Barack Osama..oops I mean , Bin Laden

By now most of us have seen the new YouTube offering by Bin Laden.
I only wish I Could get ahold of the dope he's doing.
I'm kidding.
I'm already paranoid.

But seriously, aside from murdering innocent women and children, what has this guy got going for himself?
It's good that he drops in once in a while.
Maybe it will help find him.
And maybe it will reinvigorate the war on terror.
It couldn't hurt.

Osama bin Laden said in a new video marking the sixth anniversary of al Qaeda's September 11 attacks the United States was vulnerable despite its military and economic power, but he made no specific threats.

In his first video appearance for almost three years, the al Qaeda leader said U.S. President George W. Bush was repeating the mistakes of the former Soviet Union by refusing to acknowledge losses in Iraq.

In a sign that the almost 30-minute tape, acquired by Reuters Television from a web trawler in Europe, was made recently, bin Laden mentions new French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Its authenticity could not immediately be verified, although an excerpt seen by Reuters matched a still photograph carried by an al Qaeda-linked Web site which advertised the tape in advance.

"Despite America being the greatest economic power and possessing the most powerful and modern military arsenal, and despite it spending on this war and its army more than the entire world spends on its armies, and being the major state influencing the world's policies ... 19 young men were able ... to change the direction of its compass," bin Laden said in the tape.

"The subject of the mujahideen has become an inseparable part of the speech of your leader and the effects and signs are not hidden. Since the 11th, many of America's policies have come under the influence of the mujahideen."

The video shows bin Laden sitting at a table dressed in white and cream robes and wearing white headgear. Beneath him, a banner on the screen reads in English: "A message from Sheikh Osama bin Laden to the American people."

Bin Laden appears tired and sallow, though his beard is much shorter and darker than in his last appearance, when it was streaked with grey.

White House spokesman Tony Fratto said the tape demonstrated that "terrorists are out there and they are actively trying to kill Americans and threaten our interests."

The Mainstream Won't Run it...

But we will.
Here's the comic that "offended the Muslims".

Worried they couldn't expect much interest in the two women's quarterfinals coming Wednesday -- 2004 champion Svetlana Kuznetsova against 18-year-old Agnes Szavay of Hungary, and No. 6 Anna Chakvetadze against No. 18 Shahar Peer -- U.S. Open officials changed things up. With both players' approval, they shifted the quarterfinal between six-time major champion Venus Williams and No. 3 Jelena Jankovic from Tuesday to Wednesday night!

I personally would rather watch Shahar on her worst day than Williams on her best.

Israel has arrived big time in this year's U.S. Open Tennis championships.
Shahar Peer may well go all the way!!
And she's a member of the IDF!!!
By Jason Brown
Saturday, September 1, 2007



Sometimes great defense beats a great offense.
5701 miles from New York City, at 2 a.m. local time in the capital city of Jerusalem, a proud nation watched one of their own reach a significant milestone, as Peer became the first player from Israel to advance to the Round of 16 of the US Open.

Making her debut under the bright lights of Arthur Ashe Stadium, the 18th-seeded Peer withstood the challenge of Czech star Nicole Vaidisova, winning a marathon three-set classic, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(5).

An evenly-matched contest featuring two of tennis’s rising young stars marked the first evening women’s match in six days to go three sets.

A back and forth contest that lasted 2 hours and 32 minutes, Vaidisova struck 39 winners past Peer, but was ultimately undone by 56 unforced errors, including an errant stroke into the net on match point.

Peer began playing tennis as a six-year-old growing up in Macabim and began her Israeli Army military training in November 2005.

With countrywoman Tzipora Obziller, Peer is one of two Israeli women ranked in the Top 100, and the only remaining in the draw.

Three players from Israel are entered in the 2007 US Open main singles draw – Peer, 97th ranked Obziller, and 118th-ranked men’s player Dudi Sela.

Jonathan Erlich, Harel Levy, and Andy Ram are competing in the men’s doubles draw, while countryman Noam Okun was a men’s singles qualifier.

View Israel’s 8 participants using the Continental Country Scoreboard.

Working on a career-best result at the US Open – Peer reached the fourth round in 2006 and the third round in 2005 – the 20-year-old will meet No. 30 seed Agnieskza Radwanska with a berth in the quarterfinals at stake.

Radwanksa, an 18-year-old from Krakow, Poland, stunned defending champion Maria Sharapova earlier in the day, breaking the bottom half of the women’s draw wide open.

The winner of Peer-Radwanksa will play either sixth seed Anna Chakvetadze or 43rd-ranked Tamira Paszek in the quarterfinals.