FLAT+CHESTED+REDHEADS Wonder if they found what they were looking for? (Third drawer on the left, between the Naked Blondes and the Orientals in Heat.)
Never know *what* I'm going to find on this site. Sheesh. Gotta go clean the keyboard again.
Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee faced criticism from friends and foes alike as pressure mounted on him to crack down on his party's traditional Hindu fundamentalist supporters. Though the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) backed down from a controversial plan to carry around the country the ashes of its supporters killed in religious violence, Vajpayee's coalition partners pushed him to do more to rein them in. Vajpayee, whose Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) comes from the same ideological family as the VHP, met his allies in the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to try to end a political storm over India's worst communal bloodshed in a decade.
Vajpayee's allies were also incensed by a statement last weekend by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) which said minority Muslims must understand their safety lay in the goodwill of the majority. The RSS, or National Volunteer Corps, the ideological parent of the VHP and BJP, said it stood by its statement. "It is a statement of fact. We all have to live together," RSS head K.S. Sudarshan told reporters. It's a statement of fact that Vajpayee is ugly, too. Why would you bring it up unless you wanted to get a rise out of him?
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On Friday, a 14-member RSS delegation led by its chief K S Sudarshan met with heads of churches and other Christian institutions for more than three hours at the United Theological College in Bangalore. We doubt their sincerity, but go ahead...
Sudarshan blamed the media for labelling the RSS as anti-minority. "The RSS has been depicted as a militant, uncompromising, anti-Christian, anti-Muslim outfit thanks to the media," he told Christian leaders who had expressed fears about their safety."The RSS is a socio-cultural organisation wedded to the all-round development of the nation by consolidating the Hindu society. Hinduism is not a religion but a way of life. It is a commonwealth of religions," the RSS chief said. The only exceptions are Muslims. And Christians. And Buddhists. And Jains. And Bah'ais. And...
But he came down heavily on the controversial conversion issue arguing it was creating a split between the two communities. "We have to solve all pinpricks," he said. "Conversion is the biggest pinprick as it has political overtones. Your (Christian) humanitarian and hospital work is good but there is a lurking doubt that the purpose is evangelisation." Well, yeah. That's true. Even just doing good works for their own sake will result in a certain number of the beneficiaries joining up. The more the help comes from the heart, the higher the numbers. Christians don't go in much for forced conversions anymore, though. They discovered that even if you hold a gun to the inductee's head, there's nothing that'll really stop him from moving away at the first opportunity and going back to sacrificing goats and mutilating his wife's genitals.
The RSS accuses Christian missionaries of forcibly converting Hindus to Christianity while the Church has implicated the RSS and its associate organisations in several gruesome murders of missionaries. In 1999, Graham Staines, a Australian-born missionary working in the eastern state of Orissa, was burnt to death along with his two teenage sons, allegedly by Hindu zealots. That's pretty gruesome. I'd say offhand that the RSS "pinpricks" are a lot more hideous than the Christian "pinpricks."
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The Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba said on Friday that Nepal won't allow any organisation that supports terrorist activities to operate from its soil. Deuba also said that Nepal has asked for Indian assitance to fight the Maoist rebels and that the Indian government has assured him of full support. The statement of Deuba assumes signifance as India has clearly told Nepal to crackdown on the ISI activities directed against India on Nepalese soil and to prevent ISI infiltration into India through Nepal.
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The Inter Service Intelligence of Pakistan is reported to have arrested the convener of the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference along with three other militant leaders in Muzaffarabad for misappropriation of funds meant for the Kashmir cause. Local newspapers carried news about the arrest of Hurriyat convener Mohammad Siddique Ganai of Sopore, Sammer Khan of Pampore, Gulam Nabi Bhat of Batrgam in Kupwara and Abdul Ghani Beigh of Kupwara. All the arrested militant leaders had been deputed by the ISI to channelise funds to Jammu and Kashmir to sustain militancy in the state. Their bank accounts have been frozen by the Pakistani authorities. In the past 12 years, the Kashmiri militants are said to have acquired property, including houses in various parts of Pakistan, and other assets. They also own expensive vehicles.
Last year, the PoK authorities had arrested two leaders of the Hizbullah outfit for swindling huge funds slated for the Kashmir cause. "Revolution is our business. Our only business. And we're doing well at it."
