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Alleged Mastermind Behind Israel Bus Explosion Identified As Swedish National Mehdi Ghezali

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The latest development in yesterday's Bulgarian bus bomb explosion, is the identification of the alleged bomber. According to Times of Israel he is Mehdi Ghezali, "reportedly a Swedish citizen, with Algerian and Finnish origins. He had been held at the US’s Guantanamo Bay detainment camp on Cuba from 2002 to 2004, having previously studied at a Muslim religious school and mosque in Britain, and traveled to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. He was also reportedly among 12 foreigners captured trying to cross into Afghanistan in 2009."

There's more:

Sofia also reported that the Bulgarian Interior Ministry managed to recover the fingerprints of the bomber, which they submitted to the FBI in the United States and the international police organization Interpol. The FBI and CIA joined Israeli and Bulgarian officials in investigating the attack.

 

Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov told Sofia that DNA tests were being run to determine the identity of the Caucasian man, who the minister described as casually dressed with nothing suspicious about his appearance to set him apart from the crowd of people at the airport.

What is curious is that this is not the first time Mehdi has made headline news. Below is a lengthy exposition on the Swede from 2009 via the Weekly Standard:

With a black baseball cap pulled tight over a mop of stringy long hair and a patchy, close-cropped beard, Mehdi-Muhammed Ghezali looked more like a Metallica roadie than a disciple of Ayman al-Zawahiri. He addressed the scrum of reporters in a clipped, heavily accented Swedish and accused the American government of wrongly detaining him for three years and "physically and mentally" torturing him. A book about his experiences was in the works; a documentary crew, cobbling together a film about American human rights abuses, had requested an audience; and his legal team was plotting a lawsuit against Donald Rumsfeld. It was 2004, and Ghezali was a free man.

 

In late 2001, Ghezali, a Swedish national, had been detained during the battle at Tora Bora, Afghanistan, handed over to the American military, and sent to the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay. According to his lawyers, he was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Although he spoke none of the local languages, Ghezali told his captors, in the midst of the Taliban's retreat into the mountainous hinterlands of Afghanistan, he had crossed that country's border with Pakistan to study Islam.

 

After an intense lobbying effort by Swedish prime minister Göran Persson--and a vague promise that the country's intelligence services would keep a watchful eye on him--Ghezali was delivered to Sweden (on the government's private Gulfstream jet). The Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter noted that Ghezali had achieved "rock star status" upon returning to his homeland, a native victim of America's rapacious imperialism. And after two-plus years in isolation, the emotionally fragile former prisoner would be happy to discover "that a majority of Swedes were glad that he was home."

 

That his story was threaded with head-scratching omissions and inexplicable gaps in chronology--the years in Cuba were, apparently, not enough time to concoct a consistent narrative--seemed to have little effect on his credibility. To his supporters, he was merely a bit player in a larger morality play. But even his most credulous supporters winced when, during a press conference in his hometown of Örebro, Ghezali offered the following opinion of Osama bin Laden: "I don't know him as a person and therefore can't pass judgment on him. I don't believe what the Americans say about him."

 

Sweden's justice minister ruled out prosecuting Ghezali, and the story faded from the public consciousness. But in a country with a significant Muslim minority, it was perhaps inevitable that the foreign ministry would find itself in a similar situation again.

 

In 2007, the Swedish government interceded on behalf of 17-year-old Safia Benaouda, a Stockholm native and convert to Islam, after she was arrested and jailed by the Ethiopian military, then battling Somali Islamists. Ethiopian officials told Sweden's foreign minister, Carl Bildt, that Benaouda had fled Somalia after the defeat of the Islamic Courts Union, on whose behalf she was accused of waging jihad, and had been detained with other fighters after crossing the border into Kenya.

 

According to the Stockholm-based newspaper Aftonbladet, Swedish diplomats engaged in "discreet meetings with the Pentagon, tribal leaders, and African government officials" to secure her release. Benaouda's mother, chairman of the Muslim Council of Sweden, wrote that her daughter was questioned by members of the CIA and beaten by guards--accusations amplified by the Associated Press. After her release, Benaouda went further, claiming that she was tortured in custody, a measure "planned and orchestrated by the Americans or other western interrogators." The claim ensured her permanent victim status in Sweden.

