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In what MMORPG you play games?
On this site rantburg.com I was registered more recently and consequently wished to learn from local users in what MMORPG games they play.
Recently has found a good site where is much MMORPG games.
Site popular, who is possible that it already knows - www.prommorpg.com, there are such games as Rising Force Online (RF Online), LineAge II, Perfect World, World of Warcraft.
Give with you we will discuss who from you in what games plays.
Probably being on yours rantburg.com I will find the same players as well as I.
Kyrgystan will order the closure of a US military airbase used to support operations in Afghanistan "in a matter of days" under pressure from Russia, a senior Kyrgyz official told AFP.
"The presidential decree on the annulment of the agreement with the United States is already prepared. In a matter of days it will be published in the Kyrgyz media," the official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The official said Russia had urged Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev to announce the closure of the base in exchange for financial help to the cash-strapped Central Asian nation.
Russian officials have discussed extending Kyrgyzstan a 300-million-dollar (225-million-euro) loan as well as 1.7 billion dollars of investment in the energy sector of the ex-Soviet republic.
"In exchange for such a large loan the Kremlin asked Bakiyev to voice the decision about the pull-out of the US airbase from Kyrgyzstan before his official visit to Moscow," the official said.
Bakiyev's press service has said he will visit Moscow on February 3.
Russia has sought the closure of the base, which is a symbol of US influence in post-Soviet Central Asia, a region long dominated by Moscow.
Kyrgyz officials said in December that they were preparing to close the base, located at Manas outside the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, but the United States denied that there were any plans to do so.
The base is home to about 1,200 foreign military personnel, mainly from the United States, and acts as a staging post for operations in Afghanistan, located to the south.
It was opened after the September 11, 2001 attacks to support US-led operations in Afghanistan.
In recent months there have been a number of street demonstrations demanding the closure of the base, which is next to the country's main international airport.
There have been tensions with the local population. A US guard shot dead a Kyrgyz truck driver in 2006 in what US officials said was self-defence.
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USAF base commander, please destroy the plumbing and HVAC, remove the light bulbs, and contaminate the AV fuel storage tanks prior to your departure.
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Kyrgyzstan to close US airbase 'in a matter of days'
Lone Ranger#3 Yeah - I wonder why the US would be getting the bum's rush on or about January 20th, 2009 .......????
Spusosh the Prolific6862Here comes that test Slow Joe was talking about.
I Concur:
Look for a bucket or'Hi-Test Bull Shitte from every Gubmint streaching from Russia, EUropeanons, United Nations, the Horn of Africa, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, SA and the fuxxing Ottoman Empire.
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Dutch troops have begun a major operation in the Baluchi Valley in the Afghan province of Uruzgan, according to defence ministry reports. The offensive is being carried out jointly with Afghan and Australian forces. Around 800 troops are participating in the operation, which is named Tura Ghar, or Sabre Mountain.
Several platoons have entered the area since Saturday, supported by fighter aircraft, helicopter gunships and supply helicopters. According to first reports, the troops have met with "limited resistance". One Australian and two Dutch vehicles struck roadside bombs, but there were no casualties. In a separate incident, seven Afghan soldiers were wounded.
The Baluchi Valley, which lies around 20 kilometres north of Tarin Kowt, is a Taliban stronghold. The defence ministry says the objective is to bring the area under ISAF and Afghan government control.
A suicide car bomb attack killed five people including one American soldier on a heavily guarded road between a US military base and the German Embassy in the Afghan capital.
Separately, a US service member died Saturday when militants fired at a CH-47 transport helicopter and it made a "hard landing" in eastern Kunar province, the US military said.
In a third attack Saturday, a suicide bomber in a minivan charged a convoy of NATO troops and Afghan police in eastern Nangarhar province, killing one civilian and wounding three others, said Ghafor Khan, a spokesman for the provincial police chief. He said three police were also wounded.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bomb attack in Kabul and said German military officers were the targets. A spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin said "some personnel" were wounded in the blast, but he did not give numbers. He said they had no reports of deaths.
