Allahu Akbar, Baby!

As the Wilford Brimley of Wingnuttia, does he also sell his own line of diabetic supplies, consisting entirely of Snickers bars, M&Ms, and glucose syringes?

One has to wonder if Pammy’s implants are leaking LSD…

Andrew Malcolm was deemed competent enough to serve as Laura Bush’s press secretary until W’s first presidential campaign.

Speaking first as a Muslim and also as an Iraki I note that under President Bush that the government and people of America waged war against my people and also against the Afghan people. I note also that under your current President that the Government and People of America continue to wage war against my people and the Afghan people. I note further that a significant part of the American government and a significant part of your political leadership are doing their best to start a third war against a Muslim people.

That American presidents send hypocritical greetings to us and to our fellow Muslims while continuing to wage war against us is unimportant. What is important is that Government and People of America continue to wage war against us. That other Americans seek to make political capital from the hypocrisy of the commander in chief of the forces who commit war crime after war crime after war crime against Muslim civilians because he is not sufficiently blatantly anti-Islam and anti-Muslim for their taste is also unimportant.

Their ravings only serve to prove that those who say that America and Americans are inherently imperialistic and inherently anti-Muslim and that we will only have peace when every America is driven from our all of our lands have a point.

Finally you might like to note the war criminal Bush’s greeting was for the feast of Eid ul-Fitr while that of your current war criminal in chief is for Eid ul-Adha.

There is a difference between the two feasts and yes it is important. If you are going to attempt to join in with playing politics with Islam it is helpful to get your facts straight.

I’ve gotten a number of emails from friends I don’t remember saying they can help my little ding dong pleasure “her” like never before.

This LSD you speak of? It’ll work on my little ding dong like it has on Pammy’s little ding dongs? Is this the “her” I need to pleasure, also?

Read the comments at the LA Times. The wingnut floodgates really opened up. (Representative sample: “If all Americans new that this guy they were electing was going to turn into this big a greasebucket, he would never have been elected !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”)

Isn’t the LA Times supposed to be a mainsteam publication? Why let a columnist say things that bring the baboons out like that?

The LA Times has slowly sunk to depths previously plumbed only bu U-Boats since they were bought by the Tribune company years ago.

Do these folks know that the USPS has been issuing Eid postage stamps since….2001?

Remember that the Times fired Robert Scheer and hired Jonah Goldberg. That’s when I unsubscribed. So, guess what the readers are like now. Plus, anyone can read it online and once the word is out the wingnuts gather round.

With few exceptions, those of us who comment here wouldn’t have sent any troops in the first place so you’re posting in the wrong place and berating the wrong people. If you want to believe that Americans collectively own the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan then it must be acceptable to you for some Americans to believe that the people of those same nations collectively own 9/11 and numerous other acts of terrorism. That’s neither correct nor fair. It makes you look just as simplistic and devoid of insight as the people who started the war.

Obama sent greetings to you on our one and only feast day. If you see something sinister in that then there isn’t much that anyone can do to change your mind about us – is there?

Happy Thanksgiving.

Welcome to the lake, Mohammed Ibn Laith; I look forward to hearing your opinions.

Karen

Perfectly and beautifully said, Dennis.

Thank you for your welcome – in fact I have been a denizen, if that is the word, here for quite some time. :-)

Thanks Dennis, you said it so I didn’t have to. My biggest disappointment in Obama so far is that we are still in these wars. The plan to exit both should have started the day after the election, and can’t come soon enough for my taste.

With no respect for you whatsoever I suggest you learn to read. I presume that, unlike me, English is your native language so you have no excuse for misunderstanding what I wrote.

However as we are commanded by God to carry out our charitable duty to assist those whose ability to comprehend even relatively simple matters is …..

hmmmm how do I put this gently? Ah yes “impaired” …. hmmmm

“comprehension impaired” as a synonymic phrase for “being deliberately stupid” yes that should do it. … impaired … I will try to make it clearer.

Onwards.

