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lapsedmodernistLately every day is a very special news day, but today is xtra special. like, hysterical giggling special.
this is a headline from the Guardian from this morning
New theory for Iraq's missing WMD: Saddam was fooled into thinking he had them.
The article starts off as well as is to be expected after that headline:
British officials are circulating a story that Saddam Hussein may have been hoodwinked into believing that Iraq really did possess weapons of mass destruction.
The theory, which is doing the rounds in the upper reaches of Whitehall, is the result of an attempt to find what one official source called a "logical reason" why no chemical and biological weapons had been found in Iraq.
Of course, that kind of circumnavigates the issue of Saddam insisting that he had no WMDs, but never you mind.
Thing are getting even better. In my daily perusings of Democratic Underground I came across this and Jeremy Reynalds came into my life. Now, he's taken his webpage down, but I linked to the cache, which y'all should check out before google crawls over that part of the web again. Apparently, JR has some inside scoop in Al-Qaeda's evil plans, and he's been fear-mongering all over the conservative web hubs for the last couple of years. Here are his recent articles.
Is al Qaeda threatening a Nuclear Attack?
By Jeremy Reynalds
12/22/03
A letter to the Bush Administration containing a list of demands from an alleged representative of the Islamic Jihad Brigade Black Death Squad says failure to fulfil those orders will have deadly consequences.
The document reads in part (sic), "We will give you a prior few minutes notice before our blessed attack so that you will be able to watch your destruction with your own satellite, as we would be by then have passed the skies of the seventh sky to heaven and your nation to the fires of hell."
While this document, written by alleged al Qaeda operative Daleel Almojahid, appears to indicate some sort of nuclear attack, it does seem to mirror closely other terrorist information that is being broadly circulated. On Friday Reuters reported the White House said it had warned security personnel to be on the look out for terror attacks during the Christmas holiday season.
The Coming Strike?
By Jeremy Reynalds
12-17-03
Self proclaimed al Qaida operative Daleel Almojahid said people should not be fooled by the jubilation shown over Hussein's capture. Almojahid wrote in an e-mail (sic), "Don't let the happiness fool you, the Americans are in the worst situation ever since starting their war on Afghanistan and Iraq ... The trap of Baghdad will start showing its teeth soon, and as you all know al Qaida has issued a warning for all Muslims to start leaving parts of the US. We hope that the warnings have reached."
Almojahid contended that (sic), "The (real) war with America did not start yet. The mojahideen are moving with certain planes. The timing of the start of the war will be decided (by) the mojahideen themself; but we can promise you that Bush and Blair and a lot of the crusaders don't know yet who al Qaida really is, but they will soon. The coming strike will turn the table upside down and we promise all Muslims in the word that god's victory is very near if you just know. We will issue a demand letter after the first strike and we advise America to answer all our demands right away."
Here's one that did not come to pass, damping his Homeland Security Cassandra threats.
Terrorist Planning To Poison Americans?
By Jeremy Reynalds
9-27-02
Posts on a Jordanian based internet hate site bulletin board hosted by an internet service provider based in Atlanta, Ga. are discussing what they say are plans for a campaign to poison Americans when they go out to eat at restaurants.
The information is reportedly coming from a "trustworthy source." The report was apparently posted with a view toward warning Muslims about upcoming plans. The post appears to say that the writer is not someone who believes that Muslims who support American owned businesses deserve death by poisoning. The writer says that those who haven't up until now boycotted American restaurants need to do so in the near future and spread the warning to others.
So apparently our fellow has a direct and ongoing contact with an Al-Qaeda operative named Daleel Almojahid, whether he actually exists or not is unclear, but apperntly Daleel feels compelled to divulge plans of attack to Jeremy, in a highly syncretic mixture of Book-of-Revelations and Arabic metaphores. JR posts them all over the web, and voila, you've got "the chatter" and you've got Code Orange and you've got residents of Tappahannock, VA (population 2000 or something like that) freaking out. [On edit: now that link got replaced by a headline about flights from Paris to the US cancelled, possibly in an attempt to thward an attack, possibly in an attempt to keep punishing France] Also it's nice to know that despite the fact that our heroes at Homeland Security "have specific flight numbers" about to be hujacked, but aren't telling, Tom Ridge is encouraging Americans to travel if they have plans.
