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Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot
Christina Hendricks aka "the sexiest woman in the world" in 2010 poll of female readers taken by Esquire magazine aka Joan Holloway in "Mad Men (TV)" aka Saffron in "Firefly (TV)" aka Nicolette Raye in "Kevin Hill (TV)" aka Lily in "La Cucina" aka Angela in "South of Pico" (age 36)
I'm seeing ALOT of quoted text in comments, after what happened with the law firm firmly ensconced in Satan's ass, maybe a reminder post about quoting news sources verbatim is a good idea?
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While prolonged staring at pictures of Christine Hendricks will give you a nose bleed and a ringing noise in your ears, the "sexiest woman alive" is "She who must be obeyed" the love of my life and the darling tyrant that runs Chateau d'Aggie
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Clicking on the two NSFW kinks each brought up a warning from Norton about an unsafe site - ID phishing. Dunno if true or how dangerous if true, just selling it like I bought it.
[Iran Press TV] A Singaporean shipper says Somali pirates are believed to have hijacked a chemical tanker and its 25-member crew off the coast of Kenya.
The vessel was loaded with over 28,000 tons of crude palm oil
Walking barefoot through that stuff won't do the pirates any harm... unless they slip, fall, and break a hip or something equally useful. Not like the kind of chemicals Iran ships through that part of the world.
and it was en route to Kenya from Indonesia when it was hijacked and is believed is heading towards Somalia, Singapore firm Glory Ship Management said in a statement on Sunday.
The MT Gemini "was believed to have been hijacked by pirates... on 30 April at 12:33 pm Singapore time (0433 GMT)," AFP quoted the statement as saying.
Glory said it last communicated with the crew -- comprising 13 Indonesians, three Myanmar nationals, five Chinese and four South Koreans -- early afternoon Singapore time on April 30 before contact was cut off.
The shipper made no mention of ransom in its statement, but stressed that it would spare no efforts to secure the release of the crew.
Rampant piracy off the Indian Ocean coast of Somalia has made these waters among the most dangerous in the world.
Somali pirates, who increased the number of successful hijackings in 2010, have become more violent and have expanded their attack zone.
There are currently 27 vessels and 600 crew members held by Somali pirates, according to the European Union naval force mission.
Somalia does not have a functioning government and the authority of the Transitional Federal Government is limited mostly to the area around the capital, Mogadishu.
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[Emirates 24/7] NATO launched Arclight airstrikes overnight on positions held by Qadaffy loyalist forces near the rebel-held town of Zintan and destroyed at least 10 tanks and vehicles, a rebel front man said on Monday.
"NATO struck last night in an eastern area of the town. We counted 12 missiles that landed there. A total of 10-12 tanks and vehicles were destroyed," the front man, called Abdulrahman, told Rooters by telephone from Zintan.
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"OBAMA KILLED LAST WEEK" = In hindsight, were US Officials trying hard NOT to say that POTUS BAMMER had ordered a DOUBLE-HIT AGZ BOTH GADDAFI IN LIBYUH, + OSAMA BIN LADEN IN PAKISTAN???
[Ennahar] Nine people were maimed, including three coppers during a demonstration by hundreds of students for an upgrading of qualifications and a system change, which was blocked by police in central Algiers.
Students made an appointment on the "Place de la Grande Poste" with the goal of heading to the government palace, located about 2 km.
But on leaving the University of Algiers nearby on the famous Didouche Mourad Street (formerly Michelet St.), they found themselves blocked by hundreds of members of law enforcement.
Demonstrators tried repeatedly to force the police barrier, some of whom have used their sticks, while from the other side, glass projectiles were thrown against the police.
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[Tolo News] Libyan government forces have stepped up an offensive against the rebels after his youngest son was killed in a NATO air raid, reports say.
President Qadaffy's supporters have reportedly burnt down western embassies after Col Gaddfi survived a NATO air strike, but his son and three grandchildren were killed.
Authorities have said Col Qadaffy was in his Tripoli house when it was destroyed by three missible on Saturday.
Qadaffy himself was reportedly unhurt but it was confirmed that his 29-year-old son, Saf al-Arab and his three young grandchildren were killed in the raid.
Pro-Qadaffy forces vowed vengeance and burnt British and Italian embassies and the US commercial and consular affairs department.
Western diplomats had withdrawn weeks ago before the NATO air strikes began.
The Libyan Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim has said the strikes have been the fouth liquidation attempt on the Libyan leader's life.
He has also dismissed some media reports that claimed the deaths had been fabricated in an attempt to discredit NATO.
The NATO has claimed it only targeted a command and control centre.
Some countries have repeatedly criticised NATO of exceeding the UN mandate which is to observe a no-fly zone over Libya to protect civilians.
NATO has even been criticised of acting as the rebels' air force in Libya.
A French surgeon who has been asked to independently identify the bodies has said they hade died in the blast but were difficult to be identified as their faces had been obliterated in the kaboom.
He has also said he has seen the body of a man of about 30 whose face resembled a photo of Saif al-Arab he had been shown.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... rebels have told Rooters that a port in Misrata was shelled by rockets while an aid ship wanted to unload.
The rocket shells have also forced two other aid ships to stay offshore.
Shelling the port will disrupt humanitarian efforts, a rebel front man has told Rooters.
Libyan government has said it shelled the port to prevent NATO supplying weapons to the rebels.
While government officials deny targeting civilians, rights groups have said hundreds including civilians have been killed in Misrata so far.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke with a splitting headache...
the UK has expelled the Libyan ambassador, Italia has condemned the attack on its embassy, and the UN has withdrawn staff amid mob attacks.
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[Ennahar] Algerian security forces have tossed in the slammer seven men, mostly Algerians and Malians, in the southern Sahara of Algeria for financial and logistical support to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), said Monday the Algerian press.
Hurrah -- more bad guys with cell phones! Somebody fetch the CIA tech guys more coffee, stat!
The date of their neutralization has not been specified.
According to the Arabic daily Al-Chourouk, the services of the regional center of research and investigation of the province of Tamanrasset, 2,000 km south of Algeria, were able to identify a "sleeper cell of support in the region of Abelsa (170 km west of the town of Tamanrasset) and ended their activities."
They have, at this opportunity, seized communications equipment and, according to the other major Arabic daily El-Khabar, computers and large quantities of currency.
Cell phones and computers? Oh, joy abounding!
El-Khabar said, also citing security sources that the AQIM support network was led by a Malian nicknamed Abu al-Youcef El-Hassan, whose real name is Jakwa Ibrahim Obraham, aged 42.
According to the newspaper, the network, mobile, operated between Tamanrasset and the northern Malian town of Gao.
