Tension and heated debate circled yesterday as the Rutgers University Student Assembly discussed a motion to reconsider a vote recently passed by RUSA allowing the University Chapter of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund to have the rights to the semi-annual meal sign-away program.

Concerned University students and some RUSA members said that the PCRF, an international humanitarian group that provides Middle Eastern children affected by war with medical care, should not be allowed the right to the sign-away program because they are a highly political international group.

After each side spoke and answered questions for about 10 minutes, they were asked to conclude discussions. Following the meeting in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus, the discussions turned contentious as members shouted outside room 411 of the student center.

Kerri Willson, associate director for Student Centers and Programs, tried to calm both sides but they continued to hotly debate the issue for a few more minutes.

“RUSA has shied away from controversy, from taking stances on political issues,” School of Arts and Sciences junior Tali Rasis said. “I can’t think of a more controversial international issue, or definitely among the top that is going on right now.”

Dialla Hamzeh, the PCRF University chapter’s treasurer, said the organization was upset to hear that students were opposed to helping the organization.

“We were actually shocked when we heard this, especially at Rutgers, because we are so diverse,” said Hamzeh, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “We don’t think [any of the information] is substantial.”

Rasis said PCRF’s founder and President Stephen Sosebee had comments on his blog that indicated he and the PCRF are a partisan organization, which is not a group RUSA should support.

“He supports forceful resistance. That shows clearly [PCRF is] not a neutral group; they’re very much for one side,” she said. “That’s not something RUSA should be fighting [for].”

There were also allegations that the organization had ties with terrorist groups in the past because of their relationship with the Holy Land Foundation, which was brought up on charges in 2007 for funding Hamas, a terrorist group, said RUSA member Avi Scher, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

“It’s the international organization I have a problem with, not the Rutgers chapter,” Rasis said.

But Ghadeer Hasan, president of the University chapter of the PCRF, said these accusations are false and did not come from substantial sources.

“I don’t think we should make a decision over a blog, just anything off the Internet that has no credibility at all,” said Hasan, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “The PCRF works with the FBI, the treasury department, the Isreali embassy and the Egyptian embassy — none of which we would be able to do if we were funding terrorists or were linked to terrorists.”

She said the PCRF did work with the Holy Land Foundation many years ago, but its only relationship to the group was to help a child.

“Where is the controversy over the right of a child to health care?” Hasan said. “I don’t really see controversy over giving a child a second chance at life.”

RUSA is expected to consider the issue over the weekend and make a decision on Monday through an e-mail vote.
Updates will be posted on dailytargum.com as they become available.

Notice how supporters of the original vote are trying to stifle the debate by portraying this as an attack on diversity – rather than a legitimate concern. They are also trying to undermine the allegations against the PCRF by blanket statements against internet-based sources  – instead of addressing each one on its merits. As for the claim that the PCRF’s only connection with the Holy Land Foundation “was to help a child”, this flies in the face of this NY Times report (which I assume was published in print as well as on the internet).

I encourage students at Rutgers University, as well as other interested parties, to review the available information as I presented in my previous post on the subject. Then I recommend you look again at the statement that the PCRF “provides Middle Eastern children affected by war with medical care” and specifically ask the University chapter of the PCRF to demonstrate when exactly they have assisted Israeli children. The more ambitious of you could contact Stephen Sosebee and ask him to categorically deny he made the alleged statements in the 2000 news article, as well as at the fundraising dinner.

I then ask those of you able to vote on this issue to do so with your conscience.

With a one-vote difference, the University Chapter of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund won the rights to the Rutgers University Student Assembly’s semi-annual Meal Sign-Away program at last Thursday’s meeting in the Student Activities Center.

RUSA members listened to members of finalist organizations including the International Medical Relief Fund and the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, before making a final decision.

Once the winning organization meets with Executive Director of Dining Services Charles Sams, they can set up a table at dining halls and ask students to sign away no more than two meals for the their cause, Assembly Treasurer Yousef Saleh said.

“It was a very tough choice, especially since both groups have such admirable missions,” said Assembly Chair Werner Born, a School of Engineering senior. “The main difference students saw in the groups [were] the types of medical relief they administer. Both goals are equally important for our University to support.”

