October 02, 2004

Bush explained the Moo Laws were behind the trouble in Eye-rack

For some of us, the most unpredictable moment of the first Bush-Kerry debate was when the President said he was standing up to what he called the militant "Moo Laws". George W Bush is a Texan, at least by adoption. Texas is cattle country.

It was a serious debate about some very serious issues, but thank the Lord for this comic relief that came towards the end of the debate!
You can tell the Brits loved it (they adore Texans!) and so did I!

'New al-Qaeda tape' is released

An audio tape purportedly recorded by a senior member of the al-Qaeda network has called for attacks on the US and its allies.

The speaker is identified as Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama Bin Laden's deputy.

The tape, aired on Arabic television channel al-Jazeera, calls for organised resistance against invading "crusaders" in the Muslim world.
[The Muslims wouldn't let President Bush refer to the WOT even once as a "crusade," even though other commanders like Ike had used it in reference to WWII, but the IslamoNazis use the "c-word" with impunity!
As an additional note, OBL made the same complaint that Zawahiri did about the presence of "infidel" or "crusader" soldiers in the "holy land of Islam" before 9/11 when our troops were merely stationed in Soddy Arabia, attacking no one, so there goes the Left's argument that OIF "made them more violent."--J.T.]

In addition to the US and the UK, the speaker singles out Australia, France, Poland, Norway, South Korea and Japan.
[Kerry also forgot to tell the Z-man that the U.S. really doesn't have any allies in the war, either, as well as Saddam's Iraq not being linked to AQ and the 9/11 attacks.
Looks as if staying out of the war hasn't kept the French all that safe from attack. Guess AQ thinks the head scarf ban is just as bad as sending troops against them. Tant pis!]

He says the countries cited took part in the invasion of Afghanistan, Iraq or Chechnya and gave Israel "means of survival".

He also says it is the duty of every Muslim to liberate "Palestine", and says the West is complicit in the deaths of Palestinian militant leaders.
[...and yet they express no regret or remorse about all of the Americans, Brits and Westerners they've murdered.--J.T.]

"In Palestine, we do not only face the Jews, but we also face the global coalition against Islam, led by the crusader and Zionist United States and the crusader West and the agent leaders behind them."
[Zawahiri's jihad and fatwa cast a big net, don't they?]

Unusually for tapes attributed to Zawahri, the speaker alludes to the possibility that he might die.

"If we die or are detained, continue the path after us," the speaker is quoted as saying.

Cool.
Dare we hope that this nasty piece of work might already be on his last leg?
(Or is that his only leg? These killers always seem to have limbs missing from explosions that "went wrong.")
The Ass. Press version of this story includes this interesting warning from al-Zawahiri:

The speaker on the latest tape calls on Muslims "not to wait any longer, otherwise, we will be devoured, one country after the other," according to Al-Jazeera.

Don't look now, but the Bush Doctrine of spreading democracy in the Middle East as a "cure" for radical Islamic jihad and theocratic tyranny is working... BIG TIME.

Found at the fine Kerry Spot on National Review Online is an email from a reader of Hugh Hewitt's blog, commenting about Kerry's remark that we "outsourced" the hunt for OBL after 9/11:

Kerry’s comment stating that President Bush “outsourced” the fighting in Tora Bora was a direct slap in the face of all Special Operations soldiers. The whole Afghan campaign is a classic “Unconventional Warfare” scenario. A UW mission is one where teams of Green Berets enter a denied area (Afghanistan) and train a rebel force to overthrow a rogue government. Our Special Forces soldiers in Afghanistan accomplished in weeks, what Alexander the Great and the Soviet Union could not accomplish in years. John Kerry is an idiot.
______
Former SOTA Team Leader
10th Special Forces Group (Airborne)."

Gotta love the spirit of our military!
And it looks like Kerry is making himself real popular with our troops as a potential Commander-in-Chief.
As the good man said, Kerry is an idiot.

Time to decide who we want to be

In the cool early light of the morning after, there's a question American voters must ask themselves, a question more important than any posed last night to George W. Bush and John F. Kerry.
   
 Who are we? Who have we become? What kind of people do we want to be? These are questions for the debate that counts.
   
