Like the ancient Israelites who ignored their prophet Hosea, Americans ignored our prophets George Washington and John Quincy Adams, and are now reaping the whirlwind.
Per FoxNews live 11.15 p.m. EST
It's 7 a.m. in Moscow. The troops hit them... Russian SpetsNaz troops stormed the theater and are in control. There were a number of large explosions. Movsar Barayev, the Bad Guys' leader has been killed. Several of the Chechens have been taken into Russian custody. At least a dozen ambulances were at the scene. "Most" hostages are okay...
AP says about 20 bodies taken out of the theater, but no word on whether they are hostages or snuffies. Only twenty, with 700 hostages and 40 or 50 hostage-takers, would imply a very efficient operation. The Bad Guys set a daybreak deadline to have their demands met or they'd start killing them. It's daybreak there. The hostages are leaving in buses, and they're not the ones who got slaughtered.
11.55 p.m.
"Most" of the hostage-takers were killed. It's now dozens of ambulances coming to the scene. The troops began their operation when there was the sound of gunfire from inside the theater. They're going through the building now, looking for any of the Bad Guys who decided maybe they'd rather hide than die or wish they were dead. Interior minister says over 30 Bad Guys are in custody. They won't be killed, but some escaped and can expect to be killed.
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I thought the hostages were goners...I am very happy to have been proven wrong.
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SpetsNaz are good, but they're not plentiful. If they were, Chechnya would be less of a problem than it is. They were downright vicious in Afghanistan.
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Morning followup: They pumped sleeping gas into the building. 67 hostages killed...
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Afghan police seized rockets, mortars and grenades stashed in a mosque in the capital, Kabul, on Thursday, state television said. The weapons were seized in southwest Kabul. The find included 12 medium-sized mortars, four 82mm rockets, four BM-1 rockets, a Kalashnikov rifle and a grenade, the report said. Police official Mohammad Farid confirmed the find and said residents had tipped off authorities. Death and destruction for the Greater Glory of God...
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U.S. special forces found a cache of buried weapons while installing a chin-up bar at one of their bases in eastern Afghanistan. The troops were digging a hole about 30 feet from their front door at Deh Raud, a town in south-central Afghanistan, when they found the cache on Tuesday. They found five AK-47 assault rifles and 11 more advanced AKM assault rifles, 7,500 rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition for the rifles, one rocket-propelled grenade launcher and 16 grenades for it. Sounds like you still can't throw a rock in Afghanistan without hitting an arms cache...
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Multinational security forces in Afghanistan confirmed the discovery of a bomb concealed in a child's remote-controlled car outside a United Nations guesthouse in the centre of Kabul. The device, which was destroyed in a controlled explosion late Wednesday, was spotted by a United Nations employee as he drove up to the compound, said commander Geoff Wintle of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). A cordon was immediately thrown around the area and a German bomb disposal team was called in. The device was detonated shortly after 10:00 pm local time, in a blast that caused minor damage to nearby buildings. There were no casualties. Sounds like the Secret Army of Doom...
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North Korea says it is willing to address American concerns over its nuclear weapons programme, if Washington agrees to a non-aggression treaty. A Foreign Ministry statement, released by the state-run KCNA news agency, said Pyongyang was willing to make a deal with the US if it recognised North Korea's sovereignty and did not hinder its economic development. But the ministry rejected US demands that it dismantle the nuclear programme. Then let them eat nukes. We have nothing to talk about.
"The US and its followers assert that negotiations should be held after the DPRK (North Korea) puts down its arms - this is very abnormal logic," the Foreign Ministry statement said. "How can the DPRK counter any attack with empty hands? Their assertion is little short of demanding the DPRK yield to pressure, which means death." They're operating under the delusion that they're important enough for us to worry about at this moment. How does it feel, I wonder, for a dictator with grandiose ambitions to be dismissed as a minor irritation?
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Russia surprised the UN Security Council on Friday by producing proposals which appear to compete with America's revised draft resolution on disarming Iraq.