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The atmosphere in the House was so charged that even after Deputy Speaker PM Sayeed abruptly adjourned the House for an hour amidst deafening exchanges between members of the NDA and the BJP, Sushil Kumar Indora (INLD) and the BJPâs Vinay Katiyar had to be physically separated. The clash began after Yadav said the ruling coalition needed to condemn organisations which challenged the Consitution. "I refuse to withdraw my comment and the Honourable Gentleman from Gutterpara can go to hell!"
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The official Yemeni news agency, Saba, reported that two people were killed after an explosion tore through their sport utility vehicle. The explosion also injured four people traveling in a bus behind the SUV. Security officials said the SUV had failed to stop at a checkpoint near Amran and was being chased by two policemen who also died in the blast. Two other police officers and a bystander were also injured. "Easy on the gas, Abdul! Ya want this thing to go off?"
"Don't worry about it, Mahmud. I've got another one in the trunk."
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U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni held talks with Palestinian President-for-Life Yasser Arafat to try to salvage a battered truce mission after a Palestinian suicide bombing which killed three Israelis.
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said that Israel had attached unacceptable conditions for putting into motion a cease-fire plan charted in June by U.S. CIA Director George Tenet. Erekat did not elaborate because he couldn't think of anything to actually take issue with that quickly but Israeli political sources said the differences revolved around a timetable for implementing the truce and moving on to a wider U.S.-backed plan for confidence-building measures and eventual peace talks. That, and a redundant comma the Israelis thought could be dropped, that sort of stuff. "We expressed our willingness to implement Tenet's plan as it was written and not according to Israeli conditions and dictation," Erekat told reporters, doing his best to spike the thing while making it look like The Jews Did It.
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The Palestinian suicide bomber who blew himself up in downtown Jerusalem yesterday afternoon was released from a Palestinian prison just last week, Israeli and Palestinian security officials said last night. Three Israelis were killed, and 87 wounded, one critically, in the bombing on Jerusalem's downtown King George Avenue. The suicide bomber, identified as 22-year-old former Palestinian policeman, Muhammad Hashaika, belonged to the Al-Aksa Brigades. At the time of his arrest, a belt filled with explosives was found in his possession, and he told PA officials he planned to carry out an attack at a Ra'anana shopping mall. Well, he's a lot shorter than he used to be, but maybe they can send what's left back. (Thanks to VodkaPundit for the gruesome link.)
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David Carr at Libertarian Samizdatelstvo examines the assassination of Marco Biagi by the Italian Reds:
When economist and law professor, Marco Biagi began advising the Italian government on reforms to Italy's ossified Labour Laws, the Italian left sprang into immediate action. Using the rationale of marxist production theory and by the rigourous employment of dialectic method, they planned to confound Biagi by convincing him of the systemic contradictions of free-market ideology.
But that didn't work so they just shot him. That's kinda Marxism in a nutshell. Read the whole thing. We'll be seeing more of this. And as long as you're there, also read Dale Amon's Liberalize or Die. It's also on the kopeks.
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Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades shrugged off a U.S. decision to designate it a "foreign terrorist organization," and vowed to carry out more attacks on Israel. "This is a medal of honor that we wear on our chests," Nasser Awais, a commander of the Brigades, said in a statement faxed to Rooters. In the statement, Awais said the United States was the real criminal for protecting Israel "the number one terrorism and crime state in the world."
"On this occasion, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades asserts it will continue on the road of resistance and martyrdom unconcerned about the American decision," he added. I have a dream -- and there's no guarantee it'll ever come true, mind you -- there's be a GS-7 at CIA who's got a long, long list of names and addresses, phone numbers, license numbers, itineraries, that sort of thing. Some Friday (You always have to do reprehensible things on Fridays. Ask the Clintons.) a codeword will appear in a news broadcast or a weather report. And we'll kill them all at once, within an hour.
I'm volunteering. Posted by Kat [site-essential.com] 3/22/2002 8:04:40 PM
Get in line with the rest of us! Posted by Fred 3/23/2002 12:01:23 AM
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Crazed killers lobbed a grenade at a marketplace in Shopian that exploded and injured 25 counterrevolutionary collaborators with the forces of Zionism civilians. Shopian is 30 miles south of Srinagar. Seventeen lackeys of global imperialism civilians were wounded when snuffies hurled another grenade at a bus station in Anantnag.