 The extrusions of that vile species (erectus porcinus) who murdered 35 of their own children yesterday in the streets of Baghdad in the name of a malignant theology of an eighth-century religion, imagine that we're no tougher, no more resilient, no more courageous than the French, who can never even defend themselves; the Germans, who can't push themselves away from a plate of sausages long enough to recognize peril; or the Spanish, who demonstrated in the aftermath of the Madrid railway bombing that when the going gets tough it's time to cut and run.
[Not only did the suicide bombing of that crowd of children killed in Baghdad remind us of the Beslan horror, but what's worse, I think that the IslamoNazis did it to "help" Kerry, being fully aware that the debates were to be held that night and that one of Kerry's main talking points is that the current situation in Iraq is a violent "mess."--Jen]

The cowardly ingratitude of "old Europe," though depressing, is nevertheless old stuff. What's scary is that similar voices are raised in our own midst, that a serious, credible candidate for president of the United States encourages these voices of fear with articulate nuances, subtleties, modulations, explanations, variations, distinctions, innuendos and pious evasions. He imagines that an American president, in a world of evil run amok, must demonstrate leadership by submitting the security of Americans to something he calls a "global test," showing the practiced deference that a French poodle might show the rich widow taking him out for a stroll on the avenue.

Smug and vain,
[Oh, yeah!
What added to the smugness last night was that I'm virtually certain that Lehrer/PBS gave Kerry the debate questions beforehand so that he could prepare and rehearse the answers.--J.T.]
John Kerry presents himself as the John Paul Jones of the Mekong, the war hero who fears no foe. Maybe he doesn't. But he can't reconcile himself to the harsh and unforgiving fact that we're at war again, and this time against an enemy more vile, more depraved and more wicked than any America has faced before. Maybe he knows that. Whatever he may think, or feel in the marrow of his bones, he cannot jettison the dead weight of the leftmost elements of his party, either now, when his candidacy falters, or later, in the unlikely event he becomes the 44th president. He must be the cut-and-run candidate, just as he would have to be the cut-and-run president.
[Make no mistake, no matter what Kerry says now, he'd pull our troops out of Iraq in unconditional surrender (and of course, the Coalition would collapse without the U.S. leading it), just as he urged the U.S. do in Vietnam and which he helped to bring about with his Vietnam Vets Against the War.]

John Kerry must, to keep his candidacy afloat, pander not only to the prejudices of the dominating anti-war element — prospective voters who detest all wars fought in defense of the interests of America — and as well to the terrors of those, many well meaning, who keep counsel only with paralyzing fear.
[I am convinced that there are quite a few Americans in the "Bush haters" group who are simply too terrified by 9/11 and the Islamic killers to face the reality of fighting them in this war. Hence, they protest and oppose Bush who has faced this reality and who does want to do something about it.]

Monsieur Kerry exploits the revulsion of all civilized men at the gruesome tortures of Islamist "holy" men, and argues that al Qaeda affiliates operating in Baghdad are cutting off the heads of innocents only because the president ordered the invasion of Iraq — the devil made them do it, and George W. Bush is the devil. Monsieur Kerry knows this is not so. Abu Musab Zarqawi was killing Americans for years before the coalition of the willing invaded Iraq, deposed Saddam Hussein and cleared his killing fields. The United States asked Saddam in early 2003 to extradite Zarqawi for killing an American diplomat on the streets of Amman. Saddam declined, as expected, because even then Zarqawi was setting up his terrorist organization in Baghdad.
[Please note that Zarqawi was far from the lone upper level Al Queda henchman in Iraq or the only instance of Islamist terror activity before the liberation; there is an Everest of a mountain of evidence that Saddam had numerous ties and links to AQ and jihadi murderers and even though Kerry likes to state that the 9/11 Commission said that there were "no ties" between Saddam's Iraq and the 9/11 attacks, there were indeed.]
    
No doubt there are terrified Americans who see or read about the video beheadings of Americans in Iraq, or quail before the grim photographs of dead children in Baghdad, and imagine that if civilized men just give it up, tuck tail and come home, the erectus porcinus, men who walk like men and behave like pigs, will show us mercy.
[Ah, yes. The old "hoping the crocodile will eat one last" game. Very sad.]

During the early months of World War II, when many felt the nation's war machine was running on empty and anxiety hovered over the land of the free, Life magazine published a cover photograph of a Japanese officer with a scimitar raised to behead a kneeling American flier with a cut that was no less gruesome for its swiftness. The photograph haunted the nation for weeks. There was sadness and anger, but no rebukes of FDR, no cries of despair, no mocking of American soldiers that they were fighting "the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time." The cruelty of the savagery enraged the grown-ups and fortified the fury that redoubled determination to win the war. We must determine again to show our enemies just who we can be, and passing a "global test" of approval be damned.

