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2004-09-02 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Howard UK 2004-09-02 06:11|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Bryan Bryan!! Analyse this beauty - the Beeb radio news this morning's opening salvo was something along the lines of women, children, ~~kittens and gerbils~~ killed in a US air strike aimed at militants. The crater looks a whopper, which is perhaps why the doc cannot be sure what sex/age the remains are.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-09-02 6:15:17 AM|| 2004-09-02 6:15:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Whoa - ~30 ft deep? That looks like a 2000-pounder crater! Heh. Remains? He means oddly colored rocks.

Posted by .com 2004-09-02 6:22:54 AM|| 2004-09-02 6:22:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Nice big hole. I bet it removed some not so nice from this earth to were they will never be a threat to anyone again. The reporters at the BBC are besides themselves in sorrow I am sure.

I love the beeb I leave crap like this on their "have you say." My morning is not complete with out it. I know it has to drive their bleeding liberal socialist hearts freekng batty. I left this today. Not really good grammar or all to literate but none the less it would never get posted.

"... Islam is a backwards and violent out of date religion. The terror in the modern world today is uniformly Islam against the modern and secular. When will people get a clue. You can't negotiate with those whose desire is to either convert or kill you. Religion of peace? Tell that to the reporters under duress, tell that to the mothers and fathers of the school children in Russia. Tell that to the familes of the dead passengers on the downed Russian airliners. Islam is about peace? Islam is about sucide belts packed with nails, nuts and ball bearings to rip and tear human flesh and inflict horrific wounds. The wearers of such vests are proclaimed martyrs by the religous men of Islam when they are just plain murders. The religion of peace? The Tommy turtles who say if we just leave them alone and accept them they will go away are fools. "Iraqi disidents?" is the Beeb on crack? These are murders not dissisents. We will be better as a world when the last vestiges of Islam are stamped out and the last mullah has a stake driven through his black murdering heart. "

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-02 6:25:29 AM|| 2004-09-02 6:25:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 To BBC News the Islamic terrorists threatening to murder several hundred Russian schoolchildren are merely a "gang". A gang. Not 'terrorists', not 'Islamic', not even 'kidappers'. Just a gang. Like bank robbers only politically active, presumably.

Posted by Bulldog 2004-09-02 6:35:38 AM|| 2004-09-02 6:35:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Bulldog - do the Beeb News possess a general e-mail address (similar to channel 4) for you to voice your concerns over the quality of their editorial? I feel the need to bitch at them mercilessly - I only listen to the radio news cause Charlotte Green sounds dirty and is a real turn-on at 7a.m.

Posted by Howard UK 2004-09-02 6:45:12 AM|| 2004-09-02 6:45:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 "I only listen to the radio news cause Charlotte Green sounds dirty and is a real turn-on at 7a.m."

Lol! Howard, you're a man's man, brother! Cool!

Posted by .com 2004-09-02 6:48:17 AM|| 2004-09-02 6:48:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Big phreakin' hole in Fallujah

Correspondents say the US air strike left two vast craters

So this is one of them. Okay. Think of it as public service engineering. They can be reservoirs if it ever rains in that phreaking desert shithole.

Posted by .com 2004-09-02 6:51:45 AM|| 2004-09-02 6:51:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 A ready made septic pit!

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-02 6:57:59 AM|| 2004-09-02 6:57:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Looks like Iraq could now have a second olympic size swimming pool. Bulldog - I found the feedback form!

Posted by Howard UK 2004-09-02 6:58:21 AM|| 2004-09-02 6:58:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 ...do the Beeb News possess a general e-mail address (similar to channel 4) for you to voice your concerns over the quality of their editorial?

You can post feedback here. I was dubious, but I fired off a rant to the BBC a year ago, I think, and they actually sent a 'rant noted' snail mail back to me. Probably still on my desk somewhere....

My preferred dirt is the cheeky scrubber who does the Channel 5 weather. Grubby. Mmmmm!

UPDATE: Lara Lewington, apparently.

Posted by Bulldog 2004-09-02 7:05:32 AM|| 2004-09-02 7:05:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 BD - And the "hit it" line forms behind you?

Posted by .com 2004-09-02 7:08:57 AM|| 2004-09-02 7:08:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Oh, OK Howard, I was busy trawling for info on the Lovely Lara.

