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Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:49:22 -0700

"Our study shows that the Iraq war has generated a stunning increase in the yearly rate of fatal jihadist attacks, amounting to literally hundreds of additional terrorist attacks and civilian lives lost. Even when terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan is excluded, fatal attacks in the rest of the world have increased by more than one third."

In trying to gauge the "Iraq effect," the authors had focused on the rate of terrorist attacks in two periods -- from September 2001 to 30 March 2003 (the day of the Iraq invasion) and 21 March 2003 to 30 September 2006. The research has been based on the MIPT-RAND Terrorism database.

The report's assertion that the Iraq invasion has had a far greater impact in radicalising Muslims is widely backed security personnel in the UK. Senior anti-terrorist officials told The Independent that the attack on Iraq, and the now-discredited claims by the U.S. and British governments about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, had led to far more young Muslims engaging in extremist activity than the invasion of Afghanistan two years previously.

Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, head of the Secret Service (MI5) said recently: "In Iraq attacks are regularly videoed and the footage is downloaded into the internet.

"Chillingly, we see the results here. Young teenagers are being groomed to be suicide bombers. The threat is serious, is growing and will, I believe, be with us for a generation."

In Afghanistan the most active of the Taliban commanders, Mullah Dadullah, acknowledged how the Iraq war has influenced the struggle in Afghanistan.

"We give and take with the mujahedin in Afghanistan," he said. The most striking example of this has been the dramatic rise in suicide bombings in Afghanistan, a phenomenon not seen through the 10 years of war with the Russians in the 1980s.

The effect of Iraq on various jihadist conflicts has been influenced according to a number of factors, said the report. Countries with troops in Iraq, geographical proximity to the country, the empathy felt for the Iraqis and the exchange of information between Islamist groups. "This may explain why jihadist groups in Europe, Arab countries, and Afghanistan were more affected by the Iraq war than other regions," it said.

Russia, like the US, has used the language of the "war on terror" in its actions in Chechnya, and al-Qa'ida and their associates have entrenched themselves in the border areas of Pakistan from where they have mounted attacks in Kashmir, Pakistan and India.

Statistics for the Arab-Israel conflict also show an increase, but the methodology is disputed in the case of Palestinian attacks in the occupied territories and settler attacks on Palestinians.

* The U.S. is joining the Iraqi government in a diplomatic initiative inviting Iran and Syria to a "neighbours meeting" on stabilising Iraq, the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday. The move reflects a change of approach by the Bush administration, which previously had resisted calls to include Iran and Syria in such talks."

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Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:15:33 -0800

Bloody hell... my cat just burst into flames!

I know I shouldn't be laughing, but I can't help it now I know he's safe. Normally the cats just jump up on the keyboard shelf for a clap or a brush, but Fuzz chose to come a different route today, right past a lit candle. His poor gorgeous tail caught fire and I had to put him out. No real damage except to his dignity, and I quickly brushed all the burnt ends out of his bottom, but you should have seen the look on his face. He looked so offended that you couldn't help but laugh.

Yesterday it was Mojo... I found a tickle spot behind his ear and couldn't stop laughing then, either.

I have NO idea what I'd do without my cats.

Fuzz has taken himself outside to air, but the smell of burnt kitty lingers on in the house, and I really MUST stop laughing.

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Sun, 25 Feb 2007 09:21:19 -0800

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=deceptively

Wish someone would tell UK estate agents/solicitors about this. humph.

From the page: "Usage Note: When deceptively is used to modify an adjective, the meaning is often unclear. Does the sentence The pool is deceptively shallow mean that the pool is shallower or deeper than it appears? When the Usage Panel was asked to decide, 50 percent thought the pool shallower than it appears, 32 percent thought it deeper than it appears, and 18 percent said it was impossible to judge. Thus a warning notice worded in such a way would be misinterpreted by many of the people who read it, and others would be uncertain as to which sense was intended. Where the context does not make the meaning of deceptively clear, the sentence should be rewritten, as in The pool is shallower than it looks or The pool is shallow, despite its appearance."

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Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:33:50 -0800

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Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:26:38 -0800

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Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:19:31 -0800

NICKED FROM raiders80 who STOLE IT FROM rosed1. Feel free to edit and add your own... I did. ;-)

Things That Don't Make Sense

♥ Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up every two hours?

♥ If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

♥ Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are flat?

♥ Why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they already know there isn't enough?

♥ Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?

♥ Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?

♥ Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?

♥ Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?

♥ Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

♥ Whose idea was it to put an "S" in the word "lisp"?

♥ What is the speed of darkness?

♥ If the temperature is zero outside today and it's going to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold will it be?

♥ If it's true that we're here to help others, why are the others here?

♥ Do married people really live longer than single ones or does it only seem longer?

♥ Can you cry underwater?

♥ How is it that we put a man on the moon before we figured out that it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

♥ Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?

Did you ever stop and wonder......

♥ Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these pink dangly things and drink whatever comes out"? And what was the motivation for playing around under there in the first place?

♥ Who was the first person to say, "See that chicken there?... I'm gonna eat the next thing that comes outta its bum"?

♥ Why do toasters always have a setting so high that it burns the toast to a horrible crisp that no sensible human being would eat?

♥ Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?

♥ Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't point to their bum when they ask where the bathroom is?

♥ Why does your obstetrician/gynaecologist leave the room when you get undressed when they're going to look anyway?

♥ Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours?

♥ Can blind people see their dreams?

♥ If quizzes are quizzical, does that mean that tests are testicals?

♥ If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?

♥ If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
(Dubbya makes the answer to this one obvious... YES!)

♥ Why do The Alphabet Song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?

Stop singing and read on . . . . . . . . . . .

♥ Do illiterate and dyslexic people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?

♥ Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?

♥ Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?

♥ Why do they direct you to free parking and then charge you if you stay too long?

♥ Why does a shoe store have a "MASSIVE SHOE SALE"?... who wants just one huge shoe?

♥ Why do stores have a "LARGE REAR SHOWROOM"?... why would someone showcase large bums?

♥ Whose idea was it to call a bum bag (UK) a 'fanny pack' in the US?
(Confused? Click here and all will be made clear)

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Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:15:35 -0800

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Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:15:51 -0800

If you know what's happened to
FabooLass/DarkFemme, could you please contact me and let me know, too? I'm devastated to find *all* her blogs gone, both here and elsewhere, as if she never existed. Surely we shared at least a few mutual friends, one who can tell me what's happened to her? Please? :-(

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Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:25:54 -0800

Unfortunately, there's more than a little truth in this.