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Arabia
Hi, neighbor!
Caption on an al-Jazeera reprint of an Arab political cartoon:
The Istanbul Conference included all countries neighboring to Iraq except Kuwait. The reason cited by a Kuwaiti official was that Kuwait is not Iraq's neighbor. Rather, it is America's neighbor. (By Emad Melhem, Alkifah Alarabi, 1/25/03).
Maybe they just remember: The Arab League met for a full day after the invasion, and was unable even to come up with an expression of concern. When President Bush said he would not rule out a counterstrike and warned that the U.S. considered Saudi Arabia to be a “vital interest,” the Arab League publicly rejected foreign interference, though it did somehow manage to condemn the invasion and demand that Iraq pack up and go home. Eight of its 21 members abstained or voted against even that pallid measure. Yemen’s two ruling parties issued a joint communique condemning sanctions as evidence of “pre-planned aggressive intentions against the nations of the Arab world.”
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 09:28 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Rejected foreign interference" my %$#. The World Muslim League - or government of Sandy Arabia -has financed over 800 mosques in the U.S. alone. The Wahabi nose is interfering everywhere.
Posted by: Anonymous || 01/26/2003 0:45 Comments || Top||


Shots fired at convoy in Kuwait...
Shots were reportedly fired yesterday morning near a US military convoy on the outskirts of Kuwait city, but the circumstances surrounding the incident remained unclear and no injuries were reported, US and Kuwaiti officials said. “There is a report that shots were fired in the vicinity of a US military convoy” at around 8:15 a.m. (0515 GMT) on Sixth Ring Road, along the southern edge of the city, US military spokesman Capt. David Connolly told the Associated Press. Connolly did not say where the report came from and said he could not confirm its veracity nor whether the military convoy was the target. Sgt. 1st Class David Dismukes, a US military spokesman, said that, according to an initial report, the shots were fired from a car, adding that no injuries have been reported. No further details, including information on who fired the reported shots, were immediately available.
Just passing Islamists, saying "hello" on their way to a picnic...
A Kuwaiti Interior Ministry spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he also received information about the reported incident. “They (the Americans) heard shots being fired but we don’t know from where or if they were the targets,” he said.
"Coulda just been some elk hunters, y'know..."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 08:55 pm || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Aww crap. And I thought it was the convoy of human shields that was getting shot at...
Posted by: Ptah || 01/25/2003 21:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Yar. There be Americans.
Posted by: Anonymous || 01/26/2003 4:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Is it just me or are more & more Kuwaitis with short memories becoming a bit unappreciative these days?
Posted by: Rw || 01/26/2003 6:19 Comments || Top||

#4  I think there's a joint Iraqi-Qaeda effort to egg every nutbag in and around Kuwait into "showing the world" that Kuwaitis are as opposed to the presence of the infidels, whether they are or not. Same principle applies in Pakland, by the way, where the "Afghans" (Pashtuns, anyway) are "showing the world" how opposed they are. These attacks are much more for diplo effect than military.
Posted by: Fred || 01/26/2003 7:44 Comments || Top||


Thugs in Riyadh kill one, wound three...
Saudi security forces are hunting for four gunmen who killed a Kuwaiti man and wounded three Saudis during a police check in the capital Riyadh. The Saudi interior ministry said the shooting happened on Friday night at an apartment block in Riyadh's Al-Masyaf neighbourhood.
They weren't running alk this time?
The leader of the main Saudi Islamic opposition movement in London described the incident as a police raid on a group of "pro-jihad (holy war)" lunatics men. An interior ministry statement carried by the official Saudi news agency SPA said police came under fire when they went to check the identities of several suspects at the complex, and two officers were wounded. One policeman was hit in the thigh, another in the foot, preventing them from pursuing the gunmen. As the gunmen fled the apartment they also shot a Kuwaiti national who had left his apartment to see what was going on, the statement said.
"Hey, what's goin' on out there? Ow!"
A Saudi man standing outside his home near the complex was also lightly wounded in the shooting, it added.
"Hah! Y'missed me, bitch! (Ooh! My, that hurt!) "
The shooting happened a day after Saudi Arabia extradited a self-confessed Kuwaiti supporter of the al-Qaeda network, who admitted ambushing two Americans near the main US army base in Kuwait.
Oh, is that what caused it?
Saad al-Faqih, head of the London-based opposition Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia (Mira), said the Saudi police raid on Friday targeted suspected al-Qaeda members. In an interview with Qatari-based al-Jazeera television, he claimed that Saudi police morale had "collapsed" since "pro-jihad men" had received a fatwa, or religious decree, "ordering them not to surrender or be taken prisoner". Their religious leaders had told them "to use weapons only if the police attack them," Mr al-Faqih said.
"That's right. You guys fight to the last man, and save the last bullet for yourselves... Now, I wonder what's for lunch?"
Commenting on the Riyadh shooting, the Saudi Deputy Interior Minister, Prince Ahmad bin Abdul Aziz, said the authorities were still holding about 200 people suspected of links with al-Qaeda. But he told the newspaper Al-Riyadh that the authorities had not yet identified the four gunmen - believed to be Saudis.
Since the local thugs normally don't shoot up the place, maybe the interior ministry will want to hop right on that little chore...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 02:21 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Algerians 'criminal' money seized in customs swoop
Instapundit points to this sad story of thwarted shopping lust...
Four Algerians are being investigated over possible terrorist links after being stopped leaving a bureau de change with thousands of pounds in cash. The men held outside a London bureau by Customs officers were carrying more than £16,000 in US dollars. Security services were alerted and are investigating where the money came from, what it was for and the possibility it was linked to terrorist funding in the UK or abroad. The cash, which Customs believed to be linked to criminal activity, was seized on January 9 following an intelligence operation. When stopped, the men claimed the money had been withdrawn from a bank account in Algeria and that it was going to be used for clothes shopping in the UK and US.
£16,000 buys a pretty natty set of duds...
They produced copies of bank slips and invoices but investigators established through officials in Algeria that the account did not exist.
"Well, don't that beat all! Really? It was there last I looked... Oh, wait! I'll bet one of my ex-wives cleaned it out and deleted it..."
A source said: "The origin of the seized cash remains under investigation and if there is any evidence of a terrorist link it will be reported to the relevant agencies."
Glenn comments: "I'm shopping for clothes. My size? I wear a 'C-4'"...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 08:29 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Spain questioning itinerant crazed killers...
Spanish authorities are questioning 16 men arrested in a police swoop on suspected al-Qaeda-linked militant cells on Friday.
And none too gently, I hope...
Experts are examining explosives and chemicals seized in the raid. Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar said a "major terrorist attack", had been thwarted by the arrests in the north-eastern Catalonia region. Mr Aznar described the arrests as an extraordinarily important strike in the war against terror. "I want to highlight once again that when we talk about the fight against terrorism and the circles around it and when we talk about ensuring the safety and the peace of all, we are not talking about fantasies," he said.
No matter how much some people try to dismiss them as such...
Mr Aznar said those arrested had links to Algerian militant groups. "[The police] have broken up a major terrorist network... linked in this case to the Algerian Salafist group, a splinter of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), which has clear connections with the criminal organisation of Bin Laden," he said. Interior Minister Angel Acebes said the suspects were divided into two groups, both led by Algerians. A suspect named as Mohamad Tahraqui was said to be in charge of the Barcelona-based group, while the other operated out of Banolas in neighbouring Gerona province under the leadership of a man named as Bard Eddin Ferdji.
Spain's a really good place to kill infidels. There are even more tourists there than there are in Bali...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 02:09 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Spain's a really good place to kill infidels"

