Released Italian “hostage” Giuliana Sgrena, whose vehicle the US military claims to have fired upon after it failed to slow down at a Coalition checkpoint, is denying the US version of events—a denial the Jawa Report isn’t buying:1 Suspicion continues to mount that Giuliana Sgrena, the journalist for the Italian Communist paper Il Manifesto, either faked her own abduction or became an accomplice after the fact with her jihadi captors.
March 2005
March 4, 2005
BREAKING: FOXNEWS WASHINGTON EDITOR BRIT HUME SPENDS FRIDAY PLAYING XBOX, EATING PISTACHIO NUTS AMID SUSTAINED PRESSURE FROM LEFTWING ACTIVISTS THAT HE STEP DOWN; A CONCERNED OLIVER WILLIS CURSES HUME AS A “CONTINUED AFFRONT TO TRUTH,” DECIDES PISTACHIO NUTS “SOUND YUMMY”, BUYS A 40 LB. SACK
Meanwhile, in more substantive news….yesterday I linked to Declan McCullagh’s CNET interview with FEC commissioner Bradley Smith. Today, former editor of Insight Magazine and Washington Times reporter Paul Rodriguez interviews Smith on Rightalk Radio. Full disclosure: My affiliation with Rightalk radio is strictly platonic. **** update: Kossacks call for attacks on controversial HARD-RIGHT IDEOLOGUE Alan Greenspan; Americablog’s John Aravosis, fresh off his Jeff Gannon outing, said to be scouring the
March 4, 2005
Um, pardon our presumptuousness, but we don’t come here for news links. We come here for dancing armadillos and hot, lesb—
Hey! This ain’t Penthouse Forum, people. I mean, I’m an artist, for chrissakes…
March 4, 2005
È libera
The Jawa report is your one-stop link dump for news and commentary on Giuliana Sgrena, the anti-American Italian reporter taken hostage(?) in February and released today by her Iraqi captors, the little-known Islamic Jihad Organisation. *** update: Breaking: U.S. Fires on Freed Journalist
March 4, 2005
“Beslan siege ‘planners’ captured”
From the BBC: Russian prosecutors say they have arrested four people in connection with the school siege in Beslan last year, which left more than 330 people dead. Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel said the four were suspected of helping plan the siege in North Ossetia and other attacks in Ingushetia. He said five other suspects were killed as they resisted arrest. A BBC regional analyst says the Russian authorities
March 4, 2005
Overheard inside a Ramadi bunker, Wednesday, March 4
First militant: “The House of Saud is demanding Syria pull its troops from Lebanon, Hassan. And Kuwait is cracking down on Saudi imams teaching Wahhabism –” Second militant: “– Irrelevant, Tamir. Anomalous. A transitory setback to our righteous cause.” First militant: Uh huh. Except that Syria now wants peace talks with the Zionist devil, and many of our Arab brothers in Iraq are chanting in the streets for an end
March 4, 2005
The partial “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” post, Friday, March 4
for Martha Stewart And I have known the eyes already, known them all The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase, And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin, When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, Then how should I begin To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways? And how should I presume? **** The Almost-Complete Martha Chronicles
March 3, 2005
“The catnip post” (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)
Mrreowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwmmmmmmm…
March 3, 2005
Creating new terrorists: Chimpy McHitlerBurton’s smirky rodeo ride through history continues, #7
From the AP: Saudi officials told Syrian President Bashar Assad on Thursday that he must fully withdraw troops from Lebanon and begin soon or face strains in Saudi-Syrian ties. Assad promised only to study the idea of a partial withdrawal by later this month. The kingdom took a tough line as Assad met with the Saudi leader, Crown Prince Abdullah, and other officials in Riyadh. So far, Damascus has resisted