 

The cases of Ghezali and Benaouda--frequently invoked in the Swedish media as examples of America's tyrannical war on terror--were unrelated. There was no indication that the two had ever met or that they belonged to the same Scandinavian cell of Islamic militants. But the two innocents abroad, curious students of fundamentalist Islam, would soon find each other.

 

According to reports in the Swedish media, Ghezali and Benaouda were arrested last week in Pakistan--together, travelling with a multinational group of extremists--having crossed the border from Iran on their way to the al Qaeda stronghold of Waziristan. Pakistani sources claim that the group was carrying $50,000 in cash, maps indicating Western embassies, and--every religion student's best friend--an explosives belt. One of the suspects, according to a report in the Swedish newspaper Expressen, chewed up the SIM card of his cell phone before he was taken into custody.

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Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:09 | 2632348 SeverinSlade
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Textbook terrorist training. "detain" suspected terroristdls, torture and brainwash them at a military facility and then release them.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:50 | 2632838 MachoMan
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and...  about his involvement at tora bora?  So he's just a religious pilgrim?  Really?  Your cause and effect are backwards.

Fri, 07/20/2012 - 02:01 | 2634968 audiorbit
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Tim Osman would be proud.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:10 | 2632351 Canadian Dirtlump
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So he is with the Al Quaeda crew groomed by the CIA and financed by the Saudis? That throws Bibi Netanyahu's lie out the window (which we knew as soon as it fell out of his face).

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:10 | 2632352 tmosley
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Holy shit, it was Pedro.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:12 | 2632355 azzhatter
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Has Netanyahoo threatened Sweden yet?

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:11 | 2632356 Calmyourself
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I dont suppose it matters to our masters that we the people do not want a war with Iran or anyone else..

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:16 | 2632399 LULZBank
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Where does Iran fits in, in all of that?

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:30 | 2632490 Canadian Dirtlump
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They fit in as an inconvenience to the zionists in israel.. with respect to this case, their involvement will be perhaps facing the brunt of something they are not responsible for.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:30 | 2632491 Ying-Yang
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The article above references Swedish media saying the 2 dudes were in Iran. The whole incident reeks of Mossad and CIA but this story is trying to say these guys are Islamic and financed by Iran to support what Netanyahu is trying to sell.

Got to swing public opinion the right way... (sarc)

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:43 | 2632556 DutchR
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They found some pistachios on him....

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:39 | 2632801 Dr. Acula
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>we the people do not want a war with Iran or anyone else

I thought breaking a criminal gang is a good thing.

 

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:58 | 2632883 Anusocracy
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Start with the US government.

 

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:11 | 2632357 Rastamon
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You can thank Bush and Cheney for this terrorist attack … Bulgarian bomber was a GITMO inmate from 2002-2004!

 

too bad WAR SLUT and likudnik FREAK, NUTandYAHOO, already exposed himself for what he is.....AN EFFIN LIAR!

 

 

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:27 | 2632468 buzzsaw99
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Omg, it's Bush's fault again! Sweet!

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:31 | 2632492 InconvenientCou...
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logic fail.

partial credit for the artistic use of caps and sophomoric insults. A joke about how stoned you are would have been the trifecta.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:11 | 2632359 czarangelus
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Huh. Predictably, CIA/Mossad mind control.... find one of the weakest of the bunch you've scooped up, IQ of 80, and slowly bend them to your will through use of torture and isolation...

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:52 | 2632850 MachoMan
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I'm not sure many of the muslim clerics are any different...  it's basically a race to see who can get them to blow themselves up first...

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:12 | 2632364 Stoploss
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There is a real easy way to fix that shit.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:12 | 2632367 Theta_Burn
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Well in Natanyahoo's defence he does look Persian....

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:41 | 2632813 Canadian Dirtlump
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too bad bibi laid the blame on the iranians while this guy was still on fire, and before his "before" pic was posted.

 

 

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:12 | 2632368 BigDeuceLittleToilet
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Bullish.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:13 | 2632371 falak pema
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I told you the guy was circumcised.  In fact the french club PSG is waiting for him to come play on their team along with his countryman Zlatan Ibrahimovich. 

Photos - PSG : Ibrahimovic, la journée d'une "superstar"

What a team they would make!

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:13 | 2632374 Inthemix96
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Ahem.........

Fuck off, complete fucking bollocks.  My shit smells better than this set up.

