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Ho, ho, ho! Somebody call the ACLU!
Courtyards built during ancient dynasties are decked with boughs of plastic holly. The stockings are hung by the straw-paper lanterns with care. And on Friday, something truly rare happened in China's bone-dry capital: It snowed.

The timing was ideal. Because in Beijing this month, Shengdan Laoren — literally, "Old Christmas Guy" — is coming to town.

Marx's manifesto made no room for God, and you'd think that would include Christmas. But in the belly of global communism — which happens to be the largest emerging bastion of global capitalism — better think again. A commercialized version of Christ's birthday is thriving in urban China, in form if not in faith.

Just ask Xiao Bai, a young noodle-shop employee on Wangfujing, Beijing's premier shopping street. He was dispatched this week to dress in red, don a white beard and distribute party favors to passers-by with a hearty "Ho! Ho! Ho!" and a Chinese-style "Welcome to our door."

"Chinese people, they all love Christmas," said Bai, who proffers an earnest if skinny interpretation of Old St. Nick. "Every kid that passes me knows about Santa Claus. The few who don't think I'm just an old grandpa in red. You want a balloon?"
<WHINE>If they can do it, why can't we?</WHINE>
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/20/2002 01:06 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It makes sense. Look at how much Christmas stuff is made there. I've been telling my husband for years that a bunch of commies, Daoists, Taoists, et al. make stuff for the largest religious holiday in the world. It's actually amusing in it's own way. Mass marketing the gospel which is not allowed to be practiced.

And start paying attention to the Christmas tree skirts, runners, placemats, etc., coming out of India.
Posted by: Anonymous || 12/21/2002 0:56 Comments || Top||


German Terrorist's Brain Buried
The brain of a notorious Red Army Faction terrorist was buried alongside the rest of her body after a university that performed research on the organ was forced to return it, officials said Friday. Ulrike Meinhof's twin daughters requested that their mother's brain be cremated and placed in an urn, which was buried Thursday at the Berlin cemetery where Meinhof's body was laid to rest more than 26 years ago, said Eckard Maack, a spokesman for prosecutors in Stuttgart.
Well, good. If they toasted it, we can be sure it doesn't work anymore...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/20/2002 01:37 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's kind of weird, but my Mom was friends with (Baader-Meinhof gang member) Gudrun Ensslin when she came to visit Iowa(!) as part of an international exchange program when both were young teenage girls. Gudrun stayed with her family for several weeks, and my Mom says she was a seemingly normal, nice, smart girl back then! Heh.

It's a small world, eh?
Posted by: Aracona || 12/20/2002 14:35 Comments || Top||


Frolicking inmates badly supervised, report concludes
A barbecue at a psychiatric jail where potentially violent inmates frolicked nude in a fountain, feasted on filet mignon and climbed trees in an open courtyard was inadequately supervised, says a Correctional Service of Canada report.
You might say that...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/20/2002 07:53 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Worst war movie ever made?
Anna critiques "Atomic War Bride," which seems to be the "Mars Needs Women" of war movies.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/20/2002 11:17 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Axis of Evil
Iraq Not "In Material Breach" Of UN Resolutions Says Envoy
Source: Xinhuanet
A top member of the Iraqi mission to the United Nations said Thursday that his country is not in "material breach" and accusations of the United States and Britain are "groundless."
"Material breach? Nah! Pshaw!"
"Iraq's declaration is complete and comprehensive and the accusations of the US and Britain are groundless," Iraqi Minister Plenipotentiary Said Shihab Ahmad told reporters after the UN Security Council's informal consultations on the Iraqi report.
"I mean, there's lotsa stuff in there, so it must be complete. Show me anything that's in there that's missing!"
He was in response to US Ambassador John Negroponte's remarks that omissions in the 12,000-page arms declaration constituted "material breach" of UN resolutions. "The US has made it clear that the issue is not disarmament, but is to change the legitimate government of Iraq," Ahmad said.
And Iraq's making it clear that the issue is not disarmament but the production of paper...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/20/2002 10:21 am || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "LIES! ALL LIES!!"...

"NO, I didn't mean the "declaration"!..."
Posted by: mojo || 12/20/2002 12:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Journalists can't get anything right. He did not say "Iraq not in Material Breech" he said "Iraq has material in britches."
Posted by: Anonymous || 12/20/2002 16:00 Comments || Top||


Bush Launches Iraq Endgame
Source: News.scotsman.com
The United States last night lit the fuse for military action against Saddam Hussein when Colin Powell formally declared Iraq was in "material breach" of the United Nations resolution on disarmament.
They save Powell for that kind of occasion...
In a move that signalled the beginning of a countdown to war in the new year, Mr Powell, the US secretary of state, warned the world "would not wait forever" for Iraq to comply with the demands of the UN for a complete inventory of its nuclear, chemical and biological arsenal. Senior White House officials last night conceded that the president, George Bush, was "ramping up" towards a second Gulf war. The president is not likely to decide whether to go to war until late January or early February, an official said, and will use the time until then to bolster his case against Saddam.
And to figure if the job can be done without using an invasion force...
Mr Powell, who has re-established himself as the member of the White House’s inner circle who speaks most closely for the president, delivered his uncompromising statement following a damning initial assessment by Hans Blix, the chief UN weapons inspector, who said the 12,000-page Iraqi weapons declaration contained "inconsistencies" and left "many questions unanswered".
Powell was never out of the inner circle. He's the "good cop" to Rumsfeld's "bad cop." The people who periodically call Bush a moron are too stupid to figure that out.
Mr Powell went further, saying US experts had found the declaration to be "a catalogue of recycled information and flagrant omissions" and "anything but full or complete". He added: "The Iraqi declaration ... totally fails to meet the resolution’s requirements. These are material omissions that, in our view, constitute another material breach. We are disappointed, we are not deceived."
It's the kind of horse maneuvers that've worked in the past — the kind that Bush said wouldn't work this time. Let's see what happens next...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/20/2002 10:21 am || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I figured all along that a good deal of the so-called dissension in the Administration was a smokescreen. The roles of Rummy and Colin do dovetail quite nicely when you think about it - the SecDef growls at some international miscreant, and then SecState comes along to administer said miscreant a nice dose of Powell's Patented Soothing Syrup which will keep them dopey and happy until the boys and girls in camouflage come along to plant their bootprints in their butts. I wonder if a lot of people have twigged yet to just what a first-class team GWB ended up assembling on the national-security side. (Well, leaving aside homeland security, to be sure...)
Posted by: Joe || 12/20/2002 17:12 Comments || Top||


