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Ed Koch: Mensch
Dawson excerpts Ed Koch's account of his run-in with Michael Moore at a BBC panel discussion that was stocked with an audience of the Moore stripe.
That same evening, I was part of a panel discussion on BBC-TV's "Question Time" show which aired live in the United Kingdom. One of the panelists was Michael Moore, writer and director of the award-winning documentary "Roger & Me." During the warm-up before the studio audience, Moore said something along the lines of "I don't know why we are making so much of an act of terror. It is three times more likely that you will be struck by lightening than die from an act of terror." I was aghast and responded, "I think what you have said is outrageous, particularly when we are today commemorating the deaths of 3,000 people resulting from an act of terror." I mention this exchange because it was not televised, occurring as it did before the show went live.

Many in the audience assembled by the BBC included Americans and people from other nations. Their positive responses to Moore on this and other comments he made during the program convinced me that the producers had found a lair of dingbats when looking to fill the studio with an audience. Moore later called President Bush a "dummy," denigrating him for having threatened Iraq with consequences including war if it did not comply with the United Nations resolutions to which it agreed when it was defeated in the 1991 Gulf War. Again, I couldn't contain myself and said, "That's what you radicals on the left always do. You don't debate issues, you denigrate your opponents. You did it with President Reagan, saying he was dumb. After he left office, 600 speeches, many hand-written by him, demonstrated his high intelligence."
I never warmed to Ed Koch. I always thought of him as John Lindsey with a personality: good-natured, amusing, and ineffectual. I like him more after this episode. This is yet another confirmation that being a liberal and being a patriot aren't necessarily exclusive.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/26/2002 05:54 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Afghanistan
U.S. Troops Face Suicide Attacks?
Alicia sends this, along with the note that "AP catches up with Rantburg". Heh heh... What the heck? It's only been a month or two...
Taliban fugitives and Afghan fighters loyal to a former foe have allied and are getting arms and money from al-Qaida and Iran for planned suicide attacks on American troops in Afghanistan, one of their leaders says.
Wotta surprise. Who'da thunkit?
The new alliance is said to be based in eastern Afghanistan and involves men led by several former high Taliban officials and fighters of Hezb-e-Islami, a group headed by former Afghan Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Hekmatyar's force was one of the U.S.-aided guerrilla armies that fought the Soviets in the 1980s. He fled to Iran in 1996 after his group was defeated by the Taliban, but he has recently been seeking to incite a ``holy war'' against American forces in Afghanistan.
October, a year ago, is "recently"?
The new alliance is known as Lashkar Fedayan-e-Islami, or the Islamic Martyrs Brigade, a Hekmatyar military commander, Salauddin Safi, told The Associated Press at a secret meeting Wednesday in this frontier city.
He means Peshawar. Where else? Well, maybe Quetta...
``There will be suicide attacks, ambushes by suicide attackers and bomb blasts against soldiers as they are moving from place to place and when they go out and disperse into smaller numbers, like in searches,'' he said.
"We're gonna be a regular Hamas, just you wait and see..."
The threat comes against a backdrop of unsolved bombings in Afghan cities, and there already have been sporadic attacks on U.S. military posts as well as on American troops patrolling the countryside. Safi said the alliance plans to attack only American military targets. He said the group had nothing to do with a Sept. 5 car bombing that killed 30 people and wounded more than 150 in Kabul, the capital.
"Nope. Nope. Wudn't us. Karzai din't get killed, so it wudn't us..."
Western intelligence sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed there is an alliance between the Taliban and Hekmatyar. They also said they believe the alliance is receiving money from a variety of sources, including the al-Qaida terror network and Iran.
You heard read it here first...
However, neither Western nor Pakistani intelligence sources could confirm the existence of the new group or the formation of suicide bombing squads. Safi said the alliance's fighters are from the Taliban and Hezb-e-Islami. ``Al-Qaida is not helping with men, but with money,'' he said. Iran also ``is helping with money and weapons,'' Safi said.
