Today is Thanksgiving Day. I'll be spending most of the rest of the day with family and friends, eating too much and enjoying the good company. I may post more tonight, but I'll probably be intoxicated by then.
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11/28/2002 11:47 am ||
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that's OK - I do my best comments while intoxicated - have a good one - Fred and all!
Frank
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That means you post while sober? Jeez...lol. Happy Thanksgiving.
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I do my most colorful posting when I'm intoxicated. Kinda adds some passion to my writing.
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Hope you had a great Thanksgiving, and that your hangover isn't too bad!
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On their second day of arms inspections in Iraq, U.N. weapons inspection teams deployed Thursday to an old animal vaccine factory that U.N. inspectors shut down in the mid-1990s for producing biological weapons. The al-Daura hoof-and-mouth vaccine plant is located about eight kilometers (five miles) southwest of Baghdad. Inspectors spent about four hours at the plant, where they spoke with the facilities director. Reporters, who were given a look at the site in August by Iraqi officials, were allowed into the facility when the inspectors finished their work. The equipment at the vaccine lab was destroyed in 1996 by U.N. weapons inspectors who said Iraq was using it to produce banned nerve agents.
Although the first day of the resumed U.N. inspections in Iraq went smoothly Wednesday, chief inspector Hans Blix warned that "there is a very strong power behind us" if Iraq obstructs future efforts. The first day's not the one where we'd expect obstruction. I give 'em a month before they start quibbling, two months before they start arguing. Once they find where Blix's limits are, they'll keep the irritations pegged at that point until somebody screws up and pulls a rod. The Iraqis are hoping that'll come when it's too late to comfortably mount an offensive, and the buildup will have to be withdrawn because it simply costs too much for the U.S. to maintain. They can be slapping the inspectors around this time next year, and if the buildup's withdrawn they know nothing will happen except for maybe a Tomahawk or two...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt ||
11/28/2002 10:33 am ||
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A month? I expect Bush to take one look at the Dec. 8 document, say 'they're lying' & go in. We can prove that they were lying after we control the country...
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What are the odds that Sammy has hired Scott Ritter as a "consultant" to advise him on which buttons to push and when? Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving to all!
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Amid heightened political tension between moderates and conservatives, Iran's hardline Basij militia geared up Thursday for a major show of strength and pro-reform students announced plans for more protests. Ahead of Friday's scheduled nationwide demonstration against the the Israeli "occupation" of Jerusalem, 70,000 Basijis were called out on to the streets to give out "moral advice". "Today (Thursday) we are going to stage a 70,000-strong exercise in 150 cities across the country from 2:00 pm until Iftar (the breaking of the daily Ramadan fast) to give oral advice to the people in order to sanitise society," a top Basij official told state radio. That means instilling proper National Socialist virtues. The "oral advice" is sometimes accompanied by a kick in the head.
The main student group, the Office to Consolidate Unity (OCU), said it was planning to stage a "symbolic referendum" -- apparently on Iran's political stand-off -- and has demanded permission to hold massive rallies on December 7, which is national students day. "Given the situation, the only solution seems to be the organisation of a referendum to know the legitimacy of everybody," the OCU said in a statement, adding the group would hold its referendum in the coming days. It looks like we're taking another step toward the blow-off on Iran â whenever it may come. Divine right theocrats don't need no steenkin' referendum, 'cuz they get their legitimacy from God. Just ask them.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt ||
11/28/2002 10:43 am ||
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Mmm...black shirts, Heil Hitler salutes...yep seems more like the 30s every day.
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After the Khomenei Rev, the mad mullahs legalized marriage for girls of "nine" years of age, in consideration of the "sunna" of the so-called "prophet" of Islam (actually, Mohammed proposed to Aisha when she was "six", according to Bukhari). Although, the age of marital submission was raised the "thirteen" last May, the effect of Iranian legalization of pedophilia was a near doubling of the population. While hundreds of billions of dollars has been blown to support the parasitic mullah class, the Iranian economy has declined steadily. Discontent has polarized Iranians. If Iranian democrats could count on foreign allies - they remember what Jimmy Carter did to the Pahlevi dynasty - they could crush the Basijis, who emulate their predecessors who ran through Iraqi minefields to make way for the infantry. At the time, Iranian clerics gave each little jihadi suicide "martyr" a plastic "key" to heaven. They should have given them a door from the hell-on-earth that is Basiji Iran. I wonder why 200,000 Iranian immigrants to America have converted to Christianity?
