A federal appeals court today considered restoring the only charge against alleged al-Qaida operative Abdullah al-Mujahir (Jose Padilla) that carries a sentence of up to life in prison.
Padilla/al-Mujahir, is now charged with being part of a North American cell that provided cash, supplies and recruits to Islamic extremists.
A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments earlier today (Wednesday, Januray 10th) over the dropped charge, “conspiracy to murder, kidnap and maim persons in a foreign country." A judge (Marcia Cooke) dismissed that charge in August after ruling it duplicated two other terrorism-support counts against Padilla and two co-defendants.
Federal prosecutors argued that U.S. District Judge Cooke, used the wrong legal analysis in dropping the charge.
The terrorism case is scheduled for trial Jan. 22 in Miami, but Cooke has said she will not allow the trial to go forward until the question before the 11th Circuit is settled.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070110/ap_on_re_us/padilla_terror_charges
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
50 “Iraqi Civilians (a/k/a Insurgents) are Killed in Iraq, While Six More Gitmo Detainees Join Hunger Strike!
As the AP might report, “As the U.S. continues this illegal war of aggression against a sovereign nation peopled by adherents of “the religion of peace,” FIFTY Iraqi civilians, many of them celebrating in traditional Iraqi style by firing automatic weapons into the air, or at American servicemen, were brutally gunned down by U.S. forces in central Baghdad.
“Meanwhile six more Gitmo “detainees” (a/k/a Taliban and al Qaeda fighters picked up off various battlefields in Afghanistan) have joined a “hunger strike” there to highlight American mistreatment.
“This brings to 11 (counting five who are currently being force-fed) the number of detainees engaged in this hunger strike.
“Navy Commander Robert Durand, a Guantanamo Bay spokesman, heartlessly claimed, “The hunger strike technique is consistent with Al-Qaida practice and reflects detainee attempts to elicit media attention to bring international pressure on the United States to release them back to the battlefield," implying that the hunger strike is an attempt to build public sympathy and opposition to the detention center, which on Thursday marks its fifth anniversary of existence.
“The U.S. and Britain continue to thumb their noses at the rest of the world (and many of their own citizens) who sympathize with both the adherents of “the religion of peace” and with the sovereign Iraqi people who’d all, no doubt rather still be living under the brutal tyranny of Saddam Hussein than face the humiliation of having foreign troops (Dhimmis & Infidels) daring to shoot Iraqi revelers merely for firing automatic weapons at coalition forces.”
In photo above: A U.S. military Apache helicopter flies as smoke rises over Baghdad's Haifa Street area, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007. Iraqi soldiers backed by U.S. troops battled gunmen in central Baghdad Tuesday.
“Meanwhile six more Gitmo “detainees” (a/k/a Taliban and al Qaeda fighters picked up off various battlefields in Afghanistan) have joined a “hunger strike” there to highlight American mistreatment.
“This brings to 11 (counting five who are currently being force-fed) the number of detainees engaged in this hunger strike.
“Navy Commander Robert Durand, a Guantanamo Bay spokesman, heartlessly claimed, “The hunger strike technique is consistent with Al-Qaida practice and reflects detainee attempts to elicit media attention to bring international pressure on the United States to release them back to the battlefield," implying that the hunger strike is an attempt to build public sympathy and opposition to the detention center, which on Thursday marks its fifth anniversary of existence.
“The U.S. and Britain continue to thumb their noses at the rest of the world (and many of their own citizens) who sympathize with both the adherents of “the religion of peace” and with the sovereign Iraqi people who’d all, no doubt rather still be living under the brutal tyranny of Saddam Hussein than face the humiliation of having foreign troops (Dhimmis & Infidels) daring to shoot Iraqi revelers merely for firing automatic weapons at coalition forces.”
In photo above: A U.S. military Apache helicopter flies as smoke rises over Baghdad's Haifa Street area, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007. Iraqi soldiers backed by U.S. troops battled gunmen in central Baghdad Tuesday.
UPDATE: Jamil Hussein (apparently) speaks...
On his blog, that is.
There is indeed a Jamil Hussein blog (at http://jamilhussein.com/ where else) with some really great posts, like this one;
Why Do We Fight
By: Capt. Jamil Hussein
http://jamilhussein.com/
Westerners often argue about the causes of sectarian violence in Iraq.
By: Capt. Jamil Hussein
http://jamilhussein.com/
Westerners often argue about the causes of sectarian violence in Iraq.
