Who's on first?

I think the gods are having a fine time. Somebody had a great idea: We'll play a game. We'll toss all our pawns in a box, mix them up in each others clothes, and send them to Earth. The first team to identify all its own pawns wins.


The London-based Arabic newspaper al-Quds on Sunday said it had received a statement from al-Qaeda in an email. It said the group targeted the synagogues because Israeli agents were working there.

Also, security camera footage from the scene of the Neve Shalom synagogue shows a red Fiat being parked by the synagogue shortly before the explosion. The video shows a man walking from the car just before the car exploded. article

I believe the news reports are calling these "suicide bomber" attacks, and pointing to that as evidence of al-Qaeda, as that's one of their favored methods. If the man walked away, there was no suicide.

From Vancouver Indymedia:

In terms of who the intended targets of these bombings were - presumably Jewish Turks - the attacks seem somewhat unsucessful considering only about four of those killed were Jewish. The other fatalities were pedestrians or local residents in the surrounding area. But of course, to a terrorist network as evil as al-Qaeda, the fact that their victims were mostly all muslim is probably of little concern. Al-Qaeda stopped discriminating long ago.

Make the evidence fit the hypothesis why don't we?

A reader's comment: Actually, it has the markings of the Fascists' Black Ops forces, detonating a device and blaming it on Al Qaeda (CIA/Mossad). The fact that they blamed it on a group that no longer exists furthers that conclusion.

Okay, that suits me - but then, you know me. I think the CIA is in on everything.

08/21/03: (Liberty Forum) This professionally managed website [Jihad Unspun] with eyecatching design and graphics and daily news features, video store and reporters emerged on the net sometime after Sept. 11th 2001.

What really struck me as odd was all the professional glitz of the website as well as its deliberate attempt to look Arabic . . . From what I know of pro-jihad websites, they operate on a shoestring budget, provided they happen to find volunteers and donors who are willing to risk being deported and detained. They get kicked off from ISP to ISP and use cheap frontpage templates.

...Related links tab first displayed the address of some Muslim name in British Columbia Canada. So right in our backyard we have a semi Al Qaeda operation which unlike Azzam doesnt even lose its ISP, let alone get shut down.

Some Web watchers, including Katz, believe the U.S. government may be using the Internet jihad to spy. They speculate that Jihad Unspun, an English-language site that appears to promote terror, may be a CIA creation, designed to find out who visits or orders videos glorifying bin Laden.

A lengthy notice on Jihad Unspun denies the allegations, saying the site is "a labor of love for Allah." Bruce Kennedy, identified on the site as editor in chief, said by e-mail that Jihad Unspun's operators "are not doing any interviews with American press at this time." A CIA spokesman denied the site has any connection to the agency.

...Now here's what happened lately.....Genuine Jihad site Azzam.com smelt something wrong in wannabe jihadi site JUS and sounded the alarm by publishing articles titled "JUS is CIA". Since Azzam is widely read, it had to be closed, or it would be the end of an expensive well orchestrated operation. For reasons unknown, Azzam.com was instantly shut down and has been offline since then.
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Labor of love? Is that a common Islamic or Muslim phrase?

At any rate, back to the beginning: If it turns out that Israeli agents actually use synagogues to work out of, won't that be kind of asking for Jews to be targets?

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.