President Mohammad Khatami has asserted that the Islamic republic is not meddling in Palestinian affairs, in a further signal that Iran is not opposed to a two-state Mideast solution. "It is up to the Paletinians to determine their future. We are siding with the Paletinians in the name of human rights, so we are not meddling in their affairs, because they do not need it," Khatami told a gathering in a speech marking a religious holiday Wednesday. "We support the human right to kill civilians indiscriminately..."
Israel frequently accused Iran of financing Palestinian militant groups, a charge Iran denies. But Iran has also been seen as easing its total objection to the very existence of Israel, with a number of officials saying they would respect the will of the Palestinian people. And don't forget the arms and ammunition...
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11/28/2002 10:51 am ||
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Embattled Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has called on the Islamic republic's hardline camp to ditch its authoritarian practices and cede to his reform programme. "If we do not respect human dignity and rights, we can never reach economic justice," Khatami said in a speech to mark a national religious holiday. His declarations, made late Tuesday at the shrine of revolutionary Iran's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, were on the eve of a holiday marking the death of Imam Ali, considered by Shiite Muslims to be the first successor to the prophet Mohammad. Uhhh... Khomeini held the idea of personal freedom in contempt. He was a divine-right theocrat, too...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt ||
11/28/2002 10:54 am ||
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"If I just talk nicely to the mullahs,eventually we'll all just get along.These are religious people,they can't possibly wan't to harm anyone,can't they?" -Jimmy "Nuts" Carter, 1979 ; Mohammed "Islam is peace,dude" Khatami, 2002
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On Thursday the Supreme Court of the Russian internal republic of Tatarstan sentenced Ramazan Ishkildin to 15 years in high security prison camp for blowing up gas pipelines. Investigators have established that, being a member of a terrorist group, Ishkildin had planted bombs on three Russian natural gas pipelines. One of them exploded on December 1, 1999, inflicting damage of about 8 million roubles. Other members of the terrorist group that was involved in the attacks have already been sentenced to lengthy prison terms. One of them was found to be insane and sent for compulsory psychiatric treatment. This bunch doesn't appear to be Chechens — though I'd guess a guy with a name like Ramazan Ishkildin would be a Muslim, and since at least one of the other members of the group was certifiable, I'd guess they were all Muslims...
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11/28/2002 11:25 am ||
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Kenya's ambassador to Israel says there is "no doubt" that al Qaeda was behind the car bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya and a missile attack on an Israeli airliner. Israeli Radio reported that Kenyan police arrested two people suspected of involvement in the attacks. That's the bad part about this kind of operations, friom the Bad Guys' point of view: to make a kill, you've got to stick your head up, and when you stick your head up, you're exposing your support trail, too.
There were conflicting reports on the number killed at the hotel on Thursday. John Malan Sawe, Kenyan Ambassador to Israel, said the hotel bombing killed at least 11 people and wounded 80 others. Later Kenya's internal security minster Julius Sunkuli, told Reuters there were "initial indications" that 14 people had died. "I do believe the people who have been responsible for terrorism all over the world must be the same people who have done it," Sawe said. "I believe it must be connected to al Qaeda and it's up to them to deny." Even if they didn't do it, they wouldn't deny it. Too many corpses to pass up the credit...
According to Israel's Foreign Ministry, three Israelis were killed in the blast, including two children about eight years old. The other victims were Kenyans. An Israeli Army Radio report identified Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, of Egyptian origin, and Faed Ali Sayam, a Kenyan Muslim, as two of the three suicide bombers at the hotel. The third attacker has not yet been identified, the report added. Since they weren't Hamas snuffies, or Hezbollah, they're likely al-Qaeda...
A group calling itself the Army of Palestine claimed responsibility for both the suicide attack on the hotel and the missile attack on an Israeli airliner. In a faxed statement, the previously unheard-of group said it had sent two groups of attackers to Kenya to "make the world hear once again the voice of Palestinian refugees, and to cast light on Zionist terrorism in the West Bank and Gaza." The "Army of Palestine" is probably an al-Qaeda false nose and glasses setup. It'll likely never be heard from again â kind of like a throw-away corporation, like Enron used to set up...