However as we are commanded by God to carry out our charitable duty to assist those whose ability to comprehend even relatively simple matters is impaired I will do my best.

My point was and remains that your current president is carrying out a minor variation of the same vicious policies carried out by his predecessors. That under him American troops wilfully commit massacre of Muslim civilians after massacre of Muslim civilians after massacre of Muslim civilians just as they did under his predecessors.

My point was that your president’s greeting is an act of hypocrisy just as his predecessors’ greetings were acts of hypocrisy. I am not interested in his words I am interested in his deeds.

Your country, your soldiers, your government, funded by your taxes have been making war against me and my people quite literally from the day I was born.

Your country, your soldiers, your government, funded by your taxes deliberately and cynically target civilians.

Your country, your soldiers, your government, funded by your taxes deliberately and cynically have engaged in acts of collective punishment against my people and against those of Afghanistan.

One result of that policy of collective punishment engaged in by your country as an act of deliberate American policy funded by your taxes is that I live in a country in which there are more than 4 million orphans.

Don’t come whinging to me, American, about how you are not responsible for the acts of your freely elected government. You may not be culpable but you are responsible. That is what it means to be a citizen of a democracy, American, you the citizen are responsible for the acts of your public servants.

Finally I also made the point that in his eagerness to engage in political point scoring the author of this post made an error so basic that he demonstrated profound ignorance.

Greetings and peace to you Mohammed.

Dennis, Mohammed has visited FDL and partners many times over the past few years, bringing us insight that we would not have otherwise.

In this instance, you might do well to listen respectfully to his comments as he knows what he is talking about far more than most of us can ever hope to know.

Yeah, we should show respect to someone who comes on here and calls people “deliberately stupid” (when they don’t even disagree with the policies that he condemns) and tries to place collective guilt for the Iraq clusterfuck on all Americans. Fuck that.

Wait. What? Thanksgiving Eve?

When did the day before Thanksgiving become special? I suppose if he had given this message a day sooner, they would have faulted him for doing it during Thanksgiving Week, yes?

IIRC from his previous visits, Mohammed is 18 years old or so. His parents were killed (by US troops by “accident”) while working with humanitarian groups in Irak.

His younger brother was critically injured a year or so later by US rounds that hit by “accident” and he came under fire from troops while taking his brother to the hospital where he later died.

He has well earned the right to treat us with opprobrium and disdain.

He has visited a number of times and is vouched for by many people who comment at FDL. As long as we are paying the taxes that support the occupation, we are in fact enabling the people that are occupying his country.

So yes, we are all collectively guilty, no matter how much we may try to absolve ourselves.

Right. I make a reasonable,non-pejorative response to Mr. Victim’s post and he responds with smug, gratuitous insults seemingly because I won’t rend my garments in anguish over my supposed part in a policy that I opposed (In the goddamn street, the ballot box and every other way I could) from the beginning. Fuck that. Respect is a two way street.

“As long as we are paying the taxes that support the occupation, we are in fact enabling the people that are occupying his country.

So yes, we are all collectively guilty, no matter how much we may try to absolve ourselves.”

Sooo, which line on my tax form do I check that says “my taxes are not to be used for war”? I wish it was so simple but that’s not the way it works.

It’s called, if it means so much to be counted as against the war, then stand up, refuse to pay taxes and go before the judge and take the appropriate punishment. Otherwise, don’t complain when someone such as Mohammed points out that we are all complicit in the occupation of his country and the death of his family.

People did refuse to pay taxes during Vietnam for this specific reason and did pay the associated price.

And you are doing just this?

Well, excuse me for not wanting to ruin my life and the lives of my loved ones by voluntarily going to jail for political reasons.

And I’m supposed to stand silent when someone blames me for a policy I didn’t craft, had no authority to change directly, and used my vote to challenge indirectly? Really?

No I am not. Which is precisely why I will not be irate at Mohammed pointing out our hypocrisy to myself and others. He’s correct.