We are being played folks, fucking wake up, there is only one threat we face, and that is the banks, period.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:22 | 2632431 Bob
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I almost forgot!  Damn, how does that happen?

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:25 | 2632448 Inthemix96
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Bob,

We didnt have ZH.

And now we do, now come on boys, lets go do this.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 14:27 | 2633019 Anusocracy
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Correction: there is only one threat we face, and that is the government, period.

 

Religion okay, religion and government bad.

Conservationism okay, conservationism and government bad.

Healthcare okay, healthcare and government bad.

Business okay, business and government bad.

Banks okay, banks and government bad.

Finance okay, finance and government bad.

Existence okay, existence and government bad.

Government is sewage that, when added to anyone's well water, ruins it.

 

 

 

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 18:28 | 2633984 Hobbleknee
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Don't forget the government that protects the banks and steals money from us to give to the banks.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:13 | 2632376 czarangelus
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Between the huge fleet showing up at Iran's doorsteps and Jew false flags... this means it's pretty much on, right? Why go to all this trouble just to saber rattle

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:13 | 2632378 madridisburning
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My guess is that he is STILL a hero in Sweden.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:23 | 2632440 The Swedish Chef
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No, no he´s not. There should however be some pretty ashamed people here since his release was widely celebrated and supported. I remeber that already when he was let go I found the whole affair odd, since he didn´t provide any explanation for anything. 

 

This could all have been avoided if the US actually had a plan for investigating and charging their prisoners instead of just detaining them indefintely.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:15 | 2632382 CheapPanderingCrony
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You want to see what Israel thinks of Sweden, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22CGlF7l5MI

Be sure to make it past the introduction and read the words of the song

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:14 | 2632386 buzzsaw99
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Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Sweden?

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:15 | 2632387 DogSlime
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So we have  a Swedish citizen, with Algerian and Finnish origins who  studied at a mosque in Britain and visited Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan...

...Netenyahu was right all along - responsibility lies squarely with Iran/Hezbollah.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:15 | 2632388 The Swedish Chef
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This means that we can at least toss out the allegeded Iranian links since Ghezali is a sunni and an al-Qaida member. But who trusts Nutty-yahoo anyway?

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:16 | 2632396 buzzsaw99
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Nut and Yahoo. :snark:

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:18 | 2632410 Temporalist
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Bork bork bork....BOOOM!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tys8IZsq2RA

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:24 | 2632445 AnAnonymous
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And Iraq had WMDs.

Who cares? If US citizens say Iran is in the backstage, Iran is in the backstage.

What Iran did does not matter.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:31 | 2632480 akak
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CCC = Chinese Citizenism Camels!

Not as the very something bit that you would have it.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 18:39 | 2634017 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Who cares? If AnAnonymous says Iran is a US citizen nation, Iran is a US citizen nation.

Infallibility is the eternal nature of AnAnonymousitizenism.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:15 | 2632390 JR
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If the Mossad was to plant evidence of “the bomber,” it would hardly be worth the trouble unless he could be identified as a Muslim. Too bad they couldn’t come up with an Iranian national.

BTW, there is no resemblance between this man and the still image released from the Bulgarian airport bus suicide bomber's pre-recorded video...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/oil-spikes-netanyahu-threatens-iran

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:29 | 2632428 LULZBank
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BTW, there is no resemblance between this man and the still image released from the Bulgarian airport bus suicide bomber's pre-recorded video...

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But hes close enough. Probably explains why that guy was posing for the camera.

Bus exploded via detonator or a remote control and evidence planted (DNA etc from time in Gitmo) and leave the rest of the details for the media to fill in.

The real guy was prolly dead long ago.

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Too bad they couldn’t come up with an Iranian national.

Iranians or even Shias in general never joined any Al Qaeda camps in Paksitan or Afghanistan so difficult to get a nice ready made history like in this guy's case.

He just ticks all the right boxes for all the intents and purposes of the TPTB! Bibi just got ahead of himself.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:35 | 2632518 ObungaBoy
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The eye witnesses said that this guy put his luggage in the trunk of the bus and get inside

They have his body and footage from the airport cameras

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:38 | 2632526 ObungaBoy
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The eye witnesses said that this guy put his luggage in the trunk of the bus and get inside

They have his body and footage from the airport camera

 

also they said that he has enetrd EU with american pasport

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:40 | 2632549 same old story
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Have to agree.   Tyler pretty please can you put a post up with the two images.   

