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Best idea of the year...
Glenn Reynolds quotes Jay Leno on the congressional pay raise...
Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, he defended the congressional pay raise. He said Congress works hard. And all of that hard work has certainly paid off, huh? Yeah. Let's recognize a job well done. We are at war. Terrorists all over the place. Wall Street's collapsing. People are out of work. Retirement funds are gone. Imagine if they hadn't goofed off. Oh, my God...

"I got a better idea. Instead of a salary, let's put Congress on commission. They don't get paid unless they do something right."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/23/2002 09:12 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Axis of Evil
Iran would answer US strikes in minimum time
Iran would repulse a US military strike in a swift and powerful fashion, Defense Minister Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani said in remarks published Tuesday, amid US hostility towards the Islamic regime. "Iran would answer in minimum time, reciprocally and in a powerful manner any military attack against its political, military, media and social bodies," Shamkhani was quoted saying by the Jam-e-Jam daily. "Any fast and short term action by the United States against the Islamic republic will receive multiple and varied responses," he warned.
Hey! That's a really neat saber. How do you make it rattle like that?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/23/2002 08:56 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  See, that rattling is the rust scraping on the scabbard, and the broken bits falling to the ground...
Posted by: Anonymous || 07/23/2002 10:00 Comments || Top||


Iran's Khatami says will not resign
Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said Tuesday he would not resign despite growing opposition to his reformist policies among Islamic conservatives. "Up till the time that the nation wants me, I hope that I will be of service to our nation," Khatami told a news conference on the second day of a visit to Malaysia. The Iranian president was replying to a question about a statement he made on May 5 that he would resign if he believed the government was deviating from his reforms.
Wrong thing to say. Now the ayatollahs think they can pressure him into quitting...
A showdown is brewing between Khatami's beleaguered reformist administration and the military over an outspoken weekend attack on government policies by the high command of the elite Revolutionary Guards Corps. Conservatives accuse the reformists of working to turn Iran into a secular state and build ties with arch-enemy Israel and the United States.
Horrors! Oh, quick, Ethel! The salts!
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/23/2002 08:56 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq has a pair of Iranian live ones...
Iraq's security department announced Tuesday the arrest of two "terrorists linked to Iran," saying the pair, whose nationalities were not disclosed, would make public confessions, the official INA news agency reported. "Hamza Qassem Sabbat, alias Abu Haitham, and Ibrahim Abd Jassem Mohammad, alias Abu Ayyub, would divulge "the terrorist actions carried out by the agencies of the Iranian regime which are in tune with enemy goals against our country's security," a statement from the public security department said. Iraq's security services managed to infiltrate "the labyrinths of treason thanks to a well-studied security plan and to strike at terror and its perpetrators," the statement added.
Oooh. Public confessions! That's an old Iraqi tradition...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/23/2002 08:56 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


US loses hope on Khatami
After five years of trying to work with Iranian moderates, the White House has abandoned hope it can work with President Mohammad Khatami and his reformist allies, The Washington Post said Tuesday. In a change of policy, the administration of President George W. Bush has decided to turn its attention to appealing directly to democracy supporters among the Iranian people, government officials told the daily. The new policy followed a period of "intensive review," the daily said, within the US government over whether to adopt a harder line toward Iran, which Bush groups with North Korea and Iraq in what he calls an "axis of evil."
That couldn't possibly be because Khatami's reached his accomodation internally with the ayatollahs? Iran's got a two-government system, and Khatami's not in charge of the government that actually runs things.
The Iranian president and his supporters "are too weak, ineffective and not serious about delivering on their promises" to transform Iranian society, said an unnamed senior administration official.
See what I mean?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/23/2002 08:56 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Exactly. If you're interested, I've got a quick primer on who's who. Reformers vs. "reformers", clerics radical, tyrranical and moderate, the government that oversees the government...can't tell the players without program!
Posted by: Mac || 07/23/2002 14:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Really nice summary -- lays it all out. Read it, you guys!
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2002 15:34 Comments || Top||


