'Goodbye Al Quaeda's Rose - Bastard in the Sand'

Martin Short on the Letterman Show - quite funny and way better than Elton John's re-write of Candle In The Wind for Diana, Princess of Wales; I liked the original though.


Thanks to Theo Spark for the spot.

Bollywood vs Bin Laden

The power of Bollywodd and why Osama Bin Laden and Islamists feared it...


Thanks to Theo Spark for the spot.

Was Osama Bin Laden's funeral at sea a Muslim burial and was he absolved of all sins?

"O Allah, forgive him, have mercy on him, pardon him, grant him security, provide him a nice place and spacious lodgings, wash him (off from his sins) with water, snow and ice, purify him from his sins as a white garment is cleansed from dirt, replace his present abode with a better one, replace his present family with a better one, replace his present partner with a better one, make him enter paradise and save him from the trials of grave [sic] and the punishment of hell."

Creeping Sharia has more on this fascinating story.

The Obama war room watching the raid and killing of Osama Bin Laden?

The Justice League!

Ouch a bit too close to the bone re Barack Obama and Osama Bin Laden?

Thanks to Theo Spark for the spot.

The one hundred and twenty ninth weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award

This week's award goes to the BBC for this headline:

'Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was actively involved in planning new terror attacks, US officials say, citing documents reportedly found in his compound.'

Terrorist godfather planning terrorist attacks?
"No shit, Sherlock"

Who is Osama Bin Laden?

It seems that a lot of people, especially teenagers did not know who Osama Bin Laden was...

More at Yahoo.

BBC protecting Hamas from the glare of publicity

I have been hard at it today so when I finally got a chance to look at the web I was astonished to note that the BBC have still not managed to inform readers of their news website what Hamas have had to say about the killing of Osama Bin Laden. I can find no link on the BBC Middle East news front page to a story about Hamas's condemnation of the killing.

Meanwhile The Telegraph do manage to report the following:

'Hamas, the militant group which has just signed a deal to join the Palestinian government, on Monday condemned the killing of Osama bin Laden.

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The Hamas prime minister of the Gaza strip, Ismail Haniya, said: “We condemn the assassination of a Muslim and Arab warrior and we pray to God that his soul rests in peace.

“We regard this as the continuation of the American oppression and shedding of blood of Muslims and Arabs.”

The Hamas reaction put it immediately at odds with Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian Authority, with which it is due to sign a unity deal today to join the Palestinian government. '

So why no mention of Hamas's reaction on the BBC? Are the BBC trying to protect Hamas's recently acquired reputation for being moderate and flexible? Has the BBC no sense of shame?

Coincidence 2?

Osama Bin Laden was killed on Israel's "Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day" also known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, or more simply Holocaust Day.

The close proximity of Osama Bin Laden's enormous hideout to Pakistan's West Point equivalent; coincidence?

At some point the fact that Osama Bin Laden's enormous and incredibly well protected secure base was less than half a mile away from the Pakistan Military Academy (Pakistan's equivalent of America's West Point) will need analysing. I note that the US are saying that they did not pre-warn any allies of this attack and it is obvious why this was the case. The UK and French governments & intelligence services leak like a sieve and both may have embedded within them agents with Al Qaeda sympathies. As for the Pakistani government on whose soil this attack took place; would you trust a government whose main military academy was within half a mile of their alleged enemies headquarters?

Maybe now the West will realise that Pakistan is not part of the solution but part of the problem and that India (the largest democracy in the world) deserves our support in fighting Islamist terrorism within its borders.

Coincidence?

Osama Bin Laden's death announced on 2 May 2011, Adolf Hitler's death announced on 2 May 1945 following Germany's surrender to Russian army (he had committed suicide two days earlier).