News Conference Ends in Melee as Press Refuses To Pay Islamists (A must read for humor ROTFLMAO)

The Wall Street Journal | August 16,2002 | Marc Champion

[Orual]

Great story. As for the video, g_r, only if you pay, but I'd be willing to chip-in.

[wimpycat]

Sheikh Abu Hamza Al-Masri, a one-eyed Egyptian-born cleric who has a metal hook in place of a hand, the result of injuries he says he sustained while fighting the armed forces of the former Soviet Union in Afghanistan.

BULLSH*t! He most likely sustained his injuries by trying to change his fan belt while the car was still running. Some of my in-laws lived in Cairo for a couple of years and marveled over motorists driving at night without their headlights, and guys trying to fix their cars on the side of the road, with their top halves underneath the car and their legs hanging out in the road! They have no conception of safety when it comes to modern machinery. After all, if any mishaps occur, they chalk it up to the will of Allah.

[doug from upland]

This is one money-grubbing opportunity that the DNC and the Sinkmaster missed during his occupancy of our White House. They are probably kicking themselve.

[monday]

Hope the hotel made the nut cases pay in advance?

[DugwayDuke]

"Finally, the doors to the Stockholm Suite burst open: "We're coming through!" cried a man in sunglasses, and a band of about 20 young Muslim men charged the journalists in an attempt to punch through, only to become entangled in television camera wires. A heavy couch was pulled across the hotel lobby. The doors to the hotel were jammed with bodies as Al-Muhajiroun followers tried to block beefy cameramen inside the hotel, while getting out themselves."

I don't see why any one is so critical. This is much like the Reform Party Convention in Nashville where they had to call the cops to separate the sides and restore order. You don't think Fulani Whatshername (Buchanan's campaign manager) organized this thingy, do you?

[dighton]

They want a person to pay to listen to their fanatic propaganda? Get real.

Were they capable of getting real, they wouldn't be Islamist nutjobs.

[general_re]

As for the video, g_r, only if you pay, but I'd be willing to chip-in.

Even if they can't make any money from the reporters, they still have a shot at the grand prize on "Islam's Funniest Home Videos"...

[Kermit]

There has to be video with all those cameramen.

[Neckbone]

You know, more and more these whackjobs succeed in showing the world what a pathetic joke they are as a "culture." Between stunts like this and suicide bombers who take out nothing but a falafel stand, it's got to be sinking into their rag heads how lost their cause is.

Picture the looks on their animal faces when they get to hell and look for their virgins only to discover that, beside themselves, they killed 300 innocent falafels! You know you're a loser when that happens!

[tom paine 2]

Right out of the WSJ Leisure section.

[Catspaw]

I don't see why any one is so critical. This is much like the Reform Party Convention in Nashville where they had to call the cops to separate the sides and restore order. You don't think Fulani Whatshername (Buchanan's campaign manager) organized this thingy, do you?

I thought that was the highlight of the Reform Party convention. There's nothing like a good brawl to get the political juices flowing.

[debg]

now you've done it, journalists. next week you'll see a fatwad for your death. they're gonna get you by hook or by crook!

[FreedomPoster]

You guys have *got* to see this one!

[Cable225]

Mr. Bakri was followed by Sheikh Abu Hamza Al-Masri, a one-eyed Egyptian-born cleric who has a metal hook in place of a hand,

I keep wondering if he had an itchy eye and forgot about the hook. Isn't it funny how many of us picked up on the same line?

[MarineDad]

"You lost your eye because of a seagull dropping?" he said incredulously.

To which Cap'n Blinky sheepishly replied, "arrrgh, it was me first day with the hook."

[VaBthang4]

"Mr. Choudary twice tried to save face...Then he cracked the door of the conference room to offer: "Sheikh Omar said that if any of you declare the Shahada [convert to the Muslim faith], you are welcome to come in"

ROTFLMTO!!!!

" Move tighter together lads," said one journalist. "We're going to charge them 60 quid [pounds] each to get out."

LOL....~grin~....British wit.

[VaBthang4]

"He most likely sustained his injuries by trying to change his fan belt while the car was still running."

LOL

I do doubt it was anything as honorable as a combat wound inflicted by the Soviets. Probably a premature detonation.

[knighthawk]

Yes, it is. Footage of the getaway was aired this morning on the BBC 1 news.

[Enterprise]

Well, allright. I'll throw in a goat and a signed copy of my Koran (Signed by Sheik 'ya Booty).

[TroutStalker]

Thanks for posting this. Somehow I missed seeing it, and it is truly hilarious.