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The reason Joan Crawford and Bette Davis were femme fatales and "chic's of the day" was they were still using cocaine in the coke recipe back then. Now you know the rest of the story.
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Totally OT : GolfBravoUSMC, in the bombing vid you posted yesterday, the "Surfing bird" song is credited to the original Trashmen, though I'm almost sure it's the cover by The Cramps, this definitively is the voice of Lux Interior; so, in the name of all that's sacred and of good music, let's give the Greatest Music Band of the world its due.
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Greetings, tell in what banks give quickly credits under minimal http://www.kreditkareal.com percent? How many I searched I can not find such bank that it was favourable to take
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OMG - Rantburg's finest Frenchman is a fellow fan of the inimitable Cramps?? ^5 A5089!
I once jumped off of the stage at one of their shows under the influence of hallucinogens. It's almost as hard to believe that I survived those days as it is to believe that I would be meeting fellow Cramp-o-philes at Rantburg almost 30 years later! ;-)
You ain't gonna believe this but I too am a Cramps fan from waaay back (Gravest Hits). Finally saw 'em live with the Screaming Blue Messiahs in Chicago circa 1985. Grave show.
And (#1) FrankG., I too never got the Joan Crawford thing but would've perhaps maybe sorta coulda with Bette. Probably not though.
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Did he do "Halo of Flies"? That's an ipod fav
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Golf, the concrete is a classic! Truely demented, HT to you. Your cadets have no idea what they have as an instructor. I just dont get the attraction to Joan, never did, never will. Betty Page, well of course.
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Good analysis and summary, EFL
Jerusalem --- January 15, 2009...... Hamas has again used children, the UN and the press as human shields in Gaza.
Hamas fired several rounds of mortar rockets at Israel Defense Forces from within and around the United Nations headquarters building in Gaza. The IDF responded with artillery fire killing several Hamas terrorists and wounding several civilians who they were hiding behind.
The UN compound and a nearby warehouse were set on fire.
Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the IDF had fired in self defense at the U.N. compound after Hamas terrorists opened fire from the location. "It is absolutely true that the IDF was attacked from that place, but the consequences are very sad and we apologize for it," he said. "I don't think it should have happened and I'm very sorry."
A senior Israel IDF officer had also said that Israel hit the compound after coming under fire from Palestinian terrorists.
In fierce fighting taking place today, Hamas officials confirmed that an Israel airstrike killed the Hamas interior minister, who oversaw thousands of security agents in the Gaza Strip. The IDF confirmed the airstrike. Hamas television said that Hamas Interior Minister Said Siam was killed in a strike that flattened a home in Gaza City. A top aide, Siam's brother and his brother's family were also killed. Siam is considered to be among Hamas' top five leaders in Gaza.
One IDF officer told Sky News: "Hamas will most likely claim victory after this operation is over, but they know that we know that they have a problem."
Iran has threatened to stop all aid and weapons to Hamas if they stop fighting. Hamas has responded by speaking with Egypt hoping that they could arrange a cease-fire before more Hamas leadership dies in fighting.
"If Hamas terrorists in Mexico and Canada started to fire rockets and missiles at US cities, how would the US respond, how would any nation respond in defending their citizens?"
In Israel's fight to defend itself against Hamas terror attacks against civilian populations, Israel is faced with moral challenges unprecedented in their complexity. Hamas, as a basic element of its strategy, exploits the Palestinian populations, the UN and the press as shields for its terrorist operations and infrastructure. This cynical strategy include the following tactics: the deliberate launching of rocket from populated areas, the deliberate use of civilian homes and UN bases to shield Hamas arms and explosives manufacturing facilities and the deliberate use of civilians as human shields against anticipated airstrikes. Attention, progressive journalists everywhere!
