> An American is having breakfast one morning (coffee, croissants,bread,butter and jam) when a Frenchman, chewing gum, sits down next to him.The American ignores the Frenchman who nevertheless,starts a conversation.
Frenchman:"You American folk eat the whole bread?"
American(in a bad mood):"Of course."
French man(after blowing a huge bubble):"We donât.In France,we
only eat whatâs outside. The crusts we collect in a container, recycle it,transform them into croissants and sell them to the states"The Frenchman has a smirk on his face.The American listens in silence.The Frenchman persists:"Do you eat jelly with the bread?"
American:"Of course."
Frenchman (cracking his gum between his teeth and chuckling): "We donât.In France we eat fresh fruit for breakfast,then we put all the peels,seeds,and leftovers in containers,recycle them,transform them into jam and sell the jam to the states."
The American then asks:"Do you have sex in France?"
Frenchman: "Why of course we do," he says with a smirk.
American: "What do you do with the condoms once youâve used them?"
Frenchman:"We throw them away, of course."
American:"We donât. In America, we put them in a container,
recycle them,melt them down into chewing gum and sell it to France."
> > Viva La France / God Bless America
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Taliban pamphlets threatening execution of Afghan women working with foreign NGOs in Afghanistan have been circulated in eastern Laghman province, a report said on Sunday.
The unsigned and undated bill calls upon Afghans to intensify jihad against the US and allied forces under the leadership of the Talibanâs in-hiding spiritual leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported.
"Those women who are working with foreign NGOs will be killed," the pamphlet said, according to the Pakistan-based private news service.
It also warned the Laghman administration of serious consequences if it did not stop a campaign against religious leaders and the Taliban and if it continued supporting the US-led administration.
The leaflets also warned drivers plying Laghman-Kabul-Nangarhar highways not to carry foreigners or else face death.
Suspected Taliban guerrillas bombed a school in the southeastern Afghan province of Khost, the second such attack in less than a week in the area, officials said today. Two classrooms of the school were completely razed by the explosion on Saturday night, Kheyal Baaz Khan, a military commander of Khost, told Reuters. No one was injured in the explosion, which took place at night.
Yet another step in the Keep 'Em Ignorant program...
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As a sting you could build a school that inluded some GI's with guns on the inside.
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Unfortunately our media (and Al-jitzz) will probably pass on reporting this and concentrate on the 'horrible and shamefull' pic of a boy being 'frisked' in a friendly manner....
Osama bin Laden is hiding out in the mountains less than 200 kilometres from Kabul, according to the latest intelligence reports obtained by Sun Media. The leader of al-Qaida, which has recently been re-invented under Fateh Islam (Victory of Islam), has been seen in the mountains in the province of Kunar, an ultra-religious conservative region that supports bin Laden and is pro-Taliban. "Fateh Islam's leader, none other than Osama bin Laden, is very much alive," says the report.
The No. 1 Urdu-language paper in the Pakistani port city of Karachi says bin Laden is living in a Pakistani city 80 kilometres from the Afghanistan border. But a classified intelligence document produced by the International Security Assistance Force said bin Laden is living with the Guzer tribe, which "would militarily support him."
"Are you the Gatekeeper?"
"Bin Laden could hardly ask for a better hiding place," the report reads, pointing out that the mountains northeast of Kabul are covered with evergreens and shrubs, crisscrossed by smugglers' trails. "It's impossible to access the area where al-Qaida is hiding." The document confirms that bin Laden has recently received a visit from a foreign doctor for his kidney problems.
How'd they get there if it's impossible to access?
According to the Afghanistan Defence Department, al-Qaida has rebranded itself as Fateh Islam, is re-organizing and is operating two training camps in Pakistan.
We can certainly believe that...
The department also claims the terrorist organization is trying to acquire surface-to-air missiles in China to attack the Afghan government.
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Drop a load of commandos in the town square and start shooting all the tall guys.
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I dunno. Gotta watch for the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man...
Posted by: Fred ||
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Sounds like a job for our special forces or army rangers to me. Evergreens and mountains work both ways.
It is interesting to see that Al-Qaida seems to have 'rebranded' itself. Shows that we have been pretty effective in disrupting them.
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The area where Binny is reported hiding seems to have magical powers. Not only is it "impossible to access", all video tapes made there mysteriously take on the appearance of having been shot some time before December, 2001!
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/26/2003 11:14 Comments ||
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Send in Delta Force. If they can't get the job done, then Napalm or Nuclear Missles can.
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10/26/2003 11:21 Comments ||
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Nah, we just need to make sure that the next "kidney doctor" has a GPS device embedded on/in him somehow.
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I think we would much rather take him alive if possible. Otherwise he will just be another Martyr. If we can arrest him, try him in a (possibly Islamic??) court and find him guilty... the execute him it would work to our advantage.
It would be worth it seeing him bluttering like an idiot on the world stage in an attempt to spare his own worthless life.
And it he doesn't we can always have a 'prison fire'....
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I think we would much rather take him alive if possible. Otherwise he will just be another Martyr. If we can arrest him, try him in a (possibly Islamic??) court and find him guilty.
This isn't a law enforcement matter. Kill the guy is he's still alive (this latest "intelligence" isn't very convincing), put his head on a pike for all to see, then bury his remains in a pigskin.
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That's alittle too gruesome Bomb-a-rama. I think mailing Binny's head to Arafish would be a better statement.
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I can't tell you how much safer it makes me feel knowing our intelligence community has nailed down his location. Now we can all sleep better at night. Oh, is this the same intelligence community that told us Iraq had mucho WMD's and was seeking uranium? I take that back. What is our next move? Send in Ambassador Wilson? I prefer some of the above suggestions, say like annihilation.
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Ugh, Charles, that's also way too gruesome. I say we disembowel Binny and let famished hogs eat all the inards that spill out ( all on live TV, of course). Once he's dead and mostly eaten, we grind up his bones, etc, to mix into napalm and drop on Palestinian refugee/terrorist camps. And for posterity's sake, we'll have a taxodermist turn his face and scalp into a mask which we'll force Islamofascists to wear when appearing in our courts as defendants against terrorism charges.
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If one finds Binny intact, put him on a meat hook and hang him in the Peshawar Arms Bazaar.
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visit from a foreign doctor for his kidney problems.
Yah know.... I'm beginning to think this old boy is going the peritoneal route.... little pump lots of bags.... keep it clean... could go on indefinitely. Need to hit 'em with a guided fried chicken.
Lotfi Mohamed Mahmoud Al-Barbari, the Egyptian man accused of attempting to kill 13 American soldiers by ploughing a pick-up truck into a group of soldiers outside a store at Camp Udairi last March, again told the Criminal Court Judge he did not intend to kill the Americans.
"A few broken bones, that's all, y'r honor!"
The court renewed his detention until Nov 19 until the court receives a medical report on the condition of the victims. Meanwhile, three Egyptian lawyers based in Cairo have volunteered to help defend Al-Barbari The accused's defence attorney told the court his client has been detained for about seven months and he had been psychologically and bodily harmed because of the injury to his left arm when he was shot by some soldiers on the day of the incident.
Wonder why that happened?
Lofti's attorney told the court his clientâs passport has been confiscated and there is no way he can escape. "So, there is no need to continue his detention." When the suspect ploughed into the soldiers, he was shot by other soldiers several times and wounded in the left hand and as a result he cannot move three fingers. Al-Barbari was working at the camp as an electrician at the time of the incident and is facing an attempted murder charge. The Kuwaiti authorities have received reports from the Egyptian State Security Department showing Lotfi has no link to any organisation and is not involved in politics. Three Egyptian lawyers have volunteered to defend him.
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So he was just a stupid fanatic who decided to become a Martyr. The fact he didn't fight to the death show's he changed his mind when he suddenly realized, " Oh crap, I pissed them off. "
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"he was shot by other soldiers several times and wounded in the left..."
What were they using spit wads?
The First Bench of the Criminal Court Saturday again refused a request by the defence lawyers to release their client, 61-year-old Iraqi citizen, Zuhair Faqira Mohamed Nader. Zuhair is charged with spying for Iraq with three other men — Nadhem Jawad Al-Ali, Mostafa Khalil Ahmed and Shihab Ahmed Mezel (Saudi). In February 2003, the Interior Ministry disclosed in a brief statement a 61-year-old Iraqi had been arrested and charged with spying for Iraq. The statement said the spy was a legal resident in Kuwait since 1980. The Interior Ministry statement said Zuhair worked as an officer in the Iraqi Ministry of Defence and had maintained a relationship and was in contact with the Iraqi intelligence officers at the Iraqi embassy in Bahrain. The statement also said Zuhair had admitted during interrogations at the State Security Department that he had spied on Kuwait and provided the Iraqi officers with military and security information.
I'd say Zuhair's in big trouble...
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Usually a regime will trade something to rescue a spy or operative. Abu Nidal usually didn't. Can't see Sadaam coming to this guy's rescue.
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He spied on Kuwait--and they just figured that out after Iraq invaded how many years ago? Was Tennant in chrge of him?
