Seen on Metafilter: There's a class action suit against Bonzi Software, maker of Bonzi Buddy, the same friendly folks who warn you there's Porn on Your Computer and Your Internet Connection May Not Be Optimized (click to download). A (non-savvy) friend of mine once inadvertently downloaded Bonzi Buddy â he clicked there. It proceeded to take over his entire computer, constantly annoying him with an animated purple gorilla that called him by name without being properly introduced and tried to help him do things he didn't want to do. It took about three hours, a crowbar, and four sticks of dynamite to get the damned thing uninstalled, and I'm still not convinced it's totally gone. I'm hoping the class action's recognized and that the award is enough to put the bastards out of business.
Then they can go after the people with the spy cameras, the other popup artists, and the people who make those flash animations that make sites like arabia.com unusable without a resident killer program. I'm against suing people at the drop of a hat, but the spyware/gimme your computer thing goes beyond the drop of a hat.
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I've been using Pop-up killer (it's free...) but even with that I find the bastards modify their ads once in a while and they sneak through with new ones
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try a program called ad-aware. it's free, and scans for spyware and popup-instigating programs.
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I use NoAds myself, a freeware anti-popup program (I need to check for an update) and also Ad-Aware. BTW, I'm searching for a decent personal firewall program for my new Comcast broadband connection. Any ideas?
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I've been using a freeware program called ZoneAlarm, and it does a pretty decent job. If you have a VPN connection for the office, you may need to disable it. It's annoying to see alerts hit your screen, and certainly some are admissable, but you can toggle the alerts "off" as well.
I don't intend to ever set foot in Korea again. My household owns two Korean-made cars â there won't be another one. I don't intend to purchase anything made in Korea again. G'bye, guys. We used to be great friends, but that's over now. Want to see what my finger looks like? Thanks to James Hudnall for the link. I think. I'd probably rather never have known...
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Hee hee, if someone put up a sign declaring "Koreans are not welcome here" there would be riots and a federal investigation. The multicultists would literally shit themselves, and probably add you to their list of villains along with Hitler, McCarthy, and Reagan.
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Hey, thats great, this frees up 35,000 of our troops and a whole bunch of F-16's! Just wait till the South Koreans wake up one day and find that the North Koreans looking at them from across the DMZ really dont have anything to eat, and that to them the South Koreans look "just like cattle".
Gosh, I hope we dont sprain something packing up in a hurry and moving out of this little rathole of a country. Korea, the fabled far eastern land where Kimchee ( fermented cabbage and garlic - think about it for second ) and 'night soil'( human waste as a ferilizer) were invented.
Gosh, Im so proud that 50,000 of our guys died to help these poor put upon people.
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This sign is at a Korean resturant and is unecessary since I don't know how anyone can stand to even smell much less eat kim-chi!!
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The head of the international security force (Isaf) in Afghanistan has said American-made Stinger missiles and rockets are being offered to them for sale. General Akin Zorlu said his troops had been offered Stinger missiles for $200,000 and rockets for $5,000 to $10,000. I still need to pick up a few Christmas gifts.
He said he believed a recent surge in rocket attacks on Kabul could be a tactic by the dealers trying to put pressure on the international peace keepers to buy up the weapons.
"After almost each incident we've been receiving proposals to buy some rockets or missiles" General Zorlu told journalists in Kabul. At least six rockets were fired near a base housing Isaf troops last week although there no casualties. This explains a lot of those attacks. Guys have a lot of rockets just lying around, and they are trying to boost the market. Next we'll see them on EBay.
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I'll bid!
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Dollars for dimes says that the rockets that are being launched at American troops in Afghanistan are being smuggled in from the "tribal territories" of Pakistan, where the Mushareff government is harboring terrorists.
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Perhaps not coincidentially (NOTHING is a coincidence, mwa-hahahaha!) the InstaPundit today posted a link to a now-ended eBay auction which was offering two (empty) Titan II nose cones for sale.
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Some guy with the screen name "Dear Leader" won the auction for the nose cones.
Maybe those careless checks signed by Princess Haifa al-Faisal, wife of the Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar, could turn out to have been useful. The well-informed Kuwaiti daily al-Watan reports that it led to an initially tense but finally cordial meeting between Prince Bandar and Condoleezza Rice, at which the White House national security adviser defined the terms on which the Americans would draw a veil over the affair. Rice asked for "a clear Saudi statement of support" against Iraq, and the use of the Prince Sultan Air Base in the event of military operations. Al-Watan concluded that the Saudis "agreed to be amenable with some reasonable adaptations of the plan." Blackmail is such a ugly word, heh, heh, heh.