It consisted of two Algerians, three Malians, a Chadian and a Guinean, said even the newspaper.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff of Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Algeria met last Friday in Bamako to discuss the regional security situation, a source of renewed concern for them because of the Libyan crisis.
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[Al Jazeera] Mobs attacked Western embassies and UN offices in Tripoli after NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... bombed Muammar Qadaffy's family compound.
Officials said a son of the leader and three of his grandchildren were killed in Sunday's attack.
The UN said it had fledrun away evacuated its international staff from Tripoli on account of the unrest. Stephanie Bunker, a spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said that 12 staffers had left Libya and were now in neighbouring Tunisia.
Khaled Kaim, the deputy foreign minister, said on Sunday that the attack was the fourth attempt to assassinate Qadaffy, who was in the building at the time.
Kaim denied the presence of command and control facilities in the Tripoli neighbourhood attacked by NATO. He also denied allegations that his government had fabricated the deaths and said church leaders in Libya had been allowed to see the bodies in the hospital.
He then denied he was Khaled Kaim...
Canadian Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard, who commands NATO's operation in Libya, said that "we do not target individuals."
Correct; Canadians do not. But we do.
However, The ever-popular However... the leaders of the US, Perfidious Albion and La Belle France have said Qadaffy must go, prompting warnings by UN Security Council members Russia, China and Brazil against NATO attempts to change the regime.
In some of its strongest language, the Russian Foreign Ministry on Sunday accused NATO of a "disproportionate use of force"
And if there's anything a Russian knows something about, it's the disproportionate use of force. Ask the people of Grozny...
and cast doubt on NATO's assertion that it is not targeting Qadaffy or members of his family. The ministry called for "an immediate cease-fire and the beginning of a political settlement process without preconditions."
The vandalised embassies were empty and nobody was reported injured. But the attacks heightened tensions between the Libyan regime and Western powers and prompted the United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involve making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... to pull its international staff out of the capital.
The deputy foreign minister regretted the attacks on the embassies, saying the one copper on duty police force was overpowered by angry crowds.
Kaim said Libya would survey the damages and repair them. He said the embassies attacked included the British and the Italian and the US commercial and consular affairs department.
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[Arab News] Foreign ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) reaffirmed Sunday the urgent need to defuse the crisis in Yemen while GCC Secretary-General Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani was set to visit Sanaa again to hold talks with President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, after serving as a lieutenant colonel in the army. He had been part of the conspiracy that bumped off his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, in the usual tiresome military coup, and he has maintained power by keeping Yemen's many tribes fighting with each other, rather than uniting to string him up. ... to identify the bottlenecks toward a peaceful transition of power in the troubled country.
"The GCC foreign ministers discussed all aspects of the deal and ways to ensure political transition in that fragile nation," said a statement released by the GCC General Secretariat here following a GCC ministerial meeting on Sunday.
Sultan Al-Barakani, assistant secretary-general to Yemen's ruling General People Congress (GPC) party said Sunday the president was still committed to the GCC deal, suggesting that Sanaa would be a better venue for the signing ceremony.
A high-profile signing ceremony for the GCC initiative, which was to take place on Sunday in the Saudi capital, was postponed indefinitely after the Yemeni president refused to travel to Riyadh. Yemeni opposition leaders also canceled their trips.
The day was marked by hectic political consultations among Gulf leaders. Saleh made a phone call on Sunday to King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah to discuss efforts to address the impasse, the Saudi Press Agency said. In his talks with the king, the Yemeni president reportedly said he still welcomed the GCC-brokered initiative. Saleh also spoke on Sunday with UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa and Kuwaiti Emir Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.
The deal calls for Saleh to step down within 30 days and for the ruling party and the opposition to come together in a national unity government. In exchange, Saleh would get immunity from prosecution.
Al-Barakani said the GGC ministers would determine the implementation mechanism of the deal. He also said Al-Zayani had approved the idea of changing the location of the signing ceremony to Sanaa.
The GCC ministerial council meeting here Sunday was chaired by UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah, whose country currently holds the rotating presidency of the GCC.
On Sunday, thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators poured into the streets of the southern Yemeni city of Taiz to decry military onslaught on the protesters in Aden on Saturday. The protesters reiterated their demand for the unconditioned resignation of Saleh and his regime, calling upon the GCC leaders to stop any mediation that would give Saleh and his inner circle immunity from prosecution. They also called on their Gulf neighbors to throw their lot with the Yemeni people and not with "a regime that rejected their deal."
Al-Qaeda turbans, meanwhile, intensified their attack on the security personnel in Abyan, exploiting the nationwide unrest. In the third deadly attack in less than a week, three Yemeni soldiers were rubbed out and four injured Sunday in the restive province, the website of the Ministry of Defense reported. The hit-and run attackers bombarded the security guards of the government complex in Zinjibar with RPG rockets and automatic gunfire.
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ION TOPIX > GCC CALLS IRAN GULF CLAIMS "AGGRESSIVE", i.e. Iranian Commander's statements denoting that all of the Persian Gulf belongs to Iran, + that Bahrain used to be part of Iran.
Police arrested five people William, Christopher, Ian, Trevor and Nigel...
near Sellafield Ltd.'s nuclear reprocessing site in Cumbria, England, on suspicion of terrorism. Officers specializing in nuclear security stopped a vehicle close to the Sellafield site at 4:32 p.m. yesterday, according to a statement on Cumbria Constabulary's website. The search resulted in the arrests of five men from London under Section 41 of the U.K.'s Terrorism Act, police said.
The Sellafield plant is Britain's primary center for processing spent nuclear fuel and other cleanup work for the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The company was told of the arrests, and traffic to the site may be disrupted while the investigation proceeds, Andrew Pearson, a spokesman at the site in northern England, said today by telephone.
The U.K. is on "severe" alert for terrorism, and government leaders around the world predicted retaliation after U.S. commandos killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a May 1 raid in Pakistan.
The U.K. probe is being led by the North West Counter Terrorism Unit, the police statement said. The suspects, all in their 20s, were taken to police custody in Carlisle overnight and are being transported to Manchester this morning, it said.
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For the next 48 or so hours, I expect there to be a LOT of arrests made around the world. "Hard drive" arrests or not, it's good to suggest that they are "hard drive" arrests.
A total of 16 individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence in northern Mexico including a drug dealer shot to death in Juarez Saturday.
Mexican Federal agents raided an safehouse in Juarez Thursday night netting a large number of weapons and munitions. Included in the seizure were three .50 caliber Barrett rifles, 60 AK-47 assault rifles, more than 30 fragmentary and smoke grenades, 26,800 rounds of ammunition, as well as military tactical gear. The safehouse was located near the intersection of calles Fisica and Arquitectura in the Universidad colony. No arrests were made in the raid.
