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2013-03-31 Africa North
Internet Cable-Cutters Caught By Egypt Signal New Terror Threat
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Posted by trailing wife 2013-03-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 "Let's see, should we use explosives or a hacksaw?"
Posted by Skidmark 2013-03-31 00:04||   2013-03-31 00:04|| Front Page Top

#2 
One time in Alexandria,
in wicked Alexandria,
Where nights were wild with revelry,
and life was but a game.
There lived, so the report is,
an adventuress and courtesan,
The pride of Alexandria,
and Thais was her name.

Nearby in peace and piety,
avoiding all society,
There dwelt a band of holy men
who'd build a refuge there,
And in the desert solitude
they spurned all earthly folly to
Devote their lives to holy works,
to fasting and to prayer.

One day while on the first prayer set
a vision of the internet
a holy man saw upon the screen
a picture rather rude
for on the screen an image there
of Thais wearing just her hair
a-frolicking before his eyes
in what artists call the nude

The holy man grabbed his big hack saw
shouting "I'll enforce islamic law
he headed for the 10 fathom line
while wading out to sea
with scuba gear and "al akbar"
he sliced through cable fibers far
till the evil internet was quiet as could be

In triumph he did reach the shore
But suddenly he felt quite sore
A mob had gathered throwing stones
faces grim in murder set
They smashed his face and broke his bones
And bashed him with a cordless phone
And then they yelled for all to hear,
"Don't mess with our internet!"


With apologies to the original poem of Thais....
Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-03-31 02:06||   2013-03-31 02:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Awesome AP, just most excellent.
Posted by Shipman 2013-03-31 04:41||   2013-03-31 04:41|| Front Page Top

#4 a loss of internet would also devastate Egyptian govt functions, Moslem brotherhood communications, etc. so, unless the people doing it were oblivious to that damage or were of the 'the internet is too infidel to exist' mind, the narrative in the article doesn't make sense
Posted by lord garth 2013-03-31 07:43||   2013-03-31 07:43|| Front Page Top

#5 With respect, lg, it seems it'd make perfect sense to a 7th century wannabe.
Posted by Bobby 2013-03-31 11:00||   2013-03-31 11:00|| Front Page Top

#6 "Mo didn't tweet!"
Posted by Frank G 2013-03-31 11:06||   2013-03-31 11:06|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm inclined to think that these goons were good Muslim boyz trying to please Allah.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2013-03-31 11:48||   2013-03-31 11:48|| Front Page Top

#8 a loss of internet would also devastate Egyptian govt functions, Moslem brotherhood communications, etc.

Perhaps. Then again, many 'corrections and insurrections' have been performed with merely a series of meetings, courier-delivered instructions, etc.
Posted by Pappy 2013-03-31 13:17||   2013-03-31 13:17|| Front Page Top

#9 I've done a word search and "Internet" and "Google" do not appear anywhere in the Quran so it was okay the lads cut the cable.

We're dealing with 21st century technology in the hands of a 7th century mindset.
Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-03-31 18:36||   2013-03-31 18:36|| Front Page Top

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