Finally a whiff of sanity from the prison system! The LLL media out here was trying to portray her as victim of a system that won't forgive or forget. She pleads guilty to placing bombs on police vehicles and then claims to be a victim?. She did the plea bargain because any jury would have tossed her away FOREVER. Her LLL lawyer was on all the local TV shows proclaiming that her client would be out in two year. It's a good thing that the law never forgets and rarely forgives.
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Is it my imagination or does Sara Jane Olson look like Ma Pancake Cindy Corrie?
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Tu put bombs on police cars certainly merits the sentence.
But a question: Are plea deals binding?
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Yup. That's why a judge had to approve it, didn't the first time so they got this do over. She'll probably appeal again and get a LLL judge to send it back. Not a lawyer, but I'd bet at some point the District Attorney (DA) may choose to try it. She was a terrorist. After 9/11, I think CS is correct, she'd get life, I doubt they'd give her the needle.
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The militant group holding two French reporters hostage in Iraq issued a statement denying it had ever demanded a ransom for their release, as claimed earlier this week. "The Islamic Army assures that the statement lifted from the Internet by the media and listing three demands on the issue of the French hostages, including a financial one, is false," said the statement. The denounced ransom statement, posted on the internet on Monday, told France it had 48 hours in which to agree to a recent truce offer by Osama bin Laden, pay a five million dollars ransom and pledge not to get involved in Iraq.
They don't want a ransom, just submission.
On Wednesday, in a second statement the Islamic Army in Iraq said it wanted to seize the son of the two men's driver after finding private documents on the hostages, including a photograph. According to the statement, the photograph showed the son, a 22-year-old, along with US Brigadier General Mark Kimmit, former deputy director of US-led coalition operations in Iraq. "This is why we have issued an arrest warrant against Ayman Mohammed Rifaat al-Jundi, a 22-year-old Syrian who is the son of the two French hostages' driver and appears on the picture with Kimmit-the-war-criminal," it said. "This is why we call on the mujahedeen to help carry out an investigation against him," the statement said. Contacted by AFP, the young man confirmed that such a picture existed but said it was a montage one of his friends had made on his computer as a joke and that he had left it in his father's car. An AFP photographer confirmed that the picture was most likely a montage. Ayman's declarations effectively authenticate the statement.
Photoshoped the wrong picture.
The same photograph was mentioned a week ago in an exclusive article by the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur and reporting a conversation between one of its sources and a man close to the kidnappers. The fate of the French journalists, Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot, is still unknown. They have been detained since August 20.
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This is why we have issued an arrest warrant
Anybody else see how idiotic this statement is? They're reading out of States playbook.
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The militant group holding two French reporters hostage in Iraq issued a statement denying it had ever demanded a ransom for their release
famous saying: when they say, "its not about money" what it means is "its about money"
From Jihad Unspun:
An Iraqi nuclear physicist died from gunshot wounds in al-Mahmudiah, 20km south of Baghdad on Monday according to Agence France Presse (AFP) who quoted the man's brother. 'Ala' Tawqi Husayn at-Taliqani (40 years old) had worked in the nuclear field since 1984. He was wounded Saturday by five bullets as he was driving his car in the district. He was a resident of the town of al-Kifl, 100km south of Baghdad. Organizations of Iraqi college professors and intellectuals have accused the Zionist Mossad secret police of waging a campaign of assassination of Iraqi scientists and academics. Over 100 have been found murdered for no apparent reason since the US occupation in spring 2003.
Either somebody is removing witnesses or there is soon to be a new clerk at the Boise, Idaho 7-11.
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Consider the source. Is this the one thing they do get correct? Or is this disinformation intended to intimidate the remaining nuclear engineers?
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Not Boise! Why ruin a perfectly happy place?
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Mrs. Davis, I've seen news stories from other sources in the past about Iraqi scientists being killed, mostly to blame the US for not protecting them. Seems like they didn't want protection and during questioning denied any recent work on WMDs. It sounds credible, either they are being killed to prevent them from talking or as reprisal for working for Saddam. Some may be staged by us (or other parties) in order for them to disapear. That's just a wild guess on my part.
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Seems like a lot of them have been taking a dirt nap. May be time to ask for witness protection and sing.
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I still remain sceptical as I would expect MSM would seize on this as yet more evidence of the administration's failure.
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Actually, Mrs. D, the MSM won't and hasn't seized on this as it might prove that there were WMDs in Iraq and they can't have that!
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I would expect MSM would seize on this as yet more evidence of the administration's failure.
To do that would admit Saddam had nuclear physicists. Agree with Jen on that point.
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"... Agence France Presse (AFP) who quoted the manâs brother. âAlaâ Tawqi Husayn at-Taliqani (40 years old) had worked in the nuclear field since 1984."
Forgive me, but accepting/printing an arab man's story of the recent asassination of his supposedly brilliant close relative is to journalism what bathroom graffiti is to poetry.
