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Why not a picture of a guy with a turban with a hatchet buried in his head with blood gushing everywhere?

Except their motto is "We know who ya called."

Why is the grinning, pig-faced yeti passing me a kalishnikov?

When asked for clarification of the logo the CIA spokesman, Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, said no comment.

Why did they give the Gimp from Pulp Ficton an AK-47?

I liked the Total Information Awareness logo better.

So I guess all black is out this year.

Multicolored terrorists are in.

Step right up I got your Kalashnikov in a rainbow of colors...

It looks like a gingerbread villain. It needs sprinkles.

That's a rip-off of the signs on the front doors of Denny's

You all realize that the Bush administration spent our tax dollars on that abomination ...

Where did the legs go?!

And lest we forget that Russia is still eeeeevil, there is a shadowy sickle protruding mysteriously from the somewhat androgenous terrorist's oversized AK-47????

@blogenfreude: Yea... what do you think about 5 cents?!

ManchuCandidate ...for years, after every movie that I saw with the group of ruffians I hung out with, as we left the theatre, stinking of pot & sometimes sucking back the drips, one of my friends would always ask, "So, Dave, what was your favorite part of the movie?"

& Dave would always say, "My favorite part was when the giant marshmallow man destroyed the city."

Ah sweet bird of youth.

@lonbordin:

Hell, with this administration, if you have anything to do with rainbows, you are a terrorist.

I think my favourite Ghostbuster was Rick Moranis

Exactly like Ghostbusters.
Except the ghost is now Gumby.
And he's black.
And he has an assault rifle.
Yeah, I'm freakin scared. Is Pokey a mad bull now, too?

Here's the problem with logos like this:

If you put any kind of headgear that resembles a scarf or other traditional Middle Eastern or Near Asian headgear you will be labeled a racist. If you use the standard belaclava then you pretty much are drawing a picture of the guys who excute rendition ops...can't have that. So, as usual, we homoginize until we come up with an amorphous blob holding the ubiquitous AK-47 that looks like it was traced from a bent, plastic army man.

Of course, they miss the irony of the difficulty of creating a generalized logo for terrorism, which is the same problem with trying to generalize the definition of a terrorist or terrorism. How can you fight something for which you cannot create a logo?

Geez...can't fight if you can't brand'em.

He seems a little too comic and Jocko-like to be truly threatening. He looks like he's gonna break into a little terror dance.

@lonbordin: I'm sure KBR designed it at a cost of several million.

A bad logo. It's what the Neocons get for alienating the gays.

So terrorists are masked Mexican wrestlers who hold guns in such a way that it would be impossible to shoot?

@Trampoline: True. First the drunken, reeling elephant for the convention, and now Gingerbread Man bin Laden.

Geeze, couldn't they have just used the 1984-ish old Civil Defense logo and been happy?

it looks like a perky ninja. it should be holding throwing stars.

I can see this becoming a nice little escalation of logos. They have GIJoe in the red/slash circle. We have the Turban Guy. They have Black-Glasses-Blackwater Guy. We have Suicide Vest Guy.

Could sell a lot of trinkets. I'm inspired, though! I just got a box of stuff from a Friend Over There! I got a handcrafted War Rug! It's a beautiful addition to any home, lemme tellya...

Sorry, but that logo was developed in 1989, just after Ghostbusters II came out. Why is this news now?

It's Felix the Cat wearing a burka.

Manucher Ghorbanifar: We're ready to believe you.

Well you know Seventh House PR is not responsible for this campaign. Mandie certainly knows brown is the new black, and a Valentino bag is the new AK-47.

And Slimer no longer works at the WH, so he's available.

"We proudly introduce...the CIA's new Terrorist Bustier."

Shouldn't he have an olive branch in the other hand?

@TrucksAndTubes: Your point about the sickle might be on the right track. Maybe that was Condi's idea. I'm sure we all sleep better knowing that Dr. Rice's main resume bullet is being "an expert on a country that no longer exists" as Plame I.D. leaker Dick Armatage observed.

Still, I see that part of the icon as a tip of the hat towards the Islamic Crescent. Expect in short order a civil action by the A.C.L.U. claiming that the use of this symbolism is government discrimination of a protected class and the C.I.A. to replace the AK with a mink freed by a member of the Animal Liberation Front since even the A.C.L.U. won't stick up for those people.

And some more well designed gubmint icons and logos...

[www.scott-o-rama.com]

I liked it back when my secret agents didn't have logos. You know, back when we denied all accountability ... oh, wait. We can do that even with logos, can't we?

