I happened across this cicada cartoon pic in an unrelated search on Google, but after reading an item on CNN about Al Qaeda and the long-quiet Egyptian militant group Al-Jamaa Islamiya joining forces, my mind got thinking ..and this was the result. Quick, get the bug spray!

Some background info on that CNN news item: Al Qaeda has joined forces with the long-quiet Egyptian militant group Al-Jamaa Islamiya, according to a videotaped message that aired on Saturday from Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahiri.

In September 2003 Egypt freed more than 1,000 members of the Al-Jamaa Islamiya group because of the group's stated "commitment to rejecting violence" the Interior Minister (at the time) Habib el-Adli told Al-Jazeera. Egypt released another 900 members of the group, including founder Najeh Ibrahim, in April 2006. That's just three months ago. Suddenly they're joining forces with Al Qaeda - a group not exactly known for its "commitment to rejecting violence" ..there's a moral there somewhere I'm sure..