Precisely, Mr. Pruden!
And of course, he's taking his lead from President Bush.
The story of that Life Magazine cover is very telling and makes me wonder what it was like to be alive during WWII when the Media supported America's war effort and not served as the Enemy's virtual enabler and excuser!
Now, they won't show anything that hints of the beheadings of Americans, they won't show the footage of 9/11 and their latest ploy is to interview the family members of soldiers killed in Iraq who "blame" President Bush personally for their deaths.
Can you imagine a KIA soldier's mother or wife blaming President Roosevelt for their death in enemy action during WWII?
Maybe, in the end, this election will be a very good thing for a lot of reasons, but in the present case, I'm thinking it may have a kind of cathartic or purgative effect on many of us if we can get "clear" about where we stand on the war and why.
We can only hope and pray that it will strengthen our resolve to win through to complete and total victory and to do so with determination and purpose and even with--dare I say it?--a glad heart because America is basically good and fights a war "well" (if I can use that expression, too) and for good reason--to stop evil men and to help make democracy and human rights a reality for all men and women on earth.

    

October 01, 2004

News: Debate sparks angry exchanges among Nevadans in R...

Members of a focus group who gathered to watch Thursday's presidential debate soon began finger-pointing not just at the television, but at each other.

Democrat Dan Hinkley said: "America got to see John Kerry as president."

"That scared the shit out of me," retorted Paul Adams, chairman of a local Bush veterans group.

Thank you, fellow American and Repulican Paul Adams!
Yes, when I started thinking about what "President Kerry" would do, I was TERRIFIED, too:
Giving Iran nuclear materials, letting Kim Jung-Il dictate terms, disarming America's nukes, starting with ending the bunker buster bombs, not responding to an attack on our country until it passed a "global test"....to steal an expression from Howard Dean, AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!
I'll post more on the debate later, but I'm still recovering from the frightening things sKerry said last night.
[And I hope my more clean-cut readers will forgive me appropriating Paul's profanity.
I'm interested that this Las Vegas paper would print it as is, as well!]

September 30, 2004

Ex-Gitmo Detainee Vows to Fight Russia

A Danish man who was released from U.S. military detention in Guantanamo Bay told a television interviewer he plans to travel to Chechnya and join Islamic "militants" fighting Russian forces.
[Sneer quotes mine. But then, this is the Ass. Press; they won't call a spade a spade or a militant a terrorist.--Jen]
[...]
As a condition of his release from Guantanamo in February, Abderrahmane pledged to refrain from warfare. Of the pledge, he said, "They can use it as toilet paper over there in the United States."

Abderrahmane was not charged upon his return to Denmark. He was widely criticized earlier this week when he told Danish media that Denmark's prime minister and the nation's troops in Iraq were legitimate targets for terrorists.
[Haven't the Democrats and John Kerry told this guy that Iraq isn't connected to the War on Terror?]

Although lawmakers criticized the remarks as out of bounds and said they amounted to incitement to violence, they did not violate any Danish laws.
[He only threatened to kill the head of the Danish government, but in Eurabia, that's apparently not a problem.--J.T.]

"I am going to Chechnya and fight for the Muslims," the 31-year-old Dane said during an interview on the daily news show, Nyhedsmagasinet. "The Muslims are oppressed in Chechnya and the Russians are carrying out terror against them."

First of all, this reminds me of that news report we heard only last week, when another ex-Gitmo detainee was killed in combat with Afghan forces, after he'd returned to his homeland and his old ways of being a Taliban warlord (the original reason he was detained in the first place!):

[...]
After Ghaffar's release more than a year ago, he was appointed the Taliban's regional commander in Uruzgan and Helmand provinces, said Jan Mohammad Khan, the governor of Uruzgan province. The governor said Ghaffar had carried out attacks against U.S. Special Forces soldiers and an attack on a district chief in Helmand. Three Afghan soldiers were killed in that attack.

The governor said that on Friday, officials learned that Ghaffar planned to attack the police in Chachani district, and instead the Afghan forces killed him and two of his men.

Officials in Afghanistan and the United States have indicated in the past that at least five Afghan detainees released from Guantanamo had returned to Afghanistan and again become Taliban commanders or fighters.