Funny, that's what Ferdinand and Isabella said about the Moors.
Posted by: Steve White || 01/25/2003 21:55 Comments || Top||


Afghan extremists en route to Europe: German paper
German intelligence has warned that 20 Afghan extremists travelling on falsified Pakistani passports are en route to Europe, Germany's mass-circulation Bild newspaper reported on Saturday. The daily cited unnamed intelligence sources as saying what the paper called "terror commandos" were travelling to Germany, Britain, France and the Czech Republic via Bahrain. The paper did not say what the extremists planned to do if they made it to Europe, but said they were followers of Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who has denied reports he is allied with Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
And has also admitted to them. Hek's a very confused fellow lately...
Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency, which has warned in recent months it was concerned the country might become the target of Islamist attacks because of Berlin's support for the US-led war on terror, was not immediately available for comment.
So the Fritzies have become pacifists, refusing to support the U.S. in thumping Sammy, and in return Hek and his al-Qaeda buddies dispatch a hit team to reward them... It's a strange and wonderful world we live in. But probably more strange than wonderful...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 12:16 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now that the Deutschlanders will not be travelling with us to Baghdad, they will have plenty of resources to apply to interviews with men in Afghan sweaters and the fifth column. For their sakes, I hope that they succeed.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/25/2003 20:36 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Boxcutter and hair dye boyz are back home...
An Indian man detained in the United States for 16 months after the 11 September attacks, has returned home. But Mohammed Azmath was arrested again by Indian police after his arrival in his home town of Hyderabad in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. He stands accused of giving false information on his passport application. He was later granted bail.
This goober just can't win. Shoulda headed for Pakland...
Mr Azmath and his co-suspect, Gul Mohammed Shah - also known as Ayub Ali Khan - were detained in Texas a day after the attacks in New York and Washington. US police said the two men were carrying knives and a large amount of cash. They had been on a flight that was grounded following the 11 September 11. Mr Azmath and Mr Shah, known as the "boxcutter detainees" because of the knives, were taken by the US intelligence agency, FBI for prolonged questioning.
16 months is pretty prolonged, I'll admit...
Later they were cleared of any involvement in the 11 September attacks. During the questioning it was found that Mr Azmath had filed false information while applying for his passport in India. Mr Shah, the other detainee, returned home earlier this month. During the U.S. investigation, he was convicted of credit card fraud. On his return to India, Mr Shah said that he was kept in solitary confinement. He accused the US authorities of subjecting him to psychological torture during his detention.
He was probably kept in solitary as much for his own protection as to make him feel bad. Even the jailbirds were ready to thump people like him in September 2001. Lucky for him, he turned out to be just another crook, so he could be safely tossed.

Don't come back, Ali Khan. Don't come back, Mohammed Azmath. Go ruin somebody else's country.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 03:26 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Pakistan author's murder condemned
Pakistan's human rights commission says it has launched an investigation into the murder of the author, Fazal Wahab, whose work was critical of radical Islam. The commission's chairman, Afrasiab Khattak, told the BBC he was extremely alarmed by the circumstances of Mr Wahab's murder on Tuesday. Mr Wahab, an outspoken critic of radical Islamic clerics, was shot dead in the hill resort of Mingora, in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP). The London-based human rights group, Amnesty International, too has expressed deep concern at the author's murder.
This is what life under gangsters looks like. If you diss Mister Big, you get banged...
Pakistani police failed to give him any protection although he had complained that he was receiving death threats, Amnesty said in a report on Saturday. The police have not taken any action to find his killers or protect his family from further attacks, the report added.
And this is why people in some areas have to live under the control of gangsters...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 02:45 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The NWFP ain't a safe place for anti-jihadi critics.
Posted by: Anonymous || 01/26/2003 0:51 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't think it's a safe place for anyone, except maybe mullahs...
Posted by: Fred || 01/26/2003 7:46 Comments || Top||


