Philippines security officials have warned that Al Qaeda connected Jemaah Islamiah's "wild vision" includes a plan to incorporate northern Australia as part of its regional pan-Islamic state.
Thank the deity of your choice that John Howard stopped all those refugees in their tracks or had them locked up in concentration camps detention centres or we would now be under the jackslippers of tyrannical towelheads. (Ignore the fact that they were in the main Afghanis and not Indonesian Islamic fanatics ... they all look the same when they are jumping for their lives off rust bucket ships.)

Putin announced that he had ordered the military to adopt an unspecified new plan for fighting terrorism.
"Russia will never make any deal with terrorists nor will it give in to any blackmail," he said at the Kremlin. Adopting rhetoric similar to that used by President Bush after the Sept. 11 attacks last year, Putin said Russia would respond "everywhere where terrorists themselves are located, organizers of these crimes, their ideological and financial sponsors. I stress: whatever their whereabouts."

Dubbya tells us Al Qaeda is given succour by Saddam, Vlad the Impaler Shade of White tells us the Chechen rebels are connected to Al Qaeda. Vlad m'boy, welcome aboard Dubbya's rhetoric of mass obfuscation. Enjoy the carte blanche in Chechnya Vlad.

Saddam is that tyrant who used chemicals against his own people. Vlad on the other hand ... errrr ... best not to pursue that line.

Vlad is not letting anyone know what chemicals were used, surely not stuff in little parcels Saddam sent him in happier times. Not the very same stuff supplied to Saddam by America ... again in happier times. Ah, what a tangled web we weave.

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Might I add that my own extensive research has revealed the shocking news that the World Scout Movement is affiliated to Al Qaeda. Below is a tract from a Boy Scout website. When you consider this organisation's connection to Al Qaeda this is hardly the innocent document that it might first appear to be. Read between the lines and you will be shocked and alarmed at the barely concealed subtext in the parts I have highlighted and commented upon.

"When the Troop assembles the visitor will notice that the boys have collected in four or five small groups, each containing six or seven boys. (CODE FOR SUICIDE SQUADS I BELIEVE.) These are the Patrols (!!!) and it will be noticed throughout that the activities are worked on a Patrol basis and that the Patrol Leader (FEE FI FO FUM I SMELL THE BLOOD OF A BIN LADEN.) plays a very important part in everything which is done.

The first item of the meeting will be the breaking of the Union Flag, (BREAKING AND BURNING MORE LIKE!!) followed by an inspection. (CAREFULLY STAGE MANAGED TO FOOL THE U.N. DELEGATION LOOKING FOR WOGGLES OF MASS DESTRUCTION.) This is not allowed to take up much time but does just ensure that degree of smartness and correctness of uniform, personal cleanliness, etc., which are important in the training of the boy. This inspection will probably be followed by some very active games.

The boys have either been shut up in school all day or at work in a factory or elsewhere,("SLEEPER" OPERATIVES WHO HAVE BLENDED INTO THE COMMUNITY.) and they need an opportunity for letting off steam, and so they will be given a full chance of doing this with as much noise as they like for ten minutes before they settle down to more serious work. (BOMB MAKING 101 NO DOUBT!)The range of games that can be played is very considerable so that there is no need for constant repetition of the same game. Most Troops, however, seem to have certain games which become their own special favourites."
Black Owl troop study Knot Tying and Bomb Making 101.


Scout Kevin (right) appears to be paying more attention to his willy than to the lesson
on how to make a 15 megaton bomb from 3 pieces of Meccano and a foot of dental floss.