And maybe a bit of training here and there. It's hard to believe Iran would be dumb enough to get involved in a half-assed scheme like this...
``Iran needs Hekmatyar because Iran is an enemy of the United States and Hekmatyar is too.'' Safi wouldn't give any specifics about the types of weapons or amounts of money.
"Big weapons. Lotsa money...
Washington previously accused Iran of trying to destabilize Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government by sending Iranian commandos to Afghanistan to incite tribal feuding and by supplying arms and money to opponents of his U.S.-backed government. Iran denied the charges.
And the "Iranian agents" turned out to be locals...
Another Hezb-e-Islami loyalist, who identified himself only as Abdullah, told AP in a separate interview that Khalil Saeed Deek, a Palestinian-American banished from Jordan last year on suspicion of links to Osama bin Laden, had brought money into Pakistan for Hezb-e-Islami. Abdullah said Deek, who was extradited from Pakistan to Jordan in December 1999, is living in Pakistan under the protection of Hezb-e-Islami. He refused to elaborate.
So he's a money man, and a go-between with the al-Qaeda. Put him on the list, have a shootout, and send him to Guantanamo...
Hekmatyar, who lived in Iran during the Taliban's six-year rule, was forced to leave by the Iranian government earlier this year after Washington demanded his expulsion. ``But the request for him to go was friendly. Still he travels back and forth between Afghanistan and the frontier areas of Pakistan and Iran,'' said Safi, who was interviewed in a house in a high-walled compound deep within Peshawar's old city, at the end of a sandy lane overrun by garbage and prowled by scavenging dogs.
Sounds like a pretty classy class of people making this here revolution...
After Afghanistan's Soviet-backed Marxist regime was defeated in the early 1990s, Hekmatyar and leaders of other Afghan factions plunged into a ruinous civil war that eventually provoked the rise of the Taliban religious army. ``The situation is not like it was before -- now we are united,'' Safi said.
There's a certain unity among some — not all — Pashtun tribes. Knock off Paktia, Paktika, Khost, and Kunar and Afghanistan's not much more unstable than, say, Punjab. As the center of mass for the country's xenophobic, inbred, uneducated Pashtuns, clinging to jihad like a drunk to a gin bottle, these areas will represent a danger to the country for years upon years to come...
He said Hezb-e-Islami commanders in Afghanistan's northeastern Kunar province forged the alliance with three top men in the ousted Taliban regime: Maulvi Abdul Kabir, vice president and the No. 3 Taliban official; Noor Jalil, a deputy interior minister; and Jalil Shinwari, a deputy justice minister. The alliance is strong in eastern Afghanistan, which includes Paktia, Paktika and Khost provinces, he said. ``But in other parts of the country we are still trying to form alliances. There are some Taliban who don't want to work with Hekmatyar.''
I guess even Talibs have some pride...
Safi came to Peshawar earlier this week with Hekmatyar's top commander in Kunar, Kashmir Khan. Khan's base was targeted by U.S. rockets last month. American soldiers have been operating in Kunar province for three months searching for Taliban, al-Qaida and Hekmatyar fighters, but with little fanfare.
But lotsa bitching by the local Pashtuns...
Hekmatyar has been circulating clandestine newsletters and audiotapes calling for jihad against American forces, and Safi brought out a new message. The one-page letter in the Pashtu language announced the formation of the Martyrs Brigade and it warned Afghans living near U.S. military bases to ``leave immediately lest you face any problem because we are going to start our struggle very soon against them.''
"Yeah, just leave your homes and move away, 'cuz we're goin' into action!"
At a U.S. military base called Camp Salerno in southeastern Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Martin Schweitzer said they were aware of Hekmatyar and the threat posed by his loyalists and the Taliban. ``Bring it on,'' Schweitzer said. ``We're more than ready to handle any of the threats that are out there.''
Seems like he has a pretty good handle on the Pashtun threat. As I've mentioned a time or two, the Talibs beat up Hekmatyar, the Merkins beat up the Talibs. Now Hek thinks he's going to be able to beat up the Merkins. That makes sense. Not a lot of sense, but sense...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/26/2002 05:02 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The suicide attaks part.....I think it'll be a little different when those whom are attacked have guns and grenades and will blow the sh** out of the attackers, in the interest of helping them along to paradise, of course.....
Posted by: Budd || 09/27/2002 5:09 Comments || Top||