Then please don’t be a complainer and take umbrage at Mohammed pointing these facts out to us. We are citizens of a nation that invaded his nation without cause and has been occupying it for over six years now. We killed his family. Saying “But I protested the war,” may make us feel good inside and think we’ve made a difference but those warm fuzzies don’t do a thing for the folks in Irak who have had to live with what our leaders have wrought.

Heck, I’m not irate about him expressing his thoughts. I welcome any input he has. Like I said before, it’s just not that simple, as Spotts1701 above points out…..

True, it is not an easy path that would be required. Which is why few do follow it.

But regardless of the ease or difficulty, it is the one means available to us to put our money where our mouths are (so to speak).

And if we’re not wiling to make those sacrifices for our “principles” then we pretty much have no valid response when someone such as Mohammed points it out that we are all culpable for our government’s actions.

Who the fuck are you to tell me what I can and can’t feel about something?

I don’t take shit from people I know telling me to feel guilty and hypocritical about things beyond my control, so I sure as hell am not going to take it from people on the internet.

Now you sound like I should be ashamed to be American because of the actions of a government I didn’t vote for, didn’t support in this action, and actively worked against in LEGAL and LEGITIMATE ways.

You are an American citizen? Then no matter how YOU feel about what you’ve done, think about how it looks to an 18 year old who has watched his parents and brother killed by US troops that have invaded and occupied his country.

He does not know or care what you may or may not have done as he can’t see any thing but what has happened to those he loved due to the actions of US troops in the occupation.

Flame me all you want, that is the reality of the world. No matter how much we may think we have done, it obviously was not enough or we would not still be occupying Irak and Afghanistan and killing civilians “by accident.”

Not many folks are going to receptive to anything he has to say if the tone is that of #16 above….

Just sayin’…..

You know, I try to be receptive to alternate points of view. But when they come prepackaged as “You are bad and you should feel bad” it tends to make that very difficult to remain objective and respond appropriately.

It’s like the health care debate: if I’m not willing to sacrifice everything up to and including my life, then I obviously don’t care enough about the issue to try and change it. (And yes, I had an argument with someone who thought that I should be willing to DIE to score political points against the opposition.)

There’s being politically active, and then there’s being a pie-in-the-sky fanatic. I know which one I am. Which one are you?

Again, Mohammed is fairly well known at FDL and has often participated in Irak related posts, especially those done on Sunday evenings from Siun.

He has his perspective and it is not a pleasant one for us to confront. He has presented it here. I’m not sure of the exact time lines but I think his parents were killed in ’04 and his then 9 YO brother in ’06. It is now ’09 and he is not a gracious person when he feels that his nation and religion have been disrespected.

How would you be reacting if you were 18 and had your parents killed by invaders when you were 14 and your younger brother by those same invaders when you were 15 or 16?

The fact that he is willing to come and engage with us and be mostly polite (and he has been mostly polite even though he justifiably has a hatred for America), should tell us volumes about the person he is. For those who are offended by his “tone” in the comment, think of how you would feel and respond in the same situations. Would you really be able to be even minimally polite?

That’s “mostly polite”?

If that’s polite to you, I’d hate to see what you think impolite looks like.

The first reply I ran across from him on Siun’s blog (Nov. 2, including Pew Survey results) before condemning all Americans wasn’t polite either. An 18 year old, quoting Pew Survey results, with obvious foreign policy education? Wonder if someone’s being played…..

http://firedoglake.com/2009/11/01/sending-a-clear-message-to-the-muslim-world/

He has worked with the folks at Guerilla Guides, including MarkFromIreland and his son Du and daughter in law, Erdla. His parents worked with Guerilla Guides and the Red Crescent when they were killed. Do not look on this young man as the kid down the block who spends all day playing video games. He is not

The fact that he is willing to come and engage with us and be mostly polite (and he has been mostly polite even though he justifiably has a hatred for America), should tell us volumes about the person he is. For those who are offended by his “tone” in the comment, think of how you would feel and respond in the same situations. Would you really be able to be even minimally polite?

