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Chalabi in Jenin?! What's up with this? Are Chalabi's American supporters yet wondering about the bill of goods he sold them? Or, are they still ready to follow him to Tehran?
Anyone thinking Woody Allen in Zelig? Or Philip Roth's Operation Shylock?
Update: Perhaps it's a different Ahmad Chalabi? The one targeted in Jenin is supposedly a militant from Islamic Jihad. But you never know with Ahmad, right? Last year with AIPAC, this year with al Sadr and Suleimani.
I'm sure it's not the same guy. Why would the Israelis be trying to shoot at him?
Posted by: Haggai at September 29, 2004 09:46 PMI wonder how common the last name Chalabi is. Ahmed is clearly a fairly common first name.
Re: the security blimp - it looks like the DoD is wasting some choice advertisting space.
If they're going to surveille us from on high, why not help pay down the deficit at the same time?
/kidding
SoCal, That's pretty funny.
How about, Halliburton?
They'd certainly be a good candidate.
And they probably have some extra cash on hand after overcharging the Pentagon for food services in the Gulf.
/again, kidding ;-)
Posted by: SoCalJustice at September 29, 2004 10:16 PMThe blimp is probably a cost cutting measure. They used to use
cessnas and other planes for that purpose. The FBI has followed many a spy using that device. Oil IS over $50 a barrel. Aviation
fuel must be out-of-sight. The blimp probably has a far greater
mpg than the cessna.
Don't worry, by tomorrow morning Justin Raimondo will have found a way to connect *both* stories to the "Mole in the Pentagon" scenario. ;)
They also killed a Mentally disabled/disturbed Palestinian in Jenin. Sounds like maybe the commander of the barracks in
Jenin needs to be replaced.
Posted by: Manoppello at September 29, 2004 10:33 PM
Getting back to the spy biz... Laura Have you seen this!!?
http://www.repubblica.it/2004/i/sezioni/esteri/itaraptre/spie/spie.html
ROMA - ... Ricompare la lista. Maurizio Scelli: i nomi delle due volontarie erano in una lista che pare provenisse da uffici dei servizi segreti Usa, e che le individuavano, secondo gli iracheni, come elementi di spionaggio".
Rome - THE LIST reappears! Maurizio Scelli: the names of the two volunteers (Simon Torretta, Simona Pari) were on a list that is made up of officials of the US secret services, and that pinpointed them, according to the Iraqis, as espionage agents.
Posted by: Manoppello at September 29, 2004 10:57 PMTHERE is a LIST!? Where did this list come from? Who provided Iraqi elements with this list?
Posted by: Manoppello at September 29, 2004 10:58 PMWell, according to the DoD, Al-Zarqawi, can be anywhere he wants in Iraq at any time, which means eh can fly, he can't be killed and he can't even be seen.
So clearly, he's a vampire.
Perhaps 'Honest Ahmad' got bit.
There's a good summer movie in here somewhere, presumably with Kate Beckinsale in a burkha.
ash
['We really need more werewolves in this movie tho.']
"They also killed a Mentally disabled/disturbed Palestinian in Jenin."
But of course the killing is on *both* sides:
Five children killed in Gaza Strip battles
Hamas rocket attack claims two young Israeli lives while three Palestinian boys die in raids
Chris McGreal in Jabaliya
Thursday September 30, 2004
The Guardian
The Gaza Strip was bracing itself for an Israeli military assault last night after a Hamas rocket attack on an Israeli town killed two children, one an infant.
Ariel Sharon vowed to respond "with severity" to the attack on the town of Sderot, which wounded another 20 people, some of them children. Late last night, missiles ploughed into the Jabaliya refugee camp, killing two Palestinians, one a policeman.
Hours earlier a large Israeli force sent to reoccupy the Gaza camp to prevent rocket attacks killed two Palestinian schoolboys. Another boy was shot dead by soldiers near a Jewish settlement.
The police said the Hamas rocket hit a house, killing the two children - Dorit Aniso, two, and four-year-old Yuval Abebeh.
Another rocket hit a Jewish settlement in Gaza, lightly wounding a Palestinian worker. Sderot residents gathered near the area, some chanting "Death to Arabs."
A resident, Ronen Edri, told the newspaper Ha'aretz that he had seen a boy with head wounds lying in the street and tried to give him first aid. "There was a great deal of hysteria all around. People were screaming from shock. I tried to stem the bleeding for the boy, and then [ambulance] personnel arrived and took him away."
Another neighbour, Haviv Ben Abbo, also tried to assist the children. "I saw one child without his legs. We tried to help the other one but it was too late," he said. The attack was launched even though the army had sent dozens of tanks, bulldozers and armoured vehicles to seize control of Jabaliya refugee camp in an attempt to stop Palestinian insurgents firing their rudimentary rockets, known as Qassams, into Israel.
The army said it met stiff resistance in the camp, a stronghold of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, from Palestinian insurgents throwing grenades, shooting, and planting explosives.