Is it Shia vs. Sunni?
Is it all sponsored by those cocksuckers in Iran?
Is it about the oil?
No! None of these things is the reason. The reason, I am sad to tell you, is because Iraq has no Craigslist.
Lebanon has Craigslist. Egypt has Craigslist. Even those swine in Pakistan have Craigslist! Pakistan!
What do Pakistanis need Craigslist for? Most of them have no teeth! They are like Indians who forgot how to cook! What good is Pakistan Missed Connections when all the women are wearing the same outfit and have the same color eyes? It makes no sense!
I would rather have genital herpes and no fingers to scratch in Iraq than to own six wives and a 1000 head of goats in Pakistan.
So the next time you hear some idiot talking about violence in Iraq, you'll know who to blame. It is Craig Newmark, sipper of weak American coffee in vegan coffee shops in San Francisco who is responsible. It would be less offensive to be anally penetrated by Moqtada Al-Sadr than to shake the hand of this dog Newmark.
I beg of you to contact your congressmen and ask them to force Craigslist to expand to Iraq.
Is it all sponsored by those cocksuckers in Iran?
Is it about the oil?
No! None of these things is the reason. The reason, I am sad to tell you, is because Iraq has no Craigslist.
Lebanon has Craigslist. Egypt has Craigslist. Even those swine in Pakistan have Craigslist! Pakistan!
What do Pakistanis need Craigslist for? Most of them have no teeth! They are like Indians who forgot how to cook! What good is Pakistan Missed Connections when all the women are wearing the same outfit and have the same color eyes? It makes no sense!
I would rather have genital herpes and no fingers to scratch in Iraq than to own six wives and a 1000 head of goats in Pakistan.
So the next time you hear some idiot talking about violence in Iraq, you'll know who to blame. It is Craig Newmark, sipper of weak American coffee in vegan coffee shops in San Francisco who is responsible. It would be less offensive to be anally penetrated by Moqtada Al-Sadr than to shake the hand of this dog Newmark.
I beg of you to contact your congressmen and ask them to force Craigslist to expand to Iraq.
Capt. Jamil Hussein
I don't know, sounds about right to me! Even I'd rather get "anally penetrated by Moqtada Al-Sadr than shake hands with Craig Newmark," well, OK maybe not, but I'd certainly "rather have genital herpes and no fingers to scratch in Iraq than to own six wives and a 1000 head of goats in Pakistan," mainly because I really hate curry.
On Terrorists, Bloggers, Pirates and Journalists
You know, when you think about it, there are damn few careers you can engage in now-a-days without a whole lot of pesky and downright serious credentials.
The other day I heard some pundit say, ‘Terrorists aren’t exactly brain surgeons.”
The other day I heard some pundit say, ‘Terrorists aren’t exactly brain surgeons.”
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Well, YEAH!
Neurosurgery requires something like twenty-five years of school, followed by an arduous surgical internship and an extensive and equally arduous residency in that specialization.
On the other hand, one day you’re a falafel-maker, or fry-cook with a third grade education and the next you’re a “terrorist mastermind” (aren’t ALL terrorists “masterminds?”). I mean all you need is a dream and a plan...a plan to pretty much blow things up and generally wreck shit.
Same with bloggers, pretty much anyone can set up a web log or blog and pretty much fly their pirate colors and enter the “marketplace of ideas.”
Neurosurgery requires something like twenty-five years of school, followed by an arduous surgical internship and an extensive and equally arduous residency in that specialization.
On the other hand, one day you’re a falafel-maker, or fry-cook with a third grade education and the next you’re a “terrorist mastermind” (aren’t ALL terrorists “masterminds?”). I mean all you need is a dream and a plan...a plan to pretty much blow things up and generally wreck shit.
Same with bloggers, pretty much anyone can set up a web log or blog and pretty much fly their pirate colors and enter the “marketplace of ideas.”
<>"I believed it, we published it. Official questions had been raised, but we stood by the story and her. Internal questions had been raised, but none about her other work. The reports were about the story not sounding right, being based on anonymous sources, and primarily about purported lies [about] her personal life -- [told by men reporters], two she had dated and one who felt in close competition with her. I think that the decision to nominate the story for a Pulitzer is of minimal consequence. I also think that it won is of little consequence. It is a brilliant story -- fake and fraud that it is. It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes."