East/Subsaharan Africa
Agreement reached to end Congo war
Congolese and Rwandan officials announced they had reached an agreement to end a four-year war in Congo that has claimed more than 2 million lives, but rebel leaders warned that peace could remain elusive.
That's a few more than we bumped off in Afghanistan, too, even by accident...
The deal, reached after five days of talks mediated by South Africa's Deputy President Jacob Zuma and announced Monday, is the latest attempt to end a conflict that has embroiled six African nations and defied resolution efforts by mediators from around the world. The agreement commits the Congolese government to rounding up and disarming Hutu militias in territories under its control and sending them back to Rwanda. The Hutu militia, known as Interahamwe, were responsible for the 1994 Rwandan genocide that left more than 500,000 people dead. Rwanda has consistently made the return of the Interahamwe a condition for withdrawing its troops from Congolese soil.
I doubt if it'll be easy to round the bastards up, since Rwanda's probably looking forward to seeing their heads on stakes. So now we have an agreement, and it's all over but the shootin'...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/23/2002 08:56 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Grecians unravelling November 17th group...
Since police began hauling in suspected members of the November 17 terror group, Greeks have been stunned by the suspects' seemingly ordinary lives and jobs. One was an electrician. One was a retired printer, another a beekeeper. On Monday, a prosecutor charged 36-year-old bus driver Thomas Serifis for a number of felonies, including a bomb attack and the 1989 theft of dozens of anti-tank rockets from an army base. If convicted, the German-born Serifis faces a minimum sentence of 20 years. "He had no criminal record. He was a hard worker, donated at blood drives. He was never late for work. He was a nice guy," said Dimitris Moraitis, head of the public bus company where Serifis worked.
Except when he was killing people...
"In all the years I have studied terrorism, they have left me speechless. What I am trying to determine is the reason for this form, this organization," said Maria Bossi, a former member of Greece's anti-terrorist commission. "What we have seen so far resembles nothing in the world."
[Insert cliche about the Banality of Evil]
Police contend part of the reason they were unable to infiltrate the group for 27 years were the strong family and friendship ties between its members. Three of those in custody are brothers - sons of a Greek Orthodox priest. Another two were close family friends. Police are still hunting for beekeeper Dimitris Koufodinas, 44, who was living with the former wife of one of the brothers.
So it was a family business. Makes it hard to infiltrate them, but when one starts singing you can be pretty sure of getting all the rest of them. November 17th is probably history now. That doesn't say that a completely different set of goobers isn't going to be inspired to set up in business to "avenge" them, of course...
Another eight men, including alleged leader Alexandros Giotopoulos, 58, have been charged with crimes ranging from murder to armed robbery and planting explosives. Four have confessed to participating in assassinations, while Giotopoulos has denied any involvement in the group.
"Y'got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! An' I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!"
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/23/2002 09:07 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Mass grave in Bosnia thought to hold scores of Muslims
Forensic experts discovered a mass grave in northeastern Bosnia that may contain up to 100 bodies of Muslims killed at the end of the country's 1992-95 war, officials said Tuesday. Murat Hurtic, a member of the Muslim Commission for Missing Persons, said the mass grave was found Monday near the Serb-held village of Kamenica, 45 miles northeast of Sarajevo. "We believe they were Muslims killed in Srebrenica in 1995," Hurtic said. Srebrenica was declared a U.N. "safe haven" during the end of Bosnia's war, and thousands of Muslims flocked there to escape Serb attacks. But Bosnian Serb troops later overran the town, rounding up and executing men and boys.
Didn't we do something in Bosnia a few years back because the Serbs were going nutz killing Muslims? And maybe in Kosovo, too? Nah. Couldn't have been us. We're at war with all of Islam, aren't we?
Up to 8,000 Muslims were believed killed in the massacre, considered Europe's worst since World War II. The remains of more than half of the victims have already been found in various mass graves in eastern Bosnia.
Shucks, that's even more than we've been accused of so gleefully killing in Afghanistan. And all Muslims, eh? And we didn't kill them? How can that be? I wonder who eventually ended up helping them?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/23/2002 08:56 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Three more Lashkar-i-Jhangvi nabbed in Multan...
Pakistani police arrested three members of an outlawed Islamic extremist group suspected of involvement in scores of religiously motivated killings in Pakistan, a police official said Tuesday. Three activists of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militant group were taken into custody Tuesday in the village of Mailse in southern Punjab province, Chodhry Iftikhar, deputy inspector general of the Multan police, told The Associated Press. The three, aged 18 to 26, have all admitted involvement in an October attack on a Catholic church in the southern city of Bahawalpur that killed 17, Iftikhar said.
Yup. Takes a special kind of guts to shoot up a church full of unarmed people. And I understand there's a special reward for the people who do in the afterlife...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/23/2002 08:56 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  it involves pitchforks
Posted by: Anonymous || 07/23/2002 11:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Notice how these guys were called "activists?" I've noticed this before when other "activists" were arrested in Pakistan.
Posted by: Anonymous || 07/23/2002 21:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Guess that's accurate. They're "actively" killing everyone they can...
Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2002 7:32 Comments || Top||


