrecking them completely. The Mujahideen left the airport quickly after making the lightening fast raid. However the American ground forces ran away from the airport in fear of the Mujahideen and their planes started carpet bombing the newly repaired runway in bewilderment. Cheeze, I hate it when we carpet bomb things in bewilderment. Why, just the other day, the cat jumped out at me and I spilled a whole cup of coffee. Before I got myself under control I'd carpet-bombed the patio and all the rose bushes, and I was halfway through the begonias.
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Another from March 16, but this is important, dammit!
Three Months after Hadhrat 'Amir ul Muâmineen left Kandahar, he contacted Gul Agha on wireless and warned him severely. He warned Gul Agha to cause only that much oppression which he is able to bear himself. He told Gul Agha that the American forces will have to leave Afghanistan at some time, whilst you and your men will be left behind. He warned him that he will have to face the consequence of handing Mujahideen over to United States of America. Sources within Gul Aghaâs militia have confirmed that after this threat, Gul Agha became scared and headed towards Quetta, making the excuse of medical treatment. From Quetta, he fled for Dubai. The rumor of this warning has been circulating in Qandahar for over ten days. However Daily Islaam's correspondent wasnât able to confirm it with senior warlords close to Gul Agha, until a few days back. Yep. Gul Agha's just a sweet memory and a lingering odor. And they hanged Karzai, too. He's deader'n a doorknob.
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A handful of al Qaeda fighters hiding in a cave near the Pakistan border went on American TV last week to make threats against the United States. The men spoke from a cave only 50 miles from where Operation Anaconda was fought, ostensibly to wipe out the remnants of Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The interview with CBS was conducted under great secrecy with a nightscope, which illuminated the armed and scowling figures in an unearthly pallor. A man known only as Nasrullah told US viewers: "Revenge is in the air." Another of the men said: "Disappearing from the battlefield does not mean that the Taliban has gone." Various tribes will put up every kind of resistance until they have defeated the Americans, he declared. Gee, I'm sorry I missed it. "We're gonna have bloodthirsty revenge and kill you all and all your kids, too" seems like a good way to reawaken some of the justified hatred Americans felt toward these vicious killers six months ago - hatred which is rapidly being replaced by interest in the love life of Gary Condit and Britney's breasts doings.
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An Internet posting Wednesday, apparently from al Qaida, described this week's earthquake in Afghanistan as God's punishment against those who supported the American-led war against terror. "The earthquake in (the northern Afghan province of) Baghlan has a lesson for those who can see," says the posting on the al-Neda Web site, which means "the voice" in Arabic. "Calamities like earthquakes, wars and storms are signs to show that God is upset with the aggressors," the posting goes on, "but there are few who believe in them and fewer who learn from them." Did Jerry Falwell write that for them?
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An American special operations soldier has been killed and another wounded in an explosion near a US airbase in southern Afghanistan. The two men were on a training exercise near the base in Kandahar when the soldier who died stepped on an "enemy ground-placed munition," a US army spokesman said. It was not immediately clear whether the explosion was a landmine or a deliberate booby trap. Goddammit.
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The Al-Jazeera Television Network had an interview with a Taliban Commander who in the interview confirmed the following:
1. The Taliban currently have 20 Foriegn Troops captured.
2. Out of these 20 soldiers, two are women, and two and high ranking commanders.
3. The Taliban are treating these prisoners justly and according to Shariah unlike the treatment of the Mujahideen captured in Cuba.
4. Some of these Prisoners are from Canada and other countries.
5. The Taliban have destroyed 16 American War-Planes during "Operation Anaconda". Of these 16, three planes were captured after a ground battle and are completely unharmed. He also said that everytime the Taliban would down a plane, the Americans would continuesly bomb the area in which the Plane fell in order to destroy the Plane. This is out of their paranoia that people will find out the reality of this war.
6. The guerilla war has just begun and, with the will of Allah, shall escalate in future months against America. Just so you know how they say it's going. Hamid Gul was talking about those captures a week or so ago, when it was a dozen people.