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Hanau, Germany - A US army captain charged with murdering an Iraqi follower of a radical Shiite Muslim cleric has claimed that he shot dead the man as an act of mercy, a military hearing was told on Wednesday. Rogelio Maynulet, 29, is charged with murdering the man on May 21 in an incident during which US troops fired at a civilian vehicle they believed had militia men aboard near the central Iraqi town of Kufa. Under US troop rules of engagement in Iraq, shooting at suspect cars is allowed under certain circumstances. Two men were in the vehicle. The passenger died instantly and the driver was badly injured. A witness, Colin Cremin, confirmed that Maynulet and his men told him that the driver "had half his brain hanging out, there was nothing more that could be done for him". He confirmed that Maynulet said he had stepped back and shot the man in the base of the neck or the back of the head.
I had a hard time with this one. Anyone who knows anything about military history knows soldiers have been doing this since before the first Hoplite strapped on his sandles. Not just to wounded enemy, but his own critically wounded comrades. If I had half my brains blown out, I'd want my buddies to finish me off. But, I'm afraid it's still at least manslaughter, if not murder. Sorry, Captain.
"It was something he didn't want to do, but it was the compassionate response, it was definitely the humane response," Cremin said. Maynulet has denied charges of murder and dereliction of duty for killing the follower of Moqtada Sadr. After military investigators questioned Maynulet over the killing a few days later, Cremin said the accused told him: "I wouldn't be surprised if this would have some kind of negative action for me." Earlier, reporters were ordered to leave the hearing while the first witness, neurosurgeon Lieutenant Colonel Rocco Armonda, who had seen the injuries to the two men, testified in camera. His appearance was classified because a 10-minute army video of the shooting was shown, which would have revealed how the US military gathers information.
Close up video from a drone aircraft, I'll wager.
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Maybe a drone.... wonder if there's more than antennae on the new cell phone towers.
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He'll get off with a Dishonorable discharge I think. The prosocution has to prove that the guy who was shot wasn't brain dead. Half a brain hanging out tends to indicate the guy no longer had any thoughts. He might have been already completely dead too, and Maynulet mistaked the spasming of the dead body for the man still being alive. If that's the case, then he should be charged the price of the bullet IMO.
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I drove by the building on my way to work today. They cordoned off a few streets and a few cameramen were hanging around, but no big German TV news stations or other media. Most people on the Kaserne didn't even know what it was all about.
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Dupe. What's wrong with the holding tank? Murat in charge?
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And to think I thought snuff films originated from western decline in a technological society: But there it is- right there in the Whor'an. Go to hell, go back to hell and stay there this time you miserable cannibals.
THE full horror of the Russian school atrocity began to emerge yesterday as traumatised children told horrific tales of stabbed babies and brutal rapes. It has also emerged that scores of the 323 who died - including many children - had been shot in the back. While despairing soldiers and rescue workers moved among the growing pile of body bags, it was revealed that an 18-month-old baby had been repeatedly stabbed by a black-clad terrorist who had run out of ammunition. Other survivors told how screaming teenage girls were dragged into rooms adjoining the gymnasium where they were being held and raped by their Chechen captors who chillingly made a video film of their appalling exploits...
(via jihadwatch
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The full horror of the Russian school atrocity began to emerge yesterday as traumatised children told horrific tales of stabbed babies and brutal rapes. It has also emerged that scores of the 323 who died - including many children - had been shot in the back. While despairing soldiers and rescue workers moved among the growing pile of body bags, it was revealed that an 18-month-old baby had been repeatedly stabbed by a black-clad terrorist who had run out of ammunition. Other survivors told how screaming teenage girls were dragged into rooms adjoining the gymnasium where they were being held and raped by their Chechen captors who chillingly made a video film of their appalling exploits They said children were forced to drink their own urine and eat the petals off the flowers they had brought their teachers after nearly three days without food or water in the stifling hot gym. Their stories came as Russian officials warned that the final death toll of the siege of Middle School No 1 at Beslan in North Ossetia - in which up to 1,200 people were held captive - was likely to be more than 400. The official toll yesterday stood at 323 which included 156 children, 10 Russian soldiers and two emergency service workers - 35 of the hostage-takers were also killed. Last night 434 people were being treated in hospital with 247 children and 85 adults in a critical condition. A Russian official said six seriously injured children had been taken to Moscow for treatment. "One of them is a child, just 18 months old, with many knife wounds," he said. The Chechen terrorists - including two so-called "Black Widows" - had been meticulously planning the hostage-taking for months.
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Like I needed another reason to hate these islamofacists. There is a special place in hell for people like this and I know they are there now.
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These muslims tortured, raped, maimed and killed the most innocent of victims...babies, little boys and girls, teenagers...is there any doubt as to who the enemy is? This is evil in its purest form.
