duh

[rone]

You know, for being a wanted terrorist, Abu Abbas must be pretty stupid to get caught in Iraq with his pants down.

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[waider.livejournal.com]

If by "caught" you mean "has been tracked by Mossad for years now and was known to be hanging out in Iraq, almost to the precision of a GPS reading", sure.

which reminds me of a joke.

[palecur.livejournal.com]

Originally from shoutingboy, natch.

International intelligence agencies have a competition. A patch of forest contains one sheep, which must be found. Shortest time wins.

The CIA sends a thousand men, divides up the area with a grid and sends in the agents. Each agent examines his grid square, one agent radios in the sheep's location, the sheep is captured. Time: five minutes.

MI5 doesn't really have that kind of manpower, but they deploy an array of wizard tech toys and manage to differentiate the sheep's IR signature out from all the other forest critters. Time: four minutes.

The Mossad, well, they've been kind of busy and don't really have a lot of spare personnel to send to these sorts of things, but they can spare three or four guys for the sake of showing the flag. After a huddle, two guys stalk off into the forest, and in two minutes stalk back with...a duck. The judges explain to them that the contest involves the retrieval of a sheep. Mossad dude looks at the duck and says, 'Tell 'em.' Wild-eyed with terror, the duck says, 'I'm a sheep! I'm a sheep!'

(RIMSHOT).

shoutingboy claims to have heard this one from an actual Mossad dude, but, as a member of his cabinet is reputed to have said about Thomas Jefferson, 'he tells large stories.'

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

No, i mean, "They've been looking for my ass for nearly two decades, but i'll just hide in Iraq, which is going to be invaded by the Americans any day now." Dude shoulda moved his sorry ass to Syria, you know?

[jeff2001.livejournal.com]

Were his pants down? Well, no wonder he was caught.

Buggery's price is a steep one.

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that Saab Erekat invoked the Oslo accord immunities for Mr. Abbas. Now I know what to think of Mr. Erekat too. He made it easy - I was willing to accord him the possibility of being a credible, sane replacement for Mr Arafat. But if this is the sort of issue he's going to expend rhetoric on, I won't waste my time.