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Afghan authorities have released an important Taliban commander after a powerful tribe threatened to cut ties with the country's fledgling administration. Mullah Rehmatullah was freed after four days in custody. He is the first detained Taliban leader to be freed by the Afghan authorities. "I have been interrogated by the Afghan authorities, but they did not hand me over to U.S. authorities because no charge was proved against me," Rehmatullah told Reuters by telephone after the release. A commander of the powerful Noorzai tribe confirmed he bargained for Rehmatullah's release by threatening to cut ties with the Afghan authorities unless the Taliban officer was freed. "We had told authorities in Kandahar and Spin Boldak that we will withdraw our cooperation if Mullah Rehmatullah was not freed," a Noorzai tribal commander told Reuters. Okay. I think we can leave Afghanistan now. Nothing we can do there. It's their country, and they'll screw it up as they please, which they are in the process of doing.
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Qatar said that it and fellow Gulf Arab state Oman had persuaded Gulf War foes Iraq and Kuwait to agree on a statement at an Arab summit Wednesday. "The issue of Iraq and Kuwait is now resolved and we have agreed on a statement between Iraq and Kuwait which is acceptable to the two sides," Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani told reporters after the first day of the Arab summit in Beirut. A Kuwaiti minister said the document included new Iraqi compromises and a pledge by Baghdad to the effect that it would not repeat its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. If you're not gonna believe in Saddam Hussein, who are you gonna believe in?
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Iraq pledged in writing never to invade neighboring Kuwait again, Agence France-Presse reported, citing Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri's description of the final resolution of the Arab League summit. "Iraq respects the independence and the sovereignty of Kuwait and the respect of its security, which will guarantee avoiding anything that can lead to a repetition of what happened in 1990," Sabri said. The Iraqi government said it wants to restore relations with Kuwait, AFP and China's Xinhua news agency cited Iraq's No. 2 ruling thug, Ezzat Ibrahim, vice chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, as telling delegates at the meeting in Beirut. Suppose it doesn't do any harm to have it on paper. On the other hand, UN resolutions are on paper, too.
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Michael Phillipe, a 25-year-old French citizen, was charged with interference with crew members on an international flight, the FBI announced. He was scheduled for a hearing in federal court in Newark, N.J., on Thursday afternoon, a day after FBI agents arrested him there. Phillipe faces up to 20 years in prison if found guilty. On Jan. 19, Virgin Atlantic Flight 27 was en route to Florida when a threat was found scrawled on a bathroom mirror. The message, "American must die," was written in soap, officials said. A second message, written on an air sickness bag, stated, "Bin Laden is the best Americans must die there is a bomb on board Al Quaida." It was Phillipe who reported finding the threats, authorities said. Sometimes you have to wonder about the workings, if any, of some people's minds...
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A Delta airplane taking off for from Logan Airport this afternoon was forced to head back to the gate after a passenger stood up and made some type of threat. Logan spokesman Phil Orlandella said the airplane, headed to Orlando, Florida with 118 passengers, returned to the gate shortly after taxiing on the runway. It is unclear what the passenger threatened but Orlandella says he stood up saying he wanted off the plane. Well then put him off the damned plane. What'd you have to land for?
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U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) and several dozen supporters crammed a Los Angeles Police Commission meeting Tuesday, demanding that commission President Rick Caruso resign because he allegedly used a slur in referring to the congresswoman. Waters and others criticized Caruso during a public comment period that lasted two hours. Dozens of people who could not fit inside the meeting room at Parker Center lined the hallway outside, listening to the comments over a loudspeaker. Caruso, who has declined to comment on the matter, did not attend the meeting. This is the California pol who spends her life looking for racists under the bed. Sounds like a typically bitchy thing for her to do.
