Archives for the 'al qaeda' Category
Combat Wounded, Combat Dead
Published on 6 Nov 2009 at 9:13 pm.
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Filed under al qaeda, military.
… deserve Purple Hearts. Their killer probably deserves desertion, treason and terrorism charges if, as all indicators seem to very strongly suggest, he was engaged in jihad, from his violence-inciting, hateful rants about the Koran, his denunciation of the United States as “the aggressor” in arguments with fellow soldiers, to his shouts of “Allahu Akhbar,” to what [...]
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Great News!
Published on 2 Nov 2009 at 7:14 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Israel, al qaeda.
Al-Shabab, the Somali al-Qaeda affiliate, has threatened to attack Israel. It’s PO’d about al-Aqsa, which shows a new worldliness for a group whose top agenda items have been getting a cut of the local piracy bonanza, getting Somalia off its khat habit, and turning Mogadishu into an Islamic paradise, or else. CNN:
Ass-Assins
Published on 30 Sep 2009 at 12:00 pm.
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Filed under al qaeda, butts, explosives.
New jihadi threat from Ja’Bouti. It’s the butt-bomb menace. NYPost:
Man-Caused Shoe Disasterist No Longer Oppressed
Published on 20 Sep 2009 at 8:21 am.
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Filed under Obama, al qaeda, terrorists.
In a move sure to promote better-likedness, the Justice Department has removed special restrictions from Shoe Bomber Richard Reid. Boston Herald:
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Osama bin Bloggin
Published on 15 Sep 2009 at 9:05 pm.
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Filed under Internet, al qaeda.
Look who’s blogging … it’s Osama! Apparently cave life gets a little boring. He’s also tweeting. Pretty savvy for a guy who’s spent the last eight years in a Waziri cave, once you get past, you know, the 14th-century mindset:
Not Liked Enough
Published on 14 Sep 2009 at 9:29 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Iraq, Obama, al qaeda.
Poor Obama, can’t catch a break. If he isn’t getting it from Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Sullivan over Guantanamo and gay marriage, he’s getting it from Osama over Iraq. CNN:
Before & After
Published on 11 Sep 2009 at 10:25 am.
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Filed under America, al qaeda.
Nobody comes out of any given eight-year stretch quite the same person they went in, thanks to normal aging and experience. In time of war, with a sharply defined starting point, the change is likely to be more profound. The banality of a sunny workday morning with all its unremarkable elements rendered sinister and traumatic, [...]
Clinton Had It Right
Published on 1 Sep 2009 at 7:24 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, America, al qaeda, terrorists.
That’s not exactly how he puts it, but that’s what I’m getting off this George Will column, “Time to Get Out of Afghanistan,” which can be summed up quickly: War’s hard. Vietnam was hard, and also impossible, Afghanistan’s harder and more impossible. Abandon now. Cruise missile counterterrorism policy, please.
It’s A Complex, Complex, Complex World
Published on 30 Aug 2009 at 7:42 am.
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Filed under GWOT, al qaeda.
Waterboarding, bad. Disrupting terrorist plots that could kill thousands of innocents, good.
What to do?
The Washington Post popped out, on the Saturday when everyone was distracted by Ted K’s funeral, the news that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, after initially resisting, became highly cooperative after his dunking and coughed up information that led to the arrest of dozens of AQ [...]
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Freedom Of Jihad
Published on 30 Jul 2009 at 11:25 am.
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Filed under GWOT, Obama, al qaeda, explosives, moronocy.
My old pal Richard Reid,* aka Federal Inmate No. 24079-038, popularly known as the “shoe bomber,” is suing for his right to communicate and pray … with a bunch of other al-Qaeda types. Debra Burlingame at the Wall Street Journal explains how Reid’s lawsuit and a better-liked DOJ seems more amenable to allowing him to share the company [...]
Big Hush-Hush Secret: U.S. Plotted To Kill AQ Leaders
Published on 13 Jul 2009 at 9:55 am.
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Filed under GWOT, al qaeda, moronocy.
The Wall Street Journal reports the big secret plan the CIA on Dick Cheney’s orders didn’t tell Congress about was a program to target al-Qaeda leaders for assassination. Turns out Congress was kind of told about it. Apparently wanting to kill al-Qaeda leaders is wrong:
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T-Day Prep Underway
Published on 16 Jun 2009 at 10:00 pm.
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Filed under Pakistan, al qaeda.
Could AQ-Hour be approaching? BBC: Paks prep to assault Taliban and al-Qaeda strongholds in Waziristan.
Troops are amassing around Pakistan’s tribal district of South Waziristan in readiness for an offensive against the Taliban there, officials say.
