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In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.


On this Veterans' Day [or Armistice Day, or Remembrance Day], are we about to break faith again?
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 11/11/2006 08:39 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The war (retaining a hold on the last 2000 years of human progress) against a dark domain with a desire to enslave the world in it's archaic ideology is being led, for the moment, by Americans. Even though our opposition postures us as the supreme leaders of the world, perhaps they have helped identify our role in this conflict.

The battle is being fought in the easily manipulated black hearts and weak minds of the poor and oppressed, of all cultures.

The struggles that surface as acts of terror are against an ideology America has defined. Regardless of the label (Republican or Democrat) Americans will hold the torch high.

But look for the FLOT to shift.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/11/2006 9:58 Comments || Top||

#2  W.N.Hodgson (1893-1916)
"Before Action"

By all the glories of the day
And the cool evening's benison,
By that last sunset touch that lay
Upon the hills where day was done,
By beauty lavisghly outpoured
And blessings carelessly received,
By all the days that I have lived
Make me a solider, Lord.

By all of man's hopes and fears,
And all the wonders poets sing,
The laughter of unclouded years,
And every sad and lovely thing;
By the romantic ages stored
With high endeavor that was his,
By all his mad catastrophes
Make me a man, O Lord.

I, that on my familiar hill
Saw with uncomprehending eyes
A hundred of Thy sunsets spill
Their fresh and sanguine sacrifice,
Ere the sun swings his noonday sword
Must say goodbye to all of this;--
By all delights that I shall miss,
Help me to die, O Lord.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 11/11/2006 11:10 Comments || Top||

#3  "They shall not grow old,
As we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years condemn,
At the going down of the sun
And in the morning
We will remember them"

-- Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)
Posted by: elbud || 11/11/2006 11:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Immortal words: "Earn this".
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 11/11/2006 13:17 Comments || Top||

#5  To this very day I am still awe struck by the incredible number of young Amrtican men who were uprooted from their peaceful smalltown homes and churned through boot camp only to be flung across an ocean in order to catch a bullet within less than six weeks.

Whenever I drive by the Colma Veteran's Cemetary where my grandfather, a WWI vet, is buried, the nearly endless ranks and rows of crosses that carpet its placid turf remind me of those young men dying in droves on those foreign fields and islands.

We have lost a minuscule fraction, in both civilian and military dead, as yet in this new World War. It simply stuns me that complacent and spineless appeasers bray about the very few we have lost so far in the face of a danger that threatens centuries of human progress.

To them and to all of us here at Rantburg who do understand what is at stake, I can only offer up an excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's immortal Lyceum Address:

Their's was the task (and nobly they performed it) to possess themselves, and through themselves, us, of this goodly land; and to uprear upon its hills and its valleys, a political edifice of liberty and equal rights; 'tis ours only, to transmit these, the former, unprofaned by the foot of an invader; the latter, undecayed by the lapse of time and untorn by usurpation, to the latest generation that fate shall permit the world to know. This task of gratitude to our fathers, justice to ourselves, duty to posterity, and love for our species in general, all imperatively require us faithfully to perform.

How then shall we perform it?--At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!--All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

— Abraham Lincoln —

The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions:
Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois
January 27, 1838
Posted by: Zenster || 11/11/2006 14:48 Comments || Top||

#6  It was said that when WWI military recruiters in the US South came around looking for volunteers, in some particularly rural areas there was some confusion, as the assumption was that they would be fighting "the Yankees" again.

Ironically, the song "How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm? (After They've Seen Paree)", was quite true. It was the end of America as a rural, farming society, caused by a massive demographic shift to the cities.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 11/11/2006 15:10 Comments || Top||

#7  On this day of all days, I am morally obliged to add my deep and abiding gratitude to all who have served our nation. Without their efforts and all too often, ultimate sacrifice, we would not have the profound liberty and freedom that so many of us take for granted. I, for one, do not.

Thank you soldiers, for a job impeccably well done. Our's is a free nation because of you.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/11/2006 15:20 Comments || Top||

#8  One last from me. I just met an older gentleman in front of a grocery store, taking contributions for disabled vets. I asked him, and he said "A Korean War vet".

"I was in Korea for three days. I spent the rest of the war in Manchuria, a POW of the Chinese."

I said thank you, and wished him well.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 11/11/2006 18:24 Comments || Top||

#9  "But where the danger is
Grows the saving power also."

Holderlin
Posted by: borgboy || 11/11/2006 20:47 Comments || Top||

#10  This year we've taken our charitable contributions away from the United Way, and will be giving a portion directly to our local VFW post, to aid their older members. It isn't much, but I hope the gesture will be as helpful to their spirit as the few dollars toward their needs.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/11/2006 21:44 Comments || Top||

