A few really quick links to start off your morning;
Gay Taboo; Socialist Taboo; Leftist Taboo
Duke asks; “Is TIME a subsidery of the CBC?” (link fixed)
Who is Sheikh Syed Mubarik ‘Ali Gilani?
Advice for Borders: “Cowardice does not make you safe. It makes you a safe target“.
I’m still knee deep in sanding dust and base coat – use the comments for your own suggestions.
Urgh. And then, in the course of finishing a few touchups, a paint reaction – sending many hours of work down the toilet. I get to sand down half of my work and start again. Suffice it to say that trolls had better tread lightly here over the next few days. Someone’s temper will be short.
I think citizens of the United States of America and citizens of Canada should have to have passports to travel in each other’s countries. That’s what a passport is: international travel documentation.
I have long made it clear here that the Americans, as a nation, are my friends, not just my neighbours. But are we not separate nations? Considering all the howling in Canada about how we arean’t America, the irony of wanting to travel there without formal international documentation to that effect is striking.
I will fight tooth and nail against being required to carry papers in the country of my citizenship. I will (although less strenuously) fight to *be* required to carry papers in order to enter or leave a country.
It’s all well and good to let people go traipsing about willy-nilly, but if you do, and at the same time you make the place where you live a good place to live, through dint of effort, you will inevitably find a hoarde of parasites descending upon you.
At that point, self-defence is a valid approach.
After trying to understand BCL’s blatherings about the hostage rescue, I feel the need to ask some questions that probably never occured to bcl as it would never fit into his National Inquirer verion of things.
first, about the detainee who gave the rescurers the information to locate the hostages… could it be that he was an informer? There is no good reason to put away a perfectly good source of intel.
second, the bad guys were not there when the rescuers showed up. would you stick around with the evidence when the cavalry was on the way? I’d be firing up the old camel and getting the hell out of Dodge myself.
three, has anyone given into ransom demands before in the middle east and did this prevent further episodes?
I’d reccomend that big city moonie give his little head a shake but I’m afraid he would hurt himself.
Three, count ’em, 1,2,3, Ali Babas: poom. +
Unmanned Aircraft Kills Three Insurgents(on March 28)
Posted by MARKUSPRIME
On 03/31/2006 3:06:54 PM PST � 11 replies � 135+ views
Defense Talk ^
WASHINGTON: An MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle engaged three insurgents in the process of planting a homemade bomb along a road near Balad Air Base, Iraq, March 28 and launched an AGM-114 Hellfire missile against the group. The Predator monitored the three insurgents for about a half hour while they used a pickax to dig a hole in the road, placing an explosive round in the hole, and stringing wires from the hole to a ditch on the side of the road. When it was clear the individuals were placing a bomb, the Predator launched the 100-pound Hellfire missile, killing all three… +
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607117/posts
Why Texas – you are being just too logical here – After all – it MUST have been a “release” because BCL has been blathering about it since it happened and – well – it just must be right because he lives in Toronto and we all know that Torontonians are ALWAYS right!
“Unlawful Possession Of Laying Hens”
Bureauc-ratic Despotism in Soviet Russia:
slacktivist: Despotism, 1946
Over the following decades, Soviet despotism rose as a challenge to … And because Soviet despotism was nominally about the redistribution of wealth, …
slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2004/07/despotism_1946_1.html – 44k
Bureauc-ratic Despotism in Canada :
Defiant egg farmer facing $2,000 daily fines
By NICK GARDINER
Staff Writer
SHANLY — An area egg farmer is facing a $2,000 fine each day he refuses to turn over his laying hens to authorities with the Ontario Egg Producers.
Shawn Carmichael, 34, received a hand-delivered notice Wednesday that he must notify the producers by Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. of his intention to turn over the chickens or face the daily fine.
Many of the chickens had been loaded in cages aboard a transport truck during a raid last Thursday before members of the Leeds and Grenville Landowners Association arrived on the scene and helped Carmichael block their exit.
Over the course of a daylong standoff, many of the birds died before the landowners took matters into their own hands and unloaded the truck while authorities backed off from their plans to confiscate the chickens and eggs.
Harry Pelissero, general manager of the egg producers’ group, said the landowners’ actions won’t stop the proceedings against Carmichael.
“Under the Farm Products Marketing Act, we have the right to seize illegal fowl in his possession,” said Pelissero. +
http://newsfeed.recorder.ca/cgi-bin/LiveIQue.acgi$rec=17457
Alberta Girl:
Reminds me of my daughter’s t-shirt with the following moniker:
I’m always right, I’m never wrong.
