Abu Azzam, #2 al Qaeda leader in Iraq and one of the "freedom fighters" beloved by Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan, has gone off to that big protest in the sky.

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You've got to give it to Hamas: they throw one interesting rally:

A truck carrying a group of armed men and makeshift weapons exploded Friday during a Hamas rally in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 19 people and wounding more than 80, according to hospital officials and witnesses.

Hamas, formally known as the Islamic Resistance Movement, accused Israel of firing missiles at the vehicle from an unmanned aircraft, but witnesses said the explosion did not leave the telltale crater of a missile strike.

Palestinian security officials said they believed mishandled homemade explosives in the truck may have ignited, sending shrapnel slicing through a dense crowd of several thousand onlookers gathered in the Jabaliya refugee camp north of Gaza City.

But just keep remembering that Hamas is just a political party - right, Mr. Galloway?

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When you have to kidnap, beat and drug your troops to get them to go into battle, I think it is safe to say that the war is not going well for you:

A suicide bomber captured before he could blow himself up in a Shiite mosque claimed he was kidnapped, beaten and drugged by insurgents who forced him to take on the mission. The U.S. military said its medical tests indicated the man was telling the truth.

Mohammed Ali, who claimed to be Saudi-born and appeared to be in his 20s, said he managed to flee after another suicide attacker set off his bomb, killing at least 12 worshippers Friday as they left a mosque in the northern city of Tuz Khormato.

In confession broadcast on state television later that day, Ali told Iraqi interrogators he did not want to bomb the mosque and hoped to go home.

Results from medical tests on Ali were "consistent with his story and characterization of his treatment," Col. Billy J. Buckner, a U.S. military spokesman said Sunday.

So much for al-Zaraqawi being "the greatest" if he has to kidnap and drug people to carry out suicide attacks. It seems that the seemingly inexhaustible supply of willing suicide bombers that we westerners have come to fear is exhaustible after all. Some might even be willing to think that this validates the Bush/Rumsfeld "flypaper" strategy.

Don't let Bill Clinton know.

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source: ABC News

Orange County, CA environmentalist turned al Qaeda terrorist Adam Gadahn has delivered the latest taped communiqué for al Qaeda, threatening Los Angeles and Melbourne.

Sure, he was brought up a idealistic liberal hippie (goat farm and all), BUT DON'T QUESTION HIS PATRIOTISM!!!

Michelle Malkin has more in this Oct, 2004 post.

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