Abu Abdul Bari, also known as Shifa al-Nima, was arrested in Iraq Thursday. The high ranking daeshi Imam, supposedly an authority on Sharia, has been charged with issuing fatwa death sentences against other clerics who had repudiated the daeshis. Also allegedly ordered the destruction of the Tomb and Mosque of Biblical Prophet Yunus (Jonah) back in 2014 saying it had become a place of apostasy. Or was he jealous of the whale?
https://www.iraqinews.com/features/urgent-isil-destroys-mosque-biblical-jonah-prophet-yunus/
Affectionately nicknamed 'Jabba' and the man who put the fat in 'fatwa'. They could not cram him into a police car, so they hauled him off in the back of a pickup truck. Where has he been hiding all this time? He'll break the scaffold if they hang him. Unless of course they put him on a radical diet first. 
Really? Americans mock one of the very few obese Arabs? For real?
ReplyDeletePerhaps he got that way from watching the American Cable TV Show titled 'My 600-lb Life'. You think? In any case he would look like President Bonespurs if you shaved him and put him in a suit with a red tie.
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Thought about posting this separately but this seems like a good enough place for it: https://www.justsecurity.org/68072/the-president-his-relationship-with-intelligence-and-the-soleimani-strike/
ReplyDelete"Iran works deliberately, asymmetrically and with discipline untethered to particular events but rather informed by strategic goals. There are no rogue operations and the greater the risks, the more likely Ayatollah Ali Khamenei himself would need to approve an operation. Soleimani’s death will be a great loss to Iran, and provides justice for the vast blood he has spilled over the years, but the operations he shepherded will not die with him. Iran is not done, but will return to the clandestine arena where operating asymmetrically levels the playing field with the U.S. I expect that the Intelligence Community has told the president as much, or would have, if he bothered to solicit and value its input. Instead, the president’s decision to kill Soleimani reflects his propensity to play a good hand badly and respond from ego rather than pragmatism and the country’s best interests."
How long have we been playing whack-a-muj? Twenty years? And where has it gotten us?
Porky here is just one more fish in a sea we seem intent on continuing to stock.
Gluttony is a sin in Islam and thus these photos are PsyOps gold.
ReplyDeleteStill, Americans are the least well-suited nationality to mock some obese Arab.
1 minute google search result:
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There is much mockery of jumbo in the Arab world also Sven. Best and most subtle joke that I saw was by a Syrian, who said "ISIS is suffering from heavy losses in Iraq."
ReplyDeleteYou are right about psyops gold. No way this lardass observed fasting during Ramadan. Isn't that one of the five pillars of Islam? Some in Syria are scavenging in garbage for their meals. But that is due more to economic sanctions by the US and civil war:
"Syrian pound has dropped to 1,200 to the dollar on the black market in recent weeks, despite an official exchange rate fixed at 434 to the greenback. Before Syria's civil war broke out in 2011, the rate stood at 47 pounds to the dollar."
https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/2089816/syria-sweida-protests-continue-calling-better-living-conditions
I think he will be easily replaced by another murderous mind.
ReplyDeleteThe Middle East seems full of willing applicants to one-up the previous murderous mind.
Sheera - I don't believe that mindset is unique the Middle East.
ReplyDeleteIt's not, but the hubris we pile on that we "eliminated" a "leader" is usually proven to be pointless when the next guy takes the stand.
DeleteWhat we in the west have in spades is an over-abundant supply of stupid...and it just messes things up for us when we try to do something smart.
The Republicans pretend to cherish Reagan.
ReplyDeleteToo bad it's the fiction of Reagan rather than the historical Reagan guy. The historical Reagan concluded that the U.S. should get out of the MidEast (and Levante) after saving face with a tough-sounding speech and a little bombing.
The suicide attack on the Beirut barracks convinced him that there are too many crazies in the area that one should not deal with. Almost four decades later, the political establishment still didn't get it.
Reagan can be blamed for much, but he was capable of accepting some of his errors and changing course, especially during his first term.
Other examples were Able Archer leading to INF, the AIDS death of Rock Hudson changing his stance on HIV and deficits leading to many incremental tax rate increases.
INF, you mean the treaty that Trump dumped last August? The MAGA press sycophants are excoriating Reagan's son for his recent comments that if his father was still alive he "would have been embarrassed and ashamed" of Trump.
ReplyDeleteTax increases? Reagan raised a few, but he lowered many others leading to a total decrease during his time in office.
As for changing course, he never did understand the folly of 'trickle-down'. He should have seen the light on that and instituted a trickle-up economy.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-12-15/the-mostly-forgotten-tax-increases-of-1982-1993
ReplyDeleteThe Norquist pledge Republicans would be uncapable of this.
A Military Times poll conducted late last year (23 Oct thru 3 Dec) shows wavering support for Mister Bone-Spurs among active duty Sailors, Soldiers, Airmen, and Marines. Over 1600 people surveyed. But it may be a bit skewed as those surveyed were subscribers to Military Times, which suggests the survey sampling may have been over-represented by the career minded: i.e. officers and senior enlisted. It appears most of his remaining support is with junior enlisted. Only one in three officers still have a favorable opinion of him, but that is one too many in my view. His unfavorability ratings have gone up by approximately 13 to 14 percent since 2016. Probably due to using Mil Funds for his Great Wall of China. Most respondents like his wanting to pull out of Afghanistan and negotiations (now stopped) with the Taliban. Conversely they do not like his pullout of Syria.
ReplyDeleteThe bad news is his ratings are still better than Obama's, and still better than his ratings among civilians.
But this was all before the Solemaini whack. I have no clue how that will play. Perhaps in his favor?
But his recent comment about "headaches" for the potential TBI/PTSD wounds at Al-Asad airbase will probably offset that. Phil Carter has some words about that on his twitter account:
https://twitter.com/Carter_PE/status/1219968196654129152
34 now with concussions:
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