Via FoxNews.com:

"Activists," you say?

At least 61 of their fellow "activists" were killed and another 188 "activists" were injured as four nearly simultaneous "combustible demonstrations" occurred in New Delhi on Saturday, October 29, 2005.

Someone should tell the Associated Press and Fox News that watching your friends and neighbors get blown up does tend to make people active.

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Via Drudge. I'm pretty sure it wasn't Methodists...

Three teenage Christian girls were beheaded and a fourth was seriously wounded in a savage attack on Saturday by unidentified assailants in the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi.

The girls were among a group of students from a private Christian high school who were ambushed while walking through a cocoa plantation in Poso Kota subdistrict on their way to class, police Major Riky Naldo said.

The area is close to the provincial capital of Poso, about 1000 kilometres northeast of Jakarta.

Naldo said the heads of the three dead victims were found several kilometres from their bodies.

In Jakarta, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered the police to begin a hunt for the killers.

"In the holy month of Ramadan, we are again shocked by a sadistic crime in Poso that claimed the lives of three school students," he told reporters at the airport as he prepared to fly to Sumatra island.

"I condemn this barbarous killing, whoever the perpetrators are and whatever their motives."

You know who they are, just as I do, and the "motive" was that these girls were Christian.

Cropdust with bacon grease, then an ARCLIGHT strike. Sounds about right to me.

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Having not yet fully developed their own nuclear capabilities, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems intent on testing the capabilities of Israel's nuclear warheads... on the Iranian population:

"The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world," the president told a conference in Tehran on Wednesday, entitled The World without Zionism.

"The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land," he said.

"As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map," said Ahmadinejad, referring to Iran's revolutionary leader Ayat Allah Khomeini.

Are Syrian and Iranian leaders in some sort of a contest to see who gets deposed next?

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1 That's a great headline.

Posted by: William Thrash at October 26, 2005 12:10 PM (yheG2)

2 That is so nice of them to do. They deserve an award.

Posted by: abbie at October 26, 2005 02:40 PM (GYmoM)

3 The minute Iran seems a credible nuclear threat, Persia will be wiped from the map with the flick of a nuclear pen. And they will call US the madmen. Fools.

Posted by: Laurence Simon at October 26, 2005 03:21 PM (uBCxH)

4 A war of destiny? Hmm, he's starting to sound like Nasser (or Saddam). Which means that Israel will thrash another Middle Eastern country's military shortly. Nasser just loved to make these grandiose claims about throwing the Jews into the sea, and even did so as he was getting whacked during 1967's Six Day War. That goaded Jordan into the fray, and they lost the West Bank and Jerusalem in three days time. Every time a totalitarian regime in the Middle East comes out with these statements, it's another sign that they're about to lose a war. If he simply left the fighting up to the proxy terrorist groups, Iran would be safe from attack until Iran can declare that they're officially a nuclear power. Now, Israel will have their eyes on Ahmadinejad himself.

Posted by: lawhawk at October 26, 2005 04:43 PM (eppTH)

5 That headline is funny.

Posted by: travis at October 27, 2005 12:19 AM (ZlXVq)

6 The population of California is roughly 25 million. The population of Iraq is roughly 25 million. The murder rate in California has been 2000 people a year,the last three years. We have lost 2000 brave soldiers [total]to the war in Iraq in the past three years. Our soldiers seem to be safer in Iraq then they would be in California.