 

Nice of the guy to pose for airport camera.  Also how were they are mere few hours later able to say the guy on camera was the perp......what was their evidence

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:17 | 2632400 alien-IQ
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So...how's that "Iran did it" story workin for ya Bibi?

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:17 | 2632401 fuu
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It's like a greatest hits list: Somalia, ICU, Iran, Hezbollah, GITMO, Israel, Tora Bora, Taliban, Al Qaeda, and Pakistan.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:25 | 2632452 SoNH80
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BB Bumbles and the Stingers, Mott the Hoople Rachel Singers.

Another fine product of Scandinavian "If It Feels Good, Do It" multiculturalist/amoralist hogwash, along with that freak that killed those kids at the Norwegian summer camp, who will now be in prison for all of 3 years, with A/C and T/V.

What a mad, mad world.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 14:01 | 2632897 my puppy for prez
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Most people are not aware that Breivik is an ardent ZIONIST!!!

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:17 | 2632402 JuicyGrabs
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So much for false flage theories.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:51 | 2632847 Canadian Dirtlump
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sending a brain fried low iq muslim retard trained by the CIA to blow up a bus and blame it on iran? That is sort of the definition of a false flag there macho mule.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:59 | 2632887 my puppy for prez
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Not really.....

Who were his handlers? His suppliers?

Most likely Western/Zionist intel operatives.  Happens all the time!

Every heard of a willing patsy?

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 16:33 | 2633582 Goldilocks
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POTUS

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:17 | 2632404 Gringo Viejo
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Yeah well, I'm still keepin' my eye on the white, patriot guys. They're the real threat. Big Sis told me so.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:19 | 2632416 HungrySeagull
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Messy.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:22 | 2632432 grunk
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Blowback.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:23 | 2632437 New American Re...
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Netenyahu was wrong from the start.  This is Wahhabi based, the enemy of Iran and all Shia.   I'm sure you are sharing some irony, yes, Dog Slime?  If not, you do not understand the state of Islam nor its history, in which case your name is indicative of your syntax nerve endings.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:34 | 2632786 DogSlime
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Yes, it was meant to be ironic.  I had hoped it would be obvious :(

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:25 | 2632446 Againstthelie
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All hail multiculturalism! Hail Guantanamo! Hail Zion, the world peace bringer!

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:32 | 2632455 NumberNone
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The other part of this story is the victimization of radical Muslims and putting them into protected, minority status in countries around the world.  Using it as an excuse to ignore their actions and behaviors.  

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:26 | 2632458 YuropeanImbecille
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It would be beautiful if this was the case as the reported news paper that performed in the front lines to get this islamist back to Sweden is a jewish newspaper (Bonnier family) so they basically have more of their own blood on their hands.

 

Called Karma right? 

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:26 | 2632459 Bartanist
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Just to state the obvious, blowing up innocent civilians/tourists does nothing except work to the benefit of the warmongering (choke) "leaders".

We will know that it is real when the leaders are targeted. Until then this is just a B/S set-up.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:30 | 2632483 Bazinga
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Gotta love that Bibi's quick mouth caused a little bit of egg to splatter on his face!

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:28 | 2632473 Uncle Remus
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Oh, the irony.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:29 | 2632482 Seasmoke
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time for Israel to bomb Sweden

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:30 | 2632487 AnAnonymous
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A man on a private revenge. His determination tempered by a US citizen detainment camp.

US citizens are used to this kind of tricks: they kidnap people, better if they are innocent. They imprison them, often offered to the brutality of a US citizen jail where the prisoner has time to mature her resentment. Later, they release them amidst a population they want to destabilize. Bitterness, accumulated anger, hatred do the rest, the best being when those people are innocent so their martyrdom status is acquired.
The martyr does his job, as his story spreads and the resentment against US citizens grows.

This is how US citizens are used to manipulating a sense of justice.
Classical US citizenism at work.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:36 | 2632523 akak
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Plastering over your anger with bigotry and lettuce does not make the dog file his taxes last week in San Francisco church of weeping infant welders.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:38 | 2632536 AnAnonymous
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What a control over US citizen nature.

But hey, those are chinese camels. They have to be.