While bleeding-heart Liberal groups like the ACLU like to think of Gitmo prisoners' releases as "victories" over the long and grasping arm of American Justice, it's quite clear that the inmates of Camp X-Ray are there because they're killers and decided bad guys.
The second salient fact to be gleaned from this story is that the War on Terror is global, that's it's being waged by radicalized and militarized IslamoFascists from all over the world and that Chechnya and Iraq are considered by them to be their current battlegrounds, whether John Kerry and Ted Kennedy deny it or not.
How long will soft-headed Americans continue to buy the Democrats' lies that Iraq isn't part of the WOT?
And how many Beslans do there have to be in Russia before Putin stops making military and commercial alliances with Iran, Saudi Arabia, and other state sponsors of terrorism?

September 29, 2004

Fox News beats all rivals

For the first time in its history, Fox News Channel beat the combined competition in primetime during the third quarter of 2004, with major headlines of the summer including the national political conventions and a brutal string of hurricanes.

According to Nielsen Media Research, Fox News averaged 1.8 million viewers, while CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and Headline News averaged a combined total of 1.7 million. The quarter ended Sunday.

Good for them to get this good news!
Together with blogs and Conservative talk radio, Fox News is part of the triumverate of the New Media.
The big alphabet networks made a real mistake not to carry most of the RNC and Fox News covered that breach, covering the Republican Convention from gavel to gavel (as they also did DonkeyCon) and this was quickly followed by the school attack in Beslan (also reported with live coverage on Fox, but under-reported or ignored on the alphabets) and then came CBS's Rathergate, although I think the American public started getting the message that the MSM were Democrat partisan shills during Gore's attempt to steal the Election 2000 Controversy, if not during Clinton's impeachment.
FoxNews still isn't 100% "Conservative"--you have to put up with Liberals like Alan Colmes, the Fox News panel members from NPR and the WaPo, Greta van Sustern and Bill O' Reilly's wild "for the folks" ideology--but it's a lot less biased than the others by a long shot and FoxNews remains the only news channel that will cover the Iraq war (good and bad) at all.

And to be fair to Bill O' Reilly, he just concluded tonight a 3-part interview with President Bush that was outstanding!
(I dunno, but something about the temperament of these 2 "regular guys" really worked together and they got a terrific enery and synergy going!)
Find transcripts and video of that interview here:
The O'Reilly Factor

September 27, 2004

Item 1: Syria closes offices of Palestinian groups

Syria has closed down all offices and cut off phone lines belonging to radical Palestinian groups in Damascus, a Palestinian official announced over the weekend.

Khaled Fahoum, the former Speaker of the Palestine National Council (the PLO's parliament-in-exile), said the leaders of the Palestinian groups had gone underground for fear of being targeted by Israel.
[...]
Palestinian sources said the groups were planning to move to Qatar, Tunis or Bahrain.
[The world has gotten to be a much smaller place for the IslamoNazis since the Coalition launched the WOT! Thank God.--Jen]
The three countries have agreed in principle to host the Palestinian groups after Egypt turned down a similar request.

Syria has been under heavy pressure from the US to close down the offices of 10 Palestinian groups based in Damascus, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Popular Front-General Command (headed by Ahmed Jibril) and Fatah-The Revolution (headed by Abu Musa Maragha).

Item 2: Syria seeking to oust Iraqi nuclear scientists

Syria is making desperate efforts to persuade Iran to accept a group of 12 Iraqi nuclear scientists and their families who had sought refuge in Damascus before the US-led coalition toppled Saddam Hussein.
[These must be the "lucky" ones, as the enemy has killed quite of few of Saddam's WMD scientists who were captured in Iraq and they're holding the Western hostages as bargaining chips to get our the lovely "Dr. Germ" and "Dr. Anthrax" ladies!--Jen]

Quoting Western intelligence officials, the London-based Sunday Telegraph reported that Syrian President Bashar Assad fears that the US will use the presence of the Iraqi scientists as a pretext to target Syria and he is desperate to find a new home for them.

Looks like a bad case of Momar Qaddafi Syndrome may have set in, in Damascus!
I love it!
And where the scientists are, can the missing WMDs be far behind? (That is, the ones they didn't allow Sudan to use in Darfur?)

Item 3: Syrian FM: Syria is not controlling Lebanon

[...]
Al-Sharaa, who was in New York to participate in the annual UN General Assembly, said a recent UN Security Council resolution [Res. #1559] that demanded Syrian troops leave Lebanon was a service to Israel.
[...]
The United States and France
[They miss having Lebanon and Syria as "colonies!"]
drafted the resolution at the Security Council and it was co-sponsored by Britain and Germany. It called on Syria to withdraw its forces from Lebanon, stop influencing politics in the country and allow Lebanon to hold presidential elections as scheduled.

