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Iraqi troops clash with Shiite hard boyz
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Arrests in Turkey over plot to kill Nobel laureate Pamuk: report
A Turkish nationalist party leader, a veteran journalist and an academic have been arrested over an alleged plan to kill author Orhan Pamuk, the country's first Nobel laureate, media reported Friday.
Some people just can't stand success ...
Dogu Perincek, the leader of the Workers' Party, senior journalist Ilhan Selcuk and Kemal Alemdaroglu, the former rector of Istanbul University, are in detention and are to appear before a public prosecutor, the Anatolia news agency said.

The news agency did not specify any charges against them but said they had been detained for their alleged role in an ultra-nationalist plot to kill Pamuk and senior Kurdish figures. Police also seized documents and software at a television station partly owned by Perincek's party, according to the IP news agency. Thirteen other people, including a general and a retired colonel, have been arrested over the supposed plot.

According to Turkish media reports, the suspects wanted to assassinate Pamuk, pro-Islamist journalist Fehmi Koru and Kurdish political figures Leyla Zana, Osman Baydemir and Ahmet Turk.

Despite his international fame, Pamuk's vocal criticism of issues that have long been national taboos has tagged him as renegade and a traitor, including the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire, and the ongoing Kurdish conflict in the southeast. The media reports said the plans were allegedly hatched by an "ultra-nationalist" group thought to be linked to the security forces.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 03/21/2008 08:41 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Turkey tries to westernize, but it can't shake off the cultural shackles that bind it to the muslim world. In the west we discuss, debate and protest. In the muslim world, they're outraged and plan murders.
Posted by: PlanetDan || 03/21/2008 11:24 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Kaboom kills five at Pakistan army camp
At least five soldiers have been killed and dozens of others wounded after a suicide bomber struck a Pakistan army base in a troubled tribal region bordering Afghanistan, officials say. The bomber attacked the gate of a military camp in Wana, South Waziristan, where Pakistani troops have been battling Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters.

The attack, on Thursday, is the latest in a series of suicide bombings that have put pressure on Pakistan's new government. "It was a suicide attack. Five troops lost their lives and a dozen others were wounded," a local security official told AFP news agency on condition of anonymity. "An army truck, some cars and soldiers were stationed at the gate of the camp and the bomber rammed his vehicle into them and blew himself up," the official said.

An army spokesman said officials were investigating a blast which targeted troops in Wana but did not have full details. The attack came as Dick Cheney, the US vice president, made a surprise visit to Kabul to meet with Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president.
Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Mullah Fazlullah's FM station resumes broadcast
The illegal radio station of militant commander Maulana Fazlullah has resumed broadcasts in the Swat district of NWFP, BBC Urdu reported on Thursday.

It said that official sources had confirmed that Fazlullah’s radio, after a closure of almost three months, was back on air with Fazlullah’s fiery speeches. “The FM radio station has been broadcasting Fazlullah’s speeches for the last three days, but it has not yet been fully active,” a government official told the BBC on condition of anonymity.

The official said the government had improved the signal strength of the state-run Swat Radio, in order to disrupt and jam the frequency of its counterpart run by Fazlullah.

Locals said that Fazlullah’s speeches were not audible, because of frequency disruption by the state-run radio station. “An unknown person starts to make a speech loudly, at exactly the same moment when Fazlullah delivers his speech; thus making Fazlullah’s words inaudible,” one local said.

According to official sources, the illegal radio station resumed its broadcasts from Matta tehsil. They added that its exact location was being ascertained.
Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TNSM

#1  Coordinates, please.....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 03/21/2008 12:26 Comments || Top||

#2  If you can't RDF a friggin' FM station to within a few meters you're a total inept. Either that, or you don't want to kill the nitwit doing the broadcasting.
Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2008 15:49 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Coalition forces destroy terrorist mortar team
Coalition forces destroy terrorist mortar team

BAGHDAD – Multi-National Corps – Iraq attack aviation assets, responded to an indirect fire attack on Coalition forces, killing six terrorists in West Rashid March 20.

