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13. februar 2006
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My newly reinstalled and under-training spam-filter surprisingly let pass an obvious piece of spam trying to sell me Viagra right now. After a while it occurred to me that the reason must be that it is one of the few spam mailings actually spelling it the right way....
11:10:16 PM 
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An outlet selling products from Norway's Telenor was among the victims of cartoon protests in Pakistan.
Sixteen people were held for damaging public property in the protest in the north-western city of Peshawar.
Students also smashed hoardings advertising the Norwegian telecom giant, Telenor, and chanted "Death to America" and "God is Great".
Or maybe they just didn't like Telenor's new begging-for-mischievous-photoshopping logo.
10:57:04 PM
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Hamas, the terrorist organisation that won the Palestinian election, knows fully well that Palestinians don't grow up to become self-exploding fanatics without some skillfull guidance.
The above pictures show kids from a Hamas school and a kindergarten (no doubt part of the 'social' programmes Hamas has been praised for) being rushed out in the streets to demonstrate against Denmark and the Muhammad cartoons. Notice the nice little coffin draped with a Danish flag, a pretty non-subtle death treat.
Some of the kids were as young as four years old.
Pictures from Aftenposten.
8:38:24 PM
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Bill Roggio details the work Iraqi and US forces and are doing in securing the western border of Iraq, the long stretch against Jordan and Syria. There are some indications that Operation Western Shield is working, and preventing foreign Jihadists from crossing into Iraq.
Lt. Col. Greg Reilly, the commander of the 3rd Squadron of the 3rd from 3rd Armoured Cavalry Regiment, recently has been quoted as saying that over the past nine months, no foreign fighters have been detained crossing the borders, and Syrian support is limited at best.
There is also a question of how Iraqi passports smuggled out of the country under Saddam's rule ends up in the hands of Jihadis.
Update: We've had a few false positives earlier, but there are some indications that terrorist attacks are down.
February 12, 2006: The annual Shia Ashura festival brings out the faithful in large numbers, and was banned when Saddam ruled. Since then, terrorists have attacked the Shia participants, killing 55 in 2005, and 181 in 2004. This year, the terrorists were unable to kill anyone. Iraqi police and soldiers supplied the security, with the help of some religious militias. This sharp drop in terrorist activity was no fluke.
Via Glenn Reynolds.
6:32:06 PM
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Last update: 01.03.2006; 16:50:26.
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