Middle East
Airstrike kills Hamas military leader, 14 others
Israeli forces Tuesday launched an F-16 airstrike in the heart of Gaza City, killing a top Hamas military commander and at least 14 other people. Several of the dead were children. The death of Salah Shehade -- the leader in Gaza of the Izzedine al Qassam, the military wing of the militant Islamic group Hamas -- was confirmed by Hamas.
Dead. Doorknob, pushing up daisies, waitin' for the Last Trumpet dead. Gone. Kaput. Nothing but a sweet memory and a lingering odor. No longer with us. Busy decomposing...
The killing sparked vows of revenge from Hamas, and sent thousands of angry Gaza residents into the streets.
Where they are probably at this very moment hooting, hollering, rolling their eyes, shaking their fists, and having gun sex firing their weapons into the air...
Israel expressed regret at the loss of civilians but characterized the strike on Shehade as an act of self-defense.
You might say that, since he was the commander of the Bad Guy forces...
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan issued a statement saying, "The government of Israel must halt such actions and it must conduct itself in a manner which does not allow for the killing of innocent civilians."
Kofi is predictable. We'll know in a couple days how successful the Paleos are at firing up the Hang-Wringing Brigades over the dead babies. Since the IDF managed to turn Shehade into a corpse and he was the target, not the innocent bystanders, it might not go far. He was a very legitimate and desirable military target.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/23/2002 09:36 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sorry, I almost forgot that the moral high ground in the war on terror requires killing little kids with no remorse and saving fetuses instead. I'm really looking forward to more self-righeous Israeli lectures about what scumbags we are over here for not spending our every waking hour denouncing suicide bombing. Killing this one Hamas commander is going to make everything suddenly OK? If this operation is supposed to turn into some sort of path to peace, I'd suggest passing out a few roadmaps ASAP.
Posted by: Medusa || 07/23/2002 20:22 Comments || Top||

#2  There's no moral high ground involved. Killing women and children is a bad thing, no matter who does it. Sometimes it happens by accident and sometimes it's intentional. When it's by accident it's regrettable; when it's intentional it's a crime. All things not being black or white, there's a murky area in the middle, where you're not targeting non-combatants, but if they're in the way that's tough luck. The willingness of a commander to take the chance depends on the value of the target he's hitting - does it justify the risk to innocent bystanders? In this case, the target was the enemy commander, not even just a high-ranking official.

I don't know where the part about saving fetuses came in. Nobody involved is having an abortion, and nobody expressed an opinion on the subject. Only a monster kills kids - kills anyone, for that matter - with no remorse; that doesn't mean people, to include kids, never get killed.

Killing this one Hamas commander isn't going to make everything okay, but killing this one Hamas commander goes further toward weakening Hamas militarily than capturing or bumping off dozens of the local bigwigs who're usually rounded up or zapped. It's not a path to peace - it's an engagement in a war.

Nice troll, though.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2002 21:19 Comments || Top||


Lebanon Islamists Warn Army, Claim Bomb Attempt
An Islamist group warned the Lebanese army Monday it would pay dearly for the arrest of a suspected Muslim militant. In a statement, the group, Jamaat an-Nour, also said it was responsible for planting a bomb at a mosque frequented by a cleric who helped in the arrest.
"If we can't have our way, we'll bomb people at random. That's the way we extract bloody revenge. It's our right as Muslims, 'cuz we're a religion of peace..."
The army defused a bomb Saturday at a mosque in Sidon, where Muslim clerics last week handed over Badie Hamadeh, a Lebanese man charged with killing three security officers before taking refuge in a Palestinian refugee camp. Military sources accuse Hamadeh of having ties to Osbat al-Ansar, a Palestinian Islamist group based in the Ain el-Hilweh camp. They said they suspected a member of the group of sheltering the suspect. In its statement, Jamaat an-Nour, thought to have split from Osbat al-Ansar, alluded to the bomb incident as punishment for a cleric who helped in the arrest of Hamadeh, and warned of retribution against the Lebanese army.
Ummm... I don't think I'd like it if the USA took in 350,000 refugees and they started warning of retribution whenever we tried to arrest a murderer or two. I don't think I'd like it at all...
"Jamaat an-Nour considers turning brother Badie Hamadeh over...to be treason, and Saturday night sent its first warning to (Sheikh) Maher Hammoud," it said. "We warn the Lebanese army and all those implicated in this incident (Hamadeh's arrest) that they will pay dearly for their treachery, deception and baseness."
Yup. Go ahead and declare war on an army. Of course, this being Lebanon, they can get away with stuff like that. Maybe they'll be lucky and bring back the good old days, when there was total breakdown of civil society and all a man needed to succeed in life was a gun and maybe a little Kevlar...
Lebanese army posts have been the target of several bomb attacks outside Ain el-Hilweh, the largest of a dozen camps which are home to an estimated 350,000 Palestinians and are effectively under the control of Palestinian factions.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/23/2002 08:59 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fine with me. Let the Palestinians and the Lebanese fight it out amongst themselves. Then, of course, they won't have any time for Israel. If we're lucky, the Syrians will get involved.
Moslem brotherhood, indeed. I thought it was a sin to kill a fellow Moslem.
Posted by: Anonymous || 07/23/2002 21:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Only if he lets you have your way.
Posted by: Fred || 07/24/2002 7:33 Comments || Top||


