Great. Now I've got that farking song in my head.

/My cellular, Osamular phooooone.
//goddammit

The Taliban have created a sophisticated media network to undermine support for the Afghan government, sending threats by text message and spreading the militia's views through songs available as ring tones, according to a report released Thursday.

Sophisticated, my ass. Get Lester Freamon on the case and he'll have the whole damn Al Queda organization tracked down.

So, basically, the way to thwart Al Qaeda is to trick them into switching to AT&T? Find all the telemarketers who were put out of work because of the do not call list and get them to the Pentagon!

zomg xplod!!1

On The Case!

And way ahead of them, too!

I want a ringback tone of obnoxious Talibani propaganda music in Pashtun / Farsi. Payback for all the douchebags who have [insert latest boy band] or pop country blaring when I call them.

CrotchBeard

Mom? Is that you?

c7hu1hu fh746n: Great. Now I've got that farking song in my head.

/My cellular, Osamular phooooone.
//goddammit

they sell the original as a "must have" ringtone over here on tv. sigh.

Boogedy boogedy boo!!!!

More Whitehouse propaganda crap...

Yawwwwnnnn.....

veryequiped: Boogedy boogedy boo!!!!

More Whitehouse propaganda crap...

Yawwwwnnnn.....

Just like the dude who didn't believe McDonalds existed at Gitmo?

veryequiped: Boogedy boogedy boo!!!!

More Whitehouse propaganda crap...

Yawwwwnnnn.....

Its fluff not propaganda, ohh they produce materials to support their cause, that must be propaganda by the other side because no one would actually produce any such materials.

I mean serious what justifies this as propaganda, let alone from the whitehouse? That they create songs, record them and distribute them? Or that they use casettes, DVDs and fliers as well?

I think your judgement is blurred a bit on at least this one.

If only the IRA had ringtones, they'd won their country back already.

veryequiped: Sophisticated media network is an effort to undermine you intelligence.

Vague anti-establishment warnings are generally ignored.

Terrorist 1:
Achmed! Who are you texting?

Terrorist 2:
idk, my bff Osama

trixter_nl: veryequiped: Boogedy boogedy boo!!!!

More Whitehouse propaganda crap...

Yawwwwnnnn.....

Its fluff not propaganda, ohh they produce materials to support their cause, that must be propaganda by the other side because no one would actually produce any such materials.

I mean serious what justifies this as propaganda, let alone from the whitehouse? That they create songs, record them and distribute them? Or that they use casettes, DVDs and fliers as well?

I think your judgement is blurred a bit on at least this one.


I respect your position and have to disagree, its fear-mongering also.

Telephone keeps ringing
Is that Osama on the phone?
Telephone keeps ringing
Is that Osama on the phone?
Telephone keeps ringing
Why won't he leave me alone?

/with apologies to Mother

skinink: If only the IRA had ringtones, they'd won their country back already.

They had.

It went "Guinness is good for you..... BANG!"

veryequiped: trixter_nl: veryequiped:
I respect your position and have to disagree, its fear-mongering also.

Where does the fear come from? That "they" can produce their own fliers or that "they" can master a DVD?

Maybe its that they know what a ringtone is. Yeah that must be it.

sigh

Agent Johnson approves.

/obscure?

quinnfinch: Agent Johnson approves.

/obscure?

HANS!

or was it the other johnson?

trixter_nl: Where does the fear come from? That "they" can produce their own fliers or that "they" can master a DVD?

Maybe its that they know what a ringtone is. Yeah that must be it.

sigh

It's a pathetically transparent attempt at making you fear that the Taliban is again ascendent, that they're attempting to engender grassroots support and that if it's important enough for the White House to comment on it, it must be having some measure of success.

Occam's Chainsaw:
It's a pathetically transparent attempt at making you fear that the Taliban is again ascendent, that they're attempting to engender grassroots support and that if it's important enough for the White House to comment on it, it must be having some measure of success.

And you really believe that the whitehouse is all powerful and all knowing? I dont have so much faith in them. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm are the ones behind the report. Are you saying they are a whitehouse shill? Somehow I do not think that to be the case either, since it would require more ability by the whitehouse to maintain that conspiracy.

trixter_nl: quinnfinch: Agent Johnson approves.

/obscure?

HANS!

or was it the other johnson?

no, I meant this:
riiiing... (new window)

trixter_nl: And you really believe that the whitehouse is all powerful and all knowing? I dont have so much faith in them. http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm are the ones behind the report. Are you saying they are a whitehouse shill? Somehow I do not think that to be the case either, since it would require more ability by the whitehouse to maintain that conspiracy.

