Eid Mubarak!
To one and all...
posted by ubaid - Tuesday, November 25, 2003 at 12:56 PM - 0 comments - post anonymously

donkey bombs
The Washington Post and US army spokespersons are making the most of the donkey element,

Troops returned fire, apparently injuring a donkey at the Sheraton and shaking up others. The donkeys were "shaken not stirred," Kimmitt said. "They are alive but one is quite frankly pretty shook up. . . . All indications are that the donkeys will recover."
Asked about the status of donkeys, Col. William Darley, another Army spokesman, said that while they are not "enemy combatants, " they are "deemed to have been co-opted to perform the will of the terrorists elements."

From here.
posted by ubaid - Friday, November 21, 2003 at 6:51 PM - 0 comments - post anonymously

the turkey bombings
A shocking piece of news, what mentality motivates an action as despicable as this? Who has been wronged and to what degree to extract such vengeance? The report in NYT says,

The claim of responsibility came in an anonymous phone call to Anatolia. The caller said attacks would continue ``to prevent the oppression against Muslims,'' the agency said.

I wonder what oppression is being spoken of here, it's imperative the conspiracy theorists be stopped from targeting soft targets like the synagogue in Turkey and the Arab neighborhood in Riyadh earlier this week. Obviously terrorism is not something that can be fought by waging war with countries that harbor or sympathize with terrorists for they just seem to move their operations elsewhere. What is needed is for national and regional governments to heighten security and, very critically, for those Muslims who belive in Western/American/Jewish conspiracies of taking over the world to wake up to reality and the fact that no justice to crimes committed, perceived or real, lies in blowing up car bombs at synagogue entrances.
posted by ubaid - Saturday, November 15, 2003 at 10:03 AM - 0 comments - post anonymously

today's quote
Via AWAD,

Youth is the first victim of war - the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.
- Boudewijn I, King of Belgium (1934-1993)

posted by ubaid - Wednesday, November 05, 2003 at 9:44 PM - 0 comments - post anonymously