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China-Japan-Koreas
Loser: South Korean Defects to NK, Gets Deported, Arrested Upon Return
According to the [South Korean] National Intelligence Service and the prosecutors, a 34-year-old man, whom the press did not identify, was found to have secretly entered North Korea and was later deported to China, from where he returned to South Korea. He was arrested on charges under the National Security Law. According to the authorities, the man harangued his friends about "South Korea’s subordination to the United States" and the unfairness of capitalism as a social system.

...the man [had] dropped out of high school and then worked at a garment factory. After he entered North Korea, he told a women working in the fields, "I am from South Korea. I want to live in an equal society like the North." North Korean authorities welcomed him with a banquet but interrogated him the next day about his motives for defecting and [he] was sent to a detention camp for foreigners. For 40 days, until 9 October, he was interrogated by the military and Pyongyang’s Immigration authorities. Eventually, he was expelled to China. On 21 October, the Chinese government deported him to South Korea.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/29/2004 12:10:30 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Priceless! He 'defects', goes to North Korea, the Norks imprison, interrogate, and deport him. Can't you take the hint, fella?
Posted by: gromky || 10/29/2004 0:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Sorry for the multiple post...every time I hit "submit", I got some sort of .ASP error from the Microsoft web server. Silly me, I thought that an error message meant that the posting didn't go thorugh.
Posted by: gromky || 10/29/2004 0:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Fixed, no worries.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/29/2004 0:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Great title, lmao.
Posted by: Jarhead || 10/29/2004 7:54 Comments || Top||

#5  This guy has to be defective if he defects to the Norks, all right.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/29/2004 13:15 Comments || Top||

#6  I wonder if he still wants to 'defect' to the workers paradise.

Did he like the North Korean prisons? Perhaps he developed a taste for 'eatible clay' and bark.

Patty Murray can go next time.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/29/2004 13:28 Comments || Top||

#7  What's Korean for "loser?"
Posted by: Mike || 10/29/2004 14:18 Comments || Top||

#8  It would be pronounced "Roh", Mike.
Posted by: whitecollar redneck || 10/29/2004 23:09 Comments || Top||


Europe
Greek Riot Squad Bus Blast Raises Security Fears
A roadside bomb blast targeting a police convoy in Athens early on Friday caused no injuries but alarmed authorities who had been insisting that Greece's leftist guerrillas were defeated. The explosion was the first of its kind in Greece for over a decade and the first bomb attack since the end of this summer's Athens Olympics, Europe's biggest peacetime security operation. "Police are treating this explosion very seriously because it has been a long time since something like that has taken place," a police source said. "This was a well-planned strike, something that has not happened in years."

The device exploded as two riot squad buses drove along Petrou Ralli avenue on their way to the top security Korydallos prison in western Athens, police said. It was tied to the road's metal barrier and detonated from a nearby park through a 30 meter (yard) cable, they said. "There are no injuries or material damage," Athens police chief Vassilis Tsiatouras told reporters. "It was a rather small device." There was no claim of responsibility for the attack and the authorities did not say who they thought was behind it. But it was widely assumed to be the work of leftist guerrillas. The government condemned the attack as a threat to democracy, saying it was pure luck there were no casualties. "We will not allow anyone to damage the sense of security enjoyed by the citizens and to challenge our democracy," spokesman Thodoris Roussopoulos said in a statement.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, radical leftist groups including the notorious November 17 organization carried out bomb attacks on police and official targets in Greece. The Greek authorities declared victory over the guerrilla groups two years before the Athens Olympics with dozens of high-profile arrests and convictions. However, there have been attacks since then. A bomb went off in central Athens 100 days before the Games, and in the past few days there has been a spate of crude attacks in the capital using firebombs and camping gas canisters. The device used in Friday's attack was the most sophisticated seen in several years. It was also the first time a police bus had been targeted since 1992, when a bomb planted by the Revolutionary Popular Struggle (ELA) injured several officers.
Posted by: Steve || 10/29/2004 10:53:27 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Greek Riot Squad Bus Blast Raises Security Fears

Yup, explosions will do that.
Posted by: BH || 10/29/2004 12:00 Comments || Top||


Missing Norwegian dynamite found
Larvik police believe they have found most of the dynamite stolen from a Dyno Nobel Europe warehouse in the city last week, newspaper Østlands-Posten reports. The dynamite was found hidden in two different locations and there have been no arrests in connection with the theft. "The police found the explosives. An attempt had been made to hide them under leaves on the ground. We have reason to believe that this is the dynamite that was stolen last week and we believe most of it has been found," police lawyer Aud Sønderland of Vestfold police said.
Posted by: Seafarious || 10/29/2004 11:48:55 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  waitaminute! more stolen dynamite?? yikes, they already lost 660kg this year.
Posted by: Rory B. Bellows || 10/29/2004 1:15 Comments || Top||

#2  I blame Bush for not having enough troops to secure the Norwegian ammo dumps
Posted by: Steve || 10/29/2004 8:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Too many of them Ø's. Put up the postage stamp!
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 10/29/2004 8:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Of course!
It was right where we left it! In the middle of the fish coil of chilly love.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/29/2004 20:35 Comments || Top||


Great White North
Canadian Islamic leader apologizes but won't quit
Mohamed Elmasry, the embattled president of the Canadian Islamic Congress, apologized again yesterday for his controversial remarks but did not resign -- despite repeated calls to do so from other Muslim and Jewish organizations. Instead, the CIC issued a statement yesterday saying it accepted Mr. Elmasry's apology for saying that all Israelis over the age of 18 are fair targets for suicide bombers, but not his offer to resign, noting "one unintentional mistake does not wipe out his exemplary 30-year record." "It has always been a core belief of mine that killing civilians -- any civilians for any cause -- is an immoral act of the worst kind and I will never change in this conviction," Mr. Elmasry said in the media release. "Failing to articulate my beliefs clearly, completely, and forcefully on that occasion was the biggest mistake in my 30 years of public life."

While the CIC says it has been "overwhelmed" by calls of support from Muslim, Jewish, Christian and Arab communities, yesterday several organizations reiterated their belief that Mr. Elmasry has done lasting damage to the credibility of his organization, to the cause of Palestinians and of Muslims.
There's more
Posted by: Mark Espinola || 10/29/2004 2:13:13 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Quit already Mohamed!!! The mistake was intentional. Quit "BS-ing us."
Posted by: John Q. Citizen || 10/29/2004 19:03 Comments || Top||

#2  The apology was apparently complete and apparently sincere. But that was because the hypocritical little swine obviously was alarmed by the powerful negative response to his comment. He thought he'd try to wriggle out of it, the coward. He evidently really wants to keep his position as president. The CIC, naturally, has rallied around him. I have the same opinion of them.

