Nice catch:

His capture led to the arrest of several Islamic terrorists around the world, including 17 men in Canada and two in the US.

Associates linked to Tsouli in the UK have also now been detained. His 10-year jail sentence was increased to 16 years last month.

At first intelligence operatives who came across his activities dismissed him as a joke. It was only when anti-terrorist detectives began trawling through files on his computer after his arrest that they realised his true significance.

He is identified as a college student and the son of a Moroccan diplomat.

In 2005, Tsouli became administrator for the web forum al-Ansat, used by 4,500 extremists to communicate with each other, sharing such practical information as how to make explosives and how to get to Iraq to become a suicide bomber.

I sincerely hope those 4,500 savages are soiling their bedsheets this very moment.

Definitely visit the link just to see the kid's pic. Looks like he may have requested the wooden shampoo.

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He's a "stunt junkie," so he means the guys holding him are going to screw up his BASE jump.

Thanks to dri.

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The stub has no more than that, yet. I'll Google so I can get a name.

And, of course, the party affiliation, which certainly won't be mentioned by AP if it's Democratic.

Update -- Named: And he's a Republican. From Michigan, of course.

A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida and Taliban supporter who has threatened U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan.

The former Republican congressman from Michigan, Mark Deli Siljander, was charged with money laundering, conspiracy and obstructing justice for allegedly lying about lobbying senators on behalf of an Islamic charity that authorities said was secretly sending funds to terrorists.

A 42-count indictment, unsealed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Mo., accuses the Islamic American Relief Agency of paying Siljander $50,000 for the lobbying — money that turned out to be stolen from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Siljander, who served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, was appointed by President Reagan to serve as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations for one year in 1987.

Prosecute him for treason as well, and seek the death penalty.

But of course they won't. Treason's apparently a misdemeanor now.

You could get a ticket for that. And then your auto insurance rates will skyrocket, baby.

Thanks to Infidels Are Cool.

Wikipedia: Some info. He hasn't been a Republican politician since the late eighties. At least there's that.

Siljander was elected by special election as a Representative from Michigan's 4th congressional district to the 97th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of David A. Stockman, and was subsequently reelected to the two succeeding Congresses, serving from April 21, 1981 to January 3, 1987. He was defeated in the 1986 Republican primary by his successor Fred Upton. He served on International Relations Middle East and Africa Subcommittees. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the 100th Congress in 1986.

Siljander was appointed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan as an alternate representative to the United Nations General Assembly, serving from September 1987 to September 1988.

He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1992 for nomination to the 103rd Congress and is a resident of Reston, Virginia.

[edit] Private career

He is president of Global Strategies, Inc., a consulting firm in Washington, D.C., operates an import-export firm, and works as a radio commentator.

[edit] Religion

Siljander takes an interest in conflict resolution, particularly in Islamic countries, and in recent years has tried to publicize the common ground between Christianity and Islam, particularly in the Koran's portrayal of Jesus. This is a turnaround from a previous position in which he objected to the Koran being read at a prayer breakfast, asking the emcee: "How can you read the book of the devil at a prayer breakfast?" [1] He is widely traveled, and claims to have visited over 120 countries.[2] Siljander is also one of the few American politicians to have visited Libya in recent years.

[edit] 2008 indictment

On January 16, 2008 Siljander was indicted[3] for his role in helping the Islamic American Relief Agency raise more than $130,000 that was allegedly sent to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.[4] Siljander faces charges of money laundering, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying to investigators about lobbying senators on behalf of the charity.

Next question, I guess, is who it was he lobbied, and what results he got.

Thanks to kratatoa for suggesting the wikipedia check.

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Not exactly "guns blazing," here, but at least he's critical of Bush.

A little too gently for my taste -- he accuses the DoJ of the sin of "overlawyering" -- but I guess he's putting it out there. Sort of.

Thanks to dri.

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By which I assume he means "black people loved him, but that love was not reciprocated, and he sought to keep their relationship in the dark."

Of course, he may have meant something else, too.

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The New York Times doesn't spare the horses in rushing to once again blame deaths and murders upon a population cohort of whom they don't approve.

The NYT has a lot of problems with the most basic sort of comparative statistics, doesn't it? At least when it comes to the military and home-schoolers and other Undesirables.

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The Deciders:

FAIRFIELD, Conn., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new Sacred Heart University Poll of 800 Americans nationwide finds the public and the media may be increasingly divided in perceptions of success in Iraq.

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Nearly three-quarters of all Americans surveyed, 70.7%, indicated they strongly or somewhat agreed that negative media reporting damages troop morale.

Over half of all survey respondents, 59.8%, agreed (strongly or somewhat) that negative media coverage damages prospects for success in Iraq because it encourages terrorists, and about half, 49.1%, agreed (strongly or somewhat) that things are likely going better for the U.S. than the U.S. media portrays.

Over one-third of those surveyed, 38.3%, agreed that media coverage of the Iraq conflict is accurate and under one-third, 31.2%, agreed that the coverage is fair and balanced.

Military officials slightly edge out U.S. news media - 30.8% to 28.3% -- when Americans surveyed were asked who they consider most likely to provide trustworthy and balanced reporting on the Iraq conflict. Others said U.S. government officials (4.8%) and foreign news media (20.8%).

The new improved Five O'Clock Follies are the reports of the MSM itself. The actual briefings by the military are much more reliable.

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It's not quite as crazy as the headlines suggests, as the hospital says the rectal exam was a way of checking for spinal cord injury.

But the man repeatedly said "Please don't do that" and ultimately had to be handcuffed for this procedure. Sure, the guy suffered a head injury and might not be quite lucid, but don't they have any alternative procedures for something as easily-checked as spinal trauma? Did they really have to handcuff the guy and restrain him to go plunging into his squeaker?

I'm reading the details of this case and I still can't get over how frightening this all is.

Did I say "frightening"? I meant "hot."

Thanks to MichaelB.

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I'm not really believing any of this, but Armed Liberal at Winds of Change is almost ready to eat crow and say that something hinky happened when counting the votes in New Hampshire.

Or maybe I should believe it. It's pretty easy to rig elections. Really it only takes the will to do it, and of course local officials sympathetic to one's cause. I guess my constant annoyance with these conspiracy theories is that it's the Democrats who have long practiced that devious art of machine politics and ballot-box stuffing; Republican-controlled districts are relatively clean compared to anything-goes urban districts controlled by Democrats.

So if Kucinich can finally unmask this long history of Democrats tampering with the vote... kudos to him.

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Via Hot Air, which notes this post at The Corner:

The race isn't over yet. Romney is still well behind McCain in South Carolina — why let him look gracious in defeat when you can give your victory speech and pre-empt a free-media opportunity for your opponent? Yeah, maybe it looks mean, but this is what you do if you want to win. Politics isn't about making friends.

Good advice, yo. I won't say the obvious but you all know what I'm thinking.

And Hot Air of course has the video of Russert being heckled at the Democratic debate for daring to ask about the quite-public racial tensions that have overtaken it.

How dare a member of the media air the Democrats' dirty laundry in a public forum? Don't they know they're supposed to keep that quiet?

Oh -- and Huck's supporters are of course now push-polling against both Mitt and Fred.

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