Posted by: david at October 27, 2005 05:08 PM (gT3j4)

7 Oh good then, the Israeli's can turn them into glass parking lots. I was afraid that would have to be us.

Posted by: ron at October 27, 2005 09:39 PM (ywZa8)

8 "Westerners are free to comment, but their reactions are invalid. They are rude, falsely thinking that the whole world should be subordinate to them." - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian president Here's an overly simplistic, fantasy scenario (that will never happen, of course). However, if the leaders of the world developed 1) intestinal fortitude; 2) an allergy to political correctness; and 3) a true understanding that power is there to be used, then following may be possible: The leaders of the "Big Five" (U.S., Russia, Great Britain, France, China) get on a teleconference call with President Ahmadinejad at the same time. An interpreter tells Ahmadinejad that each of the five leaders has authorized the launching of a nuclear warhead towards five of Iran's most populous cities. He has one hour to agree to abandon all nuclear intentions and authorize the immediate dismantling of his nuclear and missile programs, as well as depose himself and abolish all laws against opposing political parties and sects. After losing control of his bowels and realizing that that, suddenly, the opinion of the West is now "valid," he does precisely as the Big Five demand or, in his predictable radical Islam defiance, Iran becomes a glass parking lot. Either way, the world becomes a bit more peaceful and civilized. Remember, I said this idea was overly simplistic and a fantasy (yes, I understand the concepts of the tyranny of the few, nuclear oligarchy, the fact that Russia and China are in bed with Iran, no one would believe a French threat of force, etc.). But isn't it fun to think about?

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Three Iraqi Sunni parties are forming a political coalition. Don't expect to see that on page 1 of the NY Times.

That tapping sound you here is the sound of Iraqi democracy driving nails into to coffin of al Qaeda in Iraq.

al Qaeda's strategic war is lost, their tactical capabilities steadily eroded. The terrorists have the ability to still kill, sometimes spectacularly, but they no longer have any chance of containing a nation of people that has demonstrated that it wants freedom, and is willing to trust the ballot more than the bullet.

As daily developments continute to prove, Allah is not on the side of the Jihadis.

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[The American military is on the eve of losing its 2,000th soldier in combat in Iraq after well over two years in action. In that time, 26 million Iraqi people have been given a say in the future of their country, and two rounds of national voting have proven that democracy has a chance in a part of the world that detractors said it would never take root.

In this environment, a vengful, spiteful woman would still sacrifice it all -- 26 million Iraqi lives, and the sacrifice of 2,000 American soldiers-- in hopes of some sort of twisted revenge against the one man she holds responsible for her son's death. For one man, she would sacrifice nations. Her name is Cindy Sheehan.

This post was originally released August 9, 2005.]

Let me make this perfectly clear: I loath Cindy Sheehan.

I despise everything she stands for, and love the ideals she stands against. I hate how she dishonors her brave son's memory. I cringe when she utters stupid talking points—“why did the president kill my son?”—and I cannot stand the fact that she egotistically thinks she is more important than the tens of millions of people she would undermine in her quest for vengeance. Clearly, her arrogance knows no limits.

The most important mother in the world.
Cindy Sheehan thinks she is the most important mother in the world.

She is holding a vigil to speak to the president—again—even though she has made it abundantly clear in her comments to the news media that she has nothing new to offer other than clichés. She wants the troops to pull out of Iraq now, no matter the future costs or the wasted sacrifices. She wants Bush to personally account for her son's death. She wants Bush to personally tell her why her son died. She, she, she. Well guess what Cindy?

You are not the only mother who has sent a son off to war. You are one mother of the more than 1,800 troops who died serving their country in a military they volunteered to join, knowing that they could be sent off to war. There are thousands of other mothers who have had their sons and daughters wounded in combat. There are mothers for each and every one of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers, from more than a dozen nations, that have served in Iraq in an effort to bring democracy and hope to that region.

Nor are you more important than the mothers of the 25 million Iraqis that your son Casey was trying to bring freedom. You didn't understand his courage or commitment, and you can't understand why someone who lay down their life for a stranger. That is your problem Cindy Sheehan, and you dishonor your own son's memory every time you open your mouth to fight against everything he gave his life for.

Nor are you more important, Cindy Sheehan than the mothers of the tens of millions in Afghanistan, Lebanon, and other nations tasting freedom for the first time because of brave men like your late son.