I have to go get new glasses now. Read, think, discuss amongst yourselves. Definitely read the links today.
[On edit: I had a chance to properly peruse Jeremy Reynalds' gems after coming back from Pearle Vision (my new glasses are gonna be totally cat-eye style), and not only is he a really weird-looking motherfucker, he crazy. I mean, check this out: either he created this Daleel, or Daleel is some acne-faced teenager goofing off at his expense. Cuz, apparenly JR writes "undercover" missives to this "Al-Qaeda" member, and gets responses worthy of snopes.com back. Here is one from a little while ago:
Al Qaeda Source Informs Under Cover Bush Country Reporter "We Have Everything Ready And Set" And To "Move Out And Go North"
By Jeremy Reynalds
A new message was posted Monday by the Jeddah-based al-Qaeda-linked Al-Islah (Reform) society calling on Muslims to flee New York, Washington and Los Angeles in advance of threatened major al Qaeda attacks in those cities.
The warning was reported by www.debka.com, a respected "Internet publication devoted to independent, investigative reporting and forward analysis in the fields of international terrorism, intelligence, international conflict, Islam, military affairs, security and politics."
A similar message also appeared Monday on a Yahoo! Group bulletin board (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Daleel_Al-Mojahid_/message/18). Apparently posted by Daleel Almojahid, it read "This is the last call for Muslims in New York, the east side and Los Angeles to start leaving. The mojahideen (sic) are now ready to teach the US a lesson it will never forget."
A similar message was received by this reporter when under the guise of being a Molsem sympathetic to the cause he wrote to Almojahid that he wanted to help. "I have funds to buy what you need to kill the kaffir. I need bank account, wiring instructions and location..."
The response received from Almojahid by this reporter read , "We are more than thankful for the sweet words you wrote, but we have everything ready and set thank you so much and please make your plans to move out if you are in the cities of LA, NY or the east side. Go north as much as possible as you know this is a war. May God protect you and protect all our brothers and sisters."
Almojahid posted a subsequent message on his Yahoo! Group account. Headlined "You have to understand this is a war your government had started," it read in part:
"I know that a lot of innocent people and Muslims are within these cities but you have to understand that this is a war your government had started. They have killed more than 2,000,000 Muslims in the past 12 years alone, 500,000 kids died in Iraq since 1990! What would you do if 2,000,000 Americans died from Muslims who are just attacking for money and oil and more wealth to their country! A lot of people asked me how much more time is there. I can only tell you get out as soon as you can. This is a war."]
this is a headline from the Guardian from this morning
New theory for Iraq's missing WMD: Saddam was fooled into thinking he had them.
The article starts off as well as is to be expected after that headline:
British officials are circulating a story that Saddam Hussein may have been hoodwinked into believing that Iraq really did possess weapons of mass destruction.
The theory, which is doing the rounds in the upper reaches of Whitehall, is the result of an attempt to find what one official source called a "logical reason" why no chemical and biological weapons had been found in Iraq.
Of course, that kind of circumnavigates the issue of Saddam insisting that he had no WMDs, but never you mind.
Thing are getting even better. In my daily perusings of Democratic Underground I came across this and Jeremy Reynalds came into my life. Now, he's taken his webpage down, but I linked to the cache, which y'all should check out before google crawls over that part of the web again. Apparently, JR has some inside scoop in Al-Qaeda's evil plans, and he's been fear-mongering all over the conservative web hubs for the last couple of years. Here are his recent articles.
Is al Qaeda threatening a Nuclear Attack?
By Jeremy Reynalds
12/22/03
A letter to the Bush Administration containing a list of demands from an alleged representative of the Islamic Jihad Brigade Black Death Squad says failure to fulfil those orders will have deadly consequences.
The document reads in part (sic), "We will give you a prior few minutes notice before our blessed attack so that you will be able to watch your destruction with your own satellite, as we would be by then have passed the skies of the seventh sky to heaven and your nation to the fires of hell."
While this document, written by alleged al Qaeda operative Daleel Almojahid, appears to indicate some sort of nuclear attack, it does seem to mirror closely other terrorist information that is being broadly circulated. On Friday Reuters reported the White House said it had warned security personnel to be on the look out for terror attacks during the Christmas holiday season.
The Coming Strike?