US citizenism at work: fantasy all the way.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:44 | 2632564 akak
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Chinese Citizenism lawn clippings dissolve sprightly in limpid pools of raging ennui, leaving the pungent odor of decaying leaves and lawyers.  Happy wisps of bigotry weaving through thick grey clouds of opium smoke and rainbow fury, tiny troll orgies making many Communists satiated.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:46 | 2632572 AnAnonymous
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And more as if it was enough.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:53 | 2632594 akak
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Precisely on the maybe plane!

Now you are gripping the real something, hitting the very crustiest bit of it, getting to the foot of the matter. 

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:25 | 2632751 AnAnonymous
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Even more...

That is the kind of highly celebral process my posts are supposed to disturb...

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:44 | 2632814 akak
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"Highly cerebral" and brayings of Chinese Citizenism Camels are mutually exclusive.

Bleatings of Chinese Citizenism are like wisps of wind against the granite mountainside --- ineffective and meaningless.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 14:19 | 2632992 LFMayor
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holy shit batman... is this thing a fucking machine?

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 19:31 | 2634188 TheFourthStooge-ing
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AnAnonymous being much the confusioned:

That is the kind of highly celebral process my posts are supposed to disturb...

No no no! If terring you the one time, terring you the times 88 twiceness! It is highry cerebrar process! Highry cerebrar! You confusingness making the process sounding of opium smoking cerebration.

You go now! You go to back room of raundry shop for more training and beatings.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:49 | 2632837 Almost Solvent
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I always thought US citizenism blobbed up

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:31 | 2632498 El
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So...the Swedes did it or we created yet another radical at Gitmo?

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:02 | 2632652 MsCreant
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All the above and more.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:32 | 2632502 Abiotic Oil
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MKUltra.  Programmed in Guantanamo and triggered at just the right time.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:28 | 2632760 DaveyJones
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There are exactly 52 terrorist cells tucked inside our congress

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 15:33 | 2633282 negative rates
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Put lightning to them, those onion breathers.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:32 | 2632506 Rastamon
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Bulgarian bomber trained in Saudi Arabia? isn't bloodlusting succubus Hillary Clinton VERY BUSY supplying the Saudis with as many weapons and training as they want in order to kill Bahrainis too?

 

yeah.....that's what i thought as well.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:35 | 2632513 buzzsaw99
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Funny how former Gitmo prisoners travel the world freely without getting groped at the airport. I get the anal proble for a forty minute flight inside the usa.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:39 | 2632540 AnAnonymous
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A bit of priviledge when it serves US citizens'best interests.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:59 | 2632631 akak
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Chinese Citizenism Camels!

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:50 | 2632587 ziggy59
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They've already been there done that

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 16:01 | 2633430 LULZBank
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Not just not groped, but they can carry explosive devices with them too. A granny will get screwed for having knitting needles in her bag.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:33 | 2632514 Reptil
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Eeehmm well... Al Quaida eeh the Cee Ay Aaa had enough opportunity to train the sucker.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:37 | 2632529 BurgundianRon
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"Ghezali and Benaouda were arrested last week in Pakistan--together, travelling with a multinational group of extremists--having crossed the border from Iran on their way to the al Qaeda stronghold of Waziristan."

- This is the surest evidence I've seen that this was claerly the work of Iran. Lord knows we can trust what the Pakistani's tell us! So, where is the broad now?

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:52 | 2632598 DutchR
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A quote from a Sep 28, 2009 article.......

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:37 | 2632531 blunderdog
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Lots of stories, not much information.  I'm sure the various authorities will release all the info they used for their determination shortly. 

So far we have:
     -- speculation by a "witness"
     -- unsupported claim of a Prime Minister with some political problems
     -- Bulgarian authorities accuse some Muslim Swede with a passing resemblance to the guy on a grainy security video without providing any insight into how they knew he was the bomber

It all sounds like a bad joke.

For sure, based on that security footage, there are about 150,000 hipsters in NYC who I could pick out of a lineup.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:41 | 2632552 AnAnonymous
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DNA probably.

In the great factory of agent provocateurs named Guantanamo, one can suppose they took the DNA profile of every potential candidate.

You would not want one innocent locked up in Guantanamo to blow himself up, wanting to exact revenge, without being able to capitalize on the effort.