Posted by: Bryan || 10/29/2004 21:01 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
2 Guantanamo Detainees Go Before Tribunal
Two men accused by the United States of fighting with the Taliban appeared before a U.S. military review panel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to determine whether they should remain held as enemy combatants, an official said Thursday. Two others also accused of fighting with the Taliban chose not to appear, said Navy Capt. Beci Brenton, a spokeswoman for the Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The nationalities of the four were not released. A 27-year-old detainee was accused of firing on U.S. forces in the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan, where he also allegedly received training on the AK-47 assault rifle, Brenton said. The military said he was captured in Tora Bora by Pakistani forces. Brenton said the man made a statement during his appearance, though details weren't available.
Something along the lines of, "Lies! All lies!"?
Another detainee whose age was not released was accused of traveling to Afghanistan in 2001, where he allegedly received training in using a Kalashnikov rifle at the al-Farouk terrorist training camp. The man, who also made a statement at his hearing, was arrested by U.S. forces while guarding the airport in Kandahar, Brenton said. A 32-year-old detainee who decided not to appear was accused of fighting against U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, by operating an anti-aircraft rocket launcher, Brenton said. She said the man also was accused of being a member of al-Qaida and receiving explosive training at the al-Farouk camp. Military officials said a 27-year-old detainee who didn't appear was accused of firing on U.S. and coalition troops at an undisclosed location. The man, accused of receiving munitions training from al-Qaida at the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba camp, said upon his capture by U.S. forces that he had been hit by shrapnel while in battle, Brenton said. The review tribunals are meant to determine whether some 550 men at Guantanamo should be freed or are held properly as enemy combatants, a classification that affords fewer legal protections than prisoners of war. All of the prisoners at the U.S. base in Cuba are suspected of links to the Taliban or al-Qaida terror network. So far more than 260 cases have been heard, including nearly 100 in which detainees declined to attend, officials say.
Why, it's almost as if we're meeting every obligation and demand to process these guys. Wonder why the NYT hasn't said anything?
The review tribunals are separate from military commissions that began with pretrial hearings in August. The first commission trial is due to start in December.
Posted by: Steve White || 10/29/2004 12:43:41 AM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Thai Government Won't Call Early Polls After Twin Bombings
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's government refused to call early elections after two bombs exploded within 90 minutes in the south amid escalating the violence in the Muslim-dominated region. The bombings followed 12 hours after another blast in the same region that killed two people and injured 20 others, Agence France-Presse said. Opposition parties have demanded Thaksin resign for his handling of problems in the south, where at least 78 people suffocated to death Oct. 25 while crammed into military trucks headed for an army camp after clashes between Muslims and troops. ``There might be more bombs here and there, but this will not destroy Thailand. We still have strong fundamentals,'' Finance Minister Somkid Jatusripitak said in Bangkok. ``There won't be a dissolution,'' he told reporters after the speech.

Thaksin said his government was ``sorry'' about the deaths, which escalated violence in the three southern-most provinces. A Malaysian tourist was killed in a blast in Narathiwat province's Sungai Kolok district yesterday, the Bangkok Post said. Today's twin bomb blasts, in Yala province, injured at least 14 people, AFP reported. The first explosion today occurred at 8:15 a.m., injuring seven people, and the second blast injured seven police officers probing the earlier bombing, AFP said. Yala, located 1,084 kilometers (673 miles) south of Bangkok, borders Malaysia. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, urged Thailand ``to conduct a swift and independent investigation into each death, to refrain from excessive use of force and from the use of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,'' AFP reported. Thaksin has started an inquiry by government officials. He defended the action of his officers, blaming fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and drug use among protesters for the high death toll on Oct. 25.
Posted by: Mark Espinola || 10/29/2004 3:01:44 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Fresh Violence Erupts in Southern Thailand
Fresh violence erupted Thursday with the bombing of a bar in Thailand's mostly Muslim south, while villagers held a mass burial for some of the 78 protesters who suffocated while in army custody this week. The bomb exploded Thursday evening at a bar in the town of Sungai Kolok in Narathiwat province, on the border with Malaysia, killing at least two people and wounding 21 others, police said. No one claimed responsibility for the bombing and police named no suspects. Also, officials in Narathiwat's provincial capital defused a 22-pound time bomb minutes before it was set to explode at a food stall where residents gather to give offerings to Buddhist monks.
Posted by: Fred || 10/29/2004 10:51:30 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Russia completes work on Bushehr reactor in Iran
Russia has completed construction work at the Bushehr nuclear reactor in Iran and hopes to sign agreements on shipping nuclear fuel in November, officials said on Friday, AP reported. From Russia with love

"All the external (construction) work has been finished and the main equipment shipped," Vitaly Nasonov, spokesman for Russia?s Federal Atomic Energy Agency, told The Associated Press. Nasonov said Atomic Energy Minister Alexander Rumyantsev is scheduled to travel to Iran next month to sign agreements on shipping nuclear fuel to Iran and returning the spent fuel back to Russia. But industry sources say the signing depends on the outcome of a Nov. 25 International Atomic Energy Agency meeting, which would decide whether to refer Iran to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.

The agreements have been delayed repeatedly. The United States fears that the $800 million Bushehr deal could help Tehran build nuclear weapons. Russia says that having Iran ship spent nuclear fuel back to Russia will make any such projects impossible. Nasonov said that if all goes as planned, the reactor should be launched in 2005 and connected to the country?s energy system in 2006. The ITAR-Tass news agency said that the reactor?s control and security equipment still had to be mounted. Most is being provided by Russian enterprises but Iran will buy some from other countries, the news agency said.

The 1,000-megawatt Bushehr plant is due to be launched in the next year or so and reach full capacity in 2006.

Posted by: Mark Espinola || 10/29/2004 2:20:30 AM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nice little arrangement we've got going here: the Russians sell nuclear plants and explosives and then we blow up anything that doesn't get trucked away. Keeps the Russian nuclear engineers out of trouble. Only problem is that the Russian's customers are never around long enough to pay their bills.
Posted by: Tom || 10/29/2004 8:00 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm thinking they wanted cash up front on this one.
Posted by: Steve || 10/29/2004 8:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Easy solution here. What's Russia's price? $5B? Done.
Posted by: lex || 10/29/2004 12:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe the solution to nuclear proliferation is for one or two of the offending sites to disappear in a mushroom cloud pour encourager les autres. A nuclear cluebat might get the attention of rogue states who wish to be considered one of the big boys.
Posted by: RWV || 10/29/2004 13:55 Comments || Top||

#5  RWV is right.

We've reached a stage where some tyrants need to experience "serious consequences" on a very large scale. For the sake of our own survival.

I suggest mushroom in Tehran and Mecca.
Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) || 10/29/2004 15:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Airstrike in 5,4,3,2....

Or maybe, as RWV has pointed out, some 'nuclear accident' occurs with anyone who considers themselves to be a big boy now...
Posted by: Tony (UK) || 10/29/2004 16:21 Comments || Top||

#7  I don't believe there will any attacks. Air strikes won't destroy all nuclear facilities because they are not all known. In addition, the US Army is not large enough to ensure an clear victory over a mountainous country of 70 million. An invasion could end up as a struggle of attrition, in which the mullahs will have the advantage.

Europe will have to again get used to living under the threat of nuclear missiles. But unlike the Soviets, the Iranians have the explicit goal of converting or killing you all.
Posted by: ed || 10/29/2004 16:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Ed, you don't have to destroy them all. You only have to send a message that there are consequences to actions and that threats have a price. Deterrence works if both sides believe that the consequence is certain. I can't imagine the government of a country like Iran continuing in power if it precipitates a nuclear strike.
Posted by: RWV || 10/29/2004 16:59 Comments || Top||

#9  RWV,
If we are going to attack the king, make damn sure we kill him dead. If the regime is not overthrown and they are still able to make nuclear weapons, then all we've done is unite a nuclear armed nation. Remember, getting nuclear weapons is popular with Iranians. The mullahs know this.
Posted by: ed || 10/29/2004 17:04 Comments || Top||

#10  Think ball bearings. Think WW-II and Schweinfurt. Think Strategic...

You only have to take out one link, in toto, to stop the assembly line. And I still believe that we could and should be coordinating with the Persian people the overthrow of the Mad Mullahs. Then they can run their own country - and I believe they are infinitely capable of doing so, unlike the Arabs, and we need only provide key support. Think Decap by Air America - the real one. Think SF limited Ops. My $0.02.
Posted by: .com || 10/29/2004 17:06 Comments || Top||

#11  Schweinfurt as in Black Thursday?
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 10/29/2004 17:09 Comments || Top||

#12  Yep. Hard times until the fighter cover was there. They were the Real Deal and saved our asses. Just because it was bad, doesn't mean it wasn't the correct strategy. Wanna tango on that? Lol!

Current day reality check: You don't fear a Black Thursday over Iran, do you? Lol!
Posted by: .com || 10/29/2004 17:14 Comments || Top||


Iraq-Jordan
Iraqi Insurgents Killed 36 US Occupiers on Thursday
From Jihad Unspun
Iraqi Resistance fighters continued to hunt down American occupiers yesterday [October 28], as well as their Iraqi collaborators, waging particular havoc on US supply lines. Here are details of the some of the attacks that occurred yesterday, in brief.

