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2004-12-23 Arabia

Saudi Government Daily Accuses U.S. Army of Harvesting Organs of Iraqis

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Posted by tipper 2004-12-23 16:14|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hmmm... they must have been watching Iranian TV, and were pissed off 'cause they didn't think of it first...

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2004-12-23 4:19:52 PM|| [http://www.sgtstryker.com] 2004-12-23 4:19:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 This has to be stopped immediately. Kill the author of this blood libel and blow up any propaganda organs that dare print it. If it's blood they want, then blood they shall have.

Posted by ed 2004-12-23 4:28:36 PM|| 2004-12-23 4:28:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Drat, I missed this, so sorry about the sort-of duplicate post.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-12-23 4:35:50 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-12-23 4:35:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 taste great

Posted by less filling 2004-12-23 4:56:43 PM|| 2004-12-23 4:56:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 The sad thing is that people believe this shiite . . .

Posted by Jame Retief 2004-12-23 5:40:12 PM|| 2004-12-23 5:40:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Not only that, but from the millions who will read/hear about it, some will be incited to go on jihad. Lies like this cause people to die.

Posted by ed 2004-12-23 5:44:03 PM|| 2004-12-23 5:44:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I wonder if any of the pansy ass diplomats we've got at State might have the guts to take Prince Bandar aside at the New year's Eve party and ask "what's up" with the newest Saudi blood libel?

Naw...won't happen.

Posted by Mark Z. 2004-12-23 5:47:41 PM|| 2004-12-23 5:47:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Perhaps some of those nice diplomatic gentlemen at the State Department might recollect for whom they really work. I await their protestations at this libel, but I won't be holding my breath, meanwhile.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2004-12-23 6:07:08 PM|| [http://www.sgtstryker.com] 2004-12-23 6:07:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 ....but we dare not provoke the Islamo-crazy masses any further by publicly discussing the Gideon/Phoenix option....
This is a good example of why the Left's favorite rationale for appeasement and surrender, the fear of inciting additional hatred, is so absurd and dishonest.
Our real actions cannot even approach what the Islamo-street and its dhimmis believe is already happening.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-12-23 6:28:34 PM|| 2004-12-23 6:28:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 The pioneer of activist media, Joseph Goebbels, and his wife killed themselves rather than face allied justice after WW2. Their final monstrous act was to take their innocent children with them.

Goebbels' propaganda colleague, Julius Streicher, lacked the nerve or the foresight to follow this example and had to face the rope after Nuremberg.
Their crimes were identical in many cases to what we are seeing today from the Islamic and fifth column media.
This kind of incitement is far beyond the Constitutional, common-law, and logical bounds of free expression, with only brainwashed media-dhimmis and red-diaper baby pop-culturists delusionally believing otherwise.

A tribunal on the pattern of Nuremberg is quite impossible today because of fifth column influence in the legal system. It may be possible in a few years, but we cannot wait for nuclear fire to focus the issues sufficiently for this to happen.

This does not rule out other options however, including the use of force.

I believe that something more subtle than direct attack is in order, but suppose we did put a cruise missile through the front window of Al Watan? What are the Sods going to do? Toss us out and demand UN protection? What would the outraged MSM do? Fabricate some more documents? Impeach Bush when their party is still a minority? The defense testimony in the Senate trial would make interesting reading.

OTOH, a showdown between the free press (so-called "New Media") and the institutional authoritarian media ("MSM") is inevitable. This being the case, a direct attack on foreign propagandists such as Al Watan would force the issue, and do so under circumstances that would place the MSM at a crushing disadvantage. The MSM and their vast array of allies and followers would be required to raise a howl, partly from habit and partly because of the implications for their own power and duplicity.
As such, they would be in the position of publicly defending monstrous and obvious liars. Free media would crucify them during the resulting uproar, the MSM would see it coming, yet they would have no choice.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-12-23 7:43:38 PM|| 2004-12-23 7:43:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Future Rantburg headlines:

1-10-05
"Cruise missiles silence Watan, Jazeerah"

1-11-05
"Katie Couric weeps for Al-Watan"

1-17-05
"Fisk defends Watan story, calls for Bush impeachment"

1-18-05
"Dems introduce Articles of Impeachment"

3-10-05
"Bush acquitted, Couric fired, Fisk beaten up"

3-10-06
"Former anchor Couric arrested for soliciting outside porn theater"

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-12-23 8:21:49 PM|| 2004-12-23 8:21:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 AC #11, LOL, although come to think of it I'm not sure you're joking.

Posted by Matt 2004-12-23 8:37:12 PM|| 2004-12-23 8:37:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Thanks Matt. I'm not sure either.

From the story:
"These teams offer $40 for every usable kidney and $25 for an eye."

I call bullshit on this one. They're only $21.50 a pound and $10 a dozen, respectively, at Halliburton Gourmet Foods in Lubbock. They are said to be all the rage at those $12,000,000.00 a plate Republican fund-raising bar-be-cues; easier on the squeamish than mountain oysters and quite good battered and fried or smothered in onions with Ariel's special chili sauce.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-12-23 8:48:28 PM|| 2004-12-23 8:48:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 "Some were found without a head..."
This sounds more like the work of the "insurgents" than the U.S. Army.

Bandar needs to be told that he's on his way home soon if the Saudi government daily doesn't get its act together.

Posted by Tom 2004-12-23 9:02:49 PM|| 2004-12-23 9:02:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 A.C. - on a roll......LOL

Posted by Frank G 2004-12-23 10:11:29 PM|| 2004-12-23 10:11:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Many thanks, Frank. I didn't get much sleep today, and I seem to be funnier when I am tired. I don't drink, so maybe fatigue poisons substitute for alcohol.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-12-23 11:42:29 PM|| 2004-12-23 11:42:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Many thanks, Frank. I didn't get much sleep today, and I seem to be funnier when I am tired. I don't drink, so maybe fatigue poisons substitute for alcohol.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-12-23 11:43:29 PM|| 2004-12-23 11:43:29 PM|| Front Page Top

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