The owner of the Paradise Hotel which is in Malindi, north of Mombasa, said three men fought with security and drove into the hotel. Officials said at about 8:30 a.m. local time (0530 GMT) a vehicle pulled up to the entrance of the hotel and were refused entry. The men reversed the vehicle and drove through the gate and into the hotel reception area. One of them men blew himself up in the lobby while two others set off explosives packed into the car, the hotel owner said. Somehow the heroism of that kind of thing doesn't fit into the same category as attacking a machinegun nest, or taking out an enemy command center. Taking out a couple 8-year-olds looking forward to going swimming doesn't represent a really significant militarty target.
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11/28/2002 09:51 am ||
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Nothing like a 1:1.7 kill ratio. Unarmed civilians, including Kenyan dancers in grass skirts, put up SO much resistance.
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"I believe it must be connected to al Qaeda and it's up to them to deny."
Actually, Al Qaeda has followed recent trends in PR work and sub-contracted denials to Noam Chomsky, Robert "hit me again" Fisk, and Al Guardian, among others. It must be a profitable business.
The pilot of an Israeli airliner targeted in a missile attack spotted smoke trails following the plane seconds after liftoff from Mombasa, Kenya. But Rafi Marek decided to continue to Tel Aviv, the scheduled destination, after checking that the aircraft was working properly. Holidaymakers among the 261 passengers and crew sat back in their seats unaware the plane had been fired on. They were only told after the Arkia Airlines Boeing 757 entered Israeli airspace. That made a hell of a lot more sense than heading back to Mombasa to give the bastards a second shot, didn't it?
The attack coincided with a suicide bomb at the Israeli-owned Paradise hotel in Mombasa in which 11 people are reported to have died. The two together were supposed to be this month's spectacular atrocity. It looks like they're trying for one or two a month.
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11/28/2002 09:57 am ||
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Just part of Ramadan celebrations. Nothing unusual there.
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The administrative Secretary of the ruling ZANU-PF party in Zimbabwe, Didymus Mutasa, has declared that the country would be better off with six million of its citizens dead.
Nice round number. Wonder where he got it?
Now the government is distributing food only to Shona speakers, condemning the populations who voted for the MDC to death by starvation.
Funny, I don't recall the Republicans doing this in Minnesota after the election. That's what happens when life gets soft.
Mutasa declared to the press during the weekend that âWe would be better off with only six million people, with our own (Shona) people who support the liberation struggle. We donât want all these extra peopleâ. By âextra peopleâ Zimbabweâs leading civil servant means the people who live in non-Shona-speaking areas, who in their majority supported the opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change.
"Extra people" also is defined as being the people who wanted peace, democracy, economic development and clean government.
Food aid is being distributed only to Shona speakers, those in charge of distribution being watched closely by ZANU-PF party officials. Due to the crop failures this year, those living in areas which are wholly dependent on food aid and who do not receive it, are dying.
That's generally what happens to people who don't have food. I imagine that Mr. Mutasa eats well.
Where are the humanitarian inspectors, where are the threats against Mugabe? There arenât any.
There ought to be.
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11/28/2002 07:58 pm ||
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Funny how the article in mentioning Mugabe's predecessors in evil somehow overlooks Stalin and Mao's adventures in food...
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One man's terrorist is another man's chow hound. There are many forms of terrorism that threaten all of us and the practice of genocide by starving has to be in the top ten.
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"Pravda" ,or "truth" in english,used to be the Soviet Communist Party's official newspaper.Now they're working to expose the evil plans of one of the last marxist dictators in the world.I think my irony-meter just exploded...
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Almost every day, there are campus demonstrations against Israeli "genocide." I wonder when the demonstrations against this *actual* genocide will begin?
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A murky network of smugglers, politicians and spies is moving money to Taliban and al-Qaida fugitives, slipping their operatives out of the region and ferrying others in, according to intelligence officials and a former Taliban commander. Yes. It's the same old tiresome story. The religious fanatics are trying to subvert and reconquer Afghanistan. Pak fundos and intel thugs, regarding the country as their "sphere of influence", insist on trying to civilize the place down to Pakistani levels. And they want to export that sort of civilization to the rest of the world...
