Tsunami screwnami. "Indian-Israeli-American nuclear testing caused tsunami" Middle Eastern Media

According to the Middle Eastern Media Research Institute, the Egyptian nationalist weekly Al Usbu published a piece speculating that Indian-Israeli-American nuclear testing caused the tsunami. These countries had acted "together to test a way to liquidate humanity." A Friday sermon aired on Palestinian Authority TV dwelt on Thai corruption in the form of "tourist paradise" beaches where "Zionist and American investments" triggered divine wrath. An advisor to the Saudi minister of justice claimed on Saudi TV that the people who suffered did so for lying, sinning and being infidels. Another Saudi cleric felt the tsunami's timing was significant: "It happened at Christmas when fornicators from around the world come to commit fornication and sexual perversion. That's when this tragedy took place striking them all.

Dangerous libels should be treated as incitements to terror acts; we should, as the saying goes, find a "return address" for them. Mullah X or Shiekh Y should find himself having to defend his aspersions in a public forum.

Of all the diplomatic bungling in the wider Muslim world, the desultory approach to persuasion ranks as the most egregious. It took Washington almost a year from the onset of hostilities to launch a credible satellite-channel rival to Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya. Meanwhile, Iraqis and other Arabs were inundated with appeals to their religion, nation and tribe, to resist the infidels. Competent propaganda, gives the impression that one cares about what the local people think, and in its absence, the Arabs must have thought that America did not care about their welfare.

As veteran Cold Warriors from Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty will tell you, we won that war through cultural propaganda because we convinced subject populations that we, more than the Soviets, had their well-being in mind.

"Anyone with any skill could look at the seismograph and tell the difference between an earthquake and a nuke. The earthquake has a gradual build up to a maximum while the bomb starts at the maximum.
Earthquake:

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Bomb: Bangrumblerumblerumblerumble"

Without your beautiful graphics, but hey, this was pretty cool! Also pretty astute.

Yes, we are the almighty Americans' who can send out tsunamis, and then also pay for them later!

Actually, the testing was a joint effort of the US, Finland, the Vatican, Bill Gates, and Oscar Meyer Weiner Corporation. A top secret vessel, piloted by a Romanian tugboat captain brought the massive barge from New Jersey (where the secret lab is located) to the location in the Indian Ocean. The pope personally blessed the "button" and slugged down two beers before leaving on his luxery yacht. Bill Gates personally designed the software used...using parts of both Windows 98, Windows NT and a top secret software he developed back in the garage in 1975. George Bush arrived to salute the US marines who were guarding the vessel and had some peanuts lodge in his throat which caused the secret service to quickly thump his back to get him back on track. The marines were fed by a special Oscar Meyer barge which was brought down...and grilled weiners were cooked around the clock for our boys to survive in the dang awful heat. As the moment of the test arrived...Madonna was personally flown in to be the "button pusher", and sung a round of "hot blooded woman" to the marines...who all cried as the explosion occurred. Beer was served immedately after the event, and everyone went home...missing the Tsunami.

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