Protestors at a Michigan law school turned violent Thursday as they attempted to stop a speech by Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Littleton. (Post)Violence erupted at a Michigan law school Thursday when protestors tried to block a speech by Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo. Police were called after protestors pulled a fire alarm prior to the speech on immigration policies. Free lunch speech for me but not for thee.
There were at least three violent incidents with protestors targeting student backers of the event, Tancredo, R-Littleton, said today. If conservative students did this to a terror shill it would be front page news all over the world.
"One was spit on, one was kicked, and one was punched," Tancredo said in an e-mail. "Tires were also slashed." But don't dare suggest a boycott of some leftist pig's movies and records.
This is the adolescent left's notion of self-expression.
Michigan State University College Republicans and Young Americans for Freedom sponsored the event.
Tancredo went to Michigan State University College of Law as part of a visit to the state to talk about immigration. He leads the group that opposes legal status for illegal immigrants. Protestors interrupted the speech with loud shouting. More evidence of the left's intellectual superiority.
College newspaper The State News reported that protesters carried signs reading "Ignorant Racist" outside the room where the speech was held. They were not allowed in with the signs, the paper said. "Yeah, we was denied our consitutional right to disrupt the speech, man. Power to the people!"
It also reported that about 40 people attended the speech. With at least 2 assaulted by the leftist rodents, that gives a 5% casualty rate, not counting the tires. Ever wonder why these herd-beasts support gun-control?
Tancredo said in the email that protestors organized on the Internet social networking site Facebook. "They declared ahead of time on facebook that they would not allow me to speak," Tancredo said in the e-mail. In a just world this would get them hauled into jail for conspiracy to violate civil rights, but in a just world these vermin would already be extinct.
Tancredo also is meeting with the Republican state party chair, members of the state legislature, and is speaking at a fundraiser for a Republican women's group, Tancredo spokesman Carlos Espinosa said.
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That's what happens when a land grant school lowers its standards to let in law students. There was a time when that sort of scum went to Ann Arbor and left the other schools to students who wanted an education.
Two quick incidents from MSU in the late 60's:
1. When Harvard voted to kick ROTC off campus, the MSU student government voted to do likewise. Within 24 hours they were presented with a petition bearing 10,000 student signatures demanding that ROTC stay on campus.
2. "Student activists" conducted a sit-in at the MSU president's office. Police surrounded the building and arrested them all. Their organizations tried to hold a dance to raise money for their bail and defense. Unfortunately they set up their amps and speakers directly behind Shaw Hall, at the time largest all-male dormitory in the country, during the start of exam week. Something like 3,000 very pissed-off underclassmen boiled out of the dorm and threw the speakers in the Red Cedar River. The activists then marched across campus to escape the mob of students, protected by a double line of police on either side.
RIGA, Latvia -- NATO leaders agreed yesterday to add troops to the 32,000 already in Afghanistan, but European countries such as France and Spain retained some of the restrictions that prevent their troops from taking a more active role in the fighting.
President Bush's goals for the summit were to achieve the troop commitment, persuade other NATO members to pledge increased defense spending, gain a recognition that Afghanistan is a make-or-break fight for the future of NATO, and break down restrictions that keep some allies' troops out of the heaviest fighting in the south, where Canada, Britain, the Netherlands, the United States and Estonia bear the burden. He won progress on all of those goals, though in varying degrees.
The final communique makes it clear that Afghanistan is the defining battle for the alliance, but it simply encourages nations to boost defense spending. Although some European nations dropped caveats to deployment, they gave no hard agreement to push more of those troops to the south where the fighting is heaviest.
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Go to Omaha Beach and you will find a monument paid by French citizens on their own pockets honoring those who fell during D-Day. And learn about how they fought the government who wanted to dismantle it. Go to the American miltary cemetary at Coleville and you will find in addition to mere visitors, French people who come to puit flower on the graves. They haven't forgotten but the Commuinists, the Gaullists and teh Europeists have been brainwashing the French into hating everything American (those people in the graves included who died for Coca-Cola and Gillete, atht is more por mless that is what say our history books). All of this while America slept, unaware of how millions were being turned agsint her not only in France but everywhere in world, and not moving a finger on ethe propaganda battlefield.
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... but European countries such as France and Spain retained some of the restrictions that prevent their troops from taking a more active role in the fighting.
It was my impression they preferred the passive role.
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JFM, I've found in my travels in Europe that the further you get from a nation's capital, the friendlier they are to Americans. The French in Paris are the worst in Europe. The French in Normandy are the friendliest people I've ever met. It's not necessarily the people that we're having a problem with, but their governments. And yes, we have "lost" most of the propaganda wars. Most Americans just don't think in the terms of propaganda. We also have a large body of people with few brains and big mouths on our political left that think the US is the most dispicable country in the world, and we really haven't challenged them sufficiently. I think, before the Islamofascist war is over, a lot of those people must be discredited or silenced, or the entire world will lose.