The helicopters positively identified six men armed with AK-47 assault rifles, rocket propelled grenade launchers and a mortar tube and engaged with a Hellfire missile and 30 mm cannon fire.

Soldiers from 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, responded to the scene and seized four RPGs, two RPK machine guns and a mortar tube.
But what happened to the terrorists? Did they get away? Or was the Hellfire such a direct hit that there weren't any remains?
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/21/2008 12:44 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1  All things considered, they probably had to clean the weapons upon collection (at least rinse and lube).
Posted by: tipover || 03/21/2008 13:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Line one, they were killed.

Not one of MNF-I's best efforts. Sometimes clarity does win over content.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 03/21/2008 13:55 Comments || Top||

#3  I would feel better reading 'The bodies of the six terrorists were recovered' instead of expecting to be introduced on Al Jazeera to the 'wounded Mr., Mrs., & four kids' by an AQI hospital spokesman, with some BS story about being rocketed while changing a flat tire.

Actually, Chuck, it was one of MNF-I's better efforts - 6 terrorists spotted, 6 terrorists killed. Won't be any prisoner escapes or releases later.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/21/2008 16:25 Comments || Top||


Iraqi Troops Clash With Shiite Fighters
Iraqi security forces clashed with Shiite militia fighters southeast of Baghdad on Friday, the second day of fighting that killed at least two police officers and two gunmen, police said.
The fighting in the city of Kut broke out after factions of the Mahdi Army militia attacked checkpoints around the city amid a crackdown by Iraqi troops.

A joint U.S.-Iraqi operation also targeted a Shiite militia stronghold in the volatile city of Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad, and at least 12 suspected fighters were detained, local police said. The U.S. military had no immediate comment.

The fighting underscored rising tensions between rival militia factions battling for control of the oil-rich southern Shiite heartland with an eye toward the eventual withdrawal of U.S.-led forces.

The Mahdi Army militia is nominally loyal to the radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who renewed a six-month truce in February, but its fighters have been involved in clashes. The U.S. has not accused al- Sadr in the violence, blaming instead rogue militiamen who ignore his cease-fire order.

But U.S. and Iraqi officials have been cracking down on al-Sadr's followers, angering many in the movement who complain the security forces have been infiltrated by rival factions.

Iraqi reinforcements were sent to Kut four days ago to wrest control of a militia stronghold controlled by Mahdi Army fighters who had become increasingly brazen in recent weeks in their attacks on security forces, police said.

The fighting in Kut, about 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, began when militiamen attacked checkpoints around the city Thursday. At least two police officers and two gunmen had been killed since then, said Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf of Iraq's Interior Ministry.

In Baghdad, U.S. troops fought with Shiite gunmen Friday in a southwestern neighborhood, police said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information. The military did not immediately comment and no other details were available.

The U.S. military released 13 detainees who were welcomed home at a ceremony in the former Sunni insurgent stronghold of Azamiyah in northern Baghdad. It was the latest in a series of releases meant as a goodwill gesture to promote reconciliation with minority Sunnis who have turned against al-Qaida in Iraq.

One of those freed, Muntasir Abdul-Mahdi, said he had been held at Camp Bucca for a year after being arrested by U.S. troops.

"They said that they would make inquiries, but I was there for one year," he told AP Television News. "I am innocent. They released us because we are innocent."

American officials have touted the sharp decline in violence over the past year as a sign the Bush administration is beginning to show success in a conflict widely unpopular with the American public.
Quagmire!

According to the U.S. military, attacks have fallen about 60 percent since early last year, when President Bush ordered in about 30,000 American reinforcements to curb a wave of sectarian killings that had Iraq teetering on civil war.

