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Via Breitbart/AP:
Al-Jazeera aired an audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden on Thursday, saying al-Qaida is making preparations for attacks in the United States but offering a truce to rebuild Iraq [...]

Here’s a very interesting story from Reuters: “Guantanamo prisoners tied to London bomb probe.” Excerpt:
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Prisoners at the Guantanamo base in Cuba provided important information in connection with last summer’s London transit bombings that the United States shared with authorities in the United Kingdom, the general in charge [...]

*AP names Hurricane Katrina its top story of the year. Can’t argue with that. The rest of the top ten:
2: PAPAL TRANSITION: John Paul II’s death marked the passing of the first non-Italian pope in 455 years and ended a 26-year pontificate, third-longest in history. In a remarkable show of affection, many millions attended services [...]

My latest column follows up on the lies of Jimmy Massey and his media enablers.
Doug Struck, the Washington Post reporter who covered Massey’s bogus testimony at Army deserter Jeremy Hinzman’s Canadian asylum hearing last year, has not responded to my e-mail inquiring about any follow-up.
USA Today reporter Rick Hampson, who wrote this March 2005 feature, [...]

What kind of Islamist literature has made its way into the U.S. prison system? Daveed Gartenstein-Ross tells us at The Counterterrorism Blog.
Update: More on Islam in prison from Aaron’s cc.

Arthur Chrenkoff (who is going to be missed terribly when he leaves blogging) is posting about the expected crowds that will be going to vote the constitutional referendum all across Iraq. He has an excellent roundup of reports from the region.
Seems like the democratic bug is really catching on across Iraq. It doesn’t take [...]

83 dead.
Who will be first to blame Bush, Blair, and Iraq?
Joe Gandelman has an excellent round-up, as always, with reminders of al Qaeda’s longtime targeting of Egyptian tourism.
The Counterterrorism Blog also has comprehensive coverage. Andrew Cochran notes:
In looking for a motive, note that the trial of the October 2004 suspects is scheduled for July 24 [...]

My new column is up, building on this post about the bogus Koran-burning “hate crime” in Blacksburg, Va. Wanted to call your attention to the conclusion:
The grievance-mongers’ continued failure to act responsibly and with due skepticism when these cases arise is expected. But the mainstream media’s failure to put its America-bashing instincts in check is [...]

…”desecrated” by, you guessed it, a Muslim:
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - A Muslim Virginia Tech student says he was the person who left a burned Quran at a local mosque last month, saying it had been damaged in a fire and he hoped it could be given a respectful disposal.
Police initially had said the case was [...]

When last we heard from the paranoid codger, he was blaming Karl Rove for Newsweek’s bogus Koran desecration story.
The NYPost’s Page Six brings us the latest Mailer-strom:
Norman Mailer is catching static over “Asiatic.” The literary lion offended the politically-correct crowd by denouncing New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani as a “kamikaze” and an “Asiatic, feminist [...]

“On, but not in” seems to be the phrase of the moment on the Court’s split rulings related to the presence of the 10 Commandments on government property.
Background at How Appealing–links to oral arguments transcripts in both the Texas and Kentucky cases.
Alliance Defense Fund’s assessment is that the status quo has been maintained. (ADF provided [...]

Check this out:
US Marines have found manuals on taking hostages and decapitation during a raid on a guerrilla hideout in the Iraqi village of Karabla, near the town of Qaim, close to the Syrian border. The Arab newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat reports that in the hideaway the troops also found several hostages who were being held [...]

From Karl Rove, quoted in today’s NY Times:
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
Right. On.
Democrats are now calling on Rove to apologize. Apologize? For what?
For distilling [...]

Here’s your regular, gasoline-drenched reminder of the latest MSM-induced desecration that won’t be getting front-page coverage:

Pakistani Sunni Muslims burn U.S. and Israeli flags during a rally in Lahore June 17, 2005. Almi Tanzim-e-Ahle Sunnat or World Sunni Muslims Organisation held the rally in reaction to a Newsweek magazine report, which was later retracted, of U.S. [...]

Bird of Paradise imagines it.
Hat tip: Joe Katzman at Winds of Change, who has more thoughts here and here.
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Meanwhile, Afghan clerics want an apology for Koran abuse (does this include the abuses by the detainees themselves?)
And the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing today on Gitmo so we can hear more ululating like [...]