Resistance fighters attacked an American convoy with rockets in the area between Al-Amel and Al-Amriah neighborhoods at 18:00 hours Wednesday evening. Three Americans and one Iraqi collaborator were reportedly killed when their jeep was destroyed.

A supply trailer came under a rocket attack at about 16:30 Thursday afternoon in Al-Moushahidah, 40 kilometers north of Baghdad. Six American soldiers were reported killed when the and a jeep were destroyed.

According to Mafkarat al-Islam, resistance fighters attacked an American convoy midway between Al-Saidiah and Al-Dawrah using RPG7 and C5K rockets on Thursday. Seven American soldiers were reportedly killed and two jeeps were destroyed.

Resistance fighters launched a rocket attack on an American convoy in Al-Alatifiah south of Baghdad Thursday. Seven marines were killed, one fuel trailer and a jeep were destroyed.

An Iraqi martyrdom seeker drove an explosives-laden vehicle right into a CIA operatives convoy at about 9:00 AM this morning. Four CIA operatives were killed when their GMC vehicle was completely destroyed. A vehicle full of explosive was also driven by another martyrdom seeker into an American convoy south of Baghdad. Mafkarat al-Islam is reporting six Americans dead and a jeep destroyed in that attack.

Resistance fighters planted a road side bomb and detonated it as an armored jeep was passing by in Taji. Three American soldiers were killed, a fourth one was wounded and the armored jeep was destroyed.
Posted by: Mike Sylwester || 10/29/2004 11:19:38 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You must have been full of glee when posting this, Mike.
Posted by: Charles || 10/29/2004 23:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Uh-huh.

Surrre they did.

What a crock of shit.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 10/29/2004 23:23 Comments || Top||

#3  What color is the sky in their world? THey sure aren't living in this one.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/29/2004 23:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Apparently they have not paid attention to their history. The 'fog of war' is not just a saying . . . it is deadly serious. Even the numbers given by coalition forces are subject to scrutiny. If you don't see bodies . . . you cannot count the dead. What the terrorists don't understand is the value of body armor and good combat medics. Not that they are paying attention anynway . . .
Posted by: Jame Retief || 10/30/2004 0:22 Comments || Top||

#5  nice.... our "Model UN campus President" posts another nugget
Posted by: Frank G || 10/30/2004 0:53 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks & Islam
Excerpts from Usama bin Ladin's speech
Following are excerpts from a speech by al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a video tape, parts of which were aired by Aljazeera television:

"O American people, I am speaking to tell you about the ideal way to avoid another Manhattan, about war and its causes and results. O, O, O, your days are numbered O bearded one with K-Mart towel on head.

"Security is an important foundation of human life and free people do not squander their security, contrary to Bush's claims that we hate freedom. Let him tell us why we did not attack Sweden for example. (Interesting in his mentioning Sweden with Norway next door. There are a lot of coded messages being stated to the jihadic insane.)

"It is known that those who hate freedom do not possess proud souls like those of the 19, may God rest their souls. We fought you because we are free and because we want freedom for our nation. When you squander our security we squander yours.

"I am surprised by you. Despite entering the fourth year after Sept. 11, Bush is still deceiving you and hiding the truth from you and therefore the reasons are still there to repeat what happened. (Is this from a Kerry speach, or one of Dean's old rantings?)

"It never occurred to us that the commander in chief of the American forces... thought listening to a child discussing her goat and its ramming was more important than the planes and their ramming of the skyscrapers" The DRC 100%

"God knows it did not cross our minds to attack the towers but after the situation became unbearable and we witnessed the injustice and tyranny of the American-Israeli alliance against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, I thought about it. And the events that affected me directly were that of 1982 and the events that followed -- when America allowed the Israelis to invade Lebanon, helped by the US Sixth Fleet. (Code for an attack on the Sixth Fleet?)
"In those difficult moments many emotions came over me which are hard to describe, but which produced an overwhelming feeling to reject injustice and a strong determination to punish the unjust.

"As I watched the destroyed towers in Lebanon, it occurred to me punish the unjust the same way (and) to destroy towers in America so it could taste some of what we are tasting and to stop killing our children and women. (Message to al-Qaida based in Lebanon to go into action against Israel?)

"We had no difficulty in dealing with Bush and his administration because they resemble the regimes in our countries, half of which are ruled by the military and the other half by the sons of kings ... They have a lot of pride, arrogance, greed and thievery. (Saudi oil barons)

"He (Bush) adopted despotism and the crushing of freedoms from Arab rulers and called it the Patriot Act under the guise of combating terrorism..... (More from the Dems)

"We had agreed with the (the Sept. 11) overall commander Mohammed Atta, may God rest his soul, to carry out all operations in 20 minutes before Bush and his administration take notice. The 20 minutes is sending a secrect message to someone but what does '20' imply?

"It never occurred to us that the commander in chief of the American forces (Bush) would leave 50,000 citizens in the two towers to face those horrors alone at a time when they most needed him because he thought listening to a child discussing
her goat and its ramming was more important than the planes and their ramming of the skyscrapers. This had given us three times the time needed to carry out the operations, thanks be to God... (Is this additonal code indicating a 50.000 population high kill ratio building?

"Your security is not in the hands of (Democratic presidential candidate John) Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands and each state which does not harm our security will remain safe." Stay away from the polls?

Happy frigging RAMADAN to you too!
Posted by: Mark Espinola || 10/29/2004 10:15:32 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Drudge link to Binny Transcript
Link may die later...
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Seafarious || 10/29/2004 6:10:51 PM || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Still crazy as a shithouse rat.
Posted by: Dave D. || 10/29/2004 18:34 Comments || Top||

#2  This could be a speech by Kerry.......
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/29/2004 18:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Can't be Kerry. He didn't say he had a plan.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 10/29/2004 18:46 Comments || Top||

#4  It does, however, seem to match one of the talking points in Michael Moore's latest triumph of the will... see the post at my 'blog linked to at the bottom of this comment.
Posted by: Phil Fraering || 10/29/2004 19:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Heh. That's a good one, Phil.
Posted by: Seafarious || 10/29/2004 19:08 Comments || Top||

#6  I thought Binny was dead!? Is this live or Memorex.

AR
Posted by: Analog Roam || 10/29/2004 19:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Binny doesn't mention the elections in Afghanistan!?

Is he deaf, blind, sick, or dead? Dried worm-paste in a cave.
Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) || 10/29/2004 19:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Why mention Lebanon?

Worried that it might be on the todo list?

When Syria falls, the terrorist camps in Lebanon fall too.


Ceterum censeo, Mecca delenda est.
Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) || 10/29/2004 19:40 Comments || Top||

#9  While Binny may be a bit to the political left of Kerry - he is certainly to the political right of Michael Moore...
Posted by: borgboy || 10/29/2004 20:46 Comments || Top||

#10  We are now in the fourth year,
the azaleas fully riped from the first transplant,

the yeast is ferment
ole milwaukee is still purdy bad

abba is consider a comeback

i have said this and i am wearing a turbin

seattle over the braves in 6
Posted by: Harry Bin Seldon || 10/29/2004 20:50 Comments || Top||

#11  Total bull. The Arabs I knew in college were talking about blowing up the World Trade towers 25 years ago. They had an idea that it would destroy the US economy. I tried to tell them it wouldn't, but they prefer their own imaginations to the truth. Bin Laden is just acting like it was his own idea, but it has been a well-circulated idea among those that are bent that way.
Posted by: ex-lib || 10/29/2004 20:55 Comments || Top||

#12  Wretchard hits this one out of the park (per usual): the tape is bin Laden's surrender proposal.
Posted by: AzCat || 10/29/2004 21:16 Comments || Top||

#13  Is it just me or does he sound like he's getting his ass kicked, knows it and is trying to sue for peace without looking like he's groveling? I think he actually believes we'll negotiate with him as if he were a head of state.