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Anyone who has ever worked and lived in Soddy knows the drill - you have to give them the advantage of making it look like they are the ones to make the key decision and you were the ones who were wrong to begin with and now must follow their course of action which is what you developed all along for them. This is why when they announce that Prince Sultan is available it will sound as if we had never requested it and that the Saudis will publicly state that we are crazy for thinking about war with Iraq without using this valuable asset they own.
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The truly huge thing here is that the message was delivered by a woman, a black woman. You know, fit only for... wait, that's back home in Soddi.
Islamic radicals believed linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida seized two remote hilltop posts from their Kurdish guerrilla rivals Wednesday in a fierce battle that left at least 20 fighters dead or wounded, Kurdish military officials said. The attack by the Ansar al-Islam fighters was the latest in a long series of skirmishes with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which has sought to drive the extremist Muslim militia from its mountain stronghold on the eastern edge of the Kurdish autonomous zone in northern Iraq. Jaffer Mustafa, a Patriotic Union commander, said the Ansar al-Islam let loose with artillery barrages before dawn, killing some of his men as they slept, then charged with assault rifles and grenade launchers at the positions near the city of Halabja. Massoud Kazem, a local commander, said three or four Patriotic Union fighters were killed and 11 wounded. He said about 10 from Ansar al-Islam were killed.
Mustafa said the Islamic militants succeeded because some of his men were given leave for the Islamic holiday of Eid el-Fitr, which begins Thursday and marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. "They took advantage of the situation," he said. "Everywhere in the Muslim world, people usually stop fighting for Ramadan." Pressure's on Sammy, so the Qaeda-linked Bad Guys fire up â Kuwait, Jordan, Kurdistan. Quite a coincidence. We probably just haven't heard about whatever's going on in the Turkish border area.
The Kurds have told us to stay out of it, they'll handle Ansar. They'd better start handling them soon. It would make a lot of sense to scrub those hills they took overlooking Halabja with B52s. It's a lot easier on the infantrymen, too...
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This group has held a sliver of land along the Iranian border for some time. Each time the Kurds press them, they duck over to Iran and come round the other side of the hill. The Kurds would appreciate a little support from Iran, and they have talked the talk but not walked the walk. Iran has Kurds, too, and has NO interest in an independant Kurdistan.
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all litle distractions/tests as the noose tightens. Wonder which one will generate the critical mass to trigger the big show.
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The day Al-Queda goes to Turkey - its game over. They don't want anything to do with Turkey, believe me. If Mossad puts the heebeegeebees in these guys the Turks must make them want to convert to Catholicism.
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Don't be too sure about Turkey for anything. They are really and truly pissed about the EU decision, and they hate the Kurds.
Hard-line vigilantes, best known for disrupting reformist gatherings and beating up students, declared a "holy war" Wednesday to rid Iran of reformers who promote Western democracy and challenge the country's supreme leader. The declaration in the weekly newspaper of the ultra-hard line group Ansar- e-Hizbollah, the chief organization of the vigilante movement, appeared to be a direct challenge to Iran's reformist president, Mohammad Khatami.
Masoud Dehnamaki, a vigilante ideologue, also said Wednesday that Iranians who try to appease Iran's enemies such as the United States "should be stopped." The article in the weekly newspaper Ya Lesarat, the usual vehicle for announcing Ansar-e-Hezbollah decisions, warned that the time has come for a "revolutionary Jihad," or holy war, to remove reformers from power and replace them with "idealist and religious" officials.
The declaration follows some of the largest demonstrations in years by students protesting a death sentence imposed on a reformist leader, Hashem Aghajari, for making statements questioning the rule of the clergy over Iranian society.
Also Wednesday, Mohammad Reza Khatami, leader of the reformist Islamic Iran Participation Front made a statement suggesting further confrontations were likely between the country's liberals and conservatives. Khatami, the younger brother of the president, was quoted by the official Islamic Republic News Agency as saying the behavior of conservatives may bring Iran to a "situation that no one would be able to control." He had earlier warned that moderates would walk out of government if conservatives continued to thwart efforts toward reform. Iranian student blogs have been calling for a large demonstration on Dec 7 to urge reforms. This could get nasty.