He said he thinks what caught the attention of students was that the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund pursues larger medical surgeries that heal disabilities, which obstruct children from enjoying their youths.

The University chapter’s Public Relations Chair Lauren Miller found the Assembly receptive to the organization.
“They were interested in what we’re about, where the funds were going to go and how efficiently we were going to be tabling,” said Miller, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “We’re a new organization, and we’re excited about our cause, and we will find as many donations as we possibly can.”

Their group has 30 members who regularly come to meetings, but they have a larger base who table regularly at their bake sales, she said. The group also has a listserv of more than 100 members.

The fund’s University chapter formed this fall and is the first student-run local organization for the non-political, non-partisan international fund, which began in 1991, University Chapter President Ghadeer Hasan said.

“The main objective of the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund is to give relief to all the children in the Middle East. Initially, it started with Palestinian youth but expanded to children in Iraq and all children in [the] Middle East,” said Hasan, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

The organization fulfills these goals by finding volunteer doctors to go to the locations abroad that need medical support and bringing children abroad to where they can get treatment, she said.

“The [fund] also brings children abroad from the Middle East to Europe or America for specialized care,” Hasan said. “When they bring children abroad, they make all the appointments, find doctors [and] find places to stay. The hospital and the doctor volunteer their time for these children.”

The fund runs on a small budget with less than $2 million annually; this year its budget is estimated to be $1 million, she said. The actual value of services is about $69 billion.

“More than 800 children were brought abroad for care since its inception, and in 2008 more than 1,000 children last year had surgery or treatment with more than 3,000 going through expert medical screening and evaluation,” Hasan said.

She said she was excited for the opportunity to raise funds through meal sign-aways.

“[Winning the meal sign-aways] is an amazing opportunity and we’re planning to make the most out of it. We don’t have too many members yet — [only about] 20 members — but we’re asking other organizations to help us out,” Hasan said.

They asked members from organizations, like University volunteer organization Circle K, to help out their cause, she said.
“We’re going to raise money, but what’s more important is that we raise awareness of the organization for their work abroad,” Hasan said.

Leaving aside the blatant lie that the PCRF is “to give relief to all the children in the Middle East” (I do not recall even one Israeli child ever being provided with relief by them), it has been affiliated with the Holy Land Foundation, shut down by the US government because it was suspected of funneling donations to terrorist organizations. In fact, according to the American Jewish Committee, the Holy Land Foundation – which along with three other Islamic charities was found liable for the 1996 murder of 16-year-old American David Boim by Hamas terrorists – tried unsuccessfully in 2004 to divert some of its frozen assets to the PCRF.

While the PCRF now makes a point of stating it’s adherence to the US Treasury Anti Terrorist Financing Guidelines, terrorism seems to be a recurring theme with the PCRF and it’s personnel. According to this site (but provided with supporting links from other sites I found), there are many troubling links between PCRF personnel and terrorism, including (but not limited to) the following:

• PCRF President Steve Sosebee was quoted in a 2000 news article saying: “I thought that this (the PCRF) was a good way to contribute to the struggle and provide humanitarian service at the same time”.
• In 2003 at a fundraising dinner held by the American Friends of Palestine, Sosebee won an award for “his work for Palestinian children and said: “I just want to thank you and will continue until Palestine is free”.
• During a lecture at the Zayed International Centre for Coordination and Follow-Up (ZCCF), Sosebee charged that a “Zionist lobby and Zionist influence” manipulated the U.S. government, its citizens and media.
• Former PCRF spokesperson Rosemary Davis aka Shadya Hantouli ran a website with a photo gallery of suicide bombers called “Palestine4Ever.”

I am guessing the Rutgers decision to sponsor the University Chapter of the PCRF was made without knowledge of these terrorism ties. So I encourage Israellycool reader Mikey – who first drew my attention to the decision – and others like him to write to Rutgers and express their concerns.

And if I am wrong and the decision was made with full knowledge of these problematic connections, the situation on campus is even worse than I thought.

“Nor has a single week gone by in which I have not reaffirmed my conviction that had he not lost his life on that terrible November night, within three years we would have had a comprehensive agreement for peace in the Middle East.”

Interesting theory, given that Rabin himself would have opposed many of the concessions Israel has subsequently stated it is willing to make.