Now's the time to poor it on... crush falluja, get the elections over in Iraq... take out Iran... help the kurds take out syria... all out assault on the scum bags in the phillipines and the pakistan border. If Bush gets re-elected (which I'm pretty sure he will by a landslide) these f-ckers are toast.
Posted by: Damn_Proud_American || 10/29/2004 21:23 Comments || Top||

#14  I liked this comment at Belmont Club:

"Amazing, Osama has borrowed the DNC's talking points!! Someone quick call the FEC, this is definately an "in-kind contribution."

LOL.
Posted by: Seafarious || 10/29/2004 21:42 Comments || Top||

#15  Parroting Mikey Maroon, eh? ObL provides agitprop pointers to Mikey who provides agitprop pointers to ObL. All for one, one for all, all for the cause.
Posted by: lex || 10/29/2004 22:17 Comments || Top||

#16  Offering a hudna. Isn't that special. Time to redouble the pressure. Press on to Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Egypt. Make the WTC and America bogeymen Arabs will use to scare their kids for the next thousand years.
Posted by: ed || 10/29/2004 23:11 Comments || Top||


Tale of the Tape, Part 3: "Azzam the American" identified
More on the English-language Waziristan tape that surfaced a couple days ago. EFL.
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. — The director of a California mosque told FOX News on Friday he believes the man threatening the United States on a mysterious videotape is that of a young American he converted to Islam. Haitham Bundjaki, the Orange County imam who converted Adam Yahiye Gadahn to Islam and whom Gadahn later assaulted,
That's gratitude for you!
told FOX outside his mosque on Friday that it sounds like Gadahn on the tape. The FBI believes the 25-year-old Southern Californian has possible ties to Usama bin Laden's terror network Al Qaeda.
Posted by: Mike || 10/29/2004 5:09:32 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Like, death to the infidels, dood...
Posted by: tu3031 || 10/29/2004 18:35 Comments || Top||

#2  don't capture him. kill. him.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/29/2004 18:44 Comments || Top||

#3  How adorable! A little SoCal terrorist wanna-be. Kill him once for me, too.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/29/2004 20:40 Comments || Top||


Binny Accuses Bush of Deceiving Americans
...Bin Laden, appearing in a video on Al Jazeera four days before the U.S. presidential election and gesturing at the camera with a finger to stress points, made his clearest comments yet taking responsibility for the Sept 11 attacks. "Despite entering the fourth year after Sept. 11, Bush is still deceiving you and hiding the truth from you and therefore the reasons are still there to repeat what happened," said the al Qaeda leader, making his first video appearance for more than a year. The Bush administration resembled "corrupt" Arab governments, he said.

Bin Laden, apparently sitting or standing at a table against a neutral brown background, wore a white head covering and white tunic under a light brown cloak. Reading from a sheet of paper, his voice was strong and he appeared in fair health, his full beard a mixture of white and dark gray.

A U.S. official said U.S. intelligence agencies believed that it appeared to be bin Laden on the tape. An editor at Al Jazeera said the Qatar-based channel had received the video tape on Friday but did not say how. He said the tape was new but did not give any details. Saudi-born bin Laden appeared in a video tape broadcast by Al Jazeera in September 2003, showing him and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri descending a mountainside calling for jihad and praising the Sept. 11 hijackers. In April, Arab television stations broadcast an audio tape purportedly from bin Laden offering a three-month truce to Europeans if they withdrew troops from Muslim nations. The deadline expired with no word from bin Laden.

More, from CBS News...
"We decided to destroy towers in America," bin Laden said, referring to the World Trade Center. "God knows that it had not occurred to our mind to attack the towers, but after our patience ran out and we saw the injustice and inflexibility of the American-Israeli alliance toward our people in Palestine and Lebanon, this came to my mind," he said.
That kind of leaves out the first WTC bombing, and the attacks on U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam, and the U.S.S. Cole...
He accused President Bush of "misleading" the American people since the 2001 suicide airline hijackings that hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. "Your security is not in the hands of (Democratic candidate John) Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands," bin Laden said.
"All you have to do is what we tell you to do..."
"To the U.S. people, my talk is to you about the best way to avoid another disaster," he said. "I tell you: security is an important element of human life and free people do not give up their security. If Bush says we hate freedom, let him tell us why we didn't attack Sweden, for example.
My guess is that they didn't get around to it. They have hit Turkey and Spain, and they've made enough tries is Britain, France, Germany, and Italy.
"It is known that those who hate freedom do not have dignified souls, like those of the 19 blessed ones," he said, referring to the 19 hijackers.
I agree. They didn't have dignified souls. Malevolent souls, yes...
"We fought you because we are free
 and want to regain freedom for our nation. As you undermine our security we undermine yours."
Posted by: Fred || 10/29/2004 4:55:18 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds like Kerry got the endorsement of yet another world leader. How can Bush possibly win against the World Candidate?
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 10/29/2004 16:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Yep, sounds like Bush is failing the "global test."
Posted by: Capt America || 10/29/2004 17:14 Comments || Top||

#3  The tallest building in Sweden is 5 stories.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 10/29/2004 17:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Lots of good discussion on this over at NRO's "Corner," including this comment from Shannen Coffin:

It will be interesting to listen to Kerry this weekend. He's going to have to be careful to avoid using similar language to that of OBL on this tape. What a great campaign ad it would be to put the two side by side comparing their language. Before I get le deluge from Kerryites, I'm not saying he is OBL. I'm simply saying he's got a minefield to navigate with his stump speech this weekend, in light of OBL's Fahrenheit 911 speech.
Posted by: Mike || 10/29/2004 17:20 Comments || Top||

#5  She's right - he's not OBL. He's only a Lieutenant and knows his place in the Chain of Command.
Posted by: .com || 10/29/2004 17:21 Comments || Top||

#6  From this shot,Binny looks like the last couple of years haven't been fun.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 10/29/2004 17:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Anyone posted a full transcript yet?
Posted by: Mike || 10/29/2004 17:46 Comments || Top||

#8  Well, unfortunately it appears that the punk is still breathing.
Posted by: gb506 || 10/29/2004 17:48 Comments || Top||

#9  Drudge has transcript
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 10/29/2004 17:55 Comments || Top||

#10  From Drudge Transcript:

He talked about the damage Sept 11 caused the US economy and that it cost close to a trillion dollars.

Thanks for clearing Bush of blame for the Economy, Bastard. Let me send you 72 Nuclear Warheads covered in pig fat as a "thank you for everything".
Posted by: Charles || 10/29/2004 18:08 Comments || Top||

#11  and what freedom has the US undermined of bin laden? Hi sown country of origin doesn't even want him, and his second home does pretty much what they want too (Iran)

Posted by: smokeysinse || 10/29/2004 18:09 Comments || Top||

#12  I told you Bush had him in a secret location and would use him as an October surprise. Clearly this was a Rovian production designed to re-elect Bushitler.
Posted by: Madeline Albrite || 10/29/2004 18:19 Comments || Top||

#13  Well that settles it. Nothing left to do but blast the hell out of Arabia and turn Mecca into the world's largest and nastiest brothel. We'll name it Osama bin Laden's Heavenly Whorehouse and Memorial. His relatives staffing it will be known as Houris.

Now can we start fighting a real war?
Posted by: ed || 10/29/2004 18:20 Comments || Top||

#14  Does the reference to Lebanon mean that he's afraid it's on our todo list? crush Syria, then eliminate terrorist camps in Lebanon. Sounds like a good plan. And crush Iran too, but he can't attract attention to Iran since he's hiding there.

Not a word about infidel elections in Afghanistan?

Thanks for showing your cards, Binny.
Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) || 10/29/2004 18:22 Comments || Top||

#15  Is it me or does OBL look like that talking head in the 'The Cobolmite manuver' episode of Star Trek (the one with the huge spaceship and baby captain...).