Axis of Evil
Why do they resent us? Part 712...
Gary Farber pointst to an Arab News piece in which the author admits that Arabs don't really give a fig (or a date, as it were) about keeping Sammy in power. Then the fellow adds:
"Having killed many Islamists and Nasserites, Saddam is not liked by Al-Qaeda supporters or the Arab left. Taheri predicts that the Arab street will not erupt into fury if Saddam is overthrown, which is probably true. The irony is that although most of the Muslim world will probably welcome regime change in Iraq, it will also probably resent the fact that it was the Americans who did it."
This is something along the lines of being beaten up in an alley, having a stranger come by and chase the thugs off, and then complaining that the stranger stopped them from hitting you because you weren't formally introduced...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/26/2002 10:07 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think a closer analogy is having a cop come along and chase the thug off, and then complaining because you hate cops, cops are all Oppressors, Tools of The Establishment, and The Man, man.
Posted by: Gary Farber || 09/26/2002 14:26 Comments || Top||


N Korea 'agrees' to nuclear inspections
The Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, says North Korea's Kim Jong-il agreed to allow international inspections of his country's nuclear facilities when the two men met earlier this week. It was announced at the time that Mr Kim had only agreed to abide by international agreements on Pyongyang's nuclear programme. But Mr Koizumi said on Thursday that the North Korean leader went further - agreeing to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to check the country's nuclear sites.
Wonder if that has something to do with Bush's speech at the UN and the subsequent maneuvering? Dear Leader may be an illustration of that fact that "goofy" doesn't necessarily mean "stoopid"...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/26/2002 10:15 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


US envoy to visit North Korea
The US government has said it will send an envoy to North Korea soon, in an apparent attempt to reopen dialogue deadlocked for almost two years. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said US President George W Bush announced the decision to South Korean President, Kim Dae-jung, in a telephone call on Wednesday. There are no indications as to whether North Korea has accepted the offer, but the Japanese prime minister reported after his meeting with the reclusive state's leader last week, that Kim Jong-il said he was ready for talks with Washington.
They've gotta be nervous, watcing Bush maneuver on Iraq. Dear Leader doesn't want the be the objective of the next set of maneuvering. The question now is whether the NKor equivalent of the nomenklatura will allow anything to happen. Since they're actually taking steps toward a market economy, however timidly, it's a possibility...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/26/2002 10:19 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Sammy isn't Sammy. He's three doubles...
Steve forwards me this unsurprising news. Wotta cheapjack. Binny was reputed to have ten...
A German television network said on Thursday it had made a scientific study of 450 photographs of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and concluded there are at least three doubles posing as the Iraqi president. The ZDF public television network, working with a German coroner, said it took the photographs and film clips of Saddam which it had in its archives and used facial recognition technology to determine that men said to be him were lookalikes. "In the film sequences since 1998 only the doubles appear," said Dieter Buhmann, a Homburg coroner. "He himself has not been seen again."
So he might actually have shaved his moustache, ditched the Don Corleone hat, and be living on the Costa Brava with a three or four dancing girls, whilst the iron-fisted autocracy ticks along under its own speed. Or he might be living 160 feet below the ground in a concrete bunker, fearing to venture out... What's the diffo between that and being in jug? I think if they made me dictator of Iraq, I'd resign and move to Oslo. The girls are prettier, the food's better, and I wouldn't have to live in a hole.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/26/2002 01:55 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus
Russers beat up Chechens in Ingushetia battle...
The Russian military says its forces have beaten off a large group of Chechen rebels after a fierce battle in the republic of Ingushetia. At least 10 Russian servicemen were killed in the clash near the Chechen border. Russian military officials say that 30 or 40 rebels were killed and five captured. Chechen sources say that seven fighters were killed, five are missing and 10 were injured. A British cameraman was also killed. Russian forces say about 100 rebels have escaped from the fighting and are being pursued in forested areas.
And now they intend to send conscripts into the forested areas after them...
Rebels also shot down a Russian army attack helicopter - killing both crew members - during the battle around the village of Galashki, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the administrative border with Chechnya. Russian officials say that a large rebel formation of up to 300 men had crossed into the area from Georgia, which said on Thursday that it was determined to eject Chechen rebels based on its territory.
Sounds like they managed to do that. Probably not the way they were bragging, though...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/26/2002 10:11 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The spetsnaz were/are good, however, the Russians are so broke that training has gone right out the window - and got kicked clear into the neighbor's yard.
See Steven Den Beste (USS Clueless) for a good discussion of the former Soviet military (good punch, short range). Essentially the Russians could do Memorial Day weekend, but you needed the US Army to do all of spring break.
Posted by: Michael Orris || 09/26/2002 18:39 Comments || Top||