Posted by Bulldog 2004-09-02 7:08:57 AM|| 2004-09-02 7:08:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 .com, I think it might be a long line too. Who could resist?

Posted by Bulldog 2004-09-02 7:15:15 AM|| 2004-09-02 7:15:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 This is the link to the Have Your Say which is different from the What the internal U.K. based folks would see by default. Plenty of LLL and Moonbats post to it.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-02 7:17:48 AM|| 2004-09-02 7:17:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 Thanks one and all - yup Lara's a bit of a sort. I attempt to post on Have your Say all the time but never make it through the censorship, wonder why?

Posted by Howard UK 2004-09-02 7:27:48 AM|| 2004-09-02 7:27:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 I attempt to post on Have your Say all the time but never make it through the censorship, wonder why?

I gave it up as a waste of time ages ago. You'll find that if you post a 'liberal' message it's got a good chance of making the cut. It's less honest than DU.

Posted by Bulldog 2004-09-02 7:46:15 AM|| 2004-09-02 7:46:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 Here is the CENTCOM press release:
PRECISION STRIKE OPERATION AGAINST ZARQAWI NETWORK

BAGHDAD, Iraq â At 11:32 p.m. Wednesday evening local Baghdad time, Multi-National Force â Iraq conducted a precision attack on an Abu Musab Zarqawi operating location in Southwest Fallujah. Surrounded by fields, the two targeted buildings served as safe houses and meeting locations for known Zarqawi associates. Earlier in the day these terrorists conducted an execution in the Shuhidah district in Southern Fallujah. The Zarqawi associates were observed removing a man from the trunk of a car, executing him then burying his body. Multiple sources of Iraqi and coalition intelligence provided the basis for this operation. Continued, successful strikes against Zarqawiâs network of terrorists have degraded his capabilities and significantly eroded his base of support. A reward of up to $25 million remains in effect for information leading to the arrest and capture of Abu Musab Zarqawi.

Posted by Steve 2004-09-02 10:33:03 AM|| 2004-09-02 10:33:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 I suspect the "observation" was made by a drone in "real time"...followed by the crater..on time!

Posted by RN 2004-09-02 10:39:09 AM|| 2004-09-02 10:39:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#19 Bulldog

I like your taste in weather people! My My!

Posted by RN 2004-09-02 10:41:59 AM|| 2004-09-02 10:41:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#20 So you guys are checking out weatherbabes, eh? We don't get this when we call in for a preflight weather briefing with the FAA. Maybe I can make it a suggestion for a kinder, gentler
FAA...heh heh.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-09-02 11:47:09 AM|| 2004-09-02 11:47:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#21 My reading of the BBC "Have Your Say" page on this incident (and also on many others) makes one thing very clear: A whole lot of people believe that violence = right. That is to say, if you are willing to do something sickeningly, outrageously violent, it must be because you had no choice. You felt so very very strongly about it, and there were no other avenues left to you because your oppressors had closed them off. Poor thing!

The lesson here is that there is no percentage in lawful protest. Then people would judge the cause on the facts. No, better to just get to slaughtering.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-09-02 3:22:19 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-09-02 3:22:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Why do the weather folks persist in showing satellite pictures of British cloud cover? Yes, there's cloud cover.... maybe it's the swirls n such.

Posted by Shipman 2004-09-02 4:23:52 PM|| 2004-09-02 4:23:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 22 killed? What is with this nickle and dime shit???

Posted by Anonymous6295 2004-09-02 6:23:18 PM|| 2004-09-02 6:23:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 AP - Here's an Alaskan Weather Babe, of a sort, heh.

Posted by .com 2004-09-02 6:58:48 PM|| 2004-09-02 6:58:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 .Com...I want one! I want one! I'll even trade in my used German model.

Secondly, why isn't PETA out there protesting the US Forces for depleting the baby duck and furry bunny populations in Iraq?

Lastly, do the dead baby ducks and furry rabbits get virgins too?

Posted by 98zulu 2004-09-02 7:54:04 PM|| 2004-09-02 7:54:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 "All the wounded are families. Among the dead, there could be two or three children but the bodies are torn to pieces and it's difficult to tell," he told the AFP news agency.

"Families?" We all know how terrorism is such a 'family' affair. Someone should tell the doctor to examine all remains for facial hair. At least that will weed out any children.

Posted by Zenster 2004-09-02 8:40:41 PM|| 2004-09-02 8:40:41 PM|| Front Page Top

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