Pakistani scientist 'offered Saddam nuclear designs'
A PAKISTANI scientist approached Iraq soon after the 1990 invasion of Kuwait to offer nuclear weapon designs and help in procuring bomb components, according to a document found by United Nations weapons inspectors. The revelation, which provoked an inconclusive inquiry by inspectors, has raised new concerns about Pakistan’s role in the proliferation of nuclear technology. It follows allegations that Pakistan helped North Korea to develop a nuclear bomb and that Pakistani nuclear scientists met Osama bin Laden and the Taleban leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, in Afghanistan. The offer by the Pakistani scientist, found in Iraqi archives, was made in October 1990 as a US-led coalition prepared to repel the August invasion of Kuwait. Iraq had already embarked on a crash programme to develop a nuclear bomb, but told the UN it had not pursued the scientist’s offer — a claim UN investigators are inclined to believe. The document revealing the contact between the scientist and Iraq is referred to twice in the Iraqi declaration of its nuclear capability, which The Times has obtained.
I've got the entire article is on WOTWeek, if you're interested in the details. There's a pattern here, and I'm not talking about Iraq's pattern. Unless staring directly down the barrel of U.S. guns, there doesn't seem to be another country in the world that's so eager to work against American interests as Pakland — and that assessment includes Soddy Arabia.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/20/2002 10:56 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Turks threaten: 10,000 fighters in Kirkuk
As the international community's attention has focused on the Iraqi opposition's efforts to take charge of the post-Saddam era, uncertainty about the nature and direction of a liberated Iraq has provoked anxiety in the regional countries, including and especially Turkey. In particular, Turkey, fearing post-Saddam Hussein instability (and possibly sensing the opportunity of achieving a long-desired strategic objective) has been provoked into issuing a recent warning to Iraqi Kurds: should armed Kurdish groups based in northern Iraq attempt to take control of oil-rich Kirkuk in the aftermath of regime change, the Turkish government will consider it grounds for an attack by Turkish forces on the Iraqi Kurds. Kirkuk is an Iraqi city under the current control of the Iraqi government and one to which both Turkey and the Iraqi Kurds have arguable claim.

As a northern neighbor of Iraq sharing a long border with that country, in the contemporary era Turkey has always been concerned about political developments in Iraq - especially in its Kurdish region. Being located along the southern part of Turkey housing its rebellious Kurds, Turkey has been fearful of the aggravating impact of an autonomous or, even worse, of an independent Kurdish region in the northern part of Iraq. Without a doubt, such developments have had an encouraging effect on Turkey's dissatisfied Kurds, whose armed or unarmed political groups have long sought autonomy or independence from Turkey. Such political activities have been Turkey's major source of internal instability, while posing a serious threat to its territorial integrity. Ankara has had to deploy about 200,000 troops in its eastern region mainly dominated by Kurds to ensure its control over that region and to prevent its secession from the country.

Since the emergence of the Kurdish-run region in the northern part of Iraq in the aftermath of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, fear of the latter scenarios have justified the concentration of the Turkish military forces along the Turkish-Iraqi joint border. Accusing the Iraqi Kurds' political groups of giving a safe haven in their territories to Turkey's main armed Kurdish group, the PKK, on many occasions, the Turkish military has since crossed the border into northern Iraq for the declared purposes of destroying the PKK bases there or of chasing its militants escaping Turkey into Iraq. While there has been an element of truth in Ankara's justifications, it is no secret that it has also sought to increase its influence in Iraq's Kurdish region by having a degree of military presence in that region or in its close proximity. This objective has also been evident in Ankara's parallel efforts to pit against each other the two major Iraqi Kurdish groups, the Patriotic Union and the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, by backing the latter in its rivalry with the former.

Yet, beside the mentioned reasons, Ankara's military activities have also sought to prepare grounds for possible "unification" of Kirkuk with Turkey, should the opportunity arise. The Turks have had a territorial claim to that city since the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1920s. Undoubtedly, the heavy financial burden of imported fuel has made the Turks interested in oil-rich Kirkuk located in the vicinity of the Iraqi-Turkish border. Turkey has based its claims to Kirkuk on "historical" and "ethnic" grounds: After the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the wake of World War I, the division of its vast territory in the Middle East by Britain and France led to an intentional "historical injustice". According to the Turks, Kirkuk was part of Turkey proper, but the two victorious European powers intentionally included Kirkuk in the newly-created Iraq in order to deny Turkey, a losing power of World Ware I, access to fuel to create a major handicap for its economy. The existence in that city and its proximity of Turkmens, whom the Turks consider as their kin, has provided an ethnic ground for their claim. Against this background, Ankara is concerned about a post-Saddam Iraq run by the Iraqi opposition, including its Kurdish faction, which may well lead to the dissolution of the country and the rise of an independent Kurdish state in its northern part. Despite their claimed consensus over the future of Iraq as declared at the end of the recent London conference, the ideological, political, ethnic and religious incompatibility of the various Iraqi opposition groups create a realistic, although not necessarily inevitable, ground for division of their country along ethnic, religious and/or political lines.