Chairman of the Saudi Arabian al-Islah (reform) movement, which takes London as a headquarters, Saad al-Faqih, has announced that the movement will work for organizing demonstrations in the coming days in a way that leads to a greater demonstration in the royal court during the holy month of Ramadan. In a statement quoted by the London- based al-Quds al-Arabi, al-Faqih accused the Saudi security forces of embarking on violence and tear gas in Jeddah to suppress some 1,000 demonstrators who tried to gather in order to take part in marches called on by the opposition and arrested scores of them. He also considered that the most successful demonstrations which took place on Thursday was in Hael during which confrontations took place that lasted from afternoon prayers until sunset. On Thursday, the Saudi security forces foiled large scale objections called upon by the government and intensified its presence in major cities in the Kingdom especially on Riyadh, Jeddah, al-Dammam, al-Ihsa, Breida, Hael, al-Jouf and al-Baha. Witnesses said that the Saudi security forces arrested some 70 persons when it interfered to prevent a demonstration which was presumed to be held in the city of Jeddah at the invitation of an opposition Saudi opposition in exile. According to the witnesses among the arrested persons are five women. They did not raise banners nor chanted slogans.
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Iranian spies have been photographing synagogues and other Jewish buildings in Britain, seemingly in preparation for terrorist attacks. MI5, the security service, and Special Branch officers have discovered Iranians photographing such buildings in London and the Home Counties for some time, with an upsurge of activity over the past two months. Up to 20 Iranians, most studying here legally as students at universities, are involved in the surveillance and two men have been asked to leave the country as a result.
"Beat it, Mahmoud. Don't come back."
Mike Whine, the security spokesman for the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said that the authorities were taking the threat seriously. "We have been aware for some time that Iranians are monitoring synagogues and Jewish community buildings," he said. "They have been seen taking photographs and most synagogues are now aware of the threat and keep a look-out. We understand from intelligence received that they are photographing them as possible terrorist targets. We don't know for definite but there could be a link with al-Qaeda."
More likely for Hezbollah or similar groups. Qaeda has its own fifth column in Britain...
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More likely for Hezbollah or similar groups. Qaeda has its own fifth column in Britain...
I think this is a misunderstanding of what al-qaeda is. I think al-qaeda is nothing short of ALL of these muslim murder groups. Hisb'allah and islamic jihad and Hamas and all of the others. They are all a part of this, and are all deserving of death at our hands.
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I was in Hyde park during the spring of 1982 with a student tour group that my dad was leading. They had a massive anti-American rally of 20k plus Iranians in preogress. I felt very uncomfortable as I was wearing a jacket from my bantam hockey team, the Cleveland Americans. Came out of it OK. They didn't bother the Hyde park infidel icons either - the old man with the billboard saying the world well end and the geezer who waves a black anarchy flag.
I think anarchist is in all the tour books. He's probably approved by Khomeni anyway as he has a long beard and demands the overthrow od a Western government.
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two men have been asked to leave the country as a result.
Just throw them into the English Channel and have them swim to France. Taking chances by letting them stay in the country only jeapordizes the citizens lives. I thought Britain would have learned that by now.
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Charles, it's a polite way of saying they've already been given the defenestration treatment. Hope they were thoroughly squeezed first.
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...and as for the rest, as they've been identified already I expect they're playing out their very own unwitting versions of Ed:TV, and will do until the uniformed boys come knocking.
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This just isn't possible--all the Islamic and America hatred comes from France--remember? Again, with apologies to Bulldog--the Islamic beach-head in Europe is in London not Paris
A long, adoring paen to Boy George by al-Jizz...
By Roshan Muhammed Salih
George Galloway occasionally tells the tale of being âworked overâ by Alistair Campbell during a "friendly" football match. It is well known in parliamentary circles that the prime minister's former communications director loathes the backbench MP. So much so, Galloway recounts, that Campbell kicked him instead of the ball at every available opportunity during one encounter on the pitch. A metaphor, perhaps, for the short shrift Galloway was given at a tribunal on Thursday which expelled him from Tony Blairâs Labour party.
Or maybe just what lots of people would have liked to do...
But speculation is now rife that Gallowayâs expulsion could be one of the biggest own goals in Labourâs recent history. It seems increasingly probable Galloway will now resign, sweep to victory in a by-election, and further embarrass a prime minister whose poll ratings are at their lowest ebb.
Maybe so. He's still a crook.
You either love or hate George Galloway.
The latter for me, thanks. No, thanks. No fries with that...
His supporters say he is a skilled orator and potent campaigner for the issues of his choice â Palestine, Iraq and Scottish home rule. A hero in the Arab world, they argue he is being crucified for being one of the most effective critics of the Iraq war.
Or for taking an enemy's side against his own country's...
On the other hand, his detractors say he is an egomaniac who basks in the limelight. They argue that his greatest asset â his eloquence â became his greatest flaw the minute Blair accused him of inciting violence against British troops.
He was eloquent in his incitement to violence against British troops, y'mean?
Born in 1954 in Dundee, George Galloway started his working life with a spell at the Michelin tyre plant in his home city. But it wasnât long before the amateur boxer developed a passion for socialist politics. A dedicated Labour Party organiser in his 20s, he became a member of parliament for Glasgow Hillhead at the age of 32. Galloway has built up quite a following during his 16 years in Glasgow, excelling at the unglamourous task of looking after his constituents. But it is not his domestic brief that has piled the death threats on his desk.As befits a left-wing crusader, his living room is reportedly emblazoned with the images of his revolutionary heros. There are portraits and pictures of Che Guevara, a bust of Lenin, snapshots of Fidel Castro and Yasir Arafat. Galloway is reported to have developed his lifelong passion for the Middle East after a chance meeting with a young Palestinian. The young man dropped into his office to plead the cause of his people, and Galloway was converted. He subsequently visited a Palestinian refugee camp and twinned Dundee with the West Bank town of Nablus, flying the Palestinian flag over Dundee town hall. Ties with Palestine were later cemented when he married a Palestinian scientist. There is even speculation that he may have converted to his wife's religion, Islam. He certainly carries a copy of the Quran in his overcoat pocket. When Aljazeera.net journalist Yvonne Ridley interviewed him at his Portugal home in April he did not deny the suggestion but said tantalisingly: "You will have to wait until I finish my book."
There's much more. Read the rest, if you dare... or care.
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married a Palestinian scientist? Always good to have an explosives expert in a true socialist progressive family.
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Galloway actually made money off Islam by taking bribes from Saddam and company. Most muslims who are diligent are poor. The irony seems beyond the understanding of Jihad, inc.
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He could use Traficante's piece for a few years, though :-?
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Campbell is a very tough customer, by all accounts. He probably kicked Galloway around as payback for all the times Galloway has used his boxing skills against hecklers, dissident constituents, and hostile reporters.
Galloway was a trotskyite thug in his 20s, and he is still very quick to resort to threats of violence, as befits an admirer of terrorists like Guevara and Arafat.
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The missile threat that diverted an El Al flight from Toronto to Montreal Thursday was gaining weight Sunday as Canadian police traced the origins and destination of a German-made rocket launcher. The Calgary Sun reported that the equipment found among 14 caches of weapons entered Canada at a postal plant between April 2001 and March 2003. Hmmm but arenât gun control laws there really strict? Guess they donât apply to the "special" asylum immigrants huh?
The rocket shoulder launcher can be outfitted with heat-seeking missiles, and officials have said that a heat-seeking missile was to be used in the attack. The RCMP, Peel police and Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) agents are trying to trace the locally based threatening call, but are unsure if it was made from a pay or cellphone. Last weekâs attack threat come three moths after a Croatian man made a bomb threat near an El Al ticket counter, and one month after a St. Catharines, Ont., man was charged for phoning in a bomb threat to Pearson Toronto - hotbed of pro-Paleo sentiment
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Ontario is having some real PR problems. Stayed overnight with the wife and kids on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls this summer. Looked like the hotels were full, Maybe tourism Canada is not be hurt as mush as I would have expected.
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if it was made from a pay or cellphone
Don't they have systems of indentifying where the call was from?
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Oh Ontario's having PR problems alright. My grandma runs a Bed And Breakfast in Leamington, just outside of Windsor. Business this year has been a total wash-out. Every time that buffoon Chretien makes an appearance in the news, I seethe :(
Pakistan army has taken stringent security measures along the border with Afghanistan to check infiltration of terrorists and other undesired elements from across the border. This was stated by NWFP Governor Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah and Corps Commander Lt-Gen Ali Mohammad Jan Aurakzai here on Saturday during separate briefings to a visiting team of ambassadors, high commissioners and diplomats posted in Islamabad. The team was apprised that two division headquarters, four brigade headquarters, 10 infantry battalions, three engineering battalions and one special services group (SSG) battalion had been deployed to check the movement of the suspected elements. In addition, the intelligence network, ground and air surveillance system had also been intensified to keep an eye on the activities of the unwanted elements.
Let's see if anything comes of it. My guess is that the tribals will make faces and the troops will look the other way.