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So, true, OP. And, I'd add, I believe we're going to have to defeat that evil triumverate (LLL/Donk Politicos/MSM) BEFORE we can win this war on Islamofascism.
When so much of our nation is completely ignorant of what true evil lies overseas (and, in some cases, right here among us), and what grand expansionist plans the jihadis have, it's no wonder we can't put a nail in the coffin of Islamofascism and quick. Personally, I blame the following (in order):
(1) the average American, who doesn't pay attention to anything outside his/her little spehere of influence. Too much worried about either their next cup of Starbucks (the rich libs) or their next welfare/food stamps check (the minorities, led by race hustlers who only care about "da hood").
(2) the MSM, for NOT reporting the "good news" and/or showing more often the real BARBARIANS we face (beheadings, burnings, disembowelments, etc.).
(3) the U.N. When an International group (where 90% of said members are two-bit dictators) holds so much "high esteem" in so many of our politicos minds, and yet is completely inept at solving ANY of the world's problems, and actually aids and abets the baddies, we're fighting an uphill battle.
(4) President Bush. He should use the 'bully pulpit' more. I realize part of this is NOT his fault, but the slant or blackout of the MSM. But, I hearken back to the days of the cowboy (You're either again' us, or you're for us) who called a spade a spade. On this matter specifically, I do agree with .com on the handwringers (who've even shown up here), for President Bush has done a LOT in the WoT. But, his communication of the TRUE threat is what I have a beef with (and I'm one of his biggest fans). Remember, the first rule of war is "Know thy enemy."
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(SomaliNet) At least four people are reported to have been killed in a suicide bomb explosion, which rocked around Baidoa city, the seat of the transitional federal government late Thursday. It is the second suicide attack in Baidoa, 240km southwest of the capital.
One of the dead people was a police officer, witnesses said. The explosion happened in Bakin road, the main entrance to Baidoa city when a suspected car bomb went off there.
The police in Baidoa told the local media that a veiled woman who blew herself up carried the explosion. Reports say that the car used in the blast was Toyata Mark II carrying passengers to Baidoa, leaving from Mogadishu.
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Hundreds of people may have been killed in the heaviest fighting between northern Sudanese forces and their former southern rebel foes since they signed a peace deal last year, a top southern officer said on Thursday. In Nigeria's capital Abuja, the African Union decided to extend for six months the mandate of its peacekeeping force in Sudan's western Darfur region, where a separate conflict has killed an estimated 200,000 people since early 2003.
In the southern town of Malakal, terrified civilians reported looting and dead bodies in the streets after three days of clashes, and U.N. officials in New York said 240 civilian personnel had been temporarily evacuated from the town. "More than hundreds have been lost. The Sudan army sustained very heavy casualties and civilians were caught in the crossfire," Elias Waya Nyipuocs, a senior officer in the former southern rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army, told Reuters.
Nyipuocs said militias belonging to the northern Sudanese Armed Forces attacked the SPLA and the local commissioner of Malakal. The militiamen then took refuge in the SAF barracks near the airport and full combat began. "We were forced to overrun the barracks and the SAF fought side by side with the militia against the SPLA," he said. SAF tanks then counter-attacked and also shelled the town, inflicting many civilian casualties, Nyipuocs said.
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An Egyptian state security court sentenced 10 men to between five years and life in prison on Thursday for their role in explosions at tourist resorts on the Sinai coast that killed more than 100 people. The court in the Suez Canal town of Ismailia also confirmed death sentences against three men convicted of organising the three attacks between October 2004 and April 2006. The confirmation was a formality after the mufti of Egypt, the government-appointed interpreter of Islamic law, gave his approval to the death sentences. The 10 defendants faced charges of murder, attempted murder, belonging to a terrorist group, possession of explosives and weapons, damaging public property and sheltering criminals. They had pleaded not guilty. After a judge read the verdicts on Thursday they shouted slogans denouncing the United States and Israel, whom they blamed for the bombings. The prosecution said the bombers were part of a Sinai group called One God and Jihad.
That'd be "Tawhid (Monotheism) and Jihad," naturally.
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Map for the geographically challenged here. They have Sudan to their east and Chad to their north.