Pakistan bomb suspects charged
Two men have formally been charged with murder, terrorism, and conspiracy in connection with the suicide attack which killed 11 French engineers and two Pakistani bystanders in Karachi. Asif Zaheer and Bashir Ahmed will go on trial on 1 February. Others are suspected of masterminding the attack, but Mr Zaheer and Mr Ahmed are so far the only people detained.
They're the cannon fodder. The boyz in charge will let them take the fall — what the hell? They're cheap and easily replaced...
Zaheer, 28, was arrested in December on suspicion of involvement in a separate plot to ram an explosives-laden car into a US diplomatic vehicle in Karachi. Police say he has confessed to planting explosives in the Sheraton car bomb attack. Zaheer reportedly told police he received training at a camp of the extremist group, Harkatul Jihad-e-Islami, in Afghanistan. He reportedly said he was determined to punish Americans for their military actions in Afghanistan. An investigator said that during interrogation Mr Zaheer admitted he had mistaken the Frenchmen for Americans and regretted killing "friends of Pakistan''.
"Oops. My bad..."
Mr Ahmed is believed to be a member of the al-Qaeda affiliate, Harkat-ul-Mujahedeen al-Almi, the Associated Press reports. Members of the group fought alongside the Taleban during US-led airstrikes in Afghanistan.
Didn't most everybody in Pakland? But they're our good friends...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 02:03 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Pak mullahs squeal like piggies over Nancy Powell's remarks..
Pakistani Islamic leaders demanded Friday that U.S. Ambassador Nancy Powell be expelled after she said Pakistan must keep militants from infiltrating India-ruled Kashmir. Pakistan officials also objected, but said she wouldn't be asked to leave. The Foreign Ministry did summon her, underscoring the sensitivity over perceived U.S. slights to a key ally in the U.S.-led global campaign against terrorism.
Oh, the pain! Make it stop!
Islamic leaders of a coalition of religious parties that govern strategic Pakistani provinces bordering Afghanistan expressed outrage at the envoy's remarks. "(The) American ambassador has no right to interfere in the internal affairs of Pakistan, and she must be asked by Pakistan government to leave,'' said Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, secretary general of a pro-Taliban Islamic group, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam. Haideri said Powell's statement shows "America is not our friend.''
I think what Nancy was saying is that Pakistan isn't America's friend. I mean, we've tried. We've been understanding. We've been patient. They've been loons...
Powell made her remarks Thursday in a speech to an American Business Council luncheon in Karachi. ``Pakistan must ensure its pledges are implemented to prevent infiltration across the Line of Control and end the use of Pakistan as a platform for terrorism,'' Powell said, according to a transcript handed to reporters by U.S. officials.
Sounds reasonable to me. That's what they said they were gonna do, after all...
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said in Washington that Powell was echoing remarks by Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in January 2002 when he said that Pakistan would not allow its territory to be used for any terrorist activity anywhere in the world. ``And that has been a pledge that we've taken seriously and something we've continue to work with Pakistan on.''
And we're going to call them on it when they ignore that pledge...
Powell is a career diplomat who arrived in Pakistan a few months ago. She had served previously in Ghana.
She probably wishes she was still there...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 12:52 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So let's see if we can figure out the part that had them squealing the loudest. Was it --

1) saying that the Paks have to keep their militants under control
2) saying that Perv has to keep his word
3) being a woman and telling men what to do

I dunno, it's so hard to decide.
Posted by: Steve White || 01/25/2003 22:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Nancy:
SAAG outed you as career CIA, and they would know. If it is true, then I have to say that some of the things that you people do to protect "assets" are loathsome. The indulgence of what is going at the NWFP frontier is disgusting. I suspect that the Agency will have a go at the Balochis who having been blowing up oil-patch controlled pipelines.
Posted by: Anonymous || 01/26/2003 0:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Who's SAAG?
Posted by: Patrick Phillips || 01/26/2003 4:59 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Malays nab a couple live ones...
Malaysian police have arrested two men, including a member of the country's military, on suspicion of belonging to a militant Islamic group linked to al-Qaeda. The two are said to be members of a cell that helped recruit for paramilitary training in the southern Philippines.
That's the training that MILF has denied providing...
The air force official's rank and role have not been made public. Both men are said to have been part of a militant cell based in the east Malaysian state of Sabah, on the island of Borneo. Four alleged members of the same cell were seized last month. Together they are believed to have provided accommodation and transport for fellow members of Jemaah Islamiah. Sabah is thought to be a staging post for militants travelling to the nearby southern Philippines, where many receive paramilitary training.
Jemaah is thought by Indonesia's VP not to exist...
Ten days ago Indonesian police arrested two alleged members of Jemaah Islamiyah described as key suspects in the Bali bombing. Both were seized while apparently planning to flee from Indonesian Borneo into Sabah.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 01:55 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


We are ready to die, Bali accused say
They are kept in isolation and not allowed to meet. Yet in the sweltering isolation of their cells in what increasingly looks like death row, the spectre of betrayal troubles four accused Bali bombers as much as a firing squad.

Mukhlas, 42, his brothers, Amrozi, 39, and Ali Imron, 30, and their comrade, Imam Amim Samudra, 35, all Islamic fundamentalists, have told their lawyers they are prepared to die - a fate made all the more likely because each of them to varying degrees has condemned the others.

Their trials, under terrorism laws which carry the death penalty, are still weeks away, yet almost every day police and security officials proclaim their guilt, releasing information on the latest "confession".

The Balinese believe it and are impatient for retribution. "A firing squad is too good for them," a university graduate said. "The electric chair is better because it takes time for them to die."

Under this unrelenting pressure, a rift has opened between the prisoners, with Mukhlas and Ali Imron shunning Amrozi and Samudra by appointing a new team of lawyers to handle their defence. The move shocked their former defence team, who are also lawyers for the cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, spiritual leader of the alleged terrorist group Jeemah Islamiah (JI).

The most important prisoner, Mukhlas - a religious teacher and the alleged operations chief in South-East Asia for JI - has been the least co-operative with his interrogators.

"When I look him in the eyes, he is a brave man, this is a jihad [holy war]," said his lawyer, Wirawan Adnan, before he was dismissed. "But deep inside people have fear, and I detect this in him. Mukhlas has his wishes, and death is not one of them."

Mukhlas was probably betrayed by his long-term comrade, Amim Samudra, another religious teacher. Both are veterans who spent two years in Afghanistan, have worked together since they met in Malaysia in the l980s and are the only cadre terrorists among the prisoners. Mukhlas allegedly gave Samudra command of the operation, the biggest they had planned together.

Sudanese-born Samudra is the most defiant of the prisoners, a willing martyr. After angry Balinese assaulted his lawyer, Qadar Faisal, as he left the Denpasar court recently, Samudra told Mr Faisal when he later visited his cell: "I wish I had a gun and was there to protect you."

Mr Faisal says Samudra is "very angry" with Amrozi, the confessed bomber whose smiling face outraged Australians and Balinese when he was paraded for public viewing after his capture.

Arrested two weeks after almost 200 people died in the blasts that destroyed two Bali nightclubs on October 12, Amrozi boasted about his role and gave police their first and most important breakthrough by naming most of his fellow conspirators, including Samudra.