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Intelligence agents and dozens of police commandos captured a suspected senior al-Qaida leader in a raid on a home in Faisalabad, an official said today. The police official would not identify the suspect or give his nationality, but said a reward had been offered for his arrest and he came from an Arab country.
Neither of which surprises me in the least...
Interior Ministry officials in Islamabad, the capital, were not immediately available to confirm the arrest. FBI agents were not involved in the operation, unlike in previous arrests of top al-Qaida suspects in Pakistan, said the official. Intelligence agents climbed over a perimeter wall of the house and led out the blindfolded suspect. They drove away in a jeep with black tinted windows to an unknown destination. An assault rifle, a revolver and a suitcase were seized in the raid.
Travelling light, was he?
Authorities had expected to capture about a half dozen people, but only one was taken from the house, said the official, who did not say how much reward had been posted for the suspect.
And a bit more, also from Dawn...
The arrest took place in a raid in Faisalabad on information gleaned from interrogation of three Al Qaeda suspects, two of them Yemeni nationals, arrested in Faisalabad on Tuesday. The three had fled from a tribal area bordering Afghanistan after Pakistan army swooped on Al Qaeda suspects on Oct 2 killing at least eight suspected militants and arresting 18. Intelligence officials have said they are trying to track down an Egyptian-born Canadian, Ahmed Said Khadr, alias Abur Abdur Rehman, a suspected Al Qaeda financier who escaped the military operation near the Afghan border town of Angor Adda.
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Police Sunday seized 13,950 kilograms (30,750 pounds) of explosive material during the routine inspection of a truck in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, an official said.
That'd produce a fairly pronounced boom...
The 280 drums of carbide, a highly explosive material once used in lamps, were found when the truck was stopped at a checkpoint in the Hindu holy city Varanasi, senior police superintendent Subhash Chandra told the Press Trust of India news agency. Police suspect the explosive material may have been meant to cause unspecified attacks and have arrested three people over the seizure, the report said. Chandra said the shipment was headed for the northern city of Kanpur from Jalpaiguri in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.
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"Police suspect the explosive material may have been meant to cause unspecified attacks..."
Uh, ya think? Good catch, Injuns.
Subhash Chandra? Al Seyassah? These are almost as good as Abul Caca.
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It doesn't strike me that calcium carbide would be a very good explosive. Unless it could be mixed with a suitable oxidizer (e.g. ammonium nitrate) then it would be oxygen-starved and would just burn fiercely. I think maybe this is an exaggeration.
Calcium carbide can be used as part of a synthesis process for producing explosives, but it isn't really an explosive itself, as such. Despite the comment above, it wouldn't actually produce a boom -- just lots of really bright flames that would be damned hard to extinguish until it had naturally burned itself out.
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Re: Steven Den Beste's post: I was thinking they might have been planning something along the lines of using the resulting acetylene gas in a FAE, but I have no idea how feasible that would be. I wonder where they found 14 or so metric tons of the stuff, too.
(As an aside to Fred, would it be possible to change the link setup so when you clicked on the link to "Uttar Pradesh" it would show a small map with its location in India?)
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When we were kids, we were calcium carbide scientists, heh heh, and miner's lamp nuts, and gopher hole sappers. Generate some acetylene with calcium carbide and water, let it spread and boom. Rough on the gophers.
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AP -- easier to make Nitrogen TriIodide (from ammonia & iodine). Not only were the raw materials easier to find (central MI didn't have many mines), but when you got dinged up, there wasn't any iodine left to paint the wounds! A very satisfying bang!
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Snellenr---we made NI3 in school in 8th grade science elective. Put little dabs all over everything in algebra class. 30 minutes into class the wet NI3 precipitate dried out. When disturbed it went off with a BANG and a puff of purple smoke. The class was in an uproar. The subsitute teacher was almost deaf. She did not have a clue. We never got in trouble, but we never did it again. Thank God we all lived through those days. Knew how to make it, but never actually made nitroglycerin. We knew that"soup" was just to dangerous!
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You can put some calcium carbide into a capped piece of thin aluminum pipe angled toward the ground, pour water into it, and wait a couple of minutes. When the pipe gets hot, bring a match close to the end of the pipe. Makes for a very satisfying "whoosh", the pipe ricochets off the ground, and sails about 30 yards. Scared the %&^%*&^%* out of a bunch of Boy Scouts from New Orleans doing that one summer.
I've also had one or two pieces of pipe explode. NOT conducive to longevity, but somehow I survived.
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Well, I guess this is one way to turn a lot of FBI agents into Rantburg fans!
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Warning! The above descriptions of explosive preparations and detonations should be left to professionals. Do not try these experiments at home You may not be as lucky as we were.
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The special team tasked with searching for Kuwaiti POWs announced on Thursday that DNA tests on human remains uncovered from mass graves in Iraq showed that they belonged to 10 of the Kuwaiti prisoners and an Egyptian national who had been snatched by the Iraqi regime during its 1990-1991 occupation of the State of Kuwait. This figure brings to 33 the number of Kuwaiti POWs who have been confirmed as victims of the Iraqi regime. Kuwait has relentlessly campaigned at various levels to determine the destiny of more than 605 nationals, taken prisoners by the forces of the ousted regime of Saddam Hussein during the occupation of the country. Meanwhile, HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Friday sent condolences to the families of the Kuwaiti martyrs whose remains were found in Iraqi mass graves.
Lest we forget...
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But yesterday ANSWER said Saddam loved everyone and even had little puppes for pets. Now you tell me that he kidnapped and killed people when he 'legally' invaded Kuwait! Sounds like a Zionist smear campaign if you ask me. Satire intended.
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And thank goodness we've restored Kuwait to its previous representative democracy-Oops did we tell the Al Sabahs about that part of the deal?--nope--'cause there wasn't one--just a restoration of a Saudi/Waahabi dictatorship
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That was Geo41. Long ago (not). Far away (obviously). Geo43 is certainly a different sort. Now if we can just get him to jettison daddy's Saudi baggage...
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It's still early - I'm sure you'll step on your dick as it appears you just can't help yourself.
Sigh. If only you would think for yourself and post what you think after long honest reflection and weighing of the pros and cons that actually exist, not the trite sound-byte crap.
Just once, why don't you pick a topic and post some substance. Apply reason to a premise and crank out a response longer and more cogent than will fit on a moron placard. You might do more than generate like responses - you might alter someone's opinion. If you had a single ounce of honor, you would try it. You certainly achieve nothing, now, except play the ass. This is what pisses me off about you: you're intellectually lazy, dishonest, and willfully ignorant. You are capable, I'm sure, yet you are an intellectual failure - and vaccuum of original thought. Sad, yes, but it's closer to pathetic. It's just my opinion of you. Disregard, as usual.
"Lookit me! I'm important, dammit!"
The Iraqi Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr said he is facing the dangers if detention and assassination by what he called the common enemy.
That's us, of course...
He added in Friday's sermon in al-Kofa mosque that his followers made their duty in defending him and they have become free if they want to leave him.
"Moqtada, we will defend you with our blood!"
For his part, member of the Muslim scholars commission Abdul Salam al-Kubeisi attacked the Governing Council in Iraq. He said that the US had established it to be a barrier between it and the oppressed people. He, in principle, voiced support for the initiative launched by the Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr to form a government alternative for the current Iraqi government.
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I'd take those consequences as acceptable
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I wonder how many of his followers will stay and protect him in the face of several dozen Bradleys and half a dozen A1M2 Abrahams?
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The dentist from Healing Iraq doesn't understand why the America doesn't whack Moqtada and reinstitue the death penalty until the horde of criminals that Sadaam freed are taken care of. I think the answer is that the US has rigid ROE and and is letting Moqtada discredit all the hard-liners through his stupidity.
Ultimately, Moqtada is too young to be respected so he is poisoning his own well for older militant kooks. The Iraqis will eventually take care of the clown. My impression from Zeyed's blog is that in Baghdad, the Iraqis are taking more and more control on their own initiative.
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I hope you're right SH; otherwise this ass can become the next Khomeini
I added Zeyad to the blogroll a week or two ago. Also worthy of attention are Catfish 'n' Cod, who has been on top of Moqtada's recent doings, and Boots on the Ground, by an infantryman in Baghdad.
This fellow uses obscene language some times but the fact that he is in a public profession and gets into official buildings gives his observations some importance.
I think I'd call his language... ummm... "occasionally spicy."
He is generally pro liberation, hopes for more Iraqi police asap and is anti Sharia
This is an excerpt of his musings:
... As a dentist I have to endure the foulest breaths from fasters. I have to help fasters out of diabetic comas due to the normal stress during dental procedures. As a member of society I have to mumble ramadan mubarak and other stuff I donât believe in to everyone. I have to pretend Iâm fasting in front of people so as not to hurt their feelings. And I have to explain myself if Iâm caught and go through the obligatory discussion about the benefits of fasting both spiritually and naturally. I have to smoke in stinky public toilets. I have to roam the whole city to find some âillegalâ booze. Itâs a month of hypocricy. Know why? Because the moment Ramadan is over, everyone stops acting pious and reverts to whatever despicable acts they used to do. But surely Allah wills it so, we unbelievers and kafirs should not question His wisdom.