Cooke resigned, the prize was returned and the reputation of the venerable Washington Post was sullied.
So the MSM doesn’t merely filter the news people get, they also editorialize in news stories and fictionalize stories, making up subjects and sources as they go along.
Currently the entire Associated Press has apparently claimed an imaginary friend ("source") in the apparently fictional Iraqi policeman named Jamil Hussein - (pictured above?)
Is that a “Collective psychosis,” or “Mass neurosis?” Damned, I wish I’d taken more psych classes.
The fact of the matter is that today, while the MSM engages in blatant editorializing in news stories, relying on fake/fictional “sources” for quotes and equally fake/fictional subjects for its reports, the blogosphere offers pure commentary on a broad and vast cross-section of news accounts from a variety of sources. And with Commentary, at least you know up front which slant you're getting.
Sometimes (and by sometimes we mean OFTEN), the blogosphere actually catches the media with its pants down, as with Rathergate, or the AP using staged photos from the mysterious “Green Helmet” (http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/who-is-this-man.html) character during the Israeli-Lebanon war.
To be fair, the Jamil Hussein controversy (also called Jamilgate and “the Burning Six controversy”) refers to allegations that some Associated Press reporters were using fake sources in their reporting on Iraq.
In at least one case, an entire story was claimed to be false - a story which stated in part that six people were burned alive and four mosques were destroyed in Hurriya, a neighborhood of Baghdad.
The controversy erupted after the Multi-National Force - Iraq, responding to the Hurriya story, said they could find no confirmation of people being burned, and that only one mosque had sustained minor damage due to fire.
Most recently, the AP has insisted that Jamil Hussein IS real and the Iraqi government has apparently now found the police officer it previously claims did not exist.
On December 20th Flopping Aces (http://www.floppingaces.net/2006/12/20/the-latest-on-jamil-hussein/) reported that, “The most interesting new information, as Michelle writes about in her new post, is the fact that there is a police Captain whose name is quite similar to what the AP reported, minus the Hussein:
“There is only one police officer whose first name is "Jamil" currently working at the Khadra station, according to my CPATT sources.
“His name is Jamil Ghdaab Gulaim (alternate spelling per CPATT is "Ghulaim.") Previously, Jamil Ghdaab Gulaim worked at a precinct in Yarmouk, according to the CPATT sources. Curt at Flopping Aces has received the same info.
“Now, go back and look at the full name and location information the Associated Press cited in its statement on the matter:
“[T]hat captain has long been know to the AP reporters and has had a record of reliability and truthfulness. He has been based at the police station at Yarmouk, and more recently at al-Khadra, another Baghdad district, and has been interviewed by the AP several times at his office and by telephone. His full name is Jamil Gholaiem Hussein.
“Let's review: AP's source, supposedly named "Jamil Gholaiem Hussein," used to work at Yarmouk but now works at al Khadra. CPATT says the one person named "Jamil" now at al Khadra -- Jamil Ghdaab Gulaim -- also used to work at Yarmouk. His rank is the same as that of AP's alleged source. His last name is almost identical to the middle name of AP's alleged source. (FYI: In Arabic, the middle name is one's father's name; the last name is one's grandfather's.)
“Lots of circumstantial evidence there to conclude this might in fact be our guy. Only problem is that he denies ever speaking to the AP, according to our CPATT source.”
Then on January 4th, 2007, Yahoo News carried this AP story; “The Interior Ministry acknowledged Thursday that an Iraqi police officer whose existence had been denied by the Iraqis and the U.S. military is in fact an active member of the force, and said he now faces arrest for speaking to the media.
Ministry spokesman Brig. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, who had previously denied there was any such police employee as Capt. Jamil Hussein, said in an interview that Hussein is an officer assigned to the Khadra police station, as had been reported by The Associated Press.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_jamil_hussein_1
The existence of a “Jamil Hussein” doesn’t change the troubling aspects of a MSM that has routinely editorialized and fictionalized news accounts, often using dubious “sources,” from “Green Helmet,” to the mysterious and obviously erroneous “Jamil Hussein.” - the story of the burning Sunnis is without question a fabrication, as were many of the other details of that account given to the AP.
World’s Smallest Country – FOR SALE!
This is either the best scam ever, or well...THE BEST SCAM EVER!!!
And boy is it small! It’s just a wartime fort perched on two concrete towers in the North Sea (pictured above - great location), built in World War II as an anti-aircraft base to repel German bombers.