@FreshCliches: Thanks for posting that link, that's some hilarious stuff. Letterman could use this guy's help.

The caption below the logo should read:
"Say no to terrorism"

In honor of Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week, I shall make a series of armbands featuring Mr. Ak-47 here and distribute them amongst my Muslim friends to wear.

He should be brown, not black. That would be more true to life.

So many things wrong with this, but couldn't they have at least given it a complete, human face? Why so crude? It's like they wanted something that could be easily made into a cookie cutter or a gummy candy.

Well, everyone knows that Bustin' makes Republicans feel good. Why not advertise it?

Is the terrorist smiling? It kind of looks like a black Michelin tire man.

Looks like a hammer and sickle to me. Anyone else see that?

This logo was obviously made in response to al-Qaida's logo of an overweight 'Merican armed with a slice of pizza and wielding a remote.

Just wait 'til you try to get that gun from his warm, delicious hands.

I guess Skeletor is a threat not only to Eternia but to America, too.

If stupid was a chocolate eclair, this would be a chocolate eclair a mile and a half long.

@SanFranLefty: Bibendum has always scared me a bit.

Perhaps this is his evil twin, Delendum!

I say we make pins out of these and sell them at bazaars around the globe.
With all the proceeds, Dubya won't have to go, cap in hand to Congress begging for mo' money to finance his wars against rollie-pollie terrorists.

Gumby Mad!!! Gumby get machine gun!!!

i think they are saying, gumby, or, mr. bill, have turned on us and we won't take it. clearly, the way we treated them,it is no wonder they hate us.

@Pubeinmysoup: you just beat me.

Oh. My. God.

I'm moving to Canada.

My WIN button, at the bottom of my sock drawer:
Whip
Islam-o-fascism
Now

First comes logo, then comes branding.

Pull down your shorts! It's hot.

Logo clearly stolen from Huey Lewis.

So we are being attacked by giant black condoms with guns?

Luke, I am your father...

@VENUSCLOACINA the original total info. awareness logo was the best gov. logo EVER! aka "the creepy eye" perfect for what they wanted to do, but this one - I love it, but who is running this place, I mean ghost busters, really, not very official looking

This article is wonderful because it coincides with today's NYT article about the new "softened" Blackwater logo ([www.nytimes.com]). The new Blackwater logo trims the crosshairs surrounding the bearpaw and leaves just a horizontal bar. Catch my draft? The new "innocuous" crosshair is a beam. And if you rotate the CIA logo about 70 degree clockwise, what do you get? You'll see the same mirrored and narrow scopes of eerily similar corporations. Feel a tremor? swoosh!

(If only the target was actually a white, minute staypufft)

Have you seen NORAD's new logo?

Regent University design departments need to get macs or something.

If they're trying to eradicate and destroy terrorism, WHY IS THE ONE THING THAT CAN KILL PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THE BIG RED CIRCLE???????

As a child, the Pentagon was always good at drawing guns, but people faces proved troublesome.

Put it on a T-shirt and I'll so buy it.

@TrucksAndTubes: I believe the sickle is supposed to be a bayonet of some sort. But why they'd use a 17th century cutlass as a bayonet is beyond me. Are our terrorists pirates?

@mrblifil: They can have my automatic weapons when they bite them from my warm, delicious hands.

I think that saber on top is a veiled reference to the Islamic crescent moon. [islam.about.com]

So this signifies what... yes to over-sized, cumbersome weapons, but no to stage hands and cat burglars?

What is with that meagre looking shadow, too - did the terrorist fart? Is it foggy in Afghanistan? Is that a cloud of heroin?

Link to CafePress?

This is so wrong- on so many levels. I hope that anyone from the guvmunt that's lurking here in the comments has the nuts to tell their bosses that this is way, way, stupid.

Please.

Little cartoon has a serious case of Andrew Sullivan head.

No Hood
No Automatic rifle
No Service

It's the terrorist cousin of Pit-Pat from Mr. Show.

@iburl: What does the Bent Spear logo look like?

Add a little Al Jolson makeup, and you've got the unofficial logo of the Jesse Helms campaign for the last several decades. Hope they're paying him royalties.

When I first saw that logo, I thought of Charlton Heston raising his gun and screaming, "From my cold, dead hands!"

Just say no to the Gun-totin' Golem of Prague!

So, our biggest security threat is...happy guys with rifles? Maybe we're concentrating more on Weapons of Average Destruction.

Hey - if thats a Christian terrorist cheerleader, shouldn't there be a bent over altar boy in there somewhere?