US citizenism at work.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:48 | 2632582 akak
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DNA probably.

In the great factory of agent provocateurs named Communist China, one can suppose they took the DNA profile of every potential indentured laborer.

You would not want one innocent locked up in a FoxConn sweatshop to blow himself up, wanting to exact revenge, without being able to capitalize on the effort.

Chinese citizenism at work.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:26 | 2632756 AnAnonymous
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Yes, yes, this guy was out of one chinese camps... For sure... True as true...

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:42 | 2632818 akak
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Your admission of your Chinese Citizenism guilt is much appreciated.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:38 | 2632533 jmc8888
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Sounds like an clandestine no-intelligence agency attack. (and he was schooled in Londonistan)

 

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:41 | 2632542 virgilcaine
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Arabs in Sweeden, Israelis n Bulgaria, everyone needs to stay in their own Country. If you travel abroad nowadays you assume much risk. 

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:40 | 2632550 ziggy59
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B_ _ _ BACK!

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:41 | 2632551 vote_libertaria...
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No way...dude, that's the guy on the Comedy Central show Workaholics.

 

He must have snapped.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:43 | 2632554 ObungaBoy
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Islam must be banned

The human rights are for human – not for these Islamic barbarians    

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:22 | 2632737 FeralSerf
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Funny -- I was thinking the same thing about Zionism.  Great minds think (almost) alike, eh?

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:27 | 2632758 AnAnonymous
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The human rights are for human –

____________________

That is indeed US citizen motto.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 19:41 | 2634226 TheFourthStooge-ing
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The citizenism rights are for human Chinese citizenism citizens, not half-man half-things. That is indeed Chinese citizenism motto, for more than 3000 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_china

Chinese citizenism motto still going strong in 21st century brickyards. Kidnap children for fun and profit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_slave_scandal

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:46 | 2632570 The Swedish Chef
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I just got word that the Swedish secret service, SÄPO, denies it´s Ghezali. They could be buying time in order to make up their minds on who to fire...

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:48 | 2632583 surf0766
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Where are all the false flag heads.. Is this a false false double reverse false flag?

Checking my decoder ring

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:51 | 2632597 Sutton
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You can call him Swedish, but he ain't Swedish.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:06 | 2632667 CrockettAlmanac.com
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You call it corn, we called it maize.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuOlD0JZhM4

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:08 | 2632681 akak
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You call it corn, we called it maize, Monsanto calls it GMO profits.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:52 | 2632601 ObungaBoy
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we must show 0 tolerance to the Islam

every one who identify himself as Islamist must be treated as terrorist

tthese barbarians must be destroyed

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:56 | 2632617 akak
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Yes, we must launch a Holy War against the infidels!

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:06 | 2632668 Temporalist
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Lords Blankfein and Buffett already declared a holy war on the infidel non-bankster class.  It is god's work and it must be done!

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 14:42 | 2633081 Gadfly
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You're the fucking terrorist pal.  Let's kill innocent people... because of their religion?  Are you fucking nuts?  We fought wars to prevent that shit.  If what you are peddling (blind hate) is not terrorism, I don't know what is.  Take your fucking hate mongering somewhere else.  Go fuck yourself.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:52 | 2632603 crowd
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I'm in Sweden and (normal) swedish people are way pissed off with the immigrants from middle east, because of the cost, the crime rates and not to mention the terrorists. Nobody wants them here. It's only a matter of time until another christmas suicide bomber kills a baby and it will be out of control.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:51 | 2632846 Jack Burton
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I spend a lot of time in Sweden. You can feel the tension between the Middle East immigrants and native Swedes. Swedes are trained to stay silent and be passive. I have had some interactions with Middle East immigrants to Sweden, they simply act like they own the place! I stood next to a bunch of them on a West Coast ferry trip last year, I wanted to kick them into the sea myself. Why? Well simply because of their attitudes, just the way they look at a native Swede is enough to piss you off. It's like "Okay, I am here now and this will soon be my country, not yours."

Swedes are stupid for letting all these clowns in. Someday they will regret being the dumping ground for so many thousands of people who do not want to be Swedes, they want to be Muslims with power in Sweden!

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 14:25 | 2633014 walküre
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It's not like the US doesn't have the same problems with the superior people of "La Raza".