Given the fact that the two Kurdish groups running the Iraqi Kurdish region form two out of the three militarily significant Iraqi opposition groups, they are in a position to consider the establishment of an independent state should the situation become suitable for that option. That military capability would also enable them to expand their control over Kirkuk, formerly a city with a significant Kurdish population, and even over Mosul, another oil-rich Iraqi city close to Kirkuk. Being located near the Kurdish-controlled region, the two cities are well within the reach of the armed Kurdish groups. The rise of a strong autonomous or independent Kurdish region with a potentially strong oil-driven economy, which could help it form a significant military force, would be a threat to the territorial integrity of all its neighbors with Kurdish minorities (Iran, Syria and Turkey). Particularly, this would be a serious threat to Turkey, a country with a rebellious Kurdish population of about 15 million. Moreover, a feasible inclusion of Kirkuk into an independent Kurdistan would make its "unification" with Turkey an impossible scenario.

Hence the increasing possibility of an American-assisted regime change in Iraq is not a source of jubilation in Turkey. This will remain the case so long as it is not clear whether a post-Saddam Iraq will create a chaotic situation to help Turkey justify its putting a hand on Kirkuk and deploying its troops inside Iraqi Kurdistan along its border to contain any undesirable developments there. Another possibility is a resulting power vacuum that would help Iraqi Kurds include the strategically important Kirkuk in their territory - only to endanger Turkey's territorial integrity with their independent state.
Good backround on Turkey's worries and possible actions.
Posted by: Steve || 12/20/2002 11:09 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


U.S. Urges U.N. to Authorize War in Iraq
The Bush administration, concluding that Saddam Hussein is not serious about disarmament, turned Friday to convincing the U.N. Security Council that it should declare Iraq in violation of world demands and authorize war. At the same time, a senior administration official said Friday that President Bush has given the go-ahead to double the 50,000 U.S. troop deployment in the Persian Gulf region in early January. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is expected to sign the formal deployment order in the next week or two as part of what another official called "a ramping up on various fronts."
I'm sure they'll argue about it for as long as they can. Sammy, meanwhile, should be checking to make sure which direction Libya is...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/20/2002 01:03 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The days of seeking "U.N. authorization" are OVER. If the time has come to put Saddam's head under a boot, then let's get on with the job. The sooner this is taken care of, the sooner that cesspool in the Middle East will be on the way to being cleaned up.
Posted by: Bashir Gemayel || 12/20/2002 15:26 Comments || Top||

#2  More like the theme from "Jaws"...
Posted by: mojo || 12/20/2002 17:15 Comments || Top||


Kim Jong Il gives field guidance to beef cattle breeding farm
General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave on-site guidance to newly built a beef cattle breeding farm. He was accompanied by Korean People's Army Ri Yong Mu, vice-chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, Ri Yong Chol and Jang Song Thaek, first vice department directors of the WPK Central Committee, KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong. The beef cattle breeding farm covering an area of more than 100,000 square metres was completed in a little over one year. This is one more asset of the country which has come into being thanks to the popular policy of the WPK that regards it as the supreme principle of the party in its activities to promote the wellbeing of the people.
That's amazing. And it's so-o-o-o-o nice of Dear Leader to tell the bulls how to hump those cows...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/20/2002 03:37 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "No, Dear Leader, you don't milk the bulls..."

"Then what's this sticky white stuff?"
Posted by: Raj || 12/20/2002 16:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Dear Leader
Now that you have acquired a way to feed the Military, what about us.
By the way those cows are really acting strange. They appear to hate cats and are always wanting their belly's rubbed.
Posted by: The People || 12/20/2002 18:16 Comments || Top||

#3  great. now not only will they not have grain, they won't have beef, either. The touch of the Dear Leader is the Kiss of Death, after all....

And, "100,000 square meters" is about the size of a postage stamp, really. Most US farms average about a million. (~250 acres)
Posted by: andy || 12/20/2002 18:23 Comments || Top||


Caucasus
9 terrorists killed in Chechnya on Thursday
9 terrorists were killed by the federal forces in the last 24 hours. Conducting a reconnaissance operation in the forest country near the village of Enikali, the Nozhai-Yurt region, a federal-forces unit spotted a party of 7 terrorists moving in the direction of the village, the regional operational HQ for the anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus reported. During attempts to detain the militants, they fought back and tried to escape. All 7 of them were shot dead, the HQ remarked.
"Hey, you guys! Stop or I'll shoot!"
"No!"
"BANG!"