French fighter jets opened fire on rebel positions in the Central African Republic on Thursday as government forces faced resistance in their bid to recapture the northeast of the country, the French military said. Government troops have pushed north from the eastern diamond mining town of Bria since capturing the northeastern town of Birao earlier this week with French military support, French armed forces spokesman Christophe Prazuck said. Are we and maybe CAR the only ones grasping the significance of this yet? Sudan's on a pretty significant Arab expansionist roll, what with its adventurism within its own borders, in Chad, and in Central Africa. I'm guessing the financing isn't all Sudanese money even with their oil money they're not that rich and I've heard that the "janjaweed" aren't all simple Sudanese tribals. This is definitely a trend to keep an eye on.
Faced with resistance near the towns of Ouadda, roughly half-way between Bria and rebel-held Birao, and the northern town of Ndele, government forces asked France to send Mirage F1s patrolling the country's airspace to fire on the rebels.
Birao is in the northern tip nestled right up against both Chad and Sudan. No surprise that's where you find the 'rebels'.
"In these two areas, the Central African Republic forces encountered quite heavy resistance with, notably, heavy machineguns ... which injured a certain number of Central African Republic soldiers and which prevented them from advancing," Prazuck said. "Having sustained casualties and being unable to advance, they requested the intervention of the Mirage which was ensuring their aerial cover," he said, adding that the number of Mirages involved was unclear but it was likely there was more than one.
After seizing Birao on Oct. 30, rebels from the Union of Democratic Forces for Unity (UFDR), who have demanded that President Francois Bozize agree to power-sharing talks, captured other northeastern towns and began advancing south and west. Bozize, who accused neighbouring Sudan of backing the rebels, appealed to former colonial power France and regional African allies for military assistance. France reinforced its small military contingent in the country to provide what it says is logistical and intelligence support, as well as help in planning and conducting operations.
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CAR rebels have been supported by Libya. The French have saved their bacon several times.
This is the place where, in the 1980"s, the "emperor" was openly a cannibal.
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Both Chinese and Saudi money is behind the behavior of Sudan. The Chinese have "exclusive" production rights for at least two of Sudan's oilfields. Saudi Arabia will finance anyone who will support their particularly insidious version of Islam. Khartoum needs to meet a fleet of Buffs with big iron bombs. I'm sure that would do quite a bit to "dis-encourage" their adventurism, especially the second or third day they were greeted to the sound of thunder from above.
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Both Chinese and Saudi money is behind the behavior of Sudan
Yes, that's what the ESISC (a belgian think tank I appreciate and trust) is saying.
(RIA Novosti) - Four members of illegal armed groups have surrendered in Chechnya, a police source in the troubled Russian republic in the North Caucasus said Thursday. Through a partial amnesty announced on July 15, following the killing of the region's number one terrorist Shamil Basayev, militants not involved in major atrocities were promised leniency.
One of the militants surrendered in Gudermes, Chechnya's second largest city situated in the east of the republic. He is said to have fought against federal troops in the region since 1995. The three others gave themselves up in the republic's central and southern districts. The police spokesperson said the militants also surrendered their arms.
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Turkish police detained 18 people suspected of having links to Al Qaeda late on Wednesday, but Istanbuls police chief said the move was unconnected to Pope Benedicts visit to Turkey, NTV television reported. Istanbul police could not confirm the report on Thursday. In an Internet statement on Wednesday, Al Qaeda in Iraq condemned Pope Benedicts visit, saying it was part of a crusade against Islam aimed at pulling Turkey away from the Muslim world.
But Istanbuls security chief Celalettin Cerrah was quoted as saying the detentions were unconnected.
The Pope flew to Istanbul late on Wednesday, the second day of his four-day visit to Turkey, for talks and religious celebrations with Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the worlds Orthodox Christians. But Istanbuls security chief Celalettin Cerrah was quoted as saying the detentions were unconnected. Turkey has suffered several attacks blamed on Al Qaeda: in November 2003, more than 60 people were killed in bombings of two synagogues, the British Consulate and HSBCs office in Istanbul.
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Probably unconnected like an iceberg and the Titanic were unconnected....
Indian police on Thursday named a Pakistani man as the main conspirator behind deadly train bombings in Mumbai in July as they framed formal charges against 30 people in connection with the attack.
At least 186 people were killed and about 700 wounded when seven bombs tore through packed Mumbai commuter trains and platforms during rush hour. India has accused Pakistan's military spy agency of plotting the attack and Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba of executing it with the help of disaffected Indian Muslims. Pakistan and Lashkar have denied any links to the blasts.
But Mumbai police said they had proof Azam Cheema, who they said was a Pakistani national and a top Lashkar leader, was the chief conspirator. "He is the main person and we have also named others," K.P. Raghuvanshi, Mumbai's anti-terrorism squad chief, told Reuters. "Out of 30, we have arrested 13 people and 15 are absconding, including Cheema."
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Imagine, a Pak rat is responsible. Whodda thunk it ?