Army spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas confirmed the army intended to launch an operation against Baitullah Mehsud, the head of the [...]
Miranda Rights For Terrorists
Published on 10 Jun 2009 at 9:36 pm.
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Filed under Obama, al qaeda, moronocy.
Sure, why not? They’re going to be bringing them back here for trial anyway. Lawyer ‘em up and get that door revolving. So, do they have bail hearings in Bagram? Weekly Standard.
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Man-Caused Disasterists Persecuted
Published on 21 May 2009 at 10:29 am.
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NY Daily News: Homegrown jailhouse Islamists planned to blow up synagogues and shoot down planes in New York. They bought their fake explosives from FBI plants posing as al-Qaeda. Gotta love it when that happens …
The suspects - three U.S.-born citizens and one Haitian immigrant - at least three of whom were said to be [...]
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Sounds Like His Heart Was In The Right Place
Published on 9 May 2009 at 9:04 am.
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Filed under al qaeda, media, military, pols.
But it doesn’t sound like he knows the troops as well as he thinks he does. The Hill:
CBS Sports commentator David Feherty drew criticism Friday for suggesting any U.S. soldier would murder House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) if given the chance.
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Because We Have Nothing Better To Keep Obsessing About
Published on 24 Apr 2009 at 8:27 am.
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Filed under America, al qaeda, lawyers.
And because all the other photos, along with the prosecutions, international condemnation and and political recriminations weren’t enough, the DoD will release 44 more photos depicting possible abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan in response to a 2004 ACLU lawsuit. FOX.
That’s fine. It’s a free country, with a government that is compelled to respond to citizens’ petitions.
What [...]
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Prosecutions All Around!
Published on 23 Apr 2009 at 7:41 am.
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Filed under Intel, Obama, al qaeda.
Fair’s fair. US Rep Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich, ranking Repub on House Intel at WSJ:
Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair got it right last week when he noted how easy it is to condemn the enhanced interrogation program “on a bright sunny day in April 2009.”
…
It was not necessary to release details of the enhanced interrogation techniques, [...]
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Bush Lied, People Were Waterboarded
Published on 22 Apr 2009 at 9:21 am.
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Filed under Iraq, al qaeda, media, pols.
Great hit for the left! McClatchy-Tribune has the details … some of them, anyway … that among other things, Khalid Sheikh Muhammed and Abu Zubaydah were asked about Saddam-al-Qaeda operational ties during their dunkings. McClatchy and Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., are delighted to report no evidence of operational ties emerged from the sessions. But this is the [...]
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Memo To Handwringing Short-Twisters
Published on 19 Apr 2009 at 8:56 am.
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Filed under Intel, Obama, al qaeda.
The lefties have their shorts in a twist about the CIA “torture” memos. The latest is the revelation, contrary to an earlier report, that the terrorists to whom this was applied didn’t cave within seconds and start spilling the information that prevented “dozens of attacks,” but were treated to repeat applications over a period of a month, 183 applications [...]
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Spanish Inquisition Update
Published on 16 Apr 2009 at 12:18 pm.
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Filed under GWOT, Spain, al qaeda.
Spanish prosecutors attempt to unstupid a judge … again. via Yahoo: Spain’s AG declines to prosecute idiot judge’s effort to haul Bush admin officials into their Euro Star Chamber on torture charges. (No cruel Spanish Inquisition jokes, please.)
This is more or less how it works in Spain, where some judges apparently (A) think the Daily Kos and like-minded [...]
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Last Word Re The Bowing, Scraping
Published on 10 Apr 2009 at 8:10 am.
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Filed under Obama, al qaeda, middle east, saudi arabia.
Not yet heard. Powerline notes the Obama admin, in the form of a dismissive White House spokesgaffer Gibbs, has “Moved On” from the bowing incident it claims never happened. Powerline also notes that these kinds of signs are taken seriously in the Middle East, where we’ve already seen the “like us better” overture, or posture malfunction, whatever it [...]
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This Would Not Have Happened Under Saddam
Published on 1 Mar 2009 at 7:43 am.
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Filed under Bush, Iraq, al qaeda.
Surber on the Iraq police arrest of AQ’s oil minister: “Thanks to President Bush, we now have an Arab nation that will arrest terrorists instead of funding them.”
Imagine a world where Saddam still ruled. Kind of hard, but here’s the world we’re waking up to this morning:
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Aim Low, Goal In Sight
Published on 3 Feb 2009 at 11:05 pm.
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Easy target sought, may not be hard to hit. Here’s one report that suggests al-Qaeda in Pakistan is on the ropes, and the other says ease off on the nation-building, just focus on croaking AQ in Pakistan.