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Army troops last Friday, have eliminated 2 terrorists and injured 2 in a trap they set at Meziraa municipality 70km eastern Biskra southern province.
According to a local security source, a citizen has informed the Army troops based in the mountain of Ahmer Khedou, and across some isolated villages, about the recurrent visits of terrorist groups, which obliged each shepherd living through these villages paying them 20 thousand AD. Relying on this information, the Army troops set an ambush against a terrorist group composed of 4 elements. The Army troops eliminated 2, and injured 2 seriously, they have managed escaping.
The security services' units have opened an investigation to determine the identities the terrorists' identities. 1 of them is suspected of being a Mauritanian terrorist, added the same source, adding that in the Army troops have been targeted by a bomb explosion in their way back to the camp, 5 troops resulted injured.
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The terror organization, yesterday, has posted in e-forums, specialized in promoting Al-Qaeda thoughts, an audio record of Droukdel, in which he announces that the next targets of his organization are the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania as well as US and European interests in the 5 Maghreb countries in addition to Mali and Niger.
Droukdel said such escalation is as response to the Zionist aggression against Gaza Strip in the occupied Palestine, adding he wishes he and his men were in Gaza to defend "our brothers, sisters and children," yet, he invoked "barriers which prevent us reaching you."
He further incited devotees at the armed Salafiste groups in Mauritania to target Israel's Embassy in Nouakchott, saying: "Clearing Mauritania out from impurity of the Israeli flag fluttering on its sky, chasing Jews away and closing down their Embassy, is a debt on our shoulders and we have to give our all to pay it back or die."
The Israeli Embassy in Mauritania had already been targeted by Al-Qaeda last year. The attack injured several people, including two French nationals working in the Embassy.
This article starring:
Abdelmalek Droukdel
Abu Musaab Abdelouadoud
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A demonstration in London against Israeli attacks on Gaza ended in violence after protesters looted and damaged shops, police said. Scotland Yard is investigating the damage, which was thought to be targeted at coffee shop chain Starbucks for the second week running.
The CEO of Starbucks is American. And Jewish.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "(It) is believed to be two branches of Starbucks, one in Shaftesbury Avenue, junction with Rupert Street and one in Piccadilly. Windows have been smashed and shops looted."
The spokesman, who stressed the trouble was caused by a small minority, said officers contained a group of up to 200 people in Piccadilly which they believed was making its way to the Israeli Embassy in Kensington High Street. And about 40 people were contained in Hyde Park to prevent a further breach of the peace, he added.
Commander Bob Broadhurst, in charge of public order policing for the Met, said: "Once again what we have witnessed in London is a group of thugs, who are not interested in lawful protest, run through the streets smashing shops without care for the alarm they caused the public.
"Thousands of people expressed their views in an earlier, lawful, rally in Trafalgar Square...What followed was totally unacceptable criminal behaviour by a small minority who do not appear to care about any cause. Their behaviour was inexcusable as they took part in wanton criminality."
The violence followed demonstrations by thousands of protesters, who waved banners demanding an end to the attacks on Gaza and chanted "Free. Free Palestine". The Met said 3,500 gathered in Trafalgar Square in central London, while organisers of a rally in Birmingham said more than 5,000 people turned up.
An Israeli flag was set alight at the rally outside Birmingham's Council House in Victoria Square.
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Ya know, I don't like what China does in Tibet, but it never occured to me to trash my local chow mein joint.
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Yesterday, in central Paris, there were around 5.000 people demonstrating against Israel and for Hamas.
I watched them : 6 Hezbollah flags, 1 Hamas flag, "kill those nazis [the Israelis] !", "Hamas will win", Israeli flag burnt, "Stop the Israeli holocaust !", etc.
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"Once again what we, as a "police force", have witnessedallowed to happen in London is a group of thugs, who are not interested in lawful protest, run through the streets smashing shops, without care and therefore the MET are responsible for the alarm they caused the public.
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I don't like what China does in Tibet, but it never occured to me to trash my local chow mein joint.
