The Islamofascist Handbook

• To aid in terrorism surveillance, the NYPD has released a jihadi version of The Preppy Handbook, detailing how average Muslim schlubs morph into Islamic terrorists. Grow a beard, renounce booze and broads, play paintball war games, dis the U.S. a lot — you know the drill. [NYDN]

Posted 08/16/07 in Daily Intel : The Morning Line

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Viva Sullivan County

• Governor Spitzer has approved a "Las Vegas-style" gambling den in the Catskills. The Mohawk tribe will run it, despite the casino being 400 miles away from its reservation, and the state will get a 25 percent cut. That is, if environmentalists and the U.S. Secretary of the Interior get on board. [NYT] • Call us twisted, but we love watching JetBlue continue to flagellate itself over last week's stranding of its JFK passengers; the CEO of the formerly cuddly airline is scripting a my-bad TV ad and proposing a "customer bill of rights" that will financially penalize JetBlue for such things. [NYDN] • The Brooklyn District Attorney's office seems eager to reinvent itself as a telenovela. An ADA was suspended for allegedly passing witness info to her boyfriend, a defense attorney; that's one day after a female investigator was accused of a dalliance with a jailed mobster. How soon before evil twins show up? [NYP] • Next up for Bloombergian rezoning: the Garment Center. Crain's predicts "a flurry of buying and selling." Luxury condos? Actually, no, just newer and better offices. Whew. [Crain's] • And you can always rely on the City Council for an offbeat ordinance proposal. Today, the honor goes to Councilman Simcha Felder, who wants warning labels on coffee. [amNY]

Posted 02/20/07 in Daily Intel : The Morning Line

Tags: brooklyn, catskills, city council, development, eliot spitzer, gambling, garment district, jetblue, law, the morning line