France also circulated its own set of proposals, which diplomats said were softer in tone. Correspondents at the UN in New York say the moves are an attempt by Russia and France to water down American demands that Iraq complies with weapons inspectors or face "serious consequences". Guess the Russers still don't make the connection between Sammy, Sammy's allies, and having bloodthirsty Islamists shoot up their capital. I thought they would... Oh, well. Maybe next week, after a few more dozen or hundred dead...
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Rebels holding hundreds of hostages in a Moscow theatre have reportedly threatened to start executing their captives on Saturday morning. The heavily armed group says it will start shooting people if its demand for a Russian withdrawal from the breakaway republic of Chechnya is not met, a theatre official has said after speaking to captives. The reported warning came as the Russian authorities offered to spare the lives of the Chechens if they release more than 600 remaining hostages unharmed. "Release them now and we won't kill you. If you don't, we will." Sounds like a pretty simple choice, if both side abide by the agreement.
A Russian official has said the rebels have released four more captives - all of them Azeris, according to a rebel spokesman who spoke to the BBC. Azeris are a Turkic people who live on the Caspian Sea. They're predominately Muslim...
Earlier on Friday, eight children and seven others were released, but hopes were dashed that the 75 foreign nationals inside the theatre might be freed when negotiations broke down. No, no. Foreign hostages are much more valuable than locals...
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I understand that there are Americans in the theater...there would be nothing better the Chechens could do to force the Georgians/Americans/Russians to turn the Pankisi Gorge into a bigger wasteland than it is now, than to start mass-executing Americans and/or Russians
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News conflicted Friday, October 25, about the role played by Chechen separatist President Aslan Maskhadov in the three-day long Moscow hostage-taking tragedy. Of course it conflicted. There are Islamists involved, so that means the truth, if any, won't be...
Russia, for its part, accused Maskhadov of personally organizing the hostage-taking, in which Chechen commandos seized more than 700 civilians, an accusation denied by Pontius Pilate's Maskhadov's spokesman. Russian deputy Interior Minister Vasily Vasilyev blamed Maskhadov for the raid, adding that his allegations were based on the hostage-takers' comments to the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television network. On a videotape broadcast by the Arab-language television network, the hostage-takers said they were acting "under orders from the Chechen republic's military commander". That would seem to involve him, wouldn't it?
However, a top aide to Maskhadov said Chechen rebel leaders had not known that Chechen separatists were planning the attack and that they condemned it. Maskhadov "categorically condemns this terrorist act", his spokesman, Akhmed Zakayev, said in a Radio Free Europe interview. "Blood of innocents? Nope. Nope. Wudn't us. It's, ummmm... somebody else. The Great Maskhadov washes his hands of the matter, over and over."
"The official authority of Chechnya was not aware" the attack was being prepared, Zakayev added. "I tell you officially that Chechnya's state committee of defense did not decide to carry out military action on the territory of the enemy." "Off the record, well, we talked it up, and I dunno if they ever really decided things, 'cuz they got to telling jokes about Jews and who was gonna be executed next, so I got up to have another glass of iced tea..."
The rebel leadership was "prepared to help the hostages if the Russian government asks us", Zakayev went on. You could start by telling the Bad Guys to let them go. That'd help a lot. Betcha don't do that, though...
âThe gunmen, holding hundreds of people in a Moscow theatre, are not officially connected to us, but are desperate people who have lost their families." So now they want somebody else's? That doesn't make any sense...
But, in Moscow the leader of the Chechen hostage-takers, Movsar Barayev, told a western journalist he was acting on the orders of Maskhadov and top field commander Shamil Basayev. "Barayev said it was a joint action of Maskhadov and Basayev, that they were under their orders," said British Sunday Times journalist Mark Franchetti, who met overnight with the Chechen commandos. "Thought it was them, anyway. One's a big guy, dark hair, a beard? And the other one's missing half a dozen pieces?"
Franchetti said the guerrillas old him "they do not intend to go anywhere, with hostages or without them, until there are changes in Chechnya. They have fulfilled their task. Now it is up to Putin to decide." If he has half a brain, he's gonna decide to kill them all. For one thing, if he doesn't, the Russers will turn on him. He wouldn't like that...