His response was far from polite. Has it ever occurred to you to question why he shows up here instead of at Red State or one of the other chest-thumper sites? It’s because we are minimally polite enough not to tell him to fuck off.
It’s your business if you want to personally assume the blame for every wrong act ever perpetrated by the government of the US, or white people in general, or even the whole world. Just don’t insist that we all reach for the hand lotion because you like to jerk off to guilt porn.

I’ll just be moving right on past anything he has to write, because I’m too fucking stupid to understand…..

Thanks.

So instead of actually learning from someone who is living with the mistakes made by the US, you’d just as soon sit around and jerk off and pretend it is all sweetness and light. Got it.

No, but don’t discount his perspective because he is not like the 18 year olds you are used to seeing and dealing with.

Yep, just clicking right on past…..

You’re not really helping your argument by getting sarcastic.

As I said three posts ago, when someone starts with a litany of why you are bad and why you should feel bad, the natural instinctive reaction is NOT to say “Yes, you’re right. We’re horrible people.” It’s to say “What the hell is your problem?”

When someone attacks you verbally, you get defensive. Bully for you for managing to overcome the natural reaction.

Which is why I have tried to let people here know Mohammed’s history, to know WHY he might have commented in the fashion he did.

And if someone dumps on me, I guess I’m just supposed to take it and not respond.

Welcome to the discussion.

Do you know dakine01?

We have ‘spoken’ a couple of times over the past few years but I doubt if my comments made any impression on him.

I tend to just lurk and read on most of Siun’s Sunday night posts on Irak/Afghanistan/Middle East.

Easier to learn in those instances than to think I have all of the answers.

“And if someone dumps on me, I guess I’m just supposed to take it and not respond.”

If you provoked the verbal attack, then yes you should take it. Don’t bait the bear and then act surprised when it bites you.

What I responded to is what I perceived as an unprovoked attack – just as I would if someone walked up to me and began haranguing me face-to-face.

That’s cool.

So now you are out of the conversational loop that I hope will begin…

P.S. to Mr. an Mrs. Boggs, will take that conversation to Internetz places other than your fine blog.

Cheers!

Mt

As long as we are paying the taxes that support the occupation, we are in fact enabling the people that are occupying his country.

So yes, we are all collectively guilty, no matter how much we may try to absolve ourselves.

Wow. What an incredibly moronic thing to say. You sound like a parody of a typical liberal, as imagined by the typical RedState commenter. Go fuck yourself.

Greetings and peace to you also dakine01.

Thank you for your welcome – no I do not know dakine01.

Look. I’m not a “typical Red State commenter.” I don’t even read Red State (Mr tbogg performs that sacrifice for me.) I don’t comment often here but I do spend time reading the posts and comment threads.

Maybe this will make you understand. You know how “stubbornestgeezer” acts and comments? Think about it that Mohammed most likely looks on ALL of us as variants of stubbornestgeezer.

We represent the country that was virtually blockading his with the no-fly and sanctions from the time he was born throughout the Clinton Admin. Then a couple of years into his term, BushCo invades his country and occupies it followed by Obama continuing many of the same policies that Bush had with a different face on things but the same actions underneath.

His parents are killed by US “accidents while working with Red Crescent and Guerilla Guides. His younger brother is killed by another US “accident” and he is fired upon by US troops while trying to get his brother to a hospital to save him (unsuccessfully).

How the hell would you feel if that had been your life and experience with the US up to age 18?

He has visited a number of times and is vouched for by many people who comment at FDL. As long as we are paying the taxes that support the occupation, we are in fact enabling the people that are occupying his country.

So yes, we are all collectively guilty, no matter how much we may try to absolve ourselves.

He does not know or care what you may or may not have done as he can’t see any thing but what has happened to those he loved due to the actions of US troops in the occupation.

I have read the conversation between you and the others here with interest. I will start if I may be disagreeing somewhat with what you say here.

There is a difference between culpability and responsibility. To the extent that somebody engages in supports and/or encourages the evil war(s) of aggression that America is waging they are culpable.

