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Flamebait? Come on, mods! How bout this recent "incident": German businessman of Syrian descent ended up in a Las Vegas jail for two days -- apparently because he had the wrong stamps in his passport. Visiting the US has become an incalculable risk, so don't be surprised if people stay away. If you disagree with people stating those facts, you might as well reply to their posts instead of modding them down for stating the truth.

Oh, the irony, Herr Tomoe. Anyhoo, never let reality get in the way of business... or politics, for that matter.

Much easier to just rattle off paranoid "fascist rogue state" rabble.

*Care* about people and then use whatever particular gifts you have. If you care, you'll be able to contribute. That's what Yunus did, and he turned into a banker by accident.

Something to follow, above and beyond a link:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518 ,453234,00.html

As somebody living in Germany for five years, I'd rather rated the parent as "informative" ;-)

The thing is, that for 0.001% of violence related to video games, there is 99.99% of violence which has nothing to do with it.

If estimated gaming community is 2Mln people, that one shooting idiot make up about 1/2mln*100 = 0,00005% of gamers.

No, they do not want to invest in poor regions of Germany where neo-nazis go on rampages literally killing black people on streets (and go unpunished after that!). But the bayerns see a reason to ban all violent video games. One word: Bayern. Check one the Edmund Stoiber (head of state Bayern): with the pearls he is making up he easily beats your best of bread Republicans.

Overly-aware cars lead to a false sense of security, which leads to drivers not paying attention to driving. Now, **some** amount of technology - rear-view cameras in the dash, for instance - are good as they augment your vision in areas where you cannot possibly see. Take for example the removal of stop signs Ejbay and Ipswitch. Drivers are forced to be more alert and people are safer because of it.

They pollute like you, don't they?

BTW: Santa loves me!

German magazine Video tested LCD vs. Plasma under real world conditions (OK, Sin City and Ice Age in a loop). The result: Plasma consume a bit more energy, but not much more.

While LCDs use nearly the same amount of energy regardless of the picture, the plasmas energy uses climbs with the brightness of the content. LCD uses background lighting and the LC filter out light/colours. 200 watts if the picture is white, 200 watts if the picture is black. Plasmas "create" light and a plasma uses much more energy when the picture is white (all plasma cells on full power) than with a black picture. And most content isn't pure white.

This is very dependent on the model of your TV. Modern Panasonic plasmas seem to fair rather well.

There's an article on German magazin Spiegel (of course in German), but the table of energy usage on the last page is pretty self explanatory I think.

I'm kind of astonished that the urban myth of much higher energy usage of plasmas is still alive.

Bye egghat

... in the linked article. Go here for more details, and best before you comment: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,449814, 00.html

Not only Northern Belgium, but France, Holland, Germany, and the UK as well:

Around 30 people each year are killed due to World War II ordanance (Digging for Battlefield Relics)

World War II Bomb Explodes on German Motorway

550 lb Aerial bomb disposed using controlled explosion

UK's undersea 'ticking timebombs'

Street evacuated in bomb scare

Yes I'm going to tell you that prophet was
1. a pedophile : he fucked a girl called "aisha" when she was 7 year old

Even the presence of the bottles would be a clear violation of palestine's law

(not beating your wife regularly would be another violation). That's islam.

The "religion of peace" ( http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ then why does "islam" mean submission, opression in arabic ?)

2. a person who murdered hundreds of people in cold blood, when they were no threat to him : khaybar, the rounded up all the men there, had them dig their own grave in the center of medina, and had them beheaded before his eyes one by one. Then he ordered muslims to rape their women.

The original article points out that keeping logs is incompatible with existing German law. But the law will soon be changed, because Germany will have to comply with an EU directive mandating that logs be kept for at least 6 months. Germany has already asked for an extension of the deadline to comply with this, but the strong likelihood is that the German privacy laws will be changed to comply with the EU-mandated snooping.

EU pols and bureaucrats are as hostile to personal privacy as US pols and bureaucrats.

BTW, I have no idea what the Afghanistan photos you mention are, nor does Google. What's that about?

This is a no brainer in my book, but apparently not in everyones. Making it difficult or illegal to discuss racisim certainly doesn't remove it.