#11  Bravo, trailing wife. It is sad that the United Way must serve as an umbrella group for so many worthy small organizations. They have been such a routinely corrupt cesspit of misappropriation, nepotism and embezzlement that contributing to them is simply out of the question.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/11/2006 22:26 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Afghan and NATO forces kill 18 Taliban
Afghan soldiers backed by NATO forces and warplanes killed 18 Taliban militants in a series of clashes in southeastern Afghanistan, the alliance said Friday. Three NATO soldiers, three Afghan troops and an interpreter were also wounded in the fighting in Paktika province, near the Pakistani border, an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) press release said. The statement said the combined forces came under small arms fire from a group of 25 to 30 insurgents in remote Bermal district.
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#1  Good job! Still some room for improvement, though. :-)
Posted by: gorb || 11/11/2006 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Shot them right off their camels. Boy the DNC is going to be pissed.
Posted by: Icerigger || 11/11/2006 9:32 Comments || Top||

#3  More and more breeding age islamo-cockroaches out of the gene pool. Good job!
Posted by: anymouse || 11/11/2006 13:44 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Police kill 11 Maoist guerillas in separate encounters in Southern India
(KUNA) -- Police Friday killed 11 Maoist guerillas including top leaders in the Southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. As many as nine Maoists, including three top leaders of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), were killed in an encounter in the Badvel forests of Andhra Pradesh Friday, news agencies reported. Police seized 12 weapons including one AK-47 rifle, three self-loading rifles and four .303 rifles from the encounter spot. In a separate encounter in Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh on Friday, the police killed two Maoist guerillas, the agencies said. The CPI-Maoist is the most powerful and biggest Maoist group in India and Andhra Pradesh is its stronghold. The police in Andhra Pradesh have killed about 150 Maoists including more than a dozen top leaders of the outfit this year. Maoist violence in Andhra Pradesh has claimed more than 6,000 lives since 1967, when the Maoist movement began in India.
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Rockets fired at soldiers
Militants fired five rockets at a military fort in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan and separately kidnapped a driver, officials said Friday. There were no casualties from the rocket attack in North Waziristan late Thursday. It came a day after a suicide bomber killed 42 troops in Dargai. “Five rockets were fired at a fort used by security forces on Thursday night near Mir Ali town. They missed the target and exploded in open ground,” a security official said on condition of anonymity. Separately armed men snatched a private vehicle carrying supplies for troops at Ippi village late Thursday and took the contractor hostage.
Posted by: Fred || 11/11/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Red on red.
Posted by: gromgoru || 11/11/2006 4:50 Comments || Top||


Rocket fired at Balochistan Assembly
Unidentified assailants fired a rocket at the Balochistan Assembly building on Friday afternoon, while a bomb blast rocked Kharan district. The rocket was fired soon after the end of an assembly session, and it damaged windows of the administration block. Police have launched an investigation into the matter, but no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. The bomb in Kharan exploded outside the tehsil nazim’s office at about 3pm, damaging the building’s windows. Separately, a vehicle of security forces was damaged because of a landmine explosion in Dera Bugti.
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Tribal elder, 3 friends killed
A tribal peace committee member and his three friends were killed when a bomb hit their vehicle in Shakai in South Waziristan on Friday, officials said. Officials said that tribal elder Malik Khan Jan and his three friends were killed in the explosion. However, AFP reported that 9 people were killed. “Around 13 people were travelling in a vehicle which was targeted by miscreants, nine were killed and four others were wounded,” an official said.
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Kashmir Korpse Kount Kontinued
ISLAMABAD - Five schoolgirls were killed when a ‘toy bomb’ exploded in the grounds of their school in the Neelum Valley in Pakistan-controlled Azad Kashmir on Friday, media reports said. Aaj television channel reported that the school was situated close to the Line of Control, or ceasefire line, that divides the disputed Himalayan state of Kashmir between Pakistan and India.

Pakistani troops stationed in the area cordoned off the school after evacuating the students to search for any more such explosive devices.

Toy bombs in the shape of butterflies and other playthings and packed with enough explosive to blow off children’s limbs were dropped by the former Soviet Union into Afghanistan during the war against US-backed mujahedin (Islamic warriors) in the 1980s.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/11/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Toy bombs in the shape of butterflies and other playthings and packed with enough explosive to blow off children’s limbs were dropped by the former Soviet Union into Afghanistan during the war against US-backed mujahedin (Islamic warriors) in the 1980s.
I've seen some of these. There's one that's shaped like a toy truck, another that looks like a crown, and several that look like animals. Most have a contact trigger. There's not enough explosives to seriously injure a grown man, but enough to cripple a child. In my mind, there is nothing more cruel or heartless than deliberately targeting and killing children. It seems the islamofascists learned well from the soviets (Belsan). Unfortunately for them, we're not the Russians. What worked against them doesn't work against us. They've tried to adapt, but the constantly increasing death toll of islamofascists indicate that learnin b hard for islamonuts.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 11/11/2006 15:34 Comments || Top||

#2  in the grounds of their school in the Neelum Valley in Pakistan-controlled Azad Kashmir on Friday

Several questions:
1. How did a 25 year old "toy bomb" get all the w to Pakistani Kashmir without exploding during the long journey across space and time?

2. Why were the girls at school on the Muslim sabbath?

3. Why would such a thing be set to trap Pakistani students instead of Indian Kashmiris or Afghans?
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/11/2006 21:53 Comments || Top||


Kashmir Korpse Kount
SRINAGAR, India - Five people were killed and at least 50 wounded on Friday, including women and children, when a grenade was hurled at worshippers in a crowded mosque in restive Indian Kashmir, police said. “Two men and three women have died and at least 50 were wounded, some seriously,” police officer Imtiaz Ahmed said in Srinagar, capital of Indian Kashmir, where an Islamic revolt has raged against New Delhi’s rule since 1989.