AQ Equal Opportunity Martyrdom Recruitment Program
Published on 3 Feb 2009 at 9:37 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, al qaeda, media, terrorists.
Captured Iraqi bomb cell “mother” describes how it works. First, the guys rape some young women. The rape victims are sent to the old woman for matronly counseling. She explains to them that only through martyrdom can they redeem their lost honor. The Mother of Believers provides counseling to turn them from traumatized rape victims into [...]
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Bad Test Tube?
Published on 20 Jan 2009 at 7:19 am.
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Filed under al qaeda, impending doom!.
Intel correspondent Eli Lake* at the Washington Times suggests al Qaeda had one. Reports that the biblical wrath visited upon AQ in Algeria was a bio-chem warfare project gone wrong.
Yea, Verily …
Published on 19 Jan 2009 at 5:53 pm.
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Medieval disease whacks medieval evildoers. UK Sun, Algerian AQ camp decimated by plague:
Al Qaeda No. 2 Blames Obama
Published on 6 Jan 2009 at 10:36 pm.
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Ha ha, they called him “No. 2.” OK, sorry, this is serious business. Some guy with a turban who lives in a cave in Waziristan and really doesn’t get out much anymore is blaming Obama for Israel’s invasion of Gaza. It’s “Obama’s gift to Israel.”
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From The Airport That Brought You 9/11
Published on 26 Nov 2008 at 8:17 am.
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Filed under Boston, al qaeda, cops, moronocy, terrorists.
Fed wannabe/medical supplies salesman flashed his assistant harbormaster badge, told the airline ticket agents and the state trooper at Boston’s Logan International he was an armed Homeland Security agent, and was escorted around TSA security checks onto the plane, where the flight crew helpfully pointed out who the air marshals were, FBI charges. Affidavit says imposter who claimed to [...]
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Two Fewer At Breakfast
Published on 22 Nov 2008 at 8:58 am.
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Filed under Pakistan, al qaeda.
This morning, as a cross-border missile strike reportedly hits its mark:
AQ’s Race Card
Published on 19 Nov 2008 at 10:25 am.
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Filed under Obama, al qaeda, racism.
It’s a bit of a double-reverse, double-blind poker bluff. Al-Qaeda’s No. 2, piping up at last, calls Obama the “House Negro.” Nice. Gateway with links denounces the racism.* We already knew they were bigots* as well as murderers, and what is more interesting is that AQ has begun its campaign of establishing that the Great Satan is still the [...]
“Huge Threat”
Published on 15 Nov 2008 at 3:38 pm.
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Filed under Obama, al qaeda.
Times of London is talking about al-Qaeda’s love of post-election violence and expectations of a test for Obama. It’s actually the Biden Effect, which of course is something he lifted from the Bush administration, now being echoed back by the Bushites.
Bad Decision No. 1
Published on 10 Nov 2008 at 1:01 pm.
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Filed under Guantanamo, Obama, al qaeda, media.
In the works as AP reports the Obama transition team is working on a plan to ship Guantanamo detainees to the United States for trial. A move that apparently will require a controversial new system of justice. Release for some, U.S. criminal trials for others, and some new, special system to handle sensitive national security cases … hey, [...]
A Jihadi In Love
Published on 7 Nov 2008 at 12:27 pm.
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I’d forgotten all about it, but maybe … because the Obama administration is gonna be all about the love … it’s time to dust this idea off. My original proposal seems to have disappeared, but here’s a partial web grab. Whitney Houston, we have a problem:
AQ Satellite Office Sends A Memo
Published on 7 Nov 2008 at 11:09 am.
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Filed under Obama, al qaeda.
Head office still not heard from. AQ tends to operate a little behind al-Qurve on qommunications, still on a 14th-century newscycle and hampered by the need to eschew direct contact with 2ist century technology in favor of a donkey relay or two.
Word has now trickled out though from the better-wired satellite office, AQ in Iraq, which [...]
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Roadtrip
Published on 3 Nov 2008 at 10:48 pm.
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Filed under al qaeda, booze, cars, drugs, money, pols.
Iowahawk and Blair, tripping on LSD. Hey, is that photographic evidence blacked out or is it just the tinfoil hood on my computer? Blair, in a Mustang out of Minnesota, takes a gander at the view of Guantanamo:
Latest Obamacons
Published on 31 Oct 2008 at 12:16 pm.
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Advocates of Islamic fundamental values flip for Obama. Jawa has the details and links on al-Qaeda’s abandonment of McCain. Obama endorsement delivered by Abu Yahya al-Libi. Cool name, and I like the terrorist verse. Maybe we should adopt this as a means of infidel political discourse:
Cheers & Tears
Published on 30 Oct 2008 at 10:36 pm.