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and these hard-line troops are in addition to the "foreigners" (read Arabs) brought in to whack the students and other protesters? Sounds like another step on the road to a secular Iran... would be nice to see Iran occupied with internal dissent enough that IDF could pave hezbollah and the bekaa
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There is an interesting article in today's Daily Telegraph about the arrest and trail of 3 Gallup affiliated pollsters in Iran who found that 75% of those polled want better relations with the USA. Polling and publishing anything positive about the "great satan" is against Iranian policy. I recommend anyone to the article's accompanying photo which shows the 3 pollsters in common Iranian jail wear (more like cheap pjs) standing next to the 'judge' with thes wry and sardonic grins and posture.
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The creaking noise you hear is a domino rocking, slowly, back and forth.
The Kenyan Daily Nation reported yesterday that Kenyan security forces knew terrorists were planning to carry out an attack in a coastal area and that a bomb had been smuggled into the country. The warnings were sent in March 2002 to senior military officials, the police and intelligence organizations, the report said. The Kenyan Interior Ministry has denied receiving warning of an impending attack. The newspaper quoted sources as saying that the first warning was received on March 11 and referred to the Al-Ittihad al-Islami organization, affiliated with Al-Qaida, and it was planning to attack western targets in Kenya. The second warning came the following day, and said that six explosives experts had left Somalia for Kenya to attack U.S., British and German targets on the Kenyan coast. The third warning was received on March 27. The fourth and last warning was received the following day and said that the two terrorists were on their way to Kenya. Authorities had details and photos of the two, believed to have been responsible for last week's deadly terror attack. The problem there is that the warnings were received last March. That's eight months ago. Think real hard, and you still won't be able to remember which other warnings were issued in March, even if you're in the security business. The number of false alarms that come out also makes things harder. The Kenyans denying they ever got the warnings is just silliness on their part.
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Western intelligence sources say that a Kenyan Muslim who appears on the FBI's list of the 22 most wanted terrorists in the world was behind the attack in Mombasa last week. Faisal Abdullah Mohammed is believed to be hiding in Somalia, the sources say. That would be Fazul Abdullah Mohammad, "indicted on September 17, 1998... for his alleged involvement in the bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, on August 7, 1998."
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Nine foreigners branded by police as terrorist suspects and deported to Jordan were disowned by the Middle East state and returned to Kenya, it was revealed yesterday. I'll bet that just made their day...
Police have held the nine men - now said to be Iraqis - in their cells for almost a year after they were disowned by Jordan, commissioner Philemon Abong'o said. Being held in jug in Kenya for almost a year is not high on anybody's list of things to do in this life. There are worse things, but most of them involve broken bones...
In addition to the nine, six other foreigners â two Iraqis, three Syrians and a Jordanian â are either in police custody awaiting deportation or already sent home, Mr Abong'o said. His disclosures came as the Government issued a terse statement attempting to play down yesterday's exclusive report in the Daily Nation that Kenya's security agencies - the police, military and intelligence service - were warned of a possible terrorist attack at the Coast last March eight months before the Paradise Hotel was blown up by three suicide bombers. At about the same time, two missiles were also fired at an Israeli charter jet at Mombasa airport. "The Government would like to state that any security information received was promptly acted upon and this resulted in the arrest of several suspects, some of whom were taken to court and deported for being in Kenya illegally," said the unsigned statement from the President's office. They're trying to play down the appearance of ineptitude â probably justifiably in this case. Kenya's the most successful sub-Saharan country I can think of. In fact, I can't think of another one. That's probably why the Bad Guys are trying to flood it with nutbags.
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Peace efforts in the war-torn Somalia yesterday received a major boost following a declaration to end hostilities in the country's capital Mogadishu. The seven Somali faction leaders whose militia have been fighting in the capital signed a joint declaration in a landmark resolution committing themselves:
To cease all kinds of hostilities now and in future;
To fight jointly the bandits and armed militia who have been killing and abducting innocent people, hijacking public transport in the city, and committing other crimes and;
To solve political differences through dialogue and good will in a brotherly atmosphere.
The warlords are Mohamed Qanyare Afrah, Musse Sudi Yalawow, Hussein Mohammed Aideed, Osman Hassan Ali Atto, Omer Mahamud Mohamed, Hassan Abshir Farrah and Abdalla Derow Issack. They keep reaching agreements. They keep breaking them. Maybe this one will work, since it gives them somebody (the bandidos and other â non-signatory â "militiamen") to kill.
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The United States will begin new operations against the al Qaeda network in Yemen after finding evidence of the group's role in last week's bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya, a well-informed Yemeni source says. Washington has informed Yemeni authorities of its plans to capture alive suspected al Qaeda members, the source said. Prepare the giggle juice!