The attack took place in southern Pulwama district’s Tahab village, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Srinagar. “The mosque and its surroundings were full of worshippers when the grenade was hurled,” Ahmed said.

Police said it was not immediately known who carried out the attack. But the region has been rocked by a series of grenade attacks by separatist militants in recent months.
Two plus two equals ...
“At least 15 seriously wounded people have been sent to Srinagar,” police officer Ahmed said.

“This is a clear act of terrorism. We condemn it. Whoever has done this can never be a friend of Kashmiris,” said leading Kashmiri political separatist Javed Mir.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/11/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
National Guard Brigades Returning From Iraq May Serve Second Term Under New Plan
The nation's citizen soldiers, already strained by long tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, could be tapped again under new plans being developed by the Pentagon.

National Guard combat brigades that have already served in Iraq may be called for a second tour, likely breaking the 24-month deployment limit initially set by the Pentagon, the Guard's top general said.

While active-duty soldiers and smaller Guard units and members have returned to Iraq for multiple tours, the new plans would, for the first time, send entire Guard combat brigades back to the battlefront. Brigades generally have about 3,500 troops.

The move — which could include brigades from Arkansas, Florida, Indiana and North Carolina — would force the Pentagon to make the first large-scale departure from its previous decision not to deploy reserves for more than a cumulative 24 months in Iraq.

For some units, a second tour would mean they would likely exceed that two-year maximum. The planning was described by Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum, who commands the Guard, in an Associated Press interview this week.

In a related move, the Pentagon is preparing to release a list of active units — and perhaps reserves as well — scheduled to go to Iraq that would largely maintain the current level of forces there over the next two years, another senior defense official said Thursday. There are about 152,000 U.S. troops in Iraq.

That official requested anonymity because the plan has not been made public.

The Pentagon routinely notifies units to prepare for deployment, knowing it is easier to cancel a move overseas than to suddenly make such a large troop movement.

It was not clear whether this week's resignation of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld would affect deployment plans. President Bush has selected former CIA chief Robert Gates, who has criticized U.S. policy in Iraq, to replace Rumsfeld, but he has not yet been confirmed by the Senate.

"We are doing contingency planning for one or two (units), and we have contingency plans for more than two if necessary," Blum said Wednesday. The North Carolina brigade, he said, is being considered since it was one of the first to go to Iraq after the war began in 2003.

Blum also said defense officials have been discussing whether they need to adjust their policy that limits the deployment of reserves in the war to 24 months.

"When that policy was originally formulated, I seriously doubt anyone thought we would be where we are today, at the level of commitment that is necessary today," he said.

Just last month, defense officials said the Marines are drawing up similar plans that would for the first time send some reserve combat battalions back to Iraq for a second tour.

Under the authority by which Bush ordered a call-up of the Guard and Reserve after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, troops could be mobilized an unlimited number of times as long as each mobilization is no longer than 24 consecutive months.

Until now, Pentagon officials have interpreted that as 24 cumulative months.

While the ultimate goal for the National Guard is to deploy one year overseas and spend six years at home, Blum said current demands could force soldiers to deploy as often as one year every three or four years.

Blum said he believes that Guard combat brigades are prepared and willing to make a second trip to Iraq if needed.

He said the first units to deploy in the war — such as the 30th Infantry Brigade from North Carolina, the 76th Infantry Brigade from Indiana, the 53rd Infantry Brigade from Florida and the 39th Infantry Brigade from Arkansas — would probably be among those first called for a second tour.

"Logic would lead you to go back to the ones that went first, and start going around again," said Blum. "But that's probably not exactly how we'll do it" because the decision will depend partly on what types of units are needed.

Blum also said the Pentagon will no longer break up the brigades and send them to war in smaller units. He said Guard brigades are more effective working as teams.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 11/11/2006 15:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Uhm, would this not be a clear indication that we either need a larger active duty force or that we need to cull our other worldwide committments? I don't know that the latter issue would address the manpower shortfall/constraints we are seeing.
Posted by: Remoteman || 11/11/2006 16:02 Comments || Top||

#2  FWIW: back in 2003-4 we were told that we would be up for a rotation every 5 years. Guess what-- it's been 5 years for some guard units since they were last mobilized for Iraq. My unit is up for another tour in 2010.

It still is better than what granpaw had to put up with. He got mobilized "for the duration".