Question: Who believes “M.C.?”
According to an article in yesterday’s New York Times, a young Guantanamo Bay detainee identified as “M.C.” claims he was “suspended from hooks in the ceiling for hours at a time with his feet barely missing the floor, and that he was beaten during those sessions.” M.C. also claims he was [...]

As a counterbalance to the MSM’s continued ululations about Koran desecration, I’m starting a regular feature highlighting the desecration of precious items that won’t be making the cover of Newsweek and the NY Times.
Here’s your desecration of the day:

Pakistani Sunni Muslims burn a U.S. flag during an anti-U.S. rally in Lahore June 8, 2005. Reuters.
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Urine [...]

Well, still no MSM coverage of this or this or this.
And now, there’s this and this: (Hat tip: Gateway Pundit)
How about putting this photo on the cover of Newsweek:

Indian Muslims ask a boy to urinate on a U.S. flag during a protest against the alleged desecration of the Koran during a demonstration in Calcutta [...]

At his May 31st press conference, President Bush’s response to reckless claims about Guantanamo Bay was inadequate and superficial at best.
Unfortunately, that performance was Reaganesque compared to W.’s interview last night with FNC’s Neil Cavuto. Here is the full transcript. This is the relevant portion (with a few of my comments in brackets):
CAVUTO: Speaking of [...]

That’s the headline you won’t be reading over this AP story filed tonight on investigative findings released by Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, the commander of the detention center in Cuba.
Buried down in the AP story about Quran abuses at Gitmo, we learn:
[Hood] said his investigation found 15 cases of detainees mishandling their own Qurans. “These [...]

Newsweek asks, “Do you think the federal government should lift restrictions on stem-cell research?”
There are in fact no restrictions on stem cell research in the United States.* Using private or state funds, researchers can carry out whatever research they wish. The question is whether the federal government should subsidize research on embryonic stem cell [...]

As I mentioned yesterday, my column today responds to the chicken little hyperbole regarding Guantanamo Bay. Have there been abuses? Yes. Is it the “anti-Statue of Liberty?” Get a grip.
Despite the MSM’s allergic reaction, White House spokesman Scott McClellan was right when he suggested that the media could do more to “talk about policies [...]

President Bush’s response to a question about Guantanamo Bay at his press conference this afternoon was woefully inadequate, and not just because he flubbed the word “dissemble.” While he rightfully criticized Amnesty International’s hyperbolic report on alleged abuses at Gitmo as “absurd,” I don’t think he defended our detention policies and practices vigorously or articulately [...]

You probably will never see it in any MSM letters section, but you can read it over at Power Line.

Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz seems to tell Glenn Reynolds that the MSM is paying too little attention to newly disclosed FBI documents that contained the latest Koran-in-the-toilet allegation:
I don’t contend that these FBI papers, unearthed in an ACLU lawsuit, get Newsweek off the hook. But you’d think they would be getting more attention.
Of [...]

In this morning’s coverage of Koran abuse allegations at Gitmo, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, Reuters, and Associated Press all mention in their lead paragraph that the Pentagon found no credible evidence that a guard flushed the Koran down a toilet. The Washington Post, on the other hand, [...]

Detainee who claimed American guards flushed a Koran down the toilet at Guantanamo Bay sez: “Never mind.”
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Previous:
- Guantanamo Bay: the rest of the story
- Once more, into the toilet
- Newsweek lied*. People died.

Daily Kos and other liberal bloggers are claiming that newly-released FBI documents confirm Newsweek’s allegations regarding Koran-flushing (see “FBI: Newsweek was right“).
It should be obvious to anyone who so much as glances at the documents being cited that the FBI was reporting the statements of detainees rather than endorsing or validating those allegations. Immediately before [...]

The Newsweek fallout continues…
- From the Stockton Record:
A San Joaquin Delta College student discovered a copy of the Quran in a library toilet Wednesday evening, an incident similar to one described in a now-retracted news report that sparked Muslim protests worldwide last week.
Delta police wouldn’t release the name of the student, whom they say [...]

Tom Maguire has a good question for WaPo’s Anne Applebaum.