The last time Samudra and Amrozi were together was in December. Mr Faisal said Samudra castigated Amrozi in Arabic, a language not understood by their guards: "Speak the truth. Be a good Muslim."

The head of the investigation team, General I Made Mangku Pastika, said of Samudra when comparing him with Amrozi: "He is more like a tough man, brave. Sometimes he is cool."

None of the prisoners can ignore the fact that he is facing execution because of Amrozi's behaviour. This sets him apart, even though attempts are made to conceal the tensions among the prisoners.

Next door to Polda is a mosque, and five times a day, when they hear the imam calling their interrogators to prayer, the prisoners kneel in their cells on prayer mats and face towards Mecca.
Posted by: Paul || 01/25/2003 07:18 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "We are ready to die."
Good, 'cause we are ready to kill you so it all works out.
Posted by: Denny || 01/25/2003 11:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds like the essence of fairness to me...
Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2003 20:39 Comments || Top||

#3  One last round of giggle juice (TM) for Auld Lang Syne.......
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/25/2003 20:40 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
PRO-WAR SUPPORTERS CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION
Saturday, January 25, 2003

While I don't usually post on Saturdays, I received word of this breaking news story today. Forwarded by a Mr. W. Argood, who found it on a local (Arizona) newspaper's website. And, yes, I did see something about it on the local TV news last night but missed the first part of the story so didn't realize its frightening implications until getting Mr. Argood's email. Just what is this world coming to, anyway?
- Pete

----- (begin forwarded news article) -----

AS WAR LOOMS, PRO-WAR SUPPORTERS CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION

PHOENIX - In recent weeks, a growing number of pro-American Americans have begun showing their support for the coming war with Iraq through a simple, but effective, act.

An act inspired by Don Crawford, a talk-radio host at KLBJ in Austin, Texas, who made an on-air plea calling, "for all the normal Americans who support the war against Saddam to turn on their headlights!"

The response was overwhelming, Crawford said, as "Numerous callers reported that every car on Austin's highways and byways had its headlights on. We received only one report of one car in all of Austin's roads that had its lights off."

Crawford has since continued his on-the-road grass roots initiative, hoping people across the country will follow suit, enacting, in his words, "The same pro-war protest to show where Americans really stand."

But now, the pro-war movement has taken a larger - and perhaps more disturbing - turn.

A pro-war rally held on the steps of the state capitol in Phoenix, Arizona, on Friday, took the message from one of support to a call for immediate action.

According to local officials, an estimated 200 people gathered, far outnumbering the dozen or so anti-war protesters who were already picketing in the same area.

Carrying signs which read, "Might Makes Right", "Bomb Now, Ask Questions Later!" and "Killing People is No Big Deal", the general consensus among attendees was that the Bush Administration is, in fact, waiting too long to take action against the Saddam Hussein regime.

"As far as I'm concerned," Mack Donnelly, 47, said, "I'm ready, willing and able to go out on the streets tonight, and hunt down any Iraqi-born U.S. citizens. I plan to shoot to kill, to show my support for President Bush."

Donnelly wasn't the only one with this sentiment. In way of explaining her philosophy, Jasmine Burke, 19, stated, "To me, Bush is Da Bomb! I, like, say, 'Today, Iraq! Tomorrow, North Korea! Next week, the world!'"

If this most recent rally is any indication, while support for a U.S.-led attack is waning in Europe and much of the rest of the world, support at home is growing exponentially.

The fact that such a rally was held in Arizona is no surprise to psychologist Dr. W.S. Benway, who said, "Traditionally, Arizona has been one of the more politically conservative states in America. The number of people, per capita, afflicted with what psychologists term 'Redneckedness' is perhaps larger than in any other state, with the possible exception of a couple of states in the Deep South."

According to Benway, in layman's terms this can be defined as, "blind patriotism and unmitigated national fervor."

The noted psychologist added, "This affliction, known in medical circles as 'the scourge of the country' due to the low cure rate, is marked by periods of overwhelming arrogance alternating with moments of fear and mild paranoia. The subject often thinks his target may either be persecuting him or hiding something, whether real or imagined. In some cases I'm familiar with, the subject focuses on a general target-group due to some incident in the past in which a member of said group acted against, for example, the subject's family. His father, for instance."

Many pro-war marchers agreed that their methods might be bold but, as one person put it, "Desperate times call for desperate measures," adding, "the time to act is sooner rather than later. Let's stop pussyfooting around, and kill us some Iraqi terrorists."

----- (end forwarded news article) -----

from 'The World According to Pete' @ http://worldofpete.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Pete || 01/25/2003 04:13 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In this day and age of the UberLiberalist/Tree hugging/Give-Peace-A-Chance(TM)/Generation-X/Godless "Modern thinking"/Scroungy-Little-Snot-Nosed-Punk Crew, it isn't vogue for the press to be on the side of the "Greater Good" per se. The Ultra Loud Mouthed Minority cannot see past the end of their self-agrandizing noses to a place called Iraq, where the people are oppressed, murdered, tortured, starved, raped, and subjected to other forms of oppression/torture that would make a Westerner puke his/her guts out, all under the hand of a silly fuckerhead named Sammy. Very uninformed these people are, perhaps it doesn't fit their demonstration agenda. Oil money can buy food and medical supplies, or more armaments and palaces. Guess what Dorothy, we're not in Kansas anymore. His Most ShitHeadFulNess Saddam has Sodomized his people and nation for to long, now it's time for him to take it in the Poop-Chute(TM)himself.--BG-SENDS-NOTHING-FURTHER-WAR-OUT---
Posted by: Bodyguard || 01/26/2003 3:04 Comments || Top||

#2  The UberLiberalist/Tree hugging/Give-Peace-A-Chance(TM)/Generation-X/Godless "Modern thinking"/Scroungy-Little-Snot-Nosed-Punk Crew can't find Iraq on a map. It's true.
Posted by: Rw || 01/26/2003 6:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Not only am I a UberLiberalist/Tree hugging/Give-Peace-A-Chance(TM)/Generation-X/Godless "Modern thinking"/Scroungy-Little-Snot-Nosed-Punk, but i CAN find Iraq on a map, and mosul and Basra and Baghdad. I doubt our "president" could do the same.
Posted by: Anonymous || 01/26/2003 7:26 Comments || Top||