On a related note--I would pay good money to watch the Dems try to activate the Selective Service now.
Watching the pained contortions they would go through to justify it...priceless.
Posted by: N guard || 11/11/2006 16:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Oh they'd do it in a minute. Their belief is that with a drafted army, we would never be willing to go to war except to protect the continent (which they'd give away so no need to fight). Plus, the nastier Dhimmis acknowledge that a drafted army is of lower quality than a volunteer army, and they believe this to be a good thing for the US.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/11/2006 18:41 Comments || Top||

#4  The Donks want to dismantle an effective and efficient military. They know that they, just as their opponents who they painted as ‘corrupt’ as though that was exclusive, are held in low esteem. Think the President has low ratings, check Congress. Now check the esteem of our military. If you screw up hard enough and long enough the people might, just might invite someone else to run things for a while. If you’re a Donk you don’t want that, ever. It would be like Detroit caught without small fuel efficient cars during the oil crisis of the 1970s. Once the American public experienced not only the efficiencies of the Japanese vehicles but the fine construction and long list of ‘standard’ equipment, Detroit lost a third of the market and hasn’t recovered.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/11/2006 19:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Good points-- Plus one other that says the Dhimmis will never restart the Selective Service:
The startup political transients will kill any hope of staying in power.

Back in the 1930's, the start of the draft caused a great deal of political pain, and that was in a society that basicaly approved of what was happening. Nowadays, well, its different.

I'm pretty sure I do NOT want anyone in my platoon that does not want to be there. I have enough headaches with two lazy, shiftless bastards that just joined the guard for the education bennies. (long irrelevant rant deleted)

I do not want to imagine what it would be like if they drafted some of the ADD slackers I see in freshman english. Some of those mental defectives I would not want within 50M of a operational weapon, loaded or not!

I wonder how Grampaw delt with the cat IVc duds he got saddled with? Polish mine detector, maybe?
Posted by: N guard || 11/11/2006 21:17 Comments || Top||

#6  No sympathy here. When Congress decided to implement the Total Force concept in which the Guard, Reserve and Regular forces are combined to create a single fighting force because it was cheaper, this is the inevitable outcome. It is not fair to anyone. The concept is effective if you fight one war against one or more nation states. It falls apart when the demand for combat forces is continuous and unrelenting. It will get worse under the Democrats because they will involve us in an unending stream of police actions in pissant countries that do nothing but cost money and kill soldiers (e.g., Somalia, Darfur, Lebanon)
Posted by: RWV || 11/11/2006 21:24 Comments || Top||


Iraqi soldier, cleric shot dead in N. Iraq
(KUNA) -- An Iraqi army soldier and a Muslim cleric were killed by unknown gunmen in northern Iraq on Friday, police said. A police source in Kirkuk told KUNA gunmen riding a civilian car opened fire at army soldier Abdullah Mustafa Mohammad in front of his house in Nasr neighborhood. Mohammad was killed on the spot.

Other gunmen in Mosul shot dead Mulla Saeed mosque Imam, Ali Akram Saeed Mahdi, while he was leaving the mosque, another police source at Mosul said. Iraqi servicemen and civilians have been exposed to attacks by insurgents since their country was liberated in 2003. Thousands were killed and many others injured in these attacks.
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#1  Popcorn
Posted by: gromgoru || 11/11/2006 4:49 Comments || Top||


Al-Qaida suspects killed
(KUNA) -- Spokesman for the Iraqi defense ministry announced Friday the killing of leader of Al-Qaida organization in Rawah neighborhood, 175 miles northwest of here. Commander Abu Muhayyam al-Masri, whose name, like that of the group's overall leader, is a pseudonym meaning "the Egyptian" and his aide Abu Isam al-Libi were killed in an attack launched by the Iraqi seventh brigade soldiers west of the city of Ramadi, the Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammad Al-Askari said. Earlier Askari told Kuna that Abu Zaid al-Suri or "the Syrian" was arrested along with nine other members. The official said al-Suri confessed to organizing at least one suicide bombing in Baghdad. He said the raid also netted a large quantity of weapons.
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#1  Allanu Akbar!
Posted by: gorb || 11/11/2006 0:12 Comments || Top||


Unidentified men kill 12 people of same family, abduct two more
(KUNA) -- Twelve people of the same family, including women and children, were killed on Friday by unidentified gunmen who also abducted two more persons in al-Yousefiya, some 15 kilometers south of here, the Iraqi police have confirmed. The police said that unidentified gunmen driving four civilian cars stormed into a house in al-Yousefiya and opened fire at its residents, killing 12 of them and abducted two others. Razzak Ali of al-Sadr office said that all victims were farmers, adding that the gunmen were veiled and fled the scene after the attack. The police said the fate of the two abducted people was still unknown.

Furthermore, unidentified gunmen abducted earlier today a field commander of the Iraqi police while he was inspecting his personnel working at different checkpoints. An Interior Ministry source said that unidentified gunmen abducted Lieutenant Colonel Ayad Ibrahim while being at work. His fate is still unknown, the statement said.
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Marine to receive Medal of Honor for Iraq heroism
President Bush announced on Friday that the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration, will be awarded posthumously to Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham.

In April 2004, Dunham was leading a patrol in an Iraqi town near the Syrian border when the patrol stopped a convoy of cars leaving the scene of an attack on a Marine convoy, according to military and media accounts of the action. An occupant of one of the cars attacked Dunham and the two fought hand to hand. As they fought, Dunham yelled to fellow Marines, "No, no watch his hand." The attacker then dropped a grenade and Dunham hurled himself on top of it, using his helmet to try to blunt the force of the blast. Still, Dunham was critically wounded in the explosion and died eight days later at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.