By Jeremy Reynalds
12-17-03
Self proclaimed al Qaida operative Daleel Almojahid said people should not be fooled by the jubilation shown over Hussein's capture. Almojahid wrote in an e-mail (sic), "Don't let the happiness fool you, the Americans are in the worst situation ever since starting their war on Afghanistan and Iraq ... The trap of Baghdad will start showing its teeth soon, and as you all know al Qaida has issued a warning for all Muslims to start leaving parts of the US. We hope that the warnings have reached."
Almojahid contended that (sic), "The (real) war with America did not start yet. The mojahideen are moving with certain planes. The timing of the start of the war will be decided (by) the mojahideen themself; but we can promise you that Bush and Blair and a lot of the crusaders don't know yet who al Qaida really is, but they will soon. The coming strike will turn the table upside down and we promise all Muslims in the word that god's victory is very near if you just know. We will issue a demand letter after the first strike and we advise America to answer all our demands right away."
Here's one that did not come to pass, damping his Homeland Security Cassandra threats.
Terrorist Planning To Poison Americans?
By Jeremy Reynalds
9-27-02
Posts on a Jordanian based internet hate site bulletin board hosted by an internet service provider based in Atlanta, Ga. are discussing what they say are plans for a campaign to poison Americans when they go out to eat at restaurants.
The information is reportedly coming from a "trustworthy source." The report was apparently posted with a view toward warning Muslims about upcoming plans. The post appears to say that the writer is not someone who believes that Muslims who support American owned businesses deserve death by poisoning. The writer says that those who haven't up until now boycotted American restaurants need to do so in the near future and spread the warning to others.
So apparently our fellow has a direct and ongoing contact with an Al-Qaeda operative named Daleel Almojahid, whether he actually exists or not is unclear, but apperntly Daleel feels compelled to divulge plans of attack to Jeremy, in a highly syncretic mixture of Book-of-Revelations and Arabic metaphores. JR posts them all over the web, and voila, you've got "the chatter" and you've got Code Orange and you've got residents of Tappahannock, VA (population 2000 or something like that) freaking out. [On edit: now that link got replaced by a headline about flights from Paris to the US cancelled, possibly in an attempt to thward an attack, possibly in an attempt to keep punishing France] Also it's nice to know that despite the fact that our heroes at Homeland Security "have specific flight numbers" about to be hujacked, but aren't telling, Tom Ridge is encouraging Americans to travel if they have plans.
I have to go get new glasses now. Read, think, discuss amongst yourselves. Definitely read the links today.
[On edit: I had a chance to properly peruse Jeremy Reynalds' gems after coming back from Pearle Vision (my new glasses are gonna be totally cat-eye style), and not only is he a really weird-looking motherfucker, he crazy. I mean, check this out: either he created this Daleel, or Daleel is some acne-faced teenager goofing off at his expense. Cuz, apparenly JR writes "undercover" missives to this "Al-Qaeda" member, and gets responses worthy of snopes.com back. Here is one from a little while ago:
Al Qaeda Source Informs Under Cover Bush Country Reporter "We Have Everything Ready And Set" And To "Move Out And Go North"
By Jeremy Reynalds
A new message was posted Monday by the Jeddah-based al-Qaeda-linked Al-Islah (Reform) society calling on Muslims to flee New York, Washington and Los Angeles in advance of threatened major al Qaeda attacks in those cities.
The warning was reported by www.debka.com, a respected "Internet publication devoted to independent, investigative reporting and forward analysis in the fields of international terrorism, intelligence, international conflict, Islam, military affairs, security and politics."
A similar message also appeared Monday on a Yahoo! Group bulletin board (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Daleel_Al-Mojahid_/message/18). Apparently posted by Daleel Almojahid, it read "This is the last call for Muslims in New York, the east side and Los Angeles to start leaving. The mojahideen (sic) are now ready to teach the US a lesson it will never forget."
A similar message was received by this reporter when under the guise of being a Molsem sympathetic to the cause he wrote to Almojahid that he wanted to help. "I have funds to buy what you need to kill the kaffir. I need bank account, wiring instructions and location..."
The response received from Almojahid by this reporter read , "We are more than thankful for the sweet words you wrote, but we have everything ready and set thank you so much and please make your plans to move out if you are in the cities of LA, NY or the east side. Go north as much as possible as you know this is a war. May God protect you and protect all our brothers and sisters."