PESHAWAR: Unknown miscreants burnt down a holy site belonging to the Ismaili community in Chitral district, which has seen sectarian violence in the past, police said on Thursday. The incident took place on November 25 when an Ismaili place of worship was reduced to ashes in Rech village, Torkhow tehsil, 170 kilometres away from Chitral city. We are investigating the incident, DSP Headquarters Sultan Bacha told Daily Times over the phone from Chitral. Police have not arrested anyone yet and Bacha declined to say whether the incident was linked to past sectarian violence. Prince Karim Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili sect, has spent billions of rupees on community development projects across the district and continues to invest in the development of the area.
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the Ismailis are a sect of Shiite that is less into violence than the mainstream Shiite
Here's a surprise: they are considered heretics by other Shia
An eyewitness in the trial for the killing of US diplomat David Foy identified on Thursday an al Qaeda suspect before an anti-terrorism court (ATC) as the man who came with the alleged suicide bomber in a car right before the bomb blast. Osman Ghani and Anwarul Haq are charged with preparing a plot for a car bombing near the US consulate in Karachi on March 2, 2006 in which four persons, including US diplomat David Foy and three Pakistanis, were killed and 48 others were injured.
According to the prosecution, the alleged suicide attacker, who was later identified as Mohammad Tahir, rammed a car packed with explosives into a vehicle carrying the US diplomat as soon as it left the consulates gate. Prosecution witness Ali Zaman, who identified Anwarul Haq as the man who came with the alleged suicide bomber, was examined before the court. The witness said he was standing outside the canteen on the morning of March 2 when two persons came in a white Toyota car and stopped near the Naval surgical hospital.
He said one person stepped out of the vehicle and went to the parking side of the Marriot hotel while the other man parked the vehicle at the parking lot of the hospital. The witness said that he saw the man getting back into the vehicle and starting it after receiving a signal from the person standing near the hotel parking lot. The witness said that after a short while he heard the sound of the blast outside the canteen and later saw that the blast had occurred in the same white vehicle. The witness also identified the alleged suicide bomber Tahir by his photograph before a judicial magistrate during an identification parade. The ATC headed by Judge Haq Nawaz Baloch, who is conducting the trial inside jail, fixed December 2, 2006 for the cross-examination of the witness on the request of the defendant counsels Mushtaq Ahmed and Mohammad Farooq. Special Public Prosecutor Naimat Ali Randhawa represented the state. The court has already declared absconding co-accused Mohammad Zafar alias Qari Zafar, the main mastermind of the case, as a proclaimed offender.
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Mohammad Tahir, homicide bomber; Mohammad Zafar, absconding co-accused: How far could we get in the GWOT by 'profiling' people named Mo? It even explains why Larry and Curly were always getting picked on.
Former Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) member of the National Assembly from Bajaur Agency, Haroon Rashid, was released Thursday by the Frontier Region (FR) Kohat political administration on the intervention of a tribal jirga. According to a press statement, the tribal jirga, led by Malik Alam Gul Zarghunkhel and Malik Said Asgar Boshthikhel, assured the political administration that Rashid would not participate in political activities in FR Kohat in future. Haroon Rashid, who relinquished his National Assembly membership in protest of the attack on a religious seminary in Bajaur on October 30, was arrested during a protest rally in Darra Adamkhel on November 24.
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(KUNA) -- At least three guerrillas were killed in an encounter with the Indian Army in a forest in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir Thursday. The encounter took place in the forest of Udhampur district of the Indian-admnistered Jammu and Kashmir today, news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported. The identity of the slain guerrillas is yet to be established.
Meanwhile in another incident, a senior Indian Army officer and a soldier were injured in a powerful blast triggered by suspected Hizbul Mujaheedin in Baramulla in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir Thursday evening, the news agency said. Indian security forces are conducting searches in the area. Hizbul Mujaheedin later owned responsibility for the blast, the news agency said.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Machinegun fire rained from U.S. helicopters in central Baghdad on Friday as U.S. and Iraqi troops clashed with gunmen during a raid to seize militants, police and witnesses said.
The fighting erupted when the troops moved into the Fadhil area, a stronghold of Sunni insurgents, and were fired upon by militants hiding in houses, an Interior Ministry source told Reuters.
The fighting came a day after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said his forces could take over from the Americans in June. His comments followed talks with President Bush, who strongly backed him as the "right guy" for Iraq.
Maliki has been under growing pressure to contain sectarian death squads roaming the capital's streets and accused of killing hundreds of people.
Witnesses said two low-flying U.S. Apache helicopters were circling above the Fadhil area, firing their machineguns into the streets below and letting off flares to deflect missile attack.
Details of the operation were sketchy, but the Interior Ministry said one soldier had been killed and nine people wounded, including five soldiers. A Defense Ministry official said 28 suspects had been captured.