The best strategy is to create an environment where being a racist is 'uncool' (for lack of a better word). This is one arena where the rest of world can, I think, learn quite a bit from the United States. Although the U.S. still has a huge racial problem, it has improved vastly since 1950. Maybe it's getting worse again under the new administration, I don't know. Anyone still in the U.S. have a comment about that?

In the U.S. you can spout whatever racial crap you want to. Free speech isn't attacked. Rather, the laws address concrete areas where racism directly affects minorities. If you are at home with your buddies, or writing a blog, you can call blacks niggers and the law won't do anything about it. Do it in the workplace, where it could bother a co-worker though, and bam, down comes the stick. Not a bad strategy.

Even that is subject to abuse though. For example a teacher suffered http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2002/0 9/03/american_political_correctness_the_word_nigga rdly.html for teaching her children the word 'niggardly'.

Say somone writes a blog where they critisize the administration for censoring racist blogs. It wouldn't be outside of the realm of possiblity for this to be taken down for being pro-racist as well.

I think the best example of censorship failing is modern Germany, where right wing, pseudo neo-nazism http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spie gel/0,1518,357628,00.html (it isn't as bad as it sounds, but it's creepy enough) is getting trendier in Germany. It's become cool because it's anti establishment. As soon as you start censoring something, a large population is going to get curious about it. If racism is really an inferior point of view (and I believe it is), then it will lose out in the marketplace of ideas.

It's like Noam Chomsky says, freedom of speech means freedom to say things we don't like to hear. Even Stalin gave people the freedom to say things he liked to hear. It's our tolerance for unpleasant ideas that measures the degree to which we have freedom of speech.

Ansari: I think where he really crossed the line where the domestic audience is concerned is when he said a green aura was coming out of his head during his speech to the United Nations. This conversation got filmed, and people can watch it on DVD. Ahmadinejad came home from his speech and told an ayatollah that everyone at the General Assembly -- all these world leaders -- didn't even blink for thirty minutes (out of awe). Lots of people have seen this in Iran, and it makes him seem a bit too superstitious.

Here is an artical that includes some nice photos:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,441160, 00.html

New system: EU pushes 34 items of data about each passenger.

... and agrees that the US DHS can share the data with the FBI, other govt agencies are supposed to get access in the future. Best part of it: German minister of justice welcomes the agreement, as a high level of data protection is maintained ... she therefore has no objections at all.

Brigitte Zypries (SPD) begrüßte die Einigung zwischen EU und USA. "Es bleibt bei einem hohen Datenschutz-Niveau", sagte sie heute am Rande des EU-Justizministertreffens in Luxemburg. "Deshalb habe ich keine Bedenken."

Spineless traitors.

Since the Reuters article doesn't talk about the relation of this software to the Counter-Strike, and was confused myself by an article by the german magazine Der Spiegel, which states that there is no connection. However, having searched Google News and some other search engines, it seems that this Iranian software is in fact a map or mod to Counter-Strike (the Half-Life mod). The best evidence for this I could find was an article supposedly quoting Ahmadreza Nouri, who is apparently one of the designers. I also found some other pages supporting this view.

The fact that the US government held a US citizen for three years without him having access to a lawyer is also a fact.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Padilla_(al leged_terrorist)

Apparently some fear this will become more wide-spread practice more than they fear future terror attacks.

Given the bill that the Senate just passed this does not seem such an outlandish concern

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,439889, 00.html

I am a German who used to live in the US - NC to be precise. As a high school student our history curriculum concentrated heavily on the 20th century German history in order to ensure that German students know that a democratic republic can collapse without an open revolt. Hitler never had a majority in parliament but he managed to get to absolute power through legal means one baby step at a time. The political process of erosion in the US highly unsettled me. It didn't help that much of what passes as journalism on outfits like FOX reminded me unpleasantly of the propaganda that the GDR would broadcast into West-Germany when I grew up. I decided that the US was not the right country to raise my children in and I moved to Canada this summer. Reading things like this http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,439889, 00.html confirms to me that this was the right decision. It really feels that America is ever closer inching towards the abyss.