Two unidentified individuals were found murdered in Juarez early Saturday morning, according to the Mexican news daily La Polaka.
A woman was found tortured and shot near the intersection of calles 15 de Septiembre and Francisco Villa in the Tierra y Libertad colony. The victim had been gagged with duct tape and was barefoot.
A man was found shot to death near the intersection of calles Edmundo J. Dieguez and Montemayor in the Melchor Ocampo colony.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Saturday morning. The victim was found alongside the road to the Juarez Electrolux plant. Several 9mm spent cartridge casings were also found at the scene.
Two unidentified men were shot to death in Chihuahua, Chihuahua Saturday night. The victims were in the garage of a residence on calle Vicente Güabardereca a espaldas del panteón La Colina colony when armed suspects travelling in a two vehicle convoy fired on them.
A skeleton was found in Juarez Saturday afternoon. The find was made near the intersection of Calle Cristo Curiel and Carretera Camino Real. Reports say the area the victim was found is one that organized crime in the area uses to dump murder victims.
An unidentified man dressed as a cowboy was shot to death in the village of San Isidro town in the Valle de Juarez municipality near the intersection of calles Mariano Abasolo and Vicente Suarez. Eight 9mm spent cartridge casings were found at the scene.
An unidentified man in his 20s was shot to death in Juarez Sunday. The victim was in the neighborhood soccer field near the intersection of calles Isla Gran Bretaña and Isla Cozumel in the Guadalajara Izquierda colony when he was shot. Reports allege the victim was a local drug dealer.
An unidentified man was shot to death Monday morning in Juarez. The victim was found by parents and school children who were heading to school near the intersection of Paseo de los Reyes and Paseo in the Lilas colony near the Casas Grande highway.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Sonoyta, Sonora Sunday. The victim was found on the Ejido Papgos-Puerto Penasco road shot twice. Shell casings were found at the scene but the caliber was not reported.
An unidentified man was mutilated and immolated in Mexicali, Baja California Sunday. The victim was tossed upon a pile of trash and tires near the Jardin de la Esperanza cemetary in the Zona Oriente. The victim apparently had no arms or legs.
A man was stabbed to death in Tijuana, Baja California Sunday. The victim attempted to resist an armed robbery on Bulevar Las Aguas in the Villa del Sol colony in the La Presa delegation after leaving a late night party.
Four men were murdered in three separate incidents in Torreon, Coahuila, according to the Mexican news daily El Sol de Laguna.
Two unidentified men were found shot to death in Torreon Sunday morning. The victims were found near the intersection of calles Luis Reyna and Cuarta in the Antigua Aceitera colony. Eleven AK-47 spent cartridge casings were found at the scene.
At least two terrorists militants were killed in a special operation in Chechnya, the republic's leader Ramzan Kadyrov said.
Kadyrov said that a cell of between seven and ten suspected terrorists militants was blocked on the border of the Vedensky and Shatoi districts during the action launched on Monday.
"We have information that two militants were killed, but the number may be higher. One of the killed militants, according to preliminary information, comes from a Middle Eastern country." said Kadyrov.
A source from the Chechen Interior Ministry said earlier that one of the law enforcers was killed and two wounded during the operation, which is set to resume at daybreak on Tuesday.
Sources tell ABC News that administration officials believe Osama bin Laden had been living at the Abbottabad, Pakistan compound for years, with one senior administration source even suggesting the compound was specifically built in 2005 for the al Qaeda leader.
That this compound was constructed in the neighborhood of former Pakistani military officials and a local military academy is of course calling into question the participation of the local if not national government.
Its inconceivable that bin Laden did not have a support system in the country that allowed him to remain there for an extended period of time, said White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan on Monday.
Thanks John. Glad to see you're onto them...
Brennan said the Obama administration was pursuing all leads in this issue.
As always, there is a line that the US government walks when it comes to its alliance with Pakistans government. The Pakistanis seldom are as cooperative as the US wants them to be, and yet the US cannot afford to alienate the countrys leadership.
Oh, I don't know about that...
Weve had differences of view with the Pakistani government on counterterrorism cooperation, on areas of cooperation, and what we think they should and shouldnt be doing, Brennan acknowledged.
At the same time, he added, Pakistan has been responsible for capturing and killing more terrorists inside of Pakistan than any country, and its by a wide margin. And there have been many, many brave Pakistani soldiers, security officials, as well as citizens, who have given their lives because of the terrorism scourge in that country.
All true, and we need the route to Afghanistan, etc. But there are some in Pakistain we can do without...
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Perv and Hamid Gul seem in particular put out about this attack.
How much input did they have re housing OBL?
President Zia has alot to answer for in Modern Pakistan!
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Pakistan is walk-in heaven for CIA "assets"; that compound was likely bugged by August 2010. If not, the CIA could pick up all internal communication, by use of sensitive receivers. Then there is the matter of traffic - foot and auto - to the compound. (Locals report numerous visits by persons with luxury vehicles). Micro cameras would have been placed all over the compound. Given that BHO omitted to thank Pakistan in his address, we can take that as a signal that Pakistan harborage can be proven.
I suspect White House delay of justice in this matter. The timing of the commando operation, fits nicely with Legislator recess. Then there is the incessant political-capitalization of the issue by BHO. The truth isn't out there, yet.
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Thor Spomorong3332: Good points re: CIA listening in on the compound since August when it was in an area of retired generals, and 100 yds away from a military base and near AQ Khan's house. With the location history (al-Libi), + Khan, Gul, and other ISI ties have been noted before, as well as concerns over Pak nuke insecurity, 9 mos. should have yielded lots of data. Neighbors also noted lots of luxury vehicles coming and going. What do they know and when???? What about tunnels connecting afore-mentioned locales? Does AQ have nukes to carry out their threats??? They also announced the kill shortly after the event but before the hard drives, etc. reached Langley and any key info acted upon....I'm just glad Seal Team 6 operates under the radar and even outside international laws. Actually, I'm surprised they didn't inform O after the fact, to ensure operational surprise--they may have insisted we get a UN mandate first!
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I'm willing to let the guy enjoy his moment in the sun, but the problem is that he's competing for credit with the US Navy SEALs, who were a legend before this glorious mission. So if you constructed a poll question like: "who deserves more credit, Obama or the SEALs?" the SEALs win 99 to one outside of San Francisco and Manhattan. (And in Texas, people would just bust out laughing when they hear the question.) In fact, if he pushes it too hard he's going to look like a pencil-neck politician trying to steal credit from very brave men.
There's also an underlying issue of comparative competence: if the SEALs (no doubt with a lot of help from the Nightstalkers etc.) could pull this incredible mission off, why can't BHO give us a balanced budget?