Thursday's suicide attack on the Paradise Hotel in Mombasa killed 16 persons. An attempt to down an Israeli chartered flight over Kenya failed. After the Mombasa bombing, U.S. Central Forces Command in the Horn of Africa decided to change its tactics in the war on terrorism. According to information from U.S. Navy officers, the United States will carry out pre-emptive strikes against targets in the Horn of Africa, including Somalia, which have become "havens for terrorists and al Qaeda operatives."
"Yemen and the United States are coordinating a large-scale attack on suspected al Qaeda members in several Yemeni provinces," said the Yemeni source, who requested anonymity. He said the United States is targeting the provinces of Marib, Shabwah, Jawf and Hudaydah on the Red Sea â all believed to shelter members of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network.
The source said he expected a large-scale attack in a few days, and that the upcoming operations were intended to hunt down and capture suspected al Qaeda members instead of killing them. Letting them know we are coming will cause them to get nervous and try to move. Easier to get them on the move.
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having spooked the baddies with Predators, we now wait for the cell phones to light up in panic. I wonder what the Goverment of Yemen gets for all this altruism.
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Anybody else surprised at the speed at which the Marines got deployed to Kenya? Remember, its all about logistics. Getting the men there is one thing, but then you got to have the means to feed them house them and keep them ready with spares and supplies.
Apparently, we've got all of that working well enough to drop a whole battalion of Marines and their equipment into central Kenya, one week after the bombing.
Not bad.........
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Kenyan police are questioning three new suspects in connection with last week's attacks on Israeli targets near the coastal resort of Mombasa. Two "Kenyans of Arabic origin" were arrested over the failed missile attack on a plane taking tourists back to Israel, police say. People of "Arabic origin" seem to be around when bombs go off. Funny how that works.
A man police describe as the owner of the car used by suicide bombers to blow up the Paradise Hotel has also been detained.
Deputy Police Commissioner William Langat said the registered owner of the vehicle was arrested on Tuesday, and told investigators he had sold it to men of Arab origin. Unless he's as dumb as the Bali bombers.
The latest arrests brings to 13 the number of people arrested in connection with the attack. Mr Langat said the names of the two buyers were not mentioned in the agreement, and police were trying to establish whether they were among the suicide bombers who died in the attack. Most likely, unless the controllers did the buying.
The commissioner called the arrests a significant breakthrough in the investigations. The 10 who had already been arrested are believed to include Pakistanis and Somalis. The usual suspects.
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Two bombs were found in outlets of the IKEA home goods chain, and two police explosives experts were wounded when one of the devices detonated as they tried to disarm it, authorities said Wednesday. All 10 stores in the Netherlands belonging to the Swedish-based company were closed while police searched for more explosives. Investigators declined to give details on the type of explosives involved, how they were discovered, or about who was responsible but said they didn't suspect terrorism. "Can't be terrorists, we're Dutch!"
The bomb found in the Sliedrecht IKEA branch, near the port of Rotterdam, blew up at a police station where it had been taken to be defused. One officer was briefly treated at a hospital for minor injuries; the other was injured in the eye. The other bomb was found in an outlet in Amsterdam. Police destroyed a third suspicious package that they initially said was a bomb but turned out to be harmless.
Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende cautioned against assuming terrorism was behind the bombs and said they appeared to be the work of a criminal organization. The discovery of the bombs coincided with the first terrorism trial in the Netherlands since the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington, but police said there was no apparent connection.
``We don't believe this is a terrorist-related action,'' said Amsterdam police spokesman Remco Gerretsen. Hands over ears, eyes closed, chanting "Noooooooo".
Two Algerians, a Frenchman and a Dutchman of Ethiopian origin with alleged ties to al-Qaida face are accused of conspiring to attack American targets in Europe, including the U.S. Embassy in Paris and a military depot in Belgium. A verdict is expected within three weeks. "But they are unrelated, really they are!"
Sweden's ambassador to the Netherlands, Bjoern Skala, told Swedish radio that IKEA on Tuesday ``received threatening letters from an unknown person, which indicated that there were explosive charges in the IKEA stores.'' IKEA said in a statement it was closing all its Dutch stores ``to protect the safety of our employees. There are strong indications there may be more explosives.'' In an apparently unrelated incident, the offices of the national Dutch news agency ANP were evacuated after a bomb threat, police said. No explosives were immediately found.
No link to terrorism, huh. That's not what Michiel Visser thinks: "It turns out that al-Qaeda has very specifically warned the Dutch government against continued operations against its Dutch network. Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed, leader of the London-based radical Islamic Al Muhajiroun organization issued a threat against The Netherlands on 29 November. According to the Dutch TV-program "2Vandaag" the sheikh said that The Netherlands would be targeted with a major terror campaign if it didn't stop "arresting muslims" immediately."