I hope you interpreted the last sentence as sarcasm because thatâs how the writer intended it
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My assessment of his comments is that we're succeeding about as quickly as I'd hoped. If we continue to bumble along like this, a year from now things should look pretty good.
Six to eight rockets struck the Al Rasheed Hotel early Sunday, where U.S. military and civilian employees stay. A spokesman for the military command said there were an ``unknown number of casualtiesââ and a quick reaction force had been dispatched to the scene. U.S. officials declined further comment. Arrrgh.
The luxury hotel is located in an area tightly controlled by the U.S. military on the western side of the Tigris River near the headquarters of the U.s.-led coalition. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, who began a three-day tour of Iraq on Friday, was in Baghdad, but his whereabouts were unknown.
He was in the hotel, on his way to breakfast at the time...
Some balconies in the midlevel of the hotel appeared damaged and a large hole was visible on one side of the building. Several Army Humvees and at least one armored personnel carrier were blocking the street leading up to the hotel. Find the bad guys and whack âem.
FOLLOWUP: From the Herald-Sun/AP...
In a daring strike, anti-American forces unleashed a barrage of rockets Sunday against the Al Rasheed Hotel, where visiting Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was staying. Wolfowitz escaped, but a U.S. soldier was killed and 15 people were wounded.
Casualty count hasn't changed from that. Guess it's the final figure...
Scores of American officials living in the hotel fled in pajamas and shorts after the 6:10 a.m. assault, which apparently used a makeshift rocket battery on a timer that had been wheeled into a nearby park. More than a half-dozen holes pockmarked the hotel's concrete facade and windows were shattered in two dozen rooms.
Fox News said the rockets were 122mm Katyushas, fired from a "home-made" launcher. The vehicle was disguised as a power generation van. 11 rockets were fired, of which 8 hit the hotel...
Wolfowitz, who appeared shaken as he addressed reporters at a convention center across the street where most officials fled, vowed the attack would not deter the United States in its mission to transform Iraq. "There are a few who refuse to accept the reality of a new and free Iraq," he said. "We will be unrelenting in our pursuit of them."
I didn't think he appeared "shaken", but what do I know?
One U.S. soldier was killed and 15 people were wounded, including seven American civilians, four U.S. military personnel and four "non-U.S. coalition civilian partners," according to a statement by the U.S. command. Wolfowitz, on a three-day Iraq tour, was in the Al Rasheed at the time of the attack, Maj. Paul Swiergosz said at the Pentagon. The hotel houses civilian occupation officials and U.S. military forces. The heaviest damage was on what appeared to be the fifth and eighth floors of the modern, 18-story building. The attackers had boldly driven to the edge of a park just 500 yards southwest of the hotel, towing what looked like a portable, two-wheeled generator, Iraqi police said. They quickly fled, and rockets suddenly ignited within the trailer, apparently on a timer, flashing toward the nearby hotel. Their impact resounded across central Baghdad.
The rocket-on-a-timer thing is a favorite of the Taliban. Set it up, arm it, then run like hell.
Three approaching security guards were injured by the ignition blast, police said.
I'd guess the ignition blast blew the trailer apart â and probably destroyed any aiming that had been done...
Wolfowitz, expressing "profound sympathy" for the victims, said danger persists in Iraq "as long as there are criminals out there staging hit-and-run attacks." After the hotel attack, U.S. troops flooded the area, closing off roads around the "green zone," an already heavily guarded district of central Baghdad that includes the palace headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition and the offices of the interim Iraqi Governing Council. The morning clampdown caused monumental traffic jams. The rockets were fired two hours after coalition authorities ended the nighttime curfew in the Iraqi capital in preparation for the Muslim holy month Ramadan. Officials cited improved security as the reason for ending the curfew. An Iraqi police commander, who refused to give his name, said the attackers, in a white Chevrolet pickup, had driven down a main road passing a few hundred yards from the hotel and stopped at the edge of the city's main Zawra Park and Zoo. Security guards of the new Facilities Protection Service spotted the activity. "We approached him (the driver) to tell him to move the car. When he saw us, he fled," one of the injured guards, Jabbar Tarek, said at a nearby hospital. As Tarek and others approached, the rockets fired off from the blue trailer, police said. Tarek said the guards weren't armed, or "I would have fired on him."
Looks like the guards should be armed, doesn't it?
Later Sunday morning, U.S. soldiers could be seen removing at least two 3-foot-long rockets from the trailer, located about 500 yards southwest of the hotel. "There is no guarantee we can protect against this kind of thing unless we have soldiers on every block," said Lt. Brian Dowd of Nanuet, N.Y., a 1st Armored Division reconnaissance officer at the scene.
FOLLOWUP: Davids Medienkritik notes that Rooters carried the screamer IRAQIS REGRET WOLFOWITZ SURVIVED. Their conclusion was based on a representative sampling of... ummm... one Iraqi.
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CNN says that Wolfowitz was in the compound and was missed by mortars.
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Couldn't they have aimed at something more benificial like, lets say, the CNN news van?
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According to the BBC casualties are being put at 1 US soldier killed, 15 people wounded.
"The attackers appear to have driven a van into a nearby park where they dropped off a trailer containing a rocket launcher, disguised as a generator, about 400 metres (1,312 feet) from the hotel. They then set off a timing device and fled, leaving the rockets to launch at the hotel a few minutes later. An Iraqi security guard told the Associated Press he saw projectiles flying towards the hotel. "There was a whooshing sound," said Dafer Jawad. "One landed in the front of the hotel. I saw very heavy white smoke in front of the hotel." A fire started and about 200 people, including US officials, contractors and journalists gathered in the lobby of the hotel before leaving the building - some still in their pyjamas."
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The opponents of our new pre-emption doctrine would have us wait until they park the trailer, remove the disguise, and set the timers before we try to prevent the attack -- even if we earlier thought we had good intelligence that they're preparing the attack in a warehouse in northern Baghdad.
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"Fox News said the rockets were 122mm Katyushas, fired from a "home-made" launcher. The vehicle was disguised as a power generation van. 11 rockets were fired, of which 8 hit the hotel...Later Sunday morning, U.S. soldiers could be seen removing at least two 3-foot-long rockets from the trailer"
They sound like 107mm Katyushas, not 122mm. I would have expected more damage from 8 122mm hits, even if some of them were duds. The 122mm Katyusha is a 10 foot long 20km range weapon. I'll bet some reporter heard "Katyushas" and didn't know that they also come in 107mm.
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Briefing says they were 65mm and 85mm, fired from a 40-pod rack.
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Thanks Fred, that makes a lot more sense now.
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The Tet Offensive this isn't ... but I'm sure it will be covered as such by CNN, BBC, MSNBC, the NYT ...
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On the subject of Tet.. I'd like to pose a question...
Do enough people know their history to know what a Tet in Iraq means?
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How common was the knowledge in Baghdad that Wolfowitz was staying in that hotel? And didn't the chopper we lost in Tikrit happen the same day Wolfowitz went in and out of there in a chopper? We need to look more closely at who we're sharing ops information with in country - Wolfowitz is going to be lucky to make it home in one piece.
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Saw a picture of the trailer on the news. It was definitely homemade. Also not all the rockets launched.
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So as usual, the war monger escaped but Americans died in his stead--God/Allah knows that bitch never served his country except to advance the cause of his first loyalty--Israel
How, pray tell, have you served your country? Other than soaking up the largesse that the system you apparently despise generates? BTW, we all pay taxes, but most of us don't, metaphorically speaking, piss on America with every breath. Most of us also recognize that no one has to listen to Wolfowitz - so, since he is listened to by Dubya, it must be that what he has to say is a tad more intelligent and substantive than the NaziMedia brain farts you spew here.
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OK-- .com--you know it all--I must be crazy to doubt your divine wisdom -- when you don't even live in our country--if you loved it--you'd live here
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Comrade Cueball - no, I don't know it all, but this was too easy - everything I said is self-apparent. Your "comeback" is typically lame - and fails to dispute anything with fact.
Being connected, I do not have to live in any particular place to be informed. Perhaps, it would do you some good to leave America and fend for yourself for a few years. You might find out just how stupid your "if you loved it--you'd live here" remark is. As a lazy fat stupid Merkin (yes, you are the one who exemplifies the bias against Americans, not me - and if you were out here you'd know it) you sit in your self-satisfied little bubble of self-hatred and simultaneous self-congratulation and stew in your own bile. Bon appetite, CC.
government of Cote d'Ivoire has sacked its chief of police following the cold-blooded murder of French radio journalist Jean Helene by a uniformed policeman in Abidjan. The government announced the move on Thursday night as the body of the Radio France Internationale's (RFI) correspondent in Cote d'Ivoire, was flown home on a French military aircraft. According to eye witnesses, police sergeant Theodore Sery Dago shot Helene at point blank range outside police headquarters on Tuesday night while the journalist was waiting to interview a group of opposition political activists who were about to be released after several days in detention. The policeman was disarmed by colleagues and arrested immediately after the incident. He appeared before a court martial in Abidjan on Friday, charged with murder.
"Murder? Y'mean there's laws against that sort of thing? I didn't know..."