I thought I was wrong once, but I was wrong!!!
Vitruvius,
“I think citizens of the United States of America and citizens of Canada should have to have passports to travel in each other’s countries.”
I don’t think that anyone has a problem with a requirement for proper documentation. The problem lies with the cost of getting it.
There are lots of people on both sides of the border (that live close to the border) that would simply stop crossing. What’s the big deal? It really affects business on both sides.
Although hardly an argument to do anything but … consider a once in a lifetime trip to Disneyland for a family of 4 … price just went up by $260.
I don’t know how the gov’ts think that they are justified in charging $87 for a $2 book … I pay $75 for a piece of lamented paper (drivers licence), but at least I use it almost daily.
On BCL – if it says nuts on the wrapper, no need to doubt whats inside. No reason to visit that blog.
Q: How many Torontonians does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Just one…to hold the lightbulb up and wait for the entire country to revolve around him.
ta-da-boom..
BCL,
Thought you might be interested in this excerpt from the hostage story re: ransom paid.
“He said he was slapped once and guns were sometimes pointed at the hostages.
But he saw his captors as “victims” who had suffered at the hands of the American-led invasion of Iraq. One of their captors brought them food and offered to clean their clothes, while another was more volatile and tension rose when he was present.”
Hmmm. I would trust this guy’s intuition that a ransom was paid. I wonder if the family of the hostage who was killed thinks of the kidnappers as “victims”. But then I guess everyone’s a victim aren’t they.
Turn of the Screw.
Listen to the Red-Greens howl/rant/rave.
Turn off the money-machine, Mr. Harper. It’s money belonging to the Canadian taxpayer.
Remember the taxpayers. Down with the Red-Greens. +
Environmentalists in limbo; fiscal year expires with no promises from Tories
By ALEXANDER PANETTA
OTTAWA (CP) – One group of environmentalists called it Black Friday.
The Tory government’s failure to reconfirm funding for a handful of climate-change programs by the end of the federal fiscal year on Friday has triggered some consternation. Dozens of groups relying on federal cash might have to start firing staff unless they hear from the government soon, some warned … blah, blah, blah…. +
http://www.paulding.net/bin/url.cgi/13239.5
“I think citizens of the United States of America and citizens of Canada should have to have passports to travel in each other’s countries. That’s what a passport is: international travel documentation.”
You’ve obviously missed the point-being- that it didn’t have to be this way had the liberals done their job.
Fact of the matter is that many Canadians have pasports already. But MOST Americans do not and given their attitude towards the rest of the world aren’t likley to do so. They will just stay home.
And,because the majority of tourism in Canada is from the states,including conventions, this will be a BIG blow to our tourism industry.
Horny Toad
Horny Toad,
“You’ve obviously missed the point-being- that it didn’t have to be this way had the liberals done their job.”
Although I believe the Libs have truly f#cked up almost everything – I don’t think we can hang this one on them. The US made an announcement – and the CDN government (Lib at that time) told us about it … as did the US Border guys. Knee jerk to the US … I think now both sides are trying to figure out what makes sense … there are many Americans that live a driving distance to Canada that are not happy about this either.
On both sides of the border there would be losers.
I don’t know about the “many” CDN’s have passports statement … so do “many” Americans.
Your points are well taken, Ural, and I appreciate the conundrum, though I think it is mitigated since it is countervailing, in the sense that if consumers on side A of a border stop travelling to side B, they will I imagine consume equivalently on side A instead.
Toad expresses well the counter-argument, that to the degree that tourism travel is weighted in our favour, there is a cost involved. To be honest, I don’t know what the actual numbers are, and I would be interested to know, but anecdotally I don’t see a lot of US tourists in Alberta, at least, most of the tourists here seem to be from overseas (insert your favourite Banff joke here), and most of the Americans here tend to be on oil patch business. Of course, Alberta tends to be quite far from the United States, except for Texas and Alaska, so that is probably the flaw in my argument.
Oh, I don’t know, maybe I’m just old-fashioned, but it seems to me that some people want to go galavanting all over the world simply because it’s trendy, in the process losing any appreciation for what they are actually doing, namely, travelling in a foreign country where your citizenship doesn’t apply.
One doesn’t have to go to Disneyland (unless one is trying to keep up with the fashionable Disneylander’s, I suppose), one can find quality entertainment near home, if one looks. A mirror works for me, but I digress.