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Terrorists killed two hostages and wounded another two within the last two hours, reports Pavel Kudryavtsev, emergency HQ spokesman. A woman has a bullet through her stomach, and a man has a head wound. Three blasts came from inside the Theatre Centre in Dubrovka. HQ officers promptly contacted the terrorist chieftain but got no clear explanation. Talks are going on. Law-enforcement officers are withstanding from active response, stressed the crisis HQ man. They're holding back on active response, but that will change when the nutbags inside start indulging the Islamic penchant for killing innocents.
A solitary shot came right after the blasts, followed by another several shots, our correspondent reported from the site. FoxNews is covering this live. I'd imagine they'll move in the wee hours of the morning, if they move tonight...
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Russia's Ministry of the Interior and the USA's Federal Bureau of Investigation will maintain round-the-clock contact. The decision was taken as Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov and Robert Muller, FBI Director, had a telephone conversation, 9 pm, Moscow time, Friday night, Interior Ministry PR said to RIA Novosti. If you'd have read me that paragraph ten years ago, I'd have looked at you funny. Fifteen years ago, and I'd have thought you were crazy...
The FBI chief expressed indignation with terrorism and support to Russian law-enforcement agencies. He offered every assistance to Russia. In particular, anti-terrorist and technical experts may be dispatched to Moscow in its hostage-taking plight. 11 p.m. EST...
Looks like they're moving troops up to the theater... Two people escaped, and said there had been a few others who had tried...
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Source: Marsad, Jihad Unspun
British authorities arrested Shaykh 'Umar Mahmood 'Uthmaan Abu 'Umar (aka Abu Qatadah al-Philisteeni) on Wednesday morning. Shaykh Abu Qatadah has been transferred to Belmarsh Prison, a maximum security facility in in south east London. His arrest comes after a long period that his whereabouts were unknown. The last time he was seen prior to his arrest was in Britain last December but he disappeared shortly after that when the British Parliament passed new internment laws in response to the 11 September attacks on America. And he was caught cheating on the dole. He's holy, but not very honest...
Shaykh Abu Qatadah had previously been convicted in absentia by a military court in Jordan of planning attacks on American and Israeli targets as the alleged spiritual leader of the loosely structured group Harakat al-Islah wal-Thaddi or "The movement of reform and challenge". The group was accused of planting a bomb in a private school, and of setting fire to cars belonging to senior Jordanian military officials. No one was hurt in the attacks. "Yarrr... A few sticks o' dynamite oughta reform and challenge 'em..."
He has been accused by police in eight countries of being a pivotal figure in the Al-Qaida network. Well liked, isn't he? Y'think maybe one of those eight countries might be right?
Shaykh Abu Qatadah was granted political asylum in the UK after he repeatedly denied the accusations against him or links to any movement. "Nope. Nope. Wudn't me. Nope. It was, ummm... somebody else."
A Jordanian citizen, Abu Qatadah is well known for his book Between two Methods (Bayn al-Minhajayn) which exposes his unique views on Islam. Previously he was one of the editors of âAl-Ansarâ, the official publication of GIA and has also been described as Osama bin Laden's "ambassador" in Europe GIA, lest we forget, is the Algerian association of bloodthirsty killers, one of the most vicious terror groups in the world...
David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, would say only that a suspect had been arrested on Wednesday under the antiterrorist laws. Security sources last night named the suspect as Abu Qatada. The 42-year-old Muslim cleric,was arrested at a council house in Bermondsey, South London, in a joint operation by Scotland Yard Anti-Terrorist Branch detectives and MI5 agents. Intelligence chiefs in Italy, Germany and France say they have evidence that Al-Qaida agents planning bomb and chemical attacks were in close contact with Abu Qatada. Some, like the leader of an Al-Qaida cell in Spain, also made frequent trips to London to visit him. His name is understood to have been at the top of the list for arrest and comes just days after he broke cover to justify the September 11 attacks. Shaykh Abu Qatadah released a ten-page document entitled The Legal Vision for the September 11 Events on the internet in which he outlines the "moral" case for the attacks, and praises bin Laden for challenging the United States. Just couldn't keep his mouth shut, could he? Just had to gloat, didn't he?
