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Zawahiri can kiss my ass.*

To the soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coasties—to all who wear or have worn the uniform of this great nation to serve in her defense, thank you.

I pray someday we can be worthy of such

Originally posted 9/15, re-updated and bumped.

I was interested in this when I saw it headlined on a well-known headline-aggregator’s website, but I held off because I figured if there was anything

Seven years.

I’d have to say that, all in all, our men and women engaged in the war on terror have done a pretty damn good job—as have the American people and most of the politicians who have been

In previous posts I speculated on the possible impact of Bob Barr being the Libertarian Party’s nominee for president—but at the time he was about neck-and-neck with Mike Gravel (rhymes with

The trouble with running a war in which you measure success by how many of your own people are killed, is that eventually you run out of your own people.

Al-Qaeda number two* Ayman al-Zawahiri

Having grown up in California and had conservative attitudes from a young age, it’s highly unlikely that I would ever praise a radically leftist and actively race-pimping organization like the

If Christians in America can’t have vouchers to send their kids to schools where Christian values are to be taught, then Muslims can’t have overtly religious schools actively and directly funded

I’m working on a musical, “Osama, Where Art Thou?” Here are the lyrics to what I think will be the most popular song of the show.

I am Ayman al-Zawahiri
I have known trouble all my days
I have bid

I mean, come on: “without tanks”? Nice try, Alex.

There’s a deal to sell the 1,200-acre Moreland megasite to the People’s Republic of China, according to classified government documents discovered

...when they murder their officers.

H/t Instapundit.

Obviously he didn’t have much to do at the time of his capture.

A senior al Qaeda operative who worked to procure chemicals to attack U.S. troops in Afghanistan and helped Osama bin Laden escape

This is funny.

One day, high above Arizona, we were monitoring the radio traffic of all the mortal airplanes below us. First, a Cessna pilot asked the air traffic controllers to check his ground

Sic semper tyrannis. Whenever the homefront gets troublesome, they make threatening noises against a neighbor.

Warning that Colombia could spark a war, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sent tanks

Anti-GOMLP commenter Samir seems to think so.

He’s offended by the fourth plank in the GOMLP’s provisional platform:

You want to kill me and everyone else who doesn’t share your belief in the

Other than noting that the case against him remains to be presented in a court of law, you will never see this blog defending anyone who’s thrown in with al Qaeda—regardless of which U.S. political

Except that Israel-bashers will of course get it backward anyway.

Received in my e-mail this morning:

Listen ! if ur goin through a mental disorder than keep it to yourself do’nt include others in it . We all respect all the prophets cz they were sent to make

Just 18% of American voters believe that Iran has halted its nuclear weapons program. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 66% disagree and say Iran has not stopped its

I don’t think Thuggo is going to sit still for this:

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez suffered a stinging defeat in a vote on constitutional changes that would have let him run for

WASHINGTON—U.S. Rep. John Murtha today said he saw signs of military progress during a brief trip to Iraq last week, but he warned that Iraqis need to play a larger role in providing their own

The headline: Democrats see victory ‘out of reach’

In fact, the only way a victory in Iraq doesn’t put political victory out of reach for Democrats in 2008 (hence, “one way or another”), is if

The wave of recent films set against the backdrop of war in Iraq and post-9/11 security has failed to win over film-goers keen to escape grim news headlines when they go to the movies, analysts

House Republicans have introduced legislation calling for the Bush administration to block the merger of a U.S. computer-security equipment company and a Chinese firm with close ties to Beijing’s

Prominent Muslim scholars are warning that the “survival of the world” is at stake if Muslims and Christians do not make peace with each other.

In an unprecedented open letter signed by 138 leading

Reader Terry Martin emails:

I wanted to pass this along for you to check out:

Wounded Warrior Project

It’s a non profit that, as they say:

...try to raise the awareness and enlist the public’s aid

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called a plan to build fencing along parts of the Mexico border a “terrible idea” that overlooks local communities.

Pelosi made the comments during

Iran and Venezuela cemented an alliance aimed at countering the United States while the Iranian president reached out to a new ally in Bolivia and declared that together, “no one can defeat us.”

»

CAIRO, Egypt (AP)—Osama bin Laden urged sympathizers to join the “caravan” of martyrs as he praised one of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers in a new video that emerged Tuesday to mark the sixth

If you’re reading The McGehee Zone on September 11, 2007, you’ll see on the front page my posts from the previous five anniversaries, plus a post dated September 11, 2001. On the front page, just

A well-known antiwar leader has gone public with the transcript of a private conference call that shows peace activists are exasperated with the Democratic congressional leadership and at a loss for

WASHINGTON—Chuck Hagel will announce Monday that he is retiring from the U.S. Senate and will not run for president next year, people close to the Nebraska Republican said Friday.