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we need a nightstalker, SEAL, or Delta guy in office.
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Matt I was having the same thoughts. Would we be seeing the same type of dinner taunting montages had the mission not gone as well?
He wants a victory lap, his perogative, more power to him for being able to understand a briefing and potentially lose re-election. Its up to the rest of us little people to fill sand bags, shutter windows, afford gas to work to pay for groceries.
It will be interesting to watch the dir-hards either accept that Smart Diplomacy has now turned into SEAL Diplomacy, and that includes Libya. They will have to approach that Obama is Bush but worse or swallow the kool-aid and trade self awareness for glitter.
About the only thing I remember about his speech, other than the poor lighting and teleprompter reflection off the eyes, and the odd walkup/out ambiance, is that when he said click was that a mashed word or literally on the prompter.
But go on, wear the flag pin a bit higher, because a score of hard working people sacrificed their lives I'm sure they and their families will understand potentially sacrificing political aspirations is important too.
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I gave the order. Hmmm...I'm thinking of the Aircraft Controller who let his 10 year old son deliver landing instructions to a pilot, on parent-child day. That "order" has the same weight as BHO's. If 300 people participated in all aspects of the operation, I would place the value of BHO's role at 300.
A woman killed during the raid of Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan was not his wife and was not used as a human shield by the al Qaeda leader before his death, a U.S. official said on Monday, correcting an earlier description. Could someone please go tell UBL that his wife isn't mad at him and that he can stop faking his death now? But wait until they're done interrogating him or he won't have any motivation to cooperate.
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Oooooh, now there's a theory I could get behind! Not dead, in captivity and singing like a bird!
Not only that, (for the benefit of the libtards), he's being waterboarded and subjected to repeated playing of Itsy-Bitsy, Teeny-Weeny Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini!
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Binny's playlist for his interrogation:
Afternoon Delight
Muskrat Love
Feel free to add some more.
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Free RIde
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Lola
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"I've got a brand new pair of roller skates (you've got a brand new key)"
/Melanie (a medley of her hit)
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Oo, can I be the interrogation DJ? I'd warm up with a few hours of each of the following:
Freebird
Ministry - Flashback
Macarena
This Song Remains the Same
The Barney Song
Metallica - Last Caress/Green Hell
A Chipmunk Christmas
Ramones - Teenage Lobotomy
The Empire Carpet jingle
Public Enemy - Can't Truss It
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The song list for Bin Laden's funeral thus far includes...
Elton John - Sandles in the Bin
Cliff Richard - We're all going on Osama holiday
Miley Cyrus - Party in the U.S.A
Kelly Clarkson - Since You've 'Bin' gone
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I see...it was Osama's courier's wife in Osama's bedroom in the middle of the night and they just natually assumed....meanwhile Osama's wife was down in the kitchen hanging out with the guys, except for Osama's son, who was in the backroom "consulting" with the other courier.
Hey, when you can't stick your head out the door for six years and there's no internet and all you got is Pak reruns on the rabbit ears, you gotta get creative or go nuts.
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Team Six didn't harm any pacified party, between them and OBL. The dozen survivors are in custody of Pakistan's FIA. The ISI wants to portray a hands-off approach. But, I suspect that the survivors are very familiar with the ISI.
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"It's a small world after all" - from the Disney ride
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"'It's a small world after all' - from the Disney ride"
Good grief, Rambler - that's torture!
Have you no pity?
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My son had one dry comment on the burial at sea:
"Osama ging baden"
(literally "Osama went swimming", but also has the meaning of failing totally)
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I really hope the photo's are released soon, I have a friend who refuses to believe he's dead. I'm tired of arguing with him. His main argument: I'm not taking Obama's word for it!
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No photo will change that. There are people who don't believe that passenger planes hit the WTC.
Hopeless.
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"for the first time, fire melted steel, and bullet pulverized a sick and diseased brain"
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[Dawn] A total of 13 vehicles were torched in different areas of the city on Sunday when a complete shutdown was observed on a call given by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement for "peaceful observance of a mourning day" over the killing of a senior party member on Saturday. The MQM condemned the arson attacks.
Liaquat Qureshi was rubbed out late on Friday night when his car was intercepted at the Maskan intersection on Abul Hasan Ispahani Road by gunnies riding a cycle of violence. Mr Qureshi, who was driving a car bearing a registration number plate of the City District Government Bloody Karachi, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was struck down in his prime.
On Saturday following his funeral, the MQM announced that it would observe a peaceful day of mourning across the country on Sunday in protest against the killing. It also appealed to transporters and traders to show solidarity with the MQM.
Addressing a presser, MQM leader Dr Farooq Sattar had appealed to all party workers and sympathisers across Pakistain to hoist black flags on party offices and wear black armbands.
"We also appeal to the business community, shopkeepers and transporters to observe a day of mourning on May 1 and express unity and solidarity with the MQM."
He also made it clear that if assassinations of MQM workers, leaders and sympathisers did not stop and killers were not incarcerated, the MQM would be free to adopt its future line of action.
Responding to the call, transport operators didn't bring their vehicles on the roads and traders who usually opened their businesses on Sundays also decided to keep their outlets shut, giving the city almost a deserted look especially in defunct districts central and east. However, The obscurantist However... some of those who did bring out their vehicles on the roads had to pay the price.
An official of the Central Fire Station confirmed that they had received information that at least 11 vehicles had been torched in different parts of the city on Sunday.
A truck loaded with goods heading towards the Superhighway was intercepted by unidentified suspects near the Karimabad intersection and set on fire. A bus was also torched in the same area.
Not far from the scene, another bus was set on fire in a similar fashion by unidentified arsonists riding on cycle of violences in Liaquatabad.
Similarly, some minibuses were torched at the NIPA intersection, on Shahra-i-Liaquat, Tariq Road, Sir Shah Sulaiman Road and near Lucky Star. In the Ibrahim Hyderi area, two trucks and a minibus were torched in arson attacks. A truck was set ablaze in New Bloody Karachi and another in Khudadad Colony.
Since the MQM's Saturday shutdown call, tension had gripped certain areas of the city.On Saturday evening unidentified people in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Nazimabad, Gulistan-i-Jauhar and several others areas forced traders and shopkeepers to shut down their businesses.
On Sunday, even petrol and CNG station owners in different parts of the city kept their business shut on the day of mourning.
On the main University Road almost all fuel stations were closed, even the weekly Sunday Bazaar held off the main University Road did not take place.
The shutdown was so effective that even roadside cigarette cabins were closed.or party member on Saturday. The MQM condemned the arson attacks.