The Prophet, sallallahu 'alayhi wa salam, said âA manâs tribulation is in accordance to his Imaan.â Of course, nobody's really sure why he said it, since it makes no sense. But if he said it, it must be holy...
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FUCK U U LITTLE PIECE OF SHIT
U MAKE A MOCKERY ON THE RASOOLS NAME U WHITE ASSHOLE
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Authorities in Montgomery, Alabama, have said they intend to seek the death penalty against the two suspects in the Washington sniper killings. John Allen Muhammad, 41, and his stepson John Lee Malvo, 17, were arrested after a string of shootings in the Washington area left 10 people dead and another three critically injured. If Alabammy won't, then Virginny will. And if they won't Merlin... will think about it. (We have a Kennedy in the family business running for governor...)
Maryland has a moratorium on the death penalty, but Virginia is the state with the second-most executions in the country, after Texas. Oops. Maybe they should have gone to Vermont or Rhode Island to shoot people out of a hole in their trunk... I'm still disappointed they were taken alive. Couldn't one of them have pulled at least a little rod, so they could have been blown away?
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Hmmmm. They were found all too quickly AND seemed remarkably accepting (of being taken into custody). I suspect this guy is taking a fall for someone else. Possibly the same applies to McVeigh. Only we can't question him now, can we?
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This guy wouldn't have gotten far in RI. Some goombah from the Patriarca Family woulda dropped him in the Providence River after the first two or three...
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Well, they woke them up with stun grenades. I guess that gave them a chance to do something stupid.
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Alabama? Montgomery was sitting on a double shooting and homocide since Sept21. They had an officer eyewitness and a fingerprint and appear to have done nothing with it until the Task Force came calling. And now they want to to be part of the show? They should of had a BOLO out for the shooters before the DC/Maryland/Virginia tragedy started.
A plane has crashed in northern Minnesota, killing eight people including Democrat Senator Paul Wellstone. His death comes just two weeks before mid-term elections in which he was hoping for re-election to boost the Democrats' chances of retaining their one-vote majority in the Senate. Senator Wellstone's wife, one of his three children, a daughter, and three staff members helping him to campaign were also killed. The weather at the time was reported to be cold, foggy and with a freezing rain. I'm sorry he was killed... I didn't like him, didn't agree with him on most points, but it's still a tragedy.
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Did I agree with him? No. Did I like him, well yeah, I guess I did. He seemed to have a sense of humor and he didnt seem to take himself too seriously. I liked the fact that unlike so many other Democrats, he was honest about who he was and why. If more of his party were like him, I think they'd be doing better in connecting with the people, you know, the very people they purport to be interested in.
Was he wrong on many, many issues? Yes. Would I have voted for him?, No.
But I liked him, and he will be missed.
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I was diametrically opposed to most of Sen. Wellstone's positions on the issues but he came across as a thoughtful (as in thinking out his positions; e.g. not a "kneejerk"), considerate, and well meaning patriot.
He could laugh at himself and see the humor in politics as well as its importance.
He represented Minnesota well and fought the good fight for "working families" (I hate that market researched term) with sincerity.
Compared to my two democrap/weasel senators who wouldn't spit on a working person if they were on fire (although they swear they would), I think Paul Wellstone was a great American and will be missed by both sides of the aisle.
Prayers out to the families involved.
The secretary-general of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, is to fly to Libya to try to prevent it pulling out of the pan-Arab body. Libyan officials are reported saying that the Arab League's inefficiency in dealing with the crises over Iraq and the Palestinians is behind their desire to leave. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has made no secret of his disappointment in his fellow Arabs, and has threatened to pull out of the 22 member body before. "You guys keep saying the same things, over an over. You're boring. We're gonna go become Africans..."
In March this year he threatened to pull out in a row over a Saudi Mid-East peace initiative. On that occasion Mr Moussa flew to Tripoli and had sex with Muammar and the idea was put on hold. Maybe this time it'll take... "Confusion to the enemy!"
