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Western Suicide Bombers Losing Jobs To Cheap Foreign Labor
by N. O. Auhprescion Saturday, Nov. 22, 2003 at 5:06 AM

British suicide bombers are losing their jobs to cheap overseas labor, The Economist reports:

"In comparison to earlier jihads, the British deployment to Iraq has been a bit of a let-down. Bosnia's war attracted British Muslims in their hundreds. The 2001 Afghan campaign helped fill some of the Guant�namo Bay cells with Taliban from Tipton, and a drop-out from the London School of Economics masterminded the killing in Pakistan of Daniel Pearl, an American journalist. Earlier this year, two British suicide bombers died in Israel. These days, though, long-faced Islamists are surprisingly subdued. "Even the collections and the preaching feel more restrained," moans an Afghan war veteran."

"The growing zeal of the British security forces and waning enthusiasm from British Muslims could be to blame. But jihadis say there is a more important factor: the supply of bombers exceeds demand, and British bombers are too expensive. "For the cost of equipping and transporting a British fighter into Iraq--about $2,000--we can shift 20 guerrillas into Iraq from neighbouring Arab states and Chechnya," says a retired jihadi field officer."

Will these former free-traitors turn protectionist? Should the coalition impose terror tariffs on Third World bombers so that their British counterparts don't find themselves unemployed and even more disaffected than before?

Please Protest the Arab Free Martyr Trade Zone and help give these western jihadists an opportunity to martyrdom at jihad. Fight the tyrranny of differences in regional labor market pricing.

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Now this is rich.
by 2Beers Saturday, Nov. 22, 2003 at 6:51 PM

Some people bitch about losing their job. But this is interferring wiht their religious obligations to murder people. LET'S GET OUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT HERE.

Maybe we could have a protest rally. We could all march and oppose the use of cheap foreign martyrs at the expense of perfectly good, capable and willing domestic suicide bombers. These guys have trained for killing them selves and now they have to sit back and watch while someone else kills themself in their place. The humilation is killing them. They need counseling to get over these feelings that their lives were not good enough to pay a few extra bucks to blow to hell. COME ON PEOPLE, WHERE IS YOUR SENSE OF CHARITY AND EMPATHY.

I mean really, if you had worked all of these years to purify yourself, only to find out that some cheap undocumented martyr took your spot at jihad, how would you feel. These young men are good enough to kill any day of hte week. Just becasue they find themselves in a distant land, far from the daily jihad, doesn't mean they too should not be killed.

Please, write to your congressman, or member of Parliament, and demand better conditions for foreign jihadists. Demand free transport to a jihad zone for these young men and women. Hell, the plane doesn't have to land there, we could just throw them out from about 30,00 feet and accomplish their goal and ours.

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mass distraction
by Enron Sunday, Nov. 23, 2003 at 9:42 PM

Enron: the left's weapon of mass distraction

I received a fund-raising letter in the mail from a leftwing group pretending to be interested in civil rights and humane concerns which said that the war on terror and Saddam Hussein were Bush's "weapons of mass distraction" to keep the public's mind off criminal acts by corporations and himself. This canard is just part of the left's war in behalf of our enemies or, more accurately, in behalf of the agendas that the left shares with al-Qaeda. Meanwhile, the email below is making the rounds and is something that defenders of the President and this country ought to know to be better able to dal with them:

This is an interesting bit of information that you don't hear much
about in the media --- Certainly there is a political dimension here:

a.. Enron's chairman did meet with the president and the vice President in the Oval Office.

b.. Enron gave $420,000 to the president's party over three years.

c.. It donated $100,000 to the president's inauguration festivities.

d.. The Enron chairman stayed at the White House 11 times.

e. The corporation had access to the administration at its
highest levels and even enlisted the Commerce and State
Departments to grease deals for it.

f.. The taxpayer-supported Export-Import Bank subsidized
Enron for more than $600 million in just one transaction. Scandalous!!

g.. BUT...the president under whom all this happened WASN'T
George W. Bush.

h.. SURPRISE ........ It was Bill Clinton!

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