This is kind of a Bagdad Bob in reverse ploy:
"There are no Syrian soldiers in Beirut! NO!"

Item 4: Analysis: Damascus assassination raises questions

Palestinians in Syria on Monday buried Izz Eldine Subhi Sheik Khalil, 42, who was killed in al-Zahraa neighborhood in Damascus on Sunday in a bomb that tore apart his car.

The killing was the first of a Hamas member in Syria. After Aug. 31 suicide bombings that killed 16 Israelis in Beersheba, Israeli leaders have warned that members of the terrorist group which sends suicide bombings into Israel would not be safe abroad.

As usual, the Islamists have blamed Israel and the Mossad...and they probably did do this as retaliation for the Beersheba bombings, but what if it was Israel's new best friend and partner in fighting terror, Russia?
The Russkis have vowed to strike terrorists anywhere in the world preemptively since the Beslan massacre.

Item 5: Lebanon's Top al-Qaida Operative Dies

The alleged top al-Qaida operative in Lebanon who was captured in a security operation that broke up a terrorist network died of a heart attack Monday, hospital and security officials said.
[...]
Al-Khatib was one of two top operatives of al-Qaida's organization "captured by Lebanese authorities"
[Sneer quotes mine: This is the Ass. Press, after all!--Jen] Sept. 17 along with 10 other suspects. The other one was Ahmed Salim Mikati.

At the time of the arrest, Lebanon's top prosecutor called al-Khatib "the head of al-Qaida organization in Lebanon" and said he and Mikati were planning simultaneous bombings of the Italian and Ukrainian embassies in Beirut. Both countries are part of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq. They also allegedly planned to assassinate employees in Western embassies in Lebanon and wanted to attack Lebanese security and judicial targets.

Al-Khatib was also suspected of trying to recruit fundamentalists to carry out attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq. Mikati had been in contact with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian who is the most wanted militant in Iraq, to arrange recruitment, officials said.

Another dead terrorist!
Hope the "virgin" supply is plentiful this week in Hell!
Whether this scum bag al-Khatib died from a "heart attack" or something more homicidal and purposeful remains to be discovered.
Up until this week, Syria's official position was that there were no active terrorists within their or Lebanon's borders and yet, all of a sudden, terrorists are turning up all over the place, either dead or running for the border!
Definitely save some of your attention for Damascus because there's definitely something going down there...and it's gotta be another victory for the Bush Doctrine!

Do read Olivier Guitta's fine and prescient piece on Syria's probable changing of sides in the Global War on Islamist Terror at the American Thinker:
A new day in Damascus?

The opening & closing graphs:

With virtually no attention from the major American media, France and a number of Arab regimes have joined with the Bush Administration, to bring pressure on Syria to step back from its occupation of Lebanon, and behave itself by halting its acquiensence to support for terror attacks in Iraq. While John F. Kerry blathers on about "isolation" the Bush Administration is getting the job done.
[...]
The US, by pressuring Syria on Lebanon and support of terrorist organizations, hopes to get a better grip on the situation in Iraq. Furthermore liberating Lebanon and coercing Syria into becoming a new Libya would leave us left only with Iran as a major threat in the region.
[Well, there is Saudi Arabia..., but this would give us a much more manageable chunk of the Arab world to defang, democratize and civilize.--Jen]

Not so bad for the Bush Administration record, especially if we get there with the French and the UN on board…

BTW, The American Thinker blog should be on your Daily Pajamahadeen Must Reads!

Carter fears Florida vote trouble

Voting arrangements in Florida do not meet "basic international requirements" and could undermine the US election, former US President Jimmy Carter says.
[...]

Mr Carter, a veteran observer of polls worldwide, also accused Florida's top election official of "bias".
[Of course! She's a Republican woman; she's gotta be "biased"...probably having an affair with Gov. Jeb Bush, too.
Wonder if they'll skewer her also for her makeup the way they did Katherine Harris.
Who are these barking loonbats who call themselves "Democrats?"--Jen]
[...]
He accused Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood, a Republican, of trying to get the name of independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader included on the state ballot, knowing he might divert Democrat votes.
[How about getting everyone on the ballot who wants to run for the office of the president, regardless of party?
How can the Libertarians and even Communists get their people on the ballot, but helping poor Ralph Nader do so is "anti-Democrat?"--J.T.]