But U.S. commanders caution that Iraq remains far from secure and say the security gains are fragile because of political disputes among the country's rival Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish communities.
All is lost!
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 03/21/2008 11:06 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Mahdi Army

#1  Last year, the fighting in Kut would be worrisome. Now, it's just a matter of time. The IA will act decisively if the militia doesn't settle down.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 03/21/2008 13:58 Comments || Top||

#2  The fighting underscored rising tensions between rival militia factions battling for control of the oil-rich southern Shiite heartland with an eye toward the eventual withdrawal of U.S.-led forces.

First we had to convince the Sunnis we could outlast them. Now we have to do it to the Shitites. And the Brits didn't make it any easier with their soft power. At least the IA is starting to help. Sicke'em, Sunnis; Kick'em Kurds. Let's wrap this up.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 03/21/2008 14:37 Comments || Top||


U.S. kills 7 believed to be planting IED in Iraq
The U.S. military says it has killed seven suspected insurgents trying to plant a roadside bomb in northern Iraq. Military officials say troops fired on the suspects as they tried to bury the bomb alongside a road between Samarra and Tikrit. But Iraqi police in Samarra say those killed Wednesday were civilians who were trying to repair their car. The U.S. military says an airstrike later destroyed the car after rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, homemade explosives and land mines were found inside.
Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1  Of course they were civilians - we aren't fighting an actual ARMY there. Sounds like somebody in the Samarra police department needs to be 'investigated'.
By this time you'd think actual civilians would learn not to dig for worms or such right in a road in the middle of the night - in fact evolutionary 'survival of the fittest' should have pretty much weeded out those who are so seriously stupid.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/21/2008 6:39 Comments || Top||

#2  How many knuckleheads does it take to plant an IED?

Maybe it was the IED 101 class getting started at Jihad University - Samarra campus.
Posted by: airandee || 03/21/2008 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Simple, if well-aresenalled, auto mechanics.
Posted by: Seafarious || 03/21/2008 9:34 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Another Al-Qassam Brigades activist dispatched on "Holy Mission"

Hey, Ibrahim, where's the safety manual for this thing?
What's a safety manual?

Gaza – Ma'an - A 34-year-old Al-Qassam Brigades activist was killed and another injured in an explosion in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday. Eyewitnesses told Ma'an they heard an explosion in a location used by the Brigades which appeared to be a shell exploding during the Brigades training exercise.
Okay, guys, listen up. Don't ever do th...
Mu'awiya Hassanain, director of emergency and ambulance services in the ministry of health said that the body of Wael Hammouda and an injured fighter named Ibrahim Abu Shammala were taken to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
Throw him in that pile over there. No, the other one...
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/21/2008 10:29 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Hee hee! Looks like the Israelis have perfected color-changing wire insulation!
Posted by: gorb || 03/21/2008 13:45 Comments || Top||

#2  I've been told one of the hazards of inbreeding is color blindness.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 03/21/2008 20:14 Comments || Top||


Hamas mishandles explosives, kills 2 in Gaza
Palestinian militants accidentally set off a large blast at a Hamas training base in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing two members of the violent Islamic group and wounding another, a Palestinian medical official said.
"Now watch how I connect these here detonator wires so you don't..."
"Hey! I thought you said the wires went the other--"
[KABOOM!]
Hamas initially blamed Israel for the blast, but later acknowledged that it was caused by a mishandling of explosives, saying its men died while performing a "holy mission." The Israeli military denied involvement.
"Wudn't us."
Hamas security men kept photographers and TV cameramen away from the scene. Dr. Moaiya Hassanain, a Palestinian Health Ministry official, confirmed the deaths.
"We found enough of each one to make a firm diagnosis."
Also Thursday, Hassanain said Israeli troops killed a 60-year-old Palestinian farmer near the Gaza-Israel border. The Israeli military had no comment. But Israel often shoots at Palestinians near the border, where militants frequently attempt to plant explosives or sneak into Israel.
This article starring:
Moaiya HassanaiHamas
Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  They farm Kassams now?
Posted by: gorb || 03/21/2008 2:08 Comments || Top||

#2  My goodness. The AP actually used the phrase "violent Islamic group".