At first I just laughed, then Ima think WTF, he's right. However, it's physically impossible for me to live without BlackBeens and Rice, Fried Bannas and Mullet. I mean, I would if I could, but I can't, so I won't not.
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Leroidavid and the rest of Rantburg's foreign correspondents, should you decide to come to the States, let us know -- whatever your field, someone here will stand ready to sponsor you and your family.
Europe isn't already lost to Muslims, but the situation is pretty bad, and it's not going to improve if Europeans don't wake up fast.
Friday, I met Tom Trento (https://www.watchobsession.org/) and some of his friends in Paris. He is visiting Old Europe to assess the Islamic threat.
And yesterday, I went with them to watch the anti-Israel pro-Hamas demonstration. They filmed it with their video cameras. They will make public their videos when they are back in the States.
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All populations should learn from these examples. Being put in positions of danger and attacks is ONLY possible when you ALLOW your communist governments to disarm the citizenry. The police will NEVER defend you, your family or your property from harm. Only YOU can do this. They will show after the fact. After the harm. After the damage. The prototype for reaction is Los Angeles during the Rodney King after trial riots. Chief Darrell Gates purposely withdrew all police from the streets. The LAFD couldn't go on calls, because they were under attack. The riots kept expanding into nothing more than outright looting and destruction. Stores were cleaned out. The thugs were smiling and shouting. They moved along, heading northward toward downtown and westward toward Beverly Hills. They found themselves at Koreatown. These folks were not about to allow themselves to be wiped out. They brought out their arms. They stood their ground. They dropped the looters in waves. Unfortunately, most of the thugs were only wounded. The looting stopped. Upon being confronted with deadly force, they reconsidered. No thanks to the cops. Learn the lesson or be overrun. There is no middle ground.
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Until Europe understands that the only law muslims understand is brute force, they will continue to be targeted and abused. Setting up a machine gun on an armored personnel carrier and cutting loose when the riot begins would do wonders at reducing further riots. It's pure Genghes Khan, but that's the only thing muslims respect. If you DON'T do it, they'll walk all over you. The "rule of law" means nothing to them unless it's Sharia law, and not much even then.
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"Once again what we have witnessed in London is a group of thugs, who are not interested in lawful protest, run through the streets smashing shops without care for the alarm they caused the public."
Yeah, Commander, it's simply appalling. Someone should call the friggin' police.
What you say about LA applies to other periods of US history as well. From what I've read, Jim Crow statutes disarmed African-Americans in some jurisdictions, allowing the Klan to make mischief.
I'm not a gun nut but I do believe the 2nd Amendment is as important as the 1st. The Right of Self Defense is the most fundamental human right and is what every other right derives from.
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Well, in France, you are not allowed to carry a gun, you are not allowed to carry a knife, you are even not allowed to carry a mace spray (is it the right word ?).
You are just allowed to call the police once you have been attacked, hurt, or killed...
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A shotgun or two in those Starbucks stores with one or two good men who know what to do and there would have been no damages. It might not be Starbucks policy. But I remember during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles there were some Korean owned stores that were spared from the looting their neighbors suffered because the owners had men with rifles standing guard on the rooftops.
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#12 Well, in France, you are not allowed to carry a gun, you are not allowed to carry a knife, you are even not allowed to carry a mace spray (is it the right word ?).
"why yes, I'm a carpenter. That's why I had that fortuitous framing hammer nearby"
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Chief Darrell Gates purposely withdrew all police from the streets.
Gates withdrew the police to 'bases' because he was not given the authority to take measures to protect his officers. Part of it was due to his poor relationship with Mayor Tom Bradley, and a good part of it was due to the mayor's dithering.
Koreatown wasn't just 'next on the list'. Korean shops were targeted by the African-American community from the get-go.
Biggest non-surprise was West Hollywood; they couldn't understand why they were the target of rioters after all support they'd given the Afican-American and Latino communities.
Which leaves the lesson that a government which is either sympathetic or 'sensitive' to a particular group or groups is going to fail in its duty to protect the citizenry.