In a free society which practises representative government the citizens are responsible for the actions of the government they have chosen to act on their behalf.

I think it is very important that is a difference between culpability and responsibility.

I stand corrected. Thank you.

(Have not wanted to put words in your mouth, just wanted to provide some perspective for others)

What I find interesting about all of this is the immediate defensiveness of the response I received from DennisSGMM. That defensiveness I have found to be very typical of Americans whenever an Iraki says something even mildly critical of America or Americans.

If you read what I first wrote I simply gave information about the perspective of those who have been attacked. I also pointed out that a very basic fact that Eid al Adha and Eid al Fitr are two very different things.

The response to this was immediate defensiveness and what from past experience I concluded was a deliberate misunderstanding and a distortion of what I wrote.

I was not in fact berating anyone here. I was pointing out that for successive commanders in chief of the country whose forces are waging an unprovoked war of aggression and who have committed multiple war crimes in the very recent past and which continue to commit multiple war crimes is grossly hypocritical. If you want to know what somebody is like you should study what they do rather than what they say. The present commander in chief makes nice speeches while the soldiers he commands continue to wage an unprovoked war of aggression the soldiers he commands continue to target and kill unarmed civilians.

Contrary to what DennisSGMM said at no point did I say that Americans are collectively guilty. I leave the belief in collective guilt and the commission of acts of collective punishment of defenceless civilians to American soldiers and to the freely elected American politicians who sent them to my land and whose values they represent and uphold.

As to what I feel for those who slaughtered my family I make no secret of my loathing for them. Nor do I make any secret of my loathing for those who continue to wage an unprovoked war of aggression against my people.

Despite my loathing for those who have attacked me and mine I have always acknowledged that there are individual Americans who have tried, to stop their country from doing evil that they tried is praiseworthy. However praiseworthy their efforts the fact is that they failed.

I believe that until such a time as Americans collectively as a society look at themselves and their fellow Americans and accept that America as a nation committed and continues to commit acts of great evil that those who raise their voices will continue to fail.

I will add that I believe it is in your own interests to do so if you do not admit that you and the society in which you live are capable of committing acts of evil and oppression then you will not guard against and the evil that Americans have committed abroad will start to be committed at home by Americans against Americans.

Peace to you I did not for a moment think that you were not trying to put words into my mouth. :-)

Peace to you I did not for a moment think that you were not trying to put words into my mouth

A bad mistake such as this is what comes of typing too fast.

I meant:

Peace to you I did not for a moment think that you were trying to put words into my mouth.

My apologies for the error which altered completely what I was trying to say.

Hard to think you allow the postings of the vile Mohammed who would destroy American civilization as we know it. The freedom to bring down our country does not constitute freedom of speech. He and his ilk in his World are to be fought until they are repelled from their campaign of Terror against this country. The Constitution does NOT apply to enemy combatants.

You are asked respectfully to wipe the shit off your shoes BEFORE you visit.
American exceptionalism at it’s finest. I can smell the Freedumb™!

This was for you, stubbornestgeezer.

Peace be with you Mohammed. That our country has – twice – been responsible for the deaths of members of your immediate family is unforgivable. I can say that I’m sorry but it will never be enough. We work here to change things so that our country will never again engage in aggressive war – a crime against the Geneva Conventions.

Please excuse the uncivilized behavior of commenters who do not speak with respect for a fellow human being.

Hi Lil’ Stubby!

I thought you’d given yourself a heart attack wackin’ off to pictures of Todd n Sarah.

I wasn’t worried about your welfare though, because, obviously, you are one of the top wage earners in this country and have a very nice health care policy that will cover everything, including wackin’ off to your idols.

Why are you frightened of an 18 year old living thousands of miles away? You don’t have faith in our military? You don’t have faith in our FBI and local law enforcement?

Oh, that’s right, they’re paid for by our taxes and are thus socialist enterprises. Those fuckin’ socialist local police and fire fighters are probably going to just let this 18 year old bomb your fuckin’ trailer.

You sound like a scared little pussy. Be AFRAID! Be AFRAID!

