We Can Go Home Now, Right?

Maybe it’s irrelevant, but did they get that professionally framed?

You know who the real winner is now that al-Zarqawi’s gone? The people of Iraq? No, they’re pretty much still screwed. It’s the editors of The Atlantic, who have a huge Zarqawi profile in their July/August issue, conveniently added to the website yesterday. Abu Musab al-Zarqari: Terrorist mastermind, total idiot.

Abu Muntassir (who would also later break with al-Zarqawi) was his editor. Al-Zarqawi was “a terrible writer,” he told me, “and didn’t really understand the Koran. He had learned it by rote.” Even today, al-Zarqawi cannot write a fatwa, Abu Muntassir said, and as a result has had to set up his own fatwa committee in Iraq.

How embarrassing. Say what you will about Moktada al-Sadr, the guy writes a catchy fatwa.

The Short, Violent Life of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi [The Atlantic]

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Katherine Harris Watch: In Which We Weep For Lost Photo-Ops and Issue a Fatwa

This could’ve been a picture of Katherine Harris firing a gun if certain communications directors hadn’t been such idiots.

We, the editors of Wonkette, do hereby declare a fatwa against Chris Ingram, communications director for Katherine Harris’ Senate campaign.

Harris went down to a local gun range Saturday to “renew” her concealed-weapons permit (which, it turned out, she’d never had in the first place: “I thought I had, but I’m not sure if I did or not,” Harris said. “You think I would have known, but I never had this kind of training before.”), which would’ve made for the greatest photo-op of the campaign.

But, as she aimed her .38 Special (!!!), Mr. Ingram blocked the assembled journalists from taking pictures. THE BASTARD.

He must be run out of Florida on a rail and never allowed to work in politics again. Which is probably true of most of Harris’ staff, but he’s the worst offender. DAMMIT, this kind of photo-op only comes once in a lifetime! Unless you’re following the Harris campaign, where presumably something even goofier will go down next week.

Still, though: fatwa.

(And a small bit of hope: The St. Petersburg Times reports that “another member of the campaign staff took pictures of Harris firing.”)

Harris Shoots, Cameras Don’t [SPTimes]

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Remainders: Those Goddam Cartoons Edition

• “What if Mohammed’s goin on a trip an hasta get a new passport picture?” “Then God smites the DMV.” [Fafblog]
• Here’s a pretty good example of how quickly these things get out of hand. Won’t somebody help this man get a damn Fatwa? [alicublog]
• I’m alive, I’m dead, I’m the stranger… offending an Arab [Corner/NRO]
• When you come down to it, when isn’t it a great week for mealy-mouthed dumb-assitude? [TMN]

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