The U.S. military had no immediate comment.
U.S. forces earlier staged numerous raids in and around Baghdad, killing two suspected al Qaeda insurgents and detaining 27, the military said in a statement.
BOMBS AT PET MARKET
Bombs also killed five people in Baghdad on Friday, including one at the city's pet market.
Three people were killed and 22 wounded, police said, when a car bomb blasted the Ghazil market an hour before a regular traffic curfew came into force to protect worshippers at weekly prayers.
The market, a popular weekend spectacle, sells a raucous, colorful range of creatures, from guard dogs and monkeys to parrots, pigeons and tropical fish.
In the Shi'ite suburb of Husseiniya, north of the capital, another car bomb killed two people and wounded 13. In the northern oil city of Kirkuk, a suicide car bomber targeting a U.S. patrol wounded four civilians.
Just south of Baghdad late on Thursday, a roadside bomb killed one minibus passenger and wounded four.
Maliki said after meeting Bush in Jordan that his government's forces would be able to take over security command from U.S. troops by June 2007 -- a move which could allow the United States to start withdrawing.
The statement was in line with Maliki's previous forecasts that he would need six months to take over once a new, accelerated training program was in place. Bush and he announced agreement on that at their talks in Amman.
"I cannot answer on behalf of the U.S. administration but I can tell you that from our side our forces will be ready by June 2007," Maliki told ABC television.
U.S. commanders have grave worries about the effectiveness of Iraqi police and troops and their sectarian loyalties. The Sunni minority views some units as hostile Shi'ite militias.
Bush offered Maliki strong backing and said Iraqi forces would be trained more quickly to take over, but rejected suggestions he was seeking a "graceful exit" for U.S. troops.
U.S. troops were in Iraq to "get the job done" and would stay as long as the Baghdad government wanted them there, said Bush. Defeat for Bush's Republicans in recent congressional elections has put pressure on him to pull out U.S. troops.
Well, they've done it - the terrorist scum have finally, actually, bombed fluffy bunnies and little kittens. I expect spontaneous protests and outrage across the Arab world, western Europe, and on US campuses in five, four, three .....
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Well, they've done it - the terrorist scum have finally, actually, bombed fluffy bunnies and little kittens. I expect spontaneous protests and outrage across the Arab world, western Europe, and on US campuses in five, four, three .....
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gawd ..Call Ramsey Clark and Jimmy crack corn 'peanut' Carter!
(KUNA) -- A mass grave including bodies of 28 people was uncovered by American and Iraqi soldiers south of Baqouba, said a Multi-National Force statement released on Thursday. The bodies were taken to Al-Nahrawan area for identification by family members and were then moved to a police station in Baghdad.
Other statements said one MNF soldier had been killed in combat in Baghdad, Wednesday, and a marine died of wounds inflicted in combat operations in Al-Anbar. The death of these servicemen brought the death toll suffered by the American forces to 59 killed in November.
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And, also in November, Allied forces sent 242 terrorists to their virgins. 22 in the last two days of the month. Terrorist Death Watch
Sympathy meter please.... BEIT HANOUN, Gaza (Reuters) - Hussein Kafarneh is a muezzin without a mosque. For nearly 30 years he led the traditional call to prayer at Beit Hanoun's al-Nasser shrine, one of the oldest mosques in Gaza, climbing the twisting steps to the top of the white stone minaret five times a day. His father did the same for 40 years before him.
Then, on November 3 this year, as Israeli forces pursued an offensive in Gaza, they clashed with Palestinian militants holed up inside and nearby the mosque, using it as cover. Ah, yes. The "cloak of mosqueability". They can't get us in here.
A dramatic stand-off ensued, with Israeli tanks aiming their barrels toward the shrine and around 60 well-armed militants firing rounds back toward the Israelis. Nyah-nyah! Nyah-nyah! We're in a mossssque!
The army decided that since the mosque was being used for military purposes it was no longer protected under the rules of conflict. Commanders sent in armored bulldozers to knock down its ancient walls, which dated to the 13th century. Hey, wait a minute. Can the Zionists do that? Somebody look that up in the rule book. Hey! Hey!
"They came and they crushed it," said Kafarneh, sitting in the shadow of the mosque in Beit Hanoun's Martyrs Square, large mounds of brick and rubble lying behind him. Too bad, pops. Keep your boys the fuck outta there next time.
The minaret, with its ornate gallery, still stands, but it is badly damaged and near collapse. It can't be climbed.
"For the first time in 28 years I have not made the call to prayer. I am just sitting here," said the 62-year-old, still looking slightly stunned by the weight of events. "If I had 20 sons, I would give them all for my mosque." Yeah. That could be part of the problem.
