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2007-03-20 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Alan Johnston gets to see how accurate his story was

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Posted by tu3031 2007-03-20 10:34|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Oh, for Allah's~~cris~~sakes, give them their big bags of money so I can come home and sign my book deal!"
There. Fixed it for you - he will have to convert to Islam, and then he should be freed. Or not.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-03-20 11:07|| 2007-03-20 11:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Fantasy alternative: Johnston was abducted by American or Israeli vigilantes and has been spirited away to a safe house in............

London.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-03-20 11:09|| 2007-03-20 11:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Someday, Atomic, someday...

Posted by Destro in Panama 2007-03-20 11:17|| 2007-03-20 11:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Kung Fu? Kung Fu is a Chinese martial art. Pretty typical for a liberal Western reporter to make mistakes of fact like this, and then (probably) laugh it off afterwards, even though it comes darn close to being a racist joke. Heck, if I said a Japanese went into Kung Fu mode, I'd be up to my eyeballs in liberals laughing at me for being a parochial ignoramus from flyover territory.

Posted by gromky 2007-03-20 11:22|| 2007-03-20 11:22|| Front Page Top

#5 The mills of the Gods...

Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-20 12:26|| 2007-03-20 12:26|| Front Page Top

#6 While America is making every effort to win the hearts & minds of the Iraqi people..and Israel struggles to get it's message of survival out to the world..
The Islamo terrorists and paleos have won the hearts & minds of the Main Stream Media Orgs effortlessly.

The BBC has a hard on for Israel and America, it's one of the worst, they are as anti-American and anti-Israeli as the USSR and Saddam were.

As far as I'm concerned the BBC is our enemy, and the incredibly stupid retards, the paleos can go about cutting both of Alan Johnston's duplicitous heads off.

a win, win, win if you follow.

Posted by RD 2007-03-20 14:48|| 2007-03-20 14:48|| Front Page Top

#7 The Beeb is our enemy and has openly admitted as much. They KNOW their corporate culture and perceived message is anti-American, anti-Western, and pro-Muslim terrorist.

Posted by Mac 2007-03-20 17:38|| 2007-03-20 17:38|| Front Page Top

#8 But fortunately Gaza is not Iraq, nothing like it.

He may soon find out otherwise. Let's all hope that this maroon had the extremely poor judgement to boast about how he's such a well-respected journalist and well-known to the hoity toity and blah, blah, blah ...

Maybe that will result in his captors holding him for an extended period of time as they seek an even larger ransom. Perhaps then Johnston will have a golden opportunity to get up close and personal with the thugs and savages he glorifies so constantly. The BBC has been in the enemy's camp for so long that they seem to have gained a deep sense of familiarity. For those of us with any brains, Muslims long ago proved exactly what familiarity breeds ...

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-20 17:51|| 2007-03-20 17:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Palestinians are extremely hospitable people, and one of the dangers of being abducted here must be that you could get fed to death.

That explains the people exploding at cafes, restaurants, and holiday feasts. They're not strapped with explosives -- they're overfed.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-03-20 19:02|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-03-20 19:02|| Front Page Top

#10 They're not strapped with explosives -- they're overfed.

MR. CREOSOTE: [groaning]

MAÎTRE D: And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin mint.

MR. CREOSOTE: Nah.

MAÎTRE D: Oh, sir, it's only a tiny, little, thin one.

MR. CREOSOTE: No. Fuck off. I'm full.

MAÎTRE D: Oh, sir. Hmm?

MR. CREOSOTE: [groan]

MAÎTRE D: It's only wafer thin.

MR. CREOSOTE: Look. I couldn't eat another thing. I'm absolutely stuffed. Bugger off.

MAÎTRE D: Oh, sir, just-- just one.

MR. CREOSOTE: [groaning] All right. Just one.

MAÎTRE D: Just the one, monsieur. Voilà.

MR. CREOSOTE: [groaning]

MAÎTRE D: Bon appétit.

MR. CREOSOTE: [groaning]

[suspenseful music]
[music stops]
[crash]
[BOOM]
[goosh]
[goosh]
[mayhem]

MAÎTRE D: Thank you, sir, and now, here's ze check.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-20 19:32|| 2007-03-20 19:32|| Front Page Top

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