Several al-Qaida men have left Afghanistan for Algeria in recent days, Fazul Rabi Said Rahman, a former Taliban corps commander, told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday. A European intelligence source says others are slipping quietly into the region, and the numbers are on the increase. "If you have money you can go anywhere, without any problem," Said Rahman said. Conrad wrote "Heart of Darkness." If I could write, I'd write "Heart of Corruption."
Another former Taliban official said several al-Qaida fugitives were smuggled out of Afghanistan in recent weeks. They were taken out through Pakistan's Tirah Valley, a remote region ringed by towering peaks. The Tirah Valley neighbors Tora Bora. The man who is said to have helped them escape, an al-Qaida sympathizer named Anwarul Haq Mujahed, himself eluded capture this month. He's probably on R&R in Peshawar right now, until the heat's off...
American and Afghan special forces in search of Mujahed raided several places in eastern Afghanistan, including offices of the International Islamic Relief Organization, where he was believed to have contacts. They also raided his father's farm in Farmada, according to Haji Zaman Khan, an ally of the U.S.-led coalition during last December's assault on Tora Bora. The farm, a well-known refuge for al-Qaida members during and after the Taliban rule, was bombed several times during the U.S.-led coalition's campaign. Oh, look, Ethel! It's one of the usual suspects...
Mujahed's father, Maulvi Yunus Khalis, was a U.S.-backed commander during the 1980s war against the Soviet occupiers in Afghanistan. He swore allegiance to the northern alliance government, but Taliban in hiding say he has remained close to his onetime al-Qaida friends. "Mujahed helped at least 100 of the al-Qaida men who wanted to escape Afghanistan," Zaman told the AP on Tuesday. "Just in the last month I know he helped some escape." Younis must be 184 years old by now. I guess young Mujahed is taking up his father's burden...
Before U.S. Special Forces could locate him, Mujahed was spirited out of Nangarhar province, through Dar-e-Nur in eastern Afghanistan, to Laghman province and then to Kabul. From there, he was flown aboard an Afghan Ariana flight to Pakistan's frontier city of Peshawar, assisted along the way by men loyal to Khalis. Oh, dear. I am so-o-o-o-o surprised...
Some of the people alleged to have helped him are members of the Afghan government, including the Nangarhar military chief Hazrat Ali and Nangarhar governor Din Mohammed. This is the "feet firmly ensconced in both camps" tactic that's an Afghan tradition. Some of these double-crossers actually triple cross, and some make it a quadruple-cross. I think the world's record is 11 crosses, but by then, who was counting?
Said Rahman, the former Taliban commander, said several al-Qaida men have left for Algeria in recent weeks. It was unclear whether they were the same men spirited out by Mujahed. It's also unclear whether they're the same Salafists who're cutting people's throats at random in Algeria, or whether they're simply getting a little rest before moving on to cut people's throats in Europe...
While some al-Qaida men are moving out of the region, others are coming in, say European intelligence sources. They are bringing money with them, helped by smugglers and traders. The network that allows the traffic to flow virtually unhindered allegedly includes Pakistani militant groups â like Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Mohammed â Pakistani intelligence and even the upper echelon of Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam, one of the key partners in a religious coalition that rules Pakistan's strategic North West Frontier Province and which holds considerable sway in southwestern Baluchistan province. "We are happy that our brothers are in power here. We expect it will be even easier," said Said Rahman. I suspect so, too...
He said many top Taliban in hiding move particularly freely in Baluchistan province, of which Quetta is the capital. Among them is Maulvi Abdul Kabir, the No. 3 man in the Taliban, and Abdul Razzak, former Taliban interior minister. The Taliban's former brigade commander at Spinboldak, Maulvi Jalaluddin, has close ties with Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam officials, like the group's general secretary, Ghafour Haideri, says Said Rahman. "He knows the border very well, how to move across without a problem, how to move others across, who will help and how to get their help," he said. Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam loyalists and members of the Pakistani intelligence agency, an open ally of the Taliban before Sept. 11, have helped senior Taliban move freely and communicate with others about their whereabouts and planned meetings. An active transit route is the Afghan town of Allah Jirga, which hugs the border with Pakistan and where Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's leader, has tribal links, said Said Rahman. I've been mentioning that close relationship regularly for approximately fifteen months now. It has something to do with a JUI functionary being one of the signators of Binny's declaration of war against us...