Meanwhile, Clinton also said:

“We are either going to hurt each other or we are going to help each other,” he said of the two foes. “Divorce is not an option.”

Just as likely part of a conversation he had with his wife.

Updates (Israel time; most recent at top)

10:10PM:Ynetnews reports:

An Iranian website reported Sunday that Iranian General Ali Reza Asgari who defected to the West is being held in prison in Israel.

According to the report, an investigation by Iranian security officials showed that “Asgari was kidnapped by the Mossad in cooperation with the British and German intelligence services, and was ultimately transferred to Israel.”

The report was published on the “Alef” news website, which is affiliated with conservative parliament member Ahmad Tavakkoli, one of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s main critics.

Alef is not a state website, but is considered a relatively credible source.

Hey, I think that guy works in the falafel store down the road..

9:42PM: Tel Aviv has banned horse-drawn carriages.

Yeah, I didn’t realize this was a pressing issue either.

6:35PM: Rutgers is sponsoring a terror-supporting organization.

4:45PM: Ha’aretz continues it’s anti-religious campaign with a report containing this inflammatory headline:

IDF Chief Rabbi: Troops who show mercy to enemy will be ‘damned’

Only if you read the report do you get an idea of the context of this purported statement.

The Israel Defense Forces’ chief rabbi told students in a pre-army yeshiva program last week that soldiers who “show mercy” toward the enemy in wartime will be “damned.”

Brig. Gen. Avichai Rontzki also told the yeshiva students that religious individuals made better combat troops.

Speaking Thursday at the Hesder yeshiva in the West Bank settlement of Karnei Shomron , Rontzki referred to Maimonides’ discourse on the laws of war. That text quotes a passage from the Book of Jeremiah stating: “Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord with a slack hand, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.”

In Rontzki’s words, “In times of war, whoever doesn’t fight with all his heart and soul is damned – if he keeps his sword from bloodshed, if he shows mercy toward his enemy when no mercy should be shown.”

In other words, the Rabbi is stating that troops should fight hard and show no mercy when no mercy should be shown. And while there is no elaboration on when this should apply, it seems the Rabbi is not making a blanket statement about troops never showing mercy.

Without having heard the Rabbi’s words, I am not qualified to definitively say what he meant. But it looks to me like Ha’aretz are trying to “spin” his words.

12:40PM: You may recall last week I posted about aspiring Rabbi/boxer Yuri Foreman who was out to become the first Jewish world boxing champion in 30 years.

Well, I’m happy to report he did it.

Coming soon: Fellow Orthodox-Jewish boxer Dmitriy Salita takes on British-Muslim Amir Khan for the WBA light-welterweight crown in Newcastle, England on December 5!

6:20AM: More footage from the 9-11 memorial dedication in Jerusalem last week, including a description of the design.

South African jurist Richard Goldstone lambasted President Shimon Peres on Thursday for a personal attack on him, which the president launched in response to a damning report he compiled on the Israel’s winter offensive in Gaza.

“I would say that the President’s comments are specious and ill-befitting the Head of the State of Israel,” Goldstone said in an interview with Haaretz.

“I am content to be judged by my actions over the course of my career both in terms of my professional judicial career and my voluntary service.”

Updates (Israel time; most recent at top)

9:25AM: The nutty pro-terror.

12:58AM: A new monument in memory of the victims of 9-11 has been dedicated in Jerusalem.

“All the feelings that we’ve been through came back to me, tears simply fell from my eyes,” said Miriam Avraham, who lost her daughter Alona in the New York City World Trade Center attack eight years ago. Abraham attended a ceremony dedicating a new Jerusalem monument in memory of the victims of the September 11 attack on the United States.

The monument, which was designed by artist Eliezer Weishoff at an estimated cost of NIS 10 million ($2.6 million) is nine meters high and is made up of a waving American is transformed into a memorial flame. This is one of the only monuments outside of the US that features the names of all the 2,980 victims of the attacks as well as their home countries. Five Israelis are among the dead.

Weishoff began thinking of a way to honor the memories of the terror attack’s victims eight years ago. He originally thought of designing a medallion. After receiving then Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert’s blessing and the approval of environmental organizations, the sculptor contacted the Jewish National Fund and built the monument together with the JNF.