Here's your chance to make a real contribution to hope and change, and possibly earn that big city gig you would literally kill for. Just send Achmed the contract stringer to find out where the Hamas leadership is hiding, then take yourself and the entire combined staffs of BBC, CNN, and Reuters to that place and camp out on the roof while you wait your turn for an exclusive interniew. The evil Juice will surely surrender in the face of this mighty display of world opinion, and you will be headed for honor, glory, free blow from coast to coast, and a Pulitzer prize.
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it too them damn long too figue this out, hll i'm gonna become a journalist i could write articles about something in tofday news that has been happening all along
A spokeswoman for Guantanamo's war court says a Sudanese detainee held at the offshore U.S. prison has been arraigned.
Air Force Lt. Col. Ann Knabe says Noor Uthman Muhammed did not enter a plea at his Wednesday arraignment. She did not offer any other details of the courtroom proceeding at the isolated U.S. base in southeast Cuba.
Muhammed is accused of conspiring with al-Qaida and providing support for terrorism. The U.S. military alleges he was a weapons instructor from 1996 and 2002.
Joseph DellaVedova, spokesman for the Office of Military Commissions, has said the maximum sentence Muhammed could receive is life in prison.
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Send him to Darfur!
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Somali insurgents fired mortar bombs at Somalia's presidential palace on Wednesday, underlining fears of more bloodshed a day after Ethiopian troops supporting the government quit bases in Mogadishu.
Witnesses said security forces guarding the hill-top palace compound in the capital responded with their own volley of artillery shells, but there was no immediate word on casualties. "No Somali wants the Ethiopians to stay, but there will be chaos whether they withdraw or not," said a spokesman of Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca, a government-allied group. He said hardliners like al Shabaab - planned to fight the government and moderate groups like his if they tried to form a power-sharing administration.
Sheikh Hassan Yacqub, an al Shabaab spokesman in Kismayu, a strategic southern port seized by the group in August, said he doubted Ethiopia would withdraw completely from its neighbour. "If they do pull out it will be due to attacks (against them), not requests nor negotiations. We shall continue fighting them until there is no single Ethiopian in Somalia," he told Reuters. Speaking in Cairo after talks with Arab League officials, moderate Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed said the Eritrea-based opposition group was expected to join talks soon.
"A breakthrough on those issues was achieved. There is a promise that they (the Asmara faction) will be included in the peace process," he was quoted telling Somali Radio HornAfrik. Fighting has killed more than 16,000 civilians since the start of 2007. One million people have been forced from their homes, triggering a humanitarian disaster that has been worsened by drought and hyper-inflation. On Tuesday, Ethiopian troops abandoned their main bases in Mogadishu. But many civilians are too scared to return to homes that were rocked by near-daily artillery and gun battles.
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A Russian warship helped foil a pirate attack on a Dutch container ship in the dangerous Gulf of Aden, a maritime watchdog and the Russian navy said Wednesday.
Six pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades Tuesday at the ship, which took evasive manoeuvres while calling for help, said Noel Choong, head of the International Maritime Bureau's piracy reporting center in Malaysia.
The pirates chased the vessel for about 30 minutes in the waters off Somalia but aborted their attempt to board after a Russian warship and helicopter arrived, Choong said.
Russian navy spokesman Capt. Igor Dygalo said a Ka-27 helicopter was sent from the Admiral Vinogradov warship on patrol off the Horn of Africa and fired at three suspected pirate speedboats that were trying to attack the Dutch ship.
He said three pirates were wounded.
Dygalo said one of the speedboats was halted near Yemeni waters and Russian teams from the Admiral Vinogradov boarded the other two, finding ropes with grappling hooks and gas canisters but no fishing equipment.
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I dunno Pappy. I honestly think the Russians could have nuked them from orbit and nobody would give a $hit.