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Filed under Guantanamo, Jihad, al qaeda, vid.
Lackawanna wannabes testify in Gitmo trial about reactions among al Qaeda’s Class of 2001 to the defedant’s inspirational cinematography. It was sort of a sweeping “Death of a Nation” effort. via WPost:
Great Financial News
Published on 16 Oct 2008 at 9:22 pm.
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… for al-Qaeda and international jihad in general. Apparently, because they were driven underground by Crusader financial restrictions post-9/11, the global financial crunch is not affecting them. Also, because heroin is basically recession-proof. Al-P.
Azzam the American
Published on 4 Oct 2008 at 11:44 pm.
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Filed under al qaeda, traitors.
Made it down to breakfast after all. New tape citing Great Satan’s financial woes indicates the former goatherd/American traitor wasn’t whacked after all. Well, tomorrow’s another day. Jawa.
Cleansing history lesson, also via Jawa: Who says blondes are dumb? Russky hottie explains the origins of “left wing” and “right wing.” Sadly, SFW.
We’ll bid you adieu with [...]
Sun Sets
Published on 29 Sep 2008 at 11:27 pm.
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NY Daily News: The Sun Sets on the New York Sun. Founded six years ago as a conservative alternative to the New York Times, the Sun has fallen victim to the credit crunch, never made a profit and can’t raise the money it needs to keep going.
Too Bad. Eli Lake and others at The Sun [...]
Inconvenient Truth
Published on 24 Sep 2008 at 9:03 am.
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Filed under Islam, McCain, al qaeda.
CAIR wants FEC all over a DVD mailing. “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” is a McCainist plot. Haven’t seen the flick, but it’s an interesting idea that pointing out that Muslim children have been urged to be suicide bombers, the Twin Towers were leveled by Islamist terrorists, and some people are critical of extremist Islam [...]
Guantanamo Syndrome
Published on 22 Sep 2008 at 8:32 pm.
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Khalid Sheik Mohammed, other mass murderers lend a hand to trial judge, reach out to a recalcitrant Ramzi Binalshibh. “Come, Ramzi, just stop this silliness, be a big terrorist and attend your infidel trial in the hated Crusader star chamber. Please, you’re embarrassing us.” OK, it isn’t clear exactly what he and the others wrote to [...]
MEMRI Needs $$$
Published on 18 Sep 2008 at 9:25 pm.
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Filed under Jihad, al qaeda, media, middle east.
MEMRI, that most excellent Middle East news and outrage translation site, has issued an urgent appeal for donations to continue operations. I’m giving, and if you value the translations you’ve seen here and elsewhere, you should, too. Here’s MEMRI’s appeal and donation page. A little on what MEMRI has given us over the years, with some [...]
Azzam the American
Published on 9 Sep 2008 at 9:45 am.
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Won’t be down for goat kebabs? We’ll let the Jewish Journal’s God Blog tell it. Artful drape job, by the way. Bummer if it got mussed.
Woe Is Them
Published on 28 May 2008 at 9:49 am.
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Filed under Iraq, al qaeda.
Strategypage has an interesting article on al Qaeda’s Internet “Why we lost Iraq” meme.
Same Old Same Old
Published on 27 May 2008 at 9:31 pm.
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Filed under Jihad, al qaeda, hated Crusaders, nukes.
AQ to call for NBC attack. ABC:
Wrong al-Masri
Published on 9 May 2008 at 10:20 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, al qaeda.
Bummer. Better luck next time.
Military Use of Cyberspace
Published on 8 May 2008 at 10:40 pm.
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Filed under Internet, al qaeda, hated Crusaders.
MEMRI: Islamist Internet forums teach wannabe Muj how to make and use explosives.
Lieberman, via VOA: We shouldn’t let them do that.
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Favorable Indicators
Published on 8 May 2008 at 9:31 pm.
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Filed under Iraq, al qaeda.
That old deer-in-the-headlights mugshot probably is a relatively good likeness at this point. Al-Masri, al-Qaeda in Iraq’s Egyptian chief, reportedly nabbed in Mosul. Gateway has his history and a roundup. What it means and more details from Belmont and Roggio.
Sadr City, being emptied out in advance of stepped-up operations. May want to check under the exiting burkhas, make [...]
Bin Laden Concerns
Published on 1 May 2008 at 8:33 pm.
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Filed under Britain, al qaeda.
Peace ambassador/Frank Zappa look-alike Omar bin Laden has been denied British residency, and his tattooed cougar of a wife is irked about it. Gulf Times:
