My OperaYes, A Roundup
Sunday, June 11, 2006 5:11:30 AM
- London nerve gas terrorist is not a terrorist after all. No traces were found of the chemical weapons that an informant claimed were in the apartment. The guy will get close to a million dollars in damages as compensation.
- Zarqawi liked lingerie, baby! Leopard print nightgown found in wreckage of his safehouse; there is no information on whether it belonged to Zarqawi or his wife. Magazines were also found, but only Newsweek was mentioned as a title.
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Betsy says Al Qaeda sounds desparate for recruits. After reading this, I have to agree:
"Help, help! Support, support!" it said addressing the Islamic ummah, or community. "Assistance, assistance! Where is your money? And where are your men? There is no excuse for you.
"America won't benefit you. History won't be merciful to you. Wake up before it gets too late and before all the curses of Earth and heaven fall upon you."
More experts agreeing that AQ is having recruiting difficulties here. - AJ Strata is writing on Haditha. He points to other cases where AQ filmed killings and suicide bombings and thinks Haditha is an AQ setup. Scroll around to read a series of posts.
- Instant debunking of the "American troops beat Zarqawi to death" meme. Not that it will stop the lie from being used against the War for months to come, based on a single anonymous Iraqi's word.
- 3 Guantanimo inmates commit suicide. Calls grow to close the detention center, without explaining what we are supposed to do with the POWs, terrorists, detainees, prisoners or whatever you would like to call them. Let them go and let them return to murdering innocents? There is a difference between releasing those we believe are not a danger and closing the entire place.
- Brit Muslim leader thinks Brits should become more Muslim:
His aim, he says, will be to encourage Britain to adopt more Muslim ways, as well as to encourage Muslims to be good British citizens. He thinks that non-Muslim Britons would benefit from having arranged marriages and espousing stronger family values; they would also do well to stop drinking and gambling and to follow many of the teachings of Islam.
- Hugo Chavez needs money, won't you please help? Repatriate your money in external banks and give it to Hugo to flush down the toilet. Operators are waiting now to take your pledge. Don't make him come down there and nationalize your business.
- From Michael Ledeen, an interesting fact:
One other very important factoid emerged from the accounts of the attack on Zarqawi: we killed two women in the same house. We did it deliberately, because they were his key intelligence officers. From which two lessons should be drawn. First, women get something approaching parity in the jihadist terror organizations, despite endless citations from the holy Koran demanding their subservience. These were not suicide bombers, of which we have seen several exemplars in the past; these were important components of the terror headquarters. And second, when our soldiers enter terrorists’ quarters and kill women in the ensuing firefight, remind yourself that it might have been entirely proper, since the women may have been terrorists themselves.
- News of the Obvious
Terrorists targeting civilians, not American troops, in Iraq
World cannot accept a nuclear Iran
We don't know when Iran will have nukes
Other terrorists don't want to be like Zarqawi