And, no, I am not a trekker.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/29/2004 18:31 Comments || Top||

#16  What the?
Quick response here - does this help or hinder GW? - my initial thought is it's a boost to Bush.

Also:

I was in the US from Sat-Tue of this week. I heard some guys listening to Kerry on the TV and in response to what he said, one comment was "yeah, but what are you going to do?"

Secondly, leaving Dulles on Tuesday and going through a long. but courteous and efficient, security screening before being allowed to board the plane, I overheard two guys talking openly "well, it's about time we brought in racial profiling" "yeah" was the response.

Comments?
Posted by: Tony (UK) || 10/29/2004 18:35 Comments || Top||

#17  yeah - I agree
Posted by: Frank G || 10/29/2004 18:42 Comments || Top||

#18  Too.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 10/29/2004 18:44 Comments || Top||

#19  "Your security is in your own hands," bin Laden said.

From the man himself. Remember that next Tuesday
Posted by: tu3031 || 10/29/2004 18:52 Comments || Top||

#20  A special CIA "code word" transcript has been secretly received by parties unnamed...

Scattered throughout the speech were phrases which, according to terrorism experts, might possibly be code - to direct followers listening to take action. Here are some of the mysterious phrases the experts are trying to understand.

"The pink burqa really makes my putter sputter, on Tuesday in the main coatroom of the Wall Street Exchange - precisely at 2:00 PM."

"November 2nd is our last day as wage slaves of the infidels of 7-11, in St Louis at 4:00 PM to kill all the school children playing video games."

"The winds of Mt Al Fuqya suck from the East in The Federal Building in Atlanta on Wednesday at 11:10 AM."

"After midnight, Tuesday, we gonna let it all hang out on Broadway at Bodacious Tata's in Frisco."

And, perhaps the most puzzling of all was this phrase:

"Please blow the fuck out of the docks in Long Beach, insh'alla, Wednesday morning at 10:00 AM, Pier 18 - be there or be square."

Security officials say they will contact authorities in affected areas when the analysis is completed. More to come. Mumm's the word.
Posted by: .Abu Unnamed Secret Agent Person || 10/29/2004 19:02 Comments || Top||

#21  Tony-

I don't think the content of the tape, by itself, is going to steer very many people either one way or the other. But keeping the terrorism issue in the news can only help Bush, IMO.

As for the fellows asking what Kerry would actually do, the consensus seems to be, "who the hell knows?".

As for the racial profiling, I'd be perfectly happy if we made the U.S. a decidedly "Muslim-hostile" zone.

Just my tuppence...
Posted by: Dave D. || 10/29/2004 19:03 Comments || Top||

#22  Suddenly I'm nostalgic for Chandra Levy and shark attacks...
Posted by: Seafarious || 10/29/2004 19:06 Comments || Top||

#23  John F'ing Kerry:

Kerry, too, said, "My reaction is that all of us in this city are completely united." But he criticized Bush for not capturing bin Laden earlier, and he added pointedly, "I believe I can run a more effective War on Terror than George Bush."

This asshole would use and say anything to get elected.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/29/2004 19:07 Comments || Top||

#24  In that case, drop JFK in the middle of Afghanistan Iran with 30 days ration. Come back with bin Laden or don't come back at all.
Posted by: ed || 10/29/2004 19:16 Comments || Top||

#25  Tony, I'm all for racial profiling. As long as the screeners are professinal and courteous no one has anything to bitch about. Besides, muslims are not a race.
Posted by: Jarhead || 10/29/2004 19:22 Comments || Top||

#26  I am for Cultural / Religious profiling. Islam isn't a 'race'.

Translation:
OBL: "Vote for Kerry or I will kill you.".
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/29/2004 19:26 Comments || Top||

#27  After the great intro Ahnold just gave Dubya in Ohiya (Columbus), he might as well get a divorce - Maria's never gonna even talk to him again, lol!
Posted by: .com || 10/29/2004 19:29 Comments || Top||

#28  I think its interesting that bin Laden re-emerges just as al- Zarqawi puts out a tape dissing him, and generally making a takeover play. I know bin Laden's timing with the election is plausible, but has al-Zarqawi forced his hand as well?
Posted by: Grunter || 10/29/2004 19:37 Comments || Top||

#29  Dave D - I think from the guy's attitude, it seemed that he'd had quite enough of Kerry saying he was going to do things differently, without saying something definitive about what he *was* going to do.

Quite so Jarhead, quite so - it pisses me off that suddenly people consider Muslims to be a 'race'! and that all the machinery of victim politics can be brought into the fray. The fact remains that all the 19 9/11 murderers were Muslim and weren't (a) White (b) Black (c) Hispanic (d) Female and (e) over the age of 40 and under 15. Therefore anyone *not* in the union of a,b,c,d,e is fair game for a bit of a closer look (in a sensible world)
Posted by: Tony (UK) || 10/29/2004 19:37 Comments || Top||

#30 

On sale wherever Bush bashing books are sold! ONLY $1.99! (since nobody would pay $2.99)
Posted by: Mark Espinola || 10/29/2004 19:48 Comments || Top||

#31  Excellent, Mark! *wipes tear*

I appreciate real talent! Kudos!
Posted by: .com || 10/29/2004 19:51 Comments || Top||

#32  Brill Mark. I take back al my snarky comments about oil.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 10/29/2004 19:58 Comments || Top||

#33  .Com, Mrs. D, I thank you, Bob thanks you & the President would like to thank the boys at the New York Times for his upcoming 2nd term :)

(I know one should not take up too much server space but this stuff shall all be deleted soon)
Posted by: Mark Espinola || 10/29/2004 20:09 Comments || Top||

#34  Mr. Espinola...your photo shop will be broadcast worldwide. Absolute perfection.

P.S. Call me slow, but Binny purportedly had many "doubles". I'm waiting for the gov't to give this video it's blessing.
Posted by: Mark Z. || 10/29/2004 20:10 Comments || Top||

#35  Mark Z I know what you mean in terms of the doubles. Here is one more funny for the road.
Posted by: Mark Espinola || 10/29/2004 20:33 Comments || Top||

#36  Find him and kill him. He stuck his head up, now lop it off boys.
Posted by: JerseyMike || 10/29/2004 21:22 Comments || Top||

#37  whee . it speaks , and boosts Bush polls .. Thanks OBL , great job .. More Bush please ...

and less Moore please Bush :)
Posted by: MacNails || 10/29/2004 22:08 Comments || Top||

#38 
"I believe I can run a more effective War on Terror than George Bush."
Kerry can believe anything he wants.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama || 10/29/2004 23:30 Comments || Top||


Al-Jazeera Airs Videotape by Bin Laden
The Arab television station Al-Jazeera aired a video of Osama bin Laden on Friday directly admitting for the first time that he carried out the Sept. 11 attacks and promising to outline "the best way to avoid another Manhattan." It was the first footage of the al-Qaida leader to surface in more than a year. The video showed bin Laden in traditional white robes, a turban and a cloak reading from papers and standing in front of a plain, brown cloth background. "We decided to destroy towers in America," bin Laden said.
There goes the argument that it's never been proven he dunnit.
He said the attack was carried out because "we are a free people ... and we want to regain the freedom of our nation."
"We just have a really, really different interpretation of 'free.'"
He also accused President Bush of "misleading" the American people three years since the 2001 suicide airline hijackings that hit the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon.
Posted by: Fred || 10/29/2004 4:46:22 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any hint this was made after Dec 2001?
Posted by: ed || 10/29/2004 16:58 Comments || Top||

#2  He endorses Kerry.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 10/29/2004 17:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes, he metions kerry in the tape...its new.
Posted by: Gleater Angetle8891 || 10/29/2004 17:03 Comments || Top||

#4  The RNC should spend every dollar they have saturating the airwaves with bin Laden endorsing Kerry.
Posted by: ed || 10/29/2004 17:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Free? Why, free burkas for everyone!
Posted by: Capt America || 10/29/2004 17:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Ed, sorry, it's not an explicit endorsement, just reams about how bad Bush is.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 10/29/2004 17:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Too bad. I was really hoping for a Kerry/Edwards background banner.
Posted by: ed || 10/29/2004 17:15 Comments || Top||