I really have to apologize Lil’ Stubby.

I said you sounded like a “scared little pussy”. That’s not right and completely unfair to little pussies. You actually come across as a BIG PUSSY.

So I stand corrected.

Why are you so scared anyway you big pussy?

Yes! I second you there newtonusr!

Lil’ Stubby IS the American Idol Champion wannabee of Freedumb-speak!

I believe that until such a time as Americans collectively as a society look at themselves and their fellow Americans and accept that America as a nation committed and continues to commit acts of great evil that those who raise their voices will continue to fail.

The problem is, how do we do that, when we have an entrenched, powerful elite of people who control the national dialogue? Anti-war protests by millions are marginalized and anti-healthcare protests by hundreds are lavished attention. Nowadays, our representative government is only representative of those with money and connections, and they’ll defend the military-industrial complex until they die.

Stubbornestgeezer and Mohammad Ibn Laith strike me as opposite sides of the same coin: Not content to wallow alone in their respective cesspits of hate and ignorance, they insist on inflcting it on the rest of us.

Ruthie,
I disagree with your assessment, and will proceed to do so in detail and with great vigor, but before I do, I would only ask that you click on Mohammad Ibn Laith’s name at the head of one of his comments, and read the post which that link opens. Reading dakine01′s comments above might also be informative.

Then, if you wish to make the case that the reasons for the tone of MIL’s posts – unpleasant and confrontational as they most certainly are – are anything like those for the comments by stubbornestgeezer’s* – who is a troll, in my opinion – I would love to read your explanation for why you consider them mirror images.

*I should hasten to add that I am being presumptuous regarding the likely source of stubbornestgeezer’s opinions, since in fact s/he has never gone into detail for the basis of his/her opinions, nor has s/he ever chosen to engage in follow-up discussions in comments. That is why I have dismissed him/her as a troll at this point; sg’s comments are indistinguishable from the drivel that is uttered a million times a day by wingnut opinion leaders and their zombie minions.

I am not ‘resposible’ for what happens in Iraq anymore than I am responsible when the LAPD beats a black motorists.

Nor am I responsible for the drug war that america is fighting.

The only thing I can legally do is vote, and express my opinions, which is, don’t fight illegal wars, don’t commit war crimes when you do fight wars, and make sure criminals get punished.

I am not resposible for the fact that Obama continues to wage war anymore than I am responsible for the OJ Simpson’s trial not guilty verdict.

I don’t have an smidgen of control over any of these things.

Is Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Reagan war criminals? Yes, just like Arafat, Saddam, Bin Laden, khomeni, and nassir.

We all got our war criminals, and every war criminal had a reason for what he did, some much better that others.

I have as much shame for what America does in iraq as i have pride for America landing on the moon.

Which is none, because I had nothing to do with it.

I can certainly understand and respect that someone with Mohammed pain would feel different

Completely public financed elections would be a start.

I also like the idea that Thom Hartmann (please stream his radio broadcast if you’re not in a listening market) is proposing: Congresspeople, while on the floors of their respected venues, wear NASCAR-style jackets with logos of their major corporate donors prominently displayed (with $ and % of donations). And they could be introduced on the floor as “Congressperson X, representing Exxon-Mobile”….

That would be some fun…

As a person who has unearthed false identities before, I find the proposition that this “Mohammed Ibn Laith” is a real 18 year old native of Iraq to be entirely implausible. His grammar and idiom are american style english, and that style is not what has ever been taught overseas. I have searched the net for his writings or for photos, or quotations from actual reporters for any actual physical evidence of his existence, or of facts which corroborate his existence and have found nothing. He appears to be entirely a creature who lives online. I also have found several different locations listed in his own writing for the place of death of his parents.
His domain name is registered anonymously in denmark, and amazingly he is up at 2-4:30 am in the middle of his work week in Iraq. Right.
Oh yeah, the ip address for the server puts it in denmark. Irak my ass.
That being said, i won’t be happy, truly happy, until George Bush, Tony Blair, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest are on trial for war crimes–which will never happen.

you mean to say “an emollient tone” (a quote from his post I linked to above) doesn’t match up with what is being portrayed?