But two of the three people killed were 14-year-old schoolboys, apparently shot as they threw stones at the tanks.
The deaths in Sderot, particularly coming at the beginning of a Jewish religious holiday, put further pressure on Mr Sharon to confront Palestinian insurgents before he forces Jewish settlers to leave the Gaza Strip next year.
The mayor of Sderot, Eli Muyal, has said that if European countries faced similar attacks, Palestinian towns "would have been wiped out off the face of the earth".
The prime minister called Mr Muyal to assure him that the government would respond with severity to the attack, according to Israel radio.
The army has made a dozen incursions into the northern Gaza Strip in the past three months, occupying Beit Hanoun for a month. But mortar assaults on Sderot and the settlements have only intensified.
The Israeli army fired several shells and rockets into Jabaliya, and bulldozers destroyed buildings. Gunfire was heard for much of the day. Palestinian sources named the two boys killed in the camp as Saed Muhammad Abu al-Eish and Ahmad Abdul Fattah Madi and said they were throwing stones when they were killed. The army said soldiers shot Palestinians planting explosives or attempting to fire rockets.
Doctors said that nearly 20 people were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds, at least seven of them children in school uniform.
Hassan Khalil, 15, who was slightly wounded in his hand, said: "They shot at us before we could even throw the stones.
"The resistance couldn't stop the tanks so we know the stones won't either. But we want the Jews to know that we will not just lie down."
The army killed a Hamas fighter on the edge of the camp, and in central Gaza shot dead a 13-year-old, Mohammed Jabber, who it said had emerged from a stone-throwing crowd which had entered a forbidden zone next to the Netzarim Jewish settlement and run towards the fence. Several other children were wounded by its gunfire.
In a similar incident near Kfar Darom settlement, the army wounded four students. In the West Bank, it killed two Palestinian gunmen in raids on Nablus and Jenin. A third died when his car crashed as he fled.
Hamas said it made the latest rocket attack on Sderot to mark the fourth anniversary of the intifada, which has cost more than 3,000 Palestinian and nearly 1,000 Israeli lives.
Posted by: sofia at September 30, 2004 12:20 AM"But of course the killing is on *both* sides:"
But sofia,
jenin is in the north near Lebanon.
Gaza is in the south.
And there seem to be so many articles out on the failure of intifada and deep discouragement on the part of the Palestinians who have no civil rights, no protection under Israel's "basic laws" (no Constitution yet) and no citizenship.
Reminds me a bit of something I read in ... ah my memory fails me.. Chaim Potek? The wandering tribe: history of the jews...
definition of "hebrew": groups of tribesman allowed to remain on the right side of the city of Ur ... neither citizens or affiiliates.. just drifters in camps on that side of the city walls.
as a famous DC citizen would put it.. "not a sermon just a thought" ~smiles~
Posted by: Manoppello at September 30, 2004 01:00 AMWhat exactly is the blimp looking for? Are terrorists plotting a halftime show at RFK Stadium?
Oh, the humanity!
Posted by: Dan Kervick at September 30, 2004 01:41 AM"But sofia,
jenin is in the north near Lebanon."
Gaza is in the south".
No kidding. So? It doesn't change the fact that the killing is on both sides.
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Most Palestinians are post-1880 immigrants from other parts of the Arab world.
Hence names like Chalabi,Turk, Masri.
Posted by: Rob at September 30, 2004 07:10 AMAnybody who points out Palestinian deaths caused by their own mis-guided leadership is Anti-Semetic.
Posted by: Dov at September 30, 2004 08:56 AM"Anybody who points out Palestinian deaths caused by their own mis-guided leadership is Anti-Semetic."
"definition of "hebrew": groups of tribesman allowed to remain on the right side of the city of Ur ... neither citizens or affiiliates.. just drifters in camps on that side of the city walls."
Sorry dov,
Any government that discriminates against Hebrews is anti-semitic. Since the Israeli government insists on denying human and civil rights to the peoples on the right side of their barrier, and since Palestinians are on the right side of the barrier. The Palestinians become the Hebrews and the Israeli government and its citizens the oppressors by veritable ancient
definition of the word: Hebrews.
Q.E.D. by both modern and ancient definitions the Israeli government is anti-semitic.
Posted by: Manoppello at September 30, 2004 01:21 PMThe San Francisco Chronicle of 9/30/04 reports a 17-year old SF girl who vanished on her way to school Monday was found Wednesday strangled and wrapped in a blanket. What is wrong with this culture? Until this country is safe for our mothers, sisters, and daughters we have no business trying to change the world. Tend your own garden...
Posted by: euclid creek at September 30, 2004 03:26 PMEuclid,
Point taken -- there are evil people everywhere and crime is crime.
But what happened in rural Pakistan is that the raped person is supposed to go home and kill herself to prevent her family any more shame.
There's something wrong with that.