Despite what you think, Cindy Sheehan, you are not more important than any of these millions of other mothers, though you would make all their sacrifices in vain to bring down a President.

Vengeance, not Justice. Hatred, not Hope.
Your son died trying to bring freedom to an oppressed people. I can think of no more noble sacrifice. But you, Cindy Sheehan, you want revenge for your heartache, and you don't care who gets hurt in the process.

That is why you, Cindy Sheehan, can go to hell.

You decided, in a mind warped by your association with head cases like Code Pink and Veterans for Peace, that George W. Bush made your son patriotic and gave him the heart to serve his country, and that George W. Bush made him volunteer for military service, and that George W. Bush forced him to want to make the military his career, and it was George W. Bush that made him re-enlist. And of course, George W. Bush pulled the trigger on the RPG in the Sadr City slum that took his life.

Cindy Sheehan doesn't give a damn about the millions of Iraqis her son was trying to bring freedom. Cindy Sheehan doesn't give a damn about the hundreds of thousands of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines that have rotated in and out of Iraq in that same quest. Cindy Sheehan doesn't give a damn if Iraqis are ruled by themselves or if they are tortured by tyrants. She is petty. She is vengeful. She wants revenge, and she doesn't care who gets hurt or who dies in the process.

I am ashamed for Casey Sheehan. He understood that there are things in this world worth giving up your life to create, and he made that sacrifice. His mother Cindy, full of hate, seeks only seeks to destroy.

I can understand her grief, but I cannot forgive the fact that she is willing to threaten the lives of others and give our enemies hope to satisfy her need for revenge.

A terrorist RPG killed the body of Casey Sheehan. It took his mother to try to kill his legacy.

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1 If I edited your post to make it in line with my feelings... nothing would be changed. Your post perfectly describes all my feelings about this horrible, irrational, selfish woman. On a side note, I'm glad she started saying all those crazy things, or else the MSM would still be following her around and putting her on the news every night.

Posted by: Kevin at October 24, 2005 04:18 AM (24kgX)

2 The Iraqis want democracy, let them fight for it themselves like everybody else. By the way, thanks for supporting the Soviets in WW2. I guess democracy wasn't so important to you back then. Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite. - Joseph de Maistre

Posted by: Freedom at October 24, 2005 05:31 AM (lGolT)

3 Casey Sheehan's mother doesn't give a damn about him either. He stood, and died, for everything she opposes; her debasement and deceit is evinced in the very act of holding him up as HER sacrifice, supposedly imposed on her by the President. Loathing is too mild a term for the repulsion I feel toward her.

Posted by: Cindi at October 24, 2005 09:11 AM (/sHpt)

4 As Tammy Bruce would say... Cindy Sheehan is in the depths of malignant narcissism. She does not want to move to the stage of reintegrating into society; she only wants to harm society as she believes she herself has been harmed. The woman is a waste of skin and mentally sick. The woman would make a great nazi (both are leftist).

Posted by: William at October 24, 2005 09:20 AM (yheG2)

5 Just hazarding a guess, but maybe Casey enlisted and re-enlisted in part to get away from his lunatic mother, in addition to being a patriot.

Posted by: SicSemperTyrannus at October 24, 2005 10:42 AM (qmJpf)

6 SicSemper: I would too.

Posted by: Abbie at October 24, 2005 12:37 PM (GYmoM)

7 Try to download and watch this documentry. It is very interresting it is called 'The Power Of Nightmares'by BBC http://ia300024.us.archive.org/1/items/ThePowerOfNightmares/

Posted by: Tony at October 24, 2005 02:21 PM (AhA/U)

8 There's nothin' quite like the family values crowd wishing a woman to hell. I love the smell of fresh indictments in the morning. -D

Posted by: Denise at October 24, 2005 03:07 PM (7eK/j)