#4  I think he already has...
Posted by: Fred || 01/26/2003 7:49 Comments || Top||

#5  It is amazing how mr. anonymous can freely speak out against the President without fear of his family being raped in front of him by government door kickers. Yes, thats the awesome aspect of our great nation. Speak freely without being shot. Well, I am thankful for people like mr. anonymous becuase it assures me that we are still the greatest nation in the world. Oh, mr. anonymous, I am wondering what have you done for your country lately? A couple thousand of my friends and I are just south of Iraq waiting for the word from our leadership to do our duty. I hope you are having fun hugging a tree for me, we sure do miss them since they are not plentiful in this region.
Posted by: Thomas Wiktorek || 01/28/2003 0:30 Comments || Top||


Qaeda sez they're not dead yet...
Taliban Online Via Pravda
The strength of the Al-Qaeda organization is 3,500 people and its Mujahideen intend to continue their jihad everywhere in the world, including the struggle against American troops in Afghanistan. That statement was made by Gazi Mullah, a Taliban field commander who added in his interview given to the Pakistani "News" newspaper at one of the available secret bases at the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan that the organization was not destroyed but on the contrary "was prepared to wage new battles."
I'd wager those secret bases are on the Pak side of the border, though...
According to the commander, the full name of the organization presently is "Al-Qaeda Al-Jihad." Gazi Mullah explained that at the end of August 2001 the two groups of, "Al-Qaeda Ansarullah" of Osama bin Laden and "Jamaat Al-Jihad" of Aiman Al-Zawahiri, officially merged and at that time the organization adopted its new name. Both Mujahideen leaders signed a political manifesto. According to the newspaper, they allegedly attached to it a list of 3,501 names of Mujahideen of that organization and a certain operative action plan. Gazi Mullah said, Al-Qaeda was established to struggle against the USA, United Kingdom, Russia, Israel and India which "oppressed Muslims."
We knew all that, and nobody really gives a fÀrt about the official name of the organization. Even though the two are now one, sleeping in the same bed and even sharing toothbrushes, they still seem to have separate cadres. That 3,501 names would appear to date from the time of the marriage, which means the list went down by 19 names a month later, and has been dropping steadily since. But of course, there's always new fodder for the cannons, so maybe it's back up to the 3,500 point by now...
Gazi Mullah also described the Al-Qaeda's plan of the new summer military campaign in Afghanistan. According to him, with this objective new camps will be created all over the country to train Mujahideen fighters and "Washington and New York would shudder as a result of their future attacks."
No doubt they will. I think the Talibs are going to go to their graves in itty-bitty camps along the Pak side of the border, little old men, sitting around and plotting dire revenge while sucking their toothless gums and complaining about their rheumatizz...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 12:41 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Bases the target in Ricin Plot theory
Islamic militants arrested in Britain this month might have been plotting to lace the food supply at a British military base with ricin, according to United States Government officials.
I guess that is a way to use Ricin that hasn't been mentioned before, and it might even be worse than normal army food
The officials said they had received intelligence reports showing that British authorities suspected men arrested in a series of raids might have been trying to gain access to the food supply on at least one military base in Britain. British officials found traces of the poison, ricin, in a London flat where the first arrests were made in the case.
It's not the first time the Islamo-Fascists have tried a mass poisoning
"It's a very live theory," said a US law enforcement official familiar with the information from the British.
US officials said the reports showed that one of the suspects worked for a food preparation company and had been in contact with people who worked on at least one British military base.

They said they did not know the identity of the suspect or which British base - or bases - might have been a target.

Officials cautioned that the assessment was a working theory among British investigators and that conclusive evidence had not yet been obtained.

"There are some investigators who believe the ricin was being developed to poison British troops," an American official said. "But we still have found no direct evidence between the ricin discovery and that kind of plot."

A spokesman for the British Home Office declined to comment on the reports.

Pentagon officials said they had fears about the potential for terrorists to attack the food and water supplies at US bases.

They said they had been taking precautions to protect American troops being sent on missions overseas.

Few details of the British investigation have been made public but the possibility that the plotters were planning to poison British troops helps to explain why British authorities have been moving so aggressively on the case in recent weeks.

On Tuesday, Britain's Prime Minister, Tony Blair, said the most recent arrests at the north London mosque demonstrated that the level of terrorist activity had increased in recent months. In November he said there was a dramatic increase in intelligence reports indicating that terrorists were plotting a spectacular attack.

However, by Thursday police had freed one of the seven men arrested in the mosque raid and had decided not to press terrorism charges against another two.
Better luck next time
Posted by: Paul || 01/25/2003 07:11 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


It's not just us...
Bank of America Corp. said on Saturday that customers at a majority of its 13,000 automatic teller machines were unable to process customer transactions after a malicious computer worm nearly froze Internet traffic worldwide. Bank of America spokeswoman Lisa Gagnon said by phone from the company's headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, that many, if not a majority of the No. 3 U.S. bank's ATMs were back online and that their automated banking network would recover by late Saturday.
Drudge calls this "Net Terror." I think that people who're terrorized when their ATMs don't work probably aren't tough enough to kill al-Qaeda.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 09:47 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Damn! No money; no smokes!
Posted by: Anonymous || 01/26/2003 0:41 Comments || Top||