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An FBI document filed in U.S. District Court Wednesday ties a Bridgeview-based charity to a convicted Al Qaeda terrorist who once was the personal assistant to Osama bin Laden. The document alleges that Global Relief Foundation had contact in 1996 and 1997 with Wadih El-Hage, who was bin Laden's personal assistant and was sentenced last year to life imprisonment for playing a key role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa. Federal officials filed the document, along with scores of other records, to justify their decision last December to freeze Global Relief's assets because of suspected links to Al Qaeda. The Islamic charity, which in 2000 took in $5.3 million in contributions, has denied any connection to terrorism and alleges in a federal lawsuit that the government's action violated the Constitution.
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Former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange has claimed that ex-U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle threatened to have him "liquidated" over his country's anti-nuclear policy in the 1980s. The extraordinary allegation -- first made in an interview with New Zealand's One News broadcast Tuesday night -- has been rejected as "preposterous" by the U.S. Embassy in Wellington. Somebody send him Andrea's address, quickly. He needs a tinfoil hat.
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The Malaysian government warned a hardline Islamic opposition party Wednesday that the imposition of Islamic Sharia law in a state which it controls would be illegal. But the Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) hit back by saying that if Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad stood by his declaration last year that Malaysia is an Islamic state, then he should support Sharia law. The row is the latest twist in a political chess game over whether the government or the opposition is truly Islamic. Mahathir paints PAS, which wants to impose theocratic rule, as a party of violent extremists while at the same time claiming religious respectability for his own multiethnic government. Hey, this ain't Nigeria. Didja ever notice that the people who want most to impose theocratic rule tend to be theocrats?
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Islamic boarding school staff in West Java are brainwashing students into supporting the fundamentalist group Indonesian Islamic State (NII), parents claim. Police and prosecutors are investigating the Al-Zaetun Islamic boarding school in the town of Indramayu, after parents complained to the provincial legislative council that the school's director, K.H. Abu Toto, was a leader of the NII movement. "We have received reports from the parents of victims influenced by the NII movement. They feel their children have been 'turned over' from the true Islamic teachings," said Ruchiyat Noor, chairman of the council's commission.
He said the NII movement had spread to other parts of West Java, including the provincial capital Bandung. Most of the victims were senior high school and university students in the first years of their degrees, who were sent to the school to study Islam, he said. On Wednesday night, West Java Governor R. Nuriana and chiefs of the local police, prosecutor's office and religious affairs office held a closed-door meeting in Bandung to discuss action against K.H. Abu Toto, alias Panji Gumilang. "Up till now, we have had difficulty finding accurate data on the relation between NII and K.H. Abu Toto, who is said to be leader of the movement," West Java police detective chief Sr. Comr. Yono said on Tuesday.
He said his office had not yet received official reports from the parents. The students were not boarders at the school, Yono said. However, Yono said the local authorities were gathering information on the NII movement. Head of the West Java prosecutor's office Sudono Iswahyudi alleged campaigns for NII had widened across the province, claiming hundreds of victims. But it remains unclear whether NII was linked with Al-Zaetun, he added. "We don't want to speculate until every thing is complete."
Nuriana said he left the investigation and any decision on Al-Zaetun to the local prosecutor's office. "It's difficult to look into the case because those filing the complaints never live there," he said.
The protesting families said they were shocked by drastic changes in their children's behavior after they took religious classes at Al-Zaetun. "Suddenly their children refuse to perform prayers and resist them because they consider their parents as infidel," Ruchiyat said. "Many of them spend so much money for their struggle and even some others are not reluctant to steal money from houses of their neighbors." An organization of local Muslim preachers, led by K.H. Athian Ali, last month declared NII a deviant Islamic movement. Why do I have the feeling there's Saudi money and probably instructors going into that school? Just a feeling I have...