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Indeed, Pappy. Bradley was the black hole at the center of that mess. The riots not all that long after we left LA but it wasn't hard to predict something of this sort while he was mayor and Gates was chief.
A senior Muslim civil servant has launched an astonishing verbal onslaught against the Government over its response to Israel's military strikes in Gaza - and has suggested that killing British troops in Iraq is justified.
Treasury official Azad Ali, president of the Civil Service Islamic Society, now faces the sack over the remarks.
Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell - who is the patron of the society - acted immediately after being alerted to the comments by The Mail on Sunday. Shortly after this newspaper contacted the Cabinet Office, a senior official disclosed that Mr Ali had been suspended for the remarks made on his personal internet blog. In it he:
Quotes an Islamic extremist who says it is his 'obligation' to kill British and American soldiers in Iraq;
Accuses the Government of failing to condemn the 'Zionist terrorist state of Israel'; and
Attacks moderate British Muslims as 'self-serving vultures, feeding on the dead flesh of the Palestinians'.
The Treasury lists Mr Ali's title as 'Business Partner'. He is understood to work as an IT administrator.
On the Civil Service Islamic Society's official website, Mr Ali declares that it is bound by strict rules that say Whitehall special-interest groups must be 'non-partisan and non-political' and act with 'honesty, impartiality and integrity'.
But there is no such restraint on his personal blog, which highlights his civil service role and provides a link to its Whitehall website.
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Suspended??????? How about suspended from the gallows?
Six detainees were released from the U.S. military's detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Department of Defense said Saturday. Four of the men were transferred to Iraq, one to Algeria and one to Afghanistan, a military spokesman said.
They're going to wish they were back at Gitmo ...
They had each been detained at Guantanamo for "several years," according to the military. None of them was charged with a crime.
"The transfer is a demonstration of the United States' desire not to hold detainees any longer than necessary," said a Department of Defense statement. "It also underscores the processes put in place to assess each individual and make a determination about their detention while hostilities are ongoing, an unprecedented step in the history of warfare."
The detainees were among 60 whom the United States has decided to release. Those remaining have not been cleared for release as the government negotiates their return with their home countries.
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I hope they were "released" from several thousand feet. Over big rocks or small mountains. Without a parachute. In their Gitmo garb.
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The beheaded body of a faith healer, abducted on Friday, was found in the Mattani area of Peshawar on Saturday, police officials said. That's a pretty tough one to heal.
Pir Rafiullah, resident of Said Gul Abad area in Pabbi town, Nowshera district, was abducted by four armed men on Friday, locals told Daily Times. A police official at the Mattani police station said the body was recovered from Frontier Road near Juma Khur. He said a letter, written in Pushto, was found near the body, warning that those involved in the business of faith healing would meet the same fate.
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warning that those involved in the business of faith healing would meet the same fate.
Everyone knows true healing begins with eating passages of the koran. The liquids with which prayers are written are rose, water, musk, saffron, ink, honey, the juice of mint, the juice of the white grape and grease. Rain water, spring water, water from a well that is low, or water which has been caught from a drain-pipe may be used to wash the written prayers. Usually this water is given to drink to the person who is concerned; and not infrequently the prayer itself, as the paper upon which the verse was written is called, must be eaten. Sometimes the water is poured over the person's head as he faces Mecca.
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"The liquids with which prayers are written are rose, water, musk, saffron, ink, honey, the juice of mint, the juice of the white grape and grease. Rain water, spring water, water from a well that is low, or water which has been caught from a drain-pipe may be used to wash the written prayers. Usually this water is given to drink to the person who is concerned; and not infrequently the prayer itself, as the paper upon which the verse was written is called, must be eaten. Sometimes the water is poured over the person's head as he faces Mecca."
Ah, yes - Islamic "science."
These clowns actually like living in the Dark Ages.
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Unidentified men blew up a government girls' high school in Norar area of the Bannu district, late on Friday. Authorities later recovered and defused three home-made bombs, planted in the school premises by the assailants.