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when will the civilized world wake up...it is time to stop treating islam with kid gloves...
i personally would like to see the Russians retaliate against the main sponsor of terror in their backyard-- the fucking soddy's....a few well placed nukes should get the message across to these whabbis pukes...extreme yes but when will the world go for the jugular..screw political correctness, religious correctness either kill or subdue our mutual enemies and be done with this scourge..
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Maybe they'd begun to doubt the 'virgins in paradise' shit they'd fallen for before.
Hope the Ruskies make sure their prisoners aren't physically able to rape again...
This is evil in its purest form.
Absolutely. And anyone who still refuses to acknowledge that must be considered to be on the other side.
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This horror had me thinking the Russkies might take some sort revenge, as Dan says. Nukes would be very unlikely, something more like the "wet works" campaign against Soddy clerics and key Soddy financiers. Now I'm having second thoughts about whether anything like this will happen. We will have to wait and see. If something does happen I would expect the Russians to use an approach a lot more ruthless than ours. Because they can't afford our high tech approach and because they probably think our approach doesn't deter. I think it wouldn't hurt to have some Russian special forces work with us in Iraq, say in Fallujah, and let them use their own methods, to maybe put some fear into the so-called insurgents.
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That's it for me folks. Crush islam....wipe it out. If there is anyone left who still wishes to observe it then let em reinvent it..otherwise enough already. THIS IS NOT A RELIGION, IT IS AN IDEOLOGY AND IT MUST BE DISMANTLED.
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This really pisses me off. The MSM totally ignores this while soddomizing either the Bush AWOL dead horse or the prison abuse dead horse.
Do you think Charles Gibson will interview the parents of the teenager who was brutally gang-raped? or the mother of the baby which was stabbed to death? No he would rather soddomize that Bush AWOL dead horse.
Do you think Peter Jennings would even mention that the 'hostage-takers' were **ALL*** muslims? No he would rather soddomize that prison abuse dead horse he has been dry-humping for months now.
Fuck you ABC! Fuck you CBS and NBC and CNN and BBC. You are actively working for the enemy and, in my book are just as guilty.
If you really covered the news instead of spreading your hatred of America and all that it stands for this might not have happened.
If you had pointed the finger at the terrorists (or even fucking called them terrorists) and shown a bright light on what they are doing they might not have dared to do this.
But they did because they knew that their allies, their friends in the MSM will cover for them and do their dirty work for them by blaming Bush or Putin or anyone else but the ISLAMIC JIHADIST who actually did the kidnapping, rape, and murder.
Just as you are doing for the Islamists in Western Sudan who are murdering and gang-raping.
Just as you are doing for the Islamists in Palistine who are murdering innocent civilians, pregnant women and little girls.
Just as you did for Soddam and his sons and their rape squads, mass graves, rape rooms.
TIKRIT, Iraq -- 1st Infantry Division Soldiers from 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment conducted two cordon and searches to capture or kill known Al-Duri enablers and Anti-Iraqi Forces members on Sept. 8. During the first cordon and search near Ad Dwar at about 2:15 a.m., the Soldiers detained Mahmoud Al-Duri and Ahmad Shihab Ahmad Al-Duri.
Guess anyone named Al-Duri is on the list of Al-Duri enablers.
During the second cordon and search near Ad Duluiyah at about 2:30 a.m., the Soldiers detained Sabiah Saleh Quaddori Al Khazraji who attacked Coalition Forces on July 21. The detainees were taken to Coalition detention facilities for further questioning.
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That's why Saudi Arabia has so many problem children in the younger generation: significant levels of mental retardation, physical handicaps, and an interesting selection of insanities. And yet, they marry the kids off anyway, which will make the next generation's problems even worse.
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t w : Remember they thought they had al-Douri, but the DNA (and red hair) only suggesated a "relative". Perhaps a brother-cousin or something of the sort.
Take a look at the first two cartoons. This is the Arab muslim mindset.
Hat tip Logic and Sanity blog. According to the hostages, the explosives were scotch taped to the basketball hoops inside the gym.
They were remote controlled, but ended up going off accidentaly. The scotch tape couldn't hold one of them and it fell, going off in the process, its shock wave knocking down one of the terrorists and setting off another bomb. There was a great deal of casualties from that alone, and ultimately that accident is what caused the raid.
According to utro.ru's repoter, there are about 500 bodies in the morgue. The official number of dead is still at 323.
Unfortunately, I think we are going to see the final death toll somewhere around 600.
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These cartoons represent reactions of Arab cartoonists to American foreign policy in the Middle East, Israeli occupation policies and practices in occupied Palestine, or policies and practices of Arab governments and Arab rulers.
The main objective is to enable English readers all over the world, particularly in the US and Israel, to know about the impact of the policies of these governments on Arabs and Muslims.
The main objective is to ratchet up hate. And it does-but not only on your side. Your mission is producing side effects you have not anticipated. Have you thought about your chances of survival now that you have become the most reviled people on the planet? Ask the fellow in Beslan who got skinned...
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I sincerely hope they piss the Chinese off next.