The last time they were able to grow crops in Greenland was during the time of the Vikings.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518 ,434356,00.html

After:
France sells surplus to importer for $2. He sells it on local market for $3. Farmer has to quit farming. Local people buy food for $3.

Net result: the importers, of which there are far fewer than there used to be farmers, earn a lot of money. French farmers earn a lot of money at the expense of their fellow subsidizing taxpayers. The majority of local people, who used to be farmers, lose their livelyhood, can't find new work in their country's stunted economy, and become wholly dependent on foreign aid.

And this, folks, is why international economics is an important subject. Ever heard of the law of unintended consequences? This sure looks like a textbook case -- international "aid" is actually screwing Africa. Look around, even Africans are saying it.

Now back to your regularly scheduled ennui...

explaining what the fuss is about israel

english MP mr Galloway blows ignorant "reporter" OUT OF THE FRICKEN WATER! hehe makes me laugh every time.

interview with iranian prime minister.[sarcasm] WOw he sounds really crazy...[/sarcasm]

two more links you should really read, though I doubt many will.

well thats all I can do. I cant FORCE you to watch them, and I doubt many will, but if even a couple do, and realise something interesting about the world as they knew it, I'll be happy

Newsflash: trying not to be violent is not pacifist. That's just being decent. Pacifist means you oppose war and violence as a means to settling disputes (ripped from Wikipedia). I'm not interested in listening to you try and sound superior for putting your "energies towardsa non-violent solution, rather than violence itself". This is the pinacle of moral hypocrisy: it's more important for you to keep your dainty hands lilly white and guilt free than to actually risk your conscience trying to do something as lowly and abject as defend innocent human beings.

I've already covered the Versailles Treaty. It did not cause WW2. First of all, it had nothing to do with Japanese agression. 2nd of all, it did make Hitler's rise to power easier, but the only way to have appeased Germany would have been to give them the Sudetenland, Poland, and Austira. Guess how lives in the Sudetenland? That's right, the Czechs. Or the Slovaks, I forget which. But they've got ties to Russia. So now Stalin starts WW2 instead. Way to go for peace.

What angers me is that people would rather have pretty phrases like: "work for peace, not against war". If that's really what youi're doing: you're not a pacifist. But you're still an idiot. I'm not trying to be a dick, but do you have any idea what the phrase "eradicate poverty" even means? Poverty is relative. That means it can not be eradicated unless all people have exactly the same goods. But guess what, that doesn't work either because people value goods subjectively. Eradicating poverty is literally impossible. That doesn't mean it's not noble, but it does mean it's stupid policy. That's like saying you want to jump to the moon. Nice thought, but a waste of time. Instead how about alleviating human suffering? How about rising the standard of living, fighting disease, and trying to make sure everyone has a good job. Believe it or not, "eradicating poverty" has a track record of destroying these goals. Don't believe me, look here: http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spie gel/0,1518,363663,00.html

What you seem to think pacifism is is exactly what the Jews did when the Nazis tried to kill them. That is not what pacifism is. Pacifism is peacefull non-compliance. The Jews really could have tried to stand up for themselves both violently and non-violently. I highly suggest you read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_resistance.

Great Scots man, what planet are you living on? You think if the Jews had tried to "stand up for themselves" it would have worked? You think passive resistance works against violence? You're insane. Take a look at the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. When they desegregated schools, who did they call out to keep the black kids from being killed? That's right: THE NATIONAL GUARD. And why do you think the national guard worked? Because THEY HAD THE THREAT OF VIOLENCE. They carreid GUNS. Do you think having the National Guard outside the high school with roses and flowers would have stopped those kids from getting killed?

What would the KKK have done to the Civil Rights movement if they hadn't feared the retribution of federal law officials? They would have killed every black man, woman and child they could have found. Civil disobediance and passive resistance are noble, great strategies. They appeal to the best in us. But when Martin Luther King and Gandhi were resisting passively, they were appealing to the kind of civil support that can only come in a country that is free of tryanny. If you try that tactic in China you end up dead. Did you miss Tianeman Square? You think somehow the Jews would have fared better at the hands of people who wanted them dead then the Chinese students did at the hands of people who had no grudge against them at all? You have no idea what you are talking about. Passive resistance requires an infrastructure of freedom and order that is MAINTAINED THROUGH THREAT OF FORCE.

