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The London Times reports it has possession of an unseen Mohammed Atta video (hat tip - reader Bill):
A previously unseen video made by Mohammed Atta, ringleader of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, has been obtained by a Britain’s The Sunday Times, the newspaper reported Saturday.
In editions available late Saturday, the paper [...]

Pajamas Media’s Roger Simon interviews Joe Lieberman. It’s the first in a series. Stay tuned!

Reader D.H. sends an interesting news item from WWLTW-TV in New Orleans:
The FBI temporarily shut down and raided a handful of local convenience stores Thursday, leading Arab store owners to decry the search-and-seizure operations as racial profiling.
Terrebonne Narcotics Task Force agents Steven Bergeron (foreground) and Shane Fletcher carry items confiscated by the FBI out of [...]

Robert Redeker: Forced underground by the jihadi mob
There is a French petition of support for critic of Islam Robert Redeker.
Sign here.
Benedicte at Extreme Center has translated Le Figaro’s front-page editorial condemning the death threats that have forced Redeker into hiding.
The NYTimes’ Saturday edition, posted online now, boils it down:
A French high school philosophy teacher and [...]

Very damning evidence. If it is all true, and it seems very likely that it is, Rep. Foley has shamed himself, his office, his district, and his party.
I got back recently from Seattle, where good friends told me about their son’s wonderful experience as a Congressional page earlier this year. Rep. Foley’s apparent abuse of [...]

Biblical verses are on the chopping block.

***updated: tracking the source of the bogus Flickr photos…Wonkette editors demonstrate further malice…***
***update 9/30 6:25pm…I have just heard from the student whose pictures were stolen from Webshots by the creator of the bogus Flickr site. She is Ashley Herzog of Ohio University (not Oberlin, my alma mater, as the bogus Flickr site creator misled people [...]

I asked yesterday for translations of the op-eds criticizing Islam that have been banned in Egypt and that have forced one of the authors, Robert Redeker, into hiding in France.
Thanks to all the readers who have e-mailed their translations. Spread these far and wide. E-mail them to your friends. Post them on Egyptian online forums. [...]

Now do you see why I was skeptical of that public relations campaign to entice conservatives into endorsing World Trade Center?
Filmmaker Oliver Stone blasted President George W. Bush Thursday, saying he has “set America back 10 years.”
Stone added that he is “ashamed for my country” over the war in Iraq and the U.S. policies in [...]

I have blogged before about the obsessed UNC professor Eric Muller.

He and his friends at Wonkette have sunk to a new low (Guess insulting me with ping-pong ball jokes wasn’t enough). As a response to my column this week on Charlotte Church, they post a picture of a woman in a bikini that they [...]

Robert Redeker: In hiding after “insulting Islam”

Ancient historian Egon Flaig: Banned in Egypt

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury: May face death for criticizing Islam
The Danish cartoonists aren’t the only ones living in fear for offending the global jihadi mob. Now, French philosophy professor and secondary school teacher Robert Redeker is under police protection for penning a piece [...]

All the latest here on tonight’s rancorous, teeth-gnashing Senate vote.
Update: Bill passes. 65-34-1.

Took a break from my usual column fare this week to muse about the corruption of Charlotte Church and the uphill battle against Bratz World.

***Update: The border fence clears a Senate hurdle***
No, I’m not making it up:
U.S.-Mexico border fence may harm animal migration
A plan to fence off a third of the U.S. border to stop illegal immigration from Mexico may harm migration routes used by animals including rare birds and jaguars, environmentalists and U.S. authorities warn.
The House of Representatives [...]

This post by Dean Esmay, “calling out Michelle Malkin,” is what is known in the business as traffic bait.
So go ahead and click it and give Esmay more of the traffic he wants. I highly recommend you read his post as the classic blogospheric example of how not to argue about Islam.
Or anything else, [...]

The SITE Institute has details of the new al Qaeda audiotape:
The speech, 20:31 in length, is titled: “Come to a Word that is Just Between Us and You,” which is taken from the Qur’an, Surah al-Imran, verse 64. On the occasion of the month of Ramadan, al-Muhajir calls upon every “free Mujahid” to come to [...]