#8  So was Carl Rove.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 10/29/2004 17:17 Comments || Top||

#9  Visions of a weekend in Spain
Posted by: Mark Espinola || 10/29/2004 17:27 Comments || Top||

#10  How hard would it be to have another Arabic speaker say a sentence about Kerry for production value?
Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) || 10/29/2004 18:24 Comments || Top||

#11  I want to know what Bin Laden thinks about the recent elections in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) || 10/29/2004 18:25 Comments || Top||


Al-Jazeera Airs Videotape by Bin Laden
The Arab television station Al-Jazeera aired a video of Osama bin Laden on Friday directly admitting for the first time that he carried out the Sept. 11 attacks and promising to outline "the best way to avoid another Manhattan."
He's talking about what we have to do to surrender...
It was the first footage of the al-Qaida leader to surface in more than a year. The video showed bin Laden in traditional white robes, a turban and a cloak reading from papers and standing in front of a plain, brown cloth background. "We decided to destroy towers in America," bin Laden said. He said the attack was carried out because "we are a free people ... and we want to regain the freedom of our nation." He also accused President Bush of "misleading" the American people three years since the 2001 suicide airline hijackings that hit the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon.
Posted by: Spot || 10/29/2004 4:32:12 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The world is quite lucky that Goebbels had no access to international satellite/cable airways...
Posted by: borgboy || 10/29/2004 20:48 Comments || Top||


Iraq-Jordan
U.S. Team Took 200 Tons of Iraqi Explosives
A U.S. Army officer came forward Friday and said a team from the 3rd Infantry Division took about 200 tons of explosives from the Al-Qaqaa munitions base soon after Saddam Hussein's regime fell last year. Major Austin Pearson appeared at a Pentagon news conference to say it was his mission to go the facility and clear explosives from the base. He said he did not discover that the International Atomic Energy Agency had reported 377 tons of explosives were missing until Tuesday night and he said he promptly contacted military officials.
Watched the briefing. He was charged with destroying Iraqi munitions. His team grabbed the explosives and used it to blow other stuff up.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 10/29/2004 12:46:24 PM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  His statements indicate that RDX or HMX were not at that facility in any large quanity,as well.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 10/29/2004 13:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Was I the only one who saw that news conference and heard the press keep asking about the 380 tons, while MAJ Pearson kept telling them there weren't 380 tons?...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 10/29/2004 13:50 Comments || Top||

#3  that's what I heard on the radio (Rush) broadcast. Disgusting
Posted by: Frank G || 10/29/2004 13:54 Comments || Top||

#4  MK - Saw it, laughed my ass off. The tonnages tossed around by the "journalists" are, of course, only an abstract term to such ponces. I doubt that any of those present, save Major Pearson, and possibly Brett Baeir of Fox, would know a ton of explosives if they saw it, nor would they know how any given amount translated to destructive power - the real point of this exercise in political insincerity.
Posted by: .com || 10/29/2004 14:28 Comments || Top||

#5  But wait! If the US Army blew this stuff up, that means it was oxidized into CO2 and other greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases means the Kyoto Treaty that Bushitler(tm) and Chainey refused to sign. Get the putty knives! We may be able to scrap a scandal out of this yet.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/29/2004 14:37 Comments || Top||

#6  I heard on NPR that people from KBR, a subsidiary of HALLIBURTON of which Cheney was President, were watching the explosion under a no-bid contract.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 10/29/2004 14:40 Comments || Top||

#7  ROFLMAO!!!

------- COFFEE ALERT --------
Posted by: .com || 10/29/2004 14:44 Comments || Top||

#8  The IAEA numbers claimed that 377 tons of explosives were at al Qaqaa. In Jan 2003 the IAEA inspectors found only 3 tons of RDX (out of 141 tons). If the 138 tons of RDX were removed from the site, then that would leave 239 tons of explosives left. This squares with Maj. Pearson's statement that his EOD group removed about 250 tons of explosives. My question is what happened to the 138 tons of RDX that the IAEA could not account for in Jan 2003? My take is that the Iraqis removed and dispersed it in anticipation of war, like they did with a large part of their weapons stockpile. It would be nice to account for it. Has anyone looked in elementary school buildings other Iraqi ammo dumps?

SteveS, CO2 is the least of Kyoto's worries. Think about all the nitrogen oxide released. Who knows what that will do the smog concentrations in Tehran.
Posted by: ed || 10/29/2004 14:52 Comments || Top||

#9  There is not going to be much of anything concentrated around Tehran if they keep it up.
Posted by: Tom || 10/29/2004 15:08 Comments || Top||

#10  Don't worry - the Kyoto gang is getting all worked up about methane from cattle, and dihydrogen-monoxide emissions from fuel cells.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/29/2004 15:31 Comments || Top||

#11  The only thing all of this reveals is that there are a LARGE number of people around the world who have a distinct problem getting two neurons to fire in sequence. Whether this is a birth defect, the effect of too much alcohol/pot/other illicit drugs, or Mike Moron disease, it leads to the same result - the mouth moves, sound comes out, but the brain failed to function.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 10/29/2004 17:26 Comments || Top||

#12  The largest amount of explosives I set off in one shot was 10,000 lb of soupy 60% dynamite to get rid of it. That was enough. Heh heh. Any of you mil types know how much they fire off in one demolition shot?
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/29/2004 17:31 Comments || Top||

#13  A sudden surge of love and respect for AP flows thru my primal brain.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/29/2004 17:34 Comments || Top||

#14  Pls never tell me wife about soupy dynamite.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/29/2004 17:35 Comments || Top||

#15  ...and then?
Posted by: Old Grouch || 10/29/2004 17:40 Comments || Top||

#16  the effect of too much alcohol/pot/other illicit drugs,

Oh, boy, can't wait for my autopsy...
Posted by: Raj || 10/29/2004 18:10 Comments || Top||

#17  OG :) sometime I wonder if anyone is awake.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/29/2004 20:39 Comments || Top||


Fiend: I'm new Bin Laden
THE monster who beheaded British hostage Ken Bigley is making an audacious bid to take over from Osama Bin Laden. Power-crazed Abu Musab al- Zarqawi brags he is the world's new terror godfather. He claims al-Qaeda chief Bin Laden is "in hiding" and even that he is "frightened" of Allied forces. A British defence source told The Sun: "Zarqawi now boasts he's in charge — he's the new Bin Laden. "He is making it clear that Bin Laden has taken flight and he is the only one with the guts to take on the West. "He wants to take over the whole of al-Qaeda. There is now an even more pressing need to get him."

Intelligence bosses have briefed Cabinet ministers and Armed Forces chiefs about the development. Now SAS and US Delta Force troops have been ordered to find Zarqawi before his takeover bid succeeds. They fear he is about to step up his campaign of violence in Iraq. Troops will use the cover of a massive US assault on Fallujah in an attempt to grab him. A spearhead group of Britain's Black Watch battle group left Basra for the Sunni triangle yesterday. Zarqawi, head of the Tawhid and Jihad terror cell, has a £14million bounty on his head from the US. He beheaded Liverpool engineer Mr Bigley, 62, earlier this month and has executed several other hostages. He has also masterminded suicide bombings and is leading rebel forces against US troops.

According to the US State Department: "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has had a long-standing connection to senior al-Qaeda leadership. "He appears to be highly regarded among al-Qaeda and is also a close associate of Osama Bin Laden." Sick Zarqawi was born in Jordan and has long been seen as the link between Iraq and al-Qaeda. His suicide bombings campaign has included attacks on Shi'ites. Now he is spreading the message that HE is in charge after dismissing Bin Laden — the world's most wanted terrorist. The 37-year-old says Bin Laden is "hiding out in the mountains". Zarqawi is a Bedouin Arab and his tribe — the Beni Hassan — straddles many borders in the modern Middle East. His wife and four children still live in the village of Zarqa, a poor and crime-ridden industrial town north west of Amman, Jordan. Zarqawi was jailed for sex crimes as a 17-year-old before fleeing to fight in the Afghan war against Soviet occupiers.
If Zarqawi did release a statement saying this, it kind of fits with my thinking that he wants the gold turban for himself and damm the saudis. Also opens a way to get a Bin Laden loyalist to rat him out. "Psst, hey guys! He's dissing da boss!"