A resident of Norar said the huge explosion destroyed a major part of the school's building. Following the blast, a heavy contingent of police reached the school and recovered the three unexploded bombs while they searched the building. Paramilitary forces assisted the police in defusing the bombs.
Meanwhile, a Taliban was killed and a policeman injured when the Taliban attacked a mobile van of Khanumai police station in Charsadda.
Meanwhile, the Taliban also attacked Battagram police station using hand grenades and rocket launchers, slightly damaging the station's building. In the first incident, the police mobile van was on its routine patrol when it came under fire by over a dozen Taliban, resulting in multiple injuries to police official Riaz. A Taliban was killed when the police retaliated, while the rest managed to escape. No casualties were reported in the Taliban attack on the police station.
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and the National Organization for Liberal Women is outraged.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that Israel has no intention to stay in the Gaza Strip or to reconquer it, despite its three-week offensive on the Hamas-ruled coastal territory.
Israel late Saturday declared a unilateral cease-fire in its offensive. The declaration was followed by a separate truce announcement from Hamas.
Olmert told European leaders visiting Jerusalem on Sunday evening that in the wake of the cease-fire, Israel planned to withdraw all of its troops as soon as possible. He said that such a move would come when the situation between Israel and Gaza was "stable."
"We didn't set out to conquer Gaza, we didn't set out to control Gaza, we don't want to remain in Gaza and we intend on leaving Gaza as fast as possible", Olmert said at a dinner with the leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Spain.
He also expressed sorrow over the deaths of civilians in Gaza, calling them hostages of the Hamas murders and vowed to prevent a humanitarian crisis in the territory.
He thanked the Europeans for their support in mediating a truce between Israel and Hamas, Olmert grades on a generous curve and also believes that the Euros need to be complimented to be avoid becoming even more cowardly than they are now
and for it committment I must have missed this committment
to end the smuggling of weapons into the Gaza Strip.
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Behind the scenes, Rahm to Tzipi: Azru Li here, let's see if we can make this go away before The One takes office and he's forced to take a stand on it....ie, military aid, financial support, etc. You get my drift?
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"Commitment" : the Europeans are ready to say anything to end a justified antiterrorist Israeli operation, and to help Hamas rebuild its terrorist infrastructure and fire again rockets on "those Jews"...
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Personally I don't think it is a good idea to back off when Israel has 'em on the ropes.
However, it would give Israel the chance to refit and rearm, assess targets etc. If Hamas launches rockets again Israel would have the political coverage to restart missions. That is, out hudna the hudna...or they could be just saying it to see if any big gophers pop up for a peek. IMHO the only way to decidedly defeat Hamas would be to pound the crap out of them so bad that the regular people rise against Hamas.
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Darn. It's only a potential Darwin award.
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Looks more like an F-16 centerline fuel tank to me. It's too big to be an artillery shell and doesn't have the dimensions of most bombs. Besides, Israel has been using guided munitions, not free-fall bombs.
The people around it are still idiots (they're palestinians, for Pete's sake!).
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Lay off guys! Don't you know this is Palestinian TV programming: "Who wants to be a Martyr?"
Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal announced on Syrian television on Sunday afternoon about 800 am EST
that the Islamic group would implement a cease-fire in which they would halt all military activity and give IDF troops one week to pull out of the Gaza Strip.
A leader of the Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip said that his group agreed to the Hamas truce, and said that other smaller Palestinian factions have signed on, as well.
On Saturday, Hamas said it would continue to fight despite Israel's decision unilaterally end the offensive. However, defiant statements issued by a number of Hamas representatives were countered by sources close to the movement that would be Hamas sources in Gaza
which said the group would honor the cease-fire.
"Hamas needs the lull," the sources said. "They have been hit hard and they have no choice but to comply." Declaration seems to be low on triumphalistic slogans
PALESTINIAN militants have announced a one-week ceasefire today after Israel called a unilateral halt to its massive offensive on Gaza, as medics pulled dozens of bodies from the rubble of bombed-out homes.