"As long as we have Marines like Corporal Dunham, America will never fear for her liberty," Bush said Friday as he announced that Dunham would receive the award. Bush spoke at the dedication of the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Virginia. "His was a selfless act of courage to save his fellow Marines," Sgt. Maj. Daniel A. Huff of the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, was quoted as saying in Marine Corps News that April.

"He knew what he was doing," Lance Cpl. Jason A. Sanders, 21, of McAllester, Oklahoma, who was in Dunham's company, was quoted as saying by Marine Corps News. "He wanted to save Marines' lives from that grenade."
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#1  God Bless this man and his family.
Posted by: Icerigger || 11/11/2006 10:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Ultimate service to his country; I am only hoping and praying the next two years don't squander what the good Corporal bought. God rest his soul.
Posted by: USN,Ret || 11/11/2006 11:35 Comments || Top||


Leader of al-Qaida in Iraq mocks Bush
A new recording Friday attributed to the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq mocked President Bush as a coward whose conduct of the war was rejected at the polls, challenging him to keep U.S. troops in the country to face more bloodshed. "We haven't had enough of your blood yet," taunted terror chieftain Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, identified as the speaker on the tape.

He gloated over Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's resignation, claimed to have 12,000 fighters under his command who "have vowed to die for God's sake,"
He said his fighters will not rest until they blow up the White House and occupy Jerusalem.
and said his fighters will not rest until they blow up the White House and occupy Jerusalem.

It was impossible to verify the authenticity of the 20-minute recording, posted on a Web site used by Islamic militants. The CIA said technical analysis was being conducted on the tape. Al-Muhajir, an Egyptian also known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, boasted that al-Qaida in Iraq is moving toward victory faster than expected because of Bush's mistakes.

White House spokesman Tony Snow said the Bush administration had no comment on the tape. The tape and its often far-fetched claims came as the U.S. military announced the deaths of five more service members in the 44-month-old conflict, which has grown increasingly unpopular at home. Twenty-six American service members have been killed in Iraq so far this month.

At least 59 Iraqi civilians were killed or found dead Friday as the violence threatens to spiral into all-out civil war. In one of the day's bloodiest incidents, a suicide bomber in an explosives-rigged car killed six Iraqi soldiers he had lured from behind a checkpoint. Just hours earlier,
Iraq's army said it captured the Egyptian leader of an al-Qaida cell in Anbar province, an insurgent stronghold.
Iraq's army said it captured the Egyptian leader of an al-Qaida cell in Anbar province, an insurgent stronghold.

The audio message appeared to be an attempt to exact maximum propaganda benefit from the results of Tuesday's midterm elections, in which the Republicans lost control of both houses of Congress, in part because of the war.
Al-Muhajir praised the American people for handing victory to the Democrats, saying: "They voted for something reasonable in the last elections.
Al-Muhajir praised the American people for handing victory to the Democrats, saying: "They voted for something reasonable in the last elections."

He also said Bush was "the most stupid president" in U.S. history. "We call on the lame duck not to hurry his escape the way the defense secretary did," al-Muhajir said in reference to Rumsfeld's resignation as Pentagon chief on Wednesday. "Remain steadfast on the battlefield, you coward," said al-Muhajir, who took over leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq after Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in a U.S. airstrike in June. "We will not rest from our jihad (holy war) until we are under the olive trees of Rumieh and we have blown up the filthiest house _ which is called the White House," al-Muhajir said.

The "olive trees of Rumieh" appeared to be a reference to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, or to Christendom as a continuation of the Roman empire.

Al-Muhajir also told Iraqi Sunnis to ally with a shadowy mini-state that militants claim to have established last month under a man identified as Abu Omar al-Baghdadi.
Al-Muhajir also told Iraqi Sunnis to ally with a shadowy mini-state that militants claim to have established last month under a man identified as Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. "I vow allegiance to you," he said, addressing al-Baghdadi as the "ruler of believers " and placing al-Qaida in Iraq fighters under his command.

Friday's civilian death toll was little changed from previous days. The United Nations estimates about 100 Iraqis die in violence each day, while Iraq's health minister on Thursday estimated up to 150,000 civilians had been killed in the war _ about three times previously accepted estimates of 45,000-50,000.
Posted by: Fred || 11/11/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Right up the DemoLeft's alley - intensify and entrench hyper-Govt at home whilst weakening Amer overseas for anti-Amer, anti-sovereign OWG + Socialism.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/11/2006 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Running for that DNC chairmanship vacancy, I see.
Posted by: DMFD || 11/11/2006 1:48 Comments || Top||

#3  His predecessor was ratted out by his own members. This loser will get the same.
Posted by: Sneaze Shaiting3550 || 11/11/2006 4:49 Comments || Top||

#4  He doesn't know his US history. I can name a few US Presidents stupider than GWB. Harding, Andrew Johnson, etc.
Posted by: Shairong Hupelet9321 || 11/11/2006 8:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Carter.
Posted by: lotp || 11/11/2006 9:15 Comments || Top||

#6  I cross posted this under another topic. You need to see the people that support Keith Ellison.

Link

The funny part is how fast they cut back to the NewsAnchors when the chanting starts. Is this America or a street in Tehran. The female anchor just about trips over Ellision trying to excuse his supporters ranting to the Kaaba moon god of world wide Islamic terrorist.