Haideri dismissed allegations that he protects Taliban, but said his loyalties are with the ousted movement. "We neither give them money nor shelter, we just support them ideologically," said Haideri. "As far as the Taliban are concerned, our support to them was open. We belong to a religious family. The world knows that we never concealed our love and support for Taliban." The world knows that JUI is, in fact, just like them. The world hasn't yet embarked on a campaign of hunting JUI officials and members down and killing them without mercy, but it'll come. It'll come. If it doesn't, we're going to lose the war.
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11/28/2002 09:41 am ||
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At least two Palestinian gunmen opened fire and killed four Israelis Thursday at a bus station in Beit Shean, Israel, before being shot dead, according to police. At least 24 Israelis were wounded in the terror attack, rescue officials said, four of them seriously. Police said the Palestinian gunmen drove up to Beit Shean's central bus station in a car and opened fire at people standing at a bus stop. Israeli soldiers at the bus stop returned fire. Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the shooting in a call to the Reuters news agency. The caller said the attack was in revenge for the killing of two militant leaders — one from Al Aqsa and another from the Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas — in the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday. Israel has denied being involved in those deaths. Since the credit's claimed by al-Aqsa, it's probably just a coincidence that this particular atrocity happened to occur the same day the Atrocity of the Month® was supposed to happen, in a town snugged up against the Jordanian border...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt ||
11/28/2002 10:26 am ||
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Isn't it about time to take the gloves off? Rantissi and Yasin and Ararat should've been off to get their raisins a long time ago
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It was time to take the gloves off after the very first bus bombing, many years ago.
It's really not hard to surpress and oppress. Milosivec had it all figured out. So did Pinochet and countless others.
Israel wins nothing by restraint. Going apeshit on the Paleos won't win any friends, but it won't make any more enemies than Israel already has!!!
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Palestine Chronicle reporters in the town of Jenin said that UN investigators who arrived to the town yesterday to look into the circumstances surrounding the murder of a UN official engulfed their investigation in secrecy. The investigators were dispatched to the town to look into the Israeli army's shooting death of Iain Hook, a UN project manager whose responsibility was to oversee the rebuilding of the destroyed refugee camp. The camp was destroyed by Israeli forces in the historic invasion of April 2002. Yes, they came in a tromped the place flat, destroyed it for no reason. They made a desolation and called it Jenin. I really liked the part where they sowed the site with salt. And they murdered that guy in cold blood, too...
Several foreign guards reportedly sealed the UN compound and refused entry to Palestinian officials, and all Palestinian UN workers. Foreign UN workers however, were allowed entry. "I just thought I'd pop in and pay me respects... What's that over there? Why, it looks like a matchbook! It has Hebrew writing on it!..."
Immediately after the murder of Hook, the UN administration in Jenin closed down the building and forbade anyone from entering or approaching the scene. A large Palestinian rent-a-mob crowd consisting of local leaders, representatives of Palestinian factions, the Palestinian Authority and students awaited the UN delegation with flowers and cardboard signs expressing their sorrow and condolences. The delegation included the two brothers of Iain Hook. However, the UN foreign workers have reportedly disregarded the Palestinian presence, asking them to leave the scene. Palestinian reporters, including reporters from the Palestine Chronicle were prevented from talking to the brothers of Hook, or to take photographs. "Beat it! We have work to do. We don't have time to screw around with your Volkischer Beobachter...
Hooks brothers stood and listened to a foreign UN official, who presumably explained the details of the shooting, although he was not an eyewitness. When Palestinian eyewitnesses arrived to the scene, UN guards denied them entry, and prevented them from meeting with Hooks family. Jamal Shati, a Palestinian Parliamentarian and the Head of Refugee Affairs at the Legislative Council, told the Palestine Chronicle that the behavior of the UN was suspicious. He expressed his worry that the UN might be trying to hide the read details of the incident. He said, It would have been rational for the investigators and Hooks family to listen to the accounts of those who were present at the time of the shooting, those who tried their best to save Hooks life. You know, the guys with the guns, who were clustered thick as flies around the trailer to keep the Zionist oppressors from attacking it...