Almojahid posted a subsequent message on his Yahoo! Group account. Headlined "You have to understand this is a war your government had started," it read in part:
"I know that a lot of innocent people and Muslims are within these cities but you have to understand that this is a war your government had started. They have killed more than 2,000,000 Muslims in the past 12 years alone, 500,000 kids died in Iraq since 1990! What would you do if 2,000,000 Americans died from Muslims who are just attacking for money and oil and more wealth to their country! A lot of people asked me how much more time is there. I can only tell you get out as soon as you can. This is a war."]
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Date: 2003-12-24 08:51 am (UTC)from the guardian article:
"A delicious irony if true" is how it was described yesterday by Gary Samore of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
He said he was familiar with the hypothesis being put about by British officials "trying to figure out why Saddam behaved in such an irrational fashion".
1. irrational? please provide some specifics, British officials.
hussein and his officials cooperated with the u.n. inspections in the Fall/Winter 2002/2003. they handed over 12,000+ pages of reports (which Powell intercepted at the airport so that he could "helpfully copy" the documents with their superior copying machines, oh, and excise about 10,000 pages that would provide incriminating evidence against (reagan/bush) gov't agencies and u.s. companies) that were requested. powell later tried to argue that hussein was "in material breech" because the 12,000 pages did not list the NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) weapons that the u.s. "knew" hussein still had. given the current state of the evidence, we have strong reason to believe that hussein told the truth about his NBC weapons and shrub&co lied about their evidence that he had them.
2. iraq doesn't live in a friendly neighborhood (yes, hussein was part of the reason why it isn't friendly). when you don't have weapons, it isn't "irrational" to pretend that you do.
this is all part of the attempt by the supporters of the invasion to hijack the language used to describe it.
-mjm
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Date: 2003-12-24 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-24 05:24 pm (UTC)chomsky highlighted this willingness of shrub&co to say anything in the grand "we're for democracy in the middle east!" propaganda campaign that shrub&co started many weeks ago. as he said, a w. post commentator described the invasion of iraq as "the most idealistic war in modern times" and wolfowitz as a genuine intellectual who "bleeds for (the Arab world's) oppression and dreams of liberating it." then chomsky pointed out the historical record of the dictators that wolfowitz has supported, and most significantly, his going to turkey and criticizing the military for not overruling the parliament, which went along with the 90% (!!) of turks who did not want the u.s. military to have overland/air rights to stock its base in eastern turkey before the invasion started. on the one hand we have the words of the neocons and their propagandists in the media, on the other hand we have their actions.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1071961807419&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724
it's not going to be enough to evict shrub from the white house next year. the house or senate will be needed if there are going to be any investigations of the crimes. the death of wellstone and the "defeat" in georgia (diebold "voting" machines) of max cleland has prevented a lot of senate investigations this year.
-mjm
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Date: 2003-12-24 10:54 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-12-24 12:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-24 12:44 pm (UTC)happy holidays, nicachica!
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Date: 2003-12-24 12:46 pm (UTC)"a little?" ha!
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Date: 2003-12-24 02:24 pm (UTC)Now here's the thing; considering that we have more specific information for this particular Code Orange than we have had for any other, why in the hell does all the specific information contradict itself?
Let's examine the evidence: the flight numbers we have are all from Paris to L.A., and yet there has been a Specific Threat made against Newark International Airport (wuh-huh?). The main target appears to be Tappahanock (according to MSNBC) or Rappahanock (according to CNN- I figured it out) Virginia, which is mind-boggling in the first place (although Ashcroft's house is on the outskirts of Rappahanock, about five minutes from where I now sit-- aim those airplanes well, terrorists! I don't want to have his fallout), but which totally doesn't jive with any sort of Paris-to-L.A. flight, because by the time it got to Virginia, the Air Freedom flight would no longer have enough fuel in it to create the shock and awe that the World Trade Center attacks did. Also, why pick small, non-strategic towns in the middle of the mountains, when there are plenty of 'heartland' targets on flat ground that would make much more suitable targets? And why the hell from Paris-to-New York? Via Newark?
Either the terrorists are fucking with us, or the government is.
Either way, Jeremy is one scary looking MF. Yeesh.
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Date: 2003-12-24 05:57 pm (UTC)do you think santa is going to have any problems with our heightened security?