Another clash took place in the outskirts of the Achkhoi-Martan village of Samashki. According to the HQ, two terrorists, trying to enter the village, were noticed by a federal unit, which had been ordered to block possible routes of terrorist groups. Both terrorists were killed in the skirmish.
"SURPRISE!"
"Lookitdat! They scared Abu to death!... Oh. Those are bullet holes..."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/20/2002 01:58 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wonder if we could get a National Security Advisor from this organization of federal-forces in North Caucasus
Posted by: Rick || 12/20/2002 21:40 Comments || Top||


Salman's relatives refused re-burial request
Relatives of Chechen terrorist Salman Raduyev, who died in a Russian prison on December 14, have had their request for a re-burial refused, the head of the Security Directorate of the Main Punishment Execution Department of the Justice Ministry reported on Friday. The official said that re-burial was strictly forbidden by the federal law and that immediate re-burial in not allowed by the current sanitary norms.
"That wet pigskin deteriorates really fast — all that fat on it, y'know — and really stinks. Take our word for it, you wouldn't want to rebury him..."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/20/2002 02:02 pm || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Security Directorate of the Main Punishment Execution Department of the Justice Ministry? They don't sound like folks who enjoy a lot of dialog with the general public. I think Salman's relatives should've left this one alone. They may soon be joining him in the pet cemetary now that they've most likely made the list.
Posted by: tu3031 || 12/20/2002 14:48 Comments || Top||

#2  But they sound like such friendly folks...
Posted by: Fred || 12/20/2002 15:29 Comments || Top||


Two suspects in attempted assassination of Georgian president detained
Two suspected participants in an attempted assassination of Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze have been detained in Chechnya, the Georgian Interior Ministry reported on Friday.
Where else? They couldn't make it to Denmark...
Georgian citizens Vepkhiya Durglishwili and Soso Toria, who were arrested in Gudermes district of the Chechen Republic, have been declared wanted after a terrorist group attacked a motorcade of the Georgian President on February 9, 1998. Two presidential guards and one of the terrorists were killed in the clash. Papers are being prepared for the extradition of the detained to Georgia, the ministry reported.
"Hi! Welcome back to Georgia, guys!"
"Uh. Hi. Uh... Nice, ummmm... moustachios."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/20/2002 02:05 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Georgian moustachios are spectacular.

I hear their truncheons are pretty good too.
Posted by: Tripartite || 12/20/2002 21:28 Comments || Top||


East/Subsaharan Africa
Yemeni Forces In Shootout With al-Qaida
Yemeni security forces fought a gunbattle Friday with suspected members of al-Qaida holed up in a building in the southern port of al-Mukalla, a security official said. The al-Qaida suspects are believed to have taken part in the Oct. 6 attack on the French oil tanker Limburg, which killed a crew member. Police approached the three-story residential building after being tipped off that al-Qaida members lived there, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. A gun fight ensued and at least three people were injured. The casualties were not identified. Security forces cordoned off the building and set up checkpoints in the city, about 350 miles southeast of the capital, San'a, the official said. A medical source at al-Mukalla's Ibn Sina hospital confirmed three men had been admitted with wounds from the shootout.

The attack on the Limburg was carried out by an explosives-packed boat that was detonated next to the tanker's hull. The damaged tanker discharged about 90,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Aden. A similar attack on the destroyer USS Cole, in which 17 U.S. sailors were killed, was also blamed on al-Qaida, the terror group blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks. Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has Yemeni origins. Another Yemeni government official said Friday that authorities were expected to charge 10 people on Limburg attack. A French security team is in Yemen investigating the attack, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Looks like our friends in Yemen are on the ball. Too bad they didn't get to use one of those Scud's on them.
Posted by: Anonymous || 12/20/2002 10:34 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Frenchies nab ten ETA thugs...
French police have arrested 10 suspected members of the Basque group ETA in what Spanish government officials described Friday as one of the biggest blows against the armed organization. Among those arrested in the raids over the past 24 hours in southwest France was Ibon Fernandez de Iradi, considered the military leader of ETA, which has killed more than 800 people in its 34-year campaign for independence of Basque regions in northern Spain and southwestern France.
That's not going to make ETA go away, but at least it'll make some of ETA go away for awhile...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/20/2002 01:20 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


