Bill's Bites -- 2006.09.12
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Desperate Dog
Please read this (updated @ 20:25) and help if you can.
al-Qaeda And The Nuclear Threat
Dan Riehl
There's been a recent alert in Trinidad / Guyana for an al-Qaeda operative linked to a possible Dirty Bomb attack in the US to coincide with Ramadan, which I believe begins September 24th. Yesterday, Trinidad law enforcement officials said they were aware that Shukrijumah was in Trinidad and confirmed they were contacted by the FBI for assistance in the matter. ...
Video: Michelle discusses, uh, “Girls Gone Wild” on O’Reilly
Allahpundit
Our beloved boss, saddled with a topic like this. Oh, the indignity. And the lost opportunity: if they wanted an expert on GGW from Hot Air, that could easily have been arranged.
To top it all off, O’R had the temerity to refer to the lovely Ms. Powers as a “fascist.” I’ll warn you once, Billy boy, and not again: no one puts KP in the corner.
Primarymania: Chafee vs. Laffey, Cardin vs. Mfume
Update: Chafee wins (H/T)
You can track the Maryland returns here and the Rhode Island returns here. Cardin’s expected to win pretty handily in MD; if he does, he’ll be the favorite against Michael Steele in the general election in November. As for RI, if Chafee wins, we get six more years of Chafee. If Laffey wins, he’s a heavy underdog against Democratic nominee Sheldon Whitehouse. The question might simply be this: do we want Whitehouse to be the one to torpedo John Bolton? Or will it go down easier if Chafee does it?
Actually, the question is do we want the GOP to retain control of the upper chamber or do we want Harry Reid’s next intimidating letter to ABC to bear the stamp of Senate majority leader? My heart says Laffey but my brain says RINO. ...
September 06’s 2008 GOP straw poll
Ian Schwartz
Which candidates would you accept as the 2008 GOP nominee and which would you find unacceptable, and who is your first choice? ...
Bomb blast kills 7 in Turkey
Seven people were killed and 17 injured Tuesday in an explosion in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir, the city governor's office says. The blast was a bomb made from powerful explosives and set off by a cell phone timer, authorities told The Associated Press. There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack, but the region is home to militant Kurds who have waged a 22-year campaign against Turkey.
U.S. lauds Syrian forces in embassy attack
DAMASCUS, Syria (CNN) -- U.S. officials praised Syrian security forces for thwarting Tuesday's attack on the U.S. Embassy in Damascus despite the usually tense relationship with the Middle Eastern country.
The Syrians killed three attackers and apprehended a suspect outside the embassy after a car exploded near the walls of the American compound, the Syrian Information Ministry said.
"I do think the Syrians reacted to the attack in a way that helped to secure our people, and we very much appreciate that," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said while visiting Canada.
Air Force chief: Test weapons on testy U.S. mobs
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before being used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday.
The object is basically public relations. Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions from others about possible safety considerations, said Secretary Michael Wynne.
"If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation," said Wynne. "(Because) if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that it injured them....
Just noticing...
Michelle Malkin
I've taken several trips on Amtrak over the past few weeks, and have noticed a lot of extra security lately. Increased police presence inside the station. Increased police presence at the entrance before you get on the tracks. ...
Tunnel Vision
From CNN: Democrats blast Bush for 'playing politics' with 9/11. The White House quarreled with Democrats Tuesday over whether President Bush was trying to win political points by using a September 11 anniversary speech to defend the war in Iraq and his war on terror. ...
Democrats, in a campaign to win control of Congress from the president's Republican Party, charged that Bush was using a national day of mourning for partisan gain. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said Tuesday that Bush was "more consumed by staying the course in Iraq and playing election-year politics." ...
Cartoon jihad:
Iran shutters reformist newspaper over subversive sketch
Allahpundit
It’s been said before but bears repeating: everything the left thinks Bush is, the mullahs actually are.
Back in Business
Terrorist freed from German prison, rejoins Hezbollah
Mohammed Ali Hamadi was serving life sentence for killing U.S. sailor aboard hijacked jet in Beirut
Color this old Dog livid VA: Gulf War Illness Does Not Exist
New report says symptoms are real, but that there's no single identifiable Gulf War syndrome
Kill Bush, Vol. 9,999
Michelle Malkin
A trip down Unhinged Lane. ... The Los Angeles Times reports on how the director of "Death of a President" staged the assassination scenes and deceived authorities in order to get footage of President Bush for the movie. ...
Bill Clinton accepts blame
Michelle Malkin
For not doing enough about...AIDS and Rwanda.
That's according to a New Yorker article by David Remnick just e-mailed to me by the magazine's P.R. people. Here's a snippet: ...
The father of all fauxtography
The staging of pro-terrorist photos for the theater of jihad has been going on a long time.
I've blogged before about a notorious incident involving iconic images of a Palestinian boy, Mohammed al Doura, broadcast by French state-owned television in 2000. The boy was allegedly gunned down by Israeli soldiers. But as Nidra Poller and David Gelernter, among others, have reported, the truth was not on the terror sympathizers' side. ...
Report: Al Qaeda planning nuke attack for Ramadan
Allahpundit
1. Hamid Mir, the reporter with whom this story originated, is the only journalist to have interviewed Bin Laden after 9/11. Obviously, his sources would be in a position to know what the top ranks of AQ are thinking. He’s been consistent, too: I wrote a post in late May about an interview Mir had given in which he identified Al Qaeda’s nuclear ambitions and even the operative they’ve entrusted to mastermind the attack — Adnan al-Shukrijumah, who inspired a special national terror APB by the FBI back in 2002. Mir’s story is the same today as it was four months ago. The only difference is that now he’s got a target date for the attack. Ramadan, 2006.