Middle East
Nasrallah says Islamic nation awakening to US war plans
The Islamic nation has awakened to defy American plans to control the oil-rich Middle East region, the secretary-general of Hizbullah said Friday. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who was speaking during a ceremony in Haret Hreik, said that US president George Bush wanted to “put his hands on this region” and on the oil fields.
Nasrallah is the secretary general of Hezbollah, so he's a disinterested party...
Even though Washington is deploying troops and establishing military bases in Arab and Islamic countries, Bush must know by now that the Islamic nation has its resistance fighters, whom he described as willing to die at any moment for the sake of the Islamic nation and God, Nasrallah said.
And we're willing to help them do it, hopefully in droves...
Nasrallah said the Arab world was witnessing an “Islamic renaissance” that had prompted Washington and the “Zionists” to conduct a campaign against the region. Nasrallah also said Hizbullah’s resistance fighters would remain active and that “rumors and lies” claiming local, regional, and international pressures on the resistance to scale down its activities were untrue. “We were responsible for fighting the occupation and those responsibilities will remain as long as the Zionist enemy is occupying our land, whatever the circumstance or the situation is,” he said.
"Killing infidels is what we do, y'know?"
Nasrallah said his party was ready to respond to any decisions taken by the US administration, which he said has stated it will invade Iraq no matter what the United Nations’ security council decides. “We can not confront the Americans because the Arab world is weak and divided, and each party seeks its own interest and the narrow interest of their small community or the people living in their street, 
 Arab politics is similar to Lebanese politics,” Nasrallah said.
Lebanese politix, on the other hand, used to be different, until the Islamic Nation™ arrived on the scene...
He argued that Americans were starting to portray women in veils as terrorists and associating Islamic religious rituals with terrorism.
Only when they're toting rocket launchers under their burkas, or the "rituals" involve slaughtering people...
Nasrallah added that while Westerners talk about human rights and personal liberties they accuse Muslims and Arabs of being terrorists and undemocratic, forgetting that some schools in Europe forbid women who chose to veil to attend their classes. “Where do we find human rights and human dignity in such oppressive acts by regimes of the world today?” he asked.
Yeah, yeah. There's really no difference between a bikini and a burka, or between amputations and lap dancing, is there?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 09:11 pm || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  “Islamic renaissance” ???

Gawd. How'd you manage to type that without dying of laughter?
Posted by: Steve White || 01/25/2003 22:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Gotta watch out for "veiled threats."
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/25/2003 22:31 Comments || Top||


Al-Waleed Donates SR2.4m for Palestinian Disabled
In response to an appeal from President Yasser Arafat to help alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people, Prince Al-waleed ibn Talal yesterday donated SR2.4 million to the Palestinian Center for Human Perseverance. The money will be used to help finance the construction of the Fata Rehabilitation Center and Hospital for the Disabled in the Gaza Strip.
Once it's been built and it looks nice, the Paleos can chock it full of gunnies and the Israelis will rocket it. You heard it here first...
Prince Alwaleed earlier met with the head of the center, who briefed him of the centers programs and facilities which will enable it to continue delivering its humanitarian services to the Palestinian people. The head expressed gratitude on behalf of the Palestinian people for Prince Alwaleeds many contributions to the Palestinian cause. The Palestinian Center for Human Perseverance is a non-governmental, non-profitable establishment established in 1999.
I do web development on the side. That's a non-profitable establishment, too...
Its main purpose is to offer medical services to families within the Palestinian community. It also offers cultural, educational, social and psychological services to the public.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 05:36 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Two Palestinian Fighters, Including Woman, Killed by Israel
Israeli occupation troops on Friday killed two Palestinian fighters, including a woman, in the West Bank while another Palestinian woman died of a heart attack as the Israeli army pounded Gaza. The two fighters, who were accompanied by two others, were killed in a shootout with Israeli forces after they threw hand grenades at an Israeli military outpost in northern Nablus.
G'bye, toots. Stay dead now...
A third fighter was injured in the shootout and arrested by the Israeli army while a manhunt was launched to track down the fourth. Although Palestinian women had carried out military operations in the past, this is the first time that female fighters join hands with men in anti-Israel combat attacks.
Except when they explode...
In Gaza City, a Palestinian woman died of a heart attack during an Israeli helicopter missile attack on Gaza City, Palestinian medical sources told Agence France Presse (AFP). Fatma al-Mashharawi, in her 30s, was an in-patient at Al-Ahli hospital where a missile landed on a chapel inside the medical compound causing heavy damage, the sources said.
Not only did they rocket, the hospital, but they rocketed the chapel inside the hospital. Right. Got it...
Meanwhile, eyewitnesses told IslamOnline that the Israeli occupation army shelled in the small hours of Friday Palestinian metal workshops in el-Sabrah area in Gaza City. Israeli helicopter gunships fired at least eight missiles at Palestinian workshops, they confirmed.
No doubt just peaceful civilian enterprises making tin cups and belt buckles and Osama key rings...
In mounting aggression, more than 20 Israeli tanks and jeeps stormed Zeitoun area in the south of Gaza City under cover of heavy shelling by two U.S.-made Apaches. Palestinian medical sources said a Palestinian boy sustained injuries from shrapnel of shells fired by the Israeli tanks.
Terrible, the way they target nothing but ladies in the hospital and little kids...
Eyewitnesses told IslamOnline that Israeli troops destroyed the house of martyr Massud Ayaad who was assassinated by Israeli soldiers two years ago. The Israeli forces dynamited the three-storey house after booting out the residents, the witnesses confirmed.
And houses. They destroy houses, too...
They added that the occupation forces abducted five members of the Ayyad family.
Really? Did they give a reason?
Meanwhile, eyewitnesses said Palestinian fighters battled the Israeli occupation forces who were trying to storm Zeitoun area.
Didn't think so...
In Rafah, Israeli troops backed by 25 tanks and air cover by U.S.-made Apaches rolled into el-Brazil camp in Rafah and razed a number of Palestinian houses adjacent to the border line with Egypt. Palestinian medical sources told IslamOnline that Hisham Mustafa Abu Taha, 34, was injured in the Israeli shelling.
Oh, those U.S.-made Apaches!
Shortly after the raid, Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic resistance group Hamas, fired home-made rockets across the Israeli border from the northern Gaza Strip, only causing material damage in southern Israel.
What else could they do?
The Israeli army staged a retaliatory incursion into the autonomous Palestinian town of Beit Hanun. Clashes soon broke out between soldiers, gunmen and stone-throwers, leaving four Palestinians wounded, one of them seriously, medical sources said.
Now, see? If the Israelis hadn't escalated the cycle of violence, everything would have been alright...
Arafats top aide Nabil Abu Rudeina condemned "Israels dangerous military aggression especially in Gaza and Nablus," calling on the international community to intervene.
Just another day of life in Paleostine...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 05:25 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front
Kennedy tries to stop INS registration of "terror-nations" immigrants

Senate Votes to Halt INS Registration Program

By Edward Walsh
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 25, 2003; Page A11

The massive appropriations bill approved by the Senate late Thursday includes a little-noticed amendment that would cut off funding for a Justice Department program that requires male immigrants from two dozen predominantly Muslim countries to register and be fingerprinted by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
And at the same time the Dems, especially former co-president Hillary, attempt to criticize any Bush admin efforts in the war on terror
The main purpose of the amendment was to restore funding for a congressionally mandated program that by 2005 is designed to provide information on the identity of all visitors to the United States and track when they enter and leave the country.