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 16:28 | 2633570 booboo
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It is by design, do you really think they are this stupid in the halls of government? Ok, don't answer that. But what better way to build that deep down hatred for a group of people by the natives then to allow foreigners to run wild through your homeland. Let the steam build then harness that power when the flood gates of war break open. Look, the same people allowing mass immigration are going to be the same people that will yell "call to arms" and wipe entire races off the face of the earth for their resources er I mean because they are just bad. They just need to allow the steam to build. Trust me, there is a plan buried in all this bullshit cause they couldn't fuck up this bad if they tried.

 

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:55 | 2632613 pazmaker
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Somebody may have already made this point,  but assuming this story is true(a big leap for me) it doesn't point to Iran as Netenyahu blasted his mouth against right away.

So now what?   Netenyahu open mouth insert foot or are we going to weave a web that now links this guy to Iran?

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:01 | 2632619 roadhazard
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As usual America can be as $tupid as it want$ to be. You don't keep people at Gitmo, you plant a GPS up their ass and send them back to their friends. That's what drones are for. I get tired of having to figure out everything for them. I want a raise.

PS: how much does it cost to get Cramers terroist pic off the page.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:58 | 2632621 Marty Rothbard
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Many will say, If he had only been kept in Guantanamo.  I say, that if it had not been for Guantanamo, attacks like this would be much less common.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:58 | 2632626 caconhma
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What is a big deal about Israeli bus bombing? Israel, the USA and the NATO's members are indiscriminately killing innocent civilians on daily bases in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen. This fucking list is almost endless.

So, let us stop the hypocrisy. After all, we Americans are participating and paying for terrorism all over world. Just look at Mexico. The Obama’s DOJ was supplying weapons to Mexican narco–gangsters. These weapons were/are used to kill Mexican and US citizens!

 

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:02 | 2632639 ObungaBoy
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that is exactly what these Islamick mokeys deserve - total extermination

we must destroy this barbarism

 

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 12:59 | 2632630 The Swedish Chef
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Swedish secret service SÄPO has now officailly denied that it is Ghezali.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:30 | 2632773 AnAnonymous
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Too bad. Lets hope the next name will link Iran to this terrorist action beyond any doubt.

This swedish one, apparently, does not work.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:44 | 2632827 akak
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The only real terrorists are roadside-shitting Chinese Citizenism Camels, whose angry cud-spitting nature is eternal.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 19:48 | 2634261 TheFourthStooge-ing
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AnAnonymous, verbally incontinent, said:

Too bad. Lets hope the next name will link Iran to this terrorist action beyond any doubt.

This swedish one, apparently, does not work.

Perhaps the next name will be Wang Bingbing, 21st century Chinese citizenism slaveholder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_slave_scandal

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:45 | 2632830 my puppy for prez
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But the Mossad/CIA/FBI/Interpol/Bulgarian Buttermilk Boys/Weekly Standard Trotskyites SAY it is Ghezali...so it IS!!!

Got it???

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:01 | 2632635 RiotActing
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* Delete, double post

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:00 | 2632636 RiotActing
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If you believe this guy has blown up anything, ever, you are a fucking moron...

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:01 | 2632644 Fix It Again Timmy
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Ok, it's a tragedy and the world would be a better place if it never happened.  That said, this is one guy and not divisions of German armor sweeping across the Ukraine.  It's over, move on, unless you're a MOM [mad old man] who wants to spin this into WWIII.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:02 | 2632653 loveyajimbo
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Arrested last week in Paki-shithole and this week he blows up a few buses... guess he made bail pretty quickly?  And the douchebag swedes treating him like he was a cherished home boy... something smells REALLY bad here... Here is a new plan... when ya catch these roaches... send them to paradise... NOW.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 16:12 | 2633501 LULZBank
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But then CIA will have no "assets."

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:03 | 2632656 Morrotzo
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Ah, and now we play E-Dud Barracks' and Bibi Nutty-Yahoo's favorite game...

6 Degrees Of Iranian Separation!

Give it two week's time and they'll be saying the suicide bomber was Ayatollah Khamenei.

 

 

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:05 | 2632663 roadhazard
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How is it that America can spend trillion$ on $security around the world and kill tens of thousands in "war". and it' like nothing happened. Someone needs to step back and see the FAIL.

Fri, 07/20/2012 - 05:54 | 2635100 e-recep
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if you are powerful enough, you have the right to do whatever you like. simple, eh?