About forty years ago, retired British army major Paddy Roy Bates went to live there with his family and promptly declared the platform, perched seven miles off the east coast of England and just outside Britain's territorial waters, to be the “principality of Sealand.”
The self-styled “Prince Roy” (with wife, Joan pictured above top) adopted a flag, chose a national anthem and minted silver and gold coins. Yeah, yeah, there are people in Mental Institutions who’ve done the same thing, only claiming they’re Napoleon or Mary Queen of Scots.
Apparently the family fought off an attempt by Britain's Royal Navy to evict them and also repelled a 1978 attempt to seize Sealand by force led by a group of German and Dutch businessmen.
Guys, guys GUYS!!! From the Third Reich to bungling a hostile takeover of a North Sea platform from a single family of possibly insane Brits, in less than thirty-five years?!
Your first mistake may have been engaging in such a “war” with the Dutch as your Allies. Just thinking out loud, here.
“Prince Roy (the former Paddy Roy Bates), now 85, lives in Spain.
His son Michael (54 years old), who is brokering any prospective deals, told BBC Radio on Monday his family had been approached by estate agents with clients "who wanted a bit more than a bit of real estate, they wanted autonomy."
When asked what it was like living on what Michael described as a cross between a house and a ship, the 54-year-old replied, "The neighbors are very quiet. There is a good sea view."
Great, but how much annual foreign aid do we get?!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070109/od_nm/island_dc
And boy is it small! It’s just a wartime fort perched on two concrete towers in the North Sea (pictured above - great location), built in World War II as an anti-aircraft base to repel German bombers.
About forty years ago, retired British army major Paddy Roy Bates went to live there with his family and promptly declared the platform, perched seven miles off the east coast of England and just outside Britain's territorial waters, to be the “principality of Sealand.”
The self-styled “Prince Roy” (with wife, Joan pictured above top) adopted a flag, chose a national anthem and minted silver and gold coins. Yeah, yeah, there are people in Mental Institutions who’ve done the same thing, only claiming they’re Napoleon or Mary Queen of Scots.
Apparently the family fought off an attempt by Britain's Royal Navy to evict them and also repelled a 1978 attempt to seize Sealand by force led by a group of German and Dutch businessmen.
Guys, guys GUYS!!! From the Third Reich to bungling a hostile takeover of a North Sea platform from a single family of possibly insane Brits, in less than thirty-five years?!
Your first mistake may have been engaging in such a “war” with the Dutch as your Allies. Just thinking out loud, here.
“Prince Roy (the former Paddy Roy Bates), now 85, lives in Spain.
His son Michael (54 years old), who is brokering any prospective deals, told BBC Radio on Monday his family had been approached by estate agents with clients "who wanted a bit more than a bit of real estate, they wanted autonomy."
When asked what it was like living on what Michael described as a cross between a house and a ship, the 54-year-old replied, "The neighbors are very quiet. There is a good sea view."
Great, but how much annual foreign aid do we get?!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070109/od_nm/island_dc
Monday, January 8, 2007
Extra! Extra!!! American gunboats off the cost of Somalia pounding "proponents of the religion of peace"
That’s right, as we speak, U.S. Gunboats and AC-130's (pictured right) are off the coast of Somalia pounding remnants of the al Qaeda forces that had previously taken Mogadishu.
And of course by “al Qaeda,” we mean “proponents of the religion of peace” and by “pounding” we mean…well, shelling them into submission (a/k/a DEATH), but since we don’t want to say “death” in front of the children or "proponents of the religion of peace," we prefer to use the more PC term “submission."
Hmmmm, just an errant thought, but since this ass-pounding has seemed to work so well (al Qaeda remnants in Somalia are now suing for peace), while our “peace-keeping” and “nation-building” efforts in Iraq have appeared to have stalled, maybe we should consider, uhhhh, maybe expanding the ass-kicking a bit.
And of course by “al Qaeda,” we mean “proponents of the religion of peace” and by “pounding” we mean…well, shelling them into submission (a/k/a DEATH), but since we don’t want to say “death” in front of the children or "proponents of the religion of peace," we prefer to use the more PC term “submission."
Hmmmm, just an errant thought, but since this ass-pounding has seemed to work so well (al Qaeda remnants in Somalia are now suing for peace), while our “peace-keeping” and “nation-building” efforts in Iraq have appeared to have stalled, maybe we should consider, uhhhh, maybe expanding the ass-kicking a bit.