He also said: "A fumbling attempt has been made recently to disqualify 22,000 African Americans (likely Democrats), but only 61 Hispanics (likely Republicans), as alleged felons."

OK-that statement has all kinds of things wrong with it!
Notice how they're always calling Right Wingers like me "racists" and "bigots?"
I'm sorry but who are the rascists here?
Jimmuh's latest mumblings just "ass-ume" that black people are Democrats, assume that Hispanics are Republicans and assume that "their" blacks are more likely to go to jail than "our" Hispanics. (?)
That is some racial profiling!
The whole DNC-- from Jimmuh, to Clintoon to sKerry himself--has been repeating this LIE for 4 years that African-Americans were "disenfranchized" in Florida in 2000--IT DIDN'T HAPPEN.
And if you think it did, I'd appreciate you emailing the name of one single black person who was illegally denied the right to vote there in that election and who notified the poll authorities.
**Crickets**

And Jimmuh has missed another fine opportunity to stay home, build Habitats for Humanity and be quiet--but wait!
He just got back from "certifying" Hugo Chavez's fraudulent recall victory in Venezuela.
Cartuh, along with Chavez, both share a deep love of Fidel Castro and Marxist Communism as implemented by a totalitarian dictator.
I have never felt more love and respect for President Ronald Reagan for delivering us from this awful, awful man!
If Jimmuh were smart--which he's not--he'd lie low before the American public holds him responsible for not nipping Islamist terrorism in the bud when it first emerged in Iran in '79 when they seized our embassy personnel* and Jimmuh did nothing.
And the Islamist Enemy is still taking us hostage and now beheading us and for this, the Liberals of the world give Mr. Peanut a Nobel "Peace" Prize!
*In today's NYTimes, William Safire dubs kidnapping "Zaqarwi's new weapon" but it's actually one of the IslamoNazis' oldest and cheapest.
When Arafat's fledgling group Black September seized the Israeli team at the Munich Olympics in 1972, it unfolded as a kidnapping.
The Shiite revolutionaries in Tehran kidnapped those embassy folks of ours in 1979.
And the passengers onboard the ship Achille Lauro, especially the Jewish ones, were kidnapped by Palestinian killers in 1985 (Leon Klinghoffer made them too angry in his wheelchair, so they killed him.), but they were holdling hostages to be exchanged for their "brothers" in prison.
That much hasn't changed in today's Iraq either.
Only today, this "new Iraqi weapon" was used in Gaza:
CNN producer abducted in Gaza
Whaddayaknow: "our" WOT spills over into Israel's (Psst! You know we're fighting the same enemy, don't you?).
Obviously, the Intifada--such as it is--isn't going all that well.
The Paleostinians can't get people to be suicide bombers, they can't get through Israel's fence and they're becoming demoralized, so kidnapping is the perfect solution.
Don't be surprised if they behead this guy, too--it's great PR for the bad guys!
Beheading videos scare us (as they should) and the jihadi crazies love them and sign up to kill infidels with abandon after a great beheading film.
But he is an Arab and if they kill him, it will be for "collaborating" with the American infidels.
Mainly, however, they'll enjoy the hue and cry the Liberals in the West will make over the whole incident.
Guess they don't know there's a war on and anyone in or near enemy territory is fair game to be taken hostage, tortured or killed, even CNN reporters.

Report: Top Bin Laden deputy caught in Pakistan

Top Bin Laden deputy Ayman al-Zawahri has been caught in Pakistan, according to a report from the region quoted on Israel Radio Monday.

Pakistani forces operating against al Qaida strongholds in the country report capturing the Egyptian national, who was formerly the head of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which operated in the past against the Egyptian regime.
[...where they offed President Sadat and carried out 2 horrible slaughters of tourists, among other jihad "actions."--Jen]

Earlier Monday, the US commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan Lieutenant-General David Barno told Reuters that there is little evidence of al Qaida fighters still in Afghanistan,
[They don't call it "Operation Enduring Freedom" for nothing!]
and that Pakistan's crackdown on al Qaida-linked operatives has made life harder for fugitives hiding in tribal areas near the Afghan - Pakistani border.

Gosh! And he just made us a film recently, too.
And if Osama's alive (which I doubt), can he be far behind #2, as it were?
TarAysah's tauntings aside, maybe President Bush will give us an "October surprise!"
Anyway, I've got my Supersized Ululator (Super sized for super bad guys!) charging up because Zawahiri's a great capture!