That's almost worthy of porcine aerobatics.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/21/2008 10:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Hamas security men kept photographers and TV cameramen away from the scene

Interesting. Media is only allowed when Israel kills palis, not when they die in other ways. So it's not really about the sad, senseless loss of human life. It's about managing media attention. How cynical. How palestinian.
Posted by: PlanetDan || 03/21/2008 11:21 Comments || Top||

#4  “…saying its men died while performing a "holy mission.".

Wow…a couple of careless thugs blow themselves up and it still qualifies them for instant martyrdom? Huh…wonder if it’s because after these little self-detonation mishaps new recruitment tends to slow down for awhile.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 03/21/2008 11:24 Comments || Top||

#5  If "Work Accidents" qualify them as "Instant Martyrs" all I can say is Let them all be Martyrs.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 03/21/2008 12:26 Comments || Top||

#6  As the late rocket science John Clark wrote (about a different rocket fuel), For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.

(Stolen Lifted from Derek Lowe's blog.)
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 03/21/2008 22:05 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Two policemen killed in raid in southern Thailand
Two policemen and a stinking terrorist suspected rebel were killed on Friday during a house raid in a village in Thailand's Muslim south, where nearly 3,000 people have died in four years of separatist unrest, police said.
Just passed 3000, I believe. One of the Grim Milestones you don't see on CNN or NPR.
The two policemen, a Muslim and a Buddhist, were shot dead during a raid on the home of a suspected guerrilla in Yala, one of the four southernmost provinces roiled by the violence. Fifty soldiers and police then stormed the one-storey house and killed a 25-year-old Muslim man, police said.

The raid followed clashes on Wednesday between security forces and insurgents suspected of killing a 70-year-old Buddhist shopkeeper. Two Muslim men, one of whom was believed to be a leading member of an insurgent group and with a 500,000 baht ($16,000) bounty on his head, died in that operation, police said..

A university think-tank that has been cataloguing the unrest attributed the decline to the deployment of more troops by new army chief Anupong Paochinda, who took office in October.
Yep, it sounds like just the sort of conclusion that only a university think-tank could come up with.
Anupong said a group of Thai dupes academics had met with two groups of exiled rebels in Geneva but they were not representing the government in any way.

"I can assure you the government has never in any negotiations with those wrongdoers," he told reporters after a meeting of top security officials in Bangkok. After the same meeting, Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej stressed Bangkok would never hold talks with insurgents.
Posted by: ryuge || 03/21/2008 06:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Largest manhunt in Singapore's history
Singaporean authorities have received more than 1,100 tips from the public in its manhunt for an alleged terrorist leader who escaped jail two weeks ago, police said on Wednesday. Mas Selamat bin Kastari, the alleged Singapore head of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) which is blamed for deadly attacks including the 2002 Bali bombings, vanished on February 27 after asking to use the toilet in his detention centre.

The phoned-in tips had been received from the public as of Monday after police asked for information leading to Kastari’s arrest, police director of operations Wong Hong Kuan said.

A number of false alarms have been triggered by information that Indonesia-born Kastari walks with a limp. People have also sent in tips via e-mail.

Security forces were still conducting searches almost island-wide, with a focus on forested tracts though it was not “neglecting the urban built-up areas,” Wong said.

Local media have described the search — involving police, the military and Nepalese Gurkha paramilitary forces — as the biggest manhunt in the history of Singapore, which has lush nature reserves and densely populated housing blocks.

Pictures of the wanted man have been plastered across the city-state and sent to mobile phone subscribers. Security forces in neighbouring Indonesia and Malaysia were also on the lookout for Kastari, but Singapore insists he is unlikely to have fled the island. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday that Singapore remained optimistic it can capture him.

