This is actually on the CIA's website:
My sources in the intelligence community are alarmed.
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WTF?
23 Oct 2007 12:59 pm
Comments (33)
Maybe it's curved to make it look vaguely Islamic.
I kinda like it.
Is that a gummy Islamofascist? Where can I get a bag? Those are sure to outsell the bears.
Awww. He drew a little smiley face on his ski mask.
Yeah, I was gonna say... That looks way too cute for what I'm assuming it's intended for.
And I love the way he's brandishing the AK, like some kids just TP'ed his house or something.
This is the emblem of the new CIA crack team Jihadi busters.
I ain't afraid of no IslamoFascist!
is that ernie hudson?
Maybe it's curved to make it look vaguely Islamic.
OMG, I want a Scimitar-Bayonet so bad! It's like Squall's Final Fantasy 8 gunblade or something.
Is the terrorist wearing the mask from the Upright Citizen's Brigade logo thing?
Why is Gort smiling at me? And does he really need a machine gun to destroy the Earth?
Chewie used a bowcaster, not an AK-47.
Why exactly does the "DCI Counterterrorist Center" need a logo at all? What exactly are they selling that branding it makes sense?
And what do they teach at the DCI Counterterrorist Center - "whatever you do, don't cross the streams"?
Gang, look at the webpage!
It says it's the "terrorist buster logo,"
as in "Ghostbusters." Get it?
Patrick, re:
Why are we even afraid of them?
You're not supposed to be afraid of them, that's the point. Because they're impotent little wimps compared to the brave Terrorist Busters who are keeping you safe.
I'm actually pleasantly surprised to find someone has a sense of humor over there.
P.S. It struck me that a similarly jocular use of the logo would be in restaurants and buses in the Mideast: "wearing black mask, carrying rifle, no service." :-)
Thanks for the earworm.
"Who're you gonna call?"
From todays WashPost chat with Tom Ricks:
Boston: This is "Islamofascism Awareness Week" and The Washington Post has yet to really take up the cause. Are you really so insensitive to the mortal danger this country is in? These guys are far worse than Hitler in '38 -- after all, while Germany was the world's largest military power, it was only the second largest economy. The Soviet Union only had thousands of nuclear warheads pointed at U.S. cities, plus thousands of tanks and millions of soldiers aimed right at the Fulda Gap. As anyone can see the threat we face today is exceptionally higher.
These Islamofascists are cunning and would like nothing more than world domination. They are very well organized too ... so competent that in the nearly 30 years they have been on Jihad, they have one very symbolic strike against us and thousands of deadly but strategically insignificant attacks that have destroyed the psyche of an American president, vice president and thousands of walking-wounded right-wingers. The Washington Post must step up to the challenge and call the Islamofascist attack on America exactly what it is: the gravest danger this country ever has faced!
Thomas E. Ricks:
I am not sure whether you are joking or not.
My own personal feeling is that this country probably overreacted to 9/11. Yes, it was a horrible attack. And I think invading Afghanistan was exactly the right response, done pretty much the right way, at least until we let Osama bin Laden escape at Tora Bora.
But since then . . . . ai yi yi. The other day I heard retired Marine Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, who was director of the Joint Staff before the invasion of Iraq, say that most of the generals he knew thought invading Iraq was the wrong move. I remember many officers saying to me that they thought an Iraq war would be a distraction from the response to al Qaeda.
Also, many of the steps we have taken have hurt America's standing in the world. I never thought I would live in a country where our government quibbled about defining torture. As one colonel who was a PoW in the 1991 Gulf War recently commented in an e-mail, when he was being beaten, he bolstered his spirit by telling himself, 'I'm from the good guys, we don't do this.'
It's the CIA's last-ditch effort to explain the Middle East situation to Bush in terms he can understand.
Is the Islamofascist crinkling his cheeks in a grin or is he supposed to look like Seal?
This isn't new (though I'd never seen it before yesterday). The logo existed as far back as Oct 2001 (Wayback Machine) and was on Boing Boing in Jan 2002. It is odd that it was apparently reposted on the CIA site in Apr 2007.
Why would the Culinary Institute of America have a logo like that? Weird. Must be some kind of Iron Chef training.
Am I the only one who thinks it also vaguely resembles a hammer & sickle in its entirety?
Thanks - that's now my Facebook profile pic.
Only somewhat off-topic, has anyone else seen the trailer for Be Kind, Rewind?
I am Gumby! I AM terrorism!
I'm not sure who that guy in black is supposed to be, but evidently he's not Orlando Bosch or Luis Posada . . .
So, is Ray Parker Jr. at work on a theme that Bin Laden won't be able to stop humming either?
I agree with the CIA. I am against armed Bigfoots. We must disarm and defeat these militant Sasquatch before they destroy us from within.
This anti-bigfoot bigotry will not stand.As everyone in the Pacific northwest knows, bigfoot sightings are correlated to UFOs. With the Indians out of the series, we must keep Kucinich occupied.
Casper the Friendly Jihadist Ghost
I think we should send them XXXXXXXXXXXX(redacted) billions of dollars to upgrade this logo.
Funniest...posts...ever...here...
Matt, home run!
I'm sure my contacts in the art community will be equally alarmed.
I'm sure my contacts in the art community will be equally alarmed. Surely someone at the CIA has better Photoshop skills than THAT?
Bevel!
Emboss!
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Heads in the Sand
I know it's supposed to be shadowing for depth on the circle, but it looks like the evil terrorist is armed with a floppy rubber bayonet on his AK. Why are we even afraid of them?
Posted by Patrick | October 23, 2007 1:05 PM