#2  I remember, once upon a time, that the old Soviet army had special forces -- pretty good ones. What's happened to them? Sounds like this would be the place for highly trained, motivated small groups as opposed to sweeping the forests with poorly trained conscripts. By the time one of those poor schmoes finds something interesting, he'll be dead.

BOOM!

"Over there, Sarge! Alexi just found another Chechen land mine!"
Posted by: Steve White || 09/26/2002 10:50 Comments || Top||


Vids show Maskhadov's true Islamic colors...
Yet another from Steve, who likes doing my work for me...
Videotape just released by the Chechen rebels confirms what U.S. intelligence has suspected — and what Russian President Vladimir Putin has long claimed — that the Chechen's so-called "moderate" leader Aslan Maskhadov has bowed to the Islamicist hard-liners and gone "jihadi." On the tape, his commentary on the shooting down of a Russian military helicopter, he is seen wearing epaulets inscribed with verses from the Koran. Behind him was the rebels' green flag, which used to feature the Chechen nationalist emblem of a wolf of Ichkeria, has been replaced by Koranic verse and a scimitar. The result looks very like the flag of Saudi Arabia, reflecting the puritanical and intolerant Wahhabi sect of Islam. At one point in the videotape, which Russian officials have made available to the Americans, Maskhadov refers to the armed men in camouflage gear surrounding him as "Mujahedin." American enthusiasm for getting the Russians back to the negotiating table with Maskhadov has accordingly nose-dived. The Russians, who have been warning for months that the Chechens were snuggling ever deeper into bed with al Qaida, are raising a new hot potato — the question of Saudi funding for the Chechens.
It takes either a willing suspense of disbelief, some heavy-duty naivete, or some really wishful thinking to make the Chechen Bad Guys into anything other than a jihadi movement. Maskhadov was doing the "moderate" thing up until the WOT got under way seriously, but there were too many Chechens at Konduz to represent just a few guys who hopped a plane, like the bunch al-Muhajiroun sent. Khattab being a Soddy (albeit disguised as a Jordanian until he started to rot) was a further indication of Arabian involvement. There have been enough reports on the wahhabi roots of the Chechen movement, starting back when they invaded Dagestan. There's the mention of Chechnya in Friday prayers in Mecca and Medina, virtually every week. And then there were the comments by the shura members in the interview with Kavkaz.org a few months ago. I suppose any opinion that doesn't involve Soddies can be put down to not paying attention, but the Bush team should be paying attention. This is important, dammit!
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/26/2002 02:44 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Explosives found on Morocco jet
My daily dose of Steve...
Police in France are investigating the discovery of a small stick of plastic explosives on a plane belonging to the Moroccan airline, Royal Air Maroc.
No-one has been detained in connection with the incident. The explosives, weighing about 100 grams and wrapped in aluminium, were found during a customs check aboard the Boeing 737 at Metz-Nancy airport in eastern France. There was no detonator. Sniffer dogs found the stick hidden between two seats during a check of the aircraft after passengers had disembarked.
Just leave it with the lost and found...
The two passengers seated near the explosives were found to be tourists with no criminal records, Metz investigators said. The explosive found is thought to be pentrite, a granular powder which can be used alone or in composition with other chemicals such as Semtex. Semtex was used in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people. Pentrite is the substance that was found in the shoes of Richard Reid, a British man who allegedly tried to blow up an airliner heading from Paris to Miami with a bomb in his shoes.
Little incidents like this are what keep the Euros serious about tracking down active Bad Guys, even while they let the potential bad guys hang around the mosque and make faces at people...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/26/2002 10:07 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