After exchanges of gunfire and an air strike punctured what Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert acknowledged was a "fragile'' ceasefire, Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas and other armed groups said they would silence their guns for the next seven days to give Israeli troops a chance to withdraw from the territory.
"We in the Palestinian resistance movements announce a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and demand that enemy forces withdraw in a week and open all the border crossings to permit the entry of humanitarian aid and basic goods,'' Mussa Abu Marzuk, the deputy leader of Hamas's politburo, said in Damascus.
Dawud Shihab, a Gaza-based spokesman for Islamic Jihad, a smaller armed faction, said the truce will provide an opportunity for Arab governments to put pressure on Israel to withdraw all its troops.
"During this period, the resistance is ready to respond to all efforts by the Egyptians, Turks, Syrians and Arabs that will allow for a total withdrawal of Israeli soldiers and the total opening of border crossings,'' he said.
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"Hamas needs the lull," the sources said. "They have been hit hard and they have no choice but to comply."
Hit 'em hard again, damn it! Now is NOT the time to let up.
They want a one week cease-fire? And what then? Do they start with the rockets again? They didn't say, did they? All they say is that the Juice are supposed to withdraw. Screw 'em. No deal.
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Just heard on the TV news (CBS, I think. I was in the other room.) that there were rocket attacks this morning and Israeli officials admitted the cease-fire appeared to be "fragile". So what, exactly, was the object of Operation Cast Lead if not to stop the rockets?
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Sorry to appear so hawkish, here, I'm usually not. Really. And I'm quite positive the Israeli cabinet knows more than I do. But what is the point of starting a war and getting a whole bunch of people killed if you're not prepared to finish it? You might as well not start it at all and just resign yourself to the fact that these idiots are gonna fire their rockets from time to time.
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That was the purpose. But the cease fire allows The One to be inaugurated without media competition, an opportunity for him to condemn Hamas if they keep firing, and an excuse for Israel to resume in a week and go after Hamas once and for all, if they've got the stones. Think of a hudna that allows Israel to re-arm on the battlefield that really counts, American public opinion.
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Hamas Declares One Week Cease Fire Lull While They Re-arm
There - fixed.
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The seven day period works to the advantage of Israel is several ways. It gives the IDF to do a lot of intel work. It gives Israel a chance to see if Egypt to assimilate some American technology and demonstrate tunnels detection. Furthermore with the IDF emplaced near Gaza city, Hamas isn't going to be able to do very much in the way of resupply (other than accessing some prepostioned material if they have any left).
Israel could also use this time to attach long term monitoring devices in Hamas tunnels, pre position remotely controlled explosives at key points, etc.
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This cease-fire is another proof that Olmert & Co are disgusting incompetents.
The Israelis are furious concerning this decision :
"2:48 PM Israel public opinion is against the "cease-fire". In a Israel TV Channel 2 poll conducted today, 64% of Israelis are against the cease-fire, 27% in favor, and 8% undecided."
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interesting how there are no textbooks, no desks, nor school furnishings in the wreckage remodeling photos. Ima guessing "Kill The Jooooos" was pretty much the entire curriculum, along with minor courses offering "Kill Fatah too"
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There were many other courses taught in this Islamic University :
- "How to shoot Fatah members in the legs" ;
- "How to rape Christian nuns" ;
- "How to kill young unmarried couples who are kissing in public" ;
- "How to behead the American-Zionazi Mickey Mouse" ;
- "What to do after you committed a suicide bombing, when you arrive to heaven and discover the 72 virgins are in reality 72 lustful boys" ;
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"What to do after you committed a suicide bombing, when you arrive to heaven and discover the 72 virgins are in reality 72 treasurers of their high school dungeons and dragons club" ;
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to fire rockets at the western Negev on Saturday evening, despite a cabinet decision that the IDF would halt their fire from 2 a.m. Sunday. At least seven rockets were fired after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced the unilateral cease-fire, with one Grad-type rocket causing power outages in Ashdod.
