Has Al-Qaeda Jumped the Shark?

S.C. mom scoops al-Qaida with its videos
Occasionally she comes across a gem, such as when she found a recent Osama bin Laden video — before al-Qaida had announced it. "I realized, oh my gosh, I'm sitting here, I'm a fat 50-year-old mom and I've managed to scoop al-Qaida," said Mansfield, who uses that name as a pseudonym because she receives death threats.

There have been times when an impending video release has kept her from a planned shopping trip with her daughter. "It gets really challenging when you're trying to do that and cook spaghetti at the same time," she said

Typical "look at what amateurs they are" propaganda. (srsly, what's the point of this? does she want a medal?)

it's also kind of funny how the headline refers to a self-employed terror analyst with fluency in Arabic as an "S.C. Mom" - like gosh she's just some little sweet woman who bakes cakes and oops look what she found at a yard sale!

besides, to me the story is that she scooped the US Govt.

That's the aljazeera.com headline.

i just posted it for the LOLs

besides, "scoop" means getting a story first - you can't "scoop" the organization that has the video and is planning to release it

reposting e-mail from same crowd as was discussing the infestation of blackwater assholes in chesapeake yesterday, 'cause I know the author won't care:

Oh my God, they put "Laura Mansfield" on Yahoo TV. She's so fat that she can barely see out of her eyes. I wonder how she learned Arabic. She needs a dickslap across a fat cheek for not defacing that Bin Laden video before she posted it for the benefit of those douches. My generous experience with the Arabics is that if she had just drawn a big cartoon animated .gif dick all over the video and interspersed it with porn clips, it would have accomplished a good thing for the IC; alas she did nothing but help the ragheads get to what they want.

anyway this woman believes iranian extremists blew up the oklahoma federal building; how come nobody in the press ever calls her on her obvious psychosis? Oh right the same reason Bill Kristol is still paid as a "journalist"

"scooped the US Govt" has not been news to anybody for a little over seven years, hurting

point

"They're very vocal stupid. They tell us what they're going to do and then they go out and do it."

fixy