International
Weekend riots in Damascus...
Reports are coming in from diplomatic eye-witnesses of serious riots in Damascus over the last weekend that sound worrying for the still fledgling regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. What began as protest demonstrations in the suburb of Kabas against one of Bashar's "Modernization" projects, a new road building scheme, turned into wider anti-regime riots that raged through Saturday and Sunday and overwhelmed the riot police. Order was restored when the army was brought in Sunday, and began using live ammunition. Interestingly, the Syrian army then proceeded to use a tactic they had learned from the Israelis, deploying armored bulldozers to destroy the houses of those presumed to be responsible. They flattened half of Kabas -- which goes to show that young President Bashar is a softie compared to his late father, Hafiz al Assad. Faced with dissent in the town of Hamah in 1982, the old man flattened the place with artillery and paved over the rubble -- and the 10,000-plus corpses.
Who can add to that tag line? Bashar's on the list of hereditary iron-fisted dictators the U.S. always catches heat for "supporting." We didn't install him, but somehow it's our fault he's there...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/26/2002 02:48 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So when a "President-for-Life" leaves the position upon his death to his son, what is the difference between that and a monarchy? What, they all wear snappy business suits and no Louis the XIV robes? (Details, details).
Posted by: Michael Orris || 09/26/2002 18:48 Comments || Top||


Middle East
Israeli army hoist Zionist flag on minaret
IAP News
In a brazen provocation to Muslim sensibilities, the Israeli army on Wednesday desecrated the Grand Mosque in Dura and hoisted the Israeli flag atop the mosque minaret. Palestinian sources also reported that Israeli occupation soldiers urinated and defecated inside the Mosque after breaking into it Wednesday morning. Palestinians expressed their profound indignation at the conduct, calling it "disgusting and characteristic of Jewish disregard for anything non-Jewish." "How would Jews feel if Nazis hoisted the Swastika flag atop a Jewish synagogue. We have the same feeling when we see the Israeli flag atop our holy places," said Hasan al Haroub.
Pooped on the floor, did they? Whizzed on the walls? Sounds pretty awful. It also sounds like something that's something somebody heard from somebody who knows somebody...
"The Jews experienced German Nazism, we are experiencing Jewish Nazism," he said with bitterness apparent in the tone of his voice. Since the beginning of the intifada, Israeli troops destroyed and desecrated scores of mosques and churches in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. However, the sacrilegious acts received little coverage in the West, particularly in the United States.
We only report things that actually happened...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/26/2002 10:07 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  sounds a lot like the thieving and desecrating the Paleos did in the Church of the Nativity, hmmm? Oh,that's right, the Israelis made them do that too
Posted by: Frank G || 09/26/2002 10:21 Comments || Top||

#2  I remember how I felt when I removed my shoes on entry to the "Hagia Sophia Cathedral" (AKA: Great Mosque of Istanbul, Turkey). I think that these Muslim thieves should return these landmarks, including Temple Mount, to their real owners.
Posted by: Allah the Dog Faced God || 09/26/2002 12:41 Comments || Top||


Hamas Big may have rigor mortis...
Two members of Palestinian militant group Hamas have been killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip. Israel says the target of the strike was the head of Hamas's military wing, Mohammed Deif, who has allegedly been involved in suicide bombings against Israeli targets.
Does being "head of the military wing" make him Shehadeh's successor? Seems it would be good tactics to try and bump them off as soon as they're appointed. I mean, it's been two months...
It is unclear whether Mr Deif - who has headed Israel's wanted list for years - was killed in the attack. Israeli television reported that the Hamas commander had been killed, but a leader of the militant group said he was still alive.
They said the guy we caught in Karachi wasn't Ramzi, too. When this guy starts to stink, they'll admit he's dead...
Witnesses said a car received two direct hits in the attack in a crowded area of Gaza City. According to Hamas officials, an aide of Mr Deif, Abdel-Rahim Hamdan, was killed along with a second as yet unidentified man. Hamas has vowed to step up suicide bombings inside Israel to avenge the attack.
They vowed to step up suicide bombings for something else yesterday, and for something else a few days before that, and for something else a few days before that...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/26/2002 10:07 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Little Green Footballs is reporting that Deif is settling in for that long dirt nap.