Liaquat Qureshi was rubbed out late on Friday night when his car was intercepted at the Maskan intersection on Abul Hasan Ispahani Road by gunnies riding a cycle of violence. Mr Qureshi, who was driving a car bearing a registration number plate of the City District Government Bloody Karachi'>Bloody Bloody Karachi, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was struck down in his prime.
On Saturday following his funeral, the MQM announced that it would observe a peaceful day of mourning across the country on Sunday in protest against the killing. It also appealed to transporters and traders to show solidarity with the MQM.
Addressing a presser, MQM leader Dr Farooq Sattar had appealed to all party workers and sympathisers across Pakistain to hoist black flags on party offices and wear black armbands.
"We also appeal to the business community, shopkeepers and transporters to observe a day of mourning on May 1 and express unity and solidarity with the MQM."
He also made it clear that if liquidations of MQM workers, leaders and sympathisers did not stop and killers were not incarcerated'>tossed in the calaboose, the MQM would be free to adopt its future line of action.
Responding to the call, transport operators didn't bring their vehicles on the roads and traders who usually opened their businesses on Sundays also decided to keep their outlets shut, giving the city almost a deserted look especially in defunct districts central and east. However, The obscurantist However...
some of those who did bring out their vehicles on the roads had to pay the price.
An official of the Central Fire Station confirmed that they had received information that at least 11 vehicles had been torched in different parts of the city on Sunday.
A truck loaded with goods heading towards the Superhighway was intercepted by unidentified suspects near the Karimabad intersection and set on fire. A bus was also torched in the same area.
Not far from the scene, another bus was set on fire in a similar fashion by unidentified arsonists riding on cycle of violences in Liaquatabad.
Similarly, some minibuses were torched at the NIPA intersection, on Shahra-i-Liaquat, Tariq Road, Sir Shah Sulaiman Road and near Lucky Star. In the Ibrahim Hyderi area, two trucks and a minibus were torched in arson attacks. A truck was set ablaze in New Bloody Bloody Karachi and another in Khudadad Colony.
Since the MQM's Saturday shutdown call, tension had gripped certain areas of the city.On Saturday evening unidentified people in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Nazimabad, Gulistan-i-Jauhar and several others areas forced traders and shopkeepers to shut down their businesses.
On Sunday, even petrol and CNG station owners in different parts of the city kept their business shut on the day of mourning.
On the main University Road almost all fuel stations were closed, even the weekly Sunday Bazaar held off the main University Road did not take place.
The shutdown was so effective that even roadside cigarette cabins were closed.
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ABBOTTABAD: National identity card of the owner of the house where Al-Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no more... was hiding, was bogus, sources said.
The identity card bearing the name of the house owner as Arshad s/o Naqeeb, said to be a resident of Tangi Fas area of Charsadda.
According to local NADRA office, the card has been bogus. The residents of Tangi area also say that no man with such name was residing in the area. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm? Evil Hindoo maybe? Wily Zionist Mossad guy?
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ISI Safe House Bin Laden house owner holds bogus NIC
Mon Apr 25, 12:12 pm ET
ISLAMABAD (AFP) US general David Petraeus on Monday visited Pakistan and held talks with its army chief on ways to..... bolster regional security, the US embassy said in a statement.
"Gen. David H. Petraeus, Commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, visited Pakistan today to meet with Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff," the embassy said.
"They discussed topics of mutual interest and ways to improve regional security," it said in a statement. This is Petraeus' sixth visit to Pakistan as the NATO ISAF commander, it said.
"He has long-established relationships with General Kayani and the Pakistani military from his time as the U.S. Central Command commander," the statement said, adding that his last visit to Pakistan was January 31, 2011.
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Gen. Kayani: Yes Dave the check has cleared. Gen. Petreaus: Great news Ash. Renegade asked that I pass along his personal thanks. Ash, you know how bad Renegade needs this one. Gen. Kayani: No problem Dave, this guy has been a pain in our ass for years, special meals, NTV's, fuel, guard force, physicians, meds, it's just over the (expletive) top. Gen. Petreaus: Understand, understand Ash. We're here for you my friend. Next time you're in Tampa.... Gen. Kayani: Landry's again right? The seafood platter! Gen. Petreaus: You've got it Ash (hi fives). I'll give you a call on my Inmarsat when it's all over. Gen. Kayani: Great Dave. Don't forget, we're here for you (hand shakes, pats on back) and give my best to Renegade. Now, let's have some tea and talk about your new book and retirement job.
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The British left behind a little organization called the IB (Intelligence Bureau) in India/Pakistan. Legacy of the colonial Raj, it still functions.
The IB has informers everywhere. Pak also has the ISI, which is military, unlike the civilian IB, with its Police roots.
The idea that the IB/ISI would not know who owns and occupies a fortified compound a few hundred yards from the West Point of Pakistan is absurd. This is well within the are that is sanitized by security when the Pak army brass and civilian leadership visits.
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The local Tax office is only a few hundred feet from the Al-Qaeda-Mansion. Land and school tax, local water, electricity and other accounts would have had to have been set up. Someone would have taken notice of the irregularities. The Mansion had satellite technology; maybe operation of same requires a Pakistan account. It is certain that the CIA monitored transmissions.
BHO's politicking shouldn't end this incident. The harborage issue must not be sandbagged with self-interested PR.
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Osama's Abbottobad compound repor has now been turned over to the PAK Police = investigative authorities, WHILE OSAMA'S POOR FARMER NEIGHBOR HAS BEEN ARRESTED BY SAME FOR SOME YET-UNKNOWN/DISCLOSED REASON.
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APEE excerpts from Huffington Post article, also raise questions, Thor S. Binny was a hypocrite:
When a woman involved in a polio vaccine drive turned up at Osama bin Laden's love shack, she remarked to the men behind the high walls about the expensive SUVs parked inside. The men took the vaccine, apparently to administer to the 23 children at the compound, and told her to go away...The bustling streets are dotted with buildings left over from British colonial days. These days it attracts some tourists, but is known mostly as a garrison town wealthier than many others in Pakistan. Khurshid Bibi, in her 70s, said one (UNRELATED) man living in the Abbottabad house had given her a lift to the market in the rain. She said her grandkiddies played with the kids in the house and that the adults there gave them rabbits as a gift.
But the occupants also attracted criticism.
"People were skeptical in this neighborhood about this place and these guys. They used to gossip, say they were smugglers or drug dealers.(AS IN Afghan HEROIN?) People would complain that even with such a big house they didn't invite the poor or distribute charity," said Mashood Khan, a 45-year-old farmer.
Questions persisted about how authorities could not have known who was living in the compound, especially since it was close to a prestigious military academy.