Kastari, 47, was accused of plotting to hijack a plane in order to crash it into Singapore’s busy Changi Airport in 2001, but he was never charged in court. He was being held under an internal security law that allows for detention without trial.
This article starring:
Mas Selamat bin KastariJemaah Islamiyah
Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jemaah Islamiyah

#1  I didn't think Singapore jails had the same tendency to lose custody of prisoners as, say, Yemen ones. I wonder if the guard who lost him has met his 72 virgins yet.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/21/2008 6:44 Comments || Top||

#2  I have faith they'll get him eventually.
Posted by: Darrell || 03/21/2008 10:01 Comments || Top||

#3  When he spits on the sidewalk they will nail his dumb arse.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 03/21/2008 12:52 Comments || Top||

#4  or gets caught chewing gum or forgets to flush a toilet....
Posted by: Abu do you love || 03/21/2008 19:41 Comments || Top||


Sri Lanka
22 Tamil Tigers killed
Fighting between government troops and Tamil Tigers across Sri Lanka’s war-ravaged northern districts claimed at least 22 rebel lives, the defence ministry said Thursday.

Security forces killed the rebels during artillery duels in Jaffna, Weli Oya, Mannar and Vavuniya on Wednesday, the ministry said, adding that two soldiers were wounded. The government’s casualty claims could not be verified and there was no immediate comment from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who control a swathe of territory in the island’s north.

The government claims it has killed 2,212 rebels since January against the loss of 130 of it own troops. Both sides are known to offer wildly fluctuating claims that cannot be independently verified as the government prevents reporters and rights groups from visiting frontline areas. Tens of thousands have died since the LTTE launched a separatist campaign in 1972 to carve out an independent homeland for minority Tamils in the island’s north and east.
Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah & Zaaiter family clash resulting in casualties
Hezbollah fighters and members of the Zaaiter family clashed overnight in Hay al-Sullum district of Beirut . The clashes resulted in several casualties security sources reported The incident took place around 8: PM Wednesday. Various firearms were used in the clashes Lebanon is witnessing high tension not seen since the civil war of 1975 -1990.
Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Terror Networks
More on the Chinese Airliner Bomb
China revealed that two Islamic terrorists who attempted to set off a gasoline bomb in a domestic airliner flight last month, were traveling on Pakistani passports, and one was from Pakistan. One of the terrorists was a Pakistani man. The woman was a Chinese citizen, a Moslem Uighur (Turk) from western China (where eight million Moslem Uighurs live).
Posted by: ed || 03/21/2008 14:40 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  Pakistan, everybody's best friend.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 03/21/2008 14:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Please don't waterboard these civilians......
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 03/21/2008 15:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Hanging IS good enough for them.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 03/21/2008 20:17 Comments || Top||

#4  "two Islamic terrorists ... were traveling on Pakistani passports, and one was from Pakistan"

Well, I for one am just shocked....

Hooda thunk it?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 03/21/2008 21:07 Comments || Top||

#5  play the odds, Barb - sooner or later they had to falsify right LOL
Posted by: Frank G || 03/21/2008 21:27 Comments || Top||


Binny Urges Jihad for Palestinians
Osama bin Laden lashed out Thursday at Palestinian peace negotiations with Israel and called for a holy war to liberate the Palestinian lands.

A day after a bin Laden audio on a militant Web site threatened Europeans, Al-Jazeera TV broadcast audio excerpts attributed to the al-Qaida leader that urge Palestinians to ignore political parties "mired in trickery of the blasphemous democracy" and to rely on armed might. "Palestine cannot be retaken by negotiations and dialogue, but with fire and iron," he said.

It was the first time bin Laden spoke of the Palestinian question at length since the deteriorating situation in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, where the Israeli military has been fighting with militants who fire rockets into southern Israel. Bin Laden added that Palestinians who are unable to fight in the "land of Al-Quds" — a Muslim reference to Jerusalem — should join the al-Qaida fight in Iraq. "The nearest field of jihad today to support our people in Palestine is the Iraqi field," he said.