Good shooting, IDF.
Posted by: Mike Morley || 09/26/2002 13:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Reuters was reporting he was only wounded. The Paleos said the same thing about Shehadeh, until he started to stink, too. The guy's probably dead and lying about it...
Posted by: Fred || 09/26/2002 14:09 Comments || Top||


IDF doing some major housecleaning...
Undercover border police and Shin Bet officers arrested Nidal Anaya, 32, commander of the Aksa Martyrs Brigades Kalkilya branch, Wednesday night. Anaya was responsible for recruiting gunmen and dispatching then to to carry out bombing and shooting attacks against soldiers and civilians in the area. In July, Nidal recruited four suicide bombers for attacks inside the Green Line. The attacks were thwarted at the last minute; security forces arrested the four terrorists.
Poor Nidal. He puts all that time into working his way into middle management, up from the gunny ranks, and now this...
The IDF revealed yesterday that one of the nine Palestinians killed during the IDF incursion into Gaza City early Tuesday morning was Nissian Naif Nasser, 40, a senior Hamas military commander and master bomb maker.
Now he's a good-looking corpse. Or what's left of him is...
In the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, security forces arrested a number of men wanted for terrorist activities and demolished the homes of several Hamas and Islamic Jihad members who were responsible for killing civilians. Several buildings used to carry out attacks were also destroyed. Eleven Palestinians were arrested in Beitunya, A-Dik, southeast of Kalkilya, Hebron, Tulkarm, and in Kibbiyah, west of Ramallah.
Guess it's safe to go out on the streets there for a day or two, until their replacements take over...
Security forces destroyed a number of homes belonging to terrorists yesterday:
The home of Abed al-Halak Hassen Natshe, the head of Hamas in Hebron who recently arrested, was demolished. The army said Natshe was responsible for planning and dispatching the terrorists who killed four civilians, including a five-year-old girl, and wounded eight in Adora on April 27. He also dispatched the terrorist who Killed two soldiers and a civilian and wounded five in Karmei Tzur on June 8.
I like the idea of killing thugs who murder 5-year-olds in their beds...
Soldiers also demolished the home of Islamic Jihad member Ziab Abd a-Rahman a-Shweik, who was responsible for the attack on a vehicle belonging to the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) on March 26. Two TIPH members were killed and a third was wounded.
That's why the Paleos have been hollering for international peacekeepers. They used up the ones we sent 'em...
In Dura, west of Hebron, soldiers demolished the homes of Hamas members Anis Mahmud Taleb Namora and his brother Ikram Mahmud, both of whom are already in custody. They detonated a bomb in the southern Hebron Hills which killed Capt. Shai Shalom Cohen on July 8, 2001 and another bomb near the Adurayim Base on May 14, 2001 which wounded two policemen. The Namoras' father, a former mayor of Dura, said security forces gave him five minutes warning and didn't allow him to take his books or computer out of the house. He told reporters, "look, my sons didn't attack Israeli civilians, they didn't attack restaurants they attacked armed soldiers occupying our land and persecuting our people. My sons are not terrorists, they are freedom fighters."
Now they're in the calaboose, aren't they?
In the Gaza Strip, soldiers demolished three empty buildings near Netzarim used to carry out attacks. Inside, soldiers had found anti-tank rockets ready for use, and other weapons.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 09/26/2002 02:02 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I like a missle in the forehead of a terrorist as much as the next guy, but PBS said out of 70 or so terrorists "whacked" by the IDF, there were 50+ civilian casualties.

Numbers like those makes me think they should reconsider dropping heavy ordinance in an apartment complex, or fire missles on crowded streets.

If we had to endure the same amount of terror as Israel, we might lower our threshold for action as well. But I can't help but think there is a more effective way to act on their intelligence. Effective meaning less civilians exploding.
Posted by: PJ || 09/26/2002 17:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Woops, this comment was meant for the post below.
Posted by: PJ || 09/26/2002 18:00 Comments || Top||



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