As in other Pakistani towns, hotels in Abbottabad are supposed to report the presence of foreigners to the police, as are estate agents. ...Like many Pakistani towns where the army has a strong presence, Abbottabad is well-manicured, and has solid infrastructure. Street signs tell residents to "Love Pakistan." The city also is known for its good schools, including some that were originally established by Christian missionaries. Little girls wear veils while carrying Hannah Montana backpacks to school. Many houses in the outlying areas have modern amenities, but lie along streets covered with trash. Shepherds herd their flock of sheep along dusty roads just a few hundred yards from modern banks.
Al-Qaida's No. 3, Abu Faraj al-Libi, lived in the town before his arrest in 2005 elsewhere in northwest Pakistan, according to U.S. and Pakistani officials. Earlier this year, Indonesian terror suspect Umar Patek was nabbed at a house in the town following the arrest of an al-Qaida courier who worked at the post office. It is not clear whether Patek had any links with bin Laden.
Western officials have long regarded Pakistani security forces with suspicion, chiefly over their links to militants fighting in Afghanistan.
[Dawn] US Navy SEALs led the commando operation in Pakistain that ended the life of 9/11 criminal mastermindthe late Osama bin Laden ... who is no more... with a bullet to the head, a US official told AFP.
The SEALs, which stands for Sea, Air, Land, are elite troops used for some of the riskiest anti-terrorism missions, as well as behind-the-lines reconnaissance and unconventional warfare.
On loan to the CIA for the mission Sunday night into Monday, the SEAL team launched the assault from helicopters on a heavily fortified villa in a city near Islamabad that US intelligence had identified as bin Laden's hideout.
"Responsibility for the raid is Leon Panetta's; It was executed by Navy SEALs," said the official, referring by name to the director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
CNN described the operation as a "kill mission" but US officials told AFP bin Laden "resisted as we expected." The Al-Qaeda leader's body was buried at sea, two officials said on condition of anonymity.
"We wanted to avoid a situation where it would become a shrine," one of the officials said.
And there was no time for negotiations with other countries to arrange for a possible burial, the official told AFP.
DNA tests have confirmed that Osama bin Laden is dead, a senior US official said Monday, a day after a daring raid by US special forces on the Al-Qaeda leader's compound in Pakistain.
The official confirmed on condition of anonymity that a DNA match had been established with bin Laden's body before it was buried at sea after the raid.
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"The spirits of all you have slain are watching you... and they will rest in peace now that your time has come. You must die as you have lived, a coward to the last." -- Luke the Warrior, The Legend of Luke
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More, from the news service that can not be named...
Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, detainees in the CIA's secret prison network told interrogators about an important courier with the nom de guerre Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti who was close to bin Laden. After the CIA captured al-Qaida's No. 3 leader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he confirmed knowing al-Kuwaiti but denied he had anything to do with al-Qaida.
Then in 2004, top al-Qaida operative Hassan Ghul was captured in Iraq. Ghul told the CIA that al-Kuwaiti was a courier, someone crucial to the terrorist organization. In particular, Ghul said, the courier was close to Faraj al-Libi, who replaced Mohammed as al-Qaida's operational commander. It was a key break in the hunt for in bin Laden's personal courier.
Finally, in May 2005, al-Libi was captured. Under CIA interrogation, al-Libi admitted that when he was promoted to succeed Mohammed, he received the word through a courier. But he made up a name for the courier and denied knowing al-Kuwaiti, a denial that was so adamant and unbelievable that the CIA took it as confirmation that he and Mohammed were protecting the courier. It only reinforced the idea that al-Kuwaiti was very important to al-Qaida.
It took years of work before the CIA identified the courier's real name: Sheikh Abu Ahmed, a Pakistani man born in Kuwait. In August 2010, Ahmed unknowingly led authorities to a compound in the northeast Pakistani town of Abbottabad, where al-Libi had once lived.
More mission details...
The helicopters lowered into the compound, dropping the SEALs behind the walls. No shots were fired, but shortly after the team hit the ground, one of the helicopters came crashing down and rolled onto its side for reasons the government has yet to explain. None of the SEALs was injured, however, and the mission continued uninterrupted.
With the CIA and White House monitoring the situation in real time presumably by live satellite feed or video carried by the SEALs the team stormed the compound.
Thanks to sophisticated satellite monitoring, U.S. forces knew they'd likely find bin Laden's family on the second and third floors of one of the buildings on the property, officials said. The SEALs secured the rest of the property first, then proceeded to the room where bin Laden was hiding. A firefight ensued, Brennan said.
Ahmed and his brother were killed, officials said. Then, the SEALs killed bin Laden with a bullet just above his left eye, blowing off part his skull, another official said. Using the call sign for his visual identification, one of the soldiers communicated that "Geronimo" had been killed in action, according to a U.S. official.
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Looks like the rules of engagement are different when there's a (D) in the White House.
I suppose we shoulda stood outside and demanded he come out, with his hands up. Like the gangster movies! "We gotcha surrounded, Baby Face! Cummout widyer hands up!"
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LOL Bobby: "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico Osama?"
*bam bam*
"yep"
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Body, body, head. Right from the textbook....
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Okay Obama, you're going to give the seals that
$50 Million reward, arent'cha, they earned it.
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Wonder what the pucker factor was for the chopper pilot that had to get everybody out and back in one helicopter?
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"They brought in one of the standby choppers, a Chinook, for the extraction and return flight to Afghanistan."
Jeebus, a Chinook? Otherwise know as a Hurri-crane? Otherwise known as a bus with rotors? And the Pak military still didn't do anything with that large of a target? Guess it's hard to fight from under the bed.
Everybody on the raid has very large brass ones, but that Chinook pilot has the special size! Thank you all.
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The past
NYT July 13, 2009
C.I.A. Had Plan to Assassinate Qaeda Leaders
WASHINGTON â Since 2001, the Central Intelligence Agency has developed plans to dispatch small teams overseas to kill senior Qaeda terrorists, according to current and former government officials.
Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director, canceled an assassination plan after learning of it.
The plans remained vague and were never carried out, the officials said, and Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director, canceled the program last month.
Mr. Panetta scuttled the program, which would have relied on paramilitary teams, shortly after the C.I.A.âs counterterrorism center recently informed him of its existence. The next day, June 24, he told Congressional Intelligence Committees that the plan had been hidden from lawmakers, initially at the instruction of former Vice President Dick Cheney.
The present
NYT May 2, 2011
The code name for Bin Laden was âGeronimo.â The president and his advisers watched Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director, on a video screen, narrating from his agencyâs headquarters across the Potomac River what was happening in faraway Pakistan.
âTheyâve reached the target,â he said.
Minutes passed.
âWe have a visual on Geronimo,â he said.
A few minutes later: âGeronimo EKIA.â
Enemy Killed In Action. There was silence in the Situation Room.