So, I would suggest, when one does go to Disneyland it should be appropriately respected as the great international adventure it is, and so one should have to save up and prepare for such experience. At least, my parents did, when they took me there 40 years ago. It’s not like we had to get shots or anything.
On my driver’s licence is says “Operator’s Licence”, and has some accompanying information for local use.
On the inside front cover of my passport it says:
“The secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada requests, in the name of Her Majesty the Queen, all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let, or hindrance, and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary.”
This is an ancient guest / host tradition, and even though it’s a lumpy phenomenon (sample lump sizes include family, tribe, and nation), I don’t think we should necessarily throw the whole thing out to save a few bucks on a trip to disneyland.
Wonder if the terrorist they just caught in Ont had a passport to cross into the US with his huge stash of money. I also wonder if these people were found due to the spy program in the US, and monitored calls were reported to the RCMP. BC better hope relations with the US are much better in 2010, and americans get passports or the games will be absent a lot of visitors.
Oh my! So many Conservatives to smite, so little time.
Dear enough,
Yes the CPTers, being christians, are pretty mockworthy. But sometimes Christians are driven so transcendently kooky by the their beliefs that they do stuff I can actually admire. So far my opinion of them is their nutters, but they caught hold of a “good one”.
Dear Texas Canuck,
According to most of the U.K. papers, the “detainie”, your “informant”, calls the house to tell everybody to get lost. The cavalry sweeps in and picks up the CPTers. When the “detainies” keepers are told that the CPTers were where the “detainie” said they were, and are now safe in allied hands, the detainee is released.
Why would an informant call the people he was finking out and tell them to get lost? Unless he wasn’t afraid of retaliation, which means that the term “informant” doesn’t really apply does it? Why would an informant not be afraid of retaliation?
As to the rest of you, your blithering, and not very skillfully either. Buy a thesaurus.
Good news from Iraq.
The Islamist jihadists are ripping/tearing at each others throats.
Go to it; knock yourselves out.
Islam: The religion of the sword and Muslims killing Muslims. +
Iraq’s al-Qaeda-Affiliated Council Criticizes Ba’ath Party
Radio Free Europe ^ | March 31 2006
Posted on 03/31/2006 5:09:05 PM PST by jmc1969
The Mujahedin Shura Council, an organization that includes Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi’s Al-Qaeda-affiliated group, criticized the Ba’ath Party in a March 30 Internet statement for trying to lay claim to the jihad.
Referring to an earlier Internet statement attributed to Ba’athist fugitive Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri (see “RFE/RL Newsline,” March 27, 2006), the Mujahedin Shura Council said: “Voices from time to time try to distort pictures, confuse matters, and describe jihad in ways that it is not. Among those voices is what was reported by the media about a leader and follower of the Ba’ath Party who had embraced much of the Christians and seculars’ rubbish and governed over this land when Muslims were in a temporary lapse [not in power].”
Calling al-Duri a “little tyrant” who has the blood of Muslims on his hands, the council said the Ba’athist “pictures jihad as if it were an extension to the apostate regime that he represented.” The council said that those who carry the banner of jihad are loyal Muslims who denounce Ba’athist agendas. +
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607188/posts
I’ve got it, let me try to put it in the vernacular. Very late one Saturday evening / Sunday morning 30 years ago I was hanging out cooling off and drying out in the parking lot beside the Probe discotheque just off Melrose in Los Angeles when nature called.
So naturally, for a boy from Alberta, I discretely retired to the back alley to piss on a telephone pole. But I was wrong, the LAPD didn’t think it was discrete at all. Upon informing me of my transgression and requesting identification, I whipped my Canadian passport out of my glam-rock jumpsuit and said, I’m sorry, officer, we do this all the time at home.
He smiled at me, knowing full well I was bull-shitting, and said (as if recalling the words on the inside front page of the passport), “Don’t do that again in these parts, son.”
I don’t know whether or not a driver’s license would have cut it that situation. But when you are in a foreign land, I think it’s probably not a bad idea to be able to invoke a guest mulligan per the tradition.
At the same time, maybe it’s a good idea to remind people of the associated responsibilities (I didn’t do that again in those parts). The exercise of getting a passport, and the danger of losing it, might be good for that.
A few things about the passport issue.
* Are we forgetting that there are thousands of miles of forested and prarie border areas, where the only distinction is a 40′ clear-cut line? What about the coasts? It’s like trying to stop the titanic from sinking with a cork. Actually, it’s exactly like the gun registry in that it’ll only affect the law-abiding types..