Hagel plans to

...so why all the fascination over his beard?

It’s obvious that it’s shorter and the graying pattern seen in the 2004-dated image is absent. Does that mean the beard is fake? I’m not so sure.

The

The lolcat sickness has spread. H/t: Andrea. (Yes, that Andrea. She’s having issues with Movable Type. I don’t think that’s ever happened.)

Have a peruse of this post at Protein Wisdom by guestblogger Karl.

There is one passage I’ll comment on—because it’s about the only thing I could add anything to:

I would submit that Beauchamp’s

If some illegal aliens want to wade into this crowd and bust a few goose-stepping heads, I’d support amnesty for them on a case-by-case basis.

Omaha, NE - A major Omaha road may be shut down this

I’m cranky. Can you tell?

OPEC has warned that the drive for environment-friendly bio-fuel risked pushing oil prices “through the roof,” the Financial Times reported yesterday.

OPEC

I’m really getting fed up with this bullshit. They’re so goddamned jealous of their own sovereignty but they want the right to come and go from our house as they damn well please. Fuck them.

MEXICO

A former director of the Drug Enforcement Administration warned federal officials shortly after the September 11 attacks that violent drug cartels from Mexico were teaming with Muslim gangs to fund

Rosenbaum, a highly regarded pediatric ophthalmologist who had been regularly harassed by animal-rights activists for his research work with cats and rhesus monkeys at the Jules Stein Eye Institute

The Washington Times:

Islamic extremists embedded in the United States — posing as Hispanic nationals — are partnering with violent Mexican drug gangs to finance terror networks in the Middle East,

Gallup:

We’re seeing some slight hints of positive news for the Bush administration.  For one thing, Bush’s job approval rating has stopped its downward trajectory.  Bush hit bottom with his

Dashiell Parr: “But Dad always said our powers were nothing to be ashamed of, our powers made us special.”
Helen Parr (Mrs. Incredible): “Everyone’s special, Dash.”
Dashiell Parr: “Which is another

State Republican officials from across the country on Thursday will formally break with the desire of President Bush and other top Republican leaders to include amnesty and other benefits for

In a stinging rebuke to a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Undersecretary of Defense Eric Edelman responded to questions Clinton raised in May in which she urged the Pentagon to start

Democrats are trying to pull a provision from a homeland security bill that will protect the public from being sued for reporting suspicious behavior that may lead to a terrorist attack, according

The FBI is investigating an alleged human smuggling operation based in Chaparral, N.M., that agents say is bringing “Iraqis and other Middle Eastern” individuals across the Rio Grande from

The terror group has been able to restore three of the four key tools it would need to launch an attack on U.S. soil: a safe haven in Pakistan’s tribal areas, operational lieutenants and senior

Make of that what you will.

Former UN chief Kurt Waldheim, who was barred from the United States for two decades after revelations he belonged to a German army unit that committed World War II

It wasn’t all that long ago, or at least it doesn’t seem that way, that I was berating Bush for being unwilling to part with his then-vast reserves of political capital to achieve worthwhile policy

The leaders of Bolivia and Ecuador are moving with Cuban encouragement and in concert with their mentor, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, to restrict press freedom in their countries.

Bolivian

...and if it works, there’ll be politicians dangling from lampposts by 2015.

And no, I’m not betting on which side’s politicians they’ll be.

Iran is secretly forging ties with al-Qaida elements and

With the White House’s blessing, the Senate has reached a deal on immigration. And Sen. John McCain has handed his opponents for the Republican nomination a mighty club to wield against him—if they

A Pakistani man being held in Guantanamo Bay is claiming he was tortured and his family hounded by U.S. authorities. According to the Associated Press—the father of Majid Khan claims his son was

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is threatening to take President Bush to court if he issues a signing statement as a way of sidestepping a carefully crafted compromise Iraq war spending

Seeing the link for this New York Times story on Drudge just crystallized something for me. From the article:

Every morning, representatives from a cluster of antiwar groups gather for a conference

A planned T.V. drama based on the exploits of a British Iraq war hero has been dropped by the BBC. The Sunday Telegraph quotes a source close to the project as saying the BBC began to have second

In a move some criticized as a self-serving ruse to increase voter turnout, Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata on Thursday unveiled legislation to place a measure on California’s presidential

The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget.

