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September 16, 2005
Sometimes A Cigar Is ...
"Who Is Mahmoud Maawad?" asks internment advocate Michelle Malkin.
Read the "disturbing details" in the story linked on Malkin's site, and you learn that Mahmoud Maawad is ... an Arab guy who is into airplanes:
Since June, Maawad ordered $3,300 of merchandise over the Internet from Speedy’s Pilot Shop in San Diego, including a private pilot course, flight simulator software, a flight gear bag, several DVDs, a $239 Navy leather flight jacket, a $19.95 DVD on “How an Airline Captain Should Look and Act,” and instructional programs on “airplane talk.” His email address was pilot747_200@hotmail.comIsn't it just like those sneaky Arab terrorists to be so obvious? After all, wasn't Mohammed Atta's email address "9_11_WTC_kaboom@hotmail.com?"
It wasn't?
UPDATE: It is just the oddest thing. Michellemalkin.com just will not register a trackback to this blog. Hmm. Why would that be?
Posted by Eric at September 16, 2005 3:08 PM
Comments
Surely it's a technical glitch - everyone knows that Malkin is the paragon of forthrightness when it comes to correcting her mistakes.
Has she said anything at all about that recently-discovered McLoy letter yet?
Posted by: Josh at September 16, 2005 4:23 PM
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes it isn't. I've seen no proof of either proposition in this case, so I'm certainly willing to consider both possibilities. You don't seem to be.
You find nothing even slightly disturbing about this, Eric? You're already prepared to conclude that Maawad was just a harmless wannabe pilot? That's certainly possible. On the other hand, if the totality of your "evidence" is the argument that no real terrorist could be this dumb -- that he wasn't "sneaky" enough to be a real terrorist -- I'm not persuaded. You may recall Richard Reid.
Posted by: Matt at September 19, 2005 11:48 AM
I don't know much about Malkin's trackback policy, but until you become just as exercised about Paul Krugman's corrections policy, or Brad DeLong's comment censorship policy, I won't take you seriously.
Posted by: y81 at September 19, 2005 2:13 PM
y81,
Whataboutery isn't much an argument on the merits. We can play that game all day, and it's pretty boring. To wit "Until you become just as exercised about the lack of comments on Powerline, Instapundit, et. al., I won't take you seriously."
Posted by: Josh at September 19, 2005 5:16 PM