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What moron takes a bomb to the police station to defuse it?
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Reasonably priced furniture and housewares are an affront to the truly faithful, I guess.
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With their super-tolerance of drugs, prostitution, rights for everyone the Netherlands is the opposite of the Taliban ideal. They are a natural target.
Hungary's dithering is Bulgaria's opportunity. A NATO member since 1999, Hungary is agonizing over how far it can support the proposed American military operation against Iraq. The problem is not so much American troops, who have in recent years become a familiar sight at the Taszar base, 100 miles south of Budapest, but civilian "employees" of the State Department. In fact they would be Iraqi exiles and dissidents, in training to act as interpreters and fill other support roles during a military campaign. Hungary's new left-of-center coalition government is dubious, fearing after initial alarmist reports that up to 5,000 Saddam-hating Iraqis were heading their way that the country could become a terrorist target.
Bulgaria has been quick to step into the breach. Foreign Minister Solomon Passy has told Washington that his country was "eager" to help. But then Bulgaria has something to prove, after those embarrassing revelations that its state-owned Terem munitions plant had been illicitly exporting spare parts for Saddam Hussein's BRM and BMP armored personnel carriers. Just a little more blackmail among friends. Besides, the new Iraqi government may need some more spare parts later. Bulgaria has figured out which side it wants to be on when the smoke clears
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Sharon e-mailed me this. Sorry, no link. It's from AFP and Bloomberg, but I couldn't find it. Should show up on the wires soon, though...
A member of a militant Islamic group has been arrested in Britain for recruiting Muslims to fight British forces, Agence France-Presse reported, citing the organization's director. Hassan Butt, 22, was arrested under the Terrorism Act at his home in Manchester, northwest England, and taken to a London police station for questioning, AFP quoted Anjem Choudary, director of the group known as al-Muhajiroun as saying. In January, Butt told British Broadcasting Corp. radio he had recruited 200 British Muslims to fight on the side of the now-deposed Taliban regime in Afghanistan, AFP said. I was never able to figure why Hassan wasn't either jugged or bumped off by either the Brits or the Paks. Then I quit worrying about it when I ran across a posting on one of the Jihadi boards â it might have been on Azzam.com â warning about him. Apparently he wasn't nabbed because the Feds from at least three countries were watching the people he was associating with and recruiting, and a bunch of them were snagged. Guess his utility is used up.
Al-Muhajiroun is one of the most militant Islamic groups in Britain. Its spiritual leader, Sheikh Omar Bakri, is based in London. He's also a virulent nut case. The headline of their most recent (October 24th) press release reads: "WESTERN VALUES ARE PERVERTED VALUES". That's because only God can make laws, and God, as we all know, speaks only through pious holy men with turbans and automatic weapons.
Try to put this wretched system next to the beauty and perfection of the Islamic ideology and there really can be no comparison. For a start Islam does not recognise âfreedomâ but rather insists on complete submission to the law of Allah in all the affairs of society, whether that be in the ruling, social, economic or judicial systems or in the foreign policy of the Islamic State. There is no compulsion for non-Muslims to embrace Islam but no compromise in obeying the ISLAMIC law of the land, upon Muslims and non-Muslims. Democracy is also anathema to Islam, since Muslims do not believe in the rule of the majority or in elections every 4 or 5 years or in sovereignty for anyone or anything other than Allah, whether that is the people, their government or any constitution, be it the UN, OIC or any other body. As for secularism, Islam considers anyone adopting this to have committed an act of apostasy, for considering any part of lifeâs affairs to be outside the ambit of the divine law will make one a non-Muslim apostate.
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Ah, just about right. The only part he left out was that all of the above is non-negotiable, period. In the clerical mind, he is saying "have a nice day". Accept this or die.
Anyone care to continue trying to reason with Islamists?
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Radical environmental and animal rights groups have claimed responsibility for a fire at a Pennsylvania mink farm last week and for several recent incidents at other animal ranches and farms. In an e-mail to The Associated Press and on its Web site, the Earth Liberation Front said anonymous cells from the group and from its companion Animal Liberation Front set the Nov. 26 fire, which destroyed a barn at the farm in Erie. The groups said the facility was responsible for the deaths of "thousands of innocent creatures yearly" and that the animals are tortured and confined to a miserable existence in tiny cages. We were just talking about these dimbulbs yesterday...