France: Militants Planned Terror Attacks
Four confessed Islamic militants arrested in France were planning terrorist attacks in the near future, the Interior Ministry said Friday. The ministry said two of the suspects told investigators they received training in the Pankisi Gorge, a remote region in Georgia that borders Chechnya, and had met Chechen rebel leaders. The men, three Algerians and a Moroccan, were arrested Monday in a Paris suburb by French security agents acting on orders from top counterterrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere. Agents also found suspected detonator components and chemicals used to make electronic circuits, the ministry said in a statement.
Kinda hard to explain that mess away, isn't it?
"There is no doubt, given the elements found, that one or several terrorist actions were being prepared in the more or less short term," it said. Agents also found a suit to protect against nuclear, chemical and biological attack that is still being analyzed, as well as two empty gas bottles and electronic components that could serve as detonators. They also found a video camera and false identity papers.
All the usual paraphernalia of Islamism. The chem suit would seem to indicate what they had in mind...
Under questioning, all four suspects expressed "jihad convictions," the statement said, referring to their desire to take part in a holy war.
"Duh, yup! Wanna see my turban? Wanna see me roll my eyes?"
It identified one suspect as Merouane Benhamed, a former leader of Algerian fighters and a veteran of conflicts in Afghanistan and Chechnya. The arrests followed an investigation into Chechen networks. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday that the suspects were thought to have spent time in training camps in Afghanistan as well as Chechnya.
Comes as a surprise, huh?
Those Chechen ties have shored up Russia's argument that Chechen rebels are an inseparable part of the international terrorist network, a top Kremlin official said Friday.
Wonder why they included that statement under "news"?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/20/2002 01:27 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
Galloway Warns Iraq War First Step
Asking the Arab public opinion to stand up before another puppet president or corrupt king is installed in Iraq, whose wealth will be devoured by foreign governments, and asking the British government to renege on its obvious falsehoods, George Galloway (Whacko Party-Baghdad) warned of another Sykes-Picot against the Arab world. The clandestine understanding was concluded between Great Britain and France in May 1916, with the assent of Russia, for the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. The agreement, which took its name from its negotiators Sir Mark Sykes and Georges Picot, led to the division of Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine into various French and British-administered areas.
They named them, ummm... Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. How 'bout dat? But the Turkish governers were replaced by locals, and high commissioners were appointed to try and keep them honest. Worked well, didn't it?
"If you don’t want another century of slavery, of weakness and division, then you will have to stand up now because in the building I work in in London [i.e., Parliament], foreigners who have never set foot in the Arab world, who know nothing of you, are deciding to make new countries," said Galloway, senior vice chairman at the Parliamentary Labor Party.
And one helluva patriot, by gum!
They "are deciding to break old countries, and are deciding to appoint new corrupt kings and puppet presidents whose tasks will be to rule their countries in the interest of Britain and America rather than in the interest of their own people," he stressed.
Unlike the present corrupt kings and puppet presidents, who rule their countries in the interests of ummm... themselves.
To the standing ovation of Arab and foreign participants in the International Campaign Against U.S. Aggression on Iraq (ICCA), hosted by Cairo on December 18-19, Galloway said "we are now at the eleventh hour, there is not much time for meetings like this, there is not much time for conferences and declarations... Action speaks louder than words."
"So let's get those mobs out!"
He added that the aircraft carriers are already in the Gulf, 60,000 American soldiers are already in the Gulf, and thousands of British soldiers are on their way.
"A few rubber boats full of explosives..."
"There were half a million lunatics people on the streets of London on the 28th of September, and there will be more than half a million on the streets of London on the 15th of February to demonstrate against war," he stressed. "But as the Iraqi women have often said to me: where are the Arabs, where are the Arab demonstrations, where are the million demonstrators in Cairo, in Damascus, in Casablanca?"
"We're having lunch. Want some of this hummus? It's really good..."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/20/2002 12:14 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So the Sykes-Picot pact was bad because it randomly carved up the Ottoman Empire. So why is this guy defending the current national boundaries if they were just decided by two guys in a back room somewhere?
Posted by: Ruprecht || 12/20/2002 12:38 Comments || Top||


Patty Murray just lo-o-o-o-ves that Binny...
Why is terrorist leader Osama bin Laden so popular in some parts of the world?
Perhaps, said Sen. Patty Murray, it’s because he and his supporters have spent years building goodwill in poor nations by helping pay for schools, roads and day-care facilities.
Yep. That's probably it. I shoulda thought of that. Especially the day-care facilities. Yemen, Sudan and NWFP are chock full of them. That should have been the tip-off...
At an appearance before a high school honors class, Murray, D-Wash., offered what her spokesman called an intentionally provocative challenge for students to ponder. "We’ve got to ask, why is this man (bin Laden) so popular around the world?" Murray asked during an appearance Wednesday at Columbia River High School. "Why are people so supportive of him in many countries that are riddled with poverty?"
Golly, Patty! Tell us why!
The answers may be uncomfortable, but are important for Americans to ponder — particularly students, Murray said. "He’s been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. We haven’t done that," Murray said.
We haven't? When did we stop? How about the bucks we've been dropping down the rathole of foreign aid since the end of WWII? What about the Peace Corps? Forty years of fraud?
"How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?"
Since we have, guess they'd be looking at us with the same sullen, ungrateful expressions, huh?
Chris Vance, chairman of the Washington state Republican Party, called Murray’s comments offensive. "It is absolutely outrageous and despicable to imply that the American government should learn a lesson from the madman who murdered thousands of American citizens," Vance said. "I know Senator Murray has a habit of sticking her foot in her mouth, but this goes way beyond a simple gaffe." Murray’s comments "sent the message to these students that the United States somehow deserved or brought on the September 11 terrorist attacks," Vance said. "I think all decent people can agree that we most certainly did not, that this was an unprovoked attack of terrorism." Vance called on Murray to retract her comments and apologize.
Murray somehow mixes cause with effect. "Why are people so supportive of him in many countries that are riddled with poverty?" she asks. Perhaps it's because of his Islamist message. He's big in areas riddled with Islamism. Look at the correlation: with the exception of the artificial riches brought from oil — a natural resource that foreigners, for the most part, exploit, while paying revenues to the guys that own the ground — Islamist countries are among the poorest in the world. It's not that Islamism catches on where people are poor; it's that people are poor where Islamism catches on.

FOLLOWUP: Here's Patty response...
Having a challenging and thoughtful discussion about America's future reflects the best values of a free democracy;

To sensationalize and distort in an attempt to divide does not

For Immediate Release: December 20, 2002


Osama Bin Laden is an evil terrorist who is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans. Bringing him to justice, dismantling his terrorist network, and protecting our nation from further attacks must continue to be our government's highest priorities, and I continue to vigorously support those efforts in the Senate.

While we continue to search every corner of the globe to destroy Osama bin Laden and his al Quaeda network, should we also consider the longer-term issue of what else can be done to improve relations with all nations including the Arab world?

How else can we bring America's values to those who do not understand us?

And while there are some whose hearts and minds may never be won, should we try to reach those who can?

The White House believes that we can do more, and has devoted an entire department to improving America's image in the Arab world.

Having a challenging and thoughtful discussion about America's future reflects the best values of a free democracy; to sensationalize and distort in an attempt to divide does not.