JANUARY 15--Meet Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger, III, the US Airways pilot who today amazingly crash-landed a US Airways jet in New York's Hudson River without any apparent fatalities. The heroic Sullenberger, 57, has worked for US Airways since 1980, and before that spent more than six years as a U.S. Air Force F-4 fighter pilot. Sullenberger, who now must be considered the front runner to replace Hillary Clinton as New York's junior United States Senator, is also the founder of Safety Reliability Methods. The firm describes itself as providing "technical expertise and strategic vision and direction to improve safety and reliability in a variety of high risk industries." Business should soon be booming. Click here to revel in Sullenberger's brilliance and professionalism, as detailed in the veteran pilot's resume. Expect his "executive career highlights" to be updated shortly. (3 pages)
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"who now must be considered the front runner to replace Hillary Clinton as New York's junior United States Senator"
What kind of subtle insult is this?
Well done Sir and hip hip hooray for the U.S. AirForce! Your taxpayer's money at work... good work for a change
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Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger, III - spent more than six years as a U.S. Air Force F-4 fighter pilot
with a name like that, Ima thinkrn "Boy named 'Sue'" syndrome. Prolly one tough sumbitch. Well done, Sully, well done. Understood he was the last to leave after checking all-clear on the plane. Stud.
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Some reports say he made two final trips up and down the aisles to assure he was the last to deplane.
#4
Saw it happen- they came overhead, really low, banking at about forty five degrees left, then banked right and glided down river.I thought they had aborted a landing at La Guardia and made an emergency landing at Newark, but all the while they were headed for the river. Bloody hell.
Seriously good flying.
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No power I guess, or not much. Its a fair way further- and they were gliding rather than flying under power, as I assumed at the time. So Newark must have been out of the question.
Reports say they cleared the George Washington bridge by 900 feet, they were very low as they passed overhead.
A U.S. federal judge today ordered the U.S. military to release one of its first Guantanamo Bay detainees, a 21-year-old man who has been detained and accused of being a terrorist since he was 14. Mohammed el Gharani, who is of Chadian nationality but had lived in Saudi Arabia, should be released from the U.S. prison in Cuba ``forthwith," U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said in a ruling from the bench.
The military had accused el Gharani of being part of Al Qaeda, working for the Taliban and fighting American forces in Afghanistan. However, Leon said those accusations were based on testimony from other Guantanamo Bay detainees, which he found unreliable.
El Gharani listened to the ruling by telephone from Cuba but did not react.
He could be on his way home to his family in a few weeks, lawyer Zackary Katznelson said. "Judge Leon did justice today."
The government can appeal Leon's decision. "We're disappointed by the ruling and will consider our options," Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said.
This article starring:
Mohammed el Gharani
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Police in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) said on Wednesday they had arrested a militant commander leading the armed insurgency that has fought against New Delhi's rule of the region for two decades.
The arrest of Muhammad Ahsan Dar -- who founded the Hizbul Mujahideen group in 1989 and later set up a splinter group called Muslim Mujahideen -- is a major breakthrough, said officials. He was picked up in the northern district of Bandopora, senior police officer Abdul Gani Mir told reporters without saying when the arrest was made.
Mir claimed that Dar -- who served several jail terms over the last two decades -- returned to IHK last year to try to re-invigorate the violent struggle against Indian control of the Muslim-majority region.
Describing Dar as a 'prize catch', Mir said that he "was coordinating the activities of various militant outfits, including the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba (LT)" -- which has been blamed for the Mumbai attacks.
"Dar has organised various attacks on security forces and was trying to give a fresh impetus to the militant activities within the state," said Mir.
Dar was first arrested in 1989 but escaped from a hospital and went to the Pakistani side of Kashmir, said police, adding that he was again arrested in 1993 and was released after serving a six-year jail term.
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Here you go, Fred. You'll be needing one of these to go with that cheese.
Authorities on Wednesday cut off supplies to NATO and United States forces in Afghanistan via the Khyber Pass, as security forces expanded Operation Darghalam against the Taliban in Khyber Agency, officials said.
The move to shut down the route through the Tribal Areas - the main road used by NATO supply convoys - came after the southwest road to Afghanistan reopened following a five-day blockade by local tribesmen.