This is not because the war has been won, lost or even called off, but because the

Jeff Goldstein has a couple of posts up about one of his best serious themes, and one in which I have long held an interest: identitarianism, or the replacement of individual identity with that of a

Saudi King Abdullah, whose country is a close US ally, on Wednesday slammed the “illegitimate foreign occupation” of Iraq in an opening speech to the annual Arab summit in Riyadh.

“In beloved Iraq,

Iran captured fifteen British Royal Navy personnel during a “routine boarding operation” in Iraqi waters on Friday, Britain’s Ministry of Defense said.

» Reuters:   Iran seizes British navy personnel

Via Dan Collins guest-posting on Protein Wisdom, the questions Congress (or somebody) desperately needs to ask the “outed” super-double-secret CIA desk jockeyette (selective excerpt):

Since the CIA

A soldier honoured for his military valour in Afghanistan is wondering why strangers attacked and beat him in his hometown bar this past weekend.

“This wasn’t two guys on the ice dropping gloves

As President Bush prepares to meet today with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Mr. Calderon and his government are increasingly making it clear the solution to the U.S. illegal immigration problem

Violence along the U.S.-Mexico border is undergoing what U.S. law-enforcement authorities call “an unprecedented surge,” some of it fueled by weapons and ammunition purchased or stolen in the United

An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday but officials said he posed no apparent

Gwinnett police have arrested a 24-year-old Lawrenceville man after he asked for change for $100 at a fast-food drive-through last week and the clerk noticed an assault rifle in his lap.

He was

That money should be donated instead toward the 9/11 memorial or some such worthy anti-terrorist cause.

A New York man accused of trying to help terrorists in Afghanistan has donated some $15,000 to

The National Football League refused to run a recruitment ad for the U.S. Border Patrol in last week’s Super Bowl program, saying it was “controversial” because it mentioned duties such as fighting

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in one of his harshest attacks on the United States in seven years in power, accused Washington on Saturday of attempting to force its will on the world.

The White

So soon after she equated global-warming unbelievers to Holocaust deniers, I’d really like to know what she thinks of this.

In a bizarre attack, a well-known author and Holocaust scholar was dragged

H/t MVRWC.

AP defenders throughout blogdom have been claiming there’s no AP-sourced news article to be found anywhere in which the word “destroyed” was used to describe four Iraqi mosques.

BAGHDAD, Iraq—Sunni

SMASH was moved to dismay when “someone close” to him forwarded him a petition calling on Congress to cut funding for the mission in Iraq.

Read his eloquent reply.

Sooner or later I’m going to have to tune back in to the most obfuscated, lied-about, distorted and misrepresented yet vitally important issue facing the world I live on—but enough about Donald and

The answer is that you cast a symbolic vote when you (a) know you can’t win, or (b) don’t want to win but do want to be seen voting for it anyway.

Democratic leaders said Tuesday that they intended

Last November, the head of the local chapter of a Muslim American civil rights group was honored by Sen. Barbara Boxer with a certificate “in recognition of (his) outstanding service.”

Basim

So I click over to Captain’s Quarters and see this.

Drudge has these links:

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at an unspecified location in Baghdad.

Iraqi TV said

...and you voted Democrat to deny his party its congressional majority.

Counting on the support of the new Democratic majority in Congress, Democratic lawmakers and their Republican allies are

That oughta get ol’ Ahmadamnjihadi quaking in his boots.

The UN Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to impose sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, increasing

In a portion of the tape from al Qaeda No. 2 man, Ayman al Zawahri, made available only today, Zawahri says he has two messages for American Democrats.

“The first is that you aren’t the ones who

How far do you suppose a ship would get if its crew behaved like the Bush Administration has been behaving?

The Selective Service System is planning a comprehensive test of the military draft

I just noticed there hasn’t been any big reverberations in blogdom about developments in the Scooter Libby prosecution.

What’s up with that?

Iraq is failing to spend billions of dollars of oil revenues that have been set aside to rebuild its damaged roads, schools and power stations and to repair refineries and pipelines.

Iraqi

Jimmy “Miserable Failure” Carter, a man whose mother used to wish she’d stayed a virgin.

Former President Jimmy Crater faced new criticism Friday over his controversial book on Palestinian lands

The only way the Iranians help us in Iraq is if we say, OK, you can have your nuke bombs. At the moment there really isn’t a whole lot standing in the way of the Iranians building nuke bombs anyway.

Mike Antonucci has a few choice words about a persistent meme on the Left, most infamously espoused in recent weeks by John Kerry and Charley Rangel: the notion that our military recruits don’t know

Baker too. And the special welcome I’ll give them is similar to that described here.

Vandalism hit close to home this weekend for Farmers Branch Mayor Bob Phelps.