Military prosecutor Ange Kessi, told reporters: "It is a very heinous crime which had no justification either military or moral....I can tell you that given the facts, he risks at least 20 years in prison."
And just how long will Jean Helene be dead?
The government said after a cabinet meeting on Thursday that General Adolphe Baby had been removed as Director General of the National Police following this incident and would be replaced by Colonel Yapo Kouassi. However, Internal Security Minister Martin Bleou was quick to deny suggestions that Sery Dago was acting under orders when he shot the journalist.
"No, no! Certainly not!"
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In the acedemy I guess he missed the chapter about not executing the foriegn journalists.
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Adolphe Baby? C'mon - you're making these names up....fess up
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OUAGADOUGOU (IRIN) - Sixteen people arrested in Burkina Faso for planning an alleged coup against President Blaise Campaore are to be charged before a military tribunal for "conspiracy against state security," the government said on Friday.
Oh, no! Not a military tribunal!
The alleged mastermind of the plot, Captain Luther Diapagri Oualy, will also face treason charges, it added.
Luther's in large trouble...
"The results of our investigations allow us to have no doubt about the reality of the destabilisation attempt and the obvious involvement of foreign countries," Abdoulaye Barry, the prosecutor general, told a news conference in the capital, Ouagadougou, on Friday.
When you say "Ouagadougou" in my neck of the woods, it makes little kids giggle. Try it sometime...
He once more declined to name the countries involved, saying it would be up to the presiding judge at the trial to do give full details. Barry said earlier this month that Oualy held meetings with officials in Cote d'Ivoire and Togo in September, but both countries have denied any involvement in the conspiracy.
"Nope. Nope. Wudn't us."
Barry said investigations were now complete and the plotters would be tried in a military court since 14 of them were soldiers. If found guilty, they faced prison terms ranging from five years to life imprisonment, he added.
No firing squads? Shucks.
The highest ranking soldier being held is Commander Bernadin Poda who was working in the accounts department of the army. He is suspected to have siphoned out money from the army to finance preparations for the coup.
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Don't know what the Vegas projection is on Oualy's lifeline is, but I'ld be taking the under.
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OK I'll even agree with you Conservatives--the French Departement de Names humoureux has outdone itself this time!
Iran has finally revealed to the UN Security Council the names of scores of suspected Al Qaeda members in its custody, state media said here on Saturday.
"Ummm... This list says they were all named Mahmoud, Ahmed, Abdullah, or Bob!"
"Well, those are they names they gave us!"
A report to the council identified 78 suspected members of the Islamic militant network who Iran says have already been extradited to their countries of origin, the official IRNA news agency said. The Iranian mission in New York also provided the names of 147 suspected members of Al Qaeda — or of its former Afghan hosts, the Taliban militia — who remain in custody here pending trial, extradition or deportation, the news agency said. IRNA's dispatch did not reveal the names of the detainees or any further details about them. Iran has previously acknowledged holding some senior members of Al Qaeda but despite US strong pressure, had not identified them, other than saying they are "important and less important members" of the network.
"Yeah. Most of 'em had beards. And turbans. Other than that, it's all classified..."
Between October 2002 and April 2003, more than 2,300 people who illegally entered Iran were handed over to border guards and the United Nations also informed of their names, IRNA said. About 400 people linked to Al Qaeda were refused entry to Iran during the war in Iraq, IRNA added. Previously, Iran said it arrested and deported some 500 people belonging to or linked to Al Qaeda since late 2001. Washington has been pressing Tehran for not doing more against Al Qaeda and for refusing to extradite the suspects to the United States, with which it has no extradition treaty.
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A military court was adjourned until Nov. 7 to continue the trial of members of a suspected network accused of blowing up restaurants and commercial stores carrying Western names and endangering national security. The defendants were also accused of planning an attempt on the life of US Ambassador Vincent Battle and an attack on the US Embassy, as well as an attempt to blow up a Russian airliner at Beirut International Airport with a Russian diplomat on board to protest against the war in Chechnya. The legal proceedings have been postponed so that the court can place the alleged mastermind of the group, a Yemeni called Moammar Qawama, known as Ibn al-Shahid (Son of the Martyr), under its custody as he was apprehended in Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp.
Where else would you expect to find a Yemeni criminal mastermind in Lebanon?
Qawama was turned over to the Lebanese security authorities for trial and interrogation by the military court. Some of the defendants in custody had said that Qawama supplied them with weapons, financed them and enticed them to attack American interests.
"It was him, y'r honor! We wuz just standin' there, doin' nothin', and then he... he... enticed us!"
The court, presided over by Brigadier Maher Safieddine, began looking into the case on Sept. 12 by questioning six of the accused who were indicted for having links with the Al-Qaeda network. One of the main defendants, Khaled Mohammed Ali, earlier this month admitted that he was the mastermind and perpetrator of the explosions that targeted commercial establishments and restaurants carrying American names.
"Dat's right! I'm the mastermind! It wuz me!"
"Oh, shuddup. You ain't no damned mastermind!"
He told the court that âas long as America persists in the killing of Muslims and renders them homeless, determination to strike its interests will increase.â However, he denied having planned an attack on the US Embassy or an attempt to assassinate its ambassador, claiming that these accusations were âfabricatedâ by investigators.
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About a month ago they held a business fair in Beirut that some US companies attended. Anyone who tries to conduct business in Lebanon must be expecting a really mongo ROA. Can't think that a venture capitalist would be too interested in a proposal for a Krispy Kreme franchise in Beirut.
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You're really on a roll with the comments, this morning, Fred. I think it was that picture of Miss Afghanistan.
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A Lebanese judge issued an arrest warrant against exiled former Army Commander General Michel Aoun Friday after his third failure to appear in court on charges of making anti-Syrian remarks to the US Congress. Chief Beirut Investigating Magistrate Hatem Madi issued the warrant after the court again failed to summon the Christian opposition politician through the Lebanese consulate in Paris where he lives.
"I'm livin' in Gay Paree. That ain't in Lebanon. Piss off."
It was not immediately clear if the court would now move to try Aoun in absentia. The prosecution centers on testimony the former head of an interim military cabinet gave to a US congressional committee in September during discussions of a bill that seeks to impose unilateral sanctions on Syria for its âsupport of terrorismâ and âoccupation of Lebanon.â Aoun compared Syria to an âorganized crime syndicateâ in a testimony to US lawmakers last month, saying Syria had turned Lebanon into fertile ground for terrorism, according to a text of his remarks published on a pro-Aoun website.
Not that we couldn't have figured that without his testimony...
A prosecutor has charged Aoun over the statements, deeming them damaging to Beirutâs ties with its powerful neighbor to the east. The former premier is accused of âspreading lies abroad that harm the dignity and the capacity of the Lebanese stateâ and inciting sectarian strife.
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Lebanese judge? They actually have judges that aren't Syrian in Lebanon?
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Is the cost to bribe a judge in Lebanon reasonable? It remains a trifle high in Kenya.
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Any odds that Chirac sends him back?
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The former premier is accused of âspreading lies abroad that harm the dignity and the capacity of the Lebanese stateâ and inciting sectarian strife. Do Syrian provinces have 'dignity' or 'capacity'?
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The European Union has once again called for the "immediate release" of Moroccan soldiers held captive by the Algeria-backed separatist movement "Polisario Front" in the Camps of Tindouf (southern Algeria). The EU has been calling for their release and for cooperation between the (concerned) parties and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to determine the fate of those unaccounted for, said the EU Chairmanship in a statement released at the end of the third meeting of the EU-Morocco Association Committee held on Tuesday in Rabat.
Since they're calling for it again, the first time or two was obviously not quite as effective as they'd have liked...
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"We are warning you. We shall taunt you a second time. And if you still smell like elderberries haven't complied when we have our army, whoa, look out!"
Sources close to the family of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that the Syrian President and his wife Asmaa got a new female baby named Hala. The sources explained that Hala al-Assad was born two weeks earlier in Damascus. The Syrian President also has a son (two year old) carrying the name of his father Hafez. The Spanish King Juan Carlos and his wife Sofia who visited Syria this week were among the first who congratulated on the new born.
How cute. A new little Syrian princess...
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Bashar is probably upset the child wasn't a boy. On the bright side, he can use her as a bargaining chip in political marriages with neighboring countries.
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He's already got his crown prince. Another boy would have been a backup, but the girl's good for a dynastic marriage.
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But Arafat already has a wife.
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I'll bet Clown Prince Abdullah would buy marry her - in the name of Arab unity, of course.
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Actually it could be the best thing that could happen to women in Syria. Let's remember that girls tend to wrap their dads around their little fingers early in life. Is a daughter thing!
Like the Jordanian King sister that as a teenager decided that she wanted to go to Sandhurts like her brother. So she convince her dad, the late king to send her there. She graduated and wanted like any hot blooded young subaltern to lead a paratrooper platoon. Alas, she was send to logistics instead but still no that many pricesses choose the military as a career. The last I hear, she was a Colonel. She is cute to booth.