* For those who are saying “What’s the big deal, other countries require a passport”: The deal is, there is absolutely massive amounts of trade and tourisim. Let’s not forget too that travel between most EU countries is border-check free, and immigration free for EU citizens. And they’ve got a pile more “terrorist types” over there. Seems we’re regressing here in N.A. Now, if we ever tried creating a “North American Zone” with common entry requirements, security checks, and mobility rights, etc like what has been done in the EU, we’d hear cries of “We’re loosing our national identity” from people in Canada, and “We don’t want to let just anyone in” from those in the U.S. So, that’ll never happen.
* One more point, the reason I think a lot of people hate this change so much is that it’s not a new law that’s making an activity that most people feel is wrong illegal. It’s a new law that is taking away a privilege (yes, I’ll conceed it was a privilege) that most of us have always taken for granted.
A few months ago I drove to a ski resort just barely on the U.S. side of the line. U.S. Border Patrol officer took one look at me, one look at the skis in the back of the car, smiled and the only words he said to me were “It’s 25 below without the wind, and you’re going skiing, yer crazy, have fun!”. Come 2008 that same crossing will require an over-priced passport, something my forgetfull, head-in-the-clouds self will probably… forget.
Good news from Gaza.
Civil War In Gaza: Update. +
Killing of militant commander sparks gun battles in Gaza
� Palestinian security forces blamed for explosion
� Hamas promises to bring killers to justice
Conal Urquhart inTel Aviv
Saturday April 1, 2006
The Guardian
A commander of a militant Palestinian group accused of firing missiles into Israel was killed yesterday in an explosion which led to gun battles that killed at least two people.
Khalil al-Quqa died when his car exploded outside a mosque in Gaza City. The Israeli army denied responsibility and members of the group Popular Resistance Committees, later blamed the explosion on Palestinian security forces.
The killing sparked gunfights and angry protests and at least two men were killed at the funeral. When Abu Abir, a spokesman for the PRC, called a news conference to discuss the killing, rival gunmen, believed to be Preventive Security agents, showed up, sparking a shootout. Hospital officials said two teenage boys, aged 13 and 15, were wounded, one seriously. The PRC said one of its members was abducted.
Mr Abir told Associated Press the security service had been trying to kill Mr Quqa for some time, and that agents of Mohammed Dahlan and Samir Masharawi, two Fatah leaders, were seen spying on Mr Quqa’s home on Thursday. He said Mr Quqa was a former member of the security services, who were upset about his defection. “This is not the first time they tried to kill him,” he said. “There is a long history of conflict between us. The Preventive Security always tries to demean our members.” + … more
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1744522,00.htm
Last Saturday, a remarkable thing happened, I met a Canadian.
My wife and I were in a part of downtown Fort Worth called Sundance Square to attend a Saturday night performance of La Boheme. (Yes, Texans do occasionally do things in addition to running cattle.)
As I came down in the elevator, I fell into conversation with a guy attending some health care product convention. As he was from Canada, I reeled off a few news items that I’ve learn posting up here.
I also told him how much I appreciated Harper’s trip to Afghanistan and the Conservative victory. Naturally, he was surprised that a Texan would know something about Canada and its politics.
My point is that I realized something that Canadians realize every day — there simply is not much difference between us.
This guy (from Saskatchewan) could easily have been an American.
It was obvious that we both had read some of the same literature, the same philosophers, there just was no reason on God’s earth not to trust him as much as one American would trust another.
While I appreciate that Canda is an independent country with its own orientation that is not America and does not wish to become part of America, I still see no reason aside from purely security issues for the citizens of our two countries to require the official barriers that we do with other countries.
And I don’t think that these barriers would have become necessary if it were not for the political antagonism and immigration incongruities that have kept North America from having a single standard, much like our military cooperation.
You went to a disco and showed the cop a CDN passport? And you talk about responsibilities? … the shame. Now I need a passport and a label on the back that says ” Disco Sucks”.
I’m not sure that, had I gone to a disco, I would admit it. You probably feel better now though.
Bee Gees … shutter … shutter … GOT to HAVE a beer.
MNF spokesman on the no-mosque-entered incident
Yesterday, Multi-National Force Iraq spokesman, Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch provided further information on the �no mosque entered� incident during his weekly press briefing. Here is what he said. ( To read the entire transcript, go here and scroll down.)
