It's still not clear if he's a real cop, or a Sunni acting in a tribal non-official authority.

Still, E&P goes beserk over the story, bashing bloggers by citing the maybe-possibly reportage of... another blogger.

Newsbusters notes this isn't proof, even if we take Hussein to be a real live person, of the underlying allegation, i.e., that six Sunnis were burned alive at a mosque attack. Something AP, and only AP, reports.

I never thought Jamil Hussein was simply made-up. I always believed the Iraqi government and the US military -- that there was no "Police Captain Jamil Hussien" on MOI payrolls, and therefore there was no real Police Captain Jamil Hussein.

We'll see if he turns out to be an actual policeman or just a Sunni assuming some unofficial liason function.

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Minor content warning for this SNL clip at HotAir.

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No offense, but does anyone else believe he or she could take over as a behavioral profiler on 24 hours notice? Ummm, white male, 20-35 years old, lives alone, is kind of weird, probably enjoys killing people.

DETECTIVES hunting the Ipswich Ripper believe he is hooked on bondage and extremely violent sex acts.

The maniac may have been well known to the five murdered prostitutes - having paid each large sums in the past to satisfy his perverted S&M obsession. Murder squad officers are questioning a handful of men but are especially anxious to speak to a Scotsman in his 50s who drives a large black car and may live locally. They have been told he paid Ripper victim Paula Clennell up to £350 a time to beat her with a cane - and once left her badly injured.

A source said yesterday: "This man is believed to have a fetish for violent kinky sex.

"Some witnesses claimed he attacked 24-year-old Paula so violently on one occasion she was unable to work for several days.

"It could be pure coincidence but at this stage detectives are ruling nothing out."

One theory police are working on is that part of the killer's savage S&M routine involves choking the girls to give himself a sexual thrill.

The source added: "Bondage and fetishes has become a key line of questioning.

"Obviously, whoever did this probably did not have conventional sexual tastes."

Don't judge me.

Posted by: Ace at 08:31 AM | Comments (21)
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Posting this in the vain hope that some of you drooling troglodytes have two sparking neurons to rub together.

It's not so easy to get a good flame thread launched on this here Moronblog anymore. Some of you idiots have forged alliances and...and... (cough) friendships. Meaningful ones, based on mutual admiration.

"I like pudding!"

-"I like pudding too!"

(heavy breathing and gooey smacking noises)

It's revolting. I don't know why I keep coming to this place.
Retards.

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Yup. Things sure are lookin' up for ol' Palestine:

Violent clashes continued in the Gaza Strip late Sunday, even after officials from the feuding Hamas and Fatah factions announced that a cease-fire agreement had been reached.

I know, I know, that sounds bad, but I'm sure there's a good explanation. Somebody probably just forgot to tell the masked gunmen that it was time to stop slaughtering one another. They'll stop as soon as they find out.

But even after the truce was signed, gunfire could still be heard near Abbas' offices in Gaza City, witnesses said. Other bystanders reported a major gun battle near Fatah official Mohammed Dahlan's house in Gaza. Also, minutes after the cease-fire deal was announced, word came that a Palestinian Authority security officer abducted earlier in the day had been executed.

Oh.

Well...jeez, I'll admit: This doesn't bode well. But they must want the ceasefire to work, right? I mean, wouldn't they rather work at creating a viable economy and safe atmosphere to raise their kids in instead of running around like an angry mob of Huns? Don't they know how awesome it would be to have universal health care?

Maybe they just need some gun control laws.

Hamas gunmen opened fire at a large political rally by the rival Fatah movement earlier Sunday, wounding three people, Palestinian security officials said. An estimated 100,000 Fatah supporters were participating in the rally...Also Sunday, two mortar shells were fired at a Force 17 postition near Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' residence in Gaza, wounding four members of the elite presidential guard. Abbas is currently in the West Bank.

You know what? Fuck it. Getting these guys to stop killing each other is like trying to make your autistic brother stop passing gas in church. You explain why it's wrong, and he says he understands, and then you get there and he lays a fart right in the middle of II Corinthians.

The truce was announced at a press conference in Gaza City after midnight, but representatives of Fatah and Hamas did not appear at the conference, leaving the announcement to Rabbah Muhanna, a senior official in the small Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. "Both sides are serious about the agreement," Muhanna assured reporters.

He then went on to add: "And anyway, why are we fighting one another when we could be fighting the Jew?"

Peace: So close you can taste it.

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Surf music fans will recognize the lead guitarist with the totally sweet Fender Jaguar as Mel Waldorf from Los Mel-Tones.

More about them here.

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Maxim tells you six places you can live well on a pittance.

Apparently you can spend a year on Tonga for like, seven bucks.

No driverÂ’s license? Who gives a shit? YouÂ’re in Tonga! In an effort to kick-start their typically craptastic island economy, the government lures capital investment by offering foreign devils 15-year tax exemptions to set up shop.

I can live with that. Can't buy land anyway, fuck do I care whether its because I'm white or because I'm a woman. And as highly educated as the people are said to be, I'm pretty sure I could be a doctor on their island.
So Tonga looks pretty nice. Even if I look like pasty shit next to the beautiful polynesian natives. Wait, no.
Ok. That's a dealbreaker, right there.
I need to find a place with ugly people.

The Ecuadoran economy is so firmly ensconced in the shitter that the government scrapped its local currency for the U.S. dollar six years ago. Fifteen bucks a day keeps you housed and fed and puts the Andes in your backyard.

The other entries are pretty good too.

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Well he was a spy, wasn't he?

friend of Alexander Litvinenko said he believes the former Russian agent was murdered because he possessed allegedly damaging information about a high-ranking Kremlin figure, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported Saturday.

Yuri Shvets, a former KGB agent now based in the United States, said he and Litvinenko had worked together providing confidential background information for international companies before possible investment in Russia. Shvets told the BBC his friend was poisoned after an eight-page dossier complied by Litvinenko — which allegedly contained sensitive material and has now been given to Scotland Yard — was leaked to the unnamed figure in Moscow.

Shvets said that his friend showed the dossier to Andrei Lugovoi, a former KGB agent and one of the men he met at a London hotel on Nov. 1, the day Litvinenko fell ill.

Showing Lugovoi the report "triggered the assassination," Shvets said. He told the BBC that he believed Lugovoi was still working for the Russian security services, and had leaked the information to the man in Moscow.

Via Michael's Comments, which thinks the BBC is guilty of misreporting in claiming actress Natasha Lyonne threatened to sexually molest someone's dog.

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Good piece on how long it takes to build up a professional army from scratch.

Bad news: It takes about 12 years.

Thanks to RTO Trainer.

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I mean, today's the last day.

Just a couple hundred more...

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