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The separatist movement "Polisario Front" claiming independence of the Moroccan Sahara, was born in Rabat and not in the then Spanish colony, a former Polisario member revealed on Friday.
Comes as a surprise, doesn't it?
In a damning testimony which brushes claims this Algerian-backed guerrilla movement has been trying to put forward, Mustapha Bouh barazani, former member of this movement's politburo said that contrary to what has been said to them, the Polisario Front was not born in the southern Moroccan territories, then occupied by Spain, but was created in Rabat by "a group of Moroccan students, among whom myself, who were urging the Spanish colonizer to leave and who had never claimed independence or the separation from motherland Morocco."
"Yeah. We wanted it for ourselves..."
In his testimony, Barazani recalled the Cold War opposing the eastern communist bloc to the Western world, saying that "the Polisario was then influenced by Libya and Algeria, two countries that were part of this bloc, and which were trying to export their revolution and destabilize Morocco."
Who'da thunkit?
Tracing back this dispute, Barazani referred to historical and juridical facts such as the Madrid Accord (signed in 1975 by Spain, Morocco and Mauritania) under which the kingdom retrieved these southern provinces, the juridical opinion of the Hague-based international court of Justice which proved historical links between Morocco and the inhabitants of the Sahara, as well as the peaceful "Green March" in which more than 300,000 Moroccans took part in forcing the Spanish occupying authorities to pack up and leave this territory. He also pointed a finger at neighboring Algeria which, he said, has provided this movement with military, financial and diplomatic support in exchange of "evident but unavowed" geo-strategic interests.
Y'mean Algeria's trying to grab off some Moroccan territory?
The ex-Polisario member who also served as "governor of the Camps of Aousserd and Dakhla in Tindouf (southern Algeria)" said that the Sahrawi population living in the camps are held hostages against their will by the Polisario and the Algerian military security that use them as a propaganda means to mislead the international public opinion.
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Iran said Sunday it had not yet suspended enriching uranium after promising to do so in a deal with three European countries who had come to Tehran to express international concerns it is pursuing nuclear weapons. Show of hands by everyone who is surprised by this... thought so...
"Iran is currently studying suspending uranium enrichment," the Foreign Ministry said in a brief statement, saying its spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi had been mistaken when he told reporters earlier Sunday that enrichment had already been suspended. "Weâve discovered that itâs easier to enrich the uranium if itâs suspended... Oh, you thought we meant something different? Sorry
Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only. High-grade enriched uranium can be used in bombs, while low-grade enriched uranium can be used in energy programs. "High-grade uranium is more efficient to transport -- we intend to dilute it on-site with camel dung."
In an agreement with the British, German and French foreign ministers, Iranian authorities said Tuesday they would suspend uranium enrichment and sign a protocol giving inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (search), the U.N. nuclear watchdog, unfettered access to its nuclear facilities. but they had their fingers crossed...
Iran had said it would abide by the protocol even before it is ratified by its parliament. But Tehran has been vague about when it would open up to inspections, as it has been vague about when and for how long it would halt enrichment. Itâs also a bit vague about the honest signing of agreements, but entirely clear on the concept of asshattery...
Iran has previously allowed IAEA inspectors to visit non-nuclear sites, a privilege that goes beyond Iranâs obligations under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. ?WTF?
Whatâs the point of "allowing" the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit non-nuclear sites????
IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei said earlier this month that agency inspectors were allowed to visit one military site and that there could be expanded reviews of both military and civilian facilities in the future.
Iranian officials are trying to balance pressure to meet the demands of the international community with the demands of hard-liners at home. About 1,500 hard-liners protested in Tehran on Friday against the pledge to open the nuclear program to unfettered inspections and suspend uranium enrichment.
Some Iranian extremists see backing down on the nuclear question as a sign of weakness. It is... Iran, youâre weak -- get used to the idea...
On Sunday, as Asefi was addressing the press conference at the Foreign Ministry, over two dozen clerics demonstrated outside the building to protest Iranâs pledge.
"No compromise, no surrender. Death to compromisers," shouted the clerics, some of them wearing white shrouds symbolizing their readiness to die for their cause. Asked to die, the clerics refused...
Asked about the protests, Asefi said, "We are the 81st country agreeing to sign the additional protocol. Itâs not treason or compromise. It was necessary to do so." Made particularly easy by the fact that we have called takebacks...
Iran faces an Oct. 31 deadline to prove to the IAEA that its nuclear projects are entirely peaceful. If Iran fails to satisfy the IAEA, the U.N. agency is expected to refer the matter to the Security Council, which could impose sanctions. Or it might not, or it might and might or might not enforce them -- the head spins with the possibilities...
In the agreement, France, Britain and Germany promised in turn to help Iran acquire peaceful nuclear technology. Defined as "that nuclear technology which earns them money and oil"
Iran gave the U.N. nuclear watchdog a dossier Thursday meant to dispel fears it is trying to make atomic bombs.
Asefi said the dossier was a 200-page account of Iranâs nuclear activities. The spokesman said a team of IAEA experts arrived in Tehran Sunday to discuss the dossier with Iranian authorities. He gave no further details. My fears would be more dispelled if this dossier was a 5 page complete accounting of Iranâs lack of nuclear activities.
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I beleive that we have entered the Zero Sum Endgame once again.
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"Iranian officials are trying to balance pressure to meet the demands of the international community with the demands of hard-liners at home. About 1,500 hard-liners protested in Tehran on Friday against the pledge to open the nuclear program to unfettered inspections and suspend uranium enrichment."
Who is this reporter trying to kid? The "hard-liners" are the Iranian "officials" and, in a totalitarian state, any demonstration that isn't busted up by the thugs of state is, ipso facto, one representing the state's position. Fox needs to get a grip on the editorial process and remove the innuendo and spin. Of course, there wouldn't be much of a story here if it was limited solely to facts:
"Nope. We're clean. C'mon in. Visit our non-nuke sites and see for yerself."
"Wow! You're so, uh, cooperative! Let's give 'em a medal!"
"Tanx. It's rough. You can see our citizens clamor for this technology. They want to wipe out the Sunnisthe Baha'ithe Kurdsthe Saudi Royalsthe Great Satanthe Jooos unemployment and guarantee our country's supply of electricity. This is obvious."
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Iran gave the U.N. nuclear watchdog a dossier Thursday meant to dispel fears it is trying to make atomic bombs.
Sitting on top of a fortune in oil, and these guys want nuclear power? They're full of crap, plain and simple. And the Poms, Frogs, and Germans are stupid to be helping them out.
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The IAEA's El-Baradei was "passively" helping Saddam to hide his nuke effort. By the standard of what he did for Saddam, he "succeeded" in NoKorea. He is now doing the exact same thing with Iran.
Blix was an obvious, anti-American fool much discussed in the media and blog-world. El-Baradei is an anti-American fool who --inexplicably and unlike Blix-- hasn't been dissected in public. He is always lying though his teeth and must be taken out before he can do further damage under cover of the IAEA.
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NMM, I've been saying that for months! Thank you.
What part of the scenario of an Islamist Bomb and a nuclear "watchdog" named Mohammed going together don't the sheeple understand?
Hat tip to Drudge
Syria has threatened to attack Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights if Tel Aviv launches another assault on its territory. In a move that will raise tension after Israel struck a suspected terrorist training camp near Damascus earlier this month, Farouk Sharaa, Syriaâs foreign minister, warned that further "aggression" would prompt Syria to use "other cards". Mr Sharaaâs threat, in an interview with The Telegraph, raises —for the first time since the Israeli raid — the prospect of Syria attacking the area seized from it by Israel in 1967. And the end of the Baathist regime - if you canât stop IAF jets from buzzing Assadâs palace, youâre gonna die if you attack Israel
They can't do nothing. Not taking Dire Revenge™ causes them to lose face...
The foreign minister also claimed that Syria was unable to stop resistance fighters pouring across the border into Iraq to attack American troops. "They are very determined and many of them dream of seeing an American tank," he said. last thing that goes through their minds? Itâs much bigger than I thought - OW!
Mr Sharaa added that Israelâs first incursion into Syria for 20 years had caused deep anger. While Damascus wants peace, he said, many ignorant Syrians wanted to hit back. The raid followed an attack by a Palestinian suicide bomber that killed 19 people in a restaurant in the Israeli port city of Haifa. "After the attack we acted in a responsible way and went to the United Nations and a majority of our people supported that," Mr Sharaa said. "But if we are attacked again our people will not stand for it and we have to carry out the will of the people. Suicide rush to the Golan! Câmon! Whoâs with me on this! Anyone? ....*crickets*...Al-Bueller?
"We have many cards that we have not played. Donât forget there are many Israeli settlements in the Golan. I am not exaggerating but I am describing things as they might happen." Like to play poker with a bad bluffer like this fool
One Western diplomat said that it was feasible that Syria could react to another Israeli attack by striking at Golan settlements, or by "reactivating" Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon. Such a reaction would "up the ante to a dangerous level", he said. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967 and annexed the area in 1981, claiming that Syria had used it as a base from which to attack Israel. More than 14,000 Jews live on the Golan and the slopes of Mount Hermon.