At that same MNF-Iraq site you can read MNF-Iraq commander, Gen. Chiarelli�s comments on that incident, that the scene was re-arranged after the fact for propaganda purposes. This whole affair reminds us of what Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said the other day. Paraphrasing here: While terrorist propagandists have a well-oiled machine that gets their version out immediately, it takes many hours or days for our side to get out the facts, the truth. Why? Because we care deeply about the facts and the truth. Last Sunday the Iraqi special operations forces had indications that a kidnapping cell was working out of this target complex. We have seen a rash of kidnappings in Iraq.
Last Thursday, I talked to you about the hostage rescue of the Christian Peacemakers team and how we had planned in detailed operation to release those hostages. This is exactly the same. This was led, planned and executed by the Iraqi special operations forces, based on detailed intelligence that a kidnapping cell was occupying this complex.
The operation consisted of about 50 members of the Iraqi special operations forces and about 25 U.S. advisors. But the U.S. advisors were there purely in an advisory role. They did none of the fighting; there wasn�t a shot fired from a U.S. servicemember during the conduct of this operation.
They surveyed the battlefield in advance, looking for sensitive areas, and they said, �Okay, there are mosques in the area, but the nearest mosque is about six blocks from the target point complex.� So a decision was made to do the operation�focus on this kidnapping cell and try to rescue a hostage, an Iraqi hostage�an operation planned, led and executed by Iraqi special operations forces.
As they got in the area with their vehicles, they immediately started taking fire from this compound. Now, remember, there are many buildings in that compound and many rooms in the building. They took fire right away; they returned fire. Went into the specific building of choice, they had additional gunfire exchange.
All told, 16 insurgents were killed, 18 were detained. We found over 32 weapons and we found the hostage�the innocent Iraqi, who just 12 hours before was walking the streets of Baghdad. He was walking the streets of Baghdad en route to a hospital to visit his brother, who had gunshot wounds. He was kidnapped and beaten in the car en route to this complex. When he got there, they emptied his pockets, they took out his wallet, and in the wallet was a picture of his daughter. And he asked for one thing�he said, �Please, before you kill me, allow me to kiss the picture of my daughter. That�s all I ask.� The kidnappers told him, �Hey, we got you, and if we don�t get $20,000 sometime soon, you�re dead.� And they showed him the bare electrical wires that they were going to use to torture him and then kill him. And they said, �We�re going to go away and do some drugs, and when we come back, we�re going to kill you.� He was beaten, he was tortured. He was tortured with an electrical drill.
Twelve hours after he was kidnapped, he was rescued by his Iraqi special operation force rescue unit. He is indeed most grateful. He�s most grateful to be alive, and he�s most grateful to the Iraqi special operations forces.
The closest mosque was six blocks away.
When they got close to the compound, they took fire, and they returned fire. When they got inside the room, a room in this compound, they realized that this could have been a Hussainiyah, a prayer room. They saw a prayer rug. They saw a minaret. They didn�t know about that in advance, but from that room and from that compound, they were taking fire. In that room and in that compound the enemy was holding a hostage and torturing a hostage, and in that room and in that compound they were storing weapons, munitions and IED explosive devices. Very, very effective operation, planned and executed by Iraqi special operations forces. �
John B. Dwyer 3 31 06
http://americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=4778
Veritas Odit Moras; Truth Hates Delay. (Seneca)
That you do not appreciate the difference between “Disco” and “a discotheque” is not my problem, Ural, but for the record (ahem), the former existed from ’77 to ’79, and the latter has existed, globally, since the ’50s. Now-a-days, they’re called “dance clubs”. I’ve have had memberships in private discotheques in a half-dozen countries; I danced every weekend for over twenty years. And in spite of all that, my favourite song is still Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (BWV 565).
And when I had my little run-in with the LAPD, I was consulting to the California Department of Eduction on Distance Learning and Outcome Based Curriculum. I was wrong (about the pissing), but they treated me like a guest, because I had proof. I tend to try to extend the same courtesy to visitors to Canada. Other’s mileage may vary.
That said, I think I’m probably on the wrong side of this argument. Nominally I argue that there’s no good reason for Canada and the United States to be separate countries in the first place (or at least Alberta, Texas, and Alaska), so as I mentioned much earlier, perhaps I’m just being sentimental.
After all, my colleagues and customers are largely American. But then, after after all, we all carry passports.
Greg (outside Dallas),
TX, I find, is the oddball state. I have my customers calling me from around the states all the time. The folks from TX seem to be the best informed about Canada … better than a lot of border states.