Asked whether gunmen had used the shrine for protection as they fought Israeli troops, Kafarneh and his friends sitting on plastic chairs around him are quiet and then dismissive."There were gunmen, yes. But they weren't inside the mosque. They were nearby, in the buildings. Look, the buildings and the mosque are all together here," said one as the others nodded. Ummmmmmm...well...maybe...kinda...well...INFIDEL!
On the day of the stand-off, Hamas, the Islamic militant group that runs the Palestinian government, said itself that dozens of its gunmen were holed up inside. But....but...but...
It put out a call on local radio asking women to create a human shield around the shrine so the gunmen could escape. Just about all of them did, before the bulldozers rolled in. We're trapped! Quick! Hide behind the women! It says in the rulebook that the Zionists can't fire at women.
For many people in Beit Hanoun the destruction of the mosque was symbolic of Israel's hardline policies in Gaza. They regard it as a Jewish aggression against Islam.Very few are willing to link the actions of the militants to the destruction of the building, even though it's very unlikely it would have been targeted if gunmen weren't hiding inside. Wait a second. Are you sure this is Reuters? This reporter obviously needs to be pulled out for sensitivity training or something...
Others, though, are aware of the damage the militants frequently cause to their communities. "I am against them. No one wants them here. They come and fire rockets and we just know there will be problems," said Sheikh al-Shabat, 42, who teaches at the local university. Wonder when he'll be shotdown in the street as a collaborator?
While not a militant sympathizer, Kafarneh also isn't willing to condemn them outright. He just wants his mosque back."Sometimes I just sit and cry," he says of the four weeks since the building was demolished. That's okay, Pops. Maybe Wartnose will sneak you in a couple of mill to rebuild on his next money run.
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"If I had 20 sons, I would give them all for my mosque."
As tu3031 noted, "That could be part of the problem." The Palestinians are so besotted with hatred and genocide that they cannot see the trees of their own destruction for the forest of Islamic condoned violence. Beit Hanoun must serve as an ongoing model for all Israeli response to continued rocket attacks.
Some quotes from Golda Meir:
"Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us."
"We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours."
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Tu was an early in-line specialist, I mistook him for Fred more than once, but that was a long time ago, things were different then, it was all yello at that time, none of this multi-hued stuff. Better now? Maybe, probably, but times were simpler then 12 comments was a comment riot, good times......
Ya'alon spared arrest in New Zealand
Former Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya'alon was spared from being arrested during a recent trip to New Zealand, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights claimed on Thursday.
According to the human rights organization, the Auckland District Court issued a warrant for his arrest on charges of war crimes stating a "suspicion of committing a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention 1949," a criminal offense in New Zealand under the Geneva Conventions Act 1958 and International Crimes and International Criminal Court Act 2000. The court issued the warrant after several lawyers contacted the police to urge Ya'alon's arrest.
The report also accused Ya'alon of being responsible for what they claimed were IDF actions in which "extensive human rights violations and war crimes" had occurred. Despite the decision made by District Court Judge Avinash Deobhakta to have Ya'alon arrested, the local Justice Ministry canceled the warrant at the last minute. Note that name
Jerusalem: Haredi man stabs Arab worker in leg
A 35-year-old haredi man described by police as mentally unstable entered a central Jerusalem store Thursday and stabbed and lightly wounded a 21-year old Arab shop worker in the leg, police said. The haredi assailant was arrested on the scene. The Arab victim was taken to a Jerusalem hospital. I wonder just who is crazy.
Rice urges cease-fire 'consolidation'
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice came to Israel on Thursday, patted Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on the back, and left a few hours later without leaving much of a footprint. I bet he was overjoyed
Rice, in a brief statement before meeting Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, praised Olmert for what she said was his "very positive speech" Monday at Sde Boker, saying it represented "a hand reaching out to a Palestinian partner." What are a few fingers among friends?
A Palestinian youth was killed and two others wounded by IDF fire in the West Bank village of Kfar Bita, near Nablus, Palestinian sources reported on Thursday night. The youth who was killed was identified as Shadi Nayif, 15, who had been throwing rocks at the troops. According to the report, the IDF was still operating in the village.
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IDF soldiers manning the Hawarrah checkpoint south of Nablus apprehended an 18 year-old Palestinian Thursday when 3 pipe bombs were found on his person, the army said. Military sappers neutralized the bombs, and the suspect was passed on to security officials for interrogations.
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Would any country out there who doesn't like torture or aggressive interrogation like to take him in as a refugee?
Tens of thousands of supporters of the Hezbollah movement and its pro-Syrian allies have gathered in Beirut to protest against Lebanon's government. Security is tight amid fears that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah's call to force out an "incapable government" could lead to violence.