Syria had almost gotten the heights back through negotiations, then got huffy and arrogant because they were offered 97 percent of what they wanted instead of 100 percent. Sound familiar?
Washington is already planning tough diplomatic and financial action against Syria. Mr Sharaa risked further American criticism in admitting that Syria would could not control the border with Iraq and had failed to stop Palestinians, Iraqis and Syrians going to fight against American forces. "We are doing everything we can," he said."We have tightened our checkpoints and are turning people back. But the border is long and we cannot cover it all. If America, a rich superpower, cannot stop Mexicans crossing into the United States, then how can we, a poor country, be expected to stop Palestinians getting into Iraq?" he added.
Because Syria controls its side of the border. The U.S. doesn't have any problem keeping Texans and Arizonans from swarming into Mexico...
He insisted that President Bashar Assadâs government had closed down the offices of Islamic Jihad, Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. Lies, All Lies! Oops, I mean...
A visit by The Telegraph to the terrorist groupsâ offices in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp, five miles from central Damascus, confirmed that the offices had been closed.
Did you look around the block?
A Western diplomat said, however: "Closing an office does not mean stopping the activities of an organisation. They can simply move elsewhere — and they have mobile phones." Thank you Captain Obvious
The envoy said that there had been signs that Syria was making "some efforts in the right direction" on terrorism but added: "We know that these groups are still active here. They have contact with groups in Gaza and provide funding, operational and tactical support. Syria has a long way to go." Elsewhere in the refugee camp there was clear evidence that Palestinians are joining the resistance against the American forces in Iraq. Near the Al-Wasim mosque, a poster paid tribute to Thaer Abdullah Rahman, formerly of the camp, who was killed in Iraq two months ago.
How's it feel to be dead, Thaer?
Wajeeh Maoud, the mosqueâs muezzin, who calls worshippers to prayer, said that many Palestinians were going into Iraq and a lot some had been killed there. "I donât know how they cross the border," he said. "The Syrian government is not helping them. They are doing it by themselves."
"They just inflate, and float right over the border..."
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"They are very determined and many of them dream of seeing an American tank," he said.
What is the last thing a bug sees when he hits your windshied?
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Syria doesn't have the cajones to attack Israel face-to-face. That is why they support Hez, IJ and Hamas. If they did would have to respond inkind and that would be bads for Syria. This equation doesn't work if Syria uses Chems or bios. Then Israel would nuke Damascus.
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I hope they do attack the Golan Heights. That way Isreal has a even better reason ( Terrorism should be enough in the first place ) to bomb Syria. And they can even attack the Syrian army instead of just Terrorists!
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Mr Sharaaâs threat, in an interview with The Telegraph, raises âfor the first time since the Israeli raid â the prospect of Syria attacking the area seized from it by Israel in 1967.
A very good way to lose even more land.
If America, a rich superpower, cannot stop Mexicans crossing into the United States, then how can we, a poor country, be expected to stop Palestinians getting into Iraq?" he added.
The U.S. government can stop illegals. It just doesn't have the political will to do it.
If Iraq settles down, we will be in Lebanon again. This time with the guts to stay.
I'd stay out of the south. Too many Palestinian "refugees" there.
There's the video clip showing Haifa, the sultry Lebanese shimmying in the rain in a clingy red dress. And the clip featuring Roubi, the Egyptian singer belly-dancing in a public square. And scantily dressed dancers aplenty without whom no male singing act seems complete. The blitz of dewy looks, pouting lips and suggestive dance on Arab satellite TV stations is outraging some critics. One has dubbed the new crop of performers ``weapons of singing destruction.'' Another says some women are so offended that they are praying to Allah to smite the seductresses.
"Gawd, they look so fine, and I'm so dumpy! Please kill them all!"
In the largely conservative Arab world, where many women go veiled and cloaked in public and government censors determine the length of an on-screen kiss, the video clips seem out of place. So why are they permitted to air?
Ummm... I dunno. Why?
Competition, answers Abdo Wazen, a Lebanese art critic at the newspaper Al Hayat.
"If we don't show 'em, somebody else will, and the rubes'll watch them..."
But others see even bigger forces in play.
Dark conspiracies, perhaps? Insidious plots?
``It's an attempt to divert the attention of youths away from the political and financial frustrations at home,'' offers Ali Abu-Shadi, an Egyptian who was a government censor.
"Mahmoud! Pay attention to your political and financial frustrations and stop gawking at those titties!"
``It's the price Saudis have to pay for opening up to the world,'' says Abdel Azim al-Awwad, a Saudi sociologist. ``Censorship has become impossible. We cannot handpick what to show.''
"Before these videos came along, I didn't even know women had bosoms! And now we have to pick and choose which ones to show? I don't think so..."
``It's part of an American policy to strip Arab cultures of their values,'' says Hussein Abdel-Qader of the Egyptian newspaper Akhbar Al-Yom.
Ahah! I knew it! Our insidious plot is working! Prepare for Phase 2: THIGHS!
What does he think of the singers? ``They're driving men crazy!'' he exclaimed.
"I've... got... to... go... shoot... off... my gun!"
Abdel-Qader said women in Egypt go to the shrine of Zeinab, the Prophet Muhammad's granddaughter, ``to pray that Allah take Haifa, Roubi and Nancy.''
"O, Allah! Please make them fat and dumpy like me! And moustaches! Give them moustaches bigger than mine!"
Nadira Omran, a prominent Jordanian actress, said the clips are ``very cheap and vulgar.'' ``They have turned a woman's body and its superior qualities into a commodity,'' said Omran, who bans her children from watching them.
"Shuddup, y'little brats! Watch your jihad videos instead!"
Dalal el-Bizri, a Lebanese sociologist living in Cairo, blames male-dominated societies for making women cover up. ``When the condition of women on the street is unnatural, the demand for vulgarity and nudity increases,'' she said. ``That's what viewers want and television stations have to cater for that demand.''
Couldn't possibly be that men like looking at bosoms and thighs and comely bottoms, and that women who have them often don't mind being looked at â and sometimes flaunting them?
Nancy â full name Nancy Ajram â is best-known for a clip that shows her swaying her hips and shaking her shoulders while serving customers at an all-male cafe. In an interview with The Associated Press, she denied it contains any sexual innuendoes. ``My clip is bold, but it doesn't go beyond feminine appeal. I don't sing with my body,'' she said.
"I think of myself as just a little glimpse of Paradise..."
The clips air on several satellite stations, mostly based in Beirut or Cairo, where society tends to take a more liberal view of these things. But they reach all over the Arabic-speaking world.
That's the kicker, isn't it?
One broadcaster is Rotana Television, a music channel inaugurated last month in Beirut. It belongs to a production company owned by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, famous in the United States for having his $10 million donation to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks rebuffed by Rudolph Giuliani, then New York's mayor.
Michel Murr, who heads the Beirut operation, was not available to talk about the impact the videos are having on viewers. But at another network, Cairo-based Dream TV, general manager Osama al-Sheik told AP: ``We don't broadcast any video clip unless we are sure it is morally acceptable.'' He said the station has an in-house ``censorship department'' of station employees that has banned some foreign and Arab videos, and the Roubi and Haifa clips almost didn't make it onto the air.
"But that's what the paying customers are buying..."
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Like the old quip goes, the sexual revolution is over and sex has clearly won.
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like .com (sort of) said, they need to have their impropriety scales reset -- maybe toss in an Aguilera or mid-career Madonna video occasionally (just to listen to, of course).
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Hey, back in '92 I couldn't even change into shorts and drive to my softball games - had to change in the truck in the parking lot inside the compound. We were the Infidels, of course.
Note: Every time we played a Phillipino team they would bus in their fans, saw as many as 200 screaming cat-calling loonies in the stands, as every game against a US team was on a par with The World Series or Olympic Finals. No Saudis watched any games that I recall. They certainly didn't play.
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SH, you're so cruel...
Ahem. In the interests of cultural research, I feel the need to point out that Ms Haifa actually has her own website. I can see why it's got some undies twisted - from some of her pics it's apparent that she's already gyrated her way on to Fred's Corruption Scale Phase 2.
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Can see how some would be offended by the content of Haifa's website. Others would be more offended by this blond.
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Fred, (re Haifa website) you have missed the definitive Flash Craptacular! All those buttons scattered about labeled "More->>" -- and I kept clicking on them and never *saw* more! She does expose her shoulders, tho...
And SH -- that was just *evil* (I'll admit, though, that I searched a bit for a decent picture of Ruby from "The Fifth Element" for Roubi...)
JPost Reg Reqâd
IDF troops killed a Palestinian gunman after a fierce gunbattle near an army outpost and blew up three empty hi-rises in the Gaza Strip Sunday morning. cause/effect lesson #8,342
I've still yet to see a desultory gunbattle.