The security forces ordered Wednesday's closure of the Khyber Pass as they expanded the offensive, first launched about two weeks ago, to flush out the Taliban entrenched in hideouts along the road. The operation was intensified after a series of attacks on depots in and around Peshawar, in which hundreds of vehicles used to ferry supplies to NATO and US forces in Afghanistan were torched.
"The NATO supply route has been temporarily suspended," Khyber administration official Rahat Gul told AFP.
A security official told AFP the military offensive had been expanded from the town of Jamrud, the gateway to the Khyber Pass, into the neighbouring town of Landikotal, where a curfew was also imposed on Wednesday.
Landikotal residents told AFP they had been told not to leave their homes, via announcements made using the loudspeakers in local mosques. "This is the mopping-up stage of the operation," the official said, adding that the border crossing at Torkham had been sealed off, prompting the closure of the Peshawar-Torkham highway. Six homes used by the terrorists were demolished on Wednesday, he said.
Chaman: Meanwhile, police said the tribesmen ended a five-day blockade of the southwestern Chaman route into Afghanistan. The protests were staged over the killing of a local man in a drugs raid. Hundreds of trucks and tankers had been stranded since Friday along the highway between Quetta and Chaman town due to the blockade.
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Aswat al-Iraq: Police forces on Wednesday defused a motorbike rigged with explosives in the southeast of Nassiriya city, without causing any casualties or damage. "A motorbike rigged with over 2 kg of TNT explosives was defused in al-Fadliya district (15 km southeast of Nassiriya)," an official spokesperson for Thi-Qar police, Col. Sadeq al-Mashrafawi, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. The motorbike was found in light of intelligence tips from local residents, Mashrafawi noted.
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Aswat al-Iraq: A total of 46 wanted men and 19 suspects were arrested during security operations in different parts of Basra province, the media office of Basra police said on Wednesday. "Three rifles, 26 vehicles, and 11 unlicensed motorbikes were seized during the operations," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
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ISRAEL has killed one of Hamas's top leaders in Gaza, interior minister Said Siam. He is the most senior Islamist to have been killed in the 20-day-old war in the enclave.
"Leader Said Siam, his son and his brother fell as martyrs in Gaza," reported Al-Quds television, a Hamas station based in Beirut. A Hamas website confirmed the report. The three died in an Israeli airstrike on the house of Mr Siam's brother north of Gaza City.
Mr Siam belonged to the hardline wing of Hamas and had created the Executive Force, a militia that played a key role in the Islamist takeover of Gaza in June 2007.
The Israeli military confirmed the strike. "In a joint operation of the IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) and the Shin Beth (internal security) a short while ago, jets attacked a building" in Gaza while Said Siam was inside with his brother Iyad and a third person, an army spokeswoman said. "We identified hitting the target."
Siam is said to be the number three leader of Hamas in Gaza after Ismail Haniyeh and Mahmoud "Warty Nose" Zahar.
(AKI) - Palestinian and Israeli sources say two senior Hamas leaders, among them the group's Interior Minister Said Siam, were killed during an Israeli targeted assassination on Thursday.
Hamas' head of general security service Salah Abu Sharah was also killed in the airstrike, as well as the head of its military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, Mahmoud Watfah.
Six other Palestinians were also killed during the airstrike and 20 people were injured. Siam was killed while hiding at his brother's home in Gaza City. Siam's brother and his son were also killed in the airstrike. "The blood of Said Siam will be a curse on the Zionist entity," said Hamas official Mohammed Nazzal quoted by Arab TV network Al-Jazeera.
Siam and Shrakh are the most senior Hamas men to be killed in the Israeli offensive against Gaza. Siam is said to be the number three leader of Hamas in Gaza after Ismail Haniyeh and Mahmoud Zahar.