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These guys are so nuts they almost make the Phillistines seem semi-rational. With the FBI on their tail (ha! pun, geddit?) I image it won't be too long before their main concern will be trying to get Vegan meals in prison.
The leader of the Pakistani province of Baluchistan has ordered the release of all prisoners belonging to militant religious groups banned by President Pervez Musharraf. The chief minister of Baluchistan province, Jam Mohammed Yousaf, issued the order for the prisoners to be freed in time for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the month of Ramadan. Home for the holidays.
A leader from the minister's party, Maulana Abdul Wasih, said the released prisoners would include members of Jaish-e-Mohammed, one of Pakistan's most notorious militant groups which has been linked to the Taliban. The prisoners have been allowed two months with their families except for those charged with involvement in terrorism. Do they expect them to come back to jail?
President Musharraf outlawed Jaish-e-Mohammed and four other militant groups in January, a month after the attack on the Indian Parliament which Delhi blamed on Pakistani-supported militants.
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"Hey Ibn Lan! What are you in for?"
"Mugging."
"But if you are a terrorist, you can go home!"
"Where do I sign?"
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Israeli security forces have arrested a U.S. citizen suspected of helping distribute funds to Palestinian militants on behalf of al Qaeda, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office said Wednesday. It said Khaled Nazem Diab, a U.S. citizen who had recently been living in Qatar, had been arrested in the past month after entering Israel to allegedly "distribute funds to groups linked to terror groups in general and al Qaeda in particular." Sharon's office, which is in charge of the Shin Bet internal security service, said Diab would be deported from Israel once his interrogation was completed. I hope the interrogation is terribly painful. Wonder if he's going to be deported to the U.S.? If so, I wonder if he's a candidate for a military tribunal? He sounds like he might be...
Diab, who was born in 1968, had previously been in Afghanistan where he was in contact with people connected to the Taliban and was also known for his involvement with activists in the militant Islamic group Hamas. In other words, if it's a terrorist group, he's all for it.
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Dr. Khaled Nazem Diab, 34, arrived in Israel on November 14 on a mission for the Qatari Red Crescent and the University of Missouri Trauma Center to train Palestinian social workers, said Farek Hussein, director for the Palestinian Red Crescent. During his interrogation, which lasted several days and was carried out with FBI cooperation, he revealed that he was a member of Islamic charity organizations that were transferring money to the Palestinian Authority. Diab had worked at an American charity group called al-Najada, that was closed after the September 11 bombings on charges of transferring funds to terrorist organizations, including Al-Qaida. The head of al-Najada, Rabih Hadad, was recently arrested in the U.S., also on suspicion of transferring money to bin Laden's group. After the interrogation, acting on legal advice, Israel deported Diab to the United States. "Get the hell out and stay out!"
Rabih was the head of Global Relief, which is on the terror funding list. Haddad is apparently in the Mumia category for lefties wanting to get him out of jug.
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The leader of the Lebanese Muslim group Hezbollah is urging a global suicide bombing campaign, increasing the prospect that the regional conflict between Arabs and Israelis will expand to mimic or even merge with al Qaeda's war against the West. They've been edging toward that for some time.
Two recent speeches by the Lebanon-based Hezbollah leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, have raised the specter of attacks outside the region by a powerful and well-organized military force. "By Allah, if they touch Al Aqsa we will act everywhere around the world," Sheik Nasrallah told an estimated 10,000 gun-toting, bearded fighters in southern Lebanon on Friday. Several hundred "suicide commandos" also took part. Hezbollah's been Iran's creature for, lo, these many years. I wonder how this fits in with Larijani's remarks yesterday, where he wanted Iran to be our good buddy? Is the Hezb striking out on its own?
Earlier in the week, at a rally in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Sheik Nasrallah issued a far more ominous threat. "Martyrdom operations â suicide bombings â should be exported outside Palestine," he said. "I encourage Palestinians to take suicide bombings worldwide. Don't be shy about it." "We should all do it. See? I've got a boom belt, too..."
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12/04/2002 11:38 am ||
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Let's see if I get this right. 10.000 bearded nutters gather in southern Libanon, to listen to someone who is even more nuts. Why wasn't Daisy Cutter paying a visit to that bunch of maniacs ?
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A soldier is expected to face disciplinary measures after he shot and killed a 95-year-old Palestinian woman in a taxi while firing warning shots to force the taxi away from a road the army had closed to Palestinian drivers. The shooting was a clear violation of the already loose rules of engagement in the territories. According to the preliminary inquiry, the soldier fired at a car that was driving away from him without any indication the soldier was at risk. Moreover, the soldier fired unprofessionally, in a way that substantially increased the chances of innocent people getting shot. He hosed that one. Now the Paleos will make political hay from it for the next six months.