9 Sir you have put into words exactly how I feel about this communist 'liberal' traitor...as a vet with 3 honorable discharges and years of service and killed communists in many places, seems to me it should start here too....a liberal is a closet communist... Thank you

Posted by: BlackWatch at October 24, 2005 06:49 PM (NnrlE)

10 To freedom and denise...."what a bunch of maroons" Bugs Bunny

Posted by: Jerry at October 24, 2005 08:45 PM (uP3Vk)

11 Unfortunately the 2000th soldier to die in Iraq misses the fact that the military refuses to list the almost 8000 soldiers who died of wounds suffered in Iraq but died out of the country. Still more unfortunate is the need to loath anyone in regards to Iraq. As senior officials continue to make clear, the administration the war was a mistake on many levels. Because we lost young people for nothing; intelligence was bent for political purposes; Iraq totters into civil war; and would be terrorists blossom in the chaos. Meanwhile here at home we turn on each other (even a mother who, regardless of her politics, is stricken with grief)and become less like a proud moral nation and more like a bickering 6th grade class.

Posted by: Paul at October 24, 2005 10:57 PM (jtuFd)

12 Got any credible sources for that claim of 8,000 troops who died out of country...the Lancet perhaps? Or was it from your friends in Code Pink outside of Walter Reed calling our troops baby killers and murderers? It seems like a story that big would have been picked up by the NY Times or similar oganizations in a heartbeat, if they were real. We lost young people for "nothing?" The vast majority of 25 million Iraqis who are no longer under the thumb of Saddam might just disagree.

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at October 24, 2005 11:14 PM (0fZB6)

13 Thank you, Confederate Yankee, for answering that last post by Paul the leftist, as well as for your entire column. You are a great American. Anyone that thinks that any one of our great military that gave his/her life for Operation Iraqi Freedom was a waste has a twisted world view. These leftist/socialist/communists are pathetic. They cry out about Hitler, oppression, civil rights violated, etc. when it comes to their own country but when some other dictator, whom they somehow praise and idolize (e.g.: Castro, Saddam, Chavez, Mandela), does all of the above and more, they turn their heads. Starve their own people, no complaint. America comes to help and 18 Marines get slaughtered, no problem. Hypocrisy at its best. They view things through their prism where if their hero Bill Clinton was doing the bomb dropping at 30,000 feet (Kosovo), they have no problem. Oh, the hypocrisy...

Posted by: DJ at October 24, 2005 11:32 PM (Xd0mm)

14 I, on the other hand, loathe her. But not "in regards to Iraq". I loathe her because she gives comfort to our enemies worldwide, demoralizes our brave soldiers, and weakens American resolve at a time when unity is most important. I also think her actions increase terrorist activity, causing additional deaths and casualties, but I have no proof.

Posted by: Kevin at October 25, 2005 08:18 AM (24kgX)

15 Paul, Your comment about of soldiers dying in the states instead of in-country is a load of manure. Specifically, the Sgt. who died & is counted as #2000 died in the states from wounds rec'd in-country about 2 weeks previous. How does that square with your preconceived notions? I've got my mind made up, don't confuse me with the facts????

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The web is running wild with reports that U.S. soldiers desecrated the bodies of two Taliban terrorists by cremating them, and then used the action to taunt other terrorists.

According to Jason Coleman, some liberal blogs are claiming that the bodies were intentionally placed facing west as an insult.

That is demonstrably false, and easily proven.

Warning: graphic photo below the jump. more...

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The al Qaeda attack on the U.S.S. Cole five years ago today was my first awakening to the willingness of Osama bin Laden to attack the United States head-on. Michelle Malkin has the definative round-up.

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Via Fox News:

...two rockets exploded near the U.S. Embassy in the center of the Afghan capital Wednesday, wounding two people hours hours before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was due to arrive on an official visit. Rice's visit on Wednesday is her second trip to Afghanistan as secretary of state.

Sooner or later, people are going to learn that terror attack just serve to make make Condoleeza Rice that much more determined.