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I expect the Arabs and Iranians to ally with the Chinese in the short term (within a few years going to 20-30 years out until other energy sources are dominate). The Arabs need protection and manufactured goods. The Chinese need oil and gas and have no qualms dealing with murderers. From a Chinese perspective, the Islamists also have the advantage of being used as a proxy against the democracies.
The Chinese supplied Pakistan with nuclear bomb designs and ballistic missiles. Now the Iranians are being supplied with nuclear and missile tech via the Chinese backdoor by Pakistan and proxy North Korea. I expect this all to end very badly.
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I'm sure they'll find a way.
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The Chinese are infidels. The Islamists are fanatics. Need I say more?
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Like either the Chinese or the Islamists care. The Chinese will provide Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and all the other rogues with all the weapons and materials they need, so long as the oil keeps flowing.
Oh, and China will expect the ummah to ignore the Chinese taking care of their problems in their Muslim western reaches. I don't think that will be a problem, though.
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Like either the Chinese or the Islamists care. The Chinese will provide Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and all the other rogues with all the weapons and materials they need, so long as the oil keeps flowing.
Which is why, at some point, it will be necessary to shut off the oil spigot to China so that they can begin imploding. China is the ultimate terrorist nation, the others are just wanna-bes.
As American deaths in Iraq passed the 1,000 mark, top Pentagon officials said Tuesday that insurgents control important parts of central Iraq and it is unclear when American and Iraqi forces will be able to secure those areas. As of late Tuesday night, the Pentagon's accounting showed that 998 service members and three Defense Department civilians have been killed in Iraq operations. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a news conference that the American strategy in retaking rebel-held strongholds hinged on training Iraqi forces to take the lead.
Rumsfeld took the unusual step Tuesday of saying U.S. and coalition forces "probably" had killed 1,500 to 2,500 women, kids, babies former regime elements, criminals and terrorists last month. Pentagon officials generally have not been revealing enemy body counts, only occasionally offering estimates of enemy dead in specific incidents. Rumsfeld said Iraqi government officials understood that they must regain control of the rebel-controlled areas. "They get it, and will find a way over time to deal with it," he said. But Myers said the Iraqi forces would not be ready to confront insurgents until the end of this year.
Their comments, which came after a two-day spike in violence across Iraq led to a surge in American military deaths, represented an acknowledgement that the Americans have failed to quell the insurgency in important Sunni-dominated areas and in certain Shiite enclaves. Their assessment also underscored the difficulty of pacifying the country in time for elections in Iraq, scheduled for January.
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Murat, you're such a bigoted idiot, you've become predictable and rather boring. You're the perfect poster boy for the fetid latrine that is the moose-limb culture. Oh, and you forgot to include the baby ducks in your hallucinatory body count.
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This is a duplicate of an earlier posting, which the 'Rat has commented on. He's just jerking off over the idea of dead Americans.
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Hehehe yeah figure out how to get out of this shit
Murat : If worst comes to worst - It's called MOAB over Fallujah.
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Murat, why do you want Iraq to fail? Turkey will be in a truly uncomfortable situation if we don't succeed. Imagine the result of your Kurdish terrorists reinforced by an angry Kurdistan on your border, supplemented by a free flow of armed Jihadis working to establish a Salafist Caliphate in Istanbul.
Use your brain to think, Murat. Unlike many here, I have faith that you can,if you but try.
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After the the whole Persian Gulf is conquered, the road out leads straight through Constantinople. Then all that sweet, sweet crude has a straight shot to market (with a big ass side pipeline to Isreal). Too bad the Turks won't be around to enjoy any of it. Convert now heathen. Saint George is coming to smite your ass.
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Murat, why do you want Iraq to fail?
Murat's just like many Muslims, it seems: the only people he wants to see suffer more than other Muslims, is Westerners. I'm guessing Middle Easterners never needed to borrow the word schadenfreude.
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Murat thinks a failed Iraq will give Turkey the green light on a "final solution" to the Kurdish problem.
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Have you ever seen Murat and Gentle post to the same thread? I think it's one person and Gentle is his soft side coming out, maybe after one of Murat's trips to San Francisco.
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Remember the German toilet inspectors at BMW always look under the lid, just a hint on keeping them happy.
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Let's face it. If his "heroic" insurgent ninja warriors (It's true they're hard to see hiding behind all the skirts of women and little kids) weren't HIDING, scared shitless, in a (un)holy site, they'd be pushing up daisies right now.
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wow i never knew Mu-rat had the brains to actually make a post and cross out words, hes not gonna have his own special colour to highlight in is he? if he does i suggest a 'sickly' colour or perhaps a fresh crap brown. consider it Mu-rat.
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Now now, folks, I'm fairly sure that the situation is pretty much as given in the article: I'm sure Rummy's as P.O'ed as we are that WE'RE NOT ALLOWING OUR FORCES TO FINISH THE JOB. They're always getting pulled back, negotiated back, pleaded back. There's always whining that any conclusive push to eliminate the bad guys would inevitably destroy the 10,873rd holiest shrine of Islam.