He also called on the people of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia to "help in support of their mujahedeen brothers in Iraq, which is the greatest opportunity and the biggest task." Al-Jazeera did not say how it obtained the recording, which was broadcast with an old photograph of bin Laden in a white headscarf and traditional Arab dress. There was no indication how recently the recording was made, or if it was an unreleased part of the audio posted late Wednesday on an extremist Web site that has carried al-Qaida statements in the past. The two messages were bin Laden's first this year.

In the first recording, bin Laden accused Pope Benedict XVI of helping in a "new Crusade" against Muslims and warned of a "severe" reaction for Europeans' publication of cartoons seen by Muslims as insulting Islam's prophet. In the audio on Al-Jazeera, bin Laden said the sufferings of Palestinians in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip began when Arab leaders supported the U.S.-hosted Mideast peace conference in Annapolis, Md., and the "Zionist entity," the militant name for Israel
Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  If constant rocket attacks are not jihad then maybe binnie really wants them to shift to the non-violent struggle version of the term we so often hear about but never actually see.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/21/2008 0:11 Comments || Top||

#2  HMMMMMM, HMMMMMM, ME > GUAM, + OSAMA'S "The response will be what you see", starting in the skies ala KAMALEN, etc. via GUAM TAOTAMONAS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/21/2008 0:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Tapping my fingers on a desk .....
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/21/2008 0:44 Comments || Top||

#4  ADNKRONOS > NEW MESSAGES > TERRORISM: BIN LADEN SEEKING NEW [desperate?] RELEVANCE, SAYS TOP EXPERTS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/21/2008 1:33 Comments || Top||

#5  REDDIT > CNN - BIN LADEN: IRAQ IS THE PERFECT BASE.

Also from REDDIT > BALLS NEWS - NASA SATELLITE DETECTS NAKED-EYE EXPLOSION [03/19/08 Gamma Ray Burst] HALFWAY ACROSS THE UNIVERSE/GALAXY. "The passing of ARTHUR C. CLARKE seems to have set the universe alive wid GAMMA RAY BURSTS".

"ARTHUR C. CLARKE"??? - IOW, YEAHHHH RIIIGGHHHTTT never mind how many GRB's, etc. a good Madonna Fan from Guam saw before and during. IS IT ME ANDOR IS IT BECUZ I'M FROM GUAM? YOU WORK, YOU SLAVE, ALL YOU ASK FOR IS BOOBS AND HOAGIES, BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOO..... THE MAN WHOM DESTROYED THE SOVIETS, DEV LASER WEAPONS, AND DEV TIME WARP .......SEES SPACE BOOMS, ETC. DOESN'T GET BOOBIES OR HOAGIES, DO HE?
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/21/2008 2:19 Comments || Top||

#6  "Palestine cannot be retaken by negotiations and dialogue, but with fire and iron," he said.

How German of you...
Posted by: Free Radical || 03/21/2008 6:17 Comments || Top||

#7  BOOBIES OR HOAGIES

I have faith in your abilities, JosephM, to get what you really want. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/21/2008 6:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Bin Laden added that Palestinians who are unable to fight in the "land of Al-Quds" — a Muslim reference to Jerusalem — should join the al-Qaida fight in Iraq. "The nearest field of jihad today to support our people in Palestine is the Iraqi field," he said.

Isn't this proof that the 'flypaper' strategy is working? American-haters should go to Iraq, not Cleveland, right, Binny?
Posted by: Bobby || 03/21/2008 7:09 Comments || Top||

#9  "BOOBIES OR HOAGIES"

Joe - didn't you once mention getting subs from a shop in State College, PA? I believe this is a recurring theme. You've slipped up! You've revealed a pattern in your writing. Doesn't matter what you call 'em - subs, hoagies, heros, or grinders; you've let slip your nefarious plans for planet earth.

GOD help me but I think I'VE BROKEN THE JOE CODE!!
Posted by: GORT || 03/21/2008 8:23 Comments || Top||

#10  I urge Jihad for the Paleos too. After all, it worked sooooo well in Iraq.

