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Tsunami screwnami. "Indian-Israeli-American nuclear testing caused tsunami" Middle Eastern Media
Wall Street Journal ^ | 01/28/05 | Melik Kaylan

Posted on 01/28/2005 11:17:08 AM PST by Beowulf9

THEY'RE PARANOID, WE'RE BLASE

By Merik Kaylan

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.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: middleeast; tsunami
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This article listed today in the op/ed columns of WSJ. Of course, in the end, the U.S. is always at fault.
1 posted on 01/28/2005 11:17:09 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

LOL........I had a really weird dream last night too but it didn't make the news or any textbooks yet......


2 posted on 01/28/2005 11:22:51 AM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: Beowulf9

Only savages believe the ridiculous rumors that the muslim press generates. It is unfortunate that that's what we're up against here.

Just winning on the battlefield would be much simpler than having to contend with the unfathomable ignorance of the people as well.


3 posted on 01/28/2005 11:22:51 AM PST by Gefreiter (When seconds count, the police are minutes away.)
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To: Beowulf9

O K ;-) WHEW what is that smell ? wacko brain cells....


4 posted on 01/28/2005 11:24:35 AM PST by Deetes
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To: Beowulf9

Look, this is a culture that thinks heaven consists of a bunch of mass murderers boinking virgins. What do you expect?


5 posted on 01/28/2005 11:25:02 AM PST by Spok
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To: Beowulf9
"That's when this tragedy took place striking them all.

... and 3000 Jews did not go to the beach that day, he added.

6 posted on 01/28/2005 11:25:33 AM PST by A Ruckus of Dogs
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To: Beowulf9

Correction, it's Bush's fault.


7 posted on 01/28/2005 11:26:10 AM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (When Gays left the Closet, Conservatives took their place.)
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To: Gefreiter

Is this really any different than the liberals in this country believing in Diebold voter fraud, Bush will burn black chuches and will bring back Jim Crowe Laws, GOP killed Minnisota Senator whatshisname,etc.


8 posted on 01/28/2005 11:27:59 AM PST by mlbford2 ("Never wrestle with a pig; you can't win, you just get filthy, and the pig loves it...")
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To: Beowulf9

It's not just the Jews, it's not just the Crusaders, the Hindus are in on it too! Oh, woe is Islam.


9 posted on 01/28/2005 11:29:41 AM PST by AmishDude
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Damn, they found out everything. Guess it's back to square one. LOL
I wouldn't expect anything less from PA TV.


10 posted on 01/28/2005 11:32:10 AM PST by bananarepublican23
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To: bananarepublican23

One of these days then we will have to perfect this technology...


11 posted on 01/28/2005 11:35:17 AM PST by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much)
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To: mlbford2

Probably not.


12 posted on 01/28/2005 11:38:27 AM PST by Gefreiter (When seconds count, the police are minutes away.)
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To: Beowulf9
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.

Assuming they are close to the truth (which they're not) it would be American-Israeli-Indian testing.

13 posted on 01/28/2005 11:39:20 AM PST by night reader
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To: Beowulf9
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: rumblerumblerumblerumblerumblerumblerumblerumblerumble

Bomb: Bangrumblerumblerumblerumble

14 posted on 01/28/2005 11:43:09 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Blackwell for Governor 2006: hated by the 'Rats, feared by the RINOs.)
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To: night reader

What's this-Hollywood billing?


15 posted on 01/28/2005 11:48:57 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

This reads like a tirade from Louis Farrakhan... imaginative, irresponsible, idiotic


16 posted on 01/28/2005 11:52:04 AM PST by george wythe
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To: Beowulf9

They are in insane...pagan and insane...barbaric.


17 posted on 01/28/2005 11:54:05 AM PST by atruelady
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I can't wait till the C.O.C.K. comes online in 2007
Comet Override Control Keeper


18 posted on 01/28/2005 11:55:02 AM PST by TBClown
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To: KarlInOhio

You couldn't descredit that!


19 posted on 01/28/2005 11:55:06 AM PST by Irish_Thatcherite (When Gays left the Closet, Conservatives took their place.)
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To: Beowulf9

Remember seeing one of the photos where people with umbrellas went to the beach to watch the tidal wave. Laughed real hard about the stupidity of the human race. Now this coming from the middle east keeps me laughing even harder.


20 posted on 01/28/2005 11:59:57 AM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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