I think it's probably "tough love" time for the Iraquis, "You wanna control things BEFORE we say you're ready? Fine! YOU do it, and see how far the F*CK you get!"
*puts on tinfoil hat* "All this show to demonstrate the inadequacy of the Iraqui military is merely a pretext to shame all Muslims, and to create a pretext to have the puppet government of the United States ask the Raping and pillaging Crusader invaders to stay!"
*takes off tinfoil hat* Sh*t! This thing really DOES work!
Sudanese authorities have arrested 14 members of an opposition Islamist party for plotting sabotage after soliciting help from abroad, party officials and security sources said on Wednesday.
I like it when they eat their own...
In midnight raids security forces arrested 14 members of the Popular Congress (PC) party of detained Islamist politician Hassan al-Turabi for conspiracy to carry out sabotage, a party official told Reuters.
Hmmm... Sounds like they must be killed. Need any ammunition?
Earlier on Tuesday night police had set up checkpoints throughout the capital Khartoum and searched vehicles. It was not clear what they were looking for. One security source said the 14 were arrested for attempting a coup. "It is obvious some factions believed the government was in a weakened state and so felt confident enough to plot another coup attempt," he said.
Actually, a favorite Sudanese passtime. They don't have much water, so water polo's out, so they do coups...
When a group of military officers was charged in March with plotting to assassinate high-level government figures, the government loosely linked Turabi's party to that plot. A high-level military official said at the time it was an attempted coup, but the government later said the operation was too limited in its scope to be a real coup.
"That wussy little thing? A coup? Pfeh! My little sister could stage a better coup than that!"
An Islamic website on Tuesday published a statement purporting to be from an Iraqi group threatening Turkey and Jordan with painful reprisals unless they closed their embassies in Iraq and left the oil-rich country. "We demand that the Jordanian and Turkish governments close their embassies in Iraq and leave the country because of their attitude in terms of supplying ... the invading forces in our country, which encourges them to prolong their stay in Iraq," the statement said. The statement was signed by "the Al-Hussein Islamic brigades" and published on the site www.islamic-minbar.com. The group, which gave no indication of its political leanings or its representation inside Iraq said: "If this demand is not met, we will, in our own way, carry out painful reprisals." The authenticity of the text has not been confirmed. The group also urged the Shiite clergy in Iraq to "issue a fatwa calling for a jihad" or holy war. A large number of Turks and Jordanians are active in Iraq, where a host of armed groups hostile to US forces have created an atmosphere of insecurity by launching attacks and taking foreigners hostage.
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Three Muslims were dragged out of their homes and beheaded amid rising civilian deaths in Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Wednesday. Police suspect that the three were killed because they were informants of the security forces. There was no way to independently verify the police claim. Terrorists stormed into the village of Mara Doria in the Rajouri region, 180 kilometres northwest of Jammu, according to the duty officer at the Rajouri police station. Kalu Din, 25, and Mishri Gujjar, 35, were taken from their homes to a nearby forest and beheaded, he said. In the adjoining Fabri Dhok village, the attackers took Ghulam Shah, 50, and also decapitated him, the officer said on customary condition of anonymity.
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Note to editors: Repost of highly amusing detailed account about a recent Hamas cook-off.
By Patrick Bishop in Gaza
Palestinians expressed amazement yesterday at the rashness of Hamas terrorists who were bombed by the Israelis as they paraded on a football field. "There we wuz, like totally rulin' and all of a sudden it was hamburger all over the highway. Hey, wud gives?"
At least 14 terrorist trainees died and many more were wounded as they were drilled at midnight. Aircraft and helicopters fired six missiles at terrorist members of the Izzedine al Qassem brigades, the armed Buffalo wing dipped in blue cheese dressing part of the movement. Yesterday, youths gathered at the sandy killing fields in Shejaia, Gaza City, and said they were stunned that the terrorist militants had paraded in an open space where retaliation was utterly delightful & guaranteed. We tole 'em and we tole 'em ... STUPID MARTYRS!
"It was a typically terrorist stupid mistake," said Amin Khalid, 25. "They should have taken more pills and stayed indoors as precautions. The Israelis had announced they would have their after-party revenge." About 50 members of the terrorist organization's brigades were in the habit of receiving deep drilling on the football field, named after the vaporized & assassinated Hamas asshole leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, four or five times a week after evening prayers, local witnesses said. They wore fatigues, masks and green headbands denoting their willingness to commit mass murder die, but carried no reproductive organs weapons. Since the Beersheba mass murders & bombings they had only met once. (As in; "once is enough") Continued on Page 49
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what strikes me reading this is the new phase of the war we have just entered. NPR, BBC, Rudeerrors, and all their ilk, can post all the scare quotes and talk of "summer camps" they want. It's not effective anymore - other than to give talking points to the apologists already proud to sport their tin-foil hats.