Shehadeh: The Obituary
Described by Israel as the Gaza Strip's "most brilliant and brutal terrorist," Salah Shehadeh spent more than a decade in Israeli and Palestinian jails, and for the last three years was often in hiding as he oversaw Hamas' frequent attacks. The bearded Shehadeh, 48, was killed when an Israeli warplane destroyed the Gaza City apartment where he was staying, taking the lives of 14 other Palestinians, most of them children.
I wonder if they knew the kiddies were there, or if they just didn't care? My guess would be that they knew there would be civilian casualties, and hoped they weren't going to be high, but went ahead with the attack when they got a confirm as to his location. He was just too important to pass up...
Shehadeh was the leader of Hamas' military wing, Izzadine al-Qassem, the group that has carried out the largest number of suicide attacks, including the deadliest ones, in the current Palestinian uprising. Israeli security sources described Shehadeh as deeply religious, a fervent supporter of suicide bombings and said he had been a possible successor to Hamas' spiritual leader Sheik Ahmad Yassin.
Yassin's also the head of Hamas, though there are four others in its "politburo".
He directly commanded the top Hamas militants, drafted the group's attack policies against Israel and upgraded Hamas fighting capability by introducing locally produced mortars, which have been fired at Israeli settlements, so far with little effect. He was at the top of the army's terrorist wanted list.
Which is why they went ahead and banged him.
Israeli military intelligence described Shehadeh as a star pupil at the high school in Gaza City's Beach Refugee Camp, which he attended before going on to study social work in Alexandria, Egypt. After his return to Gaza he attended the Islamic University, became active in Islamic politics and joined the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood. Shortly after the December 1987 outbreak of the first Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation, Shehadeh, along with Yassin and several other brotherhood members, founded Hamas.
Which is why he's this year's major kill. They got a member of the politburo. Only four to go.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/23/2002 08:56 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hopefully they'll pop "Saruman" Yassin soon, too...
Posted by: BarCodeKing || 07/23/2002 9:11 Comments || Top||

#2  There will be no peace without freedom, support land for peace, or else there will be more 'Saruman' to fried and buses to smack
Posted by: Salim Rusli || 03/22/2004 8:04 Comments || Top||


Sheikh Yassin sets conditions to stop attacks against Israeli civilians
The founder of Hamas said Monday it would consider halting suicide attacks on Israelis if Israel withdrew from West Bank cities and took other measures. "Basically what I would say to the occupation army is to leave ... the Palestinian cities in all the West Bank that were occupied ...," Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin told reporters in the Gaza Strip. "And stop your aggression, demolishing homes. Release prisoners and stop assassinations. Once the occupation and all those measures against our people stop, we are ready to totally study stopping martyrdom operations, in a positive way."
'Nother words, "do everything we want, release all the crazed killers from the calaboose, and then we'll think about stopping our assault on you." I think this statement was made before Shehadeh departed this vale of tears, so the offer's probably on hold until Hamas "exacts bloody revenge."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/23/2002 09:52 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It looks like Israel, a front line State in the counter-terror war, is being made subject to absolute preconditions, imposed by our enemy. If logic had any place in this limited war madness, we would help our ally kill every one of the enemy. The problem with Sheikh Ahmad Yassin is: his life.
Posted by: RG Fulton || 07/23/2002 19:44 Comments || Top||


PA arrests senior finance ministry official
Palestinian police arrested the head of the PA's customs and tax department on charges of corruption, Palestinian security officials said. Nasser Tahbub was detained in the West Bank town of Ramallah as part of the PA's promised crackdown on corruption. Tahbub was detained in his office under Yasser Arafat's.
"Nasser, we need somebody to take a fall."
"Lemme check my list of suckers, boss..."
"Don't bother. I already checked mine..."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/23/2002 09:54 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