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Two women from Sierra Leone have complained that they were forced into providing sex to humanitarian aid workers in exchange for food. 'We finally agreed to 'go with' the people who were giving us food, we had no choice,' claimed Ms Gloria Kanneh, 38, and Ms Fanta Kaisamba, 29, who returned recently to Sierra Leone from Liberia, where they had fled as refugees from the civil war in their home country. Speaking at a refugee transit camp in Zimmi in south-eastern Sierra Leone, the women complained they were subjected to threats and blackmail and had no other choice but to accept the sexual demands of some of the humanitarian aid workers. Got quite a little setup there, do they? They get to be virtuous aid workers, ever so much holier than thou, plus they get to have their way with the native babes. Even more comforts than at home.
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Hamas has rejected the Arab peace initiative to Israel and vowed to continue "all kinds of resistance." "The summit resolutions are below the aspirations and the sacrifices of the Palestinian people. The resolutions ignored a lot of the Palestinian people's demands," Osama Hamdan, Hamas' representative in Lebanon, said. The overture, endorsed Thursday by the Arab League at a two-day summit in Beirut, offered Israel peace, recognition and "normal relations" in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal from war-conquered Arab lands, creation of a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital and a "just solution" for Palestinian refugees. Of course they wouldn't accept it. They're more concerned with killing people, and you can't kill people if there's peace. Hell, they'd have to get jobs or something.
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Palestinian sources said Thursday that IDF tanks began blockading areas in the Gaza Strip and near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Oh? That's certainly a surprise. Wonder what brought that on?
The sources said that Palestinian Authority security forces were on high alert and that all government and military buildings in the West Bank city of Ramallah were evacuated in anticipation of a possible Israeli military strike. The sources said all military installations in Palestinian Authority cities were evacuated, that many citizens bought food and emergency supplies in preparation of a long siege and worried parents took their children home early from school. You have to get all the gunnies and boomers out of the way so that only innocent civilians get hurt. Stick the young 'uns out front, because that looks better in the NY Times.
The sources added that Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat told his aides that he feared for his life, because Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was showing signs that he wanted to harm him personally. In addition, Arafat asked that all foreign representatives leave the city, for fear that it would be reconquered. Musta peed himself when the bomb went off in the lobby. He couldn't go to Beirut because he know that when it happened the Israelis would never have let him back in the country and with the blood still fresh on the walls the civilized world would have yawned at his plight. Now he has to wait for a week or so for memories to fade. If the Israelis kill him within the next seven days no one will care.
The Qatari television station Al Jazeera reported Thursday that European countries instructed foreign representatives to leave Ramallah. Facing a little Euroreality? When they start stacking the dead Islamogunnies up like cord wood, they'll be wringing their hands and complaining about Israeli "brutality," but it's still too early for that...
Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eleizer is convening senior security officials to decide on Israel's response to the Netanya attack in which 20 people were killed and more than 100 people were injured. Ben-Eliezer met with senior IDF and Shin Bet security service officials late Wednesday night. Best response would be to round up anybody with a gun or a fuse and kill them on the spot. Probably they can't do that politically, so they'd have to stuff them all into the Karine A and dump them in Antarctica or something. So let's see what actually happens.
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Israel rejected a Saudi-inspired plan for Middle East peace that was endorsed by Arab leaders on Thursday, saying it was a "non-starter" in its current form. The plan offers "normal relations" in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal from all Arab lands. It also calls for Israel to accept a Palestinian state and accept a "just solution" to the Palestinian refugee problem in line with a 1948 U.N. resolution that calls for them to be repatriated or compensated.
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"This callous, this cold-blooded killing, it must stop," Bush said, shaking his right hand to drive home his point. "I condemn it in the most strongest of terms." Bush learned of the deadly attack while flying from South Carolina to Georgia and could not contain his anger, immediately putting the onus on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to stop the bloodshed.
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Pakistani police arrested more than 30 Islamic militants, including some alleged members of Al Qaeda, in raids in two major cities. A senior police official said some of the suspects may be linked to terrorists behind a March 17 grenade attack on a Protestant church in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.