*snicker*
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/21/2008 9:23 Comments || Top||

#11  This is potentially very dangerous. Al Quada has dug itself quite a hole in the Arab world by killing so many muslims in Iraq. This was very unpopular in the street. What IS still popular is killing Joos. Al Quada had a need to rehabilitate their image. Killing Joos will do that. They'll still get whacked on the battlefield, but image wise they do have an opportunity to reverse the PR losses they have accumulated over the last 4 years.
Posted by: Zebulon Unomolet6509 || 03/21/2008 10:02 Comments || Top||

#12  Interesting that Zawahiri does video tapes and binny does audio. Has there been any verification that the voice really is binny's? Or maybe it is binny's voice but he looks so poorly that he won't do video? Leaves room for all kinds of speculation.

But, hey, it's Good Friday. BOOBIES AND HOAGIES for all.
Posted by: Abu Uluque (aka Ebbang Uluque6305) || 03/21/2008 11:48 Comments || Top||

#13  YOU WORK, YOU SLAVE, ALL YOU ASK FOR IS BOOBS AND HOAGIES, BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO..... THE MAN WHOM DESTROYED THE SOVIETS, DEV LASER WEAPONS, AND DEV TIME WARP .......SEES SPACE BOOMS, ETC. DOESN'T GET BOOBIES OR HOAGIES, DO HE?

Life can be a fickle lady Joe, sometimes you must settle for Sweater Meat* and cheesecake... yes! >;)

[* .com]
Posted by: RD || 03/21/2008 11:58 Comments || Top||

#14  Abu Uluque (aka Ebbang Uluque6305), the real question is has anyone seen Rich Little since he faked his own death. Yeah, I didn't think so.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/21/2008 12:43 Comments || Top||

#15  I assume that any decent computer geek could piece together Binny singing the Star Spangled Banner in arabic within 24 hours.

Or Lincoln's Gettsburg Address, for that matter.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/21/2008 12:44 Comments || Top||

#16  I bought one of those Dean Martin Roast DVDs and Rich Little was on it. But then, sadly, everybody else who was on the dais has long since passed on to that great roast in the sky.
Posted by: Abu Uluque (aka Ebbang Uluque6305) || 03/21/2008 14:06 Comments || Top||

#17  The Easter Binny declares jihad No. 17.
Posted by: Apostate || 03/21/2008 18:00 Comments || Top||

#18  Easter Binny - haha
Posted by: Woodrow Slusorong7967 || 03/21/2008 18:04 Comments || Top||


Good morning.....
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#1  Darn. 'ell.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/21/2008 0:01 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm not a big fan of frilly dresses, but I'llmake an exception in this case. The off the shoulder look with a choker necklace makes me feel funny inside. And by funny I mean, well you know what I mean.
Posted by: Scott R || 03/21/2008 0:24 Comments || Top||

#3  I like frilly dresses, too. Rumpled up on the floor is best. The choker can stay where it is.
Posted by: gorb || 03/21/2008 2:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Most women can't even come close to that smoking, sultry look these days. I think women's lib killed most of it.
The look she is giving makes me feel like I might be the mouse to a cat and she could teach me a thing or two.

Wow...
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/21/2008 7:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Linda looks like she could hurt me.

. . . . and I'd let her.
Posted by: GORT || 03/21/2008 8:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Perhaps that was the look that Joan Collins was always aiming for.
Posted by: mhw || 03/21/2008 8:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Dunno but she was a hottie back in her day. MEOW
Posted by: Slappy || 03/21/2008 10:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Most women can't even come close to that smoking, sultry look these days.

I beg to differ...
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/21/2008 20:21 Comments || Top||

#9  You guys are aware she died in a fire, right?
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/21/2008 20:23 Comments || Top||

#10  so she's always been smokin' hot?

/I'll go to my room now....
Posted by: Frank G || 03/21/2008 21:21 Comments || Top||



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