Christian opposition leader Michel Aoun told the crowd that PM Fouad Siniora and his cabinet had to resign. Mr Siniora has vowed to resist what he called an attempted coup. His government has been weakened by the resignation of pro-Syrian cabinet ministers and by a recent assassination. Hezbollah has been demanding a bigger share in the cabinet that would give it the power to veto government decisions.
Mr Aoun said the government was not one of national unity and so was not constitutional. "I call on the prime minister and his ministers to resign," he told the cheering crowd in Beirut, many of them waving the flag of Lebanon.
Sheikh Nasrallah has been emboldened by a conflict with Israeli forces in the summer that destroyed many parts of southern Lebanon but failed to shatter his movement's militia. Hezbollah accuses the Lebanese government of failing to support it during the conflict. However, the anti-Syrian parties that have the majority in government accuse Hezbollah of serving Syrian interests in their country.
Many supporters of Hezbollah and its allies, including the party headed by Mr Aoun, were brought to Beirut in buses for a demonstration that started at 1500 local time (1300 GMT). Armoured vehicles and hundreds of troops have taken up positions to defend government buildings in the city, despite assurances from Sheikh Nasrallah that the protests would be peaceful. And if you can't believe Nasty, who can you believe?
Mr Siniora's government has vowed to stand firm against the protests - but the death or resignation of another two ministers will automatically topple it. C'mon people, you're not trying!
"Lebanon's independence is threatened and its democratic system is in danger," Mr Siniora said. "We will not allow the coup against the democratic system, its rules and institutions," he said.
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This event should be watched very closely. Iran will have a major gateway to Israel and the Mediterranean if the Hezbollah succeeds. The potential for this conflict is major as all those UN troops will be caught in the middle and Israel might get involved again too.
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the A.P also reported the Lebanese PM as "Holed up". The A.P. WANTS Iran and Syria to control the entire MidEast...and to destroy Israel in the process.
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Where were the dozens of Israeli fighters with napalm? This would be a perfect time to do serious damage to Hezbollah and its "allies". The rest of the world hates Israel, so what would another "incident" mean? Maybe they'd even be able to get Nasty - in both forms.
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with Hizb in beirut, now would be a good time to dig out weapons in S lebanon
Update. The Hizbullah militia has laid siege to the government building, trapping the prime minister and cabinet ministers inside. Roadblocks were set up by Hizbullah members in what can only be described as coup d'etat.
The Lebanese army had to call Nabih Berri, and the Saudi King had to intervene through his ambassador, to "partially" remove the siege. Hizbullah "tents" are still on the roads, isolating the government building.
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Iran already has a major gateway to Israel, Tholumble Crealing1920. But, with "prowestern" Seniora gone, Israel will be able to do something about it (last time IDF had leg irons & one hand tied behind the back because George II wanted to preserve the Chedar Revolution)
More on yesterday's story... Syrian President Bashar Assad was reported on Wednesday to have sent about 200 terrorists to Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon to assassinate 36 Lebanese figures. The daily Al-Mustaqbal said Assad's "terrorist plot" was part of a propaganda prepared by the Syrian president and his Foreign Minister Walid Moallem. It said Assad authorized the terrorist group, which was part of Fatah-Intifadeh, the Syrian-backed faction which broke away from Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah group, to carry out the assassinations.
Al Mustaqbal said the Assad plot was revealed four days ago when two men, arrested on charges of killing two Palestinian activists in the Beddawi refugee camp in north Lebanon, acknowledged to the Lebanese Intelligence Service that they belonged to Fatah-Uprising, which is led by Abou Moussa. The arrested men said the Syrian intelligence has asked them to coordinate with the faction's second-in-command, Abou Khaled al-Emleh. It identified the men as Syrian Hussam Mohammed Siyam and Mohammed Saleh, a Saudi, adding that they hold legitimate Syrian passports issued by authorities in Damascus.
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Bashar Assad is simply following the teachings and methods of Muhamhead. On numerous occasions Muhamhead would send out killers to do in his political enemies.
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Hezbollah is moving into a power vacuum. Pro West elements in Lebanon have absolutely no Western support. We praised the "Cedar Revolution," but our leaders refuse to do anything to protect Lebanon from foreign aggression. Syrian intervention would be like taking a hot knife through butter.
Ethiopia and Thailand also face national catastrophes if the West won't take sides.
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That young lady isn't dressed for current conditions in my neighborhood. No Hiwaiian weather here in Co Springs. It's up to 32, from a low of 4... The mountains look nice, though, with the 2feet+ of snow they got. No limbo dancing, but the skiing is great.
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Funny .com. Glad to see you still have a sense of humor.