Got a call from Ft. Worth this week … I told him I’m in Canada, but ship from the US. That lead into about a twenty minute discussion about Canada, the elections, his opinions on it, etc.
How else can I put it – impressed.
Been to your airport a few times – did a couple of days in Dallas and Plano. Gets a little warm there (I think my body actually developed new sweat glands).
Vitruvius,
Your right … my ignorance is not your problem. I apologize.
As far a relieving yourself – foliage would have been a better choice. A telephone pole kinda indicates that you were trying to make a statement.
That’s cool, Ural. Though I should note that technically I was probably too intoxicated to be making a statement, it’s more likely I just wasn’t being careful enough to be polite enough to use the foliage, as you mention.
Y’all may be interested to know that there are nine flights a day between Calgary and Houston. Many billions of dollars a year in business. With passports.
There is the problem of tourism, to some degree. But I think Canada will likely fail if it attempts to become a world-famous cold beach. We live here for a reason, at least relative to many other countries, and that’s because there are valueable resources to harvest here, where most people just think it’s too cold, distant, and desolate. I happen to love it, but to pretend otherwise is I think skating on thin ice.
It’s all about supply and demand.
Thank yout o Robert and the Costall family.
Robert worked to protect and extend freedom and fair civilized government
As with others like the RCMP who are suddenly in the wrong place at the worst possible time, we can not fail to remeber how these heroes along with firefighters and other emergency workers make every day of our free way of life possible.
without heroes like Robert Costall, our way of life may well be taken over by those who like to rule with gun muzzels, kidnapping and terrorizing. They are powerfully ruthless, but a small minority.
The majority of decent people everywhere pray this evil cult will be overcome and freedom from oppression will become the norm in Afghanistan and Iraq. TG
A part of editorial from the National Post, and apt commentary from lgf:
The Christian Peacemaker Teams are up to their usual ungrateful tricks. Not only do some CPT activists still refuse to show any gratitude toward the coalition soldiers and spies who helped rescue three of their members in Iraq last week, one of the hostages � Canadian Harmeet Sooden � is now even insisting the entire rescue mission was �contrived,� presumably to give the coalition a public relations boost amid continued bad news about the insurgency in that country.
Speaking in Auckland, New Zealand, yesterday, Mr. Sooden insisted it was �highly likely, highly probable� that a ransom had been paid for his release and that of two fellow CPT prisoners, Canadian Jim Loney and Briton Norman Kember. Both the Canadian and New Zealand governments seemed genuinely shocked by his contention and emphatically denied his claim. …
Here�s a suggestion: The next time peaceniks are taken hostage in a war zone while attempting to thwart the efforts of Western coalition forces, when those same forces come to save them and before the helicopters lift off to safety with the hostages aboard, the soldiers should ask the former detainees how they feel about being saved. And if there is a moment�s hesitation for philosophic reflection or any hint of ingratitude, the soldiers should be free to return their passengers to the desert with all good wishes for fair treatment by the first jihadis who pass by.
‘Nuff said…
Followed the “Leftist Taboo” link to Celestial Junk to-day and read the comments. I had no idea that the screech of over-torqued wingnuts could be so entertaining. They should charge admission to that site.
Islamist terrorists “blast Baquba [Iraq] mosque”.
Has anyone seen/heard/read this in the MSM?
Silly question, yes? +
Militants blast Baquba mosque, terrorists killed in Mosul, Samarra (two die as IED self destructs)
Kuwait News Agency ^ | 206 Apr 2
Posted on 04/02/2006 8:24:40 AM PDT by Wiz
BAGHDAD, April 2 (KUNA) — A group of militants on Sunday blew up a mosque in Al-Kubba area, 15 kilometers northeast Baquba, a Coordination Center source told KUNA.
The source added there were no losses in life in this incident.
Meanwhile, Iraqi Police said two explosive devices detonated while a police patrol was passing injuring three Iraqis, two patrol policemen included.
This comes as the Iraqi Interior Ministry announced the death of two terrorists and the arrest of 21 individuals in suspicion of involvement in separate incidents in Mosul, Northern Iraq .
A ministry statement said the two first terrorist were ambushed while the second was killed in confrontations with commandos.
In another development, the US Army said it found six bodies in the trunk of a car western Baghdad and that all corpses were gagged, blind-folded, with tied hands and feet and covered in plastic shroud.
The army also stated another body was found near some explosives and it is believed the man was killed while trying to plant the explosives. + more
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607865/posts