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:08 | 2632677 MsCreant
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If only we would beef up the resources of the TSA and parallel orgainizations worldwide, this tragedy could have been prevented. We need more security on all forms of transportation, more x-rays, more body searches, and more luggage searches. The delay and inconveniences are worth it for our security.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:12 | 2632695 Temporalist
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You are right of course.  Anyone that is purchasing shoes should be considered a possible suspect as walking is the first form of transportation that is susceptible to a security breach.  Just place RFID chips in all shoes to start.  Also any chidren that need shoes should be considered as mules in training and should be subjected to a body cavity search.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:59 | 2632888 MsCreant
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Agreed. The more body cavity searches they can conduct, the safer we will be. Good catch, shoes are indeed transportation. But instead of the cost of the shoe chips (which will get thrown away and used by other people) they should just chip us all from birth. If you have nothing to hide, what ever do you have to worry about? The whole Obamacare thing is a stroke of genius! We could use that data base, coupled with the chips, to track everyone. We could even outfit the chips with sensors to know if a person was exposed to explosives, gun powder, or other potentially harmful substances.

I just know we are on to something here.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 14:12 | 2632965 Bay of Pigs
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More and more posters here are increasingly unable to detect obvious sarcasm.

Either that, or they're just plain stupid.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 22:57 | 2634731 i-dog
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I'm going with "just plain stupid" ... it covers your first option, anyway.

MDB's vote counts are the daily "Stupidity Barometer" (though I wish he'd quit messing up threads by trawling in hundreds of idiotic kneejerk replies ... just junk or upvote him and move on, people!!!).

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:17 | 2632713 Bastiat
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+1 -- /sarc assumed

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 14:03 | 2632911 MsCreant
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Practicing for the Troll Olympics. Not sure if I have the stuff, but maybe, just maybe, I can be a champion troll one day. Not sure what event to try out for, either.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 19:54 | 2634283 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Just for MsCreant, something to help the children understand:

http://www.boingboing.net/filesroot/201011111141.jpg

Fri, 07/20/2012 - 07:37 | 2635198 Ghordius
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MsCreant forgot the barcode tattoo on the hands or forehead, best beginning with some biblical numbers. And the awesome statistics about how many terrorists were catched thanks to this improved "security" (was there even one?). Or that the 9/11 flights were US internal, i.e. with less "security" than the international, but no, it was not enough to beef up the internals, everybody had to apply the new & approved "standards".

Fuck, is there really no way to get some sanity in this? Sorry if I sound a bit like AnAnonimous, but WTF does the typical US citizen think when he watches "Kill Bill" and the lass takes a flight back from Okinawa with a sword next to her seat?

I could howl for how stupid this "improved security" is. Is this a kind of "atonement" or survivor guilt that sustains this madness?

Fri, 07/20/2012 - 07:24 | 2634740 i-dog
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I always enjoy your comments, MsC.

You could try out for the Hammer Throw ... we need more of those shibboleths shattered....

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:11 | 2632687 ObungaBoy
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None of the Islamic religious leaders ever condemned the terrorism

All these Islamic barbarians are terrorists and they must be treated as such

The Islam is Terrorism

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:18 | 2632714 walküre
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O bunga Boy! They're paying you $25 bucks an hour and you post off-the-shelves phrases like "none of the [..] leaders ever condemned the terrorism"? Really?

This might have worked in 2002 but fast forward to 2012 and it just sounds plain stupid. People across the world hate America and Israel and the covert shit that both nations pull each day. It's got nothing to do with any religion.

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 14:09 | 2632948 Ima anal sphincter
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Very well said. +++

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:12 | 2632690 walküre
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So what does this have to do with Iran? I can see the potential link to Al CIAda but the guy blew himself to Smitherines. I guess no quick sea burial for the bomber but maybe for this Swedish citizen?

What are the Russians saying?

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 13:12 | 2632693 Morrotzo
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So in 2 days they have video footage...

A Michigan driver's license

A name and mugshot of the suicide bomber.

And a DNA match for the cherry on top.

This is the best episode of First 48 ever!

 

 

Thu, 07/19/2012 - 14:06 | 2632926 PatientZero
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Not just a Michigan drivers license but a Michigan drivers license with a Louisiana address.

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