May 4, 2004 | Dollars & Crosses
Here's what's going on at Rutgers:
The illustration featured on the cover of a Rutgers University [satirical] student newspaper shows a frightened Jewish man suspended on a carnival-style contraption. Below him is a burning oven. "Knock a Jew in the oven!" reads the caption underneath the cartoon. "Three throws for one dollar!" A contestant is throwing a ball at a target. The headline reads: "Holocaust Remembrance Week: Springfest 2004." [NYSun]
The editor directly responsible for running the cartoon says he's Jewish and knows Holocaust survivors.May 3, 2004 | Dollars & Crosses
From Cox and Forkum:
Reuters: U.S. Abuse of Iraqi Prisoners Inflame Arabs."The liberators are worse than the dictators" ... "That really, really is the worst atrocity" ... Arab satellite televisions, seen by millions of Arabs and Muslims, began their news bulletins with the pictures, which they said showed the "savagery" of U.S. troops. ... "Americans are racists and cowards, that's what I understood from these pictures."
The article mentions the following only in passing:The U.S. military has brought criminal charges against six soldiers relating to accusations of abuses from November and December 2003 on some 20 detainees, including indecent acts with another person, maltreatment, battery, dereliction of duty and aggravated assault.
After the Fallajah ambush and mutilations, or after the suicide bombings in Basra, or after the gunning down of four Israeli children and their pregnant mother, did anyone hear the 'Arab street' declare criminal charges should be -- much less would be -- brought against anybody?May 3, 2004 | Dollars & Crosses
From Cox and Forkum:
InstaPundit pointed to a Reuters article that indicates the worthlessness of the 9/11 commission before which President Bush and Vice President Cheney appeared yesterday.Two Democrats on the panel, Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton and former U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, left the session about an hour early. Hamilton, a former congressman from Indiana, was said to have had a prior commitment to introduce visiting Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin at a lunch.
May 2, 2004 | Dollars & Crosses
Is Bush crazy? Here's from a front-page article in the New York Sun on April 23:
Lakhdar Brahimi is the United Nations official that President Bush has now put in charge of establishing a new Iraqi government that will take over from America on July 1. But back in October of 1989, Mr. Brahimi was... the Arab League's envoy in the Lebanese civil war and an author of an agreement known as the Taif Accord that encouraged Syria's enforcement of peace in Lebanon. [Lebanese Prime Minister Michel] Aoun asked Mr. Brahimi how he could be sure that the Arab League would enforce the provisions of the Taif Accord that would guarantee Lebanese independence in the face of Syrian "peacekeepers...." "He laughed and smiled," the former prime minister said. "He did not have too much to say. He knew very well what he was selling to me. He was doing his job. He was doing the job of the Arab League."
Mr. Brahimi, 70, now works for the United Nations, but his remarks this week sounded as though they could have come straight from the Arab League's headquarters in Cairo. On Wednesday he told the radio station France Inter, "There is no doubt that the great poison in the region is this Israeli policy of domination and the suffering imposed on the Palestinians, as well as the perception by the body of the population in the region, and beyond, of the injustice of this policy and the equally unjust support of the United States for this policy." [NYSun]
From Cox and Forkum:
May 1, 2004 | Dollars & Crosses
Here's the "rehabilitated" Colonel Ghadafi speaking to journalists in the company of European Commission president Romano Prodi:
"Libya did its duty when duty had to be done by arms," he said. That included firing missiles at American fighter aircraft in the 1980s and setting up training camps for "freedom fighters" from around the developing world, for which he said Libya was "unjustly" accused of a "kind of terrorism." Now that Libya has given up its weapons programs, it has become "an example to be followed," he asserted, calling on countries "from China to America" to do the same..."Hopefully nothing would force us to go back to the days when we use our cars and explosive belts, to put explosive belts around ourselves or on our women so we will not be searched and harassed in our bedrooms and in our homes as is happening in Iraq and Palestine." [NYSun]
Apr 30, 2004 | Dollars & Crosses
Lead articles from the Sun Thursday and Friday:
Intelligence reports indicate that some "Middle Eastern men" are casing big coastal oil refineries in Texas, leading some intelligence analysts in Washington to be fearful of a strike on one of the oil facilities before Election Day. [NYSun]
In early 2002, the FBI concluded in an internal review that between 50 and 100 Hamas and Hezbollah operatives had already infiltrated America. The operatives were in America working on fund-raising and logistics, and they had received terrorist and military training from Lebanon and other countries in the Middle East, according to current and former intelligence officials....
[A] former senior FBI counterterrorism agent, Ken Piernick..., was the chief of the unit inside the FBI's counterterrorism bureau that handled Hamas and Hezbollah. He told the Sun yesterday that Hamas and Hezbollah logistical cells that have been used by the organizations with success to raise money and send materiel to Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank could be quickly turned into operational terrorist cells. [NYSun]