I DRTFA, so the "White House" angle was pulled from an above poster. Should've checked my sources. Sry.

As to the rest of it, no, I don't consider the White House to be omniscient. However, they're not attempting to sway me; they lost me a long time ago. They're attempting to keep the 23%ers pissing thier pants so they can continue to get carte blanche to do anything in the name of security. See also: terror alert level.

Wanted for questioning,

//Hotlinking? I KEEEEAAAAALLL YOU

moops

I came in here to post that.

*fist shaking, you know the drill*

Some of the tunes are available as ring tones for phones, and cassettes include songs such as "Let me go to jihad," the report said.

Let me go to the Jihad!
Let me go to the war!
Buy me some C4 and I'll attack
Suicide bombers, they never come back!

So we'll shoot, shoot, shoot at the evilwesternSatanistinvaders
Then get some virgins from God
Oh it's 1, 2, 3, pull the pin
at the Old Jihad!

LonMead: Telephone keeps ringing
Is that Osama on the phone?
Telephone keeps ringing
Is that Osama on the phone?
Telephone keeps ringing
Why won't he leave me alone?

/with apologies to Mother

Every girl you go out with becomes Osama in the end.

tlay: Terrorist 1:
Achmed! Who are you texting?

Terrorist 2:
idk, my bff Osama

LULZ

Just hack their phone system, replace their ringtones with..

Hey, Mister Taliban, hand over Bin Laden
Daylight come and we bomb your home...

Headline made me LOL.

Don't know why, but the first thing I thought of was a terrorist's cell phone lighting up with "iiiif you want my body, aaaand you think I'm sexy, come on baby, let me know!", while he turns to the terrorist next to him and saying "That's the signal. Let's go." with a totally serious look on his face.

If they have a ringtone of the Crazy Frog blowing himself up, I'm sold.

I swear, why don't you conspiracy under every rock people go to Hollywood and improve the movie industry. Your imaginations are the stuff of legends.

Herro. This is Dr. Klahn. I'm not home right now. Leave a message when you hear the be-yep. You have our gratitude.

I will not kiss the hand of Laura Bush.

If I agree with something the Taliban says, does that make me a terrorist?

Occam's Chainsaw: It's a pathetically transparent attempt at making you fear that the Taliban is again ascendent, that they're attempting to engender grassroots support and that if it's important enough for the White House to comment on it, it must be having some measure of success.

Yeah, an article on how the Taliban is making a comeback is clearly pro-Bush and not suggesting that the more important war was terribly mis-managed and ignored while we were wasting our time in Iraq.

/Why the hell would "pro-Bush propaganda" so strongly reinforce one of them Democrats' key arguments?
//Admit it, you didn't RFTA

Tirion529... You have temporarily restored my faith in humanity.

Thank you.

It's no


It's not a


It's the Osama Phone.

So....I guess this means Bin Laden finally saw the last season of The Wire.

c7hu1hu fh746n: Great. Now I've got that farking song in my head.

ARGHHHH! Subby needs waterboarding!

Dennis_Moore: Herro. This is Dr. Klahn. I'm not home right now. Leave a message when you hear the be-yep. You have our gratitude.

Now that is a message of extra-ordinary magnetude.

studebaker hoch: I will not kiss the hand of Laura Bush.

If I agree with something the Taliban says, does that make me a terrorist?

What about kissing the bush of Laura Hand?

FTA: It said the Afghan government and its foreign allies should respond more quickly to their mistakes and highlight the Taliban's atrocities.

"Allies"? Try "ally". And since we can't get our US administration to admit its mistakes here in its home country, how likely is it to admit mistakes in Afghanistan? If the study is correct that a successful plan against the Taliban depends partly upon admitting mistakes, then I predict additional failures; the part of the plan involving admitting mistakes will never be implemented under the current administration.

Danger Avoid Death: studebaker hoch: I will not kiss the hand of Laura Bush.

If I agree with something the Taliban says, does that make me a terrorist?

What about kissing the bush of Laura Hand?


Laura Hand (new window)


Now that, I think, is something we can all agree to get behind.

Okay, let me get this straight--the Taliban are advertising via cell-phone jingle these days? These are the same Luddite morans who used to defenestrate people for owning a TV set.

We've at least managed to corrupt them with Western materialism. Who says we're not winning the war?