While that "summer camp" talk gives the Euroweenies and our left talking points for their apologies - no one who matters is listening anymore.
The fact that Masri is willing to forgo that charade shows even the "terrorists" are willing to forgo the silly pretense of "innocent victim" and start referring to themselves as "elite fighters".
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After all, Israel now calls this method the "Yassin Procedure". Get your paint scrapers ready. There is a lot of red-brown stain on the cobblestone.
Does the pilot of the Isralei helicopter get to put a little turban decal with a red "X" across it for every terrorist bagged on his machine?
#3
Is there an informative site like this without all the graffiti and moustaches and horns drawn on all the pictures? I really like this site but sometimes the every-third-word jeering and derision makes the articles ridiculously difficult to read.
#4
Maybe we could invite all the paleo boys over for a big party in Yankee stadium after the regular season ends. Looks like the Yankees probably won't be needing it. (I root for two teams: The Red Sox and anyone who beats the Yankees).
#8
" Hamas terrorists who were bombed by the Israelis as they paraded on a football field."
Parading at midnight? Sounds to me like the company commander wanted to do some extra practice so they could win the Pass-in-Review guideon banner at the next All Gaza Terrorist Jamboree.
Every once in a while, the content just begs for some major parody work. I've been restraining myself of late but just had to cut loose with this one. As mentioned in the title line, this was old news in a new bottle. The details were a little more illuminating and I could not resist having a laugh at the expense of those Hamas murderers who were stupid enough to cluster up like this.
The 14 dead Hamas thugs nearly achieves parity for the 16 fatalities in the recent bus bombings. One can only imagine how many more Israeli lives were saved by eliminating these Hamas operatives before they deployed. That they were stupid enough to bunch up into an ultra-rich target sealed their doom and happily so. I'll also venture that all the people standing around watching these 14 killers weren't there to protest. Ergo, any collateral casualties were just icing on the cake.
Two members of illegal armed groups have been killed and another two have been detained during police search operations in Chechnya, Maj. Gen. Ilya Shabalkin, spokesman for the regional headquarters for the counter-terrorism operation in the North Caucasus, told Interfax on Wednesday. Two rebels were killed outside the village of Geldagan in the republic's Kurchaloi district after they failed to obey police orders, Shabalkin said.
[BANG!]
"Stop or we'll shoot!"
Two members of illegal armed units were detained in the village of Khambi-Irze of the Achkhoi-Martan district and in Grozny.
"Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!"
"Don't kill me!"
Two terrorist attacks have been prevented in Chechnya over the past 24 hours, thanks to the discovery of a remote-controlled homemade explosive device in Grozny's Zavodskoy district and a landmine one kilometer southwest of the Vedeno district's village of Guni, Shabalkin said.
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The Russia government has offered a $10 million reward for information to help it hunt down Chechen rebel leaders Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov, accused by Moscow of being behind last week's school siege, news agencies reported on Wednesday. Interfax news agency quoted the FSB security service as saying it would pay up to 300 million roubles ($10.3 million) for information that would lead to "neutralizing" the two rebels.
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In today's Russian economic chaos that 10 million should be paid in full in quick order.
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Somebody will turn him in for that cash. Chechnya is alot different from Afghanistan and it's tribal ways.
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Seems to me an appropriate idea is to turn the two bastards over to the grieving parents for "body modification" once they are caught.
Washington's threat of sanctions against Sudan over the Darfur crisis is part of a U.S. conspiracy aimed at destroying the government in Khartoum as it did in Iraq and Somalia, a senior Sudanese official said.
Now there's an idea.
"Sudan is not afraid of the threat of sanctions by the United States, which is using the crisis in Darfur to weaken and destroy the government of Sudan in a similar fashion in which they devastated Iraq and Somalia," said Angelo Beda, Deputy Speaker of Sudan's parliament. Beda, speaking at a news conference in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa late on Monday, was referring to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and U.S. support of a Somalia peace operation that ended in humiliation in 1993. The U.N. Security Council gave Sudan 30 days to disarm and prosecute Arab Janjaweed militia accused of killing, raping and driving villagers from their land in an 18-month conflict or face unspecified, unenforceable, and widely-ignored sanctions. The deadline expired on August 30.
#2
The only "sanctions" that would be effective against the government in Khartoum are the kind that go "Boom" - and they should be plentiful.
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"Sudan is not afraid of the threat of sanctions by the United States, which is using the crisis in Darfur to weaken and destroy the government of Sudan in a similar fashion in which they devastated Iraq and Somalia,"
a statement from a khat-addled cerebrum.
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From Jihad Unspun
Iraqi Resistance fighters in al-Fallujah fired five US missiles back at US forces at their base in the agricultural area near the city. The local correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US forces had earlier fired 17 rockets at al-Fallujah, but five of them failed to explode. The Resistance, drawing on the expertise and skill of Iraqi weaponry experts, took the five unexploded rockets and reprogrammed and retargeted them and then fired them at the US camp in the agricultural area near the city at 5:00pm Wednesday afternoon Baghdad time. The US rockets produced obvious and copious amounts of shrapnel when they exploded in the American camp.