“The concept was a burning torch with the American flag waving with its folds creating the upward flow of lines,” Weishoff explained, “I made sure that the New York City municipality sent us a piece of the ruins from the Twin Towers and we planted it as a basis for the statue itself.”

This is not the first time Weishoff’s work is dedicated to terror victims. He also designed the monument commemorating the three women killed in the Apropo coffee house bombing in Tel Aviv in 1997.

The Jerusalem monument is not the only one in Israel dedicated to the victims of September 11. Rishon Lezion, Ness Ziona and Beersheba all have monuments commemorating the victims.

When Yasser Arafat was on his deathbed, his wife Suha read him passages from the Koran and urged him to trounce the prime minister at the time, Ariel Sharon.

“When he lost consciousness for 15 days, the doctors told me to talk to him about things he liked to hear or things he hated to hear,” she told a Saudi women’s weekly ahead of the fifth anniversary this week of the Palestinian leader’s death.

“And so, when I was with him in his room in the intensive care unit, I read him passages from the Koran and prayers.”

Using his nom de guerre, Suha Arafat said in a rare interview: “I would say to him, ‘Get up Abu Amar, don’t you want to see your [daughter] Zahwa? Get up so you can defeat your enemy [Ariel] Sharon.”

Suha was honored to be Yasser Arafat’s second love, after Palestine, she said.

“When I married him, I knew what I was in for,” she said. “I knew that his first love was always Palestine and its capital, Jerusalem. But it was an honor for me to be the second love, after Palestine.”

When Suha first met Yasser, she was frightened, she told the paper.

“At the beginning I was attracted to the leader of the revolution, then to the courage and masculinity and intelligence, and then also to the romance there was in him,” she said.

“I hope he went to paradise.”

Which brings me to…

The Top 5 Things Suha Arafat Did Not Say to A Comatose Yasser Arafat

5. “The young boys send their regards.”

4. “If you wake up, I promise to cut down on my spending.”

3. “I miss your soft skin.”

2. “This must be the longest you have gone without washing.”

1. “How I wish we could play “tiger” again.”

A military official told the AP that Hasan’s family has Palestinian roots. ABC News reported on Friday that Hasan’s grandfather moved to the United States in the 1940s.

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Relatives said he felt harassed because of his Muslim faith but did not embrace extremism. Others were not so sure. A recent classmate said Hasan once gave a jarring presentation to students in which he argued the war on terrorism was a war against Islam, and “made himself a lightning rod for things” when he felt his religious beliefs were challenged.

Investigators were trying to piece together how and why Hasan allegedly gunned down his comrades in the worst case of violence on a military base in the US The rampage unfolded at a center where some 300 unarmed soldiers were lined up for vaccines and eye tests.

Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that reported that the gunman shouted “Allahu Akbar!” before opening fire, the base commander said Friday.

Lt. Gen. Robert Cone said officials had not yet confirmed that the suspected shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, made the comment, which is Arabic for “God is great!” before the rampage Thursday, which left 30 people wounded, including the gunman.

Faizul Khan, a former imam at a mosque Hasan attended in Silver Spring, Maryland, said Hasan, a lifelong Muslim, was a committed soldier, gave no sign of extremist beliefs and regularly wore his uniform at prayers.

“I got the impression that he was a committed soldier,” Khan said. He spoke often with Hasan about his desire for a wife.

On a form filled out by those seeking spouses through a program at the mosque, Hasan listed his birthplace as Arlington, Virginia, but his nationality as Palestinian, Khan said.

“I don’t know why he listed Palestinian,” Khan said, “He was not born in Palestine.”

(So what? Even the UN includes in its definition of a “palestinian refugee” those not even born in “Palestine.”)

Then there’s this:

Hasan’s relatives who live in the Palestinian territories have said they had heard from family members that Hasan felt mistreated in the Army as a Muslim.

“He told (them) that as a Muslim committed to his prayers he was discriminated against and not treated as is fitting for an officer and American,” said Mohammed Malik Hasan, 24, a cousin, told the AP from his home on the outskirts of Ramallah, a Palestinian city north of Jerusalem. “He hired a lawyer to get him a discharge.”

Meanwhile (and alarmingly), the terrorist was apparently an invited guest to a public address in Washington by the Israeli Ambassador to the US, Sallai Meridor earlier this year.

From a poster on Free Republic (hat tip: RBP).

