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Back to this world’s demons, the courageous Taliban is now tricking six-year-olds into suicide bombing missions. My imagination is lost on this Islamist sickness; the mind just won’t stretch to an understanding of how these “holy men” can use children as walking bombs. This kind of evil is unthinkable, which is why many people are in [...]

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Michael Yon reports: The AQI installed Sharia court had sanctioned the amputation of the two “smoking fingers” for those who violated anti-smoking laws…Most Iraqis smoke and this particular prohibition appeared to have earned the ire of many locals. After an American unit cleared an apartment complex on the 23rd, LTC Smiley, the battalion commander, reported [...]

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I wrote in one of my very first posts about the despoiling of language as described by Orwell; and now this from the UPI as found by the Jawa Report. NEW YORK, June 21 (UPI) The number of FBI prosecutions for non-terror prosecutions have fallen since the guerrilla attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, federal data [...]

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Update 6/22/2007: Al Quaeda Body count, 51 dead, 20 captured. And it looks like the mainstream media is finally catching up with this story. Joe Klein files this report today filled with very good news: After the briefing I asked Colonel Antonia if he’d asked the Sunnis why they had turned against al-Qaeda….. “AQI demanded [...]

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Update 6/21/2007 : Michael Yon files another report on day one of the Arrowhead operation here. The money quote: The enemy in Baqubah is as good as any in Iraq, and better than most. That’s saying a lot. But our guys have been systematically trapping them, and have foiled some big traps set for our [...]

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Lawrence Wright’s essay, which appeared in the New Yorker last September, is essential reading if you want to have an understanding of the scope of the Islamic jihadist; their efforts are wide and disturbing. The twenty year plan was initialized on September 11th and will be followed by six stages with the last concluding with [...]

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