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12/04/2002 11:38 am ||
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Who listens? When the Paleo hose children they are hailed as martyrs. When IDF screws up, accidently kills an old lady, he get punished for it. Now how is this moral equivalancy thing supposed to work now?
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Israeli troops searching for members of the militant Islamic Jihad group in Tufah village, near Hebron, came under fire, the army said, and soldiers shot back, killing two men. Palestinian medics said they found the men's bodies among trees in a remote valley, shot in the head. That's supposed to raise suspicion they were executed and not banged in a gun battle...
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12/04/2002 01:06 pm ||
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In Gaza, a pair of Israeli helicopters fired several missiles at a small cinderblock room used by security guards at the Local Affairs Ministry complex in Gaza City, killing the guard, Mustafa Sabah, 35. After the first missile hit, driver Muhannad Abu Assi said he hit the ground, "and then I saw another three missiles coming at the same time. They hit the small room from two directions," he said. Israel's army issued a statement alleging that Sabah was involved in three bomb attacks against Israeli tanks that killed a total of seven soldiers. Four missiles? Used to hit a guard shack? They were determined to take it out...
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12/04/2002 01:08 pm ||
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Israeli troops have closed offices where Israeli and Palestinian security officers once coordinated joint patrols. Israeli soldiers in Ramallah and Jenin threw out the Palestinian security officers and confiscated their weapons. A military spokesman said the Ramallah office was closed because there is no longer any coordination there and armed Palestinians presented a danger to the Israeli forces. "Get the hell out! And gimme those guns!"
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12/04/2002 01:11 pm ||
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Speaking on Monday at the Herzliya Conference on Israel's National Strength and Security, Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the impending U.S. military operation in Iraq could provide "an opportunity for us." Israel, Netanyahu explained, might be able to work toward its goals of replacing the Palestinian Authority's leadership, and, subsequently, democratizing Palestinian society. Heh, heh, heh. Say goodbye,Yassar.
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12/04/2002 02:16 pm ||
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no better time to cleanout Becca. CNN is too busy with Blix
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The Malaysian High Commissioner to Australia has been implicated in a rape incident, said the latest issue of Seruan Keadilan, a newspaper published by Malaysia's National Justice Party. Ohfergawdsake!
The High Commissioner, Mohamed Arshad Hussain, however, has denied the allegation and said he merely "spanked the bottom" of a female employee of the High Commission, a Malaysian woman residing in Australia. "Hey, baby! Wanna get spanked?"
"No. And even if I did, not with that thing!"
Yesterday, the Herald Sun reported that Arshad, who is being investigated by Australiaâs Federal Police, has been asked to return home this weekend. âThe Malaysian High Commissioner to Australia, Mohamed Arshad Hussain, will return to Kuala Lumpur after the weekend,â said the Herald Sun. âHe was removed after a Herald Sun report last week revealed that he had been investigated by the Australian Federal Police over an alleged common assault.â Dr Mahathir wants to talk to him about something...
Sources said the complaint was made by the wife of an embassy staff member. But the matter was dropped by police in consultation with the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, added the paper. âA federal police spokeswoman said it was determined there was not sufficient evidence to proceed with a prosecution.â Had a visit from Big Mahmoud and the boys, did they?
According to popular Malaysian columnist, M.G.G. Pillai, the wife of a locally recruited Malaysian employee of the High Commission filed a police report that Arshad had raped her and that the Australian Police had asked the Malaysian government for his immunity to be lifted so that he could be arrested and charged. Arshad told the Australian Police that it was an unintended and an accidental pat on the bottom. The womanâs husband was then pressured to have his wife withdraw the police report. Toldja so. For being so pious, Muslims sure spend a lot of time either raping each other or going to whorehouses. Having an occasional beer might take the edge off that excess horniness, y'know...
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12/04/2002 12:32 pm ||
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Indonesian police said Wednesday they had arrested the operations chief of Jemaah Islamiyah. Investigators hope the arrest of Mukhlas, also known as Ali Gufron, will shed light on the shadowy group and expose the extent of al-Qaida's reach in the world's most populous Muslim nation. "Ali Gufron, or Mukhlas, is an important figure in the group (Jemaah Islamiyah)," Police detective Brig. Gen. Aryanto Sutadi said. "We have been looking for him for a long time." Mukhlas is the brother of Amrozi, who was arrested last month in connection with the Bali bombings. Amrozi confessed to owning the car used in the attack and buying materials for the bombs.
