Stop Me If You’ve Plotted This One Before …
I’m waiting for our loyal opposition to start mocking this foiled terror plot. It’s not a real terrorist threat when you arrest them. Terror arrests are good for yuks! Except for the part about when the Cheney-Rove administration starts torturing them and denying them civil jihadi rights. That’s more like … how many oppressed Islamic militants in solitary confinement does it take to screw in a light bulb?*
This bomb plot, seeing as it was only going to target U.S. soldiers over in Germany, and was foiled by German police, doesn’t provide any good Bush bash material, unless it’s an opportunity to say the war on terrorism is a police matter. Which of course it is, when it isn’t a military matter.
Hey, what a minute … I just thought of something. How come whenever the cops, FBI arrest some jihadi, it’s proof terrorism doesn’t actually exist, instead of proof that the war on terrorism is only cop business, Bush lied people died? You’d think they’d want to get on that …
Come on down, Reality-Based Community!
Related:
MVDG with some other details. These terrorists were stupid, too. One of them was driving around the bases too much. Michael’s concerned that the plot apparently included some actual Aryanic schnitizel-schnauzers, not just the usual gastarbeiter untermenschen. That’s old hat around here. You got your Lindh, you got your Padilla, you got your Hicks, you got your Reid. Why not a Schmidt?
Different, but similar:
Bush lied people died some more.
Al Qaeda, a figment of Bush’s (evil) imagination.
*Answer: That’s not funny!
Topics: al qaeda
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:26 am on Thursday, September 6, 2007
19 Responses to “Stop Me If You’ve Plotted This One Before …”
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September 6th, 2007 at 9:37 am
The correct answer is, “None, because light bulbs are haram. Besides, jihadists like being in the dark!”
September 6th, 2007 at 9:47 am
No, Jeffy, the correct answer is three.
One to get his finger plunged into the light socket. One to to get the light bulb shards shoved up his rectum. And one to screw in the bulb. Very carefully.
September 6th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Germans Hunt 10 More Terror Suspects, Media Yawns
Why let a little story about potential massive terror attacks get in the way of kvelling over Larry Craig or dismissing the upcoming Petraeus report?
September 6th, 2007 at 10:38 am
corndog, where’s the reference to flushing the Koran down the toilet? Don’t forget your talking points, man!
September 6th, 2007 at 10:48 am
Oof. Good point. Here’s a do-over:
One to plunge the Koran into the socket. One to to get the Koran shoved up his rectum. And one to screw the Koran into the toilet. Very carefully.
September 6th, 2007 at 11:33 am
Frankfurt Airport was reportedly a target as well as the US Air Base.
The Koran ?
The Saudis (who if you happened to have obtained a visa to enter SA would confiscate a Bible in your luggage…) have just decreed that Bibles won’t be allowed on their airline.
These people “the Saudis” must not have much faith in the One True Religion.
Meanwhile, I loved this video…
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1ac_1188875253
September 6th, 2007 at 11:35 am
I give MurthaFokker a day before he blaims the war in Iraq for inspiring these otherwise peaceful unemployed welfare receiving immigrants to seek the thrills of jihad.
There wasn’t any terrorism directed at the US before we invaded Iraq now was there Mr. Murtha?
It looks as John Edwards was right as well, “there is no global war on terror”. Wheh! That’s a relief. These are all isolated incidents.
“Yousseff Megahed, 21, and Ahmed Mohamed, 26, both Egyptian citizens, were calm and polite in Berkeley County bond court. They were charged Monday with carrying explosive devices, which is a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
The weekend arrest drew national attention, because the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig, a military prison where enemy combatants are held, and the Naval Weapons Station are nearby.”
This doesn’t sound like any road trips I took in college.
September 6th, 2007 at 11:38 am
One to to get the Koran shoved up his rectum.
Sorry, but that doesn’t count, since most jihadists (and their supporters) already have their head there.
September 6th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Hummmmm. I thought it took three guys and a goat. Wasn’t there a goat?
September 6th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Cousin Salty,
I googled it and could only find this from wikipedia (yeah, I know):
Goat tongue is a method of torture involving soaking the bare feet in salt water and allowing a goat to lick the soles. It is very ticklish and is a form of tickle torture.
It has been claimed that a goat’s tongue, being very rough, will gradually strip all the flesh from the feet, even down to the bone. One cannot be certain whether this is true, but it is undoubtedly true that Transylvanian prince Vlad Ţepeş (the historical Dracula) was fond of applying this torture to his Turkish prisoners after skinning their feet, they were immobilized in the stocks, with a steady supply of salt water dripped onto the sufferer’s feet from above.
September 6th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Three jihadists and a goat will work, salty, if the bulb is big enough for them.
September 6th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
In solitary confinement? Only one. But first his lawyer, the Red Cross, the ACLU, and Amnesty International have to approve the screwing-in, to insure that making him screw in his own lightbulb isn’t a form of torture.
September 6th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
RebeccaH, the union would have to sign off on it too, because screwing in lightbulbs is considered “excluded work”. So with virtually the entire Left (ACLU, unions, AI, etc) on the jihadist’s side, it ain’t gonna happen.
September 6th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
And how many Iraq police station contractors does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
“We witnessed a light fixture so full of diluted urine and feces that it would not operate, the urine was so pervasive that it had permanently stained the ceiling tiles, and during our visit, a substance dripped from the ceiling onto an assessment team member’s shirt.”
September 6th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
And people complain that the contractors in Iraq are mercenaries and paid too much.
One bit that made that goat-licking thing sound good was a line to the effect that Germany has been spared a terrorist attack because they haven’t fought the enemy of the West, unlike Spain, England, and the U.S. Bless their myopia. I guess they’ll blame the U.S. when they are hit. Notice I said “when.”
September 6th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Cousin Salty says: “And people complain that the contractors in Iraq are mercenaries and paid too much.”
Sorry if this wasn’t clear, but this was about an Iraq police station that an American contractor had built for something like $30 million, and which inspectors found, um, substandard (see above).
September 6th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Corndog is like the emperor with no clothes that doesn’t know he’s naked.
(not that there’s anything “wrong” with that)
September 6th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
And just about the most humorless commenter I’ve yet run across too.
September 6th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
But what about Osama’s plot against APEC in Sydney?
Osama captured