While there are some on the extreme fringes of society who try to exploit fear and uncertainty for political gain, there are many more who understand that the best value of our democracy is the freedom to think and to secure a better future.
Ummm... None of that addresses the stupidity of the comments. Dissent for the sake of dissent is nothing but posturing and vapor.
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#1  This Senators thoughts are more damaging and offensive than Lotts comment will ever be. Her speech was pre-meditated, being written before hand and meant to bash the Administration, where as Lott was just appeasing a 100 year old man on his birthday/spur of the moment toast.
Posted by: Rick || 12/20/2002 21:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Liberals love "...a challenging and thoughtful discussion about America's future...". Of course, if you disagree with them in that discussion, you "...sensationalize and distort in an attempt to divide..." and "...exploit fear and uncertainty for political gain".

So much for a challenging and thoughtful discussion....
Posted by: tu3031 || 12/20/2002 22:34 Comments || Top||

#3  "The White House believes that we can do more, and has devoted an entire department to improving America's image in the Arab world." Huh? What department might that be? Department of Defense?
Posted by: Larry || 12/20/2002 23:44 Comments || Top||

#4  As you probably know by now, I have decided not to run for president in 2004 and will instead devote my time to a number of inventions I am currently working on here at Al Gore Laboratories.
Posted by: Al Gore || 12/21/2002 0:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Murray will recieve nothing by way of this. While Republicans will pillor their own for a rather inane and stupid comment, Democrats will say nothing when one of their own spouts off Anti-American propaganda. Don't think voters are not watching.
Posted by: ben || 12/21/2002 7:08 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Hindutva opponents to get death: VHP
Neena Vyas for The Hindu
The Indian extremist Hindu organisation, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, has warned of a "storm ahead which was not going to be limited to Gujarat" and indicated clearly that its next target would be five States — Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Delhi — where it is gearing up to spread the "Hindutva" ideology.
Oh, Christ. Now it's Hinduvta's bloody border...
Praveen Togadia, VHP secretary-general, told the press here this evening what in his view constituted the important ingredients of Hindutva. "The Muslims here will enjoy the same place or status as Hindus enjoy in Pakistan, maybe even slightly better status," he said.
"We're just as smelly arseholes as any bunch of Muslims..."
And as for Pakistan, the VHP was in favour of "dismembering" it, reminding everyone that "fundamentalism and extremism cannot be finished till Pakistan is dismembered."
Doing away with Pakistan because of its fundamentalism and extremism is a fine idea. Doing away with it by means of fundamentalism and extremism stinks. Why substitute one problem for another?
Muslims alone were not the target of his ire. All those who opposed Hindutva, and this certainly included secularists, would get the "death sentence" he declared. But the VHP would not have to carry out the sentence, the people would. "All Hindutva opponents will get the death sentence and we will leave it to the people to carry this out," he said.
"So let's get those mobs running!"
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#1  Kali! Kali!
Posted by: Anonymous || 12/20/2002 12:39 Comments || Top||


Jamaat ud-Dawa big sez India's a terrorist state...
AJK Jamaat-ud-Dawa Amir Maulana Abdul Aziz Alvi has flayed the death sentence handed down to three Kashmiris by an Indian court in connection with the last year's dubious attack on the Indian Parliament in New Delhi. The special court judge, S.N. Dhingra, handed down death sentences with a fine of Rs25,000 ($500) each to Mohammed Afzal, a 35-year-old fruit merchant; Shaukat Hussain, a former student of Delhi University, and S.A.R. Geelani, a New Delhi college teacher. Afshan Guru, the Sikh wife of one of the accused, was sentenced to a five-year rigorous imprisonment with the fine for not disclosing information to police. The three men were also given life terms which they will serve if they win their appeal against the sentences. Describing the punishment under the black laws as highly condemnable, Maulana Alvi called for declaring India a terrorist country.
So we have a country whose parliament itself is attacked by crazed killers, and it should be declared a terrorist state for sentencing the perps to the high jump?
The Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which is headed by Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, is believed to be the parent organization of Lashkar-i-Taiba, which India blames for a number of bloodthirsty pointless daring attacks. "Let it be clear to the Indian government that the flame of freedom movement cannot be extinguished with such punishments," Alvi said in a statement issued here. "It should simultaneously be clear to India that the Kashmiris will never forget such terrorist actions on its part and will take reprisals," he added.
Oooh! He's vowing dire revenge! How Islamic!
Maulana Alvi recalled the hanging of Maqbool Butt, a top Kashmiri guerrilla leader, in New Delhi's Tihar Jail in Feb 1984 and said India had assumed at that time as well that with his death the freedom struggle in Kashmir would die down. "But, time has proved that India's assumption was wrong," he said, pointing out that the movements for freedom get a new boost with the blood of martyrs.
He sure was dead when they got through with him, though...
Maulana Alvi called upon the international human rights organizations to take immediate notice of the "unlawful punishments and play their role in saving the lives of the oppressed and innocent Muslims."
"All they did was bump off a few Hindoos and such. What's the damage?"
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/20/2002 12:57 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "the flame of freedom movement" ??? I thought you were talking about submission, or rather slavery to Allah and Sharia. Please make up your mind.
Posted by: Ben || 12/21/2002 7:28 Comments || Top||


Kashmir Separatists Kill Assembly Member
A state assembly member in India-controlled Kashmir was shot to death outside a mosque after Friday prayers. The shooting of governing coalition member Abdul Aziz Mir, 45, was the first attack on a member of the new Jammu-Kashmir assembly since elections in September and October, when separatist Islamic militants threatened to kill anyone who participated in the campaign.
"Civil, well-reasoned discourse" in Kashmir involves killing anybody who doesn't let you have your way.
A Pakistan-based rebel group, Save Kashmir Movement, claimed responsibility for Mir's killing and threatened more violence.
Apparently their objective is to save Kashmir by killing everybody there, one by one...
Elsewhere in the state Friday, police said one civilian was found shot to death and another beheaded.
Yep. That's Islamists at work, all right...
On Thursday night, suspected militants attacked the village of Batiya in Rajauri district, where they forced three young women from their homes, killed two with swords and one with a gun, police said. Police said villagers claimed the attackers belonged to the separatist group Al-Badr.
Young women are less likely to be armed...