Two more infiltration attempts in the Gaza Strip were also foiled by IDF reservists Sunday. In one of the incidents, two Palestinian gunmen were reported hit by IDF gunfire but it was not confirmed that they were killed. look in the hospital for âem...or maybe, after the last incident where the Israelis snatched the guys from the hospitals, these a-holes went home to quietly bleed to death
On a sandy hill overlooking the heavily guarded Jewish settlement of Netzarim, troops evacuated some 2,000 Palestinians from their homes and then blew up three unfinished 12-story buildings. Huge blasts rocked the area for kilometers (miles) around, sending plumes of black smoke and debris into the air, and damaging nearby structures. The operation was in retaliation for an attack Friday morning in which two Palestinian gunmen infiltrated an army outpost in the Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim and killed three soldiers, including two women. One of the gunmen was killed and the other escaped. The attack was carried out jointly by the Hamas and Islamic Jihad militant groups. IDF officials said Palestinians used the buildings to monitor Netzarim and the adjoining military base and compiled information regarding the troop movements and daily routine. 12 story lookout posts hovels - wonder what kind of quality control they had in building those? lol
The Palestinian who was killed Sunday had approached an army outpost near a settlement armed with a rifle and hand grenades, the military said. A soldier on observation saw the gunman and alerted a nearby force. A fierce gunbattle erupted and the Palestinian was killed.
"Fierce gunbattle" is simply redundant, dammit!
In a separate incident overnight Saturday, troops noticed a group of four Palestinians crawling toward an army outpost. Troops fired on the group and hit two. Two others fled, the military said, adding that troops were waiting for daylight to search the area for the wounded Palestinians.
Crawled off into the brush to die, hopefully...
Also Sunday, IDF troops shot at a group of armed Palestinians who were approaching the Kfar Darom settlement in the Gaza Strip. busy little beavers, arenât they? I guess they just donât know about The Roadmapâ¢?
Security forces demolished a nearby Palestinian police station into which the second attacker of the Netzarim attack fled; police officials then helped him return to the Gaza Strip. Ahhhh the vaunted Paleo security forces
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Looks like Isreal's policy is working alittle better than the Roadmap.
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I'm surprised that there are so many empty high rises in Gaza. Where is all the commerse?
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Chief Paleo-liar Saeb Erekat claimed that the demolition of the lookout posts had made 180 families homeless.
"'This is a crime, a war crime,' Erakat said. 'It's a good thing that people are out of their apartments on the eve of Ramadan.'"
Wow, what an amazing stroke of luck that every member of all 180 families was out of the buildings, at the same time, in the early morning.
Meanwhile, the UN's Middle East dhimmi-in-chief, Terje Roed-Larsen, declared that "The destruction of these buildings ... is illegal. Destroying property as a punitive measure is a clear violation of the rules of international law."
Some nuance in UN definitions probably keeps Israeli pizza parlors and buses from qualifying as "property", but what about the World Trade Center?
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Of course some countries (but not Iraq) can ignore ANY UN resolution they want and thumb their nose at the world community--because they have to have their security--paid for by the US
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And you would have them kow-tow to the UN, a collection of thugs, despots, Arab dictators, and failed states, and thus commit suicide / self-genocide, paid for by the Saudis and Iranians. Brilliant.
If the destruction if Israel is your goal, and you can't do it militarily or economically, then do it politically under the phantasy auspicies of the most obvious failure of international diplomacy in modern history. Right. I'll put that suggestion in my next report.
The "world community" is the problem / joke here. The security problem is real, if you have any knowledge of history. Apparently, you do not.
Good call, NMM. You're certainly the clear-thinking even-handed one here - the rest of us are ignorant knee-jerk tools of the Joooos. No wonder you post so late, long after most everyone else has retired - almost no one around to ridicule your pre-approved NaziMedia comments. But hey, it's high noon here in Thailand, joker, so I'll keep you company.
Oops! Pardon me, Moh'd Mike, I must go check in with my Jooo Masters.
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Still awake and still interested in your opinions--but Quagmire is Israel--not Iraq--the occupied territories on the West bank preclude a settlement and and a two state solution to this mess
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Truly, this is a stupid observation - devoid of fact and reality.
There will never be peace between the Israelis and the Arabs. If you haven't figured this out, yet, then you're just not paying attention. Your suggested "solution" has already been tried. Yes, it has. Save your quibbling foolishness and moral equivalencies - I'm miles past that, which is why talking to one like you (and there are many, but thankfully not most) is so frustrating and such a waste.
I could, in detail, explain why - but I'm not interested in educating such a lazy shiftless intellect. Set aside your current opinions illusions of moral superiority - for that is all they are. Dig. Read - all "sides." Analyze. Weigh. Wear shoes. Play the advocate, devil and saint. Re-analyze. Re-weigh. Sleep on it. Summarize. Expound. That's the best, and you'll be happy to hear - I'm sure, the last civil and constructive response I'll have for you. After this, your unconscionable lazy knee-jerk tripe and stupidity will receive nothing but the derision it deserves.
"We all do no end of feeling - and mistake it for thinking." - Twain. The smartest sumbitch that America has ever / yet produced.
Police closed the offices of Zimbabweâs only independent daily, the Daily News, less than a day after it had reopened. Eighteen journalists were detained in the raid, the newspaperâs lawyer said. Bob canât deliver food or fuel, but he sure can move quickly to stifle the opposition.
With a front-page headline saying "Weâre back", the daily went on sale on Saturday, for the first time since it was shut down by police six weeks ago. On Friday, a court ruled that the authorities were wrong to refuse the bestselling newspaper a licence.The paper has not yet been given a licence, but its lawyers say the ruling renders media regulations invalid. The government-appointed Media and Information Commission (MIC) has said it will appeal against the ruling delivered on Friday by the Harare Administrative Court. The Daily News is known for being highly critical of President Robert Mugabe and his government.
Roll over and play dead and you can stay open...
An editorial in Saturdayâs newspaper called on the authorities to repeal strict media laws, which critics say were designed to stifle the press. "The truth was that these people were and are still obsessed with muzzling the independent media," reads the editorial. The newspaper was shut down by police early in September after the Supreme Court ruled it was operating illegally because it had not registered with the MIC. The commission then denied the Daily News a licence, saying it had missed the deadline for applications and had also failed to supply the commission with free copies of the paper, as required under the law. And if they had, the MIC would have found another reason.
But in Fridayâs ruling, the judge said the commission had not been properly constituted invalidating all its actions to date. The court has now ordered the MIC to issue a licence by 30 November. Maybe they could order Bob out of the country by then.
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I was pretty disgusted to learn that SA was trying to encourge Nigeria to ignore the ban on Zimbabwe attendence to the meeting of world commonwealths. Mbeki wanted Bob invited anyway until Australia spoke up.
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Where is Nelson Mandela's big flappy mouth? No fun criticizing black dictators?
Syrian banks are holding Iraqi assets and there is discussion about returning them to Iraqâs control, Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam said Saturday. "There is some (Iraqi) money and some (Iraqi) demands" to recover it, Khaddam said. "This matter is still under discussion." The vice president did not elaborate. "I can say no more please donât kill me!! "
The remarks came two weeks after Syrian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Bushra Kanafani denied U.S. media reports that Syria had millions of dollars worth of Iraqi money. Kanafani told reporters on Oct. 11 that reports that Syrian and Lebanese banks were holding up to $3 billion worth of assets from Saddam Husseinâs regime were "baseless." Looks like somebody covered the bases!
Ten days later, however, a U.S. Embassy official in Damascus said Syria was cooperating with the United States to see whether its banks hold any such assets. The official confirmed that an American team was in Syria to gather evidence about Saddamâs assets. He denied the reports that the assets amounted up to $3 billion in Syria and Lebanon.
"It's only... ummm... 2.9 billion. So there."
A U.N. resolution passed after the U.S.-led war that ousted Saddam called on all nations to seize and return to the coalition-controlled Fund for Development in Iraq all assets of the former Baghdad government so they can be used to benefit the Iraqi people. Remind me, did Syria vote for that resolution?
In May, Lebanonâs Central Bank said it had frozen millions of dollars in Iraqi funds and would return them to Iraq after a "legitimate" government is formed. The U.S. Treasury has said Lebanon has $495 million in Iraqi funds. That would keep Mr. Bremer going a couple of months.
Khaddam spoke to reporters after meeting a delegation of Iraqis.
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Syria's cooperation may partly be based on the fact that the funds aren't doing them much good. They can buy US T or Euro instruments and get a bit of interest but when they do that, they have to make out certain declarations that could be dicey. Investing it in arab enterprizes avoids that but such enterprizes frequently lose money and they would be at risk for making up the balance.
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As a solo contractor in the 80's, I wrote EFT systems for a few US companies to consolidate excess cash above a set point from branch offices to the HQ office, poll the major banks for their rates and use a rules system to pick the vendor, and then roll the accumulated excess cash in Commercial Paper overnight - made beaucoup profit on otherwise unused asset for 'em. I shoulda worked on a percentage basis.
But that was in the real world - poor Islam, gots no interest, no usury, no making money without beaucoup risk. Billions... gotta be painful. (sniff, sniff) Little Mike sure left them in a fix, eh?
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use a rules system to pick the vendor, and then roll the accumulated excess cash in Commercial Paper overnight - made beaucoup profit on otherwise unused asset for 'em.
Good heavens man... have you no conscience? More importantly... do you still have the code?
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