Very badly, according to this “study” about liberal vs. conservative dreams:
A dream researcher from John F. Kennedy University in California has discovered fundamental differences between the dream worlds of people on the ideological left and the ideological right.
Among his findings, Kelly Bulkeley discovered that liberals are more restless sleepers and have a higher number of [...]

Brian Maloney has the lowdown on flailing lib radio network Air America’s legal and financial troubles at The Radio Equalizer. The New York State Attorney General’s office has now transferred the Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club case involving Air America to its criminal prosecutions bureau. You won’t believe who finally covered the story. Yup, [...]

AllahPundit (with signature Photoshop) sends the word via KVOA:
A state commission that authorized placement of the Arizona 9-11 Memorial in Wesley Bolin Plaza will review controversial laser-cut inscriptions “and see if some of them could be removed,” the panel’s chairman said Wednesday.
Former state Sen. Tom Smith, chairman of the Legislative Governmental Mall Commission, also [...]

What you’re not reading about in the dhimmi MSM.
I did a search on Yahoo! News for photos and–surprise–nothing comes up.
More blog coverage:
Brian at Snapped Shot has extensive coverage and video.
Richard at EU Referendum asks: When is a riot not a riot? He’s got a pic:

The Windbag from Massachusetts wins hands down today. John Hinderaker at Power Line nails him:
The Democrats evidently aren’t happy with the release of the “key judgments” of the National Intelligence Estimate on global terrorism, because now they’ve demanded that the White House release the entire report.
That will get them what they’re looking for, i.e., headlines [...]

Rep. Louise Slaughter: Water carrier for AP and security detainee Bilal Hussein
The Associated (with terrorists) Press thinks it’s news that a Democrat congresswoman is recycling the suppressed-news organization’s talking points about Bilal Hussein, the AP photographer who was discovered by American troops in a Ramadi apartment with an alleged al Qaeda leader and a weapons [...]

Thanks to all the readers e-mailing the story. I’m glad to hear it, but it’s not quite clear to me that Chavez’s unhingedness at the U.N. had anything to do with it. Looks to me from the news stories that this had been in the works for a while:
7-Eleven spokesman Margaret Chabris said that, “Regardless [...]

Drip, drip, drip?
In its original report leaking details of the National Intelligence Estimate on the Iraq war, the New York Times relied on anonymous, unnamed leakers to spin its contents and embarrass the White House.
Today, the Times includes comments from some named sources. Pay attention to this one:
What was most remarkable about the intelligence [...]

Scene from Idomeneo: Banned in Germany
The first thing to remember when reading about the cancellation of Mozart’s Idomeneo in Germany and the opera house Deutsche Oper’s kowtowing to Islamic bullies is that jihadists hate Western art and music.
They hate love songs.
They hate Muslim female pop stars.
They hate church frescos. And poems. And illustrations of [...]

***updated with my first read***
Here’s the link to the PDF document of the NIE’s key judgements at the DNI site. If the server is down, we’ve got it here.
Some of what you didn’t read in the NYTimes:
We assess that the Iraq jihad is shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives; perceived jihadist success [...]

Taking the cue from the Democrats’ Finger-Jabber-In-Chief. Barbara Boxer gets all Clinton on Fox News with the always gracious Jane Skinner.
And then there was that execrable MSNBC pig daring to call Chris Wallace a “monkey.”
Fox’s 10th anniversary is just around the corner, so look for more of this churlish behavior from Dems as we get [...]

Watch.

Hmm:
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi asked her colleagues Tuesday to close the House’s doors for a highly unusual secret session to discuss a classified intelligence analysis on global terrorism.
Such a session hasn’t happened in the House since July 1983, when the chamber went into a closed session to discuss the United States’ support for paramilitary [...]

Iowahawk spoofs the first draft of the AZ 9/11 memorial:

Ha.
We take a serious look at the controversy in today’s Vent.
Arizona’s GOP candidate for governor, Len Munsil, is going on the offensive:
The Republican candidate for governor says the state’s recently dedicated 9/11 memorial should be torn down, calling it an insult to America because of wording [...]