Terrorist Map OPEN THREAD

Posted by Dean Pajevic | Sep 7, 2005 | 14 |

Terrorist Map Revealed as Parking Map

Truck driver Ahmad El Maati was suspected of ties to Al Qaeda, and detained and allegedly tortured in Syria and Egypt, in part because of the presence of a map of government installations in his truck when he crossed the border in August 2001. The Globe and Mail reports (registration may be required) that the so-called, oft-cited “terrorist map” was, in fact, an outdated parking map for the Tunney’s Pasture government complex in Ottawa. (I worked in Tunney’s Pasture in 1999; it’s not exactly a strategic installation.) Via Cartography. — From The Map Room Blog, which also has many resources on New Orleans Flood Maps

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Dean Pajevic on September 7, 2005 at 5:58 pm

via the NY Daily News – Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown:

Where is Dick?

The mediapolitical complex has been buzzing about the unexplained absence of Vice President Cheney from the Bush administration’s belated display of compassion for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Aside from his fleeting appearance last Thursday during a crisis meeting with the President, Cheney has been missing from the Katrina photo ops that have featured President Bush on two camera-ready Katrina pilgrimages, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on one and even – after much-criticized visits to “Spamalot” and Ferragamo – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on a drop-by to her native Alabama.

And Cheney? Was he sick? Or maybe at one of his undisclosed locations?

Turns out that – until forced on Thursday to cut short his vacation – he’d been in Wyoming, fly-fishing, as the flood waters on the Gulf Coast rose.

Yesterday a wag suggested that Cheney’s wife, Lynne – whose children’s book, “America: A Patriotic Primer,” made liberal use of the alphabet – might be working on a sequel, “A Is for AWOL.”

George Washington University Professor Stephen Hess, a scholar of the presidency, said Cheney’s remarkable invisibility was the subject of lunchroom chatter yesterday at the Brookings Institution.

“Maybe he’s been ducking this one because he wants to keep his shirt clean,” Hess speculated.

Democratic talking head Paul Begala said maybe it’s smart of Cheney to stay behind the scenes.

“Nobody’s going to confuse Dick Cheney with a warm and fuzzy guy,” Begala said. “You’re not going to send him to be comforter-in-chief. He’s the type of guy who would look at them and growl, ‘Life’s tough. Get back to work.’ Plus he’s busy ruining Iraq.”

Nonsense, the veep’s spokesman told me yesterday.

“The vice president returned from Wyoming on Thursday and has been intimately involved in the details of Katrina recovery operations,” the flack said. “[Tomorrow] he will visit the region at the request of the President to assess the recovery efforts.”
- chocolate ink on September 7, 2005 at 7:04 pm
  
  You know what susan I’m starting to think that this a plan by these pricks to purposely seen as uncaring with their fly fishing, house hunting, shoe shopping, guitar playing, cake eating, theater going and Rummy apparently in San Diego monday night(monday night storm hit) at a baseball game…that all of us will have become so worn out by our continual outrage that we all end up so demoralized and depressed we can’t fight them and then they win and take over completely.
  
  And torturing someone over a goddamn parking lot map seems more suited to reading about Mad Magazine..we have 3 years left and as of today my mood is quite suited to revolution and overthrowing the madmen running this country.
  
  I think our revolutionary slogan should come from the Big Lebowski..didn’t the Dude say ‘this will not stand?’
  
  I guess I’m not in the most upbeat of moods today and I’m still trying to find out if the military is really recruiting at the Dome in Houston..I’m assuming of course that they are..as that sounds just obscenely fucken sick enough to be true.
NorthDakotaDemocrat on September 7, 2005 at 7:13 pm

19, songs, 19 artists, such as Aretha F, RLBurnside, CCR, Buckwheat Zydeco, Queen Ida…
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Printed on the CD: "Oh My God... What can one say? Devastation. Misery. Our fellow Americans need our help. Now. Enjoy the music, but please give to"
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I don’t know who produces these, but it’s likely the same people who did one after 9-11. Or so the gal at Red Cross stand on the way in the supermarket said. Bags of the CDs just appear around the city. Nobody seems to know anything else about them. I’m curious if this is a nationwide phenomenon?

