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Somehow I suspect something was lost in translation here:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that his country’s nuclear standoff with the West can be solved through dialogue, while calling for unspecified “new conditions” in negotiations.
Ahmedinejad, on an hours-long stopover in Senegal en route to Cuba for a summit of the Nonaligned Movement, said the [...]

Tony Blair takes on the America-bashers. Thank you:
British Prime Minister Tony Blair launched a withering attack on Thursday on what he called “mad anti-Americanism” among European politicians.
Blair, U.S. President George W. Bush’s closest ally in the so-called war on terror, said the world urgently needs the United States to help tackle the globe’s most pressing [...]

Adam Gadahn gets schooled.

***scroll for updates below…Think Progress retracts story***

Photoshop: Darleen Click
So, Air America leaks word of its bankruptcy to liberal blog Think Progress in an attempt to avoid complete humiliation by all those evil right-wingers who were spreading such vicious rumors about its financial chaos.
May I just say: Bwahahahahahaha.
First question: Will the New York Times fiiiiinally get [...]

Get ‘em while they’re hot. T-shirts, hats, bumper stickers.
Take the 9/11 pledge. Wear it proud and say it out loud.
All proceeds will be donated to the Families of Freedom scholarship fund for children and spouses of those murdered on September 11.

If you haven’t seen the cover photo and story from the New York Post today, you better put down your coffee and take some blood pressure medicine:

Ian Bishop follows up on the original story reported by NBC News:
Taliban terror leaders who had gathered for a funeral - and were secretly being watched by an eye-in-the-sky [...]

I guess I’m not going to be sending the Dutch minister an “I will not submit” t-shirt:
AMSTERDAM — Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner has provoked an angry response by stating it has to be possible for Sharia Law to be introduced in the Netherlands via democratic means.
The Christian Democrat (CDA) minister made the suggestion [...]

This is a stunning story, and I’m sorry I haven’t gotten to it sooner. Drudge and California media have been all over it and now the police are involved. Via AP:
The campaign of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Democratic rival acknowledged Tuesday that it downloaded - and leaked to the media - a recording of a private [...]

The guys at HA have it covered tonight.

I’ve taken several trips on Amtrak over the past few weeks, and have noticed a lot of extra security lately. Increased police presence inside the station. Increased police presence at the entrance before you get on the tracks. Foot patrols on the trains. Warnings that luggage is not allowed on empty seats next to passengers. [...]

The staging of pro-terrorist photos for the theater of jihad has been going on a long time.
I’ve blogged before about a notorious incident involving iconic images of a Palestinian boy, Mohammed al Doura, broadcast by French state-owned television in 2000. The boy was allegedly gunned down by Israeli soldiers. But as Nidra Poller and David [...]

For not doing enough about…AIDS and Rwanda.
That’s according to a New Yorker article by David Remnick just e-mailed to me by the magazine’s P.R. people. Here’s a snippet:
Remnick reveals a man still very much obsessed with leaving his mark on the
world, through his foundation work on international health initiatives and
his persisting influence over world leaders. [...]

A trip down Unhinged Lane.
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The Los Angeles Times reports on how the director of “Death of a President” staged the assassination scenes and deceived authorities in order to get footage of President Bush for the movie.
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This will lift your spirits. Frank Miller, the famed graphic novelist/illustrator, had a commentary featured on NPR yesterday extolling patriotism. Yes, on NPR! Here’s a snippet, but you should click over and listen to the whole thing:
Both of my parents were World War II veterans. FDR-era patriots. And I was exactly the age to rebel [...]

I noted the beheading of Sudanese journalist Mohammed Taha, accused of insulting Islam, last week by “unknown gunmen.” An al Qaeda operative has now claimed responsibility for the murder: Allah akbar. I know you are shocked.

Tom Bevan at Real Clear Politics has a primary round-up. It’s election day in Arizona, Minnesota, Maryland, Wisconsin, Delaware, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont, plus D.C.’s got a mayoral vote.
All eyes are on Providence. Can conservative Stephen Laffey unseat the Bush-bashing “mooooderate,” GOP Sen. Lincoln Chafee? The BBC is biting its [...]