Jailed for sex crimes? How much do you want to bet the crimes involved sadism?
Posted by: tipper || 10/29/2004 5:05:34 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It would be nice.

If you could use.

Paragraphs.
Posted by: gromky || 10/29/2004 6:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Gromky, its the Sun. We should be proud of them that they actually used complete sentences, and no girly pictures. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/29/2004 6:24 Comments || Top||

#3  No tits. WTF?
Posted by: Howard UK || 10/29/2004 7:55 Comments || Top||

#4  I seen those young ladies at the Sun. They are nice looking but they don't have what I consider adaquate brüste. So I'll settle for paragraphs too and as you all know my grammar and spelling are a disgrace.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 10/29/2004 8:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Paragraphs it is then.
Posted by: Steve || 10/29/2004 8:42 Comments || Top||

#6  I would bet the sex crimes involved little boys
Posted by: smokeysinse || 10/29/2004 18:13 Comments || Top||

#7  I am posting just after hearing about the new bin Laden tape. This Zarqawi move to take over AQ and the Zman's dissing of UBL could be the reason that the later had to surface to say hello. Let's hope for a bloody power struggle.
Posted by: VRWconspiracy || 10/29/2004 18:44 Comments || Top||

#8  I guess Binny is fuming now ! dissed by some fookwit pedofile ..

game on , split on , nothin better than watching yer enemies start bitch slapping each other :)
Posted by: MacNails || 10/29/2004 22:13 Comments || Top||

#9  OK, so we know where his wife and children are. Why have we not captured them? Why do they stil have all their appendages? A bit of the ol KGB mokriye dela's in order here, methinks
Posted by: lex || 10/29/2004 22:20 Comments || Top||

#10  Exactly Lex. Become a jihadi and watch your family disappear in a pink mist. Become a mastermind and watch your clan be wiped out. Let's the jihadi's relatives dissuade him. I don't think they want their virgins after all.
Posted by: ed || 10/29/2004 23:04 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan/South Asia
3 UN staff kidnapped in Kabul
(Xinhuanet) -- Unknown armed men in military uniform kidnapped three staff of the United Nations in the Afghan capital city at broad daylight Thursday, Afghan officials confirmed.
They meant to write "Islamic savages disguised as soldiers..." I'm sure of it.
"Three armed men in military uniform intercepted a UN car in Baraki area of Kabul city early afternoon and took away three persons including two women with them," Rohullah, a witness at the site told Xinhua. The kidnappers also badly beat up the Afghan driver of the UN car, added Rohullah who is a lorry driver in the city. The area has been cordoned off by UN guards.
"The horse is gone! Bolt the door!"
UN officials as well as Afghan police confirmed the incident but declined to provide further details. The three abducted, according to some officials, are from Britain, Ireland and Kosovo, were working for the UN-sponsored Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) overseeing the first presidential elections held on Oct. 9 across Afghanistan and in Iran and Pakistan. This is the first time that such an incident has taken place in the war-weary Afghan capital over the last three years.
Surely not the first kidnapping in Kabul in three years?
So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping. However, remnants of the former Taliban regime who failed to derail the landmark presidential elections have vowed to continue Jihad or holy war until the US-led troops leave Afghanistan. (PHOTOS in link)
Posted by: Mark Espinola || 10/29/2004 3:24:10 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The election is over --peacefully and successfully. Kidnapping such people now is stupid.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/29/2004 6:39 Comments || Top||

#2  We must recall the barbaric enemy seems to only 'live' for the purpose of inflicting death on others, fear & general chaos.

This is 'living'?
Posted by: Mark Espinola || 10/29/2004 10:46 Comments || Top||

#3  TW, not if you're trying to influence Iraqis.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 10/29/2004 12:37 Comments || Top||

#4  I do beleive it's time to commit some domecide ourselves!!!!Lest the nationals, but the soldiers need to be executed, along with the regiem.
Posted by: sixguns magee || 10/29/2004 18:58 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine
Arafat arrives in Jordan en route to Paris for treatment
Ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat arrived in Jordan Friday en route to Paris for medial treatment. A Jordanian military helicopter carrying 75-year-old Arafat landed at the Jordanian military airport Friday morning and later in the day a French plane will carry him to Paris for medial treatment. This was Arafat's first trip aboard since 2001.

UPDATE: Fox News had footage of him arriving in Gay Paree...
Posted by: Mark Espinola || 10/29/2004 3:22:14 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "President Arafat has stomach flu": LIE

"President Arafat is not seriously ill": LIE

"President Arafat does not need to leave Ramallah": LIE

"President Arafat wants to live in peace with Israel"

Posted by: PlanetDan || 10/29/2004 9:18 Comments || Top||

#2  I keep flashing on Monty Python..
"E's resting... 'e's' just pinin' for the fijords..."
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 10/29/2004 10:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Lol! Can we nail him to his "perch", then?
Posted by: .com || 10/29/2004 11:06 Comments || Top||

#4  As long as we can use railway spikes, I don't see why not!
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 10/29/2004 11:09 Comments || Top||

#5  He looked a bit like the Kerry Bunny in the blue pj's...
Posted by: Seafarious || 10/29/2004 11:17 Comments || Top||

#6  http://medpundit.blogspot.com/2004_10_24_medpundit_archive.html#109901521706245244

says it's liver cancer that has spread based on

"...reports that his platelet count is low, when considered with this picture in which he looks jaundiced, his face emaciated, but his belly bulging - all suggest liver failure. He's 75. My money is on cancer with liver metastases."
posted by sydney smith on 10/28/2004 09:58:17 PM link
Posted by: mhw || 10/29/2004 11:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Shit - that doesn't imply anything even remotely painful enough.
Posted by: .com || 10/29/2004 11:34 Comments || Top||

#8  I saw the video and thought that mentally Fatass looked almost childlike. The cut away when he kind of lunged forward, then they repositioned him I was thinking he may be stroking too, in addition to the bad hammus he is having trouble dijesting.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 10/29/2004 11:49 Comments || Top||

#9  In terms of quality of life, is there much difference between "death" and "Paris" anyway?
Posted by: Mike || 10/29/2004 12:14 Comments || Top||

#10  "See Paris and die."
Posted by: mojo || 10/29/2004 12:24 Comments || Top||

#11  Medpundit sez cancer with liver metastases
Posted by: Frank G || 10/29/2004 12:33 Comments || Top||

#12  crap! mhw - I didn't see your url...my bad
Posted by: Frank G || 10/29/2004 12:34 Comments || Top||

#13  cancer with liver metastases

Usually fatal? I hope.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis || 10/29/2004 12:38 Comments || Top||

#14  Fortunately for you Frank, there is no evidence that redundant postings cause cancer.
Posted by: mhw || 10/29/2004 12:39 Comments || Top||

#15  Whew! Tough house!
Posted by: .com || 10/29/2004 12:41 Comments || Top||

#16  I get no respect *rimshot*
Posted by: Frank G || 10/29/2004 13:00 Comments || Top||

#17  Early this morning Christiane Amanpour was at the compound to bid Arafat goodbye, saying the Palestinians would not have gotten this far without him (I'm sure there was no sarcasm intended). I wonder if Chiraq stepped out to Greet him in Paris. Any red carpet?
Posted by: Rafael || 10/29/2004 13:15 Comments || Top||

#18  And this just in...
Francisco Franco is still dead.