This is the first time I have seen this guy talking and BOY does he remind me of his Muslim hero Farakkhan! same cadance, tempo, style. Won't be long now before the official congratulations from nashrallah, leader of hezbollah, to Keith Ellison.
Posted by: Icerigger || 11/11/2006 9:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Yeeaaahhh.... Ok. His 12,000 fighters are already rounding up children and women as human shields and cover, and shopping for the latest in used burqas at the local market for their upcoming December surprise. Some of their human shield will actually be decoys and a reuse for the bigger op. Some of the human shields will also be the cowards themselves all dolled up. Its disgusting work to cull the lowliest and most ungodly from the good folks of Iraq, but with the help of God almighty, we will eliminate these dogs of satan inspired not by Allah, but of the satanic musings and twisted words of Ossama bin Ladin, his bitch Zawahiri and the rest of the bearded harem. Let the apostate dogs of satans pack mock the west, mock the U.S. and its fiesty allies and associates, mock the good and true believers of the ummah, and terrorize the creations of God to death. This is solid proof of the intent of fanactic dirvish-like Jihad. This clear and indisputable concrete evidence points directly at the aims of satans plans to destroy the finest creations of God and derail his plans. This jerk in Iraq is just one of many non-believers, under the guise of Islam, posturing themselves for dictatorial rule over the population with visions and expectations of vast material gain and enpowerement through fear and terror. He is a goat to be dealt with, and a goat to be sold at market by the rest of the herd. That is the way of crimminal-minded losers and liars like Abu Hamza al-Muhajir and the litter he came from. Culling the litter of defective pups like him and his fellow mongrels was obviously overlooked and requires immediate action. I am sure someone will sell him him out for a roast chicken, a bowl coucous and a sun warmed can of Afri-Cola. Keep up the good fight, mainatin the right fight and turn the little fellow into the speed bump he yearns to be.
Posted by: Fun Dung Poo || 11/11/2006 10:07 Comments || Top||

#8  "The road to Jerusalem is through the wreckage of the White House. Yeeearrggh!"
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/11/2006 12:11 Comments || Top||

#9  Al-Qaida IS irrelevant, can you not see it ?

There are 350+ million people in the US

2000+ were wiped out in 9/11

How many 9/11s would it take for ALL the US to be wiped out ?

Rather a lot eh… do the math

Get a grip man, American speak, and concentrate on directing the FUTURE of the world

Look at Great Britan, IRA ??? What IRA, exactly!!

DON'T BE FUCKWITS!

THINK, PLEASE!!!

I'm not mocking Pubs today ! Mmm well, depends how you look at coporate America...

Think about it...

TERRORISM CLASS 101 - KILL THE FEW, SCARE / CONTROL THE MANY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Hibjobol Abjub || 11/11/2006 16:14 Comments || Top||

#10  Scare the few, buy the record, eat the sand, avoid the women. Still, when you wake up, you're an arab.

/POV
Posted by: Dawgs Everywhere || 11/11/2006 16:27 Comments || Top||

#11  Mad Dawgs

You are a fool my friend

Are all Americans noe-con fascists ?

NO, only the ones here. Well, have a foolish life and don't be surprised when your own party fucks you over in the name of the dollar, because it will if you work in manufacturing
Posted by: Hibjobol Abjub || 11/11/2006 16:45 Comments || Top||

#12  We're all bigger, meaner, smarter and tougher than you, Abu JibJab. Remember that the next time you try and boast Arab superiority. You haven't got clue one, and when you leave, we laugh at you and your posts. Why continue? I think it's because you like a beating..heh heh
Posted by: Frank G || 11/11/2006 17:07 Comments || Top||

#13  [DELETED]
(Note: this commenter, posting from 61.55.135.167, was not Frank G.)
Posted by: Frank G || 11/11/2006 17:11 Comments || Top||

#14  mods - that wasn't me - troll em
Posted by: Frank G || 11/11/2006 17:15 Comments || Top||

#15  #9 HA - You appear to have an Arab name.

Let's cut to the chase: What the hell have the Arabs invented in the last 1000 years?

1. Buzzing prayer rug.
2. Homicide bomb belt.
3. Women as property.
4. Sense of superiority and entitlement with absolutely NOTHING to back it up. (Prime example? See "palestinians.")

Just about everything that's worth anything has been invented by the "infidel" West: airplanes, modern medicine, computers, telephones, electricity, cars, televisions - the list goes on forever.

And - just to ruin your entire day - many of those inventers, including the men who invented the polio vaccine, were/are JEWS.

It's said that the Arab culture (and I use the term loosely) is a shame culture. That's convenient, since you've got plenty to be ashamed of.

Just like your paleo brethern, this thing you're best at is whining. Grow the hell up.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 11/11/2006 19:40 Comments || Top||

#16  TROLLS: Don't f**& with the mod's nyms. Bad juju.

Anyway, as for the title of this article:

Leader of al-Qaida in Iraq mocks Bush from his hidey hole.

There, all fixed now.
Posted by: gorb || 11/11/2006 19:42 Comments || Top||

#17  Women as property

I thought that was there from the get-go.
Posted by: gorb || 11/11/2006 19:44 Comments || Top||

#18  Herr Jibjab must be busy on his knees blowing the neighbors goat.