PA ready to resume security coordination
Palestinian Interior Minister Abdel Razek Yehiyeh has presented Israel with a security plan aimed at ending the violence, including restoring civic order and taking control over the Palestinian security forces in the PA territories. His plan stresses the need for a change in the public atmosphere, with a campaign against violence, in order to fight "terror." He believes that force alone is not enough to defeat "terrorism." The details of Yehiyeh's plan are reported Monday in Haaretz daily.
I'm surprised the Paleos haven't yet bumped off Yehiyeh. He makes entirely too much sense...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/23/2002 09:59 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Two days, two dead Soddy princes...
PRINCE SULTAN BIN FAISAL BIN TURKI KILLED IN CAR ACCIDENT
July 23, 2002
The Royal Court has issued the following announcement: Prince Sultan bin Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah Al-Saud has passed away at the age of 41 early today as a result of a car accident. Funeral prayers will be held today after the Asr prayer at the Imam Turki bin Abdullah Mosque in Riyadh.

DEATH OF PRINCE AHMAD BIN SALMAN ANNOUNCED
July 22, 2002
The Royal Court has issued the following announcement: Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz passed away at noon today in Riyadh's King Faisal Specialist Hospital where for the past two months the 44-year-old prince had been receiving medical treatment. Funeral prayers will be held tomorrow, Tuesday July 23, 2002, following Asr prayer at Imam Turki bin Abdullah Mosque in Riyadh.
Frank Martin asks "So, not one but TWO saudi princes die in two weeks, is it possible someone is cleaning house? or is it just mathematically possible with that many 'princes'( I believe the actual number is above 3000) that the odds are that one is dropping dead every day?" The Ottomans used a bowstring... And that's two announcements in two days — not weeks...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/23/2002 02:04 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The traffic accident is the brother of the heart attack, and I'm glad to see I'm not the only person to wonder about assassination.
Posted by: Jan Yarnot || 07/23/2002 15:43 Comments || Top||

#2  I think one has to watch out for the danger of reading too much into all this; there _is_ such a thing as ordinary coincidence, after all. There are literally _hundreds_ of those Saudi princes - old Ibn Saud was a busy fellow - and I'd never heard of this Sultan bin Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah Al-Saud before. Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, on the other hand, I know of - he was the owner of War Emblem, the winner of this year's Kentucky Derby. The Washington Post printed the news of his death in the sports section.
Posted by: Joe || 07/23/2002 15:55 Comments || Top||

#3  So, who got the line of succession? whos the best candidate to be the Saudi 'Duke of Gloucester'

Sure would solve alotta problems real fast woudnt it if old man ibn-saud was to 'fall down the stairs' in the middle of the night ( and where is the old geezer by the way?, and where Prince Bandar? - Colin Powells 'best friend' and current ambassador to the US- in 1992, you couldnt turn on a bright porch light without having him stand in front of it like it was a television camera, begging for our help)

Im not normally a conspiracy type, but two guys from the same wing of the same royal family within 48 hours of each other makes me want dig up my VHS of 'King Ralph".

Posted by: frank martin || 07/23/2002 17:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Suppose there's 3000 of them. Suppose further that your average Saudi prince lives to the age of 70.

So I figure you'd get around 3000 / (70*365) =~ 1/9 of a Saudi prince croaking every day.

If they're losing princes about every nine days or so, it's not a bit surprising if from time to time they lose quite a few within the space of just a few days.
Posted by: Laertes || 07/23/2002 20:04 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Ashcroft Submits Nine Groups for Terror List
Attorney General John D. Ashcroft asked the State Department yesterday to list nine foreign groups and companies as terrorist organizations. The listing would prohibit any noncitizen members from entering the United States.
If you are a citizen, and you're a member, there are some people who'd like to talk to you...
• Al Taqwa Trade, Property and Industry Co. Ltd., also known as Himmat Establishment.
• Bank Al Taqwa Ltd.
Two names, one purpose, one organization. The bank link points to a good article from Salon, of all places, on the bank's shareholders. The Trade, Property, etc., link gives office locations and individuals associated...
• Nada Management Organization.
• Youssef M. Nada & Co. Gesellschaft.
Aliases of al-Taqwa
• Ummah Tameer E-nau.
The Pak nuclear scientists who were "advisors" to Bin Laden...
• Loyalist Volunteer Force.
• Ulster Defence Association/Ulster Freedom Fighters.
Crazed killer Irishmen.
• Afghan Support Committee
Heh heh...
• Revival of Islamic Heritage Society
Busted same time as the Afghan Support Committee
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/23/2002 12:53 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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