(tip of the hat to SNL ... many years ago)
Posted by: Jim K || 10/29/2004 14:52 Comments || Top||

#19  Yasser got AIDs....
You think those 'jammies had feet in them?
Posted by: TomAnon || 10/29/2004 15:26 Comments || Top||

#20  Monty Python and the Holy Grail;

"Can't you take him?"

"Nah, I can't, 'es not dead yet!"

"I'm not dead yet!"

gives the bloke a groat, bloke goes THUMP!! with big club

"thanks"

It won't be long now. Hopefully he'll last till Tuesday so he'll see GW getting re-elected and then Arafart dies in some considerable pain.

I will then take Wednesday off...
Posted by: Tony (UK) || 10/29/2004 16:16 Comments || Top||

#21  "Tony (UK)," eh?

Naw, couldn't be. Could it?

Just in case it is, welcome to Rantburg, Mr. Prime Minister.
Posted by: Mike || 10/29/2004 16:59 Comments || Top||

#22  Errr, Mike. Hate to burst your bubble, but I'm not Mr Blair.

Check out my previous posts to Rantburg, where you'll see that the only thing I agree with Mr Blair on is Iraq. He's an unreconstructed Socialist who is busy selling our country out to the EUnuchs, all the while smiling and saying 'look, trust me on this'.

I still maintain that a Conservative PM would have been even more pro-US. But please, let's not talk about the Liberal Democrats - they are opportunistic wankers.
Posted by: Tony (UK) || 10/29/2004 18:20 Comments || Top||

#23  The human shitstain Arafat is on the way out eh...too bad we won't be able to take a massive shit on his face,then kick him into a coma.
Posted by: Flosing Slang5998 || 10/29/2004 23:42 Comments || Top||


Yasser Heads to Paris for Treatment
An ailing Yasser Arafat — too weak to stand, unable to hold down food and spending most of Thursday sleeping — agreed to leave his battered West Bank compound for the first time in more than two years and fly to Paris to die for urgent medical treatment. The 75-year-old Palestinian leader's planned departure Friday, a decade after he arrived in the West Bank with the promise of statehood, could mark the end of an era. Arafat, who hoarded power and declined to groom a successor, leaves behind a people in disarray.
Grooming not being one of Yasser's strong points.
Blood tests revealed he had a low platelet count, though it was unclear what caused the ailment, his doctors said, ruling out leukemia.
Low platelet count? Let's have a shave.
In deference to his deteriorating condition, Israel lifted its travel ban on Arafat, allowing him to leave his battered headquarters compound in Ramallah for the first time since 2002 and to return if he recovers. Arafat was to be moved to the Jordanian capital of Amman early Friday, then continue on to Paris, said aide Munnib al-Masri. Jordan sent two helicopters to pick up Arafat, who hasn't traveled abroad since visiting Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan in November 2001. Palestinians across the Middle East anxiously monitored Arafat's health Thursday, but there was no mass vigil around his compound or any other public displays of support. "I pray to God to save him because we need him, he is the safety valve for everything here, he is the father of all the Palestinians," said Imad Samara, a 38-year-old teacher from Gaza City.

Palestinian officials tried to play down Arafat's health problems earlier Thursday, saying he performed Muslim prayers before dawn and ate a light breakfast of cornflakes and milk. They released a brief video and two photos showing him sitting in a chair, wearing blue pajamas and a dark stocking cap and smiling broadly as he posed with his doctors Thursday afternoon. In the video, he holds two of his doctors' hands and leans over to kiss one of them. Dr. Ashraf Kurdi said there was no immediate threat to Arafat's life.
That's too bad. I'll continue to hope, though...
"His condition is good, his spirits are high," Kurdi said. But the seriousness of his condition was underscored by the rushed arrival of Arafat's 41-year-old wife, Suha, who lives in Paris with their young daughter and has not seen her husband since 2001.
Posted by: Fred || 10/29/2004 10:40:17 PM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]
Posted by: Grumpy Uncle Sam TROLL || 10/29/2004 4:10 Comments || Top||

#2  AIDS baby, AIDS.

Posted by: dennisw || 10/29/2004 8:29 Comments || Top||

#3  "he holds two of his doctors' hands and leans over to kiss one of them."
I saw this the Dr.pulled his hand away like he was about to touch something vile and disgusting.
Posted by: raptor || 10/29/2004 9:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Paris can keep him, since they love him so much.

Though they probably love him in the Middle East a lot more than they do in Phwrance. I doubt he'll be as effective killing Jews in Phwrance.

When he croaks - SOON - they can bury their hero at the Arc d'Triumph. They deserve each other.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 10/29/2004 9:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Whatever Arafart has, I hope it's terminal and extremely painful.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama || 10/29/2004 16:07 Comments || Top||

#6  I like your comments. It shows the low level of neurons you possess.
Posted by: Grumpy Uncle Sam || 10/29/2004 4:10 Comments || Top||


Iraq-Jordan
Savages Slaughter 11 Iraqi Soldiers
Insurgents slaughtered 11 Iraqi soldiers, beheading one, then shooting the others execution-style, and declared on an Islamic militant Web site Thursday that Iraqi fighters will avenge "the blood" of women and children killed in U.S. strikes on the guerrilla stronghold of Fallujah. The killing of the 11 Iraqi National Guardsmen was claimed by the Ansar al-Sunnah Army, which posted a videotape of their brutal deaths on its Web site Thursday along with a warning for all Iraqi police and soldiers to desert or face death. The militants said earlier the soldiers were abducted this week on the road between Baghdad and Hillah, 60 miles to the south. After forcing each of the soldiers to state his name and unit, the militants forced one of them to the ground and sawed off his head. The others were forced to kneel with their hands bound as a gunman fired shots into the back of their heads. A voice on the videotape warned all Iraqi soldiers and police to "repent to God, abandon your weapons, go home and beware of supporting the apostate Crusaders or their followers, the Iraqi government, or else you will only find death." "We will not forget the blood of our elderly, our women and our children that is shed daily in Fallujah, Samarra, Ramadi and elsewhere," a statement on the Web site said. The al-Sunnah movement has claimed responsibility for a number of attacks and hostage takings, including the slaying of 12 Nepalese hostages in August.
Posted by: Fred || 10/29/2004 10:45:22 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Since the rebels are executing most of their captives, one consequence is that fewer people under attack will surrender. When attacked, Iraqi policemen and solders will fight back to the death. The fighting will become more and more brutal, with less and less negotiation and surrender. The fun thing about fighting with extremely brutal methods is that it's a game two sides can play.
.
Posted by: Mike Sylwester || 10/29/2004 8:44 Comments || Top||

#2  It's also significant that the Iraqis aren't breaking discipline. I haven't heard about any counter-massacres, no matter how much on the emotional level I'm longing to see them.
Posted by: Fred || 10/29/2004 9:51 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan/South Asia
Blast hits Pakistan luxury hotel
A powerful explosion has hit the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, injuring five people. Officials say the blast was apparently caused by an electrical short-circuit.
O-o-o-o-kay
Pakistani Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said: "There is nothing to worry about".
Posted by: Old Grouch || 10/29/2004 11:08:31 PM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let me guess - the electricians were not union?
Posted by: Raj || 10/29/2004 0:09 Comments || Top||

#2  wrong "union".
Posted by: Frank G || 10/29/2004 0:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Pre-election day greetings from Jihad Inc., considering the Marriott is as American as the Red Sox & apple pie.
Posted by: Mark Espinola || 10/29/2004 2:10 Comments || Top||

#4  [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]
Posted by: Grumpy Uncle Sam TROLL || 10/29/2004 3:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Poor ole Gus is having a bad life it sounds like.
Posted by: Shipman || 10/29/2004 7:36 Comments || Top||

#6  apparently caused by an electrical short-circuit.
That'll happen when you cross the red and black wires by accident.
Posted by: Steve || 10/29/2004 8:17 Comments || Top||

#7  i thought they learnt it from Mr Oklahoma bombing? US started it.
Posted by: Grumpy Uncle Sam || 10/29/2004 3:31 Comments || Top||



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