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March 23, 2006

“Al-Qaeda nuclear plot”

From the Daily Telegraph: A member of a British al-Qaeda cell was involved in a plot to buy a nuclear bomb, a court heard yesterday. Salahuddin Amin, 31, had information passed to him about a “radio- isotope bomb” while he was in Pakistan, it was claimed. The plan was to buy the device from the Russian mafia in Belgium, the Old Bailey was told. The gang of seven British Muslims

“A Thursday Afternoon in the Life of an Evil Reactionary Bush Apologist”: a protein wisdom sudden fiction

     “What do you mean you ‘haven’t gotten to the whites yet’?  The rally starts in less than two hours, woman, and I refuse to have us be the only patriots there in dingy hoods and robes. “Now chop chop.  You can finish making the Sloppy Joes later.”

ABC News:  Iraq Archive Document Describes Bin Laden Meeting

Via Drudge, under the headline, “REPORT: Bin Laden sought ‘operational’ relationship with Saddam for attacks on U.S. troops… “: Following are the ABC News Investigative Unit’s summaries of five documents from Saddam Hussein’s government, which have been released by the U.S. government. The documents discuss Osama bin Laden, weapons of mass destruction, al Qaeda and more. The full documents can be found on the U.S. Army Foreign Military Studies Office

“How Gullible Are We?”

Interesting email from frequent commenter Ray Smith: I pulled this off of Comedy Central.  One of my employees sent it to me. “Science Project” A freshman at Eagle Rock Junior High won first prize at the Greater Idaho Falls Science fair. He was attempting to show how conditioned we have become to alarmists practicing junk science and spreading fear of everything in our environment. In his project he urged people

“What if We Lose?” (updated)

“The consequences of U.S. defeat in Iraq.” From the WSJ, which, like me (or, say, Christopher Hitchens), is becoming “unhinged” and “unglued” for suggesting that some politicians and an ideologically /sensation- driven media are having an actual, tangible effect on our ability to wage the war in Iraq: Yet there’s no denying the polls showing that most Americans are increasingly weary of the daily news of car bombs and Iraqi

For your viewing (and chewing over) pleasure

Lying, traitorious, former Hussein Iraqi Air Force’s number two General George Sada pulls his CIA stooge routine and, like some Bushie puppet, outlines the Iraq WMD program (and it’s pre-war removal) on “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart.  Not on CNN or NBC News, mind you—Christiane Amanpour and Keith Olbermann aren’t particularly interested in such clearly opportunistic book fodder (unless it comes from say, Richard Clarke or James Risen)—but on