Read Emilio Karim Dabul in today’s NY Post:
WELL, here it is, five years late, but here just the same: an apology from an Arab-American for 9/11. No, I didn’t help organize the killers or contribute in any way to their terrible cause. However, I was one of millions of Arab-Americans who did the unspeakable on [...]

Yahoo News/Reuters: The American flag flies at full mast at the US Embassy in Damascus

CNN: Pipe and propane bombs at the scene
Three killed–they were gunmen shouting “Allah akbar!”
Update: An al Qaeda “offshoot” is suspected. Revised casualty figures:
Syrian security forces killed four attackers Tuesday outside the U.S. Embassy in Damascus after a car exploded near the [...]

Via Reuters:
A Somali radio station closed by Islamists for playing local love songs deemed to encourage immorality returned to the airwaves on Monday after pledging to stop broadcasting music.
“We’ve been on air since midday,” Said Haga Afrah, director of Radio Jowhar, told Reuters. “We are powerless so we have to heed their call to stop [...]

Photos of the unhinged in NYC yesterday from the intrepid El Marco. This one sums it up:

James Joyner waded through the blame-Bush swamps yesterday.
Reader Peege writes about a non-9/11 9/11 musical celebration in Atlanta, which included:

- “From a Distance,” which features the line “From a distance you look like my friend / even though we [...]

***update…and a note of thanks to some very special men and women who have been on my mind all day…***
Here’s the text of tonight’s speech from President Bush. I’m adding hyperlinks. No, he doesn’t say “I will not submit.” But it’s a solid statement to end a day of remembrance, resolve, and recognition. Video and [...]

The above phrase in Arabic is “lan astaslem.” It means “I will not surrender/I will not submit.” (Thanks to Rusty, Laura, and Daveed for translation help.) This is the last line of my 9/11 column and it’s my 9/11 anniversary message to the convert-or-die jihadists.
And yes, I’ve got t-shirts in the works as a [...]

2,996: Who are you remembering? ***update…The 2,996 Project has exceeded its bandwidth and been shut down. Geez. You’d think the one day a hosting company could give a client commemorating 9/11 a break would be this one…another update: here’s a mirror site…***

Go to ABC News for an extraordinary gallery of photos of children who [...]

2,996: Who are you remembering?

The last moment of silence of the day marks the collapse of the North Tower at 10:29am Eastern. Burned into memory:

And because I believe there should be no flinching today, here is footage of workers forced to jump from the towers in the jihadi attacks. Don’t click if you don’t want [...]

2,996: Who are you remembering?
The time of notification of the crash of United 93 into a field at Shanksville, Pa., was 10:15 am Eastern. Who can forget: “Let’s roll!” United 93 passenger and crew list in extended entry:

2,996: Who are you remembering?
New Yorkers at Ground Zero are now marking the third moment of silence marking the collapse of the WTC’s South Tower at 9:59 am Eastern. This says it all for me:

The voice belongs to Kevin Cosgrove, a claims VP at Aon Corporation. He was 46 years old. Transcript of his 911 [...]

2,996: Who are you remembering?
Now marks the third moment of silence to mark the crash of American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon at 9:37:46.

Gen. Peter Pace’s message to terrorists: “Not on our watch”
From the 9/11 Commission report:
The Hijacking of American 77
American Airlines Flight 77 was scheduled to depart from Washington Dulles for Los Angeles [...]

2,996: Who are you remembering?

Now is the second moment of silence to mark the crash of United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower of the World Trade Center at 9:03:11am Eastern.
From the 9/11 Commission report:
The Hijacking of United 175
United Airlines Flight 175 was scheduled to depart for Los Angeles at 8:00. Captain Victor Saracini [...]

2,996: Who are you remembering?
The Vice President and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher are at the Pentagon. Moment of silence at 8:46 am to mark the crash of American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46:40am Eastern.

From the 9/11 Commission report:
The Hijacking of American 11
American Airlines Flight [...]

I am kicking off 24-hour 9/11 anniversary coverage today with my entry for the 2,996 Project.
As I mentioned last month, the project launched by D.C. Roe involves more than 3,000 bloggers who have joined together to commemorate each and every one of the victims of 9/11 on this fifth anniversary.
I am participant number 2290 and [...]