Nidal Malik Hasan was apparently an invited guest to a public address in Washington by the Israeli Ambassador to the US, Sallai Meridor. Shooter Hasan took a seat in the second row nearly across from the Ambassador and one of the participants Yonah Alexander of Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies (also professor of international studies and director of the Institute for Studies in International Terrorism at the State University of New York)—the program ironically called “Combating Terrorism”. It is my impression or at least some level of concern that the Israeli Ambassador, other anti-terrorist officials and VIPs at that event may have been in some level of danger. I have analyzed the video in detail. In addition to the link above, I provide my own outtakes from said January event in Washington.

The poster links to this C-Span video (non-embeddable) with the following commentary:

Details: Hasan had been an active participant, and invited general guest, to such policy seminars featuring VIPs on the issue of TERRORISM and HOMELAND SECURITY, between the period of June 2008 and February 2009. As has been reported on FR and elsewhere, his name is listed in the proceedings. On one of these occasions, which may well be on tape, terrorist Hasan asked a question which apparently turned into either a ramble or a rant, and he was cut off by the Director of the policy group. (This may well have been in support of Islam or against US policy). On two known occasions, both on 3 December 2008 and again on 9 January 2009, Hasan took a position close to the speakers dais at these by invitation events, and appears in photographs and videos in his US Army BDU uniform. I am not sure of the specific executive security situation at GWU in Washington not far from the White House the day of this event, if there were metal detectors or what not, but it does appear the Israeli Ambassador had personnel protection nearby which may have hindered a possible attack by Maj. Hasan, who nevertheless could well have been armed and dangerous at the time—knowing what we know now. I invite you to look at his movements and demeanor of Hasan in this video, and follow my comments. Others may also have comments or notice things I did not. This is a group effort, let us all try our best to interpret events.

00:13 Shooter in second row from front directly in front of Ambassador and Dr. Alexander.

06:24 Video shows, in the upper center, US Army Major dressed in BDU, looking down, as he is seated in the second row. Either taking notes, or in deep thought.

31:40 to 32:03 Clear view of Hasan from back of room, looking down the whole time, on right in military uniform.

75:00 to 75:25 Very Clear close up view of Major Hasan! It is him.

84:10 Moderator asks, in accordance with security measures, that everyone “please remain seated” while Ambassador Meridor leaves

84:23 Moderator demands AGAIN, that everyone remain seated as Ambassador leaves the event, followed closely behind by one special detail agent, either Secret Service or more likely Israeli Embassy protection (green shirt/tie).

84:35 Hasan, relatively close to the departing Ambassador, one of a few to disregard the request, slowly starts to rise, as some VIPs in front of him are shaking hands with the leaving diplomat, provoking the moderator a THIRD time to tell him and the audience to sit down as told. Hasan can be seen sitting down, through the crowd, as told.

85:12 Hasan looks straight into the camera, he is in the center of the view, spotlight on his bald head which shines. His demeanor and facial manner have an odd, dark nature about them. The Ambassador has left the immediate area and is exiting the auditorium.

Whenever this Hasan appears in the video, he did not look like a happy camper. We may suspect, in his Salafist Fundamentalist rage, he may well have been seething inside at the positions expressed by the Ambassador; this event was right during an Israeli flare up with Hamas Palestinian terrorists on the Gaza Strip (Operation Cast Lead) due to their terrorist rocket attacks on civilians in Israel.

Shown at the very end of the video even appears to be Amb. Paul Bremer, who served as chief of the Coalition Authority to Iraq, and other VIPs well within close range of Major Hasan.

Or, if you do not have the patience to go through the video, you can see the Cliff Notes edition here:

(That’s Hasan standing up at 0:12).

And here (that’s him on the left):

Unfortunately my friend’s relative was found dead in his apartment on Monday morning and suicide is the most likely reason.

While I was at the cemetery today I noticed a row of graves next to the path. Each had Olympic rings on the top and when I looked carefully at the names (I can just about read Hebrew now) I recognised them.

Welcome to the quiet, understated and desperately sad world of Palestinian “Olympic achievement”.

A Sydney man was yesterday found guilty of making a “do-it-yourself terrorism guide” knowing it could be used to assist a terrorist act, becoming the second person to be convicted under Australia’s tough anti-terror regime.