But the amendment also included language that bans the use of any of the money for the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS), a program targeted at male temporary visitors from countries the government considers to be terrorist harbors.

Under the NSEERS program, thousands of men older than 16 have been fingerprinted and questioned by INS agents, causing widespread confusion and apprehension among Muslims across the country. Thousands lined up at INS offices to meet a series of deadlines. More than 1,200 men who were found to be in violation of immigration laws were detained -- most of them briefly -- and face deportation hearings.

The confusion and delays prompted the government to give visitors from 18 nations another chance to register. The program applies to male immigrants from 24 predominantly Muslim countries and North Korea.

The House version of the Senate's more than $390 billion spending measure would not cut off funding for the registration program, and it is not clear whether the Senate ban will survive negotiations with the House on a final version of the legislation. Mark Corallo, a Justice Department spokesman, said yesterday that the Bush administration will work to keep NSEERS in place.

"We are committed to the National Security Exit-Entry Registration System, which has already proven to have been a success in apprehending persons who would have presented a severe risk to the American people," Corallo said. He said the system has allowed law enforcement authorities to apprehend 330 "known criminals" and three "known terrorists."

Since last October, the INS also has been fingerprinting and questioning male immigrants from countries on the NSEERS list at selected ports of entry to the United States. The Senate spending ban, which would apply to "any expenses relating to NSEERS" apparently would cut off funds for that effort and the more controversial registration program, which began late last year.

The Senate amendment also would require Attorney General John D. Ashcroft to provide Congress with documents and other information on the creation and operation of NSEERS, and provide an assessment of the program's effectiveness. Corallo said the Justice Department "will work with Congress and answer all of their questions and concerns."

The amendment to restore $165 million for the larger tracking system, which had been cut from the bill by Senate appropriators, was offered on the Senate floor by Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl, both Arizona Republicans, and was adopted by voice vote. In their brief remarks on the floor, neither mentioned the provision cutting off funding for the NSEERS program. The Bush administration had requested $16.8 million to fund the program for the current fiscal year.

Congressional sources said the NSEERS funding cutoff was included in the amendment at the request of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.). James Manley, a Kennedy spokesman, said the amendment "cuts funding until Congress has the information it needs to assess whether this is the most effective use of tax dollars in the war on terrorism."
(bolds and italics added - ed.)
Posted by: Frank G || 01/25/2003 05:03 pm || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I didn't think my respect for the Hero of Chappaquiddick could go down any... but it seems to have done so. The Paks will be very happy with Sen. Kennedy, as will the Soddies.
Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2003 20:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Do we need to mobilize lawmakers and the public in bringing this effort to soften the war on terror to light? This is absolutely disguisting, not surprising, but still disguisting.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/25/2003 20:39 Comments || Top||

#3  I had to get fingerprinted to get my teaching certification but Johnny Jihad can waltz through?
And this from a senator whose own brother was murdered by a nut job Paleo from Jordan...
Posted by: JDB || 01/25/2003 22:18 Comments || Top||


Axis of Evil
The curious incidents at the inspectors' compound...
At the inspectors compound on Baghdad's outskirts, there was no explanation for the attempt by the two men to force their way inside. Nor was it known if the two incidents were connected. The first man, armed with three knives and a piece of metal, was apprehended as he tried to get through the front gate and was taken away by Iraqi police.
I'd guess his imam fired him up to bump off some infidels. I wonder if he goes to the al-Nidaa mosque, by chance?
About 45 minutes later, a young man ran in front of inspectors' vehicles, shouting "Save me!", and was allowed to enter one vehicle. He was carrying a notebook, which U.N. officials said was empty. Ueki said the man was turned over to Iraqi authorities.
Likely that one was a Mukhabarat provocation. Had they sheltered him, that would have been "unwarranted interference in the internal affairs of Iraq." Many international pity points to be gleaned from the sort of thing...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 03:39 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraqi nuke jockeys refuse to chat...
United Nations inspectors in Iraq say two scientists they wanted to interview about weapons of mass destruction have rejected private meetings. "Two individuals did not agree to it without the presence of a witness," a UN statement said. A third scientist visited a Baghdad hotel housing inspectors on Saturday but left after 90 minutes without speaking to reporters. US Secretary of State Colin Powell said America would "patiently" assess the first full report by the UN inspectors due on Monday.
That's because he's a patient man. They're down to playing games now...
But he added that Washington could count on support from "at least a dozen" governments if it decided to launch a military strike without a fresh UN Security Council resolution.
He's just not that patient...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 03:17 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If Saddam allowed Iraqis to volunteer as human-shields in America, there would be 20 million applicants.
Posted by: Anonymous || 01/26/2003 0:48 Comments || Top||


I really hate people who pee in the soup...
A rapidly spreading computer worm on Saturday infested networks and bogged down Internet traffic across the globe, crippling online services in one of the world's most wired countries, South Korea. Called "Sapphire" or "SQL Slammer," the worm carries a self-regenerating mechanism that enables it to multiply quickly across the Internet, said Mikko Hypponen, manager of anti-virus research at F-Secure, the Helsinki-based computer security firm. "It is so good at replicating that it generates massive amounts of traffic that will slow down networks," Hypponen said. "The end user never sees it. They only experience the slowdown on the Net."
Cheeze. This is all we need. And yesterday I got a got an e-mail from webmaster@arab.de. Norton cleaned the virus off for me, though...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 03:13 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No kidding on this one Fred, My internet access slowed to a craw and then ceased to exist after 1 p.m. Saturday here in S Korea. It did give a chance to do the finer things in life without Internet Access, like buying Juicey's and drinking Soju while the Sun was still up. I couldn't actually see the sun, matter of fact I cant remember what the sun looks like. Dang its cold here.
Posted by: Bobbing4Kittens || 01/25/2003 21:46 Comments || Top||


Axis of Evil
U.S. prepares for possible use of nukes in Iraq
(via Drudge)
By PAUL RICHTER
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON -- As the Pentagon continues a highly visible buildup of troops and weapons in the Persian Gulf, it is also quietly preparing for the possible use of nuclear weapons in the potential war against Iraq, according to a report by a defense analyst.