Police arrested Mukhlas and eight others suspects late Tuesday in a series of raids in central Java, said national police chief Gen. Erwin Mapaseng. Sutadi said one of those detained, identified only as Hermianto, was believed to have arranged accommodations for the bombers in Bali. Citing intelligence reports, Indonesian police said last week Mukhlas was believed to have replaced Riduan Isamuddin, also known as Hambali, as operations chief of Jemaah Islamiyah. They said Hambali was becoming too well known and had been forced into hiding. Hambali, an Indonesian citizen, has been described as al-Qaida's point man in Southeast Asia. It will be interesting to hear Mukhlas' tune when he starts singing, assuming he does. It sure would be nice to catch Hambali, too. That could wrap up the whole of Jemaah...
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12/04/2002 01:01 pm ||
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A secret plan involving Philippine and American military indicates the deepening US involvement in Philippine efforts to stamp out Muslim separatist and communist insurgencies. Oh, goody. Another "secret plan" hits the papers.
The plan also deals with new concerns over the presence of suspected foreign and Filipino terrorists linked to al-Qaeda.
With US help, the Philippine military is set to create a strike force that could be rapidly deployed against local terrorists and insurgents and be used in UN peacekeeping work, according to an official and a confidential plan.
A Filipino general, who asked not to be named, said Tuesday that the plan by Manila and Washington was still "in a conceptualization stage," with the United States seen as playing a key role in organizing, training and arming such a force. The secret plan said the new unit, dubbed the Armed Forces of the Philippines Rapid Deployment Force, would be created to respond quickly to "small-scale crisis" within the Philippines, act as Manila's designated force for UN operations, and contribute "to any regional and international military response to crisis." Aside from anti-insurgency and counterterrorism, the force could be used for relief work during natural disasters, noncombatant evacuations, search and rescue, and peacekeeping, according to the plan prepared last year.
The new force would be separate from US-trained and equipped Philippine forces called Light Reaction Companies that were used to battle Abu Sayyaf guerrillas on Basilan island this year, the general added. US Special Forces have trained two LRC units and are committed to training two more in close combat, hostage retrieval and sniping, he said. Seems like they have been doing pretty good. Hope they keep it up.
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A Bosnian Muslim arrested by U.S. troops on suspicion of spying on a U.S. base is linked to the al Qaeda terrorist network, peacekeepers said yesterday. Sabahudin Fijuljanin, 41, was arrested Oct. 26 by U.S. troops from the NATO-led peacekeeping force based in Tuzla, northeastern Bosnia, when they saw him allegedly spying on their base.
During an investigation, the troops found an antitank weapon and several passports in Fijuljanin's home. "We have information which links Fijuljanin to al Qaeda," said Lt. Cmdr. Yves Vanier, a spokesman for the peacekeepers. Antitank weapon and several passports, I think that fits the profile of a al-Qaeda elk hunter quite nicely.
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Apparently there's no word for "gratitude" in Bosnian, either.
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It's because we only went into Bosnia because of the oil....er, never mind.
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When you read the history of the Balkans, it's difficult to find a group that never stabbed an ally in the back. Sometimes the Serbs fought the Turks, sometimes they fought for the Turks. And so on.
And, besides, what we did for Bosnia is so... yesterday.
Al-Qaeda planned to attack the Israeli national football team during an away match in Malta, the Israeli media have reported.
The coach of the national team, Avraham Grant, told Army Radio that he had been informed before the 12 October match that a Tunisian man with suspected links to al-Qaeda had been arrested the day before. The man, Hamadi Bawahia, lived in Italy and was detained along with four other men by Italian anti-terrorist forces, the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot reported.
The newspaper said Italian police had intercepted a call between alleged members of a terrorist cell in which one said: "All is ready for the match, the ground is ready, we shall win." Remember this one? Everyone was trying to figure out what this call meant.
The Italians had been tipped off by Israeli security forces, the paper said. It added that Italian officials were investigating the possibility that the alleged al-Qaeda members were planning an attack on the football match.
But Italian police sources have denied knowing anything about the alleged plot, the Reuters news agency reported. Protecting their sources.
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GOOOAAAAAAALLL
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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.
I don't intend to ever set foot in Korea again. My household owns two Korean-made cars â there won't be another one. I don't intend to purchase anything made in Korea again. G'bye, guys. We used to be great friends, but that's over now. Want to see what my finger looks like?