-stormin

In German, but you get the idea from the pictures:
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,4 27494,00.html.

The worst failure to understand statistics is the failure of getting the math but not the context. If you think the goal is "prevent people from dying" you're as stupid as people who want to "eliminate poverty". Neither one is even coherent in a practical sense, let alone a suitable basis for policy decisions.

But hey, it sure sounds good to "fight poverty", and that's what really matters. Logic never stopped Bono! It also sounds good to say "more people die from x than from y, so we should fight x!", but it's equally stupid. How much does it cost - in terms of time, money, and other resources - to prevent x vs. to prevent y, and what are the other costs if we don't? As long as you continue to show a complete and total inability to see the wider decision-making process any knowledge of statistics you may have just makes you dangerous, not informed.

Take a good hard look at what foreign "aid" does to Africa one day, and maybe you'll start to question whether or not it's such a great idea to do chant whatever slogan makes your heart the warmest and fuzziest ( http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spie gel/0,1518,363663,00.html ). The "fight poverty" crowd are all the same. They think that simple solutions like giving money away fix everything, and they can't understand why everyone isn't just "nice" all the time, so they concoct theses theories about vicious and evil capitalist pigs who are so inhuman as to want everyone else to live in abject poverty (which makes no sense, since a capitalist can only be as wealthy as the people he sells too). This is just another example of people who see the world in black and white completely missing the point. If it's not the Christian evangelicals, it's the affirmative-action, PC, "don't hurt anyone's feelings crowd".

God save us from hypocrites and insincere idealists.

-stormin

What Would You Recommend for IT Training?

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,15 18,415638,00.html

Actually that's exactly what the 53+1 is all about: racing the same racetrack again and again and again.
The purpose of the 53+1 is not autonomous driving. The goal was to create a platform for testing new parts
(new tires, brakes, etc.). In order to truly compare the performance of those parts you need a system that
can drive the same course over and over in the most efficient way.

The goal is not autonomous driving but obtaining reproduceable results on testing tracks.
(There's a german article that explains this at http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/0,1518,424288,0 0.html)

Oh well, posting as anonymous coward probably means that nobody will read this anyway.

German news magazine "Der Spiegel" has a pretty high credibility and they carry the same story:

http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/0,1518,424288,0 0.html

Unfortunately, the article does not seem to available in English.

> Wouldn't it be fun to make their legs longer?

They did!

Spiegel.de ran an article about this acompanied by this diagram

(and I'm sure modern Germans get tired of watching people try to wind them up about a certain period in their past).

Maybe you have been to the United States, but if you have not, I hope you do come to visit some day.

He didn't say that we don't need PCs and that PS3 will replace your PS3! He was saying that Sony did not need the PC to be in their online strategy ala Microsoft's 'Live Anywhere'. Look at the full question and answer:

"SPIEGEL ONLINE: Speaking of online, Microsoft has just announced "Live Anywhere", an integrated Windows-Xbox-Mobile environment. Is that something you're worried about because you don't have the same access to the PC market as Microsoft does?

Harrison: No, it doesn't concern me and I don't think it concerns the consumer either. Once you adopt a game system as your primary entertainment device, that's what you want. We think that Playstation 3 is the place where our users will be doing their gaming, their movie watching, their Web browsing and a lot of other computer entertainment functions. That will satisfy them. Playstation 3 is a computer. We don't need the PC."

Taken from: http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,15 18,419072,00.html

Note the last part of the interviewer's question, and the last part of Harrison's answer, and it starts to make sense. Quite typical that a Sony exec's comments have been taken out of context and misreported, in my opinion - it's happening a lot lately.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,15 18,419072,00.html

And here's one for the ages:

When we launched Playstation in 1994 we introduced the concept of real-time computer-generated 3-D-graphics for the first time. When Nintendo released the N64 in 1996 and they had real-time CG 3-D-graphics, did you hear us say, "Nintendo, you've stolen our idea?" Of course not. These innovations are things that become possible because of a combination of technology, price and manufacturing capability.

What you say !! Does Starfox ring a bell? What about Battlezone? Not only are they denying that they obviously based they idea off of Nintendo's, but they're taking credit for 3D graphics... Do these people even listen to themselves?