2. Would AQ really leak news of a massive attack before it happened? See for yourself. ...
An Arab-American apologizes
Read Emilio Karim Dabul in today's NY Post: WELL, here it is, five years late, but here just the same: an apology from an Arab-American for 9/11. No, I didn't help organize the killers or contribute in any way to their terrible cause. However, I was one of millions of Arab-Americans who did the unspeakable on 9/11: nothing.
The only time I raised my voice in protest against these men who killed thousands of innocents in the name of Allah was behind closed doors, among the safety of friends and family. I did at one point write a very vitriolic essay condemning their actions, but fear of becoming another Salman Rushdie kept me from ever trying to publish it. ...
al Qaeda claims journalist's head
Michelle Malkin
In praise of patriotism
This will lift your spirits. Frank Miller, the famed graphic novelist/illustrator, had a commentary featured on NPR yesterday extolling patriotism. Yes, on NPR! Here's a snippet, but you should click over and listen to the whole thing: Both of my parents were World War II veterans. FDR-era patriots. And I was exactly the age to rebel against them.
It all fit together rather neatly. I could never stomach the flower-child twaddle of the '60s crowd and I was ready to believe that our flag was just an old piece of cloth and that patriotism was just some quaint relic, best left behind us.
It was all about the ideas. I schooled myself in the writings of Madison and Franklin and Adams and Jefferson. I came to love those noble, indestructible ideas. They were ideas, to my young mind, of rebellion and independence, not of idolatry.
But not that piece of old cloth. ...
How the left remembered
Michelle Malkin
Photos of the unhinged in NYC yesterday from the intrepid El Marco. This one sums it up: ...
Sharia in Somalia: No more love songs
Via Reuters: A Somali radio station closed by Islamists for playing local love songs deemed to encourage immorality returned to the airwaves on Monday after pledging to stop broadcasting music. ...
Attack on US embassy in Syria
Three killed--they were gunmen shouting "Allah akbar!"
Update: An al Qaeda "offshoot" is suspected. Revised casualty figures: Syrian security forces killed four attackers Tuesday outside the U.S. Embassy in Damascus after a car exploded near the walls of the American compound, the Syrian Information Ministry said.
Nutroots agree: Olby’s Ground Zero rant = the best sex ever
Allahpundit
See Johnny’s update. Praise from dKos was to be expected, but when you’ve won the endorsement of “Americunt,” then, my friends, you know you’ve accomplished something special. TV Newser pans for reaction gold at Technorati and comes up with a few nuggets. Sample: “The man is Edward R. Murrow.” Greg Tinti has video, commentary, and links.
Dick Gregory says Bush assassination film may prove prophetic
Allahpundit
Not so much truth to power as John Wilkes Booth to power: ...
Five Years On, take 2
Bryan Preston
Yesterday I called a wide swath of the American (or anti-American) left mentally ill. Today, a nice sampling of the left has proven me right. Here’s part of what I said: ...
15:40 Your weekly Bethany fix
Allahpundit
I woke up this morning to birds singing, the earth crowned with gold from the perfect sun, and the few clouds in the sky looking especially fluffy. That’s when I knew: there must be a new realVerse posted. ...
NYT embraces pre-emption
Bryan Preston
The Dems are floundering in New York. So says the NYT, in an article that looks like a pre-emptive strike against nutroots pre-election overconfidence: ...
War Bulletins
Bryan Preston
Afghanistan: Bad guy bagged. ...
Video: Bush vs. Lauer
Allahpundit
... Forget what I said yesterday about the controversy over “Path to 9/11″ being a microcosm of where the country’s at. This is an even more perfect microcosm, as Matt Lauer asks the president with a straight face if waterboarding the mastermind of the September 11th attacks “blurs the lines” between us and head-hacking, plane-hijacking, skyscraper-targeting jihadist Nazis. ...
Video: “Path to 9/11″ (attack edit)
Allahpundit
I caught the last 40 minutes and must say I was surprised at how well they handled it. Here’s an eight-minute edit of the attack scenes; the boss says it brought her to the brink of tears. Much of the dialogue, including Betty Ong’s, comes straight from reality, as does the hijackers’ ceremonial garb; this was recovered from the wreckage at Shanksville.
Today's Vent: Assassination Chic
My speakers are Murthad up and I can't afford new ones, but it looks like a good one.
Kennedy Slams Zawahiri for Politicizing 9/11
(2006-09-12) -- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-MA, today harshly criticized al Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri for using this week's commemoration of the 5th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks to release a video aimed at garnering support for the increasingly-unpopular war in Iraq. ...
Disorganized Dog
One of the other Dogs read Desperate Dog and sent enough help to at least keep my cable connected for another month. (Electricity could still be an issue.) I finally calmed down enough to get some sleep -- helluva way to show my gratitude, sleeping and ignoring the site. I'll try to get my act together enough to do some blogging as soon as I get enough coffee in me. I also need to devote some time to some other site-related tasks I've let slide too long -- a new CafePress line, an Old War Dogs ad so pretty you'll want it on your site (got a dog with talents I just found out about), a Friends of Old War Dogs button to be awarded to a few selected sites (gonna ask Jim for that one too), etc.
*** 15:07
Feelin' really under the weather, ready to go back to bed. Gonna have to be a Lazy Bites day.
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