Either that or he has nothing other than mollycoddling spittle to spew over the denizens of Rantburg who wouldst otherwise blow a 5.56 or 7.62 sized hole in his belly (preferable to chest or head as he'll get to suffer for a while).

Posted by: FOTSGreg || 11/11/2006 20:19 Comments || Top||

#19  by the way WTF's a noe-con?
Posted by: Frank G || 11/11/2006 20:26 Comments || Top||

#20  Frank, noe-con is and environmetalist soliciting donations for building a big yacht, claiming he needs it for saving endangered species. ;-)
Posted by: twobyfour || 11/11/2006 21:30 Comments || Top||

#21  ;-)
Posted by: Frank G || 11/11/2006 22:23 Comments || Top||

#22  Everybody, I have been thinking about this for a while, but now I have to confess that I am gay and if anyone is interestested in a homosexual relationship then contact old smokey and maybe we will hook up
Posted by: Frank G || 11/11/2006 17:23 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli air raid in N. Gaza against Palestinian activist
(KUNA) -- Israeli airforce launched an air raid against a Palestinian activist in northern Gaza Strip on Thursday night with initial reports suggesting human casualties. An Israeli warplane fired two rockets at the house of Talal Abu Safiya, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and destroyed the residence, local radio stations said. They added that casualties were reported from inside the house. The raid is part of the Israeli army ongoing aggression against several parts of Gaza and in the northern part in particular.
Posted by: Fred || 11/11/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  oooooh! human casualties? Well, that WAS the point, wasn't it?
Posted by: Frank G || 11/11/2006 0:05 Comments || Top||

#2  An Israeli warplane fired two rockets at the house of Talal Abu Safiya, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

The PFLP? Goodness knows they've been hurting for some attention of late.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/11/2006 0:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Palestinian activist.

Only a terrorist if he blows up EUros?
Posted by: gromgoru || 11/11/2006 4:48 Comments || Top||

#4  initial reports suggesting human casualties.
Israeli casualties, in an air-raid? Someones in trouble.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/11/2006 8:13 Comments || Top||

#5  WTF is a "Palestinian activist"?
Posted by: Icerigger || 11/11/2006 12:20 Comments || Top||

#6  WTF is a "Palestinian activist"?

Someone who fires an extra burst into the school bus.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/11/2006 13:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Jeeebus. That's damn cold RC. Accurate tho.
Posted by: Shipman || 11/11/2006 15:22 Comments || Top||

#8  RC couldn't get any pithier if we fed him exclusively on pith for a week, plunked a pith helmet on his head and, for safe measure, jammed another one where the sun don't shine just as an insurance policy. He is Rantburg's official Pithmeister. I hope this doesn't pith him off.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/11/2006 15:49 Comments || Top||

#9  He's been dieting for so long, all that's left of him is pith (and perhaps some vinegar).
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/11/2006 22:01 Comments || Top||

#10  *zing!*
Posted by: Frank G || 11/11/2006 22:25 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Jihadis murder two policemen in southern Thailand
Suspected Muslim insurgents fatally shot two policemen on Saturday in Thailand's restive south, police said. The attackers fled with the officers' guns after killing them in the Yaha district of Yala province, said Yala police chief Maj. Gen. Phaitoon Chuchaiya, who blamed the attack on insurgents.

In Narathiwat province's Rueso district, the house of a public school teacher was set afire shortly after midnight, causing damage to the home but no injuries. Public schoolteachers are prime targets of attackers, who see them as symbols of the government.

In the nearby district of Bacho, a bomb triggered by a mobile phone exploded as a military truck drove past, but it missed the truck and no one was injured, police said.
Posted by: ryuge || 11/11/2006 02:37 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yup, sounds a little "restive" to me, too. But don't call the PM for help... recalling a great Cos routine, he's kinda like tonsils that need to come out - they've gone over to the other side.
Posted by: .com || 11/11/2006 3:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Some surgery to yank out prime minister Surayud Chulanont sounds like just the ticket. This shithead is nothing but a terorist enabler.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/11/2006 4:11 Comments || Top||

#3  This shithead is nothing but a terorist enabler.

Which everyone knew the moment his religion was revealed.

Now, I could be wrong, but does it seem to anyone else that the jihadis stepped up their campaign after the coup?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/11/2006 9:08 Comments || Top||

#4  In reply to BC - it is very improtant to understand that the current PM is NOT/NOT a Muslim. During the coup, the senior Royal Thai Army Commander, Gen. Sonthi, was and still is a Muslim. Gen. Sonthi is no longer the PM. Gen. Surayud (Ret. and current acting PM) is a well respected and admired figure (as is Gen Sonthi). From where I sit, it is important to know the difference. Current PM has made some serious gestures of peace and reconciliation to the South - only to be answered by firebombs and gunfire. Gen. Surayad stated the hardline measures of former PM Thaksin were heavy -handed. As is typical in Thai society/leadership - he has no plan to deal with the South.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 11/11/2006 14:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Thank you for clarifying, Bangkok Billy. So, Sonthi, a Muslim was only a temporary transitional figure during the coup? Do you have any background for us on the current PM. Also, how do the northerners feel about this Islamic threat? Is there any promise of action or a major crackdown , or shall this be the new norm for handling these terrorists?
Posted by: Zenster || 11/11/2006 15:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Origani drops will be stepped up.
Posted by: wxjames || 11/11/2006 19:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Origami.....fingers, why do they hate us ?
Posted by: wxjames || 11/11/2006 19:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Zen - the current PM is a retired 4 star and former CJCS. Spent almost all of his career in SOF, extensivley trained by and in the US, speaks English very well, and according to the Mrs. is very respected and admired by the Thai people. Both him and Sonthi are seen as men of thier word. Thai people respect the military who they see as honest and not corrupt (unlike the police).