Although they consider such a strike unlikely, military planners have been actively studying lists of potential targets and considering options, including the possible use of so-called "bunker buster" nuclear weapons against deeply buried military targets, says analyst William M. Arkin, who writes a regular column on defense matters for the Los Angeles Times.
and wanted to remind defection-minded Iraqi honchos
Military officials have been focusing their planning on the use of nuclear arms in retaliation for a strike by the Iraqis with chemical or biological weapons, or to pre-empt one, Arkin says.

Administration officials believe that in some circumstances, nuclear arms may offer the only way to destroy deeply buried targets that may contain unconventional weapons that could kill thousands. Some officials have argued that the blast and radiation effects of such strikes would be limited.

But that is in dispute. Critics contend that a bunker-buster strike could involve a huge radiation release and dangerous blast damage OOOhhhh nukes! They don't release when they're buried, they just make a nice hard sarin/anthrax/concrete/Iraqi diamond . They also say that use of a nuclear weapon in such circumstances would encourage other nuclear-armed countries to consider using those weapons in more kinds of situations, and would badly undermine the half-century effort to contain the spread of nuclear weapons. I guess they don't know about Iraq/Iran/NKor/Pakistan/India

Although it may be highly unlikely that the Bush administration would authorize the use of such weapons in Iraq -- Arkin describes it as a worst-case scenario -- the mere disclosure of its planning contingencies could stiffen the opposition of France, Germany and Middle East nations to any invasion of Iraq.

"If the United States dropped a bomb on an Arab country, it might be a military success, but it would be a diplomatic, political and strategic disaster," said Joseph Cirincione, director of nonproliferation studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.

In the past year, Bush administration officials have repeatedly made clear that they want to be better prepared to consider the nuclear option against the threat of "weapons of mass destruction" in the hands of terrorists and rogue nations. The current planning activities, as reported by Arkin, offer a concrete example of their determination to follow through on this pledge.

Arkin also says that the Pentagon has changed the bureaucratic oversight of nuclear weapons so that they are no longer treated as a special category of arms, but grouped with conventional military options.

A White House spokesman declined comment Friday on Arkin's report, except to say that "the United States reserves the right to defend itself and its allies by whatever means necessary."

David J. Smith, an arms-control negotiator in the first Bush administration, said presidents would only consider using such a weapon "in terribly ugly situations where there are no easy ways out. If there's a threat that could involve huge numbers of American lives, I as a citizen would want the president to consider that option."
Posted by: Frank G || 01/25/2003 12:08 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Critics contend that a bunker-buster strike could involve a huge radiation release". Of course the Japanese are still living in the two cities were the US field tested these devices 55+ years ago. They moved right back in without the EPA or OSHA stripping the first 10 feet of surface soil for radiation.

I do recall growing up down wind, though not as close as Las Vegas, of numerous large above ground open air nuke tests in Nevada during the 50's and early 60's. We didn't drop like flies or progenerate offsprings with hands sticking out of their foreheads.

Actually, the use of nukes would provide quick and effective incineration of any chemical or biological agents. Something lost on the Chicken Little non-scentific types out there.
Posted by: Don || 01/25/2003 21:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Actually some of the younger generation looks like they suffer from radiation-damaged DNA, but that's what too much piercing and tattoos will do.
Posted by: Tresho || 01/27/2003 1:45 Comments || Top||


Server problems...
We've been having sporadic server problems for the past 24 hours. If they don't clear up this morning, we'll be moving to a backup server. I just did a backup, so I'm hoping no data will be lost, but there will probably be bugs (ewwww!) To make matteers worse, I've been working on the code behind these lovely pages, so I'll be trying to figure which are the result of moving and which are my own typos or dumbassery. Let me know when they pop up...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 08:56 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fred,
Got this message when trying to access yesterday's posts:
error '80020009'
Exception occurred.

/default.asp, line 412

Hope this helps and good luck slaying them computer dragons!
Posted by: Bman || 01/25/2003 12:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Fred,
Got this message when trying to access yesterday's posts:
error '80020009'
Exception occurred.

/default.asp, line 412

Hope this helps and good luck slaying them computer dragons!
Posted by: Bman || 01/25/2003 12:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Guess we know why we had the down time.

I think I've knocked off the bugs by now. Line 412 error was caused because I had two lines of code reversed. I hate it when that happens... I think I'm becoming lesdyxic...
Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2003 14:47 Comments || Top||

#4  I spoke too soon. I'll probably be in Orkin mode for the rest of the evening...
Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2003 20:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Hope all is well Fred, didn't realize how many times I hit your site til it's off line
Posted by: Frank G || 01/25/2003 20:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Fred

We really appreciate your efforts and dedication in making and maintaining this site!

Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/25/2003 20:30 Comments || Top||

#7  By coincidence, the internet worm seems to have hit my host as I was uploading a change I'd made. Remember Fred the IT guy in the commercials? "Fred, I think I just crashed the internet..."

Sometimes life just isn't fair...
Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2003 20:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Fred,man great site.Just found it about 6 weeks ago ,already it's like the heroin of the 'Net now.Thanks for the effort and cool sarcasm of the Islamofascists.(P.S.When I saw the term "Paleostonians",I almost pissed my pants.)
Posted by: Hugh Jorgan || 01/26/2003 0:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Thanks, Hugh. That works out well. I'm addicted to writing it, you're addicted to reading it...
Posted by: Fred || 01/26/2003 7:45 Comments || Top||


A moment of silence...
Aye, laddie. Today is the birthday of Robert Burns.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 01/25/2003 08:53 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne?

CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup of kindness yet,
For auld lang syne!

And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp,
And surely I'll be mine,
And we'll tak a cup o kindness yet,
For auld lang syne!

We twa hae run about the braes,
And pou'd the gowans fine,
But we've wander'd monie a weary fit,
Sin auld lang syne.

We twa hae paidl'd in the burn
Frae morning sun till dine,
But seas between us braid hae roar'd
Sin auld lang syne.

And there's a hand my trusty fiere,
And gie's a hand o thine,
And we'll tak a right guid-willie waught,
For auld lang syne
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/25/2003 20:32 Comments || Top||



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