It is always a bit ticklish confronting Germans with their past. You ask them why it happened. You ask whether they supported it. Why they didn't rebel against it? How could millions of people not see that they were wrong? Andreas from Berlin is a typical witness of the times. A mere 28 years old, his whole life will be marked by the mistakes of an entire nation -- an occurrence that is singular in world history.

"I swear, I have no idea how a David Hasselhoff song could top the German charts for eight weeks in 1989," he says. His tone is defensive and apologetic -- a tone one hears across Germany when talking about the historical black mark.

Germany.

This is not a joke. The german "CIA" did exactly the same. It came out just a few days ago.

"...anyone working in the arctic needs to carry a rifle in case of emergency encounters."

Erm... estimated world population of barely 22,000 for polar bears. How many billions of humans are there? 6? 7? 8!? I forget.

Anyway, my point? We should be giving the rifles to the polar bears, if only they could use them.

There are other ways to ensure the political compliance of the intelligence community. It's funny you should mention the CIA; in the wake of Porter Goss's resignation, Sidney Blumenthal wrote a piece for Spiegel Online that can be found at http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,15 18,415638,00.html which discussed the recent history of the agency. Rather than stacking it with loyalists, the current administration is attempting to gut the CIA and transfer the lion's share of its duties to the Pentagon. The current culture of the U.S. armed forces is much more amenable to the administration's agenda than CIA could ever be, and whatever civics training that its personnel have matters little in face of their adherence to the chain of command.

In reality, the administration has very nearly accomplished the objective you allude to, i.e. the elimination of whatever respect for the rights of Americans that the intelligence community still has. They have simply been more clever about it. The Spiegel article makes clear that these actions are very serious; I can only hope that the backlash you speak of will actually become manifest.

Apparently, they're planning something and will do a product release in E3 this year. Microsoft Europes marketing executive Chris Lewis recently said in a interview by Der Spiegel(a german paper) to a question if 360's HDDVD-add-on was in the pipeline : "Absolutely, yes. We'll say a little bit more about it at E3. It will give people access to HD DVD.".
When they asked how the movies could be viewed without HDMI in x360 he said a mysterious : "All I can say to you is -- there are interesting developments in the pipeline. We will make sure that the HD-DVD-peripheral device will meet all the requirements for consumers to enjoy high-definition DVD playback."

here's the rest of the article : http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,15 18,411855,00.html

You think so? Never materialized? Huh?

The floods in central Europe broke records lasting hundreds of years. Repeatedly in 1998,1999, 2002 and now 2006. Just try searching for floods in Central Europe. Or prehaps for heavy snowfall this year. Or perhaps about the wild-fires in recent years. No. Never happened. In your basement.

this stuff leaves green beer standing - pity its only 15% though - and only in the German colours.

http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/wunderbar/0,1518, 402259,00.html

(article in german but the picture is cool (if you took the geeks out))

Our response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated strikes. Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success. We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest. And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. (Applause.) From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.

This whole thing has been planned and staged by cetain Dainish Imans, with the support of Syria and other governments. These are not spontainious responses to the cartoons which were published back in September. The point of the article were they were originally published, by the way, was to point out self-censorship in western news media.

The Imans behind this appearantly felt the that the original collection of cartoons might not be offensive enough, so they "added" a few of their own, including a bad copy of a man in a pig calling contest (he was made up as a pig).

• Alienated Danish Muslims Sought Help from Arabs
• Editor Reflects on Denmark's Cartoon Jihad

The American news media is pretty much avoiding covering this story in any detail, it's the blogosphere where the coverage is at.

• Taqiyya: Anatomy of the Comic Jihad
• THE PIG SNOUT SWINDLE

This whole thing has been planned and staged by cetain Dainish Imans, with the support of Syria and other governments. These are not spontainious responses to the cartoons which were published back in September. The point of the article were they were originally published, by the way, was to point out self-censorship in western news media.

The Imans behind this appearantly felt the that the original collection of cartoons might not be offensive enough, so they "added" a few of their own, including a bad copy of a man in a pig calling contest (he was made up as a pig).

