Common Folk Using Common Sense

From Aswat Aliraq:

Duhuk, Jun 17, (VOI) – A group of persons accidentally found a 100-year-old rare animal, according to deputy rector of Duhuk University for scientific affairs on Tuesday.
“The animal, found accidentally this week in Bajiel region in Aqra district, western Duhuk, is unlike any other animal. It feeds on reptiles and bugs,” Hassan Amin [...]

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From Breitbart.com:

Two mentally retarded women strapped with remote-control explosives—and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers—brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at 73 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital with extra troops last spring.
The coordinated blasts—coming 20 minutes apart in different parts of the city—appeared to reinforce U.S. claims al-Qaida [...]

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Hat tip to the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, from the Christian Today:

Three suspected al Qaeda militants, including two sisters, beheaded their uncle and his wife, forcing the couple’s children to watch, Iraqi police said on Friday.
The militants considered that school guard Youssef al-Hayali was an infidel because he did not pray and wore western-style trousers, they told [...]

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From the website:

During the week of October 22-26, 2007, the nation will be rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever – Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university and college campuses.
The purpose of this protest is as simple as it is crucial: to confront the two Big Lies of the [...]

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0759 EDT – American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767, departs Logan Airport with 81 passengers and 11 crew.
0814 EDT – United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767, departs Logan Airport with 56 passengers and 9 crew.
0820 EDT – American Airlines Flight 77 departs Dulles Airport.
0842 EDT – United [...]

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The text from this AFP/Yahoo “news” item says:

An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City. At least 175 people were slaughtered on Tuesday and more than 200 wounded when four suicide truck bombs targeted people [...]

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The news from the BBC is that all eight suspects are medical professionals, seven of them doctors, and all are linked to Britain’s NHS. But now we’re learning from CBS News that the people behind the attempts were directly recruited by Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, the present leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.
First, from the [...]

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From “Realists on Iraq” by Dan Senor, a former foreign policy adviser to the Bush administration and was based in Baghdad from April 2003 through June 2004, via Opinion Journal:

During Sunday night’s Democratic presidential debate, the candidates cited an oft-repeated source of the mess in Iraq: The White House’s refusal to heed knowledgeable advice.
But what [...]

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From CNN via LiveLeak.com via the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler:

American soldiers discovered a girls school being built north of Baghdad had become an explosives-rigged “death trap,” the U.S. military said Thursday.
The plot at the Huda Girls’ school in Tarmiya was a “sophisticated and premeditated attempt to inflict massive casualties on our most innocent victims,” military spokesman Maj. [...]

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From CBS News:

Russell Defreitas, a U.S. citizen native to Guyana and retired airport employee was the mastermind behind a plot to destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery that runs through populous residential neighborhoods, authorities said Saturday.
Defreitas developed his hatred [...]

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The world-wide media ran more than 6,000 stories and countless photos of Abu Ghraib and the abuse of prisoners there by several U.S. soldiers. And there have been countless articles published about the conditions of the “poor freedom fighters” in Guantanamo.

But in an April 24 raid on an al-Qaeda safe house in Iraq, U.S. [...]

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It’s a shame when a citizen of another country has a better grasp of US national security and US foreign policy that our own elected leaders.
From Breitbart.com:

The US Congress‘ vote to push for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq was wrong and will bring comfort to Al-Qaeda insurgents, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Friday.
The [...]

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Lawyers representing the Haditha Marines say the prosecutors have a very weak case against all the defendants due to exculpatory evidence withheld from the defense by the NCIS.

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I can’t begin to imagine how our troops in the field, who are risking their lives every day, are going to react when they get back to base and hear that the Democrat leader of the United States Senate has declared the war is lost.

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An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport

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