"We strongly condemn these grenade attacks. These attacks are the handiwork of pro-government militants," a statement from the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen said, piously.
"Pro-government militants will try to continue such acts in future, but we will not let them succeed in their nefarious designs," Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen said.
On Thursday, 14 people were injured when raving lunatics militants hurled a grenade at a bus station in south Kashmir. Wonder if the PPP wallah who was -- coincidentally, I'm sure -- grenaded yesterday has died yet?
Suspected Bad Guys shot dead four Muslim villagers including a woman in Doda and Udhampur districts late on Thursday. Y'gotta watch those women. Sometimes they're only pretending to be screaming in terror and trying to hide under the furniture. Especially if they're pregnant.
Indian security forces iced eight jihadis in separate gunbattles across the region.
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"Unidentified persons" set afire seven structures, including two police posts and three other government buildings, in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir since on Wednesday. A recently constructed police post, a panchayat office, a forest dak bungalow and a sericulture department office were set ablaze in Daggar village. The property and records in these offices were completely destroyed. "Unidentified persons" also set on fire another police post and two houses at Gawal village of the same district on Wednesday night, gutting them. Just shooting people gets boring after awhile. A little fire keeps things nice and warm for jihadis. It also gets rid of any evidence that's being held.
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Nepal said on Friday its soldiers had killed 20 rebels in 24 hours of operations against the Maoist guerrillas trying to overthrow the constitutional monarchy. Let us know when you get the last of them, wouldja?
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Bosnian police have detained several officials linked to an Islamic charity after raids uncovered illegal money flows. Police say Bosanska Idealna Futura, which took over the local operations of the U.S.-based Islamic charity Benevolence International Foundation in 2001, cannot justify millions of dollars in disbursements. "Several people who worked at (Bosanska Idealna Futura) were detained for their role in illegal transfers of money as we have got evidence that they violated laws," an official told Rooters. Washington blocked the U.S. group's assets in December under an anti-terrorism law. The group said the move was improper and unfair and filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government in January. And now, this! Employees at the local agency say its main activities include humanitarian aid, health assistance, education and sponsoring orphans and refugees. Just a technical point: do you find the 7.62mm humanitarian aid more effective than the 5.56mm aid?
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Bosnian police detained a person suspected of plotting an attack on the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo but found no evidence to support the accusations. He was kept in custody anyway "for other reasons," the official said. The embassy closed on Wednesday because of a reported security threat. An embassy spokeswoman said she was not aware of a link between the closure of the mission and the detention. Oslobodjenje newspaper cited police reports as saying the detained person had attended guerrilla training at a mountain camp at Pogorelica in central Bosnia, and had been involved in a series of attacks since 1996. Well then book him on suspicion. Or give him a turban and a rusted-out AK and drop him off in Serbia.
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A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up on Friday at an Israeli army roadblock near the West Bank town of Jenin, wounding at least one person, Israel Radio said. And Zinni must be curious: How long can they keep up one a day?
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Police detained a 19-year-old man who tried to board a domestic flight in Finland with explosives. The man, a Finn, was detained at Joensuu airport, 270 miles northeast of Helsinki, when the explosives were found during a routine security check of passengers about to board a Finnair flight to the capital. "He had 200 grams of TNT, fuse wire and a small amount of drugs," Alvila said. "He did not act threateningly and denies any knowledge of the explosives." He had 200 grams of TNT and fuse wire and denied any knowledge. "It ain't mine. Somebody left it here..."
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Charles at lgf links to this:
U.S. intelligence sources said Saudi princes are believed to be funding the flight of Al Qaida agents from Afghanistan to the Persian Gulf and Middle East. They said the princes have paid millions of dollars for the escape of hundreds of Al Qaida and Taliban members from Afghanistan through Iran and to the Persian Gulf. Many of those who fled Afghanistan, the sources said, are Saudis or those who had been sponsored by the House of Saud. The Al Qaida agents, the sources said, have resettled in such countries as Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Others have moved to Lebanon and Syria. "The Saudis have acted when we have pointed to specific information on a specific group," an intelligence source said. "Otherwise, the money flow to Al Qaida continues from members of the royal family." As if we hadn't guessed this already...
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