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I've made a horrible mistake of not blog-rolling Michael Yon before. The former Green Beret turned independent journalist shows why we - and more importantly, our Iraqi allies - are winning the war against the terrorists in Iraq.

A sample from his latest dispatch, The Battle For Mosul IV - Soldiers, Spies, and Sheep:

Colonel Noradeen wanted to put his office in the middle of Yarmook Traffic Circle, which might ring familiar to folks who have read my previous dispatches: it might well be the most dangerous traffic circle in the universe. On my first mission in Mosul, we lost two American soldiers and an interpreter just nearby after a man rammed his explosives-filled car into a B Company Stryker.

Sandbags cover the window of Noradeen's office. During one meeting, we took sniper fire, but it didn't make much difference—we were inside. Another day when I was not there, some mortars landed just outside Noradeen's office and heavily damaged some American Humvees. Those types of attacks are not show-stoppers, but giant truck bombs can flatten a building and kill the entire unit. Noradeen's current office was safe from giant bombs, but he wanted to move his office to Yarmook traffic circle—where shootouts and car bombs are guaranteed. Designing the outpost to withstand multiple simultaneous car bombs or giant truck bombs would require some thinking. When one of the American officers had asked Colonel Noradeen, “Why do you want an office at Yarmook Traffic Circle?” he answered simply, “If I build it there, they will come to me.”

Full stop.

That hung in the air.

One second.

Two seconds.

Kurilla said under his breath to one of his own officers, “That's why I love this guy.”

Go read Michael Yon, and come to understand why this war is being won.

One sheep at a time.

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Did you catch it?

An early version of this story stated that:

According to sources in intelligence, emergency services and police headquarters, when three Iraqi insurgents were arrested several days ago during a raid by a joint FBI-CIA team, one of those caught disclosed the threat.

A newer version of the exact same article states:

According to sources in intelligence, emergency services and police headquarters, the intelligence community developed information that the threat may have involved pharmacists from Iraq coming to New York for some kind of chemical attack targeting the subways.

Three insurgents, one or more of whom are pharmacists, were arrested during a raid by a U.S. military and intelligence community team, sources said, and one of those caught disclosed the threat. Because it slipped out during the arrest, the plot was deemed credible.

A joint task force of the FBI and CIA caught the terrorists. Working together.

It makes you wonder what these joint agency teams might have prevented if it wasn't for Jamie Gorelick's "wall of separation," which prevented these agencies from working together to thwart terrorist attacks in the past.

Update: Jason Smith at Generation Why? noticed the disappearing CIA-FBI jointstrike team as well in his second update to this post. Could someone at ABC News have been worrying about how this story reflects on Gorelick?

This bears further discussion.

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LIVE-BLOGGING,so it might be sloppy:

Fox New television is reporting the New York Police Department has raised the terror threat level on the New York subway system, and has increased police patrols.

Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commisioner Ray Kelly says there is "sufficient concern" of a a specific terror threat against a specific target in the subway system in coming days, but the nature of the threat remains classified, though he did reveal that this threat originated overseas. Police officials are increasing bag searches and increasing the number of undercover officerson subway trains.

Interestingly enough, unlike similar threats in the past, they have mentioned that elements of this threat have been "partially disrupted," which I take to mean that this threat is concrete, though Bloomberg is saying no arrests or detentions have been made. I read this to mean that the bombers were denied entry into the United States, but that is just wild speculation.

According to Mayor Bloomberg, this is the first credible threat to the NYC subway system.

To my friends in NYC keep your eyes open, and come home safe.

Update:

Via ABC News:

The New York Police Department is investigating what it deems a credible tip that 19 operatives have been deployed to the city to place bombs in the subway, and security in the subways will be increased, sources told ABC News.

While the police department is taking the threat seriously, it is also urging the public not to be alarmed because – while the source is credible – the information has not been verified.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said this was the most specifically detailed threat made against the subway system, and he urged New Yorkers to be vigilant.