One snuffy departed the gene pool and a policeman was wounded in a shootout during one of the raids in Faisalabad. Four gunnies were also non-fatally perforated and were taken to a hospital. Other raids took place in Lahore. Both cities are in Punjab province. Punjab provincial police refused to identify the groups to which the suspects belonged. The police have detained scores of suspects for questioning and have released a composite sketch of the man they believe threw grenades into the Protestant International Church. They said he blew himself up. What'd they do, draw a picture of hamburger?
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Three more Middle Eastern groups are on the list of terrorist organizations designated by the U.S. State Department. Secretary of State Colin Powell designated the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a Palestinian militia linked to the Fatah faction of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. The Salafist Group for Call and Combat, an Algerian group dedicated to the overthrow of the Algerian government, and Asbat al-Ansar, a Sunni Muslim group based in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, were also named as terror groups. The Salafist group may have ties to Al Qaeda. Al-Aqsa should have been there the first time it popped up above the background noise. Likewise the Salafists - as close as the world has to pure, unadulterated evil.
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The Justice Department told a court Thursday it will seek the death penalty against Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person to be charged in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks against New York and Washington. Prosecutors notified the trial judge in suburban Alexandria, Va., where the trial will be held this fall. He's the only one of the 9-11 thugs we have alive. Might as well make them all dead. The Frenchies are complaining about the American use of the death penalty, since they don't indulge in it anymore, and threatening to pull out of the War on Terror. Since the very same Bad Guys want to kill them only slightly less than they want to kill us, that doesn't appear to make a lot of sense. Or am I missing something?
The French have banned the death penalty, as have the other nations of the EU. Further, most EU nations won't cooperate in the prosecution of a person in another country if said prosecution could lead to the death penalty. So one could state fairly that the French are simply being true to their beliefs that the death penalty is wrong regardless of circumstances. That's noble, especially if you agree with them that the death penalty is wrong.
I suspect that this is their motivation, and since they are so very French, they're willing to ignore the reality of the Bad Guys in order to be true to their ethical beliefs.
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Soldiers at a mobile roadblock today captured a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance driver who was transporting an explosive belt of the type detonated by suicide bombers. The ambulance was stopped and searched between Nablus and Ramallah, and soldiers found the explosive belt under a stretcher upon which a Palestinian boy was lying. The boy's family was with him in the ambulance. The ambulance driver, Islam Jibril, a resident of the Balata refugee camp near Nablus, told interrogators he received the belt from Muhammad Titti, a senior Tanzim activist close to Palestinian Authority West Bank security chief Marwan Barghouti. The belt contained some 10 kilograms of explosives. IDF sappers detonated it in a controlled explosion. The Red Cross will tell you these claims aren't substantiated, so this must not have happened.
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The mother of Zacarias Moussaoui said Thursday that U.S. officials are "looking for someone's head" in the Sept. 11 attacks, and that she's not surprised the government is seeking the death penalty against her son. Aicha Moussaoui spoke moments after the U.S. Justice Department told a court it will seek the death penalty against Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan descent and the only person to be charged in the attacks on New York and Washington. "I was sure," said Mrs. Moussaoui, who also uses the name Aicha el-Wafi, hearing of the U.S decision. "They're looking for someone's head. My son is a scapegoat. They can't find the people who are truly responsible for this crime." What'd you think she was gonna say? "I never liked him anyway"? She's his MOM for Gawd's sake!
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The siege of a mosque in Badgam district of Kashmir ended after Army sharp shooters killed a Hizbul Mujahideen militant, who had refused to surrender. Mohammad Mudasir had taken shelter in the mosque at village Redbug after exchanging fire with a joint search party of Army and police. Earlier reports had said there were three gunnies holed up in the mosque. The hard boy had barricaded himself in the shrine after the Army, backed by police, cordoned off Radbugh village. He was asked to surrender, but he ignored the plea and opened fire at the troops saying something that sounded like, "You'll never take me alive, coppers!". You get extra virgins if you're bumped off in a mosque.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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