Hmmmmm……

And this dakine01? Does his/her IP also reside in Denmark? Or is he/she just a smuck?

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog._[1-3]

I certainly cannot verify that Mohammed Ibn Laith is who he says he is, or even if he exists. I can very much believe that there exists, somewhere in Iraq, an 18-yo young adult whose family members have been killed in horrible fashion – wars are known to do that sort of thing – and that such a person may have some hard feelings about that (go figure!). For me at least, it is not much of a leap to believe that such a person may find a way to write about that, and to get that writing onto a U.S.-based forum – especially if he has some assistance, as the links below suggest. You may find them credible, or not, as you see fit.

The alleged Mohammed Ibn Laith‘s diary page at FDL (such diaries are now part of FDL’s The Seminal subsite)

The page for FDL author (and “front pager”) Siun, whom I believe has claimed over that past couple years or so to have had some communications with Mohammed Ibn Laith outside of this blog – perhaps folks can contact her with questions regarding Mohammed Ibn Laith. BTW, she posts on Iraq War-related topics on many Sunday evenings, and not to universal acclaim. If you have something to say, might want to wander over there some Sunday evening to share your views.

Google search results list for FDL posts where Mohammed Ibn Laith’s name shows up (69 hits when I checked it, including FDL main site and its sub-sites; some overlap with above).

About that Danish server – This post might offer a clue, specifically comment #-70._[4]
[And really, you'd have to be nuts to site a server in a war zone, especially an area known for intermittent and unreliable electrical service, and limited serviceable cable lines; I suppose the alleged Mohammed Ibn Laith and/or the server he uses could be nestled comfortably inside the Green Zone, but that doesn't seem probable.]

Just curious – from his own perspective, what would be the up-side for the alleged Mohammed Ibn Laith to show his face, or reveal his whereabouts or other personal information, to folks whose military forces allegedly killed a number of his folks? I’m thinking, if I were the alleged person in question, that would put me in the running for a Darwin Award – likely to be given posthumously, alas.

I notice I didn’t address all the questions posed above, such as the ones related to English knowledge. I haven’t a clue about that – maybe Siun could answer it. And as I noted above, I don’t know the (alleged) dude, so this is all so much speculation on my part anyway. But thought I’d get you started on some research, with the links provided above, for either confirmation or refutation, wherever the trail leads. Good Luck!
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[1.] I am a 5’10 red-headed college cheerleader with a 40DD bust, who is totally turned on by anonymous blog commenters._[2]

[2.] Or am I??????

[3.] Who are YOU guys?

[4.] Folks might find Ian Welsh’s entire post informative, and wish to pay particular attention to markfromireland‘s comments. My guess (and it’s only that) is that he runs that Gorilla Guides server that hosts the alleged Mohammed Ibn Laith‘s gruesome {factual or fictional} post.
The nym markfromireland suggests that this person lived in Ireland at some point, but the content of his comment says he lives in Denmark now. I can live with that, but any skeptical readers might want to check out the veracity of that claim as well.

Most likely a schmuck (or an idiot – I can lay claim to either)

I first ran into the false poster thing on John Avarosis’s site Americablog, where he would leave incredibly inflammatory anti gay posts up, yet continued to remove posts from anyone who disagreed with him and had a factual argument to back it up. It didn’t take long for me to start picking apart word choice, vocabulary, and grammar to find Avarosis was his own troll. When i suggested he was trolling in his own comment section to create a controversy, i was promptly banned. Since then, I have always been suspicious of extreme trolling–especially when there is a reference to someone’s less traveled website in the response.

Thankfully Tbogg has a great site because he is both stinking hilarious and dead on.

…especially when there is a reference to someone’s less traveled website in the response.

FWIW, just because GorillaGuides is not a blog you are familiar with does not make it a “less traveled website,” since it is an Iraki centric blog that only occasionally posts English translations.