January 18, 2006
Corruption of the Blood
It's sad and pathetic that after our Predator drone struck the al-Qaeda not-so-safehouse in Pakistan, the local Pakistanis -- likely Pashtuns who share tribal affiliation and ideology with the Taliban, hence al-Qaeda itself -- descended upon the smoking hole like creepsie thieves in the night, spiriting away the bodies in the belief that this would prevent us from identifying who we had killed.
And it worked -- for a couple of days. Long enough for Democrats and their accomplices in the mainstream media to humiliate themselves by crowing that the strike was a total failure because it failed to kill Zawahiri.
But the magical absurdity of such hide-and-seek games is that we don't need the bodies to identify the bloody dead. One thing you can say about Hellfire missiles: they spread a goodly amount of blood, flesh, spinal fluid, and shredded hair around the impact site. And the forensic abbreviation for all of those components is DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, the identifying nucleus of biological cells.
Naturally, with so many body byproducts spread to an even thickness across the ground, it takes a few days to sort one DNA molecule from another, and then to run matches on every individual pattern to find a consanguineous match. But it happens; like the law, forensic gene-matching moves at an orderly pace. And so we now know, bodies or no bodies, that we sent Midhat Mursi "Abu Khabab" al-Sayid 'Umar (the Five Million Dollar Man), Abdul Rehman Al-Misri al Maghribi, and Obaidah al Misri on to Paradise, where they can collect their seventy-two sloe-eyed raisins.
One of the dead was said to be Abdul Rehman Al-Misri al Maghribi, a son-in-law of Zawahri. Maghribi was responsible for al Qaeda's media [propaganda] department.
Another was Midhat Mursi al-Sayid 'Umar, an expert in explosives and poisons who carried a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head under the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Rewards for Justice program....
The third man identified by Pakistani intelligence officers was Abu Obaidah al Misri, al Qaeda's chief of operations in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province, where U.S. and Afghan forces regularly come under attack from militant groups.
Just imagine Goebbels, Speer, and Himmler.
But let's keep this between ourselves and the oven, all right? Let the tribesmen think they've stymied our intelligence collection by hiding the cookie crumbs under the Persian carpet. No matter: the corruption of their blood cries out its guilt.
With 'er 'ead tucked underneath 'er arm,
She walks the bludy Tower;
With 'er 'ead tucked underneath 'er arm,
At the midnight hour!
Kaboom, Abu Khabab.
Hatched by Dafydd on this day, January 18, 2006, at the time of 11:16 PM
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The following hissed in response by: Bill Faith
Thanks for the reminder about other DNA sources, Dafydd. I've linked from Key Jihadis Killed In Pakistan Attack -- Part 2. Of course the Iranians are already organizing a scientific investigation into whether DNA really exists, but what the hell? Tricorder evidence works for me.
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at January 19, 2006 12:19 AM
The following hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh
Bill Faith:
Dang, I wish we had tricorders! And the medical technology of Star Trek... I would love to get rid of all my allergies, obtain perfect vision -- and I'll bet they have liposuction that really rocks!
Dafydd
The above hissed in response by: Dafydd ab Hugh at January 19, 2006 1:36 AM
The following hissed in response by: matoko kusanagi
And we will have it, Dafydd.
Have faith, The Singularity Is Near.
;-)
The above hissed in response by: matoko kusanagi at January 19, 2006 6:08 AM
The following hissed in response by: Sachi
Alo~ha! I know you love that phrase. I just can't get over those 72 raisins.
The above hissed in response by: Sachi at January 19, 2006 3:46 PM
The following hissed in response by: Kathy K
That's 72 WHITE raisins. Buncha bigots.
"Kaboom, Abu Khabab"
Love it.
The above hissed in response by: Kathy K at January 19, 2006 5:36 PM
The following hissed in response by: matoko kusanagi
Sachi, some crypto-linguists think that the ambiguity about virgins/raisins is a "hidden" meaning, implying that in the seventh heaven there is also [forbidden] wine.
;-)
The above hissed in response by: matoko kusanagi at January 19, 2006 7:12 PM
The following hissed in response by: lcmslutheran
I have a suggestion for a template for Al Queda press releases after a drone hit;
1. __________________ (Enter name of target) was not hit. He was not even there. He was in Stockholm accepting a Nobel peace prize.
2. __________________ (Enter number) innocent civilians, including women and children, were killed or maimed from the explosion.
The above hissed in response by: lcmslutheran at January 20, 2006 5:56 AM
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