I donated $ 20 for the CD as that was what they were asking. “Did I want a Mardi Gras necklace?” “No,” I just couldn’t handle it. (I guess that subconsciously and now consciously I’ve decided to get myself one at the next NO Mardi Gras.)Did I want to be interviewed by the local radio station? No, couldn’t have handled that either.

Then later at the checkout counter, the conversation of two baggers;

First bagger says to the 2nd, “Where’d you get the necklace?”

Second bagger (who’s a mentally challenged midtwenties male (I have great respect for this supermarket as they hire several of these folks on a daily basis.)says, “Oh, I donated to the Red Cross. I’ve got 6.50 left for lunch, but I’m going to skip lunch… and give that too.”

… couldn’t deal with it… good thing the auto was not far from the door…
Dean Pajevic on September 7, 2005 at 7:17 pm

What is Fuckwad Bernard Kerik doing on my television set?

And, what’s more, what is he doing on Chris Matthews show?
- chocolate ink on September 7, 2005 at 8:14 pm
  
  unfortunately even Olberman had him on his show last night…he’s been all over the news as an expert …and your right fuckward he was and still is.. couldn’t these people find anyone else as an expert on police disaster procedures..jesus.
  - chocolate ink on September 7, 2005 at 8:47 pm
    
    He’s doing a Jon Stewart tonight..a timeline of what government officials said/what they were doing interpersed with what was really happening in NO at the same time each day…now that’s reporting.
    
    Great show tonight and making up for Bernie being on yesterday..
janinsanfran on September 7, 2005 at 7:35 pm

Folks in California’s Black city know that the feds would let them die, like NOLA. Pictures from rally yesterday here.

A couple of days have passed since we saw the massed inhumanity of the Superdome and Convention Center, but I am still pissed.
Dean Pajevic on September 7, 2005 at 8:19 pm

Are there archives for Ed Schulz’s show? Larry Johnson was on today.
Dean Pajevic on September 7, 2005 at 8:58 pm

UN RUSHES AID TO FLOOD SURVIVORS IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
New York, Sep 7 2005 4:00PM

The United Nations system continues to rush aid to the Central African Republic (CAR), following devastating August floods that swept the capital, Bangui, ruining over 2,500 homes and affecting nearly 20,000 people.

After appealing to individual donor countries for funds in response to the crisis, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has authorized an emergency grant of nearly $18,000 for the country.

For its part, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), together with a local partner, has distributed 30,000 litres of clean water.

After evaluating the need for specific health measures with UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO) has provided anti-malarial medicines, and is carrying out an information campaign on hygiene, since the floods have increased a number of disease threats. WHO will also provide drugs to national medical facilities, and will work to strengthen an epidemiological monitoring system.

UN agencies have already provided therapeutic high-nutrition biscuits, water purification tablets, jerry cans for clean water, and petrol lamps, which have been distributed through the national Red Cross.

The CAR Government and national Red Cross had asked the UN to provide food, medicines, kitchen utensils, mosquito nets, clothing, blankets, sanitation materials, as well as construction materials for emergency rehabilitation.
olivia on September 7, 2005 at 9:22 pm

Hey guys… I was looking at the ‘most interesting’ flickr photos for the last 24 hours. Take a look at this one by adampsyche: Bush Disaster.
- Yaright on September 7, 2005 at 9:51 pm
  
  That is a damn fine pic. It put a smile on my face.
  
  Thanks for sharing!
  - olivia on September 7, 2005 at 10:09 pm
    
    It is a good one, isn’t it. Glad that it made you smile.
    
    :^)
- chocolate ink on September 7, 2005 at 10:06 pm
  
  thanks for that..picture and headline is absolutely perfect.
  - olivia on September 7, 2005 at 10:14 pm
    
    Smiles are hard to come by, so we’ll take ’em when we can, right?
    
    :^)

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