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Vice President Hamzah Haz has urged radical Muslim groups to abandon their habit of carrying sharp weapons during demonstrations. "Please, do not bring any weapons such as machetes, sticks, much less firearms," he said in his address at the opening of the National Working Congress of the Indonesian Mosquesâ Council on Friday. Does this mean they're tired of the nonsense from these yokels?
He said Muslims wishing to protest against vice at nightspots should make a nuisance of arm themselves with verses of the Islamic holy book, the Koran. "I believe the chanting of Koranic verses will force those inside the nightspots to abandon their vice," said Haz, who is also chairman of the Islam-based United Development Party (PPP). That, and a couple off-hours visits by Big Mamoud...
The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) has often staged violent raids against nightspots, but several FPI members, including the groupâs leader, were arrested earlier this month. Haz praised Islamic groups that chant verses of the Koran whenever they carry out any activity. "Believe me, nightclubs and cafes will close down [by the force of Koranic verses]," he said. He's probably right. People who just want to spend an evening enjoying themselves will have a hard time of it with hundreds of Islamic rubes standing around caterwauling. They can't go to non-Islamic places in Indonesia like Bali anymore, because people blow them up, so they'll probably go to Manila or Singapore, and Indonesia can remain not only a cultural and social, but also an economic backwater. Give them a few years and they might even put in a special guest appearance at one of those U.N. "hunger summits," even though their country is mostly fertile and productive; if you spend all your time stomping through the streets with the other bully boys, you're not doing anything that'll result in grocery production, are you? That's left to the common folk...
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Police have arrested a suspect in last month's botched grenade attack near a Central Jakarta house owned by the US Embassy, officials said Friday. Mohammad Thayib was captured on Thursday in a village on Seram island in Maluku province, said Jakarta Police chief General Makbul Padmanegara. "Y'got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!"
"We don't, eh? Show 'im the leg, Yusuf."
"This your leg, Mohammad?"
Thayib and another suspect escaped after the September 23 pre-dawn explosion in a vehicle outside the house in the upmarket residential area of Menteng. The premature grenade blast killed one man inside the car, while locals chased and caught the injured driver, but Thayib and another passenger managed to get away. "Foot, don't fail me now!"
The dead man was identified as Achmad Azis from Bogor, south of Jakarta, where police later found a cache of explosives, weapons and ammunition. The driver, Yusuf, was from Ambon, the capital of Maluku. Jakarta Police spokesman Anton Bahrul Alam said Thayib was also from Ambon, which has been the center of deadly religious violence between Muslims and Christians since January 1999.
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Acting-president Hamzah Haz says investigators must soon solve the Bali bombings to restore international confidence in Indonesia, especially in the economic sector, lest the nation go down like a sinking ship. Prior to which the rats will depart, of course. Wonder if Hamzah will be among them?
"The case is a most difficult one for the National Police to crack," he said after opening the Indonesian Orchid Show 2002 in Yogyakarta on Friday. "Yasss... Very difficult. We have a suspect that we were repeatedly warned of ahead of time, with a bomb in one hand and a gun in the other, but it couldn't be him..."
Describing the October 12 bombings as a carefully planned âcruel actâ, he said the attack would undermine Indonesiaâs projected economic growth of 4%. The financial impact of the violence will last well into next year, he added. Hey, you'll meet some perfectly nice people at the World Hunger Summit. Maybe they'll pass the hat in Dahomey to take up a donation for the starving children in Indonesia...
Haz, who visited the scene of the destruction on Wednesday, slightly toned down his earlier statement that the bombers had sought to break up Indonesia and destroy its economy. "Many analysts say the blasts aimed to create unrest at home and to destroy the nationâs unity and integrity," he said. The vice president also said the attack gave the world a negative impression of Indonesia as a den of terrorists, adding this would make life difficult for tourism sector workers. "Honey, I just can't decide where we should go for vacation this year. Miami Beach? Or Indonesia?"