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Willy, SEALs aren't paramilitary, it seems to me. Probably better that way. No matter how good, sending paramilitaries instead of the beat of our best would be the final insult. And by openlycancelling the previous program, Mr. Panetta ensured that few would even think of the possibility...
I wanted to see the different media treatment of thew same team under Bush when under Obama, so I googled Cheney's assassination team and got plenty of result, one of them, for instance, from Fox Nation that says: SEAL Team That Killed Bin Laden was Smeared as Dick Cheney's 'Assassination Ring'
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Jeebus, a Chinook? Otherwise know as a Hurri-crane? Otherwise known as a bus with rotors? And the Pak military still didn't do anything with that large of a target?
I believe the Chinook is faster than any attack helicopter by a handy margin. If you had to depend on speed alone, the Chinook is probably the way to go in this case. If all goes well, they won't even see the opposing force anyway. Just fly under their radar.
[Bangla Daily Star] Four people, including a woman and three children, were killed in a blast near a mosque in Pakistain's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province on Monday, hours after the death of al-Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden. ... who has left the building... Five other people, including two police officials, were also injured in the attack, which took place in the town of Charsadda, about 85 miles west of Abbottabad, the place where bin Laden was slain.
Local police chief Nisar Khan Marwat said that the mosque is located close to a cop shoppe, top Pakistain newspaper Dawn reports.
The bomb destroyed the mosque and damaged the outer wall of the cop shoppe, he added.
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"The spirits of all you have slain are watching you... and they will rest in peace now that your time has come. You must die as you have lived, a coward to the last." -- Luke the Warrior, The Legend of Luke
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I salute you for what you have done. One thing doesn't ring true from this article though:
"How did the helicopters elude the Pakistani air defense network? Did they spoof transponder codes? Were they painted and tricked out with Pakistan Air Force equipment? If so -- and we may never know --"
Actually: yesterday Phil B posted a very revealing email chat board from Pakistani military.
They were discussing what was going on before they knew it was Bin Laden. They knew the helicopters were NOT pakistani issue.
They thought it must have permission from Paks to be there in the air space.
They knew they were there.
So seems logical to me that SOME in Pakistan helped
OThers in Pakistan helped Osama Bin Laden (dead dead DEAD that he is).
Once again: CONGRATULATIONS one and all
ps: I feel in my bones that is it. A turning point. The war is OVER we can bring the boys home. Not now, but very soon.
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I want 'ol'Bumpy next and then there wont be anyone with a rep left. When Zawahiri went down it was definitely a turning point in Iraq. That story needs to be repeated again.
It was an air strike and he was betrayed by someone he trusted.
Somebody drove over to his compound in a pickup and identified that yes he was there while a fighter bomber waited overhead for the call. Took a minute then the pilot peeled off and made the run.
Got Zawahiri and his leotard wearing girlfriend ( is that true?) and a child as well? Whose child?
Had an identity establishing medical and security team standing by and they went in. Heard rumor that they either found Zawahiri alive or clambering around in the smoking hole and rubble ( I took that with a grain of salt but it was a nice thought) and that Zawahiri was taken to an ambulance where he was smothered and/or allowed to bleed to death. Were there photos?
There must be records of all the event somewhere.
It was nice he was dead. Nobody has missed his bright smile and winsome walk so far.
In the long run I trust we can have a similar vague idea of what happened to the Palestinians( beside those who went to live in Brazil) and the Hamas folks who swear they were Swiss and burned their SS uniforms somewhere during the retreat across Italy. At any rate it will become a test question for irrelevant game show trivia as to just exactly who the Palestinians were other than a dusty book and a footnote in a back carrel #23 of the museum of dead movements.
Even the Palestinians in Brazil dont really remember who nor what they used to be before they discovered their wonderful lives raising alligators for handbags in upper river provinces of the Amazon.
And Israel will be approximately as big as Nebraska and there will be street signs in Hebrew from Cairo to Baghdad. But that's another story.
There will be a lot of dead goomnahs to make it happen, but then, there would be a lot of dead Arab goombahs no matter how you cut it. There always are.
You get used to it and your big decisions are which cufflinks to wear when going to dinner in Jerusalem and taking in a show. When all is said and done, Mecca isnt much fun and Jerusalem will outlive Abdrool and his buddies by a long shot.
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Zawahiri? Zarquawi? al-Abrool bin Yomama.
All their names seem to sound and look the same for some reason. Its probably because they never really mattered all that much anyway.
As time is reckoned and the ages pass and history flows like a mighty river, only a few things remain the same and become eternal.
Duty and brave men who will give their lives for the family and their children and their friends. The men who carried out the mission that got Bin Laden are such men. They form a Legion who stand shoulder to shoulder with the Angels.
Take off your shoes, Joshua, for where you stand is holy ground.
Its a story most people have never read, the night before Jericho when Joshua was checking the perimeter sentries in the dark and met the Eagle-cloaked stranger between the lines.
And all Joshua had was a little bronze sword against a long steel one, but he stood his ground,"Are you for Israel of against her?"
And Michael Archangel stepped forward and though Joshua never saw God face to face as Moses had.... Joshua did see Michael Archangel and Michael gave him Jericho
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The war is OVER we can bring the boys home.
You gonna share or smoke that good stuff all by yourself?
[An Nahar] The authorities in Syria on Monday set a deadline of 15 days for people who had committed "unlawful acts" to give themselves up, as a wave of arrests was reported across the country.
The ultimatum came as activists planned fresh anti-government demonstrations following the deaths of dozens of people in weekend protests.
In a statement, the interior ministry told "citizens who have participated in or committed unlawful acts such as bearing arms, attacking security or spreading lies to surrender by May 15 and hand their weapons in to the competent authorities."
It also called on Syrians to "supply information about saboteurs, hard boyz and arms caches... they will be spared any subsequent legal consequences."
A military front man on Monday announced the arrest of 499 people in the southern flashpoint town of Daraa, a week after thousands of troops backed by tanks swooped on the town to crush protests.
The front man also announced the deaths of two members of the security forces "as well as 10 terrorists." Eight soldiers were maimed and five gunnies waiting in ambush were incarcerated, the military added.
According to the opposition Syrian Revolution 2011 website, security forces on Monday at dawn also entered the Kafar Nubbol area, 320 kilometers north of Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , and took over houses and incarcerated 26 people.
The site -- a driving force behind the protests -- urged Syrians across the country to mobilize every day at noon in solidarity with Daraa and all "besieged towns."
"We say to this regime: 'The court of the people will judge you'," it said.
President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... 's government has persistently blamed the violence on "armed criminal gangs" and "terrorist groups."