Rockets also hit Ashkelon and Beersheba. No casualties were reported in the attack, however many suffered shock.
On Saturday afternoon, Hamas exploited a humanitarian lull in IDF activity to fire two rockets at Beersheba. The projectiles hit in open areas, causing no injuries or damage. Kiryat Gat was also targeted by rockets that struck open areas during the afternoon.
During the evening, officials from the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council reported hearing three explosions near a kibbutz; no injuries or damage was reported.
Throughout the day, the agricultural regional councils of Eshkol, Sdot Negev and Sha'ar Hanegev were all struck by rockets. No injuries or damage were reported.
Four mortar shells were fired at Eshkol shortly after noon. Earlier, a rocket hit outside a kibbutz in the Sha'ar Hanegev region.
Ofakim and Netivot were targeted by four rockets in the morning, with one rocket damaging a synagogue in Tifrah, near Ofakim. The building was empty due to a break in morning prayers and no one was wounded, although two people were treated for shock. Heavy damage to the structure was reported.
Gaza-belt communities released a statement on Saturday evening expressing support for Operation Cast Lead while also backing diplomatic contacts aimed at reaching a cease-fire. "We have carried the burden of the threat of terrorism for eight years, and hold in esteem the [military] operation that has been under way over the past three weeks against the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza," the statement said.
Meanwhile, the Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheba said seven-year-old Uriel Elazarov remained in critical condition. On Thursday, a piece of rocket shrapnel penetrated his skull.
The condition of a 43-year-old woman also seriously wounded in Thursday's attack has improved, hospital officials added, saying she had left the intensive care unit in moderate condition.
On Friday, Grad rockets fired from Gaza hit Kiryat Gat, wounding three people and causing heavy damage. Others were treated for shock following the attack.
Ashdod was also targeted by two Grad rockets on Friday afternoon. One rocket struck the yard of a home, wounding one man moderately and one man lightly. They were evacuated to Rehovot's Kaplan Hospital. The second projectile hit a factory in the city, causing heavy damage but no casualties. At least one man was treated for shock.
Twenty-three rockets and mortar shells were fired at Israel on Friday.
Soldiers and civilians in the South described the rockets fire over the weekend as routine.
Though Sderot seemed a ghost town on Saturday, on Friday it was flooded with people who came from across the country to show support and to do their Shabbat shopping. "We wanted to feel the atmosphere here from up close," said Shimon Nagar, an Israeli who has been living in New York for 40 years. He arrived in Israel a few days ago, and together with two of his friends came to Sderot to demonstrate solidarity.
One of Nagar's friends, Shmuel Levy from Herzliya, described himself as a leftist, "and even a communist." He supported continuing the offensive against Hamas. "It is either peace or war. In war as in war, but peace will win eventually," Levy said, before the three friends drove to the best lookout into Gaza.
Three couples from Tel Aviv, Ness Ziona and Rishon Lezion ate felafel near the Sderot outdoor market, which remained closed on Friday. They said they has decided to do all their shopping in the town.
"This is our first time here and we decided to support the people of Sderot and the area economically and to show them our love," said Billy Shapira from Tel Aviv.
"Two of my children who are serving in the army asked me to buy things for them here, too, and that's what we did," Ariela Cohen from Rishon Lezion said.
Late on Saturday morning many soldiers and Sderot residents were hanging around the Kfar Aza Café/convenience store. "I just came back home after three weeks in Eilat," Sderot man Pini Asido told his friends. "I thought it would be over by now, but it isn't," he said. "But don't get me wrong. I am not complaining, we have been waiting for this for eight years."
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nice to see that the ceasefire is working out so well
/puke
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The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Saturday that three workers kidnapped on a southern Philippine island were still alive. Spokeswoman Anna Nelson said the three telephoned colleagues on Friday, a day after they were abducted by motorcycle-riding gunmen on southern Jolo island, and said they were unharmed. She gave no other details, but Richard Gordon, head of the Philippine National Red Cross Society, said they had "proof of life, but no demands, so far".
