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Saudi minister tells preachers to stop being idiots

Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abd Al-Aziz on TV a few days ago:

"Brother, are you aware that your sons who go to Iraq are used only for bombings? They are the ones who carry out the bombings. It is not just me who says this, but also the Iraqi officials, including the Iraqi interior ministers that I have met.

...The Saudis are brought [to Iraq] in order to carry out bombings. ... Who are the ones who die? Are they senior officials? Are they soldiers in any army? No. The ones who die are innocent men, women, and children. Would you be pleased if your sons became tools of murder? This is the reality. Moreover, those who escape being killed come back here with deviant ideas, and they try to implement them in our society. Hence, security activity is insufficient if it is not accompanied by ideological activity. This is a virus in the body of this nation, and if we do not kill this virus, if we do not reach, diagnose, and kill it – it will remain. The men of the security agencies amputate a decaying organ in this body, but who should fight this deviant ideology, if not clerics and sheiks like you? I refer especially to the preachers and imams of the mosques."

The United States of Africa

And who would be president of a newly joined continent? Why, fearless -- er, feckless -- leader Moammar Gadhafi, of course, who has said Africa must "unite or die."

Still crazy after all these years...

Farfour Bites the Dust

Looks like Farfour's plans to annihilate the Jews didn't work out. Farfour the militant mouse was knocked off in his final appearance on kids TV. In his grand finale, an Isreali poser trying to buy his land whacked Farfour. Only Hamas would grant rodents property rights. No word on Hamas granting Fatah members any rights though.

The best part about all this is the real message that Farfour's demise sends; Militant rats are the ones that are being annihilated, often at the hands of those they despise so much.

If Hamas was smart they might try to boost ratings by setting up a cage match with the Vixen’s own Boris the Amazing Hamster. I see Boris has been working out and I think he could kick Farfour’s ass in no time.

Ghost of Arafat Rises

Finally, we have a Fatah leader telling Muslim clergy to quit inciting violence….against Fatah. Fatah gained and kept power through the use of violence for years under Nobel Peace Prize recipient Yasser Arafat. Since Fatah got the snot knocked out of it in Gaza by Hamas, Fatah leaders have suddenly decided that violence is appalling. It’s amazing how terrible violence looks when you are staring down the business end of a gun. I just don’t know what all those young Palestinians will do without a hobby if their guns are taken away.

Ah, there is a certain poetic justice to watching Palestinian thugs get their clocks cleaned in Lebanon and Gaza then whine about violence. No word yet on if Fatah is telling the Mullahs to quit telling their follower to kill Christians and Jews, but if they asked I’m sure the answer would be "Go ahead; knock yourself out."

Welcome to 10 Downing Street

Gordon Brown just took over from Tony Blair as British prime minister, and just got his first shot across the bow with an attempted car bombing in Piccadilly Circus. From what they're saying on Sky News right now, the driver of the Mercedes that carried an explosive device crashed into a Dumpster just as nightclubs in the neighborhood were about to let out for the evening, then jumped out and ran away. They also noted that the anniversary of the 7/7 tube/bus bombings is swiftly approaching, and that this weekend is the big Concert for Diana. Scotland Yard won't comment on reports (which apparently are circulating widely, as I got such reports in my e-mail before I even knew about the story) that in addition to the confirmed gas cannisters in the vehicle, it was also packed with nails for maximum impact.

Of note to me is how the terrorists stepped up to the Mercedes. It attracts less attention from residents who probably expect terrorists to blow up a Dodge Neon, and shows greater cash access than some wayward wannabe terrorist kid crying in his malt vinegar while working at the fish-and-chips stand. Plus, it pretty much rules out the IRA -- no self-respecting Irishman would blow that much money on a demolition vehicle when he could spend it on suds.

'1408' is really cool, really scary

I'm a big fan of scary films, and "1408" tends to evoke one of the best ones, "The Shining" (both being Stephen King stories). Besides offering lots of good, genuine frights, this film proves two very important points:

a) Carpenters music IS the root of all evil. I knew it!

b) Samuel L. Jackson can still drop a silky, lyrical F-bomb like no one else.

Hugo Chavez charms his Russian host

I have just a few words for Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, pictured left: Head On -- apply directly to the forehead!

Hugo, by the way, is in Russia to go submarine shopping.  And he's just been analyzed as a malignant narcissist with a messianic complex. Big surprise there!

Because Gitmo inmates are so warm and fuzzy

(In the case of his chin fur, literally.) From the Moscow Times:

"A man formerly held in the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was killed Wednesday in a shootout with security agents in Kabardino-Balkariya, the Federal Security Service said.

...The statement said (Ruslan) Odizhev was a suspect in the 1999 apartment bombings in Moscow and Volgodonsk and that he took part in a 2005 attack on police and government facilities in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkariya. That attack left 139 people dead, including 94 militants.

The FSB said Odizhev was the 'spiritual leader' of Yarmuk, an Islamic extremist organization connected to an array of violence in the region.

The regional prosecutor's office said Odizhev was killed in Nalchik and that three homemade explosive devices were found on his body. ...Odizhev was one of seven Russians released from Guantanamo Bay in 2004."

My first YouTube video!

Immigration Fraud

U.S. agents just busted a forgery ring that was gearing up to create fraudulent documents to take advantage of the amnesty bill that has not even been passed yet. You might be shocked by this development until you learn that the last time we went down amnesty road in 1986, 25% of APPROVED applications were fraudulent. The forgery ring didn’t discriminate in who it was willing to sell documents to either since its customers included Arabs, Algerians, and Pakistanis. We might hear more about these customers later, probably after a loud boom.

In 1986 we granted six million illegal immigrants amnesty and about a quarter of those forged documents and thumbed their nose at the law. Part of the 1986 amnesty agreement was a promise to crack down on any further illegal immigration; a promise never kept. Now history is repeating itself as 20 million look to get amnesty, even if it takes a little fraud. The new law does have a promise to crack down on illegal immigration though.