Hundreds of dissidents were incarcerated on Sunday, including in Daraa and the besieged Damascus suburb of Douma, after dozens of people were killed in weekend protests, activists said.
Human rights groups say the civilian corpse count from unprecedented demonstrations that erupted on March 15 has topped 580.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Monday that Assad's regime will fall if it continues its bloody crackdown.
"If the regime perseveres down this path, it will fall, one day or another, but it will fall," Juppe told Europe 1 radio.
"Today there is this great hope for freedom and democracy. You must take this into account and putting it down by firing live rounds into crowds is unacceptable whichever country does it," he said.
British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... on Sunday denounced the "disgraceful" crackdown and urged more global pressure against Damascus, although Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu warned against foreign military intervention.
The United States has blocked assets of Assad's brother Maher, who commands the feared Fourth Armored Division, as well as brass hats and Syria's intelligence services.
The European Union is also preparing a raft of sanctions, including an arms embargo.
"At least 356 people were incarcerated today (Sunday) across Syria, including in Daraa, Douma, Latakia and Qamishli," an activist told AFP by telephone.
He said demonstrations took place in the central city of Homs. A protest was also held in the coastal city of Latakia and a candlelit vigil in Banias.
Troops in tanks backed by other armored vehicles on Sunday cruised Daraa streets, shooting to keep residents indoors and arresting men aged 15 and over, an activist from the town told AFP.
"Since early morning the army and security forces have been combing neighborhoods one by one and making sweeping arrests. Hundreds have been incarcerated since Friday," activist Abdullah Abizad said by telephone.
In Douma, "the army has tightened the siege and has a list of 200 names of people it wants to arrest," another activist said.
Activists said many people in Douma and Daraa live off the land and have been relying on what they grow.
In Daraa, "nothing is coming in. People there grow a lot of tomatoes and zucchini and they are making do with what they have. The situation is critical but there is no famine."
The Syrian Revolution 2011 site vowed in a Facebook statement that "we will only kneel before God," and gave a daily schedule of protests for the week in solidarity with Daraa and Douma, calling it "the week of breaking the siege."
The army said it entered Daraa on April 25 at the request of residents to rid them of "terrorist gangs" responsible for a spate of killings and vandalism."
The Committee of the Martyrs of the 15 March Revolution, which has been keeping a tally of the dead, put the toll since the start of protests at 582 civilians.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 86 army and security forces personnel have also been killed.
Wissam Tarif, executive director of the Insan human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... group, said: "There have been 2,130 verified arrests since March 15, but the figure could be more than 5,000."
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I'm sure international community will protect innocent civilians.
[Iran Press TV] The Syrian army's presence in the southern city of Daraa has intensified as gangs continue festivities with the country's security forces.
Security forces tossed in the calaboose many people on Sunday in the Syrian city of Daraa, which has been the scene of protests over the past six weeks, Rooters reported.
The event took place despite Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad's introduction of a new package of reforms, which he has said would meet the demands of the protesters.
Dozens of people, including several security forces and soldiers, have been killed across the country since the beginning of protests in Syria in mid-March.
Syrian opposition holds the security forces responsible for the killings, while the country's authorities blame an gang, which has confessed to receiving weapons and money to kill people and security forces and cause chaos.
Around 230 members of Syria's ruling Ba'ath party have resigned in protest of the killings.
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[Al Jazeera] Syria has called on citizens "misled" into acting unlawfully to turn themselves in, in return for exemption from prosecution, as security forces continue to crack down on protests against Bashir al-Assad's regime.
Dozens more people have been killed in recent days, according to activists, and hundreds tossed in the slammer as Syrian army units continue to lay siege to the restive southern city of Deraa and other flashpoint cities across the country.
A humanitarian aid convoy bound for Deraa from Syria's Jordanian border was due to depart on Monday afternoon in a bid to reach the city of 125,000 which has been without electricity and communications since April 26. Activists claim food, water and medical supplies are in short supply.
Anti-government protesters, inspired by a wave of unrest across the Arab world, are demanding greater freedoms and an end to Assad's decade-long presidency and the Baath Party's near-50-year grip on power.
Opposition activists have called on Syrians to protest every day at noon in solidarity with Deraa and all "besieged" towns.
But Syria's government accuses "gangs and terrorists" of attempting to foment unrest. In a statement on Sunday evening, the interior ministry offered an amnesty until May 15 for citizens caught up in the revolt to hand themselves in.
"The Ministry calls upon citizens who were misled into participating in or committing acts punishable by law including carrying weapons, disrupting security or issuing false statements to turn themselves in and hand over their weapons to the relevant authorities," the ministry said, according to the SANA state-news agency.
The ministry also appealed for information about "vandals and cut-throats and the location of weapons" and said those who complied would be "exempted from punishment, legal repercussions and prosecutions."
But government security forces were again making their presence felt on the streets overnight, with a military source on Monday announcing the arrests of 499 people in Deraa. Ten "terrorists" and two security force members died in Sunday's festivities, the source told SANA.
Door-to-door raids
An activist told Al Jizz on Sunday that the army was going door-to-door, raiding homes and arresting men and boys aged 15 and over.
Tanks backed by other armoured vehicles cruised the streets, but the city was said to be quieter than in recent days with no gunfire or tank fire heard.
But there were reports of gunfire in Homs on Sunday evening after security forces surrounded around 600 protesters gathered outside the central Khalidiyyeh Mosque, calling for an end to Assad's rule.
Syrian forces also tossed in the slammer a prominent human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... lawyer in the city of Raqqa after he criticized the authorities' reaction to the anti-government protests, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Observatory said Abdallah Khalil was tossed in the slammer on Sunday in his home city of Raqqa in eastern Syria.
Khalil challenged president Assad in 2007 for running unopposed in a referendum that gave him a second term as president. He made the comments on Al Jizz.
In Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , the capital, an eyewitness told Al Jizz that tanks had surrounded the suburb of Daraya. Activists said security forces had also moved into Kafar Nubbol, 320 kms north of Damascus, at dawn on Monday, arresting 26 people in the capital and in the eastern city of Qamishli.
Rights groups claim the civilian corpse count since protests began in mid-March has topped 580.
Neighbouring Turkey said on Monday that it was preparing for a possible influx of Syrian refugees into its southeastern Hatay province. Abdullah Gul, the Turkish president, told a news conference that Ankara was preparing for the "worst-case scenario".
Alain Juppe, the French foreign minister, meanwhile added his voice to the growing clamour of international condemnation of Damascus.
"If the regime perseveres down this path, it will fall, one day or another, but it will fall," Juppe told Europe 1 radio on Monday.
"Today there is this great hope for freedom and democracy. You must take this into account and putting it down by firing live rounds into crowds is unacceptable, whichever country does it."
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