How do you like yer spyin’ now, eh?

There was some bible movie, I think it was called The Ten Commandments…I saw it when I was a little girl and all I remember of it is watching Edward G. Robinson saying something on the order of “How dya like yer Moses, now, eh? Yah! Yah!”

In my memory, he is waving a cigar as he says it, so I am sure my recollection is way off.

But I feel a little like the great Edward G as I read this:

Colombian has dismantled a false passport ring with links to al-Qaida and Hamas militants, the acting attorney general said Thursday after authorities led dozens of simultaneous raids across five cities in collaboration with U.S. officials.
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Colombian officials said the gang allegedly supplied an unknown number of citizens from Pakistan, Jordan,
Iraq, Egypt and other countries with false passports and Colombian nationality without them ever setting foot in the country.

An undisclosed number of those arrested are wanted for working with the al-Qaida terror network and the militant Palestinian group Hamas, said acting Attorney General Jorge Armando Otalora.

The counterfeit Colombian, Spanish, Portugese and German passports were used to enter the United States and Europe, he said.

Ed Morrissy observes:

Three Iraqis traveled to Colombia in 2002, before our invasion, on Israeli passports supplied by al-Qaeda and Hamas. That sounds like a good indication of a connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, I would think. Does anyone wonder what their final destination was, or how they planned on getting there? And does anyone else find it interesting that Hamas and al-Qaeda launched joint operations to send people to the United States back in 2002, or even earlier than that, well before we invaded Iraq? This also tends to put the Hamas victory in the Palestinian Authority elections in a new light. If they’re teaming up with al-Qaeda on missions against the US, then we should treat them just the same as we do al-Qaeda, and wipe them out, regardless of their electoral status in the West Bank and Gaza.

Read the whole thing. Ed seems also to be waving his cigar around saying, essentially, “how d’ya like yer ‘domestic spying scandal’ now,’ eh?”

Yah! Yah!