Belal Saadallah Khazaal, 38, of the western Sydney suburb of Lakemba, faces a maximum penalty of 15 years’ jail for the offence of compiling the book, which contained an assassination hit-list including US President George W. Bush.

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The 110-page document listed various means of assassination, including letterbombs, booby-trapping cars, kidnappings, poisonings, attacking motorcades and shooting down planes.

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The NSW Supreme Court heard that under the nom de plume Abu Mohamed Attawheedy, Khazaal put together into book form a compilation of articles written by other people that promoted violence against Christians, Jews and non-Muslims and then had it posted on the internet site www.almaqdese.com.

At the front of the book was a dedication to “all mujaheddin everywhere, all martyrs of Islam, prisoners languishing in the prisons of tyrants be it infidels, apostates or hypocrites, Christians, Jews, or infidels, idolater and apostate”. It went on to say “may they be freed from the prisons of tyrants, the enemies of the people and religion.”

And in the introduction to the book Abu Mohamed Attawheedy referred to the document as an “essay”, saying he was requested to prepare to serve as a “reference to all brothers or small cells desiring to support this religion”.

The jury was told that the first half of the book concentrated on religious teachings and rulings about jihad, while the rest of the book canvassed reasons, benefits and methods of assassinations. Among the countries on the hit list were Australia and the US.

The book contained references to previous successful terrorist attacks and to material from serious international terrorists including al-Qa’ida number 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri. It also included material that talked about how “small cells” could cause havoc and horror to the US and Jews alike.

In another section of the book discussing the “characteristics of the assassination team” it suggested that after three successful assassinations and a kidnapping, a team member “can be appointed to lead a cell”.

US terrorism expert Evan Kohlmann described the book to the court as a do-it-yourself guide to terrorism aimed at people who didn’t have Osama bin Laden’s telephone number.

a) Hairdresser

b) Charity worker

c) Nightclub singer

d) Airline cleaner

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C’mon, you knew the answer.

A former Sydney Qantas cleaner was today sentenced to a maximum 12-year jail term for compiling a “do-it-yourself jihad” manual.

Formerly on Guess the Profession

G-d bless America and the free world.

The failed assassination attempt on Prince Muhammad Bin Naif, Assistant Minister of Interior for Security Affairs, Thursday night was planned by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula which operates from Yemen, sources confirmed.

The suicide bomber was recruited by Yemeni Nasser Al-Wohaishi, known also by the nom de guerre Abu Baseer, the sources said.
Al-Wohaishi is the head of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which had announced in an Internet posting last January the merger of the Saudi and Yemeni branches of Al-Qaeda.

The merger was seen by analysts as an attempt to consolidate after the Saudi branch of Al-Qaeda was practically wiped out following a vigorous counter-terrorism campaign led by Prince Muhammad.

According to Okaz sources, the bomber who detonated himself only a meter away from the Prince was part of a terrorist cell formed to target oil installations and public figures.

The sources said the bomber stayed in an apartment on Sari Street, northwest of Jeddah, Thursday.

He had slipped into the Kingdom from Mareb, east of Sana’a, Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu-Bakr Al-Qirbi told The Associated Press.
“He was in Yemen,” said Al-Qirbi. “He claimed that he was going to hand himself over to Saudi authorities and make a statement to his followers to abandon Al-Qaeda principles.”

Okaz sources said the bomb was implanted in the attacker’s rectum, which could explain why he refused to drink coffee at the Prince’s Court.

The bomber had sent word he wanted to surrender personally to the Prince who had ordered that he not be searched to encourage others to come forward.

At the Prince’s home in Jeddah’s north Obhur beach area Thursday night around 11.30 P.M., the attacker was in line to enter a gathering of well-wishers for Ramadan when he blew himself up. The Prince was lightly injured in the attack. The bomber died.

While the joke possibilities are endless, here are but a few initial observations:

• Not quite what comes to mind when I think of an ass bomb, but each to their own.
• I’m wondering if the bomber messed up his instructions. He was told to target public figures, not pubic fissures.
• Alternatively, perhaps the tactic is not so bad. After all, if he somehow survived and was sent to prison, it’s not like his anus (or what remained of it) was going to stretch any further.

(hat tip: Elder of Ziyon)