They wanted him bad. I'm pretty sure this was caused by an M-118 3000 lb. high-capacity bomb, a "Blockbuster," almost certainly a guided version (of which several types exist).
Laser-guided M-118s brought down the notorious Than Hoa bridge in North Vietnam in 1972 after peace groups and other Kremlin propagandists made documentaries boasting about its ability to survive air attack.
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This is how you should do it. Killing low-level mooks and other miscellaneous cannon fodder doesn't do much to an organization like Hamas--there's always more dupes where they came from. Kill the bastards running the show, and the donors writing checks to keep it running (hint! hint!), and the head of state of any government supporting it (hint! hint!), and you do some real damage.
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Sorry AC but "The Lovely Hole" was caused by a M-118 legion of Golden Gophers!
:)
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BTW, This is the Best News we've had all week!
It truly warms the cockles folks!
:)
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Considering all of the heads of "this and that" that were taken out at the same time, they must have had a meeting in session. Think of all the bodyguards, ect that they must have gotten as well.
Israeli warplanes have launched deadly air strikes across the beleaguered Gaza Strip, leaving at least 11 more people killed.
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Looking at the webcam in Gaza city, looks like a lot of action this morning. Lots of plumes of smoke. The microphone has been cut off now but I could hear automatic fire from both light and heavy weapons at about 11PM US Pacific time.
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Looks like Israeli smoke shells at what is probably South or Southeast of wherever that camera is located. Several smoke shells in the past hour. Must be a rather spirited fight going on.
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Forgive me for being a bit slow but it seems the Hamass overall "strategy" is simply to manipulate this whole affair into a pity party. Israel seems to finally have the international/"regional" support it has lacked in the past. It obviously ain't gonna be there for long. With the shuffling of the political deck in Tel Aviv and DC just days away, Israel seems to have the wink & the nod to finish this thing....!?
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This particular strike seems to have killed three top Hamazoids.
Here is the quote from Haaretz (evening local time 1-15-2009),
" Palestinian sources said Thursday that an Israel Air Force strike in Gaza City has killed three of Hamas' most senior officials: the group's Interior Minister, Said Siam, the head of its security apparatus, Salah Abu Shreh, and the head of its military wing, Mahmoud Watfah.
The IAF strike was on the house of Siam's brother, who was also killed. Hamas TV later confirmed that Siam had been killed.
Siam was the effective founder of the Hamas-led police force. He pushed for Hamas' bloody 2006 coup in Gaza, during which it ousted the rival Fatah faction from power. Siam was the number three behind Ismail Haniyeh and Mahmoud Zahar, and was seen by many as the most extreme of the triumvirate."
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bradeous, Hamas has two and a half objectives, I believe. First, to demonstrate to Israel and the world how bestial those Jooos are, killing and wounding innocent (by definition) Palestinian refugees. Second, to demonstrate to Israel that the only way they can exist as a nation is to be more bestial than they can accept, demoralizing them until they just curl up and die or leave, like Hizb'allah had done during the first Lebanese War back in the 1980s. Finally, that half objective, to kill as many Jooos as they can manage. And yes, they do expect the world to force Israel to exchange even more land for the remote possibility of peace; that's how it worked since 1956, and they haven't noticed that the zeitgeist has changed. Surveys done in the last few days show that some 70% of Americans support Israel in this, and believe Hamas is completely at fault and should be punished, and this is the first time there have been large pro-Israel marches around the world. I don't think President Obama will be able to push Israel toward surrender as so many of his close friends had planned, given how aware he is of such things. Nor will the Israeli electorate accept such sacrifices given the price they have been paying for the 2005 withdrawal from Gaza. Their election is in February, and the winner will have to stand by his/her hard line campaigning.
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Israel should never give up the territory they've just conquered in Gaza until Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist. That has to be part of the deal. No truce, no cease fire, no hudna, no mercy, no quarter until Hamas agrees that Israel has a right to exist.