Steve grabs the followup on the girlies...

Kashmir women ’slain over Islamic dress’
Suspected Islamic rebels killed three young women in India's Kashmir region for not wearing burqas, the head-to-toe veiled dress worn by Muslim women. The killings came a day after handwritten posters appeared in Rajouri district warning women that they would face consequences for not wearing the veiled dress. Unidentified gunmen barged into the house of Mohammad Sadiq at Hasyote village in the Thanamandi area and shot dead his 21-year-old daughter, Noureen Kousar. The attackers then entered house of Khalil Ahmad in the same village and kidnapped his 18-year-old daughter, Tahir Parveen. Her beheaded body was found in jungles hours later. Another young girl, Shehnaz Akhtar, was also shot in the killing spree, United News of India reported. Police have confiscated some posters pasted on the walls of two senior secondary schools in Rajouri town on Dec. 16 ordering girl students to wear burqas or face the consequences. There have been previous cases of Islamic militants in the area ordering women to wear veiled dresses. In one incident some years ago, Islamic rebels threw acid on the face of one girl who didn't comply.
I wonder where the National Organization of Women is on this one? Hello, anyone out there?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/20/2002 03:13 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  After their support of Bill CLinton, and their tacit support of a do nothing approach in Afghanistan, who cares what NOW thinks? It has fewer active members than the Milton Rigger's Fan Club.
Their decibels belie their demographics.
Posted by: Ben || 12/21/2002 7:15 Comments || Top||


Protesters Defend Nine al-Qaida Suspects
Protesting doctors chanted anti-American slogans along a main Lahore road Friday demanding the release of a prominent physician and his relatives suspected of being al-Qaeda supporters. Several of the some 50 doctors complained that FBI agents participated in the raid Thursday on the home of naturalized American citizen Javed Ahmad, arrested with eight family members.
"Yeah! Let him go! So what if he's a terrorist?"
Police released four of the relatives Friday. Those still in custody with Ahmad include his sons, Umar Karar and Khyzer Ali, also naturalized Americans, and Ahmad's brother Naveed Khawja and his son Usman, naturalized Canadians. Ahmad lived in Florida from 1972 to 1983. The other men returned to live in Pakistan several years ago.
Good riddance.
Pakistani police arrested the nine men after a brief exchange of gunfire in the raid aimed at discovering whether Ahmad and his family helped smuggle weapons for possible terror attacks.
"Cheezit, doc! It's the feds!"
"Gimme that rod!"
"You'll never take us alive, coppers!"

Police said Friday they found $109,500 and an assault rifle at the home. FBI agents Thursday seized computers and computer disks. "Obviously they were arrested on suspicion of their links with al-Qaida," Interior Ministry spokesman Iftikhar Ahmad told The Associated Press in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital.
"Hey, doc! I'm early for my appointment... Say! That's a really neat piece of artillery y'got there..."
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Possible Terror Evidence Found in Pakistan
Investigators combing the wreckage of an exploded Islamic militant bomb factory Friday found photographs of a U.S.-owned gas station militants might have been targeting and a possible hit-list of police officials and ethnic leaders.
Just the usual stuff...
Police also uncovered additional evidence that a militant linked to the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and the deadly bombing of a U.S. consulate may have been killed in Thursday's explosion. Police said they were trying to obtain DNA samples from relatives to confirm that a body found at the site belonged to terror suspect Asif Ramzi.
Ramzi had a $50,000 price on his head. Made him a big man, back in the old neighborhood.
Five people were killed in the blast at the chemical-filled warehouse in Karachi's eastern Korangi neighborhood. Police tentatively identified another victim as Nadim Abbas, a local leader of the outlawed Islamic group Sipah-e-Sahaba.
Nothing but the very best company for our boy Ramzi...
Karachi police investigation chief Fayyaz Leghari said officers found a photo of a gas station operated by Shell Oil Co. and a list of nine names in the wreckage. The names included eight Karachi police officials and the leader of the Mutahida Qami Movement, a party representing Indian Muslims who settled in Pakistan after the country's 1947 separation from India, he said. The party may have been targeted by the largely Sunni militants because its membership is largely Shiite, a competing branch of Islam. "This is possibly a hit list," Leghari said.
Sipah specializes in bumping off Shi'ites and other infidels...
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Middle East
Yasser's ''little problem'' getting worse...
Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat has taken over responsibility for the Jerusalem portfolio by deposing prominent Palestinian peace activist Prof. Sari Nusseibeh.
"Beat it, Sari. I'm takin' over... This is my gun."
Sources in Nusseibeh's office last night said Arafat proposed that the official serve as one of nine people on an executive council that would handle the daily management of East Jerusalem. Arafat named himself as head of that committee as well as chairman of a broader committee of more than 30 members that will serve as a quasi-city council. Nusseibeh has yet to decide whether he will accept Arafat's offer. His aides said he is considering leaving politics altogether.
"I just can't take it anymore...!"
A senior Palestinian official who asked to remain unnamed said that Nusseibeh's removal and the establishment of the two committees appear to be part of a pattern of eccentric behavior exhibited by Arafat. The official mentioned, for example, Arafat's announcement that East Jerusalem publisher Hanna Siniora would be the PA's ambassador in Washington, but when the prospective envoy arrived in the U.S. capital, Arafat backed down from the appointment.
"Nope. Nope. Not thuggish enough. Send him back."
Recent visitors to Arafat's office in the Muqata said his behavior has become strange. They said he was not focused, spoke in a confused manner, and his lips are shaking again. His doctors attribute the shaking lips to neurological damage that followed an airplane crash in the Libyan desert that Arafat survived.
It's more likely it's advancing senility. Or Alzheimer's.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 12/20/2002 03:27 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sari Nusseibeh is fairly rational and reasonable, for a Phillistine. I'm sure that's why Arafat's dumping him. Just not extreme enough!
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 12/20/2002 16:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Recent visitors to Arafat's office in the Muqata said his behavior has become strange. They said he was not focused, spoke in a confused manner, and his lips are shaking again.????????
So what exactly has changed, thats the same Yassi I've always remembered him to be.
Posted by: Rick || 12/20/2002 22:05 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Indonesia: Bomb explodes in Aceh
Jakarta Post
The Indonesian Military (TNI) clashed with the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) twice following a bomb explosion in the Kuta Makmur district in North Aceh that injured one military officer on Thursday. Maj. Edy Fernandi reported on Friday that the first ambush occurred at 11:30 a.m. after GAM apparently detonated a bomb on a bridge, destroying a military truck and injuring a soldier. The soldier has been sent to the hospital in the nearby town of Lhokseumawe. Four hours later, the TNI clashed with GAM again for about 30 minutes, he said. "GAM has violated the Dec. 9 truce," Edy exclaimed, referring to the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement signed by the government and GAM in Geneva, Switzerland.
Oh, I am so surprised! (Quick, Ethel! My pills!) A deal between Islamists and the Indon army, and somebody didn't adhere to it? That's never happened before, has it?
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Megawati to Aceh as Claims Fly
President Megawati Sukarnoputri began a visit to Aceh Tuesday as both the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian military traded accusations of breaches of the ceasefire signed in Geneva a week earlier.
"They started it!"
"Did not!"
"Did, too!"