The US-trained Philippine troops searching for the hostages in the jungles of Jolo have been hampered by monsoon rains and thick vegetation.
Tamil Tigers killed 51 Sri Lankan soldiers in fierce fighting in the island's north, a pro-rebel website reported on Saturday. The military, however, denied dozens of troops died and said 20 insurgents were killed.
About 150 soldiers were also wounded in clashes near Dharmapuram village in the Tamil-dominated north after the military launched an offensive Friday, TamilNet quoted the rebels' media unit as saying. Releasing pictures, the website also said LTTE fighters seized weapons after fighting ended.
However, military spokesman Brig Udaya Nanayakkara said 20 rebels and seven soldiers were killed in the clashes.
It was not possible to verify the battle details and the two sides are known to exaggerate casualties suffered by each other while downplaying their own losses.
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and i claim to be the pope..
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Four Iranians have been convicted and sentenced in an alleged US-backed plot to topple the government, the country's official news agency reported Saturday.
The IRNA news agency said Teheran's Revolutionary Court sentenced the four to jail on charges of trying to overthrow the Islamic government with the alleged support of the US State Department and the CIA.
The report quoted a court statement as saying the Iranians are now in jail, but did not provide any further details, including the length of the sentences or the men's names.
On Tuesday, a judiciary spokesman, Ali Reza Jamshidi, said the four were detained and tried in Teheran. He said they planned to recruit others to be trained in anti-Iranian activities abroad.
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Oh. A US-backed plot to overthrow the government of Iran. Because it only takes four US-trained plotters to overthrow the Mullahcracy, compared to the tens of thousands of Shiite fanatics it took to overthrow the Shah, back in 1979. Perhaps the Iranians should spend more time ferreting out the American-made spy squirrels?
A PRESUMED member of Al-Qaeda threatened Germany with reprisals for its presence in Afghanistan in a video made public late on Saturday by the US centre for surveillance of Islamist sites (SITE).
In the 30-minute video message, an individual calling himself Abu Talha Al-Alamani said the Germans were "gullible and naive" if they thought they could "escape unscathed when they are the third occupation force in Afghanistan."
"Letting me blow myself up in the name of Allah has been my wish since 1993," said the man whose face was hidden by a black turban, adding: "Time is running out for the Germans. I say to the German people 'arise and become just again'."
SITE said the video, in German with Arabic subtitles, had been produced by Al-Qaeda's production unit As-Sahab and was dated October 2008. Its authenticity had not been verified.
The message, headed "The Plan to Save Germany," went on: "The world economic crisis has hit the pride of the Germans head-on". Any rescue plan would be useless for as long as Berlin continued to keep soldiers in Afghanistan.
If it withdrew its troops, "the hopes of the government can perhaps be satisfied," said Alamani, adding that "there are not only lives at stake, but also jobs" as "a champion exporter is also vulnerable away from home."
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One Q-Ship on the Waaaay.
Q-Ship:
1 oz vodka
1 oz tequila
1 oz rum
1 oz gin
1 oz triple sec
1 1/2 oz sweet and sour mix
1 splash Coca-Cola
pour over ice, shake, & serve
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These thugs don't mind killing innocent women and children, even in Muslim lands, but Germany having a couple of thousand people sitting on their butts in Afghanistan torques their turbans. These people need to find a life. Islam is beginning to look more and more like a living death, rather than a 'religion'.
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Islam is beginning to look more and more like a living death, rather than a 'religion'.
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A suicide car bomb attack killed five people including one American soldier on a heavily guarded road between a US military base and the German Embassy in the Afghan capital. 
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Six detainees were released from the U.S. military's detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Department of Defense said Saturday. Four of the men were transferred to Iraq, one to Algeria and one to Afghanistan, a military spokesman said.
Unidentified men blew up a government girls' high school in Norar area of the Bannu district, late on Friday. Authorities later recovered and defused three home-made bombs, planted in the school premises by the assailants.
Four Iranians have been convicted and sentenced in an alleged US-backed plot to topple the government, the country's official news agency reported Saturday. 