• Alienated Danish Muslims Sought Help from Arabs
• Editor Reflects on Denmark's Cartoon Jihad

The American news media is pretty much avoiding covering this story in any detail, it's the blogosphere where the coverage is at.

• Taqiyya: Anatomy of the Comic Jihad
• THE PIG SNOUT SWINDLE

Here you are

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,15 18,396307,00.html

The link was on the english article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(hacker) under external links.

I, for one... Welcome our new terrorist-smeller pursuivant overlords

And well you should. The terrorists have the will, and a plan to become our new overlords. If they succeed, you will be living in a genuine theocracy uniting church and state, governed by Sharia law, in all of its harshness, including threat of crucifixion, beheading, stoning, and amputation.

Our present "overlords" do well in defending us against the malice of the would-be Islamist terrorist overlords. The Islamist terrorists have a demonstrated interest in conducting infamous attacks aimed at mass murder, and a stated goal of killing four million Americans in pursuit of their nightmare state. The Superbowl is a natural target. The terrorists have the will to kill everyone at the Superbowl, but lack the opportunity due to the vigilance of our present "overlords",.... long may they "reign".

The idea that one might live one's life in private and without fear of molestation is a *very* recent phenomenon.

From Kant's Was ist Aufklärung? (“What is Enlightenment?”):

Den Privatgebrauch nenne ich denjenigen, den er in einem gewissen ihm anvertrauten bürgerlichen Posten oder Amte von seiner Vernunft machen darf.

“I call privacy that usage of reason a man may make from within his public office.”

Is privatam seruitutem seruit illi an publicam?

“Doesn't a man that performs his private office also serve the republic?”

That America, perhaps, was never a democracy but always a republic, implies that we've never entertained democratic notions of privacy.

...the report predicts that Europe's Muslim population is set to increase from around 13% today to between 22% and 37% of the population by 2025, potentially triggering tensions.The Scotsman

The Salafist Preaching and Combat Group is an offshoot of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), which has been responsible for many killings in Algeria. It is led by Hassan Hattab, formerly the "emir" (commander) of the GIA's second region. An intelligence document seen by the Guardian asserts that Hattab was a member of the leadership group that authorised the GIA's bloody terrorists attacks on Paris in 1995. The Guardian

Guido Steinberg, a terrorism expert working in the office of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, summed up the situation with these words: "Terrorism is coming home." And it's coming home to those countries whose governments may have believed they were immune from terror because for years they have provided safe haven to notorious Islamic extremists. Der Spiegel

PARIS, France (CNN) -- Two senior al Qaeda figures helped train the people now suspected of planning chemical and biological attacks in France and the United Kingdom, European intelligence and judicial sources tell CNN.

One of those figures is Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the man singled out by President Bush as a link between the terrorist group and Iraq.

The other is Abu Khabab whose voice has been identified by intelligence sources as the man on a videotape showing al Qaeda operatives performing chemical weapons experiments on dogs.

The information comes after a recent wave of arrests in France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain that investigators say helped uncover several cells of Islamic terrorists who had the material to make chemical and biological weapons. And, investigators say, the terrorists were apparently ready to use them. (France, Italy, Spain)CNN, Feb 15, 2003

Jihadist networks span Europe from Poland to Portugal, thanks to the spread of radical Islam among the descendants of guest workers once recruited to shore up Europe's postwar economic miracle. In smoky coffeehouses in Rotterdam and Copenhagen, makeshift prayer halls in Hamburg and Brussels, Islamic bookstalls in Birmingham and "Londonistan," and the prisons of Madrid, Milan, and Marseilles, immigrants or their descendants are volunteering for jihad against the West. It was a Dutch Muslim of Moroccan descent, born and socialized in Europe, who murdered the filmmaker Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam last November. A Nixon Center study of 373 mujahideen in western Europe and North America between 1993 and 2004 found more

Batmans package ain't too bad either...

WARNING: This might not be work safe!

http://service.spiegel.de/digas/servlet/epaper?Q=S P&JG=2005&AG=50&SE=1

That site has a picture of military looking guys leading prisoners off a plane, with the implication that they're American (which they assumed). They are, in fact, Canadian JTF2 troops.