"Oh, Indonesia, definitely, Sweetie. The exploding nightclubs are so pretty this time of year. And those things they do with machetes and people's heads are so quaint!"
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Link on Drudgereport said Bali currently had 10% occupancy in the hotels there...wonder whose fools teh 10% were...
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Police have arrested two suspects in connection with the October 12 bomb blast that took place outside the Philippine Consulate in Manado, North Sumatra, and believe the attack is linked to the devastating Bali bombings. That'd be a pretty good guess...
A homemade bomb exploded at the consulateâs gate a few hours before the blasts in Bali killed almost 200 people. The Associated Press reported Thursday that two suspects in the consulate bombing, both Muslim farmers, were taken into custody during a raid in Manado. The two had been seen fleeing the site moments after the explosion. Police reportedly found a bomb-making location, explosives and ammunition. Traces of a "black powder compound" on the clothing of the suspects matched a compound found at the blast site. Which blast site? Thought the Bali blast was C4? That's rather more powerful than black powder...
A Philippine government report said Indonesian authorities were comparing blood samples from the suspects with bloodstains on the consulate wall. Itâs believed the bomb might have detonated prematurely, injuring one of the suspects. "Huh huh! This is so neat! We're gonna kill lotsa infidels... Ow!... Cheeze, that hurts!... Is that my elbow over there?"
The report said Indonesian criminal and forensic police investigators agree the suspects were used as "pawns" by Muslim radicals based in either Poso, Central Sulawesi, or Central Java. "Hello? LeGume? This is Professor Moriarty, up in Sulawesi. Get me a couple pawns for a nefarious scheme!"
One of the Manado bombers was reportedly paid Rp1 million ($112) to plant the explosive device at the consulate. "Hokay, Boss! How much you want to spend on on this bombing spree?"
"$112."
Poso, the scene of deadly religious violence between Muslims and Christians since 1999, has been hit by a spate of unexplained bombings over recent months. "Duh. The place is swarming with turbans and there's bombings all over the place. I just can't explain it..."
Central Java is the base of most of Indonesiaâs radical Islamic groups, including the Indonesian Mujahidin Council, led by Abu Bakar Bashir, who is also the alleged spiritual leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah group, which has been linked to Osama bin Ladenâs Al-Qaeda network and blamed for the Bali bombings. But it couldn't be them...
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Police doctors say suspected terrorist Abu Bakar Bashir is still too ill to be questioned about his alleged involvement in bombings and other plots. "Although his health is improving, doctors conclude that he is still sick," Budiono, head of a police medical team, was quoted as saying by Reuters on Thursday. "No, no! Too sick! Much too sick! Ooooh! My head!"
"Thought it was your heart?"
"That, too!"
"The Criminal Code of Conduct stipulates one cannot be questioned in an ill condition," he said. "Nope. Not one little question. None. Not even a 'how are you?'"
Bashir is the alleged spiritual leader of the militant Jemaah Islamiah group, which has been linked to Al-Qaeda and was on Wednesday declared a terrorist organization by the United Nations. The cleric, who officially heads the Indonesian Mujahidin Council, denies any involvement in terrorism or links to Jemaah Islamiyah and Al-Qaeda. "Me? A terrorist? I could have you killed for saying that!"
He was hospitalized in the Central Java city of Solo on October 18 after suffering exhaustion, which was apparently caused by respiratory and heart problems. Or faking it...
Police want to question Bashir over a series of church bombings that killed 18 people on Christmas Eve 2000, as well as his alleged role in a mosque bombing and plots to assassinate President Megawati Sukarnoputri when she was vice president. Investigators are yet to directly link Bashir to the October 12 Bali bombings that killed more than 190 people. But an Al-Qaeda operative detained in the US, Omar al-Faruq, has reportedly said bin Laden provided Bashir with funds to buy the explosives used to make the Bali bombs. Police say that once Bashir recovers, he will either be sent to a Jakarta jail or placed under house arrest at his Islamic boarding school in Solo. Any guesses as to which one it'll be?
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I hope he will eventually suffer from acute lead poisoning.
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