Gee...d'ya think the heroic Iraqi Resistance fighters could take a look at my surprise meter? It's been busted for a while now and these guys look like real 'lectronic whizzes...
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Good thing the Associated Press isn't depending on these guys in their count to the magic 1,000 dead American soldiers -- would have hit that milestone months ago.
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..reprogrammed and retargeted them and then fired them...
Sure they did.
My bullshit alarm went off when I read that.
#3
These Iraq Resistance Reports are so full of propaganda. Although Unspun refines the wordage, the b.s. still exists.
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What happened to all the US soldiers who defected due to the purity of Islam? There were lots of reports of these things during the Chechnyan conflict. Russian soldier realizes he's wrong, sees the light, and goes over to the Islamic side. Muslims welcome him, and fit him with an explosive belt so he can become a martyr in paradise. Russian completes mission, booms checkpoint. So said Azzam, anyway.
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On the way in to work this morning I was listening to National limp-wristed Radio, I mean NPR, to a report by their Iraq reporter who entered the Shrine in Najaf just moments after the cease-fire. He said it was amazing to him how these ill trained militia had held out against the US military. Not one mention of how our military was hampered by not doing any damage to the shrine and trying mightily to minimize the damage to the cemetary. This guy was on a propaganda mission for the lawless thugs who took over the shrine. Also there was no mention of the bodies found after the shrine was evacuated. I fired off an indignant e-mail to NPr. I won't be listening to their pro-Islamofascist reporting again.
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. . . reprogrammed and retargeted them and then fired them and fitted them with artificial intelligence and exchanged their warheads with flesh-seeking sensors and . . .
#8
Iraqi Resistance fighters in al-Fallujah fired five US missiles back at US forces at their base in the agricultural area near the city. The local correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US forces had earlier fired 17 rockets at al-Fallujah, but five of them failed to explode. The Resistance, drawing on the expertise and skill of Iraqi weaponry experts, took the five unexploded rockets and reprogrammed and retargeted them and then fired them at the US camp in the agricultural area near the city at 5:00pm Wednesday afternoon Baghdad time. The US rockets produced obvious and copious amounts of shrapnel when they exploded in the American camp.
That's all it took? A little reprogramming?
They didn't have to replace the solid rocket motors so they'd do something besides just sit there?
Posted by: Phil Fraering ||
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The AP is treating our war dead as if it is a grocery store promotion. Just when you think the mainstream media couldn't sink any lower, they proceed to dig.
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Reading Jihad Unspun is like reading the old Soviet press, you have to look behind the words. For example: The al-Fallujah correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam reported Wednesday night that at about midnight local time US forces had fired a rocket at a park in the an-Nazal neighborhood behind the flour mill in the south of al-Fallujah. As a result of the attack, some 30 civilians were brutally martyred, all park and mill workers.
Translation, we nailed 30 bad guys in Fallujah.
The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US forces at 11:00pm Tuesday night (Baghdad time) captured 11 Iraqi Resistance fighters near the Jordanian Hospital east of al-Fallujah as they were attempting to carry out operations against the US invaders. The correspondent in al-Fallujah writes, in a dispatch posted at 3:25pm Mecca time Wednesday that the US forces then murdered the 11 captives Wednesday morning in their base in the agricultural area near the city.
Translation: another 11 bad guys either dead or in the jug.
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Translated from the Hebrew press by Ms. Kaplan-Sommer.
In an act of unlimited devotion and dedication, to the bitter end, an elderly teacher insisted on remaining with his students. He protected them, bandaged their wounds, and with his death, saved their lives.
Children who escaped from the school told of how they owed their lived to elderly Yanis (Ivan) Kanidis, age 74 — a man of Greek origin who worked as a gym teacher at the school. He was among the hundreds of teachers, students and parents taken hostage last week when Chechen rebels invaded the large school.
On Thursday, in what was an unusual humanitarian move in the midst of the horror, the terrorists agreed to allow a group of women and babies to leave the building. The commander of the terrorist squad, saw Kanidis -- a sickly elderly man -- and offered to allow him to walk free as well.
But Kanidis refused. "I will stay with my students till the end," the teacher insisted.
"Whatever you say," said the terrorist, dismissing him with a wave of the hand.
"He was just like Janus Korzchak, who accompanied his pupils to Auschwitz," said one of the students who was saved.
Like Korzchak, Kanidis didn't just accompany his students, he guarded their lives. On Friday, when the children began to lose consciousness from the stuffy air and their thirst, Yanis went to the terrorists. "You have to give them something to drink, at least to the smallest children," he insisted angrily. One of the terrorists hit him with the butt of his rifle, but the teacher continued to yell: "How dare you!? You claim you are people of the Kafkaz region, but here in the Kafkaz even a dog wouldn't turn down the request of an old man!"