GAM said a total of 15 people had died in actions mounted by the Indonesian military, a claim denied by the movement.
Corpses are a usual byproduct of agreements Muslims reach...
Reuters reported that no confirmation was available of the claim, adding that “the charges - and counter claims by the military - show how difficult it will be to implement the December 9 accord.”
"Wudn't me."
"Wuz, too!"

"The facts are not there, not at all. I see in the media that GAM is being continually provocative, making false reports," Aceh military spokesman Lt. Col. Firdaus Komarno said of the accusations. There was no independent confirmation of the rebels' claim, and no bodies have been presented as evidence.
"Yusuf! We need a couple corpses!"
"Comin' right up, boss!"

Rebel spokesman Sofyan Daud accused the military of killing eight people at Panga, West Aceh and another seven in different parts of Aceh. Police spokesman Maj. Taufik Sugiono confirmed there had been clashes with GAM forces but did not say whether there had been any deaths.
"Hiow do I know if they wuz dead? Sometimes people don't move for other reasons..."
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ryamizard Ryacudu accused GAM of attacking troops on 24 different occasions since the peace deal was signed.
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Malaysia Arrests Two Militant Suspects
Malaysian police arrested two Islamic militant suspects who allegedly helped members of an al-Qaida-linked terrorist organization attend training camps in the Philippines, a government official said Friday. The two men, a Malaysian and an Indonesian, were arrested in a pre-dawn raid Thursday at their homes in Sandakan, a town in Malaysia's Sabah state on Borneo island. The suspects, both religious teachers,
... Wotta surprise! ...
are members of a Sabah cell of Jemaah Islamiyah. The two suspects, whose identities were not revealed, arranged accommodation and transport for new Jemaah Islamiyah recruits traveling through Malaysia on their way to camps in the southern Philippines for military training, the official said. The two suspects had been fairly active in the past but had not carried out work for Jemaah Islamiyah in recent months, the official said.
It's called "lying low." Just a couple cogs in the terror machine, but better off sitting behind bars, at least for awhile...
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Bashir boyz wanted to bump off some priests...
Two confessed organizers of an Oct. 12 terrorist bombing in Bali targeted Christian priests for assassination last year in a plan directed by alleged Jemaah Islamiah leader Abu Bakar Bashir, according to a statement by a captured operative. The two admitted Bali bombers, who use the names Mukhlas and Imam Samudra, also participated with Bashir in efforts to establish a six-nation terror network extending from Indonesia to Myanmar, according to a confidential Nov. 1 document summarizing the confession of Faiz bin Abu Bakar Bafana. Bafana also alleged that Bashir has been associated for years with the two bombers and discussed specific plans for violence that involved them. A Malaysian leader of Jemaah Islamiah, Bafana was arrested in Singapore last year after authorities uncovered the group's alleged plan to attack the U.S. Embassy and six other targets there with suicide truck bombers. Earlier, Bafana helped organize bombings in Manila, officials say. Singapore authorities have declined to reveal all the targets of the planned attack there, but another confidential document reviewed by The Times says the group's hit list included the U.S. naval shipyard, the Bank of America headquarters and the American Club, a popular hangout for expatriate Americans in the center of Singapore.
Basically, anything that looks vaguely American... It's amazing, the way all these guys stick to each other, even though their apologists say it's all coincidence...
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