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2005-01-10 Arabia

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Posted by Steve White 2005-01-10 1:23:22 AM|| || Front Page|| [12 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 How about overpressure, say, like the pressure wave generated by a small FAE over Al Jizz HQ in Qatar? Bowing would be the least you'd do, enemy.

Posted by .com 2005-01-10 1:50:54 AM|| 2005-01-10 1:50:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 This Director is as deadly as any Bin Laden.

Posted by Grolurt Slinetle8873 2005-01-10 1:59:59 AM|| 2005-01-10 1:59:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I'll try us my limited intellect to say, someone shoot this farkwit. Quickly, please.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-01-10 2:30:12 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-01-10 2:30:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 We are not a political party or a mobilising power.

Well, that certainly pegged my horseshit meter. Al Jazeera is nothing more than a terrorist mouthpiece and needs to be ~~shut~~ melted down post haste.

Posted by Zenster 2005-01-10 2:36:45 AM|| 2005-01-10 2:36:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Y'know, I've always had this little voice saying that Qatar, which has been very helpful to the US Mil and Al Jizz being owned by one of the Qatari Royals (IIUC) adds up to something. What if Al Jizz is thoroughly compromised by our intel. You pay lip service, being the loudest anti-US voice buys street cred, and you get the juiciest nuggets. Sure, the PR price is high, but maybe the take is higher. Now if our intel is as bad as we all think, this is nutso. But maybe they do have one or two excellent deep-cover opns that really work. The Qatari schizophrenia of being super pro-West, yet harboring Al Jizz has always stuck in my craw. This would explain it. I have nothing but that schizophrenia to suggest this - so it's nutso. I have nothing at all to explain why Al Jizz is tolerated, otherwise, but it's nutso. Yeah. Cool. Heh. Nothing to see here.

Posted by .com 2005-01-10 2:37:11 AM|| 2005-01-10 2:37:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 .com, shhhh....

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2005-01-10 3:23:04 AM|| 2005-01-10 3:23:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Move along, move along? ;-)

Posted by .com 2005-01-10 3:27:40 AM|| 2005-01-10 3:27:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Al Jazeera's broadcast of the beheadings pretty much wipes out anything in the plus column with respect to their continuing existence. They could maintain their Arab street credibility without doing so. That they voluntarily pimp and pander to such brutality forces me to dismiss any putative worth they might have or ever had.

Posted by Zenster 2005-01-10 4:06:12 AM|| 2005-01-10 4:06:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 .com, the correct answer is "nutso."

Posted by longtime lurker 2005-01-10 5:17:49 AM|| 2005-01-10 5:17:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 As I understand it, there is a rival faction in the Qatari royal family similar to the one in Saudi. One side is very pro-USA and the other (a minor slice) is owner or "patrone" of Al-Jazeera. Of course, there is still the possibility that AJ is a humint asset but it would not be in our interest to start that rumor if it was true. So, .com, the fact that we continue to criticize AJ tells me that possibly it could be true. If we wanted them "off air" all we have to do is let it out somehow with "fake but accurate" documents or whispers that they were on our take!

Posted by Jack is Back! 2005-01-10 9:58:21 AM|| 2005-01-10 9:58:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 For awhile, it seemed as if the publicized beheadings on Al Jissum begat more more beheadings. For some reason the spate of beheadings has gone away (or is not being publicized). Doubt this is intel organ of US--they seem to be too whacky.

Posted by John Q. Citizen 2005-01-10 10:05:01 AM|| 2005-01-10 10:05:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 What if Al Jizz is thoroughly compromised by our intel

Don't you see???? Al Jizz is a deep laid plot. By preventing moderate voices of reason to be heard in the Middle East, and whipping up the ignorant masses into a violent frenzy, it makes all Muslims look like they are genetically defective humans incapable of moving beyond barbarism to civilization.

Al Jazeera's sole purpose is to trick Westerners into believing that Islam is not a peaceful religion and that it wants to conquer the world and establish a caliphate. This provides a false pretense for Bush-Hitler (whose strings are controlled by the evil Dick Cheney) to invade and get control of their oil.

Shhh...don't tell, but Al Jazeera is owned and operated by Haliburton. Bwahahahah!

Posted by 2b 2005-01-10 10:18:33 AM|| 2005-01-10 10:18:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 If they had a harp like Fflewdur Fflam's,

"Salaam aleikum(sp), gentlemen. This is [name of reporter] in Iraq, reporting for al-Jazeera. Today the illegal occupiers" *snap* "are raping" *twang* "and torturing" *sprong* "will someone please take that Zionist harp away? It's exposing us as liars."

Posted by Steve from Relto 2005-01-10 10:28:40 AM|| 2005-01-10 10:28:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 Al-Jiz spurts more crap in one sentece than i could ever hope to attain in a lifetime .

Posted by MacNails 2005-01-10 12:55:09 PM|| 2005-01-10 12:55:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 #13, the Taran books are great, aren't they?

Posted by rkb 2005-01-10 1:17:35 PM|| 2005-01-10 1:17:35 PM|| Front Page Top

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