It’s been quite some time since we just went ahead and talked about some of the evil going on in the world.  The “Evil Wrap Up” if you will.

So with that in mind- here’s today in evil.  EEEEVIIILLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oil has hit $140 a barrel, and $170 is said to be in the future- the future being THIS SUMMER!.  What does this mean?  Get used to $4+ a gallon for gas in your car.  Sucks to be us.

North Korea is kind’ve our buddy now.  Kinda sorta.  I dunno.  They told us about the nukes they’ve been playing with, and we said “oh.” because we pretty much already knew that, and they’re still bad guys, they still abuse the citizens of North Korea, but they’re not terrorists anymore.  Or are they?  I give up.

And something that’s been out of the news lately- 2 bombings in Iraq against pro-American targets saw the deaths of 30 or so people, 3 US Marines among them.  The suspected antagonists?  Al Qaeda in Iraq.  The Sunni extremists.  As opposed to the Shi’ite forces we had been fighting during the brief pause in the cease-fire around Sadr City.  So, basically, there’s still bad guys on all sides.  Good to know.

So there you have it, there’s evil all over.  EEEEEEVIIIILLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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No wonder we’re having such trouble finding bin-Laden (assuming anyone is really looking for the guy anymore) we can’t even really figure out if we’ve killed or captured a guy, when his is or isn’t in our presence.  We’re not really sure to tell the truth.  Confused?  I know I am.

Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the head of al Qaeda in Iraq, has not been captured, a senior U.S. military official told CNN on Friday.

Iraqi authorities said Thursday that al-Masri had been captured in Mosul.

U.S. military officials were surprised about the report of Abu Ayyub al-Masri’s capture — first reported by Iraqi media and picked up by The Associated Press. And intelligence officials said they were skeptical, even though Iraqi officials said al-Masri was already in U.S. military custody.

Al-Masri (”the Egyptian”), also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, took the reins of the Iraqi al Qaeda offshoot in June 2006 after a U.S. missile strike killed his predecessor, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Since then, Iraqi officials have reported his death three times, his capture twice and a mortal wounding once.

So either the guy is a zombie, a magician, a figment of our imaginations, or- all these intellegence officials are completely lacking in intellegence.  Which do you think it is?

Iraqi officials have also misreported the deaths or capture of other high-ranking insurgents, Baathists or others, including al-Zarqawi before he was killed and Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, the highest ranking former member of Saddam Hussein’s regime still at large.

Al-Duri, who was the King of Clubs (No. 6) on the U.S. military’s deck of most wanted regime officials, was most recently reported captured two weeks ago by multiple Iraqi officials. He had previously been reported killed in 2005 and captured the year before.

Wow… kinda helps you sleep at night knowing the Keystone Cops are working in conjuntion with Mr. Magoo to keep Iraq, and the rest of the world, safe and secure- doesn’t it?

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