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PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > ISRAEL MASSES ARMY TROOPS ALONG LEBANON'S BORDER [IDF fear of GAZA as begining of MULTI-FRONT WAR]???
POSTER - opined that IHO GAZA occurred because Barack Obama was successfully elected POTUS, and Israel = Tel Aviv Govt. is mostly UNCERTAIN AS TO THE BAM-MAN'S ADMIN SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL???
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday fired their first phosphorus shell into Israel, which exploded in an open area in the Eshkol area in the western Negev. No injuries or damage were reported.
Did Human Rights Watch complain?
The phosphorus shell came as Gaza militants fired at least 16 rockets at southern Israel throughout the day Wednesday, causing no casualties.
White phosphorus is not considered a chemical weapon. Militaries are permitted under laws of warfare to use it in artillery shells, bombs and rockets to create smoke screens to hide troop movements as well as bright bursts in the air to illuminate battlefields at night.
Which is how the Israelis use it.
However, the substance can cause serious burns if it touches the skin and can spark fires on the ground.
Human Rights Watch on Sunday accused Israel of firing artillery shells packed with white phosphorus over populated areas of Gaza during recent fighting, including a crowded refugee camp, putting civilians at risk.
Israel maintains that it uses munitions in complete accordance with international law.
Palestinian militants have fired at least 16 rockets into Israel since Wednesday morning, all of them hitting open areas near Ashdod, Ashkelon, Be'er Sheva and in the western Negev. Five Israelis in Ashdod were treated for shock. No injuries or damage were reported in the attacks.
More than 15 rockets were fired at Israel Tuesday, some of them during a three-hour humanitarian truce. One rocket hit an Ashkelon educational institution, causing some damage.
The Shin Bet security service said Tuesday that Palestinian militants in Gaza have fired some 565 rockets and 200 mortar shells at southern Israel since the Israel Defense Forces launched its offensive on the Hamas-ruled coastal territory on December 27 - an average of more than 30 a day.
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What Israel really should do is say, "Okay, here's the deal. We'll give Gaza 24 hours to stop firing rockets and pull out all our troops and stop the airstrikes. If a single rocket is fired after 24 hours, then we will consider a declaration of war and only accept total unconditional surrender after that. Once that rocket is fired, Gaza will cease to exist and all people ( I use that term loosely) will be removed and the land will be annexed. Gaza will no longer exist, only Israel will."
You know the vermin would fire a rocket, but it's too bad Israel doesn't have the spine it needs to end the problem forever.
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Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday fired their first phosphorus shell into Israel
We should all give thanks for how unbelievably clueless Hamas is. If they had stopped firing rockets, Israel would have stopped its offensive and Hamas may well have kept access to its tunnels and been in a position to do it all again and perhaps better in 6 or 12 months time.
The longer they keep firing rockets, the more certain the border will be effectively sealed for weapons smuggling, which means the end of Hamas in Gaza.
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Silentbrick's proposal is just plain common sense. Unfortunately, it would require an Israeli leadership capable of finding it's a$$ with the aid of both hands and a flashlight -- so it's obviously not going to happen.
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The longer they keep firing rockets, the more certain the border will be effectively sealed for weapons smuggling, which means the end of Hamas in Gaza.
Unless the ham buttocks are allowing themselves to be used as a diversion to call attention away from the bigger players, in which case, they are doing a good job of keeping the attention focused their way instead of elsewhere.
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Did Human Rights Watch complain?
From what I can tell HRW has been careful not to charge Israel with using White phosphorus (WP) as direct munitions. Which, of course, would be a violation of International protocols. They have only raised concerns regarding the potential for civilian wounds when used close to population centers. Given the fact that there were no Palestinian troops in western Negev needing cover from WP the only conclusion can be they used this as direct munitions. If confirmed this clearly would be a violation. Once again, we see the Death Culture Warriors cut off their nose to spite their face.
