Slog - Comments on Bad News for Terrorists: "A Banner Up Your Anus." http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your There's a giant article in the new New Yorker by Lawrence Wright, author of the definitive primer on Al Qaeda, the Pulitzer Prize winning, The Looming Tower. Wright's latest dispatch—Wright also wrote an excellent article about Qaeda leader Ayman al- Zawahiri in September 2002—is about a former terrorist named Dr. Fadl. Dr. Fadl was a member of an al Qaeda precursor called Al Jihad. More important, Fadl wrote a book in 1994, The Compendium of the Pursuit of Divine Knowledge, which provided the basis for al-Qaeda's bloody philosophy, including justifying the notion of takfir, the dishonest Qaeda excuse for Muslim... Copyright 2008 Tue, 27 May 2008 12:05:45 -0800 Tue, 27 May 2008 16:14:37 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Porkchop Sandwiches! Hopefully a banner that reads "Mission Accomplished"

]]> Porkchop Sandwiches! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1032669 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1032669 News Tue, 27 May 2008 12:25:42 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Number One wins.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1032672 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1032672 News Tue, 27 May 2008 12:31:54 -0800 Comment by SeMe most jihadists are completely burried in hopelesness and besides most of the new ones are coming from lybia as well as the constant flow from the occupied territories, so i doubt that this will be a deterrent.

thx for these links though, i will mos def read these, i had not heard of this author until now.

one question i do have though, is- if iran is such a fundamentalist hell hole, than why no suicide bombers ever come from there?

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1032677 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1032677 News Tue, 27 May 2008 12:35:30 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Well, suiciders did come from there, during the Iraq-Iran war, when they used volunteers, mostly children, to run out (or be rolled out in carpets) into minefields to find the mines.

But the real answer is that Iran, unlike most of the Arab countries, is modernist at heart, whatever the bastard mullahs believe. The people of Iran are potentially our greatest allies in that region.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1032682 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1032682 News Tue, 27 May 2008 12:42:19 -0800 Comment by SeMe i agree FNARF. i think we blew a huge opportunity when there was a mini student pro democracy revolt in the 90's. thats the movement that should have been supported and would have given a lot more returns. instead we went into iraq and turned it into hell.

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1032695 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1032695 News Tue, 27 May 2008 13:00:03 -0800 Comment by COMTE I'm hoping it's more like having a really, REALLY angry Bruce Banner shoved up their alimentary canals.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1032700 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1032700 News Tue, 27 May 2008 13:04:08 -0800 Comment by rob Such penetrative imagery can be found among our own warriors. Witness this hoary old army marching song:

Oh, we are [hum-hum's] raiders,
Raiders of the night.
We're dirty sons of bitches,
We'd rather fuck than fight.

We'll circumcise the major
With a broken piece of glass,
And then we'll take the guidon
And shove it up his ass!

I'm not sure what my point is...

]]> rob http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1032747 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1032747 News Tue, 27 May 2008 13:28:09 -0800 Comment by max solomon jihadis seem to be really obsessed with sex.

they should try getting some.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1032824 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1032824 News Tue, 27 May 2008 13:45:32 -0800 Comment by Vince When I was in med. school in the Navy, I found a book in the library that had x-rays of things people had shoved up their asses.
There were all manner of tools and produce.
No banners.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1032937 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1032937 News Tue, 27 May 2008 14:18:24 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Sorry, but it has to be pointed out: Iranians aren't Arabs.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1032940 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1032940 News Tue, 27 May 2008 14:19:25 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I'm just wondering, why would God be worried about banner disposition?

Can't he outsource that to the Saudis who fund and volunteer for al-Qaeda to the tune of more than 90 percent for both worldwide?

Or are you saying they're working for King George and Satan?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1033024 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1033024 News Tue, 27 May 2008 14:50:46 -0800 Comment by Westside forever Well, rules are rules.

]]> Westside forever http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1033044 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1033044 News Tue, 27 May 2008 14:58:44 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV It's not the banner that's going to hurt.

It's the standard from which it's furled that's gonna be the pain.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1033053 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1033053 News Tue, 27 May 2008 15:01:16 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle What if the standard is made from polyurethane foam?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1033166 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1033166 News Tue, 27 May 2008 16:03:39 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Allah, peace be upon him, is not into Nerf justice.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1033188 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/bad_news_for_terrorists_a_banner_up_your#c1033188 News Tue, 27 May 2008 16:14:37 -0800