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11/28/2002 11:07 am ||
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Insp. gen. I Made Mangku Pastika, who heads investigation into the Bali bombing, said Thursday he was broadening the focus of the probe. The alleged mastermind of the blasts, Imam Samudra, has been implicated in other bombing cases, including in Jakarta, and has spent a long time abroad, Pastika said. He said that another key suspect who has been detained, Amrozi, "is the brother of Mukhlas, one of the main figures of the Jamaah Islamiyah." Police have arrested 15 suspects so far.
Imam's lawyer, Achmad Michdan, told reporters that Imam "did not feels sorry for what he did" despite possible death sentence for the crime. "He knew the risks. He wanted to dead [sic] as a syahid," he said, referring to a Muslim who died for defending Islam. Imam had admitted that he involved a series of bombing in the city in 2000, as well as knowing the bombing in Batam island. You work hard, you play by the rules, and then as soon as you make it into middle management — bang! How does it feel to be expendable, Imam?
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11/28/2002 11:18 am ||
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Accompanied by lawyers for the first time, the suspected principal planner of the Bali bomb blasts, Imam Samudra, told the police on Wednesday he was responsible for a church bombing in Batam, Riau, that was liked to the Bali attack. Emerging from National Police Headquarters on Wednesday evening, Samudra's lawyers Achmad Hamidhan and Adnan said their client had been asked 21 questions by police interrogators. Samudra, who appeared pale during the session, admitted he was involved in the Batam church bombing, said Hamidhan without going into what role Samudra played in the attack. According to Hamidhan, Samudra also told investigators the Batam bombing was linked to the Bali bombing. However, Hamidhan did not go into detail. Infidels are infidels — doesn't matter whether they're Indons or Aussies or Merkins...
"During questioning the police also showed him some photographs of people, and Samudra admitted that he knew some of them," said Hamidhan as quoted by Antara news agency. I'd imagine that he knew quite a few of them. I don't think the Jemaah is quite as widespread as it seemed a couple months ago...
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11/28/2002 11:21 am ||
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Scientists compared recording to 20 other tapes of terror chief
PARIS (AP) - The latest audiotape statement attributed to accused terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden is not authentic, a Swiss research institute said.
The Lausanne-based Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual Artificial Intelligence said it is 95-per-cent certain the tape does not feature the voice of the long-absent terrorist leader.
The review of the tape was commissioned by France-2 television and its findings were presented by the institute's Professor Herve Boulard in a special TV report shown late Thursday.
He said the institute compared the voice on the tape, first aired two weeks ago on Al-Jazeera, an Arabic television network, with some 20 earlier recordings of bin laden.
U.S. experts maintain the tape will likely never be fully authenticated because its poor quality defies complete analysis by even the most sophisticated voice-print technology.
But U.S. experts who have heard it generally support the conclusion by U.S. law-enforcement officials that it probably is bin Laden speaking.
In the tape, the speaker refers to recent terrorist strikes U.S. officials believe are connected to bin Laden's Al Qaeda network. If fully verified, it would provide the first evidence in a year that bin Laden survived U.S. bombing in Afghanistan.
Nyah,nyah,ne,nyah,nyah.
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11/28/2002 11:05 pm ||
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Is it time to Ululate? It is a little late.
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11/29/2002 0:49 Comments ||
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I'll bet 12 to a dozen, that Dubya already has his head on a plate in his freezer in Crawford and this is all being used to keep the fires stoked.
Posted by: Jack ||
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He's much more useful "alive".
"You hoo! Syria/Lybia/Yemen/whoever? We've heard he's over here. Mind if we send some of our people to look? Oops... didn't find him, sorry about destroying that training camp..."
Posted by: Kathy K ||
11/29/2002 4:57 Comments ||
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Amid heightened political tension between moderates and conservatives, Iran's hardline Basij militia geared up Thursday for a major show of strength and pro-reform students announced plans for more protests. Ahead of Friday's scheduled nationwide demonstration against the the Israeli "occupation" of Jerusalem, 70,000 Basijis were called out on to the streets to give out "moral advice". "Today (Thursday) we are going to stage a 70,000-strong exercise in 150 cities across the country from 2:00 pm until Iftar (the breaking of the daily Ramadan fast) to give oral advice to the people in order to sanitise society," a top Basij official told state radio.