His efforts bore fruit. The terrorist allowed the teacher to wet one of the bibs of the children and pass it around to dampen the mouths of the little ones who were choking from thirst.
The hostages who escaped told how the teacher repeatedly risked his own life in order to save the children. He moved explosive devices that the terrorists had placed near the young students, and tried to prevent them from detonating others. When the first bomb exploded next to the windows of the school, parents and children began to run out. The terrorists, trying to prevent their escape, threw a grenade at them. The elderly teacher ran to the grenade to prevent it from exploding on the children. One of the terrorists shot at the teacher to try to stop him and Yanis was wounded in the shoulder — but didn't give up. With the last of his strength, he continued to run, jumped on the grenade, covering it with his body. The grenade exploded, and the body of the teacher absorbed the explosion, protecting the children around him from injury.
Every child in the West should learn about this man.
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How far this little candle doth throw its beams... so shines a good deed in a wicked world
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Yanis (Ivan) Kanidis honored life and his murderers embraced death. That is the difference between us and them.
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Damn,
This is true heroism. God speed Yanis Kanidis. And this is why the cowardly, vile Islamists will lose, they don't have an inkling of the fiber found in the hearts and souls of free peoples...
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Unlike the scum that killed him, this man truly earned a place in Paradise. He was the sort of man we all wish we were.
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I can only hope that we never run out of truly courageous people like that. We will not lose so long as we have strength like that to draw upon.
Islam "Martyr" = someone who kills a lot of people in the process of killing himself.
True Martyr = someone who dies a death in faith, a death in an act of good, a selfless death for others, giving himself that others may live.
That in itself illustrates the difference between Islamofascism and the West (especially Christianity - this fellow was likely Eastern Orthodox)
I hope he is getting a firm Welcome Home in heaven - for such selfless defense of the innocent surely earned his way, demonstrated his faith far above the evil that confronted him.
Yanis, may a squadron of Angels hurry you to Heaven.
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wow, he's a hero, in my mind should be a legend, very brave
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#11 If we were to start a Rantburg Profiles in Courage series, Mr. Kanidis would be among the first I would profile.
Steve,
That is actually a very good idea. I think a site dedicated to those who have made great sacrifices in the war against Islamofascism would be a tremendous asset. It might even help to convince some of the fence sitters.
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The hostages who escaped told how the teacher repeatedly risked his own life in order to save the children.
A true teacher. Too bad his teachings probably won't reach those who are most in need, as in the terrorist's children. He certainly reached out to touch the lives of his own pupils. I hope they build a monument to him. How ironic that one complete foreigner would shed so much light unlike other foreigners who brought only darkness.
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Steve, Fred, the Rantburg Profiles in Courage is too good an idea not to do it.
Mr. Kanidis, rest in peace, brave friend.
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09/08/2004 9:08 Comments ||
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I also like the idea of a Rantburg Profiles in Courage series. Please make it, Fred.
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Greater love has no man than this, that he lay his life down for his friends. Rest in complete and entire peace, my friend. Fred, I love the idea of a RB Profiles in Courage. Start with Mr. Kanidis, include FDNY/NYPD and I have a feeling that more like them will be added to the Profile soon, although I pray not.
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Old Spook:
Very, very well said. Thank you.
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Good idea, I'll ghost it for half my usual fee.
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I'll start on it this evening.
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As Angels Look Down
The sunlight broke thru on the schoolhouse that day
With flowers in hand, parents leading the way
No thought to what waited on that side of town
A hush filled the Heavensâ¦As Angels Look Down
The horrors, the crying, the filth and the hate
Some tried to escape, for most itâs too late
Blood smears the gym floor, bombs all around
They prepare for their comingâ¦As Angels Look Down
Amid threats and a butt stroke, Yanis stays strong
Pressing his point, without giving ground
Through the hole run the children, a terrorist turns round
A grenade flies their wayâ¦As Angels Look Down
The carnage is terrible, lifeless parents and kids
On the floor torn apart lies Teacher Kanidis
A hero to survivors, while on high heâs surround
He and his childrenâ¦As Angels Look Down
John 15:13 Greather love hath no man than this; that he lay down his life for his friends.
When reading that account, I saw Jesus working through Kanidis.
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After this it was noised abroad that Mr. Valiant-for-truth was taken with a summons by the same post as the other, and had this for a token that the summons was true, "That his pitcher was broken at the fountain." Eccl. 12:6. When he understood it, he called for his friends, and told them of it. Then said he, "I am going to my Father's; and though with great difficulty I have got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles who will now be my rewarder." When the day that he must go hence was come, many accompanied him to the river-side, into which as he went, he said, "Death, where is thy sting?" And as he went down deeper, he said, "Grave, where is thy victory?" 1 Cor. 15:55. So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.
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