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Actually, the Arabs haven't done terribly with losing wars, making demands, and then getting some of what they demand. The '73 war ended with Egypt's army surrounded and facing annihilation or surrender when Russian threats helped bring about a cease-fire. The end result of losing that war was that Egypt got back the Sinai including some oil wells Israel had developed. France should really take a look at copying this 'strategy'.
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Okay, but just keep in mind that the true goal of this "Brick Doctrine" is nothing less than the United States total take over of the world. That's my goal anyway, which is why I created and belong to the Imperialist Warmonger Party! Besides, if a few countries have to be stepped on during the process, it's fine with me.
Laurence of the Rats can confirm this.
I have the Evil Overlord list, and I'm not afraid to use it!
#13
I have the Evil Overlord list, and I'm not afraid to use it!
(Big Evil Grin)
YES consider Ima on board, Mr. Evil Silentbrick Wid Red Brick poised on hand..!
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Very long ago I saw a movie where they had no bombs,(Ran out) so loaded the airplane with tons of bricks, worked like a charm.
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Maybe Hamas should read up on how Alexander the Great dealt with Gaza.
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But I've got more important things to do than run the world. (It's college application season for formerly temporary daughter, and next year it's the turn of trailing daughter #2.) Can't we just make them run themselves more or less properly instead, Silentbrick?
The Israeli army has intensified on Wednesday morning its strikes on several targets in Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, killing four Palestinians as the Israeli offensive on the enclave continues on the 19th day.
Gaza residents said that Israeli warplanes struck on Wednesday morning a house in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza City, killing one Palestinian civilian in a next door house, where 10 other people wounded.
The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) announced in a statement sent to reporters that two of its militants were also killed in an Israeli F-16 warplanes airstrike east of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah.
Another Palestinian militant, a member of the Islamic Jihad's armed wing Saraya al-Quds, was killed when an Israeli warplane struck him as he was driving a motorcycle in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, local radio reported Wednesday that Israeli warplanes fired dozens of smoke bombs on central Gaza City, adding that Gaza was covered with heavy white smoke. Gaza main central park was also badly damaged.
Back to Rafah town, residents in the town said that Israeli warplanes continued on Wednesday morning launching missiles at the borderline between the town and Egypt, adding that at least 40 missiles hit the area.
Palestinians dug hundreds of tunnels under the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt for smuggling goods from Egypt into the enclave which is under strict Israeli blockade.
On Tuesday, 48 Palestinians were killed, 11 of them were from the village of Khoza'a east of the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, where 40 houses in the village were badly damaged.
Mo'aweya Hassanein, emergency chief said on Wednesday morning that 977 Palestinians were killed and 4500 wounded since the beginning of the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip on Dec. 27, 2008.
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Hamas,no matter how this thing plays out, will continue to fire rockets into Israel and say "See, we defeated the djues" to their hopelessly ignorant followers.
Egypt and Hamas are close to a deal for a 10-day cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinian militant group in Gaza, where the death toll from the Israeli offensive exceeded 1,000, officials said Wednesday. Egyptian and Hamas officials expressed optimism that an agreement for a temporary halt in fighting could be sealed soon and presented to Israel. But even if all sides sign on, further talks will be needed to resolve contentious disputes over policing Gaza's borders and ensure a longer-term truce.
"We're working with Hamas and we're working with the Israeli side. We hope to reach an outcome soon," Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki told the British Broadcasting Corp.
Nine Israeli human rights groups accused the army of endangering Gazan civilians and called for a war crimes investigation. The groups wrote to Israeli leaders that the Gaza campaign has left civilians with nowhere to flee. Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Israel supports freedom of expression, even if an opinion "is not based on any solid evidence and even if it is tainted with political bias."
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Barak wants a 10-day truce, because he wants to be seen as a peac-maker.
Olmert doesnt want such a truce, he wants to continue the antiterrorist operation.