Northern Muslims are vey different than folks in the Malay south. They view themselves as Thai first - religion comes second. Driving around Bangkok and visiting other locations, mosques are very common. Outside of the South, the only troublesome Muslims here are "tourists" from South Asia/ME.

I don't see any chance of a crackdown or aggressive policy measures. Current PM backed himself in corner when he bad-mouthed Thaksin. If he does something harse, he'll be seen as a hypocrite. The Coup leaders are already on thin ice with the people. Media/political activists/scolars are starting to ask questions and demand martial law be rescinded.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 11/11/2006 23:02 Comments || Top||


Sri Lanka
Prominent Tamil politician assassinated
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A prominent Tamil politician was assassinated in the Sri Lankan capital on Friday and naval attack on two Tamil Tiger boats left six rebels dead, officials said - acts appearing to draw the South Asian country closer to full-scale war.

Nadaraja Raviraj, a member of the Tamil National Alliance, was leaving his house in Colombo when he was approached and shot at close range, said K. Sivajilingam, a fellow member of Parliament. Raviraj’s bodyguard was also killed.

President Mahinda Rajapakse condemned the killing, calling it a “cowardly and heinous act” by “those opposed to dissent and political pluralism in a democratic society.”

But the Tamil party blamed the government for the killing. “We understand that a whole magazine has been emptied on them in broad daylight,” TNA lawmaker Suresh Premachandran told The Associated Press. “This is a clear message to Tamil Parliamentarians ... ’Don’t open your mouth.’ “

Raviraj became mayor of Tamil heartland Jaffna in 1999 following the assassination of his two predecessors. He was elected to Parliament as a rebel-backed TNA representative in 2001 and 2004 and was a leading campaigner for Tamils’ self rule. He was among TNA members _ widely believed to be a proxy of the Tamil Tigers _ who joined a demonstration outside the local U.N. refugee agency Thursday, urging it to help protect thousands of refugees in the east who had fled their homes after military shelling killed at least 23 Tamil civilians on Wednesday.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/11/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


G'morning...
Britney's First Husband Calls Kevin an 'Idiot'Al Qaeda may plan Europe transit attacksGovt has proof of terrorists training in Bajaur seminary: SherpaoHaniyeh offers to resign for aidJihadis murder two policemen in southern ThailandProminent Tamil politician assassinatedAfghan and NATO forces kill 18 TalibanSC petition says Dr Khan being 'poisoned'
Posted by: Fred || 11/11/2006 09:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  h(r)ubah(r)uba.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 11/11/2006 9:37 Comments || Top||

#2  nice 14" waist
Posted by: Frank G || 11/11/2006 10:51 Comments || Top||

#3  A "wasp" waist, in more ways than one.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/11/2006 14:57 Comments || Top||

#4  "Ralston gained fame in the 1930s as a figure skater, where she competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics against gold medalist Sonja Henie. During the games she personally met and insulted Adolf Hitler."

Right on, sister. All that, and balls too!
Posted by: exJAG || 11/11/2006 15:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Hitler asked her if she would like to "skate for the swastika." As she later recalled, "I looked him right in the eye, and said that I'd rather skate on the swastika. The Führer was livid."

My kinda gal! It must have galled the living shit out of old Adolph to have so many Nordic and other blond haired-blue eyed types tell him to fly it straight up his fricking shorts. Whatever happened to that sort of collective will?
Posted by: Zenster || 11/11/2006 15:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Today, it's the sin of being judgemental.
Posted by: wxjames || 11/11/2006 19:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Alas, she was not as good an actress as she was a skater. If memory serves, she was nominated in that invaluable tome "The Golden Turkey Awards" in the worst actress category.
Not all her husbands' efforts to make her a star had much positive result at all.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 11/11/2006 20:59 Comments || Top||

#8  are you referring to Ms Pia Zadora? Truly an accomplished actress only up until the marriage was filed
Posted by: Frank G || 11/11/2006 22:18 Comments || Top||

#9  Both Pia Zadora and Vera Hruba Ralston were featured in the "Worst Actress" category. Really, Frank G., I am beginning to worry about your tastes in these matters!
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 11/11/2006 22:46 Comments || Top||

#10  I only require that they act thrilled to see me, more than happy to accomodate my every mood, and very very excited by everything I do. All wymyns are more than capable of this simple repertoire, so I'm able to be quite picky about whom I audition. ;-)
Posted by: .com || 11/11/2006 22:58 Comments || Top||



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