As CBS 11 first reported at 6 p.m. Saturday, the mayor discovered Friday morning vandals had spray painted “viva

BETHLEHEM, West Bank—The death threat came on simple white fliers blowing down the streets at dawn. A group calling itself “Friends of Muhammad” accused a local Palestinian Christian of selling cell

...before this claim is debunked?

Iran’s Arabic language television station broadcast footage it claimed showed a US aircraft carrier cruising in Gulf waters it said was taken by an unmanned Iranian

Student leaders at a California college have touched off a furor by banning the Pledge of Allegiance at their meetings, saying they see no reason to publicly swear loyalty to God and the U.S.

Saddam Hussein, the iron-fisted dictator who ruled Iraq for nearly a quarter of a century, was found guilty of crimes against humanity Sunday and sentenced to death by hanging.

The so-called

I’m sorry, did the New York Times just put on the front page that IRAQ HAD A NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM AND WAS PLOTTING TO BUILD AN ATOMIC BOMB?

» Jim Geraghty:   Shocker: New York Times Confirms Iraqi

...‘cause I’m starting to wonder if they’re, like, related or something.

First, my apologies to anyone who checks the properties on that image and sees how I’ve recast Luckovich’s name (and doesn’t

”...because five years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden is still a free man!”

As late as 1992—after decades at the top of the list of Most Wanted Nazi War Criminals—it was not known for certain whether

The federal government is investigating the takeover last year of a leading American manufacturer of electronic voting systems by a small software company that has been linked to the leftist

...was a whole lot of jaws hitting the floor at CNN.

Most Americans do not believe the Bush administration has gone too far in restricting civil liberties as part of the war on terror, a new CNN

For way too long it’s been a given among opponents of the Bush Administration to claim that WMDs were “the” justification for the war in Iraq.

50 months ago—during the interminably long “rush to

EPINAY-SUR-SEINE, France —  On a routine call, three unwitting police officers fell into a trap. A car darted out to block their path, and dozens of hooded youths surged out of the darkness to

I could go through a few aluminum cans with this. H/t Shadowscope.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday called Israel’s leaders a “group of terrorists” and threatened any country that supports the Jewish state.

“You imposed a group of terrorists ... on

Why is this guy still in the game?

The Shiite militia run by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr seized control of the southern Iraqi city of Amarah on Friday in one of the boldest acts of defiance

Good ol’ Darth Rove—he put his fingers almost together and told Kim, “This isn’t the nuclear weapon you’re trying to develop. You don’t want to join the nuclear club. You’d really rather your

You’d think there’d have to be something wrong about a grown man reading a comic strip about a pre-teen girl.

Then again…

Well okay, there’s only one. So far.

A California-born convert to Islam, accused of making a series of al Qaeda propaganda videos, became on Wednesday the first American charged with treason since

Cox & Forkum managed to put one over on the Iranian mullarchy—but not well enough to make the finals.

Whoever’s in charge of poetic justice missed an excellent opprtunity.

Those poor terrorists! Now they’re being victimized by a new and even more horrible form of torture. (Emphasis added.)

Critics worry about detainees at Guantanamo Bay getting mistreated. But now we

...pretty much what he’s doing on his southern border to keep all of the illegals out of his country.

The hypocrite.

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

Coweta County commissioners voted some time ago to dedicate a stretch of State Route 54 in Coweta County to SGT Michael Stokely, who was killed in Iraq in August 2005. The dedication will take place

Everybody else is taking note of the intense irony of Muslims taking offense over their religion being characterized as violent, evil and inhuman—by threatening violence, murder and war. Just

[Originally posted the morning of Tuesday, 12 September, bumped up for this update; original content is below the fold.]

UPDATE: Rusty and Allahpundit are on a story about nuclear material allegedly

Andy Rooney: “Why do they hate us?”

Me: “Because they’re hateful. If they didn’t hate us they’d be hating somebody else.”

Andy Rooney:

Me: “Oh, you don’t mean why do they hate us, you mean why do

Below the fold, the contents of my 2005 “Remember” post. I intended to have 9/11-related open trackbacks again, but I’ve disabled trackbacks site-wide, so please use HTML (or the buttons) in

I have now read some things about this ABC-TV project that call into question its accuracy.

You know, other than the fact IT’S A FREAKIN’ MOVIE.

If you want a perfectly accurate historical

A new study finds that, despite echoing the concerns of Muslim majorities, Al Qaeda has failed to transform itself into a widespread movement in the five years since the 9/11 terror attacks and is

...but with the fifth anniversary of 9/11 looming, I’m seriously starting to wonder whether civilization deserves to be saved from the jihadiwacks.