"I wanted to assure New Yorkers that we have done and will continue to do everything we can to protect the city," Bloomberg said. "We will spare no resource. We will spare no expense."

According to sources in intelligence, emergency services and police headquarters, when three Iraqi insurgents were arrested several days ago during a raid by a joint FBI-CIA team, one of those caught disclosed the threat. Because it slipped out during the arrest, the plot was deemed credible.

After several days of work, sources said, the NYPD is increasingly concerned because it has been unable to discredit the initial source and additional information from the source.

The 19 operatives were to place improvised explosive devices in the subways using briefcases, according to two sources. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said officers will continue to check bags, briefcases and strollers, and additional uniformed and undercover officers will be riding in individual subway cars.

Wait a minute...the Iraqi insurgency is involved? Where were these guys arrested? I'll be very interested to find out if these terrorists report to al-Zarqawi or Bin Laden.

MSNBC is showing live shots of crowded Manhattan sidewalks, scanning their cameras back and forth like they are hoping to catch a blast live. Maybe I'm misinterpreting this, but it looks sick. Then they jump to their story of Rove testifying befor the grand jury again. Priorities, and all...

More
The Jawa Report here and here.
GOP in the City even has a chilling email forecasting the attack from within DHS. So much for operational security.
Newsday
Michelle Malkin
In the Bullpen
The Political Teen has the press conference video
CounterTerrorism Blog
Terrorism Unveiled
Clarity & Resolve thinks the threat might be because of Ramadan.
Generation Why has similar thoughts.
Crooks and Liars tries to blame it on Rove. What. A. Tool.
Democratic Underground likewise, but then, they think air is a Rovian conspiracy.
Tapscott's Copy Desk theorizes about a OU suicide bomber tie-in. Not completely off the wall, but I think he's stretching it to the limit.
Parkway Rest Stop finds the most dangerous place to be.
Ace of Spades gets the final word.

I think that's about it for the live-blogging and first reactions. I'll try to shoot for some analysis later.

Update: Analysis posted.

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I really don't understand these people. They say they want war to cease, and they encourage the terrorists to win. They say they want peace, and they wish the dictator and the radicals to reign over us. They say they are Progressives and secularists, and they allow the fundamentalists to massacre us. They say they promote liberties, and they want ours to vanish. They say they demonstrate for the Iraqi people, and their actions are aimed at plunging the Iraqi people under terror and oppression. What on earth do they want with us?

I'd say the answer is pretty obvious.

Read it all, via The Anchoress.

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Confederate Yankee has managed to obtain exclusive photos of the two U.S. Marines that al Qaeda claims to have captured in Iraq:

Via ABC News::

Al Qaeda said on Sunday it had captured two U.S. marines in western Iraq and issued a 24-hour ultimatum to U.S. forces to release female Sunni Muslim prisoners, a statement posted on a Web site said on Sunday.

The latest statement came in the midst of a new U.S. offensive in towns in the far west of Iraq to track down al Qaeda militants U.S. forces believe are hiding near the Syrian border.

"Al Qaeda soldiers succeeded in kidnapping two U.S. marines Â… and al Qaeda is giving the infidels 24 hours to release female Sunni Muslim prisoners," it said.

"Or they should not bother to look for their children," said the statement, on a Web site often used by the group.

The statement said the two marines were captured in the midst of Operation Iron Fist, "in which they (U.S. forces) have been disappointed and have failed."

It was not immediately possible to verify independently the authenticity of the Web statement, which was signed off with a name that usually accompanies the group's official announcements.

A spokesman for U.S. forces in Iraq, Lieutenant Colonel Steve Boylan, said: "I have not heard anything about any of our folks being taken. I would suspect that these are unfounded rumors, as that is what has happened in the past."

Come up with a new gag.

We've seen this before.

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