Hamas does not want changes to the 'broad outlines' of an Egyptian-brokered truce plan for Gaza, one of the group's leaders said on Wednesday, without accepting the plan outright.
"President Hosni Mubarak's vision is the only one that was proposed, we do not ask for any amendment to its broad outlines," Salah Al-Bardawil told journalists in Cairo.
He said that Hamas had "presented to the Egyptian leadership our detailed vision", despite the fact that Egyptian and Spanish diplomats said Hamas had accepted the plan.
The vision will be put to senior Israeli defence official Amos Gilad when he visits Cairo on Thursday.
"Each party has the right to propose its vision in detail. We have in this framework proposed detailed visions and mechanisms," Bardawil said.
"Egypt will discuss it" with Israel, he said. "We have no differences with Egypt, which is a mediator, but with the Zionist enemy." A senior Egyptian diplomat earlier said Hamas had accepted the plan and would see what Israel's reaction was on Thursday.
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos also told reporters in Jerusalem earlier that Hamas had accepted the Egyptian initiative. "Hamas is going to publicly express its support and acceptance," Moratinos, the European Union's former Middle East envoy, told reporters.
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I wonder if Hamass' interpretation of broad outlines is the same as mine.
Government forces have seized a final strip of land from Tamil Tiger rebels in a key northern peninsula of Sri Lanka, securing control of the symbolic heart of the 25-year separatist insurgency, the military said.
The defense secretary, meanwhile, accused some journalists of being "terrorists" trying to save the rebel group from the brink of defeat.
The military took full control Wednesday of the northern Jaffna peninsula, the cultural capital of Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamil minority, leaving the rebels in control of only one remaining district.
The peninsula was fully secured when soldiers captured Chundikkulam village, military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said. Last week, troops captured the Elephant Pass base, the insurgents' final stronghold on the peninsula. Nanayakkara said the rebels retreated with their dead and that the military did not suffer any casualties.
Rebel officials could not be reached for comment.
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The Sri Lanka way is the only way to fight a war to ensure peace - crush your enemies. Israel needs to do the same thing to Gaza. It's time for the Arab world to accept that Israel is not going away, and start integrating the "palestinian" arabs into their midst - including those from Gaza and the West Bank.
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A spokeswoman for Guantanamo's war court says a Sudanese detainee held at the offshore U.S. prison has been arraigned.
A Russian warship helped foil a pirate attack on a Dutch container ship in the dangerous Gulf of Aden, a maritime watchdog and the Russian navy said Wednesday.
Police in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) said on Wednesday they had arrested a militant commander leading the armed insurgency that has fought against New Delhi's rule of the region for two decades. 
Authorities on Wednesday cut off supplies to NATO and United States forces in Afghanistan via the Khyber Pass, as security forces expanded Operation Darghalam against the Taliban in Khyber Agency, officials said.
Aswat al-Iraq: Police forces on Wednesday defused a motorbike rigged with explosives in the southeast of Nassiriya city, without causing any casualties or damage. "A motorbike rigged with over 2 kg of TNT explosives was defused in al-Fadliya district (15 km southeast of Nassiriya)," an official spokesperson for Thi-Qar police, Col. Sadeq al-Mashrafawi, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. The motorbike was found in light of intelligence tips from local residents, Mashrafawi noted.
ISRAEL has killed one of Hamas's top leaders in Gaza, interior minister 
Six other Palestinians were also killed during the airstrike and 20 people were injured. Siam was killed while hiding at his brother's home in Gaza City. Siam's brother and his son were also killed in the airstrike. "The blood of Said Siam will be a curse on the Zionist entity," said Hamas official 
Hamas does not want changes to the 'broad outlines' of an Egyptian-brokered truce plan for Gaza, one of the group's leaders said on Wednesday, without accepting the plan outright.
Government forces have seized a final strip of land from Tamil Tiger rebels in a key northern peninsula of Sri Lanka, securing control of the symbolic heart of the 25-year separatist insurgency, the military said.
