Category Archives: Terrorism

Thursday snark briefs, all-Dubai hit edition

Time for your daily AP article on the Dubai hit: You’d think that the assassination victim was some kind of worldwide hero or something, for this much media attention, but you would be wrong. Israel supposedly did it, so the … Continue reading

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Oh and by the way he was smuggling arms

Ynet reports: Mohammed Nassar, who was an aide to Mabhouh, spoke to Hamas’ al-Aqsa radio in Gaza from Damascus. A transcript was released Tuesday. . . . Nassar says Mabhouh “never stopped thinking about how to fight the occupation by … Continue reading

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For all your terrorist news

Fred Pruitt’s Rantburg has been around for a long, long time. I’m on the daily newsletter list, and this is why: Besides the wealth of information, there are the comments. Fred’s aren’t the only funny ones. (But they are the … Continue reading

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Israel’s Axis of Evil

The heads of Hamas and Hezbullah met in Damascus with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Bashar Assad to plot Israel’s destruction. How is the Obama administration handling the fact that Syria hosted the heads of two terrorist organizations and one terrorist-supporting state? … Continue reading

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Cracks in Hamas’s armor?

One of the mantras of Israel’s critics during Operation Cast Lead last year was that it would only build support for Hamas. I noted at the time anecdotal evidence suggested otherwise. Now the Washington Post is reporting Once seemingly impregnable, … Continue reading

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More on the Dubai hit

The AP has a story that isn’t getting nearly as wide release as the stories about the Mossad being responsible for the Dubai hit, but it’s interesting for what countries are doing—and not doing—to find the killers. A killer – … Continue reading

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Terrorist used fake passport to get to Dubai, media will not care

So, in all this uproar about Israel allegedly using fake passports to get Mossad agents into Dubai to kill a Hamas terrorist, the part of the story that will be utterly ignored is that the ex-terrorist was in Dubai on … Continue reading

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Tuesday morning snarks

The definition of hypocrisy: Iran is calling the Dubai assassination “Israeli terror.” Because gee, Iran never blew up a Jewish community center, an army barracks, or murdered Iranian expats in other nations. Israel eliminated a terrorist murderer arms supplier. One … Continue reading

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“Gee, I hope nothing happened to him…”

I remember a joke from my youth. Two Arabs in Israel were plotting to kill Moshe Dayan. They tracked him day after day for two months. They noticed that every day he showed up to the same restaurant at 11:30 … Continue reading

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Checkpoint “misery” exaggerated by the AP

This get-out-your-hankie story is the latest profile by the AP of the horrors the Palestinians have to go through—all, of course, caused by Israel. This one is an AP correspondent who spent a week (five days, actually) going through the … Continue reading

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Crazy or not, here they come

Guy Bechor observes Israel is back. (h/t David Hazony via Twitter) According to terror groups, Israel can reach anywhere and has infiltrated every organization and each Arab state. The glory of Israel’s secret services had been restored and the fear … Continue reading

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Epic fail

Probably the first and last time you’ll ever read those words on this blog, but who’s the genius at the Israeli Embassy who thought up this line to announce Shahar Peer’s tennis victory on Twitter? You heard it here first: … Continue reading

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The real reason for the Hamas hit

From the comments: No one yet has pointed out the REAL reason this guy was ‘terminated’. The videos I’ve seen show him carrying a tennis racket. In DUBAI. And who is doing really well in the tournament now being held … Continue reading

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The all-Hamas hit snark news

Hey, terrorists are human, too! Why is it that the AP insists on writing hagiographies for dead terrorists, yet usually utterly ignores the biographies of their victims? I’m surprised they even mentioned the names of the two Israeli soldiers he … Continue reading

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Mossad hit, or a blame-Israel team?

I have no background whatsoever in the analysis of secret agent hits, unless you count watching spy movies. And boy, this hit sure has all the marks of a great spy movie. When al-Mabhouh returned to the hotel at 8.24pm … Continue reading

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