A majority of Canadians believe U.S. foreign

If the Democrats are howling in outrage over the upcoming ABC miniseries “The Path to 9/11,” it must be good.

UPDATE, Friday: It just keeps getting better.

Osama bin Laden, America’s most wanted man, will not face capture in Pakistan if he agrees to lead a “peaceful life,” Pakistani officials tell ABC News.

The surprising announcement comes as

Iran’s hardline president declared Saturday that his nation’s controversial nuclear program poses no threat to any other country, even Israel “which is a definite enemy.”

» AP: Iranian President Says

Cox & Forkum have an answer to the question, “Can you imagine anything more degrading and humiliating for an American citizen?”

You may have noticed it will soon be September.

Iran on Tuesday handed over its reply to an incentives package by world powers aimed at allaying Western fears that Tehran seeks to build atomic bombs, Iran’s state-run Arabic-language Al-Alam

Hate-filled mums willing to sacrifice themselves and their babies are being hunted in the war on terror.

Security sources confirmed last night that alleged “baby bombers” were among those arrested

If I’d been paying as much attention to world affairs as I once did, I might have had a meltdown too over the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hezbullah.

But there’s a downside to reacting to

There’s been some rumblings over a recent threat from Iran singling out August 22 as a day on which some demonstration or other is planned that will supposedly force the world to take the mullarchy

Hype.

A plot to blow up planes in flight from the UK to the US and commit “mass murder on an unimaginable scale” has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said.

It is thought the plan was to detonate

Hezbollah militants continue to maintain a tight guard around a hospital they say is empty, days after Israeli commandos stormed it in a dramatic midnight raid into the heart of the militia’s

If President Bush says anything at all about this, it will suddenly all become a lie originated by him—just like the infamous 16 words™ from that SOTU before the Iraq invasion. I’ll bet Joe Wilson

As if yesterday’s doctored photo brouhaha weren’t bad enough, now Reuters employees are sending death threats to American bloggers.

A Reuters employee has been suspended after sending a death threat

Articles in Palestinian newspapers have called Rice, a “black spinster.” One political cartoon pictured her pregnant with a monkey. A Palestinian newspaper editor tells the Jerusalem Post many of

You may be old enough to remember the Brezhnev Doctrine—which amounted to, “Once a Communist dictatorship, always a Communist dictatorship.” It didn’t much outlive Brezhnev either.

Cuba’s communist

Lebanese protesters broke into the United Nations headquarters in Beirut on Sunday, smashing windows and ransacking offices, after an Israeli air strike killed at least 40 people in south

And we just wish there were a Popeye’s somewhere in Coweta County.

Two years ago, Church’s Chicken and Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits were friendly competitors owned by the same company, Atlanta-based

Crazy ranting Sam notes a minor brouhaha over a sign, and suggests a more appropriate use for it. Me, I’m thinking the situation in question is so obvious the sign isn’t needed. Though I do admit it

A thinner but combative Saddam Hussein appeared in court Wednesday for the first time since his hunger strike and hospitalization and asks to be executed by firing squad if the court convicts him

Somebody goofed.

A UN-run observation post near the border was struck during fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants on Friday, while Israel resumed airstrikes on Lebanon and warned people

Notice that Beth and Macker are on it. By name. But not Yippee-Ki-Yay!

I may have to blacklist all of India in revenge for this slight.

H/t: OTB.

For the first time, a former Orange County, Calif. teenage rock music fan has revealed his role as a top al Qaeda leader.

Adam Gadahn, who disappeared from California seven years ago, appeared

I can’t collect the photo or I’d show it to you—but FoxNews.com has an image on their front page at this moment that shows some Iraqi prison inmates who’ve been released by the Iraqi government.

Then, we hack the terrorists’ computers and make them lose their passwords.

Another, unrelated comic below the fold…

In political circles, it has become known as the “Bilbray factor”:

• Brian Bilbray, a former moderate Republican who lost his congressional seat in San Diego six years ago, rode anger about illegal

America is already the greatest Islamic nation in the world.

» Aziz P: Zaid Shakir does not represent me

Aziz goes on to explain how and why, in his opinion, this is so—complete with clarifying

The lawyer for a Georgia Tech student being held on terrorism-related charges can view some of the classified evidence being used against his client. But he can’t share that information with the

The Department of Homeland Security allowed a man to enter its headquarters last week using a fake Matricula Consular card as identification, despite federal rules that say the Mexican-issued card

A man who told police he made a pipe bomb to attack an abortion clinic was arrested Thursday, shortly before the device went off in a friend’s home while authorities tried to disable it, according