September 25, 2006 – 10:43 am
Another example of the Religion of Pieces: KISMAYO, Somalia (Reuters) – Islamist fighters opened fire in the Somali port city of Kismayo on Monday toward residents burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to protest against the Islamist takeover of their city hours before. A 13-year-old boy was shot dead while protesting, while two other people […]
September 24, 2006 – 9:35 pm
(yeah, I'm stealing that from headline from Beth, here and here)
September 24, 2006 – 11:11 am
Yesterday I highlighted some of the Nutroots folks from the DU and Huff Puff. How about taking a look at wackjobs from around the world? Al Jazeera.com seems like a good place to check: I dont know why they keep making a big deal about Osama Bin laden and if he is alive or dead. […]
September 23, 2006 – 10:32 am
The French are reporting that Osama Bin Laden may be dead: The French defense ministry on Saturday called for an internal investigation of the leak of an intelligence document that raises the possibility that Osama bin Laden may have died of typhoid in Pakistan a month ago but said the report of the death remained […]
September 21, 2006 – 9:05 pm
Apparently, all the techniques the CIA wanted were approved: The officers told ABC News there was a list of six progressively harsher techniques that were authorized, with the prisoner always handcuffed. The first — the attention grab, involving the rough shaking of a prisoner. Second — the attention slap, an open-handed slap to the face. […]
September 18, 2006 – 3:36 pm
This definately goes in the "dumbazz statement of the month" category Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., warned Democratic activists Sunday that the party must take a tougher stance on national security if it wants to succeed in the November elections. "What Democrats have to do is to close the deal," said Obama, the keynote speaker at […]
September 18, 2006 – 12:05 pm
And I'm sure that this will be a long running theme (from Al Reuters) Al Qaeda militants in Iraq vowed war on "worshippers of the cross" and protesters burned a papal effigy on Monday over Pope Benedict's comments on Islam, while Western churchmen and statesmen tried to calm passions. The statement by an umbrella group […]
September 17, 2006 – 12:23 pm
In Somalia: Gunmen shot and killed an elderly Italian nun at a children's hospital in the Islamist-controlled Somali capital amid outrage over Pope Benedict XVI's comments about Islam, witnesses said. Is that peaceful, or "evil and inhuman?" On Friday, a prominent Mogadishu cleric called for Muslims to "hunt down" and kill the pontiff for his […]
September 15, 2006 – 10:14 am
Oh, the irony (From the BBC) Al-Qaeda's deputy leader has claimed that a radical Algerian Islamist group has joined al-Qaeda and is being urged to punish France, it has emerged. Ayman al-Zawahiri appeared in a video on a website on the fifth anniversary of the 11 September attacks. In the video, Zawahiri says: "Osama Bin […]
September 12, 2006 – 5:02 pm
The things that the Braying Asses complain about: Abu Zubaydah, the first Osama bin Laden henchman captured by the United States after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, was bloodied and feverish when a CIA security team delivered him to a secret safe house in Thailand for interrogation in the early spring of 2002. Bullet […]