But I gotta know--where are you guys finding all this great old photos of me? : )
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RIGA, Latvia -- NATO leaders agreed yesterday to add troops to the 32,000 already in Afghanistan, but European countries such as France and Spain retained some of the restrictions that prevent their troops from taking a more active role in the fighting. 
(SomaliNet) At least four people are reported to have been killed in a suicide bomb explosion, which rocked around Baidoa city, the seat of the transitional federal government late Thursday. It is the second suicide attack in Baidoa, 240km southwest of the capital. 
Hundreds of people may have been killed in the heaviest fighting between northern Sudanese forces and their former southern rebel foes since they signed a peace deal last year, a top southern officer said on Thursday. In Nigeria's capital Abuja, the African Union decided to extend for six months the mandate of its peacekeeping force in Sudan's western Darfur region, where a separate conflict has killed an estimated 200,000 people since early 2003.
An Egyptian state security court sentenced 10 men to between five years and life in prison on Thursday for their role in explosions at tourist resorts on the Sinai coast that killed more than 100 people. The court in the Suez Canal town of Ismailia also confirmed death sentences against three men convicted of organising the three attacks between October 2004 and April 2006. The confirmation was a formality after the mufti of Egypt, the government-appointed interpreter of Islamic law, gave his approval to the death sentences. The 10 defendants faced charges of murder, attempted murder, belonging to a terrorist group, possession of explosives and weapons, damaging public property and sheltering criminals. They had pleaded not guilty. After a judge read the verdicts on Thursday they shouted slogans denouncing the United States and Israel, whom they blamed for the bombings. The prosecution said the bombers were part of a Sinai group called One God and Jihad.
(RIA Novosti) - Four members of illegal armed groups have surrendered in Chechnya, a police source in the troubled Russian republic in the North Caucasus said Thursday. Through a partial amnesty announced on July 15, following the killing of the region's number one terrorist 
Turkish police detained 18 people suspected of having links to Al Qaeda late on Wednesday, but Istanbuls police chief said the move was unconnected to Pope Benedicts visit to Turkey, NTV television reported. Istanbul police could not confirm the report on Thursday. In an Internet statement on Wednesday, Al Qaeda in Iraq condemned Pope Benedicts visit, saying it was part of a crusade against Islam aimed at pulling Turkey away from the Muslim world. 
Indian police on Thursday named a Pakistani man as the main conspirator behind deadly train bombings in Mumbai in July as they framed formal charges against 30 people in connection with the attack.
PESHAWAR: Unknown miscreants burnt down a holy site belonging to the Ismaili community in Chitral district, which has seen sectarian violence in the past, police said on Thursday. The incident took place on November 25 when an Ismaili place of worship was reduced to ashes in Rech village, Torkhow tehsil, 170 kilometres away from Chitral city. We are investigating the incident, DSP Headquarters Sultan Bacha told Daily Times over the phone from Chitral. Police have not arrested anyone yet and Bacha declined to say whether the incident was linked to past sectarian violence. Prince Karim Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili sect, has spent billions of rupees on community development projects across the district and continues to invest in the development of the area.
An eyewitness in the trial for the killing of US diplomat David Foy identified on Thursday an al Qaeda suspect before an anti-terrorism court (ATC) as the man who came with the alleged suicide bomber in a car right before the bomb blast. 
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(KUNA) -- At least three guerrillas were killed in an encounter with the Indian Army in a forest in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir Thursday. The encounter took place in the forest of Udhampur district of the Indian-admnistered Jammu and Kashmir today, news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported. The identity of the slain guerrillas is yet to be established.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Machinegun fire rained from U.S. helicopters in central Baghdad on Friday as U.S. and Iraqi troops clashed with gunmen during a raid to seize militants, police and witnesses said.
Bombs also killed five people in Baghdad on Friday, including one at the city's pet market.
Maliki said after meeting Bush in Jordan that his government's forces would be able to take over security command from U.S. troops by June 2007 -- a move which could allow the United States to start withdrawing.
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza (Reuters) - Hussein Kafarneh is a muezzin without a mosque. For nearly 30 years he led the traditional call to prayer at Beit Hanoun's al-Nasser shrine, one of the oldest mosques in Gaza, climbing the twisting steps to the top of the white stone minaret five times a day. His father did the same for 40 years before him.
Tens of thousands of supporters of the Hezbollah movement and its pro-Syrian allies have gathered in Beirut to protest against Lebanon's government. Security is tight amid fears that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah's call to force out an "incapable government" could lead to violence. 
Syrian President Bashar Assad was reported on Wednesday to have sent about 200 terrorists to Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon to assassinate 36 Lebanese figures. The daily Al-Mustaqbal said Assad's "terrorist plot" was part of a propaganda prepared by the Syrian president and his Foreign Minister 