U.S. Targeted al Qaeda Suspects in Somalia
Reuters
1/8/2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070109/ts_nm/somalia_qaeda_report_dc
"A U.S. gunship has conducted a strike against two suspected al Qaeda operatives in southern Somalia, but it was not known whether the mission was successful, U.S. news networks reported on Monday.
The U.S. Air Force plane, operated by the Special Operations Command, flew from its base in Djibouti to the southern tip of Somalia, where the al Qaeda suspects were believed to have fled from the capital Mogadishu, U.S. networks reported.
A Pentagon spokesman said he had no information on the reports.
The two suspected al Qaeda operatives were not named but CBS News said one was a suspect in the car bomb attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and the other was the Islamist group's senior leader in East Africa.
The report said many bodies were seen on the ground after the attack by the AC-130 gunship, but the identities of the dead were not confirmed.
The al Qaeda suspects fled Mogadishu after Ethiopian troops invaded on December 28 and were tracked with unmanned aerial drones as they moved south, CBS said..."
Reuters
1/8/2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070109/ts_nm/somalia_qaeda_report_dc
"A U.S. gunship has conducted a strike against two suspected al Qaeda operatives in southern Somalia, but it was not known whether the mission was successful, U.S. news networks reported on Monday.
The U.S. Air Force plane, operated by the Special Operations Command, flew from its base in Djibouti to the southern tip of Somalia, where the al Qaeda suspects were believed to have fled from the capital Mogadishu, U.S. networks reported.
A Pentagon spokesman said he had no information on the reports.
The two suspected al Qaeda operatives were not named but CBS News said one was a suspect in the car bomb attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and the other was the Islamist group's senior leader in East Africa.
The report said many bodies were seen on the ground after the attack by the AC-130 gunship, but the identities of the dead were not confirmed.
The al Qaeda suspects fled Mogadishu after Ethiopian troops invaded on December 28 and were tracked with unmanned aerial drones as they moved south, CBS said..."
Continuing with the idiocy...
WoW! Looks like the idiots are in control at the dictionary too!
Well, judging from the new "word of the year" from the American Dialect Society - it's "Plutoed," which apparently means "to demote or devalue someone or something,"
Could we just pluto the entire American Dialect Society, please???
Hey!
It's another gem, courtesy of Yahoo News;
'Plutoed' chosen as '06 Word of the Year
Associated Press
1/7/2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070108/ap_on_re_us/word_of_the_year
Pluto is finally getting some respect — not from astronomers, but from wordsmiths.
"Plutoed" was chosen 2006's Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society at its annual meeting Friday.
To "pluto" is "to demote or devalue someone or something," much like what happened to the former planet last year when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto didn't meet its definition of a planet.
"Our members believe the great emotional reaction of the public to the demotion of Pluto shows the importance of Pluto as a name," said society president Cleveland Evans. "We may no longer believe in the Roman god Pluto, but we still have a sense of personal connection with the former planet."
"Plutoed" won in a runoff against "climate canary," defined as "an organism or species whose poor health or declining numbers hint at a larger environmental catastrophe on the horizon."
Associated Press
1/7/2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070108/ap_on_re_us/word_of_the_year
Pluto is finally getting some respect — not from astronomers, but from wordsmiths.
"Plutoed" was chosen 2006's Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society at its annual meeting Friday.
To "pluto" is "to demote or devalue someone or something," much like what happened to the former planet last year when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto didn't meet its definition of a planet.
"Our members believe the great emotional reaction of the public to the demotion of Pluto shows the importance of Pluto as a name," said society president Cleveland Evans. "We may no longer believe in the Roman god Pluto, but we still have a sense of personal connection with the former planet."
"Plutoed" won in a runoff against "climate canary," defined as "an organism or species whose poor health or declining numbers hint at a larger environmental catastrophe on the horizon."
Ohhh, why couldn't it have been URANUS?! We could've all had a lot of fun with that!
Well, thank God cooler heads prevailed at the American Dialect Society, because I don't know what I'd have done had "Climate Canary" won the day!
By the way, is this American Dialect Society a paying gig?
And if so, how much does it pay and what are the hours? Oh, and can you work from home (telecommute)?
I'm just asking because I'm friggin great at making up all sorts of inane words and dipshit phrases.
Hey! I'm an idiot and that's what idiots do.
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